Deaths in August 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 1987

1

• Benson Fong, 70, American actor, stroke.
• Howdy Forrester, 65, American bluegrass fiddler.
• S. Marshall Kempner, 88, American investment banker, founder of the French Bank of California, heart failure.
• Pola Negri, 90, Polish-American actress and singer, pneumonia and brain tumour.

2

• Mohammad Choucair, 70, Lebanese politician, assassinated.
• Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, 66, President of Bangladesh, chairman of U.N. Commission on Human Rights, heart attack.
• Tom Doerr, 39–40, American gay activist.
• Jaime Ferrer, 70, Filipino lawyer, guerrilla and politician, Secretary of Local Government, assassinated.
• Clement Howell, 51, Turks and Caicos politician, presumed airplane crash.
• David N. Johnson, 65, American organist and composer.
• David A. Martin, 50, American founding member and bass player for Sam the Sham, heart attack.
• Mangkunegara VIII, 62, Indonesian politician, last ruler of Mangkunegaran, Java.
• Myron Stout, 78–79, American abstract painter, lung cancer.
• Yves Volel, 52–53, Haitian lawyer, activist and presidential candidate, assassinated.

3

• Garrick Agnew, 56, Australian swimmer, businessman and dual Olympian, heart attack.
• Edward Cowart, 62, American circuit judge, heart attack.
• Joseph Desch, 80, American electrical engineer and inventor.
• Dorothy Hammerstein, 88, Australian-born American interior designer and decorator, wife of Oscar Hammerstein II.
• William S. Moorhead, 64, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.
• Ivan Mykolaichuk, 46, Ukrainian actor and screenwriter (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors).
• Ivan Svanidze, 59, German-born Soviet academic specialising in agriculture and African Studies.

4

• Dick Farney, 65, Brazilian jazz pianist, composer and singer.
• Kenny Price, 56, American country music singer, songwriter and actor, heart attack.
• Jesse M. Unruh, 64, American politician, minority leader and speaker of the California State Assembly, prostate cancer.
• John W. Wydler, 63, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.

5

• Anatoli Papanov, 64, Soviet actor, heart attack.
• Salvador Flores Rivera, 67, Mexican composer and singer.
• Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, 59, Japanese novelist and translator of French literature, carotid aneurysm.

6

• Abbas Babaei, 36, Iranian pilot, brigadier-general in Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, shot down.
• Sherwood Bailey, 64, American child actor, cancer.
• Paula Bauersmith, 78, American actress, cancer.
• Ira C. Eaker, 91, U.S. Army Air Forces general during World War II.
• Lena Küchler-Silberman, 77, Polish member of the Jewish resistance.
• Myles Lane, 83, American NHL ice hockey player (New York Rangers) and Supreme Court justice, Alzheimer's disease.
• Léon Noël, 99, French diplomat and politician, ambassador to Poland.

7

• Mihailo Apostolski, 80, Macedonian general and politician.
• Jeanne Boitel, 83, French film actress, member of French Resistance.
• Camille Chamoun, 87, Lebanese politician, President of Lebanon, heart attack.
• Andrew D. Holt, 82, American educator, president of the University of Tennessee.
• Nobusuke Kishi, 90, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan, heart complications.
• Jaap van Praag, 77, Dutch football administrator, chairman AFC Ajax, traffic accident.

8

• Danilo Blanuša, 83, Yugoslavian mathematician, physicist and engineer, professor at the University of Zagreb.
• Julián Gorkin, 86, Spanish revolutionary socialist, leader of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification.
• Laurence Hyde, 73, English-born Canadian film maker, painter and graphic artist.
• Nirmal Mahto, 36, Indian political activist, leader of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, murdered.
• Trevor O'Keeffe, 18–19, Irish man murdered while hitchhiking in France.
• Irwin Schiff, 50, American businessman and mob associate, murdered.

9

• Rudolf Broby-Johansen, 86, Danish art historian, communist activist and writer.
• Leon Keyserling, 79, American economist and lawyer, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
• August Miete, 78, Nazi German SS member and mass murderer, sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Henry Morgan, 80, Irish first-class cricketer.

10

• Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, 94, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece, heart failure.
• Casey Donovan, (John Culver), 43, American pornographic actor, AIDS.
• Edmund Germer, 85, German inventor, father of the fluorescent lamp.
• Uys Krige, 77, South African writer of novels, poems and plays.
• Patrick O'Boyle, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Washington.
• Prince Yamashina Takehiko, 89, Japanese head of the Yamashina-no-miya.
• Raquel Torres, 78, Mexican-born American film actress, heart attack.

11

• Eugene Bordinat, 67, American automobile designer and corporate executive (Ford Motor Company).
• Živko Čingo, 51, Yugoslavian writer.
• F. Herrick Herrick, 85, American film director.
• Walter Herrmann, 76, German nuclear physicist and mechanical engineer.
• Clara Peller, 85, Russian-born American manicurist and television personality, heart failure.
• Alexander Ziegler, 43, Swiss author and actor, suicide.

12

• Crystal Bennett, 68, British archaeologist, founded the British Institute in Amman, liver disease.
• Lester Gaba, 80, American sculptor and writer, colon cancer.
• Dmitri Klebanov, 69, Ukrainian composer.
• Sally Long, 85, American dancer and actress.
• Fatime Sokoli, 39, Albanian folk music singer.

13

• Thomas B. Manuel, 88, American community leader and politician, heart attack.

14

• Sydney Bromley, 78, English actor, cancer.
• Bernard Fagg, 71, British archaeologist and museum curator.
• Mary-Louise Hooper, 80, American heiress and activist in the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements.
• Narayana Kasturi, 89, Indian writer, professor and journalist.
• Brewster Mason, 64, English actor, injuries from a fall.
• Vincent Persichetti, 72, American composer and pianist.
• Edgar Rosenberg, 61, German-born British film and television producer, suicide.
• Shigeo Sasaki, 74, Japanese mathematician (Sasakian manifolds).
• Wylie Sypher, 81, American non-fiction writer.

15

• Konstantin Aleksandrov, 67, Soviet sailor and Olympian.
• Hanna Greally, 63, Irish writer, incarcerated against her will in psychiatric hospital for 18 years.
• Ubaldo Ragona, 70, Italian film director and screenwriter.
• Dan Sandifer, 60, American NFL player (Washington Redskins), heart disease.
• Robert Leonard Ewing Scott, 90, American convicted murderer.
• Louis Scutenaire, 82, Belgian French-language poet and anarchist.
• K. K. Shetty, 86, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.

16

• Pepe Cáceres, 52, Colombian bullfighter, complications from a goring.
• Dorothy Hughes, 77, English-born Kenyan architect and politician.
• Sumiko Kurishima, 85, Japanese actress, master of traditional Japanese dance.
• Samuel Lubell, 75, American public opinion pollster and author, stroke.
• Edwin Barnard Martin, 68, Canadian member of the British Free Corps in Nazi Germany.
• Andrei Mironov, 46, Soviet actor, complications from mis-administered drug.
• Peter Schidlof, 65, Austrian-born British violist, co-founder of the Amadeus Quartet.
• Nick Vanos, 24, American NBA basketballer (Phoenix Suns), plane crash.
• Charles H. Wesley, 95, American historian, minister and author.

17

• Leon Berkowitz, 75, American artist, cancer.
• Frank Beswick, 75, British politician, deputy leader of the House of Lords.
• Clarence Brown, 97, American film director (Anna Karenina, National Velvet), kidney failure.
• Gary Chester, 62, American studio drummer and author.
• Carlos Drummond de Andrade, 84, Brazilian poet and writer, heart attack.
• Rudolf Hess, 93, German Nazi official, Deputy Führer, ostensibly suicide by hanging.
• Harold McCluskey, 75, American chemical operations technician and radiation survivor, coronary artery disease.
• Shaike Ophir, 58, Israeli actor, playwright and director (The Policeman), lung cancer.
• Antti Rantamaa, 52, Finnish priest, member of Finnish Parliament.
• Tjilik Riwut, 69, Indonesian Air Force officer, governor of Central Kalimantan, hepatitis.
• Heinz Schubert, 73, Nazi German SS officer and war criminal.
• Tillit Sidney Teddlie, 102, American singing teacher, composer and minister.

18

• Keerthisena Abeywickrama, 53, Sri Lankan politician, member of parliament, grenade attack.
• Shichirō Fukazawa, 73, Japanese author.
• Ralph Haver, 71–72, American architect (Haver Homes), pulmonary disease.
• Dambudzo Marechera, 35, Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and poet, pulmonary disorder.

19

• Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 58, British nobleman and peer, heart attack.
• Laxmi Narayan Mishra, 83, Indian Hindi play writer.
• Sachin Nag, 67, Indian swimmer and water polo player, Olympian.
• Hayden Rorke, 76, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie), multiple myeloma.
• Paul Schlack, 89, German chemist.
• Harold Sherman, 89, American writer and "parapsychologist".
• Yidnekatchew Tessema, 65, Ethiopian international footballer (Saint George, Ethiopia).

20

• Winifred Bryson, 94, American stage and silent-screen actress (A Heart to Let).
• José Bueno y Monreal, 82, Spanish cardinal, Roman Catholic archbishop of Seville.

21

• Frances Mary Albrier, 88, American civil rights activist.
• Bombolo, (Franco Lechner), 56, Italian actor and comedian, complications from surgery.
• Dorothy Adlington Cadbury, 94, English botanist and director of confectionery company Cadbury.
• Steve Davis, 58, American jazz bassist (John Coltrane Quartet).
• Li Fang-Kuei, 85, Chinese linguist.
• Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, 78, Italian composer of film scores.
• Glesca Marshall, 80, American actress.
• Irving Thalberg Jr., 56, American author, son of Norma Shearer, cancer.

22

• Arne Brustad, 75, Norwegian international footballer (Lyn Fotball, Norway) and Olympic medalist.
• Leonard Caston, 70, American blues pianist and guitarist, heart disease.
• Mary Dobkin, 84, Russian-born American amateur sports coach, stroke.
• Joseph P. Lash, 77, American political activist, journalist and writer (Pulitzer Prize winner), heart ailment.
• Ted Sherdeman, 78, American radio producer and screenwriter (My Favorite Martian, The Flying Nun, Bewitched).
• John Milton Bryan Simpson, 84, American circuit judge.

23

• Griselda Allan, 81, English artist.
• Siegfried Borris, 80, German composer.
• Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., 84, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cardiac arrest.
• Sheila van Damm, 65, British motor rally driver, owner of Windmill Theatre in London.
• Malcolm Kirk, 51, English professional wrestler and rugby league player (Featherstone Rovers), died in the ring.
• Paulo Navalho, 20, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer, heart attack during a game.
• Didier Pironi, 35, French racing driver and power boat racer, powerboat racing accident.
• Stéphanos I Sidarouss, 83, Egyptian priest of the Coptic Catholic Church.

24

• Michèle Alfa, 76, French actress, hider of French Resistance leaders.
• Douglas Byng, 94, English comic singer and songwriter.
• Carlos Cossio, 84, Argentinian university reformer, lawyer and professor.
• Wayne Hansen, 58, American NFL footballer (Chicago Bears), bone cancer.
• W. W. Keeler, 79, American engineer and oilman, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.
• Bayard Rustin, 75, American civil and gay rights activist, perforated appendix.

25

• Héctor Abad Gómez, 66, Colombian doctor, university professor and human rights leader, murdered.
• Otto Höfler, 86, Austrian philologist specialising in Germanic studies.
• Sam Kahn, 75, South African politician, member of parliament.
• John Ortell Kingston, 68, American Trustee of the Davis County Cooperative Society, Utah.
• Victor Stafford Reid, 74, Jamaican writer.
• Fernando Ramos da Silva, 19, Brazilian actor (Pixote), police shootout.

26

• Vern Gardner, 62, American basketballer, stroke.
• John Goddard, 68, Barbadian cricketer, captain of West Indies Test team.
• Marcelo Ramos Motta, 56, Brazilian writer, heart attack.
• Alberto Socarras, 78, Cuban-American flautist.
• Georg Wittig, 90, German chemist (Wittig reaction), Nobel laureate in Chemistry.

27

• Ben Branch, 59, American entrepreneur, jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader.
• Joan Haythorne, 72, British actress.
• Scott La Rock, 25, American hip-hop disc jockey and music producer, murdered.
• Peter Mehringer, 77, American freestyle wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.
• Charlie Smalls, 43, American composer and songwriter, burst appendix.

28

• Lillian Chase, 93, Canadian physician, researcher in the treatment of diabetes.
• John Huston, 81, American film director and actor (The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen, Moulin Rouge), pneumonia.
• Hoàng Cơ Minh, 52, Vietnamese Navy commodore-admiral, leader of anti-communist resistance.
• Harold Samuel, 75, British founder of Land Securities.
• Jack Young, 62, Australian motorcycle speedway rider, Speedway World Champion.

29

• Naji al-Ali, 48–49, Palestinian cartoonist, assassinated.
• Archie Campbell, 72, American comedian and writer, heart attack.
• Bernadene Hayes, 75, American film and television actress (Some Like It Hot, Dick Tracy's Dilemma), heart problems.
• Lee Marvin, 63, American film and television actor (The Dirty Dozen, The Big Heat), heart attack.
• John R. Napier, 70, British primatologist, paleoanthropologist and physician.
• Jean Schlumberger, 80, French jewellery designer.
• Phillip Hagar Smith, 82, American electrical engineer (Smith chart).

30

• Wade H. McCree, 67, American judge, Solicitor General of the United States, bone cancer.
• George Mikes, 75, Hungarian-born British journalist and writer, leukemia.
• Vic Silayan, 58, Filipino actor (Kisapmata, Of the Flesh), heart attack.
• John C. Sjogren, 71, American soldier in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient, cancer.
• Frank Stojack, 75, Canadian-born NFL footballer (Brooklyn Dodgers), wrestler (world champion), Alzheimer's disease.
• Dick Young, 69, American sportswriter (New York Daily News).

31

• Thomas Agro, 55, American gangster with the Gambino crime family.
• Lenore Lonergan, 59, American stage and film actress, cancer.