Deaths in November 1995

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1995.

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 (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Richard Ashcraft, 57, American political theorist.
 * Helen Bullock, 89-90, American historian.
 * Rocco Canale, 78, American football player in the NFL.
 * James Ralph Darling, 96, English-Australian chairman of ABC.
 * Lex Hixon, 53, American Sufi author, poet, and spiritual teacher, cancer.
 * Bill Hudson, 85, British Special Operations Executive officer.
 * Vasil Iljoski, 92, Macedonian writer and dramatist.
 * George McCowan, 68, Canadian film and television director, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Erika Morini, 91, Austrian violinist.
 * Alun Pask, 58, Welsh rugby player.
 * W. E. D. Ross, 82, Canadian writer.
 * Desmond Shawe-Taylor, 88, English music critic.
 * Brian Lenihan Snr, 64, Irish politician and minister.
 * Tom Spencer, 81, English cricket player and umpire.
 * Bradbury Thompson, 84, American graphic designer and art director.

2

 * Bill Blair, 84, American auto racer.
 * June Brewster, 82, American actress.
 * Florence Greenberg, 82, record company founder.
 * Luo Guibo, 88, Chinese diplomat and politician.
 * Ollie Harrington, 83, American cartoonist.
 * Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, 76, Columbian politician, homicide.
 * Gil Lamb, 91, American actor.
 * Gabriel Urgebadze, 66, Georgian Orthodox monk.

3

 * R. Tucker Abbott, 76, American conchologist and malacologist.
 * Bojan Adamič, 83, Slovenian composer.
 * Arthur Bottomley, 88, British Labour politician and minister.
 * Mario Revollo Bravo, 76, Colombian Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop.
 * Jerome Caja, 37, American mixed-media painter, drag queen, and performance artist, AIDS.
 * Wallas Eaton, 78, English film, radio, television and theatre actor.
 * Gordon S. Fahrni, 108, Canadian physician and president of the Canadian Medical Association.
 * John Orchard, 66, British actor (M*A*S*H).
 * Edward Pola, 88, American radio and TV producer, and lyricist.
 * William M. Rountree, 78, American diplomat, cancer.
 * Cordelia Urueta, 87, Mexican artist.
 * Isang Yun, 78, Korean-German composer.
 * Gojko Zec, 60, Serbian football manager, homicide.

4

 * John Cahill, 65, British businessman, and the chief executive of British Aerospace.
 * Marti Caine, 50, British comedienne, singer and television host, lymphatic cancer.
 * Revels Cayton, 87-88, American civil rights leader.
 * Gilles Deleuze, 70, French philosopher, suicide.
 * Paul Eddington, 68, English actor, lymphoma.
 * Eddie Egan, 65, American actor, cancer.
 * Essex Hemphill, 38, American poet and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications.
 * Yizhak Rabin, 73, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, assassinated.
 * Morrie Schwartz, 78, American professor of sociology and author, ALS.
 * Prawitz Öberg, 64, Swedish football player, bone cancer.

5

 * Walter Dobler, 75, Canadian gridiron football player.
 * Gene Englund, 78, American basketball player.
 * Ernest Gellner, 69, British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist.
 * Gordon Walters, 76, New Zealand artist and graphic designer.

6

 * Larry Cannon, 58, American racecar driver, embolism.
 * Bill Cheesbourg, 68, American racecar driver, cancer.
 * Aneta Corsaut, 62, American actress (The Blob, The Andy Griffith Show, Matlock), cancer.
 * Chiaki Matsuda, 99, Japanses admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

7

 * Andrea Adams, 49, British broadcaster and journalist for the BBC, ovarian cancer.
 * Emery Bonett, 88, the pen name of Felicity Winifred Carter, an English author and playwright.
 * Dimitri Dimakopoulos, 66, Greek-Canadian architect.
 * Lars Dresler, 27, Danish figure skater and Olympian, undisclosed disease.
 * Ann Dunham, 52, American anthropologist, cancer.
 * John Patrick, 90, American screenwriter and playwright and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, suicide.
 * Slappy White, 74, American comedian and actor, heart attack.

8

 * Fernando Bello, 71, Portuguese sailor and Olympic medalist.
 * Neil Blaney, 73, Irish politician.
 * Suzanne Borel, 91, French diplomat.
 * Francis Cleveland, 92, American stage actor, director, producer, and son of president Grover Cleveland.
 * Oleh Makarov, 66, Soviet/Ukrainian football player, coach, and sports writer.
 * Gertrude Messinger, 84, American film actress, pneumonia.
 * Country Dick Montana, 40, singer, aneurysm.
 * Veselin Petrović, 66, Serbian cyclist.

9

 * Morley Baer, 79, American photographer and teacher.
 * Alessandro Cicognini, 89, Italian composer prolific in film music.
 * Robert O. Cook, 92, American sound engineer.
 * F. G. Emmison, 88, British archivist and historian.
 * Geraldine Katt, 75, Austrian actress.

10

 * Ria De Simone, 48, Italian actress and singer, brain cancer.
 * Clairmonte Depeiaza, 67, West Indian cricketer.
 * Jean Maurice Fiey, 81, French Dominican Father, Church historian and Syriacist.
 * Curly Fox, 85, American fiddler.
 * Ken Saro-Wiwa, 54, Nigerian writer and environmentalist, execution by hanging.
 * Franco Silva, 75, Italian actor.
 * René Wellek, 92, Czech-American writer.

11

 * Corneliu Coposu, 81, Romanian politician, lung cancer.
 * Jean-Louis Curtis, 78, French novelist.
 * Kenneth S. Goldstein, 68, American folklorist and enthomusicologist.
 * Koloman Gögh, 47, Czechoslovak football player, traffic collision.
 * Charles Scribner IV, 74, American publisher.

12

 * Richard L. Coe, 81, longtime theater and cinema critic for The Washington Post.
 * Roland Dobrushin, 66, Russian mathematician.
 * Emmett Matthew Hall, 97, Canadian jurist, judge, and civil liberties advocate.
 * Sir Robert Stephens, 64, English actor (The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Cleopatra, Empire of the Sun), complications following surgery.
 * Willie Telfer, 70, Scottish football player and manager.

13

 * Hanafy Bastan, 73, Egyptian footballer and Olympian.
 * Ralph Blane, 81, American songwriter, composer, lyricist, arranger, and singer.
 * Mary Elizabeth Counselman, 83, American writer of short stories and poetry.
 * Erdoğan Partener, 66, Turkish basketball player and Olympian.
 * Adriana Serra, 71, Italian film actress.
 * Orlando Sirola, 67, Italian tennis player.
 * Arthur Dale Trendall, 86, New Zealand-Australian art historian and classical archaeologist.
 * John Van Eyssen, 73, South African actor.

14

 * Jack Finney, 84, American author (The Body Snatchers), emphysema and pneumonia.
 * Jack Holt, 83, British sailboat designer.
 * Les Horvath, 74, American football quarterback and halfback.
 * John Lee-Barber, 90, British Royal Navy officer.
 * Jacob Rader Marcus, 99, American scholar and Reform rabbi.
 * János Tamás, 59, Hungarian-Swiss composer, conductor and music educator.

15

 * Karen Berg, 89, Danish actress.
 * Joe F. Blair, 72, American sports publicist for the University of Maryland and the Washington Redskins.
 * Billy Hughes, 81, British educationist and Labour Party politician.
 * Sol Liptzin, 94, American-Israeli scholar, author, and professor of literature.
 * J. Clyde Mitchell, 77, British sociologist and anthropologist.
 * John W. Mitchell, 80, American Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.

16

 * Robert H. Adleman, 76, American novelist and historian.
 * D. Woodrow Bird, 83, American politician.
 * Charles Gordone, 70, American playwright, actor, and director, liver cancer.
 * Ralph Kronig, 91, German physicist.
 * Conrad Lynn, 87, American civil rights lawyer and activist.
 * Petre Prličko, 88, Macedonian actor.
 * Gwyn A. Williams, 70, Welsh historian.

17

 * Agasi Babayan, 73, Armenian director, screenwriter, and actor.
 * Yevhen Bulanchyk, 73, Ukrainian hurdler who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
 * Alan Hull, 50, English singer-songwriter (Lindisfarne), thrombosis.
 * Mohammad Said Keruak, 69, Malaysian politician.
 * Norman Kirkman, 75, English football player and manager.
 * Salvatore Martirano, 68, American composer.
 * Pete Welding, 60, American historian, archivist, and record producer, heart attack.
 * Marguerite Young, 87, American writer.

18

 * Francisco de Borbón y Borbón, 83, Spanish aristocrat and military officer.
 * John G. Collier, 60, British chemical engineer.
 * Jacques Ertaud, 71, French film director and screenwriter.
 * Miron Grindea, 86, Romanian-British literary journalist.
 * Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, 54, Moroccan poet and writer.
 * Reinhard Kolldehoff, 81, German film actor.

19

 * Don Anielak, 65, American basketball player.
 * Charles Doe, 97, American rugby player.
 * Don Goldie, 65, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Wan Guchan, 95, Chinese filmmaker.
 * Martha Hill, 94, American modern dancer.
 * Ed Wright, 76, American baseball player, cancer.

20

 * George Burns, 76, New Zealand coxswain.
 * Lester Finch, 86, English football player and manager.
 * Robin Gandy, 76, British mathematician and logician.
 * Sergei Grinkov, 28, Russian figure skater and Olympic gold medalist, heart attack.
 * Robie Macauley, 76, American editor, novelist and critic.
 * Leotis Martin, 56, American boxer.
 * Martand Singh, 72, Indian wildlife conservationist and politician.
 * Kim Sung-jae, 23, South Korean singer, rapper, dancer, and model, murdered.

21

 * Matthew Ashman, 35, English guitarist, complications from diabetes.
 * Primrose Bordier, 66, French designer.
 * Bruno Gerussi, 67, Canadian actor (The Beachcombers), heart attack.
 * Peter Grant, 60, English rock band manager for The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, heart failure.
 * Dorothy Jeakins, 81, American costume designer (The Ten Commandments, The Sound of Music, Samson and Delilah), Oscar winner (1949, 1951, 1965).
 * Noel Jones, 54, British diplomat.
 * Leon Lishner, 82, American operatic bass baritone.
 * Leila Mourad, 77, Egyptian singer and actress.
 * George Ivan Smith, 80, Australian diplomat.
 * Wilfred White, 91, English equestrian and Olympic champion.

22

 * Leonardo Bercovici, 87, American screenwriter, film director and producer.
 * Margaret St. Clair, 84, American fantasy and science fiction writer.
 * Tom Clay, 66, American radio personality and disc jockey, lung cancer.
 * Edna Deane, 90, English ballroom dancer, choreographer and drama teacher.
 * Elinborg Lützen, 76, Danish graphic designer.
 * Norman Potter, 72, English cabinetmaker, designer and writer.
 * Maria Cumani Quasimodo, 87, Italian actress and dancer.
 * Sergey Stechkin, 75, Soviet/Russian mathematician.
 * Johnnie Tillmon, 69, American welfare rights activist.

23

 * John Frederick Collins, 76, American politician and Mayor of Boston, pneumonia.
 * Louis Malle, 63, French film director (Atlantic City, Elevator to the Gallows, My Dinner with Andre), lymphoma.
 * Bernard M. Oliver, 79, American scientist.
 * Dan Page, 65, American gridiron football player.
 * Einari Teräsvirta, 80, Finnish gymnast and Olympic Champion
 * Junior Walker, 64, American musician and recording artist, cancer.
 * Steven Wood, 34, Australian sprint and marathon canoeist, suicide.

24

 * Ivar Bjare, 52, Swedish luger who competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics.
 * John Craven, 79, American actor.
 * Dominic Ekandem, 78, Nigerian Roman Catholic cardinal.
 * Stuart Henry, 53, Scottish disc jockey, multiple sclerosis.
 * Leslie O'Brien, Baron O'Brien of Lothbury, 87, English peer and Governor of the Bank of England.
 * Jeffrey Lynn, 89, American actor (Four Daughters, A Letter to Three Wives, BUtterfield 8).
 * Malcolm Munthe, 85, British soldier, writer, and curator.
 * Eduard Ole, 97, Estonian painter.
 * Paul van de Rovaart, 91, Dutch field hockey player and Olympian.

25

 * Ángel Cappelletti, 67-68, Argentine philosopher and university professor.
 * Édouard Chabert, 92, French sailor who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
 * Nikolai Drozdetsky, 38, Russian ice hockey player, diabetes.
 * Helge Hagerman, 85, Swedish actor and film producer.
 * Leif Juster, 85, Norwegian comedian, singer and actor.
 * Roger McKenzie, 24, English musician and DJ, heart problems.
 * Boris Rytsarev, 65, Soviet/Russian film director.
 * Erich Schellow, 80, German actor.
 * Richard G. Shoup, 71, American politician.
 * Léon Zitrone, 81, Russian-French journalist and television presenter, stroke.

26

 * Roberto Bachi, 86, Italian-Israeli statistician and demographer.
 * Sydney Dawson Bailey, 79, English author, pacifist, and expert on international affairs.
 * David Briggs, 51, American record producer, lung cancer.
 * Maurice Britt, 76, American football player, Medal of Honor recipient, and businessman.
 * Terri L. Jewell, 41, American author, poet and Black lesbian activist.
 * Toshia Mori, 83, Japanese actress, traffic collision.
 * Bengt Palmquist, 72, Swedish sailor and Olympian.
 * Shankar Dayal Singh, 57, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
 * Sanae Takasugi, 77, Japanese actress.
 * Wim Thoelke, 68, German TV entertainer.
 * Charles Warrell, 106, English schoolteacher and creator of the I-Spy book series.

27

 * Giancarlo Baghetti, 60, Italian Formula One driver, cancer.
 * Simon Bailey, 40, British Anglican priest and writer, AIDS-related complications.
 * Martín Colmenarejo, 59, Spanish racing cyclist.
 * Albert Ouzoulias, 80, French communist leader of the French Resistance during World War II
 * Harry Taylor, 71, British alpine skier.
 * Jürgen Wattenberg, 94, German U-boat commander and POW escapee during World War II.

28

 * Sukhan Babayev, 85, Soviet-Turkmenistan politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan.
 * Richard C. Halverson, 79, American Presbyterian minister and author.
 * Brunhilde Hendrix, 57, German relay runner and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Slobodan Ivković, 58, Serbian basketball player and coach.
 * Roy A. Taylor, 85, American politician.
 * David James Walker, 90, Canadian politician.

29

 * Tanaka Chikao, 90, Japanese playwright and dramatist.
 * Wu De, 82, Chinese communist revolutionary and politician.
 * Irene Ighodaro, 79, Sierra Leonean doctor and social reformer.
 * Anthony LaRette, 44, American rapist and serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Leon McQuay, 45, American gridiron football player.
 * Roger Norman, 67, Swedish triple jumper.
 * Augusto H. Álvarez, 80, Mexican architect.

30

 * Niklaus Aeschbacher, 78, Swiss composer and conductor.
 * Jim Davis, 71, American baseball player.
 * June Fisher, 66, British teacher and trade unionist.
 * Philip Givens, 73, Canadian politician and judge.
 * Til Kiwe, 85, German actor and screenwriter.
 * Hopper Levett, 87, British cricket player.
 * Rafael Portillo, 79, Mexican film director, screenwriter and film editor.
 * William Roerick, 82, American actor, traffic collision.
 * Stretch, 27, American rapper, drive-by shooting, homicide.