Deaths in November 1989

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1989.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

November 1989

1

• Louis Barron, 69, American electronic musician.
• Norman Billing, 76, Australian politician.
• Peter Childs, 50, English actor, leukemia.
• Hoimar von Ditfurth, 68, German scientific journalist, thyroid cancer.
• Haranath, 53, Indian actor, alcohol poisoning.
• Elise Harney, 65, American baseball player.
• Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, 91, American civil rights activist, first African-American to receive a PhD in economics, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Mihaela Runceanu, 34, Romanian singer, strangled.
• Dagmar Sandvig, 68, Norwegian politician.
• Max Streib, 76, Swiss Olympic handball player (1936).

2

• Inés Arredondo, 61, Mexican writer.
• Truus Bauer, 44, Dutch rower.
• Reidar Bruu, 86, Norwegian politician.
• John Clymer, 82, American painter.
• Morris H. DeGroot, 58, American statistician.
• Cecilia Fatou-Berre, 88, Congolese-Gabonese religious sister.
• Elizabeth Hawley Gasque, 103, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938–1939).
• Frederick Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond, 85, British hereditary peer.
• Henry M. Margolis, 80, American industrialist and theatre producer.
• Tom Mennard, 71, English comedian and actor, cancer.
• Steve Simpson, 41, American baseball player, heart attack.
• R. Sankara Narayanan Thampi, 78, Indian politician.
• Shana Yardan, 46, Guyanese poet, cancer.

3

• Timoci Bavadra, 55, Fijian politician, prime minister (1987), cancer.
• Louis Craine, 32, American serial killer, AIDS.
• Ruth Frankel, 85-86, American-Canadian physician.
• Dorothy Fuldheim, 96, American journalist.
• Ture Isberg, 89, Swedish footballer.
• Ed Kasid, 66, American basketball player.
• William Morris Jr., 90, American talent agent.
• Zelma O'Neal, 86, American actress.
• Edward J. Stack, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1981).
• Mikhail Tsiselsky, 80, Soviet naval pilot.

4

• Pancho Coimbre, 80, Puerto Rican baseball player, house fire.
• Theodore G. Garfield, 94, American judge.
• Trevor Kent, 49, Australian actor, AIDS.
• Erkki Kerttula, 79, Finnish Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).
• Clare Leighton, 91, English-American artist.
• Edwin Pemberton, 81, Australian footballer.
• Howard A. Rusk, 88, American physician.
• John Taylor, 81, Canadian Olympic skier (1932).
• Bohumil Váňa, 69, Czechoslovak table tennis player.

5

• Adem Čejvan, 62, Yugoslav actor.
• Ted Cox, 86, American football player and coach.
• Johs Elvestad, 90, Norwegian composer.
• Vladimir Horowitz, 86, Russian-born American pianist and composer, heart attack.
• A. G. Lancione, 82, American politician.
• John O'Connell, 38, Australian footballer.
• Howard Reppert, 71, American politician, cancer.
• Barry Sadler, 49, American soldier, author, and singer ("The Ballad of the Green Berets"), cardiac arrest
• Tsutsumi Sakamoto, 33, Japanese lawyer, murdered.
• Margot Seitelman, 61, German-born American businesswoman, cancer.
• Lu Watters, 77, American trumpeter.
• Benigno Zaccagnini, 77, Italian politician.

6

• Irene Baker, 70-71, American pollination biologist.
• Margarete Buber-Neumann, 88, German writer.
• Adrian Dullard, 71, Australian footballer.
• Dickie Goodman, 55, American record producer, suicide by gunshot.
• Tina Isa, 16, American murder victim, honor killing.
• Alex Jordan Jr., 75, American architect.
• Margit Makay, 98, Hungarian actress.
• Yūsaku Matsuda, 40, Japanese actor, bladder cancer.
• Bjarne Rosén, 80, Norwegian footballer.

7

• Paula Acker, 76, German journalist.
• Dai Astley, 80, Welsh footballer.
• Andrey Borovykh, 68, Soviet flying ace, stroke.
• Jack Hanson, Australian footballer.
• May Justus, 91, American author.
• Gilbert Lesage, 79, French humanitarian and philanthropist.
• Alec Mango, 78, English actor.
• Milton K. Ozaki, 76, American writer.
• Brunello Rondi, 64, Italian filmmaker, heart attack.
• Jan Skácel, 67, Czechoslovak poet.
• J. Curry Street, 83, American physicist.
• Tommy Tatum, 70, American baseball player.
• Dick Vorisek, 71, American sound engineer.
• Keith Walker, 66, English cricketer.

8

• Chen Jingrong, 72, Chinese poet.
• Choi Ja-shil, 74, South Korean pastor.
• Gordon Cunningham, 55, Scottish golfer.
• Robert Gerringer, 63, American actor, stroke.
• Ray D. Hahn, 91, American football player and coach.
• Johnny Lanning, 79, American baseball player.
• Lee Yuk-wing, 85, Chinese-American electrical engineer.
• Gertrude Leverkus, 91, German-British architect.
• Yitzhak Raveh, 82, German-Israeli judge.
• Maud Russell, 96, American social worker and writer, lung cancer.
• Gino Soldà, 82, Italian Olympic skier (1932).
• Lionel Wigmore, 90, Australian journalist and historian.
• Elmer Wynne, 88, American football player.
• Howard Yates, 75, Australian runner.
• Mary Agnes Yerkes, 103, American artist.

9

• Doug Anderson, 75, Scottish footballer.
• Herbert Arlene, 75, American politician.
• Cliff Ashburn, 83, American football player.
• Kenny Hagood, 63, American jazz musician.
• Arthur John Holland, 71, American politician, cancer.
• Enriqueta Mayora, 68, Mexican Olympic fencer (1948).
• Bob McLean, 75, Australian footballer.
• Les Meade, 85, Australian footballer.
• Bill Neilson, 64, Australian politician, cancer.
• Roar Pedersen, 61, Norwegian ice hockey player.
• Nenad Petrović, 82, Yugoslav chess player.
• Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, 64, Indonesian general, fever.
• Leen Vente, 78, Dutch footballer.

10

• Peter Berglar, 70, German historian.
• Syd Dineen, 75, Australian footballer.
• Cookie Mueller, 40, American actress, AIDS.
• Niels Schibbye, 79, Danish Olympic sailor (1936).
• Craig J. Spence, 49, American journalist and lobbyist, suicide by drug overdose.

11

• Casey Anderson, 55, American musician, complications from surgery.
• Robert Boyer, 80, American chemist.
• Jay DeFeo, 60, American artist, lung cancer.
• Mohamed Demsiri, 52-53, Moroccan musician.
• Alberto Guzmán Soriano, 66, Bolivian politician.
• Fritz Hartmann, 78, Swiss racing cyclist.
• Natalio Pescia, 67, Argentine footballer.
• Francesco Stefani, 66, German film director.
• Tadeusz Żbikowski, 59, Polish Sinologist.

12

• Shaher Abu Shahout, 63, Jordanian military officer.
• Édouard Candeveau, 91, Swiss rower.
• Brendan Holland, 70-71, Irish politician.
• Iolas Huffman, 91, American football and baseball player.
• Dolores Ibárruri, 93, Spanish politician.
• Sir Donald Liddle, 83, Scottish corporate director.
• Mao Yisheng, 93, Chinese engineer, academic administrator, and politician.
• Armour G. McDaniel, 73, American military officer.
• Victor Putmans, 75, Belgian footballer.
• Čeněk Zahradníček, 89, Czechoslovak filmmaker.

13

• Eurico Caires, 37, Portuguese footballer.
• Stewart Chalmers, 82, Scottish footballer.
• C. Fred Chambers, 71, American oilman and political aide.
• Victor Davis, 25, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1984, 1988), traffic collision.
• Franz Joseph II, 83, Liechtensteiner royal, prince (since 1938).
• Upatissa Gamanayake, 41, Sri Lankan militant, shot.
• Roger Heman Jr, 57, American sound engineer, lung cancer.
• H. B. Herath, 35, Sri Lankan political activist, shot.
• Deolus W. Husband, 30, American composer, AIDS.
• Arthur Hutchings, 83, English musicologist.
• Oliver F. Naquin, 85, American naval admiral, pancreatic cancer.
• Samuel Singer, 69, Scottish clergyman.
• Rohana Wijeweera, 46, Sri Lankan militant, shot.
• Gennady Yudin, 66, Soviet actor.

14

• Choe Deok-sin, 75, Korean diplomat and South Korean defector.
• Bill Davison, 83, American jazz musician.
• Wilhelm Keilmann, 81, German pianist and composer, heart failure.
• Rémi Laurent, 32, French actor, AIDS.
• Jimmy Murphy, 79, Welsh footballer, aortic dissection.
• Teo Savory, 81, American writer, lung cancer.
• Samand Siabandov, 79, Soviet writer and soldier.
• John Howard Starr, 90-91, American ice hockey coach.

15

• George Barco, 82, American cable television executive.
• Constance Binney, 93, American actress and dancer.
• Robert B. Brandeberry, 75, American philatelist.
• William N. Deramus III, 73, American railroad executive.
• Alejo Durán, 70, Colombian musician.
• Rocky Ellis, 78, American baseball player.
• Jeremy Flint, 61, English bridge player, cancer.
• Lipót Kállai, 76, Hungarian Olympic footballer (1936).
• George Manuel, 68, Canadian indigenous leader.
• Homer Marshman, 91, American sports executive.
• Nguyễn Khang, 77, Vietnamese painter.
• Piyadasa Ranasinghe, 43, Sri Lankan political activist, shot.
• Andrzej Gąsienica Roj, 58, Polish Olympic skier (1952, 1956).
• Norma Terris, 85, American actress.
• Gunaratne Wanasinghe, 40, Sri Lankan political activist, shot.

16

• Petar Argirov, 66, Bulgarian Olympic footballer (1952).
• Nathan Cohn, 82, American electrical engineer.
• Rachel Harel, 66, Dutch-Israeli resistance fighter.
• Jean-Claude Malépart, 50, Canadian politician.
• Rose Murphy, 76, American jazz singer.
• Dorothy G. Page, 68, American politician.
• Oliver Smedley, 78, English businessman and political activist.
• Marie Uchytilová, 65, Czechoslovak sculptor.
• Victims of the 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador:
  • Ignacio Ellacuría, 59, Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit, philosopher, and theologian, shot.
  • Ignacio Martín-Baró, 47, Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit, philosopher, and theologian, shot.
  • Segundo Montes, 56, Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit, philosopher, and theologian, shot.

17

• David Blundy, 44, British journalist, shot.
• Jacob Børretzen, 89, Norwegian hymnwriter and linguist.
• Emerson Buckley, 73, American orchestra conductor, emphysema.
• Francis John Dunn, 67, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Costabile Farace, 29, American mobster (Bonanno crime family), shot.
• Benjamin Fisz, 66-67, Polish film director.
• Anton Fransch, 19-20, South African anti-Apartheid activist, shot.
• Uzair Gul Peshawari, 102-103, Indian Islamic scholar.
• Joseph Hiley, 87, British politician.
• Johannes Krass, 98, Soviet Estonian politician.
• Billy Lee, 60, American actor, heart attack.
• Thiruchi Loganathan, 65, Indian singer.
• Ern Pedler, 75, Australian-born American writer.
• Luis Santaliz Capestany, 75, Puerto Rican politician.
• Charles Perry Stacey, 83, Canadian historian.
• Tom Starcevich, 71, Australian soldier.
• Sam Voinoff, 82, American sports coach.

18

• Romano Bilenchi, 80, Italian author.
• Hendrik de Vries, 93, Dutch poet and painter.
• Les Deaton, 66, American basketball player, stroke.
• Norman Frauenheim, 92, American pianist.
• William Wister Haines, 81, American author and playwright.
• Johnny Haymer, 69, American actor, cancer.
• Edvin Laine, 84, Finnish film director.
• Al Morgan, 74, American singer and composer.
• Sherman Plunkett, 56, American football player, cancer.
• Freddie Waits, 46, American drummer, pneumonia and kidney failure.

19

• Grant Adcox, 39, American racing driver, racing crash.
• Jim Bradfield, 56, Australian politician.
• Clemente Carreras, 75, Cuban-Mexican baseball player and manager.
• Nancy Drexel, 79, American actress.
• Sol Harrison, 71-72, American comic book executive.
• Shigeki Mori, 79, Japanese politician.
• Harold V. Schoenecker, 86, American politician.

20

• Annihilate 'Em, 19, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Lynn Bari, 69, American actress, heart attack.
• Arnold Bauman, 75, American judge.
• Cyril Bulley, 82, English Anglican prelate.
• Wade Ellis, 80, American mathematician.
• Sighsten Herrgård, 46, Finnish-born Swedish fashon designer, AIDS.
• Božidar Jakac, 90, Yugoslav artist.
• Zola Helen Ross, 77, American writer.
• Leonardo Sciascia, 68, Italian screenwriter and politician, MEP (1979–1984).
• Abe Stuber, 86, American football player.
• William J. Whaling, 95, American general.
• Rachel Wischnitzer, 104, Russian-born German art historian.

21

• Edward Bawden, 86, English artist.
• Edward Bayliss, 71, English cricketer.
• Peter Burton, 68, English actor.
• Helen Daniels Bader, 62, American philanthropist and social worker.
• Will Glahé, 87, German musician.
• Arne Grahn, 87, Finnish Olympic tennis player (1924).
• Harvey Hart, 61, Canadian film director and television producer, heart attack.
• Tibor Székelyhidy, 85, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1936).
• Yana, 58, British singer, esophageal cancer.

22

• Paul Alfonsi, 81, American politician.
• Roberto Arias, 71, Panamanian politician and diplomat.
• C. C. Beck, 79, American comic book artist, co-creator of Captain Marvel, renal failure.
• Robert Berri, 76, French actor.
• Helen Lehman Buttenwieser, 84, American lawyer, heart failure.
• Gerry Chiniquy, 77, American animator.
• José Guadalupe Cruz, 72, Mexican writer.
• H. O. Davies, 84, Nigerian politician.
• Paul Dressel, 78, American psychologist.
• Clement Haynsworth, 77, American judge.
• Billy Milton, 83, British actor.
• René Moawad, 64, Lebanese politician, president (since 1989), assassination by car bomb.
• Vijay Rajindernath, 61, Indian cricketer.
• Shamil Serikov, 33, Soviet Olympic wrestler (1980), suicide.
• Dorothy Louise Thomas, 84, British nurse.

23

• Jiří Baumruk, 59, Czechoslovak basketball player and coach.
• Martin Glaessner, 82, Austrian-Australian geologist.
• Francis Appleton Harding, 81, American politician.
• Sidney Janis, 93, American art collector.
• Rita Lenihan, 75, American naval officer.
• Lefty Moses, 75, American baseball player.
• Armand Salacrou, 90, French dramatist.
• Mariko Shiga, 19, Japanese singer, traffic collision.
• Else Werring, 84, Norwegian royal hostess.

24

• E. Ruth Anderson, 82, American musicologist and meteorologist.
• Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, 48, Palestinian Salafi jihadist, scholar, and theologian, co-founder of the Maktab al-Khidamat, assassination by car bomb.
• Gordon Bess, 60, American cartoonist.
• Leonard Boudin, 77, American lawyer.
• Michael Harwood, 54-55, American environmentalist.
• Lawrence A. Hyland, 92, American electrical engineer.
• Richard Korherr, 86, German statistician.
• Ralph Norwood, 23, American football player, traffic collision.
• Toni Zweifel, 51, Swiss engineer.

25

• Salo Wittmayer Baron, 94, Polish-born American historian.
• Sir George Cakobau, 77, Fijian politician, governor-general (1973–1983).
• Harry Challis, 83, Australian footballer.
• Claus Clausen, 90, German actor.
• Birago Diop, 82, Senegalese poet.
• Alva R. Fitch, 82, American general.
• John Kaplan, 59-60, American legal scholar, brain cancer.
• Bill Neskovski, 25, Yugoslav-born Australian playwright.
• Kōhine Pōnika, 69, New Zealand composer.
• George Smith, 83, English cricketer.
• Mary Smith, 80, English-born Australian psychologist.
• Frank A. Southard Jr., 82, American economist and banker.
• Sir William Stratton, 86, British army officer.
• Frank M. Thomas, 100, American actor.
• Clifford Thornton, 53, American jazz musician.

26

• Ahmed Abdallah, 70, Comorian politician, president (1975, since 1978), shot.
• William Barber, 70, English cricketer.
• Joe C. Davis Jr., 70, American businessman, Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Caroline Durieux, 93, American artist.
• Lew Fonseca, 90, American baseball player.
• Morrice James, Baron Saint Brides, 73, British diplomat.
• Maurice Kelly, 65, Bahamian Olympic sailor (1960).
• Priscilla Robertson, 78-79, American historian, stroke.
• Thomas Seens, 94, Canadian politician.
• Chand Usmani, 56, Indian actress.

27

• Carlos Arias Navarro, 80, Spanish politician, prime minister (1973–1976), infarction.
• Eddie Balchowsky, 73, American poet and composer.
• Ray Boggs, 84, American baseball player.
• Tomás Garbizu, 88, Spanish composer.
• Gunnar Hedlund, 89, Swedish politician.
• Walter Hoving, 91, Swedish-born American businessman.
• Eliana Martínez, 18, American medical malpractice victim, AIDS.
• Øystein Mellerud, 51, Norwegian ice hockey player.
• Trude von Molo, 82, Austrian actress.
• Norma Nichols, 95, American actress.
• Fritz Poleck, 84, German army officer.
• Osamu Shimomura, 78-79, Japanese economist.
• K. A. Subramaniam, 58, Sri Lankan politician.
• Claudio Teehankee, 71, Filipino judge and diplomat.

28

• Beethoven Algar, 95, New Zealand rugby player.
• Arsenie Boca, 79, Romanian theologian.
• Stan Cawtheray, 83, New Zealand footballer.
• Ernesto Civardi, 83, Italian cardinal and secretary of the Dicastery for Bishops.
• Georgy Ilivitsky, 68, Soviet chess player.
• Gaston F. Lewis, 86, American baseball player.
• Dolan Nichols, 59, American baseball player.
• Ion Popescu-Gopo, 66, Romanian animator.
• Bill Posedel, 83, American baseball player.
• Jo Vincent, 91, Dutch singer.
• Duke Wells, 75, American sports coach.

29

• Andreas Alariesto, 88, Finnish painter.
• Sir Gubby Allen, 87, Australian-born English cricketer, complications from stomach surgery.
• Giuseppe Antonini, 75, Italian footballer.
• Nancy Bell, 65, Canadian politician.
• Chandler McCuskey Brooks, 83, American physiologist.
• Marion E. Burks, 77, American politician.
• Ann Burton, 56, Dutch jazz singer, throat cancer.
• Mario Colli, 74, Italian actor.
• Zuko Džumhur, 69, Yugoslav writer.
• Jeanne Herviale, 80, French actress.
• Jim Jepson, 47, Canadian politician, heart failure.
• Valentina Kameníková, 58, Czechoslovak pianist.
• A. Maruthakasi, 69, Indian lyricist and poet.
• Francis J. McCaffrey, 72, American politician, stroke.
• Frank J. Scannell, 86, American actor.
• Rolf Turkka, 74, Finnish Olympic sailor (1948, 1952).
• Yam Kim-fai, 76, Chinese actress, pleural effusion.

30

• Ahmadou Ahidjo, 65, Cameroonian politician, prime minister (1960) and president (1960–1982), heart attack.
• Stjepan Boltižar, 76, Yugoslav Olympic gymnast (1948).
• Hassan Fathy, 89, Egyptian architect.
• Wiremu Heke, 95, New Zealand rugby player.
• Alfred Herrhausen, 59, German banker, bombing.
• Teddy Jones, 79, Australian footballer.
• Charles Lamarque-Cando, 88, French politician.
• Artur Lind, 62, Soviet molecular biologist.
• Edward Lisbona, 84, English musician.
• Birger Nordholm, 92, Swedish-American travel director.
• Pier Luigi Vestrini, 84, Italian Olympic rower (1928).