The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2005.
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.
January 2005
1 Harold Bodle, 84, English footballer (Birmingham City F.C., Bury F.C., Stockport County F.C. and Accrington Stanley F.C.). Shirley Chisholm, 80, American politician, first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress. Robert Fortier, 78, American actor. Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British newspaper executive, peer, and Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords. Bob Matsui, 63, American Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives (1979- ), cancer. Dmitry Nelyubin, 33, Russian cyclist and Olympian (1988, 1992), murdered. Patrick Denis O'Donnell, 82, Irish military historian and army officer. Alfred Rinesch, 93, Austrian architect. Willem Scholten, 77, Dutch politician and economist. Dewanishiki Tadao, 79, Japanese sumo wrestler.
2 Reine Andersson, 59, Swedish Olympic sailor (1976). Arnold Denker, 90, American chess player, brain cancer. Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian (That's Life!). Frank Kelly Freas, 82, American science fiction artist. Félix Galimi, 84, Argentine Olympic fencer (1948, 1952, 1964). Margaret Gardiner, 100, British art collector and left wing political activist. Paul Manning, 45, American television writer (ER, L.A. Law), colorectal cancer. Maclyn McCarty, 93, American geneticist and DNA research pioneer, heart failure. Heitor Medina, 94, Brazilian Olympic javelin thrower (1932). Claude Meillassoux, 79, French neo-Marxist economic anthropologist and Africanist. Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter. C. M. Pennington-Richards, 93, British film director and cinematographer. Luis Prais, 79, Uruguayan footballer. Antoine Puttaert, 85, Belgian footballer. Ngo Van, 93, Vietnamese revolutionary. Charles Paul Wilp, 72, German advertising-designer, artist, and photographer. John Ziman, 79, British-New Zealand physicist and humanist.
3 Ingrid Andersson, 80, Swedish Olympic gymnast (1948). Kerstin Bohman, 90, Swedish Olympic gymnast (1948). Koo Chen-fu, 88, Chinese negotiator with the People's Republic of China, renal cancer. Paul Darragh, 51, Irish Olympic equestrian showjumper (1988, 1992), heart failure. Jyotindra Nath Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary, heart attack. Will Eisner, 87, American comic book artist (The Spirit), complications following surgery. Misael Escuti, 78, Chilean football player, cardiovascular disease. Helge Forsberg, 84, Finnish Olympic rower (1948). Warren J. Kemmerling, 80, American actor. Mehmet Faruk Sükan, 84, Turkish physician, politician and government minister. László Vadász, 56, Hungarian chess grandmaster. Kay Williamson, 69, British linguist, heart attack.
4 Ali Al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated. Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster, heart attack. Guy Davenport, 77, American writer, translator, illustrator, and painter, lung cancer. Beulah Anne Georges, 81, American baseball player. Frank Harary, 83, American mathematician, a foremost expert on graph theory. Robert Heilbroner, 85, American economist. Marguerite Pearson, 72, American professional baseball player (AAGPBL). Bud Poile, 80, Canadian professional ice hockey player, member of Hockey Hall of Fame, Parkinson's disease. Jack Sanford, 87, American baseball player (Washington Senators). Alton Tobey, 90, American muralist and painter. Jorge Eduardo Wright, 82, Argentine mycologist. Tevfik Yüce, 77-78, Turkish Olympic wrestler (1952).
5 Antoni Barwiński, 81, Polish footballer. Antonio Benítez-Rojo, 73, Cuban writer. Gabrielle Daye, 93, English stage actress. Martín Acosta y Lara, 79, Uruguayan basketball player and Olympian (1948, 1952). Tore Johannessen, 82, Norwegian ice hockey referee and sports administrator. René Le Hénaff, 103, French film editor and director. Sean, 69, American cartoonist, lung cancer. Bob Smith, 75, American football player (Texas A&M Aggies, Detroit Lions). Danny Sugerman, 50, American music manager, lung cancer.
6 Vern Barberis, 76, Australian weightlifter and Olympic medalist (1952, 1956). Bud Brooks, 74, American football player (Arkansas Razorbacks, Detroit Lions). Sergio Fubini, 76, Italian theoretical physicist. Jean-Luc Fugaldi, 58, French footballer. Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, 70, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1973-1983), lung cancer. Lois Hole, 75, Canadian businesswoman, author and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, cancer. Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS. Josef Musil, 84, Austrian footballer and Olympian (1948). Tarquinio Provini, 71, Italian motorcycle road racer. Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick. Nicholas Scott, 71, British politician. Boris Shtokolov, 74, Soviet and Russian singer. Ali Shukri, 85, Yugoslav-Kosovan politician, President of the Executive Council (1963–1967) and Presidency (1981–1982). Sindhu, 33, Indian actress, lung infection. Nora Strømstad, 95, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier (1936). A. Hays Town, 101, American architect.
7 Harry Boyles, 93, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). Evgeny Chuprun, 77, Soviet and Russian realist painter. Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson). Rosemary Kennedy, 86, American sister of John F. Kennedy. András Kormos, 52, Hungarian Olympic rower (1972, 1980). Ivar Medaas, 66, Norwegian folksinger and fiddle player. Aleksandr Prokhorov, 58, Soviet footballer (Dynamo Kyiv, FC Spartak Moscow) and Olympian (1976). José Vegazzi, 75, Argentine Olympic swimmer (1948).
8 Badja Djola, 56, American actor (Mississippi Burning, The Hurricane, The Last Boy Scout), heart attack. Tage Fahlborg, 92, Swedish Olympic sprint canoeist (1936). Jacqueline Joubert, 83, French television announcer, producer and director. Suvad Katana, 35, Bosnian footballer, heart attack. Friedrich Kuhn, 85, West German bobsledder and Olympic champion (1952). Aksella Luts, 99, Estonian screenwriter, actress and filmmaker. Rodney Mann, 75, British Olympic bobsledder (1956). Song Renqiong, 95, Chinese general and politician. David Shaw, 50, Australian scuba diver, drowned. Michel Thomas, 90, Polish-American linguist, decorated war veteran and nazi hunter.
9 Luis Alers, 54, Puerto Rican Olympic sprinter (1972). Jean Robert Beaulé, 77, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1965). Artidoro Berti, 84, Italian Olympic runner (1952). Gonzalo Gavira, 79, Mexican sound effects creator (The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno). Joanne Grant, 74, American journalist and communist activist. Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film director. Antonín Klimek, 67, Czech historian. Bob Mabe, 75, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles). Ricky Rodriguez, 29, American member of a religious cult "The Family", suicide by gunshot. Michael P. Ryan, 88, United States Marine Corps major general. Vantile Whitfield, 74, American arts administrator, Alzheimer's disease.
10 Gene Baylos, 98, American comedian. Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium, 77, Belgian Princess of Belgium and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, cancer. Ed Campion, 89, American basketball player. Georges Bernier, 75, French humorist. Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano. Fernand Cazenave, 80, French rugby player and national coach. Tommy Fine, 90, American Major League Baseball player (Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns). James Forman, 76, American executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colorectal cancer. Stephen Hastings, 83, British politician, MP for Mid Bedfordshire (1960–1983), esophageal cancer. Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer. Ursula Hoff, 95, Australian scholar and author on art. Kalevi Hämäläinen, 72, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic champion (1956, 1960, 1964). Helmut Losch, 57, East German heavyweight weightlifting champion and Olympian (1972, 1976). Jan Pieter Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994. Inna Tumanyan, 75, Soviet-Armenian film director and screenwriter. Arthur Walworth, 101, American writer and biographer. Hans Zollner, 75, Austrian Olympic ice hockey player (1956).
11 Alessandro Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri, 80, Italian aristocrat, actor and socialite. Spencer Dryden, 66, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane), cancer. Jimmy Griffin, 61, American singer, guitarist, songwriter, member of rock band Bread, cancer. Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer (Valley of Rocks). Tim Jecko, 66, American swimmer and Olympian (1956). Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist, motorcycle accident. Jerzy Pawłowski, 72, Polish fencer and Olympic champion (1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972). Thelma White, 94, American actress (Reefer Madness), pneumonia. Gordon Willoughby, 79, Australian rugby league footballer. Tanja Žutić, 77, Slovenian Olympic gymnast (1948, 1952).
12 Domiciano Cavém, 72, Portuguese football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease. Gaston Clermont, 91, Canadian businessman and politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1960-1963, 1965-1979). Kenneth Farmer, 92, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player (1936), and sports administrator. Leila Fawzi, 86, Egyptian actress and model. Manfred Fuhrmann, 79, German classical philologist and academic. Herbert Goldstein, 82, American physicist. Luther Goldman, 95, American naturalist. Tullio Gonnelli, 92, Italian athlete and Olympic silver medalist (1936). Bernard Meadows, 89, British modernist sculptor. Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Mr. India, Gandhi), cerebral hemorrhage. Jay Schulberg, 65, American advertising executive, pancreatic cancer. Alexander Scott, 84, British architect. Francisc Șimon, 78, Romanian Olympic water polo player (1952, 1956). Rocky Uguccioni, 86, American football player (Brooklyn Tigers). Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Estonian-American Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist.
13 Earl Cameron, 89, Canadian broadcaster and The National anchor (1959–1966). John Hunt, 70, Australian rower and Olympian (1960). Jacques de Tonnancour, 88, Canadian artist and art educator from Montreal, Quebec. Nell Rankin, 81, United States mezzo-soprano opera singer (Metropolitan Opera). K. V. Sarma, 85, Indian historian of science. Hisham Sharabi, 78, American cultural historian and political activist, cancer. Bub Strickler, 66, American racing driver.
14 Irma de Antequeda, 84, Argentine Olympic fencer (1948). Ward Beysen, 63, Belgian politician and freemason, suicide by drowning. Edwin Bélanger, 94, Canadian conductor and musician. Ofelia Guilmáin, 83, Spanish actress (The Exterminating Angel, Nazarín, The Brainiac), pneumonia. Charlotte MacLeod, 82, American mystery writer, Alzheimer's disease. Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter. Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer, homicide. Carl Möhner, 83, Austrian film actor (Rififi, He Who Must Die, Sink the Bismarck!), director, screenwriter and painter, Parkinson's disease. Rocky Roberts, 63, American-Italian rhythm and blues singer ("Stasera mi butto"). Jesús Rafael Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist.
15 Felix Aprahamian, 90, English music critic. Leonid Brekhovskikh, 87, Russian scientist. Deem Bristow, 57, American actor. Terry Crowley, 51, New Zealand linguist of Oceanic languages. Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan). William Hare, 69, Canadian Olympic sports shooter (1964, 1968, 1972). Elizabeth Janeway, 91, American feminist author. Dan Lee, 35, Canadian animator (Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story 2), heart failure. Werner Lesser, 72, East German Olympic ski jumper (1956, 1960).