Deaths in April 2005
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The following is a list of notable people who died in April 2005.
- Fenimola Farinelli-Beghetti, 110, Italian supercentenarian
- Kaarel Kilvet, Estonian actor, stage director and singer
- Sherman Loudermilk, 92, Emmy Award nominated art director
- Ron Todd, 78, former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union
- William J. Bell, 78, soap opera creator (The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful)
- Mel Gussow, 71, theatre critic
- 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)
- Capt. Paul Barkley, 88, World War II veteran, Cuban Missile Crisis commander
- Chris Candido, 33, professional wrestler; blood clot from surgery complications
- Percy Heath, 81, bassist for the Modern Jazz Quartet
- Ed Schantz, 96, Botulin toxin researcher and "grandfather of Botox"
- Zeke Zekley, 90, American cartoonist
- Abdus Samad Azad, 83, former foreign minister of Bangladesh
- Lord Orme of Salford, 82, British politician
- Dr. Howard W. Johnston, 91, principal founder of the Free University of Berlin.[1]
- Mason Adams, 86, American 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
- Léon Navarre, 105, youngest living French World War I veteran
- Augusto Roa Bastos, 87, Paraguayan writer, winner of the Premio Cervantes
- Johnny Sample, 67, former NFL player
- Maria Schell, 79, actress
- Robert J. Schiffer, 88, Legendary Hollywood makeup artist
- Howard Benedict, 77, AP aerospace correspondent, popularized use of word "orbit", natural causes [2]
- Tunney Hunsaker, 75, Muhammad Ali's first professional boxing opponent
- Surya Kumari, 79, Indian stage and film actress
- John Love, 80, former Formula One driver
- Josef Nesvadba, 78, Czech psychiatrist and science fiction author
- Johann Emil Rösch, 107, German World War I veteran
- Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman, 71, former head of Ford Motor Company and later a life peer
- Emanuele Curto, 29, Italian rally driver
- Jack Gleason, 85, American film editor
- Francesco Pozzi, 35, Italian rally driver
- Antonio Rivera, 41, better known as Tonito Rivera, Puerto Rican world champion boxer
- Fei Xiaotong, 94, pioneering Chinese anthropologist and sociologist
- Ezer Weizman, 80, former Israeli president
- 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.
- Albert "Gus" Wing, 55, American cameraman known for skydiving shots
- Jimmy Woode , 78, jazz bassist, heart attack
- Norman Bird, 80, 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 [3]
- Leonid Shamkovich, 81 ex-Soviet grandmaster chess player
- Zhang Chunqiao, 88, member of the Gang of Four
- Gwynfor Evans, 92, Welsh politician.
- Bob Gardiner, 54, Academy Award winning clay animator
- 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
- Inday Ba, 32, Swedish actress (also known as N'Deaye Ba)
- Gene Frankel, 85, United States theater director.
- Ea Jansen, Estonian historian
- Dragoslav Markovic, 84, Serbian politician
- Fumio Niwa, 100, Japanese novelist
- 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 actress in films such as 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.
- 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
- Norman Newell, 96, noted paleontologist
- Kenneth Schermerhorn, 75, music director and conductor of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- James A. Houston, 83, artist, popularized Inuit art
- Juan Pablo Torres, 59, Cuban salsa legend
- Laura Canales, 50, Tejano singer
- Guadalupe García Escamilla, 39, Mexican journalist, hitman shooting
- Jaime Fernandez, 67, Mexican actor
- Herm Gilliam, 58, former NBA player for Portland Trailblazers
- Herbert Kuurme, Estonian clergyman
- Marla Ruzicka, 28, American activist and aid worker, car bombing
- Vishnu Kant Shastri, 76, Indian politician
- Kay Walsh, 93, British actress
- Art Cross, 87, former Indianapolis 500 driver
- John Fred Gourrier, 63, 1960s pop singer "Judy in Disguise (with Glasses)"
- Margaretta Scott, 93, English actress, Mrs. Pumphrey in All Creatures Great and Small
- Duilio Spagnolo, 77?, Italian boxer, former heavyweight contender
- Aloua Fatu'utolu Tupou, (age unreported), defense minister of Tonga (heart failure).
- Benny Bailey, 79, jazz trumpeter
- Saunders Mac Lane, 95, U.S. mathematician
- John Laurent, 83, Maine landscape and seascape painter
- 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
- Libby Dengrove, 86, former courtroom artist during 1960s and 1970s for NBC
- 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
- Philip Pavia, 94, American sculptor
- 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
- Peter Bramley, 60, cartoonist, first National Lampoon art director [4]
- Bill Jones, 69, former Sacramento Kings athletic trainer, cancer
- Franciszek Karwowski, 109, oldest living Polish soldier
- Ehud Manor, 63, Israeli songwriter
- 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 [5]
- 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
- Margo Skinner, 55, American Broadway actress
- 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
- Raúl Gibb Guerrero, 53, Mexican newspaper editor, hitman shooting
- 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
- Cesar Civita, 99, Argentinian publisher (Editorial Abril)
- Andrea Dworkin, 58, radical feminist writer and anti-pornography activist
- Nasri Maalouf, 94, Lebanese politician.
- Scott Mason, 28, Tasmanian cricketer [6]
- Yoshitaro Nomura, 85, Japanese film director
- D. G. Northcott, 88, British mathematician (ideal theory), [7], [8]
- Chalmers Roberts, 94, American diplomatic correspondent and author
- Onna White, 83, Broadway choreographer
- Nevio Zeccara, 81?, Italian comic book artist
- Cliff Allison, 73, former Formula One driver
- Grigoris Bithikotsis, 82, Greek singer
- Charlotte Huck, 82, American children's literature author
- Minnie Kearby, 111, supercentenarian, oldest resident of Indiana
- 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 living French World War I veteran to fight for Germany, cardiac arrest
- Jose Melis, 85, former bandleader for The Tonight Show
- Yvonne Vera, 40, novelist from Zimbabwe
- 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
- Gene Hazelton, 85, cartoonist
- Francesco Laudadio, 55, Italian film director
- 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
- Mait Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian statesman
- Dale Messick, 98, creator of the Brenda Starr comic strip
- Debralee Scott, 52, actress, starred on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
- Judith Weiner, 56, American film and TV casting director
- Neil Welliver, 75, landscape painter mainly in his native Maine
- Becky Zerlentes, 34, American amateur boxer, first amateur to die as a consequence of a fight in five years.
- Edward Bronfman, 77, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, colon cancer
- 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
- 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 Poitrenaud, 83, French filmmaker
- Jacques Rabemananjara, 92, Madagascan politician, foreign minister from 1967 to 1972.
- Cheryl Barrymore, 56, former wife and agent of British TV entertainer Michael Barrymore, lung cancer
- Gegè Di Giacomo, 87, neapolitan singer and Renato Carosone's drummer in 1950s.
- 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
- 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 University of Massachusetts President 1970-1977.
- Takio Zushi, 58, Japanese actor
- Lavinia Gelineau, 25, widow of Maine National Guard Soldier Christoper Gelineau, murdered
