The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2005.
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.
December 2005
1
- Gust Avrakotos, 67, American CIA agent who armed the mujaheddin of Afghanistan.[1]
- Mary Hayley Bell, 94, British actress, Alzheimer's disease.[2]
- Hermann Buchner, 86, German World War II flying ace.
- Jack Colvin, 73, American actor, (The Incredible Hulk), coronary thrombosis.
- Michael Evans, 61, American White House photographer, noted for capturing the trademark image of Ronald Reagan wearing a cowboy hat, cancer.[3]
- Ray Hanna, 77, New Zealand-born warbird pilot and founder of The Old Flying Machine Company.[4]
- Victor Premasagar, 78, Indian theologian and Bishop of Medak (1983–1992).
2
- Lillian Browse, 99, British art dealer.[5]
- Shawn Paul Humphries, 34, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina.
- Malik Joyeux, 25, French professional surfer, killed at Hawaii's Banzai Pipeline.[6]
- William P. Lawrence, 75, American retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, first to fly at twice the speed of sound.[7]
- Leonard Lewis, 78, British television director and producer.[8]
- Peter Menegazzo, 61, Australian cattle baron, killed (along with his wife Angela) in a plane crash.[9]
- Van Tuong Nguyen, 25, Australian convicted of drug trafficking, execution by hanging.[10]
- V. Krishna Rao, 80, Indian politician.
- Mohammed Amza Zubeidi, 67, Iraqi politician, former prime minister under Saddam Hussein.
3
- Peter Aschwanden, 63, American illustrator, cancer.
- Frederick Ashworth, 93, American naval officer, weaponeer who dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
- Peter Cook, 62, Australian politician, melanoma.
- Lance Dossor, 90, Australian pianist.
- John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead, 73, British aristocrat and politician.
- Kikka Sirén, 41, Finnish pop/schlager singer, heart attack.
- Kåre Kristiansen, 85, Norwegian politician, minister of Oil and Energy (1983–1986).
- Atsuko Tanaka, 74, Japanese avant-garde artist.[11]
- Allan Waters, 84, Canadian broadcasting icon
4
- Débora Arango, 98, Colombian artist.[12]
- Percy Brandt, 83, Swedish actor.
- Errol Brathwaite, 81, New Zealand writer.
- Gregg Hoffman, 42, American film producer (Saw).[13]
- Gloria Lasso, 83, Spanish singer.
5
- John Alvheim, 75, Norwegian politician.
- Gerald Smedley Andrews, 101, Canadian civil servant.
- Wesley Baker, 47, American convicted murderer, executed in Maryland.
- Liu Binyan, 80, Chinese author and dissident, cancer.[14]
- Gerard Bruggink, 88, Dutch World War II pilot.
- Ursula Buckel, 79, German soprano.
- Netai Bysack, 84, Indian Olympic cyclist.
- Milo Dor, 82, Serbian-born Austrian author, heart failure.
- Edward L. Masry, 73, American attorney and mentor to Erin Brockovich, complications of diabetes.[15]
- Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, 56, Australian businessman and media personality, heart attack.[16]
- Frits Philips, 100, Dutch businessman, grandson of the founder of Philips, complications from a fall.
- Bob Richardson, 77, American fashion photographer.[17]
- Bill Robinson, 71, British rugby league player.
6
- Charly Gaul, 72, Luxembourgian cyclist, winner of the 1958 Tour de France.[18]
- Richard Grimsdale, 76, British electrical engineer, built the world's first transistorised computer and was at the forefront of work on Read Only Memory.[19]
- Paul Halla, 74, Austrian footballer.
- Hanns Dieter Hüsch, 80, German political satirist.
- Devan Nair, 82, President of Singapore (1981–1985).[20]
- Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, 111, Polish-born oldest man in the UK at the time of his death.[21]
- Danny Williams, 63, South African popular singer, lung cancer.
7
- Lucy d'Abreu, 113, Indian-born oldest person in the UK at the time of her death.[22]
- Rigoberto Alpizar, 44, American airplane passenger fatally shot by U.S. Air Marshals after allegedly claiming he had placed a bomb aboard.
- Martine Bercher, 61, American football player.
- Adrian Biddle, 53, British cinematographer (Aliens, The Princess Bride, Thelma & Louise), heart attack.
- Marvin Braude, 85, American member of Los Angeles City Council.[23]
- Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., 65, American politician, former South Carolina governor (1987–1995), and member of U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1987).
- Bud Carson, 75, American football player, former NFL head coach, emphysema.[24]
- Loomis Dean, 88, American photographer, notably for Life magazine.
8
- R. W. Bradford, 58, American writer, publisher of Liberty magazine, kidney cancer.
- Dame Rose Heilbron, 91, British judge.[25]
- Donald Martino, 74, American composer.[26]
- George D. Painter, 91, British biographer.[27]
- Leo Scheffczyk, 85, German Roman Cardinal Deacon of San Francesco Saverio alla Garbatella, Germany.[28]
- Roger Shattuck, 82, American writer and critic, prostate cancer.[29]
- J.N. Williamson, 73, American horror writer, author and publisher.
- Georgiy Zhzhonov, 90, Russian actor and writer.
9
- Alan John Beale, 72, British virologist.
- Norman Blundell, 88, Australian cricketer.
- Mike Botts, 61, American drummer with 1970s soft rock band Bread, toured and recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Dan Fogelberg, Tina Turner and others, cancer.
- Homer Mensch, 91, American internationally known bass player, Juilliard teacher.
- Eunice Norton, 97, American classical pianist and music promoter.
- György Sándor, 93, Hungarian internationally famous pianist, Juilliard teacher, heart failure.[30]
- Robert Sheckley, 77, American science fiction author, brain aneurysm.[31]
10
- Frank Cooke, 92, American entrepreneur.
- Mary Jackson, 95, American schoolteacher and actress (The Waltons, Parenthood).
- Eugene McCarthy, 89, American politician, former Democratic United States Senator from Minnesota (1959–1971), and United States Representative (1949–1959) and presidential primary candidate.[32]
- Jim McIntyre, 78, American basketball player.
- Richard Pryor, 65, American comedian and actor (Stir Crazy, Harlem Nights), heart attack and complications of multiple sclerosis.[33]
- Clark G. Reynolds, 65, American naval historian.[34]
11
- Walter Cudzik, 73, American NFL and American Football League center for the Boston Patriots.
- Del Philpott, 82, American soldier and scientist.
- Richard Sandbrook, 59, British environmentalist.
- Hayim Tadmor, 82, Israeli Assyriologist and professor.[35]
12
- Eric D'Arcy, 81, Australia Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hobart, Tasmania.
- Max Mariu, 53, First Maori Catholic bishop.
- Robert Newmyer, 49, American film producer (The Santa Clause, Training Day, Sex, Lies, and Videotape), heart attack triggered by asthma.[36]
- David Pritchard, 86, British chess player and chess writer.
- Gebran Tueni, 48, Lebanese journalist and politician, assassinated by a car bomb.
13
- John Barraclough, 79, Australian politician.
- Sir Roland Guy, 77, British army general.
- John Langstaff, 84, American singer and music educator.[37]
- Dick Nolan, 66, Canadian musician.
- Stanley "Tookie" Williams, 51, American convicted murderer and co-founder of the Crips turned anti-gang activist, execution by lethal injection.
14
- Erhard Ahmann, 64, German football manager.
- Stew Bowers, 90, American baseball player.
- Gordon Duncan, 41, Scottish musician and bagpiper, suicide.[38]
- Rokuro Ishikawa, 80, Japanese businessman (Kajima Corporation).
- Sudhir Joshi, 57, Indian actor, heart attack.
- John B. Nixon, 77, American convicted murderer, executed in Mississippi.
- William "Duke" Procter, 106, Canadian World War I veteran.[39]
- Rodney William Whitaker, 74, British author, wrote under pseudonyms such as "Trevanian."
- C. I. Paul, 61, Indian (Malayalam) actor, heart attack.
15
- Maurice Beresford, 85, British economic historian and archaeologist.
- James Ingo Freed, 75, American architect.[40]
- Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 84, Italian writer and director of movies and theatre.
- Heinrich Gross, 90, Austrian alleged Nazi doctor and war criminal.[41]
- Walter Haut, 83, American retired U.S. Army lieutenant, central figure in the Roswell UFO incident in 1947.[42]
- Stan Leonard, 90, Canadian golfer, heart failure.[43]
- Julian Marías, 91, Spanish philosopher and father of author Javier Marías.
- John McIntyre, 89, Scottish theologian.[44]
- Akira Ohgi, 70, Japanese baseball player and manager.
- Jim Ostendarp, 82, American football coach at Amherst College for 33 years.[45]
- William Proxmire, 90, American politician, Democratic Senator from Wisconsin (1957–1989), complications of Alzheimer's disease.[46]
- Darrell Russell, 29, American former NFL player for the Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, car accident.
16
- Anthony Barber, 85, British politician and former Conservative Party Chancellor of the Exchequer, complications of Parkinson's disease.
- Boyi Bhimanna, 94, Indian Telugu poet.
- Kenneth Bulmer, 84, English writer (pseudonyms included Alan Burt Akers and Dray Prescot).[47]
- Joseph Owades, 86, American biochemist, inventor of light beer.[48]
- John Spencer, 58, American actor (The West Wing, L.A. Law, The Rock), Emmy winner (2002), heart attack.
- Enzo Stuarti, 86, Italian tenor, was in many Broadway musicals, heart failure.[49]
17
- Jack Anderson, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, complications of Parkinson's disease.[50]
- Mustafa Ertan, 79, Turkish footballer.
- Marc Favreau, 76, French Canadian television and film actor, best known for his creation of the clown Sol.
- Jacques Fouroux, 58, French rugby union captain and coach, heart attack.[51]
- Sverre Stenersen, 79, Norwegian Gold medal winner in the 1956 Winter Olympics.
- Haljand Udam, 69, Estonian translator and encyclopedist.
18
- Keith Duckworth, 72, British automotive designer.[52]
- Doug Dye, 84, New Zealand microbiologist.
- Howie Ferguson, 75, American former NFL player.
- Doris Fisher, Baroness Fisher of Rednal, 86, British politician and peer.[53]
- Barry Halper, 66, American baseball memorabilia collector and limited partner for the New York Yankees.[54]
- Belita Jepson-Turner, 82, British Olympic skater and film actress.[55]
- P.M. Sayeed, 64, Indian Minister of Power, heart attack.[56]
- Alan M. Voorhees, 83, American transportation engineer and city planner [57]
19
- Billy Amstell, 94, British jazz musician.
- Sir Charles Brett, 77, Northern Irish architectural historian.
- George Bromilow, 74, British footballer at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
- Vincent Gigante, 77, American Genovese family crime boss, heart disease.[58]
- Phyllis Gretzky, 64, Canadian mother of NHL legend Wayne Gretzky, lung cancer.
- Julio Iglesias, Sr., 90, Spanish gynaecologist who is among the oldest men to have fathered a child (also Julio Iglesias's father and Enrique Iglesias's grandfather), heart attack.
- Marjorie Kellogg, 83, American author and playwright (Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon).[59]
20
- Raoul Bott, 82, Hungarian-born American Harvard mathematician, cancer.[60]
- Argentina Brunetti, 98, Argentine actress. (It's a Wonderful Life, The Caddy), writer, journalist.
- Theodore Holmes Bullock, 90, American neuroscientist.[61]
- Bradford Cannon, 98, American plastic surgeon, pneumonia.[62]
- Genrikh Fedosov, 73, Soviet football player.
- William W. Howells, 97, American anthropologist.[63]
- Billy Hughes, 57, American former child/film actor during the 1960s.[64]
- Graham Wilson, 66, Australian rugby league player.
- José Roberto Hill, 60, Mexican actor.
21
- Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent, 90, Spanish officer of arms.
- Horace Ellis Crouch, 87, American military aviator, member of the Doolittle Raid.
- Myron Healey, 82, American film actor who normally played Western villains.[65]
- Elrod Hendricks, 64, U.S. Virgin Islander Baltimore Orioles coach, former MLB catcher, heart attack.[66]
- Hallam Tennyson, 85, British radio producer and great-grandson of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, suspected victim of murder.[67]
22
- Richard Bellucci, 91, American ear surgeon and inventor.[68]
- Cooper Evans, 81, American politician, former Republican US Representative from Iowa from 1981–1987.
- Aurora Miranda, 90, Brazilian entertainer, sister of Carmen Miranda; she appeared in The Three Caballeros (1945) in which she danced with Donald Duck.
- Bill Scott, 82, Australian author.
23
- Lajos Baróti, 91, Hungarian football coach.[69]
- Selma Jeanne Cohen, 85, American dance historian, editor of The International Encyclopedia of Dance.[70]
- G. Blakemore Evans, 93, American Shakespeare scholar, author of The Riverside Shakespeare, stroke.[71]
- Truman Gibson, 93, American anti-segregation lawyer and boxing promoter.[72]
- Harold Hallman, 43, Canadian football player.[73]
- Emmett Leith, 78, American electrical engineer.[74]
- Kay Stammers, 91, British tennis player.[75]
- Norman D. Vaughan, 100, American explorer and sportsman, part of Richard Byrd's 1928 South Pole expedition.[76][77]
- Yao Wenyuan, 74, Chinese Communist political leader, member of the Gang of Four.[78]
24
- Bhanumathi, 80, Indian film actress, director, singer/songwriter.[79]
- Georg Johannesen, 74, Norwegian author and professor of rhetoric.[80]
- Constance Keene, 84, American classical pianist known for playing the romantic repertoire[81]
- Harold Lawton, 106, British academic and veteran of the First World War[82]
- Michael Vale, 83, American actor who appeared in over 1,300 commercials as the sleepy doughnut maker for Dunkin' Donuts from 1982–1997, diabetes.[83]
- Wang Daohan, 90, Chinese negotiator for People's Republic of China in cross-straits talks, who contributed to the formation of the 1992 Consensus with Koo Chen-fu from the Republic of China on Taiwan.[84]
25
- Felice Andreasi, 77, Italian actor.
- Derek Bailey, 75, English free improvising avant-garde guitarist, motor neuron disease.[85]
- Robert Barbers, 61, Filipino politician, former Philippines senator, heart attack.[86]
- Donald Dawson, 97, American lawyer, executive assistant to Harry S. Truman.[87]
- Robert Duthie, 80, American-born British orthopaedic surgeon.
- John Hayes, 76, British art historian and museum curator.[88]
- Henry Kock, 53, Canadian horticulturist and eco-activist, brain cancer.[89]
- Birgit Nilsson, 87, Swedish soprano.[90]
- Joseph Pararajasingham, 71, Sri Lankan politician and supporter of the Tamil Tiger rebels, shot and killed at a midnight Christmas Mass.[91]
- Sarat Chandra Sinha, 92, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Assam.[92]
- Clint Sampson, 44, American football player, car accident.[93]
- Roy Stuart, 70, American actor.[94]
26
- Mikuláš Athanasov, 75, Czechoslovak wrestler.
- Julian "Bud" Blake, 87, American cartoonist (Tiger).[95]
- Muriel Costa-Greenspon, 68, American mezzo-soprano at the New York City Opera for 30 years.[96]
- Guy Delorme, 76, French actor (The Three Musketeers, Moonraker).
- Bill DeArango, 84, American jazz guitarist.
- John Diebold, 79, American businessman, pioneering American computer engineer.[97]
- Ted Ditchburn, 84, English football goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, England national football team).[98]
- Ernesto Leal, 60, Nicaraguan politician, presidential chief of staff and former foreign minister of Nicaragua, pneumonia.[99]
- Kerry Packer, 68, Australian businessman, publishing, media and gaming tycoon, Australia's richest individual amassing a fortune of over $6 billion.[100]
- Vincent Schiavelli, 57, American actor (Ghost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), lung cancer.[101]
- John Taylor, 80, Canadian football player (St. Hyacinthe-Donnacona Navy and Montreal Alouettes).[102]
- Erich Topp, 91, German U-boat commander in World War II.[103]
- Linda Leighton, 88, American actress (Impact, Brick Bradford).
27
- Stuart Alexander, 44, American businessman and murderer.
- Philip N. Carney, 86, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
- Xavier Connor, 88, Australian jurist, foundation judge of the Federal Court of Australia, President of the Australian Law Reform Commission 1985–1987.
- Dee Pollock, 68, American film and television actor.
- Giancarlo Primo, 81, Italian basketball coach, the first to defeat National Teams USA and USSR in 1970s.[104]
- Tokuji Wakasa, 91, Japanese businessman, former president of All Nippon Airways.
28
- Bruce Carver, 57, American video game developer.
- Patrick Cranshaw, 86, American actor (Old School, Best in Show, Herbie: Fully Loaded), pneumonia.[105]
- Tage Ekfeldt, 79, Swedish Olympic sprinter.
- Stevo Žigon, 79, Serbian actor and theatre director.
29
- Armand Phillip Bartos, 95, American architect.[106]
- Gerda Boyesen, 83, Norwegian psychologist.
- Dan Carnevale, 87, American baseball player.
- Abuna Yesehaq Mandefro, 72, Ethiopian Orthodox Archbishop.[107]
- Ray Mattox, 78, American politician.[108]
- Eileen Nolan, 85, British Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps.[109]
- Elizabeth Parcells, 54, American operatic coloratura soprano.[110]
- Sir Cyril Philips, 93, British historian and academic administrator.[111]
- Sir Eric Stroud, 81, British paediatrician.[112]
30
- Eddie Barlow, 65, South African cricketer.[113]
- Candy Barr, 70, American exotic dancer, pneumonia.[114]
- Charles J. Bowles, 83, American physical education expert.
- Pasquale Carpino, 69, Italian-born Canadian television chef and operatic singer.[115]
- Tory Dent, 47, American poet, essayist and art critic.[116]
- Rona Jaffe, 74, American novelist (The Best of Everything, Mazes and Monsters), cancer.[117]
- Fred "Jock" Smith, 79, Scottish footballer (Hull City, Sheffield United and Millwall).
- Bobby Stevens, 98, American baseball player.[118]
31
- Sanora Babb, 98, American writer.[119]
- Enrico Di Giuseppe, 73, American operatic tenor, cancer.[120]
- Maurice Dodd, 83, British cartoonist (The Perishers), brain haemorrhage.[121]
- Sir John Peel, 101, British gynaecologist.[122]
- Maclovia Ruiz, 95, American dancer, pneumonia.[123]
- Xolilizwe Mzikayise Sigcawu, 79, South African King of the Gcaleka.
- David Trustram Eve, 2nd Baron Silsoe, 75, British lawyer.[124]
- Phillip Whitehead, 68, British politician and television presenter, MP for Derby North, heart attack.[125]
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