Deaths in November 2008

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2008.

November 2008

1

• Badaró, 74, Brazilian-born Portuguese comedian, cancer. (Portuguese)
• Jimmy Carl Black, 70, American Cheyenne drummer and vocalist (The Mothers of Invention), lung cancer.
• Dermot Curtis, 76, Irish footballer (Bristol City, Ipswich Town, Republic of Ireland), after long illness.
• David DeCaires, 70, Guyanese journalist and editor, founder of Stabroek News, complications from heart attack.
• Oscar Lathlin, 61, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba since 1990.
• Nathaniel Mayer, 64, American rhythm & blues singer, stroke.
• Jacques Piccard, 86, Belgian-born Swiss oceanologist and explorer.
• Rosetta Reitz, 84, American jazz historian and record company founder, cardiopulmonary disease.
• Jack Reno, 72, American country music singer, brain cancer.
• Tiffany Sloan, 35, American model (Playboy), suicide by drug overdose.
• Shakir Stewart, 34, American vice president of Def Jam Recordings, suicide by gunshot.
• Yma Sumac, 86, Peruvian soprano, cancer.
• Tan Jiazhen, 99, Chinese geneticist, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Tony Tarracino, 92, American saloon keeper and politician, heart and lung ailments.

2

• Ahmed al-Mirghani, 67, Sudanese politician, President (1986–1989).
• Joseph Alliluyev, 63, Russian cardiologist, grandson of Joseph Stalin.
• James Armsey, 90, American automotive executive, director of the Ford Foundation (1960–1967).
• Madelyn Dunham, 86, American maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, cancer.
• George F. Grant, 102, American angler, author and conservationist, natural causes.
• Kenneth P. Johnson, 74, American newspaper editor (Dallas Times Herald), heart infection.
• Jim Koleff, 55, Canadian hockey player and coach, cancer.
• Domenico Leccisi, 88, Italian politician, stole corpse of Benito Mussolini, heart and respiratory disease.
• Henry Loomis, 89, American Director of Voice of America (1958–1965), Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Pick's diseases.
• Jacques Lunis, 85, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) athlete.
• Elijah Mudenda, 81, Zambian politician, Prime Minister (1975–1977).
• Joe Rollins, 90, American attorney and author.
• Bill Stall, 71, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (Los Angeles Times), complications from pulmonary disease.
• Terence Tolbert, 44, American political campaign director for Barack Obama in Nevada, heart attack.

3

• John Adams, 89, British rear admiral.
• Charles T. Cross, 86, American diplomat, Ambassador to Singapore (1969–1972), Consul General in Hong Kong (1974–1977).
• Mike Davis, 68, American boating advocate.
• Alan Ford, 84, American swimmer, emphysema.
• Jean Fournet, 95, French conductor.
• Edward Scott McMichael, 53, American tuba player, bludgeoned.
• Brooks Mileson, 60, British football club owner (Gretna F.C.), complications from chronic fatigue syndrome and brain infection.
• Lalit Mohan Sharma, 80, Indian jurist, Chief Justice (1992–1993).
• Edward Sheehan, 78, American foreign correspondent, allergic reaction to medication.
• Cecil W. Stoughton, 88, American Presidential photographer (Kennedy, Johnson), complications from hip replacement.
• John Trudeau, 81, American music promoter, founder of the Britt Festival, heart failure.
• I. Bernard Weinstein, 78, American cancer researcher, kidney disease.

4

• Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, 96, Russian politician, chairman of Tuvan Parliament (1940–1944), world's first female head of state.
• Lennart Bergelin, 83, Swedish tennis player and coach, heart failure.
• Paddy Buckley, 83, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen, St Johnstone).
• Jheryl Busby, 59, American record executive.
• Gérald Coppenrath, 86, French journalist and Senator (1958–1962) for Tahiti, brother of Hubert and Michel Coppenrath. (French)
• Michael Crichton, 66, American writer (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, ER), throat cancer.
• Marshall Fritz, 65, American libertarian (World's Smallest Political Quiz, Advocates for Self Government), pancreatic cancer.
• Rosella Hightower, 88, American ballerina, stroke.
• Byron Lee, 73, Jamaican musician and record producer, bladder cancer.
• Syd Lucas, 108, British World War I veteran.
• Juan Camilo Mouriño, 37, Mexican Secretary of the Interior since 2008, plane crash.
• Orlando Owoh, 76, Nigerian musician, stroke.
• José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, 51, Mexican politician, plane crash.

5

• Ian Anderson, 54, Scottish footballer.
• Baldev Raj Chopra, 94, Indian film director, after long illness.
• Sofron Dmyterko, 91, Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk.
• Sir Paul Greening, 80, British admiral and courtier.
• Michael Higgins, 88, American actor, heart failure.
• Joza Karas, 82, Polish-born American musicologist.
• Félix Lebuhotel, 76, French cyclist.
• John Leonard, 69, American media and cultural critic, complications from lung cancer.
• Norm Marshall, 89, Canadian broadcaster.
• Clark Miller, 70, American football player, heart attack.
• John Odom, 26, American professional baseball player, accidental drug overdose.
• Carol Jean Tarr-Ingham- beloved mother, 80

6

• Ronald Davis, 52, American health advocate, president of the AMA (2007–2008), pancreatic cancer.
• Sir John Hermon, 79, British police officer, Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (1980–1989), Alzheimer's disease.
• Larry James, 61, American track athlete and Olympic gold medalist (1968), cancer.
• Phil Reed, 59, American politician, member of New York City Council (1998–2005), complications of pneumonia from leukemia.
• Joe Wendryhoski, 69, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, New Orleans Saints), cancer and stroke.
• George Winterton, 61, Australian lawyer and professor of constitutional law, cancer.

7

• James Byrne, 62, Irish musician.
• Tetsuya Chikushi, 73, Japanese journalist and news anchor, lung cancer.
• José Bezerra Coutinho, 98, Brazilian bishop of Estância.
• Heiko Engelkes, 75, German television journalist (ARD), cancer. (German)
• Hedley Howarth, 64, New Zealand cricketer.
• Wik Jongsma, 65, Dutch actor, cancer. (Dutch)
• Hidetaka Nishiyama, 80, Japanese karate master, cancer.
• Heather Pick, 38, American newscaster (WBNS-TV), breast cancer.
• Jody Reynolds, 75, American singer and guitarist, liver cancer.
• Lyle Williams, 66, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for Ohio (1979–1985), heart attack.
• Abraham Woods, 80, American civil rights leader, cancer.

8

• Richard Fortman, 93, American checkers champion.
• Régis Genaux, 35, Belgian footballer, heart failure due to pulmonary embolism.
• Joe Hyams, 85, American Hollywood columnist and author, coronary artery disease.
• Mieczysław Rakowski, 81, Polish politician, Prime Minister (1988–1989), Workers' Party Chairman (1989–1990), cancer.
• Florence Wald, 91, American nurse, hospice pioneer.

9

• Fernand Goux, 108, French penultimate veteran of World War I. (French)
• Huda bin Abdul Haq, 48, Indonesian terrorist in 2002 Bali bombings, execution by firing squad.
• Anton Huiskes, 80, Dutch Olympic speed skater.
• Hok Lundy, 58, Cambodian National Police Commissioner, helicopter crash.
• Carl D. Keith, 88, American co-inventor of the catalytic converter.
• John Milsum, 83, Canadian control engineer.
• Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, 46, Indonesian terrorist in 2002 Bali bombings, execution by firing squad.
• Preacher Roe, 92, American baseball pitcher (St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers), colon cancer.
• Stanisław Różewicz, 84, Polish film director.
• Imam Samudra, 38, Indonesian terrorist in 2002 Bali bombings, execution by firing squad.

10

• Sarah Blacher Cohen, 72, American professor of Jewish literature, complications of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
• Kiyoshi Itō, 93, Japanese mathematician, respiratory failure.
• Nikola Kavaja, 76, Serbian anti-communist activist and aircraft hijacker, heart attack.
• Li Ximing, 82, Chinese leader of Beijing Communist Party.
• Miriam Makeba, 76, South African singer, heart attack.
• Arthur Shawcross, 63, American serial killer, cardiac arrest.
• Wannes Van de Velde, 71, Belgian singer and artist, leukemia.

11

• Mustafa Şekip Birgöl, 105, Turkish last veteran of the Turkish War of Independence.
• C. Harmon Brown, 78, American physician, pioneer of sports medicine, cancer.
• Tom Hunt, 85, American chairman of Hunt Petroleum, leukemia.
• Ľubomír Kadnár, 67, Czechoslovak Olympic sprint canoer (Slovak)
• Francisco Lozano, 76, Mexico Olympic cyclist.
• Alessandro Maggiolini, 77, Italian Bishop of Como, lung cancer.
• María Elena Marqués, 83, Mexican actress, heart failure.
• Howard Reig, 87, American television announcer.
• Lasse Sandberg, 84, Swedish writer and illustrator of children's literature. (Swedish)
• Herb Score, 75, American baseball pitcher and broadcaster (Cleveland Indians), after long illness.
• Jack Scott, 85, British weather forecaster, cancer.

12

• Richard Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor, 73, British aristocrat and patron of the arts, cancer.
• Tim L. Hall, 83, American politician, U.S. Representative from Illinois (1975–1977).
• Catherine Baker Knoll, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania since 2003, neuroendocrine cancer.
• Vladas Michelevičius, 84, Lithuanian bishop of Vilkaviškis.
• Mitch Mitchell, 61, British drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience), natural causes.
• Margaret Moncrieff, 87, British cellist.
• George Morrison, 59, Canadian ice hockey player, brain tumour.
• Rex Neame, 72, English cricketer.
• Serge Nigg, 84, French composer. (French)
• Raymond Routledge, 77, American bodybuilder, AAU Mr. America (1961).

13

• Marcello Fondato, 84, Italian screenwriter and director. (Italian)
• Bette Garber, 65, American photographer, pneumonia.
• Mustapha Oukacha, 75, Moroccan politician, president of the Assembly of Councillors.
• Ian Ridley, 74, Australian footballer (Melbourne Demons), emphysema.
• Paco Ignacio Taibo I, 84, Mexican writer and journalist, pneumonia.

14

• Knut Bjørnsen, 76, Norwegian sports commentator and journalist, pancreatic cancer. (Norwegian)
• Michael Ugwu Eneja, 89, Nigerian Bishop of Enugu.
• Sir Bernard Feilden, 89, British conservation activist and restoration architect.
• Lung Fong, 54, Hong Kong actor, lung cancer,
• Irving Gertz, 93, American composer.
• Adrian Kantrowitz, 90, American physician, performed the first pediatric heart transplant, heart failure.
• Tsvetanka Khristova, 46, Bulgarian athlete, Olympic dual medallist in discus throw, cancer.
• Robert Leith-Macgregor, 91, British World War II pilot.
• Charles Le Quintrec, 82, French poet. (French)
• Shaukat Hussein Mazari, 60, Pakistani politician, heart attack.
• Ajit Kumar Panja, 72, Indian politician, oral cancer.

15

• Glen Brand, 85, American wrestler, Olympic gold medalist (1948).
• Matthew Cianciulli, 66, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1977–1979), heart failure.
• Donald Finkel, 79, American poet, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Christel Goltz, 96, German soprano.
• Grace Hartigan, 86, American painter, liver failure.
• Louis Ormont, 90, American psychologist.
• Ivan Southall, 87, Australian children's author, cancer.

16

• Salah al-Deen Hafez, 70, Egyptian writer.
• Bruno Maldaner, 84, Brazilian Bishop of Frederico Westphalen.
• Jan Krugier, 80, Polish born Swiss art dealer and holocaust survivor.^[1]
• Tony Reedus, 49, American jazz drummer.
• Reg Varney, 92, British comedy actor (On the Buses).

17

• Peter Aldis, 81, British footballer.
• Yaakov Alperon, 53, Israeli organized crime mobster, car bomb.
• Irving Brecher, 94, American comedy writer, heart attack.
• Ennio de Concini, 84, Italian Academy Award–winning screenwriter.
• Debby, 42, Soviet-born Canadian oldest living polar bear, third-oldest known bear, euthanasia due to multiple organ failure.
• Jean-Marie Demange, 65, French member of the National Assembly, Mayor of Thionville (1995–2008), suicide.
• Jay Katz, 86, German-born American physician and medical ethicist, heart failure.
• Tafadzwa Madondo, 27, Zimbabwean cricketer, motorcycle accident.
• George Stephen Morrison, 89, American admiral, father of Jim Morrison.
• Pete Newell, 93, Canadian-born American basketball coach.
• Guy Peellaert, 74, Belgian painter, illustrator and photographer, cancer.
• Floyd Weaver, 67, American baseball player.

18

• Manuel Castro Ruiz, 90, Mexican Bishop of Yucatán.
• George C. Chesbro, 68, American novelist, heart failure.
• Paul H. Todd, Jr., 87, American politician, member of the House of Representatives from Michigan (1965–1967).

19

• Farah Weheliye Addo, 68, Somali sports administrator, heart attack.
• Clive Barnes, 81, American theatre and dance critic, liver cancer.
• Karl Bissinger, 94, American photographer.
• Carole Caldwell Graebner, 65, American tennis player, cancer.
• John Michael Hayes, 89, American screenwriter (Rear Window), natural causes.
• Norman McVicker, 68, English cricketer.
• M. N. Nambiar, 89, Indian actor, after short illness.
• Edel von Rothe, 83, German ballerina, (German)

20

• Boris Fyodorov, 50, Russian politician and banker, stroke.
• Bennie Gonzales, 84, American Southwestern-style architect (Heard Museum), Alzheimer's disease.
• Betty James, 90, American businesswoman, co-founder of the Slinky company, wife of Richard T. James.
• Bob Jeter, 71, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears), heart attack.
• Jan Machulski, 80, Polish actor (Vabank), heart attack.
• Jim Mattox, 65, American politician, member of the House of Representatives (1977–1983), Texas Attorney General (1983–1991).

21

• Augustus Barber, 87, American businessman, cardiac arrest.
• Giacomo Bozzano, 75, Italian boxer. (Italian)
• Tom Gish, 82, American journalist and publisher, kidney failure and heart problems.
• Andrew Rowe, 73, British politician, MP for Faversham and Mid Kent (1983–2001), prostate cancer.

22

• Garnet Bougoure, 85, Australian jockey.
• MC Breed, 37, American rapper, kidney failure.
• Alan Gordon, 64, American songwriter ("Happy Together").
• Mario Fernando Hernández, 41, Honduran politician, Deputy Speaker of the National Congress, shot.
• Ibrahim Nasir, 82, Maldivian President (1968–1978).
• Rashid Rauf, 27, British-born Pakistani al-Qaeda terrorist, air strike.
• Sandy Ruby, 67, American entrepreneur, founder of Tech Hifi and Computer City, diabetes.
• Ted Wykes, 87, Australian cricket umpire, cancer.

23

• Richey James Edwards, 27, British musician (Manic Street Preachers), declared dead on this date (missing since 1995).
• Richard Hickox, 60, British conductor, heart attack.
• Jean Markale, 80, French writer and poet. (French)
• Fred McAlister, 80, American baseball scout (St. Louis Cardinals).

24

• Tom Burgess, 82, Canadian baseball player and coach, cancer.
• Frank Cieciorka, 69, American graphic artist and anti-war activist, emphysema.
• Francis Grevemberg, 94, American Superintendent of Louisiana State Police (1952–1956), respiratory problems after hip surgery.
• Bep Guidolin, 82, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• Kenny MacLean, 52, Canadian bassist (Platinum Blonde), heart attack.
• Ray Perrault, 82, Canadian politician, Senator (1973–2001), Liberal Leader of Senate (1974–1982), Parkinson's disease.
• John Frederick Powell, 93, British air marshal.
• Stefan Schörghuber, 47, German brewing magnate, heart failure.
• John R. Stallings, 73, American mathematician.
• Cecil H. Underwood, 86, American politician, Governor of West Virginia (1957–1961, 1997–2001).

25

• William Dowd, 86, American harpsichord maker.
• Beno Eckmann, 91, Swiss mathematician.
• Ruth Alice Erickson, 95, American Director of the Navy Nurse Corps (1962–1966), pneumonia.
• Helmut Friedlaender, 95, German-born American book collector.
• William Gibson, 94, American playwright (The Miracle Worker).
• Leonard Goodwin, 93, British pharmacologist.
• Randy Gumpert, 90, American baseball player.
• David M. Jones, 94, American Air Force officer, Doolittle Raider.
• Michael Lee, 39, British rock drummer, seizure.
• Max Oppy, 84, Australian footballer (Richmond).
• Brian Pearce, 93, British Marxist historian and translator.
• Dudley Savage, 88, British BBC radio presenter.
• Gerald Schoenfeld, 84, American theater impresario.

26

• Bob Blake, 94, American ice hockey player.
• Ralph Burkei, 51, German television producer, fall.
• Christian Fechner, 64, French film producer. (French)
• Loumia Hiridjee, 46, Malagasy-born French businesswoman, shot.
• Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, Israeli-born American rabbi, shot.
• Ashok Kamte, Indian additional commissioner of Mumbai Police, shot.
• Vitaly Karayev, 46, Russian mayor of Vladikavkaz, shot.
• Hemant Karkare, 54, Indian chief of the Mumbai Anti Terrorist Squad, shot.
• Andreas Liveras, 73, Cypriot-born British business tycoon, shot.
• Edna Parker, 115, American supercentenarian, oldest validated living person.
• Vijay Salaskar, Indian encounter specialist with Mumbai Police, shot.
• Edwin Ernest Salpeter, 83, Austrian-born American astrophysicist, leukemia.
• De'Angelo Wilson, 29, American actor (8 Mile, Antwone Fisher), suicide by hanging.
• Yang Jia, 28, Chinese mass murderer, executed.

27

• Adi Da, 69, American-born Fijian artist.
• George MacPherson Docherty, 97, British-born American clergyman.
• Armand Fabella, Filipino educator, Secretary of Education (1992–1994).
• Gideon Gechtman, 66, Israeli artist, heart failure.
• Gil Heron, 87, Jamaican football player, father of Gil Scott-Heron.
• Paul Hibbert, 56, Australian cricketer.
• Cullen Hightower, 84, American author of quips and quotes.
• Patricia Marand, 74, American actress, brain cancer.
• Andrew McKelvey, 74, American founder of Monster.com, pancreatic cancer.
• Mike Minogue, 85, New Zealand politician, MP (1976–1984), cancer.
• Verne Orr, 92, American politician, Secretary of the Air Force (1981–1985).
• Pekka Pohjola, 56, Finnish bassist and composer.
• Vishwanath Pratap Singh, 77, Indian Prime Minister (1989–1990), blood cancer and renal failure.
• Andy Tomasic, 90, American football and baseball player.
• Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, 83, American scholar of Greek and Roman art, complications from a stroke.

28

• Bill Finnegan, 80, American television and film producer (The Fabulous Baker Boys, Hawaii Five-O), Parkinson's disease.
• John Harryson, 82, Swedish actor and entertainer. (Swedish)
• Joža Karas, 82, Polish-born American musician and teacher.
• Sir Hugh Laddie, 62, British intellectual property lawyer and High Court judge, cancer.
• Red Murff, 87, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves) and scout.
• Victor Nieto, 92, Colombian founder and director of the Cartagena Film Festival.
• Edoardo Ricci, 80, Italian Bishop of San Miniato.
• German Skurygin, 45, Russian race walker, heart attack.
• June Vincent, 88, American actor.
• Wo Weihan, 59, Chinese biochemist, executed.
• Helena Wolińska-Brus, 89, Polish military prosecutor, pneumonia.
• Robert Zarinsky, 68, American serial killer, pulmonary fibrosis.

29

• Bill Drake, 71, American radio programmer.
• Ulises Dumont, 71, Argentine actor, heart problems. (Spanish)
• Arthur Kantrowitz, 95, American physicist and engineer.
• Sten Rudholm, 90, Swedish jurist, member of the Swedish Academy, natural causes.
• Jørn Utzon, 90, Danish architect (Sydney Opera House), heart attack.
• Georgi Vyun, 54, Russian football player and coach. (Russian)
• Robert Wade, 87, New Zealand-born British chess champion, pneumonia.

30

• Béatrix Beck, 94, Belgian writer.
• Thomas S. Crow, 74, American military officer, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (1979–1982), cancer.
• Naomi Datta, 86, British bacteriologist.
• Doris Dungey, 47, American financial blogger, ovarian cancer.
• Munetaka Higuchi, 49, Japanese drummer (Loudness), liver cancer.
• Ralph A. Lewin, 87, American biologist.
• Pit Martin, 64, Canadian ice hockey player, drowned.
• Nick George Montos, 92, American felon, oldest inmate in Massachusetts.
• Peter Rees, Baron Rees, 81, British politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1983–1985).

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