Deaths in August 1988

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

August 1988

1

• Zoltán Bitskey, 84, Hungarian Olympic swimmer.
• Orville Carlisle, 71, American inventor of the model rocket motor.
• Red Coffey, 65, American voice actor and comedian.
• John Dearden, 80, American Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Detroit, pancreatic cancer.
• Emanoil Dumitrescu, 81, Romanian footballer.
• Florence Eldridge, 86, American actress.
• Yoshimoto Ishin, 72, Japanese businessman and Jodo Shinshu Buddhist priest.
• Kim Yong-ki, 79, South Korean agrarian movement leader.
• Sheldon Kinser, 45, American race car driver, cancer.
• John F. Laboon, 67, American officer in the U.S. Navy and Roman Catholic chaplain.
• Steve Mills, 34, English footballer, leukemia.
• Georges Wambst, 86, French Olympic cyclist.
• Gertrude Welcker, 92, German stage and silent-screen actress.

2

• Steve Anderson, 82, American Olympic hurdler.
• Bob Berman, 89, American MLB player.
• Jack Breslin, 68, American university administrator.
• Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate, the "Green Grocer", intestinal cancer.
• Raymond Carver, 50, American short-story writer, lung cancer.
• Karl Ebb, 91, Finnish racing driver and Olympic athlete.
• Nityanand Kanungo, 88, Indian politician, governor of Bihar and Gujarat, member of Lok Sabha.
• Nada Klaić, 68, Croatian historian.
• Gustav Kristiansen, 84, Norwegian Olympic cyclist.
• José Magriñá, 70, Cuban footballer.
• Valle Resko, 78, Finnish Olympic boxer.

3

• Lillian Bilocca, 59, British fisheries worker, known for improving safety in the fishing industry, peritoneal cancer.
• Campbell Copelin, 87, English-born Australian actor.
• Tucker McGuire, 75, American-born British film and television actress.
• Krishnaswami Ramiah, 96, Indian agricultural scientist and geneticist, director of National Rice Research Institute.
• Vic Watson, 90, English international footballer.
• Harlan Wilson, 74, American basketball player.

4

• Sir Allan Adair, 90, British army general.
• Brian Brake, 61, New Zealand photographer, heart attack.
• Charles B. Brownson, 74, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Leonard Kuypers, 89, Dutch Olympic fencer.
• Richard Leppla, 74, Nazi German fighter ace.
• Peter Lowe, 53, English cricketer.
• George Commey Mills-Odoi, 72, Ghanaian judge and Attorney General.
• Ofelia Uribe de Acosta, 87, Colombian author, editor and suffragist.
• Joe Vandeleur, 84, Indian-born Anglo-Irish British Army officer.
• Harry Lee Waterfield, 77, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.

5

• Red Davis, 80, American NFL player.
• James Devereux, 85, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps, member of U.S. House of Representatives, pneumonia.
• Colin Higgins, 47, French-Australian-American screenwriter, actor and director, AIDS.
• Arif Hussain Hussaini, 41, Indian-Pakistani revolutionary leader, assassinated.
• James M. Masters Sr., 77, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps, cancer.
• Ralph Meeker, 67, American actor, heart attack.
• Ralph Michaels, 86, American MLB player.
• Gil North, 72, British author of detective stories.
• Henry George Templar, 83, American district judge.

6

• John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, 79, English thriller, detective and spy novelist, MI5 spy.
• Hec Farrell, 65, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Gord Garvie, 43, Canadian Olympic wrestler.
• James Hervey Johnson, 87, American atheist, writer and editor of The Truth Seeker, white supremacist, heart attack.
• Anatoly Levchenko, 47, Soviet cosmonaut, brain tumour.
• Illa Martin, 88, German dendrologist, botanist, conservationist and dentist.
• Francis Ponge, 89, French poet.
• J. Skelly Wright, 77, American circuit judge, prostate cancer.

7

• Juraj Amšel, 63, Croatian Olympic water polo player.
• George Chalmers, 79, American football player.
• David L. Hoggan, 65, American author, neo-Nazi, anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, heart attack.
• Wilfred Jackson, 82, American animator.
• Lucio Manzin, 74, Italian Olympic equestrian.
• Gajo Raffanelli, 75, Croatian footballer.
• David E. Skinner II, 67–68, American shipping heir, owner of the Space Needle and Seattle Seahawks, cancer.

8

• Alan Ameche, 55, American NFL player, heart attack.
• Kid Chocolate, 78, Cuban boxer, World Junior Lightweight Champion.
• George Estregan, 49, Filipino film actor.
• Henri Frenay, 82, French military officer and member of the French Resistance.
• Violet Hackbarth, 68, American AAGPBL player.
• William Kininmonth, 83, Scottish architect.
• Félix Leclerc, 82, Canadian singer-songwriter, heart attack.
• Ragnar Lennartsson, 78, Swedish footballer.
• Liu Liangmo, 78, Chinese musician and Christian leader.
• Alan Napier, 85, English actor, pneumonia.
• Dominic Serventy, 84, Australian ornithologist, president of Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.

9

• Woodrow Adams, 71, American blues guitarist and harmonica player.
• Joe Bruce, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Jimmie Fidler, 89, American columnist, journalist and radio and television personality.
• M. Carl Holman, 69, American civil rights advocate, cancer.
• Giacinto Scelsi, 83, Italian composer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Ramón Valdés, 63, Mexican actor and comedian, stomach cancer.

10

• Arnulfo Arias, 86, Panamanian politician, President of Panama, heart attack.
• Antoine Blanchard, 77, French painter.
• Jean Brachet, 79, Belgian biochemist.
• Gerd Grieg, 93, Norwegian actress.
• Benny Johnson, 40, American NFL football player, heart attack.
• Guido Mannari, 43, Italian actor, heart attack.
• Aleksander Margiste, 80, Estonian Olympic basketball player.
• Havzi Nela, 54, Albanian poet, executed.
• Adela Rogers St. Johns, 94, American journalist, novelist and screenwriter, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
• Paul Thek, 54, American painter and sculptor, AIDS.

11

• Roland Allard, 77, French Olympic alpine skier.
• Nellikode Bhaskaran, 64, Indian Malayalam actor.
• John Byer, 84, Barbadian cricketer.
• Alfred Kelbassa, 63, German international footballer.
• Pauline Lafont, 25, French actress, hiking accident.
• James Alexander McBain, 78, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• K. Avukader Kutty Naha, 68, Indian politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Kerala.
• Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, 56, French opera director, pulmonary embolism following a fall.
• Anne Ramsey, 59, American actress, cancer.
• Jack Regan, 75, Australian rules footballer.

12

• Jean-Michel Basquiat, 27, American artist, heroin overdose.
• Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar, 92, Indian guru, writer and spiritual leader.
• Sakuta Takefushi, 82, Japanese Olympic cross-country skier.

13

• Mel Almada, 75, Mexican Major League baseball player.
• Fred Below, 61, American blues drummer, liver cancer.
• Per Digerud, 55, Norwegian Olympic cyclist.
• Keith Hancock, 90, Australian historian and academic.
• Martin Hellinger, 84, Nazi German dentist, convicted war criminal, tasked with removing gold filling from corpses at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
• Thomas Henty, 32, English actor, haemophilia.
• John Wendell Holmes, 78, Canadian diplomat, Canadian delegate to the United Nations.
• Gajanan Jagirdar, 81, Indian film director, screenwriter and actor, heart attack.
• Peggy Mann, 69, American Big Band singer.
• Otto Passman, 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
• William H. Phelps Jr., 85, Venezuelan ornithologist and businessman, circulatory problems.
• Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao, 72, Indian author, author of the National Pledge of India.
• Tenor Saw, 21, Jamaican dancehall singjay, hit and run accident.
• Gordon H. Scherer, 81, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Edward Bennett Williams, 68, American lawyer and businessman, co-founder of Williams & Connolly, colon cancer.

14

• Roy Buchanan, 48, American guitarist and blues musician, suicide.
• Robert Calvert, 43, South African–born British writer, poet and musician, heart attack.
• Michael Crowder, 54, British historian and author.
• Enzo Ferrari, 90, Italian motor racing driver and car maker, leukemia.
• William Gumley, 65, Australian cricketer.
• Kōri Hisataka, 81, Japanese founder of Shōrinjiryū Kenkōkan Karate.
• Andrew Young McLean, 79, Canadian newspaper publisher and politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Kailas Nath Wanchoo, 85, Indian Chief Justice.
• Monroe Wheeler, 89, American publisher and museum coordinator, stroke.

15

• Bill Beason, 80, American jazz drummer.
• Barry Bingham Sr., 82, American media patriarch in Louisville, Kentucky, brain tumour.
• Rudy Collins, 54, American jazz drummer.
• Han Deqin, 95, Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army.
• Ronald Stein, 58, American film composer, pancreatic cancer.
• Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, 86, German composer and music historian.
• Hartman Turnbow, 83, Mississippi orator and activist during the Civil Rights Movement.

16

• Rashad Barmada, 74–75, Syrian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Syria.
• Alan Danson, 60, British Olympic cyclist.
• Smokey Haangala, 38, Zambian poet and composer.
• John Hodgkins, 72, English cricketer.
• Georgi Keranov, 66, Bulgarian Olympic sports shooter.
• Herbert Pagani, 44, Italian artist and musician, leukaemia.

17

• Lennart Bunke, 76, Swedish footballer.
• Jack Cutting, 80, American international content supervisor and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios.
• Nino Frank, 84, Italian-born French film critic and writer, coined the term "film noir".
• Bruce Humber, 74, Canadian Olympic sprinter.
• Hironobu Kaneko, 90, Japanese painter.
• Bruno Mathsson, 81, Swedish architect and furniture designer.
• Connie Meijer, 25, Dutch cyclist, heart attack.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 74, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.
• Victoria Shaw, 53, Australian film and television actress, emphysema.
• Samuel Silkin, 70, British politician, Attorney General for England and Wales.
• Jack Straus, 58, American professional poker player, aortic aneurysm.
• Bob Troughton, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• Notable people killed in the 1988 PAF C-130B crash:
• *Akhtar Abdur Rahman, 64, Pakistani Army general.
• *Arnold Lewis Raphel, 45, American diplomat, ambassador to Pakistan.
• *Siddique Salik, 52, Pakistani army officer.
• *Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 64, Pakistani military officer, President of Pakistan.

18

• Frederick Ashton, 83, British ballet dancer and choreographer.
• Felix Maria Davídek, 67, Czech Roman Catholic bishop.
• Li Gotami Govinda, 92, Indian painter, writer and composer.
• Seiryū Inoue, 56–57, Japanese photographer.
• Gary Little, 49, American judge, focus of sexual abuse allegations, suicide.
• Michael Perrin, 82, Canadian-born British scientist, directed first British atomic bomb program.
• Jessica Powers, 83, American poet and nun, stroke.
• Ernst Simon, 88, German educator and religious philosopher.

19

• Cyril Adams, 90, English cricketer and RAF officer.
• Clary Anderson, 77, American football and baseball player and coach.
• Enrico Cerulli, 90, Italian scholar of Somali and Ethiopian studies, Governor of Scioa and Harar, ambassador to Iran.
• Patrick Donner, 83, British Member of Parliament.
• Bjørn Elvenes, 44, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Don Haggerty, 74, American actor.
• Russ Hathaway, 92, American NFL player.
• Johan Møller Warmedal, 74, Norwegian politician.
• Jerome Zerbe, 84, American photographer.

20

• Jean-Paul Aron, 63, French writer and journalist, AIDS.
• John Cock, 70, Australian-born British WWII flying ace.
• Harry Dingley, 85, British Olympic boxer.
• Stuart Leary, 55, South African footballer and cricketer.
• Carlos Marcenaro, 76, Peruvian Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Leon McAuliffe, 71, American Western swing guitarist.
• Joan G. Robinson, 78, British author and illustrator of children's books.
• Lazarus Salii, 51, Palau politician, President of Palau, suicide.

21

• H. G. Adler, 78, Czech-English poet and novelist, Holocaust survivor, heart failure.
• Marcel Chauvenet, 82, French sculptor.
• Teddy Diaz, 25, Filipino musician and composer, murdered.
• Ray Eames, 78, American artist and designer.
• Chris Gittins, 86, British actor.
• Eino Kirjonen, 55, Finnish Olympic ski jumper.
• Stuart Leary, 55, South African footballer and first-class cricketer, suicide.
• Andrew McDonald, 89, American college football and basketball player and coach.
• Jack McGill, 78, Canadian NHL player.
• Henryk Mikunda, 71, Polish footballer.
• Jerry Warren, 63, American film director, screenwriter and actor, lung cancer.

22

• Bruno Bianchi, 84, Italian Olympic sailor.
• Bob Daughters, 74, American MLB player.
• Rejhan Demirdžić, 61, Bosnian half of comedy duo Momo and Uzeir.
• Milo Gmür, 69–70, Swiss Olympic equestrian.

23

• Gerald Drayson Adams, 88, Canadian-American business executive and film writer.
• José Manuel de Sousa e Faro Nobre de Carvalho, 76, Portuguese army general, Governor of Macau.
• C. Desmond Greaves, 74, English Marxist activist and historian.
• Laud Humphreys, 57, American sociologist and Episcopal priest, lung cancer.
• Josef Klehr, 83, Nazi German SS-Oberscharführer, concentration camp supervisor and war criminal.
• Hans Lewy, 83, Prussian-born American mathematician, leukemia.
• Alf Martinsen, 76, Norwegian Olympic footballer.
• Menotti Del Picchia, 96, Brazilian poet, journalist and painter.
• Jack Sher, 75, American newspaper columnist and film writer, respiratory and heart problems.
• Robert Walcott, 78, American historian.

24

• Pierre Béchu, 29, French Olympic ice dancer.
• C. Chhunga, 72, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Mizoram.
• Leonard Frey, 49, American actor, AIDS.
• Charlie Harbour, 64, Australian rules footballer.
• Kenneth Leighton, 58, British composer and pianist, oesophageal cancer.
• Abu Jafar Shamsuddin, 77, Bangladeshi writer.
• Nat Stuckey, 54, American country singer, lung cancer.

25

• Caziel, 82, Polish-born artist.
• Price Daniel, 77, American jurist and politician, Governor of Texas, stroke.
• Françoise Dolto, 79, French pediatrician and psychoanalyst, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Percy Foreman, 86, American criminal defense attorney, cardiac arrest.
• Henry Joseph Gallagher, 73, British soldier in the Korean War.
• Jimmy Lloyd, 69, American actor.
• Irving Mansfield, 80, American producer, publicist and writer, heart attack.
• Art Rooney, 87, American owner of Pittsburgh Steelers NFL team, stroke.
• Ron Slocum, 43, American MLB player.
• Karlo Toth, 81, Yugoslav Olympic wrestler.

26

• Del Bjork, 74, American NFL player.
• Donald De Lue, 90, American sculptor.
• Jack Dempsey, 76, American NFL player.
• Kitty Doner, 92, American vaudeville performer.
• Hans Esser, 79, German Olympic fencer.
• Oscar Marzaroli, 55, Italian-born Scottish photographer, cancer.
• Carlos Paião, 30, Portuguese singer and songwriter, car accident.
• Fred Peart, 74, British politician, leader of the Houses of Lords and Commons.
• Milton Sperling, 76, American film producer and screenwriter, owner of United States Pictures, cancer.

27

• Lala Aragami, 65, Indian poet.
• Stan Ashby, 81, British Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Jinavajiralongkorn, 91, Supreme Patriarch of Thailand.
• Max Black, 79, Azerbaijani-born British-American philosopher of language, mathematics, science and art, heart complications.
• Charles Farrell, 88, Irish-born stage, film and television actor.
• Gunther von Fritsch, 82, Austro-Hungarian born American film director, stroke.
• Irene Higginbotham, 70, American songwriter and concert pianist.
• John Lie, 77, Indonesian Navy rear admiral, stroke.
• Mario Montenegro, 60, Filipino film actor, heart attack.
• John Riordan, 85, American mathematician and author, Alzheimer's disease.
• William Sargant, 81, British psychiatrist.
• Costas Taktsis, 60, Greek writer, murdered.
• Benjamin Willis, 86, American educator and school administrator, heart attack.

28

• Hazel Dawn, 98, American actress.
• Paul Grice, 75, British philosopher of language.
• Josef Hamberger, 58, Austrian Olympic boxer.
• Guy Hocquenghem, 41, French writer and philosopher, AIDS.
• Jean Marchand, 69, Canadian trade unionist and politician, Member of Parliament, Secretary of State for Canada.
• Ricardo Massana, 90, Spanish Olympic rower.
• Max Shulman, 69, American writer and humorist, bone cancer.
• Paul Whitelaw, 78, New Zealand cricketer.

29

• Ray Baxter, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• David A. Hargrave, 42, American game designer and writer of fantasy and science fiction role-playing games.
• Horace Henderson, 83, American jazz pianist, organist and bandleader.
• Wilfred Johnson, 52, American mobster, member of Gambino crime family, murdered.
• Charles Johnston, 92, American MLB umpire.
• Algirdas Klimaitis, 77–78, Lithuanian paramilitary commander, antisemite.
• Gaston Leroux, 75, Canadian NHL player.
• Mykola Lukash, 68, Ukrainian literary translator, cancer.
• Lưu Quang Vũ, 40, Vietnamese playwright and poet, traffic collision.
• Abuna Takla Haymanot, 70, Ethiopian patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
• Xuân Quỳnh, 45, Vietnamese poet, car crash.

30

• James N. Black, 48, American jazz drummer.
• Charles Stephen Booth, 91, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Eren Eyüboğlu, 75, Romanian-born Turkish artist.
• Nikolai Fefilov, 42, Soviet serial killer, strangled in jail.
• Richard Hamblin, 81, British RAF pilot, fought in the Battle of Britain.
• Batsheva Katznelson, 90–91, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset.
• Jack Marshall, 76, New Zealand politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand.
• Helenus Milmo, 80, Irish lawyer in Britain and High Court judge.
• Leonidas Proaño, 78, Ecuadorian prelate, Bishop of Riobamba.

31

• John Daley, 101, American MLB player.
• Grace Eldering, 87, American public health scientist.
• Lin Jaldati, 75, Dutch-born, East German-based singer, Holocaust survivor.
• Antti Koskinen, 59, Finnish Olympic sports shooter.
• Vasil Mzhavanadze, 85, Georgian politician, First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party.
• Danny Weinberg, 60, American NASCAR driver.
• Walt Wollermann, 80, Australian rules footballer.

Unknown date

• Surat Alley, 82–83, Indian trade unionist and political activist in Britain.