Famous Deaths on November 25

• 311 Peter of Alexandria, Christian martyr
• 1120 William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England (b. 1104), dies in White Ship tragedy trying to save his illegitimate half-sister Countess of Perche while crossing the English Channel
• 1326 Prince Koreyasu, 7th Japanese shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate (1266-89), dies at 62

• 1374 Philip II of Taranto, Prince of Achaea (1364-73) and titular Latin Emperor of Constantinople (1364-74), dies at about 44
• 1456 Jacques Coeur, French merchant/banker, dies in battle
• 1560 Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman and admiral, dies at 93
• 1626 Edward Alleyn, English actor and founder of Dulwich College, dies at 60
• 1640 Giles Farnaby, composer, dies
• 1694 Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (Astronomia Philolaica) and mathematician, dies at 89
• 1700 Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician, 17th Mayor of New York City (1686-88), dies at 57
• 1748 Isaac Watts, English writer, preacher and hymnist (Horae Lyrican), dies at 74
• 1750 Francesco Feroci, composer, dies at 77
• 1755 Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist and composer, dies at 76
• 1773 Carl Höckh, German composer and violinist, dies at 66
• 1785 John Henderson, English actor known for his Shakespeare roles, successor to David Garrick, dies at 38 (b. 1747) [1]
• 1785 Richard Glover, British poet, dies at about 73

• 1803 Joseph Wilton, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey), dies at 83
• 1815 Johann Peter Saloman, German composer and violinist, dies at 70
• 1830 Pierre Rode, French composer, dies at 56
• 1844 Augustus Callcott, English landscape painter, dies at 65
• 1854 John Gibson Lockhart [Scorpion], Scottish biographer (Life of Walter Scott), dies at 60
• 1865 Heinrich Barth, German explorer, historian and geographer (Central Africa), dies at 44
• 1881 Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute, dies at 87
• 1883 Ludwig Erk, German composer and folk song collector, dies at 76
• 1885 Alfonso XII, King of Spain (1874-85), dies at 27
• 1885 Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States (D), dies 8 months after taking office at 66
• 1886 Bernardino Guajardo, Chilean popular poet, dies
• 1887 Johann J Bachofen, Swiss historic rights, dies at 71
• 1894 Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist, dies at 82
• 1895 Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer and musicologist, dies at 68
• 1899 Robert Lowry, American hymn composer, dies at 73
• 1901 Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer/music theorist, dies at 62

• 1903 Harriet Hubbard Ayer, American cosmetics manufacturer and columnist, dies at 54
• 1913 Robert Stawell Ball, Irish mathematician and astronomer (Ball Screw), dies at 73
• 1914 Davorin Jenko, Slovene-Serbian composer, dies at 79
• 1914 Jan Stobbaerts, Belgian painter, dies at 76

• 1920 Gaston Chevrolet, French auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1920), dies in a racing accident at 28
• 1923 Syd Callaway, Australian cricket all-rounder (3 Tests, 6 wickets, BB 5/37, HS 41; NSW CA, Canterbury [NZ]), dies at 55
• 1935 Maria H “Mina” Beersmans, Flemish actress (After 30 Years), dies at 72
• 1937 Lilian Mary Baylis, English theatrical manager (Old Vic & Sadler’s Wells Theater), dies at 63
• 1939 Wilfred Trotter, English surgeon who was a pioneer in neurosurgery, popularized the concept of herd instinct, and was an authority in cancers of the head and neck, dies at 67
• 1941 Pedro Aguirre Cerda, president Chile (People’s Front), dies
• 1944 Hazel Ying Lee, one of two Chinese-American women to serve in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II, dies from aircraft crash burns at 32

• 1947 Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (Tancrède), dies at 71
• 1948 Charles D. Brown, American actor (Eve Knew Her Apples), dies at 61
• 1948 Kanbun Uechi, karate master (b. 1877)

• 1950 Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat, dies at 77
• 1950 Johannes V. Jensen, Danish novelist and poet (The Fall of the King; Nobel Prize for Literature, 1944), dies at 77
• 1951 Raden Mas Noto Soeroto, Javanese poet (Wayang Songs), dies at 63
• 1952 Antonio Guarnieri, Italian cellist and opera conductor (La Scala, 1929-50), dies at 72
• 1952 Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin, French composer (Ophellia), dies at 71
• 1958 Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (auto self-starter), dies at 82
• 1959 Jean Grémillon, French film director, dies at 58
• 1961 Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (6 x Olympic gold, 3 x silver 1900, 20), dies at 95
• 1963 Alexander Marinesko, Soviet captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff, dies of cancer at 50
• 1964 Clarence Kolb, American actor (My Little Margie – “Mr. Honeywell”), dies at 90
• 1965 Dame Myra Hess, British concert pianist, dies at 75
• 1967 Ossip Zadkine [Zadkin], Russian French sculptor (Destroyed City), dies at 77
• 1968 Marcel Labey, French conductor and composer, dies at 93
• 1968 Paul Siple, American explorer of the Antarctic. (b. 1908)
• 1968 Phil Lord, actor (Stud’s Place), dies at 89

• 1970 Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45
• 1971 Hank Mann, American actor (City Lights, Smoky, Dawn Trail, Fugitive Road), dies at 84
• 1972 Hans Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic), dies at 79
• 1972 Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer, dies at 86
• 1973 Albert DeSalvo, American criminal (The Boston Strangler), stabbed to death in prison at 42
• 1973 Laurence Harvey [Larushka Skine], Lithuanian-born South African actor (Alamo, Romeo & Juliet), dies of cancer at 45
• 1974 Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter (Pink Moon), dies of a drug overdose at 26
• 1974 Rosemary Lane, American actress (An Angel from Texas, 4 Mothers, Harvest Melody), dies from diabetes and pulmonary obstruction at 61

• 1975 Moyna MacGill, actress (Strange Affair of Uncle Harry), dies
• 1977 Richard Carlson, American stage and screen actor (All I Desire,; I Led 3 Lives), screenwriter and director (Riders to the Stars), dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 65
• 1978 Elaine Esposito, American woman who held record for longest coma (37 years), dies in a coma at 43
• 1981 Jack Albertson, American actor (Chico and the Man, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), dies from colon cancerr at 74
• 1981 Morris Kirksey, American athlete (Olympic gold 100m, 4 x 100m, men’s rugby 1920), dies at 86
• 1982 Robert Coote, British actor (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; Scaramouche), dies of a heart attack at 73
• 1983 Anton Dolin [Sydney Francis Patrick Chippendall Healey-kay], British dancer (Girl From Petrovka), dies at 79
• 1985 Elsa Morante, Italian writer, dies at 73
• 1985 Franz Hildebrandt, German Theologian(b. 1909)
• 1987 Anton Pieck, Dutch illustrator (1001 Nights), dies at 92

• 1989 Alva R. Fitch, American lieutenant general in US army, Elvis’ commanding officer, dies at 82
• 1989 Birago Diop, Senegalese writer and ambassador (Leurres et Lueurs), dies at 82
• 1989 Frank M Thomas, actor (Behind the Headlines, M’Liss), dies
• 1989 Ratu Sir George Cakobau, Fiji cricketer/Gov-General, dies
• 1990 Bill Vukovich III, American Indy 500 driver, killed in a crash during practice at 27
• 1991 Eleanor Audley, American voice actress (Cinderella – “Wicked Stepmother”), dies at 86
• 1993 Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (New York Giants), dies at 83
• 1993 Claudia McNeil, actress (Raisin in the Sun), dies of diabetes at 77
• 1994 Arthur Ballard, English artist, dies at 79
• 1994 Gerard Toorenaar, Dutch controversial police officer (political commissar in Amsterdam 1975-79), dies at 69
• 1995 Léon Zitrone, Russian-born French journalist and television host of Eurovision, dies at 81
• 1996 Hugh L’Etang, British medical writer and editor (The Pathology of Leadership; Ailing Leaders in Power: 1914-1994), dies at 79 [1] [2]
• 1997 Barbara [Monique Andrée Serf], French singer (“L’Aigle noir”), dies at 67
• 1997 Charles Hallahan, American actor (Hunter), dies of a heart attack at 54
• 1997 Fenton Robinson, US blues guitarist (Tennessee Woman), dies at 62
• 1997 Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Prime Minister then 1st President of Malawi (1966-94), dies at 99
• 1998 (Clerow) “Flip” Wilson, American Grammy Award-winning comedian, and Emmy Award-winning writer and TV personality (The Flip Wilson Show), dies of liver cancer at 64
• 1998 Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)
• 2000 Florizel Glasspole, 3rd Governor-General of Jamaica (1973-91), dies at 91
• 2000 Hugh Alexander, American baseball player, dies at 83
• 2000 James Deetz, American anthropologist and historical archaeologist (In Small Things Forgotten: The Archaeology of Early American Life), dies at 70 [1] [2] [3]
• 2001 Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Muslim Sufi, author, spiritual leader (b. 1941) date disputed
• 2002 Karel Reisz, Czech-British filmmaker and director (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; The French Lieutenant’s Woman; Who’ll Stop the Rain), dies at 76
• 2005 George Best, Northern Irish footballer (Manchester United, Northern Ireland), dies after suffering multiple organ failures at 59
• 2005 Polina Gelman, Soviet member of the “Night Witches” all-female aviator unit during World War Ⅱ, dies at 86 [1]
• 2005 Richard Burns, English WRC champion, dies of a brain tumor at 34
• 2006 Bobby Byrne, American orchestra leader (Club Seven), dies at 88
• 2006 Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot and WWII flying ace at Pearl Harbor, dies at 86
• 2006 Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (Fred Buscaglione), and screenwriter, dies at 86
• 2006 Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist, dies at 75
• 2006 Phyllis Fraser, American actress and children’s book publisher (b. 1916)
• 2006 Sean Bell, American shooting victim (b. 1983)
• 2006 Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
• 2010 Alfred Balk, American magazine editor and journalist (b. 1930)
• 2010 Ann Southam, Canadian electronic and classical music and dance composer (Glass Houses; Figures; The Emerging Ground), dies at 73
• 2010 Bernard Matthews, English turkey farmer (Bernard Matthews Farms), dies at 80
• 2010 C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1933)
• 2010 Peter Christopherson, British rock musician (Throbbing Gristle; Psychic TV), commercial and music video director, dies at 55
• 2011 (Henry) Lee “Shot” Williams, American blues singer (“I Like Your Style”), dies ar 73
• 2011 Tom Wicker, American journalist and author, dies at 85
• 2011 Vasiliy Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR +110kg 1972, 76; 80 x WR), dies from heart disease at 69
• 2012 David Sexton, English football manager, dies at 82
• 2012 Dinah Sheridan, British actress (Genevieve, The Railway Children, Don’t Wait Up), dies at 92
• 2012 Earl “Speedoo” Carroll, American doo-wop vocalist (Cadillacs; The Coasters), dies of complications from diabetes and a stroke at 75
• 2012 Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician, dies at 81
• 2013 (Foreststorn) “Chico” Hamilton, American jazz drummer (Lester Young; Gerry Mulligan; Count Basie), and bandleader (Chico Hamilton Quintet), dies at 92
• 2013 Bill Foulkes, English footballer (Manchester United), dies at 81
• 2013 Oralia Domínguez, Mexican mezzo-soprano, dies at 88
• 2013 Toshiaki Tsushima, Japanese film score composer, dies of pneumonia at 77
• 2014 Joanna Dunham, English actress (Possession, House the Dripped Blood), dies at 78
• 2016 Alexander Yossifov, Bulgarian conductor and composer (Back To The Beginning), dies at 76

• 2016 Ron Glass, American actor (Barney Miller, Frank’s Place), dies at 71
• 2016 Russell Oberlin, American countertenor (Pro Musica Antiqua, 1952-66) and educator (Hunter, 1966-94), dies at 88 [1]
• 2016 Trevor Goddard, South African cricketer (South African opening batsman and opening bowler), dies at 85
• 2017 Rance Howard, American actor (Splash, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind), dies at 89
• 2019 George Clements, American priest and the first Roman Catholic priest in America to adopt a child, dies of a heart attack at 87 [1]
• 2019 Iain Sutherland, Scottish folk-soft rock vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist (Sutherland Brothers & Quiver – “Arms of Mary”; “(I Don’t Want to Love You But) You Got Me Anyway”), dies at 71

• 2020 Duris Maxwell [Ted Lewis], Canadian session and touring drummer (Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers; Powder Blues Band), dies of heart failure at 74
• 2020 Jacques Secrétin, French table tennis player (World C’ship gold mixed doubles 1977), dies at 71
• 2020 Zenon Plech, Polish motorcycle speedway rider (World C’ship individual 1979, pairs 1980 runner-up), dies at 67
• 2022 Irene Cara [Escalera], American Grammy and Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter (“Fame”; “Flashdance…What A Feeling”), and actress (Fame; D.C. Cab), dies at 63
• 2023 Doug Wabeke, American collegiate HOF baseball coach, and educator, dies at 65
• 2023 Les Maguire, British rock saxophonist and pianist (Gerry & the Pacemakers, 1961-66 – “Ferry Cross the Mersey”), dies at 81
• 2023 Marty Krofft, Canadian puppeteer and television producer – with his brother Sid (H.R. Pufnstuf; Land of the Lost; Sigmund and the Sea Monsters; Donny & Marie), dies at 86 [1]
• 2023 Terry Venables, British soccer midfielder (2 caps; Chelsea, Tottenham, QPR, Crystal Palace) and manager (Crystal Palace, QPR, Barcelona, Tottenham, England, Australia, Leeds United), dies at 80
• 2024 Bodhi, known as ‘the Menswear Dog’, Shiba inu dog, model, and influencer, dies at 15 [1]
• 2024 Earl Holliman, American actor (The Rainmaker; Police Woman; Tribes; Cry Panic), pop singer, and animal rights activist, dies at 96 [1]
• 2024 Ernie McMillan, American NFL football offensive tackle (Pro Bowl 1965, 1967, 1969, 1970; Second-team All-Pro 1966,1967; St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 86

November 25 Highlights