Deaths in May 2004
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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2004.
May 2004
1
- Francis James Harrison, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Syracuse (1977–1987).
- Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double).
- John Howland Rowe, 85, American archaeologist and anthropologist.
2
- Moe Burtschy, 82, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia & Kansas City Athletics.
- Paul Guimard, 83, French writer.
3
- Anthony Ainley, 71, British actor best known as The Master in Doctor Who.
- Darrell Johnson, 75, American MLB catcher and manager.[1]
- Volus Jones, 90, American animator.
- Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, 84, British aristocrat and politician.
4
- Clement Dodd, 72, Jamaican reggae pioneer.
- Tage Frid, 88, Danish woodworker.
- Erik Smith, 73, German-born British music producer.
5
- David Reimer, 39, Canadian notable gender-reassignment case.
- Ritsuko Okazaki, 44, Japanese singer-songwriter and author.
6
- Kjell Hallbing (aka Louis Masterson), 69, Norwegian Western author.
- Sir John Hill, 90, British police officer.
- Barney Kessel, 80, American jazz guitarist and studio musician.
- Daniel Thompson, 69, American poet.
7
- Nick Berg, 26, American businessman and hostage killed in Iraq.
- Douglas John Foskett, 85, British librarian.
- Oliver David Jackson, 84, Australian army officer.
- Waldemar Milewicz, 48, Polish journalist, and Mounyra Beouamrane, killed in Iraq.
8
- Sir John Peel, 91, British politician, MP for Leicester South East (1957–1974).
- Ronnie Robinson, 53, American basketball player.
9
- Tommy Farrell, 82, American film and television actor.
- Percy M. Young, 91, British musicologist.
- Olive Osmond, 79, American Osmond singing family matriarch, mother of entertainers Marie Osmond and the various Osmond Brothers.
- Alan King, 76, American comedian and actor.
- Brenda Fassie, 39, South African singer.[2]
- Akhmad Kadyrov, 52, Chechen politician, President of Chechnya.
10
- Eric Kierans, 90, Canadian politician.
11
- Mick Doyle, 63, Irish rugby union player and coach.
- Danny McLennan, 79, Scottish football player and coach.
12
- John LaPorta, 84, American jazz clarinetist, composer and educator.[3]
- Syd Hoff, 91, American children's book author, cartoonist.
- John Robson, 54, English footballer.
- John Whitehead, 55, American R&B artist, shot dead.
- Judith Cook, 70, British theatre historian, campaigner and novelist.
13
- Joey Curtis, 79, American professional boxer, boxing referee and business owner.
- Vicente Doria Catan Jr, 56, Filipino comic book artist.
- Brian McNaughton, 68, American horror and fantasy writer.
- Floyd Kalber, 79, American broadcast journalist.
14
- Anna Lee, 91, British-born American actress, best known for playing Lila Quartermaine on the soap opera General Hospital.
- Jesus Gil, 71, Spanish businessman and politician, controversial owner of Atlético Madrid football club.
- Charlotte Benkner, 114, American supercentenarian, oldest recognized person in United States.
- Shaun Sutton, 84, British television executive.
15
- Jack Bradbury, 89, American animator and comic book artist.
- Gill Fox, 88, American political cartoonist, comic book artist, and animator.
- William H. Hinton, 85, American writer, farmer and Marxist, author of Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village.
- Colonel Robert Morgan, 85, American US Air Force pilot, former pilot of the Memphis Belle.
- Carlos Orta, 60, Venezuelan artist, and principal dancer and choreographer of the José Limón Dance Company.
- Clint Warwick, 63, British bass guitarist (The Moody Blues).
16
- Moya Cole, 85, Northern Irish physician and hospice founder.
- Lord Hill-Norton, 89, British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet.
- Marika Rökk, 90, Egyptian-born German actress.
17
- Gunnar Graps, 57, Estonian rock singer and percussionist.
- Robert Lewin, 85, Polish art dealer and philanthropist.
- Buster Narum, 63, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Orioles and Senators.
- Jørgen Nash, 84, Danish poet, performance artist.
- Tony Randall, 84, American television actor (The Odd Couple), pneumonia.
- Ezzedine Salim, 60-61, Iraqi politician, president of the Iraqi Governing Council.
- June Taylor, 86, American television dancer and choreographer.
18
- Arnold O. Beckman, 104, American inventor, industrialist, philanthropist.
- Elvin Jones, 76, American jazz drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s.
- Lü Fuyuan, 59, Chinese politician, Minister of Commerce of China. Live cancer.
- Kelsey Patterson, 49, American convicted murderer, lethal injection.
- Hyacinthe Thiandoum, 83, Senegalese Roman Catholic Cardinal, former Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal.
19
- Jack Eckerd, 91, American businessman, former owner of the Eckerd drugstore chain.
- Mary Dresselhuys, 97, Dutch actress.
- Arnold Moore, 90, American blues artist.
- E.K. Nayanar, 87, Indian politician, three-time Chief Minister of Kerala, India.
20
- Dennis Coslett, 64, Welsh political activist.
- Stanisław Gronkowski, 82, Polish actor.[4](Polish)
- Len Murray, Lord Murray of Epping Forest, 81, British trade union leader.
21
- Rod Hall, 53, British literary agent, murdered.[5]
- Gene Wood, 78, American television personality, announcer of Family Feud and other US game shows.
22
- Richard Biggs, 44, American actor, Babylon 5.
- Samuel Curtis Johnson, 76, American businessman, fourth generation president of SC Johnson company.
- Wayne Kimber, 55, New Zealand politician.
- Mikhail Voronin, 59, Russian gymnast, double Olympic champion.
23
- Trudy Marshall, 84, American actress.
24
- Daphne Blundell, 87, British naval officer.
- Henry Ries, 87, American photographer.
- Lee Won-woo, 45, South Korean basketball player.
25
- Glenn Cunningham, 60, American politician, mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey.
- David Dellinger, 88, American antiwar activist, member of Chicago Eight.
- Nicholas Luard, 66, British writer and politician.
- Roger W. Straus, Jr., 87, American publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
26
- Gatjil Djerrkura, 54, Australian indigenous leader, Chairman of ATSIC 1996-2000.
27
- Umberto Agnelli, 69, Italian industrialist, head of Fiat.[6]
- Patience Cleveland, 73, American actress.[7]
- Jim Marshall, 63, British Labour MP.[8]
- Jack Losch, 69, American member of 1st Little League World Series championship team.
28
- Michael Alison, 77, British Privy Council member and former minister and MP.
- Gerald Anthony, 52, American actor, best known for playing Marco Dane on the TV show One Life to Live.
- Josie Carey, 73, American lyricist, host of the Pittsburgh children's show "Children's Corner".
- Irene Manning, 91, American actress and singer (Yankee Doodle Dandy).
- James Neil Tucker, 47, American convicted murderer.
29
- Archibald Cox, 92, American lawyer, Watergate special prosecutor.
- Sam Dash, 79, American lawyer, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal.
- Jack Rosenthal, 72, British television dramatist.[9]
- Magne Havnå, 40, Norwegian former professional boxer, in boating accident.
- Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, 114, Puerto Rican supercentenarian, oldest documented person in the world.
- Sir Gordon Wolstenholme, 91, British physician.
30
- Raymond M. Clausen, Jr., 56, American marine, Medal of Honour recipient.
- Bobbie Irvine, 71, British ballroom dancer.
31
- Gunnar Hansen, 87, Norwegian Olympic boxer.
- Alberta Martin, 97, American notable widow, last known widow of a Confederate soldier.
- Robert Quine, 61, American punk rock guitarist.
References
- ↑ "ESPN Classic - Johnson's Red Sox lost classic Series in '75". www.espn.com. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- ↑ "South Africans mourn top pop diva". 2004-05-11. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- ↑ "John D. LaPorta, 84, Clarinetist-Composer". The New York Times. 2004-05-15. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- ↑ "Cyfrowe muzeum - Narodowy Stary Teatr im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej w Krakowie". www.cyfrowemuzeum.stary.pl. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- ↑ "Top literary agent found murdered". 2004-05-25. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- ↑ "Fiat boss Umberto Agnelli dies". 2004-05-28. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- ↑ Patience Cleveland 1931–2004
- ↑ "Veteran Labour MP dies suddenly". 2004-05-27. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- ↑ "TV writer Rosenthal dies aged 72". 2004-05-29. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
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