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.
January 2005
1
Marc Baltzan, 75, Canadian physician. Harold Bodle, 84, English footballer (Birmingham City, Bury, Stockport County and Accrington Stanley). Shirley Chisholm, 80, American politician, first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress. Eugene J. Martin, 66, African-American painter. Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British executive and peer, Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and former deputy managing director of The Daily Telegraph. Bob Matsui, 63, American Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, cancer. Dmitry Nelyubin, 33, Russian cyclist, murdered. Patrick Denis O'Donnell, 82, Irish military historian and army officer.
2
Reine Andersson, 59, Swedish Olympic sailor
Bernard Barrell, 85, British composer and conductor. H. David Dalquist, 86, American inventor and chemical engineer, founder of Nordic Ware, creator of the Bundt cake pan. Arnold Denker, 90, American chess player. Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian (That's Life!). Frank Kelly Freas, 82, American science fiction artist. Félix Galimi, 84, Argentine Olympic fencer. Paul Manning, 45, American television writer (ER, L.A. Law), colorectal cancer. Ronald Ginn, 70, American former Congressman from Georgia. Maclyn McCarty, 93, American geneticist and DNA research pioneer. Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter.
3
Sir Edward Britton, 95, British trade unionist. Paul Darragh, 51, Irish equestrian showjumper, heart failure JN Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary. Will Eisner, 87, American comic book artist (The Spirit), complications following surgery. Richard Feilden, 54, British architect. Koo Chen-fu, 88, Chinese negotiator with the People's Republic of China, renal cancer. Claude Meillassoux, 79, French anthropologist and economist. Robert Gottschall, 89, American actor. László Vadász, 56, Hungarian chess grandmaster.
4
Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster
Guy Davenport, 77, American writer, translator, illustrator, and painter, lung cancer Beulah Anne Georges, 81, American baseball player (AAGPBL). Ali Al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated Frank Harary, 84, American mathematician, a foremost expert on graph theory Robert Heilbroner, 85, American economist. Marguerite Pearson, 72, American professional baseball player (AAGPBL) Bud Poile, 80, Canadian professional ice hockey player, right wing for Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings in the 1940s and 50s, member of Hockey Hall of Fame Alton Tobey, 90, American muralist and painter.
5
Martín Acosta y Lara, 79, Uruguayan basketball player. Antoni Barwiński, 81, Polish football player. Antonio Benítez-Rojo, 73, Cuban writer. Gabrielle Daye, 93, English stage actress. Tore Johannessen, 82, Norwegian ice hockey referee. Charles Repenning, 82, American paleontologist and zoologist, murdered during burglary. Danny Sugerman, 50, American music manager.
6
Vern Barberis, 76, Australian weightlifter. Eileen Desmond, 72, Irish politician, Minister for Health and Social Welfare (1981–1982). S. Paul Ehrlich Jr., 72, American physician, Acting Surgeon General of the United States (1973–1977). Lois Hole, 75, Canadian politician, businesswoman, academician, professional gardener and best-selling author, 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. Ali Shukriu, 85, Kosovan politician, Prime Minister (1963–1967) and President (1981–1982).
7
Harry Boyles, 93, American baseball player. Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson). Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, 73, American sports commentator in New Orleans, heart attack. Rosemary Kennedy, 86, American sister of John F. Kennedy, natural causes. Aleksandr Prokhorov, 58, Soviet footballer (Dynamo Kyiv, Spartak Moscow).