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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.
1
- Jean Jacques Dozy, 96, Dutch geologist.
- Mac Dre, 34, American rapper, drive-by shooting.[1]
- James Hanson, Baron Hanson, 82, British industrialist and Conservative life peer, cancer.[2]
- Hatem Kamil, Iraqi deputy governor of Baghdad, shot.[3]
- Terry Knight, 61, American rock manager and producer (Grand Funk Railroad), shot during domestic dispute.[4]
- Mark Ledford, 43-44, American trumpeter, singer and guitarist, cardiovascular disease.[5]
2
- Gabriel Bywaters, 90, Australian politician.
- Gustaaf Joos, 81, Belgian Cardinal.[6]
- Gerrie Knetemann, 53, Dutch road bicycle racer (world champion, 1978), heart attack.[7]
- Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 86, Emirati politician, president of UAE (1971–2004), Emir of Abu Dhabi.[8]
- Theo van Gogh, 47, Dutch filmmaker, television presenter, and author, stabbed and shot.[9]
3
- Janet Backhouse, 66, English manuscripts curator at the British Museum, cancer.[10]
- James H. Binger, 88, American lawyer, entrepreneur and philanthropist.[11]
- Joe Bushkin, 87, American swing era jazz pianist, pneumonia.[12]
- Eilert Dahl, 85, Norwegian nordic skier.[13]
- Sergejs Žoltoks, 31, Latvian ice hockey player (Minnesota Wild, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins), heart failure due to cardiac arrhythmia.[14]
4
- Michael Gross, 84, Israeli painter, sculptor and conceptual artist.[15]
- Robert Heaton, 43, British songwriter and drummer (New Model Army), pancreatic cancer.[16]
- Richard Hongisto, 67, American sheriff of San Francisco and Cleveland, Ohio, heart attack.[17]
- Gordon Ingram, 79, American inventor and entrepreneur.
- Ellen Meloy, 58, American author.[18]
- Yasutomi Nishizuka, 72, Japanese biochemist, discovered Protein Kinase C (PKC).[19]
- Dee Phillips, 85, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves).[20]
5
- Jerzy Duda-Gracz, 63, Polish painter.[21]
- Donald Jones, 72, American-born Dutch actor, comedian, singer and dancer, heart attack.[22]
- Basil McIvor, 76, Northern Irish politician and educationalist.[23]
- Nili Natcho, 22, Circassian-Israeli basketball player, car accident.
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, 66, British peer, murdered.[24]
- 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.[25]
- Michel T. Halbouty, 95, American geologist, petroleum engineer, and wildcatter.[26]
- Erwin Heerich, 81, German artist.[27]
- Pete Jolly, 72, American jazz pianist and accordionist, multiple myeloma].[28]
- Robert Lang, 70, English actor, cancer.[29]
- Elizabeth Rogers, 70, American actress (Star Trek), multiple strokes and lung cancer.[30]
- Marion Shilling, 93, American film actress, leading lady in 1930s B-Western films.[31]
- Johnny Warren, 61, Australian soccer player, coach and television presenter, lung cancer.[32]
7
- Eddie Charlton, 75, Australian snooker and English billiards player.[33]
- Kenzaburo Hara, 97, Japan 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.[34]
- Gibson Kente, 72, South African playwright, AIDS.[35]
8
- Bruno Bettinelli, 91, Italian composer and teacher.[36]
- Ruby de Mel, 86, Sri lankan actress.
- Chandler Harper, 90, American golfer.[37]
- Sérgio Hingst, 80, Brazilian film actor, heart attack.[38]
- Nelly Meden, 76, Argentine actress.
- Lennox Miller, 58, Jamaican sprinter and Olympic silver medalist, cancer.[39]
- Melba Phillips, 97, American physicist and educator, coronary artery disease.[40]
- G. Sakunthala, 72, Indian film actress.
9
- Iris Chang, 36, American historian and author (The Rape of Nanking), suicide by gunshot.[41]
- Emlyn Hughes, 57, British footballer (Liverpool F.C., England), brain tumour.[42]
- Ed Kemmer, 83, American actor.[43]
- Stieg Larsson, 50, Swedish author (Millennium), heart attack.[44]
- Eiji Morioka, 58, Japanese boxer and Olympic medalist, esophageal cancer.[45]
10
- Elizabeth Chater, 94, Canadian author of novels and poetry.[46]
- Katy de la Cruz, 97, Filipino singer.[47]
- Şeref Görkey, 91, Turkish footballer and manager.
- Erna Rosenstein, 91, Polish surrealist painter and poet, arterial sclerosis.[48]
11
- Dayton Allen, 85, American comedian, voice of Deputy Dawg and Mayor Phineas T. Bluster, stroke.[49]
- Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestinian political leader and chairman PLO, President of the Palestinian Authority.[50]
- Richard Dembo, 56, French César Award-winning director, intestinal obstruction.[51]
- Jacques Dynam, 80, French film actor, pneumonia.[52]
- Raymond Murray, 91, United States Marine Corps officer.
12
- Lucia Berlin, 68, American short story writer.[53]
- Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer.[54]
- Frederik Prausnitz, 84, German-American conductor and teacher.[55]
- Norman Rose, 88, American radio and TV actor (All My Children, voice of Juan Valdez).[56]
- Stanisław Skalski, 89, Polish fighter ace during World War II.[57]
- Michael J. Smith, 62, British cricketer, heart attack.[58]
13
- John Balance, 42, British musician (Coil), suicide from jumping.[59]
- Ol' Dirty Bastard, 35, American rapper and founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, drug overdose.[60]
- Ellen Fairclough, 99, Canadian politician, first female cabinet minister.[61]
- Thomas M. Foglietta, 75, American politician and diplomat.[62]
- Harry Lampert, 88, American comic book and advertising artist, co-creator of The Flash, cerebral hemorrhage.[63]
- Domenic Mobilio, 35, Canadian soccer player, heart attack.[64]
- Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer.[65]
- Don Sharpe, 79, 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.[66]
14
- Michel Colombier, 65, French composer, cancer.[67]
- David Stanley Evans, 86, Welsh astronomer.[68]
- Jesse Gonder, 68, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Milwaukee Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates).[69]
- Petter Mørch Koren, 94, American politician.
- Harald Kråkenes, 78, Norwegian competition rower and Olympic medalist.[70]
- Wasimul Bari Rajib, 52, Bangladeshi actor, colorectal cancer.
- Matilda White Riley, 93, American gerontologist.[71]
- Shiva Shankar, 72, Nepali singer, composer and actor, liver cancer.
- Veena, 78, Indian actress.
- Evelyn West, 80, American burlesque stripper, pin-up model and actress.[72]
15
- Elmer L. Andersen, 96, American businessman, governor of Minnesota (1961–1963).[73]
- Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, 73, Iranian doctor, naturopath, HIV/AIDS denialist and writer, pneumonia.
- Bob Cooper, 68, Northern Irish politician.[74]
- John Morgan, 74, Welsh-born Canadian comedian, former member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce, heart attack.[75]
- 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).[76]
16
- Floyd Baker, 88, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies).[77]
- Yves Berger, 73, French writer and editor.[78]
- Otis Dudley Duncan, 82, American sociologist and statistician.[79]
- Massimo Freccia, 98, Italian-American conductor.[80]
- Richard Frey, 84, Austria-Chinese military physician and politician.
- B. C. Gowrishankar, 54, Indian cinematographer and screenwriter.
- Ken Hannam, 75, Australian film and television director, cancer.[81]
- Margaret Hassan, 59, British aid worker, chief of organization CARE International, presumed killed by hostage takers in Iraq.[82]
- Reed Irvine, 82, American economist, founder of Accuracy in Media, complications of stroke.[83]
- Björn Nyberg, 75, Swedish fantasy author.
17
- George Curtis, 84, English football player and coach.[84]
- Mikael Ljungberg, 34, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide by hanging.[85]
- Frank Neary, 83, English football player.
- Alexander Ragulin, 63, Soviet ice hockey player, 10-time IIHF World Champion and three-time Olympic gold medalist.[86]
18
- Juan Carlos Aramburu, 92, Argentinian Roman Catholic cardinal, cardiovascular disease.[87]
- Robert Bacher, 99, American nuclear physicist, co-leader of the Manhattan Project.[88]
- Frank Baldwin, 75, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs).[89]
- Bobby Frank Cherry, 75, American criminal, convicted in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, cancer.[90]
- Cy Coleman, 76, American composer of Broadway musicals, heart attack.[91]
- Jack Horner, 77, Canadian politician.
- Haruyo Ichikawa, 91, Japanese film actress and singer.[92]
- Norman Lloyd Johnson, 87, British statistician and academic.[93]
- Sergei Kovalenko, 57, Soviet and Ukrainian basketball player and Olympic champion.[94]
- Alfred Maseng, Vanuatuan president (1994, 2004) and foreign minister (1995–1996).
- N. Mathrubootham, 60, Indian psychiatrist and actor.[95]
- Antonio Pocovi, 82, Argentine Olympic sprinter (men's 400 metres and men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[96]
- George Scholes, 75, Canadian Olympic hockey player (bronze medal winner in men's ice hockey at the 1956 Winter Olympics).[97]
19
- George Canseco, 70, Filipino composer and politician.
- Mario Escudero, 76, Spanish flamenco guitarist.[98]
- Piet Esser, 90, Dutch sculptor.[99]
- Langdon Brown Gilkey, 85, American Christian Protestant Ecumenical theologian, meningitis.[100]
- Helmut Griem, 72, German film actor (Cabaret).[101]
- Trina Schart Hyman, 65, American illustrator of children's books, breast cancer.[102]
- Don MacMillan, 76, Australian Olympic athlete.[103]
- Martin Malia, 80, American historian specializing in Russian history.[104]
- Terry Melcher, 62, American musician and producer, son of Doris Day, melanoma.[105]
- Manuel Zapata Olivella, 84, Colombian doctor, anthropologist, and writer.[106]
- Brian Traxler, 37, American baseball player, liver disease.[107]
- John Vane, 77, British Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (Medicine, 1982).[108]
- Trooper Washington, 60, American basketball player, heart attack.
20
- Celso Furtado, 84, Brazilian economist, heart attack.[109]
- Janine Haines, 59, Australian politician, former leader of the Australian Democrats.[110]
- Judith Haspel, 86, Swimming champion.
- Anna Keaveney, 55, English actress, lung cancer].
- Ancel Keys, 100, American scientist, co-inventor of the K-ration.[111]
- Ian Lewis, 69, Irish cricketer.[112]
- Dénes Pócsik, 64, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (winner of three Olympic medals: 1964, 1968, 1972).[113]
- Hiltgunt Zassenhaus, 88, German philologist.[114]
21
- Harvey Bennett, Sr., 79, Canadian ice hockey goaltender.[115]
- Georges Morel, 66, French Olympic rower.[116]
- Noel Perrin, 77, American essayist, MSA.[117]
- Mashhoor bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 50, Saudi prince.
- Uwe Scholz, 45, German ballet dancer, director and choreographer.[118]
22
- Piero Brandi, 65, Italian boxer.[119]
- Leo Dee, 73, American artist and teacher.
- Arthur Hopcraft, 71, British author (The Football Man), sports journalist, and screenwriter.[120]
- Stephen Mallatratt, 57, English playwright, television screenwriter and actor, leukemia.[121]
23
- Frances Chaney, 89, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.[122]
- John Cordle, 92, British politician.[123]
- Rafael Eitan, 75, Israeli politician and former chief of staff, drowned.[124]
- Karl Enderlin, 81, Swiss Olympic figure skater.[125]
- Mike Jarmoluk, 82, American gridiron football player.[126]
- Lars-Magnus Lindgren, 82, Swedish film director and screenwriter.[127]
- Eris Paton, 76, New Zealand cricketer.[128]
- Joseph J. Sisco, 85, American diplomat, known for Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy, complications of diabetes.[129]
- Harrison Stafford, 92, American gridiron football player (University of Texas, New York Giants).[130]
24
- Larry Brown, 53, American author and novelist, heart attack.[131]
- Arthur Hailey, 84, British-Canadian author, complications following stroke.[132]
- Joseph Hansen, 81, American mystery author, heart attack.[133]
- James Wong Jim, 64, Hong Kong lyricist, actor, talk show host and author, lung cancer.[134]
- Taiji Kase, 75, Japanese karateka.[135]
- Janet Kear, 71, British ornithologist.[136]
- Harry Moniba, 67, Liberian politician, vice president (1986–1990), traffic collision.[137]
25
- Rachel Attas, 70, Israeli actress (Impossible on Saturday) and singer, cancer.[138]
- David Bailey, 71, American actor (Another World, Passions), drowned.[139]
- Eduards Berklavs, 90, Soviet and Latvian politician.
- Sheila Cussons, 82, Afrikaans poet.[140]
- Bob Haney, 78, American comic book writer (Teen Titans, Doom Patrol, Aquaman).[141]
- Ed Paschke, 65, American artist, heart failure.[142]
- Denis Richards, 94, British historian.[143]
26
- Bill Alley, 85, Anglo-Australian cricketer (Somerset, New South Wales) and test cricket umpire.[144]
- Philippe de Broca, 71, French film director, cancer.[145]
- Tom Haller, 67, American MLB All-Star catcher (San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, Detroit Tigers) and manager (Giants).[146]
- C. Walter Hodges, 95, British illustrator, author and Shakespeare scholar.[147]
- Maude Lloyd, 96, South African ballerina.[148]
- Bernard Pariset, 74, French judoka and jujitsuka.[149]
- Hans Schaffner, 95, Swiss politician and Federal Councilor (1960s), President of the Confederation (1966).[150]
- Ascher H. Shapiro, 88, American professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
27
- John Churchill Dunn, 70, Scottish BBC Radio 2 disc jockey, cancer.[151]
- Billy James Hargis, 79, American Christian minister, missionary and anti-Communist activist, Alzheimer's disease.[152]
- Gunder Hägg, 85, Swedish middle-distance runner and multiple world record holder.[153]
- Avraham Negev, 81, Israeli archaeologist.
- Velimir Valenta, 75, Yugoslav/Croatian rower and Olympic champion.[154]
28
- Leroy F. Aarons, 70, American journalist, founder of the NLGJA, cancer.[155]
- Sergio Castelletti, 66, Italian football player and manager.[156]
- Cris Huerta, 69, Portuguese actor.
- Connie Johnson, 81, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles).[157]
- Hans Christian Nielsen, 88, Danish Olympic cyclist (men's team pursuit cycling at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[158]
- Ted Russell, 92, Irish politician and company director.
- Molly Weir, 94, Scottish actress.[159]
29
- John Drew Barrymore, 72, American actor, member of the Barrymore family, father of Drew Barrymore, cancer.[160]
- Harry Danning, 93, American MLB All-Star catcher (New York Giants).[161]
- Irwin Donenfeld, 78, American DC Comics executive.[162]
- Michael Janisch, 77, Austrian actor.[163]
- Jonah Jones, 85, Welsh sculptor, writer and artist-craftsman.
- Inger Nordbø, 89, Danish-Norwegian Olympic diver (women's 3 metre springboard and women's 10 metre platform at the 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics).[164]
- Jack Shields, 74, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Fort McMurray—Athabasca, Alberta), heart attack.[165]
- Luigi Veronelli, 78, Italian gastronome, wine critic and intellectual, cancer.
30
- Pierre Berton, 84, Canadian author and journalist, heart failure.[166]
- Bill Brown, 73, Scottish goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, Scotland).[167]
- Robert Howe, 79, Australian tennis player.
- Alexei Khvostenko, 64, Russian poet, artist and musician, heart failure.[168]
- Johnny Quigley, 69, Scottish footballer.[169]
- Seungsahn, 77, Korean zen master, founder of Kwan Um School of Zen.[170]
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