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.
- S. Marshall Kempner, 88, American investment banker, founder of the French Bank of California.[2]
- Pola Negri, 90, Polish-American stage and film actress and singer, pneumonia secondary to a brain tumour.[3]
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.[4]
- Tom Doerr, 39–40, American gay activist.
- Jaime Ferrer, 70, Filipino lawyer, guerrilla and politician, Secretary of Local Government, assassinated.
- Clement Howell, 51, Turks and Caicos politician, aircraft disappearance and presumed crash.
- David N. Johnson, 65, American organist, composer and choral clinician.
- Nandadasa Kodagoda, 67, Sri Lankan medical doctor, Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo.
- David A. Martin, 50, American founding member and original bass player for the rock group Sam the Sham, heart attack.
- Mangkunegara VIII, 62, Indonesian politician, last ruler of Mangkunegaran, Java.
- Myron Stout, 78–79, American abstract painter, lung cancer.[5]
- Yves Volel, 52–53, Haitian lawyer, activist and presidential candidate, assassinated.
3
[edit]- Garrick Agnew, 56, Australian competition swimmer, businessman and dual Olympian, heart attack.
- Edward Cowart, 62, American circuit judge, heart attack.
- Joseph Desch, 80, American electrical engineer and inventor.
- Dorothy Hammerstein, 88, Australian-American interior designer and decorator, wife of Oscar Hammerstein II.
- William S. Moorhead, 64, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.[6]
- Ivan Mykolaichuk, 46, Ukrainian actor, producer and screen writer.
- Ivan Svanidze, 59, German-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.
- Jesse M. Unruh, 64, American politician, minority leader and speaker of the California Assembly, prostate cancer.
- John W. Wydler, 63, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
5
[edit]- Anatoli Papanov, 64, Soviet stage, film and voice actor, heart attack.
- Salvador Flores Rivera, 67, Mexican composer and singer.
- Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, 59, Japanese novelist, art critic and translator of French literature, ruptured carotid aneurysm.
6
[edit]- Abbas Babaei, 36, Iranian pilot, brigadier-general in Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force during Iran-Iraq War, shot down.
- Sherwood Bailey, 64, American child actor and civil engineer, cancer.
- Paula Bauersmith, 78, American actress, cancer.[7]
- Ira C. Eaker, 91, U.S. Army Air Forces general during World War II.[8]
- Lena Küchler-Silberman, 77, Polish member of the Jewish resistance.
- Myles Lane, 83, American NHL ice hockey player.
- Léon Noël, 99, French diplomat, politician and historian.
7
[edit]- Mihailo Apostolski, 80, Macedonian general, politician and historian.
- Jeanne Boitel, 83, French film actress.
- Camille Chamoun, 87, President of Lebanon, heart attack.
- Andrew D. Holt, 82, American educator, president of the University of Tennessee.
- Nobusuke Kishi, 90, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan.[9]
- 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.
- Julián Gorkin, 86, Spanish revolutionary socialist.
- Laurence Hyde, 73, English-Canadian film maker, painter and graphic artist.
- Nirmal Mahto, 36, Indian political activist, murdered.
- Trevor O'Keeffe, 18–19, Irish man murdered while hitchhiking in France.
- Irwin Schiff, 50, New York City businessman and mob associate, murdered.
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.
- August Miete, 78, Nazi German SS functionary, sentenced to life imprisonment.
- Henry Morgan, 80, Irish first-class cricketer.
10
[edit]- Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, 94, Greek poet, lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Greece.
- Casey Donovan, 43, American pornographic actor, AIDS-related pulmonary infection.
- Edmund Germer, 85, German inventor, father of the fluorescent lamp.
- Uys Krige, 77, South African writer of novels, short stories, poems and plays.
- Patrick O'Boyle, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
- Prince Yamashina Takehiko, 89, Japanese head of the Yamashina-no-miya.
- Raquel Torres, 78, Mexican-American film actress, heart attack.[10]
11
[edit]- Eugene Bordinat, 67, American automobile designer and corporate executive.[11]
- Živko Čingo, 51, Yugoslavian writer.
- F. Herrick Herrick, 85, American film director and philatelist.
- Walter Herrmann, 76, German nuclear physicist and mechanical engineer.
- Clara Peller, 85, Russian-American manicurist and television personality, congestive heart failure.[12]
- Alexander Ziegler, 43, Swiss author and actor, suicide.
12
[edit]- Crystal Bennett, 68, British archaeologist.
- Lester Gaba, 80, American sculptor and writer, colon cancer.[13]
- 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.
14
[edit]- Sydney Bromley, 78, English actor, cancer.
- Bernard Fagg, 71, British archaeologist and museum curator.
- 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 stage, film and television actor, injuries from a fall.
- Vincent Persichetti, 72, American composer and pianist.[14]
- Edgar Rosenberg, 61, German-British film and television producer, suicide by drug overdose.[15]
- Shigeo Sasaki, 74, Japanese mathematician working on differential geometry Sasakian manifolds.
15
[edit]- Konstantin Aleksandrov, 67, Soviet sailor and Olympian.
- Hanna Greally, 63, Irish writer.
- Ubaldo Ragona, 70, Italian film director and screenwriter.
- Dan Sandifer, 60, American NFL player, heart disease.
- Robert Leonard Ewing Scott, 90, American convicted murderer.
- Louis Scutenaire, 82, Belgian French-language poet and anarchist.
- K. K. Shetty, 86, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
16
[edit]- Pepe Cáceres, 52, Colombian bullfighter.
- Dorothy Hughes, 77, English-Kenyan architect, politician, social reformer and disability activist.
- Sumiko Kurishima, 85, Japanese actress, master of traditional Japanese dance.
- Samuel Lubell, 75, American public opinion pollster, journalist and author, stroke.[16]
- Edwin Barnard Martin, 68, Canadian member of the British Free Corps in Nazi Germany.
- Andrei Mironov, 46, Soviet stage and film actor, complications from wrongly administered drug.
- Peter Schidlof, 65, Austrian-British violist, co-founder of the Amadeus Quartet.[17]
- Nick Vanos, 24, American NBA basketballer, plane crash.
- Charles H. Wesley, 95, American historian, minister and author.
17
[edit]- Leon Berkowitz, 75, American artist.
- Frank Beswick, 75, British politician, deputy leader of the House of Lords.
- Clarence Brown, 97, American film director, kidney failure.[18]
- Gary Chester, 62, American studio drummer and author.
- Carlos Drummond de Andrade, 84, Brazilian poet and writer.
- Rudolf Hess, 93, German Nazi official, Deputy Führer, ostensibly suicide by hanging.[19]
- Harold McCluskey, 75, American chemical operations technician and radiation survivor, coronary artery disease.
- Shaike Ophir, 58, Israeli film and theatre actor, comedian, playwright, screenwriter and director, lung cancer.
- Antti Rantamaa, 52, Finnish priest, member of Finnish Parliament and author.
- Tjilik Riwut, .
- Heinz Schubert, 73, German SS officer during World War II.
- Tillit Sidney Teddlie, 102, American singing teacher, composer, publisher and minister.
18
[edit]- Keerthisena Abeywickrama, 53, Sri Lankan politician, member of parliament, grenade attack.
- Shichirō Fukazawa, 73, Japanese author and guitarist.
- Ralph Haver, 71–72, American architect (Haver Homes).
- Dambudzo Marechera, 35, Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet, AIDS-related pulmonary disorder.
19
[edit]- Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 58, British nobleman and peer.
- Laxmi Narayan Mishra, 83, Indian Hindi play writer.
- Sachin Nag, 67, Indian swimmer and water polo player, Olympian.
- Hayden Rorke, 76, American actor, played Colonel Alfred Bellows in I Dream of Jeannie, multiple myeloma.[20]
- Paul Schlack, 89, German chemist.
- Harold Sherman, 89, American writer and "parapsychologist".
- Yidnekatchew Tessema, 65, Ethiopian international footballer.
20
[edit]- Winifred Bryson, 94, American stage and silent-screen actress.
- José Bueno y Monreal, 82, Spanish cardinal, Roman Catholic archbishop of Seville.
21
[edit]- Frances Mary Albrier, 88, American civil rights activist.
- Bombolo, 56, Italian actor and comedian.
- Dorothy Adlington Cadbury, 94, English botanist and director of confectionery company Cadbury.
- Steve Davis, 58, American jazz bassist (John Coltrane Quartet).
- Li Fang-Kuei, 85, Chinese linguist.
- Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, 78, Italian composer of film scores.
- Glesca Marshall, 80, American actress.
- Irving Thalberg Jr., 56, American author, son of actress Norma Shearer, cancer.[21]
22
[edit]- Arne Brustad, 75, Norwegian international footballer.
- Leonard Caston, 70, American blues pianist and guitarist, heart disease.
- Mary Dobkin, 84, American amateur sports coach, stroke.[22]
- Joseph P. Lash, 77, American radical political activist, journalist and writer.[23]
- Ted Sherdeman, 78, American radio producer and screenwriter (My Favorite Martian, The Flying Nun, Bewitched).
- John Milton Bryan Simpson, 84, American circuit judge.
23
[edit]- Griselda Allan, 81, English artist.
- Siegfried Borris, 80, German composer.
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., 84, American politician, mayor of Baltimore, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
- Sheila van Damm, 65, British motor rally driver, owner of Windmill Theatre in London.
- Malcolm Kirk, 51, English professional wrestler, died in the ring.
- Paulo Navalho, 20, Angolan-Portuguese footballer, acute myocardial infarction during a game.
- Didier Pironi, 35, French racing driver and power boat racer, powerboat racing accident.
- Stéphanos I Sidarouss, 83, Egyptian priest of the Coptic Catholic Church.
24
[edit]- Michèle Alfa, 76, French stage and film actress, hider of leaders of the French Resistance.
- Douglas Byng, 94, English comic singer and songwriter.
- Carlos Cossio, 84, Argentinian militant university reformer, jurist, lawyer, legal philosopher and professor.
- Wayne Hansen, 58, American NFL footballer, bone cancer.
- W. W. Keeler, 79, American engineer and oilman, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.
- Bayard Rustin, 75, American civil and gay rights activist, perforated appendix.[24]
25
[edit]- Héctor Abad Gómez, 66, Colombian medical doctor, university professor and human rights leader.
- 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 in Davis County, Utah.
- Victor Stafford Reid, 74, Jamaican writer.
- Fernando Ramos da Silva, 19, Brazilian actor, police shootout.
26
[edit]- Vern Gardner, 62, American basketballer, stroke.
- John Goddard, 68, Barbadian cricketer, captain of West Indies Test team.
- Marcelo Ramos Motta, 56, Brazilian writer, heart attack.
- Alberto Socarras, 78, Cuban-American flautist.
- Georg Wittig, 90, German chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry.[25]
27
[edit]- Ben Branch, 59, American entrepreneur, jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader.
- Joan Haythorne, 72, British actress.
- Scott La Rock, 25, American hip-hop disc jockey and music producer, murdered.
- Peter Mehringer, 77, American freestyle wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.
- Charlie Smalls, 43, American composer and songwriter, burst appendix.[26]
28
[edit]- Lillian Chase, 93, Canadian physician, researcher in the treatment of diabetes.
- John Huston, 81, American film director, screenwriter and actor, pneumonia as a complication of lung disease.[27]
- Hoàng Cơ Minh, 52, Vietnamese Navy commodore-admiral, leader of anti-communist resistance.
- Harold Samuel, 75, British founder of Land Securities.
- Jack Young, 62, Australian motorcycle speedway rider, Speedway World Champion.
29
[edit]- Naji al-Ali, 48–49, Palestinian cartoonist, assassinated.
- Archie Campbell, 72, American comedian and writer, heart attack.
- Bernadene Hayes, 75, American film and television actress (Some Like It Hot, Dick Tracy's Dilemma).
- Lee Marvin, 63, American film and television actor (The Dirty Dozen, The Big Heat), heart attack.[28]
- John R. Napier, 70, British primatologist, paleoanthropologist and physician.
- Jean Schlumberger, 80, French jewellery designer.
- Phillip Hagar Smith, 82, American electrical engineer (Smith chart).
30
[edit]- Wade H. McCree, 67, American legal scholar and judge, Solicitor General of the United States, bone cancer.
- George Mikes, 75, Hungarian-British journalist, humorist and writer.
- Vic Silayan, 58, Filipino actor, heart attack.
- John C. Sjogren, 71, American soldier in the United States Army, Medal of Honor recipient.
- Frank Stojack, 75, Canadian-NFL footballer and wrestler, world light-heavyweight champion, Alzheimer's disease.
- Dick Young, 69, American sportswriter.[29]
31
[edit]- Thomas Agro, 55, American gangster with the Gambino crime family.
- Lenore Lonergan, 59, American stage and film actress, cancer.[30]
Unknown date
[edit]- Wylie Sypher, 81, American non-fiction writer.
References
[edit]- ^ "Benson Fong Is Dead at 70; Was in Film and TV 40 Years". The New York Times. August 4, 1987. p. B 9. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "S. Marshall Kempner Dead; Longtime Investment Banker". The New York Times. August 4, 1987. p. B 4. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ Albin Krebs (August 3, 1987). "Pola Negri, a Vamp of the Silent Screen, Dies at 88". The New York Times. p. D 11. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, 66; Was President of Bangladesh". The New York Times. August 3, 1987. p. D 11. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ Michael Brenson (August 8, 1987). "Myron Stout, Abstract Artist And Minimalist, Is Dead at 79". The New York Times. p. 1 50. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ Warren Weaver Jr. special to the New York Times (August 4, 1987). "William S. Moorhead Is Dead; Held House Seat for 22 Years". The New York Times. p. B 4. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Paula Bauersmith, 78, Dies; Actress on TV and the Stage". The New York Times. August 12, 1987. p. D 22. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ Robert D. McFadden (August 8, 1987). "Ira C. Eaker, 91, Is Dead; Helped Create Air Force". The New York Times. p. 1 32. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ Clyde Haberman, Special To the New York Times (August 8, 1987). "Nobusuke Kishi, Ex-Tokyo Leader". The New York Times. p. 1 32. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Raquel Torres". The New York Times. August 13, 1987. p. B 8. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Eugene Bordinat Jr". The New York Times. August 14, 1987. p. D 18. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Clara Peller, the Actress In 'Where's the Beef?' TV Ad". The New York Times. August 12, 1987. p. D 22. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Lester Gaba, Mannequin Artist". The New York Times. August 14, 1987. p. D 18. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
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- ^ "Edgar Rosenberg, Husband And Colleague of Joan Rivers". The New York Times. August 15, 1987. p. 1 33. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ Ronald Smothers (August 21, 1987). "Samuel Lubell Is Dead at 76; Predicted Election Outcomes". The New York Times. p. B 7. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ Michael Kimmelman (August 17, 1987). "Peter Schidlof Is Dead at 65; The Amadeus Quartet Violist". The New York Times. p. B 6. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
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- ^ "Rudolf Hess Is Dead in Berlin; Last of the Hitler Inner Circle". The New York Times. August 18, 1987. p. A 1. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
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- ^ David E. Pitt (August 23, 1987). "Reporter and Biographer". The New York Times. p. 1 40. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ Eric Pace (August 25, 1987). "Bayard Rustin Is Dead at 75; Pacifist and a Rights Activist". The New York Times. p. A 1. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Georg Wittig, 90, Dies; Winner of Nobel Prize". The New York Times. August 28, 1987. p. A 17. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Charlie Smalls Is Dead; Composer of 'The Wiz'". The New York Times. September 4, 1987. p. D 15. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ Peter B. Flint (August 29, 1987). "John Huston, Film Director, Writer and Actor, Dies at 81". The New York Times. p. 1 1. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ Dennis Hevesi (August 31, 1987). "Lee Marvin, Movie Tough Guy, Dies". The New York Times. p. A 17. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ James Barron (September 1, 1987). "Dick Young Dies; Sports Columnist". The New York Times. p. B 7. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- ^ "Lenore Lonergan, Actress, 59". The New York Times. September 1, 1987. p. B 6. Retrieved April 27, 2024.