Deaths in December 1988


Deaths in December 1988


The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

December 1988

1

  • Martin Hinds, 47, British scholar of the Middle East, historiographer of early Islamic history.
  • Włodzimierz Mazur, 34, Polish international footballer (Zagłębie Sosnowiec, Poland).
  • J. Vernon McGee, 84, American Presbyterian minister and radio minister, heart failure.

2

  • Karl-Heinz Bürger, 84, Nazi German member of the SS.
  • Tata Giacobetti, 66, Italian singer and jazz musician (Quartetto Cetra).
  • Lloyd Rees, 93, Australian landscape painter.
  • Zofia Szczęśniewska, 45, Polish international volleyball player and Olympic medalist.

3

  • Panos Gavalas, 62, Greek singer.
  • John Maher, 48, American former child alcoholic and heroin addict, founded Delancey Street Foundation, pneumonia.
  • Johnny Paychek, 74, American boxer.
  • Florence Senanayake, 85, Sri Lankan politician, first female member of the Ceylon Parliament.
  • Thawan Thamrongnawasawat, 87, Thai politician and Prime Minister of Thailand.

4

  • Osman Achmatowicz, 89, Polish chemist (Achmatowicz reaction).
  • Gerd Arntz, 87, German artist (woodcuts).
  • Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry, 85, Pakistani nuclear physicist.
  • Fernand Mourlot, 93, French director of Mourlot Studios.
  • Kola Onadipe, 66, Nigerian author of children's books (Sugar Girl), stroke.
  • Göran von Otter, 81, Swedish diplomat.
  • Sir David Trench, 73, British Army officer, Governor of Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands.

5

  • Winfield S. Harpe, 51, American pilot, general in the U.S. Air Force, air crash.
  • August Lenz, 78, German international footballer (Borussia Dortmund, Germany) and Olympian.
  • Erik Lundin, 84, Swedish chess master.
  • Teodor Parnicki, 79–80, Polish writer of historical novels.
  • William Everett Potter, 83, American engineer and military officer, Governor of the Panama Canal Zone.
  • Dave Ryan, 65, American NFL footballer.

6

  • Bill Harris, 63, American guitarist.
  • Timothy Patrick Murphy, 29, American actor (Dallas), AIDS.
  • Roy Orbison, 52, American singer and songwriter (Pretty Woman, Only the Lonely, Crying), heart attack.
  • George Shaw, 57, American triple jumper and Olympian.

7

  • Christopher Connelly, 47, American actor (Peyton Place), lung cancer.
  • Josephine Groves Holloway, 90, American scouting leader.
  • Dorothy Jordan, 82, American actress, heart failure.
  • Ted Voigtlander, 75, American cinematographer, cancer.

8

  • Ivan Bonar, 64, American actor (General Hospital).
  • John Joe McGirl, 67, Irish republican, Sinn Féin politician and Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army.
  • Gene Quill, 60, American jazz alto saxophonist.
  • Anne Seymour, 79, American film and television actress, heart failure.
  • Ulanhu, 80, Chinese founding Chairman of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Vice President of People's Republic of China.

9

  • Rafael Calvo, 76, Spanish actor (Miracle of Marcelino).
  • Kainikkara Kumara Pillai, 88, Indian teacher, actor, short story writer, essayist and playwright.
  • Ludmila Polesná, 54, Czechoslovakian slalom canoeist and Olympian.

10

  • Dennis Arundell, 90, British actor, director and composer of incidental music.
  • Richard S. Castellano, 55, American actor (Lovers and Other Strangers, The Godfather), heart attack.
  • Scott Johnson, 27, American student killed in Australia in a gay-hate attack. (body found on this date)
  • Johnny Lawrence, 77, English cricketer (Somerset, Lincolnshire).
  • Dorothy de Rothschild, 93, English philanthropist and activist for Jewish affairs.
  • John Baker White, 86, English politician and amateur spy, Member of Parliament.
  • Lawrence Wien, 83, American lawyer, philanthropist and real estate investor, prostate cancer.

11

  • Kari Kairamo, 55, Finnish chairman and CEO of Nokia, suicide.
  • Nagendra Singh, 74, Indian lawyer, President of the International Court of Justice.

12

  • K. K. Chen, 90, Chinese-American scientist, pharmacological researcher at Eli Lilly and Company (ephedrine).
  • Dick Clair, 57, American television producer, actor and writer (It's a Living, The Facts of Life, Mama's Family), AIDS.
  • Bruce Alan Davis, 40, American serial killer, suicide.
  • June Tarpé Mills, 76, American comic book creator (Miss Fury).
  • Anthony Provenzano, 71, American mobster of the Genovese crime family, heart attack.
  • Joe Reichler, 73, American sports writer.
  • Rudolf Schündler, 82, German actor and director, heart attack.
  • Loudon Wainwright Jr., 63, American writer, colon cancer.

13

  • Hans Fischer, 27, Brazilian cyclist and Olympian, cardiac arrest.
  • Brynmor John, 54, British politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, heart attack.
  • María Teresa León, 85, Spanish writer.
  • Muhammad Mangundiprojo, 83, Indonesian soldier, revolutionary and civil servant.
  • Bill Nichols, 70, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
  • Brian Sinclair, 73, British veterinary surgeon and novelist, heart attack.
  • Betty Snowball, 80, English women's test cricketer, international squash and lacrosse player for Scotland.
  • Roy Urquhart, 87, British Army Major General.

14

  • Charlie T. Black, 87, American college basketballer.
  • Narciso Busquets, 58, Mexican actor of theatre, film, television and radio.
  • Evald Schorm, 56, Czechoslovakian film and stage director, screenwriter and actor.
  • Jean Schramme, 59, Belgian planter, mercenary in Belgian Congo.
  • Stuart Symington, 57, American businessman and politician, U.S. Secretary of the Air Force.
  • Win Oo, 53, Burmese actor, singer, director, writer and publisher, colorectal cancer.

15

  • Leonid Andrussow, 92, German chemical engineer (hydrogen cyanide).
  • Andrew James Wray Geddes, 82, Indian-born British Royal Air Force officer, led planning for Operation Manna.
  • Muriel Martin-Harvey, 97, English stage actress.

16

  • Anna Jean Ayres, 68, American occupational therapist and educational psychologist, complications of breast cancer.
  • Frank Bonham, 74, American author of Westerns and young adult novels.
  • Tom Eastick, 88, Australian Army artillery officer during World War II.
  • Joe Hatten, 72, American Major League baseballer (Brooklyn Dodgers).
  • Hunter "Stork" Hendry, 93, Australian test cricketer.
  • Ryōhei Koiso, 85, Japanese artist.
  • Babe Pratt, 72, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, heart attack.
  • Sylvester, 41, American singer-songwriter, AIDS.

17

  • Jerry Hopper, 81, American film and television director, heart disease.
  • Jimmie Mattern, 83, American aviator.
  • Gisella Perl, 81, Hungarian-American gynecologist, providing assistance to prisoners at Auschwitz.

18

  • R. Arumugam, 35, Malaysian international footballer (Selangor, Malaysia), car accident.
  • Niyazi Berkes, 80, Turkish Cypriot sociologist.
  • Milt Gantenbein, 78, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers).
  • Ka. Naa. Subramanyam, 76. Indian writer and literary critic.

19

  • Robert Bernstein, 69, American comic book writer, playwright and concert impresario, heart failure.
  • Umashankar Joshi, 77, Indian poet and writer, lung cancer.

20

  • B. Jayamma, 73, Indian actress and singer.
  • György Marik, 64, Hungarian international footballer (Vasas, Hungary).
  • Alphonse Ouimet, 80, Canadian television pioneer, president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, heart failure.
  • Max Robinson, 49, American broadcast journalist, co-anchor on ABC World News Tonight, complications of AIDS.

21

  • Bernt Carlsson, 60, Swedish diplomat, Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Lockerbie aeroplane disaster.
  • Eithne Dunne, 69, Irish actress.
  • James Fuller, 50, American automobile executive (Volkswagen), Lockerbie aeroplane disaster.
  • Matthew Gannon, 34, American CIA officer, Lockerbie aeroplane disaster.
  • Paul Jeffreys, 36, English rock musician (Cockney Rebel), Lockerbie aeroplane disaster.
  • Willie Kamm, 88, American Major League baseballer (Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians).
  • Philip Magnus, British biographer.
  • Federico Moura, 37, Argentinian singer, songwriter and record producer, lead vocalist of Virus, AIDS.
  • Aileen Palmer, 73, British-born Australian poet.
  • Dave Ruhl, 68, Canadian professional wrestler.
  • Bob Steele, 81, American actor.
  • Nikolaas Tinbergen, 81, Dutch biologist and ornithologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, stroke.
  • Bill Townsend, 65, English footballer and manager.
  • Venus Xtravaganza, 23, American transgender performer, strangled.

22

  • Franziska Boas, 86, American dancer.
  • Chico Mendes, 44, Brazilian trade union member and environmental activist, murdered.
  • Tucker Smith, 52, American actor, dancer and singer, cancer.

23

  • Gerhard Adler, 84, German analytical psychologist.
  • Elvin C. Drake, 85, American track and field coach, heart attack.
  • Carlo Scorza, 91, Italian Secretary of the National Fascist Party.
  • Walt Uzdavinis, 77, American NFL football player.

24

  • Blanche Barrow, 77, American member of the Barrow Gang, lung cancer.
  • Whitney Bourne, 74, American actress (Head over Heels).
  • Mary Cavendish, 93, Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth II.
  • Jainendra Kumar, 83, Indian writer.
  • Theyre Lee-Elliott, 85, English artist.
  • Evelyn Pinching, 73, British world champion alpine skier and Olympian.
  • Alfred M. Pride, 91, American admiral of the U.S. Navy.
  • Noel Willman, 70, Irish actor and theatre director.

25

  • Bunny Bell, 77, English footballer (Tranmere Rovers, Everton).
  • Jan Białostocki, 67, Polish art historian.
  • Terence Dudley, 69, British television director and producer for the BBC (Doctor Who, All Creatures Great and Small), cancer.
  • Evgeny Golubev, 78, Soviet composer.
  • W. F. Grimes, 83, Welsh archaeologist.
  • Denis Matthews, 69, English pianist and musicologist, suicide.
  • John Ulric Nef, 89, American economic historian, co-founder of Committee on Social Thought.
  • Shōhei Ōoka, 79, Japanese novelist and translator of French literature.
  • Edward Pelham-Clinton, 68, English lepidopterist and military officer, Duke of Newcastle.
  • Frank Thomas, 58, English Roman Catholic bishop.
  • Napoleon Andrew Tuiteleleapaga, 84, Samoan lawyer, author, amateur poet and musician, myocardial infarction.

26

  • Herluf Bidstrup, 76, Danish cartoonist (Land og Folk).
  • Anthony Gaeta, 61, American politician, Borough President of Staten Island, heart attack.
  • Evie Hayes, 76, American-born Australian actor and singer (Come Up Smiling, Annie Get Your Gun), heart attack.
  • Julanne Johnston, 88, American silent-screen actress (The Thief of Bagdad).
  • John Loder, 90, English-American film actor.
  • Glenn McCarthy, 81, American oil tycoon.
  • Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga, 41, Indian politician, member of the Indian National Congress, assassinated.
  • Charles Smith, 68, American actor.
  • Pablo Sorozábal, 91, Spanish composer.
  • Tao Zhiyue, 95–96, Chinese military officer and politician, lieutenant general of the National Revolutionary Army of China.

27

  • Hal Ashby, 59, American film director (Coming Home, Shampoo), pancreatic cancer.
  • Joseph Beam, 33, American gay rights activist, AIDS.
  • Walter Crook, 76, English international footballer and manager (Blackburn Rovers, England).
  • Jack Favor, 77, American rodeo performer, acquitted after serving time for murder, cancer.
  • Fox Harris, 52, American actor (Repo Man), lung cancer.
  • Freda James, 77, British tennis player and Wimbledon Doubles champion.
  • Vaso Katraki, 74, Greek painter and engraver.
  • Khin Kyi, 76, Burmese politician and diplomat, Burmese Ambassador to India, stroke.
  • Donald Laycock, 51–52, Australian linguist and anthropologist (languages of Papua New Guinea).
  • C. J. McLin, 67, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
  • Jess Oppenheimer, 75, American radio and television writer and director (I Love Lucy), heart failure.

28

  • Alberto Armando, 78, Argentine businessman and football manager (Boca Juniors).
  • Karlfried Graf Dürckheim, 92, German diplomat and psychotherapist.
  • Björn Kurtén, 64, Finnish vertebrate paleontologist.

29

  • Émile Aillaud, 86, French architect (La Grande Borne).
  • Mike Beuttler, 48, British Formula One driver, complications from AIDS.
  • Carl J. Johnson, 59, American physician, whistleblower on effects of nuclear testing, complications following coronary bypass.

30

  • Faber Birren, 88, American writer, consultant on colour theory, stroke.
  • Jan Baalsrud, 71, Norwegian Resistance commando.
  • Yuli Daniel, 63, Soviet writer and dissident (Sinyavsky–Daniel trial).
  • Takeo Fujisawa, 78, Japanese businessman, co-founder of Honda Motor Co., heart attack.
  • Dennis H. Klatt, 50, American researcher in speech and hearing science, cancer.
  • Ernesto Lazzatti, 73, Argentinian international footballer (Boca Juniors, Argentina).
  • Isamu Noguchi, 84, American artist and landscape architect, heart failure.

31

  • Yara Amaral, 52, Brazilian actress (Mulher Objeto), heart attack from drowning.
  • Christopher Andrewes, 92, British virologist who discovered the human influenza A virus.
  • Ahmet Arvasi, 56, Turkish writer and philosopher.
  • Oliver L. Austin, 85, American ornithologist.
  • Nicolas Calas, 81, Greek-American poet and art critic.
  • Loel Guinness, 82, British politician, Member of Parliament, heart disease.

Unknown date

  • Charles Ganimian, 61–62, American musician and singer.

References


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