The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2004.
William Manchester, 82, U.S. historian.Mujeeb Aalam, 56, Pakistani playback singer.Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer.Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, c. 69, Ethiopian general, former defense minister and acting president of Ethiopia.Nicolai Ghiaurov, 71, Bulgarian opera singer.Quorthon, 38, Swedish musician, Bathory founder.Joe Carr, 82, Irish golfer.Frances Shand Kydd, 68, English mother of Diana, Princess of Wales.Wilmer Fields, 81, American baseball player, former Negro League Baseball All-Star.Steve Lacy, 69, American jazz soprano saxophonist.Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer .(canada.com) (Toronto Star) (The Globe and Mail)Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor. [1]T. M. Samarasinghe, 61, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.Jack Foster, 72, British-born New Zealand athlete.Ronald Reagan, 93, American film actor and 40th President of the United States (1981–1989).Judy Campbell, 88, English actress.Kate Worley, 46, American comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer).Necdet Mahfi Ayral, 96, Turkish actor.Iona Brown, 63, British violinist and conductor.Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman/journalist, working for the BBC in Saudi Arabia, killed by Al Qaeda.Joseph L. Doob, 94, American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory.Don Potter, 102, British sculptor.Eugene Raskin, 94, American musician and playwright.Donald Trumbull, 95, American special effects pioneer.Mack Jones, 65, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball outfielder with the Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos.Humayun Khan, 27, American soldier serving in the Iraq War.Roderick Macleod, 95, Canadian politician.Ronalda Pierce, 19, American Florida State University basketball player, aneurysm.Bob Schmitz, 65, American football player and scout (Pittsburgh Steelers).Rosey Brown, 71, American football player, Pro Football Hall of Famer.Robert MacDonald Ford, 93, American politician and insurance agent.Ted Martin, 101, Australian cricketer and cententarian.Ralph Moody, 86, American NASCAR driver and team owner.Barbara Whiting Smith, 73, American actress.Brian Williamson, 58, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered.Ray Charles, 73, American rhythm and blues singer and soul music pioneer.Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications.Xenophon Zolotas, 100, Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister (1989–1990).Egon von Furstenberg, 57, Swiss-born aristocratic and designer, nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli.Joyce Symons, 85, Hong Kong educator.Geoffrey Thompson, 67, British businessman and owner of Blackpool Pleasure Beach, aneurysm.Dorothy Lavinia Brown, 85, American surgeon and politician.Danny Dark, 65, American announcer.Dick Durrance, 89, American alpine ski racer, 17-time national champion.Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, British philosopher.Robert Lees, 91, American screenwriter, found decapitated.Ralph Wiley, 52, American sports journalist.Robert Teeter, 65, American Republican pollster.Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher.Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, Swiss mountain guide.Max Rosenberg, 89, American producer of horror movies.J. Gwyn Griffiths, 92, Welsh poet and Egyptologist.Frank Nastasi, 81, American actor and comedian (Lunch with Soupy).Ahmet Piriştina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir, heart attack.John Lasarus Williams, 79, Welsh nationalist activist.Barry Cowan, 56, Northern Irish broadcaster.Albert Fischer, 84, German jurist.Herman Goldstine, 90, American computer scientist (ENIAC), Parkinson's disease.Thanom Kittikachorn, 91, Thai military dictator, former Thai prime minister.Hilda Thompson, 85, New Zealand cricketerVilayat Inayat Khan, 87, British Sufist.Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman.Gerry McNeil, 78, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup-winning National Hockey League goaltender.Steven Oken, 42, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Maryland.Frederick Jaeger, 76, German-born British character actor.Paul Johnson, c. 49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda.Nek Mohammed, c. 27, Pakistani tribal leader in Waziristan and key Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces. [2]Colin McCormack, 62, Welsh actor.Nob Yoshigahara, 68, Japanese mathematician and puzzle expert.Nabil Sahraoui, 37, Algerian militant, head of GSPC and linked to al-Qaeda.Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania.Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure. [3]Ted Scott, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate.Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer.Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist.Francisco Ortiz Franco, 50, Mexican journalist, murdered.Carlton Skinner, 91, American naval officer and politician, first civilian governor of Guam.Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy.Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants.Doris Thompson, 101, British businesswoman and owner of Blackpool Pleasure Beach.Morton W. Coutts, 100, New Zealand scientist.Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, 40, Greek songwriter, author.Carl Rakosi, 100, American poet.Peter Wragg, 73, British footballer.Karol Kennedy Kucher, 72, American ice skating champion, pneumonia.Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress.William H. Avery, 91, American aeronautical engineer.Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter.Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer.Hugh B. Cave, 93, British writer.George Patton IV, 80, US Army general and son of George Patton.Darrell Russell, 35, American National Hot Rod Association drag racer, first racer killed at an NHRA event since 1996.Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books.Keith "Matt" Maupin, 20, American U.S. Army Private First Class, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq.David A. Thomas, 86, American educator.Juan Antonio Lopez, 52, Mexican boxer, fought Wilfredo Gómez, leukemia. 