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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.
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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).[4]
- Luis da Costa Ivens Ferraz, 90, Portuguese Olympic equestrian (1928).[5]
- Geoffrey Jackson, 72, British diplomat and writer, ambassador to Uruguay, kidnapped by guerrillas.[6]
- 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.[7]
- Jack Lyons, 86, Scottish-American Olympic soccer player (1928).[8]
- John Mastrangelo, 61, American NFL player.[9]
- Sir Peter Medawar, 72, Brazilian-born British biologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.[10]
- Russell Rouse, 73, American screenwriter, director and producer (The Well, Pillow Talk), heart failure.[11]
- 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.[12]
- Catherine Bramwell-Booth, 104, English Salvation Army officer, granddaughter of Salvation Army founder.[13]
- Hans Gál, 97, Austrian and Scottish composer.
- Mahamat Idriss, 45, French-born Chadian Olympic high jumper (1960, 1964, 1968).[14]
- Maria Ivogün, 95, Hungarian soprano singer.[15]
- Kalervo Palsa, 40, Finnish artist, pneumonia.
- Walter Bernard Smith, 75, Canadian politician, member of the Canada House of Commons (1968–1979).[16]
4
- Neville Cohen, 74, English cricketer.
- Mercer Cook, 84, American diplomat and professor, U.S. Ambassador to the Gambia, Senegal and Niger, pneumonia.[17]
- Eric Gandar Dower, 92–93, Scottish politician and businessman, Member of Parliament.[18]
- 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).[19]
- Chester Nelsen Sr., 85, American Olympic cyclist (1928).[20]
- Eloise Wilkin, 83, American illustrator of Little Golden Books, cancer.
- Hubert Yencesse, 87, French sculptor.[21]
5
- Vladimir Akimov, 34, Soviet Russian Olympic water polo player (1980).[22]
- Charles Baillie, 85, British Olympic swimmer (1924).[23]
- Conrad Bourcier, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).[24]
- Maurice de Conninck, 90, French Olympic middle-distance runner (1920).[25]
- Manny Cussins, British businessman, chairman of Waring & Gillow and Leeds United F.C.[26]
- Isobel Roe, 71, British Olympic alpine skier (1948).[27]
6
- Hi Brigham, 95, American football player.[28]
- Grete Heckscher, 85, Danish Olympic fencer (1924).[29]
- Roald Jensen, 44, Norwegian international footballer (Brann, Heart of Midlothian, Norway), heart failure.[30]
- Eugen Steimle, 77, Nazi German SS commander, death sentence commuted.
7
- Ivan Belošević, 78, Croatian footballer.[31]
- Charles J. Carney, 74, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1970–1979), heart ailment.[32]
- 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).[33]
- Cedric Phatudi, 75, South African politician, Chief Minister of Lebowa.[34]
- Stefan Szelestowski, 86, Polish Olympic athlete (1924, 1928).[35]
- Sarkes Tarzian, 87, Ottoman-born American engineer, inventor and broadcaster.
- Bobby Walston, 58, American NFL footballer (Philadelphia Eagles), heart attack.[36]
- Valentin Zamotaykin, 47, Soviet Olympic sailor (1964, 1972, 1976).[37]
8
- Spencer Gordon Bennet, 94, American film producer and director.[38]
- 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.[39]
- 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).[40]
- Nader Mahdavi, 24, Persian Revolutionary Guard Corps naval commander.
- Cecil Matthews, 73, New Zealand Olympic long-distance runner (1936).[41]
- Donald McWhinnie, 66, British BBC executive and director.
- Arnaldo Santana, 37, American actor.
- Konstantinos Tsatsos, 88, Greek diplomat and politician, President of Greece.[42]
- Dick Wittmann, 86, Australian rules footballer.[43]
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.[44]
- Mohammad Farhad, 49, Bangladeshi guerrilla force commander, Bangladesh Communist Party president, heart attack.[45]
- Guru Gopinath, 79, Indian actor and dancer.[46]
- Clare Boothe Luce, 84, American politician, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, member of U.S. House of Representatives, brain cancer.[47]
- William P. Murphy, 95, American physician, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (pernicious anemia).[48]
- Ted Shiels, 79, Australian rules footballer.[49]
- Henry Studholme, 88, British politician, Member of Parliament.[50]
- 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.[51]
- Jaroslav Bouček, 74, Czechoslovakian international footballer (Sparta Prague, Czechoslovakia).[52]
- 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.[53]
11
- Uwe Barschel, 43, German politician, Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, suicide.[54]
- 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.[55]
- Alfred Kieffer, 83, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer (1924).[56]
- Jaime Pardo Leal, 46, Colombian lawyer, union leader, and politician, assassinated.[57]
- Niall Macpherson, 79, Scottish politician, Minister of Pensions and National Insurance.[58]
- Alan McNicoll, 79, Australian Vice Admiral in the Royal Australian Navy, ambassador to Turkey.[59]
- Koldo Mitxelena, 71–72, Spanish Basque linguist, reconstructed Proto-Basque language.
- Fritz Rössler, 75, German neo-Nazi politician.
12
- Snake Henry, 92, American MLB player (Boston Braves).[60]
- Fahri Korutürk, 84, Turkish admiral, diplomat and politician, president of Turkey.[61]
- Alf Landon, 100, American oil man and politician, Republican candidate in 1936 presidential election.[62]
- Russ Letlow, 74, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers).[63]
- Heinz Lowin, 48, German footballer.
- Philleo Nash, 77, American government official and politician, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, renal cancer.[64]
- 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.[65]
- Hugh Alexander Bryson, 75, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1953–1958).[66]
- Kishore Kumar, 58, Indian actor and playback singer, heart attack.[67]
- Nilgün Marmara, 29, Turkish poet, suicide.[68]
- Lucy Monroe, 80, American operatic soprano and dancer, cancer.[69]
- Walter Fraser Oakeshott, 83, British vice-chancellor of Oxford, discovered Le Morte d'Arthur Winchester manuscript.[70]
- 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).[71]
- Rodolfo Halffter, 86, Spanish composer.[72]
- Finlay J. MacDonald, 62, Scottish journalist, producer and writer.
- Ted Wildie, 81, Australian rules footballer.[73]
- Basil Wright, 80, English documentary filmmaker (The Song of Ceylon).[74]
15
- Lennie Aleshire, 97, American vaudeville and country music performer.
- Arthur Benson, 79, British colonial administrator, Governor of Northern Rhodesia.[75]
- Thomas Andrew Donnellan, 73, American Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Atlanta, stroke.[76]
- August Erne, 82, Swiss racing cyclist.[77]
- Axel Felder, 38, German racing driver.
- Juda Hirsch Quastel, 88, British-Canadian biochemist.[78]
- Gabriele Salviati, 77, Italian Olympic athlete (1932).[79]
- Thomas Sankara, 37, Burkinabe politician, President of Burkina Faso, Prime Minister of Upper Volta, assassinated.[80]
- 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).[81]
- Joseph Höffner, 80, German Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne, brain tumour.[82]
- Nazir Hussain, 65, Indian actor, director and screenwriter.
- Robin Kreyer, 77, English cricketer and army officer.
- Margo Lee, 64, Australian actor and singer.[83]
- Aleksandr Sery, 59, Soviet film director (Gentlemen of Fortune), suicide.
- Dana Suesse, 75, American musician, composer and lyricist ("You Oughta Be in Pictures"), stroke.[84]
- Tommy Veitch, 38, Scottish footballer.
17
- Pete Cote, 85, American MLB player (New York Giants).[85]
- Ruby Dandridge, 87, American actress (Amos 'n' Andy, Judy Canova Show), heart attack.[86]
- Roderich Menzel, 80, Czech-German amateur tennis player and writer.
- Peter Pund, 80, American college football player.[87]
- Hirsch Schwartzberg, 79, Lithuanian-born American leader of holocaust survivors.[88]
- Abdul Malek Ukil, 63, Bangladeshi politician, Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad.
18
- Theodore Brameld, 83, American philosopher and educator, pneumonia.[89]
- 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).[90]
- Prince Emanuel of Liechtenstein, 78, Liechtenstein sovereign family member.
- Sol Goldman, 70, American real estate investor and philanthropist.[91]
- Philip Levine, 87, Belorus-born American immuno-hematologist.[92]
- Michael Lipper, 56, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1977–1981).
- Louis Miriani, 90, American politician, mayor of Detroit.[93]
- Joseph Schauers, 78, American Olympic rower (1932).[94]
19
- Jerzy Bandura, 71, Polish sculptor.[95]
- Robert Madden Hill, 59, American circuit and district judge.[96]
- Hermann Lang, 78, German racing driver.
- Carlos Lastarria, 69, Peruvian Olympic sports shooter (1960, 1964).[97]
- Igor Newerly, 84, Polish novelist.
- Marcel Paulus, 67, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer (1948).[98]
- Jacqueline du Pré, 42, British cellist, multiple sclerosis.[99]
- Ben Stahl, 77, American artist, illustrator and author.[100]
- 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).[101]
- 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.[102]
21
- Igor Chernat, 20–21, Soviet serial killer, executed.
- Jerzy Chromik, 56, Polish Olympic long-distance runner (1956, 1960).[103]
- Murray Exelby, 75, Australian rules footballer.[104]
- Pál Gábor, 55, Hungarian film director and screenwriter (Angi Vera).[105]
- Bob Simmons, 64, English actor and stunt man (James Bond series).
- Albertine Van Roy-Moens, 72, Belgian Olympic gymnast (1948).[106]
- Albert Western, 64, Australian rules footballer (South Fremantle).
- He Yingqin, 97, Chinese politician, Premier of the Republic of China.[107]
22
- K. G. Adiyodi, 60, Indian politician, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.[108]
- Archduke Anton of Austria, 86, Austrian noble.
- Ragnar Bergstedt, 98, Swedish Olympic rower (1912).[109]
- Reni Erkens, 78, German Olympic swimmer (1928).[110]
- Fernando Jiménez, 82, Puerto Rican Olympic sports shooter (1956).[111]
- Tasman Knight, 80, Australian rules footballer.[112]
- 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.[113]
- Andrey Starostin, 81, Soviet footballer and author.
- Lino Ventura, 68, Italian-born French actor (Les Misérables), heart attack.[114]
23
- Constantin Alajalov, 86, Armenian-born American painter and illustrator.[115]
- Henri Arnaudeau, 65, French footballer.[116]
- Fred Hughson, 73, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy).
- Raymond W. Ketchledge, 67, American engineer (computerized telephone switching control systems), cancer.[117]
- Barry Levinson, 54–55, American film producer.
- Len McConnell, 80, Australian rules footballer.[118]
- A. L. Morton, 84, English Marxist historian.[119]
- Jimmy Mullen, 64, English international footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers, England).[120]
- Della H. Raney, 75, American nurse in the Army Nurse Corps.[121]
- Gene Rodgers, 77, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger.
- Alejandro Scopelli, 79, Argentine international footballer and coach (Estudiantes, Argentina).[122]
- Ted Taylor, 53, American blues singer, car crash.
24
- Hallam Ashley, 87, British photographer.
- Vallancey Brown, 74, Australian cricketer.
- Enid Chadwick, 84, British religious artist.[123]
- Raymond Francis, 76, British actor (No Hiding Place).
- Leo Hepp, 80, Nazi German military officer in the Wehrmacht.
- Kelvin Martin, 23, American criminal, shot.[124]
- Ray Sheppard, 84, American baseball player.[125]
25
- Ivan Beshoff, appr. 104, Russian mutineer in 1905 on battleship Potemkin.[126]
- Cecil Brown, 80, American journalist and war correspondent.[127]
- Marta Feuchtwanger, 96, German exile to America, devoted life to promoting work of her deceased writer husband.[128]
- Maxwell Finland, 85, Russian-born American medical researcher, expert on infectious diseases, heart attack.[129]
- Louis Guttman, 71, American sociologist (social statistics), melanoma.[130]
- Willis Jackson, 55, American jazz tenor saxophonist, complications from heart surgery.[131]
- Pascal Jules, 26, French road bicycle racer.[132]
- Gerald Pearson, 82, American physicist at Bell Labs (photovoltaic cell).[133]
- J. A. Ratcliffe, 84, British radio physicist.[134]
- Kate L. Turabian, 94, American educator and author (A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations).[135]
26
- Herbert Anaya, 32–33, El Salvadoran president of the Human Rights Commission of El Salvador, assassinated.[136]
- Greg Bautzer, 76, American attorney who represented famous clients, heart failure.[137]
- Aldo Boffi, 72, Italian international footballer (AC Milan, Italy).
- Edith Luckett Davis, 99, American actress, mother of Nancy Reagan, stroke.[138]
- Hugh Aloysius Donohoe, 82, American prelate.
- Arild Feldborg, 75, Norwegian playwright.
- Victor Ganz, 74, American business owner and art collector, lung cancer.[139]
- Francisco Juillet, 89, Chilean Olympic cyclist (1924, 1928).[140]
- 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).[141]
- Adam Wolanin, 67, Polish-American international footballer (Pogoń Lwów, United States).[142]
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.[143]
- Jorge Dalto, 39, Argentine-born American pianist, cancer.[144]
- Jean Hélion, 83, French painter, pneumonia.[145]
- John Oliver Killens, 71, American novelist, cancer.[146]
- Kosaraju, 82, Indian lyricist and poet.
- Vijay Merchant, 76, Indian test cricketer (Bombay, India).[147]
- Mario Merola, 65, American attorney and member of New York City Council, stroke.[148]
- 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.[149]
- Pete McClanahan, 81, American MLB player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[150]
- Sir Jasper More, 80, British politician, Member of Parliament.[151]
29
- Albert P. Crary, 76, American polar geophysicist and glaciologist, first to set foot on both North and South Poles, spinal tumour.[152]
- William Davis, 86, British Royal Navy admiral.[153]
- Robert Heber-Percy, 75, English eccentric.[154]
- Woody Herman, 74, American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and big band leader, heart failure.[155]
- Phillip C. Katz, 97, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.[156]
- Kamal el-Mallakh, 69, Egyptian archaeologist, discovered Khufu ship.[157]
- 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.[158]
30
- Thomas G. Bergin, 82, American scholar of Italian literature.[159]
- Joseph Campbell, 83, American writer on comparative mythology and religion (The Hero with a Thousand Faces), cancer.[160]
- Sydney Vernon Petersen, 73, South African poet and author, kidney failure.[161]
- Chaudhary Dalbir Singh, 61, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
- Grady B. Wilson, 67–68, American evangelist, heart failure.[162]
31
- Paul D. Adams, 81, American general in the U.S. Army.[163]
- Raj Chandra Bose, 86, Indian and American mathematician and statistician (error-correcting codes).[164]
- 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.[165]
- 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.[166]
- George Sulima, 58, American NFL player (Pittsburgh Steelers).[167]
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- Filippo Buccola, 101, Italian-American mobster, member of the Patriarca crime family.
- Wally Freeman, 94, British Olympic athlete (1920).[168]
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