Deaths in November 1979

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1979. 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 1979

1

• Cees Bolding, 82, Dutch painter.
• Walter Buchheim, 75, East German politician and trade unionist.
• Bob Clayton, 57, American game show host and announcer, cardiac arrest.
• James H. Cummings, 88, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1929–1949, 1953–1973).
• Anna de Villiers, 78, South African writer and educator.
• Bernie Digris, 60, American football player.
• Rudi Dobermann, 76, German Olympic long jumper (1928).
• Mamie Eisenhower, 82, American socialite, first lady of the United States (1953–1961), complications from a stroke.
• Zenjirō Horikiri, 95, Japanese politician.
• Kensuke Horinouchi, 93, Japanese diplomat.
• Mario Leite Neto, 48, Brazilian Olympic equestrian (1960).
• Morton Masius, 96, German-American chemist.
• José Alonso Nieves, 35, Puerto Rican Olympic boxer (1964).
• Albert Préjean, 85, French actor and singer.
• Dominique Rustichelli, 45, French footballer.
• Neal Storter, 89, American football player, pneumonia.
• Saro Urzì, 66, Italian actor.
• Philip van Pallandt, 89, Dutch scouting leader.

2

• Johnny Bakke, 70, Norwegian politician.
• George Brodrick, 2nd Earl of Midleton, 91, English hereditary peer.
• Fritz Gromotka, 64, German flying ace.
• Henri Hay De Slade, 86, French flying ace.
• Ernst Kals, 74, German U-boat captain.
• Sir T. D. Kendrick, 84, British archaeologist and art historian.
• Jacques Mesrine, 42, French career criminal, shot.
• Arnaldo Rodríguez Lazo, 78, Chilean politician.
• Gaston Ruter, 81, French entomologist.
• Sewell Stokes, 76, English playwright and novelist.
• Joseph Wawrykow, 71, Canadian politician.

3

• Oskar Angelus, 86, Estonian politician and Nazi collaborator.
• Raffaele Bendandi, 86, Italian seismologist.
• Paolo Carlini, 57, Italian actor.
• Tom Green, 70, Australian footballer.
• Bertha Hardegger, 76, Swiss physician and missionary.
• Hugh P. Harris, 70, American general, cancer.
• Joseph Gaither Pratt, 69, American parapsychologist, heart attack.
• Gene Tracy, 52, American comedian and recording artist, heart attack.

4

• Morris Chalfen, 72, American basketball executive and impresario.
• Jeanne D'Autremont, 80, French chess player.
• Arthur Randolph Kelly, 79, American archaeologist.
• Yuri Krylov, 49, Soviet Olympic ice hockey player (1956).
• Johnny Priest, 88, American baseball player.
• Yank Terry, 68, American baseball player.
• Robert Hardin Williams, 70, American endocrinologist.

5

• Al Capp, 70, American cartoonist (Li'l Abner).
• Marcel Cariven, 85, French conductor.
• Ali Danaeifard, 58, Iranian football player and manager.
• K. B. Desai, 82, Indian politician and physician.
• Zaki Harari, 53, Egyptian Olympic basketball player (1952).
• Prince Johannes of Liechtenstein, 80, Liechtensteiner royal.
• Andy McCall, 68, Scottish football player and manager.
• Dwight F. McKinney, 90, American magazine editor.
• Amedeo Nazzari, 71, Italian actor.
• Richard E. Nugent, 76, American general.
• Busso Peus, 71, German politician.
• Andrey Abraham Potter, 97, Russian-born American engineer and academic administrator.
• Lisa Regnell, 92, Swedish Olympic diver (1912).
• Jean Rigal, 88, French footballer.

6

• James Berry, 73, British-born New Zealand artist.
• Harry Dansey, 59, New Zealand journalist and politician.
• Dulcify, 4, New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Chick Evans, 89, American golfer.
• Louisa Fast, 101, American suffragist.
• Carlisle Jarvis, 72, Australian footballer.
• Luis Mayanés, 54, Chilean footballer.
• Hugh Ottaway, 54, British music critic.
• Cecil Purdy, 73, Australian chess player and writer.
• Alexander Weinstein, 82, Russian-born German-American mathematician, complications from surgery.

7

• Herbert Adolfsson, 73, Swedish Olympic high jumper (1928).
• Betty Harvie Anderson, 66, British politician, MP (1959–1979), asthma attack.
• Joseph Delteil, 70, French speleologist.
• Sarah Webster Fabio, 51, American poet and literary critic, colon cancer.
• Gyula Germanus, 95, Hungarian writer and Islamic scholar.
• Harald Gundersen, 74, Norwegian footballer.
• Katarina Jakobsson, 29, Swedish murder victim, drowned.
• Frank O'Connor, 82, American actor and painter.
• Christine Renard, 50, French science fiction author.
• Badri Narain Sinha, 49, Indian police officer.
• Leon G. Small, 76, Canadian politician.
• Francis Spear, 76, English stained glass artist.

8

• Edward Ardizzone, 79, British artist and illustrator, heart attack.
• James L. Baldwin, 58, American general.
• Wilfred Bion, 82, English psychoanalyst.
• Yvonne de Gaulle, 79, French socialite, spouse of the president (1959–1969).
• John Joe Hayes, 84, Irish hurler.
• J. Thomas Heistand, 84, American Episcopalian prelate.
• Louis L. Manderino, 49, American judge, cardiac arrest.
• Benedict Obidinma Odinamadu, 52, Nigerian civil servant.
• Jaime Rest, 52, Argentine writer and literary critic.
• Rudolf Rominger, 71, Swiss alpine skier.
• Arkhip Ruchkin, 81, Soviet general.
• Sydney Tafler, 63, English actor.
• Samuel Tequi, 80, French racing cyclist.
• William John Vickers, 81, British physician.
• Faiz Muhammad Zikeria, 86–87, Afghan diplomat and politician, stroke.

9

• Connie Alexander, 81, British mountaineer and youth hostel advocate.
• Tammy Alexander, 16, American murder victim, shot.
• Juan Greene, 61, Irish physician and farmer.
• Betzy Holter, 86, Norwegian actress.
• Hassan Latif, 62–63, Pakistani composer.
• Robert Barr MacGregor, 83, British physician, traffic collision.
• Hisa Sawada, 81, Japanese politician.
• Beverley Shenstone, 73, Canadian aerodynamicist.
• Louise Thaden, 73, American aviator, heart attack.

10

• Harry Hart, 74, South African Olympic athlete (1932).
• Elsie W. Helmrich, 93, American literary scholar.
• Erwin Kramer, 77, East German politician.
• Amina Pirani Maggi, 87, Italian actress.
• Mahmud Al-Nashaf, 73, Israeli politician, MK (1959–1961).
• Alf Rolfsen, 84, Norwegian muralist.
• Friedrich Torberg, 71, Austrian writer.

11

• George Howie, 78, Ottoman-born American racing driver.
• Roland Johansson, 70, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1928).
• Esmond Ray Long, 89, American pathologist.
• Sir Lance Mallalieu, 74, British politician, MP (1931–1935, 1948–1974).
• Carl D. Olds, 67, New Zealand-born American mathematician.
• Thomas G. Pullen, 81, American academic administrator.
• Álvaro Ribeiro, 78, Brazilian Olympic sprinter (1924).
• Tom Ruddy, 77, English footballer.
• Dimitri Tiomkin, 85, Russian-American film composer and conductor, complications from a fall.
• Jakov Xoxa, 56, Albanian writer.

12

• Arthur Bagot, 91, Australian naval officer.
• Leopold Conville, 83, British soldier.
• Charles Eaton, 83, Australian air force officer.
• Everett Eischeid, 67, American football and basketball coach.
• Sir William Wyndham Green, 92, British general.
• Willem Nieuwenkamp, 76, Dutch geologist.
• Nikolai Onoprienko, 67, Soviet soldier.
• Pythagoras Papastamatiou, 49, Greek lyricist and playwright, heart attack.
• Lotte Wolf-Matthäus, 71, German singer.

13

• Josef Altstötter, 87, German judge and Nazi official.
• Alphons Barb, 78, Austrian archaeologist and museum curator.
• Freda Betti, 55, French singer.
• Francisco Accioly Rodrigues da Costa Filho, 59, Brazilian politician and lawyer.
• Dick Eason, 65, Australian footballer.
• Moose Goheen, 85, American ice hockey player.
• Alejandro González, 72, Uruguayan Olympic basketball player (1936).
• Ernest N. Harmon, 85, American general.
• Richard William Hunt, 71, English historian.
• John Kelly, 57, English cricketer.
• Tony Poncet, 60, Spanish-born French singer, cancer.
• Dimitris Psathas, 71–72, Greek playwright and satirist.
• Peter Rajkovich, 68, American football player.
• Erminio Sertorelli, 78, Italian Olympic skier (1932).
• Nils Thomas, 90, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1920).
• Frank Wallace, 57, American soccer player
• Daniel Zion, 96, Greek-born Israeli rabbi and political activist.

14

• Amelia Best, 79, Australian politician.
• François Brient, 78, French racing cyclist.
• Grahame Budge, 59, Canadian-Scottish rugby player.
• Oliver Garrett, 84, American police officer.
• Abram Harrison, 81, Canadian politician.
• Leo Maguire, 59, Australian footballer.
• Clifford Smallwood, 64, Canadian politician, MP (1958–1968).

15

• Ken Ash, 78, American baseball player.
• Barney Battles Jr., 74, Scottish footballer.
• Marthe Dupont, 87, Belgian tennis player.
• Bill Farrimond, 76, English cricketer.
• Lorenzo Gotuzzo, 58–59, Chilean public accountant and government official.
• Jed Harris, 79, Austrian-born American theatre producer.
• Sir Brian Kimmins, 80, British general.
• Ed Klieman, 61, American baseball player.
• Camille Laurens, 73, French politician.
• Hawea Mataira, 68, New Zealand rugby player.
• Patrick McGilligan, 90, Irish politician, TD (1923–1965).
• Sydor Rey, 71, Polish poet and novelist.
• Swami Satprakashananda, 91, Indian philosopher and religious scholar.
• Hugo Vondřejc, 69, Czech Olympic water polo player (1936).

16

• Bert Baston, 84, American football player.
• Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi, 93, Russian-Israeli author and educator.
• William Drummond Bone, 71, Scottish painter.
• Jack Butterfield, 50, American baseball coach and executive, traffic collision.
• Cliff Carter, 80, American baseball player.
• Edna Clarke Hall, 100, English artist and illustrator.
• Joseph Iglehart, 88, American financier and baseball executive, traffic collision.
• George Korenistov, 79, Polish Orthodox prelate.
• Gunnar Lemvigh, 70, Danish actor.
• Roy Markham, 63, British plant virologist, stomach cancer.
• William Peare, 74, Irish cricketer.
• Juan Puentes, 75, Chilean politician.
• Ichirō Saitō, 70, Japanese film composer.
• Erhard Siedel, 84, German actor.
• Gwen Thiele, 61, Australian tennis player.
• Giuseppe Valentini, 79, Italian Albanologist and priest.

17

• Chu Yo-han, 78, South Korean poet and politician.
• Anders Ek, 63, Swedish actor.
• Sixto Escobar, 66, Puerto Rican boxer, complications from diabetes.
• John Glascock, 28, British musician (Jethro Tull), congenital heart defect.
• Gottfred Hoem, 79, Norwegian politician.
• Martti Liuttula, 85, Finnish Olympic sport shooter (1924).
• Don Post, 77, American businessman.
• Muhammad Najati Sidqi, 74, Palestinian political activist, trade unionist and writer.
• Naum Sluszny, 65, Swiss-Belgian pianist.
• Immanuel Velikovsky, 84, Russian-American psychoanalyst and writer.
• Harold M. Wheller, 97, Australian Methodist priest.
• Gilbert Woo, 67, Chinese-American newspaper editor.

18

• Charles Lodge Adamson, 73, English cricketer.
• Henk Bos, 78, Dutch painter.
• James Marshall Carter, 75, American judge, stroke.
• Selwyn Dewdney, 70, Canadian artist and writer.
• Billie S. Farnum, 63, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1967).
• Freddie Fitzsimmons, 78, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Grace Frick, 76, American translator and academic administrator, cancer.
• Éric Losfeld, 57, Belgian-born French publisher.
• Tar Schwammel, 71, American football player.
• Gavriil Veresov, 67, Soviet chess player.
• Sir Harry Wetherall, 90, British general.

19

• Bill Ackland-Horman, 65, Australian golfer.
• Dorothy Burlingham, 88, American-British psychoanalyst.
• Bill Colbourne, 83, Australian trade unionist and political organizer.
• Norah C. James, 82–83, English novelist.
• Max Proebstl, 66, German singer.
• Samuel M. Sampler, 84, American soldier.
• George She, 75, Hong Kong social activist.
• Dewey Short, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1929–1931, 1935–1957).
• Étienne Souriau, 87, French philosopher.

20

• Alan Barth, 73, American journalist, cancer.
• Leopoldo Costa, 78, Spanish football player and manager.
• Michael Darbyshire, 62, English actor (Rentaghost).
• Jimmy Deagan, 81, Australian footballer.
• Percy Evans, 73, Australian footballer.
• Johnny Gildea, 69, American football player.
• Sir Alfred Hall-Davis, 55, British politician, MP (1964–1979).
• Laurence Irving, 84, American physiologist.
• David Johns, 58, English cricketer.
• Einari Karvetti, 82, Finnish politician.
• Harold Leventhal, 64, American judge, heart attack.
• Tyra Lundgren, 82, Swedish artist.
• Josef Oberhauser, 64, German Nazi official and war criminal.
• Rolf Østbye, 81, Norwegian businessman.
• Arthur Perrow, 78, Welsh diver.
• D. C. Riddy, 72, British linguist.
• Jean Snella, 64, French football player and manager.
• Bobby Trapp, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Charles Fremont West, 80, American track athlete and football player and coach, cancer.
• Pierre Wuilleumier, 75, French historian and literary scholar.

21

• Maurizio Arena, 45, Italian actor, heart attack.
• Katherine Balderston, 84, American literary scholar.
• Marie Byles, 79, Australian conservationist and writer.
• Peter Craigmyle, 85, Scottish football referee.
• Vivian Gibbins, 78, English footballer.
• Emmanuel Gonat, 60, French Olympic field hockey player (1936).
• Asja Lācis, 88, Latvian actress and theatre director.
• Marcel Langsam, 88, Luxembourgish Olympic gymnast (1912).
• Red Dog, c. 8, Australian dog known for traveling, strychnine poisoning.
• Sir Edgar Tanner, 75, Australian sports administrator and politician.
• Paul Wexler, 50, American actor, leukemia.

22

• Helen Binyon, 74, British artist and writer.
• Frans de Bruijn Kops, 93, Dutch footballer and Olympian (1908).
• Percy Dockrell, 64, Irish politician, TD (1951–1957, 1961–1977).
• George Froeschel, 88, Austrian-American screenwriter (Mrs. Miniver) and novelist.
• Harry Jackman, 79, Canadian politician, MP (1940–1949).
• Roberte Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, 87, French-English aristocrat.
• Arthur Poole, 72, English cricketer.
• Irina Saburova, 72, Russian-German writer.
• Anne Vondeling, 63, Dutch politician, MEP (since 1979), traffic collision.

23

• Sir Robert Alford, 75, British colonial administrator.
• Colin Cherry, 65, English cognitive scientist.
• Henry Coker, 59, American jazz trombonist.
• Bernard Hoffman, 66, American photographer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Nicholas Hryhorczuk, 90, Austro-Hungarian-born Canadian politician.
• Aurelio Menegazzi, 79, Italian Olympic racing cyclist (1924).
• Harry Monk, 77, Canadian curler.
• Merle Oberon, 68, British actress (The Dark Angel, Wuthering Heights, The Private Life of Henry VIII), stroke.
• Charles E. Potter, 63, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1952) and Senate (1952–1959).
• Richard Rovere, 64, American political journalist, emphysema.
• Fred Sgambati, 58, Canadian sports broadcaster, cancer.
• Judee Sill, 35, American singer and songwriter, drug overdose.
• Harry P. Van Guilder, 89, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1937–1942).

24

• Jean-Mohammed Abd-el-Jalil, 75, Moroccan Catholic priest.
• Gösta Andersson, 61, Swedish skier.
• Reg Armstrong, 51, Irish racing cyclist, traffic collision.
• Lily Beaurepaire, 87, Australian Olympic swimmer (1920).
• Pieter Belmer, 87, Dutch Olympic weightlifter (1920).
• Charles Berg, 67–68, German-English rabbi.
• John Robert Cartwright, 84, Canadian judge, chief justice (1967–1970).
• Fleeta Drumgo, 33, American convict, shot.
• Jo Eshuijs, 94, Dutch footballer.
• Ralph Greenson, 68, American psychiatrist.
• Tom Hanley, 63, American trade unionist and mobster.
• Alfred Kneschke, 77, German mathematician and engineer.
• Gerard Kroone, 82, Dutch chess player.
• Jim May, 69, Australian footballer.
• Hans Nachtsheim, 89, German geneticist.
• Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon, 89, American economist and suffragist, heart attack.
• Pen Reynolds, 87, Australian footballer.
• Erich Wiese, 88, German art director and museum director.
• Edith Williams, 80, Canadian veterinarian, stroke.
• Richard Q. Yardley, 76, American cartoonist.

25

• Elbert Andrews, 77, American baseball player and politician.
• Ky Ebright, 85, American rowing coach.
• Reo Fortune, 76, New Zealand-born British anthropologist.
• Hermann Gehri, 80, Swiss Olympic wrestler (1924).
• Walter J. Kozloski, 44, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (since 1974).
• Robert Alexander MacKay, 85, Canadian diplomat and political scientist.
• William Murphy, 76, Irish Olympic boxer (1924, 1928).
• Jack Rocchi, 74, Australian footballer.
• Bauke Roolvink, 67, Dutch politician.
• Leon Sash, 57, American jazz accordionist, heart disease.

26

• Harry Clifton, 71, British film producer and poet.
• George James Cole, Baron Cole, 73, British businessman.
• Marcel L'Herbier, 91, French filmmaker.
• Conny Méndez, 81, Venezuelan composer, singer and actress.
• Binyamin Shahor, 62–63, Israeli politician, MK (1959–1974).
• Ted Toohey, 53, English rugby player.

27

• Michael J. Bradley, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1937–1947).
• Leo Brewster, 76, American judge.
• Jerome Cavanagh, 51, American politician, mayor of Detroit (1962–1970), heart attack.
• Walter Dietrich, 76, Swiss footballer.
• Milton Lorman, 52, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (since 1977), heart attack.
• Jahanara Shahnawaz, 83, Pakistani politician.
• Dona Dumitru Siminică, 53, Romanian violinist, heart attack.
• Albert Thain, 79, English footballer.
• Mary Varallo, 82, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1945–1946, 1949–1960).

28

• Sohail Azimabadi, 68, Indian novelist and poet.
• Arnold L. Bjorklund, 61, American soldier.
• Herb Bremer, 66, American baseball player.
• Henri Heim de Balsac, 80, French zoologist.
• Nelly Degouy, 69, Belgian painter.
• Stanley Victor Keeling, 85, British philosopher.
• Edy Knupfer, 67, Swiss architect.
• Norman Macdonnell, 63, American radio, film and television producer (Gunsmoke), kidney failure.
• Francesco Menzio, 80, Italian painter.
• Peter Mulgrew, 52, New Zealand mountaineer and businessman, plane crash.
• Grace Olivier Peck, 81, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1948–1950, 1957–1977), stroke.

29

• Stan Amour, 79, Australian politician.
• Jean Cabassu, 77, French footballer.
• James Cooper, 79, Canadian politician.
• Thomas Egan, 73, Australian cricketer.
• Hovey Freeman, 47, Puerto Rican Olympic sailor (1968, 1972, 1976).
• Philoumenos Hasapis, 66, Cypriot Greek Orthodox prelate, axe murder.
• Alan Knight, 74–75, Guyanese Anglican prelate.
• Guram Kutateladze, 55, Soviet Georgian painter.
• Erich Schönhardt, 88, German mathematician.
• Ray Smith, 45, American rockabilly musician, suicide.
• Josef Urválek, 69, Czech judge.
• Rudolf van Reest, 82, Dutch novelist.

30

• Barbara von Annenkoff, 79, Russian-born German actress.
• Arno Assmann, 71, German filmmaker, suicide.
• Kathleen Crofton, 76, English ballet dancer and choreographer, heart attack.
• Gabrielle Dorziat, 99, French actress.
• Walter John Elliot, 65, Canadian public health official.
• Laura Gilpin, 88, American photographer.
• Joyce Grenfell, 69, English actress and singer.
• Dick Huemer, 81, American animator (Scrappy).
• Albert Iles, 65, English footballer.
• Pedro Lazaga, 61, Spanish filmmaker.
• Zeppo Marx, 78, American comedian (The Marx Brothers) and actor, lung cancer.
• Olavi Saarinen, 56, Finnish politician.
• Emile Severeyns, 48, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Bert Smedley, 74, Australian footballer.

Sources

External links

• List of November 1979 deaths at IMDb