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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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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May 2005
1
- Albert Rex Bergstrom, 79, New Zealand econometrician.[1]
- Motibhai Chaudhary, 81, Indian politician.
- Neville Gruzman, 80, Australian architect, writer and architectural activist.[2]
- Rene Rivkin, 60, Australian stockbroker, suicide.[3]
2
- Renée Faure, 86, French actress.[4]
- Robert Hunter, 63, Canadian environmentalist, journalist, and co-founder of Greenpeace, prostate cancer.[5]
- Theo Middelkamp, 91, Dutch cyclist and first Dutch world champion.[6]
- Jack Nichols, 67, American gay rights activist, cancer.[7]
- Börje Nyberg, 85, Swedish actor and film director.
- Raisa Struchkova, 79, Russian dancer and People's Artist of the USSR.[8]
- David Tyrrell, 79, British virologist.
- Wee Kim Wee, 89, Singaporean politician, fourth President of Singapore from 1985 to 1993, prostate cancer.
3
- Jagjit Singh Aurora, 89, Indian army general.
- Don Canham, 87, American track and field athlete, University of Michigan athletic director, accidental death.
- Michel Maurice-Bokanowski, 92, French politician.[9]
- Bobby Forrest, 73, English footballer.[10]
- Pierre Moerlen, 52, French drummer and percussionist.[11]
- Willi Steffen, 80, Swiss football player.
4
- Mark Boyle, 70, Scottish artist.[12]
- Else Christensen, 92, Danish heathenism figure and white separatist.
- David Hackworth, 74, American Vietnam War] veteran and journalist, bladder cancer.[13]
- Michael Kernan, 78, American author and journalist.[14]
- Joyce Lambert, 88, British botanist and ecologist, bronchopneumonia.[15]
- David McKee, 86, Australian politician.
- Magdolna Nyári-Kovács, 83, Hungarian fencer and Olympic silver medalist.[16]
- Luis Taruc, 91, Filipino communist revolutionary figure and resistance leader during World War II.[17]
5
- Ted Atkinson, 88, Canadian-American Hall of Fame jockey, stroke.[18]
- Elisabeth Fraser, 85, American actress (The Phil Silvers Show, A Patch of Blue, One Happy Family).[19]
- June MacCloy, 96, American actress.
- Skip Minisi, 78, American football player.[20]
- Édgar Ponce, 30, Mexican actor, traffic collision during the filming of video for "Sólo para mujeres".
6
- Luis Caballero, 42, Paraguayan footballer, homicide.[21]
- Rafael Díaz-Balart, 79, Cuban politician, opponent and former brother-in-law of Fidel Castro, leukemia.
- Joe Grant, 96, American animator and screenwriter (Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland, Pocahontas), heart attack.[22]
- Ernestine Lebrun, 99, French Olympic freestyle swimmer.[23]
- Herb Sargent, 81, American television comedy writer, heart attack.[24]
- Lee Stine, 91, American MLB baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees), stroke.[25]
7
- Václav Boštík, 91, Czech artist.[26]
- Bruce Duncan, 76, Australian politician.
- Tristan Egolf, 33, American author, suicide by gunshot.[27]
- Peter W. Rodino, 95, American politician and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment process against Richard Nixon, heart attack.[28]
- Otilino Tenorio, 25, Ecuadorian football player, traffic collision.[29]
8
- Wolfgang Blochwitz, 64, German footballer.[30]
- Jean Carrière, 76, French writer.
- Rafiqul Bari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cinematographer and director.
- Lloyd Cutler, 87, American attorney, former White House Counsel under Presidents Carter and Clinton.
- Nasrat Parsa, 37, Afghan singer, beaten.
- Nino Terzo, 81, Italian actor.[31]
- Nicolás Vuyovich, 23, Argentine racing driver, plane crash.[32]
- Gianpietro Zappa, 49, Swiss football player.[33]
9
- Jacques Dohen, 75, French hurdler.[34]
- Ang Kiukok, 74, Filipino painter.
- Chris Kreski, 42, American writer, biographer and screenwriter, cancer.
- Charles Morrison, 72, British landowner and Conservative politician.[35]
- Akihiko Saito, 44, Japanese hostage in Iraq, murdered.[36]
- Tiny Wharton, 77, British football referee.
10
- Romy Diaz, 63, Filipino actor.
- Hal Griggs, 76, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[37]
- Jim Love, 78, American sculptor.[38]
- Jay Marshall, 85, American magician and ventriloquist, dean of the Society of American Magicians, heart attack.[39]
- Govind Narayan Singh, 84, Indian politician.
- David Wayne, 47, American singer of the heavy metal group Metal Church, accidental death.
11
- Léo Cadieux, 96, Canadian politician and diplomat.[40]
- Michalis Genitsaris, 86, Greek rebetiko singer and composer.
- Bob Stuart, 84, New Zealand rugby player.[41]
- Percy Trezise, 82, Australian painter, writer and explorer.[42]
12
- Noël Deschamps, 96, Australian public servant and diplomat.
- Evaristo Iglesias, 79, Cuban Olympic sprinter.[43]
- Ömer Kavur, 60, Turkish film director, producer, and screenwriter, lymphoma.
- Frankie LaRocka, 51, American rock musician and producer, complications following heart surgery.
- Martin Lings, 96, English writer, scholar, philosopher and arabist.[44]
- Gunnar Nilsson, 82, Swedish heavyweight boxer and Olympic silver medalist.[45]
- Sara Qadimova, 82, Azerbaijani khananda singer.
- Owen Wilkes, 65, New Zealand entomologist, conservationist and peace campaigner, suicide.
- Monica Zetterlund, 67, Swedish singer and actress, conflagration.[46]
- Ladislau Șimon, 53, Romanian super-heavyweight freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist, stroke.[47]
13
- Eddie Barclay, 84, French record producer and founder of Barclay Records.[48]
- George Bernard Dantzig, 90, American mathematician, "father of linear programming", diabetes.[49]
- Hugh Montefiore, 85, English Bishop of Birmingham and environmental activist with Friends of the Earth.
- Raymond Redheffer, 84, American mathematician.[50]
- Michael Bruce Ross, 45, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
- Utpala Sen, 81, Indian Bengali playback singer.
- Victor Sproles, 77, American jazz bassist.
- Adriano Zamboni, 71, Italian racing cyclist.[51]
- Miroslav Šutej, 69, Croatian avant-garde painter and graphic artist.[52]
14
- Michael Carson, 57, Australian television director, pancreatic cancer.[53]
- Jimmy Martin, 77, American bluegrass singer, bladder cancer.[54]
- Helvécio Martins, 74, Brazilian LDS leader.[55]
- Mary Treadgold, 95, English author, literary editor and BBC producer, cancer.
15
- Vakha Arsanov, Chechen warlord and vice president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, killed.[56]
- Les Bartley, 51, Canadian coach of the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League, colon cancer.
- Alan B. Gold, 88, Canadian Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court.
- Natalya Gundareva, 56, Russian actress, stroke.[57]
- Aulis Kallakorpi, 76, Finnish ski jumper and Olympic silver medalist (1956).[58]
- Mahipal, 86, Indian film actor, cardiac arrest.
- Amadeus Webersinke, 84, German pianist and organist.
16
- L. Bruce Archer, 82, British mechanical engineer and designer.[59]
- Rees Davies, 66, Welsh historian.[60]
- Andrew Goodpaster, 90, American army general and former leader of NATO, prostate cancer.[61]
- June Lang, 90, American actor.[62]
- José M. López, 94, Mexican US Army soldier during World War II and Medal of Honor recipient.[63]
- Arthur Naftalin, 87, American politician, former mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, suicide from height.[64]
17
- Keiiti Aki, 75, Japanese seismologist.[65]
- Piero Dorazio, 77, Italian painter.[66]
- Frank Gorshin, 71, American actor (Batman, 12 Monkeys, That Darn Cat!), cancer.[67]
- Vladimir Stogov, 74, Russian weightlifter, world champion, and Olympic medalist.[68]
- Ismail Yusupov, 91, Soviet Uyghur First Secretary of the Kazakh SSR.
18
- Alf Arrowsmith, 62, English football player.
- Gergely Pongrátz, 73, Hungarian anti-communist.
- Shaima Rezayee, 24, Afghan TV presenter, shot.[69]
- Bobby Thompson, 67, American banjoist (Area Code 615).
- Whayne Wilson, 29, Costa Rican footballer, traffic collision.[70]
- Denis Wright, 94, British diplomat, prostate cancer.
- Stella Zázvorková, 83, Czech actress, heart attack.[71]
19
- John Arthur, 75, South African boxer.[72]
- Henry Corden, 85, Canadian voice actor (The Flintstones, The Ten Commandments, Jonny Quest), emphysema.
- Batya Gur, 57, Israeli author, lung cancer.[73]
- Richard Lewine, 94, American Broadway composer and TV producer.[74]
- Paul Schneider-Esleben, 89, German architect.
- Milton A. Wolf, 80, American diplomat, investment banker and real estate developer, lymphoma.[75]
- Victor Wouk, 86, American scientist and electrical engineer, cancer.[76]
20
- J. D. Cannon, 83, American actor (McCloud, Cool Hand Luke, Raise the Titanic).[77]
- Marian Foik, 71, Polish Olympic sprinter.[78]
- Joseph Levis, 99, American foil fencer and Olympic medalist.[79]
- Paul Ricœur, 92, French philosopher and teacher.[80]
- Lujo Tončić-Sorinj, 90, Austrian diplomat and politician, former Foreign Minister of Austria.
- Richard Q. Twiss, 84, British astronomer.
- Harriet White Medin, 91, American actress (Death Race 2000, The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, The Terminator).
21
- Stephen Elliott, 86, American actor (Arthur, Beverly Hills Cop, Dallas), heart attack.[81]
- Bedford Jezzard, 77, English footballer, former Fulham F.C. football player and manager.[82]
- David Lang, 37, American NFL football player (Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys), shot.[83]
- Howard Morris, 85, American voice actor (The Flintstones, Garfield and Friends, Police Academy).[84]
- Subodh Mukherjee, 84, Indian filmmaker, leukemia.
22
- Charilaos Florakis, 91, Greek politician, secretary general of the Communist Party of Greece (1972–1989), heart attack.[85]
- Bertha Harris, 67, American lesbian novelist.[86]
- Vitaly Mukha, 69, Ukrainian-Russian politician.
- Thurl Ravenscroft, 91, American voice actor (Tony the Tiger, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!), prostate cancer.[87]
23
- John Albano, 82, American comic book writer (Jonah Hex).
- Sígfrid Gràcia, 73, Spanish footballer.[88]
- Ernst Jakob Henne, 101, German motorcycle racer and racecar driver.
- Tetsuya Ishida, 31, Japanese painter, railway accident.
- Derek Ratcliffe, 75, British conservationist.[89]
- Roderick Wright, 64, Scottish Roman Catholic bishop, renounced the office of bishop.[90]
24
- Carl Amery, 83, German writer.[91]
- Roger Dwyre, 91, French film editor.[92]
- Arthur Haulot, 91, Belgian journalist, member of the resistance during World War II, thrombosis.[93]
- Michalis Kousis, 51, Greek Olympic long-distance runner, heart problems.
- Vivian Liberto, 71, American homemaker and author.
- Marian Oleś, 70, Polish prelate of the Catholic Church.
- Saeed Khan Rangeela, 68, Pakistani actor, singer and director, kidney failure.
25
- Sunil Dutt, 75, Indian Bollywood actor and Union Minister, India, heart attack.[94]
- Robert Jankel, 67, British limousine designer, pancreatic cancer.
- Graham Kennedy, 71, Australian TV celebrity and comedian, pneumonia.[95]
- Vera Komarkova, 62, Czech-American mountaineer and botanist, complications of breast cancer treatment.[96]
- Ruth Laredo, 67, American pianist.[97]
- Ismail Merchant, 68, Indian-British film producer, ulcer.[98]
- Jurij Moskvitin, 67, Danish classical pianist, philosopher, and mathematician.
- Zoran Mušič, 96, Slovene painter, graphic artist and draughtsman.[99]
- Ben Peters, 71, American country music songwriter.
- Domenic Troiano, 59, Canadian guitarist, cancer.[100]
26
- Eddie Albert, 99, American actor (Roman Holiday, Green Acres, The Heartbreak Kid), pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.[101]
- Chico Carrasquel, 77, Venezuelan MLB baseball player, heart attack.[102]
- Israel Epstein, 90, Polish-Chinese communist journalist and author.[103]
- Joe Lee Johnson, 75, American NASCAR racing driver, cancer.
- Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana, 89, Burkinabe politician, former president of Burkina Faso.[104]
- Krzysztof Nowak, 29, Polish football player for VfL Wolfsburg and the Poland national team, ALS.[105]
- Radius Prawiro, 76, Indonesian economist and politician, Minister of Finance (1983-1988).
- Jim Ray, 60, American baseball player.[106]
- Dale Velzy, 77, American surfboard shaper.[107]
27
- Abuzar Aydamirov, 71, Chechen writer.
- Morris Cohen, 93, American metallurgist.[108]
- Franco Diogene, 57, Italian actor and comedian, heart attack.
- Fay Godwin, 74, British photographer.[109]
- Piotr Gładki, 33, Polish Olympic long-distance runner, traffic collision.[110]
- Max Lundgren, 68, Swedish author of children's books.
28
- Clair Armstrong Callan, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Nebraska (1965–1967).[111]
- Rosette Batarda Fernandes, 89, Portuguese botanist, taxonomist, and curator.[112]
- John Sidney Garrett, 83, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
- Arnie Morton, 83, American restaurateur, founder of Morton's of Chicago steakhouses, Alzheimer's disease.
- Jean Négroni, 84, French actor and theatre director.[113]
- Daniel Quirk, 22, American professional wrestler.
- Avner Shaki, 79, Israeli politician.
29
- Oscar Brown, Jr., 78, American musician, playwright, and activist.[114]
- Patsy Calton, 56, British politician and Member of Parliament, cancer.
- John D'Amico, 67, Canadian NHL linesman and later supervisor of officials, leukemia.
- María de los Ángeles Alvariño González, 88, Spanish oceanographer.
- Joseph Karth, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Minnesota (1959–1977).[115]
- Hamilton Naki, 78, South African surgeon.[116]
- Svatopluk Pluskal, 74, Czechoslovak footballer, stroke.[117]
- George Rochberg, 86, American composer.[118]
- Luciano Rossi, 70, Italian film actor.[119]
- Kazimierz Urbanik, 75, Polish mathematician.
- Gé van Dijk, 81, Dutch football player and coach.
30
- Takanohana Kenshi, (née Mitsuru Hanada), 55, Japanese sumo wrestler, aka "The Prince of Sumo", cancer.
- Jan Knappert, 78, Dutch linguist.[120]
- Fazal Mahmood, 78, Pakistani cricket captain, heart attack.[121]
- Hans Martin, 92, Swiss racing cyclist.[122]
- Arnold Pomerans, 85, German-British translator.
- Vladimir Savon, 64, Ukrainian chess player.
- Herbert Warren Wind, 88, American sportswriter.[123]
31
- Emily Blatch, Baroness Blatch, 67, British politician and life peer, pancreatic cancer.
- Archil Gomiashvili, 79, Soviet Georgian actor, lung cancer.
- Jaime Mendoza-Nava, 79, Bolivian-American composer and conductor.[124]
- Windland Smith Rice, 35, American nature and animal photographer, long QT syndrome.
- Grisélidis Réal, 75, Swiss writer and sex worker, cancer.[125]
- Eduardo Teixeira Coelho, 86, Portuguese comic book artist.[126]
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