# Deaths in November 1997
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1997.
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.
* Jon-Henri Damski, 60, American essayist, columnist, poet, and gay rights activist, cancer.
* Serge Hutin, 70, French author of books on esoterica and the occult.
* Gérard Légaré, 89, Canadian politician.
* Roger Marche, 73, French football player.
* Bruno Michaud, 62, Swiss footballer and manager.
* Victor Mills, 100, American chemical engineer for the Procter & Gamble company.
* Cullen Rogers, 76, American gridiron football player.

### 2

* Ken Cooper, 74, American football player and coach.
* Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, 71, French-Swiss banker, emphysema.
* Ayya Khema, 74, German-American Buddhist teacher, breast cancer.
* Roy McMillan, 68, American baseball player, coach and manager.
* Helen Stevenson Meyner, 68, American politician.
* Maulana Habibullah Mukhtar, 53, Pakistani Islamic scholar and writer.
* Shōshin Nagamine, 90, Japanese karate Master, mayor and author.
* Gerhard Neumann, 80, German-American aviation engineer, leukemia.
* Tony Novis, 91, English rugby football player.
* Harold Plenderleith, 99, Scottish art conservator and archaeologist.
* Bernhard Plettner, 82, German engineer and manager.
* Carson Smith, 66, American jazz double-bassist.
* G. Harry Stine, 69, American writer and science fiction author, stroke.

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* Wally Bruner, 66, American journalist and television host, liver cancer.
* Attilio Conton, 95, Italian long-distance runner and Olympian.
* Antoine Cuissard, 73, French football player and manager.
* Vladimir Guliayev, 73, Soviet actor of theater and cinema.
* Ashot Navasardyan, 47, Armenian politician and military commander, heart attack.
* Satyapramoda Tirtha, Indian guru and philosopher.

### 4

* Noboru Aota, 72, Japanese baseball player, lung cancer.
* George Chambers, 69, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
* René-Jean Clot, 84, French painter and novelist.
* Wilfred Coutts, 89, Australian politician.
* Johnny Dickshot, 87, American baseball player.
* Ranesh Das Gupta, 85, Bangladeshi writer, journalist and politician.
* Richard Hooker, 73, American surgeon and writer, leukemia.

### 5

* James Robert Baker, 50, American novelist and screenwriter, suicide by asphyxiation.
* Yemane Baria, 48, Eritrean singer-songwriter.
* Isaiah Berlin, 88, British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian.
* Louise Campbell, 86, American actress.
* Camilla Cederna, 86, Italian writer and editor, cancer.
* Peter Jackson, 33, Australian rugby league footballer, drug overdose.
* George Philip Bradley Roberts, 91, British Army officer.
* William C. Watson, 59, American actor.

### 6

* Luigi Cantone, 80, Italian fencer and Olympic champion.
* Norbert Carbonnaux, 79, French film director and screenwriter.
* Ray Daniel, 69, Welsh football player and manager.
* Jahangir Forouhar, 81, Iranian actor.
* Leon Forrest, 60, American novelist.
* Annie Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, 82, British politician and peer, cerebrovascular disease, bronchopneumonia.
* Anne Stine Ingstad, 79, Norwegian archaeologist.
* Lillian Rogers Parks, 100, American housemaid and seamstress in the White House.
* Josef Pieper, 93, German Catholic philosopher.
* Epic Soundtracks, 38, British musician, drug overdose.
* Jane Thurgood-Dove, 34, Australian murder victim, shot.

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* Lloyd Hamilton Donnell, 102, American mechanical engineer.
* Clyde Gilmour, 85, Canadian broadcaster and journalist
* Margaret Harshaw, 88, American opera singer and voice teacher.
* Bae Hee-han, 90, Korean master carpenter
* Rafael Hernández, 69, Spanish film actor.
* Mitchell P. Kobelinski, 69, American banker and attorney.
* Paul Ricard, 88, French industrialist and creator of Pernod Ricard.

### 8

* Henry Bland, 87, Australian public servant.
* Lam Ching-ying, 44, Hong Kong stuntman and actor, liver cancer.
* Prosper Depredomme, 79, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, 102, Iranian author.
* Robert John Kerr, Northern Irish loyalist, vapour explosion.
* Fedir Medvid, 54, Ukrainian and Soviet football player.
* Michael Ward, 88, English actor.

### 9

* Paul Haghedooren, 38, Belgian cyclist, heart attack.
* Carl Gustav Hempel, 92, German writer and philosopher, pneumonia.
* Helenio Herrera, 87, French-Argentine football player and manager.
* Leonard Matthews, 83, British publisher and editor.
* Joe Roccisano, 58, American jazz saxophonist and arranger.
* Moody Sarno, 83, American football player and coach.
* Cecil Smith, 89, Canadian figure skater.
* Wu Xiuquan, 89, Chinese communist revolutionary, military officer, and diplomat.

### 10

* Lloyd Cardwell, 84, American football player and coach.
* Leon W. Johnson, 93, United States Air Force general, respiratory infection.
* Ave Ninchi, 82, Italian actress.
* Tommy Tedesco, 67, American guitarist and studio musician, lung cancer.
* Annie Dodge Wauneka, 87, American Navajo Nation activist.

### 11

* William Alland, 81, American film producer (Creature from the Black Lagoon, It Came from Outer Space) and actor (Citizen Kane), complications from heart disease.
* Max Bangerter, 86, Swiss gymnast and Olympian.
* Shake Keane, 70, Vincentian jazz musician and poet, stomach cancer.
* Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka, 67, Malagasy writer, poet and politician.
* Rod Milburn, 47, American athlete, work-related accident.
* Gintaras Ramonas, 35, Lithuanian politician.
* Menahem Max Schiffer, 86, German-American mathematician.

### 12

* Luke Brown, 62, American professional wrestler known as Luke "Big Boy" Brown, stroke.
* Alberto Cavallone, 59, Italian film director and screenwriter.
* Tom Chang, 31, Taiwanese singer, songwriter, and music producer.
* James Laughlin, 83, American poet and literary book publisher, complications following a stroke.
* William Matthews, 55, American poet and essayist.
* Rainer Ptacek, 46, American guitarist and singer-songwriter, brain tumor.
* Carola Standertskjöld, 56, Finnish jazz and pop singer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Carlos Surinach, 82, Spanish-American composer.
* Sándor Szabó, 82, Hungarian actor.
* Maria von Maltzan, 88, German noblewoman and resistance member during World War II.
* Howard Weiss, 80, American gridiron football player.

### 13

* André Boucourechliev, 72, Bulgarian-French composer.
* Alexandru Bârlădeanu, 86, Romanian Marxian economist.
* Bill Conroy, 82, American baseball player.
* James Couttet, 76, French alpine skier and ski jumper and Olympian.
* Dietrich Lohmann, 54, German cinematographer, leukemia.
* Onzy Matthews, 67, American jazz musician and actor, heart failure.
* P. Ravindran, 74, Indian politician.
* Larry Shinoda, 67, American automotive designer, kidney failure.
* Moe Thacker, 63, American baseball player.

### 14

* Knud Andersen, 75, Danish cyclist and Olympian.
* Eddie Arcaro, 81, American jockey, liver cancer.
* Alba de Céspedes, 86, Cuban-Italian writer.
* Joel Lee Brenner, 85, American mathematician.
* Stefan Lorant, 96, Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author.
* Jack Pickersgill, 92, Canadian civil servant and politician.
* Kiyoshi Saitō, 90, Japanese printmaker.
* N. V. N. Somu, 60, Indian politician, helicopter crash.
* Reena Virk, 14, Canadian murder victim, homicide by drowning.

### 15

* Aaron Brown, 53, American football player, traffic collision.
* Saul Chaplin, 85, American composer and musical director, complication from a fall.
* Alf Day, 90, Welsh professional footballer.
* Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh, 47, Dutch actor, musician, composer, and television presenter, heart attack.
* Warren Douglas, 86, American actor and screenwriter, heart failure.
* Jim Kepner, 74, American journalist, author, archivist and gay rights activist.
* Elizza La Porta, 95, Romanian-American film actress.
* Douglas MacArthur II, 88, American diplomat.
* Vladimir Vengerov, 77, Soviet and Russian film director.
* Nándor Wagner, 75, Hungarian artist and sculptor.

### 16

* Albert L. Ireland, 79, United States Marine Corps sergeant and recipient of nine purple hearts.
* José Behra, 73, French racing driver and rally driver.
* Captain Mikey, 62, American disc jockey and voice-over actor, leukemia.
* Brigitte Groh, 31, German figure skater.
* Georges Marchais, 77, French politician, heart attack.
* Russ Meyer, 74, American baseball player.
* Padmapriya, Indian actress.
* George O. Petrie, 85, American radio and television actor, lymphoma.
* Aaron John Sharp, 93, American botanist and bryologist.
* Roy Sheffield, 90, English cricket player.
* Robert N. Thompson, 83, Canadian politician and chiropractor.

### 17

* Richard Sumner Cowan, 76, American botanist, brain trauma.
* Gert Günther Hoffmann, 68, German actor and director.
* David Ignatow, 83, American poet.
* Wilfred Josephs, 70, English composer.
* Edwin Mansfield, 67, American academic, cancer.
* Orlando Ribeiro, 86, Portuguese geographer and historian.
* John Wimber, 63, American Christian leader, mystic and musician, brain hemorrhage.
* Milič Čapek, 88, Czech–American philosopher.

### 18

* John Bird, 71, British politician.
* Jean Conan Doyle, 84, British Royal Air Force officer , Parkinson's disease.
* Unichi Hiratsuka, 102, Japanese printmaker.
* Fredrik Horn, 81, Norwegian football player.
* Stanislav Rapotec, 86, Slovene-Australian artist.
* Robert Vandeputte, 89, Belgian economist, civil servant, and politician.
* Joyce Wethered, 96, British golfer.

### 19

* Mary Bernheim, 95, British biochemist.
* Charles de Graft Dickson, 84, Ghanaian educationist and a politician.
* Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler, 89, American pharmacist.
* 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 and writer.
* Larry Ferrari, 65, American organist, leukemia.
* Dick Littlefield, 71, American baseball player.
* Robert Palmer, 52, American writer, musician and blues producer, liver disease.

### 21

* Bill Boyd, 91, American poker player.
* Ismail Fahmi, 75, Egyptian diplomat and politician.
* Harold Geneen, 87, American businessman.
* Julian Jaynes, 77, American psychologist.
* Grayson L. Kirk, 94, American political scientist.
* Jack Purvis, 60, English actor (Star Wars, Time Bandits, Brazil).
* Robert Simpson, 76, English composer.

### 22

* Roger Brown, 55, American artist and painter.
* Michael Hutchence, 37, Australian musician (INXS), suicide by hanging.
* Joanna Moore, 63, American film and television actress, lung cancer.
* Kalki Sadasivam, 95, Indian freedom fighter, singer, journalist and film producer.

### 23

* Hulda Crooks, 101, American mountaineer.
* Henry Wilson, Baron Wilson of Langside, 81, Scottish lawyer and politician.
* Robert Lewis, 88, American actor, director and author, heart failure.
* Irene E. Ryan, 88, American geologist, aviator and legislator.
* Ivan Ðurić, 50, Serbian writer, professor, historian and politician, suicide.

### 24

* Barbara, French singer, respiratory problems.
* Jorge Mas Canosa, 58, Cuban-American immigrant and anti-Castro lobbyist, lung cancer.
* Maurits Gysseling, 78, Belgian linguist.
* Bill Lawrie, 63, Australian racing cyclist.
* John Sopinka, 64, Ukrainian-Canadian lawyer and judge.
* Ira Wolfert, 89, American Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and writer.

### 25

* Hastings Banda, 99, President of Malawi (1966–1994).
* 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 (The Thing, Hunter, Dante's Peak), heart attack.
* Viorel Mateianu, 59, Romanian football player and coach.
* Stephen L.R. 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.
* Jon Silkin, 66, British poet.

### 26

* Rudolf Buhse, 92, German Wehrmacht officer and Bundeswehr general.
* Erna Fentsch, 88, German actress and screenwriter.
* Marguerite Henry, 95, American children's author.
* Werner Höfer, 84, German journalist.

### 27

* David D Barron, 33, Mexican gang member, friendly fire.
* Jules Henriet, 79, Belgian football player.
* Eduardo Kingman, 84, Ecuadorian artist.
* Malcolm Knowles, 84, American adult educator, stroke.
* Eric Laithwaite, 76, British electrical engineer.
* Buck Leonard, 90, American baseball player.
* Ronald Martland, 90, Canadian lawyer and judge.
* 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.

### 28

* Qemal Butka, Albanian architect, painter and politician.
* Wallace H. Clark, Jr., American dermatologist and pathologist, ruptured aneurysm.
* Tom Evenson, 87, English long-distance runner and Olympian.
* Georges Marchal, 77, French actor.
* Ken Mitsuda, 95, Japanese film actor, stroke.
* William "Smitty" Smith, 53, Canadian keyboardist and session musician.

### 29

* Ernest Johnson, 85, British track cyclist and Olympian.
* Isabelle M. Kelley, 80, American social worker.
* Abdul Latif, 46, Indian criminal, shot.
* Ada Leonard, 82, American bandleader.
* Heikki Savolainen, 90, Finnish artistic gymnast.
* George Sodeinde Sowemimo, 77, Nigerian jurist and Chief Justice.
* Coleman Young, 79, American politician, emphysema.

### 30

* Kathy Acker, 50, American experimental novelist, playwright and essayist, cancer.
* Glyn Dearman, 57, English actor, fall.
* Mary Fergusson, 83, British civil engineer.
* Kay Green, 70, Welsh cricket player.
* Karl Kowanz, 71, Austrian football player and coach.
* Sami Al Lenqawi, 25, Kuwaiti football player.
* Alfred Næss, 70, Norwegian playwright and songwriter.
* Leo Edward O'Neil, 69, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, multiple myeloma.
* Françoise Prévost, 67, French actress, journalist and author, breast cancer.
* Shamo Quaye, 26, Ghanaian Football player.
* Božena Srncová, 72, Czech gymnast and Olympian.
* Bernardo Élis, 82, Brazilian lawyer, professor, poet, and writer.