Deaths in August 1987
The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 1987
1
Benson Fong , 70, American actor, stroke.[ 1] Howdy Forrester , 65, American bluegrass fiddler.[ 2] S. Marshall Kempner , 88, American investment banker, founder of the French Bank of California, heart failure.[ 3] Pola Negri , 90, Polish-American actress and singer, pneumonia and brain tumour.[ 4]
2
Mohammad Choucair , 70, Lebanese politician, assassinated.Abu Sayeed Chowdhury , 66, President of Bangladesh , chairman of U.N. Commission on Human Rights , heart attack.[ 5] Tom Doerr , 39–40, American gay activist.Jaime Ferrer , 70, Filipino lawyer, guerrilla and politician, Secretary of Local Government, assassinated.[ 6] Clement Howell , 51, Turks and Caicos politician, presumed airplane crash.David N. Johnson , 65, American organist and composer.David A. Martin , 50, American founding member and bass player for Sam the Sham , heart attack.Mangkunegara VIII , 62, Indonesian politician, last ruler of Mangkunegaran , Java.Myron Stout , 78–79, American abstract painter, lung cancer.[ 7] Yves Volel , 52–53, Haitian lawyer, activist and presidential candidate, assassinated.[ 8]
3
Garrick Agnew , 56, Australian swimmer, businessman and dual Olympian, heart attack.[ 9] Edward Cowart , 62, American circuit judge, heart attack.[ 10] Joseph Desch , 80, American electrical engineer and inventor.[ 11] Dorothy Hammerstein , 88, Australian-born American interior designer and decorator, wife of Oscar Hammerstein II .[ 12] William S. Moorhead , 64, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.[ 13] Ivan Mykolaichuk , 46, Ukrainian actor and screenwriter (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Ivan Svanidze , 59, German-born Soviet academic specialising in agriculture and African Studies.
4
Dick Farney , 65, Brazilian jazz pianist, composer and singer.Kenny Price , 56, American country music singer, songwriter and actor, heart attack.[ 14] Jesse M. Unruh , 64, American politician, minority leader and speaker of the California State Assembly , prostate cancer.[ 15] John W. Wydler , 63, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.[ 16]
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Abbas Babaei , 36, Iranian pilot, brigadier-general in Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force , shot down.Sherwood Bailey , 64, American child actor, cancer.[ 17] Paula Bauersmith , 78, American actress, cancer.[ 18] Ira C. Eaker , 91, U.S. Army Air Forces general during World War II.[ 19] Lena Küchler-Silberman , 77, Polish member of the Jewish resistance .Myles Lane , 83, American NHL ice hockey player (New York Rangers ) and Supreme Court justice, Alzheimer's disease.[ 20] Léon Noël , 99, French diplomat and politician, ambassador to Poland.
7
Mihailo Apostolski , 80, Macedonian general and politician.Jeanne Boitel , 83, French film actress, member of French Resistance .Camille Chamoun , 87, Lebanese politician, President of Lebanon , heart attack.[ 21] Andrew D. Holt , 82, American educator, president of the University of Tennessee .[ 22] Nobusuke Kishi , 90, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan , heart complications.[ 23] Jaap van Praag , 77, Dutch football administrator, chairman AFC Ajax , traffic accident.
8
Danilo Blanuša , 83, Yugoslavian mathematician, physicist and engineer, professor at the University of Zagreb .[ 24] Julián Gorkin , 86, Spanish revolutionary socialist, leader of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification .[ 25] Laurence Hyde , 73, English-born Canadian film maker, painter and graphic artist.Nirmal Mahto , 36, Indian political activist, leader of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha , murdered.[ 26] Trevor O'Keeffe , 18–19, Irish man murdered while hitchhiking in France.[ 27] Irwin Schiff , 50, American businessman and mob associate, murdered.[ 28]
9
Rudolf Broby-Johansen , 86, Danish art historian, communist activist and writer.Leon Keyserling , 79, American economist and lawyer, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers .[ 29] August Miete , 78, Nazi German SS member and mass murderer, sentenced to life imprisonment.Henry Morgan , 80, Irish first-class cricketer.[ 30]
10
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas , 94, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece , heart failure.[ 31] Casey Donovan , (John Culver), 43, American pornographic actor, AIDS.[ 32] Edmund Germer , 85, German inventor, father of the fluorescent lamp .[ 33] Uys Krige , 77, South African writer of novels, poems and plays.[ 34] Patrick O'Boyle , 91, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Washington.[ 35] Prince Yamashina Takehiko , 89, Japanese head of the Yamashina-no-miya.Raquel Torres , 78, Mexican-born American film actress, heart attack.[ 36]
11
Eugene Bordinat , 67, American automobile designer and corporate executive (Ford Motor Company ).[ 37] Živko Čingo , 51, Yugoslavian writer.F. Herrick Herrick , 85, American film director.Walter Herrmann , 76, German nuclear physicist and mechanical engineer.Clara Peller , 85, Russian-born American manicurist and television personality, heart failure.[ 38] Alexander Ziegler , 43, Swiss author and actor, suicide.
12
Crystal Bennett , 68, British archaeologist, founded the British Institute in Amman , liver disease.[ 39] Lester Gaba , 80, American sculptor and writer, colon cancer.[ 40] Dmitri Klebanov , 69, Ukrainian composer.Sally Long , 85, American dancer and actress.Fatime Sokoli , 39, Albanian folk music singer.
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Sydney Bromley , 78, English actor, cancer.Bernard Fagg , 71, British archaeologist and museum curator.[ 42] Mary-Louise Hooper , 80, American heiress and activist in the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements.Narayana Kasturi , 89, Indian writer, professor and journalist.Brewster Mason , 64, English actor, injuries from a fall.Vincent Persichetti , 72, American composer and pianist.[ 43] Edgar Rosenberg , 61, German-born British film and television producer, suicide.[ 44] Shigeo Sasaki , 74, Japanese mathematician (Sasakian manifolds ).[ 45] Wylie Sypher , 81, American non-fiction writer.[ 46]
15
Konstantin Aleksandrov , 67, Soviet sailor and Olympian.[ 47] Hanna Greally , 63, Irish writer, incarcerated against her will in psychiatric hospital for 18 years.[ 48] Ubaldo Ragona , 70, Italian film director and screenwriter.Dan Sandifer , 60, American NFL player (Washington Redskins ), heart disease.[ 49] Robert Leonard Ewing Scott , 90, American convicted murderer.[ 50] Louis Scutenaire , 82, Belgian French-language poet and anarchist.[ 51] K. K. Shetty , 86, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
16
Pepe Cáceres , 52, Colombian bullfighter, complications from a goring.[ 52] Dorothy Hughes , 77, English-born Kenyan architect and politician.[ 53] Sumiko Kurishima , 85, Japanese actress, master of traditional Japanese dance.[ 54] Samuel Lubell , 75, American public opinion pollster and author, stroke.[ 55] Edwin Barnard Martin , 68, Canadian member of the British Free Corps in Nazi Germany.Andrei Mironov , 46, Soviet actor, complications from mis-administered drug.[ 56] Peter Schidlof , 65, Austrian-born British violist, co-founder of the Amadeus Quartet .[ 57] Nick Vanos , 24, American NBA basketballer (Phoenix Suns ), plane crash.[ 58] Charles H. Wesley , 95, American historian, minister and author.[ 59]
17
Leon Berkowitz , 75, American artist, cancer.[ 60] Frank Beswick , 75, British politician, deputy leader of the House of Lords.[ 61] Clarence Brown , 97, American film director (Anna Karenina National Velvet [ 62] Gary Chester , 62, American studio drummer and author.[ 63] Carlos Drummond de Andrade , 84, Brazilian poet and writer, heart attack.[ 64] Rudolf Hess , 93, German Nazi official, Deputy Führer, ostensibly suicide by hanging.[ 65] Harold McCluskey , 75, American chemical operations technician and radiation survivor, coronary artery disease.[ 66] Shaike Ophir , 58, Israeli actor, playwright and director (The Policeman [ 67] Antti Rantamaa , 52, Finnish priest, member of Finnish Parliament.Tjilik Riwut , 69, Indonesian Air Force officer, governor of Central Kalimantan , hepatitis.Heinz Schubert , 73, Nazi German SS officer and war criminal.Tillit Sidney Teddlie , 102, American singing teacher, composer and minister.[ 68]
18
Keerthisena Abeywickrama , 53, Sri Lankan politician, member of parliament, grenade attack.Shichirō Fukazawa , 73, Japanese author.Ralph Haver , 71–72, American architect (Haver Homes), pulmonary disease.[ 69] Dambudzo Marechera , 35, Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and poet, pulmonary disorder.[ 70]
19
Fergus Bowes-Lyon , 58, British nobleman and peer, heart attack.[ 71] Laxmi Narayan Mishra , 83, Indian Hindi play writer.Sachin Nag , 67, Indian swimmer and water polo player, Olympian.[ 72] Hayden Rorke , 76, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie [ 73] Paul Schlack , 89, German chemist.[ 74] Harold Sherman , 89, American writer and "parapsychologist ".[ 75] Yidnekatchew Tessema , 65, Ethiopian international footballer (Saint George , Ethiopia ).[ 76]
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Frances Mary Albrier , 88, American civil rights activist.Bombolo , (Franco Lechner), 56, Italian actor and comedian, complications from surgery.[ 78] Dorothy Adlington Cadbury , 94, English botanist and director of confectionery company Cadbury .[ 79] Steve Davis , 58, American jazz bassist (John Coltrane Quartet ).Li Fang-Kuei , 85, Chinese linguist.[ 80] Angelo Francesco Lavagnino , 78, Italian composer of film scores.Glesca Marshall , 80, American actress.[ 81] Irving Thalberg Jr. , 56, American author, son of Norma Shearer , cancer.[ 82]
22
Arne Brustad , 75, Norwegian international footballer (Lyn Fotball , Norway ) and Olympic medalist.[ 83] Leonard Caston , 70, American blues pianist and guitarist, heart disease.[ 84] Mary Dobkin , 84, Russian-born American amateur sports coach, stroke.[ 85] Joseph P. Lash , 77, American political activist, journalist and writer (Pulitzer Prize winner ), heart ailment.[ 86] Ted Sherdeman , 78, American radio producer and screenwriter (My Favorite Martian The Flying Nun Bewitched [ 87] John Milton Bryan Simpson , 84, American circuit judge.[ 88]
23
Griselda Allan , 81, English artist.Siegfried Borris , 80, German composer.Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. , 84, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cardiac arrest.[ 89] Sheila van Damm , 65, British motor rally driver, owner of Windmill Theatre in London.[ 90] Malcolm Kirk , 51, English professional wrestler and rugby league player (Featherstone Rovers ), died in the ring.[ 91] Paulo Navalho , 20, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer, heart attack during a game.[ 92] Didier Pironi , 35, French racing driver and power boat racer, powerboat racing accident.Stéphanos I Sidarouss , 83, Egyptian priest of the Coptic Catholic Church .[ 93]
24
Michèle Alfa , 76, French actress, hider of French Resistance leaders.Douglas Byng , 94, English comic singer and songwriter.[ 94] Carlos Cossio , 84, Argentinian university reformer, lawyer and professor.Wayne Hansen , 58, American NFL footballer (Chicago Bears ), bone cancer.[ 95] W. W. Keeler , 79, American engineer and oilman, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation .[ 96] Bayard Rustin , 75, American civil and gay rights activist, perforated appendix.[ 97]
25
Héctor Abad Gómez , 66, Colombian doctor, university professor and human rights leader, murdered.[ 98] Otto Höfler , 86, Austrian philologist specialising in Germanic studies.Sam Kahn , 75, South African politician, member of parliament.John Ortell Kingston , 68, American Trustee of the Davis County Cooperative Society, Utah.[ 99] Victor Stafford Reid , 74, Jamaican writer.[ 100] Fernando Ramos da Silva , 19, Brazilian actor (Pixote [ 101]
26
Vern Gardner , 62, American basketballer, stroke.[ 102] John Goddard , 68, Barbadian cricketer, captain of West Indies Test team .[ 103] Marcelo Ramos Motta , 56, Brazilian writer, heart attack.Alberto Socarras , 78, Cuban-American flautist.Georg Wittig , 90, German chemist (Wittig reaction ), Nobel laureate in Chemistry.[ 104]
27
Ben Branch , 59, American entrepreneur, jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader.[ 105] Joan Haythorne , 72, British actress.Scott La Rock , 25, American hip-hop disc jockey and music producer, murdered.[ 106] Peter Mehringer , 77, American freestyle wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.[ 107] Charlie Smalls , 43, American composer and songwriter, burst appendix.[ 108]
28
Lillian Chase , 93, Canadian physician, researcher in the treatment of diabetes.[ 109] John Huston , 81, American film director and actor (The Maltese Falcon The African Queen Moulin Rouge [ 110] Hoàng Cơ Minh , 52, Vietnamese Navy commodore-admiral, leader of anti-communist resistance.Harold Samuel , 75, British founder of Land Securities .[ 111] Jack Young , 62, Australian motorcycle speedway rider, Speedway World Champion .[ 112]
29
Naji al-Ali , 48–49, Palestinian cartoonist, assassinated.[ 113] Archie Campbell , 72, American comedian and writer, heart attack.[ 114] Bernadene Hayes , 75, American film and television actress (Some Like It Hot Dick Tracy's Dilemma [ 115] Lee Marvin , 63, American film and television actor (The Dirty Dozen The Big Heat [ 116] John R. Napier , 70, British primatologist, paleoanthropologist and physician.[ 117] Jean Schlumberger , 80, French jewellery designer.[ 118] Phillip Hagar Smith , 82, American electrical engineer (Smith chart ).[ 119]
30
Wade H. McCree , 67, American judge, Solicitor General of the United States , bone cancer.[ 120] George Mikes , 75, Hungarian-born British journalist and writer, leukemia.[ 121] Vic Silayan , 58, Filipino actor (Kisapmata Of the Flesh John C. Sjogren , 71, American soldier in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient, cancer.[ 122] Frank Stojack , 75, Canadian-born NFL footballer (Brooklyn Dodgers ), wrestler (world champion), Alzheimer's disease.[ 123] Dick Young , 69, American sportswriter (New York Daily News [ 124]
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