Deaths on 7 November
2000s
Bruce Degen
2024
American writer (1945β2024)
Frank Borman
2023
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1928β2023)
Dean Stockwell
2021
American actor (1936β2021)
Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks
2020
British Orthodox rabbi and politician (1948β2020)
Janette Sherman
2019
American physician (1930β2019)
Roy Halladay
2017
American baseball pitcher (1977β2017)
Carl Sargeant
2017
Welsh politician
James R. Thompson Jr.
2017
Deputy Administrator of NASA
Leonard Cohen
2016
Canadian singer-songwriter and poet (1934β2016)
Janet Reno
2016
American lawyer and public official (1938β2016)
Jimmy Young (broadcaster)
2016
British disc jockey and singer (1921β2016)
Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
2015
Indian film director and poet
Ri Ul-sol
2015
North Korean marshal (1921β2015)
Lincoln D. Faurer
2014
United States Air Force general
Kajetan KoviΔ
2014
Slovene poet, writer, translator and journalist
Allen Ripley
2014
American baseball player (1952β2014)
John Cole (journalist)
2013
British journalist and broadcaster (1927β2013)
Ian Davies (basketball)
2013
Australian basketball player
Ron Dellow
2013
English footballer and manager
Joey Manley
2013
Webcomic publisher
Jack Mitchell (photographer)
2013
American photographer (1925β2013)
Manfred Rommel
2013
German politician (1928β2013)
Carmen Basilio
2012
American boxer (1927β2012)
Kevin O'Donnell Jr.
2012
American novelist (1950β2012)
Glenys Page
2012
New Zealand cricketer
Sandy Pearson
2012
Australian Army officer
Darrell Royal
2012
American football player and coach (1924β2012)
Arthur K. Snyder
2012
American lawyer and politician
Joe Frazier
2011
American boxer (1944β2011)
Takanosato Toshihide
2011
Japanese sumo wrestler
Juanita Helms
2009
American politician
Earl Dodge
2007
American politician (1932β2007)
George W. George
2007
American producer
Aino Kukk
2006
Estonian chess player
Bryan Pata
2006
American football player (1984β2006)
Johnny Sain
2006
American baseball player (1917β2006)
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
2006
French journalist and politician (1924β2006)
Polly Umrigar
2006
Indian cricketer
Harry Thompson
2005
English novelist and biographer
Howard Keel
2004
American actor and singer (1919β2004)
Foo Foo Lammar
2003
British drag queen (1937β2003)
Rudolf Augstein
2002
German journalist (1923β2002)
Nida Blanca
2001
Filipino actress (1936β2001)
Anthony Shaffer (writer)
2001
English writer (1926β2001)
Ingrid of Sweden
2000
Queen of Denmark from 1947 to 1972
Nimalan Soundaranayagam
2000
Sri Lankan Tamil politician
Chidambaram Subramaniam
2000
Indian politician
1900s
Claude Ake
1996
Nigerian political scientist (1939β1996)
Jaja Wachuku
1996
Nigerian lawyer, politician and diplomat (1918β1996)
Ann Dunham
1995
American anthropologist (1942β1995)
Shorty Rogers
1994
American jazz trumpeter (1924β1994)
Adelaide Hall
1993
American-British jazz singer and actor (1901β1993)
Charles Aidman
1993
American actor (1925β1993)
Alexander DubΔek
1992
Leader of Czechoslovakia from 1968 to 1969
Jack Kelly (actor)
1992
American actor (1927β1992)
Tom of Finland
1991
Finnish artist (1920β1991)
Nuri Ja'far
1991
Iraqi psychologist (1914β1991)
Lawrence Durrell
1990
British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer (1912β1990)
Tom Clancy (singer)
1990
Irish singer and actor (1924β1990)
Bill Hoest
1988
American cartoonist (1926β1988)
Tracy Pew
1986
Australian musician (1957β1986)
Germaine Tailleferre
1983
French composer (1892β1983)
Will Durant
1981
American historian, philosopher and writer (1885β1981)
Δ°lhan Erdost
1980
Turkish publisher (1944β1980)
Steve McQueen
1980
American actor (1930β1980)
Frank O'Connor (actor, born 1897)
1979
American actor, rancher, painter, and husband of Ayn Rand (1897β1979)
Jivraj Narayan Mehta
1978
1st Chief Minister of Gujarat
Gene Tunney
1978
American professional boxer
Piero Dusio
1975
Italian footballer and racing driver (1899β1975)
Eric Linklater
1974
Scottish fiction, history and travel writer (1899β1974)
Gordon Coventry
1968
Australian rules footballer (1901β1968)
Alexander Gelfond
1968
Soviet mathematician
John Nance Garner
1967
Vice President of the United States from 1933 to 1941
Rube Bressler
1966
American baseball player (1894β1966)
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
1964
Swedish scientist (1873β1964)
Eleanor Roosevelt
1962
American diplomat and activist (1884β1962)
Victor McLaglen
1959
British-American actor and boxer (1886β1959)
K. Natesa Iyer
1947
Sri Lankan journalist, trade union leader and politician
Richard Sorge
1944
German journalist and Soviet spy (1895β1944)
Hannah Szenes
1944
Jewish poet and anti-Nazi fighter in World War II
Frank Pick
1941
British transport administrator (1878β1941)
Harold Weber
1933
American golfer (1882β1933)
Εkido Moriemon
1930
Japanese sumo wrestler
Ashwini Kumar Dutta
1923
Bangladeshi politician and educator
Sam Thompson (outfielder)
1922
American baseball player (1860β1922)
Hugo Haase
1919
German politician, jurist and pacifist
Henry Ward Ranger
1916
American painter (1858β1916)
Alfred Russel Wallace
1913
English naturalist (1823β1913)
JesΓΊs GarcΓa
1907
Mexican national hero (1881β1907)
Heinrich Seidel
1906
German engineer, poet and writer
1800s
John MacHale
1881
Catholic bishop (1789 (1791?) β 1881)
Alfred Clebsch
1872
German mathematician (1833β1872)
Bahadur Shah Zafar
1862
Mughal emperor from 1837 to 1857
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
1837
American minister, journalist, and abolitionist (1802β1837)
Paul Sandby
1809
English mapmaker and painter (1731β1809)
Before 1800
Elizabeth Barry
1713
English actress (1658β1713)
Henry of Nassau-Siegen (1611β1652)
1652
German count, officer in the Dutch Army, diplomat for the Dutch Republic (1611β1652)
Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester
1642
EngΔΊish peer (c. 1563 β 1642)
Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour
1639
English nobleman (c. 1560β1639)
Cornelis Drebbel
1633
Dutch engineer and inventor
Jahangir
1627
Mughal emperor from 1605 to 1627
Gaspare Tagliacozzi
1599
Italian surgeon (1545β1599)
Richard Davies (bishop)
1581
Welsh bishop and scholar (d. 1581)
Solomon Luria
1574
Ashkenazi rabbi and halakhist
Maldeo Rathore
1562
Rao of Marwar from 1532 to 1562
Jeanne de Jussie
1561
Genevan nun and writer (1503β1561)
JΓ³n Arason
1550
Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet (1484β1550)
Philip II, Duke of Savoy
1497
Duke of Savoy from 1496 to 1497
Engelbert II of Berg
1225
German saint and archbishop
Uijong of Goryeo
1173
King of Goryeo from 1146 to 1170
Zhu Shouyin
927
Cen Changqian
691
Chinese military general and politician of the Tang and Wu Zhou dynasties
Ge Fuyuan
691
Chinese politician of the Tang dynasty and Zhou dynasty