The following is a list of figures who have died in 2004.
August 2004
- 27 Fernand Auberjonois, 93, Foreign News Correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade; father of actor René Auberjonois
- 27 Suzanne Kaaren, 92, actress (several Three Stooges films)
- 26 José Carlos, 53, Portuguese fashion designer
- 26 Laura Branigan, 47, singer
- 26 Enzo G. Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq
- 25 Marcelo Cardinal Gonzalez Martin, 86, former Roman Catholic primate of Spain, Cardinal since 1973 and Archbishop of Toledo from 1971 to 1995 (Papal condolence message)
- 24 Richard Ervin, 99, former attorney general and chief justice of Florida [1]
- 24 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist
- 24 Timothy B. Harbert, 53, chairman and chief executive of State Street Global Advisors, heart attack [2]
- 24 Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka
- 23 Francesco Minerva, 100, centenarian Italian Roman Catholic archbishop
- 23 Hank Borowy, 88, Former New York Yankee pitcher in the 1940s
- 23 Mary Guiney, 103, chairperson of the Clerys Department Store
- 22 Al Dvorin, 81, announcer who popularized the phrase "Elvis has left the building", automobile accident [3]
- 22 Marcel Caux, 105, Australian First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières.
- 22 George Kirgo, 78, television and film writer, former president of the Writers Guild of America
- 22 Daniel Petrie, Sr., 83, film director, A Raisin in the Sun
- 22 Ota Sik, 84, architect of economic liberalization during Czechoslovakia's ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring
- 21 Paul G. Garrity, 66, Judge who helped save Boston Harbor
- 20 Maria Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born actress who defined the 1940s tropical-dancer movie genre of rumbera films
- 19 Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur
- 19 Günter Rexrodt, 62, German politician, former Economics Minister of Germany
- 18 Hiram Fong, 97, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate
- 18 Elmer Bernstein, 82, composer of classic film music such as The Magnificent Seven
- 18 Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán
- 18 Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen
- 17 Anatoly Guzhvin, 58, head of the administration of Astrakhan Oblast in Russia since Russian independence in 1991
- 17 Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone
- 17 Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist
- 17 Frank Cotroni, 72, Montreal mob boss
- 16 J. Irwin Miller, 95, American industrialist and architectural philanthropist
- 16 Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech Republic national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach
- 16 Acquanetta, 83, "Venezuelan" (born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA), B movie actress in several cult classics
- 16 Carl Mydans, 91, photographer
- 16 Robert Quiroga, 35, world champion boxer, murdered
- 15 Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer
- 15 Sune K. Bergström, 88, Nobel Prize in Medicine
- 15 Neal Fredericks, 35, cinematographer for the movie The Blair Witch Project, drowned in helicopter crash while filming
- 14 William D. Ford, 77, member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from 1965 to 1995
- 14 Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 42, rapist and murderer; the first person executed in India since 1995.
- 14 Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980
- 13 Julia Child, 91, author and television hostess on French cuisine [4]
- 13 Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street
- 13 Peipei, 33, worlds oldest Panda
- 12 Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield, Nobel Prize in Medicine, coinventor of the CAT scan
- 12 George Yardley, 75, NBA Hall of Famer.
- 11 Joe Falls, 76, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News
- 10 James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, oldest known U.S. Olympic medal winner
- 10 Alan N. Cohen, 73, former owner of the Boston Celtics
- 9 Tony Mottola, 86, guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on the Tonight Show orchestra [5]
- 9 David Raksin, 92, film composer
- 8 Fay Wray, 96, King Kong actress
- 8 Dimitris Papamichail, 70, Greek actor
- 8 Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, 89, health and fitness pioneer
- 8 Leon Golub, 82, internationally recognized artist and painter.
- 8 Paul "Mousie" Garner, 95, comedian, Three Stooges associate
- 7 Paul "Red" Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter
- 7 Colin Bibby, 55, English ornithologist
- 7 Bernard Levin, 75, journalist and broadcaster
- 6 Rick James, 56, funk singer
- 4 Joseph Papaleo, Italian-American novelist and professor.
- 4 Michele Russo, 95, American painter and artist
- 4 Hunter Hancock, 88, Legendary R&B and Rock Disc Jockey
- 3 Bob Murphy, 79, Major League Baseball/New York Mets announcer
- 3 Arturo Tolentino, 94, Philippine lawyer and politician
- 3 Margo McLennan, 66, British actress, Prisoner Cell Block H, cancer [6]
- 3 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer [7]
- 1 Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium
- 1 Alexandra Scott, 8, founder of Alex's Lemonade Stand, started to raise money for pediatric cancer research.
- 1 Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, philosopher
- 31 Elder David B. Haight, 97, oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- 31 Virginia Grey, 87, American actress. Little Eva in the first film adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 30 Ali Abbasi, 42, BBC Scotland travel presenter [9]
- 29 Nafisa Joseph, 25, model, MTV VJ, Miss India 1997; suicide
- 29 Susan Buffett, 71, estranged wife of billionaire/investment guru Warren Buffett
- 29 Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedienne
- 28 Tiziano Terzani, 73, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia
- 28 Sam Edwards, 89, American actor, Little House on the Prairie, heart failure [10]
- 28 Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer [11]
- 28 Jackson Beck, 92, announcer and voice actor
- 28 Eugene Roche, 75, American character actor and the "Ajax" Man [12]
- 28 Steve Patterson, 56, former center of the UCLA basketball team, coach at Arizona State University and founder of the Grand Canyon State Games
- 27 Carmine G. DeSapio, 95, last boss of Tammany Hall
- 27 Musab al-Awadi, Iraqi politician, assassinated [13]
- 27 Bob Tisdall, 97, won the gold medal in hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
- 26 William A. Mitchell, 92, food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix.
- 26 Rubén Gómez, 77, Puerto Rico, former MLB pitcher who played for the Giants, Phillies, Indians and Twins
- 26 Oguz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist; creator of Avanak Avni, Kostebek Husnu, and Utanmaz Adam
- 26 Sidney Francis Greene, Lord Greene of Harrow Weald, 94, British railroad worker, trade union leader, and life peer
- 25 Francisco Romão, 61, Angolan deputy foreign minister, suicide [14]
- 24 Fred LaRue, 75, part of Watergate scandal
- 24 Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons, 72, NBA basketball coach
- 23 Wilton Mkwayi, 81, South African political activist during Apartheid, cancer.
- 23 Joe Cahill, 84, Irish politician [15]
- 23 Mehmood, 72, Indian actor
- 23 Janet Chisholm, 75, former British MI6 agent [16]
- 23 Bodo H. Hauser, 58, German journalist, director of Phoenix TV network
- 23 Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player
- 23 Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor
- 22 Illinois Jacquet, 81, U.S. jazz saxophonist
- 22 Sacha Distel, 71, French singer
- 21 Edward B. Lewis, 85, US-biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995)
- 21 Elder Neal A. Maxwell, 78, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- 21 Jerry Goldsmith, 75, movie and television composer
- 20 Adi Lady Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady; widow of Prime Minister and President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
- 20 Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish Flamenco dancer, cancer
- 19 Zenko Suzuki, 93, former Prime Minister of Japan
- 18 Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner
- 18 Emil Peynaud, 92, French wine expert
- 18 John Kraus, 94, inventor of the "Big Ear" telescope
- 17 Sir Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur, founder of the Carlyle Trust bank [17]
- 17 Pat Roach, 67, wrestler and actor; cancer ([18])
- 17 Susan Cullen-Ward, 63, wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu; cancer. [19]
- 16 George Busbee, 76, former governor of the State of Georgia
- 16 Bella Lewitzky, 88, modern dance pioneer and choreographer
- 15 Charles Sweeney, 84, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb. [20]
- 15 Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano. [21]
- 15 Mary Eleanor Thurmond Tompkins, 95, last surviving sibling of Senator Strom Thurmond
- 14 Usama Kashmula, ~60, Iraqi governor of Mosul, killed in a grenade attack. [22]
- 14 Hans A. Pestalozzi, 75, Swiss social critic
- 14 Rhys Thomas, 100, oldest-surviving member of the Llanelli Scarlets
- 13 Joe Gold, 82, bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder.
- 13 Arthur Kane, 53, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia [23]
- 13 Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor
- 12 Ersel Hickey, 70, rockabilly singer
- 12 George Mallaby, 64, Australian actor
- 12 Irvin "Shorty" Yeaworth, 78, American film director "The Blob"
- 11 Walter Wager, 79, American author
- 11 Betty Oliphant, 85, founder of Canada's National Ballet School
- 11 Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress
- 11 Laurance Rockefeller, 94, conservationist and philanthropist
- 11 Renée St-Cyr, 99, French actress and comedienne
- 11 Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress
- 10 Sir Terry McLean, New Zealand rugby union journalist [24]
- 10 Rudy LaRusso, 66, five-time NBA All-Star
- 10 Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, former Prime Minister of Portugal [25]
- 10 Inge Meysel, 94, German actress [26]
- 9 Jeillo Edwards, ~62, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill" [27]
- 9 Isabel Sanford, 86, actress, The Jeffersons, natural causes
- 9 Paul Klebnikov, 41, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered
- 9 Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright
- 9 Jeff Smith, 65, chef and host of The Frugal Gourmet
- 9 Gilberto Reyes Santos, 36, infamous Puerto Rican mafioso, murdered
- 8 Paula Danziger, 59, U.S. author
- 8 Mike Woodin, 38, Principal Speaker of Green Party of England and Wales and Oxford City Councillor
- 8 Henrique Mendes, 73, Portuguese TV personality. He presented Ponto de Encontro
- 8 Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor
- 7 Yang Xiaokai, 55, Australian economist
- 6 Eric Douglas, 46, youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas
- 6 Thomas Klestil, 71, Federal President of Austria, heart failure.
- 6 Syreeta Wright, 58, singer, songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder
- 5 Robert Burchfield, 81, OED lexicographer
- 5 Hugh Shearer, 81, former Prime Minister of Jamaica
- 5 Rodger Ward, 83, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion
- 4 Andrian Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut
- 4 Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor
- 3 John Barron, 83, actor
- 3 Jimmy Mack, 70, Scots radio personality [28]
- 2 Sir John William Kay, Lord Justice of Court of Appeal of England and Wales
- 2 John Cullen Murphy, 85, comic strip artist (Prince Valiant)
- 2 Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet
- 2 Gareth Payne, 68, former Welsh rugby union international
- 2 Henry Hank, 69, top ranked Light-Heavyweight boxer of the 1960s
- 1 Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, author of The Ruling Class, stroke [29]
- 1 Marlon Brando, 80, American actor
- 1 Sir Richard May, 65, former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- 29 Juan Antonio Lopez, 52, boxer, fought Wilfredo Gomez for the world title
- 28 Keith Maupin, 20, U.S. Army Private First Class, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq
- 28 Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books
- 27 George Patton III, 80, US Army general and son of George Patton
- 27 Darrell Russell, 35, NHRA drag racer, first racer to be killed at an NHRA national event since 1996
- 27 Kamos Kris, Thai boxing matchmaker who worked closely with the WBA, car accident.
- 26 Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter
- 26 Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer
- 25 Karol Kennedy Kucher, 72, former United States ice skating champion, pneumonia
- 24 Stanley Gortikov, 85, former head of the RIAA, [30]
- 24 Julian Davies, British civilian worker, murdered in Iraq
- 24 Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, 40, Greek songwriter, author
- 24 Carl Rakosi, 100, American poet
- 22 Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist
- 22 Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer
- 22 Francisco Ortiz Franco, ~50, Mexican journalist, murdered
- 22 Abukar Kostoyev, ~55, Ingushetia's acting Interior Minister, slain in an attack by Chechen rebels. [31]
- 22 Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy
- 22 Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants
- 21 Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure, [32]
- 20 Nabil Sahraoui, Algerian militant, head of GSPC and linked to al-Qaeda
- 20 Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania
- 19 Nob Yoshigahara, mathematician and puzzle expert
- 19 Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda militant, killed by Saudi forces [33]
- 18 Paul Johnson, ~49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda
- 18 Nek Mohammed, ~27, Pakistani tribal leader in Waziristan and key Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces. [34]
- 17 Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, philosopher
- 17 Gerry McNeil, 78, Stanley Cup-winning NHL goalie
- 17 Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman
- 16 Dr. Herman Goldstine, 90, computing pioneer who helped develop ENIAC, Parkinson's disease
- 16 George Hausmann, 88, MLB player suspended for jumping to the Mexican League (1946) [35]
- 16 Thanom Kittikachorn, 91, former Thai prime minister
- 15 Ahmet Piristina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of Izmir, heart attack
- 15 Frank Nastasi, 81, actor and comedian (Lunch with Soupy)
- 14 Robert Teeter, 65, Republican pollster
- 14 Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher
- 14 Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, mountain guide
- 14 Max Rosenberg, 89, producer of horror movies
- 13 Dick Durrance, 89, 17-time American national champion in skiing
- 13 Ralph Wiley, 52, sports journalist
- 13 Danny Dark, 65, announcer
- 12 Bassam Salih Kubba, 60, Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister
- 11 Egon von Furstenberg, 57, fashion designer; nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli
- 11 Micah Harris, 21, Duke University defensive lineman, car accident
- 11 Xenophon Zolotas, 100, former Prime Minister of Greece
- 10 Ray Charles, 73, rhythm and blues singer and pioneer soul singer and pianist
- 10 Brian Williamson, 59, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered
- 10 Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications
- 9 Rosey Brown, 71, Pro Football Hall of Famer
- 9 Barbara Whiting Smith, 73, actress
- 8 Mack Jones, 65, former MLB outfielder with the Braves, Reds and Expos
- 8 Karl Toosbuy, 76, Danish founder of international shoe company Ecco
- 8 Ronalda Pierce, 19, Florida State University basketball player, aneurysm
- 8 McCollins Umeh, 18, University of Arizona football recruit, heat stroke
- 7 Donald Trumbull, 95, special effects pioneer
- 6 Robert Lees, 91, screenwriter, found decapitated
- 6 Kate Worley, 46, comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer)
- 6 Necdet Mahfi Ayral, 96, Turkish actor
- 6 Iona Brown, 63, violinist and conductor
- 6 Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman/journalist, working for the BBC in Saudi Arabia, killed by Al Qaeda
- 5 Ronald Reagan, 93, 40th President of the United States (1981-1989), actor in such films as The Hasty Heart, Kings Row, and (especially) Bedtime for Bonzo
- 4 Wilmer Fields, 81, former Negro League Baseball All-Star
- 4 (Body Found) Joshua Bryant, 10, Missing from Florida since May 12, 2001 [36]
- 4 Steve Lacy, 69, innovative jazz soprano saxophonist
- 4 Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and celebrity interviewer (canada.com) (Toronto Star) {The Globe and Mail)
- 4 Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor [37]
- 3 Frances Shand Kydd, 68, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales
- 2 Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer
- 2 Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, ~69, former defense minister and acting president of Ethiopia
- 2 Nicolai Ghiaurov, 71, opera singer
- 1 William Manchester, 82, U.S. historian
- 31 Robert Quine, 61, New York punk rock guitarist
- 31 Alberta Martin, 97, last known widow of a Confederate soldier
- 29 Archibald Cox, 92, Watergate special prosecutor
- 29 Sam Dash, 79, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal
- 29 Jack Rosenthal, 72, British television dramatist [38]
- 29 Magne Havnå, 40, Norwegian former professional boxer, in boating accident
- 29 Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, 114, oldest documented person in the world
- 28 Irene Manning, 91, actress and singer (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
- 28 Josie Carey, 73, host of the Pittsburgh children's show "Children's Corner"
- 28 Michael Alison,77,British Privy Council member and former minister and MP
- 27 Umberto Agnelli, 69, Italian industrialist, head of Fiat [39]
- 27 Jim Marshall, 63, British Labour MP[40]
- 27 Jack Losch, 69, member of 1st Little League World Series championship team.
- 26 Gatjil Djerrkura, 54, Australian indigenous leader, Chairman of ATSIC 1996-2000
- 25 Roger W. Straus, Jr., 87, publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 25 David Dellinger, 88, American antiwar activist, member of Chicago Eight
- 25 Glenn Cunningham, 60, mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey
- 24 Henry Ries, 87, American photographer
- 23 Trudy Marshall, 84, actress
- 22 Richard Biggs, 44, American actor, Babylon 5
- 22 Mikhail Voronin, 59, Russian gymnast, double Olympic champion
- 22 Dessi España, 32, circus performer, died from fall while performing without a net
- 22 Samuel Curtis Johnson, 76, fourth generation president of SC Johnson company
- 21 Rod Hall, 53, literary agent, murdered [41]
- 21 Michael Swindells, 44, police detective, murdered in the course of his duties [42]
- 21 Gene Wood, 78, announcer of Family Feud and other US game shows
- 20 Len Murray, Lord Murray of Epping Forest, 81, British trade union leader
- 19 Jack Eckerd, 91, former owner of the Eckerd drugstore chain
- 19 Mary Dresselhuys, 97, Dutch actress
- 19 Arnold Moore, 90, blues artist
- 19 E.K. Nayanar, 87, three-time Chief Minister of Kerala, India [43]
- 18 Jørgen Nash, 84, Danish poet, perfomance artist, brother of Asger Jorn
- 18 Hyacinthe Thiandoum, 83, Roman Catholic Cardinal, former Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal
- 18 Arnold O. Beckman, 104, inventor, industrialist, philanthropist
- 18 Joey Curtis, 79, former professional boxer, boxing referee and business owner
- 17 Buster Narum, 63, former MLB pitcher for the Orioles and Senators
- 17 Elvin Jones, 76, Jazz drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s
- 17 Tony Randall, 84, television actor (The Odd Couple)
- 17 June Taylor, 86, television dancer and choreographer
- 17 Ezzedine Salim, 60?, president of the Iraqi Governing Council
- 17 Dave Hamilton, 33, professional boxer, and his 4 year old son, in car accident
- 16 Marika Rökk, 90, actress
- 16 Lord Hill-Norton, 89, British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet
- 15 Carlos Orta, 60, Venezuelan artist, and principal dancer and choreographer of the Jose Limon Dance Company - [44] - [45]
- 15 Jack Bradbury, 89, animator and comic book artist
- 15 William H. Hinton, 85, Marxist, author of Fanshen
- 15 Gill Fox, 84, political cartoonist, comic book artist, and animator
- 15 Colonel Robert Morgan, 85, former pilot of the Memphis Belle
- 14 Anna Lee, 91, actress
- 14 Jesus Gil, 71, controversial owner of Atlético de Madrid football club
- 14 Charlotte Benkner, 114, oldest recognized person in United States
- 13 Terry Crummitt, 27, actor, "SnackBoy" of The Sync fame [46]
- 12 John LaPorta, 84, jazz clarinetist, composer and educator - [47]
- 12 Syd Hoff, 91, children's book author, cartoonist
- 12 John Whitehead, 55, R&B artist, shot dead
- 11 Per Øyvind Heradstveit, 71, Norwegian television pioneer, foreign correspondent (London) and author
- 11 Mick Doyle, 63, Irish rugby player and coach
- 10 Eric Kierans, 90, Canadian politician
- 10 (death announced) George, ~83, Blue Peter pet tortoise
- 9 Percy M. Young, 91, British musicologist
- 9 Olive Osmond, 79, mother of entertainers Marie Osmond and the various Osmond Brothers
- 9 Alan King, 76, American comedian/actor
- 9 Brenda Fassie, 39, South African singer [48]
- 9 Akhmad Kadyrov, 52, President of Chechnya
- 8 (body found) Nick Berg, 26, American civilian killed in Iraq
- 7 Waldemar Milewicz, 48, Polish journalist, and Mounyra Beouamrane, killed in Iraq
- 6 Celal Bilgin, 41, Turkish businessman
- 6 Kjell Hallbing, 69, aka Louis Masterson, Norwegian Western author [49]
- 6 Barney Kessel, 80, American jazz guitarist and studio musician
- 5 David Reimer, 39, notable gender-reassignment case
- 4 Clement Dodd, 72, Jamaican reggae pioneer
- 3 Anthony Ainley, 71, British actor
- 3 Darrell Johnson, 75, former MLB catcher and manager [50]
- 3 Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, 84, British politician
- 2 Moe Burtschy, 82, former MLB pitcher for the Philadelphia & Kansas City Athletics
- 2 Paul Guimard, 83, French writer
- 1 Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double)
- 1 Lojze Kovacic, Slovenian writer
- 30 Lou Chapman, 90, long time Milwaukee Sentinel baseball writer [51]
- 29 Johannes Berg, 47, cornerstone of Norwegian science fiction fandom
- 29 Nick Joaquin, 86, writer and Philippine national artist
- 27 David Jenkinson, 69, railway modeller and historian.
- 27 Roy Walford, 79, dietician and author
- 26 Hubert Selby Jr., 75, author of 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'
- 25 Thom Gunn, 74, British poet
- 25 Feridun Karakaya, 76, Turkish actor
- 25 Bill Grace, 69, Phoenix businessman
- 25 Carl Melles, Hungarian conductor
- 24 Estée Lauder, 95, cosmetics products pioneer
- 24 Jose Giovanni, 80, French director and crime-writer
- 22 Pat Tillman, 27, former NFL player (Arizona Cardinals), Army Ranger, killed in action
- 21 Concha Zardoya, 89, (Chile/Spain) poet and writer, and one of the main links between Spanish and English literatures
- 21 Mary McGrory, 85, American journalist and columnist
- 19 (body found, death probably on March 30) Alejandro Ferretis, 59, Mexican avant-garde actor, murdered [52]
- 19 Frank B. Morrison, 98, former Governor of Nebraska
- 19 Tim Burstall, 76, Australian film director and producer
- 19 John Maynard Smith, 84, British biologist
- 19 Norris McWhirter, 78, founder of the Guinness Book of Records
- 19 Jim Cantalupo, 60, CEO of McDonald's
- 18 Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, 83, long-time Prime Minister and President of Fiji
- 17 (body found, death probably in November 2003) Dru Sjodin, 22, U.S. kidnap victim
- 17 Edmond Pidoux, 95, Swiss author
- 17 Barbara Kenyatta Bey, 59, Yoruba priestess and widow of jazz percussionist Chief Bey
- 17 Geraint Howells, 79, Welsh politician
- 17 Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, 56, Hamas leader
- 17 Soundarya, 32, Indian film actress
- 15 Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre author, director, composer and producer
- 15 Mitsuteru Yokoyama, 69, Japanese manga artist
- 13 Caron Keating, 41, British television presenter
- 12 Juan Valderrama, 87, Spanish folk and flamenco singer
- 12 Frankie Narvaez, 65, Puerto Rican boxer
- 10 Orazio Fumagalli, 83, Italian sculptor - AP Obituary [53]
- 10 Lou Berberet, 74, former Major League Baseball catcher
- 10 Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity
- 10 Sakip Sabanci, 71, Turkish businessman
- 9 Lélia Abramo, 93, Celebrity Brazilian actress, and one of the founders of President Lula da Silva's Workers Party - Obituary in Portuguese [54]
- 9 Nick and Mary Yankovic, 86 and 81, parents of Weird Al Yankovic
- 9 Harry Babbitt, 90, singer
- 8 Chief Bey, 90, American jazz percussionist and African folklorist
- 8 Maureen Potter, 79, Irish comedienne and actor
- 8 Bruce Edwards, 49, caddy of golfer Tom Watson
- 7 Robert Sangster, 67, leading British racehorse owner
- 7 Kelucharan Mohapatra, 77, traditional Indian Odissi dancer
- 6 Larisa Bogoraz, 74, Russian dissident and human rights activist
- 6 Marjorie Pay Hinckley, 92, wife of Gordon B. Hinckley
- 6 Timothy, ~160, tortoise that served as a Royal Navy mascot in the Crimean War
- 5 Austin Willis, 86, Canadian movie actor and television host
- 4 George Bamberger, 80, former major league pitcher and manager
- 4 Gito Baloi, 39, Southern African musician
- 4 Serhane ben Abdelmajid Farkhet, ?, Moroccan, suspected Madrid train bomber
- 3 John Diamond, Baron Diamond, 96, British life peer
- 3 Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian Singer
- 2 Lawrence McGrew, 46, former New England Patriots linebacker
- 1 Nilo Soruco, 76, Bolivian singer-songwriter
- 1 Carrie Snodgress, 57, actress
- 1 Aaron Bank, 101, "Father of Special Forces"
- 1 Enrique Grau, 83, Colombian painter and sculptor
- 1 Annette Daniels, 42, American opera singer
- 31 Hedi Lang, 72, first woman to preside the Swiss National Council
- 31 Joseph James Zimmerman, Jr., 92, inventor of answering machine
- 31 Omi Nieves, 24, son of salsa singer Tito Nieves
- 31 Gurcharan Singh Tohra, 79, Sikh leader
- 30 Michael King, 58, New Zealand historian
- 30 Erick Friedman, 64, American concert violinist, violin professor at Yale University
- 30 Alistair Cooke, 95, BBC broadcaster and transatlantic commentator
- 30 Hubert Gregg, 89, BBC broadcaster
- 28 Sir