Deaths in August 1987
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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
[edit]1
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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]
5
[edit]- Anatoli Papanov, 64, Soviet actor, heart attack.
- Salvador Flores Rivera, 67, Mexican composer and singer.
- Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, 59, Japanese novelist and translator of French literature, carotid aneurysm.
6
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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.
13
[edit]- Thomas B. Manuel, 88, American community leader and politician, heart attack.[41]
14
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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), kidney failure.[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), lung cancer.[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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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), multiple myeloma.[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]
20
[edit]- Winifred Bryson, 94, American stage and silent-screen actress (A Heart to Let).[77]
- José Bueno y Monreal, 82, Spanish cardinal, Roman Catholic archbishop of Seville.
21
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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), police shootout.[101]
26
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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), pneumonia.[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
[edit]- 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), heart problems.[115]
- Lee Marvin, 63, American film and television actor (The Dirty Dozen, The Big Heat), heart attack.[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
[edit]- 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), heart attack.
- 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]
31
[edit]- Thomas Agro, 55, American gangster with the Gambino crime family.
- Lenore Lonergan, 59, American stage and film actress, cancer.[125]
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