The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2005.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

• Harold Bodle, 84, English footballer (Birmingham City F.C., Bury F.C., Stockport County F.C. and Accrington Stanley F.C.).^[1]
• Shirley Chisholm, 80, American politician, first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress.^[2]
• Robert Fortier, 78, American actor.^[3]
• Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British newspaper executive, peer, and Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.^[4]
• Bob Matsui, 63, American Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, cancer.^[5]
• Dmitry Nelyubin, 33, Russian cyclist, murdered.^[6]
• Patrick Denis O'Donnell, 82, Irish military historian and army officer.
• Willem Scholten, 77, Dutch politician and economist.^[7]

• Arnold Denker, 90, American chess player, brain cancer.^[8]
• Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian (That's Life!).
• Frank Kelly Freas, 82, American science fiction artist.^[9]
• Félix Galimi, 84, Argentine Olympic fencer.^[10]
• Margaret Gardiner, 100, British art collector and left wing political activist.^[11]
• Paul Manning, 45, American television writer (ER, L.A. Law), colorectal cancer.^[12]
• Maclyn McCarty, 93, American geneticist and DNA research pioneer, heart failure.^[13]
• Claude Meillassoux, 79, French neo-Marxist economic anthropologist and Africanist.^[14]
• Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter.^[15]
• C. M. Pennington-Richards, 93, British film director and cinematographer.^[16]
• Ngo Van, 93, Vietnamese revolutionary.^[17]
• Charles Paul Wilp, 72, German advertising-designer, artist, and photographer.^[18]
• John Ziman, 79, British-New Zealand physicist and humanist.^[19]

• Koo Chen-fu, 88, Chinese negotiator with the People's Republic of China, renal cancer.
• Paul Darragh, 51, Irish Olympic equestrian showjumper, heart failure.^[20]
• Jyotindra Nath Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary, heart attack.
• Will Eisner, 87, American comic book artist (The Spirit), complications following surgery.^[21]
• Misael Escuti, 78, Chilean football player, cardiovascular disease.^[22]
• Mehmet Faruk Sükan, 84, Turkish physician, politician and government minister.
• László Vadász, 56, Hungarian chess grandmaster.
• Kay Williamson, 69, British linguist, heart attack.^[23]

• Ali Al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated.^[24]
• Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster, heart attack.^[25]
• Guy Davenport, 77, American writer, translator, illustrator, and painter, lung cancer.^[26]
• Frank Harary, 84, American mathematician, a foremost expert on graph theory.^[27]
• Robert Heilbroner, 85, American economist.^[28]
• Marguerite Pearson, 72, American professional baseball player (AAGPBL).
• Bud Poile, 80, Canadian professional ice hockey player, member of Hockey Hall of Fame, Parkinson's disease.^[29]
• Alton Tobey, 90, American muralist and painter.^[30]
• Jorge Eduardo Wright, 82, Argentine mycologist.

• Antonio Benítez-Rojo, 73, Cuban writer.^[31]
• Gabrielle Daye, 93, English stage actress.
• Martín Acosta y Lara, 79, Uruguayan basketball player.^[32]
• René Le Hénaff, 103, French film editor and director.^[33]
• Danny Sugerman, 50, American music manager, lung cancer.^[34]

• Vern Barberis, 76, Australian weightlifter and Olympic medalist.^[35]
• Sergio Fubini, 76, Italian theoretical physicist.^[36]
• Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, 70, American politician, lung cancer.
• Lois Hole, 75, Canadian businesswoman, author and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, cancer.^[37]
• Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS.
• Tarquinio Provini, 71, Italian motorcycle road racer.
• Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick.^[38]
• Nicholas Scott, 71, British politician.
• Boris Shtokolov, 74, Soviet and Russian singer, one of the greatest basses of the 20th century.
• Ali Shukri, 85, Yugoslav-Kosovan politician, President of the Executive Council (1963–1967) and Presidency (1981–1982).
• Sindhu, 33, Indian actress, lung infection.
• A. Hays Town, 101, American architect.^[39]

• Harry Boyles, 93, American baseball player.^[40]
• Evgeny Chuprun, 77, Soviet and Russian realist painter.
• Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson).^[41]
• Rosemary Kennedy, 86, American sister of John F. Kennedy.^[42]
• Ivar Medaas, 66, Norwegian folksinger and fiddle player.
• Aleksandr Prokhorov, 58, Soviet footballer (Dynamo Kyiv, FC Spartak Moscow).^[43]

• Badja Djola, 56, American actor (Mississippi Burning, The Hurricane, The Last Boy Scout), heart attack.
• Tage Fahlborg, 92, Swedish sprint canoeist.^[44]
• Jacqueline Joubert, 83, French television announcer, producer and director.^[45]
• Suvad Katana, 35, Bosnian footballer, heart attack.
• Friedrich Kuhn, 85, West German bobsledder and Olympic champion.^[46]
• Aksella Luts, 99, Estonian screenwriter, actress and filmmaker.^[47]
• Song Renqiong, 95, Chinese general and politician.
• David Shaw, 50, Australian scuba diver, drowned.^[48]
• Michel Thomas, 90, Polish-American linguist, decorated war veteran and nazi hunter.^[49]

• Artidoro Berti, 84, Italian Olympic runner.^[50]
• Gonzalo Gavira, 79, Mexican sound effects creator (The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno).
• Joanne Grant, 74, American journalist and communist activist.^[51]
• Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film director.^[52]
• Antonín Klimek, 67, Czech historian.^[53]
• Bob Mabe, 75, American baseball player.^[54]
• Ricky Rodriguez, 29, American member of a religious cult "The Family", suicide by gunshot.
• Michael P. Ryan, 88, United States Marine Corps major general.
• Vantile Whitfield, 74, American arts administrator, Alzheimer's disease.^[55]

• Gene Baylos, 98, American comedian.^[56]
• Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium, 77, Belgian Princess of Belgium and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, cancer.
• Georges Bernier, 75, French humorist.^[57]
• Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano.^[58]
• Fernand Cazenave, 80, French rugby player and national coach.^[59]
• Tommy Fine, 90, American Major League Baseball player (Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns).^[60]
• James Forman, 76, American executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colorectal cancer.^[61]
• Stephen Hastings, 83, British politician, MP for Mid Bedfordshire (1960–1983), esophageal cancer.
• Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer.
• Ursula Hoff, 95, Australian scholar and author on art.^[62]
• Kalevi Hämäläinen, 72, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic champion.^[63]
• Helmut Losch, 57, East German heavyweight weightlifting champion.^[64]
• Jan Pieter Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994.^[65]
• Inna Tumanyan, 75, Soviet-Armenian film director and screenwriter.
• Arthur Walworth, 101, American writer and biographer.^[66]

• Alessandro Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri, 80, Italian aristocrat, actor and socialite.^[67]
• Spencer Dryden, 66, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane), cancer.
• Jimmy Griffin, 61, American singer, guitarist, songwriter, member of rock band Bread, cancer.^[68]
• Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer (Valley of Rocks).^[69]
• Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist, motorcycle accident.
• Jerzy Pawłowski, 72, Polish fencer and Olympic champion.^[70]
• Thelma White, 94, American actress (Reefer Madness), pneumonia.

• Domiciano Cavém, 72, Portuguese football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
• Gaston Clermont, 91, Canadian businessman and politician.
• Kenneth Farmer, 92, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player and sports administrator.^[71]
• Leila Fawzi, 86, Egyptian actress and model.
• Manfred Fuhrmann, 79, German classical philologist and academic.^[72]
• Herbert Goldstein, 82, American physicist.
• Tullio Gonnelli, 92, Italian athlete and Olympic silver medalist.^[73]
• Bernard Meadows, 89, British modernist sculptor.^[74]
• Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Mr. India, Gandhi), cerebral hemorrhage.
• Jay Schulberg, 65, American advertising executive, pancreatic cancer.^[75]
• Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Estonian-American Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist.^[76]

• Earl Cameron, 89, Canadian broadcaster and The National anchor (1959–1966).
• Jacques de Tonnancour, 88, Canadian artist and art educator from Montreal, Quebec.^[77]
• Nell Rankin, 81, United States mezzo-soprano opera singer (Metropolitan Opera).^[78]
• K. V. Sarma, 85, Indian historian of science.
• Hisham Sharabi, 78, American cultural historian and political activist, cancer.^[79]

• Ward Beysen, 63, Belgian politician and freemason, suicide by drowning.
• Edwin Bélanger, 94, Canadian musician.
• Ofelia Guilmáin, 83, Spanish film and stage actress, pneumonia.
• Charlotte MacLeod, 82, American mystery writer, Alzheimer's disease.^[80]
• Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter.^[81]
• Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer, homicide.
• Carl Möhner, 83, Austrian film actor, director, screenwriter and painter, Parkinson's disease.^[82]
• Rocky Roberts, 63, American-Italian rhythm and blues singer.
• Jesús Rafael Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist.^[83]

• Felix Aprahamian, 90, English music critic.^[84]
• Leonid Brekhovskikh, 87, Russian scientist.^[85]
• Terry Crowley, 51, New Zealand linguists of Oceanic languages.
• Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan).^[86]
• Elizabeth Janeway, 91, American feminist author.^[87]
• Dan Lee, 35, Canadian animator (Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story 2), heart failure.
• Werner Lesser, 72, East German Olympic ski jumper.^[88]
• Ruth Warrick, 89, American actress (Citizen Kane, All My Children, Song of the South), pneumonia.^[89]
• Karapetê Xaço, 104, Armenian singer of traditional Kurdish Dengbêj music.
• Victoria de los Ángeles, 81, Spanish soprano, heart attack.^[90]

• H. Bentley Glass, 98, American biologist, known for controversial views.^[91]
• Agustín González, 74, Spanish film actor, pneumonia.^[92]
• Yoshito Matsushige, 92, Japanese photojournalist.
• Jerzy Pławczyk, 93, Polish Olympic high jumper.^[93]
• Gudrun Wegner, 49, East German swimmer, cancer.^[94]
• Marjorie Williams, 47, American journalist. The Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair, liver cancer.^[95]

• Maria Albuleț, 72, Romanian chess Woman Grandmaster.
• Charlie Bell, 44, Australian business executive, CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer.
• Bezerra da Silva, 77, Brazilian samba musician.^[96]
• Basil Hoskins, 75, English theatre and film actor.
• Anatoly Kartashov, 67, Russian water polo player and Olympic silver medalist.^[97]
• Virginia Mayo, 84, American film actress (White Heat, The Best Years of Our Lives), heart attack.^[98]
• Albert Schatz, 84, American microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin, pancreatic cancer.^[99]
• George P. L. Walker, 78, British volcanologist.^[100]
• Hansjoachim Walther, 65, German politician and mathematician.
• Zhao Ziyang, 85, Chinese politician, Communist Party General Secretary (1987-1989), complications of multiple strokes.^[101]

• Charles Thurston Brockman, 77, American broadcaster and president of the United States Auto Club (1969-1972).
• Gabrielle Brune, 92, British actress.
• Vivian H. H. Green, 89, British priest and historian.^[102]
• Robert Moch, 90, American rower.^[103]
• Pez Whatley, 54, American professional wrestler, heart attack.^[104]

• Theodore W. Allen, 85, American scholar, writer, and activist.^[105]
• Bill Andersen, 80, New Zealand communist and trade union leader.
• Lamont Bentley, 31, American actor (Moesha) and rapper, traffic collision.
• Jens-Halvard Bratz, 84, Norwegian businessman and politician.
• Carlos Cortez, 81, American artist and political activist.^[106]
• K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide by hanging.
• Anita Kulcsár, 28, Hungarian handball player and Olympic silver medalist, traffic collision.^[107]
• Rinat Mardanshin, 41, Russian motorcycle speedway rider, complications during surgery.
• Stan West, 78, American gridiron football player.^[108]

• Parveen Babi, 55, Indian actress, diabetes.
• Ivor G. Balding, 96, American polo player.^[109]
• Bogle, 40, Jamaican dancer, homicide.^[110]
• Per Borten, 91, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway (1965-1971).
• Dick Gallagher, 49, American composer, predominantly for off-Broadway productions.^[111]
• Solomon King, 74, American singer, cancer.^[112]
• Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and decorated World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section.
• Miriam Rothschild, 96, British zoologist, entomologist and author.^[113]
• Hamdan Sheikh Tahir, 81, Malaysian politician, governor of Penang (1989-2001).

• Jacques Andrieux, 87, French fighter pilot during World War II.^[114]
• Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer.^[115]
• Ole Due, 73, Danish jurist and judge.
• John L. Hess, 87, American journalist.^[116]
• Henry Källgren, 73, Swedish football player.
• Edward F. McLaughlin, Jr., 84, American attorney and politician.
• Kaljo Raid, 83, Estonian composer, cellist and pastor.
• Neville Scott, 69, New Zealand Olympic runner.^[117]
• Steve Susskind, 62, American voice-over actor, traffic collision.

• William Deakin, 91, British World War II hero and founder of St Antony's College, Oxford.^[118]
• César Gutiérrez, 61, Venezuelan baseball player.^[119]
• Patsy Rowlands, 74, British actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films, breast cancer.^[120]
• William Trager, 94, American parasitologist.^[121]
• Consuelo Velázquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the song "Bésame Mucho".^[122]
• Rose Mary Woods, 87, American politician, former secretary of Richard Nixon and key Watergate figure.^[123]

• Harley Baldwin, 59, American land developer and art dealer, kidney cancer.^[124]
• Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, British politician and peer, Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.^[125]
• Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema.^[126]
• Douglas Knight, 83, American educator, businessman, author, former president of Lawrence University and Duke University.^[127]
• Charles Martin, 45, American gridiron football player, kidney failure.^[128]
• Mutsuko Sakura, 83, Japanese actress.
• Eddie Sinclair, 67, Scottish snooker player.

• June Bronhill, 75, Australian actress and opera, operetta and musical comedy singer, Alzheimer's disease.^[129]
• Else Krüger, 89, German secretary of nazi official Martin Bormann during World War II.
• Paritala Ravindra, 56, Indian politician, homicide.
• Lev Saychuk, 81, Soviet Olympic fencer.^[130]
• Leslie Wood, 72, English footballer.^[131]

• Barbara Craig, 89, British archaeologist, classicist, and academic, specialising in classical pottery.
• Philip Johnson, 98, American architect.^[132]
• Ron Kersey, 55, American keyboardist, songwriter, producer and arranger.^[133]
• Vikki LaMotta, 75, American model, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta.^[134]
• Manuel Lopes, 97, Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist.^[135]
• Ray Peterson, 65, American popular singer ("Tell Laura I Love Her"), cancer.^[136]
• Joop Rohner, 77, Dutch water polo goalkeeper.^[137]
• Max Velthuijs, 81, Dutch writer and illustrator.^[138]
• Netti Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch sprinter and Olympic champion.^[139]

• Fraser Elliott, 83, Canadian lawyer and philanthropist.^[140]
• Rudi Falkenhagen, 71, Dutch actor.
• Peter A. Garland, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative from Maine (1961–1963).^[141]
• Jackie Henderson, 73, Scottish footballer.^[142]
• Josie MacAvin, 85, Irish set director.
• Cordelia Scaife May, 76, American philanthropist and heiress to Mellon family fortune, pancreatic cancer.^[143]
• Inge Pohmann, 83/84, German tennis player.

• Shah A M S Kibria, 73, Bangladeshi economist, diplomat and politician, homicide.
• Rado Lenček, 83, Slovene linguist and ethnologist.^[144]
• Aurélie Nemours, 94, French painter.^[145]
• Jonathan Welsh, 57, Canadian actor.^[146]

• Artūras Barysas, 50, Lithuanian counter-culture actor, singer, photographer and filmmaker.
• Daniel Branca, 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist, heart attack.^[147]
• Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter (Traffic), stomach cancer.^[148]
• Lucien Carr, 79, American United Press International editor, bone cancer.^[149]
• Karen Lancaume, (aka Karen Bach), 32, French adult film performer, suicide by drug overdose.^[150]
• Paul A. Partain, 58, American actor (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), cancer.
• Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor and comedian, internal hemorrhage.^[151]

• Ron Feinberg, 72, American actor (A Boy and His Dog, Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, The Centurions).
• Eric Griffiths, 64, British guitarist in the musical group The Quarrymen, pancreatic cancer.^[152]
• Jean Hengen, 92, Luxembourgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.^[153]
• Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli dramatist, screenwriter and film director, heart attack.^[154]
• Žika Mitrović, 83, Serbian film director.^[155]
• Bill Shadel, 96, American journalist, prostate cancer.^[156]
• Joan Tompkins, 89, American actress.^[157]

• Mary Beck, 96, American politician.^[158]
• Wolfgang Becker, 94, German film director and film editor.^[159]
• Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish Celtic musician, cancer.^[160]
• Susan Bradshaw, 73, British pianist.^[161]
• Maurice Desimpelaere, 84, Belgian cyclist.^[162]
• Horace Law, 93, British admiral.^[163]

• Ron Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister (1970s).
• Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poet.^[164]
• Jack Collins, 86, American actor (The Towering Inferno, The Sting, Bewitched).^[165]
• Makarand Dave, 82, Indian poet and author.
• Malcolm Hardee, 55, British comedian, drowned.^[166]
• Ishrat Hashmi, 57, Pakistani actress.
• Bobby Howitt, 79, Scottish football player and manager.^[167]
• Hosur Narasimhaiah, 84, Indian physicist and educator.^[168]
• Ivan Noble, 37, British BBC journalist, brain cancer.^[169]
• Franz-Joseph Schulze, 86, German general during and after World War II and Knight's Cross recipient.
• Lee Segel, 72, American mathematician and writer.
• Bill Voiselle, 86, American Major League Baseball player.^[170]

• List of January 2005 deaths at IMDb