Deaths in 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2004. Names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.

A typical entry appears in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

December

• 31 George Wackenhut, 85, founder of Wackenhut Corporation
• 31 Gerard Debreu, 83, Nobel Prize winner
• 31 John E. Chataway, 57, Nova Scotia politician
• 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 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, American football 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 P. V. Narasimha Rao, 83, 9th Prime Minister of India (1991-1996)
• 22 Doug Ault, 54, former Major League Baseball player, suicide
• 21 Lennart Bernadotte, 95, Swedish prince
• 20 Jack Newfield, 66, American newspaper columnist from New York, kidney and lung cancer
• 20 Son Seals, 62, American blues musician
• 19 Michael Alexander, 84, English soldier and "Prominente" PoW
• 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 Noel Beaton, 78, Australian politician, MP (1960–69)
• 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 Athena Starwoman, mid-50s, astrologer, breast cancer
• 15 Vassal Gadoengin, 61, Nauruan politician and then-incumbent Speaker of Parliament
• 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 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 restaurateur
• 12 Phaswane Mpe, 34, South African novelist, unknown illness
• 12 Simon Combes, 64, British wildlife artist, gored in Kenya by a Cape Buffalo
• 11 Bernard Lansky, 80, cartoonist
• 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 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
• 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"
• 6 Enrique Salinas, 52, brother of former president of Mexico Carlos Salinas, asphyxiation
• 6 Raymond Goethals, 83, Belgian soccer coach
• 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 collision
• 4 Tom Fitzgerald, 53, University of Tampa soccer coach
• 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 [5]
• 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

November

• 30 Alexei Khvostenko, 64, Russian poet, artist, musician, heart attack in Moscow hospital
• 30 Seung Sahn, 77, Korean zen master, founder of Kwan Um School of Zen, died in Seoul, South Korea
• 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 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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 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 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
• 16 Massimo Freccia, 98, Italian-American conductor
• 16 Margaret Hassan, 59, British-born Iraqi 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
• 15 Elmer Andersen, 95, former governor of Minnesota
• 15 John Morgan, 74, comedian; former member of the Royal Canadian Air Force
• 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 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 Domenic Mobilio, 35, Canadian soccer player, myocardial infarction
• 13 Ol' Dirty Bastard (Russell Jones), 35, rapper, drug abuse
• 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
• 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 [6]
• 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
• 7 Howard Keel, 85, American actor and singer, colon cancer
• 7 Gibson Kente, 72, South African playwright, AIDS
• 6 Pete Jolly, 72, Jazz pianist [7]
• 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
• 3 Joe Bushkin, 87, swing era pianist [8]
• 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 Nahyan, 86, Emir of Abu Dhabi
• 2 Gustaaf Joos, 81, Belgian Cardinal
• 2 Theo van Gogh, 47, Dutch cineast and writer, murdered
• 1 Lord Hanson, 82, British industrialist
• 1 Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah, deputy governor of Baghdad
• 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
• 15Rafael Peralta, 25, United States Marine

October

• 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
• 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, best known for playing George Barford in The Archers
• 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 Comics 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 18 Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, 52, notorious Indian bandit known as "Jungle Cat", killed by special forces
• 17 Julius Harris, 81, African American actor, heart failure
• 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 Helmut Simon, 67, finder of Ötzi the Iceman
• 15 Irv Novick, 88, American comic book artist
• 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, American film actor and advocate for stem cell research after being paralyzed in a horse-riding accident, 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
• 8 Jacques Derrida, 74, French philosopher, pancreatic cancer
• 8 Johnny Sturm, 88, former New York Yankees first baseman and minor league manager
• 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
• 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^[9]
• 6 Marvin Santiago, 56, Puerto Rican Salsa music singer, diabetes complications
• 5 Maurice Wilkins, 87, DNA pioneer
• 5 Rodney Dangerfield, 82, comic and actor
• 4 Helmut Bantz, 83, 1956 Olympic gold medal winner in pommel horse gymnastics
• 4 Gordon Cooper, 77, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts
• 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
• 1 Yoshiaki Hoshi, 58, composer and synthesizer player, founder of the New Age musical group Himekami
• 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

September

• 30 Jacques Levy, 69, director of original production of Oh! Calcutta!
• 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 Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician
• 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 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
• 27 Tsai Wan-lin, 81, Taiwan's wealthiest businessman and founder of the Lin Yuan Group
• 26 Amjad Hussain Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida
• 26 Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, Hamas leader assassinated by car bomb
• 25 Alain Glavieux, 55, mathematician, Information technology pioneer
• 25 Marvin Davis, 79, philanthropist; ex-owner of Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach
• 25 Nicholas Rosas, 76, Mexican farmer, liver disease
• 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 Black Hawks
• 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
• 21 Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq. [10]
• 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
• 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
• 18 Norman Cantor, 74, medieval scholar
• 18 Russ Meyer, 82, filmmaker
• 18 Marvin Mitchelson, 76, divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer
• 18 Klara Rumyanova, 74, Russian actress
• 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
• 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 Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor
• 14 Reynaldo G. Garza, 89, first Hispanic American appointed as Federal Appeals Court judge[11]
• 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, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, helicopter crash
• 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
• 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
• 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, first Republican governor of Mississippi since 1874, leukemia
• 7 Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé, 89, Afrikaner-South African cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid activist
• 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 Alessio Perilli, 20, Italian motoracer, killed during a race
• 5 Caroline Pratt, 42, British eventer, killed during a race
• 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
• 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

August

• 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 [12]
• 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) [13]
• 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 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 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 [14]
• 24 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist
• 24 Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka
• 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 [15]
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 [16]
• 13 Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street
• 13 Stefan Dimitrov, Bulgarian opera basso singer
• 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 Bill Martin, Jr., 88, author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
• 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 [17]
• 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
• 5 James Alford, 90, British athlete.
• 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 [18]
• 3 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer [19]
• 1 Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium
• 1 Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, philosopher

July

• 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 [20]
• 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 [21]
• 28 Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer [22]
• 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 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 [23]
• 24 Edward D. Thalmann, 59, retired Navy Captain and doctor whose research developed military and recreational dive tables, congestive heart failure
• 24 Fred LaRue, 75, part of Watergate scandal
• 24 Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons, 72, NBA basketball coach
• 23 Joe Cahill, 84, Irish politician [24]
• 23 Mehmood, 72, Indian actor
• 23 Janet Chisholm, 75, former British MI6 agent
• 23 Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player
• 23 Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor
• 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 Émile Peynaud, 92, French wine expert
• 17 Sir Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur, founder of the Carlyle Trust bank [25]
• 17 Pat Roach, 67, wrestler and actor; cancer ([26])
• 17 Susan Cullen-Ward, 63, wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu; cancer
• 16 George Busbee, 76, former governor of Georgia
• 16 Bella Lewitzky, 88, modern dance pioneer and choreographer
• 15 Charles Sweeney, 84, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb. [27]
• 15 Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano. [28]
• 14 Hans A. Pestalozzi, 75, Swiss social critic
• 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
• 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 Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress
• 10 Rudy LaRusso, 66, five-time NBA All-Star
• 10 Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, former Prime Minister of Portugal [29]
• 10 Inge Meysel, 94, German actress [30]
• 9 Jeillo Edwards, ~62, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill" [31]
• 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
• 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 Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor
• 7 Xiaokai Yang, 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 Michael Curtis, 84, British newspaper editor and executive [32]
• 3 Jimmy Mack, 70, Scots radio personality [33]
• 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
• 1 Enrique Mederos, Latin American voice actor
• 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

June

• 29 Juan Antonio Lopez, 52, Mexican boxer, fought Wilfredo Gómez, leukemia
• 28 Keith "Matt" 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
• 26 Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter
• 26 Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer
• 25 Karol Kennedy Kucher, 72, former United States ice skating champion, pneumonia
• 24 Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, 40, Greek songwriter, author
• 24 Carl Rakosi, 100, American poet
• 22 Carlton Skinner, 91, American naval officer and politician, first civilian governor of Guam
• 22 Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist
• 22 Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer
• 22 Francisco Ortiz Franco, ~50, Mexican journalist, murdered
• 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, [34]
• 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
• 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. [35]
• 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 Thanom Kittikachorn, 91, former Thai prime minister
• 15 Ahmet Piriştina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir, 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
• 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 Ronalda Pierce, 19, Florida State University basketball player, aneurysm
• 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 Phillip Bartlett, 44, original narrator of Pokémon and voice of Mewtwo from Pokémon: The First Movie, aortic dissection
• 4 Wilmer Fields, 81, former Negro League Baseball All-Star
• 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 [36]
• 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 William Manchester, 82, U.S. historian

May

• 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 [37]
• 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 [38]
• 27 Jim Marshall, 63, British Labour MP[39]
• 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 [40]
• 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 [41]
• 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 (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 - [42] - [43]
• 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 Madrid football club
• 14 Charlotte Benkner, 114, oldest recognized person in United States
• 13 Terry Crummitt, 27, actor, "SnackBoy" of The Sync fame [44]
• 12 John LaPorta, 84, jazz clarinetist, composer and educator - [45]
• 12 Syd Hoff, 91, children's book author, cartoonist
• 12 John Whitehead, 55, R&B artist, shot dead
• 12 Judith Cook, historian, campaigner and novelist
• 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 Tommy Farrell, 82, American film and television actor
• 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 [46]
• 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 Kjell Hallbing, 69, also known as Louis Masterson, Norwegian Western author [47]
• 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 Darrell Johnson, 75, former MLB catcher and manager [48]
• 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)

April

• 30 Kioumars Saberi Foumani, 62, also known as Gol-Agha, Iranian satirist
• 29 Johannes Berg, 47, cornerstone of Norwegian science fiction fandom
• 29 Nick Joaquin, 86, writer and Philippine national artist
• 28 B.J. Schramm, 65, businessman and aircraft developer
• 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
• 24 Estée Lauder, 97, cosmetics products pioneer
• 22 Pat Tillman, 27, former NFL player (Arizona Cardinals), Army Ranger, killed in action by friendly fire
• 21 Mary McGrory, 85, American journalist and columnist
• 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 Csaba Horváth, 74, Chemical engineer and scientist
• 13 Caron Keating, 41, British television presenter
• 12 Juan Valderrama, 87, Spanish folk and flamenco singer
• 12 Frankie Narvaez, 65, Puerto Rican boxer
• 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 [49]
• 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
• 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

March

• 31 John Warburton Paul (88), British colonial administrator.
• 31 Hedi Lang, 72, first woman to preside the Swiss National Council
• 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
• 29 Chen Yi-hsiung, failed assassin in the 3-19 shooting incident
• 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
• 24 Michael Garrison, 47, American ambient musician, liver failure
• 23 Sir Rupert Hamer, 87, Australian politician
• 22 Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, 66?, spiritual leader and founder of Hamas
• 21 Mirwais Sadiq, ?, Civil Aviation Minister for Afghanistan
• 20 Chosuke Ikariya, 72, Japanese comedian, actor and leader of comedic group The Drifters
• 20 Juliana, 94, former Queen of the Netherlands
• 19 Brian Maxwell, 51, long-distance runner and founder of PowerBar
• 19 Mitchell Sharp, 92, former Canadian Liberal cabinet minister
• 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 J. J. Jackson, 62, former MTV VJ
• 17 George Boiardi, 22, Lacrosse player for Cornell University
• 17 Patrick Nuttgens, 74, English architect and academic
• 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 John Pople, 78, British theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner
• 14 Mushtari Begum, 69, Indian Classical Vocalist of Ghazal and Thumri, recipient of Malika E Ghazal (Indian High Consulate)
• 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 Fernandez, 47, American professional wrestler best known as "Hercules Hernandez" or simply just "Hercules"
• 5 Mike O'Callaghan, 74, former 23rd Governor of Nevada
• 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
• 3 Susan Moller Okin, 57, liberal feminism political philosopher
• 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

February

• 29 Alexander Beresch, 26, Olympic gymnast from Ukriane
• 29 Jerome Lawrence, 88, playwright
• 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 Allama Muztar Abbasi, 78, Pakistani Muslim scholar Pakistan
• 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, 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
• 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 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
• 12 Martin Booth, 59, British author, brain tumor
• 12 Preston Love, 83, American jazz saxophone player
• 12 Sauli "Karkkunen" Lehtisaari, 24, Finnish vocalist with Twilight Ophera
• 11 Hugh Cecil, 90, actor, one of the transylvannians in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• 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 Robert F. Colesberry, (b. 1946) film and television producer (complications following cardiac surgery)
• 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 Norman Thelwell, 80, cartoonist
• 6 Humphry Osmond, 86, psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter
• 6 Jerome F. Lederer, 101, aviation safety pioneer
• 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 Ally McLeod, 72, Scottish football player and manager
• 1 Bob Stokoe, 73, footballer, F.A. Cup winning manager

January

• 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 [50]
• 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
• 25 Miklós Fehér, 24, Hungarian football player
• 25 Fanny Blankers-Koen, 85, Dutch athlete
• 24 Leônidas da Silva, 90, Brazilian football player [51]
• 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 Punsly, 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
• 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
• 11 Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen, 53, New Orleans jazz musician
• perhaps 10/11 Spalding Gray, 62, US performer 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 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)
• 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
• 3 Lillian Beckwith, 87, English author
• 2 Dame Sheila McKechnie, 55, Head of Shelter, cancer [52]
• 2 Paul Hopkins, 99, reported to be the oldest living former MLB player
• 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

External links and references

For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, Deaths in 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995 ...