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

## July 2004
### 1

* Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke.
* Marlon Brando, 80, American actor (The Godfather, On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire), Oscar winner (1954, 1973), pulmonary fibrosis, respiratory failure.
* Ettore Cella, 90, Swiss actor and film director.
* Karin Evans, 96, South African-German stage and film actress.
* Mohinder Lal, 68, Indian hockey player and Olympic champion.
* Richard May, 65, British former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, brain cancer.
* Jasper Ridley, 84, British writer.
* Jacques Ruffié, 82, French haematologist, geneticist, and anthropologist.
* Todor Skalovski, 95, Macedonian composer, chorus and orchestra conductor.

### 2

* Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet.
* Jeillo Edwards, 61, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill".
* Mochtar Lubis, 82, Indonesian journalist and writer.
* James MacKay, 85, American politician (U.S. Representative for Georgia's 4th congressional district from 1965 to 1967).
* John Cullen Murphy, 85, American comic strip artist (Prince Valiant).
* Sky Beauty, 14, American thoroughbred.
* Gael Turnbull, 76, Scottish poet.
* Ponkunnam Varkey, 94, Indian writer and activist.

### 3

* John Barron, 83, English actor.
* Phoebe Brand, 96, American actress, pneumonia.
* Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe, 76, Swedish jewelry designer, leukemia.
* Freddy de Vree, 64, Belgian poet and literary critic.
* Andriyan Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut, heart attack.
* James Marshall Sprouse, 80, American federal judge (Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit).
* Subandrio, 89, Indonesian politician Foreign Minister and First Deputy Prime Minister of Indonesia under President Sukarno.
* Lionel Van Brabant, 77, Belgian cyclist.
* Percy Wickman, 63, Canadian politician and activist for people with disabilities.

### 4

* Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor.
* Pati Behrs, 82, Russian-American prima ballerina, actress and first wife of filmmaker John Derek.
* Jean-Louis Florentz, 56, French composer, cancer.
* Plato A. Skouras, 74, American movie producer (Apache Warrior, Francis of Assisi).

### 5

* Robert Burchfield, 81, English lexicographer.
* Jim Paschal, 77, American NASCAR driver, cancer.
* Andy Sabados, 87, American gridiron football player (The Citadel, Chicago Cardinals).
* Hugh Shearer, 81, Jamaican politician and trade unionist, former Prime Minister of Jamaica.
* Rodger Ward, 83, American racecar driver, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion.

### 6

* Peter Birks, 62, British academic lawyer, cancer.
* Eric Douglas, 46, American actor and comedian, youngest son of Kirk Douglas, drug overdose.
* Ángel Fernández-Santos, 70, Spanish film critic and screenwriter.
* Walter Frentz, 96, German cameraman, film producer and photographer.
* Thomas Klestil, 71, Austrian diplomat and politician, Federal President of Austria, heart failure.
* Pavel Lisitsian, 92, Russian opera singer.
* Samir Naqqash, 66, Israeli novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
* Jimmie F. Skaggs, 59, American film actor (Catch Me If You Can, Lethal Weapon, Cutthroat Island), lung cancer.
* Syreeta Wright, 57, American singer and songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder, breast cancer.

### 7

* Jaroslav Huleš, 30, Czech motorcycle racer, suicide.
* Günther Josten, 82, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
* Vlado Kristl, 81, Croatian-German filmmaker and artist.
* Samuel Mitja Rapoport, 91, Russian Empire-born German biochemist.
* Jeff Smith, 65, American author and television chef ("The Frugal Gourmet").
* Xiaokai Yang, 55, Chinese-Australian economist, lung cancer.

### 8

* Paula Danziger, 59, American author, heart attack.
* Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé, 82, French banker and socialite.
* Ernst R. G. Eckert, 99, American scientist.
* Albert Friedlander, 77, German rabbi.
* Henrique Mendes, 73, Portuguese television presenter and actor, bone cancer.
* Sven Thunman, 84, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.

### 9

* Carlo Di Palma, 79, Italian cinematographer (Blowup, Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets over Broadway).
* Lionel Brett, 4th Viscount Esher, 90, British peer, architect and town-planner.
* Paul Klebnikov, 41, American journalist, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered.
* Rudy LaRusso, 66, American basketball player, five-time National Basketball Association All-Star, Parkinson's disease.
* Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor, heart attack.
* Tony Lupien, 87, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox).
* Sammy McKim, 79, Canadian film actor and artist, heart attack.
* Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright, liver cancer.
* Bill Randle, 81, American disc jockey, cancer.
* Isabel Sanford, 86, American actress (The Jeffersons, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Lady Sing the Blues), Emmy winner (1981), heart attack, heart disease.
* Hugo S. Sims, Jr., 82, American lawyer and politician (U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 2nd congressional district).

### 10

* Abdul Ghafoor, 85-86, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar.
* Inge Meysel, 94, German actress, cardioplegia.
* Loren Mosher, 70, American psychiatrist.
* Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, Portuguese chemical engineer and politician, prime minister (1979-1980), heart attack.
* Georgi Proskurin, 59, Soviet pair skater.
* Art Rebel, 67, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals).

### 11

* Lothar Baier, 62, German author, publisher, and translator, suicide.
* Van Deren Coke, 83, American photographer, scholar and museum director.
* Joe Gold, 82, American bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder.
* Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
* Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress, respiratory disease.
* Haije Kramer, 86, Dutch chess master and theoretician.
* Terry McLean, 90, New Zealand sports journalist.
* Laurance Rockefeller, 94, American businessman, conservationist and philanthropist, respiratory failure.
* Renée Saint-Cyr, 99, French actress.
* Edkhyam Tenishev, 83, Soviet and Russian linguist.
* Walter Wager, 79, American author, cancer.

### 12

* George Mallaby, 64, British-Australian actor and scriptwriter, congestive heart failure.
* Jeff Morris, 69, American actor, cancer.
* Betty Oliphant, 85, English founder of Canada's National Ballet School.
* James Quinn, 97, American Olympic sprinter (gold medal winner in men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics).
* Emma Yefimova, 72, Soviet Olympic fencer.

### 13

* Arthur Kane, 55, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia.
* Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor.
* Michio Morishima, 80, Japanese economist.
* Roger Quenolle, 78, French football player.
* Karel Zich, 55, Czech singer, guitarist and composer, heart attack.

### 14

* Nelly Borgeaud, 72, French film actress.
* Germano de Figueiredo, 71, Portuguese footballer.
* Hoegeng Imam Santoso, 82, Indonesian chief of police, stroke.
* Tadeusz Sołtyk, 94, Polish aircraft designer and aerospace engineer.
* Alex Willoughby, 59, Scottish footballer (Rangers, Aberdeen), cancer.
* Arnold Ziff, 77, English businessman and philanthropist.

### 15

* Saeed Anwar, 60, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic champion.
* Banoo Jehangir Coyaji, 86, Indian doctor and family planning activist.
* Wal Murray, 72, Australian politician.
* Teun Roosenburg, 88, Dutch sculptor.
* František Schmucker, 64, Czech football player.
* Derek Taunt, 86, British mathematician.
* Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano, cancer.
* Sunao Yoshida, 34, Japanese novelist, lung blockage.

### 16

* George Busbee, 76, American politician, former governor of Georgia, heart attack.
* Andy Engman, 92, Swedish-Finnish cartoon animator.
* Fazal khaliq, 70, Afghan politician.
* Lucien Leduc, 85, French football midfielder and a manager.
* Bella Lewitzky, 88, American modern dance pioneer and choreographer, heart attack.
* Charles Sweeney, 84, American Air Force officer, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb.

### 17

* Susan, Crown Princess of Albania, 63, Australian-born wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu, cancer.
* Albela, 63, Pakistani actor, comedian and singer.
* Grzegorz Cziura, 52, Polish weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist.
* Jeanette Dolson, 85, Canadian athlete and Olympic medalist.
* Khalil Hilmi, 94-95, Lebanese Olympic sports shooter.
* Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur and banker.
* Marty Passaglia, 85, American basketball player (Washington Capitols, Indianapolis Jets).
* Pat Roach, 67, English professional wrestler and actor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Willow), cancer.
* Robert E. Smylie, 89, American politician, Governor of Idaho (1955-1967).

### 18

* Anne Gorsuch Burford, 62, American attorney and politician.
* André Castelot, 93, French writer and scriptwriter.
* Georgine Darcy, 71, American dancer and actress.
* George Farm, 80, Scottish football goalkeeper and manager.
* Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner, heart attack.
* John D. Kraus, 94, American physicist and electrical engineer.
* Eoin McKiernan, 89, American scholar and expert on Irish history.
* Richard Ney, 87, American actor, investment counselor, and author, heart attack.
* Émile Peynaud, 92, French wine expert.

### 19

* Sylvia Daoust, 102, Canadian artist and sculptor.
* Harry Forsyth, 100, Irish cricketer and centenarian.
* Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer.
* Roger Marquis, 67, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).
* Caitro Soto, 69, Peruvian musician and composer.
* Zenkō Suzuki, 93, Japanese politician, Prime Minister (1980-1982), pneumonia.
* Irvin Yeaworth, 78, German-American film director, producer, and theme park builder, traffic collision.

### 20

* Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish flamenco dancer, cancer.
* Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady, widow of president Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
* Valdemaras Martinkėnas, 39, Soviet and Lithuanian football player and coach, drowned.
* James Williams, 53, American jazz pianist.

### 21

* Jerry Goldsmith, 75, American film composer (Star Trek, The Omen, Alien), Oscar winner (1977), colorectal cancer.
* Edward B. Lewis, 85, American biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995).
* Neal A. Maxwell, 78, American missionary in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, leukemia.
* Radoy Ralin, 82, Bulgarian dissident, poet, and satirist.
* Julian Ridsdale, 89, British politician.

### 22

* Elie Abel, 83, Canadian-American journalist, author and academic, Alzheimer's disease.
* Frank Cumiskey, 91, American gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.
* Sacha Distel, 71, French singer, cancer.
* Illinois Jacquet, 81, American jazz saxophonist, heart attack.
* Joan Morgan, 99, English film actress, screenwriter and novelist.
* Bertie Peacock, 75, Northern Ireland football player and manager.
* Kostiantyn Stepankov, 76, Ukrainian soviet actor, pancreatic cancer.
* Ronald Sukenick, 72, American writer and literary theorist, inclusion body myositis.

### 23

* Mehmood Ali, 71, Indian actor, respiratory disease.
* Joe Cahill, 84, Irish terrorist..
* Alan Cook, 81, British physicist.
* Rogelio Domínguez, 73, Argentine football player, heart attack.
* Ferry Gruber, 77, Austrian-German tenor in opera and operetta.
* Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player, kidney failure.
* Piero Piccioni, 82, Italian film score composer and lawyer.
* Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor, heart attack.

### 24

* Jagan Nath Azad, 85, Indian Urdu poet, writer and academician.
* Bob Azzam, 78, Egyptian singer.
* Claude Ballif, 80, French composer, writer, and pedagogue.
* Cotton Fitzsimmons, 72, American NBA basketball coach, lung cancer.
* János Harmatta, 86, Hungarian linguist.
* Ben Martin, 83, American football player and coach.
* Wilton Mkwayi, 80, South African Anti-apartheid activist and ANC militant, cancer.
* Wim Verstappen, 67, Dutch film director, producer, and screen writer, cancer.

### 25

* Maurice Euzennat, 77, French historian and archaeologist.
* John Passmore, 89, Australian philosopher.
* Totò Savio, 66, Italian composer, lyricist, producer, and guitarist.
* Masami Shimojō, 88, Japanese actor.

### 26

* Oğuz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist and cartoonist, heart attack.
* Viola Frey, 70, American artist and professor of arts.
* Rubén Gómez, 77, Puerto Rican baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins).
* Alexandr Hackenschmied, 96, Czech-American photographer, film director, and cinematographer.
* Carl Lidbom, 78, Swedish jurist.
* William A. Mitchell, 92, American food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix, heart failure.
* Bogusław Sochnacki, 73, Polish actor.

### 27

* Carmine DeSapio, 95, American politician, last head of the Tammany Hall organization.
* Harry Jenkins, Sr., 78, Australian politician and medical doctor.
* Lisette Lanvin, 90, French film actress.
* Joseph Rovan, 86, French philosopher and politician, drowned.
* Bob Tisdall, 97, Irish Olympic athlete (gold medal in 400 metres Hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics).

### 28

* Juhani Avellan, 58, Finnish Olympic weightlifter.
* Jackson Beck, 92, American announcer and voice actor (The Adventures of Superman), stroke.
* Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer.
* Sam Edwards, 89, American actor (Twelve O'Clock High, Little House on the Prairie, Dragnet), heart failure.
* Steve Patterson, 56, American basketball player and coach at Arizona State University, lung cancer.
* Janet Paul, 84, New Zealand publisher, painter and art historian.
* Eugene Roche, 75, American actor (Webster, All in the Family, Soap), heart attack.
* Bernard Saint-Hillier, 92, French general.
* Tiziano Terzani, 65, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia, colorectal cancer.

### 29

* Pratima Bandopadhyay, 69, Indian playback singer.
* Susan Buffett, 71, American activist and first wife of businessman and investor Warren Buffett, stroke.
* Walter Feit, 73, American mathematician.
* Nafisa Joseph, 26, Indian model, MTV video jockey, and Miss India 1997, suicide by hanging.
* Abdul Rahman bin Saud Al Saud, 57, Saudi prince and the longtime president of football club Al Nassr.
* Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedian, heart attack.

### 30

* Ali Abbasi, 42, Scottish television presenter, systemic lupus erythematosus.
* Ellen Auerbach, 98, German-American photographer.
* Vivica Bandler, 87, Finnish-Swedish theatre director and agronomist.
* Jan Hanuš, 89, Czech composer.
* Nela Martínez, 91, Ecuadorian communist, political activist, and writer.
* J. Edward McKinley, 86, American actor.
* Ed Melvin, 88, Serbian-American basketball player.
* Hirendranath Mukherjee, 96, Indian politician.
* John Geoffrey Tracey, 74, Australian ecologist and botanist.
* Wolfgang Ullmann, 74, German journalist, theologian, politician.
* György Vizvári, 75, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic champion.

### 31

* Laura Betti, 77, Italian actress, heart attack.
* Erich Ehrlinger, 93, German Nazi and Holocaust perpetrator during World War II.
* Virginia Grey, 87, American actress (Airport, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Women), heart attack.
* David B. Haight, 97, American leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
* Robert James, 80, Scottish actor, Alzheimer's disease.
* Allu Rama Lingaiah, 81, Indian comedian.
* Absamat Masaliyev, 71, Kyrgyzstani communist politician, heart attack.
* Petra Peters, 79, German stage and film actress.
* Líber Seregni, 87, Uruguayan army officer and politician, pancreatic cancer.
* Larry Stockmeyer, 56, American computer scientist, pancreatic cancer.