Deaths in November 1989
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

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Peter Childs, 50, English actor, leukemia. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, 91, American civil rights activist, complications from Alzheimer's disease. 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 Olympic handball player (1936). Hoimar von Ditfurth, 68, German scientific journalist, thyroid cancer. 2
Inés Arredondo, 61, Mexican writer. Andrée Brabant, 88, French film actress. John Clymer, 82, American painter. Morris H. DeGroot, 58, American statistician. 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. Steve Simpson, 41, American baseball player, heart attack. 3
Timoci Bavadra, 55, Fijian politician, prime minister (1987), cancer. Louis Craine, 32, American serial killer, complications from AIDS. Dorothy Fuldheim, 96, American journalist. Ed Kasid, 66, American basketball player. William Morris Jr., 90, American talent agent. Zelma O'Neal, 86, American actress. Edward J. Stack, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1981). 4
Pancho Coimbre, 80, Puerto Rican baseball player, house fire. Erkki Kerttula, 79, Finnish Olympic fencer (1948, 1952). Clare Leighton, 91, English-American artist. Vivian Mercier, 80,  Irish literary critic. Howard A. Rusk, 88, American physician. Keiichirō Ryū, 66, Japanese editor, screenwriter, and historical fiction writer. John Taylor, 81, Canadian Olympic skier (1932). Bohumil Váňa, 69, Czechoslovak table tennis player. 5
Vladimir Horowitz, 86, Russian-American pianist and composer, heart attack. Barry Sadler, 49, American soldier, author, and singer ("The Ballad of the Green Berets"), heart attack. Margot Seitelman, 61, German-American businesswoman, cancer. Lu Watters, 77, American trumpeter. Benigno Zaccagnini, 77, Italian politician. Adem Čejvan, 62, Yugoslav actor. 6
Margarete Buber-Neumann, 88, German writer. Dickie Goodman, 55, American record producer, suicide by gunshot. Margit Makay, 98, Hungarian actress. Yusaku Matsuda, 40, Japanese actor, bladder cancer. William Murphy, 68, American film actor. 7
Dai Astley, 80, Welsh footballer. Andrey Borovykh, 68, Soviet flying ace during World War II and twice Hero of the Soviet Union, stroke. Alec Mango, 78, English actor. Milton K. Ozaki, 76, Japanese-American writer. Brunello Rondi, 64, Italian filmmaker, heart attack. Jan Skácel, 67, Czechoslovak poet. Tommy Tatum, 70, American baseball player. Dick Vorisek, 71, American sound engineer. 8
Robert Gerringer, 63, American actor, stroke. Johnny Lanning, 79, American baseball player. Eugène Proust, 68, French football player and manager. Maud Russell, 96, American social worker and writer, lung cancer. Gino Soldà, 82, Italian Olympic skier (1932). Lionel Gage Wigmore, 90, Australian journalist and historian. Elmer Wynne, 88, American gridiron football player. Mary Agnes Yerkes, 103, American impressionist painter. 9
Cliff Ashburn, 83, American football player. Kenny Hagood, 63, American jazz musician. Arthur John Holland, 71, American politician, cancer. Bill Neilson, 64, Australian politician, cancer. Roar Pedersen, 61, Norwegian ice hockey player. Nenad Petrović, 82, Yugoslav chess player. Leen Vente, 78, Dutch football player. Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, 64, Indonesian general, fever. 10
Peter Berglar, 70, German historian. Cookie Mueller, 40, American actress, AIDS. Niels Schibbye, 79, Danish Olympic sailor (1936). Craig J. Spence, 49, American journalist and lobbyist, suicide by drug overdose. 11
Casey Anderson, 55, American musician, complications from surgery. Jay DeFeo, 60, American artist, lung cancer. Mohamed Demsiri, 52–53, Moroccan musician. Natalio Pescia, 67, Argentine footballer. Francesco Stefani, 66, German film director. 12
Harry Bergström, 79, Finnish pianist, conductor and composer. Édouard Candeveau, 91, Swiss rower and Olympian. Thomas Dam, 74, Danish woodworker and fisherman. Zoltán Dudás, 56, Hungarian football player. Dolores Ibárruri, 93, Spanish politician, pneumonia. Armour G. McDaniel, 73, American military officer. Georges Putmans, 75, Belgian footballer. Mao Yisheng, 93, Chinese engineer and politician. 13
Stewart Chalmers, 82, Scottish football player. Victor Davis, 25, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1984, 1988), traffic collision. Francis Edmunds, 87, British educator and anthroposophist. António Ferreira Gomes, 83, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate. Roger Heman, 57, American sound engineer, lung cancer. Arthur Hutchings, 83, English musicologist. Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, 83, Liechtensteiner royal, prince (since 1938). Rohana Wijeweera, 46, Sri Lankan militant, shot. 14
Wild Bill Davison, 83, American jazz musician. Choe Deok-sin, 75, Korean diplomat and South Korean defector. Rémi Laurent, 32, French actor, AIDS. Jimmy Murphy, 79, Welsh footballer, aortic dissection. Zola Helen Ross, 77, American writer and novelist. Samand Siabandov, 79, Soviet writer and soldier. Enzo Trapani, 67, Italian screenwriter, TV producer and film director, suicide. 15
Constance Binney, 93, American actress and dancer. William N. Deramus III, 73, American railroad executive. Alejo Durán, 70, Colombian musician. Jeremy Flint, 61, English bridge player, cancer. Lipót Kállai, 76, Hungarian Olympic footballer (1936). George Manuel, 68, Canadian indigenous leader. Norma Terris, 85, American actress. 16
Petar Argirov, 66, Bulgarian Olympic footballer (1952). Nathan Cohn, 82, American electrical engineer. Jean-Claude Malépart, 50, Canadian politician. Rose Murphy, 76, American jazz singer. Dorothy G. Page, 68, American politician. Oliver Smedley, 78, English businessman and political activist. Victims of the 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador:
Ignacio Ellacuría, 59, Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit, philosopher, and theologian, shot. 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, shot. Emerson Buckley, 73, American orchestra conductor, emphysema. Francis John Dunn, 67, American Roman Catholic prelate. Costabile Farace, 29, American mobster (Bonanno crime family), shot. Benjamin Fisz, 66–67, Polish film director. Joseph Hiley, 87, British politician. Billy Lee, 60, American actor, heart attack. Thiruchi Loganathan, 65, Indian singer. Uzair Gul Peshawari, 102–103, Indian Islamic scholar. Charles Perry Stacey, 83, Canadian historian. 18
Romano Bilenchi, 80, Italian author. Hendrik de Vries, 93, Dutch poet and painter. William Wister Haines, 81, American author and playwright. Johnny Haymer, 69, American actor, cancer. Edvin Laine, 84, Finnish film director. Sherman Plunkett, 56, American gridiron football player, cancer. Freddie Waits, 46, American drummer, pneumonia and kidney failure. 19
Grant Adcox, 39, American racing driver, racing crash. Jim Bradfield, 56, Australian politician. Nancy Drexel, 79, American actress. Paul Shyre, 63, American director and playwright. 20
Annihilate 'Em, 19, American thoroughbred racehorse. Lynn Bari, 69, American actress, heart attack. Hirabai Barodekar, 84, Indian classical music singer. Božidar Jakac, 90, Yugoslav artist. Labib Hussein Abu Rokan, 78, Israeli politician. Leonardo Sciascia, 68, Italian screenwriter and politician, MEP (1979–1984). Emmett Stuber, 86, American football player and coach. William Whaling, 95, American general. Rachel Wischnitzer, 104, Russian-German art historian. 21
Edward Bawden, 86, English artist. Peter Burton, 68, English actor, heart attack. Heiko Fischer, 29, German figure skater and Olympian, cardiovascular disease. Will Glahé, 87, German musician. Arne Grahn, 87, Finnish Olympic tennis player (1924). Harvey Hart, 61, Canadian film director and television producer, heart attack. Yana, 58, British singer, esophageal cancer. 22
Paul Alfonsi, 81, American politician. Roberto Arias, 71, Panamanian politician and diplomat. C. C. Beck, 79, American comic book artist, co-creator of Captain Marvel, renal failure. Robert Berri, 76, French actor. Gerry Chiniquy, 77, American animator. José G. Cruz, 72, Mexican comics writer and screenwriter. H. O. Davies, 84, Nigerian politician. Clement Haynsworth, 77, American judge. Abdur Rashid Kardar, 85, Indian film actor, director and producer. Billy Milton, 83, British actor. René Moawad, 64, Lebanese politician, president (since 1989), assassination by car bomb, homicide. Vijay Rajindernath, 61, Indian cricket player. Shamil Serikov, 33, Soviet Olympic wrestler (1980), suicide. 23
Jiří Baumruk, 59, Czechoslovak basketball player and coach, traffic collision. Martin Glaessner, 82, Austrian-Australian geologist and palaeontologist. Sidney Janis, 93, American businessman art collector. Rita Lenihan, 75, American naval officer. Armand Salacrou, 90, French dramatist. Mariko Shiga, 19, Japanese singer, traffic collision. 24
E. Ruth Anderson, 82, American musicologist and meteorologist. Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, 48, Palestinian Salafi jihadist, scholar, and theologian, assassination by car bomb. Gordon Bess, 60, American cartoonist. Leonard Boudin, 77, American civil liberties attorney and activist. Michael Harwood, 54–55, American environmentalist. Lawrence A. Hyland, 92, American electrical engineer. Richard Korherr, 86, German statistician. Ralph Norwood, 23, American football player, traffic collision. 25
Salo Wittmayer Baron, 94, Polish-American historian. George Cakobau, 77, Fijian politician, governor-general (1973–1983). Claus Clausen, 90, German actor. Birago Diop, 82, Senegalese poet and storyteller. Alva R. Fitch, 82, American general. John Kaplan, 59–60, American legal scholar, brain cancer. Frank A. Southard Jr., 82, American economist and banker. William Stratton, 86, British army officer. María Colón Sánchez, 63, American politician. Frank M. Thomas, 100, American actor. Clifford Thornton, 53, American jazz musician. 26
Ahmed Abdallah, 70, Comorian politician, president (1975, since 1978), shot. William Barber, 70, English cricket player. Morrice James, Baron St Brides, 73, British diplomat. Lew Fonseca, 90, American baseball player. Gunnar Hedlund, 89, Swedish politician. Priscilla Robertson, 78–79, American historian, stroke. Chand Usmani, 56, Indian actress. 27
Frank Fools Crow, 99, Native American civic and religious leader. Zuko Džumhur, 68, Bosnian writer, painter and caricaturist. Walter Hoving, 91, Swedish-American businessman. Carlos Arias Navarro, 80, Spanish politician, prime minister (1973–1976), infarction. Norma Nichols, 95, American actress. Claudio O. Teehankee, Sr., 71, Filipino judge and diplomat, cancer. Trude von Molo, 82, Austrian actress. 28
Arsenie Boca, 79, Romanian theologian. Ernesto Civardi, 83, Italian cardinal and secretary of the Dicastery for Bishops. Georgy Ilivitsky, 68, Soviet chess player, suicide. Bill Posedel, 83, American baseball player. Jo Vincent, 91, Dutch singer. 29
Gubby Allen, 87, Australian-English cricketer, complications from stomach surgery. Giuseppe Antonini, 75, Italian footballer. Ann Burton, 56, Dutch jazz singer, throat cancer. Mario Colli, 74, Italian actor. Natan Eidelman, 59, Soviet and Russian author and historian. Sisto Gillarduzzi, 81, Italian bobsledder and alpine ski racer. Yam Kim-fai, 76, Chinese actress, pleural effusion. A. Maruthakasi, 69, Indian lyricist and poet. Ion Popescu-Gopo, 66, Romanian graphic artist, animator, and actor. Frank Scannell, 86, American actor. Mabel Keaton Staupers, 99, American nurse and civil rights activist. Rolf Turkka, 74, Finnish Olympic sailor (1948, 1952). Ödön Zombori, 83, Hungarian wrestler and Olympic champion. 30
Ahmadou Ahidjo, 65, Cameroonian politician, prime minister (1960) and president (1960–1982), heart attack. Stjepan Boltižar, 76, Yugoslav Olympic gymnast (1948). Hassan Fathi, 89, Egyptian architect. Alfred Herrhausen, 59, German banker, bombing. Gabriel Manek, 76, Indonesian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Pier Luigi Vestrini, 84, Italian Olympic rower (1928). References 

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