DEATHS IN JULY 2005

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The following is a list of notable people who died in July 2005.
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★ Wim Duisenberg, 70, Dutch banker and politician.

★ Mantle Hood, 87, Influential American ethnomusicologist.

★ Koji Tano, 43, Japanese Noise artist, colon cancer.

★ Lawrence Teeter, 56, attempted to have Sirhan Sirhan retried, saying he did not kill Robert F. Kennedy.
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★ Ray Cunningham, 100, recognized as the oldest living former Major League Baseball player.

★ John Garang, 60, Sudanese Vice President, helicopter crash.

★ Benny Gensbøl, 71, Danish ornithological author.

★ Renee Roy, 74, American actress (''Love of Life'').

★ Lucky Thompson, 81, American saxophonist.
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★ Hermione Hammond, 95, British painter and portraitist.

★ Hildegarde, 99, cabaret singer.

★ Pat McCormick, 78, American television comedy writer (Johnny Carson, Phyllis Diller, Red Skelton; ''Candid Camera'', ''Get Smart'', etc.).

★ Fred Smith, 72, songwriter, record producer: Keyman Records.
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★ Eric André, 50, Belgian politician.

★ Gary Belkin, 78, American comedy writer. [1]

★ Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, 88, Icelandic politician.

★ Arthur Zankel, 73, Financier (Citibank, High Rise Capital Management) philanthropist.
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★ Helen Phillips, 86, opera singer.

★ Betty Astell, 93, entertainer and widow of Cyril Fletcher.

★ Tungia Baker, Māori artist, actress (''The Piano'').

★ Al Held, 76, American abstract painter.

★ Marten Toonder, 93, Dutch author and cartoonist.

★ Robert Wright, 90, musical lyricist (team of Wright & Forrest – ''Grand Hotel'', ''Kismet'', ''Song of Norway'', etc.).

★ Dom Um Romão, 79, Brazilian jazz drummer.

★ Charles Young, 110, supercentenarian, 4th oldest man in the United States.
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★ Kay Ameche, 101, former nurse, Grandma Moses imitator.

★ Pierre Broué, 79, French Trotskyist historian.

★ Alexander Golitzen, 97, Oscar-winning movie art director and production designer.

★ Jack Hirshleifer, 79, American economist

★ Hachiro Oka, 67, Japanese comedian.

★ Danny Simon, 85, American comedy writer, brother of Neil Simon. [2]
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★ Eddie Crook, Jr., 76, US Olympic boxer and Vietnam veteran.

★ Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes, 114, oldest person ever documented in Portugal.

★ Albert Mangelsdorff, 76, German trombonist.

★ Ford Rainey, 96, American actor.
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★ Sir Richard Doll, 92, British epidemiologist, first person to link cigarette smoking and lung cancer.

★ Pavel Dostál, 62, Czech minister for cultural affairs.

★ John Drawbridge, 74, New Zealand artist and printmaker.

★ Sidney Hertzberg, 82, former NBA star.

★ Francis Ona, 50s, Bougainville a rebel leader.
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★ Ray Crist, 105, centenarian chemist.

★ Myron Floren, 85, longtime accordionist/bandleader on ''The Lawrence Welk Show''.

★ Finton Myler, 75, actress (''Showdown at Boot Hill'').

★ Ray Oldham, 54, former NFL cornerback, Pittsburgh Steelers.

★ Dan Taylor, Jr, 65, made subs to search for Loch Ness Monster.

★ Catherine Woolley, 100, children's book author. [3]
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★ Jules Herman, 93, Bandleader and musician, played with Lawrence Welk during 1930's.

★ Jerry Marcus, 81, American cartoonist (''Trudy''). [4]

★ Eugene Record, 64, lead vocalist for The Chi-Lites.

★ Hinako Sugiura, 46, Japanese author and cartoonist. [5]

★ George D. Wallace, 88, American actor (''Forbidden Planet'', ''The Pajama Game'').
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★ Long John Baldry, 64, British blues musician.

★ Alberto Barros, 59, Portuguese writer.

★ Bruce Bolt, 75, Scientist and earthquake expert.

★ Christopher Duncan, 73, zoologist, geneticist and social historian.

★ Andrzej Grubba, 47, Polish table tennis player.

★ Jair, 84,

★ Tamara Lund, 64, Finnish opera singer and actress.

★ Ian Robertson, Lord Robertson, 92, Scottish judge

★ Mark Schaap, 5, Danish child killed by his own father.

★ Patrick Sherry, 29, British rock singer (Bad Beat Revue).[6]

★ Shirley Thomas, 85, Space historian, Hollywood producer, USC professor.
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★ Charles Chibitty, 83, last surviving Comanche code talker.

★ James Doohan, 85, Canadian actor (Scotty on the original '').

★ Finn Gustavsen, 79, Norwegian politician.

★ Kayo Hatta, 47, film director (''Picture Bride'').

★ Alfred Hayes, 76, British Wrestler / Wrestling Announcer (most notably with the WWF).

★ John Tsukano, 80, Japanese-American author and World War II veteran.
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★ Jim Aparo, 72, comic book artist (Batman, the Phantom Stranger, the Spectre). [7]

★ Alain Bombard, 80, French biologist and physician.

★ Edward Bunker, 71, American author, screenwriter, and actor (Mr. Blue in ''Reservoir Dogs'').

★ John Herald, 66, folk musician, recording artist, member of The Greenbriar Boys Vanguard Records

★ Hastings Keith, 89, United States Representative from Massachusetts, served 1959–1973, as a member of the Republican Party.

★ Antonio Núñez Montoya, 75, flamenco singer.

★ John Tyndall, 71, founder of the British National Party.
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★ Paul Duke, 78, American political journalist.

★ Amy Gillett, 29, Australian rower and cyclist.

★ Jim Parker, 71, offensive tackle for the Baltimore Colts and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

★ Gerry Thomas, 83, American innovator, inventor of the TV dinner, cancer.

★ William Westmoreland, 91, U.S. Army General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968.
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★ Laurel Aitken, 77, Jamaican musician.

★ Geraldine Fitzgerald, 92, American actress.

★ Sir Edward Heath KG, MBE 89, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1970–74.

★ Gavin Lambert, 80, novelist, screenwriter (''Inside Daisy Clover'', ''Sons and Lovers'').

★ Joe Vialls, Australian writer.
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★ Pietro Consagra, 84, Italian sculptor.

★ Adrian Loudermilk, 30, literary manager, film producer (''Bushisms'').

★ W. Fox McKeithen, 58, 5-time Louisiana Secretary of State.

★ John Ostrom, 77, American paleontologist who revolutionized understanding of dinosaurs.

★ Helen Bonchek Schneyer, 84, American folk musician.
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★ Dominique J. 'Gil' Guillory, 99, Mayor of Bartlett, Tennessee from 1959 to 1965.

★ Deborah Hutton, 49, first health editor of British ''Vogue''.

★ Sir Ronald Wilson, 82, Australian High Court justice.

★ Michael Gibson, 60, Tony-nominated orchestrator and musician.
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★ Joe Harnell, 80, Grammy-winning jazz composer.

★ Richard Leiterman, 70, award-winning Canadian cinematographer.

★ Jacques Roche, early 40s, Haitian journalist.

★ Dame Cicely Saunders, 87, British founder of hospice movement, cancer.
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★ Carla Wood, 50, Mezzo-soprano singer performed with the Metropolitan Opera.
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★ Piero Cappuccilli, 78, Italian opera singer.

★ Joseph Delaney, 70, Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Fort Worth, Texas for many years.

★ Arthur Fletcher, 80, Assistant Labor Secretary under US President Richard Nixon, called the "father of affirmative action". [8]

★ John Leonard King, Baron King of Wartnaby, 87, businessman and chairman of British Airways from 1981 to 1993.

★ Meimei, 36, world's oldest captive panda, Guilin Zoo.

★ Scott Paul, 24, American actor (''Wyatt Earp''). [9]

★ Axel Strøbye, 77, Danish actor, ''Babette's Feast''.
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★ Gretchen Franklin, 94, television actress, best known as Ethel Skinner in EastEnders.

★ Shinya Hashimoto, 40, Japanese professional wrestler, cerebral infection.

★ Jesus Ricardo Iglesias, 83, Grand Prix racing driver.

★ Frances Langford, 92, American actress-singer.

★ Mickey Owen, 89, former MLB player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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★ Richard Eastham, 89, American singer and actor.

★ Seymour Finger, 90, United Nations diplomat.

★ Ann Loring, 90, actress, ''Love of Life''.

★ Frank Moores, 72, former Newfoundland Premier.

★ A.J. Quinnell, 65, writer, ''Man on Fire''.

★ Dick Sabot, 61, economist, internet entrepreneur, co-founder of tripod.com and eziba.com.

★ Freda Wright-Sorce, 50, wife of Don Geronimo of the ''Don and Mike Show''.

★ Jack Tripp, 83, British pantomime dame.

★ Freddy Soto, 35, American comedian and actor.
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★ Chuck Cadman, 57, Canadian Member of Parliament.

★ Yevgenij Grishin, 74, Russian speed skater, first speed skater under 40 seconds on 500 metres.

★ Kevin Hagen, 77, actor on ''Little House on the Prairie''.

★ Byron Preiss, 52, American writer/editor/publisher. [10]

★ Alex Shibicky, 91, Hockey player who made first slapshot.

★ Rafique Zakaria, 79, Indian Islamic scholar.
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★ Maurice Baquet, 94, French actor.

★ Peter Boenisch, 78, German journalist.

★ Julian Letterlough, 35, American boxer

★ Judy Mann, 61, longtime columnist for the ''Washington Post''.
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★ W. Pauline Nicholson, 76, Elvis Presley's cook.

★ Ihab al-Sherif, Egyptian envoy in Iraq.

★ Gustaf Sobin, 69, American-born poet and novelist.
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★ Paul Deliège, 74, Belgian comic book writer/artist. [11]

★ L. Patrick Gray, 88, former Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, pancreatic cancer.

★ Jim Haskins, 63, American professor and novelist (''The Cotton Club'').

★ Evan Hunter, 78, American mystery novel writer, wrote under numerous pseudonyms (Ed McBain), cancer of the larynx.

★ Abdul Majid Shoman, 94, chairman of the Arab Bank.

★ Claude Simon, 91, French writer and Nobel Prize winner.

★ Grace Thaxton, 114, oldest resident of Kentucky and oldest person ever born in New York.
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★ Baloo Gupte, 70, former Indian Test cricketer.

★ James Stockdale, 81, American Vice Admiral, Medal of Honor recipient, ex-Prisoner of War and independent VP Candidate in 1992.

★ Ray Davis, 65, founding member of Parliament/Funkadelic.

★ Shirley Goodman-Pixley, 69, of Shirley & Lee & Shirley & Company in Los Angeles from complications from a stroke..
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★ Chris Bunch, 62, American science fiction writer, lung ailment.

★ Al Downing, 65, American R&B and country & western musician, leukaemia.

★ June Haver, 79, American film actress, widow of Fred MacMurray.

★ Marga López, 81, Mexican screen and television actress, heart failure

★ Hank Stram, 82, former coach of NFL Kansas City Chiefs.
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★ Scott Byrne, 44, American Drummer of duo Instant Death.

★ Siv Ericks, 87, Swedish character actress.

★ Nan Kempner, 74, American society hostess.

★ Alberto Lattuada, 90, Italian film director.

★ Pierre Michelot, 77, French jazz bassist, played with Miles Davis.

★ Gaylord Nelson, 89, former Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin and founder of Earth Day.

★ Wenten Rubuntja, Australian artist and indigenous activist.

★ Kohachi Shigetaka, 110, Japan's oldest man, pneumonia.

★ Hedy West, 67, American folksinger.
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★ Florence Kirsch, 90, American classical pianist.

★ Ernest Lehman, 89, American screenwriter (''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'', ''North by Northwest'').

★ Kenneth Pinyan, 45, perforated colon after having sex with a horse [12].

★ Norm Prescott, 78, co-founder of Filmation animation studios. [13]

★ Martin Sanchez, 26, Mexican boxer, of injuries sustained in July 1 bout.
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★ Renaldo "Obie" Benson, 69, American soul/R&B singer and member of The Four Tops, lung cancer.

★ Arvo Ojala, 85, Hollywood technical advisor and actor, gun accident.

★ Arnold S. Rosenfeld, 72, former editor-in-chief of Cox Newspapers.

★ Luther Vandross, 54, American R&B singer, complications of a stroke.