Deaths in June 2004

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

  June 2004

1

• Randi Brænne, 93, Norwegian actress.
• James Dudley, 94, American baseball player and professional wrestling manager.
• Victor Guazzelli, 84, English Roman Catholic bishop.
• Liu Kang, 93, Singaporean artist.
• Charles Kelman, 74, American ophthalmologist, surgeon, jazz musician, and Broadway producer, lung cancer.
• William Manchester, 82, American author and historian.
• Bill Reichardt, 73, American football player.
• Sheikh Shaheb Ali, 88, Bangladeshi football player and coach.

  2

• Mujeeb Alam, 55, Pakistani playback singer.
• Dietz Otto Edzard, 73, German scholar and grammarian of the Sumerian language.
• Nicolai Ghiaurov, 74, Bulgarian opera singer.
• Shrikant Jichkar, 49, Indian central civil servant and politician, traffic collision.
• Lee Ki-baek, 79, South Korean historian.
• Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, 68-69, Ethiopian general, defense minister and President of Ethiopia, involuntary manslaughter.
• Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer, heart attack.
• Alun Richards, 74, Welsh novelist.
• Tini Wagner, 84, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympic champion.

  3

• Nam Cam, 56, Vietnamese mobster, shot.
• Joe Carr, 82, Irish golfer.
• Harald Ganzinger, 53, German computer scientist.
• Harold Goodwin, 86, English actor.
• Britta Holmberg, 82, Swedish actress.
• Jonathan Kramer, 61, American composer and music theorist.
• Frances Shand Kydd, 68, English mother of Diana, Princess of Wales, Parkinson's disease.
• Sulamith Messerer, 95, Russian ballerina and choreographer.
• Quorthon, 38, Swedish musician and founder of the band Bathory, congenital heart defect.
• Morris Schappes, 97, American scholar, editor and Marxist activist.

  4

• Charles Correll, 60, American cinematographer and television director, pancreatic cancer.
• Wilmer Fields, 81, American baseball player, former Negro league baseball All-Star, heart ailment.
• Marvin Heemeyer, 52, American muffler repair shop owner and criminal, suicide by gunshot.
• Steve Lacy, 69, American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer, cancer.
• Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer, lymphoma.
• Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor, stroke.
• Rolf Moebius, 88, German actor, pneumonia.
• T. M. Samarasinghe, 61, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
• Anthony Steffen, 73, Italian and Brazilian film actor and screenwriter, cancer.

  5

• Johnny Bent, 95, American ice hockey player.
• Iona Brown, 63, British violinist and conductor, cancer.
• Jack Foster, 72, British-New Zealand athlete and Olympian, traffic collision.
• Fernando Manzaneque, 70, Spanish road racing cyclist.
• Friedrich Obleser, 81, German general in the Bundeswehr.
• Ronald Reagan, 93, American actor and politician, President, Governor of California, pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's.
• Manu Tupou, 69, American-based Fijian actor, writer, director, and teacher.

  6

• Judy Campbell, 88, English actress.
• Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman and journalist, killed by Al-Qaeda.
• Howard Eves, 93, American mathematician.
• James Roche, 97, American businessman, CEO and Chairman of the Board at General Motors Corporation.
• Munavvar Rzayeva, 75, Azerbaijani sculptor.
• Emma Talmi, 99, Israeli politician and writer.
• Jock West, 95, British Grand Prix motorcycle racer.
• Kate Worley, 46, American comic book writer, cancer.

  7

• Roman Aftanazy, 90, Polish historian, librarian and author.
• Richard E. Bush, 79, United States Marine master gunnery sergeant and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Joseph Leo Doob, 94, American mathematician.
• Roger Matton, 75, Canadian composer, ethnomusicologist, and music educator.
• Bern Porter, 93, American artist, writer, publisher, and performer.
• Don Potter, 102, British sculptor, wood carver and potter.
• Eugene Raskin, 94, American musician and playwright.

  8

• Leopoldo Zea Aguilar, 91, Mexican philosopher.
• Dan Armstrong, 69, American guitarist, luthier, and session musician.
• David Mervyn Blow, 72, British biophysicist, lung cancer.
• Walter Breuer, 73, Austrian film actor.
• Per Carleson, 86, Swedish officer and Olympic épée fencer.
• Mack Jones, 65, American baseball player, stomach cancer.
• Humayun Khan, 27, American soldier serving in the Iraq War, car bombing.
• Bill Lowery, 79, American music entrepreneur.
• Fosco Maraini, 91, Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, and writer.
• Bob Schmitz, 65, American gridiron football player and scout, heart attack.
• Nuria Torray, 69, Spanish actress, colorectal cancer.

  9

• Rosey Brown, 71, American football player, Pro Football Hall of Famer.
• António de Sousa Franco, 61, Portuguese economist and politician, heart attack.
• Russell Hellman, 86, American politician and member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1961 to 1980.
• Bent Jædig, 68, Danish jazz musician.
• Ted Martin, 101, Australian cricketer.
• Ralph Moody, 86, American NASCAR driver and team owner.
• Alistair Taylor, 68, English personal assistant of Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles.
• Barbara Whiting, 73, American actress, cancer.
• Brian Williamson, 58, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered.

  10

• Antoine Argoud, 89, French Army officer specializing in counter-insurgency.
• Ray Charles, 73, American rhythm and blues singer, liver failure.
• Rosinha de Valença, 62, Brazilian composer, arranger and musician.
• Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications.
• Chico Faria, 54, Portuguese football player.
• José Farías, 67, Argentine football player and manager.
• Odette Laure, 87, French actress and cabaret singer, heart attack.
• Gábor Vékony, 59, Hungarian historian, archaeologist and linguist.
• Xenophon Zolotas, 100, Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister.

  11

• Prince Egon von Fürstenberg, 57, German aristocrat and designer, nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli, liver cancer.
• Pakubuwono XII, 60, Indonesian royal as twelfth Susuhunan .
• Michel Roche, 64, French Olympic equestrian.
• Galina Serdyukovskaya, 82, Russian hygienist, academic and politician.
• Soriba Soumah, 58, Guinean international football player.

  12

• Rina Ben-Menahem, 68, Israeli writer.
• Walter George Muelder, 97, American social ethicist and Methodist minister.
• Stanley O'Toole, 65, British film producer.
• Geoffrey Thompson, 67, British businessman, aneurysm.

  13

• Dorothy Lavinia Brown, 85, American surgeon and politician.
• Danny Dark, 65, American announcer, pulmonary hemorrhage.
• Dick Durrance, 89, American alpine ski racer, 17-time national champion.
• Stuart Hampshire, 89, British philosopher.
• Jørn Larsen, 77, Danish painter and sculptor.
• Robert Lees, 91, American screenwriter, decapitation.
• Jennifer Nitsch, 37, German television actress, suicide by jumping.
• Ralph Wiley, 52, American sports journalist, heart attack.

  14

• Ubaldo Calabresi, 79, Italian Roman Catholic bishop, Parkinson's disease.
• Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, Swiss mountain guide.
• Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher.
• Max Rosenberg, 89, American producer of horror movies.
• Noriaki Yuasa, 70, Japanese director, stroke.

  15

• Lothar Fischer, 70, German sculptor.
• J. Gwyn Griffiths, 92, Welsh poet and egyptologist.
• Bagong Kussudiardja, 75, Indonesian painter, choreographer, and artist, diabetes.
• Ahmet Piriştina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir, heart attack.
• Hatch Rosdahl, 62, American gridiron football player, suicide by jumping.

  16

• Herman Goldstine, 90, American computer scientist, Parkinson's disease.
• George Hausmann, 88, American baseball player.
• Thanom Kittikachorn, 92, Thai military dictator and politician, prime minister, complications from stroke.
• Paul Neagu, 66, British artist.

  17

• Todor Dinov, 84, Bulgarian animator, painter, and graphic artist.
• Ma Jiajue, 23, Chinese biochemistry student, execution by shooting.
• Vilayat Inayat Khan, 87, British sufist.
• Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman.
• Sara Lidman, 80, Swedish writer.
• Gerry McNeil, 78, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup-winning National Hockey League goaltender.
• Jackie Paris, 79, American jazz singer and guitarist.
• Seymour Robbie, 84, American television director.

  18

• Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin, 33, Saudi Arabian leader of militant organization al-Qaeda.
• Doris Dowling, 81, American actress.
• George Buck Flower, 66, American actor, writer, producer, and casting director, cancer.
• Chen Fuzhao, c. 30, Chinese serial killer, execution by shooting.
• André Gillois, 102, French writer and Charles de Gaulle's spokesman in London during World War II.
• Frederick Jaeger, 76, German-British character actor.
• Paul Marshall Johnson Jr., c. 49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda.
• Shaikh Hafiz Sabri Koçi, 83, Albanian Grand Mufti.
• Elbert Luther Little, 96, American botanist.
• Ralph S. Locher, 88, American politician.
• John Mathwin, 84, Australian politician.
• Peter Märthesheimer, 66, German screenwriter, producer and author.
• Nek Muhammad Wazir, c. 27, Pakistani tribal leader and Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces.
• Moe Radovich, 75, American basketball player and college basketball coach.
• Elwood Zimmerman, 91, American entomologist.

  19

• Nikolai Girenko, 63, Russian ethnologist and human rights activist, ballistic trauma.
• Charly Grosskost, 60, French racing cyclist, traffic collision.
• Colin McCormack, 62, Welsh actor, cancer.
• Else Quecke, 96, German actress.
• Jadwiga Rutkowska, 70, Polish Olympic volleyball player.
• Alfredo Torero, 73, Peruvian anthropologist and linguist.
• Nob Yoshigahara, 68, Japanese mathematician and puzzle expert.