The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 2004
1 Paul Atkinson, 58, British guitarist, kidney failure. Aaron Bank, 101, American U.S. Army officer, "Father of Special Forces". Vincenzo Biava, 87, Italian Olympic sports shooter (1960). Enrique Grau, 83, Colombian painter and sculptor. Yannis Kyrastas, 51, Greek football player and football manager, sepsis. Jim Mankins, 59, American football player (Atlanta Falcons). Ichirō Nakatani, 73, Japanese actor and seiyū. Sándor Reisenbüchler, 69, Hungarian animated film director and graphic artist. Mykola Rudenko, 83, Ukrainian poet and human rights activist. Jacques Seiler, 76, French actor and theatre director, cancer. Charles St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair, 89, British aristocrat and courtier. Carrie Snodgress, 58, American actress (Diary of a Mad Housewife, Pale Rider, Murphy's Law), kidney failure. Gurcharan Singh Tohra, 79, Indian Sikh leader, heart attack.
2 Ioannis Argyris, 90, Greek computer scientist. Alan Levy, 72, American author. Larry McGrew, 46, American football player (New England Patriots, New York Giants). Takashi Shirôzu, 86, Japanese entomologist. Chaïbia Talal, 75, Moroccan painter, heart attack. John Taras, 84, American ballet master and choreographer.
3 John Diamond, Baron Diamond, 96, British life peer. Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian singer, suicide. Eduard Linkers, 91, Austrian actor. Nathaniel McClinic, 77, American baseball player. Nagaraja Rao, 89–90, Indian cricket umpire. Phillip Rock, 76, American actor, screenwriter (Most Dangerous Man Alive) and novelist ("Passing Bells" trilogy). Tony Wallin, 46, Swedish Olympic sailor (1988).
4 Gito Baloi, 39, South African musician, homicide. George Bamberger, 80, American baseball player and manager, cancer. Nikita Bogoslovsky, 90, Soviet and Russian composer, conductor, and writer. Danuta Czech, 82, Polish Holocaust historian. Sukhen Das, 65, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter of Bengali cinema. Gébé, 74, French cartoonist. Ralph Kemplen, 91, British film editor (The Day of the Jackal, The African Queen, The Dark Crystal). Pierre Koenig, 78, American architect and academic. Tevfik Lav, 44, Turkish football manager. Boris Levitan, 89, Russian mathematician. James J. Martin, 87, American historian and Holocaust denier. Bogdan Norčič, 50, Yugoslavian Olympic ski jumper (1976, 1980). Albéric Schotte, 84, Belgian road racing cyclist. Alwyn Williams, 82, British geologist. Ron Williams, 59, American basketball player (San Francisco/Golden State Warriors, Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers), heart attack. Austin Willis, 87, Canadian actor and television host.
5 Isaac Carrasco, 75, Chilean football player. Juan Carlos Fonda, 84, Argentine footballer. Fernand Goyvaerts, 65, Belgian football player, cerebral hemorrhage. Ralph Landau, 87, American chemical engineer and entrepreneur. Larry McGrew, 46, American gridiron football player, heart attack. Pompeo Posar, 83, American Playboy magazine staff photographer. Sławomir Rawicz, 88, Polish army lieutenant imprisoned by the NKVD and purported escapee (The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom). Fred Winter, 77, British racehorse trainer and jockey. Heiner Zieschang, 67, German mathematician.
6 Lou Berberet, 74, American Major League Baseball baseball player. Larisa Bogoraz, 74, Russian dissident and human rights activist, stroke. Glenn Cowan, 51, American table tennis player, heart attack. Anny van Doorne, 74, Dutch Olympic equestrian (1972). Ken Johnson, 81, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers). Alexander Lerner, 90, Soviet and Ukrainian scientist and refusenik. Niki Sullivan, 66, American Rock and Roll guitarist, heart attack. Ingemar Svensson, 75, Swedish Olympic rower (1952).
7 Victor Argo, 69, American actor (King of New York, Taxi Driver, Bad Lieutenant), complications from lung cancer. Wolfgang Mattheuer, 77, German painter, graphic artist and sculptor, heart failure. Marian McCargo, 72, American actress and champion tennis player, pancreatic cancer. Kelucharan Mohapatra, 77, Indian classical dancer and guru. Jeff Newman, 62, American country musician, plane crash.Steel Guitarist Newman Dies Trying to Land Small Plane Maureen Potter, 79, Irish actress, singer, dancer and comedian. Robert Sangster, 67, British racehorse owner, pancreatic cancer. Peter Urban, 69, American martial artist.
8 Shafic Abboud, 77, Lebanese painter. Herb Andress, 69, Austrian film and television actor, bladder cancer. Adrian Beers, 88, British double bass player. Chief Bey, 90, American jazz percussionist and African folklorist, stomach cancer. Enda Colleran, 61, Irish Gaelic football player and manager. Ruth Tabrah, 83, American writer and ordained Buddhist minister. Joe Tierney, 101, American Olympic sprinter (1928).
9 Lélia Abramo, 93, Brazilian actress and political activist, and politician, pulmonary embolism. Harry Babbitt, 90, American singer. Jiří Čtyřoký, 93, Czech Olympic basketball player (1936). Chick Meehan, 87, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals). Donna Michelle, 58, American model, actress, and photographer, heart attack. Chance Phelps, 19, American private first class. Billy Richardson, 83, Irish soccer player and Olympian (1948). Julius Sang, 55, Kenyan Olympic runner (1968, 1972). Jiří Weiss, 91, Czech film director, screenwriter, writer, and playwright.
10 Roger Achten, 76, Belgian Olympic fencer (1956, 1960). Paul-Louis Boutié, 93, French art director. Bertil Göransson, 85, Swedish rowing coxswain and Olympic silver medalist (1956). Maurice Jacquel, 75, French Olympic wrestler (1960). Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity, laryngeal cancer. Ben Pimlott, 58, British historian, leukemia. Roland Rainer, 93, Austrian architect. Sakıp Sabancı, 71, Turkish businessman, kidney cancer. Odd Wang Sørensen, 81, Norwegian Olympic football player (1952).
11 Atanas Aleksandrov, 51, Bulgarian footballer. Stan Darling, 92, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1972-1993). Sammy Fox, 85, American football player (New York Giants). Hy Gotkin, 81, American basketball player. Paul Hamburger, 83, British pianist, accompanist, chamber musician, and scholar. Mamadou Aliou Kéïta, 52, Guinean football player, cardiac arrest.
12 İrfan Atan, 75-76, Turkish Olympic wrestler (1952). Ted Bromley, 91, Australian rower and Olympian (1948). Norman Campbell, 80, Canadian composer, television producer and director, stroke. Alejandro Díaz, 83, Chilean hammer thrower and Olympian (1956). Robert Richardson, 76, Canadian Olympic alpine skier (1952). Frank Seward, 83, American baseball player (New York Giants). Juanito Valderrama, 87, Spanish folk and flamenco singer. Wesley Wehr, 74, American paleontologist and artist. George W. Whitehead, 85, American mathematician.
13 Roland Clauws, 70, French footballer. Ritchie Cordell, 61, American songwriter, singer and record producer, pancreatic cancer. Dadamaino, 73, Italian visual artist and painter. Hilda Fenemore, 89, English actress. Tito Figueroa, 89, Puerto Rican baseball player. David Fowler, 66, British mathematician. Csaba Horváth, 74, Hungarian-American chemical engineer and scientist. Caron Keating, 41, British television presenter, breast cancer. Aarne Saarinen, 90, Finnish politician and a trade union leader. Filemon Vela Sr., 68, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas).
14 Micheline Charest, 51, British television producer, complications following plastic surgery. Antonio Cobas, 52, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle designer and mechanic, cancer. Albie Grant, 60, American college basketball player (LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds). Erik Kuld Jensen, 78, Danish football player and Olympian (1948). Robin Popplestone, 65, British software designer and a pioneer in artificial intelligence and robotics, prostate cancer. Fabrizio Quattrocchi, 35, Italian security officer, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq. Osvaldo Riva, 76, Italian Olympic wrestler (1952).
15 Ray Condo, 53, Canadian rockabilly singer, saxophonist, and guitarist, heart attack. María Denis, 87, Argentine-Italian film actress. Phyllis Dillon, 59, Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer, cancer. Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre director, composer and producer. Jack Miller, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks). Maury Schleicher, 66, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers). Mitsuteru Yokoyama, 69, Japanese manga artist, accidental death.
16 Abu al-Walid, Saudi Arabian terrorist, killed by Russian federal forces. Carlos Castaño, 38, Colombian rebel leader, killed by FARC guerillas. Elwood Cooke, 90, American tennis player.Paid Notice: Deaths COOKE, ELWOOD Nour El-Dali, 75, Egyptian footballer and Olympian (1952). Wilmot N. Hess, 77, American physicist, leukemia. Harry Mayerovitch, 94, Canadian architect, artist, illustrator, and author. Matilde Moraschi, 94, Italian basketball player and Olympian sprinter (1928). Jan Szczepański, 90, Polish sociologist and politician. James Walraven, 54, American murderer and suspected serial killer, suicide. Noriaki Yasuda, 68, Japanese pole vaulter and Olympian (1960).
17 Charlie Armitt, 78, English rugby league footballer. Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, 56, Palestinian Hamas leader, targeted killing by Israel. Bruce Boa, 73, Canadian-British actor (The Empire Strikes Back, Octopussy, Full Metal Jacket), cancer. Hoo Cha-pen, 79-80, Taiwanese Olympic basketball player (1956). Anke Hartnagel, 62, German politician, Member of the German Bundestag (1998–2004). Geraint Howells, 79, Welsh politician. Joe Kennedy Jr., 80, American jazz violinist. Jim Ligon, 60, American basketball player (Kentucky Colonels, Pittsburgh Condors, Virginia Squires). Earl Miner, 77, American professor at Princeton University. Soundarya, 31, Indian film actress, plane crash. Bobby Wawak, 64, American NASCAR race driver.
18 David Clarke, 95, American Broadway and motion picture actor. Tzila Dagan, 57, Israeli singer-songwriter, cancer.הזמרת צילה דגן הלכה לעולמה (in Hebrew) Gürdal Duyar, 68, Turkish sculptor. Brice Hunter, 29, American gridiron football player (Georgia Bulldogs, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), shot. Kamisese Mara, 83, Fijian politician, prime minister and president, stroke. Koken Nosaka, 79, Japanese politician. Frances Rafferty, 81, American actress, dancer, and model. Werner Schumacher, 82, German actor.
19 Gene Edward Brooks, 72, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana). Tim Burstall, 76, Australian film director and producer, stroke. Jim Cantalupo, 60, American businessman, CEO of McDonald's, heart attack. George Hardwick, 84, English football player, manager and coach. Volodymyr Kaplychnyi, 60, Ukrainian football player and Olympian (1972). Julião da Kutonda, 39, Angolan footballer. Philip Locke, 76, British actor. José Luis Martínez, 60, Argentine Olympic hammer thrower (1968). Norris McWhirter, 78, British writer, political activist and founder of the Guinness Book of Records, heart attack. Frank B. Morrison, 98, American politician, Governor of Nebraska. Sam Nahem, 88, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies). Yasumasa Nishino, 79, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1952). Ronnie Simpson, 73, Scottish footballer, manager and Olympian (1948), heart attack. John Maynard Smith, 84, British biologist, lung cancer. Wolfgang Unger, 55, German conductor, cancer.
20 Lizzy Mercier Descloux, 47, French musician, actress, writer and painter, cancer. Komal Kothari, 75, Indian folklorist and ethnomusicologist.