Deaths in November 2001


The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2001.
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 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.