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.

1

 * Mary Bennett, 92, British academic.
 * Richard Greenwell, 63, British cryptozoologist.
 * 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.
 * Joseph C. Rodriguez, 76, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient for actions in Korean War, possible heart attack.
 * 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).
 * John Mieremet, 44, Dutch organized crime leader, shot.
 * Rick Rhodes, 54, American film composer and music supervisor, winner of six Emmy Awards, brain cancer.
 * Ferruccio Valcareggi, 86, Italian football player and manager (national team).

3

 * Kent Andersson, 71, Swedish actor, playwright and theatre director.
 * Hrvoje Bartolović, 73, Croatian chess problemist.
 * Aenne Burda, 96, German publisher.
 * Talmadge Davis, 43, American Cherokee artist, heart attack.
 * Hans Raj Dogra, 74, Indian politician.
 * C. P. Ellis, 78, American former Ku Klux Klan member turned civil rights activist.
 * R.C. Gorman, 74, American internationally exhibited Navajo artist, blood infection and pneumonia.
 * Serge Karlow, 84, American former CIA officer wrongly suspected of treason, pneumonia.
 * 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, American professor and historian of psychoanalysis, complications of Crohn's disease.
 * Robert Ferns Waller, 92, British poet.
 * Melvin White, 55, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.

4

 * Nick Adduci, 76, American football player.
 * Nadia Anjuman, 25, Afghan poet.
 * Michael G. Coney, 73, Canadian science fiction author, mesothelioma.
 * Milt Holland, 88, American percussionist.
 * Earl Krugel, 62, American JDL activist and convicted criminal, prison assault.
 * Sheree North, 72, American actress, complications following surgery.
 * 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).
 * John Fowles, 79, British author, after a long illness.
 * Derek Lamb, 69, British animator, Oscar-winning producer.
 * Link Wray, 76, American rock and roll guitarist, best known for the 1958 instrumental "Rumble".

6

 * Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon, 69, British peer, barrister, banker, politician and President of the MCC, stroke.
 * Ignacio Burgoa, 87, Mexican lawyer.
 * Rod Donald, 48, New Zealand politician, co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, viral myocarditis.
 * Minako Honda, 38, Japanese pop singer, myelogenous leukemia.
 * Dick Hutcherson, 73, American former NASCAR driver, heart attack.
 * Theodore Puck, 89, American researcher of genetics, complications from a broken hip.
 * Anthony Sawoniuk, 84, Polish-born Nazi criminal, dead 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.
 * Fraise, 17, American thoroughbred racehorse.
 * Mikhail Gasparov, 70, Russian literary theorist.
 * Nobuhiko Hasegawa, 58, Japanese table tennis player.
 * Harry Thompson, 45, British producer and writer of TV comedies, biographer and novelist, lung cancer.
 * Donald Watson, 87, British wildlife artist.
 * Steve Whatley, 46, British theatre actor, consumer expert, journalist and television presenter, suicide.
 * Robert Woof, 74, English scholar.

8

 * Alekos Alexandrakis, 77, Greek actor, cancer.
 * George Brumwell, 66, British trade unionist.
 * Robert Eugene Bush, 79, American U.S. Navy hospital corpsman, youngest sailor awarded a Medal of Honor in World War II, kidney failure.
 * Francis Cheetham, 77, British museum director and authority on alabaster.
 * Carola Höhn, 95, German stage and cinema actress.
 * Beland Honderich, 86, Canadian newspaper executive, former publisher of Toronto Star, stroke.
 * Charlie Smith, 49, British poet and politician.
 * David Westheimer, 88, American author, novelist (Von Ryan's Express).
 * Adel al-Zubeidi, Iraqi attorney in the continuing Trial of Saddam Hussein, bullet wounds sustained in Baghdad.

9

 * Avril Angers, 87, British comedian and actress, pneumonia.
 * Azahari Husin, 48, Malaysian technical mastermind of the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings.
 * Muriel Degauque, 38, Belgian waitress who converted to Islam, and became the West's first woman suicide bomber.
 * 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, U.S. federal judge who crafted the mass settlement of asbestos lawsuits, kidney failure.

10

 * Fernando Bujones, 50, American classical ballet dancer, melanoma.
 * Steve Courson, 50, American football player, former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive guard, gardening accident.
 * Ernest Crichlow, 91, African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance, heart failure.
 * Kristian Fredrikson, 65, New Zealand-born Australian stage and costume designer, lung failure.
 * John Ling, 72, British diplomat and politician.
 * Gardner Read, 92, American composer.
 * Bruce Sarver, 43, American NHRA race car driver, suicide.
 * 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 film actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!), suicide by asphyxiation.
 * Peter Drucker, 95, Austrian-born American management theorist, natural causes.
 * Pamela Duncan, 73, American B-movie and TV actress.
 * Desmond Henley, 78, British embalmer.
 * Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, 66, British peer and photographer, stroke.
 * Steven Van McHone, 35, American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina.
 * Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi, 89, Indian ophthalmologist.
 * Eduardo Rabossi, 75, Argentine philosopher and human rights activist.

12

 * Arthur K. Cebrowski, 63, American retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and Pentagon official, cancer.
 * Madhu Dandavate, 81, Indian socialist leader.
 * James Fyfe, 63, American criminologist and instructor, cancer.
 * Roger Groot, 63, American law professor, also known for defending Lee Boyd Malvo.

13

 * William B. Bryant, 94, American senior U.S. federal judge and the first black federal prosecutor in U.S. history.
 * Florence Bucior, 85, American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.
 * Vine Deloria Jr., 72, Native American author and activist, aortic aneurysm.
 * Eddie Guerrero, 38, Mexican-American WWE professional wrestler, heart failure.
 * Harry Gold, 98, Irish jazz-musician.
 * Charles Owen Rice, 96, American Roman Catholic priest and labor activist.
 * Miriam Roth, 95, Israeli writer and educator.
 * Ruth M. Siems, 74, American home economist, an inventor of Stove Top stuffing.
 * Eddie Stapleton, 74, Australian rugby union player.
 * Paul L. Ward, 94, American historian, past president of the American Historical Association and Sarah Lawrence College.

14

 * John Campo Sr., 67, American champion horse trainer.
 * Miriam Hodgson, 66, British editor of children's books, ovarian cancer.
 * Ahmed Mamsa, 86, Indian cricket umpire.
 * Robert D. Nesen, 87, American car dealer and diplomat.
 * Erich Schanko, 86, German international footballer.
 * 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.
 * Roy Brooks, 67, American jazz drummer.
 * Agenore Incrocci, aka Age, 86, Italian screenwriter.
 * Adrian Rogers, 74, American religious leader, complications of colon cancer.
 * Robert Rowell, 50, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Agapito Sanchez, 35, Dominican former junior featherweight boxing champion, gunshot wounds.
 * Louis Sévèke, 41, Dutch left wing political activist, shot.
 * Robert Tisch, 79, American businessman, co-owner of the NFL's New York Giants, brain cancer.
 * Osmond Watson, 71, Jamaican painter and sculptor.

16

 * Dante Benedetti, 86, American restaurateur 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

 * Elizabeth Ann Blaesing, 86, American alleged illegitimate daughter of Warren G. Harding.
 * Walter Muehlbronner, 83, American figure skater.
 * Marek Perepeczko, 63, Polish actor.
 * Sybil Shearer, 93, American modern dance choreographer.

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, South Korean millionaire, heiress of Samsung, suicide.

19

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

20

 * Moses Adasu, 60, Nigerian politician.
 * Manouchehr Atashi, 74, Iranian poet.
 * Canute Caliste, 91, Grenadian painter.
 * Nora Denney, 77, American actress, illness.
 * 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.
 * Glenn Mitchell, 55, American public radio broadcaster, radio talk show host.
 * Lou Myers, 90, American cartoonist (The New Yorker).
 * Chris Whitley, 45, American musician, lung cancer.
 * Ronald Duterte, 71, Filipino politician and lawyer, former Mayor of Cebu City

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 United States Representative from New York (1953–1960).
 * Sonny Hutchins, 76, American 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.
 * Umrao Singh, 85, Indian non-commissioned officer, last surviving Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross.

22

 * David Ashton, 78, Australian botanist and ecologist.
 * 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.
 * Joseph J. Thorndike, 92, American editor and writer.

23

 * Ingvil Aarbakke, 35, Norwegian artist, cancer.
 * Mike Austin, 95, American golfer.
 * George Bogart, 72, American painter.
 * Isabel de Castro, 74, Portuguese actress, cancer.
 * Constance Cummings, 95, American-born British actress.
 * Nate Hawthorne, 55, American pro basketball player, heart attack.

24

 * Jamuna Baruah, 86, Indian actress.
 * Ralph Braibanti, 85, American political scientist.
 * Pat Morita, 73, American actor (The Karate Kid, Happy Days, Mulan), kidney failure.
 * John M. Vlissides, 44, American software scientist, one of the "Gang of Four", co-author of the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, complications of a brain tumor.

25

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

26

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

27

 * Jocelyn Brando, 86, American actress.
 * Noboru Iwamura, 78, Japanese medical scientist.
 * Joe "Boogaloo" 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).
 * Lys Symonette, 90, American pianist and musical stage performer.

28

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

29

 * Bob Brown, 78, American ethnomusicologist, complications of cancer.
 * Joseph Furst, 89, Austrian actor.
 * Józef Garliński, 92, Polish historian and writer.
 * Ashraf Ghorbal, 80, Egyptian diplomat.
 * John R. Hicks, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.
 * 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.
 * Vic Power, 78, Puerto Rican baseball player (Minnesota Twins) and Gold Glove winning first baseman. One of the first Hispanic players in the Major Leagues, cancer.
 * 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, Bachelor Party), breast cancer.
 * 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.
 * Svullo, 46, Swedish actor and comedian, suicide.
 * Lenford "Steve" Harvey, 30, Jamaican AIDS campaigner, murdered.
 * Viggo Jensen, 84, Danish footballer.
 * Denis Lindsay, 66, South African cricketer, long illness.
 * Jean Parker, 90, American film actress (Little Women), natural causes (disease).
 * Jim Sasseville, 78, American cartoonist (It's Only a Game).
 * Herbert L. Strock, 87, American B-movie director, heart failure.