The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 2005
[edit]1
[edit]- Renaldo "Obie" Benson, 69, American soul and R&B singer and member of The Four Tops, lung cancer.[1]
- Rex Berry, 80, American football player.
- Gus Bodnar, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Bill Frink, 78, American Sportscaster (WLS-TV).
- Ivan Kolev, 74, Bulgarian football player.
- Arvo Ojala, 85, American technical advisor and actor, gun accident.
- Luther Vandross, 54, American R&B singer, complications following a heart attack.[2]
2
[edit]- Florence Kirsch, 90, American classical pianist.
- Ernest Lehman, 89, American screenwriter (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, North by Northwest, West Side Story).[3]
- Kenneth Pinyan, 45, American Boeing engineer, perforated colon after having sex with a horse.[4]
- Norm Prescott, 78, American co-founder of Filmation animation studios.[5]
- Martin Sanchez, 26, Mexican boxer, of injuries sustained in July 1 bout.
3
[edit]- Siv Ericks, 87, Swedish character actress.
- Nan Kempner, 74, American society hostess.[6]
- Alberto Lattuada, 90, Italian film director.
- Pierre Michelot, 77, French jazz bassist, played with Miles Davis.
- Gaylord Nelson, 89, American politician, former Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin and founder of Earth Day.[7]
- Wenten Rubuntja, Australian artist and indigenous activist.
- Sam Tata, 93, Canadian photographer.
- Hedy West, 67, American folksinger.
- Harrison Young, 75, American actor (Saving Private Ryan, House of 1000 Corpses, Passions).[8]
4
[edit]- Chris Bunch, 62, American science fiction writer, lung ailment.
- Gustav-Adolf Bursche, 86, German World War II officer.
- Bryan Coleman, 94, British television and film actor.
- Al Downing, 65, American R&B and country & western musician, leukaemia.
- June Haver, 79, American film actress, widow of Fred MacMurray.
- Marga López, 81, Mexican screen and television actress, heart failure.
- Hank Stram, 82, American National Football League coach (Kansas City Chiefs) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[9]
- Lorenzo Thomas, 60, Panamanian-born American poet.
5
[edit]- Leo Breiman, 77, American statistician.
- Ray Davis, 65, American singer, founding member of Parliament/Funkadelic.
- Shirley Goodman, 69, American R&B singer.
- Baloo Gupte, 70, Indian Test cricketer.
- James Stockdale, 81, American Vice Admiral, Medal of Honor recipient, ex-prisoner of war and independent VP Candidate in 1992.[10]
6
[edit]- Bruno Augenstein, 82, German-born American mathematician and physicist.
- L. Patrick Gray, 88, American former Director of the United States FBI, pancreatic cancer.
- James Haskins, 63, American professor, biographer, and author.[11]
- Huang Kun, 85, Chinese physicist.
- Ed McBain, 78, American mystery novel writer, wrote under numerous pseudonyms (Ed McBain), cancer of the larynx.[12]
- Donald McGinley, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Nebraska (1959–1961) and Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska (1983–1987).[13]
- Patrick S. Parker, 75, American businessman (Parker Hannifin).
- Dick Sabot, 61, American economist, Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of tripod.com.
- Frank Shipston, 98, English cricketer.
- Claude Simon, 91, French writer and Nobel Prize winner.[14]
- Grace Thaxton, 114, American supercentenarian, oldest resident of Kentucky and oldest person ever born in New York.
7
[edit]- Norman Bennett, 82, English rugby player and cricketer.
- Henri Betti, 87, French composer and pianist.
- Paul Deliège, 74, Belgian comic book writer/artist.[15]
- Hasib Hussain, 18, British terrorist.
- Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, British terrorist.
- Germaine Lindsay, 19, British terrorist.
- Ihab al-Sherif, 51, Egyptian envoy in Iraq.
- Gustaf Sobin, 69, American-born poet and novelist.[16]
- Shehzad Tanweer, 22, British terrorist.
8
[edit]- Denis Bray, 78, British civil servant in Hong Kong.
- Lee Hun Hoe, 79, Malaysian lawyer and judge.
- Julian Letterlough, 35, American boxer
- Judy Mann, 61, American longtime columnist for The Washington Post.
- Dorothy H. Rose, 84, American politician.
9
[edit]- Chuck Cadman, 57, Canadian Member of Parliament.
- Yevgeny Grishin, 74, Russian speed skater, first speed skater under 40 seconds on 500 metres.
- Kevin Hagen, 77, American actor (Little House on the Prairie).
- Byron Preiss, 52, American writer/editor/publisher.[17]
- Alex Shibicky, 91, Canadian ice hockey player who made the first slapshot.[18]
- Rafique Zakaria, 79, Indian Islamic scholar.
10
[edit]- Richard Eastham, 89, American actor (Tombstone Territory, That Darn Cat!, Wonder Woman).
- Frank Moores, 72, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland.
- A. J. Quinnell, 65, English writer, Man on Fire.
- Freda Wright-Sorce, 50, American wife of Don Geronimo of the Don and Mike Show.
- Jack Tripp, 83, British pantomime dame.
- Freddy Soto, 35, American comedian and actor.
11
[edit]- Keith Alexander, 41, American guitarist.
- Piero Cappuccilli, 78, Italian opera singer.
- Ole Christian Bach, 48, Norwegian fraudster.
- Gretchen Franklin, 94, English television actress, best known as "Ethel Skinner" in EastEnders.
- Shinya Hashimoto, 40, Japanese professional wrestler.
- Jesus Ricardo Iglesias, 83, Argentine Grand Prix racing driver.
- Frances Langford, 92, American singer/actress.[19]
12
[edit]- Meyer Cardin, 97, American jurist.
- Joseph Patrick Delaney, 70, American Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Fort Worth, Texas for many years.[20]
- Arthur Fletcher, 80, American government official, Assistant Labor Secretary under US President Richard Nixon, called the "father of affirmative action".[21]
- John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, 87, British peer, businessman and chairman of British Airways from 1981 to 1993.
- John Thorley, 78, Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer.[22]
- P. K. Vasudevan Nair, 79, Indian politician, Member of Lok Sabha, former Chief Minister of Kerala state, India.
13
[edit]- Robert P. Abelson, 76, American psychologist and political scientist.
- Sir David Brown, 77, British admiral.
- Asen Kisimov, 69, Bulgarianactor, singer and radio presenter.
- Bob Maslen-Jones, 84, British Olympic shooter.
- Robert E. Ogren, 83, American zoologist.
- Mickey Owen, 89, American former MLB player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- Erik Rauch, 31, American biophysicist and theoretical ecologist, hiking accident.
14
[edit]- Mark Carlisle, Baron Carlisle of Bucklow, 76, British politician and peer.
- Tilly Fleischer, 93, German athlete, Olympic champion in javelin (1936).
- Richard Leiterman, 70, Canadian award-winning cinematographer.
- Matt Patrick, 86, Scottish footballer.
- Jacques Roche, early 40s, Haitian journalist.
- Dame Cicely Saunders, 87, British palliative care activist, founded St. Christopher's Hospice (where she herself died), cancer.[23]
- J. B. Trapp, 79, New Zealand historian.
15
[edit]- David Daiches, 92, Scottish literary critic.[24]
- Anne Drungis, 73, American Olympic fencer.[25]
- Michael Gibson, 60, American Tony-nominated orchestrator and musician.
- Kenneth Graham, 82, British trade unionist.
- Sir Ronald Wilson, 82, Australian High Court justice.
16
[edit]- Mira Ashby, 84, Canadian physician.
- Blue Barron, 92, American orchestra leader.
- Pietro Consagra, 84, Italian sculptor.
- W. Fox McKeithen, 58, American politician, 5-time Louisiana Secretary of State.
- John Ostrom, 77, American paleontologist who revolutionized understanding of dinosaurs.[26]
- Miguel Pérez, 68, Puerto Rican wrestler.
- Helen Bonchek Schneyer, 84, American folk musician.
- K. V. Subbanna, 73, Indian dramatist and writer.
17
[edit]- Laurel Aitken, 77, Jamaican musician.
- Biplab Dasgupta, 66, Indian economist
- Geraldine Fitzgerald, 91, Irish-born American actress, Alzheimer's disease.[27]
- Sir Edward Heath, 89, British politician, Prime Minister (1970–1974), MP (1950–2001), pneumonia.
- Gina Lagorio, 83, Italian writer.
- Gavin Lambert, 80, British-born American novelist, screenwriter (Inside Daisy Clover, Sons and Lovers).[28]
- I. G. Patel, 80, Indian economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (1977–1982).
- Joe Vialls, Australian writer.
- William Weatherspoon, 69, American songwriter and record producer.
18
[edit]- Elizabeth Blodgett Hall, 95, American educationist.
- Paul Duke, 78, American political journalist.[29]
- Amy Gillett, 29, Australian rower and cyclist.
- John Herald, 66, American folk musician, recording artist, member of The Greenbriar Boys Vanguard Records.[30]
- Jim Parker, 71, American football player, offensive tackle for the Baltimore Colts and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
- Gerry Thomas, 83, American marketing and sales executive, innovator, inventor of the TV dinner, cancer.
- William Westmoreland, 91, U.S. Army General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968.
19
[edit]- Jim Aparo, 72, American comic book artist (Batman, Phantom Stranger, Spectre).[31]
- Alain Bombard, 80, French biologist and physician.[32]
- Edward Bunker, 71, American author, screenwriter, and actor (Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs).
- John D. Cartano, 96, American lawyer.
- LaVena Johnson, 19, African-American private first class.
- Hastings Keith, 89, American politician, United States Representative from Massachusetts, served 1959 - 1973, as a member of the Republican Party.
- John Tyndall, 71, British Neo-Nazi political activist, founder of the British National Party.
20
[edit]- Charles Chibitty, 83, American last surviving Comanche code talker.
- James Doohan, 85, Canadian actor (best known for his role as Scotty on the original Star Trek), pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.[33]
- Finn Gustavsen, 79, Norwegian politician.
- Kayo Hatta, 47, American film director (Picture Bride).
- David Tomblin, 74, British film and television director.
21
[edit]- Bryn Allen, 84, Welsh footballer.
- Long John Baldry, 64, British blues musician.[34]
- Bruce Bolt, 75, Australian-born American scientist and earthquake expert.[35]
- Andrzej Grubba, 47, Polish table tennis player.
- Lord Alfred Hayes, 76, British wrestler and wrestling commentator (most notably with the WWF).
- Ian Robertson, Lord Robertson, 92, Scottish judge.
- Shirley Thomas, 85, American space historian, Hollywood producer, and USC professor.
22
[edit]- Jean-Charles de Menezes, 27, Brazilian electrician, shot by police.
- William Beatley, 81, British Olympic fencer.
- Jerry Marcus, 81, American cartoonist (Trudy).[36]
- Eugene Record, 64, American lead vocalist for The Chi-Lites.[37]
- Hinako Sugiura, 46, Japanese author and cartoonist.[38]
- George D. Wallace, 88, American actor (Forbidden Planet, The Pajama Game).
- Xue Muqiao, 100, Chinese economist, director of National Bureau of Statistics.
23
[edit]- Ray Crist, 105, American centenarian and chemist.
- Joseph Dessertine, 82, French cyclist.
- Myron Floren, 85, American musician, longtime accordionist/bandleader on The Lawrence Welk Show.[39]
- John Hunt, 87, American oceanographer.
- Gaston Mayordomo, 82, French Olympic athlete [1]
- Fintan Meyler, 75, Irish actress.
- Ray Oldham, 54, American football player, former NFL cornerback, Pittsburgh Steelers.
24
[edit]- Viktor Berkovsky, 73, Russian bard.
- George Buhr, 76, American football coach.
- Sir Richard Doll, 92, British epidemiologist, first person to link cigarette smoking and lung cancer.[40]
- Pavel Dostál, 62, Czech minister for cultural affairs.
- Fraser McLuskey, 90, Scottish military chaplain and minister.
- Francis Ona, 52, Papua New Guinean Bougainville rebel leader.
- Radomir Pavitchevitch, 96, French legionnaire.
25
[edit]- Enrique Bautista, 71, Filipino Olympic athlete.
- Paul Britten Austin, 83, British writer and broadcaster.
- Giulio Cantoni, 89, Italian-born American physician.
- Eddie Crook, Jr., 76, US Olympic boxer and Vietnam veteran.
- Sidney Hertzberg, 82, American basketball player.[41]
- David Jackson, 71, British actor.
- Alf Joint, 77, British stuntman (Goldfinger, Superman, Return of the Jedi).
- Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes, 114, Portuguese supercentenarian, oldest person ever documented in Portugal.
- Albert Mangelsdorff, 76, German trombonist.
- Ford Rainey, 96, American actor (3:10 to Yuma, Halloween II, The Bionic Woman).
26
[edit]- Betty Astell, 93, American actress, entertainer and widow of Cyril Fletcher.
- Mario David, 71, Italian footballer.
- John Edwards, 93, Canadian football player.
- Alexander Golitzen, 97, Russian-born American production designer (To Kill a Mockingbird, Spartacus, Phantom of the Opera), Oscar winner (1944, 1961, 1963).
- Jack Hirshleifer, 79, American economist.
- Gilles Marotte, 60, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers), pancreatic cancer.
- Danny Simon, 85, American comedy writer, brother of Neil Simon.[42]
27
[edit]- Shelley Appleton, 86, American labor leader.[43]
- Tungia Baker, 64, New Zealand Māori actress (The Piano) and artist.
- Pierre Broué, 79, French Trotskyist historian.
- Al Held, 76, American abstract painter.[44]
- Helen Phillips, 86, American opera singer.[45]
- Dom Um Romão, 79, Brazilian jazz drummer.
- Marten Toonder, 93, Dutch author and cartoonist.
- Robert Wright, 90, American musical lyricist (team of Wright & Forrest – Grand Hotel, Kismet, Song of Norway, etc.).[46]
28
[edit]- Ian Baker, 77, British Army general.
- Christopher Bunting, 80, English cellist.
- Virginia Dehn, 82, American painter and printmaker.
- Louis Metzger, 88, United States Marine Corps officer.
- Jair da Rosa Pinto, 84, Brazilian footballer.
- Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, 88, Icelandic politician.
29
[edit]- Hermione Hammond, 94, English painter and portrait artist.[47]
- Mile Lojpur, 75, Yugoslav/Serbian rock musician, heart attack.
- Pat McCormick, 78, American television writer (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson) and actor (Smokey and the Bandit, Scrooged).
- Al McKibbon, 86, American jazz double bassist.
- Hildegarde, 99, American cabaret singer.[48]
- Fred Sledge Smith, 72, American R&B songwriter and record producer.
- Karlheinz Zöller, 76, German flutist.
30
[edit]- Carl Beam, 62, Canadian Ojibwe artist.
- Georges Briard, 88, Russian-born American designer.
- Ray Cunningham, 100, American baseball player, recognized as the oldest living former Major League Baseball player.[49]
- John Garang, 60, Sudanese Vice President, helicopter crash.[50]
- Malucha Solari, 84, Nicaraguan-born Chilean ballerina and choreographer.
- Lucky Thompson, 81, American saxophonist.[51]
31
[edit]- Wim Duisenberg, 70, Dutch banker and politician, suffered a heart attack while swimming and drowned.[52]
- Armando Ferreira, 85, Portuguese footballer.
- Léopold Gernaey, 78, Belgian footballer.
- Mantle Hood, 87, American ethnomusicologist.
- Lawrence Teeter, 56, American lawyer, attempted to have Sirhan Sirhan retried, saying he did not kill Robert F. Kennedy, lymphoma.[53]
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