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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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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June 2004
1
- Randi Brænne, 93, Norwegian actress.
- James Dudley, 94, American baseball player and professional wrestling manager.
- Victor Guazzelli, 84, English Roman Catholic bishop.[1]
- Liu Kang, 93, Singaporean artist.[2]
- Charles Kelman, 74, American ophthalmologist, surgeon, jazz musician, and Broadway producer, lung cancer.[3]
- William Manchester, 82, American author and historian.[4]
- Bill Reichardt, 73, American football player (University of Iowa, Green Bay Packers).[5]
- Sheikh Shaheb Ali, 88, Bangladeshi football player and coach.[6]
2
- Mujeeb Alam, 55, Pakistani playback singer.
- Dietz Otto Edzard, 73, German scholar and grammarian of the Sumerian language.[7]
- Nicolai Ghiaurov, 74, Bulgarian opera singer.[8]
- Shrikant Jichkar, 49, Indian central civil servant and politician, traffic collision.
- Lee Ki-baek, 79, South Korean historian.
- Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, 68-69, Ethiopian general, defense minister and President of Ethiopia, involuntary manslaughter.
- Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer, heart attack.[9]
- Alun Richards, 74, Welsh novelist.[10]
- Tini Wagner, 84, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympic champion.[11]
3
- Nam Cam, 56, Vietnamese mobster, shot.
- Joe Carr, 82, Irish golfer.[12]
- Harald Ganzinger, 53, German computer scientist.[13]
- Harold Goodwin, 86, English actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Longest Day, The Ladykillers).
- Britta Holmberg, 82, Swedish actress.
- Jonathan Kramer, 61, American composer and music theorist.[14]
- Frances Shand Kydd, 68, English mother of Diana, Princess of Wales, Parkinson's disease.[15]
- Sulamith Messerer, 95, Russian ballerina and choreographer.
- Quorthon, 38, Swedish musician and founder of the band Bathory, congenital heart defect.
- Morris Schappes, 97, American scholar, editor (Jewish Currents) and Marxist activist.[16]
4
- Charles Correll, 60, American cinematographer (Animal House, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock) and television director (Melrose Place), pancreatic cancer.
- Wilmer Fields, 81, American baseball player, former Negro league baseball All-Star, heart ailment.[17]
- Marvin Heemeyer, 52, American muffler repair shop owner and criminal, suicide by gunshot.
- Steve Lacy, 69, American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer, cancer.[18]
- Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer, lymphoma.[19][20]
- Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor, stroke.[21]
- Rolf Moebius, 88, German actor, pneumonia.
- T. M. Samarasinghe, 61, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.[22]
- Anthony Steffen, 73, Italian and Brazilian film actor and screenwriter, cancer.[23]
5
- Johnny Bent, 95, American ice hockey player.[24]
- Iona Brown, 63, British violinist and conductor, cancer.[25]
- Jack Foster, 72, British-New Zealand athlete and Olympian, traffic collision.[26]
- Fernando Manzaneque, 70, Spanish road racing cyclist.[27]
- Friedrich Obleser, 81, German general in the Bundeswehr.
- Ronald Reagan, 93, American actor and politician, President (1981–1989), Governor of California (1967–1975), pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's .[28]
- Manu Tupou, 69, American-based Fijian actor, writer, director, and teacher.[29]
6
- Judy Campbell, 88, English actress.[30]
- Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman and journalist, killed by Al-Qaeda.[31]
- Howard Eves, 93, American mathematician.
- James Roche, 97, American businessman, CEO and Chairman of the Board at General Motors Corporation.[32]
- Munavvar Rzayeva, 75, Azerbaijani sculptor.
- Emma Talmi, 99, Israeli politician and writer.
- Jock West, 95, British Grand Prix motorcycle racer.
- Kate Worley, 46, American comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer), cancer.[33]
7
- Roman Aftanazy, 90, Polish historian, librarian and author.
- Richard E. Bush, 79, United States Marine master gunnery sergeant and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[34]
- Joseph Leo Doob, 94, American mathematician.[35]
- Roger Matton, 75, Canadian composer, ethnomusicologist, and music educator.[36]
- Bern Porter, 93, American artist, writer, publisher, and performer.[37]
- Don Potter, 102, British sculptor, wood carver and potter.
- Eugene Raskin, 94, American musician and playwright.[38]
8
- Leopoldo Zea Aguilar, 91, Mexican philosopher.[39]
- Dan Armstrong, 69, American guitarist, luthier, and session musician.
- David Mervyn Blow, 72, British biophysicist, lung cancer.[40]
- Walter Breuer, 73, Austrian film actor.
- Per Carleson, 86, Swedish officer and Olympic épée fencer.[41]
- Mack Jones, 65, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos), stomach cancer.[42]
- Humayun Khan, 27, American soldier serving in the Iraq War, car bombing.[43]
- Bill Lowery, 79, American music entrepreneur.
- Fosco Maraini, 91, Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, and writer.[44]
- Bob Schmitz, 65, American gridiron football player and scout (Pittsburgh Steelers, Minnesota Vikings), heart attack.[45]
- Nuria Torray, 69, Spanish actress, colorectal cancer.[46]
9
- Rosey Brown, 71, American football player, Pro Football Hall of Famer.[47]
- António de Sousa Franco, 61, Portuguese economist and politician, heart attack.
- Russell Hellman, 86, American politician and member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1961 to 1980.[48]
- Bent Jædig, 68, Danish jazz musician.[49]
- Ted Martin, 101, Australian cricketer (Western Australia).[50]
- Ralph Moody, 86, American NASCAR driver and team owner.
- Alistair Taylor, 68, English personal assistant of Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles.[51]
- Barbara Whiting, 73, American actress (Those Whiting Girls, Beware, My Lovely, Dangerous When Wet), cancer.[52]
- Brian Williamson, 58, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered.
10
- Antoine Argoud, 89, French Army officer specializing in counter-insurgency.[53]
- Ray Charles, 73, American rhythm and blues singer ("What'd I Say", "Georgia on my Mind", "I Can't Stop Loving You"), liver failure.[54]
- Rosinha de Valença, 62, Brazilian composer, arranger and musician.
- Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications.[55]
- Chico Faria, 54, Portuguese football player.[56]
- José Farías, 67, Argentine football player and manager.
- Odette Laure, 87, French actress and cabaret singer, heart attack.[57]
- Gábor Vékony, 59, Hungarian historian, archaeologist and linguist.
- Xenophon Zolotas, 100, Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister (1989–1990).[58]
11
- Prince Egon von Fürstenberg, 57, German aristocrat and designer, nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli, liver cancer.
- Pakubuwono XII, 60, Indonesian royal as twelfth Susuhunan] (ruler of Surakarta) .
- Michel Roche, 64, French Olympic equestrian (gold medal winner in equestrian team jumping at the 1976 Summer Olympics).[59]
- Soriba Soumah, 58, Guinean international football player.[60]
12
- Rina Ben-Menahem, 68, Israeli writer.[61]
- Walter George Muelder, 97, American social ethicist and Methodist minister.[62]
- Stanley O'Toole, 65, British film producer.
- Geoffrey Thompson, 67, British businessman, aneurysm.
13
- Dorothy Lavinia Brown, 85, American surgeon and politician.[63]
- Danny Dark, 65, American announcer, pulmonary hemorrhage.[64]
- Dick Durrance, 89, American alpine ski racer, 17-time national champion.[65]
- Stuart Hampshire, 89, British philosopher.[66]
- Jørn Larsen, 77, Danish painter and sculptor.
- Robert Lees, 91, American screenwriter, decapitation.[67]
- Jennifer Nitsch, 37, German television actress, suicide by jumping.[68]
- Ralph Wiley, 52, American sports journalist, heart attack.[69]
14
- Ubaldo Calabresi, 79, Italian Roman Catholic bishop, Parkinson's disease.
- Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, Swiss mountain guide.
- Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher.[70]
- Max Rosenberg, 89, American producer of horror movies.[71]
- Noriaki Yuasa, 70, Japanese director, stroke.[72]
15
- Lothar Fischer, 70, German sculptor.[73]
- J. Gwyn Griffiths, 92, Welsh poet and egyptologist.[74]
- Bagong Kussudiardja, 75, Indonesian painter, choreographer, and artist, diabetes.
- Ahmet Piriştina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir, heart attack.
- Hatch Rosdahl, 62, American gridiron football player (Penn State, Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs), suicide by jumping.[75]
16
- Herman Goldstine, 90, American computer scientist (ENIAC), Parkinson's disease.
- George Hausmann, 88, American baseball player (New York Giants).[76]
- Thanom Kittikachorn, 92, Thai military dictator and politician, prime minister, complications from stroke.[77]
- Paul Neagu, 66, British artist.
17
- Todor Dinov, 84, Bulgarian animator, painter, and graphic artist.
- Ma Jiajue, 23, Chinese biochemistry student, execution by shooting.
- Vilayat Inayat Khan, 87, British sufist.[78]
- Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman.[79]
- Sara Lidman, 80, Swedish writer.[80]
- Gerry McNeil, 78, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup-winning National Hockey League goaltender.
- Jackie Paris, 79, American jazz singer and guitarist.[81]
- Seymour Robbie, 84, American television director.[82]
18
- Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin, 33, Saudi Arabian leader of militant organization al-Qaeda.
- Doris Dowling, 81, American actress.[83]
- George Buck Flower, 66, American actor, writer, producer, and casting director, cancer.[84]
- André Gillois, 102, French writer and Charles de Gaulle's spokesman in London during World War II.
- Frederick Jaeger, 76, German-British character actor.[85]
- Paul Marshall Johnson Jr., c. 49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda.
- Shaikh Hafiz Sabri Koçi, 83, Albanian Grand Mufti.
- Elbert Luther Little, 96, American botanist.[86]
- Ralph S. Locher, 88, American politician.
- John Mathwin, 84, Australian politician.
- Peter Märthesheimer, 66, German screenwriter, producer and author.[87]
- Nek Muhammad Wazir, c. 27, Pakistani tribal leader and Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces.[88]
- Moe Radovich, 75, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors) and college basketball coach.[89]
- Elwood Zimmerman, 91, American entomologist.[90]
19
- Nikolai Girenko, 63, Russian ethnologist and human rights activist, ballistic trauma.
- Charly Grosskost, 60, French racing cyclist, traffic collision.[91]
- Colin McCormack, 62, Welsh actor, cancer.[92]
- Else Quecke, 96, German actress.[93]
- Jadwiga Rutkowska, 70, Polish Olympic volleyball player (bronze medal winner in women's volleyball at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[94]
- Alfredo Torero, 73, Peruvian anthropologist and linguist.
- Nob Yoshigahara, 68, Japanese mathematician and puzzle expert.
20
- Munir al-Ajlani, 91, Syrian politician, writer, lawyer, and scholar.
- Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (1998-2004), lung cancer.[95]
- Robert Rogers Blake, 86, American management theoretician.[96]
- Hanns Cibulka, 83, German poet and diarist.
- Fred Cogswell, 86, Canadian poet.[97]
- Luis Contreras, 53, Hispanic-American actor.
- Nabil Sahraoui, 37, Algerian militant, head of GSPC, killed by the Algerian army.
21
- Ruth Leach Amonette, 87, American businesswoman, author, and educator.
- Ron Ashman, 78, English football player and manager.[98]
- Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure.[99]
- Ted Scott, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate, traffic collision.[100]
22
- Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer.[101]
- Francisco Ortiz Franco, 50, Mexican journalist, murdered.
- Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist.[102]
- Carlton Skinner, 91, American naval officer and politician, first civilian governor of Guam.[103]
- Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy.[104]
- Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants.
23
- Peter Birrel, 68, English actor (Doctor Who), cancer.[105]
- Rifaat El-Fanagily, 68, Egyptian footballer.
- Ya'akov Meshorer, 68, Israeli numismatist and classical archaeologist, cancer.
- Leonard Stein, 87, American musicologist, pianist, conductor and university teacher.[106]
24
- Carlos Lacoste, 75, Argentine navy vice-admiral and politician.
- Bill Pataky, 74, Canadian Olympic basketball player (men's basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[107]
- Jimmy Rowser, 78, American jazz double-bassist.
- Trudeliese Schmidt, 61, German operatic mezzo-soprano.
- Peter Wragg, 73, British footballer.[108]
25
- Morton W. Coutts, 100, New Zealand scientist and inventor.
- Imanol Larzabal Goñi, 56, Basque Spanish singer and composer.[109]
- Margot Guilleaume, 94, German operatic soprano.[110]
- Karol Kennedy, 72, American ice skating champion, pneumonia.[111]
- Fred Ramdat Misier, 77, Suriname politician, president (1982-1988.)
- Carl Rakosi, 100, Hungarian-American poet, the last surviving member of the Objectivist poets.[112]
26
- Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress.[113]
- Ott Arder, 54, Estonian poet, children's writer and translator.
- George Charles, 88, Saint Lucia trade unionist and politician.
- Chaim Goldberg, 87, Polish-Israeli-American artist, painter, and sculptor.[114]
- Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer.[115]
- Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter, cancer.[116]
- Nguyen Van Hinh, 88, Vietnamese Chief of staff and general.
27
- Peter Blythe, 69, English actor, lung cancer.[117]
- Hugh B. Cave, 93, British writer.[118]
- Jean Graczyk, 71, French road bicycle racer.[119]
- Petar Gračanin, 81, Yugoslav and Serbian politician and general in the Yugoslav People's Army.
- Boris Holban, 96, Russian-born Franco-Romanian communist.[120]
- George Patton IV, 80, American army general and son of George Patton, Parkinson's disease.
- Fausto Romitelli, 41, Italian composer, cancer.[121]
28
- Jean Boyer, 55, French organist and music professor, cancer.[122]
- Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books.[123]
- Georges de Caunes, 85, French journalist, writer and television and radio presenter, aneurysm.[124]
- Marcel Jullian, 82, French author and screenwriter.[125]
- Hisashi Nozawa, 44, Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist, suicide by hanging.
- Alexander Spirkin, 85, Soviet and Russian philosopher and psychologist.
- Thomas Zereske, 38, German Olympic canoeist, leukemia.[126]
29
- Bjørn Breigutu, 80, Norwegian filmmaker.
- Alvin Hamilton, 92, Canadian politician.[127]
- William W. Havens Jr., 84, American physicist, complications from leukemia.[128]
- Arik Lavie, 77, Israeli singer and actor, heart disease.
- Mohammad Ranjbar, 69, Iranian football player and coach, cerebral disorder.
- Grethe Thordahl, 77, Danish stage and film actress.
- Stipe Šuvar, 68, Croatian and Yugoslav politician and sociologist.[129]
30
- Chris Alcaide, 80, American actor, cancer.
- Eddie Burns, 88, Australian rugby player and coach.
- Jacques Rossi, 94, Polish-French writer and polyglot.[130]
- Stive Vermaut, 28, Belgian cyclist, brain haemorrhage after heart attack.[131]
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