Deaths in April 2004

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

  April 2004

1

• Paul Atkinson, 58, British guitarist, kidney failure.
• Aaron Bank, 101, American U.S. Army officer, "Father of Special Forces".
• Rıza Doğan, 73, Turkish wrestler and Olympic silver medalist.
• Enrique Grau, 83, Colombian painter and sculptor.
• Yannis Kyrastas, 51, Greek football player and football manager, sepsis.
• Ichirō Nakatani, 73, Japanese actor and seiyū.
• Sándor Reisenbüchler, 69, Hungarian animated film director and graphic artist.
• Mykola Rudenko, 83, Ukrainian poet and human rights activist.
• Jacques Seiler, 76, French actor and theatre director, cancer.
• Charles St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair, 89, British aristocrat and courtier.
• Carrie Snodgress, 58, American actress, kidney failure.
• Gurcharan Singh Tohra, 79, Indian Sikh leader, heart attack.

  2

• Ioannis Argyris, 90, Greek computer scientist.
• Alan Levy, 72, American author.
• Takashi Shirôzu, 86, Japanese entomologist.
• Chaïbia Talal, 75, Moroccan painter, heart attack.
• John Taras, 84, American ballet master and choreographer.

  3

• John Diamond, Baron Diamond, 96, British life peer.
• Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian singer, suicide.
• Eduard Linkers, 91, Austrian actor.
• Nagaraja Rao, 89–90, Indian cricket umpire.
• Phillip Rock, 76, American actor, screenwriter and novelist.

  4

• Gito Baloi, 39, South African musician, homicide.
• George Bamberger, 80, American baseball player and manager, cancer.
• Nikita Bogoslovsky, 90, Soviet and Russian composer, conductor, and writer.
• Danuta Czech, 82, Polish Holocaust historian.
• Sukhen Das, 65, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter of Bengali cinema.
• Gébé, 74, French cartoonist.
• Ralph Kemplen, 91, British film editor.
• Pierre Koenig, 78, American architect and academic.
• Boris Levitan, 89, Russian mathematician.
• James J. Martin, 87, American historian and Holocaust denier.
• Bogdan Norčič, 50, Yugoslavian Olympic ski jumper.
• Albéric Schotte, 84, Belgian road racing cyclist.
• Alwyn Williams, 82, British geologist.
• Ron Williams, 59, American basketball player, heart attack.
• Austin Willis, 87, Canadian actor and television host.

  5

• Isaac Carrasco, 75, Chilean football player.
• Fernand Goyvaerts, 65, Belgian football player, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Ralph Landau, 87, American chemical engineer and entrepreneur.
• Larry McGrew, 46, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Pompeo Posar, 83, American Playboy magazine staff photographer.
• Sławomir Rawicz, 88, Polish army lieutenant imprisoned by the NKVD and purported escapee.
• Fred Winter, 77, British racehorse trainer and jockey.
• Heiner Zieschang, 67, German mathematician.

  6

• Lou Berberet, 74, American Major League Baseball baseball player.
• Larisa Bogoraz, 74, Russian dissident and human rights activist, stroke.
• Glenn Cowan, 51, American table tennis player, heart attack.
• Ken Johnson, 81, American baseball player.
• Alexander Lerner, 90, Soviet and Ukrainian scientist and refusenik.
• Niki Sullivan, 66, American Rock and Roll guitarist, heart attack.

  7

• Victor Argo, 69, American actor, complications from lung cancer.
• Wolfgang Mattheuer, 77, German painter, graphic artist and sculptor, heart failure.
• Marian McCargo, 72, American actress and champion tennis player, pancreatic cancer.
• Kelucharan Mohapatra, 77, Indian classical dancer and guru.
• Maureen Potter, 79, Irish actress, singer, dancer and comedian.
• Robert Sangster, 67, British racehorse owner, pancreatic cancer.
• Peter Urban, 69, American martial artist.

  8

• Shafic Abboud, 77, Lebanese painter.
• Herb Andress, 69, Austrian film and television actor, bladder cancer.
• Adrian Beers, 88, British double bass player.
• Chief Bey, 90, American jazz percussionist and African folklorist, stomach cancer.
• Enda Colleran, 61, Irish Gaelic football player and manager.
• Ruth Tabrah, 83, American writer and ordained Buddhist minister.

  9

• Lélia Abramo, 93, Brazilian actress and political activist, and politician, pulmonary embolism.
• Harry Babbitt, 90, American singer.
• Donna Michelle, 58, American model, actress, and photographer, heart attack.
• Chance Phelps, 19, American private first class.
• Julius Sang, 55, Kenyan Olympic runner.
• Jiří Weiss, 91, Czech film director, screenwriter, writer, and playwright.

  10

• Paul-Louis Boutié, 93, French art director.
• Bertil Göransson, 85, Swedish rowing coxswain and Olympic silver medalist.
• Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity, laryngeal cancer.
• Ben Pimlott, 58, British historian, leukemia.
• Roland Rainer, 93, Austrian architect.
• Sakıp Sabancı, 71, Turkish businessman, kidney cancer.
• Odd Wang Sørensen, 81, Norwegian Olympic football player.

  11

• Stan Darling, 92, Canadian politician.
• Hy Gotkin, 81, American basketball player.
• Paul Hamburger, 83, British pianist, accompanist, chamber musician, and scholar.
• Mamadou Aliou Kéïta, 52, Guinean football player, cardiac arrest.

  12

• Norman Campbell, 80, Canadian composer, television producer and director, stroke.
• Robert Richardson, 76, Canadian Olympic alpine skier.
• Frank Seward, 83, American baseball player.
• Juanito Valderrama, 87, Spanish folk and flamenco singer.
• Wesley Wehr, 74, American paleontologist and artist.
• George W. Whitehead, 85, American mathematician.

  13

• Ritchie Cordell, 61, American songwriter, singer and record producer, pancreatic cancer.
• Dadamaino, 73, Italian visual artist and painter.
• Hilda Fenemore, 89, English actress.
• David Fowler, 66, British mathematician.
• Csaba Horváth, 74, Hungarian-American chemical engineer and scientist.
• Caron Keating, 41, British television presenter, breast cancer.
• Aarne Saarinen, 90, Finnish politician and a trade union leader.

  14

• Micheline Charest, 51, British television producer, complications following plastic surgery.
• Antonio Cobas, 52, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle designer and mechanic, cancer.
• Erik Kuld Jensen, 78, Danish football player.
• Robin Popplestone, 65, British software designer and a pioneer in artificial intelligence and robotics, prostate cancer.
• Fabrizio Quattrocchi, 35, Italian security officer, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq.

  15

• Ray Condo, 53, Canadian rockabilly singer, saxophonist, and guitarist, heart attack.
• María Denis, 87, Argentine-Italian film actress.
• Phyllis Dillon, 59, Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer, cancer.
• Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre director, composer and producer.
• Mitsuteru Yokoyama, 69, Japanese manga artist, accidental death.

  16

• Abu al-Walid, Saudi Arabian terrorist, killed by Russian federal forces.
• Carlos Castaño, 38, Colombian rebel leader, killed by FARC guerillas.
• Nour El-Dali, 75, Egyptian football player.
• Wilmot N. Hess, 77, American physicist, leukemia.
• Harry Mayerovitch, 94, Canadian architect, artist, illustrator, and author.
• Jan Szczepański, 90, Polish sociologist and politician.
• James Walraven, 54, American murderer and suspected serial killer, suicide.

  17

• Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, 56, Palestinian Hamas leader, targeted killing by Israel.
• Bruce Boa, 73, Canadian-British actor, cancer.
• Anke Hartnagel, 62, German politician, Member of the German Bundestag.
• Geraint Howells, 79, Welsh politician.
• Joe Kennedy Jr., 80, American jazz violinist.
• Jim Ligon, 60, American basketball player.
• Earl Miner, 77, American professor at Princeton University.
• Soundarya, 31, Indian film actress, plane crash.
• Bobby Wawak, 64, American NASCAR race driver.

  18

• David Clarke, 95, American Broadway and motion picture actor.
• Tzila Dagan, 57, Israeli singer-songwriter, cancer.
• Gürdal Duyar, 68, Turkish sculptor.
• Brice Hunter, 29, American gridiron football player, shot.
• Kamisese Mara, 83, Fijian politician, prime minister and president, stroke.
• Koken Nosaka, 79, Japanese politician.
• Frances Rafferty, 81, American actress, dancer, and model.
• Werner Schumacher, 82, German actor.

  19

• Tim Burstall, 76, Australian film director and producer, stroke.
• Jim Cantalupo, 60, American businessman, CEO of McDonald's, heart attack.
• George Hardwick, 84, English football player, manager and coach.
• Volodymyr Kaplychnyi, 60, Ukrainian football player.
• Philip Locke, 76, British actor.
• Norris McWhirter, 78, British writer, political activist and founder of the Guinness Book of Records, heart attack.
• Frank B. Morrison, 98, American politician, Governor of Nebraska.
• Sam Nahem, 88, American baseball player.
• Ronnie Simpson, 73, Scottish footballer and manager, heart attack.
• John Maynard Smith, 84, British biologist, lung cancer.
• Wolfgang Unger, 55, German conductor, cancer.

  20

• Lizzy Mercier Descloux, 47, French musician, actress, writer and painter, cancer.
• Komal Kothari, 75, Indian folklorist and ethnomusicologist.
• Mary McGrory, 85, American journalist and columnist.
• Abdullah Shah, 59, Afghan serial killer, executed.
• Al Stiller, 80, American Olympic cyclist.

  21

• Eduard Asadov, 80, Russian poet and writer.
• Den Fujita, 78, Japanese founder of McDonald's Japan, heart failure.
• Karl Hass, 91, German SS officer and convicted war criminal.
• John W. Kirklin, 87, American cardiothoracic surgeon who refined John Gibbon's heart–lung bypass machine.
• Mary Selway, 68, British casting director, cancer.
• Tui St. George Tucker, 79, American modernist composer and conductors.
• Peter Bander van Duren, 73, British writer on heraldry and orders of knighthood.
• Sunčana Škrinjarić, 72, Croatian writer, poet and journalist.