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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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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May 1987
1
- Stanley Copp, 72, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1953–1958).
- Paul Geidel, 93, American murderer, second longest serving U.S. prison inmate.
- Bobo Holloman, 64, American Major League baseball player (St. Louis Browns), heart attack.[1]
- Antonio Borja Won Pat, 78, Guam politician, Guam's Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives (1973–1985), heart attack.[2]
- Dick Surhoff, 57, American NBA basketballer (New York Knicks).[3]
- James W. Sutherland, 69, American U.S. Army general.[4]
- Fujio Yoshida, 99, Japanese artist.
2
- George Allen, 43, American football player (Houston Oilers).[5]
- Reidar Carlsen, 78, Norwegian politician.
- Karl Davis, 25, American fashion designer, pneumonia.[6]
- Eugene Gilhawley, 77, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1961–1969, 1973–1981).
- Michael Gover, 73, English actor (Survivors).
- John E. Kerrigan, 78, American politician, acting Mayor of Boston, cardiac arrest.[7]
- Harold K. Schneider, 61–62, American economic anthropologist, complications from surgery.[8]
3
- Joyce Coad, 70, American child actress.
- Roberto Concepcion, 83, Filipino lawyer, Chief Justice of the Philippines.
- Dalida, 54, Egyptian-born French singer and actress (Bambino, Gondolier), suicide.[9]
- Dickie Fuller, 74, West Indian cricketer.[10]
- Viola Grosvenor, 74, British aristocrat, Duchess of Westminster, car accident.[11]
- Dick Kelsey, 82, American animation art director, theme park designer and illustrator of children's books.
4
- Paul Butterfield, 44, American blues harmonica player, singer and bandleader, overdose.[12]
- Cathryn Damon, 56, American actress (Soap), ovarian cancer.[13]
- Paul Groesse, 81, Hungarian-born American Academy Award–winning art director, pneumonia.[14]
- Khalilullah Khalili, 79, Afghan poet, historian and diplomat.[15]
- Konstanty Jeleński, 65, Polish essayist.[16]
- Tomohiro Kojiri, 29, Japanese journalist for newspaper Asahi Shimbun, murdered.[17]
- Wilbur Little, 59, American jazz bassist.
- Michael Minor, 46, American illustrator, art director on Star Trek movies.
5
- Sir Hugh Fraser, 50, British chairman of the House of Fraser, Harrods, and Whyte & Mackay, cancer.[18]
- Herbert Hasler, 73, British officer in the Royal Marines and yachtsman.[19]
- Allen Jones, 46, American record producer and songwriter ("Hard to Handle"), heart attack.[20]
- Frank McAllister, 69, American baseball player.[21]
- Vera Schäferkordt, 62, German Olympic swimmer (1952).[22]
- Joe Shack, 71, Canadian NHL player (New York Rangers).[23]
- Jim Taylor, 80, Australian rules footballer.[24]
- Robert Stanford Tuck, 70, British fighter pilot and flying ace in the Royal Air Force.[25]
- Phil Woolpert, 71, American college basketball coach, lung cancer.[26]
- Roy Young, 69, American NFL player (Washington Redskins).[27]
6
- William J. Casey, 74, American CIA director, brain tumour.[28]
- Lucien Choury, 89, French Olympic cyclist (1924).[29]
- Zalman Friedmann, 74–75, Israeli footballer.
- Muhammadullah Hafezzi, 91–92, Bangladeshi politician and Islamic leader.
- Denis Jones, 80, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1957–1977).
- Stanislav Lusk, 55, Czechoslovakian Olympic rower (1952, 1956, 1960).[30]
- Karel Plicka, 92, Czechoslovakian photographer, film director and cinematographer.
- David Weitzman, 88, British politician.[31]
7
- Roy S. Armstrong, 86, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1953–1964).
- Boom-Boom Beck, 82, American Major League baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[32]
- Colin Blakely, 56, Northern Irish actor (Murder on the Orient Express, A Man for All Seasons), leukaemia.[33]
- Félix Erauzquin, 79, Spanish Olympic athlete (1948).[34]
- Gil Lefebvre, 77, American NFL player.[35]
- Stewart McKinney, 56, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1971–1987), pneumonia (AIDS).[36]
- Paul Popham, 45, American gay rights activist, AIDS.[37]
- Dudley Ryder, 94, British hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords.[38]
- Karl Schuke, 80, German organ builder.
8
- Marjorie Barnard, 89, Australian novelist and historian.[39]
- Sidney Cohen, 76, American psychiatrist, professor of medicine and author, heart failure.[40]
- Alberta Gay, 74, American mother of Marvin and Frankie Gaye, bone cancer.[41]
- Sir James Plimsoll, 70, Australian diplomat, Governor of Tasmania, ambassador to the US, heart attack.[42]
- Hugh Saunders, 92, South African RAF officer.
- Doris Stokes, 67, British "spiritualist", "medium" and author, brain cancer.[43]
- Carl Tchilinghiryan, 77, German businessman, co-founder of coffee house Tchibo.
- Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) killed during the Loughgall ambush:[44]
- Declan Arthurs, 21, Northern Irish IRA member, shot.
- Patrick Joseph Kelly, 30, Northern Irish IRA commander, shot.
- Jim Lynagh, 31, Northern Irish IRA member, shot.
- Pádraig McKearney, 32, Northern Irish IRA member, shot.
9
- Obafemi Awolowo, 78, Nigerian nationalist and statesman, Premier of Western Nigeria.[45]
- Franz Bednar, 77, Austrian Olympic bobsledder (1936).[46]
- Paulus Kessels, 86, Dutch Olympic sports shooter (1936).[47]
- Jimmy Kruger, 69, South African lawyer and politician, President of the Senate.[48]
- Noel Murless, 77, English racehorse trainer.[49]
- John M. Schiff, 82, American investment banker, partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., national president of the Boy Scouts of America.[50]
- Brian Shenton, 60, British Olympic sprinter (1952, 1956).[51]
10
- Sadamichi Hirasawa, 95, Japanese tempera painter, convicted of mass poisoning, pneumonia.[52]
- Nicolette Macnamara, 76, British artist and author.[53]
- Wilhelm Strienz, 86, German bass operatic singer.
11
- James Jesus Angleton, 69, American intelligence operative and C.I.A chief, cancer.[54]
- Alex Jeffery, 78, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1949–1953).[55]
- Walter McMillen, 73, Northern Irish footballer.[56]
12
- Bob Farrar, 68, Australian rugby league footballer.[57]
- Victor Feldman, 53, English jazz musician, heart attack.[58]
- Chinn Ho, 83, Hawaiian entrepreneur and businessman, owner of Honolulu Star-Bulletin, heart failure.[59]
- Pierre Litoux, 84, French politician, member of the National Assembly (France) (1962–1968).
- Giancarlo Marinelli, 71, Italian Olympic basketball player (1936, 1948).[60]
- Ion Pistol, 40, Romanian convicted murderer, executed.
- Nora Rubashova, 78, Belarusian Catholic nun.[61]
- Delos Thurber, 70, American Olympic high jumper (1936).[62]
- Robert Trimbole, 56, Australian businessman, drug baron and organized crime figure, heart attack.[63]
- Michel Van Wijnendaele, 27–28, Belgian mass murderer, suicide.[64]
13
- Signe Amundsen, 87, Norwegian soprano.
- Norberto Bautista, 46, Argentine footballer.[65]
- F. R. Crawley, 75, Canadian film producer, cinematographer and director.
- Richard Ellmann, 69, American literary critic and biographer of Irish writers, motor neurone disease.[66]
- Manín, 71, Spanish footballer.
- Phil Moore, 69, American jazz pianist and bandleader, heart attack.[67]
- Leo Norris, 78, American MLB player (Philadelphia Phillies).[68]
- Ismael Rivera, 55, Puerto Rican composer and salsa singer, heart attack.
- Forbes Robinson, 60, British bass.
- Elly Winter, 88, German communist and political activist.
14
- Tsai Chen-chou, 40, Taiwanese politician and businessman, liver disease.
- Patrick Delap, 55, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1970–1973).
- Kris Derrig, 33, American luthier and musician, cancer.
- Rita Hayworth, 68, American actress and dancer (Gilda), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[69]
- Jānis Lipke, 87, Latvian rescuer of Jews in World War II.[70]
- Luke Sewell, 86, American Major league baseball player (Cleveland Indians).[71]
- Elizabeth Zarubina, 87, Soviet spy, traffic accident.
- Vitomil Zupan, 73, Austro-Hungarian–born Slovene writer.
15
- Elisabeth Bonetsmüller, 80, German Olympic high jumper (1928).[72]
- Wynne Gibson, 88, American actress, cerebral thrombosis.[73]
- Raynor Johnson, 86, English-born Australian parapsychologist, physicist and author.[74]
- Kalyanakit Kitiyakara, 57, Thai cardiothoracic surgeon.[75]
- Máire MacNeill, 82, Irish journalist, folklorist and translator.[76]
- Barry Mannakee, 39, British police officer with Royal Protection Squad, bodyguard to Diana, Princess of Wales, traffic accident.[77]
- L. G. Pine, 79, British writer, lecturer and researcher.
- Lionel Van Praag, 78, Australian motorcycle speedway champion.[78]
16
- Lionel Cooper, 65, Australian international rugby league footballer (Huddersfield, Australia).[79]
- Sir John Esmonde, 16th Baronet, 58, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1973–1977).
- Frank Mayborn, 83, American newspapers editor, publisher and broadcaster.[80]
- Willie Powell, 83, American baseball player.[81]
- Ronnie Shakes, 40, American stand-up comedian, heart attack.
- Michael Wood, 69, British medical doctor, cancer.[82]
17
- Wilbur J. Cohen, 73, American social scientist and civil servant, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.[83]
- Gunnar Myrdal, 88, Swedish economist, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences.[84]
- Dudley C. Sharp, 82, American Secretary of the Air Force, cancer.[85]
- Okkie van Greunen, 53, South African Olympic modern pentathlete (1956, 1960).[86]
18
- Mahdi Amel, 51, Lebanese Marxist philosopher and militant, assassinated.
- Heðin Brú, 86, Faroese novelist and translator.[87]
- Hossein Fardoust, 70, Iranian military officer, deputy head of SAVAK, heart attack.[88]
- Santo Mazzarino, 71, Italian historian.
19
- David Abbott, 85, American Olympic long-distance runner (1928).[89]
- James Everett Chase, 73, American politician, Mayor of Spokane, cancer.[90]
- Hamid Reza Chitgar, 38, Iranian communist politician, exiled to France, assassinated.
- Francis Cottam, 86, English cricketer.
- Deepak Dhawan, 32, Indian political activist, member of the Communist Party of India, murdered.
- Almerigo Grilz, 34, Italian politician and independent war correspondent, killed in war zone.[91]
- Huntington D. Sheldon, 84, American C.I.A. director of Current Intelligence, murdered.[92]
- Stanisław Szukalski, 93, Polish-American sculptor and painter.[93]
- James Tiptree Jr., (Alice Bradley Sheldon), 71, American science fiction and fantasy author, suicide.[94]
20
- William Creighton, 77, American Anglican bishop, heart attack.[95]
- Fränz Ehringer, 58, Luxembourgian Olympic boxer (1948).[96]
- Emőke Énekes-Szegedi, 39, Hungarian Olympic volleyball player (1972, 1980).[97]
- Harvey Goldberg, 65, American historian and political activist, liver cancer.[98]
- Herbert Jacobs, 84, American journalist for the Milwaukee Journal, professor of journalism, cancer.[99]
- Ganpatrao Jadhav, 79, Indian freedom activist, journalist and writer.
- Edward Earl Johnson, 26, American convicted murderer, executed.[100]
- Elmer Ray, 76, American heavyweight boxer.
- George Shibata, 60, American military officer, attorney and actor.[101]
- Ma Sicong, 75, Chinese violinist and composer, died during heart operation.[102]
- Colston Warne, 86, American professor of economics.[103]
21
- Archie Carr, 77, American herpetologist and ecologist, professor of zoology, cancer.[104]
- Finis Alonzo Crutchfield Jr., 70, American clergyman and bishop (United Methodist Church), AIDS.[105]
- Ron Frederickson, 68, Australian rugby league footballer.[106]
- Alejandro Rey, 57, Argentinian-American actor and television director, lung cancer.[107]
22
- Paddy Belton, 60, Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin.[108]
- Thornton Freeland, 89, American film director.
- Frank Jenkins, 68, Australian rules footballer.[109]
- Stewart Menaul, 71, British RAF officer.
- Heinrich Mückter, 72, German medical doctor and pharmacologist, developed thalidomide.[110]
- Ernst Nagelschmitz, 85, German Olympic footballer (1928).[111]
- Keidrych Rhys, 71, Welsh literary journalist, editor and poet, editor of periodical Wales.[112]
24
- Alan Samuel Butler, 88, British aviator, chairman of De Havilland Aircraft Company.
- James J. Delaney, 86, American politician, chair of the House Rules Committee.[113]
- Hermione Gingold, 89, English actress, heart problems complicated by pneumonia.[114]
- Siegmund Klein, 85, German-born American bodybuilder and magazine publisher, cancer.[115]
- Lajos Ligeti, 64, Hungarian orientalist and philologist.[116]
- Thomas Burdett Money-Coutts, 85, English peer.
- Eugen Relgis, 92, Romanian writer and pacifist philosopher.
25
- Charley Brock, 71, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers).[117]
- Winthrop G. Brown, 79, American lawyer and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Korea and Laos.[118]
- Hugh Lester Campbell, 78, Canadian air marshal in the Royal Canadian Air Force and politician.[119]
- Peter Coe, 58, English director and actor, car accident.[120]
- Peter Gerald Charles Dickens, 70, English Royal Navy officer during World War II.[121]
- Hermann Glöckner, 98, German painter and sculptor.
- William Kelly Harrison Jr., 91, American U.S. Army general.[122]
- Don Sidle, 40, American ABA basketballer (Miami Floridians).[123]
- Paweł Tuchlin, 41, Polish serial killer, hanged.
26
- Antoni Brzeżańczyk, 68, Polish footballer and manager.[124]
- Rose Chan, 62, Chinese-born Malaysian cabaret dancer.
- Alvin Duke Chandler, 84, American Navy officer, president of the College of William & Mary.[125]
- Rolando da Cruz, 56, Brazilian Olympic water polo player (1960).[126]
- Paul Rimstead, 51–52, Canadian journalist (Toronto Sun), hemorrhage.[127]
- Arthur M. Sackler, 73, American psychiatrist and marketer of pharmaceuticals, heart attack.[128]
- Glenmore Webley, 35, Jamaican politician, shot.[129]
- Robert Wilkins, 91, American country blues guitarist and vocalist.
- Ajita Wilson, 37, American transgender actress, brain hemorrhage.
27
- Alvin C. Eurich, 84, American educator, president of the State University of New York.[130]
- Harry Fritz, 66, American collegiate athletics administrator and coach.
- Jack Heid, 62, American Olympic cyclist (1948).[131]
- Colin McCahon, 67, New Zealand artist.[132]
- John Howard Northrop, 95, American biochemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, suicide.[133]
- Richard Bruce Nugent, 80, American writer and painter.[134]
- Fatemeh Pahlavi, 58, Iranian royal, cancer.[135]
28
- Billie Fulford, 72, New Zealand cricketer.[136]
- Mikuláš Kucsera, 84, Czechoslovak Olympic athlete (1924).[137]
- Léon Lambert, 58, Belgian banker and art collector, AIDS.[138]
- Charles Ludlam, 44, American actor, director and playwright, pneumonia (AIDS).[139]
- Arthur Matsu, 83, American NFL footballer (Dayton Triangles) and coach.[140]
- Frits Ruimschotel, 65, Dutch Olympic water polo player (1948).[141]
- James Saunders, 55, Canadian Olympic boxer (1952).[142]
- Ronald Thomas, 71, Australian cricketer.[143]
29
- Jean Delay, 79, French psychiatrist, neurologist and writer.[144]
- Jozef Langenus, 88, Belgian Olympic middle-distance runner (1928).[145]
- Vettam Mani, 65, Indian scholar and writer.
- Jack Sheehan, 94, American MLB player, (Brooklyn Robins).[146]
- Charan Singh, 84, prime minister of India, cardiovascular collapse.[147]
- Godfrey Surman, 72, English cricketer.
- Phyllis Tate, 76, English composer.
30
- Frank Carlson, 94, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.[148]
- George Davis-Goff, 81, New Zealand navy officer.
- Dewanohana Kuniichi, 78, Japanese sumo wrestler.[149]
- Bill Gutteron, 87, American NFL player.[150]
- Eliot Hodgkin, 81, English painter.
- Miyuki Ishikawa, 90, Japanese midwife, real estate agent and serial killer.
- Honorino Landa, 44, Chilean international footballer (Unión Española, Chile), cancer.[151]
- Frank Licht, 71, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island, cancer.[152]
- Hallam L. Movius, 79, American archaeologist.[153]
- Turk Murphy, 71, American trombonist and bandleader, bone cancer.[154]
- Norman Nicholson, 73, English poet.[155]
- Cliff Simpson, 64, Canadian NHL player (Detroit Red Wings).[156]
- Hilde Weissner, 77, German actress.
31
- John Abraham, 49, Indian filmmaker, short story writer and screenwriter, complications from a fall.
- Jerry Adair, 50, American Major League baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), liver cancer.[157]
- Hubert Raymond Allen, 68, British Royal Air Force officer.[158]
- Hilton Curran, 72, Australian rugby league footballer.[159]
- Charles Drew, 70, British cardiothoracic surgeon, throat cancer.[160]
- Wilbur Evans, 81, American actor and singer.[161]
- Elisabeth Friske, 47, West German airline pilot, first female commercial pilot in West Germany, plane crash.[162]
- Len Hamilton, 87, Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives (1946–1961).
- Gertrude Jones Hawk, 83–84, American candy maker and entrepreneur (Gertrude Hawk Chocolates).
- Kolbein Lauring, 72, Norwegian resistance member during World War II.[163]
- Dorothy Patrick, 65, Canadian-born American film actress (Till the Clouds Roll By), heart attack.[164]
- Domenico Piemontesi, 84, Italian road bicycle racer.
- Roy Winsor, 75, American soap opera writer, producer and mystery novelist (Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life), heart attack.[165]
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- Sunny Harnett, 63, American model and actress, injuries sustained in a fire.
- Dev Raj Singh Thakur, Indian Air Force warrant officer, killed the killer of Mahatma Gandhi.[166]
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