Deaths in November 2004

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

  November 2004

1

• Jean Jacques Dozy, 96, Dutch geologist.
• Mac Dre, 34, American rapper, drive-by shooting.
• 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, shot during domestic dispute.
• Mark Ledford, 43-44, American trumpeter, singer and guitarist, cardiovascular disease.

  2

• Gabriel Bywaters, 90, Australian politician.
• Gustaaf Joos, 81, Belgian Cardinal.
• Gerrie Knetemann, 53, Dutch road bicycle racer, heart attack.
• Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 86, Emirati politician, president of UAE, Emir of Abu Dhabi.
• Theo van Gogh, 47, Dutch filmmaker, television presenter, and author, stabbed and 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.
• Eilert Dahl, 85, Norwegian nordic skier.
• Sergejs Žoltoks, 31, Latvian ice hockey player, heart failure due to cardiac arrhythmia.

  4

• Michael Gross, 84, Israeli painter, sculptor and conceptual artist.
• Robert Heaton, 43, British songwriter and drummer, pancreatic cancer.
• Richard Hongisto, 67, American sheriff of San Francisco and Cleveland, Ohio, heart attack.
• Gordon Ingram, 79, American inventor and entrepreneur.
• Ellen Meloy, 58, American author.
• Yasutomi Nishizuka, 72, Japanese biochemist, discovered Protein Kinase C.
• Dee Phillips, 85, American baseball player.

  5

• Jerzy Duda-Gracz, 63, Polish painter.
• Donald Jones, 72, American-born Dutch actor, comedian, singer and dancer, heart attack.
• Basil McIvor, 76, Northern Irish politician and educationalist.
• Nili Natcho, 22, Circassian-Israeli basketball player, car accident.
• Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, 66, British peer, murdered.
• Billie Woodgate, 79, British tennis player.

  6

• Serge Adda, 56, French television executive, cancer.
• Pola Alonso, 80, Argentine film actress.
• Fred Dibnah, 66, British steeplejack and television presenter, prostate cancer.
• Michel T. Halbouty, 95, American geologist, petroleum engineer, and wildcatter.
• Erwin Heerich, 81, German artist.
• Pete Jolly, 72, American jazz pianist and accordionist, multiple myeloma.
• Robert Lang, 70, English actor, cancer.
• Elizabeth Rogers, 70, American actress, multiple strokes and lung cancer.
• Marion Shilling, 93, American film actress, leading lady in 1930s B-Western films.
• Johnny Warren, 61, Australian soccer player, coach and television presenter, lung cancer.

  7

• Eddie Charlton, 75, Australian snooker and English billiards player.
• Kenzaburo Hara, 97, Japanese politician and Speaker of the House of Representatives.
• Howard Keel, 85, American actor and singer, colon cancer.
• Gibson Kente, 72, South African playwright, AIDS.

  8

• Bruno Bettinelli, 91, Italian composer and teacher.
• Ruby de Mel, 86, Sri lankan actress.
• Chandler Harper, 90, American golfer.
• Sérgio Hingst, 80, Brazilian film actor, heart attack.
• Nelly Meden, 76, Argentine actress.
• Lennox Miller, 58, Jamaican sprinter and Olympic silver medalist, cancer.
• Melba Phillips, 97, American physicist and educator, coronary artery disease.
• G. Sakunthala, 72, Indian film actress.

  9

• Iris Chang, 36, American historian and author, suicide by gunshot.
• Emlyn Hughes, 57, British footballer, brain tumour.
• Ed Kemmer, 83, American actor.
• Stieg Larsson, 50, Swedish author, heart attack.
• Eiji Morioka, 58, Japanese boxer and Olympic medalist, esophageal cancer.

  10

• Elizabeth Chater, 94, Canadian author of novels and poetry.
• Katy de la Cruz, 97, Filipino singer.
• Şeref Görkey, 91, Turkish footballer and manager.
• 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, stroke.
• Karl Enderlin, 81, Swiss Olympic figure skater.
• Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestinian political leader and chairman PLO, President of the Palestinian Authority.
• Richard Dembo, 56, French César Award-winning director, intestinal obstruction.
• Jacques Dynam, 80, French film actor, pneumonia.
• Raymond Murray, 91, United States Marine Corps officer.

  12

• Lucia Berlin, 68, American short story writer.
• Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer.
• Frederik Prausnitz, 84, German-American conductor and teacher.
• Norman Rose, 88, American radio and TV actor.
• Stanisław Skalski, 89, Polish fighter ace during World War II.
• Michael J. Smith, 62, British cricketer, heart attack.

  13

• John Balance, 42, British musician, suicide from jumping.
• Ol' Dirty Bastard, 35, American rapper, drug overdose.
• Ellen Fairclough, 99, Canadian politician, first female cabinet minister.
• Thomas M. Foglietta, 75, American politician and diplomat.
• Harry Lampert, 88, American comic book and advertising artist, co-creator of The Flash, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Domenic Mobilio, 35, Canadian soccer player, heart attack.
• Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer.
• Don Sharpe, 75, British sound editor, Oscar winner.
• Richard Alan Simmons, 80, Canadian-American screenwriter.
• Errol Thompson, 55, Jamaican record producer, audio engineer and dub music pioneer, stroke.
• Keith Weller, 58, English footballer, cancer.

  14

• Michel Colombier, 65, French composer, cancer.
• David Stanley Evans, 88, Welsh astronomer.
• Jesse Gonder, 68, American baseball player.
• Petter Mørch Koren, 94, American politician.
• Harald Kråkenes, 78, Norwegian competition rower and Olympic medalist.
• Wasimul Bari Rajib, 52, Bangladeshi actor, colorectal cancer.
• Matilda White Riley, 93, American gerontologist.
• Shiva Shankar, 72, Nepali singer, composer and actor, liver cancer.
• Veena, 78, Indian actress.
• Evelyn West, 83, American burlesque stripper, pin-up model and actress.

  15

• Elmer L. Andersen, 95, American businessman, governor of Minnesota.
• Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, 73, Iranian doctor, naturopath, HIV/AIDS denialist and writer, pneumonia.
• Bob Cooper, 68, Northern Irish politician.
• John Morgan, 74, Welsh-born Canadian comedian, former member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce, heart attack.
• Rafael Peralta, 25, American marine and posthumously recipient of the Navy Cross, killed in action.
• Jack Schmidt, 80, Canadian professional ice hockey player.

  16

• Floyd Baker, 88, American baseball player.
• Yves Berger, 73, French writer and editor.
• Otis Dudley Duncan, 82, American sociologist and statistician.
• Massimo Freccia, 98, Italian-American conductor.
• Richard Frey, 84, Austrian-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 organization CARE International, presumed killed by hostage takers in Iraq.
• Reed Irvine, 82, American economist, founder of Accuracy in Media, complications of stroke.
• Björn Nyberg, 75, Swedish fantasy author.

  17

• George Curtis, 84, English football player and coach.
• Mikael Ljungberg, 34, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide by hanging.
• Frank Neary, 83, English football player.
• Alexander Ragulin, 63, Soviet ice hockey player, 10-time IIHF World Champion and three-time Olympic gold medalist.

  18

• Juan Carlos Aramburu, 92, Argentinian Roman Catholic cardinal, cardiovascular disease.
• Robert Bacher, 99, American nuclear physicist, co-leader of the Manhattan Project.
• Frank Baldwin, 75, American baseball player.
• Bobby Frank Cherry, 74, American criminal, convicted in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, cancer.
• Cy Coleman, 76, American composer of Broadway musicals, heart attack.
• Jack Horner, 77, Canadian politician.
• Haruyo Ichikawa, 91, Japanese film actress and singer.
• Norman Lloyd Johnson, 87, British statistician and academic.
• Sergei Kovalenko, 57, Soviet and Ukrainian basketball player and Olympic champion.
• Alfred Maseng, Vanuatuan president and foreign minister.
• N. Mathrubootham, 60, Indian psychiatrist and actor.
• Antonio Pocovi, 82, Argentine Olympic sprinter.
• George Scholes, 75, Canadian Olympic hockey player.

  19

• George Canseco, 70, Filipino composer and politician.
• Mario Escudero, 76, Spanish flamenco guitarist.
• Piet Esser, 90, Dutch sculptor.
• Langdon Brown Gilkey, 85, American Christian Protestant Ecumenical theologian, meningitis.
• Helmut Griem, 72, German film actor.
• Trina Schart Hyman, 65, American illustrator of children's books, breast cancer.
• Don MacMillan, 76, Australian Olympic athlete.
• Martin Malia, 80, American historian specializing in Russian history.
• Terry Melcher, 62, American musician and producer, son of Doris Day, melanoma.
• Manuel Zapata Olivella, 84, Colombian doctor, anthropologist, and writer.
• Brian Traxler, 37, American baseball player, liver disease.
• John Vane, 77, British Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist.
• Trooper Washington, 60, American basketball player, heart attack.

  20

• W. Paul Culbertson, 86, American politician.
• Celso Furtado, 84, Brazilian economist, heart attack.
• Janine Haines, 59, Australian politician, former leader of the Australian Democrats.
• Judith Haspel, 86, Swimming champion.
• Anna Keaveney, 55, English actress, lung cancer.
• Ancel Keys, 100, American scientist, co-inventor of the K-ration.
• Ian Lewis, 69, Irish cricketer.
• Dénes Pócsik, 64, Hungarian Olympic water polo player.
• Jimmy Tapp, 86, Voice Actor.
• Hiltgunt Zassenhaus, 88, German philologist.