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, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.
November 1990
1
- Richard Desmond, 63, American Olympic ice hockey player.
- Ward Haylett, 95, American track and field coach.
- Kim Hyun-sik, 32, South Korean musician, cirrhosis.
- Cyprien Biyehima Kihangire, 72, Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate.
- Ray Pohlman, 60, American guitarist, heart failure.
- G. Malcolm Trout, 94, American dairy scientist.
- Eszter Voit, 74, Hungarian Olympic gymnast.
2
- Frederick Thomas Armstrong, 82, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
- Abasaheb Garware, 86, Indian industrialist.
- Peter Hellings, 74, English marine.
- Robert T. McLoskey, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Eliot Porter, 88, American photographer.
- William Travilla, 70, American costume designer, lung cancer.
- Donald Allen 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.
- Mary Martin, 76, American actress and singer, cancer.
- Sashadhar Mukherjee, 81, Indian filmmaker.
- Bruno Ochman, 61, Canadian Olympic wrestler.
- Nikolai Rakov, 82, Soviet violinist.
- Jack Russell, 85, American baseball player.
- Walter H. Tyler, 81, American art director.
4
- Mildred Allen, 96, American physicist.
- Henry Cravatte, 79, Luxembourgish politician.
- James C. Harrison, 64, American artist.
- Cyrus Levinthal, 68, American molecular biologist, lung cancer.
- Hicks Lokey, 86, American animator.
- Carol Sobieski, 51, American screenwriter, amyloidosis.
- David Stirling, 74, Scottish soldier.
- Shigeo Takahashi, 78, Japanese Olympic athlete.
5
- Herbert Berghof, 81, Austrian-American actor and film director.
- Øivind Breiby, 72, Norwegian Olympic boxer.
- Humphrey Gibbs, 87, Zimbabwean colonial administrator.
- Erich Heller, 79, British essayist.
- Meir Kahane, 58, American-Israeli politician, shot.
- Shunkichi Kikuchi, 74, Japanese photographer, leukemia.
- Raymond Oliver, 81, French chef, cancer.
- Bobby Scott, 53, American musician, lung cancer.
- Kevyn Webb, 66, Australian Olympic rower.
- Suleiman Yudakov, 74, Soviet and Tajikistani musician.
6
- Bob Armstrong, 59, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Lex Franken, 74, Dutch Olympic water polo player.
- Ed Gossett, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Hilary Baumann Hacker, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate.
- Thomas Hiley, 84, Australian politician.
- Kálmán Kirchmayer, 92, Hungarian Olympic tennis player.
- Will Kuluva, 73, American actor.
- Marcel Légaut, 90, French theologian and mathematician.
- Rodrigo Moynihan, 80, English painter.
- George Philip Ochola, 60, Kenyan trade unionist and politician.
- Piet van der Sluijs, 72, Dutch footballer.
7
- Ack Ack, 24, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
- Lemuel Ricketts Boulware, 95, American businessman.
- Tom Clancy, 66, Irish singer and actor, stomach cancer.
- Lawrence Durrell, 78, British novelist, stroke.
- John G. Fuller, 76, American writer, lung cancer.
- Sigurd Monssen, 88, Norwegian Olympic rower.
- Stepan Privedentsev, 74, Soviet Russian painter, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists.
- Vito Russo, 44, American LGBT activist, AIDS.
- Elmo Veron, 87, American film and television editor.
- Josephine Wilson, 86, British actress.
8
- Nils Reinhardt Christensen, 71, Norwegian filmmaker.
- Jacqueline Pirenne, 71-72, French archaeologist, traffic collision.
- Wolfgang Schmieder, 89, German musicologist.
- Anya Seton, 86, American author.
- Earl Torgeson, 66, American baseball player, leukemia.
9
- Alfredo Armas Alfonzo, 69, Venezuelan writer, critic, editor and historian.
- Olton van Genderen, 69, Surinamese politician.
- Piet Groeneveld, 66, Dutch footballer.
- Hugh MacLennan, 83, Canadian novelist.
- Harold A. Stevens, 83, American judge.
- Dora Söderberg, 90, Swedish actress.
10
- Willy Dasso, 73, Peruvian Olympic basketball player.
- Ronnie Dyson, 40, American singer and actor, heart failure.
- Louis Guy LeBlanc, 69, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
- Maura McGiveney, 51, English-American actress, cirrhosis.
- Aurelio Monteagudo, 46, Cuban baseball player, traffic collision.
- Bhalchandra Nilkanth Purandare, 79, Indian gynaecologist.
- Tommy Sale, 80, English footballer.
- Mário Schenberg, 76, Brazilian physicist and writer.
- Çetin Zeybek, 58, Turkish football player.
11
- Ted Albert, 53, Australian record producer, heart attack.
- Greg Buckingham, 45, American Olympic swimmer, heart attack.
- Attilio Demaría, 81, Argentine footballer.
- Margarete Heymann, 91, German ceramicist.
- Sadi Irmak, 86, Turkish politician, prime minister.
- Lisa Kirk, 65, American singer and actress, lung cancer.
- Alexis Minotis, 90, Greek actor and film director.
- Yannis Ritsos, 81, Greek poet.
- William Randolph Taylor, 94, American botanist.
- John M. Zwach, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
12
- Eve Arden, 82, American actress, Emmy winner, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
- Balcomb Greene, 86, American artist and teacher.
- Tetsumi Kudo, 55, Japanese Japanese painter, sculptor, and performance artist, cancer.
- Randi Heide Steen, 80, Norwegian singer.
- Junior Walsh, 71, American baseball player.
- Dave Willock, 81, American actor, stroke.
13
- Hanus Burger, 81, Czech-American screenwriter.
- Don Chaffey, 73, British film director, heart attack.
- James Cockburn, 74, Australian rules footballer.
- Helen Dettweiler, 75, American golfer, cancer.
- Wilfred Dunderdale, 90, British spy, possible inspiration for James Bond.
- Frederick Rowland Emett, 84, English kinetic sculptor.
- Joseph Lang, 79, American Olympic boxer.
- Richard Lewis, 76, English singer.
- Bobby Marcano, 39, Venezuelan baseball player.
- Maurice Richlin, 70, American screenwriter.
- Lester Williams, 70, American guitarist.
14
- Margot Arce de Vázquez, 86, Puerto Rican writer, Alzheimer's disease.
- Horst Feistel, 75, German-American cryptographer.
- Paula Nenette Pepin, 82, French musician, heart attack.
- Sol Kaplan, 71, American composer, lung cancer.
- Otto Kuchenbecker, 83, German Olympic basketball player.
- Malcolm Muggeridge, 87, English journalist and satirist.
- Adolf Rudnicki, 78, Polish author and essayist.
- Leonid Trauberg, 88, Soviet and Ukrainian film director and screenwriter.
15
- Alydar, 15, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
- Jill Day, 59, English singer, cancer.
- Oswald Denison, 85, New Zealand rower.
- Ettore Giannini, 77, Italian filmmaker.
- Gideon Hausner, 75, Israeli politician.
- Irving Janis, 72, American psychologist, lung cancer.
- Princess Irina Pavlovna Paley, 86, French exiled Russian royal.
- Jimmy Ward, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
16
- Pierre Braunberger, 85, French film producer.
- Lee Castle, 75, American musician.
- Yang Lien-sheng, 76, Chinese-American sinologist.
- Northern Dancer, 29, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.
- Dmitri Skobeltsyn, 97, Soviet physicist.
17
- Otto Demus, 88, Austrian art historian and Byzantinist.
- Robert Hofstadter, 75, American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient.
- Edna Hughes, 74, English Olympic swimmer.
- Herbert B. Maw, 97, American politician, governor of Utah.
18
- Murray Ashby, 59, New Zealand rower.
- Wolfgang Büttner, 78, German actor and voice actor.
- Fred Daly, 79, Northern Irish golfer, heart attack.
- Harwell Hamilton Harris, 87, American architect.
- László Hódi, 78, Hungarian Olympic diver.
- David Lloyd Kreeger, 81, American art philanthropist.
- Beatrice Shilling, 81, British aeronautical engineer.
19
- Šefik Bešlagić, 82, Yugoslav cultural historian.
- 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.
- Sun Li-jen, 89, Taiwanese general.
- Lennart Ljung, 69, Swedish general.
- Jean-Jacques Maurer, 59, Swiss footballer.
- Joseph C. Satterthwaite, 90, American diplomat.
20
- Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, 76, Italian artist.
- William Montague Cobb, 86, American physician and a physical anthropologist.
- Herbert Kegel, 70, German conductor, suicide.
- Bengt Odhner, 72, Swedish diplomat.
21
- Vernon Ellis Cosslett, 82, British microscopist.
- Léopold Demers, 78, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
- Dean Hart, 36, Canadian-American professional wrestler, heart attack.
- Pierre Musy, 80, Swiss Olympic bobsledder and equestrian (1936, 1948.
- Eugene Rosenberg, 83, Czechoslovak architect.
- Ralph Siewert, 66, American basketball player.
22
- Joe Bowman, 80, American baseball player.
- Gustav Fischer, 75, Swiss equestrian and Olympic medalist.
- Jack Petersen, 79, Welsh boxer, lung cancer.
- Benjamin H. Vandervoort, 73, United States Army officer.
- Eberhard Zwicker, 66, German acoustics scientist.
23
- Roald Dahl, 74, British author, myelodysplastic syndrome.
- Bo Díaz, 37, Venezuelan baseball player, domestic accident.
- Karl Aage Hansen, 69, Danish footballer and Olympian.
- Caio Prado Júnior, 83, Brazilian historian.
- Sergio Matto, 60, Uruguayan Olympic basketball player.
- Rock Pidjot, 83, New Caledonian politician.
- Renate Rubinstein, 61, German-Dutch writer.
- Nguyen Van Tam, 95, Vietnamese politician, prime minister.
24
- Richard Acland, 83, English politician.
- Bülent Arel, 71, Turkish composer, multiple myeloma.
- Juan Manuel Bordeu, 56, Argentine racing driver.
- Vincenzo Demetz, 79, Italian Olympic cross-country skier.
- Helga Feddersen, 60, German actress, cancer.
- Michel Giacometti, 61, French musicologist.
- Wayne Hillman, 52, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
- Ronald Hopkins, 93, Australian general.
- Joseph Jadrejak, 72, French football player and manager.
- Arnold Marquis, 69, German actor, lung cancer.
- Keiji Nishitani, 90, Japanese academic.
- Fred Shero, 65, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, stomach cancer.
- Dodie Smith, 94, English novelist.
- Robb White, 81, American screenwriter.
- Marion Post Wolcott, 80, American photographer, lung cancer.
25
- Gerry Archibald, 83, Canadian basketball player and coach.
- Guillermo Cornejo, 71, Peruvian Olympic sports shooter.
- Ernest Duncan, 74, New-Zealand-Australian-American mathematician, leukemia.
- Harlan Hagen, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Merab Mamardashvili, 60, Soviet philosopher.
- Mikko Niskanen, 61, Finnish filmmaker, cancer.
- Salvatore Todisco, 29, Italian Olympic boxer, traffic collision.
- Billy Vukovich III, 27, American racing driver, racing collision.
- Bettina Warburg, 90, German-born American psychiatrist.
26
- Frank Brisko, 90, American racing driver.
- Antonín Kalina, 88, Czechoslovak humanitarian.
- Savitri Khanolkar, 77, Swiss-Indian designer.
- Samuel Noah Kramer, 93, Russian-American Assyriologist, throat cancer.
- Heikki Partanen, 48, Finnish filmmaker, suicide.
- Edward Pearce, Baron Pearce, 89, British judge.
- Ludwig von Moos, 80, Swiss politician.
- Jacques Wild, 85, French Olympic footballer.
- Dave Wilkins, 76, Barbadian trumpeter.
- Feng Youlan, 94, Chinese philosopher.
27
- Proinsias Mac an Bheatha, 80, Irish writer.
- Joseph T. Edgar, 80, American politician.
- Juan Gindre, 75, Argentine Olympic sports shooter.
- Murrell Hogue, 86, American football player.
- Avro Manhattan, 76, Italian writer.
- Paddy Sheriff, 64, Irish basketball player and Olympian.
- Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal, 71, South African linguist.
- David White, 74, American actor, heart attack.
28
- Richard Bachtell, 84, American Olympic weightlifter.
- Birger Bohlin, 92, Swedish palaeontologist.
- Ted Catlin, 80, English footballer.
- Tamara De Treaux, 31, American actress, respiratory failure.
- Božena Dobešová, 76, Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast.
- Paco Godia, 69, Spanish racing driver.
- Douglas Green, 88, Australian cricketer.
- Tommy Hughes, 71, American baseball player.
- Garcia Massingale, 62, American baseball player.
- Władysław Rubin, 73, Polish Roman Catholic cardinal, Alzheimer's disease.
29
- Raymond Bourgine, 65, French politician.
- Harry M. Caudill, 68, American author, suicide by gunshot.
- Malcolm Dole, 87, American chemist.
- Günter Platzek, 60, German keyboardist, heart attack.
- Marcel Sedille-Courbon, 85, Belgian Olympic bobsledder.
- Lou Sleeth, 74, Australian rules footballer.
- József Szalai, 97, Hungarian Olympic gymnast.
- Geneviève Vankiersbilck, 86, French Olympic gymnast.
30
- Fritz Barzilauskas, 70, American football player.
- Richard Brown, 83, American football player.
- Norman Cousins, 75, American political journalist, heart failure.
- Vladimir Dedijer, 76, Yugoslav diplomat and historian.
- Fritz Eichenberg, 89, German-American artist, Parkinson's disease.
- Karl Höfer, 65, Austrian footballer.
- Ivan Medarić, 78, Yugoslav footballer.
- T. R. Ramachandran, 73, Indian actor and comedian.
- Hilde Spiel, 79, Austrian writer and journalist.