1. June 2004
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2. References

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2004.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

June 2004

1

• James Dudley, 94, American baseball player and professional wrestling manager.
• William Manchester, 82, American author and historian.
• Bill Reichardt, 73, American professional football player (University of Iowa, Green Bay Packers).^[2]
• Chang Xiangyu, 80, Chinese opera actress.

2

• Mujeeb Aalam, 56, Pakistani playback singer.
• Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer, heart attack.
• Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, c. 69, Ethiopian general, former defense minister and acting president of Ethiopia.
• Nicolai Ghiaurov, 71, Bulgarian opera singer.

3

• Joe Carr, 82, Irish golfer.
• Joe Cleary, 85, Irish-American baseball player (Washington Senators).^[3]
• Morris Schappes, 97, American scholar, editor (Jewish Currents) and activist, known for his Marxist politics.^[4]
• Frances Shand Kydd, 68, English mother of Diana, Princess of Wales.^[5]

4

• Augie Colon, 76, American musician.
• Wilmer Fields, 81, American baseball player, former Negro League Baseball All-Star, heart ailment.
• Steve Lacy, 69, American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer.
• Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer.^[6][7].
• Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor.^[8].
• Gord Mills, 76, politician in Ontario, Canada.
• Joseph Reboli, 58, American painter, died of lung cancer in Setauket, New York.
• T. M. Samarasinghe, 61, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
• Anthony Steffen, 73, Italian and Brazilian film actor and screenwriter.

5

• Iona Brown, 63, British violinist and conductor.
• Jack Foster, 72, British-born New Zealand athlete.
• Ronald Reagan, 93, American actor and politician, President (1981–1989), Governor of California (1967–1975).^[9]

6

• Necdet Mahfi Ayral, 96, Turkish actor.
• Judy Campbell, 88, English actress.
• Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman/journalist, working for the BBC in Saudi Arabia, killed by Al Qaeda.
• James Roche, 97, American businessman, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of the Board at General Motors Corporation.^[10]
• Kate Worley, 46, American comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer).

7

• Joseph L. Doob, 94, American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory.
• Chris Kitsos, 76, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).^[11]
• Don Potter, 102, British sculptor.
• Quorthon, 38, Swedish musician and founder of the band Bathory, heart failure.
• Eugene Raskin, 94, American musician and playwright.
• Donald Trumbull, 95, American special effects pioneer.

8

• Mack Jones, 65, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball outfielder with the Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos.^[12]
• Humayun Khan, 27, American soldier serving in the Iraq War.
• Roderick Macleod, 95, Canadian politician.
• Ronalda Pierce, 19, American Florida State University basketball player, aneurysm.
• Bob Schmitz, 65, American professional football player and scout (Pittsburgh Steelers, Minnesota Vikings).^[13]

9

• Rosey Brown, 71, American football player, Pro Football Hall of Famer.
• Robert MacDonald Ford, 93, American politician and insurance agent.
• Ted Martin, 101, Australian cricketer and centenarian.
• Ralph Moody, 86, American NASCAR driver and team owner.
• Hartley Saunders, 60, Bahamian Olympic triple jumper (men's triple jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics).^[14]
• Barbara Whiting Smith, 73, American actress (Those Whiting Girls, Beware, My Lovely, Dangerous When Wet).^[15]
• Brian Williamson, 58, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered.

10

• Ray Charles, 73, American rhythm and blues singer ("What'd I Say", "Georgia on my Mind", "I Can't Stop Loving You") and soul music pioneer.
• Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications.
• Xenophon Zolotas, 100, Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister (1989–1990).

11

• Egon von Furstenberg, 57, Swiss-born aristocrat and designer, nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli.
• Michel Roche, 64, French Olympic equestrian (gold medal winner in equestrian team jumping at the 1976 Summer Olympics).^[16]
• Joyce Symons, 85, Hong Kong educator.

12

• Walter George Muelder, 97, American social ethicist and Methodist minister.
• Stanley O'Toole, 65, British film producer.
• Geoffrey Thompson, 67, British businessman, aneurysm.

13

• Dorothy Lavinia Brown, 85, American surgeon and politician.
• Danny Dark, 65, American announcer.
• Dick Durrance, 89, American alpine ski racer, 17-time national champion.
• Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, British philosopher.
• Robert Lees, 91, American screenwriter, found decapitated.
• Sir Allan Taylor, 85, British army general.
• Ralph Wiley, 52, American sports journalist, heart attack.

14

• Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher.
• Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, Swiss mountain guide.
• Max Rosenberg, 89, American producer of horror movies.

15

• J. Gwyn Griffiths, 92, Welsh poet and Egyptologist.
• Frank Nastasi, 81, American actor and comedian (Lunch with Soupy).
• Ahmet Piriştina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir, heart attack.
• Hatch Rosdahl, 62, American professional football player (Penn State, Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs).^[17]
• John Lasarus Williams, 79, Welsh nationalist activist.

16

• Barry Cowan, 56, Northern Irish broadcaster.
• Herman Goldstine, 90, American computer scientist (ENIAC), Parkinson's disease.
• George Hausmann, 88, American baseball player (New York Giants).^[18]
• Thanom Kittikachorn, 91, Thai military dictator, former Thai prime minister.
• Hilda Thompson, 85, New Zealand cricketer.

17

• Alfred Fischer, 84, German jurist.
• Ma Jiajue, 23, Chinese murderer.
• Vilayat Inayat Khan, 87, British Sufist.
• Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman.
• Gerry McNeil, 78, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup-winning National Hockey League goaltender.
• Steven Oken, 42, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Maryland.

18

• Frederick Jaeger, 76, German-born British character actor.
• Paul Johnson, c. 49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda.
• Nek Mohammed, c. 27, Pakistani tribal leader in Waziristan and key Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces.^[19]
• Moe Radovich, 75, American professional basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors) and college basketball coach (Cal State Fullerton, University of Wyoming).^[20]

19

• Colin McCormack, 62, Welsh actor.
• Jadwiga Rutkowska, 70, Polish Olympic volleyball player (bronze medal winner in women's volleyball at the 1964 Summer Olympics).^[21]
• Nob Yoshigahara, 68, Japanese mathematician and puzzle expert.

20

• Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania.
• Fred Cogswell, 86, Canadian poet.
• Nabil Sahraoui, 37, Algerian militant, head of GSPC and linked to al-Qaeda.

21

• Nick de Angelis, 83, American artist.
• Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure.^[22]
• Ted Scott, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate.

22

• Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer.
• Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist.
• Francisco Ortiz Franco, 50, Mexican journalist, murdered.
• Carlton Skinner, 91, American naval officer and politician, first civilian governor of Guam.^[23]
• Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy.
• Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants.

23

• Peter Birrel, 68, English actor, cancer.
• Rifaat El-Fanagily, 68, Egyptian footballer.
• Doris Thompson, 101, British businesswoman and owner of Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

24

• Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, 40, Greek songwriter, author.
• Bill Pataky, 74, Canadian Olympic basketball player (men's basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics).^[24]
• Peter Wragg, 73, British footballer.

25

• Morton W. Coutts, 100, New Zealand scientist and inventor.
• Karol Kennedy Kucher, 72, American ice skating champion, pneumonia.
• Carl Rakosi, 100, Hungarian-American poet, the last surviving member of the original group of Objectivist poets.^[25]

26

• Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress.
• William H. Avery, 91, American aeronautical engineer.
• Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter.^[26]
• Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer.

27

• Hugh B. Cave, 93, British writer.
• George Patton IV, 80, US Army general and son of George Patton.
• Darrell Russell, 35, American National Hot Rod Association drag racer, first racer killed at an NHRA event since 1996.

28

• Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books.
• Keith "Matt" Maupin, 20, American U.S. Army Private First Class, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq.
• David A. Thomas, 86, American educator.
• Hal Toenes, 86, American baseball player (Washington Senators).^[27]

29

• Bernard Babior, 68, American physician and research biochemist, prostate cancer.
• Hermelindo Fiaminghi, 83, Brazilian painter, designer, lithographer and art critic.
• William W. Havens Jr., 84, American physicist, leukaemia.
• Juan Antonio Lopez, 52, Mexican boxer, fought Wilfredo Gómez, leukemia.
• Mohammad Ranjbar, 69, Iranian football player and coach, cerebral disorder.
• Stipe Šuvar, 68, Croatian and Yugoslav politician and sociologist.
• Serafim Tulikov, 89, Russian and Soviet composer.

30

• Chris Alcaide, 81, American actor, cancer.
• Vivica Bandler, 87, Finnish theatre director.
• Stive Vermaut, 28, Belgian cyclist, brain haemorrhage after heart attack.
• Travin Hoover, died when born, 14 heart attacks

References

• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 10,000 metres
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metres
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 kilometres walk
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metres
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metres hurdles
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 5000 metres
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metres
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's discus throw
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's heptathlon
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's high jump
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's javelin throw
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's long jump
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's marathon
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's pole vault
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's shot put
• Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's triple jump