Deaths in December 1987

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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.

## December 1987

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### 1

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* 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]
* Wyman Roberts, 72, American basketball player.

### 2

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* 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).
* Ferdinando Glück, 86, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (1928).
* 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]

### 3

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* 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.

### 4

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* Carlos Colás, 70, Cuban baseball player.
* Pericle Fazzini, 74, Italian painter and sculptor (The Resurrection).[16]
* Bryan Fowler, 89, British polo player and Olympian (1936).[17]
* Betty Jo Hawkins, 57, American wrestler.
* Miriam Jordan, 83, British film and stage actress.
* 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.

### 5

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* 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]
* Alberto Ghirardi, 66, Italian racing cyclist.
* Fats Heard, 64, American jazz drummer.
* 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.
* Sookval Samaroo, 74-75, Trinidadian cricketer.
* Eugene Siler, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1955-1965).[27]
* Ye Beihua, 80, Chinese Olympic footballer (1936).

### 6

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* George Bernhardt, 68, American football player.
* James Dobson, 67, American film and television actor (Flying Leathernecks), heart attack.[28]
* Dan Fosse, 69, Norwegian actor.
* Jim Johnson, 42, American MLB player (San Francisco Giants).
* Peter Lorenz, 64, German politician, kidnapped by militants, heart attack.[29]
* Ilmari Pakarinen, 77, Finnish Olympic gymnast (1932, 1936).
* David J. Schwartz, 60, American motivational writer and coach (The Magic of Thinking Big).[30]
* Izler Solomon, 77, American orchestra conductor, heart failure.[31]
* Walt Stickel, 65, American NFL player (Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles).
* Ba Swe, 72, Prime Minister of Burma.
* Geymond Vital, 90, French film, stage, and television actor.

### 7

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* 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]
* René Havard, 63, French film actor.
* 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]
* Ken Richardson, 72, American MLB player.
* Denis Rogers, 70, New Zealand doctor and local politician (Mayor of Hamilton), heart attack.

### 8

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* 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]
* Philippe Tesnière, 32, French cyclist.
* 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).
* José Casanova, 23, Peruvian international footballer (Club Alianza Lima, 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).

### 9

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* János Bédl, 58, Hungarian footballer and manager.
* Seán Brosnahan, 76, Irish politician, member of the Seanad Éireann (1961-1977).
* Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, 73, German prince, head of the House of Hanover.
* George Fisher, 77, American gossip columnist and radio personality.
* Diana Forbes-Robertson, 72, British writer, stroke.[40]
* María Francés, 100, Spanish actress.
* François Gall, 75, Hungarian-French modern impressionist painter, heart attack.

### 10

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* 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]
* Slim Lonsdorf, 82, American basketball player.
* Whitey Moore, 75, American MLB player (Cincinnati Reds).
* Liisa Nevalainen, 71, Finnish actress.
* Denis Sanders, 58, American film director and producer (A Time Out of War), heart attack.[43]
* Murray Seldeen, 83, American film editor.
* Slam Stewart, 73, American jazz double bass player, heart failure.[44]
* Ollie West, 73, American baseball player.
* John Wickström, 60, Swedish Olympic speed skater (1952).

### 11

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* Donald Broughton, 56, Australian cricketer.
* Max Carmichael, 67, Australian rules footballer.
* 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]
* Adile Naşit, 57, Turkish actress.
* Ron Williams, 70, Australian rules footballer.
* Rosi Wolfstein, 99, German socialist politician.

### 12

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* 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]
* Allan Geddes, 84, Australian rules footballer.
* 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]

### 13

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* Julien Darui, 71, French international footballer (CO Roubaix-Tourcoing, France).[50]
* Harold Joseph Dimmerling, 73, American prelate.
* Bil Dwyer, 80, American cartoonist and humourist (Dumb Dora).
* Bernard Epton, 66, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1969-1983), 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]

### 14

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* 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.

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* Seitnebi Abduramanov, 73, Soviet soldier in the Red Army, recipient of the Order of Glory.
* François Borde, 88, French Olympic rugby union player (1920).
* 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]
* Ragnvald Martinsen, 81, Norwegian Olympic cyclist (1928).
* 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]

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* Leonard Beecher, 81, English-born Anglican Archbishop of East Africa.
* Alfons Bērziņš, 71, Latvian Olympic long track speed skater (1936).
* Gilio Bisagno, 84, Italian Olympic swimmer (1920).
* Ásgeir Bjarnþórsson, 88, Icelandic painter.
* Hob Broun, 37, American author, asphyxiation.[67]
* Minnie Evans, 95, American artist.[68]
* Leslie McLean, 69, English cricketer.
* Albert P. Morano, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951-1959), cerebral hemorrhage.[69]
* Monroe M. Redden, 86, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1947-1953).
* John Russell, 66, British politician, member of the House of Lords.

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* 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.
* Ken Phelan, 62, Australian rules footballer.
* 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]

### 18

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* Dimitrije Bašičević, 66, Yugoslavian artist, curator and art critic.[75]
* Florent Dubois, 81, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1962).
* Leslie Harley, 75, Australian Olympic boxer (1936).
* Chaudhary Rahim Khan, 64, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.[76]
* Warne Marsh, 60, American tenor saxophonist, heart attack.[77]

### 19

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* Murat Aitkhozhin, 48, Soviet molecular biologist.
* Ralph Waldo Christie, 94, American admiral in the U.S. Navy.[78]
* Hermann Claasen, 87, German photographer.
* Cornelius Cook, 78, American baseball player.
* Valsø Holm, 80, Danish film actor.
* 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.

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* J. Quinn Decker, 80, American football player and coach.
* Ruben Ecleo Sr., 53, Filipino cult leader, founded the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association.[82]
* Jake Eisenhart, 65, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds).[83]
* Eric Harrison, 94, British army officer and Olympic athlete (1924).
* Al Millar, 58, Canadian NHL player (Boston Bruins).
* Sydney Shepherd, 79, English cricketer.
* Dan Sikes, 58, American professional golfer, complications from stomach surgery.[84]

### 21

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* Paul Bost, 83, American racing driver.
* 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]
* Arsène Piesset, 68, French Olympic long-distance runner (1948).
* Joe Sherman, 97, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics).
* Jacques Sigurd, 67, French screenwriter.
* Herb Stock, 87, American NFL player (Columbus Tigers).
* Henry Strater, 91, American painter and illustrator, founded the Ogunquit Museum of American Art.[89]

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* A. N. Alcaff, 62, Indonesian actor and film director.
* Henry Cotton, 80, English professional golfer, three-time British Open winner.[90]
* Nils Eklöf, 83, Swedish Olympic runner (1928).
* 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]
* Bobby Hogue, 66, American MLB player.
* Rudolph Kampman, 73, Canadian NHL player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
* William Lampe, 85, Australian cricketer.
* 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]

### 23

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* Paschoal Silva, 87, Brazilian footballer (Brazil).[98]

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* Asfò Bussotti, 62, Italian Olympic long-distance runner (1952).
* 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]
* Birkett Pribble, 90, American college player (Kentucky Wildcats).
* Sara Scuderi, 81, Italian opera singer.[106]
* Paschoal Silva, 87, Brazilian footballer.
* Joop den Uyl, 68, Dutch politician and journalist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, brain tumour.[107]
* Kulwant Singh Virk, 66, Indian author, stroke.

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* Alexander Gregory Barmine, 88, Soviet Army defector to the U.S.A., stroke[108]
* Ruth Bonner, 87, Soviet Communist activist.[109]
* Jack Brennan, 90, Australian rules footballer.
* Bucky Freeman, 92, American college football and baseball coach (Ithaca College).
* Jimmy Fuller, 95, American baseball player.
* Harry Holm, 85, Danish Olympic gymnast (1920).
* 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]

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* George Andrew, 70, Australian rules footballer.
* 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]
* Raymond Eugene Plummer, 74, American district judge.
* Melford Stevenson, 85, English barrister and High Court judge, heart attack.[116]
* Rade Sunara, 73, Yugoslavian Olympic rower (1936).
* Leslie Thompson, 86, Jamaican-born English jazz trumpeter and trombonist.
* Luis E. Valcárcel, 96, Peruvian historian, anthropologist and writer, Minister of Education.

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* 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.
* Lefty Holmes, 80, American baseball player.
* Vivian Hultman, 84, American NFL player.
* Tetsuo Imai, 75, Japanese Olympic middle-distance runner (1936).
* 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]

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* Happy Akhand, 27, Bangladeshi rock singer and songwriter (Miles.[123]
* Hank Bartos, 74, American NFL player (Washington Redskins).
* Syd Brown, 70, English cricketer.
* Harry Buckwitz, 83, German actor and director.
* 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]
* Jim Murphy, 84, Irish Olympic boxer (1932).
* Joseph Sittler, 83, American Lutheran minister and theologian, cancer.[128]

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* 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]
* Peter K. Babalas, 65, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (1968-1987).
* Patrick Bissell, 30, American ballet dancer (American Ballet Theatre), overdose.[131]
* Hal Griggs, 87, American NFL player.
* Brigitte Heinrich, 46, German journalist and politician, member of the European Parliament, heart attack.[132]
* Neville Huggins, 81, Australian rules footballer.
* Jun Ishikawa, 88, Japanese author, lung cancer.
* Knud Jacobsen, 73, Danish Olympic cyclist (1936).
* Wilbert E. Moore, 73, American sociologist, president of the American Sociological Association.[133]
* Jack Patterson, 79, Australian rules footballer.
* Jan Rybkowski, 75, Polish film director.
* Raeburn Van Buren, 96, American magazine and comic strip illustrator (Abbie an' Slats).
* Ulysses Kae Williams, 66, American DJ, record label owner and producer.
* Yanina Zhejmo, 78, Soviet actress.

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* Leslie Arliss, 86, English screenwriter and director (The Man in Grey, The Wicked Lady).[134]
* Ed Chissus, 70, American college football and baseball coach (Eastern Washington Eagles).
* Datta Naik, 60, Indian film music director.
* Manolo Urquiza, 67, Cuban-born media personality.
* Max Walter, 82, German Olympic weightlifter (1936).
* Theodore Zichy, 79, British actor, photographer and film director, suicide.

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* Alessandro D'Ottavio, 60, Italian Olympic boxer (1948).
* 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.
* Alick Lill, 83, Australian rules footballer.
* Leo Steiner, 47–48, American restauranteur, co-owner of Carnegie Deli, brain tumour.[136]
* Jerry Turner, 58, American television news anchorman, esophageal cancer.[137]

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* 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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37. ^ Sigrid Helliesen Lund. Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 23 Sep 2024.
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42. ^ Stelios Kyriakidis. Olympedia. Retrieved 24 Sep 2024.
43. ^ C. Gerald Fraser (December 15, 1987). "Denis Sanders Dies; Film Director Won 2 Academy Awards". The New York Times. p. D 31. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
44. ^ Robert Palmer (December 11, 1987). "Slam Stewart, 73, a Jazz Bassist Known for Singing With His Solos". The New York Times. p. D 18. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
45. ^ Gravestone: Dr William Thornton Mustard 11.12.87. Retrieved 24 Sep 2024.
46. ^ Begtrup, Bodil (1903–1987). Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
47. ^ Robert Palmer (December 14, 1987). "Clifton Chenier, 'King of Zydeco,' Popularized Spirited Cajun Sound". The New York Times. p. D 13. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
48. ^ Veteran Movie Actor Nolan Leary, 98, Dies. L.A. Times. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
49. ^ Obituaries : Pinky Tomlin, 80; Hit Songwriter. L.A. Times. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
50. ^ Julien Darui (Player). National Football Teams. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
51. ^ Bernard E. Epton Is Dead at 66; Ran for Mayor of Chicago in '83. New York Times. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
52. ^ "George S. Wunder, 75; Drew 'Terry' Comics". The New York Times. December 15, 1987. p. D 31. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
53. ^ How to Read Copi: A Historiography of the Margins. JSTOR (University of Pennsylvania Press). Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
54. ^ Merlyn Hans Dethlefsen. Congressional Medal of Honor Society. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
55. ^ Hass, Siegfried. Traces of War. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
56. ^ Obituaries : Wrote for Benny, Hope, Lucille Ball : Milt Josefsberg; ‘Maven of Comedy’. L.A. Times. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
57. ^ Georg Knöpfle. Olympedia. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
58. ^ Gravestone: Nikos Stavridis 12.12.87. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
59. ^ "J. P. Strom, Law-Enforcement Chief, 69". The New York Times. December 17, 1987. p. B 26. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
60. ^ Septima Poinsette Clark. Britannica. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
61. ^ "Obituary: George Fulford Leading Brockville citizen left Liberals to join Tories". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. The Canadian Press. December 17, 1987. p. D11.
62. ^ Ángel Infante, actor y cantante. El Pais (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
63. ^ Hero of Montevideo: Ivo Lapenna in memoriam. British Library. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
64. ^ "Ray Malavasi Is Dead; Former Coach of Rams". The New York Times. December 16, 1987. p. B 28. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
65. ^ Gravestone: Billie M. 'Tiny' Moore 15.12.87 (year of death only). Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
66. ^ Zerbel, Alfred. Traces of War. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
67. ^ "Hob Broun, a Novelist, Dies as Respirator Fails". The New York Times. December 24, 1987. p. B 8. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
68. ^ Douglas C. McGill (December 19, 1987). "Minnie Evans, 95, Folk Painter Noted For Visionary Work". The New York Times. p. 1 34. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
69. ^ "Ex-Rep. Albert Morano, 79, Dies". The New York Times. December 18, 1987. p. D 18. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
70. ^ Bernardus Johannes Cardinal Alfrink. Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
71. ^ Gravestone: Irving Applebaum Allen 17.12.87. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
72. ^ Bill Keller, Special To the New York Times (December 22, 1987). "Arkady I. Raikin, 76, a Comedian Who Lampooned Soviet Life, Dies". The New York Times. p. D 22. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
73. ^ Dorothy Lucy Sanders (1907–1987). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.
74. ^ Eric Pace (December 19, 1987). "Marguerite Yourcenar, Writer and Scholar, Dies". The New York Times. p. 1 34. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
75. ^ Mangelos (Dimitrije Bašicevic). Tate. Retrieved 26 Sep 2024.
76. ^ Lok Sabha Debates. Parliament Digital Library (p. 24). Retrieved 26 Sep 2024.
77. ^ "Warne Marsh, Jazz Saxophonist". The New York Times. December 20, 1987. p. 1 46. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
78. ^ Christie, Ralph Waldo. Traces of War. Retrieved 26 Sep 2024.
79. ^ Wolfgang Saxon (December 21, 1987). "Rabbi Leo Jung, Spiritual Leader Of New York Jewish Center, Dies". The New York Times. p. D 14. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
80. ^ John Francis O'Leary, Chairman Of a Utility and Ex-U.S. Official. New York Times. Retrieved 26 Sep 2024.
81. ^ C. Donald Peterson, Associate Justice 1967-1986. Minnesota State Law Library (Star Tribune). Retrieved 26 Sep 2024.
82. ^ The Strange Case of the Ecleos and the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association. Esquire Philippines. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
83. ^ Jake Eisenhart. Baseball Reference. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
84. ^ Dan Sikes, a consistent money-winner on the .... L.A. Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
85. ^ "Fred R. Feitshans, Jr". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. December 23, 1987. p. 21. Retrieved November 10, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
86. ^ Carl McGowan Dies; A Senior U.S. Judge On Court of Appeals. New York Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
87. ^ Ronald Sullivan (December 25, 1987). "Ralph Nelson, Early TV Director; Made 'Requiem for Heavyweight'". The New York Times. p. B 8. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
88. ^ "Robert Paige Is Dead; Appeared in 65 Films". The New York Times. December 24, 1987. p. B 8. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
89. ^ Obituaries : Henry Strater, 91; Artist at Center of Lost Generation. L.A. Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
90. ^ "Henry Cotton, Former Golfer, 80". The New York Times. December 25, 1987. p. B 8. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
91. ^ "Roderick Firth, Philosophy Professor, 70". The New York Times. December 27, 1987. p. 1 36. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
92. ^ Memorial Plaque: Gustav Fröhlich 22.12.87. (year of death only). Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
93. ^ Irish Protestant Militants Bury Slain Comrade. L.A. Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
94. ^ Dudley Meredith, 52, Dies of Heart Attack. Newspapers.com (The Buffalo News). Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
95. ^ Dorothy Mary Moyle Needham. Royal Society (obit). Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
96. ^ Tanjore Ranganathan, Drummer, 62. New York Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
97. ^ Alice Terry, 88, Actress in Silent Movies, Dies. L.A. Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
98. ^ Paschoal Paschoal da Silva Cinelli (Player). National Football Teams. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
99. ^ RADM Roy Milton Davenport. Military Hall of Honor. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
100. ^ Nino Espinosa #39. MLB.com. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
101. ^ Eugen Kogon. Buchenwald Memorial (correct death date at bottom). Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
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103. ^ Josef Myrow, 77, Composer of Hit Songs, Movie Scores, Dies. L.A. Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
104. ^ 4 Die as Indians Bury Top Tamil Leader. L.A. Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
105. ^ Obituaries : Passings: Manoug Parikian; Violinist. L.A. Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
106. ^ Gravestone: Sara Scuderi 24.12.87. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
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109. ^ Ruth Bonner, Stalin Purge Victim. New York Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
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114. ^ Dorothy Bliss papers. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
115. ^ Neil Colville Coaching Record, Awards and Honors. Hockey Reference. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
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118. ^ Hon. John Astor. UK Parliament. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
119. ^ Priscilla Dean; Screen Actress of Silent Films. L.A. Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
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123. ^ Celebrating Happy Akhand with his classics. The Daily Star. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
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125. ^ Hunt, John Henderson, Baron Hunt of Fawley (1905 - 1987). Royal College of Surgeons of England. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
126. ^ "Edward Kleban, 48, 'Chorus Line' Lyricist". The New York Times. December 30, 1987. p. B 10. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
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128. ^ "Joseph Sittler, 83, Dies; Was Lutheran Scholar". The New York Times. January 4, 1988. p. A 16. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
129. ^ John Aiso, Prominent Nisei and Jurist, Dies After Mugger’s Attack. L.A. Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
130. ^ "Sheldon Andelson, Political Fund-Raiser, 56". The New York Times. January 1, 1988. p. 1 64. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
131. ^ Jennifer Dunning (December 30, 1987). "Patrick Bissell, Dancer, Is Dead; A Principal With Ballet Theater". The New York Times. p. B 10. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
132. ^ Brigitte Heinrich. European Parliament. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
133. ^ Wilbert Ellis Moore. American Sociological Association. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
134. ^ Obituaries : Leslie Arliss; British Movie Director, 86. L.A. Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
135. ^ Wolfgang Saxon (January 3, 1988). "Merle Evans Is Dead; Former Band Leader At Ringling Brothers". The New York Times. p. 1 26. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
136. ^ Bryan Miller (January 1, 1988). "Leo Steiner, 48, Owner of a Deli; Known for Wit". The New York Times. p. 1 64. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
137. ^ Baltimore Tv Reporter Jerry Turner Dies at 58. Washington Post. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.

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