Deaths in July 1987
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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 soccer player, coach and manager, heart attack.[1]
- Jerry Livingston, 78, American songwriter (The Twelfth of Never) and dance orchestra pianist, heart condition.[2]
- 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.[3]
- Václav Černý, 82, Czechoslovakian literary scholar, writer and philosopher.[4]
- Denis Larkin, 79, Irish politician (Teachta Dála, Lord Mayor of Dublin) and trade union official.[5]
- Karl Linnas, 67, Estonian sentenced to death during the Holocaust trials, heart failure.[6]
- George S. Wise, 81, American sociologist, president of Tel Aviv University, heart failure.[7]
3
- Viola Dana, 90, American silent-screen actress.[8]
- John H. Mercer, 64, British glaciologist.[9]
- William Wiard, 59, American film and television director, cancer.
4
- Edward Addison, 88, British Royal Air Force air vice marshal.[10]
- Alexander Gordon-Lennox, 76, British Royal Navy rear admiral, president of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.[11]
- 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).[12]
- Bengt Strömgren, 79, Danish astronomer and astrophysicist, heart failure.[13]
5
- Bobby Ancell, 76, Scottish international footballer and manager (St Mirren, Scotland).[14]
- Alan Gibson, 49, Canadian film and television director.
6
- László Pusztai, 41, Hungarian international footballer (Ferencvárosi, Hungary), car accident.[15]
7
- Finis Jennings Dake, 84, American Pentecostal minister, complications from Parkinson's disease.[16]
- Michael J. Eagen, 80. American chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.[17]
- René Gérard, 73, French international footballer (Montpellier, France).[18]
- H. R. Jothipala, 51, Sri Lankan playback singer, liver failure.[19]
- Ernest Achey Loftus, 103, British soldier and diarist.[20]
- John Meredith Rockingham, 75, Australian-born Canadian general in the Canadian Army.[21]
- 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.[22]
- Alvin O'Konski, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, cardiac arrest.[23]
- 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).[24]
9
- Michiyo Fukaya, 34, American feminist poet and activist, suicide.
- Ashley Kriel, 20, South African anti-apartheid activist, killed by police.[25]
- Waris Mir, 48, Pakistani journalist and academic, cardiac arrest.[26]
- Hezekiah Ochuka, 33, Kenyan private in the Kenyan Air Force, Kenyan leader for 6 hours, hanged.[27]
- Paul Rapoport, 47, American lawyer, AIDS.[28]
- Ulas Samchuk, 82, Ukrainian writer, journalist and anti-semite.[29]
- Ernest Ward, 66, English rugby league footballer (Bradford Northern, Great Britain).[30]
10
- Doug Dobell, 69, British record store proprietor and record producer, ran Dobell's Record Shop, heart attack.
- John Hammond, 76, American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic, stroke.[31]
- Harold Rice, 75, American educator and magician.
- Tanya Zolotoroff Nash, 89, Russian-born American Deaf Rights activist.[32]
11
- Hannah Billig, 85, British medical doctor.[33]
- 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.[34]
- Fernando Garcia Ponce, 53, Mexican architect and artist, heart attack.[35]
- Avi Ran, 23, Israeli international footballer (Maccabi Haifa, Israel), hit by racing boat.[36]
- Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, 87, Russian-born American Talmudic scholar and rabbi.[37]
- Robert Love Taylor, 87, American district judge.[38]
- Tom Waddell, 49, American physician, decathlete Olympian and founder of the Gay Olympics, AIDS.[39]
12
- Peter Gimbel, 60, American filmmaker and underwater photojournalist, cancer.[40]
- 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.[41]
- Marguerite Renoir, 80, French film editor.
- Andrei Snezhnevsky, 83, Soviet psychiatrist, lung cancer.
13
- Patience Collier, 76, British actress.[42]
- Robert Francis, 85, American poet.[43]
- Silas Jayne, 80, American horse trainer and murderer, leukemia.[44]
- Eric Worrell, 62, Australian naturalist and science writer, established Australian Reptile Park, heart attack.[45]
14
- Salvador E. Felices, 63, Puerto Rican general in the U.S. Air Force.[46]
- Fritz Holt, 46, American theatre producer and director (La Cage aux Folles), pneumonia.[47]
- William Overton, 47, United States district judge, cancer.[48]
- Sao Saimong, 73, Burmese government minister.
- William Stuart-Houston, 76, English-born American half-nephew of Adolf Hitler.[49]
- Pak Yung-sun, 30, North Korean table tennis player, world champion.
- Viktor Zhdanov, 73, Soviet virologist and epidemiologist, instrumental in eradicating smallpox, cerebral hemorrhage.[50]
15
- Lee Ballanfant, 91, American Major Leagues baseball umpire.[51]
- J. Rives Childs, 94, American diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, North Yemen and Ethiopia, cardiac pulmonary infection.[52]
- Polly Elwes, 59, British BBC television in-vision announcer and reporter (Tonight), bone cancer.[53]
- Lee Gaines, 73, American jazz singer and lyricist (Take the A Train, Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'), cancer.[54]
- Fernando Van Zeller Guedes, 84, Portuguese wine producer (Sogrape).[55]
- 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).[56]
- Margarete Schlegel, 87, German and British theatre and film actress and soprano operetta singer.
16
- Harry Ayres, 74, New Zealand mountaineer and guide, suspected suicide by drowning.
- Alfie Bass, 71, English actor, heart attack.
- Pierre Lardinois, 62, Dutch politician and diplomat.[57]
- 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.
- Yūjirō Ishihara, 52, Japanese actor and singer, liver cancer.
- Howard McGhee, 69, American bebop jazz trumpeter.
- Mathura Prasad Mishra, 69, Indian politician, member of the lower house of the Parliament of India.
- Kristjan Palusalu, 79, Estonian heavyweight wrestler and dual Olympic gold medalist.
- Leon B. Poullada, 74, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Togo, prostate cancer.[58]
18
- Anthony Casamento, 66, American marine corporal, Medal of Honor recipient.[59]
- George Dahl, 93, American architect, dehydration.
- Gilberto Freyre, 87, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman.[60]
- Alfredo Ruano, 54, El Salvadoran international footballer, 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 writer, drowned.
- Brij Lal Varma, 70–71, Indian politician, cabinet minister.
20
- Ichirō Arishima, 71, Japanese comedian and actor.
- Norbert Casteret, 89, French caver, adventurer and writer.
- Richard Egan, 65, American actor, prostate cancer.[61]
- Margit Johnsen, 74, Norwegian sailor in the merchant navy.
- Dmitry Lelyushenko, 85, Soviet army general.
- Alexander Wood, 80, Scottish American international footballer.
21
- John Armstrong, 71, Irish Anglican bishop, Archbishop of Armagh.
- Donald Cressey, 68, American penologist, sociologist and criminologist.
- Louis DaPron, 74, American dancer, choreographer and dance instructor.
- Bert Keyes, 56, American pianist, songwriter, singer and arranger.
- 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, Turkish Ambassador to Switzerland.
- Eugene Halliday, 75, British artist and writer.
- Natalie Hinderas, 60, American pianist and composer, cancer.[62]
- Mary Cover Jones, 89, American developmental psychologist and pioneer of behaviour therapy.
- Jack Lescoulie, 74, American radio and television announcer and host.[63]
- C. B. Macpherson, 75, Canadian political scientist.
- Don McMahon, 57, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.
- Nick Perls, 55, American audio engineer and the founder and owner of Yazoo 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, stomach cancer.
- Song Deok-gi, 94, Korean martial artist.
- Art Jarrett, 80, American singer, actor and bandleader.
- Manuel Suárez y Suárez, 91, Spanish-Mexican entrepreneur and patron of the arts.
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.[64]
25
- Malcolm Baldrige Jr., 64, American businessman, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, internal injuries from rodeo accident.[65]
- Charles Stark Draper, 85, American scientist and engineer, "father of inertial navigation".[66]
- Lydie Marland, 87, American first lady of Oklahoma.
- Tracy Read, 25, American race car driver, race crash.
- Alex Sadkin, 38, American record producer, engineer, mixer and mastering engineer, motor accident.
26
- Jim Bishop, 79, American journalist and author, respiratory failure.[67]
- Chinmoy Chattopadhyay, 56, Indian singer.
- Phyllis Cilento, 93, Australian medical practitioner, medical journalist and advocate of family planning.
- Frank Marshall Davis, 81, American journalist, poet, political activist and businessman.
- 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.[68]
- Kenneth Muse, 77, American animator (Tom and Jerry).
- Mario Radice, 88, Italian painter
- Hugh Wheeler, 75, British-American novelist, screenwriter, librettist and poet.[69]
27
- Travis Jackson, 83, American Major league baseballer, Alzheimer's disease.[70]
- Jan Mikusiński, 74, Polish mathematician.
- K. L. N. Prasad, 59, Indian politician, member of Parliament.
28
- James Burnham, 81, American philosopher and political theorist, kidney and liver cancer.[71]
- Feodor Fedorenko, 79, Soviet Nazi collaborator and war criminal, executed.
- Carlton Fredericks, 76, American radio commentator and writer on health and nutrition, heart attack.[72]
- 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-Canadian psychologist and author.
- Levie Vorst, 83, Dutch rabbi of Rotterdam.
29
- Arthur J. Bressan Jr., 44, American director, writer, producer and documentarian, AIDS.
- Arthur Chipperfield, 81, Australian test cricketer.
- Aleksey Sukletin, 44, Soviet serial killer, rapist and cannibal, executed.
30
- Vicky Clement-Jones, 38, Hong Kong-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, community leader and author, bronchitis.
- Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, 92, Indian author.
- Narciso Soldan, 59, Italian footballer.
- 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.[73]
- Justine W. Polier, 84, American lawyer, the first woman Justice in New York.
- Michael Staniforth, 44, British stage actor, AIDS.
- Paul Yakabuski, 64, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
Unknown date
- Sari Maritza, 77, British film actress.
- Joe Mondragon, 67, American jazz bassist.
- Hugh Perceval, 79, British screenwriter and film producer.
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