Deaths in November 2006

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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2006.

November 2006

30

• Rafael Buenaventura, 68, Filipino Governor of the Central Bank, kidney cancer. [1]
• Colin Cramphorn, 50, British Chief Constable for West Yorkshire, prostate cancer. [2]
• Leonard Greene, 88, American aviation safety device inventor, lung cancer. [3]
• Perry Henzell, 70, Jamaican film director (The Harder They Come) and author, cancer. [4]

29

• Rosalie Bradford, 63, American Guinness World Record-holder for heaviest woman, most weight lost, complications from obesity. [5]
• Allen Carr, 72, English anti-smoking activist, lung cancer. [6]
• Leonard Freed, 77, American photojournalist and member of the Magnum Photography Collective, complications of cancer. [7]
• Akio Jissoji, 69, Japanese television and film director (Ultraman, Ultra Seven), stomach cancer. [8]
• Emmett Kelly, 82, American clown and son of Emmett Kelly, complications from pneumonia. [9]
• Leon Niemczyk, 82, Polish actor, lung cancer. [10]
• Bishan Singh Ram Singh, 62, Malaysian social activist and environmentalist, pulmonary embolism. [11]
• Hanumant Singh, 67, Indian cricketer and ICC match referee, organ failure due to dengue fever and hepatitis B. [12]
• Shirley Walker, 61, American film and television composer (Final Destination, Falcon Crest), brain aneurysm. [13]

28

• Rose Mattus, 90, British-born American co-founder of Häagen-Dazs ice cream, natural causes. [14]
• Max Merkel, 87, Austrian football player and coach. [15]
• Bernard Orchard, 96, British biblical scholar. [16]
• Lyubov Polishchuk, 57, Russian actress, spinal disease. [17]
• Robert Volpe, 63, American art theft detective, heart attack. [18]
• Elliot Welles, 79, Austrian-born American Holocaust survivor and B'nai B'rith's prosecutor for Nazi war criminals, heart attack. [19]

27

• Don Butterfield, 83, American jazz tuba player, played with Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Sinatra, stroke-related illness. [20]
• Bebe Moore Campbell, 56, American author (What You Owe Me), brain cancer. [21]
• Casey Coleman, 55, American sportscaster, winner of four Emmy Awards, pancreatic cancer. [22]
• George Doig, 93, Australian football player. [23]
• Alan Freeman, 79, British BBC DJ, natural causes. [24]
• Larry Henderson, 89, Canadian first regular broadcaster on CBC Television's The National, natural causes. [25]
• Annie Knight, 111, British supercentenarian, oldest person in United Kingdom. [26]
• Eddie Mayo, 96, American baseball player, natural causes. [27]
• Susan Raab Simonson, 37, American theatre actress and producer, breast cancer. [28]

26

• Mário Cesariny, 83, Portuguese surrealist painter and author, cancer. [29]
• Leo Chiosso, 86, Italian songwriter. [30] (Italian)
• Dave Cockrum, 63, American comic book creator (X-Men, Legion of Super-Heroes), complications from diabetes. [31]
• Isaac Gálvez, 31, Spanish cyclist, cycling accident. [32]
• Stephen Heywood, 37, American subject of the film So Much So Fast, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [33]
• Anthony Jackson, 62, British actor, cancer. [34]
• Giorgio Panto, 65, Italian television station owner and separatist politician, helicopter crash. [35] (Italian)
• Graham Roope, 60, British cricketer, heart attack. [36]
• Raúl Velasco, 73, Mexican television presenter (Siempre en Domingo), natural causes. [37]

25

• Luciano Bottaro, 75, Italian comic book creator (Pepito). [38] (Italian)
• Valentín Elizalde, 27, Mexican banda singer, shot. [39]
• David Hermance, 59, American Toyota engineer (Prius), plane crash. [40]
• Emilio Vedova, 87, Italian painter. [41]
• Melvin M. Webber, 86, American urban designer. [42]

24

• Walter Booker, 72, American jazz bassist (Cannonball Adderley Quintet), cardiac arrest. [43]
• John Bridgers, 84, American athletic director at the University of New Mexico, congestive heart failure. [44]
• William Diehl, 81, American author (Primal Fear, Sharky's Machine), aortic aneurysm. [45]
• Phyllis Fraser, 90, American actress, author, and publisher, complications from fall. [46]
• Robert Kupperman, 71, American terrorism expert at the CSIS, complications from Parkinson's disease. [47]
• Juice Leskinen, 56, Finnish singer-songwriter, renal insufficiency, cirrhosis, and diabetes. [48]
• Frank L. Madla, 69, American member of the Texas State Legislature since 1973, house fire. [49]
• Robert McFerrin, 85, American singer, father of Bobby McFerrin, heart attack. [50]
• Thelma Scott, 93, Australian actress (Number 96), heart attack. [51]
• Max Soliven, 77, Filipino publisher of The Philippine Star, cardiac arrest. [52]
• George W. S. Trow, 63, American author and media critic, natural causes. [53]
• Zdeněk Veselovský, 78, Czech zoologist, heart failure. [54]

23

• Jerry Bails, 73, American popular culture and comic book historian, heart attack. [55]
• Jesús Blancornelas, 70, Mexican journalist, founding editor of Zeta magazine, stomach cancer. [56]
• Gerald M. Boyd, 56, American managing editor of The New York Times, lung cancer. [57]
• Nick Clarke, 58, British BBC presenter and journalist, cancer. [58]
• Richard Clements, 78, British journalist, editor of Tribune (1961–1982). [59]
• Betty Comden, 89, American lyricist known for writing musicals with Adolph Green including Singin' in the Rain, heart failure. [60]
• Jack Ferrante, 90, American football player for the Philadelphia Eagles. [61]
• Ştefan Haukler, 64, Romanian Olympic fencer. [62]
• Alexander Litvinenko, 43, Russian spy and critic of Vladimir Putin, poisoning. [63]
• Philippe Noiret, 76, French actor (Il Postino, Cinema Paradiso), cancer. [64]
• Anita O'Day, 87, American jazz singer, pneumonia. [65]
• Willie Pep, 84, American Hall of Fame featherweight boxer, Alzheimer's disease. [66]

22

• John Allan Cameron, 67, Canadian pioneer of Celtic music, bone cancer. [67]
• Muriel Castanis, 80, American sculptor, lung failure. [68]
• Pat Dobson, 64, American Major League Baseball pitcher, leukemia. [69]
• Gilles Grégoire, 80, Canadian politician and co-founder of Parti Québécois. [70] (French)
• Roy Newell, 92, American abstract expressionist painter, cancer. [71]
• John Peyton, Baron Peyton of Yeovil, 87, British Minister of Transport (1970–1974) and MP (1951–1983). [72]

21

• Svein Erik Bakke, 59, Norwegian entrepreneur. [73] (Norwegian)
• Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, 80, Romanian priest, dissident Nicolae Ceauşescu's rule, pancreatic cancer. [74]
• Pierre Gemayel, 34, Lebanese Minister of Industry, shot. [75]
• Hassan Gouled Aptidon, 90, Dijiboutian first President, natural causes. [76]
• Robert Lockwood, Jr., 91, American blues guitarist and singer, respiratory failure. [77]
• Bernard Rimland, 78, American autism researcher, prostate cancer. [78]
• Eliezer Waldenberg, 89, Israeli Haredi rabbi. [79]
• Sir Harold Young, Australian Liberal politician, President of the Senate (1981–1983). [80]

20

• Robert Altman, 81, American film director (MASH, Nashville, Short Cuts), complications from leukemia. [81]
• Zoia Ceauşescu, 56, Romanian mathematician, daughter of Nicolae Ceauşescu, lung cancer. [82]
• William R. P. George, 94, British archdruid, bard, novelist, nephew of Prime Minister David Lloyd George. [83]
• Donald Hamilton, 90, American spy fiction writer. [84]
• Walid Hassan, 47, Iraqi television comedian, shot. [85]
• Chris Hayward, 81, American creator of Dudley Do-Right and The Munsters, illness. [86]
• Hong Xuezhi, 94, Chinese general, unspecified illness. [87]
• Kevin McClory, 80, Irish film producer (Never Say Never Again).[88]
• Saúl Ubaldini, 69, Argentine labor leader and parliamentarian for the Peronist party, lung cancer. [89]
• Andre Waters, 44, American football player, suicide. [90]

19

• Dirk Dirksen, 69, American promoter of punk rock. [91]
• Sir Edward Ford, 96, British assistant and private secretary to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II (1946–1967). [92]
• Smith Hempstone, 77, American journalist and ambassador to Kenya (1989–93), complications from diabetes. [93]
• Khir Johari, 83, Malaysian Education Minister, heart attack. [94]
• Ernest Pusey, 111, American supercentenarian last Floridian World War I veteran. [95]
• Julio Ramos, 71, Argentine journalist, director (Ámbito Financiero), leukemia. [96]
• Jeremy Slate, 80, American actor (The Born Losers, The Devil's Brigade), esophageal cancer. [97]

18

• Movladi Baisarov, 40, Chechen warlord and commander of Federal Security Service, shot. [98]
• Roger Bolton, 59, British trade unionist, cancer. [99]
• Maurice W. Graham, 89, American "Patriarch of the Hobos" and author, stroke. [100]
• Keith Rowlands, 70, Welsh CEO of the International Rugby Board.. [101]

17

• Sir John Acland, 77, British general, commander of forces in Rhodesia (1979–1980). [102]
• Ruth Brown, 78, American blues singer, complications of a heart attack and stroke. [103]
• Marcus Cassel, 23, American football player and former UCLA cornerback, car accident. [104]
• Tony Pithey, 73, South African cricketer, pancreatic cancer. [105]
• Ferenc Puskás, 79, Hungarian former footballer and coach, pneumonia. [106]
• Flo Sandon's, 82, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival (1953). [107] (Italian)
• Bo Schembechler, 77, American University of Michigan football head coach (1969–1989), heart problems. [108]

16

• Frank Durkan, 76, Irish-born American lawyer, advocate for members of the Irish Republican Army in the US, lung infection. [109]
• Milton Friedman, 94, American monetarist and free-market economist, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize, heart failure. [110]
• Gary Graver, 68, American cinematographer for Orson Welles (F for Fake, The Other Side of the Wind), cancer. [111]
• Geoff Griffin, 67, South African cricketer, heart attack. [112]
• Yuri Levada, 76, Russian sociologist and pollster, heart attack. [113]
• Jack Macpherson, 69, American surfboarder, liver and renal failure. [114]
• Paris Theodore, 63, American firearm inventor and manufacturer, multiple sclerosis. [115]
• John Veale, 84, British classical composer, cancer. [116]

15

• George G. Blackburn, 90, Canadian author (Guns of Normandy), member of the Order of Canada, cancer. [117]
• John Blackburn, 93, American songwriter ("Moonlight in Vermont", "Susquehanna"), natural causes. [118]
• Ken Ishikawa, 58, Japanese manga artist, co-creator of Getter Robo anime series, heart failure. [119]
• Paul Rigby, 82, Australian cartoonist, heart attack. [120]
• Owen Truelove, 69, British RAF Air Commodore, glider crash. [121]
• David K. Wyatt, 69, American historian of Thailand, emphysema and heart failure. [122]

14

• John Hallam, 65, Northern Irish actor. [123]
• Ana Carolina Reston, 21, Brazilian model, complications of anorexia nervosa. [124]
• G. Gordon Strong, 92, Canadian-American publisher, pneumonia. [125]
• Pete Suder, 90, American baseball player. [126]

13

• Desert Orchid, 27, British National Hunt racehorse, winner of the King George VI Chase on four occasions. [127]
• Konrad Fuchs, 109, German believed to be oldest living Catholic priest, WWI combat veteran. [128]
• John Hallam, 65, Northern Irish actor. [129]

12

• Alphonse Halimi, 74, French boxer, former World bantamweight champion, pneumonia. [130]
• Harvey Manning, 81, American conservationist and author. [131]
• Mario Merola, 72, Italian singer and actor, heart attack. [132]
• Jacob E. Smart, 97, American Air Force general and NASA executive, former deputy C-in-C of the US European Command. [133]
• Joseph Ungaro, 76, American journalist. [134]
• H. Donald Wilson, 82, American founder of LexisNexis, heart attack. [135]

11

• Anicée Alvina, 53, French actress, cancer. [136]
• Belinda Emmett, 32, Australian actress (Home and Away), metastatic breast cancer. [137]
• Jabu Khanyile, 49, South African musician who played at the Johannesburg Live 8 concert, prostate cancer. [138]
• Esther Lederberg, 83, American microbiologist at Stanford, discovered lambda phage, pneumonia and heart failure. [139]
• Harry Lehotsky, 49, Canadian anti-poverty advocate and newspaper columnist, pancreatic cancer. [140]
• Ronnie Stevens, 81, British comedy actor. [141]

10

• Benny Andrews, 75, American painter, cancer. [142]
• Diana Coupland, 74, British actress (Bless This House), complications following heart surgery. [143]
• Gabriel Donoso, 46, Chilean polo player, fall from a horse. [144]
• Maurice Floquet, 111, France's oldest man on record. [145]
• Doug Friedline, 49, American campaign manager for Jesse Ventura, heart attack. [146]
• Gerald Levert, 40, American R&B singer, son of The O'Jays lead singer Eddie Levert, accidental acute intoxication. [147]
• Chubby Oates, 63, British Cockney comedian, heart attack. [148]
• Jack Palance, 87, American Academy Award-winning actor (Shane, City Slickers), natural causes. [149]
• Nadarajah Raviraj, 44, Sri Lankan Tamil National Alliance member of parliament, shot. [150]
• Igor Sergeyev, 68, Russian Defense Minister (1997–2001), the only Marshal of the Russian Federation, cancer. [151]
• Jack Williamson, 98, American science fiction author. [152]

9

• Ed Bradley, 65, American CBS News journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, leukemia. [153]
• Garton del Savio, 92, American baseball player, illness. [154]
• Marian Marsh, 93, American 1930s actress (Hell's Angels, Svengali), respiratory arrest. [155]
• Sam Stephenson, 72, Irish architect, designed the Central Bank and Wood Quay, complications from heart surgery. [156]
• Ellen Willis, 64, American journalist, professor, feminist activist and critic, lung cancer. [157]
• Markus Wolf, 83, German former head of East Germany's secret intelligence service, natural causes. [158]

8

• Rhodes Fairbridge, 92, Australian geologist at Columbia University and expert on climate change, brain tumour. [159]
• Sir James Hunt, 63, British judge in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, brain tumour. [160]
• Lia Looveer, 86, Estonian-born Australian politician. [161]
• Basil Poledouris, 61, American film composer (Conan the Barbarian, RoboCop, Starship Troopers), cancer. [162]
• Annette Rogers, 93, American athlete, 4 x 100 metres relay gold medalist at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics, stroke. [163]

7

• Paul Baltes, 67, German developmental psychologist, cancer. [164]
• John Coburn, 81, Australian artist, winner of the 1960 and 1977 Blake Prize. [165]
• Buddy Kerr, 84, American baseball shortstop (New York Giants), natural causes. [166]
• Jackie Parker, 74, American football player, All-American, head coach and general manager, throat cancer. [167]
• Bryan Pata, 22, American football player (Miami Hurricanes), shot. [168]
• Johnny Sain, 89, American Major League Baseball pitcher, complications from a stroke. [169]
• Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 82, French journalist and politician, complications from bronchitis. [170]
• Brian Thomson, 87, British chairman of D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd (1974–2005). [171]
• Polly Umrigar, 80, Indian cricket team captain (1955–1958), lymphoma. [172]

6

• Miguel Aceves Mejía, 90, Mexican singer and actor known as "the king of the falsetto", bronchitis. [173]
• Francisco Fernández-Ochoa, 56, Spanish retired alpine skier, gold medallist in the 1972 Winter Olympic Games, cancer. [174]
• Federico López, 44, Puerto Rican basketball player in two Olympic Games and three world championships, heart attack. [175]
• J. T. Rutherford, 85, America Democrat Representative for Texas (1955–1963), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [176]

5

• Samuel Bowers, 82, American former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard, convicted over murder of Vernon Dahmer, cardiac arrest. [177]
• Chen Ding-nan, 63, Taiwanese Justice Minister (2000–2005), lung cancer. [178]
• Chuck DeShane, 87, American football quarterback (Detroit Lions). [179]
• Bülent Ecevit, 81, Turkish former Prime Minister, complications following a stroke. [180]
• George Esser, 85, American civil rights advocate, set up the North Carolina Fund. [181]
• Oscar González, 82, Uruguayan Grand Prix driver. [182]
• Frank Marsden, 83, British Labour Member of Parliament (1971–1974). [183]
• Pietro Rava, 90, Italian former football player, last surviving member of the 1938 World Cup-winning team, Alzheimer's disease. [184]
• Hamilton Richardson, 73, American tennis player, US Open doubles winner, diabetes complications. [185]
• Francis Schuckardt, 69, American Traditional Catholic Bishop, rejected decrees of Second Vatican Council, throat cancer. [186]
• Bobby Shearer, 74, Scottish former footballer (Hamilton Academical, Rangers), illness. [187]

4

• Dajan Ahmet, 44, Estonia actor, car accident. [188] (Estonian)
• Brebis Bleaney, 91, British physicist. [189]
• Nelson S. Bond, 97, American writer. [190]
• William Lee Brent, 75, American Black Panther who hijacked a plane to Cuba, bronchial pneumonia. [191]
• Lionel Bryer, 78, South African dentist who founded the Aberdeen International Youth Festival. [192]
• Frank Arthur Calder, 91, Canadian aboriginal politician. [193]
• Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, American co-author of Cheaper by the Dozen, natural causes. [194]
• John McManners, 89, British historian, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford University (1972–1984). [195]
• Sergi López Segú, 39, Spanish footballer for FC Barcelona, brother of Gerard López, suicide under a train. [196]

3

• Belden Bly, 92, American legislator in the Massachusetts House (1948–1979). [197]
• Frank Dunham, Jr., 64, American federal public defender, head lawyer for Zacarias Moussaoui, brain cancer. [198]
• Sir Allen Fairhall, 96, Australian member of the House of Representatives (1949–1969), Minister for Defence (1966–1969). [199]
• Fereydoun Hoveyda, 82, Syrian-born Iranian ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1979), cancer. [200]
• Paul Mauriat, 81, French musician (L'Amour Est Bleu). [201]
• Sputnik Monroe, 77, American professional wrestler, respiratory illness. [202]
• Malachi Ritscher, 52, American anti-war protester, self-immolation. [203]
• Marie Rudisill, 95, American "Fruitcake Lady" on The Tonight Show, aunt of Truman Capote, natural causes. [204]
• Stanley Rothenberg, 76, American lawyer, former president of Copyright Society, complications of popliteal aneurysm surgery. [205]
• Alberto Spencer, 68, Ecuadorian footballer (Peñarol, Ecuador), highest scorer in Copa Libertadores, infection after heart surgery. [206]

2

• Rafael Donato, 69, Filipino President of DLSU-Manila (1991–1994), President of De La Salle Lipa (1995–2003), drowned. [207]
• Adrien Douady, 71, French mathematician. [208]
• Wally Foreman, 58, Australian sports commentator, heart attack. [209]
• Red Hayworth, 91, American baseball player. [210]
• Carroll Knicely, 77, American publisher, Commerce Secretary for three Kentucky governors. [211]
• Leonard Schrader, 62, American screenwriter (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Mishima), brother of Paul Schrader, heart failure. [212]
• Milly Vitale, 74, Italian actress, natural causes. [213]

1

• Bettye Ackerman, 82, American actress (Dr. Maggie Graham in Ben Casey), stroke. [214]
• Jason DiEmilio, 36, American guitarist (Azusa Plane), overdose. [215]
• Daniel Garcia, 80, Mexican professional wrestler and actor better known as Huracán Ramírez, heart attack. [216]
• Buddy Killen, 73, American record producer, founder of Dial Records, pancreatic cancer. [217]
• Florence Klotz, 86, American Tony Award-winning costume designer, heart failure. [218]
• Johnny Schofield, 75, British footballer for Birmingham City, former manager of Atherstone Town, complications from an illness. [219]
• Adrienne Shelly, 40, American actress (Trust, Unbelievable Truth), screenwriter, director (Waitress), murder by strangulation. [220]
• William Styron, 81, American writer (Darkness Visible, Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice), pneumonia. [221]
• Hilda van Stockum, 98, Dutch Newbery Medal-winning author of children's books, stroke. [222]
• Silvio Varviso, 82, Swiss conductor of the Vlaamse Opera, illness. [223]