recent deaths

The following is a list of figures who died in .

April 2005

6

Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, 81, reigning Prince of Monaco since 1949.

5

Saul Bellow, 89, Nobel Prize-winning author
Ura Koyama, 114, supercentenarian, oldest in Japan since 2003, died of pneumonia

4

Edward Bronfman, 77, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, colon cancer

3

Frank Clair, 87, CFL coach with the Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Rough Riders, heart failure

2

Alexander Brott, 90, Canadian composer, conductor and violinist
Tony Croatto, 65 Italian-Puerto Rican composer-singer, lung and brain cancer
Eddie Moss, 45, former Syracuse and CBA player, cancer
John O'Leary, 58, Former U.S. ambassador to Chile, Lou Gehrig's disease
John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), 84, Polish Roman Catholic Pope, died after a lengthy illness.

1

Cheryl Barrymore, 56, former wife and agent of British TV entertainer Michael Barrymore, lung cancer
Harald Juhnke, 75, German entertainer
Jack Keller, 68, songwriter, wrote themes to Bewitched and Gidget
Robert Coldwell Wood, 81,was the second Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1969. Later University of Massachusetts President 1970-1977.

March 2005

31

Frank Perdue, 84, poultry magnate
Terri Schiavo, 41, US persistent vegetative state patient, died amidst much controversy after removal of gastric feeding tube

30

Thomas J. Brazaitis, 64, columnist correspondent and newspaper editor
Robert Creeley, 78, poet, died of complications from respiratory disease.
Milton Green, 91, former record holder in hurdles, boycotted the 1936 Olympics as a protest against Hitler.
Mitch Hedberg, 37, comedian, heart attack.
Fred Korematsu, 86, Japanese-American civil rights leader, respiratory illness
Derrick Plourde, 33, former drummer of 2 California punk groups Lagwagon and the Ataris
Hideaki Sekiguchi, 38, known as Billy, Guitar Wolf bassist, heart failure
Ootupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan, 74, Indian author and cartoonist

29

Johnnie Cochran, 67, lawyer, defended O.J. Simpson, died of brain tumor
Howell Heflin, 83, former U.S. Senator from Alabama
John McTernan, 94, US civil-rights lawyer

28

Tom Bevill, 84, former US Congressman from Alabama
Dave Freeman. 82, scriptwriter (Benny Hill, Carry On films, etc.)
Emmy Lopes Dias, 85, Dutch actress
Pl Losonczi, 85, former chairman of the Presidential Council of Hungary (head of state)
Dame Moura Lympany, 89, British classical pianist

27

Bob Casey, 79, PA announcer for the Minnesota Twins
Grant Johannesen, 83, American classical pianist and composer
Joaqun Luqui, 57, Spanish musical journalist
Rigo Tovar, 58, popular Mexican singer and composer
Ahmed Zaki, 56, Egyptian actor, lung cancer

26

Bengt Bedrup, 76, Swedish journalist
James Callaghan, 92, former British Prime Minister
Brandon Falkner, 21?, Arizona State University NCAA football player, murdered
Paul Hester, 46, Australian musician, former drummer of Crowded House and Split Enz
Marius Russo, 90, a left-handed pitcher who helped the Yankees win the World Series in 1941 and 1943
Georgeanna Seegar Jones, 92, American scientist and endocrinologist

25

Greg Garrison, 81, TV producer and director (The Dean Martin Show, Your Show of Shows)
Paul Henning, 93, TV producer, creator of Beverly Hillbillies franchise
Davis McCaughey, 90, former Governor of Victoria, Australia

24

David Bushnell, 91, founder of Bushnell Optical, leading producer of binoculars, of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

23

Charles Antalosky, 67, Broadway actor
Naftali Halberstam, 74, Grand Rabbi of the Bobov sect of the Hasidim
David Kossoff, 85, British actor and anti-drug campaigner, father of Free guitarist Paul Kossoff
Bob Vetrone, 79, American newspaper columnist

22

Clemente Domnguez y Gmez, 58, Spanish antipope self-proclaimed Gregory XVII in 1978
Gemini Ganesan, 84, Indian actor
Edward Moskal, 80, president of the Polish American Congress
Simon Nyandwi 55, interior minister of Burundi since November 2003 and former rebel official, heart attack
Rod Price, 57, guitarist and a founding member of Foghat
Kenzo Tange, 91, Japanese architect

21

Ge Zhenlin, 88, Chinese war hero http://english.people.com.cn/200503/23/eng20050323_177862.html
Barney Martin, 82, actor who played Jerry's father on Seinfeld
Stanley Sadie, 74, musicologist and critic
Bobby Short, 80, suave cabaret singer and pianist, leukemia
Jeff Weise, 16, school shooter

20

Walter Hopps, 72, renowned American art dealer, gallery owner
Walter Reuter, 99, award winning German photographer who lived and photographed in Mexico
Andrew Toti, 89, American inventor of the Mae West inflatable life vest

19

Hellema, 84, Dutch writer and resistance fighter
John De Lorean, 80, U.S. car designer and manufacturer.

18

Gary Bertini, 77, Israeli musician and conductor
Sol Linowitz, 91, U.S. diplomat and entrepreneur
Jessica Lunsford, 9, (body found), kidnapping and rape victim
Maria Rosseels, 88, Belgian writer and journalist
Theodor Uppman, 85, American operatic baritone, created the title role in Britten's Billy Budd

17

Royce Frith, 81, Canadian senator
Prentice Gautt, 67, NFL player during the 1960s
Lalo Guerrero, 88, called the father of Chicano music
Justin Hinds, 62, Jamaican vocalist and songwriter
Sverre Holm, 73, Norwegian actor
Ramez J. Isa, 87, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles from February to June 1971
George F. Kennan, 101, U.S. diplomat and historian
David Little, 46, Linebacker for the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers
Andre Norton, 93, science fiction and fantasy author
Czeslaw Slania, 83, Polish-swedish stamp engraver
Mikko Talvitie, 59, director general of the Finnish Board of Aviation

16

Todd Bell, 47, safety for the Chicago Bears in the 1980s
Ralph Erskine, 91, architect and designer of the Byker Wall.
Anthony George, 84, actor, primarily in daytime dramas
Allan Hendrickse, 77, South African politician
Chris van der Klaauw, 80, Dutch diplomat, foreign minister of the Netherlands from 1977 to 1981
William Lehman, 91, represented Dade County, Florida in U.S. Congress for 20 years
Dick Radatz, 67, baseball relief pitcher

15

Lady Callaghan of Cardiff, 89, wife of Jim Callaghan
Betsy Cronkite, 89, journalist and wife of Walter Cronkite
Don Durant, 82, singer/actor, star of Johnny Ringo series
Loe de Jong, 90, Dutch historian
Eduard J. Guebelin, 91, Lead study that showed that diamond flaws are influenced by where they were created
Bill McGarry, 77, football manager
Bert Pronk, 54, Dutch racing cyclist
Armand Seghers, 78, footballer, voted AA Gent's best player of the 20th century
Sy Wexler, 88, filmmaker of hundreds of educational films seen in classrooms for many years

14

Stanley H. Campbell, 74, NFL player during the 1950s
Tom Dillon, 86, American stage actor/performer, natural causes
Janet Reger, 69, British designer of women's lingerie
Dick Smyser, 81, American newspaper editor, asked question that led Richard Nixon to declare: "I'm not a crook."
Simon Webb, 55, British chess grandmaster living in Sweden, stabbed to death by his son
Akira Yoshizawa, 94, Japanese Origami master

13

Jason Evers, 83, star of B-movie Brain That Wouldn't Die
Ahmed Hassan Diria, 67, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1990 to 1993.
Lyn Collins, 56, soul singer aka "Female Preacher"
Danny Gardella, 85, a New York Giants outfielder who challenged baseball's reserve clause in a 1947 federal lawsuit
Frank House, 75, Major League Baseball catcher and Alabama legislator
Zouhair Yahyaoui, 36, Tunisian dissident.

12

Charles R. Baxter, 75, American doctor, pneumonia, surgeon who tried to save JFK
Lisa Fittko, 95, German WWII dissident who led Jews over the Pyrenees to freedom
Stavros Kouyioumtzis, 73, prolific Greek songwriter
Bartolo Mascarello, 78, Italian winemaker

11

Bill Cameron, 62, Canadian journalist, cancer
Aurelio Fierro, 81, famous in Italy for singing Neopolitan folk songs
Stanley Grenz, 55, Christian Theologian
Humphrey Spender, 94, British photojournalist, notably for Picture Post

10

Dave Allen, 68, Irish comedian
Danny Joe Brown, 53, lead singer for Molly Hatchet
Chawki Deif, 95, former president of the Academy of the Arabic Language
Zilka Salaberry, 82, Brazilian actress

9

Glenn Davis, 80, Heisman Trophy winner, American football player, prostate cancer
Sheila Gish, 62, English actress, primarily on stage
Kathie Kay, 86, Scottish big band singer
Chris LeDoux, 56, American country music and rodeo star; complications from liver cancer.
William Murray, 78, American mystery novelist
Istvn Nyers, 80, Hungarian footballer

8

Archbishop Roman Arrieta, 80, retired archbishop of Costa Rica
Ross Benson, 56, British journalist for the Daily Mail and award-winning foreign correspondent
Anna Haycraft, 72, British writer (also known as Alice Thomas Ellis)
Csar Lattes, 80, Brazilian physicist, contributed to the physics of elementary particles and discovered the pion
Aslan Maskhadov, 53, Chechen separatist leader, killed by Russian troops.
Brigitte Mira, 94, German theatrical actress
Jeremy Russell, 60, cofounding member of the band Blue Cheer

7

Edwin Adams Cotto, 26, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during riot at Dominican Republic jail
John Box, 85, film production designer, worked closely with David Lean
Debra Hill, 54, screenwriter and film producer, co-writer of Halloween
Philip Lamantia, 77, American surrealist poet
Arod Levy III, ??, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during riot in a Dominican Republic jail
Jozef Stank, 64, former Slovakian defense minister

6

Hans Bethe, 98, Nobel Laureate in Physics, discover of stellar fusion
Gladys Marn, 63, Chilean communist politician, cancer
Chuck Thompson, 83, Baltimore Orioles broadcaster, complications of massive stroke
Tommy Vance, 63, British radio DJ and TV host, stroke
Teresa Wright, 86, actress, heart attack

5

Harold Brooks-Baker, 71, U.S.-born publishing director of Burke's Peerage Limited
Sergiu Comissiona, 76, Romanian orchestra conductor
Benedetto Di Santo, 105, Italian World War I veteran
Morris Engel, 86, independent filmmaker
Rt. Rev. Lord Sheppard of Liverpool, 75, former international cricketer and Church of England bishop, cancer
Frank Tyler, 76, Broadway and film music arranger and orchestrator

4

Nicola Calipari, 51, Italian intelligence officer, shot by the US army in Iraq
Ernie De Vos, 63, racing driver, killed in a cycling accident.
Una Hale, 82, operatic soprano
Yuri Kravchenko, 53, former interior minister of Ukraine
Carlos Sherman, 70, Uruguayan-born Belarusian translator and writer

3

George Atkinson, 69, inventor of the video rental
Max M. Fisher, 96, millionaire philanthropist listed in Forbes 400
Dorris Henderson, 72, 60's and 70's folksinger
Viva McComb, 110, supercentenarian, oldest living Texan
Rinus Michels, 77, former Dutch national football team coach
Guylaine St. Onge, 39, Canadian actress, cancer

2

Joe Carter, 78, a member of the Carter Family folk singers
Martin Denny, 93, founder of exotica musical genre, bandleader
Hermann Drnemann, 111, World War I veteran declared Germany's oldest living person, heart failure
Tillie Fowler, 62, U.S. politician, former four-term Florida congresswoman
Rick Mahler, 51, American baseball pitcher, heart attack
Corrado Pani, 69, Italian actor
Rigter Roegholt, 79, Dutch historian

1

Cissy van Bennekom, 93, Dutch film actress
Reverend Walter Halloran, 83, priest who participated in the exorcism on which The Exorcist was based
Brian Luckhurst, 66, English cricket player, cancer
Peter Malkin, 77, Israeli Mossad agent, the man who captured Adolf Eichmann

February 2005

28

Pietro Ardito, 85?, Argentinian comic book artist living in Italy
Chris Curtis, 63, drummer with The Searchers
Mario Luzi, 90, Italian poet
Umberto Manfrin, 77, Italian comic book artist

27

Noll Scott, 51, British journalist
Carl Taseff, 76, former NFL defensive back and assistant coach

26

Max Faulkner, 88, British golfer
Henry Grunwald, 82, former managing editor of TIME and U.S. ambassador to Austria 1988-90
Sidney Hart, 90, British trade unionist and religious administrator, natural causes
Witness Mangwende, 59, Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1981 to 1987.
Jef Raskin, 61, creator of the Apple Macintosh, pancreatic cancer

25

Peter Benenson, 83, founder of Amnesty International.
Phoebe Hesketh, 96, British poet
Don LeJohn, 70, former Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman
Norberto "Pappo" Napolitano, 54, Argentine blues and rock n' roll guitarist and composer
Edward Patten, 66, member of Gladys Knight & The Pips
Atef Sedki, 74, former prime minister of Egypt
Sir Glanmor Williams, 84, Welsh historian

24

Thade Cisowski, 78, footballer, scored 206 goals in the French top divison, making him its 4th highest scorer of all-time
Robin Jenkins, 92, Scottish novelist, author of "The Cone-Gatherers" and "Fergus Lamont"
Hugh Nibley, 94, historian primarily concerned with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Gustavo Vzquez Montes, 42, incumbent governor of Colima, Mexico, aviation accident
Hans-Jrgen Wischnewski, 82, German politician and former cabinet minister

23

Tom Patterson, 84, founder of the Stratford Festival of Canada
Henk Zeevalking, 82, Dutch politician

22

David F. Bradford, 61, former U.S. presidential advisor and professor at Princeton University
Father Luigi Giussani, 82, founder of the "Communion and Liberation" Catholic youth movement
Lee Eun Ju (이은주), 24, Korean actress, suicide
Trude Rittmann, 96, Broadway dance and vocal music arranger
Reggie Roby, 43, retired NFL punter
Harry Simeone, 94, helped create Christmas songs like Little Drummer Boy
Simone Simon, 94, French actress

21

Zdzislaw Beksinski, 75, Polish painter and fantasy artist, murder
Ara Berberian, 74, Bass with the New York City Metropolitan Opera
Isabelle Goldenson, 84, co-founder of United Cerebral Palsy
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 75, exiled Cuban writer
Robert Koff, 86, founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet
Josef Metternich, 69, German operatic baritone
Dr. Gene Scott, 75, U.S. televangelist and author
Ernest Vandiver, 86, former governor of the U.S. state of Georgia (1959-1963)

20

Raymond Mhlaba, 92, South African political leader
Pam Bricker, jazz vocalist and music professor, suicide
Sandra Dee, 62, American actress, kidney failure and pneumonia
Dalene Matthee, 67, Afrikaans-South African author, heart failure
John Raitt, 88, classic Broadway star and father of Bonnie Raitt, pneumonia
Hunter S. Thompson, 67, American journalist, suicide
Jimmy Young, 56, American boxer, heart failure

19

Richard Lupino, 75? Member of the famous English Lupino acting family
Kihachi Okamoto (岡本喜八), 82, Japanese film director, esophageal cancer

18

Uli Derickson, 60, airline stewardess, protagonist in 1985 airplane hijacking
John Ebstein, 92, industrial designer http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/arts/design/26ebstein.html?
Robert R. Merhige, Jr., 86, U.S. district court judge

17

F. M. Busby, 83, American science fiction writer
Peter Foy, 79, American, theatrical flying effects specialist
Jens Martin Knudsen, 74, Danish astrophysicist
Csar Marcelak, 92, French cycling champion
Dan O'Herlihy, 85, Irish film actor
Omar Sivori, 69, Argentinian and Italian footballer
Nicephore Soglo, 70, former President of Benin
Harald Szeemann, 71, Swiss curator and art historian

16

Nicole DeHuff, 30, American actress, Meet the Parents, pneumonia.
William Gibson, 82, American independent film producer and director
Russ Klar, 90, US auto racer
Narriman Sadek (Nariman Sadeq), 70, ex-wife of King Farouk, last queen of Egypt
Marcello Viotti, 50, Italian conductor
Frederick Vosburgh, 100, National Geographic editor
Gerry Wolff, 84, German actor
(body found) Cecilia Cubas, 32, daughter of former President of Paraguay Ral Cubas Grau, kidnap victim

15

Pierre Bachelet, 60, French singer
Samuel Francis, 57, U.S. political columnist
Dudu Geva, 54, Israeli cartoonist
Najai Turpin, 23, boxer, participant in boxing reality show "The Contender", suicide

14

Ron Burgess, 87, former footballer with Tottenham Hotspur and Wales
Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, 85, Greek novelist and journalist
Rafik Hariri, 60, twice Prime Minister of Lebanon, car bomb
Aubelin Jolicoeur, 81, Haitian journalist and columnist
Martin Perels, 44, Dutch actor
Otto Plaschkes, 75, British movie producer, including Georgy Girl
Dick Weber, 75, professional bowler, father of Pete Weber

13

Nelson Briles, 61, U.S. baseball pitcher
Aldo Carotenuto, 71?, Italian psychoanalyst
Sixten Ehrling, 86, Swedish conductor
Mary Hallaren, 97, first woman to join the United States Army
Ndiaga Mbaye, 57, Senegalese musician
Lcia dos Santos, 97, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three shepherd children of the Fatima apparition in 1917
Maurice Trintignant, 87, French racing driver, twice winner of the Monaco Grand Prix

12

Marinus van der Goes van Naters, 104, Dutch politician
Brian Kelly, 73, actor
Alfred Sirven, 77, former Elf Aquitaine executive
Sammi Smith, 61, US country singer, won Grammy for Help Me Make it Through the Night
Dorothy Stang, 74, American nun, murdered in Anapu, Brazil
Karl-Heinz Tuschel, 76, East German science fiction author
Rafael Vidal, 41, Venezuelan Olympic medalist, car crash

11

Samuel W. Alderson, 90, inventor of crash test dummies http://news.com.com/Crash-test+dummy+inventor+dies+at+90/2100-1041_3-5583291.html?tag=st_lh
Jack L. Chalker, 60, American science fiction writer
Raymond Hermantier, 81, French actor
Dnes Kovcs, 74, Hungarian violinist
Stan Richards, 74, British actor

10

Humbert Balsan, 50, French film producer
Allan Bromley, 79, physicist, presidential advisor
Jean Cayrol, 93, French author
Michel Franois-Poncet, 70, Paribas executive
Ben Jones, 80, former prime minister and foreign minister of Grenada
Arthur Miller, 89, American playwright, congestive heart failure
Sylvia Rafael, 67, Mossad agent convicted of 1973 Lillehammer murder

9

Tyrone Davis, 66, R&B singer (Turn Back The Hands Of Time), complications of a stroke
Hanno Helbling, 74, Swiss journalist (NZZ)
Robert Kearns, 77, inventor of intermittent windshield wipers http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/obituaries/26kearns.html
Kate Peyton, 39, BBC producer, shot in Mogadishu, Somalia
Ursula Schrder-Feinen, 70, German soprano
Marthe Wry, 75, Belgian painter

8

Luigi Barbero, 105, Italian World War I veteran
Victor Castelli, 52, soloist with the New York City Ballet, pneumonia
Helmut Eder, 88, Austrian composer
George Herman, 85, journalist and moderator of CBS' Face the Nation for 15 years
Keith Knudsen, 56, drummer for American rock band Doobie Brothers, pneumonia
Nathalie Krassovska, 86, ballerina
Gaston Rahier, 58, Belgian 125cc Motocross World Champion (1975-1977)
Jimmy Smith, 76, Jazz organist
Javier Tusell, 59, Spanish historian

7

Penelope Aitken, 94, socialite and political hostess
Nedžad Botonjič, 27, Slovenian footballer
Steve Burgh, 54, record producer and session musician
Atli Dam, 72, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
Vinod Chandra Pande, 72, political figure in India, former governor of three states
John Tiffen Patterson, 64, television and film director
Madeleine Rebrioux, 84, French historian
Paul Rebeyrolle, 78, French painter
Jeremy Swan, 82, cardiologist, co-inventor of the Swan-Ganz heart catheter

6

Santo Ambulo, 104, Italian World War I veteran
Lazar Berman, 74, classical pianist
Elbert N. Carvel, 94, American politician, former governor of Delaware
Hubert Curien, 80, French researcher, first president of European Space Agency
Camilo Delgado, 75?, Puerto Rican television show host
Karl Haas, 91, US classical music radio program host
Merle Kilgore, 70, country music manager and songwriter
Armin Mller, 76, German writer and painter

5

Derick Daniels, 76, former president and chief executive of Playboy Enterprises
Gnassingbe Eyadema, 67, president of Togo since 1967
Bob McAdorey, 69, Canadian television and radio broadcaster
Gnter Reimann, 100, German economist
Michalina Wisłocka, 84, Polish sexologist

4

Carmine Alfano, 108, Italian World War I veteran
Adriano Cerqueira, 66, Portuguese journalist and former news anchor at RTP, cancer
Robert Brannum, 78, basketball player
Ossie Davis, 87, actor and activist, natural causes
Nils Egerbrandt, 78, Swedish cartoonist
Gunhild Foerster, 111, supercentenarian, oldest documented person in Washington State
Luis Snchez, 51, former major league closer for the Angels http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/story?id=299027

3

Corrado Cardinal Bafile, 101, Italian cardinal
Joseph Anthony De Palma, 91, Bishop of De Aar, South Africa
Malou Hallstrm, 63, Swedish actress, ex-wife of Lasse Hallstrm
David Hnigsberg, 45, composer and conductor
Ernst Mayr, 100, evolutionary biologist
Raul Usupov, Georgian politician and deputy governor of the Kvemo Kartli region
Zurab Zhvania, 41, Prime Minister of Georgia

2

Yvon DesRochers, 59, head of the organizing committee of the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, suicide
Birgitte Federspiel, 79, Swedish actress (Babette's Feast, 1988)
Svein Kvia, 57, Norwegian footballer
Goffredo Lombardo, 83, Italian film producer
Magomed Omarov, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan
Max Schmeling, 99, German world heavyweight boxing champion

1

Werner Arnold, 74, Swiss cyclist (1950s)
Henrique Canto e Castro, 75, Portuguese actor
Olivier Dollfus, 73, French geographer
Edward D. Freis, 92, physician
Anderl Heckmair, 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger north face
Franco Mannino, 80, prolific Italian film and classical composer
John Vernon, 72, Canadian actor, following heart surgery

January 2005

31

Stanley Ronald (Ron) Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister (1970s)
Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poetess
Yutsuko Chusonji, 42, Japanese manga artist noted for her "oyaji gal" stories
Horace Hagedorn, 89, developer and marketer of Miracle-Gro plant food
Malcolm Hardee, 55, alternative comedian and compere, drowning
Erich Kaestner, 93, German Oscar winner for camera design
Robert McCartney, 33?, IRA murder victim
H. Narasimhaiah, 84, physicist, educator and rationalist from Bangalore
Ivan Noble, 37, BBC journalist, brain tumour

30

Wolfgang Becker, 94, German film and television director
Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish musician, cancer
Dario Sala, 92, Italian inventor of Das, writer

29

Toni Berger, 83, German actor
Eric Griffiths, 64, member of pre-Beatles The Quarrymen
Jean Hengen, 92, first Archbishop of Luxembourg
Karl Heinz Jacoby, 86, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier
Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director
Jos Luis Martinez, 34, Spanish shot put champion
Bill Shadel, 96, United States journalist who covered D-Day and moderated a 1960 Presidential Debate
Ron Tomme, 73, former USA actor primarily in soaps
Joan Tompkins, 89, film and TV actress
Guus Zoutendijk, 74, Dutch politician and businessman

28

Karen Bach, 32, French actress
Christian Bieniek, 48, German writer and childbook author
Daniel Branca, 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist
Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter (Traffic), stomach cancer
Lucien Carr, 79, UPI editor, early Beat generation figure
Christian Christensen, 78, Danish former European middle-weight boxing champion
Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor and comedian

27

Gilbert Bennion, 106, one of four remaining Australian veterans of World War I
Donald Dempsey Sr., 72?, American recording executive who helped launch Ozzy Osbourne and Merle Haggard
Shoaib Khan, 40?, Pakistani criminal organization leader, heart attack in jail
Nick McDonald, 76, United States Dallas police officer who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald after the JFK assassination
Aurlie Nemours, 94, French painter
Jonathan Welsh, 67?, Canadian actor of stage, television and film

26

Roy Fraser Elliott, 83, Canadian lawyer and philanthropist
Rudi Falkenhagen, 71, Dutch actor, throat cancer
Cordelia Scaife May, 76, sister of billionaire Richard Scaife and one of the world's richest people
Josie MacAvin, 85, Oscar and Emmy winning set decorator

25

William Augustus Bootle, 102, United States district judge who helped oversee desegregation in the US south
Philip Johnson, 98, United States architect
Vicky LaMotta, 75, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta
Ray Peterson 65, United States popular singer (Tell Laura I Love Her), cancer
Max Velthuijs, 81, Dutch writer and illustrator
Nettie Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch athlete
Dieter Zehentmayr, 63, Austrian caricaturist

24

June Bronhill, 75, Australian opera and operetta singer, known for The Merry Widow
Vladimir Savchenko, 72, Ukrainian science fiction writer
Chalkie White, 76, rugby union coach

23

Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, former Deputy Speaker of the United Kingdom|UK]] House of Lords
Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema
Douglas Knight, 83, former president of Lawrence University and Duke University
Charles Martin, 45, American football player, kidney ailment
Mutsuko Sakura (桜むつ子), 83, Japanese actress, lung cancer

22

Sir William Deakin, 91, British WWII hero and founder of St. Antony's College at Oxford University
John Gibel, 56, comic strip writer (Flo & Friends)
Csar Gutirrez, 61, one of three players in Major League Baseball history with a 7-for-7 game
Carlo Orelli, 110, supercentenarian, oldest Italian veteran of World War I
Patsy Rowlands, 71, British actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films, breast cancer
William Trager, 94, American malaria researcher
Consuelo Velzquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song "Bsame mucho"
Rose Mary Woods, 87, former Nixon secretary and key Watergate figure http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30678-2005Jan23.html

21

Steve Susskind, 62, American voice-over actor
Parveen Babi, 49, Indian actress
John L. Hess, 87, journalist
Don Poier, 53, United States NBA basketball announcer for the Memphis Grizzlies
Carl Schlettwein, 79, founder of Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer

20

Per Borten, 91, former Prime Minister of Norway
Beverly Dennis, 79, actress on The Red Buttons Show who turned psychotherapist
Roland Frye, American English literature professor and theologian
Dick Gallagher, 49, Off-Broadway composer
Christel Justen, 47, German swimmer, 1974 European champion
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and highly decorated World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section
Chuck Olin, 68, filmmaker known for his 1998 documentary about the only all-Jewish fighting unit during World War II
Miriam Rothschild, 96, British zoologist, entomologist and author

19

Bill Andersen, 90, New Zealand communist and trade union leader
Donald Beardslee, 61, United States murderer, executed in San Quentin State Prison, California
Cal Bolder, 74, bodybuilder and actor
K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide
Hans Gratzer, 63, Austrian director and theatre manager
Ardyth Kennelly, 92, US novelist whose books were popular in the 1940s and 50s
Anita Kulcsr, 28, Hungarian handball player
Ricardo Suriach, 76, Catholic Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico (2000-2003), natural causes

18

Lamont Bentley, 31, television and film actor, car crash
Bernard Breau, 64, French footballer
Gabriella Brune, 92, British actress
Bob Moch, 90, 1936 Summer Olympics Rowing Gold Medal Winner
George Walker, 78, volcanologist
Peter Whatley, former professional wrestler under the name Pez Whatley

17

Charlie Bell, 44, former CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer
Christina Gunnardo, 54, Swedish musician
Hildegard Joos, 95, Austrian painter
Virginia Mayo, 84, United States actress, notably in the 1940s and 1950s
Albert Schatz, 84, microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin
Zhao Ziyang, 85, former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary, complications of multiple strokes
Daniel Zufferey, 35, French language author

16

H. Bentley Glass, 98, United States biologist, known for controversial views http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/science/20glass.html
Agustn Gonzlez, 74, prolific Spanish film actor
Roger Ibanez, 73, French actor
Ndongo L, 30, Senegalese singer (Mbalax)
Marjorie Williams, 47, United States Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair

15

Victoria de los Angeles, 81, Spanish soprano
Deem Bristow, 57, video game voice actor
William H. Crosby Jr., 90, pioneering hematologist
Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan)
Elizabeth Janeway, 91, United States feminist author
Fred Julsing, 62, Dutch comic book artist
Dan Lee, 35, animator for movie Finding Nemo
Werner Lesser, 72?, German ski jumper
Henk Molleman, 69, Dutch politician and civil servant
Sven Christer Swahn, 71, Swedish writer and translator
Ruth Warrick, 89, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane and All My Children, of pneumonia

14

Dennis Flanagan, 85, United States Long time editor of Scientific American
Ofelia Guilmain, 83, Spanish film and stage actress, worked mostly in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War
Alfred Hause, 84, German composer and conductor
Charlotte MacLeod, 82, United States mystery writer
Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter
Carl Mohner, 88, German artist and actor
Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer
Georges Pirou, 85, French language writer
Jess Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist http://www.miami.com/mld/elnuevo/news/world/americas/10684615.htm

13

Earl Cameron, 89?, Canadian broadcaster and The National-anchor (1959-1966)
Nell Rankin, 81, United States mezzo-soprano opera singer, sang with the Metropolitan Opera for many years

12

Manfred Fuhrmann, 79, German philologist
Achille Maramotti, 78, Italian fashion entrepreneur
Sal Pacino, 82, United States character actor, father of actor Al Pacino
Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor, massive cerebral hemorrhage
Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist

11

Spencer Dryden, 61, drummer for United States rock group Jefferson Airplane, cancer
Jean-Luc Fugaldi, 58, French footballer
James Griffin, 61, member of 1970s group Bread
Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer (Valley of Rocks)
J.R. (Bud) McCaig, 75, co-owner of the NHL's Calgary Flames
Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist, died after crashing on the 11th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally
Ruth Packer, 94, British soprano, famous for playing Verdi heroines
Jerzy Pawlowski, 72, Polish Olympic champion in fencing
Thelma White, 94, United States actress, starred in Reefer Madness

10

Gene Baylos, 98, comedian
Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano
Fernand Cazenave, 80, French rugby player and coach
Tommy Fine, 90, who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns
James Forman, 76, United States former executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colon cancer
Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer
Gordon John "Jack" Horner, 91?, Minnesota sports journalist
Grand Duchess Josphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, 77, Princess of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
Helmut Losch, 57, East German heavy weight weightlifting champion
Amer Ali Nayef, deputy police chief of Baghdad, shot together with his son http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4160479.stm
Jose Manuel Perez, 41, Spanish motorcyclist after crashing 6 January on the 7th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally, internal injuries http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=175331&FS=
Werner Quintens, 67, Belgian clergyman
Jan Pieter Cardinal Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994

9

Fritz Aigner, 74, Austrian painter
Gonzalo Gavira, 79, sound effects creator, The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno
Bernard Goodall, 67, businessman and former Reading F.C. footballer
Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film Director and Assistant Director

8

Badja D'jola, 56, African-American film actor
Jacqueline Joubert, 83, one of the first television presenters on French TV
Suad Katana, 35, Bosnian footballer
Campbell McComas, 52, Australian impersonator, raconteur, broadcaster, chameleon
Warren Spears, 50, choreographer, dancer
Michel Thomas, 90, Polish linguist and teacher
David White, 50, British Commander of British forces on Gibraltar, found dead in his swimming-pool

7

Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson)
Eileen Desmond, 72, former Irish politician, Minister for Health & Social Welfare (1981-1982)
Ernst Deubelbeiss, 84, Swiss convicted of the 1951 murder of Armin Bannwart
Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, 73, United States sports commentator in New Orleans, Louisiana, massive heart attack
Rosemary Kennedy, 86, sister of John F. Kennedy
Rossana Maiorca, 54?, Italian free-diver, daughter of Enzo Maiorca
Ivar Medaas, 66, Norwegian musician
Hans Walder, 84, Prosecutor General of the Swiss Confederation (1968-1973)

6

Lois Hole, 71, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
Jrg von Knel, 53, climber, mountain guide, writer of guide books
Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS
Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick
Ali Šukrija, 85, Yugoslav communist politician from Kosovo]
Sir Nicholas Scott, 71, British politician

5

Antonio Bentez Rojo, 73, Cuban writer
Eduardo Hay, 89, Mexican IOC member (since 1974), professor of gynaecology
Ren Le Henaff, 102?, early French director and editor, sued Charlie Chaplin for plagiarism over City Lights
Danny Sugerman, 50, manager for The Doors