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Famous People Who Died in November 1988

  • Nov 3 Henri van Praag, Dutch para-psychologist, dies
  • Nov 6 John Hubbard, American actor (Don't Call Me Charlie, The Tall T, One Million B.C.), dies of kidney failure at 74
  • Nov 7 Hans Baumann, German nationalist writer, dies at 74
  • Nov 8 Kingman Brewster, American educator and president of Yale University, dies at 69
  • Nov 9 Billy Curtis, 4'2" actor (Terror of Tiny Town), dies at 79
  • Nov 9 Clarke Hinkle, American College-Pro Football HOF utility (NFL C'ship 1936, 39; 7 × First-team All-Pro; NFL All-Star 1938–40; GB Packers), dies at 79
  • Nov 9 David Bauer, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame player and builder (priest, school coach; National Team manager), dies at 64
  • Nov 9 John Mitchell, American lawyer, political operative (US Attorney General, 1969-72), and convicted perjurer (Watergate Scandal), dies of heart attack in Washington, DC at 75
  • Nov 11 William Ifor Jones, Welsh organist and conductor, dies at 88
  • Nov 12 Tomasz Sikorski, Polish minimalist composer (Solitude of Sounds), dies at 49
  • Nov 13 Antal Doráti, Hungarian-American conductor (Minneapolis Symphony, 1949-1960), dies at 82
  • Nov 13 Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (Beer Barrel Polka), dies at 86
  • Nov 15 Mona Washbourne, actress (Blue Bird, Games), dies at 84
  • Nov 16 Lotte Stam-Beese, German-Dutch architect and urban planner who helped reconstruct Rotterdam after the war, dies at 85
  • Nov 17 Sheilah Graham, gossip columnist, dies of heart failure at 84
  • Nov 19 Christina Onassis, Greek heiress, daughter of Aristotle Onassis, dies of heart failure at 37

Carl Hubbell (1903-1988)

Nov 21 American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (9 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1933; NL MVP 1933, 36; NY Giants), dies at 85

  • Nov 22 Erich Fried, Austrian-British writer, dies at 67
  • Nov 22 Janet Ertel, crooner, dies
  • Nov 22 Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (Casa Luis Barragán; Pritzker Prize - 1980), dies at 86

Raymond Dart (1893-1988)

Nov 22 Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus africanus), dies at 95 [1]

  • Nov 24 Irmgard Seefried, German soprano, dies at 69
  • Nov 26 Antonio Estévez, Venezuelan composer and conductor (Cantata Criolla), dies at 72
  • Nov 26 Bent Peter Rasch, Danish canoeist (Olympic gold C-2 1000m 1952), dies at 54
  • Nov 27 Angela Aames, actress (Lost Empire, Basic Training), dies
  • Nov 27 Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess grand master, dies at 61
  • Nov 27 John Carradine, American actor (The Grapes of Wrath, Stagecoach, Howling), dies of kidney failure at 82
  • Nov 27 Karel Horky, Czech composer, dies at 79
  • Nov 30 Charlie Rouse, American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist (Thelonious Monk Quartet; Sphere), dies of lung cancer at 64