Deaths in November 2006

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

November 2006

1

• Bettye Ackerman, 82, American actress (Ben Casey), stroke.
• Jason DiEmilio, 36, American guitarist (Azusa Plane), overdose.
• 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), murder by strangulation.
• 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.
• 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, Estonia 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 under a 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, 44, Puerto Rican basketball player in two Olympic Games and three world championships, heart attack.
• J. T. Rutherford, 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

• 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.
• Marian Marsh, 93, American 1930s actress (Hell's Angels, Svengali), respiratory arrest.
• 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.
• 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.
• Maurice Floquet, 111, France's oldest man ever.
• 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 Academy Award-winning actor (Shane, City Slickers), natural causes.
• 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, 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

• Desert Orchid, 27, British National Hunt racehorse, winner of the King George VI Chase on four occasions.
• Konrad Fuchs, 109, German believed to be oldest living Catholic priest, WWI combat veteran.

14

• John Hallam, 65, Northern Irish actor.
• Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, 77, French writer and journalist.
• Ana Carolina Reston, 21, Brazilian model, complications of anorexia nervosa.
• G. Gordon Strong, 92, Canadian-American publisher, pneumonia.
• Pete Suder, 90, American baseball player.

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.
• Paul Rigby, 82, Australian cartoonist, heart attack.
• Owen Truelove, 69, British RAF Air Commodore, glider crash.
• 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.
• 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). (Italian)
• Bo Schembechler, 77, American University of Michigan football head coach (1969–1989), heart problems.
• Ramez Tebet, 70, Brazilian politician and lawyer, cancer. (Portuguese)

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.
• Ernest Pusey, 111, American supercentenarian, last Floridian World War I veteran.
• 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.

21

• Svein Erik Bakke, 59, Norwegian entrepreneur. (Norwegian)
• Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, 80, Romanian priest, dissident Nicolae Ceauşescu's rule, pancreatic cancer.
• 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, 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. (French)
• 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.
• 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.

24

• 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, renal insufficiency, cirrhosis, and diabetes.
• 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). (Italian)
• Valentín Elizalde, 27, Mexican banda singer, shot.
• David Hermance, 59, American Toyota engineer (Prius), plane crash.
• Emilio Vedova, 87, Italian painter.
• Melvin M. Webber, 86, American urban designer.

26

• Mário Cesariny, 83, Portuguese surrealist painter and author, cancer.
• Leo Chiosso, 86, Italian songwriter. (Italian)
• Dave Cockrum, 63, American comic book creator (X-Men, Legion of Super-Heroes), 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. (Italian)
• Graham Roope, 60, British cricketer, heart attack.
• Raúl Velasco, 73, Mexican television presenter (Siempre en Domingo), 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.
• Annie Knight, 111, British supercentenarian, oldest person in United Kingdom.
• Eddie Mayo, 96, American baseball player, natural causes.
• Susan Raab Simonson, 37, American theatre actress and producer, breast cancer.

28

• 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.
• Robert Volpe, 63, American art theft detective, heart attack.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• Bishan Singh Ram Singh, 62, Malaysian social activist and environmentalist, pulmonary embolism.
• Hanumant Singh, 67, Indian cricketer and International Cricket Council match referee, organ failure due to dengue fever and hepatitis B.

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.
• Shirley Walker, 61, American film score composer, brain aneurysm.