Recent deaths
The following is a list of figures who died in 2005.
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June 2005
- Hanna Kvanmo, 79, former politician from Norway
- George Hawi, former chief of Communist Party of Lebanon. Died in attack on his car.
- Jaime Cardinal Sin, 76, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila.
- Larry Collins, 75, American writer
- Jack Kilby, 81, American engineer, inventor of the integrated circuit and physics Nobel prize winner. Died after a brief battle with cancer.
- Bernard A. Schriever, 94, retired General, regarded as the father and architect of the United States Air Force space and ballistic missile programs, of natural causes.
- Sherif Amraoui, 55, Moroccan Imam
- Georgie Woods, 78, Philadelphia broadcast legend, was due to be inducted into the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.
- Syed Mushtaq Ali, 90, Indian cricketer, (batsman & captain), Padma Shree Awardee.
- J.J. Pickle, 91, former Democratic United States Representative from Texas (1963-1995)
- Bruce Hamilton, ?, American comic book publisher (Gladstone, Another Rainbow [1])
- Nanna Ditzel, 81, Danish furniture and interior designer
- William Fenton, 96, American scholar known for his writings on the Iroquois
- Karl Mueller, 41, founding bassist for the rock band Soul Asylum, throat cancer
- Charlie Schlingo (Jean-Charles Ninduab), 49, French cartoonist [2]
- Ronald Winans, 48, Grammy-winning American gospel singer
- Frits Lawaetz, 97, former U.S. senator and cattle breeder from St. Croix.
- Corino Andrade, 99, portuguese neurologist, discovered Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) or Corino Andrade disease
- Enrique Laguerre, 99, writer, poet, teacher from Puerto Rico
- Ross Stretton, 53, Artistic Director of Australian Ballet [3]
- James Weinstein, 78, Jewish author, founder and publisher of In These Times
- Percy Arrowsmith, 105, one half of the world's longest marriage
- Phil Ford, 85, American actor [4]
- Valeria Merconi, 73, Italian actress, cancer
- Carlo Maria Giulini, 91, Italian conductor
- John Ogwyn, 56, US Christian Evangelist
- Mimi Parent, 81, surrealist painter
- Jonathan Adams, 74, British actor (Dr. von Scott, The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
- Álvaro Cunhal, 91, former leader of the Portuguese Communist Party
- David Diamond, 89, American composer
- Eugénio de Andrade, 82, Portuguese poet
- Mamie Legg, 111, American supercentenarian
- Lane Smith, 69, American actor (My Cousin Vinny, Lois & Clark)
- Sonja Davies, 81, New Zealand trade unionist
- Makobo Modjadji, 27, rain queen of the Balobedu people of South Africa
- Scott Young, 87, Canadian journalist and father of Neil Young
- Ghena Dimitrova, 64, Bulgarian opera singer
- Lon McCallister, 82, American actor
- Ron Randell, 86, Australian-born actor
- Juan José Saer, 67, Argentine novelist
- Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 84, Portuguese General, Prime Minister of the Carnation Revolution government
- Rolf Uusväli, 74, Estonian organist
- J. James Exon, 83, Former Democratic United States Senator (1979-1997) and Governor of Nebraska (1971-1979)
- Verne Meisner, 66, polka musician
- Curtis Pitts, 89, designer of the Pitts Special and other aircraft
- Kenneth Taylor, 88, Founder of Tyndale House Publishers and translator of The Living Bible
- Richard Eberhart, 101, American poet
- Ryan Alan Hade, 23, Former American sexual assault victim whose case paved the way for laws allowing indefinite confinment of sexual predators, motorcycle wreck [5]
- Trude Marlen, 92, Austrian actress
- Ed Bishop, 72, American actor
- Arthur Dunkel, 72, Portuguese-Swiss GATT director-general
- Seán Doherty, 60, Irish politician
- Edward McCarthy, 87, 18-year Archbishop of Miami
- David Tebet, 91, NBC executive
- Anne Bancroft, 73, American Oscar-winning actress
- Rodney Dunn, 37, Canadian comic book artist [6]
- Dana Elcar, 77, American actor (MacGyver)
- David Sutherland, 56, American illustrator for original Dungeons & Dragons books
- Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, 55, Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician
- Laurence Harle, 56, French writer (Jonathan Cartland, La Cavalerie Americaine)
- Oscar Morelli, 59, Mexican actor, after lengthy illness
- Susi Nicoletti, 86, Austrian actress [7]
- Lou Figg, 73, TV presenter
- Chloe Jones, 29, adult film star, "Baywatch"
- Banks McFadden, 88, College Football Hall of Famer
- Jean O'Leary, 57, American gay and lesbian rights activist and politician
- Yin Shun, 99, Chinese Buddhist philosopher
- Helju Tauk, 75, Estonian musician
- Lorna Thayer, 86, American actress (Five Easy Pieces)
- Leon Askin, 97, Austrian actor
- Michael Billington, 63, British actor
- Harold Cardinal, 60, Cree writer
- Lucio Espańa, 33, Colombian footballer, murdered
- Samir Kassir, 45, Lebanese journalist who supported democracy, assassinated
- Mike Marshall, 60, French-American actor, known for role in Moonraker
- Josephine Clay Ford, 81, Ford Motor Company heiress and prominent philanthropist
- George Mikan, 80, Basketball Hall of Famer
- Geoffrey Toone, 94, Irish actor
May 2005
- Milton Burton, ??, Hollywood stuntman and owner of Costa Rica Skydive, plane crash in Costa Rica
- Jaime Mendoza-Nava, 79 Brazilian born TV and film composer Mickey Mouse Club
- Eduardo Teixeira Coelho, 86, Portuguese comic book artist[8]
- John Albano, 82, comic book artist, co-creator of Jonah Hex
- Takanohana Kenshi (né Mitsuru Hanada), 55, 'The Prince of Sumo'
- Fazal Mahmood, 78, former Pakistani cricket captain
- Tomasz Pacyński, 47, Polish fantasy and science fiction author
- Juan Pedro Villamán, 46, Spanish language announcer for the Boston Red Sox, car accident
- Hamilton Naki, 78, South African surgeon
- John D'Amico, 67 former NHL linesman.
- Oscar Brown, Jr., 78, musician, playwright, activist
- Patsy Calton, 56, British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament since 1992, cancer
- Joseph Edward Karth, 82, Democratic United States Representative from Minnesota from 1959-1977
- George Rochberg, 86, American composer
- Margaret (Madge) Russell, 112, American supercentenarian, oldest resident of California
- Akihiko Saito, 44, Japanese hostage in Iraq
- Benjamin Biaggini, 89, chairman and CEO of the Southern Pacific Company (parent company of Southern Pacific Railroad) 1964-1983.
- Clair Armstrong Callan, 85, Democratic United States Representative from Nebraska (1965-1967)
- Rene Hovivian, 75, French-Armenian cartoonist who used the pseudonyme "Hoviv". [9]
- Arnold Morton, 83, founder of Morton's of Chicago steakhouses
- Piotr Gładki, 33, Polish marathon runner (car accident)
- Fay Godwin, 74, British photographer
- Robert H. McNeill, 87, photographer of African-American life in Washington DC from 1930s through 1950s
- Eddie Albert, 99, American actor, star of Green Acres
- Chico Carrasquel, 77, Venezuelan shortstop, the first Latin American player to appear in a MLB All-Star game
- Israel Epstein, 90, Polish-born Chinese author and journalist
- Sangoulé Lamizana, 89, former president of Burkina Faso
- Krzysztof Nowak, 29, football player for VfL Wolfsburg and the Polish national team, suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Leslie Smith, 76, British matchbox car manufacturer
- Domenic Troiano, 59, Canadian guitarist, died after a decade long battle with cancer
- Dale Velzy, 77, California surfing pioneer, lung cancer
- Sunil Dutt, 75, Bollywood actor and Union Minister, India
- Gregory Scott Johnson, executed for murdering an 82-year-old woman, had asked for a temporary reprieve to donate his liver to his sister.
- Graham Kennedy, 71, Australian TV celebrity and comedian
- Ruth Laredo, 67, American pianist
- Ismail Merchant, 68, film producer [10]
- Carl Amery, 83, German writer
- Arthur Haulot, 91, Belgian journalist, active member of the resistance movement against the Nazi occupation
- Lloyd Dugger, 76, American country music singer
- Ernst Henne, 101, German motorcycle champion and former speed world record holder
- Hans Jorgens Jensen, 79, American Olympics gold medal in rowing and longtime CIA agent
- Derek Ratcliffe, 75, British Ecologist and Conservationist
- Waldemar Seyssel, 99, Brazilian clown and pioneering TV performer, also called Arrelia
- Billy Smart, Jr, 71, British circus impresario
- Charilaos Florakis, 91, Honorary President and former Secretary General (1972-1989) of the Communist Party of Greece
- Thurl Ravenscroft, 91, American voice actor (Tony the Tiger, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas) [11]
- Stephen Elliott, 86, American actor, Arthur [12]
- Bedford Jezzard, 77, former Fulham FC football player and manager
- Howard Morris, 85, American comedy actor and director
- Subodh Mukherjee, 84, Indian filmmaker
- Olav Neuland, 57, Estonian director
- J.D. Cannon, 83, American actor, McCloud
- Paul Ricoeur, 92, French philosopher and teacher
- Dr. Harvey F. Barnard, 63, author and creator of NESARA, of congestive heart failure. [13]
- Henry Corden, 85, Canadian-American voice actor, voice of Fred Flintstone for more than 2 decades
- Alistair Forbes, 87, British journalist, socialite and gossip
- Batya Gur, 57, Israeli author
- David Lang, 37, former NFL running back with the Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys
- Richard Lewine, 94, Broadway composer and TV producer [14]
- Shaima Rezayee, 24, former TV presenter of Hop, an Afghan programme similar to MTV
- Stella Zázvorková, 83, Czech actress
- Keiiti Aki, 75, seismologist
- Piero Dorazio, 77, Italian abstract painter
- Frank Gorshin, 71 , American actor
- Paul Keene, 94, organic farmer
- Eduard Vääri, Estonian linguist
- Erick Galvez, Guatemalan federal prosecutor, shot by unknown attackers
- Marie Geddes, 86, Canadian hunger striker
- Andrew J. Goodpaster, 90, former leader of NATO and veteran of World War II
- Jose M. Lopez, 94, Medal of Honor winning soldier in World War II
- Albert "Smiler" Marshall, 108, British veteran of World War I
- Arthur Naftalin, 87, former mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Bellana Panniyaloka, Buddhist monk, convicted of child molestation, by suicide
- Les Bartley, 51, former coach of the Toronto Rock of the NLL, colon cancer
- Alan B. Gold, 88, retired Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court, negotiated an end to the Oka standoff and numerous strikes
- The Earl of Shaftesbury, 27, English peer, suspected heart attack
- George Barron, 91, Scottish TV presenter on Beechgrove Garden
- Jimmy Martin, 77, bluegrass singer
- George Dantzig, 90, mathematician, "father of linear programming"
- Hugh Montefiore, 85, Bishop of Birmingham and environmental activist with Friends of the Earth
- Michael Ross, 45, serial killer, executed by lethal injection
- Eddie Barclay, 84, French record producer and founder of Barclay Records
- Maurice Catarcio, 76, former WWE wrestler, of cancer
- Martin Lings, 96, Islamic scholar
- Monica Zetterlund, 67, Swedish singer and actress.
- Alfred Finnigan, 108, oldest man in Wales and World War I survivor
- Michalis Genitsaris, 86, Greek rebetiko singer and composer
- Veikko Hursti, 80, Finnish philanthropist
- Jim Love, 75, American sculptor
- Jay Marshall, 85, Dean of the Society of American Magicians
- Hector Enrique Santos, 88, former Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Blanche Sasso, 105, seamstress of the original flag of the United States Virgin Islands
- David Wayne, 47, singer for the heavy metal group Metal Church
- Li Cairong, 119, world's second oldest human being only to Jeanne Calment (unconfirmed)
- John F. "Jack" Hasey, 88, American French Foreign Legion Officer and CIA Operations Officer
- Nasrat Parsa, 36, Afghan pop singer, after being assaulted in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Wilhelmine, Lady Harrod, 93, British church conservationist
- Lloyd Cutler, 87, former White House Counsel under Presidents Carter and Clinton
- Siwsann George, 49, Welsh folk singer
- Benjamin Mordecai, 60, prominent American theatrical producer
- A. J. Shepherd, 78, ex-Indianapolis 500 racing driver
- Walter Jay Skinner, 77, Federal Judge portrayed in movie A Civil Action
- Tristan Egolf, 33, author, suicide
- Bernie Logue, 30, chef for the Boston Red Sox, fall in parking garage
- Peter Wallace Rodino, 95, U.S. congressman, 1949-1989
- Betty Talmadge, 81, ex-wife of Senator Herman Talmadge, testified against him in Senate ethics committee in 1979, from Alzheimers
- Miguel Contreras, 52, California union leader
- Father Gommart DePauw, 86, founder of the Catholic Traditionalist Movement
- Rafael Diaz-Balart, 79, opponent and former brother-in-law of Fidel Castro, father of U.S. Congressmen Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Mario Diaz-Balart
- Joe Grant, 96, Disney animator
- Jost Gross, 59, member of the National Council of Switzerland
- Herb Sargent, 81, television comedy writer [15]
- Lee Stine, 91, who pitched in MLB for the White Sox, Reds and Yankees
- Ted Atkinson, 88, Hall of Fame jockey
- Elisabeth Fraser, 85, actress on The Phil Silvers Show, etc.
- June MacCloy, 96, actress
- Charlie Muse, 87, Pittsburgh Pirates executive, creator of the modern baseball batting helmet
- Édgar Ponce, 30, Mexican actor, collision between car and motorcycle during filming of video for "Sólo para mujeres"
- Philip Spaulding, 92, American naval architect, notable for designing many ferries
- Christian Speck, 68, member of the National Council of Switzerland
- Lila Dulali, 66, Indian, Oriya language actress
- David H. Hackworth, 74, Vietnam War veteran, journalist
- Evelyn Roberts, 88, wife of preacher Oral Roberts
- Luis Taruc, 91, Filipino Communist revolutionary figure; leader of the HUKBALAHAP, a guerilla group against the Japanese during World War II.
- Don Canham, 87, former University of Michigan athletic director
- Allan Kurzrok, psychologist and cartoonist [16]
- Renée Faure, 86, French actress
- Robert Hunter, 63, Canadian journalist and co-founder of Greenpeace
- Wee Kim Wee, 89, fourth President of Singapore, from 1985 to 1993
- Theofiel Middelkamp, 91, Dutch cyclist, first Dutchman to win a stage in the Tour de France and first Dutch world champion.
- Raisa Struchkova, 79, Russian ballerina
- Jonathan Thomas, 59, Canadian-born sculptor [17]
- Florence Van Stockum, 110, British-born supercentenarian
- Kenneth Clark, 90, African-American Civil Rights activist and psychologist
- Derek (DC) Cook, 58, Yorkshire businessman and racing team owner, in a car accident
- René Rivkin, 60, Australian stockbroker
- Edward von Kloberg III, 63, lobbyist
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
External links and references
- Specialised websites
- Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records
- Dead People Server
- Life in Legacy: Week in Review
- The Blog of Death
- GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search
- Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records: US genealogy directory
- Operation Iraqi Freedom - US Combat Deaths
- Obituary Central - index to obituary search engines arranged geographically
- Obituary Links Page - state-by-state directory of obituary resources
- Obituaries on general news websites
- Newsgroup: alt.obituaries
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995...