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Deaths in December 2005

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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2005.

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  • Gust Avrakotos, 67, American CIA agent who armed the mujaheddin of Afghanistan.
  • Mary Hayley Bell, 94, British actress, memoirist and writer, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Hermann Buchner, 86, German World War II fighter pilot.
  • Jack Colvin, 73, American actor, (The Incredible Hulk), coronary thrombosis.
  • Michael Evans, 61, American White House photographer, noted for capturing the trademark image of Ronald Reagan wearing a cowboy hat, cancer.
  • Ray Hanna, 77, New Zealand-born warbird pilot and founder of The Old Flying Machine Company, natural causes.

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  • Kenneth Boyd, 57, American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina, the 1,000th U.S. execution since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976
  • Lillian Browse, 99, British art dealer.
  • Shawn Paul Humphries, 34, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina
  • Malik Joyeux, 25, French professional surfer, killed at Hawaii's Banzai Pipeline
  • William P. Lawrence, 75, American retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, first to fly at twice the speed of sound
  • Peter Menegazzo, 61, Australian cattle baron, killed (along with his wife Angela) in a plane crash,
  • Van Tuong Nguyen, 25, Australian convicted of drug trafficking, executed at Changi Prison in Singapore for trafficking 396 grams of heroin in 2002, hanging
  • Mohammed Amza Zubeidi, 67, Iraqi politician, former prime minister under Saddam Hussein

    • 3

  • Peter Aschwanden, 63, American illustrator.
  • Frederick Ashworth, 93, American naval officer, weaponeer who dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
  • Peter Cook, 62, Australian politician, melanoma.
  • Lance Dossor, 90, Australian pianist.
  • John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead, 73, British aristocrat and politician.
  • Maurice Harris, 84, American trumpet player, Hollywood, studio, TV and sessions player (The Tonight Show).
  • Kikka Sirén, 41, Finnish pop/schlager singer.
  • Kåre Kristiansen, 85, Norwegian politician, minister of Oil and Energy (1983–1986).
  • Bill Robinson, 71, British rugby league player.
  • Allan Waters, 84, Canadian broadcasting icon.

    • 4

  • Débora Arango, 98, Colombian artist.
  • Percy Brandt, 83, Swedish actor.
  • Gregg Hoffman, 42, American film producer (Saw), natural causes.
  • Gloria Lasso, 83, Spanish singer.
  • Doug Murphy, 53, American former CBS (KPIX) news anchorman, house fire.

    • 5

  • John Alvheim, 75, Norwegian politician.
  • Gerald Smedley Andrews, 101, Canadian civil servant.
  • Wesley Baker, 47, American convicted murderer, executed in Maryland.
  • Peter Beet, 68, British railway preservation pioneer.
  • Liu Binyan, 80, Chinese author and dissident, cancer.
  • Ursula Buckel, 79, German soprano.
  • Netai Bysack, 84, Indian Olympic cyclist.
  • Milo Dor, 82, Serbian-born Austrian author, heart failure.
  • Edward L. Masry, 73, American attorney and mentor to Erin Brockovich, complications of diabetes.
  • Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, 56, Australian businessman and media personality, heart attack.
  • Frits Philips, 100, Dutch businessman, grandson of the founder of Philips, complications from a fall.
  • Bob Richardson, 77, American fashion photographer.

    • 6

  • Charly Gaul, 72, Luxembourgian cyclist, winner of the 1958 Tour de France
  • Richard Grimsdale, 76, British electrical engineer, built the world's first transistorised computer and was at the forefront of work on Read Only Memory
  • Hanns Dieter Hüsch, 80, German political satirist
  • Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, 111, Polish-born oldest man in the UK at the time of his death
  • Danny Williams, 63, South African popular singer, lung cancer

    • 7

  • Lucy d'Abreu, 113, Indian-born oldest person in the UK at the time of her death.
  • Rigoberto Alpizar, 44, American airplane passenger fatally shot by U.S. Air Marshals after allegedly claiming he had placed a bomb aboard.
  • James Bastien, 71, American author of instructional books for the piano.
  • Martine Bercher, 61, American football player.
  • Adrian Biddle, 53, British cinematographer (Aliens, The Princess Bride, Thelma & Louise), heart attack.
  • Marvin Braude, 85, American member of Los Angeles City Council.
  • Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., 65, American politician, former South Carolina governor (1987–1995), and member of U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1987), heart attack and complications of Alzheimer's disease.
  • Bud Carson, 75, American football player, former NFL head coach, emphysema.
  • Loomis Dean, 88, American photographer, notably for Life magazine.
  • Devan Nair, 82, Singaporean politician, former president of Singapore.

    • 8

  • R. W. Bradford, 58, American writer, publisher of Liberty magazine, kidney cancer.
  • Dame Rose Heilbron, 91, British judge.
  • George D. Painter, 91, British biographer.
  • Leo Scheffczyk, 85, German Roman Cardinal Deacon of San Francesco Saverio alla Garbatella, Germany.
  • Roger Shattuck, 82, American writer and critic, prostate cancer.
  • J.N. Williamson, 73, American horror writer, author and publisher.

    • 9

  • Alan John Beale, 72, British virologist.
  • Norman Blundell, 88, Australian cricketer.
  • Mike Botts, 61, American drummer, toured and recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Dan Fogelberg, Tina Turner and others, cancer.
  • Homer Mensch, 91, American internationally known bass player, Juilliard teacher.
  • Eunice Norton, 97, American classical pianist and music promoter.
  • György Sándor, 93, Hungarian internationally famous pianist, Juilliard teacher, heart failure.
  • Robert Sheckley, 77, American science fiction author, brain aneurysm.
  • Brian Whittle, 59, British journalist and news agency head.

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  • Frank Cooke, 92, American entrepreneur.
  • Mary Jackson, 95, American film and television actress (The Exorcist III, Parenthood).
  • Donald Martino, 74, American composer.
  • Eugene McCarthy, 89, American politician, former Democratic United States Senator from Minnesota (1959–1971), and United States Representative (1949–1959) and presidential primary candidate.
  • Jim McIntyre, 78, American basketball player.
  • Richard Pryor, 65, American comedian and actor (Stir Crazy, Harlem Nights), heart attack and complications of multiple sclerosis.
  • Clark G. Reynolds, 65, American naval historian.

    • 11

  • Walter Cudzik, 73, American NFL and American Football League center for the Boston Patriots.
  • Del Philpott, 82, American soldier and scientist.
  • Richard Sandbrook, 59, British environmentalist.
  • Hayim Tadmor, 82, Israeli Assyriologist and professor.

    • 12

  • Gebran Tueni, 48, Lebanese journalist and politician.

    • 13

  • John Barraclough, 79, Australian politician.
  • Sir Roland Guy, 77, British army general.
  • Dick Nolan, 66, Canadian musician.
  • Stanley Tookie Williams, 51, American convicted murderer and co-founder of the Crips turned anti-gang activist, executed by lethal injection for killing 4 people in California.

    • 14

  • Erhard Ahmann, 64, German football manager.
  • Stew Bowers, 90, American baseball player.
  • Gordon Duncan, 41, Scottish musician and bagpiper, suicide
  • Sudhir Joshi, 57, Indian actor, heart attack
  • John B. Nixon, 77, American convicted murderer, executed in Mississippi
  • William "Duke" Procter, 106, Canadian World War I veteran
  • Rodney William Whitaker, 74, British author, wrote under pseudonyms such as "Trevanian"
  • Will Wilson, 93, American politician, Attorney General of Texas (1957–1963).

    • 15

  • Maurice Beresford, 85, British economic historian and archaeologist.
  • James Ingo Freed, 75, American architect.
  • Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 84, Italian writer and director of movies and theatre.
  • Heinrich Gross, 90, Austrian alleged Nazi doctor and war criminal.
  • Walter Haut, 83, American retired U.S. Army lieutenant, central figure in the Roswell UFO incident in 1947.
  • Stan Leonard, 90, Canadian golfer, heart failure.
  • Julian Marías, 91, Spanish philosopher and father of author Javier Marías.
  • John McIntyre, 89, Scottish theologian.
  • Akira Ohgi, 70, Japanese baseball player and manager.
  • Jim Ostendarp, 82, American football coach at Amherst College for 33 years.
  • William Proxmire, 90, American politician, former Democratic Senator from Wisconsin (1957–1989), giver of the Golden Fleece Awards for wasteful government spending, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
  • Darrell Russell, 29, American former NFL player for the Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, car accident.

    • 16

  • Anthony Barber, 85, British politician and former Conservative Party Chancellor of the Exchequer, complications of Parkinson's disease.
  • Boyi Bhimanna, 94, Indian Telugu poet.
  • Kenneth Bulmer, 84, English writer (pseudonyms included Alan Burt Akers and Dray Prescot).
  • Joseph Owades, 86, American biochemist, inventor of light beer.
  • John Spencer, 58, American actor (The West Wing, The Rock), heart attack.
  • Sverre Stenersen, 79, Norwegian Gold medal winner in the 1956 Winter Olympics.
  • Enzo Stuarti, 86, Italian tenor, was in many Broadway musicals, heart failure.

    • 17

  • Jack Anderson, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, complications of Parkinson's disease.
  • Mustafa Ertan, 79, Turkish footballer.
  • Marc Favreau, 76, French Canadian television and film actor, best known for his creation of the clown Sol.
  • Jacques Fouroux, 58, French rugby union captain and coach, heart attack.
  • Haljand Udam, 69, Estonian translator and encyclopedist.

    • 18

  • Belita, 82, British skater, dancer and actress.
  • Doug Dye, 84, New Zealand microbiologist.
  • Howie Ferguson, 75, American former NFL player.
  • Doris Fisher, Baroness Fisher of Rednal, 86, British politician and peer.
  • Barry Halper, 66, American baseball memorabilia collector and limited partner for the New York Yankees.
  • Belita Jepson-Turner, 82, British Olympic skater and film actress.
  • John McIntyre, 89, Scottish theologian, moderator of the Church of Scotland's General Assembly (1982), former acting principal and professor of divinity of the University of Edinburgh.[32]
  • P.M. Sayeed, 64, Indian Minister of Power, heart attack.
  • Alan M. Voorhees, 83, American transportation engineer and city planner

    • 19

  • Billy Amstell, 94, British jazz musician.
  • Sir Charles Brett, 77, Northern Irish architectural historian.
  • George Bromilow, 74, British footballer at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
  • Keith Duckworth, 72, British automotive designer.
  • Vincent Gigante, 77, American Genovese family crime boss, heart disease.
  • Phyllis Gretzky, 64, Canadian mother of NHL legend Wayne Gretzky, lung cancer.
  • Julio Iglesias, Sr., 90, Spanish gynaecologist who is among the oldest men to have fathered a child (also Julio Iglesias's father and Enrique Iglesias's grandfather), heart attack.
  • Marjorie Kellogg, 83, American author and playwright (Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon).

    • 20

  • Raoul Bott, 82, Hungarian-born American Harvard mathematician, cancer.
  • Argentina Brunetti, 98, Argentine actress. (It's a Wonderful Life, The Caddy), writer, journalist.
  • Theodore Holmes Bullock, 90, American neuroscientist.
  • Bradford Cannon, 98, American plastic surgeon, pneumonia.
  • Genrikh Fedosov, 73, Soviet football player.
  • William W. Howells, 97, American anthropologist.
  • Billy Hughes, 57, American former child/film actor during the 1960s.
  • Graham Wilson, 66, Australian rugby league player.

    • 21

  • Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent, 90, Spanish officer of arms.
  • Myron Healey, 82, American film actor who normally played Western villains.
  • Elrod Hendricks, 64, U.S. Virgin Islander Baltimore Orioles coach, former MLB catcher, heart attack.
  • Hallam Tennyson, 85, British radio producer and great-grandson of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, suspected victim of murder.

    • 22

  • Richard Bellucci, 91, American ear surgeon and inventor.
  • Cooper Evans, 81, American politician, former Republican US Representative from Iowa from 1981–1987.
  • Aurora Miranda, 90, Brazilian entertainer, sister of Carmen Miranda; she appeared in The Three Caballeros (1945) in which she danced with Donald Duck.
  • Bill Scott, 82, Australian author.

    • 23

  • Lajos Baróti, 91, Hungarian football coach.
  • Selma Jeanne Cohen, 85, American dance historian, editor of The International Encyclopedia of Dance.
  • G. Blakemore Evans, 93, American Shakespeare scholar, author of The Riverside Shakespeare, stroke.
  • Truman Gibson, 93, American anti-segregation lawyer and boxing promoter.
  • Camille Gravel, 90, American lawyer and civil rights activist, advisor to three governors.
  • Harold Hallman, 43, Canadian football player.
  • Emmett Leith, 78, American electrical engineer.
  • Norman D. Vaughan, 100, American explorer and sportsman, part of Richard Byrd's 1928 South Pole expedition.[33]
  • Yao Wenyuan, 74, Chinese Communist political leader, member of the Gang of Four.

    • 24

  • Douglas H. Bigelow, 49, chief of web security at AOL, pancreatic cancer
  • Georg Johannesen, 74, Norwegian author and professor of rhetoric.
  • Constance Keene, 84, American classical pianist known for playing the romantic repertoire
  • Harold Lawton, 106, British academic and veteran of the First World War
  • Michael Vale, 83, American actor who appeared in over 1,300 commercials as the sleepy doughnut maker for Dunkin' Donuts from 1982–1997, diabetes.
  • Wang Daohan, 90, Chinese negotiator for People's Republic of China in cross-straits talks, who contributed to the formation of the 1992 Consensus with Koo Chen-fu from the Republic of China on Taiwan

    • 25

  • Felice Andreasi, 77, Italian actor.
  • Derek Bailey, 75, English free improvising avant-garde guitarist, motor neuron disease.
  • Robert Barbers, 61, Filipino politician, former Philippines senator, heart attack.
  • Bhanumathi, 80, Indian film actress, director, singer/songwriter.
  • Donald Dawson, 97, American lawyer, executive assistant to Harry S. Truman.
  • John Hayes, 76, British art historian and museum curator.
  • Henry Kock, 53, Canadian horticulturist and eco-activist, brain cancer.
  • Birgit Nilsson, 87, Swedish soprano.
  • Joseph Pararajasingham, 71, Sri Lankan politician and supporter of the Tamil Tiger rebels, shot and killed at a midnight Christmas Mass.
  • Roy Stuart, 70, American actor.

    • 26

  • Mikuláš Athanasov, 75, Czechoslovak wrestler.
  • Julian "Bud" Blake, 87, American cartoonist (Tiger).
  • Muriel Costa-Greenspon, 68, American mezzo-soprano at the New York City Opera for 30 years.
  • John Diebold, 79, American businessman, pioneering American computer engineer.
  • Ernesto Leal, 60, Nicaraguan politician, presidential chief of staff and former foreign minister of Nicaragua, pneumonia. (Spanish)
  • Kerry Packer, 68, Australian businessman, publishing, media and gaming tycoon, Australia's richest individual amassing a fortune of over $6 billion.
  • Vincent Schiavelli, 57, American actor (Ghost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), lung cancer.
  • John Taylor, 80, Canadian football player (St. Hyacinthe-Donnacona Navy and Montreal Alouettes).

    • 27

  • Stuart Alexander, 44, American businessman and murderer.
  • Philip N. Carney, 86, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
  • Xavier Connor, 88, Australian jurist, foundation judge of the Federal Court of Australia, President of the Australian Law Reform Commission 1985–1987.
  • Ted Ditchburn, 84, English football goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, England national football team).
  • Giancarlo Primo, 81, Italian basketball coach, the first to defeat National Teams USA and USSR in 1970s.
  • Erich Topp, 91, German U-boat commander in World War II.
  • Tokuji Wakasa, 91, Japanese businessman, former president of All Nippon Airways.

    • 28

  • Bruce Carver, 57, American video game developer.
  • Patrick Cranshaw, 86, American film and television actor
  • Richard De Angelis, 73, American comedian and actor (The Wire), congestive heart failure
  • Stevo Žigon, 79, Serbian actor and theatre director

    • 29

  • Armand Phillip Bartos, 95, American architect.
  • Gerda Boyesen, 83, Norwegian psychologist.
  • Dan Carnevale, 87, American baseball player.
  • Abuna Yesehaq Mandefro, 72, Ethiopian Orthodox Archbishop.
  • Eileen Nolan, 85, British Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps.
  • Elizabeth Parcells, 54, American operatic coloratura soprano.
  • Clint Sampson, 44, American football player.
  • Sir Eric Stroud, 81, British paediatrician.

    • 30

  • Eddie Barlow, 65, South African cricketer.
  • Candy Barr, 70, American exotic dancer, pneumonia.
  • Charles J. Bowles, 83, American physical education expert.
  • Pasquale Carpino, 69, Italian-born Canadian television chef and operatic singer.
  • Tory Dent, 47, American poet, essayist and art critic.
  • Rona Jaffe, 74, American novelist (The Best of Everything, Mazes and Monsters), cancer.
  • Fred "Jock" Smith, 79, Scottish footballer (Hull City, Sheffield United and Millwall).
  • Bobby Stevens, 98, American baseball player.

    • 31

  • Sanora Babb, 98, American writer.
  • Enrico Di Giuseppe, 73, American operatic tenor, cancer.
  • Maurice Dodd, 83, British cartoonist (The Perishers), brain haemorrhage.
  • Sir John Peel, 101, British gynaecologist.
  • Maclovia Ruiz, 95, American dancer, pneumonia.
  • David Silsoe, 75, British lawyer.
  • Phillip Whitehead, 68, British Labour Party MEP for Derby North, former television producer, heart attack.

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    Deaths in December 2005 Wikipedia
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