The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1986 .
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.
Mieczysław Moczar , 72, Polish politician, Ministry of the Interior .[ 1]
Pierre Repp , 76, French actor and comedian.
Bernard Waldman , 73, American physicist and Enola Gay passenger, cancer.[ 2]
Sippie Wallace , 88, American blues musician.[ 3]
W. Lester Banks , 75, American civil rights activist, kidney and heart failure.[ 4]
Harry Brown , 69, American poet, novelist and screenwriter (A Place in the Sun ), emphysema.[ 5]
Paul Frees , 66, American actor and voice actor (Rocky and Bullwinkle ), pain medication overdose.[ 6]
Fred Olsen , 95, British-born American industrial chemist, inventor of ball propellant .[ 7]
Vladimir Bobri , 88, Russian Empire–born American writer and composer, house fire.[ 8]
Adolf Busemann , 85, Nazi German and American aerospace engineer, inventor of the Busemann biplane .[ 9]
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis , 64, American saxophonist, Hodgkin lymphoma.[ 10]
E. Cuyler Hammond , 74, American biologist and biometrist , established link between smoking and lung cancer, lymph cancer.[ 11]
Sekhonyana Nehemia Maseribane , 68, Basutoland politician, prime minister.
Kurt Hirsch , 80, German and English mathematician (group theory ).[ 12]
Lucille Miller , 56, American convicted murderer, breast cancer.[ 13]
Abraham J. Multer , 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[ 14]
Thorolf Rafto , 64, Norwegian human rights activist.[ 15]
Abdallah El-Yafi , 85, Lebanese politician, multiple-time prime minister .
Adolf Brudes , 87, German Formula One racing driver.
Caesar Felton Gayles , 86, American college football and basketball coach.[ 16]
Mohammed Hassan Helmy , 74, Egyptian footballer and manager (Zamalek , Egypt ).[ 17]
Claude Jutra , 56, Canadian actor and filmmaker, drowned.[ 18]
Bobby Nunn , 61, American R&B singer (The Coasters ), heart attack.[ 19]
Elisabeth Grümmer , 75, German soprano.
James S. Holmes , 62, American-Dutch translator of poems, AIDS.
Gotfrid Köchert , 68, Austrian yacht racer and Olympian.[ 20]
Lili Kraus , 83, Hungarian-born New Zealand and American pianist.[ 21]
Harald Sandbæk , 82, Danish theologian, member of the Danish resistance .[ 22]
Eddie Thompson , 61, English jazz pianist.
Sant Ram Udasi , 47, Indian Punjabi poet.[ 23]
Dugald Baird , 86, British obstetrician and gynecologist.[ 24]
Abdurrahim Buza , 80, Albanian painter.
Paul Galdone , 79, Hungarian-born American illustrator of children's picture books, heart attack.[ 25]
Henry Gilman , 93, American organic chemist (organometallic chemistry ).[ 26]
Alan Hewitt , 71, American actor (My Favorite Martian , How to Murder Your Wife ), cancer.[ 27]
Audrey Erskine Lindop , 65, English writer (I Start Counting , I Thank a Fool ).[ 28]
Baldy Northcott , 78, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Montreal Maroons ).[ 29]
Tracy Pew , 28, Australian musician (The Saints ), brain haemorrhage after seizure.[ 30]
King Clancy , 84, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Ottawa Senators , Toronto Maple Leafs ), cardiac arrest.[ 31]
Eddie del Mar , 67, Filipino actor and filmmaker.
Franz Xaver Dorsch , 86, German civil engineer, chief engineer of the Organisation Todt .[ 32]
Beatrice Kay , 79, American actress and singer.[ 33]
Artur London , 71, Czechoslovakian politician, co-defendant in the Slánský trial .[ 34]
Vyacheslav Molotov , 96, Soviet politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs .[ 35]
Ludwig Ruckdeschel , 79, Nazi German politician and war criminal, Gauleiter of Gau Bayreuth .[ 36]
Sukumar Bose , 74, Indian artist.
Ludwig Hahn , 78, Nazi German SS official and convicted war criminal.[ 37]
Sydney Lee , 76, English snooker and billiards player, Pot Black referee.[ 38]
Ljubomir Magaš , 38, Yugoslavian convicted rapist and Mafia crime boss, murdered.
Gordon Richards , 82, English jockey, multiple-time British flat racing Champion Jockey , heart attack.[ 39]
Lois Roden , 70, American cult leader (Branch Davidians ), breast cancer.[ 40]
Vicente Trueba , 81, Spanish road racing cyclist, King of the Mountains .
Leona Woods , 67, American nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project ), stroke.[ 41]
Faiz Ahmad , 39–40, Afghan politician, leader of the Afghanistan Liberation Organization , assassinated.
Ria Baran , 64, German pair skater and Olympic gold medalist.[ 43]
Erich Koch , 90, Nazi German official and convicted war criminal.[ 44]
Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha , 87, Indian jurist, Chief Justice of India .[ 45]
Gustavo Thorlichen , 79–80, German-born Argentinian photographer, cancer.[ 46]
Minoru Yasui , 70, American lawyer and civil rights activist (Yasui v. United States ).[ 47]
Franco Cortese , 83, Italian racing driver.
Thierry Le Luron , 34, French impressionist and humorist, AIDS.[ 48]
Rudolf Schock , 71, German tenor, heart attack.[ 49]
Amiya Tagore , 78, Indian singer.
Sven Tito Achen , 64, Argentinian-born Danish writer and author on heraldry.
Ferdinand Daučík , 76, Czechoslovakian footballer and manager (Slavia Prague , Czechoslovakia ).[ 50]
Arthur Duckworth , 85, British politician, Member of Parliament.[ 51]
Iambakey Okuk , 41, Papua New Guinean politician, Deputy Prime Minister, liver cancer.[ 52]
Bidhayak Bhattacharya , 79, Indian novelist and dramatist.
Michael Croft , 64, English actor and writer, heart attack.[ 53]
John E. Grotberg , 61, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, pneumonia and colon cancer.[ 54]
Ada Rogato , 75, Brazilian aviator.
Alexandre Tansman , 89, Polish-French composer.[ 55]
Richard E. Turner , 66, American flying ace.
Richard Armitage , 58, English talent agent, heart attack.[ 57]
Georges Besse , 58, French businessman, CEO of Renault , murdered.[ 58]
Vishnu Sharan Dublish , 91, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha .[ 59]
Harold Grad , 63, American mathematician (statistical mechanics ).
Vladimir Kenigson , 79, Soviet actor.
Yoshio Kimura , 81, Japanese shogi player, president of the Japan Shogi Association .
Billy McLean , 67, Scottish politician, Member of Parliament, heart failure.
Tidye Pickett , 72, American runner and Olympian, and school principal.[ 60]
Jaime Ramírez , 46, Colombian anti-narcotics police officer, murdered.[ 61]
Ljupčo Arsov , 76, Yugoslavian politician, chairman of the executive council of the People's Republic of Macedonia .
Lajos Bárdos , 87, Hungarian composer and conductor.
Gia Carangi , 26, American supermodel, AIDS.[ 62]
Sophus Kahrs , 68, Norwegian Nazi official, convicted of treason and escaped.
Marky Markowitz , 62, American jazz trumpeter.
Stephen O. Rice , 78, American electrical engineer, pioneer in information theory and communication theory .[ 63]
Billy Dainty , 59, British comedian and pantomime artist, prostate cancer.
Don Jamieson , 65, Canadian politician and diplomat, Member of Parliament, heart attack.[ 64]
Roy E. Lindquist , 79, American general in the U.S. army.[ 65]
Freddie McKay , 38–39, Jamaican singer, heart attack.
Kosta Nađ , 75, Yugoslavian general.[ 66]
Flukey Stokes , 48, American mobster in Chicago, murdered.[ 67]
Howard Bay , 74, American set and costume designer, heart attack.[ 71]
Jerry Colonna , 82, American trombonist, comedian and actor (Alice in Wonderland ), kidney failure.[ 72]
John P. McConnell , 78, American general, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force .[ 73]
Dar Robinson , 39, American stunt performer and actor (Stick ), fall.[ 74]
Marcelino Sánchez , 28, Puerto Rican actor (The Warriors ), AIDS.
Scatman Crothers , 76, American actor and musician (Chico and the Man , The Shining ), lung cancer.[ 75]
Alexander Deutsch , 86, Soviet astronomer (Pulkovo Observatory ).
Malcolm Nokes , 89, British hammer thrower and Olympic medalist.[ 76]
Dinny Pails , 65, English-born Australian tennis player and Australian Open winner.[ 77]
Nathan Ausubel , 88, American historian and author.[ 78]
William Badders , 85, American naval diver, Medal of Honor recipient.[ 79]
Derek Hart , 61, British radio presenter and journalist (Tonight ).[ 80]
Yasuzō Masumura , 62, Japanese film director.
Norman Maurer , 60, American comic book writer and film producer (The Three Stooges ), cancer.[ 81]
Margit Söderholm , 81, Swedish writer (Sunshine Follows Rain ).[ 82]
Gabdulkhay Akhatov , 59, Soviet Tatar linguist.
Jon Bradshaw , 47–48, American journalist (Esquire ), heart attack.[ 85]
Leroy S. Johnson , 98, American Mormon fundamentalist leader.[ 86]
Sir Ivan Magill , 98, Irish anesthetist .[ 87]
Don Towsley , 74, American animator (Donald Duck ).
Betico Croes , 48, Aruban politician, founded the People's Electoral Movement , complications from a traffic collision.[ 88]
Rogelio de la Rosa , 70, Filipino politician and actor, ambassador to four countries.[ 89]
Edward McGuire , 54, Irish painter, heart attack.[ 90]
Randolph Prim , 90, American Negro League baseballer (Kansas City Monarchs ).[ 91]
Mary Welsh Hemingway , 78, American journalist and author, widow of Ernest Hemingway .[ 92]
Kaku Takagawa , 71, Japanese Go player.
Theodore Curphey , 89, American coroner (death of Marilyn Monroe .[ 93]
Alex Duthart , 61, Scottish drummer, heart attack.[ 94]
Gabriel Fielding , 70, English novelist.[ 95]
Zofia Gomułkowa , 84, Polish communist activist, wife of Władysław Gomułka .[ 96]
Cezar Lăzărescu , 63, Romanian architect and urban planner.
Géza von Radványi , 79, Hungarian film director (Mädchen in Uniform ).
Hugh Stockwell , 83, British army general, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe , leukemia.[ 97]
Steve Tracy , 34, American actor (Little House on the Prairie ), AIDS.
Tuanku Bujang , 87, Malaysian politician, Governor of Sarawak .[ 98]
Archibald Currie , 98, Suriname politician, prime minister and governor-general of Suriname.[ 99]
Emilio Scanavino , 64, Italian painter and sculptor.
Elizabeth Thomas , 79, American Egyptologist .[ 100]
A. Theodore Tuttle , 67, American Mormon leader, cancer.[ 101]
Gary Allen , 50, American writer and conservative activist, liver disease.[ 102]
Ronald Baddiley , 64, English actor (The Archers , The Men from the Ministry ).[ 103]
Helen Fischer , 74, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives .[ 104]
Cary Grant , 82, English-American actor (North by Northwest , None but the Lonely Heart , Penny Serenade ), stroke.[ 105]
Herbert Rosenfeld , 76, German-born British psychoanalyst.[ 106]
Herb Vigran , 76, American actor (Gunsmoke ), cancer.[ 107]
Martin Burgoyne , 23, British-born American artist, AIDS.
Francisco Ciutat de Miguel , 76–77, Spanish communist and soldier.
Darby Jones , 76, American actor (I Walked with a Zombie ).
Emil Jónsson , 84, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland .[ 108]
Immanuel Shifidi , 57, Namibian activist, murdered.[ 109]
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^ Adolf Busemann, 85, Dead; Designer of the Swept Wing . New York Times . Retrieved 28 Sep 2024.
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^ Lili Kraus, Hungarian Pianist . New York Times . Retrieved 29 Sep 2024.
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^ King Clancy Is Dead at 83; N.H.L. Hall of Fame Member . New York Times . Retrieved 29 Sep 2024.
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^ Husky-Voiced Singer Debuted at 6 : Beatrice Kay, 79, the ‘Gay ‘90s Girl,’ Dies . L.A. Times . Retrieved 29 Sep 2024.
^ Artur London Dies; Czech was Survivor of '52 Stalin Purge . New York Times . Retrieved 29 Sep 2024.
^ Vyacheslav M. Molotov is Dead; Close Associate of Stalin was 96 . New York Times . Retrieved 29 Sep 2024.
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^ Hahn, Ludwig, 1908-1986 . Library of Congress . Retrieved 29 Sep 2024.
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^ Leona Marshall Libby Dies; Sole Woman to Work on Fermi’s 1st Nuclear Reactor . L.A. Times . Retrieved 29 Sep 2024.
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^ Lok Sabha Debates . Parliament Digital Library (pp. 2-3 . Retrieved 2 Oct 2024.
^ Tidye Ann Phillips, Olympian and Principal . Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 2 Oct 2024.
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^ Gen. Hugh Stockwell; Led British Into Egypt . New York Times . Retrieved 4 Oct 2024.
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^ A. Currie . Parlement.com (in Dutch) . Retrieved 4 Oct 2024.
^ Elizabeth Thomas (1907-1986) by Barbara S. Lesko . Brown University . Retrieved 4 Oct 2024.
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^ Cary Grant, Movies' Epitome of Elegance, Dies of a Stroke . New York Times . Retrieved 4 Oct 2024.
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