Deaths in June 2005

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

• Dmitri Bystrov, 37, Russian footballer.
• Josephine Clay Ford, 81, American Ford Motor Company heiress and prominent philanthropist.
• George Mikan, 80, American basketball player.^[1]
• Louisiane Saint Fleurant, 80, Haitian artist and painter.
• Geoffrey Toone, 94, British-based Irish actor.^[2]

2

• Isabel Aretz, 96, Argentine musician.
• Vittorio Duse, 89, Italian actor (The Godfather Part III).^[3]
• Lucio España, 33, Colombian footballer, murdered.
• Samir Kassir, 45, Lebanese journalist who supported democracy, assassinated.
• Mike Marshall, 60, French-American actor (Moonraker).
• Melita Norwood, 93, British who spied for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.^[4]
• Andrea Pangrazio, 95, Italian Roman Catholic bishop.
• Hy Peskin, 89, American photographer.^[5]
• Alan Williams, 77, British economist.

3

• Leon Askin, 97, Austrian actor.
• Radomir Belaćević, 75, Serbian film producer and writer.
• Teodoro Benigno, 82, Filipino journalist.
• Michael Billington, 63, British actor.
• Harold Cardinal, 60, Canadian Cree writer, lung cancer.
• Nzo Ekangaki, 71, Cameroonian politician.
• Alex Freeleagus, 77, Australian diplomat and lawyer.^[6]

4

• Paul Amen, 88, American sportsman and banker.
• Giancarlo De Carlo, 85, Italian architect.
• Chloe Jones, 29, American adult film star.
• Banks McFadden, 88, American football player, College Football Hall of Famer and former Clemson football player.
• André Molitor, 93/4, Belgian civil servant, principal private secretary to King Baudouin I.
• Jean O'Leary, 57, American gay and lesbian rights activist and politician.
• Yin Shun, 99, Chinese Buddhist philosopher.
• Lorna Thayer, 86, American character actress (Five Easy Pieces), Alzheimer's disease.^[7]

5

• Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, 55, Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician.^[8]
• Bele Bachem, 89, German graphic artist, book illustrator and writer.
• Pepita Carpeña, 85, Spanish trade unionist and anarchist.^[9]
• George Isaak, 72, Polish-born Australian physicist.^[10]
• Susi Nicoletti, 86, Austrian film actress, complications from heart surgery.^[11]
• Lothar Warneke, 68, German film director, screenwriter and actor.

6

• Eduardo P. Archetti, 62, Argentine social scientist.
• Anne Bancroft, 73, American actress (The Miracle Worker, The Graduate, The Pumpkin Eater), Oscar winner (1963), uterine cancer.^[12]
• Dana Elcar, 77, American actor (MacGyver, The Sting, Fail Safe).^[13]
• Maya Kopitseva, 81, Russian painter.
• Pamela May, 88, British ballet dancer.^[14]
• Oscar Morelli, 59, Mexican actor.
• Siegfried Palm, 78, German cellist.
• David Sutherland, 56, American illustrator for the original Dungeons & Dragons books.

7

• Peter Barry, 67, Australian rules footballer.
• Margaret Baxtresser, 82, American concert pianist.
• Ulrich Briefs, 66, German politician
• Seán Doherty, 60, Irish politician.
• Terry Long, 45, American professional football player, former NFL offensive lineman.
• Edward Anthony McCarthy, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, second Archbishop of Miami.

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.^[15]
• Cáit Feiritéar, 88, Irish storyteller.
• Servílio de Jesus Filho, 65, Brazilian football player, heart attack.
• Luis Santiago, 27, Filipino film director, murdered.
• Stan Wilson, 83, American singer and guitarist, heart disease.

9

• Allan Ashbolt, 83, Australian journalist.
• Slade Cutter, 93, American naval officer and gridiron football player.
• Richard Eberhart, 101, American poet.^[16]
• Ryan Alan Hade, 23, American sexual assault victim, whose case paved the way for laws allowing indefinite confinement of sexual predators, motorcycle accident.^[17]
• Walter Hardwick, 73, Canadian academic and community leader.

10

• Michèle Auclair, 80, French violinist.
• J. James Exon, 83, American politician, former Democratic United States Senator (1979–1997) and Governor of Nebraska (1971–1979).
• Lyphard, 36, American racehorse and sire old age.
• Curtis Pitts, 89, American designer of the Pitts Special and other aircraft.
• Kenneth N. Taylor, 88, American publisher and author, founder of Tyndale House Publishers and translator of The Living Bible.
• Sir Paul Wright, 90, British diplomat.

11

• Francesco Albanese, 92, Italian opera singer.
• Anne-Marie Alonzo, 53, Canadian writer.
• Gordon Baxter, 81, American radio personality.
• José Beyaert, 79, French cyclist.
• Audrey Brown, 92, British athlete.
• Robert Clarke, 85, American actor.
• Ghena Dimitrova, 64, Bulgarian opera singer.
• Lon McCallister, 82, American actor.
• Ron Randell, 86, Australian-born actor.
• Juan José Saer, 67, Argentine novelist.
• Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 84, Portuguese General, Prime Minister (1974–1975).^[18]

12

• Bryan Beaumont, 66, Australian jurist.
• Sonja Davies, 81, New Zealand trade unionist.
• Brandy Davis, 77, American baseball player.
• Eiichi Goto, 74, Japanese computer scientist.
• Makobo Modjadji, 27, South African rain queen of the Balobedu people of South Africa.
• David Whitney, 66, American art curator, collector, gallerist and critic, lung and bone cancer^[19]
• Scott Young, 87, Canadian journalist and father of Neil Young.

13

• Joan Abse, 78, English writer and art historian.
• Jonathan Adams, 74, British actor (The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
• Gerard Béhague, 67, French-born American ethnomusicologist.
• Álvaro Cunhal, 91, Portuguese politician, secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (1961–1992), deputy (1975–1992), writer and painter.^[20]
• Eugénio de Andrade, 82, Portuguese poet.
• David Diamond, 89, American composer.^[21]
• Christopher Spencer Foote, 70, American chemist.
• Jesús Moncada, Spanish writer.
• Lane Smith, 69, American actor (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The Mighty Ducks, My Cousin Vinny), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

14

• Félix Acosta-Núñez, 81, Dominican Republic sports journalist.
• Carlo Maria Giulini, 91, Italian conductor.^[22]
• Norman Levine, 81, Canadian writer.
• Mimi Parent, 80, Canadian surrealist painter.
• Douglas Thollar, 86, Australian cricketer.
• Robie Lester, 80, American voice artist, actress and singer.

15

• Percy Arrowsmith, 105, English one-half of the world's documented longest marriage.
• Rodrigo Asturias, 65, Guatemalan guerilla leader and politician, heart attack.
• Hugh Bevan, 72, Australian cricketer.^[23]
• Valeria Moriconi, 73, Italian actress, cancer.
• Kathi Norris, 86, American television hostess, hosted one of the first TV talk shows on the DuMont Television Network, (The Kathi Norris Show, also known as Your TV Shopper, 1948–1950); mother of actress Koo Stark.

16

• Corino Andrade, 99, Portuguese neurologist, discovered Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP).
• Gerald Davis, 88, British philatelist.
• Enrique Laguerre, 99, Puerto Rican writer, poet, and teacher.
• Geoffrey Parrinder, 95, British theologian and Methodist minister.^[24]
• Ross Stretton, 53, Australian ballet dancer and artistic director of Australian Ballet.^[25]
• James Weinstein, 78, American Jewish author, founder and publisher of In These Times.
• Alex McAvoy, 77, Scottish actor (Pink Floyd – The Wall, The Vital Spark, Strictly Sinatra).

17

• David Anderson, 65, Australian cricketer.
• Billy Bauer, 89, American jazz guitarist.^[26]
• 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.^[27]
• Trevor Jones, 85, English cricketer.
• Andrew Justice, 54, British Olympic rower.
• Keith Morris, 66, English photographer.
• Karl Mueller, 41, American founding bassist for the rock band Soul Asylum, throat cancer.
• Mikhail Stern, 86-87, Soviet endocrinologist and dissident.
• James A. Whyte, 85, Scottish theologian.
• Ronald Winans, 48, American Grammy-winning gospel singer.

18

• Syed Mushtaq Ali, 90, Indian cricketer, Padma Shree Award winner.
• Tony Diment, 78, English cricketer.
• Cay Forrester, 83, American writer and film actress (DOA)
• Chris Griffin, 74, American jazz trumpeter.^[28]
• Basil Kirchin, 77, British musician.
• Sanjaya Lall, 64, Indian economist.
• J. J. Pickle, 91, American politician, Democratic U.S. Congressional Representative from Texas (1963–1995).
• Manuel Sadosky, 91, Argentine mathematician and Secretary of State of Science and Technology (1983–1989).
• Georgie Woods, 78, American radio broadcaster.

19

• Frank Alexander, 94, Australian cricketer.
• Allan Beckett, 91, British engineer.^[29]
• Alfred Deakin Brookes, 85, Australian intelligence officer.
• Robert Ellis Cahill, 70, American folklorist and author.
• Dave Carr, 48, English footballer.
• Totta Näslund, 60, Swedish musician, singer and actor, liver cancer.^[30]
• Ray Parkin, 94, Australian writer.

20

• Larry Collins, 75, American writer.
• Charles D. Keeling, 77, American scientist whose pioneering measurements showed a carbon dioxide buildup in the Earth's atmosphere.^[31]
• Jack Kilby, 81, American engineer, inventor of the integrated circuit and physics Nobel prize winner.^[32]
• William López, 26, Salvadoran footballer, shot.^[33]
• Bernard Adolph Schriever, 94, U.S. Air Force general, regarded as the father and architect of the United States Air Force space and ballistic missile programs.

21

• Peter Bridgwater, 70, American soccer executive.
• Steven F. Gaughan, 40, American police officer, murdered.
• George Hawi, 67, Lebanese politician, former secretary general of Communist Party of Lebanon, killed by terrorists in an attack on his car.
• Geoffrey Jones, 73, British documentary maker, cancer.
• Ian McColl, 90, Scottish journalist and politician.
• Jaime Sin, 76, Filipino Roman Catholic cardinal and former archbishop of Manila.
• Louis H. Wilson, Jr., 85, US Medal of Honor recipient and Commandant of the Marine Corps.

22

• Sunder Singh Bhandari, 84, Indian politician.
• David Breeden, 54, American clarinetist.
• William Donaldson, 70, British satirist and theatrical producer of Beyond The Fringe.
• Michael Imoudu, 102, Nigerian labour union leader.
• Roberto Olivo, 91, Venezuelan baseball umpire.
• Carson Parks, 69, American musician.

23

• Nikolay Afanasevsky, 64, Russian diplomat.
• Shana Alexander, 79, American journalist, cancer.^[34]
• Manolis Anagnostakis, 80, Greek poet.
• Pietro Balestra, 70, Swiss economist.
• Richard Hart Brown, 64, American neuroscientist.
• Isidore Cohen, 82, American violinist with the Beaux Arts Trio.^[35]
• Christian Roy Kaldager, 97, Norwegian Air Force officer.
• Hanna Kvanmo, 79, Norwegian politician.
• Sam Kweskin, 81, American comic book artist.^[36]

24

• Lyman Bostock, Sr., 87, American baseball player.
• Peter Casserly, 107, Australian centenarian, last surviving member of the First Australian Imperial Force serving on the Western Front in World War I.^[37]
• Imogen Claire, 61, British actress, played one of the Transylvanians in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• Harry Ott, 71, German diplomat and politician.
• Eva Philbin, 91, Irish chemist.
• Carol Scott, 56, American television producer and director, cancer.
• John Vivian, 4th Baron Swansea, 80, British peer and sports shooter.
• 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.^[38]
• Sir 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.
• Kâzım Koyuncu, 33, Turkish singer-songwriter and activist, died during treatment for testicular cancer in 2005.
• Bob Vincent, 87, American big band singer and theatrical agent.

26

• Filip Adwent, 49, Polish politician.^[39]
• William Cornelius, 90, Australian cricketer.
• Eknath Solkar, 57, Indian cricketer.
• Joop Stoffelen, 84, Dutch footballer.
• Grete Sultan, 99, German-American pianist.
• Richard Whiteley, 61, British television presenter, pneumonia.^[40]

27

• Robert Byrne, 50, American songwriter.
• Frederick G. Dutton, 82, American lawyer, advisor to President Kennedy.^[41]
• Shelby Foote, 88, American historian.^[42]
• 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. Found dead in her bathtub of an overdose of Fentanyl painkillers.^[43]
• Ray Holmes, 90, British fighter pilot, who protected Buckingham Palace during the Battle of Britain, cancer.^[44]
• Owen McCarron, 76, Canadian cartoonist and puzzle creator.^[45]
• Bhakti Tirtha Swami, 55, American spiritual guru.
• John T. Walton, 58, American war veteran and son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton.
• Sir Norman Wooding, 78, British industrialist.

28

• Bardhyl Ajeti, 28, Serbian journalist, assassinated.
• Cecil Baugh, 96, Jamaican master potter and artist.
• Robert D. Clark, 95, American university administrator.
• Thomas D. Clark, 101, American historian.^[46]
• Victor Craig, 87, Irish cricketer.
• Dick Dietz, 63, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves), heart attack.^[47]
• Yumika Hayashi, 35, Japanese pornographic film actress, choking.
• Philip Hobsbaum, 72, British academic, poet and critic, diabetes.^[48]
• Brenda Howard, 58, American LGBT-rights activist, colon cancer.^[49]
• Arthur Maimane, 72, South African journalist and novelist.^[50]
• John Rodney McRae, 70, American murderer.^[51]
• Michael P. Murphy, 29, American naval officer.^[52]
• Rowland B. Wilson, 74, American cartoonist and animator.^[53]

29

• Ruslan Abdulgani, 91, Indonesian politician and diplomat.
• James Gilbert Baker, 90, American astronomer.
• Gerard C. Bond, 65, American geologist.^[54]
• W. Burlie Brown, 83, American historian.
• John Burgess, 71, Scottish bagpiper.
• Bruce Malmuth, 71, American film director (Nighthawks, Hard to Kill) and actor (The Karate Kid), throat cancer.^[55]

30

• Michael Donnelly, 46, United States Air Force fighter pilot and activist.
• Clancy Eccles, 64, Jamaican ska and reggae singer, songwriter, record producer and talent scout, complications of a heart attack.
• Christopher Fry, 97, British playwright.^[56]
• Lilian Keil, 88, American nurse, highly decorated World War II and Korean War flight nurse.^[57]
• Al Milnar, 91, American baseball player.
• Pres Mull, 82, American football player and coach.
• Éva Novák-Gerard, 75, Hungarian swimmer.
• Qigong, 92, Chinese calligrapher, artist, painter, and sinologist.
• Alexei Sultanov, 35, Russian-American pianist, stroke.^[58]
• Robert Yount, 75, American musician, singer and songwriter in the country music genre.

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