Deaths_in_March_1987
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 1987.
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Contents
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.
1
- Freddie Green, 75, American swing jazz guitarist, heart attack.[1]
- Bertrand de Jouvenel, 83, French philosopher and political economist.
- Don MacBeth, 37, Canadian jockey, cancer.
- Vern Partlow, 76, American newspaper reporter and folk singer, blacklisted during the McCarthy era, cancer.
- Wolfgang Seidel, 60, German Formula 1 racing driver, heart attack.
2
- Randolph Scott, 89, American film actor, heart and lung ailments.[2]
- Lolo Soetoro, 52, Indonesian geographer, stepfather of Barack Obama, liver failure.
3
- Danny Kaye, 76, American singer, actor, dancer and comedian, complications from internal bleeding and hepatitis.[3]
- Cyril Pearl, 82, Australian journalist, author and television personality.
- Rafael M. Salas, 58, Filipino head of the United Nations Population Fund, heart attack.
- Hana Vítová, 73, Czechoslovakian film actress.
4
- Georges Arnaud, 69, French author, heart attack.
- Maria Jolas, 94, American pacifist, one of the founding members of transition in Paris.
- Seibo Kitamura, 102, Japanese sculptor.
- Eliseo Moreno, 27, American spree killer, executed.
5
- James W. Blanchard, 83, American submarine commander and rear admiral.
- John Brooke, 64, Northern Irish politician, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
- Albert Costain, 76, British politician, Member of Parliament.
- Abdulgani Dahiwala, 78, Indian Gujarati poet.
- Harry Dudkin, 78, American politician and judge, Clerk of the New Jersey General Assembly, murdered.
- Andrey A. Fedorov, 78, Soviet biologist, botanist and taxonomist.
- Joe Purcell, 63, American politician, acting Governor of Arkansas.
- Don Yenko, 59, American car dealer and racecar driver, aeroplane crash.
6
- Inder Raj Anand, Indian film dialogue and screenwriter.
- Mel Boozer, 41, American university professor and LGBT activist, AIDS.
- Edward Carson, 67, British politician, Member of Parliament.
- Eddie Durham, 80, American jazz guitarist, trombonist, composer and arranger.[4]
- J. Spencer Trimingham, 82, English scholar on Islam in Africa.
- Edward Zorinsky, 58, American politician, U.S. Senator, heart attack.[5]
7
- Yuri Chulyukin, 57, Soviet film director, screenwriter, actor and songwriter.
- Henri Decaë, 71, French cinematographer.
- Evelyn Dove, 85, British singer and actress, pneumonia.
- Paul R. Evans, 55, American-furniture designer, sculptor and artist, heart attack.
- Waldo Salt, 72, American screenwriter.[6]
8
- Erwin Jollasse, 95, German Wehrmacht general, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
- Iwao Yamawaki, 88, Japanese photographer and architect.
9
- Zeke Bonura, 78, American Major League baseballer.
- Ronald W. Clark, 70, British author of biography, fiction and non-fiction, stroke.
- Donald Jay Grout, 84, American musicologist, author of \"A Short History of Opera\".
- Allan Jaffe, 51, American jazz tubist.
- Andrew Kayiira, 42, leader of the Uganda Freedom Movement, shot.
- Yusuf al-Khal, 69, Lebanese-Syrian poet, journalist and publisher.
- Richard F. Kneip, 54, American diplomat and politician, governor of South Dakota, cancer.
- Bobby Locke, 69, South African professional golfer.[7]
- Fred W. Thompson, 86, Canadian-American labour organizer and historian.
- Arthur Tolcher, 64, British harmonica player.
10
- Dwight W. Burney, 95, American politician, Governor of Nebraska.
- Robert Colby, 64, American songwriter, music publisher and theatrical producer.[8]
- George Glamack, 68, American professional basketballer.
- Jeannette Mirsky, 83, American writer.
- Daniel Morgan, 37, British private investigator, victim of unsolved murder.
- Johannes Quasten, 86, German Roman Catholic theologian.
11
- Joe Gladwin, 81, English actor, bronco-pneumonia complications.
12
- Woody Hayes, 74, American college football coach, heart attack.[9]
- Micheline Kahn, 97, French harpist and pianist.
- Richard Levinson, 52, American screenwriter and producer, heart attack.[10]
- Jack Marks, 92, English performer and screenwriter, lung cancer.
13
- Edward Peck Curtis, 90, American World War I flying ace AND Air Service Major General, pneumonia.
- Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi, 77, Indian Muslim scholar, jurist, literary critic and poet.
- Bernhard Grzimek, 77, German zoo director, zoologist, author and animal conservationist.[11]
- Peter Henrici, 63, Swiss mathematician.
- David Lewis, 83, American Hollywood film producer.
- Gerald Moore, 87, English classical pianist.[12]
- Hugh Roberton, 86, Australian politician, Minister for Social Services, Australian Ambassador to Ireland.
- Fela Sowande, 81, Nigerian musician and composer.
14
- Peter Beter, 65, American attorney and financier.
- Tex Fletcher, 77, American singing cowboy, actor, night club performer, and radio and television personality.
- Rushdi al-Kikhya, 87–88, Syrian political leader, Speaker of the Parliament of Syria.
- Ivor Preece, 66, English international rugby union footballer.
- Ali Muhammad Rashidi, 81, Pakistani writer, journalist, politician, and diplomat.
- Gerard Steenson, appr. 29, Irish republican paramilitary commander, ambushed and killed.
- Ian MacAlister Stewart, 91, Scottish military officer, brigadier in the British Army.
15
- Douglas Abbott, 87, Canadian Member of Parliament and justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
- W. Sterling Cole, 82, American politician, lawyer, and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency.[13]
- Red Dutton, 89, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, coach and executive.
- Léon Fleuriot, 64, French linguist and Celtic scholar.
- Don Gant, 44, American singer, songwriter and record producer, boating accident.
16
- Bob Kline, 77, American Major League baseballer.
- Vivian Martin, 93, American stage and silent-screen actress.
- Scott McKay, 71, American film, television and theatre actor, kidney failure.
- Juan Gómez Millas, 86, Chilean fascist politician and educator.
- Allan Perry-Keene, 88, English officer in the Royal Air Force, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force.
- Joseph E. Schaefer, 68, American soldier in the U.S. Army, recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War II.
- Samuel H. Shapiro, 79, American politician, Governor of Illinois.[14]
- Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, 57, Danish architect, designed the Grande Arche near Paris.
17
- Tom Cothran, 39, American musicologist and composer, AIDS.
- Georg Lammers, 81, German sprinter and Olympic medalist.
- Antonio Lopez, 44, Puerto Rican fashion illustrator, complication of AIDS.[15]
- Ron Saggers, 69, Australian Test cricketer.
- Derief Taylor, 76, Jamaican first-class cricketer and coach.
- Salvatore Toma, 35, Italian poet, suicide.
- Santo Trafficante Jr., 72, American Mafia boss, allied with Sam Giancana.
18
- Milorad Arsenijević, 80, Yugoslavian footballer and manager, and Olympian.
- Bil Baird, 82, American puppeteer, pneumonia and cancer.[16]
- Claude I. Bakewell, 74, American lawyer, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
- Lewis Bandt, 77, Australian car designer, designed and built the first utes, car accident.
- Elizabeth Poston, 81, English composer, pianist and writer.
19
- Punaloor Balan, 60, Indian writer and a poet.
- Louis de Broglie, 94, French physicist contributing to quantum theory and Nobel laureate in Physics.
- Robert-Jean Longuet, 85, French lawyer, journalist and militant socialist.
- Juan Mascaró, 89, Spanish translator.
- Ruth Meiers, 61, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota.[17]
- Emile Meyer, 76, American actor.
- Arch Oboler, 79, American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer and director.[18]
- Harold Rosenthal, 69, English music critic, writer, lecturer, and broadcaster about opera.[19]
- Tony Stratton Smith, 53, English rock music manager, founded record label Charisma Records, pancreatic cancer.
20
- Warren G. Brown, 66, American rodeo cowboy, prostate cancer.
- Licio Giorgieri, 61, Italian air force general, murdered.
- Norman Harris, 39, American guitarist, producer, music arranger and songwriter, cardiovascular disease.
- Russell Ohl, 89, American scientist, generally recognised for patenting the modern solar cell.
- Rita Streich, 66, German opera singer.
- Kenneth Threadgill, 77, American country singer and tavern owner, pulmonary embolism.
- Harry Windsor, 72, Irish-Australian cardiac surgeon.
21
- Walter L. Gordon, 81, Canadian accountant, businessman, politician and writer.[20]
- Dean Paul Martin, 35, American pop singer and film and television actor, air crash.
- Robert Preston, 68, American stage and film actor and singer, lung cancer.[21]
- Jacob Taubes, 64, Austrian sociologist of religion, philosopher and scholar of Judaism.
22
- Louis M. Hacker, 88, American economic historian, professor of economics.[22]
- Charlie Jarzombek, 44, American race car driver, racing accident..
- Bill McGuffie, 59, British pianist, film composer and conductor, cancer.
- Joan Shawlee, 61, American film and television actress, breast cancer.
23
- Emilio Giuseppe Dossena, 83, Italian painter.
- Maurice Dunand, 89, French archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East.
- Walter Walford Johnson, 82, American businessman and politician, governor of Colorado.
- Edward Lamb, 85, American businessman, broadcasting executive and labour lawyer.[23]
- Reg Lye, 74, Australian actor.
- John Mariucci, 70, American ice hockey player, administrator and coach.
- Morton Minsky, 85, American burlesque owner, co-owner of Minsky's Burlesque, cancer.[24]
- Tony Pacheco, 59, Cuban-baseballer and Major League coach.
- Herald F. Stout, 83, American admiral in the U.S. Navy.
- Ilse Totzke, 73, German musician, survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
24
- Vicente Calderón, 73, Spanish businessman, president of Atlético Madrid.
- Alan Gale, 56, Australian rules footballer and commentator, heart attack.
- Takeru Higuchi, 69, American chemist, "the father of physical pharmacy".[25]
- Sarah Goddard Power, 51, American political activist, suicide.
25
- Carolin Babcock, 74, American tennis player, U.S. Open doubles champion, stroke.
- Gusta Fučíková, 83, Czechoslovakian publicist, editor and politician.
- Ivan Ivanov-Vano, 87, Soviet animator and screenwriter.
- John Kloss, 49, American fashion designer, known for lingerie and sleepwear, suicide.[26]
- Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., 83, American diplomat and statesman, and Executive Director of UNICEF.
- Moustache, 58, French actor and jazz drummer, car accident.
26
- Walter Abel, 88, American stage, film and radio actor, myocardial infarction.[27]
- Henrieta Delavrancea, 89, Romanian architect.
- Ohene Djan, 63, Ghanaian sports administrator and politician, member of the Legislative Assembly.
- Robert Gwyn Macfarlane, 79, English hematologist.
- Georg Muche, 91, German painter, printmaker, architect, author and teacher.
- Eugen Jochum, 84, German conductor.[28]
- Mary Odette, 85, French-silent-screen actress.
- Michael Stancliffe, 70, English Anglican priest, Dean of Winchester.
27
- Giuseppe Ambrosoli, 63, Italian Catholic priest, renal failure.
- Rudolph Anders, 91, German-American actor.
- William Bowers, 71, American reporter, playwright and screenwriter.
- Tim Lee Carter, 76, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.[29]
- Erich Clar, 84, Austrian organic chemist.
- Olha Franko, 90, Ukrainian writer, creator of the first Ukrainian cookbook.
- Luis Chávez y González, 85, El Salvadoran Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of San Salvador.
- Lloyd Goodrich, 89, American art historian, cancer.[30]
- Stane Kavčič, 67, Prime Minister of Slovenia.
- Tonny Koeswoyo, 51, Indonesian rock musician and leader of the group Koes Plus.
- Peter Mason, 65, English-Australian physicist, educator and science communicator.
- Hans-Georg von der Osten, 91, German World War I flying ace and Luftwaffe commander during World War II.
- Martin Provensen, 70, American illustrator, heart attack.
28
- Horace M. Albright, 97, American conservationist, director of the National Park Service.[31]
- Alphonse Alley, 56, Beninese military officer, President of Dahomey (Benin).
- Oliver K. Kelley, 82, Finnish-American engineer involved in developing the automatic transmission.
- Lê Văn Kim, 68–69, South Vietnamese army general.
- Maria von Trapp, 82, Austrian matriarch of the Trapp family, heart failure.
- Patrick Troughton, 67, English actor, known for playing Doctor Who, heart attack.
29
- Richard Aaron, 85, Welsh philosopher.
- Lawrence Anini, appr. 26, Nigerian bandit, executed.
- Jakob Nacken, 81, German-American circus performer.
- Akaki Shanidze, 100, Georgian linguist and philologist.
- John Wiley, 60, South African cricketer and politician, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, suicide.
- Richard Wilson, 66, American science fiction writer.
30
- Pyotr Gusev, 82, Russian ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer.
- Veniamin Levich, 69, Soviet dissident, physical chemist and electro-chemist.
- Clint Murchison Jr., 63, American businessman and founder of the Dallas Cowboys football team, pneumonia.[32]
- Giorgio Pini, 88, Italian politician and journalist.
- Dorothy Ward, 96, English actress.
- Lynn Townsend White Jr., 79, American historian.
31
- David Adler, 51, American physicist and MIT professor.[33]
- Unicorn Chan, 46–47, Hong Kong actor, martial artist and stuntman, car crash.
- Ram Panjwani, 75, Indian writer and folk singer.
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- Arthur Holland, 70, English football referee.
- Lesley Osmond, 65, British actress.
- Tim Page (March 2, 1987). "GUITARIST IN COUNT BASIE BAND". The New York Times. p. D 11. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- "LACONIC COWBOY-FILM ACTOR". The New York Times. March 3, 1987. p. D 27. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- Eric Pace (March 4, 1987). "DANNY KAYE, LIMBER-LIMBED COMEDIAN, DIES". The New York Times. p. A 1. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- John S. Wilson (March 7, 1987). "EDDIE DURHAM, TROMBONIST". The New York Times. p. 1 33. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- Philip M. Boffey, Special To the New York Times (March 8, 1987). "U.S. SENATOR FROM NEBRASKA". The New York Times. p. 1 40. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- "Waldo Salt, 72, Dies; Oscar-Winning Writer". The New York Times. March 8, 1987. p. 1 40. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- "BOBBY LOCKE". The New York Times. March 11, 1987. p. B 8. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- "ROBERT COLBY, POP COMPOSER AND THEATER PRODUCER, DIES". The New York Times. March 17, 1987. p. B 8. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr. (March 13, 1987). "WOODY HAYES, FIERY COACH, IS DEAD". The New York Times. p. B 6. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- Lisa Belkin (March 13, 1987). "RICHARD LEVINSON, 52, WRITER OF TEVELSION MYSTERY SERIES". The New York Times. p. B 6. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- John Tagliabue, Special To the New York Times (March 15, 1987). "BERNHARD GRZIMEK, ZOOLOGIST AND WILDLIFE CHAMPION, DIES". The New York Times. p. 1 36. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- Tim Page (March 17, 1987). "TOP ACCOMPANIST FOR SINGERS". The New York Times. p. B 8. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- Thomas W. Ennis (March 17, 1987). "W. STERLING COLE, 82, DIES OF CANCER". The New York Times. p. B 6. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- "SAMUEL H. SHAPIRO, 79, EX-GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS". The New York Times. March 17, 1987. p. B 8. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- Anne-Marie Schiro (March 18, 1987). "WAS MAJOR FASHION ILLUSTRATOR". The New York Times. p. B 6. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- Nan Robertson (March 20, 1987). "BIL BAIRD, CREATOR OF PUPPETS, IS DEAD". The New York Times. p. B 6. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- "Lieut. Gov. Ruth Meiers Of North Dakota Dies". The New York Times. March 21, 1987. p. 1 34. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- William G. Blair (March 22, 1987). "ARCH OBOLER, WROTE THRILLERS FOR RADIO IN 1930'S AND 40'S". The New York Times. p. 1 36. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- "Harold Rosenthal, Lecturer And Opera Critic in Britain". The New York Times. March 22, 1987. p. 1 36. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- John F. Burns, Special To the New York Times (March 25, 1987). "WALTER L. GORDON, EX-CANADIAN AIDE". The New York Times. p. B 5. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- Tim Page (March 23, 1987). "ROBERT PRESTON, ACTOR, IS DEAD AT 68". The New York Times. p. B 7. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- "LOUIS M. HACKER, 88, EDUCATOR". The New York Times. March 23, 1987. p. B 7. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- "MILLIONAIRE AND LABOR LAWYER". The New York Times. March 25, 1987. p. B 5. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- "LAST OF A BURLESQUE DYNASTY". The New York Times. March 24, 1987. p. B 6. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- "TAKERU HIGUCHI". The New York Times. March 27, 1987. p. D 18. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- "John Kloss Dies at Age 49; Designed Women's Fashions". The New York Times. March 31, 1987. p. D 35. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- Jeremy Gerard (March 28, 1987). "WALTER ABEL, 88, ACTOR IN THEATER AND FILMS". The New York Times. p. 1 32. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- John Rockwell (March 28, 1987). "EUGEN JOCHUM, CONDUCTOR OF GERMAN CLASSICS". The New York Times. p. 1 32. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- "Ex-Rep. Tim L. Carter, Kentucky Republican". The New York Times. March 29, 1987. p. 1 30. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- Douglas C. McGill (March 28, 1987). "LLOYD GOODRICH, ART EXPERT, DIES: EX-DIRECTOR OF WHITNEY MUSEUM". The New York Times. p. 1 32. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- "Horace Albright Dies; Founded Park Service". The New York Times. March 29, 1987. p. 1 30. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- Peter H. Frank, Special To the New York Times (April 1, 1987). "C.W. MURCHISON JR. DIES IN TEXAS AT 63". The New York Times. p. B 5. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- "David Adler, 51, Physicist; Expert on Semiconductors". The New York Times. April 3, 1987. p. B 5. Retrieved May 4, 2024.