The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2001.
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 2001
1 Warren Amling, 76, American college basketball and football player (Ohio State Buckeyes). Juan Bosch, 92, Dominican politician, historian, and first president of the Dominican Republic, respiratory distress. Solange Chaput-Rolland, 82, Canadian journalist, author, and politician. Tom Cheney, 67, American Major League Baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Senators). Olivia Hamnett, 73, English actress, brain cancer. Ravindra Kaushik, 49, Indian spy, heart disease, tuberculosis. JP Miller, 81, American writer, pneumonia. John S. Romanides, 74, Roman theologian, Eastern Orthodox priest, and scholar. Don Craig Wiley, 57, American structural biologist, drowned.
2 Fiorella Betti, 74, Italian actress and voice actress. Gordie Byers, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins). Mona Fandey, 45, Malaysian pop singer and convicted murderer, execution by hanging. Hank Gremminger, 68, American gridiron football player (Baylor, Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams), cardiac arrest. Doug Hele, 82, British motorcycle engineer. Paula Kann, 79, Austrian-born American Olympic alpine skier (1948). Thomas Schleicher, 28, Austrian judoka and Olympian (1996), suicide. Elazar Shach, 102, Lithuanian haredi rabbi. Buddy Starcher, 95, American country singer. William Whitlock, 83, British politician.
3 Evan Adermann, 74, Australian politician. Thomas Brasch, 56, German author, poet and film director, heart failure. Lucio Colletti, 76, Italian Western marxist philosopher. Denis Gallagher, 79, Irish politician. Ernst Gombrich, 92, Austrian-British art historian. Frederick Heyliger, 85, American officer with Easy Company during World War II. Pradeep Kumar, 76, Indian actor. László Móra, 66, Hungarian Olympic equestrian (1960, 1972). Liv Paulsen, 75, Norwegian Olympic athlete (1948). Mariano Navarro Rubio, 87, Spanish politician. Viveka Seldahl, 57, Swedish actress, cancer. Ward Wood, 77, American actor (Mannix) and television writer.
4 Edward Patrick Boland, 90, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1953-1989). Peter Coyne, 84, Australian politician. Bob Gillespie, 82, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox). Arthur Guepe, 86, American football player and coach. Paul R. Screvane, 87, American politician, congestive heart failure. Ng Eng Teng, 67, Singaporean sculptor, kidney disease.
5 Gholam Reza Azhari, 89, Prime Minister of Iran and military leader, cancer. Andrew Bagby, 28, American doctor, murder by shooting. Milan D. Bish, 72, American diplomat (Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, and St. Vincent). Roy Boulting, 87, English filmmaker. Milton William Cooper, 58, American conspiracy theorist, radio broadcaster, and author, shot. Barry Horne, 49, English animal rights activist, liver failure after hunger strike. Joan Marion, 93, British stage, film and television actress.
6 Terry D. Clark, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Svend Engedal, 73, American soccer goalkeeper and Olympian (1956). Bettie Hewes, 80, Canadian politician. Don Lavoie, 50, American economist, stroke. Sveto Letica, 75, Croatian admiral. Gray Morrow, 67, American comic book artist (Man-Thing, El Diablo, Tarzan).Gray Morrow at the Social Security Death Index. Retrieved March 24, 2012. Peter Kenneth Newman, 73, English economist and historian of economic thought. Anthony Shaffer, 75, English playwright (Sleuth) and screenwriter (The Wicker Man, Frenzy). Ralph Wenzel, 83, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), and United States Marine Corps officer. Erich Zeller, 81, German figure skater and figure skating coach.
7 Shahed Ali, 76, Bangladeshi educationist, cultural activist and an author. Bobby Bass, 65, American stunt performer. Nida Blanca, 65, Filipino actress, stabbed. Delia Garcés, 82, Argentine film actress. Sachiko Hidari, 71, Japanese film actress, lung cancer. Geoffrey Jenkins, 81, South African writer. Sir Ivan Neill, 95, British Army officer and Unionist politician. François Philippe, 71, French Olympic football player (1960). Alta Schrock, 90, American biology professor and community activist.
8 Paolo Bertoli, 93, Italian cardinal, camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church. Anno Birkin, 20, English poet and musician, road accident. Valentin Eduque, 74, Filipino basketball coach and player. Harold Fisch, 78, British-Israeli author, literary critic, and diplomat, tumor. Albrecht Fröhlich, 85, German-British mathematician. Malak Karsh, 86, Canadian photographer. Dimitar Kotev, 60, Bulgarian cyclist and Olympian (1960). Peter Laslett, 85, British historian. Patrick Quinlan, 81, Irish academic and politician. Radmila Savićević, 75, Serbian actress. Cyril Morley Shelford, 80, Canadian author and political figure. Stanislav Štrunc, 59, Czech football player and Olympian (1968). Raúl Zumbano, 76, Brazilian Olympic boxer (1948).
9 Denis Atkinson, 75, Barbadian cricketer, captain of West Indies. Witold Balcerowski, 66, Polish chess player. Nancye Wynne Bolton, 84, Australian tennis player. Pino Canessa, 93, Italian Olympic sailor (1948). Dorothy Dunnett, 78, Scottish historical novelist. Ethel D. Jacobs, 91, American thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder, pneumonia. Giovanni Leone, 93, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1963;1968) and President (1971–1978). Édouard Marcelle, 92, French Olympic rower (1928). Tore Zetterholm, 86, Swedish novelist, playwright and journalist.
10 Michael Lucas, 2nd Baron Lucas of Chilworth, 75, British politician. Theys Eluay, 64, Indonesian independence activist for West Papuan, assassinated, strangling. Mariya Havrysh, 70, Soviet Ukrainian swimmer and Olympian (1952). Maxwell Hunter, 79, American aerospace engineer. Ken Kesey, 66, American author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion), complications following surgery. Enid McElwee, 87, New Zealand fencer. Junji Nishime, 80, Japanese politician. Hilbert Van Dijk, 83, Dutch-born Australian Olympic fencer (1956).
11 John R. Foley, 84, American politician (U.S. Representative for Maryland's 6th congressional district from 1959 to 1961). Leon Gray, 49, American gridiron football player (Jackson State, New England Patriots, Houston Oilers, New Orleans Saints). Cliff Hansen, 91, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). Sir Denis Spotswood, 85, British Chief of the Air Staff (1971–1974) Tadashi Sugiura, 66, Japanese baseball player. Emmanuel Blayo Wakhweya, 64, Ugandan politician and economist, cardiac arrest. Journalists killed in the Dasht-e Qaleh Taliban ambush Pierre Billaud, 31, French radio reporter and journalist. Volker Handloik, 40, German freelance journalist and reporter. Johanne Sutton, 34, French radio reporter and journalist.
12 Henrique Callado, 81, Portuguese Olympic equestrian (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964). Carrie Donovan, 73, American fashion editor (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine). Albert Hague, 81, German-American composer (Redhead, How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and actor (Fame, Space Jam), cancer. Paul Krasny, 66, American film and television director. Ashot Melikjanyan, 49, Soviet/Armenian actor, plane crash. Tony Miles, 46, English chess grandmaster, heart failure. Babik Reinhardt, 57, French guitarist, heart attack. Prekshya Shah, 49, Nepalese princess, helicopter crash. Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, 74, American Saivite guru. Radovan Vlajković, 77, Yugoslav politician.
13 Qazi Ashfaq, 33, Pakistani footballer. Karuna Banerjee, 81, Indian actress. Bob Eckhardt, 88, American politician (U.S. Representative for Texas's 8th congressional district from 1967 to 1981). Marius Flothuis, 87, Dutch composer, musicologist and music critic. Panama Francis, 82, American swing jazz drummer, stroke. Sam Maple, 48, American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing, cancer. Pat McReavy, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings). Frank Messer, 76, American sportscaster. Peggy Mount, 86, English actress (Oliver!, The Princess and the Goblin). Mayzod Reid, 73, New Zealand diver. J. Harold Smith, 91, American pastor and evangelist.Evangelist J. Harold Smith dies of heart attack at 91 Cornelius Warmerdam, 86, American pole vaulter, Alzheimer's disease.
14 Seth Benardete, 71, American classicist and philosopher. Paul Bochenwich, 76, American Olympic rower (1952). Charlotte Coleman, 33, British actress (Four Weddings and a Funeral), bronchial asthma attack. Henk Dijk, 81, Dutch Olympic wrestler (1948). Juan Carlos Lorenzo, 79, Argentine football player and coach. Zigu Ornea, 71, Romanian literary critic, biographer and book publisher, failed surgery. Ion Simuț, "Gestiunea patrimoniului literar" , in România Literară, Nr. 4/2005 Franz Potucek, 74, Austrian Olympic ice hockey player (1956). Nathan M. Pusey, 94, American university educator. Herbert Tauss, 72, American artist, illustrator, and painter. Hugh Verity, 83, British Royal Air Force fighter pilot during World War II.
15 Megan Boyd, 86, British fly tyer. Edwin H. Colbert, 96, American paleontologist, researcher and author. Herbert Feith, 71, Australian academic and scholar. Frances Hawkins, 79, American politician and teacher. Satoru Kobayashi, 71, Japanese film director, bladder cancer. Mandan Mishra, 72, Indian sanskrit scholar. Lewis Render Morgan, 88, American judge. Jan Rabie, 81, Afrikaans writer of short stories and novels. Nicolas Ruwet, 68, Belgian linguist, literary critic and musical analyst. Alberto Ullastres, 87, Spanish politician and ambassador.
16 Tal Abernathy, 80, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Mohammed Atef, 57, Egyptian jihadist and military chief of al-Qaeda, airstrike. Rosemary Brown, 85, British composer and spiritualist. Tommy Flanagan, 71, American jazz pianist, brain aneurysm. Montague Jayawickrama, 90, Sri Lankan politician. Clifford A. Jones, 89, American politician. Red Steiner, 86, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox).
17 Irving Crane, 88, American pool player. John M. Dawson, 71, American computational physicist. Jerry Jerome, 89, American jazz and big band tenor saxophonist (Glenn Miller, Red Norvo, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw). Michael Karoli, 53, German guitarist, singer, violinist and cellist (Can), cancer. Lendon Smith, 80, American pediatrician, author, and television personality. Billy Vessels, 70, American football player (Oklahoma Sooners, Baltimore Colts). Harrison A. Williams, 81, American politician.
18 Mel Deutsch, 86, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox). Roar Hauglid, 90, Norwegian art historian, antiquarian and publicist. Malcolm McFee, 52, English actor, cancer. Christian Palant, 80, French Olympic modern pentathlete (1948, 1952). Ela Peroci, 79, Slovene children's book writer. Renato Righetto, 80, Brazilian Olympic basketball referee, Alzheimer's disease. Harriette Tarler, 81, American film actress.
19 Baghdasar Arzoumanian, 85, Armenian architect and designer. Roland Beamont, 81, British fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force. Marylise Ben-Haim, 73, Algerian activist, novelist, poet, and painter. Marcelle Ferron, 77, Canadian Québécoise artist and a member of Les Automatistes. Shosh Kormosh, 53, Israeli photographer.מתה הצלמת הישראלית שוש קורמוש (in Hebrew) Jens Reimers, 60, German discus thrower and Olympian (1968). John Sleaver, 67, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks). Bagrat Ulubabyan, 75, Armenian writer and historian. Journalists killed in the Pul-i-Estikam bridge ambush Harry Burton, 33, Australian journalist and cameraman.