Deaths in November 2007

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2007.

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

 * Sonny Bupp, 79, American child actor (Our Gang, Citizen Kane), last surviving credited cast member of Citizen Kane.
 * Troy Lee James, 83, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1967–2000).
 * Edith Motridge, 94, American Olympic backstroke swimmer.
 * S. Ali Raza, 85, Indian Bollywood screenwriter, heart failure.
 * Paul Tibbets, 92, American pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, heart failure.
 * Paul Woods, 57, British rugby union and rugby league player.

2

 * Oreste Benzi, 82, Italian Roman Catholic priest.
 * Henry Cele, 58, South African actor (Shaka Zulu) and soccer player.
 * Charmaine Dragun, 29, Australian television news presenter, apparent suicide by jumping.
 * The Fabulous Moolah, 84, American professional wrestler.
 * Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard, 91, British soldier and courtier, Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps (1972–1981).
 * Don Freeland, 82, American racecar driver (Indianapolis 500).
 * Witold "Vitek" Kiełtyka, 23, Polish drummer (Decapitated), injuries from bus crash.
 * Igor Moiseyev, 101, Russian choreographer, heart failure.
 * Jean Pierre Reguerraz, 68, Argentine actor.
 * Reay Tannahill, 77, British food historian and novelist.
 * S.P. Thamilselvan, 40, Sri Lankan leader of Tamil Tigers, air strike.
 * John Petersen, 65, Drummer for The Beau Brummels and Harpers Bizarre, Heart Attack.

3

 * Peter Andren, 61, Australian independent MP, pancreatic cancer.
 * Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville, 78, French-born British Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham (1982–1999).
 * Aleksandr Dedyushko, 45, Russian actor, car crash.
 * Marilyn Martinez, 52, American stand-up comedian, colon cancer.
 * Donald Matthews, 82, American political scientist and author.
 * Martin Meehan, 62, Northern Irish republican, later Sinn Féin activist, heart attack.
 * Mary Walker Phillips, 83, American textile artist, Alzheimer's disease.
 * George Ratterman, 80, American professional football player (Cleveland Browns), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 * Ryan Shay, 28, American long-distance runner, heart attack during Olympic marathon trials.

4

 * Edward Bartels, 82, American basketball player.
 * Cyprian Ekwensi, 86, Nigerian author.
 * Swami Gahanananda, 91, Bangladeshi religious leader, 14th President of the Ramakrishna Order.
 * Hideo Hagiwara, 94, Japanese painter.
 * Dorothy LaBostrie, 79, American songwriter ("Tutti Frutti").
 * Karl Rebane, 81, Estonian scientist.
 * Lennart Rönnback, 102, Finnish veteran of the Finnish Civil War, last of the White Guard.
 * Peter Viertel, 86, German-born American author and screenwriter.

5

 * Andrea Aureli, 84, Italian actor.
 * Roberto Bortoluzzi, 86, Italian sports journalist and radio broadcaster.
 * James Brabazon, 84, British author, lung cancer.
 * Thelma Buchholdt, 73, Filipino-born American author and politician, pancreatic cancer.
 * Nils Liedholm, 85, Swedish football midfielder and coach.
 * Paul Norris, 93, American comic book artist, co-creator of Aquaman.
 * Paul Soloway, 66, American five-time world bridge champion, complications of infection.

6

 * Enzo Biagi, 87, Italian journalist.
 * Hilda Braid, 78, British actress (EastEnders, Citizen Smith).
 * John Grenier, 77, American politician, former executive director of the Republican National Committee.
 * George Grljusich, 68, Australian sports broadcaster, lung cancer.
 * Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, 47-48, Afghan politician, former commerce minister, victim of Baghlan factory bombing.
 * Fred W. McDarrah, 81, American photographer (Village Voice), documented the rise of the Beat Generation.
 * George Osmond, 90, American patriarch of the Osmond singing family.
 * Jimmy Staggs, 72, American radio disk jockey, esophageal cancer.
 * Hank Thompson, 82, American country music singer, lung cancer.
 * Hajji Muhammad Arif Zarif, 64-65, Afghan politician and businessman, victim of Baghlan factory bombing.

7

 * Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, Finnish mass murderer, suicide by gunshot.
 * Hobart Brown, 74, American sculptor, founder of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, pneumonia.
 * Earl Dodge, 74, American presidential candidate (Prohibition Party), heart attack.
 * Paul Dojack, 93, Canadian Football League referee.
 * George W. George, 87, American Broadway and film producer (My Dinner With Andre), Parkinson's disease.
 * Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch, 100, German-American geneticist.
 * Petr Haničinec, 77, Czech actor.
 * Arthur Hezlet, 93, British Royal Navy Vice-Admiral, submariner and naval historian.
 * Lidia Ivanova, 71, Russian TV journalist, announcer and writer, diabetes.
 * Alejandra Meyer, 70, Mexican telenovela actress, heart failure.

8

 * John Arpin, 70, Canadian pianist and composer, cancer.
 * Stephen Fumio Hamao, 77, Japanese Roman Catholic cardinal, former bishop of Yokohama, lung cancer.
 * Bobby Harrop, 71, English footballer (Manchester United).
 * Donald R. Herriott, 79, American physicist.
 * Francine Parker, 81, American film director (FTA), heart failure.
 * Dulce Saguisag, 64, Filipino politician, former Secretary of Department of Social Welfare and Development, car accident.
 * Motosuke Takahashi, 66, Japanese film director and storyboard artist, lung cancer.
 * David G. P. Taylor, 74, British businessman and public official, Governor of Montserrat (1990–1993).
 * Bungo Tsuda, 89, Japanese politician, former governor of Kanagawa Prefecture, colorectal cancer.
 * Chad Varah, 95, British Anglican priest, founder of the Samaritans.

9

 * Helen H. Bacon, 88, American classical scholar.
 * Luis Herrera Campins, 82, Venezuelan President (1979–1984), after long illness.
 * Lorraine Fisher, 79, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
 * Bill Hosokawa, 92, Japanese American author and journalist.
 * Ilya Zbarsky, 94, Russian head of Lenin's Mausoleum.

10

 * Laraine Day, 87, American actress (Foreign Correspondent, The High and the Mighty).
 * John Fee, 43, Northern Irish nationalist politician (SDLP), brain tumour.
 * Augustus F. Hawkins, 100, American member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California (1963–1991).
 * Norman Mailer, 84, American Pulitzer Prize–winning author (The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song), renal failure.
 * John H. Noble, 84, American prisoner in Russian gulag and author (I Was a Slave in Russia), heart attack.
 * Sir John Stanier, 82, British Army field marshal, Chief of the General Staff (1982–1985).
 * Donda West, 58, American Professor and Mother of Kanye West, coronary artery disease.

11

 * Rob Frost, 57, English Christian Evangelist, skin cancer, liver failure.
 * Anders Hald, 94, Danish statistician.
 * Yukio Hayashida, 91, Japanese politician (House of Councillors), governor of Kyoto, Minister of Justice, heart failure.
 * Kojiro Kusanagi, 78, Japanese actor, interstitial lung disease.
 * Berkeley Lent, 86, American judge on the Oregon Supreme Court, heart attack.
 * Delbert Mann, 87, American film director (Marty, Separate Tables, The Bachelor Party), Oscar winner (1956), pneumonia.
 * Dick Nolan, 75, American NFL player and coach (San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints), father of 49ers coach Mike Nolan.
 * Omwony Ojwok, 60, Ugandan politician, former minister, heart failure.
 * Margarito Pomposo, 96–97, Mexican Olympic long-distance runner.
 * Tadahiro Sekimoto, 80, Japanese electronics engineer and business executive, former president and chairman of NEC, stroke.
 * Trish Williamson, 52, British TV-am weather presenter and producer, car crash.

12

 * Ferdinando Baldi, 80, Italian screenwriter, film director and producer.
 * Louis Galen, 82, American philanthropist and banker, heart failure.
 * Ying Hope, 84, Chinese Canadian politician.
 * Khanmohammed Ibrahim, 88, Indian test cricketer.
 * Vijay Kumar Khandelwal, 71, Indian parliamentarian.
 * Piet Koornhof, 82, South African politician, former minister and ambassador.
 * Ira Levin, 78, American author (Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives) and playwright (Deathtrap), heart attack.
 * Tinius Nagell-Erichsen, 73, Norwegian publisher (Aftenposten and Verdens Gang).
 * Janlavyn Narantsatsralt, 50, Mongolian Prime Minister (1998–1999), car crash.
 * A. Palanisamy, 74, Indian volleyball player.
 * Peter "Cool Man" Steiner, 90, Swiss musician and entertainer, fall.
 * Lester Ziffren, 101, American reporter during Spanish Civil War, screenwriter and diplomat, heart failure.

13

 * Wahab Akbar, 47, Filipino politician, representative for Basilan province, victim of 2007 Batasang Pambansa bombing.
 * Harold J. Berman, 89, American Harvard Law School professor (1948–1985).
 * Alec Cooke, Baron Cooke of Islandreagh, 87, British peer and former Northern Ireland Senator.
 * John Doherty, 72, British football player for Manchester United (1952–1957) and Busby Babe.
 * Hugh Gibbons, 91, Irish parliamentarian and Gaelic football player.
 * Tony Harris, 36, American basketball player (Washington State Cougars), possible suicide.
 * Kazuhisa Inao, 70, Japanese Hall of Fame baseball player for the Nishitetsu Lions (1956–1969), cancer.
 * Erik Kurmangaliev, 47, Russian-Kazakh opera singer, liver disease.
 * Sir John Loveridge, 82, British MP (1970–1983).
 * Robert Taylor, 59, American 4 × 100 m relay gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, cardiac arrhythmia.
 * Monty Westmore, 84, American makeup artist (Hook, Jurassic Park, Star Trek: First Contact).
 * Peter Zinner, 88, American film editor (The Deer Hunter, The Godfather, An Officer and a Gentlemen), Oscar winner (1979).

14

 * Michael Blodgett, 68, American actor and screenwriter (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls), heart attack.
 * Ronnie Burns, 72, American actor, adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, cancer.
 * Hila Elmalich, 33, Israeli fashion model, anorexia nervosa.
 * Bertha Fry, 113, American supercentenarian, third-oldest person in the world, pneumonia.
 * David Oppenheim, 85, American clarinetist, television producer and academic administrator (Tisch School of the Arts).
 * Yadav Pant, 82, Nepalese economist and politician.
 * Pablo Antonio Vega Mantilla, 88, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic Bishop of Juigalpa.

15

 * John Cross Jr, 82, American pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church, stroke.
 * Sergio del Valle Jiménez, 80, Cuban general and politician, former Army Chief of Staff and minister.
 * Domokos Kosáry, 94, Hungarian historian, president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1990–1996).
 * Audrey McCall, 92, American activist, First Lady of Oregon (1967–1975), widow of former Governor Tom McCall, complications from a fall.
 * Lauren S. McCready, 92, American admiral, pioneer of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, heart failure.
 * Joe Nuxhall, 79, American Major League Baseball pitcher and broadcaster for the Cincinnati Reds, cancer.
 * George Van Meter, 75, American Olympic cyclist.

16

 * Harold Alfond, 93, American businessman and philanthropist.
 * Gene H. Golub, 75, American mathematician and computer scientist, myeloid leukemia.
 * Pierre Granier-Deferre, 80, French film director.
 * Grethe Kausland, 60, Norwegian actress and singer, lung cancer.
 * Patrick F. Kelly, 78, American federal judge.
 * Trond Kirkvaag, 61, Norwegian comedian, cancer.
 * Don Metz, 91, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
 * Jerry Meyers, 53, American professional football player (Chicago Bears, Kansas City Chiefs).
 * James Daniel Niedergeses, 90, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville (1975–1992), hemorrhage.
 * Victor Rabinowitz, 96, American lawyer for left-wing clients and causes.
 * Andrea Stretton, 55, Australian arts journalist and television presenter, lung cancer.
 * Sir Arthur Watts, 76, British lawyer and diplomat.

17

 * Irving Bluestone, 90, American negotiator for UAW, heart failure.
 * Landis Everson, 81, American poet, apparent suicide by gunshot.
 * Oleg Gazenko, 88, Russian space scientist.
 * Hy Lit, 73, American radio disc jockey, Parkinson's disease.
 * Robert Evander McNair, 83, American politician, Governor of South Carolina (1965–1971), brain cancer.
 * Ambroise Noumazalaye, 74, Congolese politician, Prime Minister (1966–1968).
 * R. S. Pathak, 82, Indian jurist, former Chief Justice of India, heart attack.
 * Vernon Scannell, 85, British poet, long illness.
 * Gail Sheridan, 92, American actress, stroke.

18

 * Hollis Alpert, 91, American film critic, co-founded National Society of Film Critics, pneumonia.
 * Peter Cadogan, 86, British writer and political activist (anti-nuclear campaigner).
 * Jim Ford, 66, American singer songwriter.
 * John Hughey, 73, American steel guitar player for Vince Gill and Conway Twitty, heart failure.
 * Ellen Preis, 95, Austrian fencer, gold medallist at the 1932 Summer Olympics, kidney failure.
 * Joe Shaw, 79, British footballer, appearance record holder for Sheffield United.
 * Chickie Williams, 88, American country music singer and wife of Doc Williams.

19

 * André Bettencourt, 88, French Resistance fighter and politician.
 * Paul Brodie, 73, Canadian saxophonist.
 * Nyimpine Chissano, 37, Mozambican businessman, son of ex-president Joaquim Chissano, heart attack.
 * Kevin DuBrow, 52, American rock singer (Quiet Riot), accidental cocaine overdose.
 * Wiera Gran, 91, Polish singer and actress.
 * Mike Gregory, 43, British Lions rugby league captain, motor neurone disease.
 * Peter Haining, 67, British author, heart attack.
 * Ken Leek, 72, British international footballer (Wales, Birmingham City).
 * Laulu Fetauimalemau Mata'afa, 79, Samoan educator, community worker, diplomat and former Member of Parliament.
 * Channaiah Odeyar, 91, Indian Lok Sabha MP.
 * Graham Paddon, 57, British footballer (Norwich City, West Ham United).
 * Milo Radulovich, 81, American airman threatened by McCarthyism and championed by Edward R. Murrow, stroke.
 * Jim Ringo, 75, American professional football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
 * John Straffen, 77, British murderer, Britain's longest serving prisoner (56 years), natural causes.
 * Magda Szabó, 90, Hungarian writer.
 * Dick Wilson, 91, British-born American actor ("Mr. Whipple"), natural causes.

20

 * Nigel Bridge, Baron Bridge of Harwich, 90, British judge.
 * James Lamond, 78, British Lord Provost of Aberdeen, MP (Oldham East, Oldham Central and Royton) (1970–1992), pneumonia.
 * Ernest "Doc" Paulin, 100, American jazz musician.
 * Ian Smith, 88, Rhodesian politician, Prime Minister (1964–1979).

21

 * Valda Aveling, 87, Australian pianist, harpsichordist and clavichordist.
 * Fernando Fernán Gómez, 86, Spanish actor.
 * Andrew Foldi, 81, Hungarian opera singer.
 * Tom Johnson, 79, Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player, heart failure.
 * Richard Leigh, 64, American author (The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail).
 * Noel McGregor, 75, New Zealand Test cricketer.
 * Herbert Saffir, 90, American engineer, co-creator of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale; complications from surgery.

22

 * Maurice Béjart, 80, French choreographer.
 * Jefferson J. DeBlanc, 86, American fighter pilot, Medal of Honor recipient, pneumonia.
 * Takami Eto, 82, Japanese politician, former member of the House of Representatives, heart failure.
 * Vladimir Kazantsev, 84, Russian Olympic athlete, silver medalist in 3000m steeplechase (1952).
 * Verity Lambert, 71, British TV producer, BBC's first female producer (Doctor Who).
 * Richard Nolte, 86, American expert on the Middle East, complications from a stroke.
 * Reg Park, 79, British bodybuilder, Mr. Universe (1951), skin cancer.
 * Dallas Schmidt, 85, Canadian fighter pilot and politician.

23

 * Peter Burgstaller, 43, Austrian football goalkeeper (Austria Salzburg), shot.
 * Patricia M. Byrne, 82, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Burma (1979–1983), cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Aloysius C. Galvin, 82, American Jesuit priest, President of the University of Scranton (1965–1970), cancer.
 * Maximiliano Garafulic, 69, Chilean Olympic basketball player.
 * Frank Guarrera, 83, American baritone with the Metropolitan Opera.
 * Joe Kennedy, 28, American baseball player, hypertensive and valvular heart disease.
 * Vladimir Kryuchkov, 83, Russian former KGB chief, led coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.
 * Colin Park, 63, Canadian Olympic sailor
 * Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, 36, Bolivian footballer, cancer.
 * William Tallon, 72, British servant to HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
 * Francesc Candel Tortajada, 82, Spanish Catalan writer, cancer.
 * Henrietta Valor, 72, American Broadway singer and actress, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Robert Vesco, 73, American fugitive financier, lung cancer.
 * Edmund Hoyle Vestey, 75, British businessman.
 * Pat Walsh, 71, New Zealand rugby union player and selector, All Black (1955–1964).

24

 * Farid Babayev, 48, Russian politician with the Yabloko party, homicide by gunshot.
 * Casey Calvert, 26, American guitarist (Hawthorne Heights), accidental combined drug intoxication.
 * Imil Jarjoui, 72, Palestinian member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the PLO executive committee, heart attack.
 * Antonio Lamer, 74, Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of Canada (1990–2000), heart disease.
 * Joseph Minish, 91, American member of the US House of Representatives from New Jersey (1963–1985).
 * William O'Neill, 77, American politician, Governor of Connecticut (1980–1991), complications of emphysema.
 * Emily Sander, 18, American murder victim.
 * David Sheldon, 54, American professional wrestler ("Angel of Death").
 * David H. Shepard, 84, American inventor, bronchiectasis.

25

 * Lola Almudevar, 29, British news reporter, car accident.
 * Agnethe Davidsen, 60, Greenlandic politician, Mayor of Nuuk (1993–2007).
 * Roberto Del Giudice, 67, Italian voice actor.
 * Arthur Dimmock, 89, British campaigner for the deaf.
 * John Drury, 80, American television journalist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Norm Hacking, 57, Canadian musician and author, suspected heart attack.
 * Neil Hope, 35, Canadian actor (Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High), natural causes.
 * Peter Houghton, 68, British recipient of the first artificial heart transplant, multiple organ failure.
 * Peter Lipton, 53, American philosopher, heart attack.
 * Karl Ohs, 61, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana (2001–2005), brain cancer.
 * David Francis Pocock, 79, British anthropologist.
 * Matt Price, 46, Australian journalist (Nine Network, The Australian), brain tumour.

26

 * Marit Allen, 66, British film costume designer (Mrs. Doubtfire, Eyes Wide Shut, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), brain aneurysm.
 * Buddy Burris, 84, American footballer.
 * George Harris, 84, Australian football administrator, former Carlton president.
 * Bill Hartack, 74, American Hall of Fame jockey, five-time winner of the Kentucky Derby, heart attack.
 * Silvestre S. Herrera, 90, Mexican-born American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
 * Takafumi Isomura, 76, Japanese politician, mayor of Osaka (1995–2003), hepatocellular carcinoma.
 * Elaine Lorillard, 93, American socialite, helped start Newport Jazz Festival, infection.
 * Herb McKenley, 85, Jamaican 400 m relay gold medalist at 1952 Summer Olympics.
 * Noel Miller, 94, Australian cricketer.
 * Raleigh Rhodes, 89, American World War II pilot, early leader of the Blue Angels, lung cancer.
 * Jaroslav Skála, 91, Czech psychiatrist, campaigner against alcoholism.
 * Stanley Thorne, 89, British politician, Labour MP for Preston South and Preston (1974–1987).
 * Susan Williams-Ellis, 89, British founder of Portmeirion Pottery, bronchial pneumonia.
 * Mel Tolkin, 94, American head writer for Your Show of Shows.

27

 * Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale, 95, British civil servant.
 * Bernie Banton, 61, Australian asbestosis compensation campaigner, mesothelioma.
 * Robert Cade, 80, American doctor, inventor of Gatorade, kidney failure.
 * Jack Eliis, 95, British rugby union player.
 * Nicodemus Kirima, 71, Kenyan Roman Catholic Archbishop of Nyeri, kidney failure.
 * Kavungal Chathunni Panicker, 86, Indian classical dancer.
 * Cecil Payne, 84, American saxophonist, prostate cancer.
 * Jane Rule, 76, Canadian author of lesbian-themed works, liver cancer.
 * Sean Taylor, 24, American football player (Washington Redskins), homicide by gunshot.
 * Bill Willis, 86, American football player (Ohio State, Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

28

 * Albert Asriyan, 56, Azerbaijani-born American violinist, composer, arranger and band leader, leukemia.
 * Jeanne Bates, 89, American film actress (Eraserhead, Die Hard 2), breast cancer.
 * Elly Beinhorn, 100, German pilot and author.
 * Fred Chichin, 53, French musician, songwriter and leader of Les Rita Mitsouko, cancer.
 * Donyo Donev, 81, Bulgarian cartoonist and animator (The Three Fools).
 * Mali Finn, 69, American casting agent, (Titanic, L.A. Confidential, The Matrix), cancer.
 * Tony Holland, 67, British co-creator of EastEnders.
 * Bob Simpson, 77, Canadian football player, prostate cancer.
 * Petter C.G. Sundt, 62, Norwegian shipping magnate, cancer.
 * Ashley Titus, 36, South African rapper and TV presenter ("Mr. Fat"), heart problems.
 * James Miles Venne, 89, Canadian northern Saskatchewan First Nations leader.
 * Gudrun Wagner, 63, German co-organizer of the Bayreuth Festival, wife of Wolfgang Wagner.

29

 * James Barber, 84, British-born Canadian cooking show host (The Urban Peasant).
 * Ralph Beard, 79, American college basketball player for the University of Kentucky involved in point-shaving scandal, heart failure.
 * Henry Hyde, 83, American member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois (1975–2007).
 * Jane Lawton, 63, American Democratic Maryland politician, heart attack.
 * Jim Nesbitt, 75, American country music singer.
 * Michael Shaheen, 67, American government official and attorney.
 * Roger Bonham Smith, 82, American chairman and CEO of General Motors (1981–1990).

30

 * J. L. Ackrill, 86, British philosopher.
 * Engin Arık, 59, Turkish physicist, plane crash.
 * Seymour Benzer, 86, American genetic biologist, stroke.
 * Ian Crawford, 73, Scottish footballer (Hearts).
 * Evel Knievel, 69, American stunt performer.
 * Ian MacArthur, 82, British politician, MP for Perth and East Perthshire (1959–1974).
 * François-Xavier Ortoli, 82, French President of the European Commission (1973–1977).
 * John Strugnell, 77, American biblical scholar, complications from an infection.
 * Sam Vasquez, 35, American mixed martial arts competitor, brain injury sustained during fight.