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Deaths in February 2005
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The following is a list of The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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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February 2005
1
- John D. Bennett, 93, American politician and judge.
- Edward D. Freis, 92, American physician.[1]
- Andreas Heckmair, 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger north face.[2]
- Franco Mannino, 80, Italian film and classical composer.[3]
- John Vernon, 72, Canadian-American actor (Animal House, Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales), surgical complications.[4]
- Richard Wolfson, 49, British musician and journalist, aortic aneurysm.
2
- Birgitte Federspiel, 79, Danish actress (Babette's Feast).[5]
- Lee Hyeonggi, 72, South Korean poet.
- Svein Kvia, 57, Norwegian footballer, brain cancer.[6]
- Goffredo Lombardo, 84, Italian film producer.[7]
- Magomed Omarov, Russian politician, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan, homicide.[8]
- Max Schmeling, 99, German world heavyweight boxing champion.[9]
- Yvonne Sherman, 74, American Olympic figure skater.[10]
- Jerzy Wojnar, 74, Polish pilot and Olympic luger.[11]
- Edward Maitland Wright, 98, British mathematician.
3
- Corrado Bafile, 101, Italian cardinal.[12]
- Raymond Laurent, 87, Belgian herpetologist.
- Karl Linn, 81, American landscape architect and psychologist.[13]
- Andreas Makris, 74, Greek-American composer and violinist.
- Ernst Mayr, 100, German-American evolutionary biologist.[14]
- James Patrick Sutton, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from Tennessee (1949–1955).[15]
- Zurab Zhvania, 41, Georgian politician, Prime Minister of Georgia (2004-2005), carbon monoxide poisoning.
4
- Ossie Davis, 87, American actor (Do the Right Thing, Evening Shade, The Client) and activist.[16]
- Alfio Fontana, 72, Italian football player.[17]
- Elia Frosio, 92, Italian cyclist.
- Stephen R. Gregg, 90, United States Army soldier and recipient the Medal of Honor.[18]
- Peter Heine, 76, South African cricket player.[19]
- Danas Pozniakas, 65, Lithuanian amateur light-heavyweight boxer and Olympic champion.[20]
- Luis Sánchez, 51, Venezuelan Major League baseball player (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim).[21]
5
- Bob Brannum, 79, American basketball player, pancreatic cancer.[22]
- Jean-Charles Cantin, 86, Canadian politician.
- Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 67, Togolese politician, president of Togo (1967-2005), heart attack.[23]
- Gerard Glaister, 89, British television producer and director.[24]
- Veikko Helle, 93, American politician.
- Günter Reimann, 100, German economist.[25]
- Henri Rochon, 80, Canadian tennis player.
- Michalina Wisłocka, 84, Polish sexologist.
6
- Michael Adams, 85, British journalist.[26]
- Billy Baker, 84, Welsh footballer.[27]
- Lazar Berman, 74, Russian classical pianist.[28]
- Elbert N. Carvel, 94, American politician, Governor of Delaware.
- Adu Celso, 59, Brazilian motorcycle road racer, heart attack.
- Hubert Curien, 80, French researcher, first president of European Space Agency.[29]
- Alejandro Gómez, 96, Argentine educator and lawyer, stroke.
- Karl Haas, 91, American classical music radio program host.[30]
- Merle Kilgore, 70, American country music manager and songwriter, heart failure.[31]
- Mutsuo Minagawa, 69, Japanese baseball pitcher.[32]
7
- Laurie Aarons, 87, Australian politician.
- Atli Dam, 72, Faroese politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1991-1993).
- Leonid Gissen, 73, Russian rower and Olympic medalist.[33]
- Dennis McCord, 52, Canadian ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks).[34]
- V. C. Pande, 72, Indian political figure, former governor of three states.
- John Patterson, 64, American television director (The Sopranos, Hill Street Blues, Providence), prostate cancer.[35]
- Paul Rebeyrolle, 78, French painter.[36]
- Madeleine Rebérioux, 84, French historian.[37]
- Narayan Sanyal, 80, Indian writer of modern Bengali literature.[38]
- Jeremy Swan, 82, Irish cardiologist, co-inventor of the pulmonary artery catheter, heart attack.[39]
- Bob Turner, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks).[40]
- Zdravko Velimirović, 74, Yugoslavian film director and screenwriter.[41]
8
- Gildo Arena, 83, Italian water polo player, swimmer and Olympic champion.[42]
- Mike Bishop, 46, American baseball player.[43]
- Germund Dahlquist, 80, Swedish mathematician.
- Edward R. Dudley, 93, American diplomat.[44]
- Helmut Eder, 88, Austrian composer.[45]
- Parker Hall, 88, American gridiron football player.[46]
- George Herman, 85, American journalist and moderator of CBS' Face the Nation for 15 years.[47]
- Keith Knudsen, 56, American drummer for rock band Doobie Brothers, pneumonia.
- Gaston Rahier, 58, Belgian 125cc Motocross World Champion (1975–1977), cancer.[48]
- Jimmy Smith, 76, American jazz organist.[49]
- Javier Tusell, 59, Spanish historian, writer and politician, leukemia.[50]
9
- Tim Breslin, 37, American ice hockey player, appendix cancer.
- Tyrone Davis, 67, American R&B singer (Turn Back The Hands Of Time), complications of a stroke.[51]
- Robert Kearns, 77, American inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, brain cancer.[52]
- Raisa Kyrychenko, 61, Ukrainian mezzo-soprano singer, cardiovascular disease.
- Richard Lupino, 75, American actor, member of the theatrical Lupino family, lymphoma.[53]
- Frank Mathers, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Hershey Bears).[54]
- Kate Peyton, 39, British BBC producer, shot in Mogadishu, Somalia.[55]
- Sylvia Rafael, 67, South African-born Israeli Mossad agent convicted of 1973 Lillehammer murder, leukemia.
- Josef Rasselnberg, 92, German football player and trainer.[56]
10
- Humbert Balsan, 50, French film producer, suicide by hanging.[57]
- David Allan Bromley, 79, Canadian-American physicist, presidential advisor.[58]
- Jean Cayrol, 93, French author.[59]
- Pierre Chevalier, 89, French film director and screenwriter.
- Dave Goodman, 53, British music producer, heart attack.
- Ben Jones, 80, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister (1989-1990).
- Igor Ledogorov, 72, Soviet and Russian actor, cancer.[60]
- Arthur Miller, 89, American playwright (Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge, The Crucible), congestive heart failure.[61]
- Frederick W. Mote, 82, American sinologist.[62]
- Fritz Scholder, 67, American native American artist.[63]
- Jack Segal, 86, American pianist and composer.
11
- Samuel W. Alderson, 90, American inventor of crash test dummies bone cancer.[64]
- Jack L. Chalker, 60, American science fiction writer, kidney failure.[65]
- Raymond Hermantier, 81, French actor.[66]
- Mary Jackson, 83, American mathematician and aerospace engineer, first black female engineer at NASA.[67]
- Vladimir Kotelnikov, 96, Information theory and radar astronomy pioneer from the Soviet Union.[68]
- Dénes Kovács, 74, Hungarian classical violinist and academic teacher.[69]
- Eva Magni, 98, Italian stage and film actress.[70]
- Míla Myslíková, 71, 1933-2005 Czech actress and writer, stroke.[71]
- Stan Richards, 74, British actor (Emmerdale), pulmonary emphysema.
12
- Archie Butterworth, 92, British racing driver and designer.
- Brian Kelly, 73, American actor, pneumonia.[72]
- James McClure, 88, American international table tennis player.
- Monem Munna, 38, Bangladeshi footballer, kidney disease.
- Sammi Smith, 61, American country music singer, (Help Me Make It Through the Night), pulmonary emphysema.[73]
- Dorothy Stang, 73, American nun, murdered in Anapu, Brazil.[74]
- Marinus van der Goes van Naters, 104, Dutch politician.[75]
- Rafael Vidal, 41, Venezuelan Olympic medalist, car crash.[76]
13
- Saminini Arulappa, 80, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop.
- Harry Baird, 73, Guyanese-born British actor, cancer.
- Nelson Briles, 61, American baseball player, heart attack.[77]
- Sixten Ehrling, 86, Swedish conductor.[78]
- Mary Hallaren, 97, American soldier, first woman to join the United States Army.[79]
- Sister Lúcia, 97, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three shepherd children of the Fatima apparition in 1917.[80]
- Maurice Trintignant, 87, French racing driver, twice winner of the Monaco Grand Prix.[81]
- Dick Weber, 75, American professional bowler, father of Pete Weber, respiratory failure.[82]
- Peter White, 69, Australian politician.
14
- Ron Burgess, 87, Welsh footballer with Tottenham Hotspur and Wales.[83]
- Sonya Dorman, 81, American science fiction writer and poet.[84]
- Thabet El-Batal, 51, Egyptian Goalkeeper association football goalkeeper, cancer.
- Vic Emery, 84, Australian cricketer.[85]
- Rafic Hariri, 60, Lebanese business tycoon and politician, twice Prime Minister of Lebanon, car bomb.[86]
- Albert Harris, 89, English musician.[87]
- Aubelin Jolicoeur, 81, Haitian journalist and columnist.
- Vidya Niwas Mishra, 79, Indian scholar, Hindi-Sanskrit littérateur, and journalist, traffic collision.[88]
- Otto Plaschkes, 75, British film producer (Georgy Girl).[89]
- Pauli Toivonen, 75, Finnish rally car driver.
- Najai Turpin, 23, American boxer and reality show contestant (The Contender), suicide.[90]
- Henry Wolf, 79, Austrian-American graphic designer, photographer and art director.[91]
15
- Carlo Tullio Altan, 88, Italian anthropologist and sociologist.[92]
- Pierre Bachelet, 60, French singer, lung cancer.[93]
- Marc Eyraud, 80, French film actor.[94]
- Samuel T. Francis, 57, American white supremacist writer, aortic aneurysm.[95]
- Dudu Geva, 54, Israeli artist, writer, cartoonist, and illustrator, heart attack.[96]
- Richard Grunberger, 80, British historian.
- David Leach, 93, English potter.[97]
- Yury Morozov, 70, Soviet football player and coach.
- Bob Schafer, 71, American basketball player.[98]
16
- Michael Aikman, 71, Australian rower.[99]
- Nicole DeHuff, 30, American actress (Meet the Parents, Suspect Zero, CSI: Miami), pneumonia.[100]
- Narriman Sadek, (Nariman Sadeq), 71, Egyptian queen, ex-wife of King Farouk, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Marcello Viotti, 50, Italian conductor, stroke.[101]
- Hans von Blixen-Finecke, 88, Swedish Army officer and Olympic equestrian.
- Bill Potts, 76, American jazz pianist and arranger, cardiac arrest.[102]
- Gerry Wolff, 84, German actor.[103]
17
- F. M. Busby, 83, American science fiction writer.[104]
- Jens Martin Knudsen, 74, Danish astrophysicist.
- César Marcelak, 92, French cycling champion.[105]
- Miodrag Nikolić, 66, Serbian basketball player and coach.[106]
- Dan O'Herlihy, 85, Irish actor (RoboCop, Robinson Crusoe, Fail Safe).[107]
- Omar Sívori, 69, Argentinian and Italian footballer, pancreatic cancer.[108]
18
- Bonar Bain, 82, Canadian actor and twin brother of actor Conrad Bain.
- Uli Derickson, 60, German-American airline stewardess, protagonist in 1985 airplane hijacking, cancer.[109]
- Marian Kamil Dziewanowski, 91, Polish-American historian.[110]
- Marta Flores, 92, Spanish actress.[111]
- Attilio Giovannini, 80, Italian football player.[112]
- Greg Kehoe, 87, Australian politician.
- Gwendolyn Knight, 91, American artist.[113]
- Lim Por-yen, 90, Hong Kong industrialist.
- Harald Szeemann, 71, Swiss curator and art historian.[114]
19
- Li Baohua, 95, Chinese politician.
- Huy Can, 85, Vietnamese poet.
- Kihachi Okamoto, 81, Japanese film director, esophageal cancer.[115]
- Peter Pryor, 74, Australian Olympic cyclist.[116]
- Miao Tian, 79, Chinese film actor, lymphoma.[117]
20
- Jacques Ploncard d'Assac, 94, French writer, journalist and political activist.[118]
- Pam Bricker, 50, American jazz vocalist and music professor, suicide by hanging.[119]
- Sandra Dee, 62, American actress (Gidget, Imitation of Life, Until They Sail), kidney failure and pneumonia.[120]
- Josef Holeček, 84, Czechoslovakian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion.[121]
- Dalene Matthee, 67, Afrikaans-South African author, heart failure.[122]
- Raymond Mhlaba, 85, South African political leader and the first Premier of the Eastern Cape, liver cancer.[123]
- John Raitt, 88, American classic Broadway star and father of Bonnie Raitt, pneumonia.[124]
- Hunter S. Thompson, 67, American journalist, suicide by gunshot.[125]
- J. Williams, 56, Indian film producer, director and cinematographer.
- Jimmy Young, 56, American boxer, heart failure.
21
- Zdzisław Beksiński, 75, Polish artist, homicide.[126]
- Ara Berberian, 74, American bass with the New York City Metropolitan Opera.[127]
- Gérard Bessette, 84, Canadian writer and academic.
- Wu Bo, 99, Chinese politician.
- Horst Drinda, 77, German actor.[128]
- Justin Howes, 41, British historian of printing and lettering.[129]
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 75, Cuban novelist, essayist, and screenwriter, sepsis.[130]
- Josef Metternich, 89, German operatic baritone.[131]
- Gene Scott, 75, American televangelist and author, stroke.[132]
- Don Tolhurst, 75, Australian Olympic shooter.[133]
- Ernest Vandiver, 86, American politician, governor of the Georgia (1959–1963).
22
- David Bradford, 66, American economist.[134]
- Leo Brewer, 85, American physical chemist.[135]
- Mladen Delić, 86, Croatian sports commentator.
- Lee Eun-ju (이은주), 24, South Korean actress, suicide by hanging.[136]
- Luigi Giussani, 82, Italian Catholic priest, founder of the "Communion and Liberation" Catholic youth movement, Parkinson's disease.[137]
- Ben Huffman, 90, American Major League Baseball player.[138]
- Renzo Imbeni, 60, Italian politician, mayor of Bologna (1983-1993).
- Kuntowijoyo, 61, Indonesian writer, meningoencephalitis.
- Heath Lamberts, 63, Canadian actor, cancer.[139]
- Josette Rey-Debove, 75, French lexicographer and semiologist.[140]
- Mario Ricci, 90, Italian cyclist.[141]
- Reggie Roby, 43, American gridiron football player, heart attack.[142]
- Harry Simeone, 94, American music arranger, conductor and composer (Little Drummer Boy).[143]
- Simone Simon, 94, French actress.[144]
23
- All Along, 25, French racehorse.
- Josep María Cruxent, Venezuelan archaeologist.[145]
- Tom Patterson, 84, Canadian founder of the Stratford Festival of Canada.[146]
- Henk Zeevalking, 82, Dutch politician and co-founder of Democrats 66.[147]
24
- John Barron, 75, American journalist.[148]
- Jochen Bleicken, 78, German ancient historian.[149]
- Thadée Cisowski, 78, Polish-French footballer.[150]
- Sumner Gerard, 88, American politician and diplomat.[151]
- Goldie Hill, 72, American country music singer, cancer.
- Robin Jenkins, 92, Scottish novelist, author of "The Cone-Gatherers" and "Fergus Lamont".[152]
- Coşkun Kırca, 77, Turkish diplomat, journalist and politician.
- András Kozák, 62, Hungarian film actor, brain tumor.[153]
- Galina Kreft, 54, Soviet sprint canoer and Olympic champion.[154]
- Leonard Miall, 90, British BBC broadcaster and administrator.
- Gustavo Vázquez Montes, 42, Mexican politician, incumbent governor of Colima, Mexico, aviation accident.
- Hugh Nibley, 94, American historian, focussing on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[155]
- Glanmor Williams, 84, Welsh historian.
- Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 82, German politician and former cabinet minister.
25
- Abdulkareem Adisa, 56, Nigerian major general.
- Peter Benenson, 83, British lawyer and founder of Amnesty International, pneumonia.[156]
- Ian Colquhoun, 80, New Zealand cricket player.[157]
- Francis E. Garchitorena, 67, Filipino lawyer and judge.
- Leo Labine, 73, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.[158]
- Don LeJohn, 70, American baseball player, former Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman.[159]
- Pappo, 54, Argentine blues and rock and roll guitarist and composer, traffic collision.[160]
- Edward Patten, 65, American soul singer, member of Gladys Knight & the Pips, stroke.
- Jean Prat, 81, French rugby union football player.[161]
- Atef Sedki, 74, Egyptian politician, Prime Minister (1986-1996).
- Noboru Sugimura, 56, Japanese television and video game writer.
26
- Max Faulkner, 88, British golfer.[162]
- Henry Grunwald, 82, Austrian-American journalist, editor and ambassador to Austria (1988–1990).[163]
- Witness Mangwende, 59, Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1981–1987).
- Paolo Moffa, 89, Italian film director, producer and screenwriter.[164]
- Jef Raskin, 61, American creator of the Apple Macintosh, pancreatic cancer.[165]
- Pierre Trabaud, 82, French film actor.[166]
- Johnny Williams, 77, American football player.[167]
27
- Haruna Abubakar, 52, Nigerian lawyer and politician.
- James Avati, 92, American illustrator.[168]
- Franco Bracardi, 67, Italian actor, composer, pianist and stand-up comedian.[169]
- Hiroyuki Nasu, 53, Japanese film director.
- Frank Vincent Ortiz, Jr., 78, American diplomat.
- Pukazhenthi, 75, Indian music film director.
- Allan Rae, 82, Jamaican cricket player.[170]
- Carl Taseff, 76, American NFL gridiron football player and assistant coach.[171]
28
- Yevgeny Alekseyev, 85, Soviet/Russian basketball player and coach.
- Chris Curtis, 63, English drummer with The Searchers.[172]
- Richard A. Fletcher, 60, British historian, heart attack.[173]
- Giovanni Invernizzi, 73, Italian football player and coach.
- Mario Luzi, 90, Italian poet.[174]
- Édouard Stern, 50, French banker, murdered.
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