Deaths in June 2005

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The following is a list of notable people who died in June 2005.

30

• Christopher Fry, 97, British playwright. [1]

• Lilian Keil, 88, highly decorated American World War II and Korean War flight nurse. [2], [3]
• Alexei Sultanov, 35, Russian pianist [4]

29

• Gerard C. Bond, 65, American geologist [5]

28

• Dick Dietz, 63, an All-Star catcher who played for the Giants, Dodgers and Braves, heart attack. [6]
• Philip Hobsbaum, 72, academic, poet and critic, diabetes. [7], [8]
• Brenda Howard, 58, American LGBT-rights activist, colon cancer.[9]
• Bruce Malmuth, 71, American film director (Sylvester Stallone's Nighthawk), throat cancer. [10]
• Rowland B. Wilson, 74, American cartoonist and animator [11]

27

• Shelby Foote, 88, U.S. historian. [12]
• Frank Harte, 72, Dublin traditional singer and song collector.
• Domino Harvey, 35, model-turned-bounty hunter and daughter of the late actor, Laurence Harvey. Found dead in her bathtub of an overdose of Fentanyl painkillers. [13]
• Ray Holmes, 90, pilot who protected Buckingham Palace during the Battle of Britain, cancer. [14]

• Owen McCarron, 76, Canadian cartoonist and puzzle creator.[15], [16]
• John T. Walton, 58, son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton

26

• Filip Adwent, 49, Polish politician, MEP, eight (8) days after a road accident which also killed his parents and daughter. [17]
• Eknath Solkar, 57, former Indian cricketer
• Grete Sultan, 99, German-American pianist, Edwin Fischer's student and close friend of John Cage's, who interpreted Bach and Beethoven as well as Schönberg and Cage with equally sublime authenticity and musicality.
• Richard Whiteley, 61, British television presenter, pneumonia.[18]

25

• Shinta Cho, 77, Japanese children's book author and cartoonist [19]
• Frederick G. Dutton, 82, advisor to President Kennedy. [20]
• John Fiedler, 80, American film, stage and television actor, cancer. [21]
• Sir Harry Gibbs, 88, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 1981-87
• Chet Helms, 62, rock music promoter

24

• Peter Casserly, 107, last surviving member of the First Australian Imperial Force serving on the Western Front in World War I. [22]
• Imogen Claire, actress, played one of the transylvannians in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Paul Winchell, 82, American voice actor and ventriloquist; animated voice of 'Tigger'

23

• Shana Alexander, 79, American journalist, cancer. [23]
• Manolis Anagnostakis, 80, Greek poet.
• Isidore Cohen, 82, violinist with the Beaux Arts Trio. [24]
• Hanna Kvanmo, 79, Norwegian politician
• Sam Kweskin, 81, comic book artist [25]
• Ramon L. Posel, 77, built up Philadelphia's art film industry though Ritz Theaters [26]

22

• William Donaldson, 70, British satirist and theatrical producer of Beyond The Fringe

21

• George Hawi, 67, former secretary general of Communist Party of Lebanon. Killed by terrorists in an attack on his car.
• Jaime Cardinal Sin, 76, Roman Catholic Cardinal and former Archbishop of Manila.
• Louis H. Wilson, Jr., 85, US Medal of Honor recipient and Commandant of the Marine Corps

20

• Larry Collins, 75, American writer
• Charles D. Keeling, 77, American scientist whose pioneering measurements showed a carbon dioxide buildup in the earth's atmosphere
• Jack Kilby, 81, American engineer, inventor of the integrated circuit and physics Nobel prize winner.
• Bernard Adolph Schriever, 94, retired U.S. General, regarded as the father and architect of the United States Air Force space and ballistic missile programs.

19

• Georgie Woods, 78, Philadelphia radio broadcast "legend", due to be inducted into the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.

18

• Syed Mushtaq Ali, 90, Indian cricketer, (batsman/captain), Padma Shree Award winner.
• Gerald Davis, Irish painter and Joycean scholar.
• Cay Forrester, 83, American writer/film actress (DOA, etc.)
• Bruce Hamilton, 72, American comic book publisher (Gladstone, Another Rainbow [27] Gemstone Publishing, Inc. tribute)
• J. J. Pickle, 91, former Democratic U.S. Congressional Representative from Texas (1963-1995)
• Manuel Sadosky, 91, father of Argentina's Computer Science studies and former Secretary of State of Science and Technology (1983-1989).

17

• Nanna Ditzel, 81, Danish furniture and interior designer
• William N. Fenton, 96, American scholar known for writings on the Iroquois
• Karl Mueller, 41, founding bassist for the rock band "Soul Asylum", throat cancer
• Charlie Schlingo (Jean-Charles Ninduab), 49, French cartoonist [28]
• Ronald Winans, 48, Grammy-winning American gospel singer

16

• Corino Andrade, 99, Portuguese neurologist, discovered Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP).
• Enrique Laguerre, 99, writer, poet, teacher from Puerto Rico
• Ross Stretton, 53, artistic director of Australian Ballet [29]
• James Weinstein, 78, Jewish author, founder and publisher of In These Times

15

• Percy Arrowsmith, 105, one-half of the world's documented longest marriage
• Phil Ford, 85, American actor [30]
• Valeria Moriconi, 73, Italian actress, cancer
• Kathi Norris, 86, hosted one of the first TV talk shows on the DuMont Television Network, (The Kathi Norris Show, also known as Your TV Shopper, 1948-1950); mother of actress Koo Stark.

14

• Carlo Maria Giulini, 91, Italian conductor
• Mimi Parent, 80, surrealist painter

13

• Jonathan Adams, 74, British actor (Dr. von Scott, The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
• Álvaro Cunhal, 91, Portuguese politician, secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (1961-1992), deputy (1975-1992), writer and painter [31]
• David Diamond, 89, American composer
• Eugénio de Andrade, 82, Portuguese poet
• Mamie Legg, 111, American supercentenarian
• Lane Smith, 69, American actor (My Cousin Vinny, Lois & Clark)
• Joan Abse, 78, English writer and art historian

12

• Sonja Davies, 81, New Zealand trade unionist
• Makobo Modjadji, 27, rain queen of the Balobedu people of South Africa
• Scott Young, 87, Canadian journalist and father of Neil Young

11

• Ghena Dimitrova, 64, Bulgarian opera singer
• Lon McCallister, 82, American actor
• Ron Randell, 86, Australian-born actor
• Juan José Saer, 67, Argentine novelist
• Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 84, Portuguese General, Prime Minister (1974-1975). [32]

10

• J. James Exon, 83, former Democratic United States Senator (1979-1997) and Governor of Nebraska (1971-1979)
• Curtis Pitts, 89, designer of the Pitts Special and other aircraft
• Kenneth N. Taylor, 88, founder of Tyndale House Publishers and translator of The Living Bible

9

• Richard Eberhart, 101, American poet
• Ryan Alan Hade, 23, former American sexual assault victim whose case paved the way for laws allowing indefinite confinement of sexual predators, motorcycle accident [33]

8

• Ed Bishop, 72, American actor
• Arthur Dunkel, 72, Portuguese-Swiss GATT director-general

7

• Seán Doherty, 60, Irish politician
• Terry Long, 45, former NFL offensive lineman
• Edward Anthony McCarthy, 87, second Archbishop of Miami

6

• Anne Bancroft, 73, American Oscar-winning actress, uterine cancer. [34]

• Rodney Dunn, 37, Canadian comic book artist [35]
• Dana Elcar, 77, American film, stage and television actor. [36]
• David Sutherland, 56, American illustrator for the original Dungeons & Dragons books.

5

• Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, 55, Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician
• Oscar Morelli, 59, Mexican actor, after lengthy illness
• Susi Nicoletti, 86, Austrian film actress, complications from heart surgery. [37], [38]

4

• Chloe Jones, 29, adult film star
• Banks McFadden, 88, College Football Hall of Famer and former Clemson football player
• Jean O'Leary, 57, American gay and lesbian rights activist and politician
• Yin Shun, 100, Chinese Buddhist philosopher
• Lorna Thayer, 86, American character actress (Five Easy Pieces), Alzheimer's disease. [39]

3

• Leon Askin, 97, Austrian actor
• Michael Billington, 63, British actor
• Harold Cardinal, 60, Cree writer

2

• Lucio España, 33, Colombian footballer, murdered
• Samir Kassir, 45, Lebanese journalist who supported democracy, assassinated
• Mike Marshall, 60, French-American actor, known for role in Moonraker
• Melita Norwood, 93, Briton who spied for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. [40]

1

• Josephine Clay Ford, 81, Ford Motor Company heiress and prominent philanthropist
• George Mikan, 80, Basketball Hall of Famer
• Geoffrey Toone, 94, British-based Irish actor. [41]