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

• 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.

4

• 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.

References

External links

• List of June 2005 deaths at IMDb