Deaths in December 1987
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 1987
1
James Baldwin , 63, African-American novelist, playwright and poet (Go Tell It on the Mountain [ 1] Donn F. Eisele , 57, American Air Force officer and NASA astronaut (Apollo 7 ), heart attack.[ 2] Buddy Fogelson , 87, American army colonel, businessman and horse & cattle breeder, husband of Greer Garson .[ 3] Punch Imlach , 69, Canadian NHL ice hockey coach and general manager (Toronto Maple Leafs , Buffalo Sabres ), heart attack.[ 4]
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Edward Barnsley , 87, English designer and maker of furniture.[ 5] Juan Alberto Melgar Castro , 57, Honduran army officer, president of Honduras , heart attack.[ 6] Robert Filliou , 61, French artist (Fluxus ).Trygve Henrik Hoff , 49, Norwegian singer, composer and writer.[ 7] Luis Federico Leloir , 81, French-born Argentinian physician and biochemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, heart attack.[ 8] Hubert Noël , 63, French film actor.Myrta Silva , 60, Puerto Rican singer, songwriter and television producer (Sonora Matancera ).[ 9] Ernst Steinhoff , 79, Nazi German rocket scientist.[ 10] Princess Red Wing , 91, American tribal elder.[ 11] Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich , 73, Soviet physicist (black hole evaporation ).[ 12]
3
Andrew Foster , 62, American pioneer of deaf education in African countries, plane crash.[ 13] Robert Haskell , 84, American politician, Governor of Maine .George Seawright , appr. 36, Scottish-born Northern Irish politician, paramilitary in Ulster Volunteer Force , assassinated.[ 14] Yevgeny Tolstikov , 74, Soviet polar explorer, Hero of the Soviet Union .[ 15] Dorin Liviu Zaharia , 43, Romanian musician and composer.
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Pericle Fazzini , 74, Italian painter and sculptor (The Resurrection [ 16] Bryan Fowler , 89, British polo player and Olympian.[ 17] Meinrad von Lauchert , 82, Nazi German Wehrmacht general.[ 18] Arnold Lobel , 54, American author of children's books (Frog and Toad Mouse Soup [ 19] Rouben Mamoulian , 90, Georgian-born American film and theatre director (Oklahoma! Carousel [ 20] Constantin Noica , 78, Romanian philosopher, essayist and poet.[ 21] Giorgio Prodi , 59, Italian medical scientist and oncologist .
5
Pappy Daily , 85, American country music record producer, co-founded record label Starday Records .[ 22] Leonid Dimov , 61, Romanian postmodernist poet and translator, heart attack.[ 23] Bobby Garrett , 55, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers ), heart attack.[ 24] Daud Kamal , 52, Pakistani poet.[ 25] Rudolf Mentzel , 87, German chemist and Nazi policy-maker.Molly O'Day , 64, American country music vocalist, cancer.[ 26] Conny Plank , 47, German record producer and musician, laryngeal cancer.Eugene Siler , 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[ 27]
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James Dobson , 67, American film and television actor (Flying Leathernecks [ 28] Peter Lorenz , 64, German politician, kidnapped by militants, heart attack.[ 29] David J. Schwartz , 60, American motivational writer and coach (The Magic of Thinking Big [ 30] Izler Solomon , 77, American orchestra conductor, heart failure.[ 31] Ba Swe , 72, Prime Minister of Burma.
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Gareth Bennett , 58, British Anglican priest, suicide.[ 32] Michael Crossley , 75, British World War II Royal Air Force flying ace.[ 33] Michael Hornby , 88, British vice chairman of retail chain WHSmith .[ 34] Jane Mouton , 57, American management theorist.Jaime Ongpin , 49, Filipino businessman and politician, Secretary of Finance , suicide.[ 35] Helen Porter , 88, British botanist from Imperial College London .[ 36] Denis Rogers , 70, New Zealand doctor and local politician (Mayor of Hamilton ), heart attack.
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Fay Baker , 70, American actress and writer (The House on Telegraph Hill Sigrid Helliesen Lund , 95, Norwegian peace activist, notably in World War II.[ 37] Yolanda Vadiz , 28, Puerto Rican soprano, carbon monoxide poisoning.Ulfert Wilke , 80, German-born American painter, museum director and art collector (abstract expressionism ), stroke.[ 38] Notable individuals killed in the 1987 Alianza Lima plane crash :[ 39] Marcos Calderón , 59, Peruvian football coach and player (Sport Boys , Peru ).Luis Antonio Escobar , 18, Peruvian international footballer (Club Alianza Lima , Peru ).José González Ganoza , 33, Peruvian international footballer (Club Alianza Lima , Peru ).Alfredo Tomassini , 23, Peruvian footballer (Club Alianza Lima ).Johnny Watson , 24, Peruvian footballer (Club Alianza Lima ).
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Giovanni Arpino , 60, Italian writer and journalist (L'ombra delle colline Jascha Heifetz , 86, Lithuanian-born American violinist, complications from a fall.[ 41] Carlota Jaramillo , 83, Ecuadorian pasillo singer, complications from a fall.Stylianos Kyriakides , 77, Greek Cypriot marathon runner and Olympian.[ 42] Denis Sanders , 58, American film director and producer (A Time Out of War [ 43] Slam Stewart , 73, American jazz double bass player, heart failure.[ 44]
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G. A. Kulkarni , 64, Indian writer of short stories.Emil Mazuw , 87, German governor of the Province of Pomerania , convicted of war crimes.William Thornton Mustard , 73, Canadian physician and cardiac surgeon, heart attack.[ 45] Rosi Wolfstein , 99, German socialist politician.
12
Bodil Begtrup , 84, Danish women's rights activist, chairman of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women .[ 46] Clifton Chenier , 62, American musician, pioneer of zydeco , kidney disease.[ 47] Enrique Jorrín , 60, Cuban charanga violinist, composer and music director.Nolan Leary , 98, American actor and playwright.[ 48] Pinky Tomlin , 80, American songwriter, bandleader and actor, heart attack.[ 49]
13
Julien Darui , 71, French international footballer (CO Roubaix-Tourcoing , France ).[ 50] Bil Dwyer , 80, American cartoonist and humourist (Dumb Dora Bernard Epton , 66, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives , coronary.[ 51] Na. Parthasarathy , 54, Indian writer of Tamil historical novels.Josefina Passadori , 87, Italian-born Argentine writer and poet.Elias Porter , 73, American psychologist.Stanisław Radkiewicz , 84, Polish communist activist, Minister of Public Security .Claude T. Smith , 55, American band conductor and composer.George Wunder , 75, American cartoonist and comic illustrator (Terry and the Pirates [ 52]
14
Copi , (Raúl Damonte Botana), 48, Argentinian writer, cartoonist and playwright, AIDS.[ 53] Merlyn Hans Dethlefsen , 53, American officer of the U.S. Air Force, Medal of Honor recipient.[ 54] Tim Dinsdale , 63, British cryptozoologist , attempted to prove existence of Loch Ness Monster , heart attack.Siegfried Haß , 89, Nazi German Wehrmacht general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.[ 55] Milt Josefsberg , 76, American screenwriter, stroke.[ 56] Georg Knöpfle , 83, German international footballer, coach and Olympian (FSV Frankfurt , Germany ).[ 57] Valentina Kulagina , 85, Russian painter and designer of books, posters and exhibitions.Mogens Lassen , 86, Danish architect and designer.Nikos Stavridis , 77, Greek film and theatre actor.[ 58] J. P. Strom , 69, American law enforcement officer, chief of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division , heart attack.[ 59] John Winterton , 89, British Army officer, Military Governor and Commander of the Free Territory of Trieste .
15
Seitnebi Abduramanov , 73, Soviet soldier in the Red Army, recipient of the Order of Glory .Septima Poinsette Clark , 89, American educator and civil rights activist.[ 60] George Fulford , 85, Canadian businessman and politician, House of Commons member.[ 61] Ángel Infante , 73, Mexican actor and singer.[ 62] Ivo Lapenna , 78, Italian law professor, president of the Universal Esperanto Association .[ 63] Ray Malavasi , 57, American NFL football coach (Los Angeles Rams , Denver Broncos ), heart attack.[ 64] Pierre Massé , 89, French economist, engineer, applied mathematician and high official in the French government.Tiny Moore , 67, American Western swing musician.[ 65] P. Ramamurthi , 79, Indian politician, Communist Party of India member.Elisabeth Zaisser , 89, German politician, East German Minister of Education.Alfred Zerbel , 83, Nazi German Wehrmacht officer, West German Bundeswehr general.[ 66]
16
Leonard Beecher , 81, English-born Anglican Archbishop of East Africa.Hob Broun , 37, American author, asphyxiation.[ 67] Minnie Evans , 95, American artist.[ 68] Albert P. Morano , 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, cerebral hemorrhage.[ 69] John Russell , 66, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
17
Bernardus Johannes Alfrink , 87, Dutch cardinal, Archbishop of Utrecht.[ 70] Irving Allen , 82, Austro-Hungarian–born American theatre and film producer and director (Climbing the Matterhorn [ 71] Georges Burou , 77, French gynecologist (sex reassignment surgery ), drowned.Arkady Raikin , 76, Soviet comedian, actor and director.[ 72] Lucy Walker , (Dorothy Lucie Sanders), 80, Australian romance novelist.[ 73] Linda Wong , 36, American pornographic actress, drug overdose.Marguerite Yourcenar , 84, Belgian-born French-American novelist and essayist (Memoirs of Hadrian [ 74]
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Murat Aitkhozhin , 48, Soviet molecular biologist.Ralph Waldo Christie , 94, American admiral in the U.S. Navy.[ 78] Hermann Claasen , 87, German photographer.Leo Jung , 95, American architect of Orthodox Judaism.[ 79] John F. O'Leary , 61, American administrator of Federal Energy Administration and director of U.S. Bureau of Mines , cancer.[ 80] C. Donald Peterson , 69, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives , cancer.[ 81] Esther Shiner , 63, Canadian municipal politician, deputy mayor of New York.André de la Varre , 83, American filmmaker of travel documentaries.
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Fred R. Feitshans Jr. , 78, American film editor (Wild in the Streets [ 85] Carl E. McGowan , 76, American lawyer and U.S. circuit judge, cancer.[ 86] Ralph Nelson , 71, American film and television director, writer and actor (Lilies of the Field Father Goose Charly [ 87] Robert Paige , 76, American actor and TV newscaster and political correspondent (Son of Dracula [ 88] Henry Strater , 91, American painter and illustrator, founded the Ogunquit Museum of American Art .[ 89]
22
A. N. Alcaff , 62, Indonesian actor and film director.Henry Cotton , 80, English professional golfer, three-time British Open winner.[ 90] Roderick Firth , 70, American philosopher, professor of philosophy at Harvard , pneumonia.[ 91] Gustav Fröhlich , 85, German actor and film director (Metropolis [ 92] Mimí Langer , 77, Austrian-born Latin American psychoanalyst and human rights activist, cancer.Paule Marrot , 85, French textile designer.John McMichael , 39, Northern Irish loyalist (Ulster Defence Association ), car bomb.[ 93] Dudley Meredith , 52, American AFL footballer (Buffalo Bills ).[ 94] Dorothy M. Needham , 91, English biochemist (muscle biochemistry ).[ 95] Geoffrey Parsons , 77, English lyricist.José do Patrocínio Oliveira , 83, Brazilian musician and voice actor.Luca Prodan , 34, Italian-Scottish musician based in Argentina (Sumo ).T. Ranganathan , 62, Indian-born American Carnatic musician.[ 96] Alice Terry , 88, American film actress and director (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse [ 97]
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Roy M. Davenport , 78, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.[ 99] Nino Espinosa , 34, Dominican Major League baseballer (New York Mets ), heart attack.[ 100] Eugen Kogon , 84, German historian and Nazi concentration camp survivor.[ 101] John Wesley Hanes II , 95, American investment banker, Under Secretary of the Treasury , Alzheimer's Disease.[ 102] Betty Noyes , 75, American singer and actress (Singin' in the Rain Josef Myrow , 77, Russian Empire–born American composer ("You Make Me Feel So Young "), Parkinson's disease.[ 103] M. G. Ramachandran , 70, Indian actor and politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , heart attack and stroke.[ 104] Manoug Parikian , 67, Turkish-born British concert violinist.[ 105] Sara Scuderi , 81, Italian opera singer.[ 106] Joop den Uyl , 68, Dutch politician and journalist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands , brain tumour.[ 107] Kulwant Singh Virk , 66, Indian author, stroke.
25
Alexander Gregory Barmine , 88, Soviet Army defector to the U.S.A., stroke[ 108] Ruth Bonner , 87, Soviet Communist activist.[ 109] John H. Humphrey , 72, British bacteriologist and immunologist, co-founded the British Society for Immunology .[ 110] Vadim Knizhnik , 25, Soviet physicist (Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equations ), heart attack.Gene "Bowlegs" Miller , 54, American trumpeter and band leader, stroke.[ 111] Zita Moulton , 104, American model and actress of theatre and film.Nat Tarnopol , 56, American record producer, heart failure.Victor Whitsey , 71, British Church of England Bishop of Hertford and Chester , sexual abuser.[ 112]
26
J. A. Baker , 61, English author (The Peregrine [ 113] S. M. Banerjee , 68, Indian politician, trade unionist and communist sympathiser, member of the Lok Sabha .Dorothy Bliss , 71, American carcinologist , cancer.[ 114] Neil Colville , 73, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (New York Rangers ).[ 115] Melford Stevenson , 85, English barrister and High Court judge, heart attack.[ 116] Leslie Thompson , 86, Jamaican-born English jazz trumpeter and trombonist.Luis E. Valcárcel , 96, Peruvian historian, anthropologist and writer, Minister of Education .
27
Rewi Alley , 90, New Zealand-born Chinese writer and political activist, member of the Chinese Communist Party .[ 117] John Astor , 64, British politician, Member of Parliament.[ 118] Manoj Basu , 86, Indian writer of Bengali novels and short stories.Shanti Devi , 61, Indian woman who claimed to remember her previous life.Priscilla Dean , 91, American theatre and silent-screen actress (The Gray Ghost [ 119] Josef Grohé , 85, German Nazi Party official, Gauleiter of Gau Cologne-Aachen .[ 120] Bernard Hailstone , 77, English painter.Theodore Pike , 83, Irish colonial administrator and rugby union international, governor of British Somaliland .Stepan Popel , 78, Ukrainian chess champion.Wilbur Schramm , 80, American scholar and authority on mass communication .[ 121] Anthony West , 73, English author and literary critic, son of H. G. Wells , stroke.[ 122]
28
Happy Akhand , 27, Bangladeshi rock singer and songwriter (Miles .[ 123] George I. Forsythe , 69, American general of the U.S. Army.[ 124] John Hunt , 82, British general practitioner, co-founded the Royal College of General Practitioners .[ 125] Edward Kleban , 48, American musical theatre composer and lyricist, throat cancer.[ 126] Charles Malik , 81, Lebanese diplomat, philosopher and politician, Lebanese representative to the U.N., kidney failure.[ 127] Joseph Sittler , 83, American Lutheran minister and theologian, cancer.[ 128]
29
John F. Aiso , 78, American nisei military leader, lawyer and judge, head injury sustained in a mugging.[ 129] Sheldon Andelson , 56, American higher education administrator and a political fund-raiser, AIDS.[ 130] Patrick Bissell , 30, American ballet dancer (American Ballet Theatre ), overdose.[ 131] Brigitte Heinrich , 46, German journalist and politician, member of the European Parliament , heart attack.[ 132] Jun Ishikawa , 88, Japanese author, lung cancer.Wilbert E. Moore , 73, American sociologist, president of the American Sociological Association .[ 133] Ulysses Kae Williams , 66, American DJ, record label owner and producer.Yanina Zhejmo , 78, Soviet actress.
30
Leslie Arliss , 86, English screenwriter and director (The Man in Grey The Wicked Lady [ 134] Datta Naik , 60, Indian film music director.Manolo Urquiza , 67, Cuban-born media personality.Theodore Zichy , 79, British actor, photographer and film director, suicide.
31
George Doherty , 67, American NFL footballer, college coach and athletics administrator, heart attack.Merle Evans , 96, American cornet player and circus band conductor (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ).[ 135] Randall Garrett , 60, American science fiction and fantasy author (Lord Darcy Gene Leggett , 52, American Methodist minister, defrocked for being homosexual, hepatitis.Leo Steiner , 47–48, American restauranteur, co-owner of Carnegie Deli , brain tumour.[ 136] Jerry Turner , 58, American television news anchorman, esophageal cancer.[ 137]
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Malcolm Butler , 75, Northern Irish international footballer (Accrington Stanley , Ireland ).Michael Clemente , 79, New York mobster in the Genovese crime family .Dorothy K. Haynes , 68–69, Scottish horror and supernatural writer, breast cancer.Kurt Frederick Ludwig , 83–84, Nazi German spy.Birendra Nath Mazumdar , 82, Indian medical officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps .Marcus Owen , 52, Welsh professional snooker player.Ian Wilson , 86, English actor.
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