Deaths in November 1986

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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1986.

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.

• Tom Arthur, 80, Welsh rugby player.
• William E. Banks, 86, British naval officer.
• Sanaka Buchhikotaiah, 67, Indian politician, MP (1952–1957).
• Serge Garant, 57, Canadian composer.
• Hank Ketcham, 95, American football player.
• Ivan Larin, 60, Soviet footballer.
• Aaro Lintilä, 58, Finnish politician, MP (1962–1972).
• Mieczysław Moczar, 72, Polish politician.
• Pierre Repp, 76, French actor and comedian.
• Bernardo Timmermann, 74, Chilean politician.
• Bernard Waldman, 73, American physicist and Enola Gay passenger, cancer.
• Sippie Wallace, 88, American blues musician.^[1]
• James Cameron Watson, 96, Canadian politician, mayor of Calgary (1946–1949).

• Ásmundur Ásgeirsson, 80, Icelandic chess player.
• W. Lester Banks, 75, American civil rights activist, kidney and heart failure.
• Bruno Betti, 75, Italian Olympic runner (1936).
• Harry Brown, 69, American poet, novelist and screenwriter, emphysema.
• Sir Geoffrey Abdy Collins, 98, British solicitor.
• Bertha V. Fontaine, 57, American economist.
• Paul Frees, 66, American actor and voice actor (Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Beatles, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town), pain medication overdose.
• Raymond D. Kell, 82, American television researcher.
• Niels Erik Leschly, 76, Danish Olympic equestrian (1936).
• Georges Mollard, 84, French Olympic sailor (1924).
• Alan Prichard, 78, New Zealand pilot.

• Vladimir Bobri, 88, Ukrainian-American writer and composer, house fire.
• Adolf Busemann, 85, German-American aerospace engineer, inventor of the Busemann biplane.
• Paul C. Cannon, 90, American politician, lieutenant governor of Montana (1949–1953, 1957–1961).
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 64, American saxophonist, Hodgkin lymphoma.
• E. Cuyler Hammond, 74, American epidemiologist.
• Walter Hoppe, 69, German physicist.
• Sir William Lawrence, 4th Baronet, 73, English businessman and hereditary peer.
• Sekhonyana Nehemia Maseribane, 68, Mosotho politician, prime minister (1965).
• John Middleton, 86, American baseball player.
• Bob Nelson, 66, American football player.
• Roger Trézel, 68, French bridge player.

• Francesco Cossu, 79, Italian Olympic rower (1932).
• Kurt Hirsch, 80, German-English mathematician.
• John Kelsall, 39, British composer.
• John Layport, 85, American football player.
• Lucille Miller, 56, American convicted murderer, breast cancer.
• Abraham J. Multer, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1967).
• Thorolf Rafto, 64, Norwegian human rights activist.
• Harry M. Rose, 80, American physician.
• Abdallah El-Yafi, 85, Lebanese politician, multiple-time prime minister.

• Pere Ardiaca, 76-77, Spanish communist politician.
• Adolf Brudes, 87, German racing driver.
• Edward Charles, 67, English-born Canadian flying ace.
• Caesar Felton Gayles, 86, American college football and basketball coach.
• Mohammed Hassan Helmy, 74, Egyptian football player and team manager.
• Claude Jutra, 56, Canadian actor and filmmaker, drowned.
• Bobby Nunn, 61, American singer.

• Jean Breuer, 66, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Elisabeth Grümmer, 75, German singer.
• Herman Heimlich, 82, Hungarian-born Canadian painter.
• James S. Holmes, 62, American-Dutch writer, AIDS.
• Johannes Linthorst Homan, 83, Dutch politician and diplomat.
• Gotfrid Köchert, 68, Austrian Olympic sailor (1960).
• Lili Kraus, 83, Hungarian-New Zealand-American pianist.
• Harald Sandbæk, 82, Danish theologian.
• Howard Thomas, 77, Welsh radio and television producer.
• Eddie Thompson, 61, English jazz pianist.
• Sant Ram Udasi, 47, Indian poet.

• Sir Dugald Baird, 86, British obstetrician and gynecologist.
• Abdurrahim Buza, 80, Albanian painter.
• Lyndon Dadswell, 78, Australian sculptor.
• Jacob Engwall, 64, Swedish businessman and professional sailor, cancer.
• Paul Galdone, 79, Hungarian-born American illustrator.
• Henry Gilman, 93, American organic chemist.
• Lon Graf, 90, American football player.
• Alan Hewitt, 71, American actor (My Favorite Martian), cancer.
• Audrey Erskine Lindop, 65, English writer.
• Charlie McGillivray, 74, Scottish footballer.
• Aenne Michalsky, 78, Austrian singer.
• Baldy Northcott, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Tracy Pew, 28, Australian musician, intracerebral hemorrhage.
• Yang Shangkui, 80-81, Chinese politician.

• King Clancy, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Eddie del Mar, 67, Filipino actor and filmmaker.
• Franz Xaver Dorsch, 86, German civil engineer.
• Beatrice Kay, 79, American actress and singer.
• Artur London, 71, Czechoslovak politician.
• Vyacheslav Molotov, 96, Soviet politician.
• Nils Ramm, 83, Swedish Olympic boxer (1928).
• Ludwig Ruckdeschel, 79, German politician and war criminal.

• Adam Brodzisz, 80, Polish actor.
• Isidore Epstein, 72, American musician (Epstein Brothers Orchestra).
• Rudolf Hess, 83, American painter and sculptor.
• Guy Kingsford, 75, English-born American actor.
• Marian Matłoka, 68, Polish Olympic canoeist (1948).
• Jaroslava Muchová, 77, Czech painter.
• Bink Noll, 59, American poet.
• Henry Russell, 81, American Olympic runner (1928).
• Fuji Yahiro, 82, Japanese screenwriter.

• Ces Badeley, 90, New Zealand rugby player.
• Sukumar Bose, 74, Indian artist.
• Laurence Collinson, 61, British-born Australian playwright.
• Frances Condell, 70, Irish politician.
• Ludwig Hahn, 78, German Nazi official and war criminal.
• Robert K. Hamilton, 81, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1941–1946, since 1949).
• Frank Harvey, 56, English Anglican priest, archdeacon of London (since 1978).
• Sydney Lee, 76, English snooker and billiards player.
• Mark Lubbock, 87, British composer.
• Ljubomir Magaš, 38, Yugoslav crime lord, shot.
• Enriqueta Morales, 95, Panamanian nurse.
• Sir Gordon Richards, 82, English jockey, heart attack.
• Lois Roden, 70, American cult leader (Branch Davidians).
• Doc Sykes, 94, American baseball player.
• Vicente Trueba, 81, Spanish racing cyclist.
• Leona Woods, 67, American nuclear physicist, stroke.

• Bea Booze, 74, American singer and guitarist.
• Ángel Botello, 73, Spanish-born Puerto Rican artist.
• Roger C. Carmel, 54, American actor (The Mothers-in-Law), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
• Jim Chalmers, 85, Australian politician.
• Martha Davis Coe, 79, American musician.
• Reginald Brettauer Fisher, 79, British biochemist.
• Prado Kelly, 82, Brazilian jurist and politician.
• Don Keyter, 55, Australian footballer.
• David L. McCain, 55, American jurist, cancer.
• Fred Mutch, 87, Australian footballer.
• Tim Walker, 68, Australian politician.

• Faiz Ahmad, 39-40, Afghan politician, assassinated.
• Ria Baran, 64, German Olympic skater (1952).
• Fumiko Enchi, 81, Japanese writer, heart attack.
• Bill Fell, 82, New Zealand police officer.
• Erich Koch, 90, German Nazi official and convicted war criminal.
• Lee McKinley, 80, American politician.
• Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, 87, Indian jurist, chief justice of India (1959–1964).
• Rocky Stone, 68, American baseball player.
• Nikolai Sutyagin, 63, Soviet flying ace.
• Lois Utz, 54, American children's author.
• Minoru Yasui, 70, American lawyer and civil rights activist (Yasui v. United States).

• Volf Bergraser, 82, Ukrainian-born French chess player.
• Franco Cortese, 83, Italian racing driver.
• Arthur Cox, 79, English cricketer.
• Emma Fitting, 85, Swiss Olympic fencer (1924).
• Francisco Flores, 60, Mexican footballer.
• Ernest Anthony Kehr, 75, American philatelist.
• Thierry Le Luron, 34, French comedian, AIDS.
• Knut Olsson, 79, Swedish politician.
• Rudolf Schock, 71, German singer, heart attack.
• Amiya Tagore, 78, Indian singer.
• Ron Tesolin, 46, Canadian politician.
• Dixie Upright, 60, American baseball player.
• Gerrit van Voorst, 76, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1928).
• Les Webber, 71, American baseball player.

• Erik Byléhn, 88, Swedish Olympic runner (1924, 1928).
• Ray Connell, 69, Canadian politician.
• Ferdinand Daučík, 76, Czechoslovak football player and manager.
• Arthur Duckworth, 85, British politician, MP (1929–1945).
• Charles Harlow, 83, American Olympic javelin thrower (1928).
• Barbara Kostrzewska, 71, Polish singer and theatre director.
• Jim McKay, 68, Scottish footballer.
• Frank O'Brien, 86, Australian footballer.
• Iambakey Okuk, 41, Papua New Guinean politician, liver cancer.
• Erich Schelling, 82, German architect.
• Hassan Nasiem Siddiquie, 52, Indian marine geologist, heart attack.

• Bidhayak Bhattacharya, 79, Indian writer.
• Michael Croft, 64, English screenwriter, heart attack.
• Bertram Fernando, 65, Sri Lankan actor.
• Erling Fjellbirkeland, 75, Norwegian economist.
• Louis François, 80, French Olympic wrestler (1932).
• John E. Grotberg, 61, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1985).
• John Linebaugh Knuppel, 63, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate (1971–1981).
• Ada Rogato, 75, Brazilian aviator.
• Hans-Georg Schweiger, 59, German biologist.
• Alexandre Tansman, 89, Polish-French composer.
• Raymond D. Tarbuck, 89, American naval admiral.
• Richard E. Turner, 66, American flying ace.
• James Austin Whelihan, 84, Canadian Roman Catholic priest.

• Panditrao Agashe, 50, Indian industrialist, heart attack.
• Dave Clohessy, 81, Irish hurler.
• Hans Coumans, 43, Dutch painter, traffic collision.
• Åke Ericson, 73, Swedish ice hockey player.
• Samuel Glasstone, 89, British-born American phsyical chemist.
• Vito Kubilus, 72, American basketball player and coach.
• Siobhán McKenna, 64, Irish actress, lung cancer.
• Kurt Overhoff, 84, Austrian composer.
• Ronald S. Wilson, 53, American psychologist, heart attack.

• Dorothy Alexander, 82, American ballet dancer and choreographer.
• Richard Armitage, 58, English talent agent, heart attack.
• Georges Besse, 58, French businessman, shot.
• Leen Buis, 79, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1928).
• Harold Grad, 63, American mathematician.
• Roger Ikor, 74, French writer.
• Vladimir Kenigson, 79, Soviet actor.
• Yoshio Kimura, 81, Japanese shogi player.
• Ingrid Leodolter, 67, Austrian physician.
• Erna Lesky, 75, Austrian pediatrician and medical historian.
• Billy McLean, 67, Scottish politician, heart failure.
• Tidye Pickett, 72, American Olympic athlete (1936).
• Jaime Ramírez, 46, Colombian police officer, shot.

• Ljupčo Arsov, 76, Yugoslav Macedonian politician.
• Lajos Bárdos, 87, Hungarian composer.
• Gia Carangi, 26, American supermodel, AIDS.
• Sophus Kahrs, 68, Norwegian Nazi official.
• Michele Mara, 83, Italian cyclist.
• Valeriu Niculescu, 72, Romanian footballer.
• Pádraig Ó Finneadha, 73, Irish doctor and scholar.
• Stephen O. Rice, 78, American information and communications theorist.

• Jackie Arthur, 68, English footballer.
• Joseph W. Cowgill, 78, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate (1956–1964).
• Helle Crafts, 39, Danish flight attendant, murdered.
• Billy Dainty, 59, British comedian, prostate cancer.
• Harry Goldschmidt, 76, Swiss musicologist.
• John L. Hines Jr., 81, American soldier.
• Don Jamieson, 65, Canadian politician, heart attack.
• Roy E. Lindquist, 79, American major general.
• Freddie McKay, 38-39, Jamaican singer, heart attack.
• Kosta Nađ, 75, Yugoslav general.
• Klaus Nordling, 76, American comic book writer and artist.
• Ben Omann, 67, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (since 1983).
• Wim Roosen, 68, Dutch footballer.
• Flukey Stokes, 48, American mobster, shot.
• Marina Voroshilova, 64, Soviet virologist.

• Arne Beurling, 81, Swedish mathematician.
• Cecil Creal, 86, American politician, mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan (1959–1965).
• Balendin Enbeita, 80, Spanish poet.
• Óscar Flores Sánchez, 79, Mexican politician and attorney.
• William Bradford Huie, 76, American journalist, heart attack.
• Arne Linderholm, 70, Swedish footballer.
• P. V. Kunhunni Nair, 76, Indian politician.
• Alexander Ostrowski, 93, Russian-German-Swiss mathematician.
• Roberto Parada, 77, Chilean actor and theatre director.
• Bud Raftery, 67, American union leader.
• Virginia Sink, 73, American chemical engineer.
• Brud Talbot, 48, American actor and filmmaker.
• Tang Liang, 76, Chinese general.

• Howard Bay, 74, American set and costume designer, heart attack.
• Lowell K. Bridwell, 62, American journalist and highway administrator.
• Jerry Colonna, 82, American trombonist and actor (Alice in Wonderland), kidney failure.
• Jimmy Cunliffe, 74, English footballer, stroke.
• Sir William Hildred, 93, British civil servant.
• Eleanor Manning, 80, Australian servicewoman.
• John P. McConnell, 78, American general.
• Dar Robinson, 39, American stunt performer, fall.
• Marcelino Sánchez, 28, Puerto Rican actor (The Warriors), AIDS.
• Sebastian Vayalil, 80, Indian Roman Catholic prelate.

• Sir Geoffrey Agnew, 78, English art dealer.
• Alfred Bertrand, 66, Belgian footballer.
• Johnny Broadnax, 82, American football player.
• Chen Manyuan, 74, Chinese politician.
• Scatman Crothers, 76, American musician and actor (The Shining, Hong Kong Phooey, Chico and the Man), lung cancer.
• Peter Dalgado, 56, Indian-Born Kenyan Olympic field hockey player (1956).
• Alexander Deutsch, 86, Soviet astronomer.
• Curtis J. Humphreys, 88, American physicist.
• Dirk Janssen, 105, Dutch Olympic gymnast (1908).
• Kostas Korsakas, 77, Soviet Lithuanian language researcher.
• George Leslie, 79, English footballer.
• Carl L. Lyse, 87, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1943–1948).
• Malcolm Nokes, 89, English Olympic athlete (1924, 1928)
• Dinny Pails, 65, Australian tennis player.
• Edwin Salisbury, 76, American Olympic rower (1932).
• Cliff Taylor, 72, Australian footballer.
• Bob Tugung, 47, Filipino politician, shot.
• Mikałaj Ułaščyk, 80, Soviet Belarusian archaeologist.
• Daan van Dijk, 79, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1928).
• Robert Whitney, 82, American composer.

• William Badders, 85, American naval diver, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Marjorie Wilkins Campbell, 84-85, Canadian writer, lung cancer.
• Jean Mary Daly, 88, Australian women's rights activist.
• Crawford Fairbrother, 49, Scottish high jumper.
• Charlie Gaines, 86, American jazz trumpeter.
• Stephen Gilman, 68-69, American Hispanist.
• Josip Hamm, 78, Yugoslav Croatian linguist.
• Derek Hart, 61, British radio presenter and journalist.
• Paul M. Herzog, 80, American lawyer and civil servant.
• Olaf Hoffsbakken, 78, Norwegian Olympic skier (1936).
• Roger Jackling, 73, British diplomat.
• Yasuzō Masumura, 62, Japanese filmmaker.
• Norman Maurer, 60, American film producer, cancer.
• Philip C. O'Donnell, 71, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1967–1971).
• Svein Øvergaard, 74, Norwegian jazz musician.
• Arthur Wishart, 83, Canadian politician.
• Kikuji Yamashita, 67, Japanese painter.

• John Cranford Adams, 83, American academic administrator.
• Bias Bernhoft, 84, Norwegian singer.
• Hugh S. Cumming Jr., 86, American diplomat.
• James D. Dotsch, 82, American politician, member of the Michigan Senate (1937–1940).
• Dirk Fortuin, 85, Dutch Olympic rower (1924).
• Don Malkames, 82, American cinematographer.
• Mazzino Montinari, 58, Italian Germanistic scholar.
• Lloyd Parsons, 68, American football player.
• Al Smith, 84, American cartoonist (Mutt and Jeff).
• Hunt Stromberg Jr., 63, American radio, television and theatre producer, aneurysm.

• Gabdulkhay Akhatov, 59, Soviet linguist.
• Jon Bradshaw, 47-48, American journalist, heart attack.
• Leroy S. Johnson, 98, American Mormon fundamentalist.
• Sir Ivan Magill, 98, Irish anesthetist.
• Don Towsley, 74, American animator.

• Aleksei Baksov, 79, Soviet general.
• Victor Bozeman, 57, American television announcer.
• Lester Castle, 65, New Zealand ombudsman.
• Betico Croes, 48, Aruban politician and independence activist, complications from a traffic collision.
• Rogelio de la Rosa, 70, Filipino politician and actor.
• Ingeborg Drewitz, 63, German writer, cancer.
• Edward McGuire, 54, Irish painter.
• Fred Obrey, 74, English footballer.
• Ahmet Gündüz Ökçün, 50-51, Turkish diplomat.
• Randolph Prim, 90, American baseball player.
• Mary Welsh Hemingway, 78, American journalist and author, widow of Ernest Hemingway.

• Theodore Curphey, 89, American coroner.
• Colin Dawkins, 64, American comic book writer.
• Alex Duthart, 61, Scottish drummer.
• Gabriel Fielding, 70, English novelist.
• Zofia Gomułkowa, 84, Polish communist activist.
• Cezar Lăzărescu, 63, Romanian architect and city planner.
• Lucile Quarry Mann, 89, American writer and geographer.
• L. Harrison Matthews, 85, British marine zoologist.
• Robert Priestley, 85, American set decorator.
• Géza von Radványi, 79, Hungarian filmmaker.
• Charles Schlewer, 85, French Olympic rower (1920).
• Sir Hugh Stockwell, 83, British general, leukemia.
• Steve Tracy, 34, American actor, AIDS.

• Tuanku Bujang, 87, Malaysian politician.
• Helena Bušová, 72, Czechoslovak actress.
• Maurice Côté, 69, Canadian politician.
• Archibald Currie, 98, Surinamese politician, prime minister (1954–1955) and governor-general (1963-1964).
• Norman Gagne, 75, Canadian Olympic skier (1936).
• Urszula Łukomska, 59, Polish Olympic gymnast (1952).
• Edward McCullagh, 73, Northern Irish politician.
• Emilio Scanavino, 64, Italian artist.
• Elizabeth Thomas, 79, American Egyptologist.
• A. Theodore Tuttle, 67, American Mormon leader, cancer.
• Karel Wiesner, 67, Czech-born Canadian chemist, lymphoma.
• Travis Williams, 94, American football player.

• Gary Allen, 50, American writer and conservative activist, liver disease.
• Ronald Baddiley, 64, English actor.
• Helen Fischer, 74, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1959–1961, 1971–1976).
• Cary Grant, 82, English-American actor (North by Northwest, None but the Lonely Heart, Penny Serenade), stroke.
• Louis Ichard, 85, French Olympic runner (1920).
• Jānis Lidmanis, 76, Latvian-Australian footballer and basketball player.
• James Mahaffy, 81, Canadian politician.
• Sir Robert Pigot, 7th Baronet, 71, British hereditary peer.
• Herbert Rosenfeld, 76, German-British psychoanalyst.
• Theodor Sommerschield, 62, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1968, 1972).
• Herb Vigran, 76, American actor, cancer.

• Roy Bruner, 69, American baseball player.
• Martin Burgoyne, 23, British-American artist, AIDS.
• Francisco Ciutat de Miguel, 76-77, Spanish soldier.
• A. H. Ellett, 88, American jurist.
• Dick Fisher, 53, English motorcycle racer.
• Darby Jones, 76, American actor (I Walked with a Zombie).
• Emil Jónsson, 84, Icelandic politician, prime minister (1958–1959).
• Eino Leino, 95, Finnish wrestler.
• Arnold Matteus, 88, Estonian architect.
• Toshinobu Onosato, 74, Japanese printmaker, pneumonia.
• Ernst Poertgen, 74, German footballer.
• Immanuel Shifidi, 57, Namibian activist, shot.
• Ray Wendland, 75, American chemist.