Deaths in March 1988
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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1988[edit]
1[edit]
- Joe Besser, 80, American actor, comedian and musician, heart failure.[1]
- Tommy Breen, 75, Irish international footballer.
- George B. Harper, 69, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate.
- Yoshi Katō, 75, Japanese stage and film actor.
- Luis Márquez, 62, Puerto Rican Major League baseballer, murdered.
- Tommy Potter, 69, American jazz double bassist.
- Jean Le Poulain, 63, French stage actor and director.[2]
2[edit]
- Raymond Hewitt, 47, American civil rights activist, leader of the Black Panther Party, heart attack.
- Harry Lundahl, 82, Swedish international footballer and manager.
- Thomas Vezzetti, 59–60, American politician, mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, heart attack.[3]
3[edit]
- Harold Langley, 84, British triple jumper and Olympian.
- Henryk Szeryng, 69, Polish-Mexican violinist, cerebral hemorrhage.[4]
- Lois Wilson, 93, American silent-screen actress, pneumonia.[5]
- Sewall Wright, 98, American geneticist.
4[edit]
- James Peter Davis, 83, American Roman Catholic bishop.[6]
- Bobby Etheridge, 54, English footballer and first-class cricketer.
- J. Brooke Mosley, 72, American bishop.
- Franco Scalamandré, 89, Italian-American textile designer, co-founder of Scalamandré Inc.
5[edit]
- Ron Coe, 91, English professional cyclist.
- Santosh Dutta, 62, Bengali actor.
- Lewis J. Fields, 78, American lieutenant general in U.S. Marine Corps.
- János Németh, 81, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic gold medalist.
- Alberto Olmedo, 54, Argentine comedian and actor, fall from building.
- Mathilde Pincus, 70–71, American music supervisor.[7]
- Rudolph Schaeffer, 101, American arts educator and artist.
6[edit]
- Jeanne Aubert, 88, French singer and actress.
- Mairéad Farrell, 31, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.
- Joan Hassall, 82, English wood engraver and book illustrator.
- Daniel McCann, 30, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.
- Dick Ricketts, 54, American Major League baseballer and NBA basketballer, leukemia.
- Seán Savage, 23, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.
7[edit]
- Edmund Berkeley, 79, American computer scientist.
- Guido Celano, 83, Italian actor, voice actor and film director.
- Divine, 42, American singer, actor and drag queen, heart failure.[8]
- Martin Finn, 70, Irish politician.
- Robert Livingston, 83, American film actor.[9]
- Joe Loco, 66, Puerto Rican Latin jazz and pop pianist and arranger.
- Prakash Mehrotra, 63, Indian politician.
- Olof Stahre, 78, Swedish Army officer, horse rider and Olympic gold medalist.
8[edit]
- Gordon Carpenter, 68, American basketballer and Olympic gold medalist.
- Amar Singh Chamkila, 27, Indian singer and musician, gunned down.
- Ken Colyer, 59, English jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
- Werner Hartmann, 76, German physicist, complications after prostate surgery.
- Frank Osborne, 91, South-African-English international footballer.
- Lala Abdul Rashid, 65, Pakistani hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
9[edit]
- Ronald Cove-Smith, 88, English international rugby union player, vice-president of British Medical Association.
- Milton Galamison, 64, American Presbyterian minister.[10]
- Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 83, West German politician, Chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany.[11]
- M. E. Aldrich Rope, 96, English stained-glass artist.
- M. B. Sreenivasan, 62, Indian music director, heart attack.
10[edit]
- Glenn Cunningham, 78, American middle-distance runner and Olympic medalist.[12]
- Andy Gibb, 30, English singer, songwriter and performer, myocarditis.[13]
- Svetislav Glišović, 74, Yugoslavian international footballer and manager.
- Phạm Hùng, 75, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.[14]
- Nikolay Karakulov, 69, Soviet sprinter and European champion.
- Abdul Khaliq, 54, Pakistani sprinter.
- Jock Semple, 84, Scottish-American runner and sports official, cancer of the liver and pancreas.
- Joey Sternaman, 88, American NFL footballer.
- William Wordsworth, 79, English composer.
11[edit]
- Rashid Bakr, 54, Sudanese politician, Prime Minister of Sudan.
- Christianna Brand, 80, British crime writer and children's author.
- Khurshid Hasan Khurshid, 64, Indian-Pakistani politician, President of Azad Kashmir, road accident.
- Jackie O'Driscoll, 66, Irish international footballer.
12[edit]
- Samaresh Basu, 63, Indian writer.
- Romare Bearden, 76, American artist, author and songwriter, complications from bone cancer.[15]
- Arnold Bell, 86, British actor.
- DeWitt Bodeen, 79, American film screenwriter and television writer.
- Charles Cochran Kirkpatrick, 80, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.
- Alvin McCoy, 84, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.
- Bernard Rudofsky, 82, Austrian-American writer and architect.[16]
- Karen Steele, 56, American actress and model, cancer.
13[edit]
- Dino Bovoli, 73, Italian footballer and coach.
- Olive Carey, 92, American film and television actress.[17]
- John Holmes, 43, American pornographic film actor, cardio-respiratory arrest and encephalitis due to AIDS.[18]
- Patesko, 77, Brazilian international footballer.
- Vladimir Sakson, 60, Soviet painter, book illustrator and stage designer.
- Steno, 71, Italian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.
14[edit]
- Abbas Abbasi, 63, Pakistani hereditary leader, Nawab and Amir of Bahawalpur State.
- Willi Apel, 94, German-American musicologist and author.
- Bruno Balz, 85, German songwriter.
- Rudolf Gramlich, 79, SS officer and German international footballer.
- Henrik Malyan, 62, Georgian-Armenian film director and writer.
- Saul Weingeroff, 72, American professional wrestling manager.
15[edit]
- Ron Camm, 73, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
- Chevene Bowers King, 64, American attorney and civil rights leader, prostate cancer.
- Ruth Crosby Noble, 91, American author and herpetologist.[19]
- Frank Perkins, 79, American song composer.
- Dmitri Polyakov, 66, Ukrainian-Soviet operative and spy for the United States, executed by shooting.
- William J. Porter, 73, British-American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Algeria, South Korea, Canada and Saudi Arabia, cancer.[20]
- Victor Wickersham, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
16[edit]
- Dorothy Adams, 88, American actress of stage, film and television.
- António Augusto Peixoto Correia, 74, Portuguese colonial governor of Cape Verde, Governor-general of Guinea-Bissau.
- Rollie Dotsch, 75, American football coach, pancreatic cancer.
- Paul Kohner, 85, Austro-Hungarian–born American talent agent and producer, heart attack.[21]
- Albert Kónya, 70, Hungarian physicist and politician, Minister of Education.
- Erich Probst, 60, Austrian international footballer.
- Dannie Richmond, 56, American jazz drummer, heart attack.[22]
- Jigger Statz, 90, American Major League baseballer.
- Luther Merritt Swygert, 83, United States circuit judge.
- Mickey Thompson, 59, American auto racing builder and promoter, gunned down.
17[edit]
- Bruce C. Clarke, 86, United States Army general, stroke.[23]
- Roland Drew, 87, American actor.[24]
- Leif Granli, 78, Norwegian politician, President of the Storting.
- Reg Halton, 71, English footballer and Minor Counties cricketer.
- Franz-Otto Krüger, 70, German film and television actor.
- Tan Siew Sin, 71, Malaysian politician, Minister of Finance.
18[edit]
- Gerald Abraham, 84, English musicologist, editor and music critic.
- Billy Butterfield, 71, American jazz bandleader, trumpeter, flugelhornist and cornetist.[25]
- Waldemar Sjölander, 80, Swedish painter, printmaker and sculptor.
- Percy Thrower, 75, British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer.
19[edit]
- Reyner Banham, 66, English architectural critic and writer.[26]
- Sabino Barinaga, 65, Spanish footballer and manager, heart disease.
- Philip Birnbaum, 83, American religious author and translator.[27]
- John Otis Brew, 81, American archaeologist.
- Bun Cook, 84, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
- Máirtín Ó Direáin, 77, Irish poet.
- Suzy Frelinghuysen, (a.k.a. Suzy Morris), 76, American abstract painter and opera singer, stroke.[28]
- Sid Harkreader, 90, American fiddle player and string band leader.
20[edit]
- Dick Bell, 74, Canadian politician, member of the Canadian Parliament.
- Gil Evans, 75, Canadian-American jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, peritonitis from prostate surgery.[29]
- Samuel W. Reynolds, 97, United States senator.
- Agnes Wright Spring, 94, American journalist, writer and historian.
21[edit]
- Virginia Axline, 76, American psychologist.
- Marie Burke, 93, English actress of stage, cinema and television.
- Walter Fricke, 72, German professor of theoretical astronomy, mathematician and cryptanalyst, cancer.
- Edd Roush, 94, American Major League baseballer.
- Charley Shipp, 74, American NBA basketballer and coach.
- Sigfrit Steiner, 81, Swiss actor.
- Patrick Steptoe, 74, English obstetrician and gynaecologist, pioneer of in-vitro fertilisation.[30]
22[edit]
- Gudmund Harlem, 70, Norwegian physician and politician.
- Rudolf Matz, 86, Croatian composer.
- Lester Rawlins, 63, American stage, screen and television actor, cardiac arrest.[31]
- P. B. A. Weerakoon, 88, Sri Lankan educator and politician, member of the Ceylon Parliament.
23[edit]
- Jimmy Jacobs, 58, American handball player, leukemia.
- Isaiah L. Kenen, 83, Canadian-American journalist, lawyer and philanthropist.
- Murder of Deborah Linsley, 22, English murder victim.
- Dayton Lummis, 84, American film, television and theatre actor.
- Geoff McInnes, 79, Australian rules footballer.
- Pash, 37, Indian poet, gunned down.
24[edit]
- Heinrich Aigner, 63, German politician.
- Turhan Feyzioğlu, 65–66, Turkish academic and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey.
- Abdullahi Issa, 67, Somali politician, Prime Minister of Italian Somalia.
- William Moseley Jones, 82, American attorney, speaker of the California State Assembly.
- Roger Loyer, 80, French motorcycle road racer.
25[edit]
- James J. Howard, 60, American educator and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.[32]
- Robert Joffrey, 57, American dancer, teacher, producer and choreographer, organ failure.
- Thomas William Lyons, 64, American Roman Catholic bishop, hepatitis from transfusion.
- Al Schwartz, 77, American screenwriter, television producer and director, brother of Sherwood Schwartz.
26[edit]
- Miguel Abuelo, 42, Argentine rock musician and singer, cardiac arrest.
- Julian Pierce, 42, American lawyer and activist, murdered (body found on this date).
27[edit]
- Renato Salvatori, 55, Italian actor, liver cirrhosis.
- Charles Willeford, 69, American writer, heart attack.
28[edit]
- Alan Crawford, 72, Australian rules footballer.
- Frans Peeraer, 75, Belgian international footballer.
- S. N. Tripathi, 75, Indian composer.
29[edit]
- Maurice Blackburn, 73, Canadian composer and conductor.
- Arkady Bochkaryov, 57, Soviet basketballer and Olympic medalist.
- Ted Kluszewski, 63, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.
- Dulcie September, 52, South African anti-Apartheid activist, assassinated.[33]
30[edit]
- Ranulph Bacon, 81, British police officer, Inspector-General of Police of British Ceylon.
- Edgar Faure, 79, French politician, lawyer and historian, Prime Minister of France.[34]
- John Clellon Holmes, 62, American author, poet and professor, cancer.[35]
- Jimmy McGuigan, 64, Scottish footballer and manager.
- Doris Pawn, 93, American silent-screen actress.
- Luis Ravaschino, 85, Argentinian international footballer.
- Senerath Somaratne, 58, Sri Lankan politician.
31[edit]
- Vincent Madeley Harris, 74, American Roman Catholic bishop.
- Sir William McMahon, 80, Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia.[36]
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- ^ "Thomas Vezzetti, 59, Hoboken Mayor, Dies". The New York Times. March 3, 1988. p. D 20. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
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- ^ "Mathilde Pincus Dies; Music Supervisor, 71". The New York Times. March 8, 1988. p. D 31. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
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