20 – Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910) October 22 – Choi Kyu-hah, 4th President of South Korea (b. 1919) October 27 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistani civil servant and 7th President of Pakistan (b. 1915) October 28 Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and official (b. 1917) Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1954) October 30 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926) October 31 – P. W. Botha, former State President of South Africa (b. 1916) November November 1 – William Styron, American writer (b. 1925) November 3 – Paul Mauriat, French musician and bandleader (b. 1925) November 5 Bülent Ecevit, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1925) Pietro Rava, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1916) November 6 – Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish ski racer (b. 1950) November 7 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924) November 9 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941) November 10 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919) November 11 – Esther Lederberg, American microbiologist (b. 1922) November 16 – Milton Friedman, American Nobel economist (b. 1912) November 17 Ruth Brown, American singer (b. 1928) Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927) November 20 Robert Altman, American film director (b. 1925) Zoia Ceaușescu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1949) November 21 Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese politician (b. 1972) Hassan Gouled Aptidon, 1st President of Djibouti (b. 1916) November 22 – Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemist (b. 1917) November 23 Alexander Litvinenko, Russian-born spy (b. 1962) Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930) Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919) November 25 – Valentín Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979) November 26 – Isaac Gálvez, Spanish racing cyclist (b. 1975) December December 1 – Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948) December 2 – Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (b. 1947) December 5 – David Bronstein, Soviet Union chess grandmaster (b. 1924) December 6 – Han Ahmedow, 1st Prime Minister of Turkmenistan (b. 1936) December 7 Lyuben Berov, 43rd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1925) Jeane Kirkpatrick, American political theorist and U.N. ambassador (b. 1926) December 9 – Georgia Gibbs, American singer (b. 1919) December 10 – Augusto Pinochet, Dictator of Chile (b. 1915) December 12 Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928) Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935) December 14 – Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish record executive (b. 1923) December 15 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing driver (b. 1939) December 18 – Joseph Barbera, American animator (b. 1911) December 21 – Saparmurat Niyazov, 1st