Deaths in June 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2004.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

June 2004

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Randi Brænne, 93, Norwegian actress.
James Dudley, 94, American baseball player and professional wrestling manager.
Victor Guazzelli, 84, English Roman Catholic bishop.{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bguaz|Bishop Victor Guazzelli|4 May 2024}}
Liu Kang, 93, Singaporean artist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Liu Kang - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6j39bvk |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=4 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Charles Kelman, 74, American ophthalmologist, surgeon, jazz musician, and Broadway producer, lung cancer.{{cite news |author1=Eric Nagourney |title=Dr. Charles Kelman, 74; Made Cataract Removal Easier |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/05/business/dr-charles-kelman-74-made-cataract-removal-easier.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=5 June 2004 |page=C 16}}
William Manchester, 82, American author and historian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=William Manchester - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w63x8sq1 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=4 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Bill Reichardt, 73, American football player (University of Iowa, Green Bay Packers).{{cite news|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/R/ReicBi20.htm|title=Bill Reichardt |work=Pro-Football-Reference.com|access-date=2019-02-06}}
Sheikh Shaheb Ali, 88, Bangladeshi football player and coach.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/06/02/d40602041545.htm|title=Shaheb Ali no more|website=archive.thedailystar.net|access-date=13 February 2023|archive-date=13 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213064402/https://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/06/02/d40602041545.htm|url-status=live}}

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Mujeeb Alam, 55, Pakistani playback singer.
Dietz Otto Edzard, 73, German scholar and grammarian of the Sumerian language.{{citation |last=Krebernik |first=Manfred |title=Dietz Otto Edzard [Obituary] |access-date=13 January 2025 |url=https://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=edzard_dietz_otto |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920022245/https://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=edzard_dietz_otto |archive-date=20 September 2022 |language=German}}
Nicolai Ghiaurov, 74, Bulgarian opera singer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Nicolai Ghiaurov - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6hc1h2r |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=4 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Shrikant Jichkar, 49, Indian central civil servant and politician, traffic collision.
Lee Ki-baek, 79, South Korean historian.
Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, 68-69, Ethiopian general, defense minister and President of Ethiopia, involuntary manslaughter.
Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Dom Moraes |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dom-Moraes |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=4 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Alun Richards, 74, Welsh novelist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alun Richards - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6bt3xdw |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=4 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Tini Wagner, 84, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympic champion.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Tini Wagner |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/49427 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=4 May 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Nam Cam, 56, Vietnamese mobster, shot.
Joe Carr, 82, Irish golfer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Joe Carr |url=https://www.where2golf.com/whos-who/joe-carr |website=where2golf.com |publisher= |access-date=4 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Harald Ganzinger, 53, German computer scientist.[https://web.archive.org/web/20050409021758/http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~hg/ Harald Ganzinger (1950-2004)]
Harold Goodwin, 86, English actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Longest Day, The Ladykillers).
Britta Holmberg, 82, Swedish actress.
Jonathan Kramer, 61, American composer and music theorist.{{cite news |author1=Ben Sisario |author-link1=Ben Sisario |title=Jonathan Kramer, 61, Composer And Theorist With Eclectic Style |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/11/arts/jonathan-kramer-61-composer-and-theorist-with-eclectic-style.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=11 June 2004 |page=B 10}}
Frances Shand Kydd, 68, English mother of Diana, Princess of Wales, Parkinson's disease.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/04/guardianobituaries.monarchy|last=Corby|first=Tom|title=Frances Shand Kydd|work=The Guardian|date=2004-06-03|access-date=2019-02-14}}
Sulamith Messerer, 95, Russian ballerina and choreographer.
Quorthon, 38, Swedish musician and founder of the band Bathory, congenital heart defect.
Morris Schappes, 97, American scholar, editor (Jewish Currents) and Marxist activist.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/09/nyregion/morris-schappes-dies-at-97-marxist-and-jewish-scholar.html|last=Martin|first=Douglas|title=Morris Schappes Dies at 97; Marxist and Jewish Scholar|work=The New York Times|date=2004-06-09|access-date=2019-02-09}}

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Charles Correll, 60, American cinematographer (Animal House, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock) and television director (Melrose Place), pancreatic cancer.
Wilmer Fields, 81, American baseball player, former Negro league baseball All-Star, heart ailment.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Wilmer Fields - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6s48m4m |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=4 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Marvin Heemeyer, 52, American muffler repair shop owner and criminal, suicide by gunshot.
Steve Lacy, 69, American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Ben Ratliff |author-link1=Ben Ratliff |title=Steve Lacy, 69, Who Popularized the Soprano Saxophone |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/05/business/steve-lacy-69-who-popularized-the-soprano-saxophone.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=5 June 2004 |page=C 16}}
Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer, lymphoma.{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/celebrity-interviewer-brian-linehan-dead-at-58-1.468400 |title=Celebrity interviewer Brian Linehan dead at 58 |date=4 June 2004 |website=CBC News |access-date=15 March 2018}}{{cite news |date=4 June 2004 |title=Brian Linehan, 58 |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/brian-linehan-58/article1133128/ |work=The Globe and Mail |access-date=15 March 2018}}
Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor, stroke.{{cite news |agency=ANSA |date=4 June 2004 |title=Italian actor Nino Manfredi is dead at 83 |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/06/04/obituary0759EDT0483.DTL |work=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=15 March 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040930235656/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fnews%2Farchive%2F2004%2F06%2F04%2Fobituary0759EDT0483.DTL |archive-date=September 30, 2004 }}
Rolf Moebius, 88, German actor, pneumonia.
T. M. Samarasinghe, 61, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.{{cite web |title=Tm Samarasinghe profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/tm-samarasinghe-50689 |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=4 May 2024}}
Anthony Steffen, 73, Italian and Brazilian film actor and screenwriter, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Anthony Steffen |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb142297504 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=4 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}

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Johnny Bent, 95, American ice hockey player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Johnny Bent |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/84006 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=4 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Iona Brown, 63, British violinist and conductor, cancer.{{cite web|last1=Inglis|first1=Anne|title=Iona Brown obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/10/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries|website=The Guardian|date=2004-06-10|access-date=23 August 2021}}
Jack Foster, 72, British-New Zealand athlete and Olympian, traffic collision.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Jack Foster |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/74306 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=4 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Fernando Manzaneque, 70, Spanish road racing cyclist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Fernando Manzaneque |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/fernando-manzaneque |website=procyclingstats.com |publisher= |access-date=4 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Friedrich Obleser, 81, German general in the Bundeswehr.
Ronald Reagan, 93, American actor and politician, President (1981–1989), Governor of California (1967–1975), pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's .{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/us/ronald-reagan-dies-at-93-fostered-cold-war-might-and-curbs-on-government.html|last=Berger|first=Marilyn|title=RONALD REAGAN DIES AT 93; FOSTERED COLD-WAR MIGHT AND CURBS ON GOVERNMENT|work=The New York Times|date=2004-06-06|access-date=2019-02-06}}
Manu Tupou, 69, American-based Fijian actor, writer, director, and teacher.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Manu Tupou - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/99866 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=4 May 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Judy Campbell, 88, English actress.{{cite news |last1=Shorter |first1=Eric |title=Judy Campbell |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/09/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=9 June 2004}}
Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman and journalist, killed by Al-Qaeda.{{cite news |last1=Guerin |first1=Orla |title=Simon Cumbers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/jun/08/broadcasting.guardianobituaries |access-date=5 May 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=8 June 2004}}
Howard Eves, 93, American mathematician.
James Roche, 97, American businessman, CEO and Chairman of the Board at General Motors Corporation.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/08/business/james-m-roche-dies-at-97-led-gm-in-the-late-1960-s.html|last=Saxon|first=Wolfgang|title=James M. Roche Dies at 97; Led G.M. in the Late 1960s|work=The New York Times|date=2004-06-08|access-date=2019-02-07}}
Munavvar Rzayeva, 75, Azerbaijani sculptor.
Emma Talmi, 99, Israeli politician and writer.
Jock West, 95, British Grand Prix motorcycle racer.
Kate Worley, 46, American comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer), cancer.{{cite news |last1=Gustines |first1=George Gene |title=Overlooked No More: Kate Worley, a Pioneer Writer of Erotic Comics |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/obituaries/kate-worley-overlooked.html |access-date=26 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=27 March 2020 |url-access=subscription}}

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Roman Aftanazy, 90, Polish historian, librarian and author.
Richard E. Bush, 79, United States Marine master gunnery sergeant and recipient of the Medal of Honor.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Winners of the Medal of Honor From Two Eras Die; Both Men Saved Fellow Marines; Richard E. Bush, 79; Served on Okinawa |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/us/winners-medal-honor-two-eras-die-both-men-saved-fellow-marines-richard-e-bush-79.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=13 June 2004 |page=1 43}}
Joseph Leo Doob, 94, American mathematician.{{cite news |author1=Jeremy Pearce |title=Joseph Doob, 94, Expert on Probability Theory |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/28/us/joseph-doob-94-expert-on-probability-theory.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=28 June 2004 |page=B 8}}
Roger Matton, 75, Canadian composer, ethnomusicologist, and music educator.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Roger Matton |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12406202t |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=8 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Bern Porter, 93, American artist, writer, publisher, and performer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bern Porter - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w69w17q8 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=8 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Don Potter, 102, British sculptor, wood carver and potter.
Eugene Raskin, 94, American musician and playwright.{{cite news |author1=Stuart Lavietes |title=Eugene Raskin, 94, Folk Singer and Writer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/12/arts/eugene-raskin-94-folk-singer-and-writer.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=12 June 2004 |page=C 8}}

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Leopoldo Zea Aguilar, 91, Mexican philosopher.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Leopoldo Zea Aguilar - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6m353tb |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=8 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Dan Armstrong, 69, American guitarist, luthier, and session musician.
David Mervyn Blow, 72, British biophysicist, lung cancer.[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/25/guardianobituaries.obituaries David Blow Pioneering scientist in protein crystallography]
Walter Breuer, 73, Austrian film actor.
Per Carleson, 86, Swedish officer and Olympic épée fencer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Per Carleson |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/23394 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=8 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Mack Jones, 65, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos), stomach cancer.{{cite news|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/a02975da|last=Skelton|first=David E.|title=Mack Jones|work=Society for American Baseball Research|access-date=2019-02-03}}
Humayun Khan, 27, American soldier serving in the Iraq War, car bombing.[https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36945318 Who was Capt Humayun Khan?]
Bill Lowery, 79, American music entrepreneur.
Fosco Maraini, 91, Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, and writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Fosco Maraini - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6tb93bv |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=8 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Bob Schmitz, 65, American gridiron football player and scout (Pittsburgh Steelers, Minnesota Vikings), heart attack.{{cite news|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SchmBo21.htm|title=Bob Schmitz|work=Pro-Football-Reference.com|access-date=2019-02-10}}
Nuria Torray, 69, Spanish actress, colorectal cancer.{{cite news |title=Nuria Torray, actriz de cine, teatro y televisión |url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2004/06/08/obituarios/1086698883.html |access-date=8 May 2024 |work=El Mundo |date=10 June 2004 |language=es}}

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Rosey Brown, 71, American football player, Pro Football Hall of Famer.{{cite news |author1=Frank Litsky |author-link1=Frank Litsky |title=Roosevelt Brown, 71, Dies; Hall of Fame Giants Tackle |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/11/sports/roosevelt-brown-71-dies-hall-of-fame-giants-tackle.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=11 June 2004 |page=B 10}}
António de Sousa Franco, 61, Portuguese economist and politician, heart attack.
Russell Hellman, 86, American politician and member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1961 to 1980.{{Cite web |title=Legislator Details - Legislators |url=https://mdoe.state.mi.us/legislators/Legislator/LegislatorDetail/2037 |access-date=2024-08-17 |website=mdoe.state.mi.us}}
Bent Jædig, 68, Danish jazz musician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bent Jædig |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14189733m |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=8 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Ted Martin, 101, Australian cricketer (Western Australia).{{cite web |title=Ted Martin profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/ted-martin-6744 |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=8 May 2024}}
Ralph Moody, 86, American NASCAR driver and team owner.
Alistair Taylor, 68, English personal assistant of Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alistair Taylor |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb160210897 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=8 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Barbara Whiting, 73, American actress (Those Whiting Girls, Beware, My Lovely, Dangerous When Wet), cancer.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jun-14-me-passings14.3-story.html|title=Barbara Whiting Smith, 73; Actress Had Show Business Family|work=Los Angeles Times|date=2004-06-14|access-date=2019-02-17}}
Brian Williamson, 58, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered.

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Antoine Argoud, 89, French Army officer specializing in counter-insurgency.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Antoine Argoud |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11889076r |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=8 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Ray Charles, 73, American rhythm and blues singer ("What'd I Say", "Georgia on my Mind", "I Can't Stop Loving You"), liver failure.{{cite news |author1=Jon Pareles and Bernard Weinraub |title=Ray Charles, Bluesy Essence of Soul, Is Dead at 73 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/11/arts/ray-charles-bluesy-essence-of-soul-is-dead-at-73.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=11 June 2004 |page=A 1}}
Rosinha de Valença, 62, Brazilian composer, arranger and musician.
Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Kiki Gyan |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb177469363 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=8 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Chico Faria, 54, Portuguese football player.{{cite web |title=Choco Faria |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/chico-faria/ |website=worldfootball.net |access-date=9 May 2024}}
José Farías, 67, Argentine football player and manager.
Odette Laure, 87, French actress and cabaret singer, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Odette Laure |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/Br86Hab9-F4U |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=8 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Gábor Vékony, 59, Hungarian historian, archaeologist and linguist.
Xenophon Zolotas, 100, Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister (1989–1990).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Xenophon Zolotas |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12707683h |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=8 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}

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Prince Egon von Fürstenberg, 57, German aristocrat and designer, nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli, liver cancer.
Pakubuwono XII, 60, Indonesian royal as twelfth Susuhunan] (ruler of Surakarta) .
Michel Roche, 64, French Olympic equestrian (gold medal winner in equestrian team jumping at the 1976 Summer Olympics).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Michel Roche |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/VwlgmwqjSnOV |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=8 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Soriba Soumah, 58, Guinean international football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Soriba Soumah |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/25656 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=8 May 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Rina Ben-Menahem, 68, Israeli writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Rina Ben-Menahem |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb178376772 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=8 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Walter George Muelder, 97, American social ethicist and Methodist minister.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Walter George Muelder - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6h173rk |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=8 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Stanley O'Toole, 65, British film producer.
Geoffrey Thompson, 67, British businessman, aneurysm.

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Dorothy Lavinia Brown, 85, American surgeon and politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Dorothy Lavinia Brown - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6tm9ts4 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=8 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Danny Dark, 65, American announcer, pulmonary hemorrhage.{{cite news |author1=Phil Sweetland |title=Danny Dark, 65, Whose Voice Spurned StarKist's Charlie Tuna |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/nyregion/danny-dark-65-whose-voice-spurned-starkist-s-charlie-tuna.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=27 June 2004 |page=1 32}}
Dick Durrance, 89, American alpine ski racer, 17-time national champion.{{cite news |author1=Frank Litsky |author-link1=Frank Litsky |title=Dick Durrance, 89, Ski Racer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/16/us/dick-durrance-89-ski-racer.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=16 June 2004 |page=C 15}}
Stuart Hampshire, 89, British philosopher.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Stuart Hampshire, 89, Moral Philosopher, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/nyregion/stuart-hampshire-89-moral-philosopher-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=27 June 2004 |page=1 32}}
Jørn Larsen, 77, Danish painter and sculptor.
Robert Lees, 91, American screenwriter, decapitation.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Robert Lees |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb155574832 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=8 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Jennifer Nitsch, 37, German television actress, suicide by jumping.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Frauendatenbank fembio.org |url=https://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/frauendatenbank?fem_id=29730 |website=fembio.org |publisher= |access-date=8 May 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Ralph Wiley, 52, American sports journalist, heart attack.{{Cite news|url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jun-16-me-wiley16-story.html|title = Ralph Wiley, 52; Sportswriter and Author of Books on Race|last = Thurber|first = John|date = 16 June 2004|work = LA Times|access-date = 8 May 2015}}

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Ubaldo Calabresi, 79, Italian Roman Catholic bishop, Parkinson's disease.
Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, Swiss mountain guide.
Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jack McClelland - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6v45fzs |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=8 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Max Rosenberg, 89, American producer of horror movies.{{cite news |last1=Associated Press |title=Max Rosenberg, 89, Producer of Horror Films |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/18/us/max-rosenberg-89-producer-of-horror-films.html |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=18 June 2004}}
Noriaki Yuasa, 70, Japanese director, stroke.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Noriaki Yuasa - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6wz1f3n |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=8 May 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Lothar Fischer, 70, German sculptor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Lothar Fischer |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb149738866 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=8 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
J. Gwyn Griffiths, 92, Welsh poet and egyptologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=J. Gwyn Griffiths - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6m19ckb |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=8 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Bagong Kussudiardja, 75, Indonesian painter, choreographer, and artist, diabetes.
Ahmet Piriştina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir, heart attack.
Hatch Rosdahl, 62, American gridiron football player (Penn State, Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs), suicide by jumping.{{cite news|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/R/RosdHa20.htm|title=Hatch Rosdahl|work=Pro-Football-Reference.com|access-date=2019-02-07}}

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Herman Goldstine, 90, American computer scientist (ENIAC), Parkinson's disease.
George Hausmann, 88, American baseball player (New York Giants).{{cite news|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hausmge01.shtml|title=George Hausmann|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=2019-02-03}}
Thanom Kittikachorn, 92, Thai military dictator and politician, prime minister, complications from stroke.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Thanom Kittikachorn |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thanom-Kittikachorn |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=9 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Paul Neagu, 66, British artist.

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Todor Dinov, 84, Bulgarian animator, painter, and graphic artist.
Ma Jiajue, 23, Chinese biochemistry student, execution by shooting.
Vilayat Inayat Khan, 87, British sufist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Vilayat Inayat Khan - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6nq4m4q |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jacek Kuroń |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119101904 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Sara Lidman, 80, Swedish writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Sara Lidman |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12029141w |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Gerry McNeil, 78, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup-winning National Hockey League goaltender.
Jackie Paris, 79, American jazz singer and guitarist.{{cite news |author1=Peter Keepnews |title=Jackie Paris, 79, a Jazz Artist Who Sang With Legendary Bands |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/19/us/jackie-paris-79-a-jazz-artist-who-sang-with-legendary-bands.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=19 June 2004 |page=A 15}}
Seymour Robbie, 84, American television director.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Seymour Robbie - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6vj083r |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}

=18=

Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin, 33, Saudi Arabian leader of militant organization al-Qaeda.
Doris Dowling, 81, American actress.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Doris Dowling, 81, Is Dead; Known for Classic Films of 40's |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/28/us/doris-dowling-81-is-dead-known-for-classic-films-of-40-s.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=28 June 2004 |page=B 8}}
George Buck Flower, 66, American actor, writer, producer, and casting director, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=George Buck Flower |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb140980951 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
André Gillois, 102, French writer and Charles de Gaulle's spokesman in London during World War II.
Frederick Jaeger, 76, German-British character actor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Frederick Jaeger - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6b022pg |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Paul Marshall Johnson Jr., c. 49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda.
Shaikh Hafiz Sabri Koçi, 83, Albanian Grand Mufti.
Elbert Luther Little, 96, American botanist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Elbert Luther Little - Library of Congress |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80057318 |website=id.loc.gov |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Ralph S. Locher, 88, American politician.
John Mathwin, 84, Australian politician.
Peter Märthesheimer, 66, German screenwriter, producer and author.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Peter Märthesheimer - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/1441fefe9e22470b967b71ac4a8955fe |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Nek Muhammad Wazir, c. 27, Pakistani tribal leader and Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces.{{Cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3817681.stm |title=Pakistan army kills tribal leader |date=18 June 2004 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2017 |language=en-GB}}
Moe Radovich, 75, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors) and college basketball coach.{{cite news|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/radovmo01.html|title=Moe Radovich|work=Basketball-Reference.com|access-date=2019-02-06}}
Elwood Zimmerman, 91, American entomologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Elwood Zimmerman - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6nj09db |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Nikolai Girenko, 63, Russian ethnologist and human rights activist, ballistic trauma.
Charly Grosskost, 60, French racing cyclist, traffic collision.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Charly Grosskost |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/UYRjG_kZ3uuI |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Colin McCormack, 62, Welsh actor, cancer.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jul/09/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries | title=Colin McCormack | work=The Guardian | date=9 July 2004 | accessdate=23 August 2021 | author=Rea, Kenneth}}
Else Quecke, 96, German actress.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Else Quecke - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/1f187011bb6241c9a5393d49885ff347 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=de |date=}}
Jadwiga Rutkowska, 70, Polish Olympic volleyball player (bronze medal winner in women's volleyball at the 1964 Summer Olympics).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Jadwiga Rutkowska |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/52870 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Alfredo Torero, 73, Peruvian anthropologist and linguist.
Nob Yoshigahara, 68, Japanese mathematician and puzzle expert.

=20=

Munir al-Ajlani, 91, Syrian politician, writer, lawyer, and scholar.
Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (1998-2004), lung cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jim Bacon - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w68s5zz8 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Robert Rogers Blake, 86, American management theoretician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Robert Rogers Blake - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w60k3cgn |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Hanns Cibulka, 83, German poet and diarist.
Fred Cogswell, 86, Canadian poet.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Fred Cogswell - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w66400qg |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Luis Contreras, 53, Hispanic-American actor.
Nabil Sahraoui, 37, Algerian militant, head of GSPC, killed by the Algerian army.

=21=

Ruth Leach Amonette, 87, American businesswoman, author, and educator.
Ron Ashman, 78, English football player and manager.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ron Ashman |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/ron-ashman/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure.{{Cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3828231.stm |title=Brazilian politician Brizola dies |date=22 June 2004 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2017 |language=en-GB}}
Ted Scott, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate, traffic collision.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ted Scott - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6615f1r |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}

=22=

Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Steve Lohr |title=Robert W. Bemer, 84, Pioneer In Computer Programming |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/us/robert-w-bemer-84-pioneer-in-computer-programming.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=25 June 2004 |page=A 21}}
Francisco Ortiz Franco, 50, Mexican journalist, murdered.
Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Thomas Gold - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w67x3zx4 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Carlton Skinner, 91, American naval officer and politician, first civilian governor of Guam.{{cite news|url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Aug/31/ln/ln54a.html|last=Krauss|first=Bob|title=Carlton Skinner, ex-Guam leader, dead at 91|work=The Honolulu Advertiser|date=2004-08-31|access-date=2019-02-16}}
Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mattie Stepanek - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6kb15tr |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants.

=23=

Peter Birrel, 68, English actor (Doctor Who), cancer.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba31db070|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925164946/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba31db070|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 September 2019|title=Peter Birrel|website=BFI|access-date=10 May 2024 }}
Rifaat El-Fanagily, 68, Egyptian footballer.
Ya'akov Meshorer, 68, Israeli numismatist and classical archaeologist, cancer.
Leonard Stein, 87, American musicologist, pianist, conductor and university teacher.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Leonard Stein |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12111434g |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}

=24=

Carlos Lacoste, 75, Argentine navy vice-admiral and politician.
Bill Pataky, 74, Canadian Olympic basketball player (men's basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Bill Pataky |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/6824 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Jimmy Rowser, 78, American jazz double-bassist.
Trudeliese Schmidt, 61, German operatic mezzo-soprano.
Peter Wragg, 73, British footballer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Peter Wragg |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/peter-wragg/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}

=25=

Morton W. Coutts, 100, New Zealand scientist and inventor.
Imanol Larzabal Goñi, 56, Basque Spanish singer and composer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Imanol Larzabal Goñi |url=https://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14189015r |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Margot Guilleaume, 94, German operatic soprano.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Margot Guilleaume - Library of Congress |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no92011690 |website=id.loc.gov |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Karol Kennedy, 72, American ice skating champion, pneumonia.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Karol Kennedy Kucher, U.S. Skating Champion, Dies at 72 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/01/sports/karol-kennedy-kucher-us-skating-champion-dies-at-72.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=1 July 2004 |page=C 14}}
Fred Ramdat Misier, 77, Suriname politician, president (1982-1988.)
Carl Rakosi, 100, Hungarian-American poet, the last surviving member of the Objectivist poets.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/arts/carl-rakosi-100-a-poet-who-influenced-others.html|author=The Associated Press|author-link=The Associated Press|title=Carl Rakosi, 100, a Poet Who Influenced Others|work=The New York Times|date=2004-07-12|access-date=2019-02-06}}

=26=

Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/muriel-angelus-39167.html|title=Muriel Angelus|date=6 September 2004|website=Independent.co.uk|accessdate=23 August 2021}}
Ott Arder, 54, Estonian poet, children's writer and translator.
George Charles, 88, Saint Lucia trade unionist and politician.
Chaim Goldberg, 87, Polish-Israeli-American artist, painter, and sculptor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Chaim Goldberg - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6kp89z9 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Yash Johar |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yash-Johar |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Naomi Shemer, 74, Poet and Composer, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/29/arts/naomi-shemer-74-poet-and-composer-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=14 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=29 June 2004 |page=B 8}}
Nguyen Van Hinh, 88, Vietnamese Chief of staff and general.

=27=

Peter Blythe, 69, English actor, lung cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Peter Blythe |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16672255s |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Hugh B. Cave, 93, British writer.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Hugh B. Cave, Prolific Author, Dies at 93 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/09/arts/hugh-b-cave-prolific-author-dies-at-93.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=9 July 2004 |page=A 17}}
Jean Graczyk, 71, French road bicycle racer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Jean Graczyk |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/ON-cigPoN59N |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Petar Gračanin, 81, Yugoslav and Serbian politician and general in the Yugoslav People's Army.
Boris Holban, 96, Russian-born Franco-Romanian communist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Boris Holban |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/P8vnCrlZn1df |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
George Patton IV, 80, American army general and son of George Patton, Parkinson's disease.
Fausto Romitelli, 41, Italian composer, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Fausto Romitelli |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14486361j |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}

=28=

Jean Boyer, 55, French organist and music professor, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jean Boyer |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13891778x |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books.{{cite news |title=Anthony Buckeridge |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/29/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=29 June 2004}}
Georges de Caunes, 85, French journalist, writer and television and radio presenter, aneurysm.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Georges de Caunes |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb121990041 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Marcel Jullian, 82, French author and screenwriter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Marcel Jullian |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/gZJVvCISnaQy |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Hisashi Nozawa, 44, Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist, suicide by hanging.
Alexander Spirkin, 85, Soviet and Russian philosopher and psychologist.
Thomas Zereske, 38, German Olympic canoeist, leukemia.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Thomas Zereske |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/10004 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}

=29=

Bjørn Breigutu, 80, Norwegian filmmaker.
Alvin Hamilton, 92, Canadian politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alvin Hamilton - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6gr12wm |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}
William W. Havens Jr., 84, American physicist, complications from leukemia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/01/classified/paid-notice-deaths-havens-dr-william-westerfield-jr.html| title=Paid Notice – Deaths Havens, Dr. William Westerfield, Jr. |newspaper=New York Times |date=July 1, 2004 | access-date=23 August 2021}}
Arik Lavie, 77, Israeli singer and actor, heart disease.
Mohammad Ranjbar, 69, Iranian football player and coach, cerebral disorder.
Grethe Thordahl, 77, Danish stage and film actress.
Stipe Šuvar, 68, Croatian and Yugoslav politician and sociologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Stipe Šuvar |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12768939b |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}

=30=

Chris Alcaide, 80, American actor, cancer.
Eddie Burns, 88, Australian rugby player and coach.
Jacques Rossi, 94, Polish-French writer and polyglot.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jacques Rossi |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13092385z |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Stive Vermaut, 28, Belgian cyclist, brain haemorrhage after heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Stive Vermaut |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/stive-vermaut |website=procyclingstats.com |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2024 |language= |date=}}

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2004-06-01,2004-06-30&adult=include List of June 2004 deaths] at IMDb

*2004-06