Deaths in May 2014
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2014.
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference (must be added) are added.
May 2014
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. 1918-2014
Gary Becker 1930-2014
Farley Mowat 1921-2014
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Jean-Luc Dehaene 1940-2014
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Gerald Edelman 1929-2014
Hans-Peter Dürr 1929-2014
Jerry Vale 1930-2014
Jack Brabham 1926-2014
Jaime Lusinchi 1924-2014
Wojciech Jaruzelski 1923-2014
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Maya Angelou 1928-2014
Karlheinz Böhm 1928-2014
- May 1 - Richard Percival Lister, 99, English author, poet, artist and metallurgist.[1]
- May 1 - Assi Dayan, 68, Israeli movie director and actor.[2]
- May 1 - Juan de Dios Castillo, 63, Mexican football player and coach, skin cancer.[3]
- May 1 - Manfred von Richthofen, 80, German sports official, Director of the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (1994–2006).[4]
- May 1 - Juan Formell, 71, Cuban Grammy Award-winning musician, composer and director.[5]
- May 1 - Georg Stollenwerk, 83, German football player and coach (1. FC Köln).[6]
- May 1 - Mel Clark, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[7]
- May 2 - Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, 67, Iranian classical musician, cancer.[8]
- May 2 - Nigel Stepney, 56, British Formula One mechanic, traffic collision.[9]
- May 2 - Žarko Petan, 85, Slovenian writer.[10]
- May 2 - Pauline Wagner, 103, American actress (King of Jazz, College Lovers) and glamour girl.[11]
- May 2 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., 95, American actor (Batman: The Animated Series), possible heart attack.[12]
- May 3 - Jim Oberstar, 79, American politician, member of the US House of Representatives for Minnesota's 8th District (1975–2011).[13]
- May 3 - Gary Becker, 83, American economist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1992).[14]
- May 4 - Dick Ayers, 90, American comic book artist and cartoonist.[15]
- May 4 - Elena Baltacha, 30, British tennis player, liver cancer.[16]
- May 4 - Edgar Cortright, 90, American scientist and engineer, stroke.[17]
- May 4 - Helga Königsdorf, 75, German physicist and author, Parkinson's disease.[18]
- May 4 - Ross Lonsberry, 67, Canadian hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins), cancer.[19]
- May 4 - Tatiana Samoilova, 80, Soviet actress, complications from a heart condition.[20]
- May 5 - Eduardo Mac Entyre, 85, Argentine artist.[21]
- May 5 - Billy Frank, Jr., 83, American Nisqually tribal fishing rights activist.[22]
- May 5 - Butler Derrick, 77, American politician, member of the US House of Representatives for South Carolina's 3rd district (1975–1995), cancer.[23]
- May 6 - Wil Albeda, 88, Dutch politician, Minister of Social Affairs (1977–1981), member of the Senate (1966–1977, 1981–1983).[24]
- May 6 - Farley Mowat, 92, Canadian author.[25]
- May 6 - Jimmy Ellis, 74, American boxer, WBA heavyweight champion (1968–1970), dementia.[26]
- May 6 - Leslie Thomas, 83, Welsh writer (The Virgin Soldiers, Dangerous Davies).[27]
- May 7 - Nazim Al-Haqqani, 92, Cypriot Islamic Sufism prelate and scholar, multiple organ failure.[28]
- May 7 - Raúl Baca Carbo, 82, Ecuadorian engineer and politician.[29]
- May 7 - Ramón Vega Hidalgo, 80, Chilean military officer and politician, Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Air Force (1991–1995).[30]
- May 7 - Manuel Jiménez de Parga, 85, Spanish politician.[31]
- May 7 - Colin Pillinger, 70, British planetary scientist, brain haemorrhage.[32]
- May 7 - Sir Neville McNamara, 91, Australian defence chief.[33]
- May 8 - Jair Rodrigues, 75, Brazilian musician and singer.[34]
- May 8 - Mercedes Salisachs, 97, Spanish writer.[35]
- May 8 - Nancy Malone, 79, American Emmy Award-winning producer, director (Dynasty) and actress (Naked City), leukemia-induced pneumonia.[36]
- May 9 - Harlan Mathews, 87, American politician, Senator from Tennessee (1993–1994), brain cancer.[37]
- May 9 - Jules Mutebusi, 54, Congolese militant.[38]
- May 9 - Patrick Lucey, 96, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (1971-1977), United States Ambassador to Mexico (1977-1979).[39]
- May 9 - Jorge Zavala, 91, Ecuadorian politician.[40]
- May 9 - Mel Patton, 89, American sprinter, double Olympic champion (1948), cancer and diabetes issues.[41]
- May 10 - Carmen Alardin, 80, Mexican poet, writer and translator.[42]
- May 10 - José Falcó Sanmartín, 97, Spanish fighter pilot.[43]
- May 10 - Andres Carrasco, 67, Argentine neurologist, challenged Monsanto over safety of glyphosate.[44]
- May 10 - Lem Johns, 88, American Secret Service agent (Lyndon B. Johnson).[45]
- May 11 - Martin Špegelj, 86, Croatian politician and army officer.[46]
- May 11 - Barbara Knudson, 86, American actress (Meet Danny Wilson, The Jayhawkers!, The Cry Baby Killer).[47]
- May 11 - Francisco Sobrino, 82, Spanish sculptor.[48]
- May 11 - Reg Gasnier, 74, Australian Hall of Fame rugby league player (St. George Dragons) and national team captain.[49]
- May 12 - Cornell Borchers, 89, Lithuanian-born German actress.[50]
- May 12 - H. R. Giger, 74, Swiss Academy Award-winning artist (Alien), fall.[51]
- May 12 - Ľudovít Lehen, 88, Slovakian painter and chess composer.[52]
- May 12 - Brian Marchinko, 65, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders).[53]
- May 12 - Pál Orosz, 80, Hungarian Olympic bronze-medalist football player (1960) and coach.[54]
- May 12 - Sarat Pujari, 80, Indian actor, heart attack.[55]
- May 12 - Nash the Slash, 66, Canadian rock musician (FM).[56] (death announced on this date)
- May 13 - Máximo Alcócer, 81, Bolivian footballer.[57]
- May 13 - Malik Bendjelloul, 36, Swedish Academy Award-winning documentary movie director (Searching for Sugar Man), suicide.[58]
- May 13 - Fred Dunsmore, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Winnipeg Maroons).[59]
- May 13 - David Malet Armstrong, 87, Australian philosopher.[60]
- May 14 - Stephen Sutton, 19, British charity fundraiser, colorectal cancer.[61]
- May 15 - Jean-Luc Dehaene, 73, Belgian politician, Prime Minister (1992–1999), fall.[62]
- May 16 - Viktor Sukhodrev, 81, Soviet-born Russian interpreter (Leonid Brezhnev).[63]
- May 16 - Albert Viaplana, 81, Spanish architect.[64]
- May 17 - Miss Beazley, 9, American Scottish terrier, pet of George W. Bush, euthanized due to lymphoma.[65]
- May 17 - Gerald Edelman, 84, American biologist, won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease.[66]
- May 18 - Dobrica Ćosić, 92, Serbian writer and politician, President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–1993).[67]
- May 18 - Jerry Vale, 83, American singer.[68]
- May 18 - Per Almar Aas, 84, Norwegian politician.[69]
- May 18 - Hans-Peter Dürr, 84, German physicist.[70]
- May 18 - Gordon Willis, 82, American cinematographer (The Godfather series, Annie Hall, Manhattan).[71]
- May 18 - Kaiketsu Masateru, 66, Japanese sumo wrestler and executive, ischemic heart disease.[72]
- May 18 - Wubbo Ockels, 68, Dutch physicist and astronaut, first Dutch citizen in space, kidney cancer.[73]
- May 18 - Morris Weiss, 98, American cartoonist.[74]
- May 19 - Jack Brabham, 88, Australian racing driver, three times Formula One world champion.[75]
- May 19 - Antanas Šurna, 75, Lithuanian actor.[76]
- May 19 - Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, 79, Polish Olympic boxer.[77]
- May 19 - Mario Missiroli, 80, Italian movie director.[78]
- May 19 - Simon Andrews, 29, English motorcycle racer, head injuries from race accident.[79]
- May 20 - Charles W. Robinson, 94, American businessman and diplomat, Deputy Secretary of State (1976–1977).[80]
- May 20 - Arthur Gelb, 90, American newspaper editor and critic (The New York Times), complications from a stroke.[81]
- May 20 - Barbara Murray, 84, English actress (Passport to Pimlico, The Plane Makers), heart attack.[82]
- May 21 - Alireza Soleimani, 58, Iranian Olympic freestyle wrestler, heart attack.[83]
- May 21 - Jaime Lusinchi, 89, Venezuelan politician, President (1984–1989).[84]
- May 21 - Poni Adams, 95, American actress (House of Dracula).[85]
- May 22 - Imre Gedővári, 62, Hungarian Olympic champion and bronze-medalist fencer.[86]
- May 23 - Joel Camargo, 67, Brazilian footballer (Santos), renal failure.[87]
- May 23 - Walter Romberg, 85, East German politician, Minister of Finance (1990).[88]
- May 23 - Mona Freeman, 87, American actress.[89]
- May 24 - John Vasconcellos, 82, American politician, organ failure.[90]
- May 25 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, 90, Polish military officer and politician, stroke.[91]
- May 25 - Bunny Yeager, 85, American model and photographer.[92]
- May 25 - David Allen, 78, English cricketer.[93]
- May 25 - Herb Jeffries, 100, American jazz and traditional pop singer and actor, heart failure.[94]
- May 25 - Tommy Blom, 67, Swedish radio host and singer.[95]
- May 25 - Malcolm Simmons, 68, English motorcycle speedway racer (Poole Pirates), World Team Cup Winner (1974, 1975, 1977), World Pairs Champion (1976, 1977, 1978), emphysema.[96]
- May 26 - Manuel Uribe, 48, Mexican man, world's third-heaviest person, liver failure.[97]
- May 26 - Miodrag Radulovacki, 81, Serbian medical research scientist.[98]
- May 27 - Helma Sanders-Brahms, 73, German movie director.[99]
- May 27 - Massimo Vignelli, 83, Italian graphic designer.[100]
- May 28 - Maya Angelou, 86, American poet, author, and civil rights activist.[101]
- May 28 - Malcolm Glazer, 85, American real estate executive and sports franchise owner (Manchester United, Tampa Bay Buccaneers).[102]
- May 28 - Ciro de Quadros, 74, Brazilian physician, pancreatic cancer.[103]
- May 28 - Azlan Shah of Perak, 86, Malaysian royal, Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1989–1994), Sultan of Perak (since 1984), Lord President of the Supreme Court (1982–1984), Chief Justice (1979–1982).[104]
- May 29 - Karlheinz Böhm, 86, Austrian actor.[105]
- May 29 - Walter Jakob Gehring, 75, Swiss developmental biologist (University of Basel).[106]
- May 29 - Christine Charbonneau, 70, Canadian singer and songwriter, cancer.[107]
- May 30 - Hienadz Buraukin, 77, Belarusian poet, journalist and diplomat, Ambassador to the United Nations (1990–1994), cancer.[108]
- May 30 - Hanna Maron, 90, German-born Israeli actress.[109]
- May 30 - Joan Lorring, 88, British Hong Kong-born American actress.[110]
- May 30 - Henning Carlsen, 86, Danish Bodil Award-winning movie director (Hunger, People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart).[111]
- May 31 - Marilyn Beck, 85, American syndicated entertainment journalist and columnist, lung cancer.[112]
- May 31 - Hoss Ellington, 79, American race car driver and team owner (NASCAR), cancer.[113]
- May 31 - Martha Hyer, 89, American actress.[114]
- May 31 - Brajanath Ratha, 78, Indian poet.[115]
- May 31 - Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, 91, British aristocrat.[116]
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References
- ↑ No more birthdays. R.P.Lister.
- ↑ Film director, actor Assi Dayan dead at 68
- ↑ Muere Juan de Dios "Cuate" Castillo, ex seleccionador de Honduras (in Spanish)
- ↑ "German sports head Manfred von Richthofen dies". Archived from the original on 2014-05-03. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ Murió Juan Formell, fundador y director de los Van Van (in Spanish)
- ↑ Ex-Nationalspieler 1. FC Köln trauert um Georg Stollenwerk (in German)
- ↑ Mel Clark obituary
- ↑ محمدرضا لطفی درگذشت (in Persian)
- ↑ Ex-Ferrari Formula 1 mechanic Nigel Stepney killed in road accident
- ↑ Umrl je Žarko Petan Archived 2014-06-05 at the Wayback Machine (in Slovene)
- ↑ "Obituary of Pauline McCourtney". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2014-10-10.
- ↑ Actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Dies at 95
- ↑ Former U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar dies at 79
- ↑ Gary Becker, Who Applied Economics to Social Study, Dies at 83
- ↑ Dick Ayers Dies, Just After His Ninetieth Birthday
- ↑ "Elena Baltacha loses battle against liver cancer". Archived from the original on 2014-06-09. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ Obituary: Dr. Edgar Cortright
- ↑ Professorin und Publizistin: DDR-Schriftstellerin Helga Königsdorf ist tot (in German)
- ↑ Former King, Flyer Ross Lonsberry dies at 67
- ↑ Soviet Film Star Tatiana Samoilova Dies at 80
- ↑ Fallece a los 85 años el artista Eduardo Mac Entyre Archived 2014-05-06 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ↑ Tribal fishing rights activist Billy Frank Jr. dies
- ↑ "Former congressman Butler Derrick has passed". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ Oud-politicus Wil Albeda overleden (88) (in Dutch)
- ↑ Farley Mowat, acclaimed Canadian author, dead at 92
- ↑ Jimmy Ellis, Ali’s Friend Who Won Boxing Crown, Dies at 74
- ↑ Virgin Soldiers author Leslie Thomas dies aged 83
- ↑ Sheik of Lefka has died
- ↑ Muere político Raúl Baca Carbo. (in Spanish)
- ↑ Muere ex comandante en jefe de la FACh que fue procesado por compra de aviones Mirage (in Spanish)
- ↑ Muere el expresidente del Tribunal Constitucional Jiménez de Parga.
- ↑ Colin Pillinger dies after brain haemorrhage
- ↑ "Chief of the Defence Force pays his respects to Air Chief Marshal Sir Neville McNamara (Retd)". Archived from the original on 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ Jair Rodrigues morre aos 75 anos (in Portuguese)
- ↑ Muere la escritora barcelonesa Mercedes Salisachs. (in Spanish)
- ↑ Nancy Malone, Actress, Director and Pioneering TV Exec, Dies at 79
- ↑ Former U.S. Sen. and Deputy Gov. Harlan Mathews dies
- ↑ "Ex-DR Congo warlord Mutebusi dies in Rwanda". Archived from the original on 2014-06-01. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ From governor to ambassador, Lucey guided Wisconsin, national politics
- ↑ Jorge Zavala Baquerizo falleció en Guayaquil a la edad de 92 años. Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ↑ "Former Olympic sprint champion Mel Patton dies". Archived from the original on 2014-05-17. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ Mexican poet Carmen Alardin dies at 80
- ↑ Muere a los 97 años José Falcó, uno de los ases de la aviación republicana (in Spanish)
- ↑ Argentine scientist who challenged Monsanto dies[dead link]
- ↑ Secret Service agent in iconic LBJ photos dies
- ↑ "Former Croatian defence minister Spegelj dies at age of 87". Archived from the original on 2014-05-12. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ BARBARA KNUDSON HENRY Obituary
- ↑ Fallece el escultor Francisco Sobrino. (in Spanish)
- ↑ Reg Gasnier, rugby league legend, has passed away
- ↑ Gerlind Cornell Borchers-Schelkopf (in German)
- ↑ "'Alien' creator H.R. Giger is dead". Archived from the original on 2014-05-14. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ "⋅Artisti slovacchi: Addio Ľudovít Lehen, fiore tra il cemento (1925 – 2014)". Archived from the original on 2016-03-31. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ Brian Nickolas Wayne Marchinko
- ↑ Elhunyt Orosz Pál, a Ferencváros örökös bajnoka (in Hungarian).
- ↑ Actor Sarat Pujari dead!
- ↑ "Bandaged rock violinist Nash the Slash, a.k.a. Jeff Plewman, dead at 66". Archived from the original on 2019-10-14. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ Murió Alcócer, fue campeón sudamericano Archived 2014-05-17 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ↑ "Malik Bendjelloul Dead: 'Searching for Sugar Man' Director Dies at 36". Archived from the original on 2017-02-26. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ Fred Dunsmore
- ↑ "The memorial of David Malet ARMSTRONG (1926 - 2014)". Archived from the original on 2014-05-14. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ Fundraiser Stephen Sutton dies at 19
- ↑ Former Belgian Premier Dehaene Is Dead at 73
- ↑ Скончался личный переводчик советских руководителей Виктор Суходрев (in Russian)
- ↑ Fallece el arquitecto Albert Viaplana, autor de la dársena de la Avenida Xoán XXIII de Santiago. (in Spanish)
- ↑ "Bush family mourns pooch Miss Beazley". Archived from the original on 2014-08-18. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ Gerald M. Edelman, Nobel Laureate and ‘Neural Darwinist,’ Dies at 84
- ↑ Preminuo Dobrica Ćosić (in Serbian)
- ↑ "Singer Jerry Vale dies". Archived from the original on 2014-05-19. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ Aas, Per Almar ( 1929-2014 ) (in Norwegian)
- ↑ Tod von Hans-Peter Dürr (in German)
- ↑ R.I.P. ‘Godfather’ DP Gordon Willis
- ↑ "Former JSA Chairman, ex-ozeki Kaiketsu dies at 66". Archived from the original on 2014-05-19. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ Wubbo Ockels overleden (in Dutch)
- ↑ Morris Weiss, R.I.P.
- ↑ "Australian motor racing Formula One legend Sir Jack Brabham dies". Archived from the original on 2014-05-19. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ "Mirė legendinis Lietuvos aktorius A.Šurna". Archived from the original on 2014-05-22. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, trzykrotny medalista olimpijski w boksie, nie żyje (in Polish)
- ↑ Teatro - È morto a Torino il regista Mario Missiroli Archived 2014-05-19 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
- ↑ Simon Andrews: English rider dies after North West 200 crash
- ↑ Charles W. Robinson, 1919-2014
- ↑ Longtime New York Times Editor, Critic Arthur Gelb Dies At 90
- ↑ Obituary: Barbara Murray
- ↑ "Iran's former World Wrestling Champion Soleimani Dies". Archived from the original on 2014-05-21. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ Falleció el expresidente de la República, Jaime Lusinchi - Nacional y Política (in Spanish)
- ↑ "HOUSE OF DRACULA Actress Jane Adams Dies". Archived from the original on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ Elhunyt Gedővári Imre Archived 2018-04-21 at the Wayback Machine (in Hungarian)
- ↑ Morre Joel Camargo, ex-zagueiro do Santos e campeão do mundo em 1970 (in Portuguese)
- ↑ Walter Romberg gestorben (in German)
- ↑ Film star Mona Freeman, typecast as teen in '40s and '50s, dies at 87
- ↑ John Vasconcellos, longtime Silicon Valley lawmaker dies at 82
- ↑ Poland's last Communist leader Wojciech Jaruzelski dies
- ↑ Pin-up photographer Bunny Yeager dies at 85
- ↑ Former England spinner David Allen dies
- ↑ Herb Jeffries, Hollywood's first black singing cowboy, dies at 100
- ↑ Tommy Blom är död (in Swedish)
- ↑ Poole Pirates: Former Poole rider Malcolm Simmons dies
- ↑ Muere Manuel Uribe, quien fuera el hombre más obeso del mundo (in Spanish)
- ↑ Miodrag Radulovacki Obituary
- ↑ Filmemacherin Helma Sanders-Brahms gestorben (in German)
- ↑ Massimo Vignelli, a Modernist Graphic Designer, Dies at 83
- ↑ Maya Angelou dead at 86
- ↑ Malcolm Glazer, Buccaneers owner, dies at age 85
- ↑ Obituary: Ciro de Quadros
- ↑ Perak Sultan and former judge Azlan Shah DIES: Legacy diminished, Perak crisis remembered
- ↑ Actor, Philanthropist Karlheinz Bohm Dead at 86
- ↑ "Obituary for Walter Gehring (1939 – 2014)". Archived from the original on 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ La chanteuse et auteure Christine Charbonneau est décédée (in French)
- ↑ Henadz Buraukin dies
- ↑ Hanna Maron dies
- ↑ Joan Lorring, Oscar Nominated 'Corn Is Green' Actress, Dies at 88
- ↑ Filminstruktøren Henning Carlsen er død (in Danish)
- ↑ Marilyn Beck, longtime TV and Hollywood newspaper columnist, dies at 85
- ↑ Ex-NASCAR driver, owner Hoss Ellington dies at 79
- ↑ Old Hollywood actress Martha Hyer dies
- ↑ Eminent Odisha poet Brajanath Ratha passes away
- ↑ Lady Soames, Winston Churchill's last surviving child, dies aged 91