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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1995.
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.
1
- Richard Ashcraft, 57, American political theorist.[1]
- Helen Bullock, 89-90, American historian.[2]
- Rocco Canale, 78, American football player in the NFL.[3]
- James Ralph Darling, 96, English-Australian chairman of ABC.[4]
- Lex Hixon, 53, American Sufi author, poet, and spiritual teacher, cancer.[5]
- Bill Hudson, 85, British Special Operations Executive officer.
- Vasil Iljoski, 92, Macedonian writer and dramatist.
- George McCowan, 68, Canadian film and television director, pulmonary emphysema.
- Erika Morini, 91, Austrian violinist.[6]
- Alun Pask, 58, Welsh rugby player.[7]
- W. E. D. Ross, 82, Canadian writer.[8]
- Desmond Shawe-Taylor, 88, English music critic.[9]
- Brian Lenihan Snr, 64, Irish politician and minister.[10]
- Tom Spencer, 81, English cricket player and umpire.
- Bradbury Thompson, 84, American graphic designer and art director.[11]
2
- Bill Blair, 84, American auto racer.
- June Brewster, 82, American actress.[12]
- Florence Greenberg, 82, record company founder.[13]
- Luo Guibo, 88, Chinese diplomat and politician.[14]
- Ollie Harrington, 83, American cartoonist.[15]
- Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, 76, Columbian politician, homicide.[16]
- Gil Lamb, 91, American actor.[17]
- Gabriel Urgebadze, 66, Georgian Orthodox monk.
3
- R. Tucker Abbott, 76, American conchologist and malacologist.[18]
- Bojan Adamič, 83, Slovenian composer.[19]
- Arthur Bottomley, 88, British Labour politician and minister.[20]
- Mario Revollo Bravo, 76, Colombian Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop.
- Jerome Caja, 37, American mixed-media painter, drag queen, and performance artist, AIDS.[21]
- Wallas Eaton, 78, English film, radio, television and theatre actor.
- Gordon S. Fahrni, 108, Canadian physician and president of the Canadian Medical Association.[22]
- John Orchard, 66, British actor (M*A*S*H).[23]
- Edward Pola, 88, American radio and TV producer, and lyricist.[24]
- William M. Rountree, 78, American diplomat, cancer.[25]
- Cordelia Urueta, 87, Mexican artist.
- Isang Yun, 78, Korean-German composer.[26]
- Gojko Zec, 60, Serbian football manager, homicide.[27]
4
- John Cahill, 65, British businessman, and the chief executive of British Aerospace.[28]
- Marti Caine, 50, British comedienne, singer and television host, lymphatic cancer.[29]
- Revels Cayton, 87-88, American civil rights leader.[30]
- Gilles Deleuze, 70, French philosopher, suicide.[31]
- Paul Eddington, 68, English actor, lymphoma.[32]
- Eddie Egan, 65, American actor, cancer.[33]
- Essex Hemphill, 38, American poet and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications.
- Yizhak Rabin, 73, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, assassinated.[34]
- Morrie Schwartz, 78, American professor of sociology and author, ALS.
- Prawitz Öberg, 64, Swedish football player, bone cancer.
5
- Walter Dobler, 75, Canadian gridiron football player.
- Gene Englund, 78, American basketball player.[35]
- Ernest Gellner, 69, British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist.[36]
- Gordon Walters, 76, New Zealand artist and graphic designer.[37]
6
- Larry Cannon, 58, American racecar driver, embolism.
- Bill Cheesbourg, 68, American racecar driver, cancer.[38]
- Aneta Corsaut, 62, American actress (The Blob, The Andy Griffith Show, Matlock), cancer.[39]
- Chiaki Matsuda, 99, Japanses admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
7
- Andrea Adams, 49, British broadcaster and journalist for the BBC, ovarian cancer.[40]
- Emery Bonett, 88, the pen name of Felicity Winifred Carter, an English author and playwright.[41]
- Dimitri Dimakopoulos, 66, Greek-Canadian architect.
- Lars Dresler, 27, Danish figure skater and Olympian, undisclosed disease.[42]
- Ann Dunham, 52, American anthropologist, cancer.[43]
- John Patrick, 90, American screenwriter and playwright and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, suicide.[44]
- Slappy White, 74, American comedian and actor, heart attack.[45]
8
- Fernando Bello, 71, Portuguese sailor and Olympic medalist.[46]
- Neil Blaney, 73, Irish politician.[47]
- Suzanne Borel, 91, French diplomat.[48]
- Francis Cleveland, 92, American stage actor, director, producer, and son of president Grover Cleveland.[49]
- Oleh Makarov, 66, Soviet/Ukrainian football player, coach, and sports writer.
- Gertrude Messinger, 84, American film actress, pneumonia.
- Country Dick Montana, 40, singer, aneurysm.[50]
- Veselin Petrović, 66, Serbian cyclist.[51]
9
- Morley Baer, 79, American photographer and teacher.[52]
- Alessandro Cicognini, 89, Italian composer prolific in film music.[53]
- Robert O. Cook, 92, American sound engineer.
- F. G. Emmison, 88, British archivist and historian.[54]
- Geraldine Katt, 75, Austrian actress.[55]
10
- Ria De Simone, 48, Italian actress and singer, brain cancer.[56]
- Clairmonte Depeiaza, 67, West Indian cricketer.
- Jean Maurice Fiey, 81, French Dominican Father, Church historian and Syriacist.
- Curly Fox, 85, American fiddler.[57]
- Ken Saro-Wiwa, 54, Nigerian writer and environmentalist, execution by hanging.[58]
- Franco Silva, 75, Italian actor.
- René Wellek, 92, Czech-American writer.[59]
11
- Corneliu Coposu, 81, Romanian politician, lung cancer.[60]
- Jean-Louis Curtis, 78, French novelist.[61]
- Kenneth S. Goldstein, 68, American folklorist and enthomusicologist.[62]
- Koloman Gögh, 47, Czechoslovak football player, traffic collision.
- Charles Scribner IV, 74, American publisher.[63]
12
- Richard L. Coe, 81, longtime theater and cinema critic for The Washington Post.[64]
- Roland Dobrushin, 66, Russian mathematician.[65]
- Emmett Matthew Hall, 97, Canadian jurist, judge, and civil liberties advocate.
- Sir Robert Stephens, 64, English actor (The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Cleopatra, Empire of the Sun), complications following surgery.[66]
- Willie Telfer, 70, Scottish football player and manager.
13
- Hanafy Bastan, 73, Egyptian footballer and Olympian.[67]
- Ralph Blane, 81, American songwriter, composer, lyricist, arranger, and singer.[68]
- Mary Elizabeth Counselman, 83, American writer of short stories and poetry.[69]
- Erdoğan Partener, 66, Turkish basketball player and Olympian.[70]
- Adriana Serra, 71, Italian film actress.
- Orlando Sirola, 67, Italian tennis player.
- Arthur Dale Trendall, 86, New Zealand-Australian art historian and classical archaeologist.[71]
- John Van Eyssen, 73, South African actor.
14
- Jack Finney, 84, American author (The Body Snatchers), emphysema and pneumonia.[72]
- Jack Holt, 83, British sailboat designer.
- Les Horvath, 74, American football quarterback and halfback.[73]
- John Lee-Barber, 90, British Royal Navy officer.[74]
- Jacob Rader Marcus, 99, American scholar and Reform rabbi.
- János Tamás, 59, Hungarian-Swiss composer, conductor and music educator.[75]
15
- Karen Berg, 89, Danish actress.[76]
- Joe F. Blair, 72, American sports publicist for the University of Maryland and the Washington Redskins.[77]
- Billy Hughes, 81, British educationist and Labour Party politician.[78]
- Sol Liptzin, 94, American-Israeli scholar, author, and professor of literature.[79]
- J. Clyde Mitchell, 77, British sociologist and anthropologist.[80]
- John W. Mitchell, 80, American Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.
16
- Robert H. Adleman, 76, American novelist and historian.[81]
- D. Woodrow Bird, 83, American politician.[82]
- Charles Gordone, 70, American playwright, actor, and director, liver cancer.[83]
- Ralph Kronig, 91, German physicist.[84]
- Conrad Lynn, 87, American civil rights lawyer and activist.[85]
- Petre Prličko, 88, Macedonian actor.[86]
- Gwyn A. Williams, 70, Welsh historian.[87]
17
- Agasi Babayan, 73, Armenian director, screenwriter, and actor.[88]
- Yevhen Bulanchyk, 73, Ukrainian hurdler who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.[89]
- Alan Hull, 50, English singer-songwriter (Lindisfarne), thrombosis.[90]
- Mohammad Said Keruak, 69, Malaysian politician.
- Norman Kirkman, 75, English football player and manager.
- Salvatore Martirano, 68, American composer.[91]
- Pete Welding, 60, American historian, archivist, and record producer, heart attack.[92]
- Marguerite Young, 87, American writer.[93]
18
- Francisco de Borbón y Borbón, 83, Spanish aristocrat and military officer.
- John G. Collier, 60, British chemical engineer.[94]
- Jacques Ertaud, 71, French film director and screenwriter.[95]
- Miron Grindea, 86, Romanian-British literary journalist.[96]
- Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, 54, Moroccan poet and writer.[97]
- Reinhard Kolldehoff, 81, German film actor.[98]
19
- Don Anielak, 65, American basketball player.[99]
- Charles Doe, 97, American rugby player.[100]
- Don Goldie, 65, American jazz trumpeter.[101]
- Wan Guchan, 95, Chinese filmmaker.
- Martha Hill, 94, American modern dancer.[102]
- Ed Wright, 76, American baseball player, cancer.[103]
20
- George Burns, 76, New Zealand coxswain.
- Lester Finch, 86, English football player and manager.[104]
- Robin Gandy, 76, British mathematician and logician.
- Sergei Grinkov, 28, Russian figure skater and Olympic gold medalist, heart attack.[105]
- Robie Macauley, 76, American editor, novelist and critic.[106]
- Leotis Martin, 56, American boxer.
- Martand Singh, 72, Indian wildlife conservationist and politician.
- Kim Sung-jae, 23, South Korean singer, rapper, dancer, and model, murdered.
21
- Matthew Ashman, 35, English guitarist, complications from diabetes.[107]
- Primrose Bordier, 66, French designer.[108]
- Bruno Gerussi, 67, Canadian actor (The Beachcombers), heart attack.[109]
- Peter Grant, 60, English rock band manager for The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, heart failure.[110]
- Dorothy Jeakins, 81, American costume designer (The Ten Commandments, The Sound of Music, Samson and Delilah), Oscar winner (1949, 1951, 1965).[111]
- Noel Jones, 54, British diplomat.
- Leon Lishner, 82, American operatic bass baritone.[112]
- Leila Mourad, 77, Egyptian singer and actress.[113]
- George Ivan Smith, 80, Australian diplomat.[114]
- Wilfred White, 91, English equestrian and Olympic champion.[115]
22
- Leonardo Bercovici, 87, American screenwriter, film director and producer.[116]
- Margaret St. Clair, 84, American fantasy and science fiction writer.[117]
- Tom Clay, 66, American radio personality and disc jockey, lung cancer.[118]
- Edna Deane, 90, English ballroom dancer, choreographer and drama teacher.[119]
- Elinborg Lützen, 76, Danish graphic designer.
- Norman Potter, 72, English cabinetmaker, designer and writer.[120]
- Maria Cumani Quasimodo, 87, Italian actress and dancer.
- Sergey Stechkin, 75, Soviet/Russian mathematician.
- Johnnie Tillmon, 69, American welfare rights activist.[121]
23
- John Frederick Collins, 76, American politician and Mayor of Boston, pneumonia.[122]
- Louis Malle, 63, French film director (Atlantic City, Elevator to the Gallows, My Dinner with Andre), lymphoma.[123]
- Bernard M. Oliver, 79, American scientist.[124]
- Dan Page, 65, American gridiron football player.
- Einari Teräsvirta, 80, Finnish gymnast and Olympic Champion[125]
- Junior Walker, 64, American musician and recording artist, cancer.[126]
- Steven Wood, 34, Australian sprint and marathon canoeist, suicide.[127]
24
- Ivar Bjare, 52, Swedish luger who competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics.[128]
- John Craven, 79, American actor.[129]
- Dominic Ekandem, 78, Nigerian Roman Catholic cardinal.
- Stuart Henry, 53, Scottish disc jockey, multiple sclerosis.[130]
- Leslie O'Brien, Baron O'Brien of Lothbury, 87, English peer and Governor of the Bank of England.
- Jeffrey Lynn, 89, American actor (Four Daughters, A Letter to Three Wives, BUtterfield 8).[131]
- Malcolm Munthe, 85, British soldier, writer, and curator.
- Eduard Ole, 97, Estonian painter.[132]
- Paul van de Rovaart, 91, Dutch field hockey player and Olympian.[133]
25
- Ángel Cappelletti, 67-68, Argentine philosopher and university professor.[134]
- Édouard Chabert, 92, French sailor who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.[135]
- Nikolai Drozdetsky, 38, Russian ice hockey player, diabetes.
- Helge Hagerman, 85, Swedish actor and film producer.
- Leif Juster, 85, Norwegian comedian, singer and actor.
- Roger McKenzie, 24, English musician and DJ, heart problems.
- Boris Rytsarev, 65, Soviet/Russian film director.
- Erich Schellow, 80, German actor.[136]
- Richard G. Shoup, 71, American politician.
- Léon Zitrone, 81, Russian-French journalist and television presenter, stroke.[137]
26
- Roberto Bachi, 86, Italian-Israeli statistician and demographer.[138]
- Sydney Dawson Bailey, 79, English author, pacifist, and expert on international affairs.[139]
- David Briggs, 51, American record producer, lung cancer.[140]
- Maurice Britt, 76, American football player, Medal of Honor recipient, and businessman.[141]
- Terri L. Jewell, 41, American author, poet and Black lesbian activist.[142]
- Toshia Mori, 83, Japanese actress, traffic collision.
- Bengt Palmquist, 72, Swedish sailor and Olympian.[143]
- Shankar Dayal Singh, 57, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
- Sanae Takasugi, 77, Japanese actress.[144]
- Wim Thoelke, 68, German TV entertainer.
- Charles Warrell, 106, English schoolteacher and creator of the I-Spy book series.[145]
27
- Giancarlo Baghetti, 60, Italian Formula One driver, cancer.[146]
- Simon Bailey, 40, British Anglican priest and writer, AIDS-related complications.[147]
- Martín Colmenarejo, 59, Spanish racing cyclist.[148]
- Albert Ouzoulias, 80, French communist leader of the French Resistance during World War II[149]
- Harry Taylor, 71, British alpine skier.[150]
- Jürgen Wattenberg, 94, German U-boat commander and POW escapee during World War II.[151]
28
- Sukhan Babayev, 85, Soviet-Turkmenistan politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan.
- Richard C. Halverson, 79, American Presbyterian minister and author.[152]
- Brunhilde Hendrix, 57, German relay runner and Olympic silver medalist.[153]
- Slobodan Ivković, 58, Serbian basketball player and coach.
- Roy A. Taylor, 85, American politician.
- David James Walker, 90, Canadian politician.
29
- Tanaka Chikao, 90, Japanese playwright and dramatist.[154]
- Wu De, 82, Chinese communist revolutionary and politician.
- Irene Ighodaro, 79, Sierra Leonean doctor and social reformer.[155]
- Anthony LaRette, 44, American rapist and serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[156]
- Leon McQuay, 45, American gridiron football player.[157]
- Roger Norman, 67, Swedish triple jumper.[158]
- Augusto H. Álvarez, 80, Mexican architect.[159]
30
- Niklaus Aeschbacher, 78, Swiss composer and conductor.[160]
- Jim Davis, 71, American baseball player.[161]
- June Fisher, 66, British teacher and trade unionist.[162]
- Philip Givens, 73, Canadian politician and judge.
- Til Kiwe, 85, German actor and screenwriter.[163]
- Hopper Levett, 87, British cricket player.[164]
- Rafael Portillo, 79, Mexican film director, screenwriter and film editor.[165]
- William Roerick, 82, American actor, traffic collision.[166]
- Stretch, 27, American rapper, drive-by shooting, homicide.[167]
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