Deaths in April 2005

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The following is a list of notable people who died in April 2005.

30

• Ron Todd, 78, former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union

29

• William J. Bell, 78, soap opera creator (The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful), Alzheimer's disease
• Mel Gussow, 71, theatre critic for New York Times, cancer
• Sara Henderson, 69, Australian author
• Mariana Levy, 39, Mexican actress, heart attack following a robbery attempt
• Johnnie Stewart, 87, TV producer (creator of Top of the Pops)

28

• Chris Candido, 33, professional wrestler; blood clot from surgery complications
• Percy Heath, 81, bassist for the Modern Jazz Quartet
• Zeke Zekley, 90, American cartoonist. [1]

27

• Abdus Samad Azad, 83, former foreign minister of Bangladesh
• Stanley Orme, Baron Orme, 82, British politician
• Dr. Howard W. Johnston, 91, principal founder of the Free University of Berlin.[2]

26

• Mason Adams, 86, American film and television actor
• Hasil Adkins, 67, Rockabilly musician
• Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy, 83, Scottish politician
• Red Horner, 95, former NHL player with the Toronto Maple Leafs, was oldest living member of the Hockey Hall of Fame
• Augusto Roa Bastos, 87, Paraguayan writer, winner of the Premio Cervantes
• Johnny Sample, 67, former NFL player
• Maria Schell, 79, Austrian film and television actress.

25

• Howard Benedict, 77, AP aerospace correspondent, popularized use of word "orbit", natural causes [3]
• Tunney Hunsaker, 75, Muhammad Ali's first professional boxing opponent
• John Love, 80, former Formula One driver
• Josef Nesvadba, 78, Czech psychiatrist and science fiction author
• Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman, 71, former head of Ford Motor Company and later a life peer

24

• Francesco Pozzi, 35, Italian rally driver
• Antonio Rivera, 41, aka Tonito Rivera, Puerto Rican world champion boxer
• Fei Xiaotong, 94, pioneering Chinese anthropologist and sociologist
• Ezer Weizman, 80, former Israeli president

23

• Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 94, Australian political celebrity; longest-serving Premier of Queensland.
• Andre Gunder Frank, 76, German economic historian, proponent of dependency theory
• Al Grassby, 78, Australian former politician and minister in the Whitlam government.
• Sir John Mills, 97, Oscar-winning British actor.
• Romano Scarpa, 78, Italian Disney comic book artist
• Earl Wilson, 70, a leading pitcher for the 1968 World Series champion Detroit Tigers and first black pitcher to throw a no-hitter in Major League Baseball.
• Jimmy Woode, 78, jazz bassist, heart attack

22

• Norman Bird, 84, British actor
• Dr. Joseph Bogen, 78, American neurosurgeon, epileptic seizure researcher
• Robert Farnon, 87, Grammy Award winning arranger, composer
• Mary Dann, early 80s, American Indian activist
• Erika Fuchs, 98, German Disney Comics editor and translator
• Philip Morrison, 89, Physicist and group leader in the Manhattan Project
• Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 81, Scottish sculptor [4]
• Leonid Shamkovich, 81 ex-Soviet grandmaster chess player

21

• Giordano Abbondati, 56, Italian figure skater.
• Zhang Chunqiao, 88, member of the Gang of Four
• Gwynfor Evans, 92, Welsh politician.
• Bill Kaysing, 82, American conspiracy theorist
• Feroze Khan, 100, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic Champion 1928 (oldest Olympic gold medallist at the time of his death)
• Heinz Kluncker, 80, German trade union leader
• Cyril Tawney, 74, British songwriter and folksinger.
• Jimmy Thompson, 79, British actor and comic

20

• Inday Ba, 32, Swedish actress (also known as N'Deaye Ba)
• Gene Frankel, 85, United States theater director.
• Ea Jansen, Estonian historian
• Fumio Niwa, 100, Japanese novelist

19

• George Pan Cosmatos, 65, Italian-born Greek-American film director, best known for Tombstone and Rambo: First Blood Part II, lung cancer
• Ruth Hussey, 93, American film actress (The Philadelphia Story)
• Stan Levey, 79, jazz drummer
• Clement Meadmore, 76, Australian born steel sculptor
• Bryan Ottoson, 27, American Head Charge guitarist
• Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 58, world-renowned Danish jazz bassist.

18

• Rick Blight, 49, former NHL player with the Vancouver Canucks in the 1970s
• Bassel Fleihan, 42, Lebanese deputy and former minister, third-degree burns resulting from the blast that assassinated Rafiq Hariri
• Clarence Gaines, 81, Basketball Hall of Fame coach, stroke
• Sam Mills, 45, former NFL player and assistant coach, cancer
• Kenneth Schermerhorn, 75, music director and conductor of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

16

• Laura Canales, 50, Tejano singer
• Jaime Fernández, 67, Mexican actor
• Herm Gilliam, 58, former NBA player for the Portland Trail Blazers
• Marla Ruzicka, 28, American activist and aid worker, car bombing in Iraq
• Vishnu Kant Shastri, 76, Indian politician
• Kay Walsh, 93, British actress

15

• Jimmy Allan, 73, Scottish cricketer
• Art Cross, 87, Indianapolis 500 driver
• John Fred Gourrier, 63, 1960s pop singer,
• Margaretta Scott, 93, English actress ("Mrs. Pumphrey" in All Creatures Great and Small)
• Duilio Spagnolo, 77?, Italian boxer, former heavyweight contender

14

• Benny Bailey, 79, jazz trumpeter
• Saunders Mac Lane, 95, U.S. mathematician

13

• Don Blasingame, 73, a MLB All-Star, who also managed two of Japan's professional baseball teams
• Tutti Camarata, 91, musician, leader of "Tutti's Trumpets" and co-founder of Disneyland Records
• Julia Darling, 48, novelist and poet
• Wolfgang Droege, 55, founder of the Canadian white supremacist group the Heritage Front, shot to death
• Kay Gardella, 82, television critic for the New York Daily News, cancer
• Johnnie Johnson, 80, musician
• Nikola Ljubicic, 89, president of Serbia from 1982 to 1984
• Philippe Volter, 45, Belgian actor, suicide
• Nathaniel Weyl, 94, writer, economist who testified in the Alger Hiss case
• Juan Zanotto, 69, Italian-Argentinian comic book artist
• Johnny Loughrey, 59, Irish singer

12

• Peter Bramley, 60, cartoonist, first National Lampoon art director [5]
• Ehud Manor, 63, Israeli songwriter
• Barney Poole, 81, College Football Hall of Fame member

11

• John Bennett, 75, British actor
• John Brosnan, 57, British resident Australian writer and film critic, acute pancreatitis (death may have occurred several days earlier).
• André François, 89, French cartoonist [6]
• Maurice Hilleman, 85, microbiologist
• David Hughes, 74, British novelist
• Lucien Laurent, 97, French football player, scored the first ever goal at a World Cup
• Mattie McDonagh, 68, Irish Gaelic footballer
• George Younce,65, American Cristen Singer

10

• Carl Abrahams, 93, Jamaican painter
• Norbert Brainin, 82, Austrian violinist and founder of the Amadeus Quartet
• Scott Gottlieb, 34, American drummer for rock band Bleed the Dream
• Archbishop Iakovos, 93, former primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (1959-1996)
• Al Lucas, 26, ex-National Football League player; spinal cord injury suffered playing an Arena Football League game
• Faith McNulty, 86, American writer

9

• Andrea Dworkin, 58, radical feminist writer and anti-pornography activist
• Nasri Maalouf, 94, Lebanese politician.
• Scott Mason, 28, Tasmanian cricketer [7]

8

• Yoshitaro Nomura, 85, Japanese film director
• D. G. Northcott, 88, British mathematician (ideal theory), [8], [9]
• Onna White, 83, Broadway choreographer

7

• Cliff Allison, 73, former Formula One driver
• Grigoris Bithikotsis, 82, Greek singer
• Bob Kennedy, 84, a former MLB player and manager, who hit the first grand slam in Baltimore Orioles history and was the Oakland Athletics first manager
• Charles Kuentz, 108, last surviving French World War I veteran to fight for Germany, cardiac arrest
• Jose Melis, 85, former bandleader for The Tonight Show
• Yvonne Vera, 40, Zimbabwean novelist and writer

6

• Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, 81, reigning Prince of Monaco since 1949
• Frank Conroy, 69, memoirist and head of the University of Iowa's famous Iowa Writers' Workshop
• Anthony DePalma, 100, doctor, teacher, and humanitarian

5

• Saul Bellow, 89, Nobel Prize-winning author
• Ura Koyama, 114, supercentenarian, oldest in Japan since 2003, died of pneumonia
• Sir Edwin Leather, 85, governor of Bermuda from 1973 to 1977
• Dale Messick, 98, creator of the Brenda Starr comic strip
• Debralee Scott, 52, actress (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman)
• Neil Welliver, 75, landscape painter mainly in his native Maine

4

• Edward Bronfman, 77, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, colon cancer

3

• Simon Blumenfeld, 97, English novelist, playwright and columnist
• Blanchette Brunoy, 86, French actress
• Frank Clair, 87, CFL coach with the Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Rough Riders, heart failure

2

• Betty Bolton, 99, English actress and singer
• Alexander Brott, 90, Canadian composer, conductor and violinist
• Tony Croatto, 65 Italian-Puerto Rican composer-singer, lung and brain cancer
• John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), 84, Polish Roman Catholic Pope, died after a lengthy illness.
• Eddie Moss, 45, former Syracuse and CBA player, cancer
• John O'Leary, 58, Former U.S. ambassador to Chile, Lou Gehrig's disease
• Jacques Rabemananjara, 92, Madagascan politician, foreign minister from 1967 to 1972
• Rodney Avila, 36

1

• Cheryl Barrymore, 55, former wife and agent of British TV entertainer Michael Barrymore, lung cancer
• William Fitzgerald, 87, former broadcast news editor for the Associated Press
• Lazare Gionet, 108, Canadian World War I veteran
• Harald Juhnke, 75, German entertainer
• Jack Keller, 68, songwriter, wrote themes to Bewitched and Gidget
• Barry Stern, 45, drummer for the bands Trouble and Zoetrope, from complications following surgery
• Samuel Krachmalnick, 79, Broadway and classical orchestral conductor, notably the premiere of Candide by Leonard Bernstein
• Robert Coldwell Wood, 81, second Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1969; later served as University of Massachusetts President 1970-1977