Deaths in 2005

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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2005.

Contents 1 November 2005 2 October 2005 3 September 2005 4 August 2005 5 July 2005 6 June 2005 7 May 2005 8 April 2005 9 March 2005 10 February 2005 11 January 2005 12 External links and references

November 2005

9

8

• Alekos Alexandrakis, 77, Greek actor, cancer.
• Adel al-Zubeidi, attorney in the continuing Trial of Saddam Hussein, gunned down in Baghdad.

7

• Harry Thompson, 45, British TV producer, famous for co-creating Have I Got News For You, lung cancer. [1]

6

• Rod Donald, 48, co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, heart attack. [2]
• Minako Honda, 38, Japanese pop singer, myelogenous leukemia.
• Ignacio Burgoa Orihuela, 87, Mexican lawyer and professor, heart attack.
• Anthony Sawoniuk, 84, Belarus Nazi criminal in a United Kingdom prison.

5

• John Fowles, 79, British author, after a long illness. [3]
• John E. Rice, 53, American actor and spokesman, activist for little people, complications of a broken leg. [4]
• Henry Tillsley, 72, soccer agent.

4

• Nadia Anjuman, 25, Afghan poet. [5]
• Michael G. Coney, 73, Canadian science fiction author, mesothelioma.
• Earl Krugel, 62, American JDL activist and convicted criminal, prison assault. [6]
• Sheree North, 72, American actress, complications following surgery. [7]
• Brian Steckel, 36, American convicted murderer, executed in Delaware.
• Hastings Wise, 51, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina.

3

• Kent Andersson, 72, Swedish actor and entertainer.
• Aenne Burda, 96, German publisher.
• Talmadge Davis, 43, Native American artist, heart attack. [8]
• Bonne Bell Eckert, 82 American cosmetics magnate. [9]
• C. P. Ellis, 78, former KKK member turned civil rights activist. [10]
• Henry K. Giugni, 80, former sergeant-at-arms of the United States Senate from 1987-1991, congestive heart failure. [11]
• R.C. Gorman, 74, internationally exhibited Navajo artist, blood infection and pneumonia. [12]
• Franck Kangundu and his wife Helene Paka, Congolese political journalists, assassinated on the eve of elections. [13]
• Serge Karlow, 84, former CIA officer wrongly suspected of treason, pneumonia. [14]
• Geoffrey Keen, 89, British actor of American films (Minister Frederick Gray in the James Bond films), natural causes.
• Otto Lacis, 71, Russian journalist.
• Melvin White, 55, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.

2

• Jean Carson, 80, American actress, Daphne ("fun girl") on The Andy Griffith Show. [15]
• Gordon A. Craig, 91, Scottish-born U.S historian.
• Kees Houtman, 45, Dutch real estate broker with organized crime ties, shot. [16]
• John Mieremet, 44, Dutch organized crime leader, shot. [17]
• J. Edward Murray, 90, American journalist, photographer, and war correspondent. [18]
• Waldemar Nielsen, 88, sociologist and scholar, expert on philanthropy. [19]
• Dennis B. Underwood, 60, hydro-engineer, former commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, sitting head of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, cancer. [20]

1

• Mary Bennett, 92, British academic.
• Best Mate, 10, award-winning Irish racehorse, heart attack while racing.
• Arthur Gibb, 97, former Republican Vermont State Representative, environmental law pioneer. [21]
• Skitch Henderson, 87, first bandleader for the Tonight Show. [22]
• Endre Marton, 95, Hungarian-born journalist. [23].
• Desmond Piers, 92, decorated former rear admiral in the Royal Canadian Navy.
• Michael Piller, 57, American television screenwriter and producer (including various Star Trek shows), cancer.
• Gladys Tantaquidgeon, 106, Mohegan tribal matriarch. [24].
• Michael Thwaites, 90, Australian poet, writer, naval officer, intelligence officer involved in the Petrov Affair.

October 2005

See Deaths in October 2005

September 2005

See Deaths in September 2005

August 2005

See Deaths in August 2005

July 2005

See Deaths in July 2005

June 2005

See Deaths in June 2005

May 2005

See Deaths in May 2005

April 2005

See Deaths in April 2005

March 2005

See Deaths in March 2005

February 2005

See Deaths in February 2005

January 2005

See Deaths in January 2005

External links and references

• Specialised websites
  • Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records
  • Dead People Server
  • Dead or Alive
  • Life in Legacy: Week in Review
  • The Blog of Death
  • The Celebrity Death Toll Update
  • GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search
  • Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records: US genealogy directory
  • Operation Iraqi Freedom - US Combat Deaths
  • Obituary Central - index to obituary search engines arranged geographically
  • Obituary Links Page - state-by-state directory of obituary resources
  • Russian Obituary Links Page - The List of Death
  • Nekrolog (Czech necrologies)

• Obituaries on general news websites
  • Recent AP Obituaries
  • The New York Times: Obituaries
  • Washington Post Obituaries
  • Topix.net Obituaries
  • Google News: e.g. obituary
• Newsgroup: alt.obituaries

For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995...