Deaths in July 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2004.

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.

July 2004

1

• Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke.
• Marlon Brando, 80, American actor (The Godfather, On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire), Oscar winner (1954, 1973), pulmonary fibrosis, respiratory failure.
• Ettore Cella, 90, Swiss actor and film director.
• Karin Evans, 96, South African-German stage and film actress.
• Mohinder Lal, 68, Indian hockey player and Olympic champion.
• Richard May, 65, British former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, brain cancer.
• Jasper Ridley, 84, British writer.
• Jacques Ruffié, 82, French haematologist, geneticist, and anthropologist.
• Todor Skalovski, 95, Macedonian composer, chorus and orchestra conductor.

2

• Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet.
• Jeillo Edwards, 61, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill".
• Mochtar Lubis, 82, Indonesian journalist and writer.
• James MacKay, 85, American politician (U.S. Representative for Georgia's 4th congressional district from 1965 to 1967).
• John Cullen Murphy, 85, American comic strip artist (Prince Valiant).
• Sky Beauty, 14, American thoroughbred.
• Gael Turnbull, 76, Scottish poet.
• Ponkunnam Varkey, 94, Indian writer and activist.

3

• John Barron, 83, English actor.
• Phoebe Brand, 96, American actress, pneumonia.
• Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe, 76, Swedish jewelry designer, leukemia.
• Freddy de Vree, 64, Belgian poet and literary critic.
• Andriyan Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut, heart attack.
• James Marshall Sprouse, 80, American federal judge (Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit).
• Subandrio, 89, Indonesian politician Foreign Minister and First Deputy Prime Minister of Indonesia under President Sukarno.
• Lionel Van Brabant, 77, Belgian cyclist.
• Percy Wickman, 63, Canadian politician and activist for people with disabilities.

4

• Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor.
• Pati Behrs, 82, Russian-American prima ballerina, actress and first wife of filmmaker John Derek.
• Jean-Louis Florentz, 56, French composer, cancer.
• Plato A. Skouras, 74, American movie producer (Apache Warrior, Francis of Assisi).

5

• Robert Burchfield, 81, English lexicographer.
• Jim Paschal, 77, American NASCAR driver, cancer.
• Andy Sabados, 87, American gridiron football player (The Citadel, Chicago Cardinals).
• Hugh Shearer, 81, Jamaican politician and trade unionist, former Prime Minister of Jamaica.
• Rodger Ward, 83, American racecar driver, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion.

6

• Peter Birks, 62, British academic lawyer, cancer.
• Eric Douglas, 46, American actor and comedian, youngest son of Kirk Douglas, drug overdose.
• Ángel Fernández-Santos, 70, Spanish film critic and screenwriter.
• Walter Frentz, 96, German cameraman, film producer and photographer.
• Thomas Klestil, 71, Austrian diplomat and politician, Federal President of Austria, heart failure.
• Pavel Lisitsian, 92, Russian opera singer.
• Samir Naqqash, 66, Israeli novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
• Jimmie F. Skaggs, 59, American film actor (Catch Me If You Can, Lethal Weapon, Cutthroat Island), lung cancer.
• Syreeta Wright, 57, American singer and songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder, breast cancer.

7

• Jaroslav Huleš, 30, Czech motorcycle racer, suicide.
• Günther Josten, 82, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
• Vlado Kristl, 81, Croatian-German filmmaker and artist.
• Samuel Mitja Rapoport, 91, Russian Empire-born German biochemist.
• Jeff Smith, 65, American author and television chef ("The Frugal Gourmet").
• Xiaokai Yang, 55, Chinese-Australian economist, lung cancer.

8

• Paula Danziger, 59, American author, heart attack.
• Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé, 82, French banker and socialite.
• Ernst R. G. Eckert, 99, American scientist.
• Albert Friedlander, 77, German rabbi.
• Henrique Mendes, 73, Portuguese television presenter and actor, bone cancer.
• Sven Thunman, 84, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.

9

• Carlo Di Palma, 79, Italian cinematographer (Blowup, Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets over Broadway).
• Lionel Brett, 4th Viscount Esher, 90, British peer, architect and town-planner.
• Paul Klebnikov, 41, American journalist, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered.
• Rudy LaRusso, 66, American basketball player, five-time National Basketball Association All-Star, Parkinson's disease.
• Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor, heart attack.
• Tony Lupien, 87, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox).
• Sammy McKim, 79, Canadian film actor and artist, heart attack.
• Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright, liver cancer.
• Bill Randle, 81, American disc jockey, cancer.
• Isabel Sanford, 86, American actress (The Jeffersons, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Lady Sing the Blues), Emmy winner (1981), heart attack, heart disease.
• Hugo S. Sims, Jr., 82, American lawyer and politician (U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 2nd congressional district).

10

• Abdul Ghafoor, 85-86, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar.
• Inge Meysel, 94, German actress, cardioplegia.
• Loren Mosher, 70, American psychiatrist.
• Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, Portuguese chemical engineer and politician, prime minister (1979-1980), heart attack.
• Georgi Proskurin, 59, Soviet pair skater.
• Art Rebel, 67, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals).

11

• Lothar Baier, 62, German author, publisher, and translator, suicide.
• Van Deren Coke, 83, American photographer, scholar and museum director.
• Joe Gold, 82, American bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder.
• Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress, respiratory disease.
• Haije Kramer, 86, Dutch chess master and theoretician.
• Terry McLean, 90, New Zealand sports journalist.
• Laurance Rockefeller, 94, American businessman, conservationist and philanthropist, respiratory failure.
• Renée Saint-Cyr, 99, French actress.
• Edkhyam Tenishev, 83, Soviet and Russian linguist.
• Walter Wager, 79, American author, cancer.

12

• George Mallaby, 64, British-Australian actor and scriptwriter, congestive heart failure.
• Jeff Morris, 69, American actor, cancer.
• Betty Oliphant, 85, English founder of Canada's National Ballet School.
• James Quinn, 97, American Olympic sprinter (gold medal winner in men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics).
• Emma Yefimova, 72, Soviet Olympic fencer.

13

• Arthur Kane, 53, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia.
• Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor.
• Michio Morishima, 80, Japanese economist.
• Roger Quenolle, 78, French football player.
• Karel Zich, 55, Czech singer, guitarist and composer, heart attack.

14

• Nelly Borgeaud, 72, French film actress.
• Germano de Figueiredo, 71, Portuguese footballer.
• Hoegeng Imam Santoso, 82, Indonesian chief of police, stroke.
• Tadeusz Sołtyk, 94, Polish aircraft designer and aerospace engineer.
• Alex Willoughby, 59, Scottish footballer (Rangers, Aberdeen), cancer.
• Arnold Ziff, 77, English businessman and philanthropist.

15

• Saeed Anwar, 60, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic champion.
• Banoo Jehangir Coyaji, 86, Indian doctor and family planning activist.
• Wal Murray, 72, Australian politician.
• František Schmucker, 64, Czech football player.
• Derek Taunt, 86, British mathematician.
• Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano, cancer.
• Sunao Yoshida, 34, Japanese novelist, lung blockage.

16

• George Busbee, 76, American politician, former governor of Georgia, heart attack.
• Andy Engman, 92, Swedish-Finnish cartoon animator.
• Fazal khaliq, 70, Afghan politician.
• Lucien Leduc, 85, French football midfielder and a manager.
• Bella Lewitzky, 88, American modern dance pioneer and choreographer, heart attack.
• Charles Sweeney, 84, American Air Force officer, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb.

17

• Susan, Crown Princess of Albania, 63, Australian-born wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu; cancer.
• Albela, 63, Pakistani actor, comedian and singer.
• Grzegorz Cziura, 52, Polish weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist.
• Jeanette Dolson, 85, Canadian athlete and Olympic medalist.
• Khalil Hilmi, 94-95, Lebanese Olympic sports shooter.
• Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur and banker.
• Marty Passaglia, 85, American basketball player (Washington Capitols, Indianapolis Jets).
• Pat Roach, 67, English professional wrestler and actor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Willow), cancer.
• Robert E. Smylie, 89, American politician, Governor of Idaho (1955-1967).

18

• Anne Gorsuch Burford, 62, American attorney and politician.
• André Castelot, 93, French writer and scriptwriter.
• Georgine Darcy, 71, American dancer and actress.
• George Farm, 80, Scottish football goalkeeper and manager.
• Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner, heart attack.
• John D. Kraus, 94, American physicist and electrical engineer.
• Eoin McKiernan, 89, American scholar and expert on Irish history.
• Richard Ney, 87, American actor, investment counselor, and author, heart attack.
• Émile Peynaud, 92, French wine expert.

19

• Sylvia Daoust, 102, Canadian artist and sculptor.
• Harry Forsyth, 100, Irish cricketer and centenarian.
• Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer.
• Roger Marquis, 67, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).
• Caitro Soto, 69, Peruvian musician and composer.
• Zenkō Suzuki, 93, Japanese politician, Prime Minister (1980-1982), pneumonia.
• Irvin Yeaworth, 78, German-American film director, producer, and theme park builder, traffic collision.

20

• Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish flamenco dancer, cancer.
• Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady, widow of president Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
• Valdemaras Martinkėnas, 39, Soviet and Lithuanian football player and coach, drowned.
• James Williams, 53, American jazz pianist.

21

• Jerry Goldsmith, 75, American film composer (Star Trek, The Omen, Alien), Oscar winner (1977), colorectal cancer.
• Edward B. Lewis, 85, American biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995).
• Neal A. Maxwell, 78, American missionary in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, leukemia.
• Radoy Ralin, 82, Bulgarian dissident, poet, and satirist.
• Julian Ridsdale, 89, British politician.

22

• Elie Abel, 83, Canadian-American journalist, author and academic, Alzheimer's disease.
• Frank Cumiskey, 91, American gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.
• Sacha Distel, 71, French singer, cancer.
• Illinois Jacquet, 81, American jazz saxophonist, heart attack.
• Joan Morgan, 99, English film actress, screenwriter and novelist.
• Bertie Peacock, 75, Northern Ireland football player and manager.
• Kostiantyn Stepankov, 76, Ukrainian soviet actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Ronald Sukenick, 72, American writer and literary theorist, inclusion body myositis.

23

• Mehmood Ali, 72, Indian actor, respiratory disease.
• Joe Cahill, 84, Irish terrorist..
• Alan Cook, 81, British physicist.
• Rogelio Domínguez, 73, Argentine football player, heart attack.
• Ferry Gruber, 77, Austrian-German tenor in opera and operetta.
• Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player, kidney failure.
• Piero Piccioni, 82, Italian film score composer and lawyer.
• Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor, heart attack.

24

• Jagan Nath Azad, 85, Indian Urdu poet, writer and academician.
• Bob Azzam, 78, Egyptian singer.
• Claude Ballif, 80, French composer, writer, and pedagogue.
• Cotton Fitzsimmons, 72, American NBA basketball coach, lung cancer.
• János Harmatta, 86, Hungarian linguist.
• Ben Martin, 83, American football player and coach.
• Wilton Mkwayi, 80, South African Anti-apartheid activist and ANC militant, cancer.
• Wim Verstappen, 67, Dutch film director, producer, and screen writer, cancer.

25

• Maurice Euzennat, 77, French historian and archaeologist.
• John Passmore, 89, Australian philosopher.
• Totò Savio, 66, Italian composer, lyricist, producer, and guitarist.
• Masami Shimojō, 88, Japanese actor.

26

• Oğuz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist and cartoonist, heart attack.
• Viola Frey, 70, American artist and professor of arts.
• Rubén Gómez, 77, Puerto Rican baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins).
• Alexandr Hackenschmied, 96, Czech-American photographer, film director, and cinematographer.
• Carl Lidbom, 78, Swedish jurist.
• William A. Mitchell, 92, American food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix, heart failure.
• Bogusław Sochnacki, 73, Polish actor.

27

• Carmine DeSapio, 95, American politician, last head of the Tammany Hall organization.
• Harry Jenkins, Sr., 78, Australian politician and medical doctor.
• Lisette Lanvin, 90, French film actress.
• Joseph Rovan, 86, French philosopher and politician, drowned.
• Bob Tisdall, 97, Irish Olympic athlete (gold medal in 400 metres Hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics).

28

• Juhani Avellan, 58, Finnish Olympic weightlifter.
• Jackson Beck, 92, American announcer and voice actor (The Adventures of Superman), stroke.
• Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer.
• Sam Edwards, 89, American actor (Twelve O'Clock High, Little House on the Prairie, Dragnet), heart failure.
• Steve Patterson, 56, American basketball player and coach at Arizona State University, lung cancer.
• Janet Paul, 84, New Zealand publisher, painter and art historian.
• Eugene Roche, 75, American actor (Webster, All in the Family, Soap), heart attack.
• Bernard Saint-Hillier, 92, French general.
• Tiziano Terzani, 65, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia, colorectal cancer.

29

• Pratima Bandopadhyay, 71, Indian playback singer.
• Susan Buffett, 71, American activist and first wife of businessman and investor Warren Buffett, stroke.
• Walter Feit, 73, American mathematician.
• Nafisa Joseph, 26, Indian model, MTV video jockey, and Miss India 1997, suicide.
• Abdul Rahman bin Saud Al Saud, 57, Saudi prince and the longtime president of football club Al Nassr.
• Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedian, heart attack.

30

• Ali Abbasi, 42, Scottish television presenter, systemic lupus erythematosus.
• Ellen Auerbach, 98, German-American photographer.
• Vivica Bandler, 87, Finnish-Swedish theatre director and agronomist.
• Jan Hanuš, 89, Czech composer.
• Nela Martínez, 91, Ecuadorian communist, political activist, and writer.
• J. Edward McKinley, 86, American actor.
• Ed Melvin, 88, Serbian-American basketball player.
• Hirendranath Mukherjee, 96, Indian politician.
• John Geoffrey Tracey, 74, Australian ecologist and botanist.
• Wolfgang Ullmann, 74, German journalist, theologian, politician.
• György Vizvári, 75, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic champion.

31

• Laura Betti, 70, Italian actress, heart attack.
• Erich Ehrlinger, 93, German nazi and Holocaust perpetrator during World War II.
• Virginia Grey, 87, American actress (Airport, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Women), heart attack.
• David B. Haight, 97, American leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Robert James, 80, Scottish actor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Allu Rama Lingaiah, 81, Indian comedian.
• Absamat Masaliyev, 71, Kyrgyzstani communist politician, heart attack.
• Petra Peters, 79, German stage and film actress.
• Líber Seregni, 87, Uruguayan army officer and politician, pancreatic cancer.
• Larry Stockmeyer, 56, American computer scientist, pancreatic cancer.

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