Deaths in November 1997
The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1997.
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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 1997
1
- Wolfgang Abel, 92, Austrian anthropologist and Nazi racial biologist.
- Gérard Légaré, 89, Canadian politician.
- Bruno Michaud, 62, Swiss footballer and manager.
- Victor Mills, 100, American chemical engineer for the Procter & Gamble company.[1]
2
- Ken Cooper, 74, American football player and coach.[2]
- Ayya Khema, 74, German-American Buddhist teacher.
- Helen Stevenson Meyner, 68, American politician.[3]
- Shōshin Nagamine, 90, Japanese karate Master, mayor and author.
- Gerhard Neumann, 80, German-American aviation engineer.
- Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, 71, French-Swiss banker, emphysema.[4]
- G. Harry Stine, 69, American engineering writer and science fiction author, stroke.
3
- Ronald Barnes, 70, American carillon performer, composer and arranger, leukemia.
- Wally Bruner, 66, American journalist and television host.[5]
- Satyapramoda Tirtha, Indian guru and philosopher.
4
- Johnny Dickshot, 87, American baseball player.[6]
- Morton Fetterolf, 85, American politician.
- Desmond Gordon, 85, British Army officer.
- Ranesh Das Gupta, 85, Bangladeshi writer, journalist and politician.
- Richard Hooker, 73, American writer and surgeon, leukemia.[7]
- William L. Stevens, 65, American Episcopal bishop, complications following a stroke.[8]
5
- James Robert Baker, 50, American novelist and screenwriter, suicide.[9]
- Yemane Baria, 48, Eritrean singer-songwriter.
- Sir Isaiah Berlin, 88, British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian.[10]
- Louise Campbell, 86, American actress.[11]
- Peter Jackson, 33, Australian rugby league footballer, drug overdose.
- Philip Roberts, 91, British Army officer.
- William C. Watson, 59, American actor.
6
- Luigi Cantone, 80, Italian fencer and Olympic champion.
- Ray Daniel, 69, Welsh football player and manager.
- Leon Forrest, 60, American novelist.[12]
- Anne Stine Ingstad, 79, Norwegian archaeologist.
- Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, 82, British politician and peer.[13]
- Helen Lowe, 99, Scottish accountant, charity worker and activist.
- Josef Pieper, 93, German Catholic philosopher.
- Lillian Rogers Parks, 100, American housemaid and seamstress in the White House.[14]
- Epic Soundtracks, 38, British musician.
- Jane Thurgood-Dove, 34, Australian murder victim, shot.[15]
7
- Sheila Bellush, 35, American murder victim, shot.
- Al Ciraldo, 76, American sportscaster.
- Clyde Gilmour, 85, Canadian broadcaster and journalist
- Margaret Harshaw, 88, American opera singer and voice teacher.[16]
- Mitchell P. Kobelinski, 69, American banker and attorney.[17]
8
- Lam Ching-ying, 44, Hong Kong stuntman and actor, liver cancer.
- Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, 105, Iranian author.
- Robert John Kerr, Northern Irish loyalist, vapour explosion.[18]
- Michael Ward, 88, English actor.
9
- William Browning, 73, American concert pianist and vocal coach, stroke.
- Paul Haghedooren, 38, Belgian cyclist, heart attack.
- Carl Gustav Hempel, 92, German writer and philosopher.[19]
- Helenio Herrera, 87, French-Argentine football player and manager.[20]
- Leonard Matthews, 83, British publisher and editor.[21]
- Muriel Mussells Seyfert, 88, American astronomer.
- Cecil Smith, 89, Canadian figure skater.
10
- Lloyd Cardwell, 84, American football player and coach.
- Leon W. Johnson, 93, United States Air Force general, respiratory infection.[22]
- Ave Ninchi, 82, Italian actress.
- Tommy Tedesco, 67, American guitarist and studio musician, lung cancer.[23]
- Annie Dodge Wauneka, 87, American Navajo Nation activist.[24]
- Clifford Wilson, 91, British nephrologist and professor of medicine.
11
- William Alland, 81, American film producer, writer and director, complications of heart disease.
- Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka, 67, Malagasy writer, poet and politician.
- Rod Milburn, 47, American athlete, work-related accident.[25]
- Gintaras Ramonas, 35, Lithuanian politician.
12
- Luke Brown, 62, American professional wrestler known as Luke "Big Boy" Brown, stroke.
- Alberto Cavallone, 59, Italian film director and screenwriter.
- James Laughlin, 83, American poet and literary book publisher, complications following a stroke.[26]
- William Matthews, 55, American poet and essayist.
- Rainer Ptacek, 46, American guitarist and singer-songwriter, brain tumor.[27]
- Carola Standertskjöld, 56, Finnish jazz and pop singer, Alzheimer's disease.
- Carlos Surinach, 82, Spanish-American composer.[28]
- Sándor Szabó, 82, Hungarian actor.
- Chang Yu-sheng, 31, Taiwanese singer, songwriter and music producer, car accident.
13
- Alexandru Bârlădeanu, 86, Romanian Marxian economist.
- André Boucourechliev, 72, Bulgarian-French composer.
- Dietrich Lohmann, 54, German cinematographer, leukemia.[29]
- Onzy Matthews, 67, American jazz musician and actor, heart failure.
- P. Ravindran, 74, Indian politician.
- Samm Schwartz, 77, American comic artist.
- Moe Thacker, 63, American baseball player.[30]
14
- Eddie Arcaro, 81, American jockey.[31]
- Ann Bishop, 66, American broadcast journalist.
- Joel Lee Brenner, 85, American mathematician.[32]
- Paul Brown, 47, Welsh journalist and news presenter.
- Alba de Céspedes y Bertini, 86, Cuban-Italian writer.
- N. V. N. Somu, 60, Indian politician, helicopter crash.
15
- Aaron Brown, 53, American football player, traffic accident.
- Saul Chaplin, 85, American composer and musical director, complication from a fall.[33]
- Alf Day, 90, Welsh professional footballer.
- Warren Douglas, 86, American actor and screenwriter, heart failure.[34]
- Jim Kepner, 74, American journalist, author, archivist and gay rights activist.[35]
- Douglas MacArthur II, 88, American diplomat.[36]
- Dale Tryon, Baroness Tryon, 49, British businesswoman and socialite, sepsis.
16
- Albert L. Ireland, 79, United States Marine Corps sergeant and recipient of nine purple hearts.
- Georges Marchais, 77, French politician.[37]
- Russ Meyer, 74, American baseball player.
- Captain Mikey, 62, American disc jockey and voice-over actor, leukemia.
- Padmapriya, Indian actress.
- George O. Petrie, 85, American radio and television actor, lymphoma.[38]
- Roy Sheffield, 90, English cricketer.[39]
- Robert N. Thompson, 83, Canadian politician and chiropractor.
17
- Milič Čapek, 88, Czech–American philosopher.[40]
- Richard Sumner Cowan, 76, American botanist, brain trauma.
- David Ignatow, 83, American poet.
- Peter James, 73, English set decorator.
- Edwin Mansfield, 67, American academic, cancer.[41]
- Orlando Ribeiro, 86, Portuguese geographer and historian.
- John Wimber, 63, American Christian leader, mystic and musician, brain hemorrhage.[42]
18
- John Bird, 71, British politician.
- John Harvey, 86, English architectural historian.
- Un'ichi Hiratsuka, 102, Japanese printmaker.
- Fillmore K. Mearns, 82, United States Army lieutenant general.
19
- Mary Bernheim, 95, British biochemist.[43]
- Charles de Graft Dickson, 84, Ghanaian educationist and a politician.
- Yosef Rom, 65, Israeli engineer and politician.
- Alfred Roome, 88, English film editor.
- Kjell Schou-Andreassen, 57, Norwegian footballer and manager, leukemia.
20
- Asbjørn Aavik, 94, Norwegian Lutheran missionary to China and writer.
- Larry Ferrari, 65, American organist, leukemia.
- Dick Littlefield, 71, American baseball player.[44]
- Robert Palmer, 52, American writer, musician and blues producer, liver disease.[45]
21
- Bill Boyd, 91, American poker player.
- Gordon Darnell, 92, American Army officer, aviator and mechanic.
- Harold Geneen, 87, American businessman.[46]
- Julian Jaynes, 77, American psychologist.
- Robert Simpson, 76, English composer.
22
- Roger Brown, 55, American artist and painter.[47]
- Michael Hutchence, 37, Australian musician and actor, suicide by hanging.[48]
- Stefan Lorant, 96, Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author.[49]
- Joanna Moore, 63, American film and television actress, lung cancer.[50]
- Kalki Sadasivam, 95, Indian freedom fighter, singer, journalist and film producer.
23
- Hulda Crooks, 101, American mountaineer.[51]
- Ivan Đurić, 50, Serbian writer, professor, historian and politician, suicide.
- Robert Lewis, 88, American actor, director and author, heart failure.[52]
- Irene E. Ryan, 88, American geologist, aviator and legislator.
- Henry Wilson, Baron Wilson of Langside, 81, Scottish lawyer and politician.
24
- Barbara, French singer, respiratory problems.[53]
- Jorge Mas Canosa, 58, Cuban-American immigrant and anti-Castro lobbyist, lung cancer.[54]
- Czeslaw Brzozowicz, 86, Canadian engineer.
- John Cai Tiyuan, 76, Chinese Catholic bishop.
- Andrey Venediktovich Fyodorov, 91, Soviet philologist, translator and professor.
25
- Hastings Banda, 99, President of Malawi (1966–1994).[55]
- Cathee Dahmen, 52, American model, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- James H. Ellis, 73, British engineer and cryptographer.
- Eustace Fannin, 82, South African tennis player.
- Charles Hallahan, 54, American actor, heart attack.[56]
- Jewel King, 87, American rhythm and blues singer.
- Stephen McNichols, 83, American politician, heart failure.
- Elmore Morgenthaler, 75, American basketball player, pneumonia.
- M. Prabhakar Reddy, Indian film actor.
- Fenton Robinson, 62, American blues singer, brain cancer.[57]
26
- Rudolf Buhse, 92, German Wehrmacht officer and Bundeswehr general.
- Saroj Dey, 76, Indian film director.
- Marguerite Henry, 95, American children's author.[58]
- Werner Höfer, 84, German journalist.[59]
- Berton E. Spivy Jr., 85, United States Army general.
27
- David "D" Barron, 33, Mexican gang member, friendly fire.
- Eric Laithwaite, 76, British electrical engineer.
- Ida Lansky, Canadian-American photographer.
- Argelia Laya, 71, Venezuelan educator and women's rights activist.
- Buck Leonard, 90, American baseball player.[60]
- Gull-Maj Norin, 84, Danish actress.
- Yves Prévost, 89, Canadian politician.
- Branko Ružić, 78, Croatian painter and sculptor.
- Merike Talve, 40, Canadian curator, artist and writer, breast cancer.[61]
28
- Qemal Butka, Albanian architect, painter and politician.
- Henry Charnock, 76, British meteorologist.
- Wallace H. Clark Jr., American dermatologist and pathologist, ruptured aneurysm.[62]
29
- Thomas E. Autzen, 79, American philanthropist.
- Isabelle M. Kelley, 80, American social worker.
- Abdul Latif, 46, Indian criminal, shot.
- Ada Leonard, 82, American bandleader.[63]
- Heikki Savolainen, 90, Finnish artistic gymnast.
- George Sodeinde Sowemimo, 77, Nigerian jurist and Chief Justice.
- Coleman Young, 79, American politician, emphysema.[64]
30
- Kathy Acker, 50, American experimental novelist, playwright and essayist, cancer.[65]
- Fay E. Davis, 81, American artist, graphic designer and muralist.
- Glyn Dearman, 57, English actor, domestic accident.[66]
- Mary Fergusson, 83, British civil engineer.
- Leo Edward O'Neil, 69, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[67]
- Françoise Prévost, 67, French actress, journalist and author.
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