The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2009.
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 2009
1
Zev Aelony, 71, American civil rights activist. Sakher Habash, 69, Palestinian party official (Fatah), stroke. Esther Hautzig, 79, American Holocaust survivor and writer. Endel Laas, 94, Estonian forest scientist. Manfred Losch, 70, German Olympic athlete. Seán Mac Fhionnghaile, 57, Irish actor, cancer. Arturo Salazar Mejía, 88, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Pasto. (Spanish) Alda Merini, 78, Italian poet. Gopal Mishra, 77, Indian journalist. Gus Mitges, 90, Canadian politician, MP for Grey—Simcoe (1972–1988) and Bruce—Grey (1988–1993). Alan Ogg, 42, American basketball player (Miami Heat), complications from staphylococcal infection. Robert H. Rines, 87, American scientist, inventor, composer and Loch Ness Monster expert, heart failure. Achim Stocker, 74, German football official, chairman of SC Freiburg, heart attack. George Zoritch, 92, Russian-born American dancer.
2
Princess Haya bint Abdulaziz, 80, Saudi royal, sister of King Abdullah. Nien Cheng, 94, Chinese author and political prisoner. Lou Filippo, 83, American boxing referee and judge, member of the World Boxing Hall of Fame, stroke. Ida Frabboni, 113, Italian supercentenarian. Evelyn Hofer, 87, German-born photographer. Brian James, 91, Australian actor, complications from a fall. Shabattai Kalmanovich, 61, Russian former KGB spy, president of WBC Spartak Moscow Region, shot. Keith Kettleborough, 74, British footballer (Sheffield United). José Luis López Vázquez, 87, Spanish actor. Yael Lotan, 74, Israeli writer, editor and translator, liver cancer. Phil Lumpkin, 57, American NBA player and high school basketball coach, pneumonia. Ron Moeller, 71, American baseball player. Roman Moravec, 58, Slovak Olympic athlete. Beverley O'Sullivan, 28, Irish singer, car crash. Amir Pnueli, 68, Israeli computer scientist and Turing Award winner. Glenn Remick, 58, American founder of American Darters Association, member of National Darts Hall of Fame, amyloidosis. Mark Smith, 49, British bassist (The Waterboys) and record producer. Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg, 73, British businessman and life peer. Lonnie Zamora, 76, American alleged UFO witness, heart failure.
3
Charles August, 90, American businessman, founder of Monro Muffler Brake. Francisco Ayala, 103, Spanish novelist, natural causes. Archie Baird, 90, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen). Carl Ballantine, 92, American actor (McHale's Navy), natural causes. Brother Blue, 88, American storyteller, performance artist. Dodo Chichinadze, 84, Georgian actress. Sir John Crofton, 97, British medical pioneer. Jean B. Cryor, 70, American politician, cancer. Shel Dorf, 76, American founder of the San Diego Comic-Con, diabetes-related complications. Parry Gordon, 64, English rugby league player. Tamás Lossonczy, 105, Hungarian abstract painter. Lorissa McComas, 38, American softcore model and actress. Toshiyuki Mimura, 61, Japanese baseball player and manager (Hiroshima Toyo Carp). Alice S. Rossi, 87, American sociologist and feminist.
4
Win Aung, 65, Burmese politician and military officer, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1998–2004). William H. Avery, 98, American politician, representative for Kansas (1955–1965), Governor of Kansas (1965–1967). Sir Don Beaven, 85, New Zealand scientist and diabetes researcher, house fire. Ivan Biakov, 65, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning biathlete (1972, 1976) Hubertus Brandenburg, 85, German-born Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm (1977–1998). (Swedish) Stefano Chiodi, 52, Italian footballer. Art D'Lugoff, 85, American jazz nightclub owner (The Village Gate), heart attack. Kabun Mutō, 82, Japanese politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1993), pancreatic cancer. Thomas P. O'Malley, 79, American academic, president of Loyola Marymount University (1991–1999), heart attack. Antonio Pelle, 77, Italian 'Ndrangheta boss, heart attack. David Tree, 94, British actor. Rishad Shafi, 56, Turkmen drummer.