# Deaths in November 2004
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2004.
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 2004
### 1

* Jean Jacques Dozy, 96, Dutch geologist.
* Mac Dre, 34, American rapper, drive-by shooting.
* 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.
* Mark Ledford, 43-44, American trumpeter, singer and guitarist, cardiovascular disease.

### 2

* Gabriel Bywaters, 90, Australian politician.
* Gustaaf Joos, 81, Belgian Cardinal.
* Gerrie Knetemann, 53, Dutch road bicycle racer (world champion, 1978), heart attack.
* Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 86, Emirati politician, president of UAE (1971–2004), Emir of Abu Dhabi.
* Theo van Gogh, 47, Dutch filmmaker, television presenter, and author, stabbed and shot.

### 3

* Janet Backhouse, 66, English manuscripts curator at the British Museum, cancer.
* James H. Binger, 88, American lawyer, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
* Joe Bushkin, 87, American swing era jazz pianist, pneumonia.
* Eilert Dahl, 85, Norwegian nordic skier.
* Sergejs Žoltoks, 31, Latvian ice hockey player (Minnesota Wild, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins), heart failure due to cardiac arrhythmia.

### 4

* Michael Gross, 84, Israeli painter, sculptor and conceptual artist.
* Robert Heaton, 43, British songwriter and drummer (New Model Army), pancreatic cancer.
* Richard Hongisto, 67, American sheriff of San Francisco and Cleveland, Ohio, heart attack.
* Gordon Ingram, 79, American inventor and entrepreneur.
* Ellen Meloy, 58, American author.
* Yasutomi Nishizuka, 72, Japanese biochemist, discovered Protein Kinase C (PKC).
* Dee Phillips, 85, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves).

### 5

* Jerzy Duda-Gracz, 63, Polish painter.
* Donald Jones, 72, American-born Dutch actor, comedian, singer and dancer, heart attack.
* Basil McIvor, 76, Northern Irish politician and educationalist.
* Nili Natcho, 22, Circassian-Israeli basketball player, car accident.
* Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, 66, British peer, murdered.
* Billie Woodgate, 79, British tennis player.

### 6

* Serge Adda, 56, French television executive (TV5), cancer.
* Pola Alonso, 80, Argentine film actress.
* Fred Dibnah, 66, British steeplejack and television presenter, prostate cancer.
* Michel T. Halbouty, 95, American geologist, petroleum engineer, and wildcatter.
* Erwin Heerich, 81, German artist.
* Pete Jolly, 72, American jazz pianist and accordionist, multiple myeloma].
* Robert Lang, 70, English actor, cancer.
* Elizabeth Rogers, 70, American actress (Star Trek), multiple strokes and lung cancer.
* Marion Shilling, 93, American film actress, leading lady in 1930s B-Western films.
* Johnny Warren, 61, Australian soccer player, coach and television presenter, lung cancer.

### 7

* Eddie Charlton, 75, Australian snooker and English billiards player.
* Kenzaburo Hara, 97, Japanese politician and Speaker of the House of Representatives.
* 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

* Bruno Bettinelli, 91, Italian composer and teacher.
* Ruby de Mel, 86, Sri lankan actress.
* Chandler Harper, 90, American golfer.
* Sérgio Hingst, 80, Brazilian film actor, heart attack.
* Nelly Meden, 76, Argentine actress.
* Lennox Miller, 58, Jamaican sprinter and Olympic silver medalist, cancer.
* Melba Phillips, 97, American physicist and educator, coronary artery disease.
* G. Sakunthala, 72, Indian film actress.

### 9

* Iris Chang, 36, American historian and author (The Rape of Nanking), suicide by gunshot.
* Emlyn Hughes, 57, British footballer (Liverpool F.C., England), brain tumour.
* Ed Kemmer, 83, American actor.
* Stieg Larsson, 50, Swedish author (Millennium), heart attack.
* Eiji Morioka, 58, Japanese boxer and Olympic medalist, esophageal cancer.

### 10

* Elizabeth Chater, 94, Canadian author of novels and poetry.
* Katy de la Cruz, 97, Filipino singer.
* Şeref Görkey, 91, Turkish footballer and manager.
* 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, stroke.
* Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestinian political leader and chairman PLO, President of the Palestinian Authority.
* Richard Dembo, 56, French César Award-winning director, intestinal obstruction.
* Jacques Dynam, 80, French film actor, pneumonia.
* Raymond Murray, 91, United States Marine Corps officer.

### 12

* Lucia Berlin, 68, American short story writer.
* Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer.
* Frederik Prausnitz, 84, German-American conductor and teacher.
* Norman Rose, 88, American radio and TV actor (All My Children, voice of Juan Valdez).
* Stanisław Skalski, 89, Polish fighter ace during World War II.
* Michael J. Smith, 62, British cricketer, heart attack.

### 13

* John Balance, 42, British musician (Coil), suicide from jumping.
* Ol' Dirty Bastard, 35, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan), drug overdose.
* Ellen Fairclough, 99, Canadian politician, first female cabinet minister.
* Thomas M. Foglietta, 75, American politician and diplomat.
* Harry Lampert, 88, American comic book and advertising artist, co-creator of The Flash, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Domenic Mobilio, 35, Canadian soccer player, heart attack.
* Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer.
* Don Sharpe, 75, British sound editor (Aliens, Batman, Sleuth), Oscar winner (1987).
* Richard Alan Simmons, 80, Canadian-American screenwriter.
* Errol Thompson, 55, Jamaican record producer, audio engineer and dub music pioneer, stroke.
* Keith Weller, 58, English footballer (Millwall. Leicester City), cancer.

### 14

* Michel Colombier, 65, French composer, cancer.
* David Stanley Evans, 88, Welsh astronomer.
* Jesse Gonder, 68, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Milwaukee Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates).
* Petter Mørch Koren, 94, American politician.
* Harald Kråkenes, 78, Norwegian competition rower and Olympic medalist.
* Wasimul Bari Rajib, 52, Bangladeshi actor, colorectal cancer.
* Matilda White Riley, 93, American gerontologist.
* Shiva Shankar, 72, Nepali singer, composer and actor, liver cancer.
* Veena, 78, Indian actress.
* Evelyn West, 83, American burlesque stripper, pin-up model and actress.

### 15

* Elmer L. Andersen, 95, American businessman, governor of Minnesota (1961–1963).
* Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, 73, Iranian doctor, naturopath, HIV/AIDS denialist and writer, pneumonia.
* Bob Cooper, 68, Northern Irish politician.
* John Morgan, 74, Welsh-born Canadian comedian, former member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce, heart attack.
* Rafael Peralta, 25, American marine and posthumously recipient of the Navy Cross, killed in action.
* Jack Schmidt, 80, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).

### 16

* Floyd Baker, 88, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies).
* Yves Berger, 73, French writer and editor.
* Otis Dudley Duncan, 82, American sociologist and statistician.
* Massimo Freccia, 98, Italian-American conductor.
* Richard Frey, 84, Austrian-Chinese military physician and politician.
* B. C. Gowrishankar, 54, Indian cinematographer and screenwriter.
* Ken Hannam, 75, Australian film and television director, cancer.
* Margaret Hassan, 59, British aid worker, chief of organization CARE International, presumed killed by hostage takers in Iraq.
* Reed Irvine, 82, American economist, founder of Accuracy in Media, complications of stroke.
* Björn Nyberg, 75, Swedish fantasy author.

### 17

* George Curtis, 84, English football player and coach.
* Mikael Ljungberg, 34, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide by hanging.
* Frank Neary, 83, English football player.
* Alexander Ragulin, 63, Soviet ice hockey player, 10-time IIHF World Champion and three-time Olympic gold medalist.

### 18

* Juan Carlos Aramburu, 92, Argentinian Roman Catholic cardinal, cardiovascular disease.
* Robert Bacher, 99, American nuclear physicist, co-leader of the Manhattan Project.
* Frank Baldwin, 75, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs).
* Bobby Frank Cherry, 75, American criminal, convicted in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, cancer.
* Cy Coleman, 76, American composer of Broadway musicals, heart attack.
* Jack Horner, 77, Canadian politician.
* Haruyo Ichikawa, 91, Japanese film actress and singer.
* Norman Lloyd Johnson, 87, British statistician and academic.
* Sergei Kovalenko, 57, Soviet and Ukrainian basketball player and Olympic champion.
* Alfred Maseng, Vanuatuan president (1994, 2004) and foreign minister (1995–1996).
* N. Mathrubootham, 60, Indian psychiatrist and actor.
* Antonio Pocovi, 82, Argentine Olympic sprinter (men's 400 metres and men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* George Scholes, 75, Canadian Olympic hockey player (bronze medal winner in men's ice hockey at the 1956 Winter Olympics).

### 19

* George Canseco, 70, Filipino composer and politician.
* Mario Escudero, 76, Spanish flamenco guitarist.
* Piet Esser, 90, Dutch sculptor.
* Langdon Brown Gilkey, 85, American Christian Protestant Ecumenical theologian, meningitis.
* Helmut Griem, 72, German film actor (Cabaret).
* Trina Schart Hyman, 65, American illustrator of children's books, breast cancer.
* Don MacMillan, 76, Australian Olympic athlete.
* Martin Malia, 80, American historian specializing in Russian history.
* Terry Melcher, 62, American musician and producer, son of Doris Day, melanoma.
* Manuel Zapata Olivella, 84, Colombian doctor, anthropologist, and writer.
* Brian Traxler, 37, American baseball player, liver disease.
* John Vane, 77, British Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (Medicine, 1982).
* Trooper Washington, 60, American basketball player, heart attack.

### 20

* Celso Furtado, 84, Brazilian economist, heart attack.
* Janine Haines, 59, Australian politician, former leader of the Australian Democrats.
* Judith Haspel, 86, Swimming champion.
* Anna Keaveney, 55, English actress, lung cancer.
* Ancel Keys, 100, American scientist, co-inventor of the K-ration.
* Ian Lewis, 69, Irish cricketer.
* Dénes Pócsik, 64, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (winner of three Olympic medals: 1964, 1968, 1972).
* Hiltgunt Zassenhaus, 88, German philologist.

### 21

* Harvey Bennett, Sr., 79, Canadian ice hockey goaltender.
* Georges Morel, 66, French Olympic rower.
* Noel Perrin, 77, American essayist, MSA.
* Mashhoor bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 50, Saudi prince.
* Uwe Scholz, 45, German ballet dancer, director and choreographer.

### 22

* Piero Brandi, 65, Italian boxer.
* Leo Dee, 73, American artist and teacher.
* Arthur Hopcraft, 71, British author (The Football Man), sports journalist, and screenwriter.
* Stephen Mallatratt, 57, English playwright, television screenwriter and actor, leukemia.

### 23

* Frances Chaney, 89, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
* John Cordle, 92, British politician.
* Rafael Eitan, 75, Israeli politician and former chief of staff, drowned.
* Karl Enderlin, 81, Swiss Olympic figure skater.
* Mike Jarmoluk, 82, American gridiron football player.
* Lars-Magnus Lindgren, 82, Swedish film director and screenwriter.
* Eris Paton, 76, New Zealand cricketer.
* Joseph J. Sisco, 85, American diplomat, known for Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy, complications of diabetes.
* Harrison Stafford, 92, American gridiron football player (University of Texas, New York Giants).

### 24

* Larry Brown, 53, American author and novelist, heart attack.
* Arthur Hailey, 84, British-Canadian author, complications following stroke.
* Joseph Hansen, 81, American mystery author, heart attack.
* James Wong Jim, 63, Hong Kong lyricist, actor, talk show host and author, lung cancer.
* Taiji Kase, 75, Japanese karateka.
* Janet Kear, 71, British ornithologist.
* Harry Moniba, 67, Liberian politician, vice president (1986–1990), traffic collision.

### 25

* Rachel Attas, 70, Israeli actress (Impossible on Saturday) and singer, cancer.
* David Bailey, 71, American actor (Another World, Passions), drowned.
* Eduards Berklavs, 90, Soviet and Latvian politician.
* Sheila Cussons, 82, Afrikaans poet.
* Bob Haney, 78, American comic book writer (Teen Titans, Doom Patrol, Aquaman).
* Ed Paschke, 65, American artist, heart failure.
* Denis Richards, 94, British historian.

### 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).
* C. Walter Hodges, 95, British illustrator, author and Shakespeare scholar.
* Maude Lloyd, 96, South African ballerina.
* Bernard Pariset, 74, French judoka and jujitsuka.
* Hans Schaffner, 95, Swiss politician and Federal Councilor (1960s), President of the Confederation (1966).
* Ascher H. Shapiro, 88, American professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.

### 27

* John Churchill Dunn, 70, Scottish BBC Radio 2 disc jockey, cancer.
* Billy James Hargis, 79, American Christian minister, missionary and anti-Communist activist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Gunder Hägg, 85, Swedish middle-distance runner and multiple world record holder.
* Avraham Negev, 81, Israeli archaeologist.
* Velimir Valenta, 75, Yugoslav/Croatian rower and Olympic champion.

### 28

* Leroy F. Aarons, 70, American journalist, founder of the NLGJA, cancer.
* Sergio Castelletti, 66, Italian football player and manager.
* Cris Huerta, 69, Portuguese actor.
* Connie Johnson, 81, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles).
* Hans Christian Nielsen, 88, Danish Olympic cyclist (men's team pursuit cycling at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
* Ted Russell, 92, Irish politician and company director.
* Molly Weir, 94, Scottish actress.

### 29

* John Drew Barrymore, 72, American actor, member of the Barrymore family, father of Drew Barrymore, cancer.
* Harry Danning, 93, American MLB All-Star catcher (New York Giants).
* Irwin Donenfeld, 78, American DC Comics executive.
* Michael Janisch, 77, Austrian actor.
* Jonah Jones, 85, Welsh sculptor, writer and artist-craftsman.
* Inger Nordbø, 89, Danish-Norwegian Olympic diver (women's 3 metre springboard and women's 10 metre platform at the 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Jack Shields, 74, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Fort McMurray—Athabasca, Alberta), heart attack.
* Luigi Veronelli, 78, Italian gastronome, wine critic and intellectual, cancer.

### 30

* Pierre Berton, 84, Canadian author and journalist, heart failure.
* Bill Brown, 73, Scottish goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, Scotland).
* Robert Howe, 79, Australian tennis player.
* Alexei Khvostenko, 64, Russian poet, artist and musician, heart failure.
* Johnny Quigley, 69, Scottish footballer.
* Seungsahn, 77, Korean zen master, founder of Kwan Um School of Zen.