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.
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]
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]
Gertrude Welcker , 92, German stage and silent-screen actress (Chronicles of the Gray House , Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ).[ 8]
Jack Breslin , 68, American university administrator (Michigan State University ).[ 9]
Joe Carcione , American consumer advocate, the "Green Grocer", intestinal cancer.[ 10]
Raymond Carver , 50, American short-story writer (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love , Cathedral ), lung cancer.[ 11]
Nityanand Kanungo , 88, Indian politician, governor of Bihar and Gujarat , member of Lok Sabha .[ 12]
Nada Klaić , 68, Croatian historian.[ 13]
José Magriñá , 70, Cuban footballer (national team ).
Lillian Bilocca , 59, British fisheries worker, known for improving safety in the fishing industry, peritoneal cancer.[ 14]
Campbell Copelin , 87, English-born Australian actor.
Tucker McGuire , 75, American-born British film and television actress.[ 15]
Krishnaswami Ramiah , 96, Indian agricultural scientist and geneticist, director of National Rice Research Institute .[ 16]
Vic Watson , 90, English international footballer (West Ham United , England ).[ 17]
Allan Adair , 90, British army general.[ 18]
Brian Brake , 61, New Zealand photographer, heart attack.[ 19]
Richard Leppla , 74, Nazi German fighter ace.[ 20]
George Commey Mills-Odoi , 72, Ghanaian judge and Attorney General.[ 21]
Joe Vandeleur , 84, Indian-born Anglo-Irish British Army officer.[ 22]
Harry Lee Waterfield , 77, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky .[ 23]
James Devereux , 85, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps, member of U.S. House of Representatives, pneumonia.[ 24]
Colin Higgins , 47, French-Australian-American screenwriter, actor and director (Harold and Maude , 9 to 5 ), AIDS.[ 25]
Arif Hussain Hussaini , 41, Indian-Pakistani revolutionary leader, assassinated.[ 26]
James M. Masters Sr. , 77, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps, cancer.[ 27]
Ralph Meeker , 67, American actor (Kiss Me Deadly , Paths of Glory ), heart attack.[ 28]
Gil North , 72, British author of detective stories (Cluff ).[ 29]
John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris , 79, English thriller, detective and spy novelist (My Name Is Michael Sibley ), MI5 spy.[ 30]
James Hervey Johnson , 87, American atheist, writer and editor of The Truth Seeker , white supremacist, heart attack.
Anatoly Levchenko , 47, Soviet cosmonaut, brain tumour.[ 31]
Illa Martin , 88, German dendrologist , botanist, conservationist and dentist.
Francis Ponge , 89, French poet.[ 32]
J. Skelly Wright , 77, American circuit judge, prostate cancer.[ 33]
David L. Hoggan , 65, American author, neo-Nazi, anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, heart attack.[ 34]
Wilfred Jackson , 82, American animator (Mickey Mouse , Silly Symphony ).[ 35]
David E. Skinner II , 67–68, American shipping heir, owner of the Space Needle and Seattle Seahawks , cancer.[ 36]
Alan Ameche , 55, American NFL player (Baltimore Colts ), heart attack.[ 37]
Kid Chocolate , 78, Cuban boxer, World Junior Lightweight Champion.[ 38]
George Estregan , 49, Filipino film actor.[ 39]
Henri Frenay , 82, French military officer and member of the French Resistance .[ 40]
William Kininmonth , 83, Scottish architect.[ 41]
Félix Leclerc , 82, Canadian singer-songwriter, heart attack.[ 42]
Liu Liangmo , 78, Chinese musician and Christian leader.
Alan Napier , 85, English actor (Batman ), pneumonia.[ 43]
Dominic Serventy , 84, Australian ornithologist, president of Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union .[ 44]
Woodrow Adams , 71, American guitarist and harmonica player.[ 45]
Jimmie Fidler , 89, American columnist, journalist and radio and television personality.[ 46]
M. Carl Holman , 69, American civil rights advocate (Civil Rights Commission ), cancer.[ 47]
Giacinto Scelsi , 83, Italian composer, cerebral hemorrhage.[ 48]
Ramón Valdés , 63, Mexican actor and comedian (El Chavo del Ocho ), stomach cancer.[ 49]
Arnulfo Arias , 86, Panamanian politician, President of Panama , heart attack.[ 50]
Antoine Blanchard , 77, French painter (Cafe de la Paix ).[ 51]
Jean Brachet , 79, Belgian biochemist (RNA ).[ 52]
Gerd Grieg , 93, Norwegian actress.[ 53]
Benny Johnson , 40, American NFL football player (Houston Oilers ), heart attack.[ 54]
Guido Mannari , 43, Italian actor (The Driver's Seat ), heart attack.[ 55]
Havzi Nela , 54, Albanian poet, executed.[ 56]
Adela Rogers St. Johns , 94, American journalist, novelist and screenwriter, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.[ 57]
Paul Thek , 54, American painter and sculptor, AIDS.[ 58]
Nellikode Bhaskaran , 64, Indian Malayalam actor (Sarapancharam ).
Alfred Kelbassa , 63, German international footballer (STV Horst-Emscher , Borussia Dortmund , West Germany ).[ 59]
Pauline Lafont , 25, French actress, hiking accident.[ 60]
K. Avukader Kutty Naha , 68, Indian politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Kerala .[ 61]
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle , 56, French opera director, pulmonary embolism following a fall.[ 62]
Anne Ramsey , 59, American actress (The Goonies , Throw Momma from the Train ), cancer.[ 63]
Jack Regan , 75, Australian rules footballer (Collingwood ).[ 64]
Mel Almada , 75, Mexican Major League baseballer (Boston Red Sox ).[ 66]
Fred Below , 61, American blues drummer, liver cancer.[ 67]
Keith Hancock , 90, Australian historian and academic.[ 68]
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.[ 69]
Gajanan Jagirdar , 81, Indian film director, screenwriter and actor, heart attack.[ 70]
Peggy Mann , 69, American Big Band singer.[ 71]
Otto Passman , 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.[ 72]
William H. Phelps Jr. , 85, Venezuelan ornithologist and businessman, circulatory problems.[ 73]
Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao , 72, Indian author, author of the National Pledge of India .[ 74]
Tenor Saw , 21, Jamaican dancehall singjay, hit and run accident.[ 75]
Gordon H. Scherer , 81, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.[ 76]
Edward Bennett Williams , 68, American lawyer and businessman, co-founder of Williams & Connolly , colon cancer.[ 77]
Roy Buchanan , 48, American guitarist and blues musician, suicide.[ 78]
Robert Calvert , 43, South African–born British writer, poet and musician, heart attack.[ 79]
Michael Crowder , 54, British historian and author.[ 80]
Enzo Ferrari , 90, Italian motor racing driver and car maker, leukemia.[ 81]
Kōri Hisataka , 81, Japanese founder of Shōrinjiryū Kenkōkan Karate .
Kailas Nath Wanchoo , 85, Indian Chief Justice.[ 82]
Monroe Wheeler , 89, American publisher and museum coordinator (Museum of Modern Art ), stroke.[ 83]
Barry Bingham Sr. , 82, American media patriarch in Louisville, Kentucky, brain tumour.[ 84]
Rudy Collins , 54, American jazz drummer.[ 85]
Han Deqin , 95, Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army .[ 86]
Ronald Stein , 58, American film composer, pancreatic cancer.[ 87]
Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt , 86, German composer and music historian.[ 88]
Hartman Turnbow , 83, Mississippi orator and activist during the Civil Rights Movement.[ 89]
Jack Cutting , 80, American international content supervisor and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios .[ 92]
Nino Frank , 84, Italian-born French film critic and writer, coined the term "film noir ".[ 93]
Bruno Mathsson , 81, Swedish architect and furniture designer.
Connie Meijer , 25, Dutch cyclist, heart attack.[ 94]
Akhtar Abdur Rahman , 64, Pakistani Army general, plane crash.[ 95]
Arnold Lewis Raphel , 45, American diplomat, ambassador to Pakistan, plane crash.[ 96]
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. , 74, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.[ 97]
Siddique Salik , 52, Pakistani army officer, plane crash.[ 98]
Victoria Shaw , 53, Australian film and television actress, emphysema.[ 99]
Samuel Silkin , 70, British politician, Attorney General for England and Wales .[ 100]
Jack Straus , 58, American professional poker player, aortic aneurysm.[ 101]
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , 64, Pakistani military officer, President of Pakistan , plane crash.[ 102]
Frederick Ashton , 83, British ballet dancer and choreographer (Symphonic Variations , Ondine ).[ 103]
Felix Maria Davídek , 67, Czechoslovakian Roman Catholic bishop.[ 104]
Li Gotami Govinda , 92, Indian painter, writer and composer.[ 105]
Seiryū Inoue , 56–57, Japanese photographer.[ 106]
Gary Little , 49, American judge, focus of sexual abuse allegations, suicide.[ 107]
Michael Perrin , 82, Canadian-born British scientist, directed first British atomic bomb program.[ 108]
Jessica Powers , 83, American poet and nun, stroke.[ 109]
Ernst Simon , 88, German educator and religious philosopher.[ 110]
Enrico Cerulli , 90, Italian scholar of Somali and Ethiopian studies, Governor of Scioa and Harar, ambassador to Iran.[ 111]
Patrick Donner , 83, British Member of Parliament.[ 112]
Don Haggerty , 74, American actor (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp , Sands of Iwo Jima ).[ 113]
Jerome Zerbe , 84, American photographer.[ 114]
Jean-Paul Aron , 63, French writer and journalist, AIDS.[ 115]
Leon McAuliffe , 71, American Western swing guitarist.[ 116]
Joan G. Robinson , 78, British author and illustrator of children's books (When Marnie Was There ).[ 117]
Lazarus Salii , 51, Palau politician, President of Palau , suicide.[ 118]
H. G. Adler , 78, Czechoslovakian-English poet and novelist, Holocaust survivor, heart failure.[ 119]
Teddy Diaz , 25, Filipino musician and composer (The Dawn ), murdered.
Ray Eames , 78, American artist and designer.[ 120]
Chris Gittins , 86, British actor (The Archers ).[ 121]
Stuart Leary , 55, South African footballer (Charlton Athletic ) and first-class cricketer, suicide.[ 122]
Jerry Warren , 63, American film director, screenwriter and actor (Teenage Zombies ), lung cancer.[ 123]
Gerald Drayson Adams , 88, Canadian-American business executive and film writer (Dead Reckoning , The Big Steal ).[ 125]
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.[ 126]
Laud Humphreys , 57, American sociologist and Episcopal priest, lung cancer.[ 127]
Josef Klehr , 83, Nazi German SS-Oberscharführer , concentration camp supervisor and war criminal.
Hans Lewy , 83, Prussian-born American mathematician (partial differential equations ), leukemia.[ 128]
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.[ 129]
Robert Walcott , 78, American historian.[ 130]
C. Chhunga , 72, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Mizoram .
Leonard Frey , 49, American actor (Fiddler on the Roof ), AIDS.[ 131]
Kenneth Leighton , 58, British composer and pianist, oesophageal cancer.[ 132]
Abu Jafar Shamsuddin , 77, Bangladeshi writer.[ 133]
Nat Stuckey , 54, American country singer ("Sweet Thang "), lung cancer.[ 134]
Caziel , 82, Polish-born artist.[ 135]
Price Daniel , 77, American jurist and politician, Governor of Texas , stroke.[ 136]
Françoise Dolto , 79, French pediatrician and psychoanalyst, pulmonary fibrosis.[ 137]
Percy Foreman , 86, American criminal defense attorney (James Earl Ray ), cardiac arrest.[ 138]
Henry Joseph Gallagher , 73, British soldier in the Korean War (Distinguished Conduct Medal ).
Jimmy Lloyd , 69, American actor (The Sea Hound ).[ 139]
Irving Mansfield , 80, American producer, publicist and writer, heart attack.[ 140]
Art Rooney , 87, American owner of Pittsburgh Steelers NFL team, stroke.[ 141]
Donald De Lue , 90, American sculptor (Harvey S. Firestone Memorial ).[ 142]
Oscar Marzaroli , 55, Italian-born Scottish photographer, cancer.[ 143]
Carlos Paião , 30, Portuguese singer and songwriter, car accident.[ 144]
Fred Peart , 74, British politician, leader of the Houses of Lords and Commons.[ 145]
Milton Sperling , 76, American film producer and screenwriter, owner of United States Pictures , cancer.[ 146]
Lala Aragami , 65, Indian poet.
Jinavajiralongkorn , 91, Supreme Patriarch of Thailand .
Max Black , 79, Azerbaijani-born British-American philosopher of language, mathematics, science and art, heart complications.[ 147]
Charles Farrell , 88, Irish-born stage, film and television actor.[ 148]
Gunther von Fritsch , 82, Austro-Hungarian born American film director (The Curse of the Cat People ), stroke.[ 149]
Irene Higginbotham , 70, American songwriter and concert pianist ("Good Morning Heartache ").[ 150]
John Lie , 77, Indonesian Navy rear admiral, stroke.
Mario Montenegro , 60, Filipino film actor, heart attack.[ 151]
John Riordan , 85, American mathematician and author (combinatorics ), Alzheimer's disease.[ 152]
William Sargant , 81, British psychiatrist (electroconvulsive therapy ).[ 153]
Costas Taktsis , 60, Greek writer, murdered.[ 154]
Benjamin Willis , 86, American educator and school administrator, heart attack.[ 155]
Hazel Dawn , 98, American actress (The Pink Lady ).[ 156]
Paul Grice , 75, British philosopher of language.[ 157]
Guy Hocquenghem , 41, French writer and philosopher, AIDS.[ 158]
Jean Marchand , 69, Canadian trade unionist and politician, Member of Parliament, Secretary of State for Canada .[ 159]
Max Shulman , 69, American writer and humorist (Dobie Gillis ), bone cancer.[ 160]
David A. Hargrave , 42, American game designer and writer of fantasy and science fiction role-playing games (Arduin ).[ 161]
Horace Henderson , 83, American jazz pianist, organist and bandleader.[ 162]
Wilfred Johnson , 52, American mobster, member of Gambino crime family , murdered.[ 163]
Algirdas Klimaitis , 77–78, Lithuanian paramilitary commander, antisemite (Kaunas pogrom ).
Mykola Lukash , 68, Ukrainian literary translator, cancer.[ 164]
Lưu Quang Vũ , 40, Vietnamese playwright and poet, traffic collision.[ 165]
Abuna Takla Haymanot , 70, Ethiopian patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church .[ 166]
Xuân Quỳnh , 45, Vietnamese poet, car crash.[ 167]
James N. Black , 48, American jazz drummer.[ 168]
Eren Eyüboğlu , 75, Romanian-born Turkish artist.[ 169]
Nikolai Fefilov , 42, Soviet serial killer, strangled in jail.[ 170]
Jack Marshall , 76, New Zealand politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand .[ 171]
Helenus Milmo , 80, Irish lawyer in Britain and High Court judge.[ 172]
Leonidas Proaño , 78, Ecuadorian prelate, Bishop of Riobamba .[ 173]
Surat Alley , 82–83, Indian trade unionist and political activist in Britain.
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^ Anatoly Levchenko, 47, Is Dead; Test Pilot for Soviet Space Shuttle . New York Times . Retrieved 8 Jul 2024.
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^ Carl Holman, 69, A Major Figure in Civil Rights Movement, is Dead . New York Times . Retrieved 13 Jun 2024.
^ "Giacinto Scelsi, Composer, 83" . The New York Times . August 12, 1988. p. D 18. Retrieved April 3, 2024 .
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^ Arnulfo Arias, 87, Panamanian who was President 3 Times . New York Times . Retrieved 25 May 2024.
^ Biography - Antoine Blanchard (1910 - 1988) . Rehs Galleries . Retrieved 29 May 2024.
^ Jean Brachet. 19 March 1909-10 August 1988 . Jstor (Royal Society) . Retrieved 29 May 2024.
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^ Gravestone: Gerald Drayson Adams 23.8.88 (year of death only). Retrieved 26 Oct 2024.
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^ Percy Foreman, Texas Lawyer, 86; Defended the Assassin of Dr. King . New York Times . Retrieved 9 Jun 2024.
^ "Film personality Jimmy Lloyd dies" . The Kansas City Times . August 30, 1988. p. B 16. Retrieved August 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com .
^ Irving Mansfield, 80, a Publicist, Author and Television Producer . New York Times . Retrieved 22 Jun 2024.
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^ Carlos Paião . Eurovision Universe . Retrieved 30 Jun 2024.
^ Tributes: Lord Peart . UK Parliament . Retrieved 30 Jun 2024.
^ Milton Sperling, Screenwriter, Is Dead at 76 . New York Times . Retrieved 9 Jul 2024.
^ "Dr. Max Black, 79, Author and Philosopher" . The New York Times . August 30, 1988. p. D 19. Retrieved April 3, 2024 .
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^ Gunther Von Fritsch, Director, Is Dead at 82 . New York Times . Retrieved 9 Jun 2024.
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^ L'écrivain Guy Hocquenghem est mort "La Beauté du métis" . Le Monde.fr . Retrieved 13 Jun 2024.
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^ Man Linked to John Gotti Is Slain on Brooklyn Street . New York Times . Retrieved 15 Jun 2024.
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^ Model Dissent: Lưu Quang Vũ and the Melodramatic Performance of Renovation in Post-War Vietnam . Springer . Retrieved 21 Jun 2024.
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