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.
• Charles Kelman, 74, American ophthalmologist, surgeon, jazz musician, and Broadway producer.^[1]
• 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.
• Nicolai Ghiaurov, 71, Bulgarian opera singer.

3

• Joe Carr, 82, Irish golfer.
• Joe Cleary, 85, Irish-American baseball player (Washington Senators).^[3]
• Harald Ganzinger, 53, German computer scientist.^[4]
• Harold Goodwin, 86, English actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Longest Day, The Ladykillers).
• Morris Schappes, 97, American scholar, editor (Jewish Currents) and Marxist activist.^[5]
• Frances Shand Kydd, 68, English mother of Diana, Princess of Wales.^[6]
• Jonathan Kramer, 61, Musician and Composer^[7]
• Quorthon, 38, Swedish musician and founder of the band Bathory, Congenital heart defect.

4

• Augie Colon, 76, American musician.
• Charles Correll, 60, American cinematographer (Animal House, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock) and television director (Melrose Place), pancreatic cancer.
• Wilmer Fields, 81, American baseball player, former Negro league baseball All-Star, heart ailment.
• Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, 68-69, Ethiopian general, defense minister and President of Ethiopia.^[8]
• Steve Lacy, 69, American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer.^[9]
• Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer.^[10][11]
• Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor.^[12]
• Gord Mills, 76, politician in Ontario, Canada.
• Joseph Reboli, 58, American painter.
• T. M. Samarasinghe, 61, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
• Anthony Steffen, 73, Italian and Brazilian film actor and screenwriter.
• Marvin Heemeyer, 52, American welder and muffler repair shop owner.

5

• Iona Brown, 63, British violinist and conductor, cancer.^[13]
• Jack Foster, 72, British-born New Zealand athlete.
• Ronald Reagan, 93, American actor and politician, President (1981–1989), Governor of California (1967–1975), pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's .^[14]

6

• Necdet Mahfi Ayral, 96, Turkish actor.
• Judy Campbell, 88, English actress.^[15]
• 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.^[16]
• Kate Worley, 46, American comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer).^[17]

7

• Richard E. Bush, 79, United States Marine master gunnery sergeant and recipient of the Medal of Honor.^[18]
• Joseph L. Doob, 94, American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory.^[19]
• Chris Kitsos, 76, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).^[20]
• Don Potter, 102, British sculptor.
• Eugene Raskin, 94, American musician and playwright.^[21]
• Donald Trumbull, 95, American special effects pioneer.
• Ted Wellington, 82, Australian rules footballer.

8

• David Mervyn Blow, 72, British biophysicist.^[22]
• Mack Jones, 65, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball outfielder with the Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos.^[23]
• Humayun Khan, 27, American soldier serving in the Iraq War.^[24]
• Máirín Lynch, 87, Irish public figure.^[25]
• Roderick Macleod, 95, Canadian politician.
• Bob Schmitz, 65, American professional football player and scout (Pittsburgh Steelers, Minnesota Vikings).^[26]

9

• Rosey Brown, 71, American football player, Pro Football Hall of Famer.^[27]
• Robert MacDonald Ford, 93, American politician and insurance agent.
• Ted Martin, 101, Australian cricketer (Western Australia).
• Ralph Moody, 86, American NASCAR driver and team owner.
• Jono Porter, 23, Australian freestyle motocross rider, injuries sustained in race collision.^[28]
• Hartley Saunders, 60, Bahamian Olympic triple jumper (men's triple jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics).^[29]
• Barbara Whiting Smith, 73, American actress (Those Whiting Girls, Beware, My Lovely, Dangerous When Wet).^[30]
• 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.^[31]
• 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).^[32]
• Clay Smothers, 69, American politician.
• Joyce Symons, 85, Hong Kong educator.

12

• Rina Ben-Menahem, 68, Israeli writer.
• 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.^[33]
• Dick Durrance, 89, American alpine ski racer, 17-time national champion.^[34]
• Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, British philosopher.^[35]
• Robert Lees, 91, American screenwriter, found decapitated.
• Sir Allan Taylor, 85, British army general.
• Ralph Wiley, 52, American sports journalist, heart attack.^[36]

14

• Ubaldo Calabresi, 79, Italian Roman Catholic bishop.
• Fatulla Huseynov, 66, Azerbaijani colonel, murdered.
• Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, Swiss mountain guide.
• Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher.
• Max Rosenberg, 89, American producer of horror movies.^[37]
• Noriaki Yuasa, 70, Japanese director, stroke.

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).^[38]
• John Lasarus Williams, 79, Welsh nationalist activist.
• Bagong Kussudiardja, 75, Indonesian painter, choreographer, and artist, high blood pressure, heart, and diabetes complication.

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).^[39]
• Thanom Kittikachorn, 92, Thai military dictator, former Thai prime minister, Complications from stroke .
• 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.
• Jackie Paris, 79, American jazz singer and guitarist.^[40]

18

• Doris Dowling, 81, American actress.^[41]
• 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.^[42]
• Moe Radovich, 75, American professional basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors) and college basketball coach (Cal State Fullerton, University of Wyoming).^[43]

19

• Colin McCormack, 62, Welsh actor.^[44]
• Aggrey Klaaste, 64, South African journalist and editor.
• Jadwiga Rutkowska, 70, Polish Olympic volleyball player (bronze medal winner in women's volleyball at the 1964 Summer Olympics).^[45]
• 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.^[46]
• Ted Scott, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate.

22

• Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer.^[47]
• 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.^[48]
• 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 (Doctor Who), cancer.
• Rifaat El-Fanagily, 68, Egyptian footballer.
• Aleksa Radovanović, 103, Serbian soldier and longest surviving veteran.
• Doris Thompson, 101, British businesswoman and owner of Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

24

• Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, 40, Greek songwriter, author.
• Tau Moe, 95, singer and musician from American Samoa.
• Bill Pataky, 74, Canadian Olympic basketball player (men's basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics).^[49]
• Trudeliese Schmidt, 61, German operatic mezzo-soprano.
• Peter Wragg, 73, British footballer.

25

• Morton Coutts, 100, New Zealand scientist and inventor.
• Margot Guilleaume, 94, German operatic soprano.
• Horacio Iglesias, Argentine swimmer.
• Karol Kennedy Kucher, 72, American ice skating champion, pneumonia.^[50]
• Carl Rakosi, 100, Hungarian-American poet, the last surviving member of the original group of Objectivist poets.^[51]

26

• Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress.^[52]
• William H. Avery, 91, American aeronautical engineer.
• Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter.^[53]
• Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer.

27

• Hugh B. Cave, 93, British writer.^[54]
• 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

• Dormer Andrews, 85, Australia judge.
• Jean Boyer, 55, French organist and music professor, cerebral haemorrhage.
• Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books.^[55]
• Georges de Caunes, 85, French journalist, writer and television and radio presenter.
• Renate Lepsius, 77, German journalist, historian and politician.
• Keith "Matt" Maupin, 20, American U.S. Army Private First Class, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq.
• Alexander Spirkin, 85, Soviet and Russian philosopher and psychologist.
• David A. Thomas, 86, American educator.
• Hal Toenes, 86, American baseball player (Washington Senators).^[56]

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, complications from leukemia.^[57]
• Arik Lavie, 77, Israeli singer and actor, heart disease.
• 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.

30

• Jamal Abro, 80, Pakistani writer.
• Chris Alcaide, 80, American actor, cancer.
• Vivica Bandler, 87, Finnish theatre director.
• Eddie Burns, 88, Australian rugby player and coach.
• Stive Vermaut, 28, Belgian cyclist, brain haemorrhage after heart attack.