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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 1988

1

• Orville Carlisle, 71, American inventor of the model rocket motor. ^[1]
• Red Coffey, 65, American voice actor and comedian ( Tom and Jerry ).
• John Dearden, 80, American Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Detroit, pancreatic cancer. ^[2]
• Florence Eldridge, 86, American actress ( Long Day's Journey into Night ). ^[3]
• Yoshimoto Ishin, 72, Japanese businessman and Jodo Shinshu Buddhist priest. ^[4]
• Kim Yong-ki, 79, South Korean agrarian movement leader.
• Sheldon Kinser, 45, American race car driver, cancer. ^[5]
• John F. Laboon, 67, American officer in the U.S. Navy and Roman Catholic chaplain. ^[6]
• Steve Mills, 34, English footballer (Southampton), leukemia. ^[7]
• Gertrude Welcker, 92, German stage and silent-screen actress ( Chronicles of the Gray House , Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ). ^[8]

2

• Jack Breslin, 68, American university administrator (Michigan State University). ^[9]
• Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate, the "Green Grocer", intestinal cancer. ^[10]
• Raymond Carver, 50, American short-story writer ( What We Talk About When We Talk About Love , Cathedral), lung cancer. ^[11]
• Nityanand Kanungo, 88, Indian politician, governor of Bihar and Gujarat, member of Lok Sabha. ^[12]
• Nada Klaić, 68, Croatian historian. ^[13]
• José Magriñá, 70, Cuban footballer (national team).

3

• Lillian Bilocca, 59, British fisheries worker, known for improving safety in the fishing industry, peritoneal cancer. ^[14]
• Campbell Copelin, 87, English-born Australian actor.
• Tucker McGuire, 75, American-born British film and television actress. ^[15]
• Krishnaswami Ramiah, 96, Indian agricultural scientist and geneticist, director of National Rice Research Institute. ^[16]
• Vic Watson, 90, English international footballer (West Ham United, England). ^[17]

4

• Allan Adair, 90, British army general. ^[18]
• Brian Brake, 61, New Zealand photographer, heart attack. ^[19]
• Richard Leppla, 74, Nazi German fighter ace. ^[20]
• George Commey Mills-Odoi, 72, Ghanaian judge and Attorney General. ^[21]
• Joe Vandeleur, 84, Indian-born Anglo-Irish British Army officer. ^[22]
• Harry Lee Waterfield, 77, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. ^[23]

5

• James Devereux, 85, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps, member of U.S. House of Representatives, pneumonia. ^[24]
• Colin Higgins, 47, French-Australian-American screenwriter, actor and director ( Harold and Maude , 9 to 5), AIDS. ^[25]
• Arif Hussain Hussaini, 41, Indian-Pakistani revolutionary leader, assassinated. ^[26]
• James M. Masters Sr., 77, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps, cancer. ^[27]
• Ralph Meeker, 67, American actor ( Kiss Me Deadly , Paths of Glory ), heart attack. ^[28]
• Gil North, 72, British author of detective stories ( Cluff ). ^[29]

6

• John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, 79, English thriller, detective and spy novelist ( My Name Is Michael Sibley ), MI5 spy. ^[30]
• James Hervey Johnson, 87, American atheist, writer and editor of The Truth Seeker , white supremacist, heart attack.
• Anatoly Levchenko, 47, Soviet cosmonaut, brain tumour. ^[31]
• Illa Martin, 88, German dendrologist, botanist, conservationist and dentist.
• Francis Ponge, 89, French poet. ^[32]
• J. Skelly Wright, 77, American circuit judge, prostate cancer. ^[33]

7

• David L. Hoggan, 65, American author, neo-Nazi, anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, heart attack. ^[34]
• Wilfred Jackson, 82, American animator ( Mickey Mouse , Silly Symphony ). ^[35]
• David E. Skinner II, 67–68, American shipping heir, owner of the Space Needle and Seattle Seahawks, cancer. ^[36]

8

• Alan Ameche, 55, American NFL player (Baltimore Colts), heart attack. ^[37]
• Kid Chocolate, 78, Cuban boxer, World Junior Lightweight Champion. ^[38]
• George Estregan, 49, Filipino film actor. ^[39]
• Henri Frenay, 82, French military officer and member of the French Resistance. ^[40]
• William Kininmonth, 83, Scottish architect. ^[41]
• Félix Leclerc, 82, Canadian singer-songwriter, heart attack. ^[42]
• Liu Liangmo, 78, Chinese musician and Christian leader.
• Alan Napier, 85, English actor (Batman), pneumonia. ^[43]
• Dominic Serventy, 84, Australian ornithologist, president of Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union. ^[44]

9

• Woodrow Adams, 71, American guitarist and harmonica player. ^[45]
• Jimmie Fidler, 89, American columnist, journalist and radio and television personality. ^[46]
• M. Carl Holman, 69, American civil rights advocate (Civil Rights Commission), cancer. ^[47]
• Giacinto Scelsi, 83, Italian composer, cerebral hemorrhage. ^[48]
• Ramón Valdés, 63, Mexican actor and comedian ( El Chavo del Ocho ), stomach cancer. ^[49]

10

• Arnulfo Arias, 86, Panamanian politician, President of Panama, heart attack. ^[50]
• Antoine Blanchard, 77, French painter ( Cafe de la Paix ). ^[51]
• Jean Brachet, 79, Belgian biochemist (RNA). ^[52]
• Gerd Grieg, 93, Norwegian actress. ^[53]
• Benny Johnson, 40, American NFL football player (Houston Oilers), heart attack. ^[54]
• Guido Mannari, 43, Italian actor (The Driver's Seat), heart attack. ^[55]
• Havzi Nela, 54, Albanian poet, executed. ^[56]
• Adela Rogers St. Johns, 94, American journalist, novelist and screenwriter, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. ^[57]
• Paul Thek, 54, American painter and sculptor, AIDS. ^[58]

11

• Nellikode Bhaskaran, 64, Indian Malayalam actor ( Sarapancharam ).
• Alfred Kelbassa, 63, German international footballer (STV Horst-Emscher, Borussia Dortmund, West Germany). ^[59]
• Pauline Lafont, 25, French actress, hiking accident. ^[60]
• K. Avukader Kutty Naha, 68, Indian politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Kerala. ^[61]
• Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, 56, French opera director, pulmonary embolism following a fall. ^[62]
• Anne Ramsey, 59, American actress ( The Goonies , Throw Momma from the Train ), cancer. ^[63]
• Jack Regan, 75, Australian rules footballer (Collingwood). ^[64]

12

• Jean-Michel Basquiat, 27, American artist ( Hollywood Africans ), heroin overdose. ^[65]
• Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar, 92, Indian guru, writer and spiritual leader.

13

• Mel Almada, 75, Mexican Major League baseballer (Boston Red Sox). ^[66]
• Fred Below, 61, American blues drummer, liver cancer. ^[67]
• Keith Hancock, 90, Australian historian and academic. ^[68]
• Martin Hellinger, 84, Nazi German dentist, convicted war criminal, tasked with removing gold filling from corpses at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
• Thomas Henty, 32, English actor, haemophilia.
• John Wendell Holmes, 78, Canadian diplomat, Canadian delegate to the United Nations. ^[69]
• Gajanan Jagirdar, 81, Indian film director, screenwriter and actor, heart attack. ^[70]
• Peggy Mann, 69, American Big Band singer. ^[71]
• Otto Passman, 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack. ^[72]
• William H. Phelps Jr., 85, Venezuelan ornithologist and businessman, circulatory problems. ^[73]
• Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao, 72, Indian author, author of the National Pledge of India. ^[74]
• Tenor Saw, 21, Jamaican dancehall singjay, hit and run accident. ^[75]
• Gordon H. Scherer, 81, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack. ^[76]
• Edward Bennett Williams, 68, American lawyer and businessman, co-founder of Williams & Connolly, colon cancer. ^[77]

14

• Roy Buchanan, 48, American guitarist and blues musician, suicide. ^[78]
• Robert Calvert, 43, South African–born British writer, poet and musician, heart attack. ^[79]
• Michael Crowder, 54, British historian and author. ^[80]
• Enzo Ferrari, 90, Italian motor racing driver and car maker, leukemia. ^[81]
• Kōri Hisataka, 81, Japanese founder of Shōrinjiryū Kenkōkan Karate.
• Kailas Nath Wanchoo, 85, Indian Chief Justice. ^[82]
• Monroe Wheeler, 89, American publisher and museum coordinator (Museum of Modern Art), stroke. ^[83]

15

• Barry Bingham Sr., 82, American media patriarch in Louisville, Kentucky, brain tumour. ^[84]
• Rudy Collins, 54, American jazz drummer. ^[85]
• Han Deqin, 95, Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army. ^[86]
• Ronald Stein, 58, American film composer, pancreatic cancer. ^[87]
• Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, 86, German composer and music historian. ^[88]
• Hartman Turnbow, 83, Mississippi orator and activist during the Civil Rights Movement. ^[89]

16

• Rashad Barmada, 74–75, Syrian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Syria.
• Smokey Haangala, 38, Zambian poet and composer. ^[90]
• Herbert Pagani, 44, Italian artist and musician, leukaemia. ^[91]

17

• Jack Cutting, 80, American international content supervisor and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios. ^[92]
• Nino Frank, 84, Italian-born French film critic and writer, coined the term "film noir". ^[93]
• Bruno Mathsson, 81, Swedish architect and furniture designer.
• Connie Meijer, 25, Dutch cyclist, heart attack. ^[94]
• Akhtar Abdur Rahman, 64, Pakistani Army general, plane crash. ^[95]
• Arnold Lewis Raphel, 45, American diplomat, ambassador to Pakistan, plane crash. ^[96]
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 74, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer. ^[97]
• Siddique Salik, 52, Pakistani army officer, plane crash. ^[98]
• Victoria Shaw, 53, Australian film and television actress, emphysema. ^[99]
• Samuel Silkin, 70, British politician, Attorney General for England and Wales. ^[100]
• Jack Straus, 58, American professional poker player, aortic aneurysm. ^[101]
• Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 64, Pakistani military officer, President of Pakistan, plane crash. ^[102]

18

• Frederick Ashton, 83, British ballet dancer and choreographer ( Symphonic Variations , Ondine ). ^[103]
• Felix Maria Davídek, 67, Czechoslovakian Roman Catholic bishop. ^[104]
• Li Gotami Govinda, 92, Indian painter, writer and composer. ^[105]
• Seiryū Inoue, 56–57, Japanese photographer. ^[106]
• Gary Little, 49, American judge, focus of sexual abuse allegations, suicide. ^[107]
• Michael Perrin, 82, Canadian-born British scientist, directed first British atomic bomb program. ^[108]
• Jessica Powers, 83, American poet and nun, stroke. ^[109]
• Ernst Simon, 88, German educator and religious philosopher. ^[110]

19

• Enrico Cerulli, 90, Italian scholar of Somali and Ethiopian studies, Governor of Scioa and Harar, ambassador to Iran. ^[111]
• Patrick Donner, 83, British Member of Parliament. ^[112]
• Don Haggerty, 74, American actor ( The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp , Sands of Iwo Jima ). ^[113]
• Jerome Zerbe, 84, American photographer. ^[114]

20

• Jean-Paul Aron, 63, French writer and journalist, AIDS. ^[115]
• Leon McAuliffe, 71, American Western swing guitarist. ^[116]
• Joan G. Robinson, 78, British author and illustrator of children's books (When Marnie Was There). ^[117]
• Lazarus Salii, 51, Palau politician, President of Palau, suicide. ^[118]

21

• H. G. Adler, 78, Czechoslovakian-English poet and novelist, Holocaust survivor, heart failure. ^[119]
• Teddy Diaz, 25, Filipino musician and composer (The Dawn), murdered.
• Ray Eames, 78, American artist and designer. ^[120]
• Chris Gittins, 86, British actor ( The Archers ). ^[121]
• Stuart Leary, 55, South African footballer (Charlton Athletic) and first-class cricketer, suicide. ^[122]
• Jerry Warren, 63, American film director, screenwriter and actor ( Teenage Zombies ), lung cancer. ^[123]

22

• Rejhan Demirdžić, 61, Bosnian half of comedy duo Momo and Uzeir. ^[124]

23

• Gerald Drayson Adams, 88, Canadian-American business executive and film writer ( Dead Reckoning , The Big Steal ). ^[125]
• José Manuel de Sousa e Faro Nobre de Carvalho, 76, Portuguese army general, Governor of Macau.
• C. Desmond Greaves, 74, English Marxist activist and historian. ^[126]
• Laud Humphreys, 57, American sociologist and Episcopal priest, lung cancer. ^[127]
• Josef Klehr, 83, Nazi German SS-Oberscharführer, concentration camp supervisor and war criminal.
• Hans Lewy, 83, Prussian-born American mathematician (partial differential equations), leukemia. ^[128]
• Menotti Del Picchia, 96, Brazilian poet, journalist and painter.
• Jack Sher, 75, American newspaper columnist and film writer ( Goodbye, Raggedy Ann ), respiratory and heart problems. ^[129]
• Robert Walcott, 78, American historian. ^[130]

24

• C. Chhunga, 72, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Mizoram.
• Leonard Frey, 49, American actor (Fiddler on the Roof), AIDS. ^[131]
• Kenneth Leighton, 58, British composer and pianist, oesophageal cancer. ^[132]
• Abu Jafar Shamsuddin, 77, Bangladeshi writer. ^[133]
• Nat Stuckey, 54, American country singer ("Sweet Thang"), lung cancer. ^[134]

25

• Caziel, 82, Polish-born artist. ^[135]
• Price Daniel, 77, American jurist and politician, Governor of Texas, stroke. ^[136]
• Françoise Dolto, 79, French pediatrician and psychoanalyst, pulmonary fibrosis. ^[137]
• Percy Foreman, 86, American criminal defense attorney (James Earl Ray), cardiac arrest. ^[138]
• Henry Joseph Gallagher, 73, British soldier in the Korean War (Distinguished Conduct Medal).
• Jimmy Lloyd, 69, American actor (The Sea Hound). ^[139]
• Irving Mansfield, 80, American producer, publicist and writer, heart attack. ^[140]
• Art Rooney, 87, American owner of Pittsburgh Steelers NFL team, stroke. ^[141]

26

• Donald De Lue, 90, American sculptor (Harvey S. Firestone Memorial). ^[142]
• Oscar Marzaroli, 55, Italian-born Scottish photographer, cancer. ^[143]
• Carlos Paião, 30, Portuguese singer and songwriter, car accident. ^[144]
• Fred Peart, 74, British politician, leader of the Houses of Lords and Commons. ^[145]
• Milton Sperling, 76, American film producer and screenwriter, owner of United States Pictures, cancer. ^[146]

27

• Lala Aragami, 65, Indian poet.
• Jinavajiralongkorn, 91, Supreme Patriarch of Thailand.
• Max Black, 79, Azerbaijani-born British-American philosopher of language, mathematics, science and art, heart complications. ^[147]
• Charles Farrell, 88, Irish-born stage, film and television actor. ^[148]
• Gunther von Fritsch, 82, Austro-Hungarian born American film director ( The Curse of the Cat People ), stroke. ^[149]
• Irene Higginbotham, 70, American songwriter and concert pianist ("Good Morning Heartache"). ^[150]
• John Lie, 77, Indonesian Navy rear admiral, stroke.
• Mario Montenegro, 60, Filipino film actor, heart attack. ^[151]
• John Riordan, 85, American mathematician and author (combinatorics), Alzheimer's disease. ^[152]
• William Sargant, 81, British psychiatrist (electroconvulsive therapy). ^[153]
• Costas Taktsis, 60, Greek writer, murdered. ^[154]
• Benjamin Willis, 86, American educator and school administrator, heart attack. ^[155]

28

• Hazel Dawn, 98, American actress (The Pink Lady). ^[156]
• Paul Grice, 75, British philosopher of language. ^[157]
• Guy Hocquenghem, 41, French writer and philosopher, AIDS. ^[158]
• Jean Marchand, 69, Canadian trade unionist and politician, Member of Parliament, Secretary of State for Canada. ^[159]
• Max Shulman, 69, American writer and humorist (Dobie Gillis), bone cancer. ^[160]

29

• David A. Hargrave, 42, American game designer and writer of fantasy and science fiction role-playing games ( Arduin ). ^[161]
• Horace Henderson, 83, American jazz pianist, organist and bandleader. ^[162]
• Wilfred Johnson, 52, American mobster, member of Gambino crime family, murdered. ^[163]
• Algirdas Klimaitis, 77–78, Lithuanian paramilitary commander, antisemite (Kaunas pogrom).
• Mykola Lukash, 68, Ukrainian literary translator, cancer. ^[164]
• Lưu Quang Vũ, 40, Vietnamese playwright and poet, traffic collision. ^[165]
• Abuna Takla Haymanot, 70, Ethiopian patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. ^[166]
• Xuân Quỳnh, 45, Vietnamese poet, car crash. ^[167]

30

• James N. Black, 48, American jazz drummer. ^[168]
• Eren Eyüboğlu, 75, Romanian-born Turkish artist. ^[169]
• Nikolai Fefilov, 42, Soviet serial killer, strangled in jail. ^[170]
• Jack Marshall, 76, New Zealand politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand. ^[171]
• Helenus Milmo, 80, Irish lawyer in Britain and High Court judge. ^[172]
• Leonidas Proaño, 78, Ecuadorian prelate, Bishop of Riobamba. ^[173]

31

• Grace Eldering, 87, American public health scientist (whooping cough vaccine). ^[174]
• Lin Jaldati, 75, Dutch-born, East German-based singer, Holocaust survivor. ^[175]
• Vasil Mzhavanadze, 85, Georgian politician, First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party. ^[176]

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• Surat Alley, 82–83, Indian trade unionist and political activist in Britain.

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