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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 1987

1

• Paul Geidel, 93, American murderer, second longest serving U.S. prison inmate.
• Bobo Holloman, 64, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Browns), heart attack. ^[1]
• Antonio Borja Won Pat, 78, Guam politician, Guam's Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack. ^[2]
• Dick Surhoff, 57, American NBA basketballer (New York Knicks). ^[3]
• James W. Sutherland, 69, American U.S. Army general. ^[4]
• Fujio Yoshida, 99, Japanese artist.

2

• Karl Davis, 25, American fashion designer, pneumonia. ^[5]
• Michael Gover, 73, English actor (Survivors).
• John E. Kerrigan, 78, American politician, acting Mayor of Boston, Governor of Massachusetts, cardiac arrest. ^[6]
• Harold K. Schneider, 61–62, American economic anthropologist, complications from surgery. ^[7]

3

• Joyce Coad, 70, American child actress.
• Roberto Concepcion, 83, Filipino lawyer, Chief Justice of the Philippines.
• Dalida, 54, Egyptian-born French singer and actress (Bambino, Gondolier), suicide. ^[8]
• Viola Grosvenor, 74, British aristocrat, Duchess of Westminster, car accident. ^[9]
• Dick Kelsey, 82, American animation art director, theme park designer and illustrator of children's books.

4

• Paul Butterfield, 44, American blues harmonica player, singer and bandleader, overdose. ^[10]
• Cathryn Damon, 56, American actress (Soap), ovarian cancer. ^[11]
• Paul Groesse, 81, Hungarian-born American Academy Award–winning art director, pneumonia. ^[12]
• Khalilullah Khalili, 79, Afghan poet, historian and diplomat. ^[13]
• Konstanty Jeleński, 65, Polish essayist. ^[14]
• Tomohiro Kojiri, 29, Japanese journalist for newspaper Asahi Shimbun, murdered. ^[15]
• Wilbur Little, 59, American jazz bassist.
• Michael Minor, 46, American illustrator, art director on Star Trek movies.

5

• Sir Hugh Fraser, 50, British chairman of the House of Fraser, Harrods, and Whyte & Mackay, cancer. ^[16]
• Herbert Hasler, 73, British officer in the Royal Marines and yachtsman. ^[17]
• Allen Jones, 46, American record producer and songwriter ("Hard to Handle"), heart attack. ^[18]
• Robert Stanford Tuck, 70, British fighter pilot and flying ace in the Royal Air Force. ^[19]
• Phil Woolpert, 71, American college basketball coach, lung cancer. ^[20]

6

• William J. Casey, 74, American CIA director, brain tumour. ^[21]
• Muhammadullah Hafezzi, 91–92, Bangladeshi politician and Islamic leader.
• Karel Plicka, 92, Czechoslovakian photographer, film director and cinematographer.
• David Weitzman, 88, British politician. ^[22]

7

• Boom-Boom Beck, 82, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Phillies). ^[23]
• Colin Blakely, 56, Northern Irish actor (Murder on the Orient Express, A Man for All Seasons), leukaemia. ^[24]
• Stewart McKinney, 56, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, pneumonia (AIDS). ^[25]
• Paul Popham, 45, American gay rights activist, AIDS. ^[26]
• Dudley Ryder, 94, British hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords. ^[27]
• Karl Schuke, 80, German organ builder.

8

• Marjorie Barnard, 89, Australian novelist and historian. ^[28]
• Sidney Cohen, 76, American psychiatrist, professor of medicine and author, heart failure. ^[29]
• Alberta Gay, 74, American mother of Marvin and Frankie Gaye, bone cancer. ^[30]
• Sir James Plimsoll, 70, Australian diplomat, Governor of Tasmania, ambassador to the U.S.A., heart attack. ^[31]
• Doris Stokes, 67, British "spiritualist", "medium" and author, brain cancer. ^[32]
• Carl Tchilinghiryan, 77, German businessman, co-founder of coffee house Tchibo.
• Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) killed during the Loughgall ambush: ^[33]
  • Declan Arthurs, 21, Northern Irish IRA member, shot.
  • Patrick Joseph Kelly, 30, Northern Irish IRA commander, shot.
  • Jim Lynagh, 31, Northern Irish IRA member, shot.
  • Pádraig McKearney, 32, Northern Irish IRA member, shot.

9

• Obafemi Awolowo, 78, Nigerian nationalist and statesman, Premier of Western Nigeria. ^[34]
• Jimmy Kruger, 69, South African lawyer and politician, President of the Senate. ^[35]
• Noel Murless, 77, English racehorse trainer. ^[36]
• John M. Schiff, 82, American investment banker, partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., national president of the Boy Scouts of America. ^[37]

10

• Sadamichi Hirasawa, 95, Japanese tempera painter, convicted of mass poisoning, pneumonia. ^[38]
• Nicolette Macnamara, 76, British artist and author. ^[39]
• Wilhelm Strienz, 86, German bass operatic singer.

11

• James Jesus Angleton, 69, American intelligence operative and C.I.A chief, cancer. ^[40]

12

• Victor Feldman, 53, English jazz musician, heart attack. ^[41]
• Chinn Ho, 83, Hawaiian entrepreneur and businessman, owner of Honolulu Star-Bulletin, heart failure. ^[42]
• Ion Pistol, 40, Romanian convicted murderer, executed.
• Nora Rubashova, 78, Belarusian Catholic nun. ^[43]
• Robert Trimbole, 56, Australian businessman, drug baron and organized crime figure, heart attack. ^[44]
• Michel Van Wijnendaele, 27–28, Belgian mass murderer, suicide. ^[45]

13

• Signe Amundsen, 87, Norwegian soprano.
• F. R. Crawley, 75, Canadian film producer, cinematographer and director.
• Richard Ellmann, 69, American literary critic and biographer of Irish writers, motor neurone disease. ^[46]
• Phil Moore, 69, American jazz pianist and bandleader, heart attack. ^[47]
• Ismael Rivera, 55, Puerto Rican composer and salsa singer, heart attack.
• Forbes Robinson, 60, British bass.
• Elly Winter, 88, German communist and political activist.

14

• Tsai Chen-chou, 40, Taiwanese politician and businessman, liver disease.
• Kris Derrig, 33, American luthier and musician, cancer.
• Rita Hayworth, 68, American actress and dancer ( Gilda ), complications from Alzheimer's disease. ^[48]
• Jānis Lipke, 87, Latvian rescuer of Jews in World War II. ^[49]
• Luke Sewell, 86, American Major league baseballer (Cleveland Indians). ^[50]
• Elizabeth Zarubina, 87, Soviet spy, traffic accident.
• Vitomil Zupan, 73, Austro-Hungarian–born Slovene writer.

15

• Wynne Gibson, 88, American actress, cerebral thrombosis. ^[51]
• Raynor Johnson, 86, English-born Australian parapsychologist, physicist and author. ^[52]
• Kalyanakit Kitiyakara, 57, Thai cardiothoracic surgeon. ^[53]
• Máire MacNeill, 82, Irish journalist, folklorist and translator. ^[54]
• Barry Mannakee, 39, British police officer with Royal Protection Squad, bodyguard to Diana, Princess of Wales, traffic accident. ^[55]
• L. G. Pine, 79, British writer, lecturer and researcher.
• Lionel Van Praag, 78, Australian motorcycle speedway champion. ^[56]

16

• Lionel Cooper, 65, Australian international rugby league footballer (Huddersfield, Australia). ^[57]
• Frank Mayborn, 83, American newspapers editor, publisher and broadcaster. ^[58]
• Ronnie Shakes, 40, American stand up comedian, heart attack.
• Michael Wood, 69, British medical doctor, cancer. ^[59]

17

• Wilbur J. Cohen, 73, American social scientist and civil servant, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. ^[60]
• Gunnar Myrdal, 88, Swedish economist, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences. ^[61]
• Dudley C. Sharp, 82, American Secretary of the Air Force, cancer. ^[62]

18

• Mahdi Amel, 51, Lebanese Marxist philosopher and militant, assassinated.
• Heðin Brú, 86, Faroese novelist and translator. ^[63]
• Hossein Fardoust, 70, Iranian military officer, deputy head of SAVAK, heart attack. ^[64]
• Santo Mazzarino, 71, Italian historian.

19

• James Everett Chase, 73, American politician, Mayor of Spokane, cancer. ^[65]
• Hamid Reza Chitgar, 38, Iranian communist politician, exiled to France, assassinated.
• Deepak Dhawan, 32, Indian political activist, member of the Communist Party of India, murdered.
• Almerigo Grilz, 34, Italian politician and independent war correspondent, killed in war zone. ^[66]
• Huntington D. Sheldon, 84, American C.I.A. director of Current Intelligence, murdered. ^[67]
• Stanisław Szukalski, 93, Polish-American sculptor and painter. ^[68]
• James Tiptree, Jr., (Alice Bradley Sheldon), 71, American science fiction and fantasy author, suicide. ^[69]

20

• William Creighton, 77, American Anglican bishop, heart attack. ^[70]
• Harvey Goldberg, 65, American historian and political activist, liver cancer. ^[71]
• Herbert Jacobs, 84, American journalist for the Milwaukee Journal, professor of journalism, cancer. ^[72]
• Ganpatrao Jadhav, 79, Indian freedom activist, journalist and writer.
• Edward Earl Johnson, 26, American convicted murderer, executed. ^[73]
• Elmer Ray, 76, American heavyweight boxer.
• George Shibata, 60, American military officer, attorney and actor. ^[74]
• Ma Sicong, 75, Chinese violinist and composer, died during heart operation. ^[75]
• Colston Warne, 86, American professor of economics. ^[76]

21

• Archie Carr, 77, American herpetologist and ecologist, professor of zoology, cancer. ^[77]
• Finis Alonzo Crutchfield Jr., 70, American clergyman and bishop (United Methodist Church), AIDS. ^[78]
• Alejandro Rey, 57, Argentinian-American actor and television director, lung cancer. ^[79]

22

• Paddy Belton, 60, Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin. ^[80]
• Thornton Freeland, 89, American film director.
• Heinrich Mückter, 72, German medical doctor and pharmacologist, developed thalidomide. ^[81]
• Keidrych Rhys, 71, Welsh literary journalist, editor and poet, editor of periodical Wales. ^[82]

24

• Alan Samuel Butler, 88, British aviator, chairman of De Havilland Aircraft Company.
• James J. Delaney, 86, American politician, chair of the House Rules Committee. ^[83]
• Hermione Gingold, 89, English actress, heart problems complicated by pneumonia. ^[84]
• Siegmund Klein, 85, German-born American bodybuilder and magazine publisher, cancer. ^[85]
• Lajos Ligeti, 64, Hungarian orientalist and philologist. ^[86]
• Thomas Burdett Money-Coutts, 85, English peer.
• Eugen Relgis, 92, Romanian writer and pacifist philosopher.

25

• Charley Brock, 71, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers). ^[87]
• Winthrop G. Brown, 79, American lawyer and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Korea and Laos. ^[88]
• Hugh Lester Campbell, 78, Canadian air marshal in the Royal Canadian Air Force and politician. ^[89]
• Peter Coe, 58, English director and actor, car accident. ^[90]
• Peter Gerald Charles Dickens, 70, English Royal Navy officer during World War II. ^[91]
• Hermann Glöckner, 98, German painter and sculptor.
• William Kelly Harrison Jr., 91, American U.S. Army general. ^[92]
• Don Sidle, 40, American ABA basketballer (Miami Floridians). ^[93]
• Paweł Tuchlin, 41, Polish serial killer, hanged.

26

• Rose Chan, 62, Chinese-born Malaysian cabaret dancer.
• Alvin Duke Chandler, 84, American Navy officer, president of the College of William & Mary. ^[94]
• Paul Rimstead, 51–52, Canadian journalist ( Toronto Sun ), hemorrhage. ^[95]
• Arthur M. Sackler, 73, American psychiatrist and marketer of pharmaceuticals, heart attack. ^[96]
• Robert Wilkins, 91, American country blues guitarist and vocalist.
• Ajita Wilson, 37, American transgender actress, brain hemorrhage.

27

• Alvin C. Eurich, 84, American educator, president of the State University of New York. ^[97]
• Colin McCahon, 67, New Zealand artist. ^[98]
• John Howard Northrop, 95, American biochemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, suicide. ^[99]
• Richard Bruce Nugent, 80, American writer and painter. ^[100]
• Fatemeh Pahlavi, 58, Iranian royal, cancer. ^[101]

28

• Léon Lambert, 58, Belgian banker and art collector, AIDS. ^[102]
• Charles Ludlam, 44, American actor, director and playwright, pneumonia (AIDS). ^[103]
• Arthur Matsu, 83, American NFL footballer (Dayton Triangles) and coach. ^[104]

29

• Jean Delay, 79, French psychiatrist, neurologist and writer. ^[105]
• Vettam Mani, 65, Indian scholar and writer.
• Charan Singh, 84, Prime Minister of India, cardiovascular collapse. ^[106]
• Phyllis Tate, 76, English composer.

30

• Frank Carlson, 94, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. ^[107]
• Eliot Hodgkin, 81, English painter.
• Miyuki Ishikawa, 90, Japanese midwife, real estate agent and serial killer.
• Honorino Landa, 44, Chilean international footballer (Unión Española, Chile), cancer. ^[108]
• Frank Licht, 71, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island, cancer. ^[109]
• Hallam L. Movius, 79, American archaeologist. ^[110]
• Turk Murphy, 71, American trombonist and bandleader, bone cancer. ^[111]
• Norman Nicholson, 73, English poet. ^[112]
• Hilde Weissner, 77, German actress.

31

• John Abraham, 49, Indian filmmaker, short story writer and screenwriter, complications from a fall.
• Jerry Adair, 50, American Major League baseballer (Baltimore Orioles), liver cancer. ^[113]
• Hubert Raymond Allen, 68, British Royal Air Force officer. ^[114]
• Charles Drew, 70, British cardiothoracic surgeon, throat cancer. ^[115]
• Wilbur Evans, 81, American actor and singer. ^[116]
• Gertrude Jones Hawk, 83–84, American candy maker and entrepreneur (Gertrude Hawk Chocolates).
• Kolbein Lauring, 72, Norwegian resistance member during World War II. ^[117]
• Dorothy Patrick, 65, Canadian-born American film actress ( Till the Clouds Roll By ), heart attack. ^[118]
• Roy Winsor, 75, American soap opera writer, producer and mystery novelist ( Search for Tomorrow , Love of Life ), heart attack. ^[119]

Unknown date

• Sunny Harnett, 63, American model and actress, injuries sustained in a fire.
• Dev Raj Singh Thakur, Indian Air Force warrant officer, killed the killer of Mahatma Gandhi. ^[120]

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