Deaths in February 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 2004

1 Art Albrecht, 82, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Chicago Cardinals, Boston Yanks). Alvin Baltrop, 55, American photographer, cancer. Ewald Cebula, 86, Polish football player and Olympian (1952). Álvaro d'Ors Pérez-Peix, 88, Spanish scholar of Roman law. Buzz Gardner, 72, American trumpeter (The Mothers of Invention). Valeri Gassy, 54, Ukrainian handball player and Olympian (1972, 1976). Mihai Ivăncescu, 61, Romanian football player. Ally MacLeod, 72, Scottish football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease. Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, 89, Pakistani military officer. Ryszard Pędrak-Janowicz, 71, Polish luger and Olympian (1964). Bob Stokoe, 73, English footballer and manager, pneumonia. Dino Verde, 81, Italian author, lyricist, playwright and screenwriter.

2 Alan Bullock, 89, British historian and author. Henry Cockburn, 82, English footballer. Naohiro Dōgakinai, 89, Japanese politician, governor of Hokkaido. Bernard McEveety, 79, American film and television director. Róbert Zimonyi, 85, Hungarian Olympic rower (1948, 1952, 1964).

3 Cornelius Bumpus, 58, American musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan), heart attack. Kaúlza de Arriaga, 89, Portuguese general, writer, and politician, Alzheimer's disease. Ted Harding, 82, Australian politician and rugby league football player. Keve Hjelm, 81, Swedish actor and film director, prostate cancer. John Popovich, 85, American football player (Card-Pitt, Pittsburgh Steelers). Jason Raize, 28, American actor (The Lion King, Brother Bear), suicide by hanging. William B. Tabler, 89, American architect. Frederick Tommy, 62, Canadian Olympic alpine skier (1960). Fiep Westendorp, 87, Dutch illustrator. Lyle Wicks, 91, Canadian politician. Warren Zimmermann, 69, American diplomat, pancreatic cancer.

4 Valentina Borok, 72, Soviet Ukrainian mathematician. Stevo Crvenkovski, 56, Macedonian politician and diplomat. Hilda Hilst, 73, Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright, complications from surgery. William MacQuitty, 98, Irish film producer and also a writer and photographer. Michael P. Moran, 59, American actor (Scarface, Lean on Me, A Perfect Murder), Guillain–Barré syndrome. Malika Pukhraj, 92, Pakistani folk singer. Karlheinz Senghas, 75, German botanist and orchidologist.

5 Sven Agge, 78, Swedish biathlete and Olympian (1960). Donald Barr, 82, American educator. Sir Robert Boyd, 81, British space scientist. John Hench, 95, American artist, designer and director at The Walt Disney Company, heart failure. Claude Lemaire, 82, French entomologist. Thomas Hinman Moorer, 91, American admiral, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Frances Partridge, 103, British writer, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group. Ernie Price, 53, American football player (Detroit Lions, Seattle Seahawks). Nuto Revelli, 84, Italian essayist and partisan. Harry West, 86, Northern Irish politician.

6 Jovan Cokić, 76, Serbian football player. Henri Honsia, 90, Belgian Olympic canoeist (1936). Masataka Ida, 91, Japanese Army officer and rebel during World War II. Jørgen Jersild, 90, Danish composer and music educator. Jerome Fox Lederer, 101, American aviation safety pioneer, heart attack. John Meyrick, 77, British Olympic rower (1948), and agriculturalist. Humphry Osmond, 86, English psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter. Byron George Skelton, 98, American federal judge.

7 Richard Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret, 67, British soldier and aristocrat. Safia Farhat, Tunisian artist, academic and women's rights activist. Emilia Guiú, 81, Spanish-Mexican actress, liver cancer. Mikhail Korkia, 55, Georgian-Soviet basketball player and Olympian (1972 ,1976). Raija Siekkinen, 50, Finnish writer. Norman Thelwell, 80, English cartoonist.

8 Walter Freud, 82, Austrian-British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during World War II. Nicholas Goldschmidt, 95, Canadian conductor, music festival entrepreneur and artistic director. Kristian Henriksen, 92, Norwegian football player, coach and Olympian (1936). William W. Johnstone, 65, American author. Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer, heart attack. Joe Mallett, 88, English football player. Wayne Eyer Manning, 104, American horticulturist and botanist. Julius Schwartz, 88, American comic book and pulp magazine editor.

9 Julio Baylón, 56, Peruvian footballer. Robert F. Colesberry, 57, American film and television producer (After Hours, The Wire, Mississippi Burning), complications following cardiac surgery. Gerhard Riedmann, 78, Austrian film actor. Opilio Rossi, 93, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Claude Ryan, 79, Canadian politician, stomach cancer. Janusz Żurakowski, 89, Polish fighter and test pilot.Janusz Zurakowski

10 Nils Aas, 70, Norwegian sculptor and illustrator. Paul Ilyinsky, 76, American politician and three-time mayor of Palm Beach, Florida. Edward Jablonski, 81, American biographer. Hub Kittle, 86, American baseball player and manager, complications from kidney failure and diabetes. Guy Provost, 78, French Canadian actor, pneumonia. John Sundberg, 83, Swedish sport shooter and Olympic medalist (1956, 1964).

11 Vera Broido, 96, Russian-British writer and a chronicler of the Russian Revolution. Tadeusz Dembończyk, 48, Polish weightlifter and Olympic medalist (1980). Ryszard Kukliński, 74, Polish colonel, spy and defector, stroke. Jozef Lenárt, 80, Slovak politician, member of the Czechoslovak Parliament and Slovak National Council. Tony Pope, 56, American voice actor (Metropolis, Spaced Invaders, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), complications following leg surgery. Ralph Stewart, 74, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1968-1979). Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian sprinter and Olympic champion (1948, 1952, 1956), heart attack. Hitoshi Takagi, 78, Japanese voice actor, arteriosclerotic heart disease. Robert E. Thompson, 79, American screenwriter. Albeiro Usuriaga, 37, Colombian football player, homicide.

12 Martin Booth, 59, British author, brain tumor. Robert A. Bruce, 87, American cardiologist. Martin Jurow, 92, American film producer (Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Pink Panther, The Great Race). John Killick, 84, British diplomat. Emilio Lecuona, 68, Spanish Olympic gymnast (1960). Preston Love, 83, American jazz saxophone player. Věra Suchánková, 71, Czech Olympic pair skater (1956).

13 Carole Eastman, 69, American actress and screenwriter. Denis Hurley, 89, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Durban (1946–1992). Sarah Jacobson, 32, American film director, screenwriter, and producer, uterine cancer. Janusz Kulig, 34, Polish rally driver, railway accident. David Lee, 91, British Air Chief Marshal. Ted Tappe, 73, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs). François Tavenas, 61, Canadian engineer and academic. Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, 51, Chechen writer, politician and military figurist, explosion.

14 Sture Baatz, 74, Swedish Olympic rower (1952, 1960). Cesáreo Bachiller, 89, Spanish footballer. Jock Butterfield, 72, New Zealand rugby player. Ruben Carlsson, 91, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player (1936). Yang Chengwu, 89, Chinese general and Communist Party politician. Lotte Haidegger, 78, Austrian Olympic discus thrower (1948, 1952). Elois Jenssen, 81, American film and television costume designer. Marco Pantani, 34, Italian racing cyclist, winner of Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in 1998, and Olympian (2000), acute cocaine poisoning. Walter Perkins, 72, American jazz drummer, lung cancer. Yang Xinhai, 35, Chinese serial killer, execution by firing squad.

15 Gil Coggins, 75, American jazz pianist. Steve Cooper, 39, English football player, intracerebral hemorrhage. Bolesław Dubicki, 69, Polish Olympic wrestler (1960, 1964). Hasse Ekman, 88, Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Jens Evensen, 86, Norwegian minister, World Court judge. Walter Gottschalk, 85, American mathematician. Hermann Hogeback, 89, German bomber pilot during World War II. Ed Mieszkowski, 78, American football player (Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Brooklyn Dodgers). Jan Miner, 86, American actress. Sture Mårtensson, 87, Swedish football player. Isarco Ravaioli, 70, Italian film actor. Lawrence Ritter, 81, American writer. Luigi Taramazzo, 71, Italian racing driver. John Tietjen, 75, American Lutheran clergyman, theologian, and national church leader, brain cancer. Friedrich Waller, 83, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic champion (1948).

16 Don Cleverley, 94, New Zealand cricketer. Charlie Fox, 82, American baseball manager. Ella Johnson, 84, American jazz and rhythm and blues singer, Alzheimer's disease. Martin Kneser, 76, German mathematician. Harold Smedley, 83, British diplomat. Doris Troy, 67, American R&B singer, pulmonary emphysema. Geoff Twentyman, 74, English football player. Miloslav Šimek, 63, Czech comedian and satirist, leukemia. Mary Vandervliet, 91, Canadian Olympic sprinter (1932).

17 Bruce Beaver, 76, Australian poet and novelist. Gaston Godel, 89, Swiss Olympic race walker, silver medalist (1948). Sofia Golovkina, 88, Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher. José López Portillo, 83, Mexican politician and lawyer, President of Mexico. Louis von Sonnenberg, 82, Swiss Olympic sports shooter (1960). Dragi Stamenković, 83, Yugoslav and Serbian politician and author. Cameron Todd Willingham, 36, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.

18 Despo Diamantidou, 87, Greek actress. Tommy Eglington, 81, Irish football player. Frankie Evangelista, 69, Filipino newspaper columnist, and radio and television broadcaster, stomach cancer. Steve Neal, 54, American journalist (Chicago Sun-Times) and historian, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Jean Rouch, 86, French filmmaker and ethnologist, traffic collision. Ivor Stanbrook, 80, British Conservative party politician, barrister and Member of Parliament.

19 Gurgen Margaryan, 25, Armenian Army officer, slashed. Franco Ponzinibio, 89, Argentine footballer. Archibald Paton Thornton, 83, Canadian historian. Verner Toivonen, 95, Finnish Olympic middle-distance runner (1932). Renata Vanni, 94, Italian-American film actress. Maurice Voron, 75, French rugby league football player.

20 Minouche Barelli, 56, French singer. Fred Brown, 79, British virologist. Mary Ferrell, 81, American historian and independent researcher who created a large database on the John F. Kennedy assassination. Sigfrido Fontanelli, 56, Italian racing cyclist. Mel Hunter, 76, American illustrator, bone cancer. J.J. Malone, 68, American blues guitarist, singer and keyboardist. Kōyū Ohara, 69, Japanese film director.

21 Sergey Sergeyevich Averintsev, 66, Russian literary scholar, byzantinist and slavist. John Charles, 72, Welsh football player, heart attack. Johnny Counts, 64, American football player (New York Giants). Néstor de Villa, 75, Filipino musical film actor, prostate cancer. Les Gray, 57, British singer (Mud), heart attack during cancer treatment. Bart Howard, 88, American composer ("Fly Me To The Moon"). Svava Jakobsdóttir, 73, Icelandic author and politician. Mohd hisraime bin juso, 87, Singaporean banker and hotel owner, heart attack. Dan Kiley, 91, American landscape architect. Guido Molinari, 70, Canadian abstract artist. Custódio Pinto, 62, Portuguese football player. Lyudmila Shishova, 63, Soviet Olympic fencer and fencing coach (1960, 1964).

22 Pat Hintz, 90, American basketball player. Roque Máspoli, 86, Uruguayan goalkeeper, heart attack. Irina Press, 64, Soviet athlete and Olympic champion (1960, 1964).