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

## June 2005
### 1

* Mariana Dimitrova, 51, Bulgarian actress, suicide.
* Louisiane Saint Fleurant, 80, Haitian artist and painter.
* Fernando Ghia, 69, Italian film producer and talent agent.
* Sara Guasch, 86, Chilean-Mexican actress.
* Norman Horowitz, 90, American geneticist at the California Institute of Technology.
* George Mikan, 80, American basketball player, diabetes.
* Geoffrey Toone, 94, British-based Irish actor.

### 2

* Isabel Aretz, 96, Argentine musician.
* Vittorio Duse, 89, Italian actor (The Godfather Part III).
* Larry Fallon, 68, American composer, arranger and record producer.
* Gunder Gundersen, 74, Norwegian Nordic combined skier and sports official.
* Samir Kassir, 45, Lebanese journalist, bombed.
* Mike Marshall, 60, French-American actor (Moonraker), lung cancer.
* Melita Norwood, 93, British spy for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
* Hy Peskin, 89, American photographer, kidney failure.
* Pastor Vega, 65, Cuban film director and screenwriter.

### 3

* Leon Askin, 97, Austrian actor.
* Michael Billington, 63, British actor, cancer.
* Harold Cardinal, 60, Canadian Cree writer, lung cancer.
* Néstor Errea, 66, Argentine football player.
* Alex Freeleagus, 77, Australian diplomat and lawyer.
* Basil Pennington, 73, American trappist priest, writer, and speaker.
* Maurice Wiles, 81, British Anglican priest and academic.

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* Carol Christensen, 67, American actress and model.
* Giancarlo De Carlo, 85, Italian architect.
* Chloe Jones, 29, American adult film star, liver failure.
* Leo Klier, 82, American basketball player.
* Banks McFadden, 88, American gridiron football player.
* Jean O'Leary, 57, American lesbian and gay rights activist and politician, lung cancer.
* Yin Shun, 99, Chinese Buddhist philosopher, tuberculosis.
* Karl Steinbuch, 87, German computer scientist, cyberneticist, and electrical engineer.
* Lorna Thayer, 86, American character actress (Five Easy Pieces), Alzheimer's disease.

### 5

* Pepita Carpena, 85, Spanish trade unionist and anarchist.
* Hugh Marshall Cole, 94, American historian and army officer, vascular disease.
* Kurt Graunke, 89, German composer and conductor.
* George Isaak, 72, Polish-Australian physicist and asteroseismologist.
* Wee Chong Jin, 87, Malayan-Singaporean judge, cancer.
* Susi Nicoletti, 86, Austrian film actress, complications from heart surgery.
* Lothar Warneke, 68, German film director, screenwriter and actor.
* Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, 55, Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician, traffic collision.

### 6

* Tullio Altamura, 80, Italian actor.
* Anne Bancroft, 73, American actress (The Miracle Worker, The Graduate, The Pumpkin Eater), Oscar winner (1963), uterine cancer.
* Dana Elcar, 77, American actor (MacGyver, The Sting, Fail Safe), pneumonia.
* Maya Kopitseva, 81, Russian painter, cancer.
* Pamela May, 88, British ballet dancer.
* Mary Beaumont Medd, 97, British architect.
* Siegfried Palm, 78, German cellist.
* David C. Sutherland III, 56, American illustrator for the original Dungeons & Dragons books, chronic liver failure.

### 7

* Seán Doherty, 60, Irish politician.
* Terry Long, 45, American NFL football player, suicide.
* Edward A. McCarthy, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, second Archbishop of Miami.
* Davud Məhəmmədov, 34, Azerbaijani wrestler.
* Simon Waronker, 90, American violinist and record producer.

### 8

* Ahmed Ali, Fijian academic and politician.
* Ed Bishop, 72, American-British actor (UFO, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Brass Target).
* Arthur Dunkel, 72, Portuguese-Swiss GATT director-general.
* Servílio, 65, Brazilian football player, heart attack.

### 9

* James Clements, 77, American ornithologist and author, leukemia.
* Slade Cutter, 93, American naval officer and gridiron football player.
* Richard Eberhart, 101, American poet.
* Samih Farsoun, 68, American sociologist and academic.
* Erik Jørgensen, 85, Danish Olympic middle-distance runner.
* Trude Marlen, 92, Austrian stage and film actress.
* Inna Ulyanova, 70, Soviet and Russian actress, singer and comedian, liver cirrhosis.

### 10

* Michèle Auclair, 80, French violinist.
* Nick Darke, 56, British playwright, stroke.
* Pere Esteve i Abad, 62, Spanish politician and Catalan nationalist.
* J. James Exon, 83, American politician, senator (1979–1997) and Governor of Nebraska (1971–1979).
* Yumiko Kurahashi, 69, Japanese writer.
* Lyphard, 36, American thoroughbred racehorse and sire.
* Shinji Nagashima, 67, Japanese manga artist.
* Curtis Pitts, 89, American aircraft designer (Pitts Special).
* Joseph Raya, 88, Lebanese-Canadian Melkite Catholic archbishop, theologian, and civil rights advocate.
* Kenneth N. Taylor, 88, American evangelical publisher and author, heart failure.

### 11

* Francesco Albanese, 92, Italian opera singer.
* Anne-Marie Alonzo, 53, Canadian writer.
* José Beyaert, 79, French cyclist.
* Audrey Brown, 92, British sprinter and Olympic silver medalist.
* Robert Clarke, 85, American actor, diabetes.
* Ghena Dimitrova, 64, Bulgarian opera singer, cancer.
* Vasco Gonçalves, 84, Portuguese army general, Prime Minister (1974–1975).
* Lillian Lux, 86, American Yiddish vaudeville actress and singer, congestive heart failure.
* Lon McCallister, 82, American actor, heart failure.
* Ron Randell, 86, Australian-American actor, stroke.
* Juan José Saer, 67, Argentine novelist, lung cancer.

### 12

* Emmanuelle Arsan, 73, Thai-French novelist, cholangiocarcinoma.
* Sonja Davies, 81, New Zealand trade unionist.
* Brandy Davis, 77, American baseball player.
* Eiichi Goto, 74, Japanese computer scientist.
* Barry Hutchinson, 69, English football player.
* Makobo Modjadji, 26, South African Rain Queen of the Balobedu people, meningitis.
* David Whitney, 66, American art curator, collector, gallerist and critic, cancer.
* Scott Young, 87, Canadian journalist and father of Neil Young.

### 13

* Jonathan Adams, 74, British actor (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), stroke.
* Gerard Béhague, 67, French-American ethnomusicologist.
* Álvaro Cunhal, 91, Portuguese politician, secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (1961–1992), writer and painter.
* Eugénio de Andrade, 82, Portuguese poet.
* David Diamond, 89, American composer, heart attack.
* Bruno Landi, 76, Italian racing cyclist.
* Jesús Moncada, Spanish writer, cancer.
* Lane Smith, 69, American actor (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The Mighty Ducks, My Cousin Vinny), complications from ALS.

### 14

* Heinz Bechert, 72, German indologist and buddhologist.
* N. J. Crisp, 81, British television writer, dramatist and novelist.
* Georges Dransart, 81, French sprint Olympic canoeist.
* Lionel Elvin, 99, British educational theorist.
* Carlo Maria Giulini, 91, Italian conductor.
* Bob Lennon, 76, American baseball player.
* Robie Lester, 80, American voice artist, actress and singer, cancer.
* Norman Levine, 81, Canadian writer.
* Mimi Parent, 80, Canadian surrealist painter.

### 15

* Rodrigo Asturias, 65, Guatemalan guerilla leader and politician, heart attack.
* Reuven Dafni, 91, Croatian-Israeli soldier and diplomat.
* Suzanne Flon, 87, French actress, gastroenteritis.
* Alessio Galletti, 37, Italian racing cyclist, cardiac arrest.
* Valeria Moriconi, 73, Italian actress, cancer.
* Carroll Sembera, 63, American baseball player.
* Per Henrik Wallin, 58, Swedish jazz pianist and composer.

### 16

* Corino Andrade, 99, Portuguese neurologist, discovered familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP).
* Enrique Laguerre, 99, Puerto Rican writer, poet, and teacher.
* Mayoori, 22, Indian actress, suicide.
* Alex McAvoy, 77, Scottish actor (Pink Floyd – The Wall, The Vital Spark, Strictly Sinatra), leukemia.
* Geoffrey Parrinder, 95, British theologian and Methodist minister.
* Ross Stretton, 53, Australian ballet dancer and artistic director of Australian Ballet, melanoma.
* James Weinstein, 78, American Jewish author, founder and publisher of In These Times..

### 17

* Billy Bauer, 89, American jazz guitarist.
* Nanna Ditzel, 81, Danish furniture and interior designer.
* William N. Fenton, 96, American scholar known for writings on the Iroquois.
* Susanna Javicoli, 50, Italian actress (La nottata, Suspiria), kidney cancer.
* Andrew Justice, 54, British rower and Olympic silver medalist.
* Gene Miller, 77, American investigative reporter at the Miami Herald, cancer.
* Keith Morris, 66, English photographer.
* Karl Mueller, 41, American musician, esophageal cancer.
* Tetiana Yablonska, 88, Soviet Ukrainian artist.

### 18

* Mushtaq Ali, 90, Indian cricketer, Padma Shree Award winner.
* Cay Forrester, 83, American writer and actress, pneumonia.
* Chris Griffin, 74, American jazz trumpeter, melanoma.
* Basil Kirchin, 77, British musician.
* Sanjaya Lall, 64, Indian economist.
* Tatsuo Matsumura, 90, Japanese actor.
* J. J. Pickle, 91, American politician, Congressional Representative from Texas (1963–1995), prostate cancer.
* Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, 81, Indian physicist.
* Manuel Sadosky, 91, Argentine mathematician and Secretary of State of Science and Technology (1983–1989).

### 19

* Allan Beckett, 91, British engineer.
* Robert Ellis Cahill, 70, American folklorist and author.
* Zdravko Ježić, 73, Croatian water polo player and Olympic silver medalist.
* Aleksey Kiselyov, 67, Russian boxer and Olympic silver medalist.
* Totta Näslund, 60, Swedish musician, singer and actor, liver cancer.
* Ray Parkin, 94, Australian writer.

### 20

* Larry Collins, 75, American writer, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Charles David Keeling, 77, American scientist and oceanographer, heart attack.
* Jack Kilby, 81, American engineer, inventor of the integrated circuit and physics Nobel prize winner.
* Pete Leswick, 88, Canadian ice hockey right winger.
* Bernard Adolph Schriever, 94, American Air Force general, regarded as the architect of the space and ballistic missile programs.

### 21

* Munu Adhi, 78, Indian politician.
* George Hawi, 67, Lebanese politician, secretary general of Communist Party of Lebanon, terrorist attack.
* Geoffrey Jones, 73, British documentary maker, cancer.
* Alvin D. Loving, 69, African-American abstract expressionist painter.
* Guillermo Suárez Mason, 81, Argentine military officer convicted for his crimes during the Dirty War, cardiovascular disease.
* Jaime Sin, 76, Filipino Roman Catholic cardinal and former archbishop of Manila, kidney failure.
* Louis H. Wilson, 85, United States Marine Corps general and recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions during WWII.

### 22

* Sunder Singh Bhandari, 84, Indian politician.
* William Donaldson, 70, British satirist and theatrical producer of Beyond The Fringe.
* Michael Imoudu, 102, Nigerian labour union leader.
* Carson Parks, 69, American musician.
* Max Roqueta, 96, French Occitan language writer.

### 23

* Nikolay Afanasevsky, 64, Russian diplomat.
* Shana Alexander, 79, American journalist, cancer.
* Manolis Anagnostakis, 80, Greek poet.
* Pietro Balestra, 70, Swiss economist.
* Isidore Cohen, 82, American violinist with the Beaux Arts Trio.
* Hanna Kvanmo, 79, Norwegian politician.
* Nahum M. Sarna, 82, British-Israeli-American biblical scholar.
* Ramona M. Valdez, 20, Dominican-born United States Marine.

### 24

* Peter Casserly, 107, Australian centenarian, last surviving member of the World War I First Australian Imperial Force.
* Eva Philbin, 91, Irish chemist.
* Béla Rerrich, 87, Hungarian fencer and Olympic silver medalist.
* Yedidia Shofet, 96, Chief Rabbi of Iran and the spiritual leader of Persian Jewry.
* Ronald B. Stafford, 69, American lawyer and politician from New York, lung cancer.
* Paul Winchell, 82, American voice actor (Winnie the Pooh, The Fox and the Hound, The Smurfs) and ventriloquist.

### 25

* John Fiedler, 80, American actor (12 Angry Men, Winnie the Pooh, True Grit), cancer.
* Harry Gibbs, 88, Australian Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 1981-87.
* Salim Halali, 84, Algerian singer.
* Chet Helms, 62, American rock music promoter, hepatitis.
* Robert K. Killian, 85, American politician and attorney.
* Jiří Kodet, 67, Czech actor.
* Kâzım Koyuncu, 33, Turkish singer-songwriter and activist, testicular cancer.
* Olga Lauristin, 102, Soviet and Estonian politician.

### 26

* Filip Adwent, 49, Polish politician, traffic collision.
* Roland Ducke, 70, German football player, prostate cancer.
* Tõnno Lepmets, 67, Estonian basketball player.
* Eknath Solkar, 57, Indian cricketer, heart attack.
* Joop Stoffelen, 84, Dutch footballer, Parkinson's disease.
* Grete Sultan, 99, German-American pianist.
* Richard Whiteley, 61, British television presenter, pneumonia.

### 27

* Robert Byrne, 50, American songwriter.
* Fred Dutton, 82, American lawyer, advisor to President Kennedy.
* Shelby Foote, 88, American historian, heart attack.
* Frank Harte, 72, Irish traditional singer and song collector, heart attack.
* Domino Harvey, 35, British model-turned-bounty hunter and daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, fentanyl overdose.
* George Lilanga, 71, Tanzanian painter and sculptor, diabetes.
* Sakshi Ranga Rao, 62, Indian actor, kidney failure.
* Bhakti Tirtha Swami, 55, American spiritual guru, melanoma.
* John T. Walton, 58, American Vietnam War veteran and son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, aircraft crash.

### 28

* Thomas D. Clark, 101, American historian.
* Dick Dietz, 63, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves), heart attack.
* Frances Greer, 88, American soprano.
* Yumika Hayashi, 35, Japanese AV idol and pink film actress, choking.
* Philip Hobsbaum, 72, British academic, poet and critic, diabetes.
* Brenda Howard, 58, American LGBTQ-rights activist, colon cancer.
* Arthur Maimane, 72, South African journalist and novelist.
* Gyula Petrikovics, 62, Hungarian sprint canoer and Olympic silver medalist.
* Rowland B. Wilson, 74, American cartoonist and animator.
* American military personnel killed in action during Operation Red Wings
** Matthew Axelson, 29, American Navy SEAL.
** Danny Dietz, 25, American Navy SEAL.
** Erik S. Kristensen, 33, American Navy SEALs Lieutenant commander.
** Michael P. Murphy, 29, American Navy SEAL officer.
** Stephen C. Reich, 34, American soldier and Minor League Baseball player.

### 29

* Ruslan Abdulgani, 91, Indonesian politician and diplomat, stroke.
* James Gilbert Baker, 90, American astronomer.
* Gerard Clark Bond, 65, American geologist.
* John D. Burgess, 71, Scottish bagpiper.
* Mikkel Flagstad, 75, Norwegian jazz musician.
* Marc Freiberger, 76, American basketball player.
* Tymoteusz Karpowicz, 83, Polish language poet and playwright.
* Bruce Malmuth, 71, American film director (Nighthawks, Hard to Kill) and actor (The Karate Kid), throat cancer.
* François-Xavier Verschave, 59, French economist, historian and writer, pancreatic cancer.

### 30

* Clancy Eccles, 64, Jamaican ska and reggae singer, songwriter, and record producer, heart attack.
* Christopher Fry, 97, British playwright.
* Lilian Keil, 88, American nurse, highly decorated World War II and Korean War flight nurse.
* Al Milnar, 91, American baseball player.
* Éva Novák-Gerard, 75, Hungarian swimmer.
* Qigong, 92, Chinese calligrapher, painter, and sinologist.
* Alexei Sultanov, 35, Russian-American pianist, stroke.
* Robert Yount, 75, American country music singer and songwriter.