Deaths in August 2005

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

August 2005

1

• John Alevizos, 85, American businessman.
• Al Aronowitz, 77, American music journalist, cancer.
• Wim Boost, 87, Dutch cartoonist.
• Donald Brooks, 77, Hollywood and Broadway costume designer.
• Constant, 85, COBRA painter.
• King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, 84, complications of a stroke suffered in 1995.
• William Hugh Clifford Frend, 89, English ecclesiastical historian.
• David Shaw (writer), 62, Los Angeles Times writer and Pulitzer Prize winner, brain tumor.
• Robert Stone, 49, Australian rugby league player.
• Wibo, 87, Dutch cartoonist.

2

• Erasmus Darwin Barlow, 90, British psychiatrist.
• Sandro Bolchi, 81, Italian director and journalist.
• Jay Hammond, 83, American politician, Governor of Alaska from 1975 to 1982.
• Tuukka Mäkelä, 77, Finish Olympic shooter.
• Hassan Moghaddas, 42, Iranian judge in the case of Akbar Ganji and high-profile cases; assassinated by unknown motorbike assailant.

3

• Zainab al Ghazali, 88, Egyptian activist.
• Luis Barbero, 88, Spanish actor.
• Paddie Bell, 74, Irish folk singer.
• Françoise d'Eaubonne, 85, French writer.
• Dick Heyward, 90, longtime deputy director of UNICEF.
• Ernest Alvia ("Smokey") Smith, 91, Canadian Victoria Cross recipient.
• Susan Torres, 26, brain-dead woman kept alive to give birth.
• Steven Vincent, 49, American freelance reporter, shot dead in Basra, Iraq.

4

• Charles Alden Black, 86, American businessman, husband of Shirley Temple, myelodysplastic syndrome .
• Peter Cundy, 88, British World War II pilot.
• "Little" Milton Campbell, 71, American blues musician.
• Ileen Getz, 43, American actress (3rd Rock From The Sun), cancer.
• Sue Gunter, 66, women's basketball coach.
• David MacKenzie, 83, Scottish rugby union player.
• Firmin Martin Schmidt, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mendi.

5

• Polina Astakhova, 68, five time Olympic gymnastic champion.
• Fritze Carstensen, 80, Danish Olympic swimmer.
• Bertie Hill, 78, British equestrian.
• Raymond Klibansky, 99, German-Canadian academic and philosopher.
• Maria Korp, 50, Australian 'body in the boot' crime victim.
• Raul Roco, 63, former senator and Filipino presidential candidate, cancer.
• Jane Lawrence Smith, 90, American actress also associated with 50's art scene.
• Cal Hogue, 77, American baseball player.

6

• Nikolay Abramov, 55, Russian footballer.
• Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine, 86, Mexican trade union leader.
• Vizma Belsevica, 74, Latvian poet.
• Keter Betts, 77, American jazz bassist.
• Robin Cook, 59, British Member of Parliament, former Foreign Secretary.
• Ibrahim Ferrer, 78, popular Afro-Cuban musician from Cuba, singer in the Buena Vista Social Club.
• Louis Gauthier, 89, French cyclist.
• Carlo Little, 66, British drummer, lung cancer.
• John Tomlinson, 73, British educationalist.

7

• Leni Alexander, 81, German-born Chilean composer.
• Alejandro Armendáriz, 82, Argentinian physician and politician.
• Paul Arnaud de Foïard, 83, French Army general.
• Fannie Barrios, 41, Venezuelan bodybuilder.
• Peter Jennings, 67, Canadian-born American correspondent, news anchor of ABC News, complications from lung cancer.
• Mikhail Yevdokimov, 47, Russian comedian and politician, car accident.

8

• Robert A. Baker, 84, American psychologist.
• Barbara Bel Geddes, 82, American actress (Miss Ellie, Dallas), of lung cancer.
• Ahmed Deedat, 80, South African Muslim preacher.
• John H. Johnson, 87, American publisher.
• Gene Mauch, 79, American Major League Baseball manager.
• Dumitru Nicolae, 76, Romanian football player and manager.
• Ilse Werner, 84, German actress.

9

• Colette Besson, 59, athlete and Olympic 400m champion runner.
• Dorris Bowdon, 90, American actress.
• Al Carmines, 69, American musician.
• François Dalle, 87, CEO of L'Oréal cosmetics.
• Abraham Hirschfeld, 85, Polish born, New York City developer, of cancer.
• Philip J. Klass, 85, aviation journalist, UFO debunker, cancer.
• Matthew McGrory, 32, 7'–6" actor, natural causes.
• Judith Rossner, 70, American author (Looking for Mr Goodbar), diabetes and cancer.

10

• Mar Amongo, 68, Filipino comic book artist.
• Jaroslav Koutecký, 83, Czech physical chemist (German)
• Roy Marlin "Butch" Voris, 85, retired US Navy Captain, World War II flying ace, founder and two-time commander of the United States Navy Blue Angels.

11

• Justus A. Akinsanya, 68, Nigerian-born British nurse.
• Ernesta Ballard, 85, Philadelphian feminist and former head of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
• James Booth, 77, British actor (Zulu).
• Al Carmines, 69, reverend, composer, singer and actor.
• Manfred Korfmann, 63, German archaeologist.
• Anatoly Larkin, 72, theoretical physicist.
• Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, 103, Negro Leagues baseball player.
• Kay Tremblay, 91, Canadian actress (Road to Avonlea).

12

• Robert Bonner, 84, Canadian politician and businessman.
• Greg Calvert, 68, American political activist.
• Teruo Ishii, 81, Japanese movie maker.
• Lakshman Kadirgamar, 73, Sri Lankan foreign minister, assassination.
• Joe Korp, 47, Australian "body in the boot" suspect, suicide.
• Charlie Norman, 84, Swedish jazz pianist and film music writer.
• Derek Page, Baron Whaddon, 77, British politician.
• Julian Stanley, 87, "Champion of Gifted Students".

13

• Francy Boland, 75, Belgian jazz pianist, arranger: top European swing band 60's & 70's.
• Wladimiro Calarese, 74, Italian Olympic fencer.
• George Carpenter, 96, Irish Olympic fencer.
• Arnold Cooke, 98, British composer.
• W.J. Bryan Dorn, 89, former Democratic United States Representative from South Carolina 1947–1949, and 1951–1974.
• David Lange, 63, former Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand, main proponent of anti-nuclear policy.
• Donald Howard Shively, 84, American professor, among the first to promote modern East Asian Studies, Shy–Drager syndrome.

14

• Stephen C. Apostolof, 78, Bulgarian-born American filmmaker.
• William Henry Beierwaltes, 88, American physician.
• George Carpenter, 96, Ireland's longest-living Olympian.
• Coo Coo Marlin, 73, NASCAR driver.
• Billy More, 40, Italian drag queen music artist.
• Beverly Wolff, 76, American mezzo-soprano.
• Esther Wong, 88, Chinese-born American music promoter.

15

• James Dougherty, 84, first (and last surviving) husband of Marilyn Monroe.
• Gordon James Oakes, 74, former Labour government minister and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, cancer.
• Peter Smit, 43, former European and world champion kickboxer, shot to death in Rotterdam.
• Herta Ware, 88, American actress.

16

• Vassar Clements, 77, American fiddle player and bluegrass musician.
• Aleksandr Gomelsky, 77, former Hall of Fame basketball-coach of the Soviet Union, cancer.
• Joe Ranft, 45, American animator, car accident.
• Eva Renzi, 60, German actress, cancer.
• Frère Roger, 90, Swiss founder of the Taizé Community, murdered by an assailant.

17

• Richard Altham, 81, English cricketer.
• John N. Bahcall, 70, American astrophysicist.
• Dalibor Brazda, 83, Czech/Swiss composer, arranger and conductor.
• Lars Kristian Brynildsen, 50, Norwegian clarinetist.
• Tonino Delli Colli, 81, Italian cinematographer.
• Bertram Podell, 79, former Democratic United States Representative from New York 1967–1975.

18

• Christopher Bauman, Jr., 23, professional wrestler
• Andrónico Luksic, Croatian-descent Chilean, 78, millionaire businessman, richest man of his country.
• Lloyd Meeds, 77, former Democratic United States Representative from Washington from 1965–1979.
• Meredith Merle Nicholson, 92, American cinematographer.
• Randy Turner, American musician with the hardcore punk band Big Boys.
• Mel Welles, 83, American actor, writer, director.
• Gao Xiumin, 46, Chinese comedy actress, heart attack.

19

• Mansour Armaly, 78, ophthalmologist and early glaucoma researcher, cancer.
• Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, 78, Lithuanian psychologist.
• Abraham Bueno de Mesquita, 87, Dutch comedian.
• Faimalaga Luka, 65, former prime minister and governor-general of Tuvalu.
• Dennis Lynds, 81, mystery novelist under the pseudonym Michael Collins.
• O. Madhavan, 83, Indian actor and director.
• Abraham Bueno de Mesquita, 87, Dutch comedian, cancer. (Dutch)
• Mo Mowlam, 55, British politician, after a fall.

20

• Michael Frary, 87, American painter.
• Abraham Goldstein, 80, former dean of Yale Law School, heart attack.
• Krzysztof Raczkowski, 35, Polish drummer, ex-member of Vader.
• Clifford Williams, 78, British theatre director.

21

• Liv Aasen, 76, Norwegian politician.
• Mary Bowerman, 97, American botanist.
• Liam Burke, 77, Irish politician.
• Thomas Herrion, 23, NFL player with the San Francisco 49ers, collapsed after preseason game, autopsy later showed death caused by ischemic heart disease.
• David Ironside, 80, South African cricketer.
• James Jerome, 72, former Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.
• Robert Moog, 71, electronic music inventor and pioneer, brain tumor.
• Dahlia Ravikovitch, 69, Israeli poet and author.
• Martin Dillon, 48, musician, operatic tenor, and professor of music, heart attack. , ,

22

• Luc Ferrari, 76, French musique concrète composer.
• Richard Kelly, 81, former Republican United States Representative from Florida from 1975–1981.
• Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane, 87, British judge and former Lord Chief Justice.
• Colin McEwan, 64, Australian comedian and actor, cancer.
• Mati Unt, 61, Estonian writer and theatre director.
• Morris Ziff, 91, rheumatic disease expert, cardiac arrest.

23

• Eddie Burks, 82, British civil engineer and psychic.
• Glenn Corneille, 35, Dutch musician and pianist, car crash. (in Dutch)
• Stanley DeSantis, 52, American actor (Tales of the City), designer, heart attack.
• William J. Eaton, 74, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author.
• Ambrogio Fogar, 64, Italian adventurer.
• Sir Jack Hibbert, 73, Head of the Central Statistical Office, UK.
• Brock Peters, 78, American actor, best known for his role as Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird, pancreatic cancer.
• Lyndon Woodside, 70, choral conductor.

24

• Jamshed Ansari, 60, Pakistani actor.
• Maurice Cowling, 78, British historian.
• Kaleth Morales, 21, Colombian "New Wave" vallenato singer and songwriter.
• Tom Pashby, 91, Canadian doctor, promoter of hockey safety.
• Jack Slipper, 81, Scotland Yard detective.
• George Smith, 44, a former British royal servant, fomented "Royal Rape" controversy.
• Herbert Wright, 57, American television producer.

25

• Ruth Aaronson Bari, 87, American mathematician.
• Walter Becher, 92, German politician.
• Philippe Bradshaw, 39, British artist.
• Peter Glotz, 66, German politician.
• Georgi Iliev, 39, Bulgarian businessman and president of Lokomotiv Plovdiv, murdered by sniper in Sunny Beach.
• Perry Lafferty, 89, American television producer, cancer.
• Terence Morgan, 83, British actor.

26

• Wolfgang Bauer, 64, Austrian playwright.
• Denis "Piggy" D'Amour, 45, guitarist of Canadian metal band Voivod, cancer.
• Robert Denning, 78, interior designer, silver-haired fixture of society in Paris and New York.
• Gerry Fitt, Baron Fitt, 79, Northern Irish politician from West Belfast, elevated to the House of Lords.
• Ed "Sailor" White, 56, Canadian professional wrestler best known as "Moondog King".

27

• Aldo Aniasi, 84, Italian politician.
• Jan Moor-Jankowski, 81, Polish-American primatologist, stroke.
• Seán Purcell, 76, Irish Gaelic footballer.

28

• Ali Said Abdella, 55, foreign minister of Eritrea, heart attack.
• Hans Clarin, 75, German actor.
• Jacques Dufilho, 91, French comedian.
• Esther Szekeres (née Klein), 95, Hungarian mathematician.
• George Szekeres, 94, Hungarian mathematician.

29

• Ishaya Audu, 79, Nigerian politician.
• Nikolai Sergeevich Bakhvalov, 71, Russian mathematician.
• Balfour Brickner, 78, American rabbi.
• Margaret Scott, 71, Australian author and poet.
• Jude Wanniski, 69, supply-side economist.

30

• Charles L. Allen, 92, American Methodist minister.
• Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, 115, oldest recognized person in the world, gastric cancer.
• John Brown, 90, Scottish footballer.
• Cecily Brownstone, 96, long-time Associated Press cuisine writer, pneumonia.
• Léonie Duquet, 61, French nun and Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo activist; presumably killed by the Argentine military regime between 1976 and 1983 (body identified)
• James H. Scheuer, 85, former liberal Democrat United States Representative from New York 1965–1973 and 1975–1993.

31

• Patrick Tobin Asselin, 75, Canadian politician.
• Eladia Blázquez, 74, Argentina tango player and composer.
• Stéphane Bruey, 72, French football player.
• John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, 84, British judge, former Master of the Rolls.
• Jaan Kiivit, Jr, 65, former Estonian Lutheran archbishop.
• Soo Bee Lee, 71, Singaporean soprano.
• Sir Joseph Rotblat, 96, Nobel laureate, Polish-born British physicist, anti-nuclear weapons campaigner, founder of Pugwash Conferences.
• Michael Sheard, 67, Scottish actor, including The Empire Strikes Back (Admiral Ozzel), played Adolf Hitler in five movies, cancer.
• Julius Westheimer, 88, financial analyst.