Deaths in November 1997

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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1997.

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 1997[]

1[]

  • Wolfgang Abel, 92, Austrian anthropologist and Nazi racial biologist.
  • Gérard Légaré, 89, Canadian politician.
  • Bruno Michaud, 62, Swiss footballer and manager.
  • Victor Mills, 100, American chemical engineer for the Procter & Gamble company.[1]

2[]

  • Ken Cooper, 74, American football player and coach.[2]
  • Ayya Khema, 74, German-American Buddhist teacher.
  • Helen Stevenson Meyner, 68, American politician.[3]
  • Shōshin Nagamine, 90, Japanese karate Master, mayor and author.
  • Gerhard Neumann, 80, German-American aviation engineer.
  • Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, 71, French-Swiss banker, emphysema.[4]
  • G. Harry Stine, 69, American engineering writer and science fiction author, stroke.

3[]

  • Ronald Barnes, 70, American carillon performer, composer, and arranger, leukemia.[5]
  • Wally Bruner, 66, American journalist and television host.[6]
  • Satyapramoda Tirtha, Indian guru and philosopher.

4[]

5[]

  • James Robert Baker, 50, American novelist and screenwriter, suicide.[10]
  • Yemane Baria, 48, Eritrean singer-songwriter.
  • Sir Isaiah Berlin, 88, British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian.[11]
  • Louise Campbell, 86, American actress.[12]
  • Peter Jackson, 33, Australian rugby league footballer, drug overdose.
  • Philip Roberts, 91, British Army officer.
  • William C. Watson, 59, American actor.

6[]

  • Luigi Cantone, 80, Italian fencer and Olympic champion.
  • Ray Daniel, 69, Welsh football player and manager.
  • Leon Forrest, 60, American novelist.[13]
  • Anne Stine Ingstad, 79, Norwegian archaeologist.
  • Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, 82, British politician and peer.[14]
  • Helen Lowe, 99, Scottish accountant, charity worker and activist.
  • Josef Pieper, 93, German Catholic philosopher.
  • Lillian Rogers Parks, 100, American housemaid and seamstress in the White House.[15]
  • Epic Soundtracks, 38, British musician.
  • Jane Thurgood-Dove, 34, Australian murder victim, shot.[16]

7[]

  • Sheila Bellush, 35, American murder victim, shot.
  • Al Ciraldo, 76, American sportscaster.
  • Clyde Gilmour, 85, Canadian broadcaster and journalist
  • Margaret Harshaw, 88, American opera singer and voice teacher.[17]
  • Mitchell P. Kobelinski, 69, American banker and attorney.[18]

8[]

9[]

  • William Browning, 73, American concert pianist and vocal coach, stroke.
  • Paul Haghedooren, 38, Belgian cyclist, heart attack.
  • Carl Gustav Hempel, 92, German writer and philosopher.[20]
  • Helenio Herrera, 87, French-Argentine football player and manager.[21]
  • Leonard Matthews, 83, British publisher and editor.[22]
  • Muriel Mussells Seyfert, 88, American astronomer.
  • Cecil Smith, 89, Canadian figure skater.

10[]

  • Lloyd Cardwell, 84, American football player and coach.
  • Leon W. Johnson, 93, United States Air Force general, respiratory infection.[23]
  • Ave Ninchi, 82, Italian actress.
  • Tommy Tedesco, 67, American guitarist and studio musician, lung cancer.[24]
  • Annie Dodge Wauneka, 87, American Navajo Nation activist.[25]
  • Clifford Wilson, 91, British nephrologist and professor of medicine.

11[]

  • William Alland, 81, American film producer, writer and director, complications of heart disease.
  • Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka, 67, Malagasy writer, poet and politician.
  • Rod Milburn, 47, American athlete, work-related accident.[26]
  • Gintaras Ramonas, 35, Lithuanian politician.

12[]

  • Luke Brown, 62, American professional wrestler known as Luke "Big Boy" Brown, stroke.
  • Alberto Cavallone, 59, Italian film director and screenwriter.
  • James Laughlin, 83, American poet and literary book publisher, complications following a stroke.[27]
  • William Matthews, 55, American poet and essayist.
  • Rainer Ptacek, 46, American guitarist and singer-songwriter, brain tumor.[28]
  • Carola Standertskjöld, 56, Finnish jazz and pop singer, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Carlos Surinach, 82, Spanish-American composer.[29]
  • Sándor Szabó, 82, Hungarian actor.
  • Chang Yu-sheng, 31, Taiwanese singer, songwriter and music producer, car accident.

13[]

14[]

15[]

  • Aaron Brown, 53, American football player, traffic accident.
  • Saul Chaplin, 85, American composer and musical director, complication from a fall.[34]
  • Alf Day, 90, Welsh professional footballer.
  • Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh, 47, Dutch actor, musician, composer, record producer and television presenter, heart attack.[35]
  • Warren Douglas, 86, American actor and screenwriter, heart failure.[36]
  • Jim Kepner, 74, American journalist, author, archivist and gay rights activist.[37]
  • Douglas MacArthur II, 88, American diplomat.[38]
  • Dale Tryon, Baroness Tryon, 49, British businesswoman and socialite, sepsis.

16[]

  • Albert L. Ireland, 79, United States Marine Corps sergeant and recipient of nine purple hearts.
  • Georges Marchais, 77, French politician.[39]
  • Russ Meyer, 74, American baseball player.
  • Captain Mikey, 62, American disc jockey and voice-over actor, leukemia.
  • Padmapriya, Indian actress.
  • George O. Petrie, 85, American radio and television actor, lymphoma.[40]
  • Roy Sheffield, 90, English cricketer.[41]
  • Robert N. Thompson, 83, Canadian politician and chiropractor.

17[]

  • Milič Čapek, 88, Czech–American philosopher.[42]
  • Richard Sumner Cowan, 76, American botanist, brain trauma.
  • David Ignatow, 83, American poet.
  • Peter James, 73, English set decorator.
  • Edwin Mansfield, 67, American academic, cancer.[43]
  • Orlando Ribeiro, 86, Portuguese geographer and historian.
  • John Wimber, 63, American Christian leader, mystic and musician, brain hemorrhage.[44]

18[]

19[]

  • Mary Bernheim, 95, British biochemist.[45]
  • Charles de Graft Dickson, 84, Ghanaian educationist and a politician.
  • Yosef Rom, 65, Israeli engineer and politician.
  • Alfred Roome, 88, English film editor.
  • Kjell Schou-Andreassen, 57, Norwegian footballer and manager, leukemia.

20[]

21[]

  • Bill Boyd, 91, American poker player.
  • Gordon Darnell, 92, American Army officer, aviator and mechanic.
  • Harold Geneen, 87, American businessman.[48]
  • Julian Jaynes, 77, American psychologist.
  • Jack Purvis, 60, English Actor.
  • Robert Simpson, 76, English composer.

22[]

  • Roger Brown, 55, American artist and painter.[49]
  • Michael Hutchence, 37, Australian musician and actor, suicide by hanging.[50]
  • Stefan Lorant, 96, Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author.[51]
  • Joanna Moore, 63, American film and television actress.
  • Kalki Sadasivam, 95, Indian freedom fighter, singer, journalist and film producer.

23[]

24[]

  • Barbara, French singer, respiratory problems.[54]
  • Jorge Mas Canosa, 58, Cuban-American immigrant and anti-Castro lobbyist, lung cancer.[55]
  • Czeslaw Brzozowicz, 86, Canadian engineer.
  • John Cai Tiyuan, 76, Chinese Catholic bishop.
  • Andrey Venediktovich Fyodorov, 91, Soviet philologist, translator and professor.

25[]

  • Hastings Banda, 99, President of Malawi (1966–1994).[56]
  • Cathee Dahmen, 52, American model, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
  • James H. Ellis, 73, British engineer and cryptographer.
  • Eustace Fannin, 82, South African tennis player.
  • Charles Hallahan, 54, American actor, heart attack.[57]
  • Jewel King, 87, American rhythm and blues singer.
  • Stephen McNichols, 83, American politician, heart failure.
  • Elmore Morgenthaler, 75, American basketball player, pneumonia.
  • M. Prabhakar Reddy, Indian film actor.
  • Fenton Robinson, 62, American blues singer, brain cancer.[58]

26[]

  • Rudolf Buhse, 92, German Wehrmacht officer and Bundeswehr general.
  • Saroj Dey, 76, Indian film director.
  • Marguerite Henry, 95, American children's author.[59]
  • Werner Höfer, 84, German journalist.[60]
  • Berton E. Spivy Jr., 85, United States Army general.

27[]

  • David "D" Barron, 33, Mexican gang member, friendly fire.
  • Eric Laithwaite, 76, British electrical engineer.
  • Ida Lansky, Canadian-American photographer.
  • Argelia Laya, 71, Venezuelan educator and women's rights activist.
  • Buck Leonard, 90, American baseball player.[61]
  • Gull-Maj Norin, 84, Danish actress.
  • Yves Prévost, 89, Canadian politician.
  • Branko Ružić, 78, Croatian painter and sculptor.
  • Merike Talve, 40, Canadian curator, artist and writer, breast cancer.[62]

28[]

  • Qemal Butka, Albanian architect, painter and politician.
  • Henry Charnock, 76, British meteorologist.
  • Wallace H. Clark Jr., American dermatologist and pathologist, ruptured aneurysm.[63]

29[]

30[]

  • Kathy Acker, 50, American experimental novelist, playwright and essayist, cancer.[66]
  • Fay E. Davis, 81, American artist, graphic designer and muralist.
  • Glyn Dearman, 57, English actor, domestic accident.[67]
  • Mary Fergusson, 83, British civil engineer.
  • Leo Edward O'Neil, 69, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[68]
  • Françoise Prévost, 67, French actress, journalist and author.

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