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

## August 2004
### 1

* Philip Abelson, 91, American physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium, respiratory failure.
* Vivian Austin, 84, American actress.
* John Higgins, 88, American Olympic swimmer and coach, pneumonia.
* George F. Kugler, Jr., 79, American lawyer.
* Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, American philosopher.
* Madeleine Robinson, 86, French actress.
* Ken Timbs, 53, American professional wrestler, cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure.

### 2

* V. Balakrishnan, 72, Indian Malayalam writer and translator.
* François Craenhals, 77, Belgian comics artist.
* V. Lamar Gudger, 85, American judge and politician.
* Heinrich Mark, 92, Estonian politician, Prime Minister-in-exile (1971-1990).
* José Omar Pastoriza, 62, Argentinian football player and coach, cardiovascular disease.
* Arturo M. Tolentino, 93, Philippine lawyer and politician, heart attack.
* Don Tosti, 81, American musician and composer.

### 3

* Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer.
* Gloria Emerson, 75, American author, journalist and New York Times war correspondent, suicide.
* Bob Murphy, 79, American Major League Baseball sportscaster , lung cancer.
* Bryon Nickoloff, 48, Canadian chess International Master, stomach cancer.
* Geraldine Peroni, 51, American film editor (The Player, Dr. T and the Women, Michael), suicide.

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* Pierre de Chevigné, 95, French politician.
* Robert Yewdall Jennings, 90, British jurist, President of the International Court of Justice.
* Eivor Landström, 85, Swedish actress.
* Frank Maxwell, 87, American actor.
* Mary Sherman Morgan, 82, American rocket scientist.
* Hossein Panahi, 47, Iranian actor and poet, heart attack.
* Fumio Watanabe, 74, Japanese actor.

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* Uri Adelman, 45, Israeli writer, musician, computer expert, and academic, heart attack.
* Don Grossman, 83, Australian rules footballer.
* Edith Jiménez, 86, Paraguayan plastic artist.
* André Wogenscky, 88, French modernist architect and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

### 6

* Ennio Antonelli, 77, Italian actor and boxer.
* Joseph-Marie Lo Duca, 98, Italian-French journalist, novelist, art critic, and film historian.
* Rick James, 56, American singer ("Mary Jane", "Give It to Me Baby", "Super Freak") and producer, heart attack.
* Philip G. Johnson, 78, American Hall of Fame trainer of Thoroughbred race horses.
* Donald Justice, 78, American poet.
* Murray S. Klamkin, 83, American mathematician.

### 7

* Red Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter.
* María Esperanza de Bianchini, 75, Venezuelan mystic.
* G.T. Hogan, 75, American jazz drummer.
* Bernard Levin, 75, English journalist and broadcaster, Alzheimer's disease.
* Ismael Rodríguez, 86, Mexican film director, screenwriter, respiratory failure.
* Jukka Sipilä, 68, Finnish actor and television director.
* Gordon Smith, 80, Scottish footballer.
* Chris Wallace, 70, Australian computer scientist and physicist.

### 8

* Henrique Abranches, 71, Angolan writer and anthropologist, stroke.
* Gypsy Boots, 89, American health and fitness pioneer.
* Eva Frommer, 76, German-British consultant child psychiatrist.
* Paul Garner, 95, American comedian, Three Stooges associate.
* Leon Golub, 82, American artist and painter.
* Dimitris Papamichael, 70, Greek actor, heart attack.
* Jean Pouliot, 81, Canadian broadcasting pioneer.
* S. V. Ramadoss, 83, Indian actor.
* Fay Wray, 96, Canadian-American actress (King Kong).

### 9

* Liisi Beckmann, 79, Finnish designer and artist.
* Sam Hogin, 54, American country music songwriter.
* Robert Lecourt, 95, French politician, judge and president of the European Court of Justice.
* Tony Mottola, 86, American guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on The Tonight Show orchestra, stroke.
* Eduard Neumann, 93, German Luftwaffe officer during WWII.
* David Raksin, 92, American composer of film and television scores (Laura).
* Saul Rosenzweig, 97, American psychologist and therapist.
* René Taton, 89, French author and historian of science.

### 10

* Walter Bielser, 75, Swiss footballer.
* K. P. Brahmanandan, 58, Indian playback singer from Kerala.
* Alan N. Cohen, 73, American basketball executive and owner of the Boston Celtics.
* James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, American member of the Rockefeller family and Olympic champion, stroke.

### 11

* Sir David Calcutt, 73, British barrister and public servant.
* Joe Falls, 76, American journalist, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News, heart attack.
* Bill Martin Jr., 88, American author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
* Wolfgang Mommsen, 73, German historian.

### 12

* Bjarne Andersson, 64, Swedish cross-country skier, Olympic silver medallist (1968).
* Humayun Azad, 57, Bangladeshi poet, writer, critic, linguist, and academic.
* Godfrey Hounsfield, 84, British electrical engineer and Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate, co-inventor of the CAT scan.
* John McGuigan, 71, Scottish football player.
* Sebastián Ontoria, 84, Spanish footballer.
* Perica Vlašić, 72, Croatian Olympic rower.
* Basil Wigoder, 83, British politician and barrister.
* George Yardley, 75, American NBA basketball player, ALS.

### 13

* Mabel Addis, 92, American writer, teacher and the first video game writer.
* Julia Child, 91, American chef, author and television hostess on French cuisine, kidney failure.
* Sei Ikeno, 73, Japanese composer.
* Josef Paul Kleihues, 71, German architect.
* Donald Meltzer, 81, American Kleinian psychoanalyst.
* Milton Pollack, 97, American federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street.
* Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor.
* Akku Yadav, 32, Indian gangster and criminal, lynched.
* Ko Yong-hui, 52, North Korean mistress of supreme leader Kim Jong Il and mother Kim Jong Un, breast cancer.

### 14

* David Brown, 76, American rower and Olympic champion.
* Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 39, Indian rapist and murderer, executed.
* William David Ford, 77, American politician, stroke.
* Neal Fredericks, 35, American cinematographer (The Blair Witch Project), drowned.
* Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and dissident.
* Bomber Moran, 59, Filipino actor, prostate cancer.
* Eric Petrie, 77, New Zealand cricketer.
* Trevor Skeet, 86, New Zealand-British lawyer and politician.

### 15

* Sune Bergström, 88, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine.
* Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer.
* Amarsinh Chaudhary, 63, Indian politician, heart attack.
* Charles Eaton, 94, American juvenile stage and film performer.
* Armando Lambruschini, 80, Argentine navy admiral.
* Kirk McCarthy, 37, Australian motorcycle road racer, racing accident.
* Paul Ngei, 80, Kenyan politician, diabetes.
* Atefah Sahaaleh, 16, Iranian teenage girl and regime victim, execution by hanging.
* Min Thu Wun, 95, Burmese poet, writer and scholar.

### 16

* Acquanetta, 83, American B-movie actress nicknamed "The Venezuelan Volcano", Alzheimer's disease.
* Babken Arakelyan, 92, Armenian historian and archeologist.
* Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach, traffic collision.
* Jikki, 68, Indian playback singer from Andhra Pradesh.
* J. Irwin Miller, 95, American businessman, philanthropist, and civil rights advocate.
* Carl Mydans, 97, American photographer.
* Robert Quiroga, 35, American world champion boxer, murdered.

### 17

* Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist.
* Frank Cotroni, 73, Italian-Canadian mobster and boss of the Cotroni crime family, brain cancer.
* Marosa di Giorgio, 72, Uruguayan poet and novelist.
* Shizuo Kakutani, 92, Japanese-American mathematician.
* Jack Marshall, 84, Canadian politician.
* Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone.
* Kain Tapper, 74, Finnish sculptor.
* Armando Dely Valdés, 40, Panamanian football player, heart attack.

### 18

* Susan Mary Alsop, 84, American socialite, hostess and writer.
* Elmer Bernstein, 82, American film composer (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Ghostbusters, To Kill a Mockingbird), Oscar winner (1968), cancer.
* Joe Dodge, 82, American jazz musician.
* Hiram Fong, 97, American businessman and politician, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate, kidney failure.
* Gylfi Þorsteinsson Gíslason, 87, Icelandic politician.
* Anicet Kashamura, 75, Congolese politician.
* Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich, 86, American micropaleontologist.
* Hugh Manning, 83, British actor (Emmerdale, The Elephant Man, Mrs Thursday).
* Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán, heart attack.
* Uday Prakash, 40, Indian actor, alcoholism.
* Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen.

### 19

* Tom Baldwin, 57, American race driver, racing accident.
* George Gibson, 98, American football player and coach.
* Edmund Kurtz, 95, Russian-American cellist.
* Kyi Maung, 83, Myanmar Army officer and politician.

### 20

* Arthur Lever, 84, Welsh professional footballer.
* María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born Mexican actress in rumbera films.
* Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician, playwright and columnist.
* Leslie Shepard, 87, British author, archivist, and curator.

### 21

* Viktor Avilov, 51, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, cancer.
* Isaäc Arend Diepenhorst, 88, Dutch politician and jurist.
* Maddy English, 79, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
* Bill Hobbs, 57, American gridiron football player, accidental death.
* Hortensia Blanch Pita, 89, Spanish writer.
* Sachidananda Routray, 88, Indian poet and novelist.

### 22

* Konstantin Aseev, 43, Russian chess Grandmaster and coach, leukemia.
* Angus Bethune, 95, Australian politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
* Haralambie Ivanov, 63, Romanian sprint canoeist and Olympic silver medalist.
* George Kirgo, 78, American television and film writer, president of the Writers Guild of America, kidney failure.
* Jim Nelson, 57, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
* Daniel Petrie, 83, Canadian film director (A Raisin in the Sun, Cocoon: The Return, The Bay Boy), cancer.
* Reginaldo Polloni, 87–88, Italian Olympic rower (men's coxed four rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Ota Šik, 84, Czech economist and politician, architect of economic liberalization during the 1968 Prague Spring.
* Eddison Zvobgo, 68, Zimbabwean politician and the founder of ruling party, ZANU–PF, cancer.

### 23

* Yerik Assanbayev, 68, Kazakh statesman and vice-president (1991-1996).
* Hank Borowy, 88, American baseball player.
* Francesco Minerva, 100, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop.
* Anthony Rhodes, 87, British writer and scholar.
* Víctor Urquidi, 85, Mexican civil servant, economist, and academic.

### 24

* Richard Ervin, 99, American attorney general and chief justice of Florida.
* Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-American psychiatrist.
* Bob Price, 76, American politician (U.S. Representative for Texas districts).
* Ivy Rahman, 60, Bangladeshi politician, grenade attack.
* Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, 81, Colombian painter and sculptor.

### 25

* Donald M. Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer, Parkinson's disease.
* Karen Dior, 37, American actress, singer, director, and drag queen, viral hepatitis.
* Hal Epps, 90, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Athletics).
* Marcelo González Martín, 86, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop of Toledo (1971-1995).
* Carl Szokoll, 88, Austrian resistance fighter during World War II, and after the war author and film producer.
* David Woodward, 61, English-American historian of cartography and cartographer, cancer.

### 26

* Enzo Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq.
* Laura Branigan, 52, American pop singer ("Gloria", "Self Control"), cerebral aneurysm.
* Lewis Carter-Jones, 83, British politician.
* Rajanand, 76, Indian actor in the Kannada film industry.
* Lyn Thomas, 74, American stage, television and film actress.
* Matthias Volz, 94, German Olympic gymnast.

### 27

* Fernand Auberjonois, 93, Swiss foreign news correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade.
* Willie Crawford, 57, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers), kidney disease.
* Gottlieb Göller, 69, German football player and manager.
* Suzanne Kaaren, 92, American actress (Three Stooges films).
* Larry McCormick, 71, American television personality, cancer.
* Susan Peretz, 64, American actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Melvin and Howard, Swing Shift), breast cancer.
* William Pierson, 78, American actor (Stalag 17, Three's Company, Corvette Summer), respiratory failure.

### 28

* Isidoro Blaisten, 71, Argentine writer.
* Silvana Jachino, 88, Italian actress.
* Robert Lewin, 84, American producer and screenwriter, lung cancer.
* Mercedes Vecino, 88, Spanish film actress.

### 29

* Donald Allen, 92, American editor, publisher and translator of American literature.
* Ivan Lacković Croata, 72, Croatian naive painter, heart attack.
* Nikolai Getman, 86, Soviet/Ukrainian artist and Gulag detainee
* Helen Lane, 83, American translator.
* Leonardus Benjamin Moerdani, 71, Indonesian general and politician, stroke and lung infection.
* René Ménil, 97, French surrealist writer and philosopher.
* Antoine Schnapper, 71, French art historian.
* Vladimir Velebit, 97, Yugoslav politician, diplomat and military leader.
* Hans Vonk, 62, Dutch conductor, ALS.

### 30

* Dely Atay-Atayan, 90, Filipina comedian and singer.
* Robert Boyer, 56, Canadian visual artist, powwow dancer and university professor of aboriginal heritage.
* Willie Duff, 69, Scottish football goalkeeper (Heart of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline Athletic).
* Frank Horton, 84, American politician.
* Bart Huges, 70, Dutch librarian and proponent of trepanation.
* Derek Johnson, 71, British athlete and athletics administrator, leukemia.
* E. Fay Jones, 83, American architect and designer, trained by Frank Lloyd Wright.
* Indian Larry, 55, American motorcycle builder, artist, and stunt rider stunt, injuries suffered during a stunt.
* Mario Levrero, 64, Uruguayan author.
* Bob Sherman, 63, American actor.
* Fred Lawrence Whipple, 97, American astronomer.

### 31

* Edvin Landsem, 79, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier.
* Tamaz Nadareishvili, 50, Georgian politician, heart attack.
* Lex Peterson, 46, New Zealand Olympic bobsledder (two-man and four-man bobsled at the 1988 Winter Olympics).
* Carl Wayne, 61, English lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer.