Deaths in October 1988

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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

## October 1988

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### 1

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* Lucien Ballard, 80, American cinematographer (The Caretakers), car accident.[1]
* Victor Coverley-Price, 87, British painter.
* Trevor Herion, 29, Irish singer and songwriter, suicide.[2]
* Sacheverell Sitwell, 90, English writer.[3]
* Pavle Vuisić, 62, Yugoslavian actor (Kamiondžije).
* Jim Young, 66, Australian rules footballer.

### 2

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* Robert Blucke, 91, British RAF officer.
* Hamengkubuwono IX, 76, Indonesian politician and Javanese Royal, Vice President of Indonesia, internal bleeding.[4]
* Peter Hunt, 72, British Army general, Chief of the General Staff.
* Alec Issigonis, 81, Ottoman-born British automotive designer (Mini).[5]
* Thomas J. Kelly, 65, American soldier in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient, heart attack.[6]
* Jean Moulin, 83, Luxembourgian Olympic sprinter (1928).
* Generoso Pope Jr., 61, American media mogul (National Enquirer), heart attack.[7]
* Emmerich Schrenk, 72, Austrian actor.
* Florence E. Wall, 95, American cosmetic chemist.[8]
* Lothar Wolff, 79, German film editor, producer, and assistant director.

### 3

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* Mae Brussell, 66, American radio personality, challenger of the Warren Commission report, cancer.[9]
* Richard Evelyn Byrd III, 68, American officer in US Navy, Antarctic explorer, malnutrition & dehydration.[10] (body found this date)
* Clarence Carnes, 61, American murderer (Battle of Alcatraz), AIDS.[11]
* Marco Galli, 31, Italian Olympic water polo player (1984).
* Ma Haide, 78, American doctor who practiced medicine in China, cancer and diabetes.[12]
* Ruth Hale Oliver, 78, American astrologer and actress.
* Franz Josef Strauss, 73, German politician, Minister-President of Bavaria, heart failure.[13]

### 4

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* William Melville Alexander, 90, Canadian WWI flying ace.
* Carlo Carretto, 78, Italian writer and Catholic priest, member of the Little Brothers of the Gospel.
* Olaf Dalsgaard-Olsen, 85, Danish film producer (Qivitoq).
* Stig Egede-Nissen, 80, Norwegian actor and naval officer.
* Zlatko Grgić, 57, Croatian-born Canadian animator (Dream Doll).[14]
* Geoffrey Household, 87, British novelist specialising in thrillers (Rogue Male).[15]
* Margaret Lacey, 76, British actress and ballet teacher (Diamonds Are Forever).
* Thérèse Leduc, 54, French Olympic alpine skier (1960).

### 5

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* Art Gagne, 90, Canadian NHL player (Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins).
* Curt Hjelm, 74, Swedish footballer (Sleipner).
* Dermie O'Connell, 60, American NBA player (Boston Celtics, St. Louis Bombers).
* Ron Staniforth, 64, English international footballer (Stockport County, England).[16]
* Lois W., (Lois Wilson), 97, American co-founder of Al-Anon for alcoholics.[17]

### 6

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* Severiano Briseño, 86, Mexican composer.[18]
* Dean Burk, 84, American biochemist and cancer researcher (Lineweaver–Burk plot), cancer.[19]
* Paul Ledoux, 74, Belgian astrophysicist.[20]
* Don Terry, 86, American actor (Don Winslow of the Navy, Don Winslow of the Coast Guard).[21]

### 7

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* George Ansell, 78, English footballer (Norwich City).
* Sándor Bíró, 77, Hungarian international footballer (MTK Budapest, Hungary).[22]
* Billy Daniels, 73, American singer ("That Old Black Magic"), stomach cancer.[23]
* Christian Herbert, 84, British barrister and peer, Governor of British Guiana.
* Stéphane Lupasco, 88, Romanian philosopher, developed non-Aristotelian logic.[24]
* Ivan More, 91, Australian rules footballer.
* Karl Pedersen, 86, Norwegian Olympic wrestler (1928).
* Chet Phillips, 74, American Olympic gymnast (1936).

### 8

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* Charles Beauclerk, 73, British soldier and hereditary peer, Duke of St Albans.[25]
* Harold Dorman, 61, American rock and roll singer and songwriter ("Mountain of Love").
* Boob Fowler, 87, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds).[26]
* Edward George Warris Hulton, 81, British magazine publisher and writer.[27]
* Hans Kuhn, 89, German philologist, specialised in Germanic studies.
* Wally Lemm, 68, American NFL football coach (Houston Oilers, St. Louis Cardinals).[28]
* Ernst Hermann Meyer, 82, German composer and musicologist.[29]
* Reino Nori, 75, American NFL player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Bears).
* Sam Richardson, 70, Canadian Olympic athlete (1936).
* Fred Shepherd, 65, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
* Pál Titkos, 80, Hungarian international footballer (MTK Hungária, Hungary).[30]

### 9

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* Mousey Alexander, 66, American jazz drummer, heart and kidney failure.[31]
* Edward Chodorov, 84, American playwright, film writer and producer.[32]
* Cliff Gallup, 58, American guitarist, heart attack.
* Bob Goslin, 61, New Zealand Olympic boxer (1948).
* Jackie Milburn, 64, English international footballer (Newcastle United, England), lung cancer.[33]
* Felix Wankel, 86, German mechanical engineer, Hitler Youth leader and anti-Semite, inventor of the Wankel rotary engine.[34]

### 10

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* Samuel A. Adams, 54, American analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, heart attack.[35]
* Gösta Bergström, 85, Swedish Olympic long distance runner (1924).
* Bhabani Bhattacharya, 81, Indian writer.[36]
* David Croudip, 30, American NFL footballer (Atlanta Falcons), car crash.[37]
* John Daly, 70, Irish rugby league and union player.
* Juan Pujol García, ('Garbo', 'Alaric'), 76, Spanish spy and double agent.[38]
* Kurt Marshall, 22, American gay model and actor, AIDS.[39]
* Montgomery Tully, 84, Irish film director and writer.

### 11

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* Buck Clarke, 55, American jazz percussionist.
* Thaddeus J. Dulski, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959-1974), leukemia.[40]
* Morgan Farley, 90, American film and television actor.[41]
* Wayland Flowers, 48, American actor, comedian and puppeteer (Captain Kangaroo), AIDS.[42]
* Bonita Granville, 65, American actress and producer (Nancy Drew, These Three), lung cancer.[43]
* Robert Edward Gross, 83, American surgeon and a medical researcher.[44]
* Roy Herrick, 52, British actor.
* Max Imdahl, 63, German art historian.[45]
* Guido Monzino, 60, Italian mountain climber and explorer, led first Italian expedition to climb Mount Everest, heart failure.[46]
* Ursula Nordstrom, 78, American publisher and editor of children's books, ovarian cancer.[47]
* Joel Oppenheimer, 58, American poet, columnist in The Village Voice, lung cancer.[48]
* Red Owens, 63, American NBA player (Anderson Packers, Tri-Cities Blackhawks/Milwaukee Hawks).
* Hugh Percy, 74, British soldier and peer, Duke of Northumberland, heart attack.[49]
* Giuseppe Tonucci, 50, Italian Olympic cyclist (1960).

### 12

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* Ruth Manning-Sanders, 102, Welsh-born English poet and author.[50]
* Ken Murray, 85, American comedian, actor and author (Bill and Coo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance).[51]
* Rafael García Serrano, 71, Spanish writer and journalist.
* Coby Whitmore, 75, American painter and magazine illustrator (The Saturday Evening Post).[52]

### 13

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* Norman Barry, 90, American judge, politician and football coach (Chicago Cardinals), heart attack.[53]
* Reggie Bell, 84, British Olympic middle-distance runner (1928).
* Oscar Dose, 87, Swedish Olympic diver (1920).
* Melvin Frank, 75, American screenwriter and producer (A Touch of Class, White Christmas), complications from heart surgery.[54]
* Irene Hunt, 96, American silent-screen actress.
* Ramón Romero, 29, Dominican-born American MLB player (Cleveland Indians).
* Mike Venezia, 43, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey, horse racing accident.[55]

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* Serafín Aedo, 79, Spanish international footballer.
* Kathleen Blackshear, 91, American artist.
* Charles Augustus, 76, German prince, head of the house of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
* Jesús Dermit, 79, Spanish racing cyclist.
* Abie Hood, 85, American MLB player (Boston Braves).
* Katriel Katz, 79, Israeli diplomat, ambassador to the Soviet Union and Poland.
* Mary Morris, 72, Fijian-born British actress, heart failure.
* Vic Raschi, 69, American Major League baseballer (New York Yankees), heart attack.[56]
* René Vietto, 74, French road racing cyclist.[57]
* John White, 53, American AFL player (Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders).

### 15

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* John Ball, 77, American mystery novel writer (In the Heat of the Night), colon cancer.[58]
* Victor Copps, 69, Canadian politician, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.[59]
* James Craig, 46, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, shot.[60]
* Piero Fornasetti, 74, Italian artist and designer, died during minor operation.[61]
* Khudu Mammadov, 60, Azerbaijani geologist (crystal chemistry).[62]
* Rallou Manou, 72–73, Greek choreographer.
* Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, 96, English composer, pianist and writer (Gulistan).[63]
* François Winnepenninckx, 69, Belgian footballer.

### 16

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* William A. Earle, 68–69, American philosopher.[64]
* Queen Farida of Egypt, 67, Egyptian consort of King Farouk, leukemia.[65]
* Abdulrahman Fawzi, 78, Egyptian international footballer and manager (Zamalek, Egypt).
* Christian Matras, 87, Faroese poet.[66]
* Alan Reid, 61, Australian rules footballer.
* Muzafer Sherif, 82, Ottoman-born American social psychologist, heart attack.[67]
* Edward Wright, 76, English painter.

### 17

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* Oved Ben-Ami, 83, Israeli politician, co-founder of the cities of Netanya and Ashdod.
* William Henry Bramble, 87, British union leader and Chief Minister of Montserrat.
* John Dillon, 67, British Olympic sailor (1952, 1956).
* Adélaïde Hautval, 82, French physician, provided medical care in Auschwitz concentration camp, suicide.[68]
* Anthony A. Hoekema, 74–75, Dutch-born American Calvinist minister, heart attack.[69]
* György Horváth, 44, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter (1972).
* William Norris, 80, New Zealand cricketer.
* Alec Peterson, 80, British teacher, instrumental in introducing the International Baccalaureate.[70]

### 18

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* Michael ffolkes, 63, British illustrator and cartoonist (The Daily Telegraph, Punch), pancreas and liver disease.[71]
* Kamel Hana Gegeo, Iraqi bodyguard, food taster for Saddam Hussein, murdered.[72]
* Čestmír Kalina, 66, Czechoslovakian Olympic shot putter (1948).
* Aasmund Kulien, 95, Norwegian politician.
* Caswell Silver, 72, American geologist, president of Sundance Oil Company, heart attack.[73]
* Toni Stolper, 97, Austrian-German economist and journalist.

### 19

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* Labdhi Bhandari, 40, Indian professor of marketing at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, plane crash.
* Tom Boast, 82, Australian Olympic swimmer (1928).
* Bill Burgo, 68, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics).
* Henry W. Buse Jr., 76, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.[74]
* Lawrence W. Butler, 80, American special effects artist, inventor of bluescreening process (The Thief of Bagdad), heart attack.[75]
* William Joseph Campbell, 83, American judge (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois).[76]
* Fathead, 27–28, Jamaican-born American dancehall deejay, murdered.
* Þórður Guðmundsson, 80, Icelandic Olympic water polo player (1936).
* Son House, 86, American singer and guitarist, cancer of the larynx.[77]
* Wolfgang Kummer, 74, German Olympic bobsledder (1936).
* Helen O'Bannon, 49, American economist, Secretary of Public Welfare for Pennsylvania, cancer.[78]
* Frederick Pitts, 89, American Olympic modern pentathlete (1924).
* Sten Suvio, 76, Finnish boxer and Olympic gold medalist (1936).[79]
* Friedrich Weinreb, 77, Dutch economist, World War II swindler.[80]

### 20

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* Mark Evans Austad, 71, American radio and television commentator, ambassador to Finland and Norway, heart disease.[81]
* Ulrich Beyer, 41, German Olympic boxer (1972, 1976).
* Marion William Isbell, 83, American restaurateur, founder of Ramada Inns.[82]
* Juan Salcedo Jr., 84, Filipino physician and scientist (Secretary of Health).[83]
* Sheila Scott, 66, English aviator, cancer.[84]
* Mogens Wöldike, 91, Danish conductor (Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra). [85]

### 21

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* Guido Beck, 85, Argentinian physicist, car accident.
* Reggie Otero, 73, Cuban Major League baseballer (Chicago Cubs), heart attack.[86]
* Nyari Welly, 43, Indian politician (Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly).

### 22

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* Henry Armstrong, 75, American boxer, multiple world champion, heart failure.[87]
* Cynthia Freeman (Bea Feinberg), 73, American novelist (No Time For Tears), cancer.[88]
* Plácido Galindo, 82, Peruvian international footballer (Universitario de Deportes, Peru).[89]
* Clare Stevenson, 85, Australian director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.[90]
* Esat Oktay Yıldıran, 39, Turkish military officer, governor of Diyarbakır Prison, assassinated.

### 23

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* Philippe Agut, 59, French racing cyclist.
* Hap Emms, 83, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, coach and team owner (Barrie Flyers), heart failure.[91]
* Laurence Irving, 91, English book illustrator and Hollywood set designer.
* Jan Erik Lindqvist, 68, Swedish actor.
* André Neher, 74, French Jewish scholar and philosopher.[92]
* Asashio Tarō III, 58, Japanese sumo wrestler, stroke.

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* William T. R. Fox, 76, American foreign policy professor (Columbia University), coined the term "superpower", heart disease.[93]
* Samuel B. Fuller, 83, American entrepreneur, president of the National Negro Business League, kidney failure.[94]
* Stanisław Hachorek, 61, Polish Olympic footballer (1960).
* Benny Joy, 52, American rockabilly guitarist and singer, cancer.[95]
* Ratna Mohini, 84, Javanese dancer.[96]
* Bill O'Brien, 83, Australian rules footballer.
* Valerie Taylor, 85, English actress (Berkeley Square).[97]
* Connie Tudin, 71, Canadian NHL player (Montreal Canadiens).
* Sumner White, 58, American Olympic sailor (1952).

### 25

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* Kathleen Baxter, 87, English women's rights activist (National Council of Women).
* Bob Carey, 58, American NFL footballer (Los Angeles Rams).
* Boobie Clark, 38, American NFL footballer (Cincinnati Bengals), blood clot in lung.[98]
* Eric Larson, 83, American animator for Walt Disney Studios (Winnie the Pooh).[99]
* Luther Lassiter, 69, American pool player, seven-time world pocket billiard champion.[100]
* Milton Rokeach, 69, Polish-born American social psychologist.[101]
* Harold Leeming Sheehan, 88, British physician (Sheehan's syndrome).[102]

### 26

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* R. K. Baliga, 58, Indian engineer, founder of Electronics City, diabetes-related complications.[103]
* Georgette Cohan, 88, American actress (Mr. Pim Passes By).
* Ruth Gervis, 94, British illustrator (Ballet Shoes).[104]
* Johnny Hackenbruck, 73, American NFL player (Detroit Lions).
* Bill Johnson, 92, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
* Tatapuram Sukumaran, 65, Indian Malayalam writer.

### 27

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* Gilbert Carson, 87, American college football and basketball coach (Eastern Illinois Panthers).
* Frank Devlin, 88, Irish badminton player.
* Charles Hawtrey, 73, English actor and comedian (Carry On), vascular disease.[105]
* Curt Herzstark, 86, Austrian engineer.[106]
* Rudolf Jordan, 86, Nazi German Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt.
* Jack Kane, 80, Australian politician, member of the Australian Senate.[107]
* Ruhollah Khatami, 81, Iranian cleric.[108]
* Michael Reisser, 42, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1981-1988).
* Kenneth Thorpe Rowe, 88, American professor of drama and playwriting.[109]
* Ben Steiner, 67, American MLB player (Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers).
* Erika von Thellmann, 86, Austrian actress.

### 28

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* Pietro Annigoni, 78, Italian artist and portrait painter (Queen Elizabeth II), kidney failure.[110]
* John Backus, 77, American physicist and acoustician.[111]
* Shoki Coe, 74, Taiwanese Presbyterian minister.[112]
* Ted Larsen, 65, Australian rules footballer.
* Alva B. Lasswell, 83, American linguist and cryptanalyst in the U.S. Marine Corps.[113]
* Jack de Manio, 74, British journalist and radio presenter (Today).[114]
* James V. Mangano, 82, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1934-1937), cancer.[115]
* Frank Schwable, 80, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
* Teikō Shiotani, 89, Japanese photographer.[116]
* Harry Taylor, 87, English cricketer.
* Dave Tyriver, 50, American MLB player (Cleveland Indians).

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* Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, 85, Indian social reformer and freedom activist.[117]
* Andy Cohen, 84, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants).[118]
* Joe Comfort, 71, American jazz double bassist.
* Thomas Cooray, 86, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Colombo.[119]
* Nataša Gollová, 76, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian actress (Eva tropí hlouposti).[120]
* Mary Kid, 87, German actress.
* Bill Mason, 58–59, Canadian author, filmmaker and conservationist, cancer.[121]
* Orlando Montenegro Medrano, 68, Nicaraguan politician and attorney, acting President of Nicaragua.
* Robert Olejnik, 77, Nazi German flying ace.[122]
* Ross Rocklynne, 75, American science fiction author (The Men and the Mirror), heart disease.

### 30

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* Joseph Depew, 76, American television director, producer, and film actor.
* Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, 88, German film actor.
* T. Hee, 77, American animator and director (Walt Disney Animation Studios).[123]
* Hans Klering, 81, German actor and director.
* Tasos Leivaditis, 66, Greek poet.[124]
* John Myers Myers, 82, American writer (Silverlock).[125]
* Florence Nagle, 94, British breeder of racehorses and pedigree dogs, horse trainer and feminist.[126]
* Raúl Pellegrin, 30, Chilean guerrilla leader (Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front).[127]
* Francisco Rodrigues, 63, Brazilian international footballer (Palmeiras, Fluminense, Brazil).[128]
* Liz Whitney Tippett, 82, American socialite and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses, cancer.[129]
* Bernie Walter, 80, American MLB player (Pittsburgh Pirates).

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* Ladislau da Guia, 82, Brazilian footballer.
* Joe Henke, 85, Australian rules footballer.
* John Houseman, 86, Romanian-born American actor and producer (Citizen Kane, The Blue Dahlia), cancer.[130]
* Ken Niles, 81, American radio announcer and film narrator (Out of the Past), heart failure.[131]
* Alfred Pellan, 82, Canadian painter, leukemia.[132]
* Varvara Popova, 88, Soviet stage and film actress.
* Vasco Ronchi, 90, Italian physicist (Ronchi test).[133]
* Theodor Schneider, 77, German mathematician (Gelfond–Schneider theorem).[134]
* George Uhlenbeck, 87, Dutch-American theoretical physicist (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process).[135]

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* Mavis Freeman, 69, American Olympic swimmer (1936).
* Gerry Livingston, 73–74, Canadian businessman.
* Denis Martin, 67–68, Northern Irish singer, actor and theatre producer.
* Anant Sharma, 68, Indian Railway Union leader and politician, Minister of State for Industry.

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