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The following is a list of notable deaths in 2004.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

January 2004

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February 2004

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March 2004

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April 2004

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May 2004

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June 2004

1 William Manchester, 82, U.S. historian.
2 Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer.
2 Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, ~69, former defense minister and acting president of Ethiopia.
2 Nicolai Ghiaurov, 71, opera singer.
3 Frances Shand Kydd, 68, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
4 Phillip Bartlett, 44, original narrator of Pokémon and voice of Mewtwo from Pokémon: The First Movie, aortic dissection.
4 Wilmer Fields, 81, former Negro League Baseball All-Star.
4 Steve Lacy, 69, innovative jazz soprano saxophonist.
4 Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer .(canada.com) (Toronto Star) (The Globe and Mail)
4 Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor.
5 Ronald Reagan, 93, film actor and 40th President of the United States (1981–1989).
6 Judy Campbell, 88, actress.
6 Robert Lees, 91, screenwriter, found decapitated.
6 Kate Worley, 46, comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer).
6 Necdet Mahfi Ayral, 96, Turkish actor.
6 Iona Brown, 63, violinist and conductor.
6 Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman/journalist, working for the BBC in Saudi Arabia, killed by Al Qaeda.
7 Thomas "Quorthon" Forsberg, 38, black metal pioneer and main member of Bathory, heart failure.
7 Don Potter, 102, British sculptor.
7 Donald Trumbull, 95, special effects pioneer.
8 Mack Jones, 65, former Major League Baseball outfielder with the Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos.
8 Ronalda Pierce, 19, Florida State University basketball player, aneurysm.
9 Rosey Brown, 71, Pro Football Hall of Famer.
9 Barbara Whiting Smith, 73, actress.
10 Ray Charles, 73, rhythm and blues singer and soul music pioneer.
10 Brian Williamson, 59, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered.
10 Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications.
11 Egon von Furstenberg, 57, fashion designer; nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli.
11 Micah Harris, 21, Duke University defensive lineman, car accident.
11 Xenophon Zolotas, 100, former Prime Minister of Greece.
13 Dick Durrance, 89, 17-time American national champion in skiing.
13 Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, British philosopher.
13 Ralph Wiley, 52, sports journalist.
13 Danny Dark, 65, announcer.
14 Robert Teeter, 65, Republican pollster.
14 Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher.
14 Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, mountain guide.
14 Max Rosenberg, 89, producer of horror movies.
15 Ahmet Piriştina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir, heart attack.
15 Frank Nastasi, 81, actor and comedian (Lunch with Soupy).
16 Barry Cowan, 56, Northern Irish broadcaster.
16 Albert Fischer, 84, German jurist.
16 Dr. Herman Goldstine, 90, computing pioneer who helped develop ENIAC, Parkinson's disease.
16 Thanom Kittikachorn, 91, former Thai prime minister.
17 Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, philosopher.
17 Gerry McNeil, 78, Stanley Cup-winning National Hockey League goaltender.
17 Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman.
18 Frederick Jaeger, 76, German born British character actor.
18 Paul Johnson, ~49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda.
18 Nek Mohammed, ~27, Pakistani tribal leader in Waziristan and key Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces.
19 Colin McCormack, 62, Welsh actor.
19 Nob Yoshigahara, 68, mathematician and puzzle expert.
20 Nabil Sahraoui, Algerian militant, head of GSPC and linked to al-Qaeda.
20 Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania.
21 Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure.
22 Carlton Skinner, 91, American naval officer and politician, first civilian governor of Guam.
22 Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist.
22 Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer.
22 Francisco Ortiz Franco, ~50, Mexican journalist, murdered.
22 Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy.
22 Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants.
24 Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, 40, Greek songwriter, author.
24 Carl Rakosi, 100, American poet.
25 Karol Kennedy Kucher, 72, former United States ice skating champion, pneumonia.
26 Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter.
26 Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer.
27 George Patton IV, 80, US Army general and son of George Patton.
27 Darrell Russell, 35, National Hot Rod Association drag racer, first racer killed at an NHRA event since 1996.
28 David A. Thomas, 86, American educator.
28 Keith "Matt" Maupin, 20, U.S. Army Private First Class, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq.
28 Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books.
29 Juan Antonio Lopez, 52, Mexican boxer, fought Wilfredo Gómez, leukemia.

July 2004

1 Enrique Mederos, Latin American voice actor.
1 Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke.
1 Marlon Brando, 80, American actor, pulmonary fibrosis.
1 Sir Richard May, 65, former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
2 Sir John William Kay, Lord Justice of Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
2 John Cullen Murphy, 85, comic strip artist (Prince Valiant).
2 Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet.
2 Gareth Payne, 68, former Welsh rugby union international.
3 John Barron, 83, actor.
3 Michael Curtis, 84, British newspaper editor and executive.
3 Jimmy Mack, 70, Scots radio personality.
4 Andrian Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut.
4 Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor.
5 Robert Burchfield, 81, Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer.
5 Hugh Shearer, 81, former Prime Minister of Jamaica.
5 Rodger Ward, 83, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion.
6 Peter Birks, 62, British academic lawyer.
6 Eric Douglas, 46, youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas.
6 Thomas Klestil, 71, Federal President of Austria, heart failure.
6 Syreeta Wright, 58, singer, songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder.
7 Xiaokai Yang, 55, Australian economist.
8 Jaroslav Hules, 30, Czech motorcycle racer, suicide.
8 Albert Friedlander, 77, German rabbi.
8 Paula Danziger, 59, U.S. author.
8 Mike Woodin, 38, Principal Speaker of Green Party of England and Wales and Oxford City Councillor.
8 Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor.
9 Jeillo Edwards, ~62, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill".
9 Isabel Sanford, 86, actress, The Jeffersons, natural causes.
9 Paul Klebnikov, 41, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered.
9 Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright.
9 Jeff Smith, 65, chef and host of The Frugal Gourmet.
10 Rudy LaRusso, 66, five-time National Basketball Association All-Star.
10 Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, former Prime Minister of Portugal.
10 Inge Meysel, 94, German actress.
11 Walter Wager, 79, American author.
11 Betty Oliphant, 85, founder of Canada's National Ballet School.
11 Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress.
11 Laurance Rockefeller, 94, conservationist and philanthropist.
11 Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress.
12 Ersel Hickey, 70, rockabilly singer.
12 George Mallaby, 64, Australian actor.
13 Joe Gold, 82, bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder.
13 Clifford Irving, 90, Manx politician.
13 Arthur Kane, 53, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia.
13 Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor.
14 Hans A. Pestalozzi, 75, Swiss social critic.
14 Alex Willoughby, 59, British footballer.
15 Charles Sweeney, 84, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
15 Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano.
16 George Busbee, 76, former governor of Georgia.
16 Bella Lewitzky, 88, modern dance pioneer and choreographer.
17 Paul Hilmar Jensen, 74, Norwegian philatelist.
17 Sir Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur, founder of the Carlyle Trust bank.
17 Pat Roach, 67, wrestler and actor; cancer. ()
17 Susan Cullen-Ward, 63, wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu; cancer.
18 Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner.
18 Émile Peynaud, 92, French wine expert.
19 Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer, one of the last survivor of national team in 1930 FIFA World Cup.
19 Zenko Suzuki, 93, former Prime Minister of Japan.
19 Lori Hacking, 27, wife of Mark Hacking.
20 Adi Lady Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady; widow of Prime Minister and President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
20 Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish Flamenco dancer, cancer.
21 Edward B. Lewis, 85, US-biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995).
21 Elder Neal A. Maxwell, 78, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
21 Jerry Goldsmith, 75, movie and television composer.
22 Illinois Jacquet, 81, United States jazz saxophonist.
22 Sacha Distel, 71, French singer.
22 Hume Horan, 69, American diplomat.
23 Joe Cahill, 84, Irish politician.
23 Mehmood, 72, Indian actor.
23 Janet Chisholm, 75, former British MI6 agent.
23 Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player.
23 Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor.
24 Edward D. Thalmann, 59, retired United States Navy Captain and doctor whose research developed military and recreational dive tables, congestive heart failure.
24 Fred LaRue, 75, part of Watergate scandal.
24 Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons, 72, National Basketball Association basketball coach.
25 Francisco Romão, 61, Angolan deputy foreign minister, suicide.
26 William A. Mitchell, 92, food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix.
26 Rubén Gómez, 77, Puerto Rico, former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins.
26 Oguz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist; creator of Avanak Avni, Kostebek Husnu, and Utanmaz Adam.
26 Sidney Francis Greene, Lord Greene of Harrow Weald, 94, British railroad worker, trade union leader, and life peer.
27 Carmine G. DeSapio, 95, last boss of Tammany Hall.
27 Bob Tisdall, 97, won the gold medal in hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
28 Tiziano Terzani, 65, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia.
28 Sam Edwards, 89, American actor, Little House on the Prairie, heart failure.
28 Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer.
28 Jackson Beck, 92, announcer and voice actor.
28 Eugene Roche, 75, American character actor and the "Ajax" Man.
28 Steve Patterson, 56, former center of the UCLA basketball team, coach at Arizona State University and founder of the Grand Canyon State Games.
29 Nafisa Joseph, 25, model, MTV video jockey, Miss India 1997; suicide.
29 Susan Buffett, 71, estranged wife of billionaire/investment guru Warren Buffett.
29 Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedienne.
30 Andre Noble, 25, Canadian actor.
30 Ali Abbasi, 42, BBC Scotland travel presenter.
31 Laura Betti, 70, Italian actress.
31 Elder David B. Haight, 97, oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
31 Virginia Grey, 87, American actress. Little Eva in the first film adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin
31 Ray Tolchard, English cricketer and umpire.

August 2004

1 Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium.
1 Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, philosopher.
3 Bob Murphy, 79, Major League Baseball/New York Mets announcer.
3 Arturo Tolentino, 94, Philippine lawyer and politician.
3 Margo McLennan, 66, British actress, Prisoner, cancer.
3 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer.
4 Hunter Hancock, 88, R&B and rock DJ.
5 James Alford, 90, British athlete.
6 Rick James, 56, funk singer.
7 Paul "Red" Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter.
7 Colin Bibby, 55, English ornithologist.
7 Bernard Levin, 75, journalist and broadcaster.
8 Fay Wray, 96, King Kong actress.
8 Dimitris Papamichael, 70, Greek actor.
8 Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, 89, health and fitness pioneer.
8 Leon Golub, 82, internationally recognized artist and painter.
8 Paul "Mousie" Garner, 95, comedian, Three Stooges associate.
8 Richard Taylor, 23, skating and skiing champion, collided with a concrete lamp-post.
9 Michael Grant, 89, classical scholar and author.
9 Tony Mottola, 86, guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on the Tonight Show orchestra.
9 David Raksin, 92, film composer.
10 James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, oldest known U.S. Olympic medal winner.
10 Alan N. Cohen, 73, former owner of the Boston Celtics.
11 Bill Martin, Jr., 88, author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
11 Joe Falls, 76, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News.
12 Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 84, Nobel Prize in Medicine, coinventor of the CAT scan.
12 Robert L. Morris, 62, American parapsychologist.
12 Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor.
12 George Yardley, 75, National Basketball Association Hall of Famer.
13 Julia Child, 91, author and television hostess on French cuisine.
13 Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street.
13 Stefan Dimitrov, Bulgarian opera basso singer.
14 William D. Ford, 77, member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from 1965 to 1995.
14 Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 42, rapist and murderer; the first person executed in India since 1995.
14 Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980.
15 Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer.
15 Sune K. Bergström, 88, Nobel Prize in Medicine.
15 Neal Fredericks, 35, cinematographer for the movie The Blair Witch Project, drowned in helicopter crash while filming.
16 J. Irwin Miller, 95, American industrialist and architectural philanthropist.
16 Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech Republic national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach.
16 Acquanetta, 83, "Venezuelan" United States-born B-movie actress.
16 George Moe, 72, Barbadian politician and former Chief Justice of Belize.
16 Carl Mydans, 91, photographer.
16 Robert Quiroga, 35, world champion boxer, murdered.
17 Dennis "D-Roc" Miles, 45, rhythm guitarist for Body Count, from lymphoma complications.
17 Anatoly Guzhvin, 58, head of the administration of Astrakhan Oblast.
17 Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone.
17 Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist.
18 Hiram Fong, 97, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate.
18 Elmer Bernstein, 82, composer of classic film music such as The Magnificent Seven.
18 Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán.
18 Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen.
19 Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur.
19 Günter Rexrodt, 62, German politician, former Economics Minister of Germany.
20 María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born star of rumbera films.
20 Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician and novelist.
22 Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress.
22 Konstantin Aseev, 43, chess Grandmaster and coach.
22 Al Dvorin, 81, announcer who popularized the phrase "Elvis has left the building", automobile accident.
22 Marcel Caux, 105, Australian First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières.
22 George Kirgo, 78, television and film writer, former president of the Writers Guild of America.
22 Daniel Petrie, Sr., 83, film director, A Raisin in the Sun.
22 Ota Sik, 84, architect of economic liberalization during Czechoslovakia's ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring.
23 Francesco Minerva, 100, centenarian Italian Roman Catholic archbishop.
23 Hank Borowy, 88, former New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers pitcher.
23 Mary Guiney, 103, chairperson of the Clerys department store.
23 Heinrich Mark, 92, Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile 1971-1990.
24 Richard Ervin, 99, former attorney general and chief justice of Florida.
24 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist.
24 Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka.
24 Bob Price, 76, American politician.
25 Marcelo Gonzalez Martin, 86, former Roman Catholic primate of Spain, Cardinal since 1973 and Archbishop of Toledo from 1971 to 1995. (Papal condolence message)
25 Don Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer.
26 José Carlos, 53, Portuguese fashion designer.
26 Laura Branigan, 47, American pop singer.
26 Enzo G. Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq.
27 Ko Young-hee, 51, former consort to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, cancer (rumoured).
27 William Pierson, 78, actor Stalag 17
27 Fernand Auberjonois, 93, foreign news correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade; father of actor René Auberjonois.
27 Suzanne Kaaren, 92, actress (Three Stooges films).
27 Willie Crawford, 57, former outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
28 Robert Lewin, 84, producer and screenwriter, Academy Award nomination for writing The Bold and the Brave, lung cancer.
28 Lina Zimmer, 111, oldest German.
30 Derek Johnson, 71, British athlete and athletics administrator.
30 Willie Duff, 69, goalkeeper of Heart of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline Athletic.
30 Fred Whipple, 97, American astronomer.
30 Fay Jones, 83, architect trained by Frank Lloyd Wright.
30 Larry Desmedt, 55, motorcycle designer, injuries suffered during a stunt.
31 Joe Barry, 65, Swamp Pop singer of "I'm a Fool to Care".
31 Carl Wayne, 61, lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer.

September 2004

1 Ahmed Kuftaro, 89, the Grand Mufti of Syria.
1 Kenneth Alexander Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, 88, life peer and former chairman of Rolls-Royce, Hill Samuel, Beecham Group, and STC.
1 Herbert H. Haft, 84, owner of Dart Drugs Chain, congestive heart failure.
1 Johnny Bragg, 79, leader of The Prisonaires, one of earliest music groups to record for Sam Phillips and Sun Records.
1 Sir Alastair Morton, 66, former chief executive of Eurotunnel and chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority.
2 Billy Davis, 72, commercial jingle writer (I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke).
2 Paul Shmyr, 58, former National Hockey League and World Hockey Association defenseman, throat cancer.
2 Donald Leslie, 93, creator of the Leslie speaker.
2 Bob O. Evans, 77, IBM computer scientist.
2 Joan Oró i Florensa, 80, biochemist.
3 Steven Blackford, 28, former University of Arizona wrestler, car accident.
4 Michael Louden, 40, actor, autoerotic asphyxiation.
4 Bob Boyd, 84?, former Major League Baseball; first black player to sign with the Chicago White Sox, and first Baltimore Orioles to bat over .300 in the 20th century.
4 James O. Page, 68, North Carolina's former chief of Emergency Medical Services and founder of modern emergency medical response, heart attack.
4 Moe Norman, 75, PGA and Canadian Tour golfer, congestive heart failure
4 Alphonso Ford, 33, American-born Euroleague player, leukemia.
5 Fritha Goodey, 31, actress (About a Boy), apparent suicide.
5 Gerald Merrithew, 73, New Brunswick, Canada politician and former federal cabinet minister, cancer.
5 Alessio Perilli, 20, Italian motoracer, killed during a race.
5 Caroline Pratt, 42, British eventer, killed during a race
5 Steve Wayne, 84, American actor.
6 Elly Annie Schneider, 90, one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz.
6 Harvey Wheeler, 85, political scientist and author (Fail-Safe).
7 Samira Bellil, 31, campaigner for Muslim girls' and women's rights, cancer.
7 Munir, 39, prominent Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic.
7 Gerard Piel, 89, publisher of Scientific American, complications from a stroke.
7 Kirk Fordice, 70, first Republican governor of Mississippi since 1874, leukemia.
7 Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé, 89, Afrikaner-South African cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid activist.
8 Ian Cochrane, 62, British novelist.
8 Frank Thomas, 91, Disney animator.
8 Raymond Marcellin, 90, former Interior minister of France.
8? Richard Girnt Butler, 86, founder of the Aryan Nations
9 Joan Snyder, 69, writer and producer for CBS News.
9 Ernie Ball, 74, guitar equipment maker.
9 Jimmy Spence, 69, British ice hockey player.
10 Brock Adams, 77, U.S. politician.
10 Leonard Birchall, 89, Canadian Air Force officer.
10 Glyn Owen, 76, British actor.
10 O.L. Duke, 51, actor, automobile crash.
11 Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer.
11 Fred Ebb, 71, Broadway lyricist (Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack.
11 David Mann, 64, American graphic artist.
11 Peter VII, 55, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, helicopter crash.
12 Max Abramovitz, 96, architect.
12 Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djibouti politician, vice-president of the government council (1959–60) and prime minister (1977–78).
12 John Buller, 77, British composer.
12 Jerome Chodorov, 93, playwright, My Sister Eileen.
13 Glenn Presnell, 99, early National Football League player with the Detroit Lions.
14 Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor.
14 Reynaldo G. Garza, 89, first Hispanic American appointed as Federal Appeals Court judge.
15 Nalda Bird, 77, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
15 Donald Yetter Gardner, 91, songwriter, All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth.
15 Daouda Malam Wanke, 50?, leader of the 1999 transitional government in Niger.
15 Johnny Ramone, 55, guitarist and founding member of The Ramones, prostate cancer.
16 Dolly Rathebe, South African musician.
16 Izora Rhodes Armstead, American singer, one of the two Weather Girls.
16 Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet.
17 Katharina Dalton, 87, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome.
18 Norman Cantor, 74, medieval scholar.
18 Russ Meyer, 82, filmmaker.
18 Marvin Mitchelson, 76, divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer.
18 Klara Rumyanova, 74, Russian actress.
19 Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder.
19 Eddie Adams, 71, photojournalist.
19 Skeeter Davis, 73, country music singer.
19 Ellis Marsalis, Sr., 96, patriarch of family of jazz musicians.
19 Ryhor Reles, 91, the last writer from Belarus who wrote in Yiddish.
20 Eugene Armstrong, 52, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq.
20 Brian Clough OBE, 69, English footballer and cup-winning coach and manager.
20 Kalmer Tennosaar, 75, Estonian singer and television journalist.
21 Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq.
21 Larry Phillips, 62, stock car racer.
22 Ray Traylor, 42, American professional wrestler known as The Big Boss Man.
23 Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, former editor of Ms. Magazine, feminist and civil rights advocate.
23 Maurice Michael Stephens, 84, British World War II flying ace.
23 André Hazes, 53, Dutch singer.
23 Nigel Nicolson, 89, British politician.
23 Billy Reay, 86, former National Hockey League player and coach for the Chicago Black Hawks.
23 Raja Ramanna, 79, nuclear scientist and father of India's nuclear program.
23 Bill Ballance, 85, radio personality; forerunner of shock jocks Tom Leykis and Howard Stern.
24 Tim Choate, 49, actor (Babylon 5), motorcycle accident.
24 Françoise Sagan, 69, French novelist.
25 Alain Glavieux, 55, mathematician, information technology pioneer.
25 Marvin Davis, 79, philanthropist; ex-owner of Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach.
26 Amjad Hussain Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida.
26 Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, Hamas leader assassinated by car bomb.
27 Tsai Wan-lin, 81, Taiwan's wealthiest businessman and founder of the Lin Yuan Group.
28 Geoffrey Beene, 77, fashion designer, pneumonia.
28 Mulk Raj Anand, 98, Indian author in Englis.
28 Scott Muni, 74, longtime New York City radio disc jockey.
29 Ernst van der Beugel, 86, former Dutch junior Foreign Minister and former CEO of KLM.
29 David Jackson, 49, New Zealand boxer.
29 Christer Pettersson, 57, suspected murderer of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.
29 Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, accident.
29 Gertrude Dunn, 72, American women's baseball and field hockey player, plane crash.
29 Shimon Wincelberg (also known as S. Bar David), 80, television writer.
30 Jacques Levy, 69, director of original production of Oh! Calcutta!.
30 Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor.
30 Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch maverick journalist, cancer.
30 Justin Strzelczyk, 36, former National Football League Pittsburgh Steelers player, car crash while leading police on chase.
30 Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician.