Deaths in November 1994

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1994.

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 1994

1 Noah Beery Jr., 81, American actor (The Rockford Files, Red River, Hondo), thrombosis. Richard Krautheimer, 97, German art historian. Elliot Lillico, 89, Australian politician. Enrique Pérez, 97, Spanish Olympic rower (1924).

2 David B. Feinberg, 37, American writer and AIDS activist, AIDS-related complications. Grisha Filipov, 75, Bulgarian communist politician. Joe Gould, 85, Australian rower and Olympian (1936). Stanley Ndunduma, 31, Zimbabwean footballer (national team). John Nimmo, 84, New Zealand cricketer. Harold Pearson, 86, English football player. John Pearson, 68, British Olympic sports shooter (1952). Richard Pottier, 88, Austrian-French film director. Frank Shamel, 81, American basketball player. Martin Taras, 80, American cartoonist. Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, 77, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright.

3 Ivo Battelli, 90, Italian architect and set decorator. Rudolf Eisenmenger, 92, Austrian artist. Valter Palm, 88, Estonian boxer and Olympian (1924, 1928). Archibald Stinchcombe, 81, English ice hockey player and Olympian (1936, 1948). Peter Wilenski, 55, Australian public servant and ambassador, lymphatic cancer. Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff, 97, American scientist and X-ray crystallography pioneer.

4 Ku. Ma. Balasubramaniam, 74, Indian writer and poet. George Bradshaw, 70, American baseball player (Washington Senators). Sam Francis, 71, American artist, prostate cancer. Onofrio Fusco, 75, Italian football player and manager. Ashish Kumar Louho, 57, Bangladeshi film actor, playwright, dialogue writer and story writer. Ermes Muccinelli, 67, Italian football player. Fred "Sonic" Smith, 46, American musician, heart attack. Carlos Thompson, 69-70, Mexican Olympic footballer (1948). Speed Webb, 88, American jazz drummer and territory band leader.Speed Webb

5 Patrick Dean, 85, British diplomat and ambassador. Gene Desautels, 87, American baseball player. Joe Hague, 50, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds), cancer. Johan Heyns, 66, South African theologian, homicide. Tim McNamara, 95, American baseball player (Boston Braves, New York Giants). Milan Mladenović, 36, Serbian musician, pancreatic cancer. William O'Brien, 76, Irish Fine Gael politician. Albert Shesternyov, 53, Russian football player and manager, liver cirrhosis. Frédéric Vandewalle, 82, Belgian colonel and diplomat in the Belgian Congo.

6 Erv Dusak, 74, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates). Fernando de Santiago y Díaz, 84, Spanish politician and interim prime minister. Dean Gallo, 58, American politician and businessman, member of the United States House of Representatives (1985- ), prostate cancer. Jørgen Johansen, 66, Danish Olympic football player (1952). Edvard Natvig, 87, Norwegian Olympic athlete (1936). Vladimir Zagorovsky, 69, Russian chess grandmaster.

7 Almer Hall, 81, English football player and manager. Ebrahim Maka, 72, Indian cricket player. Charles Mathiesen, 83, Norwegian speed skater and Olympian (1936, 1948). Shorty Rogers, 70, American West coast jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, and arranger, cancer. Archie San Romani, 82, American middle-distance runner and Olympian (1936). Dave Simmons, 51, American football player (St. Louis Cardinals, New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys). Arthur Sulley, 87, British rower and Olympian (1928). Bob Vance, 69, New Zealand cricketer. Carleton Young, 89, American actor, stroke.

8 Bill Davis, 77, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers, Miami Seahawks). Viktoria Dimitrova, 18, Bulgarian figure skater and Olympian (1992). George Herring, 61, American gridiron football player (Denver Broncos). Michael O'Donoghue, 54, American actor and writer (Saturday Night Live), cerebrovascular disease. Marianne Straub, 85, British textile designer. Alexander Webster, 60, South African Olympic boxer (1952, 1956).

9 Jim Brown, 85, American soccer player. Erling Christophersen, 96, Norwegian botanist, geographer and diplomat. Azumanishiki Eizaburo, 54, Japanese sumo wrestler. Ralph Michael, 87, English actor (Empire of the Sun, Grand Prix, Compact). Priscilla Morrill, 67, American actress (Santa Barbara, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Newhart), kidney disease. Richard Rust, 56, American actor (Sam Benedict), heart attack. Pēteris Zeltiņš, 80, Soviet Latvian Olympic racewalker (1952).

10 William Higinbotham, 84, American physicist. Carmen McRae, 74, American jazz singer, stroke. Louis Nizer, 92, American trial lawyer. Zuleykha Seyidmammadova, 75, Azerbaijani female pilot.

11 Stephen Dykes Bower, 91, British church architect and Gothic Revival designer. Ernest Clark, 82, British actor (Doctor in the House, The Dam Busters, Gandhi). Dina Gralla, 89, German film actress (Madame Wants No Children). Mikhail Krivonosov, 65, Soviet/Belarusian hammer thrower and Olympian (1952, 1956). Kuvempu, 89, Indian poet, playwright, novelist and critic. Elizabeth Maconchy, 87, Irish-English composer. Ed Madjeski, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Chicago White Sox, New York Giants). Bob Miner, 52, American businessman, mesothelioma. Wanda Osiris, 89, Italian revue soubrette, actress and singer. Christian Pravda, 67, Austrian alpine ski racer and Olympian (1948, 1952). Rachel Saint, 80, American evangelical Christian missionary, cancer. Caroline Smith, 88, American Olympic diver (1924). Charles Henry Tenney, 83, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York). John Anthony Volpe, 85, American businessman, diplomat, and politician. Dieter Wiedenmann, 37, German Olympic rower (1984). Cecil Wylde, 90, British Olympic ice hockey player (1928). Pedro Zamora, 22, Cuban-American AIDS educator and television personality, AIDS-related complications. Tadeusz Żychiewicz, 72, Polish journalist, art historian, publicist, and theologist.

12 Atanas Komchev, 35, Bulgarian wrestler and Olympic champion (1988, 1992), traffic collision. Louis Hendrik Potgieter, 43, South African lead singer of Dschinghis Khan, AIDS. Onni Rajasaari, 84, Finnish long and triple jumper, Olympian (1932, 1936). Gord Reid, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Americans). Elmer Ernest Roper, 101, Canadian businessman, trade unionist and politician. Wilma Rudolph, 54, American sprinter and Olympian (1956, 1960), brain cancer. Soetjipto Soentoro, 53, Indonesian football player. J. I. M. Stewart, 88, Scottish novelist and academic.

13 Mehrdad Bahar, 64, Iranian Iranist, linguist, mythologist and Persian historian. Jack Baker, 47, American actor, bladder cancer. Daniel Camargo Barbosa, 64, Colombian serial killer, stabbed. Lucien Claes, 71, Belgian Olympic wrestler (1952). John Bishop Harman, 87, British physician, aortic dissection. Volodymyr Ivashko, 62, Soviet/Ukrainian politician. Motoo Kimura, 70, Japanese biologist, cerebral hemorrhage. Igor Platonov, 60, Soviet/Ukrainian chess player, homicide.

14 Humphry Berkeley, 68, British politician and author. Nicholas Bianco, 62, American mobster and member of the Patriarca crime family, ALS. René Konen, 73, Luxembourgish politician and government minister. Dick Poillon, 74, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins). Francis Frederick Reh, 83, American Roman Catholic bishop. Tom Villard, 40, American actor (We Got It Made, My Girl, Heartbreak Ridge), AIDS-related pneumonia.

15 Janet Ahlberg, 50, British children's writer and illustrator, breast cancer. Pol Braekman, 74, Belgian sprinter and Olympian (1948). Leandro Locsin, 66, Filipino architect, artist, and interior designer. Eugène Marquis, 93, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1945-1949). Elizabeth George Speare, 85, American writer of children's books, aortic aneurysm. James W. Watts, 90, American neurosurgeon.

16 Ron Hall, 73, Australian rules footballer. Eduard Kozynkevych, 45, Ukrainian football player. Russ Meers, 75, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs). Buster Poole, 79, American gridiron football player (New York Giants, Chicago Cardinals). Chet Powers, 57, American singer-songwriter. Doris Speed, 95, English actress (Coronation Street).

17 Theodore Robert Dudley, 57, American botanist, cancer. Edgar Hennig, 97, American baseball player and American football coach. Heinz-Georg Lemm, 75, German Bundeswehr general. Mohammed Kadhim al-Qazwini, 64, Iranian-Iraqi Shia scholar, poet and orator. Eddie Picken, 87, Early American basketball player.

18 Maurice Auslander, 68, American mathematician. Ronaldo Bôscoli, 66, Brazilian composer, songwriter, record producer and journalist, prostate cancer. Cab Calloway, 86, American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor, stroke. Bob Dykstra, 72, American basketball player. Nathan Fine, 78, American mathematician. Anselm Franz, 94, Austrian jet engine pioneer. George Harris, 88, English cricketer. Ruurd Dirk Hoogland, 72, Dutch-Australian botanist, explorer and naturalist. Charles Hucker, 75, American historian. Michael Somes, 77, English ballet dancer, brain cancer. Herbert Taschner, 68, German film editor.

19 Erwin Griswold, 90, American lawyer. Bipin Chandra Joshi, 58, 17th Indian Army officer and Chief of Staff. Julian Symons, 82, British crime writer and poet. Charles Umlauf, 83, American sculptor and teacher.

20 T. Carmi, 68, American-Israeli poet. Stacy Errickson, 22, American nurse technician. Tsuneari Fukuda, 82, Japanese dramatist, translator, and literary critic. Jānis Krūmiņš, 64, Soviet-Latvian basketball player. John Lucarotti, 68, British-Canadian screenwriter and author. Lakshmi N. Menon, 95, Indian freedom fighter and politician. Bert Wright, 67, Australian cricketer.

21 Malcolm Adiseshiah, 84, Indian development economist and educator. Thomas Kuchel, 84, American politician, member of the United States Senate (1953-1969). Pino Locchi, 69, Italian actor and voice actor. Willem Jacob Luyten, 95, Dutch-American astronomer, heart failure. Ib Nielsen, 75, Danish Olympic fencer (1948, 1952). Juancho Rois, 35, Colombian accordionist, plane crash.

22 Norma Donaldson, 66, American actress (The Young and the Restless, 9 to 5, Poetic Justice) and singer, cancer. Ryszard Kucjas, 71, Polish Olympic gymnast (1952). Minni Nurme, 77, Estonian writer. Viola Spolin, 88, American theatre academic, educator and acting coach. Charles Upham, 86, New Zealand soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross.

23 Austen Albu, 91, British politician. Art Barr, 28, American professional wrestler, heart attack caused by a drug overdose. Jim Hallahan Jr., 82, Australian rules footballer. Erick Hawkins, 85, American modern-dance choreographer and dancer. Irwin Kostal, 83, American film musical arranger musical orchestrator Garry Middleton, 46, Australian motorcycle speedway rider. Alberto Natusch, 61, Bolivian general, cancer. Hubert Negele, 75, Liechtensteiner Olympic alpine skier (1936). David Neves, 56, Brazilian film director and screenwriter. Edith Nielsen, 88, Danish Olympic diver (1924, 1928). John Tveiten, 61, Norwegian Olympic wrestler (1960).

24 Mohammad Ali Araki, 99, Iranian Grand Ayatollah. Chet Benefiel, 87, American football and basketball coach. Aleksandr Gusev, 39, Soviet/Russian Olympic field hockey player (1980). Ivo Perilli, 92, Italian screenwriter, stroke. George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk, 88, Scottish nobleman and Conservative politician. Milton Shapp, 82, American politician and governor of Pennsylvania, Alzheimer's disease.

25 Brad Trumbull, 70, American actor. Gheorghe Vitanidis, 65, Romanian film director.