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.[1]
- 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 [2]
- 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.[3]
- 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.[4]
- 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.[5]
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.[6]
- 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.[7]
- 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.[8]
- 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.[9]
- 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.[10]
- 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.[11]
- 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.[12]
- 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).
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