Deaths in November 2025

The following is a list of notable deaths that happened in November 2025. Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by their last name, or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are also noted here, if worth noting.

## Criteria

Every entry is backed by a source. Proper citations are used and no bare URLs so as to prevent link rot. The following are the requirements for adding a name to the list in its order: Name, age, origin, what the person is known for and his or her cause of death – if known – and a source for verification.

### 30

- Ram Loevy, 85, Israeli film director (_Bread_, _Close, Closed, Closure_, _The Dead of Jaffa_) and screenwriter.

### 29

- Gary Iskak, 52, Indonesian actor (_What's Up with Love?_, _Ungu Violet_, _One Day We'll Talk About Today_).
- Toni Lamond, 93, Australian actress (_Number 96_, _Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance_, _In Melbourne Tonight_).
- Tom Stoppard,88, playwright

### 28

- Ingrid van Bergen, 94, German actress (_Roses for the Prosecutor_, _Town Without Pity_, _The Counterfeit Traitor_) and convicted murderer.
- Lise Bourdin, 99, French actress (_The Last Five Minutes_, _Desperate Farewell_, _The River of Three Junks_).
- Lee Moon-soo, 76, South Korean actor (_My Son_, _Good Morning President_, _Late Blossom_).

### 26

- Vsevolod Shilovsky, 87, Russian actor (_Destiny_, _Jaguar_, _Once Upon a Time There Lived a Simple Woman_).

### 25

- Biyouna, 73, Algerian singer and actress (_Bacon on the Side_, _Holiday_, _Belleville Cop_).
- Lorenzo Buffon, 95, Italian footballer (Milan, Inter Milan, national team), cardiac arrest.
- Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins, 97, British Olympic athlete (1948, 1952) and politician, MP (1964–1997) and member of the House of Lords (1997–2019).
- Lee Soon-jae, 91, South Korean actor (_Good Morning President_, _Grandpas Over Flowers_, _Idol School_) and politician, MP (1992–1996).

### 24

- Jimmy Cliff, singer,81, seizure and pneumonia
- Jack Shepherd, 85, English actor (_Wycliffe_, _Bill Brand_, _Wonderland_).
- Dharmendra, 89, Indian actor (_Sholay_, _Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani_) and politician, MP (2004–2009), heart disease.

### 23

- Udo Kier, Germany actor, 81
- Ian Lees, Australian bass guitarist (Moving Pictures), heart attack.
- Valentina Sharykina, 85, Russian actress (_Yeltsin: Three Days in August_, _July Rain_, _Down House_).

### 21

- Jellybean Johnson, 69, American musician (The Time), songwriter ("Criticize"), and record producer ("Black Cat").
- Ornella Vanoni, 91, Italian singer.

### 20

- Branko Ivanda, 83, Croatian film director (_Gravitation_, _Court Martial_, _A Crime in a School_).
- Mani, 63, English rock bassist (The Stone Roses, Primal Scream). (death announced on this date)

### 19

- Prakash Bhandari, 89, Indian cricketer (national team).
- Magne Myrmo, 82, Norwegian cross-country skier, Olympic silver medallist (1972).

### 18

- Spencer Lofranco, 33, Canadian actor (_Gotti_, _Unbroken_, _Jamesy Boy_).

### 17

- Bernard Larmande, 84, French actor (_Fanny_, _Fallait pas !..._, _I as in Icarus_).
- Elzie Odom, 96, American politician, mayor of Arlington, Texas (1997–2003).
- Olga Temonen, 47, Finnish actress, brain cancer.

### 15 or 16

- Gérard Hausser, 84, French footballer.

### 15

- Rosa Rosal, 97, Filipino actress (_Child of Sorrow_, _Badjao: The Sea Gypsies_, _Blessings of the Land_) and humanitarian.

### 14

- Hark Bohm, 86, German actor (_The Marriage of Maria Braun_, _Lost in Siberia_, _Justice_), screenwriter and film director.

### 13

- Larry Brooks, 75, American Hall of Fame sports journalist (_New York Post_), cancer.
- J. D. King, 74, American artist and musician (The Coachmen). (death announced on this date)
- Sir Donald McIntyre, 91, New Zealand opera singer.

### 11

- Homayoun Ershadi, 78, Iranian actor (_Taste of Cherry_, _Agora_, _The Kite Runner_), cancer.
- Cleto Escobedo III, 59, American musician (Cleto and the Cletones) and bandleader (_Jimmy Kimmel Live!_).
- Sally Kirkland, 84, American actress (_Anna_, _Days of Our Lives_, _Coming Apart_).

### 10

- Ham Lin̄i, 73, Ni-Vanuatu politician, prime minister (2004–2008).
- Jonathan Pienaar, 63, South African actor (_Skin_, _Black Venus_, _Fried Barry_).
- Kaspar Rostrup, 85, Danish film director (_Jeppe på bjerget_, _Waltzing Regitze_).

### 8

- Tatsuya Nakadai, 92, Japanese actor (_The Human Condition_, _Yojimbo_, _Ran_).
- Vladimir Simonov, 68, Russian actor, cardiac arrest.
- Lenny Wilkens, 88, American Hall of Fame basketball player (St. Louis Hawks, Seattle SuperSonics) and coach (Cleveland Cavaliers), NBA champion (1979).

### 7

- Roger McClay, 80, New Zealand politician, MP (1981–1996).
- Lee Tamahori, 75, New Zealand Māori film director (_Once Were Warriors_, _Die Another Day_, _Along Came a Spider_). (death announced on this date)

### 6

- Manuel Pérez, 85, Cuban film director and screenwriter (_The Man from Maisinicu_).

### 5

- Pauline Collins, 85, British actress (_Upstairs, Downstairs_, _Doctor Who_), complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Marshawn Kneeland American footballer
- Barbara Ptak, 95, Polish costume designer (_Pharaoh_, _Pearl in the Crown_, _The Promised Land_).
- Ronald Venetiaan, 89, Surinamese politician, president (1991–1996, 2000–2010).

### 4

- Dick Cheney, 84, U.S. Vice president.
- Lam Sheung Mo, 75, Hong Kong actor (_Days of Tomorrow_).
- Elina Salo, 89, Finnish actress (_Inspector Palmu's Mistake_, _The Diary of a Worker_, _Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana_).
- Robert Taylor, 74, New Zealand guitarist (Dragon) and songwriter ("This Time", "Magic").

### 3

- Diane Ladd, 89, American actress (_Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore_, _Chinatown_, _Wild at Heart_), BAFTA winner (1976).

### 2

- Donna Jean Godchaux, 78, American Hall of Fame singer (Grateful Dead, Donna Jean Godchaux Band) and backing vocalist ("Suspicious Minds"), cancer.
- Setti Warren, 55, American politician, mayor of Newton, Massachusetts (2010–2018).