Deaths in January 2005

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

31

• Ron Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister (1970s)
• Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poetess
• Malcolm Hardee, 55, British comedian, drowning. [1]
• Robert McCartney, 33, killed by the IRA in Belfast
• H. Narasimhaiah, 84, Indian physicist and educator. [2],[3]
• Ivan Noble, 37, BBC journalist, brain tumour. [4]

30

• Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish Celtic musician, cancer. [5], [6]
• Paul Clinton, 53, American film critic (CNN). [7]

29

• Eric Griffiths, 64, British musical group The Quarrymen, pancreatic cancer. [8]
• Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli satirist, dramatist, screenwriter and film director, apparent heart attack. [9]
• Bill Shadel, 96, United States journalist [10]
• Ron Tomme, 73, American soap opera actor[11]

28

• Karen Lancaume (aka Karen Bach), 32, French adult film performer, overdosed on sleeping pills. [12]
• Daniel Branca, 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist, heart attack. [13], [14]
• Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter (Traffic), stomach cancer.[15]
• Lucien Carr, 79, United Press International editor, bone cancer. [16]
• Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor/comedian, internal hemorrhage.[17]

27

• Gilbert Bennion, 106, one of the last four surviving Australian veterans of World War I
• Donald Dempsey Sr., American recording executive who helped launch Ozzy Osbourne and Merle Haggard, stroke.
• Aurélie Nemours, 94, French painter
• Jonathan Welsh, 57, Canadian stage, television and film actor, died in his sleep following a brief illness. [18], [19]

26

• Roy Fraser Elliott, 83, Canadian lawyer and philanthropist.[20]
• Cordelia Scaife May, 76, American philanthropist and heiress to Mellon family fortune, pancreatic cancer. [21]

25

• William Augustus Bootle, 102, United States district judge overseeing desegregation in the American South
• Philip Johnson, 98, United States architect. [22]
• Vicky LaMotta, 75, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta, following open-heart surgery
• Ray Peterson 65, United States popular singer (Tell Laura I Love Her), cancer. [23],[24]
• Lev Saychuk, 81, Soviet Olympic fencer. [25]
• Max Velthuijs, 81, Dutch writer and illustrator
• Nettie Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch athlete

24

• June Bronhill, 75, Australian actress and opera, operetta and musical comedy singer, Alzheimer's disease. [26]
• Vladimir Savchenko, 71, Ukrainian science fiction writer. [27]
• Chalkie White, 76, rugby union coach
• ZerNona Black, 98, activist on behalf of senior citizens and the elderly, natural causes

23

• Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, former Deputy Speaker of the 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, 46, retired NFL player, renal disease. [28]

22

• Sir William Deakin, 91, British World War II hero and founder of St. Antony's College at Oxford University
• César Gutiérrez, 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
• Consuelo Velázquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song "Bésame mucho"
• Rose Mary Woods, 87, former Nixon secretary and key Watergate figure [29]

21

• Parveen Babi, 49, Indian film actress, apparently from diabetes. [30]
• Reg Cudlipp, 95, British newspaper editor. [31]
• John L. Hess, 87, journalist
• Richard Outram, 74, Canadian poet
• Don Poier, 53, United States NBA basketball announcer for the Memphis Grizzlies
• Steve Susskind, 62, American voice-over actor
• Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer

20

• Per Borten, 91, former Prime Minister of Norway
• Roland Frye, American English literature professor and theologian
• Dick Gallagher, 49, American composer, predominantly for off-Broadway productions. [32]
• Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and highly decorated World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section
• Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild, 96, British zoologist, entomologist and author

19

• Bill Andersen, 90, New Zealand communist and trade union leader
• Donald Beardslee, 61, American convicted murderer, executed in San Quentin State Prison, California
• K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide
• Ardyth Kennelly, 92, US novelist whose books were popular in the 1940s and 50s
• Anita Kulcsár, 28, Hungarian handball player

18

• Lamont Bentley, 31, television and film actor, car crash
• Peter Whatley, former professional wrestler under the name Pez Whatley

17

• Charlie Bell, 44, former CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer
• Virginia Mayo, 84, United States film actress (White Heat, The Best Years of Our Lives)
• Albert Schatz, 84, microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin
• George Patrick Leonard Walker, 78, British volcanologist [33]
• Zhao Ziyang, 85, former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary, complications of multiple strokes

16

• H. Bentley Glass, 98, United States biologist, known for controversial views [34]
• Agustín González, 74, prolific Spanish film actor
• Marjorie Williams, 47, United States Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair, liver cancer

15

• Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan)
• Elizabeth Janeway, 91, United States feminist author
• Dan Lee, 35, animator for Finding Nemo
• Victoria de Los Angeles, 81, Spanish soprano
• Ruth Warrick, 89, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane and All My Children, pneumonia

14

• Ofelia Guilmain, 83, Spanish film and stage actress, worked mostly in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War
• Charlotte MacLeod, 82, United States mystery writer
• Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter
• Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer
• Jesús Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist [35]

13

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

12

• Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor, massive cerebral hemorrhage (he played the evil priest Mola Ram in the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
• Jay Schulberg, 65, American advertising executive, pancreatic cancer. [36]
• Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Estonian-American Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist

11

• Spencer Dryden, 66, drummer for American rock band Jefferson Airplane, cancer
• James Griffin, 61, member of 1970s rock band Bread, cancer
• 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 (Reefer Madness), pneumonia

10

• Gene Baylos, 98, comedian
• Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano
• Tommy Fine, 90, who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns in the 1940s and 50s
• 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, Minnesota sports journalist
• Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, Princess of Belgium and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, 77, cancer
• Helmut Losch, 57, East German heavyweight weightlifting champion
• Jan Pieter Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994

9

• Gonzalo Gavira, 79, sound effects creator (The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno)
• Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film director

8

• Oleta Kirk Abrams, 77, American activist
• Jacqueline Joubert, 83, one of the first television presenters on French television
• Campbell McComas, 52, Australian impersonator, raconteur, broadcaster, chameleon
• Warren Spears, 50, choreographer, dancer
• Michel Thomas, 90, Polish linguist and teacher

7

• Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson)
• Eileen Desmond, 72, former Irish politician, Minister for Health and Social Welfare (1981-1982)
• Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, 73, United States sports commentator in New Orleans, massive heart attack
• Rosemary Kennedy, 86, sister of John F. Kennedy, natural causes

6

• Lois Hole, 71, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, cancer
• Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS
• Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick
• Sir Nicholas Scott, 71, British politician
• Les Robinson, 90, American jazz alto saxophone player, recorded with Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and many others.

5

• Danny Sugerman, 50, manager for The Doors

4

• Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster
• Paul Darragh, 51, Irish equestrian showjumper, heart failure
• Guy Davenport, 77, American writer, translator, illustrator, and painter, lung cancer
• Ali Al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated
• Frank Harary, 84, mathematician, a foremost expert on graph theory
• Robert Heilbroner, 85, United States economist
• Marguerite Pearson, 72, American professional baseball player (AAGPBL)
• Bud Poile, 80, retired right wing for Toronto and Detroit in the 1940s and 50s, member of Hockey Hall of Fame
• Alton Tobey, 90, United States muralist and painter

3

• JN Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary
• Will Eisner, 87, United States comic book artist and pioneering graphic novelist
• Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫), 88, Chinese negotiator with the PRC, renal cancer
• John Lawrence, 70, United States Los Angeles Times business journalist
• Claude Meillassoux, 79, French anthropologist and economist

2

• H. David Dalquist, 86, founder of Nordic Ware, creator of the Bundt cake pan
• Arnold Denker, 90, United States chess player
• Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian (That's Life!).
• Frank Kelly Freas, 82, United States science fiction artist
• Ronald Ginn, 70, United States former U.S. Congressman from Georgia
• Maclyn McCarty, 93, geneticist and DNA research pioneer
• Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter

1

• Shirley Chisholm, 80, United States first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress
• Eugene J. Martin, 66, United States, African American painter
• Hugh John Frederick Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and former deputy managing director of the Daily Telegraph
• Bob Matsui, 63, United States Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, cancer
• Dmitry Nelyubin, 33, Russian cyclist, murdered.