Deaths in November 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2004.

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.

November 2004

1

*James Hanson, Baron Hanson, 82, British industrialist and Conservative life peer, cancer.
*Hatem Kamil, Iraqi deputy governor of Baghdad, shot.
*Terry Knight, 61, American rock manager and producer (Grand Funk Railroad), shot during domestic dispute.
*Mark Ledford, 43-44, American trumpeter, singer and guitarist.
*Mac Dre, 34, American rapper, drive-by shooting.

2

*Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 86, Emirati politician, president of UAE (1971–2004), Emir of Abu Dhabi.
*Gustaaf Joos, 81, Belgian Cardinal.
*Gerrie Knetemann, 53, Dutch cyclist (world champion, 1978), heart attack.
* Basil Thompson, 67, American ballet master.
* Theo van Gogh, 47, Dutch filmmaker, television presenter, and author, shot.

3

*Janet Backhouse, 66, English manuscripts curator at the British Museum, cancer.
* James H. Binger, 88, American lawyer, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
*Joe Bushkin, 87, American swing era jazz pianist, pneumonia.
* Sergejs Žoltoks, 31, Latvian ice hockey player (Minnesota Wild, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins), heart failure due to cardiac arrhythmia.

4

* Mohammed Bello, 74, Nigerian jurist, Chief Justice (1987–1995).
*Robert Heaton, 43, British songwriter and drummer ( New Model Army), pancreatic cancer.
*Richard Hongisto, 67, American former sheriff of San Francisco and Cleveland, Ohio, heart attack.
*Ellen Meloy, 58, American author.
* Yasutomi Nishizuka, 72, Japanese biochemist, discovered Protein Kinase C (PKC).
*Dee Phillips, 85, American baseball player ( Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves).
* Delbert Plett, 56, Russian-Canadian lawyer and historian, known for the history of Russian Mennonites in Canada.

5

* Harold de Andrado, 76, Sri Lankan cricket writer.
* Donald Jones, 72, American-born Dutch actor, comedian, singer and dancer, first black Dutch celebrity, heart attack.
*Basil McIvor, 76, Northern Irish politician and educationalist.
* Nili Natkho, 22, Circassian-Israeli basketball player, car accident.

6

*Fred Dibnah, 66, British steeplejack and television presenter, prostate cancer.
* Michel T. Halbouty, 95, American geologist, petroleum engineer, and wildcatter.
*Pete Jolly, 72, American jazz pianist and accordionist.
*Elizabeth Rogers, 70, American actress ('' Star Trek''), multiple strokes and lung cancer.
*Marion Shilling, 93, American film actress, leading lady in 1930s B-Western films.
* Patrick F. Taylor, 67, American businessman, heart infection.
*Johnny Warren, 61, Australian soccer player, coach and ethnic community advocate, lung cancer.
* Déborah Weil, 47, Mexican Olympic dive

7

* Bob Clatterbuck, Bobby Clatterbuck, 72, American football player.
*Howard Keel, 85, American actor and singer (''Kiss Me Kate'', '' Annie Get Your Gun'', ''Dallas''), colon cancer.
*Gibson Kente, 72, South African playwright, AIDS.
* Herman Postma, 71, American scientist and educational leader (director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory).

8

* Wahono, 79, Indonesian politician, East Java governor.
*Eddie Charlton, 75, Australian snooker player.
*Chandler Harper, 90, American golfer.
*Ruby de Mel, 86, Sri lankan actress.
*Lennox Miller, 58, Jamaican Olympic athlete, cancer.
* Sharad Panday, 70, Indian heart surgeon.
*Melba Phillips, 97, American physicist and educator, coronary artery disease.
* G. Sakunthala, 72, Indian film actress.

9

*Iris Chang, 36, American historian and author ('' The Rape of Nanking''), suicide.
*Emlyn Hughes, 57, British footballer (Liverpool F.C., England), brain tumour.
*Ed Kemmer, 83, American actor.
* Stieg Larsson, 50, Swedish author (''Millennium'').

10

* Elizabeth Chater, 94, Canadian author of novels and poetry.
*Katy de la Cruz, 97, Filipino singer.
*Şeref Görkey, 91, Turkish footballer and manager.
* Walter Pukutiwara, Aboriginal artist.
*Erna Rosenstein, 91, Polish surrealist painter and poet, arterial sclerosis.

11

*Dayton Allen, 85, American comedian, voice of Deputy Dawg and Mayor Phineas T. Bluster.
*Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestinian PLO leader, President of the Palestinian Authority, cause disputed, possible poisoning.
* J. P. Blecksmith, 24, American military officer, K.I.A.
* Shirley Briggs, 86, American artist, photographer, writer, and naturalist.
*Richard Dembo, 56, French César Award-winning director, intestinal obstruction.
* Sam Kogan, 58, Russian actor, director, and acting teacher, cancer.
* Raymond Murray, 91, United States Marine Corps officer.

12

* Lelio Marino, 69, Italian-born American entrepreneur, owner of Modern Continental group.
*Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer.
*Norman Rose, 88, American radio and TV actor ('' All My Children'', voice of Juan Valdez).
*Stanisław Skalski, 89, Polish World War II fighter ace.
* Mike Smith, 62, British cricketer, heart attack.

13

*John Balance, 42, British musician ( Coil), fall.
*Ellen Fairclough, 99, Canadian politician, first female cabinet minister.
* Russell "Ol' Dirty Bastard" Jones, 35, American rapper, drug overdose.
* Harry Lampert, 88, American comic book and advertising artist, co-creator of The Flash, author of instructional books on contract bridge, cerebral hemorrhage.
*Domenic Mobilio, 35, Canadian soccer player, heart attack.
*Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer.
* Don Sharpe, 79, British sound editor ('' Aliens'', '' Batman'', ''Sleuth''), Oscar winner (1987).
* Roy Thomas, 54, Canadian aboriginal artist, cancer.
* Keith Weller, 58, English footballer (Millwall. Leicester City), cancer.

14

*Michel Colombier, 65, French composer, cancer.
*David Stanley Evans, 86, Welsh astronomer.
*Jesse Gonder, 68, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Milwaukee Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates).
* Matilda White Riley, 93, American gerontologist.
* Shiva Shankar, 72, Nepali singer, composer and actor.
* Evelyn West, 80, American burlesque stripper, pin-up girl and actress.

15

* Elmer L. Andersen, 96, American businessman, governor of Minnesota (1961–1963).
* Sir Bob Cooper, 68, Northern Irish politician.
* Colin Coulthard, 83, British Royal Air Force officer.
* John Morgan, 74, Welsh-born Canadian comedian, former member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce, heart attack.
* Jack Schmidt, 80, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).

16

* Yves Berger, 73, French writer and editor.
* Massimo Freccia, 98, Italian-American conductor.
* Richard Frey, 84, Austria-Chinese military physician and politician.
*B. C. Gowrishankar, 54, Indian cinematographer and screenwriter.
*Ken Hannam, 75, Australian film and television director, cancer.
*Margaret Hassan, 59, British aid worker, chief of the humanitarian relief organization CARE International, presumed killed by hostage takers in Iraq.
* Reed Irvine, 82, American economist, founder of Accuracy in Media, complications of stroke.
* Goh Sin Tub, 77, Singaporean writer.

17

*Floyd Baker, 88, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies).
* George Curtis, 84, English football player and coach.
* Mikael Ljungberg, 34, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide by hanging.
* Alexander Ragulin, 63, Soviet ice hockey player, 10-time IIHF World Champion and three-time Olympic gold medalist.
* Lena Townsend, 93, British politician, leader of the Inner London Education Authority (1969–1970).

18

* Danilo Anderson, 38, Venezuelan prosecutor, bombing.
*Juan Carlos Aramburu, 92, Argentinian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Buenos Aires (1975–1990), Cardinal since 1976.
* Robert Bacher, 99, American nuclear physicist, co-leader of the Manhattan Project.
* Frank Baldwin, 75, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs).
*Bobby Frank Cherry, 75, American criminal, convicted in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, cancer.
* Cy Coleman, 76, American composer of Broadway musicals, heart attack.
* Alfred Maseng, Vanuatuan president (1994, 2004) and foreign minister (1995–1996).
* N. Mathrubootham, 60, Indian psychiatrist and actor.
*Antonio Pocovi, 82, Argentine Olympic sprinter ( men's 400 metres and men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* George Scholes, 75, Canadian Olympic hockey player ( bronze medal winner in men's ice hockey at the 1956 Winter Olympics).

19

*Langdon Gilkey, 85, American Christian Protestant Ecumenical theologian.
*Helmut Griem, 72, German film actor (''Cabaret'').
*Trina Schart Hyman, 65, American illustrator of children's books, complications of breast cancer.
* Don MacMillan, 76, Australian Olympic athlete.
*Terry Melcher, 62, American musician and producer, son of Doris Day, melanoma.
* Brian Traxler, 37, American baseball player.
* Sir John Vane, 77, British Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (Medicine, 1982).

20

*Celso Furtado, 84, Brazilian economist, heart attack.
* David Grierson, 49, Canadian CBC radio and television host.
*Janine Haines, 59, Australian politician, former leader of the Australian Democrats, after long illness.
*Ancel Keys, 100, American scientist, co-inventor of the K-ration.
* Ian Lewis, 69, Irish cricketer.
* Dénes Pócsik, 64, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (winner of three Olympic medals: 1964, 1968, 1972).
*Jenny Ross, 42, British punk rock singer.
* Jimmy Tapp, 86, Canadian television personality and voice actor (''The Mighty Hercules'').

21

* Willi Illbruck, 77, German industrialist.
*Georges Morel, 66, French Olympic rower.
*Michael Ricketts, 81, British cricketer and Army officer.
*Mashhoor bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 50, Saudi prince.
*Noel Perrin, 77, American essayist, MSA.
* Uwe Scholz, 45, German ballet dancer, director and choreographer.

22

* Reginald Coates, 84, British civil engineer.
*Leo Dee, 73, American artist and teacher.
*Arthur Hopcraft, 71, British author (''The Football Man''), sports journalist, and screenwriter.
* Niall McInerney, 55, Irish hurler.
* Don Puddy, 67, American NASA engineer, manager and flight director in the Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center.

23

*Frances Chaney, 89, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
*John Cordle, 92, British politician.
* Rafael Eitan, 75, Israeli politician and former chief of staff, drowned.
* Karl Enderlin, 81, Swiss figure skater.
*Eris Paton, 76, New Zealand cricketer.
* Miriam Schlein, 78, American author.
* Joseph J. Sisco, 85, American diplomat, known for playing a major role in Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy.
*Harrison Stafford, 92, American professional football player (University of Texas, New York Giants).

24

* Larry Brown, 53, American author and novelist, apparent heart attack.
* Arthur Hailey, 84, British-Canadian author, declining health following stroke.
* Joseph Hansen, 81, American mystery author.
*Taiji Kase, 75, Japanese karateka.
* Janet Kear, 71, British ornithologist.
* Harry Moniba, 67, Liberian politician, Vice President of Liberia (1986–1990).
* Walter Pavlicek, 78, Austrian Olympic swimmer ( men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* John Tosi, 88, American football player.
* James Wong, 64, Hong Kong lyricist, actor, director, talk show host and author, lung cancer.

25

* Rachel Attas, 70, Israeli actress, voice actress and singer, cancer.
* David Bailey, 71, American actor ('' Another World'', ''Passions''), drowned.
*Bob Haney, 78, American comic book writer (''Teen Titans'', ''Doom Patrol'', ''Aquaman'').
* Elijah Mwangale, 65, Kenyan politician.
*Ed Paschke, 65, American artist, heart failure.
*Denis Richards, 94, British historian.
*Ross Robinson, 76, Australian rules football player.
* Carl Silvestri, 61, American professional football player (University of Wisconsin, St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons).

26

* Bill Alley, 85, Anglo-Australian cricketer (Somerset, New South Wales) and test cricket umpire.
*Philippe de Broca, 71, French film director, cancer.
*Tom Haller, 67, American MLB All-Star catcher (San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, Detroit Tigers) and manager (Giants), after long illness.
*C. Walter Hodges, 95, British illustrator, author and Shakespeare scholar.
* Maude Lloyd, 96, South African ballerina.
* Hans Schaffner, 95, Swiss politician and Federal Councilor (1960s), President of the Confederation (1966).

27

* Samuel Chinque, 96, British writer, publisher, activist, and trade unionist.
* Jack Daniels, 92, British automotive designer, cancer.
* John Dunn, 70, Scottish BBC Radio 2 disc jockey, cancer.
*Gunder Hägg, 85, Swedish middle-distance runner.
*Billy James Hargis, 79, American Christian minister, missionary and anti-Communist activist.

28

* Leroy F. Aarons, 70, American journalist, founder of the NLGJA, cancer.
* Nermin Vlora Falaschi, 83, Albanian intellectual and feminist.
* Cris Huerta, 69, Portuguese actor.
* Connie Johnson, 81, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles).
* Hans Christian Nielsen, 88, Danish Olympic cyclist ( men's team pursuit cycling at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
*Molly Weir, 94, Scottish actress.

29

*John Drew Barrymore, 72, American actor, member of the Barrymore family, father of Drew Barrymore.
*Harry Danning, 93, American MLB All-Star catcher ( New York Giants).
*Irwin Donenfeld, 78, American DC Comics executive.
* John Monckton, 49, British city financier, murdered.
* Inger Nordbø, 89, Danish-Norwegian Olympic diver ( women's 3 metre springboard and women's 10 metre platform at the 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Bernard Robinson, 92, English footballer (Norwich City F.C.).
* Jack Shields, 74, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Fort McMurray—Athabasca, Alberta).
*Molly Weir, 94, British TV and radio actress.
* Karl Wölfl, 90, Austrian Olympic cyclist.

30

*Pierre Berton, 84, Canadian author and journalist, heart failure.
* Bill Brown, 73, Scottish goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, Scotland).
* Alexei Khvostenko, 64, Russian poet, artist and musician, heart failure.
*Johnny Quigley, 69, Scottish footballer.
*Seung Sahn, 77, Korean zen master, founder of Kwan Um School of Zen.
*Elsa Stansfield, 59, Scottish video artist.

References

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