The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2009.
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 2009
1 Zev Aelony, 71, American civil rights activist.Zev Aelony, Civil Rights Movement activist, dies Sakher Habash, 69, Palestinian party official (Fatah), stroke. Esther Hautzig, 79, American Holocaust survivor and writer. Endel Laas, 94, Estonian forest scientist. Manfred Losch, 70, German Olympic athlete. Seán Mac Fhionnghaile, 57, Irish actor, cancer. Arturo Salazar Mejía, 88, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Pasto. (Spanish) Alda Merini, 78, Italian poet. Gopal Mishra, 77, Indian journalist. Gus Mitges, 90, Canadian politician, MP for Grey—Simcoe (1972–1988) and Bruce—Grey (1988–1993). Alan Ogg, 42, American basketball player (Miami Heat), complications from staphylococcal infection. Robert H. Rines, 87, American scientist, inventor, composer and Loch Ness Monster expert, heart failure. Achim Stocker, 74, German football official, chairman of SC Freiburg, heart attack. George Zoritch, 92, Russian-born American dancer.
2 Haya bint Abdulaziz Al Saud, 80, Saudi royal, sister of King Abdullah. Nien Cheng, 94, Chinese author and political prisoner. Lou Filippo, 83, American boxing referee and judge, member of the World Boxing Hall of Fame, stroke. Evelyn Hofer, 87, German-born photographer. Brian James, 91, Australian actor, complications from a fall. Shabtai Kalmanovich, 61, Russian former KGB spy, president of WBC Spartak Moscow Region, shot. Keith Kettleborough, 74, British footballer (Sheffield United). José Luis López Vázquez, 87, Spanish actor. Yael Lotan, 74, Israeli writer, editor and translator, liver cancer.נפטרה יעל לוטן, סופרת ופעילת שלום (in Hebrew) Phil Lumpkin, 57, American NBA player and high school basketball coach, pneumonia. Ron Moeller, 71, American baseball player. Roman Moravec, 58, Slovak Olympic athlete. Beverley O'Sullivan, 28, Irish singer, traffic collision. Amir Pnueli, 68, Israeli computer scientist and Turing Award winner. Glenn Remick, 58, American founder of American Darters Association, member of National Darts Hall of Fame, amyloidosis. Mark Smith, 49, British bassist (The Waterboys) and record producer. Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg, 73, British businessman and life peer. Lonnie Zamora, 76, American alleged UFO witness, heart failure.
3 Charles August, 90, American businessman, founder of Monro Muffler Brake. Francisco Ayala, 103, Spanish novelist. Archie Baird, 90, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen). Carl Ballantine, 92, American actor (McHale's Navy), natural causes. Brother Blue, 88, American storyteller, performance artist. Dodo Chichinadze, 84, Georgian actress. Sir John Crofton, 97, British medical pioneer. Jean B. Cryor, 70, American politician, cancer. Shel Dorf, 76, American founder of San Diego Comic-Con, diabetes-related complications. Parry Gordon, 64, English rugby league player. Tamás Lossonczy, 105, Hungarian abstract painter. Lorissa McComas, 38, American softcore model and actress. Toshiyuki Mimura, 61, Japanese baseball player and manager (Hiroshima Toyo Carp). Alice S. Rossi, 87, American sociologist and feminist.
4 Win Aung, 65, Burmese politician and military officer, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1998–2004). William H. Avery, 98, American politician, representative for Kansas (1955–1965), Governor of Kansas (1965–1967). Sir Don Beaven, 85, New Zealand scientist and diabetes researcher, house fire. Ivan Biakov, 65, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning biathlete (1972, 1976) Hubertus Brandenburg, 85, German-born Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm (1977–1998). (Swedish) Stefano Chiodi, 52, Italian footballer. Art D'Lugoff, 85, American jazz nightclub owner (The Village Gate), heart attack. Kabun Mutō, 82, Japanese politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1993), pancreatic cancer. Thomas P. O'Malley, 79, American academic, president of Loyola Marymount University (1991–1999), heart attack. Antonio Pelle, 77, Italian 'Ndrangheta boss, heart attack. David Tree, 94, British actor.
5 *Peter Chen Bolu, 96, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Daming. I. F. Clarke, 91, British literary scholar. Roy Collins, 75, English cricketer. Adam Firestorm, 32, New Zealand-born Canadian professional wrestler, suicide. Luigi Fuin, 81, Italian footballer.Luigi Fuin Félix Luna, 84, Argentinian historian. Lucien Maelfait, 90, French cyclist. Barrie Rickards, 71, British palaeontologist and angler, cancer. Winifred Tumim, Lady Tumim, 73, British charity executive and campaigner.
6 Manuel Arvizu, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Jesús María del Nayar. Nick Counter, 69, American film executive and lawyer. Dimitri De Fauw, 28, Belgian track cyclist, suicide. Abraham Escudero Montoya, 69, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Palmira. (Spanish) Robert Hilborn Falls, 85, Canadian admiral, Chief of the Defence Staff (1977–1980).Deaths Waldo Hunt, 88, American publisher. Gylman Ilkin, 95, Soviet and Azerbaijani writer. Jacno, 52, French musician, cancer. Otomar Krejča, 87, Czech theatre director. Hans Lund, 59, American poker player, cancer. Antonio Rosario Mennonna, 103, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Tommy Reis, 95, American baseball player. Donald Rix, 78, Canadian pathologist and philanthropist. Manuel Solís Palma, 91, Panamanian President (1988–1989), pulmonary edema. (Spanish) Ron Sproat, 77, American television writer (Dark Shadows), heart attack.
7 Yelena Bondarchuk, 47, Russian actress, breast cancer. Gene D. Cohen, 65, American psychiatrist, prostate cancer. Bob Dillinger, 91, American baseball player. Anselmo Duarte, 89, Brazilian actor, screenwriter and film director, complications from a stroke. (Portuguese) Bernardo Garza Sada, 79, Mexican businessman, founder of ALFA. (Spanish) Donald Harington, 73, American author, cancer. Chris Harman, 66, British socialist journalist and activist. Billy Ingham, 57, British footballer (Burnley). Joe Maross, 86, American actor, cardiac arrest. Alayna Morgan, 61, American obese woman. Allan Mulder, 81, Australian politician, MP (1972–1975). David C. Smith, 80, American historian.
8 Ellen Ahrndt, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). Hiley Edwards, 58, English cricketer (Devon), cancer. Jerry Fuchs, 34, American drummer (Maserati, !!!), fall. Armin Gessert, 46, German video game developer, heart attack. Vitaly Ginzburg, 93, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Burleigh Hines, 74, American journalist. Sir Patrick Howard-Dobson, 88, British army general. Karl Kroeber, 83, American literary scholar of Native American literature, cancer. Malcolm Laycock, 71, British radio DJ. Igor Starygin, 63, Russian actor, complications from a stroke.
9 Sedley Andrus, 94, British herald. Al Cervi, 92, American basketball player and coach (Rochester Royals, Syracuse Nationals). Earl Cooley, 98, American smokejumper. Clen Denning, 98, Australian footballer, oldest surviving Australian Football League player. Henry L. Kimelman, 88, American Ambassador to Haiti (1980–1981), heart failure. Earsell Mackbee, 68, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), complications following a stroke. Ib Olsen, 80, Danish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) rower. Mehdi Sahabi, 66, Iranian writer and translator, heart attack. Charles Proctor Sifton, 74, American federal judge, sarcoidosis. Stephen Verney, 90, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Repton (1977–1985). Nick Waterlow, 69, British-born Australian artistic director and curator, stabbed.
10 Robert Cameron, 98, American aerial photographer. Gheorghe Dinică, 75, Romanian actor, cardiac arrest. Robert Enke, 32, German footballer, suicide by train. Tomaž Humar, 40, Slovenian mountaineer, mountaineering accident. Amadi Ikwechegh, 58, Nigerian naval officer, protracted illness following a stroke. Simple Kapadia, 51, Indian actress and costume designer, cancer. Dick Katz, 85, American jazz pianist and arranger, lung cancer. David Lloyd, 75, American comedy writer ("Chuckles Bites the Dust"), prostate cancer. Uolevi Manninen, 72, Finnish Olympic basketball player. Hisaya Morishige, 96, Japanese actor, natural causes. John Allen Muhammad, 48, American convicted spree killer (Beltway Sniper), executed by lethal injection. Anne Mustoe, 76, British headmistress, cyclist and writer. Ramin Pourandarjani, 26, Iranian doctor, whistleblower on use of torture, poisoned. José Afonso Ribeiro, 80, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Borba. (Portuguese)
11 Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, 60, Spanish jurist, Advocate General of the European Court of Justice.Death of Advocate General Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer Keith Fagnou, 38, Canadian organic chemist, complications of H1N1 influenza. Ehsan Fatahian, 28, Iranian Kurdish activist, executed by hanging. William Ganz, 90, Slovak-born American cardiologist, co-inventor of the pulmonary artery catheter, natural causes. Henry Jayasena, 78, Sri Lankan actor, colon cancer. Irving Kriesberg, 90, American expressionist artist, complications from Parkinson's disease. Tom Merriman, 85, American jingle composer, complications from a fall. Marvin Minoff, 78, American film and television producer (The Nixon Interviews, Patch Adams). John Jay O'Connor, 79, American lawyer, husband of Sandra Day O'Connor, Alzheimer's disease. Helge Reiss, 81, Norwegian actor.
12 Elisabeth Aasen, 87, Norwegian politician. Mohamed Abdi Aware, Somali judge, Chief Justice of Puntland, shot. Vagrich Bakhchanyan, 71, Ukrainian-born American painter, apparent suicide. (Russian) Frances Lasker Brody, 93, American art collector and philanthropist. Eleanor Hovda, 69, American composer and dancer. Robert Kendall, 82, American actor, heart attack. Willy Kernen, 80, Swiss footballer, participated in World Cup (1950, 1954, 1962). (French) James R. Lilley, 81, American diplomat, ambassador to South Korea and China, complications linked to prostate cancer. Henri Sérandour, 72, French International Olympic Committee member, former head of the French National Olympic Committee. Florence Temko, 88, American origami expert, heart failure. Paul Wendkos, 87, American television and film director (Gidget), complications of a stroke. Emanuel Zisman, 74, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1988–1999). (Bulgarian)
13 Roy Butler, 83, American politician, first directly elected mayor of Austin, Texas (1971–1975), complications from a fall. Emin Doybak, 78–79, Turkish Olympic sprinter. Michał Gajownik, 27, Polish Olympic sprint canoer, traffic collision. Ueli Gegenschatz, 38, Swiss BASE jumper, jumping accident. Dell Hymes, 82, American anthropologist, linguist and folklorist, complications of Alzheimer's disease. Blas Jiménez, 60, Dominican nationalist, poet and essayist. Bruce King, 85, American politician, three-term Governor of New Mexico, complications from heart procedure. Ron Klimkowski, 65, American baseball player, heart failure. Bernard Kolélas, 76, Congolese politician, Mayor of Brazzaville, prime minister (1997). Mara Manzan, 57, Brazilian actress, lung cancer. (Portuguese) John J. O'Connor, 76, American television critic (The New York Times), lung cancer. Armen Takhtajan, 99, Soviet botanist.
14 Nikolay Anikin, 77, Russian-born American Olympic gold medal skiing champion (1956 Olympics), cancer. Edgar Fay, 101, British judge. Moshe Gidron, 84, Israeli Major General. John F. Gregory, 82, American optical engineer. Thomas Hollyman, 89, American photographer. Niels Ingwersen, 74, Danish scholar."On the death of Professor Emeritus Niels Ingwerson", University of Wisconsin–Madison. Retrieved 13 February 2013. Travis LaRue, 96, American politician, Mayor of Austin, Texas (1969–1971). John McWilliam, 68, British politician, MP for Blaydon (1979–2005).