The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 2004
1 Philip Abelson, 91, American physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium, respiratory failure. Vivian Austin, 84, American actress. John Higgins, 88, American Olympic swimmer (1936), and coach, pneumonia. George F. Kugler, Jr., 79, American lawyer. Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, American philosopher. Joe Prater, 81, American baseball player and football coach. Madeleine Robinson, 86, French actress. Ken Timbs, 53, American professional wrestler, cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure.
2 V. Balakrishnan, 72, Indian Malayalam writer and translator. François Craenhals, 77, Belgian comics artist. V. Lamar Gudger, 85, American judge and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1977-1981). Heinrich Mark, 92, Estonian politician, Prime Minister-in-exile (1971-1990). José Omar Pastoriza, 62, Argentinian football player and coach, cardiovascular disease. Mike Schultz, 83, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). Arturo M. Tolentino, 93, Philippine lawyer and politician, heart attack. Don Tosti, 81, American musician and composer.
3 Antonio Amorós, 77, Spanish athlete. Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer. Gloria Emerson, 75, American author, journalist and New York Times war correspondent, suicide. Bob Murphy, 79, American Major League Baseball sportscaster, lung cancer. Bryon Nickoloff, 48, Canadian chess International Master, stomach cancer. Geraldine Peroni, 51, American film editor (The Player, Dr. T and the Women, Michael), suicide.
4 Pierre de Chevigné, 95, French politician. Jeanne Gilchrist, 78, Canadian baseball player. Robert Yewdall Jennings, 90, British jurist, President of the International Court of Justice. Eivor Landström, 85, Swedish actress. Joan Matuzewski, 71, American baseball player. Frank Maxwell, 87, American actor. Mary Sherman Morgan, 82, American rocket scientist. Hossein Panahi, 47, Iranian actor and poet, heart attack. Fumio Watanabe, 74, Japanese actor.
5 Uri Adelman, 45, Israeli writer, musician, computer expert, and academic, heart attack. Stan Dargis, 76, Lithuanian-born Australian Olympic basketball player (1956). Don Grossman, 83, Australian rules footballer. Edith Jiménez, 86, Paraguayan plastic artist. André Wogenscky, 88, French modernist architect and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
6 Ennio Antonelli, 77, Italian actor and boxer. Mauro Cabeção, 49, Brazilian Olympic footballer (1976). Joseph-Marie Lo Duca, 98, Italian-French journalist, novelist, art critic, and film historian. Rick James, 56, American singer ("Mary Jane", "Give It to Me Baby", "Super Freak") and producer, heart attack. Philip G. Johnson, 78, American Hall of Fame trainer of Thoroughbred race horses. Donald Justice, 78, American poet. Murray S. Klamkin, 83, American mathematician. Christopher Matthews, British businessman, helicopter crash.
7 Red Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter. María Esperanza de Bianchini, 75, Venezuelan mystic. G.T. Hogan, 75, American jazz drummer. Bernard Levin, 75, English journalist and broadcaster, Alzheimer's disease. Ismael Rodríguez, 86, Mexican film director, screenwriter, respiratory failure. Jukka Sipilä, 68, Finnish actor and television director. Gordon Smith, 80, Scottish footballer. Chris Wallace, 70, Australian computer scientist and physicist.
8 Henrique Abranches, 71, Angolan writer and anthropologist, stroke. Gypsy Boots, 89, American health and fitness pioneer. Pete Center, 92, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians). Gordon Davidson, 86, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers). Eva Frommer, 76, German-British consultant child psychiatrist. Rudolf Galin, 76, Croatian Olympic hammer thrower (1952). Paul Garner, 95, American comedian, Three Stooges associate. Leon Golub, 82, American artist and painter. Leroy King, 82, American basketball player (Rochester Royals). Dimitris Papamichael, 70, Greek actor, heart attack. Jean Pouliot, 81, Canadian broadcasting pioneer. S. V. Ramadoss, 83, Indian actor. Fay Wray, 96, Canadian-American actress (King Kong).
9 Liisi Beckmann, 79, Finnish designer and artist. John Chaney, 84, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Tri-Cities Blackhawks, Sheboygan Red Skins). Harry Cullum, 74, British Olympic sports shooter (1964, 1972). Sam Hogin, 54, American country music songwriter. Robert Lecourt, 95, French politician, judge and president of the European Court of Justice. Tony Mottola, 86, American guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on The Tonight Show orchestra, stroke. Eduard Neumann, 93, German Luftwaffe officer during WWII. David Raksin, 92, American composer of film and television scores (Laura). Saul Rosenzweig, 97, American psychologist and therapist. René Taton, 89, French author and historian of science.
10 Walter Bielser, 75, Swiss footballer. K. P. Brahmanandan, 58, Indian playback singer from Kerala. Alan N. Cohen, 73, American basketball executive and owner of the Boston Celtics. James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, American member of the Rockefeller family and Olympic champion (1924), stroke.
11 Sir David Calcutt, 73, British barrister and public servant. Joe Falls, 76, American journalist, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News, heart attack. Viktor Karachun, 35, Belarusian ice hockey player and Olympian (1998). Bill Martin Jr., 88, American author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Wolfgang Mommsen, 73, German historian.
12 Bjarne Andersson, 64, Swedish cross-country skier, Olympic silver medalist (1968). Humayun Azad, 57, Bangladeshi poet, writer, critic, linguist, and academic. Godfrey Hounsfield, 84, British electrical engineer and Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate, co-inventor of the CAT scan. Larry Mason, 69, Canadian Olympic speed skater (1960). John McGuigan, 71, Scottish football player. Sebastián Ontoria, 84, Spanish footballer. Perica Vlašić, 72, Croatian Olympic rower (1956, 1960). Basil Wigoder, 83, British politician and barrister. George Yardley, 75, American NBA basketball player (Fort Wayne/Detroit Pistons, Syracuse Nationals), ALS.
13 Mabel Addis, 92, American writer, teacher and the first video game writer. Gerrit Bijlsma, 74, Dutch water polo player and Olympian (1952). Julia Child, 91, American chef, author and television hostess on French cuisine, kidney failure. Sei Ikeno, 73, Japanese composer. Josef Paul Kleihues, 71, German architect. Bent Krog, 69, Danish footballer and Olympian (1960). Donald Meltzer, 81, American Kleinian psychoanalyst. Milton Pollack, 97, American federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street. Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor. Akku Yadav, 32, Indian gangster and criminal, lynched. Ko Yong-hui, 52, North Korean mistress of supreme leader Kim Jong Il and mother of Kim Jong Un, breast cancer.
14 David Brown, 76, American rower and Olympic champion (1948). Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 39, Indian rapist and murderer, executed. Charles Denroche, 82, Irish Olympic sprinter (1948). William David Ford, 77, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965-1995), stroke. Neal Fredericks, 35, American cinematographer (The Blair Witch Project), drowned. Robert Howard, 28, American athletic jumper and Olympian (1996, 2000). Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and dissident. Bomber Moran, 59, Filipino actor, prostate cancer. Eric Petrie, 77, New Zealand cricketer. Stephen M. Reasoner, 60, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas). Trevor Skeet, 86, New Zealand-British lawyer and politician.
15 Sune Bergström, 88, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine. Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer. Amarsinh Chaudhary, 63, Indian politician, heart attack. Charles Eaton, 94, American juvenile stage and film performer. Armando Lambruschini, 80, Argentine navy admiral. Kirk McCarthy, 37, Australian motorcycle road racer, racing accident. Paul Ngei, 80, Kenyan politician, diabetes. Atefah Sahaaleh, 16, Iranian teenage girl and regime victim, execution by hanging. Min Thu Wun, 95, Burmese poet, writer and scholar.
16 Acquanetta, 83, American B-movie actress, Alzheimer's disease. Babken Arakelyan, 92, Armenian historian and archeologist. André Binette, 70, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens). Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech national hockey team, Pittsburgh Penguins coach, and Olympian (1972, 1976), traffic collision. Jikki, 68, Indian playback singer from Andhra Pradesh. J. Irwin Miller, 95, American businessman, philanthropist, and civil rights advocate. Carl Mydans, 97, American photographer. Robert Quiroga, 35, American world champion boxer, murdered.
17 Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist. Frank Cotroni, 73, Italian-Canadian mobster and boss of the Cotroni crime family, brain cancer. Marosa di Giorgio, 72, Uruguayan poet and novelist. Tom Holt, 80, British Olympic swimmer (1948). Shizuo Kakutani, 92, Japanese-American mathematician. Luz Magsaysay, 90, 7th First Lady of the Philippines.June 25, 1914: Luz Magsaysay was born in Balanga, Bataan Jack Marshall, 84, Canadian politician. Clyde Roberts, 95, American college football player. Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone. Kain Tapper, 74, Finnish sculptor. Armando Dely Valdés, 40, Panamanian football player, heart attack.
18 Susan Mary Alsop, 84, American socialite, hostess and writer. Elmer Bernstein, 82, American film composer (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Ghostbusters, To Kill a Mockingbird), Oscar winner (1968), cancer. Clyde S. Cahill Jr., 81, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri). Jean Campbell, 76, American baseball player. Joe Dodge, 82, American jazz musician. Hiram Fong, 97, American businessman and politician, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate, kidney failure. Gylfi Þorsteinsson Gíslason, 87, Icelandic politician. Anicet Kashamura, 75, Congolese politician. Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich, 86, American micropaleontologist. Hugh Manning, 83, British actor (Emmerdale, The Elephant Man, Mrs Thursday). Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán, heart attack. Uday Prakash, 40, Indian actor, alcoholism. Ray Reutt, 87, American football player (Steagles). Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen.
19 Tom Baldwin, 57, American race driver, racing accident. George Gibson, 98, American football player (Minneapolis Red Jackets, Frankford Yellow Jackets), and coach. Henry Hammond, 91, American football player (Chicago Bears). Edmund Kurtz, 95, Russian-American cellist. Kyi Maung, 83, Myanmar Army officer and politician. Hiroshi Nosaka, 89, Japanese Olympic gymnast (1936).
20 Arthur Lever, 84, Welsh professional footballer. Willie Patterson, 85, American baseball player. María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born Mexican actress in rumbera films. Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician, playwright and columnist. Leslie Shepard, 87, British author, archivist, and curator.
21 Viktor Avilov, 51, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, cancer. Isaäc Arend Diepenhorst, 88, Dutch politician and jurist. Maddy English, 79, American baseball player (AAGPBL). Bill Hobbs, 57, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New Orleans Saints), accidental death. Finn Mittet, 81, Danish footballer. Hortensia Blanch Pita, 89, Spanish writer. William Powell, 85, American baseball player. Sachidananda Routray, 88, Indian poet and novelist.
22 Konstantin Aseev, 43, Russian chess Grandmaster and coach, leukemia. Angus Bethune, 95, Australian politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.