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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2008.
30
- Béatrix Beck, 94, Belgian writer. [1] (French)
- Thomas S. Crow, 74, American military officer, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (1979–1982), cancer. [2]
- Naomi Datta, 86, British bacteriologist. [3]
- Doris Dungey, 47, American financial blogger, ovarian cancer. [4]
- Munetaka Higuchi, 49, Japanese drummer (Loudness), liver cancer. [5]
- Pit Martin, 64, Canadian ice hockey player, drowned. [6]
- Nick George Montos, 92, American felon, oldest inmate in Massachusetts. [7]
- Peter Rees, Baron Rees, 81, British politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1983–1985). [8]
29
- Bill Drake, 71, American radio programmer. [9]
- Ulises Dumont, 71, Argentine actor, heart problems. [10] (Spanish)
- Arthur Kantrowitz, 95, American physicist and engineer. [11]
- Sten Rudholm, 90, Swedish jurist, member of the Swedish Academy, natural causes. [12]
- Jørn Utzon, 90, Danish architect (Sydney Opera House), heart attack. [13]
- Robert Wade, 87, New Zealand-born British chess champion, pneumonia. [14]
28
- Bill Finnegan, 80, American television and film producer (The Fabulous Baker Boys, Hawaii Five-O), Parkinson's disease. [15]
- John Harryson, 82, Swedish actor and entertainer. [16] (Swedish)
- Sir Hugh Laddie, 62, British intellectual property lawyer and High Court judge, cancer. [17]
- Red Murff, 87, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves) and scout. [18]
- Victor Nieto, 92, Colombian founder and director of the Cartagena Film Festival. [19]
- Edoardo Ricci, 80, Italian Bishop of San Miniato. [20]
- German Skurygin, 45, Russian race walker, heart attack. [21]
- Wo Weihan, 59, Chinese biochemist, executed. [22]
- Helena Wolińska-Brus, 89, Polish military prosecutor, pneumonia. [23]
- Robert Zarinsky, 68, American serial killer, cancer. [24]
27
- Adi Da, 69, American-born Fijian artist. [25]
- George MacPherson Docherty, 97, British-born American clergyman. [26]
- Armand Fabella, Filipino educator, Secretary of Education (1992–1994). [27]
- Gideon Gechtman, 66, Israeli artist, heart failure. [28]
- Gil Heron, 87, Jamaican football player, father of Gil Scott-Heron. [29]
- Paul Hibbert, 56, Australian cricketer. [30]
- Patricia Marand, 74, American actress, brain cancer. [31]
- Andrew McKelvey, 74, American founder of Monster.com, pancreatic cancer. [32]
- Mike Minogue, 85, New Zealand politician, MP (1976–1984), cancer. [33]
- Verne Orr, 92, American politician, Secretary of the Air Force (1981–1985). [34]
- Pekka Pohjola, 56, Finnish bassist and composer. [35]
- Vishwanath Pratap Singh, 77, Indian Prime Minister (1989–1990), blood cancer and renal failure. [36]
- Andy Tomasic, 90, American football and baseball player. [37]
- Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, 83, American scholar of Greek and Roman art, complications from a stroke. [38]
26
- Bob Blake, 94, American ice hockey player. [39]
- Ralph Burkei, 51, German television producer, fall. [40]
- Christian Fechner, 64, French film producer. [41] (French)
- Loumia Hiridjee, 46, Malagasy-born French businesswoman, shot. [42]
- Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, Israeli-born American rabbi, shot. [43]
- Ashok Kamte, Indian additional commissioner of Mumbai Police, shot. [44]
- Vitaly Karayev, 46, Russian Mayor of Vladikavkaz, shot. [45]
- Hemant Karkare, 54, Indian chief of the Mumbai Anti Terrorist Squad, shot. [46]
- Andreas Liveras, 73, Cypriot-born British business tycoon, shot. [47]
- Edna Parker, 115, American supercentenarian, oldest validated living person. [48]
- Vijay Salaskar, Indian encounter specialist with Mumbai Police, shot. [49]
- Edwin Ernest Salpeter, 83, Austrian-born American astrophysicist, leukemia. [50]
- De'Angelo Wilson, 29, American actor, suicide by hanging. [51]
- Yang Jia, 28, Chinese mass murderer, executed. [52]
25
- William Dowd, 86, American harpsichord maker. [53]
- Beno Eckmann, 91, Swiss mathematician. [54]
- Ruth Alice Erickson, 95, American Director of the Navy Nurse Corps (1962–1966), pneumonia. [55]
- Helmut Friedlaender, 95, German-born American book collector. [56]
- William Gibson, 94, American playwright (The Miracle Worker). [57]
- Leonard Goodwin, 93, British pharmacologist. [58]
- Randy Gumpert, 90, American baseball player. [59]
- David M. Jones, 94, American Air Force officer, Doolittle Raider. [60]
- Michael Lee, 39, British rock drummer, seizure. [61]
- Max Oppy, 84, Australian footballer (Richmond). [62]
- Brian Pearce, 93, British Marxist historian and translator. [63]
- Dudley Savage, 88, British BBC radio presenter. [64]
- Gerald Schoenfeld, 84, American theater impresario. [65]
24
- Tom Burgess, 82, Canadian baseball player and coach, cancer. [66]
- Frank Cieciorka, 69, American graphic artist and anti-war activist, emphysema. [67]
- Francis Grevemberg, 94, American Superintendent of Louisiana State Police (1952–1956), respiratory problems after hip surgery. [68]
- Bep Guidolin, 82, Canadian ice hockey player and coach. [69]
- Kenny MacLean, 52, Canadian bassist (Platinum Blonde). [70]
- Ray Perrault, 82, Canadian politician, Senator (1973–2001), Liberal Leader of Senate (1974–1982), Parkinson's disease. [71]
- Stefan Schörghuber, 47, German brewing magnate, heart failure. [72]
- John R. Stallings, 73, American mathematician. [73]
- Cecil H. Underwood, 86, American politician, Governor of West Virginia (1957–1961, 1997–2001). [74]
23
- Richey James Edwards, 27, British musician (Manic Street Preachers), declared dead on this date (missing since 1995). [75]
- Richard Hickox, 60, British conductor, heart attack. [76]
- Jean Markale, 80, French writer and poet. [77] (French)
- Fred McAlister, 80, American baseball scout (St. Louis Cardinals). [78]
22
- MC Breed, 37, American rapper, kidney failure. [79]
- Alan Gordon, 64, American songwriter ("Happy Together"). [80]
- Mario Fernando Hernández, 41, Honduran politician, Deputy Speaker of the National Congress, shot. [81]
- Ibrahim Nasir, 82, Maldivian President (1968–1978). [82]
- Rashid Rauf, 27, British-born Pakistani Al-Qaeda terrorist, air strike. [83]
- Sandy Ruby, 67, American entrepreneur, founder of Tech Hifi and Computer City, diabetes. [84]
- Ted Wykes, 87, Australian cricket umpire, cancer. [85]
21
- Augustus Barber, 87, American businessman, cardiac arrest. [86]
- Giacomo Bozzano, 75, Italian boxer. [87] (Italian)
- Tom Gish, 82, American journalist and publisher, kidney failure and heart problems. [88]
- Andrew Rowe, 73, British politician, MP for Faversham and Mid Kent (1983–2001), prostate cancer. [89]
20
- Boris Fyodorov, 50, Russian politician and banker, stroke. [90]
- Betty James, 90, American businesswoman, co-founder of the Slinky company, wife of Richard T. James. [91]
- Bob Jeter, 71, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears), heart attack. [92]
- Jan Machulski, 80, Polish actor (Vabank), heart attack. [93]
- Jim Mattox, 65, American politician, member of the House of Representatives (1977–1983), Texas Attorney General (1983–1991). [94]
19
- Farah Weheliye Addo, 68, Somali sports administrator, heart attack. [95]
- Clive Barnes, 81, American theatre and dance critic, liver cancer. [96]
- Karl Bissinger, 94, American photographer. [97]
- Carole Caldwell Graebner, 65, American tennis player, cancer. [98]
- John Michael Hayes, 89, American screenwriter (Rear Window), natural causes. [99]
- M. N. Nambiar, 89, Indian actor, after short illness. [100]
18
- Manuel Castro Ruiz, 90, Mexican Bishop of Yucatán. [101]
- George C. Chesbro, 68, American novelist, heart failure. [102]
- Paul H. Todd, Jr., 87, American politician, member of the House of Representatives from Michigan (1965–1967). [103]
17
- Peter Aldis, 81, British footballer. [104]
- Yaakov Alperon, 53, Israeli organized crime mobster, car bomb. [105]
- Irving Brecher, 94, American comedy writer, heart attack. [106]
- Ennio de Concini, 84, Italian Academy Award–winning screenwriter. [107]
- Debby, 42, Soviet-born Canadian oldest living polar bear, third-oldest known bear, euthanasia due to multiple organ failure. [108]
- Jean-Marie Demange, 65, French member of the National Assembly, Mayor of Thionville (1995–2008), suicide. [109]
- Jay Katz, 86, German-born American physician and medical ethicist, heart failure. [110]
- Tafadzwa Madondo, 27, Zimbabwean cricketer, motorcycle accident. [111]
- George Stephen Morrison, 89, American admiral, father of Jim Morrison. [112]
- Pete Newell, 93, Canadian-born American basketball coach. [113]
- Guy Peellaert, 74, Belgian painter, illustrator and photographer, cancer. [114]
- Floyd Weaver, 67, American baseball player. [115]
16
- Salah al-Deen Hafez, 70, Egyptian writer. [116]
- Bruno Maldaner, 84, Brazilian Bishop of Frederico Westphalen. [117]
- Reg Varney, 92, British comedy actor (On the Buses). [118]
15
- Glen Brand, 85, American wrestler, Olympic gold medalist (1948). [119]
- Donald Finkel, 79, American poet, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [120]
- Christel Goltz, 96, German soprano. [121]
- Grace Hartigan, 86, American painter, liver failure. [122]
- Louis Ormont, 90, American psychologist. [123]
- Ivan Southall, 87, Australian children's author, cancer. [124]
14
- Knut Bjørnsen, 76, Norwegian sports commentator and journalist, pancreatic cancer. [125] (Norwegian)
- Michael Ugwu Eneja, 89, Nigerian Bishop of Enugu. [126]
- Sir Bernard Feilden, 89, British conservation activist and restoration architect. [127]
- Lung Fong, 54, Hong Kong actor, lung cancer, [128]
- Irving Gertz, 93, American composer. [129]
- Adrian Kantrowitz, 90, American physician, performed the first pediatric heart transplant, heart failure. [130]
- Tsvetanka Khristova, 46, Bulgarian athlete, Olympic dual medallist in discus throw, cancer. [131]
- Shaukat Hussein Mazari, 60, Pakistani politician, heart attack. [132]
- Ajit Kumar Panja, 72, Indian politician, oral cancer. [133]
13
- Marcello Fondato, 84, Italian screenwriter and director. [134] (Italian)
- Bette Garber, 65, American photographer, pneumonia. [135]
- Mustapha Oukacha, 75, Moroccan politician, president of the Assembly of Councillors. [136]
- Ian Ridley, 74, Australian footballer (Melbourne Demons), emphysema. [137]
- Paco Ignacio Taibo I, 84, Mexican writer and journalist, pneumonia. [138]
12
- Richard Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor, 73, British aristocrat and patron of the arts, cancer. [139]
- Catherine Baker Knoll, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania since 2003, neuroendocrine cancer. [140]
- Vladas Michelevičius, 84, Lithuanian Bishop of Vilkaviškis. [141]
- Mitch Mitchell, 61, British drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience), natural causes. [142]
- Margaret Moncrieff, 87, British cellist. [143]
- George Morrison, 59, Canadian ice hockey player, brain tumour. [144]
- Serge Nigg, 84, French composer. [145] (French)
- Raymond Routledge, 77, American bodybuilder, AAU Mr. America (1961). [146]
11
- Mustafa Şekip Birgöl, 105, Turkish last veteran of the Turkish War of Independence. [147]
- C. Harmon Brown, 78, American physician, pioneer of sports medicine, cancer. [148]
- Tom Hunt, 85, American chairman of Hunt Petroleum, leukemia. [149]
- Alessandro Maggiolini, 77, Italian Bishop of Como, lung cancer. [150]
- María Elena Marqués, 83, Mexican actress, heart failure. [151]
- Howard Reig, 87, American television announcer. [152]
- Lasse Sandberg, 84, Swedish writer and illustrator of children's literature. [153] (Swedish)
- Herb Score, 75, American baseball pitcher and broadcaster (Cleveland Indians), after long illness. [154]
- Jack Scott, 85, British weather forecaster, cancer. [155]
10
- Sarah Blacher Cohen, 72, American professor of Jewish literature, complications of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. [156]
- Kiyoshi Itō, 93, Japanese mathematician, respiratory failure. [157]
- Nikola Kavaja, 76, Serbian anti-communist activist and aircraft hijacker, heart attack. [158]
- Li Ximing, 82, Chinese leader of Beijing Communist Party. [159]
- Miriam Makeba, 76, South African singer, heart attack. [160]
- Arthur Shawcross, 63, American serial killer, cardiac arrest. [161]
- Wannes Van de Velde, 71, Belgian singer and artist, leukemia. [162]
9
- Fernand Goux, 108, French penultimate veteran of World War I. [163] (French)
- Huda bin Abdul Haq, 48, Indonesian terrorist in 2002 Bali bombings, execution by firing squad. [164]
- Anton Huiskes, 80, Dutch Olympic speed skater. [165]
- Hok Lundy, 58, Cambodian National Police Commissioner, helicopter crash. [166]
- Carl D. Keith, 88, American co-inventor of the catalytic converter. [167]
- Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, 46, Indonesian terrorist in 2002 Bali bombings, execution by firing squad. [168]
- Preacher Roe, 92, American baseball pitcher (St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers), colon cancer. [169]
- Imam Samudra, 38, Indonesian terrorist in 2002 Bali bombings, execution by firing squad. [170]
8
- Richard Fortman, 93, American checkers champion. [171]
- Régis Genaux, 35, Belgian footballer, heart failure due to pulmonary embolism. [172]
- Joe Hyams, 85, American Hollywood columnist and author, coronary artery disease. [173]
- Mieczysław Rakowski, 81, Polish politician, Prime Minister (1988–1989), Workers' Party Chairman (1989–1990), cancer. [174]
- Florence Wald, 91, American nurse, hospice pioneer. [175]
7
- James Byrne, 62, Irish musician. [176]
- Tetsuya Chikushi, 73, Japanese journalist and news anchor, lung cancer. [177]
- José Bezerra Coutinho, 98, Brazilian Bishop of Estância. [178]
- Heiko Engelkes, 75, German television journalist (ARD), cancer. [179] (German)
- Hedley Howarth, 64, New Zealand cricketer. [180]
- Wik Jongsma, 65, Dutch actor, cancer. [181] (Dutch)
- Hidetaka Nishiyama, 80, Japanese karate master, cancer. [182]
- Heather Pick, 38, American newscaster (WBNS-TV), breast cancer. [183]
- Jody Reynolds, 75, American singer and guitarist, liver cancer. [184]
- Lyle Williams, 66, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for Ohio (1979–1985), heart attack. [185]
- Abraham Woods, 80, American civil rights leader, cancer. [186]
6
- Ronald Davis, 52, American health advocate, president of the AMA (2007–2008), pancreatic cancer. [187]
- Sir John Hermon, 79, British police officer, Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (1980–1989), Alzheimer's disease. [188]
- Larry James, 61, American track athlete and Olympic gold medalist (1968), cancer. [189]
- Phil Reed, 59, American politician, member of New York City Council (1998–2005), complications of pneumonia from leukemia. [190]
- Joe Wendryhoski, 69, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, New Orleans Saints), cancer and stroke. [191]
- George Winterton, 61, Australian lawyer and professor of constitutional law, cancer. [192]
5
- Baldev Raj Chopra, 94, Indian film director, after long illness. [193]
- Sofron Dmyterko, 91, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk. [194]
- Sir Paul Greening, 80, British admiral and courtier. [195]
- Michael Higgins, 88, American actor, heart failure. [196]
- Joza Karas, 82, Polish-born American musicologist. [197]
- John Leonard, 69, American media and cultural critic, complications from lung cancer. [198]
- Norm Marshall, 89, Canadian broadcaster. [199]
- Clark Miller, 70, American football player, heart attack. [200]
- John Odom, 26, American professional baseball player, accidental drug overdose. [201]
4
- Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, 96, Russian politician, chairman of Tuvan Parliament (1940–1944), world's first female head of state. [202]
- Lennart Bergelin, 83, Swedish tennis player and coach, heart failure. [203]
- Jheryl Busby, 59, American record executive. [204]
- Gérald Coppenrath, 86, French journalist and Senator (1958–1962) for Tahiti, brother of Hubert and Michel Coppenrath. [205] (French)
- Michael Crichton, 66, American writer (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, ER), throat cancer. [206]
- Marshall Fritz, 65, American libertarian (World's Smallest Political Quiz, Advocates for Self Government), pancreatic cancer. [207]
- Rosella Hightower, 88, American ballerina, stroke. [208]
- Byron Lee, 73, Jamaican musician and record producer, bladder cancer. [209]
- Syd Lucas, 108, British World War I veteran. [210]
- Juan Camilo Mouriño, 37, Mexican Secretary of the Interior since 2008, plane crash. [211]
- Orlando Owoh, 76, Nigerian musician, stroke. [212]
- José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, 51, Mexican politician, plane crash. [213]
- Chris Thurston, 32, American rapper, cardiac arrest. [214]
3
- John Adams, 89, British rear admiral. [215]
- Charles T. Cross, 86, American diplomat, Ambassador to Singapore (1969–1972), Consul General in Hong Kong (1974–1977). [216]
- Mike Davis, 68, American boating advocate. [217]
- Alan Ford, 84, American swimmer, emphysema. [218]
- Edward Scott McMichael, 53, American tuba player, bludgeoned. [219]
- Brooks Mileson, 60, British football club owner (Gretna F.C.), complications from chronic fatigue syndrome and brain infection. [220]
- Lalit Mohan Sharma, 80, Indian jurist, Chief Justice (1992–1993). [221]
- Edward Sheehan, 78, American foreign correspondent, allergic reaction to medication. [222]
- Cecil W. Stoughton, 88, American Presidential photographer (Kennedy, Johnson), complications from hip replacement. [223]
- John Trudeau, 81, American music promoter, founder of the Britt Festival, heart failure. [224]
- I. Bernard Weinstein, 78, American cancer researcher, kidney disease. [225]
2
- Ahmed al-Mirghani, 67, Sudanese politician, President (1986–1989). [226]
- Joseph Alliluyev, 63, Russian cardiologist, grandson of Joseph Stalin. [227]
- James Armsey, 90, American automotive executive, director of the Ford Foundation (1960–1967). [228]
- Madelyn Dunham, 86, American maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, cancer.[229]
- George F. Grant, 102, American angler, author and conservationist, natural causes. [230]
- Kenneth P. Johnson, 74, American newspaper editor (Dallas Times Herald), heart infection. [231]
- Jim Koleff, 55, Canadian hockey player and coach, cancer. [232]
- Domenico Leccisi, 88, Italian politician, stole corpse of Benito Mussolini, heart and respiratory disease. [233]
- Henry Loomis, 89, American Director of Voice of America (1958–1965), Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Pick's diseases. [234]
- Elijah Mudenda, 81, Zambian politician, Prime Minister (1975–1977). [235]
- Joe Rollins, 90, American attorney and author. [236]
- Bill Stall, 71, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (Los Angeles Times), complications from pulmonary disease. [237]
- Terence Tolbert, 44, American political campaign director for Barack Obama in Nevada, heart attack. [238]
1
- Badaró, 74, Brazilian-born Portuguese comedian, cancer. [239] (Portuguese)
- Jimmy Carl Black, 70, American Cheyenne drummer and vocalist (The Mothers of Invention), lung cancer. [240]
- Dermot Curtis, 76, Irish footballer and manager, after long illness. [241]
- David DeCaires, 70, Guyanese journalist and editor, founder of Stabroek News, complications from heart attack. [242]
- Oscar Lathlin, 61, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba since 1990. [243]
- Nathaniel Mayer, 64, American rhythm & blues singer, stroke. [244]
- Jacques Piccard, 86, Belgian-born Swiss oceanologist and explorer. [245]
- Rosetta Reitz, 84, American jazz historian and record company founder, cardiopulmonary disease. [246]
- Jack Reno, 72, American country music singer, brain cancer. [247]
- Tiffany Sloan, 35, American model (Playboy), suicide by drug overdose. [248]
- Shakir Stewart, 34, American vice president of Def Jam Recordings, suicide by gunshot. [249]
- Yma Sumac, 86, Peruvian soprano, cancer. [250]
- Tan Jiazhen, 99, Chinese geneticist, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [251]
- Tony Tarracino, 92, American saloon keeper and politician, heart and lung ailments. [252]
See also
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