Deaths in July 2005

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2005.

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 2005

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Renaldo Benson, 69, American soul and R&B singer and member of The Four Tops, lung cancer.{{cite news |author1=Micheline Maynard |title=Obie Benson, 69, the Original Bass Voice of the Four Tops, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/02/arts/music/obie-benson-69-the-original-bass-voice-of-the-four-tops-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=2 July 2005 |page=C 16}}
Rex Berry, 80, American football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Rex Berry Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Rex+Berry |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=14 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Gus Bodnar, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Gus Bodnar Stats - Hockey-Reference.com |url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Gus+Bodnar |website=hockey-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=14 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Ivan Kolev, 74, Bulgarian football player, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Ivan Kolev |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/24309 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=14 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Luther Vandross, 54, American R&B singer, complications following a heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Jeff Leeds |title=Luther Vandross, Smooth Crooner of R&B, Is Dead at 54 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/02/arts/music/luther-vandross-smooth-crooner-of-rb-is-dead-at-54.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=2 July 2005 |page=C 16}}

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Carla Candiani, 89, Italian film actress.
Ernest Lehman, 89, American screenwriter (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, North by Northwest, West Side Story).{{cite news |author1=Margalit Fox |author-link1=Margalit Fox |title=Ernest Lehman, 89, Who Wrote 'North by Northwest,' Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/movies/ernest-lehman-89-who-wrote-north-by-northwest-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=6 July 2005 |page=C 15}}
Norm Prescott, 78, American co-founder of Filmation animation studios.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2005/scene/people-news/norman-prescott-1117925521/ |author= |date=July 6, 2005 |title=Norman Prescott, Chairman of Filmation Studios |magazine=Variety |access-date=March 29, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051224234108/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117925521?categoryId=25&cs=1 |archive-date=December 24, 2005}}
B. N. Krishnamurti Sharma, 96, Indian writer, scholar, professor, and indologist.
France Staub, 84, Mauritian ornithologist, botanist, and conservationist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=France Staub |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12797693p |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=14 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Tom Talbert, 80, American jazz pianist, composer, and band leader.{{cite news |title=Tom Talbert, 80; Jazz Composer, Arranger |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jul-08-me-talbert8-story.html |access-date=14 October 2024 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=July 8, 2005}}
Gu Yue, 68, Chinese actor, heart attack.

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Siv Ericks, 87, Swedish character actress.
Nan Kempner, 74, American society hostess, pulmonary emphysema.{{cite news |author1=Enid Nemy |author-link1=Enid Nemy |title=Nan Kempner, 74, Hostess Devoted to Fashion and Art, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/nyregion/nan-kempner-74-hostess-devoted-to-fashion-and-art-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=5 July 2005 |page=B 7}}
Alberto Lattuada, 90, Italian film director, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alberto Lattuada - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/8e66762279f546bf8dbb86b7eb7ad66d |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=14 October 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Pierre Michelot, 77, French jazz bassist, played with Miles Davis, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Pierre Michelot |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13897478j |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=14 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Gaylord Nelson, 89, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Senator, heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Keith Schneider |title=Gaylord A. Nelson, Founder of Earth Day, Is Dead at 89 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/04/politics/gaylord-a-nelson-founder-of-earth-day-is-dead-at-89.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=4 July 2005 |page=B 6}}
Sam Tata, 93, Canadian photographer.
Hedy West, 67, American folksinger, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Hedy West - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6wb42tf |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=14 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Harrison Young, 75, American actor (Saving Private Ryan, House of 1000 Corpses, Passions).{{cite web |url=http://www.harrisonyoung.netfirms.com/timeline.html |first=Shainoor |last=Tejani |year=2008 |title=Timeline |website=Harrison Young |access-date=November 22, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714165050/http://www.harrisonyoung.netfirms.com/timeline.html |archive-date=July 14, 2011 }}

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Chris Bunch, 62, American science fiction writer, lung ailment.
Bryan Coleman, 94, British television and film actor.
Al Downing, 65, American R&B and country & western musician, leukemia.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Al Downing - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6m043dj |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=14 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Per Gedda, 90, Swedish sailor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Per Gedda |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/62106 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=14 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
June Haver, 79, American film actress, widow of Fred MacMurray, respiratory failure.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=June Haver |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13926153v |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=14 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Marga López, 81, Mexican film and television actress, heart failure.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Marga López |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16244037g |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=14 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
George C. McGhee, 93, American petroleum geologist and diplomat, pneumonia.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=George C. McGhee - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6tq7smr |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=14 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Hank Stram, 82, American gridiron football coach (Kansas City Chiefs) and Pro Football Hall of Fame member, diabetes.{{cite news |author1=Frank Litsky |author-link1=Frank Litsky |title=Hank Stram, 82, a Football Innovator and a Hall of Fame Coach, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/sports/football/hank-stram-82-a-football-innovator-and-a-hall-of-fame-coach.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=5 July 2005 |page=B 7}}
John Stubblefield, 60, American jazz saxophonist, flautist, and oboist, prostate cancer.{{cite news |author1= |title=John Stubblefield, 60, Saxophonist Who Worked With Jazz's Best, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/arts/music/john-stubblefield-60-saxophonist-who-worked-with-jazzs-best-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=16 October 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=11 July 2005 |page=B 7}}
Lorenzo Thomas, 60, Panamanian-American poet.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Lorenzo Thomas - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6x653k1 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=14 October 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Leo Breiman, 77, American statistician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Leo Breiman - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6v16508 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=14 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Bud Cullen, 78, Canadian judge and politician.
Ray Davis, 65, American singer, founding member of Parliament/Funkadelic.
Shirley Goodman, 69, American R&B singer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Shirley Goodman - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6cr62m0 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=14 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Baloo Gupte, 70, Indian cricketer.{{cite web |title=Baloo Gupte Profile - Cricket Player India - Stats, Records, Video |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/baloo-gupte-28878 |website=espncricinfo.com |access-date=14 October 2024}}
James Stockdale, 81, American Vice Admiral and Medal of Honor recipient, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |author1=Steven A. Holmes |title=James Stockdale, Perot's Running Mate in '92, Dies at 81 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/politics/james-stockdale-perots-running-mate-in-92-dies-at-81.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=6 July 2005 |page=C 15}}

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Bruno Augenstein, 82, German-American mathematician and physicist.
L. Patrick Gray, 88, American former Director of the United States FBI, pancreatic cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=L. Patrick Gray - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6xq1m6z |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
James Haskins, 63, American professor, biographer, and author, pulmonary emphysema.{{cite news |author1=Mel Watkins |title=James Haskins, an Author on Black History, Dies at 63 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/books/james-haskins-an-author-on-black-history-dies-at-63.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=11 July 2005 |page=B 7}}
Evan Hunter, 78, American mystery novel writer, wrote under numerous pseudonyms (Ed McBain), cancer of the larynx.{{cite news |author1=Marilyn Stasio |authorlink1=Marilyn Stasio |title=Evan Hunter, Writer Who Created Police Procedural, Dies at 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/07/books/evan-hunter-writer-who-created-police-procedural-dies-at-78.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=7 July 2005 |page=B 10}}
Huang Kun, 85, Chinese physicist.
Donald McGinley, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Nebraska (1959–1961) and Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska (1983–1987).{{cite news |url=http://journalstar.com/news/article_7da3330d-f2ea-5958-9725-9af791e2d7dc.html |last=Hicks |first=Nancy |date=July 5, 2005 |title=Former Lt. Gov. McGinley dies |newspaper=Lincoln Journal Star |access-date=March 29, 2018}}
Claude Simon, 91, French writer and Nobel Prize winner.{{cite news |author1=Marlise Simons |author-link1=Marlise Simons |title=Claude Simon, Champion of New Novel and Nobel Laureate, Dies at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/books/claude-simon-champion-of-new-novel-and-nobel-laureate-dies-at-91.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=10 July 2005 |page=1 23}}

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Henri Betti, 87, French composer and pianist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Henri Betti - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/11388 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Paul Deliège, 74, Belgian comic book writer/artist, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.actuabd.com/article.php3?id_article=2662 |date=7 July 2005 |title=Décès de Paul Deliège : Bobo est orphelin |website=ActuaBD |access-date=March 29, 2018 |language=fr}}
Gunnar Fredrik Hellesen, 92, Norwegian politician.
Adolf Müller, 91, Swiss freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Adolf Müller |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/59971 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Gustaf Sobin, 69, American-French poet and novelist, pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |author1=Kathryn Shattuck |title=Gustaf Sobin, 69, a Writer Who Celebrated Provence, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/12/books/gustaf-sobin-69-a-writer-who-celebrated-provence-is-dead.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=12 July 2005 |page=A 19}}
Notable deceased during the 7 July 2005 London bombings{{cite news |title=London 7/7 bombers' families still in shock, Leeds imam says |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-33341177 |access-date=15 October 2024 |work=BBC News |date=1 July 2015}}
Hasib Hussain, 18, British terrorist, suicide.
Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, British terrorist, suicide.
Germaine Lindsay, 19, British terrorist, suicide.
Shehzad Tanweer, 22, British terrorist, suicide.

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Maurice Baquet, 94, French actor and cellist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Maurice Baquet - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/0fb6b3ca58d343278ad65d84c427753a |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Peter Boenisch, 78, German columnist and journalist, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Peter Boenisch |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11482630q |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Denis Bray, 78, British civil servant in Hong Kong.
Judy Mann, 61, American longtime columnist for The Washington Post, breast cancer.{{cite news |last1=Sullivan |first1=Patricia |title=Post Columnist Judy Mann Dies |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2005/07/09/post-columnist-judy-mann-dies/1159429d-6c7b-408d-bb02-6350f773ccaf/ |access-date=15 October 2024 |work=The Washington Post |date=July 8, 2005}}

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Chuck Cadman, 57, Canadian Member of Parliament, melanoma.
Karim Emami, 75, Iranian translator, lexicographer, and literary critic, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Nazila Fathi |author-link1=Nazila Fathi |title=Karim Emami, 75, Who Translated Omar Khayyam and 'Gatsby,' Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/world/middleeast/karim-emami-75-who-translated-omar-khayyam-and-gatsby-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=16 October 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=13 July 2005 |page=C 17}}
Yevgeny Grishin, 74, Russian speed skater, first speed skater under 40 seconds on 500 metres.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Yevgeny Grishin |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yevgeny-Grishin |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Kevin Hagen, 77, American actor (Little House on the Prairie), esophageal cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Kevin Hagen |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb144859400 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Marie-Thérèse Morlet, 91, French scholar and honorary director of research at CNRS.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Marie-Thérèse Morlet |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11916901b |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Byron Preiss, 52, American writer, editor, and publisher, traffic collision.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20050718/40390-byron-preiss-he-saw-books-where-other-people-didn-t.html |last=Zeitchik |first=Steven |date=July 15, 2005 |title=Byron Preiss: 'He Saw Books Where Other People Didn't' |magazine=Publishers Weekly |volume=252 |issue=28 |access-date=March 29, 2018}}
Alex Shibicky, 91, Canadian ice hockey player who made the first slapshot.{{cite news |author1=Frank Litsky |author-link1=Frank Litsky |title=Alex Shibicky, Who Helped Rangers to Stanley Cup, Dies at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/22/sports/hockey/alex-shibicky-who-helped-rangers-to-stanley-cup-dies-at-91.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=22 July 2005 |page=A 17}}
Lu Wenfu, 77, Chinese writer.
Rafiq Zakaria, 79, Indian Islamic scholar.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Rafiq Zakaria |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12529970j |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}

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Richard Eastham, 89, American actor (Tombstone Territory, That Darn Cat!, Wonder Woman), Alzheimer's disease.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Richard Eastham - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/81222 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Serge Lancen, 82, French composer and classical pianist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Serge Lancen - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/16d84176df7d450bb41c89411f37937d |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Gavin I. Langmuir, 81, Canadian medievalist historian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Gavin I. Langmuir |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12270455m |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Frank Moores, 72, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland, cancer.
A. J. Quinnell, 65, English writer, Man on Fire.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=A. J. Quinnell |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11920906t |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Freddy Soto, 35, American comedian and actor.
David V., 72, Malaysian unionist and politician.

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Gretchen Franklin, 94, English television actress, best known as "Ethel Skinner" in EastEnders.
Shinya Hashimoto, 40, Japanese professional wrestler, intracranial aneurysm.
Jesús Iglesias, 83, Argentine Grand Prix racing driver.
David Ralph "Boag" Johnson, 83, American basketball player.{{cite web |title=Ralph Johnson Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft Status and more – Basketball-Reference.com |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/j/johnsra01.html |website=basketball-reference.com |access-date=15 October 2024}}
John Kennedy-Good, 89, New Zealand politician.
Frances Langford, 92, American singer and actress, heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Richard Severo |title=Frances Langford, Trouper on Bob Hope Tours, Dies at 92 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/12/arts/music/frances-langford-trouper-on-bob-hope-tours-dies-at-92.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=12 July 2005 |page=A 19}}
Robert L. Shevin, 71, American Attorney General and politician, esophageal cancer.{{cite news|last1=Sainz|first1=Adrian |title=Ex-attorney general, governor candidate Shevin dies|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1EIgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U4UEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6804,2610614&dq=bob+graham+shevin&hl=en|accessdate=15 October 2024|work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|publisher=Patrick Dorsey|date=13 July 2005}}
Avabai Bomanji Wadia, 91, Ceylonese-Indian social worker, writer and family planning advocate.
Theodore Woodward, 91, American medical researcher at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Theodore Woodward - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6c842md |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Piero Cappuccilli, 78, Italian operatic baritone.{{cite news |last1=Blyth |first1=Alan |title=Piero Cappuccilli - Baritone in the classic Italian tradition |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jul/29/guardianobituaries.italy |access-date=15 October 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=29 July 2005}}
Joseph Patrick Delaney, 70, American Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Fort Worth, Texas.{{cite news |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/07/15/joseph_delaney_70_fort_worth_bishop_for_quarter_century/ |agency=Associated Press |date=July 15, 2005 |title=Joseph Delaney, 70, Fort Worth bishop for quarter century |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=March 29, 2018}}
Arthur Fletcher, 80, American government official, Assistant Labor Secretary under US President Richard Nixon.{{cite news |author1=Michelle O'Donnell |title=Arthur Fletcher, G.O.P. Adviser, Dies at 80 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/14/politics/arthur-fletcher-gop-adviser-dies-at-80.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=11 September 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=14 July 2005 |page=C 17}}
Willi Heinrich, 84, German author and soldier during World War II.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Willi Heinrich - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/661825dd031041f08a4a18f663fc4530 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=de |date=}}
P. K. Vasudevan Nair, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Kerala state, India.
Axel Strøbye, 77, Danish stage and film actor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Axel Strøbye |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb170800881 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, 87, British peer, businessman and chairman of British Airways (1981-1993).

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Robert P. Abelson, 76, American psychologist and political scientist, Parkinson's disease.{{cite journal| title = In Memoriam: Robert P. Abelson (1928-2005) | publisher = Association for Psychological Science | url = http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2006/december-06/in-memoriam-robert-p-abelson-1928-2005.html | journal = Observer | volume = 19 | issue = 12 | date = December 2006}}
Asen Kisimov, 69, Bulgarian actor, singer and radio presenter.
Robert E. Ogren, 83, American zoologist.
Mickey Owen, 89, American former MLB baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mickey Owen Stats - Baseball-Reference.com |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/owenmi01.shtml |website=baseball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
J. B. Trapp, 79, New Zealand-British historian, writer, and academic.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=J. B. Trapp |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12033778n |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}

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Mark Carlisle, 76, British politician and peer.
Michael Dahlquist, 39, American musician, film editor, and computer programmer, homicide.
Tilly Fleischer, 93, German athlete, Olympic champion in javelin (1936).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Tilly Fleischer |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69980 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Joe Harnell, 80, American composer, musician, and music arranger.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Joe Harnell - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6b57jcv |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz, 86, Polish sculptor and Olympian.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/921189 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 October 2024}}
Richard Leiterman, 70, Canadian cinematographer, amyloidosis.
Cicely Saunders, 87, British palliative care activist, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Cicely Saunders Dies at 87; Reshaped End-of-Life Care |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/04/world/europe/cicely-saunders-dies-at-87-reshaped-endoflife-care.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=4 August 2005 |page=A 17}}

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David Daiches, 92, Scottish literary critic.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=David Daiches, 92, Scholar of Literature and Whiskey, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/23/obituaries/david-daiches-92-scholar-of-literature-and-whiskey-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=23 July 2005 |page=B 20}}
Michael Gibson, 60, American Tony-nominated orchestrator and musician, lung cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Michael Gibson - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/70359 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Anders Hagen, 84, Norwegian archaeologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Anders Hagen |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12172493g |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Leonor Orosa-Goquingco, 87, Filipino artist, dancer, and columnist.
Stan Steele, 68, English football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Stan Steele |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/stan-steele/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Alicia Vignoli, 94, Argentine film actress.
Ronald Wilson, 82, Australian High Court justice.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ronald Wilson - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6w124fg |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Blue Barron, 92, American orchestra leader.
Pietro Consagra, 84, Italian sculptor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Pietro Consagra - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w69p3mx6 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Camillo Felgen, 84, Luxembourgish singer, disc jockey, and television presenter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Camillo Felgen - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/67c493aa3e1a47508102875d0f332215 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Yi Gu, 73, Korean prince, heart attack.
W. Fox McKeithen, 58, American politician, 5-time Louisiana Secretary of State, suicide from height.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=W. Fox McKeithen - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6gv009t |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
John Ostrom, 77, American paleontologist who revolutionized understanding of dinosaurs, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |author1=John Noble Wilford |author-link1=John Noble Wilford |title=John H. Ostrom, Influential Paleontologist, Is Dead at 77 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/21/nyregion/john-h-ostrom-influential-paleontologist-is-dead-at-77.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=21 July 2005 |page=A 27}}
Miguel Pérez, 68, Puerto Rican wrestler, heart attack.
K. V. Subbanna, 73, Indian dramatist and writer.
Dieter Wellershoff, 72, German admiral and Chief of Federal Armed Forces Staff (1986-1991).

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Laurel Aitken, 77, Jamaican musician, heart attack.
Izabella Bashmakova, 84, Russian historian of mathematics.
Biplab Dasgupta, 66, Indian economist, Parkinson's disease.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Biplab Dasgupta |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12036103t |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Geraldine Fitzgerald, 91, Irish-born American actress, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |author1=Rick Lyman |title=Geraldine Fitzgerald, 91, Star of Stage and Film, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/arts/geraldine-fitzgerald-91-star-of-stage-and-film-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=19 July 2005 |page=B 7}}
Hans Hansen, 90, Norwegian competition rower and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Hans Egill Hansen |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/39085 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 October 2024}}
Edward Heath, 89, British politician, Prime Minister (1970–1974), MP (1950–2001), pneumonia.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Edward Heath |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-Heath |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Tommy Johnson, 73, Swedish actor.
Gina Lagorio, 83, Italian writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Gina Lagorio |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12467053n |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Gavin Lambert, 80, British-American novelist, screenwriter (Inside Daisy Clover, Sons and Lovers).{{cite news |author1=Sharon Waxman |author-link1=Sharon Waxman |title=Gavin Lambert, 80, Writer Who Chronicled Hollywood Life, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/arts/gavin-lambert-80-writer-who-chronicled-hollywood-life-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=19 July 2005 |page=B 7}}
Mojtaba Mirzadeh, 60, Iranian-Kurdish violin, kamancheh, and setar master.
Spartak Mishulin, 78, Soviet actor and People's Artist of the RSFSR, heart attack.
I. G. Patel, 80, Indian economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (1977–1982).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=I. G. Patel - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w65m72hs |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Jim Pearce, 80, American baseball baseball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jim Pearce Stats - Baseball-Reference.com |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Jim+Pearce |website=baseball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Rie Vierdag, 99, Dutch freestyle swimmer.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Rie Vierdag |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/49423 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 October 2024}}
William Weatherspoon, 69, American songwriter and record producer.

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Amy Gillett, 29, Australian rower and cyclist, bicycle accident.
Gilles Grondin, 62, Canadian educator and a politician, cancer.
John Herald, 66, American folk musician and recording artist, suicide.{{cite news |author1=Ben Sisario |author-link1=Ben Sisario |title=John Herald, 65, Folk Singer and Guitarist, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/23/arts/music/john-herald-65-folk-singer-and-guitarist-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=23 July 2005 |page=B 20}}
Bill Hicke, 67, Canadian ice hockey right winger.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bill Hicke Stats - Hockey-Reference.com |url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Bill+Hicke |website=hockey-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Jim Parker, 71, American football player, (Baltimore Colts) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jim Parker |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jim-Parker |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Gerry Thomas, 83, American marketing/sales executive and inventor of the TV dinner, cancer.
Franz Weissmann, 93, Brazilian sculptor.{{cite news |author1=Ken Johnson |title=Franz Weissmann, Leading Brazilian Sculptor, Dies at 93 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/25/arts/franz-weissmann-leading-brazilian-sculptor-dies-at-93.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=16 October 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=25 July 2005 |page=B 7}}
William Westmoreland, 91, American army general, commander of U.S. forces during the Vietnam War (1964-1968), Alzheimer's disease.

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Jim Aparo, 72, American comic book artist (Batman, Phantom Stranger, Spectre).{{cite news |url=http://comicbookbin.com/jimaparorip001.html |last=Beck |first=Spencer |date=July 19, 2005 |title=Jim Aparo R.I.P |website=ComicBookBin |access-date=March 29, 2018}}
Alain Bombard, 80, French biologist and physician.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Martin |title=Alain Bombard, 80, Dies; Sailed the Atlantic Alone |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/opinion/alain-bombard-80-dies-sailed-the-atlantic-alone.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=24 July 2005 |page=1 32}}
Edward Bunker, 71, American author, screenwriter, and actor (Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs), surgical complications.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Edward Bunker - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/1b746a69b2144fb7b22340bd359f4cde |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Zihni Gjinali, 79, Albanian football player.
Hastings Keith, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (1959-1973).
Lucien Lazaridès, 82, French road bicycle racer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Lucien Lazaridès |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/u1mkTW0uFG4F |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Toku Nishio, 65, Japanese actor and voice actor, Japan.
John Tyndall, 71, British neo-nazi political activist, founder of the British National Party.

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Nikolai Aksyonenko, 56, Russian railway manager and politician, leukemia.
Josefina de Vasconcellos, 100, English sculptor.
James Doohan, 85, Canadian actor, pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |author1=John Schwartz |title=James Doohan, Actor Who Played Scotty on 'Star Trek,' Dies at 85 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/21/arts/television/james-doohan-actor-who-played-scotty-on-star-trek-dies-at.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=21 July 2005 |page=A 27}}
Finn Gustavsen, 79, Norwegian politician.
Kayo Hatta, 47, American film director (Picture Bride), drowned.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Kayo Hatta - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6m18f05 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Gyula Hernádi, 78, Hungarian writer and screenwriter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Gyula Hernádi |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120248272 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
David Tomblin, 74, British film and television director.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=David Tomblin - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6n886pz |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Brynley Allen, 84, Welsh footballer.
Long John Baldry, 64, British blues musician, infectious disease.{{cite news |author1=Ben Sisario |author-link1=Ben Sisario |title=John Baldry, 64, Singer Who Shaped British Rock, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/25/arts/john-baldry-64-singer-who-shaped-british-rock-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=25 July 2005 |page=B 7}}
Bruce Bolt, 75, Australian-American scientist and earthquake expert, pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |author1=Jeremy Pearce |title=Bruce A. Bolt, 75, Scientist Who Improved Earthquake Safety, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/science/bruce-a-bolt-75-scientist-who-improved-earthquake-safety-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=28 July 2005 |page=A 23}}
Andrzej Grubba, 47, Polish table tennis player, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Andrzej Grubba |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/2467 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Alfred Hayes, 76, British wrestler and wrestling commentator, stroke.
Tamara Lund, 64, Finnish soprano singer and actress, stomach cancer.
Stanisław Stomma, 97, Polish lawyer, academic teacher, publicist, and politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Stanisław Stomma |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120337252 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}

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Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, Brazilian man wrongly accused as a fugitive terrorist, killed by London police officers.{{cite news |last1=Cowan |first1=Rosie |title=New claims emerge over Menezes death |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/aug/17/july7.menezes |access-date=15 October 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=17 August 2005}}
Dragoš Kalajić, 62, Serbian painter, philosopher and writer, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Dragoš Kalajić |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16510072x |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Roland A. Luedtke, 81, American politician.
Xue Muqiao, 100, Chinese economist, director of National Bureau of Statistics.
Eugene Record, 64, American lead vocalist for The Chi-Lites, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Ben Sisario |author-link1=Ben Sisario |title=Eugene Record, 64, Singer and Writer for Chi-Lites, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/23/arts/music/eugene-record-64-singer-and-writer-for-chilites-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=23 July 2005 |page=B 20}}
Hinako Sugiura, 46, Japanese author and cartoonist, laryngeal cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/07/26/national/obituary-hinako-sugiura/ |author= |date=July 26, 2005 |title=Obituary: Hinako Sugiura |newspaper=The Japan Times |access-date=March 29, 2018}}
George D. Wallace, 88, American actor (Forbidden Planet, The Pajama Game), suicide from height.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=George D. Wallace - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/79109 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Ray Crist, 105, American centenarian and chemist.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jul-28-me-crist28-story.html |last=Rourke |first=Mary |title=Ray Crist, 105; Chemist Helped Develop Atomic Bomb |date=28 July 2005 |work=Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles, CA |access-date=15 October 2024}}
Myron Floren, 85, American musician, longtime accordionist/bandleader on The Lawrence Welk Show, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Jennifer Bayot |title=Myron Floren, 85, Welk's Accordion Player, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/25/arts/myron-floren-85-welks-accordion-player-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=25 July 2005 |page=B 7}}
Ted Greene, 58, American fingerstyle jazz guitarist, columnist, and session musician, heart attack.
Fintan Meyler, 75, Irish actress.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Fintan Meyler - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/b12bea2210ac4f6695cfb09cfcf1c5dd |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Ray Oldham, 54, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ray Oldham Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Ray+Oldham |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Richard Doll, 92, British epidemiologist, first person to link cigarette smoking and lung cancer.{{cite news |author1=Lawrence K. Altman |title=Sir Richard Doll Dies at 92; Linked Smoking to Illnesses |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/obituaries/sir-richard-doll-dies-at-92-linked-smoking-to-illnesses.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=26 July 2005 |page=C 16}}
Pavel Dostál, 62, Czech minister for cultural affairs, pancreatic cancer.
John Drawbridge, 74, New Zealand artist, muralist and printmaker.
Vardan Kushnir, 35, Russian e-mail spammer, homicide.
Tullia Magrini, 55, Italian anthropologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Tullia Magrini |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb135332699 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Francis Ona, 52, Papua New Guinean Bougainville rebel leader, malaria.{{cite news |last1=Callick |first1=Rowan |title=Bougainville rebel leader Ona dies |url=https://www.afr.com/world/bougainville-rebel-leader-ona-dies-20050726-jkuy4 |access-date=15 October 2024 |work=Australian Financial Review |date=26 July 2005}}

=25=

Paul Britten Austin, 83, British writer and broadcaster.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Paul Britten Austin |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12116431n |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Enrique Bautista, 71, Filipino Olympic athlete.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Enrique Bautista |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/74527 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Ted Chapman, 71, Australian politician and Minister.
Eddie Crook, 76, American Olympic boxer and Vietnam veteran.
Sidney Hertzberg, 82, American basketball player, heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Sonny Hertzberg, 82, a Knick From the Very Beginning, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/sports/basketball/sonny-hertzberg-82-a-knick-from-the-very-beginning-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=29 July 2005 |page=A 21}}
David Jackson, 71, British actor, heart attack.
Albert Mangelsdorff, 76, German trombonist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Albert Mangelsdorff - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/69b921e118784280adf4ef6898042b6b |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Ford Rainey, 96, American actor (3:10 to Yuma, Halloween II, The Bionic Woman), stroke.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ford Rainey - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/99986 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=15 October 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Betty Astell, 93, American actress, entertainer and widow of Cyril Fletcher.
Pierre Broué, 79, French historian and Trotskyist revolutionary militant.{{cite news |last1=Eaude |first1=Michael |title=Pierre Broué |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/aug/31/guardianobituaries.obituaries |access-date=16 October 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=31 August 2005}}
Mario David, 71, Italian footballer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mario David |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/mario-david/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=16 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Alexander Golitzen, 97, Russian-American Oscar winning production designer (To Kill a Mockingbird, Spartacus, Phantom of the Opera), heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alexander Golitzen - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/8cb0e39c4b1c44349bbcd9daad8ab6dc |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=16 October 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Jack Hirshleifer, 79, American economist, prostate cancer.
Thierry Jean-Pierre, 49, French judge and member of the European Parliament (MEP), cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Thierry Jean-Pierre |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12235571h |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Gilles Marotte, 60, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers), pancreatic cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Gilles Marotte Stats - Hockey-Reference.com |url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Gilles+Marotte |website=hockey-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=16 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
John Michael Montias, 76, French-born American economist and art historian.{{cite news |author1=Kathryn Shattuck |title=John Montias, 76, Scholar of Economics and of Art, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/01/arts/design/john-montias-76-scholar-of-economics-and-of-art-is-dead.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=16 October 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=1 August 2005 |page=A 13}}
Danny Simon, 85, American comedy writer, brother of Neil Simon.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/94247.html |last=Jones |first=Kenneth |date=July 27, 2005 |title=Danny Simon, Neil's Big Brother and a Major Figure in American Comedy Writing, Dead at 85 |magazine=Playbill |access-date=March 29, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060627073717/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/94247.html |archive-date=June 27, 2006}}

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Shelley Appleton, 86, American labor leader.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Shelley Appleton, Garment Union Official, Dies at 86 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/nyregion/shelley-appleton-garment-union-official-dies-at-86.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=29 July 2005 |page=A 21}}
Al Held, 76, American abstract painter.{{cite news |author1=Ken Johnson |title=Al Held, Painter of Geometric Complexities, Dies at 76 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/arts/design/al-held-painter-of-geometric-complexities-dies-at-76.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=29 July 2005 |page=A 21}}
Helen Phillips, 86, American opera singer.{{cite news |author1=Michael S. Schmidt |author-link1=Michael S. Schmidt |title=Helen L. Phillips Dies at 85; Soprano Who Broke Barriers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/12/arts/music/helen-l-phillips-dies-at-85-soprano-who-broke-barriers.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=12 August 2005 |page=A 17}}
Carmen Provenzano, 63, Canadian politician, heart attack.
Dom Um Romão, 79, Brazilian jazz drummer, stroke.
Marten Toonder, 93, Dutch author and cartoonist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Marten Toonder |url=http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/61968959 |website=biografischportaal.nl |publisher= |access-date=16 October 2024 |language=nl |date=}}
Robert Wright, 90, American musical lyricist (team of Wright & Forrest – Grand Hotel, Kismet, Song of Norway, etc.).{{cite news |author1=Charles Isherwood |author-link1=Charles Isherwood |title=Robert Wright, 90, Dies; Wrote Broadway Musicals |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/theater/robert-wright-90-dies-wrote-broadway-musicals.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=2 August 2005 |page=C 15}}

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Virginia Dehn, 82, American painter and printmaker.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Virginia Dehn - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6hh7qqd |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Jacques Lacarrière, 98, French ice hockey player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Jacques Lacarrière |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/ZgZXk5WnAzb_ |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=16 October 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Louis Metzger, 88, United States Marine Corps officer.{{cite web |title=Lieutenant General Louis Metzger |url=https://www.usmcu.edu/Research/Marine-Corps-History-Division/People/Whos-Who-in-Marine-Corps-History/Mackie-Ozbourn/Lieutenant-General-Louis-Metzger/ |website=usmcu.edu |access-date=16 October 2024}}
Jair da Rosa Pinto, 84, Brazilian footballer.
Ronnie Rowe, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.{{cite web |title=Ron Rowe Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Salary, Title – Hockey-Reference.com |url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/r/rowero01.html |website=hockey-reference.com |access-date=16 October 2024}}
Cheng Siyuan, 96, Chinese politician.

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Hermione Hammond, 94, English painter and portrait artist.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hermione-hammond-312164.html |title=Hermione Hammond |last=Buckman |first=David |date=September 12, 2005 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=March 29, 2018}}
Hildegarde, 99, American cabaret singer.{{cite news |author1=Enid Nemy |author-link1=Enid Nemy |title=Hildegarde, Cabaret Artist, Is Dead at 99 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/01/arts/music/hildegarde-cabaret-artist-is-dead-at-99.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=1 August 2005 |page=A 13}}
Edwin Palmer Hoyt, 81, American writer and historian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Edwin Palmer Hoyt - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6b69fzb |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Pat McCormick, 78, American television writer (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson) and actor (Smokey and the Bandit, Scrooged), stroke.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Pat McCormick - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6x65gzh |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Al McKibbon, 86, American jazz double bassist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Al McKibbon - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w60v8k83 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Fred Sledge Smith, 72, American R&B songwriter and record producer.
Karlheinz Zöller, 76, German flutist.

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Olga Albizu, 81, Puerto Rican abstract expressionist painter.{{cite web |title=Olga Albizu |url=https://www.wikiart.org/en/olga-albizu |website=wikiart.org |access-date=16 October 2024}}
Carl Beam, 62, Canadian Ojibwe artist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Carl Beam - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6zc8t99 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Ray Cunningham, 100, American baseball player, recognized as the oldest living former MLB player.{{cite news |url=https://www.chron.com/sports/astros/article/Oldest-former-MLB-player-dies-in-Pearland-1925121.php |last=Barron |first=David |date=July 31, 2005 |title=Oldest former MLB player dies in Pearland |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |access-date=March 29, 2018}}
John Garang, 60, Sudanese Vice President, helicopter crash.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2134220.stm |last=Phombeah |first=Gray |date=August 3, 2005 |title=Obituary: John Garang |website=BBC News |access-date=March 29, 2018}}
Lucky Thompson, 81, American saxophonist, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |author1=Ben Ratliff |author-link1=Ben Ratliff |title=Lucky Thompson, Jazz Saxophonist, Is Dead at 81 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/arts/lucky-thompson-jazz-saxophonist-is-dead-at-81.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=5 August 2005 |page=B 7}}

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Wim Duisenberg, 70, Dutch banker and politician, heart attack while swimming and drowned.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4733483.stm |date=July 31, 2005 |title=Obituary: Wim Duisenberg |website=BBC News |access-date=March 29, 2018}}
Armando Ferreira, 85, Portuguese footballer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Armando Ferreira |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/armando-ferreira/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=16 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Léopold Gernaey, 78, Belgian footballer.{{cite web |title=Pol Gernaey |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/25845/Pol_Gernaey.html |website=national-football-teams.com |access-date=16 October 2024}}
Mantle Hood, 87, American ethnomusicologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mantle Hood - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6w39wx6 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
Lauri Nevalainen, 78, Finnish rower and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Lauri Nevalainen |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/36804 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=16 October 2024 |language= |date=}}
John Beaumont Williams, 73, Australian botanist.{{cite web|last1=Bruhl|first1=Jeremy|title=Williams, John Beaumont (1932 - 2005)|url=https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/williams-john-beaumont.html|publisher=Council of the Heads of Australian Herbaria|accessdate=23 May 2016}}

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2005-07-01,2005-07-31&adult=include List of July 2005 deaths] at IMDb

*2005-07