Deaths in February 2004

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

  February 2004

1

• Art Albrecht, 82, American gridiron football player.
• Alvin Baltrop, 55, American photographer, cancer.
• Ewald Cebula, 86, Polish football player.
• Álvaro d'Ors, 88, Spanish scholar of Roman law.
• Buzz Gardner, 72, American trumpeter.
• Valeri Gassy, 54, Ukrainian handball player, Olympic champion.
• Mihai Ivăncescu, 61, Romanian football player.
• Ally MacLeod, 72, Scottish football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
• Joe Mallett, 88, English football player.
• Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, 89, Pakistani military officer.
• Bob Stokoe, 73, English footballer and manager, pneumonia.
• Dino Verde, 81, Italian author, lyricist, playwright and screenwriter.

  2

• Alan Bullock, 89, British historian and author.
• Henry Cockburn, 82, English footballer.
• Naohiro Dōgakinai, 89, Japanese politician, governor of Hokkaido.
• Bernard McEveety, 79, American film and television director.
• Róbert Zimonyi, 85, Hungarian Olympic rower.

  3

• Cornelius Bumpus, 58, American musician, heart attack.
• Kaúlza de Arriaga, 89, Portuguese general, writer, and politician, Alzheimer's disease.
• Ted Harding, 82, Australian politician and rugby league football player.
• Keve Hjelm, 81, Swedish actor and film director, prostate cancer.
• Jason Raize, 28, American actor, suicide by hanging.
• William B. Tabler, 89, American architect.
• Fiep Westendorp, 87, Dutch illustrator.
• Lyle Wicks, 91, Canadian politician.
• Warren Zimmermann, 69, American diplomat, pancreatic cancer.

  4

• Valentina Borok, 72, Soviet Ukrainian mathematician.
• Stevo Crvenkovski, 56, Macedonian politician and diplomat.
• Hilda Hilst, 73, Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright, complications from surgery.
• William MacQuitty, 98, Irish film producer and also a writer and photographer.
• Michael P. Moran, 59, American actor, Guillain–Barré syndrome.
• Malika Pukhraj, 92, Pakistani folk singer.
• Karlheinz Senghas, 75, German botanist and orchidologist.

  5

• Donald Barr, 82, American educator.
• Sir Robert Boyd, 81, British space scientist.
• John Hench, 95, American artist, designer and director at The Walt Disney Company, heart failure.
• Claude Lemaire, 82, French entomologist.
• Thomas Hinman Moorer, 91, American admiral, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
• Frances Partridge, 103, British writer, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group.
• Nuto Revelli, 84, Italian essayist and partisan.
• Harry West, 86, Northern Irish politician.

  6

• Jovan Cokić, 76, Serbian football player.
• Masataka Ida, 91, Japanese Army officer and rebel during World War II.
• Jørgen Jersild, 90, Danish composer and music educator.
• Jerome Fox Lederer, 101, American aviation safety pioneer, heart attack.
• John Meyrick, 77, British Olympic rower and agriculturalist.
• Humphry Osmond, 86, English psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter.

  7

• Richard Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret, 67, British soldier and aristocrat.
• Safia Farhat, Tunisian artist, academic and women's rights activist.
• Emilia Guiú, 81, Spanish-Mexican actress, liver cancer.
• Mikhail Korkia, 55, Georgian-Soviet basketball player.
• Raija Siekkinen, 50, Finnish writer.
• Norman Thelwell, 80, English cartoonist.

  8

• Walter Freud, 82, Austrian-British Special Operations Executive agent during World War II.
• Nicholas Goldschmidt, 95, Canadian conductor, music festival entrepreneur and artistic director.
• Kristian Henriksen, 92, Norwegian football player and coach.
• William W. Johnstone, 65, American author.
• Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer, heart attack.
• Wayne Eyer Manning, 104, American horticulturist and botanist.
• Julius Schwartz, 88, American comic book and pulp magazine editor.

  9

• Julio Baylón, 56, Peruvian football player.
• Robert F. Colesberry, 57, American film and television producer, complications following cardiac surgery.
• Gerhard Riedmann, 78, Austrian film actor.
• Opilio Rossi, 93, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Claude Ryan, 79, Canadian politician, stomach cancer.

  10

• Nils Aas, 70, Norwegian sculptor and illustrator.
• Paul Ilyinsky, 76, American politician and three-time mayor of Palm Beach, Florida.
• Edward Jablonski, 81, American biographer.
• Hub Kittle, 86, American baseball player and manager, complications from kidney failure and diabetes.
• Guy Provost, 78, French Canadian actor, pneumonia.
• John Sundberg, 83, Swedish sport shooter and Olympic medalist.

  11

• Vera Broido, 96, Russian-British writer and a chronicler of the Russian Revolution.
• Tadeusz Dembończyk, 48, Polish weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
• Ryszard Kukliński, 74, Polish colonel, spy and defector, stroke.
• Jozef Lenárt, 80, Slovak politician, member of the Czechoslovak Parliament and Slovak National Council.
• Tony Pope, 56, American voice actor, complications following leg surgery.
• Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian sprinter and Olympic champion, heart attack.
• Hitoshi Takagi, 78, Japanese voice actor, arteriosclerotic heart disease.
• Robert E. Thompson, 79, American screenwriter.
• Albeiro Usuriaga, 37, Colombian football player, homicide.

  12

• Martin Booth, 59, British author, brain tumor.
• Robert A. Bruce, 87, American cardiologist.
• Martin Jurow, 92, American film producer.
• John Killick, 84, British diplomat.
• Preston Love, 83, American jazz saxophone player.
• Věra Suchánková, 71, Czech Olympic pair skater.

  13

• Carole Eastman, 69, American actress and screenwriter.
• Denis Hurley, 89, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Durban.
• Sarah Jacobson, 32, American film director, screenwriter, and producer, uterine cancer.
• Janusz Kulig, 34, Polish rally driver, railway accident.
• David Lee, 91, British Air Chief Marshal.
• Ted Tappe, 73, American baseball player.
• François Tavenas, 61, Canadian engineer and academic.
• Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, 51, Chechen writer, politician and military figurist, explosion.

  14

• Jock Butterfield, 72, New Zealand rugby player.
• Yang Chengwu, 89, Chinese general and Communist Party politician.
• Elois Jenssen, 81, American film and television costume designer.
• Marco Pantani, 34, Italian racing cyclist, winner of Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in 1998, acute cocaine poisoning.
• Walter Perkins, 72, American jazz drummer, lung cancer.
• Yang Xinhai, 35, Chinese serial killer, execution by firing squad.

  15

• Gil Coggins, 75, American jazz pianist.
• Steve Cooper, 39, English football player, intracerebral hemorrhage.
• Hasse Ekman, 88, Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television.
• Jens Evensen, 86, Norwegian minister, World Court judge.
• Walter Gottschalk, 85, American mathematician.
• Hermann Hogeback, 89, German bomber pilot during World War II.
• Jan Miner, 86, American actress.
• Sture Mårtensson, 87, Swedish football player.
• Isarco Ravaioli, 70, Italian film actor.
• Lawrence Ritter, 81, American writer.
• Luigi Taramazzo, 71, Italian racing driver.
• John Tietjen, 75, American Lutheran clergyman, theologian, and national church leader, brain cancer.
• Friedrich Waller, 83, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic champion.

  16

• Don Cleverley, 94, New Zealand cricketer.
• Charlie Fox, 82, American baseball manager.
• Ella Johnson, 84, American jazz and rhythm and blues singer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Martin Kneser, 76, German mathematician.
• Harold Smedley, 83, British diplomat.
• Doris Troy, 67, American R&B singer, pulmonary emphysema.
• Geoff Twentyman, 74, English football player.
• Miloslav Šimek, 63, Czech comedian and satirist, leukemia.

  17

• Bruce Beaver, 76, Australian poet and novelist.
• Gaston Godel, 89, Swiss Olympic race walker, silver medalist.
• Sofia Golovkina, 88, Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher.
• José López Portillo, 83, Mexican politician and lawyer, President of Mexico.
• Dragi Stamenković, 83, Yugoslav and Serbian politician and author.
• Cameron Todd Willingham, 36, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.

  18

• Despo Diamantidou, 87, Greek actress.
• Tommy Eglington, 81, Irish football player.
• Frankie Evangelista, 69, Filipino newspaper columnist, and radio and television broadcaster, stomach cancer.
• Steve Neal, 54, American journalist and historian, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Jean Rouch, 86, French filmmaker and ethnologist, traffic collision.
• Ivor Stanbrook, 80, British Conservative party politician, barrister and Member of Parliament.

  19

• Gurgen Margaryan, 25, Armenian Army officer, slashed.
• Archibald Paton Thornton, 83, Canadian historian.
• Renata Vanni, 94, Italian-American film actress.
• Maurice Voron, 75, French rugby league football player.

  20

• Minouche Barelli, 56, French singer.
• Fred Brown, 79, British virologist.
• Sigfrido Fontanelli, 56, Italian racing cyclist.
• Mel Hunter, 76, American illustrator, bone cancer.
• J.J. Malone, 68, American blues guitarist, singer and keyboardist.
• Kōyū Ohara, 69, Japanese film director.

  21

• Sergey Sergeyevich Averintsev, 66, Russian literary scholar, byzantinist and slavist.
• John Charles, 72, Welsh football player, heart attack.
• Albert Chartier, 91, French-Canadian cartoonist and illustrator.
• Néstor de Villa, 75, Filipino musical film actor, prostate cancer.
• Les Gray, 57, British singer, heart attack during cancer treatment.
• Bart Howard, 88, American composer.
• Svava Jakobsdóttir, 73, Icelandic author and politician.
• Mohd hisraime bin juso, 87, Singaporean banker and hotel owner, heart attack.
• Dan Kiley, 91, American landscape architect.
• Guido Molinari, 70, Canadian abstract artist.
• Custódio Pinto, 62, Portuguese football player.
• Lyudmila Shishova, 63, Soviet Olympic fencer and fencing coach.