Deaths in April 2005

The following is a list of notable people who died in April 2005.

April 2005

• Károly Ecser, , Hungarian Olympic weightlifter.

1

• Greg Aim, 71, New Zealand cricketer.
• Álvaro Alsogaray, 81, Argentinian politician and businessman.
• Philip Amelio, 27, American actor and teacher.
• Lee Artoe, 88, American football player.
• Cheryl Barrymore, 56, former wife and agent of British TV entertainer Michael Barrymore, lung cancer.
• Paul Bomani, 80, Tanzanian politician and diplomat.
• Alexander Brott, 90, Canadian musician.
• Harald Juhnke, 75, German entertainer.
• Jack Keller, 68, songwriter, wrote themes to Bewitched and Gidget.
• Barry Stern, 45, drummer for the bands Trouble and Zoetrope, from complications following surgery.
• Robert Coldwell Wood, 81, second Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1969; later served as University of Massachusetts President 1970-1977, stomach cancer.

2

• Betty Bolton, 99, English actress and singer.
• Alexander Brott, 90, Canadian composer, conductor and violinist.
• Tony Croatto, 65 Italian-Puerto Rican composer-singer, lung and brain cancer.
• Jack Stanley Gibson, 95, Irish physician.
• John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), 84, Polish Roman Catholic pope, died after a lengthy illness.
• John O'Leary, 58, former U.S. ambassador to Chile, Lou Gehrig's disease.
• Jacques Rabemananjara, 92, Madagascan politician, foreign minister from 1967 to 1972,

3

• Aleksy Antkiewicz, 81, Polish boxer.
• Rick Blight, 49, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Simon Blumenfeld, 97, English novelist, playwright and columnist.
• Blanchette Brunoy, 86, French actress.
• Deena Burton, 56, American dancer.
• Frank Clair, 87, Canadian Football League coach with the Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Rough Riders, heart failure.
• Kader Firoud, 85, Algerian-born French football player and manager.

4

• Gordon Barton, 75, Australian businessman and political activist.
• Mark Beban, 65, New Zealand cricketer.
• Edward Bronfman, 77, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, colon cancer.
• Antonio Rivera, 41, Puerto Rican boxer.

5

• Manuel Ballester, 85, Spanish chemist.
• Marta Belen, 62, American singer.
• Saul Bellow, 89, Nobel Prize-winning author.
• Julian C. Boyd, 73, American linguist.
• Ura Koyama, 114, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest living person in Japan since 2003, died of pneumonia.
• Sir Edwin Leather, 85, governor of Bermuda from 1973 to 1977.
• Dale Messick, 98, creator of the Brenda Starr comic strip.
• Debralee Scott, 52, actress (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman).
• Neil Welliver, 75, landscape painter mainly in his native Maine.

6

• Eileen Rose Busby, 82, American antiques expert.
• Arthur Bywater, 91, British civil servant, winner of the George Cross.
• Edwin Q. Cannon, 86, American businessman and politician.
• Frank Conroy, 69, memoirist and head of the University of Iowa's famous Iowa Writers' Workshop.
• Anthony DePalma, 100, doctor, teacher, and humanitarian.
• Len Junor, 90, Australian cricketer.
• Geoff Millman, 70, English cricketer.
• Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, 81, reigning Prince of Monaco since 1949.

7

• Cliff Allison, 73, former Formula One driver.
• J. Carter Bacot, 72, American banker.
• Grigoris Bithikotsis, 82, Greek singer.
• Bob Kennedy, 84, a former Major League Baseball player and manager, who hit the first grand slam in Baltimore Orioles history and was the Oakland Athletics first manager.
• Charles Kuentz, 108, last surviving French World War I veteran to fight for Germany, cardiac arrest.
• Jose Melis, 85, former bandleader for The Tonight Show.
• Kelucharan Mohapatra, 78, Indian classical dancer.
• Yvonne Vera, 40, Zimbabwean novelist and writer.

8

• Maurice Lafont, 77, French football player.
• Yoshitaro Nomura, 85, Japanese film director.
• D. G. Northcott, 88, British mathematician (ideal theory). ,
• Onna White, 83, Broadway choreographer.

9

• Scott Field Bailey, 89, American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas.
• Andrea Dworkin, 58, radical feminist writer and anti-pornography activist.
• Nasri Maalouf, 94, Lebanese politician.
• Scott Mason, 28, Tasmanian cricketer.

10

• Carl Abrahams, 93, Jamaican painter.
• Norbert Brainin, 82, Austrian violinist and founder of the Amadeus Quartet.
• Frederick C. Branch, 82, first Afro-American Marine Corps officer.
• Chen Yifei, 58, Chinese painter.
• Scott Gottlieb, 34, American drummer for rock band Bleed the Dream.
• Archbishop Iakovos, 93, former primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (1959–1996).
• Al Lucas, 26, ex-National Football League player, spinal cord injury suffered playing an Arena Football League game.
• Faith McNulty, 86, American writer.

11

• Juozas Bagdonas, 92, Lithuanian painter.
• John Bennett, 75, British actor.
• Teodoro Borlongan, 49, Filipino banker.
• John Brosnan, 57, British resident Australian writer and film critic, acute pancreatitis (death may have occurred several days earlier).
• Jerry Byrd, 85, American Lap steel guitarist.
• André François, 89, French cartoonist.
• James Hamilton, 87, British politician.
• Maurice Hilleman, 85, microbiologist.
• David Hughes, 74, British novelist.
• Lucien Laurent, 97, French football player, scored the first ever goal at a FIFA World Cup.
• Mattie McDonagh, 68, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• George Younce, 75, American Southern Gospel singer.

12

• Sorrel Carson, 85, Irish actress and drama teacher.
• Ehud Manor, 63, Israeli songwriter.
• Barney Poole, 81, American College Football Hall of Fame member.
• Cyril Sidlow, 89, Welsh football player.
• George Molchan, 82, American spokesperson for Oscar Mayer meat company.

13

• Don Blasingame, 73, a MLB All-Star, who also managed two of Japan's professional baseball teams.
• Simon Blumenfeld, 97, British writer.
• Tutti Camarata, 91, musician, leader of "Tutti's Trumpets" and co-founder of Disneyland Records.
• Julia Darling, 48, novelist and poet.
• Wolfgang Droege, 55, founder of the Canadian white supremacist group the Heritage Front, shot to death.
• Kay Gardella, 82, television critic for the New York Daily News, cancer.
• Johnnie Johnson, 80, musician.
• Nikola Ljubicic, 89, president of Serbia from 1982 to 1984.
• Philippe Volter, 45, Belgian actor, suicide.
• Nathaniel Weyl, 94, writer, economist who testified in the Alger Hiss case.
• Juan Zanotto, 69, Italian-Argentinian comic book artist.
• Johnny Loughrey, 59, Irish singer.

14

• Chet Aubuchon, 88, American basketball player.
• Benny Bailey, 79, jazz trumpeter.
• Andrew Bisset, 52, Australian author and musician.
• Saunders Mac Lane, 95, U.S. mathematician.

15

• Jimmy Allan, 73, Scottish cricketer.
• Al Baisi, 87, American football player.
• Martin Blumenson, 86, American military historian.
• Peter Cargill, 41, Jamaican footballer.
• Art Cross, 87, Indianapolis 500 driver.
• John Fred Gourrier, 63, 1960s pop singer.
• Margaretta Scott, 93, English actress ("Mrs. Pumphrey" in All Creatures Great and Small).
• Duilio Spagnolo, 82, Italian boxer, former heavyweight contender.

16

• Laura Canales, 50, Tejano singer.
• Jaime Fernández, 67, Mexican actor.
• Herm Gilliam, 58, former National Basketball Association player for the Portland Trail Blazers.
• Marla Ruzicka, 28, American activist and aid worker, car bombing in Iraq.
• Vishnu Kant Shastri, 76, Indian politician.
• Kay Walsh, 93, British actress.

17

• James Archibald Houston, 83, Canadian author and artist.

18

• Sir Piers Bengough, 85, British soldier and Her Majesty's Representative at Ascot.
• Donald Bruce, Baron Bruce of Donington, 92, British politician.
• Bassel Fleihan, 42, Lebanese deputy and former minister, third-degree burns resulting from the blast that assassinated Rafiq Hariri.
• Clarence Gaines, 81, Basketball Hall of Fame coach, stroke.
• Sam Mills, 45, former NFL player and assistant coach, cancer.
• Kenneth Schermerhorn, 75, music director and conductor of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

19

• Ron Bean, 66, American politician.
• Mike Brim, 39, American football player.
• George Pan Cosmatos, 65, Italian-born Greek-American film director, best known for Tombstone and Rambo: First Blood Part II, lung cancer.
• Ruth Hussey, 93, American film actress (The Philadelphia Story).
• Stan Levey, 79, jazz drummer.
• Clement Meadmore, 76, Australian born steel sculptor.
• Bryan Ottoson, 27, American Head Charge guitarist.
• Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 58, world-renowned Danish jazz bassist.

20

• Inday Ba, 32, Swedish actress (also known as N'Deaye Ba).
• Zygfryd Blaut, 62, Polish football player.
• Gene Frankel, 85, United States theater director.
• Ea Jansen, Estonian historian.
• Fumio Niwa, 100, Japanese novelist.

21

• Giordano Abbondati, 56, Italian figure skater.
• Ed Butka, 89, American baseball player.
• Zhang Chunqiao, 88, member of the Gang of Four.
• Gwynfor Evans, 92, Welsh politician.
• Bill Kaysing, 82, American conspiracy theorist.
• Feroze Khan, 100, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic Champion 1928 (oldest Olympic gold medallist at the time of his death).
• Heinz Kluncker, 80, German trade union leader.
• Cyril Tawney, 74, British songwriter and folksinger.
• Jimmy Thompson, 79, British actor and comic.

22

• Norman Bird, 80, British actor.
• Dr. Joseph Bogen, 78, American neurosurgeon, epileptic seizure researcher.
• Gregoire Boonzaier, 95, South African painter.
• David Bradford, 66, American economist.
• Robert Farnon, 87, Grammy Award winning arranger, composer.
• Mary Dann, early 80s, American Indian activist.
• Erika Fuchs, 98, German Disney Comics editor and translator.
• John Marshall, 72, American filmmaker.
• Philip Morrison, 89, physicist and group leader in the Manhattan Project.
• Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 81, Scottish sculptor.
• Leonid Shamkovich, 81 ex-Soviet grandmaster chess player.

23

• Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 94, Australian political celebrity; longest-serving Premier of Queensland.
• Andre Gunder Frank, 76, German economic historian, proponent of dependency theory.
• Al Grassby, 78, Australian former politician and minister in the Whitlam government.
• Sir John Mills, 97, British Oscar-winning actor.
• John Pott, 85, British World War II Army officer.
• Romano Scarpa, 78, Italian Disney comic book artist.
• Earl Wilson, 70, a leading pitcher for the 1968 World Series champion Detroit Tigers and first black pitcher to throw a no-hitter in Major League Baseball.
• Jimmy Woode, 78, American jazz bassist, heart attack.

24

• Adelle August, 71, American actress.
• Francis Bay, 90. Belgian conductor.
• Ralph Buchanan, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Francesco Pozzi, 35, Italian rally driver.
• Antonio Rivera, 41, aka Tonito Rivera, Puerto Rican world champion boxer.
• Fei Xiaotong, 94, pioneering Chinese anthropologist and sociologist.
• Ezer Weizman, 80, former Israeli president.

25

• Jim Barker, 69, American politician, stroke.
• Howard Benedict, 77, AP aerospace correspondent, popularized use of word "orbit", natural causes.
• Tunney Hunsaker, 75, Muhammad Ali's first professional boxing opponent.
• John Love, 80, former Formula One driver.
• Josef Nesvadba, 78, Czech psychiatrist and science fiction author.
• Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman, 71, former head of Ford Motor Company and later a life peer.

26

• Mason Adams, 86, American film and television actor.
• Hasil Adkins, 67, Rockabilly musician.
• Georges Anderla, 84, French economist.
• Augusto Roa Bastos, 87, Paraguyan writer.
• Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy, 83, Scottish politician.
• Red Horner, 95, former NHL player with the Toronto Maple Leafs, was oldest living member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
• Augusto Roa Bastos, 87, Paraguayan writer, winner of the Premio Cervantes.
• Johnny Sample, 67, former National Football League player.
• Maria Schell, 79, Austrian film and television actress.

27

• Richard Appleton, 72, Australian poet and editor.
• Abdus Samad Azad, 83, former foreign minister of Bangladesh.
• Stanley Orme, Baron Orme, 82, British politician,
• Dr. Howard W. Johnston, 91, principal founder of the Free University of Berlin.

28

• Chuck Bittick, 65, American water polo player.
• Chris Candido, 33, professional wrestler; blood clot from surgery complications.
• Percy Heath, 81, bassist for the Modern Jazz Quartet.
• Erich Vermehren, 85, German military intelligence officer, World War II defector from the Abwehr.
• Zeke Zekley, 90, American cartoonist.

29

• William J. Bell, 78, soap opera creator (The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful), Alzheimer's disease.
• Dianne Brooks, 66, American jazz singer.
• Mel Gussow, 71, theatre critic for The New York Times, cancer.
• Sara Henderson, 69, Australian author.
• Mariana Levy, 39, Mexican actress, heart attack following a robbery attempt.
• Johnnie Stewart, 87, TV producer (creator of Top of the Pops).

30

• Sylve Bengtsson, 74, Swedish football player.
• Ron Todd, 78, former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union.