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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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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June 2005
1
- Mariana Dimitrova, 51, Bulgarian actress, suicide.[1]
- Louisiane Saint Fleurant, 80, Haitian artist and painter.[2]
- Fernando Ghia, 69, Italian film producer and talent agent.
- Sara Guasch, 86, Chilean-Mexican actress.
- Norman Horowitz, 90, American geneticist at the California Institute of Technology.[3]
- George Mikan, 80, American basketball player, diabetes.[4]
- Geoffrey Toone, 94, British-based Irish actor.[5]
2
- Isabel Aretz, 96, Argentine musician.[6]
- Vittorio Duse, 89, Italian actor (The Godfather Part III).[7]
- Larry Fallon, 68, American composer, arranger and record producer.[8]
- Gunder Gundersen, 74, Norwegian Nordic combined skier and sports official.[9]
- Samir Kassir, 45, Lebanese journalist, bombed.[10]
- Mike Marshall, 60, French-American actor (Moonraker), lung cancer.[11]
- Melita Norwood, 93, British spy for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.[12]
- Hy Peskin, 89, American photographer, kidney failure.[13]
- Pastor Vega, 65, Cuban film director and screenwriter.[14]
3
- Leon Askin, 97, Austrian actor.[15]
- Michael Billington, 63, British actor, cancer.[16]
- Harold Cardinal, 60, Canadian Cree writer, lung cancer.[17]
- Néstor Errea, 66, Argentine football player.
- Alex Freeleagus, 77, Australian diplomat and lawyer.[18]
- Basil Pennington, 73, American trappist priest, writer, and speaker.
- Maurice Wiles, 81, British Anglican priest and academic.
4
- Carol Christensen, 67, American actress and model.
- Giancarlo De Carlo, 85, Italian architect.[19]
- Chloe Jones, 29, American adult film star, liver failure.
- Leo Klier, 82, American basketball player.[20]
- Banks McFadden, 88, American gridiron football player.[21]
- Jean O'Leary, 57, American lesbian and gay rights activist and politician, lung cancer.
- Yin Shun, 99, Chinese Buddhist philosopher, tuberculosis.
- Karl Steinbuch, 87, German computer scientist, cyberneticist, and electrical engineer.
- Lorna Thayer, 86, American character actress (Five Easy Pieces), Alzheimer's disease.[22]
5
- Pepita Carpena, 85, Spanish trade unionist and anarchist.[23]
- Hugh Marshall Cole, 94, American historian and army officer, vascular disease.
- Kurt Graunke, 89, German composer and conductor.[24]
- George Isaak, 72, Polish-Australian physicist and asteroseismologist.[25]
- Wee Chong Jin, 87, Malayan-Singaporean judge, cancer.
- Susi Nicoletti, 86, Austrian film actress, complications from heart surgery.[26]
- Lothar Warneke, 68, German film director, screenwriter and actor.[27]
- Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, 55, Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician, traffic collision.[28]
6
- Tullio Altamura, 80, Italian actor.[29]
- Anne Bancroft, 73, American actress (The Miracle Worker, The Graduate, The Pumpkin Eater), Oscar winner (1963), uterine cancer.[30]
- Dana Elcar, 77, American actor (MacGyver, The Sting, Fail Safe), pneumonia.[31]
- Maya Kopitseva, 81, Russian painter, cancer.
- Pamela May, 88, British ballet dancer.[32]
- Mary Beaumont Medd, 97, British architect.
- Siegfried Palm, 78, German cellist.[33]
- David C. Sutherland III, 56, American illustrator for the original Dungeons & Dragons books, chronic liver failure.
7
- Seán Doherty, 60, Irish politician.
- Terry Long, 45, American NFL football player, suicide.[34]
- Edward A. McCarthy, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, second Archbishop of Miami.
- Davud Məhəmmədov, 34, Azerbaijani wrestler.[35]
- Simon Waronker, 90, American violinist and record producer.[36]
8
- Ahmed Ali, Fijian academic and politician.
- Ed Bishop, 72, American-British actor (UFO, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Brass Target).[37]
- Arthur Dunkel, 72, Portuguese-Swiss GATT director-general.[38]
- Servílio, 65, Brazilian football player, heart attack.[39]
9
- James Clements, 77, American ornithologist and author, leukemia.
- Slade Cutter, 93, American naval officer and gridiron football player.
- Richard Eberhart, 101, American poet.[40]
- Samih Farsoun, 68, American sociologist and academic.
- Erik Jørgensen, 85, Danish Olympic middle-distance runner.[41]
- Trude Marlen, 92, Austrian stage and film actress.[42]
- Inna Ulyanova, 70, Soviet and Russian actress, singer and comedian, liver cirrhosis.
10
- Michèle Auclair, 80, French violinist.[43]
- Nick Darke, 56, British playwright, stroke.[44]
- Pere Esteve i Abad, 62, Spanish politician and Catalan nationalist.
- J. James Exon, 83, American politician, senator (1979–1997) and Governor of Nebraska (1971–1979).[45]
- Yumiko Kurahashi, 69, Japanese writer.[46]
- Lyphard, 36, American thoroughbred racehorse and sire.
- Shinji Nagashima, 67, Japanese manga artist.
- Curtis Pitts, 89, American aircraft designer (Pitts Special).
- Joseph Raya, 88, Lebanese-Canadian Melkite Catholic archbishop, theologian, and civil rights advocate.
- Kenneth N. Taylor, 88, American evangelical publisher and author, heart failure.[47]
11
- Francesco Albanese, 92, Italian opera singer.[48]
- Anne-Marie Alonzo, 53, Canadian writer.[49]
- José Beyaert, 79, French cyclist.[50]
- Audrey Brown, 92, British sprinter and Olympic silver medalist.[51]
- Robert Clarke, 85, American actor, diabetes.[52]
- Ghena Dimitrova, 64, Bulgarian opera singer, cancer.[53]
- Vasco Gonçalves, 84, Portuguese army general, Prime Minister (1974–1975).[54]
- Tom Holden, 67, American television news anchor (WKBN-TV), complications from a blood infection.[55]
- Lillian Lux, 86, American Yiddish vaudeville actress and singer, congestive heart failure.[56]
- Lon McCallister, 82, American actor, heart failure.[57]
- Ron Randell, 86, Australian-American actor, stroke.[58]
- Juan José Saer, 67, Argentine novelist, lung cancer.[59]
12
- Emmanuelle Arsan, 73, Thai-French novelist, cholangiocarcinoma.
- Sonja Davies, 81, New Zealand trade unionist.
- Brandy Davis, 77, American baseball player.[60]
- Eiichi Goto, 74, Japanese computer scientist.[61]
- Barry Hutchinson, 69, English football player.
- Makobo Modjadji, 26, South African Rain Queen of the Balobedu people, meningitis.
- David Whitney, 66, American art curator, collector, gallerist and critic, cancer.[62]
- Scott Young, 87, Canadian journalist and father of Neil Young.[63]
13
- Jonathan Adams, 74, British actor (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), stroke.
- Gerard Béhague, 67, French-American ethnomusicologist.[64]
- Álvaro Cunhal, 91, Portuguese politician, secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (1961–1992), writer and painter.[65]
- Eugénio de Andrade, 82, Portuguese poet.[66]
- David Diamond, 89, American composer, heart attack.[67]
- Bruno Landi, 76, Italian racing cyclist.[68]
- Jesús Moncada, Spanish writer, cancer.[69]
- Lane Smith, 69, American actor (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The Mighty Ducks, My Cousin Vinny), complications from ALS.[70]
14
- Heinz Bechert, 72, German indologist and buddhologist.[71]
- N. J. Crisp, 81, British television writer, dramatist and novelist.[72]
- Georges Dransart, 81, French sprint Olympic canoeist.[73]
- Lionel Elvin, 99, British educational theorist.[74]
- Carlo Maria Giulini, 91, Italian conductor.[75]
- Bob Lennon, 76, American baseball player.[76]
- Robie Lester, 80, American voice artist, actress and singer, cancer.
- Norman Levine, 81, Canadian writer.[77]
- Mimi Parent, 80, Canadian surrealist painter.[78]
15
- Rodrigo Asturias, 65, Guatemalan guerilla leader and politician, heart attack.
- Reuven Dafni, 91, Croatian-Israeli soldier and diplomat.
- Suzanne Flon, 87, French actress, gastroenteritis.[79]
- Alessio Galletti, 37, Italian racing cyclist, cardiac arrest.[80]
- Valeria Moriconi, 73, Italian actress, cancer.[81]
- Carroll Sembera, 63, American baseball player.[82]
- Per Henrik Wallin, 58, Swedish jazz pianist and composer.
16
- Corino Andrade, 99, Portuguese neurologist, discovered familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP).
- Enrique Laguerre, 99, Puerto Rican writer, poet, and teacher.
- Mayoori, 22, Indian actress, suicide.
- Alex McAvoy, 77, Scottish actor (Pink Floyd – The Wall, The Vital Spark, Strictly Sinatra), leukemia.
- Geoffrey Parrinder, 95, British theologian and Methodist minister.[83]
- Ross Stretton, 53, Australian ballet dancer and artistic director of Australian Ballet, melanoma.[84]
- James Weinstein, 78, American Jewish author, founder and publisher of In These Times..[85]
17
- Billy Bauer, 89, American jazz guitarist.[86]
- Nanna Ditzel, 81, Danish furniture and interior designer.[87]
- William N. Fenton, 96, American scholar known for writings on the Iroquois.[88]
- Susanna Javicoli, 50, Italian actress (La nottata, Suspiria), kidney cancer.[89]
- Andrew Justice, 54, British rower and Olympic silver medalist.[90]
- Gene Miller, 77, American investigative reporter at the Miami Herald, cancer.
- Keith Morris, 66, English photographer.
- Karl Mueller, 41, American musician, esophageal cancer.
- Tetiana Yablonska, 88, Soviet Ukrainian artist.
18
- Mushtaq Ali, 90, Indian cricketer, Padma Shree Award winner.[91]
- Cay Forrester, 83, American writer and actress, pneumonia.
- Chris Griffin, 74, American jazz trumpeter, melanoma.[92]
- Basil Kirchin, 77, British musician.[93]
- Sanjaya Lall, 64, Indian economist.
- Tatsuo Matsumura, 90, Japanese actor.
- J. J. Pickle, 91, American politician, Congressional Representative from Texas (1963–1995), prostate cancer.[94]
- Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, 81, Indian physicist.
- Manuel Sadosky, 91, Argentine mathematician and Secretary of State of Science and Technology (1983–1989).
19
- Allan Beckett, 91, British engineer.[95]
- Robert Ellis Cahill, 70, American folklorist and author.
- Zdravko Ježić, 73, Croatian water polo player and Olympic silver medalist.[96]
- Aleksey Kiselyov, 67, Russian boxer and Olympic silver medalist.[97]
- Totta Näslund, 60, Swedish musician, singer and actor, liver cancer.[98]
- Ray Parkin, 94, Australian writer.
20
- Larry Collins, 75, American writer, cerebral hemorrhage.[99]
- Charles David Keeling, 77, American scientist and oceanographer, heart attack.[100]
- Jack Kilby, 81, American engineer, inventor of the integrated circuit and physics Nobel prize winner.[101]
- Pete Leswick, 88, Canadian ice hockey right winger.[102]
- Bernard Adolph Schriever, 94, American Air Force general, regarded as the architect of the space and ballistic missile programs.[103]
21
- Munu Adhi, 78, Indian politician.
- George Hawi, 67, Lebanese politician, secretary general of Communist Party of Lebanon, terrorist attack.[104]
- Geoffrey Jones, 73, British documentary maker, cancer.[105]
- Alvin D. Loving, 69, African-American abstract expressionist painter.
- Guillermo Suárez Mason, 81, Argentine military officer convicted for his crimes during the Dirty War, cardiovascular disease.
- Jaime Sin, 76, Filipino Roman Catholic cardinal and former archbishop of Manila, kidney failure.[106]
- Louis H. Wilson, 85, United States Marine Corps general and recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions during WWII.
22
- Sunder Singh Bhandari, 84, Indian politician.
- William Donaldson, 70, British satirist and theatrical producer of Beyond The Fringe.[107]
- Michael Imoudu, 102, Nigerian labour union leader.
- Carson Parks, 69, American musician.[108]
- Max Roqueta, 96, French Occitan language writer.[109]
23
- Nikolay Afanasevsky, 64, Russian diplomat.
- Shana Alexander, 79, American journalist, cancer.[110]
- Manolis Anagnostakis, 80, Greek poet.[111]
- Pietro Balestra, 70, Swiss economist.
- Isidore Cohen, 82, American violinist with the Beaux Arts Trio.[112]
- Hanna Kvanmo, 79, Norwegian politician.[113]
- Nahum M. Sarna, 82, British-Israeli-American biblical scholar.[114]
- Ramona M. Valdez, 20, Dominican-born United States Marine.
24
- Peter Casserly, 107, Australian centenarian, last surviving member of the World War I First Australian Imperial Force.[115]
- Eva Philbin, 91, Irish chemist.
- Béla Rerrich, 87, Hungarian fencer and Olympic silver medalist.[116]
- Yedidia Shofet, 96, Chief Rabbi of Iran and the spiritual leader of Persian Jewry.
- Ronald B. Stafford, 69, American lawyer and politician from New York, lung cancer.[117]
- Paul Winchell, 82, American voice actor (Winnie the Pooh, The Fox and the Hound, The Smurfs) and ventriloquist.
25
- John Fiedler, 80, American actor (12 Angry Men, Winnie the Pooh, True Grit), cancer.[118]
- Harry Gibbs, 88, Australian Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 1981-87.[119]
- Salim Halali, 84, Algerian singer.
- Chet Helms, 62, American rock music promoter, hepatitis.
- Robert K. Killian, 85, American politician and attorney.
- Jiří Kodet, 67, Czech actor.[120]
- Kâzım Koyuncu, 33, Turkish singer-songwriter and activist, testicular cancer.
- Olga Lauristin, 102, Soviet and Estonian politician.
26
- Filip Adwent, 49, Polish politician, traffic collision.[121]
- Roland Ducke, 70, German football player, prostate cancer.[122]
- Tõnno Lepmets, 67, Estonian basketball player.
- Eknath Solkar, 57, Indian cricketer, heart attack.[123]
- Joop Stoffelen, 84, Dutch footballer, Parkinson's disease.
- Grete Sultan, 99, German-American pianist.[124]
- Richard Whiteley, 61, British television presenter, pneumonia.[125]
27
- Robert Byrne, 50, American songwriter.
- Fred Dutton, 82, American lawyer, advisor to President Kennedy.[126]
- Shelby Foote, 88, American historian, heart attack.[127]
- Frank Harte, 72, Irish traditional singer and song collector, heart attack.
- Domino Harvey, 35, British model-turned-bounty hunter and daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, fentanyl overdose.[128]
- George Lilanga, 71, Tanzanian painter and sculptor, diabetes.
- Sakshi Ranga Rao, 62, Indian actor, kidney failure.
- Bhakti Tirtha Swami, 55, American spiritual guru, melanoma.
- John T. Walton, 58, American Vietnam War veteran and son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, aircraft crash.[129]
28
- Thomas D. Clark, 101, American historian.[130]
- Dick Dietz, 63, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves), heart attack.[131]
- Frances Greer, 88, American soprano.[132]
- Yumika Hayashi, 35, Japanese AV idol and pink film actress, choking.
- Philip Hobsbaum, 72, British academic, poet and critic, diabetes.[133]
- Brenda Howard, 58, American LGBTQ-rights activist, colon cancer.[134]
- Arthur Maimane, 72, South African journalist and novelist.[135]
- Gyula Petrikovics, 62, Hungarian sprint canoer and Olympic silver medalist.[136]
- Rowland B. Wilson, 74, American cartoonist and animator.[137]
- American military personnel killed in action during Operation Red Wings[138]
- Matthew Axelson, 29, American Navy SEAL.
- Danny Dietz, 25, American Navy SEAL.
- Erik S. Kristensen, 33, American Navy SEALs Lieutenant commander.
- Michael P. Murphy, 29, American Navy SEAL officer.
- Stephen C. Reich, 34, American soldier and Minor League Baseball player.
29
- Ruslan Abdulgani, 91, Indonesian politician and diplomat, stroke.
- James Gilbert Baker, 90, American astronomer.
- Gerard Clark Bond, 65, American geologist.[139]
- John D. Burgess, 71, Scottish bagpiper.[140]
- Mikkel Flagstad, 75, Norwegian jazz musician.
- Marc Freiberger, 76, American basketball player.[141]
- Tymoteusz Karpowicz, 83, Polish language poet and playwright.
- Bruce Malmuth, 71, American film director (Nighthawks, Hard to Kill) and actor (The Karate Kid), throat cancer.[142]
- François-Xavier Verschave, 59, French economist, historian and writer, pancreatic cancer.[143]
30
- Clancy Eccles, 64, Jamaican ska and reggae singer, songwriter, and record producer, heart attack.[144]
- Christopher Fry, 97, British playwright.[145]
- Lilian Keil, 88, American nurse, highly decorated World War II and Korean War flight nurse.[146]
- Al Milnar, 91, American baseball player.[147]
- Éva Novák-Gerard, 75, Hungarian swimmer.
- Qigong, 92, Chinese calligrapher, painter, and sinologist.
- Alexei Sultanov, 35, Russian-American pianist, stroke.[148]
- Robert Yount, 75, American country music singer and songwriter.
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