Deaths in November 2001

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

November 2001

1

• Juan Bosch, 92, Dominican politician, historian, and first president of the Dominican Republic, respiratory distress.
• Solange Chaput-Rolland, 82, Canadian journalist, author, and politician.
• Tom Cheney, 67, American Major League Baseball player.
• Olivia Hamnett, 73, English actress, brain cancer.
• Ravindra Kaushik, 49, Indian spy, heart disease, tuberculosis.
• JP Miller, 81, American writer, pneumonia.
• John S. Romanides, 74, Roman theologian, Eastern Orthodox priest, and scholar.
• Don Craig Wiley, 57, American structural biologist, drowned.

2

• Fiorella Betti, 74, Italian actress and voice actress.
• Mona Fandey, 45, Malaysian pop singer and convicted murderer, execution by hanging.
• Hank Gremminger, 68, American gridiron football player, cardiac arrest.
• Doug Hele, 82, British motorcycle engineer.
• Thomas Schleicher, 28, Austrian judoka, suicide.
• Elazar Shach, 102, Lithuanian haredi rabbi.
• Buddy Starcher, 95, American country singer.
• William Whitlock, 83, British politician.

3

• Evan Adermann, 74, Australian politician.
• Thomas Brasch, 56, German author, poet and film director, heart failure.
• Lucio Colletti, 76, Italian Western marxist philosopher.
• Denis Gallagher, 79, Irish politician.
• Ernst Gombrich, 92, Austrian-British art historian.
• Frederick Heyliger, 85, American officer with Easy Company during World War II.
• Pradeep Kumar, 76, Indian actor.
• Mariano Navarro Rubio, 87, Spanish politician.
• Viveka Seldahl, 57, Swedish actress, cancer.
• Ward Wood, 77, American actor and television writer.

4

• Edward Patrick Boland, 90, American politician.
• Peter Coyne, 84, Australian politician.
• Bob Gillespie, 82, American baseball player.
• Arthur Guepe, 86, American football player and coach.
• Paul R. Screvane, 87, American politician, congestive heart failure.
• Ng Eng Teng, 67, Singaporean sculptor, kidney disease.

5

• Gholam Reza Azhari, 89, Prime Minister of Iran and military leader, cancer.
• Andrew Bagby, 28, American doctor, murder by shooting.
• Milan D. Bish, 72, American diplomat.
• Roy Boulting, 87, English filmmaker.
• Milton William Cooper, 58, American conspiracy theorist, radio broadcaster, and author, shot.
• Barry Horne, 49, English animal rights activist, liver failure after hunger strike.
• Joan Marion, 93, British stage, film and television actress.

6

• Terry D. Clark, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Svend Engedal, 73, American soccer goalkeeper.
• Bettie Hewes, 80, Canadian politician.
• Don Lavoie, 50, American economist, stroke.
• Sveto Letica, 75, Croatian admiral.
• Gray Morrow, 67, American comic book artist.
• Peter Kenneth Newman, 73, English economist and historian of economic thought.
• Anthony Shaffer, 75, English playwright and screenwriter.
• Ralph Wenzel, 83, American gridiron football player and United States Marine Corps officer.
• Erich Zeller, 81, German figure skater and figure skating coach.

7

• Shahed Ali, 76, Bangladeshi educationist, cultural activist and an author.
• Bobby Bass, 65, American stunt performer.
• Nida Blanca, 65, Filipino actress, stabbed.
• Delia Garcés, 82, Argentine film actress.
• Sachiko Hidari, 71, Japanese film actress, lung cancer.
• Geoffrey Jenkins, 81, South African writer.
• Sir Ivan Neill, 95, British Army officer and Unionist politician.
• François Philippe, 71, French football player.
• Alta Schrock, 90, American biology professor and community activist.

8

• Paolo Bertoli, 93, Italian cardinal, camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church.
• Anno Birkin, 20, English poet and musician, road accident.
• Valentin Eduque, 74, Filipino basketball coach and player.
• Harold Fisch, 78, British-Israeli author, literary critic, and diplomat, tumor.
• Albrecht Fröhlich, 85, German-British mathematician.
• Malak Karsh, 86, Canadian photographer.
• Peter Laslett, 85, British historian.
• Patrick Quinlan, Irish academic and politician.
• Radmila Savićević, 75, Serbian actress.
• Cyril Morley Shelford, 80, Canadian author and political figure.
• Stanislav Štrunc, 59, Czech football player.

9

• Denis Atkinson, 75, Barbadian cricketer, captain of West Indies.
• Nancye Wynne Bolton, 84, Australian tennis player.
• Dorothy Dunnett, 78, Scottish historical novelist.
• Ethel D. Jacobs, 91, American thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder, pneumonia.
• Giovanni Leone, 93, Italian politician, Prime Minister and President.
• Édouard Marcelle, 92, French rower.
• Tore Zetterholm, 86, Swedish novelist, playwright and journalist.

10

• Michael Lucas, 2nd Baron Lucas of Chilworth, 75, British politician.
• Theys Eluay, 64, Indonesian independence activist for West Papuan, assassinated, strangling.
• Maxwell Hunter, 79, American aerospace engineer.
• Ken Kesey, 66, American author, complications following surgery.
• Enid McElwee, 87, New Zealand fencer.
• Junji Nishime, 80, Japanese politician.

11

• John R. Foley, 84, American politician.
• Leon Gray, 49, American gridiron football player.
• Sir Denis Spotswood, 85, British Chief of the Air Staff
• Tadashi Sugiura, 66, Japanese baseball player.
• Emmanuel Blayo Wakhweya, 64, Ugandan politician and economist, cardiac arrest.
• Journalists killed in the Dasht-e Qaleh Taliban ambush
• *Pierre Billaud, 31, French radio reporter and journalist.
• *Volker Handloik, 40, German freelance journalist and reporter.
• *Johanne Sutton, 34, French radio reporter and journalist.

12

• Carrie Donovan, 73, American fashion editor.
• Albert Hague, 81, German-American composer and actor, cancer.
• Paul Krasny, 66, American film and television director.
• Ashot Melikjanyan, 49, Soviet/Armenian actor, plane crash.
• Tony Miles, 46, English chess grandmaster, heart failure.
• Babik Reinhardt, 57, French guitarist, heart attack.
• Prekshya Shah, 49, Nepalese princess, helicopter crash.
• Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, 74, American Saivite guru.
• Radovan Vlajković, 77, Yugoslav politician.

13

• Karuna Banerjee, 81, Indian actress.
• Robert C. Eckhardt, 88, American politician.
• Marius Flothuis, 87, Dutch composer, musicologist and music critic.
• Panama Francis, 82, American swing jazz drummer, stroke.
• Sam Maple, 48, American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing, cancer.
• Pat McReavy, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Frank Messer, 76, American sportscaster.
• Peggy Mount, 86, English actress.
• Mayzod Reid, 73, New Zealand diver.
• Cornelius Warmerdam, 86, American pole vaulter, Alzheimer's disease.

14

• Seth Benardete, 71, American classicist and philosopher.
• Charlotte Coleman, 33, British actress, bronchial asthma attack.
• Juan Carlos Lorenzo, 79, Argentine football player and coach.
• Zigu Ornea, 71, Romanian literary critic, biographer and book publisher, failed surgery.
• Nathan M. Pusey, 94, American university educator.
• Herbert Tauss, 72, American artist, illustrator, and painter.
• Hugh Verity, 83, British Royal Air Force fighter pilot during World War II.

15

• Megan Boyd, 86, British fly tyer.
• Edwin H. Colbert, 96, American paleontologist, researcher and author.
• Herbert Feith, 71, Australian academic and scholar.
• Satoru Kobayashi, 71, Japanese film director, bladder cancer.
• Mandan Mishra, 72, Indian sanskrit scholar.
• Jan Rabie, 81, Afrikaans writer of short stories and novels.
• Nicolas Ruwet, 68, Belgian linguist, literary critic and musical analyst.
• Alberto Ullastres, 87, Spanish politician and ambassador.

16

• Tal Abernathy, 80, American baseball player.
• Mohammed Atef, 57, Egyptian jihadist and military chief of al-Qaeda, airstrike.
• Rosemary Brown, 85, British composer and spiritualist.
• Tommy Flanagan, 71, American jazz pianist, brain aneurysm.
• Montague Jayawickrama, 90, Sri Lankan politician.
• Clifford A. Jones, 89, American politician.
• Red Steiner, 86, American baseball player.

17

• Irving Crane, 88, American pool player.
• John M. Dawson, 71, American computational physicist.
• Jerry Jerome, 89, American jazz and big band tenor saxophonist.
• Michael Karoli, 53, German guitarist, singer, violinist and cellist, cancer.
• Lendon Smith, 80, American pediatrician, author, and television personality.
• Billy Vessels, 70, American football player.
• Harrison A. Williams, 81, American politician.

18

• Mel Deutsch, 86, American baseball player.
• Roar Hauglid, 90, Norwegian art historian, antiquarian and publicist.
• Malcolm McFee, 52, English actor, cancer.
• Ela Peroci, 79, Slovene children's book writer.
• Renato Righetto, 80, Brazilian Olympic basketball referee, Alzheimer's disease.
• Harriette Tarler, 81, American film actress.

19

• Baghdasar Arzoumanian, 85, Armenian architect and designer.
• Roland Beamont, 81, British fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force.
• Marylise Ben-Haim, 73, Algerian activist, novelist, poet, and painter.
• Marcelle Ferron, 77, Canadian Québécoise artist and a member of Les Automatistes.
• Shosh Kormosh, 53, Israeli photographer.
• Bagrat Ulubabyan, 75, Armenian writer and historian.
• Journalists killed in the Pul-i-Estikam bridge ambush
• *Harry Burton, 33, Australian journalist and cameraman.
• *Maria Grazia Cutuli, 39, Italian journalist.
• *Julio Fuentes, 46, Spanish war correspondent.
• *Aziz Ullah Haidari, 33, Pakistani correspondent and photo-journalist.

20

• James Broad, 43, American heavyweight boxer.
• Kassi Manlan, 53, Côte d'Ivoire World Health Organization aid worker, murdered.
• Pierre Meillassoux, 73, French architect.
• Leonard Murray, 88, American railroad executive.
• Borko Temelkovski, 81, Macedonian politician and communist leader.

21

• Ralph Burns, 79, American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, complications of a stroke and pneumonia.
• Seydou Keïta, Malian photographer.
• Gardner McKay, 69, American actor, artist and author, prostate cancer.
• Vladimir Pasechnik, 64, Soviet bioweaponeer and defector, stroke.
• Seymour Reit, 83, American children's author.
• Salahuddin of Selangor, 77, Malaysian king.

22

• Mary Kay Ash, 83, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.
• Theo Barker, 78, British social and economic historian.
• Norman Granz, 83, American jazz music impresario and record producer.
• Ronald Cuthbert Hay, 85, British Royal Marine fighter ace.
• George S. N. Luckyj, 82, Ukrainian writer and historian.
• Luis Santaló, 90, Spanish mathematician.

23

• Vendramino Bariviera, 64, Italian racing cyclist.
• Bo Belinsky, 64, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Kiyoshi Inoue, 87, Japanese historian, author, and academic.
• Krishnananda, 79, Indian Hindu philosopher and theologian.
• David Charles McClintock, 88, English botanist, horticulturist and author.
• Medhat Youssef Mohamed, 74, Egyptian basketball player.
• Kiril Semov, 71, Bulgarian basketball player.
• O. C. Smith, 69, American singer.
• Gerhard Stoltenberg, 73, German politician and minister.
• Mary Whitehouse, 91, British campaigner against permissiveness.

24

• Tommy Gallacher, 79, Scottish football player.
• Rachel Gurney, 81, British actress.
• Princess Sophie of Hanover, 87, European royalty, sister of Prince Philip.
• Robert Helps, 73, American concert pianist and composer, cancer.
• Jacob Landau, 83, American artist.
• Donald McPherson, 56, Canadian Olympic figure skater, complications from diabetes.
• Francis Daniels Moore, 88, American surgeon.
• Melanie Thornton, 34, American singer, plane crash.
• William Woodfield, 73, American photographer, and television screenwriter and producer, heart failure.

25

• Alan Bray, 53, British historian and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications.
• Harry Devlin, 83, American artist, painter and magazine cartoonist.
• David Gascoyne, 85, English poet.
• Douglas Morton, 85, Canadian soldier, politician, and judge.
• Margaret Byrd Rawson, 102, American educator, researcher and writer.
• Johnny Micheal Spann, 32, American operations officer in the C.I.A., killed in action.
• Erna Steuri, 84, Swiss Olympic alpine skier.

26

• Sam Claphan, 45, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Mathias Clemens, 86, Luxembourgish road bicycle racer.
• Regine Hildebrandt, 60, German biologist and politician, breast cancer.
• Lajos Kada, 77, Hungarian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Joe Modise, 72, South African political activist, cancer.
• Edel Randem, 91, Norwegian Olympic figure skater.
• Ulf Strömberg, 42, Swedish cameraman, rifle shots.
• Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, 58, Finnish-Sami writer, musician, and artist.
• Grete von Zieritz, 102, Austrian-German composer and pianist.

27

• Ray Frankowski, 82, American gridiron football player.
• Gordon Freeth, 87, Australian politician and diplomat.
• Paul Hume, 85, American music critic and author.
• Harry Sternberg, 97, American painter and printmaker.
• Joe Hin Tjio, 82, American cytogeneticist.
• Jane Welsh, 96, British actress.

28

• Louis Fisher, 88, American politician.
• Gunnar Hellström, 72, Swedish actor and director.
• Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy, 91, Soviet and Ukrainian aerospace engineer.
• Norman Lumsden, 95, British opera singer and actor, shingles infection.
• Kal Mann, 84, American lyricist.
• William Reid, 79, Scottish bomber pilot and war hero during World War II.
• Igor Stechkin, 79, Russian small arms designer.

29

• Viktor Astafyev, 77, Soviet and Russian writer.
• Usman Awang, 72, Malaysian poet, playwright, and novelist, heart attack.
• Budd Boetticher, 85, American film director.
• Elta Cartwright, 93, American Olympic sprinter.
• Mic Christopher, 32, Irish singer-songwriter, accidental fall.
• Carol Goodner, 97, American actress.
• George Harrison, 58, British singer-songwriter and musician, lung cancer.
• John Knowles, 75, American author, A Separate Peace.
• Marcelino López, 58, Cuban-American baseball player.
• John Mitchum, 82, American character actor, stroke.
• Helvio Soto Soto, 71, Chilean filmmaker.
• Erwin Thaler, 71, Austrian Olympic bobsledder.

30

• Kikutaro Baba, 96, Japanese malacologist.
• Annibale Brasola, 76, Italian racing cyclist.
• Francisco Calvet, 80, Spanish football player.
• Lawrence Coughlin, 72, American lawyer and politician, cancer.
• Sergio Ferriani, 76, Italian basketball player.
• Ernst Hufschmid, 88, Swiss footballer.
• Ademar Miranda Júnior, 60, Brazilian football player.
• Boris Kuzmin, 60, Soviet rower.
• František Majdloch, 72, Czech boxer.
• Walt Zirinsky, 81, American football player.