Deaths in January 2005

The following is a list of notable people who died in January 2005.

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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.

January 2005

1

• Marc Baltzan, 75, Canadian physician.
• Harold Bodle, 84, English footballer (Birmingham City, Bury, Stockport County and Accrington Stanley).
• Shirley Chisholm, 80, American first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress.
• Eugene J. Martin, 66, African-American painter.
• Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British executive and peer, Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and former deputy managing director of The Daily Telegraph.
• Bob Matsui, 63, American Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, cancer.
• Dmitry Nelyubin, 33, Russian cyclist, murdered.
• Patrick Denis O'Donnell, 82, Irish military historian and army officer.

2

• Reine Andersson, 59, Swedish Olympic sailor
• Bernard Barrell, 85, British composer and conductor.
• H. David Dalquist, 86, American inventor and chemical engineer, founder of Nordic Ware, creator of the Bundt cake pan.
• Arnold Denker, 90, American chess player.
• Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian (That's Life!).
• Frank Kelly Freas, 82, American science fiction artist.
• Félix Galimi, 84, Argentine Olympic fencer.
• Ronald Ginn, 70, American former Congressman from Georgia.
• Maclyn McCarty, 93, American geneticist and DNA research pioneer.
• Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter.

3

• Sir Edward Britton, 95, British trade unionist.
• Paul Darragh, 51, Irish equestrian showjumper, heart failure
• JN Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary.
• Will Eisner, 87, American comic book artist and pioneering graphic novelist.
• Richard Feilden, 54, British architect.
• Koo Chen-fu, 88, Chinese negotiator with the People's Republic of China, renal cancer.
• Claude Meillassoux, 79, French anthropologist and economist.
• Bob Shaw, 89, American actor.
• László Vadász, 56, Hungarian chess grandmaster.

4

• Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster
• Guy Davenport, 77, American writer, translator, illustrator, and painter, lung cancer
• Beulah Anne Georges, 81, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[1]
• Ali Al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated
• Frank Harary, 84, American mathematician, a foremost expert on graph theory
• Robert Heilbroner, 85, American economist.
• Marguerite Pearson, 72, American professional baseball player (AAGPBL)
• Bud Poile, 80, Canadian professional ice hockey player, right wing for Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings in the 1940s and 50s, member of Hockey Hall of Fame
• Alton Tobey, 90, American muralist and painter.

5

• Martín Acosta y Lara, 70, Uruguayan basketball player.
• Antoni Barwiński, 81, Polish football player.
• Antonio Benítez-Rojo, 73, Cuban writer.
• Danny Sugerman, 50, American music manager.

6

• Vern Barberis, 76, Australian weightlifter.
• Eileen Desmond, 72, Irish politician, Minister for Health and Social Welfare (1981–1982).
• S. Paul Ehrlich Jr., 72, American physician, Acting Surgeon General of the United States (1973–1977).
• Lois Hole, 75, Canadian politician, businesswoman, academician, professional gardener and best-selling author, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, cancer.
• Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS.
• Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick.
• Sir Nicholas Scott, 71, British politician.
• Ali Shukriu, 85, Kosovan politician, Prime Minister (1963–1967) and President (1981–1982).

7

• Harry Boyles, 93, American baseball player.
• Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson).
• Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, 73, American sports commentator in New Orleans, heart attack.
• Rosemary Kennedy, 86, American sister of John F. Kennedy, natural causes.
• Aleksandr Prokhorov, 58, Soviet footballer (Dynamo Kyiv, Spartak Moscow).[2]

8

• Oleta Kirk Abrams, 77, American activist.
• Leonardo Alishan, 53, Iranian scholar.
• Jacqueline Joubert, 83, French television announcer, producer and director, one of the first television presenters on French television.
• Suvad Katana, 35, Bosnian footballer.
• Aksella Luts, 99, Estonian screenwriter, actress and filmmaker.[3]
• Campbell McComas, 52, Australian comedian, writer and actor.
• Song Renqiong, 95, Chinese general and politician.
• Warren Spears, 50, American dancer and choreographer.
• Michel Thomas, 90, Polish linguist and teacher.

9

• Fritz Aigner, 74, Austrian artist.
• Luis Alers, 54, Puerto Rican sprinter.[4]
• Artidoro Berti, 84, Italian Olympic runner.[5]
• Gonzalo Gavira, 79, Mexican sound effects creator (The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno).
• Joanne Grant, 74, American journalist and communist activist.
• Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film director.
• Bob Mabe, 75, American baseball player.
• Alan Loy McGinnis, 72, American author and Christian psychotherapist.
• Michael P. Ryan, 88, United States Marine Corps major general.
• Thady Ryan, 81, Irish Olympic equestrian.
• Vantile Whitfield, 74, American arts administrator, Alzheimer's disease.
• Alex Wu, 84, Hong Kong businessman and politician.

10

• Gene Baylos, 98, American comedian.
• Georges Bernier, 75, French humorist.
• Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano.
• Tommy Fine, 90, American baseball player, pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns in the 1940s and 50s.
• James Forman, 76, United States former executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colorectal cancer.
• Sir Stephen Hastings, 83, British politician, MP for Mid Bedfordshire (1960–1983).
• Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer.
• Gordon John "Jack" Horner, 92, American sports journalist.
• Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, 77, Belgian-born Princess of Belgium and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, cancer.
• Helmut Losch, 57, East German heavyweight weightlifting champion.
• Jan Pieter Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994.

11

• Ian Anderson, 79, Manx politician.
• Spencer Dryden, 66, American drummer for rock band Jefferson Airplane, cancer.
• James Griffin, 61, American singer, guitarist, songwriter, member of 1970s rock band Bread, cancer.
• Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer (Valley of Rocks).
• J.R. "Bud" McCaig, 75, Canadian businessman, co-owner of the NHL's Calgary Flames.
• Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist, died after crashing on the 11th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally.
• Jerzy Pawlowski, 72, Polish Olympic champion in fencing.
• Thelma White, 94, United States actress (Reefer Madness), pneumonia.

12

• John Brown, 76, New Zealand Test cricket umpire.
• Kenneth Farmer, 92, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player and sports administrator.
• Herbert Goldstein, 82, American physicist.
• Ruth Packer, 94, British soprano, famous for playing Verdi heroines.
• Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom), massive cerebral hemorrhage.
• Jay Schulberg, 65, American advertising executive, pancreatic cancer.[6]
• Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Estonian-American Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist.

13

• Hunter Andrews, 83, American politician.
• Earl Cameron, 89?, Canadian broadcaster and The National anchor (1959–1966).
• Roland Frye, 83, American English literature professor and theologian.
• Nell Rankin, 81, United States mezzo-soprano opera singer who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for many years.
• Karstein Seland, 93, Norwegian politician.

14

• Edwin Bélanger, 94, Canadian musician.
• Ward Beysen, 63, Belgian politician and freemason.
• Charles T. Booher, 45, American engineer.
• George Wendell Brett, 92, American philatelist.
• Frederick H. Buttel, 56, American sociologist.
• Ofelia Guilmain, 83, Spanish film and stage actress, worked mostly in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War.
• Charlotte MacLeod, 82, United States mystery writer.
• Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter.
• Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer.
• Raja Lakshmeshwar Singh, 50, Indian politician.
• Jesús Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist.[7]

15

• Victoria de los Ángeles, 81, Spanish soprano.
• Felix Aprahamian, 90, English music critic.
• Leonid Brekhovskikh, 87, Russian scientist.
• Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan).
• William Hare, 69, Canadian Olympic shooter
• Elizabeth Janeway, 91, United States feminist author.
• Dan Lee, 35, Canadian animator for Finding Nemo.
• Ruth Warrick, 89, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane and All My Children, pneumonia.

16

• Mireille Best, 61, French author.
• William Brigden, 88, Canadian canoeist.
• Alexander Everett, 83, English motivational consultant.
• H. Bentley Glass, 98, United States biologist, known for controversial views.[8]
• Agustín González, 74, Spanish film actor.
• Marjorie Williams, 47, United States Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair, liver cancer.

17

• Charlie Bell, 44, Australian business executive, former CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer.
• Virginia Mayo, 84, United States film actress (White Heat, The Best Years of Our Lives).
• Albert Schatz, 84, American microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin.
• George P. L. Walker, 78, British volcanologist.[9]
• Zhao Ziyang, 85, Chinese politician, former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary, complications of multiple strokes.

18

• Gabrielle Brune, 92, British actress.
• Vivian H. H. Green, 89, British priest and historian.
• Kenneth Robinson, 90, British civil servant and academic.
• Pez Whatley, 54, American professional wrestler.

19

• Theodore W. Allen, 85, American writer.
• Bill Andersen, 80, New Zealand communist and trade union leader.
• Donald Beardslee, 61, American convicted murderer, executed in San Quentin State Prison, California.
• Lamont Bentley, 31, American actor and rapper.
• Kasimir Bileski, 96, Canadian philatelist.
• Jens-Halvard Bratz, 84, Norwegian businessman and politician.
• Carlos Cortez, 81, American artist and political activist.
• K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide.
• Ardyth Kennelly, 92, US novelist whose books were popular in the 1940s and 50s.
• Anita Kulcsár, 28, Hungarian handball player.

20

• Parveen Babi, 55, Indian actress.
• Ivor G. Balding, 96, American polo player.
• Bogle, 40, Jamaican dancer.
• Per Borten, 91, Norwegian politician, former Prime Minister of Norway.
• Dick Gallagher, 49, American composer, predominantly for off-Broadway productions.[10]
• Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and highly decorated World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section.
• Dame Miriam Rothschild, 96, British zoologist, entomologist and author.

21

• Jacques Andrieux, 87, French World War II fighter pilot.
• Reg Cudlipp, 95, British newspaper editor.[11]
• John L. Hess, 87, American journalist.
• Richard Outram, 74, Canadian poet.
• Don Poier, 53, United States NBA basketball announcer for the Memphis Grizzlies.
• Steve Susskind, 62, American voice-over actor.
• Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer.
• Adrianne Reynolds, 16, American teenager who was brutally murdered and made national headlines.

22

• Harry J. Boyle, 89, Canadian broadcaster.
• Sir William Deakin, 91, British World War II hero and founder of St Antony's College, Oxford.
• César Gutiérrez, 61, Venezuelan baseball player, one of three players in Major League Baseball history with a 7-for-7 game.
• Carlo Orelli, 110, Italian supercentenarian, oldest Italian veteran of World War I.
• Patsy Rowlands, 71, British actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films, breast cancer.
• Consuelo Velázquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song "Bésame mucho".
• Rose Mary Woods, 87, American politician, former secretary of Richard Nixon and key Watergate figure.[12]

23

• Harley Baldwin, 59, American developer active in New York City and Aspen, Colorado, kidney cancer.
• Howard Kent Birnbaum, 72, American metallurgist.
• Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, British politician and peer, former Deputy Speaker of the UK House of Lords.
• Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema.
• Douglas Knight, 83, American educator, businessman, author, former president of Lawrence University and Duke University.

24

• ZerNona Black, 98, American activist on behalf of senior citizens and the elderly, natural causes.
• June Bronhill, 75, Australian actress and opera, operetta and musical comedy singer, Alzheimer's disease.[13]
• Lev Saychuk, 81, Soviet Olympic fencer.[14]
• Chalkie White, 76, English rugby union coach.

25

• Stanisław Albinowski, 81, Polish economist.
• William Augustus Bootle, 102, American district judge overseeing desegregation in the American South.
• Philip Johnson, 98, American architect.[15]
• Vicky LaMotta, 75, American model, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta, following open-heart surgery.
• Ray Peterson, 65, American popular singer (Tell Laura I Love Her), cancer.[16]
• Max Velthuijs, 81, Dutch writer and illustrator.
• Nettie Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch athlete.

26

• Roy Fraser Elliott, 83, Canadian lawyer and philanthropist.[17]
• Peter A. Garland, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative from Maine (1961–1963).[18]
• Jackie Henderson, 73, Scottish footballer.
• Josie MacAvin, 85, Irish set director.
• Charles Martin, 45, American NFL player, renal disease.[19]
• Cordelia Scaife May, 76, American philanthropist and heiress to Mellon family fortune, pancreatic cancer.[20]

27

• Gilbert Bennion, 106, Australian veteran, one of the last four surviving Australian veterans of World War I.
• Eddie Burks, 73, American blues musician.
• Donald Dempsey, Sr., American recording executive who helped launch Ozzy Osbourne and Merle Haggard, stroke.
• Rado Lenček, 83, Slovene linguist and ethnologist.
• Aurélie Nemours, 94, French painter.
• Jonathan Welsh, 57, Canadian stage, television and film actor, died in his sleep following a brief illness.[21]

28

• Karen Lancaume (aka Karen Bach), 32, French adult film performer, overdosed on sleeping pills.[22]
• Artūras Barysas, 50, Lithuanian counter-culture actor, singer, photographer and filmmaker.
• Trevor Billingham, 69, Australian athlete.
• Barbara J. Bishop, 84, American Marine Corps officer.
• Daniel Branca, 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist, heart attack.[23]
• Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter (Traffic), stomach cancer.[24]
• Lucien Carr, 79, American United Press International editor, bone cancer.[25]
• Henry Hainworth, 90, British diplomat.[26]
• Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor/comedian, internal hemorrhage.[27]
• Robert Vogel, 86, American lawyer and politician.[28]

29

• A. Owen Aldridge, 89, American academic.
• Eric Griffiths, 64, British guitarist in the musical group The Quarrymen, pancreatic cancer.[29]
• Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli satirist, dramatist, screenwriter and film director, apparent heart attack.[30]
• Žika Mitrović, 83, Serbian film director.[31]
• Bill Shadel, 96, American journalist.[32]
• Ron Tomme, 73, American soap opera actor.[33]
• Joan Tompkins, 89, American actress.[34]

30

• Mary Beck, 96, American politician.[35]
• Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish Celtic musician, cancer.[36]
• Susan Bradshaw, 73, British pianist.[37]
• Sir Horace Law, 93, British admiral.[38]

31

• Ron Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister (1970s).
• Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poet.
• Jack Collins, 86, American actor.[39]
• Malcolm Hardee, 55, British comedian, drowning.[40]
• Bobby Howitt, 79, Scottish football player and manager.[41]
• H. Narasimhaiah, 84, Indian physicist and educator.[42]
• Ivan Noble, 37, British BBC journalist, brain tumour.[43]

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