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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.

March 1987

1

• Freddie Green, 75, American swing jazz guitarist, heart attack. ^[1]
• Bertrand de Jouvenel, 83, French philosopher and political economist. ^[2]
• Don MacBeth, 37, Canadian jockey, cancer. ^[3]
• Vern Partlow, 76, American newspaper reporter and folk singer, blacklisted during McCarthy era, cancer. ^[4]
• Wolfgang Seidel, 60, German Formula 1 racing driver, heart attack.

2

• Randolph Scott, 89, American film actor (The Last of the Mohicans), heart and lung ailments. ^[5]
• Lolo Soetoro, 52, Indonesian geographer, stepfather of Barack Obama, liver failure.

3

• Danny Kaye, 76, American singer, actor, dancer and comedian, internal bleeding and hepatitis. ^[6]
• Cyril Pearl, 82, Australian journalist, author and television personality. ^[7]
• Rafael M. Salas, 58, Filipino head of United Nations Population Fund, heart attack. ^[8]
• Hana Vítová, 73, Czechoslovakian film actress. ^[9]

4

• Georges Arnaud, 69, French author, heart attack. ^[10]
• Maria Jolas, 94, American pacifist, a founding member of Transition in Paris. ^[11]
• Seibo Kitamura, 102, Japanese sculptor. ^[12]
• Eliseo Moreno, 27, American spree killer, executed. ^[13]

5

• James W. Blanchard, 83, American submarine commander and rear admiral, respiratory arrest. ^[14]
• John Brooke, 64, Northern Irish politician, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. ^[15]
• Albert Costain, 76, British politician, Member of Parliament. ^[16]
• Abdulgani Dahiwala, 78, Indian Gujarati poet.
• Harry Dudkin, 78, American politician and judge, clerk of the New Jersey General Assembly, murdered. ^[17]
• Andrey A. Fedorov, 78, Soviet biologist, botanist and taxonomist.
• Joe Purcell, 63, American politician, acting Governor of Arkansas. ^[18]
• Don Yenko, 59, American car dealer and racecar driver, aeroplane crash. ^[19]

6

• Inder Raj Anand, Indian film dialogue and screenwriter.
• Mel Boozer, 41, American university professor and LGBT activist, AIDS. ^[20]
• Edward Carson, 67, British politician, Member of Parliament. ^[21]
• Eddie Durham, 80, American jazz guitarist, trombonist and composer, fall. ^[22]
• J. Spencer Trimingham, 82, English scholar on Islam in Africa. ^[23]
• Edward Zorinsky, 58, American politician, U.S. Senator, heart attack. ^[24]

7

• Yuri Chulyukin, 57, Soviet film director, actor and songwriter.
• Henri Decaë, 71, French cinematographer. ^[25]
• Evelyn Dove, 85, British singer and actress, pneumonia. ^[26]
• Paul R. Evans, 55, American-born furniture designer, sculptor and artist, heart attack. ^[27]
• Waldo Salt, 72, American screenwriter ( Midnight Cowboy , Coming Home), lung cancer. ^[28]

8

• Erwin Jollasse, 95, Nazi German general, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. ^[29]
• Iwao Yamawaki, 88, Japanese photographer and architect. ^[30]

9

• Zeke Bonura, 78, American Major League baseballer (Chicago White Sox). ^[31]
• Ronald W. Clark, 70, British author, cerebral hemorrhage. ^[32]
• Donald Jay Grout, 84, American musicologist, author of A Short History of Opera . ^[33]
• Allan Jaffe, 51, American jazz tubist, cancer. ^[34]
• Andrew Kayiira, 42, leader of the Uganda Freedom Movement, murdered. ^[35]
• Yusuf al-Khal, 69, Lebanese-Syrian poet, journalist and publisher. ^[36]
• Richard F. Kneip, 54, American diplomat and politician, governor of South Dakota, U.S. ambassador to Singapore, cancer. ^[37]
• Bobby Locke, 69, South African professional golfer, meningitis. ^[38]
• Fred W. Thompson, 86, Canadian-American labour organizer and historian, member of Industrial Workers of the World. ^[39]
• Arthur Tolcher, 64, British harmonica player.

10

• Dwight W. Burney, 95, American politician, Governor of Nebraska. ^[40]
• Robert Colby, 64, American songwriter, music publisher and theatrical producer ("Jilted"), cancer. ^[41]
• George Glamack, 68, American professional basketballer (Rochester Royals). ^[42]
• Jeannette Mirsky, 83, American writer. ^[43]
• Daniel Morgan, 37, British private investigator, victim of unsolved murder. ^[44]
• Johannes Quasten, 86, German Roman Catholic theologian. ^[45]

11

• Joe Gladwin, 81, English actor ( Coronation Street , Last of the Summer Wine ), bronchial cancer. ^[46]

12

• Woody Hayes, 74, American college football coach (Ohio State), heart attack. ^[47]
• Micheline Kahn, 97, French harpist and pianist.
• Richard Levinson, 52, American screenwriter and producer ( Columbo ), heart attack. ^[48]
• Jack Marks, 92, English performer and screenwriter (Up for the Cup), lung cancer.

13

• Edward Peck Curtis, 90, American World War I flying ace, Air Service Major General, pneumonia. ^[49]
• Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi, 77, Indian Muslim scholar and poet.
• Bernhard Grzimek, 77, German zoo director, author and animal conservationist, heart attack. ^[50]
• Peter Henrici, 63, Swiss mathematician (numerical analysis). ^[51]
• David Lewis, 83, American Hollywood film producer ( Dark Victory ), pneumonia. ^[52]
• Gerald Moore, 87, English classical pianist. ^[53]
• Hugh Roberton, 86, Australian politician, Minister for Social Services, Australian Ambassador to Ireland. ^[54]
• Fela Sowande, 81, Nigerian musician and composer. ^[55]

14

• Peter Beter, 65, American attorney and financier.
• Tex Fletcher, 77, American singing cowboy, actor and radio & television personality. ^[56]
• Rushdi al-Kikhya, 87–88, Syrian political leader, Speaker of the Parliament of Syria.
• Ivor Preece, 66, English international rugby union footballer (Coventry, England).
• Ali Muhammad Rashidi, 81, Pakistani journalist, politician and diplomat.
• Gerard Steenson, appr. 29, Irish republican paramilitary commander, ambushed and killed. ^[57]
• Ian MacAlister Stewart, 91, Scottish military officer in the British Army. ^[58]

15

• Douglas Abbott, 87, Canadian Member of Parliament, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. ^[59]
• W. Sterling Cole, 82, American politician, lawyer, and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, cancer. ^[60]
• Red Dutton, 89, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Montreal Maroons), coach and executive. ^[61]
• Léon Fleuriot, 64, French linguist and Celtic scholar.
• Don Gant, 44, American singer, songwriter and record producer, boating accident.

16

• Bob Kline, 77, American Major League baseballer (Boston Red Sox). ^[62]
• Vivian Martin, 93, American stage and silent-screen actress. ^[63]
• Scott McKay, 71, American actor, kidney failure. ^[64]
• Juan Gómez Millas, 86, Chilean fascist politician.
• Allan Perry-Keene, 88, English officer in the Royal Air Force, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force. ^[65]
• Joseph E. Schaefer, 68, American soldier in the U.S. Army, recipient of the Medal of Honor. ^[66]
• Samuel H. Shapiro, 79, American politician, Governor of Illinois. ^[67]
• Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, 57, Danish architect, designed the Grande Arche. ^[68]

17

• Tom Cothran, 39, American musicologist and composer, AIDS.
• Georg Lammers, 81, German sprinter and Olympic medalist. ^[69]
• Antonio Lopez, 44, Puerto Rican fashion illustrator, complication of AIDS. ^[70]
• Ron Saggers, 69, Australian Test cricketer. ^[71]
• Derief Taylor, 76, Jamaican first-class cricketer and coach. ^[72]
• Salvatore Toma, 35, Italian poet, suicide.
• Santo Trafficante Jr., 72, American Mafia boss, allied with Sam Giancana. ^[73]

18

• Milorad Arsenijević, 80, Yugoslavian footballer and manager, and Olympian (BSK Beograd, Yugoslavia). ^[74]
• Bil Baird, 82, American puppeteer, pneumonia and cancer. ^[75]
• Claude I. Bakewell, 74, American lawyer, member of U.S. House of Representatives, emphysema. ^[76]
• Lewis Bandt, 77, Australian car designer, designed and built the first utes, car accident. ^[77]
• Elizabeth Poston, 81, English composer, pianist and writer. ^[78]

19

• Punaloor Balan, 60, Indian writer and poet, cancer. ^[79]
• Louis de Broglie, 94, French physicist contributing to quantum theory and Nobel laureate in Physics. ^[80]
• Robert-Jean Longuet, 85, French lawyer, journalist and militant socialist. ^[81]
• Juan Mascaró, 89, Spanish translator. ^[82]
• Ruth Meiers, 61, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota, cancer. ^[83]
• Emile Meyer, 76, American actor. ^[84]
• Arch Oboler, 79, American playwright, novelist and director (Lights Out), heart failure. ^[85]
• Harold Rosenthal, 69, English music critic, writer and opera broadcaster. ^[86]
• Tony Stratton Smith, 53, English rock music manager, founded record label Charisma Records, pancreatic cancer. ^[87]

20

• Warren G. Brown, 66, American rodeo cowboy, prostate cancer.
• Licio Giorgieri, 61, Italian air force general, murdered. ^[88]
• Norman Harris, 39, American guitarist and songwriter, cardiovascular disease.
• Russell Ohl, 89, American scientist, patented the modern solar cell. ^[89]
• Rita Streich, 66, German opera singer. ^[90]
• Kenneth Threadgill, 77, American country singer and tavern owner, pulmonary embolism. ^[91]
• Harry Windsor, 72, Irish-born Australian cardiac surgeon. ^[92]

21

• Walter L. Gordon, 81, Canadian businessman, politician and writer, President of the Privy Council, heart attack. ^[93]
• Dean Paul Martin, 35, American pop singer and actor, air crash. ^[94]
• Robert Preston, 68, American actor and singer ( The Music Man ), lung cancer. ^[95]
• Jacob Taubes, 64, Austrian rabbi, philosopher and scholar of Judaism. ^[96]

22

• Louis M. Hacker, 88, American economic historian, professor of economics. ^[97]
• Charlie Jarzombek, 44, American race car driver, racing accident. ^[98]
• Bill McGuffie, 59, British pianist, film composer and conductor, cancer.
• Joan Shawlee, 61, American film and television actress ( The Dick Van Dyke Show , Some Like It Hot ), breast cancer. ^[99]

23

• Emilio Giuseppe Dossena, 83, Italian painter.
• Maurice Dunand, 89, French archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East.
• Walter Walford Johnson, 82, American businessman and politician, Governor of Colorado.
• Edward Lamb, 85, American businessman, broadcasting executive and labour lawyer. ^[100]
• Reg Lye, 74, Australian actor.
• John Mariucci, 70, American ice hockey player, administrator and coach, cancer. ^[101]
• Morton Minsky, 85, American burlesque owner, co-owner of Minsky's Burlesque, cancer. ^[102]
• Tony Pacheco, 59, Cuban-born baseballer and Major League coach (Houston Astros).
• Herald F. Stout, 83, American admiral in the U.S. Navy. ^[103]
• Ilse Totzke, 73, German musician, survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

24

• Vicente Calderón, 73, Spanish businessman, president of Atlético Madrid.
• Alan Gale, 56, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy) and commentator, heart attack. ^[104]
• Takeru Higuchi, 69, American chemist, invented time-release medication capsule. ^[105]
• Sarah Goddard Power, 51, American political activist, suicide. ^[106]

25

• Carolin Babcock, 74, American tennis player, U.S. Open doubles champion, stroke. ^[107]
• Gusta Fučíková, 83, Czechoslovakian publicist, editor and politician.
• Ivan Ivanov-Vano, 87, Soviet animator and screenwriter. ^[108]
• John Kloss, 49, American fashion designer, known for lingerie and sleepwear, suicide. ^[109]
• Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., 83, American diplomat and statesman, Executive Director of UNICEF, cancer. ^[110]
• Moustache, 58, French actor and jazz drummer, car accident.

26

• Walter Abel, 88, American actor, heart attack. ^[111]
• Henrieta Delavrancea, 89, Romanian architect. ^[112]
• Ohene Djan, 63, Ghanaian sports administrator and politician, member of the Legislative Assembly.
• Robert Gwyn Macfarlane, 79, English hematologist. ^[113]
• Georg Muche, 91, German painter, architect and author. ^[114]
• Eugen Jochum, 84, German conductor. ^[115]
• Mary Odette, 85, French-born British silent-screen actress.
• Michael Stancliffe, 70, English Anglican priest, Dean of Winchester.

27

• Giuseppe Ambrosoli, 63, Italian Catholic priest, renal failure. ^[116]
• Rudolph Anders, 91, German-born American actor.
• William Bowers, 71, American reporter, playwright and screenwriter, respiratory failure. ^[117]
• Tim Lee Carter, 76, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, anaemia. ^[118]
• Erich Clar, 84, Austrian organic chemist. ^[119]
• Olha Franko, 90, Ukrainian writer, creator of the first Ukrainian cookbook.
• Luis Chávez y González, 85, El Salvadoran Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of San Salvador. ^[120]
• Lloyd Goodrich, 89, American art historian, cancer. ^[121]
• Stane Kavčič, 67, Prime Minister of Slovenia.
• Tonny Koeswoyo, 51, Indonesian rock musician and leader of the group Koes Plus.
• Peter Mason, 65, English-born Australian physicist and science communicator. ^[122]
• Hans-Georg von der Osten, 91, German World War I flying ace and Luftwaffe commander during World War II.
• Martin Provensen, 70, American illustrator, heart attack. ^[123]

28

• Horace M. Albright, 97, American conservationist, director of the National Park Service. ^[124]
• Alphonse Alley, 56, Beninese military officer, President of Dahomey (Benin).
• Oliver K. Kelley, 82, Finnish-born American engineer, developed the automatic transmission. ^[125]
• Lê Văn Kim, 68–69, South Vietnamese army general. ^[126]
• Maria von Trapp, 82, Austrian matriarch of the Trapp family, heart failure. ^[127]
• Patrick Troughton, 67, English actor ( Doctor Who ), heart attack. ^[128]

29

• Richard Aaron, 85, Welsh philosopher. ^[129]
• Lawrence Anini, appr. 26, Nigerian bandit, executed.
• Jakob Nacken, 81, German-born American circus performer.
• Akaki Shanidze, 100, Georgian linguist and philologist.
• John Wiley, 60, South African cricketer and politician, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, suicide. ^[130]
• Richard Wilson, 66, American science fiction writer. ^[131]

30

• Pyotr Gusev, 82, Russian ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer. ^[132]
• Veniamin Levich, 69, Soviet-born American chemist (Levich equation), cardiac arrest. ^[133]
• Clint Murchison Jr., 63, American businessman, founder of the Dallas Cowboys football team, pneumonia. ^[134]
• Giorgio Pini, 88, Italian politician and journalist.
• Dorothy Ward, 96, English actress. ^[135]
• Lynn Townsend White Jr., 79, American historian, heart failure. ^[136]

31

• David Adler, 51, American physicist and MIT professor (Condensed matter physics), heart attack. ^[137]
• Unicorn Chan, 46–47, Hong Kong actor, martial artist and stuntman, car crash. ^[138]
• Ram Panjwani, 75, Indian writer and folk singer.

Unknown date

• Arthur Holland, 70, English football referee.
• Lesley Osmond, 65, British actress.

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