Deaths in November 1987
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1987.
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 1987
[edit]1
[edit]- Cameron Cobbold, 83, British banker, Governor of the Bank of England.
- Leo Goldberg, 74, American astronomer.[1]
- Yoo Jae-ha, 25, South Korean singer and songwriter, car accident.
- René Lévesque, 65, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec, heart attack.
- Tom Parker, 89, English international footballer and manager.
- Mary Shane, 42, American Major League baseball commentator, heart attack.
2
[edit]- Michael DeBatt, 38, American mobster of the Gambino crime family, murdered.
- Louise McCarren Herring, 78, American who established the Credit Union National Association.
- Friedrich-Karl "Nasen" Müller, 75, Nazi German Luftwaffe night fighter ace.
- Wilhelm Schöning, 79, Nazi German Army commander.
- Elmer Tarbox, 71, American politician, member of Texas House of Representatives, Parkinson's disease.
3
[edit]- André Roussin, 76, French playwright.
- Liang Shih-chiu, 84, Chinese educator, writer, translator, literary theorist and lexicographer.[2]
4
[edit]- Óscar Bonfiglio, 82, Mexican international footballer.
- Danielle Gaubert, 44, French actress, cancer.
- Babe Plunket Greene, 80, English socialite.
- Wilton M. Krogman, 83, American anthropologist.
- Francis Pollen, 60, English architect (Worth Abbey).
- Pierre Seghers, 81, French poet and editor, member of the French Resistance.
- Raphael Soyer, 87, Russian-American painter, draftsman and printmaker, cancer.[3]
- Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 62, Senegalese film director and historian.
5
[edit]- Eamonn Andrews, 64, Irish radio and television presenter, heart failure.[4]
- Edvard Baghdasaryan, 64, Armenian composer.
- Orlando Costas, 55, Puerto Rican Evangelical theologian, stomach cancer.
- Daasarathi, 62, Indian Telugu poet and writer.
- Peg Fenwick, 79, American screenwriter and playwright.
- Georges Franju, 75, French filmmaker.[5]
- Arthur Schmidt, 92, German military officer, Sixth Army's chief of staff in the Battle of Stalingrad.
- Juliet Rice Wichman, 86, Hawaiian conservationist, botanist and author.
6
[edit]- Zohar Argov, 32, Israeli singer and convicted rapist, suicide by hanging.
- Ross Barnett, 89, American politician, Governor of Mississippi.
- Opie Cates, 78, American clarinet player, band leader and radio actor.
- Michael Comay, 79, Israeli diplomat, Israeli ambassador to Canada and the U.K.[6]
- Alvin Dewey, 75, American special agent of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.[7]
- George Laurence, 82, Canadian nuclear physicist.
- Jean Rivier, 91, French composer of classical music.
7
[edit]- Arne Borg, 86, Swedish swimmer, 5-time Olympic gold medalist and holder of multiple world records.
- Herbert H. Chen, 45, Chinese-American theoretical and experimental physicist, leukemia.
- Aileen Eaton, 78, American boxing and professional wrestling promoter.
- Ben C. Henley, 80, American lawyer, businessman and politician, Arkansas Republican Party State Chairman.
8
[edit]- Kid Chissell, 82, American boxing champion and actor.
- Jim Fitzgerald, 65, American racing driver, racing crash.
- Ian Fraser, 71, British politician.
- Boris Goldstein, 64, Soviet violinist.
- Yevgeniya Khanayeva, 66, Soviet film and stage actress.
- Sakthi T. K. Krishnasamy, 74, Indian author, screenwriter and lyricist.
9
[edit]- Eemeli, 67, Finnish actor, comedian and entertainer.
- Akhtar Hussain, 61, Indian and Pakistani hockey player.
- Johann Schalk, 84, Nazi German flying ace.
- Thengai Srinivasan, 50, Indian actor, brain haemorrhage.
10
[edit]- Lou Breslow, 87, American screenwriter and film director.
- Faruk Kaiser, 69, Indian poet.
- Seyni Kountché, 56, Nigerien military officer, President of Niger, brain tumour.
- Pop Momand, 100, American cartoonist (Keeping Up with the Joneses).
- Raymond Rohauer, 62–63, American film collector and distributor.
- Jackie Vernon, 63, American stand-up comedian and actor, heart attack.[8]
11
[edit]- Charles H. Baker Jr., 91, American author known for culinary and cocktail writings.
- Earnshaw Cook, 87, American early researcher and proponent of baseball sabermetrics.
- John 'Dusty' King, 78, American singer and film actor.
- Channing E. Phillips, 59, American minister, civil rights leader and social activist, cancer.[9]
12
[edit]- George Chatterton, 75, British Army soldier, commanded the Glider Pilot Regiment.
- Roger Lewis, 75, American business executive, assistant United States Secretary of the Air Force.
- Lasgush Poradeci, 87, Albanian philologist, poet and writer.
- Cornelis Vreeswijk, 50, Dutch-Swedish singer-songwriter, poet and actor.
13
[edit]- Jayatirtha Dasa, 39, British Hare Krishna, murdered.
- A. L. Abdul Majeed, 54, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, assassinated.
- Paul Neergaard, 80, Danish agronomist, mycologist and agriculturist.
- Joseph Phillips, 76, Indian hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
- Franklin D. Richards, 86, American commissioner of the U.S. Federal Housing Administration, general authority of the LDS church.
- Harold Vick, 51, American jazz saxophonist and flautist, heart attack.[10]
14
[edit]- Friedrich Bopp, 77, German theoretical physicist.
- Ann Christy, 82, American film actress, heart attack.
- Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh, 85, British politician, Member of Parliament.
- Petras Griškevičius, 63, Lithuanian communist party official.
- Hod Lisenbee, 89, American Major League baseballer.
- Pieter Menten, 88, Dutch war criminal, businessman and art collector.
15
[edit]- Ernő Goldfinger, 85, Hungarian-British architect and designer of furniture.
- Shyamal Mitra, 58, Indian playback singer and music director.
- Brigid Lyons Thornton, 91, Irish member of Cumann na mBan, officer in the Irish Free State Army and physician, cardiac-respiratory arrest.
16
[edit]- Jim Brewer, 50, American Major League baseballer, car accident.[11]
- Terrence Des Pres, 48, American writer and Holocaust scholar, suicide by hanging.[12]
- Zubir Said, 80, Singaporean composer, composed the national anthem of his country.
- Trevor Stamp, 80, British medical doctor and bacteriologist.
17
[edit]- Ganesh Baba, 97, Indian yogi.
- Betty Corday, 75, American Broadway actress and television producer, respiratory failure.
- Paul Derringer, 81, American Major League baseballer.[13]
- Hiroshi Kawaguchi, 51, Japanese film actor.
- Gerry Lockran, 45, British blues singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist, heart attack.
- Arthur C. Pierce, 64, American screenwriter and director.
- Ireene Wicker, 81, American singer and actress.
18
[edit]- Jacques Anquetil, 53, French road racing cyclist, 5-time Tour de France winner, stomach cancer.[14]
- Mozzafar Baghai, 75, Iranian politician, Member of Parliament.
- Edward Both, 79, Australian medical and military inventor.
- Lynn Freeman Olson, 49, American composer.[15]
- George Ryga, 55, Canadian playwright, actor and novelist.
- Dick Stello, 53, American Major League baseball umpire, traffic accident.
- Colin Townsley, 45, English station officer at Soho Fire Station, killed in the King's Cross fire.
19
[edit]- Brand Blanshard, 95, American philosopher.[16]
- Lee Byung-chul, 77, South Korean businessman.
- Ben Clopton, 81, American artist known for animated cartoons.
- Jock Colville, 72, British diarist.
- Norman Jones, 64, New Zealand politician, Member of Parliament, brain tumour.
- Clara Petrella, 73, Italian operatic soprano.
- Christopher Wilmarth, 44, American artist known for sculptures of glass and steel, suicide by hanging.
20
[edit]- Christopher Evelyn Blunt, 83, British merchant banker.
- Peter Button, 58, New Zealand rescue helicopter pilot, helicopter crash.
- Helen Grace Scott Keenan, 72, American broadcaster for Free France in Brazzaville, heart attack.
21
[edit]- Alex Diggelmann, 85, Swiss graphic artist and book designer.
- Jim Folsom, 79, American politician, Governor of Alabama.
- Ivan Jandl, 50, Czechoslovakian child actor, complications of diabetes.
- Karel Raška, 78, Czech physician and epidemiologist, helped eradicate smallpox.
22
[edit]- Verna Arvey, 77, American librettist, pianist and writer.
- Helmut Aris, 79, German president of the Association of Jewish Communities.
- Hemanga Biswas, 74, Indian singer, composer, author and political activist.
- W. Haydon Burns, 75, American politician, 75, Governor of Florida.
- Plácido Domingo Ferrer, 80, Spanish zarzuela baritone, father of Plácido Domingo, heart attack.
- Raymond D. Mindlin, 81, American mechanical engineer, professor of Applied Science at Columbia University.[17]
- Newt Perry, 79, American swimmer, attraction promoter and swimming coach.
23
[edit]- Alton Adams, 98, American bandmaster in the U.S. Navy.
- Joseph Beer, 79, Polish-French composer of operettas, singspiele and operas.
- Sam Gilbert, 73–74, American businessman, money launderer.
- Marcia Henderson, 58, American actress.
- Solomana Kante, 64–65, Guinean writer, neographer and educator, inventor of the N'Ko alphabet.
- Sarah Long, 49, English actress and television presenter, cancer.
- Antonio Sastre, 76, Argentine international footballer.
- Rajen Tarafdar, 70, Indian film director, actor and screenwriter.
- Victor Windeyer, 87, Australian judge and soldier, justice of the High Court of Australia.
24
[edit]- Jehane Benoît, 83, Canadian culinary author, speaker, commentator, journalist and broadcaster.
- Stan Hanson, 71, English footballer.
- Gunnar Heckscher, 78, Swedish political scientist, leader of the Conservative Party.
- Ove Joensen, 38, Faroese seaman and adventurer, first person to row from the Faroe Islands to Denmark, drowned.
- John Parker, 81, British politician, Member of Parliament.
- Anton Pieck, 92, Dutch painter, artist and graphic artist.[18]
- Jim Russell, 69, American Major League baseballer.
25
[edit]- Edgar Berman, 72, American surgeon and author, remembered for misogynist comments.[19]
- Francisco Dalupan Sr., 92, Filipino founder, chairman and president of the University of the East.
- Little Willy Foster, 65, American blues harmonicist, singer and songwriter, kidney cancer.
- George Korngold, 58, Austrian-American record producer, music editor and producer, son of composer Erich Korngold.[20]
- Renzo Marignano, 64, Italian actor and film director.
- James McDyer, 77, Irish Catholic priest.
- Ramaswamy Parameshwaran, 41, Indian military officer, killed in battle.
- Harold Washington, 65, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Chicago, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.[21]
26
[edit]- Bill Giant, 57, American songwriter, wrote for Elvis Presley.
- J. P. Guilford, 90, American psychologist.
- Peter Hujar, 53, American photographer, AIDS.[22]
- Costache Ioanid, 74, Romanian poet and songwriter.
- Thomas George Lanphier Jr., 71, Panama-American colonel and fighter pilot during World War II, cancer.
- Morton Lowry, 73, British actor.
- Louis Macouillard, 74, American artist and commercial illustrator.
- J. K. Ralston, 91, American painter.
- Duncan Sandys, 79, British politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies.
- Raymond Westerling, 68, Dutch military officer of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, coup leader, cardiac arrest.
27
[edit]- Charline Arthur, 58, American singer of boogie-woogie, blues and rockabilly.
- Girdhari Lal Dogra, 72, Indian politician, member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.
- Babe Herman, 84, American Major Leagues baseballer, pneumonia and strokes.[23]
- Sian Kingi, 12, New Zealand-Australian murder victim.
- John Muafangejo, 44, Namibian artist, heart attack.
- Lillian Bostwick Phipps, 81, American socialite and owner of thoroughbred steeplechase racehorses.[24]
- Julius Rehborn, 87, German diver and Olympian.
- Ernest Severn, 54, American child screen actor.
- Ganda Singh, 87, Indian Punjabi and Sikh historian.
- Ella P. Stewart, 94, American pharmacist.
28
[edit]- Paul Arma, 82, Hungarian-French pianist and composer.
- Choh Hao Li, 74, Chinese-American biochemist.[25]
- Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 82, German actor, film director and theatre director.
- Guy Marks, 64, American actor, comedian, singer and impressionist.
- Elisabeth Mulder, 83, Spanish writer, poet, translator, journalist and literary critic.
- Goh Choo San, 39, Singaporean ballet dancer and choreographer, viral colitis stemming from AIDS.
- Vasily Sitnikov, 72, Russian painter.
- Kazuharu Sonoda, 31, Japanese professional wrestler, air crash.
- Víctor Yturbe, 51, Mexican singer under stage name \"El Pirulí\", murdered.
29
[edit]- Giuseppe Gabrielli, 84, Italian aeronautics engineer.
- Monk Gibbon, 90–91, Irish poet and writer.
- Irene Handl, 85, British author and actress, cancer.[26]
- Abraham Kazen, 68, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Gwendolyn MacEwen, 46, Canadian poet and novelist, health issues related to alcoholism.
- John Howard Pyle, 81, American broadcaster and politician, Governor of Arizona.
- Aage Samuelsen, 72, Norwegian evangelist, singer and composer, heart attack.
30
[edit]- Alex Carey, 64, Australian social psychologist, suicide.
- Simon Carmiggelt, 74, Dutch writer, journalist and poet, heart attack.
- Arthur Dean, 89, American corporate lawyer and diplomat.
- Jimmy George, 32, Indian volleyball player, captain of Indian national volleyball team, car accident.
- Helmut Horten, 78, German entrepreneur, owner of Horten AG department store chain.
- Scrappy Lambert, 86, American dance-band vocalist.
- Roger Manvell, 78, British director of the British Film Academy.
- Hanni Rehborn, 80, German diver and Olympian.
- Don Sebastian, 76, Mexican-American wrestler, wrestling promoter and movie actor.
Unknown date
[edit]- Violet Aitken, 101, British suffragette.
- Burnett Bolloten, 77–78, British-American writer and scholar of the Spanish Civil War, prostate cancer.
- Martha Harris, 68, British psychoanalyst.
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[edit]- ^ "Leo Goldberg, Astronomer, Dies". The New York Times. November 3, 1987. p. D 29. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Liang Shih-Chiu, a Shakespeare Translator, Dies". The New York Times. November 6, 1987. p. B 4. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ Douglas C. McGill (November 5, 1987). "Raphael Soyer, Social Realist Artist, is Dead at 87". The New York Times. p. B 10. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Eamonn Andrews, 64; British TV Personality". The New York Times. November 7, 1987. p. 1 35. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ Andrew L. Yarrow (November 7, 1987). "Georges Franju, a Film Director". The New York Times. p. 1 35. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ Ronald Sullivan (November 14, 1987). "Michael S. Comay Is Dead at 79; An Influential Diplomat in Israel". The New York Times. p. 1 36. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Alvin Dewey Dies; Investigated Killings Depicted by Capote". The New York Times. November 8, 1987. p. 1 52. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ Andrew L. Yarrow (November 11, 1987). "Jackie Vernon, 62; Comic in Television, Film and Nightclubs". The New York Times. p. B 8. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ John T. McQuiston (November 12, 1987). "Minister and Civil Rights Leader". The New York Times. p. D 31. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Harold E. Vick, 51, A Tenor Saxophonist". The New York Times. November 17, 1987. p. D 29. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Jim Brewer, Ex-Dodger Reliever". The New York Times. November 17, 1987. p. D 29. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Terrence Des Pres, 47, A Writer and Professor". The New York Times. November 18, 1987. p. A 28. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
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- ^ Susan Heller Anderson (November 21, 1987). "Brand Blanshard Is Dead at 95; Teacher and Writer of Philosophy". The New York Times. p. 1 34. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
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- ^ "Peter Hujar Dies at 53; Made Photo Portraits". The New York Times. November 28, 1987. p. 1 41. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Babe Herman, 84, Former Outfielder With the Dodgers". The New York Times. November 30, 1987. p. B 13. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Lillian B. Phipps, 81, Active in Horse Racing". The New York Times. November 28, 1987. p. 1 41. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ Susan Heller Anderson (December 1, 1987). "Choh Hao Li, Biochemist, Is Dead; Isolated Human Growth Hormone". The New York Times. p. D 27. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Irene Handl Dies at 85; Comedienne in Britain". The New York Times. November 30, 1987. p. B 13. Retrieved April 27, 2024.