Deaths in November 1991

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

November 1991

1

• Mary Ainslee, 77, American film actress.
• Amedeo Bruni, 85, Italian Olympic sports shooter.
• Fernand Brunner, 71, Swiss philosopher.
• Moisés Carmona, 79, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop.
• Richard Hoppin, 78, American musicologist.
• Tamaz Namgalauri, 34, Soviet Georgian Olympic judoka.
• Arun Paudwal, 47, Indian Bollywood film score composer.
• Earl Witte, 84, American football player.

2

• Irwin Allen, 75, American film producer, heart attack.
• Yosef Almogi, 81, Israeli politician.
• Jimmy Hull, 74, American basketball player, heart attack.
• Vladimír Kudrna, 67, Czech Olympic sports shooter.
• Hannes Messemer, 67, German actor, heart attack.
• Francisco Moreira, 76, Portuguese football player.
• Mort Shuman, 52, American songwriter and pianist, cancer.
• Richard C. Thomas, 54, American politician, throat cancer.
• Frank Willis, 76, Canadian Olympic canoeist.

3

• Finn Alnæs, 59, Norwegian novelist.
• Chris Bender, 19, American R&B singer.
• Birendra Krishna Bhadra, 86, Indian radio broadcaster, playwright, actor, and narrator.
• Raymond Blackburn, 76, British politician.
• Ray Collins, 64, American gridiron football player.
• Giancarlo Luzzani, 79, Swiss Olympic field hockey player.
• P. Narendranath, 57, Indian author.
• John Sandwith Boys Smith, 90, British academic.
• Marinus Valentijn, 91, Dutch road bicycle racer.
• Roman Wilhelmi, 55, Polish theatre and film actor, liver cancer.

4

• Mohideen Baig, 71, Sri Lankan musician.
• Roger E. Broggie, 83, American mechanical engineer.
• Cliff Keen, 90, American wrestling coach.
• Hermann Kutschera, 88, Austrian architect.
• Arthur Nord, 93, Norwegian wrestler and Olympian.

5

• Bill Atkins, 56, American gridiron football player.
• Maurice V. Brady, 87, American politician.
• Bill Cronin, 47, American gridiron football player .
• Lloyd Fletcher, 76, American judge.
• Roy Garforth, 73, British Olympic water polo player.
• Kenneth Archibald Harrison, 90, Canadian mycologist.
• Fred MacMurray, 83, American actor, pneumonia.
• Robert Maxwell, 68, Czechoslovak-British media tycoon, politician and fraudster, heart attack combined with accidental drowning.
• Russell McInnes, 78, Australian rules footballer.
• Alfred Skrobisch, 78, American Olympic fencer.

6

• Veniamin Alexandrov, 54, Soviet Olympic ice hockey player.
• Harriet Bland, 76, American Olympic sprinter.
• Oreste Corbatta, 55, Argentine footballer.
• Fred Gilby, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• Kemal Horulu, 65, Turkish Olympic sprinter, and pornographic film director.
• Robert William Porter, 65, American district judge.
• Oskar Thierbach, 82, German road bicycle racer.
• Gene Tierney, 70, American actress, emphysema.
• André Vandernoot, 64, Belgian conductor.
• Giannis Vazos, 77, Greek football player.

7

• Valery Aleksyev, 62, Soviet and Russian anthropologist.
• Franc Červan, 55, Yugoslav Olympic long-distance runner.
• Tom of Finland, 71, Finnish artist, emphysema.
• Ralph Harvey, 90, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Vilhelm Hellman, 68, Swedish Olympic ski jumper.
• Ed Marlo, 78, American magician.
• Maxine Mitchell, 74, American Olympic fencer.
• Gaston Monnerville, 94, French politician and lawyer, cancer.
• Ishak Haji Muhammad, 81, Malaysian writer.
• Francisc Nemeș, 84, Romanian Olympic sprinter.
• Guillermo "Willy" Oddó, 48, Chilean musician, murdered.

8

• Hardy Brown, 67, American football player, dementia.
• Frances Faye, 79, American singer.
• Albert Hayhurst, 86, English cricketer.
• John Kirkpatrick, 86, American pianist and musical scholar.
• Charlotte Moorman, 57, American cellist, performance artist, and avant-gardist, breast cancer.
• Dave Rowbotham, 33, English rock musician, murdered.
• Billy Savidan, 89, New Zealand long distance runner and Olympian.

9

• Jana Dítětová, 65, Czech film actress.
• Lance Hayward, 75, Bermudan-American jazz pianist, pneumonia.
• Hans Liljedahl, 78, Swedish Olympic sports shooter.
• Yves Montand, 70, Italian-French actor and singer, heart attack.
• John Newton, 71, New Zealand rugby player.
• Ralph Moses Paiewonsky, 84, United States Virgin Islands politician.
• Laurie Wilkinson, 87, Australian politician.
• Abe Yourist, 82, Russian-American basketball player.

10

• Dick the Bruiser, 62, American professional wrestler and football player, internal bleeding.
• Gunnar Gren, 71, Swedish football player and Olympian.
• Colin Johnstone, 70, New Zealand Olympic rower.
• Tutte Lemkow, 73, Norwegian actor, leukemia.
• Alessandro Lessona, 100, Italian politician.
• Ernest Mallinson, 93, English cricketer, British Indian Army officer.
• Robert Baird McClure, 90, Canadian physician and medical missionary to Asia.
• Florian Radu, 71, Romanian football player.
• Montserrat Roig, 45, Spanish writer, breast cancer.
• Vishnuprasad Trivedi, 92, Indian literary critic.
• Curt Weibull, 105, Swedish historian, educator and author.

11

• John Balfanz, 51, American ski jumper and Olympian.
• Heinz Becker, 76, German-American baseball player.
• Billy Behan, 80, Irish football player and manager.
• Nellie Halstead, 81, English track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.
• Collins Jones, 69, American baseball player.
• Cananea Reyes, 54, Mexican baseball player and manager.
• Nadezhda Shteinmiller, 76, Soviet artist.
• Tom Skinner, 82, New Zealand politician and trade union leader.
• Morton Stevens, 62, American film and television composer, Emmy winner, cancer.

12

• Diane Brewster, 60, American actress, heart failure, heart failure.
• Ravishing Ripper Collins, 58, American professional wrestler, melanoma.
• Bobby Joe Edmonds, 50, American basketball player.
• Keizō Hayashi, 84, Japanese civil servant and general officer.
• Bruce Hubbard, 39, American operatic baritone, pneumonia.
• Gabriele Tinti, 59, Italian actor, heart attack.
• Tom Wukovits, 75, American basketball player.

13

• Hanson W. Baldwin, 88, American journalist.
• Henryk Borowski, 81, Polish theater, radio and film actor.
• Leo Carbol, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Paul-Émile Léger, 87, Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, pneumonia.
• Maurice Mercery, 89, French footballer.
• Walter Ulbrich, 81, German film producer.
• Georges Winckelmans, 81, French football player and coach.

14

• Constantin Chiriță, 66, Romanian writer.
• William Nyrén, 71, Norwegian actor.
• Tony Richardson, 63, English film director, Oscar winner, AIDS.
• Bryden Thomson, 63, Scottish conductor, cancer.
• Yoshikata Yoda, 82, Japanese screenwriter.

15

• Doris Marie Bender, 79, American social worker.
• Patricia Black, 18, Northern Irish volunteer in the IRA, bombing accident.
• Jack Franklin, 72, American baseball player.
• Sylvio Hoffmann, 83, Brazilian football player.
• V. S. Huzurbazar, 72, Indian statistician from Kolhapur.
• Robert McCall, 33, Canadian ice dancer and Olympian, brain cancer.
• Jacques Morali, 44, French music producer, AIDS.
• Stan Noszka, 71, American basketball player, and politician.
• George Simms, 81, Archbishop in the Church of Ireland.

16

• Bill Dodd, 81, American lawyer and politician.
• Maya Dolas, 25, Indian mobster, ballistic trauma.
• Alberto Girri, 71, Argentine poet and writer.
• Margaret Pease Harper, 80, American educator, musician and civic leader.
• Ralph Marrero, 33, American actor, traffic collision.
• José Miguel Olguín, 86, Chilean Olympic footballer.
• Gustav Wetterström, 80, Swedish football striker.

17

• Eileen Agar, 91, British-Argentinian painter and photographer.
• Maurice Banach, 24, German footballer, traffic collision.
• Smead Jolley, 89, American baseball player.
• Kafunga, 77, Brazilian football player.
• Frank Kosikowski, 65, American gridiron football player.
• Horst Mühlmann, 51, German footballer and American football player.
• Adrian Quist, 78, Australian tennis player.
• William Strickland, 77, American conductor and organist, lung cancer.
• Kelly Jean Van Dyke, 33, American actress, suicide by hanging.
• Jack Vinall, 70, Australian rules footballer.

18

• Claude Cahen, 82, French marxist orientalist and historian.
• Gustáv Husák, 78, Czechoslovak politician, president.
• Fritz Köpke, 89, German Olympic high jumper.
• Reg Parlett, 87, English artist.
• J. P. Stern, 70, Austrian-British literary scholar.
• Alexey Tryoshnikov, 77, Soviet polar explorer.
• Eugen York, 78, German film director.

19

• Les Eyre, 69, English footballer.
• Xian Henghan, 80, Chinese lieutenant general and politician.
• Zi'ang Hu, 94, Chinese politician.
• Michael Lyons, 81, Irish Fine Gael politician.
• Alan McLaughlin, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• Reggie Nalder, 84, Austrian actor, bone cancer.
• Leonid Obolensky, 89, Russian and Soviet actor.
• Luis Sarria, 80, Cuban-American boxer.
• Jackie Stamps, 72, English football player.
• Dick Weber, 72, American football player.

20

• Yulia Drunina, 67, Soviet poet, suicide.
• Siniša Glavašević, 31, Croatian reporter, homicide.
• Helga Hahnemann, 54, East German German actress, comedian and singer.
• Arthur Charles Hind, 86, Indian Olympic field hockey player.
• Kåre Kivijärvi, 53, Norwegian photographer.
• Jean-Michel Nicolier, 25, French military volunteer, killed in the Vukovar massacre.
• Antun Stipančić, 42, Croatian table tennis player, heart attack.
• Zdeněk Tikal, 62, Czech-born Australian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Notable Azerbaijans killed in 1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown:
• *Mahammad Asadov, 49, Minister of Internal Affairs, State Advisor
• *Ismat Gayibov, 49, Public Prosecutor General
• *Zulfi Hajiyev, 56, Deputy Prime Minister
• *Tofik Ismailov, 58, Secretary of State.
• *Vagif Jafarov, 42, Member of Parliament
• *Osman Mirzayev, 54, Head of Presidential Administration, journalist
• *Ali Mustafayev, 39, Television journalist
• *Saylau Serikov, 50, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs
• *Fakhraddin Shahbazov, 41, Cameraman

21

• T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar, 88, Indian politician.
• Joseph Delaney, 87, American artist.
• Ernest Dichter, 84, American psychologist and marketing expert.
• George Dougherty, 77, Australian rules footballer.
• Prior Jones, 74, Trinidadian cricket player.
• Robert Kaufman, 60, American screenwriter, film producer and television writer.
• Vic Krafft, 72, American basketball player.
• Daniel Mann, 79, American film director, heart failure.
• Bryan Stephens, 71, American baseball player.
• Wes Trainor, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Sonny Werblin, 81, American sports executive, heart attack.
• John Whedon, 86, American television writer.
• Hans Zassenhaus, 79, German mathematician.

22

• Antoine Berman, 49, French translator, philosopher, and historian.
• Ullrich Haupt, Jr., 76, American-German actor.
• Tadashi Imai, 79, Japanese film director.
• Yevgeni Ivanovski, 73, Soviet general.
• John Magee, 68, American gridiron football player.
• Max Smethurst, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• Roy Zimmerman, 78, American baseball player.

23

• Klaus Kinski, 65, German actor, heart attack.
• Stanley Rimington, 99, Australian cricket player.
• Ernesto Rivera, 77, Puerto Rican Olympic sports shooter
• Ken Uehara, 82, Japanese actor.

24

• Eric Carr, 41, American drummer, heart cancer.
• Alex Colthirst, 73, Panamanian baseball player.
• Anton Furst, 47, English production designer, Oscar winner, suicide by jumping.
• Freddie Mercury, 45, British singer and songwriter, AIDS.
• Carl Sawatski, 64, American baseball player and executive.

25

• Raymond Andrews, 57, American novelist, suicide.
• Eleanor Audley, 86, American actress, respiratory failure.
• Sembiin Gonchigsumlaa, 72, Mongolian composer.
• Doula Mouriki, 57, Greek byzantinologist and art historian.
• Jimmy Strausbaugh, 73, American gridiron football player.
• Charles Wagley, 78, American anthropologist, lung cancer.

26

• Dehl Berti, 70, American actor, heart attack.
• François Billetdoux, 64, French novelist.
• Enzo Cerusico, 54, Italian actor, cancer.
• Ed Heinemann, 83, American aeronautical engineer.
• Bob Johnson, 60, American ice hockey coach, brain cancer.
• Gertrud Pålson-Wettergren, 94, Swedish singer.

27

• George Edwards, 67, American film producer and writer.
• Vilém Flusser, 71, Czech-Brazilian philosopher, struck by vehicle.
• Grete Lainer, 77, Austrian Olympic figure skater.
• Harry Everett Smith, 68, American polymath, cardiac arrest.
• Yō Yoshimura, 37, Japanese voice actor, subarachnoid hemorrhage.

28

• Anton Bilek, 88, Austrian football player and manager.
• Mel Dinelli, 79, American writer for theatre, film and magazines.
• Lu Gwei-djen, 87, Chinese historian and biochemist.
• Jean Palardy, 86, French-Canadian painter, ethnologist and filmmaker.
• Stan Wentzel, 74, American baseball player.
• Mary Wharton, 79, American botanist, author, and environmental activist.

29

• Ralph Bellamy, 87, American actor, Tony winner, lung disease.
• Joe Bonson, 55, English footballer.
• Theodor Estermann, 89, German-American mathematician.
• Louis Finkelstein, 96, American talmud scholar.
• Ludovico Geymonat, 83, Italian mathematician, philosopher and historian of science.
• Nasirdin Isanov, 48, Kyrgyz politician, prime minister, traffic collision.
• Franjo Majetić, 68, Croatian actor.
• Frank Yerby, 75, American writer, liver cancer.

30

• Clarence W. Allgood, 89, American district judge.
• Irena Blühová, 87, Slovak photographer.
• Mikhail Chailakhyan, 89, Armenian-Soviet scientist.
• Hans Lietzau, 78, German theatre director, actor, and producer.
• David Moir Nelson, 71, American football player, coach, and author.
• Josef Pekarek, 78, German footballer.
• Jan Poulus, 75, Dutch footballer.
• Steve Ruzich, 63, American football player.