Deaths in November 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2001.

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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 2001

1

• Solange Chaput-Rolland, 82, Canadian journalist, author, and politician.
• Tom Cheney, 67, American Major League Baseball player.[1]
• Bob Woodruff, 85, American college football player, coach, and sports administrator.
• Richard Halsey Best, 91, American dive bomber pilot.

2

• Tom Dardis, 78, American author and editor (Avon Books, Berkley Publishing Corporation).[2]
• Hank Gremminger, 68, American professional football player (Baylor, Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams).[3]
• Elazar Shach, 102, Lithuanian Haredi rabbi.
• William Whitlock, 83, British politician.

3

• Evan Adermann, 74, Australian politician.
• Luis Alfredo Arango, 65, Guatemalan poet.
• Denis Gallagher, 79, Irish politician.
• Sir Ernst Gombrich, 92, Austrian-born British art historian.

4

• Bob Gillespie, 82, American baseball player.[4]
• Arthur Guepe, 86, American football player and coach.
• Ng Eng Teng, 67, Singaporean sculptor.
• Nikolai Vladimirovich Astakhov, 79, Russian scientist.

5

• Andrew Bagby, 28, American doctor and murder victim whose killing was documented in the movie: Dear Zachary[5]
• Milan D. Bish, 72, American diplomat (Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, and St. Vincent).[6]
• Roy Boulting, 87, English filmmaker.[7]
• Ervin Conradt, 85, American politician and farmer.
• Milton William Cooper, 87, American conspiracy theorist, radio broadcaster, and author, shot during arrest.
• Barry Horne, 49, English animal rights activist, liver failure after hunger strike.
• Joan Marion, 93, British stage, film and television actress.

6

• Gray Morrow, 67, American comic book artist and book illustrator.[8]
• Peter Kenneth Newman, 73, British economist.
• Anthony Shaffer, 75, English playwright (Sleuth), screenwriter and novelist.[9]
• John Simon White, 61, Austrian-born American opera director.

7

• Bobby Bass, 65, American stunt performer.
• Nida Blanca, 65, Filipino actress.[10]
• Sachiko Hidari, 71, Japanese actress.
• Geoffrey Jenkins, 81, South African writer.

8

• Paolo Bertoli, 93, Italian cardinal, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church.
• Peter Laslett, 85, British historian.[11]
• Patrick Quinlan, Irish academic and politician.

9

• Denis Atkinson, 75, Barbadian cricketer, captain of West Indies.
• Dorothy Dunnett, 78, Scottish historical novelist.
• Koichi Chiba, 70, Japanese voice actor and sound director.
• Niels Jannasch, 77, German-Canadian marine historian and the founding director of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.[12]
• Giovanni Leone, 93, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1963;1968) and President (1971–1978)

10

• Mariya Havrysh, 70, Soviet-Ukrainian Olympic swimmer (women's 200-metre breaststroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[13]
• Ken Kesey, 66, American author, counter-cultural figure.
• Michael Lucas, 2nd Baron Lucas of Chilworth, 75, British politician.
• Junji Nishime, 80, Japanese politician.

11

• John R. Foley, 84, American politician (U.S. Representative for Maryland's 6th congressional district from 1959 to 1961).[14]
• Leon Gray, 49, American professional football player (Jackson State, New England Patriots, Houston Oilers, New Orleans Saints).[15]
• Sir Denis Spotswood, 85, British Chief of the Air Staff (1971–1974)

12

• Bert Axell, 86, British naturalist and conservationist.[16]
• Carrie Donovan, 73, American fashion editor (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine).[17]
• Albert Hague, 81, German-American composer (Redhead, How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and actor (Fame, Space Jam).[18]
• Tony Miles, 46, English chess player.
• Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, 74, American Saivite guru

13

• Karuna Banerjee, 81, Indian actress.
• Robert C. Eckhardt, 88, American politician (U.S. Representative for Texas's 8th congressional district from 1967 to 1981).[19]
• Panama Francis, 82, American swing jazz drummer.[20]
• Frank Messer, 76, American sportscaster.
• Peggy Mount, 86, English actress (Oliver!, The Princess and the Goblin).
• Ray Robinson, 61, English cricketer.
• Cornelius Warmerdam, 86, American pole vaulter.

14

• Charlotte Coleman, 33, British actress (Four Weddings and a Funeral).[21]
• Juan Carlos Lorenzo, 79, Argentine football player and coach.[22]
• Nathan M. Pusey, 94, American university educator.

15

• Geoffrey Blodgett, 70, American historian.
• Megan Boyd, 86, British fly tyer.
• Edwin H. Colbert, 96, American paleontologist, researcher and author.
• Loyal Garner, 55, American Hawaiian musician ("Lady of Love").[23]
• Satoru Kobayashi, 71, Japanese film director, bladder cancer.
• Lewis Render Morgan, 88, American judge.[24]
• Ernie Stewart, 92, American baseball umpire.
• Laurence Thursting, 86, English cricketer.

16

• Tal Abernathy, 80, American baseball player.[25]
• Rosemary Brown, 85, British composer and spiritualist.
• Tommy Flanagan, 71, American jazz pianist, brain aneurysm.[26]
• Edgar Ross, 95, Australian journalist and communist.
• Isaac Scott, 56, American guitarist and singer.
• Red Steiner, 86, American baseball player.[27]

17

• John M. Dawson, 71, American computational physicist and the father of plasma-based acceleration techniques.[28]
• Jerry Jerome, 89, American jazz and big band tenor saxophonist (Glenn Miller, Red Norvo, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw).[29]
• Michael Karoli, 53, German guitarist, singer, violinist and cellist (Can).[30]
• Billy Vessels, 70, American football player.
• Harrison A. Williams, 81, American politician.

18

• Seyed Khalil Alinezhad, 43, great master of the spiritual instrument tanbur, recognized as one of the best tanbur players ever known, murdered and burnt.
• Mel Deutsch, 86, American baseball player.[31]
• Walter Matuszczak, 83, American football player.
• Malcolm McFee, 52, English actor, cancer.
• Uttamrao Patil, 80, Indian politician.
• Ela Peroci, 79, Slovene children's book writer.

19

• Baghdasar Arzoumanian, 85, Armenian architect and designer.
• Roland Beamont, 81, British fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force.
• Harry Burton, 33, Australian journalist and cameraman, murdered by the Taliban.
• Maria Grazia Cutuli, 39, Italian reporter with the Corriere della Sera, murdered by the Taliban.
• John Farnsworth Wright, 72, British economist.
• Marcelle Ferron, 77, Canadian Québécoise artist and a member of Les Automatistes.[32]
• Bagrat Ulubabyan, 75, Armenian writer and historian.

20

• James Broad, 43, American heavyweight boxer
• Kassi Manlan, 53, Côte d'Ivoire World Health Organization aid worker, murdered.
• Borko Temelkovski, 81, Macedonian politician and communist leader.

21

• David Owen Belew Jr., 81, American judge (United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas).[33]
• Fritz Herzog, 98, German-born American mathematician.
• Gardner McKay, 69, American actor (Adventures in Paradise), artist and author.[34]
• Salahuddin of Selangor, 77, Malaysian king (11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and 8th Sultan of Selangor).[35]

22

• Mary Kay Ash, 83, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.
• Theo Barker, 78, British social and economic historian.[36]
• Norman Granz, 83, American jazz music impresario and record producer.[37]

23

• Vendramino Bariviera, 64, Italian racing cyclist.
• Bo Belinsky, 64, American baseball player.[38]
• O. C. Smith, 69, American singer ("Little Green Apples").[39]
• Mary Whitehouse, 91, British campaigner against permissiveness.

24

• Tommy Gallacher, 79, Scottish footballer.
• Rachel Gurney, 81, British actress (Upstairs, Downstairs).[40]
• Robert Helps, 73, American concert pianist and composer.[41]
• Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, 87, European royalty, sister of Prince Philip.
• Melanie Thornton, 34, American singer, plane crash near Zürich.

25

• Alan Bray, 53, British historian and gay rights activist.
• Harry Devlin, 83, American artist, painter and magazine cartoonist (Collier's).[42]
• David Gascoyne, 85, English poet (Surrealist movement).[43]
• George Mock, 94, American labor leader.
• Jean-Louis Palladin, 55, French-born American chef.

26

• Regine Hildebrandt, 60, German biologist and politician (Social Democratic Party of Germany), breast cancer.
• Joe Modise, 72, South African political activist.
• Ulf Strömberg, Swedish cameraman, rifle shots.
• Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, 58, Finnish-Sami writer, musician (performed at the opening ceremony of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games) and artist.[44]
• Kim Young-moo, 57, South Korean poet and literary critic, cancer.

27

• Ray Frankowski, 82, American professional football player (Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Dons).[45]
• Gordon Freeth, 87, Australian politician (House of Representatives) and diplomat (Japan, United Kingdom).[46]
• Fei-Ping Hsu, 51, Chinese-American pianist.[47]
• Joe Hin Tjio, 82, American cytogeneticist.
• Jane Welsh, 96, British actress.

28

• Kal Mann, 84, American lyricist ("Teddy Bear", "Butterfly", "Let's Twist Again").[48]
• William Reid, 79, Scottish World War II bomber pilot and war hero (Victoria Cross).[49]
• Michael Yates, 82, British television designer.

29

• Viktor Astafyev, 77, Soviet and Russian writer.[50]
• Budd Boetticher, 85, American film director (seven westerns starring Randolph Scott).[51]
• Mic Christopher, 32, Irish singer-songwriter.[52]
• George Harrison, 58, British musician and former member of The Beatles.[53]
• John Knowles, 75, American author, A Separate Peace.[54]
• Marcelino Lopez, 58, Cuban-American baseball player.[55]
• John Mitchum, 82, American character actor (Dirty Harry series, Telefon, F Troop).[56]
• Erwin Thaler, 71, Austrian Olympic bobsledder (two-time winner of the silver medal for the four-man bobsled: 1964 Winter Olympics, 1968 Winter Olympics).

30

• Lawrence Coughlin, 72, American lawyer and politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district from 1969 to 1993), cancer.[57]
• Ernst Hufschmid, 88, Swiss footballer.
• Pappy Sherrill, 86, American Old Time and Bluegrass fiddler.
• Robert Tools, 59, first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart.
• Walt Zirinsky, 81, American football player.

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