Recent deaths

Bob Kennedy, 84, a former MLB player and manager, who hit the first grand slam in Baltimore Orioles history and was the Oakland Athletics first manager

Charles Kuentz, 108, last living French World War I veteran to fight for Germany, cardiac arrest

Jose Melis, 85, former bandleader for The Tonight Show

Yvonne Vera, 40, novelist from Zimbabwe

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Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, 81, reigning Prince of Monaco since 1949

Frank Conroy, 69, memoirist and head of the University of Iowa's famous Iowa Writers' Workshop

Anthony DePalma, 100, doctor, teacher, and humanitarian

Gene Hazelton, 85, cartoonist

Francisco Laudadio, 55, Italian film director

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Sir Edwin Leather, 85, governor of Bermuda from 1973 to 1977

Saul Bellow, 89, Nobel Prize-winning author

Ura Koyama, 114, supercentenarian, oldest in Japan since 2003, died of pneumonia

Dale Messick, 98, creator of the Brenda Starr comic strip

Debralee Scott, 52, actress, starred on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

Neil Welliver, 75, landscape painter mainly in his native Maine

Becky Zerlentes, 34, American amateur boxer, first amateur to die as a consequence of a fight in five years.

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Edward Bronfman, 77, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, colon cancer

3 -

Simon Blumenfeld, 97, English novelist, playwright and columnist

Blanchette Brunoy, 86, French actress

Frank Clair, 87, CFL coach with the Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Rough Riders, heart failure

2 -

Betty Bolton, 99, English actress and singer

Alexander Brott, 90, Canadian composer, conductor and violinist

Tony Croatto, 65 Italian-Puerto Rican composer-singer, lung and brain cancer

John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), 84, Polish Roman Catholic Pope, died after a lengthy illness.

Eddie Moss, 45, former Syracuse and CBA player, cancer

John O'Leary, 58, Former U.S. ambassador to Chile, Lou Gehrig's disease

Jacques Rabemananjara, 92, Madagascan politician, foreign minister from 1967 to 1972.

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Cheryl Barrymore, 56, former wife and agent of British TV entertainer Michael Barrymore, lung cancer

Harald Juhnke, 75, German entertainer

Jack Keller, 68, songwriter, wrote themes to Bewitched and Gidget

Samuel Krachmalnick, 79, Broadway and classical orchestral conductor, notably the premiere of Candide by Leonard Bernstein

Robert Coldwell Wood, 81, second Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1969. Later University of Massachusetts President 1970-1977.

Lazare Gionet, 108, Canadian World War I veteran

March 2005

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Frank Perdue, 84, poultry magnate

Terri Schiavo, 41, US persistent vegetative state patient, died amidst much controversy after removal of gastric feeding tube

30 -

Thomas J. Brazaitis, 64, columnist correspondent and newspaper editor

Robert Creeley, 78, poet, died of complications from respiratory disease.

Alan Dundes, 70, world-renowned folklorist, who was central in establishing folklore as a discipline, apparent heart attack while teaching.

Milton Green, 91, former record holder in hurdles, boycotted the 1936 Summer Olympics as a protest against Adolf Hitler.

Mitch Hedberg, 37, comedian, heart attack.

Fred Korematsu, 86, Japanese-American civil rights leader, respiratory illness

Derrick Plourde, 33, former drummer of two California punk groups Lagwagon and the Ataris, suicide.

Hideaki Sekiguchi, 38, known as Billy, Guitar Wolf bassist, heart failure

Ootupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan, 74, Indian author and cartoonist

29 -

Johnnie Cochran, 67, lawyer, defended O.J. Simpson, died of brain tumor

Howell Heflin, 83, former U.S. Senator from Alabama

John McTernan, 94, US civil-rights lawyer

28 -

Tom Bevill, 84, former US Congressman from Alabama

Dave Freeman. 82, scriptwriter (Benny Hill, Carry On films, etc.)

Hermann Lause, 66, German actor

Emmy Lopes Dias, 85, Dutch actress

Pál Losonczi, 85, former chairman of the Presidential Council of Hungary (head of state)

Dame Moura Lympany, 89, British classical pianist

27 -

Bob Casey, 79, PA announcer for the Minnesota Twins

Grant Johannesen, 83, American classical pianist and composer

Joaquín Luqui, 57, Spanish musical journalist

Rigo Tovar, 58, popular Mexican singer and composer

Ahmed Zaki, 56, Egyptian actor, lung cancer

26 -

Bengt Bedrup, 76, Swedish journalist

James Callaghan, 92, former British Prime Minister

Brandon Falkner, 21?, Arizona State University NCAA football player, murdered

Paul Hester, 46, Australian musician, former drummer of Crowded House and Split Enz

Marius Russo, 90, a left-handed pitcher who helped the Yankees win the World Series in 1941 and 1943

Georgeanna Seegar Jones, 92, American scientist and endocrinologist

Colin Willock, 86, helped create the Survival wildlife program

25 -

Greg Garrison, 81, TV producer and director (The Dean Martin Show, Your Show of Shows)

Paul Henning, 93, TV producer, creator of Beverly Hillbillies franchise

Davis McCaughey, 90, former Governor of Victoria, Australia

24 -

David P. Bushnell, 91, founder of Bushnell Optical, leading producer of binoculars, of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

23 -

Charles Antalosky, 67, Broadway actor

Naftali Halberstam, 74, Grand Rabbi of the Bobov sect of the Hasidim

David Kossoff, 85, British actor and anti-drug campaigner, father of Free guitarist Paul Kossoff

Bob Vetrone, 79, American newspaper columnist

22 -

Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, 58, Spanish antipope self-proclaimed Gregory XVII in 1978

Gemini Ganesan, 84, Indian actor

Edward Moskal, 80, president of the Polish American Congress

Simon Nyandwi, 55, interior minister of Burundi since November 2003 and former rebel official, heart attack

Rod Price, 57, guitarist and a founding member of Foghat

Kenzo Tange, 91, Japanese architect

21 -

Ge Zhenlin, 88, Chinese war hero [1]

Barney Martin, 82, actor who played Jerry's father on Seinfeld

Stanley Sadie, 74, musicologist and critic

Bobby Short, 80, suave cabaret singer and pianist, leukemia

Jeff Weise, 16, school shooter

20 -

Walter Hopps, 72, renowned American art dealer, gallery owner

Walter Reuter, 99, award winning German photographer who lived and photographed in Mexico

Andrew Toti, 89, American inventor of the Mae West inflatable life vest

19 -

Hellema, 84, Dutch writer and resistance fighter

John De Lorean, 80, U.S car designer and manufacturer.

18 -

Gary Bertini, 77, Israeli musician and conductor

Sol Linowitz, 91, U.S diplomat and entrepreneur

Jessica Lunsford, 9, (body found), kidnapping and rape victim

Maria Rosseels, 88, Belgian writer and journalist

Theodor Uppman, 85, American operatic baritone, created the title role in Britten's Billy Budd

17 -

Royce Frith, 81, Canadian senator

John J.Gallagher, 79, cartoonist, brother of Heathcliff creator George Gallagher [1]

Prentice Gautt, 67, NFL player during the 1960s

Lalo Guerrero, 88, called the father of Chicano music

Justin Hinds, 62, Jamaican vocalist and songwriter

Sverre Holm, 73, Norwegian actor

Ramez J. Isa, 87, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles from February to June 1971

George F. Kennan, 101, U.S. diplomat and historian

David Little, 46, Linebacker for the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers

Andre Norton, 93, science fiction and fantasy author

Czeslaw Slania, 83, Polish-Swedish stamp engraver

Mikko Talvitie, 59, director general of the Finnish Board of Aviation

16 -

Todd Bell, 47, safety for the Chicago Bears in the 1980s

Ralph Erskine, 91, architect and designer of the Byker Wall.

Anthony George, 84, actor, primarily in daytime dramas

Allan Hendrickse, 77, South African politician

Chris van der Klaauw, 80, Dutch diplomat, foreign minister of the Netherlands from 1977 to 1981

William Lehman, 91, represented Dade County, Florida in U.S. Congress for 20 years

Dick Radatz, 67, baseball relief pitcher

15 -

Lady Callaghan of Cardiff, 89, wife of Jim Callaghan

Betsy Cronkite, 89, journalist and wife of Walter Cronkite

Don Durant, 82, singer/actor, star of Johnny Ringo series

Loe de Jong, 90, Dutch historian

Eduard J. Guebelin, 91, Lead study that showed that diamond flaws are influenced by where they were created

Bill McGarry, 77, football manager

Bert Pronk, 54, Dutch racing cyclist

Armand Seghers, 78, footballer, voted AA Gent's best player of the 20th century

Sy Wexler, 88, filmmaker of hundreds of educational films seen in classrooms for many years

14 -

Stanley H. Campbell, 74, NFL player during the 1950s

Tom Dillon, 86, American stage actor/performer, natural causes

Janet Reger, 69, British designer of women's lingerie

Dick Smyser, 81, American newspaper editor, asked question that led Richard Nixon to declare: "I'm not a crook."

Simon Webb, 55, British chess grandmaster living in Sweden, stabbed to death by his son

Akira Yoshizawa, 94, Japanese Origami master

13 -

Lyn Collins, 56, soul singer aka "Female Preacher"

Winnie Dangerfield, 96, English child actor in silent films for the Clarendon studios [1] [1]

Jason Evers, 83, star of B-movie Brain That Wouldn't Die

Ahmed Hassan Diria, 67, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1990 to 1993.

Danny Gardella, 85, a New York Giants outfielder who challenged baseball's reserve clause in a 1947 federal lawsuit

Frank House, 75, Major League Baseball catcher and Alabama legislator

Zouhair Yahyaoui, 36, Tunisian dissident.

12 -

Charles R. Baxter, 75, American doctor, pneumonia, surgeon who tried to save JFK

Lisa Fittko, 95, German WWII dissident who led Jews over the Pyrenees to freedom

Stavros Kouyioumtzis, 73, prolific Greek songwriter

Bartolo Mascarello, 78, Italian winemaker

11 -

Bill Cameron, 62, Canadian journalist, cancer

Aurelio Fierro, 81, famous in Italy for singing Neopolitan folk songs

Stanley Grenz, 55, Christian Theologian

Humphrey Spender, 94, British photojournalist, notably for Picture Post

10 -

Dave Allen, 68, Irish comedian

Danny Joe Brown, 53, lead singer for Molly Hatchet

Chawki Deif, 95, head of the Academy of the Arabic Language

Katherine Gray Lathrop, 89, pioneering researcher into nuclear medicine

Zilka Salaberry, 82, Brazilian actress

9 -

Glenn Davis, 80, Heisman Trophy winner, American football player, prostate cancer

Sheila Gish, 62, English actress, primarily on stage

Kathie Kay, 86, Scottish big band singer

Chris LeDoux, 56, American country music and rodeo star; complications from liver cancer.

William Murray, 78, American mystery novelist

István Nyers, 80, Hungarian footballer

8 -

Archbishop Roman Arrieta, 80, retired archbishop of Costa Rica

Ross Benson, 56, British journalist for the Daily Mail and award-winning foreign correspondent

Anna Haycraft, 72, British writer (also known as Alice Thomas Ellis)

César Lattes, 80, Brazilian physicist, contributed to the physics of elementary particles and discovered the pion

Aslan Maskhadov, 53, Chechen separatist leader, killed by Russian troops.

Brigitte Mira, 94, German theatrical actress

Jeremy Russell, 60, cofounding member of the band Blue Cheer

7 -

Edwin Adams Cotto, 26, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during riot at Dominican Republic jail

John Box, 85, film production designer, worked closely with David Lean

Debra Hill, 54, screenwriter and film producer, co-writer of Halloween

Philip Lamantia, 77, American surrealist poet

Arod Levy III, ??, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during riot in a Dominican Republic jail

Jozef Stank, 64, former Slovakian defense minister

6 -

Hans Bethe, 98, Nobel Laureate in Physics, discover of stellar fusion

Gladys Marín, 63, Chilean communist politician, cancer

Chuck Thompson, 83, Baltimore Orioles broadcaster, complications of massive stroke

Tommy Vance, 63, British radio DJ and TV host, stroke

Teresa Wright, 86, actress, heart attack

5 -

Harold Brooks-Baker, 71, U.S-born publishing director of Burke's Peerage Limited

Sergiu Comissiona, 76, Romanian orchestra conductor

Benedetto Di Santo, 105, Italian World War I veteran

Morris Engel, 86, independent filmmaker

Rt. Rev. Lord Sheppard of Liverpool, 75, former international cricketer and Church of England bishop, cancer

Frank Tyler, 76, Broadway and film music arranger and orchestrator

4 -

Nicola Calipari, 51, Italian intelligence officer, shot by the US army in Iraq

Ernie De Vos, 63, racing driver, killed in a cycling accident.

Una Hale, 82, operatic soprano

Yuri Kravchenko, 53, former interior minister of Ukraine

Carlos Sherman, 70, Uruguayan-born Belarusian translator and writer

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George Atkinson, 69, inventor of the video rental

Max M. Fisher, 96, millionaire philanthropist listed in Forbes 400

Dorris Henderson, 72, 60's and 70's folksinger

Viva McComb, 110, supercentenarian, oldest living Texan

Rinus Michels, 77, former Dutch national football team coach

Guylaine St. Onge, 39, Canadian actress, cancer

2 -

Joe Carter, 78, a member of the Carter Family folk singers

Martin Denny, 93, founder of exotica musical genre, bandleader

Hermann Dörnemann, 111, World War I veteran declared Germany's oldest living person, heart failure

Tillie Fowler, 62, U.S. politician, former four-term Florida congresswoman

Rick Mahler, 51, American baseball pitcher, heart attack

Corrado Pani, 69, Italian actor

Rigter Roegholt, 79, Dutch historian

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Cissy van Bennekom, 93, Dutch film actress

Reverend Walter Halloran, 83, priest who participated in the exorcism on which The Exorcist was based

Brian Luckhurst, 66, English cricket player, cancer

Peter Malkin, 77, Israeli Mossad agent, the man who captured Adolf Eichmann

February 2005

28 -

Pietro Ardito, 85?, Argentinian comic book artist living in Italy

Chris Curtis, 63, drummer with The Searchers

Mario Luzi, 90, Italian poet

Umberto Manfrin, 77, Italian comic book artist

27 -

Noll Scott, 51, British journalist

Carl Taseff, 76, former NFL defensive back and assistant coach

26 -

Max Faulkner, 88, British golfer

Henry Grunwald, 82, former managing editor of TIME and U.S. ambassador to Austria 1988-90

Sidney Hart, 90, British trade unionist and religious administrator, natural causes

Witness Mangwende, 59, Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1981 to 1987.

Jef Raskin, 61, creator of the Apple Macintosh, pancreatic cancer

25 -

Peter Benenson, 83, founder of Amnesty International.

Phoebe Hesketh, 96, British poet

Don LeJohn, 70, former Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman

Norberto "Pappo" Napolitano, 54, Argentine blues and rock n' roll guitarist and composer

Edward Patten, 66, member of Gladys Knight & The Pips

Atef Sedki, 74, former prime minister of Egypt

Sir Glanmor Williams, 84, Welsh historian

24 -

Thadée Cisowski, 78, footballer, scored 206 goals in the French top divison, making him its 4th highest scorer of all-time

Robin Jenkins, 92, Scottish novelist, author of "The Cone-Gatherers" and "Fergus Lamont"

Hugh Nibley, 94, historian primarily concerned with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Gustavo Vázquez Montes, 42, incumbent governor of Colima, Mexico, aviation accident

Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 82, German politician and former cabinet minister

23 -

Tom Patterson, 84, founder of the Stratford Festival of Canada

Henk Zeevalking, 82, Dutch politician

22 -

David F. Bradford, 61, former U.S presidential advisor and professor at Princeton University

Father Luigi Giussani, 82, founder of the "Communion and Liberation" Catholic youth movement

Lee Eun Ju (이은주), 24, Korean actress, suicide

Trude Rittmann, 96, Broadway dance and vocal music arranger

Reggie Roby, 43, retired NFL punter

Harry Simeone, 94, helped create Christmas songs like Little Drummer Boy

Simone Simon, 94, French actress

21 -

Zdzislaw Beksinski, 75, Polish painter and fantasy artist, murder

Ara Berberian, 74, Bass with the New York City Metropolitan Opera

Isabelle Goldenson, 84, co-founder of United Cerebral Palsy

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 75, exiled Cuban writer

Robert Koff, 86, founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet

Josef Metternich, 69, German operatic baritone

Dr. Gene Scott, 75, U.S televangelist and author

Ernest Vandiver, 86, former governor of the U.S. state of Georgia (1959-1963)

20 -

Raymond Mhlaba, 92, South African political leader

Pam Bricker, jazz vocalist and music professor, suicide

Sandra Dee, 62, American actress, kidney failure and pneumonia

Dalene Matthee, 67, Afrikaans-South African author, heart failure

John Raitt, 88, classic Broadway star and father of Bonnie Raitt, pneumonia

Hunter S. Thompson, 67, American journalist, suicide

Jimmy Young, 56, American boxer, heart failure

19 -

Richard Lupino, 75? Member of the famous English Lupino acting family

Kihachi Okamoto (岡本喜八), 82, Japanese film director, esophageal cancer

18 -

Uli Derickson, 60, airline stewardess, protagonist in 1985 airplane hijacking

John Ebstein, 92, industrial designer [1]

Robert R. Merhige, Jr, 86, U.S. district court judge

17 -

F. M. Busby, 83, American science fiction writer

Peter Foy, 79, American, theatrical flying effects specialist

Jens Martin Knudsen, 74, Danish astrophysicist

César Marcelak, 92, French cycling champion

Dan O'Herlihy, 85, Irish film actor

Omar Sivori, 69, Argentinian and Italian footballer

Nicephore Soglo, 70, former President of Benin

Harald Szeemann, 71, Swiss curator and art historian

16 -

Nicole DeHuff, 30, American actress, Meet the Parents, pneumonia.

William Gibson, 82, American independent film producer and director

Russ Klar, 90, US auto racer

Narriman Sadek (Nariman Sadeq), 70, ex-wife of King Farouk, last queen of Egypt

Marcello Viotti, 50, Italian conductor

Frederick Vosburgh, 100, National Geographic editor

Gerry Wolff, 84, German actor

(body found) Cecilia Cubas, 32, daughter of former President of Paraguay Raúl Cubas Grau, kidnap victim

15 -

Pierre Bachelet, 60, French singer

Samuel Francis, 57, U.S political columnist

Dudu Geva, 54, Israeli cartoonist

Najai Turpin, 23, boxer, participant in boxing reality show "The Contender", suicide

14 -

Ron Burgess, 87, former footballer with Tottenham Hotspur and Wales

Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, 85, Greek novelist and journalist

Rafik Hariri, 60, twice Prime Minister of Lebanon, car bomb

Aubelin Jolicoeur, 81, Haitian journalist and columnist

Martin Perels, 44, Dutch actor

Otto Plaschkes, 75, British movie producer, including Georgy Girl

Dick Weber, 75, professional bowler, father of Pete Weber

13 -

Nelson Briles, 61, U.S baseball pitcher

Aldo Carotenuto, 71?, Italian psychoanalyst

Sixten Ehrling, 86, Swedish conductor

Mary Hallaren, 97, first woman to join the United States Army

Ndiaga Mbaye, 57, Senegalese musician

Lúcia dos Santos, 97, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three shepherd children of the Fatima apparition in 1917

Maurice Trintignant, 87, French racing driver, twice winner of the Monaco Grand Prix

12 -

Marinus van der Goes van Naters, 104, Dutch politician

Brian Kelly, 73, actor

Alfred Sirven, 77, former Elf Aquitaine executive

Sammi Smith, 61, US country singer, won Grammy for Help Me Make it Through the Night

Dorothy Stang, 74, American nun, murdered in Anapu, Brazil

Karl-Heinz Tuschel, 76, East German science fiction author

Rafael Vidal, 41, Venezuelan Olympic medalist, car crash

11 -

Samuel W. Alderson, 90, inventor of crash test dummies [1]

Jack L. Chalker, 60, American science fiction writer

Raymond Hermantier, 81, French actor

Dénes Kovács, 74, Hungarian violinist

Stan Richards, 74, British actor

10 -

Humbert Balsan, 50, French film producer

Allan Bromley, 79, physicist, presidential advisor

Jean Cayrol, 93, French author

Michel François-Poncet, 70, Paribas executive

Ben Jones, 80, former prime minister and foreign minister of Grenada

Arthur Miller, 89, American playwright, congestive heart failure

Sylvia Rafael, 67, Mossad agent convicted of 1973 Lillehammer murder

9 -

Tyrone Davis, 66, R&B singer (Turn Back The Hands Of Time), complications of a stroke

Hanno Helbling, 74, Swiss journalist (NZZ)

Robert Kearns, 77, inventor of intermittent windshield wipers [1]

Kate Peyton, 39, BBC producer, shot in Mogadishu, Somalia

Ursula Schröder-Feinen, 70, German soprano

Marthe Wéry, 75, Belgian painter

8 -

Luigi Barbero, 105, Italian World War I veteran

Victor Castelli, 52, soloist with the New York City Ballet, pneumonia

Helmut Eder, 88, Austrian composer

George Herman, 85, journalist and moderator of CBS' Face the Nation for 15 years

Keith Knudsen, 56, drummer for American rock band Doobie Brothers, pneumonia

Nathalie Krassovska, 86, ballerina

Gaston Rahier, 58, Belgian 125cc Motocross World Champion (1975-1977)

Jimmy Smith, 76, Jazz organist

Javier Tusell, 59, Spanish historian

7 -

Penelope Aitken, 94, socialite and political hostess

Nedžad Botonjič, 27, Slovenian footballer

Steve Burgh, 54, record producer and session musician

Atli Dam, 72, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands

Vinod Chandra Pande, 72, political figure in India, former governor of three states

John Tiffen Patterson, 64, television and film director

Madeleine Rebérioux, 84, French historian

Paul Rebeyrolle, 78, French painter

Jeremy Swan, 82, cardiologist, co-inventor of the Swan-Ganz heart catheter

6 -

Santo Ambulo, 104, Italian World War I veteran

Lazar Berman, 74, classical pianist

Elbert N. Carvel, 94, American politician, former governor of Delaware

Hubert Curien, 80, French researcher, first president of European Space Agency

Camilo Delgado, 75?, Puerto Rican television show host

Karl Haas, 91, US classical music radio program host

Merle Kilgore, 70, country music manager and songwriter

Armin Müller, 76, German writer and painter

5 -

Derick Daniels, 76, former president and chief executive of Playboy Enterprises

Gnassingbe Eyadema, 67, president of Togo since 1967

Bob McAdorey, 69, Canadian television and radio broadcaster

David Measham, 67, UK conductor prominent in Australia

Günter Reimann, 100, German economist

Michalina Wisłocka, 84, Polish sexologist

4 -

Carmine Alfano, 108, Italian World War I veteran

Adriano Cerqueira, 66, Portuguese journalist and former news anchor at RTP, cancer

Robert Brannum, 78, basketball player

Ossie Davis, 87, actor and activist, natural causes

Nils Egerbrandt, 78, Swedish cartoonist

Gunhild Foerster, 111, supercentenarian, oldest documented person in Washington State

Luis Sánchez, 51, former major league closer for the Angels [1]

3 -

Corrado Cardinal Bafile, 101, Italian cardinal

Joseph Anthony De Palma, 91, Bishop of De Aar, South Africa

Malou Hallström, 63, Swedish actress, ex-wife of Lasse Hallström

David Hönigsberg, 45, composer and conductor

Ernst Mayr, 100, evolutionary biologist

Raul Usupov, Georgiann politician and deputy governor of the Kvemo Kartli region

Zurab Zhvania, 41, Prime Minister of Georgia

2 -

Yvon DesRochers, 59, head of the organizing committee of the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, suicide

Birgitte Federspiel, 79, Swedish actress (Babette's Feast, 1988)

Svein Kvia, 57, Norwegian footballer

Goffredo Lombardo, 83, Italian film producer

Magomed Omarov, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan

Max Schmeling, 99, German world heavyweight boxing champion

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Werner Arnold, 74, Swiss cyclist (1950s)

Henrique Canto e Castro, 75, Portuguese actor

Olivier Dollfus, 73, French geographer

Edward D. Freis, 92, physician

Anderl Heckmair, 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger north face

Franco Mannino, 80, prolific Italian film and classical composer

John Vernon, 72, Canadian actor, following heart surgery

January 2005

31 -

Stanley Ronald (Ron) Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister (1970s)

Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poetess

Yutsuko Chusonji, 42, Japanese manga artist noted for her "oyaji gal" stories

Horace Hagedorn, 89, developer and marketer of Miracle-Gro plant food

Malcolm Hardee, 55, alternative comedian and compere, drowning

Erich Kaestner, 93, German Oscar winner for camera design

Robert McCartney, 33, IRA murder victim

H. Narasimhaiah, 84, physicist, educator and rationalist from Bangalore

Ivan Noble, 37, BBC journalist, brain tumour

30 -

Wolfgang Becker, 94, German film and television director

Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish musician, cancer

Dario Sala, 92, Italian inventor of Das, writer

29 -

Toni Berger, 83, German actor

Eric Griffiths, 64, member of pre-Beatles The Quarrymen

Jean Hengen, 92, first Archbishop of Luxembourg

Karl Heinz Jacoby, 86, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier

Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director

José Luis Martinez, 34, Spanish shot put champion

Bill Shadel, 96, United States journalist who covered D-Day and moderated a 1960 Presidential Debate

Ron Tomme, 73, former USA actor primarily in soaps

Joan Tompkins, 89, film and TV actress

Guus Zoutendijk, 74, Dutch politician and businessman

28 -

Karen Bach, 32, French actress

Christian Bieniek, 48, German writer and childbook author

Daniel Branca, 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist

Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter (Traffic), stomach cancer

Lucien Carr, 79, UPI editor, early Beat generation figure

Christian Christensen, 78, Danish former European middle-weight boxing champion

Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor and comedian

27 -

Gilbert Bennion, 106, one of four remaining Australian veterans of World War I

Donald Dempsey Sr., 72?, American recording executive who helped launch Ozzy Osbourne and Merle Haggard

Shoaib Khan, 40?, Pakistani criminal organization leader, heart attack in jail

Nick McDonald, 76, United States Dallas police officer who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald after the JFK assassination

Aurélie Nemours, 94, French painter

Jonathan Welsh, 67?, Canadian actor of stage, television and film

26 -

Roy Fraser Elliott, 83, Canadian lawyer and philanthropist

Rudi Falkenhagen, 71, Dutch actor, throat cancer

Cordelia Scaife May, 76, sister of billionaire Richard Scaife and one of the world's richest people

Josie MacAvin, 85, Oscar and Emmy winning set decorator

25 -

William Augustus Bootle, 102, United States district judge who helped oversee desegregation in the US south

Philip Johnson, 98, United States architect

Vicky LaMotta, 75, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta

Ray Peterson 65, United States popular singer (Tell Laura I Love Her), cancer

Max Velthuijs, 81, Dutch writer and illustrator

Nettie Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch athlete

Dieter Zehentmayr, 63, Austrian caricaturist

24 -

June Bronhill, 75, Australian opera and operetta singer, known for The Merry Widow

Vladimir Savchenko, 72, Ukrainian science fiction writer

Chalkie White, 76, rugby union coach

23 -

Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, former Deputy Speaker of the United Kingdom|UK House of Lords

Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema

Douglas Knight, 83, former president of Lawrence University and Duke University

Charles Martin, 45, American football player, kidney ailment

Mutsuko Sakura (桜むつ子), 83, Japanese actress, lung cancer

22 -

Sir William Deakin, 91, British WWII hero and founder of St. Antony's College at Oxford University

John Gibel, 56, comic strip writer (Flo & Friends)

César Gutiérrez, 61, one of three players in Major League Baseball history with a 7-for-7 game

Carlo Orelli, 110, supercentenarian, oldest Italian veteran of World War I

Patsy Rowlands, 71, British actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films, breast cancer

William Trager, 94, American malaria researcher

Consuelo Velázquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song "Bésame mucho"

Rose Mary Woods, 87, former Nixon secretary and key Watergate figure [1]

21 -

Steve Susskind, 62, American voice-over actor

Parveen Babi, 49, Indian actress

John L. Hess, 87, journalist

Don Poier, 53, United States NBA basketball announcer for the Memphis Grizzlies

Carl Schlettwein, 79, founder of Basler Afrika Bibliographien

Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer

20 -

Per Borten, 91, former Prime Minister of Norway

Beverly Dennis, 79, actress on The Red Buttons Show who turned psychotherapist

Roland Frye, American English literature professor and theologian

Dick Gallagher, 49, Off-Broadway composer

Christel Justen, 47, German swimmer, 1974 European champion