# Deaths in November 2002
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2002.
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 2002
### 1

* Ekrem Akurgal, 91, Turkish archaeologist.
* Yisrael Amir, 99, Israeli Air Force commander.
* Edward Brooke, 85, Canadian Olympic fencer (1952 Summer Olympics: men's foil, men's épée).
* Amadou Cissé Dia, 87, Senegalese politician and playwright.
* Käte Jaenicke, 79, German theater and film actress.
* Benjamin Keen, 89, American historian specialising in the history of colonial Latin America.
* Lester Morgan, 26, Costa Rican professional football goalkeeper, suicide.
* Keith A. Wester, 62, American sound engineer (The Rock, Air Force One, Armageddon).

### 2

* Brian Behan, 75, Irish writer and playwright, younger brother of Brendan Behan.
* Robert Haslam, Baron Haslam, 79, British industrialist and life peer.
* Lo Lieh, 63, Hong Kong actor, heart attack.
* Felicity Peake, 89, British Director of the Women's Royal Air Force.
* Tonio Selwart, 106, Bavarian actor and Broadway performer.
* Charles Sheffield, 67, English-born American science fiction author and physicist.

### 3

* Ulrika Babiaková, 26, Slovak astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, accident.
* Lonnie Donegan, 71, British skiffle musician ("Rock Island Line", "John Henry"), heart attack.
* John Habakkuk, 87, British economic historian.
* Jonathan Harris, 87, American actor (Lost in Space, A Bug's Life, The Third Man), heart failure.
* William M. Packard, 69, American poet and author.

### 4

* Raoul Diagne, 91, French football player.
* Antonio Margheriti, 72, Italian filmmaker, heart attack.
* Juan Araújo Pino, 81, Spanish football player.
* Malcolm Ross, 91, Canadian literary critic, pneumonia.
* Jerry Sohl, 88, American television scriptwriter and science fiction author.
* Ross Wilson, 83, Canadian ice hockey trainer (Detroit Red Wings).

### 5

* Vinnette Justine Carroll, 80, American Broadway director (Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, Your Arms Too Short to Box with God).
* Ansley J. Coale, 84, American demographer.
* Billy Guy, 66, American singer.
* Bunjaku Han, 54, Taiwanese actress, complications of cancer.
* Joaquín Navarro Perona, 81, Spanish football player.
* Arthur Winfree, 60, American theoretical biologist, known for his studies of biological oscillations.

### 6

* Alfonso Martínez Domínguez, 80, Mexican governor.
* Folke Frölén, 94, Swedish Olympic equestrian (equestrian at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
* Michel Majerus, 35, Luxembourgish artist, killed aboard Luxair Flight 9642.
* Sid Sackson, 82, American board game designer.
* Gianluca Signorini, 42, Italian footballer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Joginder Singh, 62, Indian hockey player and Olympic champion.
* Stefan Wagner, 89, Austrian football player.

### 7

* Rudolf Augstein, 79, German journalist and publisher, founder of Der Spiegel, pneumonia.
* Charles Hambro, Baron Hambro, 72, British merchant banker and political fundraiser.
* Dilys Hamlett, 74, British actress.
* James Grier Miller, 86, American biologist, a pioneer of systems science.
* Peg Phillips, 84, American actress (Northern Exposure), pulmonary disease.
* Tino Sabbadini, 74, French road bicycle racer.
* Pedro Juan Soto, 74, Puerto Rican writer, killed by police officers.

### 8

* Tom Barrington, 58, American gridiron football player (Ohio State, Washington Redskins, New Orleans Saints).
* Jon Elia, 70, Pakistani Marxist.
* Querube Makalintal, 91, Filipino Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
* Rudolf Noelte, 81, German film director, theater director and opera director.
* Zoé Oldenbourg, 86, Russian-born French historian and novelist.
* Christopher Parsons, 70, English wildlife film-maker and producer.
* Ke Zhao, 92, Chinese mathematician.

### 9

* Adrian Aeschbacher, 90, Swiss classical pianist.
* Bill Baxter, 78, Scottish footballer.
* Jan Hulsker, 95, Dutch art historian.
* Richard Jeffrey, 76, American philosopher, logician, and probability theorist, lung cancer.
* Cliff Patton, 79, American professional football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Cardinals).
* Merlin Santana, 26, American actor (The Steve Harvey Show, Getting By, The Cosby Show), shot.
* William Schutz, 76, American psychologist.
* Eusebio Tejera, 80, Uruguayan footballer.

### 10

* Michel Boisrond, 81, French film director and screenwriter, known for directing Brigitte Bardot in Naughty Girl.
* Anne-Marie Brunius, 86, Swedish film actress.
* Franco Fantasia, 78, Italian actor.
* Johnny Griffith, 66, American musician, heart attack.
* Émile Ollivier, 62, Haitian-Canadian writer.
* Ken Raffensberger, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds/Redlegs).
* Yevgeni Skomorokhov, 57, Russian football coach and player.
* Gert Westphal, 82, German-Swiss actor, recitator and director, cancer.

### 11

* Frances Ames, 82, South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist, leukemia.
* Sir Michael Clapham, 90, British industrialist.
* Zoe Ducós, 74, Argentine actress.
* Pietro Giudici, 81, Italian racing cyclist.
* Esther Raziel-Naor, 90, Israeli Zionist, Irgun leader and politician.
* Marcia Van Dyke, 80, American violinist and actress.
* Yoo Youngkuk, 86, Korean abstract artist.

### 12

* William Wallace Barron, 90, American politician (26th governor of West Virginia), indicted and pleaded guilty to jury tampering.
* Glenn Dobbs, 82, American gridiron football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Los Angeles Dons) and college football coach (University of Tulsa).
* Lester Holtzman, 89, American jurist and politician.
* Johannes Kerkorrel, 42, South African singer-songwriter, journalist and playwright, suicide by hanging.
* Nicholas Mukomberanwa, 62, Zimbabwean sculptor.

### 13

* Frederick Valentine Atkinson, 86, British mathematician (Atkinson's theorem, Atkinson–Wilcox theorem).
* Bill Berry, 72, American jazz trumpeter (Duke Ellington Orchestra, Bill Berry and the L.A. Band).
* Alexandru Dragomir, 86, Romanian philosopher.
* Roland Hanna, 70, American jazz pianist, composer, and teacher, viral infection.
* Kaloji Narayana Rao, 88, Indian poet, freedom fighter, and political activist.
* Siri Rom, 84, Norwegian actress.
* Irv Rubin, 57, Canadian chairman of the Jewish Defence League, fall.
* Juan Alberto Schiaffino, 77, Italian-Uruguayan football player.
* Rishikesh Shah, 77, Nepalese writer, politician and human rights activist.
* Michael Stewart, 57, American musician, songwriter, and producer, suicide.

### 14

* Eddie Bracken, 87, American actor (Hail the Conquering Hero, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, National Lampoon's Vacation), surgical complications.
* René Meléndez Brito, 73, Chilean football player, cancer.
* Walter Crocker, 100, Australian diplomat, writer and war veteran.
* James R. Hendrix, 77, US Army sergeant and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, cancer.
* Gourish Kaikini, 90, Indian litterateur, teacher and columnist.
* Elena Nikolaidi, 93, Greek-American opera singer and teacher.
* Gedong Bagus Oka, 81, Indonesian Hindu reformer and philosopher.
* Mir Qazi, 38, Pakistani convicted criminal, executed by lethal injection.
* Dale Emerson Saffels, 81, American lawyer, legislator, and District Judge.
* Manohar Singh, 64, Indian film and theatre actor and director, lung cancer.

### 15

* W. J. Burley, 88, British crime writer.
* André Clot, 93, French historian and essayist.
* Bert Granet, 92, American writer and television producer.
* Myra Hindley, 60, British serial killer, cardiovascular disease.
* Sohn Kee-chung, 90, Korean Olympic athlete and long-distance runner, pneumonia.
* Terry Kendall, 55, New Zealand golfer, car fire.
* Mary Meigs, 85, American painter and writer.
* John Joseph Stewart, 79, New Zealand rugby coach, cancer.

### 16

* Ramli Ahmad, 46, Malaysian Olympic sprinter (1976 Summer Olympics: men's 100 metres, men's 200 metres), stroke.
* George Barrie, 90, American businessman (owner and CEO of Fabergé Inc.) and songwriter (two-time nominee for Academy Award for Best Original Song).
* Steve Durbano, 50, Canadian ice hockey player (Pittsburgh Penguins, St. Louis Blues), lung cancer.
* Tom Farris, 82, American professional football player (University of Wisconsin, Chicago Bears, Chicago Rockets).
* George Gardiner, 67, British politician.
* Alfred Lewis Levitt, 86, American film and television screenwriter, heart failure.
* Sima Milovanov, 79, Serbian football player and manager.
* Frank Smithies, 90, British mathematician.

### 17

* Abba Eban, 88, Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, ambassador to the U.S., ambassador to the U.N.
* Frank McCarthy, 78, American artist and painter, lung cancer.
* Marvin Mirisch, 84, American film producer, cancer.
* Akshaya Mohanty, 65, Indian singer, musician and writer.
* Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, 72, Tibetan teacher of Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism.

### 18

* Bolot Beishenaliev, 65, Soviet cinematographer, film and theater actor.
* Angus Cameron, 93, American book editor and publisher, known for being blacklisted during McCarthy era.
* James Coburn, 74, American actor (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Affliction), Oscar winner (1999), heart attack.
* Francesco De Martino, 95, Italian jurist and politician, considered to be the conscience of the Italian Socialist Party.
* Kim Gallagher, 38, American middle-distance runner, stroke.
* Edith Hirsch Luchins, 80, Polish-American mathematician.
* Pasquale Vivolo, 74, Italian footballer.
* Juliusz Wyrzykowski, 56, Polish movie and stage actor.
* Zaldy Zshornack, 64, Filipino actor.

### 19

* Vito Ciancimino, 78, Italian politician (mayor of Palermo, Sicily) and Mafia member, heart attack.
* George Fullerton, 79, South African cricketer.
* K. M. George, 88, Indian writer and educator.
* Max Reinhardt, 86, British publisher.
* Jean-Claude Renard, 80, French poet.
* André Roch, 96, Swiss mountaineer, avalanche researcher, and author.
* Harry Watson, 79, Canadian professional hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks).

### 20

* Kakhi Asatiani, 55, Georgian football player and manager, shot.
* Billy Goelz, 84, American professional wrestler, booker and trainer.
* George Guest, 78, British organist and choirmaster.
* Niddy Impekoven, 98, German dancer and actress.
* Webster Lewis, 59, American jazz and disco composer, arranger and keyboardist, pneumonia and diabetes.
* Margita White, 65, American White House press official under Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford.

### 21

* Robert Brentano, 76, American historian specializing in medieval England and Italy.
* Hadda Brooks, 86, American jazz singer, pianist and composer, known as the "Queen of the Boogie".
* Amílcar de Castro, 82, Brazilian sculptor, known for works in iron.
* Arturo Guzmán Decena, 26, Mexican drug trafficker and founder of criminal syndicate Los Zetas, shot.
* George Emslie, Baron Emslie, 82, Scottish judge and life peer.
* Buddy Kaye, 84, American songwriter, producer, and author.
* Norihito, Prince Takamado, 47, Japanese prince, heart attack.

### 22

* Parley Baer, 88, American radio, television and film actor (The Andy Griffith Show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Addams Family), stroke.
* Joan Barclay, 88, American actress.
* Rafał Gan-Ganowicz, 70, Polish mercenary, journalist, and social activist, lung cancer.
* Adele Jergens, 84, American actress, pneumonia.
* Arne Mellnäs, 69, Swedish composer.
* C. S. Nayudu, 88, Indian cricket player.
* Azra Quraishi, 57, Pakistani botanist.
* Noël Regney, 80, French World War II veteran and songwriter, pick disease.
* Infanta Beatriz of Spain, 93, Spanish noblewoman and daughter of King Alfonso XIII.
* Tsuneharu Sugiyama, 62, Japanese Olympic wrestler, heart failure.

### 23

* Erna Bogen-Bogáti, 95, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1928 women's foil, 1932 bronze medal women's foil, 1936 women's foil).
* Boudewijn Büch, 53, Dutch writer, poet and television presenter, cardiac arrest.
* Maritie Carpentier, 79, French television show producer.
* Jackie Gayle, 76, American standup comedian and actor.
* Roberto Matta, 91, Chilean artist.
* Richard Mohr, 83, American producer of classical and operatic music recordings.
* Billy Travis, 41, American professional wrestler, heart attack.

### 24

* Branko Dangubić, 80, Yugoslavian and Serbian Olympic javelin thrower (men's javelin throw at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
* Noel Davis, 75, English film and television actor and casting director (Merlin, Reds), pulmonary emphysema.
* Mikhail Devyatayev, 85, Soviet fighter pilot who escaped from a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
* Harriet Doerr, 92, American author.
* Lewis Samuel Feuer, 89, American sociologist, philosopher, professor and author.
* Richard Lazarus, 80, American psychologist.
* Philip B. Meggs, 60, American graphic designer, leukemia.
* John Rawls, 81, American moral and political philosopher.
* John Tosi, 88, American football player.

### 25

* Ed Bliss, 90, American broadcast journalist and news editor.
* Charles E. Chamberlain, 85, American politician (U.S. Representative for Michigan's 6th congressional district), heart failure.
* Gordon Davidson, 87, Australian politician (member of Australian Senate representing South Australia).
* Woodrow W. Jones, 88, American politician and judge.
* John Drummond, 8th Earl of Perth, 95, British politician and aristocrat.
* Karel Reisz, 76, British film director (The French Lieutenant's Woman, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Gambler).
* Eugene V. Rostow, 89, American legal scholar and public servant.
* Meta Vannas, 78, Estonian Soviet politician.

### 26

* Frank Allaun, 89, British politician (member of Parliament for Salford East from 1955 to 1983).
* Ruzha Delcheva, 87, Bulgarian actress.
* Ralph Engelstad, 72, American casino executive (Imperial Palace).
* Erika Helmke, 96, German stage and film actress.
* Isabel McLaughlin, 99, Canadian painter and philanthropist.
* Polo Montañez, 47, Cuban singer and songwriter, traffic collision.
* Verne Winchell, 87, American business executive, president and CEO of Denny's, heart attack.

### 27

* Billie Bird, 94, American actress (Sixteen Candles, Ernest Saves Christmas, Home Alone, Dennis the Menace), Alzheimer's disease.
* Stanley Black, 89, English bandleader, composer, conductor and pianist.
* Laurence J. Burton, 76, American politician (U.S. Representative for Utah's 1st congressional district).
* George Christian, 75, American journalist, White House press secretary for President Lyndon B. Johnson.
* Bob deLauer, 82, American gridiron football player (USC, Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams).
* Larry Duran, 77, American actor and stuntman.
* Edwin L. Mechem, 90, American politician.
* Yeruham Meshel, 90, Israeli union leader and politician.
* Wolfgang Preiss, 92, German theatre, film and television actor.
* Robert W. Straub, 82, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.
* Shivmangal Singh Suman, 87, Indian poet, heart attack.

### 28

* Melih Cevdet Anday, 87, Turkish author.
* Lennaert Nijgh, 57, Dutch lyricist, gastrointestinal bleeding.
* Billy Pearson, American jockey, film actor, and an art dealer.
* Juan Carlos Díaz Quincoces, 69, Spanish football player.

### 29

* Damien Covington, 29, American gridiron football player (Buffalo Bills), killed in an attempted robbery.
* Daniel Gélin, 81, French film and television actor, kidney failure.
* Saburo Ienaga, 89, Japanese historian.
* John Justin, 85, British stage and film actor.
* David Weiss, 93, American novelist (Naked Came I).

### 30

* Alan Ashman, 74, English football player.
* Charles E. Dibble, 93, American academic, anthropologist, linguist, and scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.
* Kozaburo Hirai, 92, Japanese composer and professor of music.
* Oddrunn Pettersen, 65, Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
* Bill Sparks, 80, British Royal Marine commando during World War II.
* Mr. Wrestling, 68, professional wrestler, heart attack.