The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.
January 2005
1
- Marc Baltzan, 75, Canadian physician.
- Harold Bodle, 84, English footballer (Birmingham City, Bury, Stockport County and Accrington Stanley).
- Shirley Chisholm, 80, American politician, first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress.[1]
- Eugene J. Martin, 66, African-American painter.
- Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British executive and peer, Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and former deputy managing director of The Daily Telegraph.
- Bob Matsui, 63, American Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, cancer.[2]
- Dmitry Nelyubin, 33, Russian cyclist, murdered.[3]
- Patrick Denis O'Donnell, 82, Irish military historian and army officer.
2
- Reine Andersson, 59, Swedish Olympic sailor [1]
- Bernard Barrell, 85, British composer and conductor.
- H. David Dalquist, 86, American inventor and chemical engineer, founder of Nordic Ware, creator of the Bundt cake pan.
- Arnold Denker, 90, American chess player.[4]
- Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian (That's Life!).
- Frank Kelly Freas, 82, American science fiction artist.[5]
- Félix Galimi, 84, Argentine Olympic fencer.
- Paul Manning, 45, American television writer (ER, L.A. Law), colorectal cancer.[6]
- Ronald Ginn, 70, American former Congressman from Georgia.
- Maclyn McCarty, 93, American geneticist and DNA research pioneer.
- Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter.
3
- Sir Edward Britton, 95, British trade unionist.
- Paul Darragh, 51, Irish equestrian showjumper, heart failure
- JN Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary.
- Will Eisner, 87, American comic book artist (The Spirit), complications following surgery.
- Richard Feilden, 54, British architect.
- Koo Chen-fu, 88, Chinese negotiator with the People's Republic of China, renal cancer.
- Claude Meillassoux, 79, French anthropologist and economist.
- Robert Gottschall, 89, American actor.
- László Vadász, 56, Hungarian chess grandmaster.
4
- Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster[7]
- Guy Davenport, 77, American writer, translator, illustrator, and painter, lung cancer[8]
- Beulah Anne Georges, 81, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[9]
- Ali Al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated
- Frank Harary, 84, American mathematician, a foremost expert on graph theory[10]
- Robert Heilbroner, 85, American economist.[11]
- Marguerite Pearson, 72, American professional baseball player (AAGPBL)
- Bud Poile, 80, Canadian professional ice hockey player, right wing for Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings in the 1940s and 50s, member of Hockey Hall of Fame
- Alton Tobey, 90, American muralist and painter.[12]
5
- Martín Acosta y Lara, 79, Uruguayan basketball player.
- Antoni Barwiński, 81, Polish football player.
- Antonio Benítez-Rojo, 73, Cuban writer.
- Gabrielle Daye, 93, English stage actress.
- Tore Johannessen, 82, Norwegian ice hockey referee.
- Charles Repenning, 82, American paleontologist and zoologist, murdered during burglary.
- Danny Sugerman, 50, American music manager.
6
- Vern Barberis, 76, Australian weightlifter.
- Eileen Desmond, 72, Irish politician, Minister for Health and Social Welfare (1981–1982).
- S. Paul Ehrlich Jr., 72, American physician, Acting Surgeon General of the United States (1973–1977).
- Lois Hole, 75, Canadian politician, businesswoman, academician, professional gardener and best-selling author, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, cancer.
- Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS.
- Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick.
- Sir Nicholas Scott, 71, British politician.
- Ali Shukriu, 85, Kosovan politician, Prime Minister (1963–1967) and President (1981–1982).
7
- Harry Boyles, 93, American baseball player.
- Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson).
- Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, 73, American sports commentator in New Orleans, heart attack.
- Rosemary Kennedy, 86, American sister of John F. Kennedy, natural causes.
- Aleksandr Prokhorov, 58, Soviet footballer (Dynamo Kyiv, Spartak Moscow).[13]
8
- Oleta Kirk Abrams, 77, American activist.
- Leonardo Alishan, 53, Iranian scholar.
- Badja Djola, 56, American actor (Mississippi Burning, The Hurricane, The Last Boy Scout), heart attack.
- Jacqueline Joubert, 83, French television announcer, producer and director, one of the first television presenters on French television.
- Suvad Katana, 35, Bosnian footballer.
- Aksella Luts, 99, Estonian screenwriter, actress and filmmaker.[14]
- Campbell McComas, 52, Australian comedian, writer and actor.
- Song Renqiong, 95, Chinese general and politician.
- David Shaw, 50, Australian scuba diver, drowned.[15]
- Warren Spears, 50, American dancer and choreographer.
- Michel Thomas, 90, Polish linguist and teacher.
9
- Fritz Aigner, 74, Austrian artist.
- Luis Alers, 54, Puerto Rican sprinter.[16]
- Artidoro Berti, 84, Italian Olympic runner.[17]
- Gonzalo Gavira, 79, Mexican sound effects creator (The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno).
- Joanne Grant, 74, American journalist and communist activist.[18]
- Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film director.
- Bob Mabe, 75, American baseball player.
- Alan Loy McGinnis, 72, American author and Christian psychotherapist.
- Michael P. Ryan, 88, United States Marine Corps major general.
- Thady Ryan, 81, Irish Olympic equestrian.
- Vantile Whitfield, 74, American arts administrator, Alzheimer's disease.
- Alex Wu, 84, Hong Kong businessman and politician.
10
- Gene Baylos, 98, American comedian.[19]
- Professeur Choron, 75, French humorist Georges Bernier.
- Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano.
- Tommy Fine, 90, American baseball player, pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns in the 1940s and 50s.
- James Forman, 76, United States former executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colorectal cancer.
- Sir Stephen Hastings, 83, British politician, MP for Mid Bedfordshire (1960–1983).
- Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer.
- Gordon John "Jack" Horner, 92, American sports journalist.
- Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, 77, Belgian-born Princess of Belgium and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, cancer.
- Helmut Losch, 57, East German heavyweight weightlifting champion.
- Jan Pieter Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994.
- Arthur Walworth, 101, American writer and biographer.[20]
11
- Ian Anderson, 79, Manx politician.
- Spencer Dryden, 66, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane), cancer.
- Jimmy Griffin, 61, American singer, guitarist, songwriter, member of 1970s rock band Bread, cancer.[21]
- Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer (Valley of Rocks).
- Bud McCaig, 75, Canadian businessman, co-owner of the NHL's Calgary Flames.
- Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist, motorcycle accident.
- Jerzy Pawlowski, 72, Polish Olympic champion in fencing.
- Thelma White, 94, United States actress (Reefer Madness), pneumonia.
12
- John Brown, 76, New Zealand Test cricket umpire.
- Kenneth Farmer, 92, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player and sports administrator.
- Herbert Goldstein, 82, American physicist.
- Ruth Packer, 94, British soprano, famous for playing Verdi heroines.
- Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Mr. India, Gandhi), massive cerebral hemorrhage.
- Jay Schulberg, 65, American advertising executive, pancreatic cancer.[22]
- Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Estonian-American Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist.
13
- Hunter Andrews, 83, American politician.
- Earl Cameron, 89?, Canadian broadcaster and The National anchor (1959–1966).
- Roland Frye, 83, American English literature professor and theologian.
- Nell Rankin, 81, United States mezzo-soprano opera singer who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for many years.
- Karstein Seland, 93, Norwegian politician.
14
- Edwin Bélanger, 94, Canadian musician.
- Ward Beysen, 63, Belgian politician and freemason.
- Charles T. Booher, 45, American engineer.
- George Wendell Brett, 92, American philatelist.
- Frederick H. Buttel, 56, American sociologist.
- 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.
- Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer.
- Raja Lakshmeshwar Singh, 50, Indian politician.
- Jesús Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist.[23]
15
- Victoria de los Ángeles, 81, Spanish soprano.[24]
- Felix Aprahamian, 90, English music critic.
- Leonid Brekhovskikh, 87, Russian scientist.[25]
- Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan).
- William Hare, 69, Canadian Olympic shooter
- Elizabeth Janeway, 91, United States feminist author.[26]
- Dan Lee, 35, Canadian animator (Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story 2), heart failure.
- Ruth Warrick, 89, American actress (Citizen Kane, All My Children, Song of the South), pneumonia.[27]
16
- Mireille Best, 61, French author.
- William Brigden, 88, Canadian canoeist.
- Alexander Everett, 83, English motivational consultant.
- H. Bentley Glass, 98, United States biologist, known for controversial views.[28]
- Agustín González, 74, Spanish film actor.
- Marjorie Williams, 47, American journalist. The Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair, liver cancer.[29]
17
- Charlie Bell, 44, Australian business executive, former CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer.
- Virginia Mayo, 84, United States film actress (White Heat, The Best Years of Our Lives).[30]
- Albert Schatz, 84, American microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin.[31]
- George P. L. Walker, 78, British volcanologist.[32]
- Zhao Ziyang, 85, Chinese politician, former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary, complications of multiple strokes.[33]
18
- Gabrielle Brune, 92, British actress.
- Vivian H. H. Green, 89, British priest and historian.
- Kenneth Robinson, 90, British civil servant and academic.
- Pez Whatley, 54, American professional wrestler.
19
- Theodore W. Allen, 85, American writer.
- Bill Andersen, 80, New Zealand communist and trade union leader.
- Donald Beardslee, 61, American convicted murderer, executed in San Quentin State Prison, California.
- Lamont Bentley, 31, American actor (Moesha) and rapper.
- Kasimir Bileski, 96, Canadian philatelist.
- Jens-Halvard Bratz, 84, Norwegian businessman and politician.
- Carlos Cortez, 81, American artist and political activist.
- K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide.
- Ardyth Kennelly, 92, US novelist whose books were popular in the 1940s and 50s.
- Anita Kulcsár, 28, Hungarian handball player.
20
- Parveen Babi, 55, Indian actress.
- Ivor G. Balding, 96, American polo player.[34]
- Bogle, 40, Jamaican dancer.
- Per Borten, 91, Norwegian politician, former Prime Minister of Norway.
- Dick Gallagher, 49, American composer, predominantly for off-Broadway productions.[35]
- Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and highly decorated World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section.
- Dame Miriam Rothschild, 96, British zoologist, entomologist and author.[36]
21
- Jacques Andrieux, 87, French World War II fighter pilot.
- Reg Cudlipp, 95, British newspaper editor.[37]
- John L. Hess, 87, American journalist.
- Richard Outram, 74, Canadian poet.
- Don Poier, 53, United States NBA basketball announcer for the Memphis Grizzlies.
- Adrianne Reynolds, 16, American teenager who was brutally murdered and made national headlines.
- Neville Scott, 69, New Zealand Olympic runner.
- Steve Susskind, 62, American voice-over actor.
- Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer.
22
- Harry J. Boyle, 89, Canadian broadcaster.
- Sir William Deakin, 91, British World War II hero and founder of St Antony's College, Oxford.
- César Gutiérrez, 61, Venezuelan baseball player, one of three players in Major League Baseball history with a 7-for-7 game.
- Carlo Orelli, 110, Italian supercentenarian, oldest Italian veteran of World War I.
- Patsy Rowlands, 74, British actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films, breast cancer.
- William Trager, 94, American parasitologist.[38]
- Consuelo Velázquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song "Bésame Mucho".[39]
- Rose Mary Woods, 87, American politician, former secretary of Richard Nixon and key Watergate figure.[40]
23
- Harley Baldwin, 59, American developer active in New York City and Aspen, Colorado, kidney cancer.[41]
- Howard Kent Birnbaum, 72, American metallurgist.
- Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, British politician and peer, former Deputy Speaker of the UK House of Lords.
- Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema.
- Douglas Knight, 83, American educator, businessman, author, former president of Lawrence University and Duke University.
- Warren D. Niederhauser, 87, American chemist, former president of the American Chemical Society.[42]
24
- ZerNona Black, 98, American activist on behalf of senior citizens and the elderly, natural causes.
- June Bronhill, 75, Australian actress and opera, operetta and musical comedy singer, Alzheimer's disease.[43]
- Lev Saychuk, 81, Soviet Olympic fencer.[44]
- Chalkie White, 76, English rugby union coach.
- Leslie Wood, 72, English footballer.
25
- Stanisław Albinowski, 81, Polish economist.
- William Augustus Bootle, 102, American district judge overseeing desegregation in the American South.
- Philip Johnson, 98, American architect.[45]
- Vicky LaMotta, 75, American model, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta, following open-heart surgery.
- Ray Peterson, 65, American popular singer ("Tell Laura I Love Her"), cancer.[46]
- Max Velthuijs, 81, Dutch writer and illustrator.[47]
- Nettie Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch athlete.
26
- Roy Fraser Elliott, 83, Canadian lawyer and philanthropist.[48]
- Peter A. Garland, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative from Maine (1961–1963).[49]
- Jackie Henderson, 73, Scottish footballer.
- Josie MacAvin, 85, Irish set director.
- Charles Martin, 45, American NFL player, renal disease.[50]
- Cordelia Scaife May, 76, American philanthropist and heiress to Mellon family fortune, pancreatic cancer.[51]
27
- Gilbert Bennion, 106, Australian veteran, one of the last four surviving Australian veterans of World War I.
- Eddie Burks, 73, American blues musician.
- Donald Dempsey, Sr., American recording executive who helped launch Ozzy Osbourne and Merle Haggard, stroke.
- Rado Lenček, 83, Slovene linguist and ethnologist.
- Aurélie Nemours, 94, French painter.
- Jonathan Welsh, 57, Canadian actor.[52]
28
- Karen Lancaume, (aka Karen Bach), 32, French adult film performer, overdosed on sleeping pills.[53]
- Artūras Barysas, 50, Lithuanian counter-culture actor, singer, photographer and filmmaker.
- Trevor Billingham, 69, Australian athlete.
- Barbara J. Bishop, 84, American Marine Corps officer.
- Daniel Branca, 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist, heart attack.[54]
- Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter (Traffic), stomach cancer.[55]
- Lucien Carr, 79, American United Press International editor, bone cancer.[56]
- Henry Hainworth, 90, British diplomat.[57]
- Paul A. Partain, 58, American actor (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), cancer.
- Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor/comedian, internal hemorrhage.[58]
- Robert Vogel, 86, American lawyer and politician.[59]
29
- A. Owen Aldridge, 89, American academic.
- Ron Feinberg, 72, American actor (A Boy and His Dog, Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, The Centurions).
- Eric Griffiths, 64, British guitarist in the musical group The Quarrymen, pancreatic cancer.[60]
- Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli satirist, dramatist, screenwriter and film director, apparent heart attack.[61]
- Žika Mitrović, 83, Serbian film director.[62]
- Bill Shadel, 96, American journalist.[63]
- Ron Tomme, 73, American soap opera actor.[64]
- Joan Tompkins, 89, American actress.[65]
30
- Mary Beck, 96, American politician.[66]
- Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish Celtic musician, cancer.[67]
- Susan Bradshaw, 73, British pianist.[68]
- Sir Horace Law, 93, British admiral.[69]
31
- Ron Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister (1970s).
- Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poet.
- Yutsuko Chūsonji, 42, Japanese manga artist, colorectal cancer.[70]
- Jack Collins, 86, American actor (The Towering Inferno, The Sting, Bewitched).[71]
- Malcolm Hardee, 55, British comedian, drowning.[72]
- Bobby Howitt, 79, Scottish football player and manager.[73]
- H. Narasimhaiah, 84, Indian physicist and educator.[74]
- Ivan Noble, 37, British BBC journalist, brain tumour.[75]
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