Deaths in November 2015
The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2015. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months".
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference (must be added) are added.
November 2015[change | change source]
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- November 1 - Fred Thompson, 73, American politician and actor (Die Hard 2, Law & Order, Sinister), U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1994–2003), prosecutor who discovered Watergate tapes, lymphoma.[1]
- November 1 - Günter Schabowski, 86, German politician, editor-in-chief of Neues Deutschland (1978–1985), prematurely announced fall of the Berlin Wall, complications of a stroke.[2]
- November 1 - Charles Duncan Michener, 97, American entomologist.[3]
- November 2 - Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, 91, Polish art historian.[4]
- November 3 - Adriana Campos, 36, Colombian actress (Vecinos), traffic collision.[5]
- November 3 - Tom Graveney, 88, English cricketer (Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, England), Parkinson's disease.[6]
- November 3 - Ahmed Chalabi, 71, Iraqi politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2005–2006), President of the Governing Council (2003), heart attack.[7]
- November 3 - Howard Coble, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 6th congressional district (1985–2015), complications from surgery.[8]
- November 4 - Piotr Domaradzki, 69, Polish-born American journalist (Dziennik Związkowy), essayist and historian, injuries sustained from a house fire.[9]
- November 4 - Melissa Mathison, 65, American screenwriter (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Black Stallion, Kundun), neuroendocrine cancer.[10]
- November 4 - René Girard, 91, French-American historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science.[11]
- November 4 -Ole Knapp, 83, Norwegian politician.[12]
- November 5 - Nora Brockstedt, 92, Norwegian singer.[13]
- November 5 - Czesław Kiszczak, 90, Polish communist-era politician, Prime Minister (1989) and Minister of Interior and Administration (1981–1990).[14]
- November 5 - George Barris, 89, American custom car designer (Batmobile, Wagon Queen Family Truckster), cancer.[15]
- November 5 - Hans Mommsen, 85, German historian of Nazism and The Holocaust.[16]
- November 6 - José Ángel Espinoza, 96, Mexican singer, composer and actor (House of Evil, Two Mules for Sister Sara), pneumonia.[17]
- November 6 - Yitzhak Navon, 94, Israeli politician, President (1978–1983).[18]
- November 7 - Gunnar Hansen, 68, Icelandic-born American actor (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), pancreatic cancer.[19]
- November 8 - Rhea Chiles, 84, American philanthropist, First Lady of Florida (1991–1998).[20]
- November 8 - Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero, 73, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and Socialist activist, multiple organ failure.[21]
- November 9 - Ernst Fuchs, 85, Austrian painter, co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.[22]
- November 9 - Tommy Hanson, 29, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels), multiple organ failure.[23]
- November 10 - Allen Toussaint, 77, American musician, producer, songwriter ("Fortune Teller", "Working in the Coal Mine") and arranger, heart attack.[24]
- November 10 - Pat Eddery, 63, Irish jockey, eleven-time Champion Jockey, four-time Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner, three-time Lester Award and Epsom Derby winner, cirrhosis.[25]
- November 10 - André Glucksmann, 78, French philosopher and writer.[26]
- November 10 - Laurent Vidal, 31, French Olympic triathlete (2008, 2012), heart attack.[27]
- November 10 - Helmut Schmidt, 96, German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1974-1982), complications from surgery.[28]
- November 10 - Tim Valentine, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 2nd congressional district (1983–1995), heart failure.[29]
- November 10 - Gene Amdahl, 92, American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, pneumonia.[30]
- November 10 - David Atlas, 91, American meteorologist, complications from a stroke.[31]
- November 10 - Klaus Roth, 90, German-born British mathematician, recipient of the Fields Medal (1958).[32]
- November 11 - Phil Taylor, 61, English drummer (Motörhead).[33]
- November 12 - Márton Fülöp, 32, Hungarian football player (Sunderland), cancer.[34]
- November 12 - Aaron Shikler, 93, American artist, kidney failure.[35]
- November 12 - Jihadi John, 27, Kuwaiti-born British terrorist, member of the Islamic State, reported killed in drone strike.[36]
- November 13 - Notable French people killed in the November 2015 Paris attacks:
- Thomas Ayad, music executive (Mercury Records France).[37]
- Guillaume B. Decherf, 43, music critic and journalist (Les Inrockuptibles).[38]
- Alban Denuit, 32, visual artist.[39]
- Matthieu Giroud, 39, geographer (University of Marne-la-Vallée).[40]
- November 14 - Warren Mitchell, 89, British actor (Till Death Us Do Part, Death of a Salesman) and comedian.[41]
- November 14 - Nick Bockwinkel, 80, American professional wrestler (AWA).[42]
- November 14 - Berugo Carámbula, 70, Uruguayan actor (Son Amores) and comedian, complications from Parkinson's disease.[43]
- November 15 - Saeed Jaffrey, 86, Indian-British actor (The Man Who Would Be King, Shatranj Ke Khilari, My Beautiful Laundrette), brain hemorrhage.[44]
- November 15 - Herbert Scarf, 85, American mathematician, heart failure.[45]
- November 15 - Dora Doll, 93, French actress (Manon, French Cancan, Julia), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[46]
- November 15 - Vincent Margera, 59, American reality television personality (Viva La Bam, Jackass), kidney and liver failure.[47]
- November 15 - Nicoletta Machiavelli, 71, Italian actress (Navajo Joe, The Hills Run Red, Bawdy Tales), cancer.[48]
- November 15 - Moira Orfei, 83, Italian circus artist and actress (Scent of a Woman, The Birds, the Bees and the Italians), complications from a stroke.[49]
- November 16 - Nando Gazzolo, 87, Italian actor (The Hills Run Red, Django Shoots First), complications from pneumonia.[50]
- November 16 - David Canary, 77, American actor (All My Children, Bonanza), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[51]
- November 16 - Michael C. Gross, 70, American graphic designer (Ghostbusters logo), cancer.[52]
- November 16 - Bert Olmstead, 89, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs), complications from a stroke.[53]
- November 17 - Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi, 89, Iranian poet.[54]
- November 18 - Jonah Lomu, 40, New Zealand rugby union player (All Blacks), kidney failure.[55]
- November 18 - Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, Belgian terrorist, suspected ringleader of the November 2015 Paris attacks, shot.[56]
- November 18 - Mal Whitfield, 91, American middle-distance runner, Olympic champion (1948, 1952) and aviator (Tuskegee Airmen), heart failure.[57]
- November 19 - Armand, 69, Dutch protest singer, pneumonia.[58]
- November 19 - Allen E. Ertel, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 17th district (1977–1983), heart attack.[59]
- November 20 - Carlos Oroza, 92, Spanish poet, heart failure.[60]
- November 20 - Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, 62, Japanese sumo wrestler, multiple organ failure.[61]
- November 20 - Keith Michell, 88, Australian actor (The Six Wives of Henry VIII) and director, heart attack.[62]
- November 21 - Ameen Faheem, 76, Indian-born Pakistani politician, Commerce Minister (2008–2013) and poet, leukemia.[63]
- November 21 - Bob Foster, 76, American boxer, world light-heavyweight champion (1968–1974).[64]
- November 21 - Linda Haglund, 59, Swedish Olympic sprinter (1972, 1976, 1980), cancer.[65]
- November 21 - Cavit Şadi Pehlivanoğlu, 88, Turkish politician, member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (1961-1996), complications from pneumonia.[66]
- November 22 - Kim Young-sam, 87, South Korean politician, President (1993–1998), heart failure.[67]
- November 22 - Joseph Silverstein, 83, American violinist and conductor, heart attack.[68]
- November 23 - Yoram Tsafrir, 77, Israeli archaeologist, heart attack.[69]
- November 23 - Manmeet Bhullar, 35, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA (Calgary-Greenway) and cabinet minister, traffic collision.[70]
- November 23 - Dan Fante, 71, American author and playwright, cancer.[71]
- November 23 - Douglass North, 95, American economist and laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1993), esophageal cancer.[72]
- November 24 - Varduhi Varderesyan, 87, Romanian-born Armenian actress.[73]
- November 24 - Heinz Oberhummer, 74, Austrian physicist, pneumonia.[74]
- November 25 - Lennart Hellsing, 96, Swedish author and translator, pneumonia.[75]
- November 25 - Elmo Williams, 102, American editor and producer (High Noon, The Longest Day, Tora! Tora! Tora!), Oscar winner (1952).[76]
- November 26 - Guy Lewis, 93, American Hall of Fame college basketball coach (Houston Cougars), complications from a stroke.[77]
- November 26 - Norbert Gastell, 86, German actor and voice actor (Homer Simpson), complications from a stroke.[78]
- November 27 - Philippe Washer, 91, Belgian tennis player, heart failure.[79]
- November 28 - Luc Bondy, 67, Swiss theater and opera director, heart attack.[80]
- November 28 - Gerry Byrne, 77, English footballer (Liverpool and national team), Alzheimer's disease.[81]
- November 28 - Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, 94, Swedish actress.[82] (death announced on this date)
- November 28 - Maurice Strong, 86, Canadian businessman and diplomat.[83] (death announced on this date)
- November 28 - Yoka Berretty, 87, Dutch actress (Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas, The Silent Raid, Punk Lawyer), stroke.[84]
- November 28 - Tomasz Tomczykiewicz, 54, Polish politician, member of Sejm (2001-2015), chronic kidney disease.[85]
- November 28 - Olene S. Walker, 85, American politician, Governor of Utah (2003—2005), stroke.[86]
- November 28 - Jean Joubert, 87, French author, heart attack.[87]
- November 29 - Oʻtkir Sultonov, 76, Uzbek politician, Prime Minister (1995–2003).[88]
- November 29 - Claire Aho, 90, Finnish-born Swedish photographer, fire.[89]
- November 29 - Joe Marston, 89, Australian soccer player (Preston North End) and manager (national team).[90] (death announced on this date)
- November 30 - Eldar Ryazanov, 88, Russian movie director (Carnival Night, The Irony of Fate, Promised Heaven), respiratory and heart failure.[91]
- November 30 - Shigeru Mizuki, 93, Japanese manga author (GeGeGe no Kitarō, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, Showa: A History of Japan), heart attack.[92]
- November 30 - Gerrit Holdijk, 71, Dutch politician, Senator (1986–1987, 1991–2015), lung cancer.[93]
- November 30 - Greg Fisk, 70, American politician, Mayor of Juneau, Alaska (2015), complications from a fall.[94]
Previous months[change | change source]
- January 2015
- February 2015
- March 2015
- April 2015
- May 2015
- June 2015
- July 2015
- August 2015
- September 2015
- October 2015
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Former US Senator Fred Thompson Dies at 73
- ↑ Guenter Schabowski, East German official who announced opening of Berlin Wall, dies at 86
- ↑ Charles Michener, ‘patriarch’ of bee research, dies at 97
- ↑ "Patron of the arts and WWII resistance veteran Ciechanowiecki dies". Archived from the original on 2015-11-05. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ↑ Actress Adriana Campos Dead At 36: Mauricio Ochmann's Ex Dies In Car Accident In Colombia
- ↑ Tom Graveney: Former England cricketer dies, aged 88
- ↑ "Prominent Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi dead: state TV, MPs". Archived from the original on 2015-11-18. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
- ↑ Former North Carolina Congressman, Howard Coble, dies at 84
- ↑ Red. Piotr Domaradzki nie żyje (in Polish)
- ↑ Melissa Mathison dies at 65; screenwriter of 'E.T.,' 'Black Stallion,' 'Kundun'
- ↑ Critic René Girard Is Dead at 91
- ↑ Tidligere industriminister Ole Knapp er død (in Norwegian)
- ↑ Nora Brockstedt Dies at 92
- ↑ Nie żyje gen. Czesław Kiszczak. Miał 90 lat (in Polish)
- ↑ George Barris, Creator of the Batmobile, Dies at 89
- ↑ Hans Mommsen ist tot (in German)
- ↑ Muere el compositor y actor José Ángel Espinoza 'Ferrusquilla' (in Spanish)
- ↑ Yitzhak Navon, Israel's fifth president, dies at the age of 94
- ↑ 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' Actor Gunnar Hansen Dies at 68
- ↑ "Former Florida First Lady Rhea Chiles dies at age 84". Archived from the original on 2015-11-18. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ↑ Influential Buddhist monk Maduluwave Sobhitha in Sri Lanka dies at 73
- ↑ Austrian painter Ernst Fuchs dies at 85
- ↑ "Source: Former Braves pitcher Tommy Hanson has died". Archived from the original on 2015-11-27. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ↑ "Influential songwriter, producer Allen Toussaint has died". Archived from the original on 2015-11-10. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ↑ Jockey Pat Eddery has died aged 63
- ↑ André Glucksmann è morto, addio al filosofo francese (in Italian)
- ↑ "French fiancé of Kiwi champion triathlete dies". Archived from the original on 2015-11-16. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ↑ German ex-Chancellor Schmidt dies at 96
- ↑ Former Congressman Tim Valentine dies
- ↑ Computer pioneer Gene Amdahl dies, aged 92
- ↑ David Atlas Notice
- ↑ Klaus Roth
- ↑ Former Motörhead Drummer Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor Dies At 61
- ↑ Marton Fulop dead: Former Sunderland goalkeeper dies age 32
- ↑ Aaron Shikler, artist who portrayed America’s elite, dies
- ↑ 'Jihadi John': high degree of certainty US airstrike killed Mohammed Emwazi, sources say
- ↑ Paris Attack at Bataclan Claims Life of Mercury Records Executive Thomas Ayad
- ↑ Guillaume B. Decherf a été tué hier au Bataclan (in French)
- ↑ Attentats à Paris: Un artiste bordelais parmi les tués du Bataclan (in French)
- ↑ Attentats à Paris: Matthieu, un Isérois de 39 ans parmi les victimes du Bataclan (in French)
- ↑ Alf Garnett star Warren Mitchell dies aged 89 - family say comedy actor was 'cracking jokes to the last'
- ↑ "RIP Nick Bockwinkel". Archived from the original on 2015-12-05. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ↑ "Uruguayan comedian Berugo Carámbula dies". Archived from the original on 2015-12-19. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ↑ Saeed Jaffery dies
- ↑ Herbert Scarf, an Economist's Mathematician, Dies at 85
- ↑ La comédienne Dora Doll est décédée (in French)
- ↑ Rest In Peace: “Jackass” Star Vincent “Don Vito” Margera Dead At 59
- ↑ RIP Nicoletta Machiavelli
- ↑ Addio a Moira Orfei, signora del circo italiano (in Italian)
- ↑ Addio a Nando Gazzolo, grande voce del teatro e della tv (in Italian)
- ↑ David Canary, Star of 'All My Children' for Decades, Dies at 77
- ↑ "Michael Gross, who created 'Ghostbusters' logo, dies at 70". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
- ↑ Bert Olmstead est décédé (in French)
- ↑ Poet Rahim Moini Kermanshahi dies at 89
- ↑ "Jonah Lomu dies, aged 40". Archived from the original on 2015-11-18. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ↑ Paris attacks ringleader dead - prosecutor
- ↑ Three-Time Olympic Track Champion Mal Whitfield Dies At 91
- ↑ Protestzanger Armand (69) overleden (in Dutch)
- ↑ Allen Ertel, former congressman, gubernatorial candidate, dies
- ↑ Fallece a los 92 años Carlos Oroza, el poeta heterodoxo (in Spanish)
- ↑ JSA chairman Kitanoumi dies at 62
- ↑ "Keith Michell obituary"
- ↑ Senior PPP leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim dies
- ↑ World champ boxer Bob Foster dies at 76
- ↑ Linda Haglund död (in Swedish)
- ↑ Cavit Şadi Pehlivanoğlu Öldü Archived 2015-11-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
- ↑ Former President Kim Young-sam dies at age 87
- ↑ Word of the death of a great American concertmaster
- ↑ Prominent Israeli Archaeologist Yoram Tsafrir Dies
- ↑ Alberta Conservative MLA Manmeet Bhullar killed in highway crash
- ↑ Morto Dan Fante, figlio di John (in Italian)
- ↑ Douglass C. North, Maverick Economist and Nobel Laureate, Dies at 95
- ↑ Մահացել է Վարդուհի Վարդերեսյանը (Arm)
- ↑ "Science Buster" Oberhummer tot (in German)
- ↑ Hellsing lämnade dörren till sagan på glänt (in Swedish)
- ↑ "Brookings' Elmo Williams dies at age 102". Archived from the original on 2015-12-16. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ↑ "Ex-Houston coach Guy Lewis, a Hall of Famer, dies Thursday at 93". Archived from the original on 2015-12-07. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ↑ Simpsons – Synchronsprecher Norbert Gastell verstorben (in German)
- ↑ Belgisch Davis Cup-icoon Philippe Washer overleden (in Dutch)
- ↑ Décès du grand metteur en scène Luc Bondy (in French)
- ↑ Liverpool FC FA Cup final hero Gerry Byrne passes away aged 77
- ↑ Barbro Hiort af Ornäs död (in Swedish)
- ↑ "UN says Maurice Strong, who put climate, environment on the global agenda, dies at 86". Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ↑ Actrice Yoka Berretty overleden (in Dutch)
- ↑ Zmarł Tomasz Tomczykiewicz, szef śląskiej Platformy Obywatelskiej (in Polish)
- ↑ Olene Smith Walker, Utah’s first female governor, dies at age 85
- ↑ Hérault Jean Joubert, le poète et romancier montpelliérain est mort (in French)
- ↑ Экс-премьер Узбекистана Уткир Султанов скончался на 76-м году жизни (in Russian)
- ↑ Känd fotograf dog i Stockholmsbrand (in Swedish)
- ↑ "Joe Marston, first Australian to play in an FA Cup final, dies at 89". Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ↑ Умер Эльдар Рязанов (in Russian)
- ↑ Kitaro, NonNonBâ Manga Creator Shigeru Mizuki Passes Away
- ↑ Oud-senator Holdijk (SGP) overleden (in Dutch)
- ↑ Mayor of Juneau found dead, police say