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.

20

• Alan Brown, 84, British Formula One driver.
• Timothy Gantz, 58, American classical scholar, heart attack.
• Walt Grealis, 74, Canadian publisher and music industry leader, lung cancer.
• Olivier Guichard, 83, French politician.
• Lloyd Merriman, 79, American baseball player.
• Bernard Punsly, 80, American physician and actor, cancer.
• Don Shinnick, 68, American professional football player and coach, neurological disorder.
• Guinn Smith, 83, American Olympic pole vaulter, pulmonary emphysema.
• George Woodbridge, 73, American illustrator.

21

• Rao Farman Ali, 81, Pakistani military officer.
• M. Arunachalam, 59, Indian politician and Union Minister.
• Johnny Blatnik, 82, American baseball player.
• Luis Cuenca García, 82, Spanish actor, lung disease.
• Jim Henry, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
• John T. Lewis, 71, Welsh physicist.
• Jock Newall, 86, New Zealand football player.
• Yordan Radichkov, 74, Bulgarian writer and playwright.
• Ray Rayner, 84, American actor, pneumonia.
• Juan Zambudio Velasco, 82, Spanish football goalkeeper.

22

• Milt Bernhart, 77, American jazz trombonist.
• Gérard Darrieu, 78, French actor.
• Islwyn Ffowc Elis, 79, British Welsh language writer.
• Ticky Holgado, 59, French actor, lung cancer.
• Billy May, 87, American big band and pop music arranger, heart attack.
• Janez Menart, 74, Slovene poet.
• Ann Miller, 80, American dancer, lung cancer.
• Royce Smith, 54, American gridiron football player.
• Chea Vichea, Cambodian labor leader, homicide.
• Charlotte Zwerin, 72, American documentary film director and editor, lung cancer.
• Rudi Šeligo, 68, Slovenian writer, playwright, essayist and politician.

23

• Albert Henderson, 88, American actor.
• Bob Keeshan, 76, American actor, starred as "Captain Kangaroo", heart attack.
• Vasili Mitrokhin, 81, Soviet/Russian/British KGB-officer and defector.
• Helmut Newton, 83, German-Australian photographer, heart attack.
• Lennart Strand, 82, Swedish Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Tom Warhurst, Sr., 86, Australian tennis player.

24

• Anita W. Addison, 51, American television and film director and producer, breast cancer.
• Tomio Aoki, 80, Japanese film actor, lung cancer.
• Gordon Brook-Shepherd, 85, British intelligence agent, journalist, and historian.
• Reva Brooks, 90, Canadian photographer.
• Gyula Kristó, 64, Hungarian historian and medievalist.
• Leônidas, 90, Brazilian football player, complications due to Alzheimer's disease.
• Abdul Rahman Munif, 70, Saudi novelist, journalist, and cultural critic, kidney and heart failure.
• Jack Tunney, 69, Canadian professional wrestling promoter, heart attack.

25

• Fanny Blankers-Koen, 85, Dutch track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
• Miklós Fehér, 24, Hungarian football player, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
• V. K. N., 74, Indian Malayalam writer.
• Zurab Sakandelidze, 58, Soviet Olympic basketball player.

26

• Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, 91, British artist.
• Fred Haas, 88, American golfer.
• Jacob Mishler, 92, American judge.
• Bata Paskaljević, 81, Serbian actor.
• Hugh Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney, 95, British politician.
• Shōgo Shimada, 98, Japanese film actor, stroke.
• Magne Skodvin, 88, Norwegian educator and historian.

27

• Bill Carey, 87, American songwriter, actor, and author.
• Rikki Fulton, 79, Scottish comedian, Alzheimer's disease.
• Salvador Laurel, 75, Filipino lawyer and politician, Vice President, lymphoma.
• Jack Paar, 85, American author, and The Tonight Show host, stroke.
• Hugh Scanlon, 90, British trade union leader.
• Don Stansauk, 78, American professional wrestler and actor, stroke.

28

• José Miguel Agrelot, 76, Puerto Rican comedian, radio and television host, heart attack.
• Lloyd M. Bucher, 76, United States Navy officer.
• Dino Dines, 59, British keyboard player, heart attack.
• Elroy Hirsch, 80, American gridiron football player.
• Trevor Hold, 64, English composer, poet and author.
• Yukihiko Ikeda, 66, Japanese politician, cancer.
• Eeva Joenpelto, 82, Finnish novelist.
• André Van Lysebeth, 84, Belgian yoga instructor and author.
• Joe Viterelli, 66, American actor, complications from heart surgery.

29

• Norman Bates, 76, American jazz double-bass player.
• Mary-Ellis Bunim, 57, American producer and co-creator of The Real World, breast cancer.
• O. W. Fischer, 88, Austrian actor, kidney failure.
• Janet Frame, 79, New Zealand writer, leukemia.
• M. M. Kaye, 95, British author, The Far Pavilions.
• Andrew J. Kuehn, 66, American film producer.
• Guusje Nederhorst, 34, Dutch actress, breast cancer.
• Louie B. Nunn, 79, American politician, Governor of Kentucky, heart attack.
• Stojan Puc, 82, Yugoslavian chess International Master.
• Soko Richardson, 64, American rhythm and blues drummer.
• James Saunders, 79, British playwright.
• Helge Seip, 84, Norwegian politician.
• Serafim Tulikov, 89, Soviet/Russian composer.

30

• George Bennions, 90, British fighter pilot during World War II.
• Bruno Cesari, 70, Italian art director.
• Malachi Favors, 76, American jazz bassist, pancreatic cancer.
• Frank Mantooth, 56, American jazz pianist and arranger.
• José Álvaro Morais, 60, Portuguese film director, cancer.
• Fuad Rouhani, 96, Iranian administrator and translator.

31

• Ernest Burke, 79, American baseball player, kidney cancer.
• William Herrick, 89, American novelist.
• Eleanor Holm, 91, American Olympic swimmer.
• V. G. Jog, 81, Indian violinist, Parkinson's disease.
• Cyril Maidment, 75, English motorcycle speedway rider.
• Suraiya, 74, Indian actress and singer.