1940) November November 4 Alfonso Cano, Colombian militant leader (b. 1948) Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., American Nobel physicist (b. 1915) November 7 – Joe Frazier, American boxer (b. 1944) November 8 Heavy D, Jamaican-born American actor, rapper (b. 1967) Valentin Ivanov, Russian footballer (b. 1934) November 9 – Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American Nobel biochemist (b. 1922) November 11 – Francisco Blake Mora, Mexican politician (b. 1966) November 19 – John Neville, English actor (b. 1925) November 21 – Anne McCaffrey, American-born Irish writer (b. 1926) November 22 Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin (b. 1926) Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, Princess of Luxembourg (b. 1922) Lynn Margulis, American theorist, biologist, science author, and educator (b. 1938) Danielle Mitterrand, First Lady of France (b. 1924) Paul Motian, American jazz drummer (b. 1931) November 25 – Vasily Alekseyev, Soviet-Russian weightlifter (b. 1942) November 27 Ken Russell, British film director (b. 1927) Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1969) November 28 Charles Thomas Kowal, American astronomer (b. 1940) Ante Marković, 9th Prime Minister of SFR Yugoslavia (b. 1924) November 29 – Patrice O'Neal, American comedian and radio personality (b. 1969) December December 1 – Christa Wolf, German writer (b. 1929) December 3 – Dev Anand, Indian actor (b. 1923) December 4 Sócrates, Brazilian footballer (b. 1954) Hubert Sumlin, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1931) December 5 – Violetta Villas, Polish singer (b. 1938) December 7 – Harry Morgan, American actor (b. 1915) December 11 – John Patrick Foley, American cardinal (b. 1935) December 13 Russell Hoban, American-British writer (b. 1925) Park Tae-joon, South Korean politician (b. 1927) December 14 Joe Simon, American comic book writer and artist (b. 1913) Billie Jo Spears, American country music singer (b. 1937) December 15 – Christopher Hitchens, British-American writer (b. 1949) December 16 Robert Easton, American actor (b. 1930) Nicol Williamson, Scottish-English actor and singer (b. 1936) December 17 Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (b. 1941) Kim Jong-il, 2nd Supreme Leader of North Korea (b. 1941/42) December 18 – Václav Havel, Czech playwright, 10th President of Czechoslovakia and 1st President of the Czech Republic (b. 1936) December 21 – Yevhen Rudakov, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1942) December 22 – William Duell, American actor and singer (b. 1923) December 24 – Johannes Heesters, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1903) December 26 Kennan Adeang, 3-Time President of Nauru (b. 1942) Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor (b. 1940)