The following is a list of notable deaths in December 1987 .
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.
James Baldwin , 63, African-American novelist, playwright and poet (Go Tell It on the Mountain ), stomach cancer.[ 1]
Donn F. Eisele , 57, American Air Force officer and NASA astronaut (Apollo 7 ), heart attack.[ 2]
Buddy Fogelson , 87, American army colonel, businessman and horse & cattle breeder, husband of Greer Garson .[ 3]
Punch Imlach , 69, Canadian NHL ice hockey coach and general manager (Toronto Maple Leafs , Buffalo Sabres ), heart attack.[ 4]
Edward Barnsley , 87, English designer and maker of furniture.[ 5]
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro , 57, Honduran army officer, president of Honduras , heart attack.[ 6]
Robert Filliou , 61, French artist (Fluxus ).
Trygve Henrik Hoff , 49, Norwegian singer, composer and writer.[ 7]
Luis Federico Leloir , 81, French-born Argentinian physician and biochemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, heart attack.[ 8]
Hubert Noël , 63, French film actor.
Myrta Silva , 60, Puerto Rican singer, songwriter and television producer (Sonora Matancera ).[ 9]
Ernst Steinhoff , 79, Nazi German rocket scientist.[ 10]
Princess Red Wing , 91, American tribal elder.[ 11]
Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich , 73, Soviet physicist (black hole evaporation ).[ 12]
Andrew Foster , 62, American pioneer of deaf education in African countries, plane crash.[ 13]
Robert Haskell , 84, American politician, Governor of Maine .
George Seawright , appr. 36, Scottish-born Northern Irish politician, paramilitary in Ulster Volunteer Force , assassinated.[ 14]
Yevgeny Tolstikov , 74, Soviet polar explorer, Hero of the Soviet Union .[ 15]
Dorin Liviu Zaharia , 43, Romanian musician and composer.
Pericle Fazzini , 74, Italian painter and sculptor (The Resurrection ).[ 16]
Bryan Fowler , 89, British polo player and Olympian.[ 17]
Meinrad von Lauchert , 82, Nazi German Wehrmacht general.[ 18]
Arnold Lobel , 54, American author of children's books (Frog and Toad , Mouse Soup ), cardiac arrest.[ 19]
Rouben Mamoulian , 90, Georgian-born American film and theatre director (Oklahoma! , Carousel ).[ 20]
Constantin Noica , 78, Romanian philosopher, essayist and poet.[ 21]
Giorgio Prodi , 59, Italian medical scientist and oncologist .
Pappy Daily , 85, American country music record producer, co-founded record label Starday Records .[ 22]
Leonid Dimov , 61, Romanian postmodernist poet and translator, heart attack.[ 23]
Bobby Garrett , 55, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers ), heart attack.[ 24]
Daud Kamal , 52, Pakistani poet.[ 25]
Rudolf Mentzel , 87, German chemist and Nazi policy-maker.
Molly O'Day , 64, American country music vocalist, cancer.[ 26]
Conny Plank , 47, German record producer and musician, laryngeal cancer.
Eugene Siler , 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[ 27]
James Dobson , 67, American film and television actor (Flying Leathernecks ), heart attack.[ 28]
Peter Lorenz , 64, German politician, kidnapped by militants, heart attack.[ 29]
David J. Schwartz , 60, American motivational writer and coach (The Magic of Thinking Big ).[ 30]
Izler Solomon , 77, American orchestra conductor, heart failure.[ 31]
Ba Swe , 72, Prime Minister of Burma.
Gareth Bennett , 58, British Anglican priest, suicide.[ 32] (body found on this date)
Michael Crossley , 75, British World War II Royal Air Force flying ace.[ 33]
Michael Hornby , 88, British vice chairman of retail chain WHSmith .[ 34]
Jane Mouton , 57, American management theorist.
Jaime Ongpin , 49, Filipino businessman and politician, Secretary of Finance , suicide.[ 35]
Helen Porter , 88, British botanist from Imperial College London .[ 36]
Denis Rogers , 70, New Zealand doctor and local politician (Mayor of Hamilton ), heart attack.
Fay Baker , 70, American actress and writer (The House on Telegraph Hill ), breast cancer.
Sigrid Helliesen Lund , 95, Norwegian peace activist, notably in World War II.[ 37]
Yolanda Vadiz , 28, Puerto Rican soprano, carbon monoxide poisoning.
Ulfert Wilke , 80, German-born American painter, museum director and art collector (abstract expressionism ), stroke.[ 38]
Notable individuals killed in the 1987 Alianza Lima plane crash :[ 39]
Marcos Calderón , 59, Peruvian football coach and player (Sport Boys , Peru ).
Luis Antonio Escobar , 18, Peruvian international footballer (Club Alianza Lima , Peru ).
José González Ganoza , 33, Peruvian international footballer (Club Alianza Lima , Peru ).
Alfredo Tomassini , 23, Peruvian footballer (Club Alianza Lima ).
Johnny Watson , 24, Peruvian footballer (Club Alianza Lima ).
Giovanni Arpino , 60, Italian writer and journalist (L'ombra delle colline ).
Jascha Heifetz , 86, Lithuanian-born American violinist, complications from a fall.[ 41]
Carlota Jaramillo , 83, Ecuadorian pasillo singer, complications from a fall.
Stylianos Kyriakides , 77, Greek Cypriot marathon runner and Olympian.[ 42]
Denis Sanders , 58, American film director and producer (A Time Out of War ), heart attack.[ 43]
Slam Stewart , 73, American jazz double bass player, heart failure.[ 44]
G. A. Kulkarni , 64, Indian writer of short stories.
Emil Mazuw , 87, German governor of the Province of Pomerania , convicted of war crimes.
William Thornton Mustard , 73, Canadian physician and cardiac surgeon, heart attack.[ 45]
Rosi Wolfstein , 99, German socialist politician.
Bodil Begtrup , 84, Danish women's rights activist, chairman of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women .[ 46]
Clifton Chenier , 62, American musician, pioneer of zydeco , kidney disease.[ 47]
Enrique Jorrín , 60, Cuban charanga violinist, composer and music director.
Nolan Leary , 98, American actor and playwright.[ 48]
Pinky Tomlin , 80, American songwriter, bandleader and actor, heart attack.[ 49]
Julien Darui , 71, French international footballer (CO Roubaix-Tourcoing , France ).[ 50]
Bil Dwyer , 80, American cartoonist and humourist (Dumb Dora ).
Bernard Epton , 66, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives , coronary.[ 51]
Na. Parthasarathy , 54, Indian writer of Tamil historical novels.
Josefina Passadori , 87, Italian-born Argentine writer and poet.
Elias Porter , 73, American psychologist.
Stanisław Radkiewicz , 84, Polish communist activist, Minister of Public Security .
Claude T. Smith , 55, American band conductor and composer.
George Wunder , 75, American cartoonist and comic illustrator (Terry and the Pirates ), heart attack.[ 52]
Copi , (Raúl Damonte Botana), 48, Argentinian writer, cartoonist and playwright, AIDS.[ 53]
Merlyn Hans Dethlefsen , 53, American officer of the U.S. Air Force, Medal of Honor recipient.[ 54]
Tim Dinsdale , 63, British cryptozoologist , attempted to prove existence of Loch Ness Monster , heart attack.
Siegfried Haß , 89, Nazi German Wehrmacht general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.[ 55]
Milt Josefsberg , 76, American screenwriter, stroke.[ 56]
Georg Knöpfle , 83, German international footballer, coach and Olympian (FSV Frankfurt , Germany ).[ 57]
Valentina Kulagina , 85, Russian painter and designer of books, posters and exhibitions.
Mogens Lassen , 86, Danish architect and designer.
Nikos Stavridis , 77, Greek film and theatre actor.[ 58]
J. P. Strom , 69, American law enforcement officer, chief of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division , heart attack.[ 59]
John Winterton , 89, British Army officer, Military Governor and Commander of the Free Territory of Trieste .
Seitnebi Abduramanov , 73, Soviet soldier in the Red Army, recipient of the Order of Glory .
Septima Poinsette Clark , 89, American educator and civil rights activist.[ 60]
George Fulford , 85, Canadian businessman and politician, House of Commons member.[ 61]
Ángel Infante , 73, Mexican actor and singer.[ 62]
Ivo Lapenna , 78, Italian law professor, president of the Universal Esperanto Association .[ 63]
Ray Malavasi , 57, American NFL football coach (Los Angeles Rams , Denver Broncos ), heart attack.[ 64]
Pierre Massé , 89, French economist, engineer, applied mathematician and high official in the French government.
Tiny Moore , 67, American Western swing musician.[ 65]
P. Ramamurthi , 79, Indian politician, Communist Party of India member.
Elisabeth Zaisser , 89, German politician, East German Minister of Education.
Alfred Zerbel , 83, Nazi German Wehrmacht officer, West German Bundeswehr general.[ 66]
Leonard Beecher , 81, English-born Anglican Archbishop of East Africa.
Hob Broun , 37, American author, asphyxiation.[ 67]
Minnie Evans , 95, American artist.[ 68]
Albert P. Morano , 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, cerebral hemorrhage.[ 69]
John Russell , 66, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
Bernardus Johannes Alfrink , 87, Dutch cardinal, Archbishop of Utrecht.[ 70]
Irving Allen , 82, Austro-Hungarian–born American theatre and film producer and director (Climbing the Matterhorn ).[ 71]
Georges Burou , 77, French gynecologist (sex reassignment surgery ), drowned.
Arkady Raikin , 76, Soviet comedian, actor and director.[ 72]
Lucy Walker , (Dorothy Lucie Sanders), 80, Australian romance novelist.[ 73]
Linda Wong , 36, American pornographic actress, drug overdose.
Marguerite Yourcenar , 84, Belgian-born French-American novelist and essayist (Memoirs of Hadrian ).[ 74]
Murat Aitkhozhin , 48, Soviet molecular biologist.
Ralph Waldo Christie , 94, American admiral in the U.S. Navy.[ 78]
Hermann Claasen , 87, German photographer.
Leo Jung , 95, American architect of Orthodox Judaism.[ 79]
John F. O'Leary , 61, American administrator of Federal Energy Administration and director of U.S. Bureau of Mines , cancer.[ 80]
C. Donald Peterson , 69, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives , cancer.[ 81]
Esther Shiner , 63, Canadian municipal politician, deputy mayor of New York.
André de la Varre , 83, American filmmaker of travel documentaries.
Fred R. Feitshans Jr. , 78, American film editor (Wild in the Streets ).[ 85]
Carl E. McGowan , 76, American lawyer and U.S. circuit judge, cancer.[ 86]
Ralph Nelson , 71, American film and television director, writer and actor (Lilies of the Field , Father Goose , Charly ), cancer.[ 87]
Robert Paige , 76, American actor and TV newscaster and political correspondent (Son of Dracula ), aortic aneurysm.[ 88]
Henry Strater , 91, American painter and illustrator, founded the Ogunquit Museum of American Art .[ 89]
A. N. Alcaff , 62, Indonesian actor and film director.
Henry Cotton , 80, English professional golfer, three-time British Open winner.[ 90]
Roderick Firth , 70, American philosopher, professor of philosophy at Harvard , pneumonia.[ 91]
Gustav Fröhlich , 85, German actor and film director (Metropolis ), complications after surgery.[ 92]
Mimí Langer , 77, Austrian-born Latin American psychoanalyst and human rights activist, cancer.
Paule Marrot , 85, French textile designer.
John McMichael , 39, Northern Irish loyalist (Ulster Defence Association ), car bomb.[ 93]
Dudley Meredith , 52, American AFL footballer (Buffalo Bills ).[ 94]
Dorothy M. Needham , 91, English biochemist (muscle biochemistry ).[ 95]
Geoffrey Parsons , 77, English lyricist.
José do Patrocínio Oliveira , 83, Brazilian musician and voice actor.
Luca Prodan , 34, Italian-Scottish musician based in Argentina (Sumo ).
T. Ranganathan , 62, Indian-born American Carnatic musician.[ 96]
Alice Terry , 88, American film actress and director (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ), Alzheimer's disease.[ 97]
Roy M. Davenport , 78, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.[ 99]
Nino Espinosa , 34, Dominican Major League baseballer (New York Mets ), heart attack.[ 100]
Eugen Kogon , 84, German historian and Nazi concentration camp survivor.[ 101]
John Wesley Hanes II , 95, American investment banker, Under Secretary of the Treasury , Alzheimer's Disease.[ 102]
Betty Noyes , 75, American singer and actress (Singin' in the Rain ).
Josef Myrow , 77, Russian Empire–born American composer ("You Make Me Feel So Young "), Parkinson's disease.[ 103]
M. G. Ramachandran , 70, Indian actor and politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , heart attack and stroke.[ 104]
Manoug Parikian , 67, Turkish-born British concert violinist.[ 105]
Sara Scuderi , 81, Italian opera singer.[ 106]
Joop den Uyl , 68, Dutch politician and journalist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands , brain tumour.[ 107]
Kulwant Singh Virk , 66, Indian author, stroke.
Alexander Gregory Barmine , 88, Soviet Army defector to the U.S.A., stroke[ 108]
Ruth Bonner , 87, Soviet Communist activist.[ 109]
John H. Humphrey , 72, British bacteriologist and immunologist, co-founded the British Society for Immunology .[ 110]
Vadim Knizhnik , 25, Soviet physicist (Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equations ), heart attack.
Gene "Bowlegs" Miller , 54, American trumpeter and band leader, stroke.[ 111]
Zita Moulton , 104, American model and actress of theatre and film.
Nat Tarnopol , 56, American record producer, heart failure.
Victor Whitsey , 71, British Church of England Bishop of Hertford and Chester , sexual abuser.[ 112]
J. A. Baker , 61, English author (The Peregrine ), cancer.[ 113]
S. M. Banerjee , 68, Indian politician, trade unionist and communist sympathiser, member of the Lok Sabha .
Dorothy Bliss , 71, American carcinologist , cancer.[ 114]
Neil Colville , 73, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (New York Rangers ).[ 115]
Melford Stevenson , 85, English barrister and High Court judge, heart attack.[ 116]
Leslie Thompson , 86, Jamaican-born English jazz trumpeter and trombonist.
Luis E. Valcárcel , 96, Peruvian historian, anthropologist and writer, Minister of Education .
Rewi Alley , 90, New Zealand-born Chinese writer and political activist, member of the Chinese Communist Party .[ 117]
John Astor , 64, British politician, Member of Parliament.[ 118]
Manoj Basu , 86, Indian writer of Bengali novels and short stories.
Shanti Devi , 61, Indian woman who claimed to remember her previous life.
Priscilla Dean , 91, American theatre and silent-screen actress (The Gray Ghost ), complications from a fall.[ 119]
Josef Grohé , 85, German Nazi Party official, Gauleiter of Gau Cologne-Aachen .[ 120]
Bernard Hailstone , 77, English painter.
Theodore Pike , 83, Irish colonial administrator and rugby union international, governor of British Somaliland .
Stepan Popel , 78, Ukrainian chess champion.
Wilbur Schramm , 80, American scholar and authority on mass communication .[ 121]
Anthony West , 73, English author and literary critic, son of H. G. Wells , stroke.[ 122]
Happy Akhand , 27, Bangladeshi rock singer and songwriter (Miles .[ 123]
George I. Forsythe , 69, American general of the U.S. Army.[ 124]
John Hunt , 82, British general practitioner, co-founded the Royal College of General Practitioners .[ 125]
Edward Kleban , 48, American musical theatre composer and lyricist, throat cancer.[ 126]
Charles Malik , 81, Lebanese diplomat, philosopher and politician, Lebanese representative to the U.N., kidney failure.[ 127]
Joseph Sittler , 83, American Lutheran minister and theologian, cancer.[ 128]
John F. Aiso , 78, American nisei military leader, lawyer and judge, head injury sustained in a mugging.[ 129]
Sheldon Andelson , 56, American higher education administrator and a political fund-raiser, AIDS.[ 130]
Patrick Bissell , 30, American ballet dancer (American Ballet Theatre ), overdose.[ 131]
Brigitte Heinrich , 46, German journalist and politician, member of the European Parliament , heart attack.[ 132]
Jun Ishikawa , 88, Japanese author, lung cancer.
Wilbert E. Moore , 73, American sociologist, president of the American Sociological Association .[ 133]
Ulysses Kae Williams , 66, American DJ, record label owner and producer.
Yanina Zhejmo , 78, Soviet actress.
Leslie Arliss , 86, English screenwriter and director (The Man in Grey , The Wicked Lady ).[ 134]
Datta Naik , 60, Indian film music director.
Manolo Urquiza , 67, Cuban-born media personality.
Theodore Zichy , 79, British actor, photographer and film director, suicide.
George Doherty , 67, American NFL footballer, college coach and athletics administrator, heart attack.
Merle Evans , 96, American cornet player and circus band conductor (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ).[ 135]
Randall Garrett , 60, American science fiction and fantasy author (Lord Darcy ).
Gene Leggett , 52, American Methodist minister, defrocked for being homosexual, hepatitis.
Leo Steiner , 47–48, American restauranteur, co-owner of Carnegie Deli , brain tumour.[ 136]
Jerry Turner , 58, American television news anchorman, esophageal cancer.[ 137]
Malcolm Butler , 75, Northern Irish international footballer (Accrington Stanley , Ireland ).
Michael Clemente , 79, New York mobster in the Genovese crime family .
Dorothy K. Haynes , 68–69, Scottish horror and supernatural writer, breast cancer.
Kurt Frederick Ludwig , 83–84, Nazi German spy.
Birendra Nath Mazumdar , 82, Indian medical officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps .
Marcus Owen , 52, Welsh professional snooker player.
Ian Wilson , 86, English actor.
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