Deaths in November 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2004.

November 2004

1

• 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 (Grand Funk Railroad), shot during domestic dispute.
• Mac Dre, 34, American rapper, drive-by shooting.
• Marie Tehan, 64, Australian Liberal politician (Victorian Parliament, 1987–1999), Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.

2

• Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 86, president of UAE (1971–2004), Emir of Abu Dhabi.
• Gustaaf Joos, 81, Belgian Cardinal.
• Gerrie Knetemann, 53, Dutch cyclist (world champion, 1978), heart attack.
• Basil Thompson, 67, American ballet master.
• Theo van Gogh, 47, Dutch filmmaker, television presenter, and author, shot.

3

• Joe Bushkin, 87, American swing era jazz pianist, pneumonia.
• Richard Hongisto, 67, American former sheriff of San Francisco and Cleveland, Ohio, heart attack.
• Sergejs Žoltoks, 31, Latvian ice hockey player, heart failure due to cardiac arrhythmia.

4

• Robert Heaton, 43, British songwriter and drummer (New Model Army), pancreatic cancer.
• Ellen Meloy, 58, American author.

5

• Harold de Andrado, 76, Sri Lankan cricket writer.
• Donald Jones, 72, American-born Dutch actor, comedian, singer and dancer, first black Dutch celebrity, heart attack. (Dutch)

6

• Fred Dibnah, 66, British steeplejack and television presenter, prostate cancer.
• Pete Jolly, 72, American jazz pianist and accordionist.
• Elizabeth Rogers, 70, American actress (Star Trek), multiple strokes and lung cancer.
• Patrick F. Taylor, 67, American businessman, heart infection.
• Johnny Warren, 61, Australian soccer player, coach and ethnic community advocate, lung cancer.

7

• Howard Keel, 85, American actor and singer (Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, Dallas), colon cancer.
• Gibson Kente, 72, South African playwright, AIDS.

8

• Eddie Charlton, 75, Australian snooker player.
• Lennox Miller, 58, Jamaican Olympic athlete, cancer.
• Melba Phillips, 97, American physicist and educator, coronary artery disease.
• Stieg Larsson, 50, Swedish Writer.

9

• Iris Chang, 36, American historian and author (The Rape of Nanking), suicide.
• Emlyn Hughes, 57, British footballer (Liverpool F.C., England), brain tumour.

10

• 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.
• Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestinian PLO leader, President of the Palestinian Authority, cause disputed, possible poisoning.
• Richard Dembo, 56, French César Award-winning director, intestinal obstruction.

12

• Lelio Marino, 69, Italian-born American entrepreneur, owner of Modern Continental group.
• Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer.
• Norman Rose, 87, American radio and TV actor (All My Children, voice of Juan Valdez).
• Stanisław Skalski, Polish World War II fighter ace.
• Mike Smith, 62, British cricketer, heart attack.

13

• John Balance, 42, British musician (Coil), fall.
• Ellen Fairclough, 99, Canadian politician, first female cabinet minister.
• Russell "Ol' Dirty Bastard" Jones, 35, American rapper, drug overdose.
• Harry Lampert, 88, American comic book and advertising artist, co-creator of The Flash, author of instructional books on contract bridge, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Domenic Mobilio, 35, Canadian soccer player, heart attack.
• Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer.
• Roy Thomas, 54, Canadian aboriginal artist, cancer.

14

• Michel Colombier, 65, French composer, cancer.
• David Stanley Evans, 86, Welsh astronomer.
• Langdon Brown Gilkey, 85, American Christian Protestant Ecumenical theologian.
• Evelyn West, 80, American burlesque stripper, pin-up girl and actress.

15

• Elmer L. Andersen, 95, American businessman, governor of Minnesota (1961–1963).
• Sir Bob Cooper, 68, Northern Irish politician.
• John Morgan, 74, Welsh-born Canadian comedian, former member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, heart attack.

16

• Massimo Freccia, 98, Italian-American conductor.
• Margaret Hassan, 59, British aid worker, chief of the humanitarian relief organization CARE International, presumed killed by hostage takers in Iraq.
• Reed Irvine, 82, American economist, founder of Accuracy in Media, complications of stroke.

17

• Mikael Ljungberg, 34, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide by hanging.
• Alexander Ragulin, 63, Soviet ice hockey player, 10-time IIHF World Champion and three-time Olympic gold medalist.
• Lena Townsend, 93, former leader of the Inner London Education Authority.

18

• Danilo Anderson, 38, Venezuelan prosecutor, bombing.
• Juan Carlos Aramburu, 92, Argentinian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Buenos Aires (1975–1990), Cardinal since 1976.
• Robert Bacher, 99, American nuclear physicist, co-leader of the Manhattan Project.
• Bobby Frank Cherry, 74, American criminal, convicted in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, cancer.
• Cy Coleman, 75, American composer of Broadway musicals, heart attack.
• Alfred Maseng, Vanuatuan president (1994, 2004) and foreign minister (1995–1996).

19

• Helmut Griem, 72, German film actor (Cabaret).
• Fred H. Hale, Sr., 113, American supercentenarian, oldest recognized living man.
• Trina Schart Hyman, 65, American illustrator of children's books, complications of breast cancer.
• Terry Melcher, 62, American musician and producer, son of Doris Day, melanoma.
• John Vane, 77, British Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (Medicine, 1982).

20

• Celso Furtado, 84, Brazilian economist, heart attack.
• David Grierson, 49, Canadian CBC radio and television host.
• Janine Haines, 59, Australian politician, former leader of the Australian Democrats, after long illness.
• Ancel Keys, 100, American scientist, co-inventor of the K-ration.
• Ian Lewis, 69, Irish cricketer.
• Jenny Ross, 42, British punk rock singer.
• Jimmy Tapp, 86, Canadian television personality and voice actor (The Mighty Hercules).

21

• Uwe Scholz, German ballet dancer, director and choreographer

22

• Reginald Coates, 84, British civil engineer.
• Arthur Hopcraft, 71, British author (The Football Man), sports journalist, and screenwriter.

23

• John Cordle, 92, British politician.
• Rafael Eitan, 75, Israeli politician and former chief of staff, drowned.
• Eris Paton, 76, New Zealand cricketer.
• Miriam Schlein, 78, American author.

24

• Larry Brown, 53, American author and novelist, apparent heart attack.
• Arthur Hailey, 84, British-Canadian author, declining health following stroke.
• Joseph Hansen, 81, American mystery author.
• Janet Kear, 71, British ornithologist.
• James Wong, 64, Hong Kong lyricist, actor, director, talk show host and author, lung cancer.

25

• David Bailey, 71, American actor (Another World, Passions), drowned.
• Bob Haney, 78, American comic book writer, co-creator of the Teen Titans and Doom Patrol.
• Ed Paschke, 65, American artist, heart failure.
• Denis Richards, 94, British historian.
• Ross Robinson, 76, Australian rules football player.

26

• Bill Alley, 85, Anglo-Australian cricketer (Somerset, New South Wales) and test cricket umpire.
• Philippe de Broca, 71, French film director, cancer.
• Tom Haller, 67, American MLB All-Star catcher (San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, Detroit Tigers) and manager (Giants), after long illness.
• C. Walter Hodges, 95, British illustrator, author and Shakespeare scholar.
• Hans Schaffner, 95, Swiss politician and Federal Councilor (1960s), President of the Confederation (1966). (German)

27

• Jack Daniels, 92, British automotive designer, cancer.
• John Dunn, 70, Scottish BBC Radio 2 disc jockey, cancer.
• Gunder Hägg, 85, Swedish middle-distance runner.
• Billy James Hargis, 79, American Christian minister, missionary and anti-Communist activist.

28

• Leroy F. Aarons, 70, American journalist, founder of the NLGJA, cancer.
• Hans Christian Nielsen, 88, Danish Olympic cyclist.

29

• John Drew Barrymore, 72, American actor, member of the Barrymore family, father of Drew Barrymore.
• Harry Danning, 93, American MLB All-Star catcher (New York Giants).
• Irwin Donenfeld, 78, American DC Comics executive.
• John Monckton, 49, British city financier, murdered.
• Bernard Robinson, 92, English footballer (Norwich City F.C.).
• Molly Weir, 94, British TV and radio actress.
• Karl Wölfl, 90, Austrian Olympic cyclist.

30

• Pierre Berton, 84, Canadian author and journalist, heart failure.
• Bill Brown, 73, Scottish goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, Scotland).
• Alexei Khvostenko, 64, Russian poet, artist and musician, heart failure.
• Johnny Quigley, 69, Scottish footballer.
• Seung Sahn, 77, Korean zen master, founder of Kwan Um School of Zen.