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Deaths in February 2005

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

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  • Edward D. Freis, 92, American physician.
  • Edward Hay, 13th Marquess of Tweeddale, 57, Scottish aristocrat.
  • Anderl Heckmair, 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger north face.
  • Franco Mannino, 80, Italian film and classical composer.
  • John Vernon, 72, Canadian-born American based film and TV actor (Animal House, The Outlaw Josey Wales), following heart surgery.
  • Sir Jean-Pierre Warner, 80, British jurist.
  • Richard Wolfson, 49, British musician and journalist.

    • 2

  • Birgitte Federspiel, 79, Swedish actress (Babette's Feast, 1988).
  • Svein Kvia, 57, Norwegian footballer.
  • Magomed Omarov, Russian politician, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan.
  • Max Schmeling, 99, German world heavyweight boxing champion.
  • Sir Edward Wright, 98, British mathematician.

    • 3

  • Corrado Bafile, 101, Italian cardinal.
  • David Hönigsberg, 45, South African composer and conductor.
  • Ernst Mayr, 100, German-born American evolutionary biologist.
  • James P. Sutton, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from Tennessee (1949–1955). [1]
  • Raul Usupov, Georgian politician and deputy governor of the Kvemo Kartli region.
  • Zurab Zhvania, 41, Georgian politician, Prime Minister of Georgia.

    • 4

  • Sir Rupert Clarke, 3rd Baronet, 85, Australian soldier and businessman.
  • Ossie Davis, 87, American actor and activist, natural causes.
  • Nils Egerbrandt, 78, Swedish cartoonist.
  • Luis Sánchez, 51, Venezuelan baseball player, former major league closer for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. [2]

    • 5

  • Laurie Aarons, 87, Australian politician.
  • Otto Edler von Ballasko, 85, German World War II bomber pilot.
  • Bob Brannum, 79, American basketball player.
  • Jean-Charles Cantin, 86, Canadian politician.
  • Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 67, Togolese politician, president of Togo since 1967.
  • Bob McAdorey, 69, Canadian television and radio broadcaster.
  • Val O'Donovan, 69, Canadian businessman and university administrator.
  • Günter Reimann, 100, German economist.
  • Michalina Wisłocka, 84, Polish sexologist.

    • 6

  • Billy Baker, 84, Welsh footballer.
  • Uma Shankar Bajpai, 83, Indian diplomat and journalist.
  • Lazar Berman, 74, Russian classical pianist.
  • Elbert N. Carvel, 94, American politician, Governor of Delaware.
  • Hubert Curien, 80, French researcher, first president of European Space Agency.
  • Camilo Delgado, 77, Puerto Rican television show host.
  • Vasily Fedin, 78, Soviet Olympic cyclist.
  • Karl Haas, 91, US classical music radio program host.
  • Merle Kilgore, 70, American country music manager and songwriter.

    • 7

  • Penelope Aitken, 94, English socialite and political hostess, cancer.
  • Atli Dam, 72, Faroese politician, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
  • Vinod Chandra Pande, 72, Indian political figure, former governor of three states.
  • John Patterson, 64, American television and film director.
  • Madeleine Rebérioux, 84, French historian.
  • Paul Rebeyrolle, 78, French painter.
  • Jeremy Swan, 82, Irish cardiologist, co-inventor of the Swan-Ganz heart catheter.

    • 8

  • Gildo Arena, 83, Italian water polo player and swimmer.
  • Mike Bishop, 46, American baseball player.
  • Helmut Eder, 88, Austrian composer.
  • George Herman, 85, American journalist and moderator of CBS' Face the Nation for 15 years.
  • Óli B. Jónsson, 86, Icelandic football player and manager.
  • Keith Knudsen, 56, American drummer for rock band Doobie Brothers, pneumonia.
  • Gaston Rahier, 58, Belgian 125cc Motocross World Champion (1975–1977).
  • Jimmy Smith, 76, American jazz organist.

    • 9

  • Tim Breslin, 37, American ice hockey player.
  • William L. Campbell, 59, Canadian film editor.
  • Tyrone Davis, 66, American R&B singer (Turn Back The Hands Of Time), complications of a stroke.
  • Antoine de Margerie, 63, French abstract painter.
  • John Fincham, 78, British geneticist.
  • Robert Kearns, 77, American inventor of intermittent windshield wipers. [3]
  • Kate Peyton, 39, British BBC producer, shot in Mogadishu, Somalia. (BBC)

    • 10

  • Humbert Balsan, 50, French film producer.
  • D. Allan Bromley, 79, Canadian-born American physicist, presidential advisor.
  • Jean Cayrol, 93, French author.
  • Dave Goodman, 53, British music producer.
  • Ben Jones, 80, Grenadian politician, former prime minister and foreign minister of Grenada.
  • Arthur Miller, 89, American playwright, congestive heart failure.
  • Frederick W. Mote, 82, American sinologist.
  • Sylvia Rafael, 67, South African-born Israeli Mossad agent convicted of 1973 Lillehammer murder.

    • 11

  • Samuel W. Alderson, 90, American inventor of crash test dummies. [4]
  • Jack L. Chalker, 60, American science fiction writer.
  • Raymond Hermantier, 81, French actor.
  • Denis Ormerod, 82, British army officer.
  • James Porter, 70, American Catholic priest and child molester.
  • Stan Richards, 74, British actor.

    • 12

  • Manela Bustamante, 80, Cuban actress.
  • Archie Butterworth, 92, British racing driver and designer.
  • Marinus van der Goes van Naters, 104, Dutch politician.
  • Brian Kelly, 72, American actor, pneumonia.
  • Keith Kildey, 85, Australian cricketer.
  • Sammi Smith, 61, American country music singer, won Grammy for Help Me Make It Through the Night.
  • Dorothy Stang, 74, American nun, murdered in Anapu, Brazil.
  • Rafael Vidal, 41, Venezuelan Olympic medalist, car crash.

    • 13

  • Samineni Arulappa, 80, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop.
  • Harry Baird, 73, Guyanese-born British actor.
  • Nelson Briles, 61, American baseball pitcher.
  • Sixten Ehrling, 86, Swedish conductor.
  • Mary Hallaren, 97, American soldier, first woman to join the United States Army.
  • Emilios T. Harlaftis, 39, Greek astrophysicist.
  • Lúcia dos Santos, 97, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three shepherd children of the Fatima apparition in 1917.
  • Maurice Trintignant, 87, French racing driver, twice winner of the Monaco Grand Prix.
  • Peter White, 69, Australian politician.

    • 14

  • Owen A. Allred, 91, American leader of the Apostolic United Brethren.
  • Ron Burgess, 87, Welsh footballer with Tottenham Hotspur and Wales.
  • Vic Emery, 84, Australian cricketer. [5]
  • Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, 85, Greek novelist and journalist.
  • Rafik Hariri, 60, Lebanese business tycoon and politician, twice Prime Minister of Lebanon, car bomb.
  • Aubelin Jolicoeur, 81, Haitian journalist and columnist.
  • Otto Plaschkes, 75, British movie producer, including Georgy Girl.
  • Najai Turpin, 23, American boxer, participant in boxing reality show "The Contender", suicide.
  • Dick Weber, 75, American professional bowler, father of Pete Weber.

    • 15

  • Carlo Tullio Altan, 88, Italian anthropologist and sociologist.
  • Pierre Bachelet, 60, French singer.
  • Samuel T. Francis, 57, U.S. political columnist.
  • Dudu Geva, 54, Israeli cartoonist.
  • Paul Lacy, 81, U.S. research scientist, father of islet cell transplantation for treatment of Type I diabetes.
  • David Leach, 93, English potter.
  • João Santos, 90, Portuguese former president of S.L. Benfica.

    • 16

  • Michael Aikman, 71, Australian rower.
  • Hans von Blixen-Finecke Jr., 88, Swedish Olympic equestrian.
  • Nicole DeHuff, 31, American actress, Meet the Parents, pneumonia.
  • Narriman Sadek (Nariman Sadeq), 70, Egyptian queen, ex-wife of King Farouk, last queen of Egypt.
  • Marcello Viotti, 50, Italian conductor.
  • Gerry Wolff, 84, German actor.
  • Cecilia Cubas, 32, Paraguayan daughter of former President Raúl Cubas Grau, kidnap victim (body found).

    • 17

  • Dennis Bagwell, 41, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
  • F. M. Busby, 83, American science fiction writer.
  • Peter Foy, 79, American theatrical flying effects specialist.
  • Jens Martin Knudsen, 74, Danish astrophysicist.
  • César Marcelak, 92, French cycling champion.
  • Dan O'Herlihy, 85, Irish film actor.
  • Omar Sivori, 69, Argentinian and Italian footballer.
  • Harald Szeemann, 71, Swiss curator and art historian.

    • 18

  • Avraham Biton, 81, Israeli politician.
  • Brian Cookman, 58, British musician.
  • Uli Derickson, 60, German-born American airline stewardess, protagonist in 1985 airplane hijacking.
  • Marian Kamil Dziewanowski, 91, Polish-born American historian.
  • Robert R. Merhige, Jr., 86, U.S. district court judge.

    • 19

  • Cardon V. Burnham, 77, American musician.
  • Angel M. Marchand, 92, Puerto Rican clinician and Olympic sport shooter
  • Kihachi Okamoto (岡本喜八), 81, Japanese film director, esophageal cancer
  • Giuseppe Piromalli, 83, Italian 'Ndrangheta boss
  • Peter Pryor, 74, Australian Olympic cyclist

    • 20

  • Rachel Bissex, 48, American folk singer/songwriter.
  • Pam Bricker, 50, American jazz vocalist and music professor, suicide.
  • Julius D. Canns, 82, American politician.
  • Sandra Dee, 62, American actress (Gidget), kidney failure and pneumonia.
  • Sir William Gordon Harris, 92, British civil engineer.
  • Dalene Matthee, 67, Afrikaans-South African author, heart failure.
  • Raymond Mhlaba, 85, South African political leader.
  • John Raitt, 88, American classic Broadway star and father of Bonnie Raitt, pneumonia.
  • Hunter S. Thompson, 67, American journalist, suicide.
  • Jimmy Young, 56, American boxer, heart failure.

    • 21

  • Zdzisław Beksiński, 75, Polish artist.
  • Ara Berberian, 74, American Bass with the New York City Metropolitan Opera.
  • Gérard Bessette, 84, Canadian writer and academic.
  • Isabelle Goldenson, 84, American co-founder of United Cerebral Palsy.
  • Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 75, Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, exiled to London.
  • Roger Johnson, 70, American businessman and government official.
  • Josef Metternich, 89, German operatic baritone.
  • Gene Scott, 75, U.S. televangelist and author.
  • Don Tolhurst, 75, Australian Olympic shooter.
  • Ernest Vandiver, 86, American politician, former governor of the U.S. state of Georgia (1959–1963).

    • 22

  • David Bradford, 66, American economist.
  • Leo Brewer, 85, American chemist.
  • John A. Dillon, 81-82, American physicist.
  • Father Luigi Giussani, 82, Italian Catholic priest, founder of the "Communion and Liberation" Catholic youth movement.
  • Lee Eun-ju (이은주), 24, Korean actress, suicide.
  • Mario Ricci, 90, Italian cyclist.
  • Reggie Roby, 43, American college and professional football player, retired NFL punter.
  • Harry Simeone, 94, American music arranger, conductor and composer, co-authored Christmas songs (Little Drummer Boy).
  • Simone Simon, 94, French actress.

    • 23

  • Sir John Carter, 86, Guyanese diplomat.
  • Tom Patterson, 84, Canadian founder of the Stratford Festival of Canada.
  • Henk Zeevalking, 82, Dutch politician.

    • 24

  • John Barron, 75, American journalist.
  • Jochen Bleicken, 78, German ancient historian.
  • Thadée Cisowski, 78, Polish-born French footballer, scored 206 goals in the French top division.
  • Robin Jenkins, 92, Scottish novelist, author of "The Cone-Gatherers" and "Fergus Lamont".
  • Hugh Nibley, 94, American historian, primarily concerned with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • Gustavo Vázquez Montes, 42, Mexican politician, incumbent governor of Colima, Mexico, aviation accident.
  • Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 82, German politician and former cabinet minister.

    • 25

  • Abdullah Badran, 21, Palestinian suicide bomber.
  • Peter Benenson, 83, British lawyer and founder of Amnesty International.
  • Ben Bowen, 2, American child cancer victim, focus of fund raising initiative.
  • Phoebe Hesketh, 96, British poet.
  • Don LeJohn, 70, American baseball player, former Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman.
  • Norberto "Pappo" Napolitano, 54, Argentine blues and rock n' roll guitarist and composer.
  • Tony Norris, 88, British ornithologist.
  • Edward Patten, 66, American soul singer, member of Gladys Knight & The Pips.
  • Atef Sedki, 74, Egyptian politician, former prime minister of Egypt.
  • Sir Glanmor Williams, 84, Welsh historian.

    • 26

  • Denise Berthoud, 88, Swiss lawyer.
  • Max Faulkner, 88, British golfer.
  • Henry Grunwald, 82, Austrian-born journalist and diplomat, former managing editor of TIME and U.S. ambassador to Austria (1988–1990).
  • Witness Mangwende, 59, Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1981–1987)
  • Jef Raskin, 61, American creator of the Apple Macintosh, pancreatic cancer.
  • Johnny Williams, 77, American football player.

    • 27

  • James Avati, 92, American illustrator.
  • Carl Taseff, 76, American football player, former NFL defensive back and assistant coach.

    • 28

  • Chris Curtis, 63, English drummer with The Searchers.
  • Louis Frommelt, 61, Liechtenstein Olympic shooter.
  • Mario Luzi, 90, Italian poet.
  • Édouard Stern, 50, French banker, murdered.

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