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.