Deaths in February 2004

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

February 2004

1

• Art Albrecht, 82, American football player.
• Buzz Gardner, 72, American trumpeter (The Mothers of Invention)
• Ally MacLeod, 72, Scottish football player and manager.
• Bob Stokoe, 73, footballer, F.A. Cup winning manager.

2

• Alan Bullock, 89, British historian.
• Henry Cockburn, 82, English footballer.
• Walter Freud, 82, World War II Special Operations agent and chemical engineer.

3

• Cornelius Bumpus, 58, musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan).
• Sam Fullbrook, 81, Australian artist.
• Jason Raize, 28, Broadway actor, singer and voice actor (The Lion King and Brother Bear).

4

• Hilda Hilst, 73, Brazilian novelist
• Ernest Burke, 79, baseball player
• Johnny Leartice Robinson, 51, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Florida.

5

• Donald Barr, 82, American educator.
• Nicholas Evans, 97, Welsh artist.
• Thomas Hinman Moorer, 91, American admiral, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
• Frances Partridge, 103, British writer, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group.

6

• Jerome F. Lederer, 101, aviation safety pioneer.
• Sir John Meyrick, 77, British rower and agriculturalist.
• Humphry Osmond, 86, psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter.

7

• Richard Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret, 67, British soldier and aristocrat.
• Norman Thelwell, 80, English cartoonist.

8

• Julius Schwartz, 89, comic book and pulp magazine editor
• Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer

9

• Robert F. Colesberry, 57, film and television producer (complications following cardiac surgery).
• Michael Rowland, 41, horse racing jockey.
• Samuel M. Rubin, 85, popcorn promoter.
• Claude Ryan, 79, Canadian politician.

10

• Nils Aas, 70, Norwegian sculptor and illustrator
• J. C. Quinn, 63, American Actor, traffic accident

11

• Hugh Cecil, 90, actor, one of the transylvannians in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• Ryszard Kuklinski, 74, Polish-born colonel and spy.
• Algernon Marsham, 84, English cricketer.
• Tony Pope, 57, Los Angeles voice actor, complications following leg surgery.
• Jim Robertson, 93, British army general.
• Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian athlete.

12

• Martin Booth, 59, British author, brain tumor.
• Robert A. Bruce, 87, American cardiologist.
• Leonard Dudman, 70, Scottish sportsman.
• Preston Love, 83, American jazz saxophone player.

13

• Sir David Lee, 91, British Air Chief Marshal.

14

• Marco Pantani, 34, racing cyclist, winner of Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in 1998

15

• Jens Evensen, 86, Norwegian minister, World Court judge.
• Jan Miner, 86, American actress.
• Lawrence Ritter, 81, American writer.

16

• Don Cleverley, 94, New Zealand cricketer.
• Bill Oakley, 39, comic book letterer.
• Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian athlete, three-time Olympic champion.
• Doris Troy, 67, R&B singer.

17

• José López Portillo, 83, former President of Mexico
• Cameron Todd Willingham, 36, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Texas.

18

• Jean Rouch, 86, French filmmaker and ethnologist.
• Ivor Stanbrook, 84, British politician.

19

• Clark Byers, 88-89, American sign maker
• Archibald Paton Thornton, 83, Canadian historian

20

• Fred Brown, 79, British virologist.
• Kōyū Ohara, 69, Japanese film director.
• Stanislaw Ryniak, 88, first person imprisoned at Auschwitz. (Feb 20 is burial date).

21

• Guido Molinari, 70, Canadian abstract artist.
• Bart Howard, 88, composer, "Fly Me To The Moon".
• John Charles, 72, Welsh football player.

22

• Colin Eaborn, 80, British chemist.
• Roque Máspoli, 86, Uruguayan goalkeeper.
• David Neiman, 82, Russian-born American rabbi, archaeologist and theologian.
• Azriel Rosenfeld, 73, computer image analysis researcher.
• Andy Seminick, 83, Major League Baseball catcher and last survivor of the 1950. Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" that won the National League championship.

23

• Vijay Anand, 71, Bollywood filmmaker and brother of Dev Anand..
• Carl Anderson, 58, American actor (Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar).
• Neil Ardley, 66, British jazz composer.
• Sikander Bakht, 85, Governor of Kerala.
• William Coates, 92, asserted by advocates to be "oldest living American" but documentation showed otherwise
• Don Cornell, 79, popular singer of the 1940s and 1950s.
• Douglas Scott Falconer, 90, British geneticist.
• Carl Liscombe, 89, Detroit Red Wings hockey player in the 1940s.
• Bob Marshall, 93, Australian billiards player.

24

• John Randolph, 88, American actor

25

• Yuri Ozerov, 75, Russian basketball player

26

• Douglas Birks, 84, English cricketer, myeloma
• Shankarrao Chavan, 83, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• Adolf Ehrnrooth, 99, General; Finnish war veteran
• Boris Trajkovski, 47, President of the Republic of Macedonia

27

• Paul Sweezy, 93, economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review

28

• Daniel J. Boorstin, 89, historian.
• M. G. Mukherjee, Indian cricket umpire.
• Andres Nuiamäe, 21, first Estonian soldier to be killed in Iraq.
• Nicholas Vivian, 6th Baron Vivian, 68, British soldier and aristocrat.

29

• Alexander Beresch, 26, Olympic gymnast from Ukraine
• Jerome Lawrence, 88, playwright
• Danny Ortiz, 27, Guatemalan football goalkeeper