Deaths in November 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1986.

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.

1

 * Tom Arthur, 80, Welsh rugby player.
 * William E. Banks, 86, British naval officer.
 * Sanaka Buchhikotaiah, 67, Indian politician, MP (1952–1957).
 * Serge Garant, 57, Canadian composer.
 * Hank Ketcham, 95, American football player.
 * Ivan Larin, 60, Soviet footballer.
 * Aaro Lintilä, 58, Finnish politician, MP (1962–1972).
 * Mieczysław Moczar, 72, Polish politician.
 * Pierre Repp, 76, French actor and comedian.
 * Bernardo Timmermann, 74, Chilean politician.
 * Bernard Waldman, 73, American physicist and Enola Gay passenger, cancer.
 * Sippie Wallace, 88, American blues musician.
 * James Cameron Watson, 96, Canadian politician, mayor of Calgary (1946–1949).

2

 * Ásmundur Ásgeirsson, 80, Icelandic chess player.
 * W. Lester Banks, 75, American civil rights activist, kidney and heart failure.
 * Bruno Betti, 75, Italian Olympic runner (1936).
 * Harry Brown, 69, American poet, novelist and screenwriter, emphysema.
 * Sir Geoffrey Abdy Collins, 98, British solicitor.
 * Bertha V. Fontaine, 57, American economist.
 * Paul Frees, 66, American actor and voice actor (Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Beatles, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town), pain medication overdose.
 * Raymond D. Kell, 82, American television researcher.
 * Niels Erik Leschly, 76, Danish Olympic equestrian (1936).
 * Georges Mollard, 84, French Olympic sailor (1924).
 * Alan Prichard, 78, New Zealand pilot.

3

 * Vladimir Bobri, 88, Ukrainian-American writer and composer, house fire.
 * Adolf Busemann, 85, German-American aerospace engineer, inventor of the Busemann biplane.
 * Paul C. Cannon, 90, American politician, lieutenant governor of Montana (1949–1953, 1957–1961).
 * Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 64, American saxophonist, Hodgkin lymphoma.
 * E. Cuyler Hammond, 74, American epidemiologist.
 * Walter Hoppe, 69, German physicist.
 * Sir William Lawrence, 4th Baronet, 73, English businessman and hereditary peer.
 * Sekhonyana Nehemia Maseribane, 68, Mosotho politician, prime minister (1965).
 * John Middleton, 86, American baseball player.
 * Bob Nelson, 66, American football player.
 * Roger Trézel, 68, French bridge player.

4

 * Francesco Cossu, 79, Italian Olympic rower (1932).
 * Kurt Hirsch, 80, German-English mathematician.
 * John Kelsall, 39, British composer.
 * John Layport, 85, American football player.
 * Lucille Miller, 56, American convicted murderer, breast cancer.
 * Abraham J. Multer, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1967).
 * Thorolf Rafto, 64, Norwegian human rights activist.
 * Harry M. Rose, 80, American physician.
 * Abdallah El-Yafi, 85, Lebanese politician, multiple-time prime minister.

5

 * Pere Ardiaca, 76-77, Spanish communist politician.
 * Adolf Brudes, 87, German racing driver.
 * Edward Charles, 67, English-born Canadian flying ace.
 * Caesar Felton Gayles, 86, American college football and basketball coach.
 * Mohammed Hassan Helmy, 74, Egyptian football player and team manager.
 * Claude Jutra, 56, Canadian actor and filmmaker, drowned.
 * Bobby Nunn, 61, American singer.

6

 * Jean Breuer, 66, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * Elisabeth Grümmer, 75, German singer.
 * Herman Heimlich, 82, Hungarian-born Canadian painter.
 * James S. Holmes, 62, American-Dutch writer, AIDS.
 * Johannes Linthorst Homan, 83, Dutch politician and diplomat.
 * Gotfrid Köchert, 68, Austrian Olympic sailor (1960).
 * Lili Kraus, 83, Hungarian-New Zealand-American pianist.
 * Harald Sandbæk, 82, Danish theologian.
 * Howard Thomas, 77, Welsh radio and television producer.
 * Eddie Thompson, 61, English jazz pianist.
 * Sant Ram Udasi, 47, Indian poet.

7

 * Sir Dugald Baird, 86, British obstetrician and gynecologist.
 * Abdurrahim Buza, 80, Albanian painter.
 * Lyndon Dadswell, 78, Australian sculptor.
 * Jacob Engwall, 64, Swedish businessman and professional sailor, cancer.
 * Paul Galdone, 79, Hungarian-born American illustrator.
 * Henry Gilman, 93, American organic chemist.
 * Lon Graf, 90, American football player.
 * Alan Hewitt, 71, American actor (My Favorite Martian), cancer.
 * Audrey Erskine Lindop, 65, English writer.
 * Charlie McGillivray, 74, Scottish footballer.
 * Aenne Michalsky, 78, Austrian singer.
 * Baldy Northcott, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Tracy Pew, 28, Australian musician, intracerebral hemorrhage.
 * Yang Shangkui, 80-81, Chinese politician.

8

 * King Clancy, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Eddie del Mar, 67, Filipino actor and filmmaker.
 * Franz Xaver Dorsch, 86, German civil engineer.
 * Beatrice Kay, 79, American actress and singer.
 * Artur London, 71, Czechoslovak politician.
 * Vyacheslav Molotov, 96, Soviet politician.
 * Nils Ramm, 83, Swedish Olympic boxer (1928).
 * Ludwig Ruckdeschel, 79, German politician and war criminal.

9

 * Adam Brodzisz, 80, Polish actor.
 * Isidore Epstein, 72, American musician (Epstein Brothers Orchestra).
 * Rudolf Hess, 83, American painter and sculptor.
 * Guy Kingsford, 75, English-born American actor.
 * Marian Matłoka, 68, Polish Olympic canoeist (1948).
 * Jaroslava Muchová, 77, Czech painter.
 * Bink Noll, 59, American poet.
 * Henry Russell, 81, American Olympic runner (1928).
 * Fuji Yahiro, 82, Japanese screenwriter.

10

 * Ces Badeley, 90, New Zealand rugby player.
 * Sukumar Bose, 74, Indian artist.
 * Laurence Collinson, 61, British-born Australian playwright.
 * Frances Condell, 70, Irish politician.
 * Ludwig Hahn, 78, German Nazi official and war criminal.
 * Robert K. Hamilton, 81, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1941–1946, since 1949).
 * Frank Harvey, 56, English Anglican priest, archdeacon of London (since 1978).
 * Sydney Lee, 76, English snooker and billiards player.
 * Mark Lubbock, 87, British composer.
 * Ljubomir Magaš, 38, Yugoslav crime lord, shot.
 * Enriqueta Morales, 95, Panamanian nurse.
 * Sir Gordon Richards, 82, English jockey, heart attack.
 * Lois Roden, 70, American cult leader (Branch Davidians).
 * Doc Sykes, 94, American baseball player.
 * Vicente Trueba, 81, Spanish racing cyclist.
 * Leona Woods, 67, American nuclear physicist, stroke.

11

 * Bea Booze, 74, American singer and guitarist.
 * Ángel Botello, 73, Spanish-born Puerto Rican artist.
 * Roger C. Carmel, 54, American actor (The Mothers-in-Law), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
 * Jim Chalmers, 85, Australian politician.
 * Martha Davis Coe, 79, American musician.
 * Reginald Brettauer Fisher, 79, British biochemist.
 * Prado Kelly, 82, Brazilian jurist and politician.
 * Don Keyter, 55, Australian footballer.
 * David L. McCain, 55, American jurist, cancer.
 * Fred Mutch, 87, Australian footballer.
 * Tim Walker, 68, Australian politician.

12

 * Faiz Ahmad, 39-40, Afghan politician, assassinated.
 * Ria Baran, 64, German Olympic skater (1952).
 * Fumiko Enchi, 81, Japanese writer, heart attack.
 * Bill Fell, 82, New Zealand police officer.
 * Erich Koch, 90, German Nazi official and convicted war criminal.
 * Lee McKinley, 80, American politician.
 * Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, 87, Indian jurist, chief justice of India (1959–1964).
 * Rocky Stone, 68, American baseball player.
 * Nikolai Sutyagin, 63, Soviet flying ace.
 * Lois Utz, 54, American children's author.
 * Minoru Yasui, 70, American lawyer and civil rights activist (Yasui v. United States).

13

 * Volf Bergraser, 82, Ukrainian-born French chess player.
 * Franco Cortese, 83, Italian racing driver.
 * Arthur Cox, 79, English cricketer.
 * Emma Fitting, 85, Swiss Olympic fencer (1924).
 * Francisco Flores, 60, Mexican footballer.
 * Ernest Anthony Kehr, 75, American philatelist.
 * Thierry Le Luron, 34, French comedian, AIDS.
 * Knut Olsson, 79, Swedish politician.
 * Rudolf Schock, 71, German singer, heart attack.
 * Amiya Tagore, 78, Indian singer.
 * Ron Tesolin, 46, Canadian politician.
 * Dixie Upright, 60, American baseball player.
 * Gerrit van Voorst, 76, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1928).
 * Les Webber, 71, American baseball player.

14

 * Erik Byléhn, 88, Swedish Olympic runner (1924, 1928).
 * Ray Connell, 69, Canadian politician.
 * Ferdinand Daučík, 76, Czechoslovak football player and manager.
 * Arthur Duckworth, 85, British politician, MP (1929–1945).
 * Charles Harlow, 83, American Olympic javelin thrower (1928).
 * Barbara Kostrzewska, 71, Polish singer and theatre director.
 * Jim McKay, 68, Scottish footballer.
 * Frank O'Brien, 86, Australian footballer.
 * Iambakey Okuk, 41, Papua New Guinean politician, liver cancer.
 * Erich Schelling, 82, German architect.
 * Hassan Nasiem Siddiquie, 52, Indian marine geologist, heart attack.

15

 * Bidhayak Bhattacharya, 79, Indian writer.
 * Michael Croft, 64, English screenwriter, heart attack.
 * Bertram Fernando, 65, Sri Lankan actor.
 * Erling Fjellbirkeland, 75, Norwegian economist.
 * Louis François, 80, French Olympic wrestler (1932).
 * John E. Grotberg, 61, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1985).
 * John Linebaugh Knuppel, 63, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate (1971–1981).
 * Ada Rogato, 75, Brazilian aviator.
 * Hans-Georg Schweiger, 59, German biologist.
 * Alexandre Tansman, 89, Polish-French composer.
 * Raymond D. Tarbuck, 89, American naval admiral.
 * Richard E. Turner, 66, American flying ace.
 * James Austin Whelihan, 84, Canadian Roman Catholic priest.

16

 * Panditrao Agashe, 50, Indian industrialist, heart attack.
 * Dave Clohessy, 81, Irish hurler.
 * Hans Coumans, 43, Dutch painter, traffic collision.
 * Åke Ericson, 73, Swedish ice hockey player.
 * Samuel Glasstone, 89, British-born American phsyical chemist.
 * Vito Kubilus, 72, American basketball player and coach.
 * Siobhán McKenna, 64, Irish actress, lung cancer.
 * Kurt Overhoff, 84, Austrian composer.
 * Ronald S. Wilson, 53, American psychologist, heart attack.

17

 * Dorothy Alexander, 82, American ballet dancer and choreographer.
 * Richard Armitage, 58, English talent agent, heart attack.
 * Georges Besse, 58, French businessman, shot.
 * Leen Buis, 79, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1928).
 * Harold Grad, 63, American mathematician.
 * Roger Ikor, 74, French writer.
 * Vladimir Kenigson, 79, Soviet actor.
 * Yoshio Kimura, 81, Japanese shogi player.
 * Ingrid Leodolter, 67, Austrian physician.
 * Erna Lesky, 75, Austrian pediatrician and medical historian.
 * Billy McLean, 67, Scottish politician, heart failure.
 * Tidye Pickett, 72, American Olympic athlete (1936).
 * Jaime Ramírez, 46, Colombian police officer, shot.

18

 * Ljupčo Arsov, 76, Yugoslav Macedonian politician.
 * Lajos Bárdos, 87, Hungarian composer.
 * Gia Carangi, 26, American supermodel, AIDS.
 * Sophus Kahrs, 68, Norwegian Nazi official.
 * Michele Mara, 83, Italian cyclist.
 * Valeriu Niculescu, 72, Romanian footballer.
 * Pádraig Ó Finneadha, 73, Irish doctor and scholar.
 * Stephen O. Rice, 78, American information and communications theorist.

19

 * Jackie Arthur, 68, English footballer.
 * Joseph W. Cowgill, 78, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate (1956–1964).
 * Helle Crafts, 39, Danish flight attendant, murdered.
 * Billy Dainty, 59, British comedian, prostate cancer.
 * Harry Goldschmidt, 76, Swiss musicologist.
 * John L. Hines Jr., 81, American soldier.
 * Don Jamieson, 65, Canadian politician, heart attack.
 * Roy E. Lindquist, 79, American major general.
 * Freddie McKay, 38-39, Jamaican singer, heart attack.
 * Kosta Nađ, 75, Yugoslav general.
 * Klaus Nordling, 76, American comic book writer and artist.
 * Ben Omann, 67, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (since 1983).
 * Wim Roosen, 68, Dutch footballer.
 * Flukey Stokes, 48, American mobster, shot.
 * Marina Voroshilova, 64, Soviet virologist.

20

 * Arne Beurling, 81, Swedish mathematician.
 * Cecil Creal, 86, American politician, mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan (1959–1965).
 * Balendin Enbeita, 80, Spanish poet.
 * Óscar Flores Sánchez, 79, Mexican politician and attorney.
 * William Bradford Huie, 76, American journalist, heart attack.
 * Arne Linderholm, 70, Swedish footballer.
 * P. V. Kunhunni Nair, 76, Indian politician.
 * Alexander Ostrowski, 93, Russian-German-Swiss mathematician.
 * Roberto Parada, 77, Chilean actor and theatre director.
 * Bud Raftery, 67, American union leader.
 * Virginia Sink, 73, American chemical engineer.
 * Brud Talbot, 48, American actor and filmmaker.
 * Tang Liang, 76, Chinese general.

21

 * Howard Bay, 74, American set and costume designer, heart attack.
 * Lowell K. Bridwell, 62, American journalist and highway administrator.
 * Jerry Colonna, 82, American trombonist and actor (Alice in Wonderland), kidney failure.
 * Jimmy Cunliffe, 74, English footballer, stroke.
 * Sir William Hildred, 93, British civil servant.
 * Eleanor Manning, 80, Australian servicewoman.
 * John P. McConnell, 78, American general.
 * Dar Robinson, 39, American stunt performer, fall.
 * Marcelino Sánchez, 28, Puerto Rican actor (The Warriors), AIDS.
 * Sebastian Vayalil, 80, Indian Roman Catholic prelate.

22

 * Sir Geoffrey Agnew, 78, English art dealer.
 * Alfred Bertrand, 66, Belgian footballer.
 * Johnny Broadnax, 82, American football player.
 * Chen Manyuan, 74, Chinese politician.
 * Scatman Crothers, 76, American musician and actor (The Shining, Hong Kong Phooey, Chico and the Man), lung cancer.
 * Peter Dalgado, 56, Indian-Born Kenyan Olympic field hockey player (1956).
 * Alexander Deutsch, 86, Soviet astronomer.
 * Curtis J. Humphreys, 88, American physicist.
 * Dirk Janssen, 105, Dutch Olympic gymnast (1908).
 * Kostas Korsakas, 77, Soviet Lithuanian language researcher.
 * George Leslie, 79, English footballer.
 * Carl L. Lyse, 87, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1943–1948).
 * Malcolm Nokes, 89, English Olympic athlete (1924, 1928)
 * Dinny Pails, 65, Australian tennis player.
 * Edwin Salisbury, 76, American Olympic rower (1932).
 * Cliff Taylor, 72, Australian footballer.
 * Bob Tugung, 47, Filipino politician, shot.
 * Mikałaj Ułaščyk, 80, Soviet Belarusian archaeologist.
 * Daan van Dijk, 79, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1928).
 * Robert Whitney, 82, American composer.

23

 * William Badders, 85, American naval diver, Medal of Honor recipient.
 * Marjorie Wilkins Campbell, 84-85, Canadian writer, lung cancer.
 * Jean Mary Daly, 88, Australian women's rights activist.
 * Crawford Fairbrother, 49, Scottish high jumper.
 * Charlie Gaines, 86, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Stephen Gilman, 68-69, American Hispanist.
 * Josip Hamm, 78, Yugoslav Croatian linguist.
 * Derek Hart, 61, British radio presenter and journalist.
 * Paul M. Herzog, 80, American lawyer and civil servant.
 * Olaf Hoffsbakken, 78, Norwegian Olympic skier (1936).
 * Roger Jackling, 73, British diplomat.
 * Yasuzō Masumura, 62, Japanese filmmaker.
 * Norman Maurer, 60, American film producer, cancer.
 * Philip C. O'Donnell, 71, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1967–1971).
 * Svein Øvergaard, 74, Norwegian jazz musician.
 * Arthur Wishart, 83, Canadian politician.
 * Kikuji Yamashita, 67, Japanese painter.

24

 * John Cranford Adams, 83, American academic administrator.
 * Bias Bernhoft, 84, Norwegian singer.
 * Hugh S. Cumming Jr., 86, American diplomat.
 * James D. Dotsch, 82, American politician, member of the Michigan Senate (1937–1940).
 * Dirk Fortuin, 85, Dutch Olympic rower (1924).
 * Don Malkames, 82, American cinematographer.
 * Mazzino Montinari, 58, Italian Germanistic scholar.
 * Lloyd Parsons, 68, American football player.
 * Al Smith, 84, American cartoonist (Mutt and Jeff).
 * Hunt Stromberg Jr., 63, American radio, television and theatre producer, aneurysm.

25

 * Gabdulkhay Akhatov, 59, Soviet linguist.
 * Jon Bradshaw, 47-48, American journalist, heart attack.
 * Leroy S. Johnson, 98, American Mormon fundamentalist.
 * Sir Ivan Magill, 98, Irish anesthetist.
 * Don Towsley, 74, American animator.

26

 * Aleksei Baksov, 79, Soviet general.
 * Victor Bozeman, 57, American television announcer.
 * Lester Castle, 65, New Zealand ombudsman.
 * Betico Croes, 48, Aruban politician and independence activist, complications from a traffic collision.
 * Rogelio de la Rosa, 70, Filipino politician and actor.
 * Ingeborg Drewitz, 63, German writer, cancer.
 * Edward McGuire, 54, Irish painter.
 * Fred Obrey, 74, English footballer.
 * Ahmet Gündüz Ökçün, 50-51, Turkish diplomat.
 * Randolph Prim, 90, American baseball player.
 * Mary Welsh Hemingway, 78, American journalist and author, widow of Ernest Hemingway.

27

 * Theodore Curphey, 89, American coroner.
 * Colin Dawkins, 64, American comic book writer.
 * Alex Duthart, 61, Scottish drummer.
 * Gabriel Fielding, 70, English novelist.
 * Zofia Gomułkowa, 84, Polish communist activist.
 * Cezar Lăzărescu, 63, Romanian architect and city planner.
 * Lucile Quarry Mann, 89, American writer and geographer.
 * L. Harrison Matthews, 85, British marine zoologist.
 * Robert Priestley, 85, American set decorator.
 * Géza von Radványi, 79, Hungarian filmmaker.
 * Charles Schlewer, 85, French Olympic rower (1920).
 * Sir Hugh Stockwell, 83, British general, leukemia.
 * Steve Tracy, 34, American actor, AIDS.

28

 * Tuanku Bujang, 87, Malaysian politician.
 * Helena Bušová, 72, Czechoslovak actress.
 * Maurice Côté, 69, Canadian politician.
 * Archibald Currie, 98, Surinamese politician, prime minister (1954–1955) and governor-general (1963-1964).
 * Norman Gagne, 75, Canadian Olympic skier (1936).
 * Urszula Łukomska, 59, Polish Olympic gymnast (1952).
 * Edward McCullagh, 73, Northern Irish politician.
 * Emilio Scanavino, 64, Italian artist.
 * Elizabeth Thomas, 79, American Egyptologist.
 * A. Theodore Tuttle, 67, American Mormon leader, cancer.
 * Karel Wiesner, 67, Czech-born Canadian chemist, lymphoma.
 * Travis Williams, 94, American football player.

29

 * Gary Allen, 50, American writer and conservative activist, liver disease.
 * Ronald Baddiley, 64, English actor.
 * Helen Fischer, 74, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1959–1961, 1971–1976).
 * Cary Grant, 82, English-American actor (North by Northwest, None but the Lonely Heart, Penny Serenade), stroke.
 * Louis Ichard, 85, French Olympic runner (1920).
 * Jānis Lidmanis, 76, Latvian-Australian footballer and basketball player.
 * James Mahaffy, 81, Canadian politician.
 * Sir Robert Pigot, 7th Baronet, 71, British hereditary peer.
 * Herbert Rosenfeld, 76, German-British psychoanalyst.
 * Theodor Sommerschield, 62, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1968, 1972).
 * Herb Vigran, 76, American actor, cancer.

30

 * Roy Bruner, 69, American baseball player.
 * Martin Burgoyne, 23, British-American artist, AIDS.
 * Francisco Ciutat de Miguel, 76-77, Spanish soldier.
 * A. H. Ellett, 88, American jurist.
 * Dick Fisher, 53, English motorcycle racer.
 * Darby Jones, 76, American actor (I Walked with a Zombie).
 * Emil Jónsson, 84, Icelandic politician, prime minister (1958–1959).
 * Eino Leino, 95, Finnish wrestler.
 * Arnold Matteus, 88, Estonian architect.
 * Toshinobu Onosato, 74, Japanese printmaker, pneumonia.
 * Ernst Poertgen, 74, German footballer.
 * Immanuel Shifidi, 57, Namibian activist, shot.
 * Ray Wendland, 75, American chemist.