Deaths in November 2006
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2006.
November 2006
1
- Bettye Ackerman, 82, American actress (Ben Casey), stroke. [1]
- Jason DiEmilio, 36, American guitarist (Azusa Plane), overdose. [2]
- Daniel Garcia, 80, Mexican professional wrestler and actor better known as Huracán Ramírez, heart attack. [3]
- Buddy Killen, 73, American record producer, founder of Dial Records, pancreatic cancer. [4]
- Florence Klotz, 86, American Tony Award-winning costume designer, heart failure. [5]
- Johnny Schofield, 75, British footballer for Birmingham City, former manager of Atherstone Town, complications from an illness. [6]
- Adrienne Shelly, 40, American actress (Trust, Unbelievable Truth), screenwriter, director (Waitress), murder by strangulation. [7]
- William Styron, 81, American writer (Darkness Visible, Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice), pneumonia. [8]
- Hilda van Stockum, 98, Dutch Newbery Medal-winning author of children's books, stroke. [9]
- Silvio Varviso, 82, Swiss conductor of the Vlaamse Opera, illness. [10]
2
- Rafael Donato, 69, Filipino President of DLSU-Manila (1991–1994), President of De La Salle Lipa (1995–2003), drowned. [11]
- Adrien Douady, 71, French mathematician. [12]
- Wally Foreman, 58, Australian sports commentator, heart attack. [13]
- Red Hayworth, 91, American baseball player. [14]
- Carroll Knicely, 77, American publisher, Commerce Secretary for three Kentucky governors. [15]
- Leonard Schrader, 62, American screenwriter (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Mishima), brother of Paul Schrader, heart failure. [16]
- Derek Turnbull, 79, New Zealand runner. [17]
- Milly Vitale, 74, Italian actress, natural causes. [18]
3
- Belden Bly, 92, American legislator in the Massachusetts House (1948–1979). [19]
- Frank Dunham, Jr., 64, American federal public defender, head lawyer for Zacarias Moussaoui, brain cancer. [20]
- Sir Allen Fairhall, 96, Australian member of the House of Representatives (1949–1969), Minister for Defence (1966–1969). [21]
- Fereydoun Hoveyda, 82, Syrian-born Iranian ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1979), cancer. [22]
- Paul Mauriat, 81, French musician (L'Amour Est Bleu). [23]
- Sputnik Monroe, 77, American professional wrestler, respiratory illness. [24]
- Malachi Ritscher, 52, American anti-war protester, self-immolation. [25]
- Marie Rudisill, 95, American "Fruitcake Lady" on The Tonight Show, aunt of Truman Capote, natural causes. [26]
- Stanley Rothenberg, 76, American lawyer, former president of Copyright Society, complications of popliteal aneurysm surgery. [27]
- Alberto Spencer, 68, Ecuadorian footballer (Peñarol, Ecuador), highest scorer in Copa Libertadores, infection after heart surgery. [28]
4
- Dajan Ahmet, 44, Estonia actor, car accident. [29]
- Brebis Bleaney, 91, British physicist. [30]
- Nelson S. Bond, 97, American writer. [31]
- William Lee Brent, 75, American Black Panther who hijacked a plane to Cuba, bronchial pneumonia. [32]
- Lionel Bryer, 78, South African dentist who founded the Aberdeen International Youth Festival. [33]
- Frank Arthur Calder, 91, Canadian aboriginal politician. [34]
- Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, American co-author of Cheaper by the Dozen, natural causes. [35]
- John McManners, 89, British historian, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford University (1972–1984). [36]
- Sergi López Segú, 39, Spanish footballer for FC Barcelona, brother of Gerard López, suicide under a train. [37]
5
- Samuel Bowers, 82, American former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, convicted over murder of Vernon Dahmer, cardiac arrest. [38]
- Chen Ding-nan, 63, Taiwanese Justice Minister (2000–2005), lung cancer. [39]
- Chuck DeShane, 87, American football quarterback (Detroit Lions). [40]
- Bülent Ecevit, 81, Turkish former Prime Minister, complications following a stroke. [41]
- George Esser, 85, American civil rights advocate, set up the North Carolina Fund. [42]
- Oscar González, 82, Uruguayan Grand Prix driver. [43]
- Frank Marsden, 83, British Labour MP (1971–1974). [44]
- Pietro Rava, 90, Italian former football player, last surviving member of the 1938 World Cup-winning team, Alzheimer's disease. [45]
- Ham Richardson, 73, American tennis player, US Open doubles winner, diabetes complications. [46]
- Francis Schuckardt, 69, American Traditional Catholic Bishop, rejected decrees of Second Vatican Council, throat cancer. [47]
- Bobby Shearer, 74, Scottish former footballer (Hamilton Academical, Rangers), illness. [48]
6
- Miguel Aceves Mejía, 90, Mexican singer and actor known as "the king of the falsetto", bronchitis. [49]
- Francisco Fernández-Ochoa, 56, Spanish retired alpine skier, gold medallist in the 1972 Winter Olympic Games, cancer. [50]
- Federico López, 44, Puerto Rican basketball player in two Olympic Games and three world championships, heart attack. [51]
- J. T. Rutherford, 85, American Democrat Representative for Texas (1955–1963), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [52]
7
- Paul Baltes, 67, German developmental psychologist, cancer. [53]
- John Coburn, 81, Australian artist, winner of the 1960 and 1977 Blake Prize. [54]
- Buddy Kerr, 84, American baseball shortstop (New York Giants), natural causes. [55]
- Jackie Parker, 74, American football player, All-American, head coach and general manager, throat cancer. [56]
- Bryan Pata, 22, American football player (Miami Hurricanes), shot. [57]
- Johnny Sain, 89, American Major League Baseball pitcher, complications from a stroke. [58]
- Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 82, French journalist and politician, complications from bronchitis. [59]
- Brian Thomson, 87, British chairman of D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd (1974–2005). [60]
- Polly Umrigar, 80, Indian cricket team captain (1955–1958), lymphoma. [61]
8
- Rhodes Fairbridge, 92, Australian geologist at Columbia University and expert on climate change, brain tumour. [62]
- Sir James Hunt, 63, British judge in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, brain tumour. [63]
- Lia Looveer, 86, Estonian-born Australian politician. [64]
- Basil Poledouris, 61, American film composer (Conan the Barbarian, RoboCop, Starship Troopers), cancer. [65]
- Annette Rogers, 93, American athlete, 4 x 100 metres relay gold medalist at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics, stroke. [66]
9
- Ed Bradley, 65, American CBS News journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, leukemia. [67]
- Garton del Savio, 92, American baseball player, illness. [68]
- Marian Marsh, 93, American 1930s actress (Hell's Angels, Svengali), respiratory arrest. [69]
- John Yancey Schmitt, 33, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
- Sam Stephenson, 72, Irish architect, designed the Central Bank and Wood Quay, complications from heart surgery. [70]
- Ellen Willis, 64, American journalist, professor, feminist activist and critic, lung cancer. [71]
- Markus Wolf, 83, German former head of East Germany's secret intelligence service, natural causes. [72]
10
- Benny Andrews, 75, American painter, cancer. [73]
- Diana Coupland, 74, British actress (Bless This House), complications following heart surgery. [74]
- Gabriel Donoso, 46, Chilean polo player, fall from a horse. [75]
- Maurice Floquet, 111, France's oldest man ever. [76]
- Doug Friedline, 49, American campaign manager for Jesse Ventura, heart attack. [77]
- Gerald Levert, 40, American R&B singer, son of The O'Jays lead singer Eddie Levert, accidental acute intoxication. [78]
- Chubby Oates, 63, British Cockney comedian, heart attack. [79]
- Jack Palance, 87, American Academy Award-winning actor (Shane, City Slickers), natural causes. [80]
- Nadarajah Raviraj, 44, Sri Lankan Tamil National Alliance MP, shot. [81]
- Igor Sergeyev, 68, Russian Defense Minister (1997–2001), the only Marshal of the Russian Federation, cancer. [82]
- Jack Williamson, 98, American science fiction author. [83]
11
- Anicée Alvina, 53, French actress, cancer. [84]
- Belinda Emmett, 32, Australian actress (Home and Away), metastatic breast cancer. [85]
- Jabu Khanyile, 49, South African musician who played at the Johannesburg Live 8 concert, prostate cancer. [86]
- Esther Lederberg, 83, American microbiologist at Stanford, discovered lambda phage, pneumonia and heart failure. [87]
- Harry Lehotsky, 49, Canadian anti-poverty advocate and newspaper columnist, pancreatic cancer. [88]
- Ronnie Stevens, 81, British comedy actor. [89]
- Joop van Domselaar, 78, Dutch Olympic shooter. [90]
12
- Alphonse Halimi, 74, French boxer, former world bantamweight champion, pneumonia. [91]
- Harvey Manning, 81, American conservationist and author. [92]
- Mario Merola, 72, Italian singer and actor, heart attack. [93]
- Jacob E. Smart, 97, American Air Force general and NASA executive, former deputy C-in-C of the US European Command. [94]
- Joseph Ungaro, 76, American journalist. [95]
- H. Donald Wilson, 82, American founder of LexisNexis, heart attack. [96]
13
- Desert Orchid, 27, British National Hunt racehorse, winner of the King George VI Chase on four occasions. [97]
- Konrad Fuchs, 109, German believed to be oldest living Catholic priest, WWI combat veteran. [98]
14
- John Hallam, 65, Northern Irish actor. [99]
- Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, 77, French writer and journalist.[100]
- Ana Carolina Reston, 21, Brazilian model, complications of anorexia nervosa. [101]
- G. Gordon Strong, 92, Canadian-American publisher, pneumonia. [102]
- Pete Suder, 90, American baseball player. [103]
15
- George G. Blackburn, 90, Canadian author (Guns of Normandy), member of the Order of Canada, cancer. [104]
- John Blackburn, 93, American songwriter ("Moonlight in Vermont", "Susquehanna"), natural causes. [105]
- Ken Ishikawa, 58, Japanese manga artist, co-creator of Getter Robo anime series, heart failure. [106]
- Paul Rigby, 82, Australian cartoonist, heart attack. [107]
- Owen Truelove, 69, British RAF Air Commodore, glider crash. [108]
- David K. Wyatt, 69, American historian of Thailand, emphysema and heart failure. [109]
16
- Frank Durkan, 76, Irish-born American lawyer, advocate for members of the Irish Republican Army in the US, lung infection. [110]
- Milton Friedman, 94, American monetarist and free-market economist, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize, heart failure. [111]
- Gary Graver, 68, American cinematographer for Orson Welles (F for Fake, The Other Side of the Wind), cancer. [112]
- Geoff Griffin, 67, South African cricketer, heart attack. [113]
- Yuri Levada, 76, Russian sociologist and pollster, heart attack. [114]
- Jack Macpherson, 69, American surfboarder, liver and renal failure. [115]
- Paris Theodore, 63, American firearm inventor and manufacturer, multiple sclerosis. [116]
- John Veale, 84, British classical composer, cancer. [117]
17
- Sir John Acland, 77, British general, commander of forces in Rhodesia (1979–1980). [118]
- Ruth Brown, 78, American blues singer, complications of a heart attack and stroke. [119]
- Tony Pithey, 73, South African cricketer, pancreatic cancer. [120]
- Ferenc Puskás, 79, Hungarian former footballer and coach, pneumonia. [121]
- Flo Sandon's, 82, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival (1953). [122] (Italian)
- Bo Schembechler, 77, American University of Michigan football head coach (1969–1989), heart problems. [123]
18
- Movladi Baisarov, 40, Chechen warlord and commander of Federal Security Service, shot. [124]
- Roger Bolton, 59, British trade unionist, cancer. [125]
- Maurice W. Graham, 89, American "Patriarch of the Hobos" and author, stroke. [126]
- Keith Rowlands, 70, Welsh CEO of the International Rugby Board. [127]
19
- William G. Beasley, 86, British oriental historian. [128]
- Dirk Dirksen, 69, American promoter of punk rock. [129]
- Sir Edward Ford, 96, British assistant and private secretary to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II (1946–1967). [130]
- Smith Hempstone, 77, American journalist and ambassador to Kenya (1989–93), complications from diabetes. [131]
- Emanuel Hurwitz, 87, British violinist. [132]
- Khir Johari, 83, Malaysian Education Minister, heart attack. [133]
- Ernest Pusey, 111, American supercentenarian, last Floridian World War I veteran. [134]
- Julio Ramos, 71, Argentine journalist, director (Ámbito Financiero), leukemia. [135]
- Jeremy Slate, 80, American actor (The Born Losers, The Devil's Brigade), esophageal cancer. [136]
20
- Robert Altman, 81, American film director (MASH, Nashville, Short Cuts), complications from leukemia. [137]
- Zoia Ceauşescu, 56, Romanian mathematician, daughter of Nicolae Ceauşescu, lung cancer. [138]
- William R. P. George, 94, British archdruid, bard, novelist, nephew of Prime Minister David Lloyd George. [139]
- Donald Hamilton, 90, American spy fiction writer. [140]
- Walid Hassan, 47, Iraqi television comedian, shot. [141]
- Chris Hayward, 81, American creator of Dudley Do-Right and The Munsters, illness. [142]
- Hong Xuezhi, 94, Chinese general, unspecified illness. [143]
- Kevin McClory, 80, Irish film producer (Never Say Never Again).[144]
- Saúl Ubaldini, 69, Argentine labor leader and parliamentarian for the Peronist party, lung cancer. [145]
- Andre Waters, 44, American football player, suicide. [146]
21
- Svein Erik Bakke, 59, Norwegian entrepreneur. [147] (Norwegian)
- Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, 80, Romanian priest, dissident Nicolae Ceauşescu's rule, pancreatic cancer. [148]
- Pierre Gemayel, 34, Lebanese Minister of Industry, shot. [149]
- Hassan Gouled Aptidon, 90, Dijiboutian first President, natural causes. [150]
- Robert Lockwood, Jr., 91, American blues guitarist and singer, respiratory failure. [151]
- Bernard Rimland, 78, American autism researcher, prostate cancer. [152]
- Eliezer Waldenberg, 89, Israeli Haredi rabbi. [153]
- Sir Harold Young, Australian Liberal politician, President of the Senate (1981–1983). [154]
22
- John Allan Cameron, 67, Canadian pioneer of Celtic music, bone cancer. [155]
- Muriel Castanis, 80, American sculptor, lung failure. [156]
- Pat Dobson, 64, American Major League Baseball pitcher, leukemia. [157]
- Gilles Grégoire, 80, Canadian politician and co-founder of Parti Québécois. [158] (French)
- Roy Newell, 92, American abstract expressionist painter, cancer. [159]
- John Peyton, Baron Peyton of Yeovil, 87, British Minister of Transport (1970–1974) and MP (1951–1983). [160]
23
- Jerry Bails, 73, American popular culture and comic book historian, heart attack. [161]
- Jesús Blancornelas, 70, Mexican journalist, founding editor of Zeta magazine, stomach cancer. [162]
- Gerald M. Boyd, 56, American managing editor of The New York Times, lung cancer. [163]
- Nick Clarke, 58, British BBC presenter and journalist, cancer. [164]
- Richard Clements, 78, British journalist, editor of Tribune (1961–1982). [165]
- Betty Comden, 89, American lyricist known for writing musicals with Adolph Green including Singin' in the Rain, heart failure. [166]
- Jack Ferrante, 90, American football player for the Philadelphia Eagles. [167]
- Ştefan Haukler, 64, Romanian Olympic fencer. [168]
- Roy M. Hopkins, 63, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. [169]
- Alexander Litvinenko, 43, Russian spy and critic of Vladimir Putin, poisoning. [170]
- Philippe Noiret, 76, French actor (Il Postino, Cinema Paradiso), cancer. [171]
- Anita O'Day, 87, American jazz singer, pneumonia. [172]
- Willie Pep, 84, American Hall of Fame featherweight boxer, Alzheimer's disease. [173]
24
- Walter Booker, 72, American jazz bassist (Cannonball Adderley Quintet), cardiac arrest. [174]
- John Bridgers, 84, American athletic director at the University of New Mexico, congestive heart failure. [175]
- William Diehl, 81, American author (Primal Fear, Sharky's Machine), aortic aneurysm. [176]
- Phyllis Fraser, 90, American actress, author, and publisher, complications from fall. [177]
- Robert Kupperman, 71, American terrorism expert at the CSIS, complications from Parkinson's disease. [178]
- Juice Leskinen, 56, Finnish singer-songwriter, renal insufficiency, cirrhosis, and diabetes. [179]
- Frank L. Madla, 69, American member of the Texas State Legislature since 1973, house fire. [180]
- Robert McFerrin, 85, American singer, father of Bobby McFerrin, heart attack. [181]
- Thelma Scott, 93, Australian actress (Number 96), heart attack. [182]
- Max Soliven, 77, Filipino publisher of The Philippine Star, cardiac arrest. [183]
- George W. S. Trow, 63, American author and media critic, natural causes. [184]
- Zdeněk Veselovský, 78, Czech zoologist, heart failure. [185]
25
- Luciano Bottaro, 75, Italian comic book creator (Pepito). [186] (Italian)
- Valentín Elizalde, 27, Mexican banda singer, shot. [187]
- David Hermance, 59, American Toyota engineer (Prius), plane crash. [188]
- Emilio Vedova, 87, Italian painter. [189]
- Melvin M. Webber, 86, American urban designer. [190]
26
- Mário Cesariny, 83, Portuguese surrealist painter and author, cancer. [191]
- Leo Chiosso, 86, Italian songwriter. [192] (Italian)
- Dave Cockrum, 63, American comic book creator (X-Men, Legion of Super-Heroes), complications from diabetes. [193]
- Isaac Gálvez, 31, Spanish cyclist, cycling accident. [194]
- Stephen Heywood, 37, American subject of the film So Much So Fast, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [195]
- Anthony Jackson, 62, British actor, cancer. [196]
- Giorgio Panto, 65, Italian television station owner and separatist politician, helicopter crash. [197] (Italian)
- Graham Roope, 60, British cricketer, heart attack. [198]
- Raúl Velasco, 73, Mexican television presenter (Siempre en Domingo), natural causes. [199]
27
- Don Butterfield, 83, American jazz tuba player, played with Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Sinatra, stroke-related illness. [200]
- Bebe Moore Campbell, 56, American author (What You Owe Me), brain cancer. [201]
- Casey Coleman, 55, American sportscaster, winner of four Emmy Awards, pancreatic cancer. [202]
- George Doig, 93, Australian football player. [203]
- Alan Freeman, 79, British BBC DJ, natural causes. [204]
- Larry Henderson, 89, Canadian first regular broadcaster on CBC Television's The National, natural causes. [205]
- Annie Knight, 111, British supercentenarian, oldest person in United Kingdom. [206]
- Eddie Mayo, 96, American baseball player, natural causes. [207]
- Susan Raab Simonson, 37, American theatre actress and producer, breast cancer. [208]
28
- Rose Mattus, 90, British-born American co-founder of Häagen-Dazs ice cream, natural causes. [209]
- Max Merkel, 87, Austrian football player and coach. [210]
- Bernard Orchard, 96, British biblical scholar. [211]
- Lyubov Polishchuk, 57, Russian actress, spinal disease. [212]
- Robert Volpe, 63, American art theft detective, heart attack. [213]
- Primo Volpi, 90, Italian cyclist. [214]
- Elliot Welles, 79, Austrian-born American Holocaust survivor and B'nai B'rith's prosecutor for Nazi war criminals, heart attack. [215]
29
- Rosalie Bradford, 63, American Guinness World Record-holder for heaviest woman, most weight lost, complications from obesity. [216]
- Allen Carr, 72, English anti-smoking activist, lung cancer. [217]
- Leonard Freed, 77, American photojournalist and member of the Magnum Photography Collective, complications of cancer. [218]
- Akio Jissoji, 69, Japanese television and film director (Ultraman, Ultra Seven), stomach cancer. [219]
- Emmett Kelly, 82, American clown and son of Emmett Kelly, complications from pneumonia. [220]
- Leon Niemczyk, 82, Polish actor, lung cancer. [221]
- Bishan Singh Ram Singh, 62, Malaysian social activist and environmentalist, pulmonary embolism. [222]
- Hanumant Singh, 67, Indian cricketer and International Cricket Council match referee, organ failure due to dengue fever and hepatitis B. [223]
30
- Rafael Buenaventura, 68, Filipino Governor of the Central Bank, kidney cancer. [224]
- Colin Cramphorn, 50, British Chief Constable for West Yorkshire, prostate cancer. [225]
- Leonard Greene, 88, American aviation safety device inventor, lung cancer. [226]
- Perry Henzell, 70, Jamaican film director (The Harder They Come) and author, cancer. [227]
- Shirley Walker, 61, American film score composer, brain aneurysm. [228]