Deaths in July 1987

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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

## July 1987

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### 1

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* Mohamed Abou Habaga, 66, Egyptian Olympic footballer (1948).
* Kurt Lamm, 68, German-born American footballer, coach and manager, heart attack.[1]
* Jerry Livingston, 78, American songwriter ("The Twelfth of Never") and dance orchestra pianist, heart condition.[2]
* Edward Nesfield, 87, English cricketer.
* Bridget Sequeira, 81, Pakistani-Indian religious sister.
* Ted Sherman, 84, Australian rules footballer.
* Snakefinger, 38, English musician, singer and songwriter (The Residents), heart attack.
* Soetran, 66, Indonesian military officer and politician, Governor of Irian Jaya, liver cancer.
* Henrik Wiehe, 60, Danish film actor.

### 2

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* Ćiril Ban, 76, Yugoslavian Olympic rower (1936).
* Michael Bennett, 44, American theatre director, writer and dancer, lymphoma.[3]
* Bruce Boehler, 69, American basketball player.
* Helmut Brasch, 74, German actor.
* Václav Černý, 82, Czechoslovakian literary scholar, writer and philosopher.[4]
* Lennart Dozzi, 77, Swedish Olympic canoeist (1936).
* Yacout El-Soury, Egyptian Olympic footballer (1928).
* Ellery Huntington Jr., 94, American college football player and coach (Colgate Raiders).
* Richard Kay, 50, British actor.
* Denis Larkin, 79, Irish politician (Teachta Dála, Lord Mayor of Dublin) and trade union official.[5]
* Karl Linnas, 67, Estonian sentenced to death during the Holocaust trials, heart failure.[6]
* Fred Mackey, 83, American college baseball and football player and coach.
* George B. Patton, 88, American jurist and politician, North Carolina Attorney General.
* Alick Stevens, 88, British RAF officer.
* George S. Wise, 81, American sociologist, president of Tel Aviv University, heart failure.[7]

### 3

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* Alfredo de Boer, 80, Brazilian Olympic rower (1936).
* Viola Dana, 90, American silent-screen actress (The Girl Without a Soul, Blue Jeans).[8]
* John H. Mercer, 64, British glaciologist.[9]
* William Wiard, 59, American film and television director, cancer.

### 4

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* Edward Addison, 88, British Royal Air Force air vice marshal.[10]
* Alexander Gordon-Lennox, 76, British Royal Navy rear admiral, president of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.[11]
* Abdul Halim, 75, Indonesian politician, Prime Minister of Indonesia.
* Sally Hamlin, 84, American child actor and pianist.
* Dan James, 49, American NFL footballer (Pittsburgh Steelers).[12]
* Michel Paccard, 78, French Olympic ice hockey player (1936).
* Bengt Strömgren, 79, Danish astronomer and astrophysicist (Strömgren sphere), heart failure.[13]

### 5

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* Phil Abramson, 54, American set decorator (Close Encounters of the Third Kind).
* Bobby Ancell, 76, Scottish international footballer and manager (St Mirren, Scotland).[14]
* Karna Maria Birmingham, 86, Australian artist, illustrator and print maker [15]
* Alan Gibson, 49, Canadian film and television director (Churchill and the Generals, A Woman Called Golda).
* Einar Sandberg, 81, Norwegian footballer.
* Karel Steklý, 83, Czechoslovakian film director.

### 6

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* Halvard Grude Forfang, 72, Norwegian educator.
* László Pusztai, 41, Hungarian international footballer (Ferencvárosi, Hungary), car accident.[16]
* Elli Stenberg, 84, Finnish politician.[17]

### 7

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* Stan Brown, 89, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Giannino Bulzone, 76, Italian Olympic long-distance runner (1936).
* Finis Jennings Dake, 84, American Pentecostal minister, Parkinson's disease.[18]
* Dino, 70, Brazilian footballer.
* William Dodge, 62, American Olympic bobsledder (1956).
* Michael J. Eagen, 80. American chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.[19]
* René Gérard, 73, French international footballer (Montpellier, France).[20]
* H. R. Jothipala, 51, Sri Lankan playback singer, liver failure.[21]
* Ernest Achey Loftus, 103, British soldier and diarist.[22]
* Josef Mach, 78, Czech film actor, director, and writer.
* John Meredith Rockingham, 75, Australian-born Canadian Army general.[23]
* Hannelore Schroth, 65, German actress.
* John Singer, 63, English actor (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street).
* Ralph Stevenson, 70, American NFL player (Cleveland Rams).
* Howard Teichmann, 71, American Broadway playwright.
* Anthony Robert Temple, 60, Canadian lawyer and politician, member of the Canada House of Commons (1963-1965).
* Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, 84, Dutch-born French classical pianist.

### 8

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* Boris Brechko, 76, Soviet Olympic rower (1952).
* George Burrows, 76, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1932).
* Lionel Chevrier, 84, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1935-1954, 1957-1963).
* Gerardo Diego, 90, Spanish poet, Generation of '27 member.[24]
* Francis J. Gorman, 62, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1972-1987).
* Alvin O'Konski, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1943-1973), cardiac arrest.[25]
* Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee, 87, Thai aviator, Royal Thai Air Force officer, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand.
* Franjo Wölfl, 69, Yugoslavian international footballer (Građanski Zagreb, Yugoslavia).[26]

### 9

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* Eduardo Fiestas, 62, Peruvian Olympic basketball player (1948).
* Michiyo Fukaya, 34, American feminist poet and activist, suicide.
* Nevil Hall, 71, South African Olympic wrestler (1936).
* Alex Kaleta, 67, Canadian NHL player (Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers).
* Ashley Kriel, 20, South African anti-apartheid activist, killed by police.[27]
* Waris Mir, 48, Pakistani journalist and academic, cardiac arrest.[28]
* Hezekiah Ochuka, 33, Kenyan private in the Kenyan Air Force, Kenyan leader for 6 hours, hanged.[29]
* Paul Rapoport, 47, American lawyer, AIDS.[30]
* Ulas Samchuk, 82, Ukrainian writer, journalist and anti-semite.[31]
* Raymond Stasse, 74, Belgian Olympic fencer (1936, 1948).
* William McKenzie Thomson, 88, Canadian WWI flying ace.
* Ernest Ward, 66, English rugby league footballer (Bradford Northern, Great Britain).[32]

### 10

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* Inge Beeken, 66, Danish Olympic diver (1948).
* Doug Dobell, 69, British record store proprietor and record producer (77 Records), heart attack.
* John Hammond, 76, American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic, stroke.[33]
* Gus Healy, 83, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
* Harold Rice, 75, American educator and magician.
* Tanya Zolotoroff Nash, 89, Russian-born American Deaf Rights activist.[34]
* Ferenc Rákosi, 76, Hungarian Olympic handball player (1936).
* Marcel Vanco, 92, French footballer.

### 11

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* Joe Bennett, 87, American MLB player (Philadelphia Phillies).[35]
* Hannah Billig, 85, British medical doctor.[36]
* Marion Brooks, 91, American silent-screen actress, entertainment journalist and screenwriter.
* Geoffrey Chance, 93, English cricketer.
* Freddie Crum, 74, American basketball player.
* Dorothy Davies, 87, New Zealand pianist and piano teacher.
* Van Davis, 65, American football player.
* Ville Mattila, 84, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (1928).
* Cyril McLaglen, 87, British and American film actor.
* Truman J. Nelson, 75–76, American novelist and essayist, civil rights activist, heart failure.[37]
* Fernando Garcia Ponce, 53, Mexican architect and artist, heart attack.[38]
* Avi Ran, 23, Israeli international footballer (Maccabi Haifa, Israel), hit by racing boat.[39]
* Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, 87, Russian-born American Talmudic scholar and rabbi.[40]
* Robert Love Taylor, 87, American district judge.[41]
* Tom Waddell, 49, American physician, decathlete Olympian and founder of the Gay Olympics, AIDS.[42]
* Jack Williams, 79, Australian rules footballer.

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* Joseph Burns, 98, American MLB player.
* John Fitzgerald, 86, Australian rules footballer.
* Peter Gimbel, 60, American filmmaker and underwater photojournalist, cancer.[43]
* Harold Goodwin, 84, American actor.
* Sir Archibald Hope, 17th Baronet, 75, Scottish aristocrat and aviator.
* Rudolf Lenz, 67, Austrian actor.
* Emilio el Moro, 63, Spanish Flamenco singer, guitarist and humorist.
* Nathan Perlmutter, 63–64, American executive director of the Anti-Defamation League, lung cancer.[44]
* Marguerite Renoir, 80, French film editor.
* Hélio da Silva, 63, Brazilian Olympic athlete (1948).
* Andrei Snezhnevsky, 83, Soviet psychiatrist, lung cancer.
* Pat Wellington, 33, Australian rules footballer.

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* Elemér von Barcza, 82, Hungarian Olympic equestrian (1936).
* Patience Collier, 76, British actress.[45]
* Robert Francis, 85, American poet.[46]
* Silas Jayne, 80, American horse trainer and murderer, leukemia.[47]
* Khandadash Madatov, 62, Soviet Azerbaijani Olympic athlete (1952).
* Eric Worrell, 62, Australian naturalist and science writer, established Australian Reptile Park, heart attack.[48]

### 14

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* Salvador E. Felices, 63, Puerto Rican general in the U.S. Air Force.[49]
* Bernard de Fombelle, 63, French Olympic equestrian (1956, 1960).
* Vern Hickey, 86, American collegiate coach and administrator.
* Fritz Holt, 46, American theatre producer and director (La Cage aux Folles), pneumonia.[50]
* William Overton, 47, United States district judge, cancer.[51]
* Sao Saimong, 73, Burmese government minister.
* William Stuart-Houston, 76, English-born American half-nephew of Adolf Hitler.[52]
* Pak Yung-sun, 30, North Korean table tennis player, world champion.
* Viktor Zhdanov, 73, Soviet virologist and epidemiologist, instrumental in eradicating smallpox, cerebral hemorrhage.[53]

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* Lee Ballanfant, 91, American Major League baseball umpire.[54]
* J. Rives Childs, 94, American diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, North Yemen and Ethiopia, pulmonary infection.[55]
* Polly Elwes, 59, British BBC television in-vision announcer and reporter (Tonight), bone cancer.[56]
* Lee Gaines, 73, American jazz singer and lyricist ("Take the A Train", "Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'"), cancer.[57]
* Fernando Van Zeller Guedes, 84, Portuguese wine producer (Sogrape).[58]
* Pete King, 28, British musician, testicular cancer.
* Mick McKeon, 63-64, Irish Olympic boxer (1948).
* Jack O'Hagan, 88, Australian singer, songwriter and radio personality ("Along the Road to Gundagai", "Our Don Bradman").[59]
* Bill Ricks, 67, American baseball player.
* Margarete Schlegel, 87, German and British theatre and film actress and soprano operetta singer (Berlin-Alexanderplatz).

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* Harry Ayres, 74, New Zealand mountaineer and guide, suspected suicide.
* Alfie Bass, 71, English actor, heart attack.
* Roald A. Hogenson, 74, American judge.
* Henry Kroger, 81, Australian cricketer.
* Pierre Lardinois, 62, Dutch politician and diplomat, member of the House of Representatives, cancer.[60]
* Juraj Lupták, 45, Czechoslovakian rapist and serial killer, hanged.
* Rube Novotney, 62, American MLB player (Chicago Cubs).
* Rudolph Palumbo, 86, British property developer.
* Arthur Pilbrow, 85, British Olympic fencer (1936, 1948).
* Tony Tani, 69, Japanese entertainer, liver cancer.
* Cliff Wilton, 71, Scottish rugby union player, President of the Scottish Rugby Union.

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* Oscar Andriani, 81, Italian actor and playwright.
* Marjorie Cottle, 86, English motorcycle trials rider.
* Dominick V. Daniels, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959-1977).[61]
* Robert Desjarlais, 79, Canadian Olympic fencer (1948).
* Roy Evans, 76, Australian rules footballer.
* Jörg Fauser, 43, German writer, poet and journalist, hit by truck.[62]
* Yūjirō Ishihara, 52, Japanese actor and singer, liver cancer.[63]
* James Lytle, 86, American collegiate coach.
* Howard McGhee, 69, American bebop jazz trumpeter.[64]
* Mathura Prasad Mishra, 69, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
* Kristjan Palusalu, 79, Estonian heavyweight wrestler and dual Olympic gold medalist.[65]
* Leon B. Poullada, 74, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Togo, prostate cancer.[66]

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* Anthony Casamento, 66, American marine corporal, Medal of Honor recipient.[67]
* George Dahl, 93, American architect, dehydration.[68]
* Harry B. Davis, 93, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1934-1959).
* Gilberto Freyre, 87, Brazilian sociologist, writer and congressman, brain hemorrhage.[69]
* Alfredo Ruano, 54, El Salvadoran international footballer (Alianza, El Salvador), heart attack.[70]

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* Clementina de Jesus, 86, Brazilian samba singer, stroke.[71]
* Jane Kendeigh, 65, American flight nurse of the U.S. Navy.[72]
* Bob Smith, 92, American MLB player.
* Aadhavan Sundaram, 45, Indian Tamil writer, drowned.
* Brij Lal Varma, 70–71, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha, cabinet minister.

### 20

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* Ichirō Arishima, 71, Japanese comedian and actor (King Kong vs. Godzilla).
* Norbert Casteret, 89, French caver, adventurer and writer.
* Richard Egan, 65, American actor (The Glory Brigade, The Kid from Left Field), prostate cancer.[73]
* Margit Johnsen, 74, Norwegian sailor in the merchant navy.[74]
* Dmitry Lelyushenko, 85, Soviet army general, Hero of the Soviet Union.
* Denis J. O'Sullivan, 69, Irish politician.
* Jim Ray, 53, American NBA player (Syracuse Nationals).
* Börje Strandvall, 78, Finnish Olympic sprinter (1936).
* Tom Winsett, 77, American MLB player.
* Alexander Wood, 80, Scottish American international footballer (Leicester City, United States).[75]

### 21

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* John Armstrong, 71, Irish Anglican bishop, Archbishop of Armagh.[76]
* Curt Bergsten, 75, Swedish footballer.
* Donald Cressey, 68, American penologist, sociologist and criminologist, heart attack.[77]
* Louis DaPron, 74, American dancer, choreographer and dance instructor, heart attack.[78]
* Luigi Gilardi, 89, Italian Olympic cyclist (1920).
* Bert Keyes, 56, American pianist, songwriter and singer ("Love on a Two-Way Street").
* Stella Steyn, 79, Irish artist.[79]
* Burke Trend, 73, British civil servant, rector of Lincoln College.[80]
* Hughie Wise, 81, American MLB player (Detroit Tigers).
* Massabalala Yengwa, South African lawyer, anti-apartheid activist[81]

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* Adele Comandini, 89, American screenwriter (Three Smart Girls).
* Fahrettin Kerim Gökay, 87, Turkish politician and diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland.
* Eugene Halliday, 75, British artist and writer.
* Natalie Hinderas, 60, American pianist and composer, cancer.[82]
* Mary Cover Jones, 89, American developmental psychologist, pioneer of behaviour therapy.[83]
* Jack Lescoulie, 74, American radio and television announcer and host (Today), colon cancer.[84]
* C. B. Macpherson, 75, Canadian political scientist.[85]
* Don McMahon, 57, American Major League baseballer (Milwaukee Braves, San Francisco Giants), heart attack.[86]
* Nick Perls, 55, American audio engineer, founder and owner of Yazoo Records and Blue Goose Records.
* Raja Shankar, 55, Indian actor.
* A. G. Kripal Singh, 53, Indian Test cricketer and national selector, cardiac arrest.[87]
* Henry Tayali, 43, Zambian painter, sculptor and printmaker.

### 23

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* James Bizzle, 67, American baseball player.
* DeVeren Bookwalter, 47, American actor and director (Cyrano de Bergerac), stomach cancer.[88]
* Song Deok-gi, 94, Korean martial artist.
* Stuart Hay, 77, New Zealand sportsman.
* Art Jarrett, 80, American singer, actor and bandleader, pneumonia.
* Alex Sadkin, 38, American record producer and engineer, motor accident.[89]
* Manuel Suárez y Suárez, 91, Spanish-born Mexican entrepreneur and patron of the arts (Casino de la Selva, Hotel de México).

### 24

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* Anna-Eva Bergman, 78, Norwegian abstract expressionist artist.[90]
* Franz Burri, 85, Swiss political figure, disseminator of Nazi propaganda.
* Pat Clancy, 68, Australian trade unionist, heart attack.[91]
* Dick Wellstood, 59, American jazz pianist, heart attack.[92]

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* Malcolm Baldrige Jr., 64, American businessman, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1981-1987), rodeo accident.[93]
* Charles Stark Draper, 85, American scientist and engineer, "father of inertial navigation".[94]
* Werner Hamel, 76, German Olympic field hockey player (1936).
* Lydie Marland, 87, American first lady of Oklahoma.[95]
* Tracy Read, 25, American race car driver, race crash.[96]
* Tom Wade, 76, English cricketer.
* Mastin G. White, 86, American judge.

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* Hamza Abdel Mawla, 63, Egyptian Olympic footballer (1952).
* Jim Bishop, 79, American journalist and author (The Day Lincoln Was Shot), respiratory failure.[97]
* Chinmoy Chattopadhyay, 56, Indian singer.
* Phyllis Cilento, 93, Australian medical practitioner, advocate of family planning and promoter of racist beliefs.[98]
* Frank Marshall Davis, 81, American journalist, poet and political activist, heart attack.[99]
* Tawfiq al-Hakim, 88, Egyptian writer.[100]
* Raymond Leboursier, 70, French film actor, director, and editor.
* Joe Liggins, 71, American R&B, jazz and blues pianist and vocalist, stroke.[101]
* Carmelita Maracci, 79, American concert dancer and choreographer, heart attack.[102]
* Kenneth Muse, 77, American animator (Tom and Jerry).[103]
* George O'Day, 64, American Olympic sailor (1960).
* Mario Radice, 88, Italian painter
* Hugh Wheeler, 75, British-born American novelist, screenwriter and poet (Sweeney Todd).[104]

### 27

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* Fernando Brandolini, 55, Italian road cyclist.
* Harold A. Furlong, 91, American army officer, Medal of Honor recipient.
* Travis Jackson, 83, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants), Alzheimer's disease.[105]
* Jan Mikusiński, 74, Polish mathematician (mathematical analysis).[106]
* K. L. N. Prasad, 59, Indian politician, Rajya Sabha member.

### 28

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* James Burnham, 81, American philosopher and political theorist, kidney and liver cancer.[107]
* Feodor Fedorenko, 79, Soviet Nazi collaborator and war criminal, executed.[108]
* Carlton Fredericks, 76, American radio commentator and writer on health and nutrition, heart attack.[109]
* George Gulack, 82, American Olympic gymnast (1932).
* Jack Renshaw, 77, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales.[110]
* Ismet Alajbegović Šerbo, 62, Bosnian accordionist, composer and writer of folk songs.
* Nguyễn Tuân, 77, Vietnamese author.
* Philip E. Vernon, 82, British-born Canadian psychologist and author.[111]
* Levie Vorst, 83, Dutch rabbi of Rotterdam.

### 29

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* Désiré Acket, 82, Belgian painter.
* Arthur J. Bressan Jr., 44, American director, writer and documentarian (Buddies), AIDS.[112]
* Arthur Chipperfield, 81, Australian test cricketer.[113]
* Aleksey Sukletin, 44, Soviet serial killer, rapist and cannibal, executed.[114]

### 30

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* Andrei Bărbulescu, 77, Romanian footballer and ice hockey player.
* Vicky Clement-Jones, 38, Hong Kong–born English physician and medical researcher, ovarian cancer.[115]
* Lado Davidov, 62, Soviet soldier during the Second World War and Hero of the Soviet Union.
* Hec Fowler, 94, Canadian ice hockey player.
* McDonald Hobley, 70, British BBC Television continuity announcer, heart attack.[116]
* Bernard Sta Maria, 42–43, Malaysian politician and author, member of Malacca State Legislative Assembly, bronchitis.
* Bráz Magaldi, 90, Brazilian Olympic sports shooter (1932).
* Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, 92, Indian Bengali language author.
* John Sheffield, 77, British army officer and Olympic hurdler (1936).
* Narciso Soldan, 59, Italian footballer (AC Milan, Torino FC).
* Michel Tapié, 78, French art critic, curator, and collector.

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* Kenneth Carllile, 56, American country music guitarist and songwriter, heart attack.
* Joseph E. Levine, 81, American film distributor, financier and producer (Godzilla, King of the Monsters!).[117]
* Aleksandar Petrović, 72, Yugoslavian football player, manager, and Olympian (1948).
* Justine W. Polier, 84, American lawyer, first woman Justice in New York.[118]
* Reuben Reid, 84, Australian rules footballer.
* Michael Staniforth, 44, British actor (Rentaghost), AIDS.[119]
* Paul Yakabuski, 64, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, head injuries from fall.[120]

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* Sari Maritza, 77, Chinese-born British film actress.[121]
* Joe Mondragon, 67, American jazz bassist.
* Hugh Perceval, 79, British screenwriter and film producer.

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61. ^ Ex-Rep. Dominick V. Daniels; Held Jersey Seat in Congress. New York Times. Retrieved 4 Aug 2024.
62. ^ Jörg Fauser’s crazed, leaping, unmoored voyage. The Guardian (year of death only). Retrieved 4 Aug 2024.
63. ^ Popular Japanese Actor, Producer Yujiro Ishihara. L.A. Times. Retrieved 4 Aug 2024.
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72. ^ Navy Flight Nurse Jane Kendeigh, Documenting a First. National Museum of the Pacific War. Retrieved 4 Aug 2024.
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