Deaths in November 2002

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

  November 2002

1

• Ekrem Akurgal, 91, Turkish archaeologist.
• Yisrael Amir, 99, Israeli Air Force commander.
• Edward Brooke, 85, Canadian Olympic fencer.
• Amadou Cissé Dia, 87, Senegalese politician and playwright.
• Käte Jaenicke, 79, German theater and film actress.
• Benjamin Keen, 89, American historian specialising in the history of colonial Latin America.
• Lester Morgan, 26, Costa Rican professional football goalkeeper, suicide.
• Keith A. Wester, 62, American sound engineer |The Rock], Air Force One, Armageddon.

  2

• [Brian Behan, 75, Irish writer and playwright, younger brother of Brendan Behan.
• Robert Haslam, Baron Haslam, 79, British industrialist and life peer.
• Annelisa Kilbourn, 35, British conservationist and veterinarian, plane crash.
• Lo Lieh, 63, Hong Kong actor, heart attack.
• Felicity Peake, 89, British Director of the Women's Royal Air Force.
• Tonio Selwart, 106, Bavarian actor and Broadway performer.
• Charles Sheffield, 67, English-born American science fiction author and physicist.

  3

• Ulrika Babiaková, 26, Slovak astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, accident.
• Lonnie Donegan, 71, British skiffle musician |Rock Island Line]", "John Henry, heart attack.
• [John Habakkuk, 87, British economic historian.
• Jonathan Harris, 87, American actor, heart failure.
• William M. Packard, 69, American poet and author.

  4

• Raoul Diagne, 91, French football player.
• Antonio Margheriti, 72, Italian filmmaker, heart attack.
• Juan Araújo Pino, 81, Spanish football player.
• Malcolm Ross, 91, Canadian literary critic, pneumonia.
• Jerry Sohl, 88, American television scriptwriter and science fiction author.
• Ross Wilson, 83, Canadian ice hockey trainer.

  5

• Vinnette Justine Carroll, 80, American Broadway director.
• Ansley J. Coale, 84, American demographer.
• Billy Guy, 66, American singer.
• Bunjaku Han, 54, Taiwanese actress, complications of cancer.
• Joaquín Navarro Perona, 81, Spanish football player.
• Arthur Winfree, 60, American theoretical biologist, known for his studies of biological oscillations.

  6

• Alfonso Martínez Domínguez, 80, Mexican governor.
• Folke Frölén, 94, Swedish Olympic equestrian.
• Roy Leaper, 96, Australian rules footballer.
• Michel Majerus, 35, Luxembourgish artist, killed aboard Luxair Flight 9642.
• Sid Sackson, 82, American board game designer.
• Gianluca Signorini, 42, Italian footballer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Joginder Singh, 62, Indian hockey player and Olympic champion.
• Stefan Wagner, 89, Austrian football player.

  7

• Rudolf Augstein, 79, German journalist and publisher, founder of Der Spiegel, pneumonia.
• Charles Hambro, Baron Hambro, 72, British merchant banker and political fundraiser.
• Dilys Hamlett, 74, British actress.
• James Grier Miller, 86, American biologist, a pioneer of systems science.
• Peg Phillips, 84, American actress, pulmonary disease.
• Tino Sabbadini, 74, French road bicycle racer.
• Pedro Juan Soto, 74, Puerto Rican writer, killed by police officers.

  8

• Tom Barrington, 58, American gridiron football player.
• Jon Elia, 70, Pakistani Marxist.
• Querube Makalintal, 91, Filipino Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
• Rudolf Noelte, 81, German film director, theater director and opera director.
• Zoé Oldenbourg, 86, Russian-born French historian and novelist.
• Christopher Parsons, 70, English wildlife film-maker and producer.
• Ke Zhao, 92, Chinese mathematician.

  9

• Adrian Aeschbacher, 90, Swiss classical pianist.
• Bill Baxter, 78, Scottish footballer.
• Jan Hulsker, 95, Dutch art historian.
• Richard Jeffrey, 76, American philosopher, logician, and probability theorist, lung cancer.
• Cliff Patton, 79, American professional football player.
• Merlin Santana, 26, American actor, shot.
• William Schutz, 76, American psychologist.
• Eusebio Tejera, 80, Uruguayan footballer.

  10

• Michel Boisrond, 81, French film director and screenwriter, known for directing Brigitte Bardot in Naughty Girl.
• Anne-Marie Brunius, 86, Swedish film actress.
• Franco Fantasia, 78, Italian actor.
• Johnny Griffith, 66, American musician, heart attack.
• Émile Ollivier, 62, Haitian-Canadian writer.
• Ken Raffensberger, 85, American baseball player.
• Yevgeni Skomorokhov, 57, Russian football coach and player.
• Gert Westphal, 82, German-Swiss actor, recitator and director, cancer.

  11

• Frances Ames, 82, South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist, leukemia.
• Sir Michael Clapham, 90, British industrialist.
• Zoe Ducós, 74, Argentine actress.
• Pietro Giudici, 81, Italian racing cyclist.
• Esther Raziel-Naor, 90, Israeli Zionist, Irgun leader and politician.
• Marcia Van Dyke, 80, American violinist and actress.
• Yoo Youngkuk, 86, Korean abstract artist.

  12

• William Wallace Barron, 90, American politician, indicted and pleaded guilty to jury tampering.
• Glenn Dobbs, 82, American gridiron football player and college football coach.
• Lester Holtzman, 89, American jurist and politician.
• Johannes Kerkorrel, 42, South African singer-songwriter, journalist and playwright, suicide by hanging.
• Nicholas Mukomberanwa, 62, Zimbabwean sculptor.

  13

• Frederick Valentine Atkinson, 86, British mathematician.
• Bill Berry, 72, American jazz trumpeter.
• Alexandru Dragomir, 86, Romanian philosopher.
• Roland Hanna, 70, American jazz pianist, composer, and teacher, viral infection.
• Kaloji Narayana Rao, 88, Indian poet, freedom fighter, and political activist.
• Siri Rom, 84, Norwegian actress.
• Irv Rubin, 57, Canadian chairman of the Jewish Defence League, fall.
• Juan Alberto Schiaffino, 77, Italian-Uruguayan football player.
• Rishikesh Shah, 77, Nepalese writer, politician and human rights activist.
• Michael Stewart, 57, American musician, songwriter, and producer, suicide.

  14

• Eddie Bracken, 87, American actor, surgical complications.
• René Meléndez Brito, 73, Chilean football player, cancer.
• Sir Walter Crocker, 100, Australian diplomat, writer and war veteran.
• James R. Hendrix, 77, US Army sergeant and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, cancer.
• Gourish Kaikini, 90, Indian litterateur, teacher and columnist.
• Elena Nikolaidi, 93, Greek-American opera singer and teacher.
• Gedong Bagus Oka, 81, Indonesian Hindu reformer and philosopher.
• Mir Qazi, 38, Pakistani convicted criminal, executed by lethal injection.
• Dale Emerson Saffels, 81, American lawyer, legislator, and District Judge.
• Manohar Singh, 64, Indian film and theatre actor and director, lung cancer.

  15

• W. J. Burley, 88, British crime writer.
• André Clot, 93, French historian and essayist.
• Bert Granet, 92, American writer and television producer.
• Myra Hindley, 60, British serial killer, cardiovascular disease.
• Sohn Kee-chung, 90, Korean Olympic athlete and long-distance runner, pneumonia.
• Terry Kendall, 55, New Zealand golfer, car fire.
• Mary Meigs, 85, American painter and writer.
• John Joseph Stewart, 79, New Zealand rugby coach, cancer.

  16

• Ramli Ahmad, 46, Malaysian Olympic sprinter, stroke.
• George Barrie, 90, American businessman and songwriter.
• Steve Durbano, 50, Canadian ice hockey player, lung cancer.
• Tom Farris, 82, American professional football player.
• George Gardiner, 67, British politician.
• Alfred Lewis Levitt, 86, American film and television screenwriter, heart failure.
• Sima Milovanov, 79, Serbian football player and manager.
• Frank Smithies, 90, British mathematician.

  17

• Abba Eban, 88, Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, ambassador to the U.S., ambassador to the U.N.
• Frank McCarthy, 78, American artist and painter, lung cancer.
• Marvin Mirisch, 84, American film producer, cancer.
• Akshaya Mohanty, 65, Indian singer, musician and writer.
• Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, 72, Tibetan teacher of Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism.

  18

• Bolot Beishenaliev, 65, Soviet cinematographer, film and theater actor.
• Angus Cameron, 93, American book editor and publisher, known for being blacklisted during McCarthy era.
• James Coburn, 74, American actor |The Great Escape], Oscar winner, heart attack.
• [Francesco De Martino">Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor">Oscar winner, heart attack.
• [Francesco De Martino, 95, Italian jurist and politician, considered to be the conscience of the Italian Socialist Party.
• Kim Gallagher, 38, American middle-distance runner, stroke.
• Edith Hirsch Luchins, 80, Polish-American mathematician.
• Pasquale Vivolo, 74, Italian footballer.
• Juliusz Wyrzykowski, 56, Polish movie and stage actor.
• Zaldy Zshornack, 64, Filipino actor.

  19

• Vito Ciancimino, 78, Italian politician and Mafia member, heart attack.
• George Fullerton, 79, South African cricketer.
• K. M. George, 88, Indian writer and educator.
• Max Reinhardt, 86, British publisher.
• Jean-Claude Renard, 80, French poet.
• André Roch, 96, Swiss mountaineer, avalanche researcher, and author.
• Harry Watson, 79, Canadian professional hockey player.

  20

• Kakhi Asatiani, 55, Georgian football player and manager, shot.
• Billy Goelz, 84, American professional wrestler, booker and trainer.
• George Guest, 78, British organist and choirmaster.
• Niddy Impekoven, 98, German dancer and actress.
• Webster Lewis, 59, American jazz and disco composer, arranger and keyboardist, pneumonia and diabetes.
• Margita White, 65, American White House press official under Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford.

  21

• Robert Brentano, 76, American historian specializing in medieval England and Italy.
• Hadda Brooks, 86, American jazz singer, pianist and composer, known as the "Queen of the Boogie".
• Amílcar de Castro, 82, Brazilian sculptor, known for works in iron.
• Arturo Guzmán Decena, 26, Mexican drug trafficker and founder of criminal syndicate Los Zetas, shot.
• George Emslie, Baron Emslie, 82, Scottish judge and life peer.
• Buddy Kaye, 84, American songwriter, producer, and author.
• Norihito, Prince Takamado, 47, Japanese prince, heart attack.

  22

• Parley Baer, 88, American radio, television and film actor, stroke.
• Joan Barclay, 88, American actress.
• Rafał Gan-Ganowicz, 70, Polish mercenary, journalist, and social activist, lung cancer.
• Adele Jergens, 84, American actress, pneumonia.
• Arne Mellnäs, 69, Swedish composer.
• C. S. Nayudu, 88, Indian cricket player.
• Azra Quraishi, 57, Pakistani botanist.
• Noël Regney, 80, French World War II veteran and songwriter, pick disease.
• Infanta Beatriz of Spain, 93, Spanish noblewoman and daughter of King Alfonso XIII.
• Tsuneharu Sugiyama, 62, Japanese Olympic wrestler, heart failure.

  23

• Erna Bogen-Bogáti, 95, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
• Boudewijn Büch, 53, Dutch writer, poet and television presenter, cardiac arrest.
• Maritie Carpentier, 79, French television show producer.
• Jackie Gayle, 76, American standup comedian and actor.
• Roberto Matta, 91, Chilean artist.
• Richard Mohr, 83, American producer of classical and operatic music recordings.
• Billy Travis, 41, American professional wrestler, heart attack.

  24

• Branko Dangubić, 80, Yugoslavian and Serbian Olympic javelin thrower.
• Noel Davis, 75, English film and television actor and casting director |Merlin], Mikhail Devyatayev, 85, Soviet fighter pilot who escaped from a [Nazi concentration camp">Mikhail Devyataev">Mikhail Devyatayev, 85, Soviet fighter pilot who escaped from a [Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
• Harriet Doerr, 92, American author.
• Lewis Samuel Feuer, 89, American sociologist, philosopher, professor and author.
• Richard Lazarus, 80, American psychologist.
• Philip B. Meggs, 60, American graphic designer, leukemia.
• John Rawls, 81, American moral and political philosopher.
• John Tosi, 88, American football player.

  25

• Ed Bliss, 90, American broadcast journalist and news editor.
• Charles E. Chamberlain, 85, American politician, heart failure.
• Gordon Davidson, 87, Australian politician.
• Woodrow W. Jones, 88, American politician and judge.
• John Drummond, 8th Earl of Perth, 95, British politician and aristocrat.
• Karel Reisz, 76, British film director |The French Lieutenant's Woman], Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Gambler.
• [Eugene V. Rostow, 89, American legal scholar and public servant.
• Meta Vannas, 78, Estonian Soviet politician.

  26

• Frank Allaun, 89, British politician.
• Ruzha Delcheva, 87, Bulgarian actress.
• Ralph Engelstad, 72, American casino executive.
• Erika Helmke, 96, German stage and film actress.
• Isabel McLaughlin, 99, Canadian painter and philanthropist.
• Polo Montañez, 47, Cuban singer and songwriter, traffic collision.
• Verne Winchell, 87, American business executive, president and CEO of Denny's, heart attack.

  27

• Billie Bird, 94, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Stanley Black, 89, English bandleader, composer, conductor and pianist.
• Laurence J. Burton, 76, American politician.
• George Christian, 75, American journalist, White House press secretary for President Lyndon B. Johnson.
• Bob deLauer, 82, American gridiron football player.
• Larry Duran, 77, American actor and stuntman.
• Edwin L. Mechem, 90, American politician.
• Yeruham Meshel, 90, Israeli union leader and politician.
• Wolfgang Preiss, 92, German theatre, film and television actor.
• Robert W. Straub, 82, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.
• Shivmangal Singh Suman, 87, Indian poet, heart attack.

  28

• Melih Cevdet Anday, 87, Turkish author.
• Lennaert Nijgh, 57, Dutch lyricist, gastrointestinal bleeding.
• Billy Pearson, American jockey, film actor, and an art dealer.
• Juan Carlos Díaz Quincoces, 69, Spanish football player.

  29

• Damien Covington, 29, American gridiron football player, killed in an attempted robbery.
• Daniel Gélin, 81, French film and television actor, kidney failure.
• Saburo Ienaga, 89, Japanese historian.
• John Justin, 85, British stage and film actor.
• David Weiss, 93, American novelist.

  30

• Alan Ashman, 74, English football player.
• Charles E. Dibble, 93, American academic, anthropologist, linguist, and scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.
• Kozaburo Hirai, 92, Japanese composer and professor of music.
• Oddrunn Pettersen, 65, Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
• Bill Sparks, 80, British Royal Marine commando during World War II.
• Mr. Wrestling, 68, professional wrestler, heart attack.