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

## February 2005
### 1

* John D. Bennett, 93, American politician and judge.
* Edward D. Freis, 92, American physician.
* Andreas Heckmair, 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger north face.
* Franco Mannino, 80, Italian film and classical composer.
* John Vernon, 72, Canadian-American actor (Animal House, Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales), surgical complications.
* Richard Wolfson, 49, British musician and journalist, aortic aneurysm.

### 2

* Birgitte Federspiel, 79, Danish actress (Babette's Feast).
* Lee Hyeonggi, 72, South Korean poet.
* Svein Kvia, 57, Norwegian footballer, brain cancer.
* Goffredo Lombardo, 84, Italian film producer.
* Magomed Omarov, Russian politician, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan, homicide.
* Max Schmeling, 99, German world heavyweight boxing champion.
* Yvonne Sherman, 74, American Olympic figure skater.
* Jerzy Wojnar, 74, Polish pilot and Olympic luger.
* Edward Maitland Wright, 98, British mathematician.

### 3

* Corrado Bafile, 101, Italian cardinal.
* Raymond Laurent, 87, Belgian herpetologist.
* Karl Linn, 81, American landscape architect and psychologist.
* Andreas Makris, 74, Greek-American composer and violinist.
* Ernst Mayr, 100, German-American evolutionary biologist.
* James Patrick Sutton, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from Tennessee (1949–1955).
* Zurab Zhvania, 41, Georgian politician, Prime Minister of Georgia (2004-2005), carbon monoxide poisoning.

### 4

* Ossie Davis, 87, American actor (Do the Right Thing, Evening Shade, The Client) and activist.
* Alfio Fontana, 72, Italian football player.
* Elia Frosio, 92, Italian cyclist.
* Stephen R. Gregg, 90, United States Army soldier and recipient the Medal of Honor.
* Peter Heine, 76, South African cricket player.
* Danas Pozniakas, 65, Lithuanian amateur light-heavyweight boxer and Olympic champion.
* Luis Sánchez, 51, Venezuelan Major League baseball player (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim).

### 5

* Bob Brannum, 79, American basketball player, pancreatic cancer.
* Jean-Charles Cantin, 86, Canadian politician.
* Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 67, Togolese politician, president of Togo (1967-2005), heart attack.
* Gerard Glaister, 89, British television producer and director.
* Veikko Helle, 93, American politician.
* Günter Reimann, 100, German economist.
* Henri Rochon, 80, Canadian tennis player.
* Michalina Wisłocka, 84, Polish sexologist.

### 6

* Michael Adams, 85, British journalist.
* Billy Baker, 84, Welsh footballer.
* Lazar Berman, 74, Russian classical pianist.
* Elbert N. Carvel, 94, American politician, Governor of Delaware.
* Adu Celso, 59, Brazilian motorcycle road racer, heart attack.
* Hubert Curien, 80, French researcher, first president of European Space Agency.
* Alejandro Gómez, 96, Argentine educator and lawyer, stroke.
* Karl Haas, 91, American classical music radio program host.
* Merle Kilgore, 70, American country music manager and songwriter, heart failure.
* Mutsuo Minagawa, 69, Japanese baseball pitcher.

### 7

* Laurie Aarons, 87, Australian politician.
* Atli Dam, 72, Faroese politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1991-1993).
* Leonid Gissen, 73, Russian rower and Olympic medalist.
* Dennis McCord, 52, Canadian ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks).
* V. C. Pande, 72, Indian political figure, former governor of three states.
* John Patterson, 64, American television director (The Sopranos, Hill Street Blues, Providence), prostate cancer.
* Paul Rebeyrolle, 78, French painter.
* Madeleine Rebérioux, 84, French historian.
* Narayan Sanyal, 80, Indian writer of modern Bengali literature.
* Jeremy Swan, 82, Irish cardiologist, co-inventor of the pulmonary artery catheter, heart attack.
* Bob Turner, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks).
* Zdravko Velimirović, 74, Yugoslavian film director and screenwriter.

### 8

* Gildo Arena, 83, Italian water polo player, swimmer and Olympic champion.
* Mike Bishop, 46, American baseball player.
* Germund Dahlquist, 80, Swedish mathematician.
* Edward R. Dudley, 93, American diplomat.
* Helmut Eder, 88, Austrian composer.
* Parker Hall, 88, American gridiron football player.
* George Herman, 85, American journalist and moderator of CBS' Face the Nation for 15 years.
* Keith Knudsen, 56, American drummer for rock band Doobie Brothers, pneumonia.
* Gaston Rahier, 58, Belgian 125cc Motocross World Champion (1975–1977), cancer.
* Jimmy Smith, 76, American jazz organist.
* Javier Tusell, 59, Spanish historian, writer and politician, leukemia.

### 9

* Tim Breslin, 37, American ice hockey player, appendix cancer.
* Tyrone Davis, 67, American R&B singer (Turn Back The Hands Of Time), complications of a stroke.
* Robert Kearns, 77, American inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, brain cancer.
* Raisa Kyrychenko, 61, Ukrainian mezzo-soprano singer, cardiovascular disease.
* Richard Lupino, 75, American actor, member of the theatrical Lupino family, lymphoma.
* Frank Mathers, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Hershey Bears).
* Kate Peyton, 39, British BBC producer, shot in Mogadishu, Somalia.
* Sylvia Rafael, 67, South African-born Israeli Mossad agent convicted of 1973 Lillehammer murder, leukemia.
* Josef Rasselnberg, 92, German football player and trainer.

### 10

* Humbert Balsan, 50, French film producer, suicide by hanging.
* David Allan Bromley, 79, Canadian-American physicist, presidential advisor.
* Jean Cayrol, 93, French author.
* Pierre Chevalier, 89, French film director and screenwriter.
* Dave Goodman, 53, British music producer, heart attack.
* Ben Jones, 80, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister (1989-1990).
* Igor Ledogorov, 72, Soviet and Russian actor, cancer.
* Arthur Miller, 89, American playwright (Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge, The Crucible), congestive heart failure.
* Frederick W. Mote, 82, American sinologist.
* Fritz Scholder, 67, American native American artist.
* Jack Segal, 86, American pianist and composer.

### 11

* Samuel W. Alderson, 90, American inventor of crash test dummies bone cancer.
* Jack L. Chalker, 60, American science fiction writer, kidney failure.
* Raymond Hermantier, 81, French actor.
* Mary Jackson, 83, American mathematician and aerospace engineer, first black female engineer at NASA.
* Vladimir Kotelnikov, 96, Information theory and radar astronomy pioneer from the Soviet Union.
* Dénes Kovács, 74, Hungarian classical violinist and academic teacher.
* Eva Magni, 98, Italian stage and film actress.
* Míla Myslíková, 71, 1933-2005 Czech actress and writer, stroke.
* Stan Richards, 74, British actor (Emmerdale), pulmonary emphysema.

### 12

* Archie Butterworth, 92, British racing driver and designer.
* Brian Kelly, 73, American actor, pneumonia.
* James McClure, 88, American international table tennis player.
* Monem Munna, 38, Bangladeshi footballer, kidney disease.
* Sammi Smith, 61, American country music singer, (Help Me Make It Through the Night), pulmonary emphysema.
* Dorothy Stang, 73, American nun, murdered in Anapu, Brazil.
* Marinus van der Goes van Naters, 104, Dutch politician.
* Rafael Vidal, 41, Venezuelan Olympic medalist, car crash.

### 13

* Saminini Arulappa, 80, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop.
* Harry Baird, 73, Guyanese-born British actor, cancer.
* Nelson Briles, 61, American baseball player, heart attack.
* Sixten Ehrling, 86, Swedish conductor.
* Mary Hallaren, 97, American soldier, first woman to join the United States Army.
* Sister Lúcia, 97, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three shepherd children of the Fatima apparition in 1917.
* Maurice Trintignant, 87, French racing driver, twice winner of the Monaco Grand Prix.
* Dick Weber, 75, American professional bowler, father of Pete Weber, respiratory failure.
* Peter White, 69, Australian politician.

### 14

* Ron Burgess, 87, Welsh footballer with Tottenham Hotspur and Wales.
* Sonya Dorman, 81, American science fiction writer and poet.
* Thabet El-Batal, 51, Egyptian Goalkeeper association football goalkeeper, cancer.
* Vic Emery, 84, Australian cricketer.
* Rafic Hariri, 60, Lebanese business tycoon and politician, twice Prime Minister of Lebanon, car bomb.
* Albert Harris, 89, English musician.
* Aubelin Jolicoeur, 81, Haitian journalist and columnist.
* Vidya Niwas Mishra, 79, Indian scholar, Hindi-Sanskrit littérateur, and journalist, traffic collision.
* Otto Plaschkes, 75, British film producer (Georgy Girl).
* Pauli Toivonen, 75, Finnish rally car driver.
* Henry Wolf, 79, Austrian-American graphic designer, photographer and art director.

### 15

* Carlo Tullio Altan, 88, Italian anthropologist and sociologist.
* Pierre Bachelet, 60, French singer, lung cancer.
* Marc Eyraud, 80, French film actor.
* Samuel T. Francis, 57, American white supremacist writer, aortic aneurysm.
* Dudu Geva, 54, Israeli artist, writer, cartoonist, and illustrator, heart attack.
* Richard Grunberger, 80, British historian.
* David Leach, 93, English potter.
* Yury Morozov, 70, Soviet football player and coach.
* Bob Schafer, 71, American basketball player.

### 16

* Michael Aikman, 71, Australian rower.
* Nicole DeHuff, 30, American actress (Meet the Parents, Suspect Zero, CSI: Miami), pneumonia.
* Narriman Sadek, (Nariman Sadeq), 71, Egyptian queen, ex-wife of King Farouk, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Marcello Viotti, 50, Italian conductor, stroke.
* Hans von Blixen-Finecke, 88, Swedish Army officer and Olympic equestrian.
* Bill Potts, 76, American jazz pianist and arranger, cardiac arrest.
* Gerry Wolff, 84, German actor.

### 17

* F. M. Busby, 83, American science fiction writer.
* Jens Martin Knudsen, 74, Danish astrophysicist.
* César Marcelak, 92, French cycling champion.
* Miodrag Nikolić, 66, Serbian basketball player and coach.
* Dan O'Herlihy, 85, Irish actor (RoboCop, Robinson Crusoe, Fail Safe).
* Omar Sívori, 69, Argentinian and Italian footballer, pancreatic cancer.

### 18

* Bonar Bain, 82, Canadian actor and twin brother of actor Conrad Bain.
* Uli Derickson, 60, German-American airline stewardess, protagonist in 1985 airplane hijacking, cancer.
* Marian Kamil Dziewanowski, 91, Polish-American historian.
* Marta Flores, 92, Spanish actress.
* Attilio Giovannini, 80, Italian football player.
* Greg Kehoe, 87, Australian politician.
* Gwendolyn Knight, 91, American artist.
* Lim Por-yen, 90, Hong Kong industrialist.
* Harald Szeemann, 71, Swiss curator and art historian.

### 19

* Li Baohua, 95, Chinese politician.
* Huy Can, 85, Vietnamese poet.
* Kihachi Okamoto, 81, Japanese film director, esophageal cancer.
* Peter Pryor, 74, Australian Olympic cyclist.
* Miao Tian, 79, Chinese film actor, lymphoma.

### 20

* Jacques Ploncard d'Assac, 94, French writer, journalist and political activist.
* Pam Bricker, 50, American jazz vocalist and music professor, suicide by hanging.
* Sandra Dee, 62, American actress (Gidget, Imitation of Life, Until They Sail), kidney failure and pneumonia.
* Josef Holeček, 84, Czechoslovakian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion.
* Dalene Matthee, 67, Afrikaans-South African author, heart failure.
* Raymond Mhlaba, 85, South African political leader and the first Premier of the Eastern Cape, liver cancer.
* John Raitt, 88, American classic Broadway star and father of Bonnie Raitt, pneumonia.
* Hunter S. Thompson, 67, American journalist, suicide by gunshot.
* J. Williams, 56, Indian film producer, director and cinematographer.
* Jimmy Young, 56, American boxer, heart failure.

### 21

* Zdzisław Beksiński, 75, Polish artist, homicide.
* Ara Berberian, 74, American bass with the New York City Metropolitan Opera.
* Gérard Bessette, 84, Canadian writer and academic.
* Wu Bo, 99, Chinese politician.
* Horst Drinda, 77, German actor.
* Justin Howes, 41, British historian of printing and lettering.
* Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 75, Cuban novelist, essayist, and screenwriter, sepsis.
* Josef Metternich, 89, German operatic baritone.
* Gene Scott, 75, American televangelist and author, stroke.
* Don Tolhurst, 75, Australian Olympic shooter.
* Ernest Vandiver, 86, American politician, governor of the Georgia (1959–1963).

### 22

* David Bradford, 66, American economist.
* Leo Brewer, 85, American physical chemist.
* Mladen Delić, 86, Croatian sports commentator.
* Lee Eun-ju (이은주), 24, South Korean actress, suicide by hanging.
* Luigi Giussani, 82, Italian Catholic priest, founder of the "Communion and Liberation" Catholic youth movement, Parkinson's disease.
* Ben Huffman, 90, American Major League Baseball player.
* Renzo Imbeni, 60, Italian politician, mayor of Bologna (1983-1993).
* Kuntowijoyo, 61, Indonesian writer, meningoencephalitis.
* Heath Lamberts, 63, Canadian actor, cancer.
* Josette Rey-Debove, 75, French lexicographer and semiologist.
* Mario Ricci, 90, Italian cyclist.
* Reggie Roby, 43, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
* Harry Simeone, 94, American music arranger, conductor and composer (Little Drummer Boy).
* Simone Simon, 94, French actress.

### 23

* All Along, 25, French racehorse.
* Josep María Cruxent, Venezuelan archaeologist.
* Tom Patterson, 84, Canadian founder of the Stratford Festival of Canada.
* Henk Zeevalking, 82, Dutch politician and co-founder of Democrats 66.

### 24

* John Barron, 75, American journalist.
* Jochen Bleicken, 78, German ancient historian.
* Thadée Cisowski, 78, Polish-French footballer.
* Sumner Gerard, 88, American politician and diplomat.
* Goldie Hill, 72, American country music singer, cancer.
* Robin Jenkins, 92, Scottish novelist, author of "The Cone-Gatherers" and "Fergus Lamont".
* Coşkun Kırca, 77, Turkish diplomat, journalist and politician.
* András Kozák, 62, Hungarian film actor, brain tumor.
* Galina Kreft, 54, Soviet sprint canoer and Olympic champion.
* Leonard Miall, 90, British BBC broadcaster and administrator.
* Gustavo Vázquez Montes, 42, Mexican politician, incumbent governor of Colima, Mexico, aviation accident.
* Hugh Nibley, 94, American historian, focussing on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
* Glanmor Williams, 84, Welsh historian.
* Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 82, German politician and former cabinet minister.

### 25

* Abdulkareem Adisa, 56, Nigerian major general.
* Peter Benenson, 83, British lawyer and founder of Amnesty International, pneumonia.
* Ian Colquhoun, 80, New Zealand cricket player.
* Francis E. Garchitorena, 67, Filipino lawyer and judge.
* Leo Labine, 73, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
* Don LeJohn, 70, American baseball player, former Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman.
* Pappo, 54, Argentine blues and rock and roll guitarist and composer, traffic collision.
* Edward Patten, 65, American soul singer, member of Gladys Knight & the Pips, stroke.
* Jean Prat, 81, French rugby union football player.
* Atef Sedki, 74, Egyptian politician, Prime Minister (1986-1996).
* Noboru Sugimura, 56, Japanese television and video game writer.

### 26

* Max Faulkner, 88, British golfer.
* Henry Grunwald, 82, Austrian-American journalist, editor and ambassador to Austria (1988–1990).
* Witness Mangwende, 59, Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1981–1987).
* Paolo Moffa, 89, Italian film director, producer and screenwriter.
* Jef Raskin, 61, American creator of the Apple Macintosh, pancreatic cancer.
* Pierre Trabaud, 82, French film actor.
* Johnny Williams, 77, American football player.

### 27

* Haruna Abubakar, 52, Nigerian lawyer and politician.
* James Avati, 92, American illustrator.
* Franco Bracardi, 67, Italian actor, composer, pianist and stand-up comedian.
* Hiroyuki Nasu, 53, Japanese film director.
* Frank Vincent Ortiz, Jr., 78, American diplomat.
* Pukazhenthi, 75, Indian music film director.
* Allan Rae, 82, Jamaican cricket player.
* Carl Taseff, 76, American NFL gridiron football player and assistant coach.

### 28

* Yevgeny Alekseyev, 85, Soviet/Russian basketball player and coach.
* Chris Curtis, 63, English drummer with The Searchers.
* Richard A. Fletcher, 60, British historian, heart attack.
* Giovanni Invernizzi, 73, Italian football player and coach.
* Mario Luzi, 90, Italian poet.
* Édouard Stern, 50, French banker, murdered.