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 and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

November 2005

1

• Mary Bennett, 92, British academic. [1]
• Richard Greenwell, 63, British cryptozoologist. [2]
• Skitch Henderson, 87, American pianist, conductor, composer and bandleader (The Tonight Show). [3]
• William C. Marshall, 87, British thoroughbred horse racing trainer. [4]
• Desmond Piers, 92, Canadian naval rear admiral. [5]
• Michael Piller, 57, American writer and producer (Star Trek, Simon & Simon), cancer. [6]
• Joseph C. Rodriguez, 76, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient for actions in Korean War, possible heart attack. [7]
• Gladys Tantaquidgeon, 106, Mohegan tribal matriarch. [8].
• Michael Thwaites, 90, Australian poet, writer, naval officer, intelligence officer involved in the Petrov Affair. [9]

2

• Rutherford Aris, 76, American chemical engineer and academic. Parkinson's disease. [10]
• Jean Carson, 80, American actress, (The Andy Griffith Show). [11]
• John Mieremet, 44, Dutch organized crime leader, shot. [12]
• Rick Rhodes, 54, American film composer and music supervisor, winner of six Emmy Awards, brain cancer. [13]

3

• Kent Andersson, 71, Swedish actor, playwright and theatre director.
• Hrvoje Bartolović, 73, Croatian chess problemist.
• Aenne Burda, 96, German publisher.
• Talmadge Davis, 43, Cherokee artist, heart attack. [14]
• C. P. Ellis, 78, former KKK member turned civil rights activist. [15]
• Henry K. Giugni, 80, former sergeant-at-arms of the United States Senate from 1987–1991, congestive heart failure. [16]
• R.C. Gorman, 74, internationally exhibited Navajo artist, blood infection and pneumonia. [17]
• Serge Karlow, 84, former CIA officer wrongly suspected of treason, pneumonia. [18]
• Geoffrey Keen, 89, British actor of American films (Minister Frederick Gray in the James Bond films), natural causes.
• Otto Lacis, 71, Russian journalist.
• Paul Roazen, 69, professor and historian of psychoanalysis, complications of Crohn's disease. [19]
• Melvin White, 55, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.

4

• Nick Adduci, 76, American football player.
• Nadia Anjuman, 25, Afghan poet. [20]
• Michael G. Coney, 73, Canadian science fiction author, mesothelioma.
• Earl Krugel, 62, American JDL activist and convicted criminal, prison assault. [21]
• Sheree North, 72, American actress, complications following surgery. [22]
• Graham Payn, 87, South African actor, singer and partner of Sir Noël Coward.
• Brian Steckel, 36, American convicted murderer, executed in Delaware.
• Hiro Takahashi, 41, Japanese singer, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, tumor.
• Hastings Wise, 51, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina.

5

• Peter Brunt, 88, British ancient historian.
• Hugh Alexander Dunn, 82, Australian diplomat, ambassador to Taiwan (1969–1972) and China (1980–1984). [23]
• John Fowles, 79, British author, after a long illness. [24]
• Derek Lamb, 69, animator, Oscar-winning producer. [25]
• Link Wray, 76, rock and roll guitarist best known for the 1958 instrumental "Rumble".

6

• Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon, 69, British barrister, banker, politician and President of the MCC, stroke. [26]
• Ignacio Burgoa, 87, Mexican lawyer.
• Rod Donald, 48, co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, viral myocarditis. [27]
• Minako Honda, 38, Japanese pop singer, myelogenous leukemia.
• Dick Hutcherson, 73, former NASCAR driver, heart attack. [28]
• Theodore Puck, 89, American researcher of genetics, complications from a broken hip.
• Anthony Sawoniuk, 84, Polish-born Nazi criminal in a United Kingdom prison, natural causes.

7

• Milly Bernard, 85, American politician, member of the Utah House of Representatives.
• Vicente Carattini, 65, Puerto Rican singer and composer.
• Mikhail Gasparov, 70, Russian literary theorist.
• Harry Thompson, 45, British producer and writer of TV comedies, biographer and novelist, lung cancer. [29]
• Donald Watson, 87, British wildlife artist. [30]
• Steve Whatley, 46, British Theatre Actor, Consumer Expert and Journalist, and Television Presenter, suicide. [31]

8

• Alekos Alexandrakis, 77, Greek actor, cancer. [32]
• George Brumwell, 66, British trade unionist.
• Robert Eugene Bush, 79, youngest sailor awarded a Medal of Honor in World War II, kidney failure. [33]
• Carola Höhn, 95, German stage and cinema actress.
• Beland Honderich, 86, former publisher of Toronto Star, stroke.
• Charlie Smith, 49, British poet and politician.
• David Westheimer, 88, author, novelist (Von Ryan's Express).
• Adel al-Zubeidi, attorney in the continuing Trial of Saddam Hussein, bullet wounds sustained in Baghdad.

9

• Avril Angers, 87, British comedienne and actress, pneumonia. [34]
• Azahari Husin, 48, Malaysian militant and alleged terrorist mastermind.
• Muriel Degauque,38, Belgian waitress who converted to Islam, and became the West's first woman suicide bomber.
• K. R. Narayanan, 85, President of India (1997–2002), pneumonia and renal failure.
• Charles R. Weiner, 83, U.S. federal judge who crafted the mass settlement of asbestos lawsuits, kidney failure. [35]

10

• Fernando Bujones, 50, American classical ballet dancer, melanoma. [36]
• Steve Courson, 50, former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive guard, gardening accident. [37]
• Ernest Crichlow, 91, African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance, heart failure. [38]
• Kristian Fredrikson, 65, New Zealand-born Australian ballet, opera and theatre designer, lung failure.
• Azahari Husin, 48, technical mastermind of the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings, self-detonated bomb during a police raid. Indonesian police claim he was shot dead before he could detonate his explosives vest, and a comrade's bomb exploded shortly afterward.
• Gardner Read, 92, American composer.
• Bruce Sarver, 43, NHRA race car driver, suicide. [39]
• Ted Wragg, 67, British professor of education and commentator on education topics, heart attack. [40]

11

• Moustapha Akkad, 75, film producer (Halloween films), injuries sustained in Jordanian bombings. [41]
• Keith Andes, 85, American film actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!), suicide by asphyxiation.
• Peter Drucker, 95, management theorist, natural causes. [42]
• Pamela Duncan, 73, American B movie and TV actress.
• Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, 66, British photographer, stroke. [43]
• Steven Van McHone, 35, American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina.
• Eduardo Rabossi, 75, Argentine philosopher and human rights activist.

12

• Arthur K. Cebrowski, 63, retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and Pentagon official, cancer. [44]
• Madhu Dandavate, 81, Indian socialist leader. [45]
• James Fyfe, 63, American criminologist and instructor, cancer. [46]
• Roger Groot, 63, American law professor, also known for defending Lee Boyd Malvo. [47]
• Rik Van Nutter, 75, American actor. [48]
• David Ruiz, 63, American convicted criminal, plaintiff in lawsuit that resulted in improved standards in Texas prisons. [49]

13

• William B. Bryant, 94, senior U.S. federal judge and the first black federal prosecutor in U.S. history. [50]
• Vine Deloria, Jr., 72, Native American author and activist, aortic aneurysm. [51]
• Eddie Guerrero, 38, WWE professional wrestler, heart failure. [52]
• Harry Gold, 98, Irish jazz-musician. [53]
• Charles Owen Rice, 96, American Roman Catholic priest and labor activist. [54]
• Miriam Roth, 95, Israeli writer and educator. [55]
• Ruth M. Siems, 74, home economist, an inventor of Stove Top stuffing. [56]
• Eddie Stapleton, 74, Australian rugby union player. [57]
• Paul L. Ward, 94, American historian, past president of the American Historical Association and Sarah Lawrence College. [58]

14

• John Campo Sr., 67, American champion horse trainer. [59]
• Ahmed Mamsa, 86, Indian cricket umpire. [60]
• Jenő Takács, 103, Hungarian classical composer and pianist

15

• Gustav Aarestrup, 89, Norwegian businessman.
• Felipe de Alba, 81, Mexican actor.
• Barry K. Atkins, 94, U.S. Navy admiral, decorated World War II veteran. [61]
• Roy Brooks, 67, American jazz drummer.
• Agenore Incrocci aka Age, 91, Italian screenwriter. [62]
• Adrian Rogers, 74, American religious leader, complications of colon cancer.
• Robert Rowell, 50, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
• Agapito Sanchez, 35, former junior featherwight boxing champion from Dominican Republic, gunshot wounds.
• Louis Sévèke, 41, Dutch left wing political activist, shot. [63]
• Robert Tisch, 79, co-owner of the NFL's New York Giants, brain cancer. [64]
• Osmond Watson, 71, Jamaican painter and sculptor.

16

• Dante Benedetti, 86, American restauranteur and baseball coach.
• Sandy Consuegra, 85, Cuban baseball pitcher.
• Ralph Edwards, 92, American television host and producer, heart failure.
• John Marlyn, 93, Canadian author.
• Paul Noel, 81, American basketball player.
• Henry Taube, 89, Canadian-born 1983 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
• Shannon Charles Thomas, 34, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
• Donald Watson, 95, British founder of the Vegan Society, natural causes.

17

• Gerhard Beier, 85, German World War II soldier.
• Elizabeth Ann Blaesing, 86, alleged illegitimate daughter of Warren G. Harding.
• W. George Bowdon, Jr., 84, American politician, mayor of Alexandria, Louisiana.
• Walter Muehlbronner, American figure skater.
• Marek Perepeczko, 63, Polish actor.
• Sybil Shearer, 93, American modern dance choreographer. [65]

18

• Armen Abaghian, 72, Russian nuclear scientist.
• Alfonso Arana, 78, Puerto Rican painter.
• Sharon Beshenivsky, 38, British Woman Police Constable, murdered in line of duty.
• Sandy Blythe, 43, Australian wheelchair basketball player.
• Harold J. Stone, 92, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter, Somebody Up There Likes Me).
• Elias Syriani, 67, Jordanian-born American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina.
• Lee Yoon-hyung, 26, heiress of Samsung.

19

• Artine Artinian, 97, French literary scholar.
• David Austin, 70, British cartoonist (The Guardian). [66]
• Erik Balling, 80, Danish TV and film director.
• Steve Belichick, 86, American football player and coach.
• John Timpson, 77, ex-presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, natural causes. [67]

20

• Moses Adasu, 60, Nigerian politician.
• Manouchehr Atashi, 74, Iranian poet.
• Canute Caliste, 91, Grenadian painter.
• Nora Denney, 77, American actress, illness. [68]
• Jonathan James-Moore, 59, former BBC Radio head of light entertainment, cancer. [69]
• James King, 80, American operatic tenor. [70]
• Harry Lawton, 77, American writer.
• Glenn Mitchell, 55, American public radio broadcaster, radio talk show host.
• Lou Myers, 90, American cartoonist (The New Yorker). [71]
• Chris Whitley, 45, American musician, lung cancer.

21

• Alfred Anderson, 109, last living Scottish World War I veteran, oldest living man in Scotland and last survivor of the 1914 Christmas truce.
• Albert H. Bosch, 97, Republican United States Representative from New York (1953–1960). [72]
• Bruce Hobbs, 84, youngest jockey to win the Grand National (age 17 in 1938, riding Battleship). [73]
• Sonny Hutchins, 76, retired stock car and NASCAR driver.
• John W. Mitchell, 88, British sound engineer.
• Mary Ann Aspinwall Owens, 77, American philatelist.
• Hugh Sidey, 78, American journalist, Time Magazine. [74].
• Umrao Singh, 85, last surviving Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross.

22

• David Ashton, 78, Australian botanist and ecologist.
• Mike Austin, 95, Guernsey-born professional golfer and instructor, record-holder for longest drive in a professional tournament, natural causes. [75]
• Madani Bouhouche, 53, Belgian gendarme and criminal.
• Glenn W. Burton, 95, American agricultural scientist.
• 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. [76]

23

• Ingvil Aarbakke, 35, Norwegian artist, cancer. [77]
• Mark Austin, 95, American golfer. [78]
• George Bogart, 82, American painter. [79]
• Isabel de Castro, 74, Portuguese actress, cancer. [80]
• Constance Cummings, 95, American-born British actress. [81]
• Nate Hawthorne, 55, American pro basketball player, heart attack. [82]

24

• Jamuna Baruah, 86, Indian actress. [83]
• Ralph Braibanti, 85, American political scientist. [84]
• Pat Morita, 73, Academy Award-nominated (The Karate Kid) American actor, natural causes. [85]
• John M. Vlissides, 44, one of the "Gang of Four", co-author of the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, complications of a brain tumor. [86]

25

• Andria Apakidze, 91, Georgian archaeologist and historian.
• George Best, 59, Northern Irish football player (Manchester United, Northern Ireland), multiple organ failure. [87]
• Hans Karl Burgeff, 77, German sculptor.
• Richard Burns, 34, British rally driver (2001 World Rally Championship champion), astrocytoma brain tumour. [88]
• Polina Gelman, 86, Soviet air force officer.
• Pierre Seel, 82, French Holocaust survivor. [89].

26

• Takanori Arisawa, 54, Japanese composer.
• Stan Berenstain, 82, Berenstain Bears co-creator, complications due to cancer. [90]
• Clive Bradley, 69, Trinidadian steel pan musician.
• Colin Brinded, 59, British snooker referee, cancer.
• Gopal Godse, 86, last surviving conspirator in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. [91]
• Charles "Clare" Laking, 106, one of the last surviving Canadian World War I veterans.
• David Tabor, 92, British physicist.

27

• Jocelyn Brando, 86, American actress. [92]
• Joe "Boogaloo" Jones, 79, American R&B singer, composer, complications from coronary artery bypass surgery. [93]
• Franz Schönhuber, 82, German politician (Die Republikaner party).

28

• Donald V. Bennett, 90, former commandant United States Military Academy. [94]
• Jack Concannon, 62, former NFL quarterback, heart attack. [95]
• Marc Lawrence, 95, American film actor (subjected to the Hollywood blacklist in the 1940s/50s), heart failure. [96]
• Tony Meehan, 62, former Shadows drummer, head injuries resulting from domestic accident. [97]
• Helen Muir, 85, British rheumatologist. [98]
• Eric Nance, 45, American convicted murderer, executed in Arkansas. [99]
• E. Cardon "Card" Walker, 89, corporate head of Walt Disney Productions from 1976–1983, congestive heart failure. [100]

29

• Bob Brown, 78, American ethnomusicologist, complications of cancer.
• Joseph Furst, 89, Austrian actor.
• Józef Garliński, 92, Polish historian and writer. [101]
• Ashraf Ghorbal, 80, Egyptian diplomat.
• John R. Hicks, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [102]
• Uffe Schultz Larsen, 84, Danish Olympic shooter.
• Macon McCalman, 72, veteran American character actor, complications from a series of strokes. [103]
• Vic Power, 78, Hispanic baseball player (Minnesota Twins) and Gold Glove winning first baseman. One of the first Hispanic players in the Major Leagues, cancer. [104]
• Stanley Russell, 99, New Zealand businessman and politician, Mayor of Nelson.
• Stepan Senchuk, 50, Ukrainian politician, former governor of Lviv Oblast, homicide by gunshot.
• Wendie Jo Sperber, 47, American actress (Back to the Future, Bosom Buddies), breast cancer. [105]
• David di Tommaso, 26, French soccer player, cardiac arrest.
• Deon van der Walt, 47, South African operatic tenor, homicide by gunshot.

30

• Roger Behm, 76, Luxembourg boxer.
• Donald Breckenridge, 75, American hotel developer, lung cancer. [106]
• Svullo, 46, Swedish actor and comedian, suicide. [107]
• Lenford "Steve" Harvey, 30, AIDS campaigner, murdered. [108]
• Viggo Jensen, 84, Danish footballer.
• Denis Lindsay, 66, South African cricketer, long illness. [109]
• Jean Parker, 90, American film actress (Little Women), natural causes (disease).[110]
• Jim Sasseville, 78, American cartoonist (It's Only a Game).[111]
• Herbert L. Strock, 87, B-movie director, heart failure. [112]