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Deaths in January 2004
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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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January 2004
1
- Charlie Elliott, 91, English cricketer.[1]
- Harold Henning, 69, South African golfer.[2]
- Elma Lewis, 82, American arts leader.[3]
- Yevgeniy Migunov, 82, Russian artist, cartoonist, animation and art director, and screenwriter.
- Frederick Redlich, 93, Austrian-American dean of the Yale University School of Medicine.[4]
- John Stoneham, 95, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[5]
- Igor Torkar, 90, Slovenian writer, playwright, and poet.
2
- Dinu Adameșteanu, 90, Romanian-Italian archaeologist.[6]
- Etta Moten Barnett, 102, American actress, pancreatic cancer.[7]
- Lynn Cartwright, 76, U.S. actress (A League of Their Own), dementia.
- Jess Collins, 80, American visual artist.[8]
- Geoff Edrich, 85, English first-class cricket player.[9]
- John Grandy, 90, British Royal Air Force officer.
- Paul Hopkins, 99, American baseball player.[10]
- Maria Clara Lobregat, 82, Filipina politician, heart attack.
- Sheila McKechnie, 55, Scottish trade unionist, housing campaigner and consumer activist, cancer.[11]
- Kamal El Sheikh, 84, Egyptian film director.[12]
- Dennis Silverthorne, 80, American Olympic pairs figure skater (pairs figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics).[13]
3
- Lillian Beckwith, 87, English author.
- Des Corcoran, 75, Australian politician, Premier of South Australia.
- Taylor Duncan, 50, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics).[14]
- Pierre Flamion, 79, French football manager and player.
- T. G. Jones, 86, Welsh football player.
- William Craig Reynolds, 70, American fluid physicist and mechanical engineer.[15]
- Leon Wagner, 69, American Major League Baseball player.[16]
- Beatrice Winde, 79, American actress, cancer.[17]
4
- Joan Aiken, 79, English writer, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.[18]
- James Counsilman, 83, American swimming coach, Parkinson's disease.[19]
- Johannes Fehring, 77, Austrian composer.
- Brian Gibson, 59, English film director, What's Love Got to Do With It, bone cancer.[20]
- Jake Hess, 76, American southern gospel singer.[21]
- Refik Memišević, 47, Yugoslav wrestler.[22]
- Allen H. Miner, 86, American director and screenwriter.[23]
- Jeff Nuttall, 70, English poet, actor, artist, jazz trumpeter, and author.[24]
- Helena Růžičková, 67, Czech actress and comedian, stomach cancer.[25]
- Michael Whitney Straight, 87, American magazine publisher, author and a confessed spy for the KGB, pancreatic cancer.[26]
- Dorota Terakowska, 65, Polish writer and journalist.
- John Toland, 91, American author and historian, pneumonia.[27]
- Gábor Török, 67, Hungarian football goalkeeper.[28]
5
- Thomas Daly, 90, Australian Army officer.
- Charles Dumas, 66, American Olympic High Jump gold medalist, cancer.[29]
- John Guerin, 64, American percussionist, heart failure.[30]
- Norman Heatley, 92, British biochemist.[31]
- Vivian Jenkins, 92, Welsh rugby player and sports journalist.
- Tug McGraw, 59, American Major League Baseball pitcher, brain cancer.[32]
6
- Vera Bradford, 99, Australian pianist and piano teacher.
- Pierre Charles, 49, Dominican politician, Prime Minister (2000-2004), heart attack.
- Sumita Devi, 68, Bangladeshi film actress.[33]
- John Evans, 74, British footballer.
- Philip Gilbert, 72, Canadian actor.
- Nicolas Mosar, 76, Luxembourgish politician, jurist, and diplomat.
- Markku Salminen, 57, Finnish orienteering athlete.
- Francesco Scavullo, 82, American fashion photographer.[34]
- Reg Smith, 91, English football player and manager.[35]
- Thomas Stockham, 70, American scientist, known as the "father of digital recording".[36]
7
- Shalva Apkhazava, 23, Georgian footballer, heart failure.
- Piotr Kowalski, 76, Polish artist, sculptor, and architect.[37]
- Jaap Kraaier, 90, Dutch flatwater canoeist and Olympic medalist.[38]
- Khenpo Jigme Puntsok, 70, Nyingma lama and Terton from Sertha Region.
- Natalya Smirnitskaya, 76, Soviet javelin thrower.
- Ingrid Thulin, 77, Swedish actress, Cries and Whispers, cancer.[39]
- Léonce-Albert Van Peteghem, 87, Belgian Roman Catholic Bishop.
- Mario Zatelli, 91, French football player and manager.[40]
8
- Charles Brown, 57, American actor, prostate cancer.[41]
- Delfín Benítez Cáceres, 93, Paraguayan football player.
- John A. Gambling, 73, American radio host, "Rambling with Gambling", heart attack.
- Tom Kindness, 74, American politician.
- Reginald H. Morris, 85, British-Canadian cinematographer.[42]
- Hal Shaper, 72, South African songwriter.
- Louis Stanley, 92, British author, journalist, team principal of BRM, stroke.[43]
- Frank Ténot, 78, French press agent, pataphysician, and jazz critic.[44]
9
- Norberto Bobbio, 94, Italian senator, jurist, philosopher and political scientist.[45]
- Lyndon Brook, 77, British actor.
- Harriet Creighton, 94, American botanist, geneticist and educator.[46]
- Yinka Dare, 31, Nigerian basketball player, heart attack.[47]
- Nissim Ezekiel, 79, Indian poet, playwright and art critic.[48]
- Rainer Hildebrandt, 89, German anti-communist resistance fighter and historian.[49]
- Myron E. Leavitt, 73, American politician.
- Rogério Sganzerla, 57, Brazilian filmmaker, brain tumor.[50]
10
- Billy Klüver, 76, American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories.[51]
- Sidney Miller, 87, American actor, director and songwriter, Parkinson's disease.[52]
- Princess Kira of Prussia, 60, German princess.
- Ewald Pyle, 93, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, New York Giants, Boston Braves).[53]
- Alexandra Ripley, 70, American author, Scarlett.[54]
11
- Max D. Barnes, 67, country singer and songwriter.[55]
- Clement Conger, 91, American museum curator, pneumonia.[56]
- Perry Belmont Duryea Jr., 82, American politician, traffic collision.[57]
- Spalding Gray, 62, American actor and writer, suicide by drowning.
- Mervyn Pike, Baroness Pike, 85, British politician and life peer.[58]
- Asrul Sani, 76, Indonesian writer, poet and screenwriter.
12
- Petter Jakob Bjerve, 90, Norwegian economist, statistician and politician.
- James M. Early, 81, American electrical engineer.[59]
- Ramakrishna Hegde, 77, Indian politician.
- Olga Ladyzhenskaya, 81, Soviet and Russian mathematician.[60]
- Randy VanWarmer, 48, American singer and songwriter ("Just When I Needed You Most"), leukemia.[61]
- William T. Young, 85, American businessman.
13
- Joan Reventós i Carner, 76, Spanish politician.[62]
- Rafael Gambra Ciudad, 83, Spanish philosopher.[63]
- Phillip Crosby, 69, American actor and singer, son of crooner Bing Crosby, heart attack.
- Mike Goliat, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Browns).[64]
- Fritz Hamer, 91, German botanist.
- David N. Henderson, 82, American politician.[65]
- Tom Hurndall, 22, British political activist, gunshot wound.
- William Lawrence, 97, Australian politician.
- Arne Næss, Jr., 66, Norwegian mountaineer and businessman, former husband of Diana Ross, accidental death.
- Dave Penna, 46, American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing.
- Harold Shipman, 57, British serial killer, suicide by hanging.[66]
- Zeno Vendler, 82, American philosopher and linguist.
- Keraca Visulčeva, 92, Macedonian and Bulgarian artist.
14
- Terje Bakken, 25, Norwegian black metal musician (Windir), hypothermia.
- Jack Cady, 71, American science fiction writer.[67]
- Catherine Craig, 88, American actress.
- Uta Hagen, 84, German-American actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Reversal of Fortune, The Boys from Brazil), Tony winner (1951, 1963), stroke.[68]
- Joaquín Nin-Culmell, 95, Cuban-Spanish composer, concert pianist and emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley, heart attack.[69]
- Ron O'Neal, 66, American actor (Superfly, Red Dawn, A Different World), pancreatic cancer.[70]
- Eduard Sibiryakov, 62, Soviet Olympic volleyball player (men's volleyball tournament: 1964 gold medal winner, 1968 gold medal winner).[71]
- Eric Sturgess, 83, South African tennis player, winner of six Grand Slam doubles titles (five mixed doubles, one men's doubles).[72]
15
- Maarouf al-Dawalibi, 94, Syrian politician, prime minister (1951, 1961-1962).
- André Barrais, 83, French basketball player.[73]
- Alex Barris, 81, Canadian actor and writer, stroke.
- Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski, 69, Bulgarian paleontologist.
- Ambroise-Marie Carré, 95, French Catholic priest, member of the Académie française.[74]
- Johnny Cronshey, 77, English speed skater.[75]
- Sunday Emmanuel, 25, Nigerian athlete, car accident.[76]
- Olivia Goldsmith, 55, American author, heart attack.[77]
- Mohammad Yunus Saleem, 92, Indian politician, scholar, and lawyer.
- Manik Chandra Saha, 48, Bangladeshi journalist, bombing.[78]
- Delia Scala, 74, Italian ballerina, actress and singer, breast cancer.
- Gus Suhr, 98, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[79]
16
- Slavomír Bartoň, 77, Czech ice hockey player.[80]
- John Siomos, 56, American rock drummer.
- Kalevi Sorsa, 73, Finnish politician, prime minister (1972–1975, 1977–1979, 1982–1987).[81]
- Albert Tillman, 76, American educator and underwater diver.
17
- Walter Auffenberg, 75, American biologist.[82]
- Harry Brecheen, 89, American Major League Baseball baseball player.[83]
- Hersh Freeman, 75, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Redlegs, Chicago Cubs).[84]
- Czesław Niemen, 64, Polish musician, cancer.[85]
- Zenobia Powell Perry, 95, American composer, professor and civil rights activist.[86]
- Rafael Cordero Santiago, 61, Puerto Rican politician, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Carlton R. Sickles, 82, American lawyer and politician (U.S. Representative for Maryland's at-large congressional seat).[87]
- Ray Stark, 88, American film producer (Funny Girl, Steel Magnolias, Annie), heart attack.[88]
- Noble Willingham, 72, American actor (Walker, Texas Ranger, City Slickers, Norma Rae), heart attack.[89]
18
- Hook Dillon, 80, American basketball player.[90]
- Peter Ward Fay, 79, American historian.[91]
- Gérard Jarry, 67, French classical violinist.[92]
- Bruno Silić, 45, Croatian water polo player and coach.
19
- Harry E. Claiborne, 86, American district judge of the American District Court for the District of Nevada, suicide by gunshot.
- Tommy Glaviano, 80, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies).[93]
- David Hookes, 48, Australian cricketer and Victorian coach, heart attack.
- Jerry Nachman, 57, American MSNBC editor-in-chief, cancer.
- Miroslav Pavlović, 61, Serbian football player.
- Murray Watkinson, 64, New Zealand rower.[94]
20
- Alan Brown, 84, British Formula One driver.
- Timothy Gantz, 58, American classical scholar, heart attack.
- Walt Grealis, 74, Canadian publisher and music industry leader, lung cancer.
- Olivier Guichard, 83, French politician.[95]
- Lloyd Merriman, 79, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds/Redlegs, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs).[96]
- Bernard Punsly, 80, American physician and actor, cancer.
- Don Shinnick, 68, American professional football player (UCLA, Baltimore Colts) and coach, neurological disorder.[97]
- Guinn Smith, 83, American Olympic pole vaulter (gold medal winner in men's pole vault at the 1948 Summer Olympics), pulmonary emphysema.[98]
- George Woodbridge, 73, American illustrator.[99]
21
- Rao Farman Ali, 81, Pakistani military officer.
- M. Arunachalam, 59, Indian politician and Union Minister.
- Johnny Blatnik, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals).[100]
- Luis Cuenca García, 82, Spanish actor, lung disease.[101]
- Jim Henry, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.[102]
- John T. Lewis, 71, Welsh physicist.
- Jock Newall, 86, New Zealand football player.
- Yordan Radichkov, 74, Bulgarian writer and playwright.[103]
- Ray Rayner, 84, American actor (Bozo's Circus, Ray Rayner and His Friends), pneumonia.[104]
- Juan Zambudio Velasco, 82, Spanish football goalkeeper.
22
- Milt Bernhart, 77, American jazz trombonist.[105]
- Gérard Darrieu, 78, French actor.[106]
- Islwyn Ffowc Elis, 79, British Welsh language writer.
- Ticky Holgado, 59, French actor, lung cancer.[107]
- Billy May, 87, American big band and pop music arranger, heart attack.[108]
- Janez Menart, 74, Slovene poet.[109]
- Ann Miller, 80, American dancer, lung cancer.[110]
- Royce Smith, 54, American gridiron football player (Georgia, New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons).[111]
- Chea Vichea, Cambodian labor leader, homicide.
- Charlotte Zwerin, 72, American documentary film director and editor, lung cancer.[112]
- Rudi Šeligo, 68, Slovenian writer, playwright, essayist and politician.
23
- Albert Henderson, 88, American actor.
- Bob Keeshan, 76, American actor, starred as "Captain Kangaroo", heart attack.[113]
- Vasili Mitrokhin, 81, Soviet/Russian/British KGB-officer and defector.[114]
- Helmut Newton, 83, German-Australian photographer, heart attack.[115]
- Lennart Strand, 82, Swedish Olympic middle-distance runner (silver medal winner in men's 1500 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[116]
- Tom Warhurst, Sr., 86, Australian tennis player.
24
- Anita W. Addison, 51, American television and film director and producer, breast cancer.
- Tomio Aoki, 80, Japanese film actor, lung cancer.[117]
- Gordon Brook-Shepherd, 85, British intelligence agent, journalist, and historian.
- Reva Brooks, 90, Canadian photographer.
- Gyula Kristó, 64, Hungarian historian and medievalist.[118]
- Leônidas, 90, Brazilian football player, complications due to Alzheimer's disease.[119]
- Abdul Rahman Munif, 70, Saudi novelist, journalist, and cultural critic, kidney and heart failure.[120]
- Jack Tunney, 69, Canadian professional wrestling promoter, heart attack.
25
- Fanny Blankers-Koen, 85, Dutch track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[121]
- Miklós Fehér, 24, Hungarian football player, cardiac arrest, heart attack.[122]
- V. K. N., 74, Indian Malayalam writer.
- Zurab Sakandelidze, 58, Soviet (Georgian) Olympic basketball player (men's basketball: 1968 bronze medal winner, 1972 gold medal winner).[123]
26
- Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, 91, British artist.[124]
- Fred Haas, 88, American golfer.[125]
- Jacob Mishler, 92, American judge (US district judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York).[126]
- Bata Paskaljević, 81, Serbian actor.
- Hugh Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney, 95, British politician.
- Shōgo Shimada, 98, Japanese film actor, stroke.
- Magne Skodvin, 88, Norwegian educator and historian.
27
- Bill Carey, 87, American songwriter, actor, and author.
- Rikki Fulton, 79, Scottish comedian, Alzheimer's disease.[127]
- Salvador Laurel, 75, Filipino lawyer and politician, Vice President (1986–1992), lymphoma.[128]
- Jack Paar, 85, American author, and The Tonight Show host, stroke.[129]
- Hugh Scanlon, 90, British trade union leader.
- Don Stansauk, 78, American professional wrestler and actor (Foxy Brown, Paint Your Wagon, Micki & Maude), stroke.
28
- José Miguel Agrelot, 76, Puerto Rican comedian, radio and television host, heart attack.
- Lloyd M. Bucher, 76, United States Navy officer.[130]
- Dino Dines, 59, British keyboard player (T. Rex), heart attack.
- Elroy Hirsch, 80, American gridiron football player.[131]
- Trevor Hold, 64, English composer, poet and author.[132]
- Yukihiko Ikeda, 66, Japanese politician, cancer.
- Eeva Joenpelto, 82, Finnish novelist.[133]
- André Van Lysebeth, 84, Belgian yoga instructor and author.[134]
- Joe Viterelli, 66, American actor (Analyze This, Bullets Over Broadway, Shallow Hal), complications from heart surgery.
29
- Norman Bates, 76, American jazz double-bass player.[135]
- Mary-Ellis Bunim, 57, American producer and co-creator of The Real World, breast cancer.
- O. W. Fischer, 88, Austrian actor, kidney failure.[136]
- Janet Frame, 79, New Zealand writer, leukemia.[137]
- M. M. Kaye, 95, British author, The Far Pavilions.[138]
- Andrew J. Kuehn, 66, American film producer.
- Guusje Nederhorst, 34, Dutch actress, breast cancer.[139]
- Louie B. Nunn, 79, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (1967-1971), heart attack.
- Stojan Puc, 82, Yugoslavian (Slovenian) chess International Master.[140]
- Soko Richardson, 64, American rhythm and blues drummer (Ike & Tina Turner, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Albert Collins).[141]
- James Saunders, 79, British playwright.[142]
- Helge Seip, 84, Norwegian politician (Social Liberal Party).
- Serafim Tulikov, 89, Soviet/Russian composer.[143]
30
- George Bennions, 90, British fighter pilot during World War II.[144]
- Bruno Cesari, 70, Italian art director.
- Malachi Favors, 76, American jazz bassist, pancreatic cancer.[145]
- Frank Mantooth, 56, American jazz pianist and arranger.[146]
- José Álvaro Morais, 60, Portuguese film director, cancer.
- Fuad Rouhani, 96, Iranian administrator and translator.[147]
31
- Ernest Burke, 79, American baseball player, kidney cancer.[148]
- William Herrick, 89, American novelist.[149]
- Eleanor Holm, 91, American Olympic swimmer (women's 100 metre backstroke: 1928, 1932 gold medal winner).[150]
- V. G. Jog, 81, Indian violinist, Parkinson's disease.
- Cyril Maidment, 75, English motorcycle speedway rider.
- Suraiya, 74, Indian actress and singer.
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