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, leukemia.
- Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, 91, American civil rights activist, complications from Alzheimer's disease.[1]
- Haranath, 53, Indian actor, alcohol poisoning.
- Robert James Moon, 78, American physicist, chemist and engineer.
- Mihaela Runceanu, 34, Romanian singer, strangled.
- Max Streib, 76, Swiss handball player and Olympian.[2]
- Hoimar von Ditfurth, 68, German physician and scientific journalist, thyroid cancer.
2
- Inés Arredondo, 61, Mexican writer.
- Andrée Brabant, 88, French silent-screen actress.[3]
- John Clymer, 82, American painter and illustrator.[4]
- Morris H. DeGroot, 58, American statistician.[5]
- Elizabeth Hawley Gasque, 103, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938–1939).
- Frederick Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond, 85, British hereditary peer, engineer, racing driver, and motor racing promoter.
- Steve Simpson, 41, American professional baseball player, heart attack.[6]
3
- Timoci Bavadra, 55, Fijian medical doctor and politician, Prime Minister of Fiji (1987), cancer.[7]
- Louis Craine, 32, American serial killer, complications from AIDS.
- Dorothy Fuldheim, 96, American journalist and news anchor, stroke.[8]
- Ed Kasid, 66, American basketball player.[9]
- William Morris Jr., 90, American talent agent.[10]
- Zelma O'Neal, 86, American actress, singer and dancer.[11]
- Edward J. Stack, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1981).
4
- Pancho Coimbre, 80, Puerto Rican professional baseball player, house fire.[12]
- Erkki Kerttula, 79, Finnish fencer and dual Olympian.[13]
- Clare Leighton, 91, English-American artist, writer and illustrator.[14]
- Vivian Mercier, 70, Irish literary critic.[15]
- Howard A. Rusk, 88, American physician.[16]
- Keiichirō Ryū, 65-66, Japanese editor, screenwriter, and historical fiction writer.[17]
- John Taylor, 81, Canadian cross-country skier and Olympian.[18]
- Bohumil Váňa, 69, Czechoslovak table tennis player and world champion.
5
- Vladimir Horowitz, 86, Russian-American pianist and composer, heart attack.[19]
- Barry Sadler, 49, American soldier, author, and singer ("The Ballad of the Green Berets"), shot.[20]
- Margot Seitelman, 61, German-born American businesswoman, executive director of American Mensa, cancer.[21]
- Lu Watters, 77, American trumpeter and bandleader.[22]
- Benigno Zaccagnini, 77, Italian politician and physician.[23]
- Adem Čejvan, 62, Yugoslav actor.
6
- Margarete Buber-Neumann, 88, German writer.[24]
- Dickie Goodman, 55, American record producer, suicide by gunshot.[25]
- Margit Makay, 98, Hungarian film actress.[26]
- Yūsaku Matsuda, 40, Japanese actor, bladder cancer.[27]
- William Murphy, 67, American film actor.
7
- Dai Astley, 80, Welsh international footballer.[28]
- Andrey Borovykh, 68, Soviet World War II flying ace and twice Hero of the Soviet Union, stroke.
- Alec Mango, 78, English actor.
- Milton K. Ozaki, 76, American writer.[29]
- Brunello Rondi, 64, Italian screenwriter and film director, heart attack.[30]
- Jan Skácel, 67, Czechoslovak poet.[31]
- Tommy Tatum, 70, American baseball player.[32]
- Dick Vorisek, 71, American sound engineer, Academy Award nominee.
8
- Robert Gerringer, 63, American actor, stroke.[33]
- Johnny Lanning, 79, American professional baseball player.[34]
- Eugène Proust, 68, French football player and manager.
- Maud Russell, 96, American social worker, educator and writer, lung cancer.[35]
- Gino Soldà, 82, Italian cross-country skier and Olympian.[36]
- Lionel Gage Wigmore, 90, Australian journalist and military historian.
- Elmer Wynne, 88, American football player and coach.[37]
- Mary Agnes Yerkes, 103, American impressionist painter and photographer.
9
- Cliff Ashburn, 83, American football player.[38]
- Kenny Hagood, 63, American jazz vocalist.
- 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.[39]
- Nenad Petrović, 82, Yugoslav chess player.[40]
- Leen Vente, 78, Dutch international footballer.[41]
- Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, 64, Indonesian general, fever.
10
- Peter Berglar, 70, German historian.
- Cookie Mueller, 40, American actress and author, AIDS-related pneumonia.[42]
- Niels Schibbye, 79, Danish sailor and Olympian.[43]
- Craig J. Spence, 49, American journalist and lobbyist, suicide by drug overdose.
11
- Casey Anderson, 55, American blues and folk singer, songwriter and guitarist, complications from a leg amputation as a result of diabetes.
- Jay DeFeo, 60, American artist, lung cancer.[44]
- Mohamed Demsiri, 52–53, Moroccan singer-poet.[45]
- Natalio Pescia, 67, Argentine international footballer.
- Francesco Stefani, 66, German film director.[46]
12
- Harry Bergström, 79, Finnish pianist, conductor and composer.[47]
- Édouard Candeveau, 91, Swiss rower and Olympic gold medalist.
- Thomas Dam, 74, Danish woodworker and fisherman.
- Zoltán Dudás, 56, Hungarian international footballer and Olympic medalist.[48]
- Dolores Ibárruri, 93, Spanish communist politician of the Spanish Civil War, pneumonia.[49]
- Armour G. McDaniel, 73, American air force military officer.
- Mao Yisheng, 93, Chinese structural engineer and politician.
13
- Stewart Chalmers, 82, Scottish footballer.[50]
- Victor Davis, 25, Canadian world champion swimmer and Olympic gold medalist, pedestrian accident.[51]
- Francis Edmunds, 87, Lithuanian-born British educator and anthroposophist.[52]
- António Ferreira Gomes, 83, Portuguese Roman Catholic bishop.
- Roger Heman, 57, American sound engineer and Academy Award winner, lung cancer.
- Arthur Hutchings, 83, English musicologist, composer and professor of music.[53]
- Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, 83, Liechtensteiner royal, reigning monarch (since 1938).
- Rohana Wijeweera, 46, Sri Lankan Marxist political activist, shot.
14
- Wild Bill Davison, 83, American jazz cornetist.[54]
- Choe Deok-sin, 75, South Korean Foreign Minister who defected to North Korea.
- Rémi Laurent, 32, French actor, HIV-related illness.[55]
- Jimmy Murphy, 79, Welsh international footballer, aortic dissection.[56]
- Zola Helen Ross, 77, American writer and novelist.[57]
- Samand Siabandov, 79, Soviet writer, soldier and politician.
- Enzo Trapani, 67, Italian screenwriter, TV producer and film director, suicide.
15
- Constance Binney, 93, American stage and silent-screen actress and dancer.[58]
- William N. Deramus III, 73, American railroad executive.[59]
- Alejo Durán, 70, Colombian traditional composer, singer and accordionist.[60]
- Jeremy Flint, 61, English contract bridge player and writer, cancer.[61]
- Lipót Kállai, 76, Hungarian footballer and Olympian.[62]
- George Manuel, 68, Canadian indigenous leader.[63]
- Norma Terris, 85, American musical theatre and vaudeville actress.[64]
16
- Petar Argirov, 66, Bulgarian footballer and Olympian.[65]
- Nathan Cohn, 82, American electrical engineer.[66]
- Jean-Claude Malépart, 50, Canadian politician, lung cancer.
- Rose Murphy, 76, American jazz pianist and singer.[67]
- Dorothy G. Page, 68, "Mother of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race".
- Oliver Smedley, 78, English businessman and political activist.[68]
- Victims of the 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador:
- Ignacio Ellacuría, 59, Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit, philosopher, and theologian, shot.[69]
- 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.[70]
- Emerson Buckley, 73, American orchestra conductor, emphysema.[71]
- Francis John Dunn, 67, American Catholic bishop.
- Costabile Farace, 29, American mobster, (Bonanno crime family), shot.
- Benjamin Fisz, 66–67, Polish film director and writer.
- Joseph Hiley, 87, British politician.[72]
- Billy Lee, 60, American child actor, heart attack.[73]
- Thiruchi Loganathan, 65, Indian singer.
- Uzair Gul Peshawari, 102–103, Pakistani Islamic scholar and activist.
- Charles Perry Stacey, 83, Canadian historian.[74]
18
- Romano Bilenchi, 80, Italian novelist, short story writer and essayist.[75]
- Hendrik de Vries, 93, Dutch poet and painter.[76]
- William Wister Haines, 81, American author, screenwriter and playwright, stroke.[77]
- Johnny Haymer, 69, American actor, cancer.
- Edvin Laine, 84, Finnish film director and actor.[78]
- Sherman Plunkett, 56, American NFL football player, cancer.[79]
- Freddie Waits, 46, American drummer, pneumonia and kidney failure.[80]
19
- Grant Adcox, 39, American stockcar driver, racing crash.[81]
- Jim Bradfield, 56, Australian politician, member of Australian House of Representatives.
- Nancy Drexel (born Dorothy Kitchen), 79, American actress.[82]
- Paul Shyre, 63, American director and playwright.[83]
20
- Annihilate 'Em, 19, American thoroughbred racehorse.
- Lynn Bari, 69, American movie actress, heart attack.[84]
- Hirabai Barodekar, 84, Indian Hindustani classical music singer.
- Božidar Jakac, 90, Yugoslav painter, photographer and filmmaker.
- Labib Hussein Abu Rokan, 77-78, Israeli politician.
- Leonardo Sciascia, 68, Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician, member of the European Parliament (1979–1984).[85]
- Abe Stuber, 86, American football player and coach.[86]
- "Wild Bill" Whaling, 95, American major-general in US Marine Corps, Olympic shooter.
- Rachel Wischnitzer, 104, Russian-born German and American art historian.[87]
21
- Edward Bawden, 86, English painter, illustrator and graphic artist.[88]
- Peter Burton, 68, English film and television actor, heart attack.
- Heiko Fischer, 29, West German figure skater, national champion and Olympian, chronic myocarditis.[89]
- Will Glahé, 87, German accordionist, composer, and bandleader.[90]
- Arne Grahn, 87, Finnish tennis player and Olympian.[91]
- Harvey Hart, 61, Canadian film and television director and television producer, heart attack.[92]
- Yana, 58, British singer, esophageal cancer.[93]
22
- Paul Alfonsi, 81, American politician, speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
- Roberto Arias, 71, Panamanian international lawyer, diplomat and journalist, husband of Dame Margot Fonteyn.
- C. C. Beck, 79, American comic book artist, co-creator of Captain Marvel, renal failure.[94]
- Robert Berri, 76, French film actor.[95]
- Gerry Chiniquy, 77, American animator.
- José G. Cruz, 72, Mexican comics writer and screenwriter.[96]
- H. O. Davies, 84, Nigerian lawyer, journalist, trade unionist and politician.
- Clement Haynsworth, 77, American judge.[97]
- Abdur Rashid Kardar, 85, Indian film actor, director and producer.
- Billy Milton, 83, British stage, film and television actor.
- René Moawad, 64, Lebanese politician, president of Lebanon, assassination by car bomb.[98]
- Vijay Rajindernath, 61, Indian cricketer.[99]
- Shamil Serikov, 33, Soviet wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide.[100]
23
- Jiří Baumruk, 59, Czechoslovakian basketball player and coach, traffic collision.[101]
- Martin Glaessner, 82, Austrian-Australian geologist and palaeontologist.
- Sidney Janis, 93, American clothing manufacturer and art collector.[102]
- Rita Lenihan, 75, American naval officer, cancer.[103]
- Armand Salacrou, 90, French dramatist.[104]
- Mariko Shiga, 19, Japanese singer, traffic accident.
24
- E. Ruth Anderson, 82, American musicologist and editor.
- Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, 48, Palestinian jihadist and theologian, assassination by car bomb.[105]
- Gordon Bess, 60, American cartoonist.[106]
- Leonard Boudin, 77, American civil liberties attorney and activist.
- Michael Harwood, 54–55, American environmentalist and author.[107]
- Lawrence A. Hyland, 92, American electrical engineer.[108]
- Richard Korherr, 86, Nazi German statistician.
- Ralph Norwood, 23, American NFL football player, traffic collision.[109]
25
- Salo Wittmayer Baron, 94, Austro-Hungarian-born American historian.[110]
- George Cakobau, 77, Fijian politician, Governor-General of Fiji (1973–1983).
- Claus Clausen, 90, German film actor.[111]
- Birago Diop, 82, Senegalese poet and storyteller.[112]
- Alva R. Fitch, 82, American lieutenant-general in the United States Army, deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.[113]
- John Kaplan, 59–60, American legal scholar, social justice advocate, author, brain tumour.[114]
- Frank A. Southard Jr., 82, American, deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund.[115]
- William Stratton, 86, British army officer, Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong from 1955 to 1957.
- María Colón Sánchez, 62-63, Puerto Rico-American politician, heart attack.
- Frank M. Thomas, 100, American stage, screen and television actor.[116]
- Clifford Thornton, 53, American jazz trumpeter, trombonist, political activist, and educator.
26
- Ahmed Abdallah, 70, Comorian politician, president of the Comoros, shot.[117]
- William Barber, 70, English first class cricketer.[118]
- Morrice James, Baron St Brides, 73, British diplomat, British High Commissioner to Pakistan, India and Australia.[119]
- Lew Fonseca, 90, American Major Leagues baseball player.[120]
- Gunnar Hedlund, 89, Swedish politician, Minister of the Interior.[121]
- Priscilla Robertson, 78–79, American historian, magazine editor, and college professor, stroke.[122]
- Chand Usmani, 56, Indian actress.
27
- Frank Fools Crow, appr. 99, Native American civic and religious leader.[123]
- Zuko Džumhur, 68, Yugoslav writer, painter and caricaturist.[124]
- Walter Hoving, 91, Swedish-born American businessman and writer.[125]
- Carlos Arias Navarro, 80, Spanish politician, prime minister of Spain (1973–1976), infarction.[126]
- Norma Nichols, 95, American silent-screen actress.[127]
- Claudio O. Teehankee, Sr., 71, Filipino judge and diplomat, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, cancer.[128]
- Trude von Molo, 82, Austrian film actress.[129]
28
- Arsenie Boca, 79, Romanian priest, theologian, mystic, and artist.[130]
- Ernesto Civardi, 83, Italian cardinal and secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops.[131]
- Georgy Ilivitsky, 68, Soviet chess master, suicide.[132]
- Bill Posedel, 83, American Major Leagues baseball player.[133]
- Jo Vincent, 91, Dutch soprano.[134]
29
- Gubby Allen, 87, Australian-born English cricketer, captain of English national team, national selector, complications from stomach surgery.[135]
- Giuseppe Antonini, 75, Italian professional footballer.[136]
- Ann Burton (born Johanna Rafalowicz, aka Johanna de Paauw), 56, Dutch jazz singer, throat cancer.[137]
- 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, pleural effusion.
- A. Maruthakasi, 69, Indian film lyricist and poet.
- Ion Popescu-Gopo, 66, Romanian graphic artist, animator, writer, film director and actor, heart attack.[138]
- Frank Scannell, 86, American film and television actor.
- Mabel Keaton Staupers, 99, American nurse and civil rights activist.[139]
- Rolf Turkka, 74, Finnish sailor and dual Olympian.[140]
- Ödön Zombori, 83, Hungarian wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.[141]
30
- Ahmadou Ahidjo, 65, Cameroonian politician, first president of Cameroon, heart attack.[142]
- Stjepan Boltižar, 76, Yugoslav gymnast and Olympian.[143]
- Hassan Fathi, 89, Egyptian architect.[144]
- Alfred Herrhausen, 59, German banker, Chairman of Deutsche Bank, assassinated by roadside bomb.[145]
- Gabriel Manek, 76, Indonesian archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Pier Luigi Vestrini, 84, Italian rower, European champion and Olympian.[146]
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