2005 in History (Part 4)

Events in History

Deaths 301 - 338 of 338

Nov 16 Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
Nov 20 Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (b. 1931)
Nov 20 Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist (b. 1934)
Nov 21 Alfred Anderson, last Scottish World War I (and Christmas Truce) veteran (b. 1896)
Nov 21 Hugh Sidey, American journalist (b. 1927)
Nov 25 Richard Burns, English WRC champion (b. 1971)
Nov 26 Stan Berenstain, children's author, (d. 2005)
Dec 1 Gust Avrakotos, American intelligence case officer (b. 1938)
Dec 2 Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1948)
Dec 2 Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (b. 1919)
Dec 2 Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian drug smuggler (hanged) (b. 1980)
Dec 4 Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (b. 1924)
Dec 5 Ed Masry, American lawyer (b. 1932)
Dec 5 Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, Australian businessman (b. 1949)
Dec 5 Frits Philips, Dutch engineer and CEO (Philips), dies at 100
Dec 6 Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
Dec 7 Lucy d'Abreu, was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom from April 2004 until her death (b. 1892)
Dec 7 Rigoberto Alpizar, airplane passenger fatally shot by U.S. Air Marshals after allegedly claiming he had placed a bomb aboard (b. 1961)
Dec 9 Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)

Dec 10 Eugene McCarthy, American politician (Sen-D-Minn) and presidential candidate, dies of parkinsons at 89

Dec 12 Gebran Tueni, Lebanese politician (b. 1957)
Dec 13 Stanley Tookie Williams, co-founder of the Crips and convicted murderer (b. 1953)
Dec 14 Trevanian, American author (b. 1931)
Dec 15 Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician (b. 1914)
Dec 15 William Proxmire, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1915)
Dec 16 Kenneth Bulmer, English author (b. 1921)
Dec 17 Jack Anderson, American journalist (b. 1922)
Dec 18 Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (b. 1922)
Dec 19 Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth; b. 1933)
Dec 19 Vincent Gigante, Italian-American mafioso, dies at 77
Dec 20 Maniam Moorthy, Malaysian climber
Dec 25 Robert Barbers, Philippine senator (b. 1944)
Dec 26 Erich Topp, German submarine commander (b. 1914)
Dec 26 Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (b. 1937)
Dec 27 William Doody, Canadian politician (b. 1931)
Dec 29 Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (b. 1922)
Dec 30 Rona Jaffe, American author (b. 1932)
Dec 31 Phillip Whitehead, British politician (b. 1937)