Deaths in May 2004
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2004.
May 2004
- Moe Burtschy, 82, former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia & Kansas City Athletics.
- Paul Guimard, 83, French writer.
- Anthony Ainley, 71, British actor best known as The Master in Doctor Who.
- Darrell Johnson, 75, former MLB catcher and manager.
- Volus Jones, 90, American animator.
- Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, 84, British aristocrat and politician.
- Basil Wells, 91, science fiction author.
- Nick Berg, 26, American businessman and hostage killed in Iraq.
- Joseph L. Doob, 94, American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory.
- Oliver David Jackson, 84, Australian army officer.
- Waldemar Milewicz, 48, Polish journalist, and Mounyra Beouamrane, killed in Iraq.
- Tommy Farrell, 82, American film and television actor
- Percy M. Young, 91, British musicologist
- Olive Osmond, 79, mother of entertainers Marie Osmond and the various Osmond Brothers
- Rust Epique, 35, American Songwriter/Guitarist.
- Alan King, 76, American comedian/actor
- Brenda Fassie, 39, South African singer
- Akhmad Kadyrov, 52, President of Chechnya
- Mick Doyle, 63, Irish rugby union player and coach.
- John LaPorta, 84, jazz clarinetist, composer and educator.
- Syd Hoff, 91, children's book author, cartoonist.
- John Robson, 54, English footballer.
- John Whitehead, 55, R&B artist, shot dead.
- Judith Cook, 70, theatre historian, campaigner and novelist.
- Jack Bradbury, 89, animator and comic book artist.
- Gill Fox, 84, political cartoonist, comic book artist, and animator.
- William H. Hinton, 85, Marxist, author of Fanshen.
- Colonel Robert Morgan, 85, former pilot of the Memphis Belle.
- Carlos Orta, 60, Venezuelan artist, and principal dancer and choreographer of the José Limón Dance Company. -
- Clint Warwick, 63, British bass guitarist (The Moody Blues}.
- (or May 18) Gunnar Graps, 57, Estonian rock singer and percussionist.
- Robert Lewin, 85, Polish art dealer and philanthropist.
- Buster Narum, 63, former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Orioles and Senators.
- Jørgen Nash, 84, Danish poet, performance artist.
- Tony Randall, 84, television actor (The Odd Couple).
- Ezzedine Salim, 60?, president of the Iraqi Governing Council.
- June Taylor, 86, television dancer and choreographer.
- Arnold O. Beckman, 104, inventor, industrialist, philanthropist.
- Joey Curtis, 79, former professional boxer, boxing referee and business owner.
- Elvin Jones, 76, jazz drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s.
- Lü Fuyuan, 59, Minister of Commerce of China. Live cancer.
- Hyacinthe Thiandoum, 83, Roman Catholic Cardinal, former Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal.
- Richard Biggs, 44, American actor, Babylon 5.
- Samuel Curtis Johnson, 76, fourth generation president of SC Johnson company.
- Wayne Kimber, 55, New Zealand politician.
- Mikhail Voronin, 59, Russian gymnast, double Olympic champion.
- Glenn Cunningham, 60, mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey.
- David Dellinger, 88, American antiwar activist, member of Chicago Eight.
- Nicholas Luard, 66, British writer and politician.
- Roger W. Straus, Jr., 87, publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
- Michael Alison, 77, British Privy Council member and former minister and MP.
- Gerald Anthony, 52, actor, best known for playing Marco Dane on the TV show One Life to Live.
- Josie Carey, 73, host of the Pittsburgh children's show "Children's Corner".
- Irene Manning, 91, actress and singer (Yankee Doodle Dandy).
- James Neil Tucker, 47, American convicted murderer.
- Archibald Cox, 92, Watergate special prosecutor.
- Sam Dash, 79, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal.
- Jack Rosenthal, 72, British television dramatist.
- Magne Havnå, 40, Norwegian former professional boxer, in boating accident.
- Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, 114, oldest documented person in the world.