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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.
Dennis Coi , 26, Canadian figure skater, AIDS.
Gerhard Fieseler , 91, German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion and aircraft designer and manufacturer.
Philip Friend , 72, British film and television actor.
Arnaldo Momigliano , 78, Italian historian of classical antiquity.
Alan Reid , 72, Australian political journalist, lung and stomach cancer.
Pinky Whitney , 82, American Major League baseballer.
William Borm , 92, German politician, member of the
Bundestag .
[1]
Cam Carreon , 50, American Major League baseballer.
Brian Clay , 52, Australian rugby league footballer.
LeGrande A. Diller , American officer in the U.S. Army.
Ken Flower , 73, English-Rhodesian police officer and intelligence chief.
Remzi Aydın Jöntürk , 50, Turkish filmmaker, actor, screenwriter and producer, traffic accident.
Ramesh Naidu , 55, Indian music 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.
Diana Caldwell , 73, English society femme fatale figure, best known for her part in the murder of
Lord Erroll in 1941.
Carter W. Clarke , 90. American intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, heart attack.
[2]
Ned Day , 42, American journalist and newspaper reporter, heart attack.
Morton Feldman , 61, American composer, pancreatic cancer.
[3]
Maxwell Fry , 88, English modernist architect, writer and painter.
Doris Gates , 85, American writer of children's fiction.
Merlin Minshall , 80, British naval officer and adventurer.
Aleksandr Nadiradze , 73, Georgian engineer, involved in militarising the Soviet spase program.
Viktor Nekrasov , 76, Soviet writer, journalist and editor.
[4]
Lee Theodore , 54, American Broadway theater director, choreographer, performer and dance archivist.
[5]
Rusty Wescoatt , 76, American supporting actor.
Richard D. Adams , 78, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.
Wolfgang Fortner , 79, German composer and conductor.
Scott Irwin , 35, American professional wrestler, brain tumour.
Salvador Lutteroth , 90, Mexican professional wrestling promoter.
Quinn Martin , 65, American television producer, heart attack.
[7]
Sam Brody , 80, English-founding member of the
Workers Film and Photo League , injuries from a fall.
[8]
Tom Davis , 76, Irish international footballer.
Bill Fraser , 79, Scottish stage, screen and television actor, emphysema.
Gunnar de Frumerie , 79, Swedish composer and pianist.
Gerrit Jan Heijn , 56, Dutch businessman, murdered after abduction.
Vratislav Mazák , 50, Czech biologist specialising in paleoanthropology, mammalogy and taxonomy.
Al Read , 78, British radio comedian, stroke.
Dora Zaslavsky , 83, Russian-American pianist.
Benjamin Howard Baker , 95, English international footballer, high jumper and triple jumper, dual Olympian.
Kerstin Bernadotte , 76, Swedish journalist, aristocrat and magazine editor.
Hugh David , 62, British actor and television director (
Doctor Who ).
Charles Fleming , 71, New Zealand geologist and ornithologist.
Lorne Greene , 72, Canadian actor, radio personality and singer, pneumonia.
Harry Gale Nye Jr. , 79, American industrialist, entrepreneur and world champion sailor.
Hervey Rhodes , 92, British politician, Member of Parliament.
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-actor.
Peter Tosh , 42, Jamaican reggae singer and musician, murdered after being taken hostage at his home.
Mahadevi Varma , 80, Indian poet, essayist and sketch story writer.
John Lloyd Waddy , 70, Australian officer in the Royal Australian Air Force and politician.
Frank Wiziarde , 71, American actor and television personality.
J. Lawton Collins , 91, American Army general, Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
[9]
William Dickson , 88, British aviator of the Royal Naval Air Service and Marshal of the Royal Air Force.
John Qualen , 87, Canadian-American actor, heart failure.
John J. Voll , 65, American career officer in the U.S. Air Force, World War II flying ace.
Aníbal Gordon , Argentine suspected of being a leader of the Triple A death squad, lung cancer.
Mervyn LeRoy , 86, American film producer, director and actor, heart issues complicated by Alzheimer's disease.
Julien Kialunda , 37, Congolese footballer, international player for Zaire, AIDS.
Erik Lundberg , 80, Swedish economist.
[10]
Stormont Mancroft , 73, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
Arthur W. Vanaman , 95, American major general in the U.S. Air Corps and Air Force.
Henry Wrigley , 95, Australian Air Vice Marshal in the Royal Australian Air Force.
David Akui , 67, American soldier, captured first Japanese prisoner of war in World War II.
Wilhelm Berlin , 98, German Nazi general,
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.
Leon Hirszman , 49, Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter, AIDS.
[11]
Harry Holcombe , 80, American actor and radio director.
Moazzam Jah , 79, Indian royal, son of the last Nizam of Hyderabad.
Nilo Menéndez , 84, Cuban-American songwriter.
George Edward Pendray , 86, American author, founder of the
American Interplanetary Society .
Joe Reisman , 62, American musician, bandleader, arranger and record producer.
William Richard Joseph Cook , 82, British mathematician, leader in the development of the hydrogen bomb, stroke.
Simon Gipps-Kent , 28, English theatre and film actor, morphine poisoning.
Howard Moss , 65, American poet, dramatist and critic, heart attack.
[12]
Christopher Soames , 66, British politician, Member of Parliament, pancreatitis.
K. Jack Bauer , 62, American writer and naval historian, heart attack.
[13]
Vladimir Basov , 64, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter, stroke.
Francis E. Dorn , 76, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
[14]
George Dwyer , 78, English Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Birmingham.
Musa Gareyev , 65, Soviet Air Force squadron leader, cancer.
Carol Henry , 69, American actor.
Henry Kroeger , 70, Russian-Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta, lymphoma and pneumonia.
Philip Wayne Powell , 73–74, American historian specialising in Spanish colonial history of the American Southwest, heart attack.
Dieter Schidor , 39, German actor, AIDS.
Golbery do Couto e Silva , 76, Brazilian army general and politician, Chief of Staff of the Presidency.
Frederic Fitch , 79, American logician, professor at Yale University.
Olinka Hrdy , 85, American artist.
Emil Schram , 93, president of the New York Stock Exchange.
[15]
Américo Tomás , 92, Portuguese Navy officer and politician, President of Portugal, infection.
Lean Alejandro , 27, Filipino student leader and nationalist political activist, assassinated.
Betty Burbridge , 91, American screenwriter and actress.
Einar Gerhardsen , 90, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway.
[16]
Nyamyn Jagvaral , 68, Mongolian politician, statesman and economist, 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.
Ralph Steinhauer , 82, Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Alberta.
Ken Uston , 52, American blackjack player, heart failure.
George William Goddard , 98, English-American brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force.
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 and dramatist, librettist, lyricist, screenwriter and novelist.
[17]
Péter Török , 36, Hungarian international footballer.
Aimo Aaltonen , 81, Finnish politician, leader of the Communist Party of Finland.
Sven Andersson , 77, Swedish politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Ruth Attaway , 77, American film and stage actress, injuries from a fire.
[18]
John Chandos , 70, Scottish film and television actor.
William Kwai-sun Chow , 73, American martial artist.
J. Clyde Morris , 78, American civic leader.
Jaco Pastorius , 35, American jazz bassist, composer and producer, brain hemorrhage after being attacked at a club.
Hákun Djurhuus , 78, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
H. R. Gross , 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, Alzheimer's disease.
[19]
Norman Luboff , 70, American music arranger, music publisher and choir director, lung cancer.
[20]
Carman Maxwell , 84, American animator and voice actor.
Dan Rowan , 65, American actor and comedian, lymphoma.
[21]
Walter M. Baumhofer , 82, American illustrator.
Bob Fosse , 60, American actor, choreographer, dancer, and film and stage director, heart attack.
Louis Kentner , 82, Hungarian and British pianist.
Rajendra Krishan , 68, Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter.
Erland Van Lidth De Jeude , 34, Dutch-American wrestler, opera singer and actor, heart failure.
O. B. McClinton , 47, American country music singer and songwriter, abdominal cancer.
Drew Bundini Brown , 59, American assistant trainer and cornerman of
Muhammad Ali .
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.
Erhard Kroeger , 82, Nazi German SS officer, involved in the 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.
Joseph Tabenkin , 66, Israeli military commander.
Mary Astor , 81, American actress, respiratory failure due to pulmonary emphysema.
[22]
Gerald Chapman , 37, English theatre director, AIDS.
Duffy Daugherty , 72, American college football player and coach.
Hassan El-Hassani , 71, Algerian comedian.
Harry Holtzman , 75, American artist and founding member of the
American Abstract Artists .
[23]
Victoria Kent , 96, Spanish lawyer and republican politician.
[24]
Abba Kovner , 69, Lithuanian-Jewish partisan leader, Israeli poet and writer, laryngeal cancer.
[25]
Gennady Mikhasevich , 40, Soviet serial killer, executed.
Emlyn Williams , 81, Welsh writer, dramatist and actor, complications from bowel cancer.
[26]
Edgar Anstey , 80, British documentary filmmaker.
Ethel Catherwood , 79, Canadian high jumper and javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist.
Co Prins , 49, Dutch international football, heart attack.
Andi Ramang , 63, Indonesian international footballer.
Howard W. Robison , 71, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
Sergio Santander , 33, Chilean race car driver, racing crash.
Herbert Tichy , 75, Austrian writer, geologist, journalist and climber.
John Newbold Camp , 79, American businessman, banker and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
J. N. Findlay , 83, South African philosopher.
Robert Benjamin Greenblatt , 80–81, Canadian
endocrinologist .
Maria Guardiola , 92, Portuguese teacher and politician, anti-feminist.
M. K. K. Nair , 66, Indian bureaucrat and art connoisseur, officer of the
Indian Administrative Service , cancer.
Eddy de Wind , 71, Dutch Holocaust survivor, physician, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Willard Harrison Bennett , 84, American
plasma physicist .
Roman Brandstaetter , 81, Polish writer, poet, playwright, journalist and translator, heart attack.
Mehdi Hashemi , 42–43, Iranian Shi'a cleric, senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, executed.
Belle Linsky , 82–83, Ukrainian-American businesswoman and philanthropist.
[27]
Ray Madden , 95, American lawyer, politician and World War I veteran, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
[28]
Darach Ó Catháin , 64, Irish
sean-nós singer.
Elizabeth Eden , 41, American trans woman, AIDS-related pneumonia.
[29]
Henry Ford II , 70, American president of Ford Motor Company, pneumonia.
Vinodini Nilkanth , 80, Indian writer and translator.
Sebastian Peschko , 77, German classical pianist.
Mario Prestifilippo , 28, Italian member of the Sicilian Mafia, suspected murderer, shot.
Alfred Bester , 73, American science fiction author, TV, radio and comics scriptwriter, complications from broken hip.
Geoffrey Bowers , 33, American attorney.
Geoffrey Burridge , 38, English theatre and television actor, AIDS.
Herbert Sobel , 75, American soldier in World War II, his story featured in
Band of Brothers , malnutrition.
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"William Borm" .
The New York Times . September 4, 1987. p. D 15. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Carter W. Clarke Dies at 90; An Army Intelligence Officer" .
The New York Times . September 7, 1987. p. 1 24. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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John Rockwell (September 4, 1987).
"Morton Feldman Dies at 61; An Experimental Composer" .
The New York Times . p. D 15. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Viktor P. Nekrasov, Stalin Prize Winner Denounced for Book" .
The New York Times . September 5, 1987. p. 1 29. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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Jennifer Dunning (September 5, 1987).
"Lee Theodore, 54, a Dancer And Choreographer, Is Dead" .
The New York Times . p. 1 29. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Constance L. Hays (September 6, 1987).
"Richard Marquand, Moviemaker, Dies" .
The New York Times . p. 1 44. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Wolfgang Saxon (September 7, 1987).
"Quinn Martin Is Dead at 65; Produced Popular TV Series" .
The New York Times . p. 1 24. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Sam Brody, Maker of Films On Labor and Social Justice" .
The New York Times . September 22, 1987. p. B 20. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Gen. J. Lawton Collins, 91; Led World War II Troops" .
The New York Times . September 14, 1987. p. B 16. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Erik Lundberg" .
The New York Times . September 17, 1987. p. B 14. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Leon Hirszman, 49, Is Dead; A Top Brazilian Film Director" .
The New York Times . September 18, 1987. p. B 5. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Edwin McDowell (September 17, 1987).
"Howard Moss, 65, Poetry Editor Of The New Yorker 40 Years" .
The New York Times . p. B 14. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"K. Jack Bauer" .
The New York Times . October 1, 1987. p. D 26. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"F. E. Dorn, Ex-Congressman" .
The New York Times . September 19, 1987. p. 1 37. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Peter B. Flint (September 19, 1987).
"Emil Schram, Ex-President Of Stock Exchange, Is Dead" .
The New York Times . p. 1 37. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Peter Kerr (September 20, 1987).
"Einar Gerhardsen Dies at 90; Led Norway as Welfare State" .
The New York Times . p. 1 60. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Jeremy Gerard (September 21, 1987).
"Michael Stewart Is Dead 63; Author of Broadway Musicals" .
The New York Times . p. B 16. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Ruth Attaway, Actress, Dies Of Injuries in Apartment Fire" .
The New York Times . September 24, 1987. p. D 23. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Winston W. Williams (September 24, 1987).
"Iowa Congressman" .
The New York Times . p. D 23. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Norman Luboff, Head Of Choir and Composer" .
The New York Times . September 24, 1987. p. D 23. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Jeremy Gerard (September 23, 1987).
"Dan Rowan, 65, a Comedian And a 'Laugh-In' Host, Dies" .
The New York Times . p. D 31. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Peter B. Flint (September 26, 1987).
"Mary Astor, 81, Is Dead; Star of 'Maltese Falcon' " .
The New York Times . p. 1 34. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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Grace Glueck (September 29, 1987).
"Harry Holtzman, Artist, Dies; An Expert on Piet Mondrian" .
The New York Times . p. D 34. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Victoria Kent, 90, Who Led Magazine Opposed to Franco" .
The New York Times . September 29, 1987. p. D 34. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Abba Kovner, Israeli Poet, Dies" .
The New York Times . September 27, 1987. p. 1 46. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
^ Albin Krebs (September 26, 1987).
"Emlyn Williams, Welsh Actor and Writer, Dies" .
The New York Times . p. 1 35. Retrieved October 18, 2016 .
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"Belle Linsky, Philanthropist And Art Collector, Dies at 83" .
The New York Times . October 1, 1987. p. D 26. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Ray Madden, 95, Dies; Former Congressman" .
The New York Times . September 29, 1987. p. D 34. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .
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"Elizabeth Eden, Transsexual Who Figured in 1975 Movie" .
The New York Times . October 1, 1987. p. D 26. Retrieved April 27, 2024 .