Deaths in August 2005

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The following is a list of notable people who died in August 2005.

31

• John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, 84, British judge, former Master of the Rolls.
• Jaan Kiivit, Jr, 65, former Estonian Lutheran archbishop.
• Sir Joseph Rotblat, 96, Nobel laureate, Polish-born British physicist, anti-nuclear weapons campaigner, founder of Pugwash Conferences.
• Michael Sheard, 67, British actor, including Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Admiral Ozzel), he played Adolf Hitler in five movies, cancer.
• Julius Westheimer, 88, financial analyst.

30

• Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, 115, oldest recognized person in the world, gastric cancer.
• Cecily Brownstone, 96, long-time Associated Press cuisine writer, pneumonia. [1]
• Léonie Duquet (body identified), 61, French nun and Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo activist; presumably killed by the Argentine military regime between 1976 and 1983.
• Florence Reeves, 111, British suffragette, civil servant, and notable supercentenarian; death announced a few hours after Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper. [2]
• James H. Scheuer, 85, former Democrat-Liberal United States Representative from New York from 1965–1973, and 1975–1993.

29

• Margaret Scott, 71, Australian author and poet.
• Jude Wanniski, 69, supply-side economist.

28

• Ali Said Abdella, 55, foreign minister of Eritrea, heart attack.
• Hans Clarin, 75, German actor.
• Jacques Dufilho, 91, French comedian.
• Esther Szekeres (née Klein), 95, Hungarian mathematician.
• Syed Mushtaq Hussain Shah
• George Szekeres, 94, Hungarian mathematician.

27

• Jan Moor-Jankowski, 81, Polish-American primatologist, stroke
• Seán Purcell, 76, Irish Gaelic footballer.

26

• Wolfgang Bauer, 64, Austrian playwright.
• Denis "Piggy" D'Amour, 45, guitarist of Canadian metal band Voivod, cancer.
• Robert Denning, 78, interior designer, silver-haired fixture of society in Paris and New York.
• Gerry Fitt, Baron Fitt, 79, Northern Irish politician from West Belfast; elevated to House of Lords.
• Ed "Sailor" White, 56, Canadian professional wrestler best known as "Moondog King".

25

• Peter Glotz, 66, German politician.
• Georgi Iliev, 39, Bulgarian businessman and president of Lokomotiv Plovdiv, murdered by sniper in Sunny Beach.
• Perry Lafferty, 89, American television producer, cancer. [3]
• Terence Morgan, 83, British actor

24

• Maurice Cowling, 78, British historian.
• Kaleth Morales, 21, Colombian "New Wave" vallenato singer and songwriter.
• Tom Pashby, 91, Canadian doctor, promoter of hockey safety.
• Jack Slipper, 81, Scotland Yard detective. [4]
• George Smith, 44, a former British royal servant, fomented "Royal Rape" controversy.

23

• Glenn Corneille, 35, Dutch musician and pianist, car crash. [5] (in Dutch)
• Stanley DeSantis, 52, American actor (Tales of the City), designer, heart attack.
• William J. Eaton, 74, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author.
• Ambrogio Fogar, 64, Italian adventurer.
• Sir Jack Hibbert, 73, Head of the Central Statistical Office, UK.
• Brock Peters, 78, American actor, best known for his role as Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird, pancreatic cancer. [6]
• Lyndon Woodside, 70, choral conductor.

22

• Luc Ferrari, 76, French musique concrète composer.
• Richard Kelly, 81, former Republican United States Representative from Florida from 1975–1981. [7]
• Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane, 87, British judge and former Lord Chief Justice. [8]
• Colin McEwan, 64, Australian comedian and actor, cancer. [9]
• Mati Unt, 61, Estonian writer and theatre director.
• Morris Ziff, 91, Rheumatic disease expert, cardiac arrest.

21

• Liv Aasen, 76, Norwegian politician
• Liam Burke, 77, Irish politician.
• Thomas Herrion, 23, NFL player with the San Francisco 49ers, collapsed after preseason game, autopsy later showed death caused by ischemic heart disease.
• James Jerome, 72, former Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.
• Robert Moog, 71, electronic music inventor and pioneer, brain tumor. [10]
• Dahlia Ravikovitch, 69, Israeli poet and author.
• Martin Dillon, 48, musician, operatic tenor, and professor of music, heart attack. [11], [12], [13]

20

• LaToyia Figueroa (body found), 24, suspected pregnant United States murder victim
• Abraham Goldstein, 80, former dean of Yale Law School, heart attack.
• Krzysztof Raczkowski, 35, Polish drummer, ex-member of Vader.
• Clifford Williams, 78, British theatre director. [14]

19

• Mansour Armaly, 78, ophthalmologist and early glaucoma researcher, cancer. [15]
• Faimalaga Luka, 65, former prime minister and governor-general of Tuvalu.
• Dennis Lynds, 81, mystery novelist under the pseudonym Michael Collins. [16]
• O. Madhavan, 83, Indian actor and director.
• Bueno de Mesquita, 87, Dutch comedian, cancer. [17] (in Dutch)
• Mo Mowlam, 55, British politician, after a fall. [18]

18

• Andrónico Luksic, Croatian-descent Chilean, 78, millionaire businessman, richest man of his country.
• Christopher Bauman, Jr., 23, professional wrestler Chri$ Ca$h.
• Lloyd Meeds, 77, former Democratic United States Representative from Washington from 1965–1979.
• Randy Turner, American musician with the hardcore punk band Big Boys.
• Mel Welles, 83, American actor, writer, director.
• Gao Xiumin, 46, Chinese comedy actress, heart attack.

17

• John Norris Bahcall, 70, American astrophysicist. [19]
• Dalibor Brazda, 83, Czech/Swiss composer, arranger and conductor.
• Tonino Delli Colli, 81, Italian cinematographer. [20]
• Bertram Podell, 79, former Democratic United States Representative from New York 1967–1975. [21]
• Esther Wong, 88, promoter, "Godmother" of Punk rock.

16

• Vassar Clements, 77, American fiddle player and bluegrass musician. [22]
• Aleksandr Gomelsky, 77, former Hall of Fame basketball-coach of the Soviet Union, cancer.
• Joe Ranft, 45, American animator, car accident.
• Eva Renzi, 60, German actress, cancer.
• Frère Roger, 90, founder of the Taizé Community, murdered by an assailant. [23]

15

• James Dougherty, 84, first (and last surviving) husband of Marilyn Monroe. [24]
• Gordon James Oakes, 74, former Labour government minister and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, cancer.
• Peter Smit, 43, former European and world champion kickboxer, shot to death in Rotterdam. [25]
• Herta Ware, 88, American actress. [26]

14

• George Carpenter, 96, Ireland's longest-living Olympian.
• Coo Coo Marlin, 73, NASCAR driver.

13

• Francy Boland, 75, Belgian jazz pianist, arranger: top European Swing Band 60's & 70's. [27]
• Wladimiro Calarese, 74, Italian Olympic fencer. [28]
• Arnold Cooke, 98, British composer. [29]
• W.J. Bryan Dorn, 89, former Democratic United States Representative from South Carolina 1947–1949, and 1951–1974.
• David Lange, 63, former Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand, main proponent of anti-nuclear policy.
• Donald Howard Shively, 84, American professor, among the first to promote modern East Asian Studies, Shy-Drager syndrome. [30]

12

• Teruo Ishii, 81, Japanese movie maker.
• Lakshman Kadirgamar, 73, Sri Lankan foreign minister, assassination. [31] [32]
• Joe Korp, 47, Australian "body in the boot" suspect, suicide. [33]
• Charlie Norman, 84, Swedish jazz pianist and film music writer. [34]
• Derek Page, Baron Whaddon, 77, British politician.
• Julian Stanley, 87, "Champion of Gifted Students". [35]

11

• Ernesta Ballard, 85, Philadelphian feminist and former head of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
• James Booth, 77, British actor (Zulu).
• Al Carmines, 69, reverend, composer, singer and actor.
• Manfred Korfmann, 63, German archaeologist. [36]
• Anatoly Larkin, 72, theoretical physicist.
• Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, 103, Negro Leagues baseball player.
• Kay Tremblay, 91, Canadian actress (Road to Avonlea). [37]
• Colin Winkelmann, 29, BMX innovator, suicide.

10

• Mar Amongo, 68, Filipino comic book artist. [38]
• John Bryson, 81, celebrity photographer.
• Roy Marlin "Butch" Voris, 85, retired US Navy Captain, World War II flying ace, founder and two-time commander of the United States Navy Blue Angels. [39] [40]

9

• Colette Besson, 59, athlete and Olympic 400m champion runner.
• Dorris Bowdon, 90, American actress.
• François Dalle, 87, CEO of L'Oréal cosmetics
• Abraham Hirschfeld, 85, Polish born, New York City developer, of cancer.
• Philip J. Klass, 85, aviation journalist, UFO debunker, cancer.
• Matthew McGrory, 32, 7'–6" actor, natural causes.
• Judith Rossner, 70, American author (Looking for Mr Goodbar), diabetes and cancer.

8

• Barbara Bel Geddes, 82, American actress (Miss Ellie, Dallas), of lung cancer. [41]
• Ahmed Deedat, 80, Islamic scholar, lecturer and author.
• John H. Johnson, 87, publisher.
• Gene Mauch, 79, MLB manager.
• Ilse Werner, 84, German actress.

7

• Peter Jennings, 67, Canadian-born American correspondent, news anchor of ABC News, complications from lung cancer. [42]
• Mikhail Yevdokimov, 47, Russian comedian and politician, car accident.

6

• Nikolay Abramov, 55, Russian footballer.
• Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine, 86, Mexican trade union leader.
• Vizma Belsevica, 74, Latvian poet.
• Keter Betts, 77, jazz bassist.
• Robin Cook, 59, British Member of Parliament, former Foreign Secretary. [43]
• Ibrahim Ferrer, 78, a popular Afro-Cuban musician from Cuba. Singer in the Buena Vista Social Club. [44]
• Joseph Rogers, 81, US Air Force Colonel and aviator; still holds world speed record of 1,525 mph set in 1959.
• Neil Sullivan, 90, Civil Rights advocate: desegregation.
• Carlo Little, 66, influential UK rock and roll drummer, first drummer with the Rolling Stones and taught Keith Moon

5

• Polina Astakhova, 68, five time Olympic gymnastic champion.
• Bertie Hill, 78, British equestrian.
• Hunter Kelly, 8, son of Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly, Krabbe's disease.
• Raymond Klibansky, 99, German-Canadian academic and philosopher.
• Maria Korp, 50, Australian 'body in the boot' crime victim.
• Raul Roco, 63, former senator and Filipino presidential candidate, cancer.
• Jane Lawrence Smith, 90, American actress also associated with 50's art scene

4

• Charles Alden Black, 86, businessman, husband of Shirley Temple, of myelodysplastic syndrome [45].
• "Little" Milton Campbell, 71, blues musician.
• Ileen Getz, 43, cast of 3rd Rock From The Sun, cancer.
• Sue Gunter, 66, women's basketball coach.

3

• Françoise d'Eaubonne, 85, French writer.
• Dick Heyward, 90, longtime deputy director of UNICEF.
• Ernest Alvia ("Smokey") Smith, 91, Canadian Victoria Cross recipient.
• Susan Torres, 26, brain-dead woman kept alive to give birth. [46]
• Steven Vincent, 49, American freelance reporter. Shot dead in Basra, Iraq. [47]

2

• Jay Hammond, 83, Governor of Alaska from 1975 to 1982.
• Hassan Moghaddas, 42, Iranian judge in the case of Akbar Ganji and high-profile cases; assassinated by unknown motorbike assailant.

1

• Al Aronowitz, 77, music journalist, cancer. [48]
• Donald Brooks, 77, Hollywood and Broadway costume designer. [49]
• Constant, 85, COBRA painter.
• King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, 84, complications of a stroke suffered in 1995. [50]
• George Forman, 88, comptroller of the ACLU.
• William Hugh Clifford Frend, 89, ecclesiastical historian. [51]
• David Shaw (writer), 62, Los Angeles Times writer and Pulitzer Prize winner, brain tumor. [52]
• Wibo, 87, Dutch cartoonist. [53]