The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 2004

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* Art Albrecht, 82, American gridiron football player. *

Alvin Baltrop Alvin Baltrop (December 11, 1948 – February 1, 2004) was an American photographer. Baltrop's work focused on the dilapidated Hudson River piers and gay men during the 1970s and 1980s prior to the AIDS crisis. Early life Baltrop was born i ...

, 56, American photographer, cancer. *

Ewald Cebula Edward Cebula (also known as Ewald; 22 March 1917 – 1 February 2004) was a Polish football player and defender. He played in five matches for the Poland national team as well as one match representing Poland at the Olympic Games. He started ...

, 86, Polish football player. * Álvaro d'Ors, 88, Spanish scholar of Roman law. *

Buzz Gardner Charles "Buzz" Guarnera (March 23, 1930 – February 1, 2004) was an American trumpet and flugelhorn player. Early life and education Born March 23, 1930 in Cleveland, Ohio, Guarnera started playing music at a very young age. He was influenced in ...

, 72, American trumpeter ( The Mothers of Invention). *

Valeri Gassy Valeri Dmitriyevich Gassy (russian: Валерий Дмитриевич Гассий) (April 22, 1949, Ukraine – February 1, 2004) was a Soviet/Ukraine handball player who competed in the 1972 Olympics and in the 1976 Olympics. He was b ...

, 54, Ukrainian handball player, Olympic champion (

1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...

). *

Ally MacLeod Alistair Reid "Ally" MacLeod (26 February 1931 – 1 February 2004) was a Scottish professional football player and manager. He is perhaps best known for his time as the Scotland national football team manager, including their appearance at t ...

, 72, Scottish football player and manager,

Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegeneration, neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens. It is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in short-term me ...

. *

Joe Mallett Joseph Mallett (8 January 1916 – 8 February 2004) was an English professional footballer who spent much of his early playing career at Queens Park Rangers and subsequently at Southampton (playing as a wing half). He later became a coach, manag ...

, 88, English football player. * Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, 89, Pakistani military officer. * Bob Stokoe, 73, English footballer and manager, pneumonia. *

Dino Verde Dino Verde (13 July 1922 – 1 February 2004) was an Italian author, lyricist, playwright and screenwriter. Life and career Born Edoardo Verde in Naples, in 1943 he started working in the satirical magazine ''Marc'Aurelio''. Since the late 194 ...

, 81, Italian author, lyricist, playwright and screenwriter.

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* Alan Bullock, 89, British historian and author. * Henry Cockburn, 82, English footballer. * Naohiro Dōgakinai, 89, Japanese politician, governor of Hokkaido. * Bernard McEveety, 79, American film and television director. * Róbert Zimonyi, 85, Hungarian Olympic rower.

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* Cornelius Bumpus, 58, American musician ( The Doobie Brothers,

Steely Dan Steely Dan is an American rock band founded in 1971 in New York by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Initially the band had a stable lineup, but in 1974, Becker and Fagen retired from live ...

), heart attack. * Kaúlza de Arriaga, 89, Portuguese general, writer, and politician,

. *

Ted Harding Ernest William "Ted" Harding (12 June 1921 – 3 February 2004) was an Australian politician and rugby league footballer. Born in Bowen, Queensland, he was educated at Townsville Grammar School before serving in the military 1942–44. On his re ...

, 82, Australian politician and rugby league football player. *

Keve Hjelm Karl Evert "Keve" Hjelm (23 June 1922 – 3 February 2004) was a Swedish actor and film director. He appeared in 70 films between 1943 and 2004. At the 1st Guldbagge Awards he won the award for Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Rol ...

, 81, Swedish actor and film director,

prostate cancer Prostate cancer is cancer of the prostate. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancerous tumor worldwide and is the fifth leading cause of cancer-related mortality among men. The prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system that sur ...

. * Jason Raize, 28, American actor ('' The Lion King'', '' Brother Bear''), suicide by hanging. *

William B. Tabler William B. Tabler Sr. (October 28, 1914 – February 3, 2004) was an American architect who designed more than 400 hotels. He was best known for giving Hilton hotels the clean but sometimes stark face of corporate America, most notably in the 46-s ...

, 89, American architect. *

Fiep Westendorp Sophia Maria "Fiep" Westendorp (17 December 1916 – 3 February 2004) was a Dutch illustrator who became popular due to her long collaboration with writer Annie M.G. Schmidt with their creation of Jip and Janneke. Career Three generations of ...

, 87, Dutch illustrator. * Lyle Wicks, 91, Canadian politician. *

Warren Zimmermann Warren Zimmermann (November 16, 1934 – February 3, 2004) was an American career diplomat best known as the last US ambassador to SFR Yugoslavia before its disintegration in a series of civil wars. Zimmermann was a member of the Yale Class ...

, 69, American diplomat,

pancreatic cancer Pancreatic cancer arises when cell (biology), cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a Neoplasm, mass. These cancerous cells have the malignant, ability to invade other parts of t ...

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Valentina Borok Valentina Mikhailovna Borok (9 July 1931 – 4 February 2004) was a Soviet Ukrainian mathematician. She is mainly known for her work on partial differential equations. Life Borok was born on July 9, 1931 in Kharkiv in Ukraine (then USSR), into ...

, 72, Soviet Ukrainian mathematician. *

Stevo Crvenkovski Stevo Crvenkovski (; March 18, 1947 in Skopje – February 4, 2004 in Skopje) was a diplomat from the Republic of North Macedonia. He served as foreign minister A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister f ...

, 56, Macedonian politician and diplomat. * Hilda Hilst, 73, Brazilian poet, novelist, and

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

, complications from surgery. *

William MacQuitty William MacQuitty (15 May 1905 – 4 February 2004) was a British film producer and also a writer and photographer. He is most noted for his production of the 1958 Rank Organisation / Pinewood Studios film, '' A Night to Remember'', which recre ...

, 98, Irish film producer and also a writer and photographer. * Michael P. Moran, 59, American actor ('' Scarface'', '' Lean on Me'', '' A Perfect Murder''), Guillain–Barré syndrome. * Malika Pukhraj, 92, Pakistani folk singer. * Karlheinz Senghas, 75, German botanist and

orchidologist This is a list of orchidologists, botanists specializing in the study of orchids. The list is sorted in the surname alphabetical order. A * Oakes Ames (botanist) (1874–1950), an American biologist specializing in orchids Joseph Arditti (193 ...

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Donald Barr Donald is a masculine given name derived from the Gaelic name ''Dòmhnall''.. This comes from the Proto-Celtic *''Dumno-ualos'' ("world-ruler" or "world-wielder"). The final -''d'' in ''Donald'' is partly derived from a misinterpretation of the ...

, 82, American educator. *

Sir Robert Boyd Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Boyd KB (c. 1710 – 13 May 1794) was a British Army officer. Life Boyd was baptized on 20 April 1710 at Richmond, Surrey and attended the University of Glasgow before entering the army in his father Ninian's prof ...

, 81, British space scientist. *

John Hench John Hench (June 29, 1908 – February 5, 2004) was an American artist, designer and director at The Walt Disney Company. For 65 years, he helped design and develop various Disney attractions and theme parks. Early life Hench was born on June 2 ...

, 95, American artist, designer and director at The Walt Disney Company, heart failure. *

Claude Lemaire Claude Lemaire (21 February 1921 – 5 February 2004) was a French entomologist. He specialised in Lepidoptera Saturniidae. Studies * Graduate Diploma of Civil Law, Faculty of Law of Paris * Graduate Diploma of Political Economy, Faculty of Law of ...

, 82, French

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. * Thomas Hinman Moorer, 91, American admiral,

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) is the presiding officer of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). The chairman is the highest-ranking and most senior military officer in the United States Armed Forces Chairman: app ...

. * Frances Partridge, 103, British writer, last surviving member of the

Bloomsbury Group The Bloomsbury Group—or Bloomsbury Set—was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the first half of the 20th century, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strac ...

. *

Nuto Revelli Benvenuto "Nuto" Revelli (21 July 1919, Cuneo, Piedmont – 5 February 2004) was an Italian essayist and partisan. Life Revelli was a freshly commissioned second lieutenant when, on 21 July 1942, he left Italy on one of the two hundred troop train ...

, 84, Italian essayist and partisan. * Harry West, 86, Northern Irish politician.

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Jovan Cokić Jovan Cokić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Цокић; 19 August 1927 – 6 February 2004) was a former Serbian footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of ...

, 76, Serbian football player. *

Masataka Ida Lt. Col. (5 October 1912 – 6 February 2004) was a young Lieutenant Colonel in the Military Affairs Section of the Japanese Ministry of War, at the end of World War II. He had been stationed on Formosa (Taiwan), but was ordered back to Tokyo ...

, 91, Japanese Army officer and rebel during World War II. *

Jørgen Jersild Jørgen Jersild (17 September 1913 – 6 February 2004) was a Danish composer and music educator. He was a pupil of Poul Schierbeck and Albert Roussel. Jersild worked from 1953 to 1975 as a professor of ear training by The Royal Danish Academy of ...

, 90, Danish composer and music educator. * Jerome Fox Lederer, 101, American aviation safety pioneer, heart attack. *

John Meyrick Sir David John Charlton Meyrick, 4th Baronet (2 December 1926 – 6 February 2004) was a British agriculturalist and rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1948 Summer Olympics. Meyrick was born in Towcester, Northamptonshire, the elde ...

, 77, British Olympic rower and agriculturalist. * Humphry Osmond, 86, English psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter.

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* Richard Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret, 67, British soldier and aristocrat. * Safia Farhat, Tunisian artist, academic and women's rights activist. *

Emilia Guiú Emilia Guiú Estivella (March 21, 1922 – February 7, 2004) was a Spanish-Mexican actress who appeared mainly in Mexican films, particularly in the 1940s and 1950s in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She made over 60 film appearances between ...

, 81, Spanish-Mexican actress,

liver cancer Liver cancer (also known as hepatic cancer, primary hepatic cancer, or primary hepatic malignancy) is cancer that starts in the liver. Liver cancer can be primary (starts in liver) or secondary (meaning cancer which has spread from elsewhere to th ...

. * Mikhail Korkia, 55, Georgian-Soviet basketball player. * Raija Siekkinen, 50, Finnish writer. * Norman Thelwell, 80, English cartoonist.

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* Walter Freud, 82, Austrian-British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during World War II. *

Nicholas Goldschmidt Nicholas Goldschmidt, (December 6, 1908 – February 8, 2004) was a Canadian conducting, conductor, administrator, teacher, performer, music festival entrepreneur and artistic director. He was the grand-nephew of famed composer Adalbert von Goldsc ...

, 95, Canadian conductor,

music festival A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock, blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, locality of musicians, or h ...

entrepreneur and artistic director. *

Kristian Henriksen Kristian "Svarten" Henriksen (3 March 1911 – 8 February 2004) was a Norwegian footballer and coach. As a player, Henriksen was a wing half who played for Sarpsborg, Lyn and Frigg. With Lyn, he won the 1945 and the 1946 Norwegian Football Cup. ...

, 92, Norwegian football player and coach. *

William W. Johnstone William Wallace Johnstone (October 28, 1938 – February 8, 2004) was an American author most known for his western, horror and survivalist novels. Life and career Early life Born and raised in southern Missouri, Johnstone was the youngest ...

, 65, American author. *

Cem Karaca Muhtar Cem Karaca (5 April 1945 – 8 February 2004) was a prominent Turkish rock musician and one of the most important figures in the Anatolian rock movement. He was a graduate of Robert College. He worked with various Turkish rock bands such ...

, 58, Turkish singer and composer, heart attack. * Wayne Eyer Manning, 104, American horticulturist and botanist. * Julius Schwartz, 88, American comic book and

pulp magazine Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the late 1950s. The term "pulp" derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. In contrast, magazine ...

editor.

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* Julio Baylón, 56, Peruvian football player. *

Robert F. Colesberry Robert F. Colesberry Jr. (March 7, 1946 – February 9, 2004) was an American film and television producer, best known as a co-creator of the television series ''The Wire'' (2002–2008) for HBO, executive producer of the miniseries ''The Corn ...

, 57, American film and television producer ('' After Hours'', '' The Wire'', ''

Mississippi Burning ''Mississippi Burning'' is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker that is loosely based on the 1964 murder investigation of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi. It stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as two FBI ...

''), complications following cardiac surgery. *

Gerhard Riedmann Gerhard Riedmann (1925–2004) was an Austrian film actor. He was married to the actress Eva Probst. Partial filmography * ''Das andere Leben'' (1948) - (uncredited) * ''Child of the Danube'' (1950) - Bit Part (uncredited) * ' (1951) - Max' Freu ...

, 78, Austrian film actor. * Opilio Rossi, 93, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. * Claude Ryan, 79, Canadian politician, stomach cancer.

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Nils Aas Nils Sigurd Aas (21 April 1933 – 10 February 2004) was a Norwegian sculptor. He was one of the most prominent artists in modern Norwegian sculpture and is particularly well known for his statue of Haakon VII, located in the June Seventh Squar ...

, 70, Norwegian sculptor and illustrator. *

Paul Ilyinsky Paul Dmitrievich Romanovsky-Ilyinsky (January 27, 1928 – February 10, 2004) was a three-time mayor of Palm Beach, Florida, and the only child of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia and his morganatic wife, Cincinnati heiress Audrey Emery. ...

, 76, American politician and three-time mayor of

Palm Beach, Florida Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida. Located on a barrier island in east-central Palm Beach County, the town is separated from several nearby cities including West Palm Beach and Lake Worth Beach by the Intracoas ...

. * Edward Jablonski, 81, American biographer. *

Hub Kittle Hubert Milton Kittle (February 19, 1917 – February 10, 2004) was an American professional baseball pitcher, manager and front office executive in the minor leagues and a pitching coach at the Major League level. When he took the mound for the ...

, 86, American baseball player and manager, complications from kidney failure and diabetes. *

Guy Provost Guy Provost, (May 19, 1925 – February 10, 2004) was a French Canadian actor. In 2002, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for being a "giant of the performing arts, admired and respected for his sensitivity and discipline, eis also ...

, 78, French Canadian actor, pneumonia. *

John Sundberg John Sundberg (20 December 1920 – 10 February 2004) was a Swedish sport shooter. He competed in various rifle events at the 1956 and 1964 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in 50 metre rifle three positions 50 meter rifle three positio ...

, 83, Swedish sport shooter and Olympic medalist.

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Vera Broido Vera Broido (1907–2004) was a Russian-born writer and a chronicler of the Russian Revolution, as one who grew up through it and lost her mother to its aftermath. Life Vera Broido was born in St Petersburg in 1907, the daughter of two Russia ...

, 96, Russian-British writer and a chronicler of the

Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and ad ...

. * Tadeusz Dembończyk, 48, Polish weightlifter and Olympic medalist. * Ryszard Kukliński, 74, Polish colonel, spy and defector, stroke. *

Jozef Lenárt Jozef Lenárt (3 April 1923 – 11 February 2004) was a Slovak politician who was the prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1963 to 1968. Life and career Born in Liptovská Porúbka, Slovakia, he graduated from a chemistry high school and worke ...

, 80, Slovak politician, member of the Czechoslovak Parliament and Slovak National Council. * Tony Pope, 56, American voice actor ('' Metropolis'', '' Spaced Invaders'', '' Who Framed Roger Rabbit''), complications following leg surgery. * Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian sprinter and Olympic champion, heart attack. *

Hitoshi Takagi was a Japanese voice actor. He died 15 days before his 79th birthday at the age of 78 due to partial ischemic heart disease. He was best known for providing the voice of Totoro. Notable voice roles Anime *''Moomin'' and ''New Moomin'' (Moomi ...

, 78, Japanese voice actor, arteriosclerotic heart disease. * Robert E. Thompson, 79, American screenwriter. *

Albeiro Usuriaga Albeiro Usuriaga López (12 June 1966 – 11 February 2004) was a Colombian professional footballer who played as a striker. Nicknamed ''El Palomo'', he played professionally in Colombia, Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, Paraguay and ...

, 37, Colombian football player, homicide.

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Martin Booth Martin Booth (7 September 1944 – 12 February 2004) was an English novelist and poet. He also worked as a teacher and screenwriter, and was the founder of the Sceptre Press. Early life Martin Booth was born in Lancashire England, the son of ...

, 59, British author, brain tumor. *

Robert A. Bruce Robert Arthur Bruce (November 20, 1916 – February 12, 2004) was an American Cardiology, cardiologist and a professor at the University of Washington. He was known as the "father of exercise cardiology" for his research and development of the Bru ...

, 87, American cardiologist. *

Martin Jurow Martin Jurow (December 14, 1911 - February 12, 2004) was a Hollywood agent, executive assistant and film producer.Breakfast at Tiffany's'', '' The Pink Panther'', '' The Great Race''). *

John Killick Sir John Killick GCMG (18 November 1919 – 12 February 2004) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to the Soviet Union, and later ambassador to NATO. Career John Edward Killick was educated at Latymer Upper School, University College, Lond ...

, 84, British diplomat. *

Preston Love Preston Haynes Love (April 26, 1921 – February 12, 2004) was an American saxophonist, bandleader, and songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska, United States, best known as a sideman for jazz and rhythm and blues artists like Count Basie and Ray Char ...

, 83, American jazz saxophone player. *

Věra Suchánková Věra Suchánková-Hamplová (29 October 1932 – 12 February 2004) was a Czech pair skater who competed internationally for Czechoslovakia. With her skating partner, Zdeněk Doležal, she was the 1958 World silver medalist and a two-time Euro ...

, 71, Czech Olympic pair skater.

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* Carole Eastman, 69, American actress and screenwriter. * Denis Hurley, 89, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Durban (1946–1992). *

Sarah Jacobson Sarah Jacobson (August 25, 1971 – February 13, 2004) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Early life Jacobson was born in Connecticut, moved to New Jersey in 1975, then to Edina, Minnesota in 1982. She graduated with ho ...

, 32, American film director, screenwriter, and producer, uterine cancer. *

Janusz Kulig Janusz Kulig (19 October 1969 in Łapanów near Kraków – 13 February 2004 in Rzezawa near Bochnia, Poland) was a Polish rally driver. He started his career behind the wheel of a Polski Fiat 126p and during his early years in rally he also d ...

, 34, Polish rally driver, railway accident. * David Lee, 91, British Air Chief Marshal. *

Ted Tappe Theodore Nash Tappe (February 2, 1931 – February 13, 2004) was an American professional baseball player from 1950 to 1952, 1954 to 1955 and 1957 to 1961. An outfielder, he appeared in 34 Major League Baseball games played for the Cincinnati R ...

, 73, American baseball player (

Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) National League Central, Central division and were a charter member of ...

Chicago Cubs The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as part of the National League (NL) Central division. The club plays its home games at Wrigley Field, which is located ...

). *

François Tavenas François Tavenas, (12 September 1942 – 13 February 2004) was a Canadian engineer and academic. Born in Bourg-de-Péage, Drôme, France, he received an engineering degree in civil engineering from Institut national des sciences appliquées ...

, 61, Canadian engineer and academic. * Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, 51, Chechen writer, politician and military figurist, explosion.

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Jock Butterfield John Rutherford "Jock" Butterfield (18 January 1932 – 14 February 2004) was a New Zealand rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He was named amongst the finest that New Zealand produced during the 20th century. A New Zeala ...

, 72, New Zealand rugby player. * Yang Chengwu, 89, Chinese general and Communist Party politician. *

Elois Jenssen Elois Jenssen (November 5, 1922 – February 14, 2004) was an American film and television costume designer. She earned Academy Awards nominations for design work in the Cecil B. DeMille production ''Samson and Delilah'' (1949) and for her work ...

, 81, American film and television costume designer. * Marco Pantani, 34, Italian racing cyclist, winner of Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in 1998, acute cocaine poisoning. *

Walter Perkins Walter Perkins may refer to: * Walter Perkins (musician) (1932–2004), American jazz drummer * Walter Perkins (Stroud MP) (1903–1988), Conservative Party politician in England * Walter E. Perkins Walter Eugene Perkins (1859–1925) was an Am ...

, 72, American jazz drummer, lung cancer. *

Yang Xinhai Yang Xinhai (; July 17, 1968 – February 14, 2004), also known as Yang Zhiya, and Yang Liu, was a Chinese serial killer who confessed to committing 67 murders and 23 rapes between 1999 and 2003. He was sentenced to death and executed. He was ...

, 35, Chinese serial killer, execution by firing squad.

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Gil Coggins Gilbert Lloyd "Gil" Coggins (August 23, 1924 – February 15, 2004) was an American jazz pianist. Coggins was born to parents of West Indian heritage.

, 75, American jazz pianist. * Steve Cooper, 39, English football player,

intracerebral hemorrhage Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, intraparenchymal bleed, and hemorrhagic stroke, or haemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into Intraparenchymal hemorrhage, the tissues of the brain, into its Intraventricular hemor ...

. * Hasse Ekman, 88, Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television. * Jens Evensen, 86, Norwegian minister, World Court judge. *

Walter Gottschalk Walter Helbig Gottschalk (November 3, 1918 – February 15, 2004) was an American mathematician, one of the founders of topological dynamics. Biography Gottschalk was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, on November 3, 1918, and moved to Salem, Virginia a ...

, 85, American mathematician. *

Hermann Hogeback Hermann Hogeback (25 August 1914 – 15 February 2004) was a German bomber pilot during the Nazi era. He flew more than 100 operational sorties during the Spanish Civil War and 500 during World War II and was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of ...

, 89, German bomber pilot during World War II. *

Jan Miner Jan Miner (October 15, 1917 – February 15, 2004) was an American actress best known for her role as the character "Madge", the manicurist in Palmolive dish-washing detergent television commercials beginning in the 1960s. Biography Early life ...

, 86, American actress. * Sture Mårtensson, 87, Swedish football player. *

Isarco Ravaioli Isacco Ravaioli, best known as Isarco Ravaioli (3 March 1933 – 15 February 2004), was an Italian film actor. Life and career Born in Ravenna, Ravaioli obtained a diploma of teaching in his hometown, and he started working as a primary school ...

, 70, Italian film actor. * Lawrence Ritter, 81, American writer. *

Luigi Taramazzo Luigi Taramazzo (May 5, 1932 – February 15, 2004) was a racing driver from Italy. His single Formula One World Championship entry was at the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, where he shared the Maserati 250F of Ken Kavanagh Thomas Kenrick Kavanag ...

, 71, Italian racing driver. *

John Tietjen John H. Tietjen (June 18, 1928 – February 15, 2004) was a Lutheran clergyman, theologian, and national church leader in the United States. He is best known both for his role in the Seminex controversy which roiled the Lutheran Church–Misso ...

, 75, American Lutheran clergyman, theologian, and national church leader, brain cancer. *

Friedrich Waller Friedrich "Fritz" Waller (March 18, 1920 – February 15, 2004) was a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s. He won the gold medal in the two-man event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. Waller also won three medals ...

, 83, Swiss bobsledderand Olympic champion.

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Don Cleverley Donald Charles Cleverley (23 December 1909 – 16 February 2004) was a New Zealand Test cricketer. Cleverley played in two Tests for the New Zealand national cricket team, 14 years apart, but failed to take a wicket in either match. Domestic c ...

, 94, New Zealand cricketer. * Charlie Fox, 82, American baseball manager. * Ella Johnson, 84, American jazz and rhythm and blues singer,

. *

Martin Kneser Martin Kneser (21 January 1928 – 16 February 2004) was a German mathematician. His father Hellmuth Kneser and grandfather Adolf Kneser were also mathematicians. He obtained his PhD in 1950 from Humboldt University of Berlin with the disser ...

, 76, German mathematician. * Harold Smedley, 83, British diplomat. * Doris Troy, 67, American R&B singer, pulmonary emphysema. * Geoff Twentyman, 74, English football player. *

Miloslav Šimek Miloslav Šimek (7 March 1940 Prague – 16 February 2004 Prague) was a Czech comedian and satirist. He was most famous for his double act with Jiří Grossmann on their show ''Návštěvní dny'' at the Semafor theatre, presented at the break o ...

, 63, Czech comedian and satirist, leukemia.

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Bruce Beaver Bruce Victor Beaver (14 February 1928 – 17 February 2004) was an Australian poet and novelist. Biography Beaver was born in Manly, New South Wales. He was educated at the Manly Public School and at the Sydney Boys' High School. He worked at ...

, 76, Australian poet and novelist. * Gaston Godel, 89, Swiss Olympic race walker, silver medalist (

1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...

). * Sofia Golovkina, 88, Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher. * José López Portillo, 83, Mexican politician and lawyer, President of Mexico. *

Dragi Stamenković Miodrag "Dragi" Stamenković ( sr-cyr, Миодраг "Драги" Стаменковић; 29 February 1920, in Leskovac – 17 February 2004, in Belgrade) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician and author. Biography He finished his elementary ...

, 83, Yugoslav and Serbian politician and author. *

Cameron Todd Willingham Cameron Todd Willingham (January 9, 1968 – February 17, 2004) was an American man who was convicted and executed for the murder of his three young children by arson at the family home in Corsicana, Texas, on December 23, 1991. Since Willingha ...

, 36, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.

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* Despo Diamantidou, 87, Greek actress. * Tommy Eglington, 81, Irish football player. *

Frankie Evangelista Francisco "Frankie" Fermin Evangelista (July 24, 1934 – February 18, 2004) was a Filipino newspaper columnist, radio and television broadcaster of Manila Chronicle (1956–1975), IBC (1975–1986), and ABS-CBN (1986–2004). Early life a ...

, 69, Filipino newspaper columnist, and radio and television broadcaster,

stomach cancer Stomach cancer, also known as gastric cancer, is a cancer that develops from the lining of the stomach. Most cases of stomach cancers are gastric carcinomas, which can be divided into a number of subtypes, including gastric adenocarcinomas. Lymph ...

. * Steve Neal, 54, American journalist ('' Chicago Sun-Times'') and historian, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. * Jean Rouch, 86, French filmmaker and ethnologist, traffic collision. *

Ivor Stanbrook Ivor Robert Stanbrook (13 January 1924 – 18 February 2004) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative party politician and barrister. He represented Orpington as its Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1992. Biography and early life Sta ...

, 80, British Conservative party politician, barrister and Member of Parliament.

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Gurgen Margaryan On 19 February 2004, Gurgen Margaryan ( hy, Գուրգեն Մարգարյան; 26 September 1978 – 19 February 2004), a lieutenant in the Armenian army, was murdered in Budapest, Hungary, by Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant in the Azerbaijani army. ...

, 25, Armenian Army officer, slashed. *

Archibald Paton Thornton Archibald Paton Thornton (1921 – 19 February 2004) was an academic and historian. He was the author of the seminal history of the British Empire, ''The Imperial Idea and its Enemies: A Study in British Power'' (St. Martin's Press, 1959). He ...

, 83, Canadian historian. * Renata Vanni, 94, Italian-American film actress. *

Maurice Voron Maurice Voron (1928-2004) was a French rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. Career Voron mostly played for Lyon for most of his club career. He had 27 caps for France national rugby league team, from 1951 to 1960, playing a ...

, 75, French rugby league football player.

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* Minouche Barelli, 56, French singer. * Fred Brown, 79, British

virologist Virology is the scientific study of biological viruses. It is a subfield of microbiology that focuses on their detection, structure, classification and evolution, their methods of infection and exploitation of host cells for reproduction, their ...

. *

Sigfrido Fontanelli Sigfrido Fontanelli (1 October 1947 – 20 February 2004) was an Italian racing cyclist. He won stage 12 of the 1976 Giro d'Italia The 1976 Giro d'Italia was the 59th running of the Giro, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started in Cat ...

, 56, Italian racing cyclist. * Mel Hunter, 76, American illustrator, bone cancer. *

J.J. Malone John Jacob (J.J.) Malone (August 20, 1935 – February 20, 2004) was an American West Coast blues, electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and keyboardist. His best-known recordings were "It's a Shame" and "Danger Zone". Malone was a mem ...

, 68, American

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

guitarist, singer and keyboardist. * Kōyū Ohara, 69, Japanese film director.

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Sergey Sergeyevich Averintsev Sergey Sergeyevich Averintsev ( Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Аверинцев, born December 10, 1937 in Moscow, died February 21, 2004 in Vienna) was a Russian literary scholar, Byzantinist and Slavist. Biography Averintsev was ...

, 66, Russian literary scholar, byzantinist and slavist. * John Charles, 72, Welsh football player, heart attack. *

Albert Chartier Albert Chartier (16 June 1912 – 25 February 2004) was a French-Canadian cartoonist and illustrator, best known for having created the comic strip ''Onésime''. Biography Albert Chartier was the son of Joseph Chartier, a traveling salesman who ...

, 91, French-Canadian cartoonist and illustrator. *

Néstor de Villa Gines Francisco Soriano (July 6, 1928 – February 21, 2004), also known as Nestor de Villa, was a Filipino actor frequently cast in musical films. He was a gifted dancer, often paired with frequent on-screen partner Nida Blanca in both movi ...

, 75, Filipino musical film actor,

. *

Les Gray Thomas Leslie Gray (9 April 1946 – 21 February 2004) was an English musician best known for his work with glam rock pop band Mud. Gray was also known for his distinctive vocal impersonation of Elvis Presley, as well as being a lifelong suppor ...

, 57, British singer (

Mud A MUD (; originally multi-user dungeon, with later variants multi-user dimension and multi-user domain) is a Multiplayer video game, multiplayer Time-keeping systems in games#Real-time, real-time virtual world, usually Text-based game, text-bas ...

), heart attack during cancer treatment. * Bart Howard, 88, American composer ("''

Fly Me To The Moon "Fly Me to the Moon", originally titled "In Other Words", is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard. The first recording of the song was made in 1954 by Kaye Ballard. Frank Sinatra's 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions ...

''"). *

Svava Jakobsdóttir Svava Jakobsdóttir (4 October 1930 – 21 February 2004) was one of Iceland's prominent 20th century authors and feminist politicians. Her writing was characterized by "a unique brand of surreal feminism." Her father ''(Hans) Jakob Jónsson''Tor ...

, 73, Icelandic author and politician. * Mohd hisraime bin juso, 87, Singaporean banker and hotel owner, heart attack. * Dan Kiley, 91, American

landscape architect A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture. The practice of landscape architecture includes: site analysis, site inventory, site planning, land planning, planting design, grading, storm water manageme ...

. *

Guido Molinari Guido Molinari (October 12, 1933 – February 21, 2004) was a Canadian artist, known internationally for his serial abstract paintings. Biography Molinari was born in Montreal, Quebec to Italian heritage with his parents from Cune (Borgo a ...

, 70, Canadian abstract artist. *

Custódio Pinto Custódio João Pinto (9 February 1942 – 21 February 2004) was a Portuguese Association football, footballer who played as a Midfielder#Central midfielder, central midfielder. Club career Born in Montijo (parish), Montijo, Setúbal District, Pi ...

, 62, Portuguese football player. * Lyudmila Shishova, 63, Soviet Olympic fencer and fencing coach ( 1960 gold medal winner, 1964 silver medal winner in women's team foil).

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Roque Máspoli Roque Gastón Máspoli Arbelvide (12 October 1917 in Montevideo – 22 February 2004 in Montevideo) was a Uruguayan football player and coach. He was the goalkeeper for the Uruguay national team that won the 1950 World Cup. He was also the h ...

, 86, Uruguayan goalkeeper, heart attack. * Irina Press, 64, Soviet athlete and Olympic champion. * Azriel Rosenfeld, 73, American computer image analysis researcher. *

Andy Seminick Andrew Wasal Seminick (September 12, 1920 – February 22, 2004) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies between 1943 and 1951, and the Cincinnati Reds/Redlegs ...

, 83, American baseball player, cancer.

23

* Vijay Anand, 71, Indian Bollywood filmmaker and brother of Dev Anand., heart attack. * Carl Anderson, 58, American actor (''

Jesus Christ Superstar ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' is a sung-through rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. Loosely based on the Gospels' accounts of the Passion, the work interprets the psychology of Jesus and other characters, with ...

)''), leukemia. *

Neil Ardley Neil Richard Ardley (26 May 1937 – 23 February 2004) was a prominent English jazz pianist and composer, who also made his name as the author of more than 100 popular books on science and technology, and on music. Early years Neil Ardley ...

, 66, British jazz composer. * Sikander Bakht, 85, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala. *

Pedro Bloch Pedro Bloch (1914, Ukraine – February 23, 2004, Brazil) was a Brazilian writer. His family immigrated to Brazil at the beginning of the 20th century. He is famous for his plays, such as ''Dona Xepa'' and ''Mãos de Eurídice''. Also, he wrote mo ...

, 90, Brazilian writer, respiratory failure. * Don Cornell, 84, American singer,

emphysema Emphysema, or pulmonary emphysema, is a lower respiratory tract disease, characterised by air-filled spaces ( pneumatoses) in the lungs, that can vary in size and may be very large. The spaces are caused by the breakdown of the walls of the alve ...

and diabetes. *

Douglas Scott Falconer Douglas Scott Falconer (10 March 1913 in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire – 23 February 2004 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish geneticist known for his work in quantitative genetics. Falconer's book ''Introduction to quantitative genetics'' was writt ...

, 90, British geneticist. *

Samuel Edward Konkin III Samuel Edward Konkin III (8 July 1947 – 23 February 2004), also known as SEK3, was an American libertarian philosopher and Austrian school economist. As the author of the publication '' New Libertarian Manifesto'', he was a proponent of a polit ...

, 56, Canadian-American philosopher and economist. * Bob Marshall, 93, Australian billiards player. *

Bob Mayo Robert J. Mayo (August 25, 1951 – February 23, 2004) was a session keyboardist and guitarist, perhaps best known for his work with Peter Frampton. Biography Mayo was born in New York City, and grew up in Westchester County. He began studyin ...

, 52, American session keyboardist and guitarist, heart attack.

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Albert Axelrod Albert "Albie" Axelrod (February 12, 1921 – February 24, 2004) was an American foil fencer. He was a five-time Olympian for the US, won a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics, and was the only American men's foil fencer to reach the finals at the ...

, 83, American foil fencer and Olympic medalist, heart attack. * Estelle Axton, 85, American record executive and co-founder of Stax Records. * Sheila Darcy, 89, American film actress of the 1930s and the 1940s. *

Carl Liscombe Harry Carlyle Liscombe (May 17, 1914 – February 24, 2004) was a Canadian ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings between 1937 and 1946. With Detroit he won the Stanley Cup in 1943. He also won the ...

, 89, Canadian

Detroit Red Wings The Detroit Red Wings (colloquially referred to as the Wings) are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit. The Red Wings compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division (NHL), Atlantic Division in the East ...

hockey player, leukemia. *

Joan McCord Joan Fish McCord (August 4, 1930 – 2004) was an American professor of Criminology at Temple University and a recipient of the Herbert Bloch Award from the American Society of Criminology. Early life Joan McCord was born as Joan Fish on August ...

, 73, American professor of

criminology Criminology (from Latin , "accusation", and Ancient Greek , ''-logia'', from λόγος ''logos'' meaning: "word, reason") is the study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in both the behavioural and so ...

, lung cancer. * John Randolph, 88, American actor ('' Serpico'', '' Prizzi's Honor'', '' You've Got Mail''), Tony winner (

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

). *

A.C. Reed Aaron Corthen, better known as A.C. Reed (May 9, 1926 – February 24, 2004) was an American blues saxophonist, closely associated with the Chicago blues scene from the 1940s into the 2000s. Biography Reed was born in Wardell, Missouri, ...

, 77, American saxophonist, cancer. * Alvino Rey, 95, American jazz guitarist and bandleader (" Deep in the Heart of Texas"), pneumonia.

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Waggoner Carr Vincent Waggoner Carr (October 1, 1918 – February 25, 2004) was an American politician who served as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives The Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the Texas House ...

, 85, American politician, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and

Attorney General of Texas The Texas attorney general is the chief legal officer
of the

, cancer. *

Jack Flavell Jack Flavell (15 May 1929 – 25 February 2004) was an English cricketer who played in four Tests for England from 1961 to 1964. His county cricket career was spent with Worcestershire, with whom Flavell won two County Championship titles. His ...

, 74, English cricketer. * Jacques Georges, 87, French football administrator, President of UEFA (1983–1990). *

Henryk Jaźnicki Henryk Jaźnicki (6 September 1917 – 25 February 2004) was a Polish football player, forward representing Polonia Warsaw and Poland national team. Jaźnicki played in only one international friendly, without scoring a goal. His only match occ ...

, 86, Polish football player. *

Pe Khin Pe Khin ( my, ဖေခင်; 27 August 1912 – 25 February 2004) was a Burmese diplomat. He was one of the main negotiators at the Panglong Conference in Burma and the architect of the historical Panglong Agreement. Early life Pe Khin was b ...

, 91, Burmese diplomat. * Yuri Ozerov, 75, Soviet Olympic basketball player (two-time silver medal winner: 1952 men's basketball, 1956 men's basketball). *

B. Nagi Reddy Bommireddy Nagi Reddi (2 December 1912 – 25 February 2004) was an Indian film producer and director mainly in Telugu cinema. He set up Vijaya Vauhini Studios in Chennai, which was then Asia's biggest film studio. As his elder brother (who w ...

, 91, Indian movie producer. * Ahmed Sefrioui, Moroccan novelist. *

Bagrat Shinkuba Bagrat Uasyl-ipa Shinkuba ( ab, Баграҭ Уасыл-иҧа Шьынқәба; russian: Баграт Васильевич Шинкуба; 12 May 1917 – 25 February 2004) was an Abkhaz writer, poet, historian, linguist and politician. He ...

, 86, Abkhaz writer, poet, historian, and politician.

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* Harry Bartell, 90, American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. * Shankarrao Chavan, 83, Indian politician, Chief Minister of

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

. *

Adolf Ehrnrooth Adolf Erik Ehrnrooth (9 February 1905 – 26 February 2004) was a Finnish general who served during the Winter and Continuation wars. He also competed in two equestrian events at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Early life Born in Helsinki, Ehrnrooth ...

, 99, Finnish general, World War II veteran and Olympian equestrian. *

Russell Hunter Adam Russell Hunter (18 February 1925 – 26 February 2004) was a Scottish television, stage and film actor. He played Lonely in the TV thriller series ''Callan'', starring Edward Woodward, and shop steward Harry in the Yorkshire Television si ...

, 79, Scottish actor, lung cancer]. * Roger Mirams, 85, New Zealand-Australian film producer and director. * Roy Smith, 59, Canadian racing driver. *

Jack Sperling Jack Sperling (August 17, 1922 – February 26, 2004) was an American jazz drummer who performed as a sideman in big bands and as a studio musician for pop and jazz acts, movies, and television. Career In 1941 he played with trumpeter Bunny Be ...

, 81, American jazz drummer. * Boris Trajkovski, 47, Macedonian politician, President of the Republic of Macedonia, aviation accident. * Simon Walker, 46, British historian of late-medieval England, cancer. *

Ralph E. Winters Ralph E. Winters (June 17, 1909 – February 26, 2004) was a Canadian-born film editor who became one of the leading figures of this field in the American industry. After beginning on a series of B movies in the early 1940s, including several in ...

, 94, Canadian film editor.

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Yoshihiko Amino was a Japanese Marxist historian and public intellectual, perhaps most singularly known for his novel examination of medieval Japanese history. Although little of Amino's work has been published in the West, Japanese writers and historians of J ...

, 76, Japanese

marxist Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...

historian and intellectual, lung cancer. *

Clarence Barber Clarence Lyle Barber (May 5, 1917 – February 27, 2004) was a Canadian economist and academic. Born in Wolseley, Saskatchewan, he received a B.A. in economics from the University of Saskatchewan in 1939. He won a scholarship to Clark Univer ...

, 86, Canadian economist and academic. *

Francisco Mago Leccia Francisco Mago Leccia (“Mago”) was born in Tumeremo, Bolívar State, Venezuela on May 21, 1931 and died in Puerto La Cruz, Anzoátegui State, Venezuela on February 27, 2004.Schaefer, Provenzano, Pinna & Baskin (2005) - ''New and Noteworthy V ...

, 72, Venezuelan

ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...

. * Paul Sweezy, 93, American marxian economist and founding editor of the ''

Monthly Review The ''Monthly Review'', established in 1949, is an independent socialist magazine published monthly in New York City. The publication is the longest continuously published socialist magazine in the United States. History Establishment Following ...

.''.

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Daniel J. Boorstin Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in ...

, 89, American social historian, pneumonia. * Eivor Engelbrektsson, 89, Swedish actress. * Ruslan Gelayev, 39, Chechen politician, general and resistance commander, K.I.A.. *

Angie Turner King Angie Lena Turner King (December 9, 1905February 28, 2004) was an American chemist, mathematician, and educator. King was an instructor of chemistry and mathematics at West Virginia State High School, and a professor of chemistry and mathematic ...

, 98, American chemist, mathematician, and educator. *

Stanislaus Lo Kuang Archbishop Stanislaus Lo Kuang (; 1 January 1911 – 28 February 2004) served as bishop of Tainan from 1961 to 1966, when he was appointed archbishop of Taipei. In 1978, Lo became the president of Fu Jen Catholic University, and was succeeded ...

, 93, Taiwanese Catholic archbishop. *

Carmen Laforet Carmen Laforet (Barcelona 6 September 1921 – Madrid, 28 February 2004) was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature ...

, 82, Spanish author. *

Marv Matuszak Marvin H. Matuszak (September 12, 1931 – February 28, 2004) was an American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) and in the American Football League (AFL). He went to two NFL Pro Bowls and was once an AFL All-Star during hi ...

, 72, American gridiron football player. *

Nicholas Vivian, 6th Baron Vivian Brigadier Nicholas Crespigny Laurence Vivian, 6th Baron Vivian (11 December 1935 – 28 February 2004), was a British peer and soldier from the Vivian family (baronets and barons), Vivian family. He was one of the List of hereditary peers elected ...

, 68, British soldier and aristocrat.

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* Oleksandr Beresch, 26, Ukrainian Olympic gymnast, traffic collision. *

Dana Broccoli Dana Broccoli ( Natol; January 3, 1922 – February 29, 2004) was an American actress. Biography Dana Natol was born January 3, 1922, in New York City to an Irish Italian family. She studied acting at the Cecil Clovelly's Academy of Dramatic A ...

, 82, American actress. * Marc Cavell, 64, American actor. *

Armando de Ramón José Armando de Ramón Folch (February 6, 1927 - February 29, 2004) was a Chilean historian mostly known for his study of urban history. In 1954 de Ramón joined the newly founded Instituto de Investigacions Históricas of the Pontifical Catholi ...

, 77, Chilean historian. *

Jane Engelhard Jane Engelhard (August 12, 1917 – February 29, 2004), born Mary Jane Reiss, was an American philanthropist, best known for her marriage to billionaire industrialist Charles W. Engelhard Jr., as well as her donation of an elaborate 18th-century ...

, 86, American

philanthropist Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives, for the Public good (economics), public good, focusing on quality of life". Philanthropy contrasts with business initiatives, which are private initiatives for private goo ...

and wife of industrialist

Charles W. Engelhard Jr. Charles W. Engelhard Jr. (February 15, 1917 – March 2, 1971) was an American businessman, a major owner in Thoroughbred horse racing, and a candidate in the New Jersey Senate, 1955 New Jersey State Senate Elections. He controlled an internationa ...

, pneumonia. *

Harold Bernard St. John Sir Harold Bernard St. John, KA (16 August 1931 – 29 February 2004) was a Barbadian politician who served as the third prime minister of Barbados from 1985 to 1986. To date, he is the shortest serving Barbadian prime minister. He was leader of ...

, 72, Barbadian politician, cancer. * Kagamisato Kiyoji, 80, Japanese

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. *

Maurice Larkin Maurice J. M. Larkin (1932 – 2004) was an English historian specialising in the history of modern France.Robert Anderson (16 March 2004 ''The Independent'' Obituaries He held the Richard Pares Chair of History at Edinburgh University from 1976 ...

, 71, English historian specialising in the history of modern France. * Jerome Lawrence, 88, American playwright and author, stroke. * Danny Ortiz., 27, Guatemalan football goalkeeper, torn pericardium. *

Witold Rudziński Witold Rudziński (14 March 1913, in Sebezh, Russian Empire – 29 February 2004) was a Polish composer, conductor, and author. He studied composition at the Mieczysław Karlowicz Conservatory of Music in Vilnius, and later at the Gregorian Ins ...

, 90, Polish composer, conductor, and author. * Nat Taylor, 98, Canadian inventor and film producer.

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