Deaths in July 2004


The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2004.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
  • Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

    July 2004

1

  • Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke.
  • Marlon Brando, 80, American actor, Oscar winner, pulmonary fibrosis, respiratory failure.
  • Ettore Cella, 90, Swiss actor and film director.
  • Karin Evans, 96, South African-German stage and film actress.
  • Mohinder Lal, 68, Indian hockey player and Olympic champion.
  • Richard May, 65, British former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, brain cancer.
  • Jasper Ridley, 84, British writer.
  • Jacques Ruffié, 82, French haematologist, geneticist, and anthropologist.
  • Todor Skalovski, 95, Macedonian composer, chorus and orchestra conductor.

    2

  • Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet.
  • Jeillo Edwards, 61, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill".
  • Mochtar Lubis, 82, Indonesian journalist and writer.
  • James MacKay, 85, American politician.
  • John Cullen Murphy, 85, American comic strip artist.
  • Mfulupinga Nlando Victor, 59, Angolan politician, gunshot wounds.
  • Sky Beauty, 14, American thoroughbred.
  • Gael Turnbull, 76, Scottish poet.
  • Ponkunnam Varkey, 94, Indian writer and activist.

    3

  • John Barron, 83, English actor.
  • Phoebe Brand, 96, American actress, pneumonia.
  • Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe, 76, Swedish jewelry designer, leukemia.
  • Freddy de Vree, 64, Belgian poet and literary critic.
  • Andriyan Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut, heart attack.
  • James Marshall Sprouse, 80, American federal judge.
  • Subandrio, 89, Indonesian politician Foreign Minister and First Deputy Prime Minister of Indonesia under President Sukarno.
  • Lionel Van Brabant, 77, Belgian cyclist.
  • Percy Wickman, 63, Canadian politician and activist for people with disabilities.

    4

  • Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor.
  • Pati Behrs, 82, Russian-American prima ballerina, actress and first wife of filmmaker John Derek.
  • Jean-Louis Florentz, 56, French composer, cancer.
  • Plato A. Skouras, 74, American movie producer.

    5

  • Robert Burchfield, 81, English lexicographer.
  • Jim Paschal, 77, American NASCAR driver, cancer.
  • Andy Sabados, 87, American gridiron football player.
  • Hugh Shearer, 81, Jamaican politician and trade unionist, former Prime Minister of Jamaica.
  • Rodger Ward, 83, American racecar driver, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion.

    6

  • Peter Birks, 62, British academic lawyer, cancer.
  • Eric Douglas, 46, American actor and comedian, youngest son of Kirk Douglas, drug overdose.
  • Ángel Fernández-Santos, 70, Spanish film critic and screenwriter.
  • Walter Frentz, 96, German cameraman, film producer and photographer.
  • Thomas Klestil, 71, Austrian diplomat and politician, Federal President of Austria, heart failure.
  • Pavel Lisitsian, 92, Russian opera singer.
  • Samir Naqqash, 66, Israeli novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
  • Jimmie F. Skaggs, 59, American film actor, lung cancer.
  • Syreeta Wright, 57, American singer and songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder, breast cancer.

    7

  • Jaroslav Huleš, 30, Czech motorcycle racer, suicide.
  • Günther Josten, 82, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
  • Vlado Kristl, 81, Croatian-German filmmaker and artist.
  • Samuel Mitja Rapoport, 91, Russian Empire-born German biochemist.
  • Jeff Smith, 65, American author and television chef.
  • Xiaokai Yang, 55, Chinese-Australian economist, lung cancer.

    8

  • Paula Danziger, 59, American author, heart attack.
  • Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé, 82, French banker and socialite.
  • Ernst R. G. Eckert, 99, American scientist.
  • Albert Friedlander, 77, German rabbi.
  • Henrique Mendes, 73, Portuguese television presenter and actor, bone cancer.
  • Sven Thunman, 84, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.

    9

  • Carlo Di Palma, 79, Italian cinematographer.
  • Lionel Brett, 4th Viscount Esher, 90, British peer, architect and town-planner.
  • Paul Klebnikov, 41, American journalist, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered.
  • Rudy LaRusso, 66, American basketball player, five-time National Basketball Association All-Star, Parkinson's disease.
  • Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor, heart attack.
  • Tony Lupien, 87, American baseball player.
  • Sammy McKim, 79, Canadian film actor and artist, heart attack.
  • Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright, liver cancer.
  • Bill Randle, 81, American disc jockey, cancer.
  • Isabel Sanford, 86, American actress, Emmy winner, heart attack, heart disease.
  • Hugo S. Sims, Jr., 82, American lawyer and politician.

    10

  • Abdul Ghafoor, 85-86, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar.
  • Inge Meysel, 94, German actress, cardioplegia.
  • Loren Mosher, 70, American psychiatrist.
  • Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, Portuguese chemical engineer and politician, prime minister, heart attack.
  • Georgi Proskurin, 59, Soviet pair skater.
  • Art Rebel, 67, American baseball player.

    11

  • Lothar Baier, 62, German author, publisher, and translator, suicide.
  • Van Deren Coke, 83, American photographer, scholar and museum director.
  • Joe Gold, 82, American bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder.
  • Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress, respiratory disease.
  • Haije Kramer, 86, Dutch chess master and theoretician.
  • Terry McLean, 90, New Zealand sports journalist.
  • Laurance Rockefeller, 94, American businessman, conservationist and philanthropist, respiratory failure.
  • Renée Saint-Cyr, 99, French actress.
  • Edkhyam Tenishev, 83, Soviet and Russian linguist.
  • Walter Wager, 79, American author, cancer.

    12

  • George Mallaby, 64, British-Australian actor and scriptwriter, congestive heart failure.
  • Jeff Morris, 69, American actor, cancer.
  • Betty Oliphant, 85, English founder of Canada's National Ballet School.
  • James Quinn, 97, American Olympic sprinter.
  • Emma Yefimova, 72, Soviet Olympic fencer.

    13

  • Arthur Kane, 55, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia.
  • Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor.
  • Michio Morishima, 80, Japanese economist.
  • Roger Quenolle, 78, French football player.
  • Karel Zich, 55, Czech singer, guitarist and composer, heart attack.

    14

  • Nelly Borgeaud, 72, French film actress.
  • Germano de Figueiredo, 71, Portuguese footballer.
  • Hoegeng Imam Santoso, 82, Indonesian chief of police, stroke.
  • Tadeusz Sołtyk, 94, Polish aircraft designer and aerospace engineer.
  • Alex Willoughby, 59, Scottish footballer, cancer.
  • Arnold Ziff, 77, English businessman and philanthropist.

    15

  • Saeed Anwar, 60, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic champion.
  • Banoo Jehangir Coyaji, 86, Indian doctor and family planning activist.
  • Wal Murray, 72, Australian politician.
  • Teun Roosenburg, 88, Dutch sculptor.
  • František Schmucker, 64, Czech football player.
  • Derek Taunt, 86, British mathematician.
  • Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano, cancer.
  • Sunao Yoshida, 34, Japanese novelist, lung blockage.

    16

  • George Busbee, 76, American politician, former governor of Georgia, heart attack.
  • Andy Engman, 92, Swedish-Finnish cartoon animator.
  • Fazal khaliq, 70, Afghan politician.
  • Lucien Leduc, 85, French football midfielder and a manager.
  • Bella Lewitzky, 88, American modern dance pioneer and choreographer, heart attack.
  • Charles Sweeney, 84, American Air Force officer, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb.

    17

  • Susan, Crown Princess of Albania, 63, Australian-born wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu, cancer.
  • Albela, 63, Pakistani actor, comedian and singer.
  • Grzegorz Cziura, 52, Polish weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist.
  • Jeanette Dolson, 85, Canadian athlete and Olympic medalist.
  • Khalil Hilmi, 94-95, Lebanese Olympic sports shooter.
  • Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur and banker.
  • Marty Passaglia, 85, American basketball player.
  • Pat Roach, 67, English professional wrestler and actor, cancer.
  • Robert E. Smylie, 89, American politician, Governor of Idaho.

    18

  • Anne Gorsuch Burford, 62, American attorney and politician.
  • André Castelot, 93, French writer and scriptwriter.
  • Georgine Darcy, 71, American dancer and actress.
  • George Farm, 80, Scottish football goalkeeper and manager.
  • Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner, heart attack.
  • John D. Kraus, 94, American physicist and electrical engineer.
  • Eoin McKiernan, 89, American scholar and expert on Irish history.
  • Richard Ney, 87, American actor, investment counselor, and author, heart attack.
  • Émile Peynaud, 92, French wine expert.

    19

  • Sylvia Daoust, 102, Canadian artist and sculptor.
  • Harry Forsyth, 100, Irish cricketer and centenarian.
  • Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer.
  • Roger Marquis, 67, American baseball player.
  • Caitro Soto, 69, Peruvian musician and composer.
  • Zenkō Suzuki, 93, Japanese politician, Prime Minister, pneumonia.
  • Irvin Yeaworth, 78, German-American film director, producer, and theme park builder, traffic collision.

    20

  • Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish flamenco dancer, cancer.
  • Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady, widow of president Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
  • Valdemaras Martinkėnas, 39, Soviet and Lithuanian football player and coach, drowned.
  • James Williams, 53, American jazz pianist.