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.Mark Ledford Erkki Marttinen, 78, Finnish Olympic swimmer (1952).
2 Denise Barthomeuf, 70, French chemist Gabriel Bywaters, 90, Australian politician. Milan Fillo, 75, Slovak Olympic sprinter (1952). Gustaaf Joos, 81, Belgian Cardinal. Gerrie Knetemann, 53, Dutch road bicycle racer (world champion, 1978), heart attack. Libuše Lomská, 81, Czech Olympic hurdler (1948). 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 and Olympian (1948). Zbigniew Ślusarski, 57, Polish Olympic rower (1976). Sergejs Žoltoks, 31, Latvian ice hockey player (Minnesota Wild, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins), heart failure due to cardiac arrhythmia.
4 Rex Dyer, 74, American Olympic fencer (1956, 1960). 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. Miklós Kocsis, 72, Hungarian Olympic sports shooter (1956). 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. Leif Hansen, 76, Norwegian Olympic boxer (1952). Erwin Heerich, 81, German artist. Bill Horder, 75, Australian rugby league footballer. Pete Jolly, 72, American jazz pianist and accordionist, multiple myeloma. Robert Lang, 70, English actor, cancer. Claudinei Resende, 26, Brazilian footballer. 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. Déborah Weil, 47, Mexican Olympic diver (1976).
7 Eddie Charlton, 75, Australian snooker and English billiards player. Bob Clatterbuck, 72, American football player (New York Giants, Los Angeles Chargers). 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. Robert B. Krupansky, 83, American federal judge. Benny Lohse, 69, Danish footballer. Nelly Meden, 76, Argentine actress. Lennox Miller, 58, Jamaican sprinter and Olympic silver medalist (1968, 1972), 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. A. Andrew Hauk, 91, American district judge (United States District Court for the Central District of California). Emlyn Hughes, 57, British footballer (Liverpool F.C., England), brain tumour. Ed Kemmer, 83, American actor. Stieg Larsson, 50, Swedish author (Millennium), heart attack. Bill May, 91, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). Eiji Morioka, 58, Japanese boxer and Olympic medalist (1968), esophageal cancer.
10 Peter Boumphrey, 85, British army officer and Olympic alpine skier (1948). Elizabeth Chater, 94, Canadian author of novels and poetry. Katy de la Cruz, 97, Filipino singer. Steve Enich, 81, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). Şeref Görkey, 91, Turkish footballer, manager, and Olympian (1936). Ray Manson, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, New York Rangers). 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. Karl Enderlin, 81, Swiss Olympic figure skater (1948). Raymond Murray, 91, United States Marine Corps officer. Luis Normandín, 72, Argentine Olympic water polo player (1952).
12 Lucia Berlin, 68, American short story writer. Harry Hargreaves, 82, English cartoonist. 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). Gian Singh, 76, Malaysian Olympic field hockey player (1956). 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.Leicester legend Weller mourned
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 (1948, 1952, 1960). Wasimul Bari Rajib, 52, Bangladeshi actor, colorectal cancer. Matilda White Riley, 93, American gerontologist. Ángel Robledo, 87, Argentine politician and diplomat.Murió el histórico dirigente peronista Angel Robledo 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. Eugène Legrand, 70, French Olympic boxer (1956). 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).Jackie Schmidt, Sports-Reference / Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2019-02-10.
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.Yves Berger est mort Otis Dudley Duncan, 82, American sociologist and statistician. Massimo Freccia, 98, Italian-American conductor. Richard Frey, 84, Austrian-Chinese military physician and politician. Charles Fuller, 85, English Olympic footballer (1952). 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 John Couchman, 91, British rower and Olympian (1936). George Curtis, 84, English football player and coach. Mikael Ljungberg, 34, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist (1992, 1996, 2000), 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 (1964, 1968, 1972).
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, 74, American criminal, convicted in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, cancer. Cy Coleman, 76, American composer of Broadway musicals, heart attack. Spencer Gettys, 88, American baseball player. Jack Horner, 77, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1979). 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 (1968, 1972). Alfred Maseng, Vanuatuan president (1994, 2004) and foreign minister (1995–1996). N. Mathrubootham, 60, Indian psychiatrist and actor.Mathrubhootham dead Antonio Pocovi, 82, Argentine Olympic sprinter (1948).Antonio Pocoví, Sports-Reference / Olympic Sports. Retrieved 2019-02-05. George Scholes, 75, Canadian Olympic hockey player (1956).
19 Sarath Ambepitiya, 58, Sri Lankan judge, judge of the Colombo High Court, shot.Colombo HC Judge Ambepitiya and police bodyguard shot dead Woody Campbell, 79, Canadian Olympic basketball player (1952). George Canseco, 70, Filipino composer and politician. François Degelas, 76, Belgian footballer. 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 (1952, 1956). 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.