Deaths in July 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1987

1

• Mohamed Abou Habaga, 66, Egyptian Olympic footballer (1948).
• Kurt Lamm, 68, German-born American footballer, coach and manager, heart attack.^[1]
• Jerry Livingston, 78, American songwriter ("The Twelfth of Never") and dance orchestra pianist, heart condition.^[2]
• Edward Nesfield, 87, English cricketer.
• Bridget Sequeira, 81, Pakistani-Indian religious sister.
• Ted Sherman, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• Snakefinger, 38, English musician, singer and songwriter (The Residents), heart attack.
• Soetran, 66, Indonesian military officer and politician, Governor of Irian Jaya, liver cancer.
• Henrik Wiehe, 60, Danish film actor.

2

• Ćiril Ban, 76, Yugoslavian Olympic rower (1936).
• Michael Bennett, 44, American theatre director, writer and dancer, lymphoma.^[3]
• Bruce Boehler, 69, American basketball player.
• Helmut Brasch, 74, German actor.
• Václav Černý, 82, Czechoslovakian literary scholar, writer and philosopher.^[4]
• Lennart Dozzi, 77, Swedish Olympic canoeist (1936).
• Yacout El-Soury, Egyptian Olympic footballer (1928).
• Ellery Huntington Jr., 94, American college football player and coach (Colgate Raiders).
• Richard Kay, 50, British actor.
• Denis Larkin, 79, Irish politician (Teachta Dála, Lord Mayor of Dublin) and trade union official.^[5]
• Karl Linnas, 67, Estonian sentenced to death during the Holocaust trials, heart failure.^[6]
• Fred Mackey, 83, American college baseball and football player and coach.
• George B. Patton, 88, American jurist and politician, North Carolina Attorney General.
• Alick Stevens, 88, British RAF officer.
• George S. Wise, 81, American sociologist, president of Tel Aviv University, heart failure.^[7]

3

• Alfredo de Boer, 80, Brazilian Olympic rower (1936).
• Viola Dana, 90, American silent-screen actress (The Girl Without a Soul, Blue Jeans).^[8]
• John H. Mercer, 64, British glaciologist.^[9]
• William Wiard, 59, American film and television director, cancer.

4

• Edward Addison, 88, British Royal Air Force air vice marshal.^[10]
• Alexander Gordon-Lennox, 76, British Royal Navy rear admiral, president of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.^[11]
• Abdul Halim, 75, Indonesian politician, Prime Minister of Indonesia.
• Sally Hamlin, 84, American child actor and pianist.
• Dan James, 49, American NFL footballer (Pittsburgh Steelers).^[12]
• Michel Paccard, 78, French Olympic ice hockey player (1936).
• Bengt Strömgren, 79, Danish astronomer and astrophysicist (Strömgren sphere), heart failure.^[13]

5

• Phil Abramson, 54, American set decorator (Close Encounters of the Third Kind).
• Bobby Ancell, 76, Scottish international footballer and manager (St Mirren, Scotland).^[14]
• Karna Maria Birmingham, 86, Australian artist, illustrator and print maker ^[15]
• Alan Gibson, 49, Canadian film and television director (Churchill and the Generals, A Woman Called Golda).
• Einar Sandberg, 81, Norwegian footballer.
• Karel Steklý, 83, Czechoslovakian film director.

6

• Halvard Grude Forfang, 72, Norwegian educator.
• László Pusztai, 41, Hungarian international footballer (Ferencvárosi, Hungary), car accident.^[16]
• Elli Stenberg, 84, Finnish politician.^[17]

7

• Stan Brown, 89, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Giannino Bulzone, 76, Italian Olympic long-distance runner (1936).
• Finis Jennings Dake, 84, American Pentecostal minister, Parkinson's disease.^[18]
• Dino, 70, Brazilian footballer.
• William Dodge, 62, American Olympic bobsledder (1956).
• Michael J. Eagen, 80. American chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.^[19]
• René Gérard, 73, French international footballer (Montpellier, France).^[20]
• H. R. Jothipala, 51, Sri Lankan playback singer, liver failure.^[21]
• Ernest Achey Loftus, 103, British soldier and diarist.^[22]
• Josef Mach, 78, Czech film actor, director, and writer.
• John Meredith Rockingham, 75, Australian-born Canadian Army general.^[23]
• Hannelore Schroth, 65, German actress.
• John Singer, 63, English actor (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street).
• Ralph Stevenson, 70, American NFL player (Cleveland Rams).
• Howard Teichmann, 71, American Broadway playwright.
• Anthony Robert Temple, 60, Canadian lawyer and politician, member of the Canada House of Commons (1963-1965).
• Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, 84, Dutch-born French classical pianist.

8

• Boris Brechko, 76, Soviet Olympic rower (1952).
• George Burrows, 76, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1932).
• Lionel Chevrier, 84, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1935-1954, 1957-1963).
• Gerardo Diego, 90, Spanish poet, Generation of '27 member.^[24]
• Francis J. Gorman, 62, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1972-1987).
• Alvin O'Konski, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1943-1973), cardiac arrest.^[25]
• Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee, 87, Thai aviator, Royal Thai Air Force officer, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand.
• Franjo Wölfl, 69, Yugoslavian international footballer (Građanski Zagreb, Yugoslavia).^[26]

9

• Eduardo Fiestas, 62, Peruvian Olympic basketball player (1948).
• Michiyo Fukaya, 34, American feminist poet and activist, suicide.
• Nevil Hall, 71, South African Olympic wrestler (1936).
• Alex Kaleta, 67, Canadian NHL player (Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers).
• Ashley Kriel, 20, South African anti-apartheid activist, killed by police.^[27]
• Waris Mir, 48, Pakistani journalist and academic, cardiac arrest.^[28]
• Hezekiah Ochuka, 33, Kenyan private in the Kenyan Air Force, Kenyan leader for 6 hours, hanged.^[29]
• Paul Rapoport, 47, American lawyer, AIDS.^[30]
• Ulas Samchuk, 82, Ukrainian writer, journalist and anti-semite.^[31]
• Raymond Stasse, 74, Belgian Olympic fencer (1936, 1948).
• William McKenzie Thomson, 88, Canadian WWI flying ace.
• Ernest Ward, 66, English rugby league footballer (Bradford Northern, Great Britain).^[32]

10

• Inge Beeken, 66, Danish Olympic diver (1948).
• Doug Dobell, 69, British record store proprietor and record producer (77 Records), heart attack.
• John Hammond, 76, American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic, stroke.^[33]
• Gus Healy, 83, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
• Harold Rice, 75, American educator and magician.
• Tanya Zolotoroff Nash, 89, Russian-born American Deaf Rights activist.^[34]
• Ferenc Rákosi, 76, Hungarian Olympic handball player (1936).
• Marcel Vanco, 92, French footballer.

11

• Joe Bennett, 87, American MLB player (Philadelphia Phillies).^[35]
• Hannah Billig, 85, British medical doctor.^[36]
• Marion Brooks, 91, American silent-screen actress, entertainment journalist and screenwriter.
• Geoffrey Chance, 93, English cricketer.
• Freddie Crum, 74, American basketball player.
• Dorothy Davies, 87, New Zealand pianist and piano teacher.
• Van Davis, 65, American football player.
• Ville Mattila, 84, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (1928).
• Cyril McLaglen, 87, British and American film actor.
• Truman J. Nelson, 75–76, American novelist and essayist, civil rights activist, heart failure.^[37]
• Fernando Garcia Ponce, 53, Mexican architect and artist, heart attack.^[38]
• Avi Ran, 23, Israeli international footballer (Maccabi Haifa, Israel), hit by racing boat.^[39]
• Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, 87, Russian-born American Talmudic scholar and rabbi.^[40]
• Robert Love Taylor, 87, American district judge.^[41]
• Tom Waddell, 49, American physician, decathlete Olympian and founder of the Gay Olympics, AIDS.^[42]
• Jack Williams, 79, Australian rules footballer.

12

• Joseph Burns, 98, American MLB player.
• John Fitzgerald, 86, Australian rules footballer.
• Peter Gimbel, 60, American filmmaker and underwater photojournalist, cancer.^[43]
• Harold Goodwin, 84, American actor.
• Sir Archibald Hope, 17th Baronet, 75, Scottish aristocrat and aviator.
• Rudolf Lenz, 67, Austrian actor.
• Emilio el Moro, 63, Spanish Flamenco singer, guitarist and humorist.
• Nathan Perlmutter, 63–64, American executive director of the Anti-Defamation League, lung cancer.^[44]
• Marguerite Renoir, 80, French film editor.
• Hélio da Silva, 63, Brazilian Olympic athlete (1948).
• Andrei Snezhnevsky, 83, Soviet psychiatrist, lung cancer.
• Pat Wellington, 33, Australian rules footballer.

13

• Elemér von Barcza, 82, Hungarian Olympic equestrian (1936).
• Patience Collier, 76, British actress.^[45]
• Robert Francis, 85, American poet.^[46]
• Silas Jayne, 80, American horse trainer and murderer, leukemia.^[47]
• Khandadash Madatov, 62, Soviet Azerbaijani Olympic athlete (1952).
• Eric Worrell, 62, Australian naturalist and science writer, established Australian Reptile Park, heart attack.^[48]

14

• Salvador E. Felices, 63, Puerto Rican general in the U.S. Air Force.^[49]
• Bernard de Fombelle, 63, French Olympic equestrian (1956, 1960).
• Vern Hickey, 86, American collegiate coach and administrator.
• Fritz Holt, 46, American theatre producer and director (La Cage aux Folles), pneumonia.^[50]
• William Overton, 47, United States district judge, cancer.^[51]
• Sao Saimong, 73, Burmese government minister.
• William Stuart-Houston, 76, English-born American half-nephew of Adolf Hitler.^[52]
• Pak Yung-sun, 30, North Korean table tennis player, world champion.
• Viktor Zhdanov, 73, Soviet virologist and epidemiologist, instrumental in eradicating smallpox, cerebral hemorrhage.^[53]

15

• Lee Ballanfant, 91, American Major League baseball umpire.^[54]
• J. Rives Childs, 94, American diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, North Yemen and Ethiopia, pulmonary infection.^[55]
• Polly Elwes, 59, British BBC television in-vision announcer and reporter (Tonight), bone cancer.^[56]
• Lee Gaines, 73, American jazz singer and lyricist ("Take the A Train", "Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'"), cancer.^[57]
• Fernando Van Zeller Guedes, 84, Portuguese wine producer (Sogrape).^[58]
• Pete King, 28, British musician, testicular cancer.
• Mick McKeon, 63-64, Irish Olympic boxer (1948).
• Jack O'Hagan, 88, Australian singer, songwriter and radio personality ("Along the Road to Gundagai", "Our Don Bradman").^[59]
• Bill Ricks, 67, American baseball player.
• Margarete Schlegel, 87, German and British theatre and film actress and soprano operetta singer (Berlin-Alexanderplatz).

16

• Harry Ayres, 74, New Zealand mountaineer and guide, suspected suicide.
• Alfie Bass, 71, English actor, heart attack.
• Roald A. Hogenson, 74, American judge.
• Henry Kroger, 81, Australian cricketer.
• Pierre Lardinois, 62, Dutch politician and diplomat, member of the House of Representatives, cancer.^[60]
• Juraj Lupták, 45, Czechoslovakian rapist and serial killer, hanged.
• Rube Novotney, 62, American MLB player (Chicago Cubs).
• Rudolph Palumbo, 86, British property developer.
• Arthur Pilbrow, 85, British Olympic fencer (1936, 1948).
• Tony Tani, 69, Japanese entertainer, liver cancer.
• Cliff Wilton, 71, Scottish rugby union player, President of the Scottish Rugby Union.

17

• Oscar Andriani, 81, Italian actor and playwright.
• Marjorie Cottle, 86, English motorcycle trials rider.
• Dominick V. Daniels, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959-1977).^[61]
• Robert Desjarlais, 79, Canadian Olympic fencer (1948).
• Roy Evans, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• Jörg Fauser, 43, German writer, poet and journalist, hit by truck.^[62]
• Yūjirō Ishihara, 52, Japanese actor and singer, liver cancer.^[63]
• James Lytle, 86, American collegiate coach.
• Howard McGhee, 69, American bebop jazz trumpeter.^[64]
• Mathura Prasad Mishra, 69, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
• Kristjan Palusalu, 79, Estonian heavyweight wrestler and dual Olympic gold medalist.^[65]
• Leon B. Poullada, 74, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Togo, prostate cancer.^[66]

18

• Anthony Casamento, 66, American marine corporal, Medal of Honor recipient.^[67]
• George Dahl, 93, American architect, dehydration.^[68]
• Harry B. Davis, 93, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1934-1959).
• Gilberto Freyre, 87, Brazilian sociologist, writer and congressman, brain hemorrhage.^[69]
• Alfredo Ruano, 54, El Salvadoran international footballer (Alianza, El Salvador), heart attack.^[70]

19

• Clementina de Jesus, 86, Brazilian samba singer, stroke.^[71]
• Jane Kendeigh, 65, American flight nurse of the U.S. Navy.^[72]
• Bob Smith, 92, American MLB player.
• Aadhavan Sundaram, 45, Indian Tamil writer, drowned.
• Brij Lal Varma, 70–71, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha, cabinet minister.

20

• Ichirō Arishima, 71, Japanese comedian and actor (King Kong vs. Godzilla).
• Norbert Casteret, 89, French caver, adventurer and writer.
• Richard Egan, 65, American actor (The Glory Brigade, The Kid from Left Field), prostate cancer.^[73]
• Margit Johnsen, 74, Norwegian sailor in the merchant navy.^[74]
• Dmitry Lelyushenko, 85, Soviet army general, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Denis J. O'Sullivan, 69, Irish politician.
• Jim Ray, 53, American NBA player (Syracuse Nationals).
• Börje Strandvall, 78, Finnish Olympic sprinter (1936).
• Tom Winsett, 77, American MLB player.
• Alexander Wood, 80, Scottish American international footballer (Leicester City, United States).^[75]

21

• John Armstrong, 71, Irish Anglican bishop, Archbishop of Armagh.^[76]
• Curt Bergsten, 75, Swedish footballer.
• Donald Cressey, 68, American penologist, sociologist and criminologist, heart attack.^[77]
• Louis DaPron, 74, American dancer, choreographer and dance instructor, heart attack.^[78]
• Luigi Gilardi, 89, Italian Olympic cyclist (1920).
• Bert Keyes, 56, American pianist, songwriter and singer ("Love on a Two-Way Street").
• Stella Steyn, 79, Irish artist.^[79]
• Burke Trend, 73, British civil servant, rector of Lincoln College.^[80]
• Hughie Wise, 81, American MLB player (Detroit Tigers).
• Massabalala Yengwa, South African lawyer, anti-apartheid activist^[81]

22

• Adele Comandini, 89, American screenwriter (Three Smart Girls).
• Fahrettin Kerim Gökay, 87, Turkish politician and diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland.
• Eugene Halliday, 75, British artist and writer.
• Natalie Hinderas, 60, American pianist and composer, cancer.^[82]
• Mary Cover Jones, 89, American developmental psychologist, pioneer of behaviour therapy.^[83]
• Jack Lescoulie, 74, American radio and television announcer and host (Today), colon cancer.^[84]
• C. B. Macpherson, 75, Canadian political scientist.^[85]
• Don McMahon, 57, American Major League baseballer (Milwaukee Braves, San Francisco Giants), heart attack.^[86]
• Nick Perls, 55, American audio engineer, founder and owner of Yazoo Records and Blue Goose Records.
• Raja Shankar, 55, Indian actor.
• A. G. Kripal Singh, 53, Indian Test cricketer and national selector, cardiac arrest.^[87]
• Henry Tayali, 43, Zambian painter, sculptor and printmaker.

23

• James Bizzle, 67, American baseball player.
• DeVeren Bookwalter, 47, American actor and director (Cyrano de Bergerac), stomach cancer.^[88]
• Song Deok-gi, 94, Korean martial artist.
• Stuart Hay, 77, New Zealand sportsman.
• Art Jarrett, 80, American singer, actor and bandleader, pneumonia.
• Alex Sadkin, 38, American record producer and engineer, motor accident.^[89]
• Manuel Suárez y Suárez, 91, Spanish-born Mexican entrepreneur and patron of the arts (Casino de la Selva, Hotel de México).

24

• Anna-Eva Bergman, 78, Norwegian abstract expressionist artist.^[90]
• Franz Burri, 85, Swiss political figure, disseminator of Nazi propaganda.
• Pat Clancy, 68, Australian trade unionist, heart attack.^[91]
• Dick Wellstood, 59, American jazz pianist, heart attack.^[92]

25

• Malcolm Baldrige Jr., 64, American businessman, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1981-1987), rodeo accident.^[93]
• Charles Stark Draper, 85, American scientist and engineer, "father of inertial navigation".^[94]
• Werner Hamel, 76, German Olympic field hockey player (1936).
• Lydie Marland, 87, American first lady of Oklahoma.^[95]
• Tracy Read, 25, American race car driver, race crash.^[96]
• Tom Wade, 76, English cricketer.
• Mastin G. White, 86, American judge.

26

• Hamza Abdel Mawla, 63, Egyptian Olympic footballer (1952).
• Jim Bishop, 79, American journalist and author (The Day Lincoln Was Shot), respiratory failure.^[97]
• Chinmoy Chattopadhyay, 56, Indian singer.
• Phyllis Cilento, 93, Australian medical practitioner, advocate of family planning and promoter of racist beliefs.^[98]
• Frank Marshall Davis, 81, American journalist, poet and political activist, heart attack.^[99]
• Tawfiq al-Hakim, 88, Egyptian writer.^[100]
• Raymond Leboursier, 70, French film actor, director, and editor.
• Joe Liggins, 71, American R&B, jazz and blues pianist and vocalist, stroke.^[101]
• Carmelita Maracci, 79, American concert dancer and choreographer, heart attack.^[102]
• Kenneth Muse, 77, American animator (Tom and Jerry).^[103]
• George O'Day, 64, American Olympic sailor (1960).
• Mario Radice, 88, Italian painter
• Hugh Wheeler, 75, British-born American novelist, screenwriter and poet (Sweeney Todd).^[104]

27

• Fernando Brandolini, 55, Italian road cyclist.
• Harold A. Furlong, 91, American army officer, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Travis Jackson, 83, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants), Alzheimer's disease.^[105]
• Jan Mikusiński, 74, Polish mathematician (mathematical analysis).^[106]
• K. L. N. Prasad, 59, Indian politician, Rajya Sabha member.

28

• James Burnham, 81, American philosopher and political theorist, kidney and liver cancer.^[107]
• Feodor Fedorenko, 79, Soviet Nazi collaborator and war criminal, executed.^[108]
• Carlton Fredericks, 76, American radio commentator and writer on health and nutrition, heart attack.^[109]
• George Gulack, 82, American Olympic gymnast (1932).
• Jack Renshaw, 77, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales.^[110]
• Ismet Alajbegović Šerbo, 62, Bosnian accordionist, composer and writer of folk songs.
• Nguyễn Tuân, 77, Vietnamese author.
• Philip E. Vernon, 82, British-born Canadian psychologist and author.^[111]
• Levie Vorst, 83, Dutch rabbi of Rotterdam.

29

• Désiré Acket, 82, Belgian painter.
• Arthur J. Bressan Jr., 44, American director, writer and documentarian (Buddies), AIDS.^[112]
• Arthur Chipperfield, 81, Australian test cricketer.^[113]
• Aleksey Sukletin, 44, Soviet serial killer, rapist and cannibal, executed.^[114]

30

• Andrei Bărbulescu, 77, Romanian footballer and ice hockey player.
• Vicky Clement-Jones, 38, Hong Kong–born English physician and medical researcher, ovarian cancer.^[115]
• Lado Davidov, 62, Soviet soldier during the Second World War and Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Hec Fowler, 94, Canadian ice hockey player.
• McDonald Hobley, 70, British BBC Television continuity announcer, heart attack.^[116]
• Bernard Sta Maria, 42–43, Malaysian politician and author, member of Malacca State Legislative Assembly, bronchitis.
• Bráz Magaldi, 90, Brazilian Olympic sports shooter (1932).
• Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, 92, Indian Bengali language author.
• John Sheffield, 77, British army officer and Olympic hurdler (1936).
• Narciso Soldan, 59, Italian footballer (AC Milan, Torino FC).
• Michel Tapié, 78, French art critic, curator, and collector.

31

• Kenneth Carllile, 56, American country music guitarist and songwriter, heart attack.
• Joseph E. Levine, 81, American film distributor, financier and producer (Godzilla, King of the Monsters!).^[117]
• Aleksandar Petrović, 72, Yugoslavian football player, manager, and Olympian (1948).
• Justine W. Polier, 84, American lawyer, first woman Justice in New York.^[118]
• Reuben Reid, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• Michael Staniforth, 44, British actor (Rentaghost), AIDS.^[119]
• Paul Yakabuski, 64, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, head injuries from fall.^[120]

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• Sari Maritza, 77, Chinese-born British film actress.^[121]
• Joe Mondragon, 67, American jazz bassist.
• Hugh Perceval, 79, British screenwriter and film producer.