# Deaths in November 1985
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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

* 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.
* Lucien Michard, 81, French Olympic racing cyclist (1924).
* 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)

### 2

* 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.

### 3

* 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.

### 4

* 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.

### 5

* Arnold Chikobava, 87, Soviet Georgian linguist.
* Jean Théodore Delacour, 95, French-American ornithologist.
* Ted Elsby, 53, Canadian football player.
* 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).

### 6

* 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.

### 7

* 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.

### 8

* 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.
* Jacques Hnizdovsky, 70, Ukrainian-born American graphic designer, sculptor.
* 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.

### 9

* 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.
* Henk van der Linden, 66, Dutch footballer.
* 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.

### 10

* 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.
* Curtis D. MacDougall, 82, American journalist.
* 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.

### 11

* 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).

### 12

* Howie Auer, 77, American football player.
* Wattie Barclay, 91, New Zealand rugby player and administrator.
* Anna V. Brown, 70-71, American elder rights activist.
* Leonid Butkevich, 67, Soviet sniper.
* Catherine Christian, 84, English novelist.
* 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.

### 13

* 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.

### 14

* Dmitry Belyayev, 68, Soviet geneticist and zoologist (domesticated silver fox), cancer.
* Alick Bryant, 82, Australian soldier.
* Grace Gregory, 83-84, American set decorator.
* Robert Beverly Hale, 83-84, American artist and curator.
* 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.

### 15

* 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.

### 16

* 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.

### 17

* J. Amado Araneta, 78, Filipino businessman.
* Michael Birkin, 73, British RAF officer.
* Avgust Černigoj, 87, Yugoslav painter.
* Janet Doe, 90, American librarian.
* Thomas Gow Brown, 83, Scottish rugby union player.
* 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.

### 18

* Stephan Henrik Barratt-Due, 66, Norwegian violinist.
* Andy Bieber, 68, Canadian football player.
* Paul Bixler, 78, American football player and sports coach.
* Nicholas Deak, 80, Hungarian-born American banker, murdered.
* 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.

### 19

* 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.
* Ralph Dorfman, 74, American biochemist, Parkinson's disease.
* Mike Erskine, 71, English motorcycle racer.
* Stepin Fetchit, 83, American actor and comedian, pneumonia.
* Lewis Harfield, 80, English cricketer.
* 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.

### 20

* 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.

### 21

* Anne S. K. Brown, 79, American historian.
* 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.

### 22

* Gudolf Blakstad, 92, Norwegian architect.
* Owen Churchill, 89, American Olympic sailor (1932).
* Aaron R. Fisher, 90, American soldier.
* Ruby Gainfort, 95, Australian 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.

### 23

* Manfred Björkquist, 101, Swedish Lutheran prelate.
* Roger Brand, 42, American cartoonist, liver failure.
* Vernon Griffiths, 91, English-born New Zealand conductor, composer.
* 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.

### 24

* Sinan Alaağaç, 25, Turkish footballer, heart attack.
* Hilbert Leigh Bair, 91, American World War I flying ace.
* 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.

### 25

* Xenia Borovansky, 82, Russian-born Australian dancer and choreographer.
* 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.

### 26

* Frank Beaty, 66, American basketball player.
* Emma Marie Birkmaier, 77, German-born American educator, leukemia.
* Marco Ernesto, 62, Panamanian impressionist painter.
* Sergei Gerasimov, 79, Soviet filmmaker, heart attack.
* Fred Gordon, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
* 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.

### 27

* Azhar Shah Qaiser, 64, Indian Islamic scholar and journalist
* 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.

### 28

* Georgia Burke, 107, American actress.
* 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.

### 29

* Eduards Andersons, 71, Latvian basketball player.
* Fred Benham, 81, English-born Scottish cricketer.
* 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.

### 30

* 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.