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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.
Benson Fong , 70, American actor, stroke.
[1]
Howdy Forrester , 65, American bluegrass fiddler.
S. Marshall Kempner , 88, American investment banker, founder of the French Bank of California.
[2]
Pola Negri , 90, Polish-American stage and film actress and singer, pneumonia secondary to a brain tumour.
[3]
Mohammad Choucair , 70, Lebanese politician, assassinated.
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury , 66, President of Bangladesh, Chairman of U.N. Commission on Human Rights, heart attack.
[4]
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, aircraft disappearance and presumed crash.
David N. Johnson , 65, American organist, composer and choral clinician.
Nandadasa Kodagoda , 67, Sri Lankan medical doctor, Vice Chancellor of the
University of Colombo .
David A. Martin , 50, American founding member and original bass player for the rock group
Sam the Sham , heart attack.
Mangkunegara VIII , 62, Indonesian politician, last ruler of
Mangkunegaran , Java.
Myron Stout , 78–79, American abstract painter, lung cancer.
[5]
Yves Volel , 52–53, Haitian lawyer, activist and presidential candidate, assassinated.
Garrick Agnew , 56, Australian competition 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-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.
[6]
Ivan Mykolaichuk , 46, Ukrainian actor, producer and screen writer.
Ivan Svanidze , 59, German-Soviet academic specialising in agriculture and African Studies.
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 Assembly, prostate cancer.
John W. Wydler , 63, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
Anatoli Papanov , 64, Soviet stage, film and voice actor, heart attack.
Salvador Flores Rivera , 67, Mexican composer and singer.
Tatsuhiko Shibusawa , 59, Japanese novelist, art critic and translator of French literature, ruptured carotid aneurysm.
Abbas Babaei , 36, Iranian pilot, brigadier-general in Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force during Iran-Iraq War, shot down.
Sherwood Bailey , 64, American child actor and civil engineer, cancer.
Paula Bauersmith , 78, American actress, cancer.
[7]
Ira C. Eaker , 91, U.S. Army Air Forces general during World War II.
[8]
Lena Küchler-Silberman , 77, Polish member of the Jewish resistance.
Myles Lane , 83, American NHL ice hockey player.
Léon Noël , 99, French diplomat, politician and historian.
Mihailo Apostolski , 80, Macedonian general, politician and historian.
Jeanne Boitel , 83, French film actress.
Camille Chamoun , 87, 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.
[9]
Jaap van Praag , 77, Dutch football administrator, chairman
AFC Ajax , traffic accident.
Danilo Blanuša , 83, Yugoslavian mathematician, physicist and engineer, professor at the
University of Zagreb .
Julián Gorkin , 86, Spanish revolutionary socialist.
Laurence Hyde , 73, English-Canadian film maker, painter and graphic artist.
Nirmal Mahto , 36, Indian political activist, murdered.
Trevor O'Keeffe , 18–19, Irish man murdered while hitchhiking in France.
Irwin Schiff , 50, New York City businessman and mob associate, murdered.
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 functionary, sentenced to life imprisonment.
Henry Morgan , 80, Irish first-class cricketer.
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas , 94, Greek poet, lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Greece.
Casey Donovan , 43, American pornographic actor, AIDS-related pulmonary infection.
Edmund Germer , 85, German inventor, father of the fluorescent lamp.
Uys Krige , 77, South African writer of novels, short stories, poems and plays.
Patrick O'Boyle , 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
Prince Yamashina Takehiko , 89, Japanese head of the Yamashina-no-miya.
Raquel Torres , 78, Mexican-American film actress, heart attack.
[10]
Eugene Bordinat , 67, American automobile designer and corporate executive.
[11]
Živko Čingo , 51, Yugoslavian writer.
F. Herrick Herrick , 85, American film director and philatelist.
Walter Herrmann , 76, German nuclear physicist and mechanical engineer.
Clara Peller , 85, Russian-American manicurist and television personality, congestive heart failure.
[12]
Alexander Ziegler , 43, Swiss author and actor, suicide by tranquilizer overdose.
Crystal Bennett , 68, British archaeologist.
Lester Gaba , 80, American sculptor and writer, colon cancer.
[13]
Dmitri Klebanov , 69, Ukrainian composer.
Sally Long , 85, American dancer and actress.
Fatime Sokoli , 39, Albanian folk music singer.
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 stage, film and television actor, injuries from a fall.
Vincent Persichetti , 72, American composer and pianist.
[14]
Edgar Rosenberg , 61, German-British film and television producer, suicide by drug overdose.
[15]
Shigeo Sasaki , 74, Japanese mathematician working on differential geometry
Sasakian manifolds .
Konstantin Aleksandrov , 67, Soviet sailor and Olympian.
Hanna Greally , 63, Irish writer.
Ubaldo Ragona , 70, Italian film director and screenwriter.
Dan Sandifer , 60, American NFL player, 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.
Pepe Cáceres , 52, Colombian bullfighter.
Dorothy Hughes , 77, English-Kenyan architect, politician, social reformer and disability activist.
Sumiko Kurishima , 85, Japanese actress, master of traditional Japanese dance.
Samuel Lubell , 75, American public opinion pollster, journalist and author, stroke.
[16]
Edwin Barnard Martin , 68, Canadian member of the British Free Corps in Nazi Germany.
Andrei Mironov , 46, Soviet stage and film actor, complications from wrongly administered drug.
Peter Schidlof , 65, Austrian-British violist, co-founder of the
Amadeus Quartet .
[17]
Nick Vanos , 24, American NBA basketballer, plane crash.
Charles H. Wesley , 95, American historian, minister and author.
Leon Berkowitz , 75, American artist.
Frank Beswick , 75, British politician, deputy leader of the House of Lords.
Clarence Brown , 97, American film director, kidney failure.
[18]
Gary Chester , 62, American studio drummer and author.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade , 84, Brazilian poet and writer.
Rudolf Hess , 93, German Nazi official, Deputy Führer, ostensibly suicide by hanging.
[19]
Harold McCluskey , 75, American chemical operations technician and radiation survivor, coronary artery disease.
Shaike Ophir , 58, Israeli film and theatre actor, comedian, playwright, screenwriter and director, lung cancer.
Antti Rantamaa , 52, Finnish priest, member of Finnish Parliament and author.
Tjilik Riwut , .
Heinz Schubert , 73, German SS officer during World War II.
Tillit Sidney Teddlie , 102, American singing teacher, composer, publisher and minister.
Keerthisena Abeywickrama , 53, Sri Lankan politician, member of parliament, grenade attack.
Shichirō Fukazawa , 73, Japanese author and guitarist.
Ralph Haver , 71–72, American architect (Haver Homes).
Dambudzo Marechera , 35, Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet, AIDS-related pulmonary disorder.
Michael Bowes-Lyon , 58, British nobleman and peer.
Laxmi Narayan Mishra , 83, Indian Hindi play writer.
Sachin Nag , 67, Indian swimmer and water polo player, Olympian.
Hayden Rorke , 76, American actor, played Colonel Alfred Bellows in
I Dream of Jeannie , multiple myeloma.
[20]
Paul Schlack , 89, German chemist.
Harold Sherman , 89, American writer and "parapsychologist ".
Yidnekatchew Tessema , 65, Ethiopian international footballer.
Frances Mary Albrier , 88, American civil rights activist.
Bombolo , 56, Italian actor and comedian.
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 actress Norma Shearer, cancer.
[21]
Arne Brustad , 75, Norwegian international footballer.
Leonard Caston , 70, American blues pianist and guitarist, heart disease.
Mary Dobkin , 84, American amateur sports coach, stroke.
[22]
Joseph P. Lash , 77, American radical political activist, journalist and writer.
[23]
Ted Sherdeman , 78, American radio producer and screenwriter (
My Favorite Martian ,
The Flying Nun ,
Bewitched ).
John Milton Bryan Simpson , 84, American circuit judge.
Griselda Allan , 81, English artist.
Siegfried Borris , 80, German composer.
Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. , 84, American politician, mayor of Baltimore, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
Sheila van Damm , 65, British motor rally driver, owner of
Windmill Theatre in London.
Malcolm Kirk , 51, English professional wrestler, died in the ring.
Paulo Navalho , 20, Angolan-Portuguese footballer, acute myocardial infarction 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 .
Michèle Alfa , 76, French stage and film actress, hider of leaders of the French Resistance.
Douglas Byng , 94, English comic singer and songwriter.
Carlos Cossio , 84, Argentinian militant university reformer, jurist, lawyer, legal philosopher and professor.
Wayne Hansen , 58, American NFL footballer, 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.
[24]
Héctor Abad Gómez , 66, Colombian medical doctor, university professor and human rights leader.
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 in Davis County, Utah.
Victor Stafford Reid , 74, Jamaican writer.
Fernando Ramos da Silva , 19, Brazilian actor, police shootout.
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, Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
[25]
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.
[26]
Lillian Chase , 93, Canadian physician, researcher in the treatment of diabetes.
John Huston , 81, American film director, screenwriter and actor, pneumonia as a complication of lung disease.
[27]
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 .
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 ).
Lee Marvin , 63, American film and television actor (
The Dirty Dozen ,
The Big Heat ), heart attack.
[28]
John R. Napier , 70, British primatologist, paleoanthropologist and physician.
Jean Schlumberger , 80, French jewellery designer.
Phillip Hagar Smith , 82, American electrical engineer (
Smith chart ).
Wade H. McCree , 67, American legal scholar and judge, Solicitor General of the United States, bone cancer.
George Mikes , 75, Hungarian-British journalist, humorist and writer.
Vic Silayan , 58, Filipino actor, heart attack.
John C. Sjogren , 71, American soldier in the United States Army, Medal of Honor recipient.
Frank Stojack , 75, Canadian-NFL footballer and wrestler, world light-heavyweight champion, Alzheimer's disease.
Dick Young , 69, American sportswriter.
[29]
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"Benson Fong Is Dead at 70; Was in Film and TV 40 Years" .
The New York Times . August 4, 1987. p. B 9. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"S. Marshall Kempner Dead; Longtime Investment Banker" .
The New York Times . August 4, 1987. p. B 4. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Albin Krebs (August 3, 1987).
"Pola Negri, a Vamp of the Silent Screen, Dies at 88" .
The New York Times . p. D 11. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, 66; Was President of Bangladesh" .
The New York Times . August 3, 1987. p. D 11. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Michael Brenson (August 8, 1987).
"Myron Stout, Abstract Artist And Minimalist, Is Dead at 79" .
The New York Times . p. 1 50. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Warren Weaver Jr. special to the New York Times (August 4, 1987).
"William S. Moorhead Is Dead; Held House Seat for 22 Years" .
The New York Times . p. B 4. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Paula Bauersmith, 78, Dies; Actress on TV and the Stage" .
The New York Times . August 12, 1987. p. D 22. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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Robert D. McFadden (August 8, 1987).
"Ira C. Eaker, 91, Is Dead; Helped Create Air Force" .
The New York Times . p. 1 32. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Clyde Haberman, Special To the New York Times (August 8, 1987).
"Nobusuke Kishi, Ex-Tokyo Leader" .
The New York Times . p. 1 32. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Raquel Torres" .
The New York Times . August 13, 1987. p. B 8. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Eugene Bordinat Jr" .
The New York Times . August 14, 1987. p. D 18. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Clara Peller, the Actress In 'Where's the Beef?' TV Ad" .
The New York Times . August 12, 1987. p. D 22. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Lester Gaba, Mannequin Artist" .
The New York Times . August 14, 1987. p. D 18. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Persichetti Memorial Oct. 5" .
The New York Times . September 26, 1987. p. 1 34. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Edgar Rosenberg, Husband And Colleague of Joan Rivers" .
The New York Times . August 15, 1987. p. 1 33. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Ronald Smothers (August 21, 1987).
"Samuel Lubell Is Dead at 76; Predicted Election Outcomes" .
The New York Times . p. B 7. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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Michael Kimmelman (August 17, 1987).
"Peter Schidlof Is Dead at 65; The Amadeus Quartet Violist" .
The New York Times . p. B 6. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Clarence Brown, a Director And Six-Time Oscar Nominee" .
The New York Times . August 20, 1987. p. B 15. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Rudolf Hess Is Dead in Berlin; Last of the Hitler Inner Circle" .
The New York Times . August 18, 1987. p. A 1. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Hayden Rorke, Actor In Film, Plays and TV" .
The New York Times . August 21, 1987. p. B 7. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Irving G. Thalberg Jr" .
The New York Times . August 24, 1987. p. D 9. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Mary Dobkin Is Dead at 84; A Patron of Needy Children" .
The New York Times . August 25, 1987. p. B 7. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ David E. Pitt (August 23, 1987).
"Reporter and Biographer" .
The New York Times . p. 1 40. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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Eric Pace (August 25, 1987).
"Bayard Rustin Is Dead at 75; Pacifist and a Rights Activist" .
The New York Times . p. A 1. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Georg Wittig, 90, Dies; Winner of Nobel Prize" .
The New York Times . August 28, 1987. p. A 17. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Charlie Smalls Is Dead; Composer of 'The Wiz' " .
The New York Times . September 4, 1987. p. D 15. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Peter B. Flint (August 29, 1987).
"John Huston, Film Director, Writer and Actor, Dies at 81" .
The New York Times . p. 1 1. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Dennis Hevesi (August 31, 1987).
"Lee Marvin, Movie Tough Guy, Dies" .
The New York Times . p. A 17. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ James Barron (September 1, 1987).
"Dick Young Dies; Sports Columnist" .
The New York Times . p. B 7. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Lenore Lonergan, Actress, 59" .
The New York Times . September 1, 1987. p. B 6. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .