Deaths in November 2007
The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2007.
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 2007
1
- Sonny Bupp, 79, American child actor, last surviving credited cast member of Citizen Kane.
- Troy Lee James, 83, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
- Edith Motridge, 94, American Olympic backstroke swimmer.
- S. Ali Raza, 85, Indian Bollywood screenwriter, heart failure.
- Paul Tibbets, 92, American pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, heart failure.
- Paul Woods, 57, British rugby union and rugby league player.
2
- Oreste Benzi, 82, Italian Roman Catholic priest.
- Henry Cele, 66, South African actor and soccer player.
- Charmaine Dragun, 29, Australian television news presenter, apparent suicide by jumping.
- The Fabulous Moolah, 84, American professional wrestler.
- Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard, 91, British soldier and courtier, Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps.
- Don Freeland, 82, American racecar driver.
- Witold "Vitek" Kiełtyka, 23, Polish drummer, injuries from bus crash.
- Igor Moiseyev, 101, Russian choreographer, heart failure.
- Jean Pierre Reguerraz, 68, Argentine actor.
- Reay Tannahill, 77, British food historian and novelist.
- S. P. Thamilselvan, 40, Sri Lankan leader of Tamil Tigers, air strike.
3
- Peter Andren, 61, Australian independent MP, pancreatic cancer.
- Maurice Couve de Murville, 78, French-born British Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham.
- Aleksandr Dedyushko, 45, Russian actor, car crash.
- Marilyn Martinez, 52, American stand-up comedian, colon cancer.
- Donald Matthews, 82, American political scientist and author.
- Martin Meehan, 62, Northern Irish republican, later Sinn Féin activist, heart attack.
- Mary Walker Phillips, 83, American textile artist, Alzheimer's disease.
- George Ratterman, 80, American professional football player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Ryan Shay, 28, American long-distance runner, heart attack during Olympic marathon trials.
4
- Edward Bartels, 82, American basketball player.
- Cyprian Ekwensi, 86, Nigerian author.
- Gahanananda, 91, Bangladeshi religious leader, 14th President of the Ramakrishna Order.
- Hideo Hagiwara, 94, Japanese painter.
- Dorothy LaBostrie, 79, American songwriter.
- Karl Rebane, 81, Estonian scientist.
- Lennart Rönnback, 102, Finnish veteran of the Finnish Civil War, last of the White Guard.
- Peter Viertel, 86, German-born American author and screenwriter.
5
- Andrea Aureli, 84, Italian actor.
- Roberto Bortoluzzi, 86, Italian sports journalist and radio broadcaster.
- James Brabazon, 84, British author, lung cancer.
- Thelma Buchholdt, 73, Filipino-born American author and politician, pancreatic cancer.
- Nils Liedholm, 85, Swedish football midfielder and coach.
- Paul Norris, 93, American comic book artist, co-creator of Aquaman.
- Paul Soloway, 66, American five-time world bridge champion, complications of infection.
6
- Enzo Biagi, 87, Italian journalist.
- Hilda Braid, 78, British actress.
- John Grenier, 77, American politician, former executive director of the Republican National Committee.
- George Grljusich, 68, Australian sports broadcaster, lung cancer.
- Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, 47-48, Afghan politician, former commerce minister, victim of Baghlan factory bombing.
- Fred W. McDarrah, 81, American photographer, documented the rise of the Beat Generation.
- George Osmond, 90, American patriarch of the Osmond singing family.
- Jimmy Staggs, 72, American radio disk jockey, esophageal cancer.
- Hank Thompson, 82, American country music singer, lung cancer.
- Hajji Muhammad Arif Zarif, 64-65, Afghan politician and businessman, victim of Baghlan factory bombing.
7
- Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, Finnish mass murderer, suicide by gunshot.
- Hobart Brown, 74, American sculptor, founder of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, pneumonia.
- Earl Dodge, 74, American presidential candidate, heart attack.
- Paul Dojack, 93, Canadian Football League referee.
- George W. George, 87, American Broadway and film producer, Parkinson's disease.
- Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch, 100, German-American geneticist.
- Petr Haničinec, 77, Czech actor.
- Arthur Hezlet, 93, British Royal Navy Vice-Admiral, submariner and naval historian.
- Lidia Ivanova, 71, Russian TV journalist, announcer and writer, diabetes.
- Alejandra Meyer, 70, Mexican telenovela actress, heart failure.
8
- John Arpin, 70, Canadian pianist and composer, cancer.
- Stephen Fumio Hamao, 77, Japanese Roman Catholic cardinal, former bishop of Yokohama, lung cancer.
- Bobby Harrop, 71, English footballer.
- Donald R. Herriott, 79, American physicist.
- Francine Parker, 81, American film director, heart failure.
- Dulce Saguisag, 64, Filipino politician, former Secretary of Department of Social Welfare and Development, car accident.
- Motosuke Takahashi, 66, Japanese film director and storyboard artist, lung cancer.
- David G. P. Taylor, 74, British businessman and public official, Governor of Montserrat.
- Bungo Tsuda, 89, Japanese politician, former governor of Kanagawa Prefecture, colorectal cancer.
- Chad Varah, 95, British Anglican priest, founder of the Samaritans.
9
- Helen H. Bacon, 88, American classical scholar.
- Luis Herrera Campins, 82, Venezuelan President, after long illness.
- Lorraine Fisher, 79, American baseball player.
- Bill Hosokawa, 92, Japanese American author and journalist.
- Ilya Zbarsky, 94, Russian head of Lenin's Mausoleum.
10
- Laraine Day, 87, American actress.
- John Fee, 43, Northern Irish nationalist politician, brain tumour.
- Augustus Hawkins, 100, American member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California.
- Norman Mailer, 84, American Pulitzer Prize–winning author, renal failure.
- John H. Noble, 84, American prisoner in Russian gulag and author, heart attack.
- Sir John Stanier, 82, British Army field marshal, Chief of the General Staff.
- Donda West, 58, American Professor and Mother of Kanye West, coronary artery disease.
11
- Rob Frost, 57, English Christian Evangelist, skin cancer, liver failure.
- Anders Hald, 94, Danish statistician.
- Yukio Hayashida, 91, Japanese politician, governor of Kyoto, Minister of Justice, heart failure.
- Kōjirō Kusanagi, 78, Japanese actor, interstitial lung disease.
- Berkeley Lent, 86, American judge on the Oregon Supreme Court, heart attack.
- Delbert Mann, 87, American film director, Oscar winner, pneumonia.
- Dick Nolan, 75, American NFL player and coach, father of 49ers coach Mike Nolan.
- Omwony Ojwok, 60, Ugandan politician, former minister, heart failure.
- Margarito Pomposo, 96–97, Mexican Olympic long-distance runner.
- Tadahiro Sekimoto, 80, Japanese electronics engineer and business executive, former president and chairman of NEC, stroke.
- Trish Williamson, 52, British TV-am weather presenter and producer, car crash.
12
- Ferdinando Baldi, 80, Italian screenwriter, film director and producer.
- Louis Galen, 82, American philanthropist and banker, heart failure.
- Ying Hope, 84, Chinese Canadian politician.
- K. C. Ibrahim, 88, Indian test cricketer.
- Vijay Kumar Khandelwal, 71, Indian parliamentarian.
- Piet Koornhof, 82, South African politician, former minister and ambassador.
- Ira Levin, 78, American author and playwright, heart attack.
- Tinius Nagell-Erichsen, 73, Norwegian publisher.
- Janlavyn Narantsatsralt, 50, Mongolian Prime Minister, car crash.
- A. Palanisamy, 74, Indian volleyball player.
- Peter Steiner, 90, Swiss musician and entertainer, fall.
- Lester Ziffren, 101, American reporter during Spanish Civil War, screenwriter and diplomat, heart failure.
13
- Wahab Akbar, 47, Filipino politician, representative for Basilan province, victim of 2007 Batasang Pambansa bombing.
- Harold J. Berman, 89, American Harvard Law School professor.
- Alec Cooke, Baron Cooke of Islandreagh, 87, British peer and former Northern Ireland Senator.
- John Doherty, 72, British football player for Manchester United and Busby Babe.
- Hugh Gibbons, 91, Irish parliamentarian and Gaelic football player.
- Tony Harris, 36, American basketball player, possible suicide by hanging.
- Kazuhisa Inao, 70, Japanese Hall of Fame baseball player for the Nishitetsu Lions, cancer.
- Erik Kurmangaliev, 48, Russian-Kazakh opera singer, liver disease.
- Sir John Loveridge, 82, British MP.
- Robert Taylor, 59, American 4 × 100 m relay gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, cardiac arrhythmia.
- Monty Westmore, 84, American makeup artist.
- Peter Zinner, 88, American film editor, Oscar winner.
14
- Michael Blodgett, 68, American actor and screenwriter, heart attack.
- Ronnie Burns, 72, American actor, adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, cancer.
- Hila Elmalich, 34, Israeli fashion model, anorexia nervosa.
- David Oppenheim, 85, American clarinetist, television producer and academic administrator.
- Yadav Pant, 82, Nepalese economist and politician.
- Pablo Antonio Vega Mantilla, 88, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic Bishop of Juigalpa.
15
- John Cross Jr., 82, American pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church, stroke.
- Sergio del Valle Jiménez, 80, Cuban general and politician, former Army Chief of Staff and minister.
- Domokos Kosáry, 94, Hungarian historian, president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
- Audrey McCall, 92, American activist, First Lady of Oregon, widow of former Governor Tom McCall, complications from a fall.
- Lauren S. McCready, 92, American admiral, pioneer of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, heart failure.
- Joe Nuxhall, 79, American Major League Baseball pitcher and broadcaster for the Cincinnati Reds, cancer.
- George Van Meter, 75, American Olympic cyclist.