• Source: Deaths in August 2005

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.




August 2005






= 1

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Al Aronowitz, 77, American music journalist, cancer.
Donald Brooks, 77, American Hollywood and Broadway costume designer, heart attack.
William Hugh Clifford Frend, 89, English ecclesiastical historian.
Jeannou Lacaze, 81, French Army general who also served in the French Foreign Legion.
Anne-Marie Marchand, 78, French costume designer.
Colin McEvedy, 75, British polymath scholar, psychiatrist, historian, and non-fiction author.
Constant Nieuwenhuys, 85, Dutch COBRA painter.
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 84, Saudi Arabian King, complications of a stroke.
David Shaw, 62, American journalist, Los Angeles Times writer and Pulitzer Prize winner, brain tumor.




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Sandro Bolchi, 81, Italian director and journalist.
Alfredo Corvino, 89, Uruguayan ballet dancer and ballet teacher.
Rainer Forss, 74, Finnish football player, manager and coach.
Jay Hammond, 83, American politician, Governor of Alaska from 1975 to 1982.
Loulie Jean Norman, 92, American soprano.
Rudolf Tajcnár, 57, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.
Steven Vincent, 49, American freelance reporter, shot.
Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft, 89, German-American Hasidic rabbi and Holocaust survivor.




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Luis Barbero, 88, Spanish actor, heart attack.
Françoise d'Eaubonne, 85, French writer.
Alastair Duncan, 79, English-Australian actor, playwright, producer and director.
Dick Heyward, 90, Australian longtime deputy director of UNICEF.
Ernest Smith, 91, Canadian Victoria Cross recipient.
Dominic Aloysius Vendargon, 95, Sri Lankan priest and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur.




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Charles Alden Black, 86, American businessman, husband of Shirley Temple, myelodysplastic syndrome.
Mary Dees, 93, American actress.
Ken Fish, 91, South African football player.
Ileen Getz, 43, American actress (3rd Rock From The Sun, Changing Lanes, The Station Agent), cancer.
Sue Gunter, 66, American women's basketball coach, pulmonary emphysema.
Anatoly Larkin, 72, Russian theoretical physicist.
Little Milton, 71, American blues musician, stroke.
Bernardo Romero Pereiro, 61, Colombian actor, director, and writer, respiratory failure.
Nick Perito, 81, American conductor, composer and arranger, pulmonary fibrosis.
Iván Szabó, 71, Hungarian politician.
Eden Natan-Zada, 19, Israeli deserter soldier.




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Polina Astakhova, 68, Soviet five time Olympic gymnastic champion.
Fritze Carstensen, 80, Danish swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.
Bertie Hill, 78, British equestrian and Olympic champion.
Cal Hogue, 77, American baseball player.
Raymond Klibansky, 99, German-Canadian academic and philosopher.
Jane Lawrence, 90, American actress also associated with 1950s art scene.
Spud Murphy, 96, American jazz multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and arranger.
Raul Roco, 63, Filipino politician, former senator and presidential candidate, cancer.
Roy Scott, 88, New Zealand cricket player.




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Nikolay Abramov, 55, Russian footballer, heart attack.
Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine, 86, Mexican trade union leader.
Vizma Belševica, 74, Latvian poet.
Keter Betts, 77, American jazz bassist.
Robin Cook, 59, British Member of Parliament, former Foreign Secretary, hypertensive heart disease.
Ibrahim Ferrer, 78, Afro-Cuban musician, singer in the Buena Vista Social Club, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
Louis Gauthier, 89, French cyclist.
John R. Isbell, 74, American mathematician.
Carlo Little, 66, British drummer, lung cancer.
Valentin Nikulin, 73, Soviet, Russian and Israeli theater and film actor, cancer.
James Wilson, 82, Irish composer.




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Leni Alexander, 81, German-born Chilean composer.
Alejandro Armendáriz, 82, Argentinian physician and politician, accident.
Paul Arnaud de Foïar, 83, French Army general.
Peter Jennings, 67, Canadian-American correspondent, news anchor of ABC News, complications from lung cancer.
Li Lili, 90, Chinese film actress and singer.
Sven Methling, 86, Danish film director and screenwriter.
Noel Nicola, 58, Cuban singer-songwriter and co-founder of the nueva trova movement, cancer.
Mikhail Yevdokimov, 47, Russian comedian and politician, car accident.
Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková, 96, Slovak painter, scenic designer and journalist.




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Robert A. Baker, 84, American psychologist, writer and UFO skeptic.
Ahmed Deedat, 80, South African Muslim preacher.
Nicolae Dumitru, 76, Romanian football player and manager.
Barbara Bel Geddes, 82, American actress (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Dallas, Vertigo), lung cancer.
John H. Johnson, 87, American publisher.
Paul Le Person, 74, French actor of Breton origin.
Gene Mauch, 79, American Major League Baseball manager, lung cancer.
Nikolai Puchkov, 75, Russian ice hockey goaltender.
Monica Sjöö, 66, Swedish- British-based painter, writer and eco-feminist, cancer.
Trần Quốc Vượng, 70, Vietnamese historian, archaeologist, and culturologist.
Ilse Werner, 84, German actress, pneumonia.




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Colette Besson, 59, French athlete and Olympic 400m champion runner, lung cancer.
Dorris Bowdon, 90, American actress, stroke, heart attack.
Al Carmines, 69, American musician.
Marco Cavagna, 46-47, Italian astronomer, stroke.
François Dalle, 87, French entrepreneur, CEO of L'Oréal cosmetics.
Stanley DeSantis, 52, American actor (Tales of the City), designer, heart attack.
Abraham Hirschfeld, 85, Polish-American real estate investor and Broadway producer, cancer.
Detroit Junior, 73, American blues pianist, vocalist and songwriter.
Philip J. Klass, 85, American aviation journalist and UFO sceptic, cancer.
Matthew McGrory, 32, American actor (Big Fish, The Devil's Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses), heart failure.
Judith Rossner, 70, American author (Looking for Mr. Goodbar), diabetes and cancer.
Nikolay Serebryakov, 76, Russian film director.
Kay Tremblay, 91, Canadian actress (Road to Avonlea).




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Mar Amongo, 68, Filipino comic book artist.
Jaroslav Koutecký, 83, Czech physical chemist.
Roy Marlin Voris, 85, American Navy Captain, World War II flying ace, founder of the US Navy Blue Angels.
Masahiro Yamada, 74, Japanese screenwriter, lung cancer.




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Ernesta Ballard, 85, American horticulturist and feminist.
James Booth, 77, British actor (Zulu).
Erkko Kivikoski, 69, Finnish film director and screenwriter.
Manfred Korfmann, 63, German archaeologist, lung cancer.
Ted Radcliffe, 103, American Negro leagues baseball player, cancer.




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Francy Boland, 75, Belgian jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
Robert Bonner, 84, Canadian politician and businessman.
Teruo Ishii, 81, Japanese movie maker, lung cancer.
Lakshman Kadirgamar, 73, Sri Lankan foreign minister, homicide.
John Loder, 59, English sound engineer and record producer, brain cancer.
Charlie Norman, 84, Swedish jazz pianist and film music writer, cancer.
Julian Stanley, 87, American psychologist, "Champion of Gifted Students".
Morciré Sylla, 57, Guinea footballer.
Jack A. Wolfe, 69, American paleobotanist and paleoclimatologist.




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Miguel Arraes, 88, Brazilian politician, governor of Pernambuco.
Wladimiro Calarese, 74, Italian fencer and Olympic medalist.
Arnold Cooke, 98, British composer.
George Daniels, 55, Ghanaian Olympic sprinter.
Armand Deutsch, 92, American film producer and grandson of philanthropist Julius Rosenwald.
William Jennings Bryan Dorn, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from South Carolina (1947–1949 and 1951–1974).
David Lange, 63, New Zealand politician, Prime Minister (1984-1989), kidney failure.
Donald Shively, 84, American japanologist and academic, Shy–Drager syndrome.
Chris Tolos, 75, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.




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Stephen C. Apostolof, 78, Bulgarian-American filmmaker.
Coo Coo Marlin, 73, American NASCAR driver, lung cancer.
Billy More, 40, Italian drag queen music artist, leukemia.
Gordon Oakes, 74, British politician, Labour government minister and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, cancer.
Sheila Piercey Summers, 86, South African tennis player.
Beverly Wolff, 76, American mezzo-soprano.




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Laura Carli, 99, Italian actress and dubber.
Anatoly Demitkov, 77, Soviet canoeist and Olympic silver medalist.
James Dougherty, 84, American police officer, first husband of actress Marilyn Monroe, leukemia.
Peter Smit, 43, Dutch martial artist, former European and world champion kickboxer, shot.
Viktor Spasov, 46, Soviet pole vaulter.
Evelyn Stokes, 68, New Zealand geographer and writer.
Gladys Strum, 99, Canadian politician.
Herta Ware, 88, American actress (Cocoon, Cruel Intentions, Species), Parkinson's disease.
Earl Zindars, 77, American composer of jazz and classical music.




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Karl-Erik Andersson, 78, Swedish football player, bandy player and ice hockey player.
Vassar Clements, 77, American fiddle player and bluegrass musician, lung cancer.
Tonino Delli Colli, 81, Italian cinematographer (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America), heart attack.
William Corlett, 66, English author, cancer.
Subal Das, 76, Bangladeshi music director, composer and football player.
Alexander Gomelsky, 77, Soviet and Russian basketball player and coach, cancer.
Þorsteinn Gylfason, 63, Icelandic philosopher, musician and poet, stomach cancer.
Jay Jackson, 86, American radio and television quiz show host and announcer, pneumonia.
Milorad Pavić, 83, Serbian football player and coach.
Joe Ranft, 45, American animator, screenwriter and voice actor (Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo), car accident.
Eva Renzi, 60, German actress, cancer.
Frère Roger, 90, Swiss Christian leader and monk, founder of the Taizé Community, stabbed.
Derek Page, Baron Whaddon, 77, British politician.




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Richard Altham, 81, English cricketer.
John N. Bahcall, 70, American astrophysicist.
Dottie Hunter, 89, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
Lloyd Meeds, 77, American politician, US Representative from Washington (1965–1979), lung cancer.
Bertram L. Podell, 79, American politician, US Representative from New York (1967–1975).




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Chri$ Ca$h, 23, American professional wrestler, motorcycle accident.
Kenyon Jones, 27, American basketball player, heart attack.
Andrónico Lukšić, 78, Croatian-Chilean billionaire businessman, cancer.
Krzysztof Raczkowski, 34, Polish drummer (Vader), heart failure.
Elza Radziņa, 88, Soviet and Latvian theater and cinema actress, and a master of the spoken word.




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Mansour F. Armaly, 78, Palestinian ophthalmologist and early glaucoma researcher, cancer.
Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, 78, Lithuanian psychologist.
Val Bird, 77,Australian politician.
Michael Collins, 81, American mystery novelist.
Abraham Bueno de Mesquita, 87, Dutch comedian, cancer.
Faimalaga Luka, 65, Tuvaluan politician, prime minister (2001) and governor-general (2003-2005).
O. Madhavan, 83, Indian actor and director.
Mo Mowlam, 55, British politician, complications after a fall.
Oscar Muller, 48, Argentine football player, traffic accident.
Mel Welles, 83, American actor, writer, director.




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Abraham Samuel Goldstein, 80, American law professor, former dean of Yale Law School, heart attack.
Thomas Herrion, 23, American NFL player with the San Francisco 49ers, ischemic heart disease.
Miljenko Kovačić, 32, Croatian soccer player, motorcycle accident.
Julius Curtis Lewis, Jr., 79, American businessman and philanthropist.
Clifford Williams, 78, British theatre director.




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Liv Aasen, 76, Norwegian politician.
Mary Bowerman, 97, American botanist.
Martin Dillon, 48, American musician, operatic tenor and professor of music, heart attack.
Zbigniew Dłubak, 84, Polish painter, photographer, and art theoretician.
Polly Hill, 91, British social anthropologist of West Africa, and academic.
David Ironside, 80, South African cricketer.
James Jerome, 72, Canadian jurist and politician, former Speaker of the House of Commons.
Antoine, 13th Prince of Ligne, 80, Belgian noble and son of Eugène, 11th Prince of Ligne.
Colin McEwan, 64, Australian comedian and actor, cancer.
Robert Moog, 71, American electronic music inventor and pioneer, brain tumor.
Lev Naumov, 80, Russian classical pianist, composer and educator.
Dahlia Ravikovitch, 69, Israeli poet and author.
Marcus Schmuck, 80, Austrian mountaineer, heart attack.
Li Wei, 85, Chinese actor.




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Luc Ferrari, 76, French musique concrète composer.
Henri Génès, 86, French singer and actor.
Richard Kelly, 81, American politician, former US Representative from Florida (1975–1981), dementia.
Ernest Kirkendall, 91, American chemist andmetallurgist.
Elizabeth Knight, 60, British actress (Oliver!, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling), heart disease.
Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane, 87, British judge and former Lord Chief Justice.
James McMillin, 91, American rower.
Juliet Pannett, 94, English portrait painter.
Mati Unt, 61, Estonian writer and theatre director.




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Glenn Corneille, 35, Dutch musician and pianist, car crash.
William J. Eaton, 74, American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author.
Brock Peters, 78, American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, Porgy and Bess, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), pancreatic cancer.
Lyndon Woodside, 70, American choral conductor, pneumonia.
Rémy Zaugg, 62, Swiss painter, primarily.




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Jamshed Ansari, 62, Pakistani actor, brain cancer.
Liu Baiyu, 88, Chinese writer.
Maurice Cowling, 78, British historian.
Ambrogio Fogar, 64, Italian adventurer, heart attack.
Kaleth Morales, 21, Colombian vallenato singer and songwriter, traffic collision.
Tom Pashby, 90, Canadian ophthalmologist and sport safety advocate.
Jerzy Plebański, 77, Polish theoretical physicist.
Yuriy Sarantsev, 76, Soviet and Russian actor, cerebrovascular disease.
Jack Slipper, 81, English Scotland Yard detective.
Herbert Wright, 57, American television producer, prostate cancer.




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Lora Aborn, 98, American composer.
Ruth Aaronson Bari, 87, American mathematician.
Walter Becher, 92, German politician.
Frederick Corfield, 90, British politician.
Peter Glotz, 66, German politician.
Georgi Iliev, 39, Bulgarian businessman and president of Lokomotiv Plovdiv, shot.
Perry Lafferty, 89, American television producer, cancer.
Terence Morgan, 83, British actor, heart attack.
Reyhan, 19, Bulgarian singer, car accident.
Princess Margareta, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 96, German noblewoman.
Joe Strawder, 64, American basketball player.
Josiah Tungamirai, 56, Zimbabwean military officer and politician.
Eleanor Catherine Warren, 86, British cellist and music producer.




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Denis D'Amour, 45, Canadian musician, guitarist of Canadian metal band Voivod, cancer.
Robert Denning, 78, American society interior designer, heart attack.
Louis Ferron, 63, Dutch novelist and poet.
Gerry Fitt, 79, Northern Irish politician, elevated to the House of Lords.
Kostas Manoussakis, 76, Greek film director and screenwriter.
Ed White, 56, Canadian professional wrestler best known as "Moondog King", traffic collision.




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Aldo Aniasi, 84, Italian politician.
Romulo Espaldon, 79, Filipino military officer and diplomat.
Seán Purcell, 76, Irish Gaelic footballer.
Theunis van Schalkwyk, 75, South African boxer and silver medalist at the 1952 Summer Olympics.




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Ali Said Abdella, 55, Eritrean politician, foreign minister of Eritrea, heart attack.
Hans Clarin, 75, German actor, heart failure.
Antoñita Colomé, 93, Spanish film actress.
Jacques Dufilho, 91, French comedian.
Curt Lincoln, 86, Finnish racing driver.
Esther Szekeres, (née Klein), 95, Hungarian mathematician.
George Szekeres, 94, Hungarian mathematician.




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Ishaya Audu, 79, Nigerian politician.
Murray Barnson Emeneau, 101, Canadian-American linguist and indologists.
Jack Luxton, 82, New Zealand politician and dairy farmer.
Nurcholish Madjid, 66, Indonesian Muslim intellectual.
Antonie Plămădeală, 78, Romanian Orthodox metropolitan bishop.
Margaret Daphne Scott, 71, Australian author and poet, pulmonary emphysema.
Jude Wanniski, 69, American journalist and economist, heart attack.




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Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, 115, Dutch supercentenarian, oldest recognized person in the world, gastric cancer.
Fu Biao, 41, Chinese actor, liver cancer.
Stéphane Bruey, 72, French football player.
Teófilo Cruz, 63, Puerto Rican basketball player, cerebral hemorrhage.
Jakup Mato, 68, Albanian publicist and lector of Tirana University.
James H. Scheuer, 85, American politician, US Representative from New York (1965–1973 and 1975–1993).
A. Veerappan, 72, Indian comedian, screenwriter, and film director.




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Eladia Blázquez, 74, Argentine tango player and composer, cancer.
Antoni Clavé, 92, Catalan painter, printmaker, sculptor, and costume designer.
Basudeb Dasgupta, 66, Indian novelist and short-story writer.
Jaan Kiivit, 65, Estonian Lutheran archbishop.
John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, 84, British judge, peer, and Master of the Rolls.
Joseph Rotblat, 96, Polish-British physicist, Nobel laureate, and anti-nuclear weapons campaigner.
H. W. F. Saggs, 84, English classicist and orientalist.
Theodore R. Sarbin, 94, American psychologist.
Michael Sheard, 67, Scottish actor (The Empire Strikes Back), cancer.
Nina Ulyanenko, 81, Russian aviator.
Stefania Woytowicz, 82, Polish concert soprano.




References






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List of August 2005 deaths at IMDb

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