Deaths in April 2005

Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- â†'


The following is a list of notable people who died in April 2005.

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*Fenimola Farinelli-Beghetti, 110, Italian supercentenarian
*Kaarel Kilvet, Estonian actor, stage director and singer
*Sherman Loudermilk, 92, Emmy Award nominated art director
*Ron Todd, 78, former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union

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*William J. Bell, 78, soap opera creator (The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful)
*Mel Gussow, 71, theatre critic
*Sara Henderson, 69, Australian author
*Mariana Levy, 39, Mexican actress, heart attack following a robbery attempt
*Johnnie Stewart, 87, TV producer (creator of Top of the Pops)

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*Capt. Paul Barkley, 88, World War II veteran, Cuban Missile Crisis commander
*Chris Candito, 33, professional wrestler; blood clot from surgery complications
*Percy Heath, 81, bassist for the Modern Jazz Quartet
*Ed Schantz, 96, Botulin toxin researcher and "grandfather of Botox"
*Zeke Zekley, 90, American cartoonist

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*Abdus Samad Azad, 83, former foreign minister of Bangladesh
*Lord Orme of Salford, 82, British politician
*Dr. Howard W. Johnston, 91, principal founder of the Free University of Berlin.[1]

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*Mason Adams, 86, American actor
*Hasil Adkins, 67, Rockabilly musician
*Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy, 83, Scottish politician
*Red Horner, 95, former NHL player with the Toronto Maple Leafs, was oldest living member of the Hockey Hall of Fame
*LĂ©on Navarre, 105, youngest living French WWI veteran
*Augusto Roa Bastos, 87, Paraguayan writer, winner of the Premio Cervantes
*Johnny Sample, 67, former NFL player
*Maria Schell, 79, actress
*Robert J. Schiffer, 88, Legendary Hollywood makeup artist

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*Howard Benedict, 77, AP aerospace correspondent, popularized use of word "orbit", natural causes [2]
*Tunney Hunsaker, 75, Muhammad Ali's first professional boxing opponent
*Surya Kumari, 79, Indian stage and film actress
*John Love, 80, former Formula One driver
*Josef Nesvadba, 78, Czech psychiatrist and science fiction author
*Johann Emil Rösch, 107, German WWI veteran
*Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman, 71, former head of Ford Motor Company and later a life peer

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*Emanuele Curto, 29, Italian rally driver
*Jack Gleason, 85, American film editor
*Francesco Pozzi, 35, Italian rally driver
*Antonio Rivera, 41, better known as Tonito Rivera, Puerto Rican world champion boxer
*Fei Xiaotong, 94, pioneering Chinese anthropologist and sociologist
*Ezer Weizman, 80, former Israeli president

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*Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 94, Australian political celebrity; longest-serving Premier of Queensland.
*Andre Gunder Frank, 76, German economic historian, proponent of dependency theory
*Al Grassby, 78, Australian former politician and minister in the Whitlam government.
*Sir John Mills, 97, Oscar-winning British actor.
*Romano Scarpa, 78, Italian Disney comic book artist
*Earl Wilson, 70, a leading pitcher for the 1968 World Series champion Detroit Tigers and first black pitcher to throw a no-hitter in Major League Baseball.
*Albert "Gus" Wing, 55, American cameraman known for skydiving shots
*Jimmy Woode , 78, jazz bassist, heart attack

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*Norman Bird, 80, British actor
*Dr. Joseph Bogen, 78, American neurosurgeon, epileptic seizure researcher
*Robert Farnon, 87, Grammy Award winning arranger, composer
*Mary Dann, early 80s, American Indian activist
*Erika Fuchs, 98, German Disney Comics editor and translator
*Philip Morrison, 89, Physicist and group leader in the Manhattan Project
*Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 81, Scottish sculptor [3]
*Leonid Shamkovich, 81 ex-Soviet grandmaster chess player

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*Zhang Chunqiao, 88, member of the Gang of Four
*Gwynfor Evans, 92, Welsh politician.
*Bob Gardiner, 54, Academy Award winning clay animator
*Feroze Khan, 100, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic Champion 1928 (oldest Olympic gold medallist at the time of his death)
*Heinz Kluncker, 80, German trade union leader
*Cyril Tawney, 74, British songwriter and folksinger.
*Jimmy Thompson, 79, British actor and comic

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*Inday Ba, 32, Swedish actress (also known as N'Deaye Ba)
*Gene Frankel, 85, United States theater director.
*Ea Jansen, Estonian historian
*Dragoslav Markovic, 84, Serbian politician
*Fumio Niwa, 100, Japanese novelist

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*George Pan Cosmatos, 65, Italian-born Greek-American film director, best known for Tombstone and Rambo: First Blood Part II, lung cancer
*Ruth Hussey, 93, American actress in films such as The Philadelphia Story
*Stan Levey, 79, jazz drummer
*Clement Meadmore, 76, Australian born steel sculptor
*Bryan Ottoson, 27, American Head Charge guitarist
*Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 58, world-renowned Danish jazz bassist.

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*Rick Blight, 49, former NHL player with the Vancouver Canucks in the 1970s
*Bassel Fleihan, 42, Lebanese deputy and former minister, third-degree burns resulting from the blast that assassinated Rafiq Hariri
*Clarence Gaines, 81, Basketball Hall of Fame coach, stroke
*Sam Mills, 45, former NFL player and assistant coach, cancer
*Norman Newell, 96, noted paleontologist
*Kenneth Schermerhorn, 75, music director and conductor of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

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*James A. Houston, 83, artist, popularized Inuit art
*Juan Pablo Torres, 59, Cuban salsa legend

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*Laura Canales, 50, Tejano singer
*Guadalupe GarcĂ­a Escamilla, 39, Mexican journalist, hitman shooting
*Jaime Fernandez, 67, Mexican actor
*Herm Gilliam, 58, former NBA player for Portland Trailblazers
*Herbert Kuurme, Estonian clergyman
*Marla Ruzicka, 28, American activist and aid worker, car bombing
*Vishnu Kant Shastri, 76, Indian politician
*Kay Walsh, 93, British actress

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*Art Cross, 87, former Indianapolis 500 driver
*John Fred Gourrier, 63, 1960s pop singer "Judy in Disguise (with Glasses)"
*Margaretta Scott, 93, English actress, Mrs. Pumphrey in All Creatures Great and Small
*Duilio Spagnolo, 77?, Italian boxer, former heavyweight contender
*Aloua Fatu'utolu Tupou, (age unreported), defense minister of Tonga (heart failure).

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*Benny Bailey, 79, jazz trumpeter
*Saunders Mac Lane, 95, U.S. mathematician
*John Laurent, 83, Maine landscape and seascape painter

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*Don Blasingame, 73, a MLB All-Star, who also managed two of Japan's professional baseball teams
*Tutti Camarata, 91, musician, leader of "Tutti's Trumpets" and co-founder of Disneyland Records
*Julia Darling, 48, novelist and poet
*Libby Dengrove, 86, former courtroom artist during 1960s and 1970s for NBC
*Wolfgang Droege, 55, founder of the Canadian white supremacist group the Heritage Front, shot to death
*Kay Gardella, 82, television critic for the New York Daily News, cancer
*Johnnie Johnson, 80, musician
*Nikola Ljubicic, 89, president of Serbia from 1982 to 1984
*Philip Pavia, 94, American sculptor
*Philippe Volter, 45, Belgian actor, suicide
*Nathaniel Weyl, 94, writer, economist who testified in the Alger Hiss case
*Juan Zanotto, 69, Italian-Argentinian comic book artist

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*Peter Bramley, 60, cartoonist, first National Lampoon art director [4]
*Bill Jones, 69, former Sacramento Kings athletic trainer, cancer
*Franciszek Karwowski, 109, oldest living Polish soldier
*Ehud Manor, 63, Israeli songwriter

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*John Bennett, 75, British actor
*John Brosnan, 57, British resident Australian writer and film critic, acute pancreatitis (death may have occurred several days earlier).
*André François, 89, French cartoonist [5]
*Maurice Hilleman, 85, microbiologist
*David Hughes, 74, British novelist
*Lucien Laurent, 97, French football player, scored the first ever goal at a World Cup
*Mattie McDonagh, 68, Irish Gaelic Footballer
*Margo Skinner, 55, American Broadway actress

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*Carl Abrahams, 93, Jamaican painter
*Norbert Brainin, 82, Austrian violinist and founder of the Amadeus Quartet
*Scott Gottlieb, 34, American drummer for rock band Bleed the Dream
*RaĂșl Gibb Guerrero, 53, Mexican newspaper editor, hitman shooting
*Archbishop Iakovos, 93, former primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (1959-1996)
*Al Lucas, 26, ex-National Football League player; spinal cord injury suffered playing an Arena Football League game
*Faith McNulty, 86, American writer

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*Cesar Civita, 99, Argentinian publisher (Editorial Abril)
*Andrea Dworkin, 58, radical feminist writer and anti-pornography activist
*Nasri Maalouf, 94, Lebanese politician.
*Scott Mason, 28, Tasmanian cricketer [6]

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*Yoshitaro Nomura, 85, Japanese film director
*D. G. Northcott, 88, British mathematician (ideal theory), [7], [8]
*Chalmers Roberts, 94, American diplomatic correspondent and author
*Onna White, 83, Broadway choreographer
*Nevio Zeccara, 81?, Italian comic book artist

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*Cliff Allison, 73, former Formula One driver
*Grigoris Bithikotsis, 82, Greek singer
*Charlotte Huck, 82, American children's literature author
*Minnie Kearby, 111, supercentenarian, oldest resident of Indiana
*Bob Kennedy, 84, a former MLB player and manager, who hit the first grand slam in Baltimore Orioles history and was the Oakland Athletics first manager
*Charles Kuentz, 108, last living French World War I veteran to fight for Germany, cardiac arrest
*Jose Melis, 85, former bandleader for The Tonight Show
*Yvonne Vera, 40, novelist from Zimbabwe

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*Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, 81, reigning Prince of Monaco since 1949
*Frank Conroy, 69, memoirist and head of the University of Iowa's famous Iowa Writers' Workshop
*Anthony DePalma, 100, doctor, teacher, and humanitarian
*Gene Hazelton, 85, cartoonist
*Francesco Laudadio, 55, Italian film director

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*Saul Bellow, 89, Nobel Prize-winning author
*Ura Koyama, 114, supercentenarian, oldest in Japan since 2003, died of pneumonia
*Sir Edwin Leather, 85, governor of Bermuda from 1973 to 1977
*Mait Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian statesman
*Dale Messick, 98, creator of the Brenda Starr comic strip
*Debralee Scott, 52, actress, starred on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
*Judith Weiner, 56, American film and TV casting director
*Neil Welliver, 75, landscape painter mainly in his native Maine
*Becky Zerlentes, 34, American amateur boxer, first amateur to die as a consequence of a fight in five years.

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*Edward Bronfman, 77, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, colon cancer

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*Simon Blumenfeld, 97, English novelist, playwright and columnist
*Blanchette Brunoy, 86, French actress
*Frank Clair, 87, CFL coach with the Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Rough Riders, heart failure

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*Betty Bolton, 99, English actress and singer
*Alexander Brott, 90, Canadian composer, conductor and violinist
*Tony Croatto, 65 Italian-Puerto Rican composer-singer, lung and brain cancer
*John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), 84, Polish Roman Catholic Pope, died after a lengthy illness.
*Eddie Moss, 45, former Syracuse and CBA player, cancer
*John O'Leary, 58, Former U.S. ambassador to Chile, Lou Gehrig's disease
*Jacques Poitrenaud, 83, French filmmaker
*Jacques Rabemananjara, 92, Madagascan politician, foreign minister from 1967 to 1972.

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*Cheryl Barrymore, 56, former wife and agent of British TV entertainer Michael Barrymore, lung cancer
*GegĂš Di Giacomo, 87, neapolitan singer and Renato Carosone's drummer in 1950s.
*William Fitzgerald, 87, former broadcast news editor for the Associated Press
*Lazare Gionet, 108, Canadian World War I veteran
*Harald Juhnke, 75, German entertainer
*Jack Keller, 68, songwriter, wrote themes to Bewitched and Gidget
*Samuel Krachmalnick, 79, Broadway and classical orchestral conductor, notably the premiere of Candide by Leonard Bernstein
*Robert Coldwell Wood, 81, second Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1969. Later University of Massachusetts President 1970-1977.
*Takio Zushi, 58, Japanese actor
*Lavinia Gelineau, 25, widow of Maine National Guard Soldier Christoper Gelineau, murdered