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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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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December 2004
1
- Fathi Arafat, 71, Palestinian physician, founder of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, stomach cancer.[1]
- Mammad Araz, 71, Azerbaijani poet.
- Bill Brown, 73, Scottish football goalkeeper.[2]
- Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 93, Dutch royal, spouse of Queen Juliana and father of Queen Beatrix, lung and colon cancer.[3]
- Norman Newell, 85, English record producer and lyricist.[4]
- Damon Simonelli, 45, American planetary scientist, heart failure.[5]
- David Vienneau, 53, Canadian journalist, pancreatic cancer.[6]
2
- Larry Buchanan, 81, American B-movie director, producer and writer, complications of collapsed lung.[7]
- Kevin Coyne, 60, English musician, filmmaker, and a writer of lyrics, stories and poems.[8]
- Cachita Galán, 61, Argentine singer, cancer.[9]
- Alicia Markova, 94, English ballerina, stroke.[10]
- Nadine Shamir, 32, American techno singer/songwriter, complications during childbirth.[11]
- Louis W. Truman, 96, Senior American Army officer.[12]
- Mona Van Duyn, 83, American poet, US Poet Laureate (1992), bone cancer.[13]
3
- Shiing-Shen Chern, 93, Chinese mathematician, heart failure following heart attack.[14]
- Robert Dhéry, 83, French comedian, actor, director and screenwriter.
- Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Duke of Leinster, 90, Irish nobleman.[15]
- June Maston, 76, Australian Olympic sprinter and athletics coach.[16]
- Maria Perschy, 66, Austrian actress, cancer.[17]
- Helmut Rix, 78, German linguist, car accident.[18]
- Josef Schwammberger, 92, German SS (Schutzstaffel) officer and labor camp commander during World War II.[19]
- Fred Silva, 77, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
- Marek Stachowski, 68, Polish composer.[20]
- Yaroslav Starobogatov, 72, Russian zoologist and academic.
4
- Mahmut Atalay, 70, Turkish freestyle wrestler and coach, heart attack.
- Willem Duyn, 67, Dutch singer, actor, and entertainer, heart attack.[21]
- Carl Esmond, 102, Austrian film and stage actor.[22]
- Tom Fitzgerald, 53, American soccer coach (University of Tampa), motorcycle accident.[23]
- Elena Souliotis, 61, Greek operatic soprano, heart failure.[24]
- Svend Wad, 76, Danish boxer and Olympic medalist.[25]
- Ron Williamson, 51, American minor league baseball player and murder convict, liver cirrhosis.
5
- Giuseppe Campora, 81, Italian operatic tenor.[26]
- Seymour Ginsburg, 76, American computer scientist, Alzheimer's disease.[27]
- Neil Hallett, 80, Belgian-English actor.
- Cristiano Júnior, 25, Brazilian footballer, cardiac arrest after on-field collision.[28]
- Manzanita, 48, Spanish singer and guitarist, heart attack.[29]
- Jose Pellissery, 53–54, Indian film and theatre actor.
- Øystein Rottem, 58, Norwegian philologist, literary historian and literary critic, cancer.
- Hicham Zerouali, 27, Moroccan footballer, car accident.[30]
6
- Frank Reginald Carey, 92, British fighter ace during World War II.[31]
- Raymond Goethals, 83, Belgian soccer coach, colorectal cancer.[32]
- Árpád Makay, 93, Hungarian cinematographer.
- Adrian Morris, 75, English painter.[33]
- John Norton, 86, United States Army general.[34]
- Enrique Salinas, 52, Mexican businessman, asphyxiation.[35]
- Christine Wodetzky, 66, German actress.
7
- Pacita Abad, 58, Filipino painter, lung cancer.[36]
- Frederick Fennell, 90, American conductor, founder of Eastman Wind Ensemble.[37]
- María Rosa Gallo, 82, Argentine actress, pneumonia.
- Julije Knifer, 80, Croatian abstract painter.[38]
- Floyd Nattrass, 86, Canadian Olympic sports shooter (men's trap shooting at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[39]
- Zuzana Navarová, 45, Czech singer and songwriter, cancer.
- Jay Van Andel, 80, American co-founder and former chairman of Amway, Parkinson's disease.[40]
- Oscar M. Ruebhausen, 92, American lawyer and adviser to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller.[41]
- Jerry Scoggins, 93, American musician ("The Ballad of Jed Clampett").[42]
8
- Dimebag Darrell, 38, American heavy metal guitarist (Pantera, Damageplan), shot.[43]
- Cleve Gray, 86, American abstract painter.[44]
- Johnny Lockett, 89, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
- Jackson Mac Low, 82, American poet, composer and performance artist, complications from stroke.[45]
- Noel Mills, 60, New Zealand rower and Olympic silver medalist.[46]
- C. S. Rao, 80, Indian actor, writer and director.
- Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman, 93, British jurist, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (1977–1986).[47]
9
- Andrea Absolonová, 27, Czech diver and adult model known as Lea De Mae, brain cancer.[48]
- Henny Backus, 93, American actress, stroke.[49]
- David Brudnoy, 64, American radio talk show host (Boston), Merkel cell carcinoma.[50]
- Paul Edwards, 81, Austrian-American philosopher.[51]
- Peter Emery, 78, British Conservative politician (Honiton, 1967–1997; East Devon, 1997–2001).[52]
- Jimmy Gauld, 75, Scottish football player.[53]
- Philippe Gigantès, 81, Canadian former senator, cancer.[54]
- Jean Tournier, 78, French cinematographer.
- Sergey Voychenko, 49, Belarusian artist and designer, complications following heart bypass surgery.
10
- Khoren Abrahamyan, 74, Armenian actor and director.
- Bruno Arcari, 89, Italian football player player and coach.[55]
- Norman Borrett, 87, English sportsman.[56]
- Emilio Cruz, 66, Cuban-American artist, pancreatic cancer.[57]
- Bob King, 81, American college basketball coach.[58]
- Radner Muratov, 76, Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, stroke.
- Homi Wadia, 93, Indian film director and producer.
- Gary Webb, 49, American investigative reporter ("Dark Alliance"), suicide by gunshot.[59]
11
- Christopher Blake, 55, English actor and screenwriter, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[60]
- José Luis Cuciuffo, 43, Argentinian footballer and 1986 Football World Cup champion, hunting accident.[61]
- Arthur Lydiard, 87, New Zealand marathon runner and athletics coach, heart attack.[62]
- Harry Roesli, 53, Indonesian singer-songwriter, heart attack.
- Margaret Shaw, 101, American photographer and folklorist.[63]
- M. S. Subbulakshmi, 88, Indian carnatic musician and singer, heart problems.[64]
12
- Joseph Beyrle, 81, United States Army and Soviet Red Army soldier, heart attack.
- Pramod Chakravorty, 75, Indian film producer and director.
- Herbert Dreilich, 62, German rock musician, cancer.
- Frits Helmuth, 73, Danish film actor.[65]
- Rollin Hotchkiss, 93, American biochemist and molecular genetics pioneer.[66]
- George Hunter, 77, South African boxer and Olympic champion.[67]
- Frank Isola, 79, American jazz drummer.[68]
- Harry McNally, 68, English football player, coach and manager, heart attack.
- Phaswane Mpe, 34, South African novelist, AIDS-related complications.[69]
- Fabian O'Dea, 86, Canadian lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador.[70]
- Maurizio Perissinot, 53, Italian rally driver.
- Syed Mir Qasim, 83, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir (1971–1975).[71]
- William B. Rosson, 86, United States Army general, heart attack.
- Bernarda Bryson Shahn, 101, American painter, lithographer, widow of Ben Shahn.[72]
- Pavlo Vasylyk, 78, Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch.
13
- Donald S. Jones, 76, United States Navy admiral.[73]
- Andre Rodgers, 70, Bahamian baseball player, first Bahamian to play in Major League Baseball.[74]
- Tom Turesson, 62, Swedish footballer.[75]
- David Wheeler, 77, English computer scientist.[76]
14
- Candice Daly, 38, American film and TV actress (The Young and the Restless), polydrug intoxication.[77]
- John Downey, 77, American contemporary classical composer, conductor, and pianist.[78]
- Danny Doyle, 87, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).[79]
- Rod Kanehl, 70, American baseball player, heart attack.[80]
- Alexey Korneyev, 65, Russian footballer.[81]
- Anselmo López, 94, Spanish basketball coach and administrator.[82]
- Fernando Poe Jr., 65, Filipino actor and former presidential candidate, stroke.[83]
- Alex Sarkisian, 82, American gridiron football player.
- Agostino Straulino, 90, Italian Olympic sailor (mixed two person keelboat: 1952 gold medal winner, 1956 silver medal winner).[84]
- Carsten Peter Thiede, 52, German archaeologist and New Testament scholar, heart attack.[85]
- Megumi Yokota, 40, Japanese citizen who was abducted by a North Korean agent in 1977.
15
- Alma Duncan, 87, Canadian painter, graphic artist, and filmmaker.
- Chiang Fang-liang, 88, Belarus-Taiwanese widow of Chiang Ching-kuo and First Lady of the Republic of China (1978–1988), pulmonary and cardiac failure.[86]
- Vassal Gadoengin, 61, Nauruan politician and then-incumbent Speaker of Parliament, heart attack.
- Jiban Ghosh, 69, Indian cricket umpire.[87]
- Sidonie Goossens, 105, British harpist.[88]
- Pauline LaFon Gore, 92, American lawyer.[89]
- Jim Holliday, 55–56, American pornographic film producer and historian, complications from diabetes.[90]
- Lucien Musset, 82, French historian, specializing in the history of the Vikings.[91]
- Rodney O'Gliasain Kennedy-Minott, 76, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Sweden, complications of pancreatitis.[92]
16
- Ted Abernathy, 71, American baseball player.[93]
- Laxmikant Berde, 50, Indian actor, kidney failure.[94]
- Martha Carson, 83, American gospel-country music singer.[95]
- Richard B. Fisher, 68, American investment banker, cancer.[96]
- Deyda Hydara, 58, Gambian journalist and editor, homicide.
- Stefano Madia, 49, Italian actor.[97]
- Agnes Martin, 92, American abstract painter, pneumonia.[98]
- Bobby Mattick, 89, American former baseball player and manager, stroke.[99]
- Seymour Melman, 86, American economist and academic.[100]
- Mahmoud Messadi, 93, Tunisian author and intellectual.[101]
- Yehudit Naot, 60, Israeli scientist and politician, throat cancer.[102]
- Lawrence O'Brien, 53, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada, cancer.[103]
- Freddie Perren, 61, American two-time Grammy Award-winning record producer, stroke.[104]
- Prathapachandran, 63, Indian actor.
- Hans-Rudolf Rösing, 99, German U-boat commander during World War II.
- William Silverman, 87, American physician and neonatology pioneer, kidney failure.[105]
17
- Erich Auer, 81, Austrian theater, film and television actor.[106]
- Dick Heckstall-Smith, 70, British saxophone player (Colosseum, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers), cancer.[107]
- James Ling, 81, American businessman.
- Agnes Mary Mansour, 73, American Catholic nun and politician, breast cancer.
- Gyula Marsovszky, 68, Swiss Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
- Ib Mossin, 71, Danish actor, singer and director.
- Dietrich Schwanitz, 64, German writer and literary scholar, pulmonary embolism.[108]
- Tom Wesselmann, 73, American pop artist, surgical complications.[109]
- Sir James Wilson, 83, British army general.[110]
18
- Noel Beaton, 78, Australian MP (Bendigo, 1960–1969) and journalist.[111]
- Freddy Chaves, 86, Belgian football player.[112]
- Vijay Hazare, 89, Indian cricketer, Captain of India (1951–1953), complications following intestinal cancer.[113]
- Mariella Lotti, 85, Italian film actress.
- Albert Nordengen, 81, Norwegian Conservative politician, Mayor of Oslo (1976–1990), heart failure.[114]
- Peter Palitzsch, 86, German theatre director and theatre manager.[115]
- Anthony Sampson, 78, British journalist and author, official biographer of Nelson Mandela, heart attack.[116]
- Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu, 92, Japanese member of the imperial family, sepsis.[117]
- Glenn Vaughan, 60, American baseball player (Houston Colt .45s).[118]
19
- Mamdouh Adwan, 63, Syrian writer, poet, playwright and critic, cancer.
- Gretchen Bender, 53, American video artist, cancer.[119]
- Richard Best, 88, British film editor.[120]
- Herbert C. Brown, 92, British Nobel Prize-winning chemist (Chemistry, 1979), heart attack.[121]
- Vojin Jelić, 83, Croatian Serb writer and poet.[122]
- Andrée Tainsy, 93, Belgian actress.[123]
- Renata Tebaldi, 82, Italian opera singer, cancer.[124]
- Gheorghe Tătaru, 56, Romanian football player.[125]
- Thomas Yamamoto, 87, American artist.[126]
20
- Liliane Maigné, 76, French actress.[127]
- Alexander Marshack, 86, American independent scholar and paleolithic archaeologist.[128]
- Jack Newfield, 66, American author, activist and journalist (Village Voice, New York Daily News, New York Post), kidney cancer.[129]
- Son Seals, 62, American blues musician, complications of diabetes.[130]
21
- Lennart Bernadotte, 95, Swedish prince.[131]
- Richard Hamilton, 83, American actor (Men in Black, Pale Rider, Bret Maverick).[132]
- Arild Nyquist, 67, Norwegian novelist, poet, children's writer and musician.
- Autar Singh Paintal, 79, Indian physiologist and medical scientist.[133]
- Mack Vickery, 66, American musician and songwriter, heart attack.[134]
- Zvonimir Vučković, 88, Yugoslav Chetnik military commander.[135]
22
- Yusuf Soalih Ajura, 114, Ghanaian Islamic scholar, political activist and sect leader.[136]
- Doug Ault, 54, American Major League Baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays), suicide by gunshot.[137]
- Mario Curletto, 69, Italian fencer.[138]
- Rudi Kolak, 86, Yugoslav and Bosnian communist politician.
- Paul Métivier, 104, Canadian World War I veteran.[139]
- Antonio Rangel, 61, Mexican badminton player.
23
- Reuven Adiv, 74, Israeli actor, director and drama teacher, heart attack.[140]
- Richard Barnet, 75, American political activist.[141]
- Peter Beazley, 82, British businessman and Conservative Party politician.
- John W. Duarte, 85, British classical guitarist and writer, cancer.[142]
- Ifor James, 73, British horn player.[143]
- Roger Moorey, 67, British archaeologist and historian.[144]
- P. V. Narasimha Rao, 83, Indian Prime Minister (1991–1996), heart attack.[145]
- Richard Abel Smith, 71, British Army officer and landowner, stroke.[146]
- Anne Truitt, 83, American sculptor.[147]
24
- Richard Annand, 90, British soldier, first Victoria Cross recipient of World War II.[148]
- Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet, 84, British Conservative MP (West Flintshire, 1970–1983; Clwyd North-West, 1983–1992), cancer.[149]
- Johnny Oates, 58, American MLB catcher (Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees) and manager (Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers), brain tumor.[150]
- Pete Palangio, 96, Canadian ice hockey player.[151]
- Rosemary Rue, 76, British physician and civil servant, breast cancer, colorectal cancer.[152]
- Elwira Seroczyńska, 73, Polish Olympic speed skater (silver medal winner in women's 1500 metres at the 1960 Winter Olympics).[153]
- Lauri Silvennoinen, 88, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (1948 silver medal winner in men's 4 x 10 kilometre cross-country skiing relay).[154]
- Elmer Swenson, 91, American horticulturist and pioneering grape breeder.
25
- Ahmad Bashir, 81, Pakistani writer, journalist, and film director.
- Sandy Cameron, 66, Canadian politician.[155]
- Nripen Chakraborty, 99, Indian politician.[156]
- Amaechi Ottiji, 34, Nigerian football player, shot.[157]
- Donald Pederson, 79, American electrical engineer, complications from Parkinson's disease.[158]
- Antony Preston, 66, British naval historian and writer.[159]
- Eddie Spicer, 82, English footballer (Liverpool F.C.).[160]
- Gennadi Strekalov, 64, Russian cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, cancer.[161]
- Ian Syster, 28, South African long-distance runner, drowned.[162]
- Lev Vainshtein, 88, Soviet world champion and Olympic bronze medalist in shooting.
- Howie Williams, 77, American basketball player.[163]
26
- Charles Biederman, 98, American abstract artist.[164]
- Jonathan Drummond-Webb, 45, South African paediatric heart surgeon, suicide by opioid overdose.[165]
- Garard Green, 80, British actor.[166]
- Marianne Heiberg, 59, Norwegian diplomat, Oslo Accords mediator, heart attack.[167]
- Eddie Layton, 79, American organist (New York Yankees).[168]
- David McKay, 83, Australian journalist and racing driver, cancer.[169]
- Don Nygord, 68, American Olympic sports shooter (50 metre 1984, 10 metre 1988, 50 metre 1988).[170]
- Sir Angus Ogilvy, 76, British businessman, husband of HRH Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, throat cancer.[171]
- Frank Pantridge, 88, British physician and cardiologist.[172]
- Ishigaki Rin, 84, Japanese poet.
- Martin Robertson, 93, British classical scholar and poet.
- Mikhail Smirtyukov, 95, Soviet politician and statesman.[173]
- Reggie White, 43, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, cardiac arrhythmia.[174]
- Notable people killed in the 2004 Asian tsunami:
- Jane Attenborough, 49, British arts administrator, daughter of actor Richard Attenborough
- Troy Broadbridge, 24, Australian Football League player (Melbourne).[175]
- Kristina Fröjmark, 47, Swedish reality TV star.[176]
- Poom Jensen, 21, Thai prince.[177]
- Sujeewa Kamalasuriya, 39, Sri Lankan cricketer.[178]
- Sigurd Køhn, 45, Norwegian composer.[179]
- Stephen Lissenburgh, 40, British policy researcher. [180]
- Markus Sandlund, 29, Swedish cellist.[181]
- Aki Sirkesalo, 42, Finnish musician.[182]
- Mieszko Talarczyk, 30, Swedish musician.[183]
- Robert Whymant, 60, British journalist (The Times) and author.[184]
27
- Eneko Arieta, 71, Spanish footballer.[185]
- Eros Beraldo, 75, Italian football player.[186]
- Mabel Blythe, 74, Sri Lankan actress and singer.
- Ferenc Bessenyei, 85, Hungarian actor and singer.[187]
- Hank Garland, 74, American studio guitarist (Elvis Presley, Charlie Parker), staphylococcus infection.[188]
- Ernest Groth, 82, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox).[189]
- Heorhiy Kirpa, 58, Ukrainian industrialist and politician, shot.[190]
- Luigi Mariotti, 92, Italian politician.
28
- Jacques Dupuis, 81, Belgian Jesuit priest and theologian.[191]
- Jerry Orbach, 69, American actor (Law & Order, Beauty and the Beast, Dirty Dancing), Tony winner (1969), prostate cancer.[192]
- Susan Sontag, 71, American author, literary theorist and activist, acute myeloid leukemia.[193]
- Tzvi Tzur, 81, Israeli officer and politician.[194]
29
- Julius Axelrod, 92, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (Medicine, 1970).[195]
- William Boyett, 77, American actor (Adam-12), complications from pneumonia and kidney failure.[196]
- John Bridgeman, 88, British sculptor.[197]
- Ken Burkhart, 89, American Major League Baseball pitcher and umpire, emphysema.[198]
- Alf Evers, 99, American historian.
- Eugenio Garin, 95, Italian philosopher and renaissance historian.[199]
- Ermanno Gorrieri, 84, Italian politician and economist.
- Liddy Holloway, 57, New Zealand actress (Shortland Street) and writer, liver cancer.[200]
- Larry McNeill, 53, American National Basketball Association player.[201]
- Gus Niarhos, 84, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies).[202]
- Esther Thelen, 63, American developmental psychologist and cognitive scientist.[203]
30
- Saad Al-Dosari, 27, Saudi Arabian football player, traffic collision.
- Salvatore Asta, 89, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.[204]
- Biswajit Das, 68, Indian playwright, short story writer, and film director.
- Mark Fiennes, 71, English photographer and illustrator.[205]
- Masao Kato, 57, Japanese go player, stroke.[206]
- Ionel Schein, 77, Romanian-French architect.[207]
- Artie Shaw, 94, American jazz musician, complications of diabetes.[208]
31
- Aladi Aruna, 71, Indian politician, murdered.
- John Chataway, 57, Canadian politician, complications from stroke.[209]
- Charlie Cozart, 85, American baseball player (Boston Braves).[210]
- Gérard Debreu, 83, French-American Nobel Prize-winning economist (Economics, 1983).[211]
- Jack Karwales, 84, American football player.[212]
- Cliff Letcher, 52, Australian tennis player.[213]
- Balkrishan Singh, 71, Indian Olympic field hockey player (gold medal winner in men's field hockey at the 1956 Summer Olympics).[214]
- Kuini Speed, 55, Fijian chief and politician, cancer.
- George Wackenhut, 85, American businessman, founder of Wackenhut Corporation, heart failure.[215]
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