The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2004.
Enrique Mederos, Mexican voice actor.Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke.Marlon Brando, 80, American actor (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), pulmonary fibrosis.Sir Richard May, 65, British former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.Jeillo Edwards, 61, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill". [1]Sir John Kay, 60, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal.John Cullen Murphy, 85, American comic strip artist (Prince Valiant).Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet.Gareth Payne, 68, Welsh rugby union international player.Sky Beauty, 14, American thoroughbred.John Barron, 83, English actor.Michael Curtis, 84, British newspaper editor and executive. [2]Jimmy Mack, 70, Scottish radio personality. [3]James Marshall Sprouse, 80, American federal judge.Lionel Van Brabant, 77, Belgian Olympic cyclistJean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor.Andrian Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut.Frank Robinson, British street entertainer.Robert Burchfield, 81, English lexicographer, Oxford English Dictionary editor.Hugh Shearer, 81, Jamaican politician and trade unionist, former Prime Minister of Jamaica.John Stozich, 77, American politician.Rodger Ward, 83, American racecar driver, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion.Peter Birks, 62, British academic lawyer.Eric Douglas, 46, American actor and comedian, youngest son of Kirk Douglas.Thomas Klestil, 71, Austrian diplomat and politician, Federal President of Austria, heart failure.Syreeta Wright, 58, American singer and songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder.Barry Simon, 68, Australian politician.Xiaokai Yang, 55, Australian economist.Paula Danziger, 59, American author.Ernst R. G. Eckert, 99, American scientist.Albert Friedlander, 77, German rabbi.Jaroslav Hules, 30, Czech motorcycle racer, suicide.Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor.Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé, 82, French banker and socialite.Mike Woodin, 38, British Principal Speaker of Green Party of England and Wales and Oxford City Councillor.Paul Klebnikov, 41, American journalist and historian, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered.Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright.Riley Dobi Noel, 31, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Arkansas.Bill Randle, 81, American disc jockey.Isabel Sanford, 86, American actress, The Jeffersons, natural causes.Jeff Smith, 65, American chef and host of The Frugal Gourmet.Rudy LaRusso, 66, American basketball player, five-time National Basketball Association All-Star.Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, Portuguese chemical engineer and politician, former Prime Minister of Portugal. [4]Inge Meysel, 94, German actress. [5]Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress.Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress.Ram Charan Mehrotra, 82, Indian chemist and educationalist.Betty Oliphant, 85, English founder of Canada's National Ballet School.Laurance Rockefeller, 94, American businessman, conservationist and philanthropist.Walter Wager, 79, American author.Ersel Hickey, 70, American rockabilly singer.George Mallaby, 64, Australian actor.Joe Gold, 82, American bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder.Clifford Irving, 90, Manx politician.Arthur Kane, 53, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia.Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor.Betty Luna, 77, American baseball player.Michio Morishima, 80, Japanese economist.Richard Jones, 87, English cricketer.Hans A. Pestalozzi, 75, Swiss social critic.Alex Willoughby, 59, Scottish footballer (Rangers, Aberdeen).Arnold Ziff, 77, English businessman and philanthropist.Banoo Jehangir Coyaji, 86, Indian doctor and family planning activist. [6]Charles Sweeney, 84, American U.S. Army Air Forces officer, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb. [7]Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano. [8]George Busbee, 76, American politician, former governor of Georgia.Frank Farmer, 91, English physicist.Bella Lewitzky, 88, American modern dance pioneer and choreographer.Paul Hilmar Jensen, 74, Norwegian philatelist.Khalil Hilmi, 94/95, Lebanese Olympic sport shooter.Sir Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur, founder of the Carlyle Trust bank. [9]Pat Roach, 67, English wrestler and actor, cancer. ([10])Susan Cullen-Ward, 63, Australian-born wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu; cancer.Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner.Eoin McKiernan, 91, American expert on Irish history.Émile Peynaud, 92, French wine expert.Harry Forsyth, 100, Irish cricketer and centenarian.Kazi Abul Kasem, 91, Bangladeshi polymath.Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer, one of the last survivor of national team in 1930 FIFA World Cup.Woodrow Sedlacek, 85, American racehorse trainer.Zenko Suzuki, 93, Japanese politician, former Prime Minister of Japan.David A. Wallace, 87, American urban planner.Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish Flamenco dancer, cancer.Adi Lady Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady, widow of Prime Minister and President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.James Williams, 53, American jazz pianist.Jerry Goldsmith, 75, American movie and television composer (Star Trek).Edward B. Lewis, 85, American biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995).Neal A. Maxwell, 78, American member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Michael Prior, 62, Irish-born British theologian.Sir Julian Ridsdale, 89, British politician.Sacha Distel, 71, French singer.Hume Horan, 69, American diplomat.Illinois Jacquet, 81, United States jazz saxophonist.George Kidd, 87, Canadian diplomat.Joe Cahill, 84, Irish politician. [11]Janet Chisholm, 75, British MI6 agent during the Cold War.Sir Alan Cook, 81, British physicist.Mehmood, 72, Indian actor.Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player.Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor.Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons, 72, American NBA basketball coach.Clive Geary, 82, New Zealand cricketerFred LaRue, 75, American part of Watergate scandal.Ben Martin, 83, American football player and coach.Edward D. Thalmann, 59, American hyperbaric medicine specialist, retired U.S. Navy Captain and doctor whose research developed military and recreational dive tables, congestive heart failure.Francisco Romão, 61, Angolan deputy foreign minister, suicide. [12]William A. Mitchell, 92, American food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix.Rubén Gómez, 77, Puerto Rican baseball player, former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins.Oğuz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist, creator of Avanak Avni, Kostebek Husnu, and Utanmaz Adam.Sidney Francis Greene, Lord Greene of Harrow Weald, 94, British life peer, trade union leader and railroad worker.Carmine G. DeSapio, 95, American politician, last boss of Tammany Hall.Bob Tisdall, 97, Irish athlete, won the gold medal in hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics.Juhani Avellan, 58, Finnish Olympic weightlifter. [13]Jackson Beck, 92, American announcer and voice actor.Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer. [14]Alexei de Keyser, 36, British television producer.Sam Edwards, 89, American actor, Little House on the Prairie, heart failure. [15]Margo McLennan, 66, British actress, Prisoner, cancer. [16]Steve Patterson, 56, American basketball player, former center of the UCLA basketball team, coach at Arizona State University and founder of the Grand Canyon State Games.Eugene Roche, 75, American character actor and the "Ajax" Man.Tiziano Terzani, 65, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia.David Bowden, 66, Australian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Bendigo (1995–2002).Susan Buffett, 71, American estranged wife of billionaire/investment guru Warren Buffett.Nafisa Joseph, 25, Indian model, MTV video jockey, Miss India 1997; suicide.Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedian.Andre Noble, 25, Canadian actor.Ali Abbasi, 42, Pakistani-born BBC Scotland travel presenter. [17]Laura Betti, 70, Italian actress.Virginia Grey, 87, American actress. Little Eva in the first film adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin.Elder David B. Haight, 97, American oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Líber Seregni, 87, Uruguayan army officer and politician.Ray Tolchard, 50, English cricketer and umpire. 