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

## February 2004
### 1

* Art Albrecht, 82, American gridiron football player.
* Alvin Baltrop, 56, American photographer, cancer.
* Ewald Cebula, 86, Polish football player.
* Álvaro d'Ors, 88, Spanish scholar of Roman law.
* Buzz Gardner, 72, American trumpeter (The Mothers of Invention).
* Valeri Gassy, 54, Ukrainian handball player, Olympic champion (1976).
* Mihai Ivăncescu, 61, Romanian football player.
* Ally MacLeod, 72, Scottish football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
* Joe Mallett, 88, English football player.
* Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, 89, Pakistani military officer.
* Bob Stokoe, 73, English footballer and manager, pneumonia.
* Dino Verde, 81, Italian author, lyricist, playwright and screenwriter.

### 2

* Alan Bullock, 89, British historian and author.
* Henry Cockburn, 82, English footballer.
* Naohiro Dōgakinai, 89, Japanese politician, governor of Hokkaido.
* Bernard McEveety, 79, American film and television director.
* Róbert Zimonyi, 85, Hungarian Olympic rower.

### 3

* Cornelius Bumpus, 58, American musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan), heart attack.
* Kaúlza de Arriaga, 89, Portuguese general, writer, and politician, Alzheimer's disease.
* Ted Harding, 82, Australian politician and rugby league football player.
* Keve Hjelm, 81, Swedish actor and film director, prostate cancer.
* Jason Raize, 28, American actor (The Lion King, Brother Bear), suicide by hanging.
* William B. Tabler, 89, American architect.
* Fiep Westendorp, 87, Dutch illustrator.
* Lyle Wicks, 91, Canadian politician.
* Warren Zimmermann, 69, American diplomat, pancreatic cancer.

### 4

* Valentina Borok, 72, Soviet Ukrainian mathematician.
* Stevo Crvenkovski, 56, Macedonian politician and diplomat.
* Hilda Hilst, 73, Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright, complications from surgery.
* William MacQuitty, 98, Irish film producer and also a writer and photographer.
* Michael P. Moran, 59, American actor (Scarface, Lean on Me, A Perfect Murder), Guillain–Barré syndrome.
* Malika Pukhraj, 92, Pakistani folk singer.
* Karlheinz Senghas, 75, German botanist and orchidologist.

### 5

* Donald Barr, 82, American educator.
* Sir Robert Boyd, 81, British space scientist.
* John Hench, 95, American artist, designer and director at The Walt Disney Company, heart failure.
* Claude Lemaire, 82, French entomologist.
* Thomas Hinman Moorer, 91, American admiral, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
* Frances Partridge, 103, British writer, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group.
* Nuto Revelli, 84, Italian essayist and partisan.
* Harry West, 86, Northern Irish politician.

### 6

* Jovan Cokić, 76, Serbian football player.
* Masataka Ida, 91, Japanese Army officer and rebel during World War II.
* Jørgen Jersild, 90, Danish composer and music educator.
* Jerome Fox Lederer, 101, American aviation safety pioneer, heart attack.
* John Meyrick, 77, British Olympic rower and agriculturalist.
* Humphry Osmond, 86, English psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter.

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* Richard Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret, 67, British soldier and aristocrat.
* Safia Farhat, Tunisian artist, academic and women's rights activist.
* Emilia Guiú, 81, Spanish-Mexican actress, liver cancer.
* Mikhail Korkia, 55, Georgian-Soviet basketball player.
* Raija Siekkinen, 50, Finnish writer.
* Norman Thelwell, 80, English cartoonist.

### 8

* Walter Freud, 82, Austrian-British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during World War II.
* Nicholas Goldschmidt, 95, Canadian conductor, music festival entrepreneur and artistic director.
* Kristian Henriksen, 92, Norwegian football player and coach.
* William W. Johnstone, 65, American author.
* Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer, heart attack.
* Wayne Eyer Manning, 104, American horticulturist and botanist.
* Julius Schwartz, 88, American comic book and pulp magazine editor.

### 9

* Julio Baylón, 56, Peruvian football player.
* Robert F. Colesberry, 57, American film and television producer (After Hours, The Wire, Mississippi Burning), complications following cardiac surgery.
* Gerhard Riedmann, 78, Austrian film actor.
* Opilio Rossi, 93, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Claude Ryan, 79, Canadian politician, stomach cancer.

### 10

* Nils Aas, 70, Norwegian sculptor and illustrator.
* Paul Ilyinsky, 76, American politician and three-time mayor of Palm Beach, Florida.
* Edward Jablonski, 81, American biographer.
* Hub Kittle, 86, American baseball player and manager, complications from kidney failure and diabetes.
* Guy Provost, 78, French Canadian actor, pneumonia.
* John Sundberg, 83, Swedish sport shooter and Olympic medalist.

### 11

* Vera Broido, 96, Russian-British writer and a chronicler of the Russian Revolution.
* Tadeusz Dembończyk, 48, Polish weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
* Ryszard Kukliński, 74, Polish colonel, spy and defector, stroke.
* Jozef Lenárt, 80, Slovak politician, member of the Czechoslovak Parliament and Slovak National Council.
* Tony Pope, 56, American voice actor (Metropolis, Spaced Invaders, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), complications following leg surgery.
* Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian sprinter and Olympic champion, heart attack.
* Hitoshi Takagi, 78, Japanese voice actor, arteriosclerotic heart disease.
* Robert E. Thompson, 79, American screenwriter.
* Albeiro Usuriaga, 37, Colombian football player, homicide.

### 12

* Martin Booth, 59, British author, brain tumor.
* Robert A. Bruce, 87, American cardiologist.
* Martin Jurow, 92, American film producer (Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Pink Panther, The Great Race).
* John Killick, 84, British diplomat.
* Preston Love, 83, American jazz saxophone player.
* Věra Suchánková, 71, Czech Olympic pair skater.

### 13

* Carole Eastman, 69, American actress and screenwriter.
* Denis Hurley, 89, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Durban (1946–1992).
* Sarah Jacobson, 32, American film director, screenwriter, and producer, uterine cancer.
* Janusz Kulig, 34, Polish rally driver, railway accident.
* David Lee, 91, British Air Chief Marshal.
* Ted Tappe, 73, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs).
* François Tavenas, 61, Canadian engineer and academic.
* Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, 51, Chechen writer, politician and military figurist, explosion.

### 14

* Jock Butterfield, 72, New Zealand rugby player.
* Yang Chengwu, 89, Chinese general and Communist Party politician.
* Elois Jenssen, 81, American film and television costume designer.
* Marco Pantani, 34, Italian racing cyclist, winner of Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in 1998, acute cocaine poisoning.
* Walter Perkins, 72, American jazz drummer, lung cancer.
* Yang Xinhai, 35, Chinese serial killer, execution by firing squad.

### 15

* Gil Coggins, 75, American jazz pianist.
* Steve Cooper, 39, English football player, intracerebral hemorrhage.
* Hasse Ekman, 88, Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television.
* Jens Evensen, 86, Norwegian minister, World Court judge.
* Walter Gottschalk, 85, American mathematician.
* Hermann Hogeback, 89, German bomber pilot during World War II.
* Jan Miner, 86, American actress.
* Sture Mårtensson, 87, Swedish football player.
* Isarco Ravaioli, 70, Italian film actor.
* Lawrence Ritter, 81, American writer.
* Luigi Taramazzo, 71, Italian racing driver.
* John Tietjen, 75, American Lutheran clergyman, theologian, and national church leader, brain cancer.
* Friedrich Waller, 83, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic champion.

### 16

* Don Cleverley, 94, New Zealand cricketer.
* Charlie Fox, 82, American baseball manager.
* Ella Johnson, 84, American jazz and rhythm and blues singer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Martin Kneser, 76, German mathematician.
* Harold Smedley, 83, British diplomat.
* Doris Troy, 67, American R&B singer, pulmonary emphysema.
* Geoff Twentyman, 74, English football player.
* Miloslav Šimek, 63, Czech comedian and satirist, leukemia.

### 17

* Bruce Beaver, 76, Australian poet and novelist.
* Gaston Godel, 89, Swiss Olympic race walker, silver medalist (1948).
* Sofia Golovkina, 88, Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher.
* José López Portillo, 83, Mexican politician and lawyer, President of Mexico.
* Dragi Stamenković, 83, Yugoslav and Serbian politician and author.
* Cameron Todd Willingham, 36, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.

### 18

* Despo Diamantidou, 87, Greek actress.
* Tommy Eglington, 81, Irish football player.
* Frankie Evangelista, 69, Filipino newspaper columnist, and radio and television broadcaster, stomach cancer.
* Steve Neal, 54, American journalist (Chicago Sun-Times) and historian, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
* Jean Rouch, 86, French filmmaker and ethnologist, traffic collision.
* Ivor Stanbrook, 80, British Conservative party politician, barrister and Member of Parliament.

### 19

* Gurgen Margaryan, 25, Armenian Army officer, slashed.
* Archibald Paton Thornton, 83, Canadian historian.
* Renata Vanni, 94, Italian-American film actress.
* Maurice Voron, 75, French rugby league football player.

### 20

* Minouche Barelli, 56, French singer.
* Fred Brown, 79, British virologist.
* Sigfrido Fontanelli, 56, Italian racing cyclist.
* Mel Hunter, 76, American illustrator, bone cancer.
* J.J. Malone, 68, American blues guitarist, singer and keyboardist.
* Kōyū Ohara, 69, Japanese film director.

### 21

* Sergey Sergeyevich Averintsev, 66, Russian literary scholar, byzantinist and slavist.
* John Charles, 72, Welsh football player, heart attack.
* Albert Chartier, 91, French-Canadian cartoonist and illustrator.
* Néstor de Villa, 75, Filipino musical film actor, prostate cancer.
* Les Gray, 57, British singer (Mud), heart attack during cancer treatment.
* Bart Howard, 88, American composer ("Fly Me To The Moon").
* Svava Jakobsdóttir, 73, Icelandic author and politician.
* Mohd hisraime bin juso, 87, Singaporean banker and hotel owner, heart attack.
* Dan Kiley, 91, American landscape architect.
* Guido Molinari, 70, Canadian abstract artist.
* Custódio Pinto, 62, Portuguese football player.
* Lyudmila Shishova, 63, Soviet Olympic fencer and fencing coach (1960 gold medal winner, 1964 silver medal winner in women's team foil).

### 22

* Roque Máspoli, 86, Uruguayan goalkeeper, heart attack.
* Irina Press, 64, Soviet athlete and Olympic champion.
* Azriel Rosenfeld, 73, American computer image analysis researcher.
* Andy Seminick, 83, American baseball player, cancer.

### 23

* Vijay Anand, 71, Indian Bollywood filmmaker and brother of Dev Anand., heart attack.
* Carl Anderson, 58, American actor (Jesus Christ Superstar)), leukemia.
* Neil Ardley, 66, British jazz composer.
* Sikander Bakht, 85, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala.
* Pedro Bloch, 90, Brazilian writer, respiratory failure.
* Don Cornell, 84, American singer, emphysema and diabetes.
* Douglas Scott Falconer, 90, British geneticist.
* Samuel Edward Konkin III, 56, Canadian-American philosopher and economist.
* Bob Marshall, 93, Australian billiards player.
* Bob Mayo, 52, American session keyboardist and guitarist, heart attack.

### 24

* Albert Axelrod, 83, American foil fencer and Olympic medalist, heart attack.
* Estelle Axton, 85, American record executive and co-founder of Stax Records.
* Sheila Darcy, 89, American film actress of the 1930s and the 1940s.
* Carl Liscombe, 89, Canadian Detroit Red Wings hockey player, leukemia.
* Joan McCord, 73, American professor of criminology, lung cancer.
* John Randolph, 88, American actor (Serpico, Prizzi's Honor, You've Got Mail), Tony winner (1987).
* A.C. Reed, 77, American saxophonist, cancer.
* Alvino Rey, 95, American jazz guitarist and bandleader ("Deep in the Heart of Texas"), pneumonia.

### 25

* Waggoner Carr, 85, American politician, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and Attorney General of Texas, cancer.
* Jack Flavell, 74, English cricketer.
* Jacques Georges, 87, French football administrator, President of UEFA (1983–1990).
* Henryk Jaźnicki, 86, Polish football player.
* Pe Khin, 91, Burmese diplomat.
* Yuri Ozerov, 75, Soviet Olympic basketball player (two-time silver medal winner: 1952 men's basketball, 1956 men's basketball).
* B. Nagi Reddy, 91, Indian movie producer.
* Ahmed Sefrioui, Moroccan novelist.
* Bagrat Shinkuba, 86, Abkhaz writer, poet, historian, and politician.

### 26

* Harry Bartell, 90, American actor and announcer in radio, television and film.
* Shankarrao Chavan, 83, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
* Adolf Ehrnrooth, 99, Finnish general, World War II veteran and Olympian equestrian.
* Russell Hunter, 79, Scottish actor, lung cancer.
* Roger Mirams, 85, New Zealand-Australian film producer and director.
* Roy Smith, 59, Canadian racing driver.
* Jack Sperling, 81, American jazz drummer.
* Boris Trajkovski, 47, Macedonian politician, President of the Republic of Macedonia, aviation accident.
* Simon Walker, 46, British historian of late-medieval England, cancer.
* Ralph E. Winters, 94, Canadian film editor.

### 27

* Yoshihiko Amino, 76, Japanese marxist historian and intellectual, lung cancer.
* Clarence Barber, 86, Canadian economist and academic.
* Francisco Mago Leccia, 72, Venezuelan ichthyologist.
* Paul Sweezy, 93, American marxian economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review..

### 28

* Daniel J. Boorstin, 89, American social historian, pneumonia.
* Eivor Engelbrektsson, 89, Swedish actress.
* Ruslan Gelayev, 39, Chechen politician, general and resistance commander, K.I.A..
* Angie Turner King, 98, American chemist, mathematician, and educator.
* Stanislaus Lo Kuang, 93, Taiwanese Catholic archbishop.
* Carmen Laforet, 82, Spanish author.
* Marv Matuszak, 72, American gridiron football player.
* Nicholas Vivian, 6th Baron Vivian, 68, British soldier and aristocrat.

### 29

* Oleksandr Beresch, 26, Ukrainian Olympic gymnast, traffic collision.
* Dana Broccoli, 82, American actress, cancer.
* Marc Cavell, 64, American actor.
* Armando de Ramón, 77, Chilean historian.
* Jane Engelhard, 86, American philanthropist and wife of industrialist Charles W. Engelhard Jr., pneumonia.
* Harold Bernard St. John, 72, Barbadian politician, cancer.
* Kagamisato Kiyoji, 80, Japanese sumo wrestler.
* Maurice Larkin, 71, English historian specialising in the history of modern France.
* Jerome Lawrence, 88, American playwright and author, stroke.
* Danny Ortiz., 27, Guatemalan football goalkeeper, torn pericardium.
* Witold Rudziński, 90, Polish composer, conductor, and author.
* Nat Taylor, 98, Canadian inventor and film producer.