Deaths in May 1987

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

May 1987

1

• Stanley Copp, 72, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
• Paul Geidel, 93, American murderer, second longest serving U.S. prison inmate.
• Bobo Holloman, 64, American Major League baseball player, heart attack.
• Antonio Borja Won Pat, 78, Guam politician, Guam's Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Dick Surhoff, 57, American NBA basketballer.
• James W. Sutherland, 69, American U.S. Army general.
• Fujio Yoshida, 99, Japanese artist.

2

• George Allen, 43, American football player.
• Reidar Carlsen, 78, Norwegian politician.
• Karl Davis, 25, American fashion designer, pneumonia.
• Eugene Gilhawley, 77, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann.
• Michael Gover, 73, English actor.
• John E. Kerrigan, 78, American politician, acting Mayor of Boston, cardiac arrest.
• Harold K. Schneider, 61–62, American economic anthropologist, complications from surgery.

3

• Joyce Coad, 70, American child actress.
• Roberto Concepcion, 83, Filipino lawyer, Chief Justice of the Philippines.
• Dalida, 54, Egyptian-born French singer and actress, suicide.
• Dickie Fuller, 74, West Indian cricketer.
• Viola Grosvenor, 74, British aristocrat, Duchess of Westminster, car accident.
• Dick Kelsey, 82, American animation art director, theme park designer and illustrator of children's books.

4

• Paul Butterfield, 44, American blues harmonica player, singer and bandleader, overdose.
• Cathryn Damon, 56, American actress, ovarian cancer.
• Paul Groesse, 81, Hungarian-born American Academy Award–winning art director, pneumonia.
• Khalilullah Khalili, 79, Afghan poet, historian and diplomat.
• Konstanty Jeleński, 65, Polish essayist.
• Tomohiro Kojiri, 29, Japanese journalist for newspaper Asahi Shimbun, murdered.
• Wilbur Little, 59, American jazz bassist.
• Michael Minor, 46, American illustrator, art director on Star Trek movies.

5

• Sir Hugh Fraser, 50, British chairman of the House of Fraser, Harrods, and Whyte & Mackay, cancer.
• Herbert Hasler, 73, British officer in the Royal Marines and yachtsman.
• Allen Jones, 46, American record producer and songwriter, heart attack.
• Frank McAllister, 69, American baseball player.
• Vera Schäferkordt, 62, German Olympic swimmer.
• Joe Shack, 71, Canadian NHL player.
• Jim Taylor, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• Robert Stanford Tuck, 70, British fighter pilot and flying ace in the Royal Air Force.
• Phil Woolpert, 71, American college basketball coach, lung cancer.
• Roy Young, 69, American NFL player.

6

• William J. Casey, 74, American CIA director, brain tumour.
• Lucien Choury, 89, French Olympic cyclist.
• Zalman Friedmann, 74–75, Israeli footballer.
• Muhammadullah Hafezzi, 91–92, Bangladeshi politician and Islamic leader.
• Denis Jones, 80, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann.
• Stanislav Lusk, 55, Czech Olympic rower.
• Karel Plicka, 92, Czechoslovak photographer, film director and cinematographer.
• David Weitzman, 88, British politician.

7

• Roy S. Armstrong, 86, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives.
• Boom-Boom Beck, 82, American Major League baseball player.
• Colin Blakely, 56, Northern Irish actor, leukaemia.
• Félix Erauzquin, 79, Spanish Olympic athlete.
• Gil Lefebvre, 77, American NFL player.
• Stewart McKinney, 56, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, pneumonia.
• Paul Popham, 45, American gay rights activist, AIDS.
• Dudley Ryder, 94, British hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords.
• Karl Schuke, 80, German organ builder.

8

• Marjorie Barnard, 89, Australian novelist and historian.
• Sidney Cohen, 76, American psychiatrist, professor of medicine and author, heart failure.
• Alberta Gay, 74, American mother of Marvin and Frankie Gaye, bone cancer.
• Sir James Plimsoll, 70, Australian diplomat, Governor of Tasmania, ambassador to the US, heart attack.
• Hugh Saunders, 92, South African RAF officer.
• Doris Stokes, 67, British "spiritualist", "medium" and author, brain cancer.
• Carl Tchilinghiryan, 77, German businessman, co-founder of coffee house Tchibo.
• Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army killed during the Loughgall ambush:
• *Declan Arthurs, 21, Northern Irish IRA member, shot.
• *Patrick Joseph Kelly, 30, Northern Irish IRA commander, shot.
• *Jim Lynagh, 31, Northern Irish IRA member, shot.
• *Pádraig McKearney, 32, Northern Irish IRA member, shot.

9

• Obafemi Awolowo, 78, Nigerian nationalist and statesman, Premier of Western Nigeria.
• Franz Bednar, 77, Austrian Olympic bobsledder.
• Paulus Kessels, 86, Dutch Olympic sports shooter.
• Jimmy Kruger, 69, South African lawyer and politician, President of the Senate.
• Noel Murless, 77, English racehorse trainer.
• John M. Schiff, 82, American investment banker, partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., national president of the Boy Scouts of America.
• Brian Shenton, 60, British Olympic sprinter.

10

• Sadamichi Hirasawa, 95, Japanese tempera painter, convicted of mass poisoning, pneumonia.
• Nicolette Macnamara, 76, British artist and author.
• Wilhelm Strienz, 86, German bass operatic singer.

11

• James Jesus Angleton, 69, American intelligence operative and C.I.A chief, cancer.
• Alex Jeffery, 78, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Walter McMillen, 73, Northern Irish footballer.

12

• Bob Farrar, 68, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Victor Feldman, 53, English jazz musician, heart attack.
• Chinn Ho, 83, Hawaiian entrepreneur and businessman, owner of Honolulu Star-Bulletin, heart failure.
• Pierre Litoux, 84, French politician, member of the National Assembly (France).
• Giancarlo Marinelli, 71, Italian Olympic basketball player.
• Ion Pistol, 40, Romanian convicted murderer, executed.
• Nora Rubashova, 78, Belarusian Catholic nun.
• Delos Thurber, 70, American Olympic high jumper.
• Robert Trimbole, 56, Australian businessman, drug baron and organized crime figure, heart attack.
• Michel Van Wijnendaele, 27–28, Belgian mass murderer, suicide.

13

• Signe Amundsen, 87, Norwegian soprano.
• Norberto Bautista, 46, Argentine footballer.
• F. R. Crawley, 75, Canadian film producer, cinematographer and director.
• Richard Ellmann, 69, American literary critic and biographer of Irish writers, motor neurone disease.
• Manín, 71, Spanish footballer.
• Phil Moore, 69, American jazz pianist and bandleader, heart attack.
• Leo Norris, 78, American MLB player.
• Ismael Rivera, 55, Puerto Rican composer and salsa singer, heart attack.
• Forbes Robinson, 60, British bass.
• Elly Winter, 88, German communist and political activist.

14

• Tsai Chen-chou, 40, Taiwanese politician and businessman, liver disease.
• Patrick Delap, 55, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann.
• Kris Derrig, 33, American luthier and musician, cancer.
• Rita Hayworth, 68, American actress and dancer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Jānis Lipke, 87, Latvian rescuer of Jews in World War II.
• Luke Sewell, 86, American Major league baseball player.
• Elizabeth Zarubina, 87, Soviet spy, traffic accident.
• Vitomil Zupan, 73, Austro-Hungarian–born Slovene writer.

15

• Elisabeth Bonetsmüller, 80, German Olympic high jumper.
• Wynne Gibson, 88, American actress, cerebral thrombosis.
• Raynor Johnson, 86, English-born Australian parapsychologist, physicist and author.
• Kalyanakit Kitiyakara, 57, Thai cardiothoracic surgeon.
• Máire MacNeill, 82, Irish journalist, folklorist and translator.
• Barry Mannakee, 39, British police officer with Royal Protection Squad, bodyguard to Diana, Princess of Wales, traffic accident.
• L. G. Pine, 79, British writer, lecturer and researcher.
• Lionel Van Praag, 78, Australian motorcycle speedway champion.

16

• Lionel Cooper, 65, Australian international rugby league footballer.
• Sir John Esmonde, 16th Baronet, 58, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann.
• Frank Mayborn, 83, American newspapers editor, publisher and broadcaster.
• Willie Powell, 83, American baseball player.
• Ronnie Shakes, 40, American stand-up comedian, heart attack.
• Michael Wood, 69, British medical doctor, cancer.

17

• Wilbur J. Cohen, 73, American social scientist and civil servant, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
• Gunnar Myrdal, 88, Swedish economist, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences.
• Dudley C. Sharp, 82, American Secretary of the Air Force, cancer.
• Okkie van Greunen, 53, South African Olympic modern pentathlete.

18

• Mahdi Amel, 51, Lebanese Marxist philosopher and militant, assassinated.
• Heðin Brú, 86, Faroese novelist and translator.
• Hossein Fardoust, 70, Iranian military officer, deputy head of SAVAK, heart attack.
• Santo Mazzarino, 71, Italian historian.

19

• David Abbott, 85, American Olympic long-distance runner.
• James Everett Chase, 73, American politician, Mayor of Spokane, cancer.
• Hamid Reza Chitgar, 38, Iranian communist politician, exiled to France, assassinated.
• Francis Cottam, 86, English cricketer.
• Deepak Dhawan, 32, Indian political activist, member of the Communist Party of India, murdered.
• Almerigo Grilz, 34, Italian politician and independent war correspondent, killed in war zone.
• Huntington D. Sheldon, 84, American C.I.A. director of Current Intelligence, murdered.
• Stanisław Szukalski, 93, Polish-American sculptor and painter.
• James Tiptree Jr.,, 71, American science fiction and fantasy author, suicide.

20

• William Creighton, 77, American Anglican bishop, heart attack.
• Fränz Ehringer, 58, Luxembourgian Olympic boxer.
• Emőke Énekes-Szegedi, 39, Hungarian Olympic volleyball player.
• Harvey Goldberg, 65, American historian and political activist, liver cancer.
• Herbert Jacobs, 84, American journalist for the Milwaukee Journal, professor of journalism, cancer.
• Ganpatrao Jadhav, 79, Indian freedom activist, journalist and writer.
• Edward Earl Johnson, 26, American convicted murderer, executed.
• Elmer Ray, 76, American heavyweight boxer.
• George Shibata, 60, American military officer, attorney and actor.
• Ma Sicong, 75, Chinese violinist and composer, died during heart operation.
• Colston Warne, 86, American professor of economics.

21

• Archie Carr, 77, American herpetologist and ecologist, professor of zoology, cancer.
• Finis Alonzo Crutchfield Jr., 70, American clergyman and bishop, AIDS.
• Ron Frederickson, 68, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Alejandro Rey, 57, Argentinian-American actor and television director, lung cancer.

22

• Paddy Belton, 60, Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
• Thornton Freeland, 89, American film director.
• Frank Jenkins, 68, Australian rules footballer.
• Stewart Menaul, 71, British RAF officer.
• Heinrich Mückter, 72, German medical doctor and pharmacologist, developed thalidomide.
• Ernst Nagelschmitz, 85, German Olympic footballer.
• Keidrych Rhys, 71, Welsh literary journalist, editor and poet, editor of periodical Wales.

24

• Alan Samuel Butler, 88, British aviator, chairman of De Havilland Aircraft Company.
• James J. Delaney, 86, American politician, chair of the House Rules Committee.
• Hermione Gingold, 89, English actress, heart problems complicated by pneumonia.
• Siegmund Klein, 85, German-born American bodybuilder and magazine publisher, cancer.
• Lajos Ligeti, 64, Hungarian orientalist and philologist.
• Thomas Burdett Money-Coutts, 85, English peer.
• Eugen Relgis, 92, Romanian writer and pacifist philosopher.

25

• Charley Brock, 71, American NFL footballer.
• Winthrop G. Brown, 79, American lawyer and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Korea and Laos.
• Hugh Lester Campbell, 78, Canadian air marshal in the Royal Canadian Air Force and politician.
• Peter Coe, 58, English director and actor, car accident.
• Peter Gerald Charles Dickens, 70, English Royal Navy officer during World War II.
• Hermann Glöckner, 98, German painter and sculptor.
• William Kelly Harrison Jr., 91, American U.S. Army general.
• Don Sidle, 40, American ABA basketballer.
• Paweł Tuchlin, 41, Polish serial killer, hanged.

26

• Antoni Brzeżańczyk, 68, Polish footballer and manager.
• Rose Chan, 62, Chinese-born Malaysian cabaret dancer.
• Alvin Duke Chandler, 84, American Navy officer, president of the College of William & Mary.
• Rolando da Cruz, 56, Brazilian Olympic water polo player.
• Paul Rimstead, 51–52, Canadian journalist, hemorrhage.
• Arthur M. Sackler, 73, American psychiatrist and marketer of pharmaceuticals, heart attack.
• Glenmore Webley, 35, Jamaican politician, shot.
• Robert Wilkins, 91, American country blues guitarist and vocalist.
• Ajita Wilson, 37, American transgender actress, brain hemorrhage.

27

• Alvin C. Eurich, 84, American educator, president of the State University of New York.
• Harry Fritz, 66, American collegiate athletics administrator and coach.
• Jack Heid, 62, American Olympic cyclist.
• Colin McCahon, 67, New Zealand artist.
• John Howard Northrop, 95, American biochemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, suicide.
• Richard Bruce Nugent, 80, American writer and painter.
• Fatemeh Pahlavi, 58, Iranian royal, cancer.

28

• Billie Fulford, 72, New Zealand cricketer.
• Mikuláš Kucsera, 84, Czechoslovak Olympic athlete.
• Léon Lambert, 58, Belgian banker and art collector, AIDS.
• Charles Ludlam, 44, American actor, director and playwright, pneumonia.
• Arthur Matsu, 83, American NFL footballer and coach.
• Frits Ruimschotel, 65, Dutch Olympic water polo player.
• James Saunders, 55, Canadian Olympic boxer.
• Ronald Thomas, 71, Australian cricketer.

29

• Jean Delay, 79, French psychiatrist, neurologist and writer.
• Jozef Langenus, 88, Belgian Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Vettam Mani, 65, Indian scholar and writer.
• Jack Sheehan, 94, American MLB player,.
• Charan Singh, 84, prime minister of India, cardiovascular collapse.
• Godfrey Surman, 72, English cricketer.
• Phyllis Tate, 76, English composer.

30

• Frank Carlson, 94, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
• George Davis-Goff, 81, New Zealand navy officer.
• Dewanohana Kuniichi, 78, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Bill Gutteron, 87, American NFL player.
• Eliot Hodgkin, 81, English painter.
• Miyuki Ishikawa, 90, Japanese midwife, real estate agent and serial killer.
• Honorino Landa, 44, Chilean international footballer, cancer.
• Frank Licht, 71, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island, cancer.
• Hallam L. Movius, 79, American archaeologist.
• Turk Murphy, 71, American trombonist and bandleader, bone cancer.
• Norman Nicholson, 73, English poet.
• Cliff Simpson, 64, Canadian NHL player.
• Hilde Weissner, 77, German actress.

31

• John Abraham, 49, Indian filmmaker, short story writer and screenwriter, complications from a fall.
• Jerry Adair, 50, American Major League baseball player, liver cancer.
• Hubert Raymond Allen, 68, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Hilton Curran, 72, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Charles Drew, 70, British cardiothoracic surgeon, throat cancer.
• Wilbur Evans, 81, American actor and singer.
• Elisabeth Friske, 47, West German airline pilot, first female commercial pilot in West Germany, plane crash.
• Len Hamilton, 87, Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives.
• Gertrude Jones Hawk, 83–84, American candy maker and entrepreneur.
• Kolbein Lauring, 72, Norwegian resistance member during World War II.
• Dorothy Patrick, 65, Canadian-born American film actress, heart attack.
• Domenico Piemontesi, 84, Italian road bicycle racer.
• Roy Winsor, 75, American soap opera writer, producer and mystery novelist, heart attack.

Unknown date

• Sunny Harnett, 63, American model and actress, injuries sustained in a fire.
• Dev Raj Singh Thakur, Indian Air Force warrant officer, killed the killer of Mahatma Gandhi.