Deaths in November 2002

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2002.

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

 * Ekrem Akurgal, 91, Turkish archaeologist.
 * Yisrael Amir, 99, Israeli Air Force commander.
 * Edward Brooke, 85, Canadian Olympic fencer (1952 Summer Olympics: men's foil, men's épée).
 * Amadou Cissé Dia, 87, Senegalese politician and playwright.
 * Käte Jaenicke, 79, German theater and film actress.
 * Benjamin Keen, 89, American historian specialising in the history of colonial Latin America.
 * Lester Morgan, 26, Costa Rican professional football goalkeeper, suicide.
 * Keith A. Wester, 62, American sound engineer (The Rock, Air Force One, Armageddon).

2

 * Brian Behan, 75, Irish writer and playwright, younger brother of Brendan Behan.
 * Robert Haslam, Baron Haslam, 79, British industrialist and life peer.
 * Lo Lieh, 63, Hong Kong actor, heart attack.
 * Felicity Peake, 89, British Director of the Women's Royal Air Force.
 * Tonio Selwart, 106, Bavarian actor and Broadway performer.
 * Charles Sheffield, 67, English-born American science fiction author and physicist.

3

 * Ulrika Babiaková, 26, Slovak astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, accident.
 * Lonnie Donegan, 71, British skiffle musician ("Rock Island Line", "John Henry"), heart attack.
 * John Habakkuk, 87, British economic historian.
 * Jonathan Harris, 87, American actor (Lost in Space, A Bug's Life, The Third Man), heart failure.
 * William M. Packard, 69, American poet and author.

4

 * Raoul Diagne, 91, French football player.
 * Antonio Margheriti, 72, Italian filmmaker, heart attack.
 * Juan Araújo Pino, 81, Spanish football player.
 * Malcolm Ross, 91, Canadian literary critic, pneumonia.
 * Jerry Sohl, 88, American television scriptwriter and science fiction author.
 * Ross Wilson, 83, Canadian ice hockey trainer (Detroit Red Wings).

5

 * Vinnette Justine Carroll, 80, American Broadway director (Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, Your Arms Too Short to Box with God).
 * Ansley J. Coale, 84, American demographer.
 * Billy Guy, 66, American singer.
 * Bunjaku Han, 54, Taiwanese actress, complications of cancer.
 * Joaquín Navarro Perona, 81, Spanish football player.
 * Arthur Winfree, 60, American theoretical biologist, known for his studies of biological oscillations.

6

 * Alfonso Martínez Domínguez, 80, Mexican governor.
 * Folke Frölén, 94, Swedish Olympic equestrian (equestrian at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * Michel Majerus, 35, Luxembourgish artist, killed aboard Luxair Flight 9642.
 * Sid Sackson, 82, American board game designer.
 * Gianluca Signorini, 42, Italian footballer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Joginder Singh, 62, Indian hockey player and Olympic champion.
 * Stefan Wagner, 89, Austrian football player.

7

 * Rudolf Augstein, 79, German journalist and publisher, founder of Der Spiegel, pneumonia.
 * Charles Hambro, Baron Hambro, 72, British merchant banker and political fundraiser.
 * Dilys Hamlett, 74, British actress.
 * James Grier Miller, 86, American biologist, a pioneer of systems science.
 * Peg Phillips, 84, American actress (Northern Exposure), pulmonary disease.
 * Tino Sabbadini, 74, French road bicycle racer.
 * Pedro Juan Soto, 74, Puerto Rican writer, killed by police officers.

8

 * Tom Barrington, 58, American gridiron football player (Ohio State, Washington Redskins, New Orleans Saints).
 * Jon Elia, 70, Pakistani Marxist.
 * Querube Makalintal, 91, Filipino Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
 * Rudolf Noelte, 81, German film director, theater director and opera director.
 * Zoé Oldenbourg, 86, Russian-born French historian and novelist.
 * Christopher Parsons, 70, English wildlife film-maker and producer.
 * Ke Zhao, 92, Chinese mathematician.

9

 * Adrian Aeschbacher, 90, Swiss classical pianist.
 * Bill Baxter, 78, Scottish footballer.
 * Jan Hulsker, 95, Dutch art historian.
 * Richard Jeffrey, 76, American philosopher, logician, and probability theorist, lung cancer.
 * Cliff Patton, 79, American professional football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Cardinals).
 * Merlin Santana, 26, American actor (The Steve Harvey Show, Getting By, The Cosby Show), shot.
 * William Schutz, 76, American psychologist.
 * Eusebio Tejera, 80, Uruguyan footballer.

10

 * Michel Boisrond, 81, French film director and screenwriter, known for directing Brigitte Bardot in Naughty Girl.
 * Anne-Marie Brunius, 86, Swedish film actress.
 * Franco Fantasia, 78, Italian actor.
 * Johnny Griffith, 66, American musician, heart attack.
 * Émile Ollivier, 62, Haitian-Canadian writer.
 * Ken Raffensberger, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds/Redlegs).
 * Yevgeni Skomorokhov, 57, Russian football coach and player.
 * Gert Westphal, 82, German-Swiss actor, recitator and director, cancer.

11

 * Frances Ames, 82, South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist, leukemia.
 * Sir Michael Clapham, 90, British industrialist.
 * Zoe Ducós, 74, Argentine actress.
 * Pietro Giudici, 81, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Esther Raziel-Naor, 90, Israeli Zionist, Irgun leader and politician.
 * Marcia Van Dyke, 80, American violinist and actress.
 * Yoo Youngkuk, 86, Korean abstract artist.

12

 * William Wallace Barron, 90, American politician (26th governor of West Virginia), indicted and pleaded guilty to jury tampering.
 * Glenn Dobbs, 82, American gridiron football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Los Angeles Dons) and college football coach (University of Tulsa).
 * Lester Holtzman, 89, America jurist and politician.
 * Johannes Kerkorrel, 42, South African singer-songwriter, journalist and playwright, suicide by hanging.
 * Nicholas Mukomberanwa, 62, Zimbabwean sculptor.

13

 * Frederick Valentine Atkinson, 86, British mathematician (Atkinson's theorem, Atkinson–Wilcox theorem).
 * Bill Berry, 72, American jazz trumpeter (Duke Ellington Orchestra, Bill Berry and the L.A. Band).
 * Alexandru Dragomir, 86, Romanian philosopher.
 * Roland Hanna, 70, American jazz pianist, composer, and teacher, viral infection.
 * Kaloji Narayana Rao, 88, Indian poet, freedom fighter, and political activist.
 * Siri Rom, 84, 1918-2002 Norwegian actress.
 * Irv Rubin, 57, Canadian chairman of the Jewish Defence League, fall.
 * Juan Alberto Schiaffino, 77, Italian-Uruguayan football player.
 * Rishikesh Shaha, 77, Nepalese writer, politician and human rights activist.
 * Michael Stewart, 57, American musician, songwriter, and producer, suicide.

14

 * Eddie Bracken, 87, American actor (Hail the Conquering Hero, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, National Lampoon's Vacation), surgical complications.
 * René Meléndez Brito, 73, Chilean football player, cancer.
 * Walter Crocker, 100, Australian diplomat, writer and war veteran.
 * James R. Hendrix, 77, US Army sergeant and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, cancer.
 * Gourish Kaikini, 90, Indian litterateur, teacher and columnist.
 * Elena Nikolaidi, 93, Greek-American opera singer and teacher.
 * Gedong Bagus Oka, 81, Indonesian Hindu reformer and philosopher.
 * Mir Qazi, 38, Pakistani convicted criminal, executed by lethal injection.
 * Dale Emerson Saffels, 81, American lawyer, legislator, and District Judge.
 * Manohar Singh, 64, Indian film and theatre actor and director, lung cancer.

15

 * W. J. Burley, 88, British crime writer.
 * André Clot, 93, French historian and essayist.
 * Bert Granet, 92, American writer and television producer.
 * Myra Hindley, 60, British serial killer, cardiovascular disease.
 * Sohn Kee-chung, 90, Korean Olympic athlete and long-distance runner, pneumonia.
 * Terry Kendall, 55, New Zealand golfer, car fire.
 * Mary Meigs, 85, American painter and writer.
 * John Joseph Stewart, 79, New Zealand rugby coach, cancer.

16

 * Ramli Ahmad, 46, Malaysian Olympic sprinter (1976 Summer Olympics: men's 100 metres, men's 200 metres), stroke.
 * George Barrie, 90, American businessman (owner and CEO of Fabergé Inc.) and songwriter (two-time nominee for Academy Award for Best Original Song).
 * Steve Durbano, 50, Canadian ice hockey player (Pittsburgh Penguins, St. Louis Blues), lung cancer.
 * Tom Farris, 82, American professional football player (University of Wisconsin, Chicago Bears, Chicago Rockets).
 * George Gardiner, 67, British politician.
 * Alfred Lewis Levitt, 86, American film and television screenwriter, heart failure.
 * Sima Milovanov, 79, Serbian football player and manager.
 * Frank Smithies, 90, British mathematician.

17

 * Abba Eban, 88, Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, ambassador to the U.S., ambassador to the U.N.
 * Frank McCarthy, 78, American artist and painter, lung cancer.
 * Marvin Mirisch, 84, American film producer, cancer.
 * Akshaya Mohanty, 65, Indian singer, musician and writer.
 * Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, 72, Tibetan teacher of Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism.

18

 * Bolot Beishenaliev, 65, Soviet cinematographer, film and theater actor.
 * Angus Cameron, 93, American book editor and publisher, known for being blacklisted during McCarthy era.
 * James Coburn, 74, American actor (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Affliction), Oscar winner (1999), heart attack.
 * Francesco De Martino, 95, Italian jurist and politician, considered to be the conscience of the Italian Socialist Party.
 * Kim Gallagher, 38, American middle-distance runner, stroke.
 * Edith Hirsch Luchins, 80, Polish-American mathematician.
 * Pasquale Vivolo, 74, Italian footballer.
 * Juliusz Wyrzykowski, 56, Polish movie and stage actor.
 * Zaldy Zshornack, 64, Filipino actor.

19

 * Vito Ciancimino, 78, Italian politician (mayor of Palermo, Sicily) and Mafia member, heart attack.
 * George Fullerton, 79, South African cricketer.
 * K. M. George, 88, Indian writer and educator.
 * Max Reinhardt, 86, British publisher.
 * Jean-Claude Renard, 80, French poet.
 * André Roch, 96, Swiss mountaineer, avalanche researcher, and author.
 * Harry Watson, 79, Canadian professional hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks).

20

 * Kakhi Asatiani, 55, Georgian football player and manager, shot.
 * Billy Goelz, 84, American professional wrestler, booker and trainer.
 * George Guest, 78, British organist and choirmaster.
 * Niddy Impekoven, 98, German dancer and actress.
 * Webster Lewis, 59, American jazz and disco composer, arranger and keyboardist, pneumonia and diabetes.
 * Margita White, 65, American White House press official under Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford.

21

 * Robert Brentano, 76, American historian specializing in medieval England and Italy.
 * Hadda Brooks, 86, American jazz singer, pianist and composer, known as the "Queen of the Boogie".
 * Amílcar de Castro, 82, Brazilian sculptor, known for works in iron.
 * Arturo Guzmán Decena, 26, Mexican drug trafficker and founder of criminal syndicate Los Zetas, shot.
 * George Emslie, Baron Emslie, 82, Scottish judge and life peer.
 * Buddy Kaye, 84, American songwriter, producer, and author.
 * Norihito, Prince Takamado, 47, Japanese prince, heart attack.

22

 * Parley Baer, 88, American radio, television and film actor (The Andy Griffith Show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Addams Family), stroke.
 * Joan Barclay, 88, American actress.
 * Rafał Gan-Ganowicz, 70, Polish mercenary, journalist, and social activist, lung cancer.
 * Adele Jergens, 84, American actress, pneumonia.
 * Arne Mellnäs, 69, Swedish composer.
 * C. S. Nayudu, 88, Indian cricket player.
 * Azra Quraishi, 57, Pakistani botanist.
 * Noël Regney, 80, French World War II veteran and songwriter, pick disease.
 * Infanta Beatriz of Spain, 93, Spanish noblewoman and daughter of King Alfonso XIII.
 * Tsuneharu Sugiyama, 62, Japanese Olympic wrestler, heart failure.

23

 * Erna Bogen-Bogáti, 95, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1928 women's foil, 1932 bronze medal women's foil, 1936 women's foil).
 * Boudewijn Büch, 53, Dutch writer, poet and television presenter, cardiac arrest.
 * Maritie Carpentier, 79, French television show producer.
 * Jackie Gayle, 76, American standup comedian and actor.
 * Roberto Matta, 91 Chilean artist.
 * Richard Mohr, 83, American producer of classical and operatic music recordings.
 * Billy Travis, 41, American professional wrestler, heart attack.

24

 * Branko Dangubić, 80, Yugoslavian and Serbian Olympic javelin thrower (men's javelin throw at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * Noel Davis, 75, English film and television actor and casting director (Merlin, Reds), pulmonary emphysema.
 * Mikhail Devyatayev, 85, Soviet fighter pilot who escaped from a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
 * Harriet Doerr, 92, American author.
 * Lewis Samuel Feuer, 89, American sociologist, philosopher, professor and author.
 * Richard Lazarus, 80, American psychologist.
 * Philip B. Meggs, 60, American graphic designer, leukemia.
 * John Rawls, 81, American moral and political philosopher.
 * John Tosi, 88, American football player.

25

 * Ed Bliss, 90, American broadcast journalist and news editor.
 * Charles E. Chamberlain, 85, American politician (U.S. Representative for Michigan's 6th congressional district), heart failure.
 * Gordon Davidson, 87, Australian politician (member of Australian Senate representing South Australia).
 * Woodrow W. Jones, 88, American politician and judge.
 * John Drummond, 8th Earl of Perth, 95, British politician and aristocrat.
 * Karel Reisz, 76, British film director (The French Lieutenant's Woman, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Gambler).
 * Eugene V. Rostow, 89, American legal scholar and public servant.
 * Meta Vannas, 78, Estonian Soviet politician.

26

 * Frank Allaun, 89, British politician (member of Parliament for Salford East from 1955 to 1983).
 * Ruzha Delcheva, 87, Bulgarian actress.
 * Ralph Engelstad, 72, American casino executive (Imperial Palace).
 * Erika Helmke, 96, German stage and film actress.
 * Isabel McLaughlin, 99, Canadian painter and philanthropist.
 * Polo Montañez, 47, Cuban singer and songwriter, traffic collision.
 * Verne Winchell, 87, American business executive, president and CEO of Denny's, heart attack.

27

 * Billie Bird, 94, American actress (Sixteen Candles, Ernest Saves Christmas, Home Alone, Dennis the Menace), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Stanley Black, 89, English bandleader, composer, conductor and pianist.
 * Laurence J. Burton, 76, American politician (U.S. Representative for Utah's 1st congressional district).
 * George Christian, 75, American journalist, White House press secretary for President Lyndon B. Johnson.
 * Bob deLauer, 82, American gridiron football player (USC, Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams).
 * Larry Duran, 77, American actor and stuntman.
 * Edwin L. Mechem, 90, American politician.
 * Yeruham Meshel, 90, Israeli union leader and politician.
 * Wolfgang Preiss, 92, German theatre, film and television actor.
 * Robert W. Straub, 82, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Shivmangal Singh Suman, 87, Indian poet, heart attack.

28

 * Melih Cevdet Anday, 87, Turkish author.
 * Lennaert Nijgh, 57, Dutch lyricist, gastrointestinal bleeding.
 * Billy Pearson, American jockey, film actor, and an art dealer.
 * Juan Carlos Díaz Quincoces, 69, Spanish football player.

29

 * Damien Covington, 29, American gridiron football player (Buffalo Bills), killed in an attempted robbery.
 * Daniel Gélin, 81, French film and television actor, kidney failure.
 * Saburo Ienaga, 89, Japanese historian.
 * John Justin, 85, British stage and film actor.
 * David Weiss, 93, American novelist (Naked Came I).

30

 * Alan Ashman, 74, English footballer player.
 * Charles E. Dibble, 93, American academic, anthropologist, linguist, and scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.
 * Kozaburo Hirai, 92, Japanese composer and professor of music.
 * Oddrunn Pettersen, 65, Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
 * Bill Sparks, 80, British Royal Marine commando during World War II.
 * Mr. Wrestling, 68, professional wrestler known as Mr. Wrestling, heart attack.