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In the year 2005
739 Notable deaths
Jack L. Chalker
American author (1944-2005).
Born December 17th, 1944 in Baltimore.
Died February 11th, 2005 at 60 years old in Baltimore (kidney failure).
Evan Hunter
American author and screenwriter (1926-2005).
Born October 15th, 1926 in New York City.
Died July 6th, 2005 at 78 years old in Weston (laryngeal cancer). [ref]
Henry Taube
Canadian-born american chemist (1915–2005).
Born November 30th, 1915 in Neudorf.
Died November 16th, 2005 at 89 years old in Palo Alto.
Minako Honda
Japanese singer and actress (1967-1999).
Born July 31st, 1967 in Narimasu.
Died November 6th, 2005 at 38 years old in Minato-ku (leukemia).
Alan Dundes
American folklorist.
Born September 8th, 1934 in New York City. [ref]
Died March 30th, 2005 at 70 years old in Berkeley (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Wayne C. Booth
American academic.
Born February 22nd, 1921 in American Fork. [ref]
Died October 10th, 2005 at 84 years old in Chicago. [ref]
Constant Nieuwenhuys
Dutch painter (1920-2005).
Born July 21st, 1920 in Amsterdam. [ref]
Died August 1st, 2005 at 85 years old in Utrecht. [ref]
Sylvia Rafael
Israeli spy.
Born April 1st, 1937 in Cape Town.
Died February 10th, 2005 at 67 years old in Pretoria (leukemia).
Stanley Sadie
British musicologist (1930–2005).
Born October 30th, 1930 in Wembley.
Died March 21st, 2005 at 74 years old in Cossington (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).
Hermann Bondi
Austrian-british mathematician and cosmologist.
Born November 1st, 1919 in Vienna.
Died September 10th, 2005 at 85 years old in Cambridge.
Deaths 301 to 310 of 739
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? Edgar Allan Poe