The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2004.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
April 2004
1
- Paul Atkinson, 58, British guitarist, kidney failure.
- Aaron Bank, 101, American U.S. Army officer, "Father of Special Forces".[1]
- Rıza Doğan, 73, Turkish wrestler and Olympic silver medalist.[2]
- Enrique Grau, 83, Colombian painter and sculptor.[3]
- Yannis Kyrastas, 51, Greek football player and football manager, sepsis.
- Ichirō Nakatani, 73, Japanese actor and seiyū.
- Sándor Reisenbüchler, 69, Hungarian animated film director and graphic artist.[4]
- Mykola Rudenko, 83, Ukrainian poet and human rights activist.[5]
- Jacques Seiler, 76, French actor and theatre director, cancer.[6]
- Charles St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair, 89, British aristocrat and courtier.
- Carrie Snodgress, 58, American actress (Diary of a Mad Housewife, Pale Rider, Murphy's Law), kidney failure.[7]
- Gurcharan Singh Tohra, 79, Indian Sikh leader, heart attack.
2
- Ioannis Argyris, 90, Greek computer scientist.
- Alan Levy, 72, American author.[8]
- Takashi Shirôzu, 86, Japanese entomologist.
- Chaïbia Talal, 75, Moroccan painter, heart attack.
- John Taras, 84, American ballet master and choreographer.[9]
3
- John Diamond, Baron Diamond, 96, British life peer.[10]
- Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian singer, suicide.
- Eduard Linkers, 91, Austrian actor.[11]
- Nagaraja Rao, 89–90, Indian cricket umpire.[12]
- Phillip Rock, 76, American actor, screenwriter (Most Dangerous Man Alive) and novelist ("Passing Bells" trilogy).[13]
4
- Gito Baloi, 39, South African musician, homicide.
- George Bamberger, 80, American baseball player and manager, cancer.[14]
- Nikita Bogoslovsky, 90, Soviet and Russian composer, conductor, and writer.
- Danuta Czech, 82, Polish Holocaust historian.
- Sukhen Das, 65, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter of Bengali cinema.
- Gébé, 74, French cartoonist.[15]
- Ralph Kemplen, 91, British film editor (The Day of the Jackal, The African Queen, The Dark Crystal).[16]
- Pierre Koenig, 78, American architect and academic.[17]
- Boris Levitan, 89, Russian mathematician.[18]
- James J. Martin, 87, American historian and Holocaust denier.[19]
- Bogdan Norčič, 50, Yugoslavian Olympic ski jumper (normal hill and large hill ski jumping at the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics).[20]
- Albéric Schotte, 84, Belgian road racing cyclist.[21]
- Alwyn Williams, 82, British geologist.[22]
- Ron Williams, 59, American basketball player, heart attack.[23]
- Austin Willis, 87, Canadian actor and television host.[24]
5
- Isaac Carrasco, 75, Chilean football player.
- Fernand Goyvaerts, 65, Belgian football player, cerebral hemorrhage].[25]
- Ralph Landau, 87, American chemical engineer and entrepreneur.
- Larry McGrew, 46, American gridiron football player, heart attack.[26]
- Pompeo Posar, 83, American Playboy magazine staff photographer.
- Sławomir Rawicz, 88, Polish army lieutenant imprisoned by the NKVD and purported escapee (The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom).[27]
- Fred Winter, 77, British racehorse trainer and jockey.
- Heiner Zieschang, 67, German mathematician.
6
- Lou Berberet, 74, American Major League Baseball baseball player.[28]
- Larisa Bogoraz, 74, Russian dissident and human rights activist, stroke.[29]
- Glenn Cowan, 51, American table tennis player, heart attack.
- Ken Johnson, 81, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers).[30]
- Alexander Lerner, 90, Soviet and Ukrainian scientist and refusenik.[31]
- Niki Sullivan, 66, American Rock and Roll guitarist, heart attack.
7
- Victor Argo, 69, American actor (King of New York, Taxi Driver, Bad Lieutenant), complications from lung cancer.[32]
- Wolfgang Mattheuer, 77, German painter, graphic artist and sculptor, heart failure.[33]
- Marian McCargo, 72, American actress and champion tennis player, pancreatic cancer.
- Kelucharan Mohapatra, 77, Indian classical dancer and guru.[34]
- Maureen Potter, 79, Irish actress, singer, dancer and comedian.[35]
- Robert Sangster, 67, British racehorse owner, pancreatic cancer.[36]
- Peter Urban, 69, American martial artist.
8
- Shafic Abboud, 77, Lebanese painter.[37]
- Herb Andress, 69, Austrian film and television actor, bladder cancer.[38]
- Adrian Beers, 88, British double bass player.[39]
- Chief Bey, 90, American jazz percussionist and African folklorist, stomach cancer.[40]
- Enda Colleran, 61, Irish Gaelic football player and manager.
- Ruth Tabrah, 83, American writer and ordained Buddhist minister.
9
- Lélia Abramo, 93, Brazilian actress and political activist, and politician, pulmonary embolism.
- Harry Babbitt, 90, American singer.[41]
- Donna Michelle, 58, American model, actress, and photographer, heart attack.
- Julius Sang, 55, Kenyan Olympic runner (1968 Summer Olympics, 1972 Summer Olympics: gold medal, bronze medal).[42]
- Jiří Weiss, 91, Czech film director, screenwriter, writer, and playwright.[43]
10
- Paul-Louis Boutié, 93, French art director.
- Bertil Göransson, 85, Swedish rowing coxswain and Olympic silver medalist.[44]
- Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity, laryngeal cancer.[45]
- Ben Pimlott, 58, British historian, leukemia.
- Roland Rainer, 93, Austrian architect.[46]
- Sakıp Sabancı, 71, Turkish businessman, kidney cancer.[47]
- Odd Wang Sørensen, 81, Norwegian Olympic football player (men's football at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[48]
11
- Stan Darling, 92, Canadian politician.
- Hy Gotkin, 81, American basketball player.[49]
- Paul Hamburger, 83, British pianist, accompanist, chamber musician, and scholar.[50]
- Mamadou Aliou Kéïta, 52, Guinean football player, cardiac arrest.
12
- Norman Campbell, 80, Canadian composer, television producer and director, stroke.
- Robert Richardson, 76, Canadian Olympic alpine skier (men's downhill, men's giant slalom, men's slalom at the 1952 Winter Olympics).[51]
- Frank Seward, 83, American baseball player (New York Giants).[52]
- Juanito Valderrama, 87, Spanish folk and flamenco singer.[53]
- Wesley Wehr, 74, American paleontologist and artist.[54]
- George W. Whitehead, 85, American mathematician.[55]
13
- Ritchie Cordell, 61, American songwriter, singer and record producer, pancreatic cancer.
- Dadamaino, 73, Italian visual artist and painter.
- Hilda Fenemore, 89, English actress.
- David Fowler, 66, British mathematician.[56]
- Csaba Horváth, 74, Hungarian-American chemical engineer and scientist.[57]
- Caron Keating, 41, British television presenter, breast cancer.[58]
- Aarne Saarinen, 90, Finnish politician and a trade union leader.
14
- Micheline Charest, 51, British television producer, complications following plastic surgery.[59]
- Antonio Cobas, 52, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle designer and mechanic, cancer.
- Erik Kuld Jensen, 78, Danish football player.
- Robin Popplestone, 65, British software designer and a pioneer in artificial intelligence and robotics, prostate cancer.[60]
- Fabrizio Quattrocchi, 35, Italian security officer, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq.[61]
15
- Ray Condo, 53, Canadian rockabilly singer, saxophonist, and guitarist, heart attack.
- María Denis, 87, Argentine-Italian film actress.[62]
- Phyllis Dillon, 59, Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer, cancer.[63]
- Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre director, composer and producer.
- Mitsuteru Yokoyama, 69, Japanese manga artist, accidental death.[64]
16
- Abu al-Walid, Saudi Arabian terrorist, killed by Russian federal forces.[65]
- Carlos Castaño, 38, Colombian rebel leader, killed by FARC guerillas.
- Nour El-Dali, 75, Egyptian football player.[66]
- Wilmot N. Hess, 77, American physicist, leukemia.
- Harry Mayerovitch, 94, Canadian architect, artist, illustrator, and author.[67]
- Jan Szczepański, 90, Polish sociologist and politician.
17
- Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, 56, Palestinian Hamas leader, targeted killing by Israel.[68]
- Bruce Boa, 73, Canadian-British actor (The Empire Strikes Back, Octopussy, Full Metal Jacket), cancer.
- Anke Hartnagel, 62, German politician, Member of the German Bundestag (1998–2004).[69]
- Geraint Howells, 79, Welsh politician.
- Joe Kennedy, Jr., 80, American jazz violinist.[70]
- Jim Ligon, 60, American basketball player.[71]
- Earl Miner, 77, American professor at Princeton University.[72]
- Soundarya, 31, Indian film actress, plane crash.
- Bobby Wawak, 64, American NASCAR race driver.
18
- David Clarke, 95, American Broadway and motion picture actor.[73]
- Gürdal Duyar, 68, Turkish sculptor.
- Brice Hunter, 29, American gridiron football player, shot.[74]
- Kamisese Mara, 83, Fijian politician, prime minister and president, stroke.[75]
- Koken Nosaka, 79, Japanese politician.
- Frances Rafferty, 81, American actress, dancer, and model.[76]
- Werner Schumacher, 82, German actor.
19
- Tim Burstall, 76, Australian film director and producer, stroke.[77]
- Jim Cantalupo, 60, American businessman, CEO of McDonald's, heart attack.[78]
- George Hardwick, 84, English football player, manager and coach.[79]
- Volodymyr Kaplychnyi, 60, Ukrainian football player.
- Philip Locke, 76, British actor.[80]
- Norris McWhirter, 78, British writer, political activist and founder of the Guinness Book of Records, heart attack.[81]
- Frank B. Morrison, 98, American politician, Governor of Nebraska.
- Sam Nahem, 88, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies).[82]
- Ronnie Simpson, 73, Scottish footballer and manager, heart attack.[83]
- John Maynard Smith, 84, British biologist, lung cancer].[84]
- Wolfgang Unger, 55, German conductor, cancer.
20
- Lizzy Mercier Descloux, 47, French musician, actress, writer and painter, cancer.[85]
- Komal Kothari, 75, Indian folklorist and ethnomusicologist.
- Mary McGrory, 85, American journalist and columnist.[86]
- Abdullah Shah, 59, Afghan serial killer, executed.
- Al Stiller, 80, American Olympic cyclist (men's tandem cycling and men's team pursuit cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[87]
21
- Eduard Asadov, 80, Russian poet and writer.
- Den Fujita, 78, Japanese founder of McDonald's Japan, heart failure.
- Karl Hass, 91, German SS officer and convicted war criminal.
- John W. Kirklin, 87, American cardiothoracic surgeon who refined John Gibbon's heart–lung bypass machine.[88]
- Mary Selway, 68, British casting director (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi, Gosford Park), cancer.[89]
- Tui St. George Tucker, 79, American modernist composer and conductors.[90]
- Peter Bander van Duren, 73, British writer on heraldry and orders of knighthood.
- Sunčana Škrinjarić, 72, Croatian writer, poet and journalist.
22
- Saleem Akhtar, 73, Pakistani cricket player.[91]
- Franco Delli Colli, 75, Italian film cinematographer, pulmonary embolism.
- Art Devlin, 81, American ski jumper, brain cancer.[92]
- Jason Dunham, 22, American marine, used his body to shield others from a grenade explosion, killed in action.
- Sami Hadawi, 100, Palestinian scholar and author.[93]
- Pat Tillman, 27, American gridiron football player (Arizona Cardinals) and Army Ranger, killed in action by friendly fire.[94]
23
- Manuel Alcalde, 47, Spanish Olympic race walker.[95]
- Marie-Émile Boismard, 87, French biblical scholar.[96]
- Saúl Ongaro, 87, Argentine football player.
- Peter S. Prescott, 68, American author and book critic, liver disease.[97]
- Ross Rutledge, 41, Canadian field hockey player and Olympian, cancer.[98]
24
- Betty Clay, 87, British scouter, daughter of Robert Baden-Powell.
- José Giovanni, 80, French writer and film maker, cerebral hemorrhage.[99]
- Feridun Karakaya, 76, Turkish actor, heart attack.
- Lia Laats, 78, Estonian stage and film actress.
- Estée Lauder, 97, American businesswoman, cosmetics products pioneer, heart attack.[100]
- Willie Watson, 84, English cricketer.[101]
- Des Warren, 66, British trade unionist.[102]
25
- Alphonzo E. Bell, Jr., 89, American politician, pneumonia.[103]
- Dooland Buultjens, 70, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.[104]
- Thom Gunn, 74, British poet.[105]
- Eddie Hopkinson, 68, English football goalkeeper.[106]
- Shota Kveliashvili, 66, Georgian sports shooter and Olympic silver medalist.[107]
- Carl Melles, 77, Austrian orchestral conductor.
- Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, 76, Japanese politician.
- Albert Paulsen, 78, Ecuadorian-American actor.
- Jacques Rouxel, 73, French film animator.[108]
- Sid Watson, 71, American football player and ice hockey coach, heart attack.[109]
- Claude Williams, 96, American jazz musician.[110]
26
- Kurt Dossin, 91, German field handball player and Olympic champion.[111]
- Rangel Gerovski, 45, Bulgarian wrestler and Olympic silver medalist.[112]
- Paul Hasule, 44, Ugandan football player.[113]
- Robert Clark Jones, 87, American physicist.
- Lee Loevinger, 91, American jurist and lawyer, complications of heart disease.[114]
- Gunther E. Rothenberg, 80, German-American historian.
- Hubert Selby Jr., 75, American writer, author of "Last Exit to Brooklyn", pulmonary embolism.[115]
- Hasse Thomsén, 62, Swedish heavyweight boxer and Olympic medalist.[116]
27
- Gleason Archer, 87, American theologian.
- David Jenkinson, 69, British railway modeller and historian.
- Alex Randolph, 81, American designer of board games (TwixT, Enchanted Forest, Inkognito, Ricochet Robot).[117]
- Alejandro Ulloa, 93, Spanish actor.[118]
- Roy Walford, 79, American dietician and author.
- Lloyd F. Wheat, 81, American lawyer and politician.
28
- Patrick Berhault, 46, French rock climber and mountaineer, climbing accident.[119]
- Jeremy Black, 52, British assyriologist.[120]
- Jean Devaivre, 91, French film director and screenwriter.
- Elizabeth Fisher, 93, Canadian Olympic figure skater.[121]
- Floyd Giebell, 94, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[122]
- Kifle Wodajo, 67, Ethiopian politician and diplomat.
29
- Gaetano Badalamenti, 80, Italian member of the Sicilian Mafia, heart attack.
- Alexander Bovin, 73, Soviet and Russian journalist, political scientist and diplomat.[123]
- John Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker, 88, British diplomat and aristocrat.[124]
- Nick Joaquin, 86, Filipino writer and national artist.[125]
- David S. Sheridan, 95, American inventor of disposable plastic endotracheal tube.[126]
- Sid Smith, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).[127]
- Stig Synnergren, 89, Swedish Army officer.
30
- Heather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke, 74, British educator and life peer.[128]
- Jeff Butterfield, 74, English rugby player.
- Joseph Cullman, 92, American businessman, CEO of Philip Morris Company.[129]
- Kioumars Saberi Foumani, (aka Gol-Agha), 62, Iranian satirist, cancer.
- Jeffrey Alan Gray, 69, British psychiatrist, prostate cancer.
- Frederick Karl, 77, American literary biographer.
- Georges Lagrange, 75, French esperantist writer.
- Åke Lindemalm, 94, Swedish Navy officer.
- Evelyn Mase, 81, South African nurse, first wife of Nelson Mandela.[130]
- Boris Piergamienszczikow, 55, Russian cellist.[131]
- Kazimierz Plater, 89, Polish chess International Master, three-time Polish chess champion (1949, 1956, 1957).[132]
- Adolph Verschueren, 81, Belgian road cyclist.
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