• Source: Deaths in May 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.




May 2004






= 1

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Ejler Bille, 94, Danish artist.
Vladimir Chernyshov, 52, Russian volleyball player and Olympic champion.
Shimon Even, 68, Israeli computer science researcher.
Ram Prakash Gupta, 80, Indian politician.
Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double), heart attack.
Larkin Kerwin, 79, Canadian physicist.
Lojze Kovačič, 75, Slovene writer.
Jean-Jacques Laffont, 57, French economist, cancer.
John Howland Rowe, 85, American archaeologist and anthropologist.




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Moe Burtschy, 82, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack.
Duncan Carse, 91, English explorer and actor.
Nelson Gidding, 84, American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.
Paul Guimard, 83, French writer.
John Hammersley, 84, British mathematician.
Allan Lindberg, 85, Swedish Olympic pole vaulter.
Hyam Maccoby, 80, Jewish-British scholar and dramatist.
Tony Poeta, 71, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).




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Anthony Ainley, 71, British actor (Doctor Who), cancer.
Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, 84, British aristocrat and politician.
Ken Downing, 86, English racing driver.
Darrell Johnson, 75, American MLB catcher and manager, cancer.
Volus Jones, 90, American animator.
Gilbert Lani Kauhi, 66, American actor and comedian, diabetes.
James Mace, 52, American historian, professor, and researcher.
Lygia Pape, 77, Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, and filmmaker.
Derrick Robins, 89, English cricket player and sports promoter.
Vladimir Terebilov, 88, Soviet judge and politician.




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Coxsone Dodd, 72, Jamaican reggae pioneer, heart attack.
Tage Frid, 88, Danish woodworker, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
Hugh Gillin, 78, American actor (Back to the Future Part III).
Torsten Hägerstrand, 87, Swedish geographer, inventor of time geography.
Boris Petrovsky, 95, Soviet and Russian general surgeon.
David Reimer, 39, Canadian gender-reassignment victim, suicide by gunshot.
Erik Smith, 73, German-British music producer.
Jean-Pierre Vigier, 84, French theoretical physicist.




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Thea Beckman, 80, Dutch author of children's books (Crusade in Jeans).
John Cornforth, 66, English architectural historian.
José Maceda, 87, Filipino composer and ethnomusicologist.
Kate Mundt, 74, Danish film actress.
Ritsuko Okazaki, 44, Japanese singer-songwriter and author, sepsis.
František Sláma, 80, Czech chamber music performer.




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Virginia Capers, 78, American actress (Raisin, Lady Sings the Blues, Ferris Bueller's Day Off), Tony winner (1974), pneumonia.
Pepper Gomez, 77, American professional wrestler and bodybuilder, gastritis.
Kjell Hallbing, (aka Louis Masterson), 69, Norwegian author of westerns.
Philip Kapleau, 91, American teacher of Zen Buddhism.
Barney Kessel, 80, American jazz guitarist and studio musician, brain cancer.
James A. Krumhansl, 84, American physicist.
Joe Lafata, 82, American baseball player (New York Giants).
Charlotte Thiele, 85, German actress.
Daniel Thompson, 69, American poet.




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Nick Berg, 26, American businessman and hostage, beheaded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq.
Joseph Crespo, 79, French rugby player.
Douglas John Foskett, 85, British librarian.
Oliver David Jackson, 84, Australian army officer.
William J. Knight, 74, American Vietnam War combat pilot, astronaut and politician, leukemia.
Waldemar Milewicz, 48, Polish war journalist, killed in Iraq.




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Lewis Caine, 39, Australian organised crime figure, murdered during the Melbourne gangland killings.
António Champalimaud, 86, Portuguese banker and industrialist.
Valentin Ezhov, 83, Soviet and Russian screenwriter and playwright, stroke.
Quentin Hughes, 84, British architect and army officer.
Robert P. Multhauf, 84, American science historian, curator, and author.
John Peel, 91, British politician, MP for Leicester South East (1957–1974).
Ronnie Robinson, 53, American basketball player.




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Laxmi Chhaya, 56, Indian actress, dancer and teacher, cancer.
Tommy Farrell, 82, American film and television actor.
Brenda Fassie, 39, South African singer, AIDS-related complications.
Alan Gewirth, 91, American philosopher and author, cancer.
Akhmad Kadyrov, 52, Chechen politician, President of Chechnya, land mine explosion.
Alan King, 76, American comedian and actor, lung cancer.
Wayne McLeland, 79, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
Olive Osmond, 79, American matriarch of the Osmond singing family.
Sido L. Ridolfi, 90, American politician.
Walter H. Stockmayer, 90, American chemist and university teacher.
Percy M. Young, 91, British musicologist.




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Orvar Bergmark, 73, Swedish football player and manager.
Ray Ferritto, 75, American mobster associated with the Cleveland and Los Angeles crime families.
Phil Gersh, 92, American talent and literary agent.
Eric Kierans, 90, Canadian economist and politician.
Portland Mason, 55, British-American child actress and writer.
Ershad Sikder, 49, Bangladeshi politician, criminal, and serial killer, executed.
Ibsen Sørensen, 90, Danish Olympic rower (men's coxed four rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
Dennis Wilshaw, 78, English international footballer, heart attack.




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Mick Doyle, 63, Irish rugby union player and coach, traffic collision.
Danny McLennan, 79, Scottish football player and coach.
Abdul Reza Pahlavi, 79, Iranian royal and member of the Pahlavi dynasty.
Ku Sang, 84, Korean poet.
Alf Valentine, 74, West Indian cricket player.
John Whitehead, 55, American R&B artist, shot.
Giorgos Zongolopoulos, 101, Greek sculptor, painter and architect.




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Álvaro Cardoso, 90, Portuguese football player.
Syd Hoff, 91, American children's author and cartoonist.
John LaPorta, 84, American jazz clarinetist, composer and educator, stroke.
Dave Piontek, 69, American professional basketball player (Rochester / Cincinnati Royals, St. Louis Hawks, Chicago Packers).
John Robson, 54, English footballer, multiple sclerosis (MS).
Alexander Skutch, 99, American naturalist, writer, and ornithologist.




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Kjell Bækkelund, 74, Norwegian classical pianist.
Magnar Estenstad, 79, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic silver medalist.
Bergfrid Fjose, 89, American politician.
Muhammad Nawaz, 79, Pakistani Olympic javelin thrower (men's javelin throw at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics).
Carlo Scarascia-Mugnozza, 84, Italian politician.
Evon Z. Vogt, 86, American cultural anthropologist.




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Rudi Arndt, 77, American politician.
Charlotte Benkner, 114, American supercentenarian, oldest recognized person in United States.
Rip Coleman, 72, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Baltimore Orioles).
Günter Gaus, 74, German journalist and commentator.
Jesús Gil, 71, Spanish businessman and politician, controversial owner of Atlético Madrid football club, stroke.
Bill Hoffman, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
Jack Holland, 56, Irish journalist, novelist, and poet, cancer.
Torsten Johansson, 84, Swedish tennis player.
Anna Lee, 91, British-American actress, pneumonia.
Lu Leonard, 77, American actress.
Shaun Sutton, 84, British television executive.




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Gloria E. Anzaldúa, 61, American writer, academic and feminist, diabetes.
Jack Bradbury, 89, American animator (Pinocchio, Bambi, Fantasia) and comic book artist, kidney failure.
Marius Constant, 79, Romanian-French composer and conductor.
Gill Fox, 88, American political cartoonist, comic book artist, and animator.
Henrique Frade, 69, Brazilian football player.
William H. Hinton, 85, American writer, and marxist, author of Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village.
Narciso Ibáñez Menta, 91, Spanish actor, cardiovascular disease.
Tatsuya Mihashi, 80, Japanese actor.
Robert K. Morgan, 85, American US Air Force pilot, former pilot of the Memphis Belle, injuries from a fall.
Clint Warwick, 63, British bass guitarist (The Moody Blues), hepatitis.




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Riccardo Brengola, 87, Italian violinist and professor.
June Carroll, 87, American lyricist, singer and actress.
Jim Colclough, 68, American gridiron football player.
Simone Del Duca, 91, French businesswoman and philanthropist.
Peter Hill-Norton, Baron Hill-Norton, 89, British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet.
Kamala Markandaya, 80, Indian novelist and journalist.
Marika Rökk, 90, Egyptian-German actress, heart attack.
Billy Stone, 78, American professional football player (Bradley University, Baltimore Colts, Chicago Bears).
June Taylor, 86, American television dancer and choreographer.




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Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, 97, South African naturalist and museum official.
Gunnar Graps, 57, Estonian rock singer and percussionist, heart attack.
Ken Mudford, 81, New Zealand Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
Buster Narum, 63, American baseball Major League Baseball pitcher (Orioles, Senators).
Jørgen Nash, 84, Danish poet and performance artist.
Tony Randall, 84, American actor (Pillow Talk, The Odd Couple, Inherit the Wind), Emmy winner (1975), pneumonia.
James Armstrong Richardson, 82, Canadian member of House of Commons, Minister of Supply and Services, Minister of National Defence.
Cathy Rosier, 59, French model and actress, aneurysm.
Ezzedine Salim, 60–61, Iraqi politician, president of the Iraqi Governing Council.
Enrique Zobel, 77, Filipino businessman, pilot, and polo player.




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Çetin Alp, 56, Turkish singer, heart attack.
Arnold Orville Beckman, 104, American inventor, industrialist and philanthropist.
John Maxwell Cowley, 81, Australian-American physicist and academic.
Heinrich Isser, 76, Austrian Olympic bobsledder.
Elvin Jones, 76, American jazz drummer, John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s, heart attack.
Lincoln Kilpatrick, 72, American actor, lung cancer.
Hyacinthe Thiandoum, 83, Senegalese Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Dakar.




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Mary Dresselhuys, 97, Dutch actress and comedian.
Jack Eckerd, 91, American businessman.
Haruhiko Kindaichi, 91, Japanese linguist and a scholar of kokugogaku.
Melvin J. Lasky, 84, American journalist, intellectual and anti-communist.
Robert David MacDonald, 74, Scottish playwright, translator and theatre director.
Arnold Moore, 90, American blues artist.
John Naka, 89, American horticulturist, teacher, author, and master bonsai cultivator.
E. K. Nayanar, 87, Indian politician, three-time Chief Minister of Kerala, India, heart attack.
Carl Raddatz, 92, German stage and film actor.
Elvio Romero, 77, Paraguayan poet.
Leonid Shcherbakov, 77, Russian triple jumper and Olympic silver medalist.




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Gary Ballman, 63, American gridiron football player.
Lúcio de Castro, 93, Brazilian Olympic pole vaulter.
Sophie Charlotte Ducker, 95, German-Australian botanist.
Stanisław Gronkowski, 82, Polish actor.
Len Murray, 81, British trade union leader, pneumonia.
Claire Wilbur, 70, American actress and Academy Award-winning producer of short films, lung cancer.




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Jean-Pierre Blanc, 62, French film director and screenwriter, cancer.
Proinsias Mac Cana, 77, Academic and Celtic scholar.
June Cochran, 62, American model and beauty queen.
Gunnar Dahlen, 86, Norwegian football player.
Rick Henderson, 76, American jazz alto saxophonist and arranger.
Toshikazu Kase, 101, Japanese civil servant and diplomat, heart attack.
Gene Wood, 78, American television personality and announcer of game shows, lung cancer.




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Richard Biggs, 44, American actor (Babylon 5, Days of Our Lives, Strong Medicine), aortic dissection.
Samuel Curtis Johnson, Jr., 76, American businessman, fourth generation president of SC Johnson company.
Zinovy Korogodsky, 77, Russian theater director and academic.
Alexandr Savko, 37, Belarusian wrestler, heart attack.
Mikhail Voronin, 59, Russian gymnast, double Olympic champion, cancer.




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Adele Leigh, 75, English operatic soprano, heart attack.
Ramon Margalef, 85, Spanish biologist and ecologist.
Trudy Marshall, 84, American actress, lung cancer.
Harry Preston, 72, Canadian Olympic field hockey player (Field hockey at the 1964 Summer Olympics).
Maxime Rodinson, 89, French historian, sociologist and orientalist.




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Ya'akov Grundman, 64, Polish-Israeli football player and manager, cancer.
Prentice Marshall, 77, American district judge, bladder cancer.
Henry Ries, 86, American photographer, known for his photos of the 1948 Berlin Air Lift.
Milton Shulman, 90, Canadian author, film and theatre critic.
Edward Wagenknecht, 104, American literary critic and teacher.




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Nikolai Chernykh, 72, Soviet and Russian astronomer.
David Dellinger, 88, American antiwar activist, member of Chicago Eight.
Antonia Ivanova, 74, Bulgarian grandmaster chess player.
Nicholas Luard, 66, British writer and politician.
Robert P. Sharp, 92, American geomorphologist and expert on the geology of Earth and Mars.
Roger Williams Straus, Jr., 87, American publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).




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Robert Chapman, 81, New Zealand political scientist and historian.
Gino de Pellegrín, 77, Argentine Olympic alpine skier.
Rewata Dhamma, 74, Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and scholar.
Sir Donald Cameron of Lochiel, 93, Scottish landowner and a financier.




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Umberto Agnelli, 69, Italian industrialist, head of Fiat, lymphoma.
Denis ApIvor, 88, British composer.
Patience Cleveland, 73, American actress (Donnie Darko, Psycho III, General Hospital), cancer.
Ladislav Hecht, 94, Czechoslovak tennis player.
Jim Marshall, 63, British Labour MP, heart attack.
Mikhail Postnikov, 76, Soviet mathematician, known for his work in algebraic and differential topology.
Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp, 61, German-American architect, stomach cancer.
Ronald Smith, 82, British classical pianist and teacher.
Werner Tübke, 74, German painter.




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Michael Alison, 77, British Privy Council member, minister and MP.
Gerald Anthony, 52, American actor, best known for playing Marco Dane on the TV show One Life to Live, suicide.
Vittore Branca, 90, Philologist, literary critic, and Italian academic.
Harvey Brooks, 88, American physicist.
Francis Brunn, 81, German juggler.
Josie Carey, 73, American lyricist, host of children's show "Children's Corner".
Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, 82, French photographer.
Jerzy Klempel, 51, Polish Olympic handball player and coach.
Irene Manning, 91, American actress and singer (Yankee Doodle Dandy), heart failure.
Catherine Dean May, 90, American politician.




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Lawrence Rosario Abavana, 84, Ghanaian politician and teacher.
Anjuman Ara Begum, 62, Bangladeshi vocalist, pneumonia.
Barry Brown, 42, Jamaican reggae singer, head trauma following fall.
Zebedy Colt, 74, American actor, musician, and adult film director.
Archibald Cox, 92, American lawyer, Watergate special prosecutor.
Samuel Dash, 79, American lawyer, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal, heart failure.
Magne Havnå, 40, Norwegian professional boxer, boating accident.
Jack Rosenthal, 72, British television dramatist, multiple myeloma.
Forrest Tucker, 83, American career criminal.
Ivica Šerfezi, 68, Croatian pop singer, stomach cancer.




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Fenner Albert Chace, 95, American carcinologist.
Raymond M. Clausen, Jr., 56, American marine, Medal of Honour recipient, liver failure.
Alfred Coppel, 82, American author.
Gérard de Sède, 82, French author.
Rafał Kurmański, 21, Polish speedway rider, suicide by hanging.
Nizamuddin Shamzai, 51, Pakistani Sunni Islamic scholar, assassinated.
Ed Stanczak, 82, American basketball player (Anderson Packers, Boston Celtics).
Klavdiya Tochonova, 82, Soviet Olympic shot putter.




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Lionel Abrahams, 76, South African novelist, poet, critic, and publisher.
Pierre Duval, 71, French-Canadian operatic tenor.
Artimus Parker, 52, American professional football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New York Jets).
Robert Quine, 61, American punk rock guitarist, suicide by heroin overdose.
Étienne Roda-Gil, 62, French songwriter, screenwriter and anarchist, stroke.




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List of May 2004 deaths at IMDb

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