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The following is a list of notable deaths in 2004. Names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.
A typical entry appears in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
December 2004
- 31 George Wackenhut, 85, founder of Wackenhut Corporation
- 31 Gerard Debreu, 83, Nobel prize winner
- 31 John E. Chataway, 57, Nova Scotia politician
- 31 Bob Karstens, 89, former member of the Harlem Globetrotters
- 31 Peter Farago, 86, Hungarian born physicist
- 30 Artie Shaw, 94, American jazz musician
- 29 William Boyett, 77, American actor
- 29 Liddy Holloway, 57, New Zealand actress, writer
- 29 Julius Axelrod, 92, American biochemist, Nobel prize winner
- 29 Ken Burkhart, 89, former major league baseball pitcher and umpire
- 28 Jerry Orbach, 69, American actor, prostate cancer
- 28 Susan Sontag, 71, American author
- 27 Hank Garland, 74, American country, rock, and jazz guitarist
- 27 Heorhiy Kyrpa, 58, Ukrainian Transport Minister, found shot
- 26 Sir Tristan Antico, Italian-born Australian industrialist, founder of Pioneer Concrete (now Hanson)
- 26 Troy Broadbridge, 24, Melbourne AFL Player, Asian tsunami victim [1]
- 26 Bhumi Jensen, 21, Thai prince, Asian tsunami victim
- 26 Robert Whymant, 60, former Times correspondent and author, Asian tsunami victim
- 26 Dr. Marianne Heiberg, 59, Oslo accords mediator
- 26 Eddie Layton, 77, organist for the New York Yankees for 38 seasons
- 26 Dr. Jonathan Drummond-Webb, 45, heart surgeon
- 26 Reggie White, 43, American football player
- 26 Sir Angus Ogilvy, 76, husband of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent
- 25 Anthony Preston, 66, naval historian and writer
- 25 Gennady Strekalov, 64, former Russian cosmonaut
- 25 Jane Muskie, 77, widow of politician Edmund Muskie
- 24 Sir Anthony Meyer, 84, former British politician
- 24 Capt. Richard Wallace Annand VC, 90, first soldier whose actions in World War II resulted in a Victoria Cross
- 24 Johnny Oates, 58, former Major League Baseball manager
- 23 John W. Duarte, 85, classical guitarist
- 23 Heera Lal Devpura, 79, Rajasthan Congress Party politician, chief minister of Rajasthan briefly during 1985
- 23 Charlie Pace, 29, member of the band Drive Shaft
- 23 P. V. Narasimha Rao, 83, 9th Prime Minister of India (1991-1996)
- 22 Doug Ault, 54, former Major League Baseball player, suicide
- 22 Rudi Kolak, 86, former Bosnian communist politician, chairman of the Bosnian executive council from 1965 to 1967
- 21 Lennart Bernadotte, 95, Swedish prince
- 21 Lucile Layton, 101, member of the Ziegfeld Follies in the 1920s and also a silent film actress for D.W. Griffith
- 20 Jack Newfield, 66, American newspaper columnist from New York, kidney and lung cancer
- 20 Son Seals, 62, American blues musician
- 20 Tony Van Bridge, 87, British television and stage actor
- 19 Michael Alexander, 84, English soldier and "Prominente" PoW
- 19 Mamdouh Edwan, 63, Syrian playwright and poet
- 19 Mel Gabler (89), Texas conservative textbook reviewer
- 19 Renata Tebaldi, 82, Italian opera singer
- 19 Herbert C. Brown, 92, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on boron
- 18 Princess Kikuko, 92, oldest member of Japanese imperial family
- 18 Anthony Sampson, 78, British journalist and author
- 18 Vijay Hazare, 89, former Indian cricket captain
- 18 Albert Nordengen, 81, former mayor of Oslo, Norway
- 18 Barry Corbet, 68, member of first American team to climb Mount Everest
- 17 Dick Heckstall-Smith, 70, saxophone player (Colosseum, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, etc.)
- 17 Tom Wesselmann, 73, American pop artist
- 16 Ted Abernathy, 71, American baseball player
- 16 Bobby Mattick, 89, American former baseball player and manager
- 16 Agnes Martin, 92, American abstract painter
- 16 Lawrence O'Brien, 53, Member of the Canadian House of Commons
- 16 Freddie Perren, 61, American Grammy Award winning producer
- 15 George Campbell, 92, linguist and polymath
- 15 Athena Starwoman, mid-50s, astrologer, breast cancer
- 15 Lorenzo "Larry" J. Ponza Jr., 86, baseball pitching machine innovator [2]
- 15 Rodney Kennedy-Minott, 76, former United States Ambassador to Sweden
- 15 Pauline Lafon Gore, 92, mother of former US vice-president Al Gore, wife of Albert Gore, Sr.
- 15 Jim Holliday, pornographic film producer and historian, complications from diabetes
- 15 Chiang Fang-liang, 88, the widow of Chiang Ching-kuo and the First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988
- 14 Candice Daly, 41, American actor
- 14 Rod Kanehl, 70, who hit the first grand slam in the Mets history
- 14 Harry Bowcott, 97, Rugby Union player for Wales and London Welsh
- 14 Sidonie Goossens, 105, British harpist [3]
- 14 Fernando Poe, Jr., 65, Filipino actor and former presidential candidate
- 13 Alex Soria, 39, guitarist for the punk rock band The Nils
- 13 Andre Rodgers, 70, first Bahamian to play in Major League Baseball
- 13 Syed Mir Qasim, 83, chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1971 to 1975
- 13 David Wheeler, 77, computer scientist
- 13 Bernarda Bryson Shahn, 101, painter, lithographer, widow of Ben Shahn
- 12 Peter Doyle, 72, Australian fish restaurateur
- 12 Phaswane Mpe, 34, South African novelist, unknown illness
- 12 Simon Combes, 64, British wildlife artist, gored in Kenya by a Cape Buffalo
- 11 Antonio R. Barcelo Jimenez, 51, lawyer and nephew of former Puerto Rican Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo, his daughters Yahaira, 24, and Laura, 15, murdered
- 11 Bernard Lansky, 80, cartoonist
- 11 John W. Culligan, 88, former CEO of American Home Products
- 11 Arthur Lydiard, 87, athletics coach
- 11 Harvey "Bum" Bright, 84, former owner of the Dallas Cowboys
- 11 M.S. Subbulakshmi, 88, Carnatic musician
- 11 José Luis Cuciuffo, 42, 1986 Football World Cup champion, hunting accident
- 10 Gary Webb, 49, investigative reporter who broke story about CIA involvement with crack cocaine dealers in Southern California in the 1980s, dead of apparent suicide
- 10 Bob King, 81, college basketball coach
- 9 Kim Dong Jo, 86, foreign minister of South Korea from 1973 to 1975
- 9 Kevin Keogh, 55, Phoenix, Arizona's chief financial officer, jumped off his moving car, behavior possibly caused by cystercosis
- 9 Philippe Gigantes, 81, former Canadian senator, cancer
- 9 David Brudnoy, 64, Boston radio talk show host, cancer
- 9 Sergey Voychenko, 49, an artist and designer from Minsk, Belarus
- 9 Sir Peter Emery, 78, politician
- 9 Lea De Mae, 27, pornographic film actress, brain cancer
- 8 Lord Scarman, 93, Life peer, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1977-86
- 8 Darrell Abbott (Diamond Darrell, Dimebag Darrell), 38, former Pantera guitarist, shot to death in Columbus, Ohio [4]
- 8 Jackson Mac Low, 82, poet
- 8 Lester Tanzer, 75, former U.S. News and World Report managing editor, Parkinson's disease [5]
- 7 Frederick Fennell, 90, conductor, founder of Eastman Wind Ensemble
- 7 Jay Van Andel, 80, co-founder and former chairman of Amway
- 7 Jerry Scoggins, 93, sang The Beverly Hillbillies' theme song "The Ballad of Jed Clampett"
- 7 Allen Haskell, 69, nurseryman
- 6 Enrique Salinas, 52, brother of former president of Mexico Carlos Salinas, asphyxiation
- 6 Raymond Goethals, 83, Belgian soccer coach
- 5 "Manzanita", 48, Flamenco singer [6]
- 5 Hicham Zerouali, 27, Moroccan soccer player, car accident - drove car into tree
- 5 Christiano Junior, 24, Brazilian soccer player, cardiac arrest after on-field collision
- 4 Tom Fitzgerald, 53, University of Tampa soccer coach
- 4 Teofil Peter, 50, Romanian rock musician, car accident
- 4 Elena Souliotis, 61, Greek soprano
- 3 Maria Perschy, 66, Austrian film/stage/TV actress
- 3 Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Duke of Leinster
- 3 Shiing-Shen Chern, 93, mathematician
- 3 Josef Schwammberger, 92, former Nazi labor camp commander
- 2 Nadine Shamir, 32, singer/songwriter
- 2 Kevin Coyne, 60, musician and author
- 2 Mona Van Duyn, 83, former US Poet Laureate, bone cancer
- 2 Dame Alicia Markova, 94, ballerina
- 2 Larry Buchanan, 81, film director
- 1 David Vienneau, 53, Canadian journalist, pancreatic cancer
- 1 Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, 93, father of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands [7]
- 1 Bill Brown, 73, former goalkeeper for Tottenham Hotspur and Scotland
- 1 Emma Verona Johnston, 114, supercentenarian, oldest documented person in the United States
- 1 Fathi Arafat, 71, brother of Yasser Arafat and founder of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society
- 1 William B. Sackheim, 84, television producer, co-screenwriter of the movie First Blood, son of director Daniel Sackheim
November 2004
- 30 Alexei Khvostenko, 64, Russian poet, artist, musician, heart attack in Moscow hospital
- 30 Pierre Berton, 84, Canadian author and journalist, diabetes complications
- 29 Harry Danning, MLB All-Star catcher who played with the New York Giants
- 29 Billy James Hargis, 78, American Christian minister, missionary and anti-communist political activist
- 29 Sister Anne Samson, 113, oldest recognized living Canadian and oldest nun ever documented
- 29 John Monckton, 49, British city financier, murdered
- 29 John Drew Barrymore, 72, actor, member of the Barrymore family, father of Drew Barrymore
- 29 Molly Weir, 94, Scottish TV and radio actress
- 29 Irwin Donenfeld, 78, DC Comics executive
- 28 Lucas Molina, 20, Argentinean football player, cardiac arrest
- 28 Albert Dorskind, 82, MCA executive who created the Universal Studios tour
- 28 Leroy F. Aarons, 70, American journalist, founder of the NLGJA
- 28 Teddy Ebersol, 14, son of American actress Susan Saint James and Dick Ebersol, plane crash.
- 27 John Dunn, 70, Scottish BBC Radio 2 disc jockey, cancer
- 27 Gunder Hägg, 85, Swedish athlete
- 27 Gene Greif, 50, American illustrator of 1970s and 1980s album covers
- 27 Stephen Girard, Jr., 91, introduced the Jeep to civilians
- 26 Hans Schaffner, 95, Swiss politician and Federal Councilor in the 1960s, President of the Confederation in 1966
- 26 Philippe de Broca, 71, French film director; cancer
- 26 Bill Alley, 85, Anglo-Australian cricketer and cricket umpire in 10 tests
- 26 Tom Haller, 67, All-Star baseball catcher for the San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers and was later the Giants' general manager
- 26 Hannes Walter, 51, Estonian war historian
- 25 David Bailey, 71, actor (Passions), drowning
- 25 Ed Paschke, 65, American artist, heart attack
- 25 Bob Haney, 78, comic book writer, co-creator of the Teen Titans and Doom Patrol
- 24 Joseph Hansen, 81, groundbreaking mystery author
- 24 David Leitch, 67, journalist and author
- 24 Elijah Mwangale, 65, Kenyan politician, former member of Parliament, and foreign minister from 1983 to 1987, heart attack
- 24 James Wong, 64, Hong Kong lyricist, actor, director, talk show host and author
- 24 Larry Brown, 53, author, novelist
- 24 Arthur Hailey, 84, author, suspected stroke
- 23 Rafael Eitan, 75, Israeli politician and former chief of staff, drowned
- 23 Frances Chaney, 89, wife of Ring Lardner Jr., member of the 1950s Hollywood Blacklist
- 22 Arthur Hopcraft, 71, author, journalist, and playwright
- 21 Marcella Humphrey, 112, supercentenarian
- 20 Ancel Keys, 100, scientist; co-invented the K ration used in World War II
- 20 Janine Haines, 59, former leader of the Australian Democrats
- 20 David Grierson, 49, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio and television host
- 20 Jimmy Tapp, 86, Canadian television personality
- 20 Celso Furtado, 84, Brazilian economist
- 19 Helmut Griem, 72, German film actor Cabaret
- 19 Terry Melcher, 62, musician, producer and son of Doris Day, melanoma
- 19 Fred H. Hale, Sr., 113, supercentenarian, oldest recognized living man
- 19 Sir John Vane, 77, shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in medicine for work in discovering how aspirin works
- 19 Trina Schart Hyman, 65, American illustrator of children's books, of cancer
- 18 Alfred Maseng, political figure in Vanuatu, (age and cause of death unreported)
- 18 Robert Bacher, 99, one of the developers of the atom bomb
- 18 Cy Coleman, 75, composer of Broadway musicals
- 18 Juan Carlos Aramburu, 92, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal since 1976
- 18 Bobby Frank Cherry, 74, convicted in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
- 17 Thomas Dibblee Jr., 93, geologist
- 17 Alexander Ragulin, 63, Soviet ice hockey player, 10-time IIHF World Champion and 3-time Olympic gold medalist
- 17 Lena Townsend, 93, former leader of the Inner London Education Authority
- 17 Mikael Ljungberg, 34, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide
- 17 Dr. Samuel Billison, 79, code talker
- 16 Massimo Freccia, 98, Italian-American conductor
- 16 Margaret Hassan, 59, chief of the humanitarian relief organization CARE International, killed by hostage takers in Iraq (unconfirmed, but presumed dead)
- 16 Reed Irvine, 82, founder of Accuracy in Media
- 16 Walter Mintz, 75, co-founder of one of the country's first hedge funds
- 15 Colin Coulthard, 83, English Air-Vice Marshal & RAF fighter pilot
- 15 Elmer Andersen, 95, former Minnesota governor
- 15 John Morgan, 74, comedian; former member of the Royal Canadian Air Force
- 15 John Seaton, prominent in New Zealand Harness Racing, multimillionaire accused of doping horses, suicide
- 15 Adam Young, 91, broadcast entrepreneur, stroke
- 14 Michel Colombier, 65, composer, cancer
- 14 Evelyn "50K Treasure Chest" West, 80, famous stripper and pin-up girl during the 1940s and 1950s. Found dead in her apartment
- 14 Langdon Brown Gilkey, 85, American Christian Protestant Ecumenical theologian (b. 1919)
- 13 John Balance, 42, member of Coil, accident
- 13 Ellen Fairclough, 99, first female Canadian cabinet minister
- 13 Harry Lampert, 88, comic book and advertising artist, artistic co-creator of The Flash, author of instructional books on Contract bridge, cancer
- 13 Ol' Dirty Bastard (Russell Jones), 35, rapper, drug abuse
- 13 Piet Bijvelds, 62, Dutch rally racing co-driver, killed during Luxembourg Rally
- 13 Fred Diament, 81, outspoken Holocaust survivor who testified at the Nuremberg trials
- 13 Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer
- 12 Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer
- 12 Mike Smith, 62, English cricketer, heart attack
- 12 Stanislaw Skalski, Polish pilot
- 12 Lelio Marino, 69, owner of Modern Continental group, unknown causes
- 12 Norman Rose, 87, radio and TV actor, All My Children voice of Juan Valdez
- 12 Linda Murray, 91, English art historian
- 12 Harry Hargreaves, 82, English Punch cartoonist
- 11 Dayton Allen, 85, comedian and voice of the cartoon character Deputy Dawg and Mayor Phineas T. Bluster on The Howdy Doody Show
- 11 Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestine Liberation Organization leader, President of the Palestinian Authority, cirrhosis [8]
- 11 Richard Dembo, 56, César Award-winning French director
- 10 Erna Rosenstein, 91, Polish surrealist painter and poet
- 9 Emlyn Hughes, 57, English footballer, brain tumour
- 9 Iris Chang, 36, historian, author, suicide
- 8 Melba Phillips, 97, American physicist & educator, coronary artery disease
- 8 Lennox Miller, 58, Jamaican Olympic athlete, cancer
- 8 Eddie Charlton, 75, Australian snooker player
- 8 Emma Roca Rodrigo, 85, Spanish revolutionary
- 7 Howard Keel, 85, American actor and singer, colon cancer
- 7 Gibson Kente, 72, South African playwright, AIDS
- 7 Xavier Malouin, 12, Canadian Teenager, Homicide
- 6 Andrew Veal, 25, Self inflicted gunshot wound at World Trade Center Ground Zero
- 6 Pete Jolly, 72, Jazz pianist [9]
- 6 Elizabeth Rogers, 70, American actress Lt. Palmer on Star Trek, multiple strokes and lung cancer
- 6 Johnny Warren, 61, Australian soccer player, coach, ethnic community advocate; lung cancer
- 6 Fred Dibnah, 66, British steeplejack and television presenter
- 5 Donald Jones, 72, American-born Dutch comedian, singer, dancer and actor, first black Dutch celebrity
- 4 Robert Heaton, 43, British composer and drummer of punk-rock band New Model Army, pancreatic cancer
- 4 Ellen Meloy, 58, American author
- 4 Kristin Smedvig, 83, violin soloist and teacher
- 3 Joe Bushkin, 87, Swing Era pianist [10]
- 3 Richard Hongisto, 67, former sheriff of San Francisco, California and Cleveland, Ohio, heart attack
- 3 Sergei Zholtok, 32, ice hockey player, heart failure due to cardiac arrhythmia
- 2 Virginia Muise, 111, probably oldest living New Englander
- 2 Basil Thompson, 67, Ballet master
- 2 Gerrie Knetemann, 53, Dutch cyclist (World Champion in 1978), heart attack
- 2 Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 86, Emir of Abu Dhabi
- 2 Gustaaf Joos, 81, Belgian Cardinal
- 2 Theo van Gogh, 47, Dutch cineast and writer, murdered
- 1 Evelyn Ruth Moseley Lathan, 74, jazz, blues and gospel pianist
- 1 Lord Hanson, 82, British industrialist
- 1 Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah, deputy governor of Baghdad
- 1 Mae Madison, 89, Actress from silent and early talkie films, favorite of Busby Berkeley
- 1 Marie Tehan, 64, former health minister for Victoria (Australia), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- 1 Terry Knight, 61, manager and producer to Grand Funk Railroad, murdered
October 2004
- 31 Maj.-Gen. Konstantin Dementyev, Russian military official, involved with air force planning and policy, shot to death on the Moscow-Minsk highway
- 31 Don Briscoe, 64, stage and television actor (Dark Shadows)
- 30 Peggy Ryan, 80, actress, singer and dancer
- 29 Gerard Norton VC, 89, won the Victoria Cross in 1944
- 29 Vaughn Meader, 68, Grammy-Award-winning JFK-imitating comedian, emphysema
- 29 Edward Oliver LeBlanc, 81, Dominican political leader, chief minister (1961-1967) and premier (1967-1974), unknown natural causes
- 29 Jacinto João, 60, Portuguese football player, cardiac arrest
- 29 HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, 102
- 29 Peter Twinn, 88, mathematician and code-breaker
- 29 John Parr Miller, 91, children's book illustrator and Disney animator
- 28 Rosalind Hicks, 85, daughter of Agatha Christie
- 28 Ted Taylor, 79, designer of American nuclear bombs before becoming an activist warning of the dangers of nuclear weapons
- 28 Shosei Koda, 24, Japanese backpacker, beheaded by his captors in Iraq
- 28 Jimmy McLarnin, 96, British boxer, two-time world champion
- 28 Graham Roberts, 75, British actor, best known for playing George Barford in The Archers
- 28 Charles Wheeler, 88, cinematographer Tora! Tora! Tora!
- 28 George Schairer, 91 aerodynamics expert
- 28 Gil Melle, 72, film and television music composer, heart attack
- 27 Al Clouston, 94, humorist
- 27 Lester Lanin, 97, Society Big-Band leader
- 27 Bill Liebowitz, 63, American comic book retailer and founder of notable chain of Golden Apple Comics stores, leading the way for the direct market
- 27 Paulo Sérgio de Oliveira Silva (also known as Serginho), 30, Brazilian football player for São Caetano, heart attack during a league match
- 27 Bert Tigchelaar, 58, Dutch journalist
- 26 Bobby Avila, 79, MLB All-Star and AL batting champion in 1954
- 26 Paul F. Iams, 89, founder of the Iams pet food company
- 26 Nestor Kombot-Naguemon, 70?, Central African foreign minister from 1969 until 1970, and ambassador to France at the time of his death, suicide
- 26 Kathleen Crawford Lindsay, 83, 1950s television writer, embolism
- 25 Lilian Kallir, 73, Classical pianist,
- 25 John Peel, 65, British BBC disc jockey and guru of the British indie music scene, heart attack
- 25 Shyam Nandan Mishra, 84, Indian foreign minister from 1979 to 1980, heart attack
- 24 Jokin Ormaetxea, 24, Spanish professional cyclist, car accident
- 24 10 people, including the son of NASCAR race owner Rick Hendrick, crew members and pilots, airplane crash
- 24 James Cardinal Hickey, 84, former Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., previously bishop of Cleveland, Ohio
- 24 Maaja Ranniku, 63, Estonian chess player
- 23 Andrew "Stig" Sewell, British, singer in Icons of Filth, possible brain hemorrhage
- 23 George Silk, 87, Famous WWII Photojournalist for Life magazine, congestive heart failure
- 23 Robert Merrill, 85 (or 87?), American opera singer
- 23 Bill Nicholson OBE, 85, British football manager of Tottenham Hotspur, 1958-1974, associated with the club as player, coach, manager and scout for over 60 years
- 22 Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr., 82, first African American U.S. Navy admiral
- 22 Katherine Victor, 81, cult film actress
- 21/22 Jean-François Leuba, 70, Swiss politician
- 21 Everett Rogers, 73, founder of diffusion of innovations theory
- 21 Adnan al-Ghoul, ??, Hamas chief explosives expert, alleged "father" of the Qassam rocket, assassinated by the IDF
- 21 Victoria Snelgrove, 21, Boston Red Sox fan killed in post-American League Championship Series victory celebration accident
- 20 Veronika Cherkasova, 45, Belarus journalist, murdered
- 20 Anthony Hecht, 81, American poet
- 20 Chuck Hiller, 70, former major league baseball player
- 20 Tevfik Gelenbe, 73, Turkish actor, cancer
- 20 Lynda Lee-Potter, 69, journalist for Daily Mail, brain tumour
- 20 Evald Saag, 91, Estonian theologian
- 20 Wendy Charles Acey, television director
- 19 Arthur H. Robinson, 89, American cartographer
- 19 Anita Bitri-Prapaniku, 36?, Albanian pop singer
- 19 Sang Chun Lee, 51, three cushion billiard player, cancer
- 19 Lewis Urry, 77, Canadian, invented the long-lasting alkaline battery
- 19 Kenneth E. Iverson, 84, computer scientist inventor of the APL programming language
- 19 Paul H. Nitze, 97, American diplomat and Cold War arms negotiator
- 19 Eleanor Plant, 111, Florida's oldest resident, 9th oldest recognized person in USA, 23rd oldest recognized person in the world
- 18 Peter Frost, 65, Author and teacher at the University of British Columbia from skin cancer
- 18 Ansar Tebuyev, 54, Deputy Prime Minister of Karachay-Cherkessia, assassinated
- 18 Steve Steigman, 62, photographer, best known for "Blown Away" shot in Maxell advertising campaign, after suffering from clinical depression
- 18 Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, 52, notorious Indian bandit known as "Jungle Cat", killed by special forces
- 18 Xavier Ormazabal, 23, Spanish mountaineer, while climbing the Cho Oyu in Nepal Himalaya
- 18 Nancy Carline, 95, artist
- 17 Julius Harris, 81, African American actor, heart failure
- 17 Samuel Lender, 84, helped bring Lender's Bagel Company to national prominence
- 17 Celio González, 80, popular singer of Cuban band Sonora Matancera in the 1950s
- 17 Betty Hill, 85, wife of Barney Hill and famous in Ufology for their abduction report, lung cancer
- 17 Ray Boone, 81, patriarch of three-generation major league baseball family
- 17 Rebecca Manning, 60, daughter of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth
- 16 Doug Bennett, 52, lead singer of Canadian band Doug and the Slugs
- 16 Uzi Hitman, 52, Israeli singer, songwriter and composer, heart attack
- 16 Pierre Salinger, 79, Press Secretary to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and newsman
- 16 Vincent Brome, 94, English biographer and novelist
- 15 Dave Godin, 68, Soul music promoter, journalist
- 15 Herbert Katzman, 81, expressionist painter
- 15 Helmut Simon, 67, finder of Ötzi the Iceman
- 15 Irv Novick, 88, American comic book artist
- 15 Lüüdia Vallimäe-Mark, 79, Estonian painter
- 14 Juan Francisco Cardinal Fresno Larrain, 90, Chilean Catholic Cardinal
- 14 Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell, 67, British historian and member of the House of Lords
- 14 Ivan Shamiakin, 83, Soviet Belarusian writer
- 14 Cordell Jackson, 81, rockabilly musician
- 14 Sheila Keith, 84, British actress
- 13 Ivor Wood, 72, British animator, Paddington Bear, The Wombles
- 13 Erik Bye, 78, Norwegian journalist (AP, BBC, NRK), radio/TV host, actor, singer/songwriter; cancer
- 13 Tetsu Yano, 80, Japanese science fiction writer and translator, founder of the Science Fiction Writers of Japan
- 13 Nirupa Roy, 73, Indian film actress
- 13 Bernice Rubens, 76, British novelist (Madame Sousatzka), complications following stroke
- 11 Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, 82, landowner, diplomat
- 11 Ben Komproe, 62, former Prime Minister and Minister of Justice of the Netherlands Antilles
- 11 Gulshan Rai, 80, Indian film producer and distributor
- 11 Keith Miller, 84, Australian rules footballer, cricketer, fighter pilot and journalist
- 11 Mary Loos, 94, actress, screenwriter, and novelist; complications from stroke
- 11 Lillian Zuckerman, 88, character actress
- 10 Arthur H. Robinson, 89, cartographer
- 10 Christopher Reeve, 52, U.S. actor who starred as Superman in the 1978 movie and sequels, and campaigned for stem cell research after being paralyzed, heart failure brought on by septicemia
- 10 Ken Caminiti, 41, American baseball player, heart attack
- 10 Maurice Shadbolt, 72, New Zealand writer, Alzheimer's disease
- 9 Maxime A. Faget, 83, NASA longtime engineer through the Space Shuttle program & designer of the Mercury space capsule, bladder cancer
- 9 Bolat Kesikhbaev, boxing leader, heart attack
- 9 Izquierdo Carlos, 40, paraglider, killed during European Championships
- 8 Malcolm Summers, 80, witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy [11]
- 8 Jacques Derrida, 74, French philosopher, pancreatic cancer
- 8 Johnny Sturm, 88, former New York Yankees first baseman and minor league manager
- 8 Rico Weber, 62, Swiss artist
- 8 Richard Ellison, 80, documentary producer, diffuse Lewy Body Syndrome
- 7 Ken Bigley, 62, British hostage in Iraq, executed by hostage takers
- 7 T.J. Binyon, 68, author, Oxford professor, Pushkin scholar
- 7 Hildy Parks, 78, American actress, writer, TV producer
- 7 Sayed El-Nassery, Egyptian Historian, Wrote tens of historical books, graduated from Oxford University at 1969
- 6 Frederica de Laguna, 98, archaeologist and anthropologist studied Alaskan native cultures
- 6 John A. Kelley, 97, U.S. athlete
- 6 Pete McCarthy, 51, travel writer and broadcaster, cancer
- 6 Harbhajan Singh Yogi, 75, spiritual leader and head of the Sikh Dharma in the western hemisphere
- 6 Veríssimo Correia Seabra, 57, military commander in Guinea-Bissau, killed in mutiny[12]
- 6 Marvin Santiago, 56, Puerto Rican Salsa music singer, diabetes complications
- 5 Mildred McDaniel Singleton, 70, 1956 Olympic Gold-Medal winner in High Jump
- 5 Maurice Wilkins, 87, DNA pioneer
- 5 Rodney Dangerfield, 82, comic and actor
- 5 William Dobelle (62), American eye doctor and inventor prominent in artificial vision research, diabetes complications
- 4 Cleonicio Dos Santos Silva (also known as Renato), 28, football player for F.C. Zürich, killed during a robbery
- 4 Helmut Bantz, 83, 1956 Olympic gold medal winner in pommel horse gymnastics
- 4 Willy Guhl, 89, internationally known Swiss furniture designer
- 4 Gordon Cooper, 77, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts
- 4 Peter L. Picknelly, 73, owner of Peter Pan Bus Lines
- 4 Virginia Curtis, actress (Your Show of Shows), cancer
- 3 Ralph Citro, 78, renowned boxing cut-man, member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
- 3 Janet Leigh, 77, American actress, of vasculitis
- 3 Frits van Turenhout, 91, Dutch sports journalist
- 3 John Cerutti, 44, former MLB baseball player, announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays
- 2 Fialho Gouveia, 69, Portuguese radio and TV presenter, of cardiac arrest
- 2 Nick Skorich, 83, NFL coach, (Philadelphia Eagles) in the early 1960s
- 2 Max van Gelder, 88, world's first jazz harmonica player and Goon, of old age
- 2 Fernando Gallardo, 62, Chilean actor, cancer
- 1 Yoshiaki Hoshi, 58, composer and synthesizer player, founder of the New Age musical group Himekami
- 1 Richard Avedon, 81, American fashion photographer, of a brain hemorrhage
- 1 Joyce Jillson, 58, American astrologer, of kidney failure
- 1 Bruce Palmer, 58, Bassist for Buffalo Springfield, heart attack
- 1 Burt Miller, 92, American actor
September 2004
- 30 Eugenio Pio Seghesio, 85, pioneering California vintner, (Seghesio Wineries)
- 30 Jacques Levy, 69, director of original production of Oh! Calcutta!
- 30 Jan Wind, 47, police officer from Enschede, shot dead while chasing a suspected drug dealer (it is a rare occurrence in the Netherlands that police officers are killed on duty)
- 30 Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor
- 30 Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch maverick journalist, cancer
- 30 Justin Strzelczyk, 36, former NFL Pittsburgh Steelers player, car crash while leading police on chase
- 30 Hans Bakker, 26, free software hacker, died in car crash near Paris
- 30 Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician
- 29 Richard L. Berger, 64, helped create Touchstone Pictures label as part of Walt Disney Pictures, lung cancer
- 29 Ernst van der Beugel, 86, former Dutch junior Foreign Minister and former CEO of KLM
- 29 Christer Pettersson, 57, suspected murderer of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme
- 29 Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, accident
- 29 Gertrude Dunn, 72, American women's baseball and field hockey player, plane crash
- 29 Shimon Wincelberg (also known as S. Bar David), 80, television writer
- 28 Christl Cranz-Borchers, 90, German alpine skier, Olympic champion and twelvefold World champion
- 28 Geoffrey Beene, 77, fashion designer, pneumonia
- 28 Mulk Raj Anand, 98, Indian author in English
- 28 Scott Muni, 74, longtime New York City radio disc jockey
- 28 Edmund Ralph Haggar Sr., 88, brought Haggar brand to national prominence
- 27 Tsai Wan-lin, 81, Taiwan's wealthiest businessman and founder of the Lin Yuan Group
- 27 Pieter Jan Leeuwerink, 41, Dutch volleyball player with 187 caps
- 26 Tim Pauwels, 22, Belgian cyclo-crosser, aortic aneurysm during race
- 26 Amjad Hussain Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida
- 26 Dean Kutz, 48, jockey
- 26 Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, Hamas leader assassinated by car bomb
- 25 Dr. Katherine E. Keough, 61, president of St. John Fisher College
- 25 Alain Glavieux, 55, mathematician, Information technology pioneer
- 25 Marvin Davis, 79, philanthropist; ex-owner of Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach
- 25 Ivan Caceres, 21, football player, haemoptysis
- 24 Tim Choate, 49, actor (Babylon 5), motorcycle accident
- 24 Françoise Sagan, 69, French novelist
- 23 Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, former editor of Ms. Magazine, feminist and civil rights advocate
- 23 André Hazes, 53, Dutch singer
- 23 Billy Reay, 86, former NHL player and coach for the Chicago Black Hawks
- 23 Raja Ramanna, 79, nuclear scientist and father of India's nuclear program
- 23 Bill Ballance, 85, radio personality; forerunner of shock jocks Tom Leykis and Howard Stern
- 22 Ray Traylor, 42, American professional wrestler known as The Big Boss Man
- 22 Dirk van der Horst, 57, guitarist with popular Dutch band BZN
- 21 Samantha Chevalier, 14, student at Columbia High School, died of drug overdose
- 21 Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq. [13]
- 21 Nordin ben Salah, 32, boxer, murdered
- 21 Larry Phillips, 62, stock car racer
- 20 Eugene Armstrong, 52, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq
- 20 Brian Clough OBE, 69, English footballer and cup-winning coach and manager
- 20 Kalmer Tennosaar, 75, Estonian singer
- 19 Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder
- 19 Eddie Adams, 71, photojournalist
- 19 Skeeter Davis, 73, country music singer
- 19 Ellis Marsalis, Sr., 96, patriarch of family of jazz musicians
- 19 Ryhor Reles, 91, the last writer from Belarus who wrote in Yiddish
- 19 Imelda Higuera, 65?, Mexican singer, Las Jilguerillas duo, respiratory failure
- 18 Norman Cantor, 74, medieval scholar
- 18 Russ Meyer, 82, filmmaker
- 18 Marvin Mitchelson, 76, divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer
- 18 Klara Rumyanova, 74, Russian actress
- 17 Katharina Dalton, 87, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome
- 16 Dolly Rathebe, South African musician
- 16 Izora Rhodes Armstead, American singer, one of the two Weather Girls
- 16 Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet
- 16 Sergio Sánchez, Mexican actor
- 15 Donald Yetter Gardner, 91, songwriter, All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
- 15 Daouda Malam Wanke, 50?, leader of the 1999 transitional government in Niger
- 15 Johnny Ramone, 55, guitarist and founding member of The Ramones, prostate cancer
- 14 Giovanni Biacci, 93, Italian musician
- 14 Sir William Melville Peek, 84, 5th Baronet of Lodiswell
- 14 Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor
- 14 Reynaldo G. Garza, 89, first Hispanic American appointed as Federal Appeals Court judge[14]
- 13 Glenn Presnell, 99, early NFL player with the Detroit Lions
- 12 Max Abramovitz, 96, architect
- 12 Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djibouti politician, vice-president of the government council (1959-60) and prime minister (1977-78)
- 12 John Buller, 77, British composer
- 12 Jerome Chodorov, 93, playwright, My Sister Eileen
- 11 Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer
- 11 Fred Ebb, 71, Broadway lyricist (Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack
- 11 Peter VII, 55, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, helicopter crash
- 10 Anthony Luigi Mancini, 71, British boxing manager and cutman
- 10 Brock Adams, 77, U.S. politician
- 10 Glyn Owen, 76, British actor
- 10 O.L. Duke, 51, actor, automobile crash
- 10 Joan Doreen Pickles, 80, early recipient of an artificial heart valve and wife of noted inventor Harry Pickles, artificial heart valve failure.
- 9 Joan Snyder, 69, writer and producer for CBS News
- 9 Ernie Ball, 74, guitar equipment maker
- 9 Ralph G. Allen, 70, wrote the book for Broadway show Sugar Babies
- 8 Ian Cochrane, 62, British novelist
- 8 Frank Thomas, 91, Disney animator
- 8 Raymond Marcellin, 90, former Interior minister of France
- 8? Richard Girnt Butler, 86, founder of the Aryan Nations
- 8 James Westphal, California Institute of Technology scientist
- 8 Matías Prats Cañete, Spanish journalist
- 7 Hervey Feldman, 67, founder of the Embassy Suites hotel chain
- 7 Samira Bellil, 31, campaigner for Muslim girls' and women's rights, cancer
- 7 Munir, 39, prominent Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic
- 7 Gerard Piel, 89, publisher of Scientific American, complications from a stroke
- 7 Kirk Fordice, 70, Mississippi's first Republican Governor since 1874, leukemia
- 7 Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé, 89, Afrikaner-South African cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid activist
- 7 Jonathan Scharer, 56, Producer, Forbidden Broadway
- 6 Miriam Pires, 77, Brazilian actress, star of many popular telenovelas
- 6 Elly Annie Schneider, 90, one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz
- 6 Harvey Wheeler, 85, political scientist and author (Fail-Safe)
- 5 Fritha Goodey, 31, actress (About a Boy), apparent suicide
- 5 Gerald Merrithew, 73, New Brunswick, Canada politician and former federal cabinet minister, cancer
- 5 John "Red" Cochran, 82, former NFL player, scout and assistant coach for the Green Bay Packers
- 5 Alessio Perilli, 20, Italian motoracer, killed during a race
- 5 Caroline Pratt, 42, British eventer, killed during a race
- 5 Jesus Viera, 73, better known as "Cucho Viera", Puerto Rican television actor and comedian
- 5 Steve Wayne, 84, American actor
- 4 Michael Louden, 40, actor, autoerotic asphyxiation
- 4 Bob Boyd, 84?, former MLB; first black player to sign with the White Sox, and first Oriole to bat over .300 in the 20th century
- 4 James O. Page, 68, North Carolina's former chief of EMS and founder of modern emergency medical response, heart attack
- 4 Moe Norman, 75, PGA and Canadian Tour golfer, congestive heart failure
- 4 Alphonso Ford, 33, American-born Euroleague player, leukemia
- 3 Steven Blackford, 28, former University of Arizona wrestler, car accident
- 3 Anne Coffin Hanson, 82, first full tenured female Professor at Yale (1970), Art Historian
- 3 Jessie V. Stone, 100, Philanthropist and widow of W. Clement Stone
- 3 Bram Vermeulen, 57, singer, songwriter and cabaret artist, heart attack
- 2 Billy Davis, 72, commercial jingle writer (I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke)
- 2 Paul Shmyr, 58, former NHL and WHA defenseman, throat cancer
- 2 Donald Leslie, 93, creator of the Leslie speaker
- 2 Bob O. Evans, 77, IBM computer scientist
- 2 Joan Oró i Florensa, 80, biochemist
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