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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 1987

1

• Dennis Coi, 26, Canadian figure skater, AIDS.
• Gerhard Fieseler, 91, German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion and aircraft designer and manufacturer. ^[1]
• Philip Friend, 72, British film and television actor.
• Arnaldo Momigliano, 78, Italian historian of classical antiquity. ^[2]
• Alan Reid, 72, Australian political journalist, cancer. ^[3]
• Pinky Whitney, 82, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Phillies). ^[4]

2

• Cam Carreon, 50, American Major League baseballer (Chicago White Sox). ^[5]
• Brian Clay, 52, Australian rugby league footballer (St. George Dragons, Australia), heart disease. ^[6]
• LeGrande A. Diller, American general in the U.S. Army, cancer. ^[7]
• Ken Flower, 73, English-Rhodesian police officer and intelligence chief, heart attack. ^[8]
• Remzi Aydın Jöntürk, 50, Turkish actor and screenwriter, traffic accident.
• Ramesh Naidu, 55, Indian composer, instrumentalist and singer.
• Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, 60, Argentine Army division general and politician, de facto President of Argentina.
• Stephen B. Small, 40, American businessman, kidnapped and held for ransom, asphyxiation during captivity. ^[9]

3

• Diana Caldwell, 73, English woman, best known for her part in the murder of Lord Erroll. ^[10]
• Carter W. Clarke, 90. American intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, heart attack. ^[11]
• Ned Day, 42, American journalist and newspaper reporter, heart attack. ^[12]
• Morton Feldman, 61, American composer, pancreatic cancer. ^[13]
• Maxwell Fry, 88, English architect and writer. ^[14]
• Doris Gates, 85, American writer of children's fiction (Blue Willow), heart attack. ^[15]
• Merlin Minshall, 80, British naval officer and adventurer.
• Aleksandr Nadiradze, 73, Georgian engineer, involved in militarising the Soviet space program.
• Viktor Nekrasov, 76, Soviet writer, journalist and editor, cancer. ^[16]
• Lee Theodore, 54, American Broadway theatre director and performer. ^[17]
• Rusty Wescoatt, 76, American supporting actor.

4

• Bill Bowes, 79, English test cricketer, player in the Bodyline series, heart attack. ^[18]
• George M. Chinn, 85, American weapons expert and soldier. ^[19]
• Richard Marquand, 49, Welsh film and television director ( Return of the Jedi ), stroke. ^[20]

5

• Richard D. Adams, 78, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy. ^[21]
• Wolfgang Fortner, 79, German composer and conductor. ^[22]
• Scott Irwin, 35, American professional wrestler, brain tumour.
• Salvador Lutteroth, 90, Mexican professional wrestling promoter.
• Quinn Martin, 65, American television producer (The Fugitive), heart attack. ^[23]

6

• Jack d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 74, British Army general and politician, Member of Parliament. ^[24]
• Arun Kumar Choudhury, 64, Indian head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Calcutta.
• William Haley, 86, British newspaper editor and Director-General of the BBC. ^[25]
• Paul Hiebert, 95, Canadian writer and humorist ( Sarah Binks ). ^[26]

7

• Gordon Gollob, 75, Austrian fighter pilot during World War II, fighter ace.
• Harry Locke, 73, English actor.

8

• Robert Sharples, 74, British musical conductor, composer and bandleader.

9

• Sam Brody, 80, English-founding member of the Workers Film and Photo League, injuries from a fall. ^[27]
• Tom Davis, 76, Irish international footballer (New Brighton, Oldham Athletic, Ireland).
• Bill Fraser, 79, Scottish actor ( When We Are Married ), emphysema.
• Gunnar de Frumerie, 79, Swedish composer and pianist.
• Gerrit Jan Heijn, 56, Dutch businessman, murdered after abduction. ^[28]
• Vratislav Mazák, 50, Czech biologist specialising in paleoanthropology.
• Al Read, 78, British radio comedian, stroke.
• Dora Zaslavsky, 83, Russian-born American pianist. ^[29]

10

• Benjamin Howard Baker, 95, English international footballer (Corinthian), high jumper and triple jumper, dual Olympian. ^[30]

11

• Kerstin Bernadotte, 76, Swedish journalist and magazine editor. ^[31]
• Hugh David, 62, British actor and television director ( Doctor Who ).
• Charles Fleming, 71, New Zealand geologist and ornithologist. ^[32]
• Lorne Greene, 72, Canadian actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), pneumonia. ^[33]
• Harry Gale Nye Jr., 79, American entrepreneur and world champion sailor. ^[34]
• Hervey Rhodes, 92, British politician, Member of Parliament. ^[35]
• Sandilyan, 76, Indian writer.
• Manikuntala Sen, 75–76, member of the Communist Party of India.
• Nareshchandra Singh, 78, Indian ruler of Sarangarh State.
• Surendra, 76, Indian singer and actor.
• Peter Tosh, 42, Jamaican reggae singer and musician, murdered in home invasion. ^[36]
• Mahadevi Varma, 80, Indian poet and writer. ^[37]
• John Lloyd Waddy, 70, Australian officer in the Royal Australian Air Force and politician. ^[38]
• Frank Wiziarde, 71, American actor and television personality. ^[39]

12

• J. Lawton Collins, 91, American Army general, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, cardiac arrest. ^[40]
• William Dickson, 88, British Royal Naval Air Service aviator, Chief of the Defence Staff. ^[41]
• John Qualen, 87, Canadian-born American actor, heart failure. ^[42]
• John J. Voll, 65, American officer in the U.S. Air Force, World War II flying ace.

13

• Aníbal Gordon, Argentinian suspected of being a leader of the Triple A death squad, lung cancer. ^[43]
• Mervyn LeRoy, 86, American film director and actor, heart issues. ^[44]

14

• Julien Kialunda, 37, Congolese international footballer (Anderlecht, Zaire), AIDS. ^[45]
• Erik Lundberg, 80, Swedish economist. ^[46]
• Stormont Mancroft, 73, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
• Arthur W. Vanaman, 95, American general in the U.S. Air Corps and Air Force. ^[47]
• Henry Wrigley, 95, Australian Air Vice Marshal in the Royal Australian Air Force. ^[48]

15

• David Akui, 67, American soldier, captured first Japanese prisoner of war in World War II.
• Wilhelm Berlin, 98, Nazi German general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.
• Leon Hirszman, 49, Brazilian film director and screenwriter ( They Don't Wear Black Tie ), AIDS. ^[49]
• Harry Holcombe, 80, American actor and radio director. ^[50]
• Moazzam Jah, 79, Indian royal, son of the last Nizam of Hyderabad. ^[51]
• Nilo Menéndez, 84, Cuban-born American songwriter (Aquellos Ojos Verdes). ^[52]
• George Edward Pendray, 86, American author, founder of the American Interplanetary Society. ^[53]
• Joe Reisman, 62, American musician, bandleader and record producer, heart attack. ^[54]

16

• William Richard Joseph Cook, 82, British mathematician, leader in development of hydrogen bomb, stroke. ^[55]
• Simon Gipps-Kent, 28, English theatre and film actor, morphine poisoning.
• Howard Moss, 65, American poet and dramatist, heart attack. ^[56]
• Christopher Soames, 66, British politician, Member of Parliament, Governor of Southern Rhodesia, pancreatitis. ^[57]

17

• K. Jack Bauer, 62, American writer and naval historian, co-founder of North American Society for Oceanic History, heart attack. ^[58]
• Vladimir Basov, 64, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter, stroke.
• Francis E. Dorn, 76, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cancer. ^[59]
• George Dwyer, 78, English Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Birmingham. ^[60]
• Musa Gareyev, 65, Soviet Air Force squadron leader, cancer. ^[61]
• Carol Henry, 69, American actor.
• Henry Kroeger, 70, Russian-born Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta, lymphoma and pneumonia.
• Philip Wayne Powell, 73–74, American historian of American Southwest Spanish colonial history, heart attack. ^[62]
• Dieter Schidor, 39, German actor ( Cross of Iron , Querelle ), AIDS.

18

• Golbery do Couto e Silva, 76, Brazilian army general and politician, Chief of Staff of the Presidency. ^[63]
• Frederic Fitch, 79, American logician, professor at Yale University. ^[64]
• Olinka Hrdy, 85, American artist.
• Emil Schram, 93, American president of the New York Stock Exchange. ^[65]
• Américo Tomás, 92, Portuguese Navy officer and politician, President of Portugal, infection. ^[66]

19

• Lean Alejandro, 27, Filipino student leader and political activist, assassinated. ^[67]
• Betty Burbridge, 91, American screenwriter and actress.
• Einar Gerhardsen, 90, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway. ^[68]
• Nyamyn Jagvaral, 68, Mongolian politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural.
• Muhammad Mansuruddin, 83, Bangladeshi author, literary critic and essayist.
• Graciela Olivarez, 59, American lawyer, advocate for civil rights and for the poor. ^[69]
• Ralph Steinhauer, 82, Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Alberta. ^[70]
• Ken Uston, 52, American blackjack player, heart failure. ^[71]

20

• George William Goddard, 98, English-born American brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force. ^[72]
• Greville Howard, 78, British politician, Member of Parliament.
• K. C. S. Mani, 65, Indian socialist activist, attempted to assassinate C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer.
• Michael Stewart, 63, American playwright, screenwriter and novelistm pneumonia. ^[73]
• Péter Török, 36, Hungarian international footballer (Vasas, Hungary). ^[74]

21

• Aimo Aaltonen, 81, Finnish politician, leader of Communist Party of Finland.
• Sven Andersson, 77, Swedish politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs. ^[75]
• Ruth Attaway, 77, American film and stage actress, injuries from a fire. ^[76]
• John Chandos, 70, Scottish film and television actor.
• William Kwai-sun Chow, 73, American martial artist.
• J. Clyde Morris, 78, American civic leader.
• Jaco Pastorius, 35, American jazz bassist and composer, brain hemorrhage after assault. ^[77]

22

• Hákun Djurhuus, 78, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands. ^[78]
• H. R. Gross, 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, Alzheimer's disease. ^[79]
• Norman Luboff, 70, American music arranger and publisher, choir director, lung cancer. ^[80]
• Carman Maxwell, 84, American animator and voice actor. ^[81]
• Dan Rowan, 65, American actor and comedian ( Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ), lymphoma. ^[82]

23

• Walter M. Baumhofer, 82, American illustrator.
• Bob Fosse, 60, American dancer, choreographer and director, heart attack. ^[83]
• Louis Kentner, 82, Hungarian and British pianist.
• Rajendra Krishan, 68, Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter.
• Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, 34, Dutch-born American wrestler, opera singer and actor, heart failure.
• O. B. McClinton, 47, American country music singer and songwriter, abdominal cancer. ^[84]

24

• Drew Bundini Brown, 59, American assistant trainer and cornerman of Muhammad Ali. ^[85]
• John Nelson Cooper, 80, American custom knifemaker, founding member of the Knifemakers' Guild.
• Damiaen Joan van Doorninck, 85, Dutch officer, lieutenant commander in the Royal Netherlands Navy Reserve.
• Erhard Kroeger, 82, Nazi German SS officer, involved in resettlement of Baltic Germans before World War II.
• Dorothy Meyer, 62, American film and television actress.
• Victor Mollo, 78, British contract bridge player, journalist and author, heart attack. ^[86]
• Joseph Tabenkin, 66, Israeli military commander.

25

• Mary Astor, 81, American actress (The Maltese Falcon), respiratory failure. ^[87]
• Gerald Chapman, 37, English theatre director, AIDS. ^[88]
• Duffy Daugherty, 72, American college football player and coach, kidney failure. ^[89]
• Hassan El-Hassani, 71, Algerian comedian.
• Harry Holtzman, 75, American artist and founding member of the American Abstract Artists, pancreatic cancer. ^[90]
• Victoria Kent, 90, Spanish lawyer and republican politician, heart attack. ^[91]
• Abba Kovner, 69, Lithuanian-born Israeli partisan leader, poet and writer, laryngeal cancer. ^[92]
• Gennady Mikhasevich, 40, Soviet serial killer, executed.
• Emlyn Williams, 81, Welsh writer and actor ( Night Must Fall ), bowel cancer. ^[93]

26

• Edgar Anstey, 80, British documentary filmmaker. ^[94]
• Ethel Catherwood, 79, Canadian high jumper and javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist. ^[95]
• Co Prins, 49, Dutch international footballer (Ajax, Netherlands), heart attack. ^[96]
• Andi Ramang, 63, Indonesian international footballer (Makassar, Indonesia). ^[97]
• Howard W. Robison, 71, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives. ^[98]
• Sergio Santander, 33, Chilean race car driver, racing crash.
• Herbert Tichy, 75, Austrian writer and climber, made first ascent of Cho Oyu.

27

• John Newbold Camp, 79, American banker and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack. ^[99]
• J. N. Findlay, 83, South African philosopher. ^[100]
• Robert Benjamin Greenblatt, 80–81, Canadian endocrinologist. ^[101]
• Maria Guardiola, 92, Portuguese politician, anti-feminist. ^[102]
• M. K. K. Nair, 66, Indian art connoisseur, officer of the Indian Administrative Service, cancer.
• Eddy de Wind, 71, Dutch Holocaust survivor, physician and psychoanalyst. ^[103]

28

• Willard Harrison Bennett, 84, American plasma physicist. ^[104]
• Roman Brandstaetter, 81, Polish writer, poet and playwright, heart attack. ^[105]
• Mehdi Hashemi, 42–43, Iranian Shi'a cleric, senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, executed. ^[106]
• Belle Linsky, 82–83, Ukrainian-born American businesswoman and philanthropist. ^[107]
• Ray Madden, 95, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cardiac arrhythmia. ^[108]

29

• Darach Ó Catháin, 64, Irish sean-nós singer.
• Elizabeth Eden, 41, American trans woman, pneumonia. ^[109]
• Henry Ford II, 70, American president of Ford Motor Company, pneumonia. ^[110]
• Vinodini Nilkanth, 80, Indian writer.
• Sebastian Peschko, 77, German classical pianist.
• Mario Prestifilippo, 28, Italian member of the Sicilian Mafia, suspected murderer, shot. ^[111]

30

• Alfred Bester, 73, American science fiction author and scriptwriter ( The Demolished Man ), complications from broken hip. ^[112]
• Geoffrey Bowers, 33, American attorney, AIDS. ^[113]
• Geoffrey Burridge, 38, English theatre and television actor, AIDS.
• Herbert Sobel, 75, American soldier in World War II, his story featured in Band of Brothers, malnutrition.

Unknown date

• A. K. Brohi, 72, Pakistani politician and lawyer.
• Ephraim Hertzano, 74–75, Romanian-born Israeli board game designer, inventor of the game Rummikub.
• Alice Rahon, 83, French-born Mexican poet and artist. ^[114]

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