Deaths in June 2005

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 2005

1 Mariana Dimitrova, 51, Bulgarian actress, suicide. Tory Epps, 38, American football player (Atlanta Falcons, Chicago Bears, New Orleans Saints). Louisiane Saint Fleurant, 80, Haitian artist and painter. Fernando Ghia, 69, Italian film producer and talent agent. Sara Guasch, 86, Chilean-Mexican actress. Norman Horowitz, 90, American geneticist at the California Institute of Technology. George Mikan, 80, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers), diabetes. Geoffrey Toone, 94, British-based Irish actor.

2 José António, 47. Portuguese footballer. Isabel Aretz, 96, Argentine musician. Vittorio Duse, 89, Italian actor (The Godfather Part III). Lucio España, 33, Colombian footballer. Larry Fallon, 68, American composer, arranger and record producer. Gunder Gundersen, 74, Norwegian Nordic combined skier, sports official, and Olympian (1960). Samir Kassir, 45, Lebanese journalist, bombed. Erich Leibenguth, 88, German footballer. Mike Marshall, 60, French-American actor (Moonraker), lung cancer. Melita Norwood, 93, British spy for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Hy Peskin, 89, American photographer, kidney failure. Pastor Vega, 65, Cuban film director and screenwriter. Andriy Ishchenko, 67, Ukrainian Opera singer

3 Leon Askin, 97, Austrian actor. Michael Billington, 63, British actor, cancer. Harold Cardinal, 60, Canadian Cree writer, lung cancer. Néstor Errea, 66, Argentine football player. Alex Freeleagus, 77, Australian diplomat and lawyer. Basil Pennington, 73, American trappist priest, writer, and speaker. Maurice Wiles, 81, British Anglican priest and academic.

4 Paul Amen, 88, American athlete and coach. Carol Christensen, 67, American actress and model. Giancarlo De Carlo, 85, Italian architect. Marian Gleason, 88, American politician. Chloe Jones, 29, American adult film star, liver failure. Leo Klier, 82, American basketball player (Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Fort Wayne Pistons). Banks McFadden, 88, American gridiron football player (Clemson Tigers, Brooklyn Dodgers). Jean O'Leary, 57, American lesbian and gay rights activist and politician, lung cancer. Yin Shun, 99, Chinese Buddhist philosopher, tuberculosis. Karl Steinbuch, 87, German computer scientist, cyberneticist, and electrical engineer. Lorna Thayer, 86, American character actress (Five Easy Pieces), Alzheimer's disease. Ken Weafer, 92, American baseball player (Boston Bees).

5 Pepita Carpena, 85, Spanish trade unionist and anarchist. Hugh Marshall Cole, 94, American historian and army officer, vascular disease. Kurt Graunke, 89, German composer and conductor. Ken Griffith, 86, American basketball player. George Isaak, 72, Polish-Australian physicist and asteroseismologist. Wee Chong Jin, 87, Malayan-Singaporean judge, cancer. Susi Nicoletti, 86, Austrian film actress, complications from heart surgery. Matic Šušteršič, 25, Slovenian Olympic sprinter (2000). Lothar Warneke, 68, German film director, screenwriter and actor. Clyde Williams, 85, American baseball player. Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, 55, Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician, traffic collision.

6 Tullio Altamura, 80, Italian actor. Anne Bancroft, 73, American actress (The Miracle Worker, The Graduate, The Pumpkin Eater), Oscar winner (1963), uterine cancer. André Chavet, 74, French Olympic basketball player (1952). Dana Elcar, 77, American actor (MacGyver, The Sting, Fail Safe), pneumonia. Maya Kopitseva, 81, Russian painter, cancer. Pamela May, 88, British ballet dancer. Mary Beaumont Medd, 97, British architect. Siegfried Palm, 78, German cellist. David C. Sutherland III, 56, American illustrator for the original Dungeons & Dragons books, chronic liver failure.

7 Seán Doherty, 60, Irish politician. Terry Long, 45, American NFL football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), suicide. Edward A. McCarthy, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, second Archbishop of Miami. Davud Məhəmmədov, 34, Azerbaijani Olympic wrestler (1996, 2000). Simon Waronker, 90, American violinist and record producer.

8 Ahmed Ali, Fijian academic and politician. Joe Bill Baumgardner, 80, American football player (Texas Longhorns, Detroit Lions). Ed Bishop, 72, American-British actor (UFO, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Brass Target). Arthur Dunkel, 72, Portuguese-Swiss GATT director-general. Servílio, 65, Brazilian football player, heart attack.

9 James Clements, 77, American ornithologist and author, leukemia. Slade Cutter, 93, American naval officer and gridiron football player. Richard Eberhart, 101, American poet. Samih Farsoun, 68, American sociologist and academic. Erik Jørgensen, 85, Danish Olympic middle-distance runner (1948). Trude Marlen, 92, Austrian stage and film actress. John Schweder, 77, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers). Inna Ulyanova, 70, Soviet and Russian actress, singer and comedian, liver cirrhosis.

10 Michèle Auclair, 80, French violinist. Nick Darke, 56, British playwright, stroke. Pere Esteve i Abad, 62, Spanish politician and Catalan nationalist. J. James Exon, 83, American politician, senator (1979–1997) and Governor of Nebraska (1971–1979). Yumiko Kurahashi, 69, Japanese writer. Lyphard, 36, American thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Shinji Nagashima, 67, Japanese manga artist. Curtis Pitts, 89, American aircraft designer (Pitts Special). Joseph Raya, 88, Lebanese-Canadian Melkite Catholic archbishop, theologian, and civil rights advocate. Kenneth N. Taylor, 88, American evangelical publisher and author, heart failure.

11 Francesco Albanese, 92, Italian opera singer. Anne-Marie Alonzo, 53, Canadian writer. José Beyaert, 79, French cyclist and Olympian (1948). Audrey Brown, 92, British sprinter and Olympic silver medalist (1936). Robert Clarke, 85, American actor, diabetes. Ghena Dimitrova, 64, Bulgarian opera singer, cancer. Vasco Gonçalves, 84, Portuguese army general, Prime Minister (1974–1975). Tom Holden, 67, American television news anchor (WKBN-TV), complications from a blood infection. Lillian Lux, 86, American Yiddish vaudeville actress and singer, congestive heart failure. Diego Mariscal, 79, Mexican Olympic diver (1948). Lon McCallister, 82, American actor, heart failure. Ron Randell, 86, Australian-American actor, stroke. Juan José Saer, 67, Argentine novelist, lung cancer.

12 Emmanuelle Arsan, 73, Thai-French novelist, cholangiocarcinoma. Sonja Davies, 81, New Zealand trade unionist. Brandy Davis, 77, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates). Jack Flagerman, 83, American football player (Saint Mary's Gaels, Los Angeles Dons). Eiichi Goto, 74, Japanese computer scientist. Hans-Günther Hilker, 73, German Olympic water polo player (1956). Barry Hutchinson, 69, English football player. Wayne McClure, 62, American football player (Ole Miss Rebels, Cincinnati Bengals). Makobo Modjadji, 26, South African Rain Queen of the Balobedu people, meningitis. David Whitney, 66, American art curator, collector, gallerist and critic, cancer. Scott Young, 87, Canadian journalist and father of Neil Young.

13 Jonathan Adams, 74, British actor (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), stroke. Gerard Béhague, 67, French-American ethnomusicologist. Álvaro Cunhal, 91, Portuguese politician, secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (1961–1992), writer and painter. Eugénio de Andrade, 82, Portuguese poet. David Diamond, 89, American composer, heart attack. Bruno Landi, 76, Italian racing cyclist. Jesús Moncada, Spanish writer, cancer. Lane Smith, 69, American actor (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The Mighty Ducks, My Cousin Vinny), complications from ALS.

14 Heinz Bechert, 72, German indologist and buddhologist. N. J. Crisp, 81, British television writer, dramatist and novelist. Georges Dransart, 81, French sprint Olympic canoeist (1948, 1952, 1956). Lionel Elvin, 99, British educational theorist. Carlo Maria Giulini, 91, Italian conductor. Eivin Kristensen, 79, Danish rower and Olympian (1952). Bob Lennon, 76, American baseball player (New York Giants, Chicago Cubs). Robie Lester, 80, American voice artist, actress and singer, cancer. Norman Levine, 81, Canadian writer. Mimi Parent, 80, Canadian surrealist painter. André Vanderstappen, 71, Belgian footballer.

15 Rodrigo Asturias, 65, Guatemalan guerilla leader and politician, heart attack. Reuven Dafni, 91, Croatian-Israeli soldier and diplomat. Suzanne Flon, 87, French actress, gastroenteritis. Alessio Galletti, 37, Italian racing cyclist, cardiac arrest. Albert Mohr, 75, German Olympic cross-country skier (1952). Vasile Morar, 52, Romanian Olympic ice hockey player (1976). Valeria Moriconi, 73, Italian actress, cancer. Carroll Sembera, 63, American baseball player (Houston Astros, Montreal Expos). Per Henrik Wallin, 58, Swedish jazz pianist and composer.

16 Corino Andrade, 99, Portuguese neurologist, discovered familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP). Enrique Laguerre, 99, Puerto Rican writer, poet, and teacher. Mayoori, 22, Indian actress, suicide. Alex McAvoy, 77, Scottish actor (Pink Floyd – The Wall, The Vital Spark, Strictly Sinatra), leukemia. Geoffrey Parrinder, 95, British theologian and Methodist minister. Ross Stretton, 53, Australian ballet dancer and artistic director of Australian Ballet, melanoma. James Weinstein, 78, American Jewish author, founder and publisher of In These Times..

17 Billy Bauer, 89, American jazz guitarist. Nanna Ditzel, 81, Danish furniture and interior designer. William N. Fenton, 96, American scholar known for writings on the Iroquois. Åke Hallgren, 86, Swedish Olympic triple jumper (1948). Susanna Javicoli, 50, Italian actress (La nottata, Suspiria), kidney cancer. Andrew Justice, 54, British rower and Olympic silver medalist (1976, 1980). Gene Miller, 77, American investigative reporter at the Miami Herald, cancer. Keith Morris, 66, English photographer. Karl Mueller, 41, American musician, esophageal cancer. Tetiana Yablonska, 88, Soviet Ukrainian artist.

18 Mushtaq Ali, 90, Indian cricketer, Padma Shree Award winner. Cay Forrester, 83, American writer and actress, pneumonia. Chris Griffin, 74, American jazz trumpeter, melanoma. Basil Kirchin, 77, British musician. Sanjaya Lall, 64, Indian economist. Tatsuo Matsumura, 90, Japanese actor. J. J. Pickle, 91, American politician, Congressional Representative from Texas (1963–1995), prostate cancer. Erv Prasse, 87, American multi-sport athlete. Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, 81, Indian physicist. Manuel Sadosky, 91, Argentine mathematician and Secretary of State of Science and Technology (1983–1989).

19 Allan Beckett, 91, British engineer. Robert Ellis Cahill, 70, American folklorist and author. Zdravko Ježić, 73, Croatian water polo player and Olympic silver medalist (1952, 1956, 1960). Aleksey Kiselyov, 67, Russian boxer and Olympic silver medalist (1964, 1968). Totta Näslund, 60, Swedish musician, singer and actor, liver cancer.Totta Näslunds tunga hemlighet om sjukdomen (in Swedish) Ray Parkin, 94, Australian writer.

20 Larry Collins, 75, American writer, cerebral hemorrhage. James Galli, 82, French Olympic boxer (1948). Charles David Keeling, 77, American scientist and oceanographer, heart attack. Jack Kilby, 81, American engineer, inventor of the integrated circuit and physics Nobel Prize winner. Pierre Legrain, 85, French Olympic hammer thrower (1948, 1952). Pete Leswick, 88, Canadian ice hockey right winger (New York Americans). Bernard Adolph Schriever, 94, American Air Force general, regarded as the architect of the space and ballistic missile programs. Bengt Sjösten, 79, Swedish Olympic sailor (1960). Luis Suárez, 66, Argentine footballer.

21 Munu Adhi, 78, Indian politician.