• Source: 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

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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

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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 the 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

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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 (Paramount on Parade), singer and dancer.
Edward J. Stack, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.




= 4

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Pancho Coimbre, 80, Puerto Rican Negro League baseballer (New York Cubans), house fire.
Neelkanth Ganjoo, 67, Indian high court judge, assassinated.
Trevor Kent, 49, Australian theatre and television actor, AIDS.
Erkki Kerttula, 79, Finnish fencer and dual Olympian.
Clare Leighton, 91, English-American artist, writer and illustrator.
Vivian Mercier, 70, Irish literary critic.
Howard A. Rusk, 88, American physician, founder of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine.
Keiichirō Ryū, 65-66, Japanese editor, screenwriter and historical fiction writer.
John Taylor, 81, Canadian cross-country skier and Olympian.
Bohumil Váňa, 69, Czechoslovakian table tennis player and world champion.




= 5

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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

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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

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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 (La dolce vita), heart attack.
Jan Skácel, 67, Czechoslovakian poet.




= 8

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Robert Gerringer, 63, American actor (Dark Shadows), stroke.
Choi Ja-shil, 74, Korean pentecostal pastor, founded Yoido Full Gospel Church, heart attack.
Johnny Lanning, 79, American Major League baseballer (Pittsburgh Pirates).
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 and journalist.
Maud Russell, 96, American social worker and writer (Young Women's Christian Association), lung cancer.
Gino Soldà, 82, Italian cross-country skier and Olympian.
Elmer Wynne, 88, American NFL footballer and coach (Chicago Bears).
Mary Agnes Yerkes, 103, American impressionist painter and photographer.




= 9

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Cliff Ashburn, 83, American NFL footballer (New York Giants).
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.
Roar Pedersen, 61, Norwegian ice hockey player and Olympian.
Nenad Petrović, 82, Yugoslavian chess player.
Leen Vente, 78, Dutch international footballer (Feyenoord Rotterdam, Netherlands).
Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, 64, Indonesian general, ambassador to South Korea, fever.




= 10

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




= 11

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Jay DeFeo, 60, American artist, lung cancer.
Nicholas Freeman, 50, English politician, mayor of the 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

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Harry Bergström, 79, Finnish pianist, conductor and composer.
Thomas Dam, 74, Danish woodworker and fisherman.
Zoltán Dudás, 56, Hungarian international footballer and Olympic medalist (Budapest Honvéd, Hungary).
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

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Victor Davis, 25, Canadian world champion swimmer and Olympic gold medalist, pedestrian accident.
Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, 83, Liechtenstein 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

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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), AIDS.
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

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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 (Show Boat).
Kamleshwari Prasad Yadav, 87, Indian politician, member of Constituent Assembly of India.




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Rose Murphy, 76, American jazz pianist and singer.
Dorothy G. Page, 68, American "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

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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-born British film director and writer (A Town Called Bastard).
Billy Lee, 60, American child actor (The Biscuit Eater), heart attack.
Thiruchi Loganathan, 65, Indian singer.
Uzair Gul Peshawari, 102–103, Pakistani Islamic scholar and activist.
Charles Perry Stacey, 83, Canadian historian, official historian of the Canadian Army.
Tom Starcevich, 71, Australian army soldier, Victoria Cross recipient.




= 18

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Hendrik de Vries, 93, Dutch poet and painter.
William Wister Haines, 81, American author, screenwriter and playwright, stroke.
Johnny Haymer, 69, American actor (M*A*S*H), cancer.
Edvin Laine, 84, Finnish film director and actor (The Unknown Soldier).
Al Morgan, 74, American nightclub singer, pianist and composer ("Jealous Heart").
Sherman Plunkett, 56, American NFL footballer (New York Jets), cancer.
Freddie Waits, 46, American drummer, pneumonia and kidney failure.




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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, mayor of Neagari, Ishikawa.
Paul Shyre, 63, American director and playwright (Will Rogers' USA), septicaemia.




= 20

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Lynn Bari, 69, American movie actress (China Girl), heart attack.
Hirabai Barodekar, 84, Indian Hindustani classical music singer.
Arnold Bauman, 75, American district judge, cancer.
Wade Ellis, 80, American mathematician, heart attack.
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, heart attack.
William J. Whaling ("Wild Bill"), 95, American general in the US Marine Corps, Olympic shooter.
Rachel Wischnitzer, 104, Russian-born German and American art historian.




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Helen Daniels Bader, 62, American social worker and philanthropist, ovarian cancer.
Edward Bawden, 86, English painter, illustrator and graphic artist.
Peter Burton, 68, English film and television actor (Dr. No), heart attack.
Heiko Fischer, 29, West German figure skater, national champion and Olympian, chronic myocarditis.
Will Glahé, 87, German accordionist, composer and bandleader ("Beer Barrel Polka").
Harvey Hart, 61, Canadian film and television director and television producer, heart attack.
Yana, 58, British singer, esophageal cancer.




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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 test cricketer.
Shamil Serikov, 33, Soviet wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide.




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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.




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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 footballer (Atlanta Falcons), traffic collision.




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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 (A Man to Remember).
Clifford Thornton, 53, American jazz trumpeter and trombonist.




= 26

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Ahmed Abdallah, 70, Comoros politician, president of the Comoros, assassinated.
William Barber, 70, English first class cricketer.
Morrice James, 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 (Pehchan).




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Frank Fools Crow, 99, Native American civic and religious leader.
Zuko Džumhur, 68, Yugoslavian writer, painter and caricaturist.
Walter Hoving, 91, Swedish-born American businessman and writer, chairman of Tiffany & Co.
Carlos Arias Navarro, 80, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain, heart attack.
Norma Nichols, 95, American silent-screen actress (The Ne'er-Do-Well).
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).




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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

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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 (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp).
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.




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Ahmadou Ahidjo, 65, Cameroonian politician, President of Cameroon, heart attack.
Stjepan Boltižar, 76, Yugoslavian 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.




= Date unknown

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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).
Philip Core, 37–38, American-born English artist and writer, AIDS.
Ione Robinson, 78–79, American artist and writer.




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