Deaths in August 2004
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2004.
August 2004
1
- Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, American physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium.
- Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, American philosopher.
2
- Heinrich Mark, 92, Estonian politician, Prime Minister-in-exile (1971–1990).
- José Omar Pastoriza, 62, Argentinian football player. and coach.
3
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer.[1]
- Brian Hitch, 72, British diplomat.
- Bob Murphy, 79, American MLB New York Mets announcer.
- Arturo Tolentino, 93, Philippine lawyer and politician.
4
- Mary Dees, 93, American actress.
- Hunter Hancock, 88, American R&B and rock DJ.
- Sir Robert Jennings, 90, British jurist, President of the International Court of Justice.
- Joseph Bearwalker Wilson, 62, American shaman and witch.
5
- Jim Alford, 90, British athlete.
- James Hubbard, 74, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Alabama.
6
- Rick James, 56, American funk singer.
7
- Paul "Red" Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter.
- Colin Bibby, 55, English ornithologist.
- Bernard Levin, 75, English journalist and broadcaster.
- Gordon Smith, 80, Scottish footballer.
8
- Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, 89, American health and fitness pioneer.
- Nigel Capel-Cure, 95, British cricketer and landowner.
- Paul "Mousie" Garner, 95, American comedian, Three Stooges associate.
- Leon Golub, 82, American artist and painter.
- Charles L. Lewis, 37, American politician.
- Dimitris Papamichael, 70, Greek actor.
- Richard Taylor, 23, Welsh skating and skiing champion, collided with a concrete lamp-post.
- Fay Wray, 96, Canadian-born American King Kong actress.
9
- Tony Mottola, 86, American guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on The Tonight Show orchestra.[2]
- David Raksin, 92, American film composer.
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10
- James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, American member of the Rockefeller family, oldest known U.S. Olympic medal winner.
- Alan N. Cohen, 73, American owner of the Boston Celtics.
11
- Sir David Calcutt, 73, British barrister and public servant.
- Joe Falls, 76, American journalist, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News.
- Bill Martin, Jr., 88, American author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
12
- Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, 84, British Nobel Prize in Medicine, coinventor of the CAT scan.
- Ian Lake, 69, British musician.
- Robert L. Morris, 62, American parapsychologist.
- Sebastián Ontoria, 84, Spanish footballer.
- Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor.
- George Yardley, 75, American National Basketball Association Hall of Famer.
13
- Julia Child, 91, American chef, author and television hostess on French cuisine.[3]
- Stefan Dimitrov, Bulgarian opera basso singer.
- Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street.
- Ondřej Voříšek, 18, Czech football, car accident.
14
- Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 39, Indian rapist and murderer, the first person executed in India since 1995.
- William D. Ford, 77, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from 1965 to 1995.
- Neal Fredericks, 35, American cinematographer for the movie The Blair Witch Project, drowned in helicopter crash while filming.
- Robert Howard, 28, American athlete.
- Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and dissident.
- Bomber Moran, 59, Filipino actor.
- Sir Trevor Skeet, 86, New Zealand-born British lawyer and politician.
15
- Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer.
- Sune K. Bergström, 88, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine.
- Bent Ole Retvig, 68, Danish cyclist.
- John Richardson, Baron Richardson, 94, British physician.
- Ollie Silva, 75, American auto racing driver.
16
- Acquanetta, 83, American-born "Venezuelan" B-movie actress.
- Mick Clingly, 72, Australian sportsman.
- H. G. Davis Jr., 80, Australian journalist and educator.
- Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach.
- J. Irwin Miller, 95, American industrialist and architectural philanthropist.
- George Moe, 72, Barbadian politician and former Chief Justice of Belize.
- Carl Mydans, 97, American photographer.
- Robert Quiroga, 35, American world champion boxer, murdered.
17
- Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist.
- Sheila Callender, 90, British physician and haematologist.
- Anatoly Guzhvin, 58, Russian politician and head of the administration of Astrakhan Oblast.
- Dennis "D-Roc" Miles, 45, American rhythm guitarist for Body Count, from lymphoma complications.
- Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone.
18
- Susan Mary Alsop, 84, American socialite, hostess and writer.
- Elmer Bernstein, 82, American composer of classic film music such as The Magnificent Seven.
- Hiram Fong, 97, American businessman and politician, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate.
- Hugh Manning, 83, British actor.
- Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán.
- Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen.
19
- George Gibson, 98, American football player.
- Martin Knottenbelt, 84, Dutch anti-war activist.
- Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur.
- Jack Pinder, 91, English footballer.
- Günter Rexrodt, 62, German politician, former Economics Minister of Germany.
20
- María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born star of rumbera films.
- Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician and novelist.
21
- Sachidananda Routray, 88, Indian poet and novelist.
- Clip Smith, 63, American media personality.
22
- Konstantin Aseev, 43, Russian chess Grandmaster and coach.
- Al Dvorin, 81, American bandleader and talent agent, who popularized the phrase "Elvis has left the building", automobile accident.[4]
- Marcel Caux, 105, Australian First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières.
- George Kirgo, 78, American television and film writer, former president of the Writers Guild of America.
- Daniel Petrie, Sr., 83, Canadian film director, A Raisin in the Sun.
- Ota Sik, 84, Czech economist and politician, architect of economic liberalization during Czechoslovakia's ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring.
23
- Povilas Aksomaitis, 66, Lithuanian politician and engineer.
- Hank Borowy, 88, American baseball player, former New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers pitcher.
- Mary Guiney, 103, Irish chairperson of the Clerys department store.
- Francesco Minerva, 100, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop.
24
- Richard Ervin, 99, American attorney general and chief justice of Florida.[5]
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist.
- Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka.
- Bob Price, 76, American politician.
25
- Don Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer.
- Roger Broughton, 45, New Zealand cricketer.
- Marcelo Gonzalez Martin, 86, Spanish former Roman Catholic primate of Spain, Cardinal since 1973 and Archbishop of Toledo from 1971 to 1995.[6]
26
- Enzo G. Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq.
- Laura Branigan, 52, American pop singer ("Gloria", "Self Control"), cerebral aneurysm.
- Lewis Carter-Jones, 83, British politician.
- Lloyd Smith, 74, Australian cricketer.
27
- Fernand Auberjonois, 93, Swiss foreign news correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade; father of actor René Auberjonois.
- Willie Crawford, 57, American former outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
- Gottlieb Göller, 69, German football player and manager.
- Suzanne Kaaren, 92, American actress (Three Stooges films).
- Liang Su-yung, 84, Taiwanese politician, President of the Legislative Yuan.
- Larry McCormick, 71, American television personality.
- William Pierson, 78, American actor Stalag 17.
28
- Robert Lewin, 84, American producer and screenwriter, Academy Award nomination for writing The Bold and the Brave, lung cancer.
29
- Lee Guttero, 91, American basketball player.
- Ivar Aavatsmark, Norwegian corporate executive and forester, director of Norwegian Forest Owners Association (1942-1982).
- Helen Lane, 83, American translator.
- John Francis Nash, 94, American railroad executive.
30
- Larry Desmedt, 55, American motorcycle designer, injuries suffered during a stunt.[7]
- Willie Duff, 69, Scottish football goalkeeper (Heart of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline Athletic).
- Derek Johnson, 71, British athlete and athletics administrator.
- Fay Jones, 83, American architect and designer, trained by Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Bob Sherman, 63, American actor.
- Fred Whipple, 97, American astronomer.
31
- Joe Barry, 65, American Swamp Pop singer of "I'm a Fool to Care".
- Carl Wayne, 61, English lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer.
References
- ↑ "Photographer Cartier-Bresson dies". BBC News. 4 August 2004. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ↑ "Tony Mottola, 86, a Guitarist With Sinatra". The New York Times. Associated Press. 12 August 2004. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ↑ Lindman, Sylvia (13 August 2004). "Julia Child: bon appétit". Today.com. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ↑ Woollard, Deidre (August 2004). "Elvis Announcer Killed in Car Crash". Elites TV. Archived from the original on 14 December 2004. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ↑ Royse, David (25 August 2004). "Former Supreme Court justice, attorney general Richard Ervin dies". The Ledger. Archived from the original on 26 August 2004. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ↑ John Paul II (26 August 2004). "Telegramma di Cordoglio del Santo Padre". Vatican City (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 November 2004. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ↑ Saxon, Wolfgang (1 September 2004). "Indian Larry, Motorcycle Builder and Stunt Rider, Dies at 55". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
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