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Deaths in May 2004

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

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  • Francis James Harrison, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Syracuse (1977–1987).
  • Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double).
  • John Howland Rowe, 85, American archaeologist and anthropologist.

    • 2

  • Moe Burtschy, 82, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia & Kansas City Athletics.
  • Paul Guimard, 83, French writer.

    • 3

  • Anthony Ainley, 71, British actor best known as The Master in Doctor Who.
  • Darrell Johnson, 75, American MLB catcher and manager. [1]
  • Volus Jones, 90, American animator.
  • Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, 84, British aristocrat and politician.

    • 4

  • Clement Dodd, 72, Jamaican reggae pioneer.
  • Tage Frid, 88, Danish woodworker.
  • Erik Smith, 73, German-born British music producer.

    • 5

  • David Reimer, 39, Canadian notable gender-reassignment case.
  • Ritsuko Okazaki, 44, Japanese singer-songwriter and author.

    • 6

  • Kjell Hallbing (aka Louis Masterson), 69, Norwegian Western author. [2]
  • Sir John Hill, 90, British police officer.
  • Barney Kessel, 80, American jazz guitarist and studio musician.
  • Daniel Thompson, 69, American poet.

    • 7

  • Nick Berg, 26, American businessman and hostage killed in Iraq.
  • Oliver David Jackson, 84, Australian army officer.
  • Waldemar Milewicz, 48, Polish journalist, and Mounyra Beouamrane, killed in Iraq.

    • 8

  • Sir John Peel, 91, British politician, MP for Leicester South East (1957–1974).
  • Ronnie Robinson, 53, American basketball player.

    • 9

  • Tommy Farrell, 82, American film and television actor
  • Percy M. Young, 91, British musicologist
  • Olive Osmond, 79, American Osmond singing family matriarch, mother of entertainers Marie Osmond and the various Osmond Brothers
  • Alan King, 76, American comedian and actor
  • Brenda Fassie, 39, South African singer [3]
  • Akhmad Kadyrov, 52, Chechen politician, President of Chechnya

    • 10

  • Eric Kierans, 90, Canadian politician.

    • 11

  • Mick Doyle, 63, Irish rugby union player and coach.
  • Danny McLennan, 79, Scottish football player and coach.

    • 12

  • John LaPorta, 84, American jazz clarinetist, composer and educator. [4]
  • Syd Hoff, 91, American children's book author, cartoonist.
  • John Robson, 54, English footballer.
  • John Whitehead, 55, American R&B artist, shot dead.
  • Judith Cook, 70, British theatre historian, campaigner and novelist.

    • 13

  • Joey Curtis, 79, American professional boxer, boxing referee and business owner.
  • Vicente Doria Catan Jr, 56, Filipino comic book artist
  • Brian McNaughton, 68, American horror and fantasy writer
  • Floyd Kalber, 79, American broadcast journalist

    • 14

  • Anna Lee, 91, British-born American actress, best known for playing Lila Quartermaine on the soap opera General Hospital
  • Jesus Gil, 71, Spanish businessman and politician, controversial owner of Atlético Madrid football club.
  • Charlotte Benkner, 114, American supercentenarian, oldest recognized person in United States.
  • Shaun Sutton, 84, British television executive.

    • 15

  • Jack Bradbury, 89, American animator and comic book artist.
  • Gill Fox, 88, American political cartoonist, comic book artist, and animator.
  • William H. Hinton, 85, American writer, farmer and Marxist, author of Fanshen.
  • Colonel Robert Morgan, 85, American US Air Force pilot, former pilot of the Memphis Belle.
  • Carlos Orta, 60, Venezuelan artist, and principal dancer and choreographer of the José Limón Dance Company. [5] - [6]
  • Clint Warwick, 63, British bass guitarist (The Moody Blues).

    • 16

  • Moya Cole, 85, Northern Irish physician and hospice founder.
  • Lord Hill-Norton, 89, British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet.
  • Marika Rökk, 90, Egyptian-born German actress.

    • 17

  • Gunnar Graps, 57, Estonian rock singer and percussionist.
  • Robert Lewin, 85, Polish art dealer and philanthropist.
  • Buster Narum, 63, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Orioles and Senators.
  • Jørgen Nash, 84, Danish poet, performance artist.
  • Tony Randall, 84, American television actor (The Odd Couple), pneumonia.
  • Ezzedine Salim, 60-61, Iraqi politician, president of the Iraqi Governing Council.
  • June Taylor, 86, American television dancer and choreographer.

    • 18

  • Arnold O. Beckman, 104, American inventor, industrialist, philanthropist.
  • Elvin Jones, 76, American jazz drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s.
  • Lü Fuyuan, 59, Chinese politician, Minister of Commerce of China. Live cancer.
  • Hyacinthe Thiandoum, 83, Senegalese Roman Catholic Cardinal, former Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal.

    • 19

  • Jack Eckerd, 91, American businessman, former owner of the Eckerd drugstore chain.
  • Mary Dresselhuys, 97, Dutch actress.
  • Arnold Moore, 90, American blues artist.
  • E.K. Nayanar, 87, Indian politician, three-time Chief Minister of Kerala, India. [7]

    • 20

  • Dennis Coslett, 64, Welsh political activist.
  • Stanisław Gronkowski, 82, Polish actor. [8] (Polish)
  • Len Murray, Lord Murray of Epping Forest, 81, British trade union leader.

    • 21

  • Rod Hall, 53, British literary agent, murdered. [9]
  • Gene Wood, 78, American television personality, announcer of Family Feud and other US game shows.

    • 22

  • Richard Biggs, 44, American actor, Babylon 5.
  • Samuel Curtis Johnson, 76, American businessman, fourth generation president of SC Johnson company.
  • Wayne Kimber, 55, New Zealand politician.
  • Mikhail Voronin, 59, Russian gymnast, double Olympic champion.

    • 23

  • Trudy Marshall, 84, American actress.

    • 24

  • Henry Ries, 87, American photographer.
  • Lee Won-woo, 45, South Korean basketball player.

    • 25

  • Glenn Cunningham, 60, American politician,, mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey.
  • David Dellinger, 88, American antiwar activist, member of Chicago Eight.
  • Nicholas Luard, 66, British writer and politician.
  • Roger W. Straus, Jr., 87, American publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

    • 26

  • Gatjil Djerrkura, 54, Australian indigenous leader, Chairman of ATSIC 1996-2000.

    • 27

  • Umberto Agnelli, 69, Italian industrialist, head of Fiat.[10]
  • Jim Marshall, 63, British Labour MP.[11]
  • Jack Losch, 69, American member of 1st Little League World Series championship team.

    • 28

  • Michael Alison, 77, British Privy Council member and former minister and MP.
  • Gerald Anthony, 52, American actor, best known for playing Marco Dane on the TV show One Life to Live.
  • Josie Carey, 73, American lyricist, host of the Pittsburgh children's show "Children's Corner".
  • Irene Manning, 91, American actress and singer (Yankee Doodle Dandy).
  • James Neil Tucker, 47, American convicted murderer.

    • 29

  • Archibald Cox, 92, American lawyer, Watergate special prosecutor.
  • Sam Dash, 79, American lawyer, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal.
  • Jack Rosenthal, 72, British television dramatist. [12]
  • Magne Havnå, 40, Norwegian former professional boxer, in boating accident.
  • Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, 114, Puerto Rican supercentenarian, oldest documented person in the world.
  • Sir Gordon Wolstenholme, 91, British physician.

    • 30

  • Raymond M. Clausen, Jr., 56, American marine, Medal of Honour recipient.
  • Bobbie Irvine, 71, British ballroom dancer.

    • 31

  • Gunnar Hansen, 87, Norwegian Olympic boxer.
  • Alberta Martin, 97, American notable widow, last known widow of a Confederate soldier.
  • Robert Quine, 61, American punk rock guitarist.

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