Deaths in November 2010

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

November 2010

1

• Tom Allison, 89, English footballer.
• Mihai Chițac, 81, Romanian general, Minister of Interior, after long illness.
• Julia Clements, 104, English flower arranger and author.
• Monica Johnson, 64, American novelist and screenwriter, esophageal cancer.
• Herbert Krug, 73, German equestrian, Olympic gold medalist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Ed Litzenberger, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Charlie O'Donnell, 78, American announcer, heart failure.
• Shannon Tavarez, 11, American actress, leukemia.
• Gaston Vandermeerssche, 89, Belgian partisan, leader of World War II Dutch underground intelligence, subject of Gaston's War, natural causes.
• Diana Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, 88, British aristocrat and intelligence officer.

2

• Bhikari Bal, 81, Indian singer.
• Rudolf Barshai, 86, Russian conductor and viola player.
• Sarah Doron, 88, Israeli politician and government minister.
• Andy Irons, 32, American professional surfer.
• Clyde King, 86, American baseball player and manager.
• Romualdas Krikščiūnas, 80, Lithuanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop and Apostolic Administrator of Panevėžys.
• Kalim Sharafi, 86, Indian Bengali language singer.
• Jule Sugarman, 83, American educator, creator and director of the Head Start Program, cancer.
• Sumiko Watanabe, 93, Japanese Olympic sprinter.
• Ken Yuasa, 95, Japanese World War II surgeon, heart failure.

3

• Petros Hanna Issa Al-Harboli, 64, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic Bishop of Zakho.
• Kees Bakker, 79, Dutch zoologist.
• Alfons Benedikter, 92, Austrian politician.
• Jerry Bock, 81, American musical theater composer, heart failure.
• Kenneth Brown, 77, American academic, chairman of first undergraduate peace studies program in the United States.
• Karen Chandler, 87, American singer.
• Viktor Chernomyrdin, 72, Russian politician, Prime Minister, Ambassador to Ukraine, cancer.
• Jim Clench, 61, Canadian bass guitarist, lung cancer.
• Bill Colvin, 75, Canadian Olympic bronze medal-winning ice hockey player.
• Hotep Idris Galeta, 69, South African jazz pianist, composer and lecturer, asthma attack.
• Purushottama Lal, 81, Indian writer.
• Sonia Pottinger, 79, Jamaican record producer.
• Pentti Uotinen, 79, Finnish Olympic ski jumper.
• Dudley Williams, 73, British biochemist.

4

• Sparky Anderson, 76, American baseball player and manager, member of Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Baseball Hall of Fame], complications from dementia.
• Raúl Chávez, 71, Mexican footballer.
• Ron Cockerill, 75, English footballer, natural causes.
• Jean Compagnon, 94, French Army General and author.
• Ophelia Dimalanta, 76, Filipino poet, hypertension.
• Antoine Duquesne, 69, Belgian politician.
• Viola Fischerová, 75, Czech poet and translator.
• James Freud, 51, Australian vocalist and bassist and solo artist, suicide.
• John Greene, 90, American football player, after short illness.
• Michelle Nicastro, 50, American singer, actress and voice actress, lung cancer.
• Rudy Regalado, 67, Venezuelan percussionist and bandleader, complications of pneumonia.
• Charles Reynolds, 78, American magician, liver cancer.
• Noel Taylor, 97, American Emmy Award-winning costume designer.
• Aleksandr Zõbin, 59, Soviet Olympic sailor.

5

• Martin Baum, 86, American talent agent, President of ABC Pictures.
• Jutta Burggraf, 58, German Roman Catholic theologian and professor.
• Antonio Cárdenas Guillén, 48, Mexican drug lord, shot.
• Jill Clayburgh, 66, American actress, chronic leukemia.
• Hajo Herrmann, 97, German Luftwaffe bomber pilot and lawyer.
• Charles McDowell Jr., 84, American journalist and syndicated columnist, complications from a stroke.
• Midge the Sea Lion, 25, American sea lion, euthanized.
• Randy Miller, 39, American drummer, bone cancer.
• Rozsika Parker, 64, British art historian and psychotherapist, cancer.
• Adrian Păunescu, 67, Romanian author, poet and politician.
• Martin Starkie, 87, British actor and writer.
• David Steuart, 94, Canadian politician, Saskatchewan MLA and Leader of the Opposition, Senator.
• Henriette van Lynden-Leijten, 60, Dutch diplomat, cancer.
• Shirley Verrett, 79, American operatic mezzo-soprano, heart failure.

6

• Fernando Bastos de Ávila, 92, Brazilian Roman Catholic priest, Vice-Chancellor, member of Academy of Letters, cancer.
• Ezard Haußmann, 75, German actor, cancer.
• Peter Hilton, 87, British mathematician.
• Walter Isard, 91, American economist, founder of regional science.
• Jo Myong-rok, 82, North Korean military official, First Vice-chairman of the National Defense Commission, heart disease.
• Motoichi Kumagai, 101, Japanese photographer.
• Robert Lipshutz, 88, American politician, White House Counsel.
• Siddhartha Shankar Ray, 90, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal, List of [Governors of Punjab (India)|Governor of Punjab], renal failure.
• Michael Seifert, 86, Soviet-born Nazi war criminal, complications from a fall.
• Jay Van Noy, 82, American baseball player.

7

• Kurt Baier, 93, Austrian philosopher.
• George Estock, 86, American baseball player.
• Chris Goudge, 75, British Olympic athlete.
• Domingo Maza Zavala, 88, Venezuelan economist, President of the Central Bank of Venezuela.
• Yoshinobu Nishizaki, 75, Japanese anime producer, fall from boat.
• Smaro Stefanidou, 97, Greek actress, heart failure.
• Hedy Stenuf, 88, Austrian Olympic figure skater.

8

• András Ádám-Stolpa, 89, Hungarian tennis, basketball and ice hockey player.
• Gregorio Barradas Miravete, 28, Mexican politician, Mayor-elect of Rodríguez Clara, Veracruz, shot.
• Richard Bing, 101, German-born American cardiologist.
• Fred Blankemeijer, 84, Dutch footballer.
• Philip Carlo, 61, American crime author, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Quintin Dailey, 49, American basketball player, cardiovascular disease.
• Disque Deane, 89, American financier, pneumonia.
• Jack Levine, 95, American artist.
• Sam Holmes, 94, American Negro league baseball player.
• Emilio Eduardo Massera, 85, Argentine admiral, member of the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, cardiovascular arrest.
• Addison Powell, 89, American actor.
• Mikhail Savitsky, 88, Belarusian painter.
• George Solomos, 85, American editor and writer.
• Jean White, 69, British pastor and missionary, pancreatic cancer.
• Tim Womack, 76, English footballer.

9

• Elizabeth Carnegy, Baroness Carnegy of Lour, 85, British academic and life peer.
• John Cunneen, 78, New Zealand Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Christchurch.
• Robin Day, 95, British furniture designer.
• Robert Donatucci, 58, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, sleep apnea.
• Reginald Hollis, 78, Canadian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Montreal.
• Albert Wesley Johnson, 87, Canadian civil servant, President of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, after long illness.
• Ektor Kaknavatos, 90, Greek poet.
• Amos Lavi, 57, Israeli actor, lung cancer.
• Herman Liebaers, 91, Belgian linguist.
• Rolf Pettersson, 84, Swedish ice hockey player.
• Lursakdi Sampatisiri, 91, Thai businesswoman and politician, first female Minister of Transport.

10

• Georges Aeschlimann, 90, Swiss cyclist.
• Mustafa Altıntaş, 71, Turkish footballer, cancer.
• Dino De Laurentiis, 91, Italian film producer.
• Theo Doyer, 54, Dutch Olympic field hockey player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Jim Farry, 56, Scottish football administrator, Chief Executive of the Scottish Football Association, heart attack.
• Phillip Hoffman, 80, American surfer, pulmonary disease.
• Donald S. Kellermann, 83, American journalist and opinion researcher, liver cancer.
• Andreas Kirchner, 57, German Olympic gold and bronze medal-winning bobsledder.
• Attila Kovács, 70, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
• Edmund Kuempel, 68, American politician, myocardial infarction.
• Tiger Lance, 70, South African cricketer, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
• James Munnik, 57, South African cricketer.
• Dave Niehaus, 75, American sportscaster, 2008 Ford C. Frick Award recipient, heart attack.
• Nicolo Rizzuto, 86, Italian-born Canadian mafia leader, shot.
• Einar Sæter, 92, Norwegian triple jumper, resistance member, newspaper editor and writer.

11

• Pankaj Advani, 45, Indian film director, editor, screenwriter, photographer, theatre director, and painter, cardiac arrest.
• Carlos Edmundo de Ory, 87, Spanish poet, leukemia.
• John Elliott, 66, American football player, cancer.
• Daud Ibrahim, 63, Malaysian Olympic cyclist.
• Carroll Pratt, 89, American sound engineer, pioneer of laugh track, natural causes.
• Marie Osborne Yeats, 99, American silent movie actress.

12

• Des Alwi, 82, Indonesian historian, businessman, and public intellectual, adopted son of Mohammad Hatta, heart failure.
• Stanisław Bobak, 54, Polish Olympic ski jumper.
• Ernst von Glasersfeld, 93, Austrian-born American philosopher.
• Henryk Górecki, 76, Polish composer, after long illness.
• William Hohri, 83, American activist, source behind Civil Liberties Act of 1988, Alzheimer's disease.
• Theodore W. Kheel, 96, American labor negotiator.
• Karl Plutus, 106, Estonian jurist and centenarian.

13

• Noah Augustine, 39, Canadian indigenous leader, road incident.
• Farid Baghlani, 41–42, Iranian serial killer and rapist, hanged.
• Luis García Berlanga, 89, Spanish film director, natural causes.
• George Binks, 96, American baseball player.
• Winfried Brugger, 60, German academic lawyer.
• Jim Deane, 82, Australian football player.
• Norman Dennis, 81, British sociologist, leukaemia.
• Witold Hatka, 71, Polish politician, traffic collision.
• Ken Iman, 71, American football player.
• W. Henry Maxwell, 75, American politician and Baptist minister.
• Claudio Obregón, 75, Mexican actor, respiratory failure.
• Nathan Oliveira, 81, American painter.
• D. V. S. Raju, 81, Indian film producer, short illness.
• Allan Sandage, 84, American astronomer, pancreatic cancer.
• Richard Van Genechten, 80, Belgian cyclist.

14

• Hal Bamberger, 86, American baseball player.
• Sir Gordon Bisson, 91, New Zealand jurist.
• Vincent Broderick, 90, English cricketer.
• Lew Carpenter, 78, American football player.
• Eugenio Galliussi, 95, Italian cyclist.
• Akira Mikazuki, 89, Japanese legal scholar and Minister of Justice.
• Wes Santee, 78, American Olympic track athlete, cancer.
• Bobbi Sykes, 67, Australian Aboriginal rights activist.

15

• Helen Boehm, 89, American businesswoman, complications from cancer and Parkinson's disease.
• Ángel Cabrera, 71, Uruguayan footballer.
• Nikol Ġużeppi Cauchi, 81, Maltese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gozo.
• Moira Deady, 88, Irish actor.
• Edmond Amran El Maleh, 93, Moroccan writer and intellectual.
• Larry Evans, 78, American chess grandmaster and author, complications following gallbladder operation.
• Paul Jiang Taoran, 84, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zhengding, heart disease.
• Toswel Kaua, 63, Solomon Islands politician, Deputy Prime Minister, after long illness.
• Nimr al-Khatib, c. 92, Palestinian educator and writer.
• Ed Kirkpatrick, 66, American baseball player, throat cancer.
• Maria Dolors Maestre i Pal, 80–81, Andorran philanthropist.
• W. Howard Lester, 75, American businessman, former CEO of Williams-Sonoma, Inc., cancer.
• Sir Cassam Moollan, 84, Mauritian Chief Justice.
• Imre Polyák, 78, Hungarian Greco-Roman wrestler.
• Hugh Prather, 72, American self-help author, apparent heart attack.
• William Edwin Self, 89, American production manager, heart attack.

16

• Louis Bisdee, 100, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council.
• Paul Calello, 49, American investment banker, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Britton Chance, 97, American biochemist, biophysicist and Olympic sailor.
• Ronni Chasen, 64, American publicist, shot.
• Ragnhild Magerøy, 90, Norwegian writer.
• Donald Nyrop, 98, American CEO of Northwest Airlines, Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.
• Mimi Perrin, 84, French jazz singer and pianist.
• Ilie Savu, 90, Romanian footballer and coach, hepatic cirrhosis.
• Wyngard Tracy, 58, Filipino talent manager, stroke.
• Wong Tin-lam, 83, Chinese screenwriter, producer, director and actor, organ failure.

17

• Giorgi Arsenishvili, 68, Georgian mathematician and politician, myocardial infarction.
• Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, 87, Brazilian footballer.
• Isabelle Caro, 28, French anorexic model.
• Johnny Simpson, 88, New Zealand rugby player.
• N. Viswanathan, 81, Indian actor, heart attack.

18

• Freddy Beras-Goico, 69, Dominican television producer, comedian, writer and actor, gastric cancer.
• Jochem Bobeldijk, 90, Dutch Olympic sprint canoer.
• Jim Cruickshank, 69, Scottish footballer.
• Brian G. Marsden, 73, British astronomer, after long illness.
• Donald Mitchell, 55 Australian weightlifter.
• Abraham Serfaty, 84, Moroccan pro-democracy activist.
• Dito Shanidze, 73, Georgian Olympic silver medal-winning weightlifter.
• Gaye Stewart, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Mackenzie Taylor, 32, British comedian, suicide by drug overdose.

19

• Pat Burns, 58, Canadian ice hockey coach, lung cancer.
• Byron Duckenfield, 93, British World War II Air Force pilot.
• Piotr Hertel, 74, Polish composer.
• Jamuna Nishad, 57, Indian politician, traffic collision.
• Ole Bjørn Støle, 60, Norwegian judge.
• Bob Wheeler, 58, American Olympic athlete.
• Atama Zedkaia, 79, Marshallese tribal leader, paramount chief of Majuro.

20

• Mir Shawkat Ali, 83, Bangladesh general.
• Laurie Bembenek, 52, American convicted murderer, liver and kidney failure.
• Roxana Briban, 39, Romanian soprano, apparent suicide by exsanguination.
• Santha Devi, 85, Indian actress.
• Chalmers Johnson, 79, American scholar and author.
• Rob Lytle, 56, American football player, heart attack.
• Robert Earl Maxwell, 86, American judge.
• Danny McDevitt, 78, American baseball player.
• Little Smokey Smothers, 71, American blues guitarist and singer, natural causes.
• Ruth Springford, 89, Canadian actress, after short illness.
• Heinz Weiss, 89, German actor.
• Jim Yardley, 64, English cricketer.

21

• José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado, 67, Brazilian composer and pianist, pulmonary edema.
• Rosaura Andreu, 92, American actress.
• Theodore Bibb, 92, American jazz drummer.
• Willis Burks II, 75, American actor.
• Silverio Cavazos, 41, Mexican politician, Governor of Colima, shot.
• Takaharu Kondo, 66, Japanese jurist, member of the Supreme Court, pneumonia.
• Steve Kuczek, 85, American baseball player.
• Norris Church Mailer, 61, American author and model, gastrointestinal cancer.
• David Nolan, 66, American political activist, Libertarian Party founder, stroke.
• Prince Chunk, 10, American obese cat, heart disease.
• Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, 95, American museum founder.
• Raghavan Thirumulpad, 90, Indian Ayurvedic scholar and physician.

22

• Kenneth Burton, 84, British biochemist.
• Jean Cione, 82, American baseball player.
• Frank Fenner, 95, Australian scientist.
• Julien Guiomar, 82, French film actor.
• David Lam, 87, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, prostate cancer.
• Len Lunde, 74, Canadian ice hockey player, heart condition.
• Winston Murray, 69, Guyanese politician, former Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Trade, Tourism and Industry.
• Urbano Navarrete Cortés, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic priest, Cardinal since 2007.
• Tom Underwood, 56, American baseball player, pancreatic cancer.

23

• Mauro Alice, 84, Brazilian film editor, pneumonia.
• Greg Coleman, 47, American lawyer, Solicitor General of Texas, plane crash.
• Nassos Daphnis, 96, Greek-born American artist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Wolfgang Hellrigl, 69, German philatelist.
• Joyce Howard, 88, British actress, natural causes.
• Pavel Lednyov, 67, Russian modern pentathlete.
• Ingrid Pitt, 73, Polish-born British actress, heart failure.
• Kananginak Pootoogook, 75, Canadian Inuk artist, complications from surgery.
• Don Samuel, 86, American football player.
• James Tyler, 70, American lutenist.
• George Otto Wirz, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Madison.

24

• Thomas J. Ahrens, 74, American geophysicist.
• Peter Christopherson, 55, British musician and graphic artist, natural causes.
• Annie Lee Cooper, 100, American civil rights activist.
• A. Arthur Giddon, 101, American lawyer and jurist.
• Huang Hua, 97, Chinese politician, Foreign Minister of the [People's Republic of China|Foreign Minister].
• Valentin Ivakin, 80, Russian footballer and football manager.
• Lim Chong Eu, 91, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Penang.
• Molly Luft, 66, German prostitute, cancer.
• Michael Samuels, 90, British philologist.
• Andy Schoettle, 77, American Olympic sailor.
• Sergio Valech, 83, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Roman Catholic [Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile|Santiago de Chile].
• Norm Winningstad, 85, American technology entrepreneur, founder of Floating Point Systems, suicide by gunshot.

25

• Charlie Atkinson, 77, English footballer, ill-health following a fall.
• Alfred Balk, 80, American journalist, former editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, cancer.
• Tony Dixon, 52, Irish disc jockey and blogger, after short illness.
• Bernard Matthews, 80, British businessman.
• Doris McCarthy, 100, Canadian artist.
• James Morrison, 68, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives.
• Yaroslav Pavulyak, 62, Ukrainian poet.
• Colin Slee, 65, British Church of England prelate, Dean of Southwark Cathedral, pancreatic cancer.
• Ann Southam, 73, Canadian composer.

26

• Gavin Blyth, 41, British television producer, cancer.
• R. N. DeArmond, 99, American historian.
• James DiPaola, 57, American politician, Massachusetts House of Representatives, Sheriff of Middlesex County, suicide by gunshot.
• Mohammad Anwar Elahee, 81, Mauritian footballer and manager.
• Yara Gambirasio, 13, Italian student and gymnast.
• Maria Hellwig, 90, German yodeler and folk musician.
• Palle Huld, 98, Danish actor, believed to be inspiration for Tintin.
• Umanosuke Iida, 49, Japanese animator, lung cancer.
• Paraska Korolyuk, 71, Ukrainian political activist.
• Mario Pacheco, 60, Spanish music producer and photographer.
• Kevin Parry, 77, Australian businessman, traffic collision.
• Purcell Powless, 84, American tribal leader, chairman of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin.
• Marjory Saunders, 97, Canadian Olympic archer.
• Vitthal Umap, 80, Indian musician.

27

• Steve Hill, 70, English footballer.
• Irvin Kershner, 87, American film director, lung cancer.
• Đorđe Lavrnić, 77, Yugoslav Olympic handball player.
• Bill Werle, 89, American baseball player.

28

• Jon D'Agostino, 81, Italian-born American comic book artist, bone cancer.
• Syoziro Asahina, 97, Japanese entomologist.
• Keir Clark, 100, Canadian politician, Prince Edward Island MLA for 3rd Kings.
• Samuel T. Cohen, 89, American physicist, inventor of the neutron bomb, cancer.
• Cal Emery, 73, American baseball player and coach.
• Giorgos Fountas, 86, Greek actor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Svante Granlund, 89, Swedish ice hockey player.
• Frank Hanna, 86, Australian rules footballer.
• Vladimir Maslachenko, 74, Russian footballer, winner of the 1960 European Nations' Cup.
• Gil McDougald, 82, American baseball player, prostate cancer.
• Katsuya Miyahira, 92, Japanese martial artist.
• Leslie Nielsen, 84, Canadian-born American actor, pneumonia.
• Gene Polito, 92, American cinematographer, esophageal cancer.
• Mahaveer Prasad, 71, Indian politician, after long illness.
• Renato Terra, 87, Italian actor and poet.

29

• Bella Akhmadulina, 73, Russian poet.
• Irena Anders, 90, Polish stage actress and singer.
• El Hijo de Cien Caras, 34, Mexican professional wrestler, shot.
• David Fleming, 70, British environmental writer
• John Gerrish, 100, American composer.
• Richard Goldman, 90, American philanthropist, founder of the Goldman Environmental Prize.
• Bob Holcomb, 88, American politician, Mayor of San Bernardino, California, heart failure.
• Silvester Knipfer, 70, German Olympic sports shooter.
• Pete Langelle, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.
• John Mantle, 64, Scottish Episcopalian prelate, Bishop of Brechin.
• Al Masini, 80, American television producer, creator of Entertainment Tonight, Solid Gold and Star Search, melanoma.
• Mario Monicelli, 95, Italian film director, suicide by jumping.
• Steven Posner, 67, American corporate raider, boat collision.
• Majid Shahriari, Iranian quantum physicist, car bomb.
• Stephen Solarz, 70, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York, esophageal cancer.
• Sir Maurice Wilkes, 97, British computer scientist.

30

• Idris Ali, 70, Egyptian author.
• Daya Mata, 96, American spiritual leader, Self-Realization Fellowship president.
• Garry Gross, 73, American fashion photographer, heart attack.
• Peter Hofmann, 66, German operatic tenor, dementia and Parkinson's disease.
• Jim Kelley, 61, American sportswriter and television journalist, pancreatic cancer.
• Gabriela Kownacka, 58, Polish actress, breast cancer.
• Robert Potter, 101, British architect, Surveyor to the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral
• Imre Sátori, 73, Hungarian footballer.
• Dave Skrien, 81, American CFL football player and coach, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Ted Sorel, 74, American actor, complications from Lyme disease.
• R. C. Stevens, 76, American baseball player.
• Monty Sunshine, 82, British clarinetist.