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

1

• 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

• 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 businessman and politician, member of Texas House of Representatives, complications of Parkinson's disease.

3

• André Roussin, 76, French playwright.
• Liang Shih-chiu, 84, Chinese educator, writer, translator, literary theorist and lexicographer.^[2]

4

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Jim Brewer, 50, American Major League baseballer, car accident.^[11]
• Terrence Des Pres, 48, American writer and Holocaust scholar, suicide.^[12]
• Zubir Said, 80, Singaporean composer, composed the national anthem of his country.
• Trevor Stamp, 80, British medical doctor and bacteriologist.

17

• 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

• 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

• 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.

20

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.