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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2004.
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- John Chataway, 57, Canadian politician, complications from stroke. [1]
- Gérard Debreu, 83, French-born American Nobel Prize-winning economist (Economics, 1983), natural causes. [2]
- George Wackenhut, 85, American businessman, founder of Wackenhut Corporation, heart failure. [3]
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- Julius Axelrod, 92, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (Medicine, 1970), natural causes. [6]
- William Boyett, 77, American actor (Adam-12), complications from pneumonia and kidney failure. [7]
- Ken Burkhart, 89, American Major League Baseball pitcher and umpire, emphysema. [8]
- Liddy Holloway, 57, New Zealand actress (Shortland Street) and writer, liver cancer. [9]
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- Jerry Orbach, 69, American actor (Law & Order), prostate cancer. [10]
- Susan Sontag, 71, American author, literary theorist and activist, acute myeloid leukemia. [11]
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- Hank Garland, 74, American studio guitarist (Elvis Presley, Charlie Parker), staphylococcus infection. [12]
- Heorhiy Kirpa, 58, Ukrainian industrialist and politician (Transport Minister since 2002), shot. [13]
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- Troy Broadbridge, 24, Australian AFL player (Melbourne), in 2004 Asian tsunami. [14]
- Jonathan Drummond-Webb, 45, South African paediatric heart surgeon, suicide by overdose. [15]
- Marianne Heiberg, 59, Norwegian diplomat, Oslo Accords mediator, heart attack. [16]
- Bhumi Jensen, 21, Thai prince, in 2004 Asian tsunami. [17]
- Eddie Layton, 77, American organist (New York Yankees), after short illness. [18]
- Sir Angus Ogilvy, 76, British businessman, husband of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent, throat cancer. [19]
- Pietro Psaier, 68, American Pop Artist and Warhol associate, in 2004 Asian tsunami. [20]
- Reggie White, 43, American football player, cardiac arrhythmia. [21]
- Robert Whymant, 60, British journalist (The Times) and author, in 2004 Asian tsunami. [22]
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- Jane Muskie, 77, American former model and bookkeeper, widow of politician Edmund Muskie, Alzheimer's disease. [23]
- Antony Preston, 66, British naval historian and writer.[citation needed]
- Gennady Strekalov, 64, Russian cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, cancer. [24]
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- Capt. Richard Annand, 90, British soldier, first Victoria Cross recipient of World War II. [25]
- Sir Anthony Meyer, 84, British Conservative MP (West Flintshire, 1970–1983; Clwyd North-West, 1983–1992), cancer. [26]
- Johnny Oates, 58, American Major League Baseball catcher (Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees) and manager (Orioles, Texas Rangers), brain tumor. [27]
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- John W. Duarte, 85, British classical guitarist and writer, cancer. [28]
- P. V. Narasimha Rao, 83, Indian Prime Minister (1991–1996), heart attack. [29]
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- Doug Ault, 54, American Major League Baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays), suicide by gunshot. [30]
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- Lennart Bernadotte, 95, Swedish prince. [31]
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- Jack Newfield, 66, American journalist, metastatic kidney cancer. [32]
- Son Seals, 62, American blues musician, complications of diabetes. [33]
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- Michael Alexander, 84, British soldier and Prominente German Prisoner of War. [34]
- Herbert C. Brown, 92, British Nobel Prize-winning chemist (Chemistry, 1979), heart attack. [35]
- Mel Gabler, 89, American conservative textbook critic, brain hemorrhage after fall. [36]
- Renata Tebaldi, 82, Italian opera singer, after short illness. [37]
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- Vijay Hazare, 89, Indian cricketer, Captain of India (1951–1953), illness following intestinal cancer. [38]
- Albert Nordengen, 81, Norwegian Conservative politician, Mayor of Oslo (1976–1990), heart failure. [39] (Norwegian)
- Anthony Sampson, 78, British journalist and author, official biographer of Nelson Mandela, heart attack. [40]
- Tokugawa Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu, 92, Japanese member of imperial family, blood poisoning. [41]
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- Dick Heckstall-Smith, 70, saxophone player (Colosseum, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers).
- Tom Wesselmann, 73, American pop artist.
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- Ted Abernathy, 71, American baseball player.
- Agnes Martin, 92, American abstract painter.
- Bobby Mattick, 89, American former baseball player and manager.
- Lawrence O'Brien, 53, Member of the Canadian House of Commons.
- Freddie Perren, 61, American Grammy Award-winning producer.
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- Chiang Fang-liang, 88, the widow of Chiang Ching-kuo and the First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.
- Pauline Lafon Gore, 92, mother of former US vice-president Al Gore, wife of Albert Gore, Sr..
- Jim Holliday, pornographic film producer and historian, complications from diabetes.
- Rodney Kennedy-Minott, 76, former United States Ambassador to Sweden.
- Lorenzo "Larry" J. Ponza Jr., 86, baseball pitching machine innovator. [42]
- Athena Starwoman, mid-50s, astrologer, breast cancer.
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- Candice Daly, 41, American actor.
- Sidonie Goossens, 105, British harpist. [43]
- Rod Kanehl, 70, who hit the first grand slam in the Mets history.
- Fernando Poe, Jr., 65, Filipino actor and former presidential candidate.
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- Syed Mir Qasim, 83, chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1971 to 1975.
- Andre Rodgers, 70, first Bahamian to play in Major League Baseball.
- Bernarda Bryson Shahn, 101, painter, lithographer, widow of Ben Shahn.
- David Wheeler, 77, computer scientist.
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- Peter Doyle, 72, Australian fish restaurateur.
- Phaswane Mpe, 34, South African novelist, after short illness.
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- Harvey "Bum" Bright, 84, former owner of the Dallas Cowboys.
- José Luis Cuciuffo, 42, 1986 Football World Cup champion, hunting accident.
- Arthur Lydiard, 87, athletics coach.
- M.S. Subbulakshmi, 88, Carnatic musician.
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- Bob King, 81, American college basketball coach.
- Gary Webb, 49, American investigative reporter ("Dark Alliance"), apparent suicide.
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- David Brudnoy, 64, American radio talk show host (Boston), cancer.
- Sir Peter Emery, 78, British politician.
- Philippe Gigantes, 81, Canadian former senator, cancer.
- Lea De Mae, 27, pornographic film actress, brain cancer.
- Sergey Voychenko, 49, Belarusian artist and designer.
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- Darrell "Dimebag" Abbott, 38, American heavy metal guitarist (Pantera, Damageplan), shot.
- Jackson Mac Low, 82, American poet.
- Lord Scarman, 93, British politician and life peer, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (1977–1986).
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- Frederick Fennell, 90, American conductor, founder of Eastman Wind Ensemble.
- Jerry Scoggins, 93, American musician ("The Ballad of Jed Clampett").
- Jay Van Andel, 80, American co-founder and former chairman of Amway.
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- Raymond Goethals, 83, Belgian soccer coach.
- Enrique Salinas, 52, brother of former president of Mexico Carlos Salinas, asphyxiation.
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- Christiano Junior, 24, Brazilian soccer player, cardiac arrest after on-field collision.
- Hicham Zerouali, 27, Moroccan soccer player, car accident.
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- Tom Fitzgerald, 53, American soccer coach (University of Tampa).
- Elena Souliotis, 61, Greek soprano.
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- Gerald FitzGerald, Irish nobleman, 8th Duke of Leinster.
- Maria Perschy, 66, Austrian film, stage and TV actress.
- Josef Schwammberger, 92, German former Nazi labor camp commander.
- Shiing-Shen Chern, 93, Chinese mathematician.
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- Larry Buchanan, 81, film director.
- Kevin Coyne, 60, musician and author.
- Dame Alicia Markova, 94, ballerina.
- Nadine Shamir, 32, singer/songwriter.
- Mona Van Duyn, 83, former US Poet Laureate, bone cancer.
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- Fathi Arafat, 71, brother of Yasser Arafat and founder of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
- Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, 93, father of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. [44]
- Bill Brown, 73, Scottish goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, Scotland).
- Emma Verona Johnston, 114, supercentenarian, oldest documented person in the United States.
- David Vienneau, 53, Canadian journalist, pancreatic cancer.
