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List of notable deaths in a month
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
James Dudley , 94, American baseball player and professional wrestling manager.
Charles Kelman , 74, American
ophthalmologist , surgeon, jazz musician, and
Broadway producer.
[1]
William Manchester , 82, American author and historian.
Bill Reichardt , 73, American professional football player (
University of Iowa ,
Green Bay Packers ).
[2]
Chang Xiangyu , 80, Chinese opera actress.
2
3
Joe Carr , 82, Irish golfer.
Joe Cleary , 85, Irish-American baseball player (
Washington Senators ).
[3]
Harald Ganzinger , 53, German computer scientist.
[4]
Harold Goodwin , 86, English actor (
The Bridge on the River Kwai ,
The Longest Day ,
The Ladykillers ).
Morris Schappes , 97, American scholar, editor (
Jewish Currents ) and Marxist activist.
[5]
Frances Shand Kydd , 68, English mother of
Diana, Princess of Wales .
[6]
Jonathan Kramer , 61, Musician and Composer
[7]
Quorthon , 38, Swedish musician and founder of the band Bathory,
Congenital heart defect .
4
Augie Colon , 76, American musician.
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.
Tesfaye Gebre Kidan , 68-69, Ethiopian general, defense minister and
President of Ethiopia .
[8]
Steve Lacy , 69, American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer.
[9]
Brian Linehan , 58, Canadian television host and interviewer.
[10]
[11]
Nino Manfredi , 83, Italian actor.
[12]
Gord Mills , 76, politician in Ontario, Canada.
Joseph Reboli , 58, American painter.
T. M. Samarasinghe , 61, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
Anthony Steffen , 73, Italian and Brazilian film actor and screenwriter.
Marvin Heemeyer , 52, American welder and muffler repair shop owner.
5
Iona Brown , 63, British violinist and conductor, cancer.
[13]
Jack Foster , 72, British-born New Zealand athlete.
Ronald Reagan , 93, American actor and politician,
President (1981–1989),
Governor of California (1967–1975),
pneumonia and complications from
Alzheimer's .
[14]
6
Necdet Mahfi Ayral , 96, Turkish actor.
Judy Campbell , 88, English actress.
[15]
Simon Cumbers , 36, Irish freelance cameraman/journalist, working for the
BBC in Saudi Arabia, killed by
Al-Qaeda .
James Roche , 97, American businessman, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of the Board at
General Motors Corporation .
[16]
Kate Worley , 46, American comic book writer (
Omaha the Cat Dancer ).
[17]
7
Richard E. Bush , 79,
United States Marine
master gunnery sergeant and recipient of the
Medal of Honor .
[18]
Joseph L. Doob , 94, American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory.
[19]
Chris Kitsos , 76, American baseball player (
Chicago Cubs ).
[20]
Don Potter , 102, British sculptor.
Eugene Raskin , 94, American musician and playwright.
[21]
Donald Trumbull , 95, American special effects pioneer.
Ted Wellington , 82, Australian rules footballer.
8
David Mervyn Blow , 72, British biophysicist.
[22]
Mack Jones , 65, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball outfielder with the
Atlanta Braves ,
Cincinnati Reds and
Montreal Expos .
[23]
Humayun Khan , 27, American soldier serving in the
Iraq War .
[24]
Máirín Lynch , 87, Irish public figure.
[25]
Roderick Macleod , 95, Canadian politician.
Bob Schmitz , 65, American professional football player and scout (
Pittsburgh Steelers ,
Minnesota Vikings ).
[26]
9
Rosey Brown , 71, American football player,
Pro Football Hall of Famer .
[27]
Robert MacDonald Ford , 93, American politician and insurance agent.
Ted Martin , 101, Australian cricketer (
Western Australia ).
Ralph Moody , 86, American NASCAR driver and team owner.
Jono Porter , 23, Australian
freestyle motocross rider, injuries sustained in race collision.
[28]
Hartley Saunders , 60, Bahamian Olympic triple jumper (
men's triple jump at the
1964 Summer Olympics ).
[29]
Barbara Whiting Smith , 73, American actress (Those Whiting Girls ,
Beware, My Lovely ,
Dangerous When Wet ).
[30]
Brian Williamson , 58, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of
J-Flag , murdered.
10
Ray Charles , 73, American rhythm and blues singer ("
What'd I Say ", "
Georgia on my Mind ", "
I Can't Stop Loving You ") and soul music pioneer.
[31]
Kiki Djan , 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications.
Xenophon Zolotas , 100, Greek economist and politician,
Prime Minister (1989–1990).
11
12
13
Dorothy Lavinia Brown , 85, American surgeon and politician.
Danny Dark , 65, American announcer.
[33]
Dick Durrance , 89, American alpine ski racer, 17-time national champion.
[34]
Sir Stuart Hampshire , 89, British philosopher.
[35]
Robert Lees , 91, American screenwriter, found decapitated.
Sir Allan Taylor , 85, British army general.
Ralph Wiley , 52, American sports journalist, heart attack.
[36]
14
Ubaldo Calabresi , 79, Italian Roman Catholic bishop.
Fatulla Huseynov , 66, Azerbaijani colonel, murdered.
Ulrich Inderbinen , 103, Swiss mountain guide.
Jack McClelland , 81, Canadian book publisher.
Max Rosenberg , 89, American producer of horror movies.
[37]
Noriaki Yuasa , 70, Japanese director, stroke.
15
J. Gwyn Griffiths , 92, Welsh poet and Egyptologist.
Frank Nastasi , 81, American actor and comedian (Lunch with
Soupy ).
Ahmet Piriştina , 52, Turkish politician, mayor of
İzmir , heart attack.
Hatch Rosdahl , 62, American professional football player (
Penn State ,
Buffalo Bills ,
Kansas City Chiefs ).
[38]
John Lasarus Williams , 79, Welsh nationalist activist.
Bagong Kussudiardja , 75, Indonesian painter, choreographer, and artist, high blood pressure, heart, and diabetes complication.
16
Barry Cowan , 56, Northern Irish broadcaster.
Herman Goldstine , 90, American computer scientist (
ENIAC ), Parkinson's disease.
George Hausmann , 88, American baseball player (
New York Giants ).
[39]
Thanom Kittikachorn , 92, Thai military dictator, former Thai prime minister, Complications from stroke .
Hilda Thompson , 85, New Zealand cricketer.
17
Alfred Fischer , 84, German jurist.
Ma Jiajue , 23, Chinese murderer.
Vilayat Inayat Khan , 87, British Sufist.
Jacek Kuroń , 70, Polish dissident and statesman.
Gerry McNeil , 78, Canadian ice hockey player,
Stanley Cup -winning National Hockey League goaltender.
Steven Oken , 42, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Maryland.
Jackie Paris , 79, American
jazz singer and guitarist.
[40]
18
Doris Dowling , 81, American actress.
[41]
Frederick Jaeger , 76, German-born British character actor.
Paul Johnson , c. 49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda.
Nek Mohammed , c. 27, Pakistani tribal leader in
Waziristan and key
Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces.
[42]
Moe Radovich , 75, American professional basketball player (
Philadelphia Warriors ) and college basketball coach (
Cal State Fullerton ,
University of Wyoming ).
[43]
19
20
21
22
Bob Bemer , 84, American computer scientist, cancer.
[47]
Thomas Gold , 84, American astrophysicist.
Francisco Ortiz Franco , 50, Mexican journalist, murdered.
Carlton Skinner , 91, American naval officer and politician, first civilian governor of Guam.
[48]
Mattie Stepanek , 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy.
Kim Sun-il , 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants.
23
24
Ifigeneia Giannopoulou , 40, Greek songwriter, author.
Tau Moe , 95, singer and musician from
American Samoa .
Bill Pataky , 74, Canadian Olympic basketball player (
men's basketball at the
1952 Summer Olympics ).
[49]
Trudeliese Schmidt , 61, German operatic
mezzo-soprano .
Peter Wragg , 73, British footballer.
25
Morton Coutts , 100, New Zealand scientist and inventor.
Margot Guilleaume , 94, German operatic soprano.
Horacio Iglesias , Argentine swimmer.
Karol Kennedy Kucher , 72, American ice skating champion, pneumonia.
[50]
Carl Rakosi , 100, Hungarian-American poet, the last surviving member of the original group of
Objectivist poets .
[51]
26
27
28
Dormer Andrews , 85, Australia judge.
Jean Boyer , 55, French organist and music professor, cerebral haemorrhage.
Anthony Buckeridge , 92, English author, creator of the
Jennings books.
[55]
Georges de Caunes , 85, French journalist, writer and television and radio presenter.
Renate Lepsius , 77, German journalist, historian and politician.
Keith "Matt" Maupin , 20, American U.S. Army Private First Class, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq.
Alexander Spirkin , 85, Soviet and Russian philosopher and psychologist.
David A. Thomas , 86, American educator.
Hal Toenes , 86, American baseball player (
Washington Senators ).
[56]
29
Bernard Babior , 68, American physician and research biochemist, prostate cancer.
Hermelindo Fiaminghi , 83, Brazilian painter, designer, lithographer and art critic.
William W. Havens Jr. , 84, American physicist, complications from leukemia.
[57]
Arik Lavie , 77, Israeli singer and actor, heart disease.
Juan Antonio Lopez , 52, Mexican
boxer , fought
Wilfredo Gómez , leukemia.
Mohammad Ranjbar , 69, Iranian football player and coach, cerebral disorder.
Stipe Šuvar , 68, Croatian and Yugoslav politician and sociologist.
30
Jamal Abro , 80, Pakistani writer.
Chris Alcaide , 80, American actor, cancer.
Vivica Bandler , 87, Finnish theatre director.
Eddie Burns , 88, Australian rugby player and coach.
Stive Vermaut , 28, Belgian cyclist,
brain haemorrhage after heart attack.
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