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In the year 2005
865 Notable deaths
Paul Winchell
American actor (1922–2005).
Born December 21st, 1922 in New York City.
Died June 24th, 2005 at 82 years old in Los Angeles (disease).
Link Wray
American guitarist (1929–2005).
Died November 5th, 2005 at 76 years old in Copenhagen. [ref]
Milton Obote
President of uganda (1966–1971; 1980–1985).
Born December 28th, 1925 in Uganda, Apac. [ref]
Died October 10th, 2005 at 79 years old in Johannesburg (kidney failure). [ref]
John Fiedler
American actor (1925–2005).
Born February 3rd, 1925 in Platteville.
Died June 25th, 2005 at 80 years old in Lillian Booth Actors Home (cancer).
Ramanand Sagar
Indian film director (1917-2005).
Born December 29th, 1917 in Lahore.
Died December 12th, 2005 at 87 years old in Mumbai.
Wendie Jo Sperber
American actress (1958–2005).
Born September 15th, 1958 in Hollywood.
Died November 29th, 2005 at 47 years old in Sherman Oaks (breast cancer). [ref]
Brock Peters
American actor (1927–2005).
Born July 2nd, 1927 in Harlem.
Died August 23rd, 2005 at 78 years old in Los Angeles (pancreatic cancer).
George F. Kennan
American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian (1904-2005).
Born February 16th, 1904 in Milwaukee.
Died March 17th, 2005 at 101 years old in Princeton.
Long John Baldry
British musician (1941–2005).
Born January 12th, 1941 in East Haddon.
Died July 21st, 2005 at 64 years old in Vancouver (infectious disease). [ref]
Edward Bunker
Novelist, screenwriter, actor (1933-2005).
Born December 31st, 1933 in Hollywood.
Died July 19th, 2005 at 71 years old in Burbank (surgical complications).
John T. Walton
American war veteran; son of walmart founder sam walton (1946–2005).
Born October 8th, 1946 in Newport.
Died June 27th, 2005 at 58 years old in Jackson (aircraft crash).
Ahmed Deedat
South african writer and orator (1918–2005).
Died August 8th, 2005 at 87 years old in Verulam.
Lucien Carr
American journalist (1925–2005).
Born March 1st, 1925 in New York City.
Died January 28th, 2005 at 79 years old in Washington, D.C. (bone cancer). [ref]
Robert Wise
American film director, film producer and film editor (1914–2005).
Born September 10th, 1914 in Winchester.
Died September 14th, 2005 at 91 years old in Los Angeles (myocardial infarction).
Fred Korematsu
Japanese-american interned during world war ii.
Born January 30th, 1919 in Oakland.
Died March 30th, 2005 at 86 years old in Marin County (respiratory failure).
Hans Bethe
German-american nuclear physicist.
Born July 2nd, 1906 in Strasbourg.
Died March 6th, 2005 at 98 years old in Ithaca.
Melita Norwood
British civil servant and spy for the soviet union (1912–2005).
Born March 25th, 1912 in Bournemouth.
Died June 2nd, 2005 at 93 years old in London. [ref]
Dan O'Herlihy
Irish actor (1919–2005).
Born May 1st, 1919 in Wexford.
Died February 17th, 2005 at 85 years old in Malibu (disease).
Rafiq Hariri
Prime minister of lebanon (1992–1998, 2000–2004).
Born November 1st, 1944 in Sidon.
Died February 14th, 2005 at 60 years old in Beirut (suicide car bombing).
Philip Johnson
American architect (1906–2005).
Born July 8th, 1906 in Cleveland. [ref]
Died January 25th, 2005 at 98 years old in New Canaan. [ref]
Sister Lúcia
Portuguese nun, one of the three children who have witnessed marian apparitions in fátima, portugal, in 1917.
Born March 22nd, 1907 in Povoação de Aljustrel.
Died February 13th, 2005 at 97 years old in Coimbra.
Candy Barr
American pornographic actress, stripper (1935-2005).
Died December 30th, 2005 at 70 years old in Victoria (pneumonia). [ref]
Jim Capaldi
English musician and songwriter (1944–2005).
Born August 2nd, 1944 in Evesham.
Died January 28th, 2005 at 60 years old in London (stomach cancer). [ref]
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Irish-american actress (1913–2005).
Born November 24th, 1913 in Greystones.
Died July 17th, 2005 at 91 years old in Upper East Side (Alzheimer's disease).
June Haver
American actress (1926–2005).
Born June 10th, 1926 in Rock Island.
Died July 4th, 2005 at 79 years old in Los Angeles (respiratory failure).
Deaths 76 to 100 of 865
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde