The following is a list of notable people who died in April 2005 .
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- William J. Bell , 78, soap opera creator ('' The Young And The Restless '', '' The Bold And The Beautiful '')
- Mel Gussow , 71, theatre critic
- Sara Henderson , 69, Australian author
- Mariana Levy , 39, Mexican actress, Heart Attack following a Robbery attempt
- Johnnie Stewart , 87, TV producer (creator of '' Top Of The Pops '')
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- Capt. Paul Barkley , 88, World War II veteran, Cuban Missile Crisis commander
- Chris Candito , 33, professional wrestler; blood clot from surgery complications
- Percy Heath , 81, bassist for the Modern Jazz Quartet
- Ed Schantz , 96, Botulin Toxin researcher and "grandfather of Botox"
- Zeke Zekley , 90, American cartoonist
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- Mason Adams , 86, American Actor
- Hasil Adkins , 67, Rockabilly musician
- Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell Of Croy , 83, Scottish politician
- Red Horner , 95, former NHL player with the Toronto Maple Leafs , was oldest living member of the Hockey Hall Of Fame
- Léon Navarre , 105, youngest living French WWI veteran
- Augusto Roa Bastos , 87, Paraguay an writer, winner of the Premio Cervantes
- Johnny Sample , 67, former NFL player
- Maria Schell , 79, actress
- Robert J. Schiffer , 88, Legendary Hollywood makeup artist
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- Howard Benedict , 77, AP aerospace correspondent, popularized use of word "orbit", natural causes {Link without Title}
- Tunney Hunsaker , 75, Muhammad Ali 's first professional Boxing opponent
- Surya Kumari , 79, India n stage and film actress
- John Love , 80, former Formula One driver
- Josef Nesvadba , 78, Czech psychiatrist and science fiction author
- Johann Emil Rösch , 107, German WWI veteran
- Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman , 71, former head of Ford Motor Company and later a Life Peer
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- Emanuele Curto , 29, Italian rally driver
- Jack Gleason , 85, American film editor
- Francesco Pozzi , 35, Italian Rally Driver
- Antonio Rivera , 41, better known as , Puerto Rican world champion boxer
- Fei Xiaotong , 94, pioneering Chinese Anthropologist and Sociologist
- Ezer Weizman , 80, former Israeli president
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- Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen , 94, Australia n political celebrity; longest-serving Premier Of Queensland .
- Andre Gunder Frank , 76, German economic historian, proponent of Dependency Theory
- Al Grassby , 78, Australia n former politician and minister in the Whitlam government.
- Sir John Mills , 97, Oscar -winning British Actor .
- Romano Scarpa , 78, Italian Disney comic book artist
- Earl Wilson , 70, a leading Pitcher for the 1968 World Series champion Detroit Tigers and first Black pitcher to throw a No-hitter in Major League Baseball .
- Albert "Gus" Wing , 55, American Cameraman known for Skydiving shots
- Jimmy Woode , 78, Jazz Bassist , Heart Attack
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- Norman Bird , 80, British Actor
- Dr. Joseph Bogen , 78, American Neurosurgeon , Epileptic Seizure researcher
- Robert Farnon , 87, Grammy Award winning arranger, composer
- Mary Dann , early 80s, American Indian activist
- Erika Fuchs , 98, German Disney Comics editor and translator
- Philip Morrison , 89, Physicist and group leader in the Manhattan Project
- Sir Eduardo Paolozzi , 81, Scottish Sculptor {Link without Title}
- Leonid Shamkovich , 81 ex- Soviet Grandmaster chess player
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- Zhang Chunqiao , 88, member of the Gang Of Four
- Gwynfor Evans , 92, Welsh politician.
- Bob Gardiner , 54, Academy Award winning Clay Animator
- Feroze Khan , 100, Pakistan i field hockey player, Olympic Champion 1928 (oldest Olympic gold medallist at the time of his death)
- Heinz Kluncker , 80, German trade union leader
- Cyril Tawney , 74, British songwriter and folksinger.
- Jimmy Thompson , 79, British actor and comic
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- Ruth Hussey , 93, American actress in films such as The Philadelphia Story
- Stan Levey , 79, Jazz Drummer
- Clement Meadmore , 76, Australia n born steel sculptor
- Bryan Ottoson , 27, American Head Charge guitarist
- Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , 58, world-renowned Danish Jazz Bassist .
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- Rick Blight , 49, former NHL player with the Vancouver Canucks in the 1970s
- Bassel Fleihan , 42, Lebanese deputy and former minister, third-degree burns resulting from the blast that assassinated Rafiq Hariri
- Clarence Gaines , 81, Basketball Hall Of Fame coach, stroke
- Sam Mills , 45, former NFL player and assistant coach, cancer
- Norman Newell , 96, noted paleontologist
- Kenneth Schermerhorn , 75, music director and conductor of the Nashville Symphony , Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
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- Laura Canales , 50, Tejano singer
- Guadalupe García Escamilla , 39, Mexican journalist, hitman shooting
- Jaime Fernandez , 67, Mexican actor
- Herm Gilliam , 58, former NBA player for Portland Trailblazers
- Herbert Kuurme , Estonia n clergyman
- Marla Ruzicka , 28, American activist and aid worker, car bombing
- Vishnu Kant Shastri , 76, Indian politician
- Kay Walsh , 93, British actress
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- Art Cross , 87, former Indianapolis 500 driver
- John Fred Gourrier , 63, 1960s pop singer "Judy in Disguise (with Glasses)"
- Margaretta Scott , 93, English actress, Mrs. Pumphrey in All Creatures Great And Small
- Duilio Spagnolo , 77?, Italian boxer, former heavyweight contender
- Aloua Fatu'utolu Tupou , (age unreported), defense minister of Tonga (heart failure).
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- Don Blasingame , 73, a MLB All-Star , who also Managed two of Japan 's professional Baseball teams
- Tutti Camarata , 91, musician, leader of "Tutti's Trumpets" and co-founder of Disneyland Records
- Julia Darling , 48, novelist and poet
- Libby Dengrove , 86, former courtroom artist during 1960s and 1970s for NBC
- Wolfgang Droege , 55, founder of the Canadian White Supremacist group the Heritage Front , shot to death
- Kay Gardella , 82, television critic for the '' New York Daily News '', cancer
- Johnnie Johnson , 80, Musician
- Nikola Ljubicic , 89, president of Serbia from 1982 to 1984
- Philip Pavia , 94, American sculptor
- Philippe Volter , 45, Belgian actor, suicide
- Nathaniel Weyl , 94, writer, economist who testified in the Alger Hiss case
- Juan Zanotto , 69, Italian-Argentinian comic book artist
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- Peter Bramley , 60, cartoonist, first '' National Lampoon '' art director {Link without Title}
- Bill Jones , 69, former Sacramento Kings athletic trainer, cancer
- Franciszek Karwowski , 109, oldest living Polish soldier
- Ehud Manor , 63, Israel i songwriter
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- John Bennett , 75, British Actor
- John Brosnan , 57, British resident Australia n writer and film critic, acute pancreatitis (death may have occurred several days earlier).
- André François , 89, French cartoonist {Link without Title}
- Maurice Hilleman , 85, microbiologist
- David Hughes , 74, British novelist
- Lucien Laurent , 97, French football player, scored the first ever goal at a World Cup
- Mattie McDonagh , 68, Irish Gaelic Football er
- Margo Skinner , 55, American Broadway actress
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- Carl Abrahams , 93, Jamaica n painter
- Norbert Brainin , 82, Austrian violinist and founder of the Amadeus Quartet
- Raúl Gibb Guerrero , 53, Mexican newspaper editor, hitman shooting
- Archbishop Iakovos , 93, former primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Of America (1959-1996)
- Al Lucas , 26, ex- National Football League player; Spinal Cord injury suffered playing an Arena Football League game
- Faith McNulty , 86, American writer
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- Yoshitaro Nomura , 85, Japanese film director
- D. G. Northcott , 88, British Mathematician ( Ideal Theory ), [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050502/ai_n14608787
- Chalmers Roberts , 94, American diplomatic correspondent and author
- Onna White , 83, Broadway choreographer
- Nevio Zeccara , 81?, Italian comic book artist
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- Cliff Allison , 73, former Formula One driver
- Grigoris Bithikotsis , 82, Greek singer
- Charlotte Huck , 82, American children's literature author
- Minnie Kearby , 111, Supercentenarian , oldest resident of Indiana
- Bob Kennedy , 84, a former MLB player and manager, who hit the first Grand Slam in Baltimore Orioles history and was the Oakland Athletics first manager
- Charles Kuentz , 108, last living French World War I veteran to fight for Germany , Cardiac Arrest
- Jose Melis , 85, former bandleader for '' The Tonight Show ''
- Yvonne Vera , 40, novelist from Zimbabwe
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- Rainier III, Prince Of Monaco , 81, Reigning Prince of Monaco since 1949
- Frank Conroy , 69, memoirist and head of the University Of Iowa 's famous Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Anthony DePalma , 100, doctor, teacher, and Humanitarian
- Gene Hazelton , 85, cartoonist
- Francesco Laudadio , 55, Italian film director
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- Saul Bellow , 89, Nobel Prize -winning author
- Ura Koyama , 114, Supercentenarian , oldest in Japan since 2003 , died of Pneumonia
- Sir Edwin Leather , 85, governor of Bermuda from 1973 to 1977
- Mait Mihkel Mathiesen , Estonian statesman
- Dale Messick , 98, creator of the Brenda Starr comic strip
- Debralee Scott , 52, Actress , starred on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
- Judith Weiner , 56, American film and TV Casting Director
- Neil Welliver , 75, landscape painter mainly in his native Maine
- Becky Zerlentes , 34, American amateur boxer, first amateur to die as a consequence of a fight in five years.
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- Betty Bolton , 99, English actress and singer
- Alexander Brott , 90, Canadian composer, conductor and Violinist
- Tony Croatto , 65 Italian - Puerto Rican composer-singer, lung and brain cancer
- John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), 84, Polish Roman Catholic Pope , died after a lengthy illness.
- Eddie Moss , 45, former Syracuse and CBA player, cancer
- John O'Leary , 58, Former U.S. Ambassador to Chile , Lou Gehrig's Disease
- Jacques Poitrenaud , 83, French filmmaker
- Jacques Rabemananjara , 92, Madagascan politician, foreign minister from 1967 to 1972.
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- Cheryl Barrymore , 56, former wife and agent of British TV entertainer Michael Barrymore , lung cancer
- Gegè Di Giacomo , 87, neapolitan singer and Renato Carosone 's drummer in 1950s .
- William Fitzgerald , 87, former broadcast news editor for the Associated Press
- Lazare Gionet , 108, Canadian World War I veteran
- Harald Juhnke , 75, German entertainer
- Jack Keller , 68, songwriter, wrote themes to Bewitched and Gidget
- Samuel Krachmalnick , 79, Broadway and classical orchestral conductor, notably the premiere of Candide by Leonard Bernstein
- Robert Coldwell Wood , 81, second Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development , appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1969. Later University Of Massachusetts President 1970-1977.
- Takio Zushi , 58, Japanese actor
- Lavinia Gelineau , 25, widow of Maine National Guard Soldier Christoper Gelineau, murdered
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