Deaths_in_September_1987
The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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
- Dennis Coi, 26, Canadian figure skater, AIDS.
- Gerhard Fieseler, 91, German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion and aircraft designer and manufacturer.
- Philip Friend, 72, British film and television actor.
- Arnaldo Momigliano, 78, Italian historian of classical antiquity.
- Alan Reid, 72, Australian political journalist, lung and stomach cancer.
- Pinky Whitney, 82, American Major League baseballer.
2
- William Borm, 92, German politician, member of the Bundestag (1965-1972).[1]
- Cam Carreon, 50, American Major League baseballer.
- Brian Clay, 52, Australian rugby league footballer.
- LeGrande A. Diller, American officer in the U.S. Army.
- Ken Flower, 73, English-Rhodesian police officer and intelligence chief.
- Remzi Aydın Jöntürk, 50, Turkish filmmaker, actor, screenwriter and producer, traffic accident.
- Ramesh Naidu, 55, Indian music composer, instrumentalist and singer.
- Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, 60, Argentine Army division general and politician, de facto President of Argentina.
- Stephen B. Small, 40, American businessman, kidnapped and held for ransom, asphyxiation during captivity.
3
- Diana Caldwell, 73, English society femme fatale figure, best known for her part in the murder of Lord Erroll in 1941.
- Carter W. Clarke, 90. American intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, heart attack.[2]
- Ned Day, 42, American journalist and newspaper reporter, heart attack.
- Morton Feldman, 61, American composer, pancreatic cancer.[3]
- Maxwell Fry, 88, English modernist architect, writer and painter.
- Doris Gates, 85, American writer of children's fiction.
- Merlin Minshall, 80, British naval officer and adventurer.
- Aleksandr Nadiradze, 73, Georgian engineer, involved in militarising the Soviet spase program.
- Viktor Nekrasov, 76, Soviet writer, journalist and editor.[4]
- Lee Theodore, 54, American Broadway theater director, choreographer, performer and dance archivist.[5]
- Rusty Wescoatt, 76, American supporting actor.
4
- Bill Bowes, 79, English test cricketer, player in the Bodyline series, heart attack.
- George M. Chinn, 85, American weapons expert and soldier.
- Richard Marquand, 49, Welsh film and television director, stroke.[6]
5
- Richard D. Adams, 78, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.
- Wolfgang Fortner, 79, German composer and conductor.
- Scott Irwin, 35, American professional wrestler, brain tumour.
- Salvador Lutteroth, 90, Mexican professional wrestling promoter.
- Quinn Martin, 65, American television producer, heart attack.[7]
6
- Jack d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 74, British Army major general and politician, Member of Parliament.
- Arun Kumar Choudhury, 64, Indian founding head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Calcutta.
- William Haley, 86, British newspaper editor and broadcasting administrator.
- Paul Hiebert, 95, Canadian writer and humorist (Sarah Binks).
7
- Gordon Gollob, 75, Austrian fighter pilot during World War II, fighter ace.
- Harry Locke, 73, English actor.
8
- Robert Sharples, 74, British musical conductor, composer and bandleader.
9
- Sam Brody, 80, English-founding member of the Workers Film and Photo League, injuries from a fall.[8]
- Tom Davis, 76, Irish international footballer.
- Bill Fraser, 79, Scottish stage, screen and television actor, emphysema.
- Gunnar de Frumerie, 79, Swedish composer and pianist.
- Gerrit Jan Heijn, 56, Dutch businessman, murdered after abduction.
- Vratislav Mazák, 50, Czech biologist specialising in paleoanthropology, mammalogy and taxonomy.
- Al Read, 78, British radio comedian, stroke.
- Dora Zaslavsky, 83, Russian-American pianist.
10
- Benjamin Howard Baker, 95, English international footballer, high jumper and triple jumper, dual Olympian.
11
- Kerstin Bernadotte, 76, Swedish journalist, aristocrat and magazine editor.
- Hugh David, 62, British actor and television director (Doctor Who).
- Charles Fleming, 71, New Zealand geologist and ornithologist.
- Lorne Greene, 72, Canadian actor, radio personality and singer, pneumonia.
- Harry Gale Nye Jr., 79, American industrialist, entrepreneur and world champion sailor.
- Hervey Rhodes, 92, British politician, Member of Parliament.
- Sandilyan, 76, Indian writer.
- Manikuntala Sen, 75–76, member of the Communist Party of India.
- Nareshchandra Singh, 78, Indian ruler of Sarangarh State.
- Surendra, 76, Indian singer-actor.
- Peter Tosh, 42, Jamaican reggae singer and musician, murdered after being taken hostage at his home.
- Mahadevi Varma, 80, Indian poet, essayist and sketch story writer.
- John Lloyd Waddy, 70, Australian officer in the Royal Australian Air Force and politician.
- Frank Wiziarde, 71, American actor and television personality.
12
- J. Lawton Collins, 91, American Army general, Chief of Staff of the United States Army.[9]
- William Dickson, 88, British aviator of the Royal Naval Air Service and Marshal of the Royal Air Force.
- John Qualen, 87, Canadian-American actor, heart failure.
- John J. Voll, 65, American career officer in the U.S. Air Force, World War II flying ace.
13
- Aníbal Gordon, Argentine suspected of being a leader of the Triple A death squad, lung cancer.
- Mervyn LeRoy, 86, American film producer, director and actor, heart issues complicated by Alzheimer's disease.
14
- Julien Kialunda, 37, Congolese footballer, international player for Zaire, AIDS.
- Erik Lundberg, 80, Swedish economist.[10]
- Stormont Mancroft, 73, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
- Arthur W. Vanaman, 95, American major general in the U.S. Air Corps and Air Force.
- Henry Wrigley, 95, Australian Air Vice Marshal in the Royal Australian Air Force.
15
- David Akui, 67, American soldier, captured first Japanese prisoner of war in World War II.
- Wilhelm Berlin, 98, German Nazi general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.
- Leon Hirszman, 49, Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter, AIDS.[11]
- Harry Holcombe, 80, American actor and radio director.
- Moazzam Jah, 79, Indian royal, son of the last Nizam of Hyderabad.
- Nilo Menéndez, 84, Cuban-American songwriter.
- George Edward Pendray, 86, American author, founder of the American Interplanetary Society.
- Joe Reisman, 62, American musician, bandleader, arranger and record producer.
16
- William Richard Joseph Cook, 82, British mathematician, leader in the development of the hydrogen bomb, stroke.
- Simon Gipps-Kent, 28, English theatre and film actor, morphine poisoning.
- Howard Moss, 65, American poet, dramatist and critic, heart attack.[12]
- Christopher Soames, 66, British politician, Member of Parliament, pancreatitis.
17
- K. Jack Bauer, 62, American writer and naval historian, heart attack.[13]
- Vladimir Basov, 64, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter, stroke.
- Francis E. Dorn, 76, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.[14]
- George Dwyer, 78, English Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Birmingham.
- Musa Gareyev, 65, Soviet Air Force squadron leader, cancer.
- Carol Henry, 69, American actor.
- Henry Kroeger, 70, Russian-Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta, complications of lymphoma, pneumonia and blood infection.
- Philip Wayne Powell, 73–74, American historian specialising in Spanish colonial history of the American Southwest, heart attack.
- Dieter Schidor, 39, German actor, AIDS.
18
- Golbery do Couto e Silva, 76, Brazilian army general and politician, Chief of Staff of the Presidency.
- Frederic Fitch, 79, American logician, professor at Yale University.
- Olinka Hrdy, 85, American artist.
- Emil Schram, 93, president of the New York Stock Exchange.[15]
- Américo Tomás, 92, Portuguese Navy officer and politician, President of Portugal, infection.
19
- Lean Alejandro, 27, Filipino student leader and nationalist political activist, assassinated.
- Betty Burbridge, 91, American screenwriter and actress.
- Einar Gerhardsen, 90, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway.[16]
- Nyamyn Jagvaral, 68, Mongolian politician, statesman and economist, Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural.
- Muhammad Mansuruddin, 83, Bangladeshi author, literary critic and essayist.
- Graciela Olivarez, 59, American lawyer, advocate for civil rights and for the poor.
- Ralph Steinhauer, 82, Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Alberta.
- Ken Uston, 52, American blackjack player, heart failure.
20
- George William Goddard, 98, English-American brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force.
- Greville Howard, 78, British politician, Member of Parliament.
- K. C. S. Mani, 65, Indian socialist activist, attempted to assassinate C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer.
- Michael Stewart, 63, American playwright and dramatist, librettist, lyricist, screenwriter and novelist.[17]
- Péter Török, 36, Hungarian international footballer.
21
- Aimo Aaltonen, 81, Finnish politician, leader of the Communist Party of Finland.
- Sven Andersson, 77, Swedish politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
- Ruth Attaway, 77, American film and stage actress, injuries from a fire.[18]
- John Chandos, 70, Scottish film and television actor.
- William Kwai-sun Chow, 73, American martial artist.
- J. Clyde Morris, 78, American civic leader.
- Jaco Pastorius, 35, American jazz bassist, composer and producer, brain hemorrhage after being attacked at a club.
22
- Hákun Djurhuus, 78, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
- H. R. Gross, 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, complications from Alzheimer's disease.[19]
- Norman Luboff, 70, American music arranger, music publisher and choir director, lung cancer.[20]
- Carman Maxwell, 84, American animator and voice actor.
- Dan Rowan, 65, American actor and comedian, lymphoma.[21]
23
- Walter M. Baumhofer, 82, American illustrator.
- Bob Fosse, 60, American actor, choreographer, dancer, and film and stage director, heart attack.
- Louis Kentner, 82, Hungarian and British pianist.
- Rajendra Krishan, 68, Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter.
- Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, 34, Dutch-American wrestler, opera singer and actor, heart failure.
- O. B. McClinton, 47, American country music singer and songwriter, abdominal cancer.
24
- Drew Bundini Brown, 59, American assistant trainer and cornerman of Muhammad Ali.
- John Nelson Cooper, 80, American custom knifemaker, founding member of the Knifemakers' Guild.
- Damiaen Joan van Doorninck, 85, Dutch officer, lieutenant commander in the Royal Netherlands Navy Reserve.
- Erhard Kroeger, 82, Nazi German SS officer, involved in the resettlement of Baltic Germans before World War II.
- Dorothy Meyer, 62, American film and television actress.
- Victor Mollo, 78, British contract bridge player, journalist and author.
- Joseph Tabenkin, 66, Israeli military commander.
25
- Mary Astor, 81, American actress, respiratory failure due to pulmonary emphysema.[22]
- Gerald Chapman, 37, English theatre director, AIDS.
- Duffy Daugherty, 72, American college football player and coach.
- Hassan El-Hassani, 71, Algerian comedian.
- Harry Holtzman, 75, American artist and founding member of the American Abstract Artists.[23]
- Victoria Kent, 96, Spanish lawyer and republican politician.[24]
- Abba Kovner, 69, Lithuanian-Jewish partisan leader, Israeli poet and writer, laryngeal cancer.[25]
- Gennady Mikhasevich, 40, Soviet serial killer, executed.
- Emlyn Williams, 81, Welsh writer, dramatist and actor, complications from bowel cancer.[26]
26
- Edgar Anstey, 80, British documentary filmmaker.
- Ethel Catherwood, 79, Canadian high jumper and javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist.
- Co Prins, 49, Dutch international football, heart attack.
- Andi Ramang, 63, Indonesian international footballer.
- Howard W. Robison, 71, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
- Sergio Santander, 33, Chilean race car driver, racing crash.
- Herbert Tichy, 75, Austrian writer, geologist, journalist and climber.
27
- John Newbold Camp, 79, American businessman, banker and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
- J. N. Findlay, 83, South African philosopher.
- Robert Benjamin Greenblatt, 80–81, Canadian endocrinologist.
- Maria Guardiola, 92, Portuguese teacher and politician, anti-feminist.
- M. K. K. Nair, 66, Indian bureaucrat and art connoisseur, officer of the Indian Administrative Service, cancer.
- Eddy de Wind, 71, Dutch Holocaust survivor, physician, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
28
- Willard Harrison Bennett, 84, American plasma physicist.
- Roman Brandstaetter, 81, Polish writer, poet, playwright, journalist and translator, heart attack.
- Mehdi Hashemi, 42–43, Iranian Shi'a cleric, senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, executed.
- Belle Linsky, 82–83, Ukrainian-American businesswoman and philanthropist.[27]
- Ray Madden, 95, American lawyer, politician and World War I veteran, member of U.S. House of Representatives.[28]
29
- Darach Ó Catháin, 64, Irish sean-nós singer.
- Elizabeth Eden, 41, American trans woman, AIDS-related pneumonia.[29]
- Henry Ford II, 70, American president of Ford Motor Company, pneumonia.
- Vinodini Nilkanth, 80, Indian writer and translator.
- Sebastian Peschko, 77, German classical pianist.
- Mario Prestifilippo, 28, Italian member of the Sicilian Mafia, suspected murderer, shot.
30
- Alfred Bester, 73, American science fiction author, TV, radio and comics scriptwriter, complications from broken hip.
- Geoffrey Bowers, 33, American attorney.
- Geoffrey Burridge, 38, English theatre and television actor, AIDS.
- Herbert Sobel, 75, American soldier in World War II, his story featured in Stephen E. Ambrose's book Band of Brothers, malnutrition.
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- A. K. Brohi, 72, Pakistani politician and lawyer.
- Ephraim Hertzano, 74–75, Romanian-Israeli board game designer, inventor of the game Rummikub.
- Alice Rahon, 83, French-Mexican poet and artist.
- "WILLIAM BORM". The New York Times. September 4, 1987. p. D 15. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- "Carter W. Clarke Dies at 90; An Army Intelligence Officer". The New York Times. September 7, 1987. p. 1 24. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- John Rockwell (September 4, 1987). "Morton Feldman Dies at 61; An Experimental Composer". The New York Times. p. D 15. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- "Viktor P. Nekrasov, Stalin Prize Winner Denounced for Book". The New York Times. September 5, 1987. p. 1 29. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- Jennifer Dunning (September 5, 1987). "Lee Theodore, 54, a Dancer And Choreographer, Is Dead". The New York Times. p. 1 29. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- Constance L. Hays (September 6, 1987). "RICHARD MARQUAND,MOVIEMAKER, DIES". The New York Times. p. 1 44. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- Wolfgang Saxon (September 7, 1987). "Quinn Martin Is Dead at 65; Produced Popular TV Series". The New York Times. p. 1 24. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- "Sam Brody, Maker of Films On Labor and Social Justice". The New York Times. September 22, 1987. p. B 20. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- "Gen. J. Lawton Collins, 91; Led World War II Troops". The New York Times. September 14, 1987. p. B 16. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- "ERIK LUNDBERG". The New York Times. September 17, 1987. p. B 14. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- "Leon Hirszman, 49, Is Dead; A Top Brazilian Film Director". The New York Times. September 18, 1987. p. B 5. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- Edwin McDowell (September 17, 1987). "Howard Moss, 65, Poetry Editor Of The New Yorker 40 Years". The New York Times. p. B 14. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- "K. JACK BAUER". The New York Times. October 1, 1987. p. D 26. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- "F.E. DORN, EX-CONGRESSMAN". The New York Times. September 19, 1987. p. 1 37. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- Peter B. Flint (September 19, 1987). "Emil Schram, Ex-President Of Stock Exchange, Is Dead". The New York Times. p. 1 37. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- Peter Kerr (September 20, 1987). "Einar Gerhardsen Dies at 90; Led Norway as Welfare State". The New York Times. p. 1 60. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- Jeremy Gerard (September 21, 1987). "Michael Stewart Is Dead 63; Author of Broadway Musicals". The New York Times. p. B 16. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- "Ruth Attaway, Actress, Dies Of Injuries in Apartment Fire". The New York Times. September 24, 1987. p. D 23. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- Winston W. Williams (September 24, 1987). "IOWA CONGRESSMAN". The New York Times. p. D 23. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- "Norman Luboff, Head Of Choir and Composer". The New York Times. September 24, 1987. p. D 23. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- Jeremy Gerard (September 23, 1987). "Dan Rowan, 65, a Comedian And a 'Laugh-In' Host, Dies". The New York Times. p. D 31. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- Peter B. Flint (September 26, 1987). "Mary Astor, 81, Is Dead; Star of 'Maltese Falcon'". The New York Times. p. 1 34. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- Grace Glueck (September 29, 1987). "Harry Holtzman, Artist, Dies; An Expert on Piet Mondrian". The New York Times. p. D 34. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- "Victoria Kent, 90, Who Led Magazine Opposed to Franco". The New York Times. September 29, 1987. p. D 34. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- "Abba Kovner, Israeli Poet, Dies". The New York Times. September 27, 1987. p. 1 46. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- Albin Krebs (September 26, 1987). "EMLYN WILLIAMS, WELSH ACTOR AND WRITER, DIES". The New York Times. p. 1 35. Retrieved October 18, 2016.
- "Belle Linsky, Philanthropist And Art Collector, Dies at 83". The New York Times. October 1, 1987. p. D 26. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- "Ray Madden, 95, Dies; Former Congressman". The New York Times. September 29, 1987. p. D 34. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
- "Elizabeth Eden, Transsexual Who Figured in 1975 Movie". The New York Times. October 1, 1987. p. D 26. Retrieved April 27, 2024.