Deaths in November 1996

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

November 1996

1

• Maati Bouabid, 68, Prime Minister of Morocco.
• Sid Cann, 85, English football player and manager.
• Lycette Darsonval, 84, French dancer.
• Edgardo Enríquez, 84, Chilean physician, academic and politician.
• Gerhard Hilbrecht, 81, German Olympic discus thrower.
• J. R. Jayewardene, 90, President of Sri Lanka, colon cancer.
• William Johnstone, 88, American actor.
• Clyde Lynn, 60, American racing driver.
• Eric Reissner, 83, German-American civil engineer and mathematician.

2

• Roger Carré, 75, French footballer.
• Eva Cassidy, 33, American singer and guitarist, melanoma.
• John G. Crommelin, 94, American naval officer and white supremacist politician.
• Joseph Lambert Eustace, 88, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
• Don Gent, 63, Australian rules footballer.
• Pierre Grimal, 83, French classical philologist.
• Kang Hyo-shil, 64, South Korean actress.
• Yan Jici, 95, Chinese physicist and politician.
• Shanti Swaroop Rana, 47, Indian military officer, killed in action.
• Laurence L. Sloss, 83, American geologist.
• Arnie Tuadles, 40, Filipino basketball player, shot.
• Peter White, 26, Australian rules footballer.

3

• Jean-Bedel Bokassa, 75, 2nd President of the Central African Republic and Emperor of Central Africa, heart attack.
• William Clarke, 45, American blues harmonica player and singer.
• Ray Mansfield, 55, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Marian Plezia, 79, Polish historian.
• Barry Porter, 57, British politician, cancer.
• Yevhen Shcherban, 50, Ukrainian businessman and politician, assassinated, homicide.
• Isaac M. Taylor, 75, American medical academic, pneumonia.
• Abdullah Çatlı, 40, Turkish nationalist and leader of the Grey Wolves, traffic accident.

4

• T. Vincent Learson, 84, American chairman and chief executive officer of IBM.
• Ray Linn, 76, American jazz trumpeter.
• Konstantin Loktev, 63, Russian ice hockey player and Olympian, liver cirrhosis.
• Kjetil Mårdalen, 71, Norwegian skier and Olympian.
• Gottlieb Weber, 86, Swiss Olympic cyclist.

5

• Bunny Breckinridge, 93, American actor and drag queen.
• Allen Broussard, 67, American judge.
• Eddie Harris, 62, American jazz musician, congestive heart failure.
• Joaquín Monserrat, 75, Spanish comedian and host of children programs.
• Wilhelm Sturm, 56, German football player.
• John Dragon Young, 47, Hong Kong-American historian and politician.

6

• Harry Brophy, 80, English football player.
• Vadim Ivanov, 53, Russian football player and manager.
• Houn Jiyu-Kennett, 72, British Rōshi.
• Dragan Kresoja, 50, Serbian film director.
• Tommy Lawton, 77, English football player and manager, pneumonia.
• Richard Nelson, 57, American theatrical lighting designer.
• Mario Savio, 53, American activist and Berkeley Free Speech Movement member, heart problems.

7

• Claude Ake, 57, Nigerian political scientist, plane crash.
• Beauford T. Anderson, 74, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Feliciano Centurión, 34, Paraguayan visual artist, AIDS-related complications.
• Bill Chisholm, 87, American Olympic racewalker.
• Reg Goodes, 68, Australian rules footballer.
• Carmell Jones, 60, American jazz trumpet player, heart failure.
• Hans Klodt, 82, German football player.
• Sverre Kolterud, 88, Norwegian Nordic combined skier and Olympian.
• Salvatore Lauricella, 74, Italian politician and mayor.
• Eddie Lukon, 76, American baseball player.
• Bosh Pritchard, 77, American National Football League football player.
• Jaja Wachuku, 78, Nigerian prince, politician, diplomat and Pan-Africanist.

8

• Andrés Rivero Agüero, 91, Cuban politician.
• Laurence Baxter, 42, English statistician.
• Peter Fowler, 73, British physicist.
• Johannes Frömming, 86, German harness racing driver and trainer.
• Franklin Gritts, 81, Native American painter and commercial artist.
• Mathews I, 89, Indian Supreme Primate of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
• Tan Onuma, 78, Japanese writer.
• Sydney Selwyn, 62, British physician and medical scientist, multiple system atrophy.

9

• Gudmundur Arnlaugsson, 83, Icelandic chess player.
• Joe Ghiz, 51, Canadian lawyer and politician, cancer.
• Michel Mitrani, 66, French film director and screenwriter.
• Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, 92, British diplomat.
• Alvin Straight, 76, American lawn mower traveler.
• Yoshimi Ueda, 90, Japanese basketball player and administrator.

10

• Imam Alimsultanov, 39, Popular Chechen bard and folk singer, homicide.
• Jack Evans, 68, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, prostate cancer.
• Yaki Kadafi, 19, American rapper, shot.
• Richard Mayo, 94, American Army general and Olympic athlete.
• Marjorie Proops, 85, British journalist.
• Manik Varma, 70, Indian classical singer.
• Gucheng Zhou, 98, Chinese politician.

11

• Janice Adair, 91, British film actress.
• Jo Baker, 48, American singer and songwriter, liver disease.
• Eugene Davy, 92, Irish rugby union football player and coach.
• Curt Göransson, 87, Swedish general and commander of the Army.
• Lum Harris, 81, American baseball player, coach, manager, and scout, complications of diabetes.
• Paul J. F. Lusaka, 61, Zambian politician and diplomat.
• Gober Sosebee, 81, American racecar driver, agriculture accident.

12

• Thomas Miller Bell, 73, Canadian politician, lawyer and barrister.
• Don Kenyon, 72, English cricket player.
• Le Nguyen Khang, 65, South Vietnamese commander.
• Peter Leeds, 79, American actor, cancer.
• Robert Mitchell, 82, British Olympic water polo player.
• Cordell Reagon, 53, American singer and activist, homicide.
• Tom Reid, 70, Irish rugby player.
• Vytautas Žalakevičius, 66, Lithuanian film director and writer.

13

• Chester Blanchard, 93, American baseball player.
• Bill Doggett, 80, American jazz and R&B pianist and organist, heart attack.
• June Gale, 85, American actress, pneumonia.
• James Galloway, 68, American film editor.
• Alfred Guth, 88, Austrian athlete and Olympian.
• Leo Helgas, 94, Finnish Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Alma Kitchell, 103, American concert singer.
• Jim Ladd, 64, American football player.
• Roger McCardell, 64, American baseball player.
• Katja Medbøe, 50, Norwegian actress, suicide.
• Swami Rama, 70-71, Indian yoga guru.
• Dick Richards, 88, American football player.
• Bobbie Vaile, 37, Australian astronomer, brain cancer.

14

• Jim Baxes, 68, American Major League Baseball player.
• Jacomina van den Berg, 86, Dutch Olympic gymnast.
• Joseph Bernardin, 68, American Cardinal of the Catholic Church, pancreatic cancer.
• Nell Blaine, 74, American landscape painter and watercolorist.
• Virginia Cherrill, 88, American actress, stroke.
• Giuliano Giuliani, 38, Italian football player and Olympian, complications of AIDS.
• Nodar Gvakhariya, 64, Soviet Georgian Olympic water polo player.
• Meridel Le Sueur, 96, American writer.
• Derek Marlowe, 58, English playwright, novelist, and painter.
• Elman Service, 81, American anthropologist.
• Jacomina van den Berg, 86, Dutch gymnast and Olympian.

15

• William Boddington, 85, American Olympic field hockey player.
• Ellis Wayne Felker, 48, American man convicted of murder, execution by electric chair.
• Harvey Fraser, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Henri Friedlaender, 92, Israeli typographer and book designer.
• William E. Hall, 83, United States Naval Reserve officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Lovell Harden, 78, American baseball player.
• Alger Hiss, 92, American State Department official and alleged spy.
• John J. Lenzini, Jr., 49, American horse trainer in Thoroughbred flat racing.
• Lila Shanley, 86, American stuntwoman, actress, and athlete, heart failure.
• Les Watt, 72, New Zealand cricketer.
• Ahmed Zaki, 65, Prime Minister of the Maldives.

16

• Reginald Bevins, 88, British politician.
• Dondinho, 79, Brazilian football player and manager.
• Joe Gonzales, 81, American Major League Baseball player.
• Jens Peter Hansen, 69, Danish football player and Olympian.
• Alan Jenkinson, 44, Australian Olympic boxer.
• Masud Karim, 60, Bangladeshi lyricist.
• Liam Naughten, 52, Irish Fine Gael politician, traffic accident.
• Jack Popplewell, 85, English writer and playwright.
• Benjamin Arthur Quarles, 92, American historian, educator, and writer, heart attack.
• Vasil Spasov, 76, Bulgarian football player and manager.

17

• Michele Abruzzo, 91, Italian actor.
• Fabrizio De Chiara, 25, Italian Olympic boxer.
• Gus Kyle, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Norm Mason, 82, Australian rules footballer.
• Karl-Heinz Moehle, 86, German U-boat commander during World War II.
• Huo Shilian, 87, Chinese politician.
• Maude Smith, 91, Canadian figure skater and Olympian.
• Kurt von Ruffin, 95, German actor and opera singer.

18

• Antonije Abramović, 77, Archbishop of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church.
• Bob Bearpark, 53, Canadian soccer coach.
• Zinovy Gerdt, 80, Soviet/Russian actor.
• Douglas Guest, 80, British organist and conductor.
• Charles Hare, 81, British tennis player.
• Raymond Harvey, 76, United States Army lieutenant colonel and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• James Stuart Holden, 82, American attorney and judge.
• Evelyn Hooker, 89, American psychologist.
• Julius Juhn, 74, Austrian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Greer Lankton, 38, American artist and doll maker, drug overdose.
• John Michaels, 89, American baseball pitcher.
• Charlie Neal, 65, American baseball player, heart failure.
• John Vassall, 72, British civil servant and spy, heart attack.
• Étienne Wolff, 92, French biologist.
• Zhu Zuxiang, 80, Chinese educator.

19

• Gabriel Alonso, 73, Spanish football player.
• Harry Anderson, 90, American illustrator.
• Grace Bates, 82, American mathematician.
• Milton Carpenter, 91, American politician.
• Phil Hankinson, 45, American basketball player, suicide.
• Nicole Hassler, 55, French figure skater and Olympian.
• Véra Korène, 95, Russian-French actress and singer.
• Anders Lindh, 67, Swedish Olympic gymnast.

20

• Bert Achong, 67, Trinidadian and Tobagonian scientist, brain tumor.
• Jens Boyesen, 76, Norwegian diplomat and politician.
• Danny Dare, 91, American film director and choreographer.
• Liam Dowling, 65, Irish hurler.
• Gustl Gstettenbaur, 82, German actor.
• Bill Sayles, 79, American baseball player.
• Franciszek Strynkiewicz, 103, Polish sculptor.
• Bill Vernon, 59, American radio personality.

21

• Syed Mohammed Mukhtar Ashraf, Indian Sufi saint, spiritual leader and islamic scholar.
• Sandro Continenza, 76, Italian screenwriter.
• Earl Cook, 87, American baseball player.
• Walter Edward Hoffman, 89, American district judge.
• Chuck Howard, 63, American television executive, and a pioneer in television sports broadcasting, brain cancer.
• Elmo Langley, 68, American NASCAR driver and owner, heart attack.
• Liu Pang-yu, 53, Taiwanese politician, murdered.
• Bernard Rose, 80, British organist, soldier, and academic.
• Abdus Salam, 70, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, progressive supranuclear palsy.

22

• Stephanie Bachelor, 84, American film actress.
• Peter Barbour, 71, Australian intelligence officer and diplomat.
• Garrett Birkhoff, 85, American mathematician.
• Ray Blanton, 66, American businessman and politician.
• Walter Boos, 68, German film editor and director.
• María Casares, 74, Spanish-French actress, colon cancer.
• Willy Derboven, 57, Belgian road bicycle racer.
• Terence Donovan, 60, English photographer and film director, suicide.
• Heinz Hauser, 75, German Olympic skier.
• Robert Jaulin, 68, French ethnologist.
• Mark Lenard, 72, American actor, multiple myeloma.
• Adeniran Ogunsanya, 78, Nigerian lawyer and politician.
• Wojciech Szymańczyk, 53, Polish Olympic archer.
• Edmund Teske, 85, American photographer.

23

• Mohamed Amin, 53, Kenyan photojournalist, plane crash.
• Aubrey Davis, 75, American basketball player.
• Jean-Paul Elkann, 74, French banker.
• Ken Lane, 83, American musician.
• Charlotte Pierce, 92, American actress.
• Nat Pollard, 81, American baseball player.
• Art Porter, Jr., 35, American jazz saxophonist, drowned.
• Eve Rimmer, 59, New Zealand paralympic athlete.
• Idries Shah, 72, Indian Sufi writer and teacher.
• Gordon Styles, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• Tim Wilson, 42, American gridiron football player.

24

• Joe Bailey, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• Loren Bain, 74, American baseball player.
• Paul Coche, 92, French Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Edison Denisov, 67, Russian Soviet composer.
• Paulos Mar Gregorios, 74, Indian Metropolitan.
• William Johnstone, 88, American actor.
• Tupua Leupena, 74, Governor-General of Tuvalu.
• Sorley MacLean, 85, Scottish Gaelic poet.
• Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, 73, French Indologist.
• Michael O'Hehir, 76, Irish sports commentator and journalist.
• Titus Ozon, 69, Romanian football player, manager, and Olympian.

25

• Ricardo López Aranda, 61, Spanish playwright.
• Don Dobie, 69, Australian politician.
• Hans Jura, 75, Austrian cinematographer.
• Margaret Rioch, 89, American psychotherapist.
• Charles Stokes, 94, American politician, jurist, and lawyer, cancer.

26

• Michael Bentine, 74, British comedian, prostate cancer.
• Norman Le Brocq, 74, British communist, trade union activist, and resistance leader during World War II.
• Isabella Henriette van Eeghen, 83, Dutch historian.
• Guido Gratton, 64, Italian football player.
• Joan Hammond, 84, Australian operatic soprano.
• Philippe Hirschhorn, 50, Latvian violinist, brain cancer.
• Elrey Borge Jeppesen, 89, American aviation pioneer.
• Larry Knorr, 79, American football player.
• Bill McElwain, 93, American gridiron football player, and coach.
• Roy Moore, 64, Australian Olympic cyclist.
• Narinder Singh Randhawa, 69, Indian agricultural scientist and writer.
• Paul Rand, 82, American graphic designer, cancer.

27

• Balot, 70, Filipino comedian and actor, complications from diabetes.
• Nicholas L. Bissell, Jr., 49, American attorney and fraudster, suicide.
• Aloysio Borges, 78, Brazilian modern pentathlete and Olympian.
• Vladimir Firm, 73, Croatian football player and Olympian.
• Jack Penn, 87, South African plastic surgeon, sculptor and author.

28

• Charles Bressler, 70, American tenor.
• Charlie Challenger, 78, Australian rules footballer.
• Harlan Hanson, 71, American educator and director of the Advanced Placement Program.
• John Jaffurs, 73, American football player, and coach.
• Robert J. McCloskey, 74, American diplomat.
• Don McNeill, 78, American tennis champion.
• Anna Pollak, 84, English opera singer.
• Donald H. Reed Jr., 63, American politician.

29

• Dick Bilda, 77, American gridiron football player.
• Jordan Cronenweth, 61, American cinematographer, Parkinson's disease.
• Dan Flavin, 63, American minimalist artist, diabetes, diabetes.
• Roy Hopkins, 51, American football player.
• Denis Jenkinson, 75, British motorsports journalist.
• Dragoslav Srejović, 65, Serbian archaeologist, cultural anthropologist and historian.
• Bob Steuber, 75, American gridiron football player.

30

• Petar Ozretić, 76, Croatian Olympic rower.
• Ted Petoskey, 85, American athlete, coach in three sports and athletic director.
• Claude Saluden, 59, French Olympic boxer.
• Kacem Slimani, 48, Moroccan football player.
• Václav Sršeň, 71, Czech football player.
• Max Thompson, 74, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Tiny Tim, 64, American musician, heart attack.
• Peng Wan-ru, 47, Taiwanese politician, murder, homicide.
• John Williamson, 45, American basketball player, kidney failure.