The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2006.
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 2006
1 Bettye Ackerman, 82, American actress (Ben Casey, Bracken's World, Rascal), stroke. Daniel Garcia, 80, Mexican professional wrestler and actor better known as Huracán Ramírez, heart attack. Buddy Killen, 73, American record producer, founder of Dial Records, pancreatic cancer. Florence Klotz, 86, American Tony Award-winning costume designer, heart failure. Johnny Schofield, 75, British footballer for Birmingham City, former manager of Atherstone Town, complications from an illness. Adrienne Shelly, 40, American actress (Trust, Unbelievable Truth) and film director (Waitress), strangled. William Styron, 81, American writer (Darkness Visible, Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice), pneumonia. Hilda van Stockum, 98, Dutch Newbery Medal-winning author of children's books, stroke. Silvio Varviso, 82, Swiss conductor of the Vlaamse Opera, illness.
2 Rafael Donato, 69, Filipino President of DLSU-Manila (1991–1994), President of De La Salle Lipa (1995–2003), drowned. Adrien Douady, 71, French mathematician. Hadyn Ellis, 61, Welsh psychologist. Wally Foreman, 58, Australian sports commentator, heart attack. Red Hayworth, 91, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns). Carroll Knicely, 77, American publisher, Commerce Secretary for three Kentucky governors. Henning Kristiansen, 79, Danish cinematographer and film director (Babette's Feast, Me and Charly). Leonard Schrader, 62, American screenwriter (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Mishima), heart failure. Derek Turnbull, 79, New Zealand runner. Milly Vitale, 73, Italian actress, natural causes.
3 Belden Bly, 92, American legislator in the Massachusetts House (1948–1979). Frank Dunham Jr., 64, American federal public defender, head lawyer for Zacarias Moussaoui, brain cancer. Sir Allen Fairhall, 96, Australian member of the House of Representatives (1949–1969), Minister for Defence (1966–1969). Fereydoon Hoveyda, 82, Syrian-born Iranian ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1979), cancer. Paul Mauriat, 81, French musician (L'Amour Est Bleu). Sputnik Monroe, 77, American professional wrestler, respiratory illness. Malachi Ritscher, 52, American anti-war protester, self-immolation. Marie Rudisill, 95, American "Fruitcake Lady" on The Tonight Show, aunt of Truman Capote, natural causes. Stanley Rothenberg, 76, American lawyer, former president of Copyright Society, complications of popliteal aneurysm surgery. Alberto Spencer, 68, Ecuadorian footballer (Peñarol, Ecuador), highest scorer in Copa Libertadores, infection after heart surgery.
4 Dajan Ahmet, 44, Estonian actor, car accident. Brebis Bleaney, 91, British physicist. Nelson S. Bond, 97, American writer. William Lee Brent, 75, American Black Panther who hijacked a plane to Cuba, bronchial pneumonia. Lionel Bryer, 78, South African dentist who founded the Aberdeen International Youth Festival. Frank Calder, 91, Canadian aboriginal politician. Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, American co-author of Cheaper by the Dozen, natural causes. Sergi López, 39, Spanish footballer for FC Barcelona, brother of Gerard López, suicide by train. John McManners, 89, British historian, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford University (1972–1984).
5 Louis William Conradt Jr., 56, assistant district attorney in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, suicide. Samuel Bowers, 82, American former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, convicted over murder of Vernon Dahmer, cardiac arrest. Chen Ding-nan, 63, Taiwanese Justice Minister (2000–2005), lung cancer. Chuck DeShane, 87, American football player (Detroit Lions). Bülent Ecevit, 81, Turkish former Prime Minister, complications following a stroke. George Esser, 85, American civil rights advocate, set up the North Carolina Fund. Oscar González, 82, Uruguayan Grand Prix driver. Frank Marsden, 83, British Labour MP (1971–1974). Pietro Rava, 90, Italian former football player, last surviving member of the 1938 World Cup-winning team, Alzheimer's disease. Ham Richardson, 73, American tennis player, US Open doubles winner, diabetes complications. Francis Schuckardt, 69, American Traditional Catholic Bishop, rejected decrees of Second Vatican Council, throat cancer. Bobby Shearer, 74, Scottish former footballer (Hamilton Academical, Rangers), illness.
6 Miguel Aceves Mejía, 90, Mexican singer and actor known as "the king of the falsetto", bronchitis. Francisco Fernández Ochoa, 56, Spanish alpine skier, gold medallist in the 1972 Winter Olympic Games, cancer. Federico López, 44, Puerto Rican basketball player in two Olympic Games and three world championships, heart attack. J. T. Rutherford, 85, American Democratic Representative for Texas (1955–1963), complications from Alzheimer's disease. Cyril Stevenson, 92, Bahamian politician and newspaper publisher.Cyril Stevenson, co-founder of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) of the Bahamas and prolific newspaper publisher.
7 Paul Baltes, 67, German developmental psychologist, cancer. John Coburn, 81, Australian artist, winner of the 1960 and 1977 Blake Prize. Buddy Kerr, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants, Boston Braves). Jackie Parker, 74, American football player (Edmonton Eskimos, Toronto Argonauts, BC Lions), throat cancer. Bryan Pata, 22, American football player (Miami Hurricanes), shot. Johnny Sain, 89, American baseball player (Boston Braves, New York Yankees) and coach (Chicago White Sox), complications from a stroke. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 82, French journalist and politician, complications from bronchitis. Brian Harold Thomson, 87, British businessman, chairman of D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. Polly Umrigar, 80, Indian cricketer, lymphoma.
8 Lyudmila Buldakova, 68, Russian volleyball player.Lyudmila Buldakova Rhodes Fairbridge, 92, Australian geologist at Columbia University and expert on climate change, brain tumour. Sir James Hunt, 63, British judge in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, brain tumour. Lia Looveer, 86, Estonian-born Australian politician. Basil Poledouris, 61, American film composer (Conan the Barbarian, RoboCop, Starship Troopers), cancer. Annette Rogers, 93, American athlete, 4 x 100 metres relay gold medalist at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics, stroke.
9 Ed Bradley, 65, American journalist (60 Minutes), leukemia. Garton del Savio, 92, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2007 Mary Grizzle, 85, American politician.Pioneering politician Mary Grizzle dies Marian Marsh, 93, American actress (Hell's Angels, Svengali), respiratory arrest. Sam Stephenson, 72, Irish architect, designed the Central Bank and Wood Quay, complications from heart surgery. Ellen Willis, 64, American journalist, professor, feminist activist and critic, lung cancer. Markus Wolf, 83, German former head of East Germany's secret intelligence service, natural causes.
10 Benny Andrews, 75, American painter, cancer. Diana Coupland, 74, British actress (Bless This House), complications following heart surgery. Gabriel Donoso, 46, Chilean polo player, fall from a horse. Fokko du Cloux, 51, Dutch mathematician and computer scientist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.Fokko du Cloux: December 20, 1954 – November 10, 2006 Maurice Floquet, 111, French supercentenarian. Doug Friedline, 49, American political campaign manager (Jesse Ventura), heart attack. Gerald Levert, 40, American singer, accidental acute intoxication. Chubby Oates, 63, British comedian and actor, heart attack. Jack Palance, 87, American actor (Shane, City Slickers, Batman), Oscar winner (1992). Francisco Quina, 75, Portuguese Olympic sailor.Francisco Quina Nadarajah Raviraj, 44, Sri Lankan Tamil National Alliance MP, shot. Igor Sergeyev, 68, Russian Defense Minister (1997–2001), the only Marshal of the Russian Federation, cancer. Jack Williamson, 98, American science fiction author.
11 Anicée Alvina, 53, French actress, lung cancer. Belinda Emmett, 32, Australian actress (Home and Away, Hey Dad..!, All Saints), metastatic breast cancer. Jabu Khanyile, 49, South African musician who played at the Johannesburg Live 8 concert, prostate cancer. Esther Lederberg, 83, American microbiologist at Stanford, discovered lambda phage, pneumonia and heart failure. Harry Lehotsky, 49, Canadian anti-poverty advocate and newspaper columnist, pancreatic cancer. Ronnie Stevens, 81, British actor (Space Patrol, Carry On Cruising, The Parent Trap). Joop van Domselaar, 78, Dutch Olympic shooter.
12 Alphonse Halimi, 74, French boxer, former world bantamweight champion, pneumonia. Harvey Manning, 81, American conservationist and author. Mario Merola, 72, Italian singer and actor, heart attack. Jacob E. Smart, 97, American Air Force general and NASA executive, former deputy C-in-C of the US European Command. Joseph Ungaro, 76, American journalist. H. Donald Wilson, 82, American founder of LexisNexis, heart attack.
13 Louis Chevalier, 85, French Olympic racewalker. Desert Orchid, 27, British National Hunt racehorse, winner of the King George VI Chase on four occasions. Milton Drake, 94, American lyricist and performing rights administrator. Konrad Fuchs, 109, German believed to be oldest living Catholic priest, WWI combat veteran. Judah Reuben, 84, Indian cricket umpire.
14 Tony Gara, 67, Zimbabwean politician, mayor of Harare, cancer. John Hallam, 65, Northern Irish actor. Montague Higgs, 67, Bahamian Olympic sailor.Montague Higgs Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, 77, French writer and journalist. G. Gordon Strong, 92, Canadian-American publisher, pneumonia. Pete Suder, 90, American baseball player (Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics). Owen Truelove, 69, British RAF Air Commodore, glider crash.
15 George G. Blackburn, 90, Canadian author, member of the Order of Canada, cancer. John Blackburn, 93, American songwriter ("Moonlight in Vermont"). Ken Ishikawa, 58, Japanese manga artist (Getter Robo), heart failure. Ana Carolina Reston, 21, Brazilian model, complications from anorexia nervosa. Paul Rigby, 82, Australian cartoonist, heart attack. David K. Wyatt, 69, American historian of Thailand, emphysema and heart failure.
16 Frank Durkan, 76, Irish-born American lawyer, advocate for members of the Irish Republican Army in the US, lung infection. Milton Friedman, 94, American monetarist and free-market economist, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize, heart failure. Gary Graver, 68, American cinematographer (F for Fake, Grand Theft Auto, The Other Side of the Wind), cancer. Geoff Griffin, 67, South African cricketer, heart attack. Yuri Levada, 76, Russian sociologist and pollster, heart attack. Jack Macpherson, 69, American surfboarder, liver and renal failure. Paris Theodore, 63, American firearm inventor and manufacturer, multiple sclerosis. John Veale, 84, British classical composer, cancer.
17 Sir John Acland, 77, British general, commander of forces in Rhodesia (1979–1980). Ruth Brown, 78, American blues singer ("So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes", "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean"), complications from a heart attack and stroke. Jeffrey O. Hanson, 48, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Colin Pinch, 85, Australian cricketer. Tony Pithey, 73, South African cricketer, pancreatic cancer. Ferenc Puskás, 79, Hungarian former footballer and coach, pneumonia. Flo Sandon's, 82, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival (1953). Bo Schembechler, 77, American football coach (Michigan Wolverines). Ramez Tebet, 70, Brazilian politician and lawyer, cancer.
18 Movladi Baisarov, 40, Chechen warlord and commander of Federal Security Service, shot.