Deaths in November 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1987.

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

 * Cameron Cobbold, 83, British banker, Governor of the Bank of England.
 * Leo Goldberg, 74, American astronomer.
 * Yoo Jae-ha, 25, South Korean singer and songwriter, car accident.
 * René Lévesque, 65, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec, heart attack.
 * Tom Parker, 89, English international footballer and manager.
 * Mary Shane, 42, American Major League baseball commentator, heart attack.

2

 * Michael DeBatt, 38, American mobster of the Gambino crime family, murdered.
 * Louise McCarren Herring, 78, American who established the Credit Union National Association.
 * Friedrich-Karl "Nasen" Müller, 75, Nazi German Luftwaffe night fighter ace.
 * Wilhelm Schöning, 79, Nazi German Army commander.
 * Elmer Tarbox, 71, American businessman and politician, member of Texas House of Representatives, complications of Parkinson's disease.

3

 * André Roussin, 76, French playwright.
 * Liang Shih-chiu, 84, Chinese educator, writer, translator, literary theorist and lexicographer.

4

 * Óscar Bonfiglio, 82, Mexican international footballer.
 * Danielle Gaubert, 44, French actress, cancer.
 * Babe Plunket Greene, 80, English socialite.
 * Wilton M. Krogman, 83, American anthropologist.
 * Francis Pollen, 60, English architect (Worth Abbey).
 * Pierre Seghers, 81, French poet and editor, member of the French Resistance.
 * Raphael Soyer, 87, Russian-American painter, draftsman and printmaker, cancer.
 * Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 62, Senegalese film director and historian.

5

 * Eamonn Andrews, 64, Irish radio and television presenter, heart failure.
 * Edvard Baghdasaryan, 64, Armenian composer.
 * Orlando Costas, 55, Puerto Rican Evangelical theologian, stomach cancer.
 * Daasarathi, 62, Indian Telugu poet and writer.
 * Peg Fenwick, 79, American screenwriter and playwright.
 * Georges Franju, 75, French filmmaker.
 * Arthur Schmidt, 92, German military officer, Sixth Army's chief of staff in the Battle of Stalingrad.
 * Juliet Rice Wichman, 86, Hawaiian conservationist, botanist and author.

6

 * Zohar Argov, 32, Israeli singer and convicted rapist, suicide by hanging.
 * Ross Barnett, 89, American politician, Governor of Mississippi.
 * Opie Cates, 78, American clarinet player, band leader and radio actor.
 * Michael Comay, 79, Israeli diplomat, Israeli ambassador to Canada and the U.K.
 * Alvin Dewey, 75, American special agent of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
 * George Laurence, 82, Canadian nuclear physicist.
 * Jean Rivier, 91, French composer of classical music.

7

 * Arne Borg, 86, Swedish swimmer, 5-time Olympic gold medalist and holder of multiple world records.
 * Herbert H. Chen, 45, Chinese-American theoretical and experimental physicist, leukemia.
 * Aileen Eaton, 78, American boxing and professional wrestling promoter.
 * Ben C. Henley, 80, American lawyer, businessman and politician, Arkansas Republican Party State Chairman.

8

 * Kid Chissell, 82, American boxing champion and actor.
 * Jim Fitzgerald, 65, American racing driver, racing crash.
 * Ian Fraser, 71, British politician.
 * Boris Goldstein, 64, Soviet violinist.
 * Yevgeniya Khanayeva, 66, Soviet film and stage actress.
 * Sakthi T. K. Krishnasamy, 74, Indian author, screenwriter and lyricist.

9

 * Eemeli, 67, Finnish actor, comedian and entertainer.
 * Akhtar Hussain, 61, Indian and Pakistani hockey player.
 * Johann Schalk, 84, Nazi German flying ace.
 * Thengai Srinivasan, 50, Indian actor, brain haemorrhage.

10

 * Lou Breslow, 87, American screenwriter and film director.
 * Faruk Kaiser, 69, Indian poet.
 * Seyni Kountché, 56, Nigerien military officer, President of Niger, brain tumour.
 * Pop Momand, 100, American cartoonist (Keeping Up with the Joneses).
 * Raymond Rohauer, 62–63, American film collector and distributor.
 * Jackie Vernon, 63, American stand-up comedian and actor, heart attack.

11

 * Charles H. Baker Jr., 91, American author known for culinary and cocktail writings.
 * Earnshaw Cook, 87, American early researcher and proponent of baseball sabermetrics.
 * John 'Dusty' King, 78, American singer and film actor.
 * Channing E. Phillips, 59, American minister, civil rights leader and social activist, cancer.

12

 * George Chatterton, 75, British Army soldier, commanded the Glider Pilot Regiment.
 * Roger Lewis, 75, American business executive, assistant United States Secretary of the Air Force.
 * Lasgush Poradeci, 87, Albanian philologist, poet and writer.
 * Cornelis Vreeswijk, 50, Dutch-Swedish singer-songwriter, poet and actor.

13

 * Jayatirtha Dasa, 39, British Hare Krishna, murdered.
 * A. L. Abdul Majeed, 54, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, assassinated.
 * Paul Neergaard, 80, Danish agronomist, mycologist and agriculturist.
 * Joseph Phillips, 76, Indian hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Franklin D. Richards, 86, American commissioner of the U.S. Federal Housing Administration, general authority of the LDS church.
 * Harold Vick, 51, American jazz saxophonist and flautist, heart attack.

14

 * Friedrich Bopp, 77, German theoretical physicist.
 * Ann Christy, 82, American film actress, heart attack.
 * Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh, 85, British politician, Member of Parliament.
 * Petras Griškevičius, 63, Lithuanian communist party official.
 * Hod Lisenbee, 89, American Major League baseballer.
 * Pieter Menten, 88, Dutch war criminal, businessman and art collector.

15

 * Ernő Goldfinger, 85, Hungarian-British architect and designer of furniture.
 * Shyamal Mitra, 58, Indian playback singer and music director.
 * Brigid Lyons Thornton, 91, Irish member of Cumann na mBan, officer in the Irish Free State Army and physician, cardiac-respiratory arrest.

16

 * Jim Brewer, 50, American Major League baseballer, car accident.
 * Terrence Des Pres, 48, American writer and Holocaust scholar, suicide.
 * Zubir Said, 80, Singaporean composer, composed the national anthem of his country.
 * Trevor Stamp, 80, British medical doctor and bacteriologist.

17

 * Ganesh Baba, 97, Indian yogi.
 * Betty Corday, 75, American Broadway actress and television producer, respiratory failure.
 * Paul Derringer, 81, American Major League baseballer.
 * Hiroshi Kawaguchi, 51, Japanese film actor.
 * Gerry Lockran, 45, British blues singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist, heart attack.
 * Arthur C. Pierce, 64, American screenwriter and director.
 * Ireene Wicker, 81, American singer and actress.

18

 * Jacques Anquetil, 53, French road racing cyclist, 5-time Tour de France winner, stomach cancer.
 * Mozzafar Baghai, 75, Iranian politician, Member of Parliament.
 * Edward Both, 79, Australian medical and military inventor.
 * Lynn Freeman Olson, 49, American composer.
 * George Ryga, 55, Canadian playwright, actor and novelist.
 * Dick Stello, 53, American Major League baseball umpire, traffic accident.
 * Colin Townsley, 45, English station officer at Soho Fire Station, killed in the King's Cross fire.

19

 * Brand Blanshard, 95, American philosopher.
 * Lee Byung-chul, 77, South Korean businessman.
 * Ben Clopton, 81, American artist known for animated cartoons.
 * Jock Colville, 72, British diarist.
 * Norman Jones, 64, New Zealand politician, Member of Parliament, brain tumour.
 * Clara Petrella, 73, Italian operatic soprano.
 * Christopher Wilmarth, 44, American artist known for sculptures of glass and steel, suicide.

20

 * Christopher Evelyn Blunt, 83, British merchant banker.
 * Peter Button, 58, New Zealand rescue helicopter pilot, helicopter crash.
 * Helen Grace Scott Keenan, 72, American broadcaster for Free France in Brazzaville, heart attack.

21

 * Alex Diggelmann, 85, Swiss graphic artist and book designer.
 * Jim Folsom, 79, American politician, Governor of Alabama.
 * Ivan Jandl, 50, Czechoslovakian child actor, complications of diabetes.
 * Karel Raška, 78, Czech physician and epidemiologist, helped eradicate smallpox.

22

 * Verna Arvey, 77, American librettist, pianist and writer.
 * Helmut Aris, 79, German president of the Association of Jewish Communities.
 * Hemanga Biswas, 74, Indian singer, composer, author and political activist.
 * W. Haydon Burns, 75, American politician, 75, Governor of Florida.
 * Plácido Domingo Ferrer, 80, Spanish zarzuela baritone, father of Plácido Domingo, heart attack.
 * Raymond D. Mindlin, 81, American mechanical engineer, professor of Applied Science at Columbia University.
 * Newt Perry, 79, American swimmer, attraction promoter and swimming coach.

23

 * Alton Adams, 98, American bandmaster in the U.S. Navy.
 * Joseph Beer, 79, Polish-French composer of operettas, singspiele and operas.
 * Sam Gilbert, 73–74, American businessman, money launderer.
 * Marcia Henderson, 58, American actress.
 * Solomana Kante, 64–65, Guinean writer, neographer and educator, inventor of the N'Ko alphabet.
 * Sarah Long, 49, English actress and television presenter, cancer.
 * Antonio Sastre, 76, Argentine international footballer.
 * Rajen Tarafdar, 70, Indian film director, actor and screenwriter.
 * Victor Windeyer, 87, Australian judge and soldier, justice of the High Court of Australia.

24

 * Jehane Benoît, 83, Canadian culinary author, speaker, commentator, journalist and broadcaster.
 * Stan Hanson, 71, English footballer.
 * Gunnar Heckscher, 78, Swedish political scientist, leader of the Conservative Party.
 * Ove Joensen, 38, Faroese seaman and adventurer, first person to row from the Faroe Islands to Denmark, drowned.
 * John Parker, 81, British politician, Member of Parliament.
 * Anton Pieck, 92, Dutch painter, artist and graphic artist.
 * Jim Russell, 69, American Major League baseballer.

25

 * Edgar Berman, 72, American surgeon and author, remembered for misogynist comments.
 * Francisco Dalupan Sr., 92, Filipino founder, chairman and president of the University of the East.
 * Little Willy Foster, 65, American blues harmonicist, singer and songwriter, kidney cancer.
 * George Korngold, 58, Austrian-American record producer, music editor and producer, son of composer Erich Korngold.
 * Renzo Marignano, 64, Italian actor and film director.
 * James McDyer, 77, Irish Catholic priest.
 * Ramaswamy Parameshwaran, 41, Indian military officer, killed in battle.
 * Harold Washington, 65, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Chicago, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.

26

 * Bill Giant, 57, American songwriter, wrote for Elvis Presley.
 * J. P. Guilford, 90, American psychologist.
 * Peter Hujar, 53, American photographer, AIDS.
 * Costache Ioanid, 74, Romanian poet and songwriter.
 * Thomas George Lanphier Jr., 71, Panama-American colonel and fighter pilot during World War II, cancer.
 * Morton Lowry, 73, British actor.
 * Louis Macouillard, 74, American artist and commercial illustrator.
 * J. K. Ralston, 91, American painter.
 * Duncan Sandys, 79, British politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies.
 * Raymond Westerling, 68, Dutch military officer of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, coup leader, cardiac arrest.

27

 * Charline Arthur, 58, American singer of boogie-woogie, blues and rockabilly.
 * Girdhari Lal Dogra, 72, Indian politician, member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.
 * Babe Herman, 84, American Major Leagues baseballer, pneumonia and strokes.
 * Sian Kingi, 12, New Zealand-Australian murder victim.
 * John Muafangejo, 44, Namibian artist, heart attack.
 * Lillian Bostwick Phipps, 81, American socialite and owner of thoroughbred steeplechase racehorses.
 * Julius Rehborn, 87, German diver and Olympian.
 * Ernest Severn, 54, American child screen actor.
 * Ganda Singh, 87, Indian Punjabi and Sikh historian.
 * Ella P. Stewart, 94, American pharmacist.

28

 * Paul Arma, 82, Hungarian-French pianist and composer.
 * Choh Hao Li, 74, Chinese-American biochemist.
 * Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 82, German actor, film director and theatre director.
 * Guy Marks, 64, American actor, comedian, singer and impressionist.
 * Elisabeth Mulder, 83, Spanish writer, poet, translator, journalist and literary critic.
 * Goh Choo San, 39, Singaporean ballet dancer and choreographer, viral colitis stemming from AIDS.
 * Vasily Sitnikov, 72, Russian painter.
 * Kazuharu Sonoda, 31, Japanese professional wrestler, air crash.
 * Víctor Yturbe, 51, Mexican singer under stage name \"El Pirulí\", murdered.

29

 * Giuseppe Gabrielli, 84, Italian aeronautics engineer.
 * Monk Gibbon, 90–91, Irish poet and writer.
 * Irene Handl, 85, British author and actress, cancer.
 * Abraham Kazen, 68, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Gwendolyn MacEwen, 46, Canadian poet and novelist, health issues related to alcoholism.
 * John Howard Pyle, 81, American broadcaster and politician, Governor of Arizona.
 * Aage Samuelsen, 72, Norwegian evangelist, singer and composer, heart attack.

30

 * Alex Carey, 64, Australian social psychologist, suicide.
 * Simon Carmiggelt, 74, Dutch writer, journalist and poet, heart attack.
 * Arthur Dean, 89, American corporate lawyer and diplomat.
 * Jimmy George, 32, Indian volleyball player, captain of Indian national volleyball team, car accident.
 * Helmut Horten, 78, German entrepreneur, owner of Horten AG department store chain.
 * Scrappy Lambert, 86, American dance-band vocalist.
 * Roger Manvell, 78, British director of the British Film Academy.
 * Hanni Rehborn, 80, German diver and Olympian.
 * Don Sebastian, 76, Mexican-American wrestler, wrestling promoter and movie actor.

Unknown date

 * Violet Aitken, 101, British suffragette.
 * Burnett Bolloten, 77–78, British-American writer and scholar of the Spanish Civil War, prostate cancer.
 * Martha Harris, 68, British psychoanalyst.