Deaths in May 2005

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The following is a list of notable people who died in May 2005.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

  • Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

May 2005[]

1[]

  • Edgar Baird, 93, Canadian businessman.
  • Albert Rex Bergstrom, 79, New Zealand econometrician.[1]
  • Kenneth Clark, 90, African-American civil rights activist and psychologist.
  • René Rivkin, 60, Australian stockbroker.
  • Edward von Kloberg III, 63, American lobbyist.

2[]

  • Renée Faure, 86, French actress.
  • Robert Hunter, 63, Canadian journalist and co-founder of Greenpeace.
  • Wee Kim Wee, 89, Singaporean politician, fourth President of Singapore from 1985 to 1993, prostate cancer.
  • Theofiel Middelkamp, 91, Dutch cyclist, first Dutchman to win a stage in the Tour de France and first Dutch world champion.
  • Jack Nichols, 67, American gay rights activist, cancer.[2]
  • Börje Nyberg, 85, Swedish actor and film director.
  • John C. Pritzlaff Jr., 79, American politician and diplomat.
  • Raisa Struchkova, 79, Russian dancer and People's Artist of the USSR.

3[]

  • Henriette, Lady Abel Smith, 90, British courtier, lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II.
  • Jagjit Singh Aurora, 89, Indian army general.
  • David Batchelor, 63, British sound mixer.
  • George S. Bowman Jr., 93, United States Marine Corps officer and Naval aviator.
  • Don Canham, 87, American track and field athlete, former University of Michigan athletic director.
  • Bobby Forrest, 73, English footballer.
  • Michel Maurice-Bokanowski, 92, French politician.
  • Pierre Moerlen, 52, French drummer and percussionist.
  • Willi Steffen, 80, Swiss football player.

4[]

  • Mark Boyle, 70, Scottish artist.
  • Purwoto Gandasubrata, 75, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indonesia.
  • David Hackworth, 74, American Vietnam War veteran, journalist.
  • Michael Kernan, 78, American author and journalist.
  • Joyce Lambert, 88, British botanist and ecologist, bronchopneumonia.
  • Evelyn Lutman Roberts, 88, American wife of preacher Oral Roberts.
  • Neal Pattman, 79, American electric blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, bone cancer.
  • Luis Taruc, 91, Filipino Communist revolutionary figure, leader of the HUKBALAHAP, a guerrilla group against the Japanese during World War II.
  • Don Trachte, 89, American cartoonist.

5[]

  • Ted Atkinson, 88, Canadian-born American Hall of Fame jockey.[3]
  • Carolyn Brady, 67, American artist.
  • Donald Brian Doe, 84, British archaeologist and architect.
  • Elisabeth Fraser, 85, American actress on The Phil Silvers Show, etc.[4]
  • June MacCloy, 96, American actress.
  • Skip Minisi, 78, American football player.
  • Magdolna Nyári-Kovács, 83, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
  • Édgar Ponce, 30, Mexican actor, collision between car and motorcycle during filming of video for "Sólo para mujeres".

6[]

  • Theodore J. Bauer, 95, American specialist in infectious diseases.
  • Luis Cabellero, 42, Paraguayan footballer.
  • Miguel Contreras, 52, American labor union leader.
  • Rafael Díaz-Balart, 79, Cuban politician, opponent and former brother-in-law of Fidel Castro, father of U.S. Congressmen Lincoln Díaz-Balart and Mario Díaz-Balart.
  • Joe Grant, 96, American Disney animator, heart attack.
  • Jost Gross, 59, Swiss politician, member of the National Council.
  • Lisa Freeman Roberts, 56, American vocalist.[5]
  • Herb Sargent, 81, American television comedy writer.[6]
  • Lee Stine, 91, American baseball player, who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees.

7[]

  • Václav Boštík, 91, Czech artist.
  • Tristan Egolf, 33, American author, suicide.[7]
  • Ray Hamann, 93, American basketball player and coach.
  • Peter W. Rodino, 95, American politician and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment process against Richard Nixon.
  • Otilino Tenorio, 25, Ecuadorian international football player, automobile accident.

8[]

  • Rafiqul Bari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cinematographer and director.
  • Wolfgang Blochwitz, 64, German footballer.
  • Lloyd Cutler, 87, American attorney, former White House Counsel under Presidents Carter and Clinton.
  • Nasrat Parsa, 37, Afghan singer, murdered abroad.
  • A. J. Shepherd, 78, American ex-Indianapolis 500 racing driver.
  • Nino Terzo, 81, Italian actor.[8]
  • Don Youngblood, 51, American IFBB professional bodybuilder, heart attack.

9[]

  • Billa Harrod, 93, British writer and architectural conservationist.
  • Ang Kiukok, 74, Filipino painter.
  • Sir Charles Morrison, 72, British landowner and Conservative politician.
  • Akihiko Saito, 44, Japanese hostage in Iraq.
  • Tiny Wharton, 77, British football referee.

10[]

11[]

  • Léo Cadieux, 96, Canadian politician and diplomat.
  • Alfred Finnigan, 108, Welsh centenarian, oldest man in Wales and World War I survivor.
  • Michalis Genitsaris, 86, Greek rebetiko singer and composer.
  • Bob Stuart, 84, New Zealand rugby player.
  • Percy Trezise, 82, Australian painter, writer and explorer.

12[]

  • Carl Alpert, 92, American-born Israeli journalist.
  • Maurice "The Matador" Catarcio, 76, American former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler, cancer.
  • Sara Gadimova, 82, Azerbaijani khananda singer.
  • Evaristo Iglesias, 79, Cuban Olympic sprinter.[9]
  • Ömer Kavur, 60, Turkish film director, producer, and screenwriter, lymphoma.
  • Martin Lings, 96, English writer, scholar, philosopher and arabist.[10]
  • Monica Zetterlund, 67, Swedish singer and actress.

13[]

  • Eddie Barclay, 84, French record producer and founder of Barclay Records.[11]
  • George Dantzig, 90, American mathematician, "father of linear programming".
  • Hugh Montefiore, 85, English Bishop of Birmingham and environmental activist with Friends of the Earth.
  • Próspero Penados del Barrio, 79, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Guatemala City.
  • Michael Ross, 45, American convicted serial killer, executed by lethal injection.

14[]

  • Michael Carson, 57, Australian television director.
  • Jimmy Martin, 77, American bluegrass singer.[12]
  • Helvecio Martins, 74, Brazilian LDS leader.
  • Tibor Šalát, 79, Slovak mathematician.
  • Mary Treadgold, 95, English author, literary editor and BBC producer, cancer.

15[]

  • Povl Ahm, 78, Danish engineer, cancer.
  • Vakha Arsanov, Chechen warlord and vice president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, killed.
  • Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 11th Earl of Shaftesbury, 27, English peer, suspected heart attack.
  • Les Bartley, 51, Canadian former coach of the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League, colon cancer.
  • Alan B. Gold, 88, Canadian retired Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court, negotiated an end to the Oka standoff and numerous strikes.
  • Natalya Gundareva, 56, Russian actress, stroke.
  • Bob Haak, 79, Dutch art expert and founder of the Rembrandt Research Project.
  • Aulis Kallakorpi, 76, Finnish ski jumper, Olympic silver medalist (1956).
  • Mahipal, 86, Indian film actor, cardiac arrest.

16[]

  • L. Bruce Archer, 82, British mechanical engineer and designer.
  • Sir Rees Davies, 66, Welsh historian.
  • Dale Erdahl, 73, American businessman and politician.
  • Andrew J. Goodpaster, 90, American Army general, former leader of NATO and veteran of World War II.[13]
  • June Lang, 90, American actor.
  • Jose M. Lopez, 94, Mexican US Army soldier, Medal of Honor-winning soldier in World War II.[14]
  • Albert "Smiler" Marshall, 108, British veteran of World War I.
  • Arthur Naftalin, 87, American politician, former mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota.[15]
  • Jiří Rubáš, 83, Czech football player and manager.

17[]

  • Keiiti Aki, 75, Japanese seismologist.[16]
  • Ellis Batten Page, 81, American educational psychologist.
  • Luc-Peter Crombé, 85, Belgian painter.
  • Piero Dorazio, 77, Italian painter.[17]
  • Frank Gorshin, 71, American film and television actor, cancer.[18]
  • Abrarul Haq Haqqi, 84, Indian Sunni Muslim scholar.
  • Elsa Hilger, 101, American cellist.

18[]

  • Gergely Pongrátz, 73, Hungarian anti-communist.
  • Shaima Rezayee, 24, Afghan TV presenter of Hop, an Afghan programme similar to MTV.
  • Bobby Thompson, 67, American banjoist (Area Code 615).
  • Whayne Wilson, 29, Costa Rican footballer.
  • Denis Wright, 94, British diplomat, prostate cancer.
  • Bob Wynn, 65, American golfer, lung cancer.
  • Stella Zázvorková, 83, Czech actress.

19[]

  • John Arthur, 85, South African boxer.
  • Richard Cartwright, 35, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
  • Henry Corden, 85, Canadian voice actor (The Flintstones), emphysema.
  • Batya Gur, 57, Israeli author.[19]
  • Richard Lewine, 94, American Broadway composer and TV producer.[20]
  • Victor Wouk, 86, American scientist and electrical engineer.[21]

20[]

  • Anthony Athanas, 93, Albanian-born American restaurateur.
  • J. D. Cannon, 83, American actor.
  • Marian Foik, 71, Polish Olympic sprinter.
  • Paul Ricœur, 92, French philosopher and teacher.[22]
  • Lujo Tončić-Sorinj, 90, Austrian diplomat and politician, former Foreign Minister of Austria.

21[]

  • Monica Charlot, 81, British historian and political scientist.
  • Stephen Elliott, 86, American actor, Arthur.[23]
  • Bedford Jezzard, 77, English footballer, former Fulham F.C. football player and manager.
  • David Lang, 37, American football player, former NFL running back with the Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys.
  • Howard Morris, 85, American comedy actor and director.
  • Subodh Mukherjee, 84, Indian filmmaker.
  • Fred Rosen, 74, American physician.

22[]

  • Terry Carisse, 62, Canadian singer-songwriter.
  • Charilaos Florakis, 91, Greek politician, honorary president and former secretary general (1972–1989) of the Communist Party of Greece.
  • Julia Randall, 81, American poet.
  • Thurl Ravenscroft, 91, American voice actor (Tony the Tiger, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!).[24]
  • John Rothwell, 91, Australian cricketer.

23[]

  • John Albano, 82, American comic book writer.
  • Hugh Cabot III, 75, American artist.
  • Sígfrid Gràcia, 73, Spanish footballer.
  • Derek Ratcliffe, 75, British conservationist.
  • Billy Smart, Jr, 71, British circus impresario.
  • Roderick Wright, 64, Scottish Roman Catholic bishop, disgraced and renounced the office of bishop.

24[]

  • Carl Amery, 83, German writer.
  • Arthur Haulot, 91, Belgian journalist, member of the resistance during World Waa II.
  • Robert McAuliffe, 66, Trinidadian-born Olympic sports shooter for the United States Virgin Islands.
  • Dick Raikes, 93, British Royal Navy officer.
  • Saeed Khan Rangeela, 68, Pakistani actor, singer and director.

25[]

  • Sunil Dutt, 75, Indian Bollywood actor and Union Minister, India.[25]
  • Robert Jankel, 67, British limousine designer.
  • Gregory Scott Johnson, 40, American criminal.
  • Graham Kennedy, 71, Australian TV celebrity and comedian.
  • Vera Komarkova, 62, Czech-American mountaineer and botanist, complications of breast cancer treatment.[26]
  • Ruth Laredo, 67, American pianist.[27]
  • Steve Mason, 65, American poet and war veteran.
  • Ismail Merchant, 68, Indian-born film producer.[28]
  • Zoran Mušič, 96, Slovene painter, graphic artist and draughtsman.
  • Domenic Troiano, 59, Canadian guitarist, cancer.

26[]

  • Eddie Albert, 99, American actor, star of Green Acres.[29]
  • Albinas Albertynas, 71, Lithuanian politician.
  • John Hope Anderson, 93, American politician.
  • Charles Bouvet, 86, French Olympic pole vaulter.
  • James G. Butler, 84, American lawyer.
  • Chico Carrasquel, 77, Venezuelan shortstop, the first Latin American player to appear in an MLB All-Star game.[30]
  • Israel Epstein, 90, Polish-Chinese communist journalist and author.[31]
  • Sangoulé Lamizana, 89, Burkinabe politician, former president of Burkina Faso.
  • Krzysztof Nowak, 29, Polish football player for VfL Wolfsburg and the Polish national team, ALS.
  • Radius Prawiro, 76, Indonesian economist and politician, Minister of Finance.
  • Jim Ray, 60, American baseball player.[32]
  • Terry Shannon, 52, American IT expert.
  • Dale Velzy, 77, American surfboard shaper.[33]

27[]

  • Abuzar Aydamirov, 71, Chechen writer.
  • Morris Cohen, 93, American metallurgist.[34]
  • Fay Godwin, 74, British photographer.[35]
  • Terje Johanssen, 62, Norwegian poet.
  • Ian Mackenzie-Kerr, 75, British book designer.[36]

28[]

  • Emil Appolus, 70, Namibian politician.
  • Benjamin Biaggini, 89, American railroad executive.
  • Clair A. Callan, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Nebraska (1965–1967).[37]
  • John Sidney Garrett, 83, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
  • Arnold Morton, 83, American restaurateur, founder of Morton's of Chicago steakhouses.
  • David Oswald Thomas, 81, Welsh philosopher.

29[]

  • Ricky Allen, 70, American blues singer.
  • María de los Ángeles Alvariño González, 88, Spanish oceanographer.
  • Oscar Brown, Jr., 78, American musician, playwright, activist.[38]
  • Patsy Calton, 56, British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, cancer.
  • Joseph Karth, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Minnesota (1959–1977).[39]
  • Hamilton Naki, 78, South African surgeon.[40]
  • Sir Frederick Page, 88, British aircraft designer.
  • Svatopluk Pluskal, 74, Czechoslovak footballer.
  • George Rochberg, 86, American composer.[41]
  • Sir Gordon Tait, 83, British admiral.

30[]

  • Takanohana Kenshi, (née Mitsuru Hanada), 55, Japanese sumo wrestler, aka "The Prince of Sumo".
  • Jan Knappert, 78, Dutch linguist.
  • Fazal Mahmood, 78, Pakistani cricket captain.
  • Tomasz Pacyński, 47, Polish fantasy and science fiction author.
  • Herbert Warren Wind, 88, American sportswriter.[42]
  • Alma Ziegler, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).

31[]

  • Sir John Aiken, 83, British air marshal.[43]
  • Emily Blatch, Baroness Blatch, 67, British politician and life peer.
  • Archil Gomiashvili, 79, Soviet Georgian actor.
  • Yuri Kleschev, 74, Soviet volleyball coach, referee and writer.
  • Harry Larche, 81, American football player and coach.
  • Jaime Mendoza-Nava, 79, Bolivian-American composer and conductor.
  • Grisélidis Réal, 75, Swiss writer and sex worker, cancer.
  • Eduardo Teixeira Coelho, 86, Portuguese comic book artist.[44]

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