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

## August 2005
### 1

* Al Aronowitz, 77, American music journalist, cancer.
* Donald Brooks, 77, American Hollywood and Broadway costume designer, heart attack.
* William Hugh Clifford Frend, 89, English ecclesiastical historian.
* Jeannou Lacaze, 81, French Army general who also served in the French Foreign Legion.
* Anne-Marie Marchand, 78, French costume designer.
* Colin McEvedy, 75, British polymath scholar, psychiatrist, historian, and non-fiction author.
* Constant Nieuwenhuys, 85, Dutch COBRA painter.
* Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 84, Saudi Arabian King, complications of a stroke.
* David Shaw, 62, American journalist, Los Angeles Times writer and Pulitzer Prize winner, brain tumor.

### 2

* Sandro Bolchi, 81, Italian director and journalist.
* Alfredo Corvino, 89, Uruguayan ballet dancer and ballet teacher.
* Rainer Forss, 74, Finnish football player, manager and coach.
* Jay Hammond, 83, American politician, Governor of Alaska from 1975 to 1982.
* Loulie Jean Norman, 92, American soprano.
* Rudolf Tajcnár, 57, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.
* Steven Vincent, 49, American freelance reporter, shot.
* Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft, 89, German-American Hasidic rabbi and Holocaust survivor.

### 3

* Luis Barbero, 88, Spanish actor, heart attack.
* Françoise d'Eaubonne, 85, French writer.
* Alastair Duncan, 79, English-Australian actor, playwright, producer and director.
* Dick Heyward, 90, Australian longtime deputy director of UNICEF.
* Ernest Smith, 91, Canadian Victoria Cross recipient.
* Dominic Aloysius Vendargon, 95, Sri Lankan priest and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur.

### 4

* Charles Alden Black, 86, American businessman, husband of Shirley Temple, myelodysplastic syndrome.
* Mary Dees, 93, American actress.
* Ken Fish, 91, South African football player.
* Ileen Getz, 43, American actress (3rd Rock From The Sun, Changing Lanes, The Station Agent), cancer.
* Sue Gunter, 66, American women's basketball coach, pulmonary emphysema.
* Anatoly Larkin, 72, Russian theoretical physicist.
* Little Milton, 71, American blues musician, stroke.
* Bernardo Romero Pereiro, 61, Colombian actor, director, and writer, respiratory failure.
* Nick Perito, 81, American conductor, composer and arranger, pulmonary fibrosis.
* Iván Szabó, 71, Hungarian politician.
* Eden Natan-Zada, 19, Israeli deserter soldier.

### 5

* Polina Astakhova, 68, Soviet five time Olympic gymnastic champion.
* Fritze Carstensen, 80, Danish swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.
* Bertie Hill, 78, British equestrian and Olympic champion.
* Cal Hogue, 77, American baseball player.
* Raymond Klibansky, 99, German-Canadian academic and philosopher.
* Jane Lawrence, 90, American actress also associated with 1950s art scene.
* Spud Murphy, 96, American jazz multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and arranger.
* Raul Roco, 63, Filipino politician, former senator and presidential candidate, cancer.
* Roy Scott, 88, New Zealand cricket player.

### 6

* Nikolay Abramov, 55, Russian footballer, heart attack.
* Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine, 86, Mexican trade union leader.
* Vizma Belševica, 74, Latvian poet.
* Keter Betts, 77, American jazz bassist.
* Robin Cook, 59, British Member of Parliament, former Foreign Secretary, hypertensive heart disease.
* Ibrahim Ferrer, 78, Afro-Cuban musician, singer in the Buena Vista Social Club, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
* Louis Gauthier, 89, French cyclist.
* John R. Isbell, 74, American mathematician.
* Carlo Little, 66, British drummer, lung cancer.
* Valentin Nikulin, 73, Soviet, Russian and Israeli theater and film actor, cancer.
* James Wilson, 82, Irish composer.

### 7

* Leni Alexander, 81, German-born Chilean composer.
* Alejandro Armendáriz, 82, Argentinian physician and politician, accident.
* Paul Arnaud de Foïar, 83, French Army general.
* Peter Jennings, 67, Canadian-American correspondent, news anchor of ABC News, complications from lung cancer.
* Li Lili, 90, Chinese film actress and singer.
* Sven Methling, 86, Danish film director and screenwriter.
* Noel Nicola, 58, Cuban singer-songwriter and co-founder of the nueva trova movement, cancer.
* Mikhail Yevdokimov, 47, Russian comedian and politician, car accident.
* Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková, 96, Slovak painter, scenic designer and journalist.

### 8

* Robert A. Baker, 84, American psychologist, writer and UFO skeptic.
* Ahmed Deedat, 80, South African Muslim preacher.
* Nicolae Dumitru, 76, Romanian football player and manager.
* Barbara Bel Geddes, 82, American actress (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Dallas, Vertigo), lung cancer.
* John H. Johnson, 87, American publisher.
* Paul Le Person, 74, French actor of Breton origin.
* Gene Mauch, 79, American Major League Baseball manager, lung cancer.
* Nikolai Puchkov, 75, Russian ice hockey goaltender.
* Monica Sjöö, 66, Swedish- British-based painter, writer and eco-feminist, cancer.
* Trần Quốc Vượng, 70, Vietnamese historian, archaeologist, and culturologist.
* Ilse Werner, 84, German actress, pneumonia.

### 9

* Colette Besson, 59, French athlete and Olympic 400m champion runner, lung cancer.
* Dorris Bowdon, 90, American actress, stroke, heart attack.
* Al Carmines, 69, American musician.
* Marco Cavagna, 46-47, Italian astronomer, stroke.
* François Dalle, 87, French entrepreneur, CEO of L'Oréal cosmetics.
* Stanley DeSantis, 52, American actor (Ed Wood, The Aviator, Candyman), heart attack.
* Abraham Hirschfeld, 85, Polish-American real estate investor and Broadway producer, cancer.
* Detroit Junior, 73, American blues pianist, vocalist and songwriter.
* Philip J. Klass, 85, American aviation journalist and UFO sceptic, cancer.
* Matthew McGrory, 32, American actor (Big Fish, The Devil's Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses), heart failure.
* Judith Rossner, 70, American author (Looking for Mr. Goodbar), diabetes and cancer.
* Nikolay Serebryakov, 76, Russian film director.
* Kay Tremblay, 91, Canadian actress (Road to Avonlea).

### 10

* Mar Amongo, 68, Filipino comic book artist.
* Jaroslav Koutecký, 83, Czech physical chemist.
* Roy Marlin Voris, 85, American Navy Captain, World War II flying ace, founder of the US Navy Blue Angels.
* Masahiro Yamada, 74, Japanese screenwriter, lung cancer.

### 11

* Ernesta Ballard, 85, American horticulturist and feminist.
* James Booth, 77, British actor (Zulu).
* Erkko Kivikoski, 69, Finnish film director and screenwriter.
* Manfred Korfmann, 63, German archaeologist, lung cancer.
* Ted Radcliffe, 103, American Negro leagues baseball player, cancer.

### 12

* Francy Boland, 75, Belgian jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
* Robert Bonner, 84, Canadian politician and businessman.
* Teruo Ishii, 81, Japanese movie maker, lung cancer.
* Lakshman Kadirgamar, 73, Sri Lankan foreign minister, homicide.
* John Loder, 59, English sound engineer and record producer, brain cancer.
* Charlie Norman, 84, Swedish jazz pianist and film music writer, cancer.
* Julian Stanley, 87, American psychologist, "Champion of Gifted Students".
* Morciré Sylla, 57, Guinean footballer.
* Jack A. Wolfe, 69, American paleobotanist and paleoclimatologist.

### 13

* Miguel Arraes, 88, Brazilian politician, governor of Pernambuco.
* Wladimiro Calarese, 74, Italian fencer and Olympic medalist.
* Arnold Cooke, 98, British composer.
* George Daniels, 55, Ghanaian Olympic sprinter.
* Armand Deutsch, 92, American film producer and grandson of philanthropist Julius Rosenwald.
* William Jennings Bryan Dorn, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from South Carolina (1947–1949 and 1951–1974).
* David Lange, 63, New Zealand politician, Prime Minister (1984-1989), kidney failure.
* Donald Shively, 84, American japanologist and academic, Shy–Drager syndrome.
* Chris Tolos, 75, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.

### 14

* Stephen C. Apostolof, 78, Bulgarian-American filmmaker.
* Coo Coo Marlin, 73, American NASCAR driver, lung cancer.
* Billy More, 40, Italian drag queen music artist, leukemia.
* Gordon Oakes, 74, British politician, Labour government minister and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, cancer.
* Sheila Piercey Summers, 86, South African tennis player.
* Beverly Wolff, 76, American mezzo-soprano.

### 15

* Laura Carli, 99, Italian actress and dubber.
* Anatoly Demitkov, 77, Soviet canoeist and Olympic silver medalist.
* James Dougherty, 84, American police officer, first husband of actress Marilyn Monroe, leukemia.
* Peter Smit, 43, Dutch martial artist, former European and world champion kickboxer, shot.
* Viktor Spasov, 46, Soviet pole vaulter.
* Evelyn Stokes, 68, New Zealand geographer and writer.
* Gladys Strum, 99, Canadian politician.
* Herta Ware, 88, American actress (Cocoon, Cruel Intentions, Species), Parkinson's disease.
* Earl Zindars, 77, American composer of jazz and classical music.

### 16

* Karl-Erik Andersson, 78, Swedish football player, bandy player and ice hockey player.
* Vassar Clements, 77, American fiddle player and bluegrass musician, lung cancer.
* Tonino Delli Colli, 81, Italian cinematographer (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America), heart attack.
* William Corlett, 66, English author, cancer.
* Subal Das, 76, Bangladeshi music director, composer and football player.
* Alexander Gomelsky, 77, Soviet and Russian basketball player and coach, cancer.
* Þorsteinn Gylfason, 63, Icelandic philosopher, musician and poet, stomach cancer.
* Jay Jackson, 86, American radio and television quiz show host and announcer, pneumonia.
* Milorad Pavić, 83, Serbian football player and coach.
* Joe Ranft, 45, American animator, screenwriter and voice actor (Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo), car accident.
* Eva Renzi, 60, German actress, cancer.
* Frère Roger, 90, Swiss Christian leader and monk, founder of the Taizé Community, stabbed.
* Derek Page, Baron Whaddon, 77, British politician.

### 17

* Richard Altham, 81, English cricketer.
* John N. Bahcall, 70, American astrophysicist.
* Dottie Hunter, 89, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
* Lloyd Meeds, 77, American politician, US Representative from Washington (1965–1979), lung cancer.
* Bertram L. Podell, 79, American politician, US Representative from New York (1967–1975).

### 18

* Chri$ Ca$h, 23, American professional wrestler, motorcycle accident.
* Kenyon Jones, 27, American basketball player, heart attack.
* Andrónico Lukšić, 78, Croatian-Chilean billionaire businessman, cancer.
* Krzysztof Raczkowski, 34, Polish drummer (Vader), heart failure.
* Elza Radziņa, 88, Soviet and Latvian theater and cinema actress, and a master of the spoken word.

### 19

* Mansour F. Armaly, 78, Palestinian ophthalmologist and early glaucoma researcher, cancer.
* Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, 78, Lithuanian psychologist.
* Val Bird, 77,Australian politician.
* Michael Collins, 81, American mystery novelist.
* Abraham Bueno de Mesquita, 87, Dutch comedian, cancer.
* Faimalaga Luka, 65, Tuvaluan politician, prime minister (2001) and governor-general (2003-2005).
* O. Madhavan, 83, Indian actor and director.
* Mo Mowlam, 55, British politician, complications after a fall.
* Oscar Muller, 48, Argentine football player, traffic accident.
* Mel Welles, 83, American actor, writer, director.

### 20

* Abraham Samuel Goldstein, 80, American law professor, former dean of Yale Law School, heart attack.
* Thomas Herrion, 23, American NFL player with the San Francisco 49ers, ischemic heart disease.
* Miljenko Kovačić, 32, Croatian soccer player, motorcycle accident.
* Julius Curtis Lewis, Jr., 79, American businessman and philanthropist.
* Clifford Williams, 78, British theatre director.

### 21

* Liv Aasen, 76, Norwegian politician.
* Mary Bowerman, 97, American botanist.
* Martin Dillon, 48, American musician, operatic tenor and professor of music, heart attack.
* Zbigniew Dłubak, 84, Polish painter, photographer, and art theoretician.
* Polly Hill, 91, British social anthropologist of West Africa, and academic.
* David Ironside, 80, South African cricketer.
* James Jerome, 72, Canadian jurist and politician, former Speaker of the House of Commons.
* Antoine, 13th Prince of Ligne, 80, Belgian noble and son of Eugène, 11th Prince of Ligne.
* Colin McEwan, 64, Australian comedian and actor, cancer.
* Robert Moog, 71, American electronic music inventor and pioneer, brain tumor.
* Lev Naumov, 80, Russian classical pianist, composer and educator.
* Dahlia Ravikovitch, 69, Israeli poet and author.
* Marcus Schmuck, 80, Austrian mountaineer, heart attack.
* Li Wei, 85, Chinese actor.

### 22

* Luc Ferrari, 76, French musique concrète composer.
* Henri Génès, 86, French singer and actor.
* Richard Kelly, 81, American politician, former US Representative from Florida (1975–1981), dementia.
* Ernest Kirkendall, 91, American chemist and metallurgist.
* Elizabeth Knight, 60, British actress (Oliver!, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling), heart disease.
* Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane, 87, British judge and former Lord Chief Justice.
* James McMillin, 91, American rower.
* Juliet Pannett, 94, English portrait painter.
* Mati Unt, 61, Estonian writer and theatre director.

### 23

* Glenn Corneille, 35, Dutch musician and pianist, car crash.
* William J. Eaton, 74, American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author.
* Brock Peters, 78, American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, Porgy and Bess, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), pancreatic cancer.
* Lyndon Woodside, 70, American choral conductor, pneumonia.
* Rémy Zaugg, 62, Swiss painter, primarily.

### 24

* Jamshed Ansari, 62, Pakistani actor, brain cancer.
* Liu Baiyu, 88, Chinese writer.
* Maurice Cowling, 78, British historian.
* Ambrogio Fogar, 64, Italian adventurer, heart attack.
* Kaleth Morales, 21, Colombian vallenato singer and songwriter, traffic collision.
* Tom Pashby, 90, Canadian ophthalmologist and sport safety advocate.
* Jerzy Plebański, 77, Polish theoretical physicist.
* Yuriy Sarantsev, 76, Soviet and Russian actor, cerebrovascular disease.
* Jack Slipper, 81, English Scotland Yard detective.
* Herbert Wright, 57, American television producer, prostate cancer.

### 25

* Lora Aborn, 98, American composer.
* Ruth Aaronson Bari, 87, American mathematician.
* Walter Becher, 92, German politician.
* Frederick Corfield, 90, British politician.
* Peter Glotz, 66, German politician.
* Georgi Iliev, 39, Bulgarian businessman and president of Lokomotiv Plovdiv, shot.
* Perry Lafferty, 89, American television producer, cancer.
* Terence Morgan, 83, British actor, heart attack.
* Reyhan, 19, Bulgarian singer, car accident.
* Princess Margareta, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 96, German noblewoman.
* Joe Strawder, 64, American basketball player.
* Josiah Tungamirai, 56, Zimbabwean military officer and politician.
* Eleanor Catherine Warren, 86, British cellist and music producer.

### 26

* Denis D'Amour, 45, Canadian musician, guitarist of Canadian metal band Voivod, cancer.
* Robert Denning, 78, American society interior designer, heart attack.
* Louis Ferron, 63, Dutch novelist and poet.
* Gerry Fitt, 79, Northern Irish politician, elevated to the House of Lords.
* Kostas Manoussakis, 76, Greek film director and screenwriter.
* Ed White, 56, Canadian professional wrestler best known as "Moondog King", traffic collision.

### 27

* Aldo Aniasi, 84, Italian politician.
* Romulo Espaldon, 79, Filipino military officer and diplomat.
* Seán Purcell, 76, Irish Gaelic footballer.
* Theunis van Schalkwyk, 75, South African boxer and silver medalist at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

### 28

* Ali Said Abdella, 55, Eritrean politician, foreign minister of Eritrea, heart attack.
* Hans Clarin, 75, German actor, heart failure.
* Antoñita Colomé, 93, Spanish film actress.
* Jacques Dufilho, 91, French comedian.
* Curt Lincoln, 86, Finnish racing driver.
* Esther Szekeres, (née Klein), 95, Hungarian mathematician.
* George Szekeres, 94, Hungarian mathematician.

### 29

* Ishaya Audu, 79, Nigerian politician.
* Murray Barnson Emeneau, 101, Canadian-American linguist and indologists.
* Jack Luxton, 82, New Zealand politician and dairy farmer.
* Nurcholish Madjid, 66, Indonesian Muslim intellectual.
* Antonie Plămădeală, 78, Romanian Orthodox metropolitan bishop.
* Margaret Daphne Scott, 71, Australian author and poet, pulmonary emphysema.
* Jude Wanniski, 69, American journalist and economist, heart attack.

### 30

* Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, 115, Dutch supercentenarian, oldest recognized person in the world, gastric cancer.
* Fu Biao, 41, Chinese actor, liver cancer.
* Stéphane Bruey, 72, French football player.
* Teófilo Cruz, 63, Puerto Rican basketball player, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Jakup Mato, 68, Albanian publicist and lector of Tirana University.
* James H. Scheuer, 85, American politician, US Representative from New York (1965–1973 and 1975–1993).
* A. Veerappan, 72, Indian comedian, screenwriter, and film director.

### 31

* Eladia Blázquez, 74, Argentine tango player and composer, cancer.
* Antoni Clavé, 92, Catalan painter, printmaker, sculptor, and costume designer.
* Basudeb Dasgupta, 66, Indian novelist and short-story writer.
* Jaan Kiivit, 65, Estonian Lutheran archbishop.
* John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, 84, British judge, peer, and Master of the Rolls.
* Joseph Rotblat, 96, Polish-British physicist, Nobel laureate, and anti-nuclear weapons campaigner.
* H. W. F. Saggs, 84, English classicist and orientalist.
* Theodore R. Sarbin, 94, American psychologist.
* Michael Sheard, 67, Scottish actor (The Empire Strikes Back), cancer.
* Nina Ulyanenko, 81, Russian aviator.
* Stefania Woytowicz, 82, Polish concert soprano.