The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1990.

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 1990

1

• Richard Desmond, 63, American ice hockey player.^[1]
• Ward Haylett, 95, American track and field coach.
• Kim Hyun-sik, 32, South Korean musician, cirrhosis.
• Cyprien Biyehima Kihangire, 72, Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate.
• Ray Pohlman, 60, American guitarist, heart failure.
• G. Malcolm Trout, 94, American dairy scientist.^[2]

2

• Abasaheb Garware, 86, Indian industrialist.
• Peter Hellings, 74, English marine.
• Robert T. McLoskey, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1963–1965).
• Eliot Porter, 88, American photographer.^[3]
• William Travilla, 70, American costume designer, lung cancer.^[4]
• Eszter Voit, 74, Hungarian Olympic gymnast (1936).
• Donald Allen Wollheim, 76, American science fiction author.^[5]

3

• Kenan Erim, 61, Turkish archaeologist.^[6]
• Valerie French, 62, English actress, leukemia.^[7]
• George Gale, 63, British journalist.
• Manmohan Krishna, 68, Indian actor and film director.
• Mary Martin, 76, American actress and singer, cancer.^[8]
• Sashadhar Mukherjee, 81, Indian filmmaker.
• Nikolai Rakov, 82, Soviet violinist.^[9]
• Jack Russell, 85, American baseball player.^[10]
• Walter H. Tyler, 81, American art director.

4

• Mildred Allen, 96, American physicist.^[11]
• Henry Cravatte, 79, Luxembourgish politician.
• James C. Harrison, 64, American artist.^[12]
• Cyrus Levinthal, 68, American molecular biologist, lung cancer.^[13]
• Hicks Lokey, 86, American animator.
• Carol Sobieski, 51, American screenwriter, amyloidosis.^[14]
• David Stirling, 74, Scottish soldier.^[15]

5

• Herbert Berghof, 81, Austrian-American actor and film director.^[16]
• Humphrey Gibbs, 87, Zimbabwean colonial administrator.^[17]
• Erich Heller, 79, British essayist.^[18]
• Meir Kahane, 58, American-Israeli politician, shot.^[19]
• Shunkichi Kikuchi, 74, Japanese photographer, leukemia.
• Raymond Oliver, 81, French chef, cancer.^[20]
• Bobby Scott, 53, American musician, lung cancer.^[21]
• Suleiman Yudakov, 74, Soviet and Tajikistani musician.

6

• Bob Armstrong, 59, Canadian ice hockey player.^[22]
• Ed Gossett, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1939–1951).
• Hilary Baumann Hacker, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Thomas Hiley, 84, Australian politician.^[23]
• Will Kuluva, 73, American actor.^[24]
• Marcel Légaut, 90, French theologian and mathematician.^[25]
• Rodrigo Moynihan, 80, English painter.^[26]
• George Philip Ochola, 60, Kenyan trade unionist and politician.

7

• Ack Ack, 24, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Lemuel Ricketts Boulware, 95, American businessman.^[27]
• Tom Clancy, 66, Irish singer (The Clancy Brothers) and actor, stomach cancer.^[28]
• Lawrence Durrell, 78, British novelist, stroke.^[29]
• John G. Fuller, 76, American writer, lung cancer.^[30]
• Sigurd Monssen, 88, Norwegian Olympic rower (1948).^[31]
• Stepan Privedentsev, 74, Soviet Russian painter, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists.
• Vito Russo, 44, American LGBT activist, AIDS.^[32]
• Elmo Veron, 87, American film and television editor.
• Josephine Wilson, 86, British actress.

8

• Nils Reinhardt Christensen, 71, Norwegian filmmaker.^[33]
• Jacqueline Pirenne, 71-72, French archaeologist, traffic collision.^[34]
• Wolfgang Schmieder, 89, German musicologist.^[35]
• Anya Seton, 86, American author.^[36]
• Earl Torgeson, 66, American baseball player, leukemia.^[37]

9

• Alfredo Armas Alfonzo, 69, Venezuelan writer, critic, editor and historian, well.^[38]
• Olton van Genderen, 69, Surinamese politician.
• Hugh MacLennan, 83, Canadian novelist.^[39]
• Harold A. Stevens, 83, American judge.^[40]
• Dora Söderberg, 90, Swedish actress.

10

• Ronnie Dyson, 40, American singer and actor, heart failure.
• Maura McGiveney, 51, English-American actress, cirrhosis.
• Aurelio Monteagudo, 46, Cuban baseball player, traffic collision.^[41]
• Bhalchandra Nilkanth Purandare, 79, Indian gynaecologist.
• Tommy Sale, 80, English footballer.^[42]
• Mário Schenberg, 76, Brazilian physicist and writer.^[43]
• Çetin Zeybek, 58, Turkish football player.

11

• Ted Albert, 53, Australian record producer, heart attack.
• Greg Buckingham, 45, American swimmer, heart attack.^[44]
• Attilio Demaría, 81, Argentine footballer.
• Margarete Heymann, 91, German ceramicist.^[45]
• Sadi Irmak, 86, Turkish politician, prime minister (1974–1975).
• Lisa Kirk, 65, American singer and actress, lung cancer.^[46]
• Alexis Minotis, 90, Greek actor and film director.^[47]
• Yannis Ritsos, 81, Greek poet.^[48]
• William Randolph Taylor, 94, American botanist.^[49]
• John M. Zwach, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1967–1975).^[50]

12

• Eve Arden, 82, American actress (Mildred Pierce, Our Miss Brooks, Grease), Emmy winner (1954), cardiac arrest, heart attack.^[51]
• Balcomb Greene, 86, American artist and teacher.^[52]
• Tetsumi Kudo, 55, Japanese Japanese painter, sculptor, and performance artist, cancer.^[53]
• Randi Heide Steen, 80, Norwegian singer.
• Junior Walsh, 71, American baseball player.^[54]
• Dave Willock, 81, American actor, stroke.

13

• Hanus Burger, 81, Czech-American screenwriter.^[55]
• Don Chaffey, 73, British film director (Jason and the Argonauts, Pete's Dragon, One Million Years B.C.), heart attack.^[56]
• Helen Dettweiler, 75, American golfer, cancer.
• Wilfred Dunderdale, 90, British spy, possible inspiration for James Bond.
• Frederick Rowland Emett, 84, English kinetic sculptor.^[57]
• Joseph Lang, 79, American boxer.^[58]
• Richard Lewis, 76, English singer.^[59]
• Maurice Richlin, 70, American screenwriter.^[60]
• Lester Williams, 70, American guitarist.^[61]

14

• Margot Arce de Vázquez, 86, Puerto Rican writer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Horst Feistel, 75, German-American cryptographer.
• Antoinette Pépin Fitzpatrick, 82, French musician, heart attack.
• Sol Kaplan, 71, American composer, lung cancer.^[62]
• Otto Kuchenbecker, 83, German basketball player.^[63]
• Malcolm Muggeridge, 87, English journalist and satirist.^[64]
• Adolf Rudnicki, 78, Polish author and essayist.^[65]
• Leonid Trauberg, 88, Soviet and Ukrainian film director and screenwriter.

15

• Alydar, 15, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Oswald Denison, 85, New Zealand rower.
• Ettore Giannini, 77, Italian filmmaker.^[66]
• Gideon Hausner, 75, Israeli politician.^[67]
• Irving Janis, 72, American psychologist, lung cancer.^[68]
• Princess Irina Pavlovna Paley, 86, French exiled Russian royal.
• Jimmy Ward, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.^[69]

16

• Pierre Braunberger, 85, French film producer.^[70]
• Lee Castle, 75, American musician.^[71]
• Jill Day, 59, English singer, cancer.
• Yang Lien-sheng, 76, Chinese-American sinologist.
• Northern Dancer, 29, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.
• Dmitri Skobeltsyn, 97, Soviet physicist.^[72]

17

• Otto Demus, 88, Austrian art historian and Byzantinist.^[73]
• Robert Hofstadter, 75, American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1961).^[74]
• Edna Hughes, 74, English Olympic swimmer (1932, 1936).^[75]
• Herbert B. Maw, 97, American politician, governor of Utah (1941–1949).^[76]

18

• Murray Ashby, 59, New Zealand rower.
• Wolfgang Büttner, 78, German actor and voice actor.^[77]
• Fred Daly, 79, Northern Irish golfer, heart attack.^[78]
• Harwell Hamilton Harris, 87, American architect.^[79]
• David Lloyd Kreeger, 81, American art philanthropist.^[80]
• Beatrice Shilling, 81, British aeronautical engineer.

19

• Šefik Bešlagić, 82, Yugoslav cultural historian.
• John Fitzpatrick, 86, American baseball player and coach.
• Georgy Flyorov, 77, Soviet nuclear physicist, namesake of flerovium.
• Phillip M. Landrum, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1977).^[81]
• Sun Li-jen, 89, Taiwanese general.^[82]
• Lennart Ljung, 69, Swedish general.
• Joseph C. Satterthwaite, 90, American diplomat.^[83]

20

• Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, 76, Italian artist.
• William Montague Cobb, 86, American physician and a physical anthropologist.^[84]
• Herbert Kegel, 70, German conductor, suicide.^[85]
• Bengt Odhner, 72, Swedish diplomat.

21

• Vernon Ellis Cosslett, 82, British microscopist.
• Dean Hart, 36, Canadian-American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Pierre Musy, 80, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic champion.^[86]
• Eugene Rosenberg, 83, Czechoslovak architect.
• Ralph Siewert, 66, American basketball player.^[87]

22

• Joe Bowman, 80, American baseball player.^[88]
• Gustav Fischer, 75, Swiss equestrian and Olympic medalist.
• Jack Petersen, 79, Welsh boxer, lung cancer.^[89]
• Benjamin H. Vandervoort, 73, United States Army officer.
• Eberhard Zwicker, 66, German acoustics scientist.

23

• Roald Dahl, 74, British author (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda), myelodysplastic syndrome.^[90]
• Bo Díaz, 37, Venezuelan baseball player, domestic accident.
• Karl Aage Hansen, 69, Danish footballer.^[91]
• Caio Prado Júnior, 83, Brazilian historian.^[92]
• Sergio Matto, 60, Uruguayan basketball player.^[93]
• Rock Pidjot, 83, New Caledonian politician.
• Renate Rubinstein, 61, German-Dutch writer.^[94]
• Nguyen Van Tam, 95, Vietnamese politician, prime minister (1952–1953).

24

• Richard Acland, 83, English politician.^[95]
• Bülent Arel, 71, Turkish composer, multiple myeloma.^[96]
• Juan Manuel Bordeu, 56, Argentine racing driver.
• Vincenzo Demetz, 79, Italian cross-country skier.^[97]
• Helga Feddersen, 60, German actress, cancer.^[98]
• Michel Giacometti, 61, French musicologist.^[99]
• Wayne Hillman, 52, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.^[100]
• Ronald Hopkins, 93, Australian general.
• Joseph Jadrejak, 72, French football player and manager.
• Arnold Marquis, 69, German actor, lung cancer.^[101]
• Keiji Nishitani, 90, Japanese academic.
• Fred Shero, 65, Canadian ice hockey player, stomach cancer.^[102]
• Dodie Smith, 94, English novelist (The Hundred and One Dalmatians, I Capture the Castle).^[103]
• Robb White, 81, American screenwriter.^[104]
• Marion Post Wolcott, 80, American photographer, lung cancer.^[105]

25

• Ernest Duncan, 74, New-Zealand-Australian-American mathematician, leukemia.^[106]
• Harlan Hagen, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1967).
• Merab Mamardashvili, 60, Soviet philosopher.^[107]
• Mikko Niskanen, 61, Finnish filmmaker, cancer.^[108]
• Salvatore Todisco, 29, Italian boxer, traffic collision.^[109]
• Billy Vukovich III, 27, American racing driver, racing collision.

26

• Frank Brisko, 90, American racing driver.
• Antonín Kalina, 88, Czechoslovak humanitarian.
• Savitri Khanolkar, 77, Swiss-Indian designer (Param Vir Chakra).
• Samuel Noah Kramer, 93, Russian-American Assyriologist, throat cancer.^[110]
• Heikki Partanen, 48, Finnish filmmaker, suicide.
• Edward Pearce, Baron Pearce, 89, British judge.^[111]
• Ludwig von Moos, 80, Swiss politician.
• Jacques Wild, 85, French footballer.^[112]
• Dave Wilkins, 76, Barbadian trumpeter.
• Feng Youlan, 94, Chinese philosopher.^[113]

27

• Proinsias Mac an Bheatha, 80, Irish writer.
• Joseph T. Edgar, 80, American politician.
• Avro Manhattan, 76, Italian writer.
• Paddy Sheriff, 64, Irish basketball player and Olympian.^[114]
• Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal, 71, South African linguist.
• David White, 74, American actor, heart attack.^[115]

28

• Birger Bohlin, 92, Swedish palaeontologist.
• Ted Catlin, 80, English footballer.
• Tamara De Treaux, 31, American actress, respiratory failure.^[116]
• Božena Dobešová, 76, Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast (1936).^[117]
• Paco Godia, 69, Spanish racing driver.^[118]
• Tommy Hughes, 71, American baseball player.^[119]
• Władysław Rubin, 73, Polish Roman Catholic cardinal, Alzheimer's disease.

29

• Raymond Bourgine, 65, French politician.^[120]
• Harry M. Caudill, 68, American author, suicide by gunshot.^[121]
• Malcolm Dole, 87, American chemist.^[122]
• Günter Platzek, 60, German keyboardist, heart attack.
• József Szalai, 97, Hungarian Olympic gymnast (1912).^[123]

30

• Fritz Barzilauskas, 70, American football player.^[124]
• Richard Brown, 83, American football player.^[125]
• Norman Cousins, 75, American political journalist, heart failure.^[126]
• Vladimir Dedijer, 76, Yugoslav diplomat and historian.^[127]
• Fritz Eichenberg, 89, German-American artist, Parkinson's disease.^[128]
• Ivan Medarić, 78, Yugoslav footballer.
• T. R. Ramachandran, 73, Indian actor and comedian.
• Hilde Spiel, 79, Austrian writer and journalist.^[129]