Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Nov 2 Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 1st President of the United Arab Emirates, dies at 85
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Stieg Larsson
Nov 9 Stieg Larsson, Swedish author (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), dies of a heart attack at 50
Stieg Larsson
Yasser Arafat
Nov 11 Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004) and 1994 Nobel peace prize winner, dies in Paris at 75
Yasser Arafat
- Nov 13 Thomas Foglietta, American politician (b. 1928)
- Nov 15 Elmer L. Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909)
- Nov 15 Ben Cami, Flemish writer and poet (Rose from Mud), dies at 84
- Nov 16 Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (b. 1945)
- Nov 19 Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914)
- Nov 19 John R. Vane, English pharmacologist (Nobel 1982), dies at 77
- Nov 20 David Grierson, Canadian radio host (b. 1955)
- Nov 23 Pete Franklin, American talk radio host (b. 1928)
- Nov 24 Arthur Hailey, English novelist (Hotel, Airport), dies at 84
- Nov 29 Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (b. 1891)
Pierre Berton
Nov 30 Pierre Berton, Canadian author, dies of heart failure at 84
Pierre Berton
- Dec 1 Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
- Dec 2 Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
- Dec 3 Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911)
- Dec 6 Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (b. 1921)
- Dec 7 Jay Van Andel, co-founder and former chairman of Amway (b. 1924)
- Dec 8 Nathan Gale, American murderer (Heavy metal Pantera's concert murder), dies at 25
- Dec 9 David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)
- Dec 13 David Wheeler, English computer scientist (b. 1927)
- Dec 15 Pauline Gore, mother of Al Gore (b. 1912)
- Dec 16 Peter Coker, English painter, dies at 78
- Dec 16 Agnes Martin, Canadian-American abstract painter dies aged 92
- Dec 17 Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (b. 1931)
- Dec 18 Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (b. 1926)
- Dec 19 Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
- Dec 21 Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist, dies at 79
- Dec 23 P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian politiican, Prime Minister of India (1991-96), dies at 83
- Dec 23 Anne Truitt, American artist dies aged 83
- Dec 23 Peter Beazley, British politician (C) (European Parliament), dies at 82
- Dec 25 Gennady Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1940)
- Dec 26 Sir Angus Ogilvy, British businessman and husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent, dies at 76
- Dec 26 Marianne Heiberg, Norwegian mediator (b. 1945)
- Dec 26 Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African pediatric heart surgeon (b. 1959)
- Dec 26 Troy Broadbridge, Australian rules footballer, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1980)
- Dec 26 Simon Atlee, British fashion photographer, drowned by tsunami in Thailand at 33
Susan Sontag
Dec 28 Susan Sontag, American writer, dies from Myelodysplastic syndrome at 71
Susan Sontag