Deaths in November 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1990.

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

 * Richard Desmond, 63, American ice hockey player.
 * Ward Haylett, 95, American track and field coach.
 * Kim Hyun-sik, 32, South Korean musician, cirrhosis.
 * Cyprien Biyehima Kihangire, 72, Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Ray Pohlman, 60, American guitarist, heart failure.
 * G. Malcolm Trout, 94, American dairy scientist.

2

 * Abasaheb Garware, 86, Indian industrialist.
 * Peter Hellings, 74, English marine.
 * Robert T. McLoskey, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1963–1965).
 * Eliot Porter, 88, American photographer.
 * William Travilla, 70, American costume designer, lung cancer.
 * Eszter Voit, 74, Hungarian Olympic gymnast (1936).
 * Donald Allen Wollheim, 76, American science fiction author.

3

 * Kenan Erim, 61, Turkish archaeologist.
 * Valerie French, 62, English actress, leukemia.
 * George Gale, 63, British journalist.
 * Manmohan Krishna, 68, Indian actor and film director.
 * Mary Martin, 76, American actress and singer, cancer.
 * Sashadhar Mukherjee, 81, Indian filmmaker.
 * Nikolai Rakov, 82, Soviet violinist.
 * Jack Russell, 85, American baseball player.
 * Walter H. Tyler, 81, American art director.

4

 * Mildred Allen, 96, American physicist.
 * Henry Cravatte, 79, Luxembourgish politician.
 * James C. Harrison, 64, American artist.
 * Cyrus Levinthal, 68, American molecular biologist, lung cancer.
 * Hicks Lokey, 86, American animator.
 * Carol Sobieski, 51, American screenwriter, amyloidosis.
 * David Stirling, 74, Scottish soldier.

5

 * Herbert Berghof, 81, Austrian-American actor and film director.
 * Humphrey Gibbs, 87, Zimbabwean colonial administrator.
 * Erich Heller, 79, British essayist.
 * Meir Kahane, 58, American-Israeli politician, shot.
 * Shunkichi Kikuchi, 74, Japanese photographer, leukemia.
 * Raymond Oliver, 81, French chef, cancer.
 * Bobby Scott, 53, American musician, lung cancer.
 * Suleiman Yudakov, 74, Soviet and Tajikistani musician.

6

 * Bob Armstrong, 59, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Ed Gossett, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1939–1951).
 * Hilary Baumann Hacker, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Thomas Hiley, 84, Australian politician.
 * Will Kuluva, 73, American actor.
 * Marcel Légaut, 90, French theologian and mathematician.
 * Rodrigo Moynihan, 80, English painter.
 * George Philip Ochola, 60, Kenyan trade unionist and politician.

7

 * Ack Ack, 24, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
 * Lemuel Ricketts Boulware, 95, American businessman.
 * Tom Clancy, 66, Irish singer (The Clancy Brothers) and actor, stomach cancer.
 * Lawrence Durrell, 78, British novelist, stroke.
 * John G. Fuller, 76, American writer, lung cancer.
 * Sigurd Monssen, 88, Norwegian Olympic rower (1948).
 * Stepan Privedentsev, 74, Soviet Russian painter, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists.
 * Vito Russo, 44, American LGBT activist, AIDS.
 * Elmo Veron, 87, American film and television editor.
 * Josephine Wilson, 86, British actress.

8

 * Nils Reinhardt Christensen, 71, Norwegian filmmaker.
 * Jacqueline Pirenne, 71-72, French archaeologist, traffic collision.
 * Wolfgang Schmieder, 89, German musicologist.
 * Anya Seton, 86, American author.
 * Earl Torgeson, 66, American baseball player, leukemia.

9

 * Alfredo Armas Alfonzo, 69, Venezuelan writer, critic, editor and historian, well.
 * Olton van Genderen, 69, Surinamese politician.
 * Hugh MacLennan, 83, Canadian novelist.
 * Harold A. Stevens, 83, American judge.
 * Dora Söderberg, 90, Swedish actress.

10

 * Ronnie Dyson, 40, American singer and actor, heart failure.
 * Maura McGiveney, 51, English-American actress, cirrhosis.
 * Aurelio Monteagudo, 46, Cuban baseball player, traffic collision.
 * Bhalchandra Nilkanth Purandare, 79, Indian gynaecologist.
 * Tommy Sale, 80, English footballer.
 * Mário Schenberg, 76, Brazilian physicist and writer.
 * Çetin Zeybek, 58, Turkish football player.

11

 * Ted Albert, 53, Australian record producer, heart attack.
 * Greg Buckingham, 45, American swimmer, heart attack.
 * Attilio Demaría, 81, Argentine footballer.
 * Margarete Heymann, 91, German ceramicist.
 * Sadi Irmak, 86, Turkish politician, prime minister (1974–1975).
 * Lisa Kirk, 65, American singer and actress, lung cancer.
 * Alexis Minotis, 90, Greek actor and film director.
 * Yannis Ritsos, 81, Greek poet.
 * William Randolph Taylor, 94, American botanist.
 * John M. Zwach, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1967–1975).

12

 * Eve Arden, 82, American actress (Mildred Pierce, Our Miss Brooks, Grease), Emmy winner (1954), cardiac arrest, heart attack.
 * Balcomb Greene, 86, American artist and teacher.
 * Tetsumi Kudo, 55, Japanese Japanese painter, sculptor, and performance artist, cancer.
 * Randi Heide Steen, 80, Norwegian singer.
 * Junior Walsh, 71, American baseball player.
 * Dave Willock, 81, American actor, stroke.

13

 * Hanus Burger, 81, Czech-American screenwriter.
 * Don Chaffey, 73, British film director (Jason and the Argonauts, Pete's Dragon, One Million Years B.C.), heart attack.
 * Helen Dettweiler, 75, American golfer, cancer.
 * Wilfred Dunderdale, 90, British spy, possible inspiration for James Bond.
 * Frederick Rowland Emett, 84, English kinetic sculptor.
 * Joseph Lang, 79, American boxer.
 * Richard Lewis, 76, English singer.
 * Maurice Richlin, 70, American screenwriter.
 * Lester Williams, 70, American guitarist.

14

 * Margot Arce de Vázquez, 86, Puerto Rican writer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Horst Feistel, 75, German-American cryptographer.
 * Antoinette Pépin Fitzpatrick, 82, French musician, heart attack.
 * Sol Kaplan, 71, American composer, lung cancer.
 * Otto Kuchenbecker, 83, German basketball player.
 * Malcolm Muggeridge, 87, English journalist and satirist.
 * Adolf Rudnicki, 78, Polish author and essayist.
 * Leonid Trauberg, 88, Soviet and Ukrainian film director and screenwriter.

15

 * Alydar, 15, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
 * Oswald Denison, 85, New Zealand rower.
 * Ettore Giannini, 77, Italian filmmaker.
 * Gideon Hausner, 75, Israeli politician.
 * Irving Janis, 72, American psychologist, lung cancer.
 * Princess Irina Pavlovna Paley, 86, French exiled Russian royal.
 * Jimmy Ward, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.

16

 * Pierre Braunberger, 85, French film producer.
 * Lee Castle, 75, American musician.
 * Jill Day, 59, English singer, cancer.
 * Yang Lien-sheng, 76, Chinese-American sinologist.
 * Northern Dancer, 29, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.
 * Dmitri Skobeltsyn, 97, Soviet physicist.

17

 * Otto Demus, 88, Austrian art historian and Byzantinist.
 * Robert Hofstadter, 75, American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1961).
 * Edna Hughes, 74, English Olympic swimmer (1932, 1936).
 * Herbert B. Maw, 97, American politician, governor of Utah (1941–1949).

18

 * Murray Ashby, 59, New Zealand rower.
 * Wolfgang Büttner, 78, German actor and voice actor.
 * Fred Daly, 79, Northern Irish golfer, heart attack.
 * Harwell Hamilton Harris, 87, American architect.
 * David Lloyd Kreeger, 81, American art philanthropist.
 * Beatrice Shilling, 81, British aeronautical engineer.

19

 * Šefik Bešlagić, 82, Yugoslav cultural historian.
 * John Fitzpatrick, 86, American baseball player and coach.
 * Georgy Flyorov, 77, Soviet nuclear physicist, namesake of flerovium.
 * Phillip M. Landrum, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1977).
 * Sun Li-jen, 89, Taiwanese general.
 * Lennart Ljung, 69, Swedish general.
 * Joseph C. Satterthwaite, 90, American diplomat.

20

 * Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, 76, Italian artist.
 * William Montague Cobb, 86, American physician and a physical anthropologist.
 * Herbert Kegel, 70, German conductor, suicide.
 * Bengt Odhner, 72, Swedish diplomat.

21

 * Vernon Ellis Cosslett, 82, British microscopist.
 * Dean Hart, 36, Canadian-American professional wrestler, heart attack.
 * Pierre Musy, 80, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic champion.
 * Eugene Rosenberg, 83, Czechoslovak architect.
 * Ralph Siewert, 66, American basketball player.

22

 * Joe Bowman, 80, American baseball player.
 * Gustav Fischer, 75, Swiss equestrian and Olympic medalist.
 * Jack Petersen, 79, Welsh boxer, lung cancer.
 * Benjamin H. Vandervoort, 73, United States Army officer.
 * Eberhard Zwicker, 66, German acoustics scientist.

23

 * Roald Dahl, 74, British author (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda), myelodysplastic syndrome.
 * Bo Díaz, 37, Venezuelan baseball player, domestic accident.
 * Karl Aage Hansen, 69, Danish footballer.
 * Caio Prado Júnior, 83, Brazilian historian.
 * Sergio Matto, 60, Uruguayan basketball player.
 * Rock Pidjot, 83, New Caledonian politician.
 * Renate Rubinstein, 61, German-Dutch writer.
 * Nguyen Van Tam, 95, Vietnamese politician, prime minister (1952–1953).

24

 * Richard Acland, 83, English politician.
 * Bülent Arel, 71, Turkish composer, multiple myeloma.
 * Juan Manuel Bordeu, 56, Argentine racing driver.
 * Vincenzo Demetz, 79, Italian cross-country skier.
 * Helga Feddersen, 60, German actress, cancer.
 * Michel Giacometti, 61, French musicologist.
 * Wayne Hillman, 52, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
 * Ronald Hopkins, 93, Australian general.
 * Joseph Jadrejak, 72, French football player and manager.
 * Arnold Marquis, 69, German actor, lung cancer.
 * Keiji Nishitani, 90, Japanese academic.
 * Fred Shero, 65, Canadian ice hockey player, stomach cancer.
 * Dodie Smith, 94, English novelist (The Hundred and One Dalmatians, I Capture the Castle).
 * Robb White, 81, American screenwriter.
 * Marion Post Wolcott, 80, American photographer, lung cancer.

25

 * Ernest Duncan, 74, New-Zealand-Australian-American mathematician, leukemia.
 * Harlan Hagen, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1967).
 * Merab Mamardashvili, 60, Soviet philosopher.
 * Mikko Niskanen, 61, Finnish filmmaker, cancer.
 * Salvatore Todisco, 29, Italian boxer, traffic collision.
 * Billy Vukovich III, 27, American racing driver, racing collision.

26

 * Frank Brisko, 90, American racing driver.
 * Antonín Kalina, 88, Czechoslovak humanitarian.
 * Savitri Khanolkar, 77, Swiss-Indian designer (Param Vir Chakra).
 * Samuel Noah Kramer, 93, Russian-American Assyriologist, throat cancer.
 * Heikki Partanen, 48, Finnish filmmaker, suicide.
 * Edward Pearce, Baron Pearce, 89, British judge.
 * Ludwig von Moos, 80, Swiss politician.
 * Jacques Wild, 85, French footballer.
 * Dave Wilkins, 76, Barbadian trumpeter.
 * Feng Youlan, 94, Chinese philosopher.

27

 * Proinsias Mac an Bheatha, 80, Irish writer.
 * Joseph T. Edgar, 80, American politician.
 * Avro Manhattan, 76, Italian writer.
 * Paddy Sheriff, 64, Irish basketball player and Olympian.
 * Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal, 71, South African linguist.
 * David White, 74, American actor, heart attack.

28

 * Birger Bohlin, 92, Swedish palaeontologist.
 * Ted Catlin, 80, English footballer.
 * Tamara De Treaux, 31, American actress, respiratory failure.
 * Božena Dobešová, 76, Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast (1936).
 * Paco Godia, 69, Spanish racing driver.
 * Tommy Hughes, 71, American baseball player.
 * Władysław Rubin, 73, Polish Roman Catholic cardinal, Alzheimer's disease.

29

 * Raymond Bourgine, 65, French politician.
 * Harry M. Caudill, 68, American author, suicide by gunshot.
 * Malcolm Dole, 87, American chemist.
 * Günter Platzek, 60, German keyboardist, heart attack.
 * József Szalai, 97, Hungarian Olympic gymnast (1912).

30

 * Fritz Barzilauskas, 70, American football player.
 * Richard Brown, 83, American football player.
 * Norman Cousins, 75, American political journalist, heart failure.
 * Vladimir Dedijer, 76, Yugoslav diplomat and historian.
 * Fritz Eichenberg, 89, German-American artist, Parkinson's disease.
 * Ivan Medarić, 78, Yugoslav footballer.
 * T. R. Ramachandran, 73, Indian actor and comedian.
 * Hilde Spiel, 79, Austrian writer and journalist.