The following is a list of notable people who died in August 2005.
John Alevizos, 85, American businessman.
Al Aronowitz, 77, American music journalist, cancer. [1]
Wim Boost, 87, Dutch cartoonist.
Donald Brooks, 77, American Hollywood and Broadway costume designer. [2]
Constant, 85, Dutch COBRA painter.
King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, 84, Saudi Arabian King, complications of a stroke suffered in 1995. [3]
William Hugh Clifford Frend, 89, English ecclesiastical historian. [4]
David Shaw, 62, American journalist, Los Angeles Times writer and Pulitzer Prize winner, brain tumor. [5]
Robert Stone, 49, Australian rugby league player.
Erasmus Darwin Barlow, 90, British psychiatrist.
Sandro Bolchi, 81, Italian director and journalist.
Jay Hammond, 83, American politician, Governor of Alaska from 1975 to 1982.
Tuukka Mäkelä, 77, Finnish Olympic shooter.
Hassan Moghaddas, 42, Iranian judge in the case of Akbar Ganji and high-profile cases; assassinated by unknown motorbike assailant.
Zainab al Ghazali, 88, Egyptian activist.
Luis Barbero, 88, Spanish actor.
Paddie Bell, 74, Irish folk singer.
Françoise d'Eaubonne, 85, French writer.
Dick Heyward, 90, Australian longtime deputy director of UNICEF.
Ernest Alvia ("Smokey") Smith, 91, Canadian Victoria Cross recipient.
Susan Torres, 26, American brain-dead woman kept alive to give birth. [6]
Steven Vincent, 49, American freelance reporter, shot dead in Basra, Iraq. [7]
Charles Alden Black, 86, American businessman, husband of Shirley Temple, myelodysplastic syndrome [8].
Peter Cundy, 88, British World War II pilot.
"Little" Milton Campbell, 71, American blues musician.
Ileen Getz, 43, American actress (3rd Rock From The Sun), cancer.
Sue Gunter, 66, American women's basketball coach.
Anatoly Larkin, 72, Russian theoretical physicist.
David MacKenzie, 83, Scottish rugby union player.
Firmin Martin Schmidt, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mendi.
Polina Astakhova, 68, Soviet five time Olympic gymnastic champion.
Fritze Carstensen, 80, Danish Olympic swimmer.
Bertie Hill, 78, British equestrian.
Raymond Klibansky, 99, German-Canadian academic and philosopher.
Maria Korp, 50, Australian 'body in the boot' crime victim.
Raul Roco, 63, Filipino politician, former senator and presidential candidate, cancer.
Jane Lawrence Smith, 90, American actress also associated with 1950s art scene.
Cal Hogue, 77, American baseball player.
Nikolay Abramov, 55, Russian footballer.
Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine, 86, Mexican trade union leader.
Vizma Belsevica, 74, Latvian poet.
Keter Betts, 77, American jazz bassist.
Robin Cook, 59, British Member of Parliament, former Foreign Secretary. [9]
Ibrahim Ferrer, 78, Afro-Cuban musician, singer in the Buena Vista Social Club. [10]
Louis Gauthier, 89, French cyclist.
Carlo Little, 66, British drummer, lung cancer.
John Tomlinson, 73, British educationalist.
Leni Alexander, 81, German-born Chilean composer.
Alejandro Armendáriz, 82, Argentinian physician and politician.
Paul Arnaud de Foïard, 83, French Army general.
Fannie Barrios, 41, Venezuelan bodybuilder.
Peter Jennings, 67, Canadian-born American correspondent, news anchor of ABC News, complications from lung cancer. [11]
Mikhail Yevdokimov, 47, Russian comedian and politician, car accident.
Robert A. Baker, 84, American psychologist.
Barbara Bel Geddes, 82, American actress (Miss Ellie, Dallas), of lung cancer. [12]
Ahmed Deedat, 80, South African Muslim preacher.
John H. Johnson, 87, American publisher.
Gene Mauch, 79, American Major League Baseball manager.
Dumitru Nicolae, 76, Romanian football player and manager.
Ilse Werner, 84, German actress.
Colette Besson, 59, French athlete and Olympic 400m champion runner.
Dorris Bowdon, 90, American actress.
Al Carmines, 69, American musician.
François Dalle, 87, French entrepreneur, CEO of L'Oréal cosmetics.
Abraham Hirschfeld, 85, Polish-born New York City developer, of cancer.
Philip J. Klass, 85, American aviation journalist, UFO debunker, cancer.
Matthew McGrory, 32, American actor, natural causes.
Judith Rossner, 70, American author (Looking for Mr Goodbar), diabetes and cancer.
Mar Amongo, 68, Filipino comic book artist. [13]
Jaroslav Koutecký, 83, Czech physical chemist [14] (German)
Roy Marlin "Butch" Voris, 85, American retired US Navy Captain, World War II flying ace, founder and two-time commander of the United States Navy Blue Angels. [15]
Justus A. Akinsanya, 68, Nigerian-born British nurse.
Ernesta Ballard, 85, American feminist and former head of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
James Booth, 77, British actor (Zulu).
Manfred Korfmann, 63, German archaeologist. [16]
Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, 103, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
Kay Tremblay, 91, Canadian actress (Road to Avonlea). [17]
Robert Bonner, 84, Canadian politician and businessman.
Greg Calvert, 68, American political activist.
Teruo Ishii, 81, Japanese movie maker.
Lakshman Kadirgamar, 73, Sri Lankan foreign minister, assassination. [18]
Joe Korp, 47, Australian "body in the boot" suspect, suicide. [19]
Charlie Norman, 84, Swedish jazz pianist and film music writer. [20]
Derek Page, Baron Whaddon, 77, British politician.
Julian Stanley, 87, American psychologist, "Champion of Gifted Students". [21]
Francy Boland, 75, Belgian jazz pianist, arranger: top European swing band 1960s and 1970s. [22]
Wladimiro Calarese, 74, Italian Olympic fencer. [23]
George Carpenter, 96, Irish Olympic fencer.
Arnold Cooke, 98, British composer. [24]
W.J. Bryan Dorn, 89, American politician, former Democratic United States Representative from South Carolina 1947–1949, and 1951–1974.
David Lange, 63, New Zealand politician, former Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand, main proponent of anti-nuclear policy.
Donald Howard Shively, 84, American professor, among the first to promote modern East Asian Studies, Shy–Drager syndrome. [25]
Stephen C. Apostolof, 78, Bulgarian-born American filmmaker.
William Henry Beierwaltes, 88, American physician.
Coo Coo Marlin, 73, American NASCAR driver.
Billy More, 40, Italian drag queen music artist.
Beverly Wolff, 76, American mezzo-soprano.
Esther Wong, 88, Chinese-born American music promoter.
James Dougherty, 84, American first (and last surviving) husband of Marilyn Monroe. [26]
Gordon James Oakes, 74, British politician, former Labour government minister and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, cancer.
Peter Smit, 43, Dutch martial artist, former European and world champion kickboxer, shot to death in Rotterdam. [27]
Herta Ware, 88, American actress. [28]
Vassar Clements, 77, American fiddle player and bluegrass musician. [29]
Stanley DeSantis, 52, American actor (Tales of the City), designer, heart attack.
Aleksandr Gomelsky, 77, Soviet Hall of Fame basketball coach, cancer.
Joe Ranft, 45, American animator, car accident.
Eva Renzi, 60, German actress, cancer.
Frère Roger, 90, Swiss Christian leader and monk, founder of the Taizé Community, murdered by an assailant. [30]
Richard Altham, 81, English cricketer.
John N. Bahcall, 70, American astrophysicist. [31]
Dalibor Brazda, 83, Czech-born Swiss composer, arranger and conductor.
Lars Kristian Brynildsen, 50, Norwegian clarinetist.
Tonino Delli Colli, 81, Italian cinematographer. [32]
Bertram Podell, 79, American politician, former Democratic United States Representative from New York 1967–1975. [33]
Christopher Bauman, Jr., 23, American professional wrestler
Andrónico Luksic, 78, Croatian-descent Chilean millionaire businessman, richest man of his country.
Lloyd Meeds, 77, American politician, former Democratic United States Representative from Washington from 1965–1979.
Meredith Merle Nicholson, 92, American cinematographer.
Randy Turner, American musician with the hardcore punk band Big Boys.
Mel Welles, 83, American actor, writer, director.
Gao Xiumin, 46, Chinese comedy actress, heart attack.
Mansour Armaly, 78, Palestinian ophthalmologist and early glaucoma researcher, cancer. [34]
Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, 78, Lithuanian psychologist.
Abraham Bueno de Mesquita, 87, Dutch comedian.
Faimalaga Luka, 65, Tuvaluan politician, former prime minister and governor-general of Tuvalu.
Dennis Lynds, 81, American mystery novelist under the pseudonym Michael Collins. [35]
O. Madhavan, 83, Indian actor and director.
Abraham Bueno de Mesquita, 87, Dutch comedian, cancer. [36] (Dutch)
Mo Mowlam, 55, British politician, after a fall. [37]
Abraham Goldstein, 80, American law professor, former dean of Yale Law School, heart attack.
Krzysztof Raczkowski, 35, Polish drummer, ex-member of Vader.
Clifford Williams, 78, British theatre director. [38]
Liv Aasen, 76, Norwegian politician.
Mary Bowerman, 97, American botanist.
Liam Burke, 77, Irish politician.
Thomas Herrion, 23, American NFL player with the San Francisco 49ers, collapsed after preseason game, autopsy later showed death caused by ischemic heart disease.
David Ironside, 80, South African cricketer.
James Jerome, 72, Canadian jurist and politician, former Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.
Robert Moog, 71, American electronic music inventor and pioneer, brain tumor. [39]
Dahlia Ravikovitch, 69, Israeli poet and author.
Martin Dillon, 48, American musician, operatic tenor and professor of music, heart attack. [40], [41], [42]
Luc Ferrari, 76, French musique concrète composer.
Richard Kelly, 81, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Florida from 1975–1981. [43]
Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane, 87, British judge and former Lord Chief Justice. [44]
Colin McEwan, 64, Australian comedian and actor, cancer. [45]
Mati Unt, 61, Estonian writer and theatre director.
Morris Ziff, 91, American rheumatic disease expert, cardiac arrest.
Eddie Burks, 82, British civil engineer and psychic.
Glenn Corneille, 35, Dutch musician and pianist, car crash. [46] (in Dutch)
William J. Eaton, 74, American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author.
Ambrogio Fogar, 64, Italian adventurer.
Sir Jack Hibbert, 73, British statistician, Head of the Central Statistical Office, UK.
Brock Peters, 78, American actor, best known for his role as Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird, pancreatic cancer. [47]
Lyndon Woodside, 70, American choral conductor.
Jamshed Ansari, 62, Pakistani actor.
Maurice Cowling, 78, British historian.
Kaleth Morales, 21, Colombian "New Wave" vallenato singer and songwriter.
Tom Pashby, 91, Canadian doctor, promoter of hockey safety.
Jack Slipper, 81, English Scotland Yard detective. [48]
George Smith, 44, British royal servant, fomented "Royal Rape" controversy.
Herbert Wright, 57, American television producer.
Ruth Aaronson Bari, 87, American mathematician.
Walter Becher, 92, German politician.
Philippe Bradshaw, 39, British artist.
Peter Glotz, 66, German politician.
Georgi Iliev, 39, Bulgarian businessman and president of Lokomotiv Plovdiv, murdered by sniper in Sunny Beach.
Perry Lafferty, 89, American television producer, cancer. [49]
Terence Morgan, 83, British actor.
Wolfgang Bauer, 64, Austrian playwright.
Denis "Piggy" D'Amour, 45, Canadian musician, guitarist of Canadian metal band Voivod, cancer.
Robert Denning, 78, American interior designer, silver-haired fixture of society in Paris and New York.
Gerry Fitt, Baron Fitt, 79, Northern Irish politician from West Belfast, elevated to the House of Lords.
Ed "Sailor" White, 56, Canadian professional wrestler best known as "Moondog King".
Aldo Aniasi, 84, Italian politician.
Jan Moor-Jankowski, 81, Polish-American primatologist, stroke.
Seán Purcell, 76, Irish Gaelic footballer.
Ali Said Abdella, 55, Eritrean politician, foreign minister of Eritrea, heart attack. [50]
Hans Clarin, 75, German actor.
Jacques Dufilho, 91, French comedian.
Esther Szekeres (née Klein), 95, Hungarian mathematician.
George Szekeres, 94, Hungarian mathematician.
Ishaya Audu, 79, Nigerian politician.
Nikolai Sergeevich Bakhvalov, 71, Russian mathematician.
Balfour Brickner, 78, American rabbi.
Sir Hugh Collum, 65, British businessman.
Margaret Scott, 71, Australian author and poet.
Jude Wanniski, 69, American journalist and supply-side economist.
Charles L. Allen, 92, American Methodist minister.
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, 115, Dutch supercentenarian, oldest recognized person in the world, gastric cancer.
John Brown, 90, Scottish footballer.
Cecily Brownstone, 96, Canadian long-time Associated Press cuisine writer, pneumonia. [51]
Léonie Duquet, 61, French nun and Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo activist, presumably killed by the Argentine military regime between 1976 and 1983 (body identified)
Michael Frary, 87, American painter.
James H. Scheuer, 85, American politician, former liberal Democrat United States Representative from New York 1965–1973 and 1975–1993.
Patrick Tobin Asselin, 75, Canadian politician.
Eladia Blázquez, 74, Argentine tango player and composer.
Stéphane Bruey, 72, French football player.
John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, 84, British judge and peer, former Master of the Rolls.
Jaan Kiivit, Jr, 65, Estonian former Lutheran archbishop.
Soo Bee Lee, 71, Singaporean soprano.
Sir Joseph Rotblat, 96, Polish-born British physicist, Nobel laureate, anti-nuclear weapons campaigner, founder of Pugwash Conferences.
Michael Sheard, 67, Scottish actor, including The Empire Strikes Back (Admiral Ozzel), played Adolf Hitler in five movies, cancer.
Julius Westheimer, 88, American financial analyst.
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