Deaths in November 1991

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1991.

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

 * Mary Ainslee, 77, American film actress.
 * Fernand Brunner, 71, Swiss philosopher.
 * Moisés Carmona, 79, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop.
 * Richard Hoppin, 78, American musicologist.
 * Arun Paudwal, 1990, Indian Bollywood film score composer.

2

 * Irwin Allen, 75, American film producer (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno), heart attack.
 * Yosef Almogi, 81, Israeli politician.
 * Jimmy Hull, 74, American basketball player, heart attack.
 * Hannes Messemer, 67, German actor, heart attack.
 * Francisco Moreira, 76, Portuguese football player.
 * Mort Shuman, 52, American songwriter and pianist, cancer.
 * Richard C. Thomas, 54, American politician, throat cancer.

3

 * Finn Alnæs, 59, Norwegian novelist.
 * Birendra Krishna Bhadra, 86, Indian radio broadcaster, playwright, actor, and narrator.
 * Raymond Blackburn, 76, British politician.
 * Ray Collins, 64, American gridiron football player.
 * P. Narendranath, 57, Indian author.
 * John Sandwith Boys Smith, 90, British academic.
 * Marinus Valentijn, 91, Dutch road bicycle racer.
 * Roman Wilhelmi, 55, Polish theatre and film actor, liver cancer.

4

 * Mohideen Baig, 71, Sri Lankan musician.
 * Roger E. Broggie, 83, American mechanical engineer.
 * Cliff Keen, 90, American wrestling coach.
 * Hermann Kutschera, 88, Austrian architect.
 * Arthur Nord, 93, Norwegian wrestler and Olympian.

5

 * Bill Atkins, 56, American gridiron football player.
 * Maurice V. Brady, 87, American politician.
 * Oreste Corbatta, 55, Argentine football player.
 * Bill Cronin, 47, American gridiron football player.
 * Kenneth Archibald Harrison, 90, Canadian mycologist.
 * Fred MacMurray, 83, American actor (Double Indemnity, My Three Sons, The Shaggy Dog), pneumonia.
 * Robert Maxwell, 68, Czechoslovak-British media tycoon, politician and fraudster, heart attack combined with accidental drowning.

6

 * Harriet Bland, 76, American sprinter and Olympic chasmpion.
 * Oskar Thierbach, 82, German road bicycle racer.
 * Gene Tierney, 70, American actress (Leave Her to Heaven, Laura), emphysema.
 * André Vandernoot, 64, Belgian conductor.
 * Giannis Vazos, 77, Greek football player.

7

 * Valery Aleksyev, 62, Soviet and Russian anthropologist.
 * Franc Červan, 55, Yugoslav long-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Tom of Finland, 71, Finnish artist, emphysema.
 * Ralph Harvey, 90, American politician.
 * Ed Marlo, 78, American magician.
 * Gaston Monnerville, 94, French politician and lawyer, cancer.
 * Ishak Haji Muhammad, 81, Malaysian writer.
 * Guillermo "Willy" Oddó, 48, Chilean musician, murdered.

8

 * Hardy Brown, 67, American football player, dementia.
 * Frances Faye, 79, American singer.
 * John Kirkpatrick, 86, American pianist and musical scholar.
 * Charlotte Moorman, 57, American cellist, performance artist, and avant-gardist, breast cancer.
 * Dave Rowbotham, 33, English rock musician, murdered.
 * Billy Savidan, 89, New Zealand long distance runner and Olympian.

9

 * Jana Dítětová, 65, Czechoslovak film actress.
 * Lance Hayward, 75, Bermudan-American jazz pianist, pneumonia.
 * Yves Montand, 70, Italian-French actor and singer, heart attack.
 * John Newton, 71, New Zealand rugby player.
 * Ralph Moses Paiewonsky, 84, United States Virgin Islands politician.
 * Laurie Wilkinson, 87, Australian politician.

10

 * Dick the Bruiser, 62, American professional wrestler and football player, internal bleeding.
 * Gunnar Gren, 71, Swedish football player.
 * Colin Johnstone, 70, New Zealand rower.
 * Tutte Lemkow, 73, Norwegian actor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Fiddler on the Roof, Doctor Who), leukemia.
 * Alessandro Lessona, 100, Italian politician.
 * Robert Baird McClure, 90, Canadian physician and medical missionary to Asia.
 * Florian Radu, 71, Romanian football player.
 * Montserrat Roig, 45, Spanish writer, breast cancer.
 * Vishnuprasad Trivedi, 92, Indian literary critic.
 * Curt Weibull, 105, Swedish historian, educator and author.

11

 * John Balfanz, 51, American ski jumper and Olympian.
 * Heinz Becker, 76, German-American baseball player.
 * Billy Behan, 80, Irish football player and manager.
 * Nellie Halstead, 81, English track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.
 * Nadezhda Shteinmiller, 76, Soviet artist.
 * Tom Skinner, 82, New Zealand politician and Trades Union leader.
 * Morton Stevens, 62, American film and television composer (Hawaii Five-O), Emmy winner (1970, 1974), cancer.

12

 * Diane Brewster, 60, American actress, heart failure (Leave It to Beaver, Maverick, The Fugitive), heart failure.
 * Ravishing Ripper Collins, 58, American professional wrestler, melanoma.
 * Bobby Joe Edmonds, 50, American basketball player.
 * Keizō Hayashi, 84, Japanese civil servant and general officer.
 * Bruce Hubbard, 39, American operatic baritone, pneumonia.
 * Gabriele Tinti, 59, Italian actor, heart attack.

13

 * Hanson W. Baldwin, 88, American journalist.
 * Henryk Borowski, 81, Polish theater, radio and film actor.
 * Paul-Émile Léger, 87, Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, pneumonia.
 * Walter Ulbrich, 81, German film producer.
 * Georges Winckelmans, 81, French football player and coach.

14

 * Constantin Chiriță, 66, Romanian writer.
 * William Nyrén, 71, Norwegian actor.
 * Tony Richardson, 63, English film director (Tom Jones, Look Back in Anger, A Taste of Honey), Oscar winner (1964), AIDS.
 * Bryden Thomson, 63, Scottish conductor, cancer.
 * Yoshikata Yoda, 82, Japanese screenwriter.

15

 * Doris Marie Bender, 79, American social worker.
 * Patricia Black, 18, Northern Irish volunteer in the IRA, bombing accident.
 * Sylvio Hoffmann, 83, Brazilian football player.
 * V. S. Huzurbazar, 72, Indian statistician from Kolhapur.
 * Robert McCall, 33, Canadian ice dancer, brain cancer.
 * Jacques Morali, 44, French music producer (Village People), AIDS.
 * George Simms, 81, Archbishop in the Church of Ireland.

16

 * Bill Dodd, 81, American lawyer and politician.
 * Maya Dolas, 25, Indian mobster, ballistic trauma.
 * Alberto Girri, 71, Argentine poet and writer.
 * Margaret Pease Harper, 80, American educator, musician and civic leader.
 * Ralph Marrero, 33, American actor (Day of the Dead), traffic collision.
 * José Miguel Olguín, 86, Chilean football player.
 * Gustav Wetterström, 80, Swedish football striker.

17

 * Eileen Agar, 91, British-Argentinian painter and photographer.
 * Maurice Banach, 24, German footballer, traffic collision.
 * Smead Jolley, 89, American baseball player.
 * Kafunga, 77, Brazilian football player.
 * Frank Kosikowski, 65, American gridiron football player.
 * Adrian Quist, 78, Australian tennis player.
 * William Strickland, 77, American conductor and organist, lung cancer.
 * Kelly Jean Van Dyke, 33, American actress, suicide by hanging.

18

 * Claude Cahen, 82, French marxist orientalist and historian.
 * Gustáv Husák, 78, Czechoslovak politician, president (1975–1989).
 * Reg Parlett, 87, English artist.
 * J. P. Stern, 70, Austrian-British literary scholar.
 * Alexey Tryoshnikov, 77, Soviet polar explorer.
 * Eugen York, 78, German film director.

19

 * Les Eyre, 69, English footballer.
 * Xian Henghan, 80, Chinese lieutenant general and politician.
 * Zi'ang Hu, 94, Chinese politician.
 * Michael Lyons, 81, Irish Fine Gael politician.
 * Reggie Nalder, 84, Austrian actor, bone cancer.
 * Leonid Obolensky, 89, Russian and Soviet actor.
 * Luis Sarria, 80, Cuban-American boxer.
 * Jackie Stamps, 72, English football player.

20

 * Yulia Drunina, 67, Soviet poet, suicide.
 * Siniša Glavašević, 31, Croatian reporter, homicide.
 * Helga Hahnemann, 54, East German German actress, comedian and singer.
 * Arthur Charles Hind, 86, Indian Olympic field hockey player (1932).
 * Kåre Kivijärvi, 53, Norwegian photographer.
 * Antun Stipančić, 42, Croatian table tennis player, heart attack.
 * Notable Azerbaijans killed in 1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown:
 * Mahammad Asadov, 49, Minister of Internal Affairs, State Advisor
 * Ismat Gayibov, 49, Public Prosecutor General
 * Zulfi Hajiyev, 56, Prime Minister
 * Tofig Ismayilov, 58, Secretary of State.
 * Vagif Jafarov, 42, Member of Parliament
 * Osman Mirzayev, 54, Head of Presidential Administration, journalist
 * Ali Mustafayev, 39, Television journalist
 * Saylau Serikov, 50, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs
 * Fakhraddin Shahbazov, 41, Camerama

21

 * T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar, 88, Indian politician.
 * Joseph Delaney, 87, American artist.
 * Ernest Dichter, 84, American psychologist and marketing expert.
 * Prior Jones, 74, Trinidadian cricket player.
 * Robert Kaufman, 60, American screenwriter, film producer and television writer.
 * Daniel Mann, 79, American film director (Come Back, Little Sheba, BUtterfield 8, Our Man Flint), heart failure.
 * Bryan Stephens, 71, American baseball player.
 * Sonny Werblin, 81, American sports executive (New York Jets), heart attack.
 * John Whedon, 86, American television writer (The Donna Reed Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show).
 * Hans Zassenhaus, 79, German mathematician.

22

 * Antoine Berman, 49, French translator, philosopher, and historian.
 * Ullrich Haupt, Jr., 76, American-German actor.
 * Tadashi Imai, 79, Japanese film director.
 * Yevgeni Ivanovski, 73, Soviet general.
 * John Magee, 68, American gridiron football player.

23

 * Klaus Kinski, 65, German actor (Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre, For a Few Dollars More), heart attack.
 * Stanley Rimington, 99, Australian cricket player.
 * Ernesto Rivera, 77, Puerto Rican sports shooter and Olympian.
 * Ken Uehara, 82, Japanese actor.

24

 * Eric Carr, 41, American drummer (Kiss), heart cancer.
 * Anton Furst, 47, English production designer (Batman, Full Metal Jacket, Awakenings), Oscar winner (1990), suicide by jumping.
 * Freddie Mercury, 45, British singer (Queen) and songwriter ("Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Are the Champions"), AIDS.
 * Carl Sawatski, 64, American baseball player and executive.

25

 * Raymond Andrews, 57, American novelist, suicide.
 * Eleanor Audley, 86, American actress (Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Green Acres), respiratory failure.
 * Sembiin Gonchigsumlaa, 72, Mongolian composer.
 * Doula Mouriki, 57, Greek byzantinologist and art historian.
 * Jimmy Strausbaugh, 73, American gridiron football player.
 * Charles Wagley, 78, American anthropologist, lung cancer.

26

 * Dehl Berti, 70, American actor, heart attack.
 * François Billetdoux, 64, French novelist.
 * Enzo Cerusico, 54, Italian actor (La Dolce Vita), cancer.
 * Ed Heinemann, 83, American aeronautical engineer.
 * Bob Johnson, 60, American athletics coach, brain cancer.
 * Gertrud Pålson-Wettergren, 94, Swedish singer.

27

 * George Edwards, 67, American film producer and writer.
 * Vilém Flusser, 71, Czech-Brazilian philosopher, struck by vehicle.
 * Harry Everett Smith, 68, American polymath, cardiac arrest.
 * Yō Yoshimura, 37, Japanese voice actor, subarachnoid hemorrhage.

28

 * Mel Dinelli, 79, American writer for theatre, film and magazines.
 * Lu Gwei-djen, 87, Chinese historian and biochemist.
 * Jean Palardy, 86, French-Canadian painter, ethnologist and filmmaker.
 * Stan Wentzel, 74, American baseball player.
 * Mary Wharton, 79, American botanist, author, and environmental activist.

29

 * Ralph Bellamy, 87, American actor (Sunrise at Campobello, The Awful Truth, Trading Places), Tony winner (1958), lung disease.
 * Joe Bonson, 55, English footballer.
 * Theodor Estermann, 89, German-American mathematician.
 * Louis Finkelstein, 96, American talmud scholar.
 * Ludovico Geymonat, 83, Italian mathematician, philosopher and historian of science.
 * Nasirdin Isanov, 48, Kyrgyz politician, prime minister (since 1991), traffic collision.
 * Franjo Majetić, 68, Croatian actor.
 * Frank Yerby, 75, American writer, liver cancer.

30

 * Irena Blühová, 87, Slovak photographer.
 * Mikhail Chailakhyan, 89, Armenian-Soviet scientist.
 * Hans Lietzau, 78, German theatre director, actor, and producer.
 * David Moir Nelson, 71, American football player, coach, and author.