Deaths in November 2006

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

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.

November 2006

1

*Bettye Ackerman, 82, American actress ('' Ben Casey''), stroke.
* Daniel Garcia, 80, Mexican professional wrestler and actor better known as Huracán Ramírez, heart attack.
* Buddy Killen, 73, American record producer, founder of Dial Records, pancreatic cancer.
* Florence Klotz, 86, American Tony Award-winning costume designer, heart failure.
*Johnny Schofield, 75, British footballer for Birmingham City, former manager of Atherstone Town, complications from an illness.
* Adrienne Shelly, 40, American actress ('' Trust'', '' Unbelievable Truth''), screenwriter, director ('' Waitress''), strangled.
* William Styron, 81, American writer ('' Darkness Visible'', '' Confessions of Nat Turner'', ''Sophie's Choice''), pneumonia.
*Hilda van Stockum, 98, Dutch Newbery Medal-winning author of children's books, stroke.
*Silvio Varviso, 82, Swiss conductor of the Vlaamse Opera, illness.

2

* Rafael Donato, 69, Filipino President of DLSU-Manila (1991–1994), President of De La Salle Lipa (1995–2003), drowned.
* Adrien Douady, 71, French mathematician.
* Hadyn Ellis, 61, Welsh psychologist.
*Wally Foreman, 58, Australian sports commentator, heart attack.
*Red Hayworth, 91, American baseball player.
*Carroll Knicely, 77, American publisher, Commerce Secretary for three Kentucky governors.
*Henning Kristiansen, 79, Danish cinematographer and film director (''Babette's Feast'', '' Me and Charly'').
* Leonard Schrader, 62, American screenwriter ('' Kiss of the Spider Woman'', ''Mishima''), brother of Paul Schrader, heart failure.
*Derek Turnbull, 79, New Zealand runner.
* Milly Vitale, 74, Italian actress, natural causes.

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

* Miguel Aceves Mejía, 90, Mexican singer and actor known as "the king of the falsetto", bronchitis.
* Francisco Fernández-Ochoa, 56, Spanish retired alpine skier, gold medallist in the 1972 Winter Olympic Games, cancer.
*Federico López, 85, American Democratic Representative for Texas (1955–1963), complications from Alzheimer's disease.

7

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

8

*Lyudmila Buldakova, 68, Russian volleyball player.
* Rhodes Fairbridge, 92, Australian geologist at Columbia University and expert on climate change, brain tumour.
* Sir James Hunt, 63, British judge in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, brain tumour.
*Lia Looveer, 86, Estonian-born Australian politician.
* Basil Poledouris, 61, American film composer ('' Conan the Barbarian'', ''RoboCop'', ''Starship Troopers''), cancer.
* Annette Rogers, 93, American athlete, 4 x 100 metres relay gold medalist at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics, stroke.

9

* Ed Bradley, 65, American CBS News journalist and ''60 Minutes'' correspondent, leukemia.
* Garton del Savio, 92, American baseball player, illness.
*Mary R. Grizzle, 85, American politician.
* Marian Marsh, 93, American 1930s actress ('' Hell's Angels'', '' Svengali''), respiratory arrest.
*Sam Stephenson, 72, Irish architect, designed the Central Bank and Wood Quay, complications from heart surgery.
* Ellen Willis, 64, American journalist, professor, feminist activist and critic, lung cancer.
*Markus Wolf, 83, German former head of East Germany's secret intelligence service, natural causes.

10

* Benny Andrews, 75, American painter, cancer.
* Diana Coupland, 74, British actress ('' Bless This House''), complications following heart surgery.
*Gabriel Donoso, 46, Chilean polo player, fall from a horse.
*Fokko du Cloux, 51, Dutch mathematician and computer scientist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
*Maurice Floquet, 111, French supercentenarian.
*Doug Friedline, 49, American campaign manager for Jesse Ventura, heart attack.
* Gerald Levert, 40, American R&B singer, son of The O'Jays lead singer Eddie Levert, accidental acute intoxication.
*Chubby Oates, 63, British Cockney comedian, heart attack.
*Jack Palance, 87, American actor ('' Shane'', '' City Slickers'', ''Batman''), Oscar winner (1992).
*Francisco Quina, 75, Portuguese Olympic sailo

*Nadarajah Raviraj, 44, Sri Lankan Tamil National Alliance MP, shot.
* Igor Sergeyev, 68, Russian Defense Minister (1997–2001), the only Marshal of the Russian Federation, cancer.
* Jack Williamson, 98, American science fiction author.

11

*Anicée Alvina, 53, French actress, lung cancer.
* Belinda Emmett, 32, Australian actress (''Home and Away''), metastatic breast cancer.
* Jabu Khanyile, 49, South African musician who played at the Johannesburg Live 8 concert, prostate cancer.
* Esther Lederberg, 83, American microbiologist at Stanford, discovered lambda phage, pneumonia and heart failure.
* Harry Lehotsky, 49, Canadian anti-poverty advocate and newspaper columnist, pancreatic cancer.
* Ronnie Stevens, 81, British comedy actor.
*Joop van Domselaar, 78, Dutch Olympic shooter.

12

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

13

* Louis Chevalier, 85, French Olympic racewalker.
* Desert Orchid, 27, British National Hunt racehorse, winner of the King George VI Chase on four occasions.
*Milton Drake, 94, American lyricist and performing rights administrator.
* Konrad Fuchs, 109, German believed to be oldest living Catholic priest, WWI combat veteran.
*Judah Reuben, 84, Indian cricket umpire.

14

*Tony Gara, 67, Zimbabwean politician, mayor of Harare, cancer.
* John Hallam, 65, Northern Irish actor.
*Montague Higgs, 67, Bahamian Olympic sailo

* Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, 77, French writer and journalist.
* G. Gordon Strong, 92, Canadian-American publisher, pneumonia.
*Pete Suder, 90, American baseball player.
* Owen Truelove, 69, British RAF Air Commodore, glider crash.

15

* George G. Blackburn, 90, Canadian author (''Guns of Normandy''), member of the Order of Canada, cancer.
* John Blackburn, 93, American songwriter (" Moonlight in Vermont", "Susquehanna"), natural causes.
* Ken Ishikawa, 58, Japanese manga artist, co-creator of Getter Robo anime series, heart failure.
*Ana Carolina Reston, 21, Brazilian model, complications of anorexia nervosa.
*Paul Rigby, 82, Australian cartoonist, heart attack.
*David K. Wyatt, 69, American historian of Thailand, emphysema and heart failure.

16

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

17

* Sir John Acland, 77, British general, commander of forces in Rhodesia (1979–1980).
*Ruth Brown, 78, American blues singer, complications of a heart attack and stroke.
*Jeffrey O. Hanson, 48, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
* Colin Pinch, 85, Australian cricketer.
*Tony Pithey, 73, South African cricketer, pancreatic cancer.
*Ferenc Puskás, 79, Hungarian former footballer and coach, pneumonia.
*Flo Sandon's, 82, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival (1953).
*Bo Schembechler, 77, American University of Michigan football head coach (1969–1989), heart problems.
*Ramez Tebet, 70, Brazilian politician and lawyer, cancer.

18

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

19

*William G. Beasley, 86, British oriental historian.
*Dirk Dirksen, 69, American promoter of punk rock.
* Sir Edward Ford, 96, British assistant and private secretary to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II (1946–1967).
*Smith Hempstone, 77, American journalist and ambassador to Kenya (1989–1993), complications from diabetes.
* Emanuel Hurwitz, 87, British violinist.
* Khir Johari, 83, Malaysian Education Minister, heart attack.
* Evelyn Keppel, 77, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
*Julio Ramos, 71, Argentine journalist, director ('' Ámbito Financiero''), leukemia.
* Jeremy Slate, 80, American actor ('' The Born Losers'', '' The Devil's Brigade''), esophageal cancer.

20

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

21

*Svein Erik Bakke, 59, Norwegian entrepreneur.
* Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, 80, Romanian priest, dissident Nicolae Ceauşescu's rule, pancreatic cancer.
*Dale DeArmond, 92, American artist and librarian, director of the Juneau Memorial Library (1958–1979).
* Pierre Gemayel, 34, Lebanese Minister of Industry, shot.
*Hassan Gouled Aptidon, 90, Dijiboutian first President, natural causes.
*Robert Lockwood, Jr., 91, American blues guitarist and singer, respiratory failure.
*Bernard Rimland, 78, American autism researcher, prostate cancer.
* Eliezer Waldenberg, 89, Israeli Haredi rabbi.
* Sir Harold Young, 83, Australian Liberal politician, President of the Senate (1981–1983).

22

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

23

* Jerry Bails, 73, American popular culture and comic book historian, heart attack.
*Jesús Blancornelas, 70, Mexican journalist, founding editor of '' Zeta magazine'', stomach cancer.
*Gerald M. Boyd, 56, American managing editor of '' The New York Times'', lung cancer.
* Nick Clarke, 58, British BBC presenter and journalist, cancer.
* Richard Clements, 78, British journalist, editor of '' Tribune'' (1961–1982).
* Betty Comden, 89, American lyricist known for writing musicals with Adolph Green including ''Singin' in the Rain'', heart failure.
*Jack Ferrante, 90, American football player for the Philadelphia Eagles.
* Ian Gordon Gill, 86, British army general.
* Ştefan Haukler, 64, Romanian Olympic fencer.
*Roy M. Hopkins, 63, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
*Alexander Litvinenko, 43, Russian spy and critic of Vladimir Putin, poisoning.
* Philippe Noiret, 76, French actor (''Il Postino'', ''Cinema Paradiso''), cancer.
* Anita O'Day, 87, American jazz singer, pneumonia.
* Willie Pep, 84, American Hall of Fame featherweight boxer, Alzheimer's disease.
*Chen-Lu Tsou, 83, Chinese biochemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences, cancer.

24

*Kwesi Armah, 77, Ghanaian diplomat and politician.
*Gilbert Benausse, 74, French rugby league player.
* Walter Booker, 72, American jazz bassist (Cannonball Adderley Quintet), cardiac arrest.
*John Bridgers, 84, American athletic director at the University of New Mexico, congestive heart failure.
*William Diehl, 81, American author (''Primal Fear'', '' Sharky's Machine''), aortic aneurysm.
* Phyllis Fraser, 90, American actress, author, and publisher, complications from fall.
* Robert Kupperman, 71, American terrorism expert at the CSIS, complications from Parkinson's disease.
*Juice Leskinen, 56, Finnish singer-songwriter, chronic kidney disease, cirrhosis, and diabetes mellitus.
*Frank L. Madla, 69, American member of the Texas State Legislature since 1973, house fire.
* Robert McFerrin, 85, American singer, father of Bobby McFerrin, heart attack.
*Thelma Scott, 93, Australian actress ('' Number 96''), heart attack.
*Max Soliven, 77, Filipino publisher of '' The Philippine Star'', cardiac arrest.
*George W. S. Trow, 63, American author and media critic, natural causes.
* Zdeněk Veselovský, 78, Czech zoologist, heart failure.

25

*Luciano Bottaro, 75, Italian comic book creator ('' Pepito'').
* Valentín Elizalde, 27, Mexican banda singer, shot.
* David Hermance, 59, American Toyota engineer ( Prius), plane crash.
*Melvin M. Webber, 86, American urban designer.

26

*Mário Cesariny, 83, Portuguese surrealist painter and author, cancer.
*Abu Hafs al-Urduni, 33, Iordan terrorist, killed by Russian troops.
*Leo Chiosso, 86, Italian songwriter.
* Dave Cockrum, 63, American comic book artist ('' X-Men'', ''Legion of Super-Heroes'', ''The Avengers''), complications from diabetes.
*Isaac Gálvez, 31, Spanish cyclist, cycling accident.
*Stephen Heywood, 37, American subject of the film ''So Much So Fast'', amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Anthony Jackson, 62, British actor, cancer.
*Giorgio Panto, 65, Italian television station owner and separatist politician, helicopter crash.
* Graham Roope, 60, British cricketer, heart attack.
*Rosa Mia, 81, Filipino actress and director.
* Raúl Velasco, 73, Mexican television presenter (''Siempre en Domingo''), hepatitis C.
*Fazlul Karim (scholar), 71, Islamic Scholer and Politician, Pir Shaheb Of Chormonai Darbar and Leader Of Islami Shashontantra Andolan, Natural Causes .

27

* Don Butterfield, 83, American jazz tuba player, played with Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Sinatra, stroke-related illness.
*Bebe Moore Campbell, 56, American author (''What You Owe Me''), brain cancer.
* Casey Coleman, 55, American sportscaster, winner of four Emmy Awards, pancreatic cancer.
* George Doig, 93, Australian football player.
* Alan Freeman, 79, British BBC DJ, natural causes.
*Larry Henderson, 89, Canadian first regular broadcaster on CBC Television's '' The National'', natural causes.
* Eddie Mayo, 96, American baseball player, natural causes.
*Susan Raab Simonson, 37, American theatre actress and producer, breast cancer.

28

* Ralph A. Erickson, 82, American politician.
* Rose Mattus, 90, British-born American co-founder of Häagen-Dazs ice cream, natural causes.
* Max Merkel, 87, Austrian football player and coach.
*Bernard Orchard, 96, British biblical scholar.
*Lyubov Polishchuk, 57, Russian actress, spinal disease.
* Primo Volpi, 90, Italian cyclist.
*Elliot Welles, 79, Austrian-born American Holocaust survivor and B'nai B'rith's prosecutor for Nazi war criminals, heart attack.
*Martha Lipton, 93, American Opera singer, Natural Causes .
*Mohammad Hanif (mayor), 62, Bangladeshi Politician, Mayor Of Dhaka City Corporation ( 1994–2002 ), Multiple Organ Failure .

29

* Rosalie Bradford, 63, American Guinness World Record-holder for heaviest woman, most weight lost, complications from obesity.
*Allen Carr, 72, English anti-smoking activist, lung cancer.
*Şenol Coşkun, 18, Turkish child actor ('' Zıpçıktı''), traffic collision.
*Jean Dulieu, 85, Dutch children's writer and comic strip cartoonist.
* Leonard Freed, 77, American photojournalist and member of the Magnum Photography Collective, complications of cancer.
* Akio Jissoji, 69, Japanese television and film director ('' Ultraman'', '' Ultra Seven''), stomach cancer.
* Emmett Kelly, 82, American clown and son of Emmett Kelly, complications from pneumonia.
*Leon Niemczyk, 82, Polish actor, lung cancer.
*Hanumant Singh, 67, Indian cricketer and International Cricket Council match referee, organ failure due to dengue fever and hepatitis B.
* Dewey Readmore Books, 19, Library cat, euthanized.
*William E. Nichol, 88, American politician from Nebraska.

30

*Rafael Buenaventura, 68, Filipino Governor of the Central Bank, kidney cancer.
* Colin Cramphorn, 50, British Chief Constable for West Yorkshire, prostate cancer.
*Leonard Greene, 88, American aviation safety device inventor, lung cancer.
* Perry Henzell, 70, Jamaican film director ('' The Harder They Come'') and author, cancer.
*Eli Mohar, 57, Israeli songwriter and columnist, pancreatic cancer.
* Shirley Walker, 61, American film score composer, brain aneurysm.

References

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