Deaths in November 2004

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

30

• Pierre Berton, 84, Canadian author and journalist, heart failure. [1]
• Alexei Khvostenko, 64, Russian poet, artist and musician, heart failure. [2]
• Seung Sahn, 77, Korean zen master, founder of Kwan Um School of Zen. [3]

29

• John Drew Barrymore, 72, American actor, member of the Barrymore family, father of Drew Barrymore. [4]
• Harry Danning, 93, American MLB All-Star catcher (New York Giants). [5]
• Irwin Donenfeld, 78, American DC Comics executive. [6]
• John Monckton, 49, British city financier, murdered. [7]
• Molly Weir, 94, British TV and radio actress. [8]

28

• Leroy F. Aarons, 70, American journalist, founder of the NLGJA, cancer. [9]

27

• John Dunn, 70, Scottish BBC Radio 2 disc jockey, cancer. [10]
• Gunder Hägg, 85, Swedish middle-distance runner. [11]
• Billy James Hargis, 79, American Christian minister, missionary and anti-Communist activist. [12]

26

• Bill Alley, 85, Anglo-Australian cricketer (Somerset, New South Wales) and test cricket umpire. [13]
• Philippe de Broca, 71, French film director, cancer. [14]
• Tom Haller, 67, American MLB All-Star catcher (San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, Detroit Tigers) and manager (Giants), after long illness. [15]
• C. Walter Hodges, 95, British illustrator, author and Shakespeare scholar. [16]
• Hans Schaffner, 95, Swiss politician and Federal Councilor (1960s), President of the Confederation (1966). [17] (German)

25

• David Bailey, 71, American actor (Another World, Passions), drowned. [18]
• Bob Haney, 78, American comic book writer, co-creator of the Teen Titans and Doom Patrol. [19]
• Ed Paschke, 65, American artist, heart failure. [20]
• Denis Richards, 94, British historian. [21]

24

• Larry Brown, 53, American author and novelist, apparent heart attack. [22]
• Arthur Hailey, 84, British-Canadian author, declining health following stroke. [23]
• Joseph Hansen, 81, American mystery author. [24]
• Janet Kear, 71, British ornithologist. [25]
• James Wong, 64, Hong Kong lyricist, actor, director, talk show host and author, lung cancer. [26]

23

• Rafael Eitan, 75, Israeli politician and former chief of staff, drowned. [27]

22

• Arthur Hopcraft, 71, British author (The Football Man), sports journalist, and screenwriter. [28]

21

• Marcella Humphrey, 112, American supercentenarian. [29]

20

• Celso Furtado, 84, Brazilian economist, heart attack. [30]
• David Grierson, 49, Canadian CBC radio and television host. [31]
• Janine Haines, 59, Australian politician, former leader of the Australian Democrats, after long illness. [32]
• Ancel Keys, 100, American scientist, co-inventor of the K-ration. [33]
• Jenny Ross, 42, British punk rock singer. [34]
• Jimmy Tapp, 86, Canadian television personality and voice actor (The Mighty Hercules). [35]

19

• Helmut Griem, 72, German film actor (Cabaret). [36]
• Fred H. Hale, Sr., 113, American supercentenarian, oldest recognized living man. [37]
• Trina Schart Hyman, 65, American illustrator of children's books, complications of breast cancer. [38]
• Terry Melcher, 62, American musician and producer, son of Doris Day, melanoma. [39]
• John Vane, 77, British Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (Medicine, 1982). [40]

18

• Juan Carlos Aramburu, 92, Argentinian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Buenos Aires (1975–1990), Cardinal since 1976. [41]
• Robert Bacher, 99, American nuclear physicist, co-leader of the Manhattan Project. [42]
• Bobby Frank Cherry, 74, American criminal, convicted in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, cancer. [43]
• Cy Coleman, 75, American composer of Broadway musicals, heart attack. [44]
• Alfred Maseng, Vanuatuan president (1994, 2004) and foreign minister (1995–1996). [45]

17

• Mikael Ljungberg, 34, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide by hanging. [46]
• Alexander Ragulin, 63, Soviet ice hockey player, 10-time IIHF World Champion and three-time Olympic gold medalist. [47]
• Lena Townsend, 93, former leader of the Inner London Education Authority.^{[citation needed]}

16

• Massimo Freccia, 98, Italian-American conductor. [48]
• Margaret Hassan, 59, British aid worker, chief of the humanitarian relief organization CARE International, presumed killed by hostage takers in Iraq. [49]
• Reed Irvine, 82, American economist, founder of Accuracy in Media, complications of stroke. [50]

15

• Elmer L. Andersen, 95, American businessman, governor of Minnesota (1961–1963). [51]
• John Morgan, 74, Welsh-born Canadian comedian, former member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, heart attack. [52]

14

• Michel Colombier, 65, French composer, cancer. [53]
• Langdon Brown Gilkey, 85, American Christian Protestant Ecumenical theologian. [54]
• Evelyn West, 80, American burlesque stripper, pin-up girl and actress. [55]

13

• John Balance, 42, British musician (Coil), fall. [56]
• Ellen Fairclough, 99, Canadian politician, first female cabinet minister. [57]
• Russell "Ol' Dirty Bastard" Jones, 35, American rapper, drug overdose. [58]
• Harry Lampert, 88, American comic book and advertising artist, co-creator of The Flash, author of instructional books on contract bridge, cerebral hemorrhage. [59]
• Domenic Mobilio, 35, Canadian soccer player, heart attack. [60]
• Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer. [61]

12

• Lelio Marino, 69, Italian-born American entrepreneur, owner of Modern Continental group. [62]
• Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer. [63]
• Norman Rose, 87, American radio and TV actor (All My Children, voice of Juan Valdez). [64]
• Stanisław Skalski, Polish World War II fighter ace. [65]
• Mike Smith, 62, British cricketer, heart attack. [66]

11

• Dayton Allen, 85, American comedian, voice of Deputy Dawg and Mayor Phineas T. Bluster. [67]
• Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestinian PLO leader, President of the Palestinian Authority, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and cirrhosis. [68]
• Richard Dembo, 56, French César Award-winning director, intestinal obstruction. [69]

10

• Erna Rosenstein, 91, Polish surrealist painter and poet, arterial sclerosis. [70]

9

• Iris Chang, 36, American historian and author (The Rape of Nanking), suicide. [71]
• Emlyn Hughes, 57, British footballer (Liverpool F.C., England), brain tumour. [72]

8

• Eddie Charlton, 75, Australian snooker player. [73]
• Lennox Miller, 58, Jamaican Olympic athlete, cancer. [74]
• Melba Phillips, 97, American physicist and educator, coronary artery disease. [75]

7

• Howard Keel, 85, American actor and singer (Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, Dallas), colon cancer. [76]
• Gibson Kente, 72, South African playwright, AIDS. [77]

6

• Fred Dibnah, 66, British steeplejack and television presenter, prostate cancer. [78]
• Pete Jolly, 72, American jazz pianist and accordionist. [79]
• Elizabeth Rogers, 70, American actress (Star Trek), multiple strokes and lung cancer. [80]
• Johnny Warren, 61, Australian soccer player, coach and ethnic community advocate, lung cancer. [81]

5

• Donald Jones, 72, American-born Dutch actor, comedian, singer and dancer, first black Dutch celebrity, heart attack. [82] (Dutch)

4

• Robert Heaton, 43, British songwriter and drummer (New Model Army), pancreatic cancer. [83]
• Ellen Meloy, 58, American author. [84]

3

• Joe Bushkin, 87, American swing era jazz pianist, pneumonia. [85]
• Richard Hongisto, 67, American former sheriff of San Francisco and Cleveland, Ohio, heart attack. [86]
• Sergejs Žoltoks, 31, Latvian ice hockey player, heart failure due to cardiac arrhythmia. [87]

2

• Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 86, president of UAE (1971–2004), Emir of Abu Dhabi. [88]
• Gustaaf Joos, 81, Belgian Cardinal. [89]
• Gerrie Knetemann, 53, Dutch cyclist (world champion, 1978), heart attack. [90]
• Virginia Muise, 111, American supercentenarian and probable oldest living New Englander. [91]
• Basil Thompson, 67, American ballet master. [92]
• Theo van Gogh, 47, Dutch filmmaker and writer, murdered. [93]

1

• Lord Hanson, 82, British industrialist and Conservative life peer, cancer. [94]
• Hatem Kamil, Iraqi deputy governor of Baghdad, shot. [95]
• Terry Knight, 61, American rock manager and producer (Grand Funk Railroad), shot during domestic dispute. [96]
• Mac Dre, 34, American rapper, drive-by shooting. [97]
• Marie Tehan, 64, Australian Liberal politician (Victorian Parliament, 1987–1999), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. [98]