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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1989.
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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.
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November 1989
1
- Peter Childs, 50, English actor (Minder), leukemia.
- Haranath, 53, Indian actor, alcohol poisoning.
- Elise Harney, 65, American AAGPBL player.
- Robert James Moon, 78, American physicist, chemist and engineer (Manhattan Project).[1]
- Mihaela Runceanu, 34, Romanian singer, murdered.[2]
- Dagmar Sandvig, 68, Norwegian politician.
- Max Streib, 76, Swiss Olympic handball player (1936).
- Hoimar von Ditfurth, 68, German physician and scientific journalist, thyroid cancer.[3]
2
- Inés Arredondo, 61, Mexican writer.
- Andrée Brabant, 88, French film actress.
- Mildred Brown, 83, American journalist and newspaper publisher, co-founded the Omaha Star, severe cold.[4]
- Reidar Bruu, 86, Norwegian politician.
- John Clymer, 82, American painter and illustrator.[5]
- Morris H. DeGroot, 58, American statistician, editor of Statistical Science, lung cancer.[6]
- Elizabeth Hawley Gasque, 103, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1939).[7]
- Frederick Gordon-Lennox, 85, British hereditary peer, engineer and racing driver.[8]
- Henry M. Margolis, 80, American industrialist, lawyer and theatrical producer, director of the International Center of Photography.[9]
- Tom Mennard, 71, English comedian and actor, cancer.
- Steve Simpson, 41, American MLB player (San Diego Padres).
- Stefan Staszewski, 82, Polish communist politician.[10]
- R. Sankara Narayanan Thampi, 78, Indian member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
- Shana Yardan, 46, Guyanese poet, cancer.[11]
3
- Timoci Bavadra, 55, Fijian politician, Prime Minister of Fiji, cancer.[12]
- Louis Craine, 32, American serial killer, AIDS.
- Dorothy Fuldheim, 96, American journalist and news anchor (Cleveland Press, WEWS-TV), stroke.[13]
- Ed Kasid, 66, American basketball player.
- Leigh Leigh, 14, Australian murder victim.
- William Morris Jr., 90, American talent agent, president of William Morris Agency.[14]
- Zelma O'Neal, 86, American actress (Paramount on Parade), singer and dancer.[15]
- Edward J. Stack, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1979-1981).[16]
4
- Pancho Coimbre, 80, Puerto Rican Negro League baseballer (New York Cubans), house fire.[17]
- Neelkanth Ganjoo, 67, Indian high court judge, assassinated.[18]
- Trevor Kent, 49, Australian theatre and television actor, AIDS.
- Erkki Kerttula, 79, Finnish fencer and dual Olympian (1948, 1952).[19]
- Clare Leighton, 91, English-American artist, writer and illustrator.[20]
- Vivian Mercier, 70, Irish literary critic.[21]
- Edwin Pemberton, 81, Australian rules footballer.
- Howard A. Rusk, 88, American physician, founder of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine.[22]
- Keiichirō Ryū, 65-66, Japanese editor, screenwriter and historical fiction writer.[23]
- John Taylor, 81, Canadian cross-country skier and Olympian (1932).[24]
- Bohumil Váňa, 69, Czech table tennis player and world champion.
5
- Adem Čejvan, 62, Yugoslavian actor.
- Ted Cox, 86, American football and basketball player and coach.
- Johs Elvestad, 90, Norwegian composer.
- Vladimir Horowitz, 86, Russian-born American pianist and composer, heart attack.[25]
- John O'Connell, 38, Australian rules footballer (Carlton).[26]
- Barry Sadler, 49, American soldier, author and singer ("The Ballad of the Green Berets"), shot.[27]
- Margot Seitelman, 61, German-born American businesswoman, executive director of American Mensa, cancer.[28]
- Lu Watters, 77, American trumpeter and bandleader (Yerba Buena Jazz Band).[29]
- Benigno Zaccagnini, 77, Italian politician, Minister of Labour and Social Security.[30]
- Adem Čejvan, 62, Yugoslavian actor.[31]
6
- Margarete Buber-Neumann, 88, German writer.[32]
- Adrian Dullard, 71, Australian rules footballer.
- George Fett, 69, American cartoonist.
- Dickie Goodman, 55, American record producer, suicide.[33]
- Alex Jordan Jr., 75, American creator of House on the Rock, heart attack.[34]
- Little Sister Magdeleine of Jesus, 91, French founder of Little Sisters of Jesus.[35]
- Margit Makay, 98, Hungarian film actress.
- Yūsaku Matsuda, 40, Japanese actor, bladder cancer.[36]
- William Murphy, 67, American film actor.
- Bjarne Rosén, 80, Norwegian footballer.
7
- Paula Acker, 76, German correspondent, journalist and newspaper editor.[37]
- Dai Astley, 80, Welsh international footballer (Aston Villa, Wales).[38]
- Andrey Borovykh, 68, Soviet World War II flying ace, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, stroke.[39]
- May Justus, 91, American children's author.[40]
- Alec Mango, 78, English actor (Captain Horatio Hornblower).[41]
- Milton K. Ozaki, 76, American writer.[42]
- Brunello Rondi, 64, Italian screenwriter and film director (La dolce vita), heart attack.[43]
- Jan Skácel, 67, Czech poet.[44]
- Tommy Tatum, 70, American MLB player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds).
- Dick Vorisek, 71, American sound engineer (Reds).
- Keith Walker, 66, English cricketer.
8
- Robert Gerringer, 63, American actor (Dark Shadows), stroke.[45]
- Ray D. Hahn, 91, American football and basketball player and coach.
- Choi Ja-shil, 74, Korean pentecostal pastor, founded Yoido Full Gospel Church, heart attack.[46]
- Johnny Lanning, 79, American Major League baseballer (Pittsburgh Pirates).[47]
- Lee Yuk-wing, 85, Macau-born American professor of electrical engineering.[48]
- Yitzhak Raveh, 82, German-born Israeli judge (trial of Adolf Eichmann), heart failure.[49]
- Mattie Rotenberg, 92, Canadian physicist and journalist.[50]
- Maud Russell, 96, American social worker and writer (Young Women's Christian Association), lung cancer.[51]
- Gino Soldà, 82, Italian cross-country skier and Olympian (1932).[52]
- Elmer Wynne, 88, American NFL footballer and coach (Chicago Bears).[53]
- Mary Agnes Yerkes, 103, American impressionist painter and photographer.
9
- Cliff Ashburn, 83, American NFL footballer (New York Giants).[54]
- Kenny Hagood, 63, American jazz vocalist, cancer.[55]
- Arthur John Holland, 71, American politician, mayor of Trenton, New Jersey, cancer.[56]
- Enriqueta Mayora, 68, Mexican Olympic fencer (1948).
- Bob McLean, 75, Australian rules footballer and cricketer.
- Bill Neilson, 64, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania, cancer.[57]
- Roar Pedersen, 61, Norwegian ice hockey player and Olympian (1952).[58]
- Nenad Petrović, 82, Yugoslavian chess player.[59]
- Leen Vente, 78, Dutch international footballer (Feyenoord Rotterdam, Netherlands).[60]
- Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, 64, Indonesian general, ambassador to South Korea, fever.[61]
10
- Syd Dineen, 75, Australian rules footballer.
- Cookie Mueller, 40, American actress and author, AIDS.[62]
- Niels Schibbye, 79, Danish Olympic sailor (1936).
- Craig J. Spence, 49, American journalist and lobbyist, suicide.[63]
11
- Jay DeFeo, 60, American artist, lung cancer.[64]
- Nicholas Freeman, 50, English politician, mayor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
- Jean Holloway, 72, American film, radio and television writer.[65]
- Natalio Pescia, 67, Argentinian international footballer (Boca Juniors, Argentina).[66]
12
- Harry Bergström, 79, Finnish pianist, conductor and composer.[67]
- Thomas Dam, 74, Danish woodworker and fisherman.
- Zoltán Dudás, 56, Hungarian international footballer and Olympic medalist (Budapest Honvéd, Hungary).[68]
- Stan Galazin, 79, American NFL player (New York Giants).
- Iolas Huffman, 91, American football player (Ohio State Buckeyes).
- Dolores Ibárruri, 93, Spanish communist politician of the Spanish Civil War, pneumonia.[69]
- Armour G. McDaniel, 73, American air force military officer.[70]y
- Victor Putmans, 75, Belgian footballer.
- Mao Yisheng, 93, Chinese structural engineer and politician.[71]
13
- Victor Davis, 25, Canadian world champion swimmer and Olympic gold medalist (1984, 1988), pedestrian accident.[72]
- Eurico Caires, 37, Portuguese footballer.
- Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, 83, Liechtenstein royal, reigning monarch.[73]
- Upatissa Gamanayake, 41, Sri Lankan politician, deputy leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, shot by government forces.[74]
- Roger Heman Jr, 57, American sound engineer (Jaws, Coal Miner's Daughter).
- H. B. Herath, 35, Sri Lankan politician, member of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, shot by government forces.[75]
- Arthur Hutchings, 83, English musicologist, composer and professor of music.[76]
- Dorothea Krook-Gilead, 69, Latvian-born literary scholar, translator and professor of English literature.[77]
- Oliver F. Naquin, 85, American navy rear admiral, pancreatic cancer.[78]
- Rohana Wijeweera, 46, Sri Lankan political activist, founder of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, shot by government forces.[79]
- Gennady Yudin, 66, Soviet Russian film and stage actor.
14
- Wild Bill Davison, 83, American jazz cornetist.[80]
- Choe Deok-sin, 75, South Korean Foreign Minister who defected to North Korea.[81]
- Rémi Laurent, 32, French actor (La Cage aux Folles), AIDS.[82]
- Jimmy Murphy, 79, Welsh international footballer (West Bromwich Albion, Wales), aortic dissection.[83]
- Solomon Ngobeni, South African, last person executed by South African government.[84]
- Samand Siabandov, 79, Soviet writer, soldier and politician, Hero of the Soviet Union.[85]
- Enzo Trapani, 67, Italian film director and screenwriter.
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.[86]
- Bartolomé Colombo, 73, Argentine footballer.
- William N. Deramus III, 73, American railroad executive.[87]
- Alejo Durán, 70, Colombian traditional composer, singer and accordionist.[88]
- Rocky Ellis, 78, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
- Jeremy Flint, 61, English contract bridge player and writer, cancer.[89]
- Lipót Kállai, 76, Hungarian Olympic footballer (1936).
- George Manuel, 68, Canadian indigenous leader.[90]
- Homer Marshman, 91, American owner of the Cleveland Rams.[91]
- Andrzej Gąsienica Roj, 58, Polish Olympic alpine skier (1952, 1956).
- Norma Terris, 85, American musical theatre and vaudeville actress (Show Boat).[92]
- Kamleshwari Prasad Yadav, 87, Indian politician, member of Constituent Assembly of India.
16
- Petar Argirov, 66, Bulgarian Olympic footballer (1952).
- Jean-Claude Malépart, 50, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1973-1976, 1979-1989).
- Rose Murphy, 76, American jazz pianist and singer.[93]
- Dorothy G. Page, 68, American "Mother of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race".[94]
- Oliver Smedley, 78, English businessman and political activist.[95]
- Marie Uchytilová, 65, Czech sculptor and medalist.[96]
- Victims of the 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador:
- Ignacio Ellacuría, 59, Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit, philosopher and theologian, shot.[97]
- Ignacio Martín-Baró, 47, Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit, philosopher and theologian, shot.[98]
- Segundo Montes, 56, Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit, philosopher and theologian, shot.
17
- David Blundy, 44, British journalist and war correspondent, shot.[99]
- Emerson Buckley, 73, American orchestra conductor, emphysema.[100]
- Jack Cusick, 61, American MLB player (Chicago Cubs, Boston Braves).
- Costabile Farace, 29, American mobster (Bonanno crime family), shot.[101]
- Benjamin Fisz, 66–67, Polish-born British film director and writer (A Town Called Bastard).
- Billy Lee, 60, American child actor (The Biscuit Eater), heart attack.[102]
- Thiruchi Loganathan, 65, Indian singer.
- Uzair Gul Peshawari, 102–103, Pakistani Islamic scholar and activist.[103]
- Charles Perry Stacey, 83, Canadian historian, official historian of the Canadian Army.[104]
- Tom Starcevich, 71, Australian army soldier, Victoria Cross recipient.[105]
18
- Les Deaton, 66, American basketball player and coach.
- Hendrik de Vries, 93, Dutch poet and painter.[106]
- William Wister Haines, 81, American author, screenwriter and playwright, stroke.[107]
- Johnny Haymer, 69, American actor (M*A*S*H), cancer.[108]
- Edvin Laine, 84, Finnish film director and actor (The Unknown Soldier).[109]
- Al Morgan, 74, American nightclub singer, pianist and composer ("Jealous Heart").[110]
- Sherman Plunkett, 56, American NFL footballer (New York Jets), cancer.[111]
- Freddie Waits, 46, American drummer, pneumonia and kidney failure.[112]
19
- Grant Adcox, 39, American stockcar driver, racing crash.[113]
- Clemente Carreras, 75, Cuban Negro Leagues baseball player.
- Nancy Drexel, 79, American actress.[114]
- Sol Harrison, 71–72, American comic book colorist.
- William McNab, 73, Scottish cricketer.
- Shigeki Mori, 79, Japanese businessman and politician, mayor of Neagari, Ishikawa.
- Paul Shyre, 63, American director and playwright (Will Rogers' USA), septicaemia.[115]
20
- Labib Hussein Abu Rokan, 77-78, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1959-1961).
- Lynn Bari, 69, American movie actress (China Girl), heart attack.[116]
- Hirabai Barodekar, 84, Indian Hindustani classical music singer.
- Arnold Bauman, 75, American district judge, cancer.[117]
- Wade Ellis, 80, American mathematician, heart attack.
- Božidar Jakac, 90, Yugoslav painter, photographer and filmmaker.
- Josu Muguruza, 30–31, Spanish journalist and politician, assassinated.[118]
- Leonardo Sciascia, 68, Italian writer and politician, member of the European Parliament, heart attack.[119]
- Abe Stuber, 86, American football player and coach.
- William J. Whaling ("Wild Bill"), 95, American general in the US Marine Corps, Olympic shooter (1924).[120]
- Rachel Wischnitzer, 104, Russian-born German and American art historian.[121]
21
- Helen Daniels Bader, 62, American social worker and philanthropist, ovarian cancer.
- Edward Bawden, 86, English painter, illustrator and graphic artist.[122]
- Edward Bayliss, 71, English cricketer.
- Peter Burton, 68, English film and television actor (Dr. No), heart attack.[123]
- Colin Cox, 67, Australian rules footballer.
- Heiko Fischer, 29, West German figure skater, national champion and Olympian (1984, 1988), chronic myocarditis.[124]
- Will Glahé, 87, German accordionist, composer and bandleader ("Beer Barrel Polka").[125]
- Arne Grahn, 87, Finnish Olympic tennis player (1924).
- Harvey Hart, 61, Canadian film and television director and television producer, heart attack.[126]
- Clement Spiette, 73, Belgian Olympic canoeist (1936).
- Tibor Székelyhidy, 85, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1936).
- Yana, 58, British singer, esophageal cancer.[127]
22
- Paul Alfonsi, 81, American politician, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly.[128]
- Roberto Arias, 71, Panamanian international politician and diplomat, husband of Margot Fonteyn, heart attack.[129]
- C. C. Beck, 79, American comic book artist, co-creator of Captain Marvel, renal failure.[130]
- Robert Berri, 76, French film actor.[131]
- Gerry Chiniquy, 77, American animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons).
- José G. Cruz, 72, Mexican comics writer and screenwriter.[132]
- H. O. Davies, 84, Nigerian lawyer, journalist and politician.
- Harvey Hart, 61, Canadian film and television director.
- Clement Haynsworth, 77, American judge, heart attack.[133]
- Abdur Rashid Kardar, 85, Indian film actor and director.[134]
- Billy Milton, 83, British stage, film and television actor.
- René Moawad, 64, Lebanese politician, President of Lebanon, assassinated.[135]
- Vijay Rajindernath, 61, Indian test cricketer.[136]
- Shamil Serikov, 33, Soviet wrestler and Olympic gold medalist (1980), suicide.[137]
23
- Jiří Baumruk, 59, Czech international basketballer, coach and Olympian (Sparta Prague), traffic collision.[138]
- Martin Glaessner, 82, Austrian-Australian geologist and palaeontologist.[139]
- Sidney Janis, 93, American clothing manufacturer and art collector, pneumonia.[140]
- Rita Lenihan, 75, American naval officer, cancer.[141]
- Lefty Moses, 75, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
- Armand Salacrou, 90, French dramatist and member of French Resistance.[142]
- Mariko Shiga, 19, Japanese singer, traffic accident.
24
- E. Ruth Anderson, 82, American musicologist and editor.
- Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, 48, Palestinian-Jordanian Islamist jihadist and theologian.
- Gordon Bess, 60, American cartoonist (Redeye).[143]
- Leonard Boudin, 77, American civil liberties attorney and activist, heart attack.[144]
- Michael Harwood, 54–55, American environmentalist and author, embolism.[145]
- Lawrence A. Hyland, 92, American electrical engineer, heart attack.[146]
- Richard Korherr, 86, Nazi German statistician and Sturmbannführer.[147]
- Ralph Norwood, 23, American NFL footballer (Atlanta Falcons), traffic collision.[148]
25
- Salo Wittmayer Baron, 94, Austro-Hungarian–born American historian.[149]
- George Cakobau, 77, Fijian politician, Governor-General of Fiji.[150]
- Harry Challis, 83, Australian rules footballer.
- Claus Clausen, 90, German film actor.[151]
- Birago Diop, 82, Senegalese poet and storyteller.[152]
- Alva R. Fitch, 82, American general in the U.S. Army, deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.[153]
- John Kaplan, 60, American lawyer and author, brain tumour.[154]
- George Smith, 83, English cricketer.
- Frank A. Southard Jr., 82, American deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, cancer.[155]
- William Stratton, 86, British army officer, Commander British Forces in Hong Kong.[156]
- María Colón Sánchez, 62–63, Puerto Rico–American politician (Connecticut General Assembly), heart attack.[157]
- Frank M. Thomas, 100, American stage, screen and television actor (A Man to Remember).[158]
- Clifford Thornton, 53, American jazz trumpeter and trombonist.
26
- Ahmed Abdallah, 70, Comoros politician, president of the Comoros, assassinated.[159]
- William Barber, 70, English first class cricketer.[160]
- Morrice James, 73, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Australia, Pakistan and India.[161]
- Lew Fonseca, 90, American Major League baseballer and manager (Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds).[162]
- Gunnar Hedlund, 89, Swedish politician, Minister of the Interior.[163]
- Maurice Kelly, 65, Bahamian Olympic sailor (1960).
- Priscilla Robertson, 79, American historian and college professor, stroke.[164]
- Chand Usmani, 56, Indian actress (Pehchan).
27
- Ray Boggs 84, American MLB player (Boston Braves).
- Frank Fools Crow, 99, Native American civic and religious leader.[165]
- Zuko Džumhur, 68, Yugoslavian writer, painter and caricaturist.[166]
- Walter Hoving, 91, Swedish-born American businessman and writer, chairman of Tiffany & Co.[167]
- Øystein Mellerud, 51, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player (1964).
- Carlos Arias Navarro, 80, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain, heart attack.[168]
- Norma Nichols, 95, American silent-screen actress (The Ne'er-Do-Well).[169]
- Claudio O. Teehankee, Sr., 71, Filipino judge and diplomat, Chief Justice of the Philippines, cancer.[170]
- Trude von Molo, 82, Austrian film actress (The Theft of the Mona Lisa).[171]
28
- Arsenie Boca, 79, Romanian priest and artist.[172]
- Ernesto Civardi, 83, Italian cardinal and secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops.[173]
- Rate Furlan, 78, Italian film actor, director, and screenwriter.
- Georgy Ilivitsky, 68, Soviet chess master, suicide.[174]
- Dolan Nichols, 59, American MLB player (Chicago Cubs).
- Bill Posedel, 83, American Major League baseballer (Boston Bees/Braves).[175]
- Jo Vincent, 91, Dutch soprano.[176]
29
- Sir Gubby Allen, 87, Australian-born English cricketer, captain of England, national selector, complications from surgery.[177]
- Giuseppe Antonini, 75, Italian professional footballer (AC Milan).[178]
- Nancy Bell, 65, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1970-1989).
- Ann Burton (born Johanna Rafalowicz, aka Johanna de Paauw), 56, Dutch jazz singer, throat cancer.[179]
- Mario Colli, 74, Italian film and voice actor.
- Natan Eidelman, 59, Soviet author and historian.[180]
- Sisto Gillarduzzi, 81, Italian bobsledder and alpine ski racer.
- Jim Jepson, 47, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1984-1988).
- Yam Kim-fai, 76, Chinese and Hong Kong opera actress, pneumonia.
- A. Maruthakasi, 69, Indian film lyricist and poet.[181]
- Ion Popescu-Gopo, 66, Romanian graphic artist and animator, heart attack.[182]
- Frank Scannell, 86, American film and television actor (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp).[183]
- Mabel Keaton Staupers, 99, American nurse and civil rights activist.[184]
- Rolf Turkka, 74, Finnish sailor and dual Olympian (1948, 1952).[185]
- Ödön Zombori, 83, Hungarian wrestler and Olympic gold medalist (1928, 1932, 1936).[186]
30
- Ahmadou Ahidjo, 65, Cameroonian politician, President of Cameroon, heart attack.[187]
- Stjepan Boltižar, 76, Yugoslavian gymnast and Olympian (1948).[188]
- Hassan Fathi, 89, Egyptian architect.[189]
- Alfred Herrhausen, 59, German banker, Chairman of Deutsche Bank, assassinated.[190]
- Teddy Jones, 79, Australian rules footballer.
- Gabriel Manek, 76, Indonesian archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church.[191]
- Pier Luigi Vestrini, 84, Italian rower, European champion and Olympian (1928).[192]
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- B. J. Arnau, 48, American-born singer and actress ("Live and Let Die"), brain tumour.
- Roy Brown, 65, English footballer (Stoke City, Watford).
- Édouard Candeveau, 91, Swiss Olympic rower (1920, 1924, 1928).
- Philip Core, 37–38, American-born English artist and writer, AIDS.
- Ione Robinson, 78–79, American artist and writer.
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