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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 2004

1

• Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, American physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium. ^[1]
• Vivian Austin, 84, American actress.
• John Higgins, 88, American swimmer and coach, pneumonia.
• George F. Kugler Jr., 79, American lawyer. ^[2]
• Viktor Malyuk, 43, Russian serial killer, suicide by hanging.
• Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, American philosopher. ^[3]
• Albrecht Obermaier, 92, German naval officer.
• Laurence Stark, 83, Royal Air Force pilot and WWII flying ace.
• Ken Timbs, 53, American professional wrestler, cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure.

2

• Akwasi Ampofo Adjei, 47, Ghanaian highlife musician. ^[4]
• Heinrich Mark, 92, Estonian politician, Prime Minister-in-exile (1971–1990).
• José Omar Pastoriza, 62, Argentinian football player. and coach.
• Mike Schultz, 83, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). ^[5]
• Arturo Tolentino, 93, Philippine lawyer and politician.

3

• Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer. ^[6]
• Gloria Emerson, 75, American author, journalist and New York Times war correspondent, suicide. ^[7]
• Brian Hitch, 72, British diplomat.
• Bob Murphy, 79, American MLB New York Mets announcer.
• Bryon Nickoloff, 48, Canadian chess International Master, represented Canada in six Chess Olympiads. ^[8]
• Geraldine Peroni, 51, American film editor ( The Player , Dr. T and the Women , Michael ), suicide. ^[9]

4

• Mary Dees, 93, American actress.
• Jeanne Gilchrist, 78, American baseball player (AAGPBL). ^[10]
• Hunter Hancock, 88, American R&B and rock DJ.
• Sir Robert Jennings, 90, British jurist, President of the International Court of Justice.
• Joseph Bearwalker Wilson, 62, American shaman and witch.

5

• Jim Alford, 90, British athlete.
• Don Grossman, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• James Hubbard, 74, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Alabama.
• Edith Jiménez, 86, Paraguayan plastic artist.

6

• Lien Ying Chow, 98, Singaporean businessperson, pneumonia.
• Santosh Gupta, 79, Bangladeshi journalist and writer.
• Rick James, 56, American singer ("Mary Jane", "Give It to Me Baby", "Super Freak") and producer, heart attack. ^[11]
• Donald Justice, 78, American poet. ^[12]
• Murray S. Klamkin, 83, American mathematician.
• Natteri Veeraraghavan, 90, Indian physician, microbiologist and medical researcher.

7

• Paul "Red" Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter.
• Concepcion Anes, 79, Gibraltarian politician, MHA. ^[13]
• Colin Bibby, 55, English ornithologist.
• Bernard Levin, 75, English journalist and broadcaster.
• Gordon Smith, 80, Scottish footballer.

8

• Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, 89, American health and fitness pioneer.
• Nigel Capel-Cure, 95, British cricketer and landowner.
• Pete Center, 92, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians). ^[14]
• Paul "Mousie" Garner, 95, American comedian, Three Stooges associate.
• Leon Golub, 82, American artist and painter.
• Charles L. Lewis, 37, American politician.
• Dimitris Papamichael, 70, Greek actor.
• Jean Pouliot, 81, Canadian broadcasting pioneer, helped establish television stations in Kitchener, Ontario and Quebec City, Quebec. ^[15]
• Richard Taylor, 23, Welsh skating and skiing champion, collided with a concrete lamp-post.
• Fay Wray, 96, Canadian-born American actress ( King Kong ). ^[16]

9

• Liisi Beckmann, 79, Finnish designer and artist.
• Edwin Michael Conway, 70, American Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, esophageal cancer
• Tony Mottola, 86, American guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on The Tonight Show orchestra. ^[17]
• Eduard Neumann, 93, German Luftwaffe officer during WWII.
• David Raksin, 92, American composer of film and television scores ( Laura ), two Academy Award nominations ( Forever Amber , Separate Tables ). ^[18]
• Sir David Steel, 87, British businessman.

10

• Walter Bielser, 75, Swiss footballer.
• James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, American member of the Rockefeller family, oldest known U.S. Olympic medal winner. ^[19]
• Alan N. Cohen, 73, American owner of the Boston Celtics.

11

• Bjarne Andersson, 64, Swedish cross-county skier, Olympic silver medallist (1968).
• Sir David Calcutt, 73, British barrister and public servant.
• Chen Chunxian, 70, Chinese physicist, founder of Zhongguancun.
• Keith Drinan, 79, Australian rules footballer, (St Kilda).
• Joe Falls, 76, American journalist, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News .
• Bill Martin, Jr., 88, American author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. ^[20]
• Wolfgang Mommsen, 73, German historian. ^[21]

12

• Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, 84, British Nobel Prize in Medicine, co-inventor of the CAT scan. ^[22]
• Ian Lake, 69, British musician.
• Robert L. Morris, 62, American parapsychologist.
• Sebastián Ontoria, 84, Spanish footballer.
• George Yardley, 75, American National Basketball Association Hall of Famer. ^[23]

13

• Julia Child, 91, American chef, author and television hostess on French cuisine. ^[24]
• Stefan Dimitrov, 64, Bulgarian opera basso singer.
• Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street. ^[25]
• Ondřej Voříšek, 18, Czech football, car accident.
• Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor. ^[26]

14

• Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 39, Indian rapist and murderer, the first person executed in India since 1995.
• William D. Ford, 77, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from 1965 to 1995.
• Neal Fredericks, 35, American cinematographer ( The Blair Witch Project ), drowned.
• Robert Howard, 28, American athlete.
• Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and dissident.
• Bomber Moran, 59, Filipino actor.
• Eric Petrie, 77, New Zealand cricketer.
• Stephen M. Reasoner, 60, American judge (United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas). ^[27]
• Sir Trevor Skeet, 86, New Zealand-born British lawyer and politician.

15

• Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer. ^[28]
• Sune K. Bergström, 88, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine.
• Pedro Grases, 94, Venezuelan writer.
• Marian Kozłowski, 76, Polish basketball administrator.
• Bent Ole Retvig, 68, Danish cyclist.
• John Richardson, Baron Richardson, 94, British physician.
• Ollie Silva, 75, American auto racing driver.

16

• Acquanetta, 83, American-born "Venezuelan" B-movie actress.
• Mick Clingly, 72, Australian sportsman.
• H. G. Davis Jr., 80, Australian journalist and educator.
• Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach. ^[29]
• J. Irwin Miller, 95, American businessman, philanthropist, and civil rights advocate. ^[30]
• George Moe, 72, Barbadian politician and former Chief Justice of Belize.
• Carl Mydans, 97, American photographer.
• Robert Quiroga, 35, American world champion boxer, murdered.
• Stephen Terrell, 88, British barrister and politician, President of the Liberal Party.
• Sam Wildman, 92, American biologist.

17

• Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist.
• Sheila Callender, 90, British physician and haematologist.
• Anatoly Guzhvin, 58, Russian politician and head of the administration of Astrakhan Oblast.
• Dennis "D-Roc" Miles, 45, American rhythm guitarist for Body Count, from lymphoma complications.
• Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone. ^[31]

18

• Susan Mary Alsop, 84, American socialite, hostess and writer. ^[32]
• Elmer Bernstein, 82, American film composer ( Thoroughly Modern Millie , Ghostbusters , To Kill a Mockingbird ), Oscar winner (1968), cancer.
• Hiram Fong, 97, American businessman and politician, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate.
• Hugh Manning, 83, British actor ( Emmerdale , The Elephant Man , Mrs Thursday ).
• Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán.
• Ray Reutt, 87, American professional football player (Virginia Military Institute, Phil/Pit Steagles). ^[33]
• Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen.

19

• Tom Baldwin, 57, American race driver, racing accident.
• George Gibson, 98, American football player and coach.
• Martin Knottenbelt, 84, Dutch anti-war activist.
• Kyi Maung, 83, Myanmar Army officer and politician.
• Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur.
• Peggy Peterman, American journalist and columnist.
• Jack Pinder, 91, English footballer.
• Günter Rexrodt, 62, German politician, former Economics Minister of Germany.

20

• William J. Firey, 81, American mathematician.
• Arthur Lever, 84, Welsh professional footballer.
• María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born star of rumbera films.
• Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician and novelist.
• Leslie Shepard, 87, British author, archivist, and curator.

21

• Viktor Avilov, 51, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, cancer.
• Amelia Batistich, 89, New Zealand fiction writer.
• Hortensia Blanch Pita, 89, Spanish writer.
• Maddy English, 79, American baseball player (AAGPBL) ^[34]
• Sachidananda Routray, 88, Indian poet and novelist.
• Moshe Shamir, 82, Israeli author, playwright and columnist.
• Clip Smith, 63, American media personality.

22

• Konstantin Aseev, 43, Russian chess Grandmaster and coach.
• Louella Daetweiler, 86, American baseball player (AAGPBL) ^[35]
• Al Dvorin, 81, American bandleader and talent agent, automobile accident. ^[36]
• Marcel Caux, 105, Australian First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières.
• George Kirgo, 78, American television and film writer, former president of the Writers Guild of America.
• Jim Nelson, 57, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates). ^[37]
• Daniel Petrie, 83, Canadian film director ( A Raisin in the Sun , Cocoon: The Return , The Bay Boy ). ^[38]
• Reginaldo Polloni, 87–88, Italian Olympic rower (men's coxed four rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics). ^[39]
• Ota Sik, 84, Czech economist and politician, architect of economic liberalization during Czechoslovakia's ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring .

23

• Povilas Aksomaitis, 66, Lithuanian politician and engineer.
• Hank Borowy, 88, American baseball player, former New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers pitcher. ^[40]
• Mary Guiney, 103, Irish businesswoman; chairperson of the Clerys department store.
• Francesco Minerva, 100, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop.

24

• Richard Ervin, 99, American attorney general and chief justice of Florida. ^[41]
• Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist.
• Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka.
• Carlos Lacoste, 75, Argentinian naval officer and interim President.
• Bob Price, 76, American politician (U.S. Representative for Texas's 18th congressional district and Texas's 13th congressional district). ^[42]
• William Siri, 85, American biophysics researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, mountaineer and environmentalist. ^[43]

25

• Don Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer.
• Roger Broughton, 45, New Zealand cricketer.
• Hal Epps, 90, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Athletics). ^[44]
• Marcelo Gonzalez Martin, 86, Spanish Roman Catholic primate of Spain, Cardinal (since 1973) and Archbishop of Toledo (1971-1995). ^[45]

26

• James Allridge, 41, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection. ^[46]
• Enzo G. Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq.
• Laura Branigan, 51, American pop singer ("Gloria", "Self Control"), cerebral aneurysm. ^[47]
• Lewis Carter-Jones, 83, British politician.
• Lloyd Smith, 74, Australian cricketer.

27

• Fernand Auberjonois, 93, Swiss foreign news correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade ; father of actor René Auberjonois.
• Willie Crawford, 57, American former outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers. ^[48]
• Gottlieb Göller, 69, German football player and manager.
• Suzanne Kaaren, 92, American actress (Three Stooges films).
• Liang Su-yung, 84, Taiwanese politician, President of the Legislative Yuan.
• Larry McCormick, 71, American television personality.
• Susan Peretz, 64, American actress ( Dog Day Afternoon , Melvin and Howard , Swing Shift ), breast cancer. ^[49]
• William Pierson, 78, American actor ( Stalag 17 , Three's Company , Corvette Summer ). ^[50]

28

• Jerzy Dzięcioł, 92, Polish Olympic sailor
• Silvana Jachino, 88, Italian actress.
• Robert Lewin, 84, American producer and screenwriter, lung cancer.
• José Puyet, 82, Spanish painter

29

• Donald Allen, 92, American editor, publisher and translator of American literature. ^[51]
• Lee Guttero, 91, American basketball player.
• Ivar Aavatsmark, 91, Norwegian corporate executive and forester, director of Norwegian Forest Owners Association (1942-1982).
• Helen Lane, 83, American translator. ^[52]
• John Francis Nash, 94, American railroad executive.
• L. B. Moerdani, 71, Indonesian national army, stroke and lung infection.

30

• Larry Desmedt, 55, American motorcycle designer, injuries suffered during a stunt. ^[53]
• Willie Duff, 69, Scottish football goalkeeper (Heart of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline Athletic).
• Derek Johnson, 71, British athlete and athletics administrator.
• Fay Jones, 83, American architect and designer, trained by Frank Lloyd Wright. ^[54]
• Bob Sherman, 63, American actor.
• Fred Lawrence Whipple, 97, American astronomer. ^[55]

31

• Joe Barry, 65, American Swamp Pop singer of "I'm a Fool to Care".
• Lex Peterson, 46, New Zealand Olympic bobsledder (two-man and four-man bobsled at the 1988 Winter Olympics). ^[56]
• Carl Wayne, 61, English lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer.

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