Deaths in November 1988

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1988.

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 1988

1

• Siddiq Abubakar III, 85, Nigerian Muslim leader, Sultan of Sokoto.
• Broda Otto Barnes, 82, American physician and professor of medicine (Hypothyroidism).
• George Folsey, 90, American cinematographer (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), stroke.
• Hans P. Kraus, 81, Austrian-born American rare book dealer, pneumonia .
• Tuomo Suomalainen, 56, Finnish architect.

2

• Rosalie Glynn Grylls, 83, British biographer.
• Hokuma Gurbanova, 75, Azerbaijani actress.
• Lukas Heller, 58, German-born British screenwriter (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte).
• Stewart Parker, 47, Northern Irish poet and playwright, stomach cancer.
• Menachem Savidor, 71, Israeli civil servant and politician, Speaker of the Knesset.
• James R. Shepley, 71, American journalist and businessman, president of Time Inc., CEO of The Washington Star, cancer.
• P. Thanulinga Nadar, 73, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.

3

• Hussain Adam, 20, Maldivian soldier, shot.
• Rachel Andresen, 81, American social worker and founder of Youth For Understanding.
• Sidney Carroll, 75, American film and television screenwriter (The Hustler, A Big Hand for the Little Lady).
• Harold Martin, 70, Australian bomber pilot and Air Marshall in the Royal Air Force.
• Lionel C. McGarr, 84, American general in the U.S. Army.
• Henri van Praag, 72, Dutch writer and religious historian, known also for publications on parapsychology.
• Marie Raymond, 80, French abstract painter.
• David Robilliard, 36, British poet and artist, AIDS.
• Flora Rheta Schreiber, 70, American journalist and author (Sybil), heart attack.

4

• Elinor Bellingham-Smith, 81, British painter of landscapes and still life.
• Raphael Bronstein, 92, Lithuanian-born American violinist, stroke.
• Walter Coutts, 75, British colonial administrator, Governor-General of Uganda.
• Edward Thaxter Gignoux, 72, American judge (United States District Court for the District of Maine).
• Hermann Graf, 76, German World War II fighter ace.
• Ki. Va. Jagannathan, 82, Indian Tamil journalist, poet and writer.
• Ernest Lindner, 91, Austrian-born Canadian painter.
• Kimon Evan Marengo, 84, Egyptian-born British cartoonist.
• André Ménard, 81, French Governor General in the French colonial empire.
• Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 81, British peer and aviator, Duke of Newcastle.
• Michael Pomazansky, 99, Russian-born American theologian.
• Kleanthis Vikelidis, 73, Greek international footballer (Aris Thessaloniki, Greece).

5

• C. F. Møller, 90, Danish architect.
• Jakoba Mulder, 88, Dutch architect and urban planner (Amsterdamse Bos).
• Jean-Pierre Stirbois, 43, French far-right politician, member of the National Assembly, car crash.
• Claus Toksvig, 59, Danish journalist, broadcaster and politician.

6

• John Hubbard, 74, American television and film actor, kidney failure.
• Daniel Knox, 74, British Army officer, Governor of the Bahamas.
• Donald Wade, 84, British solicitor and politician, Member of Parliament.
• Tan Zheng, 82, Chinese general and Communist Party leader.

7

• Hans Baumann, 74, German poet and songwriter.
• Abram Belskie, 81, British-born American sculptor.
• Conrad Bernier, 84, French-Canadian organist, composer and conductor.
• Bill Hoest, 62, American cartoonist (The Lockhorns, Laugh Parade), lymphoma.
• Theodor V. Ionescu, 89, Romanian physicist and inventor (plasma physics).
• Morris Janowitz, 69, American sociologist and professor, Parkinson's disease.
• B. N. Kumar, Indian Army general, shot dead by militants.
• Ruth Lyons, 83, American radio and television broadcaster.
• Sy Mah, 62, Canadian long-distance runner, leukemia.
• Jean-Claude Paul, 49, Haitian military officer alleged to have been involved in the illegal drug trade in Haiti, believed to have been poisoned.

8

• Kingman Brewster Jr., 69, American diplomat, president of Yale University, ambassador to the U.K, brain haemorrhage.
• Warren Casey, 53, American composer, writer and actor (Grease), AIDS.
• Norm Nelson, 65, American racing driver.
• Oskar Rohr, 76, German international footballer (Strasbourg, Germany).

9

• David Bauer, 64, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, pancreatic cancer.
• Billy Curtis, 79, American film and television actor (Little Cigars), heart attack.
• Clarke Hinkle, 79, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers).
• John N. Mitchell, 75, U.S. Attorney General, convicted for his role in the Watergate scandal, heart attack.
• Rosemary Timperley, 68, British novelist and screenwriter.
• Max-Eckart Wolff, 85, Nazi German naval commander.
• Richard S. Yeoman, 84, American commercial artist and coin collector, stroke.

10

• Alexandru Jar, 76, Romanian poet and prose writer.
• T. K. Rama Rao, 59, Indian Kannada novelist (Bangaarada Manushya).

11

• Charles Groves Wright Anderson, 91, South African-born Australian politician and soldier, member of Australian House of Representatives and Victoria Cross recipient.
• Frank Curcio, 75, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy Lions).
• William Ifor Jones, 88, Welsh composer, conductor and organist.
• Peggy Parish, 61, American writer of children's books (Amelia Bedelia), abdominal aneurysm.

12

• Franco Angeli, 53, Italian artist, AIDS.
• Lev Aronson, 76, American cellist.
• Janika Balaž, 62, Yugoslavian tamburica musician and band leader.
• Ursula Graham Bower, 74, English anthropologist, guerrilla fighter against the Japanese.
• Vincent Buckley, 63, Australian poet and essayist, heart attack.
• Primo Conti, 88, Italian artist.
• Andrzej Kowerski, 76, Polish Army officer during World War II, cancer.
• Lyman Lemnitzer, 89, American general in the U.S. Army, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, kidney failure.
• Tomasz Sikorski, 48, Polish composer and pianist.

13

• Antal Doráti, 82, Hungarian-born American conductor (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra).
• Vlad Georgescu, 51, Romanian historian, academic and political dissident, brain tumour.
• François Lanzi, 72, French-born British artist.
• Béla Perényi, 35, Hungarian international chess master, car crash.
• Mulugeta Seraw, 28, Ethiopian student.
• Jaromír Vejvoda, 86, Czech composer (Beer Barrel Polka).

14

• Julia Caba Alba, 86, Spanish actress.
• Haywood S. Hansell, 85, American general in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, heart failure.
• Davis Love Jr., 53, American professional golfer, plane crash.
• Takeo Miki, 81, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Haralan Popov, 81, Protestant minister, cancer.
• Augusta La Torre, 42, Peruvian communist, number two in command of Shining Path.

15

• Nell Dorr, 95, American photographer.
• Ieronymos I of Athens, 83, Greek monk, Archbishop of Athens.
• Johann Kastenberger, 30, Austrian marathon runner, bank robber and murderer, suicide.
• Mirko Kokotović, 75, Austro-Hungarian–born Yugoslavian international footballer (HŠK Građanski, Yugoslavia).
• Ernest Matthew Mickler, 48, American cookbook author, AIDS.
• Mona Washbourne, 84, English actress (Stevie, My Fair Lady).

16

• Henry Ciccarone, 50, American college lacrosse coach (Johns Hopkins), heart attack.
• Wera Engels, 83, German actress.
• Elgin Gates, 66, American hunter, firearms and ammunition technician.
• Jennie Lee, 84, Scottish politician, Member of Parliament.
• Reginald Teague-Jones, 99, British political and intelligence officer.

17

• Sheilah Graham, 84, British-born American gossip columnist, heart failure.
• Michael Lambart, 77, British hereditary peer, commanding officer of the Shropshire Yeomanry.
• Ángel Reyes, 69, Cuban-born American violinist.

18

• Erwin Ackerknecht, 82, German-born American historian of medicine.
• Janet Gladys Aitken, 80, Canadian-born British aristocrat and socialite, director of the All England Jumping Course at Hickstead.
• Carl Pfeiffer, 80, American physician and biochemist, researcher of schizophrenia, heart attack.
• Anantrai Raval, 76, Indian writer and journalist.
• Lotte Stam-Beese, 85, German-Dutch architect and urban planner, led reconstruction of Rotterdam after World War II.

19

• Mirza Hameedullah Beg, 75, Indian politician, Chief Justice of India.
• Adolf Heuser, 81, German boxer, International Boxing Union light heavyweight champion.
• Khan Roshan Khan, 73–74, Pakistani historian and writer, president of the All-India Muslim League.
• Veljko Mandić, 64, Montenegrin actor.
• Christina Onassis, 37, American shipping magnate and heiress, heart attack.
• Peggy Parish, 61, American writer, abdominal aneurysm.
• Hamidur Rahman, 59–60, Bangladeshi artist and sculptor.

20

• Tyler Kent, 77, American diplomat, convicted of espionage.
• Jenő Vincze, 80, Hungarian international footballer and manager (Bocskai, Újpest, Hungary).
• Felix Ziegel, 68, Soviet astronomer, stroke.

21

• Robert Bright, 86, American writer and illustrator of children's literature (Georgie), cancer.
• Tom Fraser, 77, Scottish coal miner and trade unionist, Member of Parliament, Under-Secretary of State for Scotland.
• Carl Hubbell, 85, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants), car crash due to stroke.
• Pál Kalmár, 88, Hungarian pop singer.
• Raymond Lewenthal, 65, American virtuoso pianist, heart attack.
• Theodora Llewelyn Davies, 90, British barrister, bronchopneumonia.
• Princess Sophie, 77, German princess of the House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

22

• Luis Barragán, 86, Mexican architect and engineer (Torres de Satélite).
• Cathy Carr, 52, American pop singer ("Ivory Tower"), ovarian cancer.
• Gordon Church, 28, American murder victim.
• Raymond Dart, 95, Australian anatomist and anthropologist (Australopithecus africanus), cerebral hemorrhage.
• Erich Fried, 67, Austrian-born British poet and writer, intestinal cancer.
• Pehr Gyllenhammar, 87, Swedish insurance company executive (Skandia).
• John C. Parkin, 66, British-born Canadian architect.
• John R. Ragazzini, 76, American electrical engineer, involved in Manhattan Project, heart failure.
• Josefina Vicens, 76, Mexican author, screenwriter and journalist.
• Terry Welch, 49, American computer scientist (Lempel–Ziv–Welch compression), brain tumour.

23

• Gamal Abdel-Rahim, 63, Egyptian classical music composer.
• F. D. Amr Bey, 79, Egyptian diplomat and squash player, multiple British Open winner, Egyptian ambassador to the U.K.
• Ludwig Franzisket, 71, German World War II Luftwaffe fighter ace.
• Hansraj Gupta, 86, Indian mathematician (partition function).
• Wieland Herzfelde, 92, German publisher and writer.
• Richard Lonsdale, 74, British Army officer in World War II.
• Kenzō Masaoka, 90, Japanese anime creator, co-founder of Toei Animation.
• Albert Raby, 54–55, American civil rights activist, heart attack.
• Marcia Ralston, 82, Australian-born American actress (The Ghost Train; Marcus Welby, M.D.).
• Kazem Sami, 52–53, Iranian politician, Minister of Health, murdered.
• Philip F. Tyler, 31, Irish actor and television presenter (Bosco).
• Jack White, 68, American stock car racing driver.

24

• Walter W. Bankhead, 91, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Mary Cavendish, 93, Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth II, Duchess of Devonshire.
• John William Corrington, 56, American film writer (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, General Hospital), and novelist.
• Harris McDowell, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, stroke.
• Bo Rhambo, 65, American trumpeter and tenor saxophonist.
• Irmgard Seefried, 69, German soprano, cancer.
• Jenő Szűcs, 60, Hungarian historian.

25

• Eddie Cameron, 86, American footballer and basketballer.
• Alphaeus Philemon Cole, 112, American artist, engraver and super-centenarian, heart failure.
• Rolf Jørgen Fuglesang, 79, Norwegian secretary to the Quisling government.
• Jack Leslie, 87, English footballer (Plymouth Argyle).
• Muhammad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 78, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

26

• Hans Baron, 88, German-born American historian (civic humanism).
• John Dahmer, 51, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons, cancer.
• Antonio Estévez, 72, Venezuelan musician, composer and conductor.
• Baron Michele Leone, 79, Italian-born American professional wrestler, struck by car.
• John Loder, 90, British film actor.
• Hugh Oldman, 74, British Army officer, Secretary for Defence of the Sultanate of Oman.

27

• Angela Aames, 32, American B Movie actress, heart virus.
• John Carradine, 82, American actor (House of Frankenstein, The Grapes of Wrath), heart and kidney failure.
• Jan Hein Donner, 61, Dutch chess grandmaster and writer, gastric hemorrhage.
• Yasin Osman Kenadid, 68–69, Somalian writer.
• Wilfred "Chicken" Smallhorn, 77, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy).
• Takieddin el-Solh, 79-80, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister of Lebanon, heart attack.

28

• Gus Bailey, 37, American NBA basketballer (Houston Rockets, New Orleans Jazz), murdered.
• Leonid Lubennikov, 78, Soviet politician, Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
• Edward Ronald Walker, 81, Australian diplomat, Australia's representative to the UN and ambassador to three countries.

29

• Nils Bejerot, 67, Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist (Stockholm syndrome), lymphoma.
• Donald Keyhoe, 91, American Marine Corps naval aviator, "UFO" researcher, pneumonia and cardiac arrest.
• Yevsey Moiseyenko, 72, Soviet painter.
• Mabel Strickland, 89, Maltese journalist, newspaper proprietor and politician, co-founder of the Times of Malta.
• Isabella von Thurn, 26, Austrian model and socialite, princess of the House of Hanover, overdose.

30

• Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, 60–61, Egyptian Quran reciter and Hafiz.
• Wally Berger, 83, American Major League baseballer (Boston Braves), stroke.
• Aleksandar Deroko, 94, Serbian architect, artist and author.
• Edward H. Feldman, 68, American director and producer (Hogan's Heroes), heart disease.
• Pannonica de Koenigswarter, 74, British-born American jazz patron, Free French fighter and writer, heart failure.
• Ricky Lawless, 28, American professional wrestler, murdered.
• Henrique Medina, 87, Portuguese painter (The Picture of Dorian Gray).
• Margaret Mee, 79, British botanical artist, car crash.
• Amiram Nir, 37, Israeli journalist, air crash.
• M. K. Rocksamy, 56, Sri Lankan musician.
• Charlie Rouse, 64, American tenor saxophonist and flautist, lung cancer.

Unknown date

• Aper Aku, 49–50, Nigerian governor of Benue State.
• Romola Costantino, 58, Australian pianist, cancer.

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