Deaths in February 1988
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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1988
1
- N. M. Bodecker, 66, Danish-born American author and illustrator of children's books (Tales of Magic), colon cancer.[1]
- Marcel Bozzuffi, 58, French film actor (The French Connection).[2]
- John Grist Brainerd, 83, American electrical engineer (ENIAC).[3]
- Gerald Butler, 80, English writer of crime and thriller novels (Kiss the Blood Off My Hands; There Is a Death, Elizabeth).
- Ted Hill, 72, Australian barrister, lawyer and communist activist, chairman of the Communist Party of Australia.[4]
- Thomas Francis Johnson, 78, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1959-1963), car crash.[5]
- Ion Lungu, 66, Romanian footballer.[6]
- Heather O'Rourke, 12, American child actress (Poltergeist), congenital stenosis of intestine.[7]
- Red Phillips, 79, American MLB player (Detroit Tigers).[8]
- Stephen Taylor, 77, British physician and politician, member of the House of Lords.[9]
- Eddie Townsend, 73, American professional boxing trainer, cancer.[10]
- Marisa Vernati, 67, Italian actress.[11]
2
- Frederick Blaney, 69, Irish cricketer.
- Richard Chase, 83, American folklorist.[12]
- Caroline Chew, 86, American dancer.
- Solomon Cutner, 85, British pianist.[13]
- Quamrul Hassan, 66, Bengali artist, heart attack.[14]
- Thomas Lamb, 91, American industrial designer, pneumonia.[15]
- Percy Lawrie, 85, English cricketer.[16]
- Rossana Martini, 62, Italian actress and model.[17]
- Carlos Monges, 61, Mexican Olympic sprinter (1948).[18]
- Normie Smith, 79, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Maroons).[19]
- G. Mennen Williams, 76, American politician, Governor of Michigan, ambassador to the Philippines, stroke.[20]
3
- Ronald Bladen, 69, Canadian-American painter and sculptor, cancer.[21]
- Sam D'Allesandro, 31, American writer and poet, AIDS.[22]
- Robert Duncan, 69, American poet, heart attack.[23]
- Radamés Gnattali, 82, Brazilian composer and conductor.
- Werner Kissling, 92, German-born Scottish ethnographer and photographer.[24]
- René Massigli, 99, French diplomat, ambassador to the U.K. and Turkey.[25]
- Kenneth Lee Porter, 91, American WWI flying ace.
- Jocko Thompson, 71, American Major League baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[26]
- Dymock Watson, 84, British Royal Navy officer, Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic.
- Lewis Wolberg, 82, American psychoanalyst (hypnoanalysis), heart attack.[27]
- Sewall Wright, 98, American geneticist, fall.[28]
4
- Clyde Coombs, 75, American psychologist (Coombs' method).[29]
- Frank Giacoia, 63, American comics artist (Captain America, The Amazing Spider-Man).[30]
- Dhamma Jagoda, 47, Sri Lankan theatre and television play director and actor.[31]
- Franz Mandl, 71, Austrian Olympic footballer (1936).[32]
- Bill Narduzzi, 51, American football player and coach, Hodgkin's disease.[33]
- Krzysztof Sitkowski, 52, Polish Olympic basketball player (1960, 1964).[34]
- Jonas Turkow, 89, Polish-Israeli actor, director and writer.[35]
5
- Ove Arup, 92, English engineer, design engineer for Sydney Opera House.[36]
- Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, 73, American mathematician, president of the Mathematics Association of America.[37]
- Inger Carlsen, 69, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1936).[38]
- Bennie Dobbins, 55, American stuntman and actor (Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Ferris Bueller's Day Off), heart attack.[39]
- Clement Hurd, 80, American illustrator of children's books (Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny), Alzheimer's disease.[40]
- Emeric Pressburger, 85, Hungarian-born British film director and producer (49th Parallel), pneumonia.[41]
6
- Gary Berland, 37, American professional poker player, blood disorder.
- Richard Bock, 61, American jazz record producer.[42]
- Marghanita Laski, 72, English journalist and novelist, lung disease.[43]
- Nick Pietrosante, 50, American NFL footballer (Detroit Lions), prostate cancer.[44]
- Barclay Plager, 46, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues), brain cancer.[45]
- Carmen Polo, 87, Spanish wife of Francisco Franco, bronchial pneumonia.[46]
- Zvonimir Rogoz, 100. Croatian actor.[47]
7
- Upendranath Barman, 88, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.[48]
- Lin Carter, 57, American science fiction and fantasy author (Ballantine Adult Fantasy series), cancer.[49]
- Aldo Federici, 67, Italian Olympic ice hockey player (1948, 1956).[50]
- Martine Géliot, 39, French classical harpist.
- Ray Martin, 69, Austrian-born British orchestra leader, cancer.[51]
- Ririd Myddelton, 85, English High Sheriff of Denbighshire, Equerry to The Queen.[52]
- Dermot O'Brien, 81, Australian rules footballer.[53]
- Tony Santos Sr., 67, Filipino actor and director (Badjao: The Sea Gypsies).
8
- Pietro Arcari, 78, Italian footballer (AC Milan, Genoa).
- Dolores Camarillo, 77, Mexican actress (Ahí está el detalle).[54]
- Allan Cuthbertson, 67, Australian-British actor (Fawlty Towers – Gourmet Night, Edge of Darkness).[55]
- Santosh Dutta, 62, Bengali actor (Sonar Kella, Joi Baba Felunath).[56]
- Ralph Flanagan, 69, American swimmer and Olympic medalist (1932, 1936).[57]
- Hans Krueger, 78, Nazi German Gestapo captain in occupied Poland, responsible for massacres against Poles and Jews.[58]
- Swayne Latham, 90, American college football player (Vanderbilt Commodores).
- Daisy Turner, 104, American storyteller and poet.[59]
- Frank Varey, 79, English speedway rider.[60]
- Alfréd Wetzler, 69, Slovak writer (Vrba–Wetzler report).[61]
- Helen Wood, 70, American film and radio actress.[62]
9
- Kurt Herbert Adler, 69, Austrian-American conductor, heart attack.[63]
- Ermal Allen, 69, American professional footballer (Cleveland Browns) and coach (Dallas Cowboys), cancer.
- Marjorie May Bacon, 86, British printmaker and painter.
- Henry Burrell, 83, Australian navy commander, vice admiral of the Royal Australian Navy.[64]
- Israel Nathan Herstein, 64, Polish-born American mathematician (ring theory), cancer.[65]
- Phillip Hutchinson, 24, American bank robber, murderer and escaped convict, shot by police.[66]
- Charles Moses, 88, British-born Australian administrator, general manager of Australian Broadcasting Commission.[67]
- Fritz Redl, 85, Austrian-American child psychoanalyst.[68]
- William Sackville, 66, British peer, suicide.[69]
10
- Jim Bailey, 79, English cricketer.
- Nat Cohen, 82, British film producer (The Sleeping Tiger, The Tommy Steele Story, Carry On ...), heart attack.[70]
- Alfred Eichner, 50, American economist.[71]
- Cynthia Gooding, 63, American folk singer, cancer.[72]
- Wolfgang Lange, 89, Nazi German army general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.[73]
- Lothar Malskat, 74, German painter and art restorer.[74]
- Don Patterson, 51, American jazz organist.
- Chaya Mushka Schneerson, 86, Russian-American wife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Jewish spiritual leader.[75]
11
- Mary E. Black, 92, American waver and weaving instructor.[76]
- Marion Crawford, 78, Scottish governess to Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth, cancer.[77]
- René Hall, 75, American guitarist, heart disease.
- Virgil D. Hawkins, 81, American attorney, kidney failure.[78]
- Gail L. Ireland, 92, American politician, Attorney General of Colorado.
- Amirteymour Kalali, 93, Iranian politician, member of the Parliament of Iran.
- Neville Mckoy, 41, Jamaican cricketer.
12
- Reino Aarnio, 75, Finnish-born American architect.[79]
- Robert Coin, 86, French sculptor and engraver.
- Briggs Gordon, 38, American television host.[80]
- Max Heine, 76–77, German-born American value investor and fund manager, traffic accident.[81]
- Gustav Koranteng-Addow, 69, Ghanaian Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice.
- Bernard Lippmann, 73, American theoretical physicist (Lippmann–Schwinger equation in scattering theory).[82]
13
- John Curulewski, 37, American musician, original member of Styx, brain aneurysm.[83]
- Ron Embleton, 57, British illustrator and comics artist (Mickey Mouse Weekly, Penthouse), heart attack.[84]
- José Carlos Godoy, 76, Peruvian Olympic basketball player (1936).[85]
- Dorothy Kurgans Goldberg, 79, American artist and writer, Supreme Court justice, lung cancer.[86]
- Léon Goossens, 90, English oboist.[87]
- Cecil L. Hartman, 87, American college football player and coach.[88]
- Noel Horsfield, 74, South African Olympic sailor (1952, 1956).[89]
- Sidney Martin, 79, South African cricketer.[90]
- Ivan Peries, 66, Sri Lankan Artist.[91]
- Ashley Winlaw, 74, English cricketer.
14
- Nora Astorga, 39, Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter and politician, ambassador to the United Nations, cervical cancer.[92]
- Ambrogio Beretta, 82, Italian Olympic cyclist (1928).[93]
- Frederick Loewe, 86, German-born American composer (My Fair Lady), cardiac arrest.[94]
- Jan de Kreek, 84, Dutch footballer.[95]
- Cal Niday, 73, American racecar driver, heart attack.[96]
- Mark Serrurier, 83, American president of Moviola, Alzheimer's disease.[97]
- Alfonso Valdés Cobián, 97, Puerto Rican industrialist and politician, cofounder of Cervecería India, heart attack.[98]
- Auguste Verdyck, 86, Belgian road bicycle racer.[99]
- Lynette White, 20, Welsh murder victim.[100]
- Joseph Wresinski, 71, French priest.[101]
- Slavko Zagorac, 78, Bosnian football player and manager.[102]
15
- Joseph O. Butcher, 75, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.[103]
- Pat Close, 39, American child actor (Imitation of Christ, Sunrise at Campobello), liver disease.
- Al Cohn, 62, American jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer, liver cancer.[104]
- Richard Feynman, 69, American theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, kidney failure.[105]
- Neil R. Jones, 78, American science fiction writer.[106]
- Arthur Judd, 84, English cricketer.
- Jay Leyda, 78, American filmmaker and film historian, heart failure.[107]
- Francisco Manrique, 69, Argentinian naval officer and presidential candidate, lymphoma.[108]
- Gardiner Means, 91, American economist (The Modern Corporation and Private Property), stroke.[109]
- Arthur Mizener, 80, American professor of English and literary critic (The Far Side of Paradise), heart failure.[110]
16
- Dragan Boltar, 74, Croatian architect.[111]
- Jean Carignan, 71, Canadian fiddler.[112]
- Bill Cox, 74, American politician and MLB player (St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns).[113]
- Charles Delaunay, 77, French author and jazz expert, co-founder of Hot Club de France, Parkinson's disease.[114]
- Hélène Gordon-Lazareff, 78, Russian-born French journalist.[115]
- Vijaya Kumaratunga, 42, Sri Lankan actor, singer and politician, assassinated.[116]
- Oskar Skogly, 80, Norwegian trade unionist and politician.
- Fredrick Monroe Taylor, 86, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Idaho).[117]
- Ye Shengtao, 93, Chinese writer, journalist and politician, Chinese Vice-Minister of Culture.[118]
17
- John M. Allegro, 65, English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, heart attack.[119]
- Alexander Bashlachev, 27, Soviet poet, singer-songwriter and guitarist, probable suicide.[120]
- Yuri Ovchinnikov, 53, Soviet bio-organic chemist, contributed to Soviet biological weapons program.[121]
- Veijo Pasanen, 57, Finnish actor (Pikku Kakkonen).
- Alain Savary, 69, French politician, Minister of National Education.[122]
- Karpoori Thakur, 64, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar, cardiac arrest.[123]
- Reginald Uren, 81, New Zealand architect.[124]
18
- Luciano Gariboldi, 60, Italian footballer.
- Mahmood-ul Hassan, 63, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player (1948, 1952).[125]
- Michael Howard, 71, British actor and comedian.[126]
- Abderrahman Ibrir, 68, Algerian-born French footballer.[127]
- Walter Ohmsen, 76, Nazi German officer in the Kriegsmarine, first German to sight the D-Day naval force.[128]
- Giovanni Savonuzzi, 77, Italian automobile designer (Cisitalia, Carrozzeria Ghia, Chrysler).
19
- Isabel Bishop, 85, American painter and graphic artist (Tidying Up), Parkinson's disease.[129]
- René Char, 80, French poet, member of the French resistance, heart attack.[130]
- André Cournand, 92, French-born American physician (cardiac catheterization), Nobel laureate in Medicine, pneumonia.[131]
- William W. Eagles, 93, American general in the U.S. Army.[132]
- Gloria Hollister, 87, American explorer and scientist (New York Zoological Society), cardiac arrest.[133]
- Walerian Kisieliński, 80, Polish Olympic footballer (1936).[134]
- S. V. Sahasranamam, 74, Indian actor and director, heart attack.
- Frank Strafaci, 71, American amateur golfer.
- Eric Stryker, 33, American gay pornographic performer and model, AIDS.
20
- José de Almeida, 83, Brazilian Olympic sprinter (1932, 1936).[135]
- MaKee K. Blaisdell, 56, American actor (Hawaiian Eye), heart failure.[136]
- Matt Fox, 81, American illustrator and comic book artist.
- Bob Kirkpatrick, 72, Canadian NHL player (New York Rangers).[137]
- Ahmet Tuna Kozan, 44-45, Turkish Olympic footballer (1960).[138]
- Bob O'Farrell, 91, American Major League baseball player (Chicago Cubs, New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals).[139]
- Mildred Seydell, 98, American journalist.[140]
- Roger J. Williams, 94, Indian-born American biochemist (nutrition), pneumonia.[141]
- Jim Woods, 71, American Major League baseball sportscaster, cancer.[142]
21
- Angie Debo, 98, American historian who focused on Native American and Oklahoma history.[143]
- Cornelis van Eesteren, 90, Dutch architect and urban planner (Lelystad).
- David Otis Fuller, 84, American Baptist pastor.[144]
- Aidan McAnespie, 23, Irish murder victim, killed by British soldier.[145]
- Gustaf Nyblæus, 80, Swedish army officer and Olympic equestrian (1936).[146]
- Francisco Prío, 86, Cuban Senator.[147]
- Aleksandar Tomašević, 79, Serbian international footballer and manager (BASK, Yugoslavia).[148]
- Leonard Treganowan, 56, Australian Olympic weightlifter (1956).[149]
- Martin Winter, 32, German Olympic rower (1980).[150]
- Heydar Yaghma, 64, Iranian poet.
22
- Charles L. Banks, 73, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps (Battle of Chosin Reservoir).[151]
- Albert Collier, 78, Australian rules footballer (Collingwood).[152]
- Victor Erroelen, 71, Belgian footballer.[153]
- Barrie Heath, 71, British Royal Air Force pilot in the Battle of Britain.[154]
- Eugen Iordache, 65, Romanian Olympic footballer (1952).[155]
- Afro Poli, 85, Italian operatic baritone.[156]
- Pao Ming Pu, 77, Chinese mathematician (systolic geometry).[157]
- Cecil Ramage, 93, Scottish barrister, actor and politician, Member of Parliament.[158]
- Larry Shay, 90, American songwriter ("When You're Smiling"), lung cancer and emphysema.[159]
23
- Edward Vaughan Bevan, 80, British rower and Olympic gold medalist (1928).[160]
- Maurice Boisvert, 91, Canadian politician and lawyer, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1949-1957).[161]
- Henri Collard, 76, Belgian Olympic cyclist (1936).[162]
- Pete Donohue, 87, American Major League baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[163]
- Jack Dugger, 65, American NFL and basketball player (Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, Syracuse Nationals).[164]
- Charlie Jackman, 82, New Zealand cricketer.[165]
- Joseph Karakis, 85, Ukrainian architect (National Museum of the History of Ukraine).[166]
- Leroy Leblanc, 73, American swing musician.[167]
24
- Irwin Chanin, 96, American architect and real estate developer (Richard Rodgers Theatre, The Century).[168]
- Rose Coyle, 73, Miss America 1936.[169]
- James H. Douglas Jr., 88, American lawyer, senior official in U.S. Government, Secretary of the Air Force, cancer.[170]
- Loretta McNeil, 81, American Olympic sprinter (1928).[171]
- Memphis Slim, 72, American blues pianist, singer and composer ("Every Day I Have the Blues"), renal failure.[172]
- Stanisław Pastecki, 80, Polish Olympic ice hockey player (1928).[173]
- Mamdouh Salem, 69, Prime Minister of Egypt.[174]
- Timothy Scott, 32, American Broadway actor and dancer, AIDS.[175]
- Seymour Siegel, 60, American rabbi, professor of Ethics and Theology.[176]
- Harry Yven, 75, Norwegian footballer.[177]
- Bluma Zeigarnik, 87, Soviet psychologist.[178]
25
- Bernard Ashmole, 93, British archaeologist and art historian.[179]
- William Harold Cox, 86, American judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.[180]
- Kurt Mahler, 84, German-born British-Australian mathematician (Mahler's inequality, Mahler's compactness theorem).[181]
- Peck Morrison, 68, American jazz bassist.[182]
- Dori Seda, 37, American comic artist, influenza.[183]
- H. E. Todd, 80, English writer of children's fiction (Bobby Brewster).[184]
26
- Edward Byrne, 22, American police officer, murdered in the line of duty.[185]
- Ze'ev Herring, 77-78, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1969-1974).
- Kang Mun-bong, 64, South Korean military officer.
- Joseph Kiselewski, 87, American sculptor.[186]
- Emmet McLoughlin, 65, Irish Olympic footballer (1948).[187]
- Frane Milčinski, 73, Slovenian poet and writer (Twinkle Sleepyhead).[188]
- Tom Oliver, 85, American MLB player (Boston Red Sox).[189]
27
- Basil Boothroyd, 77, English humorous writer (Punch).[190]
- George Clutesi, 83, Canadian artist, actor and writer (Dreamspeaker).[191]
- Cecil Coleman, 63, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
- Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers, 89, French excommunicated Catholic bishop.
- Doug Holmquist, 46, American Minor League baseball player, MLB coach (New York Yankees).[192]
- Franck Lavaud, 85, Haitian general and politician, president of Haiti.
- Gene de Paul, 68, American pianist, composer and songwriter ("Teach Me Tonight"), brain tumour.[193]
- Kenneth Peach, 84, American cinematographer.[194]
- Ramiro Prialé, 84, Peruvian politician.[195]
- Jack Roberts, 78, American judge.[196]
28
- Beatrice Burns, 82, American First Lady of Hawaii, wife of John A. Burns.[197]
- Irja Hagfors, 82, Finnish dance artist and choreographer.
- Edith North Johnson, 85, American blues singer, pianist and songwriter.[198]
- Alfred Frøkjær Jørgensen, 89, Danish Olympic gymnast (1920).[199]
- Harvey Kuenn, 57, American Major League baseball player (Detroit Tigers, San Francisco Giants), heart disease and diabetes.[200]
- Mikhail Naimy, 98, Lebanese poet, novelist and philosopher, pneumonia.[201]
- Asakazu Nakai, 86, Japanese cinematographer (Stray Dog, Ran).
- Jørgen Fryd Petersen, 62, Danish Olympic weightlifter (1948).[202]
- Kylie Tennant, 75, Australian novelist, playwright and historian (Ride on Stranger).[203]
29
- Bennie Charleston, 80, American Negro Leagues baseball player.[204]
- John Henry Guinness, 52, British chairman of Guinness Mahon, complications from a fall.
- Sidney Harmon, 80, American movie producer and screenwriter (The Talk of the Town).[205]
- Frank Kerr Hays, 91, American WWI flying ace.
- Paul Ramsey, 74, American Methodist ethicist, heart attack.[206]
- Kaare Walberg, 75, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (1932, 1936).[207]
- Karl Zimmer, 76, German nuclear chemist, heart attack.[208]
Unknown date
- John Smith, 49, English footballer (West Ham United).[209]
- Dick Walker, 74, English footballer (West Ham United).[210]