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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 1988 edit
1 edit
- Orville Carlisle, 71, American inventor of the model rocket motor.
- Red Coffey, 65, American voice actor and comedian (Tom and Jerry).
- John Dearden, 80, American Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Detroit, pancreatic cancer.[1]
- Florence Eldridge, 86, American actress (Long Day's Journey into Night).[2]
- Sheldon Kinser, 45, American race car driver.
- Georges Wambst, 86, French cyclist.[3]
- Gertrude Welcker, 92, German stage and silent-screen actress.[4]
2 edit
- Jack Breslin, 68, American university administrator (Michigan State University).[5]
- Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate, the "Green Grocer", intestinal cancer.[6]
- Raymond Carver, 50, American short-story writer and poet (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral), lung cancer.[7]
- Nityanand Kanungo, 88, Indian politician, Governor of Bihar and Gujarat.
- Nada Klaić, 68, Croatian historian.
3 edit
- Lillian Bilocca, 59, British fisheries worker, known for improving safety in the fishing industry, peritoneal cancer.[8]
- Campbell Copelin, 87, English-Australian actor.
- Tucker McGuire, 75, American-British film and television actress.
- Krishnaswami Ramiah, 96, Indian agricultural scientist, geneticist and parliamentarian.
- Paddy Walsh, 81, Australian rules footballer.
- Vic Watson, 90, English international footballer.
4 edit
- Allan Adair, 90, British army Major General.
- Brian Brake, 61, New Zealand photographer, heart attack.
- Charles B. Brownson, 74, American World War II veteran, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
- Toshiwo Doko, 91, Japanese engineer.[9]
- Harry Lee Waterfield, 77, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.
5 edit
- Red Davis, 80, American NFL footballer.
- James Devereux, 85, American general of the U.S. Marine Corps, member of U.S. House of Representatives, pneumonia.
- Colin Higgins, 47, French-Australian-American screenwriter, actor, director and producer, AIDS-related illness.[10]
- Arif Hussain Hussaini, 41, Indian-Pakistani revolutionary leader, assassinated.
- Ralph Meeker, 67, American film, stage and television actor, heart attack.[11]
6 edit
- John Bingham, 79, English thriller, detective and spy novelist (My Name Is Michael Sibley), MI5 spy.
- Anatoly Levchenko, 47, Soviet cosmonaut, brain tumour.[12]
- Francis Ponge, 89, French essayist and poet.[13]
- J. Skelly Wright, 77, American circuit judge.[14]
7 edit
- Wilfred Jackson, 82, American animator, arranger, composer and director.
8 edit
- Alan Ameche, 55, American NFL player (Baltimore Colts), heart attack.[15]
- Kid Chocolate, 78, Cuban boxer, World Junior Lightweight Champion.[16]
- George Estregan, 49, Filipino film actor.
- Henri Frenay, 82, French military officer and member of the French Resistance.[17]
- Félix Leclerc, 82, Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and political activist.
- Alan Napier, 85, English actor.[18]
- Dominic Serventy, 84, Australian ornithologist.
9 edit
- Woodrow Adams, 71, American guitarist and harmonica player.
- Jimmie Fidler, 89, American columnist, journalist and radio and television personality.[19]
- Owen Jenkins, 82, Welsh Anglican priest.
- Giacinto Scelsi, 83, Italian composer, cerebral hemorrhage.[20]
- Ramón Valdés, 63, Mexican actor and comedian, stomach cancer.[21]
10 edit
- Arnulfo Arias, 86, Panamanian politician, President of Panama, heart attack.[22]
- Antoine Blanchard, 77, French painter.[23]
- Jean Brachet, 79, Belgian biochemist (RNA).[24]
- Gerd Grieg, 93, Norwegian actress.[25]
- Adela Rogers St. Johns, 94, American journalist, novelist and screenwriter.
- Paul Thek, 54, American painter and sculptor, AIDS.[26]
11 edit
- Nellikode Bhaskaran, 64, Indian actor (Sarapancharam).
- Alfred Kelbassa, 63, German international footballer.
- K. Avukader Kutty Naha, 68, Indian politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Kerala.
- Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, 56, French opera director, set and costume designer, pulmonary embolism following a fall.
- Anne Ramsey, 59, American actress, cancer.[27]
- Jack Regan, 75, Australian rules footballer.
12 edit
- Jean-Michel Basquiat, 27, American artist (Hollywood Africans), heroin overdose.[28]
- Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar, 92, Indian guru, writer and spiritual leader.
13 edit
- Mel Almada, 75, Mexican Major League baseballer (Boston Red Sox).[29]
- Fred Below, 61, American blues drummer, liver cancer.
- Per Digerud, 55, Norwegian cyclist and Olympian.
- Keith Hancock, 90, Australian historian and academic.
- James Heaslip, 87, Australian politician, member of South Australian Parliament.
- Sydney Jacobson, 79, British journalist, editor and political commentator.
- Gajanan Jagirdar, 81, Indian film director, screenwriter and actor, heart attack.
- Otto Passman, 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.[30]
- William H. Phelps Jr., 85, Venezuelan ornithologist and businessman.[31]
- Tenor Saw, 21, Jamaican dancehall singjay, hit and run accident.
- Gordon H. Scherer, 81, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.[32]
- Edward Bennett Williams, 68, American lawyer and businessman, colon cancer.[33]
14 edit
- Roy Buchanan, 48, American guitarist and blues musician, suicide.[34]
- Robert Calvert, 43, South African–born British writer, poet and musician, heart attack.[35]
- Michael Crowder, 54, British historian and author.[36]
- Enzo Ferrari, 90, Italian motor racing driver and car maker, leukemia.[37]
- Hollis Dow Hedberg, 84, American geologist.[38]
15 edit
- Barry Bingham Sr., 82, American media patriarch in Louisville, Kentucky.[39]
- Rudy Collins, 54, American jazz drummer.
- Ronald Stein, 58, American film composer, pancreatic cancer.
- Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, 86, German composer, musicologist and music historian and critic.
- Hartman Turnbow, 83, Mississippi farmer, orator and activist during the Civil Rights Movement.
16 edit
- Rashad Barmada, 74–75, Syrian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Syria.
- Fred Butters, 84, English international rugby league footballer.
- Ron McAuliffe, 70, Australian politician and rugby league administrator, Australian senator, stroke.
- Rick Newsom, 38, American NASCAR Winston Cup driver, plane crash.
17 edit
- Jack Cutting, 80, American international content supervisor and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios.[40]
- Nino Frank, 84, Italian-born French film critic and writer, coined the term "film noir".
- Akhtar Abdur Rahman, 64, Pakistani Army general, plane crash.
- Arnold Lewis Raphel, 45, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, plane crash.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 74, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.
- Siddique Salik, 52, Pakistani army officer, plane crash.
- Victoria Shaw, 53, Australian film and television actress, emphysema.
- Samuel Silkin, 70, British politician, Attorney General for England and Wales.
- Jack Straus, 58, American professional poker player, aortic aneurysm.
- Bob Troughton, 84, Australian rules footballer.
- Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 64, Pakistani military officer, President of Pakistan, plane crash.[41]
18 edit
- Sir Frederick Ashton, 83, British ballet dancer and choreographer (Symphonic Variations, Ondine).[42]
- Felix Maria Davídek, 67, Czechoslovakian Roman Catholic bishop.[43]
- Li Gotami Govinda, 92, Indian painter, writer and composer.[44]
- Don Hummel, 80, American businessman and politician, mayor of Tucson.
- Michael Perrin, 82, Canadian-British scientist.
- Jessica Powers, 83, American poet and nun, stroke.
- Ernst Simon, 88, German educator and religious philosopher.
19 edit
- Patrick Donner, 83, British Member of Parliament.
- Don Haggerty, 74, American actor of film and television.
- Russ Hathaway, 92, American NFL football player.
20 edit
- Jean-Paul Aron, 63, French writer and journalist, AIDS.[45]
- Leon McAuliffe, 71, American Western swing guitarist.
- Joan G. Robinson, 78, British author and illustrator of children's books.
- Lazarus Salii, 51, Palau politician, President of Palau, suicide by shooting.[46]
21 edit
- H. G. Adler, 78, Czechoslovakian-English poet and novelist, Holocaust survivor.
- Teddy Diaz, 25, Filipino musician and composer (The Dawn), murdered.
- Ray Eames, 78, American artist and designer.[47]
- Chris Gittins, 86, British actor (The Archers).[48]
- Eino Kirjonen, 55, Finnish ski jumper and Olympian.
- Stuart Leary, 55, South African footballer and first-class cricketer, suicide.
- Jerry Warren, 63, American film director, producer, editor, screenwriter, cinematographer and actor, lung cancer.
22 edit
- James Ryng, 75, Irish hurler.
23 edit
- Gerald Drayson Adams, 88, Canadian-American business executive and film writer (Dead Reckoning, The Big Steal).
- José Manuel de Sousa e Faro Nobre de Carvalho, 76, Portuguese army brigadier-general, Governor of Macau.
- C. Desmond Greaves, 74, English Marxist activist and historian.[49]
- Laud Humphreys, 57, American sociologist and Episcopal priest, lung cancer.
- Josef Klehr, 83, German Nazi SS-Oberscharführer, Nazi concentration camp supervisor.
- Hans Lewy, 83, Prussian-American mathematician.[50]
- Alf Martinsen, 76, Norwegian international footballer and Olympic medalist.
- Menotti Del Picchia, 96, Brazilian poet, journalist and painter.
- Jack Sher, 75, American newspaper columnist, songwriter, film director, film writer and producer.[51]
24 edit
- C. Chhunga, 72, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Mizoram.
- Leonard Frey, 49, American actor (Fiddler on the Roof), AIDS.[52]
- Kenneth Leighton, 58, British composer and pianist, oesophageal cancer.
- Nat Stuckey, 54, American country singer, lung cancer.
25 edit
- Caziel, 82, Polish-born artist.
- Price Daniel, 77, American jurist and politician, Governor of Texas, stroke.[53]
- Françoise Dolto, 79, French pediatrician and psychoanalyst, pulmonary fibrosis.[54]
- Percy Foreman, 86, American criminal defense attorney (James Earl Ray), cardiac arrest.[55]
- Henry Joseph Gallagher, 73, British soldier in the Korean War (Distinguished Conduct Medal).
- Gilbert Gil, 74, French film actor.
- Art Rooney, 87, American founding owner of Pittsburgh Steelers NFL football team, complications of a stroke.[56]
26 edit
- Donald De Lue, 90, American sculptor (Harvey S. Firestone Memorial).[57]
- Carlos Paião, 30, Portuguese singer and songwriter, car accident.
- Fred Peart, 74, British politician, leader of the Houses of Lords and Commons.
- Milton Sperling, 76, American film producer and screenwriter, cancer.
27 edit
- Lala Aragami, 65, Indian poet.
- Jinavajiralongkorn, 91, Supreme Patriarch of Thailand.
- Max Black, 79, Azerbaijani-British-American philosopher of language, mathematics, science and art.[58]
- Charles Farrell, 88, Irish stage, film and television actor.
- Gunther von Fritsch, 82, Austro-Hungarian born American film director (The Curse of the Cat People), stroke.[59]
- Irene Higginbotham, 70, American songwriter and concert pianist.
- Jack Kane, 80, Australian senator.
- Mario Montenegro, 60, Filipino film actor, heart attack.
- William Sargant, 81, British psychiatrist.
28 edit
- Hazel Dawn, 98, American actress (The Pink Lady).[60]
- Paul Grice, 75, British philosopher of language.[61]
- Guy Hocquenghem, 41, French writer and philosopher, AIDS-related complications.
- Jean Marchand, 69, Canadian trade unionist and politician.
- Max Shulman, 69, American writer and humorist, bone cancer.[62]
29 edit
- David A. Hargrave, 42, American game designer and writer of fantasy and science fiction role-playing games.
- Horace Henderson, 83, American jazz pianist, organist, arranger and bandleader.
- Wilfred Johnson, 52, American mobster, murdered.
- Algirdas Klimaitis, 77–78, Lithuanian paramilitary commander.
30 edit
- James N. Black, 48, American jazz drummer.[63]
- Eren Eyüboğlu, 75, Romanian-born Turkish artist.[64]
- Nikolai Fefilov, 42, Soviet serial killer, beaten to death in jail.[65]
- Yan Kelun, 75, Chinese politician, diabetes.
- Jack Marshall, 76, New Zealand politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand.[66]
31 edit
- Grace Eldering, 87, American public health scientist (vaccine for whooping cough).[67]
- Vasil Mzhavanadze, 85, Georgian Soviet politician, First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party.
Unknown date edit
- Surat Alley, 82–83, Indian trade unionist and political activist in Britain.
- Albert Büchi, 81, Swiss road bicycle racer.
- John Willie Parker, 63, English footballer.
- Sammy Thompson, 55, British trade unionist, cancer.
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