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The following is a list of figures who died in 2005.
- 13
- Lúcia dos Santos, 97, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three shepherd children of the Fatima apparition in 1917.
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- Humbert Balsan, 50, French film producer
- Allan Bromley, 79, physicist, Presidential advisor
- Jean Cayrol, 93, French author
- 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
- Kate Peyton, 39, BBC producer, shot in Mogadishu, Somalia
- Ursula Schröder-Feinen, 69?, German soprano
- 8
- Victor Castelli, 52, soloist with the New York City Ballet, pneumonia
- 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
- Jimmy Smith, 76, Jazz organist
- Javier Tusell, 59, Spanish historian
- 7
- Penelope Aitken, 94, socialite and political hostess
- Nedžad Botonjič, 25?, 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
- Madeleine Rebérioux, 84, French historian
- Paul Rebeyrolle, 78, French painter
- 6
- 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
- Günter Reimann, 100, German economist
- 5
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- 2
- Yvon DesRochers, 59, head of the organizing committee of the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, suicide
- Birgitte Federspiel, 79, Swedish actress, known for 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
- 1
- Werner Arnold, 74, Swiss cyclist (1950s)
- Henrique Canto e Castro, 75, Portuguese actor
- Olivier Dollfus, 73, French geographer
- Anderl Heckmair, 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger north face with Heinrich Harrer
- Franco Mannino, 80, prolific Italian film and classical composer
- Gaston Rahier, 58, Belgian 125cc Motocross World Champion (1975-1977)
- John Vernon, 72, Canadian actor, following heart surgery
- 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, a multi-million dollar product
- Malcolm Hardee, 55, alternative comedian and compere, drowning
- H. Narasimhaiah, 84, physicist, educator and rationalist from Bangalore
- Ivan Noble, 37, BBC journalist, brain tumour
- 30
- 29
- Toni Berger, 83, German actor
- 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
- 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, stomach cancer
- Lucien Carr, 79, UPI editor, early Beat generation figure
- Christian Christensen, 78, Danish former European middle-weight boxing champion
- Eric Griffiths, 64, member of pre-Beatles The Quarrymen
- 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
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- 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 best known for the early 1960s hit 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
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- Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, former Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Minister of State, and member of the Privy Council since 1974
- Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema
- Douglas Knight, 83, former president of Lawrence University and Duke University
- 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 [2] (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30678-2005Jan23.html)
- 21
- 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
- Roland Frye, American English literature professor and theologian
- Dick Gallagher, 49, Off-Broadway composer
- Christel Justen, 47, German swimmer, 1974 European champion
- Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and highly decorated World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section
- Chuck Olin, 68, filmmaker known for his 1998 documentary about the only all-Jewish fighting unit during World War II
- Miriam Rothschild, 96, British zoologist, entomologist and author
- 19
- Bill Andersen, 90, New Zealand communist and trade union leader
- Donald Beardslee, 61, United States murderer, executed in San Quentin State Prison, California
- K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide
- Hans Gratzer, 63, Austrian director and theatre manager
- Ardyth Kennelly, 92, US novelist whose books were popular in the 1940s and 50s
- Anita Kulcsár, 28, Hungarian handball player
- Ricardo Surinach, 76, Catholic Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico (2000-2003), natural causes
- 18
- Lamont Bentley, 31, television and film actor, car crash
- Bernard Béreau, 64, French footballer
- Bob Moch, 90, 1936 Summer Olympics Rowing Gold Medal Winner
- George Walker, 78, volcanologist
- Peter Whatley, former professional wrestler under the name Pez Whatley
- 17
- Charlie Bell, 44, former CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer
- Hildegard Joos, 95, Austrian painter
- Virginia Mayo, 84, United States actress, notably in the 1940s and 1950s
- Albert Schatz, 84, microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin
- Zhao Ziyang, 85, former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary, complications of multiple strokes
- Daniel Zufferey, 35, French language author
- 16
- H. Bentley Glass, 98, United States biologist, known for controversial views [3] (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/science/20glass.html)
- Agustín González, 74, prolific Spanish film actor
- Roger Ibanez, 73, French actor
- Ndongo Lô, 30, Senegalese singer (Mbalax)
- Marjorie Williams, 47, United States Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair
- 15
- Victoria de los Angeles, 81, Catalan soprano
- Deem Bristow, 57, video game voice actor
- William H. Crosby Jr., 90, pioneering hematologist
- Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan)
- Elizabeth Janeway, 91, United States feminist author
- Fred Julsing, 62, Dutch comic book artist
- Dan Lee, 35, animator for movie Finding Nemo
- Werner Lesser, 72?, German ski jumper
- Henk Molleman, 69, Dutch politician and civil servant
- Ruth Warrick, 89, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane and All My Children, of pneumonia
- 14
- Dennis Flanagan, 85, United States Long time editor of Scientific American
- Ofelia Guilmain, 83, Spanish film and stage actress, worked mostly in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War
- Alfred Hause, 84, German composer and conductor
- Charlotte MacLeod, 82, United States mystery writer
- Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter
- Carl Mohner, 88, German artist and actor
- Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer
- Georges Piroué, 85, French language writer
- Jesús Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist [4] (http://www.miami.com/mld/elnuevo/news/world/americas/10684615.htm)
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- Manfred Fuhrmann, 79, German philologist
- Achille Maramotti, 78, Italian fashion entrepreneur
- Sal Pacino, 82, United States character actor, father of actor Al Pacino
- Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor, massive cerebral hemorrhage
- Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist
- 11
- Spencer Dryden, 61, drummer for United States rock group Jefferson Airplane, cancer
- James Griffin, 61, member of 1970s group Bread
- Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer (Valley of Rocks)
- J.R. (Bud) McCaig, 75, co-owner of the NHL's Calgary Flames
- Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist, died after crashing on the 11th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally
- Ruth Packer, 94, British soprano, famous for playing Verdi heroines
- Jerzy Pawlowski, 72, Polish Olympic champion in fencing
- Thelma White, 94, United States actress, starred in Reefer Madness
- 10
- Gene Baylos, 98, comedian
- Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano
- Fernand Cazenave, 80, French rugby player and coach
- Tommy Fine, 90, who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns
- James Forman, 76, United States former executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colon cancer
- Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer
- Gordon John "Jack" Horner, 91?, Minnesota sports journalist
- Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, 77, Princess of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
- Helmut Losch, 57, East German heavy weight weightlifting champion
- Amer Ali Nayef, deputy police chief of Baghdad, shot together with his son [5] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4160479.stm)
- Jose Manuel Perez, 41, Spanish motorcyclist after crashing 6 January on the 7th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally, internal injuries [6] (http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=175331&FS=)
- Werner Quintens, 67, Belgian clergyman
- Jan Pieter Cardinal Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, Cardinal since 1994
- 9
- Fritz Aigner, 74, Austrian painter
- Gonzalo Gavira, 79, sound effects creator, The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno
- Bernard Goodall, 67, businessman and former Reading FC footballer
- Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film Director and Assistant Director
- 8
- Suad Katana, 35, Bosnian footballer
- Campbell McComas, 52, Australian impersonator, raconteur, broadcaster, chameleon
- Warren Spears, 50, choreographer, dancer
- Michel Thomas, 90, Polish linguist and teacher
- David White, 50, British Commander of British forces on Gibraltar, found dead in his swimming-pool
- 7
- Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson)
- Eileen Desmond, 72, former Irish politician, Minister for Health & Social Welfare (1981-1982)
- Ernst Deubelbeiss, 84, Swiss convicted of the 1951 murder of Armin Bannwart
- Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, 73, United States sports commentator in New Orleans, Louisiana, massive heart attack
- Rosemary Kennedy, 86, sister of John F. Kennedy
- Rossana Maiorca, 54?, Italian free-diver, daughter of Enzo Maiorca
- Ivar Medaas, 66, Norwegian musician
- Hans Walder, 84, Prosecutor General of the Swiss Confederation (1968-1973)
- 6
- Lois Hole, 71, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
- Jürg von Känel, 53, climber, mountain guide, writer of guide books
- Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS
- Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick
- Ali Šukrija, 85, Yugoslav communist politician from Kosovo
- 5
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- Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster
- Paul Darragh, 51, Irish equestrian showjumper, suspected heart failure
- Ali al-Haidri, ?, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated
- Frank Harary, 84, mathematician, a foremost expert on graph theory
- Robert Heilbroner, 85, United States economist
- Bud Poile, 80, member of Hockey Hall of Fame
- Alton Tobey, 90, United States muralist and painter
- 3
- JN Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary
- Will Eisner, 87, United States comic book artist and pioneering graphic novelist
- Koo Chen-fu, 88, Chinese negotiator with the PRC
- John Lawrence, 70, United States Los Angeles Times business journalist
- Claude Meillassoux, 79, French anthropologist and economist
- 2
- H. David Dalquist, 86, founder of Nordic Ware, creator of Bundt cake pan
- Arnold Denker, 90, United States chess player
- Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian and star of That's Life.
- Frank Kelly Freas, 82, United States science fiction artist
- Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, 70, United States former U.S. Congressman from Georgia
- Maclyn McCarty, 93, geneticist and DNA research pioneer
- Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter
- Charles Paul Wilp, 72, German photographer
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- Shirley Chisholm, 80, United States first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress
- Hugh John Frederick Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and former deputy managing director of the Daily Telegraph
- Bob Matsui, 63, United States Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives
- Paul Michaelis, 90, German painter and graphist
- Dmitri Nelyubin, 33, Russian cyclist, stabbed to death
- Willem Scholten, 77, Dutch former politician
External links and references - Specialised websites
- Obituaries on general news websites
- Newsgroup: alt.obituaries (http://groups.google.com/groups?group=alt.obituaries)
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995... |
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