# Deaths in November 1991
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1991.
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 1991
### 1

* Mary Ainslee, 77, American film actress.
* Fernand Brunner, 71, Swiss philosopher.
* Moisés Carmona, 79, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop.
* Richard Hoppin, 78, American musicologist.
* Arun Paudwal, 47, Indian Bollywood film score composer.

### 2

* Irwin Allen, 75, American film producer (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno), heart attack.
* Yosef Almogi, 81, Israeli politician.
* Jimmy Hull, 74, American basketball player, heart attack.
* Hannes Messemer, 67, German actor, heart attack.
* Francisco Moreira, 76, Portuguese football player.
* Mort Shuman, 52, American songwriter and pianist, cancer.
* Richard C. Thomas, 54, American politician, throat cancer.

### 3

* Finn Alnæs, 59, Norwegian novelist.
* Chris Bender (singer), 19, American R&B singer.
* Birendra Krishna Bhadra, 86, Indian radio broadcaster, playwright, actor, and narrator.
* Raymond Blackburn, 76, British politician.
* Ray Collins, 64, American gridiron football player.
* P. Narendranath, 57, Indian author.
* John Sandwith Boys Smith, 90, British academic.
* Marinus Valentijn, 91, Dutch road bicycle racer.
* Roman Wilhelmi, 55, Polish theatre and film actor, liver cancer.

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* Mohideen Baig, 71, Sri Lankan musician.
* Roger E. Broggie, 83, American mechanical engineer.
* Cliff Keen, 90, American wrestling coach.
* Hermann Kutschera, 88, Austrian architect.
* Arthur Nord, 93, Norwegian wrestler and Olympian.

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* Bill Atkins, 56, American gridiron football player.
* Maurice V. Brady, 87, American politician.
* Oreste Corbatta, 55, Argentine football player.
* Bill Cronin, 47, American gridiron football player.
* Kenneth Archibald Harrison, 90, Canadian mycologist.
* Fred MacMurray, 83, American actor (Double Indemnity, My Three Sons, The Shaggy Dog), pneumonia.
* Robert Maxwell, 68, Czechoslovak-British media tycoon, politician and fraudster, heart attack combined with accidental drowning.

### 6

* Harriet Bland, 76, American sprinter and Olympic champion.
* Oskar Thierbach, 82, German road bicycle racer.
* Gene Tierney, 70, American actress (Leave Her to Heaven, Laura), emphysema.
* André Vandernoot, 64, Belgian conductor.
* Giannis Vazos, 77, Greek football player.

### 7

* Valery Aleksyev, 62, Soviet and Russian anthropologist.
* Franc Červan, 55, Yugoslav long-distance runner and Olympian.
* Tom of Finland, 71, Finnish artist, emphysema.
* Ralph Harvey, 90, American politician.
* Ed Marlo, 78, American magician.
* Gaston Monnerville, 94, French politician and lawyer, cancer.
* Ishak Haji Muhammad, 81, Malaysian writer.
* Guillermo "Willy" Oddó, 48, Chilean musician, murdered.

### 8

* Hardy Brown, 67, American football player, dementia.
* Frances Faye, 79, American singer.
* John Kirkpatrick, 86, American pianist and musical scholar.
* Charlotte Moorman, 57, American cellist, performance artist, and avant-gardist, breast cancer.
* Dave Rowbotham, 33, English rock musician, murdered.
* Billy Savidan, 89, New Zealand long distance runner and Olympian.

### 9

* Jana Dítětová, 65, Czechoslovak film actress.
* Lance Hayward, 75, Bermudan-American jazz pianist, pneumonia.
* Yves Montand, 70, Italian-French actor and singer, heart attack.
* John Newton, 71, New Zealand rugby player.
* Ralph Moses Paiewonsky, 84, United States Virgin Islands politician.
* Laurie Wilkinson, 87, Australian politician.

### 10

* Dick the Bruiser, 62, American professional wrestler and football player, internal bleeding.
* Gunnar Gren, 71, Swedish football player.
* Colin Johnstone, 70, New Zealand rower.
* Tutte Lemkow, 73, Norwegian actor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Fiddler on the Roof, Doctor Who), leukemia.
* Alessandro Lessona, 100, Italian politician.
* Robert Baird McClure, 90, Canadian physician and medical missionary to Asia.
* Florian Radu, 71, Romanian football player.
* Montserrat Roig, 45, Spanish writer, breast cancer.
* Vishnuprasad Trivedi, 92, Indian literary critic.
* Curt Weibull, 105, Swedish historian, educator and author.

### 11

* John Balfanz, 51, American ski jumper and Olympian.
* Heinz Becker, 76, German-American baseball player.
* Billy Behan, 80, Irish football player and manager.
* Nellie Halstead, 81, English track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.
* Nadezhda Shteinmiller, 76, Soviet artist.
* Tom Skinner, 82, New Zealand politician and trade union leader.
* Morton Stevens, 62, American film and television composer (Hawaii Five-O), Emmy winner (1970, 1974), cancer.

### 12

* Diane Brewster, 60, American actress, heart failure (Leave It to Beaver, Maverick, The Fugitive), heart failure.
* Ravishing Ripper Collins, 58, American professional wrestler, melanoma.
* Bobby Joe Edmonds, 50, American basketball player.
* Keizō Hayashi, 84, Japanese civil servant and general officer.
* Bruce Hubbard, 39, American operatic baritone, pneumonia.
* Gabriele Tinti, 59, Italian actor, heart attack.

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* Hanson W. Baldwin, 88, American journalist.
* Henryk Borowski, 81, Polish theater, radio and film actor.
* Paul-Émile Léger, 87, Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, pneumonia.
* Walter Ulbrich, 81, German film producer.
* Georges Winckelmans, 81, French football player and coach.

### 14

* Constantin Chiriță, 66, Romanian writer.
* William Nyrén, 71, Norwegian actor.
* Tony Richardson, 63, English film director (Tom Jones, Look Back in Anger, A Taste of Honey), Oscar winner (1964), AIDS.
* Bryden Thomson, 63, Scottish conductor, cancer.
* Yoshikata Yoda, 82, Japanese screenwriter.

### 15

* Doris Marie Bender, 79, American social worker.
* Patricia Black, 18, Northern Irish volunteer in the IRA, bombing accident.
* Sylvio Hoffmann, 83, Brazilian football player.
* V. S. Huzurbazar, 72, Indian statistician from Kolhapur.
* Robert McCall, 33, Canadian ice dancer, brain cancer.
* Jacques Morali, 44, French music producer (Village People), AIDS.
* George Simms, 81, Archbishop in the Church of Ireland.

### 16

* Bill Dodd, 81, American lawyer and politician.
* Maya Dolas, 25, Indian mobster, ballistic trauma.
* Alberto Girri, 71, Argentine poet and writer.
* Margaret Pease Harper, 80, American educator, musician and civic leader.
* Ralph Marrero, 33, American actor (Day of the Dead), traffic collision.
* José Miguel Olguín, 86, Chilean football player.
* Gustav Wetterström, 80, Swedish football striker.

### 17

* Eileen Agar, 91, British-Argentinian painter and photographer.
* Maurice Banach, 24, German footballer, traffic collision.
* Smead Jolley, 89, American baseball player.
* Kafunga, 77, Brazilian football player.
* Frank Kosikowski, 65, American gridiron football player.
* Adrian Quist, 78, Australian tennis player.
* William Strickland, 77, American conductor and organist, lung cancer.
* Kelly Jean Van Dyke, 33, American actress, suicide by hanging.

### 18

* Claude Cahen, 82, French marxist orientalist and historian.
* Gustáv Husák, 78, Czechoslovak politician, president (1975–1989).
* Reg Parlett, 87, English artist.
* J. P. Stern, 70, Austrian-British literary scholar.
* Alexey Tryoshnikov, 77, Soviet polar explorer.
* Eugen York, 78, German film director.

### 19

* Les Eyre, 69, English footballer.
* Xian Henghan, 80, Chinese lieutenant general and politician.
* Zi'ang Hu, 94, Chinese politician.
* Michael Lyons, 81, Irish Fine Gael politician.
* Reggie Nalder, 84, Austrian actor, bone cancer.
* Leonid Obolensky, 89, Russian and Soviet actor.
* Luis Sarria, 80, Cuban-American boxer.
* Jackie Stamps, 72, English football player.

### 20

* Yulia Drunina, 67, Soviet poet, suicide.
* Siniša Glavašević, 31, Croatian reporter, homicide.
* Helga Hahnemann, 54, East German German actress, comedian and singer.
* Arthur Charles Hind, 86, Indian Olympic field hockey player (1932).
* Kåre Kivijärvi, 53, Norwegian photographer.
* Jean-Michel Nicolier, 25, French military volunteer, killed in the Vukovar massacre.
* Antun Stipančić, 42, Croatian table tennis player, heart attack.
* Notable Azerbaijans killed in 1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown:
** Mahammad Asadov, 49, Minister of Internal Affairs, State Advisor
** Ismat Gayibov, 49, Public Prosecutor General
** Zulfi Hajiyev, 56, Deputy Prime Minister
** Tofig Ismayilov, 58, Secretary of State.
** Vagif Jafarov, 42, Member of Parliament
** Osman Mirzayev, 54, Head of Presidential Administration, journalist
** Ali Mustafayev, 39, Television journalist
** Saylau Serikov, 50, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs
** Fakhraddin Shahbazov, 41, Cameraman

### 21

* T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar, 88, Indian politician.
* Joseph Delaney, 87, American artist.
* Ernest Dichter, 84, American psychologist and marketing expert.
* Prior Jones, 74, Trinidadian cricket player.
* Robert Kaufman, 60, American screenwriter, film producer and television writer.
* Daniel Mann, 79, American film director (Come Back, Little Sheba, BUtterfield 8, Our Man Flint), heart failure.
* Bryan Stephens, 71, American baseball player.
* Sonny Werblin, 81, American sports executive (New York Jets), heart attack.
* John Whedon, 86, American television writer (The Donna Reed Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show).
* Hans Zassenhaus, 79, German mathematician.

### 22

* Antoine Berman, 49, French translator, philosopher, and historian.
* Ullrich Haupt, Jr., 76, American-German actor.
* Tadashi Imai, 79, Japanese film director.
* Yevgeni Ivanovski, 73, Soviet general.
* John Magee, 68, American gridiron football player.

### 23

* Klaus Kinski, 65, German actor (Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre, For a Few Dollars More), heart attack.
* Stanley Rimington, 99, Australian cricket player.
* Ernesto Rivera, 77, Puerto Rican sports shooter and Olympian.
* Ken Uehara, 82, Japanese actor.

### 24

* Eric Carr, 41, American drummer (Kiss), heart cancer.
* Anton Furst, 47, English production designer (Batman, Full Metal Jacket, Awakenings), Oscar winner (1990), suicide by jumping.
* Freddie Mercury, 45, British singer (Queen) and songwriter ("Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Are the Champions"), AIDS.
* Carl Sawatski, 64, American baseball player and executive.

### 25

* Raymond Andrews, 57, American novelist, suicide.
* Eleanor Audley, 86, American actress (Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Green Acres), respiratory failure.
* Sembiin Gonchigsumlaa, 72, Mongolian composer.
* Doula Mouriki, 57, Greek byzantinologist and art historian.
* Jimmy Strausbaugh, 73, American gridiron football player.
* Charles Wagley, 78, American anthropologist, lung cancer.

### 26

* Dehl Berti, 70, American actor, heart attack.
* François Billetdoux, 64, French novelist.
* Enzo Cerusico, 54, Italian actor (La Dolce Vita), cancer.
* Ed Heinemann, 83, American aeronautical engineer.
* Bob Johnson, 60, American athletics coach, brain cancer.
* Gertrud Pålson-Wettergren, 94, Swedish singer.

### 27

* George Edwards, 67, American film producer and writer.
* Vilém Flusser, 71, Czech-Brazilian philosopher, struck by vehicle.
* Harry Everett Smith, 68, American polymath, cardiac arrest.
* Yō Yoshimura, 37, Japanese voice actor, subarachnoid hemorrhage.

### 28

* Mel Dinelli, 79, American writer for theatre, film and magazines.
* Lu Gwei-djen, 87, Chinese historian and biochemist.
* Jean Palardy, 86, French-Canadian painter, ethnologist and filmmaker.
* Stan Wentzel, 74, American baseball player.
* Mary Wharton, 79, American botanist, author, and environmental activist.

### 29

* Ralph Bellamy, 87, American actor (Sunrise at Campobello, The Awful Truth, Trading Places), Tony winner (1958), lung disease.
* Joe Bonson, 55, English footballer.
* Theodor Estermann, 89, German-American mathematician.
* Louis Finkelstein, 96, American talmud scholar.
* Ludovico Geymonat, 83, Italian mathematician, philosopher and historian of science.
* Nasirdin Isanov, 48, Kyrgyz politician, prime minister (since 1991), traffic collision.
* Franjo Majetić, 68, Croatian actor.
* Frank Yerby, 75, American writer, liver cancer.

### 30

* Irena Blühová, 87, Slovak photographer.
* Mikhail Chailakhyan, 89, Armenian-Soviet scientist.
* Hans Lietzau, 78, German theatre director, actor, and producer.
* David Moir Nelson, 71, American football player, coach, and author.