Deaths in October 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 1987

1

• Richard Blackburn, 69, Australian judge and legal academic, cancer.^[1]
• Douglas Cleverdon, 84, English radio producer and bookseller.^[2]
• June Clyde, 77, American actress, singer and dancer (A Strange Adventure, A Study in Scarlet).^[3]
• Valeriya Golubtsova, 86, Soviet scientist, director of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
• Eusebio Guiñez, 80, Argentine Olympic long-distance runner (1948).
• Luis da Costa Ivens Ferraz, 90, Portuguese Olympic equestrian (1928).
• Geoffrey Jackson, 72, British diplomat and writer, ambassador to Uruguay, kidnapped by guerrillas.^[4]
• Zina Morhange, 78, Polish-born French physician, member of the French Resistance.
• Abdur Rahim, 69, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.

2

• Madeleine Carroll, 81, English actress (The 39 Steps), pancreatic cancer.^[5]
• Jack Lyons, 86, Scottish-American Olympic soccer player (1928).
• John Mastrangelo, 61, American NFL player.
• Sir Peter Medawar, 72, Brazilian-born British biologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.^[6]
• Russell Rouse, 73, American screenwriter, director and producer (The Well, Pillow Talk), heart failure.^[7]
• Hryhoriy Vasiura, 72, Soviet officer in the Red Army and in the German Schutzmannschaft, executed.

3

• Jean Anouilh, 77, French dramatist and screenwriter (Antigone), heart attack.^[8]
• Catherine Bramwell-Booth, 104, English Salvation Army officer, granddaughter of Salvation Army founder.^[9]
• Hans Gál, 97, Austrian and Scottish composer.
• Mahamat Idriss, 45, French-born Chadian Olympic high jumper (1960, 1964, 1968).
• Maria Ivogün, 95, Hungarian soprano singer.^[10]
• Kalervo Palsa, 40, Finnish artist, pneumonia.
• Walter Bernard Smith, 75, Canadian politician, member of the Canada House of Commons (1968-1979).

4

• Neville Cohen, 74, English cricketer.
• Mercer Cook, 84, American diplomat and professor, U.S. Ambassador to the Gambia, Senegal and Niger, pneumonia.^[11]
• Eric Gandar Dower, 92–93, Scottish politician and businessman, Member of Parliament.^[12]
• Bjarne Elgar Grottum, 94, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1947-1954).
• Mian Arshad Hussain, 77, Pakistani politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister and Ambassador to Sweden.
• Raymond W. Karst, 84, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1949-1951).
• Chester Nelsen Sr., 85, American Olympic cyclist (1928).
• Eloise Wilkin, 83, American illustrator of Little Golden Books, cancer.
• Hubert Yencesse, 87, French sculptor.^[13]

5

• Vladimir Akimov, 34, Soviet Russian Olympic water polo player (1980).
• Charles Baillie, 85, British Olympic swimmer (1924).
• Conrad Bourcier, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Maurice de Conninck, 90, French Olympic middle-distance runner (1920).
• Manny Cussins, British businessman, chairman of Waring & Gillow and Leeds United F.C.^[14]
• Isobel Roe, 71, British Olympic alpine skier (1948).

6

• Hi Brigham, 95, American football player.
• Grete Heckscher, 85, Danish Olympic fencer (1924).
• Roald Jensen, 44, Norwegian international footballer (Brann, Heart of Midlothian, Norway), heart failure.^[15]
• Eugen Steimle, 77, Nazi German SS commander, death sentence commuted.

7

• Ivan Belošević, 78, Croatian footballer.
• Charles J. Carney, 74, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1970-1979), heart ailment.^[16]
• Abdul Haleem Chowdhury, 59, Bangladeshi politician.
• Phil Flanagan, 77, American AFL footballer (Boston Shamrocks).
• John Fletcher, 46, English tubist and French horn player, cerebral haemorrhage.
• Greta Granstedt, 80, American film and television actress.
• Verrall Newman, 90, British Olympic diver (1924).
• Cedric Phatudi, 75, South African politician, Chief Minister of Lebowa.^[17]
• Stefan Szelestowski, 86, Polish Olympic athlete (1924, 1928).
• Sarkes Tarzian, 87, Ottoman-born American engineer, inventor and broadcaster.
• Bobby Walston, 58, American NFL footballer (Philadelphia Eagles), heart attack.^[18]
• Valentin Zamotaykin, 47, Soviet Olympic sailor (1964, 1972, 1976).

8

• Spencer Gordon Bennet, 94, American film producer and director.^[19]
• Alberto Segismundo Cruz, 87, Filipino poet, short story writer and novelist.
• Richard W. Dempsey, 78, American illustrator and painter.
• Mona Douglas, 89, British Manx poet, novelist and journalist.
• Rolf Dudley-Williams, 79, British aeronautical engineer and politician, Member of Parliament.^[20]
• Warren C. Gill, 74, American coast guard commander and politician.
• Roger Lancelyn Green, 68, British biographer and children's writer (King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table).^[21]
• Nader Mahdavi, 24, Persian Revolutionary Guard Corps naval commander.
• Cecil Matthews, 73, New Zealand Olympic long-distance runner (1936).
• Donald McWhinnie, 66, British BBC executive and director.
• Arnaldo Santana, 37, American actor.
• Konstantinos Tsatsos, 88, Greek diplomat and politician, President of Greece.^[22]
• Dick Wittmann, 86, Australian rules footballer.

9

• Letterio Cucinotta, 85, Italian racing driver.
• Charles R. Donaldson, 68, American attorney and jurist, judge of the Idaho Supreme Court (1969-1987).
• Ella Eronen, 87, Finnish actress.
• Mohammad Farhad, 49, Bangladeshi guerrilla force commander, Bangladesh Communist Party president, heart attack.^[23]
• Guru Gopinath, 79, Indian actor and dancer.^[24]
• Clare Boothe Luce, 84, American politician, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, member of U.S. House of Representatives, brain cancer.^[25]
• William P. Murphy, 95, American physician, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (pernicious anemia).^[26]
• Ted Shiels, 79, Australian rules footballer.
• Henry Studholme, 88, British politician, Member of Parliament.^[27]
• Carlos Volante, 81, Argentinian international footballer (Flamengo, Argentina).

10

• Carlos Ancira, 58, Mexican film actor.
• Behice Boran, 77, Turkish Marxist–Leninist politician and author, Member of Parliament, heart disease.^[28]
• Jaroslav Bouček, 74, Czechoslovakian international footballer (Sparta Prague, Czechoslovakia).^[29]
• Gretl Braun, 72, German sister of Eva Braun.
• Peter Clyne, 60, Austrian-Australian lawyer and businessman, heart attack.
• Oretha Castle Haley, 48, American civil rights activist, ovarian cancer.
• Malathi, 20, Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers fighter, died in combat.
• Robert Wilberforce, 77, Australian cricketer.

11

• Uwe Barschel, 43, German politician, Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, suicide.^[30]
• Eske Brun, 83, Danish high civil servant and governor of Greenland.
• Robert d'Arista, 57-58, American artist and educator.
• Ernie Fortney, 72, American basketball player.
• Alfred Kieffer, 83, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer (1924).
• Jaime Pardo Leal, 46, Colombian lawyer, union leader, and politician, assassinated.^[31]
• Niall Macpherson, 79, Scottish politician, Minister of Pensions and National Insurance.^[32]
• Alan McNicoll, 79, Australian Vice Admiral in the Royal Australian Navy, ambassador to Turkey.^[33]
• Koldo Mitxelena, 71–72, Spanish Basque linguist, reconstructed Proto-Basque language.
• Fritz Rössler, 75, German neo-Nazi politician.

12

• Ajay Divecha, 47, Indian cricketer.
• Snake Henry, 92, American MLB player (Boston Braves).
• Fahri Korutürk, 84, Turkish admiral, diplomat and politician, president of Turkey.^[34]
• Alf Landon, 100, American oil man and politician, Republican candidate in 1936 presidential election.^[35]
• Russ Letlow, 74, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers).^[36]
• Heinz Lowin, 48, German footballer.
• Philleo Nash, 77, American government official and politician, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, renal cancer.^[37]
• Gustavo Baz Prada, 93, Mexican politician and doctor, Governor of the State of Mexico.
• Heinz Vollmar, 51, German footballer.

13

• Walter Houser Brattain, 85, American physicist (point-contact transistor), Nobel laureate in Physics, Alzheimer's disease.^[38]
• Hugh Alexander Bryson, 75, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1953-1958).
• Kishore Kumar, 58, Indian actor and playback singer, heart attack.^[39]
• Nilgün Marmara, 29, Turkish poet, suicide.^[40]
• Lucy Monroe, 80, American operatic soprano and dancer, cancer.^[41]
• Walter Fraser Oakeshott, 83, British vice-chancellor of Oxford, discovered Le Morte d'Arthur Winchester manuscript.^[42]
• Anwar Kamal Pasha, 62, Pakistani film director and producer.
• Jamshed Patel, 73, Indian cricket umpire.

14

• Elżbieta Barszczewska, 73, Polish stage and film actress.
• Nikolay Belov, 67, Soviet Olympic wrestler (1952).
• Rodolfo Halffter, 86, Spanish composer.^[43]
• Finlay J. MacDonald, 62, Scottish journalist, producer and writer.
• Tino Santoni, 74, Italian cinematographer.
• Ted Wildie, 81, Australian rules footballer.
• Basil Wright, 80, English documentary filmmaker (The Song of Ceylon).^[44]

15

• Lennie Aleshire, 97, American vaudeville and country music performer.
• Arthur Benson, 79, British colonial administrator, Governor of Northern Rhodesia.^[45]
• Thomas Andrew Donnellan, 73, American Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Atlanta, stroke.^[46]
• August Erne, 82, Swiss racing cyclist.
• Axel Felder, 38, German racing driver.
• Nik Novecento, 23, Italian actor.
• Juda Hirsch Quastel, 88, British-Canadian biochemist.^[47]
• Gabriele Salviati, 77, Italian Olympic athlete (1932).
• Thomas Sankara, 37, Burkinabe politician, President of Burkina Faso, Prime Minister of Upper Volta, assassinated.^[48]
• Donald Wandrei, 79, American science fiction and fantasy writer, and poet.

16

• Frank Eck, 76, American newspaper writer and editor.
• František Hák, 83, Czechoslovakian Olympic cross-country skier (1924).
• Joseph Höffner, 80, German Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne, brain tumour.^[49]
• Nazir Hussain, 65, Indian actor, director and screenwriter.
• Robin Kreyer, 77, English cricketer and army officer.
• Margo Lee, 64, Australian actor and singer.^[50]
• Aleksandr Sery, 59, Soviet film director (Gentlemen of Fortune), suicide.
• Dana Suesse, 75, American musician, composer and lyricist ("You Oughta Be in Pictures"), stroke.^[51]
• Tommy Veitch, 38, Scottish footballer.

17

• Pete Cote, 85, American MLB player (New York Giants).
• Ruby Dandridge, 87, American actress (Amos 'n' Andy, Judy Canova Show), heart attack.^[52]
• Mauno Mäkelä, 71, Finnish film producer.
• Roderich Menzel, 80, Czech-German amateur tennis player and writer.
• Peter Pund, 80, American college football player.^[53]
• Hirsch Schwartzberg, 79, Lithuanian-born American leader of holocaust survivors.^[54]
• Abdul Malek Ukil, 63, Bangladeshi politician, Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad.

18

• Gil Bergerson, 77, American NFL player (Chicago Bears).
• Theodore Brameld, 83, American philosopher and educator, pneumonia.^[55]
• Pete Carpenter, 73, American jazz trombonist and arranger, lung cancer.
• Adriaan Ditvoorst, 47, Dutch film director and screenwriter (Paranoia).
• Patrick Duffy, 66, Irish Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).
• Prince Emanuel of Liechtenstein, 78, Liechtenstein sovereign family member.
• Sol Goldman, 70, American real estate investor and philanthropist.^[56]
• Philip Levine, 87, Belorus-born American immuno-hematologist.^[57]
• Michael Lipper, 56, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1977-1981).
• Louis Miriani, 90, American politician, mayor of Detroit.^[58]
• Joseph Schauers, 78, American Olympic rower (1932).

19

• Jerzy Bandura, 71, Polish sculptor.
• Robert Madden Hill, 59, American circuit and district judge.
• Hermann Lang, 78, German racing driver.
• Carlos Lastarria, 69, Peruvian Olympic sports shooter (1960, 1964).
• Igor Newerly, 84, Polish novelist.
• Marcel Paulus, 67, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer (1948).
• Jacqueline du Pré, 42, British cellist, multiple sclerosis.^[59]
• Ben Stahl, 77, American artist, illustrator and author.^[60]
• Ernie Toseland, 82, English footballer (Manchester City).

20

• Georges Douking, 85, French stage, film and television actor (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie).
• Herbert Hallowes, 75, British WWII flying ace.
• Andrey Kolmogorov, 84, Russian mathematician (probability theory).^[61]
• Gordon Olive, 71, Australian RAAF officer.
• Mecha Ortiz, 87, Argentinian actress (El canto del cisne).
• Lars-Erik Sjöberg, 43, Swedish international ice hockey player, cancer.^[62]
• Mária Sulyok, 79, Hungarian actress.

21

• Igor Chernat, 20–21, Soviet serial killer, executed.
• Jerzy Chromik, 56, Polish Olympic long-distance runner (1956, 1960).
• Murray Exelby, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• Pál Gábor, 55, Hungarian film director and screenwriter (Angi Vera).^[63]
• Bob Simmons, 64, English actor and stunt man (James Bond series).
• Albertine Van Roy-Moens, 72, Belgian Olympic gymnast (1948).
• Albert Western, 64, Australian rules footballer (South Fremantle).
• He Yingqin, 97, Chinese politician, Premier of the Republic of China.^[64]

22

• K. G. Adiyodi, 60, Indian politician, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.^[65]
• Archduke Anton of Austria, 86, Austrian noble.
• Ragnar Bergstedt, 98, Swedish Olympic rower (1912).
• Reni Erkens, 78, German Olympic swimmer (1928).
• Fernando Jiménez, 82, Puerto Rican Olympic sports shooter (1956).
• Tasman Knight, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• Lucienne Legrand, 87, French film actress.
• John H. Masters, 74, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
• Taylor Scott, 40, English Fleet Air Arm pilot and test pilot for British Aerospace, test flight accident.^[66]
• Andrey Starostin, 81, Soviet footballer and author.
• Lino Ventura, 68, Italian-born French actor (Les Misérables), heart attack.^[67]

23

• Constantin Alajalov, 86, Armenian-born American painter and illustrator.^[68]
• Henri Arnaudeau, 65, French footballer.
• Fred Hughson, 73, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy).
• Raymond W. Ketchledge, 67, American engineer (computerized telephone switching control systems), cancer.^[69]
• Barry Levinson, 54–55, American film producer.
• Len McConnell, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• A. L. Morton, 84, English Marxist historian.^[70]
• Jimmy Mullen, 64, English international footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers, England).^[71]
• Della H. Raney, 75, American nurse in the Army Nurse Corps.^[72]
• Gene Rodgers, 77, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger.
• Alejandro Scopelli, 79, Argentine international footballer and coach (Estudiantes, Argentina).^[73]
• Ted Taylor, 53, American blues singer, car crash.
• John Wittig, 66, Danish film actor.

24

• Hallam Ashley, 87, British photographer.
• Vallancey Brown, 74, Australian cricketer.
• Enid Chadwick, 84, British religious artist.^[74]
• Raymond Francis, 76, British actor (No Hiding Place).
• Leo Hepp, 80, Nazi German military officer in the Wehrmacht.
• Kelvin Martin, 23, American criminal, shot.^[75]
• Ray Sheppard, 84, American baseball player.

25

• Ivan Beshoff, appr. 104, Russian mutineer in 1905 on battleship Potemkin.^[76]
• Cecil Brown, 80, American journalist and war correspondent.^[77]
• Marta Feuchtwanger, 96, German exile to America, devoted life to promoting work of her deceased writer husband.^[78]
• Maxwell Finland, 85, Russian-born American medical researcher, expert on infectious diseases, heart attack.^[79]
• Louis Guttman, 71, American sociologist (social statistics), melanoma.^[80]
• Willis Jackson, 55, American jazz tenor saxophonist, complications from heart surgery.^[81]
• Pascal Jules, 26, French road bicycle racer.
• Gerald Pearson, 82, American physicist at Bell Labs (photovoltaic cell).^[82]
• J. A. Ratcliffe, 84, British radio physicist.^[83]
• Kate L. Turabian, 94, American educator and author (A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations).^[84]

26

• Herbert Anaya, 32–33, El Salvadoran president of the Human Rights Commission of El Salvador, assassinated.^[85]
• Greg Bautzer, 76, American attorney who represented famous clients, heart failure.^[86]
• Aldo Boffi, 72, Italian international footballer (AC Milan, Italy).
• Edith Luckett Davis, 99, American actress, mother of Nancy Reagan, stroke.^[87]
• Hugh Aloysius Donohoe, 82, American prelate.
• Arild Feldborg, 75, Norwegian playwright.
• Victor Ganz, 74, American business owner and art collector, lung cancer.^[88]
• Francisco Juillet, 89, Chilean Olympic cyclist (1924, 1928).
• Carolus Lassila, 65, Finnish diplomat, ambassador to eight countries, flash flood.
• Bjørge Lillelien, 60, Norwegian sports journalist and commentator (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation), cancer.
• Zdzisław Wojdylak, 58, Polish Olympic field hockey player (1952, 1960).
• Adam Wolanin, 67, Polish-American international footballer (Pogoń Lwów, United States).^[89]

27

• Marshal T. Adams, 101, American politician, member of the Mississippi State Senate (1916-1924).
• Burnett Bolloten, 77–78, British-American writer, scholar of the Spanish Civil War, prostate cancer.^[90]
• Jorge Dalto, 39, Argentine-born American pianist, cancer.^[91]
• Jean Hélion, 83, French painter, pneumonia.^[92]
• John Oliver Killens, 71, American novelist, cancer.^[93]
• Kosaraju, 82, Indian lyricist and poet.
• Vijay Merchant, 76, Indian test cricketer (Bombay, India).^[94]
• Mario Merola, 65, American attorney and member of New York City Council, stroke.^[95]
• John C. Young, 75, American businessman, developer of Chinatown, San Francisco.

28

• D. Djajakusuma, 69, Indonesian film director.
• Douglas Mackessack, 84, Scottish cricketer and army officer.
• André Masson, 91, French artist.^[96]
• Pete McClanahan, 81, American MLB player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
• Sir Jasper More, 80, British politician, Member of Parliament.^[97]

29

• Albert P. Crary, 76, American polar geophysicist and glaciologist, first to set foot on both North and South Poles, spinal tumour.^[98]
• William Davis, 86, British Royal Navy admiral.^[99]
• Robert Heber-Percy, 75, English eccentric.^[100]
• Woody Herman, 74, American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and big band leader, heart failure.^[101]
• Phillip C. Katz, 97, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Kamal el-Mallakh, 69, Egyptian archaeologist, discovered Khufu ship.^[102]
• Ram Awtar Sharma, 79, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
• Peter Stopforth, 79, South African cricketer.
• Frederic M. Wheelock, 85, American Latin professor (Wheelock's Latin), heart attack.^[103]

30

• Thomas G. Bergin, 82, American scholar of Italian literature.^[104]
• Joseph Campbell, 83, American writer on comparative mythology and religion (The Hero with a Thousand Faces), cancer.^[105]
• Sydney Vernon Petersen, 73, South African poet and author, kidney failure.^[106]
• Chaudhary Dalbir Singh, 61, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
• Grady B. Wilson, 67–68, American evangelist, heart failure.^[107]

31

• Paul D. Adams, 81, American general in the U.S. Army.^[108]
• Raj Chandra Bose, 86, Indian and American mathematician and statistician (error-correcting codes).^[109]
• Ruel Vance Churchill, 87, American mathematician and author.
• Josef Erber, 90, Nazi German SS-Oberscharführer at Auschwitz, received life sentence, traffic accident.
• Maurie Hunter, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Jimmy Jewell, 33–34, British rock climber, climbing accident.
• Hans Sommer, 73, Nazi German member of the Sicherheitsdienst, Stasi spy.
• Jack Stenhouse, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• George Sulima, 58, American NFL player (Pittsburgh Steelers).

Unknown date

• Filippo Buccola, 101, Italian-American mobster, member of the Patriarca crime family.
• Wally Freeman, 94, British Olympic athlete (1920).