Died on Thursday, 6th November – Famous Deaths

06/11/2025

Rick Hauck, American naval officer, fighter pilot, and NASA astronaut (born 1941)

Frederick Hamilton "Rick" Hauck was a captain in the United States Navy, fighter pilot and NASA astronaut. He piloted Space Shuttle mission STS-7 and commanded STS-51-A and STS-26.

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James Watson, American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist (born 1928)

James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, building on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. In 1962, Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".

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06/11/2024

Dorothy Allison, American writer (born 1949)

Dorothy Earlene Allison was an American writer whose writing focused on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism, and lesbianism. She was a self-identified femme lesbian. Allison won several Lambda Literary Awards. In 2014, Allison was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

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John Nott, British politician (born 1932)

Sir John William Frederic Nott was a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1981 to 1983. A member of the National Liberal and Conservative parties, Nott served as Member of Parliament (MP) for St Ives from 1966 to 1983.

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Madeleine Riffaud, French poet, journalist and Resistance member (born 1924)

Marie-Madeleine Riffaud was a French Resistance fighter, poet, journalist and war correspondent. After active resistance to the German occupation of France during World War II, she reported for the Communist newspaper L'Humanité and other left-wing publications on the Algerian War and on the French, and subsequently American, wars in Vietnam. Her reporting on Vietnam was informed by four years she spent in the North in the early 1950s, and in the 1960s by the connections she developed in the South with the Viet Cong.

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Tony Todd, American actor (born 1954)

Anthony Tiran Todd was an American actor. Known for his distinctly deep and gravelly voice, he amassed numerous credits on screen and in video games since the 1980s, including the title character in the Candyman film series (1992–2021) and William Bludworth in the Final Destination franchise (2000–2025). For the former, he was nominated at the Critics' Choice and Fangoria Chainsaw Awards.

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06/11/2023

Antoni Martí, Andorran politician, former Prime Minister of Andorra (born 1963)

Antoni Martí Petit was an Andorran architect and politician who served as the prime minister of Andorra between 2011 and 2019, when he was elected on the ticket of the Democrats for Andorra.

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06/11/2020

Ken Spears, American writer (born 1938)

Charles Kenneth Spears was an American animator, writer, television producer and sound editor. He was best known as a co-creator of the Scooby-Doo franchise, together with Joe Ruby. In 1977, they co-founded the television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions. Spears and Ruby created many other shows such as Jabberjaw, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, and Fangface. Spears also worked on the shows Sectaurs, Mister T and Alvin and the Chipmunks.

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King Von, American rapper (born 1994)

Dayvon Daquan Bennett, known professionally as King Von, was an American rapper and street gangster from Chicago, Illinois, who was affiliated with the Black Disciples gang of Chicago's South Side. He was considered a preeminent figure in the drill genre of music, a subcategory of hip-hop.

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06/11/2018

Bernard Landry, Canadian lawyer, politician and Premier of Quebec (born 1937)

Bernard Landry was a Canadian politician who served as the 28th premier of Quebec from 2001 to 2003. A member of the Parti Québécois (PQ), he led the party from 2001 to 2005, also serving as the leader of the Opposition from 2003 to 2005.

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06/11/2017

Richard F. Gordon Jr., American naval officer, aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (born 1929)

Richard Francis Gordon Jr. was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and a football executive. He was one of 24 Apollo astronauts who reached the Moon, as command module pilot of the Apollo 12 mission, which orbited the Moon 45 times. Gordon had already flown in space as the pilot of the 1966 Gemini 11 mission.

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06/11/2015

Bobby Campbell, English footballer and manager (born 1937)

Robert George Campbell was an English professional football player and later manager.

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Yitzhak Navon, Israeli author, playwright, and politician, 5th President of Israel (born 1921)

Yitzhak Rachamim Navon was an Israeli politician, diplomat, playwright, and author. He served as the president of Israel between 1978 and 1983 as a member of the centre-left Alignment party. He was the first Israeli president born in Jerusalem and the first Sephardi Jew to serve in that office.

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06/11/2014

Maggie Boyle, English singer and flute player (born 1956)

Maggie Boyle was an English, London-born folk singer, who also played flute, whistle and bodhrán.

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Tommy Macpherson, Scottish soldier and businessman (born 1920)

Colonel Sir Ronald Thomas Stewart Macpherson,, known as Tommy Macpherson, was a highly decorated British Army officer during and after the Second World War. He fought with No. 11 Commando unit and French Resistance forces, becoming infamous among Axis forces as the "Kilted Killer". He caused so much damage to enemy military infrastructure, a bounty of 300,000 francs was placed upon his head. Three times he received the Military Cross, the French Croix de Guerre, and the Legion of Honour.

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Rick Rosas, American bass player (born 1949)

Rick "Rick the Bass Player" Rosas was an American musician, and one of the most sought after studio session musicians in Los Angeles. Though largely known for his long collaboration with Neil Young, throughout his career he also played with Joe Walsh, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Rivers, Ron Wood, Etta James, and the short-lived reunion of the Buffalo Springfield, among others. He performed as a bass player with The Flash in Jonathan Demme's 2015 film Ricki and The Flash. The band was composed of guitarist Rick Springfield, drummer Joe Vitale, and keyboardist Bernie Worrell, backing up Meryl Streep, as "Ricki", on vocals and guitar.

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06/11/2013

Tarla Dalal, Indian chef and author (born 1936)

Tarla Dalal was an Indian food writer, chef, cookbook author and host of cooking shows. Her first cook book, The Pleasures of Vegetarian Cooking, was published in 1974. Since then, she wrote over 100 books and sold more than 10 million copies. She also ran the largest Indian food web site, and published a bi-monthly magazine, Cooking & More. Her cooking shows included The Tarla Dalal Show and Cook It Up With Tarla Dalal. Her recipes were published in about 25 magazines and tried in an estimated 120 million Indian homes.

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Ace Parker, American football and baseball player (born 1912)

Clarence McKay "Ace" Parker was an American football and baseball player and coach. He played professional football as a quarterback, tailback and safety in the National Football League (NFL) for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1937–1941) and the Boston Yanks (1945) and in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) for the New York Yankees. He was an All-American selection at Duke University in 1936. Parker also played in the Major League Baseball (MLB) during 1936 and 1937 with the Philadelphia Athletics. He served as the head baseball coach at Duke from 1953 to 1966. Parker was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1955 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1972.

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06/11/2012

Joel Connable, American journalist and actor (born 1973)

Joel Connable was an American television host, news anchor, and reporter for KOMO-TV in Seattle, Washington. He also worked as a travel journalist, running a travel website and a company called Travel TV Inc. He was a former evening news anchor at NBC6 in Miami. He was named "Best News Anchor," by the New Times Magazine in 2009. Connable made regular appearances as a travel expert on Fox News, CBS television stations, KTLA, the BBC, and other television networks. Connable also anchored and reported the news for CBS in Los Angeles and South Carolina as well as for MSNBC and Early Today, on NBC. Connable was also a former private pilot and former paramedic from Long Island, New York. He was also a writer for the Huffington Post and had a weekly travel radio show on Cox Radio Stations.

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Clive Dunn, English actor (born 1920)

Clive Robert Bertram Dunn was an English actor. Although he was only 48 and one of the youngest cast members, he was cast in a role many years his senior, as the elderly Lance Corporal Jones in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army, which ran for nine series and 80 episodes between 1968 and 1977.

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Frank J. Prial, American journalist and author (born 1930)

Frank J. Prial was a journalist and author, and the wine columnist for The New York Times for 25 years, writing the weekly "Wine Talk" column largely since 1972 until his retirement in 2004.

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06/11/2011

Roger Faulques, French military officer and mercenary (born 1924)

Roger Louis Faulques, also known as René Faulques, was a French military officer and mercenary. A graduate of the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, he served as a paratrooper officer in the French Foreign Legion, and later as a mercenary in conflicts in Africa and the Middle East. He fought in the Second World War, the First Indochina War, the Suez Crisis, the Algerian War, the Congo Crisis, the North Yemen Civil War and the Nigerian Civil War. He was one of France's most decorated soldiers.

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06/11/2010

Robert Lipshutz, American soldier and lawyer, 17th White House Counsel (born 1921)

Robert Jerome Lipshutz was an American attorney who served first as the national campaign treasurer for Jimmy Carter's successful 1976 run for the United States Presidency and then as the White House Counsel from 1977 to 1979 during Carter's administration. He played a back channel role in the negotiations between Egypt and Israel that led to the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1978.

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06/11/2009

Ron Sproat, American screenwriter and playwright (born 1932)

Ronald Sproat was an American screenwriter and playwright known for Dark Shadows.

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06/11/2007

Hilda Braid, English actress and singer (born 1929)

Hilda Braid was an English actress who had a long career on British television. She became well known in her later years for playing Victoria "Nana" Moon on the BBC One soap opera EastEnders.

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George Grljusich, Australian footballer and sportscaster (born 1939)

George Ned Grljusich was an Australian sports journalist, commentator and former Australian rules footballer. Born in Wiluna, Western Australia, he played 12 games of football for the South Fremantle Football Club in the Western Australian National Football League in 1960, before quitting football to pursue a media career. Grljusich later became a radio broadcaster, commentating for Perth-based radio stations 720 ABC Perth and 6PR. He died in 2007 at the age of 68, from lung cancer.

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Hank Thompson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1925)

Henry William Thompson was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades.

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06/11/2006

Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish skier (born 1950)

Francisco "Paquito" Fernández Ochoa was a World Cup alpine ski racer from Spain. Born in Madrid and raised north of the city in Cercedilla, he was the eldest of eight children whose father ran a ski school. Paquito raced in all of the alpine disciplines and specialized in slalom.

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Federico López, Mexican-Puerto Rican basketball player (born 1962)

Federico López Camacho, better known as Fico López, was a Puerto Rican professional basketball player. He was a member of the Mets de Guaynabo from 1981 to 1997. Together with his brother-in-law, Mario Morales, López won various championships in the Puerto Rican league.

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06/11/2005

Rod Donald, New Zealand lawyer and politician (born 1957)

Rodney David Donald was a New Zealand politician who co-led the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, along with Jeanette Fitzsimons.

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Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian SS officer (born 1921)

Anthony Sawoniuk was a Belarusian Nazi collaborator from the town of Damachava in Brest Region.

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06/11/2004

Johnny Warren, Australian footballer, manager, and sportscaster (born 1943)

John Norman Warren, MBE, OAM was an Australian soccer player, coach, administrator, writer and broadcaster. He was known as Captain Socceroo for his passionate work to promote the game in Australia. The award for the best player in the A-League is named the Johnny Warren Medal in his honour.

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06/11/2003

Just Betzer, Danish production manager and producer (born 1944)

Just Betzer, was a Danish Oscar-winning film producer, born in Åbyhøj, Denmark.

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Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer and coach (born 1919)

Hendrika Wilhelmina "Rie" Mastenbroek was a Dutch swimmer and a triple Olympic champion.

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06/11/2000

L. Sprague de Camp, American historian and author (born 1907)

Lyon Sprague de Camp was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction literature. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including biographies of other fantasy authors. He was a major figure in science fiction in the 1930s and 1940s.

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06/11/1998

Sky Low Low, Canadian wrestler (born 1928)

Marcel Gauthier was a Canadian professional midget wrestler who wrestled under the ring name Sky Low Low.

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06/11/1991

Gene Tierney, American actress (born 1920)

Gene Eliza Tierney was an American stage and film actress. Acclaimed for her great beauty, Tierney was a prominent leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She starred as Laura Hunt in Otto Preminger's Laura (1944), a film noir classic, and as Ellen Berent in John M. Stahl's Leave Her to Heaven (1945), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Darryl F. Zanuck, co-founder of 20th Century Fox, said Tierney was "unquestionably, the most beautiful woman in movie history."

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06/11/1987

Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (born 1955)

Zohar Orkabi, known professionally as Zohar Argov, was an Israeli singer. A distinctive voice in the Mizrahi music scene, Argov is widely known in Israel as "The king of Mizrahi music". However, he remains a divisive figure in Israeli culture due to his controversial rape conviction and charges.

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06/11/1985

Sanjeev Kumar, Indian film actor (born 1938)

Sanjeev Kumar was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi and Gujarati cinema. Regarded as one of the greatest and finest actors in the history of Indian cinema, Kumar was known for his acting versatility. He acted in a wide variety of genres ranging from romantic drama to thriller. He was voted seventh among the "Greatest Actors of Indian cinema of All Time" in a poll conducted by Rediff.com. His double role in Angoor was listed among the "25 Iconic Performances of Indian cinema" by Forbes India on the occasion of celebrating 100 years of Indian Cinema.

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06/11/1984

Gastón Suárez, Bolivian author and playwright (born 1929)

Gastón Suárez was a Bolivian novelist and dramatist. Suárez was born in the town of Tupiza, in the southern part of Potosí, Bolivia in 1929.

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06/11/1978

Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (born 1899)

Heinrich 'Heiri' Suter was a Swiss road racing cyclist. Excelling mainly in the classics, Suter was the first non-Belgian winner of the Tour of Flanders in 1923. Two weeks after his win in the Tour of Flanders, he won Paris–Roubaix, becoming the first cyclist to win both classics in the same year. He also holds a record six victories in Züri-Metzgete, Switzerland's most important one-day race.

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06/11/1968

Chauncey Sparks, American politician and 41st Governor of Alabama (born 1884)

George Chauncey Sparks, known as Chauncey Sparks, was an attorney and Democratic American politician who served as the 41st governor of Alabama from 1943 to 1947. He improved the state education of whites and expanded the state schools and centers for agriculture. He campaigned for passage of the Boswell Amendment to the state constitution, which was designed to keep blacks disfranchised following the US Supreme Court ruling Smith v. Allwright (1944) against the use of white primaries by the Democratic Party in the states.

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06/11/1965

Clarence Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1898)

Clarence Williams was an American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher.

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06/11/1964

Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (born 1925)

Hugo Koblet was a Swiss champion cyclist. He won the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia as well as competing in six-day and pursuit races on the track. He won 70 races as a professional. He died in a car accident amid speculation that he had committed suicide.

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06/11/1955

Edwin Barclay, 18th president of Liberia (born 1882)

Edwin James Barclay was a Liberian politician, poet, and musician who served as the 18th president of Liberia from 1930 until 1944. He was a member of the True Whig political party, which dominated the political governance of the country for decades. Under Barclay's leadership, Liberia was an ally of the United States during World War II.

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06/11/1942

Emil Starkenstein, Czech pharmacologist and academic (born 1884)

Emil Starkenstein was a Czech-Jewish pharmacologist and one of the founders of clinical pharmacology. He was killed in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp along with a few hundred refugees from Amsterdam after an incident in which a Dutch Jew resisted a Nazi patrol.

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06/11/1918

Alan Arnett McLeod, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1899)

Alan Arnett McLeod, VC was a Canadian soldier, aviator, and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. McLeod served as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps and later the Royal Air Force during the First World War.

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06/11/1893

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (born 1840)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, the Violin Concerto, the Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, the opera Eugene Onegin, and the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker.

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06/11/1816

Gouverneur Morris, American scholar, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to France (born 1752)

Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution. He wrote the Preamble to the United States Constitution and has been called the "Penman of the Constitution". While most Americans still thought of themselves as citizens of their respective states, Morris advanced the idea of being a citizen of a single union of states. He was also one of the most outspoken opponents of slavery among those who were present at the Constitutional Congress. He represented New York in the United States Senate from 1800 to 1803.

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06/11/1752

Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (born 1685)

Ralph Erskine was a Scottish churchman.

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06/11/1692

Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French author and poet (born 1619)

Gédéon Tallemant, Sieur des Réaux was a French writer known for his Historiettes, a collection of short biographies.

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06/11/1672

Heinrich Schütz, German organist and composer (born 1585)

Heinrich Schütz was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and one of the most important composers of the 17th century. He is credited with bringing the Italian style to Germany and continuing its evolution from the Renaissance into the early Baroque. Most of his surviving music was written for the Lutheran church, primarily for the Electoral Chapel in Dresden. He wrote what is traditionally considered the first German opera, Dafne, performed at Torgau in 1627, the music of which has since been lost, along with nearly all of his ceremonial and theatrical scores. Schütz was a prolific composer, with more than 500 surviving works.

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06/11/1656

Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer (born 1583)

Jean-Baptiste Morin, also known by the Latinized name as Morinus, was a French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer.

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06/11/1492

Antoine Busnois, French composer and poet (born 1430)

Antoine Busnois was a French composer, singer and poet of early Renaissance music. Busnois and colleague Johannes Ockeghem were the leading European composers of the second half the 15th century, and central figures of the early Franco-Flemish School.

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06/11/1406

Pope Innocent VII (born 1339)

Pope Innocent VII, born Cosimo de' Migliorati, was head of the Catholic Church from 17 October 1404 to his death, in November 1406. He was pope during the period of the Western Schism (1378–1417), and was opposed by the Avignon claimant Benedict XIII. Despite good intentions, he did little to end the schism, owing to the troubled state of affairs in Rome, and his distrust of the sincerity of Benedict XIII, and King Ladislaus of Naples.

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06/11/1312

Christina von Stommeln, Roman Catholic mystic and stigmatic (born 1242)

Christina of Stommeln, also known as Christina Bruso and Christina Bruzo, was a Roman Catholic mystic, ecstatic, and stigmatic.

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06/11/1003

Pope John XVII

Pope John XVII, born John Sicco, was the bishop of Rome and nominal ruler of the Papal States for about seven months in 1003. He was one of the popes chosen and eclipsed by the patrician John Crescentius.

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