Deaths in 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]

Mac Dre, 34, American rapper, drive-by shooting. [4]

Marie Tehan, 64, Australian Liberal politician (Victorian Parliament, 1987–1999), Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. [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

Joe Bushkin, 87, American swing era jazz pianist, pneumonia. [11]

Richard Hongisto, 67, American former sheriff of San Francisco and Cleveland, Ohio, heart attack. [12]

Sergejs Žoltoks, 31, Latvian ice hockey player, heart failure due to cardiac arrhythmia. [13]

4

Robert Heaton, 43, British songwriter and drummer (New Model Army), pancreatic cancer. [14]

Ellen Meloy, 58, American author. [15]

5

Harold de Andrado, 76, Sri Lankan cricket writer. [16]

Donald Jones, 72, American-born Dutch actor, comedian, singer and dancer, first black Dutch celebrity, heart attack. [17] (Dutch)

Basil McIvor, 76, Northern Irish politician and educationalist. [18]

6

Fred Dibnah, 66, British steeplejack and television presenter, prostate cancer. [19]

Pete Jolly, 72, American jazz pianist and accordionist. [20]

Elizabeth Rogers, 70, American actress (Star Trek), multiple strokes and lung cancer. [21]

Patrick F. Taylor, 67, American businessman, heart infection. [22]

Johnny Warren, 61, Australian soccer player, coach and ethnic community advocate, lung cancer. [23]

7

Howard Keel, 85, American actor and singer (Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, Dallas), colon cancer. [24]

Gibson Kente, 72, South African playwright, AIDS. [25]

8

Eddie Charlton, 75, Australian snooker player. [26]

Lennox Miller, 58, Jamaican Olympic athlete, cancer. [27]

Melba Phillips, 97, American physicist and educator, coronary artery disease. [28]

Stieg Larsson, 50, Swedish Writer. [29]

9

Iris Chang, 36, American historian and author (The Rape of Nanking), suicide. [30]

Emlyn Hughes, 57, British footballer (Liverpool F.C., England), brain tumour. [31]

10

Erna Rosenstein, 91, Polish surrealist painter and poet, arterial sclerosis. [32]

11

Dayton Allen, 85, American comedian, voice of Deputy Dawg and Mayor Phineas T. Bluster. [33]

Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestinian PLO leader, President of the Palestinian Authority, cause disputed, possible poisoning. [34]

Richard Dembo, 56, French César Award-winning director, intestinal obstruction. [35]

12

Lelio Marino, 69, Italian-born American entrepreneur, owner of Modern Continental group. [36]

Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer. [37]

Norman Rose, 87, American radio and TV actor (All My Children, voice of Juan Valdez). [38]

Stanisław Skalski, 89, Polish World War II fighter ace. [39]

Mike Smith, 62, British cricketer, heart attack. [40]

13

John Balance, 42, British musician (Coil), fall. [41]

Ellen Fairclough, 99, Canadian politician, first female cabinet minister. [42]

Russell "Ol' Dirty Bastard" Jones, 35, American rapper, drug overdose. [43]

Harry Lampert, 88, American comic book and advertising artist, co-creator of The Flash, author of instructional books on contract bridge, cerebral hemorrhage. [44]

Domenic Mobilio, 35, Canadian soccer player, heart attack. [45]

Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer. [46]

Roy Thomas, 54, Canadian aboriginal artist, cancer. [47]

14

Michel Colombier, 65, French composer, cancer. [48]

David Stanley Evans, 86, Welsh astronomer. [49]

Evelyn West, 80, American burlesque stripper, pin-up girl and actress. [50]

15

Elmer L. Andersen, 95, American businessman, governor of Minnesota (1961–1963). [51]

Sir Bob Cooper, 68, Northern Irish politician. [52]

John Morgan, 74, Welsh-born Canadian comedian, former member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, heart attack. [53]

16

Massimo Freccia, 98, Italian-American conductor. [54]

Margaret Hassan, 59, British aid worker, chief of the humanitarian relief organization CARE International, presumed killed by hostage takers in Iraq. [55]

Reed Irvine, 82, American economist, founder of Accuracy in Media, complications of stroke. [56]

17

Mikael Ljungberg, 34, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide by hanging. [57]

Alexander Ragulin, 63, Soviet ice hockey player, 10-time IIHF World Champion and three-time Olympic gold medalist. [58]

Lena Townsend, 93, British politician, former leader of the Inner London Education Authority.

18

Danilo Anderson, 38, Venezuelan prosecutor, bombing. [59]

Juan Carlos Aramburu, 92, Argentinian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Buenos Aires (1975–1990), Cardinal since 1976. [60]

Robert Bacher, 99, American nuclear physicist, co-leader of the Manhattan Project. [61]

Bobby Frank Cherry, 74, American criminal, convicted in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, cancer. [62]

Cy Coleman, 75, American composer of Broadway musicals, heart attack. [63]

Alfred Maseng, Vanuatuan president (1994, 2004) and foreign minister (1995–1996). [64]

19

Langdon Brown Gilkey, 85, American Christian Protestant Ecumenical theologian. [65]

Helmut Griem, 72, German film actor (Cabaret). [66]

Fred H. Hale, Sr., 113, American supercentenarian, oldest recognized living man. [67]

Trina Schart Hyman, 65, American illustrator of children's books, complications of breast cancer. [68]

Terry Melcher, 62, American musician and producer, son of Doris Day, melanoma. [69]

John Vane, 77, British Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (Medicine, 1982). [70]

20

Celso Furtado, 84, Brazilian economist, heart attack. [71]

David Grierson, 49, Canadian CBC radio and television host. [72]

Janine Haines, 59, Australian politician, former leader of the Australian Democrats, after long illness. [73]

Ancel Keys, 100, American scientist, co-inventor of the K-ration. [74]

Ian Lewis, 69, Irish cricketer. [75]

Jenny Ross, 42, British punk rock singer. [76]

Jimmy Tapp, 86, Canadian television personality and voice actor (The Mighty Hercules). [77]

21

Uwe Scholz, 45, German ballet dancer, director and choreographer

22

Reginald Coates, 84, British civil engineer. [78]

Arthur Hopcraft, 71, British author (The Football Man), sports journalist, and screenwriter. [79]

23

John Cordle, 92, British politician. [80]

Rafael Eitan, 75, Israeli politician and former chief of staff, drowned. [81]

Eris Paton, 76, New Zealand cricketer. [82]

Miriam Schlein, 78, American author. [83]

24

Larry Brown, 53, American author and novelist, apparent heart attack. [84]

Arthur Hailey, 84, British-Canadian author, declining health following stroke. [85]

Joseph Hansen, 81, American mystery author. [86]

Janet Kear, 71, British ornithologist. [87]

James Wong, 64, Hong Kong lyricist, actor, director, talk show host and author, lung cancer. [88]

25

David Bailey, 71, American actor (Another World, Passions), drowned. [89]

Bob Haney, 78, American comic book writer, co-creator of the Teen Titans and Doom Patrol. [90]

Ed Paschke, 65, American artist, heart failure. [91]

Denis Richards, 94, British historian. [92]

Ross Robinson, 76, Australian rules football player. [93]

26

Bill Alley, 85, Anglo-Australian cricketer (Somerset, New South Wales) and test cricket umpire. [94]

Philippe de Broca, 71, French film director, cancer. [95]

Tom Haller, 67, American MLB All-Star catcher (San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, Detroit Tigers) and manager (Giants), after long illness. [96]

C. Walter Hodges, 95, British illustrator, author and Shakespeare scholar. [97]

Hans Schaffner, 95, Swiss politician and Federal Councilor (1960s), President of the Confederation (1966). [98] (German)

27

Jack Daniels, 92, British automotive designer, cancer. [99]

John Dunn, 70, Scottish BBC Radio 2 disc jockey, cancer. [100]

Gunder Hägg, 85, Swedish middle-distance runner. [101]

Billy James Hargis, 79, American Christian minister, missionary and anti-Communist activist. [102]

28

Leroy F. Aarons, 70, American journalist, founder of the NLGJA, cancer. [103]

Hans Christian Nielsen, 88, Danish Olympic cyclist. [104]

29

John Drew Barrymore, 72, American actor, member of the Barrymore family, father of Drew Barrymore. [105]

Harry Danning, 93, American MLB All-Star catcher (New York Giants). [106]

Irwin Donenfeld, 78, American DC Comics executive. [107]

John Monckton, 49, British city financier, murdered. [108]

Bernard Robinson, 92, English footballer (Norwich City F.C.).

Molly Weir, 94, British TV and radio actress. [109]

Karl Wölfl, 90, Austrian Olympic cyclist. [110]

30

Pierre Berton, 84, Canadian author and journalist, heart failure. [111]

Bill Brown, 73, Scottish goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, Scotland). [112]

Alexei Khvostenko, 64, Russian poet, artist and musician, heart failure. [113]

Johnny Quigley, 69, Scottish footballer. [114]

Seung Sahn, 77, Korean zen master, founder of Kwan Um School of Zen. [115]