The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2004.
Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, American physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium.Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, American philosopher.Heinrich Mark, 92, Estonian politician, Prime Minister-in-exile (1971–1990).José Omar Pastoriza, 62, Argentinian football player. and coachHenri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer. [1]Brian Hitch, 72, British diplomat.Bob Murphy, 79, American MLB New York Mets announcer.Arturo Tolentino, 93, Philippine lawyer and politician.Mary Dees, 93, American actress.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.Jim Alford, 90, British athlete.James Hubbard, 74, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Alabama.Rick James, 56, American funk singer.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.Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, 89, American health and fitness pioneer.Nigel Capel-Cure, 95, British cricketer and landowner.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.Richard Taylor, 23, Welsh skating and skiing champion, collided with a concrete lamp-post.Fay Wray, 96, Canadian-born American King Kong actress.Tony Mottola, 86, American guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on The Tonight Show orchestra. [2]David Raksin, 92, American film composer.James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, American member of the Rockefeller family, oldest known U.S. Olympic medal winner.Alan N. Cohen, 73, American owner of the Boston Celtics.Sir David Calcutt, 73, British barrister and public servant.Joe Falls, 76, American journalist, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News.Bill Martin, Jr., 88, American author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, 84, British Nobel Prize in Medicine, coinventor of the CAT scan.Ian Lake, 69, British musician.Robert L. Morris, 62, American parapsychologist.Sebastián Ontoria, 84, Spanish footballer.Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor.George Yardley, 75, American National Basketball Association Hall of Famer.Julia Child, 91, American chef, author and television hostess on French cuisine. [3]Stefan Dimitrov, Bulgarian opera basso singer.Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street.Ondřej Voříšek, 18, Czech football, car accident.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.Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer.Sune K. Bergström, 88, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine.Bent Ole Retvig, 68, Danish cyclistOllie Silva, 75, American auto racing driver.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.J. Irwin Miller, 95, American industrialist and architectural philanthropist.George Moe, 72, Barbadian politician and former Chief Justice of Belize.[4]Carl Mydans, 97, American photographer.Robert Quiroga, 35, American world champion boxer, murdered.Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist.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.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.Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen.George Gibson, 98, American football player.Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur.Jack Pinder, 91, English footballer.Günter Rexrodt, 62, German politician, former Economics Minister of Germany.María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born star of rumbera filmsMoshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician and novelist.Sachidananda Routray, 88, Indian poet and novelist.Clip Smith, 63, American media personality.Konstantin Aseev, 43, Russian chess Grandmaster and coach.Al Dvorin, 81, American bandleader and talent agent, who popularized the phrase "Elvis has left the building", automobile accident. [5]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.Daniel Petrie, Sr., 83, Canadian film director, A Raisin in the Sun.Ota Sik, 84, Czech economist and politician, architect of economic liberalization during Czechoslovakia's ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring.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.Mary Guiney, 103, Irish chairperson of the Clerys department store.Francesco Minerva, 100, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop.Richard Ervin, 99, American attorney general and chief justice of Florida. [6]Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist.Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka.Bob Price, 76, American politician.Don Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer.Roger Broughton, 45, New Zealand cricketer.Marcelo Gonzalez Martin, 86, Spanish former Roman Catholic primate of Spain, Cardinal since 1973 and Archbishop of Toledo from 1971 to 1995. (Papal condolence message)Enzo G. Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq.Laura Branigan, 52, American pop singer ("Gloria", "Self Control"), cerebral aneurysm.Lewis Carter-Jones, 83, British politician.Lloyd Smith, 74, Australian cricketer.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.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 YuanLarry McCormick, 71, American television personality.William Pierson, 78, American actor Stalag 17.Robert Lewin, 84, American producer and screenwriter, Academy Award nomination for writing The Bold and the Brave, lung cancer.Ivar Aavatsmark, Norwegian corporate executive and forester, director of Norwegian Forest Owners Association (1942-1982).Helen Lane, 83, American translator.John Francis Nash, 94, American railroad executive.Larry Desmedt, 55, American motorcycle designer, injuries suffered during a stunt. [7]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.Bob Sherman, 63, American actor.Fred Whipple, 97, American astronomer.Joe Barry, 65, American Swamp Pop singer of "I'm a Fool to Care".Carl Wayne, 61, English lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer. 