Deaths in June 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 2004

1

* Randi Brænne, 93, Norwegian actress.
* James Dudley, 94, American baseball player and professional wrestling manager.
*Victor Guazzelli, 84, English Roman Catholic bishop.
* Liu Kang, 93, Singaporean artist.
* Charles Kelman, 74, American ophthalmologist, surgeon, jazz musician, and Broadway producer, lung cancer.
*William Manchester, 82, American author and historian.
*Bill Reichardt, 73, American football player ( University of Iowa, Green Bay Packers).
*Sheikh Shaheb Ali, 86, Bangladeshi football player and coach.

2

*Mujeeb Alam, 56, Pakistani playback singer.
*Dietz-Otto Edzard, 73, German scholar and grammarian of the Sumerian language.
* Nicolai Ghiaurov, 71, Bulgarian opera singer.
*Shrikant Jichkar, 49, Indian central civil servant and politician, traffic collision.
* Lee Ki-baek, 79, South Korean historian.
*Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, 68-69, Ethiopian general, defense minister and President of Ethiopia, involuntary manslaughter.
*Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer, heart attack.
*Alun Richards, 74, Welsh novelist.
*Tini Wagner, 84, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympic champion.

3

*Nam Cam, 56, Vietnamese mobster, shot.
*Joe Carr, 82, Irish golfer.
*Harald Ganzinger, 53, German computer scientist.
* Harold Goodwin, 86, English actor ('' The Bridge on the River Kwai'', '' The Longest Day'', '' The Ladykillers'').
*Britta Holmberg, 82, Swedish actress.
*Jonathan Kramer, 61, American composer and music theorist.
*Frances Shand Kydd, 68, English mother of Diana, Princess of Wales, Parkinson's disease.
*Sulamith Messerer, 95, Russian ballerina and choreographer.
* Quorthon, 38, Swedish musician and founder of the band Bathory, congenital heart defect.
*Morris Schappes, 97, American scholar, editor (''Jewish Currents'') and Marxist activist.

4

* Charles Correll, 60, American cinematographer ('' Animal House'', '' Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'') and television director (''Melrose Place''), pancreatic cancer.
* Wilmer Fields, 81, American baseball player, former Negro league baseball All-Star, heart ailment.
* Marvin Heemeyer, 52, American muffler repair shop owner and criminal, suicide by gunshot.
*Steve Lacy, 69, American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer, cancer.
* Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer, lymphoma.
*Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor, stroke.
*Rolf Moebius, 88, German actor, pneumonia.
* T. M. Samarasinghe, 61, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
* Anthony Steffen, 73, Italian and Brazilian film actor and screenwriter, cancer.

5

*Johnny Bent, 95, American ice hockey player.
* Iona Brown, 63, British violinist and conductor, cancer.
* Jack Foster, 72, British-New Zealand athlete and Olympian, traffic collision.
*Fernando Manzaneque, 70, Spanish road racing cyclist.
*Friedrich Obleser, 81, German general in the Bundeswehr.
*Ronald Reagan, 93, American actor and politician, President (1981–1989), Governor of California (1967–1975), pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's .
* Manu Tupou, 69, American-based Fijian actor, writer, director, and teacher.

6

* Judy Campbell, 88, English actress.
* Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman and journalist, killed by Al-Qaeda.
* Howard Eves, 93, American mathematician.
* James Roche, 97, American businessman, CEO and Chairman of the Board at General Motors Corporation.
*Munavvar Rzayeva, 75, Azerbaijani sculptor.
*Emma Talmi, 99, Israeli politician and writer.
*Jock West, 95, Grand Prix motorcycle racer from Great Britain.
*Kate Worley, 46, American comic book writer (''Omaha the Cat Dancer''), cancer.

7

* Roman Aftanazy, 90, Polish historian, librarian and author.
*Richard E. Bush, 79, United States Marine master gunnery sergeant and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
*Joseph Leo Doob, 94, American mathematician.
* Roger Matton, 75, Canadian composer, ethnomusicologist, and music educator.
* Bern Porter, 93, American artist, writer, publisher, and performer.
* Don Potter, 102, British sculptor, wood carver and potter.
*Eugene Raskin, 94, American musician and playwright.

8

*Leopoldo Zea Aguilar, 91, Mexican philosopher.
* Dan Armstrong, 69, American guitarist, luthier, and session musician.
* David Mervyn Blow, 72, British biophysicist, lung cancer.
* Walter Breuer, 73, Austrian film actor.
*Per Carleson, 86, Swedish officer and Olympic épée fencer.
*Mack Jones, 65, American baseball player ( Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos), stomach cancer.
* Humayun Khan, 27, American soldier serving in the Iraq War, car bombing.
* Bill Lowery, 79, American music entrepreneur.
*Fosco Maraini, 91, Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, and writer.
*Bob Schmitz, 65, American gridiron football player and scout (Pittsburgh Steelers, Minnesota Vikings), heart attack.
*Nuria Torray, 69, Spanish actress, colorectal cancer.

9

* Rosey Brown, 71, American football player, Pro Football Hall of Famer.
* António de Sousa Franco, 61, Portuguese economist and politician, heart attack.
*Russell Hellman, 86, American politician and member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1961 to 1980.
*Bent Jædig, 68, Danish jazz musician.
* Ted Martin, 101, Australian cricketer ( Western Australia).
* Ralph Moody, 86, American NASCAR driver and team owner.
* Alistair Taylor, 68, English personal assistant of Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles.
*Barbara Whiting, 73, American actress (''Those Whiting Girls'', ''Beware, My Lovely'', ''Dangerous When Wet''), cancer.
*Brian Williamson, 58, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered.

10

* Antoine Argoud, 89, French Army officer specializing in counter-insurgency.
* Ray Charles, 73, American rhythm and blues singer (" What'd I Say", " Georgia on my Mind", " I Can't Stop Loving You"), liver failure.
*Rosinha de Valença, 62, Brazilian composer, arranger and musician.
* Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications.
* Chico Faria, 54, Portuguese football player.
*José Farías, 67, Argentine football player and manager.
* Odette Laure, 87, French actress and cabaret singer, heart attack.
*Gábor Vékony, 59, Hungarian historian, archaeologist and linguist.
* Xenophon Zolotas, 100, Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister (1989–1990).

11

* Prince Egon von Fürstenberg, 57, German aristocrat and designer, nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli, liver cancer.
* Pakubuwono XII, 60, Indonesian royal as twelfth Susuhunan] (ruler of Surakarta) .
*Michel Roche, 64, French Olympic equestrian ( gold medal winner in equestrian team jumping at the 1976 Summer Olympics).
*Soriba Soumah, 58, Guinea international football player.

12

* Rina Ben-Menahem, 68, Israeli writer.
*Walter George Muelder, 97, American social ethicist and Methodist minister.
* Stanley O'Toole, 65, British film producer.
* Geoffrey Thompson, 67, British businessman, aneurysm.

13

* Dorothy Lavinia Brown, 85, American surgeon and politician.
* Danny Dark, 65, American announcer, pulmonary hemorrhage.
*Dick Durrance, 89, American alpine ski racer, 17-time national champion.
*Stuart Hampshire, 89, British philosopher.
* Jørn Larsen, 77, Danish painter and sculptor.
*Robert Lees, 91, American screenwriter, decapitation.
*Jennifer Nitsch, 37, German television actress, suicide by jumping.
*Ralph Wiley, 52, American sports journalist, heart attack.

14

*Ubaldo Calabresi, 79, Italian Roman Catholic bishop, Parkinson's disease.
*Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, Swiss mountain guide.
* Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher.
*Max Rosenberg, 89, American producer of horror movies.
* Noriaki Yuasa, 70, Japanese director, stroke.

15

*Lothar Fischer, 70, German sculptor.
*J. Gwyn Griffiths, 92, Welsh poet and egyptologist.
*Bagong Kussudiardja, 75, Indonesian painter, choreographer, and artist, diabetes.
* Ahmet Piriştina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir, heart attack.
*Hatch Rosdahl, 62, American gridiron football player (Penn State, Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs), suicide by jumping.

16

*Herman Goldstine, 90, American computer scientist ( ENIAC), Parkinson's disease.
* George Hausmann, 88, American baseball player (New York Giants).
* Thanom Kittikachorn, 92, Thai military dictator and politician, prime minister, complications from stroke.
* Paul Neagu, 66, British artist.

17

* Todor Dinov, 84, Bulgarian animator, painter, and graphic artist.
*Vilayat Inayat Khan, 87, British sufist.
*Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman.
*Sara Lidman, 80, Swedish writer.
*Gerry McNeil, 78, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup-winning National Hockey League goaltender.
* Jackie Paris, 79, American jazz singer and guitarist.
*Seymour Robbie, 84, American television director.

18

*Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin, 33, Saudi Arabian leader of militant organization al-Qaeda.
* Doris Dowling, 81, American actress.
* George Buck Flower, 66, American actor, writer, producer, and casting director, cancer.
*André Gillois, 102, French writer and Charles de Gaulle's spokesman in London during World War II.
* Frederick Jaeger, 76, German-British character actor.
*Paul Marshall Johnson Jr., c. 49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda.
* Shaikh Hafiz Sabri Koçi, 83, Albanian Grand Mufti.
*Elbert Luther Little, 96, American botanist.
*Ralph S. Locher, 88, American politician.
*John Mathwin, 84, Australian politician.
*Peter Märthesheimer, 66, German screenwriter, producer and author.
* Nek Muhammad Wazir, c. 27, Pakistani tribal leader and Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces.
*Moe Radovich) and college basketball coach.
*Elwood Zimmerman, 91, American entomologist.

19

*Nikolai Girenko, 63, Russian ethnologist and human rights activist, ballistic trauma.
*Charly Grosskost, 60, French racing cyclist, traffic collision.
*Colin McCormack, 62, Welsh actor, cancer.
*Else Quecke, 96, German actress.
* Jadwiga Rutkowska, 70, Polish Olympic volleyball player ( bronze medal winner in women's volleyball at the 1964 Summer Olympics).
*Alfredo Torero, 73, Peruvian anthropologist and linguist.
*Nob Yoshigahara, 68, Japanese mathematician and puzzle expert.

20

* Munir al-Ajlani, 91, Syrian politician, writer, lawyer, and scholar.
*Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (1998-2004), lung cancer.
* Robert Rogers Blake, 86, American management theoretician.
* Hanns Cibulka, 83, German poet and diarist.
*Fred Cogswell, 86, Canadian poet.
* Luis Contreras, 53, Hispanic-American actor.
*Nabil Sahraoui, 37, Algerian militant, head of GSPC, killed by the Algerian army.

21

*Ruth Leach Amonette, 87, American businesswoman, author, and educator.
*Ron Ashman, 78, English football player and manager.
* Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure.
*Ted Scott, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate, traffic collision.

22

* Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer.
*Francisco Ortiz Franco, 50, Mexican journalist, murdered.
* Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist.
*Carlton Skinner, 91, American naval officer and politician, first civilian governor of Guam.
*Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy.
* Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants.

23

* Peter Birrel, 68, English actor (''Doctor Who''), cancer..
* Rifaat El-Fanagily, 68, Egyptian footballer.
*Ya'akov Meshorer, 68, Israeli numismatist and classical archaeologist, cancer.
* Leonard Stein, 87, American musicologist, pianist, conductor and university teacher.

24

*Carlos Lacoste, 75, Argentine navy vice-admiral and politician.
*Bill Pataky, 74, Canadian Olympic basketball player ( men's basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
* Jimmy Rowser, 78, American jazz double-bassist.
*Trudeliese Schmidt, 61, German operatic mezzo-soprano.
* Peter Wragg, 73, British footballer.

25

* Morton W. Coutts, 100, New Zealand scientist and inventor.
* Imanol Larzabal Goñi, 56, Basque Spanish singer and composer.
*Margot Guilleaume, 94, German operatic soprano.
* Karol Kennedy, 72, American ice skating champion, pneumonia.
* Fred Ramdat Misier, 77, Suriname politician, president (1982-1988.)
*Carl Rakosi, 100, Hungarian-American poet, the last surviving member of the Objectivist poets.

26

* Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress.
*Ott Arder, 54, Estonian poet, children's writer and translator.
*George Charles, 88, Saint Lucia trade unionist and politician.
*Chaim Goldberg, 87, Polish-Israeli-American artist, painter, and sculptor.
* Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer.
* Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter, cancer.
*Nguyen Van Hinh, 88, Vietnamese Chief of staff and general.

27

* Peter Blythe, 69, English actor, lung cancer.
*Hugh B. Cave, 93, British writer.
*Jean Graczyk, 71, French road bicycle racer.
*Petar Gračanin, 81, Yugoslav and Serbian politician and general in the Yugoslav People's Army.
*Boris Holban, 96, Russian-born Franco-Romanian communist.
* George Patton IV, 80, American army general and son of George Patton, Parkinson's disease.
*Fausto Romitelli, 41, Italian composer, cancer.

28

* Jean Boyer, 55, French organist and music professor, cancer.
*Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the ''Jennings'' books.
* Georges de Caunes, 85, French journalist, writer and television and radio presenter, aneurysm.
*Marcel Jullian, 82, French author and screenwriter.
*Hisashi Nozawa, 44, Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist, suicide by hanging.
*Alexander Spirkin, 85, Soviet and Russian philosopher and psychologist.
*Thomas Zereske, 38, German Olympic canoeist, leukemia.

29

*Bjørn Breigutu, 80, Norwegian filmmaker.
* Alvin Hamilton, 92, Canadian politician.
* William W. Havens Jr., 84, American physicist, complications from leukemia.
*Arik Lavie, 77, Israeli singer and actor, heart disease.
*Mohammad Ranjbar, 69, Iranian football player and coach, cerebral disorder.
* Grethe Thordahl, 77, Danish stage and film actress.
*Stipe Šuvar, 68, Croatian and Yugoslav politician and sociologist.

30

* Chris Alcaide, 80, American actor, cancer.
*Eddie Burns, 88, Australian rugby player and coach.
*Jacques Rossi, 94, Polish-French writer and polyglot.
* Stive Vermaut, 28, Belgian cyclist, brain haemorrhage after heart attack.

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