• Source: Deaths in April 2005

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.




April 2005






= 1

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Álvaro Alsogaray, 91, Argentinian politician and businessman, cancer.
Philip Amelio, 27, American actor and teacher, bacterial infection.
Paul Bomani, 80, Tanzanian politician and diplomat.
Alexander Brott, 90, Canadian composer, conductor and violinist.
Oswaldo Fadda, 84, Brazilian practitioner and developer of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, pneumonia.
Harald Juhnke, 75, German entertainer.
Jack Keller, 68, American songwriter, wrote themes to Bewitched and Gidget, leukemia.
Thomas Kling, 47, German poet, lung cancer.
Barry Stern, 45, American drummer (Trouble, Zoetrope), complications following surgery.
Robert Coldwell Wood, 81, American political scientist and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, stomach cancer.




= 2

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Trevor Foster, 90, Welsh rugby player.
Nasri Maalouf, 94, Lebanese politician.
Patricia McGee, 70, American politician and senator, pulmonary fibrosis.
John O'Leary, 58, American politician, former U.S. ambassador to Chile, Lou Gehrig's disease.
John Paul II, (Karol Wojtyła), 84, Polish Roman Catholic pope, septic shock and cardio-circulatory collapse.
Jacques Poitrenaud, 82, French film director and actor.
Jacques Rabemananjara, 91, Malagasy politician, playwright and poet.




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Aleksy Antkiewicz, 81, Polish boxer and Olympic medalist.
Rick Blight, 49, Canadian ice hockey player, suicide.
Frank Clair, 87, Canadian Football League coach (Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders), heart failure.
Tony Croatto, 65, Italian-born Puerto Rican composer-singer, lung and brain cancer.
Jef Eygel, 72, Belgian basketball player.
Kader Firoud, 85, Algerian-French football player and manager.
François Gérin, 60, Canadian politician.




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Gordon Barton, 75, Australian businessman and political activist.
Edward Bronfman, 77, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, colon cancer.
Blanchette Brunoy, 89, French actress.
Antonio Rivera, 41, Puerto Rican world champion boxer, asthma.




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Manuel Ballester, 85, Spanish chemist.
Saul Bellow, 89, Canadian-born American Nobel Prize-winning author.
Robert Borg, 91, American military officer and Olympic equestrian.
Abdul Mannan, 75, Bangladesh politician, minister of Home Affairs (1972-1973).
Dale Messick, 98, American creator of the Brenda Starr comic strip.
Dragoljub Minić, 68, Yugoslav chess Grandmaster.
Chung Nam-sik, 88, Korean football player and manager.
Debralee Scott, 52, American actress (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Forever Fernwood, Police Academy), cirrhosis.
Nils Svenwall, 86, Swedish art director.
Neil Welliver, 75, American landscape painter, pneumonia.




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Frank Conroy, 69, American author and memoirist, colorectal cancer.
Anthony DePalma, 100, American orthopedic surgeon, teacher, and humanitarian.
Károly Ecser, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter.
Francesco Laudadio, 55, Italian film director, screenwriter and producer.
Bernd Lorenz, 57, German football player.
Geoff Millman, 70, English cricketer.
Rainier III, 81, Prince of Monaco since 1949, kidney failure.
Gerard Peters, 84, Dutch track and road cyclist.




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Cliff Allison, 73, British Formula One driver.
Grigoris Bithikotsis, 82, Greek singer.
Aleksandar Despić, 78, Serbian physicist and academic.
Max von der Grün, 78, German novelist.
Bob Kennedy, 84, American Major League Baseball] player and manager.
Haji Khanmammadov, 86, Azerbaijani and Soviet composer.
Melih Kibar, 53, Turkish composer, skin cancer.
Jose Melis, 85, Cuban-American former bandleader for The Tonight Show.
Givi Nodia, 57, Soviet Georgian football player, heart attack.
Yvonne Vera, 40, Zimbabwean novelist and writer, AIDS-related complications.
Erna Woll, 88, German composer and church musician.




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Al Gettel, 87, American baseball pitcher.
Maurice Lafont, 77, French football player.
Eddie Miksis, 78, American baseball player.
Yoshitarō Nomura, 85, Japanese film director, pneumonia.
Douglas Northcott, 88, British mathematician (ideal theory).
Onna White, 83, Canadian Broadway choreographer.




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César Civita, 99, American-Argentine publisher.
Andrea Dworkin, 58, American radical feminist writer and anti-pornography activist, myocarditis.
Anton Heyboer, 81, Dutch painter and printmaker.
Scott Mason, 28, Australian cricketer, heart attack.
Jerrel Wilson, 63, American football player, cancer.




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Carl Abrahams, 93, Jamaican painter.
Archbishop Iakovos of America, 93, Ottoman-American primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (1959–1996), pulmonary fibrosis.
Norbert Brainin, 82, Austrian violinist and founder of the Amadeus Quartet.
Frederick C. Branch, 82, first African-American officer of the United States Marine Corps.
Horacio Casarín, 86, Mexican football player and coach, Alzheimer's disease.
Aatos Lehtonen, 91, Finnish football forward.
Al Lucas, 26, American gridiron football player, spinal cord injury suffered during game.
Wally Tax, 57, Dutch singer and songwriter.
Anatoly Trofimov, 64, Soviet and Russian KGB officer, homicide.
Chen Yifei, 58, Chinese painter.




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John Bennett, 75, British actor (Watership Down, The Pianist, Doctor Who).
John Brosnan, 57, British writer and film critic, acute pancreatitis.
Jerry Byrd, 85, American Lap steel guitarist, Parkinson's disease.
Floyd Chance, 79, American session musician.
Junior Delgado, 46, Jamaican reggae singer, famed for his roots style.
André François, 89, French cartoonist.
James Hamilton, 87, British politician.
Maurice Hilleman, 85, American microbiologist.
David Hughes, 74, British novelist.
Lucien Laurent, 97, French football player, scored the first ever goal at a FIFA World Cup.
Mattie McDonagh, 68, Irish Gaelic footballer.
Doug Peden, 88, Canadian basketball player and Olympic medalist.
George Younce, 75, American Southern Gospel singer.




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Rodolfo Gonzales, 76, Mexican boxer, poet, political organizer, and activist, kidney failure.
Ehud Manor, 63, Israeli songwriter.
Shahrokh Meskoob, 81, Iranian writer, translator, social critic, literary historian, and university professor, cancer.
Georgi Pachedzhiev, 89, Bulgarian football manager.
Cyril Sidlow, 89, Welsh football player.
Nelly Uchendu, 54/5, Nigerian musician, cancer.




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Don Blasingame, 73, American baseball player and manager.
Salvatore Camarata, 91, American musician and co-founder of Disneyland Records.
Julia Darling, 48, English novelist and poet, breast cancer.
Wolfgang Droege, 55, German-Canadian founder of white supremacist group the Heritage Front, shot.
Kay Gardella, 82, American television critic for the New York Daily News, cancer.
Johnnie Johnson, 80, American musician, pneumonia.
Nikola Ljubičić, 89, Serbian general and politician, president of Serbia from (1982-1984).
Vaikom Chandrasekharan Nair, 85, Indian writer and journalist.
Henry Proctor, 75, American competition rower and Olympic champion.
Philippe Volter, 45, Belgian actor, suicide.
Nathaniel Weyl, 94, American writer, economist who testified in the Alger Hiss case.
Juan Zanotto, 69, Italian-Argentinian comic book artist.




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Chet Aubuchon, 88, American basketball player.
Benny Bailey, 79, American jazz trumpeter.
Saunders Mac Lane, 95, American mathematician.
Lothar Lindtner, 87, Norwegian actor.
Ivailo Petrov, 82, Bulgarian writer.
Richard Popkin, 81, American academic philosopher, pulmonary emphysema.
Bernard Schultze, 89, German abstract painter.




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Jimmy Allan, 73, Scottish cricketer.
Martin Blumenson, 86, American military historian.
Amjad Bobby, 63, Pakistani music composer and director.
Peter Cargill, 41, Jamaican footballer, traffic collision.
Art Cross, 87, American Indianapolis 500 racing driver.
Jaime Fernández, 67, Mexican actor, heart attack.
John Fred, 63, American pop singer, kidney disease.
Ken Funston, 79, South African cricket player.
John Hultberg, 83, American avant-garde painter.
Carlos Muñoz, 86, Spanish actor.
Margaretta Scott, 93, English actress ("Mrs. Pumphrey" in All Creatures Great and Small).




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Laura Canales, 50, American Tejano singer, pneumonia.
Herm Gilliam, 58, American National Basketball Association player (Portland Trail Blazers), heart attack.
Kim Mu-saeng, 62, South Korean actor, pneumonia.
Marla Ruzicka, 28, American activist and aid worker, car bombing in Iraq.
Volker Vogeler, 74, German film director and screenwriter.
Kay Walsh, 93, British actress.




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Hans Gruijters, 73, Dutch politician and journalist.
James Archibald Houston, 83, Canadian author and artist.
István Ilku, 72, Hungarian football goalkeeper.
Lucien Masset, 90, French gymnast and Olympian.
Vishnu Kant Shastri, 76, Indian politician, heart attack.
Juan Pablo Torres, 58, Cuban trombonist, bandleader, and producer, brain tumor.




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Claus Bjørn, 60, Danish author, historian, and television and radio broadcaster.
Donald Bruce, Baron Bruce of Donington, 92, British politician and peer.
Peter F. Flaherty, 80, American politician and attorney.
Bassel Fleihan, 42, Lebanese deputy and minister, complications following bomb attack on Rafiq Hariri.
Clarence "Big House" Gaines, 81, American Basketball Hall of Fame coach, stroke.
Norberto Höfling, 80, Romanian football player and coach.
Sam Mills, 45, American former NFL player and assistant coach, cancer.
Norman D. Newell, 96, American paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History.
Kenneth Schermerhorn, 75, American music director and conductor, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.




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George P. Cosmatos, 65, Italian-born Greek-American film director (Tombstone, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Cobra), lung cancer.
Bobby Gage, 78, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
Ruth Hussey, 93, American film actress (The Philadelphia Story), surgical complications.
Gerd Koch, 82, German cultural anthropologist].
Stan Levey, 79, American jazz drummer.
Clement Meadmore, 76, Australian-American furniture designer and sculptor, Parkinson's disease.
László Nagy, 77, Hungarian pair skater.
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 58, Danish jazz upright bassist, heart attack.
Erkki Penttilä, 72, Finnish wrestler and Olympic medalist.




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Shamil Asgarov, 75, Azerbaijani Kurdish scholar, poet, and historian.
Inday Ba, 32, Swedish actress (also known as N'Deaye Ba), lupus erythematosus.
Gene Frankel, 85, American theater director, heart attack.
Dragoslav Marković, 84, Serbian communist politician, serving as President and Prime Minister of Serbia.
Fumio Niwa, 100, Japanese novelist, pneumonia.
Giulio Saraudi, 66, Italian boxer and Olympic medalist.




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Giordano Abbondati, 56, Italian figure skater.
Valeriano Andrés, 82, Spanish film and television actor.
Zhang Chunqiao, 88, Chinese political theorist, member of the Gang of Four, pancreatic cancer.
Gwynfor Evans, 92, Welsh politician.
Frank Hoy, 70, Irish-Scottish professional wrestler.
Bill Kaysing, 82, American conspiracy theorist.
Feroze Khan, 100, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic Champion 1928.
William Kruskal, 85, American mathematician and statistician, pneumonia.
Cliff Montgomery, 94, American gridiron football player.
Cyril Tawney, 74, British songwriter and folksinger.
Wayne S. Vucinich, 91, American historian.




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Norman Bird, 80, British actor (Worzel Gummidge, The Lord of the Rings, Look and Read), cancer.
Gregoire Boonzaier, 95, South African painter.
Robert Fitzgerald, 81, American speed skater and Olympic silver medalist.
Erika Fuchs, 98, German Disney comics editor and translator.
Arnie Lawrence, 66, American jazz saxophonist.
John Marshall, 72, American filmmaker, lung cancer].
Philip Morrison, 89, American physicist and group leader in the Manhattan Project.
Eduardo Paolozzi, 81, Scottish sculptor.
Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli, 93, Italian botanist.
Barys Rahula, 85, Belarusian political activist.
Leonid Shamkovich, 81, Soviet/Russian grandmaster chess player, Parkinson's disease.




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Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 94, Australian political celebrity, longest-serving Premier of Queensland.
Robert Farnon, 87, Canadian Grammy Award winning arranger composer.
Andre Gunder Frank, 76, German economic historian, proponent of dependency theory, cancer.
Al Grassby, 78, Australian former politician and minister in the Whitlam government, heart attack.
John Mills, 97, British actor (Ryan's Daughter, Swiss Family Robinson, Gandhi), Oscar winner (1971), stroke.
Romano Scarpa, 78, Italian Disney comic book artist.
J. B. Stoner, 81, American neo-nazi, segregationist politician, and a domestic terrorist.
Earl Wilson, 70, American baseball player, leading pitcher for the 1968 World Series champion Detroit Tigers, heart attack.
Jimmy Woode, 78, American jazz bassist, heart attack.




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Adelle August, 71, American actress.
Francis Bay, 90, Belgian conductor.
Roland Johansson, 74, Swedish Olympic boxer.
Ezer Weizman, 80, Israeli politician, President of Israel (1993-2000), respiratory failure.
Fei Xiaotong, 94, Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology.




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Jim Barker, 69, American politician, stroke.
John Love, 80, Rhodesian Formula One driver, cancer.
Čedomir Mirković, 61, Serbian writer, literary critic, television journalist, and politician.
Swami Ranganathananda, 96, Indian religious leader, President of the Ramakrishna Order.
Tanguturi Suryakumari, 79, Indian singer, actress and dancer.
Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman, 71, English chief executive and peer, head of Ford Motor Company.
Shlomo Wolbe, 91, German-Swedish orthodox rabbi.




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Mason Adams, 86, American actor (Lou Grant, F/X, Omen III: The Final Conflict).
Hasil Adkins, 67, American Rockabilly musician, homicide.
Augusto Roa Bastos, 87, Paraguayan writer, winner of the Premio Cervantes.
Michael Coles, 68, English actor.
Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy, 83, Scottish politician.
Elisabeth Domitien, 79-80, Central African Republic politician, Prime Minister (1975-1976).
Josef Nesvadba, 78, Czech psychiatrist and science fiction author.
Johnny Sample, 67, American gridiron football player.
Maria Schell, 79, Austrian actress (The Last Bridge, Gervaise, Superman), pneumonia.




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Abdus Samad Azad, 83, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician, former foreign minister of Bangladesh, stomach cancer.
Red Horner, 95, Canadian ice hockey player, former NHL player with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Tunney Hunsaker, 75, American professional boxer, Muhammad Ali's first professional boxing opponent.
Stanley Orme, Baron Orme, 82, British politician.
Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait, 82, Indian politician.
Marian Sawa, 68, Polish composer, organist, and musicologist.




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Chuck Bittick, 65, American water polo player.
Chris Candido, 33, American professional wrestler, blood clot from surgery complications.
Odysseas Dimitriadis, 96, Georgian-Greek conductor.
Percy Heath, 81, American bassist for the Modern Jazz Quartet, bone cancer.
Pancho Herrera, 70, Cuban-born baseball player.
Douglas Johnson, 80, British historian.
P.D. Orton, 89, English mycologist, specialising in agarics.
Taraki Sivaram, 45, Sri Lankan Tamil journalist and activist, murdered.
Erich Vermehren, 85, German military intelligence officer, World War II defector from the Abwehr.




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William J. Bell, 78, American screenwriter and television producer (The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful), Alzheimer's disease.
Dianne Brooks, 66, American jazz singer.
Mel Gussow, 71, American theatre critic for The New York Times, cancer.
Leonid Khachiyan, 52, Russian/American mathematician and computer scientist, heart attack.
Mariana Levy, 39, Mexican actress, heart attack following a robbery attempt.
Johnnie Stewart, 87, British television producer (Top of the Pops).
Bob Ward, 77, American gridiron football coach and player.
Brook Williams, 67, British stage actor, lung cancer.




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Sylve Bengtsson, 74, Swedish football player.
Wim Esajas, 70, Suriname Olympic middle-distance runner.
Lourens Muller, 87, South African politician.
Niklaus Stump, 84, Swiss Olympic cross-country and Nordic combined skier.
Ron Todd, 78, English general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, leukemia.




References






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List of April 2005 deaths at IMDb

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