Deaths in September 1987

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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

## September 1987

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### 1

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* Ralph Cobbold, 81, English cricketer.
* Dennis Coi, 26, Canadian figure skater, AIDS.
* Gerhard Fieseler, 91, German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion and aircraft designer and manufacturer.[1]
* Philip Friend, 72, British film and television actor (The Highwayman).
* Arnaldo Momigliano, 78, Italian historian of classical antiquity.[2]
* Alan Reid, 72, Australian political journalist, cancer.[3]
* Vladimir Skrbinšek, 84, Yugoslavian film and stage actor.
* Pinky Whitney, 82, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Phillies).[4]

### 2

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* Leon Blevins, 61, American basketball player and coach.
* Cam Carreon, 50, American Major League baseballer (Chicago White Sox).[5]
* Brian Clay, 52, Australian rugby league footballer (St. George Dragons, Australia), heart disease.[6]
* LeGrande A. Diller, American general in the U.S. Army, cancer.[7]
* Ken Flower, 73, English-born Rhodesian police officer and intelligence chief, heart attack.[8]
* Thomas Hambrook, 65, New Zealand cricketer.
* Remzi Aydın Jöntürk, 50, Turkish actor and screenwriter (Yarınsız Adam, Yıkılmayan Adam), traffic accident.
* Ramesh Naidu, 55, Indian composer, instrumentalist and singer.
* Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, 60, Argentine Army division general and politician, de facto President of Argentina.
* Stephen B. Small, 40, American businessman, kidnapped and held for ransom, asphyxiation during captivity.[9]

### 3

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* Tom Amrhein, 76, American soccer player.
* Diana Caldwell, 73, English woman, best known for her part in the murder of Lord Erroll.[10]
* Carter W. Clarke, 90. American intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, heart attack.[11]
* Doug Cooper, 48, American NASCAR driver.
* Ned Day, 42, American journalist and newspaper reporter, heart attack.[12]
* Alain Douarinou, 78, French cinematographer.
* Morton Feldman, 61, American composer, pancreatic cancer.[13]
* Gordon Fletcher, 79, Australian rugby league footballer.
* Maxwell Fry, 88, English architect and writer.[14]
* Doris Gates, 85, American writer of children's fiction (Blue Willow), heart attack.[15]
* Georges Gourdy, 81, French Olympic boxer (1924).
* Drago Husjak, 61, Yugoslavian Olympic rower (1952).
* Merlin Minshall, 80, British naval officer and adventurer.
* Aleksandr Nadiradze, 73, Georgian engineer, involved in militarising the Soviet space program.
* Viktor Nekrasov, 76, Soviet writer, journalist and editor, cancer.[16]
* Lee Theodore, 54, American Broadway theatre director and performer.[17]
* Rusty Wescoatt, 76, American supporting actor.

### 4

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* Bill Bowes, 79, English test cricketer, player in the Bodyline series, heart attack.[18]
* George M. Chinn, 85, American weapons expert and soldier.[19]
* Richard Marquand, 49, Welsh film and television director (Return of the Jedi), stroke.[20]
* Norm McDermott, 74, Australian rules footballer.
* Harry Oliver White, 92, Canadian politician, member of the Canada House of Commons (1945-1962).

### 5

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* Richard D. Adams, 78, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.[21]
* Takeo Akuta, 83, Japanese baseball player and manager.
* Wolfgang Fortner, 79, German composer and conductor.[22]
* Floyd Iglehart, 53, American NFL player (Los Angeles Rams).
* Scott Irwin, 35, American professional wrestler, brain tumour.
* Salvador Lutteroth, 90, Mexican professional wrestling promoter.
* Quinn Martin, 65, American television producer (The Fugitive), heart attack.[23]

### 6

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* Jack d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 74, British Army general and politician, Member of Parliament.[24]
* Arun Kumar Choudhury, 64, Indian head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Calcutta.
* William Haley, 86, British newspaper editor and Director-General of the BBC.[25]
* Paul Hiebert, 95, Canadian writer and humorist (Sarah Binks).[26]
* Arthur Smith, 79, Australian rules footballer.

### 7

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* Mario Beltrami, 85, Italian painter.
* Claus Wiese, 63, Norwegian actor.
* Gordon Gollob, 75, Austrian fighter pilot during World War II, fighter ace.
* Harry Locke, 73, English actor.

### 8

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* Konrad Georg, 72, German actor.
* Robert Sharples, 74, British musical conductor, composer and bandleader.
* Margaret Mary Smith, 70, South African ichthyologist.[27]
* Frank Thornton, 88, English cricketer.
* Jiří Zavřel, 76, Czechoslovakian Olympic rower (1936).

### 9

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* Sam Brody, 80, English-founding member of the Workers Film and Photo League, injuries from a fall.[28]
* Norman Lethbridge Cowper, 90, Australian lawyer.
* Tom Davis, 76, Irish international footballer (New Brighton, Oldham Athletic, Ireland).
* Bill Fraser, 79, Scottish actor (When We Are Married), emphysema.
* Gunnar de Frumerie, 79, Swedish composer and pianist.
* Gerrit Jan Heijn, 56, Dutch businessman, murdered after abduction.[29]
* Vratislav Mazák, 50, Czech biologist specialising in paleoanthropology.
* Al Read, 78, British radio comedian, stroke.
* Vera Schmiterlöw, 83, Swedish actress.
* Dora Zaslavsky, 83, Russian-born American pianist.[30]

### 10

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* Wallace Allen, 66, Irish cricketer.
* Benjamin Howard Baker, 95, English international footballer (Corinthian), high jumper and triple jumper, dual Olympian.[31]
* Werner de Spoelberch, 85, Belgian Olympic alpine skier (1936).

### 11

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* Kerstin Bernadotte, 76, Swedish journalist and magazine editor.[32]
* Hugh David, 62, British actor and television director (Doctor Who).
* Charles Fleming, 71, New Zealand geologist and ornithologist.[33]
* Ivylyn Girardeau, 86, American doctor and missionary.
* Lorne Greene, 72, Canadian actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), pneumonia.[34]
* Harry Gale Nye Jr., 79, American entrepreneur and world champion sailor.[35]
* Harry Peace, 74, Canadian Olympic wrestler (1948).
* William Pearson, 74, Australian cricketer.
* Hervey Rhodes, 92, British politician, Member of Parliament.[36]
* Sandilyan, 76, Indian writer.
* Manikuntala Sen, 75–76, member of the Communist Party of India.
* Nareshchandra Singh, 78, Indian ruler of Sarangarh State.
* Surendra, 76, Indian singer and actor.
* Peter Tosh, 42, Jamaican reggae singer and musician, murdered in home invasion.[37]
* Mahadevi Varma, 80, Indian poet and writer.[38]
* John Lloyd Waddy, 70, Australian officer in the Royal Australian Air Force and politician (New South Wales).[39]
* Frank Wiziarde, 71, American actor and television personality.[40]

### 12

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* J. Lawton Collins, 91, American army general, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, cardiac arrest.[41]
* William Dickson, 88, British Royal Naval Air Service aviator, Chief of the Defence Staff.[42]
* Merv Leith, 65, Australian rules footballer.
* John Qualen, 87, Canadian-born American actor, heart failure.[43]
* Väinö Sipilä, 89, Finnish Olympic long-distance runner (1924, 1928).
* John J. Voll, 65, American officer in the U.S. Air Force, World War II flying ace.

### 13

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* Aníbal Gordon, Argentinian suspected of being a leader of the Triple A death squad, lung cancer.[44]
* John Green, 79, English cricketer.
* Mervyn LeRoy, 86, American film director and actor (The Wizard of Oz), heart issues.[45]
* Charlie Parks, 70, American baseball player.

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* Octave Dayen, 81, French Olympic cyclist (1928).
* Julien Kialunda, 47, Congolese international footballer (Anderlecht, Zaire), AIDS.[46]
* Erik Lundberg, 80, Swedish economist.[47]
* Stormont Mancroft, 73, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
* Arthur W. Vanaman, 95, American general in the U.S. Air Corps and Air Force.[48]
* Henry Wrigley, 95, Australian Air Vice Marshal in the Royal Australian Air Force.[49]

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* David Akui, 67, American soldier, captured first Japanese prisoner of war in World War II.
* Wilhelm Berlin, 98, Nazi German general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.
* Yevgeniya Bogdanovskaya, 69, Soviet Olympic diver (1952).
* Leon Hirszman, 49, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (They Don't Wear Black Tie), AIDS.[50]
* Harry Holcombe, 80, American actor and radio director (Bonanza).[51]
* Arnell Horton, 94, Australian cricketer.
* David Janes, 43, English cricketer.
* Moazzam Jah, 79, Indian royal, son of the last Nizam of Hyderabad.[52]
* Jimmy Johnson, 68, American baseball player.
* Harry Malcolm, 81, American NFL player.
* Nilo Menéndez, 84, Cuban-born American songwriter ("Aquellos Ojos Verdes").[53]
* George Edward Pendray, 86, American author, founder of the American Interplanetary Society.[54]
* Joe Reisman, 62, American musician, bandleader and record producer, heart attack.[55]

### 16

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* Nils Björklöf, 66, Finnish Olympic spirit canoeist (1948).
* William Richard Joseph Cook, 82, British mathematician, leader in development of hydrogen bomb, stroke.[56]
* Simon Gipps-Kent, 28, English theatre and film actor, morphine poisoning.
* Howard Moss, 65, American poet and dramatist, heart attack.[57]
* Christopher Soames, 66, British politician, Member of Parliament, Governor of Southern Rhodesia, pancreatitis.[58]
* Kermit Wahl, 64, American MLB player.

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* K. Jack Bauer, 62, American writer and naval historian, co-founder of North American Society for Oceanic History, heart attack.[59]
* Vladimir Basov, 64, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter, stroke.
* Francis E. Dorn, 76, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1953-1961), cancer.[60]
* George Dwyer, 78, English Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Birmingham.[61]
* François Eisenbarth, 59, Luxembourgian Olympic gymnast (1960).
* Musa Gareyev, 65, Soviet Air Force squadron leader, cancer.[62]
* Carol Henry, 69, American actor.
* Henry Kroeger, 70, Russian-born Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta, lymphoma and pneumonia.
* Ernest Morris, 73, English film and television director.
* Philip Wayne Powell, 73–74, American historian of the American Southwest and Spanish colonialism, heart attack.[63]
* Dieter Schidor, 39, German actor (Cross of Iron, Querelle), AIDS.

### 18

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* Golbery do Couto e Silva, 76, Brazilian army general and politician, Chief of Staff of the Presidency.[64]
* Frederic Fitch, 79, American logician, professor at Yale University.[65]
* William Gemmill, 87, Welsh cricketer.
* Richard Greenwood, 82, Australian rules footballer.
* Olinka Hrdy, 85, American artist.
* Emil Schram, 93, American president of the New York Stock Exchange.[66]
* Américo Tomás, 92, Portuguese Navy officer and politician, President of Portugal, infection.[67]

### 19

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* Lean Alejandro, 27, Filipino student leader and political activist, assassinated.[68]
* Betty Burbridge, 91, American screenwriter and actress.
* Einar Gerhardsen, 90, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway.[69]
* Nyamyn Jagvaral, 68, Mongolian politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural.
* Muhammad Mansuruddin, 83, Bangladeshi author, literary critic and essayist.
* Graciela Olivarez, 59, American lawyer, advocate for civil rights and for the poor.[70]
* Ralph Steinhauer, 82, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.[71]
* Ken Uston, 52, American blackjack player, heart failure.[72]

### 20

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* Peter Allan, 52, Australian rules footballer.
* Joshua Croft, 87, Australian rules footballer.
* George William Goddard, 98, English-born American general in the U.S. Air Force.[73]
* Veli-Jussi Hölsö, 68, Finnish Olympic sports shooter (1952).
* Greville Howard, 78, British politician, Member of Parliament.
* K. C. S. Mani, 65, Indian socialist activist, attempted to assassinate C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer.
* Michael Stewart, 63, American playwright, screenwriter and novelist, pneumonia.[74]
* Péter Török, 36, Hungarian international footballer (Vasas, Hungary).[75]

### 21

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* Aimo Aaltonen, 81, Finnish politician, leader of Communist Party of Finland.
* Sven Andersson, 77, Swedish politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs.[76]
* Ruth Attaway, 77, American film and stage actress, injuries from a fire.[77]
* John Chandos, 70, Scottish film and television actor.
* William Kwai-sun Chow, 73, American martial artist.
* Bill Erickson, 59, American basketball player.
* Peter Kippax, 65, English Olympic footballer (1948).
* J. Clyde Morris, 78, American civic leader.
* Jaco Pastorius, 35, American jazz bassist and composer, brain hemorrhage after assault.[78]
* Larry Stanley, 91, Irish Gaelic footballer and Olympic high jumper (1924).

### 22

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* Willard I. Bowerman Jr., 70, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (1953-1960).
* Hákun Djurhuus, 78, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.[79]
* H. R. Gross, 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1949-1975), Alzheimer's disease.[80]
* Norman Luboff, 70, American music arranger and publisher, choir director, lung cancer.[81]
* Carman Maxwell, 84, American animator and voice actor (Bosko).[82]
* Dan Rowan, 65, American actor and comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), lymphoma.[83]
* Krešo Tretinjak, 82, Yugoslavian Olympic fencer (1936).
* James Roy Tucker, 77, Canadian politician, member of the Canada House of Commons (1958-1968).

### 23

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* Walter M. Baumhofer, 82, American illustrator.
* Bob Fosse, 60, American dancer, choreographer and director, heart attack.[84]
* Ernie Jessen, 82, American NFL player.
* Louis Kentner, 82, Hungarian and British pianist.
* Rajendra Krishan, 68, Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter.
* Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, 34, Dutch-born American wrestler, opera singer and actor, heart failure.
* O. B. McClinton, 47, American country music singer and songwriter, abdominal cancer.[85]

### 24

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* Drew Bundini Brown, 59, American assistant trainer and cornerman of Muhammad Ali.[86]
* John Nelson Cooper, 80, American custom knifemaker, founding member of the Knifemakers' Guild.
* Damiaen Joan van Doorninck, 85, Dutch officer, lieutenant commander in the Royal Netherlands Navy Reserve.
* Vic Harrison, 76, Australian rules footballer.
* Erhard Kroeger, 82, Nazi German SS officer, involved in resettlement of Baltic Germans before World War II.
* Dorothy Meyer, 62, American film and television actress.
* Victor Mollo, 78, British contract bridge player, journalist and author, heart attack.[87]
* Sergio Pastore, 54-55, Italian director and screenwriter.
* Emory M. Sneeden, 60, American district judge.
* Joseph Tabenkin, 66, Israeli military commander.
* A. R. Van Cleave, 97, American college football coach (Elon Phoenix).

### 25

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* Mary Astor, 81, American actress (The Maltese Falcon), respiratory failure.[88]
* Norman Barron, 88, Australian rules footballer.
* Gerald Chapman, 37, English theatre director, AIDS.[89]
* Duffy Daugherty, 72, American college football player and coach, kidney failure.[90]
* Hassan El-Hassani, 71, Algerian comedian.
* Harry Holtzman, 75, American artist and founding member of the American Abstract Artists, pancreatic cancer.[91]
* Victoria Kent, 90, Spanish lawyer and republican politician, heart attack.[92]
* Abba Kovner, 69, Lithuanian-born Israeli partisan leader, poet and writer, laryngeal cancer.[93]
* Gennady Mikhasevich, 40, Soviet serial killer, executed.
* Easter Walters, 93, American actress and stunt woman.
* Emlyn Williams, 81, Welsh writer and actor (Night Must Fall), bowel cancer.[94]

### 26

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* Edgar Anstey, 80, British documentary filmmaker (Thirty Million Letters, Snow).[95]
* Ernie Carless, 75, Welsh cricketer.
* Ethel Catherwood, 79, Canadian high jumper and javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist.[96]
* Bill Gilbert, 71, New Zealand intelligence service director.
* Co Prins, 49, Dutch international footballer (Ajax, Netherlands), heart attack.[97]
* Andi Ramang, 63, Indonesian international footballer (Makassar, Indonesia).[98]
* Howard W. Robison, 71, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1958-1975).[99]
* Sergio Santander, 33, Chilean race car driver, racing crash.
* Ioan Soter, 60, Romanian Olympic high jumper (1952).
* Herbert Tichy, 75, Austrian writer and climber, made first ascent of Cho Oyu.

### 27

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* John Newbold Camp, 79, American banker and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1969-1975), heart attack.[100]
* Ada Elizabeth Corder, 92, Australian music teacher and pianist.
* Michael Farebrother, 67, English cricketer.
* J. N. Findlay, 83, South African philosopher.[101]
* Robert Benjamin Greenblatt, 80–81, Canadian endocrinologist.[102]
* Maria Guardiola, 92, Portuguese politician, anti-feminist.[103]
* Stan Lloyd, 75, Australian rules footballer.
* M. K. K. Nair, 66, Indian art connoisseur, officer of the Indian Administrative Service, cancer.
* Eddy de Wind, 71, Dutch Holocaust survivor, physician and psychoanalyst.[104]

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* Willard Harrison Bennett, 84, American plasma physicist.[105]
* Roman Brandstaetter, 81, Polish writer, poet and playwright, heart attack.[106]
* Mehdi Hashemi, 42–43, Iranian Shi'a cleric, senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, executed.[107]
* Belle Linsky, 82–83, Ukrainian-born American businesswoman and philanthropist.[108]
* Ray Madden, 95, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1943-1977), cardiac arrhythmia.[109]
* William Skoreyko, 64, Canadian politician, member of the Canada House of Commons (1958-1979).
* Erich Wied, 64, German Olympic gymnast (1952, 1956).

### 29

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* Christopher Boardman, 84, British Olympic sailor (1936).
* Darach Ó Catháin, 64, Irish sean-nós singer.
* Elizabeth Eden, 41, American trans woman, pneumonia.[110]
* Henry Ford II, 70, American president of Ford Motor Company, pneumonia.[111]
* Vinodini Nilkanth, 80, Indian Gujarati writer.
* Sebastian Peschko, 77, German classical pianist.
* Mario Prestifilippo, 28, Italian member of the Sicilian Mafia, suspected murderer, shot.[112]
* Billy Stevens, 82, Australian rules footballer.

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* Alfred Bester, 73, American science fiction author and scriptwriter (The Demolished Man), complications from broken hip.[113]
* Geoffrey Bowers, 33, American attorney, AIDS.[114]
* Geoffrey Burridge, 38, English theatre and television actor, AIDS.
* Forest Hays Jr., 59, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1971-1987).
* Anja Lappalainen, 69, Finnish Olympic swimmer (1936).
* Herbert Sobel, 75, American soldier in World War II, his story featured in Band of Brothers, malnutrition.

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* A. K. Brohi, 72, Pakistani politician and lawyer.
* Ephraim Hertzano, 74–75, Romanian-born Israeli board game designer, inventor of the game Rummikub.
* Alice Rahon, 83, French-born Mexican poet and artist.[115]

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