Deaths in November 2007

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

30

• Engin Arık, 59, Turkish physicist, plane crash. [1]
• Seymour Benzer, 86, American genetic biologist, stroke. [2]
• Dennis Keene, 73, British poet and translator. [3] (Japanese)
• Robert "Evel" Knievel, Jr., 69, American stunt performer. [4] [5]
• Patrick Mason, 21, American bassist (Arsonists Get All the Girls). [6]
• François-Xavier Ortoli, 82, French President of the European Commission (1973–1977). [7]

29

• Ralph Beard, 79, American college basketball player for the University of Kentucky involved in point-shaving scandal. [8]
• Henry Hyde, 83, American member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois (1975–2007). [9]
• Jim Nesbitt, 76, American country music singer. [10]
• Emily Sander, 18, American murder victim. [11]
• Roger Bonham Smith, 82, American chairman and CEO of General Motors (1981–1990). [12] [13]

28

• Jeanne Bates, 89, American actress. [14]
• Elly Beinhorn, 100, German pilot, aviatrix and author. [15] (German)
• Fred Chichin, 53, French musician, songwriter and leader of Les Rita Mitsouko, cancer. [16]
• Lonnie Heckman, 38, American songwriter ("When I See Beth Smiling"), kidney failure. [17]
• Tony Holland, 67, British co-creator of EastEnders. [18]
• Petter C.G. Sundt, 62, Norwegian shipping magnate, cancer. [19] (Norwegian)
• Ashley Titus, 36, South African rapper and TV presenter ("Mr. Fat"), heart problems. [20]
• Gudrun Wagner, 63, German co-organizer of the Bayreuth Festival, wife of Wolfgang Wagner. [21]

27

• Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale, 95, British civil servant. [22]
• Bernie Banton, 61, Australian asbestosis compensation campaigner, mesothelioma. [23]
• Larry Bland, 67, American historian and managing editor of Journal of Military History. [24]
• Robert Cade, 80, American doctor, inventor of Gatorade, kidney failure. [25]
• Natalia Durova, 73, Russian animal trainer and writer. [26] [27] (Russian)
• Nicodemus Kirima, 71, Kenyan Roman Catholic Archbishop of Nyeri, kidney failure. [28]
• Cecil Payne, 84, American saxophonist. [29]
• Jane Rule, 76, Canadian author of lesbian-themed works. [30]
• Sean Taylor, 24, American football player (Washington Redskins), homicide by gunshot. [31]
• Bill Willis, 86, American football player (Ohio State, Cleveland Browns). [32]

26

• William Aubuchon Jr., 91, American former president of Aubuchon Hardware, heart condition. [33]
• Roberto Del Giudice, 67, Italian actor and dubber (Lupin III). [34] (Italian)
• George Harris, 84, Australian football administrator, former Carlton president. [35]
• Bill Hartack, 74, American Hall of Fame jockey, five-time winner of the Kentucky Derby, heart attack. [36]
• Silvestre S. Herrera, 90, Mexican-born American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. [37]
• Takafumi Isomura, 76, Japanese politician, former mayor of Osaka, hepatocellular carcinoma. [38]
• Herb McKenley, 85, Jamaican 400 m relay gold medalist at 1952 Summer Olympics. [39]
• Stanley Thorne, 89, British politician, Labour MP for Preston South and Preston (1974–1987). [40]
• Mel Tolkin, 94, American head writer for Your Show of Shows. [41]
• Susan Williams-Ellis, 89, British founder of Portmeirion Pottery. [42]

25

• Marit Allen, 66, British costume designer and fashion editor, brain aneurysm. [43]
• Lola Almudevar, 29, British news reporter, car accident. [44]
• John Drury, 80, American television journalist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [45]
• Peter Lipton, 53, American philosopher, heart attack. [46]
• Karl Ohs, 61, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana (2001–2005), brain cancer. [47]
• Matt Price, 46, Australian journalist (Nine Network, The Australian), brain tumour. [48]

24

• Farid Babayev, Russian politician with the Yabloko party, homicide by gunshot. [49]
• Casey Calvert, 26, American guitarist for emo/post-hardcore band Hawthorne Heights. [50]
• Imil Jarjoui, 72, Palestinian member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the PLO executive committee, heart attack. [51]
• Antonio Lamer, 74, Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1990–2000), heart disease. [52]
• Pete Malmi, 46, Finnish punk rock singer. [53] (Finnish)
• Joseph Minish, 91, American member of the US House of Representatives from New Jersey (1963–1985). [54]
• William O'Neill, 77, American politician, Governor of Connecticut (1980–1991), complications of emphysema. [55]
• David Sheldon, 43, American professional wrestler ("Angel of Death"). [56]

23

• Peter Burgstaller, 43, Austrian former footballer, shot. [57]
• Frank Guarrera, 83, American baritone with the Metropolitan Opera. [58]
• Joe Kennedy, 28, American baseball player. [59]
• Vladimir Kryuchkov, 83, Russian former KGB chief, led coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. [60]
• Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, 36, Bolivian footballer, cancer. [61]
• William Tallon, 72, British servant to HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. [62]
• Francesc Candel Tortajada, 82, Spanish Catalan writer, cancer. [63] (Spanish)
• Leona Tuttle, 111, American supercentenarian, 14th-oldest American. [64]
• Pat Walsh, 71, New Zealand rugby union player and selector, All Black (1955–1964). [65]

22

• Brenda Joyce (actress), 95, American actress.
• Maurice Béjart, 80, French choreographer. [66]
• Jefferson J. DeBlanc, 86, American fighter pilot, Medal of Honor recipient, pneumonia. [67]
• Takami Eto, 82, Japanese politician, former member of the House of Representatives, heart failure. [68] (Japanese)
• Reitaro Ito, 82, Japanese sculptor, brain tumor. [69] (Japanese)
• Verity Lambert, 71, British TV producer, BBC's first female producer (Doctor Who). [70]
• Reg Park, 79, British bodybuilder, Mr. Universe (1951), skin cancer. [71]

21

• Fernando Fernán Gómez, 86, Spanish actor. [72]
• Tom Johnson, 79, Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player, heart failure. [73]
• Richard Leigh, 64, American author (The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail). [74]
• Noel McGregor, 75, New Zealand Test cricketer. [75]
• Go Misawa, 79, Japanese composer. [76] (Japanese)
• Herbert Saffir, 90, American engineer, co-creator of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale; complications from surgery. [77]

20

• Nigel Bridge, Baron Bridge of Harwich, 90, British judge. [78]
• James Lamond, 78, British Lord Provost of Aberdeen, MP (Oldham East and Oldham Central and Royton) (1970–1992), pneumonia. [79]
• Ernest "Doc" Paulin, 100, American jazz musician. [80] [81]
• Ian Smith, 88, Rhodesian politician, Prime Minister (1964–1979). [82]

19

• André Bettencourt, 88, French Resistance fighter and politician. [83]
• Paul Brodie, 73, Canadian saxophonist. [84]
• Nyimpine Chissano, 37, Mozambican businessman, son of ex-president Joaquim Chissano, heart attack. [85]
• Franca Maria Corneli, 92, Italian futurist poet, natural causes. [86] (Italian) [87](Portuguese)
• Kevin DuBrow, 52, American rock singer (Quiet Riot). [88]
• Wiera Gran, 91, Polish singer and actress. [89] (Polish)
• Mike Gregory, 43, British Lions rugby league captain, motor neurone disease. [90]
• Peter Haining, 67, British author, heart attack. [91]
• Ken Leek, 72, British international footballer (Wales, Birmingham City). [92]
• Laulu Fetauimalemau Mata'afa, 79, Samoan educator, community worker, diplomat and former Member of Parliament. [93]
• Channaiah Odeyar, 91, Indian Lok Sabha Member of Parliament. [94]
• Graham Paddon, 57, British footballer (Norwich City, West Ham United). [95]
• Milo Radulovich, 81, American airman threatened by McCarthyism and championed by Edward R. Murrow, stroke. [96]
• Jim Ringo, 75, American professional football player (Green Bay Packers). [97]
• John Straffen, 77, British murderer, Britain's longest serving prisoner (56 years), natural causes. [98]
• Magda Szabó, 90, Hungarian writer. [99]
• Dick Wilson, 91, British-born American actor ("Mr. Whipple"), natural causes. [100] [101]

18

• John Hughey, 73, American steel guitar player, credited with developing a "crying sound", heart complications. [102]
• Ellen Preis, 95, Austrian fencer, gold medallist at the 1932 Summer Olympics, kidney failure. [103]
• Joe Shaw, 79, British footballer, appearance record holder for Sheffield United. [104]
• Paul Wasserman, 73, American publicist (Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Jack Nicholson), respiratory failure. [105]
• Chickie Williams, 88, American country music singer and wife of Doc Williams. [106]

17

• Irving Bluestone, 90, American negotiator for UAW, heart failure. [107]
• Landis Everson, 81, American poet, apparent suicide by gunshot. [108]
• Oleg Gazenko, 88, Russian space scientist. [109] [110]
• Hy Lit, 73, American radio disc jockey, Parkinson's disease. [111]
• Robert Evander McNair, 83, American politician, Governor of South Carolina (1965–1971), brain cancer. [112]
• Ambroise Noumazalaye, 74, Congolese politician, Prime Minister (1966–1968). [113] (French)
• R. S. Pathak, 82, Indian jurist, former Chief Justice of India, heart attack. [114]
• Vernon Scannell, 85, British poet, after long illness. [115]

16

• Harold Alfond, 93, American businessman and philanthropist. [116]
• Yury Borisov, 50, Russian film director and screenwriter, myocardial infarction. [117] (Russian)
• Gene H. Golub, 75, American mathematician and computer scientist, myeloid leukemia. [118]
• Pierre Granier-Deferre, 80, French film director. [119]
• Grethe Kausland, 60, Norwegian actress and singer, lung cancer. [120]
• Trond Kirkvaag, 61, Norwegian comedian, cancer. [121] (Norwegian)
• Don Metz, 91, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs). [122]
• James Daniel Niedergeses, 90, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville (1975–1992), hemorrhage. [123]
• Victor Rabinowitz, 96, American lawyer for left-wing clients and causes [124]
• Andrea Stretton, 55, Australian arts journalist and television presenter, lung cancer. [125]

15

• John Cross Jr, 82, American pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama when bombed, stroke. [126]
• Sergio del Valle Jiménez, 80, Cuban general and politician, former army chief of staff and minister. [127]
• Domokos Kosáry, 94, Hungarian historian, president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1990–1996). [128]
• Audrey McCall, 92, American widow of former Governor of Oregon Tom McCall. [129]
• Joe Nuxhall, 79, American Major League Baseball pitcher and broadcaster for the Cincinnati Reds, cancer. [130]

14

• Michael Blodgett, 68, American actor and screenwriter (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls), heart attack. [131]
• Ronnie Burns, 72, American actor, adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, cancer. [132]
• Bertha Fry, 113, American supercentenarian, third-oldest person in the world, pneumonia. [133]
• Jan Kaczmarek, 62, Polish singer and songwriter, columnist, comedian, Parkinson's disease. [134] (Polish)
• Bud Mills, 40, American drummer for death metal band Insanity, esophageal cancer. [135]
• Yadav Pant, 82, Nepalese economist and politician. [136]
• Merle Sande, 68, American pioneer of HIV/AIDS treatment, multiple myeloma . [137]
• Pablo Antonio Vega Mantilla, 88, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic Bishop of Juigalpa. [138]

13

• Wahab Akbar, 47, Filipino politician, representative for Basilan province, explosion. [139]
• Harold J. Berman, 89, American Harvard Law School professor (1948–1985). [140]
• Alec Cooke, Baron Cooke of Islandreagh, 87, former Northern Ireland Senator. [141]
• John Doherty, 72, British football player for Manchester United (1952–1957) and Busby Babe. [142]
• Hugh Gibbons, 91, Irish parliamentarian and Gaelic football player. [143]
• Tony Harris, 36, American basketball player (Washington State Cougars), possible suicide. [144]
• Kazuhisa Inao, 70, Japanese Hall of Fame baseball player for the Nishitetsu Lions (1956-1969), cancer. [145]
• Jeffrey Owen Jones, 63, American film professor, inspired "Mr Jones" in Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man", lung cancer. [146] [147]
• Sho Kazakura, 71, Japanese avant-garde artist, lung cancer. [148] (Japanese)
• Erik Kurmangaliev, 47, Russian-Kazakh opera singer, liver disease. [149] (Russian)
• John Loveridge, 82, British Member of Parliament (1970–1983). [150]
• Robert Taylor, 59, American 4x100 m relay gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, cardiac arrhythmia. [151]
• Monty Westmore, 84, American Academy Award-nominated makeup artist. [152]
• Peter Zinner, 88, American Academy Award-winning film editor (The Deer Hunter). [153]

12

• Ferdinando Baldi, 80, Italian screenwriter, film director and producer. [154] (Italian)
• Louis Galen, 82, American philanthropist and banker, heart failure. [155]
• Bob Holbert, 84, American racing driver, six-time class winner of 12 Hours of Sebring. [156]
• Ying Hope, 84, Chinese Canadian politician. [157]
• Khanmohammed Ibrahim, 88, Indian test cricketer. [158]
• Vijay Kumar Khandelwal, 71, Indian parliamentarian. [159]
• Piet Koornhof, 82, South African politician, former minister and ambassador. [160]
• Ira Levin, 78, American author (Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives) and playwright (Deathtrap), heart attack. [161]
• Tinius Nagell-Erichsen, 73, Norwegian publisher (Schibsted group, inc. Aftenposten and Verdens Gang). [162]
• Janlavyn Narantsatsralt, 50, Mongolian Prime Minister (1998–1999), car crash. [163]
• A. Palanisamy, 74, Indian volleyball player. [164]
• Peter "Cool Man" Steiner, 90, Swiss musician and entertainer, fall. [165] (German)
• Lester Ziffren, 101, American reporter during Spanish Civil War, screenwriter and diplomat, heart failure. [166]

11

• Anders Hald, 94, Danish statistician. [167] (Danish)
• Yukio Hayashida, 91, Japanese politician (House of Councillors), governor of Kyoto, Minister of Justice, heart failure. [168] (Japanese)
• Kojiro Kusanagi, 78, Japanese actor, interstitial lung disease. [169]
• Berkeley Lent, 86, American judge on the Oregon Supreme Court, heart attack. [170]
• Delbert Mann, 87, American Academy Award-winning film director (Marty, Separate Tables, The Bachelor Party), pneumonia. [171]
• Dick Nolan, 75, American NFL player and coach (San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints), father of 49ers coach Mike Nolan. [172]
• Omwony Ojwok, 60, Ugandan politician, former minister, heart failure. [173]
• Nick Okai, 60, Japanese dance creator, cirrhosis. [174] (Japanese)
• John Petersen, 62, American musician, drummer with The Beau Brummels and Harpers Bizarre, heart attack. [175]
• Tadahiro Sekimoto, 80, Japanese electronics engineer and business executive, former president and chairman of NEC, stroke. [176]
• Trish Williamson, 52, British TV-AM weather presenter and producer, car crash. [177]

10

• Yeshayahu Ben Porat, 80, Israeli journalist, cancer. [178]
• Laraine Day, 87, American actress (Foreign Correspondent, The High and the Mighty). [179]
• John Fee, 43, Irish nationalist politician, brain tumour. [180]
• Augustus F. Hawkins, 100, American member of the US House of Representatives from California (1963–1991). [181]
• Norman Mailer, 84, American Pulitzer Prize–winning author (The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song), renal failure. [182]
• John H. Noble, 84, American prisoner in Russian gulag and author (I Was a Slave in Russia), heart attack. [183]
• Tatsuro Shigaki, 73, Japanese film producer, hypoxic failure. [184] (Japanese)
• John Wilfred Stanier, 82, British Army field marshal, retired Chief of the General Staff. [185]

9

• Luis Herrera Campins, 82, Venezuelan President (1979–1984), after long illness. [186]
• Bill Hosokawa, 92, Japanese American author and journalist. [187]

8

• John Arpin, 70, Canadian pianist and composer, cancer. [188]
• Stephen Fumio Hamao, 77, Japanese Roman Catholic cardinal, former bishop of Yokohama, lung cancer. [189]
• R. Scott Hitt, 49, American AIDS campaigner, former chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, colorectal cancer. [190]
• Francine Parker, 81, American film director (FTA), heart failure. [191]
• Dulce Saguisag, 64, Filipino politician, former Secretary of Department of Social Welfare and Development, car accident. [192]
• Bungo Tsuda, 89, Japanese politician, former governor of Kanagawa Prefecture, colorectal cancer. [193] (Japanese)
• Chad Varah, 95, British Anglican priest, founder of the Samaritans. [194] [195]

7

• Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, Finnish mass murderer, suicide by gunshot. [196]
• Hobart Brown, 74, American sculptor, founder of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, pneumonia. [197]
• Earl Dodge, 74, American presidential candidate (Prohibition Party), heart attack. [198]
• Paul Dojack, 93, Canadian CFL referee. [199]
• George W. George, 87, American Broadway and film producer (My Dinner With Andre), Parkinson's disease. [200]
• Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch, 100, German-American geneticist. [201]
• Arthur Hezlet, 93, British Royal Navy Vice-Admiral, submariner and naval historian. [202]
• Lidia Ivanova, 71, Russian TV journalist, announcer and writer, diabetes. [203] (Russian)
• Alejandra Meyer, 70, Mexican telenovela actress, heart failure. [204] (Spanish)

6

• Enzo Biagi, 87, Italian journalist. [205]
• Hilda Braid, 78, British actress (EastEnders, Citizen Smith). [206]
• John Grenier, 77, American politician, former executive director of the Republican National Committee. [207]
• George Grljusich, 68, Australian sports broadcaster, lung cancer. [208]
• Jim Hawthorne, 88, American radio and television host, heart failure. [209]
• Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, c.45, Afghan politician, former commerce minister, bomb blast injuries. [210]
• Fred W. McDarrah, 81, American photographer (Village Voice), documented the rise of the Beat Generation. [211]
• George Osmond, 90, American patriarch of the Osmond singing family. [212]
• Jimmy Staggs, 72, American radio disk jockey, esophageal cancer. [213]
• Hank Thompson, 82, American country music singer, lung cancer. [214] [215]
• Sarah Wernick, 64, American medical writer, endometrial cancer. [216]
• Hajji Muhamad Arif Zarif, Afghan businessman, chairman of the parliamentary Economics Committee, bomb blast injuries. [217]

5

• Roberto Bortoluzzi, 86, Italian sports journalist and radio broadcaster. [218]
• Nils Liedholm, 85, Swedish football midfielder and coach. [219]
• Marie-Rose Mueller, 111, American supercentenarian. [220]
• Paul Norris, 93, American comic book artist, co-creator of Aquaman. [221]
• Donn Pohren, 78, American writer and flamenco expert. [222].
• Paul Soloway, 66, American five-time world bridge champion, complications of infection. [223]

4

• Cyprian Ekwensi, 86, Nigerian author. [224]
• Swami Gahanananda, 91, Bangladeshi religious leader, 14th President of the Ramakrishna Order. [225]
• Hideo Hagiwara, 94, Japanese painter. [226] (Japanese)
• Lennart Rönnback, 102, Finnish veteran of the Finnish Civil War, last of the White Guard. [227] (Finnish)
• Peter Viertel, 86, German-born American author and screenwriter. [228]

3

• Peter Andren, 61, Australian independent MP, pancreatic cancer. [229] [230]
• Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville, 78, French-born British Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham (1982–1999). [231]
• Aleksandr Dedyushko, 45, Russian actor, car crash. [232] (Russian)
• Marilyn Martinez, 52, American stand up comedian, colon cancer. [233]
• Donald Matthews, 82, American political scientist and author. [234]
• Martin Meehan, 62, Irish Sinn Féin politician, heart attack. [235]
• Mary Walker Phillips, 83, American textile artist, Alzheimer's disease. [236]
• George Ratterman, 80, American professional football player (Cleveland Browns), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [237]
• Ryan Shay, 28, American long-distance runner, heart attack during Olympic marathon trials. [238]
• Enrique Gimeno Teixidó, 78, Spanish creator of Festival Casals in Mexico, heart attack. [239] (Spanish)

2

• Oreste Benzi, 82, Italian Roman Catholic priest. [240]
• Mirosław Breguła, 43, Polish singer (Universe), suicide. [241] (Polish)
• Henry Cele, 58, South African actor (Shaka Zulu) and soccer player. [242]
• Charmaine Dragun, 29, Australian television news presenter, apparent suicide by jumping. [243]
• Lillian Ellison, 84, American professional wrestler ("The Fabulous Moolah"). [244][245]
• Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard, 91, British soldier and courtier, Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps (1972–1981). [246]
• Don Freeland, 82, American racecar driver (Indianapolis 500). [247]
• Witold "Vitek" Kiełtyka, 23, Polish drummer (Decapitated), injuries from bus crash. [248].
• Igor Moiseyev, 101, Russian choreographer, heart failure. [249]
• Jean Pierre Reguerraz, 68, Argentine actor. [250]
• Reay Tannahill, 77, British food historian and novelist. [251]
• S.P. Thamilselvan, 40, Sri Lankan leader of Tamil Tigers, air strike. [252]
• Taku Yamada, 76, Japanese choreographer, multiple organ failure. [253] (Japanese)

1

• Peter Berle, 69, American president of the National Audubon Society (1985–1995), barn collapse. [254]
• Sonny Bupp, 79, American child actor (Our Gang, Citizen Kane). [255]
• Charles Cassidy, 54, American Philadelphia police officer, shot. [256]
• S. Ali Raza, 85, Indian Bollywood screenwriter, heart failure. [257]
• Paul Tibbets, 92, American pilot, commander of the Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, heart failure. [258] [259]