Deaths in November 1988

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1988.

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 1988

1 Siddiq Abubakar III, 85, Nigerian Muslim leader, Sultan of Sokoto. Broda Otto Barnes, 82, American physician and professor of medicine (Hypothyroidism).Dr. Broda Barnes' History. thyroidopedia.com. Retrieved 28 May 2024. Michel Fauconnet, 79, Swiss Olympic fencer (1928, 1936). George Folsey, 90, American cinematographer (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), stroke. Hans P. Kraus, 81, Austrian-born American rare book dealer, pneumonia .Hans Peter Kraus, 81, Book Dealer and Collector. New York Times. Retrieved 18 Jun 2024. Lefty Sullivan, 72, American MLB player (Cleveland Indians). Tuomo Suomalainen, 56, Finnish architect.Suomalainen, Tuomo (Finnish architect, died 1988). Getty Center (year of death only). Retrieved 11 Jul 2024.

2 Ralph Amsden, 71, American basketball player. Rosalie Glynn Grylls, 83, British biographer.Rosalie Glynn Grylls, Lady Mander (1905-1988). National Trust Collections (year of death only). Retrieved 11 Jun 2024. Hokuma Gurbanova, 75, Azerbaijani actress.Hokuma Gurbanova. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Lukas Heller, 58, German-born British screenwriter (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte). Stewart Parker, 47, Northern Irish poet and playwright, stomach cancer. Menachem Savidor, 71, Israeli civil servant and politician, Speaker of the Knesset.Menachem Savidor (Khodorovsky) (1917–1988). Knesset. Retrieved 6 Jul 2024. James R. Shepley, 71, American journalist and businessman, president of Time Inc., CEO of The Washington Star, cancer.James R. Shepley Is Dead at 71; Chief of Time Inc. From '69 to '80. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024. P. Thanulinga Nadar, 73, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.

3 Hussain Adam, 20, Maldivian soldier, shot.Martyr Hussain Adam’s proud parents through Nausham’s lens. Sun. 3 November 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2024. Rachel Andresen, 81, American social worker and founder of Youth For Understanding.YFU Founders Day. Youth for Understanding USA. Retrieved 25 May 2024. Sidney Carroll, 75, American film and television screenwriter (The Hustler, A Big Hand for the Little Lady).Finding Aid for the Sidney Carroll papers, 1957-1981. Online Archive of California. Retrieved 31 May 2024. Harold Martin, 70, Australian bomber pilot and Air Marshall in the Royal Air Force.Sir Harold Martin, Pilot, 70. New York Times. Retrieved 22 Jun 2024. Lionel C. McGarr, 84, American general in the U.S. Army.LTG Lionel C. McGarr. Military Hall of Honor. Retrieved 22 Jun 2024. George Mitchell, 87, American Olympic water polo player (1924, 1928). Henri van Praag, 72, Dutch writer and religious historian, known also for publications on parapsychology. Marie Raymond, 80, French abstract painter.Marie Raymond. RDK Netherlands Institute for Art History. Retrieved 3 Jul 2024. David Robilliard, 36, British poet and artist, AIDS. Keith Schow, 57, Australian rules footballer. Flora Rheta Schreiber, 70, American journalist and author (Sybil), heart attack.Flora Schreiber, 70, The Writer of 'Sybil' And of 'Shoemaker'. New York Times. Retrieved 6 Jul 2024.

4 Elinor Bellingham-Smith, 81, British painter of landscapes and still life.Elinor Bellingham-Smith (1906 - 1988). Royal Academy of Arts. Retrieved 28 May 2024. Raphael Bronstein, 92, Lithuanian-born American violinist, stroke.Raphael Bronstein, 93, Noted Violin Teacher. New York Times. Retrieved 30 May 2024. Walter Coutts, 75, British colonial administrator, Governor-General of Uganda.Walter Coutts. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Jean Gérault, 84, French Olympic long-distance runner (1928). Edward Thaxter Gignoux, 72, American judge (United States District Court for the District of Maine).Edward T. Gignoux, 72, Is Dead; Served on Federal Bench 26 Years. New York Times. Retrieved 11 Jun 2024. Hermann Graf, 76, German World War II fighter ace. Ki. Va. Jagannathan, 82, Indian Tamil journalist, poet and writer. Ernest Lindner, 91, Austrian-born Canadian painter.Ernest Lindner. The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20 Jun 2024. Kimon Evan Marengo, 84, Egyptian-born British cartoonist. Nicholas Megura, 68, American USAAF WWII flying ace. André Ménard, 81, French Governor General in the French colonial empire. Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 81, British peer and aviator, Duke of Newcastle.Biography of Henry Edward Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke (1907-1988). University of Nottingham (via Wayback Machine - year of death only). Retrieved 28 Jun 2024. Michael Pomazansky, 99, Russian-born American theologian.Michael Pomazansky. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Kleanthis Vikelidis, 73, Greek international footballer (Aris Thessaloniki, Greece).

5 Mosher Joseph Blumenfeld, 84, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Connecticut). Glenn Chapman, 82, American MLB player (Brooklyn Dodgers). C. F. Møller, 90, Danish architect.Commemorating Christian Frederik Møller. C. F. Møller Architects. Retrieved 25 Jun 2024. Jakoba Mulder, 88, Dutch architect and urban planner (Amsterdamse Bos).Jakoba Mulder. Van Eesteren Museum. Retrieved 26 Jun 2024. Albert Overton, 85, American Negro Leagues baseball player. Jean-Pierre Stirbois, 43, French far-right politician, member of the National Assembly, car crash.Jean-Pierre Stirbois, Politician, 43. New York Times. Retrieved 10 Jul 2024. Claus Toksvig, 59, Danish journalist, broadcaster and politician.Claus Toksvig. European Parliament. Retrieved 12 Jul 2024. Rudolf Wirz, 70, Swiss Olympic handball player (1936).

6 John Hubbard, 74, American television and film actor, kidney failure.John Hubbard; Leading Man in ‘40s Films. L.A. Times. Retrieved 14 Jun 2024. Daniel Knox, 74, British Army officer, Governor of the Bahamas.Mr Thomas Knox. UK Parliament. Retrieved 30 Jun 2024. Donald Wade, 84, British solicitor and politician, Member of Parliament.Mr Donald Wade. UK Parliament. Retrieved 24 Oct 2024. Tan Zheng, 82, Chinese general and Communist Party leader.

7 Hans Baumann, 74, German poet and songwriter.Hans Baumann. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Abram Belskie, 81, British-born American sculptor.Abram Belskie. Belskie Museum. Retrieved 28 May 2024. Conrad Bernier, 84, French-Canadian organist, composer and conductor.Conrad Bernier. The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 28 May 2024. Bill Hoest, 62, American cartoonist (The Lockhorns, Laugh Parade), lymphoma. Theodor V. Ionescu, 89, Romanian physicist and inventor (plasma physics).Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics. nobelprize.org (year of death only). Retrieved 14 Jun 2024. Morris Janowitz, 69, American sociologist and professor, Parkinson's disease. B. N. Kumar, Indian Army general, shot dead by militants.Assassins in Punjab Kill an Indian Army General. New York Times. Retrieved 19 Jun 2024. Ruth Lyons, 83, American radio and television broadcaster.A TV Legend Who Didn't Talk Trash. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 21 Jun 2024. Sy Mah, 62, Canadian long-distance runner, leukemia.Sy Mah Papers 1968 to 1988. The University of Toledo (year of death only). Retrieved 21 Jun 2024. Jean-Claude Paul, 49, Haitian military officer alleged to have been involved in the illegal drug trade in Haiti, believed to have been poisoned.Ex-Wife Held in Colonel’s Death. L.A. Times. Retrieved 30 Jun 2024.

8 Kingman Brewster Jr., 69, American diplomat, president of Yale University, ambassador to the U.K, brain haemorrhage. Warren Casey, 53, American composer, writer and actor (Grease), AIDS. Norm Nelson, 65, American racing driver.Racine County Sports Hall of Fame: Nelson a legend on the race track. Journal Times. Retrieved 28 Jun 2024. Oskar Rohr, 76, German international footballer (Strasbourg, Germany).Oskar Rohr (Player). National Football Teams. Retrieved 3 Jul 2024.

9 Yves Baudrier, 82, French composer and Olympic sailor (1936). David Bauer, 64, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, pancreatic cancer. Billy Curtis, 79, American film and television actor (Little Cigars), heart attack.Actor, Double : Billy Curtis; Midget Had Film Career. L.A. Times. Retrieved 3 Jun 2024. Clarke Hinkle, 79, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers). György Margó, 76, Hungarian Olympic field hockey player (1936). John N. Mitchell, 75, U.S. Attorney General, convicted for his role in the Watergate scandal, heart attack.John N. Mitchell Dies at 75; Major Figure in Watergate. New York Times. Retrieved 25 Jun 2024. Rosemary Timperley, 68, British novelist and screenwriter.Rosemary Timperley. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Bob Weiland, 82, American MLB player (Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals). Max-Eckart Wolff, 85, Nazi German naval commander.Wolff, Max-Eckart (Z 2). Traces of War. Retrieved 16 Jul 2024. Richard S. Yeoman, 84, American commercial artist and coin collector, stroke.A Tribute To Richard S. Yeoman. source. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024.

10 Ian Aston, 51, Australian rules footballer. Frederick Eccleston, 83, Australian cricketer. Alexandru Jar, 76, Romanian poet and prose writer.Alexandru Jar. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. T. K. Rama Rao, 59, Indian Kannada novelist (Bangaarada Manushya).

11 Charles Groves Wright Anderson, 91, South African-born Australian politician and soldier, member of Australian House of Representatives and Victoria Cross recipient.Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson. Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 25 May 2024. Frank Curcio, 75, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy Lions).Fitzroy Flashback: Frank Curcio First To 200. lions.com.au. Retrieved 3 Jun 2024. William Ifor Jones, 88, Welsh composer, conductor and organist. Peggy Parish, 61, American writer of children's books (Amelia Bedelia), abdominal aneurysm.Peggy Parish, 61, Author of Books On Inept Maid, Amelia Bedelia. New York Times. Retrieved 30 Jun 2024.

12 Franco Angeli, 53, Italian artist, AIDS.This Day in History: November 12. Italian Art Society. Retrieved 25 May 2024. Lev Aronson, 76, American cellist. Janika Balaž, 62, Yugoslavian tamburica musician and band leader.Janika Balaž. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Ursula Graham Bower, 74, English anthropologist, guerrilla fighter against the Japanese.Ursula Graham Bower. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Vincent Buckley, 63, Australian poet and essayist, heart attack.Buckley, Vincent Thomas (1925–1988). Australian National University. Retrieved 30 May 2024. Primo Conti, 88, Italian artist.Primo Conti, Painter, 88. New York Times. Retrieved 2 Jun 2024. Death Halladay, 88, American NFL player (Racine Legion). István Klimek, 75, Romanian footballer. Andrzej Kowerski, 76, Polish Army officer during World War II, cancer.Jan Larecki, Krystyna Skarbek: agentka o wielu twarzach (Krystyna Skarbek: Agent with Many Faces), photo of Kowerski's tombstone, facing p. 145. Lyman Lemnitzer, 89, American general in the U.S. Army, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, kidney failure.Lyman Lemnitzer, 89, Dies; U.S. General and War Hero. New York Times. Retrieved 20 Jun 2024. Tomasz Sikorski, 48, Polish composer and pianist.Tomasz Sikorski. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024.

13 Antal Doráti, 82, Hungarian-born American conductor (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra).Antal Dorati, Who Led Orchestras For Over 50 Years, Is Dead at 82. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024. Vlad Georgescu, 51, Romanian historian, academic and political dissident, brain tumour. François Lanzi, 72, French-born British artist. Béla Perényi, 35, Hungarian international chess master, car crash.Béla Perényi. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Mulugeta Seraw, 28, Ethiopian student. Jaromír Vejvoda, 86, Czech composer (Beer Barrel Polka).Vejvoda, Jaromír, 1902-1988. Středočeská vědecká knihovna v Kladně (in Czech). Retrieved 14 Jul 2024.

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