Deaths in December 2005

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2005.

Contents
November December January

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.

December 2005

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  • Charly Gaul, 72, Luxembourgian cyclist, winner of the 1958 Tour de France.
  • Richard Grimsdale, 76, British electrical engineer, built the world's first transistorised computer and was at the forefront of work on Read Only Memory.[14]
  • Paul Halla, 74, Austrian footballer.
  • Hanns Dieter Hüsch, 80, German political satirist.
  • Devan Nair, 82, President of Singapore (19811985).[15]
  • Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, 111, Polish-born oldest man in the UK at the time of his death.[16]
  • Danny Williams, 63, South African popular singer, lung cancer.

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  • Lucy d'Abreu, 113, Indian-born oldest person in the UK at the time of her death.[17]
  • Rigoberto Alpizar, 44, American airplane passenger fatally shot by U.S. Air Marshals after allegedly claiming he had placed a bomb aboard.
  • Martine Bercher, 61, American football player.
  • Adrian Biddle, 53, British cinematographer (Aliens, The Princess Bride, Thelma & Louise), heart attack.
  • Marvin Braude, 85, American member of Los Angeles City Council.[18]
  • Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., 65, American politician, former South Carolina governor (1987–1995), and member of U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1987), heart attack and complications of Alzheimer's disease.
  • Bud Carson, 75, American football player, former NFL head coach, emphysema.
  • Loomis Dean, 88, American photographer, notably for Life magazine.

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  • Eric D'Arcy, 81, Australia Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hobart, Tasmania.
  • Max Mariu, 53, First Maori Catholic bishop.
  • David Pritchard, 86, British chess player and chess writer.
  • Gebran Tueni, 48, Lebanese journalist and politician, assassinated by a car bomb.

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  • Erhard Ahmann, 64, German football manager.
  • Stew Bowers, 90, American baseball player.
  • Gordon Duncan, 41, Scottish musician and bagpiper, suicide.[26]
  • Rokuro Ishikawa, 80, Japanese businessman (Kajima Corporation).
  • Sudhir Joshi, 57, Indian actor, heart attack.
  • John B. Nixon, 77, American convicted murderer, executed in Mississippi.
  • William "Duke" Procter, 106, Canadian World War I veteran.[27]
  • Rodney William Whitaker, 74, British author, wrote under pseudonyms such as "Trevanian."

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