Deaths in December 2005
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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2005.
- Enrico Di Giuseppe, 73, American operatic tenor, cancer. [1]
- Maurice Dodd, 83, British cartoonist (The Perishers), brain haemorrhage. [2]
- Maclovia Ruiz, 95, American dancer. [3]
- Phillip Whitehead, 68, British Labour Party MEP for Derby North, former television producer, heart attack. [4]
- Eddie Barlow, 65, South African cricketer [5]
- Candy Barr, 70, exotic dancer, pneumonia [6], [7],[8]
- Tory Dent, 47, American poet, essayist and art critic [9]
- Rona Jaffe, 74, American novelist (The Best of Everything, Mazes and Monsters), cancer [10]
- Jean Ollivier, 81, French comics writer [11]
- Pasquale Carpino, 69, Italian-Canadian Singing Chef, [12]
- Armand Phillip Bartos, 95, American architect [13]
- Abuna Yesehaq Mandefro, 72, Ethiopian-Orthodox Archbishop [14]
- Elizabeth Parcells, 54, American operatic coloratura soprano [15]
- James G. Pulliam, 80, architect, Parkinson's disease [16]
- Patrick Cranshaw, 86, American film and television actor [17]
- Richard De Angelis, 73, comedian and actor (The Wire), congestive heart failure [18]
- Virginia Dighero-Zolezzi, 114, oldest living person ever recognized in the history of Italy
- George Dabelich O'Brien, 78, design director of Tiffany & Company, home furnishings editor of the New York Times [19]
- Stevo Žigon, 79, Serbian actor and theatre director
- Xavier Connor, 88, Australian jurist, foundation judge of the Federal Court of Australia, President of the Australian Law Reform Commission 1985 - 1987
- Ted Ditchburn, 84, goalkeeper for Tottenham Hotspur & England [20]
- John Druze, 91, last surviving member of the 1930s Fordham University football team's "Seven Blocks of Granite" [21]
- Lewis Hanson, 81, former Air Force One pilot [22]
- Giancarlo Primo, 81, Italian basketball coach, the first to defeat National Teams USA and USSR in 1970s [23]
- Erich Topp, 91, German U-boat commander in World War II [24]
- Tokuji Wakasa, 91, Japanese businessman, former president of All Nippon Airways
- Julian "Bud" Blake, 87, American cartoonist (Tiger) [25]
- Muriel Costa-Greenspon, 68, mezzo-soprano at the New York City Opera for 30 years [26]
- John Diebold, 79, pioneering American computer engineer [27]
- Ernesto Leal, 60, presidential chief of staff and former foreign minister of Nicaragua, pneumonia
- Kerry Packer, 68, publishing, media and gaming tycoon, Australia's richest individual amassing a fortune of over $6 billion[28]
- Vincent Schiavelli, 57, American character actor, lung cancer [29]
- Derek Bailey, 75, free improvising avant-garde guitarist, motor neuron disease [30]
- Robert Barbers, 61, former Philippines senator, heart attack [31]
- Bhanumathi, 80, Indian film actress, director, singer/songwriter [32], [33]
- Donald Dawson, 97, executive assistant to Harry S. Truman [34]
- Charles Engell France, 59, assistant to Mikhail Baryshnikov at the American Ballet Theater [35]
- Henry Kock, 53, Canadian horticulturist and eco-activist, brain cancer [36]
- Birgit Nilsson, 87, Swedish soprano[37][38]
- Joseph Pararajasingham, 71, Sri Lankan politician and supporter of the Tamil Tiger rebels, shot and killed at a midnight Christmas Mass [39]
- Roy Stuart, 70, American actor [40]
- Douglas Bigelow, 49, chief of web security at AOL, pancreatic cancer [41]
- Constance Keene, 84, American classical pianist known for playing the romantic repertoire
- Harold Lawton, 106, British academic and veteran of the First World War[42]
- Michael Vale, 83, American actor who appeared in over 1,300 commercials as the sleepy doughnut maker for Dunkin' Donuts from 1982 - 1997, diabetes
- Wang Daohan, 90, negotiator for People's Republic of China in cross-straits talks, who contributed to the formation of the 1992 Consensus with Koo Chen-fu from the Republic of China on Taiwan [43][44]
- Lajos Baróti, 91, Hungarian football coach [45]
- Selma Jeanne Cohen, 85, dance historian, editor of The International Encyclopedia of Dance [46]
- G. Blakemore Evans, 93, Shakespeare scholar, author of The Riverside Shakespeare, stroke [47]
- Truman Gibson, 93, anti-segregation lawyer and boxing promoter [48]
- Camille Gravel, 90, Louisiana lawyer and civil rights activist, advisor to three governors [49]
- Norman D. Vaughan, 100, American explorer and sportsman, part of Richard Byrd's 1928 South Pole expedition [50][51]
- Yao Wenyuan, 74, Chinese Communist political leader, member of the Gang of Four [52]
- James Dungy, 18, son of NFL coach Tony Dungy, apparent suicide
- David Engelhard, 64, former general secretary of the Christian Reformed Church, brain cancer [53]
- Cooper Evans, 81, former Republican US Representative from Iowa from 1981 - 1987
- Aurora Miranda, 90, Brazilian entertainer, sister of Carmen Miranda; she appeared in The Three Caballeros (1945) in which she danced with Donald Duck
- O.B. Copeland, 89, first editor of Southern Living magazine [54]
- Horace Crouch, 87, Retired Lt. Col. US Air Force and a participant in the Doolittle Raid during WWII
- Charles F. Cummings, 68, Newark, New Jersey historian [55]
- Myron Healey, 82, American film actor who normally played Western villains [56]
- Elrod Hendricks, 64, Baltimore Orioles coach, former MLB catcher, heart attack [57]
- Hallam Tennyson, 85, British radio producer and great-grandson of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, suspected victim of murder [58]
- Albert L. Weimorts, 67, civilian engineer for the US Air Force, designer of the GBU-28 and MOAB bombs [59]
- Paul M. Williams, 80, mountain climber and founder of Seattle Mountain Rescue, congestive heart failure [60]
- Raoul Bott, 82, Harvard mathematician, cancer[61]
- Argentina Brunetti, 98, Argentine-Italian actress (It's a Wonderful Life, The Caddy), writer, journalist
- Bradford Cannon, 98, Boston plastic surgeon, pneumonia [62]
- William W. Howells, 97, American anthropologist. [63]
- Billy Hughes (actor), 57, American former child/film actor during the 1960s [64]
- Lyndon Olson Sr., 80, American lawyer [65]
- Sergio Danguillecourt, 42, great-great-grandson of Bacardi founder, and Bacardi Ltd. board member, killed in Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 seaplane crash near Miami Beach, Florida [66]
- Hyman Engelberg, 92, physician to Marilyn Monroe, natural causes [67]
- Vincent Gigante, 77, Genovese family crime boss, heart disease
- Phyllis Gretzky, 64, mother of NHL legend Wayne Gretzky, lung cancer
- Julio Iglesias, Sr., 90, Spanish gynaecologist who is among the oldest men to have fathered a child (also Julio Iglesias's father and Enrique Iglesias's grandfather), heart attack
- Marjorie Kellogg, 83, American author and playwright (Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon) [68]
- John D. Laupheimer, 75, golfer and second commissioner of the LPGA tour, cancer [69]
- Alan Shields, 61, American artist [70]
- Ted Tulchin, 79, Broadway producer (Sweeney Todd) [71]
- Miller Upton, 88, president of Beloit College for 21 years [72]
- Reynaldo Wycoco, 59, head of the National Bureau of Investigation, the Philippines' lead intelligence agency, complications after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke last November 23, 2005
- Keith Duckworth, 72, co-founder of Cosworth engines
- Doug Dye, 84, New Zealand microbiologist
- Howie Ferguson, 75, former NFL player
- Rafael Fornés Collado, 88, Cuban cartoonist [73]
- Barry Halper, 66, baseball memorabilia collector and limited partner for the New York Yankees [74]
- Belita Jepson-Turner, 82, Olympic skater and film actress [75]
- Siphiwe Khumalo, 50, South African actor and director and ex-husband of Sibongile Khumalo, heart attack
- John McIntyre, 89, Moderator of the Church of Scotland's General Assembly (1982), former acting principal and professor of divinity of the University of Edinburgh [76][77]
- Philip Oakes, 77, British writer, poet and television producer, heart attack [78]
- P.M. Sayeed, 64, India's Minister of Power, heart attack, [79]
- Alan M. Voorhees, 83, transportation engineer and city planner [80]
- Jack Anderson, 83, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, complications of Parkinson's disease [81]
- Marc Favreau, 76, French Canadian television and film actor, best known for his creation of the clown Sol
- Jacques Fouroux, 58, French rugby union captain and coach, heart attack [82]
- T. Edward Hambleton, 94, theatrical producer [83]
- Haljand Udam, 69, Estonian translator and encyclopedist
- Anthony Barber, 85, British politician and former Conservative Party Chancellor of the Exchequer, complications of Parkinson's disease
- Kenneth Bulmer, 84, English writer (pseudonyms included Alan Burt Akers and Dray Prescot)
- Joseph L. Owades, 86, American biochemist, inventor of light beer [84] [85]
- John Spencer, 58, American actor (The West Wing), heart attack
- Sverre Stenersen, 79, Norwegian Gold medal winner in the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Enzo Stuarti, 86, Italian tenor, was in many Broadway musicals, heart failure [86]
- Sidney B. Factor, 89, Max Factor heir, natural causes [87]
- James Ingo Freed, 75, American architect
- Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 84, Italian writer and director of movies and theatre
- Heinrich Gross, 90, Austrian alleged Nazi doctor and war criminal [88] [89]
- Walter Haut, 83, retired U.S. Army lieutenant, central figure in the Roswell UFO incident in 1947 [90]
- Swami Jagdishwaranand, 71, Hindu spiritual leader in New York City [91]
- D.A. "Swanny" Kirby, 88, rodeo pioneer [92]
- Stan Leonard, 90, Canadian golfer, heart failure [93]
- Julian Marías, 91, Spanish philosopher and father of author Javier Marías
- Jim Ostendarp, 82, football coach at Amherst College for 33 years [94]
- William Proxmire, 90, former Democratic Senator from Wisconsin (1957 - 1989), giver of the Golden Fleece Awards for wasteful government spending, complications of Alzheimer's disease
- Darrell Russell, 29, former NFL player for the Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, car accident
- Gordon Duncan, 41, Scottish musician and bagpiper, suicide[95]
- Sudhir Joshi, 57, Indian actor, heart attack
- John B. Nixon, 77, American convicted murderer, executed in Mississippi
- Stevenson J. Palfi, 53, American documentary filmmaker (Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together) [96]
- William "Duke" Procter, 106, Canadian WWI veteran [97]
- Herman Roiphe, 81, psychoanalyst, co-author of Infantile Origins of Sexual Identity and Your Child's Mind [98]
- M. Gladys Swetland, 113, believed to be the oldest resident of Pennsylvania [99]
- Rodney William Whitaker, 74, British author, wrote under pseudonyms such as "Trevanian"
- Nathalie Babel Brown, 76, French-American scholar and editor, daughter of Isaac Babel [100]
- Stanley Tookie Williams, 51, American convicted murderer and co-founder of the Crips turned anti-gang activist, executed by lethal injection for killing 4 people in California
- Eric D'Arcy, 81, Australian Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Hobart
- Jon de Cortina, 71, Jesuit priest who survived the 1989 massacre in El Salvador, stroke [101]
- Annie Dodds, 62, documentary filmmaker, leukemia [102]
- Robert Newmyer, 49, American film producer, heart attack and complications of asthma
- Ramanand Sagar, 87, Bollywood film producer [103]
- Annette Stroyberg, 69, Danish actress and former wife of Roger Vadim [104]
- Gebran Tueni, 48, Lebanese journalist and legislator, injuries sustained in a car bombing attack [105]
- Julius Wile, 91, US wine importer and educator [106]
- Walter Cudzik, 73, American NFL and AFL center for the Boston Patriots
- Richard Sandbrook, 59, founding member of Friends of the Earth [107]
- Professor Hayim Tadmor, 82, Israeli Assyriologist [108]
- Del Philpott, 82, American soldier and scientist
- Mary Jackson, 95, American American film and television actress
- Sydney Leff, 104, sheet-music illustrator for Irving Berlin [109]
- Donald Martino, 74, American composer
- Eugene McCarthy, 89, former Democratic United States Senator from Minnesota (1959-1971), and United States Representative (1949-1959) and presidential primary candidate
- David Patterson, 83, founder of the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Oxford University [110]
- Richard Pryor, 65, American comedian and actor, heart attack and complications of multiple sclerosis
- Gardner Read, 92, American classical composer.
- Bob Richardson, 73, fashion photographer
- Mike Botts, 61, American drummer, toured and recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Dan Fogelberg, Tina Turner and others, cancer
- Homer Mensch, 91, internationally known bass player, Juilliard teacher
- Eunice Norton, 97, American classical pianist and music promoter
- György Sándor, 93, internationally famous pianist, Juilliard teacher, heart failure
- Robert Sheckley, 77, American science fiction author, brain aneurysm
- Brian Whittle, 59, British journalist and news agency head [111]
- R. W. Bradford, 58, publisher of Liberty magazine, cancer
- Dame Rose Heilbron, 91, British judge [112]
- William J. Oswald, 86, algae scientist [113]
- Leo Scheffczyk, 85, German Roman Cardinal Deacon of San Francesco Saverio alla Garbatella, Germany [114]
- J.N. Williamson, 73, American horror writer, author and publisher
- Lucy d'Abreu, 113, oldest person in the UK at the time of her death [115]
- Rigoberto Alpizar, 44, airplane passenger fatally shot by U.S. Air Marshals after allegedly claiming he had placed a bomb aboard
- James Bastien, 71, author of instructional books for the piano [116]
- Adrian Biddle, 53, British cinematographer, heart attack
- Albert Henry Bosch, 97, Republican United States Representative from New York (1953 - 1960)
- Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., 65, former South Carolina governor (1987-1995), and member of U.S. House of Representatives (1979-1987), heart attack and complications of Alzheimer's disease
- Bud Carson, 75, former NFL head coach, emphysema
- Loomis Dean, 88, photographer, notably for LIFE magazine
- Devan Nair, 82, former president of Singapore [117]
- Charly Gaul, 72, Luxembourgian cyclist, winner of the 1958 Tour de France
- Richard Grimsdale, 76, built the world's first transistorised computer and was at the forefront of work on Read Only Memory [118]
- Hanns Dieter Hüsch, 80, German political satirist
- Stephen L. Mosko, 58, American composer.
- Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, 111, oldest man in the UK at the time of his death [119]
- Danny Williams, 63, South African popular singer
- John Alvheim, 75, Norwegian politician
- Wesley Baker, 47, American convicted murderer, executed in Maryland
- Liu Binyan, 80, Chinese author and dissident, cancer [120]
- Milo Dor, 82, Serbian-Austrian author (Milo Dor)
- Edward L. Masry, 73, attorney and mentor to Erin Brockovich, complications of diabetes
- Charles McElmurry, 84, American animation designer
- Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, 56, Australian businessman and media personality, heart attack [121]
- Frits Philips, 100, Dutch businessman; grandson of the founder of Philips, complications from a fall
- Gregg Hoffman, 42, film producer, natural causes (autopsy result pending) [122]
- Gloria Lasso, 83, Spanish singer
- Doug Murphy, 53, former CBS (KPIX) news anchorman, house fire
- Maggie Bailey, 101, nicknamed "Queen of the Mountain Bootleggers" [123]
- Peter Cook, 62, Australian politician, melanoma
- Lance Dossor, 90, Australian pianist
- Peter E. Haas, Sr., 86, great-grandnephew of Levi Strauss, who with his brother built the Levi company into a major brand [124]
- Maurice Harris, 84, trumpet player, Hollywood, studio, TV and sessions player (Tonight Show)
- Kikka Sirén, 41, Finnish pop/schlager singer
- Kåre Kristiansen, 85, Norwegian politician; minister of Oil and Energy (1983 - 1986)
- Sophie Thoko Mcgina, 67, South African actress and musician
- Abu Hamsa Rabia, Egyptian-born operational commander for Al-Qaeda [125]
- Allan Waters, 84, Canadian broadcasting icon
- John Barber, 93, British newspaper drama critic [126]
- Kenneth Boyd, 57, American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina, the 1,000th U.S. execution since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 [127]
- Lillian Browse, 99, British art dealer and historian
- Shawn Paul Humphries, 34, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina
- John Iannaccone, 94, sky sailor, Hindenburg disaster witness
- Malik Joyeux, 25, professional surfer, killed at Hawaii's Banzai Pipeline [128]
- Maury Kraines, 84, co-owner of 1992 Indy 500 winner, heart failure
- William P. Lawrence, 75, retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, first to fly at twice the speed of sound [129]
- Peter Menegazzo, early 60s, Australian cattle baron, killed (along with his wife Angela) in a plane crash [130], [131]
- Van Tuong Nguyen, 25, Australian executed at Changi Prison in Singapore for trafficking 396 grams of heroin in 2002, hanging [132]
- Mohammed Amza Zubeidi, 67, former Iraqi prime minister under Saddam Hussein
- Gust L. Avrakotos, 67, CIA agent who armed the mujaheddin of Afghanistan [133]
- Mary Hayley Bell, 94, British actress, memoirist and writer, Alzheimer's disease [134], [135], [136]
- Jack Colvin, 73, American actor, The Incredible Hulk, coronary thrombosis
- Werner Enders, 81, German tenor
- Michael Evans, 61, White House photographer, noted for capturing the trademark image of Ronald Reagan wearing a cowboy hat, cancer [137]
- William Henry Ottley, 76, sports innovator, credited with promoting skydiving as a sport, pneumonia [138]
- Ray Hanna, 77, New Zealand-born warbird pilot and founder of The Old Flying Machine Company [139]
