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November1976

Famous People Who Died in November 1976

Nov 1 Oscar Beregi Jr, Hungarian actor (Young Frankenstein, Panic in City), dies of a heart attack at 58

Alexander S. Wiener (1907-1976)

Nov 6 American physician known for his work in immunohematology (Rh factor in blood), dies at 69

Alexander S. Wiener

Nov 8 Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis player (French C'ship 1934, 36), dies in a car accident at 67
Nov 9 Billy Halop [William Halop Cohen], American actor (Angels with Dirty Faces, All in the Family), dies of a heart attack at 56
Nov 10 Theodore Besterman, British bibliographer and psychical researcher, dies at 71

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Nov 11 American sculptor (mobiles), dies at 78

Alexander Calder

Nov 11 Eric Davies, South African cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 7 wickets; East Province, Transvaal), dies at 67
Nov 12 Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1893)

Walter Piston (1894-1976)

Nov 12 Jr, American two-time Pulitzer Prize winning composer (Incredible Flutist), music theorist, and educator (Harvard, 1926-60), dies at 82

Walter Piston

Nov 15 Jean Gabin, French actor (Moulin Rouge, La Grande Illusion), dies at 72
Nov 17 Victor Alessandro, composer, dies at 60
Nov 18 Man Ray, American artist (Dada), dies at 86
Nov 19 Basil Spence, Scottish architect (Coventry Cathedral), dies at 69
Nov 19 Wayne Millner, American NFL Hall of Fame football end, 1936-45 (Boston/Washington Redskins), and US Navy WWII veteran, dies of a heart attack at 63
Nov 20 Trofim Lysenko, Soviet biologist and agronomist, dies at 78
Nov 21 Niles Welch, American actor (Cornered), dies at 88
Nov 22 Rupert Davies, actor (Zeppelin, Oblong Box), dies at 59

André Malraux (1901-1976)

Nov 23 French novelist and art historian (La Condition Humaine), dies at 75

André Malraux

Nov 27 Victor Alessandro, American orchestral conductor (Oklahoma City; San Antonio), dies on his 61st birthday
Nov 28 (Catherine) Rosalind Russell, American stage and screen actress (His Girl Friday; Auntie Mame; Gypsy), dies of breast cancer at 69
Nov 28 Robert Fleming, Canadian composer, dies at 55
Nov 29 Godfrey Cambridge, American actor (Cotton comes to Harlem), dies of a heart attack at 43
Nov 29 Judith Lowry, American actress (Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds), dies at 86
Nov 30 Fritz Rasp, German actor (Diary of a Lost Girl), dies at 85

Famous People by Cause of Death