Deaths in November 1995

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

November 1995

1

• Richard Ashcraft, 57, American political theorist.
• Helen Bullock, 89-90, American historian.
• Rocco Canale, 78, American football player.
• James Ralph Darling, 96, English-Australian chairman of ABC.
• Lex Hixon, 53, American Sufi author, poet, and spiritual teacher, cancer.
• Bill Hudson, 85, British Special Operations Executive officer.
• Vasil Iljoski, 92, Macedonian writer and dramatist.
• George McCowan, 68, Canadian film and television director, pulmonary emphysema.
• Erika Morini, 91, Austrian violinist.
• Alun Pask, 58, Welsh rugby player.
• W. E. D. Ross, 82, Canadian writer.
• Desmond Shawe-Taylor, 88, English music critic.
• Brian Lenihan Snr, 64, Irish politician and minister.
• Tom Spencer, 81, English cricket player and umpire.
• Bradbury Thompson, 84, American graphic designer and art director.

2

• Bill Blair, 84, American auto racer.
• June Brewster, 82, American actress.
• Mihajlo Dimitrijević, 68, Yugoslav Olympic high jumper.
• Sal Gliatto, 93, American baseball player.
• Florence Greenberg, 82, record company founder.
• Luo Guibo, 88, Chinese diplomat and politician.
• Ollie Harrington, 83, American cartoonist.
• Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, 76, Columbian politician, homicide.
• Gil Lamb, 91, American actor.
• Leonard Stewart, 88, British Olympic speed skater.
• Gabriel Urgebadze, 66, Georgian Orthodox monk.

3

• R. Tucker Abbott, 76, American conchologist and malacologist.
• Bojan Adamič, 83, Slovenian composer.
• Arthur Bottomley, 88, British Labour politician and minister.
• Mario Revollo Bravo, 76, Colombian Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop.
• Jerome Caja, 37, American mixed-media painter, drag queen, and performance artist, AIDS.
• Cookie Cunningham, 90, American football and basketball player.
• Wallas Eaton, 78, English film, radio, television and theatre actor.
• Gordon S. Fahrni, 108, Canadian physician and president of the Canadian Medical Association.
• John Orchard, 66, British actor.
• Edward Pola, 88, American radio and TV producer, and lyricist.
• William M. Rountree, 78, American diplomat, cancer.
• Cordelia Urueta, 87, Mexican artist.
• Isang Yun, 78, Korean-German composer.
• Gojko Zec, 60, Serbian football manager, homicide.

4

• John Cahill, 65, British businessman, and the chief executive of British Aerospace.
• Marti Caine, 50, British comedienne, singer and television host, lymphatic cancer.
• Revels Cayton, 87–88, American civil rights leader.
• Gilles Deleuze, 70, French philosopher, suicide.
• Paul Eddington, 68, English actor, lymphoma.
• Eddie Egan, 65, American actor, cancer.
• Essex Hemphill, 38, American poet and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications.
• Yizhak Rabin, 73, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, assassinated.
• Morrie Schwartz, 78, American professor of sociology and author, ALS.
• Prawitz Öberg, 64, Swedish football player, bone cancer.

5

• Walter Dobler, 75, Canadian gridiron football player.
• Gene Englund, 78, American basketball player.
• Ernest Gellner, 69, British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist.
• Gordon Walters, 76, New Zealand artist and graphic designer.

6

• Larry Cannon, 58, American racecar driver, embolism.
• Bill Cheesbourg, 68, American racecar driver, cancer.
• Aneta Corsaut, 62, American actress, cancer.
• Chiaki Matsuda, 99, Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

7

• Andrea Adams, 49, British broadcaster and journalist for the BBC, ovarian cancer.
• Emery Bonett, 88, English author and playwright.
• Dimitri Dimakopoulos, 66, Greek-Canadian architect.
• Lars Dresler, 27, Danish figure skater and Olympian, undisclosed disease.
• Ann Dunham, 52, American anthropologist, cancer.
• Alfredo Mendes, 85, Brazilian Olympic high jumper.
• John Patrick, 90, American screenwriter and playwright and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, suicide.
• Slappy White, 74, American comedian and actor, heart attack.

8

• Fernando Bello, 71, Portuguese sailor and Olympic medalist.
• Neil Blaney, 73, Irish politician.
• Suzanne Borel, 91, French diplomat.
• Francis Cleveland, 92, American stage actor, director, producer, and son of president Grover Cleveland.
• Oleh Makarov, 66, Soviet/Ukrainian football player, coach, and sports writer.
• Gertrude Messinger, 84, American film actress, pneumonia.
• Country Dick Montana, 40, American singer, aneurysm.
• Veselin Petrović, 66, Yugoslavian cyclist and Olympian.

9

• Morley Baer, 79, American photographer and teacher.
• Alessandro Cicognini, 89, Italian composer prolific in film music.
• Robert O. Cook, 92, American sound engineer.
• F. G. Emmison, 88, British archivist and historian.
• Sigfrid Heyner, 86, Swedish Olympic swimmer.
• Geraldine Katt, 75, Austrian actress.
• Richard Morris, 74, British middle-distance runner and Olympian.

10

• Ria De Simone, 48, Italian actress and singer, brain cancer.
• Clairmonte Depeiaza, 67, West Indian cricketer.
• Jean Maurice Fiey, 81, French Dominican Father, Church historian and Syriacist.
• Curly Fox, 85, American fiddler.
• Ken Saro-Wiwa, 54, Nigerian writer and environmentalist, execution by hanging.
• Franco Silva, 75, Italian actor.
• René Wellek, 92, Czech-American writer.

11

• Corneliu Coposu, 81, Romanian politician, lung cancer.
• Jean-Louis Curtis, 78, French novelist.
• Leo Dwyer, 88, Australian rules footballer.
• Kenneth S. Goldstein, 68, American folklorist and enthomusicologist.
• Koloman Gögh, 47, Czechoslovak football player, traffic collision.
• Bill Jordan, 89, Australian rules footballer.
• Grahame Parker, 83, English sportsman.
• Charles Scribner IV, 74, American publisher.

12

• Richard L. Coe, 81, longtime theater and cinema critic for The Washington Post.
• Roland Dobrushin, 66, Russian mathematician.
• Paul Frantz, 80, Luxembourgian Olympic cyclist.
• Bill Gnaden, 63, Australian rules footballer.
• Emmett Matthew Hall, 97, Canadian jurist, judge, and civil liberties advocate.
• Sir Robert Stephens, 64, English actor, complications following surgery.
• Willie Telfer, 70, Scottish football player and manager.

13

• Hanafy Bastan, 73, Egyptian footballer and Olympian.
• Ralph Blane, 81, American songwriter, composer, lyricist, arranger, and singer.
• Mary Elizabeth Counselman, 83, American writer of short stories and poetry.
• Rote Hellström, 87, Finnish Olympic sailor.
• Juan Llabot, 83, Venezuelan Olympic sports shooter.
• Edward Nasserden, 76, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Erdoğan Partener, 66, Turkish Olympic basketball player.
• Adriana Serra, 71, Italian film actress.
• Orlando Sirola, 67, Italian tennis player.
• Arthur Dale Trendall, 86, New Zealand-Australian art historian and classical archaeologist.
• John Van Eyssen, 73, South African actor.

14

• Jack Finney, 84, American author, emphysema and pneumonia.
• Jack Holt, 83, British sailboat designer.
• Les Horvath, 74, American football quarterback and halfback .
• John Lee-Barber, 90, British Royal Navy officer.
• Jacob Rader Marcus, 99, American scholar and Reform rabbi.
• Simon H. Rifkind, 94, American lawyer and district judge.
• János Tamás, 59, Hungarian-Swiss composer, conductor and music educator.

15

• J. B. Andrews, 88, American football player.
• Karen Berg, 89, Danish actress.
• Joe F. Blair, 72, American sports publicist for the University of Maryland and the Washington Redskins.
• Billy Hughes, 81, British educationist and Labour Party politician.
• Sol Liptzin, 94, American-Israeli scholar, author, and professor of literature.
• J. Clyde Mitchell, 77, British sociologist and anthropologist.
• John W. Mitchell, 80, American Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.
• Ottokar Pohlmann, 83, German Olympic equestrian.

16

• Robert H. Adleman, 76, American novelist and historian.
• D. Woodrow Bird, 83, American politician.
• Jim J. Brown, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• Charles Gordone, 70, American playwright, actor, and director, liver cancer.
• Ralph Kronig, 91, German physicist.
• Conrad Lynn, 87, American civil rights lawyer and activist.
• Petre Prličko, 88, Macedonian actor.
• Gwyn A. Williams, 70, Welsh historian.

17

• Agasi Babayan, 73, Armenian director, screenwriter, and actor.
• Yevhen Bulanchyk, 73, Soviet Ukrainian Olympic hurdler.
• Alan Hull, 50, English singer-songwriter, thrombosis.
• Mohammad Said Keruak, 69, Malaysian politician.
• Norman Kirkman, 75, English football player and manager.
• Salvatore Martirano, 68, American composer.
• Pete Welding, 60, American historian, archivist, and record producer, heart attack.
• Marguerite Young, 87, American writer.

18

• Francisco de Borbón y Borbón, 83, Spanish aristocrat and military officer.
• John G. Collier, 60, British chemical engineer.
• Jacques Ertaud, 71, French film director and screenwriter.
• Miron Grindea, 86, Romanian-British literary journalist.
• Branko Kallay, 86, Yugoslavian Olympic decathlete.
• Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, 54, Moroccan poet and writer.
• Reinhard Kolldehoff, 81, German film actor.

19

• Don Anielak, 65, American basketball player.
• Charles Doe, 97, American rugby player and Olympian.
• Don Goldie, 65, American jazz trumpeter.
• Wan Guchan, 95, Chinese filmmaker.
• Martha Hill, 94, American modern dancer.
• Ed Wright, 76, American baseball player, cancer.

20

• George Burns, 76, New Zealand coxswain.
• Lester Finch, 86, English football player, manager, and Olympian.
• Robin Gandy, 76, British mathematician and logician.
• Sergei Grinkov, 28, Russian figure skater and Olympic gold medalist, heart attack.
• Robie Macauley, 76, American editor, novelist and critic.
• Leotis Martin, 56, American boxer.
• Martand Singh, 72, Indian wildlife conservationist and politician.
• Kim Sung-jae, 23, South Korean singer, rapper, dancer, and model, murdered.

21

• Matthew Ashman, 35, English guitarist, complications from diabetes.
• Primrose Bordier, 66, French designer.
• Stan Fanning, 57, American football player.
• Bruno Gerussi, 67, Canadian actor, heart attack.
• Peter Grant, 60, English rock band manager for The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, heart failure.
• Fred Holliday, 59, American stage, film, and television actor, heart attack
• Dorothy Jeakins, 81, American costume designer, Oscar winner.
• Noel Jones, 54, British diplomat.
• Leon Lishner, 82, American operatic bass baritone.
• Leila Mourad, 77, Egyptian singer and actress.
• Wim de Ruyter, 77, Dutch cyclist.
• George Ivan Smith, 80, Australian diplomat.
• Wilfred White, 91, English Olympic equestrian.

22

• Leonardo Bercovici, 87, American screenwriter, film director and producer.
• Margaret St. Clair, 84, American fantasy and science fiction writer.
• Tom Clay, 66, American radio personality and disc jockey, lung cancer.
• Edna Deane, 90, English ballroom dancer, choreographer and drama teacher.
• Elinborg Lützen, 76, Danish graphic designer.
• Norman Potter, 72, English cabinetmaker, designer and writer.
• Maria Cumani Quasimodo, 87, Italian actress and dancer.
• Art Smith, 89, American baseball player.
• Sergey Stechkin, 75, Soviet/Russian mathematician.
• Johnnie Tillmon, 69, American welfare rights activist.

23

• Henri Bonzano, 92, French Olympic rower.
• John Frederick Collins, 76, American politician and Mayor of Boston, pneumonia.
• Louis Malle, 63, French film director, lymphoma.
• Bernard M. Oliver, 79, American scientist.
• Dan Page, 65, American gridiron football player.
• Lee Rogers, 82, American baseball player.
• Einari Teräsvirta, 80, Finnish Olympic gymnast.
• Junior Walker, 64, American musician and recording artist, cancer.
• Steven Wood, 34, Australian canoeist and Olympian, suicide.

24

• Ivar Bjare, 52, Swedish Olympic luger.
• John Craven, 79, American actor.
• Dominic Ekandem, 78, Nigerian Roman Catholic cardinal.
• Stuart Henry, 53, Scottish disc jockey, multiple sclerosis.
• Irene Hickson, 80, American baseball player.
• Leslie O'Brien, Baron O'Brien of Lothbury, 87, English peer and Governor of the Bank of England.
• Jeffrey Lynn, 89, American actor.
• Malcolm Munthe, 85, British soldier, writer, and curator.
• Eduard Ole, 97, Estonian painter.
• Paul van de Rovaart, 91, Dutch Olympic field hockey player.

25

• Ángel Cappelletti, 67-68, Argentine philosopher and university professor.
• Édouard Chabert, 92, French Olympic sailor.
• Nikolai Drozdetsky, 38, Russian ice hockey player and Olympian, diabetes.
• Helge Hagerman, 85, Swedish actor and film producer.
• Leif Juster, 85, Norwegian comedian, singer and actor.
• Roger McKenzie, 24, English musician and DJ, heart problems.
• Boris Rytsarev, 65, Soviet/Russian film director.
• Erich Schellow, 80, German actor.
• Richard G. Shoup, 71, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Léon Zitrone, 81, Russian-French journalist and television presenter, stroke.

26

• Roberto Bachi, 86, Italian-Israeli statistician and demographer.
• Sydney Dawson Bailey, 79, English author, pacifist, and expert on international affairs.
• David Briggs, 51, American record producer, lung cancer.
• Maurice Britt, 76, American football player, Medal of Honor recipient, and businessman.
• Frank Cole, 83, British Olympic basketball player.
• Terri L. Jewell, 41, American author, poet and Black lesbian activist.
• Toshia Mori, 83, Japanese-born American actress, traffic collision.
• Bengt Palmquist, 72, Swedish sailor and Olympian.
• Shankar Dayal Singh, 57, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
• Sanae Takasugi, 77, Japanese actress.
• Wim Thoelke, 68, German TV entertainer.
• Charles Warrell, 106, English schoolteacher and creator of the I-Spy book series.

27

• Giancarlo Baghetti, 60, Italian Formula One driver, cancer.
• Simon Bailey, 40, British Anglican priest and writer, AIDS-related complications.
• Martín Colmenarejo, 59, Spanish racing cyclist.
• Werner Moring, 68, German Olympic cross-country skier.
• Edgar Newham, 81, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Albert Ouzoulias, 80, French communist leader of the French Resistance during World War II
• Alex Schibanoff, 76, American football player.
• Harry Taylor, 71, British Olympic alpine skier.
• Jürgen Wattenberg, 94, German U-boat commander and POW escapee during World War II.

28

• Sukhan Babayev, 85, Soviet-Turkmenistan politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan.
• Richard C. Halverson, 79, American Presbyterian minister and author.
• Brunhilde Hendrix, 57, German relay runner and Olympic silver medalist.
• Slobodan Ivković, 58, Serbian basketball player and coach.
• Roy A. Taylor, 85, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• David James Walker, 90, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.

29

• Tanaka Chikao, 90, Japanese playwright and dramatist.
• Wu De, 82, Chinese communist revolutionary and politician.
• Irene Ighodaro, 79, Sierra Leonean doctor and social reformer.
• Anthony LaRette, 44, American rapist and serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Leon McQuay, 45, American gridiron football player.
• Roger Norman, 67, Swedish triple jumper and Olympian.
• Augusto H. Álvarez, 80, Mexican architect.
• Jožef Velker, 82, Yugoslavian footballer.

30

• Niklaus Aeschbacher, 78, Swiss composer and conductor.
• Jim Davis, 71, American baseball player.
• June Fisher, 66, British teacher and trade unionist.
• Philip Givens, 73, Canadian politician and judge.
• Til Kiwe, 85, German actor and screenwriter.
• František Kratochvíl, 91, Czech Olympic wrestler.
• Hopper Levett, 87, British cricket player.
• Rafael Portillo, 79, Mexican film director, screenwriter and film editor.
• William Roerick, 82, American actor, traffic collision.
• Stretch, 27, American rapper, drive-by shooting, homicide.
• William Suero, 29, Dominican baseball player.