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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 1988.
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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.
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February 1988
1
- N. M. Bodecker, 66, Danish-born American author and illustrator of children's books (Tales of Magic), colon cancer.[1]
- Marcel Bozzuffi, 58, French film actor (The French Connection).[2]
- John Grist Brainerd, 83, American electrical engineer (ENIAC).[3]
- Gerald Butler, 80, English writer of crime and thriller novels (Kiss the Blood Off My Hands; There Is a Death, Elizabeth).
- Ted Hill, 72, Australian barrister, lawyer and communist activist, chairman of the Communist Party of Australia.[4]
- Thomas Francis Johnson, 78, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1959-1963), car crash.[5]
- Ion Lungu, 66, Romanian footballer.
- Heather O'Rourke, 12, American child actress (Poltergeist), congenital stenosis of intestine.[6]
- Red Phillips, 79, American MLB player (Detroit Tigers).
- Stephen Taylor, 77, British physician and politician, member of the House of Lords.[7]
- Eddie Townsend, 73, American professional boxing trainer, cancer.[8]
- Marisa Vernati, 67, Italian actress.[9]
2
- Frederick Blaney, 69, Irish cricketer.
- Richard Chase, 83, American folklorist.[10]
- Caroline Chew, 86, American dancer.
- Solomon Cutner, 85, British pianist.[11]
- Quamrul Hassan, 66, Bengali artist, heart attack.[12]
- Thomas Lamb, 91, American industrial designer, pneumonia.[13]
- Percy Lawrie, 85, English cricketer.
- Rossana Martini, 62, Italian actress and model.[14]
- Carlos Monges, 61, Mexican Olympic sprinter (1948).
- Normie Smith, 79, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Maroons).[15]
- G. Mennen Williams, 76, American politician, Governor of Michigan, ambassador to the Philippines, stroke.[16]
3
- Ronald Bladen, 69, Canadian-American painter and sculptor, cancer.[17]
- Sam D'Allesandro, 31, American writer and poet, AIDS.[18]
- Robert Duncan, 69, American poet, heart attack.[19]
- Radamés Gnattali, 82, Brazilian composer and conductor.
- Werner Kissling, 92, German-born Scottish ethnographer and photographer.[20]
- René Massigli, 99, French diplomat, ambassador to the U.K. and Turkey.[21]
- Kenneth Lee Porter, 91, American WWI flying ace.
- Jocko Thompson, 71, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Phillies).[22]
- Dymock Watson, 84, British Royal Navy officer, Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic.
- Lewis Wolberg, 82, American psychoanalyst (hypnoanalysis), heart attack.[23]
- Sewall Wright, 98, American geneticist, fall.[24]
4
- Clyde Coombs, 75, American psychologist (Coombs' method).[25]
- Frank Giacoia, 63, American comics artist (Captain America, The Amazing Spider-Man).[26]
- Dhamma Jagoda, 47, Sri Lankan theatre and television play director and actor.[27]
- Franz Mandl, 71, Austrian Olympic footballer (1936).
- Bill Narduzzi, 51, American football player and coach, Hodgkin's disease.[28]
- Krzysztof Sitkowski, 52, Polish Olympic basketball player (1960, 1964).
- Jonas Turkow, 89, Polish-Israeli actor, director and writer.[29]
5
- Ove Arup, 92, English engineer, design engineer for Sydney Opera House.[30]
- Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, 73, American mathematician, president of the Mathematics Association of America.[31]
- Inger Carlsen, 69, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1936).
- Bennie Dobbins, 55, American stuntman and actor (Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Ferris Bueller's Day Off), heart attack.[32]
- Clement Hurd, 80, American illustrator of children's books (Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny), Alzheimer's disease.[33]
- Emeric Pressburger, 85, Hungarian-born British film director and producer (49th Parallel), pneumonia.[34]
6
- Gary Berland, 37, American professional poker player, blood disorder.
- Richard Bock, 61, American jazz record producer.[35]
- Marghanita Laski, 72, English journalist and novelist, lung disease.[36]
- Nick Pietrosante, 50, American NFL footballer (Detroit Lions), prostate cancer.[37]
- Barclay Plager, 46, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues), brain cancer.[38]
- Carmen Polo, 87, Spanish wife of Francisco Franco, bronchial pneumonia.[39]
- Zvonimir Rogoz, 100. Croatian actor.[40]
7
- Upendranath Barman, 88, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.[41]
- Lin Carter, 57, American science fiction and fantasy author (Ballantine Adult Fantasy series), cancer.[42]
- Aldo Federici, 67, Italian Olympic ice hockey player (1948, 1956).
- Ray Martin, 69, Austrian-born British orchestra leader, cancer.[43]
- Ririd Myddelton, 85, English High Sheriff of Denbighshire, Equerry to The Queen.[44]
- Dermot O'Brien, 81, Australian rules footballer.
- Tony Santos Sr., 67, Filipino actor and director (Badjao: The Sea Gypsies).
- Robert G. Walker, 70, American television director.
8
- Pietro Arcari, 78, Italian footballer (AC Milan, Genoa).
- Dolores Camarillo, 77, Mexican actress (Ahí está el detalle).[45]
- Allan Cuthbertson, 67, Australian-British actor (Fawlty Towers – Gourmet Night, Edge of Darkness).[46]
- Santosh Dutta, 62, Bengali actor (Sonar Kella, Joi Baba Felunath).[47]
- Ralph Flanagan, 69, American swimmer and Olympic medalist (1932, 1936).[48]
- Hans Krueger, 78, Nazi German Gestapo captain in occupied Poland, responsible for massacres against Poles and Jews.[49]
- Swayne Latham, 90, American college football player (Vanderbilt Commodores).
- Esben Lykke-Seest, 82, Norwegian child actor.
- Daisy Turner, 104, American storyteller and poet.[50]
- Frank Varey, 79, English speedway rider.[51]
- Alfréd Wetzler, 69, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian writer (Vrba–Wetzler report).[52]
- Helen Wood, 70, American film and radio actress.[53]
9
- Kurt Herbert Adler, 69, Austrian-American conductor, heart attack.[54]
- Ermal Allen, 69, American professional footballer (Cleveland Browns) and coach (Dallas Cowboys), cancer.
- Marjorie May Bacon, 86, British printmaker and painter.
- Henry Burrell, 83, Australian navy commander, vice admiral of the Royal Australian Navy.[55]
- Edith Hermansen, 80, Danish film actress.
- Israel Nathan Herstein, 64, Polish-born American mathematician (ring theory), cancer.[56]
- Phillip Hutchinson, 24, American bank robber, murderer and escaped convict, shot by police.[57]
- Charles Moses, 88, British-born Australian administrator, general manager of Australian Broadcasting Commission.[58]
- Fritz Redl, 85, Austrian-American child psychoanalyst.[59]
- William Sackville, 66, British peer, suicide.[60]
10
- Jim Bailey, 79, English cricketer.
- Nat Cohen, 82, British film producer (The Sleeping Tiger, The Tommy Steele Story, Carry On ...), heart attack.[61]
- Alfred Eichner, 50, American economist.[62]
- Cynthia Gooding, 63, American folk singer, cancer.[63]
- Wolfgang Lange, 89, Nazi German army general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.[64]
- Lothar Malskat, 74, German painter and art restorer.[65]
- Don Patterson, 51, American jazz organist.
- Chaya Mushka Schneerson, 86, Russian-American wife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Jewish spiritual leader.[66]
11
- Mary E. Black, 92, American waver and weaving instructor.[67]
- Marion Crawford, 78, Scottish governess to Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth, cancer.[68]
- René Hall, 75, American guitarist, heart disease.
- Virgil D. Hawkins, 81, American attorney, kidney failure.[69]
- Gail L. Ireland, 92, American politician, Attorney General of Colorado.
- Amirteymour Kalali, 93, Iranian politician, member of the Parliament of Iran.
- Neville Mckoy, 41, Jamaican cricketer.
12
- Reino Aarnio, 75, Finnish-born American architect.
- Robert Coin, 86, French sculptor and engraver.
- Jacques Colombier, 86, French art director.
- Briggs Gordon, 38, American television host.[70]
- Max Heine, 76–77, German-born American value investor and fund manager, traffic accident.[71]
- Gustav Koranteng-Addow, 69, Ghanaian Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice.
- Bernard Lippmann, 73, American theoretical physicist (Lippmann–Schwinger equation in scattering theory).[72]
- Bukhuti Zakariadze, 74, Soviet actor.
13
- John Curulewski, 37, American musician, original member of Styx, brain aneurysm.[73]
- Ron Embleton, 57, British illustrator and comics artist (Mickey Mouse Weekly, Penthouse), heart attack.[74]
- José Carlos Godoy, 76, Peruvian Olympic basketball player (1936).
- Dorothy Kurgans Goldberg, 79, American artist and writer, Supreme Court justice, lung cancer.[75]
- Léon Goossens, 90, English oboist.[76]
- Cecil L. Hartman, 87, American college football player and coach.
- Noel Horsfield, 74, South African Olympic sailor (1952, 1956).
- Sidney Martin, 79, South African cricketer.
- Ivan Peries, 66, Sri Lankan Artist.[77]
- Ashley Winlaw, 74, English cricketer.
14
- Nora Astorga, 39, Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter and politician, ambassador to the United Nations, cervical cancer.[78]
- Ambrogio Beretta, 82, Italian Olympic cyclist (1928).
- Frederick Loewe, 86, German-born American composer (My Fair Lady), cardiac arrest.[79]
- Jan de Kreek, 84, Dutch footballer.
- Cal Niday, 73, American racecar driver, heart attack.[80]
- Mark Serrurier, 83, American president of Moviola, Alzheimer's disease.[81]
- Alfonso Valdés Cobián, 97, Puerto Rican industrialist and politician, cofounder of Cervecería India, heart attack.[82]
- Auguste Verdyck, 86, Belgian road bicycle racer.
- Lynette White, 20, Welsh murder victim.[83]
- Joseph Wresinski, 71, French priest.[84]
- Slavko Zagorac, 78, Yugoslavian football player and manager.
15
- Joseph O. Butcher, 75, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.[85]
- Pat Close, 39, American child actor (Imitation of Christ, Sunrise at Campobello), liver disease.
- Al Cohn, 62, American jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer, liver cancer.[86]
- Richard Feynman, 69, American theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, kidney failure.[87]
- Neil R. Jones, 78, American science fiction writer.[88]
- Arthur Judd, 84, English cricketer.
- Jay Leyda, 78, American filmmaker and film historian, heart failure.[89]
- Francisco Manrique, 69, Argentinian naval officer and presidential candidate, lymphoma.[90]
- Gardiner Means, 91, American economist (The Modern Corporation and Private Property), stroke.[91]
- Arthur Mizener, 80, American professor of English and literary critic (The Far Side of Paradise), heart failure.[92]
16
- Dragan Boltar, 74, Yugoslavian architect.
- Jean Carignan, 71, Canadian fiddler.[93]
- Bill Cox, 74, American politician and MLB player (St. Louis Browns).
- Charles Delaunay, 77, French author and jazz expert, co-founder of Hot Club de France, Parkinson's disease.[94]
- Hélène Gordon-Lazareff, 78, Russian-born French journalist.[95]
- Vijaya Kumaratunga, 42, Sri Lankan actor, singer and politician, assassinated.[96]
- Oskar Skogly, 80, Norwegian trade unionist and politician.
- Fredrick Monroe Taylor, 86, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Idaho).
- Ye Shengtao, 93, Chinese writer, journalist and politician, Chinese Vice-Minister of Culture.[97]
17
- John M. Allegro, 65, English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, heart attack.[98]
- Alexander Bashlachev, 27, Soviet poet, singer-songwriter and guitarist, probable suicide.[99]
- Yuri Ovchinnikov, 53, Soviet bio-organic chemist, contributed to Soviet biological weapons program.[100]
- Veijo Pasanen, 57, Finnish actor (Pikku Kakkonen).
- Alain Savary, 69, French politician, Minister of National Education.[101]
- Karpoori Thakur, 64, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar, cardiac arrest.[102]
- Reginald Uren, 81, New Zealand architect.[103]
18
- Luciano Gariboldi, 60, Italian footballer.
- Mahmood-ul Hassan, 63, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player (1948, 1952).
- Michael Howard, 71, British actor and comedian.[104]
- Abderrahman Ibrir, 68, Algerian-born French footballer.
- Walter Ohmsen, 76, Nazi German officer in the Kriegsmarine, first German to sight the D-Day naval force.[105]
- Giovanni Savonuzzi, 77, Italian automobile designer (Cisitalia, Carrozzeria Ghia, Chrysler).
19
- Isabel Bishop, 85, American painter and graphic artist (Tidying Up), Parkinson's disease.[106]
- René Char, 80, French poet, member of the French resistance, heart attack.[107]
- André Cournand, 92, French-born American physician (cardiac catheterization), Nobel laureate in Medicine, pneumonia.[108]
- William W. Eagles, 93, American general in the U.S. Army.[109]
- Gloria Hollister, 87, American explorer and scientist (New York Zoological Society), cardiac arrest.[110]
- Walerian Kisieliński, 80, Polish Olympic footballer (1936).
- S. V. Sahasranamam, 74, Indian actor and director, heart attack.
- Frank Strafaci, 71, American amateur golfer.
- Eric Stryker, 33, American gay pornographic performer and model, AIDS.
20
- José de Almeida, 83, Brazilian Olympic sprinter (1932, 1936).
- MaKee K. Blaisdell, 56, American actor (Hawaiian Eye), heart failure.[111]
- Matt Fox, 81, American illustrator and comic book artist.
- Bob Kirkpatrick, 72, Canadian NHL player (New York Rangers).
- Ahmet Tuna Kozan, 44-45, Turkish Olympic footballer (1960).
- Bob O'Farrell, 91, American Major League baseballer (Chicago Cubs, New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals).[112]
- Mildred Seydell, 98, American journalist.[113]
- Roger J. Williams, 94, Indian-born American biochemist (nutrition), pneumonia.[114]
- Jim Woods, 71, American Major League baseball sportscaster, cancer.[115]
21
- Angie Debo, 98, American historian who focused on Native American and Oklahoma history.[116]
- Cornelis van Eesteren, 90, Dutch architect and urban planner (Lelystad).
- David Otis Fuller, 84, American Baptist pastor.[117]
- Aidan McAnespie, 23, Irish murder victim, killed by British soldier.[118]
- Gustaf Nyblæus, 80, Swedish army officer and Olympic equestrian (1936).
- Aleksandar Tomašević, 79, Serbian international footballer and manager (BASK, Yugoslavia).[119]
- Leonard Treganowan, 56, Australian Olympic weightlifter (1956).
- Martin Winter, 32, German Olympic rower (1980).
- Heydar Yaghma, 64, Iranian poet.
22
- Charles L. Banks, 73, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps (Battle of Chosin Reservoir).[120]
- Albert Collier, 78, Australian rules footballer (Collingwood).[121]
- Victor Erroelen, 71, Belgian footballer.
- Barrie Heath, 71, British Royal Air Force pilot in the Battle of Britain.[122]
- Eugen Iordache, 65, Romanian Olympic footballer (1952).
- Carlos Lemos, 78, Spanish theater and film actor.
- Afro Poli, 85, Italian operatic baritone.[123]
- Pao Ming Pu, 77, Chinese mathematician (systolic geometry).[124]
- Cecil Ramage, 93, Scottish barrister, actor and politician, Member of Parliament.[125]
- Larry Shay, 90, American songwriter ("When You're Smiling"), lung cancer and emphysema.[126]
23
- Edward Vaughan Bevan, 80, British rower and Olympic gold medalist (1928).[127]
- Maurice Boisvert, 91, Canadian politician and lawyer, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1949-1957).
- Henri Collard, 76, Belgian Olympic cyclist (1936).
- Pete Donohue, 87, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds).[128]
- Jack Dugger, 65, American NFL and basketball player (Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, Syracuse Nationals).
- Charlie Jackman, 82, New Zealand cricketer.
- Joseph Karakis, 85, Ukrainian architect (National Museum of the History of Ukraine).[129]
- Leroy Leblanc, 73, American swing musician.[130]
24
- Irwin Chanin, 96, American architect and real estate developer (Richard Rodgers Theatre, The Century).[131]
- Rose Coyle, 73, Miss America 1936.[132]
- James H. Douglas Jr., 88, American lawyer, senior official in U.S. Government, Secretary of the Air Force, cancer.[133]
- Loretta McNeil, 81, American Olympic sprinter (1928).
- Memphis Slim, 72, American blues pianist, singer and composer ("Every Day I Have the Blues"), renal failure.[134]
- Stanisław Pastecki, 80, Polish Olympic ice hockey player (1928).
- Mamdouh Salem, 69, Prime Minister of Egypt.[135]
- Timothy Scott, 32, American Broadway actor and dancer, AIDS.[136]
- Seymour Siegel, 60, American rabbi, professor of Ethics and Theology.[137]
- Harry Yven, 75, Norwegian footballer.
- Bluma Zeigarnik, 87, Soviet psychologist.[138]
25
- Bernard Ashmole, 93, British archaeologist and art historian.[139]
- William Harold Cox, 86, American judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.[140]
- Kurt Mahler, 84, German-born British-Australian mathematician (Mahler's inequality, Mahler's compactness theorem).[141]
- Peck Morrison, 68, American jazz bassist.[142]
- Dori Seda, 37, American comic artist, influenza.[143]
- H. E. Todd, 80, English writer of children's fiction (Bobby Brewster).[144]
26
- Edward Byrne, 22, American police officer, murdered in the line of duty.[145]
- Ze'ev Herring, 77-78, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1969-1974).
- Kang Mun-bong, 64, South Korean military officer.
- Joseph Kiselewski, 87, American sculptor.[146]
- Emmet McLoughlin, 65, Irish Olympic footballer (1948).
- Frane Milčinski, 73, Slovenian poet and writer (Twinkle Sleepyhead).[147]
- Tom Oliver, 85, American MLB player (Boston Red Sox).
27
- Basil Boothroyd, 77, English humorous writer (Punch).[148]
- George Clutesi, 83, Canadian artist, actor and writer (Dreamspeaker).[149]
- Cecil Coleman, 63, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
- Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers, 89, French excommunicated Catholic bishop.
- Doug Holmquist, 46, American Minor League baseball player, MLB coach (New York Yankees).
- Franck Lavaud, 85, Haitian general and politician, president of Haiti.
- Gene de Paul, 68, American pianist, composer and songwriter ("Teach Me Tonight"), brain tumour.[150]
- Kenneth Peach, 84, American cinematographer.[151]
- Ramiro Prialé, 84, Peruvian politician.[152]
- Jack Roberts, 78, American judge.[153]
28
- Beatrice Burns, 82, American First Lady of Hawaii, wife of John A. Burns.[154]
- Irja Hagfors, 82, Finnish dance artist and choreographer.
- Edith North Johnson, 85, American blues singer, pianist and songwriter.[155]
- Alfred Frøkjær Jørgensen, 89, Danish Olympic gymnast (1920).
- Harvey Kuenn, 57, American Major League baseballer (Detroit Tigers, San Francisco Giants), heart disease and diabetes.[156]
- Mikhail Naimy, 98, Lebanese poet, novelist and philosopher, pneumonia.[157]
- Asakazu Nakai, 86, Japanese cinematographer (Stray Dog, Ran).
- Jørgen Fryd Petersen, 62, Danish Olympic weightlifter (1948).
- Kylie Tennant, 75, Australian novelist, playwright and historian (Ride on Stranger).[158]
29
- Bennie Charleston, 80, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
- John Henry Guinness, 52, British chairman of Guinness Mahon, complications from a fall.
- Sidney Harmon, 80, American movie producer and screenwriter (The Talk of the Town).[159]
- Frank Kerr Hays, 91, American WWI flying ace.
- Paul Ramsey, 74, American Methodist ethicist, heart attack.[160]
- Kaare Walberg, 75, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (1932, 1936).
- Karl Zimmer, 76, German nuclear chemist, heart attack.[161]
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- John Smith, 49, English footballer (West Ham United).[162]
- Dick Walker, 74, English footballer (West Ham United).[163]
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