Deaths in August 1988

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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 1988.

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.

August 1988

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1

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  • Zoltán Bitskey, 84, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (1924).
  • Orville Carlisle, 71, American inventor of the model rocket motor.[1]
  • Red Coffey, 65, American voice actor and comedian (Tom and Jerry).
  • John Dearden, 80, American Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Detroit, pancreatic cancer.[2]
  • Emanoil Dumitrescu, 81, Romanian footballer.
  • Florence Eldridge, 86, American actress (Long Day's Journey into Night).[3]
  • Yoshimoto Ishin, 72, Japanese businessman and Jodo Shinshu Buddhist priest.[4]
  • Kim Yong-ki, 79, South Korean agrarian movement leader.
  • Sheldon Kinser, 45, American race car driver, cancer.[5]
  • John F. Laboon, 67, American officer in the U.S. Navy and Roman Catholic chaplain.[6]
  • Steve Mills, 34, English footballer (Southampton), leukemia.[7]
  • Hélène Vallier, 56, French film, stage, and television actress.
  • Georges Wambst, 86, French Olympic cyclist (1924).[8]
  • Gertrude Welcker, 92, German stage and silent-screen actress (Chronicles of the Gray House, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler).[9]

2

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  • Steve Anderson, 82, American Olympic hurdler (1928).
  • Bob Berman, 89, American MLB player (Washington Senators).
  • Jack Breslin, 68, American university administrator (Michigan State University).[10]
  • Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate, the "Green Grocer", intestinal cancer.[11]
  • Raymond Carver, 50, American short-story writer (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral), lung cancer.[12]
  • Karl Ebb, 91, Finnish racing driver and Olympic athlete (1924).
  • Nityanand Kanungo, 88, Indian politician, governor of Bihar and Gujarat, member of Lok Sabha.[13]
  • Nada Klaić, 68, Croatian historian.[14]
  • Gustav Kristiansen, 84, Norwegian Olympic cyclist (1928).
  • José Magriñá, 70, Cuban footballer (national team).
  • Valle Resko, 78, Finnish Olympic boxer (1928, 1948).
  • Robert Emmet Smith, 73, American art director and production designer (King Rat).

3

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  • Lillian Bilocca, 59, British fisheries worker, known for improving safety in the fishing industry, peritoneal cancer.[15]
  • Campbell Copelin, 87, English-born Australian actor.
  • Tucker McGuire, 75, American-born British film and television actress.[16]
  • Krishnaswami Ramiah, 96, Indian agricultural scientist and geneticist, director of National Rice Research Institute.[17]
  • Vic Watson, 90, English international footballer (West Ham United, England).[18]
  • Harlan Wilson, 74, American basketball player.

4

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  • Sir Allan Adair, 90, British army general.[19]
  • Brian Brake, 61, New Zealand photographer, heart attack.[20]
  • Charles B. Brownson, 74, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1951-1959).
  • Leonard Kuypers, 89, Dutch Olympic fencer (1928).
  • Richard Leppla, 74, Nazi German fighter ace.[21]
  • Peter Lowe, 53, English cricketer.
  • George Commey Mills-Odoi, 72, Ghanaian judge and Attorney General.[22]
  • Carl Monson, 55, American exploitation film director and producer.
  • Bernard Schubert, 93, American screenwriter and television producer.
  • Ofelia Uribe de Acosta, 87, Colombian author, editor and suffragist.[23]
  • Joe Vandeleur, 84, Indian-born Anglo-Irish British Army officer.[24]
  • Harry Lee Waterfield, 77, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.[25]

5

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  • Red Davis, 80, American NFL player (Portsmouth Spartans, Philadelphia Eagles).
  • James Devereux, 85, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1951-1959), pneumonia.[26]
  • Colin Higgins, 47, French-Australian-American screenwriter, actor and director (Harold and Maude, 9 to 5), AIDS.[27]
  • Arif Hussain Hussaini, 41, Indian-Pakistani revolutionary leader, assassinated.[28]
  • James M. Masters Sr., 77, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps, cancer.[29]
  • Ralph Meeker, 67, American actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Paths of Glory), heart attack.[30]
  • Ralph Michaels, 86, American MLB player (Chicago Cubs).
  • Gil North, 72, British author of detective stories (Cluff).[31]
  • Józef Pieracki, 78, Polish actor.
  • Henry George Templar, 83, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Kansas).

6

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  • John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, 79, English thriller, detective and spy novelist (My Name Is Michael Sibley), MI5 spy.[32]
  • Hec Farrell, 65, Australian rugby league footballer.
  • Gord Garvie, 43, Canadian Olympic wrestler (1968).
  • James Hervey Johnson, 87, American atheist, writer and editor of The Truth Seeker, white supremacist, heart attack.
  • Anatoly Levchenko, 47, Soviet cosmonaut, brain tumour.[33]
  • Illa Martin, 88, German dendrologist, botanist, conservationist and dentist.
  • Francis Ponge, 89, French poet.[34]
  • J. Skelly Wright, 77, American circuit judge, prostate cancer.[35]

7

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  • Juraj Amšel, 63, Yugoslavian Olympic water polo player (1948, 1952, 1956).
  • George Chalmers, 79, American football player.
  • David L. Hoggan, 65, American author, neo-Nazi, anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, heart attack.[36]
  • Wilfred Jackson, 82, American animator (Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphony).[37]
  • Lucio Manzin, 74, Italian Olympic equestrian (1952).
  • Gajo Raffanelli, 75, Croatian footballer.
  • David E. Skinner II, 67–68, American shipping heir, owner of the Space Needle and Seattle Seahawks, cancer.[38]

8

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  • Alan Ameche, 55, American NFL player (Baltimore Colts), heart attack.[39]
  • Kid Chocolate, 78, Cuban boxer, World Junior Lightweight Champion.[40]
  • George Estregan, 49, Filipino film actor.[41]
  • Henri Frenay, 82, French military officer and member of the French Resistance.[42]
  • Violet Hackbarth, 68, American AAGPBL player.
  • William Kininmonth, 83, Scottish architect.[43]
  • Félix Leclerc, 82, Canadian singer-songwriter, heart attack.[44]
  • Ragnar Lennartsson, 78, Swedish footballer.
  • Liu Liangmo, 78, Chinese musician and Christian leader.
  • Alan Napier, 85, English actor (Batman), pneumonia.[45]
  • Dominic Serventy, 84, Australian ornithologist, president of Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.[46]

9

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  • Woodrow Adams, 71, American blues guitarist and harmonica player.[47]
  • Joe Bruce, 83, Australian rules footballer.
  • Jimmie Fidler, 89, American columnist, journalist and radio and television personality.[48]
  • M. Carl Holman, 69, American civil rights advocate (Civil Rights Commission), cancer.[49]
  • Giacinto Scelsi, 83, Italian composer, cerebral hemorrhage.[50]
  • Ramón Valdés, 63, Mexican actor and comedian (El Chavo del Ocho), stomach cancer.[51]

10

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  • Arnulfo Arias, 86, Panamanian politician, President of Panama, heart attack.[52]
  • Antoine Blanchard, 77, French painter (Cafe de la Paix).[53]
  • Jean Brachet, 79, Belgian biochemist (RNA).[54]
  • Gerd Grieg, 93, Norwegian actress.[55]
  • Benny Johnson, 40, American NFL football player (Houston Oilers), heart attack.[56]
  • Guido Mannari, 43, Italian actor (The Driver's Seat), heart attack.[57]
  • Aleksander Margiste, 80, Estonian Olympic basketball player (1936).
  • Havzi Nela, 54, Albanian poet, executed.[58]
  • Adela Rogers St. Johns, 94, American journalist, novelist and screenwriter, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.[59]
  • Paul Thek, 54, American painter and sculptor, AIDS.[60]

11

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  • Roland Allard, 77, French Olympic alpine skier (1936).
  • Nellikode Bhaskaran, 64, Indian Malayalam actor (Sarapancharam).
  • John Byer, 84, Barbadian cricketer.
  • Alfred Kelbassa, 63, German international footballer (STV Horst-Emscher, Borussia Dortmund, West Germany).[61]
  • Pauline Lafont, 25, French actress, hiking accident.[62]
  • James Alexander McBain, 78, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1954-1965).
  • K. Avukader Kutty Naha, 68, Indian politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Kerala.[63]
  • Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, 56, French opera director, pulmonary embolism following a fall.[64]
  • Anne Ramsey, 59, American actress (The Goonies, Throw Momma from the Train), cancer.[65]
  • Jack Regan, 75, Australian rules footballer (Collingwood).[66]

12

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  • Jean-Michel Basquiat, 27, American artist (Hollywood Africans), heroin overdose.[67]
  • Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar, 92, Indian guru, writer and spiritual leader.
  • Caja Heimann, 69, Danish film actress.
  • Sakuta Takefushi, 82, Japanese Olympic cross-country skier (1928).

13

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  • Mel Almada, 75, Mexican Major League baseballer (Boston Red Sox).[68]
  • Fred Below, 61, American blues drummer, liver cancer.[69]
  • Per Digerud, 55, Norwegian Olympic cyclist (1960).
  • Keith Hancock, 90, Australian historian and academic.[70]
  • Martin Hellinger, 84, Nazi German dentist, convicted war criminal, tasked with removing gold filling from corpses at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
  • Thomas Henty, 32, English actor, haemophilia.
  • John Wendell Holmes, 78, Canadian diplomat, Canadian delegate to the United Nations.[71]
  • Gajanan Jagirdar, 81, Indian film director, screenwriter and actor, heart attack.[72]
  • Peggy Mann, 69, American Big Band singer.[73]
  • Otto Passman, 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1947-1977), heart attack.[74]
  • William H. Phelps Jr., 85, Venezuelan ornithologist and businessman, circulatory problems.[75]
  • Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao, 72, Indian author, author of the National Pledge of India.[76]
  • Tenor Saw, 21, Jamaican dancehall singjay, hit and run accident.[77]
  • Gordon H. Scherer, 81, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1953-1963), heart attack.[78]
  • Edward Bennett Williams, 68, American lawyer and businessman, co-founder of Williams & Connolly, colon cancer.[79]

14

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  • Roy Buchanan, 48, American guitarist and blues musician, suicide.[80]
  • Robert Calvert, 43, South African–born British writer, poet and musician, heart attack.[81]
  • Michael Crowder, 54, British historian and author.[82]
  • Enzo Ferrari, 90, Italian motor racing driver and car maker, leukemia.[83]
  • William Gumley, 65, Australian cricketer.
  • Kōri Hisataka, 81, Japanese founder of Shōrinjiryū Kenkōkan Karate.
  • Andrew Young McLean, 79, Canadian newspaper publisher and politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1949-1953).
  • Kailas Nath Wanchoo, 85, Indian Chief Justice.[84]
  • Monroe Wheeler, 89, American publisher and museum coordinator (Museum of Modern Art), stroke.[85]

15

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  • Bill Beason, 80, American jazz drummer.
  • Barry Bingham Sr., 82, American media patriarch in Louisville, Kentucky, brain tumour.[86]
  • Rudy Collins, 54, American jazz drummer.[87]
  • Han Deqin, 95, Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army.[88]
  • Ronald Stein, 58, American film composer, pancreatic cancer.[89]
  • Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, 86, German composer and music historian.[90]
  • Hartman Turnbow, 83, Mississippi orator and activist during the Civil Rights Movement.[91]

16

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  • Rashad Barmada, 74–75, Syrian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Syria.
  • Alan Danson, 60, British Olympic cyclist (1956).
  • Smokey Haangala, 38, Zambian poet and composer.[92]
  • John Hodgkins, 72, English cricketer.
  • Georgi Keranov, 66, Bulgarian Olympic sports shooter (1952).
  • Herbert Pagani, 44, Italian artist and musician, leukaemia.[93]

17

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  • Lennart Bunke, 76, Swedish footballer.
  • Jack Cutting, 80, American international content supervisor and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios.[94]
  • Nino Frank, 84, Italian-born French film critic and writer, coined the term "film noir".[95]
  • Bruce Humber, 74, Canadian Olympic sprinter (1936).
  • Hironobu Kaneko, 90, Japanese painter.
  • Bruno Mathsson, 81, Swedish architect and furniture designer.
  • Connie Meijer, 25, Dutch cyclist, heart attack.[96]
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 74, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1949-1955), lung cancer.[97]
  • Victoria Shaw, 53, Australian film and television actress, emphysema.[98]
  • Samuel Silkin, 70, British politician, Attorney General for England and Wales.[99]
  • Jack Straus, 58, American professional poker player, aortic aneurysm.[100]
  • Bob Troughton, 84, Australian rules footballer.
  • Notable people killed in the 1988 PAF C-130B crash:
    • Akhtar Abdur Rahman, 64, Pakistani Army general.[101]
    • Arnold Lewis Raphel, 45, American diplomat, ambassador to Pakistan.[102]
    • Siddique Salik, 52, Pakistani army officer.[103]
    • Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 64, Pakistani military officer, President of Pakistan (since 1978).[104]

18

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  • Frederick Ashton, 83, British ballet dancer and choreographer (Symphonic Variations, Ondine).[105]
  • Felix Maria Davídek, 67, Czechoslovakian Roman Catholic bishop.[106]
  • Li Gotami Govinda, 92, Indian painter, writer and composer.[107]
  • Seiryū Inoue, 56–57, Japanese photographer.[108]
  • Gary Little, 49, American judge, focus of sexual abuse allegations, suicide.[109]
  • Michael Perrin, 82, Canadian-born British scientist, directed first British atomic bomb program.[110]
  • Jessica Powers, 83, American poet and nun, stroke.[111]
  • Ernst Simon, 88, German educator and religious philosopher.[112]

19

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  • Cyril Adams, 90, English cricketer and RAF officer.
  • Clary Anderson, 77, American football and baseball player and coach.
  • Enrico Cerulli, 90, Italian scholar of Somali and Ethiopian studies, Governor of Scioa and Harar, ambassador to Iran.[113]
  • Patrick Donner, 83, British Member of Parliament.[114]
  • Bjørn Elvenes, 44, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player (1964).
  • Don Haggerty, 74, American actor (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Sands of Iwo Jima).[115]
  • Russ Hathaway, 92, American NFL player.
  • Johan Møller Warmedal, 74, Norwegian politician.
  • Jerome Zerbe, 84, American photographer.[116]

20

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  • Jean-Paul Aron, 63, French writer and journalist, AIDS.[117]
  • John Cock, 70, Australian-born British WWII flying ace.
  • Harry Dingley, 85, British Olympic boxer (1924).
  • Stuart Leary, 55, South African footballer and cricketer.
  • Carlos Marcenaro, 76, Peruvian Olympic middle-distance runner (1936).
  • Leon McAuliffe, 71, American Western swing guitarist.[118]
  • Joan G. Robinson, 78, British author and illustrator of children's books (When Marnie Was There).[119]
  • Lazarus Salii, 51, Palau politician, President of Palau, suicide.[120]

21

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  • H. G. Adler, 78, Czechoslovakian-English poet and novelist, Holocaust survivor, heart failure.[121]
  • Marcel Chauvenet, 82, French sculptor.
  • Teddy Diaz, 25, Filipino musician and composer (The Dawn), murdered.
  • Ray Eames, 78, American artist and designer.[122]
  • Chris Gittins, 86, British actor (The Archers).[123]
  • Eino Kirjonen, 55, Finnish Olympic ski jumper (1956, 1960).
  • Stuart Leary, 55, South African footballer (Charlton Athletic) and first-class cricketer, suicide.[124]
  • Andrew McDonald, 89, American college football and basketball player and coach (Springfield/ SW Missouri State Bears).
  • Jack McGill, 78, Canadian NHL player (Montreal Canadiens).
  • Henryk Mikunda, 71, Polish footballer.
  • Jerry Warren, 63, American film director, screenwriter and actor (Teenage Zombies), lung cancer.[125]

22

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  • Bruno Bianchi, 84, Italian Olympic sailor (1936, 1948).
  • Bob Daughters, 74, American MLB player (Boston Red Sox).
  • Rejhan Demirdžić, 61, Bosnian half of comedy duo Momo and Uzeir.[126]
  • Milo Gmür, 69-70, Swiss Olympic equestrian (1956).

23

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  • Gerald Drayson Adams, 88, Canadian-American business executive and film writer (Dead Reckoning, The Big Steal).[127]
  • José Manuel de Sousa e Faro Nobre de Carvalho, 76, Portuguese army general, Governor of Macau.
  • C. Desmond Greaves, 74, English Marxist activist and historian.[128]
  • Laud Humphreys, 57, American sociologist and Episcopal priest, lung cancer.[129]
  • Josef Klehr, 83, Nazi German SS-Oberscharführer, concentration camp supervisor and war criminal.
  • Hans Lewy, 83, Prussian-born American mathematician (partial differential equations), leukemia.[130]
  • Alf Martinsen, 76, Norwegian Olympic footballer (1936).
  • Menotti Del Picchia, 96, Brazilian poet, journalist and painter.
  • Jack Sher, 75, American newspaper columnist and film writer (Goodbye, Raggedy Ann), respiratory and heart problems.[131]
  • Robert Walcott, 78, American historian.[132]

24

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  • Pierre Béchu, 29, French Olympic ice dancer (1984).
  • C. Chhunga, 72, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Mizoram.
  • Leonard Frey, 49, American actor (Fiddler on the Roof), AIDS.[133]
  • Charlie Harbour, 64, Australian rules footballer.
  • Kenneth Leighton, 58, British composer and pianist, oesophageal cancer.[134]
  • Abu Jafar Shamsuddin, 77, Bangladeshi writer.[135]
  • Nat Stuckey, 54, American country singer ("Sweet Thang"), lung cancer.[136]

25

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  • Caziel, 82, Polish-born artist.[137]
  • Price Daniel, 77, American jurist and politician, Governor of Texas, stroke.[138]
  • Françoise Dolto, 79, French pediatrician and psychoanalyst, pulmonary fibrosis.[139]
  • Percy Foreman, 86, American criminal defense attorney (James Earl Ray), cardiac arrest.[140]
  • Henry Joseph Gallagher, 73, British soldier in the Korean War (Distinguished Conduct Medal).
  • Gilbert Gil, 74, French film actor.
  • Jimmy Lloyd, 69, American actor (The Sea Hound).[141]
  • Irving Mansfield, 80, American producer, publicist and writer, heart attack.[142]
  • Art Rooney, 87, American owner of Pittsburgh Steelers NFL team, stroke.[143]
  • Ron Slocum, 43, American MLB player (San Diego Padres).
  • Karlo Toth, 81, Yugoslavian Olympic wrestler (1936).

26

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  • Del Bjork, 74, American NFL player (Chicago Bears).
  • Donald De Lue, 90, American sculptor (Harvey S. Firestone Memorial).[144]
  • Jack Dempsey, 76, American NFL player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Eagles).
  • Kitty Doner, 92, American vaudeville performer.
  • Hans Esser, 79, German Olympic fencer (1936, 1952).
  • Oscar Marzaroli, 55, Italian-born Scottish photographer, cancer.[145]
  • Carlos Paião, 30, Portuguese singer and songwriter, car accident.[146]
  • Fred Peart, 74, British politician, leader of the Houses of Lords and Commons.[147]
  • Milton Sperling, 76, American film producer and screenwriter, owner of United States Pictures, cancer.[148]

27

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  • Lala Aragami, 65, Indian poet.
  • Stan Ashby, 81, British Olympic middle-distance runner (1928).
  • Jinavajiralongkorn, 91, Supreme Patriarch of Thailand.
  • Max Black, 79, Azerbaijani-born British-American philosopher of language, mathematics, science and art, heart complications.[149]
  • Charles Farrell, 88, Irish-born stage, film and television actor.[150]
  • Gunther von Fritsch, 82, Austro-Hungarian born American film director (The Curse of the Cat People), stroke.[151]
  • Irene Higginbotham, 70, American songwriter and concert pianist ("Good Morning Heartache").[152]
  • John Lie, 77, Indonesian Navy rear admiral, stroke.
  • Mario Montenegro, 60, Filipino film actor, heart attack.[153]
  • John Riordan, 85, American mathematician and author (combinatorics), Alzheimer's disease.[154]
  • William Sargant, 81, British psychiatrist (electroconvulsive therapy).[155]
  • Costas Taktsis, 60, Greek writer, murdered.[156]
  • Benjamin Willis, 86, American educator and school administrator, heart attack.[157]

28

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  • Hazel Dawn, 98, American actress (The Pink Lady).[158]
  • Paul Grice, 75, British philosopher of language.[159]
  • Josef Hamberger, 58, Austrian Olympic boxer (1952).
  • Guy Hocquenghem, 41, French writer and philosopher, AIDS.[160]
  • Jean Marchand, 69, Canadian trade unionist and politician, Member of Parliament, Secretary of State for Canada.[161]
  • Ricardo Massana, 90, Spanish Olympic rower (1924).
  • Max Shulman, 69, American writer and humorist (Dobie Gillis), bone cancer.[162]
  • Paul Whitelaw, 78, New Zealand cricketer.

29

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  • Ray Baxter, 84, Australian rules footballer.
  • David A. Hargrave, 42, American game designer and writer of fantasy and science fiction role-playing games (Arduin).[163]
  • Horace Henderson, 83, American jazz pianist, organist and bandleader.[164]
  • Wilfred Johnson, 52, American mobster, member of Gambino crime family, murdered.[165]
  • Charles Johnston, 92, American MLB umpire.
  • Algirdas Klimaitis, 77–78, Lithuanian paramilitary commander, antisemite (Kaunas pogrom).
  • Gaston Leroux, 75, Canadian NHL player (Montreal Canadiens).
  • Mykola Lukash, 68, Ukrainian literary translator, cancer.[166]
  • Lưu Quang Vũ, 40, Vietnamese playwright and poet, traffic collision.[167]
  • Abuna Takla Haymanot, 70, Ethiopian patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.[168]
  • Xuân Quỳnh, 45, Vietnamese poet, car crash.[169]

30

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  • James N. Black, 48, American jazz drummer.[170]
  • Charles Stephen Booth, 91, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1940-1945).
  • Eren Eyüboğlu, 75, Romanian-born Turkish artist.[171]
  • Nikolai Fefilov, 42, Soviet serial killer, strangled in jail.[172]
  • Richard Hamblin, 81, British RAF pilot, fought in the Battle of Britain.
  • Batsheva Katznelson, 90-91, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1951-1955).
  • Jack Marshall, 76, New Zealand politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand.[173]
  • Helenus Milmo, 80, Irish lawyer in Britain and High Court judge.[174]
  • Leonidas Proaño, 78, Ecuadorian prelate, Bishop of Riobamba.[175]

31

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  • John Daley, 101, American MLB player (St. Louis Browns).
  • Edgar Elbakyan, 60, Soviet Armenian actor.
  • Grace Eldering, 87, American public health scientist (whooping cough vaccine).[176]
  • Lin Jaldati, 75, Dutch-born, East German-based singer, Holocaust survivor.[177]
  • Antti Koskinen, 59, Finnish Olympic sports shooter (1964).
  • Joan Miller, 78, Canadian-born British actress.
  • Vasil Mzhavanadze, 85, Georgian politician, First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party.[178]
  • Danny Weinberg, 60, American NASCAR driver.
  • Walt Wollermann, 80, Australian rules footballer.

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  • Surat Alley, 82–83, Indian trade unionist and political activist in Britain.

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