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.

November 1989

1

• Peter Childs, 50, English actor (Minder), leukemia.
• Haranath, 53, Indian actor, alcohol poisoning.
• Robert James Moon, 78, American physicist, chemist and engineer (Manhattan Project).
• Mihaela Runceanu, 34, Romanian singer, murdered.
• Hoimar von Ditfurth, 68, German physician and scientific journalist, thyroid cancer.

2

• Inés Arredondo, 61, Mexican writer.
• Mildred Brown, 83, American journalist and newspaper publisher, co-founded the Omaha Star, severe cold.
• John Clymer, 82, American painter and illustrator.
• Morris H. DeGroot, 58, American statistician, editor of Statistical Science, lung cancer.
• Elizabeth Hawley Gasque, 103, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
• Frederick Gordon-Lennox, 85, British hereditary peer, engineer and racing driver.
• Henry M. Margolis, 80, American industrialist, lawyer and theatrical producer, director of the International Center of Photography.
• Tom Mennard, 71, English comedian and actor, cancer.
• Stefan Staszewski, 82, Polish communist politician.
• R. Sankara Narayanan Thampi, 78, Indian member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
• Shana Yardan, 46, Guyanese poet, cancer.

3

• Timoci Bavadra, 55, Fijian politician, Prime Minister of Fiji, cancer.
• Louis Craine, 32, American serial killer, AIDS.
• Dorothy Fuldheim, 96, American journalist and news anchor (Cleveland Press, WEWS-TV), stroke.
• Leigh Leigh, 14, Australian murder victim.
• William Morris Jr., 90, American talent agent, president of William Morris Agency.
• Zelma O'Neal, 86, American actress, singer and dancer.
• Edward J. Stack, 79, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.

4

• Pancho Coimbre, 80, Puerto Rican Negro Leagues baseballer (New York Cubans), house fire.
• Neelkanth Ganjoo, 67, Indian high court judge, assassinated.
• Trevor Kent, 49, Australian theatre and television actor, AIDS.
• Vivian Mercier, 70, Irish literary critic.
• Howard A. Rusk, 88, American physician.
• Bohumil Váňa, 69, Czechoslovakian table tennis player and world champion.

5

• Vladimir Horowitz, 86, Russian-born American pianist and composer, heart attack.
• John O'Connell, 38, Australian rules footballer (Carlton).
• 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 (Yerba Buena Jazz Band).
• Benigno Zaccagnini, 77, Italian politician, Minister of Labour and Social Security.
• Adem Čejvan, 62, Yugoslavian actor.

6

• Margarete Buber-Neumann, 88, German writer.
• Dickie Goodman, 55, American record producer, suicide.
• Alex Jordan Jr., 75, American creator of House on the Rock, heart attack.
• Little Sister Magdeleine of Jesus, 91, French founder of Little Sisters of Jesus.
• Yūsaku Matsuda, 40, Japanese actor, bladder cancer.
• William Murphy, 67, American film actor.

7

• Paula Acker, 76, German correspondent, journalist and newspaper editor.
• Dai Astley, 80, Welsh international footballer (Aston Villa, Wales).
• Andrey Borovykh, 68, Soviet World War II flying ace, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, stroke.
• May Justus, 91, American children's author.
• Alec Mango, 78, English actor (Captain Horatio Hornblower).
• Milton K. Ozaki, 76, American writer.
• Brunello Rondi, 64, Italian screenwriter and film director, heart attack.
• Jan Skácel, 67, Czechoslovakian poet.

8

• Robert Gerringer, 63, American actor (Dark Shadows), stroke.
• Choi Ja-shil, 74, Korean pentecostal pastor, founded Yoido Full Gospel Church, heart attack.
• Lee Yuk-wing, 85. Macau-born American professor of electrical engineering.
• Yitzhak Raveh, 82, German-born Israeli judge (trial of Adolf Eichmann), heart failure.
• Mattie Rotenberg, 92, Canadian physicist.
• Maud Russell, 96, American social worker and writer (Young Women's Christian Association), lung cancer.
• Mary Agnes Yerkes, 103, American impressionist painter and photographer.

9

• Kenny Hagood, 63, American jazz vocalist, cancer.
• Arthur John Holland, 71, American politician, Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey, cancer.
• Bill Neilson, 64, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania, cancer.
• Leen Vente, 78, Dutch international footballer (Feyenoord Rotterdam, Netherlands).
• Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, 64, Indonesian general, Ambassador of Indonesia to South Korea, fever.

10

• Cookie Mueller, 40, American actress and author, pneumonia.
• Craig J. Spence, 49, American journalist and lobbyist, suicide.

11

• Casey Anderson, 55, American blues and folk singer, songwriter and guitarist, complications from leg amputation.
• Jay DeFeo, 60, American artist, lung cancer.
• Nicholas Freeman, 50, English politician, mayor of Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
• Jean Holloway, 72, American film, radio and television writer.
• Natalio Pescia, 67, Argentinian international footballer (Boca Juniors, Argentina).

12

• Thomas Dam, 74, Danish woodworker and fisherman.
• 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

• Victor Davis, 25, Canadian world champion swimmer and Olympic gold medalist, pedestrian accident.
• Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, 83, Liechtensteiner royal, reigning monarch.
• Upatissa Gamanayake, 41, Sri Lankan politician, deputy leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, shot by government forces.
• H. B. Herath, 35, Sri Lankan politician, member of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, shot by government forces.
• Arthur Hutchings, 83, English musicologist, composer and professor of music.
• Dorothea Krook-Gilead, 69, Latvian-born literary scholar, translator and professor of English literature.
• Oliver F. Naquin, 85, American navy rear admiral, pancreatic cancer.
• Rohana Wijeweera, 46, Sri Lankan political activist, founder of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, shot by government forces.

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 (La Cage aux Folles), HIV-related illness.
• Jimmy Murphy, 79, Welsh international footballer (West Bromwich Albion, Wales), aortic dissection.
• Solomon Ngobeni, South African, last person executed by South African government.
• Samand Siabandov, 79, Soviet writer, soldier and politician, Hero of the Soviet Union.

15

• D. M. Ananda, 32, Sri Lankan member of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, assassinated.
• 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.
• George Manuel, 68, Canadian indigenous leader.
• Homer Marshman, 91, American owner of the Cleveland Rams.
• Norma Terris, 85, American musical theatre and vaudeville actress.
• Kamleshwari Prasad Yadav, 87, Indian politician, member of Constituent Assembly of India.

16

• 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.
• Marie Uchytilová, 65, Czechoslovakian sculptor and medalist.
• 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.
• Costabile Farace, 29, American mobster, (Bonanno crime family), shot.
• Benjamin Fisz, 66–67, Polish film director and writer.
• 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.
• Tom Starcevich, 71, Australian army soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross.

18

• 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.
• Al Morgan, 74, American nightclub singer, pianist and composer (Jealous Heart).
• 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.
• Nancy Drexel, 79, American actress.
• Sol Harrison, 71–72, American comic book colorist.
• Shigeki Mori, 79, Japanese businessman and politician.

20

• Lynn Bari, 69, American movie actress, heart attack.
• Hirabai Barodekar, 84, Indian Hindustani classical music singer.
• Arnold Bauman, 75, American district judge.
• Wade Ellis, 80, American mathematician.
• Božidar Jakac, 90, Yugoslav painter, photographer and filmmaker.
• Josu Muguruza, 30–31, Spanish journalist and politician, assassinated.
• Leonardo Sciascia, 68, Italian writer and politician, member of the European Parliament (1979–1984).
• "Wild Bill" Whaling, 95, American major-general in US Marine Corps, Olympic shooter.
• Rachel Wischnitzer, 104, Russian-born German and American art historian.

21

• Helen Daniels Bader, 62, American social worker and philanthropist.
• 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.
• 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 politician and diplomat, husband of Margot Fonteyn, heart attack.
• 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 (Warner Bros. Cartoons).
• José G. Cruz, 72, Mexican comics writer and screenwriter.
• H. O. Davies, 84, Nigerian lawyer, journalist and politician.
• Clement Haynsworth, 77, American judge, heart attack.
• Abdur Rashid Kardar, 85, Indian film actor and director.
• Billy Milton, 83, British stage, film and television actor.
• René Moawad, 64, Lebanese politician, president of Lebanon, assassinated.
• Vijay Rajindernath, 61, Indian cricketer.
• Shamil Serikov, 33, Soviet wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide.

23

• Jiří Baumruk, 59, Czechoslovakian international basketballer, coach and Olympian (Sparta Prague), traffic collision.
• Martin Glaessner, 82, Austrian-Australian geologist and palaeontologist.
• Sidney Janis, 93, American clothing manufacturer and art collector, pneumonia.
• Rita Lenihan, 75, American naval officer, cancer.
• Armand Salacrou, 90, French dramatist and member of French Resistance.
• Mariko Shiga, 19, Japanese singer, traffic accident.

24

• E. Ruth Anderson, 82, American musicologist and editor.
• Gordon Bess, 60, American cartoonist (Redeye).
• Leonard Boudin, 77, American civil liberties attorney and activist, heart attack.
• Michael Harwood, 54–55, American environmentalist and author, embolism.
• Lawrence A. Hyland, 92, American electrical engineer, heart attack.
• Richard Korherr, 86, Nazi German statistician and Sturmbannführer.
• Ralph Norwood, 23, American NFL football player (Atlanta Falcons), traffic collision.

25

• Salo Wittmayer Baron, 94, Austro-Hungarian-born American historian.
• George Cakobau, 77, Fijian politician, Governor-General of Fiji.
• Claus Clausen, 90, German film actor.
• Birago Diop, 82, Senegalese poet and storyteller.
• Alva R. Fitch, 82, American -general in the U.S. Army, deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
• John Kaplan, 60, American lawyer and author, brain tumour.
• Frank A. Southard Jr., 82, American deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, cancer.
• William Stratton, 86, British army officer, Commander British Forces in Hong Kong.
• María Colón Sánchez, 62–63, Puerto Rico-American politician (Connecticut General Assembly), heart attack.
• Frank M. Thomas, 100, American stage, screen and television actor.
• Clifford Thornton, 53, American jazz trumpeter and trombonist.

26

• Ahmed Abdallah, 70, Comorian politician, president of the Comoros, assassinated.
• William Barber, 70, English first class cricketer.
• Morrice James, Baron St Brides, 73, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Australia, Pakistan and India.
• Lew Fonseca, 90, American Major League baseballer and manager (Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds).
• Gunnar Hedlund, 89, Swedish politician, Minister of the Interior.
• Priscilla Robertson, 79, American historian and college professor, stroke.
• Chand Usmani, 56, Indian actress.

27

• Frank Fools Crow, 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, heart attack.
• Norma Nichols, 95, American silent-screen actress.
• Claudio O. Teehankee, Sr., 71, Filipino judge and diplomat, Chief Justice of the Philippines, cancer.
• Trude von Molo, 82, Austrian film actress (The Theft of the Mona Lisa).

28

• Arsenie Boca, 79, Romanian priest 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 League baseballer (Boston Bees/Braves).
• Jo Vincent, 91, Dutch soprano.

29

• Gubby Allen, 87, Australian-born English cricketer, captain of England, national selector, complications from surgery.
• Giuseppe Antonini, 75, Italian professional footballer (AC Milan).
• 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, pneumonia.
• A. Maruthakasi, 69, Indian film lyricist and poet.
• Ion Popescu-Gopo, 66, Romanian graphic artist and animator, 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.
• Gabriel Manek, 76, Indonesian archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Pier Luigi Vestrini, 84, Italian rower, European champion and Olympian.