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Deaths in 2004See also: Deaths in 2005. The following is a list of figures who died in 2004. * 31 George Wackenhut, 85, founder of Wackenhut Corporation* 31 Gerard Debreu, 83, Nobel prize winner * 31 John E. Chataway, 57, Nova Scotia politician * 31 Bob Karstens, 89, former member of the Harlem Globetrotters* 31 Peter Farago, 86, Hungarian born physicist * 30 Artie Shaw, 94, American jazz musician * 29 William Boyett, 77, American actor* 29 Liddy Holloway, 57, New Zealand actress, writer * 29 Julius Axelrod, 92, American biochemist, Nobel prize winner * 29 Ken Burkhart, 89, former major league baseball pitcher and umpire * 28 Jerry Orbach, 69, American actor, prostate cancer* 28 Susan Sontag, 71, American author* 27 Hank Garland, 74, American country, rock, and jazz guitarist* 27 Heorhiy Kyrpa, 58, Ukrainian Transport Minister, found shot * 26 Sir Tristan Antico, Italian-born Australian industrialist, founder of Pioneer Concrete (now Hanson) * 26 Troy Broadbridge, 24, Melbourne AFL Player, Asian tsunami victim [ 1] * 26 Bhumi Jensen, 21, Thai prince, Asian tsunami victim * 26 Robert Whymant, 60, former Times correspondent and author, Asian tsunami victim * 26 Dr. Marianne Heiberg, 59, Oslo accords mediator * 26 Eddie Layton, 77, organist for the New York Yankees for 38 seasons * 26 Dr. Jonathan Drummond-Webb, 45, heart surgeon * 26 Reggie White, 43, player * 26 Sir Angus Ogilvy, 76, husband of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent* 25 Anthony Preston, 66, naval historian and writer * 25 Gennady Strekalov, 64, former Russian cosmonaut* 25 Jane Muskie, 77, widow of politician Edmund Muskie* 24 Sir Anthony Meyer, 84, former British politician * 24 Capt. Richard Wallace Annand VC, 90, first soldier whose actions in World War II resulted in a Victoria Cross * 24 Johnny Oates, 58, former Major League Baseball manager * 23 John W. Duarte, 85, classical guitarist * 23 Heera Lal Devpura, 79, Rajasthan Congress Party politician, chief minister of Rajasthan briefly during 1985 * 23 P. V. Narasimha Rao, 83, 9th Prime Minister of India ( 1991- 1996) * 22 Doug Ault, 54, former Major League Baseball player, suicide* 22 Rudi Kolak, 86, former Bosnian communist politician, chairman of the Bosnian executive council from 1965 to 1967 * 21 Lennart Bernadotte, 95, Swedish prince * 21 Lucile Layton, 101, member of the Ziegfeld Follies in the 1920s and also a silent film actress for D.W. Griffith* 20 Jack Newfield, 66, American newspaper columnist from New York, kidney and lung cancer * 20 Son Seals, 62, American blues musician * 20 Tony Van Bridge, 87, British television and stage actor * 19 Michael Alexander, 84, English soldier and "Prominente" PoW * 19 Mamdouh Edwan, 63, Syrian playwright and poet * 19 Mel Gabler (89), Texas conservative textbook reviewer * 19 Renata Tebaldi, 82, Italian opera singer * 19 Herbert C. Brown, 92, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on boron* 18 Princess Kikuko, 92, oldest member of Japanese imperial family * 18 Anthony Sampson, 78, British journalist and author * 18 Vijay Hazare, 89, former Indian cricket captain * 18 Albert Nordengen, 81, former mayor of Oslo, Norway* 18 Barry Corbet, 68, member of first American team to climb Mount Everest* 17 Dick Heckstall-Smith, 70, saxophone player (Colosseum, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, etc.) * 17 Tom Wesselmann, 73, American pop artist* 16 Ted Abernathy, 71, American baseball player * 16 Bobby Mattick, 89, American former baseball player and manager * 16 Agnes Martin, 92, American abstract painter * 16 Lawrence O'Brien, 53, Member of the Canadian House of Commons* 16 Freddie Perren, 61, American Grammy Award winning producer * 15 George Campbell, 92, linguist and polymath* 15 Athena Starwoman, mid-50s, astrologer, breast cancer * 15 Lorenzo "Larry" J. Ponza Jr., 86, baseball pitching machine innovator [ 2] * 15 Rodney Kennedy-Minott, 76, former United States Ambassador to Sweden* 15 Pauline Lafon Gore, 92, mother of former US vice-president Al Gore, wife of Albert Gore, Sr.* 15 Jim Holliday, pornographic film producer and historian, complications from diabetes * 15 Chiang Fang-liang, 88, the widow of Chiang Ching-kuo and the First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988* 14 Candice Daly, 41, American actor* 14 Rod Kanehl, 70, who hit the first grand slam in the Mets history * 14 Harry Bowcott, 97, Rugby Union player for Wales and London Welsh* 14 Sidonie Goossens, 105, British harpist [ 3] * 14 Fernando Poe, Jr., 65, Filipino actor and former presidential candidate * 13 Alex Soria, 39, guitarist for the punk rock band The Nils* 13 Andre Rodgers, 70, first Bahamian to play in Major League Baseball* 13 Syed Mir Qasim, 83, chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1971 to 1975 * 13 David Wheeler, 77, computer scientist * 13 Bernarda Bryson Shahn, 101, painter, lithographer, widow of Ben Shahn* 12 Peter Doyle, 72, Australian fish restauranteur * 12 Phaswane Mpe, 34, South African novelist, unknown illness * 11 Antonio R. Barcelo Jimenez, 51, lawyer and nephew of former Puerto Rican Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo, his daughters Yahaira, 24, and Laura, 15, murdered * 11 Bernard Lansky, 80, cartoonist * 11 John W. Culligan, 88, former CEO of American Home Products* 11 Arthur Lydiard, 87, athletics coach * 11 Harvey "Bum" Bright, 84, former owner of the Dallas Cowboys* 11 M.S. Subbulakshmi, 88, Carnatic musician * 11 José Luis Cuciuffo, 42, 1986 Football World Cup champion, hunting accident * 10 Gary Webb, 49, investigative reporter who broke story about CIA involvement with crack cocaine dealers in Southern California in the 1980s, dead of apparent suicide * 10 Bob King, 81, college basketball coach * 9 Kim Dong Jo, 86, foreign minister of South Korea from 1973 to 1975 * 9 Kevin Keogh, 55, Phoenix, Arizona's chief financial officer, jumped off his moving car, behavior possibly caused by cystercosis* 9 Philippe Gigantes, 81, former Canadian senator, cancer * 9 David Brudnoy, 64, Boston radio talk show host, cancer * 9 Sergey Voychenko, 49, an artist and designer from Minsk, Belarus* 9 Sir Peter Emery, 78, politician * 9 Lea De Mae, 27, pornographic film actress, brain cancer* 8 Lord Scarman, 93, Life peer, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1977- 86* 8 Darrell Abbott (Diamond Darrell, Dimebag Darrell), 38, former Pantera guitarist, shot to death in Columbus, Ohio [ 4] * 8 Jackson Mac Low, 82, poet* 8 Lester Tanzer, 75, former U.S. News and World Report managing editor, Parkinson's disease [ 5] * 7 Frederick Fennell, 90, conductor, founder of Eastman Wind Ensemble* 7 Jay Van Andel, 80, co-founder and former chairman of Amway* 7 Jerry Scoggins, 93, sang The Beverly Hillbillies' theme song "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" * 7 Allen Haskell, 69, nurseryman * 6 Enrique Salinas, 52, brother of former president of Mexico Carlos Salinas, asphyxiation* 6 Raymond Goethals, 83, Belgian soccer coach * 5 " Manzanita", 48, Flamenco singer [ 6] * 5 Hicham Zerouali, 27, Moroccan soccer player, car accident - drove car into tree * 5 Christiano Junior, 24, Brazilian soccer player, cardiac arrest after on-field collison * 4 Tom Fitzgerald, 53, University of Tampa soccer coach * 4 Teofil Peter, 50, Romanian rock musician, car accident * 4 Elena Souliotis, 61, Greek soprano * 3 Maria Perschy, 66, Austrian film/stage/TV actress * 3 Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Duke of Leinster* 3 Shiing-Shen Chern, 93, mathematician * 3 Josef Schwammberger, 92, former Nazi labor camp commander * 2 Nadine Shamir, 32, singer/songwriter * 2 Kevin Coyne, 60, musician and author * 2 Mona Van Duyn, 83, former US Poet Laureate, bone cancer * 2 Dame Alicia Markova, 94, ballerina * 2 Larry Buchanan, 81, film director * 1 David Vienneau, 53, Canadian journalist, pancreatic cancer* 1 Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, 93, father of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands [ 7] * 1 Bill Brown, 73, former goalkeeper for Tottenham Hotspur and Scotland* 1 Emma Verona Johnston, 114, supercentenarian, oldest documented person in the United States* 1 Fathi Arafat, 71, brother of Yasser Arafat and founder of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society * 1 William B. Sackheim, 84, television producer, co-screenwriter of the movie First Blood, son of director Daniel Sackheim* 30 Alexei Khvostenko, 64, Russian poet, artist, musician, heart attack in Moscow hospital * 30 Pierre Berton, 84, Canadian author and journalist, diabetes complications * 29 Harry Danning, MLB All-Star catcher who played with the New York Giants* 29 Billy James Hargis, 78, American Christian minister, missionary and anti-communist political activist * 29 Sister Anne Samson, 113, oldest recognized living Canadian and oldest nun ever documented * 29 John Monckton, 49, British city financier, murdered * 29 John Drew Barrymore, 72, actor, member of the Barrymore family, father of Drew Barrymore* 29 Molly Weir, 94, Scottish TV and radio actress* 29 Irwin Donenfeld, 78, DC Comics executive * 28 Lucas Molina, 20, Argentinean football player, cardiac arrest* 28 Albert Dorskind, 82, MCA executive who created the Universal Studios tour * 28 Leroy F. Aarons, 70, American journalist, founder of the NLGJA* 27 John Dunn, 70, Scottish BBC Radio 2 disc jockey, cancer* 27 Gunder Hägg, 85, Swedish athlete * 27 Gene Greif, 50, American illustrator of 1970s and 1980s album covers * 27 Stephen Girard, Jr., 91, introduced the Jeep to civilians * 26 Hans Schaffner, 95, Swiss politician and Federal Councilor in the 1960s, President of the Confederation in 1966 * 26 Philippe de Broca, 71, French film director; cancer * 26 Bill Alley, 85, Anglo- Australian cricketer and cricket umpire in 10 tests* 26 Tom Haller, 67, All-Star baseball catcher for the San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers and was later the Giants' general manager * 26 Hannes Walter, 51, Estonian war historian * 25 David Bailey, 71, actor ( Passions), drowning * 25 Ed Paschke, 65, American artist, heart attack * 25 Bob Haney, 78, comic book writer, co-creator of the Teen Titans and Doom Patrol* 24 Joseph Hansen, 81, groundbreaking mystery author * 24 Elijah Mwangale, 65, Kenyan politician, former member of Parliament, and foreign minister from 1983 to 1987, heart attack * 24 James Wong, 64, Hong Kong lyricist, actor, director, talk show host and author * 24 Larry Brown, 53, author, novelist * 24 Arthur Hailey, 84, author, suspected stroke * 23 Rafael Eitan, 75, Israeli politician and former chief of staff, drowned * 23 Frances Chaney, 89, wife of Ring Lardner Jr., member of the 1950s Hollywood Blacklist* 22 Arthur Hopcraft, 71, author, journalist, and playwright * 21 Marcella Humphrey, 112, supercentenarian* 20 Ancel Keys, 100, scientist; co-invented the K ration used in World War II* 20 Janine Haines, 59, former leader of the Australian Democrats* 20 David Grierson, 49, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio and television host * 20 Jimmy Tapp, 86, Canadian television personality * 20 Celso Furtado, 84, Brazilian economist * 19 Helmut Griem, 72, German film actor Cabaret* 19 Terry Melcher, 62, musician, producer and son of Doris Day, melanoma* 19 Fred H. Hale, Sr., 113, supercentenarian, oldest recognized living man * 19 Sir John Vane, 77, shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in medicine for work in discovering how aspirin works * 19 Trina Schart Hyman, 65, American illustrator of children's books, of cancer * 18 Alfred Maseng, political figure in Vanuatu, (age and cause of death unreported) * 18 Robert Bacher, 99, one of the developers of the atom bomb* 18 Cy Coleman, 75, composer of Broadway musicals* 18 Juan Carlos Cardinal Aramburu, 92, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal since 1976* 18 Bobby Frank Cherry, 74, convicted in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing* 17 Thomas Dibblee Jr., 93, geologist* 17 Alexander Ragulin, 63, Soviet ice hockey player, 10-time IIHF World Champion and 3-time Olympic gold medalist * 17 Lena Townsend, 93, former leader of the Inner London Education Authority* 17 Mikael Ljungberg, 34, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide * 17 Dr. Samuel Billison, 79, code talker* 16 Margaret Hassan, 59, chief of the humanitarian relief organization CARE International, killed by hostage takers in Iraq (unconfirmed, but presumed dead) * 16 Reed Irvine, 82, founder of Accuracy in Media* 16 Walter Mintz, 75, co-founder of one of the country's first hedge funds* 15 Colin Coulthard, 83, English Air-Vice Marshal & RAF fighter pilot * 15 Elmer Andersen, 95, former Minnesota governor * 15 John Morgan, 74, comedian; former member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce* 15 John Seaton, prominent in New Zealand Harness Racing, multimillionaire accused of doping horses, suicide * 15 Adam Young, 91, broadcast entrepreneur, stroke * 14 Michel Colombier, 65, composer, cancer * 14 Evelyn "50K Treasure Chest" West, 80, famous stripper and pin-up girl during the 1940s and 1950s. Found dead in her apartment * 14 Langdon Brown Gilkey, 85, American Christian Protestant Ecumenical theologian (b. 1919) * 13 John Balance, 42, member of Coil, accident * 13 Ellen Fairclough, 99, first female Canadian cabinet minister* 13 Harry Lampert, 88, comic book and advertising artist, artistic co-creator of The Flash, author of instructional books on Contract bridge, cancer * 13 Ol' Dirty Bastard (Russell Jones), 35, rapper, drug abuse * 13 Piet Bijvelds, 62, Dutch rally racing co-driver, killed during Luxembourg Rally * 13 Fred Diament, 81, outspoken Holocaust survivor who testified at the Nuremberg trials * 13 Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer * 12 Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer * 12 Mike Smith, 62, English cricketer, heart attack * 12 Stanislaw Skalski, Polish pilot * 12 Lelio Marino, 69, owner of Modern Continental group, unknown causes * 12 Norman Rose, 87, radio and TV actor, All My Children voice of Juan Valdez* 12 Linda Murray, 91, English art historian* 12 Harry Hargreaves, 82, English Punch cartoonist * 11 Dayton Allen, 85, comedian and voice of the cartoon character Deputy Dawg and Mayor Phineas T. Bluster on The Howdy Doody Show * 11 Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestine Liberation Organization leader, President of the Palestinian Authority, cirrhosis [ 8] * 11 Richard Dembo, 56, César Award-winning French director * 10 Erna Rosenstein, 91, Polish surrealist painter and poet * 9 Emlyn Hughes, 57, English footballer, brain tumour* 9 Iris Chang, 36, historian, author, suicide* 8 Melba Phillips, 97, American physicist & educator, coronary artery disease* 8 Lennox Miller, 58, Jamaican Olympic athlete, cancer* 8 Eddie Charlton, 75, Australian snooker player * 8 Emma Roca Rodrigo, 85, Spanish revolutionary* 7 Howard Keel, 85, American actor and singer, colon cancer* 7 Gibson Kente, 72, South African playwright, AIDS* 7 Xavier Malouin, 12, Canadian Teenager, Homicide* 6 Andrew Veal, 25, Self inflicted gunshot wound at World Trade Center Ground Zero * 6 Pete Jolly, 72, Jazz pianist [ 9] * 6 Elizabeth Rogers, 70, American actress Lt. Palmer on Star Trek, multiple strokes and lung cancer* 6 Johnny Warren, 61, Australian soccer player, coach, ethnic community advocate; lung cancer* 6 Fred Dibnah, 66, British steeplejack and television presenter * 5 Donald Jones, 72, American-born Dutch comedian, singer, dancer and actor, first black Dutch celebrity * 4 Robert Heaton, 43, British composer and drummer of punk-rock band New Model Army, pancreatic cancer* 4 Ellen Meloy, 58, American author * 4 Kristin Smedvig, 83, violin soloist and teacher * 3 Joe Bushkin, 87, Swing Era pianist [ 10] * 3 Richard Hongisto, 67, former sheriff of San Francisco, California and Cleveland, Ohio, heart attack* 3 Sergei Zholtok, 32, ice hockey player, heart failure due to cardiac arrhythmia* 2 Virginia Muise, 111, probably oldest living New Englander* 2 Basil Thompson, 67, Ballet master * 2 Gerrie Knetemann, 53, Dutch cyclist (World Champion in 1978), heart attack* 2 Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, 86, Emir of Abu Dhabi* 2 Gustaaf Cardinal Joos, 81, Belgian Cardinal* 2 Theo van Gogh, 47, Dutch cineast and writer, murdered * 1 Evelyn Ruth Moseley Lathan, 74, jazz, blues and gospel pianist * 1 Lord Hanson, 82, British industrialist * 1 Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah, deputy governor of Baghdad* 1 Mae Madison, 89, Actress from silent and early talkie films, favorite of Busby Berkeley* 1 Marie Tehan, 64, former health minister for Victoria (Australia), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease* 1 Terry Knight, 61, manager and producer to Grand Funk Railroad, murdered * 31 Maj.-Gen. Konstantin Dementyev, Russian military official, involved with air force planning and policy, shot to death on the Moscow- Minsk highway * 31 Don Briscoe, 64, stage and television actor ( Dark Shadows) * 30 Peggy Ryan, 80, actress, singer and dancer * 29 Gerard Norton VC, 89, won the Victoria Cross in 1944* 29 Vaughn Meader, 68, Grammy-Award-winning JFK-imitating comedian, emphysema* 29 Edward Oliver LeBlanc, 81, Dominican political leader, chief minister ( 1961- 1967) and premier (1967- 1974), unknown natural causes * 29 Jacinto João, 60, Portuguese football player, cardiac arrest * 29 HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, 102 * 29 Peter Twinn, 88, mathematician and code-breaker * 29 John Parr Miller, 91, children's book illustrator and Disney animator * 28 Rosalind Hicks, 85, daughter of Agatha Christie* 28 Ted Taylor, 79, designer of American nuclear bombs before becoming an activist warning of the dangers of nuclear weapons * 28 Shosei Koda, 24, Japanese backpacker, beheaded by his captors in Iraq* 28 Jimmy McLarnin, 96, British boxer, two-time world champion * 28 Graham Roberts, 75, British actor, "The Archers"* 28 Charles Wheeler, 88, cinematographer Tora! Tora! Tora!* 28 George Schairer, 91 aerodynamics expert * 28 Gil Melle, 72, film and television music composer, heart attack * 27 Al Clouston, 94, humorist* 27 Lester Lanin, 97, Society Big-Band leader * 27 Bill Liebowitz, 63, American comic book retailer and founder of notable chain of Golden Apple stores, leading the way for the direct market* 27 Paulo Sérgio de Oliveira Silva (also known as Serginho), 30, Brazilian football player for São Caetano, heart attack during a league match * 27 Bert Tigchelaar, 58, Dutch journalist * 26 Bobby Avila, 79, MLB All-Star and AL batting champion in 1954* 26 Paul F. Iams, 89, founder of the Iams pet food company * 26 Nestor Kombot-Naguemon, 70?, Central African foreign minister from 1969 until 1970, and ambassador to France at the time of his death, suicide* 26 Kathleen Crawford Lindsay, 83, 1950s television writer, embolism * 25 Lilian Kallir, 73, Classical pianist, * 25 John Peel, 65, British BBC disc jockey and guru of the British indie music scene, heart attack * 25 Shyam Nandan Mishra, 84, Indian foreign minister from 1979 to 1980, heart attack * 24 Jokin Ormaetxea, 24, Spanish professional cyclist, car accident * 24 10 people, including the son of NASCAR race owner Rick Hendrick, crew members and pilots, airplane crash* 24 James Cardinal Hickey, 84, former Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., previously bishop of Cleveland, Ohio* 24 Maaja Ranniku, 63, Estonian chess player * 23 Andrew "Stig" Sewell, British, singer in Icons of Filth, possible brain hemorrhage * 23 George Silk, 87, Famous WWII Photojournalist for Life magazine, congestive heart failure * 23 Robert Merrill, 85 (or 87?), American opera singer * 23 Bill Nicholson OBE, 85, British football manager of Tottenham Hotspur, 1958-1974, associated with the club as player, coach, manager and scout for over 60 years * 22 Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr., 82, first African American U.S. Navy admiral * 22 Katherine Victor, 81, cult film actress * 21/22 Jean-François Leuba, 70, Swiss politician * 21 Everett Rogers, 73, founder of diffusion of innovations theory * 21 Adnan al-Ghoul, ??, Hamas chief explosives expert, alleged "father" of the Qassam rocket, assassinated by the IDF* 21 Victoria Snelgrove, 21, Boston Red Sox fan killed in post- American League Championship Series victory celebration accident * 20 Veronika Cherkasova, 45, Belarus journalist, murdered * 20 Anthony Hecht, 81, American poet * 20 Chuck Hiller, 70, former major league baseball player * 20 Tevfik Gelenbe, 73, Turkish actor, cancer* 20 Lynda Lee-Potter, 69, journalist for Daily Mail, brain tumour* 20 Evald Saag, 91, Estonian theologian * 20 Wendy Charles Acey, television director * 19 Arthur H. Robinson, 89, American cartographer* 19 Anita Bitri-Prapaniku, 36?, Albanian pop singer * 19 Sang Chun Lee, 51, three cushion billiard player, cancer * 19 Lewis Urry, 77, Canadian, invented the long-lasting alkaline battery* 19 Kenneth E. Iverson, 84, computer scientist inventor of the APL programming language* 19 Paul H. Nitze, 97, American diplomat and Cold War arms negotiator * 19 Eleanor Plant, 111, Florida's oldest resident, 9th oldest recognized person in USA, 23rd oldest recognized person in the world * 18 Peter Frost, 65, Author and teacher at the University of British Columbia from skin cancer* 18 Ansar Tebuyev, 54, Deputy Prime Minister of Karachay-Cherkessia, assassinated * 18 Steve Steigman, 62, photographer, best known for "Blown Away" shot in Maxell advertising campaign, after suffering from clinical depression* 18 Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, 52, notorious Indian bandit known as "Jungle Cat", killed by special forces * 18 Xavier Ormazabal, 23, Spanish mountaineer, while climbing the Cho Oyu in Nepal Himalaya* 18 Nancy Carline, 95, artist * 17 Julius Harris, 81, African American actor, heart failure* 17 Samuel Lender, 84, helped bring Lender's Bagel Company to national prominence * 17 Celio González, 80, popular singer of Cuban band Sonora Matancera in the 1950s * 17 Betty Hill, 85, wife of Barney Hill and famous in Ufology for their abduction report, lung cancer* 17 Ray Boone, 81, patriarch of three-generation major league baseball family * 17 Rebecca Manning, 60, daughter of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth* 16 Doug Bennett, 52, lead singer of Canadian band Doug and the Slugs* 16 Uzi Hitman, 52, Israeli singer, songwriter and composer, heart attack * 16 Pierre Salinger, 79, Press Secretary to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and newsman * 16 Vincent Brome, 94, English biographer and novelist* 15 Dave Godin, 68, Soul music promoter, journalist * 15 Herbert Katzman, 81, expressionist painter * 15 Helmut Simon, 67, finder of Ötzi the Iceman* 15 Irv Novick, 88, American comic book artist * 15 Lüüdia Vallimäe-Mark, 79, Estonian painter * 14 Juan Francisco Cardinal Fresno Larrain, 90, Chilean Catholic Cardinal* 14 Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell, 67, British historian and member of the House of Lords* 14 Ivan Shamiakin, 83, Soviet Belarusian writer * 14 Cordell Jackson, 81, rockabilly musician * 14 Sheila Keith, 84, British actress * 13 Ivor Wood, 72, British animator, Paddington Bear, The Wombles* 13 Erik Bye, 78, Norwegian journalist (AP, BBC, NRK), radio/TV host, actor, singer/songwriter; cancer * 13 Tetsu Yano, 80, Japanese science fiction writer and translator, founder of the Science Fiction Writers of Japan* 13 Nirupa Roy, 73, Indian film actress * 13 Bernice Rubens, 76, British novelist ( Madame Sousatzka), complications following stroke* 11 Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, 82, landowner, diplomat * 11 Ben Komproe, 62, former Prime Minister and Minister of Justice of the Netherlands Antilles* 11 Gulshan Rai, 80, Indian film producer and distributor * 11 Keith Miller, 84, Australian rules footballer, cricketer, fighter pilot and journalist * 11 Mary Loos, 94, actress, screenwriter, and novelist; complications from stroke * 11 Lillian Zuckerman, 88, character actress* 10 Arthur H. Robinson, 89, cartographer* 10 Christopher Reeve, 52, U.S. actor who starred as Superman in the 1978 movie and sequels, and campaigned for stem cell research after being paralyzed, heart failure brought on by septicemia* 10 Ken Caminiti, 41, American baseball player, heart attack * 10 Maurice Shadbolt, 72, New Zealand writer, Alzheimer's disease* 9 Maxime A. Faget, 83, NASA longtime engineer through the Space Shuttle program & designer of the Mercury space capsule, bladder cancer * 9 Bolat Kesikhbaev, boxing leader, heart attack * 9 Iscuerdo Carlos, 40, paraglider, killed during European Championships * 8 Malcolm Summers, 80, witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy [ 11] * 8 Jacques Derrida, 74, French philosopher, pancreatic cancer* 8 Johnny Sturm, 88, former New York Yankees first baseman and minor league manager * 8 Rico Weber, 62, Swiss artist * 8 Richard Ellison, 80, documentary producer, diffuse Lewy Body Syndrome* 7 Ken Bigley, 62, British hostage in Iraq, executed by hostage takers * 7 T.J. Binyon, 68, author, Oxford professor, Pushkin scholar * 7 Hildy Parks, 78, American actress, writer, TV producer * 7 Sayed El-Nassery, Egyptian Historian, Wrote tens of historical books, graduated from Oxford University at 1969 * 6 Frederica de Laguna, 98, archaeologist and anthropologist studied Alaskan native cultures * 6 John A. Kelley, 97, U.S. athlete* 6 Pete McCarthy, 51, travel writer and broadcaster, cancer * 6 Harbhajan Singh Yogi, 75, spiritual leader and head of the Sikh Dharma in the western hemisphere * 6 Veríssimo Correia Seabra, 57, military commander in Guinea-Bissau, killed in mutiny [12]* 6 Marvin Santiago, 56, Puerto Rican Salsa music singer, diabetes complications * 5 Mildred McDaniel Singleton, 70, 1956 Olympic Gold-Medal winner in High Jump * 5 Maurice Wilkins, 87, DNA pioneer * 5 Rodney Dangerfield, 82, comic and actor * 5 William Dobelle (62), American eye doctor and inventor prominent in artificial vision research, diabetes complications * 4 Cleonicio Dos Santos Silva ( also known as Renato), 28, football player for F.C. Zürich, killed during a robbery * 4 Helmut Bantz, 83, 1956 Olympic gold medal winner in pommel horse gymnastics * 4 Willy Guhl, 89, internationally known Swiss furniture designer * 4 Gordon Cooper, 77, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts* 4 Peter L. Picknelly, 73, owner of Peter Pan Bus Lines* 4 Virginia Curtis, actress ( Your Show of Shows), cancer * 3 Ralph Citro, 78, renowned boxing cut-man, member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame * 3 Janet Leigh, 77, American actress, of vasculitis* 3 Frits van Turenhout, 91, Dutch sports journalist * 3 John Cerutti, 44, former MLB baseball player, announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays* 2 Fialho Gouveia, 69, Portuguese radio and TV presenter, of cardiac arrest * 2 Nick Skorich, 83, NFL coach, ( Philadelphia Eagles) in the early 1960s * 2 Max van Gelder, 88, world's first jazz harmonica player and Goon, of old age * 2 Fernando Gallardo, 62, Chilean actor, cancer * 1 Richard Avedon, 81, American fashion photographer, of a brain hemorrhage * 1 Joyce Jillson, 58, American astrologer, of kidney failure * 1 Bruce Palmer, 58, Bassist for Buffalo Springfield, heart attack* 1 Burt Miller, 92, American actor * 30 Eugenio Pio Seghesio, 85, pioneering California vintner, (Seghesio Wineries) * 30 Jacques Levy, 69, director of original production of Oh! Calcutta!* 30 Jan Wind, 47, police officer from Enschede, shot dead while chasing a suspected drug dealer (it is a rare occurrence in the Netherlands that police officers are killed on duty) * 30 Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor * 30 Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch maverick journalist, cancer * 30 Justin Strzelczyk, 36, former NFL Pittsburgh Steelers player, car crash while leading police on chase * 30 Hans Bakker, 26, free software hacker, died in car crash near Paris* 30 Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician * 29 Richard L. Berger, 64, helped create Touchstone Pictures label as part of Walt Disney Pictures, lung cancer* 29 Ernst van der Beugel, 86, former Dutch junior Foreign Minister and former CEO of KLM* 29 Christer Pettersson, 57, suspected murderer of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme* 29 Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, accident * 29 Gertrude Dunn, 72, American women's baseball and field hockey player, plane crash* 29 Shimon Wincelberg (also known as S. Bar David), 80, television writer * 28 Christl Cranz-Borchers, 90, German alpine skier, Olympic champion and twelvefold World champion * 28 Geoffrey Beene, 77, fashion designer, pneumonia* 28 Mulk Raj Anand, 98, Indian author in English* 28 Scott Muni, 74, longtime New York City radio disc jockey * 28 Edmund Ralph Haggar Sr., 88, brought Haggar brand to national prominence * 27 Tsai Wan-lin, 81, Taiwan's wealthiest businessman and founder of the Lin Yuan Group* 27 Pieter Jan Leeuwerink, 41, Dutch volleyball player with 187 caps * 26 Tim Pauwels, 22, Belgian cyclo-crosser, aortic aneurysm during race * 26 Amjad Hussain Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida* 26 Dean Kutz, 48, jockey* 26 Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, Hamas leader assassinated by car bomb * 25 Dr. Katherine E. Keough, 61, president of St. John Fisher College* 25 Alain Glavieux, 55, mathematician, Information technology pioneer * 25 Marvin Davis, 79, philanthropist; ex-owner of Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach* 25 Ivan Caceres, 21, football player, haemoptysis* 24 Tim Choate, 49, actor ( Babylon 5), motorcycle accident * 24 Françoise Sagan, 69, French novelist * 23 Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, former editor of Ms. Magazine, feminist and civil rights advocate * 23 André Hazes, 53, Dutch singer * 23 Billy Reay, 86, former NHL player and coach for the Chicago Blackhawks* 23 Raja Ramanna, 79, nuclear scientist and father of India's nuclear program * 23 Bill Ballance, 85, radio personality; forerunner of shock jocks Tom Leykis and Howard Stern* 22 Ray Traylor, 42, American professional wrestler known as The Big Boss Man* 22 Dirk van der Horst, 57, guitarist with popular Dutch band BZN* 21 Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq. [ 13] * 21 Nordin ben Salah, 32, boxer, murdered * 21 Larry Phillips, 62, stock car racer * 20 Eugene Armstrong, 52, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq* 20 Brian Clough OBE, 69, English footballer and cup-winning coach and manager * 20 Kalmer Tennosaar, 75, Estonian singer * 19 Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder* 19 Eddie Adams, 71, photojournalist* 19 Skeeter Davis, 73, country music singer * 19 Ellis Marsalis, Sr., 96, patriarch of family of jazz musicians* 19 Ryhor Reles, 91, the last writer from Belarus who wrote in Yiddish* 19 Imelda Higuera, 65?, Mexican singer, Las Jilguerillas duo, respiratory failure * 18 Norman Cantor, 74, medieval scholar * 18 Russ Meyer, 82, filmmaker * 18 Marvin Mitchelson, 76, divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer* 17 Katharina Dalton, 87, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome* 16 Dolly Rathebe, South African musician * 16 Izora Rhodes Armstead, American singer, one of the two Weather Girls* 16 Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet* 16 Sergio Sanchez, Mexican actor * 15 Donald Yetter Gardner, 91, songwriter, All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth* 15 Daouda Malam Wanke, 50?, leader of the 1999 transitional government in Niger* 15 Johnny Ramone, 55, guitarist and founding member of The Ramones, prostate cancer* 14 Giovanni Biacci, 93, Italian musician * 14 Sir William Melville Peek, 84, 5th Baronet of Lodiswell * 14 Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor * 14 Reynaldo G. Garza, 89, first Hispanic American appointed as Federal Appeals Court judge[ 14] * 13 Glenn Presnell, 99, early NFL player with the Detroit Lions* 12 Max Abramovitz, 96, architect * 12 Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djibouti politician, vice-president of the government council (1959-60) and prime minister (1977-78) * 12 John Buller, 77, British composer * 12 Jerome Chodorov, 93, playwright, My Sister Eileen* 11 Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer * 11 Fred Ebb, 71, Broadway lyricist ( Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack* 11 Peter VII, 55, Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, helicopter crash * 10 Anthony Luigi Mancini, 71, British boxing manager and cutman* 10 Brock Adams, 77, U.S. politician * 10 Glyn Owen, 76, British actor * 10 O.L. Duke, 51, actor, automobile crash * 9 Joan Snyder, 69, writer and producer for CBS News * 9 Ernie Ball, 74, guitar equipment maker * 9 Ralph G. Allen, 70, wrote the book for Broadway show Sugar Babies* 8 Ian Cochrane, 62, British novelist * 8 Frank Thomas, 91, Disney animator * 8 Raymond Marcellin, 90, former Interior minister of France* 8? Richard Girnt Butler, 86, founder of the Aryan Nations* 8 James Westphal, California Institute of Technology scientist * 8 Matías Prats Cañete, Spanish journalist * 7 Hervey Feldman, 67, founder of the Embassy Suites hotel chain * 7 Samira Bellil, 31, campaigner for Muslim girls' and women's rights, cancer * 7 Munir, 39, prominent Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic* 7 Gerard Piel, 89, publisher of Scientific American, complications from a stroke* 7 Kirk Fordice, 70, Mississippi's first Republican Governor since 1874, leukemia* 7 Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé, 89, Afrikaner- South African priest, theologian and anti- apartheid activist * 7 Jonathan Scharer, 56, Producer, Forbidden Broadway* 6 Miriam Pires, 77, Brazilian actress, star of many popular telenovelas * 6 Elly Annie Schneider, 90, one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz* 6 Harvey Wheeler, 85, political scientist and author ( Fail-Safe) * 5 Fritha Goodey, 31, actress ( About a Boy), apparent suicide* 5 Gerald Merrithew, 73, New Brunswick, Canada politician and former federal cabinet minister, cancer* 5 John "Red" Cochran, 82, former NFL player, scout and assistant coach for the Green Bay Packers* 5 Alessio Perilli, 20, Italian motorracer, killed during a race * 5 Caroline Pratt, 42, British eventer, killed during a race * 5 Jesus Viera, 73, better known as "Cucho Viera", Puerto Rican television actor and comedian * 5 Steve Wayne, 84, American actor * 4 Michael Louden, 40, actor, autoerotic asphyxiation* 4 Bob Boyd, 84?, former MLB; first black player to sign with the White Sox, and first Oriole to bat over .300 in the 20th century* 4 James O. Page, 68, North Carolina's former chief of EMS and founder of modern emergency medical response, heart attack * 4 Moe Norman, 75, PGA and Canadian Tour golfer, congestive heart failure* 4 Alphonso Ford, 33, American-born Euroleague player, leukemia* 3 Steven Blackford, 28, former University of Arizona wrestler, car accident * 3 Jessie V. Stone, 100, Philanthropist and widow of W. Clement Stone* 3 Bram Vermeulen, 57, singer, songwriter and cabaret artist, heart attack * 2 Billy Davis, 72, commercial jingle writer ( I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke) * 2 Paul Shmyr, 58, former NHL and WHA defenseman, throat cancer * 2 Donald Leslie, 93, creator of the Leslie speaker* 2 Bob O. Evans, 77, IBM computer scientist * 2 Joan Oró i Florensa, 80, biochemist * 1 Ahmed Kuftaro, 89, the Grand Mufti of Syria* 1 Kenneth Alexander Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, 88, life peer and former chairman of Rolls-Royce, Hill Samuel, Beecham Group, and STC * 1 Herbert H. Haft, 84, owner of Dart Drugs Chain, congestive heart failure* 1 Johnny Bragg, 79, leader of The Prisonaires, one of earliest music groups to record for Sam Phillips and Sun Records* 1 Sir Alastair Morton, 66, former chief executive of Eurotunnel and chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority * 31 Joe Barry, 65, Swamp Pop singer of "I'm a Fool to Care" * 31 Carl Wayne, 61, lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer* 30 Willie Duff, 69, goalkeeper of Heart of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline Athletic* 30 Fred Whipple, 97, American astronomer* 30 Fay Jones, 83, architect trained by Frank Lloyd Wright* 30 Larry Desmedt, 55, motorcycle designer, injuries suffered during a stunt [ 15] * 28 Robert Lewin, 84, Producer and Screenwriter, Academy Award nomination for writing The Bold and the Brave, lung cancer* 28 Lina Zimmer, 111, oldest German* 27 Ko Young-hee, 51, former consort to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, cancer (rumoured) [ 16] * 27 William Pierson, 78, actor Stalag 17* 27 Fernand Auberjonois, 93, foreign news correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade; father of actor René Auberjonois* 27 Suzanne Kaaren, 92, actress ( Three Stooges films) * 27 Willie Crawford, 57, former outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers* 26 Friedrich Brünner, German politician* 26 José Carlos, 53, Portuguese fashion designer * 26 Laura Branigan, 47, American pop singer * 26 Enzo G. Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq* 26 David Myers, 90, Cinematographer ( Woodstock, Elvis on Tour) * 25 Robert Denoon Cumming, 87, professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University and author * 25 Marcelo Cardinal Gonzalez Martin, 86, former Roman Catholic primate of Spain, Cardinal since 1973 and Archbishop of Toledo from 1971 to 1995 ( Papal condolence message) * 25 Don Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer* 24 Richard Ervin, 99, former attorney general and chief justice of Florida [ 17] * 24 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist* 24 Timothy B. Harbert, 53, chairman and chief executive of State Street Global Advisors, heart attack [ 18] * 24 Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka* 24 Bill Pilkington, 87, British actor * 23 Francesco Minerva, 100, centenarian Italian Roman Catholic archbishop* 23 Hank Borowy, 88, former Yankees, Cubs, Phillies, Pirates and Tigers pitcher* 23 Mary Guiney, 103, chairperson of the Clerys Department Store* 22 Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress* 22 Konstantin Aseev, 43, chess Grandmaster and coach* 22 Al Dvorin, 81, announcer who popularized the phrase "Elvis has left the building", automobile accident [ 19] * 22 Marcel Caux, 105, Australian First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières* 22 George Kirgo, 78, television and film writer, former president of the Writers Guild of America* 22 Daniel Petrie, Sr., 83, film director, A Raisin in the Sun* 22 Ota Sik, 84, architect of economic liberalization during Czechoslovakia's ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring* 21 Paul G. Garrity, 66, Judge who helped save Boston Harbor* 21 José Luis Barry, 80, Titi Chagua show's pianist, singer and El Vocero columnist * 20 María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born star of rumbera films * 20 Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician and novelist * 19 Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur * 19 Günter Rexrodt, 62, German politician, former Economics Minister of Germany* 18 Hiram Fong, 97, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate* 18 Elmer Bernstein, 82, composer of classic film music such as The Magnificent Seven* 18 Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán* 18 Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen* 18 Allan Laur, Estonian bishop * 17 Dennis "D-Roc" Miles, 45, rhythm guitarist for Body Count, from lymphoma complications * 17 Anatoly Guzhvin, 58, head of the administration of Astrakhan Oblast* 17 Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone* 17 Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist * 17 Frank Cotroni, 72, Montreal mob boss * 16 J. Irwin Miller, 95, American industrialist and architectural philanthropist * 16 Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech Republic national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach * 16 Acquanetta, 83, " Venezuelan" USA-born B-movie actress * 16 Carl Mydans, 91, photographer* 16 Robert Quiroga, 35, world champion boxer, murdered * 15 Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer * 15 Sune K. Bergström, 88, Nobel Prize in Medicine* 15 Neal Fredericks, 35, cinematographer for the movie The Blair Witch Project, drowned in helicopter crash while filming * 14 William D. Ford, 77, member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from 1965 to 1995* 14 Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 42, rapist and murderer; the first person executed in India since 1995* 14 Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980* 13 Julia Child, 91, author and television hostess on French cuisine [ 20] * 13 Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street* 13 Peipei, 33, worlds oldest Panda * 12 Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 84, Nobel Prize in Medicine, coinventor of the CAT scan* 12 Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor * 12 George Yardley, 75, NBA Hall of Famer * 11 Joe Falls, 76, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News* 10 James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, oldest known U.S. Olympic medal winner * 10 Alan N. Cohen, 73, former owner of the Boston Celtics* 9 Michael Grant, 89, classical scholar and author * 9 Tony Mottola, 86, guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on the Tonight Show orchestra [ 21] * 9 David Raksin, 92, film composer * 8 Fay Wray, 96, King Kong actress * 8 Dimitris Papamichael, 70, Greek actor * 8 Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, 89, health and fitness pioneer * 8 Leon Golub, 82, internationally recognized artist and painter * 8 Paul "Mousie" Garner, 95, comedian, Three Stooges associate * 8 Richard Taylor, 23, skating and skiing champion, collided with a concrete lamp-post * 7 Paul "Red" Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter * 7 Colin Bibby, 55, English ornithologist* 7 Bernard Levin, 75, journalist and broadcaster * 6 Rick James, 56, funk singer * 4 Joseph Papaleo, Italian-American novelist and professor * 4 Michele Russo, 95, American painter and artist * 4 Hunter Hancock, 88, Legendary R&B and Rock Disc Jockey * 3 Bob Murphy, 79, Major League Baseball/ New York Mets announcer * 3 Arturo Tolentino, 94, Philippine lawyer and politician * 3 Margo McLennan, 66, British actress, Prisoner, cancer [ 22] * 3 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer [ 23] * 1 Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium* 1 Alex Scott, 8, founder of Alex's Lemonade Stand, started to raise money for pediatric cancer research * 1 Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, philosopher * 1 Patrick Okpomo, 60, former Secretary General of the Nigerian Football Association* 31 Absamat M. Masaliyev, 71, former leader of Kyrgyzstan* 31 Laura Betti, 70, Italian actress * 31 Elder David B. Haight, 97, oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints* 31 Virginia Grey, 87, American actress. Little Eva in the first film adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin* 30 Andre Noble, 25, Canadian actor * 30 Ali Abbasi, 42, BBC Scotland travel presenter [ 24] * 29 Nafisa Joseph, 25, model, MTV VJ, Miss India 1997; suicide * 29 Susan Buffett, 71, estranged wife of billionaire/investment guru Warren Buffett* 29 Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedienne * 28 Tiziano Terzani, 73, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia * 28 Sam Edwards, 89, American actor, Little House on the Prairie, heart failure [ 25] * 28 Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer [ 26] * 28 Jackson Beck, 92, announcer and voice actor * 28 Eugene Roche, 75, American character actor and the "Ajax" Man * 28 Steve Patterson, 56, former center of the UCLA basketball team, coach at Arizona State University and founder of the Grand Canyon State Games* 27 Carmine G. DeSapio, 95, last boss of Tammany Hall* 27 Musab al-Awadi, Iraqi politician, assassinated [ 27] * 27 Bob Tisdall, 97, won the gold medal in hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics * 26 William A. Mitchell, 92, food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix * 26 Rubén Gómez, 77, Puerto Rico, former MLB pitcher who played for the Giants, Phillies, Indians and Twins* 26 Oguz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist; creator of Avanak Avni, Kostebek Husnu, and Utanmaz Adam * 26 Sidney Francis Greene, Lord Greene of Harrow Weald, 94, British railroad worker, trade union leader, and life peer* 25 Francisco Romão, 61, Angolan deputy foreign minister, suicide [ 28] * 24 Fred LaRue, 75, part of Watergate scandal* 24 Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons, 72, NBA basketball coach * 23 Wilton Mkwayi, 81, South African political activist during Apartheid, cancer* 23 Joe Cahill, 84, Irish politician [ 29] * 23 Mehmood, 72, Indian actor * 23 Janet Chisholm, 75, former British MI6 agent * 23 Bodo H. Hauser, 58, German journalist, director of Phoenix TV network * 23 Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player * 23 Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor* 22 Nicolas Rodil del Valle, 88, Honorary President of the FIM* 22 Illinois Jacquet, 81, U.S. jazz saxophonist * 22 Sacha Distel, 71, French singer* 21 Edward B. Lewis, 85, US-biologist ( Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995) * 21 Elder Neal A. Maxwell, 78, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints* 21 Jerry Goldsmith, 75, movie and television composer* 20 Adi Lady Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady; widow of Prime Minister and President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara* 20 Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish Flamenco dancer, cancer * 19 Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer, one of the last survivor of national team in 1930 FIFA World Cup* 19 Zenko Suzuki, 93, former Prime Minister of Japan* 19 Lori Hacking, 27, wife of Mark Hacking* 18 Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner * 18 Emil Peynaud, 92, French wine expert * 18 John Kraus, 94, inventor of the "Big Ear" telescope* 17 Sir Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur, founder of the Carlyle Trust bank [ 30] * 17 Pat Roach, 67, wrestler and actor; cancer ([ 31]) * 17 Susan Cullen-Ward, 63, wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu; cancer* 16 George Busbee, 76, former governor of the State of Georgia* 16 Bella Lewitzky, 88, modern dance pioneer and choreographer* 16 Charles C. Welch, 83, American actor * 15 Charles Sweeney, 84, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb. [ 32] * 15 Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano. [ 33] * 15 Mary Eleanor Thurmond Tompkins, 95, last surviving sibling of Senator Strom Thurmond* 14 Usama Kashmula, ~60, Iraqi governor of Mosul, killed in a grenade attack. [ 34] * 14 Hans A. Pestalozzi, 75, Swiss social critic * 14 Rhys Thomas, 100, oldest-surviving member of the Llanelli Scarlets* 13 Joe Gold, 82, bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder * 13 Arthur Kane, 53, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia* 13 Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor * 12 Ersel Hickey, 70, rockabilly singer * 12 George Mallaby, 64, Australian actor* 12 Irvin "Shorty" Yeaworth, 78, American film director "The Blob" * 11 Walter Wager, 79, American author * 11 Betty Oliphant, 85, founder of Canada's National Ballet School* 11 Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress * 11 Laurance Rockefeller, 94, conservationist and philanthropist * 11 Renée St-Cyr, 99, French actress and comedienne * 11 Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress* 10 Sir Terry McLean, New Zealand rugby union journalist [ 35] * 10 Rudy LaRusso, 66, five-time NBA All-Star * 10 Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, former Prime Minister of Portugal [ 36] * 10 Inge Meysel, 94, German actress [ 37] * 9 Jeillo Edwards, ~62, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill" [ 38] * 9 Isabel Sanford, 86, actress, The Jeffersons, natural causes * 9 Paul Klebnikov, 41, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered * 9 Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright* 9 Jeff Smith, 65, chef and host of The Frugal Gourmet* 9 Gilberto Reyes Santos, 36, infamous Puerto Rican mafioso, murdered * 8 Jaroslav Hules, 30, Czech motorcycle racer, suicide * 8 Paula Danziger, 59, U.S. author * 8 Mike Woodin, 38, Principal Speaker of Green Party of England and Wales and Oxford City Councillor * 8 Henrique Mendes, 73, Portuguese TV personality. He presented Ponto de Encontro* 8 Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor * 7 Yang Xiaokai, 55, Australian economist* 6 Eric Douglas, 46, youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas* 6 Thomas Klestil, 71, Federal President of Austria, heart failure * 6 Syreeta Wright, 58, singer, songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder* 5 Robert Burchfield, 81, OED lexicographer* 5 Hugh Shearer, 81, former Prime Minister of Jamaica* 5 Rodger Ward, 83, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion * 4 Andrian Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut * 4 Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor* 3 John Barron, 83, actor * 3 Jimmy Mack, 70, Scots radio personality [ 39] * 2 Sir John William Kay, Lord Justice of Court of Appeal of England and Wales* 2 John Cullen Murphy, 85, comic strip artist ( Prince Valiant) * 2 Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet * 2 Gareth Payne, 68, former Welsh rugby union international * 2 Henry Hank, 69, top ranked Light-Heavyweight boxer of the 1960s* 1 Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke* 1 Marlon Brando, 80, American actor * 1 Sir Richard May, 65, former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia* 29 Arik Lavie, 77, Israeli singer and actor * 29 Juan Antonio Lopez, 52, Mexican boxer, fought Wilfredo Gomez, leukemia* 28 Keith Maupin, 20, U.S. Army Private First Class, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq* 28 Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books * 27 George Patton IV, 80, US Army general and son of George Patton* 27 Darrell Russell, 35, NHRA drag racer, first racer killed at an NHRA event since 1996 * 27 Kamos Kris, Thai boxing matchmaker who worked closely with the WBA, car accident * 26 Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter* 26 Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer * 26 Ott Arder, 56, Estonian poet * 25 Karol Kennedy Kucher, 72, former United States ice skating champion, pneumonia* 24 Stanley Gortikov, 85, former head of the RIAA, [ 40] * 24 Julian Davies, British civilian worker, murdered in Iraq* 24 Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, 40, Greek songwriter, author * 24 Carl Rakosi, 100, American poet * 22 Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist* 22 Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer* 22 Francisco Ortiz Franco, ~50, Mexican journalist, murdered * 22 Abukar Kostoyev, 55, Ingushetia's acting Interior Minister, slain in attack by Chechen rebels. [ 41] * 22 Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy* 22 Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants * 21 Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure, [ 42] * 20 Nabil Sahraoui, Algerian militant, head of GSPC and linked to al-Qaeda* 20 Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania* 19 Nob Yoshigahara, 68, mathematician and puzzle expert * 19 Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda militant, killed by Saudi forces [ 43] * 18 Frederick Jaeger, 76, German born British character actor * 18 Paul Johnson, ~49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda* 18 Nek Mohammed, ~27, Pakistani tribal leader in Waziristan and key Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces. [ 44] * 17 Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, philosopher * 17 Gerry McNeil, 78, Stanley Cup-winning NHL goaltender* 17 Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman* 16 Dr. Herman Goldstine, 90, computing pioneer who helped develop ENIAC, Parkinson's disease* 16 George Hausmann, 88, MLB player suspended for jumping to the Mexican League ( 1946) [ 45] * 16 Thanom Kittikachorn, 91, former Thai prime minister* 16 Jose "Pepe" Lacap, 63, former Philippines Vice-Mayor or Pampanga, lung cancer * 15 Andy Funnell, 21, British surfer, drowned while jet-skiing * 15 Ahmet Piristina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of Izmir, heart attack * 15 Frank Nastasi, 81, actor and comedian ( Lunch with Soupy) * 14 Robert Teeter, 65, Republican pollster * 14 Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher * 14 Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, mountain guide* 14 Max Rosenberg, 89, producer of horror movies * 13 Dick Durrance, 89, 17-time American national champion in skiing* 13 Ralph Wiley, 52, sports journalist * 13 Danny Dark, 65, announcer * 12 Bassam Salih Kubba, 60, Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister * 11 Egon von Furstenberg, 57, fashion designer; nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli* 11 Micah Harris, 21, Duke University defensive lineman, car accident * 11 Xenophon Zolotas, 100, former Prime Minister of Greece* 10 Ray Charles, 73, rhythm and blues singer and soul pioneer * 10 Brian Williamson, 59, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered * 10 Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications * 9 Rosey Brown, 71, Pro Football Hall of Famer * 9 Barbara Whiting Smith, 73, actress * 8 Mack Jones, 65, former MLB outfielder with the Braves, Reds and Expos* 8 Karl Toosbuy, 76, Danish founder of international shoe company ECCO* 8 Ronalda Pierce, 19, Florida State University basketball player, aneurysm* 8 McCollins Umeh, 18, University of Arizona football recruit, heat stroke* 7 Thomas "Quorthon" Forsberg, 38, black metal pioneer and main member of Bathory (band), heart failure. * 7 Donald Trumbull, 95, special effects pioneer * 6 Judy Campbell, 88, actress* 6 Robert Lees, 91, screenwriter, found decapitated* 6 Kate Worley, 46, comic book writer ( Omaha the Cat Dancer) * 6 Necdet Mahfi Ayral, 96, Turkish actor * 6 Iona Brown, 63, violinist and conductor * 6 Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman/journalist, working for the BBC in Saudi Arabia, killed by Al Qaeda* 5 Ronald Reagan, 93, film actor and 40th President of the United States ( 1981- 1989) * 4 Wilmer Fields, 81, former Negro League Baseball All-Star* 4 (Body Found) Joshua Bryant, 10, Missing from Florida since May 12, 2001 [ 46] * 4 Steve Lacy, 69, innovative jazz soprano saxophonist* 4 Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer (canada.com) (Toronto Star) (The Globe and Mail)* 4 Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor [ 47] * 3 Frances Shand Kydd, 68, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales* 2 Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer * 2 Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, ~69, former defense minister and acting president of Ethiopia* 2 Nicolai Ghiaurov, 71, opera singer * 1 Satomi Mitarai, 12, Japanese schoolgirl, murdered by a classmate* 1 William Manchester, 82, U.S. historian* 31 Robert Quine, 61, New York punk rock guitarist * 31 Alberta Martin, 97, last known widow of a Confederate soldier * 29 Archibald Cox, 92, Watergate special prosecutor * 29 Sam Dash, 79, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal * 29 Jack Rosenthal, 72, British television dramatist [ 48] * 29 Magne Havnå, 40, Norwegian former professional boxer, in boating accident * 29 Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, 114, oldest documented person in the world * 28 Gerald Anthony, 52, actor, best known for playing Marco Dane on the TV show One Life to Live * 28 Irene Manning, 91, actress and singer ( Yankee Doodle Dandy) * 28 Josie Carey, 73, host of the Pittsburgh children's show "Children's Corner" * 28 Michael Alison,77,British Privy Council member and former minister and MP * 27 Umberto Agnelli, 69, Italian industrialist, head of Fiat [ 49] * 27 Jim Marshall, 63, British Labour MP[ 50] * 27 Jack Losch, 69, member of 1st Little League World Series championship team * 26 Gatjil Djerrkura, 54, Australian indigenous leader, Chairman of ATSIC 1996-2000 * 25 Roger W. Straus, Jr., 87, publisher ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux) * 25 David Dellinger, 88, American antiwar activist, member of Chicago Eight* 25 Glenn Cunningham, 60, mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey* 24 Henry Ries, 87, American photographer * 23 Trudy Marshall, 84, actress * 22 Richard Biggs, 44, American actor, Babylon 5* 22 Mikhail Voronin, 59, Russian gymnast, double Olympic champion * 22 Dessi España, 32, circus performer, died from fall while performing without a net * 22 Samuel Curtis Johnson, 76, fourth generation president of SC Johnson company * 21 Rod Hall, 53, literary agent, murdered [ 51] * 21 Michael Swindells, 44, police detective, murdered in the course of his duties [ 52] * 21 Gene Wood, 78, announcer of Family Feud and other US game shows * 20 Len Murray, Lord Murray of Epping Forest, 81, British trade union leader * 19 Jack Eckerd, 91, former owner of the Eckerd drugstore chain * 19 Mary Dresselhuys, 97, Dutch actress * 19 Arnold Moore, 90, blues artist * 19 E.K. Nayanar, 87, three-time Chief Minister of Kerala, India [ 53] * 18 Elvin Jones, 76, Jazz drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s * 18 Jørgen Nash, 84, Danish poet, performance artist, brother of Asger Jorn* 18 Hyacinthe Thiandoum, 83, Roman Catholic Cardinal, former Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal* 18 Arnold O. Beckman, 104, inventor, industrialist, philanthropist * 18 Joey Curtis, 79, former professional boxer, boxing referee and business owner * 17 Buster Narum, 63, former MLB pitcher for the Orioles and Senators* 17 Tony Randall, 84, television actor ( The Odd Couple) * 17 June Taylor, 86, television dancer and choreographer* 17 Ezzedine Salim, 60?, president of the Iraqi Governing Council* 17 Dave Hamilton, 33, professional boxer, and his 4 year old son, in car accident * 17 (or May 18) Gunnar Graps, 57, Estonian rock singer and percussionist * 16 Marika Rökk, 90, actress * 16 Lord Hill-Norton, 89, British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet* 15 Carlos Orta, 60, Venezuelan artist, and principal dancer and choreographer of the Jose Limon Dance Company - [ 54] - [ 55] * 15 Jack Bradbury, 89, animator and comic book artist * 15 William H. Hinton, 85, Marxist, author of Fanshen* 15 Gill Fox, 84, political cartoonist, comic book artist, and animator * 15 Colonel Robert Morgan, 85, former pilot of the Memphis Belle* 14 Anna Lee, 91, actress, best known for playing Lila Quartermaine on the TV show General Hospital* 14 Jesus Gil, 71, controversial owner of Atlético de Madrid football club * 14 Charlotte Benkner, 114, oldest recognized person in United States * 13 Terry Crummitt, 27, actor, "SnackBoy" of The Sync fame [ 56] * 12 John LaPorta, 84, jazz clarinetist, composer and educator - [ 57] * 12 Syd Hoff, 91, children's book author, cartoonist * 12 John Whitehead, 55, R&B artist, shot dead * 11 Per Øyvind Heradstveit, 71, Norwegian television pioneer, foreign correspondent (London) and author * 11 Mick Doyle, 63, Irish rugby player and coach * 10 Eric Kierans, 90, Canadian politician * 10 (death announced) George, ~83, Blue Peter pet tortoise * 9 Percy M. Young, 91, British musicologist * 9 Olive Osmond, 79, mother of entertainers Marie Osmond and the various Osmond Brothers* 9 Rust Epique, 35, American Songwriter/Guitarist * 9 Alan King, 76, American comedian/actor * 9 Brenda Fassie, 39, South African singer [ 58] * 9 Akhmad Kadyrov, 52, President of Chechnya* 8 (body found) Nick Berg, 26, American civilian killed in Iraq* 7 Waldemar Milewicz, 48, Polish journalist, and Mounyra Beouamrane, killed in Iraq* 6 Celal Bilgin, 41, Turkish businessman * 6 Kjell Hallbing, 69, also known as Louis Masterson, Norwegian Western author [ 59] * 6 Barney Kessel, 80, American jazz guitarist and studio musician * 5 David Reimer, 39, notable gender-reassignment case * 5 Ritsuko Okazaki, 44, Japanese singer-songwriter and author* 4 Clement Dodd, 72, Jamaican reggae pioneer * 3 Anthony Ainley, 71, British actor best known as The Master in Doctor Who* 3 Robyn Herrington, 43, Australian/Canadian writer * 3 Darrell Johnson, 75, former MLB catcher and manager [ 60] * 3 Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, 84, British politician * 3 Basil Wells, 91, science fiction author * 2 Moe Burtschy, 82, former MLB pitcher for the Philadelphia & Kansas City Athletics* 2 Paul Guimard, 83, French writer * 1 Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician ( Double) * 1 Lojze Kovacic, Slovenian writer * 30 Kioumars Saberi Foumani, 62, also known as Gol-Agha, Iranian satirist * 30 Lou Chapman, 90, long time Milwaukee Sentinel baseball writer [ 61] * 29 Johannes Berg, 47, cornerstone of Norwegian science fiction fandom* 29 Nick Joaquin, 86, writer and Philippine national artist * 27 David Jenkinson, 69, railway modeller and historian * 27 Roy Walford, 79, dietician and author * 26 Hubert Selby Jr., 75, author of "Last Exit to Brooklyn" * 25 Thom Gunn, 74, British poet * 25 Feridun Karakaya, 76, Turkish actor * 25 Bill Grace, 69, businessman from Phoenix, Arizona* 25 Carl Melles, Hungarian conductor * 24 Estée Lauder, 97, cosmetics products pioneer * 24 Jose Giovanni, 80, French director and crime-writer * 24 Lia Laats, 78, Estonian actress * 22 Pat Tillman, 27, former NFL player ( Arizona Cardinals), Army Ranger, killed in action * 21 Concha Zardoya, 89, ( Chile/ Spain) poet and writer, and one of the main links between Spanish and English literatures * 21 Mary McGrory, 85, American journalist and columnist * 19 (body found, death probably on March 30) Alejandro Ferretis, 59, Mexican avant-garde actor, murdered [ 62] * 19 Frank B. Morrison, 98, former Governor of Nebraska* 19 Tim Burstall, 76, Australian film director and producer * 19 John Maynard Smith, 84, British biologist * 19 Norris McWhirter, 78, founder of the Guinness Book of Records* 19 Jim Cantalupo, 60, CEO of McDonald's* 18 Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, 83, long-time Prime Minister and President of Fiji* 17 (body found, death probably in November 2003) Dru Sjodin, 22, U.S. kidnap victim * 17 Edmond Pidoux, 95, Swiss author * 17 Barbara Kenyatta Bey, 59, Yoruba priestess and widow of jazz percussionist Chief Bey * 17 Geraint Howells, 79, Welsh politician * 17 Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, 56, Hamas leader * 17 Soundarya, 32, Indian film actress * 15 Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre author, director, composer and producer * 15 Mitsuteru Yokoyama, 69, Japanese manga artist * 13 Caron Keating, 41, British television presenter * 12 Juan Valderrama, 87, Spanish folk and flamenco singer * 12 Frankie Narvaez, 65, Puerto Rican boxer * 10 Orazio Fumagalli, 83, Italian sculptor - AP Obituary [ 63] * 10 Lou Berberet, 74, former Major League Baseball catcher* 10 Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity* 10 Sakip Sabanci, 71, Turkish businessman * 9 Lélia Abramo, 93, Celebrity Brazilian actress, and one of the founders of President Lula da Silva's Workers Party - Obituary in Portuguese [ 64] * 9 Nick and Mary Yankovic, 86 and 81, parents of "Weird Al" Yankovic* 9 Harry Babbitt, 90, singer * 8 Chief Bey, 90, American jazz percussionist and African folklorist * 8 Maureen Potter, 79, Irish comedienne and actor * 8 Bruce Edwards, 49, caddy of golfer Tom Watson* 7 Robert Sangster, 67, leading British racehorse owner * 7 Kelucharan Mohapatra, 77, traditional Indian Odissi dancer * 6 Larisa Bogoraz, 74, Russian dissident and human rights activist * 6 Marjorie Pay Hinckley, 92, wife of Gordon B. Hinckley* 6 Timothy, ~160, tortoise that served as a Royal Navy mascot in the Crimean War* 5 Austin Willis, 86, Canadian movie actor and television host * 4 George Bamberger, 80, former major league pitcher and manager * 4 Gito Baloi, 39, Southern African musician * 4 Serhane ben Abdelmajid Farkhet, ?, Moroccan, suspected Madrid train bomber * 3 John Diamond, Baron Diamond, 96, British life peer * 3 Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian Singer * 2 Lawrence McGrew, 46, former New England Patriots linebacker * 1 Nilo Soruco, 76, Bolivian singer- songwriter* 1 Carrie Snodgress, 57, actress * 1 Aaron Bank, 101, "Father of Special Forces" * 1 Enrique Grau, 83, Colombian painter and sculptor * 1 Annette Daniels, 42, American opera singer * 31 John Warburton Paul (88), British colonial administrator. * 31 Hedi Lang, 72, first woman to preside the Swiss National Council* 31 Joseph James Zimmerman, Jr., 92, inventor of answering machine * 31 Omi Nieves, 24, son of salsa singer Tito Nieves* 31 Gurcharan Singh Tohra, 79, Sikh leader * 30 Michael King, 58, New Zealand historian * 30 Erick Friedman, 64, American concert violinist, violin professor at Yale University * 30 Alistair Cooke, 95, BBC broadcaster and transatlantic commentator * 30 Hubert Gregg, 89, BBC broadcaster * 28 Sir Peter Ustinov, 82, British actor * 28 Robert Merle, 95, French author * 27 Art James, 74, game show host and announcer * 27 Larry Trask, 59, linguist and expert on the Basques* 27 Adán Sánchez, 19, Mexican singer * 27 James Wapakhabulo, 59, foreign minister of Uganda* 26 Jan Berry, 62, the 'Jan' of Jan and Dean* 26 Jan Sterling, 82, American actress * 24 Dominic Agostino, 44, Ontario Liberal MPP* 23 Sir Rupert Hamer, 87, Australian politician * 23 Lorand Fenyves, 86, Hungarian violinist * 22 Boonreung Bauchang, 34, "Snake Man" * 22 Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, 66?, spiritual leader and founder of Hamas* 21 Mirwais Sadiq, ?, Civil Aviation Minister for Afghanistan* 20 Juliana, 94, former Queen of the Netherlands* 20 Edward G. Zubler, 79, chemist, inventor of halogen lamp* 19 Brian Maxwell, 51, long-distance runner and founder of PowerBar * 19 Mitchell Sharp, 92, former Canadian Liberal cabinet minister * 19 Roberto Mora, Mexican journalist, newspaper editor-in-chief * 18 Gene Bearden, 83, baseball player with the Cleveland Indians* 18 Vytas Brenner, 57, musician, keyboardist and composer* 18 Wallace Davenport, 78, New Orleans jazz trumpeter* 18 Harrison McCain, 76, Canadian businessman, founder of McCain Foods* 18 Guillermo Rivas, 72, Mexican comedy actor * 17 Monique Laederach, 65, French and German language author * 17 J. J. Jackson, 62, former MTV VJ* 17 George Boiardi, 22, Lacrosse player for Cornell University* 17 Patrick Nuttgens, 74, English architect and academic * 17 Aleksander Elango, 102, Estonian researcher in educational sciences * 16 Vilém Tauský, 94, Czech conductor and composer * 16 Brian Bianchini, 25, American fashion model * 15 Amparo Arrebato, 59, Colombian dancer * 15 William Pickering, 93, former head of Jet Propulsion Laboratory* 15 Aimo Kairamo, Finnish political columnist * 15 John Pople, 78, British theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner * 14 Blessing Makunike, 28, Zimbabwean football player* 13 Franz König, 98, Austrian cardinal * 13 Dullah Omar, 69, South African cabinet minister * 12 Finn Carling, 78, Norwegian author and playwright with cerebral palsy* 12 Yvonne Cernota, 24, German bobsled driver, in training accident * 12 Cid Corman, 79, Japan-based American poet and translator * 11 Seymour Geisser, 74, statistician, DNA-evidence expert * 11 Sidney James, 97, first managing editor of Sports Illustrated* 11 Edmund Sylvers, 47, lead singer of The Sylvers* 10 Robert D. Orr, 86, former Governor of Indiana* 10 James Parrish, 35, former National Football League player * 10 Dave Blood, 47, Dead Milkmen bassist * 9 Albert Mol, 87, dancer, cabaret performer, actor, TV personality, author * 8 Nicolae Cajal, 84, doctor, chairman of Romania's Jewish community * 8 Robert Pastorelli, 49, actor on Murphy Brown* 8 Muhammad Zaidan (Abu Abbas), 55, founder of Palestine Liberation Front* 7 Paul Winfield, 62, Emmy-winning actor * 6 Frances Dee, 94, actress * 6 John Henry Williams, 35, controversial son of baseball great Ted Williams* 6 Ray Hernandez, 47, American professional wrestler best known as "Hercules Hernandez" or simply just "Hercules" * 5 Julito Collazo, 78, Cuban Master Percussionist * 5 Joan Riudavets, 114, world's oldest documented man and oldest recognized person in Europe * 5 Percy Browne, 80, former British MP, jockey and farmer * 4 Claude Nougaro, 74, French chanteur* 4 Stephen Sprouse, 50, American artist and fashion designer * 4 John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist with Magazine, Siouxsie & the Banshees and PiL* 4 Kalev Raave, 77, Estonian kolkhoz chairman and Lutheran minister * 3 Luis Villalta, 35, professional boxer * 3 Cecily Adams, 39, actress * 2 Mercedes McCambridge, 85, Academy Award winning actress * 2 Marge Schott, 75, former primary owner of the Cincinnati Reds* 1 Massimo De Bernart, 54, Italian conductor * 29 Jerome Lawrence, 88, playwright * 29 Tony Onley, 75, painter * 29 Danny Ortiz, 27, Guatemalan football goalkeeper * 28 Daniel J. Boorstin, 89, historian * 28 Andres Nuiamäe, 21, first Estonian soldier to be killed in Iraq* 27 Paul Sweezy, 93, economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review* 26 Shankarrao Chavan, 83, Chief Minister of Maharashtra* 26 Adolf Ehrnrooth, 99, General; Finnish war veteran * 26 Boris Trajkovski, 47, President of the Republic of Macedonia* 24 John Randolph, 88, American actor* 23 Carl Anderson, 58, American actor ( Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar)* 23 William Coates, 114? 92, asserted by advocates to be "oldest living American" but documentation showed otherwise * 23 Sikander Bakht, 85, Governor of Kerala* 23 Vijay Anand, 71, Bollywood filmmaker and brother of Dev Anand* 23 Carl Liscombe, 89, Detroit Red Wings hockey player in the 1940s* 23 Don Cornell, 79, popular singer of the 1940s and 1950s* 22 Andy Seminick, 83, MLB catcher and last survivor of the 1950 Phillies' "Whiz Kids" that won the NL championship * 22 Azriel Rosenfeld, 73, computer image analysis researcher * 22 Roque Máspoli, 86, legendary Uruguayan goalkeeper * 21 Guido Molinari, Canadian abstract artist * 21 Bart Howard, 88, composer, " Fly Me To The Moon" * 21 Spot Fetcher, 14, President George W. Bush's dog * 21 John Charles, 72, Welsh football player * 20 Stanislaw Ryniak, 88, first person imprisoned at Auschwitz (Feb 20 is burial date) * 19 Clark Byers, American sign maker * 19 Hermann Krings, German philosopher * 18 Jean Rouch, 86, French filmmaker and ethnologist * 17 José López Portillo, 83, former President of Mexico* 16 Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian athlete, three-time Olympic champion * 16 Doris Troy, 67, R&B singer * 16 Matthew Bowens, 21, Detroit Police Officer * 16 Jennifer Fettig, 26, Detroit Police Officer * 16 Bill Oakley, 39, comic book letterer* 15 Jan Miner, 86, American actress * 15 Jens Evensen, 86, Norwegian minister, World Court judge * 14 Marco Pantani, 34, racing cyclist, winner of Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in 1998* 13 Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, 51, Chechen leader * 11 Ryszard Kuklinski, 74, Polish-born colonel and spy * 11 Tony Pope, 57, Los Angeles voice actor, complications following leg surgery * 10 Nils Aas, 70, Norwegian sculptor and illustrator * 9 Michael Rowland, 41, Horse racing jockey * 9 Samuel Rubin, 85, popcorn promoter * 9 Claude Ryan, 79, Canadian politician * 8 Julius Schwartz, 89, comic book and pulp magazine editor* 8 Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer * 7 Rebeca Martínez, 2 months, craniopagus parasiticus baby * 7 Norman Thelwell, 80, cartoonist * 6 Humphry Osmond, 86, psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter * 6 Jerome F. Lederer, 101, aviation safety pioneer * 6 Henn Mikkin, 57, Estonian psychologist * 5 Frances Partridge, 103, writer, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury group* 4 Hilda Hilst, 73, Brazilian novelist * 4 Ernest Burke, 79, baseball player * 3 Cornelius Bumpus, 58, musician ( The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan) * 2 Alan Bullock, 89, historian * 1 Rocco Clein, 35, journalist, musician ([ 65]); ([ 66]) * 1 Carlie Brucia, 11, abduction victim * 1 Ally McLeod, 72, Scottish football player and manager * 1 Bob Stokoe, 73, footballer, F.A. Cup winning manager * 31 Suraiya, 75, Indian actress and singer * 31 Eleanor Holm, 90, US swimmer * 31 Scott Walker, 34, US boxer, Pink Cat, last one to beat Alexis Arguello* 30 Robert Harth, 47, executive director of Carnegie Hall * 29 Joe Viterelli, 66, actor * 29 O. W. Fischer, Austrian actor * 29 Helge Seip, 84, Norwegian politician ( Social Liberal Party) * 29 M. M. Kaye, 95, British author, The Far Pavilions* 29 Mary-Ellis Bunim, 57, producer and co-creator of The Real World* 29 Lloyd "Pete" Bucher, 76, Captain of the USS Pueblo [ 67] * 29 Janet Frame, 79, New Zealand writer * 29 Ed Sciaky, 55, Philadelphia broadcaster and disk jockey * 28 Elroy Hirsch, 80, hall of fame NFL football player * 28 José Miguel Agrelot, "Don Cholito", 76, comedian and radio show host * 27 Rikki Fulton, 79, Scottish comedian * 27 Jack Paar, 85, Tonight Show host * 26 Fred Haas, 88, golfer * 26 Wilhemina Barns-Graham, 91, Scottish artist * 25 Miklós Fehér, 24, Hungarian football player * 25 Fanny Blankers-Koen, 85, Dutch athlete * 24 Leônidas da Silva, 90, Brazilian football player [ 68] * 23 Bob Keeshan, 76, US actor, starred as " Captain Kangaroo" * 23 Helmut Newton, 83, photographer * 22 Islwyn Ffowc Elis, 79, Welsh language writer * 22 George Woodbridge, 73, illustrator * 22 Billy May, 87, US big band and pop music arranger * 22 Ann Miller, 81, US dancer * 21 Bernard Punsley, 80 physician, actor * 20 Alan Brown, 84, British F1 driver * 19 Teresa Ferster Glazier, 96, author of The Least You Should Know About English* 19 Jerry Nachman, 57, MSNBC editor-in-chief * 19 David Hookes, 48, Australian cricketer and Victorian coach * 19 Antonious Seram, 20, Indonesian professional boxer* 18 Noble Willingham, 72, actor, former candidate for the United States Congress* 17 Czesław Niemen, 64, Polish musician * 17 Tom Rowe, 53, Musician, member of Schooner Fare * 17 Rafael Cordero, 61, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico* 17 Ray Stark, 88, publicist, actor's agent; produced Funny Girl (1968) * 17 Harry Brecheen, 89, former MLB pitcher* 16 Kalevi Sorsa, 73, former Finnish prime minister* 15 Robert-Ambroise-Marie Carré, 95, member of the Académie française* 15 Olivia Goldsmith, 54, author* 15 Alex Barris, 81, Canadian actor and writer * 15 Gus Suhr, 98, former baseball player, Pittsburgh Pirates* 14 Mike Goliat, 78, member of the famous '50 Phillies' "Whiz Kids" NL champions * 14 Uta Hagen, 84, actress, acting teacher, wife of José Ferrer and Herbert Berghof* 14 Ron O'Neal, 66, actor, starred in Superfly (1972) * 14 Jack Cady, science fiction writer * 13 Philip Crosby, 69, member of Crosby Boys band, son of crooner Bing Crosby* 13 Arne Næss Jr., 66, Norwegian mountaineer and businessman, former husband of Diana Ross* 13 Harold Shipman, 54, British serial killer* 13 Zeno Vendler, 82, philosopher and linguist * 12 Randy VanWarmer, 48, US singer and songwriter * 12 Yossi Ginossar, 58, Former senior Israeli "Shin Bet" official * 11 Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen, 53, New Orleans jazz musician * perhaps 10/11 Spalding Gray, 62, US perfomer and writer (body identified March 8 in East River near New York City) * 10 Yinka Dare, 32, Nigerian former NBA basketball player for the New Jersey Nets* 10 Jerry Boyd, 59, Mesa, Arizona councilman * 10 Alexandra Ripley, 70, author, Scarlett* 9 Nissim Ezekiel, 79, Indian poet, playwright and art critic * 9 Norberto Bobbio, 94, Italian senator and jurist * 8 John A. Gambling, 73, American radio host, "Rambling with Gambling" * 7 Ingrid Thulin, 76, Swedish actress, "Cries and Whispers" * 6 Pierre Charles, 49, Prime Minister of Dominica* 6 Francesco Scavullo, 82, fashion photographer* 5 Tug McGraw, 59, former MLB pitcher* 5 David Lipschultz, 33, American journalist ( USA Today, New York Times, Smart Money and Red Herring) * 5 Dame Sheila McKechnie, 55, Head of Shelter, cancer [ 69] * 4 Brian Gibson, 59, film director, "What's Love Got to Do With It" * 4 Jake Hess, 76, Southern Gospel singing legend * 4 Jeff Nuttall, 70, poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, social commentator and author * 4 Joan Aiken, 79, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase* 4 John Toland, 91, American author and historian * 2 Paul Hopkins, 99, reported to be the oldest living former MLB player * 2 Jessica Pacheco Calvente, 10, Puerto Rican, stray bullet victim * 2 Lynn Cartwright, 76, U.S. actress * 2 Etta Moten Barnett, 102, actress * 1 Frederick Redlich, 93, former dean of the Yale University School of Medicine * Officer Down Memorial Page* Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records* Dead People Server* Recent AP Obituaries* The New York Times: Obituaries* FamousDeaths.com Week in Review* blogofdeath.com* Directory of Online Death Indexes* alt.obituaries* Topix.net Obituaries* Operation Iraqi Freedom - US Combat Deaths* Historic Baseball Deaths in 2004* Written in Stone, literary deaths and gravestones For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995 ...
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