Deaths in June 2004
List of notable deaths in a month
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.
June 2004
1
- James Dudley, 94, American baseball player and professional wrestling manager.
- Charles Kelman, 74, American ophthalmologist, surgeon, jazz musician, and Broadway producer.[1]
- William Manchester, 82, American author and historian.
- Bill Reichardt, 73, American professional football player (University of Iowa, Green Bay Packers).[2]
- Chang Xiangyu, 80, Chinese opera actress.
2
- Mujeeb Aalam, 56, Pakistani playback singer.
- Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer, heart attack.
- Nicolai Ghiaurov, 71, Bulgarian opera singer.
3
- Joe Carr, 82, Irish golfer.
- Joe Cleary, 85, Irish-American baseball player (Washington Senators).[3]
- Harald Ganzinger, 53, German computer scientist.[4]
- Harold Goodwin, 86, English actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Longest Day, The Ladykillers).
- Morris Schappes, 97, American scholar, editor (Jewish Currents) and Marxist activist.[5]
- Frances Shand Kydd, 68, English mother of Diana, Princess of Wales.[6]
- Jonathan Kramer, 61, Musician and Composer[7]
- Quorthon, 38, Swedish musician and founder of the band Bathory, Congenital heart defect.
4
- Augie Colon, 76, American musician.
- 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.
- Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, 68-69, Ethiopian general, defense minister and President of Ethiopia.[8]
- Steve Lacy, 69, American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer.[9]
- Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer.[10][11]
- Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor.[12]
- Gord Mills, 76, politician in Ontario, Canada.
- Joseph Reboli, 58, American painter.
- T. M. Samarasinghe, 61, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
- Anthony Steffen, 73, Italian and Brazilian film actor and screenwriter.
- Marvin Heemeyer, 52, American welder and muffler repair shop owner.
5
- Iona Brown, 63, British violinist and conductor, cancer.[13]
- Jack Foster, 72, British-born New Zealand athlete.
- Ronald Reagan, 93, American actor and politician, President (1981–1989), Governor of California (1967–1975), pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's .[14]
6
- Necdet Mahfi Ayral, 96, Turkish actor.
- Judy Campbell, 88, English actress.[15]
- Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman/journalist, working for the BBC in Saudi Arabia, killed by Al-Qaeda.
- James Roche, 97, American businessman, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of the Board at General Motors Corporation.[16]
- Kate Worley, 46, American comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer).[17]
7
- Richard E. Bush, 79, United States Marine master gunnery sergeant and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[18]
- Joseph L. Doob, 94, American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory.[19]
- Chris Kitsos, 76, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).[20]
- Don Potter, 102, British sculptor.
- Eugene Raskin, 94, American musician and playwright.[21]
- Donald Trumbull, 95, American special effects pioneer.
- Ted Wellington, 82, Australian rules footballer.
8
- David Mervyn Blow, 72, British biophysicist.[22]
- Mack Jones, 65, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball outfielder with the Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos.[23]
- Humayun Khan, 27, American soldier serving in the Iraq War.[24]
- Máirín Lynch, 87, Irish public figure.[25]
- Roderick Macleod, 95, Canadian politician.
- Bob Schmitz, 65, American professional football player and scout (Pittsburgh Steelers, Minnesota Vikings).[26]
9
- Rosey Brown, 71, American football player, Pro Football Hall of Famer.[27]
- Robert MacDonald Ford, 93, American politician and insurance agent.
- Ted Martin, 101, Australian cricketer (Western Australia).
- Ralph Moody, 86, American NASCAR driver and team owner.
- Jono Porter, 23, Australian freestyle motocross rider, injuries sustained in race collision.[28]
- Hartley Saunders, 60, Bahamian Olympic triple jumper (men's triple jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[29]
- Barbara Whiting Smith, 73, American actress (Those Whiting Girls, Beware, My Lovely, Dangerous When Wet).[30]
- Brian Williamson, 58, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered.
10
- Ray Charles, 73, American rhythm and blues singer ("What'd I Say", "Georgia on my Mind", "I Can't Stop Loving You") and soul music pioneer.[31]
- Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications.
- Xenophon Zolotas, 100, Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister (1989–1990).
11
- Egon von Furstenberg, 57, Swiss-born aristocrat and designer, nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli.
- Michel Roche, 64, French Olympic equestrian (gold medal winner in equestrian team jumping at the 1976 Summer Olympics).[32]
- Clay Smothers, 69, American politician.
- Joyce Symons, 85, Hong Kong educator.
12
- Rina Ben-Menahem, 68, Israeli writer.
- Walter George Muelder, 97, American social ethicist and Methodist minister.
- Stanley O'Toole, 65, British film producer.
- Geoffrey Thompson, 67, British businessman, aneurysm.
13
- Dorothy Lavinia Brown, 85, American surgeon and politician.
- Danny Dark, 65, American announcer.[33]
- Dick Durrance, 89, American alpine ski racer, 17-time national champion.[34]
- Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, British philosopher.[35]
- Robert Lees, 91, American screenwriter, found decapitated.
- Sir Allan Taylor, 85, British army general.
- Ralph Wiley, 52, American sports journalist, heart attack.[36]
14
- Ubaldo Calabresi, 79, Italian Roman Catholic bishop.
- Fatulla Huseynov, 66, Azerbaijani colonel, murdered.
- Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, Swiss mountain guide.
- Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher.
- Max Rosenberg, 89, American producer of horror movies.[37]
- Noriaki Yuasa, 70, Japanese director, stroke.
15
- J. Gwyn Griffiths, 92, Welsh poet and Egyptologist.
- Frank Nastasi, 81, American actor and comedian (Lunch with Soupy).
- Ahmet Piriştina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir, heart attack.
- Hatch Rosdahl, 62, American professional football player (Penn State, Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs).[38]
- John Lasarus Williams, 79, Welsh nationalist activist.
- Bagong Kussudiardja, 75, Indonesian painter, choreographer, and artist, high blood pressure, heart, and diabetes complication.
16
- Barry Cowan, 56, Northern Irish broadcaster.
- Herman Goldstine, 90, American computer scientist (ENIAC), Parkinson's disease.
- George Hausmann, 88, American baseball player (New York Giants).[39]
- Thanom Kittikachorn, 92, Thai military dictator, former Thai prime minister, Complications from stroke .
- Hilda Thompson, 85, New Zealand cricketer.
17
- Alfred Fischer, 84, German jurist.
- Ma Jiajue, 23, Chinese murderer.
- Vilayat Inayat Khan, 87, British Sufist.
- Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman.
- Gerry McNeil, 78, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup-winning National Hockey League goaltender.
- Steven Oken, 42, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Maryland.
- Jackie Paris, 79, American jazz singer and guitarist.[40]
18
- Doris Dowling, 81, American actress.[41]
- Frederick Jaeger, 76, German-born British character actor.
- Paul Johnson, c. 49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda.
- Nek Mohammed, c. 27, Pakistani tribal leader in Waziristan and key Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces.[42]
- Moe Radovich, 75, American professional basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors) and college basketball coach (Cal State Fullerton, University of Wyoming).[43]
19
- Colin McCormack, 62, Welsh actor.[44]
- Aggrey Klaaste, 64, South African journalist and editor.
- Jadwiga Rutkowska, 70, Polish Olympic volleyball player (bronze medal winner in women's volleyball at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[45]
- Nob Yoshigahara, 68, Japanese mathematician and puzzle expert.
20
- Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania.
- Fred Cogswell, 86, Canadian poet.
- Nabil Sahraoui, 37, Algerian militant, head of GSPC and linked to al-Qaeda.
21
- Nick de Angelis, 83, American artist.
- Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure.[46]
- Ted Scott, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate.
22
- Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer.[47]
- Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist.
- Francisco Ortiz Franco, 50, Mexican journalist, murdered.
- Carlton Skinner, 91, American naval officer and politician, first civilian governor of Guam.[48]
- Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy.
- Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants.
23
- Peter Birrel, 68, English actor (Doctor Who), cancer.
- Rifaat El-Fanagily, 68, Egyptian footballer.
- Aleksa Radovanović, 103, Serbian soldier and longest surviving veteran.
- Doris Thompson, 101, British businesswoman and owner of Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
24
- Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, 40, Greek songwriter, author.
- Tau Moe, 95, singer and musician from American Samoa.
- Bill Pataky, 74, Canadian Olympic basketball player (men's basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[49]
- Trudeliese Schmidt, 61, German operatic mezzo-soprano.
- Peter Wragg, 73, British footballer.
25
- Morton Coutts, 100, New Zealand scientist and inventor.
- Margot Guilleaume, 94, German operatic soprano.
- Horacio Iglesias, Argentine swimmer.
- Karol Kennedy Kucher, 72, American ice skating champion, pneumonia.[50]
- Carl Rakosi, 100, Hungarian-American poet, the last surviving member of the original group of Objectivist poets.[51]
26
- Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress.[52]
- William H. Avery, 91, American aeronautical engineer.
- Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter.[53]
- Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer.
27
- Hugh B. Cave, 93, British writer.[54]
- George Patton IV, 80, US Army general and son of George Patton.
- Darrell Russell, 35, American National Hot Rod Association drag racer, first racer killed at an NHRA event since 1996.
28
- Dormer Andrews, 85, Australia judge.
- Jean Boyer, 55, French organist and music professor, cerebral haemorrhage.
- Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books.[55]
- Georges de Caunes, 85, French journalist, writer and television and radio presenter.
- Renate Lepsius, 77, German journalist, historian and politician.
- Keith "Matt" Maupin, 20, American U.S. Army Private First Class, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq.
- Alexander Spirkin, 85, Soviet and Russian philosopher and psychologist.
- David A. Thomas, 86, American educator.
- Hal Toenes, 86, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[56]
29
- Bernard Babior, 68, American physician and research biochemist, prostate cancer.
- Hermelindo Fiaminghi, 83, Brazilian painter, designer, lithographer and art critic.
- William W. Havens Jr., 84, American physicist, complications from leukemia.[57]
- Arik Lavie, 77, Israeli singer and actor, heart disease.
- Juan Antonio Lopez, 52, Mexican boxer, fought Wilfredo Gómez, leukemia.
- Mohammad Ranjbar, 69, Iranian football player and coach, cerebral disorder.
- Stipe Šuvar, 68, Croatian and Yugoslav politician and sociologist.
30
- Jamal Abro, 80, Pakistani writer.
- Chris Alcaide, 80, American actor, cancer.
- Vivica Bandler, 87, Finnish theatre director.
- Eddie Burns, 88, Australian rugby player and coach.
- Stive Vermaut, 28, Belgian cyclist, brain haemorrhage after heart attack.
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