Deaths in November 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2001.

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

 * Juan Bosch, 92, Dominican politician, historian, and first president of the Dominican Republic, respiratory distress.
 * Solange Chaput-Rolland, 82, Canadian journalist, author, and politician.
 * Tom Cheney, 67, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Olivia Hamnett, 73, English actress, brain cancer.
 * Ravindra Kaushik, 49, Indian spy, heart disease, tuberculosis.
 * JP Miller, 81, American writer, pneumonia.
 * John S. Romanides, 74, Roman theologian, Eastern Orthodox priest, and scholar.
 * Don Craig Wiley, 57, American structural biologist, drowned.

2

 * Fiorella Betti, 74, Italian actress and voice actress.
 * Mona Fandey, 45, Malaysian pop singer and convicted murderer, executed.
 * Hank Gremminger, 68, American gridironfootball player (Baylor, Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams), cardiac arrest.
 * Doug Hele, 82, British motorcycle engineer.
 * Thomas Schleicher, 28, Austrian judoka, suicide.
 * Elazar Shach, 102, Lithuanian haredi rabbi.
 * Buddy Starcher, 95, American country singer.
 * William Whitlock, 83, British politician.

3

 * Evan Adermann, 74, Australian politician.
 * Thomas Brasch, 56, German author, poet and film director, heart failure.
 * Lucio Colletti, 76, Italian Western marxist philosopher.
 * Denis Gallagher, 79, Irish politician.
 * Ernst Gombrich, 92, Austrian-British art historian.
 * Frederick Heyliger, 85, American officer with Easy Company during World War II.
 * Pradeep Kumar, 76, Indian actor.
 * Mariano Navarro Rubio, 87, Spanish politician.
 * Viveka Seldahl, 57, Swedish actress, cancer.
 * Ward Wood, 77, American actor (Mannix) and television writer.

4

 * Edward Patrick Boland, 90, American politician.
 * Peter Coyne, 84, Australian politician.
 * Bob Gillespie, 82, American baseball player.
 * Arthur Guepe, 86, American football player and coach.
 * Paul R. Screvane, 87, American politician, congestive heart failure.
 * Ng Eng Teng, 67, Singaporean sculptor, kidney disease.

5

 * Gholam Reza Azhari, 89, Prime Minister of Iran and military leader, cancer.
 * Milan D. Bish, 72, American diplomat (Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, and St. Vincent).
 * Roy Boulting, 87, English filmmaker.
 * Milton William Cooper, 58, American conspiracy theorist, radio broadcaster, and author, shot.
 * Barry Horne, 49, English animal rights activist, liver failure after hunger strike.
 * Joan Marion, 93, British stage, film and television actress.

6

 * Terry D. Clark, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Svend Engedal, 73, American soccer goalkeeper.
 * Bettie Hewes, 80, Canadian politician.
 * Don Lavoie, 50, American economist, stroke.
 * Sveto Letica, 75, Croatian admiral.
 * Gray Morrow, 67, American comic book artist (Man-Thing, El Diablo, Tarzan).
 * Peter Kenneth Newman, 73, English economist and historian of economic thought.
 * Anthony Shaffer, 75, English playwright (Sleuth) and screenwriter (The Wicker Man, Frenzy).
 * Ralph Wenzel, 83, American gridiron football player and United States Marine Corps officer.
 * Erich Zeller, 81, German figure skater and figure skating coach.

7

 * Shahed Ali, 76, Bangladeshi educationist, cultural activist and an author.
 * Bobby Bass, 65, American stunt performer.
 * Nida Blanca, 65, Filipino actress, stabbed.
 * Delia Garcés, 82, Argentine film actress.
 * Sachiko Hidari, 71, Japanese film actress, lung cancer.
 * Geoffrey Jenkins, 81, South African writer.
 * Ivan Neill, 95, British Army officer and Unionist politician.
 * François Philippe, 71, French football player.
 * Alta Schrock, 90, American biology professor and community activist.

8

 * Paolo Bertoli, 93, Italian cardinal, camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church.
 * Anno Birkin, 20, English poet and musician, road accident.
 * Valentin Eduque, 74, Filipino basketball coach and player.
 * Harold Fisch, 78, British-Israeli author, literary critic, and diplomat, tumor.
 * Albrecht Fröhlich, 85, German-British mathematician.
 * Malak Karsh, 86, Canadian photographer.
 * Peter Laslett, 85, British historian.
 * Patrick Quinlan, Irish academic and politician.
 * Radmila Savićević, 75, Serbian actress.
 * Cyril Morley Shelford, 80, Canadian author and political figure.
 * Stanislav Štrunc, 59, Czech football player.

9

 * Denis Atkinson, 75, Barbadian cricketer, captain of West Indies.
 * Nancye Wynne Bolton, 84, Australian tennis player.
 * Dorothy Dunnett, 78, Scottish historical novelist.
 * Ethel D. Jacobs, 91, American thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder, pneumonia.
 * Giovanni Leone, 93, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1963;1968) and President (1971–1978).
 * Édouard Marcelle, 92, French rower.
 * Tore Zetterholm, 86, Swedish novelist, playwright and journalist.

10

 * Michael Lucas, 2nd Baron Lucas of Chilworth, 75, British politician.
 * Theys Eluay, 64, Indonesian independence activist for West Papuan, assassinated, strangling.
 * Maxwell Hunter, 79, American aerospace engineer.
 * Ken Kesey, 66, American author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion), complications following surgery.
 * Enid McElwee, 87, New Zealand fencer.
 * Junji Nishime, 80, Japanese politician.

11

 * John R. Foley, 84, American politician (U.S. Representative for Maryland's 6th congressional district from 1959 to 1961).
 * Leon Gray, 49, American gridiron football player (Jackson State, New England Patriots, Houston Oilers, New Orleans Saints).
 * Sir Denis Spotswood, 85, British Chief of the Air Staff (1971–1974)
 * Tadashi Sugiura, 66, Japanese baseball player.
 * Emmanuel Blayo Wakhweya, 64, Ugandan politician and economist, cardiac arrest.
 * Journalists killed in the Dasht-e Qaleh Taliban ambush
 * Pierre Billaud, 31, French radio reporter and journalist.
 * Volker Handloik, 40, German freelance journalist and reporter.
 * Johanne Sutton, 34, French radio reporter and journalist.

12

 * Carrie Donovan, 73, American fashion editor (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine).
 * Albert Hague, 81, German-American composer (Redhead, How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and actor (Fame, Space Jam), cancer.
 * Paul Krasny, 66, American film and television director.
 * Ashot Melikjanyan, 49, Soviet/Armenian actor, plane crash.
 * Tony Miles, 46, English chess grandmaster, heart failure.
 * Babik Reinhardt, 57, French guitarist, heart attack.
 * Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, 74, American Saivite guru.
 * Radovan Vlajković, 77, Yugoslav politician.

13

 * Karuna Banerjee, 81, Indian actress.
 * Robert C. Eckhardt, 88, American politician (U.S. Representative for Texas's 8th congressional district from 1967 to 1981).
 * Marius Flothuis, 87, Dutch composer, musicologist and music critic.
 * Panama Francis, 82, American swing jazz drummer, stroke.
 * Sam Maple, 48, American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing, cancer.
 * Pat McReavy, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Frank Messer, 76, American sportscaster.
 * Peggy Mount, 86, English actress (Oliver!, The Princess and the Goblin).
 * Mayzod Reid, 73, New Zealand diver.
 * Cornelius Warmerdam, 86, American pole vaulter, Alzheimer's disease.

14

 * Seth Benardete, 71, American classicist and philosopher.
 * Charlotte Coleman, 33, British actress (Four Weddings and a Funeral), bronchial asthma attack.
 * Juan Carlos Lorenzo, 79, Argentine football player and coach.
 * Zigu Ornea, 71, Romanian literary critic, biographer and book publisher, failed surgery.
 * Nathan M. Pusey, 94, American university educator.
 * Herbert Tauss, 72, American artist, illustrator, and painter.
 * Hugh Verity, 83, British Royal Air Force fighter pilot during World War II.

15

 * Megan Boyd, 86, British fly tyer.
 * Edwin H. Colbert, 96, American paleontologist, researcher and author.
 * Herbert Feith, 71, Australian academic and scholar.
 * Satoru Kobayashi, 71, Japanese film director, bladder cancer.
 * Mandan Mishra, 72, Indian sanskrit scholar.
 * Jan Rabie, 81, Afrikaans writer of short stories and novels.
 * Nicolas Ruwet, 68, Linguist, literary critic and musical analyst.
 * Alberto Ullastres, 87, Spanish politician and ambassador.

16

 * Tal Abernathy, 80, American baseball player.
 * Mohammed Atef, 57, Egyptian jihadist and military chief of al-Qaeda, airstrike.
 * Rosemary Brown, 85, British composer and spiritualist.
 * Tommy Flanagan, 71, American jazz pianist, brain aneurysm.
 * Montague Jayawickrama, 90, Sri Lankan politician.
 * Clifford A. Jones, 89, American politician.
 * Red Steiner, 86, American baseball player.

17

 * Irving Crane, 88, American pool player.
 * John M. Dawson, 71, American computational physicist.
 * Jerry Jerome, 89, American jazz and big band tenor saxophonist (Glenn Miller, Red Norvo, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw).
 * Michael Karoli, 53, German guitarist, singer, violinist and cellist (Can), cancer.
 * Lendon Smith, 80, American pediatrician, author, and television personality.
 * Billy Vessels, 70, American football player.
 * Harrison A. Williams, 81, American politician.

18

 * Mel Deutsch, 86, American baseball player.
 * Roar Hauglid, 90, Norwegian art historian, antiquarian and publicist.
 * Malcolm McFee, 52, English actor, cancer.
 * Ela Peroci, 79, Slovene children's book writer.
 * Renato Righetto, 80, Brazilian Olympic basketball referee, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Harriette Tarler, 81, American film actress.

19

 * Baghdasar Arzoumanian, 85, Armenian architect and designer.
 * Roland Beamont, 81, British fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force.
 * Marylise Ben-Haim, 73, Algerian activist, novelist, poet, and painter.
 * Marcelle Ferron, 77, Canadian Québécoise artist and a member of Les Automatistes.
 * Bagrat Ulubabyan, 75, Armenian writer and historian.
 * Journalists killed in the Pul-i-Estikam bridge ambush
 * Harry Burton, 33, Australian journalist and cameraman.
 * Maria Grazia Cutuli, 39, Italian journalist.
 * Julio Fuentes, 46, Spanish war correspondent.
 * Aziz Ullah Haidari, 33, Pakistani correspondent and photo-journalist.

20

 * James Broad, 43, American heavyweight boxer.
 * Kassi Manlan, 53, Côte d'Ivoire World Health Organization aid worker, murdered.
 * Pierre Meillassoux, 73, French architect.
 * Leonard Murray, 88, American railroad executive.
 * Borko Temelkovski, 81, Macedonian politician and communist leader.

21

 * Ralph Burns, 79, American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, complications of a stroke and pneumonia.
 * Seydou Keïta, Malian photographer.
 * Gardner McKay, 69, American actor (Adventures in Paradise), artist and author, prostate cancer.
 * Vladimir Pasechnik, 64, Soviet bioweaponeer and defector, stroke.
 * Seymour Reit, 83, American children's author.
 * Salahuddin of Selangor, 77, Malaysian king (11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and 8th Sultan of Selangor).

22

 * Mary Kay Ash, 83, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.
 * Theo Barker, 78, British social and economic historian.
 * Norman Granz, 83, American jazz music impresario and record producer.
 * Ronald Cuthbert Hay, 85, British Royal Marine fighter ace.
 * George S. N. Luckyj, 82, Ukrainian writer and historian.
 * Luis Santaló, 90, Spanish mathematician.

23

 * Vendramino Bariviera, 64, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Bo Belinsky, 64, American baseball player, heart attack.
 * Kiyoshi Inoue, 87, Japanese historian, author, and academic.
 * Krishnananda, 79, Indian Hindu philosopher and theologian.
 * David Charles McClintock, 88, English botanist, horticulturist and author.
 * Medhat Youssef Mohamed, 74, Egyptian basketball player.
 * Kiril Semov, 71, Bulgarian basketball player.
 * O. C. Smith, 69, American singer ("Little Green Apples").
 * Gerhard Stoltenberg, 73, German politician and minister.
 * Mary Whitehouse, 91, British campaigner against permissiveness.

24

 * Tommy Gallacher, 79, Scottish football player.
 * Rachel Gurney, 81, British actress (Upstairs, Downstairs).
 * Princess Sophie of Hanover, 87, European royalty, sister of Prince Philip.
 * Robert Helps, 73, American concert pianist and composer, cancer.
 * Jacob Landau, 83, American artist.
 * Donald McPherson, 56, Canadian Olympic figure skater, complications from diabetes.
 * Francis Daniels Moore, 88, American surgeon.
 * Melanie Thornton, 34, American singer, plane crash.
 * William Woodfield, 73, American photographer, and television screenwriter and producer, heart failure.

25

 * Alan Bray, 53, British historian and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications.
 * Harry Devlin, 83, American artist, painter and magazine cartoonist (Collier's).
 * David Gascoyne, 85, English poet (Surrealist movement).
 * Douglas Morton, 85, Canadian soldier, politician, and judge.
 * Margaret Byrd Rawson, 102, American educator, researcher and writer.
 * Johnny Micheal Spann, 32, American operations officer in the C.I.A., killed in action.
 * Erna Steuri, 84, Swiss Olympic alpine skier.

26

 * Sam Claphan, 45, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
 * Mathias Clemens, 86, Luxembourgish road bicycle racer.
 * Regine Hildebrandt, 60, German biologist and politician (Social Democratic Party of Germany), breast cancer.
 * Lajos Kada, 77, Hungarian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Joe Modise, 72, South African political activist, cancer.
 * Edel Randem, 91, Norwegian Olympic figure skater.
 * Ulf Strömberg, Swedish cameraman, rifle shots.
 * Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, 58, Finnish-Sami writer, musician, and artist.
 * Grete von Zieritz, 102, Austrian-German composer and pianist.

27

 * Ray Frankowski, 82, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Dons).
 * Gordon Freeth, 87, Australian politician (House of Representatives) and diplomat (Japan, United Kingdom).
 * Paul Hume, 85, American music critic and author.
 * Harry Sternberg, 97, American painter and printmaker.
 * Joe Hin Tjio, 82, American cytogeneticist.
 * Jane Welsh, 96, British actress.

28

 * Louis Fisher, 88, American politician (Socialist Labor Party of America).
 * Gunnar Hellström, 72, Swedish actor and director.
 * Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy, 91, Soviet and Ukrainian aerospace engineer.
 * Norman Lumsden, 95, British opera singer and actor, shingles infection.
 * Kal Mann, 84, American lyricist ("Teddy Bear", "Butterfly", "Let's Twist Again").
 * William Reid, 79, Scottish bomber pilot and war hero (Victoria Cross) during World War II.
 * Igor Stechkin, 79, Russian small arms designer.

29

 * Viktor Astafyev, 77, Soviet and Russian writer.
 * Usman Awang, 72, Malaysian poet, playwright, and novelist, heart attack.
 * Budd Boetticher, 85, American film director (seven westerns starring Randolph Scott).
 * Elta Cartwright, 93, American Olympic sprinter.
 * Mic Christopher, 32, Irish singer-songwriter, accidental fall.
 * Carol Goodner, 97, American actress.
 * George Harrison, 58, British singer-songwriter and musician (The Beatles), lung cancer.
 * John Knowles, 75, American author, A Separate Peace.
 * Marcelino López, 58, Cuban-American baseball player.
 * John Mitchum, 82, American character actor (Dirty Harry series, Telefon, F Troop), stroke.
 * Helvio Soto Soto, 71, Chilean filmmaker.
 * Erwin Thaler, 71, Austrian Olympic bobsledder (silver medal for the four-man bobsled: 1964 Winter Olympics, 1968 Winter Olympics).

30

 * Kikutaro Baba, 96, Japanese malacologist.
 * Annibale Brasola, 76, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Francisco Calvet, 80, Spanish football player.
 * Lawrence Coughlin, 72, American lawyer and politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district, 1969–1993), cancer.
 * Sergio Ferriani, 76, Italian basketball player.
 * Ernst Hufschmid, 88, Swiss footballer.
 * Ademar Miranda Júnior, 60, Brazilian football player.
 * Boris Kuzmin, 60, Soviet rower.
 * František Majdloch, 72, Czechoslovak boxer.
 * Walt Zirinsky, 81, American football player.