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.

## November 2025
### 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*).

### 27
### 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*).

### 22
### 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.

### 16
### 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.

### 12
### 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*).

### 9
### 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).

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