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Deaths in August 2005

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The following is a list of notable people who died in August 2005.

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1

  • 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.
  • 2

  • 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.
  • 3

  • 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]
  • 4

  • 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.
  • 5

  • 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.
  • 6

  • 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.
  • 7

  • 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.
  • 8

  • 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.
  • 9

  • 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.
  • 10

  • 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]
  • 11

  • 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]
  • 12

  • 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]
  • 13

  • 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]
  • 14

  • 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.
  • 15

  • 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]
  • 16

  • 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]
  • 17

  • 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]
  • 18

  • 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.
  • 19

  • 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]
  • 20

  • 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]
  • 21

  • 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]
  • 22

  • 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.
  • 23

  • 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.
  • 24

  • 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.
  • 25

  • 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.
  • 26

  • 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".
  • 27

  • Aldo Aniasi, 84, Italian politician.
  • Jan Moor-Jankowski, 81, Polish-American primatologist, stroke.
  • Seán Purcell, 76, Irish Gaelic footballer.
  • 28

  • 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.
  • 29

  • 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.
  • 30

  • 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.
  • 31

  • 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.
  • References

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