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Deaths in August 2004
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2004.
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.
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August 2004
1
- Philip Abelson, 91, American physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium, respiratory failure.[1]
- Vivian Austin, 84, American actress.
- John Higgins, 88, American Olympic swimmer and coach, pneumonia.[2]
- George F. Kugler, Jr., 79, American lawyer.[3]
- Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, American philosopher.[4]
- Madeleine Robinson, 86, French actress.[5]
- Ken Timbs, 53, American professional wrestler, cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure.
2
- V. Balakrishnan, 72, Indian Malayalam writer and translator.
- François Craenhals, 77, Belgian comics artist.[6]
- V. Lamar Gudger, 85, American judge and politician.[7]
- Heinrich Mark, 92, Estonian politician, Prime Minister-in-exile (1971-1990).
- José Omar Pastoriza, 62, Argentinian football player and coach, cardiovascular disease.
- Arturo M. Tolentino, 93, Philippine lawyer and politician, heart attack.
- Don Tosti, 81, American musician and composer.[8]
3
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer.[9]
- Gloria Emerson, 75, American author, journalist and New York Times war correspondent, suicide.[10]
- Bob Murphy, 79, American Major League Baseball sportscaster , lung cancer.
- Bryon Nickoloff, 48, Canadian chess International Master, stomach cancer.[11]
- Geraldine Peroni, 51, American film editor (The Player, Dr. T and the Women, Michael), suicide.[12]
4
- Pierre de Chevigné, 95, French politician.[13]
- Robert Yewdall Jennings, 90, British jurist, President of the International Court of Justice.[14]
- Eivor Landström, 85, Swedish actress.
- Frank Maxwell, 87, American actor.[15]
- Mary Sherman Morgan, 82, American rocket scientist.
- Hossein Panahi, 47, Iranian actor and poet, heart attack.
- Fumio Watanabe, 74, Japanese actor.[16]
5
- Uri Adelman, 45, Israeli writer, musician, computer expert, and academic, heart attack.[17]
- Don Grossman, 83, Australian rules footballer.
- Edith Jiménez, 86, Paraguayan plastic artist.[18]
- André Wogenscky, 88, French modernist architect and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.[19]
6
- Ennio Antonelli, 77, Italian actor and boxer.[20]
- Joseph-Marie Lo Duca, 98, Italian-French journalist, novelist, art critic, and film historian.[21]
- Rick James, 56, American singer ("Mary Jane", "Give It to Me Baby", "Super Freak") and producer, heart attack.[22]
- Philip G. Johnson, 78, American Hall of Fame trainer of Thoroughbred race horses.
- Donald Justice, 78, American poet.[23]
- Murray S. Klamkin, 83, American mathematician.
- Christopher Matthews, British businessman, helicopter crash.[24]
7
- Red Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter.[25]
- María Esperanza de Bianchini, 75, Venezuelan mystic.
- Steve Blau, 44, Australian piano player.
- G.T. Hogan, 75, American jazz drummer.
- Bernard Levin, 75, English journalist and broadcaster, Alzheimer's disease.[26]
- Ismael Rodríguez, 86, Mexican film director, screenwriter, respiratory failure.[27]
- Jukka Sipilä, 68, Finnish actor and television director.
- Gordon Smith, 80, Scottish footballer.[28]
- Chris Wallace, 70, Australian computer scientist and physicist.
8
- Henrique Abranches, 71, Angolan writer and anthropologist, stroke.
- Gypsy Boots, 89, American health and fitness pioneer.
- Eva Frommer, 76, German-British consultant child psychiatrist.
- Paul Garner, 95, American comedian, Three Stooges associate.[29]
- Leon Golub, 82, American artist and painter.[30]
- Dimitris Papamichael, 70, Greek actor, heart attack.[31]
- Jean Pouliot, 81, Canadian broadcasting pioneer.[32]
- S. V. Ramadoss, 83, Indian actor.
- Fay Wray, 96, Canadian-American actress (King Kong).[33]
9
- Liisi Beckmann, 79, Finnish designer and artist.
- Sam Hogin, 54, American country music songwriter.
- Robert Lecourt, 95, French politician, judge and president of the European Court of Justice.[34]
- Tony Mottola, 86, American guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on The Tonight Show orchestra, stroke.[35]
- Eduard Neumann, 93, German Luftwaffe officer during WWII.
- David Raksin, 92, American composer of film and television scores (Laura).[36]
- Saul Rosenzweig, 97, American psychologist and therapist.[37]
- René Taton, 89, French author and historian of science.[38]
10
- Walter Bielser, 75, Swiss footballer.[39]
- K. P. Brahmanandan, 58, Indian playback singer from Kerala.[40]
- Alan N. Cohen, 73, American basketball executive and owner of the Boston Celtics.[41]
- James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, American member of the Rockefeller family and Olympic champion, stroke.[42]
11
- Sir David Calcutt, 73, British barrister and public servant.[43]
- Joe Falls, 76, American journalist, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News, heart attack.
- Bill Martin Jr., 88, American author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.[44]
- Wolfgang Mommsen, 73, German historian.[45]
12
- Bjarne Andersson, 64, Swedish cross-country skier, Olympic silver medallist (1968).[46]
- Humayun Azad, 57, Bangladeshi poet, writer, critic, linguist, and academic.
- Godfrey Hounsfield, 84, British electrical engineer and Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate, co-inventor of the CAT scan.[47]
- John McGuigan, 71, Scottish football player.
- Sebastián Ontoria, 84, Spanish footballer.
- Perica Vlašić, 72, Croatian Olympic rower.[48]
- Basil Wigoder, 83, British politician and barrister.
- George Yardley, 75, American NBA basketball player, ALS.[49]
13
- Mabel Addis, 92, American writer, teacher and the first video game writer.
- Julia Child, 91, American chef, author and television hostess on French cuisine, kidney failure.[50]
- Sei Ikeno, 73, Japanese composer.[51]
- Josef Paul Kleihues, 71, German architect.
- Donald Meltzer, 81, American Kleinian psychoanalyst.
- Milton Pollack, 97, American federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street.[52]
- Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor.[53]
- Akku Yadav, 32, Indian gangster and criminal, lynched.
- Ko Yong-hui, 52, North Korean mistress of supreme leader Kim Jong Il and mother Kim Jong Un, breast cancer.
14
- David Brown, 76, American rower and Olympic champion.[54]
- Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 39, Indian rapist and murderer, executed.
- William David Ford, 77, American politician, stroke.[55]
- Neal Fredericks, 35, American cinematographer (The Blair Witch Project), drowned.
- Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and dissident.[56]
- Bomber Moran, 59, Filipino actor, prostate cancer.
- Eric Petrie, 77, New Zealand cricketer.[57]
- Trevor Skeet, 86, New Zealand-British lawyer and politician.
15
- Sune Bergström, 88, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine.[58]
- Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer.[59]
- Amarsinh Chaudhary, 63, Indian politician, heart attack.
- Charles Eaton, 94, American juvenile stage and film performer.[60]
- Armando Lambruschini, 80, Argentine navy admiral.
- Kirk McCarthy, 37, Australian motorcycle road racer, racing accident.
- Paul Ngei, 80, Kenyan politician, diabetes.
- Atefah Sahaaleh, 16, Iranian teenage girl and regime victim, execution by hanging.[61]
- Min Thu Wun, 95, Burmese poet, writer and scholar.
16
- Acquanetta, 83, American B-movie actress nicknamed "The Venezuelan Volcano", Alzheimer's disease.
- Babken Arakelyan, 92, Armenian historian and archeologist.
- Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach, traffic collision.[62]
- Jikki, 68, Indian playback singer from Andhra Pradesh.
- J. Irwin Miller, 95, American businessman, philanthropist, and civil rights advocate.[63]
- Carl Mydans, 97, American photographer.[64]
- Robert Quiroga, 35, American world champion boxer, murdered.
17
- Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist.[65]
- Frank Cotroni, 73, Italian-Canadian mobster and boss of the Cotroni crime family, brain cancer.
- Marosa di Giorgio, 72, Uruguayan poet and novelist.
- Shizuo Kakutani, 92, Japanese-American mathematician.[66]
- Jack Marshall, 84, Canadian politician.
- Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone.[67]
- Kain Tapper, 74, Finnish sculptor.
- Armando Dely Valdés, 40, Panamanian football player, heart attack.[68]
18
- Susan Mary Alsop, 84, American socialite, hostess and writer.[69]
- Elmer Bernstein, 82, American film composer (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Ghostbusters, To Kill a Mockingbird), Oscar winner (1968), cancer.[70]
- Joe Dodge, 82, American jazz musician.[71]
- Hiram Fong, 97, American businessman and politician, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate, kidney failure.
- Gylfi Þorsteinsson Gíslason, 87, Icelandic politician.
- Anicet Kashamura, 75, Congolese politician.
- Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich, 86, American micropaleontologist.[72]
- Hugh Manning, 83, British actor (Emmerdale, The Elephant Man, Mrs Thursday).
- Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán, heart attack.
- Uday Prakash, 40, Indian actor, alcoholism.
- Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen.
19
- Tom Baldwin, 57, American race driver, racing accident.[73]
- George Gibson, 98, American football player and coach.[74]
- Edmund Kurtz, 95, Russian-American cellist.[75]
- Kyi Maung, 83, Myanmar Army officer and politician.
20
- Arthur Lever, 84, Welsh professional footballer.[76]
- María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born Mexican actress in rumbera films.
- Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician, playwright and columnist.[77]
- Leslie Shepard, 87, British author, archivist, and curator.[78]
21
- Viktor Avilov, 51, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, cancer.[79]
- Isaäc Arend Diepenhorst, 88, Dutch politician and jurist.[80]
- Maddy English, 79, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[81]
- Bill Hobbs, 57, American gridiron football player, accidental death.[82]
- Hortensia Blanch Pita, 89, Spanish writer.
- Sachidananda Routray, 88, Indian poet and novelist.
22
- Konstantin Aseev, 43, Russian chess Grandmaster and coach, leukemia.
- Angus Bethune, 95, Australian politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
- Haralambie Ivanov, 63, Romanian sprint canoeist and Olympic silver medalist.[83]
- George Kirgo, 78, American television and film writer, president of the Writers Guild of America, kidney failure.[84]
- Jim Nelson, 57, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[85]
- Daniel Petrie, 83, Canadian film director (A Raisin in the Sun, Cocoon: The Return, The Bay Boy), cancer.[86]
- Reginaldo Polloni, 87–88, Italian Olympic rower (men's coxed four rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[87]
- Ota Šik, 84, Czech economist and politician, architect of economic liberalization during the 1968 Prague Spring.
- Eddison Zvobgo, 68, Zimbabwean politician and the founder of ruling party, ZANU–PF, cancer.[88]
23
- Yerik Assanbayev, 68, Kazakh statesman and vice-president (1991-1996).
- Hank Borowy, 88, American baseball player.[89]
- Francesco Minerva, 100, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop.[90]
- Anthony Rhodes, 87, British writer and scholar.[91]
- Víctor Urquidi, 85, Mexican civil servant, economist, and academic.[92]
24
- Richard Ervin, 99, American attorney general and chief justice of Florida.[93]
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-American psychiatrist.[94]
- Bob Price, 76, American politician (U.S. Representative for Texas districts).[95]
- Ivy Rahman, 60, Bangladeshi politician, grenade attack.
- Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, 81, Colombian painter and sculptor.
25
- Donald M. Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer, Parkinson's disease.
- Karen Dior, 37, American actress, singer, director, and drag queen, viral hepatitis.
- Hal Epps, 90, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Athletics).[96]
- Marcelo González Martín, 86, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop of Toledo (1971-1995).[97]
- Carl Szokoll, 88, Austrian resistance fighter during World War II, and after the war author and film producer.[98]
- David Woodward, 61, English-American historian of cartography and cartographer, cancer.[99]
26
- Enzo Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq.
- Laura Branigan, 52, American pop singer ("Gloria", "Self Control"), cerebral aneurysm.[100]
- Lewis Carter-Jones, 83, British politician.[101]
- Rajanand, 76, Indian actor in the Kannada film industry.
- Lyn Thomas, 74, American stage, television and film actress.
- Matthias Volz, 94, German Olympic gymnast.[102]
27
- Fernand Auberjonois, 93, Swiss foreign news correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade.[103]
- Willie Crawford, 57, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers), kidney disease.[104]
- Gottlieb Göller, 69, German football player and manager.
- Suzanne Kaaren, 92, American actress (Three Stooges films).[105]
- Larry McCormick, 71, American television personality, cancer.
- Susan Peretz, 64, American actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Melvin and Howard, Swing Shift), breast cancer.[106]
- William Pierson, 78, American actor (Stalag 17, Three's Company, Corvette Summer), respiratory failure.[107]
28
- Isidoro Blaisten, 71, Argentine writer.
- Silvana Jachino, 88, Italian actress.
- Robert Lewin, 84, American producer and screenwriter, lung cancer.[108]
- Mercedes Vecino, 88, Spanish film actress.[109]
29
- Donald Allen, 92, American editor, publisher and translator of American literature.[110]
- Ivan Lacković Croata, 72, Croatian naive painter, heart attack.
- Nikolai Getman, 86, Soviet/Ukrainian artist and Gulag detainee
- Helen Lane, 83, American translator.[111]
- Leonardus Benjamin Moerdani, 71, Indonesian general and politician, stroke and lung infection.
- René Ménil, 97, French surrealist writer and philosopher.[112]
- Antoine Schnapper, 71, French art historian.[113]
- Vladimir Velebit, 97, Yugoslav politician, diplomat and military leader.
- Hans Vonk, 62, Dutch conductor, ALS.[114]
30
- Dely Atay-Atayan, 90, Filipina comedian and singer.
- Robert Boyer, 56, Canadian visual artist, powwow dancer and university professor of aboriginal heritage.[115]
- Willie Duff, 69, Scottish football goalkeeper (Heart of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline Athletic).[116]
- Frank Horton, 84, American politician.[117]
- Bart Huges, 70, Dutch librarian and proponent of trepanation.
- Derek Johnson, 71, British athlete and athletics administrator, leukemia.[118]
- E. Fay Jones, 83, American architect and designer, trained by Frank Lloyd Wright.[119]
- Indian Larry, 55, American motorcycle builder, artist, and stunt rider stunt, injuries suffered during a stunt.[120]
- Mario Levrero, 64, Uruguayan author.
- Bob Sherman, 63, American actor.[121]
- Fred Lawrence Whipple, 97, American astronomer.[122]
31
- Edvin Landsem, 79, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier.[123]
- Tamaz Nadareishvili, 50, Georgian politician, heart attack.
- Lex Peterson, 46, New Zealand Olympic bobsledder (two-man and four-man bobsled at the 1988 Winter Olympics).[124]
- Carl Wayne, 61, English lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer.[125]
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