The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1991.
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 1991
1 Mary Ainslee, 77, American film actress. Amedeo Bruni, 85, Italian Olympic sports shooter (1932). Fernand Brunner, 71, Swiss philosopher. Moisés Carmona, 79, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop. Richard Hoppin, 78, American musicologist. Tamaz Namgalauri, 34, Soviet Georgian Olympic judoka (1980). Arun Paudwal, 47, Indian Bollywood film score composer. Earl Witte, 84, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
2 Irwin Allen, 75, American film producer (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno), heart attack. Yosef Almogi, 81, Israeli politician. Jimmy Hull, 74, American basketball player, heart attack. Vladimír Kudrna, 67, Czech Olympic sports shooter (1960, 1964). Hannes Messemer, 67, German actor, heart attack. Francisco Moreira, 76, Portuguese football player. Mort Shuman, 52, American songwriter and pianist, cancer. Richard C. Thomas, 54, American politician, throat cancer. Frank Willis, 76, Canadian Olympic canoeist (1936).
3 Finn Alnæs, 59, Norwegian novelist. Chris Bender, 19, American R&B singer. Birendra Krishna Bhadra, 86, Indian radio broadcaster, playwright, actor, and narrator. Raymond Blackburn, 76, British politician. Ray Collins, 64, American gridiron football player (San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants, Dallas Texans). Giancarlo Luzzani, 79, Swiss Olympic field hockey player (1936). P. Narendranath, 57, Indian author. John Sandwith Boys Smith, 90, British academic. Marinus Valentijn, 91, Dutch road bicycle racer. Roman Wilhelmi, 55, Polish theatre and film actor, liver cancer.
4 Mohideen Baig, 71, Sri Lankan musician. Roger E. Broggie, 83, American mechanical engineer. Cliff Keen, 90, American wrestling coach. Hermann Kutschera, 88, Austrian architect. Arthur Nord, 93, Norwegian wrestler and Olympian (1924, 1928).
5 Bill Atkins, 56, American gridiron football player. Maurice V. Brady, 87, American politician. Bill Cronin, 47, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Miami Dolphins). Lloyd Fletcher, 76, American judge. Roy Garforth, 73, British Olympic water polo player (1948). Kenneth Archibald Harrison, 90, Canadian mycologist. Fred MacMurray, 83, American actor (Double Indemnity, My Three Sons, The Shaggy Dog), pneumonia. Robert Maxwell, 68, Czechoslovak-British media tycoon, politician and fraudster, heart attack combined with accidental drowning. Russell McInnes, 78, Australian rules footballer. Alfred Skrobisch, 78, American Olympic fencer (1952).
6 Veniamin Alexandrov, 54, Soviet Olympic ice hockey player (1960, 1964, 1968). Harriet Bland, 76, American Olympic sprinter (1936). Oreste Corbatta, 55, Argentine footballer. Fred Gilby, 84, Australian rules footballer. Kemal Horulu, 65, Turkish Olympic sprinter (1948, 1952), and pornographic film director. Robert William Porter, 65, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas). Oskar Thierbach, 82, German road bicycle racer. Gene Tierney, 70, American actress (Leave Her to Heaven, Laura), emphysema. André Vandernoot, 64, Belgian conductor. Giannis Vazos, 77, Greek football player.
7 Valery Aleksyev, 62, Soviet and Russian anthropologist. Franc Červan, 55, Yugoslav Olympic long-distance runner (1964). Tom of Finland, 71, Finnish artist, emphysema. Ralph Harvey, 90, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1947-1959, 1961-1966). Vilhelm Hellman, 68, Swedish Olympic ski jumper (1948). Ed Marlo, 78, American magician. Maxine Mitchell, 74, American Olympic fencer (1952, 1956, 1960, 1968). Gaston Monnerville, 94, French politician and lawyer, cancer. Ishak Haji Muhammad, 81, Malaysian writer. Francisc Nemeș, 84, Romanian Olympic sprinter (1936). Guillermo "Willy" Oddó, 48, Chilean musician, murdered.
8 Hardy Brown, 67, American football player, dementia. Frances Faye, 79, American singer. Albert Hayhurst, 86, English cricketer. John Kirkpatrick, 86, American pianist and musical scholar. Charlotte Moorman, 57, American cellist, performance artist, and avant-gardist, breast cancer. Dave Rowbotham, 33, English rock musician, murdered. Billy Savidan, 89, New Zealand long distance runner and Olympian (1932).
9 Jana Dítětová, 65, Czech film actress. Lance Hayward, 75, Bermudan-American jazz pianist, pneumonia. Hans Liljedahl, 78, Swedish Olympic sports shooter (1952, 1956). Yves Montand, 70, Italian-French actor and singer, heart attack. John Newton, 71, New Zealand rugby player. Ralph Moses Paiewonsky, 84, United States Virgin Islands politician. Laurie Wilkinson, 87, Australian politician. Abe Yourist, 82, Russian-American basketball player.
10 Dick the Bruiser, 62, American professional wrestler and football player (Green Bay Packers), internal bleeding. Gunnar Gren, 71, Swedish football player and Olympian (1948). Colin Johnstone, 70, New Zealand Olympic rower (1952, 1956). Tutte Lemkow, 73, Norwegian actor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Fiddler on the Roof, Doctor Who), leukemia. Alessandro Lessona, 100, Italian politician. Ernest Mallinson, 93, English cricketer, British Indian Army officer. Robert Baird McClure, 90, Canadian physician and medical missionary to Asia. Florian Radu, 71, Romanian football player. Montserrat Roig, 45, Spanish writer, breast cancer. Vishnuprasad Trivedi, 92, Indian literary critic. Curt Weibull, 105, Swedish historian, educator and author.
11 John Balfanz, 51, American ski jumper and Olympian (1964, 1968). Heinz Becker, 76, German-American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians). Billy Behan, 80, Irish football player and manager. Nellie Halstead, 81, English track and field athlete and Olympic medalist (1932). Collins Jones, 69, American baseball player. Cananea Reyes, 54, Mexican baseball player and manager. Nadezhda Shteinmiller, 76, Soviet artist. Tom Skinner, 82, New Zealand politician and trade union leader. Morton Stevens, 62, American film and television composer (Hawaii Five-O), Emmy winner (1970, 1974), cancer.
12 Diane Brewster, 60, American actress, heart failure (Leave It to Beaver, Maverick, The Fugitive), heart failure. Ravishing Ripper Collins, 58, American professional wrestler, melanoma. Bobby Joe Edmonds, 50, American basketball player (Indiana Pacers). Keizō Hayashi, 84, Japanese civil servant and general officer. Bruce Hubbard, 39, American operatic baritone, pneumonia. Gabriele Tinti, 59, Italian actor, heart attack. Tom Wukovits, 75, American basketball player.
13 Hanson W. Baldwin, 88, American journalist. Henryk Borowski, 81, Polish theater, radio and film actor. Leo Carbol, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks). Paul-Émile Léger, 87, Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, pneumonia. Maurice Mercery, 89, French footballer. Walter Ulbrich, 81, German film producer. Georges Winckelmans, 81, French football player and coach.
14 Constantin Chiriță, 66, Romanian writer. William Nyrén, 71, Norwegian actor. Tony Richardson, 63, English film director (Tom Jones, Look Back in Anger, A Taste of Honey), Oscar winner (1964), AIDS. Bryden Thomson, 63, Scottish conductor, cancer. Yoshikata Yoda, 82, Japanese screenwriter.
15 Doris Marie Bender, 79, American social worker. Patricia Black, 18, Northern Irish volunteer in the IRA, bombing accident. Jack Franklin, 72, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Sylvio Hoffmann, 83, Brazilian football player. V. S. Huzurbazar, 72, Indian statistician from Kolhapur. Robert McCall, 33, Canadian ice dancer and Olympian (1984, 1988), brain cancer. Jacques Morali, 44, French music producer (Village People), AIDS. Stan Noszka, 71, American basketball player (Boston Celtics), and politician. George Simms, 81, Archbishop in the Church of Ireland.
16 Bill Dodd, 81, American lawyer and politician. Maya Dolas, 25, Indian mobster, ballistic trauma. Alberto Girri, 71, Argentine poet and writer. Margaret Pease Harper, 80, American educator, musician and civic leader. Ralph Marrero, 33, American actor (Day of the Dead), traffic collision. José Miguel Olguín, 86, Chilean Olympic footballer (1928). Gustav Wetterström, 80, Swedish football striker.
17 Eileen Agar, 91, British-Argentinian painter and photographer. Maurice Banach, 24, German footballer, traffic collision. Smead Jolley, 89, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox). Kafunga, 77, Brazilian football player. Frank Kosikowski, 65, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns). Horst Mühlmann, 51, German footballer and American football player (Cincinnati Bengals, Philadelphia Eagles). Adrian Quist, 78, Australian tennis player. William Strickland, 77, American conductor and organist, lung cancer. Kelly Jean Van Dyke, 33, American actress, suicide by hanging. Jack Vinall, 70, Australian rules footballer.
18 Claude Cahen, 82, French marxist orientalist and historian. Gustáv Husák, 78, Czechoslovak politician, president (1975–1989). Fritz Köpke, 89, German Olympic high jumper (1928). Reg Parlett, 87, English artist. J. P. Stern, 70, Austrian-British literary scholar. Alexey Tryoshnikov, 77, Soviet polar explorer. Eugen York, 78, German film director.
19 Les Eyre, 69, English footballer. Xian Henghan, 80, Chinese lieutenant general and politician. Zi'ang Hu, 94, Chinese politician. Michael Lyons, 81, Irish Fine Gael politician. Alan McLaughlin, 71, Australian rules footballer. Reggie Nalder, 84, Austrian actor, bone cancer. Leonid Obolensky, 89, Russian and Soviet actor. Luis Sarria, 80, Cuban-American boxer. Jackie Stamps, 72, English football player. Dick Weber, 72, American football player (Detroit Lions).
20 Yulia Drunina, 67, Soviet poet, suicide. Siniša Glavašević, 31, Croatian reporter, homicide. Helga Hahnemann, 54, East German German actress, comedian and singer. Arthur Charles Hind, 86, Indian Olympic field hockey player (1932). Kåre Kivijärvi, 53, Norwegian photographer. Jean-Michel Nicolier, 25, French military volunteer, killed in the Vukovar massacre. Antun Stipančić, 42, Croatian table tennis player, heart attack. Zdeněk Tikal, 62, Czech-born Australian Olympic ice hockey player (1960). Notable Azerbaijans killed in 1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown: Mahammad Asadov, 49, Minister of Internal Affairs, State Advisor Ismat Gayibov, 49, Public Prosecutor General Zulfi Hajiyev, 56, Deputy Prime Minister Tofik Ismailov, 58, Secretary of State. Vagif Jafarov, 42, Member of Parliament Osman Mirzayev, 54, Head of Presidential Administration, journalist Ali Mustafayev, 39, Television journalist Saylau Serikov, 50, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Fakhraddin Shahbazov, 41, Cameraman
21 T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar, 88, Indian politician. Joseph Delaney, 87, American artist. Ernest Dichter, 84, American psychologist and marketing expert. George Dougherty, 77, Australian rules footballer. Prior Jones, 74, Trinidadian cricket player. Robert Kaufman, 60, American screenwriter, film producer and television writer. Vic Krafft, 72, American basketball player. Daniel Mann, 79, American film director (Come Back, Little Sheba, BUtterfield 8, Our Man Flint), heart failure. Bryan Stephens, 71, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns). Wes Trainor, 69, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers). Sonny Werblin, 81, American sports executive (New York Jets), heart attack. John Whedon, 86, American television writer (The Donna Reed Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show). Hans Zassenhaus, 79, German mathematician.
22 Antoine Berman, 49, French translator, philosopher, and historian. Ullrich Haupt, Jr., 76, American-German actor. Tadashi Imai, 79, Japanese film director. Yevgeni Ivanovski, 73, Soviet general.