Deaths in November 1997

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

November 1997

1

• Wolfgang Abel, 92, Austrian anthropologist and Nazi racial biologist.
• Jon-Henri Damski, 60, American essayist, columnist, poet, and gay rights activist, cancer.
• Bill Dunn, 82, Australian rules footballer.
• Serge Hutin, 70, French author of books on esoterica and the occult.
• Ravil Khabutdinov, 68, Soviet Russian weightlifter and Olympian.
• Gérard Légaré, 89, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Roger Marche, 73, French football player.
• Bruno Michaud, 62, Swiss footballer and manager.
• Victor Mills, 100, American chemical engineer for the Procter & Gamble company.
• Cullen Rogers, 76, American gridiron football player.

2

• Ken Cooper, 74, American football player, and coach.
• Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, 71, French-Swiss banker, emphysema.
• Ayya Khema, 74, German-American Buddhist teacher, breast cancer.
• Roy McMillan, 68, American baseball player, coach and manager.
• Helen Stevenson Meyner, 68, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Maulana Habibullah Mukhtar, 53, Pakistani Islamic scholar and writer.
• Shōshin Nagamine, 90, Japanese karate Master, mayor and author.
• Gerhard Neumann, 80, German-American aviation engineer, leukemia.
• Tony Novis, 91, English rugby football player.
• Harold Plenderleith, 99, Scottish art conservator and archaeologist.
• Bernhard Plettner, 82, German engineer and manager.
• Clarence Schmidt, 72, American ice hockey player.
• Carson Smith, 66, American jazz double-bassist.
• G. Harry Stine, 69, American writer and science fiction author, stroke.

3

• Herbert Albrecht, 72, German Olympic wrestler.
• Maxime Bousselaire, 96, French Olympic shot putter.
• Wally Bruner, 66, American journalist and television host, liver cancer.
• Attilio Conton, 95, Italian Olympic long-distance runner.
• Antoine Cuissard, 73, French football player and manager.
• Vladimir Guliayev, 73, Soviet actor of theater and cinema.
• Ashot Navasardyan, 47, Armenian politician and military commander, heart attack.
• Edward Dean Price, 78, American district judge.
• Satyapramoda Tirtha, Indian guru and philosopher.
• Farpi Vignoli, 90, Italian sculptor.

4

• Noboru Aota, 72, Japanese baseball player, lung cancer.
• George Chambers, 69, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
• René-Jean Clot, 84, French painter and novelist.
• Wilfred Coutts, 89, Australian politician.
• Johnny Dickshot, 87, American baseball player.
• Ranesh Das Gupta, 85, Bangladeshi writer, journalist and politician.
• Richard Hooker, 73, American surgeon and writer, leukemia.
• Denver Mills, 72, American football player.

5

• James Robert Baker, 50, American novelist and screenwriter, suicide by asphyxiation.
• Yemane Baria, 48, Eritrean singer-songwriter.
• Bae Hee-han, 90, Korean master carpenter
• Sir Isaiah Berlin, 88, Russian-born British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian.
• Louise Campbell, 86, American actress.
• Camilla Cederna, 86, Italian writer and editor, cancer.
• Peter Jackson, 33, Australian rugby league footballer, drug overdose.
• Philip Roberts, 91, British Army officer.
• William C. Watson, 59, American actor.

6

• Luigi Cantone, 80, Italian Olympic fencer.
• Norbert Carbonnaux, 79, French film director and screenwriter.
• Ray Daniel, 69, Welsh football player and manager.
• Jahangir Forouhar, 81, Iranian actor.
• Leon Forrest, 60, American novelist.
• Annie Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, 82, British politician and peer, cerebrovascular disease, bronchopneumonia.
• Anne Stine Ingstad, 79, Norwegian archaeologist.
• Willi Klein, 70, German Olympic alpine skier.
• Lajos Kovács, 61, Hungarian Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Lillian Rogers Parks, 100, American housemaid and seamstress in the White House.
• Josef Pieper, 93, German Catholic philosopher.
• Epic Soundtracks, 38, British musician, drug overdose.
• Jane Thurgood-Dove, 34, Australian murder victim, shot.

7

• Lloyd Hamilton Donnell, 102, American mechanical engineer.
• Clyde Gilmour, 85, Canadian broadcaster and journalist
• Margaret Harshaw, 88, American opera singer and voice teacher.
• Bae Hee-han, 90, Korean master carpenter
• Rafael Hernández, 69, Spanish film actor.
• Allan Jinks, 83, Australian cricketer.
• Mitchell P. Kobelinski, 69, American banker and attorney.
• Paul Ricard, 88, French industrialist and creator of Pernod Ricard.

8

• Henry Bland, 87, Australian public servant.
• Lam Ching-ying, 44, Hong Kong stuntman and actor, liver cancer.
• Prosper Depredomme, 79, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, 105, Iranian author.
• Robert John Kerr, Northern Irish loyalist, vapour explosion.
• Fedir Medvid, 54, Ukrainian and Soviet football player.
• Reggie Myles, 72-73, Irish Olympic sprinter.
• Michael Ward, 88, English actor.

9

• Imre Beták, 74, Hungarian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Paul Haghedooren, 38, Belgian cyclist, heart attack.
• Carl Gustav Hempel, 92, German writer and philosopher, pneumonia.
• Helenio Herrera, 87, French-Argentine football player and manager.
• Leonard Matthews, 83, British publisher and editor.
• Joe Roccisano, 58, American jazz saxophonist and arranger.
• Moody Sarno, 83, American football player and coach.
• Cecil Smith, 89, Canadian figure skater and Olympian.
• Wu Xiuquan, 89, Chinese communist revolutionary, military officer, and diplomat.

10

• Lloyd Cardwell, 84, American football player, and coach.
• Leon W. Johnson, 93, United States Air Force general, respiratory infection.
• Ave Ninchi, 82, Italian actress.
• Tommy Tedesco, 67, American guitarist and studio musician, lung cancer.
• Carl Vinciquerra, 83, American Olympic boxer.
• Annie Dodge Wauneka, 87, American Navajo Nation activist.

11

• William Alland, 81, American film producer and actor, complications from heart disease.
• Max Bangerter, 86, Swiss gymnast.
• Sammy Haynes, 77, American baseball player.
• Shake Keane, 70, Vincentian jazz musician and poet, stomach cancer.
• Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka, 67, Malagasy writer, poet and politician.
• Rod Milburn, 47, American athlete and Olympian, work-related accident.
• Gintaras Ramonas, 35, Lithuanian politician.
• Menahem Max Schiffer, 86, German-American mathematician.

12

• Luke Brown, 62, American professional wrestler known as Luke "Big Boy" Brown, stroke.
• Alberto Cavallone, 59, Italian film director and screenwriter.
• Tom Chang, 31, Taiwanese singer, songwriter, and music producer.
• James Laughlin, 83, American poet and literary book publisher, complications following a stroke.
• William Matthews, 55, American poet and essayist.
• Cecil F. Poole, 83, American judge.
• Rainer Ptacek, 46, American guitarist and singer-songwriter, brain tumor.
• Carola Standertskjöld, 56, Finnish jazz and pop singer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Carlos Surinach, 82, Spanish-American composer.
• Sándor Szabó, 82, Hungarian actor.
• Maria von Maltzan, 88, German noblewoman and resistance member during World War II.
• Howard Weiss, 80, American gridiron football player.

13

• André Boucourechliev, 72, Bulgarian-French composer.
• Alexandru Bârlădeanu, 86, Romanian Marxian economist.
• Bill Conroy, 82, American baseball player.
• James Couttet, 76, French alpine skier and ski jumper and Olympian.
• Dietrich Lohmann, 54, German cinematographer, leukemia.
• Onzy Matthews, 67, American jazz musician and actor, heart failure.
• Mike McMichael, 82, American basketball player.
• P. Ravindran, 74, Indian politician.
• Larry Shinoda, 67, American automotive designer, kidney failure.
• Moe Thacker, 63, American baseball player.

14

• Knud Andersen, 75, Danish Olympic cyclist.
• Eddie Arcaro, 81, American jockey, liver cancer.
• Alba de Céspedes, 86, Cuban-Italian writer.
• Joel Lee Brenner, 85, American mathematician.
• Stefan Lorant, 96, Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author.
• Jack Pickersgill, 92, Canadian civil servant and politician.
• Kiyoshi Saitō, 90, Japanese printmaker.
• N. V. N. Somu, 60, Indian politician, helicopter crash.
• Reena Virk, 14, Canadian murder victim, homicide by drowning.

15

• Aaron Brown, 53, American football player, traffic collision.
• Saul Chaplin, 85, American composer and musical director, complication from a fall.
• Alf Day, 90, Welsh professional footballer.
• Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh, 47, Dutch actor, musician, composer, and television presenter, heart attack.
• Warren Douglas, 86, American actor and screenwriter, heart failure.
• Frank Griffiths, 86, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Jim Kepner, 74, American journalist, author, archivist and gay rights activist.
• Elizza La Porta, 95, Romanian-American film actress.
• John Lyttle, 66, Irish Olympic boxer.
• Douglas MacArthur II, 88, American diplomat.
• George Mattson, 88, American Olympic rower.
• Vladimir Vengerov, 77, Soviet and Russian film director.
• Nándor Wagner, 75, Hungarian artist and sculptor.

16

• Albert L. Ireland, 79, United States Marine Corps sergeant and recipient of nine purple hearts.
• José Behra, 73, French racing driver and rally driver.
• Captain Mikey, 62, American disc jockey and voice-over actor, leukemia.
• Brigitte Groh, 31, German Olympic figure skater.
• Wilhelm Hayden, 71, Norwegian Olympic rower.
• Georges Marchais, 77, French politician, heart attack.
• Russ Meyer, 74, American baseball player.
• Padmapriya, Indian actress.
• George O. Petrie, 85, American radio and television actor, lymphoma.
• Aaron John Sharp, 93, American botanist and bryologist.
• Roy Sheffield, 90, English cricket player.
• Robert N. Thompson, 83, Canadian politician and chiropractor.

17

• Richard Sumner Cowan, 76, American botanist, brain trauma.
• Pat Grace, 73, Australian rules footballer.
• Gary Herford, 57, Australian rower and Olympian.
• Gert Günther Hoffmann, 68, German actor and director.
• David Ignatow, 83, American poet.
• Wilfred Josephs, 70, English composer.
• Headley Keith, 70, South African cricketer.
• Edwin Mansfield, 67, American academic, cancer.
• Orlando Ribeiro, 86, Portuguese geographer and historian.
• John Wimber, 63, American Christian leader, mystic and musician, brain hemorrhage.
• Milič Čapek, 88, Czech–American philosopher.

18

• Kay Curley Bennett, about 75, Native American artist and writer
• John Bird, 71, British politician.
• Josephine Cheesman, 87, British painter.
• Jean Conan Doyle, 84, British Royal Air Force officer, Parkinson's disease.
• Unichi Hiratsuka, 102, Japanese printmaker.
• Fredrik Horn, 81, Norwegian Olympic football player.
• Stanislav Rapotec, 86, Slovene-Australian artist.
• Sigfrid Roos, 89, Swedish footballer.
• Robert Vandeputte, 89, Belgian economist, civil servant, and politician.
• Joyce Wethered, 96, British golfer.

19

• Mary Bernheim, 95, British biochemist.
• Charles de Graft Dickson, 84, Ghanaian educationist and a politician.
• Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler, 89, American pharmacist.
• András Gergely, 81, Hungarian ice hockey player and Olympian.
• Bernard Lenoble, 95, French footballer.
• Yosef Rom, 65, Israeli engineer and politician.
• Alfred Roome, 88, English film editor.
• Kjell Schou-Andreassen, 57, Norwegian footballer and manager, leukemia.

20

• Asbjørn Aavik, 94, Norwegian lutheran missionary and writer.
• Zack Clayton, 84, American baseball and basketball player.
• Larry Ferrari, 65, American organist, leukemia.
• Dick Littlefield, 71, American baseball player.
• Robert Palmer, 52, American writer, musician and blues producer, liver disease.

21

• Bill Boyd, 91, American poker player.
• Ismail Fahmi, 75, Egyptian diplomat and politician.
• Harold Geneen, 87, American businessman.
• Julian Jaynes, 77, American psychologist.
• Grayson L. Kirk, 94, American political scientist.
• Valter Lundgren, 80, Swedish footballer.
• Emilio Malchiodi, 75, Argentine Olympic athlete.
• Jack Purvis, 60, English actor.
• Robert Simpson, 76, English composer.

22

• Roger Brown, 55, American artist and painter.
• Willy Evensen, 78, Norwegian Olympic rower.
• Michael Hutchence, 37, Australian musician, suicide by hanging.
• Joanna Moore, 63, American film and television actress, lung cancer.
• Kalki Sadasivam, 95, Indian freedom fighter, singer, journalist and film producer.

23

• Hulda Crooks, 101, American mountaineer.
• Ivan Ðurić, 50, Serbian writer, professor, historian and politician, suicide.
• Henry Wilson, Baron Wilson of Langside, 81, Scottish lawyer and politician.
• Robert Lewis, 88, American actor, director and author, heart failure.
• Irene E. Ryan, 88, American geologist, aviator and legislator.
• Oddvar Vargset, 72, Norwegian Olympic wrestler.

24

• Barbara, 67, French singer, respiratory problems.
• Jorge Mas Canosa, 58, Cuban-American immigrant and anti-Castro lobbyist, lung cancer.
• Maurits Gysseling, 78, Belgian linguist.
• Bill Lawrie, 63, Australian racing cyclist.
• John Sopinka, 64, Ukrainian-Canadian lawyer and judge.
• Ira Wolfert, 89, American Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and writer.

25

• Hastings Banda, 91 or 99, President of Malawi.
• Cathee Dahmen, 52, American model, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• James H. Ellis, 73, British engineer and cryptographer.
• Eustace Fannin, 82, South African tennis player.
• Charles Hallahan, 54, American actor, heart attack.
• Vilmos Iváncsó, 58, Hungarian Olympic volleyball player.
• Viorel Mateianu, 59, Romanian football player and coach.
• Stephen L.R. McNichols, 83, American politician, heart failure.
• Elmore Morgenthaler, 75, American basketball player, pneumonia.
• M. Prabhakar Reddy, Indian film actor.
• Fenton Robinson, 62, American blues singer, brain cancer.
• Jon Silkin, 66, British poet.

26

• Rudolf Buhse, 92, German Wehrmacht officer and Bundeswehr general.
• Erna Fentsch, 88, German actress and screenwriter.
• Marguerite Henry, 95, American children's author.
• Werner Höfer, 84, German journalist.
• Sydney Herbert Thompson, 77, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.

27

• David D Barron, 33, Mexican gang member, friendly fire.
• Jules Henriet, 79, Belgian football player.
• Eduardo Kingman, 84, Ecuadorian artist.
• Malcolm Knowles, 84, American adult educator, stroke.
• Eric Laithwaite, 76, British electrical engineer.
• Buck Leonard, 90, American Hall of Fame baseball player.
• Ronald Martland, 90, Canadian lawyer and judge.
• Paul Masterson, 82, American baseball player.
• Gull-Maj Norin, 84, Danish actress.
• Yves Prévost, 89, Canadian politician.
• Branko Ružić, 78, Croatian painter and sculptor.
• Merike Talve, 40, Canadian curator, artist and writer, breast cancer.

28

• Qemal Butka, Albanian architect, painter and politician.
• Wallace H. Clark, Jr., American dermatologist and pathologist, ruptured aneurysm.
• Tom Evenson, 87, English long-distance runner and Olympian.
• Georges Marchal, 77, French actor.
• Ken Mitsuda, 95, Japanese film actor, stroke.
• Sune Skagerling, 78, Swedish Olympic bobsledder.
• William "Smitty" Smith, 53, Canadian keyboardist and session musician.

29

• Ernest Johnson, 85, British Olympic track cyclist.
• Isabelle M. Kelley, 80, American social worker.
• Abdul Latif, 46, Indian criminal, shot.
• Ada Leonard, 82, American bandleader.
• Heikki Savolainen, 90, Finnish artistic gymnast and Olympian.
• George Sodeinde Sowemimo, 77, Nigerian jurist and Chief Justice.
• Coleman Young, 79, American politician, emphysema.

30

• Kathy Acker, 50, American experimental novelist, playwright and essayist, cancer.
• Bernie Creger, 70, American baseball player.
• Glyn Dearman, 57, English actor, fall.
• Mary Fergusson, 83, British civil engineer.
• Kay Green, 70, Welsh cricket player.
• Arne Preben Jensen, 65, Danish Olympic equestrian.
• Karl Kowanz, 71, Austrian football player, coach, and Olympian.
• Sami Al Lenqawi, 25, Kuwaiti football player and Olympian.
• Alfred Næss, 70, Norwegian playwright and songwriter.
• Leo Edward O'Neil, 69, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, multiple myeloma.
• Françoise Prévost, 67, French actress, journalist and author, breast cancer.
• Shamo Quaye, 26, Ghanaian football player and Olympian.
• Hank Rockwell, 80, American football player.
• Božena Srncová, 72, Czech Olympic gymnast.
• Bernardo Élis, 82, Brazilian lawyer, professor, poet, and writer.