# Deaths in November 1987
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1987.
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 1987
### 1

* Cameron Cobbold, 83, British banker, Governor of the Bank of England.
* Leo Goldberg, 74, American astronomer (solar physics), cancer.
* Yoo Jae-ha, 25, South Korean singer and songwriter, car accident.
* René Lévesque, 65, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec, heart attack.
* Tom Parker, 89, English international footballer and manager (Arsenal, Southampton, England).
* Mary Shane, 42, American Major League baseball commentator, heart attack.

### 2

* Michael DeBatt, 38, American mobster of the Gambino crime family, murdered.
* Louise McCarren Herring, 78, American who established the Credit Union National Association.
* Friedrich-Karl "Nasen" Müller, 75, Nazi German Luftwaffe night fighter ace.
* Wilhelm Schöning, 79, Nazi German Army commander.
* Elmer Tarbox, 71, American politician, member of Texas House of Representatives, Parkinson's disease.

### 3

* André Roussin, 76, French playwright.
* Liang Shih-chiu, 84, Chinese writer, translator and literary theorist.

### 4

* Óscar Bonfiglio, 82, Mexican international footballer (Marte, Mexico) and Olympian.
* Danielle Gaubert, 44, French actress, cancer.
* Babe Plunket Greene, 80, English socialite.
* Wilton M. Krogman, 83, American anthropologist, recipient of Viking Fund Medal.
* Francis Pollen, 60, English architect (Worth Abbey).
* Pierre Seghers, 81, French poet and editor, member of the French Resistance.
* Raphael Soyer, 87, Russian-born American painter and printmaker, cancer.
* Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 62, Senegalese-French film director and historian.

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* Eamonn Andrews, 64, Irish radio and television presenter, heart failure.
* Edvard Baghdasaryan, 64, Armenian composer.
* Orlando Costas, 55, Puerto Rican evangelical theologian, stomach cancer.
* Daasarathi, 62, Indian Telugu poet and writer.
* Peg Fenwick, 79, American screenwriter and playwright (Whirlpool of Desire, All That Heaven Allows).
* Georges Franju, 75, French filmmaker.
* Arthur Schmidt, 92, German military officer, Sixth Army's chief of staff in the Battle of Stalingrad.
* Juliet Rice Wichman, 86, American conservationist, botanist and author.

### 6

* Zohar Argov, 32, Israeli singer and convicted rapist, suicide.
* Ross Barnett, 89, American politician, Governor of Mississippi.
* Opie Cates, 78, American clarinet player, band leader and radio actor.
* Michael Comay, 79, Israeli diplomat, ambassador to Canada and the U.K.
* Alvin Dewey, 75, American special agent of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, stroke.
* George Laurence, 82, Canadian nuclear physicist.
* Jean Rivier, 91, French composer of classical music.

### 7

* Arne Borg, 86, Swedish swimmer, 5-time Olympic gold medalist and holder of multiple world records.
* Herbert H. Chen, 45, Chinese-born American theoretical and experimental physicist (particle physics), leukemia.
* Aileen Eaton, 78, Canadian-born American boxing and professional wrestling promoter.

### 8

* Kid Chissell, 82, American boxing champion and actor.
* Jim Fitzgerald, 65, American racing driver, racing crash.
* Ian Fraser, 71, British politician, Member of Parliament.
* Boris Goldstein, 64, Soviet violinist.
* Yevgeniya Khanayeva, 66, Soviet film and stage actress.
* Sakthi T. K. Krishnasamy, 74, Indian author, screenwriter and lyricist.

### 9

* Eemeli, 67, Finnish actor, comedian and entertainer.
* Akhtar Hussain, 61, Indian and Pakistani hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
* Johann Schalk, 84, Austrian-born Nazi German flying ace.
* Thengai Srinivasan, 50, Indian Tamil actor (Thillu Mullu), brain haemorrhage.

### 10

* Lou Breslow, 87, American screenwriter and film director.
* Faruk Kaiser, 69, Indian Urdu poet.
* Seyni Kountché, 56, Nigerien military officer, President of Niger, brain tumour.
* Pop Momand, 100, American cartoonist (Keeping Up with the Joneses).
* Raymond Rohauer, 62–63, American film collector and distributor, AIDS (heart attack reported at the time).
* Jackie Vernon, 63, American stand-up comedian and actor (Frosty the Snowman), heart attack.

### 11

* Charles H. Baker Jr., 91, American author known for culinary and cocktail writings.
* Earnshaw Cook, 87, American proponent of baseball sabermetrics, heart attack.
* John 'Dusty' King, 78, American singer and film actor (Range Busters).
* Channing E. Phillips, 59, American minister, civil rights leader and social activist, cancer.

### 12

* George Chatterton, 75, British Army soldier, commanded the Glider Pilot Regiment.
* Roger Lewis, 75, American business executive, assistant United States Secretary of the Air Force.
* Lasgush Poradeci, 87, Albanian philologist, poet and writer.
* Cornelis Vreeswijk, 50, Dutch-born Swedish singer-songwriter, poet and actor.

### 13

* Jayatirtha Dasa, 39, British Hare Krishna, murdered.
* A. L. Abdul Majeed, 54, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, assassinated.
* Paul Neergaard, 80, Danish agronomist, mycologist and agriculturist (seed pathology).
* Joseph Phillips, 76, Indian hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
* Franklin D. Richards, 86, American commissioner of the U.S. Federal Housing Administration, authority of the LDS church.
* Harold Vick, 51, American jazz saxophonist and flautist, heart attack.

### 14

* Friedrich Bopp, 77, German theoretical physicist.
* Ann Christy, 82, American film actress, heart attack.
* Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh, 85, British politician, Member of Parliament.
* Petras Griškevičius, 63, Lithuanian communist party official.
* Hod Lisenbee, 89, American Major League baseballer (Boston Red Sox).
* Pieter Menten, 88, Dutch Nazi war criminal.

### 15

* Ernő Goldfinger, 85, Hungarian-born British architect and furniture designer.
* Shyamal Mitra, 58, Indian playback singer and music director.
* Brigid Lyons Thornton, 91, Irish member of Cumann na mBan, Irish Free State Army officer, heart attack.

### 16

* Jim Brewer, 50, American Major League baseballer (Los Angeles Dodgers), car accident.
* Terrence Des Pres, 48, American writer and Holocaust scholar, suicide.
* Zubir Said, 80, Indonesian-born Singaporean composer, composed Singapore's national anthem, liver failure.
* Trevor Stamp, 80, British medical doctor and bacteriologist, member of the House of Lords.

### 17

* Ganesh Baba, 97, Indian yogi.
* Betty Corday, 75, American Broadway actress and television producer (Days of Our Lives), respiratory failure.
* Paul Derringer, 81, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds).
* Hiroshi Kawaguchi, 51, Japanese film actor.
* Gerry Lockran, 45, British blues singer, songwriter and guitarist, heart attack.
* Arthur C. Pierce, 64, American screenwriter and director.
* Ireene Wicker, 81, American singer and actress (Deadline Dramas).

### 18

* Jacques Anquetil, 53, French road racing cyclist, five-time Tour de France winner, stomach cancer.
* Mozzafar Baghai, 75, Iranian politician, Member of Parliament.
* Edward Both, 79, Australian medical and military inventor ("Iron Lung").
* Lynn Freeman Olson, 49, American composer, cancer.
* George Ryga, 55, Canadian playwright, actor and novelist (The Ecstasy of Rita Joe).
* Dick Stello, 53, American Major League baseball umpire, traffic accident.
* Colin Townsley, 45, English station officer at Soho Fire Station, killed in the King's Cross fire.

### 19

* Brand Blanshard, 95, American philosopher.
* Lee Byung-chul, 77, South Korean businessman, founded Samsung.
* Ben Clopton, 81, American artist known for animated cartoons.
* Jock Colville, 72, British diarist.
* Norman Jones, 64, New Zealand politician, Member of Parliament, brain tumour.
* Clara Petrella, 73, Italian operatic soprano.
* Christopher Wilmarth, 44, American artist known for sculptures of glass and steel, suicide.

### 20

* Christopher Evelyn Blunt, 83, British merchant banker.
* Peter Button, 58, New Zealand rescue helicopter pilot, helicopter crash.
* Helen Grace Scott Keenan, 72, American broadcaster for Free France in Brazzaville, heart attack.

### 21

* Alex Diggelmann, 85, Swiss graphic artist and book designer.
* Jim Folsom, 79, American politician, Governor of Alabama.
* Ivan Jandl, 50, Czechoslovakian child actor (The Search), diabetes.
* Karel Raška, 78, Czech physician and epidemiologist, helped eradicate smallpox.

### 22

* Verna Arvey, 77, American librettist, pianist and writer.
* Helmut Aris, 79, German president of the Association of Jewish Communities.
* Hemanga Biswas, 74, Indian singer, composer and author.
* W. Haydon Burns, 75, American politician, Governor of Florida.
* Plácido Domingo Ferrer, 80, Spanish zarzuela baritone, father of Plácido Domingo, heart attack.
* Raymond D. Mindlin, 81, American mechanical engineer, professor of Applied Science at Columbia University.
* Newt Perry, 79, American swimmer, attraction promoter and swimming coach.

### 23

* Alton Adams, 98, American bandmaster in the U.S. Navy.
* Joseph Beer, 79, Polish-French composer of operettas, singspiele and operas.
* Sam Gilbert, 73–74, American businessman, money launderer.
* Marcia Henderson, 58, American actress (Peter Pan).
* Solomana Kante, 64–65, Guinean writer, inventor of the N'Ko alphabet.
* Sarah Long, 49, English actress and television presenter (Play School), cancer.
* Antonio Sastre, 76, Argentinian international footballer (Club Atlético Independiente, Argentina).
* Rajen Tarafdar, 70, Indian film director, actor and screenwriter.
* Victor Windeyer, 87, Australian judge and soldier, justice of the High Court of Australia.

### 24

* Jehane Benoît, 83, Canadian culinary author, journalist and broadcaster.
* Stan Hanson, 71, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers).
* Gunnar Heckscher, 78, Swedish political scientist, leader of the Conservative Party.
* Ove Joensen, 38, Faroese adventurer, first person to row from the Faroe Islands to Denmark, drowned.
* John Parker, 81, British politician, Member of Parliament.
* Anton Pieck, 92, Dutch painter, artist and graphic artist.
* Jim Russell, 69, American Major League baseballer (Pittsburgh Pirates).

### 25

* Edgar Berman, 72, American surgeon and author, remembered for misogynist comments, heart attack.
* Francisco Dalupan Sr., 92, Filipino founder, chairman and president of the University of the East.
* Little Willy Foster, 65, American blues harmonicist, singer and songwriter, kidney cancer.
* Ben C. Henley, 80, American lawyer and politician, Arkansas Republican Party State Chairman.
* George Korngold, 58, Austrian-born American record producer and producer, son of composer Erich Korngold, cancer.
* Renzo Marignano, 64, Italian actor and film director.
* James McDyer, 77, Irish Catholic priest.
* Ramaswamy Parameshwaran, 41, Indian military officer, killed in battle.
* Harold Washington, 65, American politician, Mayor of Chicago, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.

### 26

* Bill Giant, 57, American songwriter, wrote for Elvis Presley.
* J. P. Guilford, 90, American psychologist (psychometrics).
* Peter Hujar, 53, American photographer, AIDS.
* Costache Ioanid, 74, Romanian poet and songwriter.
* Thomas George Lanphier Jr., 71, Panama-born American fighter pilot in World War II, cancer.
* Morton Lowry, 73, British actor (The Hound of the Baskervilles, How Green Was My Valley), heart failure.
* Louis Macouillard, 74, American artist and commercial illustrator.
* J. K. Ralston, 91, American painter.
* Duncan Sandys, 79, British politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies.
* Raymond Westerling, 68, Dutch military officer of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, coup leader, cardiac arrest.

### 27

* Charline Arthur, 58, American singer of boogie-woogie, blues and rockabilly, atherosclerosis.
* Girdhari Lal Dogra, 72, Indian politician, member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.
* Babe Herman, 84, American Major League baseballer (Brooklyn Robins), pneumonia and strokes.
* Sian Kingi, 12, New Zealand-Australian murder victim.
* John Muafangejo, 44, Namibian artist, heart attack.
* Lillian Bostwick Phipps, 81, American socialite, owner of thoroughbred steeplechase racehorses.
* Julius Rehborn, 87, German diver and Olympian.
* Ernest Severn, 54, American child screen actor.
* Ganda Singh, 87, Indian Punjabi and Sikh historian.
* Ella P. Stewart, 94, American pharmacist.

### 28

* Paul Arma, 82, Hungarian-French pianist and composer.
* Choh Hao Li, 74, Chinese-born American biochemist (growth hormone), cancer.
* Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 82, German actor and director.
* Guy Marks, 64, American actor, comedian and singer (The Joey Bishop Show).
* Elisabeth Mulder, 83, Spanish writer, poet and journalist.
* Goh Choo San, 39, Singaporean-born American ballet dancer and choreographer (The Washington Ballet), AIDS.
* Vasily Sitnikov, 72, Russian painter.
* Kazuharu Sonoda, 31, Japanese professional wrestler, plane crash.
* Víctor Yturbe, 51, Mexican singer (stage name "El Pirulí"), murdered.

### 29

* Giuseppe Gabrielli, 84, Italian aeronautics engineer, designer of Italian military aircraft.
* Monk Gibbon, 90–91, Irish poet and writer.
* Irene Handl, 85, British author and actress, cancer.
* Abraham Kazen, 68, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
* Gwendolyn MacEwen, 46, Canadian poet and novelist, illness related to alcoholism.
* John Howard Pyle, 81, American broadcaster and politician, Governor of Arizona.
* Aage Samuelsen, 72, Norwegian evangelist, singer and composer, heart attack.

### 30

* Alex Carey, 64, Australian social psychologist, suicide.
* Simon Carmiggelt, 74, Dutch writer, journalist and poet, heart attack.
* Arthur Dean, 89, American corporate lawyer and diplomat, pneumonia.
* Jimmy George, 32, Indian volleyball player, captain of Indian national volleyball team, car accident.
* Helmut Horten, 78, German entrepreneur, owner of Horten AG department store chain.
* Scrappy Lambert, 86, American dance-band vocalist.
* Roger Manvell, 78, British director of the British Film Academy, stroke.
* Hanni Rehborn, 80, German diver and Olympian.
* Don Sebastian, 76, Mexican-born American wrestler, wrestling promoter and movie actor.

### Unknown date

* Violet Aitken, 101, British suffragette.
* Martha Harris, 68, British psychoanalyst.