• Source: Deaths in May 2005

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.




May 2005






= 1

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Albert Rex Bergstrom, 79, New Zealand econometrician.
Motibhai Chaudhary, 81, Indian politician.
Neville Gruzman, 80, Australian architect, writer and architectural activist.
Rene Rivkin, 60, Australian stockbroker, suicide.




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Renée Faure, 86, French actress.
Robert Hunter, 63, Canadian environmentalist, journalist, and co-founder of Greenpeace, prostate cancer.
Theo Middelkamp, 91, Dutch cyclist and first Dutch world champion.
Jack Nichols, 67, American gay rights activist, cancer.
Börje Nyberg, 85, Swedish actor and film director.
Raisa Struchkova, 79, Russian dancer and People's Artist of the USSR.
David Tyrrell, 79, British virologist.
Wee Kim Wee, 89, Singaporean politician, fourth President of Singapore from 1985 to 1993, prostate cancer.




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Jagjit Singh Aurora, 89, Indian army general.
Don Canham, 87, American track and field athlete, University of Michigan athletic director, accidental death.
Michel Maurice-Bokanowski, 92, French politician.
Bobby Forrest, 73, English footballer.
Pierre Moerlen, 52, French drummer and percussionist.
Willi Steffen, 80, Swiss football player.




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Mark Boyle, 70, Scottish artist.
Else Christensen, 92, Danish heathenism figure and white separatist.
David Hackworth, 74, American Vietnam War] veteran and journalist, bladder cancer.
Michael Kernan, 78, American author and journalist.
Joyce Lambert, 88, British botanist and ecologist, bronchopneumonia.
David McKee, 86, Australian politician.
Magdolna Nyári-Kovács, 83, Hungarian fencer and Olympic silver medalist.
Luis Taruc, 91, Filipino communist revolutionary figure and resistance leader during World War II.




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Ted Atkinson, 88, Canadian-American Hall of Fame jockey, stroke.
Elisabeth Fraser, 85, American actress (The Phil Silvers Show, A Patch of Blue, One Happy Family).
June MacCloy, 96, American actress.
Skip Minisi, 78, American football player.
Édgar Ponce, 30, Mexican actor, traffic collision during the filming of video for "Sólo para mujeres".




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Luis Caballero, 42, Paraguayan footballer, homicide.
Rafael Díaz-Balart, 79, Cuban politician, opponent and former brother-in-law of Fidel Castro, leukemia.
Joe Grant, 96, American animator and screenwriter (Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland, Pocahontas), heart attack.
Ernestine Lebrun, 99, French Olympic freestyle swimmer.
Herb Sargent, 81, American television comedy writer, heart attack.
Lee Stine, 91, American MLB baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees), stroke.




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Václav Boštík, 91, Czech artist.
Bruce Duncan, 76, Australian politician.
Tristan Egolf, 33, American author, suicide by gunshot.
Peter W. Rodino, 95, American politician and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment process against Richard Nixon, heart attack.
Otilino Tenorio, 25, Ecuadorian football player, traffic collision.




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Wolfgang Blochwitz, 64, German footballer.
Jean Carrière, 76, French writer.
Rafiqul Bari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cinematographer and director.
Lloyd Cutler, 87, American attorney, former White House Counsel under Presidents Carter and Clinton.
Nasrat Parsa, 37, Afghan singer, beaten.
Nino Terzo, 81, Italian actor.
Gianpietro Zappa, 49, Swiss football player.




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Jacques Dohen, 75, French hurdler.
Ang Kiukok, 74, Filipino painter.
Chris Kreski, 42, American writer, biographer and screenwriter, cancer.
Charles Morrison, 72, British landowner and Conservative politician.
Akihiko Saito, 44, Japanese hostage in Iraq, murdered.
Tiny Wharton, 77, British football referee.




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Romy Diaz, 63, Filipino actor.
Hal Griggs, 76, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
Jim Love, 78, American sculptor.
Jay Marshall, 85, American magician and ventriloquist, dean of the Society of American Magicians, heart attack.
Govind Narayan Singh, 84, Indian politician.
David Wayne, 47, American singer of the heavy metal group Metal Church, accidental death.




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Léo Cadieux, 96, Canadian politician and diplomat.
Michalis Genitsaris, 86, Greek rebetiko singer and composer.
Bob Stuart, 84, New Zealand rugby player.
Percy Trezise, 82, Australian painter, writer and explorer.




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Noël Deschamps, 96, Australian public servant and diplomat.
Evaristo Iglesias, 79, Cuban Olympic sprinter.
Ömer Kavur, 60, Turkish film director, producer, and screenwriter, lymphoma.
Frankie LaRocka, 51, American rock musician and producer, complications following heart surgery.
Martin Lings, 96, English writer, scholar, philosopher and arabist.
Gunnar Nilsson, 82, Swedish heavyweight boxer and Olympic silver medalist.
Sara Qadimova, 82, Azerbaijani khananda singer.
Owen Wilkes, 65, New Zealand entomologist, conservationist and peace campaigner, suicide.
Monica Zetterlund, 67, Swedish singer and actress, conflagration.
Ladislau Șimon, 53, Romanian super-heavyweight freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist, stroke.




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Eddie Barclay, 84, French record producer and founder of Barclay Records.
George Bernard Dantzig, 90, American mathematician, "father of linear programming", diabetes.
Hugh Montefiore, 85, English Bishop of Birmingham and environmental activist with Friends of the Earth.
Raymond Redheffer, 84, American mathematician.
Michael Bruce Ross, 45, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
Utpala Sen, 81, Indian Bengali playback singer.
Victor Sproles, 77, American jazz bassist.
Adriano Zamboni, 71, Italian racing cyclist.
Miroslav Šutej, 69, Croatian avant-garde painter and graphic artist.




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Michael Carson, 57, Australian television director, pancreatic cancer.
Jimmy Martin, 77, American bluegrass singer, bladder cancer.
Helvécio Martins, 74, Brazilian LDS leader.
Mary Treadgold, 95, English author, literary editor and BBC producer, cancer.




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Vakha Arsanov, Chechen warlord and vice president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, killed.
Les Bartley, 51, Canadian coach of the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League, colon cancer.
Alan B. Gold, 88, Canadian Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court.
Natalya Gundareva, 56, Russian actress, stroke.
Aulis Kallakorpi, 76, Finnish ski jumper and Olympic silver medalist (1956).
Mahipal, 86, Indian film actor, cardiac arrest.
Amadeus Webersinke, 84, German pianist and organist.




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L. Bruce Archer, 82, British mechanical engineer and designer.
Rees Davies, 66, Welsh historian.
Andrew Goodpaster, 90, American army general and former leader of NATO, prostate cancer.
June Lang, 90, American actor.
José M. López, 94, Mexican US Army soldier during World War II and Medal of Honor recipient.
Arthur Naftalin, 87, American politician, former mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, suicide from height.




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Keiiti Aki, 75, Japanese seismologist.
Piero Dorazio, 77, Italian painter.
Frank Gorshin, 71, American actor (Batman, 12 Monkeys, That Darn Cat!), cancer.
Vladimir Stogov, 74, Russian weightlifter, world champion, and Olympic medalist.
Ismail Yusupov, 91, Soviet Uyghur First Secretary of the Kazakh SSR.




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Alf Arrowsmith, 62, English football player.
Gergely Pongrátz, 73, Hungarian anti-communist.
Shaima Rezayee, 24, Afghan TV presenter, shot.
Bobby Thompson, 67, American banjoist (Area Code 615).
Whayne Wilson, 29, Costa Rican footballer, traffic collision.
Denis Wright, 94, British diplomat, prostate cancer.
Stella Zázvorková, 83, Czech actress, heart attack.




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John Arthur, 85, South African boxer.
Henry Corden, 85, Canadian voice actor (The Flintstones, The Ten Commandments, Jonny Quest), emphysema.
Batya Gur, 57, Israeli author, lung cancer.
Richard Lewine, 94, American Broadway composer and TV producer.
Paul Schneider-Esleben, 89, German architect.
Milton A. Wolf, 80, American diplomat, investment banker and real estate developer, lymphoma.
Victor Wouk, 86, American scientist and electrical engineer, cancer.




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J. D. Cannon, 83, American actor (McCloud, Cool Hand Luke, Raise the Titanic).
Marian Foik, 71, Polish Olympic sprinter.
Joseph Levis, 99, American foil fencer and Olympic medalist.
Paul Ricœur, 92, French philosopher and teacher.
Lujo Tončić-Sorinj, 90, Austrian diplomat and politician, former Foreign Minister of Austria.
Richard Q. Twiss, 84, British astronomer.
Harriet White Medin, 91, American actress (Death Race 2000, The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, The Terminator).




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Stephen Elliott, 86, American actor (Arthur, Beverly Hills Cop, Dallas), heart attack.
Bedford Jezzard, 77, English footballer, former Fulham F.C. football player and manager.
David Lang, 37, American NFL football player (Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys), shot.
Howard Morris, 85, American voice actor (The Flintstones, Garfield and Friends, Police Academy).
Subodh Mukherjee, 84, Indian filmmaker, leukemia.




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Charilaos Florakis, 91, Greek politician, secretary general of the Communist Party of Greece (1972–1989), heart attack.
Bertha Harris, 67, American lesbian novelist.
Vitaly Mukha, 69, Ukrainian-Russian politician.
Thurl Ravenscroft, 91, American voice actor (Tony the Tiger, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!), prostate cancer.




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John Albano, 82, American comic book writer (Jonah Hex).
Sígfrid Gràcia, 73, Spanish footballer.
Ernst Jakob Henne, 101, German motorcycle racer and racecar driver.
Tetsuya Ishida, 31, Japanese painter, railway accident.
Derek Ratcliffe, 75, British conservationist.
Roderick Wright, 64, Scottish Roman Catholic bishop, renounced the office of bishop.




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Carl Amery, 83, German writer.
Roger Dwyre, 91, French film editor.
Arthur Haulot, 91, Belgian journalist, member of the resistance during World War II, thrombosis.
Michalis Kousis, 51, Greek Olympic long-distance runner, heart problems.
Vivian Liberto, 71, American homemaker and author.
Marian Oleś, 70, Polish prelate of the Catholic Church.
Saeed Khan Rangeela, 68, Pakistani actor, singer and director, kidney failure.




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Sunil Dutt, 75, Indian Bollywood actor and Union Minister, India, heart attack.
Robert Jankel, 67, British limousine designer, pancreatic cancer.
Graham Kennedy, 71, Australian TV celebrity and comedian, pneumonia.
Vera Komarkova, 62, Czech-American mountaineer and botanist, complications of breast cancer treatment.
Ruth Laredo, 67, American pianist.
Ismail Merchant, 68, Indian-British film producer, ulcer.
Jurij Moskvitin, 67, Danish classical pianist, philosopher, and mathematician.
Zoran Mušič, 96, Slovene painter, graphic artist and draughtsman.
Ben Peters, 71, American country music songwriter.
Domenic Troiano, 59, Canadian guitarist, cancer.




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Eddie Albert, 99, American actor (Roman Holiday, Green Acres, The Heartbreak Kid), pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.
Chico Carrasquel, 77, Venezuelan MLB baseball player, heart attack.
Israel Epstein, 90, Polish-Chinese communist journalist and author.
Joe Lee Johnson, 75, American NASCAR racing driver, cancer.
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana, 89, Burkinabe politician, former president of Burkina Faso.
Krzysztof Nowak, 29, Polish football player for VfL Wolfsburg and the Poland national team, ALS.
Radius Prawiro, 76, Indonesian economist and politician, Minister of Finance (1983-1988).
Jim Ray, 60, American baseball player.
Dale Velzy, 77, American surfboard shaper.




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Abuzar Aydamirov, 71, Chechen writer.
Morris Cohen, 93, American metallurgist.
Franco Diogene, 57, Italian actor and comedian, heart attack.
Fay Godwin, 74, British photographer.
Piotr Gładki, 33, Polish Olympic long-distance runner, traffic collision.
Max Lundgren, 68, Swedish author of children's books.




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Clair Armstrong Callan, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Nebraska (1965–1967).
Rosette Batarda Fernandes, 89, Portuguese botanist, taxonomist, and curator.
John Sidney Garrett, 83, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
Arnie Morton, 83, American restaurateur, founder of Morton's of Chicago steakhouses, Alzheimer's disease.
Jean Négroni, 84, French actor and theatre director.
Avner Shaki, 79, Israeli politician.




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Oscar Brown, Jr., 78, American musician, playwright, and activist.
Patsy Calton, 56, British politician and Member of Parliament, cancer.
John D'Amico, 67, Canadian NHL linesman and later supervisor of officials, leukemia.
María de los Ángeles Alvariño González, 88, Spanish oceanographer.
Joseph Karth, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Minnesota (1959–1977).
Hamilton Naki, 78, South African surgeon.
Svatopluk Pluskal, 74, Czechoslovak footballer, stroke.
George Rochberg, 86, American composer.
Luciano Rossi, 70, Italian film actor.
Kazimierz Urbanik, 75, Polish mathematician.
Gé van Dijk, 81, Dutch football player and coach.




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Takanohana Kenshi, (née Mitsuru Hanada), 55, Japanese sumo wrestler, aka "The Prince of Sumo", cancer.
Jan Knappert, 78, Dutch linguist.
Fazal Mahmood, 78, Pakistani cricket captain, heart attack.
Hans Martin, 92, Swiss racing cyclist.
Arnold Pomerans, 85, German-British translator.
Vladimir Savon, 64, Ukrainian chess player.
Herbert Warren Wind, 88, American sportswriter.




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Emily Blatch, Baroness Blatch, 67, British politician and life peer, pancreatic cancer.
Archil Gomiashvili, 79, Soviet Georgian actor, lung cancer.
Jaime Mendoza-Nava, 79, Bolivian-American composer and conductor.
Windland Smith Rice, 35, American nature and animal photographer, long QT syndrome.
Grisélidis Réal, 75, Swiss writer and sex worker, cancer.
Eduardo Teixeira Coelho, 86, Portuguese comic book artist.




References






External links


List of May 2005 deaths at IMDb

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