# Deaths in April 2004
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

## April 2004
### 1

* Paul Atkinson, 58, British guitarist, kidney failure.
* Aaron Bank, 101, American U.S. Army officer, "Father of Special Forces".
* Rıza Doğan, 73, Turkish wrestler and Olympic silver medalist.
* Enrique Grau, 83, Colombian painter and sculptor.
* Yannis Kyrastas, 51, Greek football player and football manager, sepsis.
* Ichirō Nakatani, 73, Japanese actor and seiyū.
* Sándor Reisenbüchler, 69, Hungarian animated film director and graphic artist.
* Mykola Rudenko, 83, Ukrainian poet and human rights activist.
* Jacques Seiler, 76, French actor and theatre director, cancer.
* Charles St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair, 89, British aristocrat and courtier.
* Carrie Snodgress, 58, American actress (Diary of a Mad Housewife, Pale Rider, Murphy's Law), kidney failure.
* Gurcharan Singh Tohra, 79, Indian Sikh leader, heart attack.

### 2

* Ioannis Argyris, 90, Greek computer scientist.
* Alan Levy, 72, American author.
* Takashi Shirôzu, 86, Japanese entomologist.
* Chaïbia Talal, 75, Moroccan painter, heart attack.
* John Taras, 84, American ballet master and choreographer.

### 3

* John Diamond, Baron Diamond, 96, British life peer.
* Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian singer, suicide.
* Eduard Linkers, 91, Austrian actor.
* Nagaraja Rao, 89–90, Indian cricket umpire.
* Phillip Rock, 76, American actor, screenwriter (Most Dangerous Man Alive) and novelist ("Passing Bells" trilogy).

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* Gito Baloi, 39, South African musician, homicide.
* George Bamberger, 80, American baseball player and manager, cancer.
* Nikita Bogoslovsky, 90, Soviet and Russian composer, conductor, and writer.
* Danuta Czech, 82, Polish Holocaust historian.
* Sukhen Das, 65, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter of Bengali cinema.
* Gébé, 74, French cartoonist.
* Ralph Kemplen, 91, British film editor (The Day of the Jackal, The African Queen, The Dark Crystal).
* Pierre Koenig, 78, American architect and academic.
* Boris Levitan, 89, Russian mathematician.
* James J. Martin, 87, American historian and Holocaust denier.
* Bogdan Norčič, 50, Yugoslavian Olympic ski jumper (normal hill and large hill ski jumping at the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics).
* Albéric Schotte, 84, Belgian road racing cyclist.
* Alwyn Williams, 82, British geologist.
* Ron Williams, 59, American basketball player, heart attack.
* Austin Willis, 87, Canadian actor and television host.

### 5

* Isaac Carrasco, 75, Chilean football player.
* Fernand Goyvaerts, 65, Belgian football player, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Ralph Landau, 87, American chemical engineer and entrepreneur.
* Larry McGrew, 46, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
* Pompeo Posar, 83, American Playboy magazine staff photographer.
* Sławomir Rawicz, 88, Polish army lieutenant imprisoned by the NKVD and purported escapee (The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom).
* Fred Winter, 77, British racehorse trainer and jockey.
* Heiner Zieschang, 67, German mathematician.

### 6

* Lou Berberet, 74, American Major League Baseball baseball player.
* Larisa Bogoraz, 74, Russian dissident and human rights activist, stroke.
* Glenn Cowan, 51, American table tennis player, heart attack.
* Ken Johnson, 81, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers).
* Alexander Lerner, 90, Soviet and Ukrainian scientist and refusenik.
* Niki Sullivan, 66, American Rock and Roll guitarist, heart attack.

### 7

* Victor Argo, 69, American actor (King of New York, Taxi Driver, Bad Lieutenant), complications from lung cancer.
* Wolfgang Mattheuer, 77, German painter, graphic artist and sculptor, heart failure.
* Marian McCargo, 72, American actress and champion tennis player, pancreatic cancer.
* Kelucharan Mohapatra, 77, Indian classical dancer and guru.
* Maureen Potter, 79, Irish actress, singer, dancer and comedian.
* Robert Sangster, 67, British racehorse owner, pancreatic cancer.
* Peter Urban, 69, American martial artist.

### 8

* Shafic Abboud, 77, Lebanese painter.
* Herb Andress, 69, Austrian film and television actor, bladder cancer.
* Adrian Beers, 88, British double bass player.
* Chief Bey, 90, American jazz percussionist and African folklorist, stomach cancer.
* Enda Colleran, 61, Irish Gaelic football player and manager.
* Ruth Tabrah, 83, American writer and ordained Buddhist minister.

### 9

* Lélia Abramo, 93, Brazilian actress and political activist, and politician, pulmonary embolism.
* Harry Babbitt, 90, American singer.
* Donna Michelle, 58, American model, actress, and photographer, heart attack.
* Chance Phelps, 19, American private first class.
* Julius Sang, 55, Kenyan Olympic runner (1968 Summer Olympics, 1972 Summer Olympics: gold medal, bronze medal).
* Jiří Weiss, 91, Czech film director, screenwriter, writer, and playwright.

### 10

* Paul-Louis Boutié, 93, French art director.
* Bertil Göransson, 85, Swedish rowing coxswain and Olympic silver medalist.
* Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity, laryngeal cancer.
* Ben Pimlott, 58, British historian, leukemia.
* Roland Rainer, 93, Austrian architect.
* Sakıp Sabancı, 71, Turkish businessman, kidney cancer.
* Odd Wang Sørensen, 81, Norwegian Olympic football player (men's football at the 1952 Summer Olympics).

### 11

* Stan Darling, 92, Canadian politician.
* Hy Gotkin, 81, American basketball player.
* Paul Hamburger, 83, British pianist, accompanist, chamber musician, and scholar.
* Mamadou Aliou Kéïta, 52, Guinean football player, cardiac arrest.

### 12

* Norman Campbell, 80, Canadian composer, television producer and director, stroke.
* Robert Richardson, 76, Canadian Olympic alpine skier (men's downhill, men's giant slalom, men's slalom at the 1952 Winter Olympics).
* Frank Seward, 83, American baseball player (New York Giants).
* Juanito Valderrama, 87, Spanish folk and flamenco singer.
* Wesley Wehr, 74, American paleontologist and artist.
* George W. Whitehead, 85, American mathematician.

### 13

* Ritchie Cordell, 61, American songwriter, singer and record producer, pancreatic cancer.
* Dadamaino, 73, Italian visual artist and painter.
* Hilda Fenemore, 89, English actress.
* David Fowler, 66, British mathematician.
* Csaba Horváth, 74, Hungarian-American chemical engineer and scientist.
* Caron Keating, 41, British television presenter, breast cancer.
* Aarne Saarinen, 90, Finnish politician and a trade union leader.

### 14

* Micheline Charest, 51, British television producer, complications following plastic surgery.
* Antonio Cobas, 52, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle designer and mechanic, cancer.
* Erik Kuld Jensen, 78, Danish football player.
* Robin Popplestone, 65, British software designer and a pioneer in artificial intelligence and robotics, prostate cancer.
* Fabrizio Quattrocchi, 35, Italian security officer, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq.

### 15

* Ray Condo, 53, Canadian rockabilly singer, saxophonist, and guitarist, heart attack.
* María Denis, 87, Argentine-Italian film actress.
* Phyllis Dillon, 59, Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer, cancer.
* Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre director, composer and producer.
* Mitsuteru Yokoyama, 69, Japanese manga artist, accidental death.

### 16

* Abu al-Walid, Saudi Arabian terrorist, killed by Russian federal forces.
* Carlos Castaño, 38, Colombian rebel leader, killed by FARC guerillas.
* Nour El-Dali, 75, Egyptian football player.
* Wilmot N. Hess, 77, American physicist, leukemia.
* Harry Mayerovitch, 94, Canadian architect, artist, illustrator, and author.
* Jan Szczepański, 90, Polish sociologist and politician.

### 17

* Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, 56, Palestinian Hamas leader, targeted killing by Israel.
* Bruce Boa, 73, Canadian-British actor (The Empire Strikes Back, Octopussy, Full Metal Jacket), cancer.
* Anke Hartnagel, 62, German politician, Member of the German Bundestag (1998–2004).
* Geraint Howells, 79, Welsh politician.
* Joe Kennedy, Jr., 80, American jazz violinist.
* Jim Ligon, 60, American basketball player.
* Earl Miner, 77, American professor at Princeton University.
* Soundarya, 31, Indian film actress, plane crash.
* Bobby Wawak, 64, American NASCAR race driver.

### 18

* David Clarke, 95, American Broadway and motion picture actor.
* Gürdal Duyar, 68, Turkish sculptor.
* Brice Hunter, 29, American gridiron football player, shot.
* Kamisese Mara, 83, Fijian politician, prime minister and president, stroke.
* Koken Nosaka, 79, Japanese politician.
* Frances Rafferty, 81, American actress, dancer, and model.
* Werner Schumacher, 82, German actor.

### 19

* Tim Burstall, 76, Australian film director and producer, stroke.
* Jim Cantalupo, 60, American businessman, CEO of McDonald's, heart attack.
* George Hardwick, 84, English football player, manager and coach.
* Volodymyr Kaplychnyi, 60, Ukrainian football player.
* Philip Locke, 76, British actor.
* Norris McWhirter, 78, British writer, political activist and founder of the Guinness Book of Records, heart attack.
* Frank B. Morrison, 98, American politician, Governor of Nebraska.
* Sam Nahem, 88, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies).
* Ronnie Simpson, 73, Scottish footballer and manager, heart attack.
* John Maynard Smith, 84, British biologist, lung cancer.
* Wolfgang Unger, 55, German conductor, cancer.

### 20

* Lizzy Mercier Descloux, 47, French musician, actress, writer and painter, cancer.
* Komal Kothari, 75, Indian folklorist and ethnomusicologist.
* Mary McGrory, 85, American journalist and columnist.
* Abdullah Shah, 59, Afghan serial killer, executed.
* Al Stiller, 80, American Olympic cyclist (men's tandem cycling and men's team pursuit cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics).

### 21

* Eduard Asadov, 80, Russian poet and writer.
* Den Fujita, 78, Japanese founder of McDonald's Japan, heart failure.
* Karl Hass, 91, German SS officer and convicted war criminal.
* John W. Kirklin, 87, American cardiothoracic surgeon who refined John Gibbon's heart–lung bypass machine.
* Mary Selway, 68, British casting director (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi, Gosford Park), cancer.
* Tui St. George Tucker, 79, American modernist composer and conductors.
* Peter Bander van Duren, 73, British writer on heraldry and orders of knighthood.
* Sunčana Škrinjarić, 72, Croatian writer, poet and journalist.

### 22

* Saleem Akhtar, 73, Pakistani cricket player.
* Franco Delli Colli, 75, Italian film cinematographer, pulmonary embolism.
* Art Devlin, 81, American ski jumper, brain cancer.
* Jason Dunham, 22, American marine, used his body to shield others from a grenade explosion, killed in action.
* Sami Hadawi, 100, Palestinian scholar and author.
* Pat Tillman, 27, American gridiron football player (Arizona Cardinals) and Army Ranger, killed in action by friendly fire.

### 23

* Manuel Alcalde, 47, Spanish Olympic race walker.
* Marie-Émile Boismard, 87, French biblical scholar.
* Saúl Ongaro, 87, Argentine football player.
* Peter S. Prescott, 68, American author and book critic, liver disease.
* Ross Rutledge, 41, Canadian field hockey player and Olympian, cancer.

### 24

* Nathan Bruckenthal, 24, United States coast guardsman, killed in action.
* Betty Clay, 87, British scouter, daughter of Robert Baden-Powell.
* José Giovanni, 80, French writer and film maker, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Feridun Karakaya, 76, Turkish actor, heart attack.
* Lia Laats, 78, Estonian stage and film actress.
* Estée Lauder, 97, American businesswoman, cosmetics products pioneer, heart attack.
* Willie Watson, 84, English cricketer.
* Des Warren, 66, British trade unionist.

### 25

* Alphonzo E. Bell, Jr., 89, American politician, pneumonia.
* Dooland Buultjens, 70, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
* Thom Gunn, 74, British poet.
* Eddie Hopkinson, 68, English football goalkeeper.
* Shota Kveliashvili, 66, Georgian sports shooter and Olympic silver medalist.
* Carl Melles, 77, Austrian orchestral conductor.
* Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, 76, Japanese politician.
* Albert Paulsen, 78, Ecuadorian-American actor.
* Jacques Rouxel, 73, French film animator.
* Sid Watson, 71, American football player and ice hockey coach, heart attack.
* Claude Williams, 96, American jazz musician.

### 26

* Kurt Dossin, 91, German field handball player and Olympic champion.
* Rangel Gerovski, 45, Bulgarian wrestler and Olympic silver medalist.
* Paul Hasule, 44, Ugandan football player.
* Robert Clark Jones, 87, American physicist.
* Lee Loevinger, 91, American jurist and lawyer, complications of heart disease.
* Gunther E. Rothenberg, 80, German-American historian.
* Hubert Selby Jr., 75, American writer, author of "Last Exit to Brooklyn", pulmonary embolism.
* Hasse Thomsén, 62, Swedish heavyweight boxer and Olympic medalist.

### 27

* Gleason Archer, 87, American theologian.
* David Jenkinson, 69, British railway modeller and historian.
* Alex Randolph, 81, American designer of board games (TwixT, Enchanted Forest, Inkognito, Ricochet Robot).
* Alejandro Ulloa, 93, Spanish actor.
* Roy Walford, 79, American dietician and author.
* Lloyd F. Wheat, 81, American lawyer and politician.

### 28

* Patrick Berhault, 46, French rock climber and mountaineer, climbing accident.
* Jeremy Black, 52, British assyriologist.
* Jean Devaivre, 91, French film director and screenwriter.
* Elizabeth Fisher, 93, Canadian Olympic figure skater.
* Floyd Giebell, 94, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
* Kifle Wodajo, 67, Ethiopian politician and diplomat.

### 29

* Gaetano Badalamenti, 80, Italian member of the Sicilian Mafia, heart attack.
* Alexander Bovin, 73, Soviet and Russian journalist, political scientist and diplomat.
* John Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker, 88, British diplomat and aristocrat.
* Nick Joaquin, 86, Filipino writer and national artist.
* David S. Sheridan, 95, American inventor of disposable plastic endotracheal tube.
* Sid Smith, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
* Stig Synnergren, 89, Swedish Army officer.

### 30

* Heather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke, 74, British educator and life peer.
* Jeff Butterfield, 74, English rugby player.
* Joseph Cullman, 92, American businessman, CEO of Philip Morris Company.
* Kioumars Saberi Foumani, (aka Gol-Agha), 62, Iranian satirist, cancer.
* Jeffrey Alan Gray, 69, British psychiatrist, prostate cancer.
* Frederick Karl, 77, American literary biographer.
* Georges Lagrange, 75, French esperantist writer.
* Åke Lindemalm, 94, Swedish Navy officer.
* Evelyn Mase, 81, South African nurse, first wife of Nelson Mandela.
* Boris Piergamienszczikow, 55, Russian cellist.
* Kazimierz Plater, 89, Polish chess International Master, three-time Polish chess champion (1949, 1956, 1957).
* Adolph Verschueren, 81, Belgian road cyclist.