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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 2004Edit

1Edit

  • Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, American physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium.[1]
  • Vivian Austin, 84, American actress.
  • John Higgins, 88, American swimmer and coach, pneumonia.
  • George F. Kugler Jr., 79, American lawyer.[2]
  • Viktor Malyuk, 43, Russian serial killer, suicide by hanging.
  • Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, American philosopher.[3]
  • Albrecht Obermaier, 92, German naval officer.
  • Laurence Stark, 83, Royal Air Force pilot and WWII flying ace.
  • Ken Timbs, 53, American professional wrestler, cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure.

2Edit

  • Akwasi Ampofo Adjei, 47, Ghanaian highlife musician.[4]
  • Heinrich Mark, 92, Estonian politician, Prime Minister-in-exile (1971–1990).
  • José Omar Pastoriza, 62, Argentinian football player. and coach.
  • Mike Schultz, 83, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[5]
  • Arturo Tolentino, 93, Philippine lawyer and politician.

3Edit

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer.[6]
  • Gloria Emerson, 75, American author, journalist and New York Times war correspondent, suicide.[7]
  • Brian Hitch, 72, British diplomat.
  • Bob Murphy, 79, American MLB New York Mets announcer.
  • Bryon Nickoloff, 48, Canadian chess International Master, represented Canada in six Chess Olympiads.[8]
  • Geraldine Peroni, 51, American film editor, known for working with Robert Altman, suicide.[9]

4Edit

  • Mary Dees, 93, American actress.
  • Jeanne Gilchrist, 78, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[10]
  • Hunter Hancock, 88, American R&B and rock DJ.
  • Sir Robert Jennings, 90, British jurist, President of the International Court of Justice.
  • Joseph Bearwalker Wilson, 62, American shaman and witch.

5Edit

  • Jim Alford, 90, British athlete.
  • Don Grossman, 83, Australian rules footballer.
  • James Hubbard, 74, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Alabama.
  • Edith Jiménez, 86, Paraguayan plastic artist.

6Edit

  • Lien Ying Chow, 98, Singaporean businessperson, pneumonia.
  • Santosh Gupta, 79, Bangladeshi journalist and writer.
  • Rick James, 56, American funk singer and producer, heart attack.[11]
  • Donald Justice, 78, American poet.[12]
  • Murray S. Klamkin, 83, American mathematician.
  • Natteri Veeraraghavan, 90, Indian physician, microbiologist and medical researcher.

7Edit

  • Paul "Red" Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter.
  • Colin Bibby, 55, English ornithologist.
  • Bernard Levin, 75, English journalist and broadcaster.
  • Gordon Smith, 80, Scottish footballer.

8Edit

  • Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, 89, American health and fitness pioneer.
  • Nigel Capel-Cure, 95, British cricketer and landowner.
  • Pete Center, 92, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).[13]
  • Paul "Mousie" Garner, 95, American comedian, Three Stooges associate.
  • Leon Golub, 82, American artist and painter.
  • Charles L. Lewis, 37, American politician.
  • Dimitris Papamichael, 70, Greek actor.
  • Jean Pouliot, 81, Canadian broadcasting pioneer, helped establish television stations in Kitchener, Ontario and Quebec City, Quebec.[14]
  • Richard Taylor, 23, Welsh skating and skiing champion, collided with a concrete lamp-post.
  • Fay Wray, 96, Canadian-born American actress (King Kong).[15]

9Edit

  • Liisi Beckmann, 79, Finnish designer and artist.
  • Edwin Michael Conway, 70, American Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, esophageal cancer
  • Tony Mottola, 86, American guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on The Tonight Show orchestra.[16]
  • Eduard Neumann, 93, German Luftwaffe officer during WWII.
  • David Raksin, 92, American composer of film and television scores (Laura), two Academy Award nominations (Forever Amber, Separate Tables).[17]
  • Sir David Steel, 87, British businessman.

10Edit

  • Walter Bielser, 75, Swiss footballer.
  • James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, American member of the Rockefeller family, oldest known U.S. Olympic medal winner.[18]
  • Alan N. Cohen, 73, American owner of the Boston Celtics.

11Edit

  • Bjarne Andersson, 64, Swedish cross-county skier, Olympic silver medallist (1968).
  • Sir David Calcutt, 73, British barrister and public servant.
  • Chen Chunxian, 70, Chinese physicist, founder of Zhongguancun.
  • Keith Drinan, 79, Australian rules footballer, (St Kilda).
  • Joe Falls, 76, American journalist, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News.
  • Bill Martin, Jr., 88, American author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.[19]
  • Wolfgang Mommsen, 73, German historian.[20]

12Edit

  • Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, 84, British Nobel Prize in Medicine, co-inventor of the CAT scan.[21]
  • Ian Lake, 69, British musician.
  • Robert L. Morris, 62, American parapsychologist.
  • Sebastián Ontoria, 84, Spanish footballer.
  • George Yardley, 75, American National Basketball Association Hall of Famer.[22]

13Edit

  • Julia Child, 91, American chef, author and television hostess on French cuisine.[23]
  • Stefan Dimitrov, 64, Bulgarian opera basso singer.
  • Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street.[24]
  • Ondřej Voříšek, 18, Czech football, car accident.
  • Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor.[25]

14Edit

  • Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 39, Indian rapist and murderer, the first person executed in India since 1995.
  • William D. Ford, 77, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from 1965 to 1995.
  • Neal Fredericks, 35, American cinematographer for the movie The Blair Witch Project, drowned in helicopter crash while filming.
  • Robert Howard, 28, American athlete.
  • Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and dissident.
  • Bomber Moran, 59, Filipino actor.
  • Eric Petrie, 77, New Zealand cricketer.
  • Stephen M. Reasoner, 60, American judge (United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas).[26]
  • Sir Trevor Skeet, 86, New Zealand-born British lawyer and politician.

15Edit

  • Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer.[27]
  • Sune K. Bergström, 88, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine.
  • Pedro Grases, 94, Venezuelan writer.
  • Marian Kozłowski, 76, Polish basketball administrator.
  • Bent Ole Retvig, 68, Danish cyclist.
  • John Richardson, Baron Richardson, 94, British physician.
  • Ollie Silva, 75, American auto racing driver.

16Edit

  • Acquanetta, 83, American-born "Venezuelan" B-movie actress.
  • Mick Clingly, 72, Australian sportsman.
  • H. G. Davis Jr., 80, Australian journalist and educator.
  • Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach.[28]
  • J. Irwin Miller, 95, American businessman, philanthropist, and civil rights advocate.[29]
  • George Moe, 72, Barbadian politician and former Chief Justice of Belize.
  • Carl Mydans, 97, American photographer.
  • Robert Quiroga, 35, American world champion boxer, murdered.
  • Stephen Terrell, 88, British barrister and politician, President of the Liberal Party.
  • Sam Wildman, 92, American biologist.

17Edit

  • Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist.
  • Sheila Callender, 90, British physician and haematologist.
  • Anatoly Guzhvin, 58, Russian politician and head of the administration of Astrakhan Oblast.
  • Dennis "D-Roc" Miles, 45, American rhythm guitarist for Body Count, from lymphoma complications.
  • Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone.[30]

18Edit

  • Susan Mary Alsop, 84, American socialite, hostess and writer.[31]
  • Elmer Bernstein, 82, American composer of classic film music such as The Magnificent Seven.
  • Hiram Fong, 97, American businessman and politician, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate.
  • Hugh Manning, 83, British actor.
  • Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán.
  • Ray Reutt, 87, American professional football player (Virginia Military Institute, Phil/Pit Steagles).[32]
  • Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen.

19Edit

  • Tom Baldwin, 57, American race driver, racing accident.
  • George Gibson, 98, American football player and coach.
  • Martin Knottenbelt, 84, Dutch anti-war activist.
  • Kyi Maung, 83, Myanmar Army officer and politician.
  • Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur.
  • Peggy Peterman, American journalist and columnist.
  • Jack Pinder, 91, English footballer.
  • Günter Rexrodt, 62, German politician, former Economics Minister of Germany.

20Edit

  • William J. Firey, 81, American mathematician.
  • Arthur Lever, 84, Welsh professional footballer.
  • María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born star of rumbera films.
  • Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician and novelist.
  • Leslie Shepard, 87, British author, archivist, and curator.

21Edit

  • Viktor Avilov, 51, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, cancer.
  • Amelia Batistich, 89, New Zealand fiction writer.
  • Hortensia Blanch Pita, 89, Spanish writer.
  • Maddy English, 79, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[33]
  • Sachidananda Routray, 88, Indian poet and novelist.
  • Moshe Shamir, 82, Israeli author, playwright and columnist.
  • Clip Smith, 63, American media personality.

22Edit

  • Konstantin Aseev, 43, Russian chess Grandmaster and coach.
  • Louella Daetweiler, 86, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[34]
  • Al Dvorin, 81, American bandleader and talent agent, automobile accident.[35]
  • Marcel Caux, 105, Australian First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières.
  • George Kirgo, 78, American television and film writer, former president of the Writers Guild of America.
  • Jim Nelson, 57, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[36]
  • Daniel Petrie, Sr., 83, Canadian film director, A Raisin in the Sun.[37]
  • Reginaldo Polloni, 87–88, Italian Olympic rower (men's coxed four rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[38]
  • Ota Sik, 84, Czech economist and politician, architect of economic liberalization during Czechoslovakia's ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring.

23Edit

  • Povilas Aksomaitis, 66, Lithuanian politician and engineer.
  • Hank Borowy, 88, American baseball player, former New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers pitcher.[39]
  • Mary Guiney, 103, Irish businesswoman; chairperson of the Clerys department store.
  • Francesco Minerva, 100, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop.

24Edit

  • Richard Ervin, 99, American attorney general and chief justice of Florida.[40]
  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist.
  • Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka.
  • Carlos Lacoste, 75, Argentinian naval officer and interim President.
  • Bob Price, 76, American politician (U.S. Representative for Texas' 18th congressional district and Texas' 13th congressional district).[41]
  • William Siri, 85, American biophysics researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, mountaineer and environmentalist.[42]

25Edit

  • Don Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer.
  • Roger Broughton, 45, New Zealand cricketer.
  • Hal Epps, 90, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Athletics).[43]
  • Marcelo Gonzalez Martin, 86, Spanish Roman Catholic primate of Spain, Cardinal (since 1973) and Archbishop of Toledo (1971-1995).[44]

26Edit

  • Enzo G. Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq.
  • Laura Branigan, 52, American pop singer ("Gloria", "Self Control"), cerebral aneurysm.[45]
  • Lewis Carter-Jones, 83, British politician.
  • Lloyd Smith, 74, Australian cricketer.

27Edit

  • Fernand Auberjonois, 93, Swiss foreign news correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade; father of actor René Auberjonois.
  • Willie Crawford, 57, American former outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers.[46]
  • Gottlieb Göller, 69, German football player and manager.
  • Suzanne Kaaren, 92, American actress (Three Stooges films).
  • Liang Su-yung, 84, Taiwanese politician, President of the Legislative Yuan.
  • Larry McCormick, 71, American television personality.
  • Susan Peretz, 64, American actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Melvin and Howard, Swing Shift, Oh, God! You Devil), breast cancer.[47]
  • William Pierson, 78, American actor (Stalag 17).[48]

28Edit

  • Jerzy Dzięcioł, 92, Polish Olympic sailor[1]
  • Silvana Jachino, 88, Italian actress.
  • Robert Lewin, 84, American producer and screenwriter, lung cancer.
  • José Puyet, 82, Spanish painter

29Edit

  • Donald Allen, 92, American editor, publisher and translator of American literature.[49]
  • Lee Guttero, 91, American basketball player.
  • Ivar Aavatsmark, 91, Norwegian corporate executive and forester, director of Norwegian Forest Owners Association (1942-1982).
  • Helen Lane, 83, American translator.[50]
  • John Francis Nash, 94, American railroad executive.

30Edit

  • Larry Desmedt, 55, American motorcycle designer, injuries suffered during a stunt.[51]
  • Willie Duff, 69, Scottish football goalkeeper (Heart of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline Athletic).
  • Derek Johnson, 71, British athlete and athletics administrator.
  • Fay Jones, 83, American architect and designer, trained by Frank Lloyd Wright.[52]
  • Bob Sherman, 63, American actor.
  • Fred Lawrence Whipple, 97, American astronomer.[53]

31Edit

  • Joe Barry, 65, American Swamp Pop singer of "I'm a Fool to Care".
  • Lex Peterson, 46, New Zealand Olympic bobsledder (two-man and four-man bobsled at the 1988 Winter Olympics).[54]
  • Carl Wayne, 61, English lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer.

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