Deaths in October 1988


Deaths in October 1988


The following is a list of notable deaths in October 1988.

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.

October 1988

1

  • Lucien Ballard, 80, American cinematographer (The Caretakers), complications from car accident.
  • Trevor Herion, 29, Irish singer and songwriter, suicide.
  • Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 90, English writer.
  • Pavle Vuisić, 62, Yugoslav actor.

2

  • Hamengkubuwono IX, 76, Indonesian politician and Javanese Royal, Vice President of Indonesia, internal bleeding.
  • Sir Peter Hunt, 72, English head of the British Army, Chief of the General Staff.
  • Alec Issigonis, 81, Ottoman-British automotive designer (Mini).
  • Thomas J. Kelly, 65, American soldier in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient.

3

  • Mae Brussell, 66, American radio personality, challenger of the Warren Commission report, cancer.
  • Richard Evelyn Byrd III, 68, American officer in U.S. Navy, Antarctic explorer, son of Richard E. Byrd. (body found on this date)
  • Clarence Carnes, 61, American murderer (Battle of Alcatraz), AIDS.
  • Ma Haide, 78, American doctor who practiced medicine in China.
  • Franz Josef Strauss, 73, German politician.

4

  • Carlo Carretto, 78, Italian writer and Catholic priest, member of the Little Brothers of the Gospel.
  • Zlatko Grgić, 57, Croatian-born Canadian animator (Dream Doll).
  • Geoffrey Household, 87, British novelist specialising in thrillers (Rogue Male).
  • Margaret Lacey, 76, British actress and ballet teacher (Diamonds Are Forever).

5

  • Curt Hjelm, 74, Swedish international footballer.
  • Ron Staniforth, 64, English international footballer.
  • Lois W., (Lois Wilson), 97, American co-founder of Al-Anon for alcoholics.

6

  • Severiano Briseño, 86, Mexican composer.
  • Dean Burk, 84, American biochemist and cancer researcher (Lineweaver–Burk plot).
  • Paul Ledoux, 74, Belgian astrophysicist.
  • Don Terry, 86, American film actor.

7

  • George Ansell, 78, English footballer (Norwich City).
  • Sándor Bíró, 77, Hungarian international footballer (MTK Budapest, Hungary).
  • Billy Daniels, 73, American singer (That Old Black Magic), stomach cancer.
  • Stéphane Lupasco, 88, Romanian philosopher, developed non-Aristotelian logic.
  • Chet Phillips, 74, American gymnast and Olympian.

8

  • Harold Dorman, 61, American rock and roll singer and songwriter (Mountain of Love).
  • Boob Fowler, 87, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds).
  • Edward George Warris Hulton, 81, British magazine publisher and writer.
  • Hans Kuhn, 89, German philologist, specialised in Germanic studies.
  • Wally Lemm, 68, American NFL football coach (Houston Oilers, St. Louis Cardinals).
  • Ernst Hermann Meyer, 82, German composer and musicologist.
  • Sam Richardson, 70, Canadian long jumper and triple jumper, Olympic gold medalist.
  • Pál Titkos, 80, Hungarian international footballer.

9

  • Mousey Alexander, 66, American jazz drummer, heart and kidney failure.
  • Edward Chodorov, 84, American playwright, film writer and producer.
  • Cliff Gallup, 58, American guitarist, heart attack.
  • Jackie Milburn, 64, English international footballer (Newcastle United, Newcastle United), lung cancer.
  • Felix Wankel, 86, German mechanical engineer, Hitler Youth leader, inventor of the Wankel rotary engine

10

  • Samuel A. Adams, 54, analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • Bhabani Bhattacharya, 81, Indian writer.
  • David Croudip, 30, American NFL footballer (Atlanta Falcons), car crash.
  • Juan Pujol García, ('Garbo', 'Alaric'), 76, Spanish spy and double agent.
  • Kurt Marshall, 22, American gay model and an actor, AIDS.
  • Montgomery Tully, 84, Irish film director and writer.

11

  • Buck Clarke, 55, American jazz percussionist.
  • Thaddeus J. Dulski, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, leukemia.
  • Morgan Farley, 90, American film and television actor.
  • Wayland Flowers, 48, American actor, comedian and puppeteer (Captain Kangaroo), AIDS.
  • Bonita Granville, 65, American actress and producer (Nancy Drew, These Three), lung cancer.
  • Robert Edward Gross, 83, American surgeon and a medical researcher.
  • Roy Herrick, 52, British actor.
  • Max Imdahl, 63, German art historian.
  • Guido Monzino, 60, Italian mountain climber and explorer, heart failure.
  • Ursula Nordstrom, 78, American publisher and editor, ovarian cancer.
  • Joel Oppenheimer, 58, American poet, lung cancer.
  • Red Owens, 63, American NBA basketballer.
  • Hugh Percy, 74, British soldier and peer, heart attack.

12

  • Ruth Manning-Sanders, 102, Welsh-English poet and author.
  • Ken Murray, 85, American comedian, actor, radio and television personality and author.
  • Bill Newman, 60, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
  • Rafael García Serrano, 71, Spanish writer and journalist.
  • Coby Whitmore, 75, American painter and magazine illustrator.

13

  • Norman Barry, 90, American judge, politician and football coach (Chicago Cardinals), heart attack.
  • Melvin Frank, 75, American screenwriter and film producer (A Touch of Class, White Christmas), complications from open heart surgery.
  • Irene Hunt, 96, American silent-screen actress.
  • Mike Venezia, 43, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey, horse racing accident.

14

  • Kathleen Blackshear, 91, American artist.
  • Charles Augustus, 76, German prince, head of the house of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
  • Katriel Katz, 79, Israeli diplomat, ambassador to the Soviet Union and Poland.
  • Mary Morris, 72, Fijian-British actress, heart failure.
  • Vic Raschi, 69, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.
  • René Vietto, 74, French road racing cyclist.
  • John White, 53, American AFL footballer.

15

  • John Ball, 77, American mystery novel writer (In the Heat of the Night).
  • Victor Copps, 69, Canadian politician, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.
  • James Craig, 46, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, shot.
  • Piero Fornasetti, 74, Italian artist and designer, died during minor operation.
  • Khudu Mammadov, 60, Azerbaijani geologist (crystal chemistry).
  • Rallou Manou, 72–73, Greek choreographer.
  • Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, 96, English composer, music critic, pianist and writer.
  • Julian Alfred Steyermark, 79, Venezuelan-American botanist.

16

  • William A. Earle, 68–69, American philosopher.
  • Queen Farida of Egypt, 67, consort of King Farouk of Egypt, leukemia.
  • Abdulrahman Fawzi, 78, Egyptian international footballer and manager (Zamalek, Egypt).
  • Christian Matras, 87, Faroese poet.
  • Muzafer Sherif, 82, Ottoman-American social psychologist.

17

  • Oved Ben-Ami, 83, Israeli politician, co-founder of the cities of Netanya and Ashdod.
  • William Henry Bramble, 87, British union leader and Chief Minister of Montserrat.
  • Adélaïde Hautval, 82, French physician, provide medical care in Auschwitz concentration camp, suicide.
  • Anthony A. Hoekema, 74–75, Dutch-American Calvinist minister, heart attack.

18

  • Michael ffolkes, 63, British illustrator and cartoonist (The Daily Telegraph, Punch).
  • Kamel Hana Gegeo, Iraqi bodyguard, food taster for Saddam Hussein, murdered.
  • Christopher Hoban, 26, American police officer, murdered.

19

  • Labdhi Bhandari, 40, Professor of Marketing at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, air crash.
  • Henry W. Buse Jr., 76, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
  • Lawrence W. Butler, 80, American special effects artist, inventor of the bluescreening process (The Thief of Bagdad).
  • William Joseph Campbell, 83, American judge (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois).
  • Fathead, 27–28, Jamaican-born American dancehall deejay, murdered.
  • Son House, 86, American singer and guitarist, cancer of the larynx.
  • Marcos de Mendonça, 93, Brazilian international footballer.
  • Sten Suvio, 76, Finnish boxer and Olympic gold medal winner.

20

  • Mark Evans Austad, 71, American radio and television commentator, U.S. Ambassador to Finland and Norway.
  • Marion William Isbell, 83, American restaurateur, founder of Ramada Inns.
  • Orval Leroy Lewis, 72, American mechanical and chemical engineer, president of American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
  • Nino Nutrizio, 77, Italian journalist.
  • Sheila Scott, 66, English aviator, cancer.
  • Mogens Wöldike, 91, Danish conductor, choirmaster and organist.

21

  • Guido Beck, 85, Argentine physicist, car accident.
  • Reggie Otero, 73, Cuban Major League baseballer, heart attack.

22

  • Henry Armstrong, 75, American boxer, multiple world champion.
  • Cynthia Freeman, 73, American novelist, cancer.
  • Plácido Galindo, 82, Peruvian international footballer (Universitario de Deportes, Peru).
  • Clare Stevenson, 85, Australian director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.

23

  • Hap Emms, 83, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, coach and team owner (Barrie Flyers), heart failure.
  • Laurence Irving, 91, English book illustrator and Hollywood set designer.
  • Asashio Tarō III, 58, Japanese sumo wrestler, stroke.

24

  • William T. R. Fox, 76, American foreign policy professor (Columbia University), coined the term "superpower", heart disease.
  • Samuel B. Fuller, 83, American entrepreneur, president of the National Negro Business League, kidney failure.
  • Benny Joy, 52, American rockabilly guitarist and singer, cancer.
  • Ratna Mohini, 84, Javanese dancer.

25

  • Kathleen Baxter, 87, English women's rights activist (National Council of Women).
  • Bob Carey, 58, American NFL footballer (Los Angeles Rams).
  • Boobie Clark, 38, American NFL footballer (Cincinnati Bengals), blood clot in lung.
  • Eric Larson, 83, American animator for Walt Disney Studios (Winnie the Pooh).
  • Luther Lassiter, 69, American pool player, seven-time world pocket billiard champion.
  • John Poole-Hughes, 72, Welsh bishop.
  • Milton Rokeach, 69, Polish-American social psychologist.

26

  • R. K. Baliga, 58, Indian engineer, founder of Electronics City, diabetes-related complications.
  • Georgette Cohan, 88, American actress (Mr. Pim Passes By).
  • Ruth Gervis, 94, British illustrator (Ballet Shoes).
  • Tatapuram Sukumaran, 65, Malayalam writer.

27

  • Frank Devlin, 88, Irish badminton player.
  • Charles Hawtrey, 73, English actor and comedian, (Carry On), vascular disease.
  • Curt Herzstark, 86, Austrian engineer.
  • Rudolf Jordan, 86, German Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt for the Nazis.
  • Jack Kane, 80, Australian politician, member of the Australian Senate.
  • Ruhollah Khatami, 81, Iranian cleric.
  • Erika von Thellmann, 86, Austrian film and television actress.

28

  • Pietro Annigoni, 78, Italian artist and portrait painter (Queen Elizabeth II), kidney failure.
  • John Backus, 77, Lithuanian-American physicist and acoustician.
  • Shoki Coe, 74, Taiwanese Presbyterian minister.
  • Alva B. Lasswell, 83, American linguist and cryptanalyst in the U.S. Marine Corps.
  • Jack de Manio, 74, British journalist and radio presenter (Today).
  • Teikō Shiotani, 89, Japanese photographer.

29

  • Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, 85, Indian social reformer and freedom activist.
  • Andy Cohen, 84, American MLB baseballer (New York Giants).
  • Joe Comfort, 71, American jazz double bassist.
  • Thomas Cooray, 86, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Colombo.
  • Nataša Gollová, 76, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian actress (Eva tropí hlouposti).
  • Bill Mason, 58–59, Canadian author, filmmaker and conservationist, cancer.
  • Orlando Montenegro Medrano, 68, Nicaraguan politician and attorney, acting President of Nicaragua.
  • Ross Rocklynne, 75, American science fiction author.

30

  • Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, 88, German film actor.
  • T. Hee, 77, American animator and director (Walt Disney Animation Studios).
  • Tasos Leivaditis, 66, Greek poet.
  • John Myers Myers, 82, American writer.
  • Florence Nagle, 94, British breeder of racehorses and pedigree dogs, horse trainer and feminist.
  • Francisco Rodrigues, 63, Brazilian international footballer.
  • Liz Whitney Tippett, 82, American socialite and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses, cancer.

31

  • John Houseman, 86, Romanian-American actor and producer (Citizen Kane, The Blue Dahlia, The Paper Chase), cancer.
  • Ken Niles, 81, American radio announcer.
  • Alfred Pellan, 82, Canadian painter, leukemia.
  • George Uhlenbeck, 87, Dutch-American theoretical physicist.

Unknown date

  • Gerry Livingston, 73–74, Canadian businessman.
  • Denis Martin, 67–68, Northern Irish singer, actor and theatre producer.
  • Frederick Roffey, 93, English rugby union and rugby league footballer.

References


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