Deaths in June 2005

1

Dmitri Bystrov, 37, Russian footballer.

Josephine Clay Ford, 81, American Ford Motor Company heiress and prominent philanthropist.

George Mikan, 80, American basketball Hall of Famer.

Geoffrey Toone, 94, British-based Irish actor.

2

Isabel Aretz, 96, Argentine musician.

Lucio España, 33, Colombian footballer, murdered.

Samir Kassir, 45, Lebanese journalist who supported democracy, assassinated.

Mike Marshall, 60, French-American actor, known for role in Moonraker.

Melita Norwood, 93, British who spied for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Alan Williams, 77, British economist.

3

Leon Askin, 97, Austrian actor.

Radomir Belaćević, 75, Serbian film producer and writer.

Teodoro Benigno, 82, Filipino journalist.

Michael Billington, 63, British actor.

Harold Cardinal, 60, Canadian Cree writer, lung cancer.

Nzo Ekangaki, 71, Cameroonian politician.

Alex Freeleagus, 77, Australian diplomat and lawyer.

4

Paul Amen, 88, American sportsman and banker.

Chloe Jones, 29, American adult film star.

Banks McFadden, 88, American football player, College Football Hall of Famer and former Clemson football player.

André Molitor, 93/4, Belgian civil servant, principal private secretary to King Baudouin I.

Jean O'Leary, 57, American gay and lesbian rights activist and politician.

Yin Shun, 99, Chinese Buddhist philosopher.

Lorna Thayer, 86, American character actress (Five Easy Pieces), Alzheimer's disease.

5

Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, 55, Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician. [2]

Pepita Carpeña, 85, Spanish trade unionist and anarchist. [3]

George Isaak, 72, Australian phyicist. [4]

Oscar Morelli, 59, Mexican actor, after lengthy illness

Susi Nicoletti, 86, Austrian film actress, complications from heart surgery.

6

Eduardo P. Archetti, 62, Argentine social scientist.

Anne Bancroft, 73, American Oscar-winning actress (The Miracle Worker, The Graduate), uterine cancer.

Dana Elcar, 77, American film, stage and television actor.

Pamela May, 88, British ballet dancer.

David Sutherland, 56, American illustrator for the original Dungeons & Dragons books.

7

Pater Barry, 67, Australian rules footballer.

Margaret Baxtresser, 82, American concert pianist.

Seán Doherty, 60, Irish politician.

Terry Long, 45, American professional football player, former NFL offensive lineman.

Edward Anthony McCarthy, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, second Archbishop of Miami.

8

Ed Bishop, 72, American actor.

Arthur Dunkel, 72, Portuguese-Swiss GATT director-general.

9

Allan Ashbolt, 83, Australian journalist.

Richard Eberhart, 101, American poet.

Ryan Alan Hade, 23, American sexual assault victim, whose case paved the way for laws allowing indefinite confinement of sexual predators, motorcycle accident.

10

Michèle Auclair, 80, French violinist.

J. James Exon, 83, American politician, former Democratic United States Senator (1979–1997) and Governor of Nebraska (1971–1979).

Curtis Pitts, 89, American designer of the Pitts Special and other aircraft.

Kenneth N. Taylor, 88, American publisher and author, founder of Tyndale House Publishers and translator of The Living Bible.

11

Francesco Albanese, 92, Italian opera singer.

Anne-Marie Alonzo, 53, Canadian writer.

Gordon Baxter, 81, American radio personality.

José Beyaert, 79, French cyclist.

Audrey Brown, 92, British athlete.

Robert Clarke, 85, American actor.

Ghena Dimitrova, 64, Bulgarian opera singer.

Lon McCallister, 82, American actor.

Ron Randell, 86, Australian-born actor.

Juan José Saer, 67, Argentine novelist.

Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 84, Portuguese General, Prime Minister (1974–1975).

12

Bryan Beaumont, 66, Australian jurist.

Sonja Davies, 81, New Zealand trade unionist.

Brandy Davis, 77, American baseball player.

Makobo Modjadji, 27, South African rain queen of the Balobedu people of South Africa.

Scott Young, 87, Canadian journalist and father of Neil Young.

13

Joan Abse, 78, English writer and art historian.

Jonathan Adams, 74, British actor (Dr. von Scott, The Rocky Horror Picture Show).

Gerard Béhague, 67, French-born American ethnomusicologist.

Álvaro Cunhal, 91, Portuguese politician, secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (1961–1992), deputy (1975–1992), writer and painter. [5]

Eugénio de Andrade, 82, Portuguese poet.

David Diamond, 89, American composer.

Christopher Spencer Foote, 70, American chemist.

Lane Smith, 69, American actor (My Cousin Vinny, Lois & Clark).

14

Félix Acosta-Núñez, 81, Dominican Republic sports journalist.

Carlo Maria Giulini, 91, Italian conductor.

Norman Levine, 81, Canadian writer.

Mimi Parent, 80, Canadian surrealist painter.

Douglas Thollar, 86, Australian cricketer

15

Percy Arrowsmith, 105, English one-half of the world's documented longest marriage.

Rodrigo Asturias, 65, Guatemalan guerilla leader and politician, heart attack.

Valeria Moriconi, 73, Italian actress, cancer.

Kathi Norris, 86, American television hostess, hosted one of the first TV talk shows on the DuMont Television Network, (The Kathi Norris Show, also known as Your TV Shopper, 1948–1950); mother of actress Koo Stark.

16

Corino Andrade, 99, Portuguese neurologist, discovered Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP).

Billy Bauer, 89, American jazz guitarist.

Gerald Davis, 88, British philatelist.

Enrique Laguerre, 99, Puerto Rican writer, poet, and teacher.

Ross Stretton, 53, Australian ballet dancer and artistic director of Australian Ballet.[6]

James Weinstein, 78, American Jewish author, founder and publisher of In These Times.

17

David Anderson, 65, Australian cricketer.

Nanna Ditzel, 81, Danish furniture and interior designer.

William N. Fenton, 96, American scholar known for writings on the Iroquois.

Trevor Jones, 85, English cricketer.

Keith Morris, 66, English photographer.

Karl Mueller, 41, American founding bassist for the rock band Soul Asylum, throat cancer.

Mikhail Stern, 86/7, Soviet endocrinologist and dissident.

James A. Whyte, 85, Scottish theologian.

Ronald Winans, 48, American Grammy-winning gospel singer.

18

Syed Mushtaq Ali, 90, Indian cricketer, (batsman/captain), Padma Shree Award winner.

Gerald Davis, Irish painter and Joycean scholar.

Tony Diment, 78, English cricketer.

Cay Forrester, 83, American writer/film actress (DOA, etc.)

Basil Kirchin, 77, British musician.

J. J. Pickle, 91, American politician, former Democratic U.S. Congressional Representative from Texas (1963–1995).

Manuel Sadosky, 91, Argentine mathematician, father of Argentina's computer science studies and former Secretary of State of Science and Technology (1983–1989).

19

Frank Alexander, 94, Australian cricketer.

Allan Beckett, 91, British engineer.

Alfred Deakin Brookes, 85, Australian intelligence officer.

Robert Ellis Cahill, 70, American folklorist and author.

Dave Carr, 48, English footballer.

Ray Parkin, 94, Australian writer.

Georgie Woods, 78, American radio broadcast "legend", due to be inducted into the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.

20

Larry Collins, 75, American writer

Charles D. Keeling, 77, American scientist whose pioneering measurements showed a carbon dioxide buildup in the earth's atmosphere

Jack Kilby, 81, American engineer, inventor of the integrated circuit and physics Nobel prize winner.

William López, 26, Salvadoran footballer, shot.

Bernard Adolph Schriever, 94, U.S. Air Force general, regarded as the father and architect of the United States Air Force space and ballistic missile programs.

21

Peter Bridgwater, 70, American soccer executive.

Steven F. Gaughan, 40, American police officer, murdered.

George Hawi, 67, Lebanese politician, former secretary general of Communist Party of Lebanon, killed by terrorists in an attack on his car.

Geoffrey Jones, 73, British documentary maker, cancer.

Jaime Sin, 76, Filipino Roman Catholic cardinal and former Archbishop of Manila.

Louis H. Wilson, Jr., 85, US Medal of Honor recipient and Commandant of the Marine Corps.

22

Sunder Singh Bhandari, 84, Indian politician.

David Breeden, 54, American clarinetist.

William Donaldson, 70, British satirist and theatrical producer of Beyond The Fringe.

23

Nikolay Afanasevsky, 64, Russian diplomat.

Shana Alexander, 79, American journalist, cancer.

Manolis Anagnostakis, 80, Greek poet.

Pietro Balestra, 70, Swiss economist.

Richard Hart Brown, 64, American neuroscientist.

Isidore Cohen, 82, American violinist with the Beaux Arts Trio.

Hanna Kvanmo, 79, Norwegian politician.

Sam Kweskin, 81, American comic book artist. [7]

Ramon L. Posel, 77, American art-cinema proponent and real estate developer, built up Philadelphia's art film industry though Ritz Theaters.

24

Lyman Bostock, Sr., 87, American baseball player.

Peter Casserly, 107, Australian centenarian, last surviving member of the First Australian Imperial Force serving on the Western Front in World War I.

Imogen Claire, British actress, played one of the transylvannians in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Paul Winchell, 82, American voice actor and ventriloquist, animated voice of 'Tigger', natural causes.

25

Frederick G. Dutton, 82, American lawyer, advisor to President Kennedy.

John Fiedler, 80, American film, stage and television actor (voice of Piglet in Winnie-the-Pooh productions), cancer.

Sir Harry Gibbs, 88, Australian Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 1981-87.

Chet Helms, 62, American rock music promoter.

Bob Vincent, 87, American big band singer and theatrical agent.

26

Filip Adwent, 49, Polish politician. [8]

William Cornelius, 90, Australian cricketer.

Eknath Solkar, 57, Indian cricketer.

Grete Sultan, 99, German-American pianist.

Richard Whiteley, 61, British television presenter, pneumonia.

27

Robert Byrne, 50, American songwriter.

Shelby Foote, 88, American historian.

Frank Harte, 72, Irish traditional singer and song collector, heart attack.

Domino Harvey, 35, British model-turned-bounty hunter and daughter of the late actor, Laurence Harvey. Found dead in her bathtub of an overdose of Fentanyl painkillers.

Ray Holmes, 90, British fighter pilot, who protected Buckingham Palace during the Battle of Britain, cancer.

Owen McCarron, 76, Canadian cartoonist and puzzle creator.

John T. Walton, 58, American war veteran and son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton.

Sir Norman Wooding, 78, British industrialist.

28

Bardhyl Ajeti, 28, Serbian journalist, assassinated.

Matthew Axelson, 29, American naval officer.

Robert D. Clark, 95, American university administrator.

Victor Craig, 87, Irish cricketer.

Danny Dietz, 25, American naval officer.

Dick Dietz, 63, American professional baseball player, Major League Baseball All-Star catcher who played for the San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves, heart attack.

Philip Hobsbaum, 72, British academic, poet and critic, diabetes.

Brenda Howard, 58, American LGBT-rights activist, colon cancer.

Bruce Malmuth, 71, American film director (Sylvester Stallone's Nighthawks), throat cancer.

Michael P. Murphy, 29, American naval officer.

Rowland B. Wilson, 74, American cartoonist and animator

29

Ruslan Abdulgani, 91, Indonesian politician and diplomat.

James Gilbert Baker, 90, American astronomer.

Gerard C. Bond, 65, American geologist.

W. Burlie Brown, 83, American historian.

John Burgess, 71, Scottish bagpiper.

30

Christopher Fry, 97, British playwright.

Lilian Keil, 88, American nurse, highly decorated World War II and Korean War flight nurse.

Éva Novák-Gerard, 75, Hungarian swimmer.

Alexei Sultanov, 35, Russian pianist.