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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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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June 1988
1
- Belve Bean, 83, American MLB player (Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators).
- Leon Belasco, 85, Russian-American actor (My Sister Eileen) and musician.[1]
- Tessa Davies, 47-48, English set decorator (Yentl).
- Herbert Feigl, 85, Austrian-American philosopher (nomological danglers), cancer.[2]
- Luis Franco, 89, Argentinian essayist and poet.[3]
- Peter Hurkos, 77, Dutch-American who claimed psychic powers, heart attack.[4]
- Ricky May, 44, New Zealand-born Australian jazz singer and musician, heart attack.[5]
- Victor Willing, 60, British painter of nudes, multiple sclerosis.[6]
2
- Iosif Grigulevich, 75, Soviet secret police operative.[7]
- Fred Halstead, 61, American Socialist Workers Party candidate for President of the United States, liver cancer.[8]
- Horace Hildreth, 85, American politician and diplomat, ambassador to Pakistan, heart attack.[9]
- Raj Kapoor, 63, Indian actor, producer and director (Awaara), asthma.[10]
- Annette Poivre, 70, French stage and film actress.
- Nigel Tangye, 79, British airman, novelist and journalist, worked for MI5.[11]
- Eero Tuomaala, 61, Finnish Olympic long-distance runner (1952).
3
- Alexandre Bennigsen, 75, Soviet scholar of Islam.[12]
- Kitty Canutt, 88, American professional bronc rider.
- Lawrence Coombes, 89, British-Australian aeronautical engineer and WWI flying ace.
- William Englefield, 70, Australian cricketer.
- Tommy Fields, 79, British actor, variety entertainer, and music hall performer.
- Anna Mahler, 85, Austrian-born English sculptor, daughter of Gustav Mahler.[13]
- Davey Moore, 28, American professional boxer, asphyxia from being pinned under vehicle.[14]
- Jessica Nelson North, 96, American writer and poet.[15]
- Brian Spencer, 38, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders), shot in robbery.[16]
- Arie Vooren, 65, Dutch racing cyclist.
- Carl Wagener, 86, Nazi German army general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.[17]
4
- Majnun Gorakhpuri, 84, Pakistani short story writer, poet and literary critic.[18]
- Floyd Miller, 76, American member of the Communist Party USA.[19]
- Douglas Nicholls, 81, Australian pastor, campaigner for aboriginal reconciliation, Governor of South Australia.[20]
- Renzo Palmer, 57, Italian film, television and stage actor, cancer.[21]
- Allan Reuss, 72, American jazz guitarist and composer ("More and More").[22]
5
- Michael Barrington, 63, British actor (Porridge, Edward the Seventh), heart attack.
- Robert Dudley Edwards, 79, Irish historian.[23]
- James H. Gildea, 97, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1935-1939).
- Josef Lebeda, 76, Austrian footballer.
- Alberto Martijena, 81, Argentine Olympic sports shooter (1956).
- Vilim Messner, 84, Yugoslavian Olympic javelin thrower (1928).
- Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., 57, American chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, heart attack.[24]
- Roland Ritchie, 77, Canadian lawyer and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.[25]
- Dan Webster, 76, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
6
- Thomas DiBella, 82, American mobster of the Colombo crime family.
- Gheorghe Eminescu, 98, Romanian historian, respiratory infection.
- Chandra Fernando, 46, Sri Lankan priest, assassinated.[26]
- John Jordan, 58, Irish poet and short-story writer.[27]
- Jacques Le Roy Ladurie, 86, French politician, Minister of Agriculture, member of the French Resistance.[28]
- Lê Thị Lựu, 77, Vietnamese painter.
- Jacques Ledoux, 66–67, Belgian cinema specialist, curator of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium.[29]
- Joe Partridge, 55, Rhodesian cricketer (South Africa).[30]
7
- Paavo Hukkinen, 76, German-Finnish actor.
- Martin Sommer, 73, Nazi German SS Hauptscharführer, the "Hangman of Buchenwald".[31]
- Vernon Washington, 64, American actor (The Last Starfighter, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning).[32]
- William H. Wood, 87, American football player and coach (Army Cadets).
8
- Walt Chipple, 69, American MLB player (Washington Senators).
- Russell Harty, 53, English television talk show host, liver failure caused by hepatitis.[33]
- Yvonne Hubert, 93, Belgian-born Canadian pianist.[34]
- Roger Lyndon, 70, American mathematician (Lyndon words, Craig-Lyndon interpolation).[35]
- Eli Mintz, 83, Austro-Hungarian–born American actor (All My Children), pneumonia.[36]
- Philippe Nguyễn Kim Điền, 67, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Huế.[37]
- Chuck Roberson, 69, American actor and stuntman, cancer.[38]
9
- Newt Allen, 87, American Negro League baseballer (Kansas City Monarchs).[39]
- Eric Cormack, 83, Australian rules footballer.
- Leon Falk Jr., 86, American steel company executive (Falk Laboratory School), stroke.[40]
- Karl Kraus, 50, German theoretical physicist (quantum mechanics), cancer.[41]
- Cyril Magnin, 88, American businessman, chief executive of Joseph Magnin, cardiac failure.[42]
10
- Byron G. Allen, 86, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives.[43]
- Arthur Gary Bishop, 35, American convicted sex offender and serial killer, executed.[44]
- Rudolph Dunbar, 80, Guyanese conductor, clarinetist and composer, cancer.[45]
- Louis L'Amour, 80, American novelist (Last of the Breed, Shalako), lung cancer (non-smoker).[46]
- Willie Ross, 77, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland, cancer.[47]
- Henryk Stażewski, 94, Polish painter, visual artist and writer.[48]
- Josep Tarradellas, 89, Spanish politician, President of the Government of Catalonia, chronic lung ailment.[49]
11
- Mike Clancy (Christopher J. Clancy), 63, American professional wrestler, NWA World Junior Heavyweight champion.[50]
- Nathan Cook, 38, American actor (Hotel), allergic reaction to penicillin.[51]
- Ernani Cuenco, 52, Filipino composer, film scorer and musical director (Bato sa Buhangin).[52]
- Christine Fabréga, 57, French actress and television personality.[53]
- Lee Priester, 85, American Olympic javelin thrower (1924).
- János Reznák, 57, Hungarian Olympic wrestler (1960, 1964).
- Giuseppe Saragat, 89, Italian politician, President of Italy, heart disease.[54]
- Marianne Van Hirtum, 52, Belgian author.[55]
12
- Eugenie Baird, 64, American singer.[56]
- Harold Corbin, 81, American Olympic fencer (1932).
- William Reginald Cox, 82, British army officer.
- Georg Hochgesang, 90, German footballer and manager.
- Marcel Poot, 87, Belgian composer, professor and musician.[57]
- Merle Settlemire, 85, American MLB player (Boston Red Sox).
13
- Cecil Booth, 92, English cricketer.
- Martin Brown, 88, Australian rules footballer.
- Lucien Cardin, 69, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1952-1967).
- Meg Lemonnier, 83, British-born French singer and film actress.
- Thomas McKeown, 75, British physician.[58]
- Douglas Neame, 86, British Olympic hurdler (1928).
- Robert Saint-Pé, 88, French Olympic hammer thrower (1924).
- Walter Seabrook, 84, English cricketer.
- Emil Telmányi, 95, Hungarian violinist.[59]
- Ricardo Vagnotti, 71, Brazilian Olympic fencer (1936).
14
- Robert R. Barry, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959-1965), lung cancer.[60]
- James Chandler, 76, American actor.[61]
- Johnny Farrell, 87, American golfer, U.S. Open winner, stroke.[62]
- Sara Gallardo, 56, Argentinian author and journalist, asthma.[63]
- Alma Lloyd, 74, American actress (If I Were King, Song of the Saddle, The Big Noise).
15
- Frank A. Beach, 77, American ethologist and author (behavioral endocrinology).[64]
- Hall Haynes, 59, American NFL player (Washington Redskins, Los Angeles Rams).
- Merwin Hodel, 57, American NFL player (New York Giants).
- Floyd J. McCree, 65, American politician, mayor of the city of Flint, Michigan, cardiac arrest.[65]
- Oskar Ospelt, 79, Liechtenstein Olympic athlete (1936).
- Robert Seymour, 33, Northern Irish loyalist, shot by I.R.A.[66]
- Willie Velasquez, 44, American social activist, founded the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, kidney cancer.[67]
- Clement Vismara, 90, Italian Roman Catholic priest and missionary.[68]
- George Ward, 80, British politician, Secretary of State for Air.[69]
- Hugh Willingham, 82, American MLB player (Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies).
16
- Per-Olof Edfeldt, 73, Swedish Olympic sprinter (1936).
- Kim Milford, 37, American actor (The Rocky Horror Show, Jesus Christ Superstar), complications following open heart surgery.[70]
- Andrea Pazienza, 32, Italian comics artist and painter, heroin overdose.[71]
- Miguel Piñero, 41, Puerto Rican–born American playwright and actor (Short Eyes), cirrhosis.[72]
- Wojciech Trojanowski, 83, Polish Olympic hurdler (1928).
17
- Brian Baronet, 27, South African professional boxer, complications from knock out.[73]
- František Čapek, 73, Czechoslovakian Olympic sports shooter (1952, 1956).
- Cyril Crawford, 86, New Zealand cricketer.
- Elizabeth Lane, 82, English barrister and judge (High Court).[74]
- Ed Montague, 82, American MLB player (Cleveland Indians).
18
- Archie Cochrane, 79, Scottish physician (randomized controlled trial).[75]
- Valdemar Aguirre Cordova, 65, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Arizona).
- Elizabeth Gardner, 30, British theoretical physicist (Gardner transition), cancer.[76]
- Prince Kan'in Haruhito, 85, Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army.[77]
- Kjell Kleppe, 53, Norwegian biochemist and molecular biologist (PCR).[78]
- John Knott, 87, English cricketer.
- Wilford Leach, 58, American director and screenwriter (The Pirates of Penzance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood), cancer.[79]
- Sallie Martin, 92, American gospel singer.[80]
- E. Hoffmann Price, 89, American writer of popular fiction (Through the Gates of the Silver Key).[81]
- Iasyr Shivaza, 82, Soviet poet and writer.[82]
19
- Harold Ade, 76, American Olympic cyclist (1932).
- M. Ajmal, 78, Indian-born Pakistani actor (Heer Ranjha).
- Oscar Hirsh Davis, 74, American judge (United States Court of Claims, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit).
- Alice DeCambra, 66, American AAGPBL player.
- Marco Donat-Cattin, 34, Italian terrorist (Prima Linea), pedestrian road accident.[83]
- William Harold Hutt, 88, English economist, stroke.[84]
- Marie Logoreci, 67, Albanian actress (The Great Warrior Skanderbeg).
- Teru Shimada, 82, Japanese-born American actor (You Only Live Twice).[85]
- Gladys Spellman, 70, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1975-1981), complications from coma.[86]
- Aaly Tokombaev, 83, Kyrgyz poet, composer and novelist.[87]
20
- Aracy de Almeida, 73, Brazilian singer, heart attack.[88]
- Alex Bein, 85, German-born Israeli Jewish historian and zionist historiographer (biography of Theodor Herzl).[89]
- Alfred Renard, 93, Belgian aviator, hit by car.
- Robert Yellowtail, 98, American leader of the Crow Nation.[90]
21
- Bobby Dodd, 79, American college football player and coach (Georgia Tech), lung cancer.[91]
- John Duncan Sr., 69, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1965-1988), cancer.[92]
- George Ivașcu, 76, Romanian journalist and communist militant, heart attack exacerbated by pneumonia.
- Leo Leino, 88, Finnish Olympic pentathlete (1924).
- Ed Linke, 76, American MLB player (Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns).
- Pedrito Rico, 55, Spanish singer, dancer and actor.[93]
- Sverre Riisnæs, 90, Norwegian jurist and public prosecutor, member of Nasjonal Samling in World War II.
- Jean-Léo Rochon, 85, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1972).
- T. E. Utley, 67, British journalist and writer (The Daily Telegraph).[94]
22
- Jesse Ed Davis, 43, American guitarist, drug overdose.[95]
- Dennis Day, 72, American actor, comedian and singer (The Jack Benny Program), brain bleed.[96]
- Hank Edwards, 69, American Major League baseballer (Cleveland Indians).[97]
- Bramwell Fletcher, 84, English actor (Svengali).[98]
- Rose Franken, 92, American writer and playwright (Claudia).[99]
- Pieter Grobbelaar, 79, South African military commander, Commandant General of South African Defence Force.
- Hugh Hibbert, 94, British army officer.
- Bhadant Anand Kausalyayan, 83, Indian Buddhist monk.[100]
- Jep Lacoste, 66, French rugby league coach.
- H. S. Lee, 87, Malaysian politician, minister of Finance and Transport.[101]
- Leonard Matlovich, 44, American Vietnam War veteran, first gay service member to out himself to military, HIV.[102]
- Howard Mitchell, 77, American cellist and conductor (National Symphony Orchestra), heart failure.[103]
- Stuart Randall, 78, American actor (Cimarron City, Laramie).[104]
- Russell Trabue, 88, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
- Xiao Jun, 80, Chinese author.[105]
23
- Charles Corrigan, 72, Canadian NHL player (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Americans).
- Viola Gentry, 93–94, American aviator.[106]
- Albert C. Johnston, 87, American doctor and writer who tried to pass as white.[107]
- Liang Shuming, 94, Chinese philosopher, politician and writer.[108]
- Henry Murray, 95, American psychologist (Thematic Apperception Test), pneumonia.[109]
- Heinz Pagels, 49, American physicist and author, president of the International League for Human Rights, mountain climbing accident.[110]
24
- Marta Abba, 87, Italian actress, cerebral haemorrhage.[111]
- Bùi Xuân Phái, 67, Vietnamese painter.[112]
- Mihai Beniuc, 80, Romanian poet, dramatist and novelist, president of the Writers' Union of Romania.[113]
- Lars Berg, 72, Swedish Olympic sports shooter (1948).
- Roberto Cueva del Río, 80, Mexican muralist, domestic accident.
- Knut Ellingsrud, 85, Norwegian footballer.
- Jimmy Goonan, 91, Australian rules footballer.
- Csaba Kesjár, 26, Hungarian racing driver, racing accident.
- Tex Leyendecker, 82, American NFL player (Philadelphia Eagles).
- Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmann, 81, German actor.
- Anthony Rohrs, 26, New Zealand cricketer.
- Irene Taylor, 81–82, American singer ("Mississippi Mud", "Willow Weep for Me").[114]
25
- Jean Boffety, 63, French cinematographer (A Simple Story).[115]
- Capel Brunker, 89, British Olympic equestrian (1924, 1936).
- Șerban Cioculescu, 85, Romanian literary critic and columnist.[116]
- Mildred Gillars, 87, American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany, convicted of treason against U.S.A, colon cancer.[117]
- Svavar Guðnason, 78, Icelandic painter.
- Ali Hashemi, 26, Iranian military commander.
- Neville Pickering, 64, New Zealand politician, member of New Zealand Parliament, Mayor of Christchurch.[118]
- Hillel Slovak, 26, Israeli-born American musician, guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, overdose.[119]
- Jimmy Soul, 45, American vocalist ("If You Wanna Be Happy"), heart attack.[120]
26
- Hans Urs von Balthasar, 82, Swiss theologian and Catholic priest, heart attack.[121]
- Hugh Bartlett, 73, English cricketer.
- Marion Hall Best, 83, Australian interior designer.[122]
- Sandy Campbell, 66, Broadway actor.[123]
- Gyula Gyenes, 77, Hungarian Olympic sprinter (1936).
- Heinrich Heim, 88, Nazi German lawyer, aide to Martin Bormann, recorded Hitler's Table Talk.[124]
- Ludovik Jakova, 76, Albanian footballer and manager.
- Walter Matoni, 70, Nazi German Luftwaffe ace, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.[125]
- Yves Pratte, 63, Canadian lawyer and jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, heart attack.[126]
- Hans Rosenberg, 84, German historian.[127]
27
- Léonie Adams, 88, American poet, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.[128]
- Akilan, 65–66, Indian novelist.
- Michael Barry, 78, British television producer and director.[129]
- Red Bullock, 76, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics).
- Antonio Giorgio, 90, Argentine Olympic rower (1936).
- John Groth, 80, American illustrator.[130]
- Aparicio Méndez, 83, Uruguayan lawyer and politician, President of Uruguay.[131]
- R. Muttusamy, 62, Sri Lankan music director and singer.[132]
- Reno Strand, 79, American basketball player.
- Louis Versyp, 79, Belgian Olympic footballer (1928).
28
- A. Aiyappan, 83, superintendent of Government Museum, Chennai.[133]
- William Nordeen, 51, American captain in the US Navy, car bomb.[134]
- Iris Origo, 85, English-born Italian biographer and writer (War in Val d'Orcia).[135]
- Fridtjof Paulsen, 92, Norwegian Olympic speed skater (1924).
- Kurt Raab, 46, West German actor, screenwriter and playwright, AIDS.[136]
29
- Tengku Ampuan Afzan, 55, Malaysian Queen consort of Pahang, cancer.
- Alexander Gorkin, 90, Soviet politician, chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.[137]
- John Peet, 72–73, British journalist who defected to East Germany.[138]
- Franciszka Themerson, 81, Polish-born British painter, illustrator and filmmaker.[139]
30
- Pete Backor, 69, Canadian NHL player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
- Alan W. Bishop, 68, British geotechnical engineer (slope stability).[140]
- Chacrinha, 70, Brazilian comedian, radio and TV personality, heart attack.[141]
- Johanna Hofer, 91, German-born American actress.[142]
- Ron Ingram, 54, Canadian NHL player (Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers).
- Keith Long, 78, Australian rules footballer.
- Alfred McMurray, 73, Irish cricketer.
- A. S. Nair, 57, Indian painter, illustrator and cartoonist.
- Bill Ramsay, 60, Australian Olympic sprinter (1948).
- Suthi Veerabhadra Rao, 41, Indian film actor, heart attack.[143]
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- Tommy Brookins, 81, founder of the Harlem Globetrotters, stroke.[144] (died by June 5)
- Dave Crawford, 44, American R&B musician and songwriter ("Young Hearts Run Free", "What a Man"), murdered.
- Eric Jennings, 65, English FIFA-listed football referee.
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