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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.[1]
- Margot Bryant, 90, English actress (Coronation Street).
- Albert Decaris, 86, French artist and Olympic gold medalist.[2]
- Marcel Hillaire, 79, German-born American actor (Sabrina, Take the Money and Run).[3]
- Clementine Hunter, 101, American folk artist.[4]
- Anwar Hussain, 62, Indian actor and producer.
- John S. Millis, 84, American president of Western Reserve College, cancer.[5]
- Hiroaki Sato, 55, Japanese Olympic footballer (1956).[6]
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.[7]
- E. B. Ford, 86, British ecological geneticist.[8]
- Jesse Gray, 64, American civil rights leader and politician, member of the New York State Assembly.[9]
- Fritz Heider, 91, Austrian psychologist.[10]
- Yukio Kasahara, 98, Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army.[11]
- Varadarajan Mudaliar, 61, Indian crime boss, heart attack.
- Ernie Roche, 57, Canadian NHL player (Montreal Canadiens).[12]
- Lia Zoppelli, 67, Italian actress.
3
- Rose Ausländer, 86, Austro-Hungarian–born German-American poet.[13]
- William Cagney, 82, American actor (Lost in the Stratosphere, Flirting with Danger), brother of James Cagney, heart attack.[14]
- Joie Chitwood, 75, American racecar driver and businessman.[15]
- Sady Courville, 82, American Cajun fiddler.
- John Dopyera, 94, Slovakian-born American inventor (resonator guitar).[16]
- Gaston Eyskens, 82, Belgian politician and Prime Minister of Belgium.[17]
- Stanley Fuller, 80, British Olympic sprinter (1932).[18]
- Bill Gibb, 44, Scottish fashion designer, bowel cancer.[19]
- Nando González, 66, Spanish footballer and manager.[20]
- Patrick McGeehan, 80, American actor (Aunt Mary, The Red Skelton Show), cerebral hemorrhage.[21]
- Franz Muxeneder, 67, Austrian actor (The White Horses).[22]
- A. Ross Webster, 84, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958–1962).[23]
4
- Ruth Bleier, 64, American neurophysiologist, cancer.[24]
- Leo de Block, 83, Dutch politician.
- Mary Jane Carr, 92, American author (Young Mac of Fort Vancouver).[25]
- Ed Cooke, 77, Australian rules footballer.[26]
- Alice Duncan-Kemp, 86, Australian writer and indigenous rights activist.[27]
- Henfil, 43, Brazilian cartoonist, journalist and writer, AIDS from blood transfusion.[28]
- Charles Phibbs Jones, 81, Irish-born general in the British Army.[29]
- Lily Laskine, 94, French harpist.[30]
- Carl Shipp Marvel, 93, American chemist (Polybenzimidazole).[31]
- Charles Quinby, 88, American Olympic swimmer (1920).[32]
- Jane Seitz, 45, German film editor, suicide.
- Chin Sophonpanich, 77, Thai entrepreneur, founded Bangkok Bank and Bangkok Insurance.[33]
5
- Joe Keohane, 69, Irish Gaelic football manager and player (John Mitchels, Kerry).[34]
- "Pistol" Pete Maravich, 40, American basketball player (Atlanta Hawks, New Orleans Jazz), heart failure.[35]
- Harold Matson, 89, American literary agent, founder of Harold Matson Company.[36]
- Go Mishima, 63–64, Japanese homoerotic fetish artist, founder of magazine Sabu, complications from cirrhosis.
- Herbert Waddell, 85, Scottish international rugby union player.[37]
6
- Ralph Buxton, 76, Canadian MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics, New York Yankees).[38]
- Brent Collins, 46, American actor (As the World Turns, Another World), heart attack.
- L. P. Davies, 73, British novelist.[39]
- Arturo De Vecchi, 89, Italian Olympic fencer (1928, 1932).[40]
- Bern Dibner, 90, Ukrainian-born American electrical engineer, industrialist and historian of science and technology.[41]
7
- Michel Auclair, 65, German-born French actor (Funny Face, The Day of the Jackal).[42]
- Zara Cisco Brough, 69, American chief of the Nipmuc Nation, Parkinson's disease.[43]
- Roy Dennis, 82, American college football coach (Occidental College).[44]
- Frieda Fordham, 84, British psychiatric social worker.[45]
- Fred Haefliger, 95, American WW1 US Marines veteran.
- Carlo Hintermann, 64, Italian actor, traffic accident.[46]
- Trevor Howard, 74, English actor (Brief Encounter, The Third Man, Sons and Lovers), cirrhosis of the liver.[47]
- Arthur R. M. Lower, 98, Canadian historian.[48]
- Venko Markovski, 72, Bulgarian and Macedonian writer, poet and Communist politician.[49]
- Liao Mengxing, 83, Chinese political activist, secretary of the Soong Ching-ling.
- La Meri, 88, American dancer and choreographer.[50]
- Michael Mills, 68, English television producer and director (Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em).[51]
- Marilyn Schreffler, 42, American voice actress (Olive Oyl), liver cancer.[52]
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.[53]
- Gérard Buhr, 59, French film and television actor.[54]
- Jared French, 82, American painter.[55]
- Einar Gjerstad, 90, Swedish archaeologist (Lund University).[56]
- 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.[57]
- Oscar Soetewey, 62, Belgian Olympic middle-distance runner (1952).[58]
- Frank J. Zappala, 89, American politician and lawyer, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, heart failure.[59]
9
- Gregory Ain, 79, American architect.[60]
- Marion Speed Boyd, 87, American district judge (United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee).[61]
- Florence Eiseman, 88, American fashion designer, emphysema.[62]
- Gombloh, 39, Indonesian singer and songwriter, lung disease.[63]
- Juraj Krnjević, 92, Croatian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia.
- Thierry Maulnier, 78, French journalist and dramatist.[64]
- Jukichi Uno, 73, Japanese actor.[65]
10
- Edward Matthew Curran, 84, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Columbia).[66]
- Ronald King, 78, New Zealand rugby union player (West Coast, New Zealand All Blacks).[67]
- Bai T. Moore, 71, Liberian poet and novelist (Murder in the Cassava Patch), heart attack.[68]
- Ed Mullen, 74, American basketball player.[69]
- Hugh A. Robertson, 55, American film director and editor (Midnight Cowboy), cancer.[70]
11
- Pappy Boyington, 75, American combat pilot and U.S. Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II, lung cancer.[71]
- George Ewart Evans, 78, British writer and folklorist.[72]
- David Gaines, 40, American environmentalist, founder of the Mono Lake Committee, car accident.[73]
- N. M. Jorgensen, 78, American college football coach and administrator.
- Robert F. Kennon, 85, American politician and judge, Governor of Louisiana.[74]
- René Leray, 86, French Olympic middle-distance runner (1920).[75]
- Con O'Neill, 75, British diplomat, ambassador to China and Finland.[76]
- Endre Palócz, 76, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).[77]
- Jack Pratt, 81, British-born Canadian NHL player (Boston Bruins).[78]
- Isidor Isaac Rabi, 89, Austro-Hungarian–born American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, cancer.[79]
- John J. Williams, 83, American businessman and politician, U.S. Senator (1947–1970), heart and respiratory failure.[80]
12
- Joe Albany, 63, American modern jazz pianist, respiratory failure and cardiac arrest.[81]
- Hiram Bingham IV, 84, American diplomat (U.S. Foreign Service).[82]
- Martin Cecil, 78, Anglo-Canadian peer, Marquess of Exeter (Emissaries of Divine Light).[83]
- Spencer Chan, 95, American actor.[84]
- Suniti Choudhury, 70, Indian nationalist, co-assassin of a British magistrate.
- Giuseppe Insalaco, 46, Italian politician, mayor of Palermo, murdered by the mafia.[85]
- Connie Mulder, 62, South African politician and cabinet minister, cancer.[86]
- Bruno Prevedi, 59, Italian tenor.[87]
- 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.[88]
- Erling Erland, 70, Norwegian politician.
- Donald Healey, 89, English car designer, rally driver and speed record holder, Monte Carlo Rally winner.[89]
- Alfred Jensen, 84, Danish politician.
- Kenneth Marks, 67, British politician, Member of Parliament.[90]
- Richard Mitchell, 74, Grenadian-born Trinidadian cricketer.
- Alfred Easton Poor, 88, American architect (James Madison Memorial Building).[91]
- Jean-Paul Racine, 59, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958–1962, 1965–1968).[92]
- Aubrey Sinden, 70, English cricketer.[93]
14
- Walter Assef, 74, Canadian politician and Vaudeville, mayor of Thunder Bay.[94]
- Pietro Chiappini, 72, Italian racing cyclist.
- Vladimir Lavrinenkov, 68, Soviet fighter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union.[95]
- Jimmy Maelen, 47, American percussionist, leukemia.
- Georgy Malenkov, 86, Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union.[96]
- Ross N. Sterling, 56, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas).[97]
- John Worrall, 76, British RAF officer.
15
- Arthur James Richard Ash, 81, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.[98]
- Ingeborg Beling, 83, German ethologist (chronobiology).[99]
- Sathyendra Coomaraswamy, 68–69, Sri Lankan cricketer.
- George Hennessey, 80, American MLB player (St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs).[100]
- Carl Klose, 96, American Olympic rower (1920).[101]
- Seán MacBride, 83, Irish Republican Army leader and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs, recipient of Nobel Peace Prize.[102]
- Carlos Rangel, 58, Venezuelan writer, journalist and diplomat, suicide.[103]
- Gibreab Teferi, 65, Ethiopian activist, poet and playwright.
- Maurice K. Temerlin, 64, American psychologist and author, heart attack.[104]
16
- Andrija Artuković, 88, Croatian lawyer and politician, Minister of Interior of Croatia, convicted war criminal.[105]
- Inge Einarsen Bartnes, 76, Norwegian politician.
- Ballard Berkeley, 83, English actor (Fawlty Towers).[106]
- Harlan Hubbard, 88, American artist and writer.[107]
- Lakshmi Kant Jha, 74, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, kidney failure.[108]
- Bob Keegan, 63, British actor (Z-Cars, The First Lady), lung cancer.
- Dutch Kemner, 88, American MLB player (Cincinnati Reds).[109]
- Adelfo Magallanes, 77, Peruvian Olympic footballer (1936).[110]
- Clem Woltman, 73, American NFL player (Philadelphia Eagles).[111]
- David Young, 80, American Olympic swimmer (1928).[112]
17
- Belle Baranceanu, 85, American artist.[113]
- Leela Mishra, 80, Indian actress (Sholay), heart attack.[114]
- 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.[115]
- Skeeter Skelton, 59, American lawman and firearms writer.[116]
- 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.[117]
18
- Konstantin Andrianov, 77, Soviet Russian sports administrator.
- Gunnar Christensen, 82, Norwegian footballer.[118]
- Chauncey Eskridge, 70, American attorney, attorney for Muhammad Ali and Martin Luther King Jr.[119]
- Al Hall, 72, American jazz bassist.
- József Hátszeghy, 84, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1936, 1948).[120]
- Johnnie Maitland, 73, Australian Olympic sports shooter (1956).[121]
- Jean Mitry, 83, French film theorist, critic and filmmaker.[122]
- Angelo de Mojana di Cologna, 82, Italian Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, heart attack.[123]
- Denis O'Connor, 80, British Army officer.
- John Rossiter, 74, Australian politician, member of Victorian Legislative Assembly, father of Susan Renouf.[124]
- Renato Traiola, 63, Italian Olympic water polo player (1952).[125]
19
- Amelia Bayntun, 68, English actress (Blitz!, Carry On).
- Bridget Boland, 74, British screenwriter (War and Peace, Gaslight), playwright and novelist.[126]
- Cesare Brandi, 81, Italian art critic and historian.[127]
- Gladys Elphick, 83, Australian founding president of the Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia.[128]
- Yevgeny Mravinsky, 84, Russian conductor and pianist, heart attack.[129]
20
- Raymond Desonay, 89, Belgian Olympic diver (1920).[130]
- Paul Esser, 74, German actor (Sender Freies Berlin).
- Abdul Ghaffar Khan, 97, Pakistani independence activist, stroke.[131]
- Philippe de Rothschild, 85, French Grand Prix motor racing driver, screenwriter and playwright.[132]
- Dora Stratou, 84–85, Greek actress and choreographer.[133]
- James D. Theberge, 57, American diplomat, ambassador to Nicaragua and Chile, heart attack.[134]
- Robert Miles Todd, 90, American WWI flying ace.
21
- Jørgen Grave, 78, Norwegian politician.
- Vincent Lingiari, 79, Australian Aboriginal rights activist.[135]
- Werner Nachmann, 62, German politician, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, heart failure.[136]
- Abraham Sofaer, 91, Burmese-born British actor (Victoria Regina, A Matter of Life and Death), heart failure.[137]
- Zev Vilnay, 87, Moldovan-born Israeli geographer, author and lecturer.[138]
22
- Parker Fennelly, 96, American actor (The Trouble with Harry).[139]
- Nadia Russo, 86, Romanian military aviator during World War II.[140]
- Arnold Tholey, 84, French Olympic boxer (1924).[141]
23
- Bantcho Bantchevsky, 81, Bulgarian-born American singer, suicide.[142]
- Dan Daniel, 73, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1969–1988), heart attack.[143]
- Johnny Gee, 72, American Major League baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[144]
- Charles Glen King, 91, American biochemist (Vitamin C), heart failure.[145]
- Ann Rork Light, 79, American silent-screen actress, emphysema and lung cancer.[146]
- Vincent McMahon, 70, Australian cricketer.
- Hollingsworth Morse, 77, American television director.[147]
- Harry Sköld, 77, Swedish Olympic rower (1936).[148]
24
- Antônio Amaral Filho, 66, Brazilian Olympic swimmer (1936).[149]
- Lilli Andersen, 73, Danish Olympic swimmer (1932).[150]
- Anthony Courtney, 79, British Royal Navy officer and politician, Member of Parliament.[151]
- Werner Fenchel, 82, German-Danish mathematician (Fenchel's duality theorem).[152]
- Lorenzo Greene, 88, American historian of black history.[153]
- Trygve Nagell, 92, Norwegian mathematician (Diophantine equations).[154]
25
- Jurgis Baltrušaitis, 84, Lithuanian art historian and art critic.[155]
- 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.[156]
- Boris Kulagin, 63, Soviet ice hockey player and coach.
- Abrantes Mendes, 80, Portuguese footballer.
- Colleen Moore, 88, American silent-screen actress (Flaming Youth), cancer.[157]
26
- Raymond Charles Barker, 76, American author, leader of the New Thought spiritual movement, cerebral hemorrhage.[158]
- Pierre Bressinck, 81, Belgian Olympic wrestler (1928).[159]
- Allan Watt Downie, 86, Scottish microbiologist (eradication of smallpox).[160]
- Paul G. Goebel, 86, American NFL footballer (Columbus Panhandles) and politician (mayor of Grand Rapids).[161]
- K. P. Hormis, 70, Indian banker and lawyer (Federal Bank).[162]
- Gershon Iskowitz, 68, Polish-Canadian artist.[163]
- Calum MacLeod, 76, Scottish crofter who built Calum's Road on the Island of Raasay.[164]
- Hugh J. Schonfield, 86, British bible scholar.[165]
- Raymond Williams, 66, Welsh socialist writer and novelist.[166]
- Freddie Wolff, 77, British runner and Olympic gold medalist (1936).[167]
27
- Nils Bergström, 89, Swedish Olympic long-distance runner (1920).[168]
- Massa Makan Diabaté, 49, Malian historian, author and playwright (Le lieutenant de Kouta).[169]
- Kemal Faruki, 77, Turkish Olympic footballer (1928).[170]
- Edward Pawley, 86, American actor of radio, films and Broadway (Two Seconds, Elmer Gantry), heart condition.[171]
28
- Mark L. Booth, 76, American college football coach (Waynesburg).[172]
- Frederick Sumner Brackett, 91, American physicist (spectroscopy).[173]
- Roger De Koven, 80, American actor.[174]
- Klaus Fuchs, 76, German theoretical physicist and Soviet spy.[175]
- Émile Lecuirot, 80, French Olympic rower (1928, 1936).[176]
- Dick Pope Sr., 87, American founder of Cypress Gardens.[177]
- Al Rubeling, 74, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates).[178]
- Luska Twyman, 74, American politician, mayor of Glasgow, Kentucky.[179]
29
- Hilda Charlton, 81–82, English-born American professional dancer and spiritual teacher.[180]
- Howard Clewes, 75, English screenwriter and novelist (The Day They Robbed the Bank of England).[181]
- Mihiel Gilormini, 69, Puerto Rican U.S. Air Force officer in World War II.[182]
- Joseph Jaquenoud, 86–87, Swiss Olympic weightlifter (1924, 1928).[183]
- Max Jeffers, 58, Australian rules footballer.[184]
- James Rhyne Killian, 83, American president of MIT, chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.[185]
- Seth Neddermeyer, 80, American physicist, co-discovered the muon, worked on Manhattan Project, Parkinson's disease.[186]
- Rogier van Otterloo, 46, Dutch composer and conductor, mesothelioma.[187]
30
- Eddie Cano, 60, American jazz pianist and composer, heart attack.[188]
- Bum Day, 89, American college footballer (Georgia Bulldogs).
- Wallace Groves, 86, American financier and fraudster, stroke.[189]
- Robert Juday, 87, American Olympic high jumper (1924).[190]
- José Carlos de Lima, 32, Brazilian Olympic cyclist (1980).[191]
- S. K. Wankhede, 73, Indian cricket administrator, politician, Deputy speaker of Bombay Legislative Assembly.[192]
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.[193]
- Al Laney, 92, American sportswriter.[194]
- Harold Loeffelmacher, 81, American musician and bandleader.[195]
- Takuji Nakamura, 90, Japanese painter.[196]
- Ron Pavitt, 61, British Olympic high jumper (1948, 1952).[197]
- Agus Subekti, 67, Indonesian admiral, commander of the Indonesian Marine Corps, Vice Governor of West Irian.[198]
- 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.[199]
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