page_title: Deaths in November 2015
section_title: November 2015
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in November 2015 / November 2015
caption_attribution_description: New Zealand rugby union player Jonah Lomu (1975-2015).
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2015.
  Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference are added.
context_section_description: November 1 - Fred Thompson, 73, American politician and actor (Die Hard 2, Law & Order, Sinister), U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1994–2003), prosecutor who discovered Watergate tapes, lymphoma.
  November 1 - Günter Schabowski, 86, German politician, editor-in-chief of Neues Deutschland (1978–1985), prematurely announced fall of the Berlin Wall, complications of a stroke.
  November 1 - Charles Duncan Michener, 97, American entomologist.
  November 2 - Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, 91, Polish art historian.
  November 3 - Adriana Campos, 36, Colombian actress (Vecinos), traffic collision.
  November 3 - Tom Graveney, 88, English cricketer (Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, England), Parkinson's disease.
  November 3 - Ahmed Chalabi, 71, Iraqi politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2005–2006), President of the Governing Council (2003), heart attack.
  November 3 - Howard Coble, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 6th congressional district (1985–2015), complications from surgery.
  November 4 - Piotr Domaradzki, 69, Polish-born American journalist (Dziennik Związkowy), essayist and historian, injuries sustained from a house fire.
  November 4 - Melissa Mathison, 65, American screenwriter (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Black Stallion, Kundun), neuroendocrine cancer.
  November 4 - René Girard, 91, French-American historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science.
  November 4 -Ole Knapp, 83, Norwegian politician.
  November 5 - Nora Brockstedt, 92, Norwegian singer.
  November 5 - Czesław Kiszczak, 90, Polish communist-era politician, Prime Minister (1989) and Minister of Interior and Administration (1981–1990).
  November 5 - George Barris, 89, American custom car designer (Batmobile, Wagon Queen Family Truckster), cancer.
  November 5 - Hans Mommsen, 85, German historian of Nazism and The Holocaust.
  November 6 - José Ángel Espinoza, 96, Mexican singer, composer and actor (House of Evil, Two Mules for Sister Sara), pneumonia.
  November 6 - Yitzhak Navon, 94, Israeli politician, President (1978–1983).
  November 7 - Gunnar Hansen, 68, Icelandic-born American actor (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), pancreatic cancer.
  November 8 - Rhea Chiles, 84, American philanthropist, First Lady of Florida (1991–1998).
  November 8 - Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero, 73, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and Socialist activist, multiple organ failure.
  November 9 - Ernst Fuchs, 85, Austrian painter, co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.
  November 9 - Tommy Hanson, 29, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels), multiple organ failure.
  November 10  - Allen Toussaint, 77, American musician, producer, songwriter ("Fortune Teller", "Working in the Coal Mine") and arranger, heart attack.
  November 10 - Pat Eddery, 63, Irish jockey, eleven-time Champion Jockey, four-time Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner, three-time Lester Award and Epsom Derby winner, cirrhosis.
  November 10 - André Glucksmann, 78, French philosopher and writer.
  November 10 - Laurent Vidal, 31, French Olympic triathlete (2008, 2012), heart attack.
  November 10 - Helmut Schmidt, 96, German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1974-1982), complications from surgery.
  November 10 - Tim Valentine, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 2nd congressional district (1983–1995), heart failure.
  November 10 - Gene Amdahl, 92, American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, pneumonia.
  November 10 - David Atlas, 91, American meteorologist, complications from a stroke.
  November 10 - Klaus Roth, 90, German-born British mathematician, recipient of the Fields Medal (1958).
  November 11 - Phil Taylor, 61, English drummer (Motörhead).
  November 12 - Márton Fülöp, 32, Hungarian football player (Sunderland), cancer.
  November 12 - Aaron Shikler, 93, American artist, kidney failure.
  November 12 - Jihadi John, 27, Kuwaiti-born British terrorist, member of the Islamic State, reported killed in drone strike.
  November 13 - Notable French people killed in the November 2015 Paris attacks:
  Thomas Ayad, music execut
caption: Jonah Lomu 1975-2015
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