Deaths in July 2004

1

• Enrique Mederos, Mexican voice actor.
• Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke.
• Marlon Brando, 80, American actor (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), pulmonary fibrosis.
• Sir Richard May, 65, British former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

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".^[1]
• Sir John Kay, 60, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal.
• Sir Jan Lewando, 90, British businessman.
• James MacKay, 85, American poiltician.
• John Cullen Murphy, 85, American comic strip artist (Prince Valiant).
• Gareth Payne, 68, Welsh rugby union international player.
• Sky Beauty, 14, American thoroughbred.

3

• John Barron, 83, English actor.
• Michael Curtis, 84, British newspaper editor and executive.^[2]
• Freddy de Vree, 64, Belgian poet and literary critic.^[3]
• Jimmy Mack, 70, Scottish radio personality.^[4]

• James Marshall Sprouse, 80, American federal judge.
• Lionel Van Brabant, 77, Belgian Olympic cyclist.

4

• Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor.
• Paul Lin Ta-kuang, 84, Canadian political scientist and peace activist.
• Andrian Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut.
• Frank Robinson, British street entertainer.

5

• Robert Burchfield, 81, English lexicographer, Oxford English Dictionary editor.
• Hugh Shearer, 81, Jamaican politician and trade unionist, former Prime Minister of Jamaica.
• John Stozich, 77, American politician.
• Rodger Ward, 83, American racecar driver, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion.

6

• Peter Birks, 62, British academic lawyer.
• Peter Brayshay, 87, English cricketer.
• Eric Douglas, 46, American actor and comedian, youngest son of Kirk Douglas.
• Thomas Klestil, 71, Austrian diplomat and politician, Federal President of Austria, heart failure.
• Syreeta Wright, 58, American singer and songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder.

7

• Barry Simon, 68, Australian politician.
• Xiaokai Yang, 55, Australian economist.

8

• Paula Danziger, 59, American author.
• Ernst R. G. Eckert, 99, American scientist.
• Albert Friedlander, 77, German rabbi.
• Jaroslav Hules, 30, Czech motorcycle racer, suicide.
• Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor.
• Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé, 82, French banker and socialite.
• Mike Woodin, 38, British Principal Speaker of Green Party of England and Wales and Oxford City Councillor.

9

• Paul Klebnikov, 41, American journalist and historian, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered.
• Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright.
• Bill Randle, 81, American disc jockey.
• Isabel Sanford, 86, American actress, The Jeffersons, natural causes.
• Jeff Smith, 65, American chef and host of The Frugal Gourmet.

10

• Rudy LaRusso, 66, American basketball player, five-time National Basketball Association All-Star.
• Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, Portuguese chemical engineer and politician, former Prime Minister of Portugal.^[5]
• Inge Meysel, 94, German actress.^[6]

11

• Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress.
• Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress.
• Ram Charan Mehrotra, 82, Indian chemist and educationalist.
• Betty Oliphant, 85, English founder of Canada's National Ballet School.
• Laurance Rockefeller, 94, American businessman, conservationist and philanthropist.
• Walter Wager, 79, American author.

12

• Ersel Hickey, 70, American rockabilly singer.
• George Mallaby, 64, Australian actor.

13

• Joe Gold, 82, American bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder.
• Clifford Irving, 90, Manx politician.
• Arthur Kane, 53, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia.
• Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor.
• Betty Luna, 77, American baseball player.
• Michio Morishima, 80, Japanese economist.

14

• Richard Jones, 87, English cricketer.
• Hans A. Pestalozzi, 75, Swiss social critic.
• Alex Willoughby, 59, Scottish footballer (Rangers, Aberdeen).
• Arnold Ziff, 77, English businessman and philanthropist.

15

• Banoo Jehangir Coyaji, 86, Indian doctor and family planning activist.^[7]
• Charles Sweeney, 84, American U.S. Army Air Forces officer, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb.^[8]
• Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano.^[9]

16

• George Busbee, 76, American politician, former governor of Georgia.
• Frank Farmer, 91, English physicist.
• Bella Lewitzky, 88, American modern dance pioneer and choreographer.

17

• Paul Hilmar Jensen, 74, Norwegian philatelist.
• Khalil Hilmi, 94/95, Lebanese Olympic sport shooter.
• Sir Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur, founder of the Carlyle Trust bank.^[10]
• Pat Roach, 67, English wrestler and actor, cancer.^[11]
• Susan Cullen-Ward, 63, Australian-born wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu; cancer.

18

• Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner.
• Eoin McKiernan, 89, American expert on Irish history.
• Émile Peynaud, 92, French wine expert.

19

• Harry Forsyth, 100, Irish cricketer and centenarian.
• Kazi Abul Kasem, 91, Bangladeshi polymath.
• Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer, one of the last survivor of national team in 1930 FIFA World Cup.
• Woodrow Sedlacek, 85, American racehorse trainer.
• Zenko Suzuki, 93, Japanese politician, former Prime Minister of Japan.
• David A. Wallace, 87, American urban planner.

20

• Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish Flamenco dancer, cancer.
• Adi Lady Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady, widow of Prime Minister and President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
• Jimmy MacLaren, 82, Scottish footballer.
• James Williams, 53, American jazz pianist.

21

• Jerry Goldsmith, 75, American movie and television composer (Star Trek).
• Edward B. Lewis, 85, American biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995).
• Neal A. Maxwell, 78, American member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Michael Prior, 62, Irish-born British theologian.
• Sir Julian Ridsdale, 89, British politician.

22

• Sacha Distel, 71, French singer.
• Hume Horan, 69, American diplomat.
• Illinois Jacquet, 81, United States jazz saxophonist.
• George Kidd, 87, Canadian diplomat.

23

• Joe Cahill, 84, Irish politician.^[12]
• Janet Chisholm, 75, British MI6 agent during the Cold War.
• Sir Alan Cook, 81, British physicist.
• Rogelio Domínguez, 73, Argentine football player.
• Mehmood, 72, Indian actor.
• Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player.
• Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor.

24

• Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons, 72, American NBA basketball coach.
• Clive Geary, 82, New Zealand cricketer
• Fred LaRue, 75, American part of Watergate scandal.
• Ben Martin, 83, American football player and coach.
• Edward D. Thalmann, 59, American hyperbaric medicine specialist, retired U.S. Navy Captain and doctor whose research developed military and recreational dive tables, congestive heart failure.
• Wilton Mkwayi, 80, The South African anti-apartheid and ANC activist.

25

• Francisco Romão, 61, Angolan deputy foreign minister, suicide.^[13]

26

• William A. Mitchell, 92, American food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix.
• Rubén Gómez, 77, Puerto Rican baseball player, former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins.
• Oğuz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist, creator of Avanak Avni, Kostebek Husnu, and Utanmaz Adam.
• Sidney Greene, Baron Greene of Harrow Weald, 94, British life peer, trade union leader and railroad worker.

27

• Carmine G. DeSapio, 95, American politician, last boss of Tammany Hall.
• Bob Tisdall, 97, Irish athlete, won the gold medal in hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

28

• Juhani Avellan, 58, Finnish Olympic weightlifter.^[14]
• Jackson Beck, 92, American announcer and voice actor.
• Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer.^[15]
• Alexei de Keyser, 36, British television producer.
• Sam Edwards, 89, American actor, Little House on the Prairie, heart failure.^[16]
• Margo McLennan, 66, British actress, Prisoner, cancer.^[17]
• Steve Patterson, 56, American basketball player, former center of the UCLA basketball team, coach at Arizona State University and founder of the Grand Canyon State Games.
• Eugene Roche, 75, American character actor and the "Ajax" Man.
• Tiziano Terzani, 65, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia.

29

• David Bowden, 66, Australian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Bendigo (1995–2002).
• Susan Buffett, 71, American estranged wife of billionaire/investment guru Warren Buffett.
• Walter Feit, 73, American mathematician.
• Nafisa Joseph, 25, Indian model, MTV video jockey, Miss India 1997; suicide.
• Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedian.

30

• Andre Noble, 25, Canadian actor.
• Ali Abbasi, 42, Pakistani-born BBC Scotland travel presenter.^[18]
• Hirendranath Mukherjee, 96, Indian politician.

31

• Laura Betti, 70, Italian actress.
• Virginia Grey, 87, American actress. Little Eva in the first film adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Elder David B. Haight, 97, American oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Líber Seregni, 87, Uruguayan army officer and politician.
• Ray Tolchard, 50, English cricketer and umpire.