Famous Deaths in 2005 (Part 2)

Deaths 201 - 400 of 706

John Paul II

Apr 2 Pope Saint John Paul II [Karol Wojtyla], Polish Roman Catholic Pope, dies of heart failure at 84

Apr 3 Tony Croatto, Italian singer (b. 1940)

Apr 3 Jef Eygel, Belgian basketball player (b. 1933)
Apr 4 Edward Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1924)

Saul Bellow

Apr 5 Saul Bellow, Canadian-American author (Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976), dies at 89

Apr 5 Dale Messick [Dalia Messick], American comic strip artist (Brenda Starr, Reporter), dies at 98
Apr 5 Debralee Scott, American actress (Cathy-Mary Hartman, Angie), dies at 52
Apr 5 John Sichel, British film and television director (b. 1937)
Apr 6 Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (1949-2005), dies at 81
Apr 6 Geoff Millman, English cricketer (England wicket-keeper in 6 Tests 1961-62), dies at 70
Apr 7 Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer, dies at 82
Apr 7 Bob Kennedy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
Apr 7 Cliff Allison, British racing driver (b. 1932)
Apr 8 Eddie Miksis, American baseball player, dies at 78
Apr 8 Onna White, Canadian choreographer (b. 1924)
Apr 8 Herbie Lovelle, America drummer, studio musician (Hot Lips Page) and actor (Law & Order), dies at 85
Apr 9 Andrea Dworkin, American radical feminist, dies at 58
Apr 10 Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (b. 1923)
Apr 10 Iakovos, Archbishop of America (b. 1911)
Apr 10 Al Lucas, American football player (b. 1978)
Apr 11 André François, Hungarian-French cartoonist, dies at 89
Apr 11 Lucien Laurent, French footballer (scored the first ever FIFA World Cup goal), dies at 97
Apr 11 Maurice R. Hilleman, American microbiologist who developed over 36 vaccines including measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia, dies at 85
Apr 13 Don Blasingame, American baseball player (b. 1932)
Apr 13 Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (b. 1924)
Apr 13 Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (b. 1945)
Apr 13 Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (b. 1959)

Apr 13 Nikola Ljubičić, President of the Presidency of Serbia (1982-84) and Communist politician, dies at 89
Apr 13 [Salvador] Tutti Camarata, American composer and producer (Vic Damone Show), dies at 91
Apr 14 Benny Bailey, American jazz trumpeter, dies at 79
Apr 15 Margaretta Scott, British actress (Crescendo, Where's Charley, Counterblast), dies from pneumonia and breast cancer at 93
Apr 15 John Fred, American singer (Judy in Disguise with Glasses), dies at 63
Apr 16 Kathleen "Kay" Walsh, British actress (The Horse's Mouth, Oliver Twist), dies in a fire at 93
Apr 16 Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (b. 1943)
Apr 16 Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian worker and peace activist (b. 1976)
Apr 17 James Archibald Houston, Canadian author and filmmaker (Tikta'Liktak), dies at 83
Apr 18 Sam Mills, American football player (b. 1959)
Apr 19 Ruth Hussey, American actress (Another Thin Man), dies at 93
Apr 19 Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946)
Apr 19 George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (b. 1941)
Apr 19 Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929)
Apr 20 Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist (b. 1904)
Apr 20 Zygfryd Blaut, Polish football player (b. 1943)
Apr 21 Gerry Marshall, British racing driver (b. 1941)
Apr 22 Norman Bird, UK character actor (b. 1920)
Apr 22 Robert Farnon, Canadian composer and conductor, dies at 87
Apr 22 Erika Fuchs, German translator (b. 1906)
Apr 22 Philip Morrison, American physicist, dies at 89
Apr 23 Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (b. 1911)
Apr 23 Al Grassby, Australian immigration minister (b. 1928)
Apr 23 Sir John Mills, British actor (Ryan's Daughter, Big Sleep, King Rat, War & Peace), dies from a chest infection at 97
Apr 23 Romano Scarpa, Italian-born comic artist (b. 1927)
Apr 23 Earl Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1934)
Apr 24 Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (b. 1924)
Apr 24 Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist (b. 1910)
Apr 25 Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (b. 1908)
Apr 25 John Love, Zimbabwean Formula One driver, dies at 80

Apr 26 Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
Apr 26 Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss star of German cinema (The Last Bridge, Gervaise, Space 1999), dies at 79
Apr 26 Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917)
Apr 26 Mason Adams, American actor (Lou Grant, Deadliest Season), dies at 86
Apr 28 Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1972)
Apr 28 Taraki Sivaram, Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka (b. 1959)
Apr 28 Percy Heath, American jazz bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1923)
Apr 29 William J. Bell, American television writer and producer (b. 1927)
Apr 29 Mariana Levy, Mexican actress, singer, and television show host (b. 1966)
Apr 30 Ron Todd, TGWU General Secretary (1985 - 1992) (b. 1927)
May 2 Kenneth Bancroft Clark, American civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto) and first black president of the American Psychological Association, dies at 90
May 2 Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
May 4 David Hackworth, U.S. Army officer and military journalist (b. 1930)
May 7 Tristan Egolf, American writer (b. 1971)
May 7 Peter W. Rodino, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey (1949-89), dies at 95
May 7 Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980)
May 8 Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (b. 1981)
May 9 Nasrat Parsa, Afghani singer (b. 1969)
May 10 David Wayne, American singer (Metal Church) (b. 1958)
May 11 Michalis Genitsaris, Greek rebetiko singer and composer (b. 1917)
May 12 Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (b. 1909)
May 12 Monica Zetterlund, Swedish singer and actress, dies at 67
May 13 George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
May 13 Michael Ross, American serial killer (b. 1959)
May 13 Eddie Barclay, French record producer (b. 1921)
May 15 Alan B. Gold, Quebec Chief Justice (b. 1917)
May 17 Frank Gorshin, American comedian and impersonator (Riddler-Batman), dies at 72
May 19 Henry Corden, American actor and voice artist (b. 1921)
May 20 Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913)
May 20 William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (b. 1918)
May 20 John Donovan "J D" Cannon, American actor (McCloud, Ike, Call to Glory), dies at 83
May 21 Howard Morris, American comedic actor and director (The Andy Griffith Show, High Anxiety), dies of a heart disease at 85
May 22 Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1914)
May 22 Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and bass singer (Tony the Tiger, You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch), dies from prostate cancer at 91
May 22 Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924)
May 24 Carl Amery [Christian Anton Mayer], German writer, dies at 83
May 24 Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (b. 1913)
May 24 Vivian Liberto, first wife of Johnny Cash (b. 1934)
May 25 Sunil Dutt, Indian Bollywood director, actor and politician (Yaadein, Mother India, Khandaan), dies at 75
May 25 Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (b. 1938)

May 25 Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality (b. 1934)
May 25 Ruth Laredo, American pianist (b. 1937)
May 25 Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer, dies of lethal injection at 40

Eddie Albert

May 26 Eddie Albert, American actor (Roman Holiday), dies of pneumonia at 99

May 26 Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1928)
May 29 George Rochberg, American composer (Concord Quartet), dies at 86
May 29 María de los Ángeles Alvariño González, Spanish marine biologist and oceanographer, dies at 88
May 29 Oscar Brown, American singer and songwriter (Brown Baby, Forbidden Fruit), dies at 78
May 30 Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (Pakistani medium-pace workhorse 1952-62), dies at 78
May 30 Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958)

George Mikan

Jun 1 George Mikan, American basketball player, dies at 80

Jun 2 Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian Nordic combined skier and sports official (b. 1930)
Jun 2 Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. 1950)
Jun 2 Melita Norwood, British spy (b. 1912)
Jun 3 Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer, dies of lung cancer at 60
Jun 3 Leon Askin, Austrian actor (One, Two, Three, Charlie Farrell Show), dies at 97
Jun 5 Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
Jun 5 Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)

Anne Bancroft

Jun 6 Anne Bancroft [Anna Italiano], American actress, director, screenwriter and singer (Graduate, Miracle Worker), dies from uterine cancer at 73

Jun 6 Dana Elcar, American actor (Peter Thornton- MacGyver), dies of pneumonia at 77
Jun 6 Maya Kopitseva, Russian painter of the Leningrad school, dies at 81
Jun 10 Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915)
Jun 11 VVasco Gonçalves, Portuguese army officer and 103rd Prime Minister of Portugal (1974-75), dies at 84
Jun 11 Ron Randell, Australian actor (Loves of Carmen, I am a Camera), dies at 86
Jun 12 Scott Young, Canadian sportswriter, novelist, and journalist (b. 1918)
Jun 13 Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
Jun 13 Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer, dies at 91
Jun 13 Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
Jun 13 David Diamond, American composer (Paderewski Prize-1943), dies at 89
Jun 14 Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor (b. 1914)
Jun 14 Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (b. 1924)
Jun 15 Suzanne Flon, French actress (One Deadly Summer, Moulin Rouge), dies of gastroenteritis at 87
Jun 16 Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
Jun 17 Sam Loeb, comic book writer (b. 1988)
Jun 17 Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum), dies at 42
Jun 18 Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
Jun 18 Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914)
Jun 18 J.J. Pickle, American politician (Rep-D-Texas, 1963-95), dies at 91

Jack Kilby

Jun 20 Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer and Nobel laureate (handheld calculator, integrated circuit), dies at 81

Jun 20 Larry Collins, American writer, dies at 75

Jun 21 Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928)
Jun 23 Shana Alexander, American columnist (b. 1926)
Jun 23 Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (b. 1925)
Jun 24 Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
Jun 24 Hakham Yedidia Shofet, Former chief rabbi of Iran (b. 1908)
Jun 25 John Fiedler, American Actor (b. 1925)
Jun 26 Richard Whiteley, British television game show host (b. 1943)
Jun 27 Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)
Jun 27 Frank Harte, Traditional Irish Singer and song collector
Jun 27 John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
Jun 27 Ray Holmes, Battle of Britain veteran (b. 1914)
Jun 27 Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969)
Jun 28 Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
Jun 30 Christopher Fry, English playwright (The Lady's Not for Burning), dies at 97
Jul 1 Luther Vandross, American singer, dies at 54
Jul 1 Obie Benson, American musician (b. 1936)
Jul 1 Gus Bodnar, Canadian NHL center (NHL record 3 assists in 21 seconds 1952), dies at 82
Jul 2 Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
Jul 3 Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)
Jul 3 Gaylord Nelson, American politician (b. 1916)
Jul 4 Hank Stram, American Pro Football Hall of Fame coach (KC Chiefs Super Bowl 1970), dies of diabetes complications at 82
Jul 4 June Haver [Stovenour], American actress (Dolly Sisters, Girl Next Door), dies at 79
Jul 5 James Stockdale, U.S. Navy vice admiral (b. 1923)
Jul 5 Shirley Goodman, American singer (b. 1936)
Jul 6 Bruno Augenstein, German-born mathematician (b. 1923)
Jul 6 L. Patrick Gray III, American FBI director (b. 1916)
Jul 6 Ed McBain [Evan Hunter], American writer (Blackboard Jungle), dies at 78
Jul 6 Claude Simon, Malagasy-French writer, (Nobel Prize Literature 1985), dies at 91
Jul 6 Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
Jul 9 Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater (b. 1931)
Jul 9 Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
Jul 9 Kevin Hagen, American actor (Little House on the Prairie), dies at 77
Jul 9 Rafiq Zakaria, Indian politician and Islamic religious cleric, dies at 86
Jul 10 Richard Eastham, American actor (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Falcon Crest), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 89
Jul 10 A. J. Quinnell [Philip Nicholson], English writer (Man on Fire), dies at 65
Jul 10 Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
Jul 10 Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
Jul 10 Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin, airshow performers
Jul 11 Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
Jul 11 Frances Langford, American singer (Armed Forces Hour, Star Time), dies at 92
Jul 11 Jesús Iglesias, Argentine professional racing driver (b. 1922)
Jul 12 John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, Chief executive of British Airways since its privitisation (b. 1917)
Jul 14 Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger, dies at 80

Cicely Saunders

Jul 14 Cicely Saunders, English Nurse, physician and writer who founded the first modern hospice, dies of cancer at 87

Jul 16 Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
Jul 16 Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931)
Jul 16 Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, and entertainer (b. 1920)
Jul 17 Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (b. 1927)
Jul 17 Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish actress (Pawnbroker, Easy Money), dies of complications from Alzheimer's disease at 91

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