Deaths in May 2005

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.

May 2005

1

• Edgar Baird, 93, Canadian businessman.
• Rex Bergstrom, 79, New Zealand econometrician.^[1]
• Kenneth B. Clark, 90, African-American civil rights activist and psychologist.
• René Rivkin, 60, Australian stockbroker.
• Edward von Kloberg III, 63, American lobbyist.

2

• Renée Faure, 86, French actress.
• Robert Hunter, 63, Canadian journalist and co-founder of Greenpeace.
• Wee Kim Wee, 89, Singaporean politician, fourth President of Singapore from 1985 to 1993, prostate cancer.
• Theofiel Middelkamp, 91, Dutch cyclist, first Dutchman to win a stage in the Tour de France and first Dutch world champion.
• Jack Nichols, 67, American gay rights activist, cancer.^[2]
• Börje Nyberg, 85, Swedish actor and film director.
• John C. Pritzlaff Jr., 79, American politician and diplomat.
• Raisa Struchkova, 79, Russian dancer and People's Artist of the USSR.

3

• Henriette, Lady Abel Smith, 90, British courtier, lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II.
• Jagjit Singh Aurora, 89, Indian army general.
• David Batchelor, 63, British sound mixer.
• George S. Bowman Jr., 93, United States Marine Corps officer and Naval aviator.
• Don Canham, 87, American track and field athlete, former University of Michigan athletic director.
• Bobby Forrest, 73, English footballer.
• Michel Maurice-Bokanowski, 92, French politician.
• Pierre Moerlen, 52, French drummer and percussionist.
• Willi Steffen, 80, Swiss football player.

4

• Mark Boyle, 70, Scottish artist.
• Purwoto Gandasubrata, 75, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indonesia.
• David Hackworth, 74, American Vietnam War veteran, journalist.
• Michael Kernan, 78, American author and journalist.
• Joyce Lambert, 88, British botanist and ecologist, bronchopneumonia.
• Evelyn Lutman Roberts, 88, American wife of preacher Oral Roberts.
• Neal Pattman, 79, American electric blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, bone cancer.
• Luis Taruc, 91, Filipino Communist revolutionary figure, leader of the HUKBALAHAP, a guerrilla group against the Japanese during World War II.
• Don Trachte, 89, American cartoonist.

5

• Ted Atkinson, 88, Canadian-born American Hall of Fame jockey.^[3]
• Carolyn Brady, 67, American artist.
• Donald Brian Doe, 84, British archaeologist and architect.
• Elisabeth Fraser, 85, American actress (The Phil Silvers Show, A Patch of Blue, One Happy Family).^[4]
• June MacCloy, 96, American actress.
• Skip Minisi, 78, American football player.
• Magdolna Nyári-Kovács, 83, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
• Édgar Ponce, 30, Mexican actor, collision between car and motorcycle during filming of video for "Sólo para mujeres".

6

• Theodore J. Bauer, 95, American specialist in infectious diseases.
• Luis Cabellero, 42, Paraguayan footballer.
• Miguel Contreras, 52, American labor union leader.
• Rafael Díaz-Balart, 79, Cuban politician, opponent and former brother-in-law of Fidel Castro, father of U.S. Congressmen Lincoln Díaz-Balart and Mario Díaz-Balart.
• Joe Grant, 96, American animator and screenwriter (Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland, Pocahontas), heart attack.
• Jost Gross, 59, Swiss politician, member of the National Council.
• Earl Richmond, 43, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.^[5]
• Lisa Freeman Roberts, 56, American vocalist.^[6]
• Herb Sargent, 81, American television comedy writer.^[7]
• Lee Stine, 91, American baseball player, who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees.

7

• Václav Boštík, 91, Czech artist.
• Tristan Egolf, 33, American author, suicide.^[8]
• Ray Hamann, 93, American basketball player and coach.
• Peter W. Rodino, 95, American politician and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment process against Richard Nixon.
• Otilino Tenorio, 25, Ecuadorian international football player, automobile accident.

8

• Rafiqul Bari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cinematographer and director.
• Wolfgang Blochwitz, 64, German footballer.
• Lloyd Cutler, 87, American attorney, former White House Counsel under Presidents Carter and Clinton.
• Nasrat Parsa, 37, Afghan singer, murdered abroad.
• A. J. Shepherd, 78, American ex-Indianapolis 500 racing driver.
• Nino Terzo, 81, Italian actor.^[9]
• Don Youngblood, 51, American IFBB professional bodybuilder, heart attack.

9

• Billa Harrod, 93, British writer and architectural conservationist.
• Ang Kiukok, 74, Filipino painter.
• Sir Charles Morrison, 72, British landowner and Conservative politician.
• Akihiko Saito, 44, Japanese hostage in Iraq.
• Tiny Wharton, 77, British football referee.

10

• Philip Agustin, Filipino publisher and editor.
• Hal Griggs, 76, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
• Veikko Hursti, 80, Finnish philanthropist.
• Jim Love, 78, American sculptor.
• Jay Marshall, 85, American magician and ventriloquist, dean of the Society of American Magicians.
• David Wayne, 47, American singer of the heavy metal group Metal Church.

11

• Léo Cadieux, 96, Canadian politician and diplomat.
• Alfred Finnigan, 108, Welsh centenarian, oldest man in Wales and World War I survivor.
• Michalis Genitsaris, 86, Greek rebetiko singer and composer.
• Bob Stuart, 84, New Zealand rugby player.
• Percy Trezise, 82, Australian painter, writer and explorer.

12

• Carl Alpert, 92, American-born Israeli journalist.
• Maurice "The Matador" Catarcio, 76, American former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler, cancer.
• Sara Gadimova, 82, Azerbaijani khananda singer.
• Evaristo Iglesias, 79, Cuban Olympic sprinter.^[10]
• Ömer Kavur, 60, Turkish film director, producer, and screenwriter, lymphoma.
• Martin Lings, 96, English writer, scholar, philosopher and arabist.^[11]
• Kai Setälä, 91, Finnish physician and professor^[12]
• Monica Zetterlund, 67, Swedish singer and actress.

13

• Eddie Barclay, 84, French record producer and founder of Barclay Records.^[13]
• George Dantzig, 90, American mathematician, "father of linear programming".
• Hugh Montefiore, 85, English Bishop of Birmingham and environmental activist with Friends of the Earth.
• Próspero Penados del Barrio, 79, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Guatemala City.
• Michael Ross, 45, American convicted serial killer, executed by lethal injection.

14

• Michael Carson, 57, Australian television director.
• Jimmy Martin, 77, American bluegrass singer.^[14]
• Helvecio Martins, 74, Brazilian LDS leader.
• Tibor Šalát, 79, Slovak mathematician.
• Mary Treadgold, 95, English author, literary editor and BBC producer, cancer.

15

• Povl Ahm, 78, Danish engineer, cancer.
• Vakha Arsanov, Chechen warlord and vice president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, killed.
• Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 11th Earl of Shaftesbury, 27, English peer, suspected heart attack.
• Les Bartley, 51, Canadian former coach of the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League, colon cancer.
• Alan B. Gold, 88, Canadian retired Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court, negotiated an end to the Oka standoff and numerous strikes.
• Natalya Gundareva, 56, Russian actress, stroke.^[15]
• Bob Haak, 79, Dutch art expert and founder of the Rembrandt Research Project.
• Aulis Kallakorpi, 76, Finnish ski jumper, Olympic silver medalist (1956).
• Mahipal, 86, Indian film actor, cardiac arrest.

16

• L. Bruce Archer, 82, British mechanical engineer and designer.
• Sir Rees Davies, 66, Welsh historian.
• Dale Erdahl, 73, American businessman and politician.
• Andrew J. Goodpaster, 90, American Army general, former leader of NATO and veteran of World War II.^[16]
• June Lang, 90, American actor.
• Jose M. Lopez, 94, Mexican US Army soldier, Medal of Honor-winning soldier in World War II.^[17]
• Albert "Smiler" Marshall, 108, British veteran of World War I.
• Arthur Naftalin, 87, American politician, former mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota.^[18]
• Jiří Rubáš, 83, Czech football player and manager.

17

• Keiiti Aki, 75, Japanese seismologist.^[19]
• Ellis Batten Page, 81, American educational psychologist.
• Luc-Peter Crombé, 85, Belgian painter.
• Piero Dorazio, 77, Italian painter.^[20]
• Frank Gorshin, 71, American actor (Batman, 12 Monkeys, That Darn Cat!), cancer.^[21]
• Abrarul Haq Haqqi, 84, Indian Sunni Muslim scholar.
• Elsa Hilger, 101, American cellist.

18

• Gergely Pongrátz, 73, Hungarian anti-communist.
• Shaima Rezayee, 24, Afghan TV presenter of Hop, an Afghan programme similar to MTV.
• Bobby Thompson, 67, American banjoist (Area Code 615).
• Whayne Wilson, 29, Costa Rican footballer.
• Denis Wright, 94, British diplomat, prostate cancer.
• Bob Wynn, 65, American golfer, lung cancer.
• Stella Zázvorková, 83, Czech actress.

19

• John Arthur, 85, South African boxer.
• Richard Cartwright, 31, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• Henry Corden, 85, Canadian voice actor (The Flintstones, The Ten Commandments, Johnny Quest), emphysema.
• Batya Gur, 57, Israeli author, lung cancer.^[22]
• Richard Lewine, 94, American Broadway composer and TV producer.^[23]
• Victor Wouk, 86, American scientist and electrical engineer.^[24]

20

• Anthony Athanas, 93, Albanian-born American restaurateur.
• J. D. Cannon, 83, American actor (McCloud, Cool Hand Luke, Raise the Titanic).
• Marian Foik, 71, Polish Olympic sprinter.
• Harriet White Medin, 91, American actress (Death Race 2000, The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, The Terminator).
• Paul Ricœur, 92, French philosopher and teacher.^[25]
• Lujo Tončić-Sorinj, 90, Austrian diplomat and politician, former Foreign Minister of Austria.

21

• Monica Charlot, 81, British historian and political scientist.
• Stephen Elliott, 86, American actor (Arthur, Beverly Hills Cop, Dallas).^[26]
• Bedford Jezzard, 77, English footballer, former Fulham F.C. football player and manager.
• David Lang, 37, American football player, former NFL running back with the Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys.
• Howard Morris, 85, American voice actor (The Flintstones, Garfield and Friends, Police Academy).
• Subodh Mukherjee, 84, Indian filmmaker.
• Fred Rosen, 74, American physician.

22

• Terry Carisse, 62, Canadian singer-songwriter.
• Charilaos Florakis, 91, Greek politician, honorary president and former secretary general (1972–1989) of the Communist Party of Greece.
• Julia Randall, 81, American poet.
• Thurl Ravenscroft, 91, American voice actor (Tony the Tiger, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!).^[27]
• John Rothwell, 91, Australian cricketer.

23

• John Albano, 82, American comic book writer (Jonah Hex).
• Hugh Cabot III, 75, American artist.
• Sígfrid Gràcia, 73, Spanish footballer.
• Derek Ratcliffe, 75, British conservationist.
• Billy Smart Jr, 71, British circus impresario.
• Roderick Wright, 64, Scottish Roman Catholic bishop, disgraced and renounced the office of bishop.

24

• Carl Amery, 83, German writer.
• Arthur Haulot, 91, Belgian journalist, member of the resistance during World Waa II.
• Robert McAuliffe, 66, Trinidadian-born Olympic sports shooter for the United States Virgin Islands.
• Dick Raikes, 93, British Royal Navy officer.
• Saeed Khan Rangeela, 68, Pakistani actor, singer and director.

25

• Sunil Dutt, 75, Indian Bollywood actor and Union Minister, India.^[28]
• Robert Jankel, 67, British limousine designer.
• Graham Kennedy, 71, Australian TV celebrity and comedian.
• Vera Komarkova, 62, Czech-American mountaineer and botanist, complications of breast cancer treatment.^[29]
• Ruth Laredo, 67, American pianist.^[30]
• Steve Mason, 65, American poet and war veteran.
• Ismail Merchant, 68, Indian-born film producer.^[31]
• Zoran Mušič, 96, Slovene painter, graphic artist and draughtsman.
• Domenic Troiano, 59, Canadian guitarist, cancer.

26

• Eddie Albert, 99, American actor (Roman Holiday, Green Acres, The Heartbreak Kid)^[32]
• Albinas Albertynas, 71, Lithuanian politician.
• John Hope Anderson, 93, American politician.
• Charles Bouvet, 86, French Olympic pole vaulter.
• James G. Butler, 84, American lawyer.
• Chico Carrasquel, 77, Venezuelan shortstop, the first Latin American player to appear in an MLB All-Star game.^[33]
• Israel Epstein, 90, Polish-Chinese communist journalist and author.^[34]
• Sangoulé Lamizana, 89, Burkinabe politician, former president of Burkina Faso.
• Krzysztof Nowak, 29, Polish football player for VfL Wolfsburg and the Poland national team, ALS.
• Radius Prawiro, 76, Indonesian economist and politician, Minister of Finance.
• Jim Ray, 60, American baseball player.^[35]
• Terry Shannon, 52, American IT expert.
• Dale Velzy, 77, American surfboard shaper.^[36]

27

• Abuzar Aydamirov, 71, Chechen writer.
• Morris Cohen, 93, American metallurgist.^[37]
• Fay Godwin, 74, British photographer.^[38]
• Terje Johanssen, 62, Norwegian poet.
• Ian Mackenzie-Kerr, 75, British book designer.^[39]

28

• Emil Appolus, 70, Namibian politician.
• Benjamin Biaggini, 89, American railroad executive.
• Clair A. Callan, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Nebraska (1965–1967).^[40]
• John Sidney Garrett, 83, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• Arnold Morton, 83, American restaurateur, founder of Morton's of Chicago steakhouses.
• David Oswald Thomas, 81, Welsh philosopher.

29

• Ricky Allen, 70, American blues singer.
• María de los Ángeles Alvariño González, 88, Spanish oceanographer.
• Oscar Brown Jr., 78, American musician, playwright, activist.^[41]
• Patsy Calton, 56, British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, cancer.
• Joseph Karth, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Minnesota (1959–1977).^[42]
• Hamilton Naki, 78, South African surgeon.^[43]
• Sir Frederick Page, 88, British aircraft designer.
• Svatopluk Pluskal, 74, Czechoslovak footballer.
• George Rochberg, 86, American composer.^[44]
• Sir Gordon Tait, 83, British admiral.

30

• Takanohana Kenshi, (née Mitsuru Hanada), 55, Japanese sumo wrestler, aka "The Prince of Sumo".
• Jan Knappert, 78, Dutch linguist.
• Fazal Mahmood, 78, Pakistani cricket captain.
• Tomasz Pacyński, 47, Polish fantasy and science fiction author.
• Herbert Warren Wind, 88, American sportswriter.^[45]
• Alma Ziegler, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).

31

• Sir John Aiken, 83, British air marshal.^[46]
• Emily Blatch, Baroness Blatch, 67, British politician and life peer.
• Archil Gomiashvili, 79, Soviet Georgian actor.
• Yuri Kleschev, 74, Soviet volleyball coach, referee and writer.
• Harry Larche, 81, American football player and coach.
• Jaime Mendoza-Nava, 79, Bolivian-American composer and conductor.
• Grisélidis Réal, 75, Swiss writer and sex worker, cancer.
• Eduardo Teixeira Coelho, 86, Portuguese comic book artist.^[47]

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