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, 43/4, 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 diver [1]
7
- 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).[citation needed]
- 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.