Deaths in July 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 2004

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Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Peter Barnes, Playwright Known For 'The Ruling Class,' Dies at 73 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/03/theater/peter-barnes-playwright-known-for-the-ruling-class-dies-at-73.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=3 July 2004 |page=A 13}}
Marlon Brando, 80, American actor (The Godfather, On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire), Oscar winner (1954, 1973), pulmonary fibrosis, respiratory failure.{{cite news |author1=Rick Lyman |title=Marlon Brando, Screen Giant Of Electric Intensity, Dies at 80 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/03/arts/marlon-brando-screen-giant-of-electric-intensity-dies-at-80.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=3 July 2004 |page=A 1}}
Ettore Cella, 90, Swiss actor and film director.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ettore Cella - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/9863d7c34cd144d1bc24fc08944c9886 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Karin Evans, 96, South African-German stage and film actress.
Mohinder Lal, 68, Indian hockey player and Olympic champion.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Mohinder Lal |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/19208 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Richard May, 65, British former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, brain cancer.
Jasper Ridley, 84, British writer.
Jacques Ruffié, 82, French haematologist, geneticist, and anthropologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jacques Ruffié |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119231050 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Todor Skalovski, 95, Macedonian composer, chorus and orchestra conductor.

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Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Frauendatenbank fembio.org |url=https://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/frauendatenbank?fem_id=32227 |website=fembio.org |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Jeillo Edwards, 61, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill".{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3880165.stm |title=Sierra Leone star dies |first=Alice |last=Martin |date=9 July 2004 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2017 }}
Mochtar Lubis, 82, Indonesian journalist and writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mochtar Lubis - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w64f502b |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
James MacKay, 85, American politician (U.S. Representative for Georgia's 4th congressional district from 1965 to 1967).{{cite news|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000022|title=MacKAY, James Armstrong, (1919 - 2004)|work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=2019-02-04}}
John Cullen Murphy, 85, American comic strip artist (Prince Valiant).{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=John Cullen Murphy, 85, Artist Who Illustrated 'Prince Valiant' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/08/arts/john-cullen-murphy-85-artist-who-illustrated-prince-valiant.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=8 July 2004 |page=C 12}}
Mfulupinga Nlando Victor, 59, Angolan politician, gunshot wounds.{{Cite web |title=“Mfulupinga Nlandu Victor foi um político sagaz e um quadro de elevada competência técnica” |url=https://www.angonoticias.com/Artigos/item/1427 |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=ANGONOTÍCIAS |language=pt}}
Sky Beauty, 14, American thoroughbred.
Gael Turnbull, 76, Scottish poet.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Gael Turnbull - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6zw1w5v |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Ponkunnam Varkey, 94, Indian writer and activist.

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John Barron, 83, English actor.
Phoebe Brand, 96, American actress, pneumonia.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Phoebe Brand - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/32863 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe, 76, Swedish jewelry designer, leukemia.{{cite web |title=Bülow-Hübe (1927 - 2004) - Genealogy |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Vivianna-Torun-B%C3%BClow-H%C3%BCbe/6000000002173938193 |website=geni.com |access-date=11 May 2024}}
Freddy de Vree, 64, Belgian poet and literary critic.[http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=Vree001 Freddy de Vree]
Andriyan Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Andriyan Nikolayev - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/d40dae8ab21742d89f8b763f8f608741 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=de |date=}}
James Marshall Sprouse, 80, American federal judge (Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit).{{cite news|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1388171|title=Sprouse, James Marshall|work=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=2019-02-17}}
Subandrio, 89, Indonesian politician Foreign Minister and First Deputy Prime Minister of Indonesia under President Sukarno.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Subandrio, 89, Indonesian Independence Advocate Jailed for 30 Years, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/14/world/asia/subandrio-89-indonesian-independence-advocate-jailed-for-30.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=14 September 2004 |page=C 23}}
Lionel Van Brabant, 77, Belgian cyclist.
Percy Wickman, 63, Canadian politician and activist for people with disabilities.

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Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jean-Marie Auberson - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6c53sgw |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Pati Behrs, 82, Russian-American prima ballerina, actress and first wife of filmmaker John Derek.
Jean-Louis Florentz, 56, French composer, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jean-Louis Florentz |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13927094d |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Plato A. Skouras, 74, American movie producer (Apache Warrior, Francis of Assisi).{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2004/scene/people-news/plato-a-skouras-1117909742/|title=Plato A. Skouras Independent movie producer|work=Variety|date=2004-08-29|access-date=2019-02-16}}

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Robert Burchfield, 81, English lexicographer.{{cite news |author1=Margalit Fox |author-link1=Margalit Fox |title=R.W. Burchfield, Editor of Oxford Dictionary, Dies at 81 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/10/us/rw-burchfield-editor-of-oxford-dictionary-dies-at-81.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=10 July 2004 |page=B 18}}
Jim Paschal, 77, American NASCAR driver, cancer.
Andy Sabados, 87, American gridiron football player (The Citadel, Chicago Cardinals).{{cite news|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SabaAn20.htm|title=Andy Sabados|work=Pro-Football-Reference.com|access-date=2019-02-08}}
Hugh Shearer, 81, Jamaican politician and trade unionist, former Prime Minister of Jamaica.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Hugh Shearer - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6qm3nxn |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Rodger Ward, 83, American racecar driver, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion.

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Peter Birks, 62, British academic lawyer, cancer.
Eric Douglas, 46, American actor and comedian, youngest son of Kirk Douglas, drug overdose.
Ángel Fernández-Santos, 70, Spanish film critic and screenwriter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ángel Fernández-Santos |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12888810x |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Walter Frentz, 96, German cameraman, film producer and photographer.
Thomas Klestil, 71, Austrian diplomat and politician, Federal President of Austria, heart failure.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Thomas Klestil - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w69x3489 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Pavel Lisitsian, 92, Russian opera singer.
Samir Naqqash, 66, Israeli novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Samir Naqqash - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w65t5hs2 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Jimmie F. Skaggs, 59, American film actor (Catch Me If You Can, Lethal Weapon, Cutthroat Island), lung cancer.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jul-12-me-skaggs12-story.html |title=Jimmie Skaggs, 59; Actor Had Numerous Roles in Film, Television and on Stage - Los Angeles Times |publisher=Articles.latimes.com |date=2004-07-12 |access-date=2014-04-16|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110116110334/http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jul/12/local/me-skaggs12 |archive-date=January 16, 2011}}
Syreeta Wright, 57, American singer and songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder, breast cancer.

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Jaroslav Huleš, 30, Czech motorcycle racer, suicide.
Günther Josten, 82, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
Vlado Kristl, 81, Croatian-German filmmaker and artist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Vlado Kristl - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/aaacc675cc314b43846a81095c62dc0d |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Samuel Mitja Rapoport, 91, Russian Empire-born German biochemist.
Jeff Smith, 65, American author and television chef ("The Frugal Gourmet").{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/10/arts/jeff-smith-65-tv-s-frugal-gourmet.html|author=The Associated Press|author-link=The Associated Press|title=Jeff Smith, 65, TV's 'Frugal Gourmet'|work=The New York Times|date=2004-07-10|access-date=2019-02-17}}
Xiaokai Yang, 55, Chinese-Australian economist, lung cancer.

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Paula Danziger, 59, American author, heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Eden Ross Lipson |author-link1=Eden Ross Lipson |title=Paula Danziger, 59, Author Of 'The Cat Ate My Gymsuit' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/10/arts/paula-danziger-59-author-of-the-cat-ate-my-gymsuit.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=10 July 2004 |page=B 18}}
Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé, 82, French banker and socialite.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w60048vv |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Ernst R. G. Eckert, 99, American scientist.
Albert Friedlander, 77, German rabbi.
Henrique Mendes, 73, Portuguese television presenter and actor, bone cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Henrique Mendes - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6c834zb |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Sven Thunman, 84, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Sven Thunman |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/98261 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Carlo Di Palma, 79, Italian cinematographer (Blowup, Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets over Broadway).{{cite news |author1=John Francis Lane |author-link1= |title=Carlo Di Palma |url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jul/14/guardianobituaries.film |url-access= |access-date=11 May 2024 |work=The Guardian |language= |date=14 July 2004}}
Lionel Brett, 4th Viscount Esher, 90, British peer, architect and town-planner.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Lionel Brett, 4th Viscount Esher - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w67h4b2q |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Paul Klebnikov, 41, American journalist, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Paul Klebnikov |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13750543g |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Rudy LaRusso, 66, American basketball player, five-time National Basketball Association All-Star, Parkinson's disease.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Rudy LaRusso Stats - Basketball-Reference.com |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/l/larusru01.html |website=basketball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jean Lefebvre - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/e717e17aa56b4634bd2e7df5b3940b94 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Tony Lupien, 87, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox).{{cite news|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/40a1236a|last=Bevis|first=Charlie|title=Tony Lupien|work=Society for American Baseball Research|access-date=2019-02-03}}
Sammy McKim, 79, Canadian film actor and artist, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Sammy McKim - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6292h7n |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright, liver cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ron Milner - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/15666 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Bill Randle, 81, American disc jockey, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bill Randle - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6rv87p5 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Isabel Sanford, 86, American actress (The Jeffersons, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Lady Sing the Blues), Emmy winner (1981), heart attack, heart disease.{{cite news |author1=Kathryn Shattuck |title=Isabel Sanford, 86, Actress Who Portrayed Mrs. Jefferson |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/13/arts/isabel-sanford-86-actress-who-portrayed-mrs-jefferson.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=9 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=13 July 2004 |page=B 8}}
Hugo S. Sims, Jr., 82, American lawyer and politician (U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 2nd congressional district).{{cite news|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000439|title=SIMS, Hugo Sheridan, Jr., (1921 - 2004)|work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=2019-02-15}}

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Abdul Ghafoor, 85-86, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar.
Inge Meysel, 94, German actress, cardioplegia.{{Cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3884681.stm |title=German actress Meysel dies at 94 |date=11 July 2004 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2017 }}
Loren Mosher, 70, American psychiatrist.{{cite news |author1=Anahad O'Connor |author-link1=Anahad O'Connor |title=L.R. Mosher, 70, Innovator at Mental Health Institute |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/18/nyregion/lr-mosher-70-innovator-at-mental-health-institute.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=18 July 2004 |page=1 36}}
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, Portuguese chemical engineer and politician, prime minister (1979-1980), heart attack.{{cite news |agency=AFP |date=17 November 2005 |title=Portugal's only woman PM dies |url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10105801%255E1702,00.html |newspaper=The Australian |access-date=15 March 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051123163657/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10105801%5E1702,00.html |archive-date=23 November 2005}}
Georgi Proskurin, 59, Soviet pair skater.
Art Rebel, 67, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals).{{cite news|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rebelar01.shtml|title=Art Rebel|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=2019-02-03}}

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Lothar Baier, 62, German author, publisher, and translator, suicide.
Van Deren Coke, 83, American photographer, scholar and museum director.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Van Deren Coke, 83, Dies; Curator and Photographer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/27/arts/van-deren-coke-83-dies-curator-and-photographer.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=27 July 2004 |page=B 7}}
Joe Gold, 82, American bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Joe Gold, 82, Creator of 'Mecca of Bodybuilding' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/14/us/joe-gold-82-creator-of-mecca-of-bodybuilding.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=14 July 2004 |page=A 21}}
Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Dorothy Hart |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15057008b |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress, respiratory disease.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Frances Hyland - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/103091 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Haije Kramer, 86, Dutch chess master and theoretician.
Terry McLean, 90, New Zealand sports journalist.
Laurance Rockefeller, 94, American businessman, conservationist and philanthropist, respiratory failure.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Laurance Rockefeller |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laurance-S-Rockefeller |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Renée Saint-Cyr, 99, French actress.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Renée Saint-Cyr - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/e6a68305477a4c69830402a45b7793d8 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Edkhyam Tenishev, 83, Soviet and Russian linguist.
Walter Wager, 79, American author, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Walter Wager |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14144535q |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}

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George Mallaby, 64, British-Australian actor and scriptwriter, congestive heart failure.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=George Mallaby |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb169746416 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Jeff Morris, 69, American actor, cancer.
Betty Oliphant, 85, English founder of Canada's National Ballet School.{{cite news |author1=Jack Anderson |title=Betty Oliphant, 85, Co-Founder Of Influential Ballet School |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/14/us/betty-oliphant-85-co-founder-of-influential-ballet-school.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=14 July 2004 |page=A 21}}
James Quinn, 97, American Olympic sprinter (gold medal winner in men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – James Quinn |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78925 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Emma Yefimova, 72, Soviet Olympic fencer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Emma Yefimova |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/20965 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}

=13=

Arthur Kane, 55, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia.{{cite news |author1=Ben Sisario |author-link1=Ben Sisario |title=Arthur Kane, Punk Rock Bassist For New York Dolls, Dies at 55 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/16/arts/arthur-kane-punk-rock-bassist-for-new-york-dolls-dies-at-55.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=16 July 2004 |page=A 19}}
Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Carlos Kleiber - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6nh6x1s |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Michio Morishima, 80, Japanese economist.
Roger Quenolle, 78, French football player.[https://www.leparisien.fr/yvelines-78/roger-quenolle-laisse-le-banc-vide-14-07-2004-2005139174.php Roger Quenolle laisse le banc vide] {{inlang|fr}}
Karel Zich, 55, Czech singer, guitarist and composer, heart attack.

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Nelly Borgeaud, 72, French film actress.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Nelly Borgeaud |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/r22DaWaYzGUz |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Germano de Figueiredo, 71, Portuguese footballer.
Hoegeng Imam Santoso, 82, Indonesian chief of police, stroke.
Tadeusz Sołtyk, 94, Polish aircraft designer and aerospace engineer.
Alex Willoughby, 59, Scottish footballer (Rangers, Aberdeen), cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alex Willoughby |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/alex-willoughby/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Arnold Ziff, 77, English businessman and philanthropist.{{cite news |last1=Wainwright |first1=Martin |title=Arnold Ziff |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jul/30/guardianobituaries.martinwainwright |access-date=11 May 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=30 July 2004}}

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Saeed Anwar, 60, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic champion.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Saeed Anwar |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/20056 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Banoo Jehangir Coyaji, 86, Indian doctor and family planning activist.{{Cite web |url=http://www.kemhospital.org/banoo.html |title=Dr. Banoo Coyaji (1917–2004) |date=2007 |website=KEM Hospital |access-date=13 December 2017 |archive-date=August 8, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130808191712/http://www.kemhospital.org/banoo.html |url-status=dead }}
Wal Murray, 72, Australian politician.
Teun Roosenburg, 88, Dutch sculptor.{{cite web

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František Schmucker, 64, Czech football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – František Schmucker |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/27378 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=11 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Derek Taunt, 86, British mathematician.
Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Allan Kozinn |author-link1=Allan Kozinn |title=Yoko Watanabe, 51, Soprano Renowned as Puccini's 'Butterfly' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/24/arts/yoko-watanabe-51-soprano-renowned-as-puccini-s-butterfly.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=13 December 2017 |work=The New York Times |date=24 July 2004 |page=A 14}}
Sunao Yoshida, 34, Japanese novelist, lung blockage.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Sunao Yoshida |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15857398b |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}

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George Busbee, 76, American politician, former governor of Georgia, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=George Busbee - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6vt31cb |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Andy Engman, 92, Swedish-Finnish cartoon animator.
Fazal khaliq, 70, Afghan politician.
Lucien Leduc, 85, French football midfielder and a manager.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Lucien Leduc |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/jcIGnoXx4jnw |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Bella Lewitzky, 88, American modern dance pioneer and choreographer, heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Jack Anderson |title=Bella Lewitzky, 88, Dancer Who Pushed for Artistic Freedom |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/19/arts/bella-lewitzky-88-dancer-who-pushed-for-artistic-freedom.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=19 July 2004 |page=B 7}}
Charles Sweeney, 84, American Air Force officer, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Charles Sweeney, 84, Pilot in Bombing of Nagasaki, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/19/us/charles-sweeney-84-pilot-in-bombing-of-nagasaki-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 January 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=19 July 2004 |page=B 7}}

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Susan, Crown Princess of Albania, 63, Australian-born wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu, cancer.
Albela, 63, Pakistani actor, comedian and singer.
Grzegorz Cziura, 52, Polish weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Grzegorz Cziura |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/56508 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Jeanette Dolson, 85, Canadian athlete and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Jeanette Dolson |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/65840 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Khalil Hilmi, 94-95, Lebanese Olympic sports shooter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Khalil Hilmi |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/43237 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur and banker.{{Cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/3907323.stm |title=Banker Sir Julian Hodge dies, 99 |date=19 July 2004 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2017 }}
Marty Passaglia, 85, American basketball player (Washington Capitols, Indianapolis Jets).{{cite news|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/passama01.html|title=Marty Passaglia|work=Basketball-Reference.com|access-date=2019-02-05}}
Pat Roach, 67, English professional wrestler and actor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Willow), cancer.{{Cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3903779.stm |title=Auf Wiedersehen, Pet actor dies |date=17 July 2004 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2017 }}
Robert E. Smylie, 89, American politician, Governor of Idaho (1955-1967).{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/20/us/robert-e-smylie-89-governor-of-idaho-for-3-straight-terms.html|author=The Associated Press|author-link=The Associated Press|title=Robert E. Smylie, 89, Governor Of Idaho for 3 Straight Terms|work=The New York Times|date=2004-07-20|access-date=2019-02-17}}

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Anne Gorsuch Burford, 62, American attorney and politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Anne Gorsuch Burford - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6fr2g91 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
André Castelot, 93, French writer and scriptwriter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=André Castelot - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/c1577cdb1ead4f7db85f4a78698815d3 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Georgine Darcy, 71, American dancer and actress.
George Farm, 80, Scottish football goalkeeper and manager.
Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Paul Foot - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6xw79dx |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
John D. Kraus, 94, American physicist and electrical engineer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=John D. Kraus - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6rr254v |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Eoin McKiernan, 89, American scholar and expert on Irish history.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Eoin McKiernan - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6170dqx |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Richard Ney, 87, American actor, investment counselor, and author, heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Richard Ney, Financial Adviser, Popular Author and Actor, 87 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/23/business/richard-ney-financial-adviser-popular-author-and-actor-87.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=23 July 2004 |page=A 21}}
Émile Peynaud, 92, French wine expert.{{cite news |author1=Eric Asimov |author-link1=Eric Asimov |title=Émile Peynaud, 92, a Revolutionary Wine Expert Who Defined 'Expert' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/23/nyregion/emile-peynaud-92-a-revolutionary-wine-expert-who-defined-expert.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=23 July 2004 |page=A 21}}

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Sylvia Daoust, 102, Canadian artist and sculptor.
Harry Forsyth, 100, Irish cricketer and centenarian.{{cite web |title=Harry Forsyth profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/harry-forsyth-24570 |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=15 May 2024}}
Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer.
Roger Marquis, 67, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).{{cite news|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/marquro01.shtml|title=Roger Marquis|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=2019-02-03}}
Caitro Soto, 69, Peruvian musician and composer.
Zenkō Suzuki, 93, Japanese politician, Prime Minister (1980-1982), pneumonia.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Zenkō Suzuki |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12976030t |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Irvin Yeaworth, 78, German-American film director, producer, and theme park builder, traffic collision.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Irvin Yeaworth - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6sw17sh |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish flamenco dancer, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Anna Kisselgoff |author-link1=Anna Kisselgoff |title=Antonio Gades, 67, Artistic Flamenco Dancer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/22/arts/antonio-gades-67-artistic-flamenco-dancer.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=22 July 2004 |page=C 13}}
Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady, widow of president Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
Valdemaras Martinkėnas, 39, Soviet and Lithuanian football player and coach, drowned.
James Williams, 53, American jazz pianist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=James Williams - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6vt2nn0 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Jerry Goldsmith, 75, American film composer (Star Trek, The Omen, Alien), Oscar winner (1977), colorectal cancer.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Martin |title=Jerry Goldsmith Is Dead at 75; Prolific Composer for Films |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/23/arts/jerry-goldsmith-is-dead-at-75-prolific-composer-for-films.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=23 July 2004 |page=A 21}}
Edward B. Lewis, 85, American biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995).{{cite news |author1=Jeremy Pearce |title=Edward Lewis, Nobelist Who Studied Fly DNA, Dies at 86 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/26/us/edward-lewis-nobelist-who-studied-fly-dna-dies-at-86.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=26 July 2004 |page=A 14}}
Neal A. Maxwell, 78, American missionary in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, leukemia.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Neal A. Maxwell - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6gx4f0c |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Radoy Ralin, 82, Bulgarian dissident, poet, and satirist.
Julian Ridsdale, 89, British politician.{{cite news |title=Sir Julian Ridsdale |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/23/db2302.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/07/23/ixportal.html |access-date=15 May 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313094328/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/23/db2302.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/07/23/ixportal.html |archive-date=13 March 2007}}

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Elie Abel, 83, Canadian-American journalist, author and academic, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |last1=Steinberg |first1=Jacques |title=Elie Abel, Newsman and Teacher, Dies at 83 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/24/us/elie-abel-newsman-and-teacher-dies-at-83.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=24 July 2004 |page=A 14}}
Frank Cumiskey, 91, American gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Frank Cumiskey |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/31305 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Sacha Distel, 71, French singer, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Sacha Distel - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/52f89bf461014aef8753bc21779ebb8a |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Illinois Jacquet, 81, American jazz saxophonist, heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Ben Ratliff |author-link1=Ben Ratliff |title=Illinois Jacquet, 81, Sax-Playing Bandleader |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/23/arts/illinois-jacquet-81-sax-playing-bandleader.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=23 July 2004 |page=A 21}}
Joan Morgan, 99, English film actress, screenwriter and novelist.
Bertie Peacock, 75, Northern Ireland football player and manager.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bertie Peacock |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/bertie-peacock/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Kostiantyn Stepankov, 76, Ukrainian soviet actor, pancreatic cancer.
Ronald Sukenick, 72, American writer and literary theorist, inclusion body myositis.{{cite news |author1=Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |author-link1=Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |title=Ronald Sukenick, 72, Writer Who Toyed With the Rules |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/arts/ronald-sukenick-72-writer-who-toyed-with-the-rules.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=25 July 2004 |page=1 33}}

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Mehmood Ali, 71, Indian actor, respiratory disease.
Joe Cahill, 84, Irish terrorist..{{Cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3922517.stm |title=Tributes to veteran republican |date=24 July 2004 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2017 }}
Alan Cook, 81, British physicist.
Rogelio Domínguez, 73, Argentine football player, heart attack.
Ferry Gruber, 77, Austrian-German tenor in opera and operetta.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ferry Gruber |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13944417r |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player, kidney failure.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Carlos Paredes |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14020409b |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Piero Piccioni, 82, Italian film score composer and lawyer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Piero Piccioni - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/8520fcc27c1b43a29a07ea12d2ddcbc3 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Serge Reggiani - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/ac3e66ff146f4f35bc310a5d1030b389 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=de |date=}}

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Jagan Nath Azad, 85, Indian Urdu poet, writer and academician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jagan Nath Azad |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb123264227 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Bob Azzam, 78, Egyptian singer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bob Azzam - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w64t7g51 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Claude Ballif, 80, French composer, writer, and pedagogue.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Claude Ballif - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6550272 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Cotton Fitzsimmons, 72, American NBA basketball coach, lung cancer.{{cite news |author1=Bloomberg News |author-link1=Bloomberg News |title=Cotton Fitzsimmons, 72, Ex-N.B.A. Coach |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/26/sports/cotton-fitzsimmons-72-ex-nba-coach.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=26 July 2004 |page=A 14}}
János Harmatta, 86, Hungarian linguist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=János Harmatta |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119069165 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Ben Martin, 83, American football player and coach.{{cite news |author1= |title=Ben Martin, 83, Coach Of Air Force Football Team |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/sports/ben-martin-83-coach-of-air-force-football-team.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=1 August 2004 |page=1 32}}
Wilton Mkwayi, 80, South African Anti-apartheid activist and ANC militant, cancer.
Wim Verstappen, 67, Dutch film director, producer, and screen writer, cancer.

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Maurice Euzennat, 77, French historian and archaeologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Maurice Euzennat |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/fVIhcl1Z5jog |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
John Passmore, 89, Australian philosopher.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=John Passmore - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w63f4q2b |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Totò Savio, 66, Italian composer, lyricist, producer, and guitarist.
Masami Shimojō, 88, Japanese actor.

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Oğuz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist and cartoonist, heart attack.{{cite web |title=Oğuz Ara |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/aral-oguz.htm |website=lambiek.net |access-date=15 May 2024}}
Viola Frey, 70, American artist and professor of arts.{{cite news |author1=Ken Johnson |title=Viola Frey, 70, Bold Sculptor Of Larger-Than-Life Figures |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/30/arts/viola-frey-70-bold-sculptor-of-larger-than-life-figures.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=30 July 2004 |page=A 16}}
Rubén Gómez, 77, Puerto Rican baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins).{{cite news|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/7d94a891|last=Van Hyning|first=Thomas|title=Ruben Gomez|work=Society for American Baseball Research|access-date=2019-02-03}}
Alexandr Hackenschmied, 96, Czech-American photographer, film director, and cinematographer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alexandr Hackenschmied - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/3be0eee485fc490aa147aec02e0943bd |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Carl Lidbom, 78, Swedish jurist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Carl Lidbom |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb122260626 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
William A. Mitchell, 92, American food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix, heart failure.
Bogusław Sochnacki, 73, Polish actor.

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Carmine DeSapio, 95, American politician, last head of the Tammany Hall organization.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Carmine DeSapio - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6544tbp |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Harry Jenkins, Sr., 78, Australian politician and medical doctor.
Lisette Lanvin, 90, French film actress.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Lisette Lanvin - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/7fe38b85ee664de7a0449bd95c16de92 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Joseph Rovan, 86, French philosopher and politician, drowned.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Joseph Rovan |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119230031 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Bob Tisdall, 97, Irish Olympic athlete (gold medal in 400 metres Hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Bob Tisdall |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/71597 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Juhani Avellan, 58, Finnish Olympic weightlifter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Juhani Avellan |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/55599 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Jackson Beck, 92, American announcer and voice actor (The Adventures of Superman), stroke.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Martin |title=Jackson Beck Dies at 92; Radio Voice on 'Superman' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/30/arts/jackson-beck-dies-at-92-radio-voice-on-superman.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=30 July 2004 |page=A 16}}
Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer.{{cite web |last=Morgante |first=Michelle |date=29 July 2004 |title=DNA Scientist Francis Crick Dies at 88 |url=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=753&e=2&u=/ap/20040729/ap_on_sc/obit_crick |website=Yahoo! News |access-date=15 March 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040804232033/http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=753&e=2&u=%2Fap%2F20040729%2Fap_on_sc%2Fobit_crick |archive-date=August 4, 2004 }}
Sam Edwards, 89, American actor (Twelve O'Clock High, Little House on the Prairie, Dragnet), heart failure.{{Cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3527124.stm |title=Little House actor Edwards dies |date=2 August 2004 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2017 }}
Steve Patterson, 56, American basketball player and coach at Arizona State University, lung cancer.{{cite news|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/pattest01.html|title=Steve Patterson|work=Basketball-Reference.com|access-date=2019-02-05}}
Janet Paul, 84, New Zealand publisher, painter and art historian.
Eugene Roche, 75, American actor (Webster, All in the Family, Soap), heart attack.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/31/arts/eugene-roche-actor-75-in-tv-and-film.html|author=The Associated Press|author-link=The Associated Press|title=Eugene Roche, Actor, 75, In TV and Film|work=The New York Times|date=2004-07-31|access-date=2019-02-07}}
Bernard Saint-Hillier, 92, French general.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bernard Saint-Hillier |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13577144g |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Tiziano Terzani, 65, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia, colorectal cancer.{{cite news |author1=Elizabeth Becker |author-link1=Elizabeth Becker (journalist)|title=Tiziano Terzani, Writer, 65; Had Keen Eye for 'New' Asia |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/06/arts/tiziano-terzani-writer-65-had-keen-eye-for-new-asia.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=6 August 2004 |page=B 7}}

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Pratima Bandopadhyay, 69, Indian playback singer.
Susan Buffett, 71, American activist and first wife of businessman and investor Warren Buffett, stroke.
Walter Feit, 73, American mathematician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Walter Feit - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6n60q1x |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Nafisa Joseph, 26, Indian model, MTV video jockey, and Miss India 1997, suicide by hanging.{{cite web |title=Home > News > Report Former Miss India Nafisa Joseph dead |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/2004/jul/30model.htm |website=Reddif |date=July 30, 2004}}
Abdul Rahman bin Saud Al Saud, 57, Saudi prince and the longtime president of football club Al Nassr.{{cite web|title=Prince Abdul Rahman bin Saud|url=http://fcalnassr.com/papers.php?id=9|publisher=Al Nassr FC|access-date=15 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817001319/http://fcalnassr.com/papers.php?id=9|archive-date=17 August 2012|url-status=dead}}
Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedian, heart attack.

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Ali Abbasi, 42, Scottish television presenter, systemic lupus erythematosus.{{Cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3940853.stm |title=Tributes paid to BBC broadcaster |date=31 July 2004 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2017 }}
Ellen Auerbach, 98, German-American photographer.{{cite news |author1=Andy Grundberg |title=Ellen Auerbach Dies at 98; Avant-Garde Photographer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/arts/ellen-auerbach-dies-at-98-avant-garde-photographer.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=1 August 2004 |page=1 32}}
Vivica Bandler, 87, Finnish-Swedish theatre director and agronomist.
Jan Hanuš, 89, Czech composer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jan Hanuš |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb148091476 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Nela Martínez, 91, Ecuadorian communist, political activist, and writer.
J. Edward McKinley, 86, American actor.
Ed Melvin, 88, Serbian-American basketball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ed Melvin Stats - Basketball-Reference.com |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/melvied01.html |website=basketball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Hirendranath Mukherjee, 96, Indian politician.
John Geoffrey Tracey, 74, Australian ecologist and botanist.
Wolfgang Ullmann, 74, German journalist, theologian, politician.
György Vizvári, 75, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic champion.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - György Vízvári |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/54222 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 May 2024}}

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Laura Betti, 77, Italian actress, heart attack.
Erich Ehrlinger, 93, German Nazi and Holocaust perpetrator during World War II.
Virginia Grey, 87, American actress (Airport, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Women), heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Mel Gussow |author-link1=Mel Gussow |title=Virginia Grey, a Veteran Of 100 Films, Dies at 87 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/06/arts/virginia-grey-a-veteran-of-100-films-dies-at-87.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=6 August 2004 |page=B 7}}
David B. Haight, 97, American leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=David B. Haight - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6g453b5 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Robert James, 80, Scottish actor, Alzheimer's disease.
Allu Rama Lingaiah, 81, Indian comedian.
Absamat Masaliyev, 71, Kyrgyzstani communist politician, heart attack.
Petra Peters, 79, German stage and film actress.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Frauendatenbank fembio.org |url=https://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/frauendatenbank?fem_id=21834 |website=fembio.org |publisher= |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Líber Seregni, 87, Uruguayan army officer and politician, pancreatic cancer.
Larry Stockmeyer, 56, American computer scientist, pancreatic cancer.{{cite web|title=In Memoriam|url=http://currents.ucsc.edu/04-05/08-09/inmemoriam.html|website=currents online|publisher=UC Santa Cruz|access-date=3 November 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930051821/http://currents.ucsc.edu/04-05/08-09/inmemoriam.html|archive-date=30 September 2015|date=9 August 2004}}

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2004-07-01,2004-07-31&adult=include List of July 2004 deaths] at IMDb

*2004-07