• Source: Deaths in August 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2004.
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.




August 2004






= 1

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Philip Abelson, 91, American physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium, respiratory failure.
Vivian Austin, 84, American actress.
John Higgins, 88, American Olympic swimmer and coach, pneumonia.
George F. Kugler, Jr., 79, American lawyer.
Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, American philosopher.
Madeleine Robinson, 86, French actress.
Ken Timbs, 53, American professional wrestler, cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure.




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V. Balakrishnan, 72, Indian Malayalam writer and translator.
François Craenhals, 77, Belgian comics artist.
V. Lamar Gudger, 85, American judge and politician.
Heinrich Mark, 92, Estonian politician, Prime Minister-in-exile (1971-1990).
José Omar Pastoriza, 62, Argentinian football player and coach, cardiovascular disease.
Arturo M. Tolentino, 93, Philippine lawyer and politician, heart attack.
Don Tosti, 81, American musician and composer.




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Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer.
Gloria Emerson, 75, American author, journalist and New York Times war correspondent, suicide.
Bob Murphy, 79, American Major League Baseball sportscaster , lung cancer.
Bryon Nickoloff, 48, Canadian chess International Master, stomach cancer.
Geraldine Peroni, 51, American film editor (The Player, Dr. T and the Women, Michael), suicide.




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Pierre de Chevigné, 95, French politician.
Robert Yewdall Jennings, 90, British jurist, President of the International Court of Justice.
Eivor Landström, 85, Swedish actress.
Frank Maxwell, 87, American actor.
Mary Sherman Morgan, 82, American rocket scientist.
Hossein Panahi, 47, Iranian actor and poet, heart attack.
Fumio Watanabe, 74, Japanese actor.




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Uri Adelman, 45, Israeli writer, musician, computer expert, and academic, heart attack.
Don Grossman, 83, Australian rules footballer.
Edith Jiménez, 86, Paraguayan plastic artist.
André Wogenscky, 88, French modernist architect and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.




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Ennio Antonelli, 77, Italian actor and boxer.
Joseph-Marie Lo Duca, 98, Italian-French journalist, novelist, art critic, and film historian.
Rick James, 56, American singer ("Mary Jane", "Give It to Me Baby", "Super Freak") and producer, heart attack.
Philip G. Johnson, 78, American Hall of Fame trainer of Thoroughbred race horses.
Donald Justice, 78, American poet.
Murray S. Klamkin, 83, American mathematician.




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Red Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter.
María Esperanza de Bianchini, 75, Venezuelan mystic.
G.T. Hogan, 75, American jazz drummer.
Bernard Levin, 75, English journalist and broadcaster, Alzheimer's disease.
Ismael Rodríguez, 86, Mexican film director, screenwriter, respiratory failure.
Jukka Sipilä, 68, Finnish actor and television director.
Gordon Smith, 80, Scottish footballer.
Chris Wallace, 70, Australian computer scientist and physicist.




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Henrique Abranches, 71, Angolan writer and anthropologist, stroke.
Gypsy Boots, 89, American health and fitness pioneer.
Eva Frommer, 76, German-British consultant child psychiatrist.
Paul Garner, 95, American comedian, Three Stooges associate.
Leon Golub, 82, American artist and painter.
Dimitris Papamichael, 70, Greek actor, heart attack.
Jean Pouliot, 81, Canadian broadcasting pioneer.
S. V. Ramadoss, 83, Indian actor.
Fay Wray, 96, Canadian-American actress (King Kong).




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Liisi Beckmann, 79, Finnish designer and artist.
Sam Hogin, 54, American country music songwriter.
Robert Lecourt, 95, French politician, judge and president of the European Court of Justice.
Tony Mottola, 86, American guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on The Tonight Show orchestra, stroke.
Eduard Neumann, 93, German Luftwaffe officer during WWII.
David Raksin, 92, American composer of film and television scores (Laura).
Saul Rosenzweig, 97, American psychologist and therapist.
René Taton, 89, French author and historian of science.




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Walter Bielser, 75, Swiss footballer.
K. P. Brahmanandan, 58, Indian playback singer from Kerala.
Alan N. Cohen, 73, American basketball executive and owner of the Boston Celtics.
James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, American member of the Rockefeller family and Olympic champion, stroke.




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Sir David Calcutt, 73, British barrister and public servant.
Joe Falls, 76, American journalist, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News, heart attack.
Bill Martin Jr., 88, American author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
Wolfgang Mommsen, 73, German historian.




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Bjarne Andersson, 64, Swedish cross-country skier, Olympic silver medallist (1968).
Humayun Azad, 57, Bangladeshi poet, writer, critic, linguist, and academic.
Godfrey Hounsfield, 84, British electrical engineer and Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate, co-inventor of the CAT scan.
John McGuigan, 71, Scottish football player.
Sebastián Ontoria, 84, Spanish footballer.
Perica Vlašić, 72, Croatian Olympic rower.
Basil Wigoder, 83, British politician and barrister.
George Yardley, 75, American NBA basketball player, ALS.




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Mabel Addis, 92, American writer, teacher and the first video game writer.
Julia Child, 91, American chef, author and television hostess on French cuisine, kidney failure.
Sei Ikeno, 73, Japanese composer.
Josef Paul Kleihues, 71, German architect.
Donald Meltzer, 81, American Kleinian psychoanalyst.
Milton Pollack, 97, American federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street.
Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor.
Akku Yadav, 32, Indian gangster and criminal, lynched.
Ko Yong-hui, 52, North Korean mistress of supreme leader Kim Jong Il and mother Kim Jong Un, breast cancer.




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David Brown, 76, American rower and Olympic champion.
Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 39, Indian rapist and murderer, executed.
William David Ford, 77, American politician, stroke.
Neal Fredericks, 35, American cinematographer (The Blair Witch Project), drowned.
Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and dissident.
Bomber Moran, 59, Filipino actor, prostate cancer.
Eric Petrie, 77, New Zealand cricketer.
Trevor Skeet, 86, New Zealand-British lawyer and politician.




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Sune Bergström, 88, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer.
Amarsinh Chaudhary, 63, Indian politician, heart attack.
Charles Eaton, 94, American juvenile stage and film performer.
Armando Lambruschini, 80, Argentine navy admiral.
Kirk McCarthy, 37, Australian motorcycle road racer, racing accident.
Paul Ngei, 80, Kenyan politician, diabetes.
Atefah Sahaaleh, 16, Iranian teenage girl and regime victim, execution by hanging.
Min Thu Wun, 95, Burmese poet, writer and scholar.




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Acquanetta, 83, American B-movie actress nicknamed "The Venezuelan Volcano", Alzheimer's disease.
Babken Arakelyan, 92, Armenian historian and archeologist.
Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach, traffic collision.
Jikki, 68, Indian playback singer from Andhra Pradesh.
J. Irwin Miller, 95, American businessman, philanthropist, and civil rights advocate.
Carl Mydans, 97, American photographer.
Robert Quiroga, 35, American world champion boxer, murdered.




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Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist.
Frank Cotroni, 73, Italian-Canadian mobster and boss of the Cotroni crime family, brain cancer.
Marosa di Giorgio, 72, Uruguayan poet and novelist.
Shizuo Kakutani, 92, Japanese-American mathematician.
Jack Marshall, 84, Canadian politician.
Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone.
Kain Tapper, 74, Finnish sculptor.
Armando Dely Valdés, 40, Panamanian football player, heart attack.




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Susan Mary Alsop, 84, American socialite, hostess and writer.
Elmer Bernstein, 82, American film composer (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Ghostbusters, To Kill a Mockingbird), Oscar winner (1968), cancer.
Joe Dodge, 82, American jazz musician.
Hiram Fong, 97, American businessman and politician, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate, kidney failure.
Gylfi Þorsteinsson Gíslason, 87, Icelandic politician.
Anicet Kashamura, 75, Congolese politician.
Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich, 86, American micropaleontologist.
Hugh Manning, 83, British actor (Emmerdale, The Elephant Man, Mrs Thursday).
Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán, heart attack.
Uday Prakash, 40, Indian actor, alcoholism.
Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen.




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Tom Baldwin, 57, American race driver, racing accident.
George Gibson, 98, American football player and coach.
Edmund Kurtz, 95, Russian-American cellist.
Kyi Maung, 83, Myanmar Army officer and politician.




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Arthur Lever, 84, Welsh professional footballer.
María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born Mexican actress in rumbera films.
Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician, playwright and columnist.
Leslie Shepard, 87, British author, archivist, and curator.




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Viktor Avilov, 51, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, cancer.
Isaäc Arend Diepenhorst, 88, Dutch politician and jurist.
Maddy English, 79, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
Bill Hobbs, 57, American gridiron football player, accidental death.
Hortensia Blanch Pita, 89, Spanish writer.
Sachidananda Routray, 88, Indian poet and novelist.




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Konstantin Aseev, 43, Russian chess Grandmaster and coach, leukemia.
Angus Bethune, 95, Australian politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
Haralambie Ivanov, 63, Romanian sprint canoeist and Olympic silver medalist.
George Kirgo, 78, American television and film writer, president of the Writers Guild of America, kidney failure.
Jim Nelson, 57, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
Daniel Petrie, 83, Canadian film director (A Raisin in the Sun, Cocoon: The Return, The Bay Boy), cancer.
Reginaldo Polloni, 87–88, Italian Olympic rower (men's coxed four rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
Ota Šik, 84, Czech economist and politician, architect of economic liberalization during the 1968 Prague Spring.
Eddison Zvobgo, 68, Zimbabwean politician and the founder of ruling party, ZANU–PF, cancer.




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Yerik Assanbayev, 68, Kazakh statesman and vice-president (1991-1996).
Hank Borowy, 88, American baseball player.
Francesco Minerva, 100, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop.
Anthony Rhodes, 87, British writer and scholar.
Víctor Urquidi, 85, Mexican civil servant, economist, and academic.




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Richard Ervin, 99, American attorney general and chief justice of Florida.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-American psychiatrist.
Bob Price, 76, American politician (U.S. Representative for Texas districts).
Ivy Rahman, 60, Bangladeshi politician, grenade attack.
Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, 81, Colombian painter and sculptor.




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Donald M. Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer, Parkinson's disease.
Karen Dior, 37, American actress, singer, director, and drag queen, viral hepatitis.
Hal Epps, 90, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Athletics).
Marcelo González Martín, 86, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop of Toledo (1971-1995).
Carl Szokoll, 88, Austrian resistance fighter during World War II, and after the war author and film producer.
David Woodward, 61, English-American historian of cartography and cartographer, cancer.




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Enzo Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq.
Laura Branigan, 52, American pop singer ("Gloria", "Self Control"), cerebral aneurysm.
Lewis Carter-Jones, 83, British politician.
Rajanand, 76, Indian actor in the Kannada film industry.
Lyn Thomas, 74, American stage, television and film actress.
Matthias Volz, 94, German Olympic gymnast.




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Fernand Auberjonois, 93, Swiss foreign news correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade.
Willie Crawford, 57, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers), kidney disease.
Gottlieb Göller, 69, German football player and manager.
Suzanne Kaaren, 92, American actress (Three Stooges films).
Larry McCormick, 71, American television personality, cancer.
Susan Peretz, 64, American actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Melvin and Howard, Swing Shift), breast cancer.
William Pierson, 78, American actor (Stalag 17, Three's Company, Corvette Summer), respiratory failure.




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Isidoro Blaisten, 71, Argentine writer.
Silvana Jachino, 88, Italian actress.
Robert Lewin, 84, American producer and screenwriter, lung cancer.
Mercedes Vecino, 88, Spanish film actress.




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Donald Allen, 92, American editor, publisher and translator of American literature.
Ivan Lacković Croata, 72, Croatian naive painter, heart attack.
Nikolai Getman, 86, Soviet/Ukrainian artist and Gulag detainee
Helen Lane, 83, American translator.
Leonardus Benjamin Moerdani, 71, Indonesian general and politician, stroke and lung infection.
René Ménil, 97, French surrealist writer and philosopher.
Antoine Schnapper, 71, French art historian.
Vladimir Velebit, 97, Yugoslav politician, diplomat and military leader.
Hans Vonk, 62, Dutch conductor, ALS.




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Dely Atay-Atayan, 90, Filipina comedian and singer.
Robert Boyer, 56, Canadian visual artist, powwow dancer and university professor of aboriginal heritage.
Willie Duff, 69, Scottish football goalkeeper (Heart of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline Athletic).
Frank Horton, 84, American politician.
Bart Huges, 70, Dutch librarian and proponent of trepanation.
Derek Johnson, 71, British athlete and athletics administrator, leukemia.
E. Fay Jones, 83, American architect and designer, trained by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Indian Larry, 55, American motorcycle builder, artist, and stunt rider stunt, injuries suffered during a stunt.
Mario Levrero, 64, Uruguayan author.
Bob Sherman, 63, American actor.
Fred Lawrence Whipple, 97, American astronomer.




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Edvin Landsem, 79, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier.
Tamaz Nadareishvili, 50, Georgian politician, heart attack.
Lex Peterson, 46, New Zealand Olympic bobsledder (two-man and four-man bobsled at the 1988 Winter Olympics).
Carl Wayne, 61, English lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer.




References






External links


List of August 2004 deaths at IMDb

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