Deaths in October 1987
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 1987
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[edit]- Richard Blackburn, 69, Australian judge and legal academic, cancer.[1]
- Douglas Cleverdon, 84, English radio producer and bookseller.[2]
- June Clyde, 77, American actress, singer and dancer (A Strange Adventure, A Study in Scarlet).[3]
- Valeriya Golubtsova, 86, Soviet scientist, director of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
- Geoffrey Jackson, 72, British diplomat and writer, British ambassador to Uruguay, kidnapped by guerrillas.[4]
- Zina Morhange, 78, Polish-born French physician, member of the French Resistance.
- Abdur Rahim, 69, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.
2
[edit]- Madeleine Carroll, 81, English actress (The 39 Steps), pancreatic cancer.[5]
- Sir Peter Medawar, 72, Brazilian-born British biologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.[6]
- Russell Rouse, 73, American screenwriter, director and producer, heart failure.[7]
- Hryhoriy Vasiura, 72, Soviet officer in the Red Army and in the German Schutzmannschaft, executed.
3
[edit]- Jean Anouilh, 77, French dramatist and screenwriter, heart attack.[8]
- Catherine Bramwell-Booth, 104, English Salvation Army officer, granddaughter of Salvation Army founder.[9]
- Hans Gál, 97, Austrian and Scottish composer.
- Maria Ivogün, 95, Hungarian soprano singer.[10]
- Kalervo Palsa, 40, Finnish artist, pneumonia.
4
[edit]- Mercer Cook, 84, American diplomat and professor, U.S. Ambassador to the Gambia, Senegal and Niger, pneumonia.[11]
- Eric Gandar Dower, 92–93, Scottish politician and businessman.[12]
- Mian Arshad Hussain, 77, Pakistani politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister of Pakistan and Pakistan's Ambassador to Sweden.
- Eloise Wilkin, 83, American illustrator, illustrator of Little Golden Books, cancer.
- Hubert Yencesse, 87, French sculptor.[13]
5
[edit]- Manny Cussins, British businessman, chairman of Waring & Gillow and Leeds United F.C..[14]
6
[edit]- Roald Jensen, 44, Norwegian international footballer (Brann, Heart of Midlothian, Norway), heart failure.[15]
- Eugen Steimle, 77, Nazi German SS commander, death sentence commuted.
7
[edit]- Charles J. Carney, 74, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart ailment.[16]
- Phil Flanagan, 77, American AFL footballer.
- John Fletcher, 46, English tubist and french horn player, cerebral haemorrhage.
- Greta Granstedt, 80, American film and television actress.
- Cedric Phatudi, 75, South African politician, Chief Minister of Lebowa.[17]
- Sarkes Tarzian, 87, Ottoman-born American engineer, inventor and broadcaster.
- Bobby Walston, 58, American NFL footballer (Philadelphia Eagles), heart attack.[18]
8
[edit]- Spencer Gordon Bennet, 94, American film producer and director.[19]
- Alberto Segismundo Cruz, 87, Filipino poet, short story writer and novelist.
- Mona Douglas, 89, British Manx cultural activist, folklorist, poet, novelist and journalist.
- Rolf Dudley-Williams, 79, British aeronautical engineer and politician, Member of Parliament.[20]
- Roger Lancelyn Green, 68, British biographer and children's writer.[21]
- Nader Mahdavi, 24, Persian Revolutionary Guard Corps naval commander.
- Donald McWhinnie, 66, British BBC executive and director.
- Konstantinos Tsatsos, 88, Greek diplomat and politician, President of Greece.[22]
9
[edit]- Mohammad Farhad, 49, Bangladeshi guerrilla force commander, Bangladesh Communist Party president, heart attack.[23]
- Guru Gopinath, 79, Indian actor and dancer.[24]
- Clare Boothe Luce, 84, American politician, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, member of U.S. House of Representatives, brain cancer.[25]
- William P. Murphy, 95, American physician, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (pernicious anemia).[26]
- Henry Studholme, 88, British politician, Member of Parliament.[27]
- Carlos Volante, 81, Argentinian international footballer (Flamengo, Argentina).
10
[edit]- Carlos Ancira, 58, Mexican film actor.
- Behice Boran, 77, Turkish Marxist-Leninist politician and author, heart disease.[28]
- Jaroslav Bouček, 74, Czechoslovakian international footballer (Sparta Prague, Czechoslovakia).[29]
- Gretl Braun, 72, German sister of Eva Braun.
- Peter Clyne, 60, Austrian-Australian lawyer and businessman, heart attack.
- Oretha Castle Haley, 48, American civil rights activist, ovarian cancer.
- Malathi, 20, Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers fighter, died in combat.
11
[edit]- Uwe Barschel, 43, German politician, Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, suicide.[30]
- Eske Brun, 83, Danish high civil servant and governor of Greenland.
- Jaime Pardo Leal, 46, Colombian lawyer, union leader, and politician, assassinated.[31]
- Niall Macpherson, 79, Scottish politician, Minister of Pensions and National Insurance.[32]
- Alan McNicoll, 79, Australian Vice Admiral in the Royal Australian Navy, Australian Ambassador to Turkey.[33]
- Koldo Mitxelena, 71–72, Spanish Basque linguist, reconstructed Proto-Basque language.
- Fritz Rössler, 75, German neo-Nazi politician.
12
[edit]- Fahri Korutürk, 84, Turkish admiral, diplomat and politician, President of Turkey.[34]
- Alf Landon, 100, American oil man and politician, Republican candidate in 1936 presidential election.[35]
- Russ Letlow, 74, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers).[36]
- Philleo Nash, 77, American government official and politician, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, renal cancer.[37]
- Gustavo Baz Prada, 93, Mexican politician and doctor, governor of the State of Mexico.
13
[edit]- Walter Houser Brattain, 85, American physicist (point-contact transistor), Nobel laureate in Physics, Alzheimer's disease.[38]
- Kishore Kumar, 58, Indian actor and playback singer, heart attack.[39]
- Nilgün Marmara, 29, Turkish poet, suicide.[40]
- Lucy Monroe, 80, American operatic soprano and dancer, cancer.[41]
- Walter Fraser Oakeshott, 83, British vice-chancellor of Oxford, discovered Le Morte d'Arthur Winchester manuscript.[42]
- Anwar Kamal Pasha, 62, Pakistani film director and producer.
14
[edit]- Elżbieta Barszczewska, 73, Polish stage and film actress.
- Rodolfo Halffter, 86, Spanish composer.[43]
- Finlay J. MacDonald, 62, Scottish journalist, producer and writer.
- Basil Wright, 80, English documentary filmmaker.[44]
15
[edit]- Arthur Benson, 79, British colonial administrator, governor of Northern Rhodesia.[45]
- Thomas Andrew Donnellan, 73, American Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Atlanta, stroke.[46]
- Juda Hirsch Quastel, 88, British-Canadian biochemist.[47]
- Thomas Sankara, 37, Burkinabe politician, President of Burkina Faso, Prime Minister of Upper Volta, assassinated.[48]
- Donald Wandrei, 79, American science fiction and fantasy writer, and poet.
16
[edit]- Joseph Höffner, 80, German Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne, brain tumour.[49]
- Nazir Hussain, 65, Indian actor, director and screenwriter.
- Margo Lee, 64, Australian actor and singer.[50]
- Aleksandr Sery, 59, Soviet film director (Gentlemen of Fortune), suicide.
- Dana Suesse, 75, American musician, composer and lyricist, stroke.[51]
17
[edit]- Ruby Dandridge, 87, American actress (Amos 'n' Andy, Judy Canova Show), heart attack.[52]
- Roderich Menzel, 80, Czech-German amateur tennis player and writer.
- Peter Pund, 80, American college football player.[53]
- Hirsch Schwartzberg, 79, Lithuanian-born American leader of holocaust survivors.[54]
- Abdul Malek Ukil, 63, Bangladeshi politician, speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad.
18
[edit]- Theodore Brameld, 83, American philosopher and educator, pneumonia.[55]
- Pete Carpenter, 73, American jazz trombonist and arranger, lung cancer.
- Adriaan Ditvoorst, 47, Dutch film director and screenwriter.
- Prince Emanuel of Liechtenstein, 78, member of the sovereign family of Liechtenstein.
- Sol Goldman, 70, American real estate investor and philanthropist.[56]
- Philip Levine, 87, Belorus-born American immuno-hematologist.[57]
- Louis Miriani, 90, American politician, mayor of Detroit, Michigan.[58]
19
[edit]- Hermann Lang, 78, German racing driver.
- Igor Newerly, 84, Polish novelist.
- Jacqueline du Pré, 42, British cellist, multiple sclerosis.[59]
- Ben Stahl, 77, American artist, illustrator and author.[60]
- Ernie Toseland, 82, English footballer (Manchester City).
20
[edit]- Georges Douking, 85, French stage, film and television actor (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie).
- Andrey Kolmogorov, 84, Russian mathematician (probability theory).[61]
- Mecha Ortiz, 87, Argentinian actress (El canto del cisne).
- Lars-Erik Sjöberg, 43, Swedish international ice hockey player, cancer.[62]
21
[edit]- Igor Chernat, 20–21, Soviet serial killer, executed.
- Pál Gábor, 55, Hungarian film director and screenwriter (Angi Vera).[63]
- T. Krishna, 36, Indian film director and screenwriter (Pratighatana).
- Bob Simmons, 64, English actor and stunt man (James Bond series).
- Albert Western, 64, Australian rules footballer (South Fremantle).
- He Yingqin, 97, Chinese politician, Premier of the Republic of China.[64]
22
[edit]- K. G. Adiyodi, 60, Indian politician, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.[65]
- Archduke Anton of Austria, 86, Austrian noble.
- John H. Masters, 74, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
- Taylor Scott, 40, English Fleet Air Arm pilot and test pilot for British Aerospace, test flight accident.[66]
- Andrey Starostin, 81, Soviet footballer and author.
- Lino Ventura, 68, Italian-born French actor (Les Misérables), heart attack.[67]
23
[edit]- Constantin Alajalov, 86, Armenian-born American painter and illustrator.[68]
- Fred Hughson, 73, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy).
- Raymond W. Ketchledge, 67, American engineer (computerized telephone switching control systems), cancer.[69]
- Barry Levinson, 54–55, American film producer.
- A. L. Morton, 84, English Marxist historian.[70]
- Jimmy Mullen, 64, English international footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers, England).[71]
- Della H. Raney, 75, American nurse in the Army Nurse Corps.[72]
- Gene Rodgers, 77, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger.
- Alejandro Scopelli, 79, Argentine international footballer and coach (Estudiantes, Argentina).[73]
- Ted Taylor, 53, American blues singer, car crash.
24
[edit]- Enid Chadwick, 84, British religious artist.[74]
- Raymond Francis, 76, British actor (No Hiding Place).
- Leo Hepp, 80, Nazi German military officer in the Wehrmacht.
- Kelvin Martin, 23, American criminal, shot.[75]
25
[edit]- Ivan Beshoff, appr. 104, Russian mutineer in 1905 on battleship Potemkin.[76]
- Cecil Brown, 80, American journalist and war correspondent.[77]
- Marta Feuchtwanger, German exile to America, devoted life to promoting work of her deceased writer husband.[78]
- Maxwell Finland, 85, Russian-born American medical researcher, expert on infectious diseases, heart attack.[79]
- Louis Guttman, 71, American sociologist (social statistics), melanoma.[80]
- Willis Jackson, 55, American jazz tenor saxophonist, complications from heart surgery.[81]
- Gerald Pearson, 82, American physicist at Bell Labs (photovoltaic cell).[82]
- J. A. Ratcliffe, 84, British radio physicist.[83]
- Kate L. Turabian, 94, American educator and author (A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations).[84]
26
[edit]- Herbert Anaya, 32–33, El Salvadoran president of the Human Rights Commission of El Salvador, assassinated.[85]
- Greg Bautzer, 76, American attorney who represented famous clients, heart failure.[86]
- Aldo Boffi, 72, Italian international footballer (AC Milan, Italy).
- Edith Luckett Davis, 99, American actress, mother of Nancy Reagan, stroke.[87]
- Victor Ganz, 74, American business owner and art collector, lung cancer.[88]
- Carolus Lassila, 65, Finnish diplomat, Finnish Ambassador to eight countries, flash flood.
- Bjørge Lillelien, 60, Norwegian sports journalist and commentator (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation), cancer.
- Adam Wolanin, 67, Polish–American international footballer (Pogoń Lwów, United States).[89]
27
[edit]- Jorge Dalto, 39, Argentine-born American pianist, cancer.[90]
- Jean Hélion, 83, French painter, pneumonia.[91]
- John Oliver Killens, 71, American fiction writer, cancer.[92]
- Kosaraju, 82, Indian lyricist and poet.
- Vijay Merchant, 76, Indian test cricketer (Bombay, India).[93]
- Mario Merola, 65, American attorney and member of New York City Council, stroke.[94]
- John C. Young, 75, American businessman, developer of Chinatown, San Francisco.
28
[edit]- D. Djajakusuma, 69, Indonesian film director.
- André Masson, 91, French artist.[95]
- Sir Jasper More, 80, British politician, Member of Parliament.[96]
29
[edit]- Albert P. Crary, 76, American polar geophysicist and glaciologist, first to set foot on both North and South Poles, spinal tumour.[97]
- William Davis, 86, British Royal Navy admiral.[98]
- Robert Heber-Percy, 75, English eccentric.[99]
- Woody Herman, 74, American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and big band leader, heart failure.[100]
- Kamal el-Mallakh, 69, Egyptian archaeologist, discovered Khufu ship.[101]
- Ram Awtar Sharma, 79, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
- Frederic M. Wheelock, 85, American Latin professor (Wheelock's Latin), heart attack.[102]
30
[edit]- Thomas G. Bergin, 82, American scholar of Italian literature.[103]
- Joseph Campbell, 83, American writer on comparative mythology and religion (The Hero with a Thousand Faces), cancer.[104]
- Sydney Vernon Petersen, 73, South African poet and author, kidney failure.[105]
- Chaudhary Dalbir Singh, 61, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
- Grady B. Wilson, 67–68, American evangelist, heart failure.[106]
31
[edit]- Paul D. Adams, 81, American general in the U.S. Army.[107]
- Raj Chandra Bose, 86, Indian and American mathematician and statistician (error-correcting codes).[108]
- Ruel Vance Churchill, 87, American mathematician and author.
- Josef Erber, 90, Nazi German SS-Oberscharführer at Auschwitz, received life sentence, traffic accident.
- Jimmy Jewell, 33–34, British rock climber, climbing accident.
- Hans Sommer, 73, Nazi German member of the Sicherheitsdienst, Stasi spy.
Unknown date
[edit]- Filippo Buccola, 101, Italian-American mobster, member of the Patriarca crime family.
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