Deaths in March 1988
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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1988
1
- Joe Besser, 80, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges, The Joey Bishop Show), heart failure.[1]
- Ernest Cuneo, 82, American newspaperman (McClure Newspaper Syndicate, The Saturday Evening Post) and NFL footballer (Brooklyn Dodgers), heart attack.[2]
- Sohan Lal Dwivedi, 82, Indian poet.[3]
- Yoshi Katō, 75, Japanese stage and film actor.[4]
- Luis Márquez, 62, Puerto Rican baseball player (Homestead Grays, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates).[5]
- Tommy Potter, 69, American jazz double bassist.[6]
- Jean Le Poulain, 63, French stage actor and director, heart attack.[7]
- Carl Raguse, 85, American Olympic equestrian (1936).[8]
- Ed Roman, 57, American college basketballer, convicted of point shaving, leukemia.[9]
- Kay Sutton, 72, American actress.[10]
- Benjamin F. Wilson, 66, American soldier in the US army, Medal of Honor recipient.[11]
2
- Chuck Arnett, 60, American artist and dancer, AIDS.[12]
- Tommy Breen, 75, Irish international footballer (Manchester United, Ireland).[13]
- Raymond Hewitt, 47, American civil rights activist, leader of the Black Panther Party, heart attack.[14]
- Kate Mahaut, 80, Danish Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).[15]
- J. Saunders Redding, 81, American professor and author, heart failure.[16]
- Ronald Senior, 83, British Army officer.
- Leslie Turner, 88, American cartoonist and writer (Captain Easy).[17]
3
- Harold Langley, 84, British Olympic jumper (1924).[18]
- Peter D. Martin, 65, American college professor and founder of City Lights Bookstore, emphysema.[19]
- Wollert Nygren, 81, Norwegian Olympic speed skater (1928).[20]
- Henryk Szeryng, 69, Polish-Mexican violinist, cerebral hemorrhage.[21]
- Lois Wilson, 93, American silent-screen actress (The Covered Wagon, The Great Gatsby), pneumonia.[22]
- Sewall Wright, 98, American geneticist (population genetics), complications of hip fracture.[23]
4
- Ernesto Duarte Brito, 65, Cuban-Spanish musician.[24]
- James Peter Davis, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of San Juan and of Santa Fe.[25]
- Beatriz Guido, 65, Argentinian novelist and screenwriter (The Kidnapper, Traitors of San Angel).[26]
- Olavi Latsa, 58, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (1956).[27]
- Parry Moon, 90, American electrical engineer and author.[28]
- Franco Scalamandré, 89, Italian-American textile designer, co-founder of Scalamandré Inc.[29]
5
- Hyliard Chappell, 71, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1968–1972).[30]
- Lewis J. Fields, 78, American general in U.S. Marine Corps.[31]
- Alfred Hollings, 81, New Zealand lawyer and cricketer (Wellington).[32]
- Rupert Horsley, 82, English cricketer and teacher.
- Margaret Irving, 90, American actress (The People's Choice, Animal Crackers).[33]
- Eddie Kolar, 78, American basketball player.[34]
- William L. Marbury Jr., 86, American lawyer at Marbury, Miller & Evans, heart attack.[35]
- János Németh, 81, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (1932, 1936).[36]
- Alberto Olmedo, 54, Argentine comedian and actor, fall from building.[37]
6
- Jeanne Aubert, 88, French singer and actress.[38]
- Eric Crompton, 74, Australian rules footballer.[39]
- Mairéad Farrell, 31, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.[40]
- Joan Hassall, 82, English wood engraver and book illustrator.[41]
- Buster Henderson, 76–77, West Indian cricket umpire.
- Lou Legett, 86, American MLB player (Boston Braves, Boston Red Sox).[42]
- Daniel McCann, 30, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.[43]
- Dick Ricketts, 54, American Major League baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and NBA basketballer (St. Louis Hawks), leukemia.[44]
- Stanlake J. W. T. Samkange, 65–66, Zimbabwean writer of historical novels, heart and lung ailments.[45]
- Seán Savage, 23, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.[46]
7
- Edmund Berkeley, 79, American computer scientist, co-founded the Association for Computing Machinery.[47]
- Guido Celano, 83, Italian actor, voice actor and director.[48]
- Divine, 42, American singer, actor and drag queen (Pink Flamingos, Hairspray), heart failure.[49]
- Martin Finn, 70, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1969–1977).
- Gordon Huntley, 62, British steel guitar player (Matthews Southern Comfort), cancer.
- Robert Livingston, 83, American film actor (The Three Mesquiteers, The Bold Caballero), emphysema.[50]
- Joe Loco, 66, Puerto Rican Latin jazz and pop pianist and arranger.[51]
- Youssef Abou Ouf, 63, Egyptian Olympic basketball player (1948, 1952).[52]
- Rafael Quiñones Vidal, 95, Puerto Rican journalist.
- Olof Stahre, 78, Swedish Army officer and Olympic equestrian (1948, 1952).[53]
8
- Bob Addison, 79, Australian rules footballer.[54]
- Ray Bromley, 72, Australian rules footballer.[55]
- Gordon Carpenter, 68, American basketballer and Olympic gold medalist (1948), national coach.[56]
- Bruce Carruthers, 85, Australian rules footballer.[57]
- Amar Singh Chamkila, 27, Indian singer and musician, murdered.[58]
- Ken Colyer, 59, English jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
- Werner Hartmann, 76, German physicist (microelectronics), complications after prostate surgery.[59]
- Katalin Hemrik, 46, Hungarian Olympic cross-country skier (1964).[60]
- África de las Heras, 78, Spanish-born Soviet communist.[61]
- Frank Osborne, 91, South African–born English international footballer and manager (Tottenham Hotspur, Fulham, England).[62]
- Harold Pierce, 70, American entrepreneur, founded Harold's Chicken Shack restaurant chain, prostate cancer.[63]
- Lala Abdul Rashid, 65, Pakistani hockey player and Olympic gold medalist (1960).[64]
- Don Redden, 24, American basketballer, heart failure.[65]
- Guy Tirolien, 71, Guadeloupean poet.[66]
9
- Milton Galamison, 64, American Presbyterian minister, cancer.[67]
- Béla Háray, 72, Hungarian Olympic field and ice hockey player (1936 Winter, 1936 Summer).[68]
- John Joseph Harper, 36, Canadian aboriginal leader, shot by police.[69]
- Harold Johnson, 81, Australian rugby league player and coach.
- Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 83, West German politician, Chancellor of West Germany, heart failure.[70]
- Poondi Kumaraswamy, 57, Indian hydrologist (Kumaraswamy distribution).[71]
- Janusz Piekałkiewicz, 62–63, Polish historian, writer and director.[72]
- M. E. Aldrich Rope, 96, English stained-glass artist.
- M. B. Sreenivasan, 62, Indian music director, heart attack.
10
- Glenn Cunningham, 78, American middle-distance runner and Olympic medalist (1932, 1936), heart attack.[73]
- Andy Gibb, 30, English singer and songwriter ("I Just Want to Be Your Everything", "Shadow Dancing"), myocarditis.[74]
- Svetislav Glišović, 74, Yugoslavian international footballer and manager (BSK Beograd, Yugoslavia).[75]
- Abdul Khaliq, 54, Pakistani sprinter and Olympian, "The Flying Bird of Asia".[76]
- Hugh Lindsay, 34, English equerry to Queen Elizabeth II, killed in an avalanche.[77]
- Kristian Madsen, 95, Danish Olympic gymnast (1920).[78]
- Phạm Hùng, 75, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, heart attack.[79]
- Jock Semple, 84, Scottish-born American runner and sports official, cancer.[80]
- Joey Sternaman, 88, American NFL footballer (Chicago Bears).[81]
- William Wordsworth, 79, English composer.[82]
11
- Rashid Bakr, 54, Sudanese politician, Prime Minister of Sudan.
- Jack Bedwell, 72, English cricketer.
- Christianna Brand, 80, British crime writer and children's author (Green for Danger).[83]
- Harry Brauner, 80, Romanian composer.[84]
- Lee Daney, 83, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics).[85]
- Nicholas Eliot, 74, British peer, Earl of St Germans.[86]
- Harold Gainger, 78, Australian rules footballer.[87]
- Khurshid Hasan Khurshid, 64, Indian-Pakistani politician, President of Azad Kashmir, road accident.[88]
12
- Samaresh Basu, 63, Indian writer (Prajapati).[89]
- Alessandro Bausani, 66, Italian scholar of Islam and Middle Eastern studies.[90]
- Romare Bearden, 76, American artist, author and songwriter, bone cancer.[91]
- Arnold Bell, 86, British actor.
- DeWitt Bodeen, 79, American film screenwriter and television writer (Cat People).[92]
- Albert Clark, 77, American Negro League baseball player.[93]
- Vicky Longomba, 55, Congolese singer and founding member of TPOK Jazz.[94]
- Frankie Martin, 80, Canadian Olympic boxer (1928).[95]
- Margot Moe, 88, Norwegian Olympic figure skater (1920).[96]
- Billie Rhodes, 93, American actress.[97]
- Karen Steele, 56, American actress and model (Marty, Ride Lonesome), cancer.[98]
13
- Olive Carey, 92, American film and television actress.[99]
- Yngve Ekström, 74, Swedish furniture designer.
- Cees Groot, 55, Dutch footballer (Ajax).
- John Holmes, 43, American pornographic film actor, cardio-respiratory arrest.[100]
- Patesko, 77, Brazilian international footballer (Palestra Itália, Nacional, Brazil).[101]
- Xavier Saint-Macary, 39, French actor (Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo), heart attack.[102]
- Pauli Sandström, 88, Finnish Olympic long jumper (1924).[103]
- Steno, 71, Italian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer (Un giorno in pretura, Febbre da cavallo).
- Irving Younger, 55, American lawyer and writer, pancreatic cancer.[104]
14
- Abbas Abbasi, 63, Pakistani hereditary leader, Nawab and Amir of Bahawalpur State.
- Willi Apel, 94, German-American musicologist and author (The Harvard Dictionary of Music).[105]
- Bruno Balz, 85, German songwriter.[106]
- Rudolf Gramlich, 79, SS officer and German international footballer (Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany).[107]
- Ru den Hamer, 70, Dutch Olympic water polo player (1936).[108]
- Johannes Pettersen Løkke, 93, Norwegian politician.
- Carter B. Magruder, 87, American general in the U.S. Army, lung ailments.[109]
- Henrik Malyan, 62, Georgian-Armenian film director and writer (Nahapet).[110]
- Zeb Terry, 96, American Major League baseball player (Chicago Cubs).[111]
- Saul Weingeroff, 72, American professional wrestling manager.
15
- Lloyd Hudson Burke, 71, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of California).[112]
- Laura Caller, 72–73, Peruvian union lawyer.
- Jarmila Chalupová, 84, Czech Olympic fencer (1928).[113]
- Amaro da Cunha, 75, Brazilian rower and Olympian (1932), brother of Carmen Miranda.[114]
- Willie Darden, 54, American murderer, executed.[115]
- Ivan Dubasov, 90, Soviet artist.
- Thord Flodqvist, 61, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player (1952).[116]
- Chevene Bowers King, 64, American attorney and civil rights leader, prostate cancer.[117]
- Henry N. Manney III, 65, American journalist known for writings on cars, motorcycles and travel.[118]
- Edita Morris, 86, Swedish-American writer and political activist (The Flowers of Hiroshima).[119]
- Frank Perkins, 79, American song composer ("Stars Fell on Alabama").[120]
- Dmitri Polyakov, 66, Ukrainian-Soviet operative and spy for the United States, executed.[121]
- William J. Porter, 73, British-born American diplomat, ambassador to Algeria, South Korea, Canada and Saudi Arabia, cancer.[122]
- John Sloan, 83, American businessman, president of Cain-Sloan, heart attack.[123]
- Victor Wickersham, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1941–1947, 1949–1957, 1961–1965).[124]
16
- Dorothy Adams, 88, American actress (The Best Years of Our Lives).[125]
- Nazir Dekhaiya, 67, Indian poet, bronchopneumonia.
- Rollie Dotsch, 75, American football coach (Birmingham Stallions), pancreatic cancer.[126]
- Kurt Haverbeck, 89, German Olympic field hockey player (1928).[127]
- Bizz Johnson, 80, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1959–1981).[128]
- Paul Kohner, 85, Austro-Hungarian–born American talent agent and producer, heart attack.[129]
- Dan Laner, 65, Austrian-born Israeli general.
- Les Maskell, 70, Australian rules footballer.[130]
- Erich Probst, 60, Austrian international footballer (Rapid Wien, Admira Wien, Austria).[131]
- Dannie Richmond, 56, American jazz drummer, heart attack.[132]
- Jigger Statz, 90, American Major League baseball player (Chicago Cubs).[133]
- Frank Sutherland, 58, Australian rules footballer.[134]
- Luther Merritt Swygert, 83, American circuit and district judge.[135]
- Mickey Thompson, 59, American auto racing builder and promoter, murdered.[136]
17
- Raffaele Arié, 67, Bulgarian bass.[137]
- Nikolas Asimos, 38, Greek composer and singer.[138]
- Bruce C. Clarke, 86, American general in the U.S. Army, stroke.[139]
- Roland Drew, 87, American actor (Ramona, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer).[140]
- Leif Granli, 78, Norwegian politician.
- Reg Halton, 71, English footballer and cricketer.
- Franz-Otto Krüger, 70, German film and television actor.[141]
- Patrick Mphephu, 63–64, South African politician, president of Venda.[142]
- Jaimal Singh Padda, 44–45, Indian poet and communist activist, shot by extremists.
- Yvette Boucher Rousseau, 71, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1979–1988).[143]
- Tan Siew Sin, 71, Malaysian politician, Minister of Finance, heart attack.[144]
18
- Gerald Abraham, 84, English musicologist, editor and music critic.[145]
- Billy Butterfield, 71, American jazz bandleader, cancer.[146]
- Oliver Dawnay, 67, British civil servant, private secretary to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.[147]
- Karl Maria Demelhuber, 91, Nazi German SS general.
- Joan Field, 72, American violinist.[148]
- Percy Thrower, 75, British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer.[149]
- Frank Wayne, 70, American game show producer and host (The Price Is Right).
19
- Reyner Banham, 66, English architectural critic and writer, cancer.[150]
- Sabino Barinaga, 65, Spanish footballer and manager (Real Madrid), heart disease.[151]
- Philip Birnbaum, 83, American religious author and translator.[152]
- Bun Cook, 84, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (New York Rangers).[153]
- Suzy Frelinghuysen, (a.k.a. Suzy Morris), 76, American abstract painter and opera singer, stroke.[154]
- Francisco Jardón, 76, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (1948).[155]
- Máirtín Ó Direáin, 77, Irish poet.[156]
- Sid Harkreader, 90, American fiddler and string band leader.[157]
- Pamela Manson, 59, British actress.[158]
- James Martin, 86, Scottish cricketer.
20
- Dick Bell, 74, Canadian politician, member of the Canadian Parliament, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.[159]
- Gil Evans, 75, Canadian-American jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, peritonitis.[160]
- Winnie George, 74, Australian cricketer.[161]
- Akhilbandhu Ghosh, 67, Indian Bengali singer.
- Donald Lawler, 65, Irish Olympic footballer (1948).[162]
- Samuel W. Reynolds, 97, American politician, U.S. senator (1954), pneumonia.[163]
- Greer Skousen, 71, Mexican basketballer and Olympian (1936).[164]
21
- Virginia Axline, 76, American psychologist and author (Dibs in Search of Self, Play Therapy).
- Marie Burke, 93, English actress of stage, cinema and television.[165]
- William Clark, 88, American Olympic boxer (1920).[166]
- George W. Lehr, 51, American politician, State Auditor of Missouri, brain tumour.[167]
- Robert McIntosh, 80, Indian-born English cricketer (Oxford University).[168]
- Edd Roush, 94, American Major League baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[169]
- Charley Shipp, 74, American NBL and NBA basketballer and coach (Oshkosh All-Stars).[170]
- Sigfrit Steiner, 81, Swiss actor.[171]
- Patrick Steptoe, 74, English obstetrician and gynaecologist, pioneer of in-vitro fertilisation.[172]
22
- Gudmund Harlem, 70, Norwegian politician, Minister of Defence and Social Affairs.[173]
- Rudolf Matz, 86, Croatian composer.[174]
- Kathleen Napoli McKenna, 90, Irish nationalist activist and journalist.[175]
- Lester Rawlins, 63, American actor (A Man for All Seasons, The Old Glory), cardiac arrest.[176]
23
- Theodore Fred Abel, 91, Soviet-born American sociology professor (Theodore Abel papers).[177]
- Jack Austin, 88, British Olympic weightlifter (1924).[178]
- John Charles Bolsinger, 30, American serial killer, suicide.[179]
- Norm Calladine, 71, Canadian NHL player (Boston Bruins).[180]
- Jimmy Jacobs, 58, American handball player, leukemia.[181]
- Moody Jones, 79, American blues guitarist and singer.[182]
- Isaiah L. Kenen, 83, Canadian-American journalist and lawyer, founder of the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs.[183]
- Dayton Lummis, 84, American actor (The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell).[184]
- Geoff McInnes, 79, Australian rules footballer.[185]
- Pash, 37, Indian poet, murdered.[186]
- Stephen Boleslav Roman, 66, Canadian mining engineer.[187]
24
- Jan Epstein, 69, Australian cricketer.
- Pete Estes, 72, American automotive engineer, president of General Motors, heart attack.[188]
- Anders Evensen, 73, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1948).[189]
- Turhan Feyzioğlu, 65–66, Turkish academic and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey.
- Sirkazhi Govindarajan, 55, Indian singer, heart attack.[190]
- Abdullahi Issa, 67, Somali politician, Prime Minister of Italian Somalia.
25
- Alick Black, 79, Australian rules footballer.[191]
- Boniface Campbell, 92, American general.
- Earl Catherwood, 87, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1949–1953).[192]
- James J. Howard, 60, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1988), heart attack.[193]
- Robert Joffrey, 57, American dancer and choreographer, co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, organ failure.[194]
- Leona Maricle, 82, American actress, heart attack.[195]
- Vera Pagava, 81, Georgian artist.[196]
- Al Schwartz, 77, American screenwriter and producer (The Red Skelton Show), brother of Sherwood Schwartz.[197]
26
- Miguel Abuelo, 42, Argentinian rock musician and singer, cardiac arrest.
- Edward Boyce, 74, British and Northern Irish Olympic jumper (1936).[198]
- Robert Fairbairn, 77, Scottish banker, chairman of Clydesdale Bank.[199]
- Musa Kaleem, 67, American jazz saxophonist and flautist.
- Julian Pierce, 42, American lawyer and activist, murdered (body found on this date).[200]
27
- Lee Guber, 67, American theatre producer, brain cancer.[201]
- Gordon Merrick, 71, American Broadway actor and author, lung cancer.[202]
- Fred Rose, 68, Australian rules footballer.[203]
- Renato Salvatori, 55, Italian actor, liver cirrhosis.[204]
- Charles Willeford, 69, American writer (Cockfighter), heart attack.[205]
28
- David R. Bennion, 59, Californian winemaker, founder of Ridge Vineyards, car accident.[206]
- Lloyd Bruce, 80, American Negro Leagues baseball player.[207]
- Alan Crawford, 72, Australian rules footballer.[208]
- Shu-tien Li, 88, Chinese-American hydraulic engineer.[209]
- S. N. Tripathi, 75, Indian composer.[210]
- Neil Williams, 53, American painter, heart attack.[211]
29
- Arkady Bochkaryov, 57, Soviet Olympic basketball player (1956).[212]
- Ted Kluszewski, 63, American Major League baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), heart attack.[213]
- Sheila Manahan, 64, Irish actress (Only Two Can Play).[214]
- Jacques Santi, 49, French actor and film producer (The Aeronauts).
- Dulcie September, 52, South African anti-Apartheid activist, assassinated.[215]
- Clarence Gilbert Taylor, 89, American aviation entrepreneur, co-founder of the Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corporation.[216]
30
- Ranulph Bacon, 81, British police officer, Inspector-General of Police of British Ceylon.
- Gardner Cox, 68, American Olympic sailor (1968).[217]
- Jesús Díaz, 63, Mexican baseball player.[218]
- Georgia Ellis, 71, American actress (Gunsmoke).[219]
- Edgar Faure, 79, French politician, lawyer and historian, Prime Minister of France.[220]
- John Clellon Holmes, 62, American author and poet (Go), cancer.[221]
- Beulah Levy Ledner, 94, American pastry chef (Doberge cake).[222]
- Jimmy McGuigan, 64, Scottish footballer and manager (Crewe Alexandra).[223]
- Doris Pawn, 93, American silent-screen actress.[224]
- Arnie Zane, 39, American photographer, choreographer and dancer, AIDS.[225]
31
- Nicola Alexandrovich Benois, 86, Russian-born Italian stage designer (La Scala).[226]
- Sir William McMahon, 80, Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia, cancer.[227]
- Gregers Münter, 80, Danish resistance member and Olympic sports shooter (1948).[228]
- Eugeniusz Nowak, 92, Polish Olympic boxer (1924).[229]
- Bolo Perdue, 71, American NFL player (New York Giants).[230]
- Manuel Silos, 82, Filipino film-maker (Biyaya ng Lupa – Blessings of the Land).
Unknown date
- Harry Kane, 75, American illustrator (Three Investigators), aneurysm.[231]
- Bernard Rudofsky, 82, Austrian-American writer and architect (Architecture Without Architects), cancer.[232]