Deaths in May 2005

1

Edgar Baird, 93, Canadian businessman.

Albert Rex Bergstrom, 79, New Zealand econometrician [1].

Kenneth Clark, 90, African-American civil rights activist and psychologist.

René Rivkin, 60, Australian stockbroker.

Edward von Kloberg III, 63, American lobbyist.

2

Robert Hunter, 63, Canadian journalist and co-founder of Greenpeace

Wee Kim Wee, 89, Singaporean politician, fourth President of Singapore from 1985 to 1993

Theofiel Middelkamp, 91, Dutch cyclist, first Dutchman to win a stage in the Tour de France and first Dutch world champion.

Börje Nyberg, 85, Swedish actor and film director.

3

Henriette, Lady Abel Smith, 90, British courtier, lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II.

Jagjit Singh Aurora, 89, Indian army general.

David Batchelor, 63, British sound mixer.

Don Canham, 87, American track and field athlete, former University of Michigan athletic director.

4

Mark Boyle, 70, Scottish artist.

David H. Hackworth, 74, American Vietnam War veteran, journalist

Evelyn Lutman Roberts, 88, American wife of preacher Oral Roberts

Luis Taruc, 91, Filipino Communist revolutionary figure, leader of the HUKBALAHAP, a guerrilla group against the Japanese during World War II.

5

Ted Atkinson, 88, Canadian-born American Hall of Fame jockey.

Carolyn Brady, 67, American artist.

Elisabeth Fraser, 85, American actress on The Phil Silvers Show, etc.

June MacCloy, 96, American actress.

Magdolna Nyári-Kovács, 83, Hungarian Olympic fencer.

Édgar Ponce, 30, Mexican actor, collision between car and motorcycle during filming of video for "Sólo para mujeres".

6

Theodore J. Bauer, 95, American specialist in infectious diseases.

Luis Cabellero, 42, Paraguayan footballer.

Miguel Contreras, 52, American labor union leader.

Rafael Diaz-Balart, 79, Cuban politician, opponent and former brother-in-law of Fidel Castro, father of U.S. Congressmen Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Mario Díaz-Balart.

Joe Grant, 96, American Disney animator, heart attack.

Jost Gross, 59, Swiss politician, member of the National Council.

Lisa Freeman Roberts, 56, American vocalist. [2]

Herb Sargent, 81, American television comedy writer. [3]

Lee Stine, 91, American baseball player, who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees.

7

Václav Boštík, 91, Czech artist.

Tristan Egolf, 33, American author, suicide.

Peter Wallace Rodino, 95, U.S. congressman, (1949–1989).

Betty Talmadge, 81, American ex-wife of Senator Herman Talmadge, testified against him in Senate ethics committee in 1979, from Alzheimers.

Otilino Tenorio, 25, Ecuadorian international football player, automobile accident.

8

Wolfgang Blochwitz, 64, German footballer.

Lloyd Cutler, 87, American attorney, former White House Counsel under Presidents Carter and Clinton.

A. J. Shepherd, 78,American ex-Indianapolis 500 racing driver.

9

Nasrat Parsa, 36, Afghan pop singer, after being assaulted in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Akihiko Saito, 44, Japanese hostage in Iraq.

Tiny Wharton, 77, British football referee

10

Hal Griggs, 76, American former MLB player Washington Senators

Veikko Hursti, 80, Finnish philanthropist

Jim Love, 78, American sculptor

Jay Marshall, 85, American magician and ventriloquist, dean of the Society of American Magicians

David Wayne, 47, American singer for the heavy metal group Metal Church

11

Léo Cadieux, 96, Canadian politician and diplomat.

Alfred Finnigan, 108, Welsh centenarian, oldest man in Wales and World War I survivor.

Michalis Genitsaris, 86, Greek rebetiko singer and composer.

Bob Stuart, 84, New Zealand rugby player.

12

Carl Alpert, 92, American-born Israeli journalist.

Eddie Barclay, 84, French record producer and founder of Barclay Records.

Maurice Catarcio, 76, American former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler, of cancer.

Sara Gadimova, 82, Azerbaijani khananda singer.

Monica Zetterlund, 67, Swedish singer and actress.

13

George Dantzig, 90, American mathematician, "father of linear programming".

Hugh Montefiore, 85, English Bishop of Birmingham and environmental activist with Friends of the Earth.

Michael Ross, 45, American convicted serial killer, executed by lethal injection.

14

Michael Carson, 57, Australian television director.

Jimmy Martin, 77, American bluegrass singer.

Helvecio Martins, 74, Brazilian LDS leader.

15

Povl Ahm, 78, Danish engineer, cancer.

Les Bartley, 51, Canadian former coach of the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League, colon cancer.

Alan B. Gold, 88, Canadian retired Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court, negotiated an end to the Oka standoff and numerous strikes.

The Earl of Shaftesbury, 27, English peer, suspected heart attack.

16

L. Bruce Archer, 82, British mechanical engineer and designer.

Andrew J. Goodpaster, 90, American Army General, former leader of NATO and veteran of World War II.

June Lang, 90, American actor.

Jose M. Lopez, 94, Mexican US Army soldier, Medal of Honor-winning soldier in World War II. [4]

Albert "Smiler" Marshall, 108, British veteran of World War I.

Arthur Naftalin, 87, American politician, former mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

17

Keiiti Aki, 75, Japanese seismologist. [5]

Frank Gorshin, 71, American film and television actor, cancer

Paul Keene, 94, American organic farmer

18

Shaima Rezayee, 24, Afghan TV presenter of Hop, an Afghan programme similar to MTV

Whayne Wilson, 29, Costa Rican footballer.

Stella Zázvorková, 83, Czech actress

19

John Arthur, 85, South African boxer.

Richard Cartwright, 35, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.

Henry Corden, 85, Canadian voice actor (The Flintstones), emphysema.

Batya Gur, 57, Israeli author.

David Lang, 37, American football player, former NFL running back with the Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys.

Richard Lewine, 94, American Broadway composer and TV producer. [6]

Victor Wouk, 86, American scientist and electrical engineer.

20

Anthony Athanas, 93, Albanian-born American restaurateur.

J. D. Cannon, 83, American actor.

Paul Ricœur, 92, French philosopher and teacher.

Lujo Tončić-Sorinj, 90, Austrian diplomat and politician, former Foreign Minister of Austria.

21

Stephen Elliott, 86, American actor, Arthur. [7]

Bedford Jezzard, 77, English footballer, former Fulham FC football player and manager.

Howard Morris, 85, American comedy actor and director.

Subodh Mukherjee, 84, Indian filmmaker.

Fred Rosen, 74, American physician.

22

Terry Carisse, 62, Canadian singer-songwriter.

Charilaos Florakis, 91, Greek politician, Honorary President and former Secretary General (1972–1989) of the Communist Party of Greece.

Julia Randall, 81, American poet.

Thurl Ravenscroft, 91, American voice actor (Tony the Tiger, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!).[8]

John Rothwell, 91, Australian cricketer.

23

John Albano, 82, American comic book writer.

Hugh Cabot III, 75, American artist.

Sígfrid Gràcia, 73, Spanish footballer.

Derek Ratcliffe, 75, British conservationist.

Billy Smart, Jr, 71, British circus impresario.

Roderick Wright, 64, Scottish Roman Catholic bishop, disgraced and renounced the office of bishop.

24

Carl Amery, 83, German writer.

Arthur Haulot, 91, Belgian journalist, active member of the resistance movement against the Nazi occupation.

Robert McAuliffe, 66, Trinidadian-born olympic sports shooter for the United States Virgin Islands.

25

Sunil Dutt, 75, Indian Bollywood actor and Union Minister, India.

Robert Jankel, 67, British limousine designer.

Gregory Scott Johnson, American executed for murdering an 82-year-old woman, had asked for a temporary reprieve to donate his liver to his sister.

Graham Kennedy, 71, Australian TV celebrity and comedian.

Ruth Laredo, 67, American pianist.

Steve Mason, 65, American poet and war veteran.

Ismail Merchant, 68, Indian-born film producer. [9]

Zoran Mušič, 96, Slovene painter, graphic artist and draughtsman.

26

Eddie Albert, 99, American actor, star of Green Acres. [10]

John Hope Anderson, 93, American politician.

James G. Butler, 84, American lawyer.

Chico Carrasquel, 77, Venezuelan shortstop, the first Latin American player to appear in an MLB All-Star game.

Sangoulé Lamizana, 89, Burkinabe politician, former president of Burkina Faso.

Krzysztof Nowak, 29, Polish football player for VfL Wolfsburg and the Polish national team, suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Jim Ray, 60, American baseball player.[11]

Terry Shannon, 52, American IT expert.

Domenic Troiano, 59, Canadian guitarist, cancer.

27

Abuzar Aydamirov, 71, Chechen writer.

Otto Binnig, 81, German World War II soldier.

Maurice Cohen, 93, American metallurgist.

Fay Godwin, 74, British photographer. [12]

Ian Mackenzie-Kerr, 75, British book designer. [13]

28

Emil Appolus, 70, Namibian politician.

Benjamin Biaggini, 89, American railroad executive.

Clair A. Callan, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Nebraska (1965–1967). [14]

John Sidney Garrett, 83, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Arnold Morton, 83, American restaurateur , founder of Morton's of Chicago steakhouses.

David Oswald Thomas, 81, Welsh philosopher.

29

Ricky Allen, 70, American blues singer.

María de los Ángeles Alvariño González, 88, Spanish oceanographer.

Oscar Brown, Jr., 78, American musician, playwright, activist.

Patsy Calton, 56, British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, cancer.

Joseph Karth, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Minnesota (1959–1977). [15]

Sir Frederick Page, 88, British aircraft designer.

George Rochberg, 86, American composer.

Sir Gordon Tait, 83, British admiral.

30

Takanohana Kenshi (née Mitsuru Hanada), 55, Japanese sumo wrestler, aka "The Prince of Sumo"

Jan Knappert, 78, Dutch linguist.

Fazal Mahmood, 78, Pakistani cricket captain.

Tomasz Pacyński, 47, Polish fantasy and science fiction author

Alma Ziegler, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League)

31

Sir John Aiken, 83, British air marshal. [16]

Emily Blatch, Baroness Blatch, 67, British politician and life peer.

Eduardo Teixeira Coelho, 86, Portuguese comic book artist. [17]