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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

April 2004Edit

1Edit

  • Paul Atkinson, 58, British guitarist.
  • Aaron Bank, 101, American U.S. Army officer, "Father of Special Forces".[1]
  • Annette Daniels, 42, American opera singer.
  • Enrique Grau, 83, Colombian painter and sculptor.
  • Arthur Halestrap, 105, British World War I soldier and centenarian.
  • Sylvia Law, 73, British town planner.
  • Mykola Rudenko, 83, Ukrainian poet and human rights activist.
  • Charles St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair, 89, British aristocrat and courtier.
  • Gurcharan Singh Tohra, 79, Indian Sikh leader.
  • Carrie Snodgress, 58, American actress (Diary of a Mad Housewife, Pale Rider, Murphy's Law).[2]

2Edit

  • John Argyris, 90, Greek computer scientist.
  • Lynne Karen Deutsch, 47, American astrophysicist.
  • Harold A. Fidler, 93, Associate Director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
  • Larry McGrew, 46, American football linebacker in the National Football League, heart attack.
  • John Taras, 84, American ballet master and choreographer.[3]

3Edit

  • John Diamond, Baron Diamond, 96, British life peer.
  • Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian singer.
  • Sir Martin Le Quesne, 86, British diplomat.
  • Nagaraja Rao, 89-90, Indian cricket umpire.
  • Phillip Rock, 76, American actor, screenwriter (Most Dangerous Man Alive) and novelist ("Passing Bells" trilogy).[4]

4Edit

  • Gito Baloi, 39, South African musician.
  • George Bamberger, 80, American baseball player, major league pitcher and manager.[5]
  • Ralph Kemplen, 91, British film editor (The Day of the Jackal, The African Queen, The Dark Crystal).
  • James J. Martin, 87, American historian.
  • Bogdan Norčič, 50, Yugoslavian Olympic ski jumper (normal hill and large hill ski jumping at the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics).[6]
  • Sir Alwyn Williams, 82, British geologist.
  • Austin Willis, 87, Canadian actor and television host.

5Edit

  • Roger Dee, 89, American author.
  • Slawomir Rawicz, 88, Polish army lieutenant imprisoned by the NKVD and purported escapee (The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom).[7]
  • Fred Winter, 77, British racehorse trainer and jockey.

6Edit

  • Lou Berberet, 74, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball catcher.[8]
  • Larisa Bogoraz, 74, Russian dissident and human rights activist.[9]
  • Ken Johnson, 81, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers).[10]

7Edit

  • Victor Argo, 69, American actor (King of New York, Taxi Driver, Bad Lieutenant), complications from lung cancer.[11]
  • Konstantinos Kallias, 102, Greek politician.
  • Kelucharan Mohapatra, 77, Indian classical dancer, guru and proponent of Odissi dance.
  • Maureen Potter, 79, Irish actress, singer, dancer and comedian.[12]
  • Robert Sangster, 67, British racehorse owner.[13]

8Edit

  • Adrian Beers, 88, British double bass player.
  • Chief Bey, 90, American jazz percussionist and African folklorist.[14]
  • Bruce Edwards, 49, American caddy of golfer Tom Watson.
  • Jean Ginsburg, 77, English physician and physiologist.
  • Hans Guido Mutke, 83, German fighter pilot who claimed to be the first to break the sound barrier, complications during a heart valve operation.

9Edit

  • Lélia Abramo, 93, Brazilian actress and political activist, one of the founders of President Lula da Silva's Workers Party.
  • Harry Babbitt, 90, American singer.[15]
  • Kevin Briggs, 65, New Zealand cricketer.
  • Tom Lewis, 85, British obstetrician.
  • Julius Sang, 55, Kenyan Olympic runner (1968 Summer Olympics, 1972 Summer Olympics: gold medal, bronze medal).[16]
  • Jirí Weiss, 91, Czech film director, screenwriter, writer, and playwright.[17]

10Edit

  • Bertil Göransson, 85, Swedish rowing coxswain.
  • Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity.
  • Ben Pimlott, 58, British historian.
  • Sakip Sabanci, 71, Turkish businessman.[18]
  • Odd Wang Sørensen, 81, Norwegian Olympic football player (men's football at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[19]

11Edit

  • John Beaven, 73, British diplomat.[20]
  • Stan Darling, 92, Canadian politician.
  • Sammy Fox, 85, American football player and Canadian football coach.
  • Hy Gotkin, 81, American basketball player.[21]
  • David C. Pollock, 64, American sociologist and author.
  • Wiesław Ptak, 62, Polish professor of chemical sciences.

12Edit

  • Ronnie Adams, 88, British rally driver.
  • Norman Campbell, 80, Canadian composer, television producer and director.
  • Sir Herbert Durkin, 82, British air marshal.
  • Donal F. Early, 86, Irish psychiatrist.
  • Carlton E. Lemke, 83, American mathematician.
  • Robert Richardson, 76, Canadian Olympic alpine skier (men's downhill, men's giant slalom, men's slalom at the 1952 Winter Olympics).[22]
  • Frank Seward, 83, American baseball player (New York Giants).[23]
  • Juan Valderrama, 87, Spanish folk and flamenco singer.
  • Wesley Wehr, 74, American paleontologist and artist.
  • George W. Whitehead, 85, American mathematician.

13Edit

  • David Fowler, 66, British mathematician.
  • Csaba Horváth, 74, Hungarian-born American chemical engineer and scientist.[24]
  • Caron Keating, 41, British television presenter, breast cancer.[25]
  • Sir John Roxburgh, 84, British admiral.

14Edit

  • Harry Beevers, 80, American plant physiologist.
  • Micheline Charest, 51, British television producer, complications after plastic surgery.
  • Albie Grant, 60, American college basketball player, diabetes.
  • Robin Popplestone, 65, British software designer and a pioneer in artificial intelligence and robotics.[26]
  • Fabrizio Quattrocchi, 35, Italian security officer, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq.[27]

15Edit

  • Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre author, director, composer and producer.
  • Phil Sokolof, 82, American businessman known for campaigns against fast-food chains and food processors.[28]
  • Mitsuteru Yokoyama, 69, Japanese manga artist.

16Edit

  • Abu al-Walid, Saudi Arabian terrorist, killed by Russian federal forces.[29]
  • Carlos Castaño Gil, 38, Colombian rebel leader, killed by FARC guerillas.
  • Wilmot N. Hess, 77, American physicist, leukemia.
  • Koyapillil Mathai Matthew, 74, Indian Jesuit priest and botanist.
  • Harry Mayerovitch, 94, Canadian architect, artist, illustrator, and author.

17Edit

  • Bruce Boa, 73, Canadian-British actor (The Empire Strikes Back, Octopussy, Full Metal Jacket), cancer.
  • Geraint Howells, 79, Welsh politician.
  • Rosemary Park, 97, American academic leader and advocate for women's education.[30]
  • Edmond Pidoux, 95, Swiss author.
  • Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, 56, Palestinian Hamas leader.
  • Soundarya, 31, Indian film actress.

18Edit

  • Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, 83, Fijian politician, long-time prime minister and president of Fiji.
  • Norton Mockridge, 88, American journalist, newspaper editor and syndicated columnist.[31]
  • Julia Compton Moore, 75, wife of Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore.
  • Frances Rafferty, 81, American actress, dancer, and model.

19Edit

  • Tim Burstall, 76, Australian film director and producer.[32]
  • Jim Cantalupo, 60, American businessman, CEO of McDonald's.
  • Julião da Kutonda, 39, Angolan footballer.[33]
  • Philip Locke, 76, British actor.[34]
  • John Maynard Smith, 84, British biologist.[35]
  • Norris McWhirter, 78, British writer, political activist and founder of the Guinness Book of Records.
  • Frank B. Morrison, 98, American politician, former Governor of Nebraska.
  • Sam Nahem, 88, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies).[36]
  • Yasumasa Nishino, 79, Japanese Olympic swimmer (men's 100 metre backstroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[37]
  • Ronnie Simpson, 73, Scottish footballer and manager.
  • Wolfgang Unger, 55, German conductor

20Edit

  • Patrick Gibson, Baron Gibson, 88, British peer, publisher and arts administrator.
  • Mary McGrory, 85, American journalist and columnist.[38]
  • Ian Robinson, 69, British writer and publisher.
  • Al Stiller, 80, American Olympic cyclist (men's tandem cycling and men's team pursuit cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[39]

21Edit

  • Eduard Asadov, 80, Russian poet and writer.
  • Den Fujita, 78, Japanese founder of McDonald's Japan, heart failure.
  • Karl Hass, 91, German SS officer and convicted war criminal.
  • John W. Kirklin, 87, American cardiothoracic surgeon who refined John Gibbon's heart–lung bypass machine.[40]
  • Ernest Ramme, 87, U.S. Army officer.
  • Mary Selway, 68, British casting director (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi, Gosford Park), cancer.[41]

22Edit

  • Jason Dunham, 22, American marine, used his body and helmet to shield others from a grenade explosion.
  • Arthur Roberts, 91, American physicist.
  • Pat Tillman, 27, American football player, former NFL player (Arizona Cardinals) and Army Ranger, killed in action by friendly fire.

23Edit

  • Enrique Mederos, 36, Mexican voice actor and dubbing director, hepatitis infection.
  • Saúl Ongaro, 87, Argentine international footballer.
  • Peter S. Prescott, 68, American author and book critic, liver disease complicated by diabetes.[42]
  • Len Vale-Onslow, 103, British motorcycle maker.
  • B. V. Satyanarayan, 68, Indian Olympic long jumper (1960, 1964).[43]

24Edit

  • Betty Clay, 87, British Scouter, daughter of Robert Baden-Powell.
  • Feridun Karakaya, 76, Turkish actor.
  • Lia Laats, 78, Estonian actress.
  • Estée Lauder, 97, American businesswoman, cosmetics products pioneer.
  • Brian Manning, 76, British historian.
  • Fred Smith, 69, British rugby league player.
  • J. V. Somayajulu, 75, Indian theatre and film actor.
  • Des Warren, 66, British trade unionist.[44]
  • Willie Watson, 84, English cricketer.

25Edit

  • Alphonzo E. Bell Jr., 89, American politician, pneumonia.
  • Dooland Buultjens, 70, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
  • Thom Gunn, 74, British poet.
  • Madeleine Henrey, 97, French author.
  • Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, 76, Japanese politician.
  • Albert Paulsen, 78, Ecuadorian-American actor.
  • Sid Watson, 71, American football player and ice hockey coach, heart attack.
  • Claude Williams, 96, American jazz musician.[45]

26Edit

  • Robert Clark Jones, 87, American physicist.
  • LeRoy Myers, 84, American tap dancer.
  • John Anthony Parsons, 66, British sports journalist.
  • Gunther E. Rothenberg, 80, German-born American historian.
  • Hubert Selby Jr., 75, American writer, author of "Last Exit to Brooklyn".[46]
  • Scott Williams, American bass guitarist.

27Edit

  • Gleason Archer, 87, American theologian.
  • David Jenkinson, 69, British railway modeller and historian.
  • Alejandro Ulloa, 93, Spanish actor.[47]
  • Roy Walford, 79, American dietician and author.
  • Lloyd F. Wheat, 81, American lawyer and politician.

28Edit

  • Jeremy Black, 52, British assyriologist.
  • Floyd Giebell, 94, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[48]
  • Alex Randolph, 81, American designer of board games (TwixT, Enchanted Forest, Inkognito, Ricochet Robot).[49]
  • B.J. Schramm, 65, American businessman and aircraft developer.

29Edit

  • John Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker, 88, British diplomat and aristocrat.
  • Nick Joaquin, 86, Filipino writer and national artist.
  • David S. Sheridan, 95, American inventor of disposable plastic endotracheal tube.[50]
  • Sid Smith, 78, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).[51]
  • Svend Aage Holm Sørensen, 91, Danish Olympic rower (men's coxed four rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[52]

30Edit

  • Heather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke, 74, British educator and life peer.
  • Jeff Butterfield, 74, English rugby union player.
  • Jeffrey Alan Gray, 69, British psychiatrist.
  • Evelyn Mase, 81, South African nurse, first wife of Nelson Mandela.[53]
  • Boris Pergamenschikow, 55, Russian cellist.[54]
  • Kazimierz Plater, 89, Polish chess International Master, three-time Polish chess champion (1949, 1956, 1957).[55]
  • Kioumars Saberi Foumani, (aka Gol-Agha), 62, Iranian satirist.

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  2. ^ The Associated Press (April 10, 2004). "Carrie Snodgress, 57, Dies; Starred as 'Mad Housewife'". The New York Times. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  3. ^ Anna Kisselgoff (April 5, 2004). "John Taras, Choreographer, Is Dead at 84". The New York Times. p. B 7. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
  4. ^ "Phillip Rock, 76; Hollywood-Born Novelist, Screenwriter Wrote 'Passing Bells' Saga". Los Angeles Times. April 7, 2004. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
  5. ^ Richard Goldstein (April 7, 2004). "George Bamberger, 80, Pitching Coach, Dies". The New York Times. p. C 15. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
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  11. ^ Jesse McKinley (April 9, 2004). "Victor Argo, 69; Played Heavies In Scorsese Films". The New York Times. p. B 8. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
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