Dead of 2004 ~ Agence France Presse
Hyfler/Rosner
1: Denise Colomb, 101, pioneering French photographer famous
for a series of portraits of artists including Pablo
Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Nicolas de Stael.
- Sheila McKechnie, 55, British activist for the homeless
and pioneering director of the charity, Shelter.
- Tip Anderson, 71, golf caddie who accompanied Arnold
Palmer on many of his greatest exploits.
4: Michael Straight, 87, US former Soviet spy who blew the
whistle on British 'mole' Anthony Blunt.
5: John Guerin , 64, prolific jazz drummer best known for
his work with Joni Mitchell on three key albums in the
1970s, including The Hissing of Summer Lawns.
- Kiharu Nakamura, 90, one of the last true Japanese geishas
and the first to learn English, who was the inspiration for
Jean Cocteau's poem Geisha
7: Ingrid Thulin, 77, Swedish actress who was an integral
part of most of the films of Ingmar Bergman in the 1950s and
1960s
9: Maamoun Hodeiby, 83, leader of Egypt's radical Muslim
Brotherhood.
10: Alexandra Ripley, 70, romantic novelist whose
"Scarlett", a sequel to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the
Wind", was crucified by the critics but sold eight million
copies in five years.
12: Helen Osborne, 64, fifth and final wife of the
playwright John Osborne, who kept his reputation alive.
- Dick Kelty, 84, American inventor who developed the
aluminium frame backpack which was made it easier for many
more people to go trekking in the wild.
13: Harold Shipman, 57, family doctor who became Britain's
biggest serial killer with hundreds of victims to his name,
mostly elderly women patients.
- Arne Naess, 66, Norwegian shipping magnate, mountaineer
and husband of American pop singer Diana Ross.
- Molly Kelly, thought to be 86, Australian Aboriginal who
was parted from her mother as a child and whose 1,200 mile
walk home inspired the film Rabbit-Proof Fence.
14: Uta Hagen , 84, US "Method" actress who created the
unforgettable fiery, seductive character of Martha in Edward
Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
- Eric Sturgess, 83, lynchpin of many South African Davis
Cup teams, considered one of the most elegant stylists in a
gentler age of lawn tennis.
15: Olivia Goldsmith, 54, author of the novel The First
Wives Club, an act of revenge on her wealthy husband.
Goldsmith listed her interests as reading, sex and sleeping.
18: Derek Birnage, 90, founder and editor of the boys' comic
Tiger, in which he created England's star footballer, Roy of
the Rovers.
19: David Hookes, 48, Australian Test cricketer, a gifted
batsman who never lived up to his potential at the highest
level.
22: Ann Miller, 80, tap dancer in Hollywood musicals like
"On the Town" and "Kiss Me Kate", who could record 500 taps
a minute and insured her legs for a million dollars.
- Billy May, 87, trumpet player and bandleader; who became a
successful arranger for crooners like Frank Sinatra and Nat
King Cole
- Milt Bernhart, 77, jazz man widely acknowledged to have
recorded the finest of all trombone solos on Frank Sinatra's
"I've Got You Under My Skin"
- Ticky Holgado, 59, French character actor who made a
successful career out of his main asset - his ugliness.
23: Vasily Mitrokhin, 81, former KGB archivist who defected
to Britain in 1992 and brought a treasure trove of Soviet
secrets with him.
- Helmut Newton, 83, Australian photographer with a penchant
for overtly erotic and often disturbingly impertinent images
of women.
24: Leonidas, 90, Brazilian footballer, leading scorer in
the 1938 World Cup and inventor of the spectacular bicycle
kick.
27: Rikki Fulton, 79, leading Scottish comedian and actor
whose programme "Scotch and Wry" was a national institution
for half a century.
29: Janet Frame, 79, New Zealand's most cherished literary
figure, a novelist and poet whose autobiography inspired
Jane Campion's film "An Angel at My Table".
- M. M. Kaye, 95, romantic novelist whose "The Far
Pavilions" a 1,000-page epic set in 19th century India, sold
millions of copies around the globe.
31: Eleanor Holm, 90, star swimmer who was famously sacked
from the United States Olympic team in 1936 for drinking a
glass of Champagne
February
1: Ally MacLeod, 72, Scottish football manager whose
farcical claims that his side could win the 1978 World Cup
came badly unstuck with defeat by Peru and a draw with Iran.
- Bob Stokoe, 73, manager of Second Division Sunderland in
1973 when they caused the biggest English FA Cup final upset
in history by beating then mighty Leeds United.
- John Stephen, 69, fashion designer dubbed "the King of
Carnaby Street" in the 1960s, when his clothes, which were
worn by members of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
3: Sam Fullbrook, 81, irritable Australian artist whose
portrait of the former governor-general, Sir John Kerr, was
ruled to hang in Parliament House, Canberra.
5: Frances Partridge, 103, the last survivor of the
celebrated Bloomsbury set, which included Virginia Woolf and
John Middleton Murray.
6: Humphry Osmond, 86, psychiatrist who coined the term
"psychedelic" and introduced Aldous Huxley to mind-altering
drugs LSD and mescalin.
8: Robert Appleby, 81, palaeontologist whose research into
prehistoric marine reptiles inadvertently revolutionised
criminal forensic investigation through fingerprinting.
13: Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, 51, president of Chechnya accused
of masterminding suicide bombings in Russia and forging
links with the al-Qa'eda terrorist network.
- Denis Hurley, 88. former Roman Catholic Archbishop of
Durban and an outspoken opponent of apartheid and injustice
in South Africa.
- Peter Gellhorn, 91, German conductor and, pianist who fled
to Britain after Hitler came to power in 1933 and became a
mainstay of the London musical scene.
14: Marco Pantani, 34, resilient Italian cyclist, known as
"the Pirate" whose career ended in disgrace (and suicide)
when he was found to have used banned substances.
16: Doris Troy, 67, American soul singer whose haunting
refrain on Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" overshadowed
her solo career.
17: Jose Lopez Portillo, 83, President of Mexico from 1976
to 1982, who squandered his country's lucrative oil revenue
by a combination of borrowing and corruption
18: Jean Rouch, 86, French documentary film maker with a
particular interest in Africa and pioneer of
"cinema-verite".
20: John Charles, 72, Wales's greatest-ever footballer,
brilliant all-round talent and still loved and revered in
Turin where he became a Juventus legend.
- Estelle Axton, 85, co-founder of the American soul record
label Stax, which gave the world Otis Redding, Sam and Dave,
and Isaac Hayes in the 1960s.
21: Les Gray, 57, founder and lead singer of novelty glam
rock band Mud, who had hits in the early 1970s with "Tiger
Feet", "Lonely This Christmas" and "Oh Boy".
- Norval Morris, 80, New Zealand criminologist, a champion
of criminal justice reform and opponent of imprisonment as a
means of reducing crime.
- Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat, 87, financier and hotelier who was
Singapore's richest man and the biggest shareholder in the
Standard Chartered Bank
- Irina Press, 64, former Soviet Olympic pentathlon champion
in 1960 and 1964 whose striking physique raised questions
about her gender.
22: Roque Maspoli, 86, acrobatic goalkeeper in the Uruguay
team that caused a major upset in 1950 by beating Brazil 2-1
in the World Cup final in Rio de Janeiro.
23: Neil Ardley, 66, jazz composer who, as an author of
books for young people, sold more than 10 million copies
worldwide.
- Don Cornell, 84, big band singer who never gave up
crooning even after the advent of rock n' roll and who sold
more than 50 million records during his 50-year career.
25: Jack Flavell, 74, ferocious Worcestershire and England
fast bowler who helped his county to successive championship
titles in the 1960s.
26: Boris Trajkovski, 47, President of Macedonia who somehow
managed to hold his country together for four years before
being killed in a plane crash.
- Meyer Blinder, 82, America's "King of the Penny Stocks",
head of Blinder and Robinson (or Blind 'em and Rob 'em as
they were known) who, inevitably, ended up in jail for
racketeering
28: Daniel Boorstin, 89, renowned American historian and the
Librarian of Congress in Washington, the world's largest
library.
29: Jerome Lawrence, 88, American dramatist who wrote
hundreds of plays for radio, TV, cinema and the stage,
including "Inherit the Wind" and "Mame".
March
2: Mercedes McCambridge, 85, actress who won an Oscar for
her debut in "All the King's Men" and was the off-screen
voice of the devil in "The Exorcist"
3: Alec Zino, 88, Portuguese ornithologist who gave his name
to Zino's petrel, Europe's rarest breeding bird thought to
be extinct, when he found it on his native Madeira.
4: John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist with post-punk bands
Siouxsie and The Banshees and Visage.
- Claude Nougaro, 74, French poet and singer who helped keep
alive traditional "chanson" during the English-language pop
and rock invasion of the 1960s.
5: Jorge Guinle, 88, diminutive Brazilian playboy who saw
off a multi-million dollar fortune chasing beautiful women,
including Marilyn Monroe.
9: Abu Abbas, 55, Palestine Liberation Organisation leader
and brains behind the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise
ship Achille Lauro and the murderer of handicapped Jewish
passenger Leon Klinghoffer.
- John Mayer, 73, Calcutta-born founder of Indo-Jazz Fusions
with Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott which fused Indian
and Western musical techniques.
13: Franz Koenig, 98, Austrian cardinal and archbishop of
Vienna who played a key role in the election of John Paul
II, the first non-Italian pope for 455 years.
- Dullah Omar, 69, South African cabinet minister, fearless
human rights lawyer in the apartheid era who survived
assassination attempts and a botched kidnapping of his
daughter by state security.
15: John Pople, 78, winner (with Walter Kohn) of the 1998
Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his method of calculating the
bonding of atoms.
- William Pickering, 93, New Zealand-born rocket scientist
who helped establish America's lead in the space race and
launched rockets to the Moon, Mars and Venus.
18: Harrison McCain, 76, founder of the world's biggest
"oven chip" empire based in the small Canadian town of
Florenceville.
19: Mitchell Sharp, 92, former Canadian foreign minister,
brought out of retirement to stem embarrassing cabinet
scandals for prime minister Jean Chretien.
20: Princess Juliana, 94, former queen of the Netherlands,
who reigned for 32 years and abdicated in 1980 in favour of
her eldest daughter, Queen Beatrix
22: Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, 67, handicapped founder and
spiritual leader of the uncompromising Palestinian Islamic
movement, Hamas, killed in an Israeli air strike.
- Peter Jackson, 73, England rugby international, one of the
most impressive wing three-quarters in the game and scorer
of a famous winning try against Australia in 1958.
25: Fred Hoyles, 80, Wimbledon tennis referee-in-chief who
had his work cut out dealing with the temperamental
outbursts from John McEnroe.
26: Jan Berry, 62, half of the 1960s pop duo, Jan & Dean,
lynchpins of the "suring" sound with hits like "Dead Man's
Curve".
- Tony Traversi, 89, a member of Sid Millward's "Nitwits"
and "Nuts and Bolts", leading exponents of zany,
idiosyncratic music.
28: Peter Ustinov, 82, Russo-British actor, director,
playwright, novelist, scriptwriter, mimic - an abundant
talent bordering on the genius.
- Robert Merle, 95, French historical novellist, often
compared, to his irritation, to Alexandre Dumas and author
of the "Fortune de France" saga.
29: Lise Villameur, 98, one of the first female agents to be
parachuted into occupied France by the Allies in World War
II.
- Bob Copper, 89, English folk singer considered the grand
old man of the genre and a key figure in its mid-century
revival.
30: Alistair Cooke, 95, broadcaster and journalist who kept
up a weekly radio dispatch, "Letter from America" for 56
years.
April
1: Paul Atkinson, 58, lead guitarist of The Zombies, the
1960s British group whose biggest hit was the atmospheric
"She's Not There".
- Carrie Snodgress, 57, actress nominated for an Oscar for
"The Diary of a Mad Housewife" who cut her career short and
left Hollywood for an affair with singer-songwriter Neil
Young.
4: Alberic Schotte, 84, Belgian cyclist and one of the
grittiest European road racers of all time, who won two
world championships was runner-up to Gino Bartali in the
1948 Tour de France.
5: Fred Winter, 77, four times British champion jockey and
leading National Hunt trainer on eight occasions.
- Leonard Reed, 97, one of the greatest tap dancers of all
time and creator of the ever-popular "Shim Sham Shimmy".
- Ludmila Tcherina, 79, French ballerina and actress, star
of "The Red Shoes" and later a sculptress and writer
8: Robert Sangster, 67, British racehorse owner and breeder
who for eight years had a stranglehold on the big races in
Britain, Ireland and France
10: Ben Pimlott, 58, historian of the British Labour
movement and highly-acclaimed biographer of Queen Elizabeth
II.
11: Paul Hamburger, 83, Austrian-born pianist and
accompanist of many of the leading singers of the last 50
years, including Geraint Evans, Janet Baker and Elizabeth
Soderstrom
12: Juanito Valderrama, 87, Spanish flamenco star, popular
performer and innovative artist who produced more than 1,500
songs in a career of more than 60 years.
17: Abdul Aziz Rantissi, 56, leader of Hamas for less than a
month after the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin before
he died in an Israeli missile strike.
- Willie Watson, 84, one of the last two people alive to
have represented England at both cricket and football.
18: Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, 83, president of Fiji, earlier a
district officer and then the islands' first prime minister
committed to maintaint amicable relations with Britain.
19: George Hardwick, 84, Middlesbrough full back who was
England football captain 13 times between 1946 and 1948.
- Ronnie Simpson, 73, energetic Scottish goalkeeper for the
"Lisbon Lions", the Glasgow Celtic team that won the
European Cup in 1967 with a famous victory over Inter Milan.
19: Norris McWhirter, 78, co-founder with identical twin
brother, Ross, of the Guinness Book of Records, the world's
best-selling work of non-fiction after the Bible.
22: Alex Madonna, 85, property developer, cattle rancher and
owner of the ultra-kitsch Madonna Inn on the Californian
coast immortalised in Umberto Eco's "Travels in
Hyperreality"
24: Estee Lauder, 97, one of the world's most successful
businesswomen and the last of the great American cosmetics
queens, along with Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden.
- Jose Giovanni, 80, Swiss writer and film director, best
known for "The Sicilian Clan" which brought Jean Gabin and
Alain Delon together.
25: Thom Gunn, 74, elegant British-born poet whose verse
displayed the influence of Donne and Herbert and an
impeccable clarity of thought and tightness of structure.
- Claude "Fiddler" Williams, 96, an early jazz pioneer who
played both guitar and violin, notably with Count Basie, and
is considered one of the very few worthwhile jazz
violinists.
26: Hubert Selby Jr, 75, author of the frank and brutal
novel "Last Exit to Brooklyn" which was the subject of
obscenity trials when it was published in 1966.
- Denis Hills, 90, British adventurer sentenced to death by
firing squad by Ugandan president Idi Amin for calling him a
"black Nero" and a "village tyrant" forcing Queen Elizabeth
II to intercede.
29: Daniel Bernard, 62, French ambassador to Britain, who
caused a stir when he reportedly called Israel "that shitty
little country".
30: Boris Pergamenschikow, 55, charismatic cellist and
chamber musician once described as "a soloist in the 18th
century mould".
- Jeff Butterfield, 74, England centre in 28 successive
internationals from 1953 to 1959 and sometime captain, who
starred in the historic British Lions tour to South Africa
in 1955.
May
4: Clement 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd, 72, influential Jamaican
record producer who launched the career of reggae star Bob
Marley.
6: Barney Kessel, 80, jazz guitarist, also a key contributor
to Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" on hits like "You've Lost
That Loving Feeling" and "River Deep Mountain High".
7: Alexandre Minkowski, 88, French paediatrician, pioneer in
the care and treatment of premature babies and the new-born,
also a champion of children in war and famine zones around
the world.
9: Akhmad Kadyrov, 53, imam who called for a jihad against
the forces of the Russian Federation and was later
Russian-backed president of Chechnya.
- Alan King, 76, one of the great names in American stand-up
comedy, along with Bob Hope and Jack Benny.
11: Alf Valentine, 74, West Indian left-arm spin bowler who
was plucked from obscurity to make his name as the major
success of the 1950 tour of England.
14: Jesus Gil, 71, controversial president of Atletico
Madrid football club, building tycoon, demagogic politician
and utterly corrupt mayor of the seaside resort of Marbella.
15: Marius Constant, 79, Romanian composer of ballet scores
and conductor who created the French ensemble Ars Nova which
showcases contemporary compositions.
17: Ezzedine Salim, 61, head of the former Iraq Governing
Council, killed in a Baghdad suicide car bombing.
18: Elvin Jones, 76, one of only a few great jazz drummers
and essential member of the John Coltrane Quartet in the
early 1960s at the height of their powers.
- Raglan Squire, 92, architect who designed houses, offices,
factories, churches and hotels from the London suburbs to
the Malaysian jungle and Iraq.
19: "Gatemouth" Moore, 90, American blues singer in the old
southern story-telling tradition, the first bluesman to
appear at New York's Carnegie Hall, and later a preacher.
23: Adele Leigh, 75, British lyric soprano who carved out a
career playing a variety of operetta heroines in Vienna.
29: Jack Rosenthal, 72, playwright best known for his
television scripts, like "Barmitzvah Boy" and "The
Knowledge" and his work on the Barbra Streisand film
"Yentl".
- Archibald Cox, 92, special prosecutor in the Watergate
Affair who insisted on unrestricted access to tapes of
president richard Nixon's conversations in the Oval Office.
27: Umberto Agnelli, 69, chairman of Fiat, Italy's most
important private company, since the death of his
charismatic playboy brother, Gianni, in 2003, and president
of Juventus.
28: Irene Manning, 91, soprano famous for her roles as a
vaudeville trouper with James Cagney in "Yankee Doodle
Dandy" and "The Singing Cowboy" with Gene Autry.
31: Robert Quine, 61, tax lawyer turned rock guitarist,
founder member of American punk band The Voidoids, also
worked with Lou Reed, Tom Waits and Brian Eno.
- Etienne Roda-Gil, 62, French lyricist responsible for
innumerable hits by Julien Clerc, including "Ce n'est rien"
and who also wrote the words to the Vanessa Paradis hit "Joe
le Taxi".
June
2: Dom Moraes, 65, writer regarded as the most (and best)
English of poets to come out of India.
- Nicolai Ghiaurov, 74, Bulgarian-born singer whose deep
rich voice made him one of maybe two or three leading bass
singers in the world from the 1960s to the mid-1980s.
3: Frances Shand Kydd, 68, mother of Diana, Princess of
Wales, whose life saw her overcome death, divorce and drink
problems.
4: Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian comic actor, who along with
Vittorio Gassman, Alberto Sordi and the clown Toto, embodied
the spirit of the early post-war era.
5: Ronald Reagan, 93, "B" movie actor who became president
of the United States and nurtured relations with the Soviet
Union as the Cold War came to an end.
- Iona Brown, 63, violinist and conductor who shaped the
sound of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the chamber
orchestra she led and later directed.
- Fiore De Henriquez, 82, hermaphrodite Italian sculptor,
whose prolific output ranged from portrait busts to
monumental public commissions.
8: Fosco Maraini, 91, Italian mountaineer, anthropologist
and photographer who wrote the first modern account of the
Himalayan kingdom in "Secret Tibet"
10: Ray Charles, 73, singer, pianist and songwriter, a major
influence on the development of popular music, his fusion of
gospel and blues paving the way for soul music.
13: Stuart Hampshire, 89, philosopher, Spinoza scholar and
anti-rationalist thinker who gave a new direction to moral
and political thought in post-war Britain.
14: Max Rosenberg, 89, film producer of low-budget horror
movies like "The Curse of Frankenstein", "Dr Terror's House
of Horrors" and "The Beast Must Die".
15: Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, mountain guide who climbed the
Matterhorn for the 370th and last time at the age of 89,
gave up skiing at 95 and worked until he was 97.
16: Herman Goldstine, 90, American mathematician, one of the
creators of the modern computer who helped to set up
Unesco's International Computation Centre.
- John Oliver, 93, editor of the magazine "The Tatler" in
the 1960s who made it the bible for anyone interested in
high society.
17: Jacek Kuron, 70, chain-smoking Polish intellectual, the
"godfather" and brains behind the Solidarity union, which
brought down the Communist government.
21: Ted Scott, 85, archbishop and head of the Anglican
Church of Canada, known as the "Pink Primate" and "Red Ted"
who oversaw the ordination of the first women clergy.
22: Ted Smout, 106, one of the last six survivors of the
415,000-strong Australian Imperial Force who fought in
Europe in World War I.
25: Imanol, 56, Basque folk singer and an outspoken critic
of the separatist group ETA for whom he had earlier
undergone imprisonment and torture.
28: Anthony Buckeridge, 92, the creator of Jennings, comic
hero of a long series of novels set in the English prep
school, Linbury Court.
1: Richard May, 65, British presiding judge in The Hague for
the most important war crimes trial for decades - that of
former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
July
1: Richard May, 65, British presiding judge in The Hague for
the most important war crimes trial for decades - that of
former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
- Marlon Brando, 80, the most influential film star of his
generation, in movies like "The Wild Bunch", "On the
Waterfront" and later "Last Tango in Paris" and The
Godfather".
- Peter Barnes, 73, British playwright whose irreverent "The
Ruling Class" was a lasting success on screen with Peter
O'Toole in a starring role.
3: Andrian Nikolayev, 74, Soviet cosmonaut who twice broke
endurance records in the 1960s and famously married another
cosmonaut, Valentina Treshkova
6: Thomas Klestil, 71, Austrian President dogged by scandal
but who restored his country's reputation after his
predecessor, Kurt Waldheim's Nazi past was unmasked.
8: Baron de Rede, 82, Parisian society figure dubbed "la
Pompadour de nos jours" by Nancy Mitford and considered "the
best host in all Europe".
9: Carlo Di Palma, 79, Italian cinematographer who brought
style to Antonioni's "Red Desert" and "Blow-Up" and Woody
Allen's best dozen movies of the 1980s and 1990s.
10: Odette Laure, 87, French actress and variety artist best
known abroad for her role in Bertrand Tavernier's film
"Daddy Nostalgie" alongside Jane Birkin and Dirk Bogarde.
- Antoine Argoud, 89, French colonel in the
anti-independence movement OAS during the Algerian war,
sentenced to life imprisonment in 1963 but pardoned in 1968.
11: Joe Gold, 82, founder of Gold's Gym, at Venice Beach,
California, made famous by the film Pumping Iron (1976),
which made a star of Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Dorothy Hart, 81, Hollywood star dubbed "America's Ingrid
Bergman" who featured in "The Gunfighter" with Randolph
Scott and the Oscar-winning "The Naked City"..
- Walter Wager, 79, writer of violent crime and spy
thrillers; including "58 Minutes", filmed as "Die Hard 2",
and "Viper 3" which became "Twilight's Last Gleaming"
13: Arthur 'Killer' Kane, 55, bass guitarist with sleazy,
self-destructive punk-glam rock band, the New York Dolls
described by Malcolm McLaren as "chaos incarnate".
- Carlos Kleiber, 74, one of the great orchestral conductors
of the 20th century, but who never held a permanent post and
worked only when he felt like it.
16: Charles Sweeney, 84, pilot of the B-29 Superfortress
bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in 1945,
three days after Hiroshima
17: Queen Susan of the Albanians, 63, born Susan
Cullen-Ward, the down-to-earth Australian wife of King Leka
I, claimant to the Albanian throne
18: Sir Julian Hodge, 99, high-flying Welsh financier,
friend of prime ministers, whose dubious dealings earned him
the soubriquet "Usurer of the Valleys".
- Paul Foot, 66, lifelong socialist, despite his
aristocratic background, and radical journalist who was a
tireless champion of the underdog and scourge of fraudsters.
20: Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish flamenco dancer and film and
theatre director who brought the genre to an international
audience with productions like "Blood Wedding" and "Carmen"
- James Williams, 53, jazz pianist and composer best-known
for his work on 10 albums with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
21: Jerry Goldsmith, 75, prolific composer with 300 film and
TV scores and 17 Oscar nominations to his credit, including
"Planet of the Apes" and "Basic Instinct ".
22: Sacha Distel, 71, suave French pop singer, heart-throb
and accomplished jazz guitarist who was a sometime lover of
Brigitte Bardot.
- Serge Reggiani, 82, French film actor who specialised in
tragedies, including the classic "The Leopard", much-loved
in France as a singer of sorrowful songs.
23: Joe Cahill, 84, convicted murder who was spared the
death penalty and founded the Provisional Irish Republican
Army for whom he carried out many terrorist attacks.
- Carlos Paredes, 79, master of the Portuguese guitar who
gained an international reputation after being jailed for
several years under the Salazar dictatorship.
25: John Passmore, 89, Australian philosopher who was a
world authority on the history of ideas and was reputedly
the father of applied philosophy.
27: Carmine De Sapio, 95, Secretary of State for New York
and leader of Tammany Hall, the Democrat body which ran the
city for 80 years and became a byword for corruption.
28: Francis Crick, 88, Nobel Prize winner and the most
important biologist of the 20th century who with Jim Watson,
discovered the double helix structure of DNA.
- Tiziano Terzani, 65, Italian journalist who recorded the
fall of the Soviet Union in "Goodnight, Mister Lenin" and
his own fear of flying in "A Fortune Teller Told Me"
30: Ellen Auerbach, 98, photographer who was one of the last
links to the European avant-garde and the Bauhaus movement
of the 1930s.
- Rick James, 56, American funk singer, cross-dresser and
man of excess who came to be overshadowed by his
near-contemporary Prince.
- Gordon Smith, 80, graceful Scottish international
footballer who played on the right wing for Hibernian
between 1941 and 1959, winning three League titles.
- Donald Justice, 78, melancholic American poet whose verse
displayed an elegant mastery of form and lyricism.
31: Laura Betti, 70, Italian actress, a favourite of
director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who appeared in "La Dolce
Vita", "Teorema", "Salo" and "Last Tango in Paris"
- Virginia Grey, 87, appeared in more than 100 Hollywood
films as a supporting actress and had her heart broken by
Clark Gable.
- Paul "Red" Adair, 89, American oil well fireman whose name
became synonymous with dealing with disaster who tackled
more than 2,000 fires on land and oil rigs.
- Bernard Levin, 75, acerbic and witty British newspaper
columnist who became required reading for his waspish
articles in The Times from the early 1970s to the 1990s.
August
1: Fay Wray, 96, star of more than 70 Hollywood films but
forever remembered for the famous scene in which she screams
and kicks while being held in King Kong's paw.
- Madeleine Robinson, 87, French actress who was a leading
light of stage and screen for more than 60 years.
2: Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, legendary French photographer
and chronicler of everyday life whose black-and-white
studies helped transform the genre into an art form.
4: Robert Jennings, 90, British judge who served as
president of the International Court of Justice in The Hague
from 1982 to 1995.
5: Monty Charles, 84, one of the main figures of the modern
diamond industry as a director of De Beers and its
subsidiary, the Diamond Trading Company.
9: David Raksin, 92, composer and arranger of more than 400
film and TV scores including Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times
and, most notably, Laura in 1944.
10: James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, head of the First
National City Bank of New York and America's oldest
surviving Olympic medallist from Paris in 1924.
11: Giovanna Fontana, 88, the youngest of the three Fontana
sisters (along with Micol and Zoe) who brought about the
renaissance of Italian fashion.
12: Professor John Clark, 52, expert in biotechnology whose
work in Edinburgh paved the day for the cloning of Dolly the
sheep in 1996, the first animal cloned from an adult.
13: Julia Child, 91, television cook responsible for
introducing French cuisine to a wide American audience whose
name is a byword for fancy food.
13: Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British actor who created the
avant-garde theatre characters Estragon, in Beckett's
Waiting for Godot, and Aston in The Caretaker by Harold
Pinter
14: Czeslaw Milosz, 93, modern Poland's greatest writer,
chronicler of his country's history in the 20th century and
winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature.
14: Neal Fredericks, 35, American director of photography on
a number of horror films, notably The Blair Witch Project.
15: Paul Ngei, 81, Kenyan government minister who was
imprisoned under British colonial rule with Jomo Kenyatta
for his involvement with the Mau Mau.
16: Carl Mydans, 97, photographer who recorded many of the
most memorable events of American life in the 20th century
in 40 years with Life magazine,
- Melvin Endsley, 70, popular songwriter whose greatest hit
was "Singin' the Blues" for Guy Mitchell in the 1950s.
17: Thea Astley, 78, Australian writer who won a record four
Miles Franklin awards for novels like "The Well-Dressed
Explorer" but never quite reached best-seller status.
- Gerard Souzay, 85, French singer rivalled only by Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau as a great lyrical baritone but who forbade
broadcast of his recordings after a breakdown.
18: Elmer Bernstein, 82, influential American film composer
whose credits included the memorable themes to The
Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape
- Susan Mary Alsop, 86, Washington political hostess and one
of a host of mistresses of serial society philanderer Duff
Cooper.
19: Rudolf Miele, 74, head of the German domestic appliance
company whose products have been described as "the Rolls
Royce of kitchen equipment"
23: Ota Sik, 84, Czechoslovakia's deputy prime minister
under Alexandedr Ducek in the Prague Spring of 1968 before
the Soviet invasion and architect of economic reform.
24: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist, a
world authority on the psychology of dying, who helped
change attitudes towards the terminally ill.
25: Private Arthur Barraclough, 106, British World War I
veteran who became a television star 85 years on when he
recounted his experiences on the Western Front.
26: Laura Branigan, 47, American singer who worked with
Leonard Cohen and had a major solo hit with the classic 1983
pop-disco anthem "Gloria".
30: Fred Whipple, 97, American astronomer who revolutionised
the study of comets by discovering they were composed of
rock, dust and ice, and not sand as had been believed
- Derek Johnson, 71, British middle-distance runner who was
more famous as the founder of the International Athletes'
Association, to defend athletes' interests.
31: Carl Wayne, 61, lead singer with the 1960s British pop
group the Move on hits like "Night of Fear" and "Flowers in
the Rain".
31: Carl Szokoll, 88, a member of the Stauffenberg plot to
assassinate Adolf Hitler and later a producer whose works
ranged from Hitler: the Last Ten Days to soft-porn dramas.
September
1: Sir Alastair Morton, 66, chief executive of the Channel
Tunnel project, linking Britain and France in the greatest
civil engineering feat of the 20th century;
- Patricia Flower, 89, three times world archery champion in
the 1950s and later the first woman to be granted an
Egyptian pilot's licence
6: Tiny Doll, 90, was the last surviving member of the Doll
family, the midget actors who were Munchkins in "The Wizard
of Oz" and appeared in the classic horror film "Freaks".
7: Beyers Naude, 89, Afrikaner cleric branded a traitor by
his people for denying Dutch Reformed Church doctrine of
Biblical justification for apartheid.
8: Richard Butler, 86, founded the American white
supremacist group Aryan Nations, which aimed to create a
racially-pure white republic independent of federal
government.
- Frank Thomas, 92, a leading animator with Walt Disney, and
one of the "Nine Old Men" who designed the studio's feature
films starting with "Snow White".
11: Petros VII, 55, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria, of the
Eastern or Greek Orthodox Church in Africa; killed in a
helicopter crash.
- Fred Ebb, 76, American lyricist who collaborated with
composer John Kander on the musicals "Cabaret" and "Chicago"
and also wrote the words to "New York, New York".
- Margaret Kelly, 94, the original Bluebell girl who founded
the scantily clad Parisian dance troupe who made their debut
at the Folies Bergère in 1932.
- Johnny Ramone, 55, was the lead guitarist with
tongue-in-cheek American punk band The Ramones.
16: Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American who wrote poetry
for 76 years before her first book, Ants on the Melon, was
published when she was 83 and sold remarkably well.
- Michael Donaghy, 50, an original and gifted American poet
who brought humour to verse on everyday occurrences.
17: Katharina Dalton, 87, identified premenstrual syndrome,
or PMS, as early as 1953 but ran into opposition from the
medical profession and feminists alike.
18: Jean Ruth Hay, 87, the hostess of the radio programme
Reveille With Beverly broadcast to US servicemen all over
the world at 5.30am during World War II.
- Finlay Best, 92, probably the best rowing coach Cambridge
University has ever had and who led them to six victories in
the Boat Race
- Marvin Mitchelson, 76, showbiz lawyer, the "Duke of
Divorce" and the "Prince of Palimony" who fought for Hugh
Hefner, Bob Dylan, Robert de Niro and Joan Collins and
against Lee Marvin.
19: Skeeter Davis, 72, country music singer whose biggest
hit was the tearful "The End of the World" which sold in its
millions worldwide in 1963.
20: Brian Clough, 69, infuriatingly conceited football
manager, who transformed Derby and Nottingham Forest into
League champions and won two European Cups with Forest.
21 : Russ Meyer, 82, film director specialising in
sado-masochistic soft-porn cult classics like "Faster,
Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"; "Supervixens" and "Beyond the Valley
of the Dolls"
23: Nigel Nicolson, 87, English MP who shocked the
Establishment with "Portrait of a Marriage", about his
unconventional parents, Vita Sackville-West and Harold
Nicolson.
24: Françoise Sagan, 69, French writer who never quite
repeated the astronomical success of first novel, Bonjour
Tristesse, written when she was just 18.
27: Tsai Wan-lin, 79, Taiwan's richest man, with a fortune
estimated at $4.6 billion, a self-made man who helped turn
the island into a prosperous "Asian tiger" economy,
28: Mulk Raj Anand, 98, author regarded as a pioneer of the
English-language Indian novel whose magnum opus was
"Untouchable" about a low-caste lavatory cleaner
- Geoffrey Beene, 77, American fashion designer considered a
model of sanity in the outlandish world of design, whose
clothes combined comfort with style.
October
1: Richard Avedon, 81, influential American fashion
photographer often described as the greatest American
portraitist of all time.
3: Janet Leigh, 77, Hollywood star of "Touch of Evil" and
"The Manchurian Candidate" famous for being murdered in the
shower scene in Hitchcock's "Psycho"
5: Maurice Wilkins, 87, molecular biologist who was the
third of the three scientists who won the 1962 Nobel Prize
for medicine for discovering the structure of DNA.
6: Pete McCarthy, 52, Irish travel writer, broadcaster and
comedian who won acclaim and best-seller status with
"McCarthy's Bar" and "The Road to McCarthy"
7: Bill Bennett, 73, "The Birdman" who helped develop the
modern hang glider and popularised the activity with a
series of publicity stunts.
9: Jacques Derrida, 74, French philosopher, the father of
deconstructionalism, the often-incomprehensible system of
analysis which questions the basis of western thought.
10: Christopher Reeve, 52, actor who was "Superman" but
ended up in a wheelchair and would never walk again after
breaking his neck in a riding accident in 1995
- Maurice Shadbolt, 72, New Zealand writer, internationally
renowned author of historical novels about the Maori wars of
the 19th century.
11: Keith Miller, 84, brilliantly spectacular Australian
cricketer, one of the greatest all-rounders ever - a
graceful batsman and a chillingly aggressive fast bowler.
12: J. L. Hunter 'Red' Rountree, 92, American bank robber
who committed his first offence at 87 and was serving a
12-year sentence for a heist he carried out at 91.
13: Bernice Rubens, 76, Jewish Welsh writer who claimed to
explore "the pathetic secrets of damaged souls" and won the
Booker Prize in 1970 for "The Elected Member".
- Michael Pope, 87, one of the key figures in British horse
racing as a leading trainer, stud manager and author.
14: Sheila Keith, 84, Scottish actress who regularly
appeared in the cult Hammer horror films of the 1970s,
mostly as a demented matriarch with murderous intent.
16: Pierre Salinger, 79, American journalist and President
John F. Kennedy's White House spokesman who left the United
States in disgust after the election of George W. Bush as
president.
19: Paul H Nitze, 97, Pentagon official in charge of defence
policy in the Cold War years, adviser to eight presidents
and architect of the Marshall Plan and the SALT talks.
20: Anthony Hecht, 81, American poet who drew liberally on
his World War II experiences on the infantry front line as
the US army advanced into Germany.
23: Bill Nicholson, 85, Tottenham Hotspur manager when they
won the first 20th century League and Cup double in 1961 and
were the first British club to win a European trophy.
- Robert Merrill, 87, one of the greatest American opera
singers, a baritone with a penchant for Verdi roles.
25: John Peel, 65, English disc jockey who promoted more
rock bands than anyone else, retained a taste for the
esoteric and ended up as an international institution.
27: Lester Lanin, 97, bandleader who played at the best
parties and every US presidential inauguration from
Eisenhower to Clinton, except Carter (who found him too
expensive).
28: Jimmy "Babyface" McLarnin, 96, Irish-born boxer who was
twice world welterweight champion.
29: Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, 102, widow of
Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and the last surviving aunt of
Queen Elizabeth II of Britain.
November
1: Lord Hanson, 82, company director and the most admired
British businessman of the Thatcher era in the cut-throat
1980s.
- Mae Madison, 90, Hungarian-born leading lady of Hollywood
in the early days of the "talkies" and a favourite of Busby
Berkley
2: Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, 86, ruler of Abu
Dhabi, moderate president of the United Arab Emirates and a
visionary Arab leader.
- Theo van Gogh, 47, controversial Dutch writer and film
director who outraged Muslims with his criticism of their
treatment of women and paid for it with his life on the
streets of Amsterdam.
3: Joe Bushkin, 87, American jazz pianist whose career
spanned work small groups and big bands as well as cocktail
lounges.
6: Fred Dibnah, 66, English steeplejack and television
personality who, despite wanting to preserve factory
chimneys, ended up having to demolish a fair number.
7: Howard Keel, 87, baritone star of Hollywood musicals,
including "Annie Get Your Gun", "Calamity Jane", "Oklahoma"
and "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers".
8: Eddie Charlton, 75, grindingly boring, defensive
Australian snooker player whose matches lasted for hours
and, it was said, "provided hypnotic relief for insomniacs".
9: Helen Tew, 92, who at 88 became the oldest woman, in the
smallest boat, to sail the Atlantic.
11: Yasser Arafat, 75, beleaguered and unchallenged leader
of the Palestinian people for more than 30 years.
- K C Yeo, 101, who stayed in Hong Kong after the Japanese
invasion in 1941 to keep the colony's medical services
working.
- Murray Ramsay, 76, South African scientist who helped
develop glass fibre optics to carry telephone messages or
television pictures.
12: Frederik Prausnitz, 84, American conductor who
championed Mahler, Walton and his compatriots Elliott Carter
and Roger Sessions.
13: Russell Jones - 'Ol' Dirty Bastard' (ODB), 35, American
rapper and founder member of influential hip-hop group
Wu-Tang Clan, who enjoyed regular run-ins with the law.
16: Margaret Hassan, 59, British aid worker, director of
CARE, who devoted more than 30 years of her life to helping
the disadvantaged people of Iraq, abducted and apparently
beheaded on video.
18: Cy Coleman, 75, American songwriter whose biggest
Broadway hit "Sweet Charity" incLuded songs like "Big
Spender" and "If My Friends Could See Me Now".
19: Terry Melcher, 62, son and agent of Doris Day who wrote
"Move Over Darling" and produced the Byrds, the Beach Boys,
and many others.
- Martin Malia, 80, US historian and challenging Left-wing
voice in the field of Soviet studies.
22: Rafael "Raful" Eitan, 75, leading figure and eventually
Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces.
24: Arthur Hailey, 84, English writer of well-researched
best-sellers like "Airport" and "Hotel" which sold more than
150 million copies in 40 languages.
26: Bill Alley, 85, Australian cricketer whose aggressive,
rumbustious style made him a hero in league cricket in
England.
27: Philippe de Broca, 71, French film director best known
for eccentric comedies including "That Man From Rio" with
Jean-Paul Belmondo and "The King of Hearts".
- Maude Lloyd, 96, South African-born British ballet dancer
who became an influential critic and "surrogate mother" to
Rudolf Nureyev.
- Billy James Hargis, 79, ultra-pious head of the Christian
Crusade, anti-communist TV evangelist brought down by
allegations of sexual misconduct
29: Bill Brown, 73, Scottish goalkeeper and solid last line
of defence for Tottenham Hotspur's 1961 English
Double-winning side.
- John D Barrymore, 72, American actor best known for
indulging in the hard living and hard drinking which made
(and still makes) the Barrymore dynasty famous.
December
1: Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, 93, personable
German-born consort of former Queen Juliana but ultimately
disgraced in a financial scandal in 1976
2: Alicia Markova, 94, the greatest British ballerina, if
not the best who ever lived, who received a great deal less
acclaim than she deserved.
6: Raymond Goethals, 83, Belgian football manager who guided
French side Olympique Marseille to the European Cup and also
won the Cup Winners' Cup with Anderlecht.
Hyfler/Rosner
didn't wait until December was over to publish it.
Steve Miller - A Famous Rock Star!
--
Steve Miller
Editor and Chief Copyboy
Goodbye! The Journal of Contemporary Obituaries - http://www.goodbyemag.com
If in NYC, buy the Sun and read the obits!
Hyfler/Rosner
"Steve Miller - A Famous Rock Star!" <scmi...@panix.com>
wrote in message news:cpk9dd$pjn$1...@panix3.panix.com...
> Message from AFP: Don't die after Dec. 12 or you will fall
> into the memory hole.
>
>
Well, I guess as a news service, they will just update it.
And I'll be all over it.