Deaths in November 2007

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

November 2007

30

• J. L. Ackrill, 86, British philosopher. [1]
• Engin Arık, 59, Turkish physicist, plane crash. [2]
• Seymour Benzer, 86, American genetic biologist, stroke. [3]
• Evel Knievel, 69, American stunt performer. [4] [5]
• Ian MacArthur, 82, British politician, MP for Perth and East Perthshire (1959–1974). [6]
• François-Xavier Ortoli, 82, French President of the European Commission (1973–1977). [7]
• John Strugnell, 77, American biblical scholar, complications from an infection. [8]
• Sam Vasquez, 35, American mixed martial arts competitor, brain injury sustained during fight. [9]

29

• James Barber, 84, British-born Canadian cooking show host (The Urban Peasant). [10]
• Ralph Beard, 79, American college basketball player for the University of Kentucky involved in point-shaving scandal. [11]
• Henry Hyde, 83, American member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois (1975–2007). [12]
• Jane Lawton, 63, American Democratic Maryland politician, heart attack. [13]
• Jim Nesbitt, 75, American country music singer. [14]
• Roger Bonham Smith, 82, American chairman and CEO of General Motors (1981–1990). [15] [16]

28

• Albert Asriyan, 56, Azerbaijani-born American violinist, composer, arranger and band leader, leukemia. [17]
• Jeanne Bates, 89, American film actress, breast cancer. [18]
• Elly Beinhorn, 100, German pilot and author. [19] (German)
• Fred Chichin, 53, French musician, songwriter and leader of Les Rita Mitsouko, cancer. [20]
• Mali Finn, 69, American casting agent, (Titanic, L.A. Confidential, The Matrix), cancer. [21]
• Lonny Heckman, 38, American songwriter ("When I See Beth Smiling"), pulmonary embolism. [22]
• Tony Holland, 67, British co-creator of EastEnders. [23]
• Bob Simpson, 77, Canadian football player, prostate cancer. [24]
• Petter C.G. Sundt, 62, Norwegian shipping magnate, cancer. [25] (Norwegian)
• Ashley Titus, 36, South African rapper and TV presenter ("Mr. Fat"), heart problems. [26]
• James Miles Venne, 89, Canadian northern Saskatchewan First Nations leader. [27]
• Gudrun Wagner, 63, German co-organizer of the Bayreuth Festival, wife of Wolfgang Wagner. [28]

27

• Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale, 95, British civil servant. [29]
• Bernie Banton, 61, Australian asbestosis compensation campaigner, mesothelioma. [30]
• Robert Cade, 80, American doctor, inventor of Gatorade, kidney failure. [31]
• Nicodemus Kirima, 71, Kenyan Roman Catholic Archbishop of Nyeri, kidney failure. [32]
• Cecil Payne, 84, American saxophonist, prostate cancer. [33]
• Jane Rule, 76, Canadian author of lesbian-themed works, liver cancer. [34] [35]
• Sean Taylor, 24, American football player (Washington Redskins), homicide by gunshot. [36]
• Bill Willis, 86, American football player (Ohio State, Cleveland Browns). [37]

26

• Marit Allen, 66, British film costume designer (Mrs. Doubtfire, Eyes Wide Shut, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), brain aneurism. [38] [39]
• George Harris, 84, Australian football administrator, former Carlton president. [40]
• Bill Hartack, 74, American Hall of Fame jockey, five-time winner of the Kentucky Derby, heart attack. [41]
• Silvestre S. Herrera, 90, Mexican-born American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. [42]
• Takafumi Isomura, 76, Japanese politician, mayor of Osaka (1995–2003), hepatocellular carcinoma. [43]
• Elaine Lorillard, 93, American socialite, helped start Newport Jazz Festival, infection. [44]
• Herb McKenley, 85, Jamaican 400 m relay gold medalist at 1952 Summer Olympics. [45]
• Raleigh Rhodes, 89, American World War II pilot, early leader of the Blue Angels, lung cancer. [46]
• Stanley Thorne, 89, British politician, Labour MP for Preston South and Preston (1974–1987). [47]
• Susan Williams-Ellis, 89, British founder of Portmeirion Pottery, bronchial pneumonia.[48]
• Mel Tolkin, 94, American head writer for Your Show of Shows. [49]

25

• Lola Almudevar, 29, British news reporter, car accident. [50]
• Arthur Dimmock, 89, British campaigner for the deaf. [51]
• John Drury, 80, American television journalist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [52]
• Norm Hacking, 57, Canadian musician and author, suspected heart attack. [53]
• Peter Houghton, 68, British recipient of the first artificial heart transplant, multiple organ failure. [54]
• Peter Lipton, 53, American philosopher, heart attack. [55]
• Karl Ohs, 61, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana (2001–2005), brain cancer. [56]
• Matt Price, 46, Australian journalist (Nine Network, The Australian), brain tumour. [57]

24

• Farid Babayev, Russian politician with the Yabloko party, homicide by gunshot. [58]
• Casey Calvert, 26, American guitarist (Hawthorne Heights), accidental combined drug intoxication. [59]
• Imil Jarjoui, 72, Palestinian member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the PLO executive committee, heart attack. [60]
• Antonio Lamer, 74, Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1990–2000), heart disease. [61]
• Joseph Minish, 91, American member of the US House of Representatives from New Jersey (1963–1985). [62]
• William O'Neill, 77, American politician, Governor of Connecticut (1980–1991), complications of emphysema. [63]
• Emily Sander, 18, American murder victim. [64]
• David Sheldon, 43, American professional wrestler ("Angel of Death"). [65]
• David H. Shepard, 84, American inventor, bronchiectasis. [66]

23

• Peter Burgstaller, 43, Austrian former footballer, shot. [67]
• Patricia M. Byrne, 82, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Burma (1979–1983), cerebral hemorrhage. [68]
• Aloysius C. Galvin, 82, American Jesuit priest, President of the University of Scranton (1965–1970), cancer. [69]
• Frank Guarrera, 83, American baritone with the Metropolitan Opera. [70]
• Joe Kennedy, 28, American baseball player, hypertensive and valvular heart disease. [71] [72]
• Vladimir Kryuchkov, 83, Russian former KGB chief, led coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. [73]
• Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, 36, Bolivian footballer, cancer. [74]
• William Tallon, 72, British servant to HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. [75]
• Francesc Candel Tortajada, 82, Spanish Catalan writer, cancer. [76] (Spanish)
• Leona Tuttle, 111, American supercentenarian. [77]
• Henrietta Valor, 72, American Broadway singer and actress, Alzheimer's disease. [78]
• Robert Vesco, 73, American fugitive financier, lung cancer. [79]
• Pat Walsh, 71, New Zealand rugby union player and selector, All Black (1955–1964). [80]

22

• Maurice Béjart, 80, French choreographer. [81]
• Jefferson J. DeBlanc, 86, American fighter pilot, Medal of Honor recipient, pneumonia. [82]
• Takami Eto, 82, Japanese politician, former member of the House of Representatives, heart failure. [83] (Japanese)
• Verity Lambert, 71, British TV producer, BBC's first female producer (Doctor Who). [84]
• Richard Nolte, 86, American expert on the Middle East, complications from a stroke. [85] [86]
• Reg Park, 79, British bodybuilder, Mr. Universe (1951), skin cancer. [87]

21

• Valda Aveling, 87, Australian pianist, harpsichordist and clavichordist. [88]
• Fernando Fernán Gómez, 86, Spanish actor. [89]
• Andrew Foldi, 81, Hungarian opera singer. [90]
• Tom Johnson, 79, Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player, heart failure. [91]
• Richard Leigh, 64, American author (The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail). [92]
• Noel McGregor, 75, New Zealand Test cricketer. [93]
• Herbert Saffir, 90, American engineer, co-creator of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale; complications from surgery. [94]

20

• Nigel Bridge, Baron Bridge of Harwich, 90, British judge. [95]
• James Lamond, 78, British Lord Provost of Aberdeen, MP (Oldham East, Oldham Central and Royton) (1970–1992), pneumonia. [96]
• Ernest "Doc" Paulin, 100, American jazz musician. [97] [98]
• Ian Smith, 88, Rhodesian politician, Prime Minister (1964–1979). [99]
• Randy Tallman, 67, American voice actor. [100]

19

• André Bettencourt, 88, French Resistance fighter and politician. [101]
• Paul Brodie, 73, Canadian saxophonist. [102]
• Nyimpine Chissano, 37, Mozambican businessman, son of ex-president Joaquim Chissano, heart attack. [103]
• Kevin DuBrow, 52, American rock singer (Quiet Riot), accidental cocaine overdose. [104] [105]
• Wiera Gran, 91, Polish singer and actress. [106] (Polish)
• Mike Gregory, 43, British Lions rugby league captain, motor neurone disease. [107]
• Peter Haining, 67, British author, heart attack. [108]
• Ken Leek, 72, British international footballer (Wales, Birmingham City). [109]
• Laulu Fetauimalemau Mata'afa, 79, Samoan educator, community worker, diplomat and former Member of Parliament. [110]
• Channaiah Odeyar, 91, Indian Lok Sabha Member of Parliament. [111]
• Graham Paddon, 57, British footballer (Norwich City, West Ham United). [112]
• Milo Radulovich, 81, American airman threatened by McCarthyism and championed by Edward R. Murrow, stroke. [113]
• Jim Ringo, 75, American professional football player (Green Bay Packers). [114]
• John Straffen, 77, British murderer, Britain's longest serving prisoner (56 years), natural causes. [115]
• Magda Szabó, 90, Hungarian writer. [116]
• Dick Wilson, 91, British-born American actor ("Mr. Whipple"), natural causes. [117] [118]

18

• Hollis Alpert, 91, American film critic, cofounded National Society of Film Critics, pneumonia. [119]
• Peter Cadogan, 86, British writer and anti-nuclear campaigner. [120] [121]
• Jim Ford, 66, American singer songwriter. [122]
• Ellen Preis, 95, Austrian fencer, gold medallist at the 1932 Summer Olympics, kidney failure. [123]
• Joe Shaw, 79, British footballer, appearance record holder for Sheffield United. [124]
• Chickie Williams, 88, American country music singer and wife of Doc Williams. [125]

17

• Irving Bluestone, 90, American negotiator for UAW, heart failure. [126]
• Landis Everson, 81, American poet, apparent suicide by gunshot. [127]
• Oleg Gazenko, 88, Russian space scientist. [128] [129]
• Hy Lit, 73, American radio disc jockey, Parkinson's disease. [130]
• Robert Evander McNair, 83, American politician, Governor of South Carolina (1965–1971), brain cancer. [131]
• Ambroise Noumazalaye, 74, Congolese politician, Prime Minister (1966–1968). [132] (French)
• R. S. Pathak, 82, Indian jurist, former Chief Justice of India, heart attack. [133]
• Vernon Scannell, 85, British poet, after long illness. [134]
• Gail Sheridan, 92, American actress, stroke. [135]

16

• Harold Alfond, 93, American businessman and philanthropist. [136]
• Gene H. Golub, 75, American mathematician and computer scientist, myeloid leukemia. [137]
• Pierre Granier-Deferre, 80, French film director. [138]
• Grethe Kausland, 60, Norwegian actress and singer, lung cancer. [139]
• Trond Kirkvaag, 61, Norwegian comedian, cancer. [140] (Norwegian)
• Don Metz, 91, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs). [141]
• James Daniel Niedergeses, 90, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville (1975–1992), hemorrhage. [142]
• Victor Rabinowitz, 96, American lawyer for left-wing clients and causes [143]
• Andrea Stretton, 55, Australian arts journalist and television presenter, lung cancer. [144]
• Sir Arthur Watts, 76, British lawyer and diplomat. [145]

15

• John Cross Jr, 82, American pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama when bombed, stroke. [146]
• Sergio del Valle Jiménez, 80, Cuban general and politician, former army chief of staff and minister. [147]
• Domokos Kosáry, 94, Hungarian historian, president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1990–1996). [148]
• Audrey McCall, 92, American widow of former Governor of Oregon Tom McCall. [149]
• Joe Nuxhall, 79, American Major League Baseball pitcher and broadcaster for the Cincinnati Reds, cancer. [150]

14

• Michael Blodgett, 68, American actor and screenwriter (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls), heart attack. [151]
• Ronnie Burns, 72, American actor, adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, cancer. [152]
• Hila Elmalich, 33, Israeli fashion model, anorexia nervosa. [153].
• Bertha Fry, 113, American supercentenarian, third-oldest person in the world, pneumonia. [154]
• Yadav Pant, 82, Nepalese economist and politician. [155]
• Pablo Antonio Vega Mantilla, 88, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic Bishop of Juigalpa. [156]

13

• Wahab Akbar, 47, Filipino politician, representative for Basilan province, explosion. [157]
• Harold J. Berman, 89, American Harvard Law School professor (1948–1985). [158]
• Alec Cooke, Baron Cooke of Islandreagh, 87, former Northern Ireland Senator. [159]
• John Doherty, 72, British football player for Manchester United (1952–1957) and Busby Babe. [160]
• Hugh Gibbons, 91, Irish parliamentarian and Gaelic football player. [161]
• Tony Harris, 36, American basketball player (Washington State Cougars), possible suicide. [162]
• Kazuhisa Inao, 70, Japanese Hall of Fame baseball player for the Nishitetsu Lions (1956–1969), cancer. [163]
• Erik Kurmangaliev, 47, Russian-Kazakh opera singer, liver disease. [164] (Russian)
• John Loveridge, 82, British Member of Parliament (1970–1983). [165]
• Robert Taylor, 59, American 4x100 m relay gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, cardiac arrhythmia. [166]
• Monty Westmore, 84, American Academy Award-nominated makeup artist. [167]
• Georgiana Young, 84, American actress. [168]
• Peter Zinner, 88, American Academy Award-winning film editor (The Deer Hunter). [169]

12

• Ferdinando Baldi, 80, Italian screenwriter, film director and producer. [170] (Italian)
• Louis Galen, 82, American philanthropist and banker, heart failure. [171]
• Ying Hope, 84, Chinese Canadian politician. [172]
• Khanmohammed Ibrahim, 88, Indian test cricketer. [173]
• Vijay Kumar Khandelwal, 71, Indian parliamentarian. [174]
• Piet Koornhof, 82, South African politician, former minister and ambassador. [175]
• Ira Levin, 78, American author (Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives) and playwright (Deathtrap), heart attack. [176]
• Tinius Nagell-Erichsen, 73, Norwegian publisher (Schibsted group, inc. Aftenposten and Verdens Gang). [177]
• Janlavyn Narantsatsralt, 50, Mongolian Prime Minister (1998–1999), car crash. [178]
• A. Palanisamy, 74, Indian volleyball player. [179]
• Peter "Cool Man" Steiner, 90, Swiss musician and entertainer, fall. [180] (German)
• Lester Ziffren, 101, American reporter during Spanish Civil War, screenwriter and diplomat, heart failure. [181]

11

• Anders Hald, 94, Danish statistician. [182] (Danish)
• Yukio Hayashida, 91, Japanese politician (House of Councillors), governor of Kyoto, Minister of Justice, heart failure. [183] (Japanese)
• Kojiro Kusanagi, 78, Japanese actor, interstitial lung disease. [184]
• Berkeley Lent, 86, American judge on the Oregon Supreme Court, heart attack. [185]
• Delbert Mann, 87, American Academy Award-winning film director (Marty, Separate Tables, The Bachelor Party), pneumonia. [186]
• Dick Nolan, 75, American NFL player and coach (San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints), father of 49ers coach Mike Nolan. [187]
• Omwony Ojwok, 60, Ugandan politician, former minister, heart failure. [188]
• Tadahiro Sekimoto, 80, Japanese electronics engineer and business executive, former president and chairman of NEC, stroke. [189]
• Trish Williamson, 52, British TV-am weather presenter and producer, car crash. [190]

10

• Laraine Day, 87, American actress (Foreign Correspondent, The High and the Mighty). [191]
• John Fee, 43, Irish nationalist politician, brain tumour. [192]
• Augustus F. Hawkins, 100, American member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California (1963–1991). [193]
• Norman Mailer, 84, American Pulitzer Prize–winning author (The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song), renal failure. [194]
• John H. Noble, 84, American prisoner in Russian gulag and author (I Was a Slave in Russia), heart attack. [195]
• John Wilfred Stanier, 82, British Army field marshal, retired Chief of the General Staff. [196]

9

• Luis Herrera Campins, 82, Venezuelan President (1979–1984), after long illness. [197]
• Bill Hosokawa, 92, Japanese American author and journalist. [198]
• Ilya Zbarsky, 94, Russian head of Lenin's Mausoleum. [199] (Russian)

8

• John Arpin, 70, Canadian pianist and composer, cancer. [200]
• Stephen Fumio Hamao, 77, Japanese Roman Catholic cardinal, former bishop of Yokohama, lung cancer. [201]
• Bobby Harrop, 71, British footballer. [202]
• Francine Parker, 81, American film director (FTA), heart failure. [203]
• Dulce Saguisag, 64, Filipino politician, former Secretary of Department of Social Welfare and Development, car accident. [204]
• Bungo Tsuda, 89, Japanese politician, former governor of Kanagawa Prefecture, colorectal cancer. [205] (Japanese)
• Chad Varah, 95, British Anglican priest, founder of the Samaritans. [206] [207]

7

• Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, Finnish mass murderer, suicide by gunshot. [208]
• Hobart Brown, 74, American sculptor, founder of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, pneumonia. [209]
• Earl Dodge, 74, American presidential candidate (Prohibition Party), heart attack. [210]
• Paul Dojack, 93, Canadian CFL referee. [211]
• George W. George, 87, American Broadway and film producer (My Dinner With Andre), Parkinson's disease. [212]
• Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch, 100, German-American geneticist. [213]
• Arthur Hezlet, 93, British Royal Navy Vice-Admiral, submariner and naval historian. [214]
• Lidia Ivanova, 71, Russian TV journalist, announcer and writer, diabetes. [215] (Russian)
• Alejandra Meyer, 70, Mexican telenovela actress, heart failure. [216] (Spanish)

6

• Enzo Biagi, 87, Italian journalist. [217]
• Hilda Braid, 78, British actress (EastEnders, Citizen Smith). [218]
• John Grenier, 77, American politician, former executive director of the Republican National Committee. [219]
• George Grljusich, 68, Australian sports broadcaster, lung cancer. [220]
• Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, c.45, Afghan politician, former commerce minister, bomb blast injuries. [221]
• Fred W. McDarrah, 81, American photographer (Village Voice), documented the rise of the Beat Generation. [222]
• George Osmond, 90, American patriarch of the Osmond singing family. [223]
• Jimmy Staggs, 72, American radio disk jockey, esophageal cancer. [224]
• Hank Thompson, 82, American country music singer, lung cancer. [225] [226]
• Hajji Muhammad Arif Zarif, Afghan politician and businessman, bomb blast injuries. [227]

5

• Roberto Bortoluzzi, 86, Italian sports journalist and radio broadcaster. [228]
• James Brabazon, 84, British author, lung cancer. [229]
• Thelma Buchholdt, 73 Filipino-born American author and politician, pancreatic cancer. [230]
• Nils Liedholm, 85, Swedish football midfielder and coach. [231]
• Marie-Rose Mueller, 111, American supercentenarian. [232]
• Paul Norris, 93, American comic book artist, co-creator of Aquaman. [233]
• Paul Soloway, 66, American five-time world bridge champion, complications of infection. [234]

4

• Cyprian Ekwensi, 86, Nigerian author. [235]
• Swami Gahanananda, 91, Bangladeshi religious leader, 14th President of the Ramakrishna Order. [236]
• Hideo Hagiwara, 94, Japanese painter. [237] (Japanese)
• Dorothy LaBostrie, 79, American songwriter ("Tutti Frutti"). [238]
• Lennart Rönnback, 102, Finnish veteran of the Finnish Civil War, last of the White Guard. [239] (Finnish)
• Peter Viertel, 86, German-born American author and screenwriter. [240]

3

• Peter Andren, 61, Australian independent MP, pancreatic cancer. [241] [242]
• Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville, 78, French-born British Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham (1982–1999). [243]
• Aleksandr Dedyushko, 45, Russian actor, car crash. [244] (Russian)
• Marilyn Martinez, 52, American stand up comedian, colon cancer. [245]
• Donald Matthews, 82, American political scientist and author. [246]
• Martin Meehan, 62, Irish Sinn Féin politician, heart attack. [247]
• Mary Walker Phillips, 83, American textile artist, Alzheimer's disease. [248]
• George Ratterman, 80, American professional football player (Cleveland Browns), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [249]
• Ryan Shay, 28, American long-distance runner, heart attack during Olympic marathon trials. [250]

2

• Oreste Benzi, 82, Italian Roman Catholic priest. [251]
• Henry Cele, 58, South African actor (Shaka Zulu) and soccer player. [252]
• Charmaine Dragun, 29, Australian television news presenter, apparent suicide by jumping. [253]
• Lillian Ellison, 84, American professional wrestler ("The Fabulous Moolah"). [254][255]
• Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard, 91, British soldier and courtier, Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps (1972–1981). [256]
• Don Freeland, 82, American racecar driver (Indianapolis 500). [257]
• Witold "Vitek" Kiełtyka, 23, Polish drummer (Decapitated), injuries from bus crash. [258].
• Igor Moiseyev, 101, Russian choreographer, heart failure. [259]
• Jean Pierre Reguerraz, 68, Argentine actor. [260]
• Reay Tannahill, 77, British food historian and novelist. [261]
• S.P. Thamilselvan, 40, Sri Lankan leader of Tamil Tigers, air strike. [262]

1

• Sonny Bupp, 79, American child actor (Our Gang, Citizen Kane), last surviving credited cast member of Citizen Kane. [263]
• Troy Lee James, 83, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1967–2000). [264]
• Meredith Kercher, 21, British murder victim, stabbed. [265]
• Edith Motridge, 94, American Olympic backstroke swimmer. [266]
• S. Ali Raza, 85, Indian Bollywood screenwriter, heart failure. [267]
• Paul Tibbets, 92, American pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, heart failure. [268]
• Paul Woods, 57, British rugby union and rugby league player. [269]