The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1988.
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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.
1
- Siddiq Abubakar III, 85, Nigerian Muslim leader, Sultan of Sokoto.
- Broda Otto Barnes, 82, American physician and professor of medicine (Hypothyroidism).[1]
- George Folsey, 90, American cinematographer (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), stroke.[2]
- Hans P. Kraus, 81, Austrian-born American rare book dealer, pneumonia .[3]
- Tuomo Suomalainen, 56, Finnish architect.[4]
2
- Rosalie Glynn Grylls, 83, British biographer.[5]
- Hokuma Gurbanova, 75, Azerbaijani actress.
- Lukas Heller, 58, German-British screenwriter (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte).
- Stewart Parker, 47, Northern Irish poet and playwright, stomach cancer.[6]
- Menachem Savidor, 71, Israeli civil servant and politician, Speaker of the Knesset.[7]
- James R. Shepley, 71, American journalist and businessman, president of Time Inc., CEO of The Washington Star, cancer.[8]
- P. Thanulinga Nadar, 73, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
3
- Hussain Adam, 19, Maldivian soldier, shot.[9]
- Rachel Andresen, 81, American social worker and founder of Youth For Understanding.[10]
- Sidney Carroll, 75, American film and television screenwriter (The Hustler, A Big Hand for the Little Lady).[11]
- Harold Martin, 70, Australian bomber pilot and Air Marshall in the Royal Air Force.[12]
- Lionel C. McGarr, 84, American general in the U.S. Army.[13]
- Henri van Praag, 72, Dutch writer and religious historian, known also publications on parapsychology.
- Marie Raymond, 80, French abstract painter.[14]
- David Robilliard, 36, British poet and artist, AIDS.[15]
- Flora Rheta Schreiber, 70, American journalist and author (Sybil), heart attack.[16]
4
- Elinor Bellingham-Smith, 81, British painter of landscapes and still life.[17]
- Raphael Bronstein, 92, Lithuanian-born American violinist, stroke.[18]
- 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).[19]
- Hermann Graf, 76, German World War II fighter ace.[20]
- Ki. Va. Jagannathan, 82, Indian journalist, poet and writer.
- Ernest Lindner, 91, Austrian-born Canadian painter.[21]
- Kimon Evan Marengo, 84, Egyptian-born British cartoonist.[22]
- André Ménard, 81, French Governor General in the French colonial empire.
- Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 81, British peer and aviator, Duke of Newcastle.[23]
- Michael Pomazansky, 99, Russian-born American theologian.
- Kleanthis Vikelidis, 73, Greek international footballer (Aris Thessaloniki, Greece).
5
- C. F. Møller, 90, Danish architect.[24]
- Jakoba Mulder, 88, Dutch architect and urban planner.[25]
- Jean-Pierre Stirbois, 43, French far-right politician, member of the National Assembly, car crash.[26]
- Claus Toksvig, 59, Danish journalist, broadcaster and politician.[27]
6
- John Hubbard, 74, American television and film actor, kidney failure.[28]
- Daniel Knox, 74, British Army officer, Governor of the Bahamas.[29]
- Donald Wade, 84, British solicitor and politician, Member of Parliament.
- Tan Zheng, 82, Chinese general and Communist Party leader.[30]
7
- Hans Baumann, 74, German poet and songwriter.
- Abram Belskie, 81, British-sculptor.[31]
- Conrad Bernier, 84, French-Canadian organist, composer and conductor.[32]
- Bill Hoest, 62, American cartoonist (The Lockhorns, Laugh Parade), lymphoma.[33]
- Theodor V. Ionescu, 89, Romanian physicist and inventor (plasma physics).[34]
- Morris Janowitz, 69, American sociologist and professor, Parkinson's disease.[35]
- B. N. Kumar, Indian Army general, shot dead by militants.[36]
- Ruth Lyons, 83, American radio and television broadcaster.[37]
- Sy Mah, 62, Canadian long-distance runner, leukemia.[38]
- Jean-Claude Paul, 49, Haitian military officer alleged to have been involved in the illegal drug trade in Haiti, believed to have been poisoned.[39]
8
- Kingman Brewster Jr., 69, American diplomat, president of Yale University, U.S. Ambassador to the U.K, brain hemorrhage.[40]
- Warren Casey, 53, American composer, writer and actor (Grease), AIDS.[41]
- Norm Nelson, 65, American racing driver.[42]
- Oskar Rohr, 76, German international footballer (Strasbourg, Germany).[43]
9
- David Bauer, 64, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, pancreatic cancer.[44]
- Billy Curtis, 79, American film and television actor (Little Cigars), heart attack.[45]
- Clarke Hinkle, 79, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers).[46]
- John N. Mitchell, 75, U.S. Attorney General, convicted for his role in the Watergate scandal, heart attack.[47]
- Rosemary Timperley, 68, British novelist and screenwriter.
- Max-Eckart Wolff, 85, Nazi German naval commander.[48]
- Richard S. Yeoman, 84, American commercial artist and coin collector, stroke.[49]
12
- Franco Angeli, 53, Italian artist, AIDS.[53]
- 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.[54]
- Primo Conti, 88, Italian artist.[55]
- Andrzej Kowerski, 76, Polish Army officer during World War II, cancer.[56]
- Lyman Lemnitzer, 89, American General in the U.S. Army, Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO, kidney failure.[57]
- Tomasz Sikorski, 48, Polish composer and pianist.
13
- Antal Doráti, 82, Hungarian-born American conductor (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra).[58]
- Vlad Georgescu, 51, Romanian historian, academic and political dissident, brain tumour.[59]
- François Lanzi, 72, French-born British artist.
- Béla Perényi, 35, Hungarian chess international master, car crash.
- Mulugeta Seraw, 28, Ethiopian student in the United States, murdered by white supremacists.[60]
- Jaromír Vejvoda, 86, Czech composer (Beer Barrel Polka).[61]
14
- Julia Caba Alba, 86, Spanish actress.[62]
- Haywood S. Hansell, 85, American member of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, heart failure.[63]
- Davis Love Jr., 53, American professional golfer, plane crash.[64]
- Takeo Miki, 81, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan, cerebral hemorrhage.[65]
- Haralan Popov, 81, Protestant minister, cancer.[66]
- Augusta La Torre, 42, Peruvian communist, number two in command of Shining Path.
15
- Nell Dorr, 95, American photographer.[67]
- Bonnie Holiday, 36, American pornographic actress.
- Ieronymos I of Athens, 83, Greek monk, Archbishop of Athens.
- Johann Kastenberger, 30, Austrian marathon runner, bank robber and murderer, suicide.[68]
- Mirko Kokotović, 75, Austro-Hungarian–born Yugoslavian international footballer (HŠK Građanski, Yugoslavia).[69]
- Ernest Matthew Mickler, 48, American cookbook author, AIDS.[70]
- Mona Washbourne, 84, English actress (Stevie, My Fair Lady).[71]
16
- Henry Ciccarone, 50, American college lacrosse coach (Johns Hopkins), heart attack.[72]
- Wera Engels, 83, German actress.
- Elgin Gates, 66, American hunter and firearms and ammunition technician.
- Jennie Lee, 84, Scottish politician, Member of Parliament.[73]
- Reginald Teague-Jones, 99, British political and intelligence officer.
18
- Erwin Ackerknecht, 82, German-born American historian of medicine.[76]
- Janet Gladys Aitken, 80, Canadian-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.[77]
- 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.[78]
19
- Mirza Hameedullah Beg, 75, Indian politician, Chief Justice of India.[79]
- Adolf Heuser, 81, German boxer, International Boxing Union light heavyweight champion.[80]
- 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.[81]
- Peggy Parish, 61, American writer, abdominal aneurysm.[82]
- Hamidur Rahman, 59–60, Bangladeshi artist and sculptor.
20
- Tyler Kent, 77, American diplomat, convicted of espionage.[83]
- Jenő Vincze, 80, Hungarian international footballer and manager (Bocskai, Újpest, Hungary).[84]
- Felix Ziegel, 68, Soviet astronomer, stroke.
21
- Robert Bright, 86, American writer and illustrator of children's literature, cancer.[85]
- Peter Dix, 35, Irish Olympic sailor, killed in Lockerbie disaster.[86]
- 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.[87]
- Pál Kalmár, 88, Hungarian pop singer.
- Raymond Lewenthal, 65, American virtuoso pianist, heart attack.[88]
- Theodora Llewelyn Davies, 90, British barrister, bronchopneumonia.[89]
- Princess Sophie, 77, German princess of the House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
22
- Luis Barragán, 86, Mexican architect and engineer (Torres de Satélite).[90]
- Cathy Carr, 52, American pop singer (Ivory Tower), ovarian cancer.[91]
- Raymond Dart, 95, Australian anatomist and anthropologist (Australopithecus africanus), cerebral hemorrhage.[92]
- Erich Fried, 67, Austrian-British poet, writer and translator, intestinal cancer.[93]
- Pehr Gyllenhammar, 87, Swedish insurance company executive (Skandia).[94]
- John C. Parkin, 66, British-born Canadian architect.[95]
- John R. Ragazzini, 76, American electrical engineer, involved in Manhattan Project, heart failure.[96]
- Josefina Vicens, 76, Mexican author, screenwriter and journalist.[97]
- Terry Welch, 49, American computer scientist (Lempel–Ziv–Welch compression), brain tumour.[98]
23
- Gamal Abdel-Rahim, 63, Egyptian-German classical music composer.
- F. D. Amr Bey, 79, Egyptian diplomat and squash player, multiple British Open winner, Egypt 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.[99]
- Richard Lonsdale, 74, British Army officer in World War II.[100]
- Kenzō Masaoka, 90, Japanese anime creator, co-founder of Toei Animation.
- Albert Raby, 54–55, American civil rights activist, heart attack.[101]
- Marcia Ralston, 82, Australian-American actress (The Ghost Train; Marcus Welby, M.D.).[102]
- Kazem Sami, 52–53, Iranian politician, Minister of Health, murdered.[103]
- Philip F. Tyler, 31, Irish actor and television presenter (Bosco).[104]
- Jack White, 68, American stock car racing driver.
24
- Walter W. Bankhead, 91, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[105]
- 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.[106]
- Harris McDowell, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, stroke.[107]
- Bo Rhambo, 65, American trumpeter and tenor saxophonist.[108]
- Irmgard Seefried, 69, German soprano, cancer.[109]
- Jenő Szűcs, 60, Hungarian historian.
25
- Eddie Cameron, 86, American footballer and basketballer.[110]
- Alphaeus Philemon Cole, 112, American artist, engraver, etcher and super-centenarian, heart failure.[111]
- Rolf Jørgen Fuglesang, 79, Norwegian secretary to the Quisling government.[112]
- Jack Leslie, 87, English footballer (Plymouth Argyle).[113]
- Muhammad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 78, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.[114]
26
- Hans Baron, 88, German-American historian (civic humanism).[115]
- John Dahmer, 51, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons, cancer (in office).[116]
- Antonio Estévez, 72, Venezuelan musician, composer and conductor.[117]
- Baron Michele Leone, 79, Italian-professional wrestler, struck by car.
- John Loder, 90, British film actor.[118]
- Hugh Oldman, 74, British Army officer, Secretary for Defence of the Sultanate of Oman.[119]
27
- Angela Aames, 32, American B Movie actress, heart virus.[120]
- John Carradine, 82, American actor (House of Frankenstein, The Grapes of Wrath), heart and kidney failure.[121]
- Jan Hein Donner, 61, Dutch chess grandmaster and writer, gastric hemorrhage.[122]
- Yasin Osman Kenadid, 68–69, Somali writer.[123]
- Wilfred "Chicken" Smallhorn, 77, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy Football Club).[124]
- Takieddin el-Solh, 79-80, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister of Lebanon, heart attack.[125]
28
- Gus Bailey, 37, American NBA basketballer (Houston Rockets, New Orleans Jazz), stabbed.[126]
- 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.[127]
29
- Nils Bejerot, 67, Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist (Stockholm syndrome), lymphoma.[128]
- Donald Keyhoe, 91, American Marine Corps naval aviator, "UFO" researcher, pneumonia and cardiac arrest.[129]
- Princess Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover, 26, Austrian model and socialite, suspected cocaine overdose.[130]
- Yevsey Moiseyenko, 72, Soviet painter.[131]
- Mabel Strickland, 89, Maltese journalist, newspaper proprietor and politician, co-founder of the Times of Malta.[132]
- Isabella von Thurn, 26, Austrian model and socialite, a princess of the House of Hanover, overdose.[133]
30
- Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, 60–61, Egyptian Quran reciter and Hafiz.
- Wally Berger, 83, American Major League baseballer (Boston Braves), stroke.[134]
- Aleksandar Deroko, 94, Serbian-architect, artist and author.
- Edward H. Feldman, 68, American director and producer (Hogan's Heroes), heart disease.[135]
- Pannonica de Koenigswarter, 74, British-American jazz patron, Free French fighter and writer, heart failure.[136]
- Ricky Lawless, 28, American professional wrestler, murdered.
- Henrique Medina, 87, Portuguese painter (The Picture of Dorian Gray).[137]
- Margaret Mee, 79, British botanical artist, car crash.[138]
- Amiram Nir, 37, Israeli journalist, air crash.[139]
- M. K. Rocksamy, 56, Sri Lankan musician.[140]
- Charlie Rouse, 64, American tenor saxophonist and flautist, lung cancer.[141]