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.
November 2006
1
Bettye Ackerman, 82, American actress (Ben Casey), stroke. Daniel Garcia, 80, Mexican professional wrestler and actor better known as Huracán Ramírez, heart attack. Buddy Killen, 73, American record producer, founder of Dial Records, pancreatic cancer. Florence Klotz, 86, American Tony Award-winning costume designer, heart failure. Johnny Schofield, 75, British footballer for Birmingham City, former manager of Atherstone Town, complications from an illness. Adrienne Shelly, 40, American actress (Trust, Unbelievable Truth), screenwriter, director (Waitress), murder by strangulation. William Styron, 81, American writer (Darkness Visible, Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice), pneumonia. Hilda van Stockum, 98, Dutch Newbery Medal-winning author of children's books, stroke. Silvio Varviso, 82, Swiss conductor of the Vlaamse Opera, illness.
2
Rafael Donato, 69, Filipino President of DLSU-Manila (1991–1994), President of De La Salle Lipa (1995–2003), drowned. Adrien Douady, 71, French mathematician. Hadyn Ellis, 61, Welsh psychologist. Wally Foreman, 58, Australian sports commentator, heart attack. Red Hayworth, 91, American baseball player. Carroll Knicely, 77, American publisher, Commerce Secretary for three Kentucky governors. Henning Kristiansen, 79, Danish cinematographer and film director (Babette's Feast, Me and Charly). Leonard Schrader, 62, American screenwriter (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Mishima), brother of Paul Schrader, heart failure. Derek Turnbull, 79, New Zealand runner. Milly Vitale, 74, Italian actress, natural causes.
3
Belden Bly, 92, American legislator in the Massachusetts House (1948–1979). Frank Dunham, Jr., 64, American federal public defender, head lawyer for Zacarias Moussaoui, brain cancer. Sir Allen Fairhall, 96, Australian member of the House of Representatives (1949–1969), Minister for Defence (1966–1969). Fereydoun Hoveyda, 82, Syrian-born Iranian ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1979), cancer. Paul Mauriat, 81, French musician (L'Amour Est Bleu). Sputnik Monroe, 77, American professional wrestler, respiratory illness. Malachi Ritscher, 52, American anti-war protester, self-immolation. Marie Rudisill, 95, American "Fruitcake Lady" on The Tonight Show, aunt of Truman Capote, natural causes. Stanley Rothenberg, 76, American lawyer, former president of Copyright Society, complications of popliteal aneurysm surgery. Alberto Spencer, 68, Ecuadorian footballer (Peñarol, Ecuador), highest scorer in Copa Libertadores, infection after heart surgery.
4
Dajan Ahmet, 44, Estonian actor, car accident. Brebis Bleaney, 91, British physicist. Nelson S. Bond, 97, American writer. William Lee Brent, 75, American Black Panther who hijacked a plane to Cuba, bronchial pneumonia. Lionel Bryer, 78, South African dentist who founded the Aberdeen International Youth Festival. Frank Arthur Calder, 91, Canadian aboriginal politician. Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, American co-author of Cheaper by the Dozen, natural causes. John McManners, 89, British historian, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford University (1972–1984). Sergi López Segú, 39, Spanish footballer for FC Barcelona, brother of Gerard López, suicide under a train.
5
Samuel Bowers, 82, American former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, convicted over murder of Vernon Dahmer, cardiac arrest. Chen Ding-nan, 63, Taiwanese Justice Minister (2000–2005), lung cancer. Chuck DeShane, 87, American football quarterback (Detroit Lions). Bülent Ecevit, 81, Turkish former Prime Minister, complications following a stroke. George Esser, 85, American civil rights advocate, set up the North Carolina Fund. Oscar González, 82, Uruguayan Grand Prix driver. Frank Marsden, 83, British Labour MP (1971–1974). Pietro Rava, 90, Italian former football player, last surviving member of the 1938 World Cup-winning team, Alzheimer's disease. Ham Richardson, 73, American tennis player, US Open doubles winner, diabetes complications. Francis Schuckardt, 69, American Traditional Catholic Bishop, rejected decrees of Second Vatican Council, throat cancer. Bobby Shearer, 74, Scottish former footballer (Hamilton Academical, Rangers), illness.
