Deaths in November 2004
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2004.
November 2004
1
- Lord 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, 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)
6
- Fred Dibnah, 66, British steeplejack and television presenter, prostate cancer. [18]
- Pete Jolly, 72, American jazz pianist and accordionist. [19]
- Elizabeth Rogers, 70, American actress (Star Trek), multiple strokes and lung cancer. [20]
- Patrick F. Taylor, 67, American businessman, heart infection. [21]
- Johnny Warren, 61, Australian soccer player, coach and ethnic community advocate, lung cancer. [22]
7
- Howard Keel, 85, American actor and singer (Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, Dallas), colon cancer. [23]
- Gibson Kente, 72, South African playwright, AIDS. [24]
8
- Eddie Charlton, 75, Australian snooker player. [25]
- Lennox Miller, 58, Jamaican Olympic athlete, cancer. [26]
- Melba Phillips, 97, American physicist and educator, coronary artery disease. [27]
- Stieg Larsson, 50, Swedish Writer. [28]
9
- Iris Chang, 36, American historian and author (The Rape of Nanking), suicide. [29]
- Emlyn Hughes, 57, British footballer (Liverpool F.C., England), brain tumour. [30]
10
- Erna Rosenstein, 91, Polish surrealist painter and poet, arterial sclerosis. [31]
11
- Dayton Allen, 85, American comedian, voice of Deputy Dawg and Mayor Phineas T. Bluster. [32]
- Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestinian PLO leader, President of the Palestinian Authority, cause disputed, possible poisoning. [33]
- Richard Dembo, 56, French César Award-winning director, intestinal obstruction. [34]
12
- Lelio Marino, 69, Italian-born American entrepreneur, owner of Modern Continental group. [35]
- Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer. [36]
- Norman Rose, 87, American radio and TV actor (All My Children, voice of Juan Valdez). [37]
- Stanisław Skalski, Polish World War II fighter ace. [38]
- Mike Smith, 62, British cricketer, heart attack. [39]
13
- John Balance, 42, British musician (Coil), fall. [40]
- Ellen Fairclough, 99, Canadian politician, first female cabinet minister. [41]
- Russell "Ol' Dirty Bastard" Jones, 35, American rapper, drug overdose. [42]
- Harry Lampert, 88, American comic book and advertising artist, co-creator of The Flash, author of instructional books on contract bridge, cerebral hemorrhage. [43]
- Domenic Mobilio, 35, Canadian soccer player, heart attack. [44]
- Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer. [45]
- Roy Thomas, 54, Canadian aboriginal artist, cancer. [46]
14
- Michel Colombier, 65, French composer, cancer. [47]
- David Stanley Evans, 86, Welsh astronomer. [48]
- Langdon Brown Gilkey, 85, American Christian Protestant Ecumenical theologian. [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, former leader of the Inner London Education Authority.[citation needed]
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
- Helmut Griem, 72, German film actor (Cabaret). [65]
- Fred H. Hale, Sr., 113, American supercentenarian, oldest recognized living man. [66]
- Trina Schart Hyman, 65, American illustrator of children's books, complications of breast cancer. [67]
- Terry Melcher, 62, American musician and producer, son of Doris Day, melanoma. [68]
- John Vane, 77, British Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (Medicine, 1982). [69]
20
- Celso Furtado, 84, Brazilian economist, heart attack. [70]
- David Grierson, 49, Canadian CBC radio and television host. [71]
- Janine Haines, 59, Australian politician, former leader of the Australian Democrats, after long illness. [72]
- Ancel Keys, 100, American scientist, co-inventor of the K-ration. [73]
- Ian Lewis, 69, Irish cricketer. [74]
- Jenny Ross, 42, British punk rock singer. [75]
- Jimmy Tapp, 86, Canadian television personality and voice actor (The Mighty Hercules). [76]
21
- Uwe Scholz, German ballet dancer, director and choreographer
22
- Reginald Coates, 84, British civil engineer. [77]
- Arthur Hopcraft, 71, British author (The Football Man), sports journalist, and screenwriter. [78]
23
- John Cordle, 92, British politician. [79]
- Rafael Eitan, 75, Israeli politician and former chief of staff, drowned. [80]
- Eris Paton, 76, New Zealand cricketer. [81]
- Miriam Schlein, 78, American author. [82]
24
- Larry Brown, 53, American author and novelist, apparent heart attack. [83]
- Arthur Hailey, 84, British-Canadian author, declining health following stroke. [84]
- Joseph Hansen, 81, American mystery author. [85]
- Janet Kear, 71, British ornithologist. [86]
- James Wong, 64, Hong Kong lyricist, actor, director, talk show host and author, lung cancer. [87]
25
- David Bailey, 71, American actor (Another World, Passions), drowned. [88]
- Bob Haney, 78, American comic book writer, co-creator of the Teen Titans and Doom Patrol. [89]
- Ed Paschke, 65, American artist, heart failure. [90]
- Denis Richards, 94, British historian. [91]
- Ross Robinson, 76, Australian rules football player. [92]
26
- Bill Alley, 85, Anglo-Australian cricketer (Somerset, New South Wales) and test cricket umpire. [93]
- Philippe de Broca, 71, French film director, cancer. [94]
- Tom Haller, 67, American MLB All-Star catcher (San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, Detroit Tigers) and manager (Giants), after long illness. [95]
- C. Walter Hodges, 95, British illustrator, author and Shakespeare scholar. [96]
- Hans Schaffner, 95, Swiss politician and Federal Councilor (1960s), President of the Confederation (1966). [97] (German)
27
- Jack Daniels, 92, British automotive designer, cancer. [98]
- John Dunn, 70, Scottish BBC Radio 2 disc jockey, cancer. [99]
- Gunder Hägg, 85, Swedish middle-distance runner. [100]
- Billy James Hargis, 79, American Christian minister, missionary and anti-Communist activist. [101]
28
- Leroy F. Aarons, 70, American journalist, founder of the NLGJA, cancer. [102]
- Hans Christian Nielsen, 88, Danish Olympic cyclist. [103]
29
- John Drew Barrymore, 72, American actor, member of the Barrymore family, father of Drew Barrymore. [104]
- Harry Danning, 93, American MLB All-Star catcher (New York Giants). [105]
- Irwin Donenfeld, 78, American DC Comics executive. [106]
- John Monckton, 49, British city financier, murdered. [107]
- Bernard Robinson, 92, English footballer (Norwich City F.C.).
- Molly Weir, 94, British TV and radio actress. [108]
- Karl Wölfl, 90, Austrian Olympic cyclist. [109]
30
- Pierre Berton, 84, Canadian author and journalist, heart failure. [110]
- Bill Brown, 73, Scottish goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, Scotland). [111]
- Alexei Khvostenko, 64, Russian poet, artist and musician, heart failure. [112]
- Johnny Quigley, 69, Scottish footballer. [113]
- Seung Sahn, 77, Korean zen master, founder of Kwan Um School of Zen. [114]