Deaths in November 1988

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1988.

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

 * Siddiq Abubakar III, 85, Nigerian Muslim leader, Sultan of Sokoto.
 * Broda Otto Barnes, 82, American physician and professor of medicine (Hypothyroidism).
 * George Folsey, 90, American cinematographer (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), stroke.
 * Hans P. Kraus, 81, Austrian-born American rare book dealer, pneumonia.
 * Tuomo Suomalainen, 56, Finnish architect.

2

 * Rosalie Glynn Grylls, 83, British biographer.
 * Hokuma Gurbanova, 75, Azerbaijani actress.
 * Lukas Heller, 58, German-British screenwriter (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte).
 * Stewart Parker, 47, Northern Irish poet and playwright, stomach cancer.
 * Menachem Savidor, 71, Israeli civil servant and politician, Speaker of the Knesset.
 * James R. Shepley, 71, American journalist and businessman, president of Time Inc., CEO of The Washington Star, cancer.
 * P. Thanulinga Nadar, 73, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.

3

 * Hussain Adam, 19, Maldivian soldier, shot.
 * Rachel Andresen, 81, American social worker and founder of Youth For Understanding.
 * Sidney Carroll, 75, American film and television screenwriter (The Hustler, A Big Hand for the Little Lady).
 * Harold Martin, 70, Australian bomber pilot and Air Marshall in the Royal Air Force.
 * Lionel C. McGarr, 84, American general in the U.S. Army.
 * Henri van Praag, 72, Dutch writer and religious historian, known also publications on parapsychology.
 * Marie Raymond, 80, French abstract painter.
 * David Robilliard, 36, British poet and artist, AIDS.
 * Flora Rheta Schreiber, 70, American journalist and author (Sybil), heart attack.

4

 * Elinor Bellingham-Smith, 81, British painter of landscapes and still life.
 * Raphael Bronstein, 92, Lithuanian-born American violinist, stroke.
 * Walter Coutts, 75, British colonial administrator, Governor-General of Uganda.
 * Edward Thaxter Gignoux, 72, American judge (United States District Court for the District of Maine).
 * Hermann Graf, 76, German World War II fighter ace.
 * Ki. Va. Jagannathan, 82, Indian journalist, poet and writer.
 * Ernest Lindner, 91, Austrian-born Canadian painter.
 * Kimon Evan Marengo, 84, Egyptian-born British cartoonist.
 * André Ménard, 81, French Governor General in the French colonial empire.
 * Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 81, British peer and aviator, Duke of Newcastle.
 * Michael Pomazansky, 99, Russian-born American theologian.
 * Kleanthis Vikelidis, 73, Greek international footballer (Aris Thessaloniki, Greece).

5

 * C. F. Møller, 90, Danish architect.
 * Jakoba Mulder, 88, Dutch architect and urban planner.
 * Jean-Pierre Stirbois, 43, French far-right politician, member of the National Assembly, car crash.
 * Claus Toksvig, 59, Danish journalist, broadcaster and politician.

6

 * John Hubbard, 74, American television and film actor, kidney failure.
 * Daniel Knox, 74, British Army officer, Governor of the Bahamas.
 * Donald Wade, 84, British solicitor and politician, Member of Parliament.
 * Tan Zheng, 82, Chinese general and Communist Party leader.

7

 * Hans Baumann, 74, German poet and songwriter.
 * Abram Belskie, 81, British-sculptor.
 * Conrad Bernier, 84, French-Canadian organist, composer and conductor.
 * Bill Hoest, 62, American cartoonist (The Lockhorns, Laugh Parade), lymphoma.
 * Theodor V. Ionescu, 89, Romanian physicist and inventor (plasma physics).
 * Morris Janowitz, 69, American sociologist and professor, Parkinson's disease.
 * B. N. Kumar, Indian Army general, shot dead by militants.
 * Ruth Lyons, 83, American radio and television broadcaster.
 * Sy Mah, 62, Canadian long-distance runner, leukemia.
 * Jean-Claude Paul, 49, Haitian military officer alleged to have been involved in the illegal drug trade in Haiti, believed poinoned.

8

 * Kingman Brewster Jr., 69, American diplomat, president of Yale University, U.S. Ambassador to the U.K, brain hemorrhage.
 * Warren Casey, 53, American composer, writer and actor (Grease), AIDS.
 * Norm Nelson, 65, American racing driver.
 * Oskar Rohr, 76, German international footballer (Strasbourg, Germany).

9

 * David Bauer, 64, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, pancreatic cancer.
 * Billy Curtis, 79, American film and television actor (Little Cigars), heart attack.
 * Clarke Hinkle, 79, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers).
 * John N. Mitchell, 75, U.S. Attorney General, convicted for his role in the Watergate scandal, heart attack.
 * Rosemary Timperley, 68, British novelist and screenwriter.
 * Max-Eckart Wolff, 85, Nazi German naval commander.
 * Richard S. Yeoman, 84, American commercial artist and coin collector, stroke.

10

 * Alexandru Jar, 76, Romanian poet and prose writer.
 * T. K. Rama Rao, 59, Indian novelist.

11

 * Charles Groves Wright Anderson, 91, South African-born Australian politician, member of Australian House of Representatives.
 * Frank Curcio, 75, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy Lions).
 * Peggy Parish, 61, American writer of children's books (Amelia Bedelia), abdominal aneurysm.

12

 * Franco Angeli, 53, Italian artist, AIDS.
 * Lev Aronson, 76, American cellist.
 * Janika Balaž, 62, Yugoslavian tamburica musician and band leader.
 * Ursula Graham Bower, 74, English anthropologist, guerrilla fighter against the Japanese.
 * Vincent Buckley, 63, Australian poet and essayist, heart attack.
 * Primo Conti, 88, Italian artist.
 * Andrzej Kowerski, 76, Polish Army officer during World War II, cancer.
 * Lyman Lemnitzer, 89, American General in the U.S. Army, Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO, kidney failure.
 * Tomasz Sikorski, 48, Polish composer and pianist.

13

 * Antal Doráti, 82, Hungarian-born American conductor (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra).
 * Vlad Georgescu, 51, Romanian historian, academic and political dissident, brain tumour.
 * François Lanzi, 72, French-born British artist.
 * Béla Perényi, 35, Hungarian chess international master, car crash.
 * Mulugeta Seraw, 28, Ethiopian student in the United States, murdered by white supremacists.
 * Jaromír Vejvoda, 86, Czech composer (Beer Barrel Polka).

14

 * Julia Caba Alba, 86, Spanish actress.
 * Haywood S. Hansell, 85, American member of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, heart failure.
 * Davis Love Jr., 53, American professional golfer, plane crash.
 * Takeo Miki, 81, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Haralan Popov, 81, Protestant minister, cancer.
 * Augusta La Torre, 42, Peruvian communist, number two in command of Shining Path.

15

 * Nell Dorr, 95, American photographer.
 * Bonnie Holiday, 36, American pornographic actress.
 * Ieronymos I of Athens, 83, Greek monk, Archbishop of Athens.
 * Johann Kastenberger, 30, Austrian marathon runner, bank robber and murderer, suicide.
 * Mirko Kokotović, 75, Austro-Hungarian–born Yugoslavian international footballer (HŠK Građanski, Yugoslavia).
 * Ernest Matthew Mickler, 48, American cookbook author, AIDS.
 * Mona Washbourne, 84, English actress (Stevie, My Fair Lady).

16

 * Henry Ciccarone, 50, American college lacrosse coach (Johns Hopkins), heart attack.
 * Wera Engels, 83, German actress.
 * Elgin Gates, 66, American hunter and firearms and ammunition technician.
 * Jennie Lee, 84, Scottish politician, Member of Parliament.
 * Reginald Teague-Jones, 99, British political and intelligence officer.

17

 * Sheilah Graham, 84, English-American gossip columnist, heart failure.
 * Michael Lambart, 77, British hereditary peer, commanding officer of the Shropshire Yeomanry.
 * Ángel Reyes, 69, Cuban-born American violinist.

18

 * Erwin Ackerknecht, 82, German-born American historian of medicine.
 * Janet Gladys Aitken, 80, Canadian-British aristocrat and socialite, director of the All England Jumping Course at Hickstead.
 * Carl Pfeiffer, 80, American physician and biochemist, researcher of schizophrenia, heart attack.
 * Anantrai Raval, 76, Indian writer and journalist.
 * Lotte Stam-Beese, 85, German-Dutch architect and urban planner, led reconstruction of Rotterdam after World War II.

19

 * Mirza Hameedullah Beg, 75, Indian politician, Chief Justice of India.
 * Adolf Heuser, 81, German boxer, International Boxing Union light heavyweight champion.
 * Khan Roshan Khan, 73–74, Pakistani historian and writer, president of the All-India Muslim League.
 * Veljko Mandić, 64, Montenegrin actor.
 * Christina Onassis, 37, American shipping magnate and heiress, heart attack.
 * Peggy Parish, 61, American writer, abdominal aneurysm.
 * Hamidur Rahman, 59–60, Bangladeshi artist and sculptor.

20

 * Tyler Kent, 77, American diplomat, convicted of espionage.
 * Jenő Vincze, 80, Hungarian international footballer and manager (Bocskai, Újpest, Hungary).
 * Felix Ziegel, 68, Soviet astronomer, stroke.

21

 * Robert Bright, 86, American writer and illustrator of children's literature, cancer.
 * Peter Dix, 35, Irish Olympic sailor, killed in Lockerbie disaster.
 * Tom Fraser, 77, Scottish coal miner and trade unionist, Member of Parliament, Under-Secretary of State for Scotland.
 * Carl Hubbell, 85, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants), car crash due to stroke.
 * Pál Kalmár, 88, Hungarian pop singer.
 * Raymond Lewenthal, 65, American virtuoso pianist, heart attack.
 * Theodora Llewelyn Davies, 90, British barrister, bronchopneumonia.
 * Princess Sophie, 77, German princess of the House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

22

 * Luis Barragán, 86, Mexican architect and engineer (Torres de Satélite).
 * Cathy Carr, 52, American pop singer (Ivory Tower), ovarian cancer.
 * Raymond Dart, 95, Australian anatomist and anthropologist (Australopithecus africanus), cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Erich Fried, 67, Austrian-British poet, writer and translator, intestinal cancer.
 * Pehr Gyllenhammar, 87, Swedish insurance company executive (Skandia).
 * John C. Parkin, 66, British-born Canadian architect.
 * John R. Ragazzini, 76, American electrical engineer, involved in Manhattan Project, heart failure.
 * Josefina Vicens, 76, Mexican author, screenwriter and journalist.
 * Terry Welch, 49, American computer scientist (Lempel–Ziv–Welch compression), brain tumour.

23

 * Gamal Abdel-Rahim, 63, Egyptian-German classical music composer.
 * F. D. Amr Bey, 79, Egyptian diplomat and squash player, multiple British Open winner, Egypt Ambassador to the U.K.
 * Ludwig Franzisket, 71, German World War II Luftwaffe fighter ace.
 * Hansraj Gupta, 86, Indian mathematician (partition function).
 * Wieland Herzfelde, 92, German publisher and writer.
 * Richard Lonsdale, 74, British Army officer in World War II.
 * Kenzō Masaoka, 90, Japanese anime creator, co-founder of Toei Animation.
 * Albert Raby, 54–55, American civil rights activist, heart attack.
 * Marcia Ralston, 82, Australian-American actress (The Ghost Train; Marcus Welby, M.D.).
 * Kazem Sami, 52–53, Iranian politician, Minister of Health, murdered.
 * Philip F. Tyler, 31, Irish actor and television presenter (Bosco).
 * Jack White, 68, American stock car racing driver.

24

 * Walter W. Bankhead, 91, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Mary Cavendish, 93, Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth II, Duchess of Devonshire.
 * John William Corrington, 56, American film writer (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, General Hospital), and novelist.
 * Harris McDowell, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, stroke.
 * Bo Rhambo, 65, American trumpeter and tenor saxophonist.
 * Irmgard Seefried, 69, German soprano, cancer.
 * Jenő Szűcs, 60, Hungarian historian.

25

 * Eddie Cameron, 86, American footballer and basketballer.
 * Alphaeus Philemon Cole, 112, American artist, engraver, etcher and super-centenarian, heart failure.
 * Rolf Jørgen Fuglesang, 79, Norwegian secretary to the Quisling government.
 * Jack Leslie, 87, English footballer (Plymouth Argyle).
 * Muhammad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 78, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

26

 * Hans Baron, 88, German-American historian (civic humanism).
 * John Dahmer, 51, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons, cancer (in office).
 * Antonio Estévez, 72, Venezuelan musician, composer and conductor.
 * Baron Michele Leone, 79, Italian-professional wrestler, struck by car.
 * John Loder, 90, British film actor.
 * Hugh Oldman, 74, British Army officer, Secretary for Defence of the Sultanate of Oman.

27

 * Angela Aames, 32, American B Movie actress, heart virus.
 * John Carradine, 82, American actor (House of Frankenstein, The Grapes of Wrath), heart and kidney failure.
 * Jan Hein Donner, 61, Dutch chess grandmaster and writer, gastric hemorrhage.
 * Yasin Osman Kenadid, 68–69, Somali writer.
 * Wilfred "Chicken" Smallhorn, 77, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy Football Club).
 * Takieddin el-Solh, 79-80, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister of Lebanon, heart attack.

28

 * Gus Bailey, 37, American NBA basketballer (Houston Rockets, New Orleans Jazz), stabbed.
 * Leonid Lubennikov, 78, Soviet politician, Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
 * Edward Ronald Walker, 81, Australian diplomat, Australia's Representative to the UN and Ambassador to three countries.

29

 * Nils Bejerot, 67, Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist (Stockholm syndrome), lymphoma.
 * Donald Keyhoe, 91, American Marine Corps naval aviator, "UFO" researcher, pneumonia and cardiac arrest.
 * Princess Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover, 26, Austrian model and socialite, suspected cocaine overdose.
 * Yevsey Moiseyenko, 72, Soviet painter.
 * Mabel Strickland, 89, Maltese journalist, newspaper proprietor and politician, co-founder of the Times of Malta.
 * Isabella von Thurn, 26, Austrian model and socialite, a princess of the House of Hanover, overdose.

30

 * Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, 60–61, Egyptian Quran reciter and Hafiz.
 * Wally Berger, 83, American Major League baseballer (Boston Braves), stroke.
 * Aleksandar Deroko, 94, Serbian-architect, artist and author.
 * Edward H. Feldman, 68, American director and producer (Hogan's Heroes), heart disease.
 * Pannonica de Koenigswarter, 74, British-American jazz patron, Free French fighter and writer, heart failure.
 * Ricky Lawless, 28, American professional wrestler, murdered.
 * Henrique Medina, 87, Portuguese painter (The Picture of Dorian Gray).
 * Margaret Mee, 79, British botanical artist, car crash.
 * Amiram Nir, 37, Israeli journalist, air crash.
 * M. K. Rocksamy, 56, Sri Lankan musician.
 * Charlie Rouse, 64, American tenor saxophonist and flautist, lung cancer.

Unknown date

 * Aper Aku, 49–50, Nigerian governor of Benue State.
 * Romola Costantino, 58, Australian pianist, cancer.