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.
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 by asphyxiation.[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]
- Bae Hee-han, 90, Korean master carpenter
- 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 collision.[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]
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, fall.[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.