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Deaths in November 2005

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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2005.

Contents

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

  • Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).
  • 1

  • Mary Bennett, 92, British academic.
  • Richard Greenwell, 63, British cryptozoologist.
  • Skitch Henderson, 87, American pianist, conductor, composer and bandleader (The Tonight Show).
  • William C. Marshall, 87, British thoroughbred horse racing trainer.
  • Desmond Piers, 92, Canadian naval rear admiral.
  • Michael Piller, 57, American writer and producer (Star Trek, Simon & Simon), cancer.
  • Joseph C. Rodriguez, 76, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient for actions in Korean War, possible heart attack.
  • Gladys Tantaquidgeon, 106, American Mohegan tribal matriarch.
  • Michael Thwaites, 90, Australian poet, writer, naval officer, intelligence officer involved in the Petrov Affair.
  • 2

  • Rutherford Aris, 76, American chemical engineer and academic. Parkinson's disease.
  • Jean Carson, 80, American actress, (The Andy Griffith Show).
  • John Mieremet, 44, Dutch organized crime leader, shot.
  • Rick Rhodes, 54, American film composer and music supervisor, winner of six Emmy Awards, brain cancer.
  • 3

  • Kent Andersson, 71, Swedish actor, playwright and theatre director.
  • Hrvoje Bartolović, 73, Croatian chess problemist.
  • Aenne Burda, 96, German publisher.
  • Talmadge Davis, 43, American Cherokee artist, heart attack.
  • C. P. Ellis, 78, American former KKK member turned civil rights activist.
  • Henry K. Giugni, 80, American former sergeant-at-arms of the United States Senate from 1987–1991, congestive heart failure.
  • R.C. Gorman, 74, American internationally exhibited Navajo artist, blood infection and pneumonia.
  • Serge Karlow, 84, American former CIA officer wrongly suspected of treason, pneumonia.
  • Geoffrey Keen, 89, British actor of American films (Minister Frederick Gray in the James Bond films), natural causes.
  • Otto Lacis, 71, Russian journalist.
  • Paul Roazen, 69, American professor and historian of psychoanalysis, complications of Crohn's disease.
  • Melvin White, 55, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
  • 4

  • Nick Adduci, 76, American football player.
  • Nadia Anjuman, 25, Afghan poet.
  • Michael G. Coney, 73, Canadian science fiction author, mesothelioma.
  • Earl Krugel, 62, American JDL activist and convicted criminal, prison assault.
  • Sheree North, 72, American actress, complications following surgery.
  • Graham Payn, 87, South African actor, singer and partner of Sir Noël Coward.
  • Brian Steckel, 36, American convicted murderer, executed in Delaware.
  • Hiro Takahashi, 41, Japanese singer, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, tumor.
  • Hastings Wise, 51, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina.
  • 5

  • Peter Brunt, 88, British ancient historian.
  • Hugh Alexander Dunn, 82, Australian diplomat, ambassador to Taiwan (1969–1972) and China (1980–1984).
  • John Fowles, 79, British author, after a long illness.
  • Derek Lamb, 69, British animator, Oscar-winning producer.
  • Link Wray, 76, American rock and roll guitarist, best known for the 1958 instrumental "Rumble".
  • 6

  • Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon, 69, British peer, barrister, banker, politician and President of the MCC, stroke.
  • Ignacio Burgoa, 87, Mexican lawyer.
  • Rod Donald, 48, New Zealand politician, co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, viral myocarditis.
  • Minako Honda, 38, Japanese pop singer, myelogenous leukemia.
  • Dick Hutcherson, 73, American former NASCAR driver, heart attack.
  • Theodore Puck, 89, American researcher of genetics, complications from a broken hip.
  • Anthony Sawoniuk, 84, Polish-born Nazi criminal, dead in a United Kingdom prison, natural causes.
  • 7

  • Milly Bernard, 85, American politician, member of the Utah House of Representatives.
  • Vicente Carattini, 65, Puerto Rican singer and composer.
  • Mikhail Gasparov, 70, Russian literary theorist.
  • Harry Thompson, 45, British producer and writer of TV comedies, biographer and novelist, lung cancer.
  • Donald Watson, 87, British wildlife artist.
  • Steve Whatley, 46, British Theatre Actor, Consumer Expert and Journalist, and Television Presenter, suicide.
  • 8

  • Alekos Alexandrakis, 77, Greek actor, cancer.
  • George Brumwell, 66, British trade unionist.
  • Robert Eugene Bush, 79, American U.S. Navy hospital corpsman, youngest sailor awarded a Medal of Honor in World War II, kidney failure.
  • Carola Höhn, 95, German stage and cinema actress.
  • Beland Honderich, 86, Canadian newspaper executive, former publisher of Toronto Star, stroke.
  • Charlie Smith, 49, British poet and politician.
  • David Westheimer, 88, American author, novelist (Von Ryan's Express).
  • Adel al-Zubeidi, Iraqi attorney in the continuing Trial of Saddam Hussein, bullet wounds sustained in Baghdad.
  • 9

  • Avril Angers, 87, British comedian and actress, pneumonia.
  • Azahari Husin, 48, Malaysian technical mastermind of the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings, self-detonated bomb during a police raid. Indonesian police claim he was shot dead before he could detonate his explosives vest, and a comrade's bomb exploded shortly afterward.
  • Muriel Degauque,38, Belgian waitress who converted to Islam, and became the West's first woman suicide bomber.
  • Stephen McGill, 93, Scottish Anglican prelate, Bishop of Paisley (1968–1988).
  • K. R. Narayanan, 85, Indian politician, President of India (1997–2002), pneumonia and renal failure.
  • Charles R. Weiner, 83, U.S. federal judge who crafted the mass settlement of asbestos lawsuits, kidney failure.
  • 10

  • Fernando Bujones, 50, American classical ballet dancer, melanoma.
  • Steve Courson, 50, American football player, former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive guard, gardening accident.
  • Ernest Crichlow, 91, African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance, heart failure.
  • Kristian Fredrikson, 65, New Zealand-born Australian stage and costume designer, lung failure.
  • John Ling, 72, British diplomat and politician.
  • Gardner Read, 92, American composer.
  • Bruce Sarver, 43, American NHRA race car driver, suicide.
  • Ted Wragg, 67, British professor of education and commentator on education topics, heart attack.
  • 11

  • Moustapha Akkad, 75, Syrian-born American film producer (Halloween films), injuries sustained in Jordanian bombings.
  • Keith Andes, 85, American film actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!), suicide by asphyxiation.
  • Peter Drucker, 95, Austrian-born American management theorist, natural causes.
  • Pamela Duncan, 73, American B movie and TV actress.
  • Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, 66, British peer and photographer, stroke.
  • Steven Van McHone, 35, American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina.
  • Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi, 89, Indian opthalmologist.
  • Eduardo Rabossi, 75, Argentine philosopher and human rights activist.
  • 12

  • Arthur K. Cebrowski, 63, American retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and Pentagon official, cancer.
  • Madhu Dandavate, 81, Indian socialist leader.
  • James Fyfe, 63, American criminologist and instructor, cancer.
  • Roger Groot, 63, American law professor, also known for defending Lee Boyd Malvo.
  • David Ruiz, 63, American convicted criminal, plaintiff in lawsuit that resulted in improved standards in Texas prisons.
  • 13

  • William B. Bryant, 94, American senior U.S. federal judge and the first black federal prosecutor in U.S. history.
  • Vine Deloria, Jr., 72, Native American author and activist, aortic aneurysm.
  • Eddie Guerrero, 38, Mexican-born American WWE professional wrestler, heart failure.
  • Harry Gold, 98, Irish jazz-musician.
  • Charles Owen Rice, 96, American Roman Catholic priest and labor activist.
  • Miriam Roth, 95, Israeli writer and educator.
  • Ruth M. Siems, 74, American home economist, an inventor of Stove Top stuffing.
  • Eddie Stapleton, 74, Australian rugby union player.
  • Paul L. Ward, 94, American historian, past president of the American Historical Association and Sarah Lawrence College.
  • 14

  • John Campo Sr., 67, American champion horse trainer.
  • Ahmed Mamsa, 86, Indian cricket umpire.
  • Jenő Takács, 103, Hungarian classical composer and pianist
  • 15

  • Gustav Aarestrup, 89, Norwegian businessman.
  • Felipe de Alba, 81, Mexican actor.
  • Barry K. Atkins, 94, U.S. Navy admiral, decorated World War II veteran.
  • Roy Brooks, 67, American jazz drummer.
  • Agenore Incrocci aka Age, 86, Italian screenwriter.
  • Adrian Rogers, 74, American religious leader, complications of colon cancer.
  • Robert Rowell, 50, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
  • Agapito Sanchez, 35, Dominican former junior featherwight boxing champion, gunshot wounds.
  • Louis Sévèke, 41, Dutch left wing political activist, shot.
  • Robert Tisch, 79, American businessman, co-owner of the NFL's New York Giants, brain cancer.
  • Osmond Watson, 71, Jamaican painter and sculptor.
  • 16

  • Dante Benedetti, 86, American restaurateur and baseball coach.
  • Sandy Consuegra, 85, Cuban baseball pitcher.
  • Ralph Edwards, 92, American television host and producer, heart failure.
  • John Marlyn, 93, Canadian author.
  • Paul Noel, 81, American basketball player.
  • Henry Taube, 89, Canadian-born 1983 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
  • Shannon Charles Thomas, 34, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
  • Donald Watson, 95, British founder of the Vegan Society, natural causes.
  • 17

  • Gerhard Beier, 85, German World War II soldier.
  • Elizabeth Ann Blaesing, 86, American alleged illegitimate daughter of Warren G. Harding.
  • W. George Bowdon, Jr., 84, American politician, mayor of Alexandria, Louisiana.
  • Walter Muehlbronner, American figure skater.
  • Marek Perepeczko, 63, Polish actor.
  • Sybil Shearer, 93, American modern dance choreographer.
  • 18

  • Armen Abaghian, 72, Russian nuclear scientist.
  • Alfonso Arana, 78, Puerto Rican painter.
  • Sharon Beshenivsky, 38, British Woman Police Constable, murdered in line of duty.
  • Sandy Blythe, 43, Australian wheelchair basketball player.
  • Harold J. Stone, 92, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter, Somebody Up There Likes Me).
  • Elias Syriani, 67, Jordanian-born American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina.
  • Lee Yoon-hyung, 26, South Korean millionaire, heiress of Samsung.
  • 19

  • Artine Artinian, 97, French literary scholar.
  • David Austin, 70, British cartoonist (The Guardian).
  • Erik Balling, 80, Danish TV and film director.
  • Steve Belichick, 86, American football player and coach.
  • John Timpson, 77, British journalist, ex-presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, natural causes.
  • 20

  • Moses Adasu, 60, Nigerian politician.
  • Manouchehr Atashi, 74, Iranian poet.
  • Canute Caliste, 91, Grenadian painter.
  • Nora Denney, 77, American actress, illness.
  • Jonathan James-Moore, 59, English theatre manager, former BBC Radio head of light entertainment, cancer.
  • James King, 80, American operatic tenor.
  • Harry Lawton, 77, American writer.
  • Glenn Mitchell, 55, American public radio broadcaster, radio talk show host.
  • Lou Myers, 90, American cartoonist (The New Yorker).
  • Chris Whitley, 45, American musician, lung cancer.
  • 21

  • Alfred Anderson, 109, Scottish World War I veteran, oldest living man in Scotland and last survivor of the 1914 Christmas truce.
  • Albert H. Bosch, 97, American politician, Republican United States Representative from New York (1953–1960).
  • Sonny Hutchins, 76, American retired stock car and NASCAR driver.
  • John W. Mitchell, 88, British sound engineer.
  • Mary Ann Aspinwall Owens, 77, American philatelist.
  • Hugh Sidey, 78, American journalist, Time Magazine.
  • Umrao Singh, 85, Indian non-commissioned officer, last surviving Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross.
  • 22

  • David Ashton, 78, Australian botanist and ecologist.
  • Madani Bouhouche, 53, Belgian gendarme and criminal.
  • Glenn W. Burton, 95, American agricultural scientist.
  • Frank Gatski, 83, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart disease.
  • Bruce Hobbs, 84, British jockey and race horse trainer.
  • 23

  • Ingvil Aarbakke, 35, Norwegian artist, cancer.
  • Mike Austin, 95, American golfer.
  • George Bogart, 72, American painter.
  • Isabel de Castro, 74, Portuguese actress, cancer.
  • Constance Cummings, 95, American-born British actress.
  • Nate Hawthorne, 55, American pro basketball player, heart attack.
  • 24

  • Jamuna Baruah, 86, Indian actress.
  • Ralph Braibanti, 85, American political scientist.
  • Pat Morita, 73, American film and television actor, Academy Award-nominated (The Karate Kid) American actor, natural causes.
  • John M. Vlissides, 44, American software scientist, one of the "Gang of Four", co-author of the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, complications of a brain tumor.
  • 25

  • Andria Apakidze, 91, Georgian archaeologist and historian.
  • George Best, 59, Northern Irish football player (Manchester United, Northern Ireland), multiple organ failure.
  • Hans Karl Burgeff, 77, German sculptor.
  • Richard Burns, 34, British rally driver (2001 World Rally Championship champion), astrocytoma brain tumour.
  • Polina Gelman, 86, Soviet air force officer.
  • Pierre Seel, 82, French Holocaust survivor.
  • 26

  • Takanori Arisawa, 54, Japanese composer.
  • Stan Berenstain, 82, American writer and illustrator, Berenstain Bears co-creator, complications due to cancer.
  • Clive Bradley, 69, Trinidadian steel pan musician.
  • Colin Brinded, 59, British snooker referee, cancer.
  • Gopal Godse, 86, Indian last surviving conspirator in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
  • Charles "Clare" Laking, 106, Canadian soldier, one of the last surviving Canadian World War I veterans.
  • David Tabor, 92, British physicist.
  • 27

  • Jocelyn Brando, 86, American actress.
  • Joe "Boogaloo" Jones, 79, American R&B singer, composer, complications from coronary artery bypass surgery.
  • Franz Schönhuber, 82, German politician (Die Republikaner party).
  • 28

  • Donald V. Bennett, 90, American general, former commandant United States Military Academy.
  • Jack Concannon, 62, American football player, former NFL quarterback, heart attack.
  • Marc Lawrence, 95, American film actor (subjected to the Hollywood blacklist in the 1940s/50s), heart failure.
  • Tony Meehan, 62, British former Shadows drummer, head injuries resulting from domestic accident.
  • Helen Muir, 85, British rheumatologist.
  • Eric Nance, 45, American convicted murderer, executed in Arkansas.
  • E. Cardon "Card" Walker, 89, American corporate head of Walt Disney Productions from 1976–1983, congestive heart failure.
  • 29

  • Bob Brown, 78, American ethnomusicologist, complications of cancer.
  • Joseph Furst, 89, Austrian actor.
  • Józef Garliński, 92, Polish historian and writer.
  • Ashraf Ghorbal, 80, Egyptian diplomat.
  • John R. Hicks, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.
  • Uffe Schultz Larsen, 84, Danish Olympic shooter.
  • Macon McCalman, 72, American television, stage and big screen movie actor, complications from a series of strokes.
  • Vic Power, 78, Puerto Rican baseball player (Minnesota Twins) and Gold Glove winning first baseman. One of the first Hispanic players in the Major Leagues, cancer.
  • Stanley Russell, 99, New Zealand businessman and politician, Mayor of Nelson.
  • Stepan Senchuk, 50, Ukrainian politician, former governor of Lviv Oblast, homicide by gunshot.
  • Wendie Jo Sperber, 47, American actress (Back to the Future, Bosom Buddies), breast cancer.
  • David di Tommaso, 26, French soccer player, cardiac arrest.
  • Deon van der Walt, 47, South African operatic tenor, homicide by gunshot.
  • 30

  • Roger Behm, 76, Luxembourg boxer.
  • Donald Breckenridge, 75, American hotel developer, lung cancer.
  • Svullo, 46, Swedish actor and comedian, suicide.
  • Lenford "Steve" Harvey, 30, Jamaican AIDS campaigner, murdered.
  • Viggo Jensen, 84, Danish footballer.
  • Denis Lindsay, 66, South African cricketer, long illness.
  • Jean Parker, 90, American film actress (Little Women), natural causes (disease).
  • Jim Sasseville, 78, American cartoonist (It's Only a Game).
  • Herbert L. Strock, 87, American B-movie director, heart failure.
  • References

    Deaths in November 2005 Wikipedia