Deaths in November - 2023

Children’s author Jaan Rannap died November 1 at the age of 92. Their works include Koolilood and Nublu.

Cartoonist Carlo Ambrosini died November 1 at the age of 69. His works include Dylan Dog Collezione, Jan Dix, and Napoleone.

Basketball coach Bobby Knight died November 1 at the age of 83. His books include Knight: My Story and The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results .

Healthcare activist Ady Barkan died November 1 at the age of 39. He wrote Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance.

Writer and politician Henri Lopes died November 2 at the age of 86. His books include The Laughing Cry: An African Cock and Bull Story and Tribaliks: Contemporary Congolese Stories.

Magician David Berglas died November 3 at the age of 97. His books include A question of memory and The David Berglas File No. 1 : Flashes, Ropes & Cards.

Journalist Jose Maria Carrascal died November 2 at the age of 92. His books include Groovy and Comentarios.

Poet Gieve Patel died November 3 at the age of 83. He wrote gieve patel 1997-2000 .

Animal rights activist Karen Davis died November 4 at the age of 79. Her books include Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry and More than a Meal: The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual, and Reality.

Photojournalist Priit Vesilind died November 3 at the age of 80. His work includes Lost Gold of the Republic: The Remarkable Quest for the Greatest Shipwreck Treasure of the Civil War Era and The Singing Revolution : how culture saved a nation.

Lepidopterist Colin Smith died November 3 at the age of 87. His books include illustrated Checklist of Nepal's Butterflies and A Photographic Pocket Guide to Butterflies of Nepal in Natural Environment .

Philosopher Enrique Dussel died November 5 at the age of 88. His books include Philosophy of Liberation, Twenty Theses on Politics (Latin America in Translation), and Ethics of Liberation: In the Age of Globalization and Exclusion.

Science historian John Heilbron died November 5 at the age of 89. His books include The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories and Galileo.

Comic book artist Malo Louarn died November 5 at the age of 74. His work includes Rona, 02: De eerbiedwaardige doctor Woo and Meloenezië archipel .

Journalist Conrado de Quiros died November 6 at the age of 72. His books include Dead aim: How Marcos ambushed Philippine democracy, Dance of the dunces, and Flowers from the Rubble: Essays on Life, Death and Remembering.

Mughal garden scholar Elizabeth B. Moynihan died November 7 at the age of 94. Her books include Paradise As a Garden: In Persia and Mughal India and The Moonlight Garden: New Discoveries at the Taj Mahal.

Journalist and professor Philip Meyer died November 4 at the age of 94. His books include The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age and Precision Journalism: A Reporter's Introduction to Social Science Methods.

British Lord Chief Justice Igor Judge died November 7 at the age of 82. He wrote The Safest Shield: Lectures, Speeches and Essays.

Archaeologist Luis Guillermo Lumbreras died November 9 at the age of 87. His books include The Peoples and Cultures of Ancient Peru, Los orígenes de la civilización en el Perú : donde se cuenta la historia de los pueblos desde sus orígenes hasta el , and America Precolombina En El Arte (Santiago, Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino) .

Astronaut Frank Borman died November 7 at the age of 95. He wrote Countdown: An Autobiography and Report to The Secretary of the Army by The Special Commission on The United States Military Academy.

Poet David Ferry died November 5 at the age of 99. His work includes The Epistles of Horace and Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations.

Humorist and physician Dr. Neil B. Shulman died November 6 at the age of 78. His books include The Germ Patrol: All About Shots for Tots...... and Big Kids, Too! and Your Body's Red Light Warning Signals.

Journalist and gay rights activist Andrew Lumsden died November 1 at the age of 82. He wrote Title Fight.

Playwright Nina Sadur died November 12 at the age of 73. Her work includes The Witching Hour and Other Plays and Witch's Tears and Other Stories.

>11 varielle: Andrew Lumsden was an early member of the Gay Liberation front and later founded Gay News. He wrote Title fight: the battle for GAY NEWS with Gillian E. Hanscombe.

Physicist and engineer Simon M. Sze died Nov. 6 aged 87. He wrote Physics of semiconductor devices, Semiconductor devices: physics and technology, and High-speed semiconductor devices.

Drama teacher, Anna Scher died on 12 November aged 78. She was best known for introducing lots of young working class people acting, including many who went on to careers in TV, film etc. She co-authored some books on teaching drama with Charles Verrell, including 100+ Ideas for Drama.

Science fiction author Michael Bishop died November 13 at the age of 78. His many books include No Enemy But Time and Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas .

I loved Bishop's novel Brittle Innings, a strange hodgepodge of tropes and genres that shouldn't work but magically does. Surely the finest Southern Gothic WWII baseball novel/Frankenstein sequel ever written.

>15 KeithChaffee: Right? Brittle Innings was such a good book.

Prof. Tom Lodge died November 8 at the age of 72. His books include Mandela: A Critical Life and Sharpeville: An Apartheid Massacre and Its Consequences.

Dancer Joan Jara died November 12 at the age of 96. She wrote Victor: The Life and Music of Victor Jara .

Art critic B. N. Goswamy died November 17 at the age of 90. His books include The Spirit of Indian Painting: Close Encounters with 101 Great Works 1100-1900, Essence of Indian Art, Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks of Indian Painting .

Psychologist William Yule died November 5 at the age of 83. His books include Post-traumatic stress disorders : concepts and therapy and Behaviour Modification for People with Mental Handicaps.

AS Byatt died 16th November aged 87.

>19 PossMan: Novelist A S Byatt (Antonia) was the author of novels, short stories and non-fiction, including Booker Prize winning Possession, The Frederica Quartet including The Virgin in the Garden and The Children's Book. Her sister Margaret Drabble is also a well known writer.

>20 elkiedee: I heard her speak once and thought she would be wonderful because I loved Possession but she was mind-blowingly boring. She was all into neurons and the art of painting them and spoke not at all about her work or writing. It was a big disappointment especially since it was at a writers series sponsored by a university.

>20 elkiedee:: I think in the past I've had more pleasure reading Margaret Drabble -- a bit less 'high-falutin' perhaps.

>21 varielle: That's very disappointing.

>22 PossMan: I've read some books by both of them, mostly a long time ago apart from a short story collection, and I'd like to read/reread some.

Alas! I considered Byatt to be Nobel-worthy...

Btw wikipedia says Nov 16.

Graphic designer George Tscherny died November 13 at the age of 99. His books include Where would the button be without the button hole? Unsung heroes of anonymous design and
Pull and let go : design and communication for the W.C. on Champion Kromekote.

George Brown, drummer, co-founder and co-songwriter of disco hits like Celebration for the band Kool and the Gang, died on 16 November aged 74. He wrote a memoir: Too Hot: Kool & the Gang & Me which was published earlier this year (but no one on LibraryThing has actually catalogued owning/reading a copy yet).

>26 elkiedee: The disambiguation notice said that this split author is the correct George Brown, for future reference.

Thanks Karen, I didn't look for sheet music! Those details match up quite convincingly. It looks as if the band credited song writing credits across its lineup.

>24 Crypto-Willobie:: Yes. I put 17th but I've gone back to correct it.

Comic book artist Bob de Groot died November 17 at the age of 82. His work includes The One-Armed Bandit, Scénario, and Legends of the West.

Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda died November 15 at the age of 95. His books include Choose Life: A Dialogue, The Cherry Tree, and Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth and Death.

* touchstones are fighting me today. Sorry for any confusion.

Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter died November 19 at the age of 96. Her books include First Lady from Plains, Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life, and Helping Yourself Help Others: A Book for Caregivers. 😢RIP-sweet lady

>31 varielle: other than the goofy friendship with the Shah and his wife and the subsequent screw up with Iran the Carter administration IMO was the best of my lifetime. Another thing I really really liked about the Carter's is that unlike every other POTUS they never really monetized on their presidency afterwards. They went back to the family home in Plains Ga. and were quite happy there and basically devoted their lives to volunteer and community work and if asked world peace type of efforts. Good people at least from what I could see.

>31 varielle: I had not known until now just how long they'd been part of each other's lives. Jimmy's mother delivered Rosalynn, and 2-year-old Jimmy was brought into the room to see the baby.

Actor Joss Ackland died November 19 at the age of 95. His books include My Better Half and Me and I Must Be in There Somewhere.

Poet Eddie Linden died November 19 at the age of 88. His works include City of razors : and other poems and Thorn in the Flesh: Selected Poems.

Novelist Herbert Gold died November 19 at the age 99. His books include Bohemia and Fathers.

Rev. Carlton Pearson died November 19 at the age of 70. His books include The Gospel of Inclusion: Reaching Beyond Religious Fundamentalism to the True Love of God and Self and God Is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu...: God Dwells with Us, in Us, Around Us, as Us.

Graphic artist Neville Garrick died November 14 at the age of 73. He wrote A Rasta's pilgrimage : Ethiopian faces and places .

Sinologist Merle Goldman died November 16 at the age of 92. Her books include An Intellectual History of Modern China and Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Era.

Television presenter and novelist Annabel Giles died November 20 at the age of 64. Her books include Birthday Girls, The Defrosting of Charlotte Small, and Crossing the Paradise Line.

Historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie died November 22 at the age of 94. His books include Montaillou : Cathars and Catholics in a French village, 1294-1324, Carnival in Romans , The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga, and The Peasants of Languedoc.

Mystery novelist and presidential joke writer Jerome Doolittle “Jerry” died November 19 at the age of 90. His books include Canyons and Mesas, The Southern Appalachians, and Body Scissors: A Tom Bethany Mystery.

Journalist Charles Peters died November 23 at the age of 96. His books include Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Journalist Betty Rollin died by voluntary assisted suicide on November 14 at the age of 87. Her books include Last Wish and First, You Cry.

Photographer Larry Fink died November 25 at the age of 82. His books 📖 include Social Graces: Photographs by Larry Fink and Larry Fink on Composition and Improvisation: The Photography Workshop Series.

Soccer player and coach Terry Venables died November 25 at the age of 80. His books include They Used to Play on Grass , Venables, and The Best Game in the World.

Puppeteer Marty Krofft died November 25 at the age of 86. He produced several editions of H. R. Pufnstuff Coloring and Activity Book: Living Island Adventure .

Retired furniture industry executive Michael K. Dugan died November 11 at the age of 83. He wrote The Furniture Wars: How America Lost a 50 Billion Dollar Industry.

Polish author Pawel Huelle died November 27 at the age of 66. His books include Who Was David Weiser? and Moving House Stories: Stories.

Novelist John Nichols died November 28 at the age of 83. His many books include The Milagro Beanfield War and The Magic Journey.

Investment firm executive Charles Munger died November 28 at the age of 99. His books include Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger and On Success.

>9 varielle:: David Ferry was perhaps best known for his work as a translator - in particular of The Aeneid.

Retired General, FEMA head, and DC schools leader Julius W. Becton, Jr. died November 28 at the age of 97. His autobiography was called Becton: Autobiography of a Soldier and Public Servant.

Feminist scholar Dale Spender died November 21 at the age of 80. Her books include Man Made Language and Women of Ideas: And What Men Have Done to Them.

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger died November 29 at the age of 100. His many books include Diplomacy , World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History, and On China.

Greek author Vassilis Vassiliko died November 30 at the age of 90. His books include Z, The Photographs, The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis , and And Dreams Are Dreams.

British politician Alistair Darling died November 30 at the age of 70. He wrote Back from the Brink: 1000 Days at Number 11.

I wonder who's Kissinger now...

Shane MacGowan, singer songwriter best known as singer with Irish folk-punk (?) band the Pogues in the late 80s, has died in the early hours of this morning (on 30 November) at 65. He co-wrote a biography/memoir? A Drink with Shane MacGowan with his partner (and wife from 2018) Victoria Mary Clarke. I think perhaps stories of his lifestyle excesses have overshadowed the quality of his song lyrics.

Dale Spender, in addition to her own writing, was also associated with feminist publishing ventures, and bringing forgotten women writers back into print, in the UK and in her home country Australia, with Penguin Australia Women's Library and the Routledge imprint Pandora Press (I think there may have been more than one publisher or imprint called Pandora Press).

>48 elkiedee: That's a tough one. That said this is has been coming on for a while. He was in terrible shape some ten (?) years ago when my wife and I saw the Pogues in NYC. He's the same age as me but he was shuffling around the stage like an 80 year old. It didn't appear that the band were drinking anything but water that night though. He'd been in a wheelchair for at least 5 years and the last year he's been even much worse.

>50 lriley: I think he had actually sobered up a bit in the last few years, but I'd read that he was very seriously ill and in the last few days his wife had been posting from by his hospital bed. I came into the house this afternoon to hear Fairytale of New York playing on a news programme on a spoken word radio station - and I knew what that meant.

>51 elkiedee: They’re listing his cause of death as viral encephalitis.

>51 elkiedee: he's the third of the Pogues to have passed following Philip Chevron and Darryl Hunt who didn't half abuse their health like he did. A phenomenal songwriter but he got an early start on the drinking when he was a child (I did too) and he went on with it a long time and there were drugs too. He lived the lifestyle of many the poet and rock and roll star.

Crime novelist Tim Dorsey died November 24 at the age of 62. His many books include Florida Roadkill and Triggerfish Twist.

Photographer Elliott Erwitt died November 29 at the age of 95. His books include Dog Dogs, Elliot Erwitt Snaps, and Elliott Erwitt: The Private Experience .

Astronomer Mikhail Marov died November 30 at the age of 90. His books include The Planet Venus and
The fundamentals of modern astrophysics : a survey of the cosmos from the home planet to space frontiers.

Playwright John Byrne died November 30 at the age of 83. His works include The Slab Boys and Tutti Frutti.

Biochemist Vincent Marks died November 6 at the age of 93. He wrote Insulin Murders.

University psychiatric chair Dr. John A. Talbott died November 29 at the age of 88. His books include A Family Affair: Helping Families Cope With Mental Illness - A Guide For The Professions 119 (Gap Report) and Textbook of administrative psychiatry.

Architectural historian Jonathan Hill died November 1 at the age of 65. His books include The Illegal Architect, Occupying Architecture: Between the Architect and the User, and Immaterial Architecture.

Editorial columnist Edwin Yoder Jr died November 30 at the age of 89. His books include Lions at Lamb House and The Historical Present: Uses and Abuses of the Past.

Journalist and radio host Nguyen Qui Duc died November 22 at the age of 65. His books include Vietnam Traveler’s Literary Companion and Where the Ashes Are The odyssey of a Vietnamese Family.

Historian Robert Knecht died November 4 at the age of 97. His books include The French Religious Wars, 1562-1598 and The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France: 1483-1610 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe) .

McDonald’s executive who took the Big Mac to Moscow George Cohon died November 24 at the age of 86. He wrote To Russia with Fries.

Film critic Michel Ciment died November 13 at the age of 85. His books include Kubrick and Conversations with Losey.

Former Johns Hopkins University dean George W. Fisher died November 27 at the age of 86. He edited Discovering the Chesapeake: The History of an Ecosystem.

Politician Lord James Douglas-Hamilton died November 28 at the age of 81. His books include The Air Battle for Malta: The Diaries of a Spitfire Pilot, Motive for a Mission: Story Behind Rudolf Hess's Flight to Britain, and The Truth About Rudolf Hess.

Psychotherapist Alice Cook has died at the age of 70. She wrote Greenham Women Everywhere: Dreams, Ideas & Actions from the Womens' Peace Movement.

Historian John Rohl died November 17 at the age of 85. His books include Purple Secret and The Kaiser and his Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany.

Humanities Dean Jeremy Goring died November 6 at the age of 93. His books include The Unitarians (Christian Denominations), Burn, Holy Fire!: Religion in Lewes Since the Reformation, and Northants Lieutenancy Papers 1580-1614.

Musician and children’s author Ann Rachlin died November 20 at the age of 90. Her books include Mozart (Famous Children Series) and Bach (Famous Children).

Angler and apparent rapscallion Michael Daunt died November 16 at the age of 81. He wrote Endangered Species: The Bart and the Bounder's Countryside Year and The Bounder.

International relations expert Robert L. Pfaltzgraff died November 17 at the age of 89. His books include The Role of Naval Forces in 21st Century Operations and Politics and the international system, (The Lippincott series in international politics) .

Archaeologist and textile historian Penelope Rogers died November 10 at the age of 73. Her books include Cloth And Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England, AD 450-700, Textile Production at 16-22 Coppergate, Textiles, Cordage and Raw Fibre from 16-22 Coppergate, and The Roman Textile Industry and Its Influence: A Birthday Tribute to John Peter Wild.

Historian Jan Plamper died November 30 at the age of 53. His books include The History of Emotions: An Introduction (Emotions in History) and The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power .

Educator Anton Trant died November 2 at the age of 90. He wrote Curriculum matters in Ireland and Future of the Curriculum.

Economist James Robertson died November 9 at the age of 95. His books include The Sane Alternative: A Choice of Futures, Transforming economic life : a millenial challenge, and Profit or People?: The New Social Role of Money (Ideas in Progress).

Paleontologist Martin Lockley died November 25 at the age of 73. His books include Tracking Dinosaurs: A New Look at an Ancient World and The Eternal Trail: A Tracker Looks At Evolution.

Science fiction writer D. G. Compton died November 10. His books include The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe and The Steel Crocodile.

>74 varielle: Compton also wrote mystery/thrillers as David G Compton and Gothic romances as Frances Lynch.

Curator and textiles expert Linda Parry died November 21 at the age of 78. Her books include William Morris Textiles and Textiles of the arts and crafts movement .

Political scientist Charles V. Hamilton died November 18 at the age of 94. His books include Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma , and The Black preacher in America .

Journalist and human rights activist Julia Lieblich died at the age of 65. Her books include Sisters: Lives of Devotion and Defiance and Wounded I Am More Awake: Finding Meaning after Terror.

Typographer and designer John Miles died November 27 at the age of 92. He wrote Design for Desktop Publishing and The Story of Noah's Ark.