The following is a list of The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 2005
1 Werner Arnold, 74, Swiss cyclist. John D. Bennett, 93, American politician and judge. Jean Chapdelaine, 91, Canadian diplomat James August Comiskey, 78, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana). Edward D. Freis, 92, American physician. Andreas Heckmair, 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger north face. Franco Mannino, 80, Italian film and classical composer. Christian Talli, 87, French swimmer and Olympian (1936). John Vernon, 72, Canadian-American actor (Animal House, Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales), surgical complications. Richard Wolfson, 49, British musician and journalist, aortic aneurysm.
2 Ali Mustafa Baghdady, 82, Egyptian air force commander and Olympic swimmer (1948). Birgitte Federspiel, 79, Danish actress (Babette's Feast). Anders Hveem, 80, Norwegian Olympic bobsledder (1952). Lee Hyeonggi, 72, South Korean poet. Miklós Kovacsics, 51, Hungarian Olympic handball player (1980). Svein Kvia, 57, Norwegian footballer, brain cancer. Goffredo Lombardo, 84, Italian film producer. Magomed Omarov, Russian politician, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan, homicide. Max Schmeling, 99, German world heavyweight boxing champion. Yvonne Sherman, 74, American figure skater and Olympian (1948). Jerzy Wojnar, 74, Polish pilot and Olympic luger (1964, 1968). Edward Maitland Wright, 98, British mathematician.
3 Corrado Bafile, 101, Italian cardinal. Mamdooh El-Attar, 78, Egyptian Olympic rower (1952). Louis Gillis, 80, American baseball player. Raymond Laurent, 87, Belgian herpetologist. Karl Linn, 81, American landscape architect and psychologist. Andreas Makris, 74, Greek-American composer and violinist. Jean-Jacques Martel, 78, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1962). Ernst Mayr, 100, German-American evolutionary biologist. James Patrick Sutton, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from Tennessee (1949–1955). Zurab Zhvania, 41, Georgian politician, Prime Minister of Georgia (2004-2005), carbon monoxide poisoning.
4 Ossie Davis, 87, American actor (Do the Right Thing, Evening Shade, The Client) and activist. Alfio Fontana, 72, Italian football player. Elia Frosio, 92, Italian cyclist. Stephen R. Gregg, 90, United States Army soldier and recipient the Medal of Honor. Peter Heine, 76, South African cricket player. Malcolm Kutner, 83, American football player (Texas Longhorns, Chicago Cardinals). Dorothy Locke, 93, American fencer and Olympian (1932, 1936). Danas Pozniakas, 65, Lithuanian amateur light-heavyweight boxer and Olympic champion (1968). Luis Sánchez, 51, Venezuelan Major League baseball player (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim).
5 Bob Brannum, 79, American basketball player (Sheboygan Red Skins, Boston Celtics), pancreatic cancer. Jean-Charles Cantin, 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1972). Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 67, Togolese politician, president of Togo (1967-2005), heart attack. Gerard Glaister, 89, British television producer and director. Veikko Helle, 93, American politician. Günter Reimann, 100, German economist. Henri Rochon, 80, Canadian tennis player. Sandra Valenti, 65, Italian sprinter and Olympian (1960). Michalina Wisłocka, 84, Polish sexologist.
6 Michael Adams, 85, British journalist. Billy Baker, 84, Welsh footballer. Lazar Berman, 74, Russian classical pianist. Elbert N. Carvel, 94, American politician, Governor of Delaware. Adu Celso, 59, Brazilian motorcycle road racer, heart attack. Hubert Curien, 80, French researcher, first president of European Space Agency. Vasily Fedin, 78, Soviet Russian Olympic cyclist (1952). Alejandro Gómez, 96, Argentine educator and lawyer, stroke. Karl Haas, 91, American classical music radio program host. Merle Kilgore, 70, American country music manager and songwriter, heart failure. Mutsuo Minagawa, 69, Japanese baseball pitcher. Jack Webster, 88, Australian Olympic rower (1948).
7 Laurie Aarons, 87, Australian politician. Nedžad Botonjič, 27, Slovenian footballer. Atli Dam, 72, Faroese politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1991-1993). Leonid Gissen, 73, Russian rower and Olympic medalist (1952, 1956). Shep Mayer, 81, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs). Dennis McCord, 52, Canadian ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks). V. C. Pande, 72, Indian political figure, former governor of three states. John Patterson, 64, American television director (The Sopranos, Hill Street Blues, Providence), prostate cancer. Paul Rebeyrolle, 78, French painter. Madeleine Rebérioux, 84, French historian. Narayan Sanyal, 80, Indian writer of modern Bengali literature. Jeremy Swan, 82, Irish cardiologist, co-inventor of the pulmonary artery catheter, heart attack. Bob Turner, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks). Zdravko Velimirović, 74, Yugoslavian film director and screenwriter.
8 Gildo Arena, 83, Italian water polo player, swimmer and Olympic champion (1948, 1952). Mike Bishop, 46, American baseball player (New York Mets). Germund Dahlquist, 80, Swedish mathematician. Edward R. Dudley, 93, American diplomat. Helmut Eder, 88, Austrian composer. Parker Hall, 88, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Rams, San Francisco 49ers). George Herman, 85, American journalist and moderator of CBS' Face the Nation for 15 years. Keith Knudsen, 56, American drummer for rock band Doobie Brothers, pneumonia. Gaston Rahier, 58, Belgian 125cc Motocross World Champion (1975–1977), cancer. Jimmy Smith, 76, American jazz organist. Javier Tusell, 59, Spanish historian, writer and politician, leukemia.
9 Tim Breslin, 37, American ice hockey player, appendix cancer. Tyrone Davis, 67, American R&B singer (Turn Back The Hands Of Time), complications of a stroke. Gustav Gocke, 85, German Olympic wrestler (1952). Robert Kearns, 77, American inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, brain cancer. Frank Klausen, 44, Danish footballer. Raisa Kyrychenko, 61, Ukrainian mezzo-soprano singer, cardiovascular disease. Richard Lupino, 75, American actor, member of the theatrical Lupino family, lymphoma. Frank Mathers, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Hershey Bears). Paulistinha, 65, Brazilian footballer and manager. Kate Peyton, 39, British BBC producer, shot in Mogadishu, Somalia. Sylvia Rafael, 67, South African-born Israeli Mossad agent convicted of 1973 Lillehammer murder, leukemia. Josef Rasselnberg, 92, German football player and trainer. Gary Schull, 60, American basketball player (Florida State Seminoles, Fortitudo Bologna). Dariusz Świerczewski, 68, Polish Olympic basketball player (1960).
10 Humbert Balsan, 50, French film producer, suicide by hanging. David Allan Bromley, 79, Canadian-American physicist, presidential advisor. Jean Cayrol, 93, French author. Pierre Chevalier, 89, French film director and screenwriter. Dave Goodman, 53, British music producer, heart attack. Ben Jones, 80, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister (1989-1990). Igor Ledogorov, 72, Soviet and Russian actor, cancer. Arthur Miller, 89, American playwright (Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge, The Crucible), congestive heart failure. Frederick W. Mote, 82, American sinologist. Fritz Scholder, 67, American native American artist. Jack Segal, 86, American pianist and composer. Ruth Williams, 78, American baseball player.
11 Samuel W. Alderson, 90, American inventor of crash test dummies bone cancer. Jack L. Chalker, 60, American science fiction writer, kidney failure. Raymond Hermantier, 81, French actor. Mary Jackson, 83, American mathematician and aerospace engineer, first black female engineer at NASA. Vladimir Kotelnikov, 96, Information theory and radar astronomy pioneer from the Soviet Union. Dénes Kovács, 74, Hungarian classical violinist and academic teacher. Eva Magni, 98, Italian stage and film actress. Míla Myslíková, 71, 1933-2005 Czech actress and writer, stroke. Stan Richards, 74, British actor (Emmerdale), pulmonary emphysema.
12 Archie Butterworth, 92, British racing driver and designer. Sir John Dacie, 92, British haematologist.Sir John Vivian Dacie Brian Kelly, 73, American actor, pneumonia. James McClure, 88, American international table tennis player. Monem Munna, 38, Bangladeshi footballer, kidney disease. Sammi Smith, 61, American country music singer, (Help Me Make It Through the Night), pulmonary emphysema. Dorothy Stang, 73, American nun, murdered in Anapu, Brazil. Marinus van der Goes van Naters, 104, Dutch politician. Rafael Vidal, 41, Venezuelan swimmer, Olympic medalist (1980, 1984), car crash.
13 Saminini Arulappa, 80, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop. Harry Baird, 73, Guyanese-born British actor, cancer. Nelson Briles, 61, American baseball player, heart attack. Sixten Ehrling, 86, Swedish conductor. Mary Hallaren, 97, American soldier, first woman to join the United States Army. Sister Lúcia, 97, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three shepherd children of the Fatima apparition in 1917. Dorothy Smith, 85, British Olympic gymnast (1948). Maurice Trintignant, 87, French racing driver, twice winner of the Monaco Grand Prix. Dick Weber, 75, American professional bowler, father of Pete Weber, respiratory failure. Peter White, 69, Australian politician.
14 Ron Burgess, 87, Welsh footballer with Tottenham Hotspur and Wales. Sonya Dorman, 81, American science fiction writer and poet. Thabet El-Batal, 51, Egyptian Goalkeeper association football goalkeeper, cancer. Vic Emery, 84, Australian cricketer. Rafic Hariri, 60, Lebanese business tycoon and politician, twice Prime Minister of Lebanon, car bomb. Albert Harris, 89, English musician. Aubelin Jolicoeur, 81, Haitian journalist and columnist. Vidya Niwas Mishra, 79, Indian scholar, Hindi-Sanskrit littérateur, and journalist, traffic collision. Otto Plaschkes, 75, British film producer (Georgy Girl). Angel Scull, 76, Cuban baseball player. Pauli Toivonen, 75, Finnish rally car driver. Najai Turpin, 23, American boxer and reality show contestant (The Contender), suicide. Henry Wolf, 79, Austrian-American graphic designer, photographer and art director.
15 Carlo Tullio Altan, 88, Italian anthropologist and sociologist. Pierre Bachelet, 60, French singer, lung cancer. Jean-François Dubessay, 83, French Olympic field hockey player (1948, 1952). Marc Eyraud, 80, French film actor. Samuel T. Francis, 57, American white supremacist writer, aortic aneurysm. Dudu Geva, 54, Israeli artist, writer, cartoonist, and illustrator, heart attack. Richard Grunberger, 80, British historian. David Leach, 93, English potter. Yury Morozov, 70, Soviet football player and coach. Bob Schafer, 71, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors, St. Louis Hawks, Syracuse Nationals).
16 Michael Aikman, 71, Australian rower and Olympian (1956). Hans von Blixen-Finecke, 88, Swedish Army officer and Olympic equestrian (1952, 1956). Nicole DeHuff, 30, American actress (Meet the Parents, Suspect Zero, CSI: Miami), pneumonia. Bill Potts, 76, American jazz pianist and arranger, cardiac arrest. Jwani Riad Noseir, 92, Eygptian Olympic basketball player (1936). Narriman Sadek, (Nariman Sadeq), 71, Egyptian queen, ex-wife of King Farouk, cerebral hemorrhage. Marcello Viotti, 50, Italian conductor, stroke. Gerry Wolff, 84, German actor.
17 F. M. Busby, 83, American science fiction writer. Jens Martin Knudsen, 74, Danish astrophysicist. César Marcelak, 92, French cycling champion. Miodrag Nikolić, 66, Serbian basketball player, coach, and Olympian (1960, 1964).