# Deaths in November 2005
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2005.
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 2005
### 1

* Mary Bennett, 92, British academic.
* Skitch Henderson, 87, American pianist, conductor, composer and bandleader (The Tonight Show).
* V. K. Madhavan Kutty, 71, Indian journalist and author.
* 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, The Dead Zone, Simon & Simon), cancer.
* 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, 82, American actress, (The Andy Griffith Show), stroke.
* John Mieremet, 45, Dutch organized crime leader, shot.
* Rick Rhodes, 54, American film composer and music supervisor, winner of six Emmy Awards, brain cancer.
* Alfred Shaughnessy, 89, English scriptwriter, film director and producer, stroke.
* Lajos Szentgáli, 73, Hungarian athlete and Olympian.
* Ferruccio Valcareggi, 86, Italian football player and manager (national team).

### 3

* Kent Andersson, 71, Swedish actor, playwright and theatre director.
* Aenne Burda, 96, German publisher.
* C. P. Ellis, 78, American former Ku Klux Klan member turned civil rights activist.
* R. C. Gorman, 74, American Navajo artist, blood infection and pneumonia.
* Ted Hargreaves, 61, Amateur and hockey player, coach and teacher.
* Ted Harris, 86, American mathematician.
* Geoffrey Keen, 89, British actor.
* Otto Latsis, 71, Russian journalist, traffic collision.
* Paul Roazen, 69, American professor and historian of psychoanalysis, complications of Crohn's disease.

### 4

* Nadia Anjuman, 24, Afghan poet, homicide.
* Michael G. Coney, 73, Canadian science fiction author, mesothelioma.
* Bohumil Gregor, 79, Czech conductor.
* Milt Holland, 88, American percussionist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Jamie Irwin, 68, Australian politician.
* Earl Krugel, 62, American JDL activist and convicted criminal, blunt-force trauma.
* Sheree North, 72, American actress, complications following surgery.
* Graham Payn, 87, South African actor, singer and partner of Sir Noël Coward.
* Hiro Takahashi, 41, Japanese singer, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.

### 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, stroke.
* Derek Lamb, 69, British animator, Oscar-winning producer, cancer.
* Link Wray, 76, American rock and roll guitarist, best known for the 1958 instrumental "Rumble".

### 6

* Nematollah Aghasi, 66, Iranian singer and songwriter.
* Francesco De Masi, 75, Italian conductor and film score composer, cancer.
* Rod Donald, 48, New Zealand politician, co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, viral myocarditis.
* Minako Honda, 38, Japanese pop singer, myeloid leukemia.
* Dick Hutcherson, 73, American former NASCAR driver, heart attack.
* Stevan Larner, 75, American cinematographer and winemaker.
* Theodore Puck, 89, American researcher of genetics, complications from a broken hip.
* Anthony Sawoniuk, 84, Polish-British nazi criminal during World War II.
* Gavril Stoyanov, 76, Bulgarian football player and coach.
* Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon, 69, British peer, barrister, banker, and politician, stroke.

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* Mikhail Gasparov, 70, Russian literary theorist.
* Fraise, 17, American thoroughbred racehorse.
* Nobuhiko Hasegawa, 58, Japanese table tennis player, gardening accident.
* Harry Thompson, 45, British producer and writer of TV comedies, biographer and novelist, lung cancer.
* Nikolai Trofimov, 85, Soviet and Russian theater and film actor.
* Donald Watson, 87, British wildlife artist.
* Steve Whatley, 46, British theatre actor, consumer expert, journalist and television presenter, suicide.

### 8

* Alekos Alexandrakis, 77, Greek actor, cancer.
* Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan, 83, Soviet-Armenian painter.
* Robert Eugene Bush, 79, American U.S. Navy corpsman, youngest sailor awarded a Medal of Honor in World War II, kidney failure.
* Alwyn Cashe, 35, American army senior officer and Medal of Honor recipient, burns from IED.
* Francis Cheetham, 77, British museum director and authority on alabaster.
* Beland Honderich, 86, Canadian newspaper executive, former publisher of Toronto Star, stroke.
* Carola Höhn, 95, German stage and cinema actress.
* Truong Nhu Tang, 82, South Vietnamese lawyer and politician.
* David Westheimer, 88, American author, novelist (Von Ryan's Express).
* Glen Wilson, 76, English football player.

### 9

* Avril Angers, 87, British comedian and actress, pneumonia.
* Azahari Husin, 48, Malaysian technical mastermind of the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings, gunshot wound.
* Aminata Maïga Ka, 65, Senegalese writer.
* 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.
* Wilhelm Walcher, 95, German physicist.
* Charles R. Weiner, 83, American federal judge who engineered the mass settlement of asbestos lawsuits, kidney failure.

### 10

* Steve Courson, 50, American football player, former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive guard, gardening accident.
* Ernest Crichlow, 91, American artist (Harlem Renaissance), heart failure.
* A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan, 66, Bangladeshi journalist and government minister, pancreatic cancer.
* Domingo Matom, 50, American classical ballet dancer, melanoma.
* Gardner Read, 92, American composer.
* Vidar Sandbeck, 87, Norwegian folk singer, composer, and writer.
* 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 actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!), suicide by asphyxiation.
* Terry Cole, 60, American gridiron football player.
* Maurits Coppieters, 85, Belgian politician.
* Peter Drucker, 95, Austrian-American management theorist.
* Pamela Duncan, 73, American B-movie and TV actress, stroke.
* Miguel Gallardo, 56, Spanish singer-songwriter, kidney cancer.
* Jean-François Gravier, 90, French geographer.
* Brosl Hasslacher, 64, American theoretical physicist.
* Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, 66, British peer and photographer, stroke.
* Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi, 89, Indian ophthalmologist.
* David Pingree, 72, American historian of mathematics in the ancient world.
* Eduardo Rabossi, 75, Argentine philosopher and human rights activist.

### 12

* Arthur K. Cebrowski, 63, American Navy vice admiral and Pentagon official, cancer.
* Madhu Dandavate, 81, Indian socialist leader.
* Wilbert Hiller, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Cosme Barrutia Iturriagoitia, 76, Spanish cyclist.
* Kazimierz Lipień, 56, Polish featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion.
* Zamanbek Nurkadilov, 61, Kazakh politician, suicide.
* Jori Smith, 98, Canadian modernist artist.
* Moise Vass, 85, Romanian football player.
* Joe Wade, 84, English football player and manager.

### 13

* William B. Bryant, 94, American senior federal judge and the first black federal prosecutor in U.S. history.
* Vine Deloria, Jr., 72, Native American author and activist, aortic aneurysm.
* Harry Gold, 98, Irish jazz musician.
* Eddie Guerrero, 38, Mexican-American WWE professional wrestler, heart failure.
* Charles Owen Rice, 96, American Roman Catholic priest and labor activist.
* Miriam Roth, 95, Israeli writer and educator.
* Ruth Siems, 74, American home economist, inventor of Stove Top stuffing.
* Tan Chin Tuan, 96, Singaporean banker and philanthropist.
* Paul Langdon Ward, 94, American historian, president of the American Historical Association and Sarah Lawrence College.

### 14

* John P. Campo, 67, American champion horse trainer.
* Ahmed Mamsa, 86, Indian cricket umpire.
* Erich Schanko, 86, German footballer.
* Jenő Takács, 103, Hungarian classical composer and pianist.

### 15

* Barry K. Atkins, 94, American Navy admiral and decorated World War II veteran.
* Roy Brooks, 67, American jazz drummer.
* Felipe de Alba, 81, Mexican actor.
* Hanne Haller, 55, German "schlager" singer, breast cancer.
* Agenore Incrocci, 86, Italian screenwriter, heart attack.
* Raja Nawathe, 81, Indian Hindi film producer.
* Adrian Rogers, 74, American religious leader, complications of colon cancer.
* Agapito Sánchez, 35, Dominican junior featherweight boxing champion, shot.
* Louis Sévèke, 41, Dutch left wing political activist, shot.
* Preston Robert Tisch, 79, American businessman, co-owner of the NFL's New York Giants, brain cancer.
* Ren Zhongyi, 91, Chinese politician.

### 16

* Sandy Consuegra, 85, Cuban baseball pitcher.
* Ronald Crichton, 91, Music critic for the Financial Times in the 1960s and 1970s.
* Marina Denikina, 86, Russian-French writer and journalist.
* Ralph Edwards, 92, American television host and producer, heart failure.
* Richard Moore, 95, American sailor and Olympic champion.
* Paul Noel, 81, American basketball player, cancer.
* Henry Taube, 89, Canadian-American chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate.
* Henk van Woerden, 57, Dutch painter and writer with close ties to South Africa, heart attack.
* Donald Watson, 95, English animal rights and veganism advocate who co-founded The Vegan Society.

### 17

* Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov, 58, Russian-Canadian chess grandmaster, cancer.
* Marek Perepeczko, 63, Polish actor, heart attack.
* Wang Qiang, 30, Chinese serial killer, rapist and robber, execution by shooting.
* Sybil Louise Shearer, 93, American modern dance choreographer, stroke.
* Gennaro Verolino, 99, Roman Catholic bishop and a diplomat for the Holy See.

### 18

* Alfonso Arana, 78, Puerto Rican painter, Parkinson's disease.
* Sandy Blythe, 43, Australian wheelchair basketball player, suicide.
* Gérard Crombac, 76, Swiss journalist and author on auto racing.
* Hussein el-Shafei, 87, Egyptian military officer.
* Laura Hidalgo, 78, Argentine actress.
* Whitall Perry, 85, American author.
* Harold J. Stone, 92, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter, Somebody Up There Likes Me).
* Lee Yoon-hyung, 26, South Korean millionaire, heiress of Samsung, suicide by hanging.

### 19

* Artine Artinian, 97, French literary scholar.
* Erik Balling, 80, Danish TV and film director, heart attack.
* Steve Belichick, 86, American football player and coach.
* Bob Enevoldsen, 85, American jazz tenor saxophonist and valve trombonist.
* Rodney Hughes, 80, American politician.
* Willy Schultes, 85, German actor and writer.
* Francesco Somaini, 79, Italian sculptor.
* Karen Ter-Martirosian, 83, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist.
* John Timpson, 77, British journalist, ex-presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.

### 20

* Muhammad Said al-Attar, 78, Yemeni politician, Prime Minister (1994).
* Manouchehr Atashi, 74, Iranian poet.
* Nora Denney, 77, American actress, illness, cancer.
* John Hanna, 70, Canadian ice hockey defenceman and coach.
* 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.
* Lou Myers, 90, American cartoonist (The New Yorker).
* Fritz Richmond, 66, American musician and recording engineer, lung cancer.
* 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 U.S. Representative from New York (1953–1960).
* Aileen Fox, 98, English archaeologist.
* John W. Mitchell, 88, British sound engineer.
* Hugh Sidey, 78, American journalist, Time magazine, heart attack.
* Umrao Singh, 85, Indian non-commissioned officer, last surviving Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, prostate cancer.

### 22

* 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.
* Ken Mackintosh, 86, English saxophonist, composer and bandleader.
* Harmesh Malhotra, 69, Indian film director, producer, and screenplay writer.
* Edith Soppe, 44, Argentine chess player.
* Özker Özgür, 65, Turkish-Cypriot politician.
* Joseph J. Thorndike, 92, American editor and writer.

### 23

* Ingvil Aarbakke, 35, Norwegian artist, cancer.
* Mike Austin, 95, American golfer.
* Constance Cummings, 95, American-British actress.
* Isabel de Castro, 74, Portuguese actress, cancer.
* Marty Furgol, 89, American golfer.
* Nate Hawthorne, 55, American pro basketball player, heart attack.
* Beverly Tyler, 78, American film actress and singer.

### 24

* Jamuna Barua, 86, Indian actress.
* Günther Deckert, 55, East German nordic combined Olympic skier.
* Pat Morita, 73, American actor (The Karate Kid, Happy Days, Mulan), kidney failure.
* Harry Thürk, 78, German writer.
* John Vlissides, 44, American software scientist and author, one of the "Gang of Four", complications of a brain tumor.

### 25

* Alfredo Angeli, 78, Italian director and screenwriter.
* Ivan Antić, 81, Serbian architect and academic.
* Andria Apakidze, 91, Georgian archaeologist and historian.
* George Best, 59, Northern Irish football player (Manchester United, Northern Ireland), multiple organ failure.
* Roy Bjørnstad, 80, Norwegian actor.
* Élisabeth Boselli, 91, French military and civilian pilot.
* Richard Burns, 34, British rally driver (2001 World Rally Championship champion), brain tumor.
* Pierre Seel, 82, French Holocaust survivor, cancer.
* Yoshio Shiga, 91, Japanese navy officer and flying ace during World War II.
* Jerry Lynn Williams, 57, American rock music singer and composer, kidney and liver failure.

### 26

* Takanori Arisawa, 54, Japanese composer, bladder cancer.
* Colin Brinded, 59, British snooker referee, cancer.
* Mark Craney, 53, American rock and jazz drummer, pneumonia.
* Gopal Godse, 86, Indian last surviving conspirator in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
* Ingálvur av Reyni, 84, Faroese painter.
* David Tabor, 92, British physicist.
* Bruno H. Zimm, 85, American chemist.

### 27

* Jocelyn Brando, 86, American actress.
* William S. Hatcher, 70, American mathematician, philosopher, and a member of the Baháʼí faith.
* Joe Jones, 79, American R&B singer, composer, complications from coronary artery bypass surgery.
* Frederick R. McManus, 82, American Roman Catholic priest and academic.
* Franz Schönhuber, 82, German politician (Die Republikaner party), pulmonary embolism.
* Lys Symonette, 90, American pianist and musical stage performer.

### 28

* Donald V. Bennett, 90, American general, former commandant U.S. Military Academy.
* Jack Concannon, 62, American football player, former NFL quarterback, heart attack.
* Carl Forssell, 88, Swedish fencer ad Olympic medalist.
* Henry Grover, 78, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.
* Marc Lawrence, 95, American actor (subjected to the Hollywood blacklist in the 1940s/50s), heart failure.
* Tony Meehan, 62, British former Shadows drummer, head injury.
* John Mellus, 88, American gridiron football player.
* Helen Muir, 85, British rheumatologist.
* Eric Nance, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* D. R. Shackleton Bailey, 87, British scholar of Latin literature, Alzheimer's disease.
* Tarsem Singh, 58, Indian field hockey player and Olympian.
* E. Cardon "Card" Walker, 89, American CEO of Walt Disney Productions (1976-1983), congestive heart failure.

### 29

* Robert E. Brown, 78, American ethnomusicologist, complications of cancer.
* David Di Tommaso, 26, French soccer player, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
* Joseph Furst, 89, Austrian actor.
* Józef Garliński, 92, Polish historian and writer.
* John R. Hicks, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Uffe Schultz Larsen, 84, Danish Olympic shooter.
* Macon McCalman, 72, American actor (Smokey and the Bandit, Falling Down, Doc Hollywood), complications from a series of strokes.
* Victor Pellot, 78, Puerto Rican baseball player (Minnesota Twins) and Gold Glove winning first baseman, cancer.
* Wendie Jo Sperber, 47, American actress (Back to the Future, Bosom Buddies, Bachelor Party), breast cancer.
* Deon van der Walt, 47, South African operatic tenor, shot.

### 30

* Viggo Jensen, 84, Danish footballer.
* Denis Lindsay, 66, South African cricketer, long illness.
* Kenneth Macksey, 82, British author and historian.
* Jean Parker, 90, American actress (Little Women), stroke.
* Herbert L. Strock, 87, American B-movie director, heart failure.
* Than Tun, 82, Burmese historian and outspoken critic of the military junta of Burma.
* B. J. Young, 28, American ice hockey player, traffic collision.