Deaths in June 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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 (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), 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 (University of Iowa, Green Bay Packers).
• Sheikh Shaheb Ali, 86, Bangladeshi football player and coach.

2

• Mujeeb Alam, 56, 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 (The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Longest Day, The Ladykillers).
• 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 (Jewish Currents) and Marxist activist.

4

• Charles Correll, 60, American cinematographer (Animal House, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock) and television director (Melrose Place), 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 (1981–1989), Governor of California (1967–1975), 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, Grand Prix motorcycle racer from Great Britain.
• Kate Worley, 46, American comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer), 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 (Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos), 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 (Pittsburgh Steelers, Minnesota Vikings), 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 (Western Australia).
• 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 (Those Whiting Girls, Beware, My Lovely, Dangerous When Wet), 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 ("What'd I Say", "Georgia on my Mind", "I Can't Stop Loving You"), 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 (1989–1990).

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] (ruler of Surakarta) .
• Michel Roche, 64, French Olympic equestrian (gold medal winner in equestrian team jumping at the 1976 Summer Olympics).
• Soriba Soumah, 58, Guinea 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 (Penn State, Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs), suicide by jumping.

16

• Herman Goldstine, 90, American computer scientist (ENIAC), Parkinson's disease.
• George Hausmann, 88, American baseball player (New York Giants).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 (Philadelphia Warriors) 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 (bronze medal winner in women's volleyball at the 1964 Summer Olympics).
• Alfredo Torero, 73, Peruvian anthropologist and linguist.
• Nob Yoshigahara, 68, Japanese mathematician and puzzle expert.

20

• Munir al-Ajlani, 91, Syrian politician, writer, lawyer, and scholar.
• Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (1998-2004), lung cancer.
• Robert Rogers Blake, 86, American management theoretician.
• Hanns Cibulka, 83, German poet and diarist.
• Fred Cogswell, 86, Canadian poet.
• Luis Contreras, 53, Hispanic-American actor.
• Nabil Sahraoui, 37, Algerian militant, head of GSPC, killed by the Algerian army.

21

• Ruth Leach Amonette, 87, American businesswoman, author, and educator.
• Ron Ashman, 78, English football player and manager.
• Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure.
• Ted Scott, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate, traffic collision.

22

• Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer.
• Francisco Ortiz Franco, 50, Mexican journalist, murdered.
• Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist.
• Carlton Skinner, 91, American naval officer and politician, first civilian governor of Guam.
• Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy.
• Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants.

23

• Peter Birrel, 68, English actor (Doctor Who), cancer..
• Rifaat El-Fanagily, 68, Egyptian footballer.
• Ya'akov Meshorer, 68, Israeli numismatist and classical archaeologist, cancer.
• Leonard Stein, 87, American musicologist, pianist, conductor and university teacher.

24

• Carlos Lacoste, 75, Argentine navy vice-admiral and politician.
• Bill Pataky, 74, Canadian Olympic basketball player (men's basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
• Jimmy Rowser, 78, American jazz double-bassist.
• Trudeliese Schmidt, 61, German operatic mezzo-soprano.
• Peter Wragg, 73, British footballer.

25

• Morton W. Coutts, 100, New Zealand scientist and inventor.
• Imanol Larzabal Goñi, 56, Basque Spanish singer and composer.
• Margot Guilleaume, 94, German operatic soprano.
• Karol Kennedy, 72, American ice skating champion, pneumonia.
• Fred Ramdat Misier, 77, Suriname politician, president (1982-1988.)
• Carl Rakosi, 100, Hungarian-American poet, the last surviving member of the Objectivist poets.

26

• Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress.
• Ott Arder, 54, Estonian poet, children's writer and translator.
• George Charles, 88, Saint Lucia trade unionist and politician.
• Chaim Goldberg, 87, Polish-Israeli-American artist, painter, and sculptor.
• Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer.
• Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter, cancer.
• Nguyen Van Hinh, 88, Vietnamese Chief of staff and general.

27

• Peter Blythe, 69, English actor, lung cancer.
• Hugh B. Cave, 93, British writer.
• Jean Graczyk, 71, French road bicycle racer.
• Petar Gračanin, 81, Yugoslav and Serbian politician and general in the Yugoslav People's Army.
• Boris Holban, 96, Russian-born Franco-Romanian communist.
• George Patton IV, 80, American army general and son of George Patton, Parkinson's disease.
• Fausto Romitelli, 41, Italian composer, cancer.

28

• Jean Boyer, 55, French organist and music professor, cancer.
• Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books.
• Georges de Caunes, 85, French journalist, writer and television and radio presenter, aneurysm.
• Marcel Jullian, 82, French author and screenwriter.
• Hisashi Nozawa, 44, Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist, suicide by hanging.
• Alexander Spirkin, 85, Soviet and Russian philosopher and psychologist.
• Thomas Zereske, 38, German Olympic canoeist, leukemia.

29

• Bjørn Breigutu, 80, Norwegian filmmaker.
• Alvin Hamilton, 92, Canadian politician.
• William W. Havens Jr., 84, American physicist, complications from leukemia.
• Arik Lavie, 77, Israeli singer and actor, heart disease.
• Mohammad Ranjbar, 69, Iranian football player and coach, cerebral disorder.
• Grethe Thordahl, 77, Danish stage and film actress.
• Stipe Šuvar, 68, Croatian and Yugoslav politician and sociologist.

30

• Chris Alcaide, 80, American actor, cancer.
• Eddie Burns, 88, Australian rugby player and coach.
• Jacques Rossi, 94, Polish-French writer and polyglot.
• Stive Vermaut, 28, Belgian cyclist, brain haemorrhage after heart attack.