Deaths in November 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1990.

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 1990

1

• Richard Desmond, 63, American ice hockey player.
• Ward Haylett, 95, American track and field coach.
• Cipriano Biyehima Kihangire, 72, Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate.
• Kim Hyun-sik, 32, South Korean musician, cirrhosis.
• Allan Loomes, 73, Australian diplomat.
• Frank Marshall, Baron Marshall of Leeds, 75, British lawyer and politician.
• Alan Mocatta, 83, British judge.
• Ray Pohlman, 60, American guitarist, heart failure.
• Zdenko Strižić, 88, Croatian-German architect.
• G. Malcolm Trout, 94, American dairy scientist.

2

• Frederick Thomas Armstrong, 82, Canadian politician.
• Rowena Fry, 98, American painter.
• Sir Peter Hellings, 74, English Marine.
• Bob Kullen, 41, American ice hockey player and coach, heart failure.
• Robert T. McLoskey, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1963–1965).
• Eliot Porter, 88, American photographer.
• Eduard Riisna, 92, Estonian politician.
• William Travilla, 70, American costume designer, lung cancer.
• R. J. Vincent, 47, English academic.
• Eszter Voit, 74, Hungarian Olympic gymnast (1936).
• Donald A. Wollheim, 76, American science fiction author.

3

• Kenan Erim, 61, Turkish archaeologist.
• Valerie French, 62, English actress, leukemia.
• George Gale, 63, British journalist.
• Manmohan Krishna, 68, Indian actor and film director.
• Richard C. Lindsay, 85, American general, heart failure.
• Mary Martin, 76, American actress and singer, cancer.
• Jannis Pieter Mazure, 90, Dutch politician.
• Sashadhar Mukherjee, 81, Indian filmmaker.
• Bruno Ochman, 61, Canadian wrestler.
• Lyman Ogilby, 68, American Anglican priest.
• Nikolai Rakov, 82, Soviet violinist.
• Jack Russell, 85, American baseball player.
• Walter H. Tyler, 81, American art director.

4

• Mildred Allen, 96, American physicist.
• Phil Baugh, 53, American guitarist.
• James C. Harrison, 64, American artist.
• William Leavitt, 64, American guitarist.
• Cyrus Levinthal, 68, American molecular biologist, lung cancer.
• Hicks Lokey, 86, American animator.
• Paul N. Luvera Sr., 92, Italian-born American politician.
• Håkon Melberg, 79, Norwegian linguist.
• Ratan Pandoravi, 83, Indian poet.
• Carol Sobieski, 51, American screenwriter, amyloidosis.
• Andrew P. Solt, 74, Hungarian-born American screenwriter.
• Sir David Stirling, 74, Scottish soldier.
• Shigeo Takahashi, 78, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1932, 1936).

5

• Herbert Berghof, 81, Austrian-American actor and film director.
• Lev Belopolsky, 83, Soviet zoologist.
• Øivind Breiby, 72, Norwegian boxer.
• Sir Humphrey Gibbs, 87, Zimbabwean colonial administrator.
• Nils-Olov Hasslev, 64, Swedish diplomat.
• Erich Heller, 79, British essayist.
• Meir Kahane, 58, American-Israeli politician, shot.
• Shunkichi Kikuchi, 74, Japanese photographer, leukemia.
• Sten-Eggert Nauclér, 76, Swedish soldier.
• Raymond Oliver, 81, French chef.
• Bobby Scott, 53, American musician, lung cancer.
• Ernest Symons, 77, British treasurer.
• Kevyn Webb, 66, Australian Olympic rower (1960).
• Roman Zenzinger, 87, Austrian artist.
• J. Owen Zurhellen Jr., 70, American diplomat.

6

• Bob Armstrong, 59, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Traian Crișan, 72, Romanian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Dennis F. Evans, 62, English chemist.
• Ed Gossett, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1939–1951).
• Marc Guley, 78, American basketball player.
• Hilary Baumann Hacker, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Sir Thomas Hiley, 84, Australian politician.
• Kálmán Kirchmayer, 92, Hungarian Olympic tennis player (1924).
• Will Kuluva, 73, American actor.
• Marcel Légaut, 90, French theologian and mathematician.
• Rodrigo Moynihan, 80, English painter.
• Piet van der Sluijs, 72, Dutch footballer.

7

• Ack Ack, 24, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Lemuel Boulware, 95, American businessman.
• Tom Clancy, 66, Irish singer (The Clancy Brothers) and actor, stomach cancer.
• Lawrence Durrell, 78, British novelist, stroke.
• John G. Fuller, 76, American writer.
• Sabás Magaña García, 69, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate.
• Sigurd Monssen, 88, Norwegian Olympic rower (1948).
• Vito Russo, 44, American LGBT activist, co-founder of GLAAD, AIDS.
• Elmo Veron, 87, American film and television editor.
• Josephine Wilson, 86, British actress.

8

• Nils Reinhardt Christensen, 71, Norwegian filmmaker.
• Helen Cutler, 67, Australian charity worker.
• Ned Jenkins, 86, Welsh rugby player.
• Hugh Bosdin Leech, 80, Canadian-American entomologist.
• Jacqueline Pirenne, 71-72, French archaeologist, traffic collision.
• Dora Isella Russell, 65, Argentine-born Uruguayan poet and journalist.
• Wolfgang Schmieder, 89, German musicologist.
• Anya Seton, 86, American author.
• Earl Torgeson, 66, American baseball player, leukemia.

9

• Harry Evans, 78, Australian geologist.
• Piet Groeneveld, 66, Dutch footballer.
• Hugh MacLennan, 83, Canadian novelist.
• Ray Navarro, 26, American video artist, AIDS.
• Dora Söderberg, 90, Swedish actress.
• Harold A. Stevens, 83, American judge.
• Olton van Genderen, 69, Surinamese politician.
• Georgia Boy Williams, 82, American politician.

10

• Ronnie Dyson, 40, American singer and actor, heart failure.
• Arlene White Lawrence, 73, American church leader.
• Louis Guy LeBlanc, 69, Canadian politician.
• Maura McGiveney, 51, English-American actress, cirrhosis.
• Steve McKinney, 36-37, American skier, traffic collision.
• Aurelio Monteagudo, 46, Cuban baseball player, traffic collision.
• Bhalchandra Nilkanth Purandare, 79, Indian gynecologist.
• Tommy Sale, 80, English footballer.
• Mário Schenberg, 76, Brazilian physicist and writer.
• Godfrey Worsley, 83, British Anglican prelate.

11

• Ted Albert, 53, Australian record producer, heart attack.
• Roy Anthony Cutaran Bennett, 77, Filipino-American journalist.
• Greg Buckingham, 45, American swimmer, heart attack.
• Elliott Chaze, 74, American novelist and journalist, cancer.
• Attilio Demaría, 81, Argentine footballer.
• Rusty Goodman, 57, American musician, cancer.
• Frank Hedden, 86, American sports coach.
• Margarete Heymann, 91, German ceramicist.
• Sadi Irmak, 86, Turkish politician, prime minister (1974–1975).
• Stormie Jones, 13, American recipient of a simultaneous heart and liver transplant, heart failure.
• Lisa Kirk, 65, American singer and actress, lung cancer.
• Alexis Minotis, 90, Greek actor and film director.
• Yiannis Ritsos, 81, Greek poet.
• Robert Simpson, 80, Canadian politician.
• William Randolph Taylor, 94, American botanist.
• John M. Zwach, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1967–1975).

12

• Eve Arden, 82, American actress (Mildred Pierce, Our Miss Brooks, Grease), Emmy winner (1954), cardiac arrest.
• Ione Gedye, 82-83, English archaeologist.
• Tetsumi Kudo, 55, Japanese artist, cancer.
• Philip Pouncey, 80, English art historian.
• Randi Heide Steen, 80, Norwegian singer.
• Junior Walsh, 71, American baseball player.
• Dave Willock, 81, American actor.

13

• Hanuš Burger, 81, Czech-American screenwriter.
• Don Chaffey, 73, British film director (Jason and the Argonauts, Pete's Dragon, One Million Years B.C.), heart attack.
• James Cockburn, 74, Australian cricketer.
• Preston Davis, 83, American politician.
• Helen Dettweiler, 75, American golfer, cancer.
• Wilfred Dunderdale, 90, British spy, possible inspiration for James Bond.
• Rowland Emett, 84, English kinetic sculptor.
• Stewart Guthrie, 41, New Zealand police officer, shot.
• Mircea Ionnițiu, Romanian writer.
• Joseph Lang, 79, American boxer.
• Richard Lewis, 76, English singer.
• Bobby Marcano, 39, Venezuelan baseball player, cancer.
• Maurice Richlin, 70, American screenwriter.
• Lester Williams, 70, American guitarist.

14

• Margot Arce de Vázquez, 86, Puerto Rican writer, Alzheimer's disease.
• William Cannon, 83, American film director.
• Horst Feistel, 75, German-American cryptographer.
• Sol Kaplan, 71, American composer.
• Otto Kuchenbecker, 83, German basketball player.
• Archie McLeod, 82, Scottish footballer.
• Malcolm Muggeridge, 87, English journalist and satirist.
• Paula Nenette Pepin, 82, French musician.
• Leonid Trauberg, 88, Soviet filmmaker.

15

• Alydar, 15, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Cheng Shicai, 78, Chinese general.
• Oswald Denison, 85, New Zealand rower.
• Ettore Giannini, 77, Italian filmmaker.
• Gideon Hausner, 75, Israeli politician.
• Irving Janis, 72, American psychologist, lung cancer.
• Patrick McGinnis, 63, American politician.
• Irina Paley, 86, French exiled Russian royal.
• Joseph Weisbecker, 58, American computer engineer.

16

• Pierre Braunberger, 85, French film producer.
• Lee Castle, 75, American musician.
• Jill Day, 59, English singer, cancer.
• Andrew V. Haeff, 85, Russian-American electrical engineer.
• Northern Dancer, 29, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.
• Dmitri Skobeltsyn, 97, Soviet physicist.
• James C. Soper, 83, American politician.
• Mary Watson Weaver, 87, American musician.
• Yang Lien-sheng, 76, Chinese-American sinologist.

17

• Margaret Oliver Brown, 78, Scottish painter.
• Horst Frenz, 78, German-American literary scholar.
• Robert Hofstadter, 75, American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1961).
• Edna Hughes, 74, English Olympic swimmer (1932, 1936).
• Herbert B. Maw, 97, American politician, governor of Utah (1941–1949).
• Charles Morris, 51, English cricketer.

18

• Murray Ashby, 59, New Zealand rower.
• Fred Daly, 79, Northern Irish golfer, heart attack.
• Harwell Hamilton Harris, 87, American architect.
• László Hódi, 78, Hungarian Olympic diver (1936).
• Ray Price, 46, English footballer, heart attack.
• Beatrice Shilling, 81, British aeronautical engineer.

19

• Šefik Bešlagić, 82, Yugoslav cultural historian.
• Tom Boswell, 47, British journalist.
• John Fitzpatrick, 86, American baseball player and coach.
• Georgy Flyorov, 77, Soviet nuclear physicist, namesake of flerovium.
• Phillip M. Landrum, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1977).
• Lennart Ljung, 69, Swedish general.
• Liliana Lubińska, 86, Polish neuroscientist.
• Jean-Jacques Maurer, 59, Swiss footballer.
• Joseph C. Satterthwaite, 90, American diplomat.
• Sun Li-jen, 89, Taiwanese general.

20

• Alec Burgess, 84, English cricketer.
• Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, 76, Italian artist.
• Herbert Kegel, 70, German conductor, suicide.
• Giovanni Lupi, 81, Swiss footballer.
• Bengt Odhner, 72, Swedish diplomat.

21

• Vernon Ellis Cosslett, 82, British microscopist.
• Léopold Demers, 78, Canadian politician.
• Dean Hart, 36, Canadian-American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Pierre Musy, 80, Swiss bobsledder.
• Eugene Rosenberg, 83, Czechoslovak architect.
• Ralph Siewert, 66, American basketball player.
• Yevgeni Zhukov, 39, Soviet footballer.

22

• Émile Allegret, 83, French soldier.
• Joe Bowman, 80, American baseball player.
• Noel Chambers, 67, New Zealand swimmer.
• Gustav Fischer, 75, Swiss equestrian.
• Jack Petersen, 79, Welsh boxer, lung cancer.
• Eberhard Zwicker, 66, German acoustics scientist.

23

• Paul L. Adams, 82, American judge.
• Roald Dahl, 74, British author (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda), myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Bo Díaz, 37, Venezuelan baseball player, blunt force trauma from falling satellite dish.
• William Thomas George Gates, 82, British banker.
• Ken Gibler, 59, American sports coach, cancer.
• Karl Aage Hansen, 69, Danish footballer.
• Tatsu Hirota, 86, Japanese painter.
• Sergio Matto, 60, Uruguayan basketball player.
• Caio Prado Júnior, 83, Brazilian historian.
• Nguyễn Văn Tâm, 95, Vietnamese politician, prime minister (1952–1953).
• Renate Rubinstein, 61, German-Dutch writer.
• Olga Shatunovskaya, 89, Soviet anti-Stalinist.
• Margit Szécsi, 62, Hungarian poet.
• W. D. Workman Jr., 76, American journalist.

24

• Richard Acland, 83, English politician.
• Bülent Arel, 71, Turkish composer.
• Lettice Mildred Ashley-Cooper, 79, British socialite and airwoman.
• Juan Manuel Bordeu, 56, Argentine racing driver.
• Helga Feddersen, 60, German actress.
• Michel Giacometti, 61, French musicologist.
• Wayne Hillman, 52, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
• Ronald Hopkins, 93, Australian general.
• Janez Lawson, 60, American computer scientist.
• Arnold Marquis, 69, German actor, lung cancer.
• Keiji Nishitani, 90, Japanese academic.
• Marion Post Wolcott, 80, American photographer, lung cancer.
• Fred Shero, 65, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Dodie Smith, 94, English novelist (The Hundred and One Dalmatians, I Capture the Castle).
• Donald Morton Stewart, 67, Canadian politician.
• Robb White, 81, American screenwriter.

25

• Gerry Archibald, 83, Canadian basketball player.
• Guillermo Cornejo, 71, Peruvian Olympic sport shooter (1956, 1960, 1964).
• Clifford Doan, 85, Canadian politician.
• Ernest Duncan, 74, New-Zealand-Australian-American mathematician.
• Harlan Hagen, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1967).
• Merab Mamardashvili, 60, Soviet philosopher.
• Mikko Niskanen, 61, Finnish filmmaker, cancer.
• Neil Stonechild, 17, Canadian Saulteaux police brutality victim, hypothermia.
• Salvatore Todisco, 29, Italian boxer, traffic collision.
• Billy Vukovich III, 27, American racing driver, racing collision.
• Bettina Warburg, 90, German-American psychiatrist.

26

• Gerard Bérchet, 87, French-American chemist.
• Frank Brisko, 90, American racing driver.
• Harold L. Ervin, 95, American judge.
• Feng Youlan, 94, Chinese philosopher.
• Buddy Hayes, 64, American boxer.
• Antonín Kalina, 88, Czechoslovak humanitarian.
• Savitri Khanolkar, 77, Swiss-Indian designer (Param Vir Chakra).
• Samuel Noah Kramer, 93, Russian-American Assyriologist, throat cancer.
• Florence Lewis, 85, American woman's rights activist.
• Hugo Manninen, 88, Finnish politician.
• Heikki Partanen, 48, Finnish filmmaker.
• Edward Pearce, Baron Pearce, 89, British judge.
• Joseph Tremblay, 91, Canadian politician.
• Ludwig von Moos, 80, Swiss politician.
• Jacques Wild, 85, French footballer.
• Dave Wilkins, 76, Barbadian trumpeter.

27

• Julio Durán, 72, Chilean politician.
• Joseph T. Edgar, 80, American politician.
• Frank Edward Figgures, 80, British civil servant.
• Juan Gindre, 75, Argentine Olympic sport shooter (1956, 1960).
• Jerry Herst, 81, American songwriter and lawyer.
• Murrell Hogue, 86, American football player.
• Cliff Jones, 76, Welsh rugby player.
• Jean Littlejohn, 91, Australian surgeon.
• Proinsias Mac an Bheatha, 80, Irish writer.
• Avro Manhattan, 76, Italian writer.
• Raquel Señoret, 68, Chilean poet.
• Paddy Sheriff, 64, Irish basketball player.
• Johan Sverre, 67, Norwegian actor.
• David White, 74, American actor, heart attack.
• Joan Wood, 81, New Zealand educator.
• Basilis C. Xanthopoulos, 39, Greek theoretical physicist, murdered.

28

• Richard Bachtell, 84, American weightlifter.
• Ted Catlin, 80, English footballer.
• Tamara De Treaux, 31, American actress, respiratory failure.
• Božena Dobešová, 76, Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast (1936).
• Paco Godia, 69, Spanish racing driver.
• Douglas Green, 88, Australian cricketer.
• Lene Grønlykke, 57, Danish culinary entrepreneur and filmmaker.
• Theophilus Hamutumbangela, 73, Namibian anti-Apartheid activist.
• Tommy Hughes, 71, American baseball player.
• Sam Maddux Jr., 75, American general.
• Garcia Massingale, 62, American baseball player.
• Władysław Rubin, 73, Polish Roman Catholic cardinal.

29

• Clare H Abrahall, 90, British writer.
• Raymond Bourgine, 65, French politician.
• Harry M. Caudill, 68, American author, suicide by gunshot.
• Robert Cunliffe, 95, English naval officer.
• Malcolm Dole, 87, American chemist.
• Beatrice Jacquart, 79, American politician.
• Willard LaMere, 72, American Ho-Chunk community organizer.
• Günter Platzek, 60, German keyboardist, heart attack.
• Lou Sleeth, 74, Australian footballer.
• Ferdinand Strøm, 87, Norwegian dentist.
• József Szalai, 97, Hungarian Olympic gymnast (1912).
• Robert Everard Wainwright, 77, British colonial administrator.

30

• William Baker, 88, Tanzanian-British Anglican prelate.
• Fritz Barzilauskas, 70, American football player.
• Richard Brown, 83, American football player.
• Norman Cousins, 75, American political journalist.
• Vladimir Dedijer, 76, Yugoslav diplomat and historian.
• Fritz Eichenberg, 89, German-American artist, Parkinson's disease.
• Émile Ess, 58, Swiss rower.
• Karl Höfer, 65, Austrian footballer.
• Hédi Jouini, 81, Tunisian musician.
• Ivan Medarić, 78, Yugoslav footballer.
• T. R. Ramachandran, 73, Indian actor and comedian.
• Benjamin Lawrence Reid, 72, American academic, heart attack.
• Hilde Spiel, 79, Austrian writer and journalist.