Deaths in May 1988

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

May 1988

1

• Joseph F. Ambrose, 91, American World War I veteran
• Bill Amor, 68, English Olympic footballer.
• Claude Demetrius, 71, American songwriter.
• Ben Lexcen, 52, Australian yachtsman and marine architect, designed winged keel which won America's Cup, heart attack.
• Tom Pappas, 46, American aide to US Representative Roy Dyson, suicide after allegations of homosexuality with Dyson.
• Paolo Stoppa, 81, Italian actor, leukemia.
• Raoul Thiercelin, 90, French Olympic rugby union player.
• Yan Wenliang, 94, Chinese painter.

2

• John Weir Foote, 83, Canadian military chaplain and politician.
• Art Hefner, 74, American Negro League baseball player.
• Pavel Kadochnikov, 72, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter.
• Sorabji Mehta, 83-84, Indian cricketer.
• Henry Picker, 76, German lawyer and author, published transcripts of Adolf Hitler's informal talks.

3

• Jackson Miles Abbott, 68, American officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, environmentalist, cancer.
• Carl Erhardt, 91, English international ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
• Julia Butler Hansen, 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
• José María Jáuregui, 92, Spanish Olympic footballer.
• Lim Keng Peng, 35, Singaporean murderer, killed in police ambush.
• Boy Louw, 82, South African rugby union player.
• Premendra Mitra, 83, Indian poet, writer and film director.
• Lev Pontryagin, 79, Soviet mathematician.
• Abraham Seidenberg, 71, American mathematician.
• Bill Speidel, 76, American newspaper columnist.
• Paul Vario, 73, American mobster from the Lucchese crime family, respiratory arrest.

4

• Ed Bakey, 62, American film and television actor.
• Stanley William Hayter, 86, English painter, cardiac arrest.
• Carl Jensen, 67, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate and House of Representatives, cancer.
• Jan Mazurkiewicz, 91, Polish army general and politician.
• Oleg Zhakov, 83, Soviet film actor.

5

• Billo Frómeta, 72, Dominican orchestra conductor and composer, stroke.
• Ernie Hammond, 77, Australian rules footballer.
• Harold Hull, 67, American basketball player.
• D.D. Kashyap, 77–78, Indian film director.
• Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, 90, American writer The Making of a Southerner.
• Hamid Mirza, 70, Iranian heir presumptive of former ruling dynasty of Iran, son of last Qajar Crown Prince of Iran.
• George Rose, 68, English actor and singer, murdered.
• Michael Shaara, 59, American author, heart attack.
• R. J. Unstead, 72, British historian and author, heart failure.

6

• Joep Brandes, 67, Dutch footballer.
• Richard Caliguiri, 56, American politician, mayor of Pittsburgh, amyloidosis.
• Weldon Edwards, 64, American NFL player.
• Herbert L. Hart, 91, American college football and basketball player and coach.
• Caleb Rodney Layton III, 80, American district judge.
• Costantino Nivola, 76, Italian-born American sculptor, heart attack.
• Hans Popper, 84, Austrian-born American pathologist and hepatologist, pancreatic cancer.

7

• Nara Nath Acharya, 82, Nepalese Pandit and writer.
• Fernand Donna, 66, French Olympic sprint canoeist.
• Auguste Maltais, 72, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.

8

• Robert A. Heinlein, 80, American science fiction author, emphysema and heart failure.
• Nappy Lamare, 82, American jazz banjoist, guitarist and vocalist.
• Domingo Ortega, 82, Spanish matador.
• Charles Pollock, 85, American abstract painter, brother of artist Jackson Pollock, stroke.
• Ruby M. Rouss, 66, American member of the US Army Women's Army Corps and politician, president of the Virgin Islands Legislature, diabetes.
• Abdel Moneim Wahby, 76, Egyptian Olympic basketball player.

9

• Alfons Julen, 89, Swiss Olympic cross-country skier.
• Willie Moir, 66, Scottish international footballer.

10

• Wendell Bill, 78, Australian cricketer.
• Ciarán Bourke, 53, Irish musician.
• Hugh Laing, 76, Barbados-born American ballet dancer, cancer.
• Ion Neacșu, 57, Romanian footballer.
• Richard B. Ogilvie, 65, American attorney and law enforcement officer, Governor of Illinois, heart attack.
• John Sterling Rockefeller, 83, American philanthropist, conservationist, and amateur ornithologist.
• Shen Congwen, 85, Chinese writer, heart attack.

11

• Domenico Cambieri, 73, Italian Olympic rower.
• Isabella Gordon, 86, Scottish marine biologist.
• George Gordon-Lennox, 79, British army general in World War II.
• Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann, 83, German ethnologist.
• Kim Philby, 76, British intelligence officer and spy, heart failure.
• Edmund Sobkowiak, 74, Polish Olympic boxer.

12

• Jaime Giralt, 86, Spanish Olympic rower.
• Jacquelyn Kelley, 61, American AAGPBL player.
• Paul Osborn, 86, American playwright and screenwriter.
• Chick Parsons, 86, American diplomat and decorated World War II veteran.
• Hank Schenz, 69, American MLB player.

13

• Chet Baker, 58, American jazz trumpeter and vocalist, fall from building.
• John Garrison, 79, American Olympic ice hockey player.
• Paul Genge, 74, American actor.
• Sergey Gorshkov, 78, Soviet Admiral of the Fleet.
• Friedrich Guggenberger, 73, Nazi German admiral and U-boat commander.
• Caecilia Loots, 84, Dutch resistance member known for saving Jewish children during World War II.
• Nikolay Makarov, 73, Soviet firearms designer.
• Irene Manton, 84, British botanist, Professor of Botany at the University of Leeds.
• Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 83, Welsh soldier and landowner.

14

• Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 73, German-born curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Fred Atkins, 77–78, New Zealand-born Canadian professional wrestler.
• Willem Drees, 101, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
• Ernesto Giménez Caballero, 88, Spanish writer, diplomat and pioneer of Fascism, founder of La Gaceta Literaria.
• Wayne Jarratt, 31, Australian actor, brain tumour.
• Schute Merritt, 77, American Negro Leagues baseball player.

15

• Andrew Duggan, 64, American actor, throat cancer.
• Fulvia Franco, 56, Italian actress and model.
• Lois Maloy, 85, American illustrator of children's books.
• Greta Nissen, 82, Norwegian-American film and stage actress, Parkinson's disease.
• Sol Polk, 71, American businessman, co-founder of Polk Brothers.
• P. R. Shyamsunder, 64, Indian cricketer.
• Thomas E. Stephens, 84, Irish-American politician.
• Heikki Taskinen, 82, Finnish Olympic discus thrower.

16

• Kay Baxter, 42, American bodybuilder, car crash.
• Gordon Garlick, 71, English cricketer.
• Chan Htoon, 82, Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma.
• Charles Keeping, 63, English illustrator and children's book author, brain tumour.
• Jules Levin, 66, American politician.
• Anatoli Maslyonkin, 57, Soviet international footballer and Olympic gold medalist.
• Joe Matte, 80, Canadian NHL player.
• Torahiko Miyahata, 85, Japanese Olympic swimmer.
• Peter J. Ortiz, 74, United States Marine Corps colonel, cancer.
• Bruce Watson, 78, Scottish organic chemist and politician, leader of the Scottish National Party.
• Sidney Wewege, 80, South African cricketer.

17

• Wesley Frensdorff, 61, American Episcopal prelate, bishop of Nevada, plane crash.
• Frank Gallop, 87, American radio and television personality.
• Elio Gerussi, 52, Italian racing cyclist.
• Guy Glover, 77, Canadian producer.
• Al Wiseman, 69, American cartoonist.

18

• Daws Butler, 71, American voice actor, heart attack.
• Drew Ellis, 73, American NFL player.
• Anthony Forwood, 72, English actor, liver cancer and Parkinson's disease.
• Christopher Gore, 43, American screenwriter and playwright, AIDS.
• Daniel Lewis James, 77, American writer, heart attack.
• R. B. Nunnery, 54, American AFL player.
• Brandon Rhys-Williams, 60, British politician, Member of Parliament, pneumonia.
• Armand Savoie, 58, Canadian Olympic boxer.
• Michiko Tanaka, 78, Japanese singer and actress.
• Enzo Tortora, 59, Italian television presenter and politician, member of European Parliament, cancer.

19

• Kurt-Caesar Hoffmann, 92 Nazi German navy vice admiral.
• Dave McCleave, 76, British Olympic boxer.
• Lloyd Vaughan, 79, American animator.

20

• Ana Aslan, 91, Romanian biologist and physician, specialist in gerontology.
• Nick Corwin, 8, American murder victim.
• Bjørn Gulbrandsen, 61, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Paddy Harold, 65, Irish Olympic rower.
• Dick Jacobs, 70, American musician, arranger and orchestrator.
• František Kiehlmann, 86, Czechoslovakian Olympic hurdler.
• Anthony C. Perera, 66, Sri Lankan actor.
• Marion G. Romney, 90, American Mormon leader.
• Victorio Unamuno, 78, Spanish footballer.

21

• Harry Babasin, 67, American jazz bassist, emphysema.
• Richard J. Daronco, 56, American lawyer and judge, assassinated.
• Sammy Davis Sr., 87, American dancer, father of Sammy Davis Jr.
• John D. Fitzgerald, 82, American author.
• Bruno Frei, 90, Austrian political writer and journalist.
• Dino Grandi, 92, Italian Fascist politician, ambassador to the U.K.
• Clement Hill, 83, Australian cricketer.
• Barbara Laage, 67, French film actress.
• Pino Romualdi, 74, Italian right-wing politician, Member of the European Parliament, cancer.
• Zano West, 71, American basketball player.

22

• Giorgio Almirante, 73, Italian politician, founder and leader of neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, stroke.
• W. H. Canaway, 62, British author.
• Lionel Edirisinghe, 75, Sri Lankan musicologist, principal at the University of the Visual and Performing Arts.
• Edgar Johnston, 92, Australian WWI flying ace.

23

• Aya Kitō, 25, Japanese diarist, spinocerebellar ataxia.
• Carl Littlefield, 71, American NFL player.
• Emanuel Paul, 84, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
• David Schoenbrun, 73, American broadcast journalist, heart attack.
• Roberto Succo, 26, Italian serial killer, suicide.
• Tony Viramontes, 31, American artist, AIDS.

24

• Tom Adair, 74, American songwriter and composer.
• Tom Burtt, 73, New Zealand cricketer.
• Freddie Frith, 79, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion.
• Jamie Hamilton, 87, British rower and Olympic medalist, publisher.
• Bill Horton, 41, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Ernest Labrousse, 93, French historian.
• Aleksei Losev, 94, Soviet philosopher.
• Galiano Pividori, 72, Italian racing cyclist.
• Leo Schamroth, 63, South African cardiologist.

25

• Monte Kay, 63, American record producer, heart failure.
• Ruth Malcomson, 82, Miss America 1924.
• Charlie Perkins, 82, American MLB player.
• Leon Shimkin, 81, American businessman.
• Martin Slavin, 66, British composer for movies and television, road accident.
• Bill Steinmetz, 89, American Olympic speed skater.
• Karl August Wittfogel, 91, German-American playwright and historian, pneumonia.

26

• Antonio Bardellino, 43, Italian mobster, boss of the Casalesi clan, assumed murdered.
• Jules Gales, 63, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer.
• Robert Graf, 81, American Olympic canoeist.
• Juan Orol, 90, Spanish-born Mexican actor and director, liver disease.
• Frederick Parker, 75, English cricketer and British Army officer.
• Dick Strahs, 64, American MLB player.
• Nicolò Vittori, 79, Italian Olympic rower.

27

• Bill Bollinger, 48, American sculptor.
• Carlos Choque, 75, Argentine Olympic sports shooter.
• John DiGilio, 55, American mobster with the Genovese crime family, murdered.
• Paul Lafond, 68, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada.
• Florida Friebus, 78, American writer and actress.
• James O'Brien, 62, Canadian Olympic sprinter.
• Hjördis Petterson, 79, Swedish actress.
• Ernst Ruska, 81, German physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics.
• Lars Sæter, 93, Norwegian politician.
• Ralph Townsend, 66, American Olympic cross-country skier.

28

• Adolfo Contoli, 90, Italian Olympic athlete.
• Felix Morrow, 81, American communist political activist and newspaper editor.
• Sy Oliver, 77, American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader.
• Evelyn Page, 89, New Zealand artist.
• Charlie Sevior, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• Norman Skelhorn, 78, English barrister, Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales.
• Dodë Tahiri, 69, Albanian footballer.
• Bjarne Undheim, 83, Norwegian educator and politician.
• Alfredo Volpi, 92, Brazilian painter.

29

• Charla Doherty, 41, American actress.
• Sheridan Dufferin, 49, British patron of the arts, AIDS.
• Henry Johansen, 83, Norwegian international footballer and Olympic medalist.
• Salem bin Laden, 42, Saudi Arabian investor and businessman, half brother of Osama bin Laden, plane crash.
• Vladimír Menšík, 59, Czechoslovakian actor and entertainer, asthma.
• Siaka Stevens, 82, Sierra Leone politician, Prime Minister and President of Sierra Leone.
• Roy Williams, 59, Australian rules footballer.
• Elaine Black Yoneda, 81, American labour and civil rights activist, member of Communist Party, heart attack.

30

• Hans Bryner, 77, Swiss Olympic sailor.
• Iseline Crivelli, 85, Italian Olympic alpine skier.
• Curtis Hollingsworth, 71, American Negro League baseball player.
• Miroslav Nový, 57, Czechoslovakian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Ella Raines, 67, American actress, throat cancer.
• Peter Timmis, 45, English cricketer.

31

• June Buchanan, 100, American founder of Alice Lloyd College.
• Murray Gainger, 48, Australian rules footballer.
• Jimmy Hartnett, 61, Irish footballer.
• Dwarka Prasad Mishra, 86, Indian politician, writer and journalist, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
• Arthur Olliver, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• Tursun Uljabayev, 72, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan.

Unknown date

• Rosa Collazo, 83–84, Puerto Rican political activist, plotted to kill U.S. president Harry Truman.