Deaths in November 2011


The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2011.
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 2011

1

  • Gumaa Al-Shawan, 74, Egyptian intelligence agent.
  • Cahit Aral, 84, Turkish engineer and politician, Minister of Industry and Commerce.
  • Fanny Edelman, 100, Argentine politician, President of the PCA.
  • Sam Fink, 95, American calligrapher.
  • Richard Gordon, 85, British horror film producer.
  • André Hodeir, 90, French author, jazz arranger and composer.
  • Christiane Legrand, 81, French jazz singer.
  • Sergio Montiel, 84, Argentine politician, Governor of Entre Ríos.
  • Dorothy Howell Rodham, 92, American homemaker, mother of Hillary Clinton.
  • Eilaine Roth, 82, American baseball player, complications from cancer.
  • Héctor Rueda Hernández, 90, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Medellín.
  • Seppo Sanaksenaho, 73, Finnish politician, Mayor of Vaasa.
  • Katherine Siva Saubel, 91, American Cahuilla tribal leader and activist, one of the last speakers of the Cahuilla language.
  • Robert A. Scalapino, 92, American political scientist.
  • Ricardo Watty Urquidi, 73, American-born Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tepic, pancreatic cancer.

    2

  • Sydney Andrew, 85, English industrial chemical engineer.
  • Stan Bergstein, 87, American harness racing executive.
  • Sickan Carlsson, 96, Swedish actress and singer.
  • Rijk de Gooyer, 85, Dutch actor, pancreatic cancer.
  • Ilmar Kullam, 89, Estonian Olympic silver medal-winning basketball player.
  • Lou Maletta, 74, American media executive, founder of Gay Cable Network, liver cancer.
  • Eugene Maslov, 66, Russian billiards coach.
  • Yoko Matsuoka McClain, 87, Japanese-born American professor, granddaughter of Natsume Sōseki, stroke.
  • Sid Melton, 94, American character actor, pneumonia.
  • Papa Bue, 81, Danish trombonist and bandleader.
  • Antonio Molino Rojo, 85, Spanish film actor.
  • Nikolay Saksonov, 88, Russian world champion weightlifter, Olympic silver medalist.
  • Leonard Stone, 87, American actor, cancer.
  • Lucy Tejada, 91, Colombian painter.

    3

  • Matty Alou, 72, Dominican Republic-born American baseball player, diabetes.
  • Rosángela Balbó, 70, Mexican-Italian born actress, lung cancer.
  • Tamás Eszes, 47, Hungarian politician and paramilitary leader, suicide.
  • Bob Forsch, 61, American baseball player, aortic aneurysm.
  • H. G. Francis, 75, German science fiction author.
  • Guo Tao, 85, Chinese lieutenant general.
  • Peeter Kreitzberg, 62, Estonian politician, Minister of Culture and Education.
  • Justo Oscar Laguna, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Morón.
  • Ivar Nørgaard, 89, Danish politician, negotiated Denmark's entry to the European Community.
  • John R. Opel, 86, American computer businessman, president and CEO of IBM.
  • Morris Philipson, 85, American book publisher and novelist.
  • Sir Timothy Raison, 82, British politician, Member of Parliament for Aylesbury.
  • Bruno Rubeo, 65, Italian production designer, pneumonia.
  • John Young, 80, Scottish politician, MSP for West of Scotland.

    4

  • Alfonso Cano, 63, Colombian guerrilla leader, shot.
  • Emmanuel de Bethune, 82, Belgian politician, Mayor of Kortrijk, after long illness.
  • Arnold Green, 91, Estonian politician, President of the Estonian Olympic Committee.
  • Annabelle Lyon, 95, American ballet dancer.
  • Cynthia Myers, 61, American model and actress, lung cancer.
  • Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., 96, American physicist, Nobel Laureate.
  • Andy Rooney, 92, American journalist , surgical complications.
  • Theadora Van Runkle, 83, American costume designer, lung cancer.
  • Sarah Watt, 53, Australian film director, bone and breast cancer.
  • Tadeusz Walasek, 75, Polish Olympic silver and bronze medal-winning boxer.
  • Dieudonné Yougbaré, 94, Burkinabé Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Koupéla.

    5

  • Mario Roberto Álvarez, 97, Argentine architect.
  • George Ansbro, 96, American radio announcer.
  • Luigi Belloli, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Anagni-Alatri.
  • Franco Chillemi, 69, Italian actor and voice actor.
  • Les Daniels, 68, American writer.
  • Norton Dodge, 84, American economist and art collector.
  • Loulou de la Falaise, 64, French fashion muse and designer.
  • Hannu Haapalainen, 60, Finnish ice hockey player.
  • Bhupen Hazarika, 85, Indian singer.
  • Sir Gordon Higginson, 81, British educationalist and engineer.
  • Takeo Nishioka, 75, Japanese politician, Minister of Education and Speaker of the House of Councillors, pneumonia.
  • Henry D. Owen, 91, American diplomat.
  • Damaskinos Papandreou, 75, Greek-born Turkish Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Hadrianopolis.
  • Yuvan Shestalov, 74, Russian Mansi language writer.

    6

  • Géza Alföldy, 76, Hungarian historian.
  • Gordon Beck, 75, British jazz pianist and composer.
  • Isaac Chocrón, 81, Venezuelan playwright.
  • Margaret Field, 89, American actress, cancer.
  • Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood, 61, British advertising executive and political adviser, cancer.
  • Giacomo Gualco, 75, Italian politician, President of Liguria.
  • Mel Hancock, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri.
  • Hickstead, 15, Dutch-born Canadian show jumping horse, Olympic champion, ruptured aorta.
  • Hal Kanter, 92, American screenwriter, director and producer, complications from pneumonia.
  • Peretz Kidron, 78, Israeli writer, journalist and translator.
  • Carl Nyrén, 93, Swedish architect.
  • Allan Peachey, 62, New Zealand politician, Member of Parliament for Tamaki, cancer.
  • William David Lindsay Ride, 85, Australian zoologist.
  • Charles Walton, 89, American electrical engineer, patentee of RFID.

    7

  • Lykke Aresin, 90, German physician, sexologist and writer
  • James E. Barrett, 89, American federal judge.
  • Joe Frazier, 67, American boxer, World Heavyweight Champion, liver cancer.
  • Marie Ljalková, 90, Czech soldier, sniper of the Soviet Union.
  • Lisbeth Movin, 94, Danish actress.
  • Georgi Movsesyan, 66, Russian composer, heart attack.
  • Dov Schwartzman, 90, Russian-born Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva.
  • Tomás Segovia, 84, Spanish-born Mexican poet, cancer.
  • F. Springer, 79, Dutch writer.
  • Takanosato Toshihide, 59, Japanese sumo wrestler.
  • Andrea True, 68, American adult film star and disco singer, heart failure.

    8

  • Jimmy Adamson, 82, British football player and coach.
  • Al Boeke, 88, American architect, developer of Sea Ranch, California, and Mililani, Hawai'i.
  • Hal Bruno, 83, American journalist, political director of ABC News, heart arrhythmia after a fall.
  • Gene Cantamessa, 80, American sound engineer, Oscar winner.
  • Oscar Rolando Cantuarias Pastor, 80, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Piura.
  • Nosson Tzvi Finkel, 68, American-born Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva.
  • Katherine Grant, 12th Countess of Dysart, 93, Scottish peeress.
  • Heavy D, 44, Jamaican-born American rapper and actor, pulmonary embolism.
  • Ricky Hui, 65, Hong Kong actor, heart attack.
  • Sir David Jack, 87, Scottish pharmacologist.
  • Bil Keane, 89, American cartoonist, heart failure.
  • Valentin Ivanov, 76, Russian football player and coach.
  • Ed Macauley, 83, American basketball player.
  • Jimmy Norman, 74, American rhythm and blues and jazz musician and songwriter.
  • Herbert S. Okun, 80, American diplomat.
  • Floyd Rice, 62, American football player, lung cancer.
  • Vladimir Shitov, 60, Russian luger.
  • Lauri Sutela, 93, Finnish military officer, Chief of Defence.
  • Jan Wypiorczyk, 64, Polish Olympic wrestler.

    9

  • Shmuel Ben-Artzi, 96, Israeli writer, father-in-law of Benjamin Netanyahu.
  • Bob Carney, 79, American basketball player.
  • Roger Christian, 75, American Olympic gold medal-winning ice hockey player.
  • Ézio, 45, Brazilian football player, pancreatic cancer.
  • Har Gobind Khorana, 89, Indian-born American biochemist, Nobel laureate.
  • Wilfred G. Lambert, 85, English historian and archaeologist.
  • Benny McCoy, 96, American baseball player.
  • Sir Robin Mountfield, 72, British civil servant.
  • Dani Wadada Nabudere, 79, Ugandan academic.
  • Jean-Paul Randriamanana, 52, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Antananarivo.
  • Terry Willers, 76, Irish cartoonist.

    10

  • Peter J. Biondi, 69, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly, mesothelioma.
  • David Boyd, 87, Australian artist.
  • Manuel Carbonell, 93, Cuban-born American sculptor.
  • Winston C. Doby, 71, American mathematician.
  • Ana Grepo, 36, Croatian model, carbon monoxide asphyxiation.
  • Barbara Grier, 78, American publisher and writer, cancer.
  • Andrei Igorov, 71, Romanian sprint canoer.
  • Ivan Martin Jirous, 67, Czech poet and dissident.
  • Alan Keen, 73, British politician, MP for Feltham and Heston, cancer.
  • Killer Karl Kox, 80, American professional wrestler.
  • Petar Kralj, 70, Serbian actor.
  • Jacques Lataste, 89, French Olympic fencer.
  • Hiroshi Saito, 78, Japanese Olympic basketball player.
  • Andy Tielman, 75, Dutch Indorock musician, gastric cancer.
  • Adrián Yospe, 41, Argentine actor, cancer.

    11

  • Dennis Alexander, 76, English footballer.
  • William Aramony, 84, American charity executive.
  • Francisco Blake Mora, 45, Mexican politician, Secretary of the Interior, helicopter crash.
  • Domenico Tarcisio Cortese, 80, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea.
  • John Francis Donoghue, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Atlanta, after short illness.
  • Emory Folmar, 81, American politician, Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, after long illness.
  • Michael Garrick, 78, English jazz pianist and composer, cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Fridtjof Frank Gundersen, 77, Norwegian jurist and politician.
  • Choiseul Henriquez, 51, Haitian politician.
  • Kent Kammerer, 78, American teacher and activist.
  • Charlie Lea, 54, French-born American baseball player, heart attack.
  • Hellmut May, 90, Austrian Olympic figure skater.
  • Bernd Methe, 47, German handball referee, traffic accident.
  • Reiner Methe, 47, German handball referee, traffic accident.
  • David Myers, 73, American politician, Oklahoma State Senator, pneumonia.
  • Pushpa Ratna Sagar, 89, Nepalese grammarian.
  • Nick Strincevich, 96, American baseball player.