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. John Linville, 62, American racing driver. William C. Marshall, 87, British thoroughbred horse racing trainer. Carl Mortensen, 86, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1952). 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, 82, American actress, (The Andy Griffith Show), stroke. John Mieremet, 45, 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 (1952, 1956). 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, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, teacher, and Olympian (1968). 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. John Wittenberg, 66, Australian rugby league footballer. Akira Yamamura, 69, Japanese Olympic sailor (1972).
4 Nick Adduci, 76, American football player (Nebraska Cornhuskers, Washington Redskins). Nadia Anjuman, 24, Afghan poet, homicide. Michael Erceg, 49, New Zealand businessman, helicopter crash. 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. Amos Thomas, 57, American college basketball player (Oklahoma State Cowboys, Southwestern Oklahoma State Bulldogs).
5 Peter Brunt, 88, British ancient historian. Hugh Alexander Dunn, 82, Australian diplomat, ambassador to Taiwan (1969–1972) and China (1980–1984). Frank Emmons, 87, American football player (Oregon Ducks, Philadelphia Eagles). 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. Fidel Arellano, 98, Mexican Olympic wrestler (1932). 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, coach, and Olympian (1956). 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. John Nuttall, 86, Anglo-Indian Olympic boxer (1948). 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.Francis Cheetham Beland Honderich, 86, Canadian newspaper executive, former publisher of Toronto Star, stroke. Carola Höhn, 95, German stage and cinema actress. Lyle Rockenbach, 90, American football player (Michigan State Spartans, Detroit Lions). Dean Sensanbaugher, 80, American football player (Cleveland Browns, New York Bulldogs). Ernst Steinhauer, 79, German canoeist and Olympian (1956). 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 (Pittsburgh Steelers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), gardening accident. Ernest Crichlow, 91, American artist (Harlem Renaissance), heart failure. Janusz Grzemowski, 58, Polish Olympic luger (1972). 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. Joyce Richards, 84, British Olympic canoeist (1948). Vidar Sandbeck, 87, Norwegian folk singer, composer, and writer. Carlo Testi, 102, Italian painter. 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 (Baltimore Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers, Miami Dolphins). 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, American 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 Cosme Barrutia, 76, Spanish cyclist. 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 (1972, 1976, 1980). Frank Minini, 83, American football player (Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers). 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. Florence Bucior, 85, American baseball player. 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 Svein Bergersen, 75, Norwegian footballer. John P. Campo, 67, American champion horse trainer. Ahmed Mamsa, 86, Indian cricket umpire. Erich Schanko, 86, German footballer.Erich Schanko Anja Secrève, 88, Dutch fencer and Olympian (1948). 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, 86, Italian screenwriter, heart attack. Bertil Johansson, 76, Swedish footballer. 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. Donald Tytler, 81, Canadian Olympic sailor (1952, 1956). Ren Zhongyi, 91, Chinese politician.
16 Bill Bray, 80, American bodyguard (Michael Jackson).Michael Jackson father figure Bill Bray dies (death announced on this date) 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. Ed Karpowich, 93, American football player (Pittsburgh Pirates). Richard Moore, 95, American sailor and Olympic champion (1932). Paul Noel, 81, American basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats, New York Knicks, Rochester Royals), 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 Béla Czafik, 68, Hungarian Olympic volleyball player (1964). 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.