Karl-Heinz Rumpf

Age: 54

Summary: German marketing manager and director of commercial and corporate sponsorships at the automobile industry Audi AG in Ingolstadt, Germany who had recently held the sponsoring bilateral treaties made with the famous Salzburg Music Festival in Austria earlier this year.

Cause of Death: Drowned after being struck by a tsunami

Born: 1950

Died: December 26, 2004

Location: Khao Lak, Thailand