Deaths in April 1987
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 1987[edit]
1[edit]
- Henri Cochet, 85, French tennis player, world number one player.[1]
- Victor D'Amico, 82, American teaching artist, Director of the Department of Education of the Museum of Modern Art.
- James Edward Doyle, 71, American lawyer, United States district judge.
- Vladimir Popov, 56, Soviet animator and art director.
2[edit]
- Tommy Davis, 52, American NFL footballer, lung cancer.
- Trevor Hockey, 43, British footballer and Welsh international.
- Eleanor Leacock, 64, American anthropologist and social theorist, stroke.
- Larry Marley, 41–42, Irish member of the IRA, shot.
- Wang Renmei, 72, Chinese actress and singer, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Buddy Rich, 69, American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor and bandleader, cardiac failure[2]
- Harry Watt, 80, Scottish documentary and feature film director.
- Kansuke Yamamoto, 73, Japanese photographer and poet.
3[edit]
- Robert Dalban, 83, French actor.
- Anne Grey, 80, English actress.
- Tom Sestak, 51, American AFL footballer, heart attack.
4[edit]
- Agyeya, 76, Indian poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist and revolutionary.
- C. L. Moore, 76, American science fiction and fantasy writer.
- Michael Redstone, 84, American entrepreneur, founder of the Northeast Theater Corporation.[3]
- Osman Saleh Sabbe, 54–55, Eritrean-writer and political activist.
- Le Tari, 40, American film and television actor, heart attack.
- Chögyam Trungpa, 48, Tibetan Buddhist meditation master.
5[edit]
- Jack Howe, 71, English international footballer.
- Leabua Jonathan, 72, Prime Minister of Lesotho, heart attack.[4]
- Jan Lindblad, 54, Swedish naturalist, writer, photographer and film maker, kidney failure.
- Tsuneko Nakazato, (Nakazato Tsune), 77, Japanese novelist, colon cancer.
- Jim White, 67, American NFL footballer.
6[edit]
- Vicente Cañas, 47, Spanish Christian missionary, assassinated.
- James G. Donovan, 88, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.[5]
- Jean-Baptiste Doumeng, 67, French businessman and communist politician.
- Henry Lucien de Vries, 77, Surinamese politician and entrepreneur.
7[edit]
- Terry Carr, 50, American science fiction fan, author and editor, congestive heart failure.
- Will Hindle, 57, American filmmaker of personal 16mm movies.
- Charles Hope, 75, British peer and businessman.
- John Lehmann, 79, English publisher and poet.
- Nick De Noia, 45, American director, screenwriter and choreographer, murdered.
- Noel F. Parrish, 77, American brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force.
- Paul Peek, 82, American attorney and politician, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court.
- Walter H. Reynolds, 86, American politician, Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island.
- Maxine Sullivan, 75, American jazz vocalist, seizure.[6]
8[edit]
- Tommy Abbott, 52, American actor, dancer and choreographer.
- Terry Allen, 62, English flyweight boxer and World Champion.
- Anni Frind, 87, German lyric soprano.[7]
- Andrei Getman, 83, Soviet military commander, general of the Red Army.
- Kevin McNamara, 60, Irish Catholic academic, Archbishop of Dublin, cancer.
- Ervin Nyiregyházi, 84, Hungarian and American pianist and composer.
9[edit]
- James Leroy Bondsteel, 39, American soldier of the U.S. Army and Medal of Honor recipient.
- James Bush, 79, American actor.
- Horst Dassler, 51, German businessman, chairman of Adidas, cancer.[8]
- Al Dodd, 41, American NFL footballer.
- Emil M. Mrak, 85, American food scientist and microbiologist, chancellor of the University of California.
10[edit]
- Birgit Dressel, 26. West German heptathlete and Olympian, multiple organ failure due to long-term steroid abuse.
- Berta Drews, 85, German stage and film actress.
11[edit]
- Carleton F. Bryant, 94, American Vice Admiral in the U.S. Navy.
- Erskine Caldwell, 83, American novelist and short story writer, complications of emphysema and lung cancer.[9]
- Netania Davrath, 55, Ukrainian-Israeli soprano opera and concert singer.
- Rudolf Krause, 80, East German racing driver.
- Primo Levi, 67, Italian chemist and writer and Jewish Holocaust survivor, suicide by jumping.[10]
- Frederick Joseph Loftus-Tottenham, 88, Irish-Major General in the British Indian Army.
- Kent Taylor, 79, American film and television actor.[11]
- Hédi Váradi, 57, Hungarian actress.
12[edit]
- Mike Von Erich, (Michael Adkisson), 23, American professional wrestler, suicide by overdose.
- René Hardy, 76, French citizen, member of the French Resistance during World War II.
- Akram Pahalwan, 57, Pakistani wrestler.
- Hertha von Walther, 83, German film actress.
13[edit]
- Dennis Allen, 35, Australian drug dealer, reported to have murdered many victims, heart failure.
- Herbert Blumer, 87, American sociologist and NFL footballer.
- Joe Colquhoun, 60, British comics artist, heart attack.
- Simha Flapan, 76, Israeli historian and politician.
- Gerry McAloon, 70, Scottish footballer, hypothermia.
- Guido Sala, 58, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and world champion kart racer.
14[edit]
- Brian Carlson, 54, Australian international rugby league footballer.
- Karl Höller, 79, German composer.
- Julius Sumner Miller, 77, American physicist and television personality, leukemia.
15[edit]
- Orland K. Armstrong, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, journalist and social activist.
- Hans-Joachim Born, 77, German radiochemist.
- Rachel Burrows, 74, Irish actress, broadcaster, and teacher.
- Mickey Finn, 35, Irish fiddler.
- Peter Benjamin Graham, 61, Australian visual artist, printer and art theorist.
- Louis R. Lowery, 70, American Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps.[12]
- Press Maravich, 71, American college and professional basketball coach, prostate cancer.
- Masatoshi Nakayama, 74, Japanese karate master.
- Samuel Rothschild, 87, Canadian NHL ice hockey player.
16[edit]
- Charlotte Curtis, 58, American journalist, columnist and editor at The New York Times, cancer.[13]
- Fateh Muhammad Panipati, 82, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
- Bikash Roy, 70, Indian actor and filmmaker.
- Juan Evangelista Venegas, 58, Puerto Rican boxer and Olympic medalist, skull fracture from fall.
17[edit]
- Carlton Barrett, 36, Jamaican reggae drummer, murdered in conspiracy initiated by his wife.
- Arthur Delaney, 59, English painter.
- Cecil Harmsworth King, 86, English chairman of Daily Mirror Newspapers, director of the Bank of England.[14]
- Dick Shawn, 63, American actor and comedian, heart attack.[15]
- Willi Smith, 39, American fashion designer, pneumonia.[16]
- Cornelius Van Til, 91, Dutch-American Christian philosopher, reformed theologian and presuppositional apologist.
18[edit]
- Eduardo Alcaraz, 72, Chilean-Mexican actor.
- Carlos Baker, 77, American writer, biographer and former Professor of Literature.[17]
- Heinie Beau, 76, American jazz composer, arranger, saxophonist and clarinetist.
- Kenneth Cook, 57, Australian journalist, television documentary maker and novelist, heart attack.
- Hugh B. Cott, 86, British zoologist.
- Vincent Hanley, 33, Irish radio DJ and television presenter, AIDS.
- Jim Langton, 69, Irish hurler.
- Joe Robb, 50, American NFL footballer.
19[edit]
- Hugh Brannum, 77, American vocalist, arranger, composer and actor, cancer.[18]
- Milt Kahl, 78, American animator for the Disney Studio, pneumonia.
- David G. Mandelbaum, 75, American anthropologist, cancer.[19]
- Maxwell D. Taylor, 85, American Army general and diplomat, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.[20]
- Antony Tudor, 79, English dancer and choreographer.
20[edit]
- Nicholas Acquavella, 88, American art dealer and gallerist, founder of Acquavella Galleries.[21]
- Con Cremin, 78, Irish diplomat, Irish U.N. representative.
21[edit]
- Joseph Alcazar, 77, French international footballer.
- Gustav Bergmann, 80, Austrian-American philosopher.
- Wenike Opurum Briggs, 69, Nigerian lawyer, journalist and politician.
- Edith Green, 77, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.[22]
- Moosa AbdulRahman Hassan, Omani businessman, tribal leader and landlord.
- Haruyasu Nakajima, 77, Japanese baseballer.
- Hildrus Poindexter, 85, American bacteriologist who studied the epidemiology of tropical diseases.
22[edit]
- Irving Ashby, 66, American jazz guitarist.
- Margaret Ponce Israel, 57, American painter and ceramicist, traffic accident.
- Masumi Mitsui, 99, Japanese-Canadian veteran of World War I.
- J. Edwin Orr, 75, Irish-American Baptist Christian minister, hymn writer, professor and author.
24[edit]
- Josephine Bell, 89, English physician and writer.
- Larry Bethea, 30, American NFL footballer, suicide.
- Henry Murdoch, 66, Aboriginal Australian actor and stockman.
- Pablo Acosta Villarreal, 50, Mexican narcotics smuggler and crime boss, gunned down by Mexican Federal Police.
- Berhanu Zerihun, 53–54, Ethiopian writer and journalist.
25[edit]
- Blas Roca Calderio, 78, Cuban politician and Marxist theorist, President of the National Assembly of People's Power.
- Pētõr Damberg, 78, Latvian Livonian linguist and poet.
- Maurice Gibson, 73, Northern Irish Judge of the High Court, car bomb.
- Charlotte May Pierstorff, 78, American girl who was shipped alive through the U.S. postal system by parcel post.
26[edit]
- Oliver J. Flanagan, 66, Irish Fine Gael politician, Minister for Defence.
- Archie M. Gubbrud, 76, American politician, Governor of South Dakota, lung cancer.[23]
- Frederick N. Howser, 82, American politician, Attorney General of California.
- Dudley Mason, 85, British master of the tanker SS Ohio during World War II, recipient of the George Cross.
- John Silkin, 64, British politician and solicitor, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.[24]
- Frank Szymanski, 63, American NFL footballer.
- Amelita Ward, 63, American film actress.
27[edit]
- John Burrows, 73, American Major League baseballer.
- Attila Hörbiger, 91, Austrian stage and movie actor, stroke.
- Alice Nāmakelua, 94, Hawaiian composer and performer.
28[edit]
- Hannelore Baron, 60, German-American artist.[25]
- Xavier Fourcade, 60, French American contemporary art dealer.[26]
- Paidi Lakshmayya, 83, Indian parliamentarian, actor, writer and administrator, member of Parliament.
- William Marchant, appr. 38, Northern Irish loyalist, shot by IRA gunmen.
- Emil Staiger, 79, Swiss historian, writer, Germanist and Professor of German Studies.
29[edit]
- Héctor Carmona, 61, Chilean modern pentathlete and Olympian.
- Gus Johnson, 48, American NBA basketballer, brain cancer.[27]
- Helmut Laux, 70, German Nazi photographer.
- Philip Lombardo, 78, American crime boss of the Genovese family.
- Russ Saunders, 81, American NFL footballer.
- Thomas Trenchard, 63, British hereditary peer, Minister of State for Defence Procurement.
- Zachari Zachariev, 83, Bulgarian military pilot and commander.
30[edit]
- Marc Aaronson, 36, American astronomer, observatory accident.
- Hugh Dempster, 86, British theatre and film actor.
Unknown date[edit]
- Arthur Lane, 76, British actor.
References[edit]
- ^ "Henri Cochet Is Dead; French Tennis Leader". The New York Times. April 3, 1987. p. B 5. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ James Barron (April 3, 1987). "BUDDY RICH, JAZZ DRUMMER WITH DISTINCTIVE SOUND, DIES". The New York Times. p. B 5. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ "MICHAEL REDSTONE". The New York Times. April 9, 1987. p. D 27. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ "OUSTED AS LESOTHO HEADIN A COUP". The New York Times. April 6, 1987. p. B 14. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ "JAMES G. DONOVAN, AN EX-CONGRESSMAN AND ATTORNEY, DIES". The New York Times. April 7, 1987. p. D 30. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ John S. Wilson (April 9, 1987). "JAZZ SINGER WON TONY IN '79". The New York Times. p. D 27. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ "Anni Frind, Soprano, Is Dead; Performed in 20's and 30's". The New York Times. April 11, 1987. p. 1 32. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ "Horst Dassler dies at 51". The Washington Post. April 11, 1987.
- ^ Edwin McDowell (April 13, 1987). "WROTE STARK NOVELS OF SOUTH". The New York Times. p. A 1. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ Intern (July 9, 2012). "Primo Levi's Last Moments". Boston Review. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- ^ "Kent Taylor, 80, Dies; TV's 'Boston Blackie'". The New York Times. April 14, 1987. p. A 22. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ "Louis R. Lowery Dies; Took Iwo Jima Picture". The New York Times. April 21, 1987. p. A 29. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ Robert D. McFadden (April 17, 1987). "CHARLOTTE CURTIS, A COLUMNIST FOR THE TIMES, IS DEAD AT 58". The New York Times. p. B 6. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ "Cecil King, 86, Dies in Dublin; A British Newspaper Leader". The New York Times. April 19, 1987. p. 1 34. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ "No Headline". The New York Times. April 19, 1987. p. 1 34. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ George James (April 19, 1987). "Willi Smith, Clothes Designer; Creator of Vivid Sportswear". The New York Times. p. 1 34. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ Eric Pace (April 21, 1987). "CARLOS BAKER, 77, A PROFESSOR AND HEMINGWAY BIOGRAPHER". The New York Times. p. A 29. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ James Barron (April 22, 1987). "PLAYED MR. GREEN JEANS ON TV". The New York Times. p. D 27. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ "DAVID G. MANDELBAUM". The New York Times. April 23, 1987. p. D 31. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ Albin Krebs (April 21, 1987). "MAXWELL D. TAYLOR, SOLDIER AND ENVOY, DIES". The New York Times. p. A 1. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ "Nicholas M. Acquavella, 88, An Art Dealer in Manhattan". The New York Times. April 23, 1987. p. D 31. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ Dennis Hevesi (April 23, 1987). "EARLY OPPONENT OF VIETNAM WAR". The New York Times. p. D 31. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ "Ex-Governor Gubbrud Of South Dakota Dies". The New York Times. April 28, 1987. p. A 28. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ "John Silkin Dies in London; Was Labor Cabinet Minister". The New York Times. April 28, 1987. p. A 28. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ "Hannelore Baron, Artist, 61; Known for Symbolic Collages". The New York Times. May 1, 1987. p. A 22. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ John Russell (April 29, 1987). "DEALER IN CONTEMPORARY ART". The New York Times. p. B 6. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ Sam Goldaper (April 30, 1987). "GUS JOHNSON, EX-N.B.A. STAR WITH BALTIMORE, IS DEAD AT 48". The New York Times. p. B 7. Retrieved May 3, 2024.