Deaths in January 1988
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 1988.
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.
January 1988[edit]
1[edit]
- Margot Bryant, 90, English stage and television actress.
- Marcel Hillaire, 79, German-American character actor.
- Clementine Hunter, 101, American folk artist.
- Anwar Hussain, 62, Indian actor and producer.
- John S. Millis, 84, American president of Western Reserve College, cancer.[1]
- Anatoli Nenartovich, 72, Russian painter.
- Rolf Presthus, 51, Norwegian politician and lawyer, member of the Norwegian Parliament, cerebral hemorrhage.[2]
- Max Siegel, 69, American psychologist, president of American Psychological Association, heart attack.
- Anna Sipos, 79, Hungarian international table tennis player and world champion.
- Dan Spring, 77, Irish Labour Party politician and Gaelic footballer.
2[edit]
- Dada Bhagwan, 79, Indian spiritual leader.
- Bill Crawford-Compton, 72, New Zealand flying ace of Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
- E. B. Ford, 86, British ecological geneticist.[3]
- Jesse Gray, 64, American civil rights leader and politician.[4]
- Fritz Heider, 91, Austrian psychologist.
- Peter Mills, 61, English eccentric and pretender.
- Varadarajan Mudaliar, 61, Indian crime boss, heart attack.
3[edit]
- Rose Ausländer, 86, Austro-Hungarian-poet.[5]
- William Cagney, 82, American film producer and actor, brother of James Cagney.
- Joie Chitwood, 75, American racecar driver and businessman.
- Lance Collins, 71, Australian rules footballer.
- John Dopyera, 94, Slovak-American inventor and entrepreneur.
- Gaston Eyskens, 82, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Belgium.[6]
- Bill Gibb, 44, Scottish fashion designer, bowel cancer.
- Nando González, 66, Spanish international footballer.
- Gladys Lunn, 79, English middle-distance runner and javelin thrower.
- Franz Muxeneder, 67, Austrian actor.
4[edit]
- Leo de Block, 83, Dutch politician and businessman.
- William Gilpin, 85, English bishop.
- Henfil, 43, Brazilian cartoonist, caricaturist, journalist and writer, AIDS from blood transfusion.
- Lily Laskine, 94, French harpist.[7]
- Carl Shipp Marvel, 93, American chemist.
5[edit]
- Joe Keohane, 69, Irish Gaelic football manager, selector and player.
- \"Pistol\" Pete Maravich, 40, American basketball player, heart failure.[8]
- Go Mishima, 63–64, Japanese homoerotic fetish artist, founder of magazine Sabu, complications from cirrhosis.
- Herbert Waddell, 85, Scottish international rugby union player.
6[edit]
- Bern Dibner, 90, Ukrainian-American electrical engineer, industrialist and historian of science and technology.[9]
7[edit]
- Michel Auclair, 65, Weimar-actor.
- Cyril Gwynn, 90, British poet.
- Trevor Howard, 74, English stage, film and television actor, cirrhosis of the liver.[10]
- Arthur R. M. Lower, 98, Canadian historian.
- Venko Markovski, 72, Bulgarian and Macedonian writer, poet, partisan and Communist politician.
- Michael Mills, 68, English television producer and director.
- Marilyn Schreffler, 42, American voice actress, colorectal infection caused by liver cancer.
- Alfred Ubbelohde, 80, Belgian-English physical chemist.
8[edit]
- Ray Bauduc, 81, American jazz drummer.[11]
- Gérard Buhr, 59, French film and television actor.
- Jared French, 82, American painter.[12]
- Einar Gjerstad, 90, Swedish archaeologist.
- Boyd "Red" Morgan, 72, American NFL footballer, movie actor and stuntman.
- Frank Pace, 75, American politician and business executive, U.S. Secretary of the Army, heart attack.
- Chen Bing Sun, 73–74, Chinese-Filipino artist, playwright and songwriter, cancer.[13]
9[edit]
- Gregory Ain, 79, American architect.
- Juraj Krnjević, 92, Croatian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia.
- Thierry Maulnier, 78, French journalist, essayist, dramatist and literary critic.
- Jukichi Uno, 73, Japanese actor.
10[edit]
- Hilde Bussmann, 73, German international table tennis player and world champion.
- Hugh A. Robertson, 55, American film director and editor.[14]
11[edit]
- Pappy Boyington, 75, American combat pilot and U.S. Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II, lung cancer.
- Robert F. Kennon, 85, American politician and judge, Governor of Louisiana.[15]
- Isidor Isaac Rabi, 89, Austro-Hungarian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Laureate, cancer.[16]
- John J. Williams, 83, American businessman and politician, U.S. Senator.
12[edit]
- Joe Albany, 63, American modern jazz pianist.[17]
- Hiram Bingham IV, 84, American diplomat.[18]
- Suniti Choudhury, 70, Indian nationalist.
- Connie Mulder, 62, South African politician and cabinet minister.
- Piero Taruffi, 81, Italian racing driver.
- F. D. Washington, 75, American minister.
13[edit]
- Viktors Arājs, 78, Russian-Nazi officer.
- Chiang Ching-kuo, 77, Chinese politician, eldest son of Chiang Kai-shek, heart attack.[19]
- Donald Healey, 89, English car designer, rally driver and speed record holder.[20]
- Kenneth Marks, 67, British politician, member of Parliament.
- Mavelikara Krishnankutty Nair, 67, Indian Carnatic Mridangam player.
14[edit]
- Walter Assef, 74, Canadian politician and Vaudevillian, mayor of Thunder Bay.
- Jimmy Maelen, 47, American percussionist, leukemia.
- Georgy Malenkov, 86, Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union.[21]
15[edit]
- Seán MacBride, 83, Irish Republican Army leader and politician, recipient of Nobel Peace Prize.[22]
- Viana Moog, 81, Brazilian lawyer, journalist, novelist and essayist.
- Maurice K. Temerlin, 64, American psychologist and author.
16[edit]
- Andrija Artuković, 88, Croatian lawyer and politician, Minister of Interior of Croatia.
- Ballard Berkeley, 83, English actor of stage and screen.
- Otto Degener, 88, American botanist and conservationist.
- Harlan Hubbard, 88, American artist and writer.
- Joseph Hutchinson, 85, British biologist.
- Lakshmi Kant Jha, 74, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.[23]
- Adelfo Magallanes, 77, Peruvian footballer.
17[edit]
- Leela Mishra, 80, Indian actress, heart attack.
- Roy Padilla Sr., 61, Filipino politician, governor of Camarines Norte, assassinated.
- Edward Weinfeld, 86, Judge of the U.S. District Court.[24]
18[edit]
- Val Doube, 73, Australian politician, 73, Victorian Minister of Health.
- Jean Mitry, 83, French film theorist, critic and filmmaker.[25]
- Santiago Polanco-Abreu, 67, resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.
- John Rossiter, 74, Australian politician, member of Victorian Legislative Assembly, father of Susan Renouf.
19[edit]
- Bridget Boland, 74, Irish-British screenwriter, playwright and novelist.
- Gladys Elphick, 83, Australian founding president of the Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia.
- Yevgeny Mravinsky, 84, Russian conductor and pianist.
20[edit]
- Paul Esser, 74, German stage and television actor, and voice actor.
- Abdul Ghaffar Khan, 97, Pakistani independence activist, complications of a stroke.[26]
- Philippe de Rothschild, 85, French Grand Prix motor racing driver, screenwriter and playwright.[27]
- James D. Theberge, 57, American diplomat, United States ambassador to Nicaragua and Chile, heart attack.[28]
21[edit]
- Vincent Lingiari, 79, Australian Aboriginal rights activist.
- Joe Mooney, 71, Irish senator.
- Abraham Sofaer, 91, Burmese-British actor of stage, film and television, congestive heart failure.
- Zev Vilnay, 87, Moldovan-Israeli geographer, author and lecturer.[29]
22[edit]
- Marvin Felix Camillo, 50–51, American theater director and actor.
- Parker Fennelly, 96, American actor of film, television and radio.[30]
23[edit]
- Dan Daniel, 73, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.[31]
- Johnny Gee, 72, American Major League baseballer.[32]
- Charles Glen King, 91, American biochemist.[33]
- Hollingsworth Morse, 77, American television director.
24[edit]
- Anthony Courtney, 79, British Royal Navy officer and politician.[34]
- Werner Fenchel, 82, German-Danish mathematician.
25[edit]
- Steve Chomyszak, 43, American AFL and NFL footballer, pancreatic cancer.
- Colleen Moore, 88, American silent-screen actress, cancer.[35]
- Chen Shixiang, 82, Chinese entomologist.
26[edit]
- Paul G. Goebel, 86, American NFL footballer.
- Gershon Iskowitz, 68, Polish-Canadian artist.
- Hugh J. Schonfield, 86, British bible scholar.[36]
- Raymond Williams, 66, Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic.[37]
- Freddie Wolff, 77, British sprinter and Olympic gold medalist.
27[edit]
- Massa Makan Diabaté, 49, Malian historian, author and playwright.
- Kemal Faruki, 77, Turkish international footballer.
- Edward Pawley, 86, American actor of radio, films and Broadway.
28[edit]
- Klaus Fuchs, 76, German theoretical physicist and Soviet spy.[38]
29[edit]
- Mihiel Gilormini, 69, American U.S. Air Force officer in World War II.
- James Rhyne Killian, 83, American president of MIT, chair of President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
- Seth Neddermeyer, 80, American physicist, complications of Parkinson's disease.
- Rogier van Otterloo, 46, Dutch composer and conductor, mesothelioma.
30[edit]
- Bum Day, 89, American footballer.
- Robert Juday, 87, American high jumper and Olympian.
- S. K. Wankhede, 73, Indian cricket administrator, politician, Deputy speaker of Bombay Legislative Assembly.
31[edit]
- David Ahern, 40, Australian composer and music critic, asthma attack.
- Helen Marie Black, 91, American cultural and civic leader, journalist and publicist.
- Homer Brightman, 86, American screenwriter.
- Wallace Kyle, 78, Australian Air Chief Marshal, Governor of Western Australia.
- Al Laney, 92, American sportswriter.[39]
- Charley Way, 90, American football player and coach.
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- ^ "Rolf Presthus, Norwegian Party Chief, 51". The New York Times. January 5, 1988. p. B 8. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ The Annual Obituary. St. Martin's. 1988. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-55862-050-6.
- ^ "Jesse Gray, 64, Leader Of Harlem Rent Strikes". The New York Times. April 5, 1988. p. D 25. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
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- ^ "Lily Laskin, Harpist, 94". The New York Times. January 5, 1988. p. B 8. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ David Walton; John Gardella (2001). Official NBA Register. Andrews McMeel Pub. p. 407. ISBN 978-0-89204-655-3.
- ^ "Bern Dibner Dies at 90; Historian and Engineer". The New York Times. January 8, 1988. p. D 15. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ Terence Pettigrew (2001). Trevor Howard: A Personal Biography. P. Owen Publishers. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-7206-1124-3.
- ^ "Ray Bauduc, Drummer, 81". The New York Times. January 13, 1988. p. D 24. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ "Jared French Is Dead; Figural Artist Was 82". The New York Times. January 20, 1988. p. B 4. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ "Remembering \"The Father of Chinese Painting in the Philippines\"". dzfe.febc.ph.
- ^ "Hugh A. Robertson, Film Maker, 55". The New York Times. January 14, 1988. p. B 8. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ "Robert F. Kennon, 85; A Louisiana Governor". The New York Times. January 13, 1988. p. D 25. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
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- ^ "Joe Albany, 63, Dies; Master of Jazz Piano". The New York Times. January 16, 1988. p. 1 10. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ "Hiram Bingham; Diplomat, 84". The New York Times. January 17, 1988. p. 1 34. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
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- ^ "Donald Healey; Sports Car Designer, 89". The New York Times. January 17, 1988. p. 1 34. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
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- ^ "Lakshmi Jha, Indian Economist And Former Envoy, Is Dead at 74". The New York Times. January 17, 1988. p. 1 34. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ "Edward Weinfeld Memorial". The New York Times. April 10, 1988. p. 1 36. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ "Jean Mitry, Film Historian, 83". The New York Times. January 20, 1988. p. B 4. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ "Abdul Ghaffar Khan, 98, a Follower of Gandhi". The New York Times. January 21, 1988. p. B 4. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
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- ^ "James D. Theberge; Former Ambassador, 56". The New York Times. January 24, 1988. p. 1 34. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ "Zev Vilnay, Geographer, 87". The New York Times. January 23, 1988. p. 1 10. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ Eleanor Blau (January 23, 1988). "Parker W. Fennelly Dies at 96; Was Actor in Radio, Film and TV". The New York Times. p. 1 10. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ "Dan Daniel, Virginia Congressman, Is Dead at 73". The New York Times. January 24, 1988. p. 1 34. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ "Johnny Gee Former Pitcher, 72". The New York Times. January 26, 1988. p. B 6. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ Stacey Okun (January 25, 1988). "C.G. King, 91, Dies; Found Vitamin C In Nutrition Study". The New York Times. p. B 9. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ "Anthony Courtney, 79; Entrapped by K.G.B.". The New York Times. January 27, 1988. p. D 23. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
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- ^ "H.J. Schonfield, 81, Author and Editor Of Books on Religion". The New York Times. January 28, 1988. p. B 5. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ "Raymond Williams, British Writer, 66, Dies". The New York Times. January 29, 1988. p. B 5. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
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- ^ "Al Laney, Sportswriter, 92". The New York Times. February 3, 1988. p. B 6. Retrieved April 17, 2024.