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.[1]
- Hatem Kamil, Iraqi deputy governor of Baghdad, shot.[2]
- Terry Knight, 61, American rock manager and producer (Grand Funk Railroad), shot during domestic dispute.[3]
- Mark Ledford, 43-44, American trumpeter, singer and guitarist.[4]
- Mac Dre, 34, American rapper, drive-by shooting.[5]
2
- Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 86, Emirati politician, president of UAE (1971–2004), Emir of Abu Dhabi.[6]
- Gustaaf Joos, 81, Belgian Cardinal.[7]
- Gerrie Knetemann, 53, Dutch cyclist (world champion, 1978), heart attack.[8]
- Basil Thompson, 67, American ballet master.[9]
- Theo van Gogh, 47, Dutch filmmaker, television presenter, and author, shot.[10]
3
- Janet Backhouse, 66, English manuscripts curator at the British Museum, cancer.
- James H. Binger, 88, American lawyer, entrepreneur and philanthropist.[11]
- Joe Bushkin, 87, American swing era jazz pianist, pneumonia.[12]
- Sergejs Žoltoks, 31, Latvian ice hockey player (Minnesota Wild, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins), heart failure due to cardiac arrhythmia.[13]
4
- Mohammed Bello, 74, Nigerian jurist, Chief Justice (1987–1995).[14]
- Robert Heaton, 43, British songwriter and drummer (New Model Army), pancreatic cancer.[15]
- Richard Hongisto, 67, American former sheriff of San Francisco and Cleveland, Ohio, heart attack.[16]
- Ellen Meloy, 58, American author.[17]
- Yasutomi Nishizuka, 72, Japanese biochemist, discovered Protein Kinase C (PKC).[18]
- Dee Phillips, 85, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves).[19]
- Delbert Plett, 56, Russian-Canadian lawyer and historian, known for the history of Russian Mennonites in Canada.[20]
5
- Harold de Andrado, 76, Sri Lankan cricket writer.[21]
- Donald Jones, 72, American-born Dutch actor, comedian, singer and dancer, first black Dutch celebrity, heart attack.[22]
- Basil McIvor, 76, Northern Irish politician and educationalist.[23]
- Nili Natkho, 22, Circassian-Israeli basketball player, car accident.
6
- Fred Dibnah, 66, British steeplejack and television presenter, prostate cancer.[24]
- Michel T. Halbouty, 95, American geologist, petroleum engineer, and wildcatter.[25]
- Pete Jolly, 72, American jazz pianist and accordionist.[26]
- Elizabeth Rogers, 70, American actress (Star Trek), multiple strokes and lung cancer.[27]
- Marion Shilling, 93, American film actress, leading lady in 1930s B-Western films.[28]
- Patrick F. Taylor, 67, American businessman, heart infection.[29]
- Johnny Warren, 61, Australian soccer player, coach and ethnic community advocate, lung cancer.[30]
- 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.[31]
- Gibson Kente, 72, South African playwright, AIDS.[32]
- Herman Postma, 71, American scientist and educational leader (director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory).[33]
8
- Wahono, 79, Indonesian politician, East Java governor.
- Eddie Charlton, 75, Australian snooker player.[34]
- Chandler Harper, 90, American golfer.[35]
- Ruby de Mel, 86, Sri lankan actress.
- Lennox Miller, 58, Jamaican Olympic athlete, cancer.[36]
- Sharad Panday, 70, Indian heart surgeon.
- Melba Phillips, 97, American physicist and educator, coronary artery disease.[37]
- G. Sakunthala, 72, Indian film actress.
9
- Iris Chang, 36, American historian and author (The Rape of Nanking), suicide.[38]
- Emlyn Hughes, 57, British footballer (Liverpool F.C., England), brain tumour.[39]
- Ed Kemmer, 83, American actor.
- Stieg Larsson, 50, Swedish author (Millennium).[40]
10
- Elizabeth Chater, 94, Canadian author of novels and poetry.
- Katy de la Cruz, 97, Filipino singer.[41]
- Şeref Görkey, 91, Turkish footballer and manager.
- Walter Pukutiwara, Aboriginal artist.
- Erna Rosenstein, 91, Polish surrealist painter and poet, arterial sclerosis.[42]
11
- Dayton Allen, 85, American comedian, voice of Deputy Dawg and Mayor Phineas T. Bluster.[43]
- Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestinian PLO leader, President of the Palestinian Authority, cause disputed, possible poisoning.[44]
- 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.[45]
- 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.[46]
- Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer.[47]
- Norman Rose, 88, American radio and TV actor (All My Children, voice of Juan Valdez).[48]
- Stanisław Skalski, 89, Polish World War II fighter ace.[49]
- Mike Smith, 62, British cricketer, heart attack.[50]
13
- John Balance, 42, British musician (Coil), fall.[51]
- Ellen Fairclough, 99, Canadian politician, first female cabinet minister.[52]
- Russell "Ol' Dirty Bastard" Jones, 35, American rapper, drug overdose.[53]
- Harry Lampert, 88, American comic book and advertising artist, co-creator of The Flash, author of instructional books on contract bridge, cerebral hemorrhage.[54]
- Domenic Mobilio, 35, Canadian soccer player, heart attack.[55]
- Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer.[56]
- Don Sharpe, 79, British sound editor (Aliens, Batman, Sleuth), Oscar winner (1987).
- Roy Thomas, 54, Canadian aboriginal artist, cancer.[57]
- Keith Weller, 58, English footballer (Millwall. Leicester City), cancer.[58]
14
- Michel Colombier, 65, French composer, cancer.[59]
- David Stanley Evans, 86, Welsh astronomer.[60]
- Jesse Gonder, 68, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Milwaukee Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates).[61]
- 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.[62]
15
- Elmer L. Andersen, 96, American businessman, governor of Minnesota (1961–1963).[63]
- Sir Bob Cooper, 68, Northern Irish politician.[64]
- Colin Coulthard, 83, British Royal Air Force officer.[65]
- John Morgan, 74, Welsh-born Canadian comedian, former member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce, heart attack.[66]
- Jack Schmidt, 80, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).[67]
16
- Yves Berger, 73, French writer and editor.[68]
- Massimo Freccia, 98, Italian-American conductor.[69]
- 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.[70]
- Reed Irvine, 82, American economist, founder of Accuracy in Media, complications of stroke.[71]
- 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).[72]
- George Curtis, 84, English football player and coach.
- Mikael Ljungberg, 34, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide by hanging.[73]
- Alexander Ragulin, 63, Soviet ice hockey player, 10-time IIHF World Champion and three-time Olympic gold medalist.[74]
- Lena Townsend, 93, British politician, leader of the Inner London Education Authority (1969–1970).
18
- Danilo Anderson, 38, Venezuelan prosecutor, bombing.[75]
- Juan Carlos Aramburu, 92, Argentinian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Buenos Aires (1975–1990), Cardinal since 1976.[76]
- Robert Bacher, 99, American nuclear physicist, co-leader of the Manhattan Project.[77]
- Frank Baldwin, 75, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs).[78]
- Bobby Frank Cherry, 75, American criminal, convicted in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, cancer.[79]
- Cy Coleman, 76, American composer of Broadway musicals, heart attack.[80]
- Alfred Maseng, Vanuatuan president (1994, 2004) and foreign minister (1995–1996).[citation needed]
- N. Mathrubootham, 60, Indian psychiatrist and actor.[81]
- Antonio Pocovi, 82, Argentine Olympic sprinter (men's 400 metres and men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[82]
- George Scholes, 75, Canadian Olympic hockey player (bronze medal winner in men's ice hockey at the 1956 Winter Olympics).[83]
19
- Langdon Gilkey, 85, American Christian Protestant Ecumenical theologian.[84]
- Helmut Griem, 72, German film actor (Cabaret).[85]
- Trina Schart Hyman, 65, American illustrator of children's books, complications of breast cancer.[86]
- Don MacMillan, 76, Australian Olympic athlete.[87]
- Terry Melcher, 62, American musician and producer, son of Doris Day, melanoma.[88]
- Brian Traxler, 37, American baseball player.[89]
- Sir John Vane, 77, British Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (Medicine, 1982).[90]
20
- Celso Furtado, 84, Brazilian economist, heart attack.[91]
- David Grierson, 49, Canadian CBC radio and television host.[92]
- Janine Haines, 59, Australian politician, former leader of the Australian Democrats, after long illness.[93]
- Ancel Keys, 100, American scientist, co-inventor of the K-ration.[94]
- Ian Lewis, 69, Irish cricketer.[95]
- Dénes Pócsik, 64, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (winner of three Olympic medals: 1964, 1968, 1972).[96]
- Jenny Ross, 42, British punk rock singer.[97]
- Jimmy Tapp, 86, Canadian television personality and voice actor (The Mighty Hercules).[98]
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.[99]
- Uwe Scholz, 45, German ballet dancer, director and choreographer.
22
- Reginald Coates, 84, British civil engineer.[100]
- Leo Dee, 73, American artist and teacher.
- Arthur Hopcraft, 71, British author (The Football Man), sports journalist, and screenwriter.[101]
- Niall McInerney, 55, Irish hurler.[102]
- Don Puddy, 67, American NASA engineer, manager and flight director in the Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center.[103]
23
- Frances Chaney, 89, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.[104]
- John Cordle, 92, British politician.[105]
- Rafael Eitan, 75, Israeli politician and former chief of staff, drowned.[106]
- Karl Enderlin, 81, Swiss figure skater.[107]
- Eris Paton, 76, New Zealand cricketer.[108]
- Miriam Schlein, 78, American author.[109]
- Joseph J. Sisco, 85, American diplomat, known for playing a major role in Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy.[110]
- Harrison Stafford, 92, American professional football player (University of Texas, New York Giants).[111]
24
- Larry Brown, 53, American author and novelist, apparent heart attack.[112]
- Arthur Hailey, 84, British-Canadian author, declining health following stroke.[113]
- Joseph Hansen, 81, American mystery author.[114]
- Taiji Kase, 75, Japanese karateka.[115]
- Janet Kear, 71, British ornithologist.[116]
- Harry Moniba, 67, Liberian politician, Vice President of Liberia (1986–1990).[117]
- Walter Pavlicek, 78, Austrian Olympic swimmer (men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[118]
- John Tosi, 88, American football player.[119]
- James Wong, 64, Hong Kong lyricist, actor, director, talk show host and author, lung cancer.[120]
25
- Rachel Attas, 70, Israeli actress, voice actress and singer, cancer.[121]
- David Bailey, 71, American actor (Another World, Passions), drowned.[122]
- Bob Haney, 78, American comic book writer (Teen Titans, Doom Patrol, Aquaman).[123]
- Elijah Mwangale, 65, Kenyan politician.[124]
- Ed Paschke, 65, American artist, heart failure.[125]
- Denis Richards, 94, British historian.[126]
- Ross Robinson, 76, Australian rules football player.[127]
- Carl Silvestri, 61, American professional football player (University of Wisconsin, St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons).[128]
26
- Bill Alley, 85, Anglo-Australian cricketer (Somerset, New South Wales) and test cricket umpire.[129]
- Philippe de Broca, 71, French film director, cancer.[130]
- Tom Haller, 67, American MLB All-Star catcher (San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, Detroit Tigers) and manager (Giants), after long illness.[131]
- C. Walter Hodges, 95, British illustrator, author and Shakespeare scholar.[132]
- Maude Lloyd, 96, South African ballerina.[133]
- Hans Schaffner, 95, Swiss politician and Federal Councilor (1960s), President of the Confederation (1966).[134]
27
- Samuel Chinque, 96, British writer, publisher, activist, and trade unionist.
- Jack Daniels, 92, British automotive designer, cancer.[135]
- John Dunn, 70, Scottish BBC Radio 2 disc jockey, cancer.[136]
- Gunder Hägg, 85, Swedish middle-distance runner.[137]
- Billy James Hargis, 79, American Christian minister, missionary and anti-Communist activist.[138]
28
- Leroy F. Aarons, 70, American journalist, founder of the NLGJA, cancer.[139]
- Nermin Vlora Falaschi, 83, Albanian intellectual and feminist.
- Cris Huerta, 69, Portuguese actor.
- Connie Johnson, 81, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles).[140]
- Hans Christian Nielsen, 88, Danish Olympic cyclist (men's team pursuit cycling at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[141]
- Molly Weir, 94, Scottish actress.[142]
29
- John Drew Barrymore, 72, American actor, member of the Barrymore family, father of Drew Barrymore.[143]
- Harry Danning, 93, American MLB All-Star catcher (New York Giants).[144]
- Irwin Donenfeld, 78, American DC Comics executive.[145]
- John Monckton, 49, British city financier, murdered.[146]
- 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).[147]
- Bernard Robinson, 92, English footballer (Norwich City F.C.).
- Jack Shields, 74, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Fort McMurray—Athabasca, Alberta).[148]
- Molly Weir, 94, British TV and radio actress.[149]
- Karl Wölfl, 90, Austrian Olympic cyclist.[150]
30
- Pierre Berton, 84, Canadian author and journalist, heart failure.[151]
- Bill Brown, 73, Scottish goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, Scotland).[152]
- Alexei Khvostenko, 64, Russian poet, artist and musician, heart failure.[153]
- Johnny Quigley, 69, Scottish footballer.[154]
- Seung Sahn, 77, Korean zen master, founder of Kwan Um School of Zen.[155]
- Elsa Stansfield, 59, Scottish video artist.
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