Deaths in November 1997

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1997.

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

 * Wolfgang Abel, 92, Austrian anthropologist and Nazi racial biologist.
 * Jon-Henri Damski, 60, American essayist, columnist, poet, and gay rights activist, cancer.
 * Serge Hutin, 70, French author of books on esoterica and the occult.
 * Gérard Légaré, 89, Canadian politician.
 * Roger Marche, 73, French football player.
 * Bruno Michaud, 62, Swiss footballer and manager.
 * Victor Mills, 100, American chemical engineer for the Procter & Gamble company.
 * Cullen Rogers, 76, American gridiron football player.

2

 * Ken Cooper, 74, American football player and coach.
 * Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, 71, French-Swiss banker, emphysema.
 * Ayya Khema, 74, German-American Buddhist teacher, breast cancer.
 * Roy McMillan, 68, American baseball player, coach and manager.
 * Helen Stevenson Meyner, 68, American politician.
 * Maulana Habibullah Mukhtar, 53, Pakistani Islamic scholar and writer.
 * Shōshin Nagamine, 90, Japanese karate Master, mayor and author.
 * Gerhard Neumann, 80, German-American aviation engineer, leukemia.
 * Tony Novis, 91, English rugby football player.
 * Harold Plenderleith, 99, Scottish art conservator and archaeologist.
 * Bernhard Plettner, 82, German engineer and manager.
 * Carson Smith, 66, American jazz double-bassist.
 * G. Harry Stine, 69, American writer and science fiction author, stroke.

3

 * Wally Bruner, 66, American journalist and television host, liver cancer.
 * Attilio Conton, 95, Italian long-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Antoine Cuissard, 73, French football player and manager.
 * Vladimir Guliayev, 73, Soviet actor of theater and cinema.
 * Ashot Navasardyan, 47, Armenian politician and military commander, heart attack.
 * Satyapramoda Tirtha, Indian guru and philosopher.

4

 * Noboru Aota, 72, Japanese baseball player, lung cancer.
 * George Chambers, 69, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
 * René-Jean Clot, 84, French painter and novelist.
 * Wilfred Coutts, 89, Australian politician.
 * Johnny Dickshot, 87, American baseball player.
 * Ranesh Das Gupta, 85, Bangladeshi writer, journalist and politician.
 * Richard Hooker, 73, American surgeon and writer, leukemia.

5

 * James Robert Baker, 50, American novelist and screenwriter, suicide.
 * Yemane Baria, 48, Eritrean singer-songwriter.
 * Isaiah Berlin, 88, British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian.
 * Louise Campbell, 86, American actress.
 * Camilla Cederna, 86, Italian writer and editor, cancer.
 * Peter Jackson, 33, Australian rugby league footballer, drug overdose.
 * George Philip Bradley Roberts, 91, British Army officer.
 * William C. Watson, 59, American actor.

6

 * Luigi Cantone, 80, Italian fencer and Olympic champion.
 * Norbert Carbonnaux, 79, French film director and screenwriter.
 * Ray Daniel, 69, Welsh football player and manager.
 * Jahangir Forouhar, 81, Iranian actor.
 * Leon Forrest, 60, American novelist.
 * Annie Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, 82, British politician and peer, cerebrovascular disease, bronchopneumonia.
 * Anne Stine Ingstad, 79, Norwegian archaeologist.
 * Lillian Rogers Parks, 100, American housemaid and seamstress in the White House.
 * Josef Pieper, 93, German Catholic philosopher.
 * Epic Soundtracks, 38, British musician, drug overdose.
 * Jane Thurgood-Dove, 34, Australian murder victim, shot.

7

 * Lloyd Hamilton Donnell, 102, American mechanical engineer.
 * Clyde Gilmour, 85, Canadian broadcaster and journalist
 * Margaret Harshaw, 88, American opera singer and voice teacher.
 * Bae Hee-han, 90, Korean master carpenter
 * Rafael Hernández, 69, Spanish film actor.
 * Mitchell P. Kobelinski, 69, American banker and attorney.
 * Paul Ricard, 88, French industrialist and creator of Pernod Ricard.

8

 * Henry Bland, 87, Australian public servant.
 * Lam Ching-ying, 44, Hong Kong stuntman and actor, liver cancer.
 * Prosper Depredomme, 79, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, 102, Iranian author.
 * Robert John Kerr, Northern Irish loyalist, vapour explosion.
 * Fedir Medvid, 54, Ukrainian and Soviet football player.
 * Michael Ward, 88, English actor.

9

 * Paul Haghedooren, 38, Belgian cyclist, heart attack.
 * Carl Gustav Hempel, 92, German writer and philosopher, pneumonia.
 * Helenio Herrera, 87, French-Argentine football player and manager.
 * Leonard Matthews, 83, British publisher and editor.
 * Joe Roccisano, 58, American jazz saxophonist and arranger.
 * Moody Sarno, 83, American football player and coach.
 * Cecil Smith, 89, Canadian figure skater.
 * Wu Xiuquan, 89, Chinese communist revolutionary, military officer, and diplomat.

10

 * Lloyd Cardwell, 84, American football player and coach.
 * Leon W. Johnson, 93, United States Air Force general, respiratory infection.
 * Ave Ninchi, 82, Italian actress.
 * Tommy Tedesco, 67, American guitarist and studio musician, lung cancer.
 * Annie Dodge Wauneka, 87, American Navajo Nation activist.

11

 * William Alland, 81, American film producer (Creature from the Black Lagoon, It Came from Outer Space) and actor (Citizen Kane), complications from heart disease.
 * Max Bangerter, 86, Swiss gymnast and Olympian.
 * Shake Keane, 70, Vincentian jazz musician and poet, stomach cancer.
 * Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka, 67, Malagasy writer, poet and politician.
 * Rod Milburn, 47, American athlete, work-related accident.
 * Gintaras Ramonas, 35, Lithuanian politician.
 * Menahem Max Schiffer, 86, German-American mathematician.

12

 * Luke Brown, 62, American professional wrestler known as Luke "Big Boy" Brown, stroke.
 * Alberto Cavallone, 59, Italian film director and screenwriter.
 * Tom Chang, 31, Taiwanese singer, songwriter, and music producer.
 * James Laughlin, 83, American poet and literary book publisher, complications following a stroke.
 * William Matthews, 55, American poet and essayist.
 * Rainer Ptacek, 46, American guitarist and singer-songwriter, brain tumor.
 * Carola Standertskjöld, 56, Finnish jazz and pop singer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Carlos Surinach, 82, Spanish-American composer.
 * Sándor Szabó, 82, Hungarian actor.
 * Maria von Maltzan, 88, German noblewoman and resistance member during World War II.
 * Howard Weiss, 80, American gridiron football player.

13

 * André Boucourechliev, 72, Bulgarian-French composer.
 * Alexandru Bârlădeanu, 86, Romanian Marxian economist.
 * Bill Conroy, 82, American baseball player.
 * James Couttet, 76, French alpine skier and ski jumper and Olympian.
 * Dietrich Lohmann, 54, German cinematographer, leukemia.
 * Onzy Matthews, 67, American jazz musician and actor, heart failure.
 * P. Ravindran, 74, Indian politician.
 * Larry Shinoda, 67, American automotive designer, kidney failure.
 * Moe Thacker, 63, American baseball player.

14

 * Knud Andersen, 75, Danish cyclist and Olympian.
 * Eddie Arcaro, 81, American jockey, liver cancer.
 * Alba de Céspedes, 86, Cuban-Italian writer.
 * Joel Lee Brenner, 85, American mathematician.
 * Stefan Lorant, 96, Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author.
 * Jack Pickersgill, 92, Canadian civil servant and politician.
 * Kiyoshi Saitō, 90, Japanese printmaker.
 * N. V. N. Somu, 60, Indian politician, helicopter crash.

15

 * Aaron Brown, 53, American football player, traffic accident.
 * Saul Chaplin, 85, American composer and musical director, complication from a fall.
 * Alf Day, 90, Welsh professional footballer.
 * Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh, 47, Dutch actor, musician, composer, and television presenter, heart attack.
 * Warren Douglas, 86, American actor and screenwriter, heart failure.
 * Jim Kepner, 74, American journalist, author, archivist and gay rights activist.
 * Elizza La Porta, 95, Romanian-American film actress.
 * Douglas MacArthur II, 88, American diplomat.
 * Vladimir Vengerov, 77, Soviet and Russian film director.
 * Nándor Wagner, 75, Hungarian artist and sculptor.

16

 * Albert L. Ireland, 79, United States Marine Corps sergeant and recipient of nine purple hearts.
 * José Behra, 73, French racing driver and rally driver.
 * Captain Mikey, 62, American disc jockey and voice-over actor, leukemia.
 * Brigitte Groh, 31, German figure skater.
 * Georges Marchais, 77, French politician, heart attack.
 * Russ Meyer, 74, American baseball player.
 * Padmapriya, Indian actress.
 * George O. Petrie, 85, American radio and television actor, lymphoma.
 * Aaron John Sharp, 93, American botanist and bryologist.
 * Roy Sheffield, 90, English cricket player.
 * Robert N. Thompson, 83, Canadian politician and chiropractor.

17

 * Richard Sumner Cowan, 76, American botanist, brain trauma.
 * Gert Günther Hoffmann, 68, German actor and director.
 * David Ignatow, 83, American poet.
 * Wilfred Josephs, 70, English composer.
 * Edwin Mansfield, 67, American academic, cancer.
 * Orlando Ribeiro, 86, Portuguese geographer and historian.
 * John Wimber, 63, American Christian leader, mystic and musician, brain hemorrhage.
 * Milič Čapek, 88, Czech–American philosopher.

18

 * John Bird, 71, British politician.
 * Jean Conan Doyle, 84, British Royal Air Force officer, Parkinson's disease.
 * Unichi Hiratsuka, 102, Japanese printmaker.
 * Fredrik Horn, 81, Norwegian football player.
 * Stanislav Rapotec, 86, Slovene-Australian artist.
 * Robert Vandeputte, 89, Belgian economist, civil servant, and politician.
 * Joyce Wethered, 96, British golfer.

19

 * Mary Bernheim, 95, British biochemist.
 * Charles de Graft Dickson, 84, Ghanaian educationist and a politician.
 * Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler, 89, American pharmacist.
 * Yosef Rom, 65, Israeli engineer and politician.
 * Alfred Roome, 88, English film editor.
 * Kjell Schou-Andreassen, 57, Norwegian footballer and manager, leukemia.

20

 * Asbjørn Aavik, 94, Norwegian lutheran missionary and writer.
 * Larry Ferrari, 65, American organist, leukemia.
 * Dick Littlefield, 71, American baseball player.
 * Robert Palmer, 52, American writer, musician and blues producer, liver disease.

21

 * Bill Boyd, 91, American poker player.
 * Ismail Fahmi, 75, Egyptian diplomat and politician.
 * Harold Geneen, 87, American businessman.
 * Julian Jaynes, 77, American psychologist.
 * Grayson L. Kirk, 94, American political scientist.
 * Jack Purvis, 60, English actor (Star Wars, Time Bandits, Brazil).
 * Robert Simpson, 76, English composer.

22

 * Roger Brown, 55, American artist and painter.
 * Michael Hutchence, 37, Australian musician (INXS), suicide by hanging.
 * Joanna Moore, 63, American film and television actress, lung cancer.
 * Kalki Sadasivam, 95, Indian freedom fighter, singer, journalist and film producer.

23

 * Hulda Crooks, 101, American mountaineer.
 * Henry Wilson, Baron Wilson of Langside, 81, Scottish lawyer and politician.
 * Robert Lewis, 88, American actor, director and author, heart failure.
 * Irene E. Ryan, 88, American geologist, aviator and legislator.
 * Ivan Ðurić, 50, Serbian writer, professor, historian and politician, suicide.

24

 * Barbara, French singer, respiratory problems.
 * Jorge Mas Canosa, 58, Cuban-American immigrant and anti-Castro lobbyist, lung cancer.
 * Maurits Gysseling, 78, Belgian linguist.
 * Bill Lawrie, 63, Australian racing cyclist.
 * John Sopinka, 64, Ukrainian-Canadian lawyer and judge.
 * Ira Wolfert, 89, American Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and writer.

25

 * Hastings Banda, 99, President of Malawi (1966–1994).
 * Cathee Dahmen, 52, American model, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
 * James H. Ellis, 73, British engineer and cryptographer.
 * Eustace Fannin, 82, South African tennis player.
 * Charles Hallahan, 54, American actor (The Thing, Hunter, Dante's Peak), heart attack.
 * Viorel Mateianu, 59, Romanian football player and coach.
 * Stephen L.R. McNichols, 83, American politician, heart failure.
 * Elmore Morgenthaler, 75, American basketball player, pneumonia.
 * M. Prabhakar Reddy, Indian film actor.
 * Fenton Robinson, 62, American blues singer, brain cancer.
 * Jon Silkin, 66, British poet.

26

 * Rudolf Buhse, 92, German Wehrmacht officer and Bundeswehr general.
 * Erna Fentsch, 88, German actress and screenwriter.
 * Marguerite Henry, 95, American children's author.
 * Werner Höfer, 84, German journalist.

27

 * David D Barron, 33, Mexican gang member, friendly fire.
 * Jules Henriet, 79, Belgian football player.
 * Eduardo Kingman, 84, Ecuadorian artist.
 * Malcolm Knowles, 84, American adult educator, stroke.
 * Eric Laithwaite, 76, British electrical engineer.
 * Buck Leonard, 90, American baseball player.
 * Ronald Martland, 90, Canadian lawyer and judge.
 * Gull-Maj Norin, 84, Danish actress.
 * Yves Prévost, 89, Canadian politician.
 * Branko Ružić, 78, Croatian painter and sculptor.
 * Merike Talve, 40, Canadian curator, artist and writer, breast cancer.

28

 * Qemal Butka, Albanian architect, painter and politician.
 * Wallace H. Clark, Jr., American dermatologist and pathologist, ruptured aneurysm.
 * Tom Evenson, 87, English long-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Georges Marchal, 77, French actor.
 * Ken Mitsuda, 95, Japanese film actor, stroke.
 * William "Smitty" Smith, 53, Canadian keyboardist and session musician.

29

 * Ernest Johnson, 85, British track cyclist and Olympian.
 * Isabelle M. Kelley, 80, American social worker.
 * Abdul Latif, 46, Indian criminal, shot.
 * Ada Leonard, 82, American bandleader.
 * Heikki Savolainen, 90, Finnish artistic gymnast.
 * George Sodeinde Sowemimo, 77, Nigerian jurist and Chief Justice.
 * Coleman Young, 79, American politician, emphysema.

30

 * Kathy Acker, 50, American experimental novelist, playwright and essayist, cancer.
 * Glyn Dearman, 57, English actor, domestic accident.
 * Mary Fergusson, 83, British civil engineer.
 * Kay Green, 70, Welsh cricket player.
 * Karl Kowanz, 71, Austrian football player and coach.
 * Sami Al Lenqawi, 25, Kuwaiti football player.
 * Alfred Næss, 70, Norwegian playwright and songwriter.
 * Leo Edward O'Neil, 69, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, multiple myeloma.
 * Françoise Prévost, 67, French actress, journalist and author, breast cancer.
 * Shamo Quaye, 26, Ghanaian Football player.
 * Božena Srncová, 72, Czech gymnast and Olympian.
 * Bernardo Élis, 82, Brazilian lawyer, professor, poet, and writer.