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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.
1
- Juan Bosch, 92, Dominican politician, historian, and first president of the Dominican Republic, respiratory distress.[1]
- Solange Chaput-Rolland, 82, Canadian journalist, author, and politician.[2]
- Tom Cheney, 67, American Major League Baseball player.[3]
- Olivia Hamnett, 73, English actress, brain cancer.
- Ravindra Kaushik, 49, Indian spy, heart disease, tuberculosis.
- JP Miller, 81, American writer, pneumonia.[4]
- 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.
- Mona Fandey, 45, Malaysian pop singer and convicted murderer, execution by hanging.[5]
- Hank Gremminger, 68, American gridironfootball player (Baylor, Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams), cardiac arrest.[6]
- Doug Hele, 82, British motorcycle engineer.
- Thomas Schleicher, 28, Austrian judoka, suicide.[7]
- Elazar Shach, 102, Lithuanian haredi rabbi.[8]
- Buddy Starcher, 95, American country singer.[9]
- William Whitlock, 83, British politician.
3
- Evan Adermann, 74, Australian politician.
- Thomas Brasch, 56, German author, poet and film director, heart failure.[10]
- Lucio Colletti, 76, Italian Western marxist philosopher.[11]
- Denis Gallagher, 79, Irish politician.
- Ernst Gombrich, 92, Austrian-British art historian.[12]
- Frederick Heyliger, 85, American officer with Easy Company during World War II.
- Pradeep Kumar, 76, Indian actor.
- Mariano Navarro Rubio, 87, Spanish politician.[13]
- Viveka Seldahl, 57, Swedish actress, cancer.
- Ward Wood, 77, American actor (Mannix) and television writer.
4
- Edward Patrick Boland, 90, American politician.[14]
- Peter Coyne, 84, Australian politician.
- Bob Gillespie, 82, American baseball player.[15]
- Arthur Guepe, 86, American football player and coach.
- Paul R. Screvane, 87, American politician, congestive heart failure.[16]
- Ng Eng Teng, 67, Singaporean sculptor, kidney disease.[17]
5
- Gholam Reza Azhari, 89, Prime Minister of Iran and military leader, cancer.
- Milan D. Bish, 72, American diplomat (Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, and St. Vincent).[18]
- Roy Boulting, 87, English filmmaker.[19]
- 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.[20]
6
- Terry D. Clark, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[21]
- Svend Engedal, 73, American soccer goalkeeper.[22]
- 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).[23]
- Peter Kenneth Newman, 73, English economist and historian of economic thought.[24]
- Anthony Shaffer, 75, English playwright (Sleuth) and screenwriter (The Wicker Man, Frenzy).[25]
- Ralph Wenzel, 83, American gridiron football player and United States Marine Corps officer.[26]
- 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.[27]
- Delia Garcés, 82, Argentine film actress.[28]
- Sachiko Hidari, 71, Japanese film actress, lung cancer.[29]
- Geoffrey Jenkins, 81, South African writer.
- Ivan Neill, 95, British Army officer and Unionist politician.
- François Philippe, 71, French football player.[30]
- 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.[31]
- 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.
- Peter Laslett, 85, British historian.[32]
- Patrick Quinlan, Irish academic and politician.[33]
- Radmila Savićević, 75, Serbian actress.
- Cyril Morley Shelford, 80, Canadian author and political figure.
- Stanislav Štrunc, 59, Czech football player.[34]
9
- Denis Atkinson, 75, Barbadian cricketer, captain of West Indies.[35]
- Nancye Wynne Bolton, 84, Australian tennis player.
- Dorothy Dunnett, 78, Scottish historical novelist.[36]
- Ethel D. Jacobs, 91, American thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder, pneumonia.
- Giovanni Leone, 93, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1963;1968) and President (1971–1978).[37]
- Édouard Marcelle, 92, French rower.[38]
- Tore Zetterholm, 86, Swedish novelist, playwright and journalist.[39]
10
- Michael Lucas, 2nd Baron Lucas of Chilworth, 75, British politician.[40]
- Theys Eluay, 64, Indonesian independence activist for West Papuan, assassinated, strangling.
- 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.[41]
- Enid McElwee, 87, New Zealand fencer.
- Junji Nishime, 80, Japanese politician.
11
- John R. Foley, 84, American politician (U.S. Representative for Maryland's 6th congressional district from 1959 to 1961).[42]
- Leon Gray, 49, American gridiron football player (Jackson State, New England Patriots, Houston Oilers, New Orleans Saints).[43]
- Sir Denis Spotswood, 85, British Chief of the Air Staff (1971–1974)
- Tadashi Sugiura, 66, Japanese baseball player.[44]
- Emmanuel Blayo Wakhweya, 64, Ugandan politician and economist, cardiac arrest.
- Journalists killed in the Dasht-e Qaleh Taliban ambush[45]
- 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
- Carrie Donovan, 73, American fashion editor (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine).[46]
- Albert Hague, 81, German-American composer (Redhead, How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and actor (Fame, Space Jam), cancer.[47]
- Paul Krasny, 66, American film and television director.[48]
- Ashot Melikjanyan, 49, Soviet/Armenian actor, plane crash.
- Tony Miles, 46, English chess grandmaster, heart failure.[49]
- Babik Reinhardt, 57, French guitarist, heart attack.[50]
- Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, 74, American Saivite guru.
- Radovan Vlajković, 77, Yugoslav politician.
13
- Karuna Banerjee, 81, Indian actress.[51]
- Robert C. Eckhardt, 88, American politician (U.S. Representative for Texas's 8th congressional district from 1967 to 1981).[52]
- Marius Flothuis, 87, Dutch composer, musicologist and music critic.[53]
- Panama Francis, 82, American swing jazz drummer, stroke.[54]
- Sam Maple, 48, American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing, cancer.
- Pat McReavy, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.[55]
- Frank Messer, 76, American sportscaster.[56]
- Peggy Mount, 86, English actress (Oliver!, The Princess and the Goblin).[57]
- Mayzod Reid, 73, New Zealand diver.
- Cornelius Warmerdam, 86, American pole vaulter, Alzheimer's disease.[58]
14
- Seth Benardete, 71, American classicist and philosopher.[59]
- Charlotte Coleman, 33, British actress (Four Weddings and a Funeral), bronchial asthma attack.[60]
- Juan Carlos Lorenzo, 79, Argentine football player and coach.[61]
- Zigu Ornea, 71, Romanian literary critic, biographer and book publisher, failed surgery.[62]
- Nathan M. Pusey, 94, American university educator.[63]
- 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.[64]
- Edwin H. Colbert, 96, American paleontologist, researcher and author.[65]
- Herbert Feith, 71, Australian academic and scholar.[66]
- Satoru Kobayashi, 71, Japanese film director, bladder cancer.
- Mandan Mishra, 72, Indian sanskrit scholar.
- Jan Rabie, 81, Afrikaans writer of short stories and novels.[67]
- Nicolas Ruwet, 68, Linguist, literary critic and musical analyst.
- Alberto Ullastres, 87, Spanish politician and ambassador.
16
- Tal Abernathy, 80, American baseball player.[68]
- Mohammed Atef, 57, Egyptian jihadist and military chief of al-Qaeda, airstrike.
- Rosemary Brown, 85, British composer and spiritualist.[69]
- Tommy Flanagan, 71, American jazz pianist, brain aneurysm.[70]
- Montague Jayawickrama, 90, Sri Lankan politician.
- Clifford A. Jones, 89, American politician.
- Red Steiner, 86, American baseball player.[71]
17
- Irving Crane, 88, American pool player.[72]
- John M. Dawson, 71, American computational physicist.[73]
- Jerry Jerome, 89, American jazz and big band tenor saxophonist (Glenn Miller, Red Norvo, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw).[74]
- Michael Karoli, 53, German guitarist, singer, violinist and cellist (Can), cancer.[75]
- Lendon Smith, 80, American pediatrician, author, and television personality.
- Billy Vessels, 70, American football player.[76]
- Harrison A. Williams, 81, American politician.[77]
18
- Mel Deutsch, 86, American baseball player.[78]
- Roar Hauglid, 90, Norwegian art historian, antiquarian and publicist.
- Malcolm McFee, 52, English actor, cancer.
- Ela Peroci, 79, Slovene children's book writer.
- Renato Righetto, 80, Brazilian Olympic basketball referee, Alzheimer's disease.[79]
- 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.[80]
- Marcelle Ferron, 77, Canadian Québécoise artist and a member of Les Automatistes.[81]
- Bagrat Ulubabyan, 75, Armenian writer and historian.
- Journalists killed in the Pul-i-Estikam bridge ambush[82][83]
- Harry Burton, 33, Australian journalist and cameraman.
- Maria Grazia Cutuli, 39, Italian journalist.
- Julio Fuentes, 46, Spanish war correspondent.
- Aziz Ullah Haidari, 33, Pakistani correspondent and photo-journalist.
20
- James Broad, 43, American heavyweight boxer.
- Kassi Manlan, 53, Côte d'Ivoire World Health Organization aid worker, murdered.[84]
- Pierre Meillassoux, 73, French architect.[85]
- Leonard Murray, 88, American railroad executive.[86]
- Borko Temelkovski, 81, Macedonian politician and communist leader.
21
- Ralph Burns, 79, American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, complications of a stroke and pneumonia.[87]
- Seydou Keïta, Malian photographer.
- Gardner McKay, 69, American actor (Adventures in Paradise), artist and author, prostate cancer.[88]
- Vladimir Pasechnik, 64, Soviet bioweaponeer and defector, stroke.[89]
- Seymour Reit, 83, American children's author.[90]
- Salahuddin of Selangor, 77, Malaysian king (11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and 8th Sultan of Selangor).[91]
22
- Mary Kay Ash, 83, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.[92]
- Theo Barker, 78, British social and economic historian.[93]
- Norman Granz, 83, American jazz music impresario and record producer.[94]
- Ronald Cuthbert Hay, 85, British Royal Marine fighter ace.
- George S. N. Luckyj, 82, Ukrainian writer and historian.[95]
- Luis Santaló, 90, Spanish mathematician.[96]
23
- Vendramino Bariviera, 64, Italian racing cyclist.
- Bo Belinsky, 64, American baseball player, heart attack.[97]
- Kiyoshi Inoue, 87, Japanese historian, author, and academic.
- Krishnananda, 79, Indian Hindu philosopher and theologian.[98]
- David Charles McClintock, 88, English botanist, horticulturist and author.[99]
- Medhat Youssef Mohamed, 74, Egyptian basketball player.
- Kiril Semov, 71, Bulgarian basketball player.[100]
- O. C. Smith, 69, American singer ("Little Green Apples").[101]
- Gerhard Stoltenberg, 73, German politician and minister.[102]
- Mary Whitehouse, 91, British campaigner against permissiveness.[103]
24
- Tommy Gallacher, 79, Scottish football player.
- Rachel Gurney, 81, British actress (Upstairs, Downstairs).[104]
- Princess Sophie of Hanover, 87, European royalty, sister of Prince Philip.
- Robert Helps, 73, American concert pianist and composer, cancer.[105]
- Jacob Landau, 83, American artist.[106]
- Donald McPherson, 56, Canadian Olympic figure skater, complications from diabetes.[107]
- Francis Daniels Moore, 88, American surgeon.[108]
- Melanie Thornton, 34, American singer, plane crash.
- William Woodfield, 73, American photographer, and television screenwriter and producer, heart failure.[109]
25
- Alan Bray, 53, British historian and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications.[110]
- Harry Devlin, 83, American artist, painter and magazine cartoonist (Collier's).[111]
- David Gascoyne, 85, English poet (Surrealist movement).[112]
- Douglas Morton, 85, Canadian soldier, politician, and judge.
- Margaret Byrd Rawson, 102, American educator, researcher and writer.
- Johnny Micheal Spann, 32, American operations officer in the C.I.A., killed in action.[113]
- Erna Steuri, 84, Swiss Olympic alpine skier.[114]
26
- Sam Claphan, 45, American gridiron football player, heart attack.[115]
- Mathias Clemens, 86, Luxembourgish road bicycle racer.
- Regine Hildebrandt, 60, German biologist and politician (Social Democratic Party of Germany), breast cancer.[116]
- Lajos Kada, 77, Hungarian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Joe Modise, 72, South African political activist, cancer.[117]
- Edel Randem, 91, Norwegian Olympic figure skater.[118]
- Ulf Strömberg, Swedish cameraman, rifle shots.
- Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, 58, Finnish-Sami writer, musician, and artist.[119]
- Grete von Zieritz, 102, Austrian-German composer and pianist.[120]
27
- Ray Frankowski, 82, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Dons).[121]
- Gordon Freeth, 87, Australian politician (House of Representatives) and diplomat (Japan, United Kingdom).[122]
- Paul Hume, 85, American music critic and author.[123]
- Harry Sternberg, 97, American painter and printmaker.[124]
- Joe Hin Tjio, 82, American cytogeneticist.[125]
- Jane Welsh, 96, British actress.[126]
28
- Louis Fisher, 88, American politician (Socialist Labor Party of America).[127]
- Gunnar Hellström, 72, Swedish actor and director.
- Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy, 91, Soviet and Ukrainian aerospace engineer.
- Norman Lumsden, 95, British opera singer and actor, shingles infection.
- Kal Mann, 84, American lyricist ("Teddy Bear", "Butterfly", "Let's Twist Again").[128]
- William Reid, 79, Scottish bomber pilot and war hero (Victoria Cross) during World War II.[129]
- Igor Stechkin, 79, Russian small arms designer.
29
- Viktor Astafyev, 77, Soviet and Russian writer.[130]
- Usman Awang, 72, Malaysian poet, playwright, and novelist, heart attack.
- Budd Boetticher, 85, American film director (seven westerns starring Randolph Scott).[131]
- Elta Cartwright, 93, American Olympic sprinter.[132]
- Mic Christopher, 32, Irish singer-songwriter, accidental fall.[133]
- Carol Goodner, 97, American actress.[134]
- George Harrison, 58, British singer-songwriter and musician (The Beatles), lung cancer.[135]
- John Knowles, 75, American author, A Separate Peace.[136]
- Marcelino López, 58, Cuban-American baseball player.[137]
- John Mitchum, 82, American character actor (Dirty Harry series, Telefon, F Troop), stroke.[138]
- Helvio Soto Soto, 71, Chilean filmmaker.[139]
- Erwin Thaler, 71, Austrian Olympic bobsledder (silver medal for the four-man bobsled: 1964 Winter Olympics, 1968 Winter Olympics).[140]
30
- Kikutaro Baba, 96, Japanese malacologist.
- Annibale Brasola, 76, Italian racing cyclist.[141]
- Francisco Calvet, 80, Spanish football player.
- Lawrence Coughlin, 72, American lawyer and politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district, 1969–1993), cancer.[142]
- Sergio Ferriani, 76, Italian basketball player.[143]
- Ernst Hufschmid, 88, Swiss footballer.[144]
- Ademar Miranda Júnior, 60, Brazilian football player.
- Boris Kuzmin, 60, Soviet rower.[145]
- František Majdloch, 72, Czechoslovak boxer.[146]
- Walt Zirinsky, 81, American football player.[147]
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