Deaths in May 1987

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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

## May 1987

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### 1

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* Stanley Copp, 72, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1953-1958).
* Paul Geidel, 93, American murderer, second longest serving U.S. prison inmate.
* Bobo Holloman, 64, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Browns), heart attack.[1]
* Antonio Borja Won Pat, 78, Guam politician, Guam's Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives (1973-1985), heart attack.[2]
* Dick Surhoff, 57, American NBA basketballer (New York Knicks).[3]
* James W. Sutherland, 69, American U.S. Army general.[4]
* Fujio Yoshida, 99, Japanese artist.

### 2

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* George Allen, 43, American football player (Houston Oilers).
* Reidar Carlsen, 78, Norwegian politician.
* Karl Davis, 25, American fashion designer, pneumonia.[5]
* Eugene Gilhawley, 77, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1961-1969, 1973-1981).
* Michael Gover, 73, English actor (Survivors).
* John E. Kerrigan, 78, American politician, acting Mayor of Boston, cardiac arrest.[6]
* Harold K. Schneider, 61–62, American economic anthropologist, complications from surgery.[7]

### 3

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* Joyce Coad, 70, American child actress.
* Roberto Concepcion, 83, Filipino lawyer, Chief Justice of the Philippines.
* Dalida, 54, Egyptian-born French singer and actress (Bambino, Gondolier), suicide.[8]
* Dickie Fuller, 74, West Indian cricketer.
* Viola Grosvenor, 74, British aristocrat, Duchess of Westminster, car accident.[9]
* Dick Kelsey, 82, American animation art director, theme park designer and illustrator of children's books.

### 4

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* Paul Butterfield, 44, American blues harmonica player, singer and bandleader, overdose.[10]
* Cathryn Damon, 56, American actress (Soap), ovarian cancer.[11]
* Paul Groesse, 81, Hungarian-born American Academy Award–winning art director, pneumonia.[12]
* Khalilullah Khalili, 79, Afghan poet, historian and diplomat.[13]
* Konstanty Jeleński, 65, Polish essayist.[14]
* Tomohiro Kojiri, 29, Japanese journalist for newspaper Asahi Shimbun, murdered.[15]
* Wilbur Little, 59, American jazz bassist.
* Michael Minor, 46, American illustrator, art director on Star Trek movies.

### 5

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* Sir Hugh Fraser, 50, British chairman of the House of Fraser, Harrods, and Whyte & Mackay, cancer.[16]
* Herbert Hasler, 73, British officer in the Royal Marines and yachtsman.[17]
* Allen Jones, 46, American record producer and songwriter ("Hard to Handle"), heart attack.[18]
* Frank McAllister, 69, American baseball player.
* Vera Schäferkordt, 62, German Olympic swimmer (1952).
* Joe Shack, 71, Canadian NHL player (New York Rangers).
* Jim Taylor, 80, Australian rules footballer.
* Robert Stanford Tuck, 70, British fighter pilot and flying ace in the Royal Air Force.[19]
* Phil Woolpert, 71, American college basketball coach, lung cancer.[20]
* Roy Young, 69, American NFL player (Washington Redskins).

### 6

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* William J. Casey, 74, American CIA director, brain tumour.[21]
* Lucien Choury, 89, French Olympic cyclist (1924).
* Zalman Friedmann, 74-75, Israeli footballer.
* Muhammadullah Hafezzi, 91–92, Bangladeshi politician and Islamic leader.
* Denis Jones, 80, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1957-1977).
* Stanislav Lusk, 55, Czechoslovakian Olympic rower (1952, 1956, 1960).
* Karel Plicka, 92, Czechoslovakian photographer, film director and cinematographer.
* David Weitzman, 88, British politician.[22]

### 7

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* Roy S. Armstrong, 86, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1953-1964).
* Boom-Boom Beck, 82, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Phillies).[23]
* Colin Blakely, 56, Northern Irish actor (Murder on the Orient Express, A Man for All Seasons), leukaemia.[24]
* Félix Erauzquin, 79, Spanish Olympic athlete (1948).
* Gil Lefebvre, 77, American NFL player.
* Stewart McKinney, 56, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1971-1987), pneumonia (AIDS).[25]
* Paul Popham, 45, American gay rights activist, AIDS.[26]
* Dudley Ryder, 94, British hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords.[27]
* Karl Schuke, 80, German organ builder.

### 8

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* Marjorie Barnard, 89, Australian novelist and historian.[28]
* Sidney Cohen, 76, American psychiatrist, professor of medicine and author, heart failure.[29]
* Alberta Gay, 74, American mother of Marvin and Frankie Gaye, bone cancer.[30]
* Sir James Plimsoll, 70, Australian diplomat, Governor of Tasmania, ambassador to the U.S.A., heart attack.[31]
* Hugh Saunders, 92, South African RAF officer.
* Doris Stokes, 67, British "spiritualist", "medium" and author, brain cancer.[32]
* Carl Tchilinghiryan, 77, German businessman, co-founder of coffee house Tchibo.
* Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) killed during the Loughgall ambush:[33]
* Declan Arthurs, 21, Northern Irish IRA member, shot.
* Patrick Joseph Kelly, 30, Northern Irish IRA commander, shot.
* Jim Lynagh, 31, Northern Irish IRA member, shot.
* Pádraig McKearney, 32, Northern Irish IRA member, shot.

### 9

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* Obafemi Awolowo, 78, Nigerian nationalist and statesman, Premier of Western Nigeria.[34]
* Franz Bednar, 77, Austrian Olympic bobsledder (1936).
* Paulus Kessels, 86, Dutch Olympic sports shooter (1936).
* Jimmy Kruger, 69, South African lawyer and politician, President of the Senate.[35]
* Noel Murless, 77, English racehorse trainer.[36]
* John M. Schiff, 82, American investment banker, partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., national president of the Boy Scouts of America.[37]
* Brian Shenton, 60, British Olympic sprinter (1952, 1956).

### 10

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* Sadamichi Hirasawa, 95, Japanese tempera painter, convicted of mass poisoning, pneumonia.[38]
* Nicolette Macnamara, 76, British artist and author.[39]
* Wilhelm Strienz, 86, German bass operatic singer.

### 11

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* James Jesus Angleton, 69, American intelligence operative and C.I.A chief, cancer.[40]
* Alex Jeffery, 78, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1949-1953).
* Walter McMillen, 73, Northern Irish footballer.

### 12

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* Bob Farrar, 68, Australian rugby league footballer.
* Victor Feldman, 53, English jazz musician, heart attack.[41]
* Chinn Ho, 83, Hawaiian entrepreneur and businessman, owner of Honolulu Star-Bulletin, heart failure.[42]
* Pierre Litoux, 84, French politician, member of the National Assembly (France) (1962-1968).
* Giancarlo Marinelli, 71, Italian Olympic basketball player (1936, 1948).
* Ion Pistol, 40, Romanian convicted murderer, executed.
* Nora Rubashova, 78, Belarusian Catholic nun.[43]
* Delos Thurber, 70, American Olympic high jumper (1936).
* Robert Trimbole, 56, Australian businessman, drug baron and organized crime figure, heart attack.[44]
* Michel Van Wijnendaele, 27–28, Belgian mass murderer, suicide.[45]

### 13

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* Signe Amundsen, 87, Norwegian soprano.
* Norberto Bautista, 46, Argentine footballer.
* F. R. Crawley, 75, Canadian film producer, cinematographer and director.
* Richard Ellmann, 69, American literary critic and biographer of Irish writers, motor neurone disease.[46]
* Manín, 71, Spanish footballer.
* Phil Moore, 69, American jazz pianist and bandleader, heart attack.[47]
* Leo Norris, 78, American MLB player (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Ismael Rivera, 55, Puerto Rican composer and salsa singer, heart attack.
* Forbes Robinson, 60, British bass.
* Elly Winter, 88, German communist and political activist.

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* Tsai Chen-chou, 40, Taiwanese politician and businessman, liver disease.
* Patrick Delap, 55, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1970-1973).
* Kris Derrig, 33, American luthier and musician, cancer.
* Rita Hayworth, 68, American actress and dancer (Gilda), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[48]
* Jānis Lipke, 87, Latvian rescuer of Jews in World War II.[49]
* Luke Sewell, 86, American Major league baseballer (Cleveland Indians).[50]
* Elizabeth Zarubina, 87, Soviet spy, traffic accident.
* Vitomil Zupan, 73, Austro-Hungarian–born Slovene writer.

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* Elisabeth Bonetsmüller, 80, German Olympic high jumper (1928).
* Wynne Gibson, 88, American actress, cerebral thrombosis.[51]
* Raynor Johnson, 86, English-born Australian parapsychologist, physicist and author.[52]
* Kalyanakit Kitiyakara, 57, Thai cardiothoracic surgeon.[53]
* Máire MacNeill, 82, Irish journalist, folklorist and translator.[54]
* Barry Mannakee, 39, British police officer with Royal Protection Squad, bodyguard to Diana, Princess of Wales, traffic accident.[55]
* L. G. Pine, 79, British writer, lecturer and researcher.
* Lionel Van Praag, 78, Australian motorcycle speedway champion.[56]

### 16

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* Lionel Cooper, 65, Australian international rugby league footballer (Huddersfield, Australia).[57]
* Sir John Esmonde, 16th Baronet, 58, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1973-1977).
* Frank Mayborn, 83, American newspapers editor, publisher and broadcaster.[58]
* Willie Powell, 83, American baseball player.
* Ronnie Shakes, 40, American stand up comedian, heart attack.
* Michael Wood, 69, British medical doctor, cancer.[59]

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* Wilbur J. Cohen, 73, American social scientist and civil servant, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.[60]
* Gunnar Myrdal, 88, Swedish economist, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences.[61]
* Dudley C. Sharp, 82, American Secretary of the Air Force, cancer.[62]
* Okkie van Greunen, 53, South African Olympic modern pentathlete (1956, 1960).

### 18

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* Mahdi Amel, 51, Lebanese Marxist philosopher and militant, assassinated.
* Heðin Brú, 86, Faroese novelist and translator.[63]
* Hossein Fardoust, 70, Iranian military officer, deputy head of SAVAK, heart attack.[64]
* Santo Mazzarino, 71, Italian historian.

### 19

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* David Abbott, 85, American Olympic long distance runner (1928).
* James Everett Chase, 73, American politician, Mayor of Spokane, cancer.[65]
* Hamid Reza Chitgar, 38, Iranian communist politician, exiled to France, assassinated.
* Francis Cottam, 86, English cricketer.
* Deepak Dhawan, 32, Indian political activist, member of the Communist Party of India, murdered.
* Almerigo Grilz, 34, Italian politician and independent war correspondent, killed in war zone.[66]
* Raúl Kamffer, 58, Mexican film director and writer.
* Huntington D. Sheldon, 84, American C.I.A. director of Current Intelligence, murdered.[67]
* Stanisław Szukalski, 93, Polish-American sculptor and painter.[68]
* James Tiptree, Jr., (Alice Bradley Sheldon), 71, American science fiction and fantasy author, suicide.[69]

### 20

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* Otto Carlmar, 84, Norwegian film producer and writer.
* William Creighton, 77, American Anglican bishop, heart attack.[70]
* Fränz Ehringer, 58, Luxembourgian Olympic boxer (1948).
* Emőke Énekes-Szegedi, 39, Hungarian Olympic volleyball player (1972, 1980).
* Harvey Goldberg, 65, American historian and political activist, liver cancer.[71]
* Herbert Jacobs, 84, American journalist for the Milwaukee Journal, professor of journalism, cancer.[72]
* Ganpatrao Jadhav, 79, Indian freedom activist, journalist and writer.
* Edward Earl Johnson, 26, American convicted murderer, executed.[73]
* Elmer Ray, 76, American heavyweight boxer.
* George Shibata, 60, American military officer, attorney and actor.[74]
* Ma Sicong, 75, Chinese violinist and composer, died during heart operation.[75]
* Colston Warne, 86, American professor of economics.[76]

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* Archie Carr, 77, American herpetologist and ecologist, professor of zoology, cancer.[77]
* Finis Alonzo Crutchfield Jr., 70, American clergyman and bishop (United Methodist Church), AIDS.[78]
* Ron Frederickson, 68, Australian rugby league footballer.
* Alejandro Rey, 57, Argentinian-American actor and television director, lung cancer.[79]

### 22

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* Paddy Belton, 60, Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin.[80]
* Thornton Freeland, 89, American film director.
* Frank Jenkins, 68, Australian rules footballer.
* Stewart Menaul, 71, British RAF officer.
* Heinrich Mückter, 72, German medical doctor and pharmacologist, developed thalidomide.[81]
* Ernst Nagelschmitz, 85, German Olympic footballer (1928).
* Keidrych Rhys, 71, Welsh literary journalist, editor and poet, editor of periodical Wales.[82]

### 24

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* Alan Samuel Butler, 88, British aviator, chairman of De Havilland Aircraft Company.
* James J. Delaney, 86, American politician, chair of the House Rules Committee.[83]
* Hermione Gingold, 89, English actress, heart problems complicated by pneumonia.[84]
* Siegmund Klein, 85, German-born American bodybuilder and magazine publisher, cancer.[85]
* Lajos Ligeti, 64, Hungarian orientalist and philologist.[86]
* Thomas Burdett Money-Coutts, 85, English peer.
* Eugen Relgis, 92, Romanian writer and pacifist philosopher.

### 25

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* Charley Brock, 71, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers).[87]
* Winthrop G. Brown, 79, American lawyer and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Korea and Laos.[88]
* Hugh Lester Campbell, 78, Canadian air marshal in the Royal Canadian Air Force and politician.[89]
* Peter Coe, 58, English director and actor, car accident.[90]
* Peter Gerald Charles Dickens, 70, English Royal Navy officer during World War II.[91]
* Hermann Glöckner, 98, German painter and sculptor.
* William Kelly Harrison Jr., 91, American U.S. Army general.[92]
* Sylvi Palo, 76, Finnish stage and film actress.
* Don Sidle, 40, American ABA basketballer (Miami Floridians).[93]
* Paweł Tuchlin, 41, Polish serial killer, hanged.

### 26

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* Antoni Brzeżańczyk, 68, Polish footballer and manager.
* Rose Chan, 62, Chinese-born Malaysian cabaret dancer.
* Alvin Duke Chandler, 84, American Navy officer, president of the College of William & Mary.[94]
* Rolando da Cruz, 56, Brazilian Olympic water polo player (1960).
* Paul Rimstead, 51–52, Canadian journalist (Toronto Sun), hemorrhage.[95]
* Arthur M. Sackler, 73, American psychiatrist and marketer of pharmaceuticals, heart attack.[96]
* Robert Wilkins, 91, American country blues guitarist and vocalist.
* Ajita Wilson, 37, American transgender actress, brain hemorrhage.

### 27

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* Alvin C. Eurich, 84, American educator, president of the State University of New York.[97]
* Harry Fritz, 66, American collegiate athletics administrator and coach.
* Jack Heid, 62, American Olympic cyclist (1948).
* Colin McCahon, 67, New Zealand artist.[98]
* John Howard Northrop, 95, American biochemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, suicide.[99]
* Richard Bruce Nugent, 80, American writer and painter.[100]
* Fatemeh Pahlavi, 58, Iranian royal, cancer.[101]

### 28

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* Billie Fulford, 72, New Zealand cricketer.
* Mikuláš Kucsera, 84, Czechoslovak Olympic athlete (1924).
* Léon Lambert, 58, Belgian banker and art collector, AIDS.[102]
* Charles Ludlam, 44, American actor, director and playwright, pneumonia (AIDS).[103]
* Arthur Matsu, 83, American NFL footballer (Dayton Triangles) and coach.[104]
* Frits Ruimschotel, 65, Dutch Olympic water polo player (1948).
* James Saunders, 55, Canadian Olympic boxer (1952).
* Ronald Thomas, 71, Australian cricketer.

### 29

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* Juan José Martínez Casado, 83, Cuban actor.
* Jean Delay, 79, French psychiatrist, neurologist and writer.[105]
* Jozef Langenus, 88, Belgian Olympic middle-distance runner (1928).
* Vettam Mani, 65, Indian scholar and writer.
* Jack Sheehan, 94, American MLB player, (Brooklyn Robins).
* Charan Singh, 84, prime minister of India, cardiovascular collapse.[106]
* Godfrey Surman, 72, English cricketer.
* Phyllis Tate, 76, English composer.

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* Frank Carlson, 94, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.[107]
* George Davis-Goff, 81, New Zealand navy officer.
* Dewanohana Kuniichi, 78, Japanese sumo wrestler.
* Bill Gutteron, 87, American NFL player.
* Eliot Hodgkin, 81, English painter.
* Miyuki Ishikawa, 90, Japanese midwife, real estate agent and serial killer.
* Honorino Landa, 44, Chilean international footballer (Unión Española, Chile), cancer.[108]
* Frank Licht, 71, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island, cancer.[109]
* Hallam L. Movius, 79, American archaeologist.[110]
* Turk Murphy, 71, American trombonist and bandleader, bone cancer.[111]
* Norman Nicholson, 73, English poet.[112]
* Cliff Simpson, 64, Canadian NHL player (Detroit Red Wings).
* Hilde Weissner, 77, German actress.

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* John Abraham, 49, Indian filmmaker, short story writer and screenwriter, complications from a fall.
* Jerry Adair, 50, American Major League baseballer (Baltimore Orioles), liver cancer.[113]
* Hubert Raymond Allen, 68, British Royal Air Force officer.[114]
* Hilton Curran, 72, Australian rugby league footballer.
* Charles Drew, 70, British cardiothoracic surgeon, throat cancer.[115]
* Wilbur Evans, 81, American actor and singer.[116]
* Elisabeth Friske, 47, West German airline pilot, first female commercial pilot in West Germany, plane crash.[117]
* Len Hamilton, 87, Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives (1946-1961).
* Gertrude Jones Hawk, 83–84, American candy maker and entrepreneur (Gertrude Hawk Chocolates).
* Kolbein Lauring, 72, Norwegian resistance member during World War II.[118]
* Dorothy Patrick, 65, Canadian-born American film actress (Till the Clouds Roll By), heart attack.[119]
* Domenico Piemontesi, 84, Italian road bicycle racer.
* Roy Winsor, 75, American soap opera writer, producer and mystery novelist (Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life), heart attack.[120]

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* Sunny Harnett, 63, American model and actress, injuries sustained in a fire.
* Dev Raj Singh Thakur, Indian Air Force warrant officer, killed the killer of Mahatma Gandhi.[121]

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