The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 2004
1 Randi Brænne, 93, Norwegian actress. James Dudley, 94, American baseball player and professional wrestling manager. Victor Guazzelli, 84, English Roman Catholic bishop. Liu Kang, 93, Singaporean artist. Charles Kelman, 74, American ophthalmologist, surgeon, jazz musician, and Broadway producer, lung cancer. William Manchester, 82, American author and historian. Bill Reichardt, 73, American football player (University of Iowa, Green Bay Packers). Sheikh Shaheb Ali, 88, Bangladeshi football player and coach.
2 Mujeeb Alam, 55, Pakistani playback singer. Dietz Otto Edzard, 73, German scholar and grammarian of the Sumerian language. Nicolai Ghiaurov, 74, Bulgarian opera singer. Shrikant Jichkar, 49, Indian central civil servant and politician, traffic collision. Lee Ki-baek, 79, South Korean historian. Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, 68–69, Ethiopian general, defense minister and President of Ethiopia, involuntary manslaughter. Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer, heart attack. Alun Richards, 74, Welsh novelist. Tini Wagner, 84, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympic champion (1936).
3 Nam Cam, 56, Vietnamese mobster, shot. Joe Carr, 82, Irish golfer. Joe Cleary, 85, American baseball player (Washington Senators). Harald Ganzinger, 53, German computer scientist.Harald Ganzinger (1950-2004) Harold Goodwin, 86, English actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Longest Day, The Ladykillers). Britta Holmberg, 82, Swedish actress. Jonathan Kramer, 61, American composer and music theorist. Frances Shand Kydd, 68, English mother of Diana, Princess of Wales, Parkinson's disease. Fernand Leemans, 78, Belgian figure skater and Olympian (1948). Sulamith Messerer, 95, Russian ballerina and choreographer. Quorthon, 38, Swedish musician and founder of the band Bathory, congenital heart defect. Morris Schappes, 97, American scholar, editor (Jewish Currents) and Marxist activist.
4 Al Clark, 56, American football player (Detroit Lions, Los Angeles Rams, Philadelphia Eagles). Charles Correll, 60, American cinematographer (Animal House, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock) and television director (Melrose Place), pancreatic cancer. Wilmer Fields, 81, American baseball player, former Negro league baseball All-Star, heart ailment. Bill Geyer, 84, American football player (Chicago Bears). Marvin Heemeyer, 52, American muffler repair shop owner and criminal, suicide by gunshot. Steve Lacy, 69, American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer, cancer. Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer, lymphoma. Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor, stroke. Rolf Moebius, 88, German actor, pneumonia. T. M. Samarasinghe, 61, Sri Lankan cricket umpire. Anthony Steffen, 73, Italian and Brazilian film actor and screenwriter, cancer.
5 Johnny Bent, 95, American Olympic ice hockey player (1932). Iona Brown, 63, British violinist and conductor, cancer. Jack Foster, 72, British-New Zealand athlete and Olympian (1972, 1976), traffic collision. Fernando Manzaneque, 70, Spanish road racing cyclist. Friedrich Obleser, 81, German general in the Bundeswehr. Ronald Reagan, 93, American actor (Kings Row) and politician, President (1981–1989), Governor of California (1967–1975), pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's. Manu Tupou, 69, American-based Fijian actor (Hawaii, Hawaii Five-O, A Man Called Horse).
6 Ahmed Ali, 65, Pakistani footballer. Judy Campbell, 88, English actress. Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman and journalist, killed by Al-Qaeda. Howard Eves, 93, American mathematician. Babsie Podestá, 92, Maltese Olympic water polo player (1936). James Roche, 97, American businessman, CEO and chairman of the board at General Motors Corporation. Munavvar Rzayeva, 75, Azerbaijani sculptor. Emma Talmi, 99, Israeli politician and writer. Jock West, 95, British Grand Prix motorcycle racer. Kate Worley, 46, American comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer), cancer.
7 Roman Aftanazy, 90, Polish historian, librarian and author. Richard E. Bush, 79, United States Marine master gunnery sergeant and recipient of the Medal of Honor. Joseph Leo Doob, 94, American mathematician. Chris Kitsos, 76, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs). Roger Matton, 75, Canadian composer, ethnomusicologist, and music educator. Bern Porter, 93, American artist, writer, publisher, and performer. Don Potter, 102, British sculptor, wood carver and potter. Eugene Raskin, 94, American musician and playwright.
8 Leopoldo Zea Aguilar, 91, Mexican philosopher. Dan Armstrong, 69, American guitarist, luthier, and session musician. David Mervyn Blow, 72, British biophysicist, lung cancer.David Blow Pioneering scientist in protein crystallography Walter Breuer, 73, Austrian film actor. Per Carleson, 86, Swedish officer and Olympic épée fencer (1948, 1952, 1956). Elizabeth Virginia Hallanan, 79, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia). Mack Jones, 65, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos), stomach cancer. Humayun Khan, 27, American soldier serving in the Iraq War, car bombing.Who was Capt Humayun Khan? Kit Lawlor, 81, Irish footballer. Bill Lowery, 79, American music entrepreneur. Fosco Maraini, 91, Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, and writer. Bob Schmitz, 65, American gridiron football player and scout (Pittsburgh Steelers, Minnesota Vikings), heart attack. Nuria Torray, 69, Spanish actress, colorectal cancer.
9 Rosey Brown, 71, American football player (New York Giants), Pro Football Hall of Famer. António de Sousa Franco, 61, Portuguese economist and politician, heart attack. Russell Hellman, 86, American politician and member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1961 to 1980. Bent Jædig, 68, Danish jazz musician. Ted Martin, 101, Australian cricketer (Western Australia). Ralph Moody, 86, American NASCAR driver and team owner. Domingos Puglisi, 92, Brazilian Olympic sprinter (1932). Hartley Saunders, 60, Bahamian Olympic triple jumper (1964). Alistair Taylor, 68, English personal assistant of Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles. Barbara Whiting, 73, American actress (Those Whiting Girls, Beware, My Lovely, Dangerous When Wet), cancer. Brian Williamson, 58, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered.
10 Antoine Argoud, 89, French Army officer specializing in counter-insurgency. Ray Charles, 73, American rhythm and blues singer ("What'd I Say", "Georgia on my Mind", "I Can't Stop Loving You"), liver failure. Rosinha de Valença, 62, Brazilian composer, arranger and musician. Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications. Chico Faria, 54, Portuguese football player. José Farías, 67, Argentine football player and manager. Odette Laure, 87, French actress and cabaret singer, heart attack. Gábor Vékony, 59, Hungarian historian, archaeologist and linguist. Xenophon Zolotas, 100, Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister (1989–1990).
11 Prince Egon von Fürstenberg, 57, German aristocrat and designer, nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli, liver cancer. William Lofgren, 91, American Olympic canoeist (1936). Pakubuwono XII, 60, Indonesian royal as twelfth Susuhunan (ruler of Surakarta). Michel Roche, 64, French Olympic equestrian (1976). Galina Serdyukovskaya, 82, Russian hygienist, academic and politician. Soriba Soumah, 58, Guinean international football player and Olympian (1968).
12 Rina Ben-Menahem, 68, Israeli writer. Marianne Erismann, 73, Swiss Olympic swimmer (1948). Walter George Muelder, 97, American social ethicist and Methodist minister. Stanley O'Toole, 65, British film producer. Geoffrey Thompson, 67, British businessman, aneurysm.
13 Doğan Acarbay, 77, Turkish Olympic sprinter (1948, 1952). Dorothy Lavinia Brown, 85, American surgeon and politician. Danny Dark, 65, American announcer, pulmonary hemorrhage. Dick Durrance, 89, American alpine ski racer, 17-time national champion and Olympian (1936). Stuart Hampshire, 89, British philosopher. Jørn Larsen, 77, Danish painter and sculptor. Robert Lees, 91, American screenwriter, decapitation. Jennifer Nitsch, 37, German television actress, suicide by jumping. Ralph Wiley, 52, American sports journalist, heart attack.
14 Ubaldo Calabresi, 79, Italian Roman Catholic bishop, Parkinson's disease. Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, Swiss mountain guide. Whitman Knapp, 95, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York). Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher. Blondie Pienaar, 78, South African Olympic wrestler (1952). Max Rosenberg, 89, American producer of horror movies. Travis West, 37, American Olympic wrestler (1992). Noriaki Yuasa, 70, Japanese director, stroke.
15 Lothar Fischer, 70, German sculptor. Norene Forbes, 89, American swimmer and Olympian (1932). J. Gwyn Griffiths, 92, Welsh poet and egyptologist. Bagong Kussudiardja, 75, Indonesian painter, choreographer, and artist, diabetes. Ahmet Piriştina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir, heart attack. Hatch Rosdahl, 62, American gridiron football player (Penn State, Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs), suicide by jumping.
16 Rob Derksen, 44, American baseball coach, manager, and scout. Herman Goldstine, 90, American computer scientist (ENIAC), Parkinson's disease. George Hausmann, 88, American baseball player (New York Giants). Thanom Kittikachorn, 92, Thai military dictator and politician, prime minister, complications from stroke. Paul Neagu, 66, British artist.
17 Todor Dinov, 84, Bulgarian animator, painter, and graphic artist. Alfred Jacomis, 93, French Olympic cross-country skier (1936). Ma Jiajue, 23, Chinese biochemistry student, execution by shooting. Bent Jørgensen, 81, Danish Olympic cyclist (1952). Vilayat Inayat Khan, 87, British sufist. Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman. Sara Lidman, 80, Swedish writer. Gerry McNeil, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), Stanley Cup-winning National Hockey League goaltender. Jackie Paris, 79, American jazz singer and guitarist. Seymour Robbie, 84, American television director.
18 Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin, 33, Saudi Arabian leader of militant organization al-Qaeda. Doris Dowling, 81, American actress. George Buck Flower, 66, American actor, writer, producer, and casting director, cancer. Chen Fuzhao, c. 30, Chinese serial killer, execution by shooting. André Gillois, 102, French writer and Charles de Gaulle's spokesman in London during World War II. Dragomir Ilic, 78, Yugoslav footballer. Frederick Jaeger, 76, German-British character actor. Paul Marshall Johnson Jr., c. 49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda. Shaikh Hafiz Sabri Koçi, 83, Albanian Grand Mufti. Elbert Luther Little, 96, American botanist. Ralph S. Locher, 88, American politician. John Mathwin, 84, Australian politician. Peter Märthesheimer, 66, German screenwriter, producer and author. Nek Muhammad Wazir, c. 27, Pakistani tribal leader and Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces. Moe Radovich, 75, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors) and college basketball coach. Antonio Schenatti, 69, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (1960). Elwood Zimmerman, 91, American entomologist.
19 Nikolai Girenko, 63, Russian ethnologist and human rights activist, ballistic trauma. Charly Grosskost, 60, French racing cyclist, traffic collision. Ken Love, 76, American racing driver. Colin McCormack, 62, Welsh actor, cancer. Else Quecke, 96, German actress. Jadwiga Rutkowska, 70, Polish Olympic volleyball player (1964). Alfredo Torero, 73, Peruvian anthropologist and linguist.