Deaths in 2005 - Definition and Overview

The following is a list of figures who died in 2005.

February 2005

6

• Elbert N. Carvel, 94, American politician, former governor of Delaware
• Karl Haas, 91, US classical music radio program host
• Günter Reimann, 100, German economist
• Hubert Curien, 80, French researcher, first president of European Space Agency
• Merle Kilgore, 70, country music manager and songwriter

5

• Gnassingbe Eyadema, 67, president of Togo since 1967

4

• Ossie Davis, 87, actor, found dead in his hotel room in Miami, where he was on location
• Adriano Cerqueira, 66, Portuguese journalist and former news anchor at RTP, cancer

3

• Ernst Mayr, 100, evolutionary biologist
• Zurab Zhvania, 41, Prime Minister of Georgia
• Corrado Cardinal Bafile, 101, Italian Cardinal

2

• Yvon DesRochers, 59, head of the organizing committee of the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, suicide
• Goffredo Lombardo, 83, Italian film producer [1] (http://www.criterionco.com/asp/) [2] (http://news.google.it/nwshp?hl=it&gl=it&ncl=http://www.cinespettacolo.it/csmain/articolo.asp%3Faid%3D2466)
• Max Schmeling, 99, German world heavyweight boxing champion.
• Magomed Omarov, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan

1

• Werner Arnold, 74, Swiss cyclist (1950s)
• Henrique Canto e Castro, 75, Portuguese actor
• Anderl Heckmair, 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger north face with Heinrich Harrer
• Franco Mannino, 80, prolific Italian film and classical composer
• John Vernon, 72, Canadian actor, following heart surgery

January 2005

31

• Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poetess
• Yutsuko Chusonji, 42, Japanese manga artist noted for her "oyaji gal" stories
• Horace Hagedorn, 89, developer and marketer of Miracle-Gro plant food a multi-million dollar product
• Ivan Noble, 37, BBC journalist, brain tumour.
• Malcolm Hardee, 55, alternative comedian and compere, drowning

30

• Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish musician, cancer

29

• Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director
• Bill Shadel, 96, United States journalist who covered D-Day and moderated a 1960 Presidential Debate

28

• Daniel Branca, 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist
• Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter, stomach cancer.
• Lucien Carr, 79, UPI editor, early Beat generation figure
• Christian Christensen, 78, Danish former European middle-weight boxing champion
• Eric Griffiths, 64, member of Pre-Beatles The Quarrymen

27

• Gilbert Bennion, 106, one of four remaining Australian veterans of World War I
• Shoaib Khan (40)?, Pakistani criminal organization leader, heart attack in jail.
• Nick McDonald, 76, United States Dallas police officer who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald after the JFK assassination

26

• Rudi Falkenhagen, 71, Dutch actor, throat cancer
• Charles Martin, 46, former NFL football player
• Cordelia Scaife May, 76, sister of billionaire Richard Scaife and one of the world's richest people

25

• William Augustus Bootle, 102, United States district judge who helped oversee desegregation in the US south
• Philip Johnson, 98, United States architect
• Ray Peterson 65, United States popular singer best known for the early 1960s hit "Tell Laura I Love Her", cancer
• Max Velthuijs, 81, Dutch writer and illustrator
• Nettie Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch athlete
• Vicky LaMotta, 75, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta

24

• June Bronhill, 75, Australian opera and operetta singer, known for 'The Merry Widow'
• Vladimir Savchenko, 72, Ukrainian science fiction writer
• Chalkie White, 76, rugby union coach who coached Leicester Tigers to 3 cup victories 1979-81.

23

• Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, former Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Minister of State, and member of the Privy Council since 1974
• Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema.
• Douglas Knight, 83, former president of Lawrence University and Duke University
• Mutsuko Sakura (桜むつ子), 83, Japanese actress, lung cancer.

22

• John Gibel, 56, comic strip writer (Flo & Friends)
• César Gutiérrez, 61, one of three players in Major League Baseball history with a 7-for-7 game
• Carlo Orelli, 110, supercentenarian, oldest Italian veteran of World War I
• Patsy Rowlands, 71, British actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films, breast cancer
• Consuelo Velázquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song "Bésame mucho"
• Rose Mary Woods, 87, former Nixon secretary and key Watergate figure [3] (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30678-2005Jan23.html)
• Sir William Deakin, 91, British WWII hero and founder of St. Antony's College at Oxford University

21

• Parveen Babi, 49, Indian actress
• John L. Hess, 87, journalist
• Don Poier, 53, United States NBA basketball announcer for the Memphis Grizzlies
• Carl Schlettwein, 79, founder of Basler Afrika Bibliographien
• Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer

20

• Per Borten, 91, former Prime Minister of Norway
• Roland Frye, American English literature professor and theologian.
• Dick Gallagher, 49, Off-Broadway composer
• Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section, honoured by Virtuti Militari, Order of the White Eagle and Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Miriam Rothschild, 96, British zoologist, entomologist and author
• Chuck Olin, 68, filmmaker known for his 1998 documentary about the only all-Jewish fighting unit during World War II

19

• Donald Beardslee, 61, United States murderer, executed in San Quentin State Prison, California
• K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide
• Ricardo Surinach, 76, Catholic Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico from 2000 to 2003, natural causes
• Ardyth Kennelly, 92, US novelist whose books were popular in the 1940s and 50s

18

• Lamont Bentley, 31, television and film actor, car crash
• Bob Moch, 90, 1936 Summer Olympics Rowing Gold Medal Winner
• Peter Whatley, former professional wrestler under the name Pez Whatley
• George Walker, 78, internationally known volcanologist

17

• Charlie Bell, 44, former CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer
• Virginia Mayo, 84, United States actress, notably in the 1940s and 1950s
• Albert Schatz, 84, microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin
• Zhao Ziyang, 85, former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary, complications of multiple strokes
• Daniel Zufferey, 35, French language author

16

• H. Bentley Glass, 98, United States biologist, known for controversial views [4] (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/science/20glass.html)
• Agustín González, 74, prolific Spanish film actor
• Marjorie Williams, 47, United States Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair

15

• Victoria de los Angeles, 81, Catalan soprano
• Deem Bristow, 57, video game voice actor.
• Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan)
• Elizabeth Janeway, 91, United States feminist author
• Fred Julsing, 62, Dutch comic book artist
• Henk Molleman, 69, Dutch politician and civil servant
• Ruth Warrick, 89, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane and All My Children, of pneumonia
• Dan Lee, 35, animator for movie Finding Nemo

14

• Dennis Flanagan, 85, United States Long time editor of Scientific American
• Ofelia Guilmain, 83, Spanish film and stage actress, worked mostly in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War
• Charlotte MacLeod, 82, United States mystery writer
• Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter.
• Carl Mohner, 88, German artist and actor
• Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer
• Georges Piroué, 85, French language writer
• Jesús Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist [5] (http://www.miami.com/mld/elnuevo/news/world/americas/10684615.htm)

13

• Nell Rankin, 81, United States mezzo-soprano opera singer. Sang with the Metropolitan Opera for many years.

12

• Achille Maramotti, 78, Italian fashion entrepreneur
• Sal Pacino, 82, United States character actor, father of actor Al Pacino
• Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor, massive cerebral hemorrhage
• Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist

11

• Spencer Dryden, 61, drummer for United States rock group Jefferson Airplane, cancer
• James Griffin, 61, member of 1970s group Bread
• Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer ('Valley of Rocks')
• J.R. (Bud) McCaig, 75, co-owner of the NHL's Calgary Flames
• Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist after crashing on the 11th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally
• Ruth Packer, 94, British soprano, famous for playing Verdi heroines
• Jerzy Pawlowski, 72, Polish Olympic champion in fencing
• Thelma White, 94, United States actress, starred in Reefer Madness

10

• Gene Baylos, 98, comedian
• Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano
• Tommy Fine, 90, who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns
• James Forman, 76, United States former executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colon cancer
• Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, 77, Princess of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
• Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer
• Amer Ali Nayef, deputy police chief of Baghdad, shot together with his son [6] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4160479.stm)
• Jose Manuel Perez, 41, Spanish motorcyclist after crashing 6 January on the 7th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally, internal injuries [7] (http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=175331&FS=)
• Werner Quintens, 67, Belgian clergyman
• Jan Pieter Cardinal Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, Cardinal since 1994

9

• Gonzalo Gavira, 79, sound effects creator, The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno
• Bernard Goodall, 67, businessman and former Reading FC footballer
• Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film Director and Assistant Director

8

• Campbell McComas, 52, Australian impersonator, raconteur, broadcaster, chameleon
• Warren Spears, 50, choreographer, dancer
• Michel Thomas, 90, Polish linguist and teacher
• David White, 50, British Commander of British forces on Gibraltar, found dead in his swimming-pool

7

• Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson)
• Eileen Desmond, 72, former Irish politician, Minister for Health & Social Welfare (1981-1982)
• Ernst Deubelbeiss, 84, Swiss convicted of the 1951 murder of Armin Bannwart
• Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, 73, United States sports commentator in New Orleans, Louisiana, massive heart attack
• Rosemary Kennedy, 86, sister of John F. Kennedy
• Hans Walder, 84, Prosecutor General of the Swiss Confederation (1968-1973)

6

• Lois Hole, 71, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
• Jürg von Känel, 53, climber, mountain guide, writer of guide books
• Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS
• Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick
• Ali Šukrija, 85, Yugoslav communist politician from Kosovo

5

• Danny Sugerman, 50, manager for The Doors
• René Le Hénaff, 102?, early French director and editor. Sued Charlie Chaplin for plagiarism over City Lights

4

• Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster
• Paul Darragh, 51, Irish equestrian showjumper, suspected heart failure
• Ali al-Haidri, ?, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated
• Robert Heilbroner, 85, United States economist
• Bud Poile, 80, member of Hockey Hall of Fame
• Alton Tobey, 90, United States muralist and painter
• Frank Harary, 84, mathematician, a foremost expert on graph theory

3

• JN Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary
• Will Eisner, 87, United States comic book artist and pioneering graphic novelist
• Koo Chen-fu, 88, Chinese negotiator with the PRC
• John Lawrence, 70, United States Los Angeles Times business journalist

2

• H. David Dalquist, 86, founder of Nordic Ware, creator of Bundt cake pan
• Arnold Denker, 90, United States chess player
• Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian and star of That's Life.
• Frank Kelly Freas, 82, United States science fiction artist
• Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, 70, United States former U.S. Congressman from Georgia
• Maclyn McCarty, 93, geneticist and DNA research pioneer
• Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter
• Dmitri Neliubin, 33, Russian cyclist, stabbed to death by (so far) unidentified persons

1

• Shirley Chisholm, 80, United States first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress.
• Hugh John Frederick Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and former deputy managing director of the Daily Telegraph
• Bob Matsui, 63, United States Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Willem Scholten, 77, Dutch former politician

External links and references

• Dead People Server (http://www.deadpeople.info/)
• Recent AP Obituaries (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/catlist.cgi?q=OBT&l=All&p=news&Go.x=228&Go.y=12)
• The New York Times: Obituaries (http://www.nytimes.com/pages/obituaries/)
• FamousDeaths.com Week in Review (http://www.lifeinlegacy.com/)
• blogofdeath.com (http://www.blogofdeath.com/)
• Directory of Online Death Indexes (http://www.deathindexes.com/)
• alt.obituaries (http://groups.google.com/groups?group=alt.obituaries)
• Topix.net Obituaries (http://www.topix.net/news/obits)
• Operation Iraqi Freedom - US Combat Deaths (http://www.militarycity.com/valor/honor.html)

For earlier deaths see Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995...