Famous Deaths on November 30

• 1016 Edmund II, Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies at 27
• 1519 Michael Wolgemut, German painter (Weltchronik), dies at about 85
• 1528 Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded

• 1580 Richard Farrant, English composer and organist for the queen who established Blackfriars Theatre, dies at about 50
• 1603 William Gilbert, English physician and physicist (research into magnetism), dies probably of the plague at 59
• 1621 Francesco Rasi, Italian composer, singer, poet, and theorbo player, dies at 47
• 1622 Squanto [Tisquantu], Patuxet guide and translator who liaised between the Native American population in Southern New England and the Mayflower Pilgrims, dies of an illness at around 42 at Mamamoycke (now Chatham, Massachusetts)
• 1626 Thomas Weelkes, English organist and composer of madrigals, dies at 47
• 1631 Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels, dies
• 1646 John C Lichthart, admiral (Cape Augustine), dies at about 45
• 1654 John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar, dies at 69
• 1675 Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British peer granted charter to settle Maryland, dies at 70
• 1678 Andries de Graeff, Dutch leader during Dutch Golden Age (Mayor of Amsterdam 1657-71), dies at 67
• 1679 Peter van Schooten, Dutch mathematician and fort architect, dies at 45
• 1694 Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician who founded the science of microscopic anatomy, dies at 66
• 1700 Artus Quellinus II, Flemish sculptor, dies at 75

• 1703 Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer, dies at 31
• 1705 Catherine of Braganza, Portuguese Roman Catholic Queen of Charles II of England, dies at 67

• 1719 Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Japanese samurai of the Saga Domain and Zen Buddhist monk (Hagakure), dies by suicide at 60 [1] [2]
• 1761 John Dollond, British optician and owner of 1st patent for achromatic lens, dies at 55
• 1764 Dieudonne Raick, composer, dies at 61
• 1765 George Glas, British merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
• 1777 Jean-Marie Leclair le cadet (the younger), French composer, dies at 74
• 1786 Bernardo de Gálvez, Spanish military leader and colonial administrator (Spanish Governor of Louisiana and Cuba, 1777-83, Viceroy of New Spain, 1785-6), dies of typhus at 40
• 1792 Ernst William Wolf, composer, dies at 57
• 1798 Friedrich Fleischmann, German composer, dies at 32
• 1800 Charles Adams, American lawyer, son of US president John Adams and younger brother of president John Quincy Adams, dies at 30 of suspected pleurisy caused by a respiratory condition
• 1813 Friedrich August Baumbach, German composer, dies at 60
• 1824 Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, German-Scottish cellist and composer, dies at 87
• 1830 Pius VIII [Francesco Saverio Castiglioni], Italian 253rd Pope (1829-30), dies at 69
• 1836 Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician and engineer (fluid mechanics), dies at 71
• 1837 Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary, dies at 50
• 1841 Charles Louis W J van Keverberg, Dutch government official, dies at 73
• 1864 Hiram B. Granbury, American lawyer, county judge, and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at the Battle of Franklin at 33
• 1864 John Adams, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at about 39
• 1864 Otho French Strahl, American Confederate Brigadier General during the Civil War, killed in the Battle of Franklin at 33 [1] [2]
• 1864 Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at 33
• 1878 George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe), dies at 61
• 1894 Joseph E. Brown, American attorney and politician (42nd Governor of Georgia), dies at 73
• 1897 Abraham Carel Wertheim, Dutch banker and philanthropist, dies at 64

• 1901 Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica), dies at 86
• 1904 Aldine Silliman Kieffer, American composer, dies at 64
• 1909 Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet and translator, dies at 53 [NS=Dec 13]
• 1930 Mother [Mary Harris] Jones, American labor organizer (cofounded Industrial Workers of the World), dies at 93
• 1931 John Hyatt Brewer, American organist, teacher, and composer (Echo Bells), dies at 75
• 1931 Marc Delmas, French composer, chiefly of stage and choral works, and musicologist, dies at 46

• 1934 Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (b. 1908)

• 1938 Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian politician (founder and leader of the Iron Guard), dies at 39
• 1940 Fritz Volbach, German conductor, musicologist and composer (Raffael), dies at 78
• 1942 Buck Jones [Charles F Gebhart], American Western actor (Just Pals, Forbidden Trails, War Horse), dies in a fire at 50
• 1943 Esther “Etty” Hillesum, Dutch-Jewish author of confessional letters and diaries, dies in Auschwitz at 29

• 1944 Antoine Mariotte, French composer (Paysage maritime), dies at 68
• 1944 Max Halbe, German playwright (Jugend), dies at 79
• 1947 Ernst Lubitsch, German actor, producer and film director (To Be or Not to Be, Love Parade, Anna Boleyn, Ninotchka), dies from a heart attack at 55
• 1948 Franco Vittadini, Italian composer, dies at 64
• 1954 Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer, dies at 68
• 1955 Josip Slavenski, Croatian composer, dies at 59
• 1957 Beniamino Gigli, Italian lyric tenor (La Gioconde – “Enzo”; Metropolitan Opera, 1920-32), dies of pneumonia at 67
• 1957 Dick McPartland, American jazz guitarist, dies at 52
• 1958 Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (b. 1888)
• 1961 Stanislaw Kazuro, Polish composer, dies at 80
• 1962 Max Vasmer, German-Russian linguist (La Tertulia de Pombo), dies at 76
• 1964 Don Redman, American jazz musician and orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64
• 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (The Great Hunger), and novelist (Tarry Flynn), dies at 63
• 1972 Hans-Erich Apostel, Austrian composer (Kubiniana, Requiem), dies at 71
• 1972 Neil H McElroy, soap manufacturer/minister of Defense (1957-59), dies
• 1972 Valentin Ruiz Aznar, Spanish choirmaster, composer, and priest, dies at 70
• 1973 Bruce Yarnell, American actor (Outlaws) and singer, dies when single‐engine plane he was piloting crashes into northern Los Angeles county (California) mountain slope at 37 [1]
• 1974 Bert Gordon [Barney Gorodetsky], American comedian, dies at 79
• 1976 Fritz Rasp, German actor (Diary of a Lost Girl), dies at 85
• 1977 Miloš Crnjanski, Serbian poet (Seobe), dies at 84

• 1979 Joyce Grenfell (Adventure for Two), actress, dies at 69
• 1979 Zeppo Marx [Herbert], American comedian and actor (Marx Brothers), dies at 78
• 1981 Robert H. Harris, American actor (Jake-The Goldbergs, Mirage), dies at 70

• 1983 Richard Llewellyn, Welsh novelist (How Green Was My Valley), dies at 76
• 1985 Phil Tucker, American film director (Robot Monster), dies at 58
• 1987 Arthur H. Dean, American lawyer, ambassador and presidential advisor (1963 nuclear test ban treaty), dies at 89 [1]
• 1987 Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist (Het Volk (“The People”); Het Parool (“The Password”), and essayist (Kronkels), dies of a heart attack at 74
• 1988 Charlie Rouse, American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist (Thelonious Monk Quartet; Sphere), dies of lung cancer at 64
• 1988 Pannonica de Koenigswarter (née Rothschild), British-Hungarian socialite, French resistance fighter, writer, and jazz patron (Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Horace Silver), dies at 74
• 1989 Alfred Herrhausen, German CEO (Deutsche Bank), murdered at 59
• 1990 Hilde Spiel, Austrian writer, dies at 78
• 1990 Norman Cousins, American editor (Saturday Review) and peace activist, dies at 75
• 1991 Zin Harris, New Zealand cricket batsman (9 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 101; Canterbury), dies at 64
• 1992 Jorge Donn, dancer, dies after long illness at 45
• 1993 Bob Wolf, agent (New Kids on the Block, Larry Bird), dies
• 1993 David Houston, American country music singer (“Almost Persuaded”), dies at 57
• 1993 Sebastian Kappen, Indian philosopher and liberation theologian (Jesus and Freedom, From Faith to Revolution), dies at 69 [1]
• 1994 Connie Conrad Henry Kirnon Kay, jazz Drummer, dies at 67
• 1994 Connie Kay, American jazz drummer (Modern Jazz Quartet), dies of a cardiac arrest at 67
• 1994 Guy Debord, French social theorist (Situationist International), filmmaker, and essayist (The Society of the Spectacle), takes his own life at 63
• 1994 Irwin Kostal, American orchestra leader and arranger (West Side Story; The Sound Of Music; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), dies at 83
• 1994 Lionel Stander, American blacklisted actor (Hart to Hart, Unfaithfully Yours), dies at 86
• 1995 Hopper Levett, English cricket wicket-keeper (1 Test, 3 dismissals; Kent CCC), dies at 87
• 1995 June Fisher [June Thorndycraft], British teacher and trade unionist who developed CSE qualification and GCSE exams, dies of cancer at 66
• 1995 Randy Walker (AKA Stretch), American musician (b. 1972)
• 1995 William Roerick, American actor (The Wasp Woman, Guiding Light), dies in car crash at 83
• 1996 Koji Kobayashi, industrialist, dies at 89

• 1997 Clare Evans, British historian and feminist scholar, dies from cancer at 37
• 1997 Kathy Acker, American experimental novelist (Blood and Guts in High School), dies at 54
• 1997 Ronald Gulliford, English educationalist (Dean of the Faculty of Education, Birmingham University 1979-81), dies at 76
• 1998 Margaret Walker, American poet and novelist of the Chicago Black Renaissance (For My People), dies at 83
• 2000 Jānis Kalniņš, Latvian-Canadian organist, composer (Ugunī; New Brunswick Rhapsody), and conductor (Latvian National Opera, 1933–1944), dies at 96
• 2000 Scott Smith, Canadian rock bassist (Loverboy – “Working for the Weekend”), drowns in sailing accident near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco at 45
• 2001 Bill Boyd, American western swing guitarist and band leader (The Cowboy Ramblers – ”Under the Double Eagle”), dies at 91
• 2002 Tim Woods, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
• 2003 Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (1st female English Channel 1926), dies at 98
• 2004 Bill Brown, Scottish soccer goalkeeper (28 caps; Dundee, Tottenham Hotspur), dies at 73

• 2005 Jean Parker [Luise-Stephanie Zelinska], American actress (Beyond Tomorrow, Little Women), dies of complications from a stroke at 90
• 2006 Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and lyricist (b. 1927)
• 2006 Perry Henzell, Jamaican screenwriter and director (The Harder They Come, No Place Like Home), dies at 70
• 2006 Rafael Buenaventura, Former BSP Governor (b. 1938)
• 2007 Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist, dies at 59

• 2008 Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer (Loudness) (b. 1958)
• 2008 Naomi Datta, British geneticist and bacteriologist (pioneer in investigating the development of resistance to antibiotics by bacteria), dies at 86
• 2010 Garry Gross, American photographer (b. 1937)
• 2010 Monty Sunshine, British jazz clarinetist and bandleader (Petite Fleur), dies at 82
• 2010 Peter Hofmann, German operatic tenor, who also performed pop songs and starred in musical theater, dies of pneumonia at 66
• 2010 Rajiv Dixit, Indian scientist and Swadeshi movement figure (b. 1967)
• 2010 Sri Daya Mata [Faye Wright], American spiritual figure (Self-Realization Fellowship), dies at 96 [1]
• 2011 J. Blackfoot [Colbert], American soul singer (The Soul Children – “Hearsay”; solo -“Taxi”), dies of pancreatic cancer at 65
• 2011 Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, referred to as King Leka I by Albanian monarchists (b. 1939)
• 2011 William L. Waller, American politician and ex-Governor of Mississippi, dies at 85
• 2012 I. K. [Inder Kumar] Gujral, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (1997-98), dies at 92
• 2012 Munir Malik, Pakistani cricket pace bowler (3 Tests, 9 wickets; Karachi, Punjab, Rawalpindi), dies at 78
• 2013 Jean Kent [Joan Summerfield], British actress (Caravan, Bond Street), dies from complications from a fall at 92
• 2013 John Zochonis, British industrialist, philanthropist, and chairman of PZ Cussons, dies at 84
• 2013 Paul Crouch, American televangelist (Trinity Broadcasting Network), dies at 79

• 2013 Tabu Ley Rochereau [Pascal-Emmanuel Sinamoyi Tabu], African musician (Orchestre Afrisa International), dies at 76
• 2014 Fred Catherwood, British politician, Vice President of the European Parliament (1989-1992), dies at 89
• 2014 Go Seigen [Wu Qingyuan], Chinese-born Japanese Go master considered the greatest Go player in the 20th century, dies of natural causes at 100
• 2015 Eldar Ryazanov, Russian film director and screenwriter (Carnival Night), dies at 88
• 2015 Marcus Klingburg, Israeli epidemiologist and soviet spy, dies at 97
• 2015 Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and Manga artist (GeGeGe no Kitarō), dies at 93
• 2016 Aleksei Maslennikov, Russian tenor (Bolshoi Theater, 1953-88), dies at 87
• 2016 Alice Drummond, American actress (Awakenings), dies at 88
• 2016 Kamilló Lendvay, Hungarian composer (Pezzo Concertanto), conductor, and educator, dies at 78
• 2017 Jim Nabors, American comedian, actor (The Andy Griffith Show; Gomer Pyle, USMC), and singer (“Back Home Again in Indiana”), dies from health complications at 87

• 2021 C. Herbert Oliver, American clergyman and civil rights activist (Inter-Citizens Committee), dies at 96
• 2021 Erwin Wilczek, Polish soccer midfielder, forward (16 caps; Górnik Zabrze), dies at 81
• 2021 John Sillett, English soccer defender (Chelsea, Coventry City, Plymouth Argyle) and manager (FA Cup 1987 Coventry City), dies at 85
• 2021 Pamela Helen Stephen, British Mezzo-soprano, dies at 57
• 2021 Phil Dwyer, Welsh soccer defender (10 caps; Cardiff City 471 games), dies at 68
• 2021 Ray Kennedy, English soccer midfielder, forward (17 caps; Arsenal, Liverpool), dies from Parkinson’s disease at 70
• 2021 Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry, Indian poet and film and theater lyricist (“Vidhata Thalapuna”), dies of lung cancer at 66

• 2022 John Hadl, American College Football HOF quarterback (Uni of Kansas; 4 x AFL All-Star; Pro Bowl 1972, 73; First Team All Pro 1973; AFL C’ship 1963; SD Chargers; LA Rams), dies at 82
• 2022 Murray Halberg, New Zealand athlete (Olympic gold 5000m 1960; WR 2 miles: 8:30.0 1961; WR 3 miles: 13.10.0 1961), dies at 89
• 2023 John Byrne, Scottish playwright (The Slab Boys Trilogy), screenwriter (Your Cheatin’ Heart), and visual artist, dies at 83 [1]
• 2023 Sante Gaiardoni, Italian cyclist (Olympic gold 1000m time trial, 1000m sprint 1960; UCI Track World C’ship gold 1960, 63), dies at 84
• 2023 Shane MacGowan, British-Irish punk rock musician (Pogues – “Fairytale of New York”, “Red Roses For Me”), dies at 65 [1]
• 2023 Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer (Z) and diplomat, dies at 90
• 2024 Lou Carnesecca, American collegiate HOF basketball coach (St. John’s University, 1965-70 and 1973-92), dies at 99
• 2024 Steve Alaimo, American pop singer (“Mashed Potatoes”; “Every Day I Have To Cry”), TV host (Where the Action Is), and producer, dies at 84

November 30 Highlights