2004 in History (Part 3)

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

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 Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1927)
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

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)

Susan Sontag

Dec 28 Susan Sontag, American writer, dies from Myelodysplastic syndrome at 71

Dec 29 Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
Dec 31 Gérard Debreu, French-American economist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83

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