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[edit]
1[edit]
- Lucien Ballard, 80, American cinematographer (The Caretakers), complications from car accident.[1]
- Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 90, English writer.[2]
- Pavle Vuisić, 62, Yugoslav actor.
2[edit]
- Robert Blucke, 91, British Royal Air Force officer[3]
- Hamengkubuwono IX, 76, Indonesian politician and Javanese Royal, Vice President of Indonesia, internal bleeding.[4]
- Sir Peter Hunt, 72, head of the British Army, Chief of the General Staff.
- Alec Issigonis, 81, Ottoman-British automotive designer.[5]
3[edit]
- Mae Brussell, 66, American radio personality, challenger of the Warren Commission report, cancer.[6]
- Richard Evelyn Byrd III, 68, American officer in the U.S. Navy and Antarctic explorer, son of Richard E. Byrd.[7] (body found on this date)
- Clarence Carnes, 61, American murderer (Battle of Alcatraz), AIDS.[8]
- Marco Galli, 31, Italian water polo player and Olympian.
- Franz Josef Strauss, 73, German politician.[9]
4[edit]
- Carlo Carretto, 78, Italian writer and Catholic priest, member of the Little Brothers of the Gospel.
- Geoffrey Household, 87, British novelist specialising in thrillers.[10]
- Abdul Majid Kabar, 79, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya.
- Margaret Lacey, 76, British actress and ballet teacher.
5[edit]
- Curt Hjelm, 74, Swedish international footballer.
- Ron Staniforth, 64, English international footballer.
- Lois W., (Lois Wilson), 97, American co-founder of Al-Anon for alcoholics.
6[edit]
- Severiano Briseño, 86, Mexican composer.
- Dean Burk, 84, American biochemist and cancer researcher (Lineweaver–Burk plot).[11]
- Paul Ledoux, 74, Belgian astrophysicist.
- Don Terry, 86, American film actor.
7[edit]
- George Ansell, 78, English footballer (Norwich City).
- Sándor Bíró, 77, Hungarian international footballer (MTK Budapest, Hungary).
- Billy Daniels, 73, American singer (That Old Black Magic), stomach cancer.[12]
- Kurt Honolka, 75, German musicologist, journalist, and music and theatre critic.
- Chet Phillips, 74, American gymnast and Olympian.
8[edit]
- Edward George Warris Hulton, 81, British magazine publisher and writer.
- Wally Lemm, 68, American NFL football coach.
- Ernst Hermann Meyer, 82, German composer and musicologist.
- Sam Richardson, 70, Canadian long jumper and triple jumper, Olympic gold medalist.
- Pál Titkos, 80, Hungarian international footballer.
9[edit]
- Mousey Alexander, 66, American jazz drummer, heart and kidney failure.[13]
- Edward Chodorov, 84, American playwright, film writer and producer.[14]
- Cliff Gallup, 58, American guitarist, heart attack.
- Jackie Milburn, 64, English international footballer.
- Felix Wankel, 86, German mechanical engineer, Hitler Youth leader, inventor of the Wankel rotary engine[15]
10[edit]
- Samuel A. Adams, 54, analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency.[16]
- Bhabani Bhattacharya, 81, Indian writer.[17]
- David Croudip, 30, American NFL footballer (Atlanta Falcons), car crash.[18]
- Juan Pujol García, ('Garbo', 'Alaric'), 76, Spanish spy and double agent.[citation needed]
- Montgomery Tully, 84, Irish film director and writer.
11[edit]
- Buck Clarke, 55, American jazz percussionist.
- Thaddeus J. Dulski, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, leukemia.
- Morgan Farley, 90, American film and television actor.
- Wayland Flowers, 48, American actor, comedian and puppeteer, complications from AIDS.[19]
- Bonita Granville, 65, American actress and producer, lung cancer.[20]
- Robert Edward Gross, 83, American surgeon and a medical researcher.[21]
- Ursula Nordstrom, 78, American publisher and editor, ovarian cancer.[22]
- Joel Oppenheimer, 58, American poet, lung cancer.[23]
- Red Owens, 63, American NBA basketballer.
- Hugh Percy, 74, British soldier and peer, heart attack.
12[edit]
- Ruth Manning-Sanders, 102, Welsh-English poet and author.
- Ken Murray, 85, American comedian, actor, radio and television personality and author.[24]
- Bill Newman, 60, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
- Rafael García Serrano, 71, Spanish writer and journalist.
- Coby Whitmore, 75, American painter and magazine illustrator.
13[edit]
- Norman Barry, 90, American judge, politician and football coach (Chicago Cardinals), heart attack.[25]
- Melvin Frank, 75, American screenwriter, film producer and film director, complications from open heart surgery.[26]
- Irene Hunt, 96, American silent-screen actress.
- Mike Venezia, 43, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey, horse racing accident.
14[edit]
- Kathleen Blackshear, 91, American artist.
- Charles Augustus, 76, German prince, head of the house of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
- Harry Creswick, 85–86, British librarian, head of the university libraries at Oxford and Cambridge.
- Mary Morris, 72, Fijian-British actress, heart failure.
- Vic Raschi, 69, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.[27]
- René Vietto, 74, French road racing cyclist.
- John White, 53, American AFL footballer.
15[edit]
- John Ball, 77, American mystery novel writer (In the Heat of the Night).[28]
- Victor Copps, 69, Canadian politician, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.[29]
- James Craig, 46, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, shot.[30]
- Clifford Krueger, 70, American politician, Member of the Wisconsin Senate, hepatitis.
- Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, 96, English composer, music critic, pianist and writer.
- Julian Alfred Steyermark, 79, Venezuelan-American botanist.
16[edit]
- Queen Farida of Egypt, 67, consort of King Farouk of Egypt, leukemia.[31]
- Abdulrahman Fawzi, 78, Egyptian international footballer and manager.
- Muzafer Sherif, 82, Ottoman-American social psychologist.[32]
17[edit]
- 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.
- Richard L. Frey, 83, American contract bridge player, writer, editor and commentator, cancer.[33]
- Anthony A. Hoekema, 74–75, Dutch-American Calvinist minister.
18[edit]
- Paulius Galaunė, 98, Lithuanian art historian, museum curator and graphic artist.
19[edit]
- Labdhi Bhandari, 40, Professor of Marketing at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, air crash.
- Henry W. Buse Jr., 76, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.[34]
- Lawrence W. Butler, 80, American special effects artist, inventor of the bluescreening process (The Thief of Bagdad).[35]
- William Joseph Campbell, 83, American judge (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois).[36]
- Son House, 86, American singer and guitarist, cancer of the larynx.[37]
- Marcos de Mendonça, 93, Brazilian international footballer.
- Sten Suvio, 76, Finnish boxer and Olympic gold medal winner.
20[edit]
- Mark Evans Austad, 71, American radio and television commentator, U.S. Ambassador to Finland and Norway.[38]
- Vladimir Gorb, 84, Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist and art teacher.
- Orval Leroy Lewis, 72, American mechanical and chemical engineer, president of American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
- Nino Nutrizio, 77, Italian journalist.
- Sheila Scott, 66, English aviator, cancer.[39]
- Mogens Wöldike, 91, Danish conductor, choirmaster and organist.
21[edit]
- Guido Beck, 85, Argentine physicist, car accident.
- Reggie Otero, 73, Cuban Major League baseballer, heart attack.
22[edit]
- Henry Armstrong, 75, American boxer, multiple world champion.[40]
- Plácido Galindo, 82, Peruvian international footballer.
- Clare Stevenson, 85, Australian director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.
23[edit]
- Hap Emms, 83, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, team owner and general manager, heart failure.
- Asashio Tarō III, 58, Japanese sumo wrestler, stroke.
24[edit]
- Stanisław Hachorek, 61, Polish footballer and coach.
25[edit]
- 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.[41]
- Eric Larson, 83, American animator for Walt Disney Studios.[42]
- John Poole-Hughes, 72, Welsh bishop.
- Milton Rokeach, 69, Polish-American social psychologist.
26[edit]
- R. K. Baliga, 58, Indian engineer, founder of Electronics City, diabetes-related complications.[43]
- Georgette Cohan, 88, American actress (Mr. Pim Passes By).
- Tatapuram Sukumaran, 65, Malayalam writer.
27[edit]
- Frank Devlin, 88, Irish badminton player.
- Merv Everett, 71, Australian politician and judge, Federal Senator.
- Charles Hawtrey, 73, English actor, comedian, singer, pianist and theatre director, peripheral vascular disease.
- Rudolf Jordan, 86, German Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt for the Nazis.
- Erika von Thellmann, 86, Austrian film and television actress.
28[edit]
- Pietro Annigoni, 78, Italian artist and portrait painter (Queen Elizabeth II), kidney failure.[44]
- John Backus, 77, Lithuanian-American physicist and acoustician.[45]
- Shoki Coe, 74, Taiwanese Presbyterian minister.[46]
- Jack de Manio, 74, British journalist and radio presenter (Today).[47]
- Teikō Shiotani, 89, Japanese photographer.
29[edit]
- Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, 85, Indian social reformer and freedom activist.[48]
- Andy Cohen, 84, American MLB baseballer (New York Giants).[49]
- Joe Comfort, 71, American jazz double bassist.
- Thomas Cooray, 86, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Colombo.[50]
- Dom Dallessandro, 74, American MLB baseballer.
- Nataša Gollová, 76, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian actress[51]
- Mary Kid, 87, German actress.
- Bill Mason, 58–59, Canadian naturalist, author, artist, filmmaker and conservationist, cancer.
- Orlando Montenegro Medrano, 68, Nicaraguan politician and attorney, acting President of Nicaragua.
- Ross Rocklynne, 75, American science fiction author.
30[edit]
- Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, 88, German film actor.
- T. Hee, 77, American animator and director.
- John Myers Myers, 82, American writer.
- Florence Nagle, 94, British breeder of racehorses and pedigree dogs, horse trainer and feminist.
- Francisco Rodrigues, 63, Brazilian international footballer.
- Liz Whitney Tippett, 82, American socialite and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses, cancer.
31[edit]
- Ladislau da Guia, 82, Brazilian footballer.
- John Houseman, 86, Romanian-British-American actor and producer, spinal cancer.[52]
- Ken Niles, 81, American radio announcer.[53]
- Alfred Pellan, 82, Canadian painter, leukemia.
- George Uhlenbeck, 87, Dutch-American theoretical physicist.
Unknown date[edit]
- Mavis Freeman, 69, American swimmer and Olympic medalist.
- Ron Gingell, 67–68, English footballer.
- Harry Lowe, 81, Scottish-footballer in England.
- Frederick Roffey, 93, English rugby union and rugby league footballer.
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- ^ "Sir Sacheverell Sitwell Dies at 90, Last of Trio of Literary Eccentrics". The New York Times. October 3, 1988. p. B 6. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ Air Vice Marshal R S Blucke
- ^ Indonesia, News & Views. April 1988. p. 2.
- ^ Jonathan Wood (2005). Alec Issigonis: The Man Who Made the Mini. DB Publishing. p. 300. ISBN 978-1-85983-449-7.
- ^ Conspiracy Theorist Mae Brussell Dies of Cancer. The Monterey Herald (Wayback Machine). Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ SON OF POLAR EXPLORER BYRD FOUND DEAD IN MD. WAREHOUSE. Washington Post. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ Clarence Carnes, 61; Tried to Flee Alcatraz. New York Times. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ The New York Times Biographical Service. New York Times & Arno Press. 1988. p. 1092.
- ^ Herbert Mitgang (October 7, 1988). "Geoffrey Household, 87, Novelist Who Wrote Suspense Works, Dies". The New York Times. p. A 24. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ Dean Burk, 84, Chemist for Cancer Institute. New York Times. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ Mark A. Uhlig (October 10, 1988). "Billy Daniels, Who Rose to Fame On 'Old Black Magic,' Dies at 73". The New York Times. p. B 8. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ MOUSEY ALEXANDER, JAZZ DRUMMER, DIES. Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
- ^ William H. Honan (October 12, 1988). "Edward Chodorov, 84, Playwright And Writer and Producer of Films". The New York Times. p. D 27. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
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- ^ "Wayland Flowers Dies; Ventriloquist Was 48". The New York Times. October 12, 1988. p. D 27. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ Flint, Peter B. (October 12, 1988). "Bonita G. Wrather, 65, an Actress and Executive". The New York Times. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
- ^ Susan Heller Anderson (October 15, 1988). "Robert Gross, 83, Heart Surgeon". The New York Times. p. 1 37. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ Susan Heller Anderson (October 12, 1988). "Ursula Nordstrom, 78, a Nurturer Of Authors for Children, Is Dead". The New York Times. p. D 27. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ "Joel Oppenheimer, 58, A Columnist and Poet". The New York Times. October 13, 1988. p. B 20. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ John T. McQuiston (October 14, 1988). "Ken Murray, 85, Vaudeville Star Who Later Recorded Hollywood". The New York Times. p. A 22. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
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- ^ Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr. (October 16, 1988). "Vic Raschi, Star Yankee Pitcher From 1946 to 1953, Dead at 69". The New York Times. p. 1 34. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ John Ball Dies at 77; A Critic and Novelist Known for Mysteries. New York Times. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
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- ^ Loyalist James Craig linked to murder of comedian Patrick Kielty's father. The Irish News. Retrieved 2 Jun 2024.
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