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.