Deaths in January 2004
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2004.
January 2004
- Etta Moten Barnett, 102, actress.
- Lynn Cartwright, 76, U.S. actress.
- Sir John Grandy, 90, British Royal Air Force officer.
- Paul Hopkins, 99, reported to be the oldest living former Major League Baseball player.
- Dame Sheila McKechnie, 55, Head of Shelter, cancer.
- Lillian Beckwith, 87, English author.
- Des Corcoran, 75, Australian politician, Premier of South Australia.
- David Lipschultz, 33, American journalist (USA Today, New York Times, SmartMoney and Red Herring)
- Leon Wagner, 69, former Major League Baseball player
- Joan Aiken, 79, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
- John Gallacher, Baron Gallacher, 83, British life peer.
- Brian Gibson, 59, film director, What's Love Got to Do With It.
- Jake Hess, 76, Southern Gospel singing legend.
- Jeff Nuttall, 70, poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, social commentator and author.
- John Toland, 91, American author and historian.
- Tug McGraw, 59, former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Pierre Charles, 49, Prime Minister of Dominica.
- John Evans, 74, British footballer.
- William Hurst Rees, 86, British valuation surveyor.
- Francesco Scavullo, 82, fashion photographer.
- Charles Laverne Singleton, 44, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Arkansas.
- Charles Brown, 57, American actor
- John A. Gambling, 73, American radio host, Rambling with Gambling
- Louis Stanley, 92, Author, journalist, team principal of BRM, stroke[1]
- Phillip Crosby, 69, member of Crosby Boys band, son of crooner Bing Crosby.
- Dean Miller, 79, American broadcaster and actor.
- Arne Næss, Jr., 66, Norwegian mountaineer and businessman, former husband of Diana Ross.
- Arthur Nobile, 83, American microbiologist.
- Harold Shipman, 54, British serial killer.
- Alan V. Tishman, 86, American real estate developer.
- Zeno Vendler, 82, philosopher and linguist.
- Jack Cady, 71, science fiction writer.
- Mike Goliat, 78, member of the famous '50 Phillies' "Whiz Kids" National League champions.
- Uta Hagen, 84, actress, acting teacher, wife of José Ferrer and Herbert Berghof.
- Ron O'Neal, 66, actor, starred in Superfly (1972).
- Kalevi Sorsa, 73, former Finnish prime minister
- Mary Byrne 86, first female Mayor of Galway (1975-1976)
- Raymond Bonham Carter, 74, British banker.
- Harry Brecheen, 89, former Major League Baseball pitcher.
- Rafael Cordero, 61, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico.
- Czesław Niemen, 64, Polish musician.
- Tom Rowe, 53, Musician, member of Schooner Fare.
- Ray Stark, 88, American film producer.
- Noble Willingham, 72, actor, former candidate for the United States Congress.
- Islwyn Ffowc Elis, 79, Welsh language writer.
- Billy May, 87, American big band and pop music arranger.
- Tom Mead, 85, Australian politician.
- Ann Miller, 81, American dancer.
- Vincent Palmer, 37, British criminal. ()
- Chea Vichea, Cambodian labor leader.
- George Woodbridge, 73, American illustrator.
- Elroy Hirsch, 80, hall of fame National Football League football player
- José Miguel Agrelot ("Don Cholito"), 76, comedian and radio show host
- Mel Pritchard, 56, British drummer
- Alaettin Tahir, 55, Macedonian poet. Heart attack.
- Sox Walseth, 77, American college basketball coach.
- Mary-Ellis Bunim, 57, producer and co-creator of The Real World.
- O. W. Fischer, 88, Austrian actor.
- Janet Frame, 79, New Zealand writer.
- M. M. Kaye, 95, British author, The Far Pavilions.
- Guusje Nederhorst, 34, Dutch actress.
- Louie B. Nunn, 79, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (1967-1971).
- James Saunders, 79, British playwright.
- Ed Sciaky, 55, Philadelphia broadcaster and disk jockey.
- Helge Seip, 84, Norwegian politician (Social Liberal Party).
- Joe Viterelli, 66, actor.
- George Bennions, 90, British World War II fighter pilot.
- Robert Harth, 47, executive director of Carnegie Hall.
- Eleanor Holm, 90, American swimmer
- Suraiya, 75, Indian actress and singer
- Scott Walker, 34, US boxer, Pink Cat, last one to beat Alexis Argüello
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