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.

1

 * Peter Childs, 50, English actor, leukemia.
 * Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, 91, American civil rights activist, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 * Haranath, 53, Indian actor, alcohol poisoning.
 * Robert James Moon, 78, American physicist, chemist and engineer.
 * Mihaela Runceanu, 34, Romanian singer, strangled.
 * Max Streib, 76, Swiss handball player and Olympian.
 * Hoimar von Ditfurth, 68, German physician and scientific journalist, thyroid cancer.

2

 * Inés Arredondo, 61, Mexican writer.
 * Andrée Brabant, 88, French silent-screen actress.
 * John Clymer, 82, American painter and illustrator.
 * Morris H. DeGroot, 58, American statistician.
 * 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, engineer, racing driver, and motor racing promoter.
 * Steve Simpson, 41, American professional baseball player, heart attack.

3

 * Timoci Bavadra, 55, Fijian medical doctor and politician, Prime Minister of Fiji (1987), cancer.
 * Louis Craine, 32, American serial killer, complications from AIDS.
 * Dorothy Fuldheim, 96, American journalist and news anchor, stroke.
 * Ed Kasid, 66, American basketball player.
 * William Morris Jr., 90, American talent agent.
 * Zelma O'Neal, 86, American actress, singer and dancer.
 * Edward J. Stack, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1981).

4

 * Pancho Coimbre, 80, Puerto Rican professional baseball player, house fire.
 * Erkki Kerttula, 79, Finnish fencer and dual Olympian.
 * Clare Leighton, 91, English-American artist, writer and illustrator.
 * Vivian Mercier, 70, Irish literary critic.
 * Howard A. Rusk, 88, American physician.
 * Keiichirō Ryū, 65-66, Japanese editor, screenwriter, and historical fiction writer.
 * John Taylor, 81, Canadian cross-country skier and Olympian.
 * Bohumil Váňa, 69, Czechoslovak table tennis player and world champion.

5

 * Vladimir Horowitz, 86, Russian-American pianist and composer, heart attack.
 * Barry Sadler, 49, American soldier, author, and singer ("The Ballad of the Green Berets"), shot.
 * Margot Seitelman, 61, German-born American businesswoman, executive director of American Mensa, cancer.
 * Lu Watters, 77, American trumpeter and bandleader.
 * Benigno Zaccagnini, 77, Italian politician and physician.
 * Adem Čejvan, 62, Yugoslav actor.

6

 * Margarete Buber-Neumann, 88, German writer.
 * Dickie Goodman, 55, American record producer, suicide by gunshot.
 * Margit Makay, 98, Hungarian film actress.
 * Yūsaku Matsuda, 40, Japanese actor, bladder cancer.
 * William Murphy, 67, American film actor.

7

 * Dai Astley, 80, Welsh international footballer.
 * Andrey Borovykh, 68, Soviet World War II flying ace and twice Hero of the Soviet Union, stroke.
 * Alec Mango, 78, English actor.
 * Milton K. Ozaki, 76, American writer.
 * Brunello Rondi, 64, Italian screenwriter and film director, heart attack.
 * Jan Skácel, 67, Czechoslovak poet.
 * Tommy Tatum, 70, American baseball player.
 * Dick Vorisek, 71, American sound engineer, Academy Award nominee.

8

 * Robert Gerringer, 63, American actor, stroke.
 * Johnny Lanning, 79, American professional baseball player.
 * Eugène Proust, 68, French football player and manager.
 * Maud Russell, 96, American social worker, educator and writer, lung cancer.
 * Gino Soldà, 82, Italian cross-country skier and Olympian.
 * Lionel Gage Wigmore, 90, Australian journalist and military historian.
 * Elmer Wynne, 88, American football player and coach.
 * Mary Agnes Yerkes, 103, American impressionist painter and photographer.

9

 * Cliff Ashburn, 83, American football player.
 * Kenny Hagood, 63, American jazz vocalist.
 * Arthur John Holland, 71, American politician, Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey, cancer.
 * Bill Neilson, 64, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania, cancer.
 * Roar Pedersen, 61, Norwegian ice hockey player and Olympian.
 * Nenad Petrović, 82, Yugoslav chess player.
 * Leen Vente, 78, Dutch international footballer.
 * Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, 64, Indonesian general, fever.

10

 * Peter Berglar, 70, German historian.
 * Cookie Mueller, 40, American actress and author, AIDS-related pneumonia.
 * Niels Schibbye, 79, Danish sailor and Olympian.
 * Craig J. Spence, 49, American journalist and lobbyist, suicide by drug overdose.

11

 * Casey Anderson, 55, American blues and folk singer, songwriter and guitarist, complications from a leg amputation as a result of diabetes.
 * Jay DeFeo, 60, American artist, lung cancer.
 * Mohamed Demsiri, 52–53, Moroccan singer-poet.
 * Natalio Pescia, 67, Argentine international footballer.
 * Francesco Stefani, 66, German film director.

12

 * Harry Bergström, 79, Finnish pianist, conductor and composer.
 * Édouard Candeveau, 91, Swiss rower and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Thomas Dam, 74, Danish woodworker and fisherman.
 * Zoltán Dudás, 56, Hungarian international footballer and Olympic medalist.
 * Dolores Ibárruri, 93, Spanish communist politician of the Spanish Civil War, pneumonia.
 * Armour G. McDaniel, 73, American air force military officer.
 * Mao Yisheng, 93, Chinese structural engineer and politician.

13

 * Stewart Chalmers, 82, Scottish footballer.
 * Victor Davis, 25, Canadian world champion swimmer and Olympic gold medalist, pedestrian accident.
 * Francis Edmunds, 87, Lithuanian-born British educator and anthroposophist.
 * Roger Heman, 57, American sound engineer and Academy Award winner, lung cancer.
 * Arthur Hutchings, 83, English musicologist, composer and professor of music.
 * Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, 83, Liechtensteiner royal, reigning monarch (since 1938).
 * Rohana Wijeweera, 46, Sri Lankan Marxist political activist, shot.

14

 * Wild Bill Davison, 83, American jazz cornetist.
 * Choe Deok-sin, 75, South Korean Foreign Minister who defected to North Korea.
 * Rémi Laurent, 32, French actor, HIV-related illness.
 * Jimmy Murphy, 79, Welsh international footballer, aortic dissection.
 * Zola Helen Ross, 77, American writer and novelist.
 * Samand Siabandov, 79, Soviet writer, soldier and politician.
 * Enzo Trapani, 67, Italian screenwriter, TV producer and film director, suicide.

15

 * Constance Binney, 93, American stage and silent-screen actress and dancer.
 * William N. Deramus III, 73, American railroad executive.
 * Alejo Durán, 70, Colombian traditional composer, singer and accordionist.
 * Jeremy Flint, 61, English contract bridge player and writer, cancer.
 * Lipót Kállai, 76, Hungarian footballer and Olympian.
 * George Manuel, 68, Canadian indigenous leader.
 * Norma Terris, 85, American musical theatre and vaudeville actress.

16

 * Petar Argirov, 66, Bulgarian footballer and Olympian.
 * Nathan Cohn, 82, American electrical engineer.
 * Jean-Claude Malépart, 50, Canadian politician, lung cancer.
 * Rose Murphy, 76, American jazz pianist and singer.
 * Dorothy G. Page, 68, "Mother of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race".
 * Oliver Smedley, 78, English businessman and political activist.


 * 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 and war correspondent, shot.
 * Emerson Buckley, 73, American orchestra conductor, emphysema.
 * Francis John Dunn, 67, American Catholic bishop.
 * Costabile Farace, 29, American mobster, (Bonanno crime family), shot.
 * Benjamin Fisz, 66–67, Polish film director and writer.
 * Joseph Hiley, 87, British politician.
 * Billy Lee, 60, American child actor, heart attack.
 * Thiruchi Loganathan, 65, Indian singer.
 * Uzair Gul Peshawari, 102–103, Pakistani Islamic scholar and activist.
 * Charles Perry Stacey, 83, Canadian historian.

18

 * Romano Bilenchi, 80, Italian novelist, short story writer and essayist.
 * Hendrik de Vries, 93, Dutch poet and painter.
 * William Wister Haines, 81, American author, screenwriter and playwright, stroke.
 * Johnny Haymer, 69, American actor, cancer.
 * Edvin Laine, 84, Finnish film director and actor.
 * Sherman Plunkett, 56, American NFL football player, cancer.
 * Freddie Waits, 46, American drummer, pneumonia and kidney failure.

19

 * Grant Adcox, 39, American stockcar driver, racing crash.
 * Jim Bradfield, 56, Australian politician, member of Australian House of Representatives.
 * Nancy Drexel (born Dorothy Kitchen), 79, American actress.
 * Paul Shyre, 63, American director and playwright.

20

 * Annihilate 'Em, 19, American thoroughbred racehorse.
 * Lynn Bari, 69, American movie actress, heart attack.
 * Hirabai Barodekar, 84, Indian Hindustani classical music singer.
 * Božidar Jakac, 90, Yugoslav painter, photographer and filmmaker.
 * Labib Hussein Abu Rokan, 77-78, Israeli politician.
 * Leonardo Sciascia, 68, Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician, member of the European Parliament (1979–1984).
 * Abe Stuber, 86, American football player and coach.
 * "Wild Bill" Whaling, 95, American major-general in US Marine Corps, Olympic shooter.
 * Rachel Wischnitzer, 104, Russian-born German and American art historian.

21

 * Edward Bawden, 86, English painter, illustrator and graphic artist.
 * Peter Burton, 68, English film and television actor, heart attack.
 * Heiko Fischer, 29, West German figure skater, national champion and Olympian, chronic myocarditis.
 * Will Glahé, 87, German accordionist, composer, and bandleader.
 * Arne Grahn, 87, Finnish tennis player and Olympian.
 * Harvey Hart, 61, Canadian film and television director and television producer, heart attack.
 * Yana, 58, British singer, esophageal cancer.

22

 * Paul Alfonsi, 81, American politician, speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
 * Roberto Arias, 71, Panamanian international lawyer, diplomat and journalist, husband of Dame Margot Fonteyn.
 * C. C. Beck, 79, American comic book artist, co-creator of Captain Marvel, renal failure.
 * Robert Berri, 76, French film actor.
 * Gerry Chiniquy, 77, American animator.
 * José G. Cruz, 72, Mexican comics writer and screenwriter.
 * H. O. Davies, 84, Nigerian lawyer, journalist, trade unionist and politician.
 * Clement Haynsworth, 77, American judge.
 * Abdur Rashid Kardar, 85, Indian film actor, director and producer.
 * Billy Milton, 83, British stage, film and television actor.
 * René Moawad, 64, Lebanese politician, president of Lebanon, assassination by car bomb.
 * Vijay Rajindernath, 61, Indian cricketer.
 * Shamil Serikov, 33, Soviet wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide.

23

 * Jiří Baumruk, 59, Czechoslovakian basketball player and coach, traffic collision.
 * Martin Glaessner, 82, Austrian-Australian geologist and palaeontologist.
 * Sidney Janis, 93, American clothing manufacturer and art collector.
 * Rita Lenihan, 75, American naval officer, cancer.
 * Armand Salacrou, 90, French dramatist.
 * Mariko Shiga, 19, Japanese singer, traffic accident.

24

 * E. Ruth Anderson, 82, American musicologist and editor.
 * Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, 48, Palestinian jihadist and theologian, assassination by car bomb.
 * Gordon Bess, 60, American cartoonist.
 * Leonard Boudin, 77, American civil liberties attorney and activist.
 * Michael Harwood, 54–55, American environmentalist and author.
 * Lawrence A. Hyland, 92, American electrical engineer.
 * Richard Korherr, 86, Nazi German statistician.
 * Ralph Norwood, 23, American NFL football player, traffic collision.

25

 * Salo Wittmayer Baron, 94, Austro-Hungarian-born American historian.
 * George Cakobau, 77, Fijian politician, Governor-General of Fiji (1973–1983).
 * Claus Clausen, 90, German film actor.
 * Birago Diop, 82, Senegalese poet and storyteller.
 * Alva R. Fitch, 82, American lieutenant-general in the United States Army, deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
 * John Kaplan, 59–60, American legal scholar, social justice advocate, author, brain tumour.
 * Frank A. Southard Jr., 82, American, deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
 * William Stratton, 86, British army officer, Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong from 1955 to 1957.
 * María Colón Sánchez, 62–63, Puerto Rico-American politician, heart attack.
 * Frank M. Thomas, 100, American stage, screen and television actor.
 * Clifford Thornton, 53, American jazz trumpeter, trombonist, political activist, and educator.

26

 * Ahmed Abdallah, 70, Comorian politician, president of the Comoros, shot.
 * William Barber, 70, English first class cricketer.
 * Morrice James, Baron St Brides, 73, British diplomat, British High Commissioner to Pakistan, India and Australia.
 * Lew Fonseca, 90, American Major Leagues baseball player.
 * Gunnar Hedlund, 89, Swedish politician, Minister of the Interior.
 * Priscilla Robertson, 78–79, American historian, magazine editor, and college professor, stroke.
 * Chand Usmani, 56, Indian actress.

27

 * Frank Fools Crow, appr. 99, Native American civic and religious leader.
 * Zuko Džumhur, 68, Yugoslav writer, painter and caricaturist.
 * Walter Hoving, 91, Swedish-born American businessman and writer.
 * Carlos Arias Navarro, 80, Spanish politician, prime minister of Spain (1973–1976), infarction.
 * Norma Nichols, 95, American silent-screen actress.
 * Claudio O. Teehankee, Sr., 71, Filipino judge and diplomat, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, cancer.
 * Trude von Molo, 82, Austrian film actress.

28

 * Arsenie Boca, 79, Romanian priest, theologian, mystic, and artist.
 * Ernesto Civardi, 83, Italian cardinal and secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops.
 * Georgy Ilivitsky, 68, Soviet chess master, suicide.
 * Bill Posedel, 83, American Major Leagues baseball player.
 * Jo Vincent, 91, Dutch soprano.

29

 * Gubby Allen, 87, Australian-born English cricketer, captain of English national team, national selector, complications from stomach surgery.
 * Giuseppe Antonini, 75, Italian professional footballer.
 * Ann Burton (born Johanna Rafalowicz, aka Johanna de Paauw), 56, Dutch jazz singer, throat cancer.
 * Mario Colli, 74, Italian film and voice actor.
 * Natan Eidelman, 59, Soviet author and historian.
 * Sisto Gillarduzzi, 81, Italian bobsledder and alpine ski racer.
 * Yam Kim-fai, 76, Chinese and Hong Kong opera actress, pleural effusion.
 * A. Maruthakasi, 69, Indian film lyricist and poet.
 * Ion Popescu-Gopo, 66, Romanian graphic artist, animator, writer, film director and actor, heart attack.
 * Frank Scannell, 86, American film and television actor.
 * Mabel Keaton Staupers, 99, American nurse and civil rights activist.
 * Rolf Turkka, 74, Finnish sailor and dual Olympian.
 * Ödön Zombori, 83, Hungarian wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.

30

 * Ahmadou Ahidjo, 65, Cameroonian politician, first president of Cameroon, heart attack.
 * Stjepan Boltižar, 76, Yugoslav gymnast and Olympian.
 * Hassan Fathi, 89, Egyptian architect.
 * Alfred Herrhausen, 59, German banker, Chairman of Deutsche Bank, assassinated by roadside bomb.
 * Gabriel Manek, 76, Indonesian archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Pier Luigi Vestrini, 84, Italian rower, European champion and Olympian.