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

## January 2004
### 1

* Charlie Elliott, 91, English cricketer.
* Harold Henning, 69, South African golfer.
* Elma Lewis, 82, American arts leader.
* Yevgeniy Migunov, 82, Russian artist, cartoonist, animation and art director, and screenwriter.
* Frederick Redlich, 93, Austrian-American dean of the Yale University School of Medicine.
* John Stoneham, 95, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
* Igor Torkar, 90, Slovenian writer, playwright, and poet.

### 2

* Dinu Adameșteanu, 90, Romanian-Italian archaeologist.
* Etta Moten Barnett, 102, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
* Lynn Cartwright, 76, U.S. actress (A League of Their Own), dementia.
* Jess Collins, 80, American visual artist.
* Geoff Edrich, 85, English first-class cricket player.
* John Grandy, 90, British Royal Air Force officer.
* Paul Hopkins, 99, American baseball player.
* Maria Clara Lobregat, 82, Filipina politician, heart attack.
* Sheila McKechnie, 55, Scottish trade unionist, housing campaigner and consumer activist, cancer.
* Kamal El Sheikh, 84, Egyptian film director.
* Dennis Silverthorne, 80, American Olympic pairs figure skater (pairs figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics).

### 3

* Lillian Beckwith, 87, English author.
* Des Corcoran, 75, Australian politician, Premier of South Australia.
* Taylor Duncan, 50, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics).
* Pierre Flamion, 79, French football manager and player.
* T. G. Jones, 86, Welsh football player.
* William Craig Reynolds, 70, American fluid physicist and mechanical engineer.
* Leon Wagner, 69, American Major League Baseball player.
* Beatrice Winde, 79, American actress, cancer.

### 4

* Joan Aiken, 79, English writer, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
* James Counsilman, 83, American swimming coach, Parkinson's disease.
* Johannes Fehring, 77, Austrian composer.
* Brian Gibson, 59, English film director, What's Love Got to Do With It, bone cancer.
* Jake Hess, 76, American southern gospel singer.
* Refik Memišević, 47, Yugoslav wrestler.
* Allen H. Miner, 86, American director and screenwriter.
* Jeff Nuttall, 70, English poet, actor, artist, jazz trumpeter, and author.
* Helena Růžičková, 67, Czech actress and comedian, stomach cancer.
* Michael Whitney Straight, 87, American magazine publisher, author and a confessed spy for the KGB, pancreatic cancer.
* Dorota Terakowska, 65, Polish writer and journalist.
* John Toland, 91, American author and historian, pneumonia.
* Gábor Török, 67, Hungarian football goalkeeper.

### 5

* Thomas Daly, 90, Australian Army officer.
* Charles Dumas, 66, American Olympic High Jump gold medalist, cancer.
* John Guerin, 64, American percussionist, heart failure.
* Norman Heatley, 92, British biochemist.
* Vivian Jenkins, 92, Welsh rugby player and sports journalist.
* Tug McGraw, 59, American Major League Baseball pitcher, brain cancer.

### 6

* Vera Bradford, 99, Australian pianist and piano teacher.
* Pierre Charles, 49, Dominican politician, Prime Minister (2000-2004), heart attack.
* Sumita Devi, 68, Bangladeshi film actress.
* John Evans, 74, British footballer.
* Philip Gilbert, 72, Canadian actor.
* Nicolas Mosar, 76, Luxembourgish politician, jurist, and diplomat.
* Markku Salminen, 57, Finnish orienteering athlete.
* Francesco Scavullo, 82, American fashion photographer.
* Reg Smith, 91, English football player and manager.
* Thomas Stockham, 70, American scientist, known as the "father of digital recording".

### 7

* Shalva Apkhazava, 23, Georgian footballer, heart failure.
* Piotr Kowalski, 76, Polish artist, sculptor, and architect.
* Jaap Kraaier, 90, Dutch flatwater canoeist and Olympic medalist.
* Khenpo Jigme Puntsok, 70, Nyingma lama and Terton from Sertha Region.
* Natalya Smirnitskaya, 76, Soviet javelin thrower.
* Ingrid Thulin, 77, Swedish actress, Cries and Whispers, cancer.
* Léonce-Albert Van Peteghem, 87, Belgian Roman Catholic Bishop.
* Mario Zatelli, 91, French football player and manager.

### 8

* Charles Brown, 57, American actor, prostate cancer.
* Delfín Benítez Cáceres, 93, Paraguayan football player.
* John A. Gambling, 73, American radio host, "Rambling with Gambling", heart attack.
* Tom Kindness, 74, American politician.
* Reginald H. Morris, 85, British-Canadian cinematographer.
* Hal Shaper, 72, South African songwriter.
* Louis Stanley, 92, British author, journalist, team principal of BRM, stroke.
* Frank Ténot, 78, French press agent, pataphysician, and jazz critic.

### 9

* Norberto Bobbio, 94, Italian senator, jurist, philosopher and political scientist.
* Lyndon Brook, 77, British actor.
* Harriet Creighton, 94, American botanist, geneticist and educator.
* Yinka Dare, 31, Nigerian basketball player, heart attack.
* Nissim Ezekiel, 79, Indian poet, playwright and art critic.
* Rainer Hildebrandt, 89, German anti-communist resistance fighter and historian.
* Myron E. Leavitt, 73, American politician.
* Rogério Sganzerla, 57, Brazilian filmmaker, brain tumor.

### 10

* Billy Klüver, 76, American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
* Sidney Miller, 87, American actor, director and songwriter, Parkinson's disease.
* Princess Kira of Prussia, 60, German princess.
* Ewald Pyle, 93, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, New York Giants, Boston Braves).
* Alexandra Ripley, 70, American author, Scarlett.

### 11

* Max D. Barnes, 67, country singer and songwriter.
* Clement Conger, 91, American museum curator, pneumonia.
* Perry Belmont Duryea Jr., 82, American politician, traffic collision.
* Spalding Gray, 62, American actor and writer, suicide by drowning.
* Mervyn Pike, Baroness Pike, 85, British politician and life peer.
* Asrul Sani, 76, Indonesian writer, poet and screenwriter.

### 12

* Petter Jakob Bjerve, 90, Norwegian economist, statistician and politician.
* James M. Early, 81, American electrical engineer.
* Ramakrishna Hegde, 77, Indian politician.
* Olga Ladyzhenskaya, 81, Soviet and Russian mathematician.
* Randy VanWarmer, 48, American singer and songwriter ("Just When I Needed You Most"), leukemia.
* William T. Young, 85, American businessman.

### 13

* Joan Reventós i Carner, 76, Spanish politician.
* Rafael Gambra Ciudad, 83, Spanish philosopher.
* Phillip Crosby, 69, American actor and singer, son of crooner Bing Crosby, heart attack.
* Mike Goliat, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Browns).
* Fritz Hamer, 91, German botanist.
* David N. Henderson, 82, American politician.
* Tom Hurndall, 22, British political activist, gunshot wound.
* William Lawrence, 97, Australian politician.
* Arne Næss, Jr., 66, Norwegian mountaineer and businessman, former husband of Diana Ross, accidental death.
* Dave Penna, 46, American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing.
* Harold Shipman, 57, British serial killer, suicide by hanging.
* Zeno Vendler, 82, American philosopher and linguist.
* Keraca Visulčeva, 92, Macedonian and Bulgarian artist.

### 14

* Terje Bakken, 25, Norwegian black metal musician (Windir), hypothermia.
* Jack Cady, 71, American science fiction writer.
* Catherine Craig, 88, American actress.
* Uta Hagen, 84, German-American actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Reversal of Fortune, The Boys from Brazil), Tony winner (1951, 1963), stroke.
* Joaquín Nin-Culmell, 95, Cuban-Spanish composer, concert pianist and emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley, heart attack.
* Ron O'Neal, 66, American actor (Superfly, Red Dawn, A Different World), pancreatic cancer.
* Eduard Sibiryakov, 62, Soviet Olympic volleyball player (men's volleyball tournament: 1964 gold medal winner, 1968 gold medal winner).
* Eric Sturgess, 83, South African tennis player, winner of six Grand Slam doubles titles (five mixed doubles, one men's doubles).

### 15

* Maarouf al-Dawalibi, 94, Syrian politician, prime minister (1951, 1961-1962).
* André Barrais, 83, French basketball player.
* Alex Barris, 81, Canadian actor and writer, stroke.
* Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski, 69, Bulgarian paleontologist.
* Ambroise-Marie Carré, 95, French Catholic priest, member of the Académie française.
* Johnny Cronshey, 77, English speed skater.
* Sunday Emmanuel, 25, Nigerian athlete, car accident.
* Olivia Goldsmith, 55, American author, heart attack.
* Mohammad Yunus Saleem, 92, Indian politician, scholar, and lawyer.
* Delia Scala, 74, Italian ballerina, actress and singer, breast cancer.
* Gus Suhr, 98, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).

### 16

* Slavomír Bartoň, 77, Czech ice hockey player.
* John Siomos, 56, American rock drummer.
* Kalevi Sorsa, 73, Finnish politician, prime minister (1972–1975, 1977–1979, 1982–1987).
* Albert Tillman, 76, American educator and underwater diver.

### 17

* Walter Auffenberg, 75, American biologist.
* Harry Brecheen, 89, American Major League Baseball baseball player.
* Hersh Freeman, 75, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Redlegs, Chicago Cubs).
* Czesław Niemen, 64, Polish musician, cancer.
* Zenobia Powell Perry, 95, American composer, professor and civil rights activist.
* Rafael Cordero Santiago, 61, Puerto Rican politician, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Carlton R. Sickles, 82, American lawyer and politician (U.S. Representative for Maryland's at-large congressional seat).
* Ray Stark, 88, American film producer (Funny Girl, Steel Magnolias, Annie), heart attack.
* Noble Willingham, 72, American actor (Walker, Texas Ranger, City Slickers, Norma Rae), heart attack.

### 18

* Hook Dillon, 80, American basketball player.
* Peter Ward Fay, 79, American historian.
* Gérard Jarry, 67, French classical violinist.
* Bruno Silić, 45, Croatian water polo player and coach.

### 19

* Harry E. Claiborne, 86, American district judge of the American District Court for the District of Nevada, suicide by gunshot.
* Tommy Glaviano, 80, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies).
* David Hookes, 48, Australian cricketer and Victorian coach, heart attack.
* Jerry Nachman, 57, American MSNBC editor-in-chief, cancer.
* Miroslav Pavlović, 61, Serbian football player.
* Murray Watkinson, 64, New Zealand rower.

### 20

* Alan Brown, 84, British Formula One driver.
* Timothy Gantz, 58, American classical scholar, heart attack.
* Walt Grealis, 74, Canadian publisher and music industry leader, lung cancer.
* Olivier Guichard, 83, French politician.
* Lloyd Merriman, 79, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds/Redlegs, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs).
* Bernard Punsly, 80, American physician and actor, cancer.
* Don Shinnick, 68, American professional football player (UCLA, Baltimore Colts) and coach, neurological disorder.
* Guinn Smith, 83, American Olympic pole vaulter (gold medal winner in men's pole vault at the 1948 Summer Olympics), pulmonary emphysema.
* George Woodbridge, 73, American illustrator.

### 21

* Rao Farman Ali, 81, Pakistani military officer.
* M. Arunachalam, 59, Indian politician and Union Minister.
* Johnny Blatnik, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals).
* Luis Cuenca García, 82, Spanish actor, lung disease.
* Jim Henry, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
* John T. Lewis, 71, Welsh physicist.
* Jock Newall, 86, New Zealand football player.
* Yordan Radichkov, 74, Bulgarian writer and playwright.
* Ray Rayner, 84, American actor (Bozo's Circus, Ray Rayner and His Friends), pneumonia.
* Juan Zambudio Velasco, 82, Spanish football goalkeeper.

### 22

* Milt Bernhart, 77, American jazz trombonist.
* Gérard Darrieu, 78, French actor.
* Islwyn Ffowc Elis, 79, British Welsh language writer.
* Ticky Holgado, 59, French actor, lung cancer.
* Billy May, 87, American big band and pop music arranger, heart attack.
* Janez Menart, 74, Slovene poet.
* Ann Miller, 80, American dancer, lung cancer.
* Royce Smith, 54, American gridiron football player (Georgia, New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons).
* Chea Vichea, Cambodian labor leader, homicide.
* Charlotte Zwerin, 72, American documentary film director and editor, lung cancer.
* Rudi Šeligo, 68, Slovenian writer, playwright, essayist and politician.

### 23

* Albert Henderson, 88, American actor.
* Bob Keeshan, 76, American actor, starred as "Captain Kangaroo", heart attack.
* Vasili Mitrokhin, 81, Soviet/Russian/British KGB-officer and defector.
* Helmut Newton, 83, German-Australian photographer, heart attack.
* Lennart Strand, 82, Swedish Olympic middle-distance runner (silver medal winner in men's 1500 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Tom Warhurst, Sr., 86, Australian tennis player.

### 24

* Anita W. Addison, 51, American television and film director and producer, breast cancer.
* Tomio Aoki, 80, Japanese film actor, lung cancer.
* Gordon Brook-Shepherd, 85, British intelligence agent, journalist, and historian.
* Reva Brooks, 90, Canadian photographer.
* Gyula Kristó, 64, Hungarian historian and medievalist.
* Leônidas, 90, Brazilian football player, complications due to Alzheimer's disease.
* Abdul Rahman Munif, 70, Saudi novelist, journalist, and cultural critic, kidney and heart failure.
* Jack Tunney, 69, Canadian professional wrestling promoter, heart attack.

### 25

* Fanny Blankers-Koen, 85, Dutch track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
* Miklós Fehér, 24, Hungarian football player, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
* V. K. N., 74, Indian Malayalam writer.
* Zurab Sakandelidze, 58, Soviet (Georgian) Olympic basketball player (men's basketball: 1968 bronze medal winner, 1972 gold medal winner).

### 26

* Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, 91, British artist.
* Fred Haas, 88, American golfer.
* Jacob Mishler, 92, American judge (US district judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York).
* Bata Paskaljević, 81, Serbian actor.
* Hugh Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney, 95, British politician.
* Shōgo Shimada, 98, Japanese film actor, stroke.
* Magne Skodvin, 88, Norwegian educator and historian.

### 27

* Bill Carey, 87, American songwriter, actor, and author.
* Rikki Fulton, 79, Scottish comedian, Alzheimer's disease.
* Salvador Laurel, 75, Filipino lawyer and politician, Vice President (1986–1992), lymphoma.
* Jack Paar, 85, American author, and The Tonight Show host, stroke.
* Hugh Scanlon, 90, British trade union leader.
* Don Stansauk, 78, American professional wrestler and actor (Foxy Brown, Paint Your Wagon, Micki & Maude), stroke.

### 28

* José Miguel Agrelot, 76, Puerto Rican comedian, radio and television host, heart attack.
* Lloyd M. Bucher, 76, United States Navy officer.
* Dino Dines, 59, British keyboard player (T. Rex), heart attack.
* Elroy Hirsch, 80, American gridiron football player.
* Trevor Hold, 64, English composer, poet and author.
* Yukihiko Ikeda, 66, Japanese politician, cancer.
* Eeva Joenpelto, 82, Finnish novelist.
* André Van Lysebeth, 84, Belgian yoga instructor and author.
* Joe Viterelli, 66, American actor (Analyze This, Bullets Over Broadway, Shallow Hal), complications from heart surgery.

### 29

* Norman Bates, 76, American jazz double-bass player.
* Mary-Ellis Bunim, 57, American producer and co-creator of The Real World, breast cancer.
* O. W. Fischer, 88, Austrian actor, kidney failure.
* Janet Frame, 79, New Zealand writer, leukemia.
* M. M. Kaye, 95, British author, The Far Pavilions.
* Andrew J. Kuehn, 66, American film producer.
* Guusje Nederhorst, 34, Dutch actress, breast cancer.
* Louie B. Nunn, 79, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (1967-1971), heart attack.
* Stojan Puc, 82, Yugoslavian (Slovenian) chess International Master.
* Soko Richardson, 64, American rhythm and blues drummer (Ike & Tina Turner, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Albert Collins).
* James Saunders, 79, British playwright.
* Helge Seip, 84, Norwegian politician (Social Liberal Party).
* Serafim Tulikov, 89, Soviet/Russian composer.

### 30

* George Bennions, 90, British fighter pilot during World War II.
* Bruno Cesari, 70, Italian art director.
* Malachi Favors, 76, American jazz bassist, pancreatic cancer.
* Frank Mantooth, 56, American jazz pianist and arranger.
* José Álvaro Morais, 60, Portuguese film director, cancer.
* Fuad Rouhani, 96, Iranian administrator and translator.

### 31

* Ernest Burke, 79, American baseball player, kidney cancer.
* William Herrick, 89, American novelist.
* Eleanor Holm, 91, American Olympic swimmer (women's 100 metre backstroke: 1928, 1932 gold medal winner).
* V. G. Jog, 81, Indian violinist, Parkinson's disease.
* Cyril Maidment, 75, English motorcycle speedway rider.
* Suraiya, 74, Indian actress and singer.