Deaths in November 2005

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, 80, American actress, (The Andy Griffith Show), stroke.
• John Mieremet, 44, 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, 25, 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.

7

• 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, 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, aka Age, 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.