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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 1988 edit
1 edit
- Leon Belasco, 85, Russian-American actor (My Sister Eileen) and musician.[1]
- Herbert Feigl, 85, Austrian-American philosopher (nomological danglers), cancer.[2]
- Luis Franco, 89, Argentinian essayist and poet.[3]
- Peter Hurkos, 77, Dutch-American who claimed psychic powers.[4]
- Ricky May, 44, New Zealand-Australian jazz singer and musician, heart attack.
2 edit
- Iosif Grigulevich, 75, Soviet secret police operative.[5]
- Fred Halstead, 61, American Socialist Workers Party candidate for President of the United States.[6]
- Horace Hildreth, 85, American politician and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, heart attack.[7]
- Raj Kapoor, 63, Indian actor, producer and director, asthma.[8]
- Annette Poivre, 70, French stage and film actress.
3 edit
- Alexandre Bennigsen, 75, Soviet scholar of Islam.[9]
- Kitty Canutt, 88, American professional bronc rider.
- Anna Mahler, 85, Austrian-sculptor.
- Davey Moore, 28, American professional boxer, asphyxia from being pinned under vehicle.[10]
- Brian Spencer, 38, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, shot in drug-related robbery.
4 edit
- Majnun Gorakhpuri, 84, Pakistani short story writer, poet and literary critic.[11]
- Ed Matesic, 80, American NFL football player.
- Sir Douglas Nicholls, 81, Australian pastor, campaigner for aboriginal reconciliation, Governor of South Australia.
- Renzo Palmer, 57, Italian film, television and stage actor, cancer.
- Allan Reuss, 72, American jazz guitarist.
5 edit
- Michael Barrington, 63, British actor (Porridge, Edward the Seventh), heart attack.
- Robert Dudley Edwards, 79, Irish historian.[12]
- James H. Gildea, 97, American politician, newspaperman and member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[13]
- Roland Ritchie, 77, Canadian lawyer and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
6 edit
- Thomas DiBella, 82, American mobster of the Colombo crime family.
- Gheorghe Eminescu, 98, Romanian historian, respiratory infection.
- Chandra Fernando, 46, Sri Lankan priest, assassinated.[14]
- John Jordan, 58, Irish poet and short-story writer.
7 edit
- John Kerns, 65, Canadian football player, heart attack.
8 edit
- Russell Harty, 53, English television presenter of arts programs and chat shows, liver failure caused by hepatitis.[15]
- Roger Lyndon, 70, American mathematician.
- Chuck Roberson, 69, American actor and stuntman, cancer.
9 edit
- Newt Allen, 87, American Negro League baseballer (Kansas City Monarchs).[16]
- Rashid Behbudov, 73, Azerbaijani singer and actor (The Cloth Peddler).
- Leon Falk Jr., 86, American steel company executive (Falk Laboratory School), stroke.[17]
10 edit
- Byron G. Allen, 86, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives.[18]
- Arthur Gary Bishop, 35, American convicted sex offender and serial killer, executed by lethal injection.[19]
- Rudolph Dunbar, 80, Guyanese conductor, clarinetist and composer, cancer.[20]
- Louis L'Amour, 80, American novelist and short story writer, lung cancer (non-smoker).[21]
- Willie Ross, 77, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland, cancer.
- Henryk Stażewski, 94, Polish painter, visual artist and writer.
- Josep Tarradellas, 89, Spanish politician, President of the Government of Catalonia.[22]
11 edit
- Mike Clancy, 63, American professional wrestler, NWA World Junior Heavyweight champion.
- Nathan Cook, 38, American actor (Hotel), allergic reaction to penicillin.[23]
- Ernani Cuenco, 52, Filipino composer, film scorer and musical director (Bato sa Buhangin).[24]
- Christine Fabréga, 57, French actress and television personality.
- Nick O'Donnell, 62, Irish hurler.
- Lee Priester, 85, American Olympic javelin thrower.
- Giuseppe Saragat, 89, Italian politician, President of Italy.[25]
- Marianne Van Hirtum, 52, Belgian author.
12 edit
- Eugenie Baird, 64, American singer.
- Georg Hochgesang, 90, German international footballer.
- Gennadi Krasnitsky, 47, Uzbekistani international footballer, suicide by jumping.
- Marcel Poot, 87, Belgian composer, professor and musician.
- Franz Zingerle, 79, Austrian alpine skier and world champion.
13 edit
- Lucien Cardin, 69, Canadian lawyer, judge and politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.[26]
- Emil Telmányi, 95, Hungarian-violinist.
14 edit
- Robert R. Barry, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[27]
- Johnny Farrell, 87, American golfer, U.S. Open winner, stroke.[28]
- Sara Gallardo, 56, Argentinian author and journalist, asthma.[29]
15 edit
- Frank A. Beach, 77, American ethologist and author (behavioral endocrinology).[30]
- Hans Blöcker, 90, German politician, member of the German Bundestag.
- Hall Haynes, 59, American NFL footballer.
- Floyd J. McCree, 65, American politician.
- Robert Seymour, appr. 33, Northern Irish loyalist, shot.
- George Ward, 80, British politician, Secretary of State for Air.
16 edit
- Kim Milford, 37, American actor, singer-songwriter and composer, complications following open heart surgery.
- Andrea Pazienza, 32, Italian comics artist and painter, heroin overdose.
- Miguel Piñero, 41, Puerto Rican–born American playwright and actor, cirrhosis.
17 edit
- Brian Baronet, 27, South African professional boxer.[31]
- Elizabeth Lane, 82, English barrister and judge.
18 edit
- Archie Cochrane, 79, Scottish physician (Randomized controlled trial).[32]
- Elizabeth Gardner, 30, British theoretical physicist (Gardner transition), cancer.[33]
- Wilford Leach, 58, American theatre director, set designer, film director and screenwriter, AIDS-related stomach cancer.[34]
- Sallie Martin, 92, American gospel singer.[35]
- E. Hoffmann Price, 89, American writer of popular fiction.
19 edit
- M. Ajmal, 78, Indian-Pakistani actor (Heer Ranjha).
- Marco Donat-Cattin, 34, Italian terrorist (Prima Linea), pedestrian road accident.[36]
- Marie Logoreci, 67, Albanian film and stage actress.
- Teru Shimada, 82, Japanese-American actor.
- Gladys Spellman, 70, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, complications from coma.[37]
20 edit
- Aracy de Almeida, 73, Brazilian singer, heart attack.[38]
- Alex Bein, 85, German-Jewish historian and zionist historiographer (biography of Theodor Herzl).[39]
21 edit
- Bobby Dodd, 79, American college football player and coach (Georgia Tech).[40]
- John Duncan Sr., 69, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cancer.[41]
- George Ivașcu, 76, Romanian journalist, literary critic and communist militant.
- Tella Kitchen, 86, American folk artist.
- Sverre Riisnæs, 90, Norwegian jurist and public prosecutor.
- T. E. Utley, 67, British journalist and writer.
22 edit
- Jesse Ed Davis, 43, American guitarist, drug overdose.[42]
- Dennis Day, 72, American actor, comedian and singer (The Jack Benny Program).[43]
- Hank Edwards, 69, American Major League baseballer (Cleveland Indians).[44]
- Bramwell Fletcher, 84, English actor (Svengali).[45]
- Rose Franken, 92, American writer and playwright (Claudia).[46]
- Pieter Grobbelaar, 79, South African military commander, Commandant General of South African Defence Force.
- Perry Jackson, 68, American NFL football player.
- Jep Lacoste, 66, French rugby league coach.
- Leonard Matlovich, 44, American Vietnam War veteran, first gay service member to out himself to military, HIV.
- Howard Mitchell, 77, American cellist and conductor.[47]
- Burrill Phillips, 80, American composer and pianist, complications after heart attack.
- Stuart Randall, 78, American actor of film and television.
23 edit
- Viola Gentry, 93–94, American aviator.[48]
- Andrei Glanzmann, 81, Romanian international footballer.
- Dragan Godžić, 61, Serbian basketballer and coach.
- Sid Handleman, 67, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Ontario, heart attack.
- Henry Murray, 95, American psychologist, pneumonia.
- Liang Shuming, 94, Chinese philosopher, politician and writer.
24 edit
- Marta Abba, 87, Italian actress, cerebral haemorrhage.[49]
- Bùi Xuân Phái, 67, Vietnamese painter.[50]
- Mihai Beniuc, 80, Romanian poet, dramatist and novelist, president of the Writers' Union of Romania.
- Roberto Cueva del Río, 80, Mexican muralist.
- Tex Leyendecker, 82, American NFL footballer.
25 edit
- Jean Boffety, 63, French cinematographer (A Simple Story).[51]
- Șerban Cioculescu, 85, Romanian literary critic and columnist.[52]
- Mildred Gillars, 87, American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany, convicted of treason against U.S.A, colon cancer.[53]
- Svavar Guðnason, 78, Icelandic painter.
- Neville Pickering, 64, New Zealand politician, member of New Zealand Parliament.
- Hillel Slovak, 26, Israeli-American musician, guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, overdose .
- Jimmy Soul, 45, American vocalist, heart attack.
26 edit
- Hans Urs von Balthasar, 82, Swiss theologian and Catholic priest.[54]
- Marion Hall Best, 83, Australian interior designer.[55]
- Sandy Campbell, 46, Broadway actor.
- Ludovik Jakova, 66, Albanian footballer and coach of Albanian national football team.
- Herb Mobberley, 83, Canadian football player.
- Yves Pratte, 63, Canadian lawyer and jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, heart attack.
27 edit
- Léonie Adams, 88, American poet, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.[56]
- Akilan, 65–66, Indian novelist.
- Michael Barry, 78, British television producer and director.[57]
- John Groth, 80, American illustrator.[58]
- Robert Margerit, 78, French journalist and writer.
- Aparicio Méndez, 83, Uruguayan lawyer, President of Uruguay.[59]
- R. Muttusamy, 62, Sri Lankan music director and singer.
- José Ignacio Palma, 78, Chilean engineer and politician.
- Heinz Rehfuss, 71, Swiss-American operatic bass-baritone.[60]
- Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan, 85–86, Indian Congress politician, Governor of Sikkim.
- Louis Versyp, 79, Belgian international footballer and manager, Olympian.
28 edit
- A. Aiyappan, 83, superintendent of Government Museum, Chennai.
- Iris Origo, 85, English-Italian biographer and writer.
- Kurt Raab, 46, West German stage and film actor, screenwriter and playwright, complications from AIDS.
29 edit
- Tengku Ampuan Afzan, 55, Malaysian Queen consort of Pahang, cancer.
- Alexander Gorkin, 90, Soviet politician, Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.
- John Peet, 72–73, British journalist who defected to East Germany.
- Franciszka Themerson, 81, Polish-British painter, illustrator, filmmaker and stage designer.
- Albert Trueman, 86, American-Canadian teacher, professor and university administrator.
30 edit
- Alan W. Bishop, 68, British geotechnical engineer (slope stability).[61]
- Chacrinha, 70, Brazilian comedian, radio and TV personality, heart attack.
- A. S. Nair, 57, Indian painter, illustrator and cartoonist.
- Bill Ramsay, 60, Australian middle-distance runner and Olympian.
- Suthi Veerabhadra Rao, 41, Indian film actor, heart attack.
Unknown date edit
- Tommy Brookins, 81, founder of the Harlem Globetrotters.[62]
- Dave Crawford, 44, American R&B musician and songwriter (Young Hearts Run Free, What a Man), murdered.
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