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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.
1
- Bettye Ackerman, 82, American actress (Ben Casey), stroke.[1]
- Daniel Garcia, 80, Mexican professional wrestler and actor better known as Huracán Ramírez, heart attack.[2]
- Buddy Killen, 73, American record producer, founder of Dial Records, pancreatic cancer.[3]
- Florence Klotz, 86, American Tony Award-winning costume designer, heart failure.[4]
- Johnny Schofield, 75, British footballer for Birmingham City, former manager of Atherstone Town, complications from an illness.[5]
- Adrienne Shelly, 40, American actress (Trust, Unbelievable Truth), screenwriter, director (Waitress), strangled.[6]
- William Styron, 81, American writer (Darkness Visible, Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice), pneumonia.[7]
- Hilda van Stockum, 98, Dutch Newbery Medal-winning author of children's books, stroke.[8]
- Silvio Varviso, 82, Swiss conductor of the Vlaamse Opera, illness.[9]
2
- Rafael Donato, 69, Filipino President of DLSU-Manila (1991–1994), President of De La Salle Lipa (1995–2003), drowned.[10]
- Adrien Douady, 71, French mathematician.[11]
- Hadyn Ellis, 61, Welsh psychologist.[12]
- Wally Foreman, 58, Australian sports commentator, heart attack.[13]
- Red Hayworth, 91, American baseball player.[14]
- Carroll Knicely, 77, American publisher, Commerce Secretary for three Kentucky governors.[15]
- Henning Kristiansen, 79, Danish cinematographer and film director (Babette's Feast, Me and Charly).[16]
- Leonard Schrader, 62, American screenwriter (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Mishima), brother of Paul Schrader, heart failure.[17]
- Derek Turnbull, 79, New Zealand runner.[18]
- Milly Vitale, 74, Italian actress, natural causes.[19]
3
- Belden Bly, 92, American legislator in the Massachusetts House (1948–1979).[20]
- Frank Dunham, Jr., 64, American federal public defender, head lawyer for Zacarias Moussaoui, brain cancer.[21]
- Sir Allen Fairhall, 96, Australian member of the House of Representatives (1949–1969), Minister for Defence (1966–1969).[22]
- Fereydoun Hoveyda, 82, Syrian-born Iranian ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1979), cancer.[23]
- Paul Mauriat, 81, French musician (L'Amour Est Bleu).[24]
- Sputnik Monroe, 77, American professional wrestler, respiratory illness.[25]
- Malachi Ritscher, 52, American anti-war protester, self-immolation.[26]
- Marie Rudisill, 95, American "Fruitcake Lady" on The Tonight Show, aunt of Truman Capote, natural causes.[27]
- Stanley Rothenberg, 76, American lawyer, former president of Copyright Society, complications of popliteal aneurysm surgery.[28]
- Alberto Spencer, 68, Ecuadorian footballer (Peñarol, Ecuador), highest scorer in Copa Libertadores, infection after heart surgery.[29]
4
- Dajan Ahmet, 44, Estonian actor, car accident.[30]
- Brebis Bleaney, 91, British physicist.[31]
- Nelson S. Bond, 97, American writer.[32]
- William Lee Brent, 75, American Black Panther who hijacked a plane to Cuba, bronchial pneumonia.[33]
- Lionel Bryer, 78, South African dentist who founded the Aberdeen International Youth Festival.[34]
- Frank Arthur Calder, 91, Canadian aboriginal politician.[35]
- Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, American co-author of Cheaper by the Dozen, natural causes.[36]
- John McManners, 89, British historian, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford University (1972–1984).[37]
- Sergi López Segú, 39, Spanish footballer for FC Barcelona, brother of Gerard López, suicide by train.[38]
5
- Samuel Bowers, 82, American former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, convicted over murder of Vernon Dahmer, cardiac arrest.[39]
- Chen Ding-nan, 63, Taiwanese Justice Minister (2000–2005), lung cancer.[40]
- Chuck DeShane, 87, American football quarterback (Detroit Lions).[41]
- Bülent Ecevit, 81, Turkish former Prime Minister, complications following a stroke.[42]
- George Esser, 85, American civil rights advocate, set up the North Carolina Fund.[43]
- Oscar González, 82, Uruguayan Grand Prix driver.[44]
- Frank Marsden, 83, British Labour MP (1971–1974).[45]
- Pietro Rava, 90, Italian former football player, last surviving member of the 1938 World Cup-winning team, Alzheimer's disease.[46]
- Ham Richardson, 73, American tennis player, US Open doubles winner, diabetes complications.[47]
- Francis Schuckardt, 69, American Traditional Catholic Bishop, rejected decrees of Second Vatican Council, throat cancer.[48]
- Bobby Shearer, 74, Scottish former footballer (Hamilton Academical, Rangers), illness.[49]
6
- Miguel Aceves Mejía, 90, Mexican singer and actor known as "the king of the falsetto", bronchitis.[50]
- Francisco Fernández-Ochoa, 56, Spanish retired alpine skier, gold medallist in the 1972 Winter Olympic Games, cancer.[51]
- Federico López, 44, Puerto Rican basketball player in two Olympic Games and three world championships, heart attack.[52]
- J. T. Rutherford, 85, American Democratic Representative for Texas (1955–1963), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[53]
7
- Paul Baltes, 67, German developmental psychologist, cancer.[54]
- John Coburn, 81, Australian artist, winner of the 1960 and 1977 Blake Prize.[55]
- Buddy Kerr, 84, American baseball shortstop (New York Giants), natural causes.[56]
- Jackie Parker, 74, American football player, All-American, head coach and general manager, throat cancer.[57]
- Bryan Pata, 22, American football player (Miami Hurricanes), shot.[58]
- Johnny Sain, 89, American Major League Baseball pitcher, complications from a stroke.[59]
- Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 82, French journalist and politician, complications from bronchitis.[60]
- Brian Thomson, 87, British chairman of D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd (1974–2005).[61]
- Polly Umrigar, 80, Indian cricket team captain (1955–1958), lymphoma.[62]
8
- Lyudmila Buldakova, 68, Russian volleyball player.[63]
- Rhodes Fairbridge, 92, Australian geologist at Columbia University and expert on climate change, brain tumour.[64]
- Sir James Hunt, 63, British judge in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, brain tumour.[65]
- Lia Looveer, 86, Estonian-born Australian politician.[66]
- Basil Poledouris, 61, American film composer (Conan the Barbarian, RoboCop, Starship Troopers), cancer.[67]
- Annette Rogers, 93, American athlete, 4 x 100 metres relay gold medalist at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics, stroke.[68]
9
- Ed Bradley, 65, American CBS News journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, leukemia.[69]
- Garton del Savio, 92, American baseball player, illness.[70]
- Mary R. Grizzle, 85, American politician.[71]
- Marian Marsh, 93, American 1930s actress (Hell's Angels, Svengali), respiratory arrest.[72]
- Sam Stephenson, 72, Irish architect, designed the Central Bank and Wood Quay, complications from heart surgery.[73]
- Ellen Willis, 64, American journalist, professor, feminist activist and critic, lung cancer.[74]
- Markus Wolf, 83, German former head of East Germany's secret intelligence service, natural causes.[75]
10
- Benny Andrews, 75, American painter, cancer.[76]
- Diana Coupland, 74, British actress (Bless This House), complications following heart surgery.[77]
- Gabriel Donoso, 46, Chilean polo player, fall from a horse.[78]
- Fokko du Cloux, 51, Dutch mathematician and computer scientist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[79]
- Maurice Floquet, 111, French supercentenarian.[80]
- Doug Friedline, 49, American campaign manager for Jesse Ventura, heart attack.[81]
- Gerald Levert, 40, American R&B singer, son of The O'Jays lead singer Eddie Levert, accidental acute intoxication.[82]
- Chubby Oates, 63, British Cockney comedian, heart attack.[83]
- Jack Palance, 87, American actor (Shane, City Slickers, Batman), Oscar winner (1992).[84]
- Francisco Quina, 75, Portuguese Olympic sailor
- Nadarajah Raviraj, 44, Sri Lankan Tamil National Alliance MP, shot.[85]
- Igor Sergeyev, 68, Russian Defense Minister (1997–2001), the only Marshal of the Russian Federation, cancer.[86]
- Jack Williamson, 98, American science fiction author.[87]
11
- Anicée Alvina, 53, French actress, lung cancer.[88]
- Belinda Emmett, 32, Australian actress (Home and Away), metastatic breast cancer.[89]
- Jabu Khanyile, 49, South African musician who played at the Johannesburg Live 8 concert, prostate cancer.[90]
- Esther Lederberg, 83, American microbiologist at Stanford, discovered lambda phage, pneumonia and heart failure.[91]
- Harry Lehotsky, 49, Canadian anti-poverty advocate and newspaper columnist, pancreatic cancer.[92]
- Ronnie Stevens, 81, British comedy actor.[93]
- Joop van Domselaar, 78, Dutch Olympic shooter.[94]
12
- Alphonse Halimi, 74, French boxer, former world bantamweight champion, pneumonia.[95]
- Harvey Manning, 81, American conservationist and author.[96]
- Mario Merola, 72, Italian singer and actor, heart attack.[97]
- Jacob E. Smart, 97, American Air Force general and NASA executive, former deputy C-in-C of the US European Command.[98]
- Joseph Ungaro, 76, American journalist.[99]
- H. Donald Wilson, 82, American founder of LexisNexis, heart attack.[100]
13
- Louis Chevalier, 85, French Olympic racewalker.[101]
- Desert Orchid, 27, British National Hunt racehorse, winner of the King George VI Chase on four occasions.[102]
- Milton Drake, 94, American lyricist and performing rights administrator.[103]
- Konrad Fuchs, 109, German believed to be oldest living Catholic priest, WWI combat veteran.[104]
- Judah Reuben, 84, Indian cricket umpire.[105]
14
- Tony Gara, 67, Zimbabwean politician, mayor of Harare, cancer.[106]
- John Hallam, 65, Northern Irish actor.[107]
- Montague Higgs, 67, Bahamian Olympic sailor
- Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, 77, French writer and journalist.[108]
- G. Gordon Strong, 92, Canadian-American publisher, pneumonia.[109]
- Pete Suder, 90, American baseball player.[110]
- Owen Truelove, 69, British RAF Air Commodore, glider crash.[111]
15
- George G. Blackburn, 90, Canadian author (Guns of Normandy), member of the Order of Canada, cancer.[112]
- John Blackburn, 93, American songwriter ("Moonlight in Vermont", "Susquehanna"), natural causes.[113]
- Ken Ishikawa, 58, Japanese manga artist, co-creator of Getter Robo anime series, heart failure.[114]
- Ana Carolina Reston, 21, Brazilian model, complications of anorexia nervosa.[115]
- Paul Rigby, 82, Australian cartoonist, heart attack.[116]
- David K. Wyatt, 69, American historian of Thailand, emphysema and heart failure.[117]
16
- Frank Durkan, 76, Irish-born American lawyer, advocate for members of the Irish Republican Army in the US, lung infection.[118]
- Milton Friedman, 94, American monetarist and free-market economist, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize, heart failure.[119]
- Gary Graver, 68, American cinematographer for Orson Welles (F for Fake, The Other Side of the Wind), cancer.[120]
- Geoff Griffin, 67, South African cricketer, heart attack.[121]
- Yuri Levada, 76, Russian sociologist and pollster, heart attack.[122]
- Jack Macpherson, 69, American surfboarder, liver and renal failure.[123]
- Paris Theodore, 63, American firearm inventor and manufacturer, multiple sclerosis.[124]
- John Veale, 84, British classical composer, cancer.[125]
17
- Sir John Acland, 77, British general, commander of forces in Rhodesia (1979–1980).[126]
- Ruth Brown, 78, American blues singer, complications of a heart attack and stroke.[127]
- Jeffrey O. Hanson, 48, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.[128]
- Colin Pinch, 85, Australian cricketer.[129]
- Tony Pithey, 73, South African cricketer, pancreatic cancer.[130]
- Ferenc Puskás, 79, Hungarian former footballer and coach, pneumonia.[131]
- Flo Sandon's, 82, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival (1953).[132]
- Bo Schembechler, 77, American University of Michigan football head coach (1969–1989), heart problems.[133]
- Ramez Tebet, 70, Brazilian politician and lawyer, cancer.[134]
18
- Movladi Baisarov, 40, Chechen warlord and commander of Federal Security Service, shot.[135]
- Roger Bolton, 59, British trade unionist, cancer.[136]
- Maurice W. Graham, 89, American "Patriarch of the Hobos" and author, stroke.[137]
- Keith Rowlands, 70, Welsh CEO of the International Rugby Board.[138]
19
- William G. Beasley, 86, British oriental historian.[139]
- Dirk Dirksen, 69, American promoter of punk rock.[140]
- Sir Edward Ford, 96, British assistant and private secretary to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II (1946–1967).[141]
- Smith Hempstone, 77, American journalist and ambassador to Kenya (1989–1993), complications from diabetes.[142]
- Emanuel Hurwitz, 87, British violinist.[143]
- Khir Johari, 83, Malaysian Education Minister, heart attack.[144]
- Evelyn Keppel, 77, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[145]
- Julio Ramos, 71, Argentine journalist, director (Ámbito Financiero), leukemia.[146]
- Jeremy Slate, 80, American actor (The Born Losers, The Devil's Brigade), esophageal cancer.[147]
20
- Robert Altman, 81, American film director (MASH, Nashville, Short Cuts), complications from leukemia.[148]
- Zoia Ceauşescu, 56, Romanian mathematician, daughter of Nicolae Ceauşescu, lung cancer.[149]
- William R. P. George, 94, British archdruid, bard, novelist, nephew of Prime Minister David Lloyd George.[150]
- Donald Hamilton, 90, American spy fiction writer.[151]
- Walid Hassan, 47, Iraqi television comedian, shot.[152]
- Chris Hayward, 81, American creator of Dudley Do-Right and The Munsters, illness.[153]
- Hong Xuezhi, 94, Chinese general, unspecified illness.[154]
- Kevin McClory, 80, Irish film producer (Never Say Never Again).[155]
- Saúl Ubaldini, 69, Argentine labor leader and parliamentarian for the Peronist party, lung cancer.[156]
- Andre Waters, 44, American football player, suicide by gunshot.[157]
21
- Svein Erik Bakke, 59, Norwegian entrepreneur.[158]
- Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, 80, Romanian priest, dissident Nicolae Ceauşescu's rule, pancreatic cancer.[159]
- Dale DeArmond, 92, American artist and librarian, director of the Juneau Memorial Library (1958–1979).[160]
- Pierre Gemayel, 34, Lebanese Minister of Industry, shot.[161]
- Hassan Gouled Aptidon, 90, Dijiboutian first President, natural causes.[162]
- Robert Lockwood, Jr., 91, American blues guitarist and singer, respiratory failure.[163]
- Bernard Rimland, 78, American autism researcher, prostate cancer.[164]
- Eliezer Waldenberg, 89, Israeli Haredi rabbi.[165]
- Sir Harold Young, 83, Australian Liberal politician, President of the Senate (1981–1983).[166]
22
- John Allan Cameron, 67, Canadian pioneer of Celtic music, bone cancer.[167]
- Muriel Castanis, 80, American sculptor, lung failure.[168]
- Pat Dobson, 64, American Major League Baseball pitcher, leukemia.[169]
- Gilles Grégoire, 80, Canadian politician and co-founder of Parti Québécois.[170]
- Roy Newell, 92, American abstract expressionist painter, cancer.[171]
- John Peyton, Baron Peyton of Yeovil, 87, British Minister of Transport (1970–1974) and MP (1951–1983).[172]
23
- Jerry Bails, 73, American popular culture and comic book historian, heart attack.[173]
- Jesús Blancornelas, 70, Mexican journalist, founding editor of Zeta magazine, stomach cancer.[174]
- Gerald M. Boyd, 56, American managing editor of The New York Times, lung cancer.[175]
- Nick Clarke, 58, British BBC presenter and journalist, cancer.[176]
- Richard Clements, 78, British journalist, editor of Tribune (1961–1982).[177]
- Betty Comden, 89, American lyricist known for writing musicals with Adolph Green including Singin' in the Rain, heart failure.[178]
- Jack Ferrante, 90, American football player for the Philadelphia Eagles.[179]
- Ian Gordon Gill, 86, British army general.[180]
- Ştefan Haukler, 64, Romanian Olympic fencer.[181]
- Roy M. Hopkins, 63, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.[182]
- Alexander Litvinenko, 43, Russian spy and critic of Vladimir Putin, poisoning.[183]
- Philippe Noiret, 76, French actor (Il Postino, Cinema Paradiso), cancer.[184]
- Anita O'Day, 87, American jazz singer, pneumonia.[185]
- Willie Pep, 84, American Hall of Fame featherweight boxer, Alzheimer's disease.[186]
- Chen-Lu Tsou, 83, Chinese biochemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences, cancer.[187]
24
- Kwesi Armah, 77, Ghanaian diplomat and politician.[188]
- Gilbert Benausse, 74, French rugby league player.[189]
- Walter Booker, 72, American jazz bassist (Cannonball Adderley Quintet), cardiac arrest.[190]
- John Bridgers, 84, American athletic director at the University of New Mexico, congestive heart failure.[191]
- William Diehl, 81, American author (Primal Fear, Sharky's Machine), aortic aneurysm.[192]
- Phyllis Fraser, 90, American actress, author, and publisher, complications from fall.[193]
- Robert Kupperman, 71, American terrorism expert at the CSIS, complications from Parkinson's disease.[194]
- Juice Leskinen, 56, Finnish singer-songwriter, chronic kidney disease, cirrhosis, and diabetes mellitus.[195]
- Frank L. Madla, 69, American member of the Texas State Legislature since 1973, house fire.[196]
- Robert McFerrin, 85, American singer, father of Bobby McFerrin, heart attack.[197]
- Thelma Scott, 93, Australian actress (Number 96), heart attack.[198]
- Max Soliven, 77, Filipino publisher of The Philippine Star, cardiac arrest.[199]
- George W. S. Trow, 63, American author and media critic, natural causes.[200]
- Zdeněk Veselovský, 78, Czech zoologist, heart failure.[201]
25
- Luciano Bottaro, 75, Italian comic book creator (Pepito).[202]
- Valentín Elizalde, 27, Mexican banda singer, shot.[203]
- David Hermance, 59, American Toyota engineer (Prius), plane crash.[204]
- Melvin M. Webber, 86, American urban designer.[205]
26
- Mário Cesariny, 83, Portuguese surrealist painter and author, cancer.[206]
- Abu Hafs al-Urduni, 33, Iordan terrorist, killed by Russian troops.
- Leo Chiosso, 86, Italian songwriter.[207]
- Dave Cockrum, 63, American comic book artist (X-Men, Legion of Super-Heroes, The Avengers), complications from diabetes.[208]
- Isaac Gálvez, 31, Spanish cyclist, cycling accident.[209]
- Stephen Heywood, 37, American subject of the film So Much So Fast, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[210]
- Anthony Jackson, 62, British actor, cancer.[211]
- Giorgio Panto, 65, Italian television station owner and separatist politician, helicopter crash.[212]
- Graham Roope, 60, British cricketer, heart attack.[213]
- Rosa Mia, 81, Filipino actress and director.[214]
- Raúl Velasco, 73, Mexican television presenter (Siempre en Domingo), hepatitis C.[215]
- Fazlul Karim (scholar), 71, Islamic Scholer and Politician, Pir Shaheb Of Chormonai Darbar and Leader Of Islami Shashontantra Andolan, Natural Causes .[216]
27
- Don Butterfield, 83, American jazz tuba player, played with Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Sinatra, stroke-related illness.[217]
- Bebe Moore Campbell, 56, American author (What You Owe Me), brain cancer.[218]
- Casey Coleman, 55, American sportscaster, winner of four Emmy Awards, pancreatic cancer.[219]
- George Doig, 93, Australian football player.[220]
- Alan Freeman, 79, British BBC DJ, natural causes.[221]
- Larry Henderson, 89, Canadian first regular broadcaster on CBC Television's The National, natural causes.[222]
- Eddie Mayo, 96, American baseball player, natural causes.[223]
- Susan Raab Simonson, 37, American theatre actress and producer, breast cancer.[224]
28
- Ralph A. Erickson, 82, American politician.[225]
- Rose Mattus, 90, British-born American co-founder of Häagen-Dazs ice cream, natural causes.[226]
- Max Merkel, 87, Austrian football player and coach.[227]
- Bernard Orchard, 96, British biblical scholar.[228]
- Lyubov Polishchuk, 57, Russian actress, spinal disease.[229]
- Primo Volpi, 90, Italian cyclist.[230]
- Elliot Welles, 79, Austrian-born American Holocaust survivor and B'nai B'rith's prosecutor for Nazi war criminals, heart attack.[231]
- Martha Lipton, 93, American Opera singer, Natural Causes .[232]
- Mohammad Hanif (mayor), 62, Bangladeshi Politician, Mayor Of Dhaka City Corporation ( 1994–2002 ), Multiple Organ Failure .[233]
29
- Rosalie Bradford, 63, American Guinness World Record-holder for heaviest woman, most weight lost, complications from obesity.[234]
- Allen Carr, 72, English anti-smoking activist, lung cancer.[235]
- Şenol Coşkun, 18, Turkish child actor (Zıpçıktı), traffic collision.[236]
- Jean Dulieu, 85, Dutch children's writer and comic strip cartoonist.[237]
- Leonard Freed, 77, American photojournalist and member of the Magnum Photography Collective, complications of cancer.[238]
- Akio Jissoji, 69, Japanese television and film director (Ultraman, Ultra Seven), stomach cancer.[239]
- Emmett Kelly, 82, American clown and son of Emmett Kelly, complications from pneumonia.[240]
- Leon Niemczyk, 82, Polish actor, lung cancer.[241]
- Hanumant Singh, 67, Indian cricketer and International Cricket Council match referee, organ failure due to dengue fever and hepatitis B.[242]
- Dewey Readmore Books, 19, Library cat, euthanized.[243]
- William E. Nichol, 88, American politician from Nebraska.[244]
30
- Rafael Buenaventura, 68, Filipino Governor of the Central Bank, kidney cancer.[245]
- Colin Cramphorn, 50, British Chief Constable for West Yorkshire, prostate cancer.[246]
- Leonard Greene, 88, American aviation safety device inventor, lung cancer.[247]
- Perry Henzell, 70, Jamaican film director (The Harder They Come) and author, cancer.[248]
- Eli Mohar, 57, Israeli songwriter and columnist, pancreatic cancer.[249]
- Shirley Walker, 61, American film score composer, brain aneurysm.[250]
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