Deaths in April 2005

1

Greg Aim, 71, New Zealand cricketer. [1]

Álvaro Alsogaray, 91, Argentinian politician and businessman.

Philip Amelio, 27, American actor and teacher.

Lee Artoe, 88, American football player.

Cheryl Barrymore, 56, English dancer and talent manager, former wife and agent of British TV entertainer Michael Barrymore, lung cancer. [2]

Paul Bomani, 80, Tanzanian politician and diplomat.

Alexander Brott, 90, Canadian composer, conductor and violinist.

Harald Juhnke, 75, German entertainer.

Jack Keller, 68, American songwriter, wrote themes to Bewitched and Gidget.

Barry Stern, 45, American drummer for the bands Trouble and Zoetrope, from complications following surgery.

Robert Coldwell Wood, 81, American political scientist, second Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1969; later served as University of Massachusetts President 1970-1977, stomach cancer. [3]

2

Betty Bolton, 99, English actress and singer.

Tony Croatto, 65, Italian-born Puerto Rican composer-singer, lung and brain cancer.

Trevor Foster, 90, Welsh rugby player.

Jack Stanley Gibson, 95, Irish physician.

Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), 84, Polish Roman Catholic pope, died after a lengthy illness.

Nasri Maalouf, 94, Lebanese politician.

John O'Leary, 58, American politician, former U.S. ambassador to Chile, Lou Gehrig's disease.

Jacques Rabemananjara, 92, Malagasy politician, foreign minister from 1967 to 1972,

3

Aleksy Antkiewicz, 81, Polish boxer.

Rick Blight, 49, Canadian ice hockey player.

Blanchette Brunoy, 89, French actress.

Deena Burton, 56, American dancer.

Frank Clair, 87, Canadian Football League coach with the Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Rough Riders, heart failure.

Kader Firoud, 85, Algerian-born French football player and manager.

4

Gordon Barton, 75, Australian businessman and political activist.

Mark Beban, 65, New Zealand cricketer.

Edward Bronfman, 77, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, colon cancer.

Antonio Rivera, 41, Puerto Rican world champion boxer.

5

Manuel Ballester, 85, Spanish chemist.

Marta Belen, 62, American singer.

Saul Bellow, 89, Canadian-born American Nobel Prize-winning author.

Julian C. Boyd, 73, American linguist.

Ura Koyama, 114, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest living person in Japan since 2003, died of pneumonia.

Sir Edwin Leather, 85, Canadian-born governor of Bermuda from 1973 to 1977.

Dale Messick, 98, American creator of the Brenda Starr comic strip.

Debralee Scott, 52, American actress (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman).

Neil Welliver, 75, American landscape painter, mainly in his native Maine.

6

Eileen Rose Busby, 82, American antiques expert.

Arthur Bywater, 91, British civil servant, winner of the George Cross.

Edwin Q. Cannon, 86, American businessman and politician.

Frank Conroy, 69, American author, memoirist and head of the University of Iowa's famous Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Anthony DePalma, 100, American orthopedic surgeon, teacher, and humanitarian.

Károly Ecser, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter. [4]

Len Junor, 90, Australian cricketer.

Geoff Millman, 70, English cricketer.

Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, 81, Monegasque reigning Prince of Monaco since 1949.

7

Cliff Allison, 73, British Formula One driver.

J. Carter Bacot, 72, American banker.

Grigoris Bithikotsis, 82, Greek singer.

Bob Kennedy, 84, American Major League Baseball player and manager, who hit the first grand slam in Baltimore Orioles history and was the Oakland Athletics first manager.

Charles Kuentz, 108, German-born centenarian and veteran of World War I, last surviving French World War I veteran to fight for Germany, cardiac arrest.

Jose Melis, 85, Cuban-born American former bandleader for The Tonight Show.

Yvonne Vera, 40, Zimbabwean novelist and writer.

8

Maurice Lafont, 77, French football player.

Yoshitaro Nomura, 85, Japanese film director.

D. G. Northcott, 88, British mathematician (ideal theory). [5], [6]

Onna White, 83, Canadian Broadway choreographer.

9

Scott Field Bailey, 89, American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas.

Andrea Dworkin, 58, American radical feminist writer and anti-pornography activist.

Scott Mason, 28, Australian cricketer. [7]

10

Carl Abrahams, 93, Jamaican painter.

Norbert Brainin, 82, Austrian violinist and founder of the Amadeus Quartet.

Frederick C. Branch, 82, American officer, first Afro-American Marine Corps officer.

Chen Yifei, 58, Chinese painter.

Scott Gottlieb, 34, American drummer for rock band Bleed the Dream.

Archbishop Iakovos, 93, Ottoman-born former primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (1959–1996).

Al Lucas, 26, American ex-National Football League player, spinal cord injury suffered playing an Arena Football League game.

Faith McNulty, 86, American writer.

11

Juozas Bagdonas, 92, Lithuanian painter.

John Bennett, 75, British actor.

Teodoro Borlongan, 49, Filipino banker.

John Brosnan, 57, British resident Australian writer and film critic, acute pancreatitis (death may have occurred several days earlier).

Jerry Byrd, 85, American Lap steel guitarist.

André François, 89, French cartoonist. [8]

James Hamilton, 87, British politician.

Maurice Hilleman, 85, American microbiologist.

David Hughes, 74, British novelist.

Lucien Laurent, 97, French football player, scored the first ever goal at a FIFA World Cup.

Mattie McDonagh, 68, Irish Gaelic footballer.

George Younce, 75, American Southern Gospel singer.

12

Sorrel Carson, 85, Irish actress and drama teacher.

Ehud Manor, 63, Israeli songwriter.

Barney Poole, 81, American College Football Hall of Fame member.

Cyril Sidlow, 89, Welsh football player.

George Molchan, 82, American spokesperson for Oscar Mayer meat company.

13

Don Blasingame, 73, American MLB All-Star, who also managed two of Japan's professional baseball teams.

Simon Blumenfeld, 97, British writer.

Tutti Camarata, 91, American musician, leader of "Tutti's Trumpets" and co-founder of Disneyland Records.

Julia Darling, 48, English novelist and poet.

Wolfgang Droege, 55, German-born Canadian founder of the Canadian white supremacist group the Heritage Front, shot to death.

Kay Gardella, 82, American television critic for the New York Daily News, cancer.

Johnnie Johnson, 80, American musician.

Nikola Ljubicic, 89, Serbian general and politician, president of Serbia from 1982 to 1984.

Philippe Volter, 45, Belgian actor, suicide.

Nathaniel Weyl, 94, American writer, economist who testified in the Alger Hiss case.

Juan Zanotto, 69, Italian-Argentinian comic book artist.

Johnny Loughrey, 59, Irish singer.

14

Chet Aubuchon, 88, American basketball player.

Benny Bailey, 79, American jazz trumpeter.

Andrew Bisset, 52, Australian author and musician.

Saunders Mac Lane, 95, U.S. mathematician.

15

Jimmy Allan, 73, Scottish cricketer.[9]

Al Baisi, 87, American football player.

Martin Blumenson, 86, American military historian.

Peter Cargill, 41, Jamaican footballer.

Art Cross, 87, American Indianapolis 500 driver.

John Fred Gourrier, 63, American 1960s pop singer.

Margaretta Scott, 93, English actress ("Mrs. Pumphrey" in All Creatures Great and Small).

Duilio Spagnolo, 78, Italian boxer, former heavyweight contender.

16

Laura Canales, 50, American Tejano singer.

Jaime Fernández, 67, Mexican actor.

Herm Gilliam, 58, American former National Basketball Association player for the Portland Trail Blazers.

Marla Ruzicka, 28, American activist and aid worker, car bombing in Iraq.

Vishnu Kant Shastri, 76, Indian politician.

Kay Walsh, 93, British actress.

17

James Archibald Houston, 83, Canadian author and artist.

18

Sir Piers Bengough, 75, British soldier and Her Majesty's Representative at Ascot.

Donald Bruce, Baron Bruce of Donington, 92, British politician and peer.

Bassel Fleihan, 42, Lebanese deputy and former minister, third-degree burns resulting from the blast that assassinated Rafiq Hariri.

Clarence Gaines, 81, American Basketball Hall of Fame coach, stroke.

Sam Mills, 45, American former NFL player and assistant coach, cancer.

Kenneth Schermerhorn, 75, American music director and conductor of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

19

Ron Bean, 66, American politician.

Mike Brim, 39, American football player.

George Pan Cosmatos, 65, Italian-born Greek-American film director, best known for Tombstone and Rambo: First Blood Part II, lung cancer.

Ruth Hussey, 93, American film actress (The Philadelphia Story).

Stan Levey, 79, American jazz drummer.

Clement Meadmore, 76, Australian-born steel sculptor.

Bryan Ottoson, 27, American Head Charge guitarist.

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 58, Danish jazz upright bassist .

20

Inday Ba, 32, Swedish actress (also known as N'Deaye Ba).

Zygfryd Blaut, 62, Polish football player.

Gene Frankel, 85, United States theater director.

Ea Jansen, Estonian historian.

Fumio Niwa, 100, Japanese novelist.

21

Giordano Abbondati, 56, Italian figure skater.

Ed Butka, 89, American baseball player.

Zhang Chunqiao, 88, Chinese political theorist, member of the Gang of Four.

Gwynfor Evans, 92, Welsh politician.

Bill Kaysing, 82, American conspiracy theorist.

Feroze Khan, 100, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic Champion 1928 (oldest Olympic gold medallist at the time of his death).

Heinz Kluncker, 80, German trade union leader.

Cyril Tawney, 74, British songwriter and folksinger.

Jimmy Thompson, 79, British actor and comic.

22

Norman Bird, 80, British actor.

Dr. Joseph Bogen, 78, American neurosurgeon, epileptic seizure researcher.

Gregoire Boonzaier, 95, South African painter.

Robert Farnon, 87, Canadian-born Grammy Award winning arranger, composer.

Mary Dann, early 80s, American Indian activist.

Erika Fuchs, 98, German Disney Comics editor and translator.

John Marshall, 72, American filmmaker.

Philip Morrison, 89, American physicist and group leader in the Manhattan Project.

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 81, Scottish sculptor. [10]

Leonid Shamkovich, 81, Russian ex-Soviet grandmaster chess player.

23

Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 94, Australian political celebrity, longest-serving Premier of Queensland.

Andre Gunder Frank, 76, German economic historian, proponent of dependency theory.

Al Grassby, 78, Australian former politician and minister in the Whitlam government.

Sir John Mills, 97, British Oscar-winning actor.

John Pott, 85, British World War II Army officer.

Romano Scarpa, 78, Italian Disney comic book artist.

Earl Wilson, 70, American baseball player, leading pitcher for the 1968 World Series champion Detroit Tigers and first black pitcher to throw a no-hitter in Major League Baseball.

Jimmy Woode, 78, American jazz bassist, heart attack.

24

Adelle August, 71, American actress.

Francis Bay, 90, Belgian conductor.

Ralph Buchanan, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.

Francesco Pozzi, 35, Italian rally driver.

Fei Xiaotong, 94, Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology.

Ezer Weizman, 80, Israeli politician, former Israeli president.

25

Jim Barker, 69, American politician, stroke. [11]

Howard Benedict, 77, American AP aerospace correspondent, popularized use of word "orbit", natural causes. [12]

Tunney Hunsaker, 75, American professional boxer, Muhammad Ali's first professional boxing opponent.

John Love, 80, Rhodesian former Formula One driver.

Josef Nesvadba, 78, Czech psychiatrist and science fiction author.

Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman, 71, English chief executive and peer, former head of Ford Motor Company.

26

Mason Adams, 86, American film and television actor.

Hasil Adkins, 67, American Rockabilly musician.

Georges Anderla, 84, French economist.

Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy, 83, Scottish politician.

Red Horner, 95, Canadian ice hockey player, former NHL player with the Toronto Maple Leafs, was oldest living member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Augusto Roa Bastos, 87, Paraguayan writer, winner of the Premio Cervantes.

Johnny Sample, 67, American former National Football League player.

Maria Schell, 79, Austrian film and television actress.

27

Richard Appleton, 72, Australian poet and editor.

Abdus Samad Azad, 83, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician, former foreign minister of Bangladesh.

Stanley Orme, Baron Orme, 82, British politician,

Dr. Howard W. Johnston, 91, German principal founder of the Free University of Berlin.[13]

28

Chuck Bittick, 65, American water polo player.

Chris Candido, 33, American professional wrestler, blood clot from surgery complications.

Percy Heath, 81, American bassist for the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Erich Vermehren, 85, German military intelligence officer, World War II defector from the Abwehr.

Zeke Zekley, 90, American cartoonist. [14]

29

William J. Bell, 78, American screenwriter and television producer, soap opera creator (The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful), Alzheimer's disease.

Dianne Brooks, 66, American jazz singer.

Mel Gussow, 71, American theatre critic for The New York Times, cancer.

Sara Henderson, 69, Australian author.

Mariana Levy, 39, Mexican actress, heart attack following a robbery attempt.

Johnnie Stewart, 87, British TV producer (creator of Top of the Pops).

30

Sylve Bengtsson, 74, Swedish football player.

Ron Todd, 78, English former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union.