Deaths in June 2005

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

June 2005

1

• Dmitri Bystrov, 37, Russian footballer.
• Josephine Clay Ford, 81, American Ford Motor Company heiress and prominent philanthropist.
• George Mikan, 80, American basketball Hall of Famer.
• Geoffrey Toone, 94, British-based Irish actor.[1]

2

• Isabel Aretz, 96, Argentine musician.
• Vittorio Duse, 89, Italian actor (The Godfather Part III).[2]
• Lucio España, 33, Colombian footballer, murdered.
• Samir Kassir, 45, Lebanese journalist who supported democracy, assassinated.
• Mike Marshall, 60, French-American actor, known for role in Moonraker.
• Melita Norwood, 93, British who spied for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.[3]
• Andrea Pangrazio, 95, Italian Roman Catholic bishop.
• Alan Williams, 77, British economist.

3

• Leon Askin, 97, Austrian actor.
• Radomir Belaćević, 75, Serbian film producer and writer.
• Teodoro Benigno, 82, Filipino journalist.
• Michael Billington, 63, British actor.
• Harold Cardinal, 60, Canadian Cree writer, lung cancer.
• Nzo Ekangaki, 71, Cameroonian politician.
• Alex Freeleagus, 77, Australian diplomat and lawyer.[4]

4

• Paul Amen, 88, American sportsman and banker.
• Giancarlo De Carlo, 85, Italian architect.
• Chloe Jones, 29, American adult film star.
• Banks McFadden, 88, American football player, College Football Hall of Famer and former Clemson football player.
• André Molitor, 93/4, Belgian civil servant, principal private secretary to King Baudouin I.
• Jean O'Leary, 57, American gay and lesbian rights activist and politician.
• Yin Shun, 99, Chinese Buddhist philosopher.
• Lorna Thayer, 86, American character actress (Five Easy Pieces), Alzheimer's disease.[5]

5

• Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, 55, Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician.[6]
• Pepita Carpeña, 85, Spanish trade unionist and anarchist.[7]
• George Isaak, 72, Polish-born Australian physicist.[8]
• Susi Nicoletti, 86, Austrian film actress, complications from heart surgery.[9]

6

• Eduardo P. Archetti, 62, Argentine social scientist.
• Anne Bancroft, 73, American Oscar-winning actress (The Miracle Worker, The Graduate), uterine cancer.[10]
• Dana Elcar, 77, American film, stage and television actor.[11]
• Maya Kopitseva, 81, Russian painter.
• Pamela May, 88, British ballet dancer.
• Oscar Morelli, 59, Mexican actor.
• Siegfried Palm, 78, German cellist.
• David Sutherland, 56, American illustrator for the original Dungeons & Dragons books.

7

• Pater Barry, 67, Australian rules footballer.
• Margaret Baxtresser, 82, American concert pianist.
• Seán Doherty, 60, Irish politician.
• Terry Long, 45, American professional football player, former NFL offensive lineman.
• Edward Anthony McCarthy, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, second Archbishop of Miami.

8

• Ahmed Ali, Fijian academic and politician.
• Ed Bishop, 72, American-British actor.
• Arthur Dunkel, 72, Portuguese-Swiss GATT director-general.
• Cáit Feiritéar, 88, Irish storyteller.
• Servílio de Jesus Filho, 65, Brazilian football player, heart attack.
• Luis Santiago, 27, Filipino film director, murdered.
• Stan Wilson, 83, American singer and guitarist, heart disease.

9

• Allan Ashbolt, 83, Australian journalist.
• Richard Eberhart, 101, American poet.
• Ryan Alan Hade, 23, American sexual assault victim, whose case paved the way for laws allowing indefinite confinement of sexual predators, motorcycle accident.[12]
• Walter Hardwick, 73, Canadian academic and community leader.

10

• Michèle Auclair, 80, French violinist.
• J. James Exon, 83, American politician, former Democratic United States Senator (1979–1997) and Governor of Nebraska (1971–1979).
• Curtis Pitts, 89, American designer of the Pitts Special and other aircraft.
• Kenneth N. Taylor, 88, American publisher and author, founder of Tyndale House Publishers and translator of The Living Bible.
• Sir Paul Wright, 90, British diplomat.

11

• Francesco Albanese, 92, Italian opera singer.
• Anne-Marie Alonzo, 53, Canadian writer.
• Gordon Baxter, 81, American radio personality.
• José Beyaert, 79, French cyclist.
• Audrey Brown, 92, British athlete.
• Robert Clarke, 85, American actor.
• Ghena Dimitrova, 64, Bulgarian opera singer.
• Lon McCallister, 82, American actor.
• Ron Randell, 86, Australian-born actor.
• Juan José Saer, 67, Argentine novelist.
• Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 84, Portuguese General, Prime Minister (1974–1975).[13]

12

• Bryan Beaumont, 66, Australian jurist.
• Sonja Davies, 81, New Zealand trade unionist.
• Brandy Davis, 77, American baseball player.
• Eiichi Goto, 74, Japanese computer scientist.
• Makobo Modjadji, 27, South African rain queen of the Balobedu people of South Africa.
• Scott Young, 87, Canadian journalist and father of Neil Young.

13

• Joan Abse, 78, English writer and art historian.
• Jonathan Adams, 74, British actor (Dr. von Scott, The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
• Gerard Béhague, 67, French-born American ethnomusicologist.
• Álvaro Cunhal, 91, Portuguese politician, secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (1961–1992), deputy (1975–1992), writer and painter.[14]
• Eugénio de Andrade, 82, Portuguese poet.
• David Diamond, 89, American composer.
• Christopher Spencer Foote, 70, American chemist.
• Jesús Moncada, Spanish writer.
• Lane Smith, 69, American actor (My Cousin Vinny, Lois & Clark).

14

• Félix Acosta-Núñez, 81, Dominican Republic sports journalist.
• Carlo Maria Giulini, 91, Italian conductor.
• Norman Levine, 81, Canadian writer.
• Mimi Parent, 80, Canadian surrealist painter.
• Douglas Thollar, 86, Australian cricketer.
• Robie Lester, 80, American voice artist, actress and singer.

15

• Percy Arrowsmith, 105, English one-half of the world's documented longest marriage.
• Rodrigo Asturias, 65, Guatemalan guerilla leader and politician, heart attack.
• Hugh Bevan, 72, Australian cricketer.[15]
• Valeria Moriconi, 73, Italian actress, cancer.
• Kathi Norris, 86, American television hostess, hosted one of the first TV talk shows on the DuMont Television Network, (The Kathi Norris Show, also known as Your TV Shopper, 1948–1950); mother of actress Koo Stark.

16

• Corino Andrade, 99, Portuguese neurologist, discovered Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP).
• Billy Bauer, 89, American jazz guitarist.
• Gerald Davis, 88, British philatelist.
• Enrique Laguerre, 99, Puerto Rican writer, poet, and teacher.
• Ross Stretton, 53, Australian ballet dancer and artistic director of Australian Ballet.[16]
• James Weinstein, 78, American Jewish author, founder and publisher of In These Times.
• Alex McAvoy, 77, Scottish actor, known for his roles as Sunny Jim in the BBC Scotland adaptation of Neil Munro's Para Handy stories.

17

• David Anderson, 65, Australian cricketer.
• Nanna Ditzel, 81, Danish furniture and interior designer.
• William N. Fenton, 96, American scholar known for writings on the Iroquois.
• Susanna Javicoli, 50, Italian actress (La nottata, Suspiria), kidney cancer.[17]
• Trevor Jones, 85, English cricketer.
• Andrew Justice, 54, British Olympic rower.
• Keith Morris, 66, English photographer.
• Karl Mueller, 41, American founding bassist for the rock band Soul Asylum, throat cancer.
• Mikhail Stern, 86/7, Soviet endocrinologist and dissident.
• James A. Whyte, 85, Scottish theologian.
• Ronald Winans, 48, American Grammy-winning gospel singer.

18

• Syed Mushtaq Ali, 90, Indian cricketer, Padma Shree Award winner.
• Tony Diment, 78, English cricketer.
• Cay Forrester, 83, American writer and film actress (DOA)
• Chris Griffin, 74, American jazz trumpeter.[18]
• Basil Kirchin, 77, British musician.
• Sanjaya Lall, 64, Indian economist.
• J. J. Pickle, 91, American politician, Democratic U.S. Congressional Representative from Texas (1963–1995).
• Manuel Sadosky, 91, Argentine mathematician and Secretary of State of Science and Technology (1983–1989).
• Georgie Woods, 78, American radio broadcaster.
• Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy, 20, American Rapper.

19

• Frank Alexander, 94, Australian cricketer.
• Allan Beckett, 91, British engineer.[19]
• Alfred Deakin Brookes, 85, Australian intelligence officer.
• Robert Ellis Cahill, 70, American folklorist and author.
• Dave Carr, 48, English footballer.
• Totta Näslund, 60, Swedish musician, singer and actor, liver cancer.[20]
• Ray Parkin, 94, Australian writer.

20

• Larry Collins, 75, American writer.
• Charles D. Keeling, 77, American scientist whose pioneering measurements showed a carbon dioxide buildup in the earth's atmosphere.
• Jack Kilby, 81, American engineer, inventor of the integrated circuit and physics Nobel prize winner.
• William López, 26, Salvadoran footballer, shot.[21]
• Bernard Adolph Schriever, 94, U.S. Air Force general, regarded as the father and architect of the United States Air Force space and ballistic missile programs.

21

• Peter Bridgwater, 70, American soccer executive.
• Steven F. Gaughan, 40, American police officer, murdered.
• George Hawi, 67, Lebanese politician, former secretary general of Communist Party of Lebanon, killed by terrorists in an attack on his car.
• Geoffrey Jones, 73, British documentary maker, cancer.
• Ian McColl, 90, Scottish journalist and politician.
• Jaime Sin, 76, Filipino Roman Catholic cardinal and former Archbishop of Manila.
• Louis H. Wilson, Jr., 85, US Medal of Honor recipient and Commandant of the Marine Corps.

22

• Sunder Singh Bhandari, 84, Indian politician.
• David Breeden, 54, American clarinetist.
• William Donaldson, 70, British satirist and theatrical producer of Beyond The Fringe.
• Michael Imoudu, 102, Nigerian labour union leader.
• Roberto Olivo, 91, Venezuelan baseball umpire.
• Carson Parks, 69, American musician.

23

• Nikolay Afanasevsky, 64, Russian diplomat.
• Shana Alexander, 79, American journalist, cancer.[22]
• Manolis Anagnostakis, 80, Greek poet.
• Pietro Balestra, 70, Swiss economist.
• Richard Hart Brown, 64, American neuroscientist.
• Isidore Cohen, 82, American violinist with the Beaux Arts Trio.[23]
• Christian Roy Kaldager, 97, Norwegian Air Force afficer.
• Hanna Kvanmo, 79, Norwegian politician.
• Sam Kweskin, 81, American comic book artist.[24]
• Ramon L. Posel, 77, American art-cinema proponent and real estate developer, built up Philadelphia's art film industry though Ritz Theaters.[25]

24

• Lyman Bostock, Sr., 87, American baseball player.
• Peter Casserly, 107, Australian centenarian, last surviving member of the First Australian Imperial Force serving on the Western Front in World War I.[26]
• Imogen Claire, British actress, played one of the Transylvanians in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• Paul Winchell, 82, American voice actor and ventriloquist, animated voice of 'Tigger', natural causes.

25

• John Fiedler, 80, American film, stage and television actor (voice of Piglet in Winnie-the-Pooh productions), cancer.[27]
• Sir Harry Gibbs, 88, Australian Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 1981-87.
• Chet Helms, 62, American rock music promoter.
• Bob Vincent, 87, American big band singer and theatrical agent.

26

• Filip Adwent, 49, Polish politician.[28]
• William Cornelius, 90, Australian cricketer.
• Eknath Solkar, 57, Indian cricketer.
• Joop Stoffelen, 84, Dutch footballer.
• Grete Sultan, 99, German-American pianist.
• Richard Whiteley, 61, British television presenter, pneumonia.[29]

27

• Robert Byrne, 50, American songwriter.
• Frederick G. Dutton, 82, American lawyer, advisor to President Kennedy.[30]
• Shelby Foote, 88, American historian.[31]
• Frank Harte, 72, Irish traditional singer and song collector, heart attack.
• Domino Harvey, 35, British model-turned-bounty hunter and daughter of the late actor, Laurence Harvey. Found dead in her bathtub of an overdose of Fentanyl painkillers.[32]
• Ray Holmes, 90, British fighter pilot, who protected Buckingham Palace during the Battle of Britain, cancer.[33]
• Owen McCarron, 76, Canadian cartoonist and puzzle creator.[34]
• Bhakti Tirtha Swami, 55, American spiritual guru.
• John T. Walton, 58, American war veteran and son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton.
• Sir Norman Wooding, 78, British industrialist.

28

• Bardhyl Ajeti, 28, Serbian journalist, assassinated.
• Robert D. Clark, 95, American university administrator.
• Victor Craig, 87, Irish cricketer.
• Dick Dietz, 63, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves), heart attack.[35]
• Philip Hobsbaum, 72, British academic, poet and critic, diabetes.[36]
• Brenda Howard, 58, American LGBT-rights activist, colon cancer.[37]
• Michael P. Murphy, 29, American naval officer.[38]
• Rowland B. Wilson, 74, American cartoonist and animator.[39]

29

• Ruslan Abdulgani, 91, Indonesian politician and diplomat.
• James Gilbert Baker, 90, American astronomer.
• Gerard C. Bond, 65, American geologist.[40]
• W. Burlie Brown, 83, American historian.
• John Burgess, 71, Scottish bagpiper.
• Bruce Malmuth, 71, American film director (Sylvester Stallone's Nighthawks), throat cancer.[41]

30

• Christopher Fry, 97, British playwright.[42]
• Lilian Keil, 88, American nurse, highly decorated World War II and Korean War flight nurse.[43]
• Éva Novák-Gerard, 75, Hungarian swimmer.
• Alexei Sultanov, 35, Russian pianist, stroke.[44]

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