Deaths in November 1986

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

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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 1986

1

• Hank Ketcham, 95, American college football player (Yale).
• Ivan Larin, 60, Soviet Russian football player and coach.
• Mieczysław Moczar, 72, Polish politician, Ministry of the Interior.^[1]
• Pierre Repp, 76, French actor and comedian.
• Bernard Waldman, 73, American physicist and Enola Gay passenger, cancer.^[2]
• Sippie Wallace, 88, American blues musician.^[3]
• Walter Wottitz, 73-75, American cinematographer, Academy Award recipient (The Longest Day).

2

• Ásmundur Ásgeirsson, 80, Icelandic chess player.
• W. Lester Banks, 75, American civil rights activist, kidney and heart failure.^[4]
• Bruno Betti, 75, Italian Olympic long distance runner (1936).
• Harry Brown, 69, American poet, novelist and screenwriter (A Place in the Sun), emphysema.^[5]
• Paul Frees, 66, American actor and voice actor (Rocky and Bullwinkle), pain medication overdose.^[6]
• Niels Erik Leschly, 76, Danish Olympic equestrian (1936).
• Georges Mollard, 84, French Olympic sailor (1924).
• Fred Olsen, 95, British-born American industrial chemist, inventor of ball propellant.^[7]

3

• Vladimir Bobri, 88, Russian Empire–born American writer and composer, house fire.^[8]
• Adolf Busemann, 85, Nazi German and American aerospace engineer, inventor of the Busemann biplane.^[9]
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 64, American saxophonist, Hodgkin lymphoma.^[10]
• E. Cuyler Hammond, 74, American biologist and biometrist, established link between smoking and lung cancer, lymph cancer.^[11]
• Sekhonyana Nehemia Maseribane, 68, Basutoland politician, prime minister.
• John Middleton, 86, American Major League Baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
• Candy Miller, 88, American NFL player.
• Bob Nelson, 66, American football player.

4

• Francesco Cossu, 79, Italian Olympic bronze medalist rower (1932).
• Kurt Hirsch, 80, German and English mathematician (group theory).^[12]
• John Layport, 85, American NFL player.
• Lucille Miller, 56, American convicted murderer, breast cancer.^[13]
• Abraham J. Multer, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.^[14]
• Thorolf Rafto, 64, Norwegian human rights activist.^[15]
• Abdallah El-Yafi, 85, Lebanese politician, multiple-time prime minister.

5

• Adolf Brudes, 87, German Formula One racing driver.
• Edward Charles, 67, English-born Canadian RAF officer.
• Caesar Felton Gayles, 86, American college football and basketball coach.^[16]
• Mohammed Hassan Helmy, 74, Egyptian footballer and manager (Zamalek, Egypt).^[17]
• Claude Jutra, 56, Canadian actor and filmmaker, drowned.^[18]
• Erik von Loewis, 82, German actor and director.
• Bobby Nunn, 61, American R&B singer (The Coasters), heart attack.^[19]

6

• Jean Breuer, 66, Belgian cyclist.
• Elisabeth Grümmer, 75, German soprano.
• James S. Holmes, 62, American-Dutch translator of poems, AIDS.
• Gotfrid Köchert, 68, Austrian yacht racer and Olympian (1960).^[20]
• Lili Kraus, 83, Hungarian-born New Zealand and American pianist.^[21]
• Harald Sandbæk, 82, Danish theologian, member of the Danish resistance.^[22]
• Howard Thomas, 77, Welsh producer.
• Eddie Thompson, 61, English jazz pianist.
• Sant Ram Udasi, 47, Indian Punjabi poet.^[23]

7

• Dugald Baird, 86, British obstetrician and gynecologist.^[24]
• Norman Burrell, 86, English cricketer.
• Abdurrahim Buza, 80, Albanian painter.
• Lyndon Dadswell, 78, Australian artist.
• Paul Galdone, 79, Hungarian-born American illustrator of children's picture books, heart attack.^[25]
• Henry Gilman, 93, American organic chemist (organometallic chemistry).^[26]
• Lon Graf, 90, American college football coach (Peru State College).
• Alan Hewitt, 71, American actor (My Favorite Martian, How to Murder Your Wife), cancer.^[27]
• Audrey Erskine Lindop, 65, English writer (I Start Counting, I Thank a Fool).^[28]
• Charlie McGillivray, 74, Scottish footballer and manager.
• Baldy Northcott, 78, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Montreal Maroons).^[29]
• Tracy Pew, 28, Australian musician (The Saints), brain haemorrhage after seizure.^[30]
• Gust Stemmler, 86, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1963-1972).

8

• King Clancy, 84, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs), cardiac arrest.^[31]
• Eddie del Mar, 67, Filipino actor and filmmaker.
• Franz Xaver Dorsch, 86, German civil engineer, chief engineer of the Organisation Todt.^[32]
• Beatrice Kay, 79, American actress and singer.^[33]
• Artur London, 71, Czechoslovakian politician, co-defendant in the Slánský trial.^[34]
• Vyacheslav Molotov, 96, Soviet politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs.^[35]
• Ludwig Ruckdeschel, 79, Nazi German politician and war criminal, Gauleiter of Gau Bayreuth.^[36]

9

• Adam Brodzisz, 80, Polish actor.
• Rudolf Hess, 83, American painter and sculptor.
• Guy Kingsford, 75, English-born American actor.
• Marian Matłoka, 68, Polish Olympic print canoeist (1948).
• Jaroslava Muchová, 77, Czechoslovakian painter.
• Henry Russell, 81, American Olympic athlete (1928).
• Fuji Yahiro, 82, Japanese screenwriter.

10

• Sukumar Bose, 74, Indian artist.
• Ludwig Hahn, 78, Nazi German SS official and convicted war criminal.^[37]
• Alan Kennington, 85-86, British novelist and playwright.
• Sydney Lee, 76, English snooker and billiards player, Pot Black referee.^[38]
• Ljubomir Magaš, 38, Yugoslavian convicted rapist and Mafia crime boss, murdered.
• Gordon Richards, 82, English jockey, multiple-time British flat racing Champion Jockey, heart attack.^[39]
• Lois Roden, 70, American cult leader (Branch Davidians), breast cancer.^[40]
• Doc Sykes, 94, American baseball player.
• Vicente Trueba, 81, Spanish road racing cyclist, King of the Mountains.
• Leona Woods, 67, American nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project), stroke.^[41]

11

• Bea Booze, 74, American R&B and jazz singer and guitarist.
• Ángel Botello, 73, Spanish-born Puerto Rican painter and sculptor.
• Roger C. Carmel, 54, American actor (The Mothers-in-Law, Star Trek), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.^[42]
• Jim Chalmers, 85, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
• David L. McCain, 55, American jurist and drug smuggler.
• Fred Mutch, 87, Australian rules footballer.
• Tim Walker, 68, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1968-1978).

12

• Faiz Ahmad, 39–40, Afghan politician, leader of the Afghanistan Liberation Organization, assassinated.
• Ria Baran, 64, German pair skater and Olympic gold medalist.^[43]
• Erich Koch, 90, Nazi German official and convicted war criminal.^[44]
• Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, 87, Indian jurist, Chief Justice of India.^[45]
• Rocky Stone, 68, American Major League Baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
• Joe Strong, 84, American baseball player.
• Gustavo Thorlichen, 79–80, German-born Argentinian photographer, cancer.^[46]
• Minoru Yasui, 70, American lawyer and civil rights activist (Yasui v. United States).^[47]

13

• Volf Bergraser, 82, French chess master.
• Franco Cortese, 83, Italian racing driver.
• Arthur Cox, 79, English cricketer.
• Emma Fitting, 85, Swiss Olympic fencer (1924).
• Francisco Flores, 60, Mexican footballer.
• Thierry Le Luron, 34, French impressionist and humorist, AIDS.^[48]
• Rudolf Schock, 71, German tenor, heart attack.^[49]
• Amiya Tagore, 78, Indian singer.
• Dixie Upright, 60, American Major League Baseball player (St. Louis Browns).
• Gerrit van Voorst, 76, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1928).
• Les Webber, 71, American Major League Baseball player.

14

• Sven Tito Achen, 64, Argentinian-born Danish writer and author on heraldry.
• Erik Byléhn, 88, Swedish Olympic silver medalist runner (1924, 1928).
• Ferdinand Daučík, 76, Czechoslovakian footballer and manager (Slavia Prague, Czechoslovakia).^[50]
• Arthur Duckworth, 85, British politician, Member of Parliament.^[51]
• Charles Harlow, 83, American Olympic javelin thrower (1928).
• Frank O'Brien, 86, Australian rules footballer.
• Iambakey Okuk, 41, Papua New Guinean politician, Deputy Prime Minister, liver cancer.^[52]

15

• Bidhayak Bhattacharya, 79, Indian novelist and dramatist.
• Michael Croft, 64, English actor and writer, heart attack.^[53]
• Bertram Fernando, 65, Sri Lankan actor.
• Louis François, 80, French Olympic bronze medalist Greco-Roman wrestler (1932).
• John E. Grotberg, 61, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, pneumonia and colon cancer.^[54]
• Ada Rogato, 75, Brazilian aviator.
• Alexandre Tansman, 89, Polish-French composer.^[55]
• Raymond D. Tarbuck, 89, American rear admiral.
• Richard E. Turner, 66, American flying ace.

16

• Panditrao Agashe, 50, Indian industrialist, managing director of Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd., heart attack.
• Åke Ericson, 73, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player (1936, 1948).
• Samuel Glasstone, 89, British-born American physical chemist and author.
• Vito Kubilus, 72, American basketball player and coach.
• Siobhán McKenna, 64, Irish actress (Saint Joan), lung cancer.^[56]
• Kurt Overhoff, 84, Austrian conductor and composer.

17

• Dorothy Alexander, 82, American ballot dancer.
• Richard Armitage, 58, English talent agent, heart attack.^[57]
• Georges Besse, 58, French businessman, CEO of Renault, murdered.^[58]
• Leen Buis, 79, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1928).
• Vishnu Sharan Dublish, 91, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.^[59]
• Harold Grad, 63, American mathematician (statistical mechanics).
• Vladimir Kenigson, 79, Soviet actor.
• Yoshio Kimura, 81, Japanese shogi player, president of the Japan Shogi Association.
• Billy McLean, 67, Scottish politician, Member of Parliament, heart failure.
• Tidye Pickett, 72, American runner and Olympian, and school principal.^[60]
• Jaime Ramírez, 46, Colombian anti-narcotics police officer, murdered.^[61]
• Peter Slobodian, 68, Canadian NHL player (New York Americans).

18

• Ljupčo Arsov, 76, Yugoslavian politician, chairman of the executive council of the People's Republic of Macedonia.
• Lajos Bárdos, 87, Hungarian composer and conductor.
• Gia Carangi, 26, American supermodel, AIDS.^[62]
• Sophus Kahrs, 68, Norwegian Nazi official, convicted of treason and escaped.
• Marky Markowitz, 62, American jazz trumpeter.
• Valeriu Niculescu, 72, Romanian footballer.
• Stephen O. Rice, 78, American electrical engineer, pioneer in information theory and communication theory.^[63]

19

• Helle Crafts, 39, Danish-born American murder victim.
• Billy Dainty, 59, British comedian and pantomime artist, prostate cancer.
• Monette Dinay, 80, French actress.
• Harry Goldschmidt, 76, Swiss musicologist.
• Don Jamieson, 65, Canadian politician and diplomat, Member of Parliament, heart attack.^[64]
• Roy E. Lindquist, 79, American general in the U.S. army.^[65]
• Freddie McKay, 38–39, Jamaican singer, heart attack.
• Kosta Nađ, 75, Yugoslavian general.^[66]
• Klaus Nordling, 76, Finnish-born American comic book writer-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 in Chicago, murdered.^[67]

20

• Arne Beurling, 81, Swedish mathematician (Beurling algebra), decrypted Siemens and Halske T52.^[68]
• William Bradford Huie, 76, American author and investigative reporter, heart attack.^[69]
• Alexander Ostrowski, 93, Russian Empire–born German and Swiss mathematician (Ostrowski's theorem).^[70]
• Brud Talbot, 48, American actor, director, and producer.

21

• Howard Bay, 74, American set and costume designer, heart attack.^[71]
• Lowell K. Bridwell, 62, American journalist.
• Jerry Colonna, 82, American trombonist, comedian and actor (Alice in Wonderland), kidney failure.^[72]
• Jimmy Cunliffe, 74, English footballer.
• John P. McConnell, 78, American general, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force.^[73]
• Dar Robinson, 39, American stunt performer and actor (Stick), fall.^[74]
• Marcelino Sánchez, 28, Puerto Rican actor (The Warriors), AIDS.

22

• Geoffrey Agnew, 78, English art dealer.
• Alfred Bertrand, 66, Belgian footballer.
• Johnny Broadnax, 82, American football player and coach.
• Scatman Crothers, 76, American actor and musician (Chico and the Man, The Shining), lung cancer.^[75]
• Peter Dalgado, 56, Indian-born Kenyan Olympic field hockey player (1956).
• Alexander Deutsch, 86, Soviet astronomer (Pulkovo Observatory).
• Daan van Dijk, 79, Dutch Olympic gold medalist cyclist (1928).
• Dirk Janssen, 105, Dutch Olympic gymnast (1908).
• George Leslie, 79, English footballer.
• Malcolm Nokes, 89, British hammer thrower and Olympic medalist (1924).^[76]
• Dinny Pails, 65, English-born Australian tennis player and Australian Open winner.^[77]
• Cliff Taylor, 72, Australian rules footballer.

23

• Nathan Ausubel, 88, American historian and author.^[78]
• William Badders, 85, American naval diver, Medal of Honor recipient.^[79]
• Jean Mary Daly, 88, Australian women's rights and social justice activist.
• Charlie Gaines, 86, American trumpeter and bandleader.
• Derek Hart, 61, British radio presenter and journalist (Tonight).^[80]
• Roger Jackling, 73, British diplomat, Ambassador to West Germany (1968-1972).
• Yasuzō Masumura, 62, Japanese film director.
• Norman Maurer, 60, American comic book writer and film producer (The Three Stooges), cancer.^[81]
• Margit Söderholm, 81, Swedish writer (Sunshine Follows Rain).^[82]

24

• John Cranford Adams, 83, American educator and academic administrator.
• Bias Bernhoft, 84, Norwegian singer.^[83]
• Jack Coote, 79, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Hugh S. Cumming Jr., 86, American diplomat.
• Dirk Fortuin, 85, Dutch Olympic rower (1924).
• Don Malkames, 82, American cinematographer.
• Mazzino Montinari, 58, Italian Germanistic scholar.
• Lloyd Parsons, 68, American NFL player (Detroit Lions).
• Al Smith, 84, American cartoonist (Mutt and Jeff).^[84]
• Hunt Stromberg Jr., 63, American radio and television producer (Frankenstein: The True Story), aneurysm.

25

• Gabdulkhay Akhatov, 59, Soviet Tatar linguist.
• Jon Bradshaw, 47–48, American journalist (Esquire), heart attack.^[85]
• Leroy S. Johnson, 98, American Mormon fundamentalist leader.^[86]
• Sir Ivan Magill, 98, Irish anesthetist.^[87]
• Don Towsley, 74, American animator (Donald Duck).

26

• Aleksei Baksov, 79, Soviet army general.
• Victor Bozeman, 57, American television announcer and actor.
• Lester Castle, 65, New Zealand government official.
• Betico Croes, 48, Aruban politician, founded the People's Electoral Movement, complications from a traffic collision.^[88]
• Rogelio de la Rosa, 70, Filipino politician and actor, ambassador to four countries.^[89]
• Henry Dye, 60, American mathematician.
• Edward McGuire, 54, Irish painter, heart attack.^[90]
• Randolph Prim, 90, American Negro League baseballer (Kansas City Monarchs).^[91]
• Mary Welsh Hemingway, 78, American journalist and author, widow of Ernest Hemingway.^[92]
• Kaku Takagawa, 71, Japanese Go player.
• Peter Wright, 76, Canadian army officer.

27

• Theodore Curphey, 89, American coroner (death of Marilyn Monroe.^[93]
• Alex Duthart, 61, Scottish drummer, heart attack.^[94]
• Gabriel Fielding, 70, English novelist.^[95]
• Zofia Gomułkowa, 84, Polish communist activist, wife of Władysław Gomułka.^[96]
• Cezar Lăzărescu, 63, Romanian architect and urban planner.
• Raphaël Patorni, 75, French actor.
• Robert Priestley, 85, American set decorator, two time Academy Award winner for Best Art Direction.
• Géza von Radványi, 79, Hungarian film director (Mädchen in Uniform).
• Charles Schlewer, 85, French Olympic rower (1920).
• Hugh Stockwell, 83, British army general, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, leukemia.^[97]
• Steve Tracy, 34, American actor (Little House on the Prairie), AIDS.

28

• Tuanku Bujang, 87, Malaysian politician, Governor of Sarawak.^[98]
• Helena Bušová, 72, Czechoslovak actress.
• Maurice Côté, 69, Canadian politician.
• Archibald Currie, 98, Suriname politician, prime minister and governor-general of Suriname.^[99]
• Norman Gagne, 75, Canadian Olympic ski jumper (1936).
• Urszula Łukomska, 59, Polish Olympic gymnast (1952).
• Emilio Scanavino, 64, Italian painter and sculptor.
• Elizabeth Thomas, 79, American Egyptologist.^[100]
• A. Theodore Tuttle, 67, American Mormon leader, cancer.^[101]
• Travis Williams, 94, American NFL player.

29

• Gary Allen, 50, American writer and conservative activist, liver disease.^[102]
• Ronald Baddiley, 64, English actor (The Archers, The Men from the Ministry).^[103]
• Helen Fischer, 74, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives.^[104]
• Cary Grant, 82, English-American actor (North by Northwest, None but the Lonely Heart, Penny Serenade), stroke.^[105]
• Louis Ichard, 85, French Olympic long-distance runner (1920).
• Herbert Rosenfeld, 76, German-born British psychoanalyst.^[106]
• Theodor Sommerschield, 62, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1968, 1972).
• Herb Vigran, 76, American actor (Gunsmoke), cancer.^[107]

30

• Roy Bruner, 79, American Major League Baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
• Martin Burgoyne, 23, British-born American artist, AIDS.
• Francisco Ciutat de Miguel, 76–77, Spanish communist and soldier.
• Darby Jones, 76, American actor (I Walked with a Zombie).
• Emil Jónsson, 84, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland.^[108]
• Eino Leino, 95, Finnish Olympic wrestler (1920, 1924, 1928, 1932).
• Ernst Poertgen, 74, German footballer.
• Immanuel Shifidi, 57, Namibian activist, murdered.^[109]

Unknown date

• Ann Cole, 52, American R&B and gospel singer (Got My Mojo Working).
• Ray Platnick, 69, American newspaper photographer.
• Norio Suzuki, 37, Japanese explorer and adventurer, avalanche.