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

## April 2005
### 1

* Álvaro Alsogaray, 91, Argentinian politician and businessman, cancer.
* Philip Amelio, 27, American actor and teacher, bacterial infection.
* Paul Bomani, 80, Tanzanian politician and diplomat.
* Alexander Brott, 90, Canadian composer, conductor and violinist.
* Oswaldo Fadda, 84, Brazilian practitioner and developer of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, pneumonia.
* Harald Juhnke, 75, German entertainer.
* Jack Keller, 68, American songwriter, wrote themes to Bewitched and Gidget, leukemia.
* Thomas Kling, 47, German poet, lung cancer.
* Barry Stern, 45, American drummer (Trouble, Zoetrope), complications following surgery.
* Robert Coldwell Wood, 81, American political scientist and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, stomach cancer.

### 2

* Trevor Foster, 90, Welsh rugby player.
* Nasri Maalouf, 94, Lebanese politician.
* Patricia McGee, 70, American politician and senator, pulmonary fibrosis.
* John O'Leary, 58, American politician, former U.S. ambassador to Chile, Lou Gehrig's disease.
* Pope John Paul II, 84, Polish Roman Catholic pope (1978–2005), archbishop of Kraków (1964–1978), septic shock and cardio-circulatory collapse.
* Jacques Poitrenaud, 82, French film director and actor.
* Jacques Rabemananjara, 91, Malagasy politician, playwright and poet.

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* Aleksy Antkiewicz, 81, Polish boxer and Olympic medalist.
* Rick Blight, 49, Canadian ice hockey player, suicide.
* Frank Clair, 87, Canadian Football League coach (Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders), heart failure.
* Tony Croatto, 65, Italian-born Puerto Rican composer-singer, lung and brain cancer.
* Jef Eygel, 72, Belgian basketball player.
* Kader Firoud, 85, Algerian-French football player and manager.
* François Gérin, 60, Canadian politician.

### 4

* Gordon Barton, 75, Australian businessman and political activist.
* Edward Bronfman, 77, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, colon cancer.
* Blanchette Brunoy, 89, French actress.
* Antonio Rivera, 41, Puerto Rican world champion boxer, asthma.

### 5

* Manuel Ballester, 85, Spanish chemist.
* Saul Bellow, 89, Canadian-born American Nobel Prize-winning author.
* Robert Borg, 91, American military officer and Olympic equestrian.
* Abdul Mannan, 75, Bangladesh politician, minister of Home Affairs (1972-1973).
* Dale Messick, 98, American creator of the Brenda Starr comic strip.
* Dragoljub Minić, 68, Yugoslav chess Grandmaster.
* Chung Nam-sik, 88, Korean football player and manager.
* Debralee Scott, 52, American actress (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Forever Fernwood, Police Academy), cirrhosis.
* Nils Svenwall, 86, Swedish art director.
* Neil Welliver, 75, American landscape painter, pneumonia.

### 6

* Frank Conroy, 69, American author and memoirist, colorectal cancer.
* Anthony DePalma, 100, American orthopedic surgeon, teacher, and humanitarian.
* Károly Ecser, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter.
* Francesco Laudadio, 55, Italian film director, screenwriter and producer.
* Bernd Lorenz, 57, German football player.
* Geoff Millman, 70, English cricketer.
* Rainier III, 81, Prince of Monaco since 1949, kidney failure.
* Gerard Peters, 84, Dutch track and road cyclist.

### 7

* Cliff Allison, 73, British Formula One driver.
* Grigoris Bithikotsis, 82, Greek singer.
* Aleksandar Despić, 78, Serbian physicist and academic.
* Max von der Grün, 78, German novelist.
* Bob Kennedy, 84, American Major League Baseball player and manager.
* Haji Khanmammadov, 86, Azerbaijani and Soviet composer.
* Melih Kibar, 53, Turkish composer, skin cancer.
* Jose Melis, 85, Cuban-American former bandleader for The Tonight Show.
* Givi Nodia, 57, Soviet Georgian football player, heart attack.
* Yvonne Vera, 40, Zimbabwean novelist and writer, AIDS-related complications.
* Erna Woll, 88, German composer and church musician.

### 8

* Al Gettel, 87, American baseball pitcher.
* Maurice Lafont, 77, French football player.
* Eddie Miksis, 78, American baseball player.
* Yoshitarō Nomura, 85, Japanese film director, pneumonia.
* Douglas Northcott, 88, British mathematician (ideal theory).
* Onna White, 83, Canadian Broadway choreographer.

### 9

* César Civita, 99, American-Argentine publisher.
* Andrea Dworkin, 58, American radical feminist writer and anti-pornography activist, myocarditis.
* Anton Heyboer, 81, Dutch painter and printmaker.
* Scott Mason, 28, Australian cricketer, heart attack.
* Jerrel Wilson, 63, American football player, cancer.

### 10

* Carl Abrahams, 93, Jamaican painter.
* Archbishop Iakovos of America, 93, Ottoman-American primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (1959–1996), pulmonary fibrosis.
* Norbert Brainin, 82, Austrian violinist and founder of the Amadeus Quartet.
* Frederick C. Branch, 82, first African-American officer of the United States Marine Corps.
* Horacio Casarín, 86, Mexican football player and coach, Alzheimer's disease.
* Aatos Lehtonen, 91, Finnish football forward.
* Al Lucas, 26, American gridiron football player, spinal cord injury suffered during game.
* Wally Tax, 57, Dutch singer and songwriter.
* Anatoly Trofimov, 64, Soviet and Russian KGB officer, homicide.
* Chen Yifei, 58, Chinese painter.

### 11

* John Bennett, 75, British actor (Watership Down, The Pianist, Doctor Who).
* John Brosnan, 57, British writer and film critic, acute pancreatitis.
* Jerry Byrd, 85, American Lap steel guitarist, Parkinson's disease.
* Floyd Chance, 79, American session musician.
* Junior Delgado, 46, Jamaican reggae singer, famed for his roots style.
* André François, 89, French cartoonist.
* James Hamilton, 87, British politician.
* Maurice Hilleman, 85, American microbiologist.
* David Hughes, 74, British novelist.
* Lucien Laurent, 97, French football player, scored the first ever goal at a FIFA World Cup.
* Mattie McDonagh, 68, Irish Gaelic footballer.
* Doug Peden, 88, Canadian basketball player and Olympic medalist.
* George Younce, 75, American Southern Gospel singer.

### 12

* Rodolfo Gonzales, 76, Mexican boxer, poet, political organizer, and activist, kidney failure.
* Ehud Manor, 63, Israeli songwriter.
* Shahrokh Meskoob, 81, Iranian writer, translator, social critic, literary historian, and university professor, cancer.
* Georgi Pachedzhiev, 89, Bulgarian football manager.
* Cyril Sidlow, 89, Welsh football player.
* Nelly Uchendu, 54/5, Nigerian musician, cancer.

### 13

* Don Blasingame, 73, American baseball player and manager.
* Salvatore Camarata, 91, American musician and co-founder of Disneyland Records.
* Julia Darling, 48, English novelist and poet, breast cancer.
* Wolfgang Droege, 55, German-Canadian founder of white supremacist group the Heritage Front, shot.
* Kay Gardella, 82, American television critic for the New York Daily News, cancer.
* Johnnie Johnson, 80, American musician, pneumonia.
* Nikola Ljubičić, 89, Serbian general and politician, president of Serbia from (1982-1984).
* Vaikom Chandrasekharan Nair, 85, Indian writer and journalist.
* Henry Proctor, 75, American competition rower and Olympic champion.
* Philippe Volter, 45, Belgian actor, suicide.
* Nathaniel Weyl, 94, American writer, economist who testified in the Alger Hiss case.
* Juan Zanotto, 69, Italian-Argentinian comic book artist.

### 14

* Chet Aubuchon, 88, American basketball player.
* Benny Bailey, 79, American jazz trumpeter.
* Saunders Mac Lane, 95, American mathematician.
* Lothar Lindtner, 87, Norwegian actor.
* Ivailo Petrov, 82, Bulgarian writer.
* Richard Popkin, 81, American academic philosopher, pulmonary emphysema.
* Bernard Schultze, 89, German abstract painter.

### 15

* Jimmy Allan, 73, Scottish cricketer.
* Martin Blumenson, 86, American military historian.
* Amjad Bobby, 63, Pakistani music composer and director.
* Peter Cargill, 41, Jamaican footballer, traffic collision.
* Art Cross, 87, American Indianapolis 500 racing driver.
* Jaime Fernández, 67, Mexican actor, heart attack.
* John Fred, 63, American pop singer, kidney disease.
* Ken Funston, 79, South African cricket player.
* John Hultberg, 83, American avant-garde painter.
* Carlos Muñoz, 86, Spanish actor.
* Margaretta Scott, 93, English actress ("Mrs. Pumphrey" in All Creatures Great and Small).

### 16

* Laura Canales, 50, American Tejano singer, pneumonia.
* Herm Gilliam, 58, American National Basketball Association player (Portland Trail Blazers), heart attack.
* Kim Mu-saeng, 62, South Korean actor, pneumonia.
* Marla Ruzicka, 28, American activist and aid worker, car bombing in Iraq.
* Volker Vogeler, 74, German film director and screenwriter.
* Kay Walsh, 93, British actress.

### 17

* Hans Gruijters, 73, Dutch politician and journalist.
* James Archibald Houston, 83, Canadian author and artist.
* István Ilku, 72, Hungarian football goalkeeper.
* Lucien Masset, 90, French gymnast and Olympian.
* Vishnu Kant Shastri, 76, Indian politician, heart attack.
* Juan Pablo Torres, 58, Cuban trombonist, bandleader, and producer, brain tumor.

### 18

* Claus Bjørn, 60, Danish author, historian, and television and radio broadcaster.
* Donald Bruce, Baron Bruce of Donington, 92, British politician and peer.
* Peter F. Flaherty, 80, American politician and attorney.
* Bassel Fleihan, 42, Lebanese deputy and minister, complications following bomb attack on Rafiq Hariri.
* Clarence "Big House" Gaines, 81, American Basketball Hall of Fame coach, stroke.
* Norberto Höfling, 80, Romanian football player and coach.
* Sam Mills, 45, American former NFL player and assistant coach, cancer.
* Norman D. Newell, 96, American paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History.
* Kenneth Schermerhorn, 75, American music director and conductor, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

### 19

* George P. Cosmatos, 65, Italian-born Greek-American film director (Tombstone, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Cobra), lung cancer.
* Bobby Gage, 78, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
* Ruth Hussey, 93, American film actress (The Philadelphia Story), surgical complications.
* Gerd Koch, 82, German cultural anthropologist.
* Stan Levey, 79, American jazz drummer.
* Clement Meadmore, 76, Australian-American furniture designer and sculptor, Parkinson's disease.
* László Nagy, 77, Hungarian pair skater.
* Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 58, Danish jazz upright bassist, heart attack.
* Erkki Penttilä, 72, Finnish wrestler and Olympic medalist.

### 20

* Shamil Asgarov, 75, Azerbaijani Kurdish scholar, poet, and historian.
* Inday Ba, 32, Swedish actress (also known as N'Deaye Ba), lupus erythematosus.
* Gene Frankel, 85, American theater director, heart attack.
* Dragoslav Marković, 84, Serbian communist politician, serving as President and Prime Minister of Serbia.
* Fumio Niwa, 100, Japanese novelist, pneumonia.
* Giulio Saraudi, 66, Italian boxer and Olympic medalist.

### 21

* Giordano Abbondati, 56, Italian figure skater.
* Valeriano Andrés, 82, Spanish film and television actor.
* Zhang Chunqiao, 88, Chinese political theorist, member of the Gang of Four, pancreatic cancer.
* Gwynfor Evans, 92, Welsh politician.
* Frank Hoy, 70, Irish-Scottish professional wrestler.
* Bill Kaysing, 82, American conspiracy theorist.
* Feroze Khan, 100, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic Champion 1928.
* William Kruskal, 85, American mathematician and statistician, pneumonia.
* Cliff Montgomery, 94, American gridiron football player.
* Cyril Tawney, 74, British songwriter and folksinger.
* Wayne S. Vucinich, 91, American historian.

### 22

* Norman Bird, 80, British actor (Worzel Gummidge, The Lord of the Rings, Look and Read), cancer.
* Gregoire Boonzaier, 95, South African painter.
* Robert Fitzgerald, 81, American speed skater and Olympic silver medalist.
* Erika Fuchs, 98, German Disney comics editor and translator.
* Arnie Lawrence, 66, American jazz saxophonist.
* John Marshall, 72, American filmmaker, lung cancer.
* Philip Morrison, 89, American physicist and group leader in the Manhattan Project.
* Eduardo Paolozzi, 81, Scottish sculptor.
* Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli, 93, Italian botanist.
* Barys Rahula, 85, Belarusian political activist.
* Leonid Shamkovich, 81, Soviet/Russian grandmaster chess player, Parkinson's disease.

### 23

* Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 94, Australian political celebrity, longest-serving Premier of Queensland.
* Robert Farnon, 87, Canadian Grammy Award winning arranger composer.
* Andre Gunder Frank, 76, German economic historian, proponent of dependency theory, cancer.
* Al Grassby, 78, Australian former politician and minister in the Whitlam government, heart attack.
* John Mills, 97, British actor (Ryan's Daughter, Swiss Family Robinson, Gandhi), Oscar winner (1971), stroke.
* Romano Scarpa, 78, Italian Disney comic book artist.
* J. B. Stoner, 81, American neo-nazi, segregationist politician, and a domestic terrorist.
* Earl Wilson, 70, American baseball player, leading pitcher for the 1968 World Series champion Detroit Tigers, heart attack.
* Jimmy Woode, 78, American jazz bassist, heart attack.

### 24

* Adelle August, 71, American actress.
* Francis Bay, 90, Belgian conductor.
* Roland Johansson, 74, Swedish Olympic boxer.
* Ezer Weizman, 80, Israeli politician, President of Israel (1993-2000), respiratory failure.
* Fei Xiaotong, 94, Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology.

### 25

* Jim Barker, 69, American politician, stroke.
* John Love, 80, Rhodesian Formula One driver, cancer.
* Čedomir Mirković, 61, Serbian writer, literary critic, television journalist, and politician.
* Swami Ranganathananda, 96, Indian religious leader, President of the Ramakrishna Order.
* Tanguturi Suryakumari, 79, Indian singer, actress and dancer.
* Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman, 71, English chief executive and peer, head of Ford Motor Company.
* Shlomo Wolbe, 91, German-Swedish orthodox rabbi.

### 26

* Mason Adams, 86, American actor (Lou Grant, F/X, Omen III: The Final Conflict).
* Hasil Adkins, 67, American Rockabilly musician, homicide.
* Augusto Roa Bastos, 87, Paraguayan writer, winner of the Premio Cervantes.
* Michael Coles, 68, English actor.
* Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy, 83, Scottish politician.
* Elisabeth Domitien, 79-80, Central African Republic politician, Prime Minister (1975-1976).
* Josef Nesvadba, 78, Czech psychiatrist and science fiction author.
* Johnny Sample, 67, American gridiron football player.
* Maria Schell, 79, Austrian actress (The Last Bridge, Gervaise, Superman), pneumonia.

### 27

* Abdus Samad Azad, 83, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician, former foreign minister of Bangladesh, stomach cancer.
* Red Horner, 95, Canadian ice hockey player, former NHL player with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
* Tunney Hunsaker, 75, American professional boxer, Muhammad Ali's first professional boxing opponent.
* Stanley Orme, Baron Orme, 82, British politician.
* Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait, 82, Indian politician.
* Marian Sawa, 68, Polish composer, organist, and musicologist.

### 28

* Chuck Bittick, 65, American water polo player.
* Chris Candido, 33, American professional wrestler, blood clot from surgery complications.
* Odysseas Dimitriadis, 96, Georgian-Greek conductor.
* Percy Heath, 81, American bassist for the Modern Jazz Quartet, bone cancer.
* Pancho Herrera, 70, Cuban-born baseball player.
* Douglas Johnson, 80, British historian.
* P.D. Orton, 89, English mycologist, specialising in agarics.
* Taraki Sivaram, 45, Sri Lankan Tamil journalist and activist, murdered.
* Erich Vermehren, 85, German military intelligence officer, World War II defector from the Abwehr.

### 29

* William J. Bell, 78, American screenwriter and television producer (The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful), Alzheimer's disease.
* Dianne Brooks, 66, American jazz singer.
* Mel Gussow, 71, American theatre critic for The New York Times, cancer.
* Leonid Khachiyan, 52, Russian/American mathematician and computer scientist, heart attack.
* Mariana Levy, 39, Mexican actress, heart attack following a robbery attempt.
* Johnnie Stewart, 87, British television producer (Top of the Pops).
* Bob Ward, 77, American gridiron football coach and player.
* Brook Williams, 67, British stage actor, lung cancer.

### 30

* Sylve Bengtsson, 74, Swedish football player.
* Wim Esajas, 70, Suriname Olympic middle-distance runner.
* Lourens Muller, 87, South African politician.
* Niklaus Stump, 84, Swiss Olympic cross-country and Nordic combined skier.
* Ron Todd, 78, English general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, leukemia.