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.^[1]
• Jon-Henri Damski, 60, American essayist, columnist, poet, and gay rights activist, cancer.
• Serge Hutin, 70, French author of books on esoterica and the occult.^[2]
• Gérard Légaré, 89, Canadian politician.
• Roger Marche, 73, French football player.^[3]
• Bruno Michaud, 62, Swiss footballer and manager.^[4]
• Victor Mills, 100, American chemical engineer for the Procter & Gamble company.^[5]
• Cullen Rogers, 76, American gridiron football player.^[6]

2

• Ken Cooper, 74, American football player and coach.^[7]
• Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, 71, French-Swiss banker, emphysema.^[8]
• Ayya Khema, 74, German-American Buddhist teacher, breast cancer.
• Roy McMillan, 68, American baseball player, coach and manager.^[9]
• Helen Stevenson Meyner, 68, American politician.^[10]
• Maulana Habibullah Mukhtar, 53, Pakistani Islamic scholar and writer.
• Shōshin Nagamine, 90, Japanese karate Master, mayor and author.
• Gerhard Neumann, 80, German-American aviation engineer, leukemia.
• Tony Novis, 91, English rugby football player.
• Harold Plenderleith, 99, Scottish art conservator and archaeologist.^[11]
• Bernhard Plettner, 82, German engineer and manager.
• Carson Smith, 66, American jazz double-bassist.^[12]
• G. Harry Stine, 69, American writer and science fiction author, stroke.

3

• Wally Bruner, 66, American journalist and television host, liver cancer.^[13]
• Attilio Conton, 95, Italian long-distance runner and Olympian.^[14]
• Antoine Cuissard, 73, French football player and manager.^[15]
• Vladimir Guliayev, 73, Soviet actor of theater and cinema.
• Ashot Navasardyan, 47, Armenian politician and military commander, heart attack.
• Satyapramoda Tirtha, Indian guru and philosopher.

4

• Noboru Aota, 72, Japanese baseball player, lung cancer.^[16]
• George Chambers, 69, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.^[17]
• René-Jean Clot, 84, French painter and novelist.^[18]
• Wilfred Coutts, 89, Australian politician.
• Johnny Dickshot, 87, American baseball player.^[19]
• Ranesh Das Gupta, 85, Bangladeshi writer, journalist and politician.
• Richard Hooker, 73, American surgeon and writer, leukemia.^[20]

5

• James Robert Baker, 50, American novelist and screenwriter, suicide.^[21]
• Yemane Baria, 48, Eritrean singer-songwriter.
• Isaiah Berlin, 88, British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian.^[22]
• Louise Campbell, 86, American actress.^[23]
• Camilla Cederna, 86, Italian writer and editor, cancer.^[24]
• Peter Jackson, 33, Australian rugby league footballer, drug overdose.
• George Philip Bradley Roberts, 91, British Army officer.
• William C. Watson, 59, American actor.

6

• Luigi Cantone, 80, Italian fencer and Olympic champion.^[25]
• Norbert Carbonnaux, 79, French film director and screenwriter.^[26]
• Ray Daniel, 69, Welsh football player and manager.^[27]
• Jahangir Forouhar, 81, Iranian actor.
• Leon Forrest, 60, American novelist.^[28]
• Annie Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, 82, British politician and peer, cerebrovascular disease, bronchopneumonia.^[29]
• Anne Stine Ingstad, 79, Norwegian archaeologist.^[30]
• Lillian Rogers Parks, 100, American housemaid and seamstress in the White House.^[31]
• Josef Pieper, 93, German Catholic philosopher.^[32]
• Epic Soundtracks, 38, British musician, drug overdose.^[33]
• Jane Thurgood-Dove, 34, Australian murder victim, shot.^[34]

7

• Lloyd Hamilton Donnell, 102, American mechanical engineer.
• Clyde Gilmour, 85, Canadian broadcaster and journalist
• Margaret Harshaw, 88, American opera singer and voice teacher.^[35]
• Rafael Hernández, 69, Spanish film actor.
• Mitchell P. Kobelinski, 69, American banker and attorney.^[36]
• Paul Ricard, 88, French industrialist and creator of Pernod Ricard.^[37]

8

• Henry Bland, 87, Australian public servant.^[38]
• Lam Ching-ying, 44, Hong Kong stuntman and actor, liver cancer.^[39]
• Prosper Depredomme, 79, Belgian racing cyclist.^[40]
• Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, 102, Iranian author.^[41]
• Robert John Kerr, Northern Irish loyalist, vapour explosion.^[42]
• Fedir Medvid, 54, Ukrainian and Soviet football player.
• Michael Ward, 88, English actor.

9

• Paul Haghedooren, 38, Belgian cyclist, heart attack.^[43]
• Carl Gustav Hempel, 92, German writer and philosopher, pneumonia.^[44]
• Helenio Herrera, 87, French-Argentine football player and manager.^[45]
• Leonard Matthews, 83, British publisher and editor.^[46]
• Joe Roccisano, 58, American jazz saxophonist and arranger.
• Moody Sarno, 83, American football player and coach.
• Cecil Smith, 89, Canadian figure skater.^[47]
• Wu Xiuquan, 89, Chinese communist revolutionary, military officer, and diplomat.

10

• Lloyd Cardwell, 84, American football player and coach.^[48]
• Leon W. Johnson, 93, United States Air Force general, respiratory infection.^[49]
• Ave Ninchi, 82, Italian actress.^[50]
• Tommy Tedesco, 67, American guitarist and studio musician, lung cancer.^[51]
• Annie Dodge Wauneka, 87, American Navajo Nation activist.^[52]

11

• William Alland, 81, American film producer (Creature from the Black Lagoon, It Came from Outer Space) and actor (Citizen Kane), complications from heart disease.^[53]
• Max Bangerter, 86, Swiss gymnast and Olympian.
• Shake Keane, 70, Vincentian jazz musician and poet, stomach cancer.
• Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka, 67, Malagasy writer, poet and politician.
• Rod Milburn, 47, American athlete, work-related accident.^[54]
• Gintaras Ramonas, 35, Lithuanian politician.
• Menahem Max Schiffer, 86, German-American mathematician.^[55]

12

• Luke Brown, 62, American professional wrestler known as Luke "Big Boy" Brown, stroke.
• Alberto Cavallone, 59, Italian film director and screenwriter.^[56]
• Tom Chang, 31, Taiwanese singer, songwriter, and music producer.
• James Laughlin, 83, American poet and literary book publisher, complications following a stroke.^[57]
• William Matthews, 55, American poet and essayist.^[58]
• Rainer Ptacek, 46, American guitarist and singer-songwriter, brain tumor.^[59]
• Carola Standertskjöld, 56, Finnish jazz and pop singer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Carlos Surinach, 82, Spanish-American composer.^[60]
• Sándor Szabó, 82, Hungarian actor.^[61]
• Maria von Maltzan, 88, German noblewoman and resistance member during World War II.^[62]
• Howard Weiss, 80, American gridiron football player.

13

• André Boucourechliev, 72, Bulgarian-French composer.^[63]
• Alexandru Bârlădeanu, 86, Romanian Marxian economist.
• Bill Conroy, 82, American baseball player.^[64]
• James Couttet, 76, French alpine skier and ski jumper and Olympian.^[65]
• Dietrich Lohmann, 54, German cinematographer, leukemia.^[66]
• Onzy Matthews, 67, American jazz musician and actor, heart failure.
• P. Ravindran, 74, Indian politician.
• Larry Shinoda, 67, American automotive designer, kidney failure.
• Moe Thacker, 63, American baseball player.^[67]

14

• Knud Andersen, 75, Danish cyclist and Olympian.^[68]
• Eddie Arcaro, 81, American jockey, liver cancer.^[69]
• Alba de Céspedes, 86, Cuban-Italian writer.^[70]
• Joel Lee Brenner, 85, American mathematician.^[71]
• Stefan Lorant, 96, Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author.^[72]
• Jack Pickersgill, 92, Canadian civil servant and politician.^[73]
• Kiyoshi Saitō, 90, Japanese printmaker.^[74]
• N. V. N. Somu, 60, Indian politician, helicopter crash.

15

• Aaron Brown, 53, American football player, traffic accident.^[75]
• Saul Chaplin, 85, American composer and musical director, complication from a fall.^[76]
• Alf Day, 90, Welsh professional footballer.^[77]
• Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh, 47, Dutch actor, musician, composer, and television presenter, heart attack.^[78]
• Warren Douglas, 86, American actor and screenwriter, heart failure.^[79]
• Jim Kepner, 74, American journalist, author, archivist and gay rights activist.^[80]
• Elizza La Porta, 95, Romanian-American film actress.
• Douglas MacArthur II, 88, American diplomat.^[81]
• Vladimir Vengerov, 77, Soviet and Russian film director.^[82]
• Nándor Wagner, 75, Hungarian artist and sculptor.

16

• Albert L. Ireland, 79, United States Marine Corps sergeant and recipient of nine purple hearts.
• José Behra, 73, French racing driver and rally driver.
• Captain Mikey, 62, American disc jockey and voice-over actor, leukemia.
• Brigitte Groh, 31, German figure skater.^[83]
• Georges Marchais, 77, French politician, heart attack.^[84]
• Russ Meyer, 74, American baseball player.^[85]
• Padmapriya, Indian actress.
• George O. Petrie, 85, American radio and television actor, lymphoma.^[86]
• Aaron John Sharp, 93, American botanist and bryologist.^[87]
• Roy Sheffield, 90, English cricket player.^[88]
• Robert N. Thompson, 83, Canadian politician and chiropractor.

17

• Richard Sumner Cowan, 76, American botanist, brain trauma.^[89]
• Gert Günther Hoffmann, 68, German actor and director.^[90]
• David Ignatow, 83, American poet.^[91]
• Wilfred Josephs, 70, English composer.^[92]
• Edwin Mansfield, 67, American academic, cancer.^[93]
• Orlando Ribeiro, 86, Portuguese geographer and historian.^[94]
• John Wimber, 63, American Christian leader, mystic and musician, brain hemorrhage.^[95]
• Milič Čapek, 88, Czech–American philosopher.^[96]

18

• John Bird, 71, British politician.
• Jean Conan Doyle, 84, British Royal Air Force officer , Parkinson's disease.
• Unichi Hiratsuka, 102, Japanese printmaker.^[97]
• Fredrik Horn, 81, Norwegian football player.^[98]
• Stanislav Rapotec, 86, Slovene-Australian artist.^[99]
• Robert Vandeputte, 89, Belgian economist, civil servant, and politician.
• Joyce Wethered, 96, British golfer.^[100]

19

• Mary Bernheim, 95, British biochemist.^[101]
• Charles de Graft Dickson, 84, Ghanaian educationist and a politician.
• Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler, 89, American pharmacist.
• Yosef Rom, 65, Israeli engineer and politician.
• Alfred Roome, 88, English film editor.^[102]
• Kjell Schou-Andreassen, 57, Norwegian footballer and manager, leukemia.

20

• Asbjørn Aavik, 94, Norwegian lutheran missionary and writer.
• Larry Ferrari, 65, American organist, leukemia.
• Dick Littlefield, 71, American baseball player.^[103]
• Robert Palmer, 52, American writer, musician and blues producer, liver disease.^[104]

21

• Bill Boyd, 91, American poker player.
• Ismail Fahmi, 75, Egyptian diplomat and politician.
• Harold Geneen, 87, American businessman.^[105]
• Julian Jaynes, 77, American psychologist.
• Grayson L. Kirk, 94, American political scientist.^[106]
• Jack Purvis, 60, English actor (Star Wars, Time Bandits, Brazil).
• Robert Simpson, 76, English composer.^[107]

22

• Roger Brown, 55, American artist and painter.^[108]
• Michael Hutchence, 37, Australian musician (INXS), suicide by hanging.^[109]
• Joanna Moore, 63, American film and television actress, lung cancer.^[110]
• Kalki Sadasivam, 95, Indian freedom fighter, singer, journalist and film producer.

23

• Hulda Crooks, 101, American mountaineer.^[111]
• Henry Wilson, Baron Wilson of Langside, 81, Scottish lawyer and politician.
• Robert Lewis, 88, American actor, director and author, heart failure.^[112]
• Irene E. Ryan, 88, American geologist, aviator and legislator.
• Ivan Ðurić, 50, Serbian writer, professor, historian and politician, suicide.^[113]

24

• Barbara, French singer, respiratory problems.^[114]
• Jorge Mas Canosa, 58, Cuban-American immigrant and anti-Castro lobbyist, lung cancer.^[115]
• Maurits Gysseling, 78, Belgian linguist.^[116]
• Bill Lawrie, 63, Australian racing cyclist.^[117]
• John Sopinka, 64, Ukrainian-Canadian lawyer and judge.
• Ira Wolfert, 89, American Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and writer.^[118]

25

• Hastings Banda, 99, President of Malawi (1966–1994).^[119]
• 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 (The Thing, Hunter, Dante's Peak), heart attack.^[120]
• Viorel Mateianu, 59, Romanian football player and coach.^[121]
• Stephen L.R. McNichols, 83, American politician, heart failure.
• Elmore Morgenthaler, 75, American basketball player, pneumonia.^[122]
• M. Prabhakar Reddy, Indian film actor.
• Fenton Robinson, 62, American blues singer, brain cancer.^[123]
• Jon Silkin, 66, British poet.^[124]

26

• Rudolf Buhse, 92, German Wehrmacht officer and Bundeswehr general.
• Erna Fentsch, 88, German actress and screenwriter.^[125]
• Marguerite Henry, 95, American children's author.^[126]
• Werner Höfer, 84, German journalist.^[127]

27

• David D Barron, 33, Mexican gang member, friendly fire.
• Jules Henriet, 79, Belgian football player.^[128]
• Eduardo Kingman, 84, Ecuadorian artist.^[129]
• Malcolm Knowles, 84, American adult educator, stroke.^[130]
• Eric Laithwaite, 76, British electrical engineer.
• Buck Leonard, 90, American baseball player.^[131]
• Ronald Martland, 90, Canadian lawyer and judge.
• 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.^[132]

28

• Qemal Butka, Albanian architect, painter and politician.
• Wallace H. Clark, Jr., American dermatologist and pathologist, ruptured aneurysm.^[133]
• Tom Evenson, 87, English long-distance runner and Olympian.^[134]
• Georges Marchal, 77, French actor.^[135]
• Ken Mitsuda, 95, Japanese film actor, stroke.
• William "Smitty" Smith, 53, Canadian keyboardist and session musician.

29

• Ernest Johnson, 85, British track cyclist and Olympian.^[136]
• Isabelle M. Kelley, 80, American social worker.
• Abdul Latif, 46, Indian criminal, shot.
• Ada Leonard, 82, American bandleader.^[137]
• Heikki Savolainen, 90, Finnish artistic gymnast.^[138]
• George Sodeinde Sowemimo, 77, Nigerian jurist and Chief Justice.
• Coleman Young, 79, American politician, emphysema.^[139]

30

• Kathy Acker, 50, American experimental novelist, playwright and essayist, cancer.^[140]
• Glyn Dearman, 57, English actor, domestic accident.^[141]
• Mary Fergusson, 83, British civil engineer.
• Kay Green, 70, Welsh cricket player.
• Karl Kowanz, 71, Austrian football player and coach.^[142]
• Sami Al Lenqawi, 25, Kuwaiti football player.
• Alfred Næss, 70, Norwegian playwright and songwriter.
• Leo Edward O'Neil, 69, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, multiple myeloma.^[143]
• Françoise Prévost, 67, French actress, journalist and author, breast cancer.^[144]
• Shamo Quaye, 26, Ghanaian Football player.^[145]
• Božena Srncová, 72, Czech gymnast and Olympian.^[146]
• Bernardo Élis, 82, Brazilian lawyer, professor, poet, and writer.