Deaths in December 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 1987.

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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 1987

1

• James Baldwin, 63, African-American novelist, playwright and poet (Go Tell It on the Mountain), stomach cancer.^[1]
• Donn F. Eisele, 57, American Air Force officer and NASA astronaut (Apollo 7), heart attack.^[2]
• Buddy Fogelson, 87, American army colonel, businessman and horse & cattle breeder, husband of Greer Garson.^[3]
• Punch Imlach, 69, Canadian NHL ice hockey coach and general manager (Toronto Maple Leafs, Buffalo Sabres), heart attack.^[4]
• Wyman Roberts, 72, American basketball player.

2

• Edward Barnsley, 87, English designer and maker of furniture.^[5]
• Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, 57, Honduran army officer, president of Honduras, heart attack.^[6]
• Robert Filliou, 61, French artist (Fluxus).
• Ferdinando Glück, 86, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (1928).
• Trygve Henrik Hoff, 49, Norwegian singer, composer and writer.^[7]
• Luis Federico Leloir, 81, French-born Argentinian physician and biochemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, heart attack.^[8]
• Hubert Noël, 63, French film actor.
• Myrta Silva, 60, Puerto Rican singer, songwriter and television producer (Sonora Matancera).^[9]
• Ernst Steinhoff, 79, Nazi German rocket scientist.^[10]
• Princess Red Wing, 91, American tribal elder.^[11]
• Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich, 73, Soviet physicist (black hole evaporation).^[12]

3

• Andrew Foster, 62, American pioneer of deaf education in African countries, plane crash.^[13]
• Robert Haskell, 84, American politician, Governor of Maine.
• George Seawright, appr. 36, Scottish-born Northern Irish politician, paramilitary in Ulster Volunteer Force, assassinated.^[14]
• Yevgeny Tolstikov, 74, Soviet polar explorer, Hero of the Soviet Union.^[15]
• Dorin Liviu Zaharia, 43, Romanian musician and composer.

4

• Carlos Colás, 70, Cuban baseball player.
• Pericle Fazzini, 74, Italian painter and sculptor (The Resurrection).^[16]
• Bryan Fowler, 89, British polo player and Olympian (1936).^[17]
• Betty Jo Hawkins, 57, American wrestler.
• Miriam Jordan, 83, British film and stage actress.
• Meinrad von Lauchert, 82, Nazi German Wehrmacht general.^[18]
• Arnold Lobel, 54, American author of children's books (Frog and Toad, Mouse Soup), cardiac arrest.^[19]
• Rouben Mamoulian, 90, Georgian-born American film and theatre director (Oklahoma!, Carousel).^[20]
• Constantin Noica, 78, Romanian philosopher, essayist and poet.^[21]
• Giorgio Prodi, 59, Italian medical scientist and oncologist.

5

• Pappy Daily, 85, American country music record producer, co-founded record label Starday Records.^[22]
• Leonid Dimov, 61, Romanian postmodernist poet and translator, heart attack.^[23]
• Bobby Garrett, 55, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers), heart attack.^[24]
• Alberto Ghirardi, 66, Italian racing cyclist.
• Fats Heard, 64, American jazz drummer.
• Daud Kamal, 52, Pakistani poet.^[25]
• Rudolf Mentzel, 87, German chemist and Nazi policy-maker.
• Molly O'Day, 64, American country music vocalist, cancer.^[26]
• Conny Plank, 47, German record producer and musician, laryngeal cancer.
• Sookval Samaroo, 74-75, Trinidadian cricketer.
• Eugene Siler, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1955-1965).^[27]
• Ye Beihua, 80, Chinese Olympic footballer (1936).

6

• George Bernhardt, 68, American football player.
• James Dobson, 67, American film and television actor (Flying Leathernecks), heart attack.^[28]
• Dan Fosse, 69, Norwegian actor.
• Jim Johnson, 42, American MLB player (San Francisco Giants).
• Peter Lorenz, 64, German politician, kidnapped by militants, heart attack.^[29]
• Ilmari Pakarinen, 77, Finnish Olympic gymnast (1932, 1936).
• David J. Schwartz, 60, American motivational writer and coach (The Magic of Thinking Big).^[30]
• Izler Solomon, 77, American orchestra conductor, heart failure.^[31]
• Walt Stickel, 65, American NFL player (Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles).
• Ba Swe, 72, Prime Minister of Burma.
• Geymond Vital, 90, French film, stage, and television actor.

7

• Gareth Bennett, 58, British Anglican priest, suicide.^[32] (body found on this date)
• Michael Crossley, 75, British World War II Royal Air Force flying ace.^[33]
• René Havard, 63, French film actor.
• Michael Hornby, 88, British vice chairman of retail chain WHSmith.^[34]
• Jane Mouton, 57, American management theorist.
• Jaime Ongpin, 49, Filipino businessman and politician, Secretary of Finance, suicide.^[35]
• Helen Porter, 88, British botanist from Imperial College London.^[36]
• Ken Richardson, 72, American MLB player.
• Denis Rogers, 70, New Zealand doctor and local politician (Mayor of Hamilton), heart attack.

8

• Fay Baker, 70, American actress and writer (The House on Telegraph Hill), breast cancer.
• Sigrid Helliesen Lund, 95, Norwegian peace activist, notably in World War II.^[37]
• Philippe Tesnière, 32, French cyclist.
• Yolanda Vadiz, 28, Puerto Rican soprano, carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Ulfert Wilke, 80, German-born American painter, museum director and art collector (abstract expressionism), stroke.^[38]
• Notable individuals killed in the 1987 Alianza Lima plane crash:^[39]
  • Marcos Calderón, 59, Peruvian football coach and player (Sport Boys, Peru).
  • José Casanova, 23, Peruvian international footballer (Club Alianza Lima, Peru).
  • Luis Antonio Escobar, 18, Peruvian international footballer (Club Alianza Lima, Peru).
  • José González Ganoza, 33, Peruvian international footballer (Club Alianza Lima, Peru).
  • Alfredo Tomassini, 23, Peruvian footballer (Club Alianza Lima).
  • Johnny Watson, 24, Peruvian footballer (Club Alianza Lima).

9

• János Bédl, 58, Hungarian footballer and manager.
• Seán Brosnahan, 76, Irish politician, member of the Seanad Éireann (1961-1977).
• Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, 73, German prince, head of the House of Hanover.
• George Fisher, 77, American gossip columnist and radio personality.
• Diana Forbes-Robertson, 72, British writer, stroke.^[40]
• María Francés, 100, Spanish actress.
• François Gall, 75, Hungarian-French modern impressionist painter, heart attack.

10

• Giovanni Arpino, 60, Italian writer and journalist (L'ombra delle colline).
• Jascha Heifetz, 86, Lithuanian-born American violinist, complications from a fall.^[41]
• Carlota Jaramillo, 83, Ecuadorian pasillo singer, complications from a fall.
• Stylianos Kyriakides, 77, Greek Cypriot marathon runner and Olympian.^[42]
• Slim Lonsdorf, 82, American basketball player.
• Whitey Moore, 75, American MLB player (Cincinnati Reds).
• Liisa Nevalainen, 71, Finnish actress.
• Denis Sanders, 58, American film director and producer (A Time Out of War), heart attack.^[43]
• Murray Seldeen, 83, American film editor.
• Slam Stewart, 73, American jazz double bass player, heart failure.^[44]
• Ollie West, 73, American baseball player.
• John Wickström, 60, Swedish Olympic speed skater (1952).

11

• Donald Broughton, 56, Australian cricketer.
• Max Carmichael, 67, Australian rules footballer.
• G. A. Kulkarni, 64, Indian writer of short stories.
• Emil Mazuw, 87, German governor of the Province of Pomerania, convicted of war crimes.
• William Thornton Mustard, 73, Canadian physician and cardiac surgeon, heart attack.^[45]
• Adile Naşit, 57, Turkish actress.
• Ron Williams, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• Rosi Wolfstein, 99, German socialist politician.

12

• Bodil Begtrup, 84, Danish women's rights activist, chairman of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.^[46]
• Clifton Chenier, 62, American musician, pioneer of zydeco, kidney disease.^[47]
• Allan Geddes, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• Enrique Jorrín, 60, Cuban charanga violinist, composer and music director.
• Nolan Leary, 98, American actor and playwright.^[48]
• Pinky Tomlin, 80, American songwriter, bandleader and actor, heart attack.^[49]

13

• Julien Darui, 71, French international footballer (CO Roubaix-Tourcoing, France).^[50]
• Harold Joseph Dimmerling, 73, American prelate.
• Bil Dwyer, 80, American cartoonist and humourist (Dumb Dora).
• Bernard Epton, 66, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1969-1983), coronary.^[51]
• Na. Parthasarathy, 54, Indian writer of Tamil historical novels.
• Josefina Passadori, 87, Italian-born Argentine writer and poet.
• Elias Porter, 73, American psychologist.
• Stanisław Radkiewicz, 84, Polish communist activist, Minister of Public Security.
• Claude T. Smith, 55, American band conductor and composer.
• George Wunder, 75, American cartoonist and comic illustrator (Terry and the Pirates), heart attack.^[52]

14

• Copi, (Raúl Damonte Botana), 48, Argentinian writer, cartoonist and playwright, AIDS.^[53]
• Merlyn Hans Dethlefsen, 53, American officer of the U.S. Air Force, Medal of Honor recipient.^[54]
• Tim Dinsdale, 63, British cryptozoologist, attempted to prove existence of Loch Ness Monster, heart attack.
• Siegfried Haß, 89, Nazi German Wehrmacht general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.^[55]
• Milt Josefsberg, 76, American screenwriter, stroke.^[56]
• Georg Knöpfle, 83, German international footballer, coach and Olympian (FSV Frankfurt, Germany).^[57]
• Valentina Kulagina, 85, Russian painter and designer of books, posters and exhibitions.
• Mogens Lassen, 86, Danish architect and designer.
• Nikos Stavridis, 77, Greek film and theatre actor.^[58]
• J. P. Strom, 69, American law enforcement officer, chief of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, heart attack.^[59]
• John Winterton, 89, British Army officer, Military Governor and Commander of the Free Territory of Trieste.

15

• Seitnebi Abduramanov, 73, Soviet soldier in the Red Army, recipient of the Order of Glory.
• François Borde, 88, French Olympic rugby union player (1920).
• Septima Poinsette Clark, 89, American educator and civil rights activist.^[60]
• George Fulford, 85, Canadian businessman and politician, House of Commons member.^[61]
• Ángel Infante, 73, Mexican actor and singer.^[62]
• Ivo Lapenna, 78, Italian law professor, president of the Universal Esperanto Association.^[63]
• Ray Malavasi, 57, American NFL football coach (Los Angeles Rams, Denver Broncos), heart attack.^[64]
• Ragnvald Martinsen, 81, Norwegian Olympic cyclist (1928).
• Pierre Massé, 89, French economist, engineer, applied mathematician and high official in the French government.
• Tiny Moore, 67, American Western swing musician.^[65]
• P. Ramamurthi, 79, Indian politician, Communist Party of India member.
• Elisabeth Zaisser, 89, German politician, East German Minister of Education.
• Alfred Zerbel, 83, Nazi German Wehrmacht officer, West German Bundeswehr general.^[66]

16

• Leonard Beecher, 81, English-born Anglican Archbishop of East Africa.
• Alfons Bērziņš, 71, Latvian Olympic long track speed skater (1936).
• Gilio Bisagno, 84, Italian Olympic swimmer (1920).
• Ásgeir Bjarnþórsson, 88, Icelandic painter.
• Hob Broun, 37, American author, asphyxiation.^[67]
• Minnie Evans, 95, American artist.^[68]
• Leslie McLean, 69, English cricketer.
• Albert P. Morano, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951-1959), cerebral hemorrhage.^[69]
• Monroe M. Redden, 86, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1947-1953).
• John Russell, 66, British politician, member of the House of Lords.

17

• Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, 87, Dutch cardinal, Archbishop of Utrecht.^[70]
• Irving Allen, 82, Austro-Hungarian–born American theatre and film producer and director (Climbing the Matterhorn).^[71]
• Georges Burou, 77, French gynecologist (sex reassignment surgery), drowned.
• Ken Phelan, 62, Australian rules footballer.
• Arkady Raikin, 76, Soviet comedian, actor and director.^[72]
• Lucy Walker, (Dorothy Lucie Sanders), 80, Australian romance novelist.^[73]
• Linda Wong, 36, American pornographic actress, drug overdose.
• Marguerite Yourcenar, 84, Belgian-born French-American novelist and essayist (Memoirs of Hadrian).^[74]

18

• Dimitrije Bašičević, 66, Yugoslavian artist, curator and art critic.^[75]
• Florent Dubois, 81, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1962).
• Leslie Harley, 75, Australian Olympic boxer (1936).
• Chaudhary Rahim Khan, 64, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.^[76]
• Warne Marsh, 60, American tenor saxophonist, heart attack.^[77]

19

• Murat Aitkhozhin, 48, Soviet molecular biologist.
• Ralph Waldo Christie, 94, American admiral in the U.S. Navy.^[78]
• Hermann Claasen, 87, German photographer.
• Cornelius Cook, 78, American baseball player.
• Valsø Holm, 80, Danish film actor.
• Leo Jung, 95, American architect of Orthodox Judaism.^[79]
• John F. O'Leary, 61, American administrator of Federal Energy Administration and director of U.S. Bureau of Mines, cancer.^[80]
• C. Donald Peterson, 69, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, cancer.^[81]
• Esther Shiner, 63, Canadian municipal politician, deputy mayor of New York.
• André de la Varre, 83, American filmmaker of travel documentaries.

20

• J. Quinn Decker, 80, American football player and coach.
• Ruben Ecleo Sr., 53, Filipino cult leader, founded the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association.^[82]
• Jake Eisenhart, 65, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds).^[83]
• Eric Harrison, 94, British army officer and Olympic athlete (1924).
• Al Millar, 58, Canadian NHL player (Boston Bruins).
• Sydney Shepherd, 79, English cricketer.
• Dan Sikes, 58, American professional golfer, complications from stomach surgery.^[84]

21

• Paul Bost, 83, American racing driver.
• Fred R. Feitshans Jr., 78, American film editor (Wild in the Streets).^[85]
• Carl E. McGowan, 76, American lawyer and U.S. circuit judge, cancer.^[86]
• Ralph Nelson, 71, American film and television director, writer and actor (Lilies of the Field, Father Goose, Charly), cancer.^[87]
• Robert Paige, 76, American actor and TV newscaster and political correspondent (Son of Dracula), aortic aneurysm.^[88]
• Arsène Piesset, 68, French Olympic long-distance runner (1948).
• Joe Sherman, 97, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics).
• Jacques Sigurd, 67, French screenwriter.
• Herb Stock, 87, American NFL player (Columbus Tigers).
• Henry Strater, 91, American painter and illustrator, founded the Ogunquit Museum of American Art.^[89]

22

• A. N. Alcaff, 62, Indonesian actor and film director.
• Henry Cotton, 80, English professional golfer, three-time British Open winner.^[90]
• Nils Eklöf, 83, Swedish Olympic runner (1928).
• Roderick Firth, 70, American philosopher, professor of philosophy at Harvard, pneumonia.^[91]
• Gustav Fröhlich, 85, German actor and film director (Metropolis), complications after surgery.^[92]
• Bobby Hogue, 66, American MLB player.
• Rudolph Kampman, 73, Canadian NHL player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
• William Lampe, 85, Australian cricketer.
• Mimí Langer, 77, Austrian-born Latin American psychoanalyst and human rights activist, cancer.
• Paule Marrot, 85, French textile designer.
• John McMichael, 39, Northern Irish loyalist (Ulster Defence Association), car bomb.^[93]
• Dudley Meredith, 52, American AFL footballer (Buffalo Bills).^[94]
• Dorothy M. Needham, 91, English biochemist (muscle biochemistry).^[95]
• Geoffrey Parsons, 77, English lyricist.
• José do Patrocínio Oliveira, 83, Brazilian musician and voice actor.
• Luca Prodan, 34, Italian-Scottish musician based in Argentina (Sumo).
• T. Ranganathan, 62, Indian-born American Carnatic musician.^[96]
• Alice Terry, 88, American film actress and director (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), Alzheimer's disease.^[97]

23

• Paschoal Silva, 87, Brazilian footballer (Brazil).^[98]

24

• Asfò Bussotti, 62, Italian Olympic long-distance runner (1952).
• Roy M. Davenport, 78, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.^[99]
• Nino Espinosa, 34, Dominican Major League baseballer (New York Mets), heart attack.^[100]
• Eugen Kogon, 84, German historian and Nazi concentration camp survivor.^[101]
• John Wesley Hanes II, 95, American investment banker, Under Secretary of the Treasury, Alzheimer's Disease.^[102]
• Betty Noyes, 75, American singer and actress (Singin' in the Rain).
• Josef Myrow, 77, Russian Empire–born American composer ("You Make Me Feel So Young"), Parkinson's disease.^[103]
• M. G. Ramachandran, 70, Indian actor and politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, heart attack and stroke.^[104]
• Manoug Parikian, 67, Turkish-born British concert violinist.^[105]
• Birkett Pribble, 90, American college player (Kentucky Wildcats).
• Sara Scuderi, 81, Italian opera singer.^[106]
• Paschoal Silva, 87, Brazilian footballer.
• Joop den Uyl, 68, Dutch politician and journalist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, brain tumour.^[107]
• Kulwant Singh Virk, 66, Indian author, stroke.

25

• Alexander Gregory Barmine, 88, Soviet Army defector to the U.S.A., stroke^[108]
• Ruth Bonner, 87, Soviet Communist activist.^[109]
• Jack Brennan, 90, Australian rules footballer.
• Bucky Freeman, 92, American college football and baseball coach (Ithaca College).
• Jimmy Fuller, 95, American baseball player.
• Harry Holm, 85, Danish Olympic gymnast (1920).
• John H. Humphrey, 72, British bacteriologist and immunologist, co-founded the British Society for Immunology.^[110]
• Vadim Knizhnik, 25, Soviet physicist (Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equations), heart attack.
• Gene "Bowlegs" Miller, 54, American trumpeter and band leader, stroke.^[111]
• Zita Moulton, 104, American model and actress of theatre and film.
• Nat Tarnopol, 56, American record producer, heart failure.
• Victor Whitsey, 71, British Church of England Bishop of Hertford and Chester, sexual abuser.^[112]

26

• George Andrew, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• J. A. Baker, 61, English author (The Peregrine), cancer.^[113]
• S. M. Banerjee, 68, Indian politician, trade unionist and communist sympathiser, member of the Lok Sabha.
• Dorothy Bliss, 71, American carcinologist, cancer.^[114]
• Neil Colville, 73, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (New York Rangers).^[115]
• Raymond Eugene Plummer, 74, American district judge.
• Melford Stevenson, 85, English barrister and High Court judge, heart attack.^[116]
• Rade Sunara, 73, Yugoslavian Olympic rower (1936).
• Leslie Thompson, 86, Jamaican-born English jazz trumpeter and trombonist.
• Luis E. Valcárcel, 96, Peruvian historian, anthropologist and writer, Minister of Education.

27

• Rewi Alley, 90, New Zealand-born Chinese writer and political activist, member of the Chinese Communist Party.^[117]
• John Astor, 64, British politician, Member of Parliament.^[118]
• Manoj Basu, 86, Indian writer of Bengali novels and short stories.
• Shanti Devi, 61, Indian woman who claimed to remember her previous life.
• Priscilla Dean, 91, American theatre and silent-screen actress (The Gray Ghost), complications from a fall.^[119]
• Josef Grohé, 85, German Nazi Party official, Gauleiter of Gau Cologne-Aachen.^[120]
• Bernard Hailstone, 77, English painter.
• Lefty Holmes, 80, American baseball player.
• Vivian Hultman, 84, American NFL player.
• Tetsuo Imai, 75, Japanese Olympic middle-distance runner (1936).
• Theodore Pike, 83, Irish colonial administrator and rugby union international, governor of British Somaliland.
• Stepan Popel, 78, Ukrainian chess champion.
• Wilbur Schramm, 80, American scholar and authority on mass communication.^[121]
• Anthony West, 73, English author and literary critic, son of H. G. Wells, stroke.^[122]

28

• Happy Akhand, 27, Bangladeshi rock singer and songwriter (Miles.^[123]
• Hank Bartos, 74, American NFL player (Washington Redskins).
• Syd Brown, 70, English cricketer.
• Harry Buckwitz, 83, German actor and director.
• George I. Forsythe, 69, American general of the U.S. Army.^[124]
• John Hunt, 82, British general practitioner, co-founded the Royal College of General Practitioners.^[125]
• Edward Kleban, 48, American musical theatre composer and lyricist, throat cancer.^[126]
• Charles Malik, 81, Lebanese diplomat, philosopher and politician, Lebanese representative to the U.N., kidney failure.^[127]
• Jim Murphy, 84, Irish Olympic boxer (1932).
• Joseph Sittler, 83, American Lutheran minister and theologian, cancer.^[128]

29

• John F. Aiso, 78, American nisei military leader, lawyer and judge, head injury sustained in a mugging.^[129]
• Sheldon Andelson, 56, American higher education administrator and a political fund-raiser, AIDS.^[130]
• Peter K. Babalas, 65, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (1968-1987).
• Patrick Bissell, 30, American ballet dancer (American Ballet Theatre), overdose.^[131]
• Hal Griggs, 87, American NFL player.
• Brigitte Heinrich, 46, German journalist and politician, member of the European Parliament, heart attack.^[132]
• Neville Huggins, 81, Australian rules footballer.
• Jun Ishikawa, 88, Japanese author, lung cancer.
• Knud Jacobsen, 73, Danish Olympic cyclist (1936).
• Wilbert E. Moore, 73, American sociologist, president of the American Sociological Association.^[133]
• Jack Patterson, 79, Australian rules footballer.
• Jan Rybkowski, 75, Polish film director.
• Raeburn Van Buren, 96, American magazine and comic strip illustrator (Abbie an' Slats).
• Ulysses Kae Williams, 66, American DJ, record label owner and producer.
• Yanina Zhejmo, 78, Soviet actress.

30

• Leslie Arliss, 86, English screenwriter and director (The Man in Grey, The Wicked Lady).^[134]
• Ed Chissus, 70, American college football and baseball coach (Eastern Washington Eagles).
• Datta Naik, 60, Indian film music director.
• Manolo Urquiza, 67, Cuban-born media personality.
• Max Walter, 82, German Olympic weightlifter (1936).
• Theodore Zichy, 79, British actor, photographer and film director, suicide.

31

• Alessandro D'Ottavio, 60, Italian Olympic boxer (1948).
• George Doherty, 67, American NFL footballer, college coach and athletics administrator, heart attack.
• Merle Evans, 96, American cornet player and circus band conductor (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus).^[135]
• Randall Garrett, 60, American science fiction and fantasy author (Lord Darcy).
• Gene Leggett, 52, American Methodist minister, defrocked for being homosexual, hepatitis.
• Alick Lill, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Leo Steiner, 47–48, American restauranteur, co-owner of Carnegie Deli, brain tumour.^[136]
• Jerry Turner, 58, American television news anchorman, esophageal cancer.^[137]

Unknown date

• Malcolm Butler, 75, Northern Irish international footballer (Accrington Stanley, Ireland).
• Michael Clemente, 79, New York mobster in the Genovese crime family.
• Dorothy K. Haynes, 68–69, Scottish horror and supernatural writer, breast cancer.
• Kurt Frederick Ludwig, 83–84, Nazi German spy.
• Birendra Nath Mazumdar, 82, Indian medical officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Marcus Owen, 52, Welsh professional snooker player.
• Ian Wilson, 86, English actor.