# Deaths in November 1989
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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 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

* 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

* 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

* 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 (La dolce vita), 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.
* 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

* 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

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

### 11

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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.

### 16

* 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

* 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

* 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.

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

### 20

* 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.

### 21

* 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.

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

### 26

* 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).

### 27

* 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).

### 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 (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.

### 30

* 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

* 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.