Deaths in July 2005

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

July 2005

1

• Renaldo "Obie" Benson, 69, American soul and R&B singer and member of The Four Tops, lung cancer.
• Rex Berry, 80, American football player.
• Gus Bodnar, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Bill Frink, 78, American Sportscaster (WLS-TV).
• Ivan Kolev, 74, Bulgarian football player.
• Arvo Ojala, 85, American technical advisor and actor, gun accident.
• Luther Vandross, 54, American R&B singer, complications of a stroke.

2

• Florence Kirsch, 90, American classical pianist.
• Ernest Lehman, 89, American screenwriter (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, North by Northwest).
• Kenneth Pinyan, 45, American Boeing engineer, perforated colon after having sex with a horse.[1]
• Norm Prescott, 78, American co-founder of Filmation animation studios.[2]
• Martin Sanchez, 26, Mexican boxer, of injuries sustained in July 1 bout.

3

• Siv Ericks, 87, Swedish character actress.
• Nan Kempner, 74, American society hostess.
• Alberto Lattuada, 90, Italian film director.
• Pierre Michelot, 77, French jazz bassist, played with Miles Davis.
• Gaylord Nelson, 89, American politician, former Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin and founder of Earth Day.
• Wenten Rubuntja, Australian artist and indigenous activist.
• Sam Tata, 93, Canadian photographer.
• Hedy West, 67, American folksinger.
• Harrison Young, 75, American actor (Saving Private Ryan).[3]

4

• Chris Bunch, 62, American science fiction writer, lung ailment.
• Gustav-Adolf Bursche, 86, German World War II officer.
• Bryan Coleman, 94, British television and film actor.
• Al Downing, 65, American R&B and country & western musician, leukaemia.
• June Haver, 79, American film actress, widow of Fred MacMurray.
• Marga López, 81, Mexican screen and television actress, heart failure.
• Hank Stram, 82, American National Football League coach (Kansas City Chiefs) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• Lorenzo Thomas, 60, Panamanian-born American poet.

5

• Leo Breiman, 77, American statistician.
• Ray Davis, 65, American singer, founding member of Parliament/Funkadelic.
• Baloo Gupte, 70, Indian Test cricketer.
• James Stockdale, 81, American Vice Admiral, Medal of Honor recipient, ex-prisoner of war and independent VP Candidate in 1992.

6

• Bruno Augenstein, 82, German-born American mathematician and physicist.
• L. Patrick Gray, 88, American former Director of the United States FBI, pancreatic cancer.
• James Haskins, 63, American professor, biographer, and author.
• Huang Kun, 85, Chinese physicist.
• Ed McBain, 78, American mystery novel writer, wrote under numerous pseudonyms (Ed McBain), cancer of the larynx.
• Donald McGinley, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Nebraska (1959–1961) and Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska (1983–1987).[4]
• Patrick S. Parker, 75, American businessman (Parker Hannifin).
• Dick Sabot, 61, American economist, Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of tripod.com.
• Frank Shipston, 98, English cricketer.
• Claude Simon, 91, French writer and Nobel Prize winner.
• Grace Thaxton, 114, American supercentenarian, oldest resident of Kentucky and oldest person ever born in New York.

7

• Norman Bennett, 82, English rugby player and cricketer.
• Henri Betti, 87, French composer and pianist.
• Paul Deliège, 74, Belgian comic book writer/artist.[5]
• Hasib Hussain, 18, British terrorist.
• Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, British terrorist.
• Germaine Lindsay, 19, British terrorist.
• Ihab al-Sherif, 51, Egyptian envoy in Iraq.
• Gustaf Sobin, 69, American-born poet and novelist.
• Shehzad Tanweer, 22, British terrorist.

8

• Denis Bray, 78, British civil servant in Hong Kong.
• Julian Letterlough, 35, American boxer
• Judy Mann, 61, American longtime columnist for the Washington Post.
• Dorothy H. Rose, 84, American politician.

9

• Chuck Cadman, 57, Canadian Member of Parliament.
• Yevgeny Grishin, 74, Russian speed skater, first speed skater under 40 seconds on 500 metres.
• Kevin Hagen, 77, American actor on Little House on the Prairie.
• Byron Preiss, 52, American writer/editor/publisher.[6]
• Alex Shibicky, 91, Canadian ice hockey player who made the first slapshot.
• Rafique Zakaria, 79, Indian Islamic scholar.

10

• Frank Moores, 72, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland.
• A. J. Quinnell, 65, English writer, Man on Fire.
• Freda Wright-Sorce, 50, American wife of Don Geronimo of the Don and Mike Show.
• Jack Tripp, 83, British pantomime dame.
• Freddy Soto, 35, American comedian and actor.

11

• Keith Alexander, 41, American guitarist.
• Piero Cappuccilli, 78, Italian opera singer.
• Ole Christian Bach, 48, Norwegian fraudster.
• Gretchen Franklin, 94, English television actress, best known as "Ethel Skinner" in EastEnders.
• Shinya Hashimoto, 40, Japanese professional wrestler.
• Jesus Ricardo Iglesias, 83, Argentine Grand Prix racing driver.
• Frances Langford, 92, American singer/actress.

12

• Meyer Cardin, 97, American jurist.
• Joseph Patrick Delaney, 70, American Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Fort Worth, Texas for many years.[7]
• Arthur Fletcher, 80, American government official, Assistant Labor Secretary under US President Richard Nixon, called the "father of affirmative action".[8]
• John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, 87, British peer, businessman and chairman of British Airways from 1981 to 1993.
• John Thorley, 78, Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer.[9]

13

• Robert P. Abelson, 76, American psychologist and political scientist.
• Sir David Brown, 77, British admiral.
• Bob Maslen-Jones, 84, British Olympic shooter.
• Mickey Owen, 89, American former MLB player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

14

• Mark Carlisle, Baron Carlisle of Bucklow, 76, British politician and peer.
• Tilly Fleischer, 93, German athlete, Olympic champion in javelin (1936).
• Richard Leiterman, 70, Canadian award-winning cinematographer.
• Matt Patrick, 86, Scottish footballer.
• Jacques Roche, early 40s, Haitian journalist.
• Dame Cicely Saunders, 87, British palliative care activist, founded St. Christopher's Hospice (where she herself died), cancer.
• J. B. Trapp, 79, New Zealand historian.

15

• David Daiches, 92, Scottish literary critic.
• Anne Drungis, 73, American Olympic fencer.[10]
• Michael Gibson, 60, American Tony-nominated orchestrator and musician.
• Kenneth Graham, 82, British trade unionist.
• Sir Ronald Wilson, 82, Australian High Court justice.

16

• Mira Ashby, 84, Canadian physician.
• Blue Barron, 92, American orchestra leader.
• Pietro Consagra, 84, Italian sculptor.
• W. Fox McKeithen, 58, American politician, 5-time Louisiana Secretary of State.
• John Ostrom, 77, American paleontologist who revolutionized understanding of dinosaurs.
• Miguel Pérez, 68, Puerto Rican wrestler.
• Helen Bonchek Schneyer, 84, American folk musician.
• K. V. Subbanna, 73, Indian dramatist and writer.

17

• Laurel Aitken, 77, Jamaican musician.
• Biplab Dasgupta, 66, Indian economist
• Geraldine Fitzgerald, 91, Irish-born American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Sir Edward Heath, 89, British politician, Prime Minister (1970–1974), MP (1950–2001), pneumonia.
• Gina Lagorio, 83, Italian writer.
• Gavin Lambert, 80, British-born American novelist, screenwriter (Inside Daisy Clover, Sons and Lovers).
• I. G. Patel, 80, Indian economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (1977–1982).
• Joe Vialls, Australian writer.
• William Weatherspoon, 69, American songwriter and record producer.

18

• Elizabeth Blodgett Hall, 95, American educationist.
• Paul Duke, 78, American political journalist.
• Amy Gillett, 29, Australian rower and cyclist.
• John Herald, 66, American folk musician, recording artist, member of The Greenbriar Boys Vanguard Records.
• Jim Parker, 71, American football player, offensive tackle for the Baltimore Colts and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• Gerry Thomas, 83, American marketing and sales executive, innovator, inventor of the TV dinner, cancer.
• William Westmoreland, 91, U.S. Army General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968.

19

• Jim Aparo, 72, American comic book artist (Batman, the Phantom Stranger, the Spectre).[11]
• Alain Bombard, 80, French biologist and physician.
• Edward Bunker, 71, American author, screenwriter, and actor (Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs).
• John D. Cartano, 96, American lawyer.
• Hastings Keith, 89, American politician, United States Representative from Massachusetts, served 1959–1973, as a member of the Republican Party.
• John Tyndall, 71, British Neo-Nazi political activist, founder of the British National Party.

20

• Charles Chibitty, 83, American last surviving Comanche code talker.
• James Doohan, 85, Canadian actor (best known for his role as Scotty on the original Star Trek), pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.
• Finn Gustavsen, 79, Norwegian politician.
• Kayo Hatta, 47, American film director (Picture Bride).
• David Tomblin, 74, British film and television director.

21

• Bryn Allen, 84, Welsh footballer.
• Long John Baldry, 64, British blues musician.
• Bruce Bolt, 75, Australian-born American scientist and earthquake expert.
• Andrzej Grubba, 47, Polish table tennis player.
• Lord Alfred Hayes, 76, British wrestler and wrestling commentator (most notably with the WWF).
• Ian Robertson, Lord Robertson, 92, Scottish judge.
• Shirley Thomas, 85, American space historian, Hollywood producer, and USC professor.

22

• Jean-Charles de Menezes, 27, Brazilian electrician, shot by police.
• William Beatley, 81, British Olympic fencer.
• Jerry Marcus, 81, American cartoonist (Trudy).[12]
• Eugene Record, 64, American lead vocalist for The Chi-Lites.
• Hinako Sugiura, 46, Japanese author and cartoonist.[13]
• George D. Wallace, 88, American actor (Forbidden Planet, The Pajama Game).
• Xue Muqiao, 100, Chinese economist, director of National Bureau of Statistics.

23

• Ray Crist, 105, American centenarian and chemist.
• Joseph Dessertine, 82, French cyclist.
• Myron Floren, 85, American musician, longtime accordionist/bandleader on The Lawrence Welk Show.
• John Hunt, 87, American oceanographer.
• Gaston Mayordomo, 82, French Olympic athlete
• Fintan Meyler, 75, Irish actress.
• Ray Oldham, 54, American football player, former NFL cornerback, Pittsburgh Steelers.

24

• Viktor Berkovsky, 73, Russian bard.
• George Buhr, 76, American football coach.
• Sir Richard Doll, 92, British epidemiologist, first person to link cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
• Pavel Dostál, 62, Czech minister for cultural affairs.
• Fraser McLuskey, 90, Scottish military chaplain and minister.
• Francis Ona, 52, Papua New Guinean Bougainville rebel leader.
• Radomir Pavitchevitch, 96, French legionnaire.

25

• Enrique Bautista, 71, Filipino Olympic athlete.
• Paul Britten Austin, 83, British writer and broadcaster.
• Giulio Cantoni, 89, Italian-born American physician.
• Eddie Crook, Jr., 76, US Olympic boxer and Vietnam veteran.
• David Jackson, 71, British actor.
• Alf Joint, 77, British stuntman.
• Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes, 114, Portuguese supercentenarian, oldest person ever documented in Portugal.
• Albert Mangelsdorff, 76, German trombonist.
• Ford Rainey, 96, American actor.

26

• Betty Astell, 93, American actress, entertainer and widow of Cyril Fletcher.
• Mario David, 71, Italian footballer.
• John Edwards, 93, Canadian footballer.
• Alexander Golitzen, 97, Russian-born American Oscar-winning movie art director and production designer.
• Jack Hirshleifer, 79, American economist.
• Danny Simon, 85, American comedy writer, brother of Neil Simon.[14]

27

• Shelley Appleton, 86, American labor leader.
• Tungia Baker, 64, New Zealand Māori actress (The Piano) and artist.
• Pierre Broué, 79, French Trotskyist historian.
• Al Held, 76, American abstract painter.
• Helen Phillips, 86, American opera singer.
• Dom Um Romão, 79, Brazilian jazz drummer.
• Marten Toonder, 93, Dutch author and cartoonist.
• Robert Wright, 90, American musical lyricist (team of Wright & Forrest – Grand Hotel, Kismet, Song of Norway, etc.).

28

• Ian Baker, 77, British Army general.
• Christopher Bunting, 80, English cellist.
• Jair da Rosa Pinto, 84, Brazilian footballer.
• Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, 88, Icelandic politician.

29

• Hermione Hammond, 94, English painter and portrait artist.[15]
• Hildegarde Sell, 99, American cabaret singer, natural causes.
• Pat McCormick, 78, American television comedy writer (Johnny Carson, Phyllis Diller, Red Skelton; Candid Camera, Get Smart, etc.).

30

• Carl Beam, 62, Canadian Ojibwe artist.
• Georges Briard, 88, Russian-born American designer.
• Ray Cunningham, 100, American baseball player, recognized as the oldest living former Major League Baseball player.[16]
• John Garang, 60, Sudanese Vice President, helicopter crash.[17]
• Malucha Solari, 84, Nicaraguan-born Chilean ballerina and choreographer.
• Lucky Thompson, 81, American saxophonist.

31

• Wim Duisenberg, 70, Dutch banker and politician, suffered a heart attack while swimming and drowned.[18]
• Armando Ferreira, 85, Portuguese footballer.
• Léopold Gernaey, 78, Belgian footballer.
• Mantle Hood, 87, American ethnomusicologist.
• Lawrence Teeter, 56, American lawyer, attempted to have Sirhan Sirhan retried, saying he did not kill Robert F. Kennedy, lymphoma.[19]

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