Deaths in July 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1987

1

• Kurt Lamm, 68, German-born American footballer, coach and manager, heart attack.
• Jerry Livingston, 78, American songwriter ("The Twelfth of Never") and dance orchestra pianist, heart condition.
• Bridget Sequeira, 81, Pakistani-Indian religious sister.
• Snakefinger, 38, English musician, singer and songwriter (The Residents), heart attack.
• Soetran, 66, Indonesian military officer and politician, Governor of Irian Jaya, liver cancer.

2

• Michael Bennett, 44, American theatre director, writer and dancer, lymphoma.
• Václav Černý, 82, Czechoslovakian literary scholar, writer and philosopher.
• Denis Larkin, 79, Irish politician (Teachta Dála, Lord Mayor of Dublin) and trade union official.
• Karl Linnas, 67, Estonian sentenced to death during the Holocaust trials, heart failure.
• George S. Wise, 81, American sociologist, president of Tel Aviv University, heart failure.

3

• Viola Dana, 90, American silent-screen actress (The Girl Without a Soul, Blue Jeans).
• John H. Mercer, 64, British glaciologist.
• William Wiard, 59, American film and television director, cancer.

4

• Edward Addison, 88, British Royal Air Force air vice marshal.
• Alexander Gordon-Lennox, 76, British Royal Navy rear admiral, president of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
• Abdul Halim, 75, Indonesian politician, Prime Minister of Indonesia.
• Sally Hamlin, 84, American child actor and pianist.
• Dan James, 49, American NFL footballer (Pittsburgh Steelers).
• Bengt Strömgren, 79, Danish astronomer and astrophysicist (Strömgren sphere), heart failure.

5

• Bobby Ancell, 76, Scottish international footballer and manager (St Mirren, Scotland).
• Alan Gibson, 49, Canadian film and television director (Churchill and the Generals, A Woman Called Golda).

6

• László Pusztai, 41, Hungarian international footballer (Ferencvárosi, Hungary), car accident.

7

• Finis Jennings Dake, 84, American Pentecostal minister, Parkinson's disease.
• Michael J. Eagen, 80. American chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
• René Gérard, 73, French international footballer (Montpellier, France).
• H. R. Jothipala, 51, Sri Lankan playback singer, liver failure.
• Ernest Achey Loftus, 103, British soldier and diarist.
• John Meredith Rockingham, 75, Australian-born Canadian Army general.
• Hannelore Schroth, 65, German actress.
• John Singer, 63, English actor (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street).
• Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, 84, Dutch-born French classical pianist.

8

• Gerardo Diego, 90, Spanish poet, Generation of '27 member.
• Alvin O'Konski, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, cardiac arrest.
• Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee, 87, Thai aviator, Royal Thai Air Force officer, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand.
• Franjo Wölfl, 69, Yugoslavian international footballer (Građanski Zagreb, Yugoslavia).

9

• Michiyo Fukaya, 34, American feminist poet and activist, suicide.
• Ashley Kriel, 20, South African anti-apartheid activist, killed by police.
• Waris Mir, 48, Pakistani journalist and academic, cardiac arrest.
• Hezekiah Ochuka, 33, Kenyan private in the Kenyan Air Force, Kenyan leader for 6 hours, hanged.
• Paul Rapoport, 47, American lawyer, AIDS.
• Ulas Samchuk, 82, Ukrainian writer, journalist and anti-semite.
• Ernest Ward, 66, English rugby league footballer (Bradford Northern, Great Britain).

10

• Doug Dobell, 69, British record store proprietor and record producer (77 Records), heart attack.
• John Hammond, 76, American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic, stroke.
• Harold Rice, 75, American educator and magician.
• Tanya Zolotoroff Nash, 89, Russian-born American Deaf Rights activist.

11

• Joe Bennett, 87, American baseball player.
• Hannah Billig, 85, British medical doctor.
• Marion Brooks, 91, American silent-screen actress, entertainment journalist and screenwriter.
• Cyril McLaglen, 87, British and American film actor.
• Truman J. Nelson, 75–76, American novelist and essayist, civil rights activist, heart failure.
• Fernando Garcia Ponce, 53, Mexican architect and artist, heart attack.
• Avi Ran, 23, Israeli international footballer (Maccabi Haifa, Israel), hit by racing boat.
• Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, 87, Russian-born American Talmudic scholar and rabbi.
• Robert Love Taylor, 87, American district judge.
• Tom Waddell, 49, American physician, decathlete Olympian and founder of the Gay Olympics, AIDS.

12

• Peter Gimbel, 60, American filmmaker and underwater photojournalist, cancer.
• Harold Goodwin, 84, American actor.
• Emilio el Moro, 63, Spanish Flamenco singer, guitarist and humorist.
• Nathan Perlmutter, 63–64, American executive director of the Anti-Defamation League, lung cancer.
• Marguerite Renoir, 80, French film editor.
• Andrei Snezhnevsky, 83, Soviet psychiatrist, lung cancer.

13

• Patience Collier, 76, British actress.
• Robert Francis, 85, American poet.
• Silas Jayne, 80, American horse trainer and murderer, leukemia.
• Eric Worrell, 62, Australian naturalist and science writer, established Australian Reptile Park, heart attack.

14

• Salvador E. Felices, 63, Puerto Rican general in the U.S. Air Force.
• Fritz Holt, 46, American theatre producer and director (La Cage aux Folles), pneumonia.
• William Overton, 47, United States district judge, cancer.
• Sao Saimong, 73, Burmese government minister.
• William Stuart-Houston, 76, English-born American half-nephew of Adolf Hitler.
• Pak Yung-sun, 30, North Korean table tennis player, world champion.
• Viktor Zhdanov, 73, Soviet virologist and epidemiologist, instrumental in eradicating smallpox, cerebral hemorrhage.

15

• Lee Ballanfant, 91, American Major League baseball umpire.
• J. Rives Childs, 94, American diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, North Yemen and Ethiopia, pulmonary infection.
• Polly Elwes, 59, British BBC television in-vision announcer and reporter (Tonight), bone cancer.
• Lee Gaines, 73, American jazz singer and lyricist ("Take the A Train", "Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'"), cancer.
• Fernando Van Zeller Guedes, 84, Portuguese wine producer (Sogrape).
• Pete King, 28, British musician, testicular cancer.
• Jack O'Hagan, 88, Australian singer, songwriter and radio personality ("Along the Road to Gundagai", "Our Don Bradman").
• Margarete Schlegel, 87, German and British theatre and film actress and soprano operetta singer (Berlin-Alexanderplatz).

16

• Harry Ayres, 74, New Zealand mountaineer and guide, suspected suicide.
• Alfie Bass, 71, English actor, heart attack.
• Pierre Lardinois, 62, Dutch politician and diplomat, member of the House of Representatives, cancer.
• Juraj Lupták, 45, Czechoslovakian rapist and serial killer, hanged.
• Rudolph Palumbo, 86, British property developer.
• Tony Tani, 69, Japanese entertainer, liver cancer.
• Cliff Wilton, 71, Scottish rugby union player, President of the Scottish Rugby Union.

17

• Marjorie Cottle, 86, English motorcycle trials rider.
• Dominick V. Daniels, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Jörg Fauser, 43, German writer, poet and journalist, hit by truck.
• Yūjirō Ishihara, 52, Japanese actor and singer, liver cancer.
• Howard McGhee, 69, American bebop jazz trumpeter.
• Mathura Prasad Mishra, 69, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
• Kristjan Palusalu, 79, Estonian heavyweight wrestler and dual Olympic gold medalist.
• Leon B. Poullada, 74, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Togo, prostate cancer.

18

• Anthony Casamento, 66, American marine corporal, Medal of Honor recipient.
• George Dahl, 93, American architect, dehydration.
• Gilberto Freyre, 87, Brazilian sociologist, writer and congressman, brain hemorrhage.
• Alfredo Ruano, 54, El Salvadoran international footballer (Alianza, El Salvador), heart attack.

19

• Clementina de Jesus, 86, Brazilian samba singer, stroke.
• Jane Kendeigh, 65, American flight nurse of the U.S. Navy.
• Aadhavan Sundaram, 45, Indian Tamil writer, drowned.
• Brij Lal Varma, 70–71, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha, cabinet minister.

20

• Ichirō Arishima, 71, Japanese comedian and actor (King Kong vs. Godzilla).
• Norbert Casteret, 89, French caver, adventurer and writer.
• Richard Egan, 65, American actor (The Glory Brigade, The Kid from Left Field), prostate cancer.
• Margit Johnsen, 74, Norwegian sailor in the merchant navy.
• Dmitry Lelyushenko, 85, Soviet army general, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Alexander Wood, 80, Scottish American international footballer (Leicester City, United States).

21

• John Armstrong, 71, Irish Anglican bishop, Archbishop of Armagh.
• Donald Cressey, 68, American penologist, sociologist and criminologist, heart attack.
• Louis DaPron, 74, American dancer, choreographer and dance instructor, heart attack.
• Bert Keyes, 56, American pianist, songwriter and singer ("Love on a Two-Way Street").
• Stella Steyn, 79, Irish artist.
• Burke Trend, 73, British civil servant, rector of Lincoln College.

22

• Adele Comandini, 89, American screenwriter (Three Smart Girls).
• Fahrettin Kerim Gökay, 87, Turkish politician and diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland.
• Eugene Halliday, 75, British artist and writer.
• Natalie Hinderas, 60, American pianist and composer, cancer.
• Mary Cover Jones, 89, American developmental psychologist, pioneer of behaviour therapy.
• Jack Lescoulie, 74, American radio and television announcer and host (Today), colon cancer.
• C. B. Macpherson, 75, Canadian political scientist.
• Don McMahon, 57, American Major League baseballer (Milwaukee Braves, San Francisco Giants), heart attack.
• Nick Perls, 55, American audio engineer, founder and owner of Yazoo Records and Blue Goose Records.
• Raja Shankar, 55, Indian actor.
• A. G. Kripal Singh, 53, Indian Test cricketer and national selector, cardiac arrest.
• Henry Tayali, 43, Zambian painter, sculptor and printmaker.

23

• DeVeren Bookwalter, 47, American actor and director (Cyrano de Bergerac), stomach cancer.
• Song Deok-gi, 94, Korean martial artist.
• Art Jarrett, 80, American singer, actor and bandleader, pneumonia.
• Alex Sadkin, 38, American record producer and engineer, motor accident.
• Manuel Suárez y Suárez, 91, Spanish-born Mexican entrepreneur and patron of the arts (Casino de la Selva, Hotel de México).

24

• Anna-Eva Bergman, 78, Norwegian abstract expressionist artist.
• Franz Burri, 85, Swiss political figure, disseminator of Nazi propaganda.
• Pat Clancy, 68, Australian trade unionist, heart attack.
• Dick Wellstood, 59, American jazz pianist, heart attack.

25

• Malcolm Baldrige Jr., 64, American businessman, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, rodeo accident.
• Charles Stark Draper, 85, American scientist and engineer, "father of inertial navigation".
• Lydie Marland, 87, American first lady of Oklahoma.
• Tracy Read, 25, American race car driver, race crash.

26

• Jim Bishop, 79, American journalist and author (The Day Lincoln Was Shot), respiratory failure.
• Chinmoy Chattopadhyay, 56, Indian singer.
• Phyllis Cilento, 93, Australian medical practitioner, advocate of family planning and promoter of racist beliefs.
• Frank Marshall Davis, 81, American journalist, poet and political activist, heart attack.
• Tawfiq al-Hakim, 88, Egyptian writer.
• Joe Liggins, 71, American R&B, jazz and blues pianist and vocalist, stroke.
• Carmelita Maracci, 79, American concert dancer and choreographer, heart attack.
• Kenneth Muse, 77, American animator (Tom and Jerry).
• Mario Radice, 88, Italian painter
• Hugh Wheeler, 75, British-born American novelist, screenwriter and poet (Sweeney Todd).

27

• Travis Jackson, 83, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants), Alzheimer's disease.
• Jan Mikusiński, 74, Polish mathematician (mathematical analysis).
• K. L. N. Prasad, 59, Indian politician, Rajya Sabha member.

28

• James Burnham, 81, American philosopher and political theorist, kidney and liver cancer.
• Feodor Fedorenko, 79, Soviet Nazi collaborator and war criminal, executed.
• Carlton Fredericks, 76, American radio commentator and writer on health and nutrition, heart attack.
• Jack Renshaw, 77, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales.
• Ismet Alajbegović Šerbo, 62, Bosnian accordionist, composer and writer of folk songs.
• Nguyễn Tuân, 77, Vietnamese author.
• Philip E. Vernon, 82, British-born Canadian psychologist and author.
• Levie Vorst, 83, Dutch rabbi of Rotterdam.

29

• Arthur J. Bressan Jr., 44, American director, writer and documentarian (Buddies), AIDS.
• Arthur Chipperfield, 81, Australian test cricketer.
• Aleksey Sukletin, 44, Soviet serial killer, rapist and cannibal, executed.

30

• Vicky Clement-Jones, 38, Hong Kong–born English physician and medical researcher, ovarian cancer.
• Lado Davidov, 62, Soviet soldier during the Second World War and Hero of the Soviet Union.
• McDonald Hobley, 70, British BBC Television continuity announcer, heart attack.
• Bernard Sta Maria, 42–43, Malaysian politician and author, member of Malacca State Legislative Assembly, bronchitis.
• Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, 92, Indian Bengali language author.
• Narciso Soldan, 59, Italian footballer (AC Milan, Torino FC).
• Michel Tapié, 78, French art critic, curator, and collector.

31

• Kenneth Carllile, 56, American country music guitarist and songwriter, heart attack.
• Joseph E. Levine, 81, American film distributor, financier and producer (Godzilla, King of the Monsters!).
• Justine W. Polier, 84, American lawyer, first woman Justice in New York.
• Michael Staniforth, 44, British actor (Rentaghost), AIDS.
• Paul Yakabuski, 64, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, head injuries from fall.

Unknown date

• Sari Maritza, 77, Chinese-born British film actress.
• Joe Mondragon, 67, American jazz bassist.
• Hugh Perceval, 79, British screenwriter and film producer.