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.