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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 1988

1

• Joseph F. Ambrose, 91, American World War I veteran
• Claude Demetrius, 71, American songwriter ("Hard Headed Woman"). ^[1]
• Ben Lexcen, 52, Australian yachtsman and marine architect, designed winged keel which won America's Cup, heart attack. ^[2]
• Tom Pappas, 46, American aide to US Representative Roy Dyson, suicide after allegations of homosexuality with Dyson. ^[3]
• Paolo Stoppa, 81, Italian actor, leukemia. ^[4]
• Yan Wenliang, 94, Chinese painter.

2

• John Weir Foote, 83, Canadian military chaplain and politician (Legislative Assembly of Ontario). ^[5]
• Pavel Kadochnikov, 72, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter.
• Henry Picker, 76, German lawyer and author, published transcripts of Adolf Hitler's informal talks (Table Talk). ^[6]

3

• Jackson Miles Abbott, 68, American officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, environmentalist, cancer. ^[7]
• Carl Erhardt, 91, English international ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist. ^[8]
• Julia Butler Hansen, 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives. ^[9]
• Lim Keng Peng, 35, Singaporean murderer, killed in police ambush. ^[10]
• Boy Louw, 82, South African rugby union player (Western Province, South Africa).
• Premendra Mitra, 83, Indian poet, writer and film director. ^[11]
• Lev Pontryagin, 79, Soviet mathematician (Pontryagin duality, Pontryagin cohomology operation). ^[12]
• Abraham Seidenberg, 71, American mathematician (Tarski–Seidenberg theorem). ^[13]
• Bill Speidel, 76, American newspaper columnist ( The Seattle Times ). ^[14]
• Paul Vario, 73, American mobster from the Lucchese crime family, respiratory arrest. ^[15]

4

• Ed Bakey, 62, American film and television actor.
• Stanley William Hayter, 86, English painter (Atelier 17 studio), cardiac arrest. ^[16]
• Carl Jensen, 67, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate and House of Representatives, cancer. ^[17]
• Jan Mazurkiewicz, 91, Polish army general and politician.
• Oleg Zhakov, 83, Soviet film actor. ^[18]

5

• Billo Frómeta, 72, Dominican orchestra conductor and composer, stroke. ^[19]
• D.D. Kashyap, 77–78, Indian film director. ^[20]
• Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, 90, American writer The Making of a Southerner . ^[21]
• Hamid Mirza, 70, Iranian heir presumptive of former ruling dynasty of Iran, son of last Qajar Crown Prince of Iran.
• George Rose, 68, English actor and singer ( My Fair Lady , The Mystery of Edwin Drood), murdered. ^[22]
• Michael Shaara, 59, American author ( The Killer Angels ), heart attack. ^[23]
• R. J. Unstead, 72, British historian and author, heart failure. ^[24]

6

• Richard Caliguiri, 56, American politician, mayor of Pittsburgh, amyloidosis. ^[25]
• Costantino Nivola, 76, Italian-born American sculptor, heart attack. ^[26]
• Hans Popper, 84, Austrian-born American pathologist and hepatologist, pancreatic cancer. ^[27]

7

• Nara Nath Acharya, 82, Nepalese Pandit and writer (biography of Bhanubhakta Acharya).

8

• Robert A. Heinlein, 80, American science fiction author ( Stranger in a Strange Land , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ), emphysema and heart failure. ^[28]
• Nappy Lamare, 82, American jazz banjoist, guitarist and vocalist. ^[29]
• Domingo Ortega, 82, Spanish matador. ^[30]
• Charles Pollock, 85, American abstract painter, brother of artist Jackson Pollock, stroke. ^[31]
• Ruby M. Rouss, 66, American member of the US Army Women's Army Corps and politician, president of the Virgin Islands Legislature, diabetes. ^[32]

9

• Willie Moir, 66, Scottish international footballer (Bolton Wanderers). ^[33]

10

• Ciarán Bourke, 53, Irish musician (The Dubliners). ^[34]
• Hugh Laing, 76, Barbados-born American ballet dancer, cancer. ^[35]
• Richard B. Ogilvie, 65, American attorney and law enforcement officer, Governor of Illinois, heart attack. ^[36]
• John Sterling Rockefeller, 83, American philanthropist, conservationist, and amateur ornithologist. ^[37]
• Shen Congwen, 85, Chinese writer, heart attack. ^[38]

11

• Isabella Gordon, 86, Scottish marine biologist (crabs, sea spiders). ^[39]
• George Gordon-Lennox, 79, British army general in World War II. ^[40]
• Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann, 83, German ethnologist. ^[41]
• Kim Philby, 76, British intelligence officer and spy (Cambridge Five), heart failure. ^[42]

12

• Paul Osborn, 86, American playwright and screenwriter ( On Borrowed Time , Morning's at Seven). ^[43]
• Chick Parsons, 86, American diplomat and decorated World War II veteran. ^[44]

13

• Chet Baker, 58, American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (It Could Happen to You), fall from building. ^[45]
• Paul Genge, 74, American actor ( Bullitt ). ^[46]
• Sergey Gorshkov, 78, Soviet Admiral of the Fleet. ^[47]
• Friedrich Guggenberger, 73, Nazi German admiral and U-boat commander. ^[48]
• Caecilia Loots, 84, Dutch resistance member known for saving Jewish children during World War II. ^[49]
• Nikolay Makarov, 73, Soviet firearms designer (Makarov pistol).
• Irene Manton, 84, British botanist (ferns and algae), Professor of Botany at the University of Leeds. ^[50]
• Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 83, Welsh soldier and landowner. ^[51]

14

• Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 73, German-born curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ^[52]
• Fred Atkins, 77–78, New Zealand-born Canadian professional wrestler (Maple Leaf Wrestling). ^[53]
• Willem Drees, 101, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands. ^[54]
• Ernesto Giménez Caballero, 88, Spanish writer, diplomat and pioneer of Fascism, founder of La Gaceta Literaria . ^[55]
• Wayne Jarratt, 31, Australian actor (Prisoner), brain tumour. ^[56]

15

• Andrew Duggan, 64, American actor ( Seven Days in May ), throat cancer. ^[57]
• Fulvia Franco, 56, Italian actress and model (Miss Italia). ^[58]
• Greta Nissen, 82, Norwegian-American film and stage actress, Parkinson's disease. ^[59]
• Sol Polk, 71, American businessman, co-founder of Polk Brothers. ^[60]
• Thomas E. Stephens, 84, Irish-American politician. ^[61]

16

• Kay Baxter, 42, American bodybuilder, car crash. ^[62]
• Chan Htoon, 82, Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma.
• Charles Keeping, 63, English illustrator (The Highwayman) and children's book author, brain tumour. ^[63]
• Jules Levin, 66, American politician.
• Anatoli Maslyonkin, 57, Soviet international footballer (Spartak Moscow, USSR) and Olympic gold medalist. ^[64]
• Peter J. Ortiz, 74, United States Marine Corps colonel, cancer. ^[65]
• Bruce Watson, 78, Scottish organic chemist and politician, leader of the Scottish National Party.

17

• Frank Gallop, 87, American radio and television personality. ^[66]
• Guy Glover, 77, Canadian producer (National Film Board of Canada).

18

• Daws Butler, 71, American voice actor (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss), heart attack. ^[67]
• Anthony Forwood, 72, English actor (Knights of the Round Table), liver cancer and Parkinson's disease. ^[68]
• Christopher Gore, 43, American screenwriter and playwright (Fame), AIDS. ^[69]
• Daniel Lewis James, 77, American writer (Famous All Over Town), heart attack. ^[70]
• Brandon Rhys-Williams, 60, British politician, Member of Parliament, pneumonia. ^[71]
• Michiko Tanaka, 78, Japanese singer and actress. ^[72]
• Enzo Tortora, 59, Italian television presenter and politician, member of European Parliament, cancer.

19

• Kurt-Caesar Hoffmann, 92 Nazi German navy vice admiral (Scharnhorst). ^[73]
• Lloyd Vaughan, 79, American animator (Warner Bros.). ^[74]

20

• Ana Aslan, 91, Romanian biologist and physician, specialist in gerontology. ^[75]
• Dick Jacobs, 70, American musician, arranger and orchestrator. ^[76]
• Anthony C. Perera, 66, Sri Lankan actor. ^[77]
• Marion G. Romney, 90, American Mormon leader. ^[78]
• Victorio Unamuno, 78, Spanish footballer (Real Betis).

21

• Harry Babasin, 67, American jazz bassist, emphysema. ^[79]
• Richard J. Daronco, 56, American lawyer and judge, assassinated. ^[80]
• Sammy Davis Sr., 87, American dancer (Will Mastin Trio), father of Sammy Davis Jr. ^[81]
• John D. Fitzgerald, 82, American author ( The Great Brain ). ^[82]
• Bruno Frei, 90, Austrian political writer and journalist. ^[83]
• Dino Grandi, 92, Italian Fascist politician, ambassador to the U.K. ^[84]
• Barbara Laage, 67, French film actress. ^[85]
• Pino Romualdi, 74, Italian right-wing politician, Member of the European Parliament, cancer. ^[86]

22

• Giorgio Almirante, 73, Italian politician, founder and leader of neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, stroke. ^[87]
• Lionel Edirisinghe, 75, Sri Lankan musicologist, principal at the University of the Visual and Performing Arts. ^[88]

23

• Aya Kitō, 25, Japanese diarist, spinocerebellar ataxia. ^[89]
• David Schoenbrun, 73, American broadcast journalist (CBS), heart attack. ^[90]
• Roberto Succo, 26, Italian serial killer, suicide. ^[91]
• Tony Viramontes, 31, American artist, AIDS. ^[92]

24

• Tom Adair, 74, American songwriter and composer ("Let's Get Away from It All", "There's No You"). ^[93]
• Freddie Frith, 79, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion.
• Jamie Hamilton, 87, British rower and Olympic medalist, publisher (Hamish Hamilton). ^[94]
• Ernest Labrousse, 93, French historian.
• Aleksei Losev, 94, Soviet philosopher. ^[95]
• Leo Schamroth, 63, South African cardiologist. ^[96]

25

• Monte Kay, 63, American record producer, heart failure. ^[97]
• Ruth Malcomson, 82, Miss America 1924. ^[98]
• Leon Shimkin, 81, American businessman (Simon & Schuster). ^[99]
• Martin Slavin, 66, British composer for movies and television ( Information Received , The Cool Mikado ), road accident. ^[100]
• Karl August Wittfogel, 91, German-American playwright and historian, pneumonia. ^[101]

26

• Antonio Bardellino, 43, Italian mobster, boss of the Casalesi clan, assumed murdered.
• Juan Orol, 90, Spanish-born Mexican actor and director ( Gangsters Versus Cowboys , Sandra, la mujer de fuego ), liver disease. ^[102]

27

• Bill Bollinger, 48, American sculptor. ^[103]
• John DiGilio, 55, American mobster with the Genovese crime family, murdered. ^[104]
• Florida Friebus, 78, American writer and actress ( The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis , The Bob Newhart Show ). ^[105]
• Hjördis Petterson, 79, Swedish actress.
• Ernst Ruska, 81, German physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics (electron optics). ^[106]

28

• Felix Morrow, 81, American communist political activist and newspaper editor. ^[107]
• Sy Oliver, 77, American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader. ^[108]
• Evelyn Page, 89, New Zealand artist. ^[109]
• Norman Skelhorn, 78, English barrister, Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales. ^[110]
• Alfredo Volpi, 92, Brazilian painter. ^[111]

29

• Charla Doherty, 41, American actress ( Days of Our Lives ). ^[112]
• Sheridan Dufferin, 49, British patron of the arts, AIDS.
• Henry Johansen, 83, Norwegian international footballer and Olympic medalist (Vålerenga, Norway). ^[113]
• Salem bin Laden, 42, Saudi Arabian investor and businessman, half brother of Osama bin Laden, plane crash.
• Vladimír Menšík, 59, Czechoslovakian actor and entertainer, asthma. ^[114]
• Siaka Stevens, 82, Sierra Leone politician, Prime Minister and President of Sierra Leone. ^[115]
• Elaine Black Yoneda, 81, American labour and civil rights activist, member of Communist Party, heart attack. ^[116]

30

• Ella Raines, 67, American actress (Phantom Lady, Brute Force), throat cancer. ^[117]

31

• June Buchanan, 100, American founder of Alice Lloyd College. ^[118]
• Dwarka Prasad Mishra, 86, Indian politician, writer and journalist, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
• Tursun Uljabayev, 72, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan.

Unknown date

• Rosa Collazo, 83–84, Puerto Rican political activist (Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico), plotted to kill U.S. president Harry Truman.

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