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Deaths in February 2004

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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2004.

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1

  • Art Albrecht, 82, American football player.
  • Buzz Gardner, 72, American trumpeter (The Mothers of Invention)
  • Ally MacLeod, 72, Scottish football player and manager.
  • Bob Stokoe, 73, English footballer, F.A. Cup winning manager.
  • 2

  • Alan Bullock, 89, British historian.
  • Henry Cockburn, 82, English footballer.
  • 3

  • Cornelius Bumpus, 58, American musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan).
  • Sam Fullbrook, 81, Australian artist.
  • Jason Raize, 28, American Broadway actor, singer and voice actor (The Lion King and Brother Bear).
  • 4

  • Hilda Hilst, 73, Brazilian novelist
  • Ernest Burke, 79, American baseball player
  • Johnny Leartice Robinson, 51, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Florida.
  • 5

  • Donald Barr, 82, American educator.
  • Sir Robert Boyd, 81, British space scientist.
  • Nicholas Evans, 97, Welsh artist.
  • Thomas Hinman Moorer, 91, American admiral, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  • Frances Partridge, 103, British writer, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group.
  • Samuel M. Rubin, 85, American concessionaire and businessman, popcorn promoter.
  • 6

  • Jerome F. Lederer, 101, American aviation safety pioneer.
  • Sir John Meyrick, 77, British rower and agriculturalist.
  • Humphry Osmond, 86, English psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter.
  • 7

  • Richard Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret, 67, British soldier and aristocrat.
  • Norman Thelwell, 80, English cartoonist.
  • 8

  • Walter Freud, 82, Austrian-born British World War II Special Operations agent and chemical engineer.
  • Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer
  • Julius Schwartz, 89, American comic book and pulp magazine editor
  • 9

  • Robert F. Colesberry, 57, American film and television producer (complications following cardiac surgery).
  • Michael Rowland, 41, American horse racing jockey.
  • Claude Ryan, 79, Canadian politician.
  • 10

  • Nils Aas, 70, Norwegian sculptor and illustrator
  • J. C. Quinn, 63, American Actor, traffic accident
  • 11

  • Hugh Cecil, 90, British actor, one of the transylvannians in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
  • Ryszard Kuklinski, 74, Polish-born colonel and spy.
  • Algernon Marsham, 84, English cricketer.
  • Tony Pope, 57, American voice actor, complications following leg surgery.
  • Jim Robertson, 93, British army general.
  • Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian athlete.
  • 12

  • Martin Booth, 59, British author, brain tumor.
  • Robert A. Bruce, 87, American cardiologist.
  • Leonard Dudman, 70, Scottish sportsman.
  • Preston Love, 83, American jazz saxophone player.
  • 13

  • Sir David Lee, 91, British Air Chief Marshal.
  • 14

  • Marco Pantani, 34, Italian racing cyclist, winner of Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in 1998
  • 15

  • Jens Evensen, 86, Norwegian minister, World Court judge.
  • Jan Miner, 86, American actress.
  • Lawrence Ritter, 81, American writer.
  • 16

  • Don Cleverley, 94, New Zealand cricketer.
  • Bill Oakley, 39, American comic book letterer.
  • Doris Troy, 67, American R&B singer.
  • 17

  • José López Portillo, 83, Mexican politician and lawyer former President of Mexico
  • Cameron Todd Willingham, 36, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Texas.
  • 18

  • Jean Rouch, 86, French filmmaker and ethnologist.
  • Ivor Stanbrook, 84, British politician.
  • 19

  • Clark Byers, 88-89, American sign maker
  • Archibald Paton Thornton, 83, Canadian historian
  • 20

  • Fred Brown, 79, British virologist.
  • Kōyū Ohara, 69, Japanese film director.
  • Ted Paige, 73, British physicist and engineer.
  • Stanislaw Ryniak, 88, Polish political prisoner, first person imprisoned at Auschwitz. (Feb 20 is burial date).
  • 21

  • Guido Molinari, 70, Canadian abstract artist.
  • Bart Howard, 88, American composer, "Fly Me To The Moon".
  • John Charles, 72, Welsh football player.
  • 22

  • Colin Eaborn, 80, British chemist.
  • Roque Máspoli, 86, Uruguayan goalkeeper.
  • David Neiman, 82, Russian-born American rabbi, archaeologist and theologian.
  • Azriel Rosenfeld, 73, American computer image analysis researcher.
  • Andy Seminick, 83, American baseball player, MLB catcher and last survivor of the 1950. Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" that won the National League championship.
  • 23

  • Vijay Anand, 71, Indian Bollywood filmmaker and brother of Dev Anand..
  • Carl Anderson, 58, American actor (Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar).
  • Neil Ardley, 66, British jazz composer.
  • Sikander Bakht, 85, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala.
  • William Coates, 92, American claimant supercentenarian, asserted by advocates to be "oldest living American" but documentation showed otherwise
  • Don Cornell, 84, American singer of the 1940s and 1950s.
  • Douglas Scott Falconer, 90, British geneticist.
  • Carl Liscombe, 89, Canadian Detroit Red Wings hockey player in the 1940s.
  • Bob Marshall, 93, Australian billiards player.
  • 24

  • John Randolph, 88, American actor
  • 25

  • Yuri Ozerov, 75, Russian basketball player
  • 26

  • Douglas Birks, 84, English cricketer, myeloma
  • Shankarrao Chavan, 83, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
  • Adolf Ehrnrooth, 99, Finnish general, war veteran.
  • Boris Trajkovski, 47, Macedonian politician, President of the Republic of Macedonia
  • 27

  • Paul Sweezy, 93, American Marxian economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review
  • 28

  • Daniel J. Boorstin, 89, American historian.
  • M. G. Mukherjee, Indian cricket umpire.
  • Andres Nuiamäe, 21, Estonian soldier, first Estonian soldier to be killed in Iraq.
  • Nicholas Vivian, 6th Baron Vivian, 68, British soldier and aristocrat.
  • 29

  • Alexander Beresch, 26, Ukrainian Olympic gymnast.
  • Jerome Lawrence, 88, American playwright and author.
  • Danny Ortiz, 27, Guatemalan football goalkeeper
  • References

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