Deaths in October 1988
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 1988[edit]
1[edit]
- Lucien Ballard, 80, American cinematographer.[1]
- Sacheverell Sitwell, 90, English writer.[2]
- Pavle Vuisić, 62, Yugoslav actor.
2[edit]
- Hamengkubuwono IX, 76, Indonesian politician and Javanese Royal, Vice President of Indonesia, internal bleeding.[3]
- Peter Hunt, 72, head of the British Army, Chief of the General Staff.
- Alec Issigonis, 81, Ottoman-British automotive designer.[4]
3[edit]
- Marco Galli, 31, Italian water polo player and Olympian.
- Franz Josef Strauss, 73, German politician.[5]
4[edit]
- Geoffrey Household, 87, British novelist specialising in thrillers.[6]
- Abdul Majid Kabar, 79, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya.
- Margaret Lacey, 76, British actress and ballet teacher.
5[edit]
- Curt Hjelm, 74, Swedish international footballer.
- Ron Staniforth, 64, English international footballer.
- Lois W., (Lois Wilson), 97, American co-founder of Al-Anon for alcoholics.
6[edit]
- Paul Ledoux, 74, Belgian astrophysicist.
- Don Terry, 86, American film actor.
7[edit]
- Otto Arnholz, 94, German politician, member of the German Bundestag.
- Sándor Bíró, 77, Hungarian international footballer.
- Billy Daniels, 73, American singer, stomach cancer.[7]
- Kurt Honolka, 75, German musicologist, journalist, and music and theatre critic.
- Chet Phillips, 74, American gymnast and Olympian.
8[edit]
- Edward George Warris Hulton, 81, British magazine publisher and writer.
- Wally Lemm, 68, American NFL football coach.
- Ernst Hermann Meyer, 82, German composer and musicologist.
- Sam Richardson, 70, Canadian long jumper and triple jumper, Olympic gold medalist.
- Pál Titkos, 80, Hungarian international footballer.
9[edit]
- Edward Chodorov, 84, American playwright, film writer and producer.[8]
- Cliff Gallup, 58, American guitarist, heart attack.
- Jackie Milburn, 64, English international footballer.
- Felix Wankel, 86, German mechanical engineer, Hitler Youth leader, inventor of the Wankel rotary engine[9]
10[edit]
- Bhabani Bhattacharya, 81, Indian writer.
- Juan Pujol García, ('Garbo', 'Alaric'), 76, Spanish spy and double agent.[citation needed]
- Montgomery Tully, 84, Irish film director and writer.
11[edit]
- Buck Clarke, 55, American jazz percussionist.
- Thaddeus J. Dulski, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, leukemia.
- Morgan Farley, 90, American film and television actor.
- Wayland Flowers, 48, American actor, comedian and puppeteer, complications from AIDS.[10]
- Bonita Granville, 65, American actress and producer, lung cancer.[11]
- Robert Edward Gross, 83, American surgeon and a medical researcher.[12]
- Ursula Nordstrom, 78, American publisher and editor, ovarian cancer.[13]
- Joel Oppenheimer, 58, American poet, lung cancer.[14]
- Red Owens, 63, American NBA basketballer.
- Hugh Percy, 74, British soldier and peer, heart attack.
12[edit]
- Ruth Manning-Sanders, 102, Welsh-English poet and author.
- Ken Murray, 85, American comedian, actor, radio and television personality and author.[15]
- Bill Newman, 60, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
- Rafael García Serrano, 71, Spanish writer and journalist.
- Coby Whitmore, 75, American painter and magazine illustrator.
13[edit]
- Norman Barry, 90, American judge, politician and football coach, heart attack.
- Melvin Frank, 75, American screenwriter, film producer and film director, complications from open heart surgery.[16]
- Irene Hunt, 96, American silent-screen actress.
- Mike Venezia, 43, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey, horse racing accident.
14[edit]
- Charles Augustus, 76, German prince, head of the house of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
- Qian Changzhao, 88, Chinese politician.[17]
- Harry Creswick, 85–86, British librarian, head of the university libraries at Oxford and Cambridge.
- Mary Morris, 72, Fijian-British actress, heart failure.
- Vic Raschi, 69, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.[18]
- René Vietto, 74, French road racing cyclist.
- John White, 53, American AFL footballer.
15[edit]
- John Ball, 77, American mystery novel writer.
- Victor Copps, 69, Canadian politician, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.
- James Craig, 46, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, shot.
- Clifford Krueger, 70, American politician, Member of the Wisconsin Senate, hepatitis.
- Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, 96, English composer, music critic, pianist and writer.
- Julian Alfred Steyermark, 79, Venezuelan-American botanist.
16[edit]
- Queen Farida of Egypt, 67, consort of King Farouk of Egypt, leukemia.[19]
- Abdulrahman Fawzi, 78, Egyptian international footballer and manager.
- Muzafer Sherif, 82, Ottoman-American social psychologist.[20]
17[edit]
- William Henry Bramble, 87, British union leader and Chief Minister of Montserrat.
- Richard L. Frey, 83, American contract bridge player, writer, editor and commentator, cancer.[21]
- Anthony A. Hoekema, 74–75, Dutch-American Calvinist minister.
18[edit]
- Paulius Galaunė, 98, Lithuanian art historian, museum curator and graphic artist.
19[edit]
- Son House, 86, American singer and guitarist, cancer of the larynx.[22]
- Marcos de Mendonça, 93, Brazilian international footballer.
- Sten Suvio, 76, Finnish boxer and Olympic gold medal winner.
20[edit]
- Mark Evans Austad, 71, American radio and television commentator, U.S. Ambassador to Finland and Norway.
- Vladimir Gorb, 84, Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist and art teacher.
- Orval Leroy Lewis, 72, American mechanical and chemical engineer, president of American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
- Nino Nutrizio, 77, Italian journalist.
- Sheila Scott, 66, English aviator, cancer.[23]
- Mogens Wöldike, 91, Danish conductor, choirmaster and organist.
21[edit]
- Reggie Otero, 73, Cuban Major League baseballer, heart attack.
22[edit]
- Henry Armstrong, 75, American boxer, multiple world champion.[24]
- Plácido Galindo, 82, Peruvian international footballer.
- Clare Stevenson, 85, Australian director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.
23[edit]
- Hap Emms, 83, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, team owner and general manager, heart failure.
- Asashio Tarō III, 58, Japanese sumo wrestler, stroke.
24[edit]
- Stanisław Hachorek, 61, Polish footballer and coach.
25[edit]
- Bob Carey, 58, American NFL footballer.
- Boobie Clark, 38, American NFL footballer, blood clot in lung.
- Eric Larson, 83, American animator for Walt Disney Studios.[25]
- John Poole-Hughes, 72, Welsh bishop.
- Milton Rokeach, 69, Polish-American social psychologist.
26[edit]
- Tatapuram Sukumaran, 65, Malayalam writer.
27[edit]
- Frank Devlin, 88, Irish badminton player.
- Merv Everett, 71, Australian politician and judge, Federal Senator.
- Charles Hawtrey, 73, English actor, comedian, singer, pianist and theatre director, peripheral vascular disease.
- Rudolf Jordan, 86, German Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt for the Nazis.
- Erika von Thellmann, 86, Austrian film and television actress.
28[edit]
- Pietro Annigoni, 78, Italian artist, kidney failure.
- John Backus, 77, Lithuanian-American physicist and acoustician.
- Teikō Shiotani, 89, Japanese photographer.
29[edit]
- Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, 85, Indian social reformer and freedom activist.
- Andy Cohen, 84, American MLB baseballer.
- Joe Comfort, 71, American jazz double bassist.
- Thomas Cooray, 86, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal[26]
- Dom Dallessandro, 74, American MLB baseballer.
- Nataša Gollová, 76, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian actress[27]
- Mary Kid, 87, German actress.
- Bill Mason, 58–59, Canadian naturalist, author, artist, filmmaker and conservationist, cancer.
- Orlando Montenegro Medrano, 68, Nicaraguan politician and attorney, acting President of Nicaragua.
- Ross Rocklynne, 75, American science fiction author.
30[edit]
- Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, 88, German film actor.
- T. Hee, 77, American animator and director.
- John Myers Myers, 82, American writer.
- Florence Nagle, 94, British breeder of racehorses and pedigree dogs, horse trainer and feminist.
- Francisco Rodrigues, 63, Brazilian international footballer.
- Liz Whitney Tippett, 82, American socialite and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses, cancer.
31[edit]
- Ladislau da Guia, 82, Brazilian footballer.
- John Houseman, 86, Romanian-British-American actor and producer, spinal cancer.[28]
- Ken Niles, 81, American radio announcer.[29]
- Alfred Pellan, 82, Canadian painter, leukemia.
- George Uhlenbeck, 87, Dutch-American theoretical physicist.
Unknown date[edit]
- Mavis Freeman, 69, American swimmer and Olympic medalist.
- Ron Gingell, 67–68, English footballer.
- Harry Lowe, 81, Scottish-footballer in England.
- Frederick Roffey, 93, English rugby union and rugby league footballer.
References[edit]
- ^ Glenn Collins (October 6, 1988). "Lucien Ballard, Cinematographer". The New York Times. p. B 26. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ "Sir Sacheverell Sitwell Dies at 90, Last of Trio of Literary Eccentrics". The New York Times. October 3, 1988. p. B 6. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ Indonesia, News & Views. April 1988. p. 2.
- ^ Jonathan Wood (2005). Alec Issigonis: The Man Who Made the Mini. DB Publishing. p. 300. ISBN 978-1-85983-449-7.
- ^ The New York Times Biographical Service. New York Times & Arno Press. 1988. p. 1092.
- ^ Herbert Mitgang (October 7, 1988). "Geoffrey Household, 87, Novelist Who Wrote Suspense Works, Dies". The New York Times. p. A 24. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ Mark A. Uhlig (October 10, 1988). "Billy Daniels, Who Rose to Fame On 'Old Black Magic,' Dies at 73". The New York Times. p. B 8. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ William H. Honan (October 12, 1988). "Edward Chodorov, 84, Playwright And Writer and Producer of Films". The New York Times. p. D 27. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ Frank Northen Magill; Alison Aves (November 1999). Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th century, O-Z. Routledge. pp. 3881–. ISBN 978-1-57958-048-3.
- ^ "Wayland Flowers Dies; Ventriloquist Was 48". The New York Times. October 12, 1988. p. D 27. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ Flint, Peter B. (October 12, 1988). "Bonita G. Wrather, 65, an Actress and Executive". The New York Times. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
- ^ Susan Heller Anderson (October 15, 1988). "Robert Gross, 83, Heart Surgeon". The New York Times. p. 1 37. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ Susan Heller Anderson (October 12, 1988). "Ursula Nordstrom, 78, a Nurturer Of Authors for Children, Is Dead". The New York Times. p. D 27. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ "Joel Oppenheimer, 58, A Columnist and Poet". The New York Times. October 13, 1988. p. B 20. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ John T. McQuiston (October 14, 1988). "Ken Murray, 85, Vaudeville Star Who Later Recorded Hollywood". The New York Times. p. A 22. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ Glenn Collins (October 15, 1988). "MELVIN FRANK, PRODUCER, DIRECTOR AND WRITER OF MOVIES, DIES AT 75". The New York Times. p. 1 37. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ "Qian Changzhao, Politician, 89". The New York Times. October 16, 1988. p. 1 34. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr. (October 16, 1988). "Vic Raschi, Star Yankee Pitcher From 1946 to 1953, Dead at 69". The New York Times. p. 1 34. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ "Ex-Queen Farida of Egypt; First Wife of King Farouk". Los Angeles Times. October 17, 1988. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
- ^ "Muzafer Sherif, 82, Psychologist Who Studied Hostility of Groups". The New York Times. October 27, 1988. p. D 23. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ Alan Truscott (October 19, 1988). "Richard L. Frey, Leading Figure In Contract Bridge, Is Dead at 83". The New York Times. p. B 5. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ Nick Talevski (1999). The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries. Omnibus. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-7119-7548-4.
- ^ "Sheila Scott, 61, British Aviator". The New York Times. October 21, 1988. p. B 5. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ Bob Mee (1997). Boxing Heroes & Champions. Universal International. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-876142-43-8.
- ^ "Eric Larson Dies at 83; Disney Film Animator". The New York Times. October 27, 1988. p. D 23. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ The Pope Speaks. Our Sunday Visitor, Incorporated. 1988. p. 384.
- ^ Transit (in German). Neue Kritik. 2005. p. 152. ISBN 978-3-8015-0381-9.
- ^ Frederick Maurice Speed (1989). Film Review. 1989-90. W.H. Allen. p. 166. ISBN 978-1-85227-166-4.
- ^ "Ken Niles Dies at 82; a Pioneer Broadcaster". The New York Times. November 2, 1988. p. D 27. Retrieved April 1, 2024.