Deaths in August 1987

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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

## August 1987

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### 1

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* Amilcare Canevari, 82, Italian Olympic rower (1928).
* Caroline Russell Compton, 80, American artist.
* Benson Fong, 70, American actor, stroke.[1]
* Howdy Forrester, 65, American bluegrass fiddler.[2]
* S. Marshall Kempner, 88, American investment banker, founder of the French Bank of California, heart failure.[3]
* Juho Matsalu, 75, Estonian footballer.
* Harold Morphy, 85, British Olympic rower (1924).
* Pola Negri, 90, Polish-American actress and singer, pneumonia and brain tumour.[4]

### 2

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* Mohammad Choucair, 70, Lebanese politician, assassinated.
* Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, 66, President of Bangladesh, chairman of U.N. Commission on Human Rights, heart attack.[5]
* Tom Doerr, 39–40, American gay activist.
* Jaime Ferrer, 70, Filipino lawyer, guerrilla and politician, Secretary of Local Government, assassinated.[6]
* Clement Howell, 51, Turks and Caicos politician, presumed airplane crash.
* David N. Johnson, 65, American organist and composer.
* David A. Martin, 50, American founding member and bass player for Sam the Sham, heart attack.
* Mangkunegara VIII, 62, Indonesian politician, last ruler of Mangkunegaran, Java.
* Aileen Meagher, 76, Canadian Olympic athlete (1936).
* Adolf Schön, 81, German racing cyclist.
* Myron Stout, 78–79, American abstract painter, lung cancer.[7]
* Yves Volel, 52–53, Haitian lawyer, activist and presidential candidate, assassinated.[8]

### 3

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* Garrick Agnew, 56, Australian swimmer, businessman and dual Olympian (1948, 1952), heart attack.[9]
* Edward Cowart, 62, American circuit judge, heart attack.[10]
* Joseph Desch, 80, American electrical engineer and inventor.[11]
* Jean Douvinet, 88, French Olympic wrestler (1920).
* Dorothy Hammerstein, 88, Australian-born American interior designer and decorator, wife of Oscar Hammerstein II.[12]
* William S. Moorhead, 64, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1959-1981), lung cancer.[13]
* Ivan Mykolaichuk, 46, Ukrainian actor and screenwriter (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors).
* Ivan Svanidze, 59, German-born Soviet academic specialising in agriculture and African Studies.
* Jim Veitch, 82, Australian rules footballer.

### 4

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* Hans Aderhold, 68, German Olympic diver (1952).
* Sheikh Ali, 62, Malaysian Olympic field hockey player (1956).
* Dick Farney, 65, Brazilian jazz pianist, composer and singer.
* József Fekete, 64, Hungarian Olympic gymnast (1948, 1952).
* Kenny Price, 56, American country music singer, songwriter and actor, heart attack.[14]
* Jesse M. Unruh, 64, American politician, minority leader and speaker of the California State Assembly, prostate cancer.[15]
* Allan White, 72, Australian rules footballer.
* John W. Wydler, 63, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1963-1981), heart attack.[16]

### 5

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* Eduard Abalov, 59, Soviet actor and director.
* Jocko Conlon, 89, American MLB player (Boston Braves).
* Johannes Haasnoot, 90, Dutch Olympic rower (1920).
* Anatoli Papanov, 64, Soviet actor, heart attack.
* Norm Raines, 66, Australian rules footballer.
* Salvador Flores Rivera, 67, Mexican composer and singer.
* Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, 59, Japanese novelist and translator of French literature, carotid aneurysm.

### 6

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* Abbas Babaei, 36, Iranian pilot, brigadier-general in Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, shot down.
* Sherwood Bailey, 64, American child actor, cancer.[17]
* Paula Bauersmith, 78, American actress, cancer.[18]
* Omer Braeckeveldt, 69, Belgian road cyclist.
* Ira C. Eaker, 91, U.S. Army Air Forces general during World War II.[19]
* Georges Krotoff, 81, French Olympic sprinter (1928).
* Lena Küchler-Silberman, 77, Polish member of the Jewish resistance.
* Myles Lane, 83, American NHL ice hockey player (New York Rangers) and Supreme Court justice, Alzheimer's disease.[20]
* Léon Noël, 99, French diplomat and politician, ambassador to Poland.

### 7

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* Mihailo Apostolski, 80, Macedonian general and politician.
* Jeanne Boitel, 83, French film actress, member of French Resistance.
* Reed Budge, 66, American politician, member of the Idaho Senate (1967-1986).
* Camille Chamoun, 87, Lebanese politician, President of Lebanon, heart attack.[21]
* Andrew D. Holt, 82, American educator, president of the University of Tennessee.[22]
* Nobusuke Kishi, 90, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan, heart complications.[23]
* Vibeke Møller, 82, Danish Olympic swimmer (1924).
* Jaap van Praag, 77, Dutch football administrator, chairman AFC Ajax, traffic accident.

### 8

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* Danilo Blanuša, 83, Yugoslavian mathematician, physicist and engineer.[24]
* Harry Cockerill, 88, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1959-1973).
* Julián Gorkin, 86, Spanish revolutionary socialist, leader of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification.[25]
* Laurence Hyde, 73, English-born Canadian film maker, painter and graphic artist.
* Nirmal Mahto, 36, Indian political activist, leader of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, murdered.[26]
* Trevor O'Keeffe, 18–19, Irish man murdered while hitchhiking in France.[27]
* Irwin Schiff, 50, American businessman and mob associate, murdered.[28]
* Juan Antonio Yanes, 85, Venezuelan professional baseball pioneer[29]

### 9

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* Rudolf Broby-Johansen, 86, Danish art historian, communist activist and writer.
* Col Colborne, 77, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1949-1973).
* Leon Keyserling, 79, American economist and lawyer, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.[30]
* August Miete, 78, Nazi German SS member and mass murderer, sentenced to life imprisonment.
* Henry Morgan, 80, Irish first-class cricketer.[31]

### 10

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* Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, 94, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece, heart failure.[32]
* Casey Donovan, (John Culver), 43, American pornographic actor, AIDS.[33]
* Kerstin Gellerman, 61, Swedish politician, member of parliament.[34]
* Edmund Germer, 85, German inventor, father of the fluorescent lamp.[35]
* Uys Krige, 77, South African writer of novels, poems and plays.[36]
* Kullo Must, 76, Estonian film producer.
* Patrick O'Boyle, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Washington.[37]
* Prince Yamashina Takehiko, 89, Japanese head of the Yamashina-no-miya.
* Raquel Torres, 78, Mexican-born American film actress, heart attack.[38]

### 11

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* Eugene Bordinat, 67, American automobile designer and corporate executive (Ford Motor Company).[39]
* Živko Čingo, 51, Yugoslavian writer.
* F. Herrick Herrick, 85, American film director.
* Walter Herrmann, 76, German nuclear physicist and mechanical engineer.
* John McGillen, 70, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics).
* Karlo Pavlenč, 61, Yugoslavian Olympic rower (1948, 1952).
* Clara Peller, 85, Russian-born American manicurist and television personality, heart failure.[40]
* Alexander Ziegler, 43, Swiss author and actor, suicide.

### 12

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* Alison Marjorie Ashby, 86, Australian botanical artist and plant collector.
* Crystal Bennett, 68, British archaeologist, founded the British Institute in Amman, liver disease.[41]
* Lester Gaba, 80, American sculptor and writer, colon cancer.[42]
* Kaj Hansen, 70, Danish footballer and manager.
* Dmitri Klebanov, 69, Ukrainian composer.
* Niels Knudsen, 82, Danish architect.
* Sally Long, 85, American dancer and actress.
* Max Rowley, 64, Australian racing cyclist.
* Fatime Sokoli, 39, Albanian folk music singer.

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* Guðmundur Ingólfsson, 58, Icelandic Olympic swimmer (1948).
* Walter Kondratovich, 63, American football player and coach.
* Thomas B. Manuel, 88, American community leader and politician, heart attack.[43]
* Ethel McMillan, 83, New Zealand politician, member of the New Zealand Parliament (1953-1975).
* Nico Pepe, 70, Italian actor.

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* Sydney Bromley, 78, English actor, cancer.
* Giovanni Delago, 84, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (1932).
* Bernard Fagg, 71, British archaeologist and museum curator.[44]
* Mary-Louise Hooper, 80, American heiress and activist in the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements.
* Narayana Kasturi, 89, Indian writer, professor and journalist.
* Nora Listach, 77, American baseball player.
* Brewster Mason, 64, English actor, injuries from a fall.
* Albert Mayaud, 88, French Olympic water polo player (1920, 1924).
* Vincent Persichetti, 72, American composer and pianist.[45]
* Edgar Rosenberg, 61, German-born British film and television producer, suicide.[46]
* Shigeo Sasaki, 74, Japanese mathematician (Sasakian manifolds).[47]
* Wylie Sypher, 81, American non-fiction writer.[48]

### 15

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* Konstantin Aleksandrov, 67, Soviet sailor and Olympian (1952, 1956, 1964, 1968).[49]
* Shukur Burkhanov, 76, Soviet Uzbek actor.
* Hanna Greally, 63, Irish writer, incarcerated against her will in psychiatric hospital for 18 years.[50]
* Bernard Michaux, 65, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer (1948).
* Ubaldo Ragona, 70, Italian film director and screenwriter.
* Dan Sandifer, 60, American NFL player (Washington Redskins), heart disease.[51]
* Robert Leonard Ewing Scott, 90, American convicted murderer.[52]
* Louis Scutenaire, 82, Belgian French-language poet and anarchist.[53]
* K. K. Shetty, 86, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.

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* Pepe Cáceres, 52, Colombian bullfighter, complications from a goring.[54]
* Dorothy Hughes, 77, English-born Kenyan architect and politician.[55]
* Sumiko Kurishima, 85, Japanese actress, master of traditional Japanese dance.[56]
* Samuel Lubell, 75, American public opinion pollster and author, stroke.[57]
* Edwin Barnard Martin, 68, Canadian member of the British Free Corps in Nazi Germany.
* Andrei Mironov, 46, Soviet actor, complications from mis-administered drug.[58]
* Peter Schidlof, 65, Austrian-born British violist, co-founder of the Amadeus Quartet.[59]
* Nick Vanos, 24, American NBA basketballer (Phoenix Suns), plane crash.[60]
* Charles H. Wesley, 95, American historian, minister and author.[61]

### 17

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* Leon Berkowitz, 75, American artist, cancer.[62]
* Frank Beswick, 75, British politician, deputy leader of the House of Lords.[63]
* Clarence Brown, 97, American film director (Anna Karenina, National Velvet), kidney failure.[64]
* Gary Chester, 62, American studio drummer and author.[65]
* Carlos Drummond de Andrade, 84, Brazilian poet and writer, heart attack.[66]
* Rudolf Hess, 93, German Nazi official, Deputy Führer, ostensibly suicide by hanging.[67]
* Mac Kac, 67, French jazz drummer.
* Harold McCluskey, 75, American chemical operations technician and radiation survivor, coronary artery disease.[68]
* Oktavijan Miletić, 84, Yugoslavian cinematographer and director.
* Shaike Ophir, 58, Israeli actor, playwright and director (The Policeman), lung cancer.[69]
* Antti Rantamaa, 82, Finnish priest, member of Finnish Parliament.
* Tjilik Riwut, 69, Indonesian Air Force officer, governor of Central Kalimantan, hepatitis.
* Heinz Schubert, 73, Nazi German SS officer and war criminal.
* Tillit Sidney Teddlie, 102, American singing teacher, composer and minister.[70]

### 18

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* Keerthisena Abeywickrama, 53, Sri Lankan politician, member of parliament, grenade attack.
* Olga Agnew, 87-88, Australian actress.
* Shichirō Fukazawa, 73, Japanese author.
* Ralph Haver, 71–72, American architect (Haver Homes), pulmonary disease.[71]
* Dambudzo Marechera, 35, Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and poet, pulmonary disorder.[72]

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* Bahri Kavaja, 62, Albanian football player.
* Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 58, British nobleman and peer, heart attack.[73]
* Laxmi Narayan Mishra, 83, Indian Hindi play writer.
* Margot Moles, 76, Spanish Olympic alpine skier (1936).
* Sachin Nag, 67, Indian swimmer and water polo player, Olympian.[74]
* Hayden Rorke, 76, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie), multiple myeloma.[75]
* Paul Schlack, 89, German chemist.[76]
* Harold Sherman, 89, American writer and "parapsychologist".[77]
* Yidnekatchew Tessema, 65, Ethiopian international footballer (Saint George, Ethiopia).[78]

### 20

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* René Andrei, 81, French sculptor.
* Winifred Bryson, 94, American stage and silent-screen actress (A Heart to Let).[79]
* José Bueno y Monreal, 82, Spanish cardinal, Roman Catholic archbishop of Seville.
* Walenty Kłyszejko, 77, Estonian-Polish Olympic basketball player (1936).

### 21

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* Frances Mary Albrier, 88, American civil rights activist.
* Bombolo, (Franco Lechner), 56, Italian actor and comedian, complications from surgery.[80]
* Simone Boutarel, 95, French sculptor.
* Dorothy Adlington Cadbury, 94, English botanist and director of confectionery company Cadbury.[81]
* Steve Davis, 58, American jazz bassist (John Coltrane Quartet).
* Connor Hansen, 73, American lawyer and jurist, justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (1967-1980).
* Li Fang-Kuei, 85, Chinese linguist.[82]
* Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, 78, Italian composer of film scores.
* Glesca Marshall, 80, American actress.[83]
* Marion McCarthy, 80, Canadian Olympic speed skater (1932).
* Irving Thalberg Jr., 56, American author, son of Norma Shearer, cancer.[84]

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* Carlos Atlagic, 71, Chilean footballer.
* Arne Brustad, 75, Norwegian international footballer (Lyn Fotball, Norway) and Olympic medalist.[85]
* Leonard Caston, 70, American blues pianist and guitarist, heart disease.[86]
* Mary Dobkin, 84, Russian-born American amateur sports coach, stroke.[87]
* Joseph P. Lash, 77, American political activist, journalist and writer (Pulitzer Prize winner), heart ailment.[88]
* George Mayo, 93, American baseball player.
* Ted Sherdeman, 78, American radio producer and screenwriter (My Favorite Martian, The Flying Nun, Bewitched).[89]
* John Milton Bryan Simpson, 84, American circuit judge.[90]

### 23

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* Griselda Allan, 81, English artist.
* Siegfried Borris, 80, German composer.
* Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., 84, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1939-1947), cardiac arrest.[91]
* Sheila van Damm, 65, British motor rally driver, owner of Windmill Theatre in London.[92]
* Malcolm Kirk, 51, English professional wrestler and rugby league player (Featherstone Rovers), died in the ring.[93]
* Paulo Navalho, 20, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer, heart attack during a game.[94]
* Didier Pironi, 35, French racing driver and power boat racer, powerboat racing accident.
* Stéphanos I Sidarouss, 83, Egyptian priest of the Coptic Catholic Church.[95]

### 24

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* Michèle Alfa, 76, French actress, hider of French Resistance leaders.
* Douglas Byng, 94, English comic singer and songwriter.[96]
* Carlos Cossio, 84, Argentinian university reformer, lawyer and professor.
* Hans Fritsch, 76, German Olympic discus thrower (1936).
* Wayne Hansen, 58, American NFL footballer (Chicago Bears), bone cancer.[97]
* W. W. Keeler, 79, American engineer and oilman, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.[98]
* Helmer Pedersen, 57, Danish-born New Zealand Olympic sailor (1964).
* Bayard Rustin, 75, American civil and gay rights activist, perforated appendix.[99]
* Robert Selfelt, 84, Swedish army officer and Olympic horse rider (1948).

### 25

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* Héctor Abad Gómez, 66, Colombian doctor, university professor and human rights leader, murdered.[100]
* Otto Höfler, 86, Austrian philologist specialising in Germanic studies.
* Finn Jensen, 72, Danish Olympic swimmer (1936).
* Sam Kahn, 75, South African politician, member of parliament.
* John Ortell Kingston, 68, American Trustee of the Davis County Cooperative Society, Utah.[101]
* Avraham Levenbraun, 71, Romanian-born Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1972-1977, 1981).
* Ken Radick, 80, American NFL player.
* Victor Stafford Reid, 74, Jamaican writer.[102]
* Fernando Ramos da Silva, 19, Brazilian actor (Pixote), police shootout.[103]
* Thomas Warner, 84, South African cricketer.

### 26

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* Josep Balsells, 82, Spanish Olympic rower coxswain (1924).
* Alexandru Borbely, 76, Romanian footballer and coach.
* Vern Gardner, 62, American basketballer, stroke.[104]
* John Goddard, 68, Barbadian cricketer, captain of West Indies Test team.[105]
* Robert L. Jacks, 60, American film producer.
* Karl-Erik Johansson, 63, Finnish Olympic rower (1952).
* Marcelo Ramos Motta, 56, Brazilian writer, heart attack.
* Alberto Socarras, 78, Cuban-American flautist.
* Georg Wittig, 90, German chemist (Wittig reaction), Nobel laureate in Chemistry.[106]

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* Ben Branch, 59, American entrepreneur, jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader.[107]
* Joan Haythorne, 72, British actress.
* Scott La Rock, 25, American hip-hop disc jockey and music producer, murdered.[108]
* Peter Mehringer, 77, American freestyle wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.[109]
* Richard Mattern Montgomery, 75, American Air Force general.
* Charlie Smalls, 43, American composer and songwriter, burst appendix.[110]
* Aleksanteri Toivola, 94, Finnish Olympic wrestler (1924, 1928).

### 28

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* Lillian Chase, 93, Canadian physician, researcher in the treatment of diabetes.[111]
* John Huston, 81, American film director and actor (The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen, Moulin Rouge), pneumonia.[112]
* Hoàng Cơ Minh, 52, Vietnamese Navy commodore-admiral, leader of anti-communist resistance.
* Harold Samuel, 75, British founder of Land Securities.[113]
* Gerhard Winther, 74, Norwegian Olympic race walker (1948, 1952).
* Jack Young, 62, Australian motorcycle speedway rider, Speedway World Champion.[114]

### 29

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* Naji al-Ali, 48–49, Palestinian cartoonist, assassinated.[115]
* Henryk Bąk, 64, Polish actor.
* Archie Campbell, 72, American comedian and writer, heart attack.[116]
* Hans Eidenbenz, 87, Swiss Olympic Nordic combined skier (1924, 1928).
* Bernadene Hayes, 75, American film and television actress (Some Like It Hot, Dick Tracy's Dilemma), heart problems.[117]
* Lee Marvin, 63, American film and television actor (The Dirty Dozen, The Big Heat), heart attack.[118]
* John R. Napier, 70, British primatologist, paleoanthropologist and physician.[119]
* Jean Schlumberger, 80, French jewellery designer.[120]
* Phillip Hagar Smith, 82, American electrical engineer (Smith chart).[121]

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* David Parker Gibbs, 76, American army general.
* Wade H. McCree, 67, American judge, Solicitor General of the United States, bone cancer.[122]
* George Mikes, 75, Hungarian-born British journalist and writer, leukemia.[123]
* Vic Silayan, 58, Filipino actor (Kisapmata, Of the Flesh), heart attack.
* John C. Sjogren, 71, American soldier in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient, cancer.[124]
* Frank Stojack, 75, Canadian-born NFL footballer (Brooklyn Dodgers), wrestler (world champion), Alzheimer's disease.[125]
* Dick Young, 69, American sportswriter (New York Daily News).[126]

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* Thomas Agro, 55, American gangster with the Gambino crime family.
* Nicole Chouraqui, 49, French economist and politician.
* Szilárd Kun, 52, Hungarian Olympic sports shooter (1952, 1956, 1964, 1968, 1972).
* Lenore Lonergan, 59, American stage and film actress, cancer.[127]
* Francisco Núñez, 62, Argentine Olympic boxer (1948, 1956).

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64. ^ "Clarence Brown, a Director And Six-Time Oscar Nominee". The New York Times. August 20, 1987. p. B 15. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
65. ^ Obituary for Gary Chester. Newspapers.com (Mount Vernon Argus). Retrieved 13 Aug 2024.
66. ^ C. Drummond de Andrade, A Brazilian Modernist Poet. New York Times. Retrieved 13 Aug 2024.
67. ^ "Rudolf Hess Is Dead in Berlin; Last of the Hitler Inner Circle". The New York Times. August 18, 1987. p. A 1. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
68. ^ 1976 Radiation Victim Dies; Was Treated for Record Dose. New York Times. Retrieved 13 Aug 2024.
69. ^ Shaike Ophir. Jewish Virtual Library (year of death only). Retrieved 13 Aug 2024.
70. ^ Gravestone: Tillit Sydney Teddlie 17.8.87. Retrieved 13 Aug 2024.
71. ^ Ralph Haver AIA: A Chronology. Modern Phoenix (newspaper obituary at bottom of page). Retrieved 13 Aug 2024.
72. ^ Dambudzo Marechera 1952–1987. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 13 Aug 2024.
73. ^ Queen’s Cousin Dies in Moors. L.A. Times. Retrieved 13 Aug 2024.
74. ^ Sachin Nag. Olympedia. Retrieved 13 Aug 2024.
75. ^ "Hayden Rorke, Actor In Film, Plays and TV". The New York Times. August 21, 1987. p. B 7. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
76. ^ Paul Schlack. Plastics Historical Society. Retrieved 13 Aug 2024.
77. ^ Libraries Australia Authorities - Full view. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 13 Aug 2024.
78. ^ Yidnekatchew Tessema ይድነቃቸው ተሠማ (Player). National Football Teams. Retrieved 13 Aug 2024.
79. ^ Winifred Bryson, Actress, Dies at 94. L.A. Times. Retrieved 13 Aug 2024.
80. ^ Memorial Plaque: Franco Bombolo Lechner 21.8.87. Retrieved 13 Aug 2024.
81. ^ Cadbury, Dorothy Adlington (1892–1987). Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 13 Aug 2024.
82. ^ Academic Contributions of Dr. Fang Kuei Li. JSTOR (Journal of Chinese Linguistics). Retrieved 14 Aug 2024.
83. ^ Gravestone: Catherine Glesca Marshall 21.8.87. Retrieved 14 Aug 2024.
84. ^ "Irving G. Thalberg Jr". The New York Times. August 24, 1987. p. D 9. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
85. ^ Arne Brustad. Olympedia. Retrieved 14 Aug 2024.
86. ^ Blues musician Leonard “Baby Doo” Caston, 70. Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 14 Aug 2024.
87. ^ "Mary Dobkin Is Dead at 84; A Patron of Needy Children". The New York Times. August 25, 1987. p. B 7. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
88. ^ David E. Pitt (August 23, 1987). "Reporter and Biographer". The New York Times. p. 1 40. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
89. ^ Ted Sherdeman; Wrote Scripts for Popular TV Shows. L.A. Times. Retrieved 14 Aug 2024.
90. ^ Simpson, John Milton Bryan. Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved 14 Aug 2024.
91. ^ T. D'Alesandro Jr., a Baltimore Mayor, Dies. New York Times. Retrieved 14 Aug 2024.
92. ^ Sheila van Damm Dies at 65; Briton Raced Cars in 1950's. New York Times. Retrieved 14 Aug 2024.
93. ^ Wrestler killed by 336-pound opponent. United Press International. Retrieved 14 Aug 2024.
94. ^ Paulo Navalho of Atletico of the Portuguese League collapsed.... United Press International. Retrieved 14 Aug 2024.
95. ^ Stephanos Sidarouss Dies; A Coptic Catholic Cardinal. New York Times. Retrieved 14 Aug 2024.
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102. ^ Biography. University of the West Indies. Retrieved 14 Aug 2024.
103. ^ Fernando Ramos da Silva, 19, Star of Brazil's 'Pixote,' Dies. New York Times. Retrieved 14 Aug 2024.
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105. ^ John Goddard. Wisden. Retrieved 14 Aug 2024.
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108. ^ Violent Death Halts Rap Musician's Rise. New York Times. Retrieved 14 Aug 2024.
109. ^ Peter Mehringer. Olympedia. Retrieved 14 Aug 2024.
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116. ^ Archie Campbell, 72, Is Dead; 'Opry' and 'Hee Haw' Comic. New York times. Retrieved 16 Aug 2024.
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120. ^ J. Schlumberger Dies in Paris at 80. New York Times. Retrieved 16 Aug 2024.
121. ^ Remembering Phillip H. Smith on his 100th Birthday. University of Portland. Retrieved 16 Aug 2024.
122. ^ Wade H. McCree Jr. Dies at 67; Was Judge and Solicitor General. New York Times. Retrieved 16 Aug 2024.
123. ^ George Mikes, 75; Wrote Gentle Satires And Serious Works. New York Times. Retrieved 16 Aug 2024.
124. ^ Medal of Honor Recipient John C. Sjogren. Michigan Technological University. Retrieved 16 Aug 2024.
125. ^ Frank Stojack. Pro Football Reference. Retrieved 16 Aug 2024.
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