The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2007.
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 2007
1 Sonny Bupp, 79, American child actor (Our Gang, Citizen Kane), last surviving credited cast member of Citizen Kane. Troy Lee James, 83, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1967–2000). Edith Motridge, 94, American Olympic backstroke swimmer. S. Ali Raza, 85, Indian Bollywood screenwriter, heart failure. Paul Tibbets, 92, American pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, heart failure. Paul Woods, 57, British rugby union and rugby league player.
2 Oreste Benzi, 82, Italian Roman Catholic priest. Henry Cele, 66, South African actor (Shaka Zulu) and soccer player. Charmaine Dragun, 29, Australian television news presenter, apparent suicide by jumping. The Fabulous Moolah, 84, American professional wrestler. *Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard, 91, British soldier and courtier, Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps (1972–1981). Don Freeland, 82, American racecar driver (Indianapolis 500). Witold "Vitek" Kiełtyka, 23, Polish drummer (Decapitated), injuries from bus crash. Igor Moiseyev, 101, Russian choreographer, heart failure. Jean Pierre Reguerraz, 68, Argentine actor. Reay Tannahill, 77, British food historian and novelist. S. P. Thamilselvan, 40, Sri Lankan leader of Tamil Tigers, air strike.
3 Peter Andren, 61, Australian independent MP, pancreatic cancer. *Maurice Couve de Murville, 78, French-born British Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham (1982–1999). Aleksandr Dedyushko, 45, Russian actor, car crash. Marilyn Martinez, 52, American stand-up comedian, colon cancer. Donald Matthews, 82, American political scientist and author. Martin Meehan, 62, Northern Irish republican, later Sinn Féin activist, heart attack. Mary Walker Phillips, 83, American textile artist, Alzheimer's disease. George Ratterman, 80, American professional football player (Cleveland Browns), complications from Alzheimer's disease. Ryan Shay, 28, American long-distance runner, heart attack during Olympic marathon trials.
4 Edward Bartels, 82, American basketball player. Cyprian Ekwensi, 86, Nigerian author. Gahanananda, 91, Bangladeshi religious leader, 14th President of the Ramakrishna Order. Hideo Hagiwara, 94, Japanese painter. Dorothy LaBostrie, 79, American songwriter ("Tutti Frutti"). Karl Rebane, 81, Estonian scientist. Lennart Rönnback, 102, Finnish veteran of the Finnish Civil War, last of the White Guard. Peter Viertel, 86, German-born American author and screenwriter.
5 Andrea Aureli, 84, Italian actor. Roberto Bortoluzzi, 86, Italian sports journalist and radio broadcaster. James Brabazon, 84, British author, lung cancer. Thelma Buchholdt, 73, Filipino-born American author and politician, pancreatic cancer. Nils Liedholm, 85, Swedish football midfielder and coach. Paul Norris, 93, American comic book artist, co-creator of Aquaman. Paul Soloway, 66, American five-time world bridge champion, complications of infection.
6 Enzo Biagi, 87, Italian journalist. Hilda Braid, 78, British actress (EastEnders, Citizen Smith). John Grenier, 77, American politician, former executive director of the Republican National Committee. George Grljusich, 68, Australian sports broadcaster, lung cancer. Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, 47–48, Afghan politician, former commerce minister, victim of Baghlan factory bombing. Fred W. McDarrah, 81, American photographer (Village Voice), documented the rise of the Beat Generation. George Osmond, 90, American patriarch of the Osmond singing family. Jimmy Staggs, 72, American radio disk jockey, esophageal cancer. Hank Thompson, 82, American country music singer, lung cancer. Hajji Muhammad Arif Zarif, 64–65, Afghan politician and businessman, victim of Baghlan factory bombing.
7 Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, Finnish mass murderer, suicide by gunshot. Hobart Brown, 74, American sculptor, founder of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, pneumonia. Earl Dodge, 74, American presidential candidate (Prohibition Party), heart attack. Paul Dojack, 93, Canadian Football League referee. George W. George, 87, American Broadway and film producer (My Dinner With Andre), Parkinson's disease. Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch, 100, German-American geneticist. Petr Haničinec, 77, Czech actor.Petr Hanicinec Arthur Hezlet, 93, British Royal Navy Vice-Admiral, submariner and naval historian. Lidia Ivanova, 71, Russian TV journalist, announcer and writer, diabetes. Alejandra Meyer, 70, Mexican telenovela actress, heart failure. (Spanish)
8 John Arpin, 70, Canadian pianist and composer, cancer. Stephen Fumio Hamao, 77, Japanese Roman Catholic cardinal, former bishop of Yokohama, lung cancer. Bobby Harrop, 71, English footballer (Manchester United). Donald R. Herriott, 79, American physicist.Donald R. Herriott Francine Parker, 81, American film director (FTA), heart failure. Dulce Saguisag, 64, Filipino politician, former Secretary of Department of Social Welfare and Development, car accident. Motosuke Takahashi, 66, Japanese film director and storyboard artist, lung cancer. David G. P. Taylor, 74, British businessman and public official, Governor of Montserrat (1990–1993). Bungo Tsuda, 89, Japanese politician, former governor of Kanagawa Prefecture, colorectal cancer. Chad Varah, 95, British Anglican priest, founder of the Samaritans.
9 Helen H. Bacon, 88, American classical scholar.In Memoriam Helen Bacon (1919-2007) Luis Herrera Campins, 82, Venezuelan President (1979–1984), after long illness. Lorraine Fisher, 79, American baseball player (AAGPBL). Bill Hosokawa, 92, Japanese American author and journalist. Ilya Zbarsky, 94, Russian head of Lenin's Mausoleum.
10 Laraine Day, 87, American actress (Foreign Correspondent, The High and the Mighty). John Fee, 43, Northern Irish nationalist politician (SDLP), brain tumour. Augustus Hawkins, 100, American member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California (1963–1991). Norman Mailer, 84, American Pulitzer Prize–winning author (The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song), renal failure. John H. Noble, 84, American prisoner in Russian gulag and author (I Was a Slave in Russia), heart attack. Sir John Stanier, 82, British Army field marshal, Chief of the General Staff (1982–1985). Donda West, 58, American Professor and Mother of Kanye West, coronary artery disease.
11 Rob Frost, 57, English Christian Evangelist, skin cancer, liver failure.Obituary from The Times newspaper Anders Hald, 94, Danish statistician. Yukio Hayashida, 91, Japanese politician (House of Councillors), governor of Kyoto, Minister of Justice, heart failure. Kōjirō Kusanagi, 78, Japanese actor, interstitial lung disease. Berkeley Lent, 86, American judge on the Oregon Supreme Court, heart attack. Delbert Mann, 87, American film director (Marty, Separate Tables, The Bachelor Party), Oscar winner (1956), pneumonia. Dick Nolan, 75, American NFL player and coach (San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints), father of 49ers coach Mike Nolan. Omwony Ojwok, 60, Ugandan politician, former minister, heart failure. Margarito Pomposo, 96–97, Mexican Olympic long-distance runner. Tadahiro Sekimoto, 80, Japanese electronics engineer and business executive, former president and chairman of NEC, stroke. Trish Williamson, 52, British TV-am weather presenter and producer, car crash.
12 Ferdinando Baldi, 80, Italian screenwriter, film director and producer. Louis Galen, 82, American philanthropist and banker, heart failure. Ying Hope, 84, Chinese Canadian politician. K. C. Ibrahim, 88, Indian test cricketer. Vijay Kumar Khandelwal, 71, Indian parliamentarian. Piet Koornhof, 82, South African politician, former minister and ambassador. Ira Levin, 78, American author (Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives) and playwright (Deathtrap), heart attack. Tinius Nagell-Erichsen, 73, Norwegian publisher (Aftenposten and Verdens Gang). Janlavyn Narantsatsralt, 50, Mongolian Prime Minister (1998–1999), car crash. A. Palanisamy, 74, Indian volleyball player. Peter Steiner, 90, Swiss musician and entertainer, fall. (German) Lester Ziffren, 101, American reporter during Spanish Civil War, screenwriter and diplomat, heart failure.
13 Wahab Akbar, 47, Filipino politician, representative for Basilan province, victim of 2007 Batasang Pambansa bombing. Harold J. Berman, 89, American Harvard Law School professor (1948–1985). Alec Cooke, Baron Cooke of Islandreagh, 87, British peer and former Northern Ireland Senator. John Doherty, 72, British football player for Manchester United (1952–1957) and Busby Babe. Hugh Gibbons, 91, Irish parliamentarian and Gaelic football player. Tony Harris, 36, American basketball player (Washington State Cougars), possible suicide by hanging. Kazuhisa Inao, 70, Japanese Hall of Fame baseball player for the Nishitetsu Lions (1956–1969), cancer. Erik Kurmangaliev, 48, Russian-Kazakh opera singer, liver disease. Sir John Loveridge, 82, British MP (1970–1983). Robert Taylor, 59, American 4 × 100 m relay gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, cardiac arrhythmia. Monty Westmore, 84, American makeup artist (Hook, Jurassic Park, Star Trek: First Contact). Peter Zinner, 88, American film editor (The Deer Hunter, The Godfather, An Officer and a Gentlemen), Oscar winner (1979).
14 Michael Blodgett, 68, American actor and screenwriter (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls), heart attack. Ronnie Burns, 72, American actor, adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, cancer. Hila Elmalich, 34, Israeli fashion model, anorexia nervosa. David Oppenheim, 85, American clarinetist, television producer and academic administrator (Tisch School of the Arts).David Oppenheim, Dean of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, 85 Yadav Pant, 82, Nepalese economist and politician. Pablo Antonio Vega Mantilla, 88, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic Bishop of Juigalpa.
15 John Cross Jr., 82, American pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church, stroke. * Sergio del Valle Jiménez, 80, Cuban general and politician, former Army Chief of Staff and minister. Domokos Kosáry, 94, Hungarian historian, president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1990–1996). Audrey McCall, 92, American activist, First Lady of Oregon (1967–1975), widow of former Governor Tom McCall, complications from a fall. Lauren S. McCready, 92, American admiral, pioneer of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, heart failure. Joe Nuxhall, 79, American Major League Baseball pitcher and broadcaster for the Cincinnati Reds, cancer. George Van Meter, 75, American Olympic cyclist.
16 Harold Alfond, 93, American businessman and philanthropist. Gene H. Golub, 75, American mathematician and computer scientist, myeloid leukemia. Pierre Granier-Deferre, 80, French film director. Grethe Kausland, 60, Norwegian actress and singer, lung cancer. Patrick F. Kelly, 78, American federal judge. Trond Kirkvaag, 61, Norwegian comedian, cancer. Don Metz, 91, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs). Jerry Meyers, 53, American professional football player (Chicago Bears, Kansas City Chiefs). James Daniel Niedergeses, 90, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville (1975–1992), hemorrhage. Victor Rabinowitz, 96, American lawyer for left-wing clients and causes. Andrea Stretton, 55, Australian arts journalist and television presenter, lung cancer. Sir Arthur Watts, 76, British lawyer and diplomat.
17 Irving Bluestone, 90, American negotiator for UAW, heart failure. Landis Everson, 81, American poet, apparent suicide by gunshot. Oleg Gazenko, 88, Russian space scientist. Hy Lit, 73, American radio disc jockey, Parkinson's disease.