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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
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June 1987
1
- Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, 72, Indian film director, novelist and journalist.
- Emiliano Álvarez, 74, Spanish cyclist.
- Fernando Armiñán, 60, Spanish Olympic alpine skier (1948).
- Errol Barrow, 67, Caribbean statesman, Prime Minister of Barbados.[1]
- Francis B. Burch, 68, American politician, Attorney General of Maryland, cancer.[2]
- Georg Friedel, 73, German footballer.
- Rashid Karami, 65, Lebanese statesman, Prime Minister of Lebanon, assassinated.[3]
2
- Georges Doriot, 87, French-born American businessman, founded American Research and Development Corporation, cancer.[4]
- Klaus Gamber, 70, German Catholic liturgist.
- Sammy Kaye, 77, American bandleader and songwriter ("Blueberry Hill", "Harbour Lights"), cancer.[5]
- Henry Palmé, 79, Swedish Olympic marathon runner (1936).
- François Perroux, 83, French economist, professor at the Collège de France.[6]
- Sebastiaan Matheus Sigismund de Ranitz, 86, Dutch jurist and Nazi collaborator.[7]
- Andrés Segovia, 94, Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist, heart attack.[8]
3
- Bruno Bernard, 75, American photographer known for pin-up photography of Marilyn Monroe, cancer.[9]
- Jackie Fields, 79, American professional boxer, world welterweight champion.[10]
- Noel Peter Fox, 76, American district judge (United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan).
- Curt McDowell, 42, American underground filmmaker, AIDS.[11]
- Malcolm McLeod, 73, American law enforcement officer, Sheriff of Robeson County, North Carolina, heart attack.[12]
- Alan Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 52, British landowner and hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords.[13]
- Will Sampson, 53, American actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), kidney failure.[14]
- Herbert Schultze, 77, German submarine commander during World War II.
4
- Maurizio Vitale Cesa, 41, Italian entrepreneur and sportswear inventor, AIDS.[15]
- Ann Evers, 71, American film actress.
- Noel Guillen, 60, Trinidadian cricketer.[16]
- Giovanni Kasebacher, 76, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (1936).
- Dean Moon, 60, American automobile designer.[17]
- Lionelo Patiño, 67, Peruvian Olympic athlete (1948).
5
- Joe Bradley, 58, American NBA player.
- Mansel Carter, 85, American businessman and prospector, cancer.
- Carlos de la Guerra, 74, Peruvian Olympic athlete (1936).
- Kenneth McLean, 90, British army officer.
- Vasant Kumar Pandit, 66, Indian politician, member of parliament.
- Aleksander Szenajch, 82, Polish Olympic sprinter (1924).
6
- Alexander Altmann, 81, Austro-Hungarian–born American Orthodox Jewish scholar and rabbi.[18]
- Burhan Atak, 82, Turkish Olympic footballer (1928).
- Harry Clapson, 92, Australian rules footballer.
- Colin Colahan, 90, Australian painter and sculptor.[19]
- Dmitri Klebanov, 79, Soviet Ukrainian composer.
- Barney Koch, 64, American MLB player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
- Fulton Mackay, 64, Scottish actor and playwright, stomach cancer.[20]
- Mari Mori, 84, Japanese author, heart failure.[21]
- Richard Münch, 71, German actor.
- Eduard Petiška, 63, Czechoslovakian writer.
- Aneesur Rahman, 59, Indian-born American physicist (molecular dynamics).[22]
- Dragan Sotirović, 74, Serbian-born major in the Yugoslavian army.
7
- István Adorján, 73, Hungarian Olympic cyclist (1936).
- John Blofeld, 74, British writer on Asian thought and religion, cancer.[23]
- Shosei Go, 70, Taiwanese baseballer who played in Japan (Mainichi Orions, Tokyo Giants).[24]
- Pedro Lonchibuco, 66-67, Argentine Olympic gymnast (1948).
- Hashimoto Mantaro, 54, Japanese sinologist and linguist.[25]
- Herbert M. Seneviratne, 61, Sri Lankan lyricist and actor.[26]
- Cahit Zarifoğlu, 46, Turkish poet and writer.[27]
8
- Jimmy Darrow, 49, American NBA player (St. Louis Hawks).
- Gary Driscoll, 41, American R&B-style drummer, murdered.[28]
- Jean Elichagaray, 100, French Olympic rower (1912).
- George Finey, 92, Australian newspaper artist.[29]
- Yogi Horton, 33, American R&B, funk, jazz and rock drummer, suicide.
- Alexander Iolas, 79, Egyptian-born American art gallerist, AIDS.[30]
- Gregorio López, 35, Spanish Olympic handball player (1980).
- Daniel Mandell, 91, American film editor.[31]
- Jacques Fred Petrus, 39, West Indian–born businessman and a pioneer of post-disco music, murdered.
- Reginald Teagle, 78, Australian cricketer.
9
- Kenneth Althaus, 91, American brigadier general in the U.S. Army.[32]
- Raya Dunayevskaya, 77, Russian-born American philosopher, founder of Marxist humanism in the United States.[33]
- Monique Haas, 77, French pianist.[34]
- Gustaf Håkansson, 101, Swedish cyclist who cycled the length of Sweden in a race at age 66.[35]
- Louis Van Iersel, 93, American sergeant in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient.[36]
- Madge Kennedy, 96, American actress, respiratory failure.[37]
- António Reymão Nogueira, 77, Portuguese Olympic equestrian (1952, 1960).
- Les Patton, 71, Australian rules footballer.
- Grandon Rhodes, 82, American actor.[38]
- Wilhelm Runge, 91, German electrical engineer and physicist (radar).
10
- Daud Beureueh, 87, Indonesian military governor of Aceh.[39]
- Shamraj Bhalerao, 88, Indian noble.
- August Eskelinen, 88, Finnish Olympic biathlete (1924).
- Gordon Fox Rule, 88, Brazilian-born English WWI flying ace.
- Elizabeth Hartman, 43, American actress (A Patch of Blue, You're a Big Boy Now).[40]
- Jeevan, 71, Indian actor.
- Alain Montpetit, 36, Canadian television and radio personality and actor, overdose.
- Paul Rekers, 78, American Olympic long-distance runner (1932).
- Nikolay Skorobogatov, 63, Soviet film actor.
- Harris Kenneth Wangelin, 74, American district judge.
- Booty Wood, 67, American jazz trombonist.[41]
11
- Ralph Guldahl, 75, American professional golfer, heart attack.[42]
- Charles Laverne, 83, French Olympic sailor (1928).
- Aleksandr Lokshin, 66, Soviet composer of classical music.
- Enrique del Moral, 82, Mexican architect.
- Álvaro Vieira Pinto, 77, Brazilian philosopher and translator.
- B. S. Madhava Rao, 87, Indian mathematician and physicist.
- Joseph Salas, 81, American Olympic boxer (1924).
- Dan Vadis, 49, American actor (The Triumph of Hercules), overdose.
12
- Tuvia Bielski, 81, Belarusian militant, leader of the Bielski group.[43]
- Carlo Boscarato, 61, Italian cartoonist and comics artist.
- Olive Cooper, 94, American screenwriter.
- Luis Duggan, 81, Argentine Olympic polo player (1936).
- Bill Edwards, 81, American NFL coach (Detroit Lions).[44]
- Gradim, 78, Brazilian footballer and manager.
- Paul Janes, 75, German international footballer (Fortuna Düsseldorf, Germany).[45]
- C. F. Russell, 90, American occultist.
- Apostol Sokolov, 69, Bulgarian international footballer (Levski Sofia, Bulgaria).[46]
- Józef Tusk, 80, Polish luthier, grandfather of Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk.
13
- Huck Betts, 90, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Phillies).[47]
- Vera Caspary, 87, American screenwriter, novelist and playwright, stroke.[48]
- Gerald Foster, 86, American painter.
- Bernard Hesling, 82, British-born Australian muralist and painter.[49]
- Johnny High, 30, American NBA basketballer (Phoenix Suns), car accident.[50]
- Kanam E. J., 61, Indian novelist, short story writer and lyricist.
- Heinz Kloss, 82, German linguist.[51]
- Pentti Kontula, 56, Finnish Olympic boxer (1952).
- Cemil Meriç, 70, Turkish writer and translator.[52]
- Geraldine Page, 62, American actress (The Trip to Bountiful, Hondo, Summer and Smoke), heart attack.[53]
- Giulio Panicali, 88, Italian actor.
- Annie Villiger, 73, Swiss Olympic diver (1936).
14
- Stanisław Bareja, 57, Polish filmmaker (Teddy Bear).
- Isaac Barrientos, 21, Puerto Rican Olympic boxer (1984).
- Curt Boettcher, 43, American musician and record producer, heart attack.[54]
- Sean Daly, 54, Irish Olympic equestrian (1960).
- Kline Gilbert, 56, American NFL player (Chicago Bears).
- Les Favell, 57, Australian test cricketer.[55]
- Burhanuddin Harahap, 70, Indonesian politician and lawyer, Prime Minister of Indonesia, heart attack.[56]
- Grace Madden, 75, American Olympic pair skater (1936).
- Franco Mignini, 65, Venezuelan Olympic sports shooter (1956).
- Ester Roeck-Hansen, 89, Swedish film and stage actress.
15
- Walter Heller, 71, American economist, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, heart attack.[57]
- J. M. Johnson, 75, Nigerian politician and Federal Cabinet Minister.
- George Smith, 49, American MLB player.
- Schoolboy Johnny Taylor, 71, American baseball player.
- Don White, 68, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics).
16
- Marguerite de Angeli, 98, American writer and illustrator of children's books (The Door in the Wall).[58]
- June Knight, 74, American actress and singer, stroke.[59]
- Inga-Britt Lorentzon, 51, Swedish Olympic high jumper (1960).
- Wandjuk Marika, 56–57, Aboriginal Australian painter, actor and indigenous land rights activist.[60]
- John Mikaelsson, 73, Swedish Olympic race walker (1948, 1952).
- Aage Myhrvold, 68, Norwegian Olympic cyclist (1948).
- Mangal Singh, 95, Indian politician and legislator, member of Central Legislative Assembly.
- Kōji Tsuruta, 62, Japanese actor and singer, lung cancer.
- Kid Thomas Valentine, 91, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.[61]
17
- Fabio Battesini, 75, Italian road bicycle racer.
- Simon Bon, 83, Dutch Olympic rower (1924, 1928).
- Dick Howser, 51, American Major League baseballer and manager (Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Royals), brain tumour.[62]
- Yasuo Haruyama, 81, Japanese footballer.
- Jack M. Poorbaugh, 67, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1967-1976).
18
- Oluf Berntsen, 95, Danish Olympic fencer (1912).
- Raymond Caesar, 55, American prelate.
- Harold F. Cherniss, 83, American classicist and historian of ancient philosophy.[63]
- Jeanne Grendel, 74, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1928).
- William Kemmey, 74, English cricketer.
- Jay Lawrence, 63, American stand-up comedian and actor.[64]
- Bruce Marshall, 87, Scottish writer (Father Malachy's Miracle).[65]
- Georgy Nissky, 84, Soviet painter.[66]
- Art Spector, 66, American NBA basketballer (Boston Celtics).[67]
19
- C. R. Cheney, 80, English medieval historian.[68]
- Teresa Cormack, 6, New Zealand murder victim.
- Ian Donald, 76, English physician, pioneered diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics.[69]
- Ingemund Fænn, 79, Norwegian newspaper editor.
- Joseph Schwab, 26, German spree killer in Australia, shot by police.[70]
- Pearl Vasudevi, 72, Sri Lankan actress.[71]
20
- Salim Ali, 90, Indian ornithologist and naturalist, prostate cancer.[72]
- Frederic B. Butler, 90, American general in the U.S. Army.[73]
- Knut Hoem, 63, Norwegian politician.
- Knut Johansson, 84, Swedish footballer.
- Leonid Kharitonov, 57, Soviet actor, stroke.
- Fred Laidman, 74, English footballer.
- Howard Maley, 65, American NFL player.
- Hiro Saga, 73, Japanese noblewoman and memoir writer.
21
- Erik Bisgaard, 97, Danish Olympic rower (1912).
- Mariano Cañardo, 81, Spanish road racing cyclist.
- Abram Chasins, 83, American composer, pianist and author, cancer.[74]
- Eastman Jacobs, 84–85, American aerodynamicist.[75]
- Madman Muntz, 73, American businessman, engineer and car salesman, lung cancer.[76]
- Kyril Vassilev, 79, Bulgarian-born American portrait painter, heart attack.[77]
- Phil Weintraub, 79, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants), heart attack.[78]
22
- Nicholas Alkemade, 64, British tail gunner in the R.A.F. during World War II, survived freefall of 5.5 km.[79]
- Fred Astaire, 88, American actor, singer and dancer (Funny Face, The Towering Inferno), pneumonia.[80]
- Mao Bangchu, 83, Chinese army general.[81]
- August Bivec, 77, Yugoslavian footballer and coach.
- Percy Chalmers, 91, Australian rules footballer.
- Dom Fucci, 58, American NFL player (Detroit Lions).
- Rudolf Haidegger, 63, Austrian Olympic sprinter (1952).
- John Hewitt, 79, Northern Irish poet.[82]
- Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali, 94, Moroccan Salafi.
- Joseph Meyer, 93, American songwriter ("California, Here I Come"; "If You Knew Susie").
- Robert N. C. Nix Sr., 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1958-1979), cardiac arrest.[83]
- Frank Rehak, 60, American jazz trombonist, throat cancer.
23
- Holmes Baldridge, 84, American attorney.
- Sauveur Ducazeaux, 76, French road bicycle racer.
- Adrienne Gessner, 90, Austrian actress.[84]
- Tito Lara, 54, Puerto Rican singer.
- Jan de Looper, 73, Dutch Olympic field hockey player (1936).
- John James Smith, 75, Canadian politician, member of the Canada House of Commons (1949-1953).
- Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, 90, British peeress, niece of Queen Mary.[85]
- Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo, 86, Indonesian founder of the Subud movement.[86]
- Anthony Tew, 78, English cricketer.
24
- Linc Chamberland, 46, American jazz guitarist, leukemia.
- Jackie Gleason, 71, American actor and comedian (The Hustler, Smokey and the Bandit), cancer.[87]
- Lofty Herman, 79, English cricketer.
- Hines Johnson, 76, Jamaican Test cricketer for the West Indies.[88]
- Tiny Mills, 74, Canadian professional wrestler.
- Fred Newman, 45, American MLB player (Los Angeles Angels).
25
- Leiv Amundsen, 89, Norwegian librarian and philologist.
- John Ness Beck, 56, American composer and arranger of choral music, cancer.
- Boudleaux Bryant, 67, half of American husband-and-wife songwriting team ("Love Hurts", "Wake Up Little Susie"), cancer.[89]
- Carl Huisken, 84, Dutch Olympic sailor (1928).
- Nibaran Chandra Laskar, 85, Indian singer and politician, member of parliament.[90]
- Tony Skyrme, 64, British physicist, embolism.[91]
26
- Jay Avrea, 66, American MLB player (Cincinnati Reds).
- Henk Badings, 80, Indonesian-born Dutch composer.[92]
- Arthur F. Burns, 83, Austro-Hungarian–born American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, heart surgery.[93]
- Mopsy Fraser, 64, Australian rules footballer.
- Glen Hall, 49, South African cricketer.
- George Johnson, 74, American jazz reedist.
- Cully Lidberg, 86, American NFL player (Green Bay Packers).
- Wayne Meylan, 41, American NFL footballer (Cleveland Browns), plane crash.[94]
- Richard Pim, 86, British civil servant and naval officer.[95]
- Gerhard Wagner, 88, German naval rear admiral.[96]
- Tony Webster, 65, American screenwriter, esophageal cancer.[97]
27
- Ratomir Dugonjić, 71, Yugoslavian politician and ambassador, president of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Althea Flynt, 33, American co-publisher of Hustler magazine, wife of Larry Flynt, drowning after overdose.[98]
- Doris Grimes, 78, British Olympic diver (1928).
- György Kiss, 51, Hungarian Olympic long-distance runner (1968).
- Pat McGuigan, 52, Irish singer.
- Donald Nixon, 72, American brother of U.S. President Richard Nixon, pneumonia.[99]
- František Šafránek, 56, Czechoslovakian international footballer (Dukla Prague, Czechoslovakia), heart failure.[100]
- W. Horace Schmidlapp, 71, American investment banker and Broadway producer, husband of Carole Landis.[101]
- Billy Snedden, 60, Australian politician, speaker of the House of Representatives, Leader of the Opposition, heart attack.[102]
28
- Gajananrao Joshi, 76, Indian vocalist and violinist.
- Emrys Lloyd, 81, British Olympic fencer (1932, 1936, 1948, 1952).
- Bill Schuster, 74, American MLB player.
- Jim Taylor, 86, Australian-born Papua New Guinean explorer, pneumonia.[103]
29
- Elizabeth Cotten, 94, American folk and blues musician.[104]
- C. Hamilton Ellis, 78, English railway writer and painter.[105]
- Antonio Janni, 82, Italian football manager and international player (Torino, Italy), Olympic medalist.[106]
- Erik Jensen, 65, Danish Olympic boxer (1948).
- Ērihs Pētersons, 77, Latvian international footballer (RFK Riga, Latvia) and ice hockey player (Latvia).
- Murray Sanders, 77, American physician and military officer, biological warfare pioneer in World War II.[107]
- Shmuel Tamir, 64, Israeli independence fighter and lawyer.[108]
30
- Ramani Bartholomeusz, 20, Sri Lankan actress and model, Miss Sri Lanka 1985, pushed out of moving car.[109]
- King Donovan, 69, American actor and director, cancer.[110]
- Maurice Geraghty, 78, American screenwriter, film director and producer.
- Li Hanhun, 91, Chinese army general.
- Federico Mompou, 94, Spanish composer and pianist, respiratory failure.[111]
- Thor Thorvaldsen, 78, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1936, 1948, 1952, 1956).
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- Glen Daly, 66–67, Scottish singer and entertainer ("The Celtic Song").[112]
- John J. Reynolds, 97, American Olympic marathoner.[113]
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