Deaths in November 2008

Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2008.

November 2008

30

• Béatrix Beck, 94, Belgian writer. [1] (French)
• Thomas S. Crow, 74, American military officer, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (1979–1982), cancer. [2]
• Naomi Datta, 86, British bacteriologist. [3]
• Doris Dungey, 47, American financial blogger, ovarian cancer. [4]
• Munetaka Higuchi, 49, Japanese drummer (Loudness), liver cancer. [5]
• Pit Martin, 64, Canadian ice hockey player, drowned. [6]
• Nick George Montos, 92, American felon, oldest inmate in Massachusetts. [7]
• Peter Rees, Baron Rees, 81, British politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1983–1985). [8]

29

• Bill Drake, 71, American radio programmer. [9]
• Ulises Dumont, 71, Argentine actor, heart problems. [10] (Spanish)
• Arthur Kantrowitz, 95, American physicist and engineer. [11]
• Sten Rudholm, 90, Swedish jurist, member of the Swedish Academy, natural causes. [12]
• Jørn Utzon, 90, Danish architect (Sydney Opera House), heart attack. [13]
• Georgi Vyun, 54, Russian football player and coach. [14] (Russian)
• Robert Wade, 87, New Zealand-born British chess champion, pneumonia. [15]

28

• Bill Finnegan, 80, American television and film producer (The Fabulous Baker Boys, Hawaii Five-O), Parkinson's disease. [16]
• John Harryson, 82, Swedish actor and entertainer. [17] (Swedish)
• Sir Hugh Laddie, 62, British intellectual property lawyer and High Court judge, cancer. [18]
• Red Murff, 87, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves) and scout. [19]
• Victor Nieto, 92, Colombian founder and director of the Cartagena Film Festival. [20]
• Edoardo Ricci, 80, Italian Bishop of San Miniato. [21]
• German Skurygin, 45, Russian race walker, heart attack. [22]
• June Vincent, 88, American actor. [23]
• Wo Weihan, 59, Chinese biochemist, executed. [24]
• Helena Wolińska-Brus, 89, Polish military prosecutor, pneumonia. [25]
• Robert Zarinsky, 68, American serial killer, cancer. [26]

27

• Adi Da, 69, American-born Fijian artist. [27]
• George MacPherson Docherty, 97, British-born American clergyman. [28]
• Armand Fabella, Filipino educator, Secretary of Education (1992–1994). [29]
• Gideon Gechtman, 66, Israeli artist, heart failure. [30]
• Gil Heron, 87, Jamaican football player, father of Gil Scott-Heron. [31]
• Paul Hibbert, 56, Australian cricketer. [32]
• Cullen Hightower, 84, American author of quips and quotes. [33]
• Patricia Marand, 74, American actress, brain cancer. [34]
• Andrew McKelvey, 74, American founder of Monster.com, pancreatic cancer. [35]
• Mike Minogue, 85, New Zealand politician, MP (1976–1984), cancer. [36]
• Verne Orr, 92, American politician, Secretary of the Air Force (1981–1985). [37]
• Pekka Pohjola, 56, Finnish bassist and composer. [38]
• Vishwanath Pratap Singh, 77, Indian Prime Minister (1989–1990), blood cancer and renal failure. [39]
• Andy Tomasic, 90, American football and baseball player. [40]
• Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, 83, American scholar of Greek and Roman art, complications from a stroke. [41]

26

• Bob Blake, 94, American ice hockey player. [42]
• Ralph Burkei, 51, German television producer, fall. [43]
• Christian Fechner, 64, French film producer. [44] (French)
• Loumia Hiridjee, 46, Malagasy-born French businesswoman, shot. [45]
• Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, Israeli-born American rabbi, shot. [46]
• Ashok Kamte, Indian additional commissioner of Mumbai Police, shot. [47]
• Vitaly Karayev, 46, Russian Mayor of Vladikavkaz, shot. [48]
• Hemant Karkare, 54, Indian chief of the Mumbai Anti Terrorist Squad, shot. [49]
• Andreas Liveras, 73, Cypriot-born British business tycoon, shot. [50]
• Edna Parker, 115, Indiana's oldest person, oldest validated living person. [51]
• Vijay Salaskar, Indian encounter specialist with Mumbai Police, shot. [52]
• Edwin Ernest Salpeter, 83, Austrian-born American astrophysicist, leukemia. [53]
• De'Angelo Wilson, 29, American actor, suicide by hanging. [54]
• Yang Jia, 28, Chinese mass murderer, executed. [55]

25

• William Dowd, 86, American harpsichord maker. [56]
• Beno Eckmann, 91, Swiss mathematician. [57]
• Ruth Alice Erickson, 95, American Director of the Navy Nurse Corps (1962–1966), pneumonia. [58]
• Helmut Friedlaender, 95, German-born American book collector. [59]
• William Gibson, 94, American playwright (The Miracle Worker). [60]
• Leonard Goodwin, 93, British pharmacologist. [61]
• Randy Gumpert, 90, American baseball player. [62]
• David M. Jones, 94, American Air Force officer, Doolittle Raider. [63]
• Michael Lee, 39, British rock drummer, seizure. [64]
• Max Oppy, 84, Australian footballer (Richmond). [65]
• Brian Pearce, 93, British Marxist historian and translator. [66]
• Dudley Savage, 88, British BBC radio presenter. [67]
• Gerald Schoenfeld, 84, American theater impresario. [68]

24

• Tom Burgess, 82, Canadian baseball player and coach, cancer. [69]
• Frank Cieciorka, 69, American graphic artist and anti-war activist, emphysema. [70]
• Francis Grevemberg, 94, American Superintendent of Louisiana State Police (1952–1956), respiratory problems after hip surgery. [71]
• Bep Guidolin, 82, Canadian ice hockey player and coach. [72]
• Kenny MacLean, 52, Canadian bassist (Platinum Blonde). [73]
• Ray Perrault, 82, Canadian politician, Senator (1973–2001), Liberal Leader of Senate (1974–1982), Parkinson's disease. [74]
• John Frederick Powell, 93, British air marshal. [75]
• Stefan Schörghuber, 47, German brewing magnate, heart failure. [76]
• John R. Stallings, 73, American mathematician. [77]
• Cecil H. Underwood, 86, American politician, Governor of West Virginia (1957–1961, 1997–2001). [78]

23

• Richey James Edwards, 27, British musician (Manic Street Preachers), declared dead on this date (missing since 1995). [79]
• Richard Hickox, 60, British conductor, heart attack. [80]
• Jean Markale, 80, French writer and poet. [81] (French)
• Fred McAlister, 80, American baseball scout (St. Louis Cardinals). [82]

22

• Garnet Bougoure, 85, Australian jockey. [83]
• MC Breed, 37, American rapper, kidney failure. [84]
• Alan Gordon, 64, American songwriter ("Happy Together"). [85]
• Mario Fernando Hernández, 41, Honduran politician, Deputy Speaker of the National Congress, shot. [86]
• Ibrahim Nasir, 82, Maldivian President (1968–1978). [87]
• Rashid Rauf, 27, British-born Pakistani Al-Qaeda terrorist, air strike. [88]
• Sandy Ruby, 67, American entrepreneur, founder of Tech Hifi and Computer City, diabetes. [89]
• Ted Wykes, 87, Australian cricket umpire, cancer. [90]

21

• Augustus Barber, 87, American businessman, cardiac arrest. [91]
• Giacomo Bozzano, 75, Italian boxer. [92] (Italian)
• Tom Gish, 82, American journalist and publisher, kidney failure and heart problems. [93]
• Andrew Rowe, 73, British politician, MP for Faversham and Mid Kent (1983–2001), prostate cancer. [94]

20

• Boris Fyodorov, 50, Russian politician and banker, stroke. [95]
• Bennie Gonzales, 84, American Southwestern-style architect (Heard Museum), Alzheimer's disease. [96]
• Betty James, 90, American businesswoman, co-founder of the Slinky company, wife of Richard T. James. [97]
• Bob Jeter, 71, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears), heart attack. [98]
• Jan Machulski, 80, Polish actor (Vabank), heart attack. [99]
• Jim Mattox, 65, American politician, member of the House of Representatives (1977–1983), Texas Attorney General (1983–1991). [100]

19

• Farah Weheliye Addo, 68, Somali sports administrator, heart attack. [101]
• Clive Barnes, 81, American theatre and dance critic, liver cancer. [102]
• Karl Bissinger, 94, American photographer. [103]
• Gregory Bryant-Bey, 53, American convicted murderer. executed by lethal injection
• Carole Caldwell Graebner, 65, American tennis player, cancer. [104]
• John Michael Hayes, 89, American screenwriter (Rear Window), natural causes. [105]
• M. N. Nambiar, 89, Indian actor, after short illness. [106]

18

• Manuel Castro Ruiz, 90, Mexican Bishop of Yucatán. [107]
• George C. Chesbro, 68, American novelist, heart failure. [108]
• Paul H. Todd, Jr., 87, American politician, member of the House of Representatives from Michigan (1965–1967). [109]

17

• Peter Aldis, 81, British footballer. [110]
• Yaakov Alperon, 53, Israeli organized crime mobster, car bomb. [111]
• Irving Brecher, 94, American comedy writer, heart attack. [112]
• Ennio de Concini, 84, Italian Academy Award–winning screenwriter. [113]
• Debby, 42, Soviet-born Canadian oldest living polar bear, third-oldest known bear, euthanasia due to multiple organ failure. [114]
• Jean-Marie Demange, 65, French member of the National Assembly, Mayor of Thionville (1995–2008), suicide. [115]
• Jay Katz, 86, German-born American physician and medical ethicist, heart failure. [116]
• Tafadzwa Madondo, 27, Zimbabwean cricketer, motorcycle accident. [117]
• George Stephen Morrison, 89, American admiral, father of Jim Morrison. [118]
• Pete Newell, 93, Canadian-born American basketball coach. [119]
• Guy Peellaert, 74, Belgian painter, illustrator and photographer, cancer. [120]
• Floyd Weaver, 67, American baseball player. [121]

16

• Salah al-Deen Hafez, 70, Egyptian writer. [122]
• Bruno Maldaner, 84, Brazilian Bishop of Frederico Westphalen. [123]
• Tony Reedus, 49, American jazz drummer. [124]
• Reg Varney, 92, British comedy actor (On the Buses). [125]

15

• Glen Brand, 85, American wrestler, Olympic gold medalist (1948). [126]
• Matthew Cianciulli, 66, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1977–1979), heart failure. [127]
• Donald Finkel, 79, American poet, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [128]
• Christel Goltz, 96, German soprano. [129]
• Grace Hartigan, 86, American painter, liver failure. [130]
• Louis Ormont, 90, American psychologist. [131]
• Ivan Southall, 87, Australian children's author, cancer. [132]

14

• Knut Bjørnsen, 76, Norwegian sports commentator and journalist, pancreatic cancer. [133] (Norwegian)
• Michael Ugwu Eneja, 89, Nigerian Bishop of Enugu. [134]
• Sir Bernard Feilden, 89, British conservation activist and restoration architect. [135]
• Lung Fong, 54, Hong Kong actor, lung cancer, [136]
• Irving Gertz, 93, American composer. [137]
• Adrian Kantrowitz, 90, American physician, performed the first pediatric heart transplant, heart failure. [138]
• Tsvetanka Khristova, 46, Bulgarian athlete, Olympic dual medallist in discus throw, cancer. [139]
• Charles Le Quintrec, 82, French poet. [140] (French)
• Shaukat Hussein Mazari, 60, Pakistani politician, heart attack. [141]
• Ajit Kumar Panja, 72, Indian politician, oral cancer. [142]

13

• Marcello Fondato, 84, Italian screenwriter and director. [143] (Italian)
• Bette Garber, 65, American photographer, pneumonia. [144]
• Mustapha Oukacha, 75, Moroccan politician, president of the Assembly of Councillors. [145]
• Ian Ridley, 74, Australian footballer (Melbourne Demons), emphysema. [146]
• Paco Ignacio Taibo I, 84, Mexican writer and journalist, pneumonia. [147]

12

• Richard Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor, 73, British aristocrat and patron of the arts, cancer. [148]
• Catherine Baker Knoll, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania since 2003, neuroendocrine cancer. [149]
• Vladas Michelevičius, 84, Lithuanian Bishop of Vilkaviškis. [150]
• Mitch Mitchell, 61, British drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience), natural causes. [151]
• Margaret Moncrieff, 87, British cellist. [152]
• George Morrison, 59, Canadian ice hockey player, brain tumour. [153]
• Serge Nigg, 84, French composer. [154] (French)
• Raymond Routledge, 77, American bodybuilder, AAU Mr. America (1961). [155]

11

• Mustafa Şekip Birgöl, 105, Turkish last veteran of the Turkish War of Independence. [156]
• C. Harmon Brown, 78, American physician, pioneer of sports medicine, cancer. [157]
• Tom Hunt, 85, American chairman of Hunt Petroleum, leukemia. [158]
• Ľubomír Kadnár, 67, Czechoslovak Olympic sprint canoer [159] (Slovak)
• Alessandro Maggiolini, 77, Italian Bishop of Como, lung cancer. [160]
• María Elena Marqués, 83, Mexican actress, heart failure. [161]
• Howard Reig, 87, American television announcer. [162]
• Lasse Sandberg, 84, Swedish writer and illustrator of children's literature. [163] (Swedish)
• Herb Score, 75, American baseball pitcher and broadcaster (Cleveland Indians), after long illness. [164]
• Jack Scott, 85, British weather forecaster, cancer. [165]

10

• Sarah Blacher Cohen, 72, American professor of Jewish literature, complications of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. [166]
• Kiyoshi Itō, 93, Japanese mathematician, respiratory failure. [167]
• Nikola Kavaja, 76, Serbian anti-communist activist and aircraft hijacker, heart attack. [168]
• Li Ximing, 82, Chinese leader of Beijing Communist Party. [169]
• Miriam Makeba, 76, South African singer, heart attack. [170]
• Arthur Shawcross, 63, American serial killer, cardiac arrest. [171]
• Wannes Van de Velde, 71, Belgian singer and artist, leukemia. [172]

9

• Fernand Goux, 108, French penultimate veteran of World War I. [173] (French)
• Huda bin Abdul Haq, 48, Indonesian terrorist in 2002 Bali bombings, execution by firing squad. [174]
• Anton Huiskes, 80, Dutch Olympic speed skater. [175]
• Hok Lundy, 58, Cambodian National Police Commissioner, helicopter crash. [176]
• Carl D. Keith, 88, American co-inventor of the catalytic converter. [177]
• John Milsum, 83, Canadian control engineer. [178]
• Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, 46, Indonesian terrorist in 2002 Bali bombings, execution by firing squad. [179]
• Preacher Roe, 92, American baseball pitcher (St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers), colon cancer. [180]
• Imam Samudra, 38, Indonesian terrorist in 2002 Bali bombings, execution by firing squad. [181]

8

• Richard Fortman, 93, American checkers champion. [182]
• Régis Genaux, 35, Belgian footballer, heart failure due to pulmonary embolism. [183]
• Joe Hyams, 85, American Hollywood columnist and author, coronary artery disease. [184]
• Mieczysław Rakowski, 81, Polish politician, Prime Minister (1988–1989), Workers' Party Chairman (1989–1990), cancer. [185]
• Florence Wald, 91, American nurse, hospice pioneer. [186]

7

• James Byrne, 62, Irish musician. [187]
• Tetsuya Chikushi, 73, Japanese journalist and news anchor, lung cancer. [188]
• José Bezerra Coutinho, 98, Brazilian Bishop of Estância. [189]
• Heiko Engelkes, 75, German television journalist (ARD), cancer. [190] (German)
• Hedley Howarth, 64, New Zealand cricketer. [191]
• Wik Jongsma, 65, Dutch actor, cancer. [192] (Dutch)
• Hidetaka Nishiyama, 80, Japanese karate master, cancer. [193]
• Heather Pick, 38, American newscaster (WBNS-TV), breast cancer. [194]
• Jody Reynolds, 75, American singer and guitarist, liver cancer. [195]
• Lyle Williams, 66, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for Ohio (1979–1985), heart attack. [196]
• Abraham Woods, 80, American civil rights leader, cancer. [197]

6

• Ronald Davis, 52, American health advocate, president of the AMA (2007–2008), pancreatic cancer. [198]
• Sir John Hermon, 79, British police officer, Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (1980–1989), Alzheimer's disease. [199]
• Larry James, 61, American track athlete and Olympic gold medalist (1968), cancer. [200]
• Phil Reed, 59, American politician, member of New York City Council (1998–2005), complications of pneumonia from leukemia. [201]
• Joe Wendryhoski, 69, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, New Orleans Saints), cancer and stroke. [202]
• George Winterton, 61, Australian lawyer and professor of constitutional law, cancer. [203]

5

• Baldev Raj Chopra, 94, Indian film director, after long illness. [204]
• Sofron Dmyterko, 91, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk. [205]
• Sir Paul Greening, 80, British admiral and courtier. [206]
• Michael Higgins, 88, American actor, heart failure. [207]
• Joza Karas, 82, Polish-born American musicologist. [208]
• John Leonard, 69, American media and cultural critic, complications from lung cancer. [209]
• Norm Marshall, 89, Canadian broadcaster. [210]
• Clark Miller, 70, American football player, heart attack. [211]
• John Odom, 26, American professional baseball player, accidental drug overdose. [212]

4

• Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, 96, Russian politician, chairman of Tuvan Parliament (1940–1944), world's first female head of state. [213]
• Lennart Bergelin, 83, Swedish tennis player and coach, heart failure. [214]
• Jheryl Busby, 59, American record executive. [215]
• Gérald Coppenrath, 86, French journalist and Senator (1958–1962) for Tahiti, brother of Hubert and Michel Coppenrath. [216] (French)
• Michael Crichton, 66, American writer (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, ER), throat cancer. [217]
• Marshall Fritz, 65, American libertarian (World's Smallest Political Quiz, Advocates for Self Government), pancreatic cancer. [218]
• Rosella Hightower, 88, American ballerina, stroke. [219]
• Byron Lee, 73, Jamaican musician and record producer, bladder cancer. [220]
• Syd Lucas, 108, British World War I veteran. [221]
• Juan Camilo Mouriño, 37, Mexican Secretary of the Interior since 2008, plane crash. [222]
• Orlando Owoh, 76, Nigerian musician, stroke. [223]
• José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, 51, Mexican politician, plane crash. [224]

3

• John Adams, 89, British rear admiral. [225]
• Charles T. Cross, 86, American diplomat, Ambassador to Singapore (1969–1972), Consul General in Hong Kong (1974–1977). [226]
• Mike Davis, 68, American boating advocate. [227]
• Alan Ford, 84, American swimmer, emphysema. [228]
• Jean Fournet, 95, French conductor. [229]
• Edward Scott McMichael, 53, American tuba player, bludgeoned. [230]
• Brooks Mileson, 60, British football club owner (Gretna F.C.), complications from chronic fatigue syndrome and brain infection. [231]
• Lalit Mohan Sharma, 80, Indian jurist, Chief Justice (1992–1993). [232]
• Edward Sheehan, 78, American foreign correspondent, allergic reaction to medication. [233]
• Cecil W. Stoughton, 88, American Presidential photographer (Kennedy, Johnson), complications from hip replacement. [234]
• John Trudeau, 81, American music promoter, founder of the Britt Festival, heart failure. [235]
• I. Bernard Weinstein, 78, American cancer researcher, kidney disease. [236]

2

• Ahmed al-Mirghani, 67, Sudanese politician, President (1986–1989). [237]
• Joseph Alliluyev, 63, Russian cardiologist, grandson of Joseph Stalin. [238]
• James Armsey, 90, American automotive executive, director of the Ford Foundation (1960–1967). [239]
• Madelyn Dunham, 86, American maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, cancer.[240]
• George F. Grant, 102, American angler, author and conservationist, natural causes. [241]
• Kenneth P. Johnson, 74, American newspaper editor (Dallas Times Herald), heart infection. [242]
• Jim Koleff, 55, Canadian hockey player and coach, cancer. [243]
• Domenico Leccisi, 88, Italian politician, stole corpse of Benito Mussolini, heart and respiratory disease. [244]
• Henry Loomis, 89, American Director of Voice of America (1958–1965), Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Pick's diseases. [245]
• Jacques Lunis, 85, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) athlete. [246]
• Elijah Mudenda, 81, Zambian politician, Prime Minister (1975–1977). [247]
• Joe Rollins, 90, American attorney and author. [248]
• Bill Stall, 71, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (Los Angeles Times), complications from pulmonary disease. [249]
• Terence Tolbert, 44, American political campaign director for Barack Obama in Nevada, heart attack. [250]

1

• Badaró, 74, Brazilian-born Portuguese comedian, cancer. [251] (Portuguese)
• Jimmy Carl Black, 70, American Cheyenne drummer and vocalist (The Mothers of Invention), lung cancer. [252]
• Dermot Curtis, 76, Irish footballer and manager, after long illness. [253]
• David DeCaires, 70, Guyanese journalist and editor, founder of Stabroek News, complications from heart attack. [254]
• Oscar Lathlin, 61, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba since 1990. [255]
• Nathaniel Mayer, 64, American rhythm & blues singer, stroke. [256]
• Jacques Piccard, 86, Belgian-born Swiss oceanologist and explorer. [257]
• Rosetta Reitz, 84, American jazz historian and record company founder, cardiopulmonary disease. [258]
• Jack Reno, 72, American country music singer, brain cancer. [259]
• Tiffany Sloan, 35, American model (Playboy), suicide by drug overdose. [260]
• Shakir Stewart, 34, American vice president of Def Jam Recordings, suicide by gunshot. [261]
• Yma Sumac, 86, Peruvian soprano, cancer. [262]
• Tan Jiazhen, 99, Chinese geneticist, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [263]
• Tony Tarracino, 92, American saloon keeper and politician, heart and lung ailments. [264]

See also

Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →