The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 2005
1 Renaldo Benson, 69, American soul and R&B singer and member of The Four Tops, lung cancer. Rex Berry, 80, American football player (BYU Cougars, San Francisco 49ers). Gus Bodnar, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins). Ivan Kolev, 74, Bulgarian football player and Olympian (1952, 1956, 1960), heart attack. Luther Vandross, 54, American R&B singer, complications following a heart attack.
2 Carla Candiani, 89, Italian film actress. Ernest Lehman, 89, American screenwriter (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, North by Northwest, West Side Story). Norm Prescott, 78, American co-founder of Filmation animation studios. B. N. Krishnamurti Sharma, 96, Indian writer, scholar, professor, and indologist. France Staub, 84, Mauritian ornithologist, botanist, and conservationist. Tom Talbert, 80, American jazz pianist, composer, and band leader. Gu Yue, 68, Chinese actor, heart attack.
3 Muhammad Ashfaq, 58, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player (1968). Siv Ericks, 87, Swedish character actress. Nan Kempner, 74, American society hostess, pulmonary emphysema. Alberto Lattuada, 90, Italian film director, Alzheimer's disease. Pierre Michelot, 77, French jazz bassist, played with Miles Davis, Alzheimer's disease. Gaylord Nelson, 89, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Senator, heart attack. Sam Tata, 93, Canadian photographer. Hedy West, 67, American folksinger, cancer. Harrison Young, 75, American actor (Saving Private Ryan, House of 1000 Corpses, Passions).
4 Chris Bunch, 62, American science fiction writer, lung ailment. Bryan Coleman, 94, British television and film actor. Al Downing, 65, American R&B and country & western musician, leukemia. Per Gedda, 90, Swedish Olympic sailor (1936, 1952). Cliff Goupille, 89, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens). June Haver, 79, American film actress, widow of Fred MacMurray, respiratory failure. Marga López, 81, Mexican film and television actress, heart failure. George C. McGhee, 93, American petroleum geologist and diplomat, pneumonia. Hank Stram, 82, American gridiron football coach (Kansas City Chiefs) and Pro Football Hall of Fame member, diabetes. John Stubblefield, 60, American jazz saxophonist, flautist, and oboist, prostate cancer. Lorenzo Thomas, 60, Panamanian-American poet.
5 Leo Breiman, 77, American statistician. Bud Cullen, 78, Canadian judge and politician. Ray Davis, 65, American singer, founding member of Parliament/Funkadelic. Shirley Goodman, 69, American R&B singer. Baloo Gupte, 70, Indian cricketer. James Stockdale, 81, American Vice Admiral and Medal of Honor recipient, Alzheimer's disease.
6 Bruno Augenstein, 82, German-American mathematician and physicist. L. Patrick Gray, 88, American former Director of the United States FBI, pancreatic cancer. James Haskins, 63, American professor, biographer, and author, pulmonary emphysema. Evan Hunter, 78, American mystery novel writer, wrote under numerous pseudonyms (Ed McBain), cancer of the larynx. Huang Kun, 85, Chinese physicist. Donald McGinley, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Nebraska (1959–1961) and Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska (1983–1987). Jean Nelissen, 81, Belgian footballer. Al Porto, 79, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). Claude Simon, 91, French writer and Nobel Prize winner.
7 Henri Betti, 87, French composer and pianist. Paul Deliège, 74, Belgian comic book writer/artist, heart attack. Per Dohm, 67, US Virgin Islander Olympic sailor (1968). Gunnar Fredrik Hellesen, 92, Norwegian politician. Adolf Müller, 91, Swiss freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist (1948). Gustaf Sobin, 69, American-French poet and novelist, pancreatic cancer. Juan Antonio Valencia, 75, Salvadoran Olympic sports shooter (1968, 1972). Notable deceased during the 7 July 2005 London bombings Hasib Hussain, 18, British terrorist, suicide. Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, British terrorist, suicide. Germaine Lindsay, 19, British terrorist, suicide. Shehzad Tanweer, 22, British terrorist, suicide.
8 Jean-Claude Arifon, 78, French Olympic hurdler (1948). Maurice Baquet, 94, French actor and cellist. Peter Boenisch, 78, German columnist and journalist, cancer. Denis Bray, 78, British civil servant in Hong Kong. Judy Mann, 61, American longtime columnist for The Washington Post, breast cancer.
9 Ann Brewster, 86, American cartoonist and illustrator. Chuck Cadman, 57, Canadian politician Member of House of Commons of Canada (1997-), melanoma. Karim Emami, 75, Iranian translator, lexicographer, and literary critic, cancer. Yevgeny Grishin, 74, Russian speed skater, first speed skater under 40 seconds on 500 metres, and Olympian (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968). Kevin Hagen, 77, American actor (Little House on the Prairie), esophageal cancer. René Joder, 92, French Olympic water polo player (1936). Marie-Thérèse Morlet, 91, French scholar and honorary director of research at CNRS. Byron Preiss, 52, American writer, editor, and publisher, traffic collision. Melvin Read, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers). Alex Shibicky, 91, Canadian ice hockey player who made the first slapshot (New York Rangers). Al Sparlis, 85, American football player (UCLA Bruins, Green Bay Packers). Lu Wenfu, 77, Chinese writer. Rafiq Zakaria, 79, Indian Islamic scholar.
10 Richard Eastham, 89, American actor (Tombstone Territory, That Darn Cat!, Wonder Woman), Alzheimer's disease. Jimmy Franklin, 57, American aerobatic pilot, plane crash.Extreme Airshow Serge Lancen, 82, French composer and classical pianist. Gavin I. Langmuir, 81, Canadian medievalist historian. Frank Moores, 72, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland, cancer. A. J. Quinnell, 65, English writer, Man on Fire. Freddy Soto, 35, American comedian and actor. David V., 72, Malaysian unionist and politician.
11 Francisco Casamayor, 56, Cuban Olympic weightlifter (1976, 1980). Gretchen Franklin, 94, English television actress ("Ethel Skinner"). Shinya Hashimoto, 40, Japanese professional wrestler, intracranial aneurysm. Jesús Iglesias, 83, Argentine Grand Prix racing driver. David Ralph "Boag" Johnson, 83, American basketball player (Anderson Packers, Fort Wayne Pistons). John Kennedy-Good, 89, New Zealand politician. Frances Langford, 92, American singer and actress, heart attack. Samuel Schemberg, 79, Brazilian Olympic water polo player (1952). Robert Shevin, 71, American Attorney General and politician, esophageal cancer. Avabai Bomanji Wadia, 91, Ceylonese-Indian social worker, writer and family planning advocate. Theodore Woodward, 91, American medical researcher at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
12 Piero Cappuccilli, 78, Italian operatic baritone. Joseph Patrick Delaney, 70, American Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Fort Worth, Texas. Arthur Fletcher, 80, American government official, Assistant Labor Secretary under US President Richard Nixon. Willi Heinrich, 84, German author and soldier during World War II. P. K. Vasudevan Nair, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Kerala state, India. Axel Strøbye, 77, Danish stage and film actor. Hugo Walser, 65, Liechtenstein Olympic middle-distance runner (1964). John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, 87, British peer, businessman and chairman of British Airways (1981-1993).
13 Robert P. Abelson, 76, American psychologist and political scientist, Parkinson's disease. Asen Kisimov, 69, Bulgarian actor, singer and radio presenter. Ken Lunday, 92, American football player (New York Giants). Bob Maslen-Jones, 84, British Olympic sports shooter (1948). Robert E. Ogren, 83, American zoologist. Mickey Owen, 89, American former MLB baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers. J. B. Trapp, 79, New Zealand-British historian, writer, and academic.
14 Jorge Aguirre, 80, Mexican athlete and Olympian (1948). Mark Carlisle, 76, British politician and peer. Michael Dahlquist, 39, American musician, film editor, and computer programmer, homicide. Tilly Fleischer, 93, German athlete and Olympian (1932, 1936). Coulby Gunther, 82, American basketball player (Pittsburgh Ironmen, St. Louis Bombers). Joe Harnell, 80, American composer, musician, and music arranger. Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz, 86, Polish sculptor. Richard Leiterman, 70, Canadian cinematographer, amyloidosis. Cicely Saunders, 87, British palliative care activist, cancer.
15 David Daiches, 92, Scottish literary critic. Anne Drungis, 74, American Olympic fencer (1964). Michael Gibson, 60, American Tony-nominated orchestrator and musician, lung cancer. Anders Hagen, 84, Norwegian archaeologist. Dick Haggie, 71, New Zealand rugby league footballer. John Muhato, 51, Kenyan Olympic sports shooter (1972). Leonor Orosa-Goquingco, 87, Filipino artist, dancer, and columnist. Stan Steele, 68, English football player. Alicia Vignoli, 94, Argentine film actress. Ronald Wilson, 82, Australian High Court justice.
16 Blue Barron, 92, American orchestra leader. Gerry Conlee, 90, American football player (Cleveland Rams, Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers). Pietro Consagra, 84, Italian sculptor. Camillo Felgen, 84, Luxembourgish singer, disc jockey, and television presenter. Yi Gu, 73, Korean prince, heart attack. W. Fox McKeithen, 58, American politician, 5-time Louisiana Secretary of State, suicide from height. John Ostrom, 77, American paleontologist who revolutionized understanding of dinosaurs, Alzheimer's disease. Miguel Pérez, 68, Puerto Rican wrestler, heart attack. K. V. Subbanna, 73, Indian dramatist and writer. Dieter Wellershoff, 72, German admiral and Chief of Federal Armed Forces Staff (1986-1991).
17 Laurel Aitken, 77, Jamaican musician, heart attack. Izabella Bashmakova, 84, Russian historian of mathematics. David Cluett, 39, Maltese footballer. Biplab Dasgupta, 66, Indian economist, Parkinson's disease. Geraldine Fitzgerald, 91, Irish-born American actress, Alzheimer's disease. Hans Hansen, 90, Norwegian competition rower and Olympic medalist (1948). Edward Heath, 89, British politician, Prime Minister (1970–1974), MP (1950–2001), pneumonia. Tommy Johnson, 73, Swedish actor. Gina Lagorio, 83, Italian writer. Gavin Lambert, 80, British-American novelist, screenwriter (Inside Daisy Clover, Sons and Lovers). Mojtaba Mirzadeh, 60, Iranian-Kurdish violin, kamancheh, and setar master. Spartak Mishulin, 78, Soviet actor and People's Artist of the RSFSR, heart attack. I. G. Patel, 80, Indian economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (1977–1982). Jim Pearce, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Cincinnati Redlegs). Dick Sipek, 82, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). Rie Vierdag, 99, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympian (1924, 1928, 1932). William Weatherspoon, 69, American songwriter and record producer.
18 Carlton Elliott, 77, American football player (Virginia Cavaliers, Green Bay Packers). Walter Fritsch, 93, Chilean Olympic hurdler (1936). Amy Gillett, 29, Australian rower, cyclist and Olympian (1996), bicycle accident. Gilles Grondin, 62, Canadian educator and a politician, cancer. John Herald, 66, American folk musician and recording artist, suicide. Bill Hicke, 67, Canadian ice hockey right winger. Jim Parker, 71, American football player, (Baltimore Colts) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Gerry Thomas, 83, American marketing/sales executive and inventor of the TV dinner, cancer. Franz Weissmann, 93, Brazilian sculptor. William Westmoreland, 91, American army general, commander of U.S. forces during the Vietnam War (1964-1968), Alzheimer's disease.
19 Jim Aparo, 72, American comic book artist (Batman, Phantom Stranger, Spectre).