# Deaths in July 2005
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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2005.
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.

## July 2005
### 1

* Renaldo Benson, 69, American soul and R&B singer and member of The Four Tops, lung cancer.
* Rex Berry, 80, American football player.
* Gus Bodnar, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Ivan Kolev, 74, Bulgarian football player, heart attack.
* Luther Vandross, 54, American R&B singer, complications following a heart attack.

### 2

* Carla Candiani, 89, Italian film actress.
* Ernest Lehman, 89, American screenwriter (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, North by Northwest, West Side Story).
* Norm Prescott, 78, American co-founder of Filmation animation studios.
* B. N. Krishnamurti Sharma, 96, Indian writer, scholar, professor, and indologist.
* France Staub, 84, Mauritian ornithologist, botanist, and conservationist.
* Tom Talbert, 80, American jazz pianist, composer, and band leader.
* Gu Yue, 68, Chinese actor, heart attack.

### 3

* Siv Ericks, 87, Swedish character actress.
* Nan Kempner, 74, American society hostess, pulmonary emphysema.
* Alberto Lattuada, 90, Italian film director, Alzheimer's disease.
* Pierre Michelot, 77, French jazz bassist, played with Miles Davis, Alzheimer's disease.
* Gaylord Nelson, 89, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Senator, heart attack.
* Sam Tata, 93, Canadian photographer.
* Hedy West, 67, American folksinger, cancer.
* Harrison Young, 75, American actor (Saving Private Ryan, House of 1000 Corpses, Passions).

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* Chris Bunch, 62, American science fiction writer, lung ailment.
* Bryan Coleman, 94, British television and film actor.
* Al Downing, 65, American R&B and country & western musician, leukemia.
* Per Gedda, 90, Swedish sailor.
* June Haver, 79, American film actress, widow of Fred MacMurray, respiratory failure.
* Marga López, 81, Mexican film and television actress, heart failure.
* George C. McGhee, 93, American petroleum geologist and diplomat, pneumonia.
* Hank Stram, 82, American gridiron football coach (Kansas City Chiefs) and Pro Football Hall of Fame member, diabetes.
* John Stubblefield, 60, American jazz saxophonist, flautist, and oboist, prostate cancer.
* Lorenzo Thomas, 60, Panamanian-American poet.

### 5

* Leo Breiman, 77, American statistician.
* Bud Cullen, 78, Canadian judge and politician.
* Ray Davis, 65, American singer, founding member of Parliament/Funkadelic.
* Shirley Goodman, 69, American R&B singer.
* Baloo Gupte, 70, Indian cricketer.
* James Stockdale, 81, American Vice Admiral and Medal of Honor recipient, Alzheimer's disease.

### 6

* Bruno Augenstein, 82, German-American mathematician and physicist.
* L. Patrick Gray, 88, American former Director of the United States FBI, pancreatic cancer.
* James Haskins, 63, American professor, biographer, and author, pulmonary emphysema.
* Evan Hunter, 78, American mystery novel writer, wrote under numerous pseudonyms (Ed McBain), cancer of the larynx.
* Huang Kun, 85, Chinese physicist.
* Donald McGinley, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Nebraska (1959–1961) and Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska (1983–1987).
* Claude Simon, 91, French writer and Nobel Prize winner.

### 7

* Henri Betti, 87, French composer and pianist.
* Paul Deliège, 74, Belgian comic book writer/artist, heart attack.
* Gunnar Fredrik Hellesen, 92, Norwegian politician.
* Adolf Müller, 91, Swiss freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist.
* Gustaf Sobin, 69, American-French poet and novelist, pancreatic cancer.
* Notable deceased during the 7 July 2005 London bombings
** Hasib Hussain, 18, British terrorist, suicide.
** Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, British terrorist, suicide.
** Germaine Lindsay, 19, British terrorist, suicide.
** Shehzad Tanweer, 22, British terrorist, suicide.

### 8

* Maurice Baquet, 94, French actor and cellist.
* Peter Boenisch, 78, German columnist and journalist, cancer.
* Denis Bray, 78, British civil servant in Hong Kong.
* Judy Mann, 61, American longtime columnist for The Washington Post, breast cancer.

### 9

* Chuck Cadman, 57, Canadian Member of Parliament, melanoma.
* Karim Emami, 75, Iranian translator, lexicographer, and literary critic, cancer.
* Yevgeny Grishin, 74, Russian speed skater, first speed skater under 40 seconds on 500 metres.
* Kevin Hagen, 77, American actor (Little House on the Prairie), esophageal cancer.
* Marie-Thérèse Morlet, 91, French scholar and honorary director of research at CNRS.
* Byron Preiss, 52, American writer, editor, and publisher, traffic collision.
* Alex Shibicky, 91, Canadian ice hockey player who made the first slapshot.
* Lu Wenfu, 77, Chinese writer.
* Rafiq Zakaria, 79, Indian Islamic scholar.

### 10

* Richard Eastham, 89, American actor (Tombstone Territory, That Darn Cat!, Wonder Woman), Alzheimer's disease.
* Serge Lancen, 82, French composer and classical pianist.
* Gavin I. Langmuir, 81, Canadian medievalist historian.
* Frank Moores, 72, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland, cancer.
* A. J. Quinnell, 65, English writer, Man on Fire.
* Freddy Soto, 35, American comedian and actor.
* David V., 72, Malaysian unionist and politician.

### 11

* Gretchen Franklin, 94, English television actress, best known as "Ethel Skinner" in EastEnders.
* Shinya Hashimoto, 40, Japanese professional wrestler, intracranial aneurysm.
* Jesús Iglesias, 83, Argentine Grand Prix racing driver.
* David Ralph "Boag" Johnson, 83, American basketball player.
* John Kennedy-Good, 89, New Zealand politician.
* Frances Langford, 92, American singer and actress, heart attack.
* Robert L. Shevin, 71, American Attorney General and politician, esophageal cancer.
* Avabai Bomanji Wadia, 91, Ceylonese-Indian social worker, writer and family planning advocate.
* Theodore Woodward, 91, American medical researcher at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

### 12

* Piero Cappuccilli, 78, Italian operatic baritone.
* Joseph Patrick Delaney, 70, American Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Fort Worth, Texas.
* Arthur Fletcher, 80, American government official, Assistant Labor Secretary under US President Richard Nixon.
* Willi Heinrich, 84, German author and soldier during World War II.
* P. K. Vasudevan Nair, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Kerala state, India.
* Axel Strøbye, 77, Danish stage and film actor.
* John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, 87, British peer, businessman and chairman of British Airways (1981-1993).

### 13

* Robert P. Abelson, 76, American psychologist and political scientist, Parkinson's disease.
* Asen Kisimov, 69, Bulgarian actor, singer and radio presenter.
* Robert E. Ogren, 83, American zoologist.
* Mickey Owen, 89, American former MLB baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
* J. B. Trapp, 79, New Zealand-British historian, writer, and academic.

### 14

* Mark Carlisle, 76, British politician and peer.
* Michael Dahlquist, 39, American musician, film editor, and computer programmer, homicide.
* Tilly Fleischer, 93, German athlete, Olympic champion in javelin (1936).
* Joe Harnell, 80, American composer, musician, and music arranger.
* Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz, 86, Polish sculptor and Olympian.
* Richard Leiterman, 70, Canadian cinematographer, amyloidosis.
* Cicely Saunders, 87, British palliative care activist, cancer.

### 15

* David Daiches, 92, Scottish literary critic.
* Michael Gibson, 60, American Tony-nominated orchestrator and musician, lung cancer.
* Anders Hagen, 84, Norwegian archaeologist.
* Leonor Orosa-Goquingco, 87, Filipino artist, dancer, and columnist.
* Stan Steele, 68, English football player.
* Alicia Vignoli, 94, Argentine film actress.
* Ronald Wilson, 82, Australian High Court justice.

### 16

* Blue Barron, 92, American orchestra leader.
* Pietro Consagra, 84, Italian sculptor.
* Camillo Felgen, 84, Luxembourgish singer, disc jockey, and television presenter.
* Yi Gu, 73, Korean prince, heart attack.
* W. Fox McKeithen, 58, American politician, 5-time Louisiana Secretary of State, suicide from height.
* John Ostrom, 77, American paleontologist who revolutionized understanding of dinosaurs, Alzheimer's disease.
* Miguel Pérez, 68, Puerto Rican wrestler, heart attack.
* K. V. Subbanna, 73, Indian dramatist and writer.
* Dieter Wellershoff, 72, German admiral and Chief of Federal Armed Forces Staff (1986-1991).

### 17

* Laurel Aitken, 77, Jamaican musician, heart attack.
* Izabella Bashmakova, 84, Russian historian of mathematics.
* Biplab Dasgupta, 66, Indian economist, Parkinson's disease.
* Geraldine Fitzgerald, 91, Irish-born American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
* Hans Hansen, 90, Norwegian competition rower and Olympic medalist.
* Edward Heath, 89, British politician, Prime Minister (1970–1974), MP (1950–2001), pneumonia.
* Tommy Johnson, 73, Swedish actor.
* Gina Lagorio, 83, Italian writer.
* Gavin Lambert, 80, British-American novelist, screenwriter (Inside Daisy Clover, Sons and Lovers).
* Mojtaba Mirzadeh, 60, Iranian-Kurdish violin, kamancheh, and setar master.
* Spartak Mishulin, 78, Soviet actor and People's Artist of the RSFSR, heart attack.
* I. G. Patel, 80, Indian economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (1977–1982).
* Jim Pearce, 80, American baseball baseball player.
* Rie Vierdag, 99, Dutch freestyle swimmer.
* William Weatherspoon, 69, American songwriter and record producer.

### 18

* Amy Gillett, 29, Australian rower and cyclist, bicycle accident.
* Gilles Grondin, 62, Canadian educator and a politician, cancer.
* John Herald, 66, American folk musician and recording artist, suicide.
* Bill Hicke, 67, Canadian ice hockey right winger.
* Jim Parker, 71, American football player, (Baltimore Colts) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
* Gerry Thomas, 83, American marketing/sales executive and inventor of the TV dinner, cancer.
* Franz Weissmann, 93, Brazilian sculptor.
* William Westmoreland, 91, American army general, commander of U.S. forces during the Vietnam War (1964-1968), Alzheimer's disease.

### 19

* Jim Aparo, 72, American comic book artist (Batman, Phantom Stranger, Spectre).
* Alain Bombard, 80, French biologist and physician.
* Edward Bunker, 71, American author, screenwriter, and actor (Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs), surgical complications.
* Zihni Gjinali, 79, Albanian football player.
* Hastings Keith, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (1959-1973).
* Lucien Lazaridès, 82, French road bicycle racer.
* Toku Nishio, 65, Japanese actor and voice actor, Japan.
* John Tyndall, 71, British neo-nazi political activist, founder of the British National Party.

### 20

* Nikolai Aksyonenko, 56, Russian railway manager and politician, leukemia.
* Josefina de Vasconcellos, 100, English sculptor.
* James Doohan, 85, Canadian actor, pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.
* Finn Gustavsen, 79, Norwegian politician.
* Kayo Hatta, 47, American film director (Picture Bride), drowned.
* Gyula Hernádi, 78, Hungarian writer and screenwriter.
* David Tomblin, 74, British film and television director.

### 21

* Brynley Allen, 84, Welsh footballer.
* Long John Baldry, 64, British blues musician, infectious disease.
* Bruce Bolt, 75, Australian-American scientist and earthquake expert, pancreatic cancer.
* Andrzej Grubba, 47, Polish table tennis player, cancer.
* Alfred Hayes, 76, British wrestler and wrestling commentator, stroke.
* Tamara Lund, 64, Finnish soprano singer and actress, stomach cancer.
* Stanisław Stomma, 97, Polish lawyer, academic teacher, publicist, and politician.

### 22

* Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, Brazilian man wrongly accused as a fugitive terrorist, killed by London police officers.
* Dragoš Kalajić, 62, Serbian painter, philosopher and writer, cancer.
* Roland A. Luedtke, 81, American politician.
* Xue Muqiao, 100, Chinese economist, director of National Bureau of Statistics.
* Eugene Record, 64, American lead vocalist for The Chi-Lites, cancer.
* Hinako Sugiura, 46, Japanese author and cartoonist, laryngeal cancer.
* George D. Wallace, 88, American actor (Forbidden Planet, The Pajama Game), suicide from height.

### 23

* Ray Crist, 105, American centenarian and chemist.
* Myron Floren, 85, American musician, longtime accordionist/bandleader on The Lawrence Welk Show, cancer.
* Ted Greene, 58, American fingerstyle jazz guitarist, columnist, and session musician, heart attack.
* Fintan Meyler, 75, Irish actress.
* Ray Oldham, 54, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), heart attack.

### 24

* Richard Doll, 92, British epidemiologist, first person to link cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
* Pavel Dostál, 62, Czech minister for cultural affairs, pancreatic cancer.
* John Drawbridge, 74, New Zealand artist, muralist and printmaker.
* Vardan Kushnir, 35, Russian e-mail spammer, homicide.
* Tullia Magrini, 55, Italian anthropologist.
* Francis Ona, 52, Papua New Guinean Bougainville rebel leader, malaria.

### 25

* Paul Britten Austin, 83, British writer and broadcaster.
* Enrique Bautista, 71, Filipino Olympic athlete.
* Ted Chapman, 71, Australian politician and Minister.
* Eddie Crook, 76, American Olympic boxer and Vietnam veteran.
* Sidney Hertzberg, 82, American basketball player, heart attack.
* David Jackson, 71, British actor, heart attack.
* Albert Mangelsdorff, 76, German trombonist.
* Ford Rainey, 96, American actor (3:10 to Yuma, Halloween II, The Bionic Woman), stroke.

### 26

* Betty Astell, 93, American actress, entertainer and widow of Cyril Fletcher.
* Pierre Broué, 79, French historian and Trotskyist revolutionary militant.
* Mario David, 71, Italian footballer.
* Alexander Golitzen, 97, Russian-American Oscar winning production designer (To Kill a Mockingbird, Spartacus, Phantom of the Opera), heart attack.
* Jack Hirshleifer, 79, American economist, prostate cancer.
* Thierry Jean-Pierre, 49, French judge and member of the European Parliament (MEP), cancer.
* Gilles Marotte, 60, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers), pancreatic cancer.
* John Michael Montias, 76, French-born American economist and art historian.
* Danny Simon, 85, American comedy writer, brother of Neil Simon.

### 27

* Shelley Appleton, 86, American labor leader.
* Al Held, 76, American abstract painter.
* Helen Phillips, 86, American opera singer.
* Carmen Provenzano, 63, Canadian politician, heart attack.
* Dom Um Romão, 79, Brazilian jazz drummer, stroke.
* Marten Toonder, 93, Dutch author and cartoonist.
* Robert Wright, 90, American musical lyricist (team of Wright & Forrest – Grand Hotel, Kismet, Song of Norway, etc.).

### 28

* Virginia Dehn, 82, American painter and printmaker.
* Jacques Lacarrière, 98, French ice hockey player.
* Louis Metzger, 88, United States Marine Corps officer.
* Jair da Rosa Pinto, 84, Brazilian footballer.
* Ronnie Rowe, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Cheng Siyuan, 96, Chinese politician.

### 29

* Hermione Hammond, 94, English painter and portrait artist.
* Hildegarde, 99, American cabaret singer.
* Edwin Palmer Hoyt, 81, American writer and historian.
* Pat McCormick, 78, American television writer (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson) and actor (Smokey and the Bandit, Scrooged), stroke.
* Al McKibbon, 86, American jazz double bassist.
* Fred Sledge Smith, 72, American R&B songwriter and record producer.
* Karlheinz Zöller, 76, German flutist.

### 30

* Olga Albizu, 81, Puerto Rican abstract expressionist painter.
* Carl Beam, 62, Canadian Ojibwe artist.
* Ray Cunningham, 100, American baseball player, recognized as the oldest living former MLB player.
* John Garang, 60, Sudanese Vice President, helicopter crash.
* Lucky Thompson, 81, American saxophonist, Alzheimer's disease.

### 31

* Wim Duisenberg, 70, Dutch banker and politician, heart attack while swimming and drowned.
* Armando Ferreira, 85, Portuguese footballer.
* Léopold Gernaey, 78, Belgian footballer.
* Mantle Hood, 87, American ethnomusicologist.
* Lauri Nevalainen, 78, Finnish rower and Olympic medalist.
* John Beaumont Williams, 73, Australian botanist.