The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1995.
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 1995
1 Richard Ashcraft, 57, American political theorist. Helen Bullock, 89-90, American historian. Rocco Canale, 78, American football player (Steagles, Philadelphia Eagles, Boston Yanks). James Ralph Darling, 96, English-Australian chairman of ABC. Lex Hixon, 53, American Sufi author, poet, and spiritual teacher, cancer. Bill Hudson, 85, British Special Operations Executive officer. Vasil Iljoski, 92, Macedonian writer and dramatist. George McCowan, 68, Canadian film and television director, pulmonary emphysema. Erika Morini, 91, Austrian violinist. Alun Pask, 58, Welsh rugby player. W. E. D. Ross, 82, Canadian writer. Desmond Shawe-Taylor, 88, English music critic. Brian Lenihan Snr, 64, Irish politician and minister. Tom Spencer, 81, English cricket player and umpire. Bradbury Thompson, 84, American graphic designer and art director.
2 Bill Blair, 84, American auto racer. June Brewster, 82, American actress. Mihajlo Dimitrijević, 68, Yugoslav Olympic high jumper (1952). Sal Gliatto, 93, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians). Florence Greenberg, 82, record company founder. Luo Guibo, 88, Chinese diplomat and politician. Ollie Harrington, 83, American cartoonist. Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, 76, Columbian politician, homicide. Gil Lamb, 91, American actor. Leonard Stewart, 88, British Olympic speed skater (1928). Gabriel Urgebadze, 66, Georgian Orthodox monk.
3 R. Tucker Abbott, 76, American conchologist and malacologist. Bojan Adamič, 83, Slovenian composer. Arthur Bottomley, 88, British Labour politician and minister. Mario Revollo Bravo, 76, Colombian Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop. Jerome Caja, 37, American mixed-media painter, drag queen, and performance artist, AIDS. Cookie Cunningham, 90, American football and basketball player (Chicago Bears, Staten Island Stapletons). Wallas Eaton, 78, English film, radio, television and theatre actor. Gordon S. Fahrni, 108, Canadian physician and president of the Canadian Medical Association. John Orchard, 66, British actor (M*A*S*H). Edward Pola, 88, American radio and TV producer, and lyricist. William M. Rountree, 78, American diplomat, cancer. Cordelia Urueta, 87, Mexican artist. Isang Yun, 78, Korean-German composer. Gojko Zec, 60, Serbian football manager, homicide.
4 John Cahill, 65, British businessman, and the chief executive of British Aerospace. Marti Caine, 50, British comedienne, singer and television host, lymphatic cancer. Revels Cayton, 87–88, American civil rights leader. Gilles Deleuze, 70, French philosopher, suicide. Paul Eddington, 68, English actor, lymphoma. Eddie Egan, 65, American actor, cancer. Essex Hemphill, 38, American poet and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications. Yizhak Rabin, 73, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, assassinated. Morrie Schwartz, 78, American professor of sociology and author, ALS. Prawitz Öberg, 64, Swedish football player, bone cancer.
5 Walter Dobler, 75, Canadian gridiron football player. Gene Englund, 78, American basketball player (Boston Celtics, Tri-Cities Blackhawks). Ernest Gellner, 69, British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist. Gordon Walters, 76, New Zealand artist and graphic designer.
6 Larry Cannon, 58, American racecar driver, embolism. Bill Cheesbourg, 68, American racecar driver, cancer. Aneta Corsaut, 62, American actress (The Blob, The Andy Griffith Show, Matlock), cancer. Chiaki Matsuda, 99, Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
7 Andrea Adams, 49, British broadcaster and journalist for the BBC, ovarian cancer.England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995 Emery Bonett, 88, English author and playwright. Dimitri Dimakopoulos, 66, Greek-Canadian architect. Lars Dresler, 27, Danish figure skater and Olympian (1988), undisclosed disease. Ann Dunham, 52, American anthropologist and mother of US president Barack Obama, cancer. Alfredo Mendes, 85, Brazilian Olympic high jumper (1936). John Patrick, 90, American screenwriter and playwright and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, suicide. Slappy White, 74, American comedian and actor, heart attack.
8 Fernando Bello, 71, Portuguese sailor and Olympic medalist (1948, 1952, 1960, 1964). Neil Blaney, 73, Irish politician. Suzanne Borel, 91, French diplomat. Francis Cleveland, 92, American stage actor, director, producer, and son of president Grover Cleveland. Oleh Makarov, 66, Soviet/Ukrainian football player, coach, and sports writer. Gertrude Messinger, 84, American film actress, pneumonia. Country Dick Montana, 40, American singer, aneurysm. Veselin Petrović, 66, Yugoslavian cyclist and Olympian (1956, 1960).
9 Morley Baer, 79, American photographer and teacher. Alessandro Cicognini, 89, Italian composer prolific in film music. Robert O. Cook, 92, American sound engineer. F. G. Emmison, 88, British archivist and historian. Sigfrid Heyner, 86, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1932). Geraldine Katt, 75, Austrian actress. Richard Morris, 74, British middle-distance runner and Olympian (1948).
10 Ria De Simone, 48, Italian actress and singer, brain cancer. Clairmonte Depeiaza, 67, West Indian cricketer. Jean Maurice Fiey, 81, French Dominican Father, Church historian and Syriacist. Curly Fox, 85, American fiddler. Ken Saro-Wiwa, 54, Nigerian writer and environmentalist, execution by hanging. Franco Silva, 75, Italian actor. René Wellek, 92, Czech-American writer.
11 Corneliu Coposu, 81, Romanian politician, lung cancer. Jean-Louis Curtis, 78, French novelist. Leo Dwyer, 88, Australian rules footballer. Kenneth S. Goldstein, 68, American folklorist and enthomusicologist. Koloman Gögh, 47, Czechoslovak football player, traffic collision. Bill Jordan, 89, Australian rules footballer. Grahame Parker, 83, English sportsman. Charles Scribner IV, 74, American publisher.
12 Jackie Mann, 81, British fighter pilot. Richard L. Coe, 81, longtime theater and cinema critic for The Washington Post. Roland Dobrushin, 66, Russian mathematician. Paul Frantz, 80, Luxembourgian Olympic cyclist (1936). Bill Gnaden, 63, Australian rules footballer. Emmett Matthew Hall, 97, Canadian jurist, judge, and civil liberties advocate. Sir Robert Stephens, 64, English actor (The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Cleopatra, Empire of the Sun), complications following surgery. Willie Telfer, 70, Scottish football player and manager.
13 Hanafy Bastan, 73, Egyptian footballer and Olympian (1948, 1952). Ralph Blane, 81, American songwriter, composer, lyricist, arranger, and singer. Mary Elizabeth Counselman, 83, American writer of short stories and poetry. Rote Hellström, 87, Finnish Olympic sailor (1948). Juan Llabot, 83, Venezuelan Olympic sports shooter (1956, 1968). Edward Nasserden, 76, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1968). Erdoğan Partener, 66, Turkish Olympic basketball player (1952). Adriana Serra, 71, Italian film actress. Orlando Sirola, 67, Italian tennis player. Arthur Dale Trendall, 86, New Zealand-Australian art historian and classical archaeologist. John Van Eyssen, 73, South African actor.
14 Jack Finney, 84, American author (The Body Snatchers), emphysema and pneumonia. Jack Holt, 83, British sailboat designer. Les Horvath, 74, American football quarterback and halfback (Ohio State Buckeyes, Los Angeles Rams, Cleveland Browns) . John Lee-Barber, 90, British Royal Navy officer. Jacob Rader Marcus, 99, American scholar and Reform rabbi. Simon H. Rifkind, 94, American lawyer and district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York). János Tamás, 59, Hungarian-Swiss composer, conductor and music educator.János Tamás on Allmusic
15 J. B. Andrews, 88, American football player. Karen Berg, 89, Danish actress. Joe F. Blair, 72, American sports publicist for the University of Maryland and the Washington Redskins. Billy Hughes, 81, British educationist and Labour Party politician. Sol Liptzin, 94, American-Israeli scholar, author, and professor of literature. J. Clyde Mitchell, 77, British sociologist and anthropologist. John W. Mitchell, 80, American Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II. Ottokar Pohlmann, 83, German Olympic equestrian (1960).
16 Robert H. Adleman, 76, American novelist and historian. D. Woodrow Bird, 83, American politician. Jim J. Brown, 70, Australian rules footballer. Charles Gordone, 70, American playwright, actor, and director, liver cancer. Ralph Kronig, 91, German physicist. Conrad Lynn, 87, American civil rights lawyer and activist. Petre Prličko, 88, Macedonian actor. Gwyn A. Williams, 70, Welsh historian.
17 Agasi Babayan, 73, Armenian director, screenwriter, and actor.Agasi Babayan at the kino-teatr encyclopedia (in Russian) Yevhen Bulanchyk, 73, Soviet Ukrainian Olympic hurdler (1952).Biography of Yevhen Bulanchyk Alan Hull, 50, English singer-songwriter (Lindisfarne), thrombosis. Mohammad Said Keruak, 69, Malaysian politician. Norman Kirkman, 75, English football player and manager. Salvatore Martirano, 68, American composer. Pete Welding, 60, American historian, archivist, and record producer, heart attack. Marguerite Young, 87, American writer.
18 Francisco de Borbón y Borbón, 83, Spanish aristocrat and military officer. John G. Collier, 60, British chemical engineer. Jacques Ertaud, 71, French film director and screenwriter. Miron Grindea, 86, Romanian-British literary journalist. Branko Kallay, 86, Yugoslavian Olympic decathlete (1928). Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, 54, Moroccan poet and writer. Reinhard Kolldehoff, 81, German film actor.
19 Don Anielak, 65, American basketball player (New York Knicks). Charles Doe, 97, American rugby player and Olympian (1920, 1924). Don Goldie, 65, American jazz trumpeter. Wan Guchan, 95, Chinese filmmaker. Martha Hill, 94, American modern dancer. Ed Wright, 76, American baseball player (Boston Braves, Philadelphia Athletics), cancer.
20 George Burns, 76, New Zealand coxswain. Lester Finch, 86, English football player, manager, and Olympian (1936). Robin Gandy, 76, British mathematician and logician. Sergei Grinkov, 28, Russian figure skater and Olympic gold medalist (1988, 1994), heart attack. Robie Macauley, 76, American editor, novelist and critic. Leotis Martin, 56, American boxer. Martand Singh, 72, Indian wildlife conservationist and politician. Kim Sung-jae, 23, South Korean singer, rapper, dancer, and model, murdered.
21 Matthew Ashman, 35, English guitarist, complications from diabetes. Primrose Bordier, 66, French designer. Stan Fanning, 57, American football player (Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Rams, Denver Broncos). Bruno Gerussi, 67, Canadian actor (The Beachcombers), heart attack. Peter Grant, 60, English rock band manager for The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, heart failure. Fred Holliday, 59, American stage, film, and television actor, heart attackWeiskind, Ron (November 29, 1995) "Fred Holliday: Actor who feasted on commercials" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette page B-6 Dorothy Jeakins, 81, American costume designer (The Ten Commandments, The Sound of Music, Samson and Delilah), Oscar winner (1949, 1951, 1965). Noel Jones, 54, British diplomat. Leon Lishner, 82, American operatic bass baritone. Leila Mourad, 77, Egyptian singer and actress. Wim de Ruyter, 77, Dutch cyclist. George Ivan Smith, 80, Australian diplomat. Wilfred White, 91, English Olympic equestrian (1952, 1956).
22 Leonardo Bercovici, 87, American screenwriter, film director and producer. Margaret St. Clair, 84, American fantasy and science fiction writer. Tom Clay, 66, American radio personality and disc jockey, lung cancer.