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.

22

• Roque Máspoli, 86, Uruguayan goalkeeper, heart attack.
• Irina Press, 64, Soviet athlete and Olympic champion.
• Azriel Rosenfeld, 73, American computer image analysis researcher.
• Andy Seminick, 83, American baseball player, cancer.

23

• Vijay Anand, 71, Indian Bollywood filmmaker and brother of Dev Anand., heart attack.
• Carl Anderson, 58, American actor, leukemia.
• Neil Ardley, 66, British jazz composer.
• Sikander Bakht, 85, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala.
• Pedro Bloch, 90, Brazilian writer, respiratory failure.
• Don Cornell, 84, American singer, emphysema and diabetes.
• Douglas Scott Falconer, 90, British geneticist.
• Samuel Edward Konkin III, 56, Canadian-American philosopher and economist.
• Bob Marshall, 93, Australian billiards player.
• Bob Mayo, 52, American session keyboardist and guitarist, heart attack.

24

• Albert Axelrod, 83, American foil fencer and Olympic medalist, heart attack.
• Estelle Axton, 85, American record executive and co-founder of Stax Records.
• Sheila Darcy, 89, American film actress of the 1930s and the 1940s.
• Carl Liscombe, 89, Canadian Detroit Red Wings hockey player, leukemia.
• Joan McCord, 73, American professor of criminology, lung cancer.
• John Randolph, 88, American actor, Tony winner.
• A.C. Reed, 77, American saxophonist, cancer.
• Alvino Rey, 95, American jazz guitarist and bandleader, pneumonia.

25

• Waggoner Carr, 85, American politician, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and Attorney General of Texas, cancer.
• Jack Flavell, 74, English cricketer.
• Jacques Georges, 87, French football administrator, President of UEFA.
• Henryk Jaźnicki, 86, Polish football player.
• Pe Khin, 91, Burmese diplomat.
• Yuri Ozerov, 75, Soviet Olympic basketball player.
• B. Nagi Reddy, 91, Indian movie producer.
• Ahmed Sefrioui, Moroccan novelist.
• Bagrat Shinkuba, 86, Abkhaz writer, poet, historian, and politician.

26

• Harry Bartell, 90, American actor and announcer in radio, television and film.
• Shankarrao Chavan, 83, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
• Adolf Ehrnrooth, 99, Finnish general, World War II veteran and Olympian equestrian.
• Russell Hunter, 79, Scottish actor, lung cancer.
• Roger Mirams, 85, New Zealand-Australian film producer and director.
• Roy Smith, 59, Canadian racing driver.
• Jack Sperling, 81, American jazz drummer.
• Boris Trajkovski, 47, Macedonian politician, President of the Republic of Macedonia, aviation accident.
• Simon Walker, 46, British historian of late-medieval England, cancer.
• Ralph E. Winters, 94, Canadian film editor.

27

• Yoshihiko Amino, 76, Japanese marxist historian and intellectual, lung cancer.
• Clarence Barber, 86, Canadian economist and academic.
• Francisco Mago Leccia, 72, Venezuelan ichthyologist.
• Paul Sweezy, 93, American marxian economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review..

28

• Daniel J. Boorstin, 89, American social historian, pneumonia.
• Eivor Engelbrektsson, 89, Swedish actress.
• Ruslan Gelayev, 39, Chechen politician, general and resistance commander, K.I.A.
• Angie Turner King, 98, American chemist, mathematician, and educator.
• Stanislaus Lo Kuang, 93, Taiwanese Catholic archbishop.
• Carmen Laforet, 82, Spanish author.
• Marv Matuszak, 72, American gridiron football player.
• Nicholas Vivian, 6th Baron Vivian, 68, British soldier and aristocrat.

29

• Oleksandr Beresch, 26, Ukrainian Olympic gymnast, traffic collision.
• Dana Broccoli, 82, American actress, cancer.
• Marc Cavell, 64, American actor.
• Armando de Ramón, 77, Chilean historian.
• Jane Engelhard, 86, American philanthropist and wife of industrialist Charles W. Engelhard Jr., pneumonia.
• Harold Bernard St. John, 72, Barbadian politician, cancer.
• Kagamisato Kiyoji, 80, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Maurice Larkin, 71, English historian specialising in the history of modern France.
• Jerome Lawrence, 88, American playwright and author, stroke.
• Danny Ortiz., 27, Guatemalan football goalkeeper, torn pericardium.
• Witold Rudziński, 90, Polish composer, conductor, and author.
• Nat Taylor, 98, Canadian inventor and film producer.