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

## May 2005
### 1

* Albert Rex Bergstrom, 79, New Zealand econometrician.
* Motibhai Chaudhary, 81, Indian politician.
* Neville Gruzman, 80, Australian architect, writer and architectural activist.
* Rene Rivkin, 60, Australian stockbroker, suicide.

### 2

* Renée Faure, 86, French actress.
* Robert Hunter, 63, Canadian environmentalist, journalist, and co-founder of Greenpeace, prostate cancer.
* Theo Middelkamp, 91, Dutch cyclist and first Dutch world champion.
* Jack Nichols, 67, American gay rights activist, cancer.
* Börje Nyberg, 85, Swedish actor and film director.
* Raisa Struchkova, 79, Russian dancer and People's Artist of the USSR.
* David Tyrrell, 79, British virologist.
* Wee Kim Wee, 89, Singaporean politician, fourth President of Singapore from 1985 to 1993, prostate cancer.

### 3

* Jagjit Singh Aurora, 89, Indian army general.
* Don Canham, 87, American track and field athlete, University of Michigan athletic director, accidental death.
* Michel Maurice-Bokanowski, 92, French politician.
* Bobby Forrest, 73, English footballer.
* Pierre Moerlen, 52, French drummer and percussionist.
* Willi Steffen, 80, Swiss football player.

### 4

* Mark Boyle, 70, Scottish artist.
* Else Christensen, 92, Danish heathenism figure and white separatist.
* David Hackworth, 74, American Vietnam War] veteran and journalist, bladder cancer.
* Michael Kernan, 78, American author and journalist.
* Joyce Lambert, 88, British botanist and ecologist, bronchopneumonia.
* David McKee, 86, Australian politician.
* Magdolna Nyári-Kovács, 83, Hungarian fencer and Olympic silver medalist.
* Luis Taruc, 91, Filipino communist revolutionary figure and resistance leader during World War II.

### 5

* Ted Atkinson, 88, Canadian-American Hall of Fame jockey, stroke.
* Elisabeth Fraser, 85, American actress (The Phil Silvers Show, A Patch of Blue, One Happy Family).
* June MacCloy, 96, American actress.
* Skip Minisi, 78, American football player.
* Édgar Ponce, 30, Mexican actor, traffic collision during the filming of video for "Sólo para mujeres".

### 6

* Luis Caballero, 42, Paraguayan footballer, homicide.
* Rafael Díaz-Balart, 79, Cuban politician, opponent and former brother-in-law of Fidel Castro, leukemia.
* Joe Grant, 96, American animator and screenwriter (Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland, Pocahontas), heart attack.
* Ernestine Lebrun, 99, French Olympic freestyle swimmer.
* Herb Sargent, 81, American television comedy writer, heart attack.
* Lee Stine, 91, American MLB baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees), stroke.

### 7

* Václav Boštík, 91, Czech artist.
* Bruce Duncan, 76, Australian politician.
* Tristan Egolf, 33, American author, suicide by gunshot.
* Peter W. Rodino, 95, American politician and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment process against Richard Nixon, heart attack.
* Otilino Tenorio, 25, Ecuadorian football player, traffic collision.

### 8

* Wolfgang Blochwitz, 64, German footballer.
* Jean Carrière, 76, French writer.
* Rafiqul Bari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cinematographer and director.
* Lloyd Cutler, 87, American attorney, former White House Counsel under Presidents Carter and Clinton.
* Nasrat Parsa, 37, Afghan singer, beaten.
* Nino Terzo, 81, Italian actor.
* Gianpietro Zappa, 49, Swiss football player.

### 9

* Jacques Dohen, 75, French hurdler.
* Ang Kiukok, 74, Filipino painter.
* Chris Kreski, 42, American writer, biographer and screenwriter, cancer.
* Charles Morrison, 72, British landowner and Conservative politician.
* Akihiko Saito, 44, Japanese hostage in Iraq, murdered.
* Tiny Wharton, 77, British football referee.

### 10

* Romy Diaz, 63, Filipino actor.
* Hal Griggs, 76, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
* Jim Love, 78, American sculptor.
* Jay Marshall, 85, American magician and ventriloquist, dean of the Society of American Magicians, heart attack.
* Govind Narayan Singh, 84, Indian politician.
* David Wayne, 47, American singer of the heavy metal group Metal Church, accidental death.

### 11

* Léo Cadieux, 96, Canadian politician and diplomat.
* Michalis Genitsaris, 86, Greek rebetiko singer and composer.
* Bob Stuart, 84, New Zealand rugby player.
* Percy Trezise, 82, Australian painter, writer and explorer.

### 12

* Noël Deschamps, 96, Australian public servant and diplomat.
* Evaristo Iglesias, 79, Cuban Olympic sprinter.
* Ömer Kavur, 60, Turkish film director, producer, and screenwriter, lymphoma.
* Frankie LaRocka, 51, American rock musician and producer, complications following heart surgery.
* Martin Lings, 96, English writer, scholar, philosopher and arabist.
* Gunnar Nilsson, 82, Swedish heavyweight boxer and Olympic silver medalist.
* Sara Qadimova, 82, Azerbaijani khananda singer.
* Owen Wilkes, 65, New Zealand entomologist, conservationist and peace campaigner, suicide.
* Monica Zetterlund, 67, Swedish singer and actress, conflagration.
* Ladislau Șimon, 53, Romanian super-heavyweight freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist, stroke.

### 13

* Eddie Barclay, 84, French record producer and founder of Barclay Records.
* George Bernard Dantzig, 90, American mathematician, "father of linear programming", diabetes.
* Hugh Montefiore, 85, English Bishop of Birmingham and environmental activist with Friends of the Earth.
* Raymond Redheffer, 84, American mathematician.
* Michael Bruce Ross, 45, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Utpala Sen, 81, Indian Bengali playback singer.
* Victor Sproles, 77, American jazz bassist.
* Adriano Zamboni, 71, Italian racing cyclist.
* Miroslav Šutej, 69, Croatian avant-garde painter and graphic artist.

### 14

* Michael Carson, 57, Australian television director, pancreatic cancer.
* Jimmy Martin, 77, American bluegrass singer, bladder cancer.
* Helvécio Martins, 74, Brazilian LDS leader.
* Mary Treadgold, 95, English author, literary editor and BBC producer, cancer.

### 15

* Vakha Arsanov, Chechen warlord and vice president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, killed.
* Les Bartley, 51, Canadian coach of the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League, colon cancer.
* Alan B. Gold, 88, Canadian Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court.
* Natalya Gundareva, 56, Russian actress, stroke.
* Aulis Kallakorpi, 76, Finnish ski jumper and Olympic silver medalist (1956).
* Mahipal, 86, Indian film actor, cardiac arrest.
* Amadeus Webersinke, 84, German pianist and organist.

### 16

* L. Bruce Archer, 82, British mechanical engineer and designer.
* Rees Davies, 66, Welsh historian.
* Andrew Goodpaster, 90, American army general and former leader of NATO, prostate cancer.
* June Lang, 90, American actor.
* José M. López, 94, Mexican US Army soldier during World War II and Medal of Honor recipient.
* Arthur Naftalin, 87, American politician, former mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, suicide from height.

### 17

* Keiiti Aki, 75, Japanese seismologist.
* Piero Dorazio, 77, Italian painter.
* Frank Gorshin, 71, American actor (Batman, 12 Monkeys, That Darn Cat!), cancer.
* Vladimir Stogov, 74, Russian weightlifter, world champion, and Olympic medalist.
* Ismail Yusupov, 91, Soviet Uyghur First Secretary of the Kazakh SSR.

### 18

* Alf Arrowsmith, 62, English football player.
* Gergely Pongrátz, 73, Hungarian anti-communist.
* Shaima Rezayee, 24, Afghan TV presenter, shot.
* Bobby Thompson, 67, American banjoist (Area Code 615).
* Whayne Wilson, 29, Costa Rican footballer, traffic collision.
* Denis Wright, 94, British diplomat, prostate cancer.
* Stella Zázvorková, 83, Czech actress, heart attack.

### 19

* John Arthur, 85, South African boxer.
* Henry Corden, 85, Canadian voice actor (The Flintstones, The Ten Commandments, Jonny Quest), emphysema.
* Batya Gur, 57, Israeli author, lung cancer.
* Richard Lewine, 94, American Broadway composer and TV producer.
* Paul Schneider-Esleben, 89, German architect.
* Milton A. Wolf, 80, American diplomat, investment banker and real estate developer, lymphoma.
* Victor Wouk, 86, American scientist and electrical engineer, cancer.

### 20

* J. D. Cannon, 83, American actor (McCloud, Cool Hand Luke, Raise the Titanic).
* Marian Foik, 71, Polish Olympic sprinter.
* Joseph Levis, 99, American foil fencer and Olympic medalist.
* Paul Ricœur, 92, French philosopher and teacher.
* Lujo Tončić-Sorinj, 90, Austrian diplomat and politician, former Foreign Minister of Austria.
* Richard Q. Twiss, 84, British astronomer.
* Harriet White Medin, 91, American actress (Death Race 2000, The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, The Terminator).

### 21

* Stephen Elliott, 86, American actor (Arthur, Beverly Hills Cop, Dallas), heart attack.
* Bedford Jezzard, 77, English footballer, former Fulham F.C. football player and manager.
* David Lang, 37, American NFL football player (Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys), shot.
* Howard Morris, 85, American voice actor (The Flintstones, Garfield and Friends, Police Academy).
* Subodh Mukherjee, 84, Indian filmmaker, leukemia.

### 22

* Charilaos Florakis, 91, Greek politician, secretary general of the Communist Party of Greece (1972–1989), heart attack.
* Bertha Harris, 67, American lesbian novelist.
* Vitaly Mukha, 69, Ukrainian-Russian politician.
* Thurl Ravenscroft, 91, American voice actor (Tony the Tiger, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!), prostate cancer.

### 23

* John Albano, 82, American comic book writer (Jonah Hex).
* Sígfrid Gràcia, 73, Spanish footballer.
* Ernst Jakob Henne, 101, German motorcycle racer and racecar driver.
* Tetsuya Ishida, 31, Japanese painter, railway accident.
* Derek Ratcliffe, 75, British conservationist.
* Roderick Wright, 64, Scottish Roman Catholic bishop, renounced the office of bishop.

### 24

* Carl Amery, 83, German writer.
* Roger Dwyre, 91, French film editor.
* Arthur Haulot, 91, Belgian journalist, member of the resistance during World War II, thrombosis.
* Michalis Kousis, 51, Greek Olympic long-distance runner, heart problems.
* Vivian Liberto, 71, American homemaker and author.
* Marian Oleś, 70, Polish prelate of the Catholic Church.
* Saeed Khan Rangeela, 68, Pakistani actor, singer and director, kidney failure.

### 25

* Sunil Dutt, 75, Indian Bollywood actor and Union Minister, India, heart attack.
* Robert Jankel, 67, British limousine designer, pancreatic cancer.
* Graham Kennedy, 71, Australian TV celebrity and comedian, pneumonia.
* Vera Komarkova, 62, Czech-American mountaineer and botanist, complications of breast cancer treatment.
* Ruth Laredo, 67, American pianist.
* Ismail Merchant, 68, Indian-British film producer, ulcer.
* Jurij Moskvitin, 67, Danish classical pianist, philosopher, and mathematician.
* Zoran Mušič, 96, Slovene painter, graphic artist and draughtsman.
* Ben Peters, 71, American country music songwriter.
* Domenic Troiano, 59, Canadian guitarist, cancer.

### 26

* Eddie Albert, 99, American actor (Roman Holiday, Green Acres, The Heartbreak Kid), pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.
* Chico Carrasquel, 77, Venezuelan MLB baseball player, heart attack.
* Israel Epstein, 90, Polish-Chinese communist journalist and author.
* Joe Lee Johnson, 75, American NASCAR racing driver, cancer.
* Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana, 89, Burkinabe politician, former president of Burkina Faso.
* Krzysztof Nowak, 29, Polish football player for VfL Wolfsburg and the Poland national team, ALS.
* Radius Prawiro, 76, Indonesian economist and politician, Minister of Finance (1983-1988).
* Jim Ray, 60, American baseball player.
* Dale Velzy, 77, American surfboard shaper.

### 27

* Abuzar Aydamirov, 71, Chechen writer.
* Morris Cohen, 93, American metallurgist.
* Franco Diogene, 57, Italian actor and comedian, heart attack.
* Fay Godwin, 74, British photographer.
* Piotr Gładki, 33, Polish Olympic long-distance runner, traffic collision.
* Max Lundgren, 68, Swedish author of children's books.

### 28

* Clair Armstrong Callan, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Nebraska (1965–1967).
* Rosette Batarda Fernandes, 89, Portuguese botanist, taxonomist, and curator.
* John Sidney Garrett, 83, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
* Arnie Morton, 83, American restaurateur, founder of Morton's of Chicago steakhouses, Alzheimer's disease.
* Jean Négroni, 84, French actor and theatre director.
* Daniel Quirk, 22, American professional wrestler.
* Avner Shaki, 79, Israeli politician.

### 29

* Oscar Brown, Jr., 78, American musician, playwright, and activist.
* Patsy Calton, 56, British politician and Member of Parliament, cancer.
* John D'Amico, 67, Canadian NHL linesman and later supervisor of officials, leukemia.
* María de los Ángeles Alvariño González, 88, Spanish oceanographer.
* Joseph Karth, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Minnesota (1959–1977).
* Hamilton Naki, 78, South African surgeon.
* Svatopluk Pluskal, 74, Czechoslovak footballer, stroke.
* George Rochberg, 86, American composer.
* Luciano Rossi, 70, Italian film actor.
* Kazimierz Urbanik, 75, Polish mathematician.
* Gé van Dijk, 81, Dutch football player and coach.

### 30

* Takanohana Kenshi, (née Mitsuru Hanada), 55, Japanese sumo wrestler, aka "The Prince of Sumo", cancer.
* Jan Knappert, 78, Dutch linguist.
* Fazal Mahmood, 78, Pakistani cricket captain, heart attack.
* Hans Martin, 92, Swiss racing cyclist.
* Arnold Pomerans, 85, German-British translator.
* Vladimir Savon, 64, Ukrainian chess player.
* Herbert Warren Wind, 88, American sportswriter.

### 31

* Emily Blatch, Baroness Blatch, 67, British politician and life peer, pancreatic cancer.
* Archil Gomiashvili, 79, Soviet Georgian actor, lung cancer.
* Jaime Mendoza-Nava, 79, Bolivian-American composer and conductor.
* Windland Smith Rice, 35, American nature and animal photographer, long QT syndrome.
* Grisélidis Réal, 75, Swiss writer and sex worker, cancer.
* Eduardo Teixeira Coelho, 86, Portuguese comic book artist.