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The following is a list of notable people who died in January 2005.
- 31
- Stanley Ronald (Ron) Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister (1970s)
- Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poetess
- Malcolm Hardee, 55, British comedian, drowning. [1]
- Robert McCartney, 33, IRA murder victim in Belfast
- H. Narasimhaiah, 84, Indian physicist and educator. [2],[3]
- Ivan Noble, 37, BBC journalist, brain tumour. [4]
- 30
- 29
- Eric Griffiths, 64, British musical group The Quarrymen, pancreatic cancer. [7]
- Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli satirist, dramatist, screenwriter and film director, apparent heart attack. [8]
- Bill Shadel, 96, United States journalist [9]
- Ron Tomme, 73, American soap opera actor[10]
- 28
- Karen Lancaume (aka Karen Bach), 32, French adult film performer, overdosed on sleeping pills. [11]
- Daniel Branca, 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist, heart attack. [12], [13]
- Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter (Traffic), stomach cancer.[14]
- Lucien Carr, 79, United Press International editor, bone cancer. [15]
- Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor/comedian, internal hemorrhage.[16]
- 27
- Gilbert Bennion, 106, one of the last four surviving Australian veterans of World War I
- Donald Dempsey Sr., American recording executive who helped launch Ozzy Osbourne and Merle Haggard, stroke.
- Aurélie Nemours, 94, French painter
- Jonathan Welsh, 57, Canadian stage, television and film actor, died in his sleep following a brief illness. [17], [18]
- 26
- 25
- William Augustus Bootle, 102, United States district judge overseeing desegregation in the American South
- Philip Johnson, 98, United States architect. [21]
- Vicky LaMotta, 75, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta, following open-heart surgery
- Ray Peterson 65, United States popular singer (Tell Laura I Love Her), cancer. [22],[23]
- Max Velthuijs, 81, Dutch writer and illustrator
- Nettie Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch athlete
- 24
- June Bronhill, 75, Australian actress and opera, operetta and musical comedy singer, Alzheimer's disease. [24]
- Vladimir Savchenko, 71, Ukrainian science fiction writer. [25]
- Chalkie White, 76, rugby union coach
- ZerNona Black, 98, activist on behalf of senior citizens and the elderly, natural causes
- 23
- Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, former Deputy Speaker of the UK House of Lords
- Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema
- Douglas Knight, 83, former president of Lawrence University and Duke University
- Charles Martin, 46, retired NFL player, renal disease. [26]
- 22
- Sir William Deakin, 91, British World War II hero and founder of St. Antony's College at Oxford University
- César Gutiérrez, 61, one of three players in Major League Baseball history with a 7-for-7 game
- Carlo Orelli, 110, supercentenarian, oldest Italian veteran of World War I
- Patsy Rowlands, 71, British actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films, breast cancer
- Consuelo Velázquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song "Bésame mucho"
- Rose Mary Woods, 87, former Nixon secretary and key Watergate figure [27]
- 21
- Richard Outram, 74, Canadian poet
- Steve Susskind, 62, American voice-over actor
- Parveen Babi, 49, Indian film actress, apparently from diabetes. [28]
- John L. Hess, 87, journalist
- Don Poier, 53, United States NBA basketball announcer for the Memphis Grizzlies
- Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer
- 20
- Per Borten, 91, former Prime Minister of Norway
- Roland Frye, American English literature professor and theologian
- Dick Gallagher, 49, American composer, predominantly for off-Broadway productions. [29]
- Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and highly decorated World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section
- Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild, 96, British zoologist, entomologist and author
- 19
- Bill Andersen, 90, New Zealand communist and trade union leader
- Donald Beardslee, 61, United States murderer, executed in San Quentin State Prison, California
- K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide
- Ardyth Kennelly, 92, US novelist whose books were popular in the 1940s and 50s
- Anita Kulcsár, 28, Hungarian handball player
- 18
- 17
- Charlie Bell, 44, former CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer
- Virginia Mayo, 84, United States film actress (White Heat, The Best Years of Our Lives)
- Albert Schatz, 84, microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin
- Zhao Ziyang, 85, former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary, complications of multiple strokes
- 16
- 15
- Deem Bristow, 57, video game voice actor
- Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan)
- Elizabeth Janeway, 91, United States feminist author
- Dan Lee, 35, animator for Finding Nemo
- Victoria de Los Angeles, 81, Spanish soprano
- Ruth Warrick, 89, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane and All My Children, pneumonia
- 14
- Ofelia Guilmain, 83, Spanish film and stage actress, worked mostly in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War
- Charlotte MacLeod, 82, United States mystery writer
- Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter
- Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer
- Jesús Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist [31]
- 13
- 12
- 11
- Spencer Dryden, 66, drummer for American rock band Jefferson Airplane, cancer
- James Griffin, 61, member of 1970s rock band Bread
- Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer (Valley of Rocks)
- J.R. "Bud" McCaig, 75, co-owner of the NHL's Calgary Flames
- Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist, died after crashing on the 11th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally
- Ruth Packer, 94, British soprano, famous for playing Verdi heroines
- Jerzy Pawlowski, 72, Polish Olympic champion in fencing
- Thelma White, 94, United States actress (Reefer Madness)
- 10
- Gene Baylos, 98, comedian
- Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano
- Tommy Fine, 90, who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns in the 1940s and 50s
- James Forman, 76, United States former executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colon cancer
- Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer
- Gordon John "Jack" Horner, Minnesota sports journalist
- Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, Princess of Belgium and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, 77, cancer
- Helmut Losch, 57, East German heavyweight weightlifting champion
- Jan Pieter Cardinal Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994
- 9
- 8
- Jacqueline Joubert, 83, one of the first television presenters on French television
- Campbell McComas, 52, Australian impersonator, raconteur, broadcaster, chameleon
- Warren Spears, 50, choreographer, dancer
- Michel Thomas, 90, Polish linguist and teacher
- 7
- Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson)
- Eileen Desmond, 72, former Irish politician, Minister for Health & Social Welfare (1981-1982)
- Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, 73, United States sports commentator in New Orleans, massive heart attack
- Rosemary Kennedy, 86, sister of John F. Kennedy, natural causes
- 6
- Lois Hole, 71, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, cancer
- Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS
- Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick
- Sir Nicholas Scott, 71, British politician
- 5
- 4
- Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster
- Paul Darragh, 51, Irish equestrian showjumper, heart failure
- Guy Davenport, 77, American writer, translator, illustrator, and painter, lung cancer
- Ali Al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated
- Frank Harary, 84, mathematician, a foremost expert on graph theory
- Robert Heilbroner, 85, United States economist
- Bud Poile, 80, retired right wing for Toronto and Detroit in the 1940s and 50s, member of Hockey Hall of Fame
- Alton Tobey, 90, United States muralist and painter
- 3
- JN Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary
- Will Eisner, 87, United States comic book artist and pioneering graphic novelist
- Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫), 88, Chinese negotiator with the PRC
- John Lawrence, 70, United States Los Angeles Times business journalist
- Claude Meillassoux, 79, French anthropologist and economist
- 2
- H. David Dalquist, 86, founder of Nordic Ware, creator of the Bundt cake pan
- Arnold Denker, 90, United States chess player
- Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian and star of That's Life!.
- Frank Kelly Freas, 82, United States science fiction artist
- Ronald Ginn, 70, United States former U.S. Congressman from Georgia
- Maclyn McCarty, 93, geneticist and DNA research pioneer
- Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter
- 1
- Shirley Chisholm, 80, United States first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress
- Eugene J. Martin, 66, United States, African American painter
- Hugh John Frederick Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and former deputy managing director of the Daily Telegraph
- Bob Matsui, 63, United States Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, cancer
- Charles Watson, 105, British World War I veteran, natural causes
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