Duchess of Gloucester (b. 1901) November November 2 Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (b. 1957) Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 1st president of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918) November 7 – Howard Keel, American singer and actor (b. 1919) November 9 Iris Chang, American journalist (b. 1968) Emlyn Hughes, English footballer and TV personality (b. 1947) Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (b. 1954) November 11 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Nobel leader (b. 1929) November 13 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (b. 1968) November 17 Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish Olympic wrestler (b. 1970) Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1941) November 19 – John Vane, British pharmacologist and Nobel laureate (b. 1927) November 20 – Ancel Keys, American physiologist (b. 1904) November 23 – Rafael Eitan, Israeli politician and former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (b. 1929) November 24 – Arthur Hailey, British-Canadian novelist (b. 1920) November 26 – Philippe de Broca, French film director (b. 1933) December December 1 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince consort of the Netherlands (b. 1911) December 8 – Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (b. 1966) December 14 – Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor (b. 1939) December 19 Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1912) Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922) December 23 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian politician, 10th Prime Minister of India (b. 1921) December 28 Jerry Orbach, American actor and singer (b. 1935) Susan Sontag, American writer and activist (b. 1933) December 29 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912) December 30 – Artie Shaw, American musician, bandleader and writer (b. 1910) December 31 Gérard Debreu, French-born economist and Nobel laureate (b. 1921) Balkrishan Singh, Indian Olympic hockey player and coach (b.1933) Nobel Prizes Chemistry – Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose Economics – Finn E. Kydland, Edward C. Prescott Literature – Elfriede Jelinek Peace – Wangari Maathai Physics – David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek Physiology or Medicine – Linda B. Buck, Richard Axel References Leap years in the Gregorian calendar