• Source: Deaths in November 1985

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1985.
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 1985






= 1

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Joseph A. Brandt, 86, American academic administrator.
Joe Fitzgerald, 73, Australian politician, MP (1949–1955).
Vladimir Gorokhov, 74, Soviet football player and coach.
Yvonne Hagnauer, 87, French humanitarian.
Ōuchiyama Heikichi, 59, Japanese sumo wrestler, brain cancer.
Joe Hewitt, 84, Australian Air Force commander.
Lev Lyulyev, 77, Soviet artillery designer.
Rick McGraw, 30, American professional wrestler.
John Phillips, 75, British Anglican prelate.
Arnold Pihlak, 83, Estonian footballer.
Roy L. Riales Sr., 75, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1939–1948).
John Shaheen, 70, American financier.
Jaishanker Manilal Shelat, 77, Indian judge.
Nikolay Shelenkov, 65, Soviet Olympic equestrian (1952, 1956).
Phil Silvers, 74, American actor (The Phil Silvers Show, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Top Banana).
O. M. Watts, 84, British master mariner and author.
Wetzel Whitaker, 77, American filmmaker (Johnny Lingo) and animator (Cinderella, Fantasia)




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Margaret Ashley-Towle, 81-83, American archaeologist.
Don Bragg, 52, American basketball player, heart attack.
Gloria Brennan, 37, Australian Aboriginal community leader.
Fred Enke, 88, American football and basketball player and coach.
Alan Hime, 56, English swimmer.
Alexander Knight, 61, Australian politician.
Volodymyr Kubijovyč, 85, Polish-Ukrainian anthropologist and Nazi collaborator.
William Lummis, 99, British military historian.
Konrad Morawski, 71, Polish actor.




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John Eldridge, 87, British general.
Robert W. Grow, 90, American general.
Olav Haug, 69, Norwegian furniture designer.
Richard D. Kisling, 61, American Air Force airman, chief master sergeant (1971–1973), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Robert P. Knowles, 69, American politician, member of the Wisconsin Senate (1955–1977).
Gar Moore, 65, American actor.
Robert Nelson, 65, American football player.
Phoumi Nosavan, 65, Laotian general, stroke.
Tan Tong Hye, 71, Singaporean-born Malaysian politician.
J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, 69, British historian.




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Cus D'Amato, 77, American boxing manager and trainer (Mike Tyson, Floyd Patterson, José Torres), pneumonia.
Rudolf Fernau, 87, German actor.
Charley Fusari, 61, Italian-born American boxer, cancer.
Liam Grainger, 72, Irish footballer.
James Groppi, 54, American Catholic priest and civil rights activist, brain cancer.
Ferdinand Kramer, 87, German architect.
Adonis A. Kyrou, 62, Greek filmmaker.
George S. Myers, 80, American icthyologist.
Tony Nicholson, 47, English cricketer
Line Noro, 85, French actress.
A. A. Phillips, 85, Australian writer and social commentator, coined "cultural cringe".
Gale H. Stalker, 95, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1923–1935), arteriosclerosis.
Hilda Vaughan, 93, Welsh novelist.
Richard Williams, 54, American trumpeter, kidney cancer.




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Arnold Chikobava, 87, Soviet Georgian linguist.
Jean Théodore Delacour, 95, French-American ornithologist.
Spencer W. Kimball, 90, American Mormon religious leader, president of the LDS Church (since 1973), peptic ulcer disease.
Anita Leslie, 70, British author.
Alexander Lloyd, 2nd Baron Lloyd, 73, British politician.
Elise Muller, 66, South African writer.
Horace Strutt, 81, Australian politician.
William Tweddell, 88, English golfer.
Ernest Weiss, 59, Canadian Olympic sailor (1968).




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Harold Bradley, 73, American college basketball coach.
Breandán Breathnach, 73, Irish music collector.
Joel Crothers, 44, American actor, lymphoma.
Jean Kane Foulke du Pont, 94, American social activist and philanthropist.
Pike Johnson, 89, American football player.
Hans Keller, 66, Austrian-born British musicologist.
Sanjeev Kumar, 47, Indian actor, heart attack.
Wallace Newman, 84, American football and baseball player and coach.
Sara Woods, 63, British author.




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Joe O'Meara, 78, Australian footballer.
Parr Tate, 84, Irish parasitologist.
Alexander Thom, 91, Scottish engineer and archaeoastronomer.
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen, 86, Swiss agronomist and politician.
Notable Colombian casualties during the Palace of Justice siege:
Andrés Almarales, 49-50, guerrilla fighter, suicide.
Fanny González Franco, 50-51, lawyer, shot.
Alfonso Jacquin, 32, lawyer and guerrilla fighter, shot.
Alfonso Patiño Rosselli, 62-63, judge, shot.
Alfonso Reyes Echandía, 53, jurist, shot.




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Lili Bleeker, 88, Dutch physicist and optical instrument designer.
Günter Busarello, 25, Austrian Olympic wrestler (1980, 1984).
Nicolas Frantz, 86, Luxembourgish racing cyclist.
Odd Fredriksen, 64, Norwegian footballer.
Sir Arthur Gaitskell, 85, British colonial administrator.
Tullio Grassi, 75, Swiss football player and manager.
Masten Gregory, 53, American racing driver, heart attack.
Frank Irwin, 88, Australian footballer.
Laura Krey, 94, American novelist.
Renato Mocellini, 56, Italian Olympic bobsledder (1956).
David E. Williams, 52, American painter, complications from diabetes.




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Ludger Alscher, 69, German archaeologist.
John Conroy, 56, British Olympic field hockey player (1952, 1956).
Knut Enell, 98, Swedish Olympic fencer (1912, 1920).
Yakov Fokanov, 85, Soviet general.
Miriam Ibling, 90, American muralist.
Herbert Kuhlmann, 70, German-Argentine SS commander and fugitive.
Lewis Luxton, 75, Australian Olympic rower (1932).
Mary MacLaren, 85, American actress.
Marie-Georges Pascal, 39, French actress, suicide.
Helen Rose, 81, American costume designer.
Stasys Šačkus, 78, Lithuanian basketball player.
Bob Steele, 84, Australian cricketer.
Jan Strube, 93, Dutch painter.
Peter Sutton, 53, Australian Olympic basketball player (1956).
L. H. C. Tippett, 83, English statistician, traffic collision.
Henk van der Linden, 66, Dutch footballer.




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Frédéric Braconier, 84, Belgian artist.
Vida Brest, 60, Yugoslav novelist.
Milton Burton, 83, American chemist, heart attack.
Givi Javakhishvili, 72, Soviet Georgian politician, prime minister (1953–1975).
Ernst Jõesaar, 80, Estonian sculptor.
Verner Laaksonen, 90, Finnish Olympic runner (1928).
Billy Lane, 81, English footballer.
John Moher, 76, Irish politician, TD (1954–1965).
James Moroka, 94, South African politician.
Suzy Paine, 39, British economist.
Len Peto, 93, English-Canadian-American ice hockey executive.
Olav Sunde, 82, Norwegian Olympic javelin thrower (1928, 1932).
Branislav Vukosavljević, 56, Yugoslav football player and manager.
Sir Peveril William-Powlett, 87, British naval officer.




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Edgar Cherry, 71, American football player.
Leopoldo Fernández, 80, Cuban comedian.
James Hanley, 88, British novelist.
Archie Jackson, 84, English footballer.
Roy Lee, 68, American baseball player.
Pelle Lindbergh, 26, Swedish ice hockey player, traffic collision.
Henri Médus, 81, French singer.
Frank Mulroney, 82, American baseball player.
Gerolamo Quaglia, 83, Brazilian-born Italian Olympic wrestler (1924, 1928).
Arthur Rothstein, 70, American photographer.
Leni Schmidt, 78, German Olympic runner (1928).
Iivari Yrjölä, 86, Finnish Olympic athlete (1924).




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Howie Auer, 77, American football player.
Wattie Barclay, 91, New Zealand rugby player and administrator.
Anna V. Brown, 70-71, American elder rights activist.
Willi Dehnkamp, 82, German politician.
Bill Fallowfield, 71, British rugby coach.
Vasily Garbuzov, 74, Soviet politician and economist, minister of finance (since 1960).
Mary Gojack, 49, American politician, member of the Nevada Senate (1974–1978), cancer.
Hildebrand Gregori, 91, Italian Catholic monk.
John Keith McBroom Laird, 78, Canadian politician, senator (1967–1982).
Jarma Lewis, 54, American actress.
Marcelo Nubla, 87, Filipino lawyer and banking executive.
Krishnamoorthy Puranik, 74, Indian poet.
Stanislaw Trabalski, 89, German politician.
Augie Walsh, 81, American baseball player.
Dicky Wells, 78, American trombonist, cancer.




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Carlos Amado, 60-61, Argentine Olympic rower (1948).
Richard Amsel, 37, American illustrator, AIDS.
Trygve Andersen, 76, Norwegian wrestler.
Emil N. Baar, 94, Austrian-born American jurist.
Arturo Díaz, 45, Chilean football player and manager.
Peter Larsen, 81, Danish Olympic wrestler (1936).
Max Miller, 73, American jazz musician, heart failure.
William Pereira, 76, American architect, cancer.
Alexander Pokryshkin, 72, Soviet flying ace.
George Robert Vincent, 87, American sound recording engineer.




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Dmitry Belyayev, 68, Soviet geneticist and zoologist (domesticated silver fox), cancer.
Alick Bryant, 82, Australian soldier.
Grace Gregory, 83-84, American set decorator.
Oscar Harstad, 93, American baseball player.
Ratnakar Hari Kelkar, 84, Indian translator.
Wellington Koo, 97, Chinese politician and diplomat, premier (1927) and acting president (1926–1927).
Lee Mulleneaux, 77, American football player.
Luke Nelson, 91, American baseball player.
J. Aird Nesbitt, 78, Canadian businessman.
John Patrick O'Loughlin, 74, Australian Roman Catholic prelate.
Emir Rodríguez Monegal, 64, Uruguayan-American literary scholar.
Armistead I. Selden Jr., 64, American politician and diplomat, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1969), cancer.




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Bill Horrocks, 80, English-born Australian cricketer.
John Morison Inches, 82, Scottish brewing executive.
Méret Oppenheim, 72, German-born Swiss artist.
Dimitar Panov, 83, Bulgarian actor.
Carlos Spadaro, 83, Argentine footballer.
Riggs Stephenson, 87, American baseball player.
David Strub, 88, Liechtensteiner politician.




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Ivan Ashtine, 61, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer.
Ludwig Bertele, 84, German optics constructor.
Helen Bell Bruton, 87, American artist.
Stuart Chase, 97, American economist.
Swami Chidbhavananda, 87, Indian religious scholar.
Lou Fleischer, 94, American composer.
Simon Michael Fung Kui Heong, 54, Malaysian Roman Catholic prelate, stomach cancer.
Walter Jupé, 69, German actor.
Léon Lampo, 62, Belgian Olympic basketball player (1948).
Gulshan Nanda, 65-66, Indian novelist and screenwriter.
Fred Price, 84, English footballer.
Omayra Sánchez, 13, Colombian child, landslide.
John Sparkman, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1946–1979) and House of Representatives (1937–1946), heart attack.




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J. Amado Araneta, 78, Filipino businessman.
Michael Birkin, 73, British RAF officer.
Avgust Černigoj, 87, Yugoslav painter.
Janet Doe, 90, American librarian.
Michalis Kaltezas, 15, Greek protestor, shot.
Prince Karl Alfred of Liechtenstein, 75, Liechtensteiner royal.
Roger Laroque, 75, New Caledonian politician.
Lon Nol, 72, Cambodian politician, president (1972–1975), prime minister (1966–1967, 1969–1971).
Thomas Quiwonkpa, 45, Liberian general, shot.
Jimmy Ritz, 81, American actor, heart disease.
Sukat Subandi, 59, Indonesian military officer.
Gheorghe Ursu, 59, Romanian poet and dissident, beaten.
Wang Jinzhang, 77-78, Chinese politician.




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Stephan Henrik Barratt-Due, 66, Norwegian violinist.
Andy Bieber, 68, Canadian football player.
Paul Bixler, 78, American football player and sports coach.
Harold Gade, 86, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1948–1952).
Dimitris Gogos, 82, Greek singer.
Mario Góngora, 70, Chilean historian.
Orton Sutherland Hintz, 78, New Zealand journalist.
Masayoshi Ise, 78, Japanese painter.
Osvaldo Lamborghini, 45, Argentine writer, heart attack.
Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth, 82, British politician, MP (1924–1929, 1945–1970).
Stella Marks, 97, Australian artist.
Michael Mooney, 55, American Olympic sailor (1948), cancer.
Yrjö Nikkanen, 70, Finnish Olympic javelin thrower (1936).
Dmitry Ryabyshev, 91, Soviet general.
Inger Thorén, 72, Swedish chemical engineer.
Owen Thuerk, 67, American football player.




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Juan Arvizu, 85, Mexican singer.
Charlie Billington, 58, English footballer.
Robert Breiter, 76, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1928).
Damon W. Cooper, 66, American naval admiral.
Mike Erskine, 71, English motorcycle racer.
Stepin Fetchit, 83, American actor and comedian, pneumonia.
Sir Evan Meredith Jenkins, 89, British colonial administrator.
George H. Mahon, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1935–1979).
John Mant, 88, Australian solicitor.
Phil Sarboe, 74, American football player and coach.
Richard M. Sims Jr., 75, American judge.
Lall Singh, 75, Indian cricketer.
Carmen Soler, 61, Paraguayan educator.
Bob Synnott, 73, American basketball player.
Douglas Tennant, 78-79, British trade unionist.




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Jenny Armstrong, 82, Scottish shepherd and art model.
Maurice Courteau, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
Peggy Feury, 61, American actress, traffic collision.
Victor Henry, 42, English actor, complications from a traffic collision.
Henning Klopper, 90, South African politician.
Harry Pollard, 66, American mathematician.
Carmen Sánchez, 87, Spanish actress and dancer.
George Sharpe, 77, Canadian politician.
Wade Van Valkenburg, 86, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (1947–1956).
Jerzy Ziętek, 84, Polish politician.




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Derek Jewell, 57-58, British journalist.
Ramnath Kenny, 55, Indian cricketer.
Johannes Marott, 68, Danish actor.
Ivo Serdar, 51, Croatian actor.
Philaret Voznesensky, 82, Russian-American Russian Orthodox prelate.
Mirosława Zakrzewska-Kotula, 52, Polish volleyball and handball player and coach.




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Gudolf Blakstad, 92, Norwegian architect.
Owen Churchill, 89, American Olympic sailor (1932).
Aaron R. Fisher, 90, American soldier.
Ruby Gainfort, 95, Austalian academic administrator.
Tahu Hole, 79, New Zealand journalist.
Alan Lavery, 81, Australian footballer.
A. G. Louton, 83, American-South African missionary.
Richard Milton Martin, 69, American logician.
Epifanio Méndez Fleitas, 68, Paraguayan politician and banker.
Robert Newton, 96, Canadian academic administrator.
Merlo J. Pusey, 83, American biographer, cancer.
David Rabkin, 36-37, South African anti-apartheid activist, military training accident.
María Sabina, 91, Mexican poet and curandera.




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Manfred Björkquist, 101, Swedish Lutheran prelate.
Roger Brand, 42, American cartoonist, liver failure.
Walter Jenkins, 67, American political aide.
Leonhard Kass, 74, Estonian footballer.
Heinz Lorenz, 72, German propagandist.
Concepción Mendizábal Mendoza, 92, Mexican civil engineer.
Leslie Mitchell, 80, British broadcaster and actor.
Melville Nimmer, 62, American lawyer, cancer.
Lupita Pallás, 59, Mexican actress.
Nina Quartero, 77, American actress.
Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi, 49, Iranian writer, cirrhosis.
Sam West, 81, American baseball player.




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Sinan Alaağaç, 25, Turkish footballer, heart attack.
René Barjavel, 74, French author.
Percy Bice, 70, Australian footballer.
C. Buddingh', 67, Dutch poet and translator.
Christina Hole, 88-89, British folklorist.
Laurence Lafore, 67-68, American historian.
Josef Miller, 95, German theologian.
Maurice Podoloff, 95, Russian-born American basketball executive, NBA commissioner (1946–1963).
George Raynor, 78, English football player and manager.
Big Joe Turner, 74, American singer ("Shake, Rattle and Roll", "Flip, Flop and Fly", "Corrine, Corrina"), kidney failure.
John Waddington, 66, South African cricketer.
Alice Miles Woodruff, 84, American virologist.




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Évelyne Cloupet, 85, French Olympic jumper (1928).
Walther Dahl, 69, German flying ace.
Frances Davidson, Viscountess Davidson, 91, British politician, MP (1937–1959).
José L. Duomarco, 80, Uruguayan physiologist.
Rebii Erkal, 74, Turkish footballer.
Geoffrey Grigson, 80, British writer and art critic.
Franz Hildebrandt, 76, German-British theologian.
Ray Jablonski, 58, American baseball player.
Elsa Morante, 73, Italian author.
Dick Price, 55, American Gestalt therapist, hiking accident.
Don Stephenson, 50, Canadian football player.




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Frank Beaty, 66, American basketball player.
Emma Marie Birkmaier, 77, German-born American educator, leukemia.
Sergei Gerasimov, 79, Soviet filmmaker, heart attack.
Alice Habsburg, 95, Swedish aristocrat.
Bill Jackson, 67, Irish basketball player.
Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar, 86, Indian poet.
Pablo Serrano, 77, Spanish sculptor.
Monk Sherlock, 81, American baseball player.
Vivien Thomas, 75, American surgeon, pancreatic cancer.




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Peter Bessell, 64, British politician, MP (1964–1970), emphysema.
Fernand Braudel, 83, French historian.
Harry Harvey Sr., 84, American actor.
André Hunebelle, 89, French film director and glassmaker.
Rendra Karno, 65, Indonesian actor.
George Opperman, 50, American graphic designer (Atari logo), lung cancer.




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Melvin G. deChazeau, 85, American economist.
Hermann Harm, 91, German SS officer.
Charlie Kerr, 79, New Zealand cricketer.
Park Krygger, 87, Australian footballer.
Chaim Pinchas Lubinsky, 70, Polish-American rabbi.
Johnny "Blood" McNally, 82, American football player.
Thomas Megarry, 87, Hong Kong civil servant.
Mary Aquinas Monaghan, 66, Irish missionary, cancer.
Red Pearlman, 87, American football player.
Eyre Saitch, 80, American basketball player.
Max Saltsman, 64, Canadian politician, MP (1964–1979), liver cancer.
John P. Shanley, 70, American journalist.
Jirō Shirasu, 83, Japanese politician.
Josef Smistik, 80, Austrian footballer.
A. Lee Smith, 70, American football coach.
Bernard Zakheim, 87, Polish-born American muralist.




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Eduards Andersons, 71, Latvian basketball player.
Angelo Cattaneo, 84, Italian Olympic cyclist (1928).
Eric W. Cochrane, 57, American historian.
Sir Charles Davidson, 88, Australian politician, MP (1946–1963).
Gaston Féry, 85, French Olympic sprinter (1920, 1924).
Jack Garland, 77, Northern Irish boxer.
Gérard Hoarau, 34, Seychellois politician, shot.
Josef Josten, 72, Czech journalist.
Thomas Gaetano LoMedico, 81, American sculptor.
Claes Christian Olrog, 73, Swedish-Argentine ornithologist.
Bill Scott, 65, American voice actor (The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, George of the Jungle), heart attack.
Chappie Sheppell, 71, American soccer player.




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Tom Aikens, 85, Australian politician.
Marc Aryan, 59, French-Belgian musician, cardiac arrest.
Vladimir Arzamaskov, 34, Soviet Olympic basketball player (1976).
Sir Chau Sik-nin, 82, Hong Kong politician and businessman.
Jim Cutmore, 86, English cricketer.
Jim Grant, 91, American baseball player.
Rudolf Schoenert, 74, German flying ace.
Phil Tucker, 58, American filmmaker (Robot Monster).
Marie Waife, 93, Russian-born American writer.
Joseph Zaritsky, 94, Russian-Israeli artist.




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