The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
Richard Blackburn , 69, Australian judge and legal academic, cancer.[ 1]
Douglas Cleverdon , 84, English radio producer and bookseller.[ 2]
June Clyde , 77, American actress, singer and dancer (A Strange Adventure , A Study in Scarlet ).[ 3]
Valeriya Golubtsova , 86, Soviet scientist, director of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute .
Eusebio Guiñez , 80, Argentine Olympic long-distance runner (1948 ).
Luis da Costa Ivens Ferraz , 90, Portuguese Olympic equestrian (1928 ).
Geoffrey Jackson , 72, British diplomat and writer, ambassador to Uruguay, kidnapped by guerrillas.[ 4]
Zina Morhange , 78, Polish-born French physician, member of the French Resistance .
Abdur Rahim , 69, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.
Madeleine Carroll , 81, English actress (The 39 Steps ), pancreatic cancer.[ 5]
Jack Lyons , 86, Scottish-American Olympic soccer player (1928 ).
John Mastrangelo , 61, American NFL player.
Sir Peter Medawar , 72, Brazilian-born British biologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.[ 6]
Russell Rouse , 73, American screenwriter, director and producer (The Well , Pillow Talk ), heart failure.[ 7]
Hryhoriy Vasiura , 72, Soviet officer in the Red Army and in the German Schutzmannschaft , executed.
Jean Anouilh , 77, French dramatist and screenwriter (Antigone ), heart attack.[ 8]
Catherine Bramwell-Booth , 104, English Salvation Army officer, granddaughter of Salvation Army founder.[ 9]
Hans Gál , 97, Austrian and Scottish composer.
Mahamat Idriss , 45, French-born Chadian Olympic high jumper (1960 , 1964 , 1968 ).
Maria Ivogün , 95, Hungarian soprano singer.[ 10]
Kalervo Palsa , 40, Finnish artist, pneumonia.
Walter Bernard Smith , 75, Canadian politician, member of the Canada House of Commons (1968-1979).
Neville Cohen , 74, English cricketer.
Mercer Cook , 84, American diplomat and professor, U.S. Ambassador to the Gambia, Senegal and Niger, pneumonia.[ 11]
Eric Gandar Dower , 92–93, Scottish politician and businessman, Member of Parliament.[ 12]
Bjarne Elgar Grottum , 94, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1947-1954).
Mian Arshad Hussain , 77, Pakistani politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister and Ambassador to Sweden.
Raymond W. Karst , 84, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1949-1951).
Chester Nelsen Sr. , 85, American Olympic cyclist (1928 ).
Eloise Wilkin , 83, American illustrator of Little Golden Books , cancer.
Hubert Yencesse , 87, French sculptor.[ 13]
Vladimir Akimov , 34, Soviet Russian Olympic water polo player (1980 ).
Charles Baillie , 85, British Olympic swimmer (1924 ).
Conrad Bourcier , 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
Maurice de Conninck , 90, French Olympic middle-distance runner (1920 ).
Manny Cussins , British businessman, chairman of Waring & Gillow and Leeds United F.C. [ 14]
Isobel Roe , 71, British Olympic alpine skier (1948 ).
Hi Brigham , 95, American football player.
Grete Heckscher , 85, Danish Olympic fencer (1924 ).
Roald Jensen , 44, Norwegian international footballer (Brann , Heart of Midlothian , Norway ), heart failure.[ 15]
Eugen Steimle , 77, Nazi German SS commander, death sentence commuted.
Ivan Belošević , 78, Croatian footballer.
Charles J. Carney , 74, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1970-1979), heart ailment.[ 16]
Abdul Haleem Chowdhury , 59, Bangladeshi politician.
Phil Flanagan , 77, American AFL footballer (Boston Shamrocks ).
John Fletcher , 46, English tubist and French horn player, cerebral haemorrhage.
Greta Granstedt , 80, American film and television actress.
Verrall Newman , 90, British Olympic diver (1924 ).
Cedric Phatudi , 75, South African politician, Chief Minister of Lebowa .[ 17]
Stefan Szelestowski , 86, Polish Olympic athlete (1924 , 1928 ).
Sarkes Tarzian , 87, Ottoman-born American engineer, inventor and broadcaster.
Bobby Walston , 58, American NFL footballer (Philadelphia Eagles ), heart attack.[ 18]
Valentin Zamotaykin , 47, Soviet Olympic sailor (1964 , 1972 , 1976 ).
Spencer Gordon Bennet , 94, American film producer and director.[ 19]
Alberto Segismundo Cruz , 87, Filipino poet, short story writer and novelist.
Richard W. Dempsey , 78, American illustrator and painter.
Mona Douglas , 89, British Manx poet, novelist and journalist.
Rolf Dudley-Williams , 79, British aeronautical engineer and politician, Member of Parliament.[ 20]
Warren C. Gill , 74, American coast guard commander and politician.
Roger Lancelyn Green , 68, British biographer and children's writer (King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table ).[ 21]
Nader Mahdavi , 24, Persian Revolutionary Guard Corps naval commander.
Cecil Matthews , 73, New Zealand Olympic long-distance runner (1936 ).
Donald McWhinnie , 66, British BBC executive and director.
Konstantinos Tsatsos , 88, Greek diplomat and politician, President of Greece .[ 22]
Dick Wittmann , 86, Australian rules footballer.
Letterio Cucinotta , 85, Italian racing driver.
Charles R. Donaldson , 68, American attorney and jurist, judge of the Idaho Supreme Court (1969-1987).
Ella Eronen , 87, Finnish actress.
Mohammad Farhad , 49, Bangladeshi guerrilla force commander, Bangladesh Communist Party president, heart attack.[ 23]
Guru Gopinath , 79, Indian actor and dancer.[ 24]
Clare Boothe Luce , 84, American politician, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, member of U.S. House of Representatives, brain cancer.[ 25]
William P. Murphy , 95, American physician, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (pernicious anemia ).[ 26]
Ted Shiels , 79, Australian rules footballer.
Henry Studholme , 88, British politician, Member of Parliament.[ 27]
Carlos Volante , 81, Argentinian international footballer (Flamengo , Argentina ).
Carlos Ancira , 58, Mexican film actor.
Behice Boran , 77, Turkish Marxist–Leninist politician and author, Member of Parliament, heart disease.[ 28]
Jaroslav Bouček , 74, Czechoslovakian international footballer (Sparta Prague , Czechoslovakia ).[ 29]
Gretl Braun , 72, German sister of Eva Braun .
Peter Clyne , 60, Austrian-Australian lawyer and businessman, heart attack.
Oretha Castle Haley , 48, American civil rights activist, ovarian cancer.
Malathi , 20, Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers fighter, died in combat.
Robert Wilberforce , 77, Australian cricketer.
Uwe Barschel , 43, German politician, Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein , suicide.[ 30]
Eske Brun , 83, Danish high civil servant and governor of Greenland.
Robert d'Arista , 57-58, American artist and educator.
Ernie Fortney , 72, American basketball player.
Alfred Kieffer , 83, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer (1924 ).
Jaime Pardo Leal , 46, Colombian lawyer, union leader, and politician, assassinated.[ 31]
Niall Macpherson , 79, Scottish politician, Minister of Pensions and National Insurance.[ 32]
Alan McNicoll , 79, Australian Vice Admiral in the Royal Australian Navy , ambassador to Turkey.[ 33]
Koldo Mitxelena , 71–72, Spanish Basque linguist, reconstructed Proto-Basque language .
Fritz Rössler , 75, German neo-Nazi politician.
Ajay Divecha , 47, Indian cricketer.
Snake Henry , 92, American MLB player (Boston Braves ).
Fahri Korutürk , 84, Turkish admiral, diplomat and politician, president of Turkey .[ 34]
Alf Landon , 100, American oil man and politician, Republican candidate in 1936 presidential election.[ 35]
Russ Letlow , 74, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers ).[ 36]
Heinz Lowin , 48, German footballer.
Philleo Nash , 77, American government official and politician, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, renal cancer.[ 37]
Gustavo Baz Prada , 93, Mexican politician and doctor, Governor of the State of Mexico .
Heinz Vollmar , 51, German footballer.
Walter Houser Brattain , 85, American physicist (point-contact transistor ), Nobel laureate in Physics, Alzheimer's disease.[ 38]
Hugh Alexander Bryson , 75, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1953-1958).
Kishore Kumar , 58, Indian actor and playback singer, heart attack.[ 39]
Nilgün Marmara , 29, Turkish poet, suicide.[ 40]
Lucy Monroe , 80, American operatic soprano and dancer, cancer.[ 41]
Walter Fraser Oakeshott , 83, British vice-chancellor of Oxford , discovered Le Morte d'Arthur Winchester manuscript.[ 42]
Anwar Kamal Pasha , 62, Pakistani film director and producer.
Jamshed Patel , 73, Indian cricket umpire.
Elżbieta Barszczewska , 73, Polish stage and film actress.
Nikolay Belov , 67, Soviet Olympic wrestler (1952 ).
Rodolfo Halffter , 86, Spanish composer.[ 43]
Finlay J. MacDonald , 62, Scottish journalist, producer and writer.
Tino Santoni , 74, Italian cinematographer.
Ted Wildie , 81, Australian rules footballer.
Basil Wright , 80, English documentary filmmaker (The Song of Ceylon ).[ 44]
Lennie Aleshire , 97, American vaudeville and country music performer.
Arthur Benson , 79, British colonial administrator, Governor of Northern Rhodesia .[ 45]
Thomas Andrew Donnellan , 73, American Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Atlanta, stroke.[ 46]
August Erne , 82, Swiss racing cyclist.
Axel Felder , 38, German racing driver.
Nik Novecento , 23, Italian actor.
Juda Hirsch Quastel , 88, British-Canadian biochemist.[ 47]
Gabriele Salviati , 77, Italian Olympic athlete (1932 ).
Thomas Sankara , 37, Burkinabe politician, President of Burkina Faso, Prime Minister of Upper Volta, assassinated.[ 48]
Donald Wandrei , 79, American science fiction and fantasy writer, and poet.
Frank Eck , 76, American newspaper writer and editor.
František Hák , 83, Czechoslovakian Olympic cross-country skier (1924 ).
Joseph Höffner , 80, German Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne , brain tumour.[ 49]
Nazir Hussain , 65, Indian actor, director and screenwriter.
Robin Kreyer , 77, English cricketer and army officer.
Margo Lee , 64, Australian actor and singer.[ 50]
Aleksandr Sery , 59, Soviet film director (Gentlemen of Fortune ), suicide.
Dana Suesse , 75, American musician, composer and lyricist ("You Oughta Be in Pictures "), stroke.[ 51]
Tommy Veitch , 38, Scottish footballer.
Pete Cote , 85, American MLB player (New York Giants ).
Ruby Dandridge , 87, American actress (Amos 'n' Andy , Judy Canova Show ), heart attack.[ 52]
Mauno Mäkelä , 71, Finnish film producer.
Roderich Menzel , 80, Czech-German amateur tennis player and writer.
Peter Pund , 80, American college football player.[ 53]
Hirsch Schwartzberg , 79, Lithuanian-born American leader of holocaust survivors.[ 54]
Abdul Malek Ukil , 63, Bangladeshi politician, Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad .
Gil Bergerson , 77, American NFL player (Chicago Bears ).
Theodore Brameld , 83, American philosopher and educator, pneumonia.[ 55]
Pete Carpenter , 73, American jazz trombonist and arranger, lung cancer.
Adriaan Ditvoorst , 47, Dutch film director and screenwriter (Paranoia ).
Patrick Duffy , 66, Irish Olympic fencer (1948 , 1952 ).
Prince Emanuel of Liechtenstein , 78, Liechtenstein sovereign family member.
Sol Goldman , 70, American real estate investor and philanthropist.[ 56]
Philip Levine , 87, Belorus-born American immuno-hematologist.[ 57]
Michael Lipper , 56, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1977-1981).
Louis Miriani , 90, American politician, mayor of Detroit.[ 58]
Joseph Schauers , 78, American Olympic rower (1932 ).
Jerzy Bandura , 71, Polish sculptor.
Robert Madden Hill , 59, American circuit and district judge.
Hermann Lang , 78, German racing driver.
Carlos Lastarria , 69, Peruvian Olympic sports shooter (1960 , 1964 ).
Igor Newerly , 84, Polish novelist.
Marcel Paulus , 67, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer (1948 ).
Jacqueline du Pré , 42, British cellist, multiple sclerosis.[ 59]
Ben Stahl , 77, American artist, illustrator and author.[ 60]
Ernie Toseland , 82, English footballer (Manchester City ).
Georges Douking , 85, French stage, film and television actor (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie ).
Herbert Hallowes , 75, British WWII flying ace.
Andrey Kolmogorov , 84, Russian mathematician (probability theory ).[ 61]
Gordon Olive , 71, Australian RAAF officer.
Mecha Ortiz , 87, Argentinian actress (El canto del cisne ).
Lars-Erik Sjöberg , 43, Swedish international ice hockey player, cancer.[ 62]
Mária Sulyok , 79, Hungarian actress.
Igor Chernat , 20–21, Soviet serial killer, executed.
Jerzy Chromik , 56, Polish Olympic long-distance runner (1956 , 1960 ).
Murray Exelby , 75, Australian rules footballer.
Pál Gábor , 55, Hungarian film director and screenwriter (Angi Vera ).[ 63]
Bob Simmons , 64, English actor and stunt man (James Bond series).
Albertine Van Roy-Moens , 72, Belgian Olympic gymnast (1948 ).
Albert Western , 64, Australian rules footballer (South Fremantle ).
He Yingqin , 97, Chinese politician, Premier of the Republic of China .[ 64]
K. G. Adiyodi , 60, Indian politician, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly .[ 65]
Archduke Anton of Austria , 86, Austrian noble.
Ragnar Bergstedt , 98, Swedish Olympic rower (1912 ).
Reni Erkens , 78, German Olympic swimmer (1928 ).
Fernando Jiménez , 82, Puerto Rican Olympic sports shooter (1956 ).
Tasman Knight , 80, Australian rules footballer.
Lucienne Legrand , 87, French film actress.
John H. Masters , 74, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Taylor Scott , 40, English Fleet Air Arm pilot and test pilot for British Aerospace , test flight accident.[ 66]
Andrey Starostin , 81, Soviet footballer and author.
Lino Ventura , 68, Italian-born French actor (Les Misérables ), heart attack.[ 67]
Constantin Alajalov , 86, Armenian-born American painter and illustrator.[ 68]
Henri Arnaudeau , 65, French footballer.
Fred Hughson , 73, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy ).
Raymond W. Ketchledge , 67, American engineer (computerized telephone switching control systems), cancer.[ 69]
Barry Levinson , 54–55, American film producer.
Len McConnell , 80, Australian rules footballer.
A. L. Morton , 84, English Marxist historian.[ 70]
Jimmy Mullen , 64, English international footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers , England ).[ 71]
Della H. Raney , 75, American nurse in the Army Nurse Corps .[ 72]
Gene Rodgers , 77, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger.
Alejandro Scopelli , 79, Argentine international footballer and coach (Estudiantes , Argentina ).[ 73]
Ted Taylor , 53, American blues singer, car crash.
John Wittig , 66, Danish film actor.
Hallam Ashley , 87, British photographer.
Vallancey Brown , 74, Australian cricketer.
Enid Chadwick , 84, British religious artist.[ 74]
Raymond Francis , 76, British actor (No Hiding Place ).
Leo Hepp , 80, Nazi German military officer in the Wehrmacht.
Kelvin Martin , 23, American criminal, shot.[ 75]
Ray Sheppard , 84, American baseball player.
Ivan Beshoff , appr. 104, Russian mutineer in 1905 on battleship Potemkin .[ 76]
Cecil Brown , 80, American journalist and war correspondent.[ 77]
Marta Feuchtwanger , 96, German exile to America, devoted life to promoting work of her deceased writer husband.[ 78]
Maxwell Finland , 85, Russian-born American medical researcher, expert on infectious diseases, heart attack.[ 79]
Louis Guttman , 71, American sociologist (social statistics ), melanoma.[ 80]
Willis Jackson , 55, American jazz tenor saxophonist, complications from heart surgery.[ 81]
Pascal Jules , 26, French road bicycle racer.
Gerald Pearson , 82, American physicist at Bell Labs (photovoltaic cell ).[ 82]
J. A. Ratcliffe , 84, British radio physicist.[ 83]
Kate L. Turabian , 94, American educator and author (A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations ).[ 84]
Herbert Anaya , 32–33, El Salvadoran president of the Human Rights Commission of El Salvador, assassinated.[ 85]
Greg Bautzer , 76, American attorney who represented famous clients, heart failure.[ 86]
Aldo Boffi , 72, Italian international footballer (AC Milan , Italy ).
Edith Luckett Davis , 99, American actress, mother of Nancy Reagan , stroke.[ 87]
Hugh Aloysius Donohoe , 82, American prelate.
Arild Feldborg , 75, Norwegian playwright.
Victor Ganz , 74, American business owner and art collector, lung cancer.[ 88]
Francisco Juillet , 89, Chilean Olympic cyclist (1924 , 1928 ).
Carolus Lassila , 65, Finnish diplomat, ambassador to eight countries, flash flood.
Bjørge Lillelien , 60, Norwegian sports journalist and commentator (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation ), cancer.
Zdzisław Wojdylak , 58, Polish Olympic field hockey player (1952 , 1960 ).
Adam Wolanin , 67, Polish-American international footballer (Pogoń Lwów , United States ).[ 89]
Marshal T. Adams , 101, American politician, member of the Mississippi State Senate (1916-1924).
Burnett Bolloten , 77–78, British-American writer, scholar of the Spanish Civil War , prostate cancer.[ 90]
Jorge Dalto , 39, Argentine-born American pianist, cancer.[ 91]
Jean Hélion , 83, French painter, pneumonia.[ 92]
John Oliver Killens , 71, American novelist, cancer.[ 93]
Kosaraju , 82, Indian lyricist and poet.
Vijay Merchant , 76, Indian test cricketer (Bombay , India ).[ 94]
Mario Merola , 65, American attorney and member of New York City Council , stroke.[ 95]
John C. Young , 75, American businessman, developer of Chinatown, San Francisco .
D. Djajakusuma , 69, Indonesian film director.
Douglas Mackessack , 84, Scottish cricketer and army officer.
André Masson , 91, French artist.[ 96]
Pete McClanahan , 81, American MLB player (Pittsburgh Pirates ).
Sir Jasper More , 80, British politician, Member of Parliament.[ 97]
Albert P. Crary , 76, American polar geophysicist and glaciologist, first to set foot on both North and South Poles, spinal tumour.[ 98]
William Davis , 86, British Royal Navy admiral.[ 99]
Robert Heber-Percy , 75, English eccentric.[ 100]
Woody Herman , 74, American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and big band leader, heart failure.[ 101]
Phillip C. Katz , 97, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
Kamal el-Mallakh , 69, Egyptian archaeologist, discovered Khufu ship .[ 102]
Ram Awtar Sharma , 79, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha .
Peter Stopforth , 79, South African cricketer.
Frederic M. Wheelock , 85, American Latin professor (Wheelock's Latin ), heart attack.[ 103]
Thomas G. Bergin , 82, American scholar of Italian literature.[ 104]
Joseph Campbell , 83, American writer on comparative mythology and religion (The Hero with a Thousand Faces ), cancer.[ 105]
Sydney Vernon Petersen , 73, South African poet and author, kidney failure.[ 106]
Chaudhary Dalbir Singh , 61, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha .
Grady B. Wilson , 67–68, American evangelist, heart failure.[ 107]
Paul D. Adams , 81, American general in the U.S. Army.[ 108]
Raj Chandra Bose , 86, Indian and American mathematician and statistician (error-correcting codes ).[ 109]
Ruel Vance Churchill , 87, American mathematician and author.
Josef Erber , 90, Nazi German SS-Oberscharführer at Auschwitz , received life sentence, traffic accident.
Maurie Hunter , 83, Australian rules footballer.
Jimmy Jewell , 33–34, British rock climber, climbing accident.
Hans Sommer , 73, Nazi German member of the Sicherheitsdienst , Stasi spy.
Jack Stenhouse , 75, Australian rules footballer.
George Sulima , 58, American NFL player (Pittsburgh Steelers ).
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^ Salvadoran Human Rights Activist Slain . New York Times . Retrieved 12 Sep 2024.
^ Greg Bautzer, Attorney for Film Stars, Dies . L.A. Times . Retrieved 12 Sep 2024.
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