Deaths in May 1988

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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 1988.

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 1988

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### 1

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* Joseph F. Ambrose, 91, American World War I veteran
* Bill Amor, 68, English Olympic footballer (1948).
* Claude Demetrius, 71, American songwriter ("Hard Headed Woman").[1]
* Ben Lexcen, 52, Australian yachtsman and marine architect, designed winged keel which won America's Cup, heart attack.[2]
* Tom Pappas, 46, American aide to US Representative Roy Dyson, suicide after allegations of homosexuality with Dyson.[3]
* Paolo Stoppa, 81, Italian actor, leukemia.[4]
* Raoul Thiercelin, 90, French Olympic rugby union player (1920).
* Yan Wenliang, 94, Chinese painter.

### 2

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* John Weir Foote, 83, Canadian military chaplain and politician (Legislative Assembly of Ontario).[5]
* Art Hefner, 74, American Negro League baseball player.
* Pavel Kadochnikov, 72, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter.
* Sorabji Mehta, 83-84, Indian cricketer.
* Henry Picker, 76, German lawyer and author, published transcripts of Adolf Hitler's informal talks (Table Talk).[6]

### 3

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* Jackson Miles Abbott, 68, American officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, environmentalist, cancer.[7]
* Carl Erhardt, 91, English international ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist (1936).[8]
* Julia Butler Hansen, 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1960-1974).[9]
* José María Jáuregui, 92, Spanish Olympic footballer (1928).
* Lim Keng Peng, 35, Singaporean murderer, killed in police ambush.[10]
* Boy Louw, 82, South African rugby union player (Western Province, South Africa).
* Premendra Mitra, 83, Indian poet, writer and film director.[11]
* Lev Pontryagin, 79, Soviet mathematician (Pontryagin duality, Pontryagin cohomology operation).[12]
* Abraham Seidenberg, 71, American mathematician (Tarski–Seidenberg theorem).[13]
* Bill Speidel, 76, American newspaper columnist (The Seattle Times).[14]
* Paul Vario, 73, American mobster from the Lucchese crime family, respiratory arrest.[15]

### 4

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* Ed Bakey, 62, American film and television actor.
* Stanley William Hayter, 86, English painter (Atelier 17 studio), cardiac arrest.[16]
* Carl Jensen, 67, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate and House of Representatives, cancer.[17]
* Jan Mazurkiewicz, 91, Polish army general and politician.
* Tom Overton, 58, American sound engineer (A Star Is Born).
* Oleg Zhakov, 83, Soviet film actor.[18]

### 5

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* Billo Frómeta, 72, Dominican orchestra conductor and composer, stroke.[19]
* Ernie Hammond, 77, Australian rules footballer.
* Harold Hull, 67, American basketball player.
* D.D. Kashyap, 77–78, Indian film director.[20]
* Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, 90, American writer The Making of a Southerner.[21]
* Hamid Mirza, 70, Iranian heir presumptive of former ruling dynasty of Iran, son of last Qajar Crown Prince of Iran.
* George Rose, 68, English actor and singer (My Fair Lady, The Mystery of Edwin Drood), murdered.[22]
* Michael Shaara, 59, American author (The Killer Angels), heart attack.[23]
* R. J. Unstead, 72, British historian and author, heart failure.[24]

### 6

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* Joep Brandes, 67, Dutch footballer.
* Richard Caliguiri, 56, American politician, mayor of Pittsburgh, amyloidosis.[25]
* Weldon Edwards, 64, American NFL player (Washington Redskins).
* Herbert L. Hart, 91, American college football and basketball player and coach.
* Caleb Rodney Layton III, 80, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Delaware).
* Costantino Nivola, 76, Italian-born American sculptor, heart attack.[26]
* Hans Popper, 84, Austrian-born American pathologist and hepatologist, pancreatic cancer.[27]

### 7

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* Nara Nath Acharya, 82, Nepalese Pandit and writer (biography of Bhanubhakta Acharya).
* Fernand Donna, 66, French Olympic sprint canoeist (1948).
* Auguste Maltais, 72, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1949-1958).
* Alberto de Zavalía, 77, Argentine film director and producer.

### 8

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* Robert A. Heinlein, 80, American science fiction author (Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress), emphysema and heart failure.[28]
* Nappy Lamare, 82, American jazz banjoist, guitarist and vocalist.[29]
* Domingo Ortega, 82, Spanish matador.[30]
* Charles Pollock, 85, American abstract painter, brother of artist Jackson Pollock, stroke.[31]
* Ruby M. Rouss, 66, American member of the US Army Women's Army Corps and politician, president of the Virgin Islands Legislature, diabetes.[32]
* Abdel Moneim Wahby, 76, Egyptian Olympic basketball player (1936).

### 9

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* Alfons Julen, 89, Swiss Olympic cross-country skier (1924, 1928).
* Willie Moir, 66, Scottish international footballer (Bolton Wanderers).[33]

### 10

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* Wendell Bill, 78, Australian cricketer.
* Ciarán Bourke, 53, Irish musician (The Dubliners).[34]
* José Guardiola, 66, Spanish film actor.
* Hugh Laing, 76, Barbados-born American ballet dancer, cancer.[35]
* Ion Neacșu, 57, Romanian footballer.
* Richard B. Ogilvie, 65, American attorney and law enforcement officer, Governor of Illinois, heart attack.[36]
* John Sterling Rockefeller, 83, American philanthropist, conservationist, and amateur ornithologist.[37]
* Shen Congwen, 85, Chinese writer, heart attack.[38]

### 11

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* Domenico Cambieri, 73, Italian Olympic rower (1948, 1952).
* Isabella Gordon, 86, Scottish marine biologist (crabs, sea spiders).[39]
* George Gordon-Lennox, 79, British army general in World War II.[40]
* Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann, 83, German ethnologist.[41]
* Kim Philby, 76, British intelligence officer and spy (Cambridge Five), heart failure.[42]
* Edmund Sobkowiak, 74, Polish Olympic boxer (1936).

### 12

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* Jaime Giralt, 86, Spanish Olympic rower (1924).
* Jacquelyn Kelley, 61, American AAGPBL player.
* Paul Osborn, 86, American playwright and screenwriter (On Borrowed Time, Morning's at Seven).[43]
* Chick Parsons, 86, American diplomat and decorated World War II veteran.[44]
* Hank Schenz, 69, American MLB player (Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Giants).

### 13

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* Chet Baker, 58, American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (It Could Happen to You), fall from building.[45]
* John Garrison, 79, American Olympic ice hockey player (1932, 1936).
* Paul Genge, 74, American actor (Bullitt).[46]
* Sergey Gorshkov, 78, Soviet Admiral of the Fleet.[47]
* Friedrich Guggenberger, 73, Nazi German admiral and U-boat commander.[48]
* Caecilia Loots, 84, Dutch resistance member known for saving Jewish children during World War II.[49]
* Nikolay Makarov, 73, Soviet firearms designer (Makarov pistol).
* Irene Manton, 84, British botanist (ferns and algae), Professor of Botany at the University of Leeds.[50]
* Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 83, Welsh soldier and landowner.[51]

### 14

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* Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 73, German-born curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[52]
* Fred Atkins, 77–78, New Zealand-born Canadian professional wrestler (Maple Leaf Wrestling).[53]
* Willem Drees, 101, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands.[54]
* Ernesto Giménez Caballero, 88, Spanish writer, diplomat and pioneer of Fascism, founder of La Gaceta Literaria.[55]
* Wayne Jarratt, 31, Australian actor (Prisoner), brain tumour.[56]
* Schute Merritt, 77, American Negro Leagues baseball player.

### 15

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* Andrew Duggan, 64, American actor (Seven Days in May), throat cancer.[57]
* Fulvia Franco, 56, Italian actress and model (Miss Italia).[58]
* Lois Maloy, 85, American illustrator of children's books.[59]
* Greta Nissen, 82, Norwegian-American film and stage actress, Parkinson's disease.[60]
* Sol Polk, 71, American businessman, co-founder of Polk Brothers.[61]
* P. R. Shyamsunder, 64, Indian cricketer.
* Thomas E. Stephens, 84, Irish-American politician.[62]
* Heikki Taskinen, 82, Finnish Olympic discus thrower (1928).

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* Kay Baxter, 42, American bodybuilder, car crash.[63]
* Gordon Garlick, 71, English cricketer.
* Chan Htoon, 82, Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma.
* Charles Keeping, 63, English illustrator (The Highwayman) and children's book author, brain tumour.[64]
* Jules Levin, 66, American politician.
* Anatoli Maslyonkin, 57, Soviet international footballer (Spartak Moscow, USSR) and Olympic gold medalist (1956).[65]
* Joe Matte, 80, Canadian NHL player (Detroit Cougars, Chicago Black Hawks).
* Torahiko Miyahata, 85, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1924).
* Peter J. Ortiz, 74, United States Marine Corps colonel, cancer.[66]
* Bruce Watson, 78, Scottish organic chemist and politician, leader of the Scottish National Party.
* Sidney Wewege, 80, South African cricketer.

### 17

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* Frank Gallop, 87, American radio and television personality.[67]
* Elio Gerussi, 52, Italian racing cyclist.
* Guy Glover, 77, Canadian producer (National Film Board of Canada).
* Al Wiseman, 69, American cartoonist (Dennis the Menace).

### 18

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* Daws Butler, 71, American voice actor (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss), heart attack.[68]
* Drew Ellis, 73, American NFL player (Philadelphia Eagles).
* Anthony Forwood, 72, English actor (Knights of the Round Table), liver cancer and Parkinson's disease.[69]
* Christopher Gore, 43, American screenwriter and playwright (Fame), AIDS.[70]
* Daniel Lewis James, 77, American writer (Famous All Over Town), heart attack.[71]
* R. B. Nunnery, 54, American AFL player (Dallas Texans).
* Brandon Rhys-Williams, 60, British politician, Member of Parliament, pneumonia.[72]
* Armand Savoie, 58, Canadian Olympic boxer (1948).
* Michiko Tanaka, 78, Japanese singer and actress.[73]
* Enzo Tortora, 59, Italian television presenter and politician, member of European Parliament, cancer.

### 19

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* Kurt-Caesar Hoffmann, 92 Nazi German navy vice admiral (Scharnhorst).[74]
* Dave McCleave, 76, British Olympic boxer (1932).
* Lloyd Vaughan, 79, American animator (Warner Bros.).[75]

### 20

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* Ana Aslan, 91, Romanian biologist and physician, specialist in gerontology.[76]
* Nick Corwin, 8, American murder victim.
* Bjørn Gulbrandsen, 61, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player (1952).
* Paddy Harold, 65, Irish Olympic rower (1948).
* Dick Jacobs, 70, American musician, arranger and orchestrator.[77]
* František Kiehlmann, 86, Czechoslovakian Olympic hurdler (1920).
* Anthony C. Perera, 66, Sri Lankan actor.[78]
* Marion G. Romney, 90, American Mormon leader.[79]
* Victorio Unamuno, 78, Spanish footballer (Real Betis).

### 21

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* Harry Babasin, 67, American jazz bassist, emphysema.[80]
* Richard J. Daronco, 56, American lawyer and judge, assassinated.[81]
* Sammy Davis Sr., 87, American dancer (Will Mastin Trio), father of Sammy Davis Jr.[82]
* John D. Fitzgerald, 82, American author (The Great Brain).[83]
* Bruno Frei, 90, Austrian political writer and journalist.[84]
* Dino Grandi, 92, Italian Fascist politician, ambassador to the U.K.[85]
* Clement Hill, 83, Australian cricketer.
* Barbara Laage, 67, French film actress.[86]
* Guillermo Marín, 82, Spanish film and theater actor.
* Pino Romualdi, 74, Italian right-wing politician, Member of the European Parliament, cancer.[87]
* Zano West, 71, American basketball player.

### 22

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* Giorgio Almirante, 73, Italian politician, founder and leader of neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, stroke.[88]
* W. H. Canaway, 62, British author.
* Lionel Edirisinghe, 75, Sri Lankan musicologist, principal at the University of the Visual and Performing Arts.[89]
* Edgar Johnston, 92, Australian WWI flying ace.

### 23

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* Aya Kitō, 25, Japanese diarist, spinocerebellar ataxia.[90]
* Carl Littlefield, 71, American NFL player (Cleveland Rams, Pittsburgh Pirates).
* Emanuel Paul, 84, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
* David Schoenbrun, 73, American broadcast journalist (CBS), heart attack.[91]
* Roberto Succo, 26, Italian serial killer, suicide.[92]
* Tony Viramontes, 31, American artist, AIDS.[93]

### 24

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* Tom Adair, 74, American songwriter and composer ("Let's Get Away from It All", "There's No You").[94]
* Tom Burtt, 73, New Zealand cricketer.
* Freddie Frith, 79, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion.
* Jamie Hamilton, 87, British rower and Olympic medalist (1928), publisher (Hamish Hamilton).[95]
* Bill Horton, 41, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Ernest Labrousse, 93, French historian.
* Aleksei Losev, 94, Soviet philosopher.[96]
* Galiano Pividori, 72, Italian racing cyclist.
* Leo Schamroth, 63, South African cardiologist.[97]

### 25

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* Monte Kay, 63, American record producer, heart failure.[98]
* Ruth Malcomson, 82, Miss America 1924.[99]
* Charlie Perkins, 82, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics, Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Leon Shimkin, 81, American businessman (Simon & Schuster).[100]
* Martin Slavin, 66, British composer for movies and television (Information Received, The Cool Mikado), road accident.[101]
* Bill Steinmetz, 89, American Olympic speed skater (1924).
* Karl August Wittfogel, 91, German-American playwright and historian, pneumonia.[102]

### 26

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* Antonio Bardellino, 43, Italian mobster, boss of the Casalesi clan, assumed murdered.
* Jules Gales, 63, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer (1948, 1952).
* Robert Graf, 81, American Olympic canoeist (1936).
* Juan Orol, 90, Spanish-born Mexican actor and director (Gangsters Versus Cowboys, Sandra, la mujer de fuego), liver disease.[103]
* Frederick Parker, 75, English cricketer and British Army officer.
* Dick Strahs, 64, American MLB player (Chicago White Sox).
* Nicolò Vittori, 79, Italian Olympic rower (1928, 1936).

### 27

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* Bill Bollinger, 48, American sculptor.[104]
* Carlos Choque, 75, Argentine Olympic sports shooter (1952).
* John DiGilio, 55, American mobster with the Genovese crime family, murdered.[105]
* Paul Lafond, 68, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1970-1988).
* Florida Friebus, 78, American writer and actress (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Bob Newhart Show).[106]
* James O'Brien, 62, Canadian Olympic sprinter (1948).
* Hjördis Petterson, 79, Swedish actress.
* Ernst Ruska, 81, German physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics (electron optics).[107]
* Lars Sæter, 93, Norwegian politician.
* Ralph Townsend, 66, American Olympic cross-country skier (1948).

### 28

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* Adolfo Contoli, 90, Italian Olympic athlete (1924).
* Felix Morrow, 81, American communist political activist and newspaper editor.[108]
* Sy Oliver, 77, American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader.[109]
* Evelyn Page, 89, New Zealand artist.[110]
* Charlie Sevior, 80, Australian rules footballer.
* Norman Skelhorn, 78, English barrister, Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales.[111]
* Dodë Tahiri, 69, Albanian footballer.
* Bjarne Undheim, 83, Norwegian educator and politician.
* Alfredo Volpi, 92, Brazilian painter.[112]

### 29

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* Charla Doherty, 41, American actress (Days of Our Lives).[113]
* Sheridan Dufferin, 49, British patron of the arts, AIDS.
* Henry Johansen, 83, Norwegian international footballer and Olympic medalist (Vålerenga, Norway).[114]
* Salem bin Laden, 42, Saudi Arabian investor and businessman, half brother of Osama bin Laden, plane crash.
* Vladimír Menšík, 59, Czechoslovakian actor and entertainer, asthma.[115]
* Hans Ola Sørlie, 34, Norwegian actor.
* Siaka Stevens, 82, Sierra Leone politician, Prime Minister and President of Sierra Leone.[116]
* Roy Williams, 59, Australian rules footballer.
* Elaine Black Yoneda, 81, American labour and civil rights activist, member of Communist Party, heart attack.[117]

### 30

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* Hans Bryner, 77, Swiss Olympic sailor (1948, 1952, 1960, 1964).
* Iseline Crivelli, 85, Italian Olympic alpine skier (1936).
* Curtis Hollingsworth, 71, American Negro League baseball player (Birmingham Black Barons).
* Miroslav Nový, 57, Czechoslovakian Olympic ice hockey player (1952).
* Ella Raines, 67, American actress (Phantom Lady, Brute Force), throat cancer.[118]
* Peter Timmis, 45, English cricketer.

### 31

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* June Buchanan, 100, American founder of Alice Lloyd College.[119]
* Murray Gainger, 48, Australian rules footballer.
* Jimmy Hartnett, 61, Irish footballer (Middlesbrough).
* Dwarka Prasad Mishra, 86, Indian politician, writer and journalist, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
* Arthur Olliver, 71, Australian rules footballer.
* Tursun Uljabayev, 72, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan.

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* Rosa Collazo, 83–84, Puerto Rican political activist (Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico), plotted to kill U.S. president Harry Truman.

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