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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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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January 1988
1
- Peter Brown, 81, Australian rules footballer.
- Margot Bryant, 90, English actress (Coronation Street).
- Albert Decaris, 86, French artist and Olympic gold medalist.[1]
- Marcel Hillaire, 79, German-born American actor (Sabrina, Take the Money and Run).[2]
- Clementine Hunter, 101, American folk artist.[3]
- Anwar Hussain, 62, Indian actor and producer.
- John S. Millis, 84, American president of Western Reserve College, cancer.[4]
- Hiroaki Sato, 55, Japanese Olympic footballer (1956).
2
- Dada Bhagwan, 79, Indian spiritual leader, founded the Akram Vignan movement.
- Bill Crawford-Compton, 72, New Zealand flying ace of the Royal Air Force during the World War II.[5]
- E. B. Ford, 86, British ecological geneticist.[6]
- Manuel Octavio Gómez, 53, Cuban film director (The Days of Water).
- Jesse Gray, 64, American civil rights leader and politician, member of the New York State Assembly.[7]
- Fritz Heider, 91, Austrian psychologist.[8]
- Yukio Kasahara, 98, Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army.[9]
- Varadarajan Mudaliar, 61, Indian crime boss, heart attack.
- Ernie Roche, 57, Canadian NHL player (Montreal Canadiens).
- Lia Zoppelli, 67, Italian actress.
3
- Rose Ausländer, 86, Austro-Hungarian–born German-American poet.[10]
- William Cagney, 82, American actor (Lost in the Stratosphere, Flirting with Danger), brother of James Cagney, heart attack.[11]
- Joie Chitwood, 75, American racecar driver and businessman.[12]
- Sady Courville, 82, American Cajun fiddler.
- John Dopyera, 94, Slovakian-born American inventor (resonator guitar).[13]
- Gaston Eyskens, 82, Belgian politician and Prime Minister of Belgium.[14]
- Stanley Fuller, 80, British Olympic sprinter (1932).
- Bill Gibb, 44, Scottish fashion designer, bowel cancer.[15]
- Nando González, 66, Spanish footballer and manager.
- Patrick McGeehan, 80, American actor (Aunt Mary, The Red Skelton Show), cerebral hemorrhage.[16]
- Irina Murzaeva, 81, Soviet film and theater actress.
- Franz Muxeneder, 67, Austrian actor (The White Horses).[17]
- A. Ross Webster, 84, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1962).
4
- Ruth Bleier, 64, American neurophysiologist, cancer.[18]
- Leo de Block, 83, Dutch politician.
- Franco Bottari, 62, Italian set designer, screenwriter, and film director.
- Mary Jane Carr, 92, American author (Young Mac of Fort Vancouver).[19]
- Ed Cooke, 77, Australian rules footballer.
- Alice Duncan-Kemp, 86, Australian writer and indigenous rights activist.[20]
- Henfil, 43, Brazilian cartoonist, journalist and writer, AIDS from blood transfusion.[21]
- Charles Phibbs Jones, 81, Irish-born general in the British Army.[22]
- Lily Laskine, 94, French harpist.[23]
- Carl Shipp Marvel, 93, American chemist (Polybenzimidazole).[24]
- Charles Quinby, 88, American Olympic swimmer (1920).
- Jane Seitz, 45, German film editor, suicide.
- Chin Sophonpanich, 77, Thai entrepreneur, founded Bangkok Bank and Bangkok Insurance.[25]
5
- Joe Keohane, 69, Irish Gaelic football manager and player (John Mitchels, Kerry).[26]
- "Pistol" Pete Maravich, 40, American basketball player (Atlanta Hawks, New Orleans Jazz), heart failure.[27]
- Harold Matson, 89, American literary agent, founder of Harold Matson Company.[28]
- Go Mishima, 63–64, Japanese homoerotic fetish artist, founder of magazine Sabu, complications from cirrhosis.
- Herbert Waddell, 85, Scottish international rugby union player.[29]
6
- Ralph Buxton, 76, Canadian MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics, New York Yankees).
- Brent Collins, 46, American actor (As the World Turns, Another World), heart attack.
- L. P. Davies, 73, British novelist.[30]
- Arturo De Vecchi, 89, Italian Olympic fencer (1928, 1932).
- Bern Dibner, 90, Ukrainian-born American electrical engineer, industrialist and historian of science and technology.[31]
7
- Michel Auclair, 65, German-born French actor (Funny Face, The Day of the Jackal).[32]
- Eli Bauer, 59, American comics artist and writer.
- Zara Cisco Brough, 69, American chief of the Nipmuc Nation, Parkinson's disease.[33]
- Roy Dennis, 82, American college football coach (Occidental College).[34]
- Frieda Fordham, 84, British psychiatric social worker.[35]
- Fred Haefliger, 95, American WW1 US Marines veteran.
- Carlo Hintermann, 64, Italian actor, traffic accident.[36]
- Trevor Howard, 74, English actor (Brief Encounter, The Third Man, Sons and Lovers), cirrhosis of the liver.[37]
- Arthur R. M. Lower, 98, Canadian historian.[38]
- Venko Markovski, 72, Bulgarian and Macedonian writer, poet and Communist politician.[39]
- Liao Mengxing, 83, Chinese political activist, secretary of the Soong Ching-ling.
- La Meri, 88, American dancer and choreographer.[40]
- Michael Mills, 68, English television producer and director (Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em).[41]
- Marilyn Schreffler, 42, American voice actress (Olive Oyl), liver cancer.[42]
8
- James Adams, 83, Australian cricketer.
- Vyacheslav Aleksandrov, 20, Soviet Guards Junior Sergeant and squad commander in the Afghanistan war, Mujahideen attack.
- Ray Bauduc, 81, American jazz drummer.[43]
- Gérard Buhr, 59, French film and television actor.[44]
- Jared French, 82, American painter.[45]
- Einar Gjerstad, 90, Swedish archaeologist (Lund University).[46]
- Boyd "Red" Morgan, 72, American NFL footballer (Washington Redskins) and actor (The Amazing Transparent Man).
- Frank Pace, 75, American politician, Secretary of the Army, heart attack.[47]
- Oscar Soetewey, 62, Belgian Olympic middle-distance runner (1952).
- Frank J. Zappala, 89, American politician and lawyer, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, heart failure.[48]
9
- Gregory Ain, 79, American architect.[49]
- Marion Speed Boyd, 87, American district judge (United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee).
- Florence Eiseman, 88, American fashion designer, emphysema.[50]
- Gombloh, 39, Indonesian singer and songwriter, lung disease.[51]
- Wolfgang Jansen, 49, German actor.
- Juraj Krnjević, 92, Croatian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia.
- Thierry Maulnier, 78, French journalist and dramatist.[52]
- Jukichi Uno, 73, Japanese actor.[53]
10
- Edward Matthew Curran, 84, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Columbia).
- Ronald King, 78, New Zealand rugby union player (West Coast, New Zealand All Blacks).[54]
- Bai T. Moore, 71, Liberian poet and novelist (Murder in the Cassava Patch), heart attack.[55]
- Ed Mullen, 74, American basketball player.
- Hugh A. Robertson, 55, American film director and editor (Midnight Cowboy), cancer.[56]
11
- Pappy Boyington, 75, American combat pilot and U.S. Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II, lung cancer.[57]
- George Ewart Evans, 78, British writer and folklorist.[58]
- David Gaines, 40, American environmentalist, founder of the Mono Lake Committee, car accident.[59]
- N. M. Jorgensen, 78, American college football coach and administrator.
- Robert F. Kennon, 85, American politician and judge, Governor of Louisiana.[60]
- René Leray, 86, French Olympic middle-distance runner (1920).
- Con O'Neill, 75, British diplomat, ambassador to China and Finland.[61]
- Endre Palócz, 76, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).
- Jack Pratt, 81, British-born Canadian NHL player (Boston Bruins).
- Isidor Isaac Rabi, 89, Austro-Hungarian–born American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, cancer.[62]
- John J. Williams, 83, American businessman and politician, U.S. Senator (1947-1970), heart and respiratory failure.[63]
12
- Joe Albany, 63, American modern jazz pianist, respiratory failure and cardiac arrest.[64]
- Hiram Bingham IV, 84, American diplomat (U.S. Foreign Service).[65]
- Martin Cecil, 78, Anglo-Canadian peer, Marquess of Exeter (Emissaries of Divine Light).[66]
- Spencer Chan, 95, American actor.[67]
- Suniti Choudhury, 70, Indian nationalist, co-assassin of a British magistrate.
- Carl-Axel Elfving, 68, Swedish actor.
- Giuseppe Insalaco, 46, Italian politician, mayor of Palermo, murdered by the mafia.[68]
- Clyde Lucas, 89, Australian cricketer.
- Connie Mulder, 62, South African politician and cabinet minister, cancer.[69]
- Bruno Prevedi, 59, Italian tenor.[70]
- Piero Taruffi, 81, Italian racing driver.
- F. D. Washington, 75, American Pentecostal minister.
13
- Viktors Arājs, 78, Latvian-born Nazi officer, leader of the Arajs Kommando.
- Chiang Ching-kuo, 77, Chinese politician, eldest son of Chiang Kai-shek, President of Taiwan, heart attack.[71]
- Erling Erland, 70, Norwegian politician.
- Donald Healey, 89, English car designer, rally driver and speed record holder, Monte Carlo Rally winner.[72]
- Alfred Jensen, 84, Danish politician.
- Kenneth Marks, 67, British politician, Member of Parliament.[73]
- Richard Mitchell, 74, Grenadian-born Trinidadian cricketer.
- Alfred Easton Poor, 88, American architect (James Madison Memorial Building).[74]
- Jean-Paul Racine, 59, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1962, 1965-1968).
- Aubrey Sinden, 70, English cricketer.
14
- Edda Albertini, 61, Italian film, stage, and television actress.
- Walter Assef, 74, Canadian politician and Vaudeville, mayor of Thunder Bay.[75]
- Pietro Chiappini, 72, Italian racing cyclist.
- Vladimir Lavrinenkov, 68, Soviet fighter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union.[76]
- Jimmy Maelen, 47, American percussionist, leukemia.
- Georgy Malenkov, 86, Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union.[77]
- Ross N. Sterling, 56, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas).
- John Worrall, 76, British RAF officer.
15
- Arthur James Richard Ash, 81, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.[78]
- Ingeborg Beling, 83, German ethologist (chronobiology).[79]
- Kolbjørn Brenda, 73, Norwegian actor.
- Sathyendra Coomaraswamy, 68-69, Sri Lankan cricketer.
- George Hennessey, 80, American MLB player (St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs).
- Carl Klose, 96, American Olympic rower (1920).
- Seán MacBride, 83, Irish Republican Army leader and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs, recipient of Nobel Peace Prize.[80]
- Carlos Rangel, 58, Venezuelan writer, journalist and diplomat, suicide.[81]
- Gibreab Teferi, 65, Ethiopian activist, poet and playwright.
- Maurice K. Temerlin, 64, American psychologist and author, heart attack.[82]
16
- Andrija Artuković, 88, Croatian lawyer and politician, Minister of Interior of Croatia, convicted war criminal.[83]
- Inge Einarsen Bartnes, 76, Norwegian politician.
- Ballard Berkeley, 83, English actor (Fawlty Towers).[84]
- Harlan Hubbard, 88, American artist and writer.[85]
- Lakshmi Kant Jha, 74, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, kidney failure.[86]
- Bob Keegan, 63, British actor (Z-Cars, The First Lady), lung cancer.
- Dutch Kemner, 88, American MLB player (Cincinnati Reds).
- Adelfo Magallanes, 77, Peruvian Olympic footballer (1936).
- Clem Woltman, 73, American NFL player (Philadelphia Eagles).
- David Young, 80, American Olympic swimmer (1928).
17
- Belle Baranceanu, 85, American artist.[87]
- Leela Mishra, 80, Indian actress (Sholay), heart attack.[88]
- Roy Padilla Sr., 61, Filipino politician, governor of Camarines Norte, assassinated.
- Percy Qoboza, 50, South African journalist, author and critic of the apartheid government, heart attack.[89]
- Skeeter Skelton, 59, American lawman and firearms writer.[90]
- Charlotte Wassef, 75, Egyptian beauty queen, International Pageant of Pulchritude (Miss Universe) winner.
- Edward Weinfeld, 86, American judge of the U.S. District Court, cancer.[91]
18
- Konstantin Andrianov, 77, Soviet Russian sports administrator.
- Gunnar Christensen, 82, Norwegian footballer.
- Chauncey Eskridge, 70, American attorney, attorney for Muhammad Ali and Martin Luther King Jr.[92]
- Al Hall, 72, American jazz bassist.
- József Hátszeghy, 84, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1936, 1948).
- Johnnie Maitland, 73, Australian Olympic sports shooter (1956).
- Jean Mitry, 83, French film theorist, critic and filmmaker.[93]
- Angelo de Mojana di Cologna, 82, Italian Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, heart attack.[94]
- Denis O'Connor, 80, British Army officer.
- John Rossiter, 74, Australian politician, member of Victorian Legislative Assembly, father of Susan Renouf.[95]
- Renato Traiola, 63, Italian Olympic water polo player (1952).
19
- Amelia Bayntun, 68, English actress (Blitz!, Carry On).
- Bridget Boland, 74, British screenwriter (War and Peace, Gaslight), playwright and novelist.[96]
- Cesare Brandi, 81, Italian art critic and historian.[97]
- Gladys Elphick, 83, Australian founding president of the Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia.[98]
- Yevgeny Mravinsky, 84, Russian conductor and pianist, heart attack.[99]
- Cary Odell, 77, American art director (Cover Girl, Bell, Book and Candle, Seven Days in May).
20
- Raymond Desonay, 89, Belgian Olympic diver (1920).
- Paul Esser, 74, German actor (Sender Freies Berlin).
- Abdul Ghaffar Khan, 97, Pakistani independence activist, stroke.[100]
- Philippe de Rothschild, 85, French Grand Prix motor racing driver, screenwriter and playwright.[101]
- Dora Stratou, 84–85, Greek actress and choreographer.[102]
- James D. Theberge, 57, American diplomat, ambassador to Nicaragua and Chile, heart attack.[103]
- Robert Miles Todd, 90, American WWI flying ace.
21
- Jørgen Grave, 78, Norwegian politician.
- Vincent Lingiari, 79, Australian Aboriginal rights activist.[104]
- Werner Nachmann, 62, German politician, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, heart failure.[105]
- Abraham Sofaer, 91, Burmese-born British actor (Victoria Regina, A Matter of Life and Death), heart failure.[106]
- Zev Vilnay, 87, Moldovan-born Israeli geographer, author and lecturer.[107]
22
- Marvin Felix Camillo, 50-51, American theater director and actor.
- Parker Fennelly, 96, American actor (The Trouble with Harry).[108]
- Nadia Russo, 86, Romanian military aviator during World War II.[109]
- Arnold Tholey, 84, French Olympic boxer (1924).
23
- Bantcho Bantchevsky, 81, Bulgarian-born American singer, suicide.[110]
- Dan Daniel, 73, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1969-1988), heart attack.[111]
- Johnny Gee, 72, American Major League baseballer (Pittsburgh Pirates).[112]
- Charles Glen King, 91, American biochemist (Vitamin C), heart failure.[113]
- Ann Rork Light, 79, American silent-screen actress, emphysema and lung cancer.[114]
- Vincent McMahon, 70, Australian cricketer.
- Hollingsworth Morse, 77, American television director.[115]
- Harry Sköld, 77, Swedish Olympic rower (1936).
24
- Antônio Amaral Filho, 66, Brazilian Olympic swimmer (1936).
- Lilli Andersen, 73, Danish Olympic swimmer (1932).
- Anthony Courtney, 79, British Royal Navy officer and politician, Member of Parliament.[116]
- Werner Fenchel, 82, German-Danish mathematician (Fenchel's duality theorem).[117]
- Lorenzo Greene, 88, American historian of black history.[118]
- Trygve Nagell, 92, Norwegian mathematician (Diophantine equations).[119]
25
- Jurgis Baltrušaitis, 84, Lithuanian art historian and art critic.[120]
- Steve Chomyszak, 43, American AFL and NFL footballer (Cincinnati Bengals), pancreatic cancer.
- Carlos Mauro Hoyos, 48, Colombian jurist and politician, Inspector General of Colombia, assassinated.[121]
- Boris Kulagin, 63, Soviet ice hockey player and coach.
- Abrantes Mendes, 80, Portuguese footballer.
- Colleen Moore, 88, American silent-screen actress (Flaming Youth), cancer.[122]
26
- Raymond Charles Barker, 76, American author, leader of the New Thought spiritual movement, cerebral hemorrhage.[123]
- Pierre Bressinck, 81, Belgian Olympic wrestler (1928).
- Allan Watt Downie, 86, Scottish microbiologist (eradication of smallpox).[124]
- Paul G. Goebel, 86, American NFL footballer (Columbus Panhandles) and politician (mayor of Grand Rapids).[125]
- K. P. Hormis, 70, Indian banker and lawyer (Federal Bank).[126]
- Gershon Iskowitz, 68, Polish-Canadian artist.[127]
- Calum MacLeod, 76, Scottish crofter who built Calum's Road on the Island of Raasay.[128]
- Hugh J. Schonfield, 86, British bible scholar.[129]
- Raymond Williams, 66, Welsh socialist writer and novelist.[130]
- Freddie Wolff, 77, British runner and Olympic gold medalist (1936).[131]
27
- Nils Bergström, 89, Swedish Olympic long-distance runner (1920).
- Massa Makan Diabaté, 49, Malian historian, author and playwright (Le lieutenant de Kouta).[132]
- Kemal Faruki, 77, Turkish Olympic footballer (1928).
- Edward Pawley, 86, American actor of radio, films and Broadway (Two Seconds, Elmer Gantry), heart condition.[133]
28
- Mark L. Booth, 76, American college football coach (Waynesburg).
- Frederick Sumner Brackett, 91, American physicist (spectroscopy).[134]
- Roger De Koven, 80, American actor.
- Klaus Fuchs, 76, German theoretical physicist and Soviet spy.[135]
- Émile Lecuirot, 80, French Olympic rower (1928, 1936).
- Dick Pope Sr., 87, American founder of Cypress Gardens.[136]
- Al Rubeling, 74, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates).
- Luska Twyman, 74, American politician, mayor of Glasgow, Kentucky.[137]
29
- Hilda Charlton, 81–82, English-born American professional dancer and spiritual teacher.[138]
- Howard Clewes, 75, English screenwriter and novelist (The Day They Robbed the Bank of England).[139]
- Hassan el-Imam, 68, Egyptian film director.
- Mihiel Gilormini, 69, Puerto Rican U.S. Air Force officer in World War II.[140]
- Joseph Jaquenoud, 86-87, Swiss Olympic weightlifter (1924, 1928).
- Max Jeffers, 58, Australian rules footballer.
- James Rhyne Killian, 83, American president of MIT, chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.[141]
- Seth Neddermeyer, 80, American physicist, co-discovered the muon, worked on Manhattan Project, Parkinson's disease.[142]
- Rogier van Otterloo, 46, Dutch composer and conductor, mesothelioma.[143]
30
- Eddie Cano, 60, American jazz pianist and composer, heart attack.[144]
- Bum Day, 89, American college footballer (Georgia Bulldogs).
- Wallace Groves, 86, American financier and fraudster, stroke.[145]
- Robert Juday, 87, American Olympic high jumper (1924).
- José Carlos de Lima, 32, Brazilian Olympic cyclist (1980).
- Virginia Mullen, 81, American actress.
- S. K. Wankhede, 73, Indian cricket administrator, politician, Deputy speaker of Bombay Legislative Assembly.[146]
31
- David Ahern, 40, Australian composer and music critic, asthma attack.
- Homer Brightman, 86, American screenwriter (Cinderella, The Three Caballeros).
- Wallace Kyle, 78, Australian Air Chief Marshal, Governor of Western Australia.[147]
- Al Laney, 92, American sportswriter.[148]
- Harold Loeffelmacher, 81, American musician and bandleader.[149]
- Takuji Nakamura, 90, Japanese painter.
- Ron Pavitt, 61, British Olympic high jumper (1948, 1952).
- Agus Subekti, 67, Indonesian admiral, commander of the Indonesian Marine Corps, Vice Governor of West Irian.[150]
- Charley Way, 90, American football player and coach.
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- Ilona Fehér, 86, Hungarian violinist (Hungarian violin school).
- Takeshi Kimura, 76, Japanese screenwriter, throat obstruction.[151]
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