Deaths in January 2004

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

  January 2004

1

• Charlie Elliott, 91, English cricketer.
• Harold Henning, 69, South African golfer.
• Elma Lewis, 82, American arts leader.
• Yevgeniy Migunov, 82, Russian artist, cartoonist, animation and art director, and screenwriter.
• Frederick Redlich, 93, Austrian-American dean of the Yale University School of Medicine.
• John Stoneham, 95, American baseball player.
• Igor Torkar, 90, Slovenian writer, playwright, and poet.

  2

• Dinu Adameșteanu, 90, Romanian-Italian archaeologist.
• Etta Moten Barnett, 102, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Lynn Cartwright, 76, U.S. actress, dementia.
• Jess Collins, 80, American visual artist.
• Geoff Edrich, 85, English first-class cricket player.
• John Grandy, 90, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Paul Hopkins, 99, American baseball player.
• Maria Clara Lobregat, 82, Filipina politician, heart attack.
• Sheila McKechnie, 55, Scottish trade unionist, housing campaigner and consumer activist, cancer.
• Kamal El Sheikh, 84, Egyptian film director.
• Dennis Silverthorne, 80, American Olympic pairs figure skater.

  3

• Lillian Beckwith, 87, English author.
• Des Corcoran, 75, Australian politician, Premier of South Australia.
• Taylor Duncan, 50, American baseball player.
• Pierre Flamion, 79, French football manager and player.
• T. G. Jones, 86, Welsh football player.
• William Craig Reynolds, 70, American fluid physicist and mechanical engineer.
• Leon Wagner, 69, American Major League Baseball player.
• Beatrice Winde, 79, American actress, cancer.

  4

• Joan Aiken, 79, English writer, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
• James Counsilman, 83, American swimming coach, Parkinson's disease.
• Johannes Fehring, 77, Austrian composer.
• Brian Gibson, 59, English film director, What's Love Got to Do With It, bone cancer.
• Jake Hess, 76, American southern gospel singer.
• Refik Memišević, 47, Yugoslav wrestler.
• Allen H. Miner, 86, American director and screenwriter.
• Jeff Nuttall, 70, English poet, actor, artist, jazz trumpeter, and author.
• Helena Růžičková, 67, Czech actress and comedian, stomach cancer.
• Michael Whitney Straight, 87, American magazine publisher, author and a confessed spy for the KGB, pancreatic cancer.
• Dorota Terakowska, 65, Polish writer and journalist.
• John Toland, 91, American author and historian, pneumonia.
• Gábor Török, 67, Hungarian football goalkeeper.

  5

• Thomas Daly, 90, Australian Army officer.
• Charles Dumas, 66, American Olympic High Jump gold medalist, cancer.
• John Guerin, 64, American percussionist, heart failure.
• Norman Heatley, 92, British biochemist.
• Vivian Jenkins, 92, Welsh rugby player and sports journalist.
• Tug McGraw, 59, American Major League Baseball pitcher, brain cancer.

  6

• Vera Bradford, 99, Australian pianist and piano teacher.
• Pierre Charles, 49, Dominican politician, Prime Minister, heart attack.
• Sumita Devi, 68, Bangladeshi film actress.
• John Evans, 74, British footballer.
• Philip Gilbert, 72, Canadian actor.
• Nicolas Mosar, 76, Luxembourgish politician, jurist, and diplomat.
• Markku Salminen, 57, Finnish orienteering athlete.
• Francesco Scavullo, 82, American fashion photographer.
• Reg Smith, 91, English football player and manager.
• Thomas Stockham, 70, American scientist, known as the "father of digital recording".

  7

• Shalva Apkhazava, 23, Georgian footballer, heart failure.
• Piotr Kowalski, 76, Polish artist, sculptor, and architect.
• Jaap Kraaier, 90, Dutch flatwater canoeist and Olympic medalist.
• Khenpo Jigme Puntsok, 70, Nyingma lama and Terton from Sertha Region.
• Natalya Smirnitskaya, 76, Soviet javelin thrower.
• Ingrid Thulin, 77, Swedish actress, Cries and Whispers, cancer.
• Léonce-Albert Van Peteghem, 87, Belgian Roman Catholic Bishop.
• Mario Zatelli, 91, French football player and manager.

  8

• Charles Brown, 57, American actor, prostate cancer.
• Delfín Benítez Cáceres, 93, Paraguayan football player.
• John A. Gambling, 73, American radio host, "Rambling with Gambling", heart attack.
• Tom Kindness, 74, American politician.
• Reginald H. Morris, 85, British-Canadian cinematographer.
• Hal Shaper, 72, South African songwriter.
• Louis Stanley, 92, British author, journalist, team principal of BRM, stroke.
• Frank Ténot, 78, French press agent, pataphysician, and jazz critic.

  9

• Norberto Bobbio, 94, Italian senator, jurist, philosopher and political scientist.
• Lyndon Brook, 77, British actor.
• Harriet Creighton, 94, American botanist, geneticist and educator.
• Yinka Dare, 31, Nigerian basketball player, heart attack.
• Nissim Ezekiel, 79, Indian poet, playwright and art critic.
• Rainer Hildebrandt, 89, German anti-communist resistance fighter and historian.
• Myron E. Leavitt, 73, American politician.
• Rogério Sganzerla, 57, Brazilian filmmaker, brain tumor.

  10

• Billy Klüver, 76, American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
• Sidney Miller, 87, American actor, director and songwriter, Parkinson's disease.
• Princess Kira of Prussia, 60, German princess.
• Ewald Pyle, 93, American baseball player.
• Alexandra Ripley, 70, American author, Scarlett.

  11

• Max D. Barnes, 67, country singer and songwriter.
• Clement Conger, 91, American museum curator, pneumonia.
• Perry Belmont Duryea Jr., 82, American politician, traffic collision.
• Spalding Gray, 62, American actor and writer, suicide by drowning.
• Mervyn Pike, Baroness Pike, 85, British politician and life peer.
• Asrul Sani, 76, Indonesian writer, poet and screenwriter.

  12

• Petter Jakob Bjerve, 90, Norwegian economist, statistician and politician.
• James M. Early, 81, American electrical engineer.
• Ramakrishna Hegde, 77, Indian politician.
• Olga Ladyzhenskaya, 81, Soviet and Russian mathematician.
• Randy VanWarmer, 48, American singer and songwriter, leukemia.
• William T. Young, 85, American businessman.

  13

• Joan Reventós i Carner, 76, Spanish politician.
• Rafael Gambra Ciudad, 83, Spanish philosopher.
• Phillip Crosby, 69, American actor and singer, son of crooner Bing Crosby, heart attack.
• Mike Goliat, 82, American baseball player.
• Fritz Hamer, 91, German botanist.
• David N. Henderson, 82, American politician.
• Tom Hurndall, 22, British political activist, gunshot wound.
• William Lawrence, 97, Australian politician.
• Arne Næss, Jr., 66, Norwegian mountaineer and businessman, former husband of Diana Ross, accidental death.
• Dave Penna, 46, American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing.
• Harold Shipman, 57, British serial killer, suicide by hanging.
• Zeno Vendler, 82, American philosopher and linguist.
• Keraca Visulčeva, 92, Macedonian and Bulgarian artist.

  14

• Terje Bakken, 25, Norwegian black metal musician, hypothermia.
• Jack Cady, 71, American science fiction writer.
• Catherine Craig, 88, American actress.
• Uta Hagen, 84, German-American actress, Tony winner, stroke.
• Joaquín Nin-Culmell, 95, Cuban-Spanish composer, concert pianist and emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley, heart attack.
• Ron O'Neal, 66, American actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Eduard Sibiryakov, 62, Soviet Olympic volleyball player.
• Eric Sturgess, 83, South African tennis player, winner of six Grand Slam doubles titles.

  15

• Maarouf al-Dawalibi, 94, Syrian politician, prime minister.
• André Barrais, 83, French basketball player.
• Alex Barris, 81, Canadian actor and writer, stroke.
• Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski, 69, Bulgarian paleontologist.
• Ambroise-Marie Carré, 95, French Catholic priest, member of the Académie française.
• Johnny Cronshey, 77, English speed skater.
• Sunday Emmanuel, 25, Nigerian athlete, car accident.
• Olivia Goldsmith, 55, American author, heart attack.
• Mohammad Yunus Saleem, 92, Indian politician, scholar, and lawyer.
• Manik Chandra Saha, 48, Bangladeshi journalist, bombing.
• Delia Scala, 74, Italian ballerina, actress and singer, breast cancer.
• Gus Suhr, 98, American baseball player.

  16

• Slavomír Bartoň, 77, Czech ice hockey player.
• John Siomos, 56, American rock drummer.
• Kalevi Sorsa, 73, Finnish politician, prime minister.
• Albert Tillman, 76, American educator and underwater diver.

  17

• Walter Auffenberg, 75, American biologist.
• Raymond Bonham Carter, 74, British banker and father of Helena Bonham Carter.
• Harry Brecheen, 89, American Major League Baseball baseball player.
• Hersh Freeman, 75, American baseball player.
• Czesław Niemen, 64, Polish musician, cancer.
• Zenobia Powell Perry, 95, American composer, professor and civil rights activist.
• Rafael Cordero Santiago, 61, Puerto Rican politician, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Carlton R. Sickles, 82, American lawyer and politician.
• Ray Stark, 88, American film producer, heart attack.
• Noble Willingham, 72, American actor, heart attack.

  18

• Hook Dillon, 80, American basketball player.
• Peter Ward Fay, 79, American historian.
• Gérard Jarry, 67, French classical violinist.
• Bruno Silić, 45, Croatian water polo player and coach.

  19

• Harry E. Claiborne, 86, American district judge of the American District Court for the District of Nevada, suicide by gunshot.
• Tommy Glaviano, 80, American baseball player.
• David Hookes, 48, Australian cricketer and Victorian coach, heart attack.
• Jerry Nachman, 57, American MSNBC editor-in-chief, cancer.
• Miroslav Pavlović, 61, Serbian football player.
• Murray Watkinson, 64, New Zealand rower.