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The following is a list of notabledeaths in November 1985.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• Joseph A. Brandt, 86, American academic administrator.
• Joe Fitzgerald, 73, Australian politician,MP (1949–1955).
• Vladimir Gorokhov, 74, Soviet football player and coach.
• Yvonne Hagnauer, 87, French humanitarian.
• Ōuchiyama Heikichi, 59, Japanese sumo wrestler, brain cancer.
• Joe Hewitt, 84, Australian Air Force commander.
• Lev Lyulyev, 77, Soviet artillery designer.
• Rick McGraw, 30, American professional wrestler.^[1]
• Lucien Michard, 81, French Olympic racing cyclist (1924).^[2]
• John Phillips, 75, British Anglican prelate.
• Arnold Pihlak, 83, Estonian footballer.
• Roy L. Riales Sr., 75, American politician, member of theArkansas House of Representatives (1939–1948).
• John Shaheen, 70, American financier.^[3]
• Jaishanker Manilal Shelat, 77, Indian judge.
• Nikolay Shelenkov, 65, Soviet Olympic equestrian (1952,1956).
• Phil Silvers, 74, American actor (The Phil Silvers Show,A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,Top Banana).^[4]
• O. M. Watts, 84, Britishmaster mariner and author.
• Wetzel Whitaker, 77, American filmmaker (Johnny Lingo) and animator (Cinderella,Fantasia)

• Margaret Ashley-Towle, 81-83, American archaeologist.
• Don Bragg, 52, American basketball player, heart attack.
• Gloria Brennan, 37, Australian Aboriginal community leader.
• Fred Enke, 88, American football and basketball player and coach.
• Alan Hime, 56, English swimmer.
• Alexander Knight, 61, Australian politician.
• Volodymyr Kubijovyč, 85, Polish-Ukrainian anthropologist and Nazi collaborator.
• William Lummis, 99, British military historian.
• Konrad Morawski, 71, Polish actor.

• John Eldridge, 87, British general.
• Robert W. Grow, 90, American general.
• Olav Haug, 69, Norwegian furniture designer.
• Richard D. Kisling, 61, American Air Force airman,chief master sergeant (1971–1973), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Robert P. Knowles, 69, American politician, member of theWisconsin Senate (1955–1977).
• Gar Moore, 65, American actor.^[5]
• Robert Nelson, 65, American football player.
• Phoumi Nosavan, 65, Laotian general, stroke.^[6]
• Tan Tong Hye, 71, Singaporean-born Malaysian politician.
• J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, 69, British historian.

• Cus D'Amato, 77, American boxing manager and trainer (Mike Tyson,Floyd Patterson,José Torres), pneumonia.^[7]
• Rudolf Fernau, 87, German actor.
• Charley Fusari, 61, Italian-born American boxer, cancer.^[8]
• Liam Grainger, 72, Irish footballer.
• James Groppi, 54, American Catholic priest and civil rights activist, brain cancer.^[9]
• Ferdinand Kramer, 87, German architect.
• Adonis A. Kyrou, 62, Greek filmmaker.
• George S. Myers, 80, American icthyologist.
• Tony Nicholson, 47, English cricketer
• Line Noro, 85, French actress.
• A. A. Phillips, 85, Australian writer and social commentator, coined "cultural cringe".^[10]
• Gale H. Stalker, 95, American politician, member of theU.S. House of Representatives (1923–1935),arteriosclerosis.^[11]
• Hilda Vaughan, 93, Welsh novelist.
• Richard Williams, 54, American trumpeter, kidney cancer.

• Arnold Chikobava, 87, Soviet Georgian linguist.
• Jean Théodore Delacour, 95, French-American ornithologist.^[12]
• Ted Elsby, 53, Canadian football player.
• Spencer W. Kimball, 90, American Mormon religious leader,president of the LDS Church (since 1973),peptic ulcer disease.^[13]
• Anita Leslie, 70, British author.^[14]
• Alexander Lloyd, 2nd Baron Lloyd, 73, British politician.
• Elise Muller, 66, South African writer.
• Horace Strutt, 81, Australian politician.
• William Tweddell, 88, English golfer.
• Ernest Weiss, 59, Canadian Olympic sailor (1968).

• Harold Bradley, 73, American college basketball coach.
• Breandán Breathnach, 73, Irish music collector.
• Joel Crothers, 44, American actor, lymphoma.^[15]
• Jean Kane Foulke du Pont, 94, American social activist and philanthropist.
• Pike Johnson, 89, American football player.
• Hans Keller, 66, Austrian-born British musicologist.
• Sanjeev Kumar, 47, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Wallace Newman, 84, American football and baseball player and coach.
• Sara Woods, 63, British author.

• Joe O'Meara, 78, Australian footballer.
• Parr Tate, 84, Irish parasitologist.
• Alexander Thom, 91, Scottish engineer andarchaeoastronomer.
• Friedrich Traugott Wahlen, 86, Swiss agronomist and politician.^[16]
• Notable Colombian casualties during thePalace of Justice siege:
  • Andrés Almarales, 49-50, guerrilla fighter, suicide.
  • Fanny González Franco, 50-51, lawyer, shot.
  • Alfonso Jacquin, 32, lawyer and guerrilla fighter, shot.
  • Alfonso Patiño Rosselli, 62-63, judge, shot.
  • Alfonso Reyes Echandía, 53, jurist, shot.

• Lili Bleeker, 88, Dutch physicist and optical instrument designer.
• Günter Busarello, 25, Austrian Olympic wrestler (1980,1984).
• Nicolas Frantz, 86, Luxembourgish racing cyclist.
• Odd Fredriksen, 64, Norwegian footballer.
• Sir Arthur Gaitskell, 85, British colonial administrator.
• Tullio Grassi, 75, Swiss football player and manager.
• Masten Gregory, 53, American racing driver, heart attack.^[17]
• Jacques Hnizdovsky, 70, Ukrainian-born American graphic designer, sculptor.
• Frank Irwin, 88, Australian footballer.
• Laura Krey, 94, American novelist.
• Renato Mocellini, 56, Italian Olympic bobsledder (1956).
• David E. Williams, 52, American painter, complications from diabetes.

• Ludger Alscher, 69, German archaeologist.
• John Conroy, 56, British Olympic field hockey player (1952,1956).
• Knut Enell, 98, Swedish Olympic fencer (1912,1920).
• Yakov Fokanov, 85, Soviet general.
• Miriam Ibling, 90, American muralist.
• Herbert Kuhlmann, 70, German-ArgentineSS commander and fugitive.
• Henk van der Linden, 66, Dutch footballer.^[18]
• Lewis Luxton, 75, Australian Olympic rower (1932).
• Mary MacLaren, 85, American actress.^[19]
• Marie-Georges Pascal, 39, French actress, suicide.
• Helen Rose, 81, American costume designer.^[20]
• Stasys Šačkus, 78, Lithuanian basketball player.
• Bob Steele, 84, Australian cricketer.
• Jan Strube, 93, Dutch painter.
• Peter Sutton, 53, Australian Olympic basketball player (1956).
• L. H. C. Tippett, 83, English statistician, traffic collision.^[21]

• Frédéric Braconier, 84, Belgian artist.
• Vida Brest, 60, Yugoslav novelist.
• Milton Burton, 83, American chemist, heart attack.^[22]
• Givi Javakhishvili, 72, Soviet Georgian politician,prime minister (1953–1975).
• Ernst Jõesaar, 80, Estonian sculptor.
• Verner Laaksonen, 90, Finnish Olympic runner (1928).
• Billy Lane, 81, English footballer.
• Curtis D. MacDougall, 82, American journalist.
• John Moher, 76, Irish politician,TD (1954–1965).
• James Moroka, 94, South African politician.^[23]
• Suzy Paine, 39, British economist.
• Len Peto, 93, English-Canadian-American ice hockey executive.
• Olav Sunde, 82, Norwegian Olympic javelin thrower (1928,1932).
• Branislav Vukosavljević, 56, Yugoslav football player and manager.
• Sir Peveril William-Powlett, 87, British naval officer.

• Edgar Cherry, 71, American football player.
• Leopoldo Fernández, 80, Cuban comedian.^[24]
• James Hanley, 88, British novelist.
• Archie Jackson, 84, English footballer.
• Roy Lee, 68, American baseball player.
• Pelle Lindbergh, 26, Swedish ice hockey player, traffic collision.^[25]
• Henri Médus, 81, French singer.
• Frank Mulroney, 82, American baseball player.
• Gerolamo Quaglia, 83, Brazilian-born Italian Olympic wrestler (1924,1928).
• Arthur Rothstein, 70, American photographer.^[26]
• Leni Schmidt, 78, German Olympic runner (1928).
• Iivari Yrjölä, 86, Finnish Olympic athlete (1924).

• Howie Auer, 77, American football player.
• Wattie Barclay, 91, New Zealand rugby player and administrator.
• Anna V. Brown, 70-71, American elder rights activist.
• Leonid Butkevich, 67, Soviet sniper.
• Catherine Christian, 84, English novelist.
• Willi Dehnkamp, 82, German politician.
• Bill Fallowfield, 71, British rugby coach.
• Vasily Garbuzov, 74, Soviet politician and economist,minister of finance (since 1960).^[27]
• Mary Gojack, 49, American politician, member of theNevada Senate (1974–1978), cancer.^[28]
• Hildebrand Gregori, 91, Italian Catholic monk.
• John Keith McBroom Laird, 78, Canadian politician,senator (1967–1982).
• Jarma Lewis, 54, American actress.^[29]
• Marcelo Nubla, 87, Filipino lawyer and banking executive.
• Krishnamoorthy Puranik, 74, Indian poet.
• Stanislaw Trabalski, 89, German politician.
• Augie Walsh, 81, American baseball player.
• Dicky Wells, 78, American trombonist, cancer.^[30]

• Carlos Amado, 60-61, Argentine Olympic rower (1948).
• Richard Amsel, 37, American illustrator, AIDS.^[31]
• Trygve Andersen, 76, Norwegian wrestler.
• Emil N. Baar, 94, Austrian-born American jurist.^[32]
• Arturo Díaz, 45, Chilean football player and manager.
• Peter Larsen, 81, Danish Olympic wrestler (1936).
• Max Miller, 73, American jazz musician, heart failure.
• William Pereira, 76, American architect, cancer.^[33]
• Alexander Pokryshkin, 72, Soviet flying ace.^[34]
• George Robert Vincent, 87, American sound recording engineer.

• Dmitry Belyayev, 68, Soviet geneticist and zoologist (domesticated silver fox), cancer.
• Alick Bryant, 82, Australian soldier.
• Grace Gregory, 83-84, American set decorator.
• Robert Beverly Hale, 83-84, American artist and curator.
• Oscar Harstad, 93, American baseball player.
• Ratnakar Hari Kelkar, 84, Indian translator.
• Wellington Koo, 97, Chinese politician and diplomat,premier (1927) and actingpresident (1926–1927).^[35]
• Lee Mulleneaux, 77, American football player.
• Luke Nelson, 91, American baseball player.
• J. Aird Nesbitt, 78, Canadian businessman.^[36]
• John Patrick O'Loughlin, 74, Australian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Emir Rodríguez Monegal, 64, Uruguayan-American literary scholar.^[37]
• Armistead I. Selden Jr., 64, American politician and diplomat, member of theU.S. House of Representatives (1953–1969), cancer.^[38]

• Bill Horrocks, 80, English-born Australian cricketer.
• John Morison Inches, 82, Scottish brewing executive.
• Méret Oppenheim, 72, German-born Swiss artist.^[39]
• Dimitar Panov, 83, Bulgarian actor.
• Carlos Spadaro, 83, Argentine footballer.
• Riggs Stephenson, 87, American baseball player.^[40]
• David Strub, 88, Liechtensteiner politician.

• Ivan Ashtine, 61, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer.
• Ludwig Bertele, 84, Germanoptics constructor.
• Helen Bell Bruton, 87, American artist.
• Stuart Chase, 97, American economist.^[41]
• Swami Chidbhavananda, 87, Indian religious scholar.
• Lou Fleischer, 94, American composer.
• Simon Michael Fung Kui Heong, 54, Malaysian Roman Catholic prelate, stomach cancer.
• Walter Jupé, 69, German actor.
• Léon Lampo, 62, Belgian Olympic basketball player (1948).
• Gulshan Nanda, 65-66, Indian novelist and screenwriter.
• Fred Price, 84, English footballer.
• Omayra Sánchez, 13, Colombian child,landslide.^[42]
• John Sparkman, 85, American politician, member of theU.S. Senate (1946–1979) andHouse of Representatives (1937–1946), heart attack.^[43]

• J. Amado Araneta, 78, Filipino businessman.
• Michael Birkin, 73, British RAF officer.
• Avgust Černigoj, 87, Yugoslav painter.
• Janet Doe, 90, American librarian.
• Thomas Gow Brown, 83, Scottish rugby union player.
• Michalis Kaltezas, 15, Greek protestor, shot.
• Prince Karl Alfred of Liechtenstein, 75, Liechtensteiner royal.
• Roger Laroque, 75, New Caledonian politician.
• Lon Nol, 72, Cambodian politician,president (1972–1975),prime minister (1966–1967, 1969–1971).^[44]
• Thomas Quiwonkpa, 45, Liberian general, shot.^[45]
• Jimmy Ritz, 81, American actor, heart disease.^[46]
• Sukat Subandi, 59, Indonesian military officer.
• Gheorghe Ursu, 59, Romanian poet and dissident, beaten.
• Wang Jinzhang, 77-78, Chinese politician.

• Stephan Henrik Barratt-Due, 66, Norwegian violinist.
• Andy Bieber, 68, Canadian football player.
• Paul Bixler, 78, American football player and sports coach.
• Nicholas Deak, 80, Hungarian-born American banker, murdered.
• Harold Gade, 86, American politician, member of theWisconsin State Assembly (1948–1952).
• Dimitris Gogos, 82, Greek singer.
• Mario Góngora, 70, Chilean historian.
• Orton Sutherland Hintz, 78, New Zealand journalist.
• Masayoshi Ise, 78, Japanese painter.
• Osvaldo Lamborghini, 45, Argentine writer, heart attack.
• Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth, 82, British politician,MP (1924–1929, 1945–1970).
• Stella Marks, 97, Australian artist.
• Michael Mooney, 55, American Olympic sailor (1948), cancer.^[47]
• Yrjö Nikkanen, 70, Finnish Olympic javelin thrower (1936).
• Dmitry Ryabyshev, 91, Soviet general.
• Inger Thorén, 72, Swedish chemical engineer.
• Owen Thuerk, 67, American football player.

• Juan Arvizu, 85, Mexican singer.
• Charlie Billington, 58, English footballer.
• Robert Breiter, 76, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1928).
• Damon W. Cooper, 66, American naval admiral.
• Ralph Dorfman, 74, American biochemist, Parkinson's disease.
• Mike Erskine, 71, English motorcycle racer.
• Stepin Fetchit, 83, American actor and comedian, pneumonia.^[48]
• Lewis Harfield, 80, English cricketer.^[49]
• Sir Evan Meredith Jenkins, 89, British colonial administrator.
• George H. Mahon, 85, American politician, member of theU.S. House of Representatives (1935–1979).^[50]
• John Mant, 88, Australiansolicitor.
• Phil Sarboe, 74, American football player and coach.
• Richard M. Sims Jr., 75, American judge.
• Lall Singh, 75, Indian cricketer.
• Carmen Soler, 61, Paraguayan educator.
• Bob Synnott, 73, American basketball player.
• Douglas Tennant, 78-79, British trade unionist.

• Jenny Armstrong, 82, Scottish shepherd and art model.
• Maurice Courteau, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Peggy Feury, 61, American actress, traffic collision.^[51]
• Victor Henry, 42, English actor, complications from a traffic collision.
• Henning Klopper, 90, South African politician.
• Harry Pollard, 66, American mathematician.^[52]
• Carmen Sánchez, 87, Spanish actress and dancer.
• George Sharpe, 77, Canadian politician.
• Wade Van Valkenburg, 86, American politician, member of theMichigan House of Representatives (1947–1956).
• Jerzy Ziętek, 84, Polish politician.

• Anne S. K. Brown, 79, American historian.
• Derek Jewell, 57-58, British journalist.
• Ramnath Kenny, 55, Indian cricketer.
• Johannes Marott, 68, Danish actor.
• Ivo Serdar, 51, Croatian actor.
• Philaret Voznesensky, 82, Russian-American Russian Orthodox prelate.^[53]
• Mirosława Zakrzewska-Kotula, 52, Polish volleyball and handball player and coach.

• Gudolf Blakstad, 92, Norwegian architect.
• Owen Churchill, 89, American Olympic sailor (1932).
• Aaron R. Fisher, 90, American soldier.
• Ruby Gainfort, 95, Australian academic administrator.
• Tahu Hole, 79, New Zealand journalist.
• Alan Lavery, 81, Australian footballer.
• Richard Milton Martin, 69, American logician.
• Epifanio Méndez Fleitas, 68, Paraguayan politician and banker.
• Robert Newton, 96, Canadian academic administrator.
• Merlo J. Pusey, 83, American biographer, cancer.^[54]
• David Rabkin, 36-37, South African anti-apartheid activist, military training accident.
• María Sabina, 91, Mexican poet andcurandera.^[55]

• Manfred Björkquist, 101, Swedish Lutheran prelate.
• Roger Brand, 42, American cartoonist, liver failure.
• Vernon Griffiths, 91, English-born New Zealand conductor, composer.
• Walter Jenkins, 67, American political aide.^[56]
• Leonhard Kass, 74, Estonian footballer.
• Heinz Lorenz, 72, German propagandist.
• Concepción Mendizábal Mendoza, 92, Mexican civil engineer.
• Leslie Mitchell, 80, British broadcaster and actor.
• Melville Nimmer, 62, American lawyer, cancer.^[57]
• Lupita Pallás, 59, Mexican actress.
• Nina Quartero, 77, American actress.
• Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi, 49, Iranian writer, cirrhosis.
• Sam West, 81, American baseball player.

• Sinan Alaağaç, 25, Turkish footballer, heart attack.
• Hilbert Leigh Bair, 91, AmericanWorld War I flying ace.
• René Barjavel, 74, French author.
• Percy Bice, 70, Australian footballer.
• C. Buddingh', 67, Dutch poet and translator.
• Christina Hole, 88-89, British folklorist.
• Laurence Lafore, 67-68, American historian.
• Josef Miller, 95, German theologian.
• Maurice Podoloff, 95, Russian-born American basketball executive,NBA commissioner (1946–1963).^[58]
• George Raynor, 78, English football player and manager.
• Big Joe Turner, 74, American singer ("Shake, Rattle and Roll", "Flip, Flop and Fly", "Corrine, Corrina"), kidney failure.^[59]
• John Waddington, 66, South African cricketer.
• Alice Miles Woodruff, 84, American virologist.

• Xenia Borovansky, 82, Russian-born Australian dancer and choreographer.
• Évelyne Cloupet, 85, French Olympic jumper (1928).
• Walther Dahl, 69, German flying ace.
• Frances Davidson, Viscountess Davidson, 91, British politician,MP (1937–1959).
• José L. Duomarco, 80, Uruguayan physiologist.
• Rebii Erkal, 74, Turkish footballer.
• Geoffrey Grigson, 80, British writer and art critic.
• Franz Hildebrandt, 76, German-British theologian.
• Ray Jablonski, 58, American baseball player.
• Elsa Morante, 73, Italian author.
• Dick Price, 55, AmericanGestalt therapist, hiking accident.^[60]
• Don Stephenson, 50, Canadian football player.

• Frank Beaty, 66, American basketball player.
• Emma Marie Birkmaier, 77, German-born American educator, leukemia.
• Marco Ernesto, 62, Panamanian impressionist painter.
• Sergei Gerasimov, 79, Soviet filmmaker, heart attack.^[61]
• Fred Gordon, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Alice Habsburg, 95, Swedish aristocrat.
• Bill Jackson, 67, Irish basketball player.
• Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar, 86, Indian poet.
• Pablo Serrano, 77, Spanish sculptor.
• Monk Sherlock, 81, American baseball player.
• Vivien Thomas, 75, American surgeon, pancreatic cancer.^[62]

• Azhar Shah Qaiser, 64, Indian Islamic scholar and journalist
• Peter Bessell, 64, British politician,MP (1964–1970), emphysema.
• Fernand Braudel, 83, French historian.^[63]
• Harry Harvey Sr., 84, American actor.
• André Hunebelle, 89, French film director and glassmaker.
• Rendra Karno, 65, Indonesian actor.
• George Opperman, 50, American graphic designer (Atari logo), lung cancer.

• Georgia Burke, 107, American actress.^[64]
• Melvin G. deChazeau, 85, American economist.^[65]
• Hermann Harm, 91, GermanSS officer.
• Charlie Kerr, 79, New Zealand cricketer.
• Park Krygger, 87, Australian footballer.
• Chaim Pinchas Lubinsky, 70, Polish-American rabbi.
• Johnny "Blood" McNally, 82, American football player.^[66]
• Thomas Megarry, 87, Hong Kong civil servant.
• Mary Aquinas Monaghan, 66, Irish missionary, cancer.
• Red Pearlman, 87, American football player.
• Eyre Saitch, 80, American basketball player.
• Max Saltsman, 64, Canadian politician,MP (1964–1979), liver cancer.
• John P. Shanley, 70, American journalist.
• Jirō Shirasu, 83, Japanese politician.
• Josef Smistik, 80, Austrian footballer.
• A. Lee Smith, 70, American football coach.
• Bernard Zakheim, 87, Polish-born American muralist.^[67]

• Eduards Andersons, 71, Latvian basketball player.
• Fred Benham, 81, English-born Scottish cricketer.
• Angelo Cattaneo, 84, Italian Olympic cyclist (1928).
• Eric W. Cochrane, 57, American historian.^[68]
• Sir Charles Davidson, 88, Australian politician,MP (1946–1963).
• Gaston Féry, 85, French Olympic sprinter (1920,1924).
• Jack Garland, 77, Northern Irish boxer.
• Gérard Hoarau, 34, Seychellois politician, shot.
• Josef Josten, 72, Czech journalist.
• Thomas Gaetano LoMedico, 81, American sculptor.
• Claes Christian Olrog, 73, Swedish-Argentine ornithologist.
• Bill Scott, 65, American voice actor (The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends,George of the Jungle), heart attack.^[69]
• Chappie Sheppell, 71, American soccer player.

• Tom Aikens, 85, Australian politician.
• Marc Aryan, 59, French-Belgian musician, cardiac arrest.
• Vladimir Arzamaskov, 34, Soviet Olympic basketball player (1976).
• Sir Chau Sik-nin, 82, Hong Kong politician and businessman.
• Jim Cutmore, 86, English cricketer.
• Jim Grant, 91, American baseball player.
• Rudolf Schoenert, 74, German flying ace.
• Phil Tucker, 58, American filmmaker (Robot Monster).
• Marie Waife, 93, Russian-born American writer.^[70]
• Joseph Zaritsky, 94, Russian-Israeli artist.

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