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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2005.
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 2005
1
- Gust Avrakotos, 67, American CIA agent who armed the mujaheddin of Afghanistan, stroke.[1]
- Mary Hayley Bell, 94, British actress, Alzheimer's disease.[2]
- Béla Berger, 74, Hungarian-Australian chess master.
- Hermann Buchner, 86, German World War II flying ace.
- Jack Colvin, 71, American actor, (The Incredible Hulk), coronary thrombosis.
- Michael Evans, 61, American White House photographer, cancer.[3]
- Ray Hanna, 77, New Zealand-English pilot and founder of The Old Flying Machine Company.[4]
- Karin Himboldt, 85, German film actress.[5]
- Michael Kehlmann, 78, Austrian theatre and television film director, screenwriter and actor.[6]
- Victor Premasagar, 78, Indian theologian and Bishop of Medak (1983–1992).
- Eddie Schroeder, 94, American speed skater.[7]
2
- Nikolai Artemov, 97, Soviet and Russian physiologist.
- Lillian Browse, 99, British art dealer.[8]
- Shawn Paul Humphries, 34, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.[9]
- Malik Joyeux, 25, French professional surfer, drowned.[10]
- William P. Lawrence, 75, American U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, first to fly at twice the speed of sound.[11]
- Leonard Lewis, 78, British television director and producer.[12]
- Peter Menegazzo, 61, Australian cattle baron, plane crash.[13]
- Tom Miller, 87, American gridiron football player.[14]
- Jaime Morón, 55, Colombian football player.[15]
- Van Tuong Nguyen, 25, Australian convicted of drug trafficking, execution by hanging.[16]
- Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi, 67, Iraqi politician, former prime minister under Saddam Hussein.
3
- Frederick Ashworth, 93, American naval officer, weaponeer who dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
- John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead, 73, British aristocrat and politician.[17]
- Peter Cook, 62, Australian politician, melanoma.
- Lance Dossor, 89, Australian pianist.
- Peter E. Haas, 86, American billionaire businessman, president, CEO and chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.[18]
- Kikka, 41, Finnish pop and schlager singer, heart attack.[19]
- Kåre Kristiansen, 85, Norwegian politician, minister of Oil and Energy (1983–1986).[20]
- Lupe Madera, 52, Mexican boxer.
- Atsuko Tanaka, 73, Japanese avant-garde artist.[21]
4
- Ted Allbeury, 88, British author of espionage fiction.[22]
- Débora Arango, 98, Colombian artist.[23]
- Percy Brandt, 83, Swedish actor.
- Errol Brathwaite, 81, New Zealand writer.
- Alfred Farag, 76, Egyptian playwright.
- Gregg Hoffman, 42, American film producer (Saw).[24]
- Gloria Lasso, 83, Spanish singer, heart attack.[25]
- Jacob Pins, 88, German-Israeli woodcut artist and art collector.[26]
5
- John Alvheim, 75, Norwegian politician.
- Gerald Smedley Andrews, 101, Canadian frontier teacher, land surveyor, and soldier.[27]
- Wesley Baker, 47, American convicted murderer, executed in Maryland.
- Gerard Bruggink, 88, Dutch fighter pilot during World War II and recipient of the Military Order of William.
- Liu Binyan, 80, Chinese author and dissident, cancer.[28]
- Ursula Buckel, 79, German soprano.[29]
- Netai Bysack, 84, Indian Olympic cyclist.[30]
- Milo Dor, 82, Serbian-Austrian author, heart failure.[31]
- Edward L. Masry, 73, American attorney and mentor to Erin Brockovich, complications of diabetes.[32]
- Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, 56, Australian businessman and media personality, heart attack.[33]
- Ed Murphy, 75, American soccer player.[34]
- Harry Pepl, 60, Austrian jazz guitarist and composer.[35]
- Frits Philips, 100, Dutch businessman, grandson of the founder of Philips, complications from a fall.[36]
- Bob Richardson, 77, American fashion photographer.[37]
- Bill Robinson, 71, British rugby league player.
- Claude Ambrose Rogers, 85, English mathematician.
- Vladimir Toporov, 77, Russian philologist.
6
- Charly Gaul, 72, Luxembourgish cyclist, winner of the 1958 Tour de France, pneumonia.[38]
- Richard Grimsdale, 76, British electrical engineer, built the world's first transistorised computer.[39]
- Paul Halla, 74, Austrian footballer.[40]
- Peter Hollfelder, 75, German classical pianist.
- Hanns Dieter Hüsch, 80, German political satirist.[41]
- Koba Kurtanidze, 41, Soviet judoka.
- Stephen L. Mosko, 57, American composer.[42]
- Devan Nair, 82, President of Singapore (1981–1985), dementia.[43]
- Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, 111, Polish-born oldest man in the UK at the time of his death.[44]
- Danny Williams, 63, South African singer, lung cancer.
- William P. Yarborough, 93, American Army officer.[45]
7
- Lucy d'Abreu, 113, Indian-born oldest person in the UK at the time of her death.[46]
- Martine Bercher, 61, American football player.
- Adrian Biddle, 53, British cinematographer (Aliens, The Princess Bride, Thelma & Louise), heart attack.[47]
- Marvin Braude, 85, American member of Los Angeles City Council.[48]
- Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., 65, American politician, South Carolina governor (1987–1995), and member of U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1987), heart attack.
- Bud Carson, 75, American football player, former NFL head coach, emphysema.[49]
- Loomis Dean, 88, American photographer, notably for Life magazine.[50]
- Beach Dickerson, 81, American actor.[51]
- Thukha, 95, Burmese film director, actor, and film producer.
- Eddy Verstraeten, 57, Belgian road bicycle racer.[52]
8
- John Beale, 72, British virologist.
- R. W. Bradford, 58, American writer, publisher of Liberty magazine, kidney cancer.
- Rose Heilbron, 91, British judge, pneumonia.[53]
- Donald Martino, 74, American composer.[54]
- George D. Painter, 91, British biographer.[55]
- David S. Saxon, 85, American physicist and educator.[56]
- Leo Scheffczyk, 85, German Roman Catholic cardinal and theologian.[57]
- Roger Shattuck, 82, American writer and critic, prostate cancer.[58]
- Jim Simons, 55, American golfer, accidental multiple drug toxicity.
- J. N. Williamson, 73, American horror writer, author and publisher.[59]
- Georgiy Zhzhonov, 90, Russian actor and writer, lung cancer.[60]
9
- Norman Blundell, 88, Australian cricketer.[61]
- Mike Botts, 61, American drummer, toured and recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Dan Fogelberg, and Tina Turner, cancer.
- Rudolf Meidner, 91, Swedish economist and socialist.
- Homer Mensch, 91, American internationally known bass player, Juilliard teacher.[62]
- Eunice Norton, 97, American classical pianist and music promoter.
- Robert Sheckley, 77, American science fiction author, brain aneurysm.[63]
- György Sándor, 93, Hungarian internationally famous pianist, Juilliard teacher, heart failure.[64]
- Boris Taslitzky, 94, French painter.[65]
10
- Evgenii Feinberg, 93, Soviet physicist.
- Mary Jackson, 95, American schoolteacher and actress (The Waltons, Parenthood), Parkinson's disease.[66]
- Eugene McCarthy, 89, American politician, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (1959–1971), U.S. Representative (1949–1959), Parkinson's disease.[67]
- Jim McIntyre, 78, American basketball player.[68]
- Richard Pryor, 65, American comedian and actor (Stir Crazy, Harlem Nights), heart attack and complications of multiple sclerosis.[69]
- Clark G. Reynolds, 65, American naval historian, heart attack.[70]
11
- Walt Cudzik, 73, American NFL football player for the Boston Patriots.[71]
- Maria Kaniewska, 94, Polish actress, screenplay writer, film director.[72]
- Norman Leavitt, 92, American film and television actor.
- Richard Sandbrook, 59, British environmentalist, cancer.[73]
- Hayim Tadmor, 82, Israeli assyriologist and professor.[74]
- Max Walters, 85, British botanist and academic.[75]
12
- Sandipan Chattopadhyay, 72, Indian Bengali writer.
- Eric D'Arcy, 81, Australian Roman Catholic archbishop.
- Max Mariu, 53, First Maori Catholic bishop.
- Robert Newmyer, 49, American film producer (The Santa Clause, Training Day, Sex, Lies, and Videotape), heart attack.[76]
- David Pritchard, 86, British chess player and chess writer.
- Ramanand Sagar, 87, Indian director, producer, and writer.[77]
- Juraj Szikora, 58, Slovak football player.[78]
- Gebran Tueni, 48, Lebanese journalist and politician, assassinated by a car bomb.
- Gyula Trebitsch, 91, Hungarian-German film producer.[79]
- Annette Vadim, 69, Danish actress, cancer.[80]
13
- John Barraclough, 79, Australian politician.
- Roland Guy, 77, British army general.[81]
- John Langstaff, 84, American singer and music educator.[82]
- Majid Musisi, 38, Ugandan football player, AIDS-related complications.
- Dick Nolan, 66, Canadian musician.[83]
- Stanley "Tookie" Williams, 51, American convicted murderer and co-founder of the Crips turned anti-gang activist, execution by lethal injection.
- Roberto Wagner Fernandes, 40, Brazilian serial killer and rapist, plane crash.[84]
14
- Erhard Ahmann, 64, German football manager.[85]
- Ruth Amiran, 91, Israeli archaeologist.[86]
- Stew Bowers, 90, American baseball player.[87]
- Gordon Duncan, 41, Scottish musician and bagpiper, suicide.[88]
- Rokuro Ishikawa, 80, Japanese businessman (Kajima Corporation).
- Sudhir Joshi, 57, Indian actor, heart attack.
- Tom Milne, 79, British film critic.
- John B. Nixon, 77, American convicted murderer, executed in Mississippi.
- C. I. Paul, 61, Indian (Malayalam) actor, heart attack.
- Trevanian, 74, British author, wrote under pseudonyms such as "Trevanian".[89]
15
- T. K. Balachandran, 77, Indian actor, cancer.
- Maurice Beresford, 85, British economic historian and archaeologist.[90]
- James Ingo Freed, 75, American architect, Parkinson's disease.[91]
- Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 84, Italian writer and director of movies and theatre.[92]
- Heinrich Gross, 90, Austrian alleged nazi doctor and war criminal during World War II.[93]
- Jiřina Hauková, 86, Czech poet and translator.[94]
- Walter Haut, 83, American Army lieutenant, central figure in the Roswell UFO incident in 1947.[95]
- Stan Leonard, 90, Canadian golfer, heart failure.[96]
- Julián Marías, 91, Spanish philosopher and father of author Javier Marías.[97]
- John McIntyre, 89, Scottish theologian.[98]
- Akira Ohgi, 70, Japanese baseball player and manager, lung cancer.
- Jim Ostendarp, 82, American football coach at Amherst College for 33 years.[99]
- Enrico Paoli, 97, Italian international chess master.
- William Proxmire, 90, American politician, Democratic Senator from Wisconsin (1957–1989), complications of Alzheimer's disease.[100]
- Darrell Russell, 29, American former NFL player for the Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, car accident.[101]
16
- Robert L. Baird, 85, American jockey and trainer in thoroughbred horse racing.
- Anthony Barber, 85, British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer, complications of Parkinson's disease.[102]
- Boyi Bhimanna, 94, Indian Telugu poet, Parkinson's disease.
- Kenneth Bulmer, 84, English writer (pseudonyms included Alan Burt Akers and Dray Prescot).[103]
- Aleksandr Mazur, 92, Heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Ukraine.
- Joseph Owades, 86, American biochemist, inventor of light beer.[104]
- Helmut H. Schaefer, 80, German mathematician.
- John Spencer, 58, American actor (The West Wing, L.A. Law, The Rock), Emmy winner (2002), heart attack.[105]
- Enzo Stuarti, 86, Italian tenor, was in many Broadway musicals, heart failure.[106]
17
- Jack Anderson, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, complications of Parkinson's disease.[107]
- Trevor Duncan, 81, English composer.[108]
- Mustafa Ertan, 79, Turkish footballer.[109]
- Marc Favreau, 76, French Canadian television and film actor, cancer.[110]
- Jacques Fouroux, 58, French rugby union captain and coach, heart attack.[111]
- Agnès Guillemot, 74, French film editor.[112]
- Yeleazar Meletinsky, 87, Russian scholar and academic.
- Emil Ratzenhofer, 91, Austrian Olympic pair skater.[113]
- Sverre Stenersen, 79, Norwegian gold medal winner in the 1956 Winter Olympics.[114]
- Ward Williams, 82, American basketball player.[115]
- Tahsin Özgüç, 89, Turkish archaeologist.
18
- Belita, 82, British Olympic skater and film actress.[116]
- Bill Coulthard, 81, Canadian basketball player.[117]
- Keith Duckworth, 72, British automotive designer.[118]
- Doug Dye, 84, New Zealand microbiologist.
- Howie Ferguson, 75, American gridiron football player.[119]
- Rómulo García, 78, Argentine Roman Catholic archbishop.
- Barry Halper, 66, American baseball memorabilia collector and limited partner for the New York Yankees.[120]
- N. Sankaran Nair, 80, Indian director of Malayalam movies.
- Dmitry Okhotsimsky, 84, Russian engineer in the Soviet space program.
- Doris Fisher, Baroness Fisher of Rednal, 86, British politician and peer.[121]
- P. M. Sayeed, 64, Indian Minister of Power, heart attack.[122]
- Tiago João da Silva, 17, Brazilian robber.
- Alan Voorhees, 83, American transportation engineer and city planner , stroke.[123]
19
- Charles Brett, 77, Northern Irish architectural historian.[124]
- George Bromilow, 74, British footballer at the 1956 Summer Olympics.[125]
- Yū Fujiki, 74, Japanese film and television actor.
- Vincent Gigante, 77, American Genovese family crime boss, heart disease.[126]
- Julio Iglesias Puga, 90, Spanish gynaecologist, heart attack.[127]
- Marjorie Kellogg, 83, American author and playwright (Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon), Alzheimer's disease.[128]
- William Leslie, 80, American film and television actor.[129]
- Azra Sherwani, 65, Pakistani actress.
20
- Alfredo Arango, 60, Colombian international football player.[130]
- Louis Biesbrouck, 84, Dutch football player.[131]
- Raoul Bott, 82, Hungarian-American mathematician, cancer.[132]
- Argentina Brunetti, 98, Argentine actress. (It's a Wonderful Life, The Caddy), writer, journalist.[133]
- Theodore Holmes Bullock, 90, American neuroscientist.[134]
- Bradford Cannon, 98, American plastic surgeon, pneumonia.[135]
- Genrikh Fedosov, 73, Soviet football player.[136]
- Lavinia Gianoni, 94, Italian gymnast.[137]
- José Roberto Hill, 60, Mexican actor.
- William White Howells, 97, American anthropologist.[138]
- Billy Hughes, 57, American former child/film actor during the 1960s.[139]
- Óscar López, 66, Colombian international football player, diabetes.
- Graham Wilson, 66, Australian rugby league player.
21
- Horace Ellis Crouch, 87, American military aviator, member of the Doolittle Raid.[140]
- Myron Healey, 82, American film actor who normally played Western villains.[141]
- Elrod Hendricks, 64, U.S. Virgin Islander Baltimore Orioles coach, former MLB catcher, heart attack.[142]
- Pericle Martinescu, 94, Romanian writer, journalist and translator.
- Traian Stoianovich, 84, American historian and academic.[143]
- Hallam Tennyson, 85, British radio producer and great-grandson of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, suspected victim of murder.[144]
- Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent, 90, Spanish officer of arms.
22
- Richard Bellucci, 91, American ear surgeon and inventor.[145]
- T. Cooper Evans, 81, American politician, Republican US Representative from Iowa (1981–1987).[146]
- Aurora Miranda, 90, Brazilian entertainer and sister of Carmen Miranda, heart attack.[147]
- Bill Scott, 82, Australian author.
- George Speaight, 91, British art historian, actor and puppeteer.[148]
23
- Lajos Baróti, 91, Hungarian football coach.[149]
- Selma Jeanne Cohen, 85, American dance historian, editor of The International Encyclopedia of Dance, Alzheimer's disease.[150]
- Ivar Eskeland, 78, Norwegian philologist, publisher, and radio personality.[151]
- Gwynne Blakemore Evans, 93, American Shakespeare scholar, author of The Riverside Shakespeare, stroke.[152]
- Truman Gibson, 93, American anti-segregation lawyer and boxing promoter.[153]
- Harold Hallman, 43, Canadian football player, complications during surgery.[154]
- Emmett Leith, 78, American electrical engineer.[155]
- Kay Stammers, 91, British tennis player.[156]
- Norman D. Vaughan, 100, American explorer and sportsman, part of Richard Byrd's 1928 South Pole expedition.[157][158]
- Yao Wenyuan, 74, Chinese Communist political leader, member of the Gang of Four, diabetes.[159]
24
- George Gerbner, 86, American professor of communication, cancer.[160]
- Georg Johannesen, 74, Norwegian author and professor of rhetoric, drowned.[161]
- Constance Keene, 84, American classical pianist.[162]
- Harold Lawton, 105, British academic and veteran of World War I.[163]
- Bhanumathi Ramakrishna, 80, Indian film actress, director, and singer/songwriter.[164]
- Michael Vale, 83, American actor who appeared in over Dunkin' Donuts 1,300 commercials, diabetes.[165]
- Wang Daohan, 90, Chinese politician and negotiator during the cross-straits talks.[166]
25
- Felice Andreasi, 77, Italian actor, Parkinson's disease.
- Derek Bailey, 75, English avant-garde guitarist, motor neuron disease.[167]
- Robert Barbers, 61, Filipino politician and senator, heart attack.[168]
- Donald Dawson, 97, American lawyer, executive assistant to Harry S. Truman.[169]
- John Hayes, 76, British art historian and museum curator.[170]
- Henry Kock, 53, Canadian horticulturist and eco-activist, brain cancer.[171]
- Birgit Nilsson, 87, Swedish soprano.[172]
- Joseph Pararajasingham, 71, Sri Lankan politician and supporter of the Tamil Tiger rebels, shot.[173]
- Clint Sampson, 44, American football player, car accident.[174]
- Sarat Chandra Sinha, 92, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Assam.[175]
- Charles Socarides, 83, American psychiatrist, physician, and author, heart failure.[176]
- Roy Stuart, 70, American actor, cancer.[177]
26
- Mikuláš Athanasov, 75, Czechoslovak wrestler and Olympic medalist.[178]
- Bud Blake, 87, American cartoonist (Tiger).[179]
- John Cooke, 68, American competition rower and Olympic champion.[180]
- Muriel Costa-Greenspon, 68, American mezzo-soprano at the New York City Opera for 30 years.[181]
- Bill DeArango, 84, American jazz guitarist.[182]
- Guy Delorme, 76, French actor (The Three Musketeers, Moonraker), lip and oral cavity carcinoma.
- John Diebold, 79, American businessman, pioneering American computer engineer.[183]
- Ted Ditchburn, 84, English football goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, England national football team).[184]
- Jules Gérard-Libois, 82, Belgian historian and writer.[185]
- John H. Herz, 97, American scholar of international relations and law.[186]
- Ernesto Leal, 60, Nicaraguan politician, presidential chief of staff and foreign minister, pneumonia.[187]
- Kerry Packer, 68, Australian billionaire publishing-, media- and gaming tycoon, kidney failure.[188]
- Viacheslav Platonov, 66, Russian volleyball player and coach.
- Vincent Schiavelli, 57, American actor (Ghost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), lung cancer.[189]
- Viktor Stepanov, 58, Russian actor, bone cancer.
- John Taylor, 80, Canadian football player (St. Hyacinthe-Donnacona Navy and Montreal Alouettes).[190]
- Erich Topp, 91, German U-boat commander during World War II.[191]
27
- Stuart Alexander, 44, American businessman and murderer, pulmonary embolism.[192]
- Philip N. Carney, 86, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
- Xavier Connor, 88, Australian jurist and foundation judge of the Federal Court of Australia.
- Hartmut Enke, 53, German musician.
- Edith Heath, 94, American studio potter.[193]
- Leif Hermansen, 80, Danish Olympic rower.[194]
- Dick Klein, 71, American gridiron football player.[195]
- Abraham S. Luchins, 91, American Gestalt psychologist.[196]
- Dee Pollock, 68, American film and television actor.
- Giancarlo Primo, 81, Italian basketball coach, the first to defeat USA and USSR in the 1970s.[197]
- Tokuji Wakasa, 91, Japanese businessman, former president of All Nippon Airways.
28
- Bruce Carver, 57, American video game developer, cancer.[198]
- Paul Cloyd, 85, American basketball player.[199]
- Patrick Cranshaw, 86, American actor (Old School, Best in Show, Herbie: Fully Loaded), pneumonia.
- Tage Ekfeldt, 79, Swedish Olympic sprinter.[200]
- Marco Guglielmi, 77, Italian actor, screenwriter and author.
- Stevo Žigon, 79, Serbian actor and theatre director, heart attack.
29
- Armand Phillip Bartos, 95, American architect.[201]
- Gerda Boyesen, 83, Norwegian psychologist.
- Dan Carnevale, 87, American baseball player.[202]
- Young-Oak Kim, 86, American military officer during World War II and the Korean War and civic leader, cancer.
- Ray Mattox, 78, American politician.[203]
- Eileen Nolan, 85, British Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps.[204]
- Elizabeth Parcells, 54, American operatic coloratura soprano, colorectal cancer.[205]
- Cyril Philips, 93, British historian and academic administrator.[206]
- Basil William Robinson, 93, British art scholar and author.[207]
- Sir Eric Stroud, 81, British paediatrician.[208]
- Abuna Yesehaq Mandefro, 72, Ethiopian Orthodox Archbishop.[209]
30
- Eddie Barlow, 65, South African cricketer.[210]
- Candy Barr, 70, American exotic dancer, pneumonia.[211]
- Charles J. Bowles, 83, American physical education expert.
- Pasquale Carpino, 69, Italian-born Canadian television chef and operatic singer.[212]
- Tory Dent, 47, American poet, essayist and art critic, AIDS-related complications.[213]
- Rona Jaffe, 74, American novelist (The Best of Everything, Mazes and Monsters), cancer.[214]
- Fred "Jock" Smith, 79, Scottish footballer (Hull City, Sheffield United and Millwall).
- Bobby Stevens, 98, American baseball player.[215]
31
- Sanora Babb, 98, American writer.[216]
- Harry Clarke, 89, American gridiron football player.[217]
- Maurice Dodd, 83, British cartoonist (The Perishers), brain haemorrhage.[218]
- Enrico Di Giuseppe, 73, American operatic tenor, cancer.[219]
- Fee Malten, 94, German film actress.
- John Peel, 101, British gynaecologist.[220]
- Erica Reiner, 81, American assyriologist and author.[221]
- Carlos Roffé, 62, Argentine film and television actor.
- Maclovia Ruiz, 95, American dancer, pneumonia.[222]
- Xolilizwe Sigcawu, 79, South African King of the Gcaleka.
- Aleksandr Silayev, 77, Russian sprint canoeist and Olympic silver medalist.[223]
- Claude Sylvain, 75, French actor and singer.[224]
- David Trustram Eve, 2nd Baron Silsoe, 75, British lawyer.[225]
- Phillip Whitehead, 68, British politician and television presenter, MP for Derby North, heart attack.[226]
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