Deaths in November 2016

The following is a list of **notable deaths in November 2016**. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Months". Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.
* Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, nationality, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and most importantly a source.
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## November 2016
### 1
* Tina Anselmi, 89, Italian politician, Minister of Health (1978–1979).
* Rosanne Bailey, 66, American Air Force general and academic administrator.
* Bap Kennedy, 54, Northern Irish singer-songwriter, pancreatic and bowel cancer.
* John Orsino, 78, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).

### 2
* Bob Cranshaw, 83, American jazz bassist (Blue Note Records, Musicians Union), cancer.
* A. Thomas Kraabel, 81, American classics scholar.
* Martin Lippens, 82, Belgian footballer (Anderlecht, national team) and coach.
* Oleg Popov, 86, Russian clown (Moscow State Circus), heart attack.
* Jean-Marie Trappeniers, 74, Belgian footballer (Anderlecht, national team).
* Egon Wolff, 90, Chilean playwright.

### 3
* Misha Brusilovsky, 85, Russian artist.
* Clive Derby-Lewis, 80, South African politician, MP (1987–1989), convicted of conspiracy to murder Chris Hani, lung cancer.
* Yawar Hayat Khan, 73, Pakistani television producer, lung disease.
* Börje Lampenius, 94, Finnish actor (*Adventure in Morocco*) and director.
* Kay Starr, 94, American singer ("Wheel of Fortune", "The Rock and Roll Waltz"), complications from Alzheimer's disease.

### 4
* Eddie Carnett, 100, American baseball player (Boston Braves, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians).
* Jean-Jacques Perrey, 87, French electronic music producer ("The In Sound from Way Out!", "Kaleidoscopic Vibrations: Electronic Pop Music from Way Out"), lung cancer.
* Mansour Pourheidari, 70, Iranian football player (national team) and manager (Esteghlal), cancer.
* Gunnar Sandgren, 87, Swedish novelist.

### 5
* John Carson, 89, English actor (*Doomsday*, *Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter*, *Doctor Who*).
* Ralph Cicerone, 73, American scientist, President of National Academy of Sciences (2005–2016).
* Mel Lawrence, 81, American movie director (*Qatsi* trilogy) and festival promoter.
* Laurent Pardo, 55, French bassist (Elliott Murphy).
* Marek Svatoš, 34, Slovakian ice hockey player (Colorado Avalanche, Hershey Bears), mixed drug intoxication.

### 6
* Edward Itta, 71, American Iñupiat politician, Mayor of North Slope Borough, Alaska (2005–2011) and member of U.S. Arctic Research Commission (2012–2015), cancer.
* Biser Kirov, 74, Bulgarian pop singer.
* Zoltán Kocsis, 64, Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer.
* Georgie Sicking, 95, American rancher and poet.
* Marc Sleen, 93, Belgian cartoonist and comics artist (*The Adventures of Nero*).
* Vautour, 7, French-born Irish-trained racehorse, euthanised.

### 7
* Leonard Cohen, 82, Canadian singer-songwriter ("Hallelujah", "Suzanne", "First We Take Manhattan"), poet and novelist (*Beautiful Losers*), complications from a fall and leukemia.
* Julie Gregg, 79, American actress (*The Godfather*, *The Happy Time*, *Batman*), cancer.
* Jayawantiben Mehta, 77, Indian politician, MP (1989–1991, 1996–1998, 1999–2004).
* Janet Reno, 78, American lawyer and politician, first female U.S. Attorney General (1993–2001), Parkinson's disease.
* Samuel Sitta, 73, Tanzanian politician, MP (2005–2015) and Speaker of the National Assembly (2005–2010).
* Sir Jimmy Young, 95, British radio personality (Radio 2) and singer ("Unchained Melody", "The Man from Laramie"), cancer.

### 8
* Peter Brixtofte, 66, Danish politician, Tax Minister (1992–1993).
* Marlan Coughtry, 82, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
* Ho Chih-chin, 64, Taiwanese politician, Minister of Finance (2006–2008).
* Touran Mirhadi, 89, Iranian educator.
* Russ Nixon, 81, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians) and manager (Atlanta Braves).
* Umberto Veronesi, 90, Italian oncologist.

### 9
* Greg Ballard, 61, American basketball player (Washington Bullets, Golden State Warriors), prostate cancer.

### 10
* Francisco Nieva, 91, Spanish playwright.
* Bill Stanfill, 69, American football player (Miami Dolphins), complications from a fall.

### 11
* Ilse Aichinger, 95, Austrian writer.
* Victor Bailey, 56, American bassist (Weather Report, Madonna, Lady Gaga), complications from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and ALS.
* Doug Edwards, 70, Canadian musician and composer ("Wildflower"), cancer.
* Aileen Mehle, 98, American gossip columnist (*The Miami Daily News*, *New York Journal-American*, ''Women's Wear Daily*).
* Sir James McNeish, 85, New Zealand writer.
* Alfred Schmidt, 81, German footballer (Borussia Dortmund, national team).
* Ray Singleton, 79, American songwriter (Motown) and record producer, brain cancer.
* Robert Vaughn, 83, American actor (*The Man from U.N.C.L.E.*, *The Magnificent Seven*, *Bullitt*), leukemia.

### 12
* Malek Chebel, 63, Algerian anthropologist and philosopher, cancer.
* Dawn Coe-Jones, 56, Canadian golfer, bone cancer.
* Louis Devereux, 85, English cricketer (Worcestershire, Glamorgan).
* Jerry Dumas, 86, American cartoonist (*Sam and Silo*).
* Eivor Olson, 94, Swedish shot putter.
* James Dale Ritchie, 40, American serial killer, shot.
* Edgard Sorgeloos, 85, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Lupita Tovar, 106, Mexican-American actress (*Drácula*, *Santa*, *Miguel Strogoff''), heart disease.
* Paul Vergès, 91, Thai-born French Réunionese politician, MEP (2004–2010), member of the National Assembly (1956–1958, 1986–1987, 1993–1996) and Senate (1996–2004, since 2011).
* Jacques Werup, 71, Swedish musician and writer, thyroid cancer.

### 13
* Luigi Caccia Dominioni, 102, Italian architect.
* Frederick Irving, 91, American politician, Ambassador to Iceland (1972–1976) and Ambassador to Jamaica (1977–1978).
* Laurent Pokou, 69, Ivorian footballer (Rennes).
* Leon Russell, 74, American Hall of Fame musician (The Wrecking Crew) and songwriter ("Tight Rope").
* Aloysius Ferdinandus Zichem, 83, Surinamese Roman Catholic Redemptorist prelate, Bishop of Paramaribo (1971–2003).

### 14
* Diana Balmori, 84, American landscape designer.
* Vladimir Belov, 58, Russian handball player, Olympic silver medalist (1980).
* Houston Conwill, 69, American sculptor, prostate cancer.
* Holly Dunn, 59, American country music singer-songwriter ("Daddy's Hands", "Are You Ever Gonna Love Me", "You Really Had Me Going"), ovarian cancer.
* Marti Friedlander, 88, New Zealand photographer, breast cancer.
* Gwen Ifill, 61, American journalist (*PBS NewsHour*, *Washington Week*), endometrial cancer.
* Gardnar Mulloy, 102, American tennis player, winner of the US Open (1942, 1945, 1946, 1948) and Wimbledon Championships (1957), complications from a stroke.
* Janet Wright, 71, Canadian actress (*Corner Gas*, *The Perfect Storm*, *McCabe & Mrs. Miller*).

### 15
* Bob Addis, 91, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Boston Braves).
* Mose Allison, 89, American jazz pianist and singer-songwriter ("Young Man Blues").
* Rod Bieleski, 85, New Zealand plant physiologist.
* Sixto Durán Ballén, 95, Ecuadorian politician, President (1992–1996).
* Ken Grieve, 74, British television director (*The Bill*, *Peak Practice*, *Doctor Who*).
* Daniel Leab, 80, German-born American historian.
* Chester E. Norris, 88, American diplomat, Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea (1988–1992).
* Milt Okun, 92, American singer and music producer.

### 16
* Len Allchurch, 83, Welsh footballer (Swansea City, Sheffield United, national team).
* Joan Carroll, 85, American child actress (*Meet Me in St. Louis*).
* Jay Wright Forrester, 98, American computer engineer and systems scientist.
* Melvin Laird, 94, American politician and writer, Secretary of Defense (1969–1973) and U.S. Representative from Wisconsin's 7th congressional district (1953–1969), respiratory failure.
* Daniel Prodan, 44, Romanian footballer (Steaua Bucharest, Atlético Madrid, national team), heart attack.

### 17
* Virgilio Godoy, 82, Nicaraguan politician, Vice President (1990–1995).
* Ruth Gruber, 105, American journalist (*New York Herald Tribune*).
* Marzieh Hadidchi, 77, Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander and politician, MP (1984–2000).
* Saki Kaskas, 45, Greek video game music composer (*Need for Speed*, *Sleeping Dogs*, *Mass Effect 2*).
* Whitney Smith, 76, American vexillologist, designer of the flag of Guyana, co-designer of the flag of Bonaire.

### 18
* Denton Cooley, 96, American heart surgeon.
* Ed Francis, 90, American professional wrestler and promoter.
* Sharon Jones, 60, American singer (Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings), pancreatic cancer.
* Yevgeni Lazarev, 79, Russian-American actor (*Iron Man 2*, *The Sum of All Fears*, *Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare*), heart failure.
* Liu Sung-pan, 84, Taiwanese politician, member (1973–2004) and President (1992–1999) of the Legislative Yuan.
* Kervin Piñerua, 25, Venezuelan volleyball player (national team), heart attack.
* Freddie L. Poston, 91, American Air Force lieutenant general.

### 19
* Irving A. Fradkin, 95, American philanthropist, founder of Scholarship America.
* Jan Huberts, 79, Dutch motorcycle road racer.
* Ida Levin, 53, American violinist, leukemia.
* Paul Sylbert, 88, American production designer (*Heaven Can Wait*, *The Prince of Tides*, ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*), Oscar winner (1979).

### 20
* Gabriel Badilla, 32, Costa Rican footballer (Saprissa, New England Revolution), heart failure.
* Maria Glazovskaya, 104, Russian scientist and agrochemist.
* Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, 90, Greek politician, President (1995–2005), pneumonia.
* William Trevor, 88, Irish writer (*Love and Summer*, *Two Lives*, *The Children of Dynmouth*).

### 21
* Jan Sonnergaard, 53, Danish writer, heart attack.
* René Vignal, 90, French footballer (Toulouse, RC Paris, national team).

### 22
* M. Balamuralikrishna, 86, Indian Carnatic musician and composer.
* Chen Yingzhen, 79, Taiwanese writer.
* Carlos Fayt, 98, Argentine lawyer and politician, Minister of the Supreme Court (1983–2015) and President (2003–2004).
* Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi, 86, Pakistani politician, Acting Prime Minister (1993), lung infection.
* Viveki Rai, 92, Indian author.
* Ram Naresh Yadav, 90, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (1977–1979), Governor of Chhattisgarh (2014) and Madhya Pradesh (2014–2016).

### 23
* Rita Barberá, 68, Spanish politician, Mayor of Valencia (1991–2015) and Senator (since 2015), heart attack due to cirrhosis .
* Ralph Branca, 90, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Detroit Tigers).
* Michel Deza, 77, Russian-born French mathematician.
* Karin Johannisson, 72, Swedish idea historian, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (until 2016), cancer.
* Peggy Kirk Bell, 95, American professional golfer (LPGA).
* Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili, 90, Iranian cleric and jurist, Chief Justice of Iran (1981–1989).
* Ryu Mi-yong, 95, North Korean politician, Chairwoman of the Chondoist Chongu Party (since 1995), lung cancer.
* Andrew Sachs, 86, German-born British actor (*Fawlty Towers*, *Coronation Street*, *Hitler: The Last Ten Days*), dementia.
* Fred Stobaugh, 99, American songwriter.
* Jerry Tucker, 91, American child actor (*Our Gang*).

### 24
* Marcos Ana, 96, Spanish communist activist, poet and veteran of the Spanish Civil War, political prisoner (1939-1961).
* Al Brodax, 90, American movie and television producer (*Yellow Submarine*).
* Bob Chase, 90, American broadcaster (WOWO, Fort Wayne Komets), heart failure.
* Dave Ferriss, 94, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
* Shirley Bunnie Foy, 80, American jazz musician.
* Paul Futcher, 60, English footballer (Manchester City, Barnsley, Grimsby Town), cancer.
* Florence Henderson, 82, American actress (*The Brady Bunch*) and singer, heart failure.
* William Mandel, 99, American broadcast journalist, political activist and author.
* Luis Miquilena, 97, Venezuelan politician, Minister of Interior and Justice (2001–2002).
* Pauline Oliveros, 84, American composer and accordionist.
* George C. Royal, 95, American microbiologist.
* Sabrina, 80, British model and actress (*The Phantom Gunslinger*, *Blue Murder at St Trinian's*, *The Ice House*).
* Charles M. Stein, 96, American statistician.

### 25
* Erich Bloch, 91, German-born American electrical engineer, Director of the National Science Foundation (1984–1990).
* Fidel Castro, 90, Cuban politician, Prime Minister (1959–1976) and President (1976–2008).
* Ron Glass, 71, American actor (*Barney Miller*, *Firefly*, *Lakeview Terrace*), respiratory failure.
* Trevor Goddard, 85, South African cricketer.
* David Hamilton, 83, British photographer.
* Burton J. Lee III, 86, American doctor, Physician to the President (1989–1993), bladder cancer.
* Margaret Rhodes, 91, British writer, cousin of Elizabeth II.
* Richard Dean Rogers, 94, American district court judge, U. S. District Court for the District of Kansas (since 1975).
* Peter Schweri, 77, Swiss painter.
* Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn, 87, British politician, member of the House of Lords (since 1978), mobility scooter crash.

### 26
* Ida Blom, 85, Norwegian historian.
* Miriam Eshkol, 87, Israeli education administrator.
* Peter Hintze, 66, German politician, General Secretary of the CDU (1992–1998) and vice-president of the Bundestag (since 2013), cancer.
* Peter Hans Kolvenbach, 87, Dutch religious leader, Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1983–2008).
* Chad Robinson, 36, Australian rugby league footballer (Sydney Roosters, Parramatta Eels), suicide by traffic collision.
* Fritz Weaver, 90, American actor (*Fail Safe*, *Holocaust*, *Creepshow*), Tony winner (1970).

### 27
* Nijolė Ambrazaitytė, 77, Lithuanian opera singer and politician.
* Bernard Gallagher, 87, British actor (*Casualty*, *Crown Court*, *Downton Abbey'').
* Ioannis Grivas, 93, Greek politician, Prime Minister (1989).
* Viktor Ivannikov, 76, Russian computer scientist.
* Dick Logan, 86, American football player (Green Bay Packers).

### 28
* William Christenberry, 80, American artist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Jim Delligatti, 98, American entrepreneur, creator of the Big Mac.
* John C. Harkness, 99, American architect.
* Georg Lhotsky, 79, Austrian actor and director (*Moss on the Stones*).
* Ng Bi-chu, 88, Taiwanese activist, complications of diabetes.
* Mark Taimanov, 90, Russian Soviet-era chess grandmaster and concert pianist, USSR chess champion (1956).
* Grant Tinker, 90, American television executive, CEO of NBC (1981–1986).
* Van Williams, 82, American actor (*The Green Hornet*), renal failure.
* Notable Brazilian people killed in the crash of LaMia Flight 2933:
** Ailton Canela, 22, football player (Chapecoense).
** Josimar, 30, football player (Chapecoense).
** Everton Kempes dos Santos Gonçalves, 34, football player (Chapecoense, JEF United Chiba).
** Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva, 66, football player, manager, and commentator (Fox Sports).
* Marcos Danilo Padilha, 31, Brazilian football player (Chapecoense), injuries sustained in a plane crash.
* Joe Dever, 60, British author (*Lone Wolf*), complications from bile duct surgery.
* Luis Alberto Monge, 90, Costa Rican politician, President (1982–1986), cardiac arrest.
* Hardy Myers, 77, American politician, Attorney General for Oregon (1997–2009), complications from pneumonia.
* Richard B. Teitelman, 69, American judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri (2011–2013).

### 30
* Alice Drummond, 88, American actress (*Ghostbusters*, *Awakenings*, *Doubt*), complications from a fall.
* Peng Chang-kuei, 97, Taiwanese chef, inventor of General Tso's chicken, pneumonia.
* Sinclair Stevens, 89, Canadian politician, Leader of the Progressive Canadian Party (since 2007), heart attack.
* Royce Womble, 85, American football player (Baltimore Colts), complications from Alzheimer's disease.

## Months
* January
* February
* March
* April
* May
* June
* July
* August
* September
* October
* November
* December

## References