Deaths in November 1997
The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1997.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- 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.