Deaths in October 1987

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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

## October 1987

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### 1

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* Richard Blackburn, 69, Australian judge and legal academic, cancer.[1]
* Douglas Cleverdon, 84, English radio producer and bookseller.[2]
* June Clyde, 77, American actress, singer and dancer (A Strange Adventure, A Study in Scarlet).[3]
* Valeriya Golubtsova, 86, Soviet scientist, director of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
* Eusebio Guiñez, 80, Argentine Olympic long-distance runner (1948).
* Luis da Costa Ivens Ferraz, 90, Portuguese Olympic equestrian (1928).
* Geoffrey Jackson, 72, British diplomat and writer, ambassador to Uruguay, kidnapped by guerrillas.[4]
* Zina Morhange, 78, Polish-born French physician, member of the French Resistance.
* Abdur Rahim, 69, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.

### 2

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* Madeleine Carroll, 81, English actress (The 39 Steps), pancreatic cancer.[5]
* Jack Lyons, 86, Scottish-American Olympic soccer player (1928).
* John Mastrangelo, 61, American NFL player.
* Sir Peter Medawar, 72, Brazilian-born British biologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.[6]
* Russell Rouse, 73, American screenwriter, director and producer (The Well, Pillow Talk), heart failure.[7]
* Hryhoriy Vasiura, 72, Soviet officer in the Red Army and in the German Schutzmannschaft, executed.

### 3

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* Jean Anouilh, 77, French dramatist and screenwriter (Antigone), heart attack.[8]
* Catherine Bramwell-Booth, 104, English Salvation Army officer, granddaughter of Salvation Army founder.[9]
* Hans Gál, 97, Austrian and Scottish composer.
* Mahamat Idriss, 45, French-born Chadian Olympic high jumper (1960, 1964, 1968).
* Maria Ivogün, 95, Hungarian soprano singer.[10]
* Kalervo Palsa, 40, Finnish artist, pneumonia.
* Walter Bernard Smith, 75, Canadian politician, member of the Canada House of Commons (1968-1979).

### 4

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* Neville Cohen, 74, English cricketer.
* Mercer Cook, 84, American diplomat and professor, U.S. Ambassador to the Gambia, Senegal and Niger, pneumonia.[11]
* Eric Gandar Dower, 92–93, Scottish politician and businessman, Member of Parliament.[12]
* Bjarne Elgar Grottum, 94, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1947-1954).
* Mian Arshad Hussain, 77, Pakistani politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister and Ambassador to Sweden.
* Raymond W. Karst, 84, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1949-1951).
* Chester Nelsen Sr., 85, American Olympic cyclist (1928).
* Eloise Wilkin, 83, American illustrator of Little Golden Books, cancer.
* Hubert Yencesse, 87, French sculptor.[13]

### 5

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* Vladimir Akimov, 34, Soviet Russian Olympic water polo player (1980).
* Charles Baillie, 85, British Olympic swimmer (1924).
* Conrad Bourcier, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Maurice de Conninck, 90, French Olympic middle-distance runner (1920).
* Manny Cussins, British businessman, chairman of Waring & Gillow and Leeds United F.C.[14]
* Isobel Roe, 71, British Olympic alpine skier (1948).

### 6

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* Hi Brigham, 95, American football player.
* Grete Heckscher, 85, Danish Olympic fencer (1924).
* Roald Jensen, 44, Norwegian international footballer (Brann, Heart of Midlothian, Norway), heart failure.[15]
* Eugen Steimle, 77, Nazi German SS commander, death sentence commuted.

### 7

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* Ivan Belošević, 78, Croatian footballer.
* Charles J. Carney, 74, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1970-1979), heart ailment.[16]
* Abdul Haleem Chowdhury, 59, Bangladeshi politician.
* Phil Flanagan, 77, American AFL footballer (Boston Shamrocks).
* John Fletcher, 46, English tubist and French horn player, cerebral haemorrhage.
* Greta Granstedt, 80, American film and television actress.
* Verrall Newman, 90, British Olympic diver (1924).
* Cedric Phatudi, 75, South African politician, Chief Minister of Lebowa.[17]
* Stefan Szelestowski, 86, Polish Olympic athlete (1924, 1928).
* Sarkes Tarzian, 87, Ottoman-born American engineer, inventor and broadcaster.
* Bobby Walston, 58, American NFL footballer (Philadelphia Eagles), heart attack.[18]
* Valentin Zamotaykin, 47, Soviet Olympic sailor (1964, 1972, 1976).

### 8

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* Spencer Gordon Bennet, 94, American film producer and director.[19]
* Alberto Segismundo Cruz, 87, Filipino poet, short story writer and novelist.
* Richard W. Dempsey, 78, American illustrator and painter.
* Mona Douglas, 89, British Manx poet, novelist and journalist.
* Rolf Dudley-Williams, 79, British aeronautical engineer and politician, Member of Parliament.[20]
* Warren C. Gill, 74, American coast guard commander and politician.
* Roger Lancelyn Green, 68, British biographer and children's writer (King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table).[21]
* Nader Mahdavi, 24, Persian Revolutionary Guard Corps naval commander.
* Cecil Matthews, 73, New Zealand Olympic long-distance runner (1936).
* Donald McWhinnie, 66, British BBC executive and director.
* Konstantinos Tsatsos, 88, Greek diplomat and politician, President of Greece.[22]
* Dick Wittmann, 86, Australian rules footballer.

### 9

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* Letterio Cucinotta, 85, Italian racing driver.
* Charles R. Donaldson, 68, American attorney and jurist, judge of the Idaho Supreme Court (1969-1987).
* Ella Eronen, 87, Finnish actress.
* Mohammad Farhad, 49, Bangladeshi guerrilla force commander, Bangladesh Communist Party president, heart attack.[23]
* Guru Gopinath, 79, Indian actor and dancer.[24]
* Clare Boothe Luce, 84, American politician, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, member of U.S. House of Representatives, brain cancer.[25]
* William P. Murphy, 95, American physician, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (pernicious anemia).[26]
* Ted Shiels, 79, Australian rules footballer.
* Henry Studholme, 88, British politician, Member of Parliament.[27]
* Carlos Volante, 81, Argentinian international footballer (Flamengo, Argentina).

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* Carlos Ancira, 58, Mexican film actor.
* Behice Boran, 77, Turkish Marxist–Leninist politician and author, Member of Parliament, heart disease.[28]
* Jaroslav Bouček, 74, Czechoslovakian international footballer (Sparta Prague, Czechoslovakia).[29]
* Gretl Braun, 72, German sister of Eva Braun.
* Peter Clyne, 60, Austrian-Australian lawyer and businessman, heart attack.
* Oretha Castle Haley, 48, American civil rights activist, ovarian cancer.
* Malathi, 20, Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers fighter, died in combat.
* Robert Wilberforce, 77, Australian cricketer.

### 11

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* Uwe Barschel, 43, German politician, Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, suicide.[30]
* Eske Brun, 83, Danish high civil servant and governor of Greenland.
* Robert d'Arista, 57-58, American artist and educator.
* Ernie Fortney, 72, American basketball player.
* Alfred Kieffer, 83, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer (1924).
* Jaime Pardo Leal, 46, Colombian lawyer, union leader, and politician, assassinated.[31]
* Niall Macpherson, 79, Scottish politician, Minister of Pensions and National Insurance.[32]
* Alan McNicoll, 79, Australian Vice Admiral in the Royal Australian Navy, ambassador to Turkey.[33]
* Koldo Mitxelena, 71–72, Spanish Basque linguist, reconstructed Proto-Basque language.
* Fritz Rössler, 75, German neo-Nazi politician.

### 12

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* Ajay Divecha, 47, Indian cricketer.
* Snake Henry, 92, American MLB player (Boston Braves).
* Fahri Korutürk, 84, Turkish admiral, diplomat and politician, president of Turkey.[34]
* Alf Landon, 100, American oil man and politician, Republican candidate in 1936 presidential election.[35]
* Russ Letlow, 74, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers).[36]
* Heinz Lowin, 48, German footballer.
* Philleo Nash, 77, American government official and politician, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, renal cancer.[37]
* Gustavo Baz Prada, 93, Mexican politician and doctor, Governor of the State of Mexico.
* Heinz Vollmar, 51, German footballer.

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* Walter Houser Brattain, 85, American physicist (point-contact transistor), Nobel laureate in Physics, Alzheimer's disease.[38]
* Hugh Alexander Bryson, 75, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1953-1958).
* Kishore Kumar, 58, Indian actor and playback singer, heart attack.[39]
* Nilgün Marmara, 29, Turkish poet, suicide.[40]
* Lucy Monroe, 80, American operatic soprano and dancer, cancer.[41]
* Walter Fraser Oakeshott, 83, British vice-chancellor of Oxford, discovered Le Morte d'Arthur Winchester manuscript.[42]
* Anwar Kamal Pasha, 62, Pakistani film director and producer.
* Jamshed Patel, 73, Indian cricket umpire.

### 14

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* Elżbieta Barszczewska, 73, Polish stage and film actress.
* Nikolay Belov, 67, Soviet Olympic wrestler (1952).
* Rodolfo Halffter, 86, Spanish composer.[43]
* Finlay J. MacDonald, 62, Scottish journalist, producer and writer.
* Tino Santoni, 74, Italian cinematographer.
* Ted Wildie, 81, Australian rules footballer.
* Basil Wright, 80, English documentary filmmaker (The Song of Ceylon).[44]

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* Lennie Aleshire, 97, American vaudeville and country music performer.
* Arthur Benson, 79, British colonial administrator, Governor of Northern Rhodesia.[45]
* Thomas Andrew Donnellan, 73, American Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Atlanta, stroke.[46]
* August Erne, 82, Swiss racing cyclist.
* Axel Felder, 38, German racing driver.
* Nik Novecento, 23, Italian actor.
* Juda Hirsch Quastel, 88, British-Canadian biochemist.[47]
* Gabriele Salviati, 77, Italian Olympic athlete (1932).
* Thomas Sankara, 37, Burkinabe politician, President of Burkina Faso, Prime Minister of Upper Volta, assassinated.[48]
* Donald Wandrei, 79, American science fiction and fantasy writer, and poet.

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* Frank Eck, 76, American newspaper writer and editor.
* František Hák, 83, Czechoslovakian Olympic cross-country skier (1924).
* Joseph Höffner, 80, German Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne, brain tumour.[49]
* Nazir Hussain, 65, Indian actor, director and screenwriter.
* Robin Kreyer, 77, English cricketer and army officer.
* Margo Lee, 64, Australian actor and singer.[50]
* Aleksandr Sery, 59, Soviet film director (Gentlemen of Fortune), suicide.
* Dana Suesse, 75, American musician, composer and lyricist ("You Oughta Be in Pictures"), stroke.[51]
* Tommy Veitch, 38, Scottish footballer.

### 17

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* Pete Cote, 85, American MLB player (New York Giants).
* Ruby Dandridge, 87, American actress (Amos 'n' Andy, Judy Canova Show), heart attack.[52]
* Mauno Mäkelä, 71, Finnish film producer.
* Roderich Menzel, 80, Czech-German amateur tennis player and writer.
* Peter Pund, 80, American college football player.[53]
* Hirsch Schwartzberg, 79, Lithuanian-born American leader of holocaust survivors.[54]
* Abdul Malek Ukil, 63, Bangladeshi politician, Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad.

### 18

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* Gil Bergerson, 77, American NFL player (Chicago Bears).
* Theodore Brameld, 83, American philosopher and educator, pneumonia.[55]
* Pete Carpenter, 73, American jazz trombonist and arranger, lung cancer.
* Adriaan Ditvoorst, 47, Dutch film director and screenwriter (Paranoia).
* Patrick Duffy, 66, Irish Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).
* Prince Emanuel of Liechtenstein, 78, Liechtenstein sovereign family member.
* Sol Goldman, 70, American real estate investor and philanthropist.[56]
* Philip Levine, 87, Belorus-born American immuno-hematologist.[57]
* Michael Lipper, 56, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1977-1981).
* Louis Miriani, 90, American politician, mayor of Detroit.[58]
* Joseph Schauers, 78, American Olympic rower (1932).

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* Jerzy Bandura, 71, Polish sculptor.
* Robert Madden Hill, 59, American circuit and district judge.
* Hermann Lang, 78, German racing driver.
* Carlos Lastarria, 69, Peruvian Olympic sports shooter (1960, 1964).
* Igor Newerly, 84, Polish novelist.
* Marcel Paulus, 67, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer (1948).
* Jacqueline du Pré, 42, British cellist, multiple sclerosis.[59]
* Ben Stahl, 77, American artist, illustrator and author.[60]
* Ernie Toseland, 82, English footballer (Manchester City).

### 20

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* Georges Douking, 85, French stage, film and television actor (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie).
* Herbert Hallowes, 75, British WWII flying ace.
* Andrey Kolmogorov, 84, Russian mathematician (probability theory).[61]
* Gordon Olive, 71, Australian RAAF officer.
* Mecha Ortiz, 87, Argentinian actress (El canto del cisne).
* Lars-Erik Sjöberg, 43, Swedish international ice hockey player, cancer.[62]
* Mária Sulyok, 79, Hungarian actress.

### 21

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* Igor Chernat, 20–21, Soviet serial killer, executed.
* Jerzy Chromik, 56, Polish Olympic long-distance runner (1956, 1960).
* Murray Exelby, 75, Australian rules footballer.
* Pál Gábor, 55, Hungarian film director and screenwriter (Angi Vera).[63]
* Bob Simmons, 64, English actor and stunt man (James Bond series).
* Albertine Van Roy-Moens, 72, Belgian Olympic gymnast (1948).
* Albert Western, 64, Australian rules footballer (South Fremantle).
* He Yingqin, 97, Chinese politician, Premier of the Republic of China.[64]

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* K. G. Adiyodi, 60, Indian politician, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.[65]
* Archduke Anton of Austria, 86, Austrian noble.
* Ragnar Bergstedt, 98, Swedish Olympic rower (1912).
* Reni Erkens, 78, German Olympic swimmer (1928).
* Fernando Jiménez, 82, Puerto Rican Olympic sports shooter (1956).
* Tasman Knight, 80, Australian rules footballer.
* Lucienne Legrand, 87, French film actress.
* John H. Masters, 74, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
* Taylor Scott, 40, English Fleet Air Arm pilot and test pilot for British Aerospace, test flight accident.[66]
* Andrey Starostin, 81, Soviet footballer and author.
* Lino Ventura, 68, Italian-born French actor (Les Misérables), heart attack.[67]

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* Constantin Alajalov, 86, Armenian-born American painter and illustrator.[68]
* Henri Arnaudeau, 65, French footballer.
* Fred Hughson, 73, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy).
* Raymond W. Ketchledge, 67, American engineer (computerized telephone switching control systems), cancer.[69]
* Barry Levinson, 54–55, American film producer.
* Len McConnell, 80, Australian rules footballer.
* A. L. Morton, 84, English Marxist historian.[70]
* Jimmy Mullen, 64, English international footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers, England).[71]
* Della H. Raney, 75, American nurse in the Army Nurse Corps.[72]
* Gene Rodgers, 77, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger.
* Alejandro Scopelli, 79, Argentine international footballer and coach (Estudiantes, Argentina).[73]
* Ted Taylor, 53, American blues singer, car crash.
* John Wittig, 66, Danish film actor.

### 24

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* Hallam Ashley, 87, British photographer.
* Vallancey Brown, 74, Australian cricketer.
* Enid Chadwick, 84, British religious artist.[74]
* Raymond Francis, 76, British actor (No Hiding Place).
* Leo Hepp, 80, Nazi German military officer in the Wehrmacht.
* Kelvin Martin, 23, American criminal, shot.[75]
* Ray Sheppard, 84, American baseball player.

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* Ivan Beshoff, appr. 104, Russian mutineer in 1905 on battleship Potemkin.[76]
* Cecil Brown, 80, American journalist and war correspondent.[77]
* Marta Feuchtwanger, 96, German exile to America, devoted life to promoting work of her deceased writer husband.[78]
* Maxwell Finland, 85, Russian-born American medical researcher, expert on infectious diseases, heart attack.[79]
* Louis Guttman, 71, American sociologist (social statistics), melanoma.[80]
* Willis Jackson, 55, American jazz tenor saxophonist, complications from heart surgery.[81]
* Pascal Jules, 26, French road bicycle racer.
* Gerald Pearson, 82, American physicist at Bell Labs (photovoltaic cell).[82]
* J. A. Ratcliffe, 84, British radio physicist.[83]
* Kate L. Turabian, 94, American educator and author (A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations).[84]

### 26

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* Herbert Anaya, 32–33, El Salvadoran president of the Human Rights Commission of El Salvador, assassinated.[85]
* Greg Bautzer, 76, American attorney who represented famous clients, heart failure.[86]
* Aldo Boffi, 72, Italian international footballer (AC Milan, Italy).
* Edith Luckett Davis, 99, American actress, mother of Nancy Reagan, stroke.[87]
* Hugh Aloysius Donohoe, 82, American prelate.
* Arild Feldborg, 75, Norwegian playwright.
* Victor Ganz, 74, American business owner and art collector, lung cancer.[88]
* Francisco Juillet, 89, Chilean Olympic cyclist (1924, 1928).
* Carolus Lassila, 65, Finnish diplomat, ambassador to eight countries, flash flood.
* Bjørge Lillelien, 60, Norwegian sports journalist and commentator (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation), cancer.
* Zdzisław Wojdylak, 58, Polish Olympic field hockey player (1952, 1960).
* Adam Wolanin, 67, Polish-American international footballer (Pogoń Lwów, United States).[89]

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* Marshal T. Adams, 101, American politician, member of the Mississippi State Senate (1916-1924).
* Burnett Bolloten, 77–78, British-American writer, scholar of the Spanish Civil War, prostate cancer.[90]
* Jorge Dalto, 39, Argentine-born American pianist, cancer.[91]
* Jean Hélion, 83, French painter, pneumonia.[92]
* John Oliver Killens, 71, American novelist, cancer.[93]
* Kosaraju, 82, Indian lyricist and poet.
* Vijay Merchant, 76, Indian test cricketer (Bombay, India).[94]
* Mario Merola, 65, American attorney and member of New York City Council, stroke.[95]
* John C. Young, 75, American businessman, developer of Chinatown, San Francisco.

### 28

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* D. Djajakusuma, 69, Indonesian film director.
* Douglas Mackessack, 84, Scottish cricketer and army officer.
* André Masson, 91, French artist.[96]
* Pete McClanahan, 81, American MLB player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
* Sir Jasper More, 80, British politician, Member of Parliament.[97]

### 29

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* Albert P. Crary, 76, American polar geophysicist and glaciologist, first to set foot on both North and South Poles, spinal tumour.[98]
* William Davis, 86, British Royal Navy admiral.[99]
* Robert Heber-Percy, 75, English eccentric.[100]
* Woody Herman, 74, American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and big band leader, heart failure.[101]
* Phillip C. Katz, 97, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
* Kamal el-Mallakh, 69, Egyptian archaeologist, discovered Khufu ship.[102]
* Ram Awtar Sharma, 79, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
* Peter Stopforth, 79, South African cricketer.
* Frederic M. Wheelock, 85, American Latin professor (Wheelock's Latin), heart attack.[103]

### 30

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* Thomas G. Bergin, 82, American scholar of Italian literature.[104]
* Joseph Campbell, 83, American writer on comparative mythology and religion (The Hero with a Thousand Faces), cancer.[105]
* Sydney Vernon Petersen, 73, South African poet and author, kidney failure.[106]
* Chaudhary Dalbir Singh, 61, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
* Grady B. Wilson, 67–68, American evangelist, heart failure.[107]

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* Paul D. Adams, 81, American general in the U.S. Army.[108]
* Raj Chandra Bose, 86, Indian and American mathematician and statistician (error-correcting codes).[109]
* Ruel Vance Churchill, 87, American mathematician and author.
* Josef Erber, 90, Nazi German SS-Oberscharführer at Auschwitz, received life sentence, traffic accident.
* Maurie Hunter, 83, Australian rules footballer.
* Jimmy Jewell, 33–34, British rock climber, climbing accident.
* Hans Sommer, 73, Nazi German member of the Sicherheitsdienst, Stasi spy.
* Jack Stenhouse, 75, Australian rules footballer.
* George Sulima, 58, American NFL player (Pittsburgh Steelers).

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* Filippo Buccola, 101, Italian-American mobster, member of the Patriarca crime family.
* Wally Freeman, 94, British Olympic athlete (1920).

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