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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 1988
1
- Dietz Angerer, 84, Austrian Olympic sailor (1936).[1]
- Đào Duy Anh, 83, Vietnamese historian.[2]
- Jim Jordan, 91, American actor (Fibber McGee and Molly), stroke resulting from fall.[3]
- Ginette Spanier, 84, French director of the House of Balmain.[4]
- April Tinsley, 8, American murder victim.[5]
- Nils Thune, 90, Norwegian politician.
2
- Jacques André, 69, French fighter pilot in World War II and Olympian (1948).[6]
- John Baker, 70, Australian rules footballer.[7]
- Jenő Barcsay, 88, Hungarian painter.[8]
- Safi Darashah, 85-86, Indian cricketer.
- Talib Rasul Hakim, 48, American composer.[9]
- Lisa Marie Kimmell, 18, American murder victim.[10]
- Pushpaben Mehta, 83, Indian social worker and politician, member of the Rajya Sabha.[11]
- Onar Onarheim, 77, Norwegian politician.
- Anthony Pelissier, 75, English actor, screenwriter and director (Personal Affair, The History of Mr. Polly).[12]
- Eddie Regan, 78, Australian rules footballer.[13]
- Vernon W. Thomson, 82, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (1957-1959), and member of the United States House of Representatives (1961-1974).[14]
3
- Milton Caniff, 81, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon), lung cancer.[15]
- Lee Man Fong, 74, Chinese-born Indonesian painter.[16]
- V. S. Wakankar, 68, Indian archaeologist.[17]
4
- Jack Aragón, 72, Cuban baseball player and manager.[18]
- Florestine Perrault Collins, 93, American professional photographer.[19]
- Myra De Groot, 50, British-born American-Australian actress (The Sullivans, Neighbours), cancer.[20]
- Kai Ewans, 81, Danish-American jazz reedist.[21]
- Karol Fageros, 53, American tennis player, cancer.[22]
- Eric A. Havelock, 84, British classicist.[23]
- Perry Scott, 70, American NFL player (Detroit Lions).[24]
- Charlie Snell, 94, American MLB player (St. Louis Browns).[25]
- Archibald Southby, 77, English baronet, cricketer, and British Army officer.
- Roy Weatherby, 77, American founder and owner of Weatherby rifle company.[26]
5
- Boyd Brumbaugh, 72, American NFL footballer (Brooklyn Dodgers), emphysema.
- Dutch Dorman, 85, American minor league baseball player and manager.[27]
- Tom Earley, 71, American MLB player (Boston Bees/Braves).[28]
- Mozaffar Firouz, 81, Iranian diplomat, ambassador to the USSR.[29]
- Swede Halbrook, 55, American NBA basketballer (Syracuse Nationals), heart attack.[30]
- Alf Kjellin, 68, Swedish-born American film actor and director, heart attack.[31]
- August Kukk, 79, Estonian Olympic wrestler (1936).[32]
- Elizabeth Linington, 67, American mystery novelist.[33]
- Rosemary Manning, 76, British writer (The Chinese Garden).[34]
- Robert S. Mendelsohn, 61, American pediatrician and critic of modern medical practice, cardiac arrest.[35]
- Pierre Prévert, 71, French film director, screenwriter and actor.
- Alan Shorter, 55, American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, ruptured aorta.[36]
6
- Gunārs Astra, 56, Latvian human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident, heart disease.[37]
- John Clements, 77, British actor and producer (Knight Without Armour, South Riding).[38]
- Leroy Kirkland, 82–84, American bandleader, guitarist and songwriter.
- Hamdija Pozderac, 64, Yugoslav communist politician, President of People's Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, stroke.[39]
- Émile Roumer, 85, Haitian poet.[40]
7
- Giovanni Gotti, 75, Italian racing cyclist.[41]
- Denis Hamilton, 69, English newspaper editor (The Sunday Times, The Times).[42]
- Dinanath Nadim, 72, Indian poet.
- Albert S. Rogell, 86, American film director.[43]
8
- Vilayati Ram Katyal, 52, Indian politician, member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.[44]
- Gustave Laporte, 79, Belgian Olympic wrestler (1936).[45]
- Warren Lewis, 64, Australian rules footballer.[46]
- Herman Roth, 92, American Negro Leagues Baseball player.[47]
- Jim Waltermire, 39, American politician, Secretary of State of Montana (since 1981), plane crash.[48]
9
- Brook Benton, 56, American singer and songwriter ("It's Just a Matter of Time", "Endlessly"), pneumonia.[49]
- Hans Berndt, 74, German footballer.[50]
- Syd Cohen, 81, American Major League baseball player (Washington Senators).[51]
- John Herman Dent, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1958-1979).[52]
- Jerry Harvey, 38, American screenwriter and film programmer (Z Channel), murder-suicide.[53]
- Jack Lyons, 76, Australian rules footballer.[54]
- Yvan Marie, 74, French racing cyclist.[55]
- Jim Morris, 93, Australian rugby league footballer.
- Dave Prater, 50, American soul and rhythm & blues singer and musician, car accident.[56]
- Arturo Rotor, 80, Filipino medical doctor, Executive Secretary of the Philippines, cancer.
- William Horace Temple, 89, Canadian politician and trade unionist.[57]
- Sylvia Thalberg, 80, American screenwriter (Montana Moon).
- Delos Wickens, 78, American experimental research psychologist and author (Ohio State University).[58]
10
- Khaqan Abbasi, Pakistani politician, Federal Minister for Production, car hit by missile.
- Turgut Atakol, 72, Turkish basketball player, referee and sports official.[59]
- T. Glynne Davies, 62, Welsh poet, novelist and television and radio broadcaster.[60]
- Cliff Gladwin, 72, English test cricketer (Derbyshire, England).[61]
- Woody Kling, 62, American television writer, producer and composer, brain and lung cancer.[62]
- Danuta Kordaczuk, 48, Polish Olympic volleyball player (1964).[63]
- Ezekias Papaioannou, 79, Greek Cypriot politician.
- Shigeo Sugiura, 70, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1936).[64]
- Roscoe Thompson, 65, American NASCAR driver.[65]
11
- Ithell Colquhoun, 81, British painter, poet and author.[66]
- James R. Domengeaux, 81, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1941-1949), leukemia.[67]
- Jeff Donnell, 66, American actress (General Hospital, The Phantom Thief), heart attack.[68]
- Wolfram Fiedler, 36, German Olympic luger (1972).[69]
- Jesse L. Lasky Jr., 77, American screenwriter and novelist (Samson and Delilah, The Ten Commandments), pancreatic cancer.[70]
- Francesco Pacini, 82, Italian Olympic modern pentathlete (1932).[71]
12
- Tibor Benkő, 82, Hungarian Olympic athlete (1932).[72]
- Colette Deréal, 60, French actress and singer.
- Sheridan Gibney, 84, American writer and producer in theatre and film (The Story of Louis Pasteur), cancer.[73]
- Hartmann Lauterbacher, 78, Nazi German Deputy Reichsjugendführer, Stabsführer of Hitler Youth, unconvicted war criminal.[74]
- Harry McShane, 96, Scottish socialist.[75]
- Bill Montgomery, 73, Australian rules footballer.[76]
- Krishnakant Patel, 60, Indian cricketer.[77]
- Alan Paton, 85, South African writer and anti-Apartheid activist (Cry, the Beloved Country, Too Late the Phalarope), cancer.[78]
- George Rock, 68, American trumpeter and singer (Spike Jones and his City Slickers).[79]
- Frank Skaff, 77, American Major League baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Athletics), heart attack.[80]
- Jack Skinner, 70, Australian rules footballer.[81]
13
- Roger Bailleux, 74, French racing cyclist.
- Clem Fisher, 80, Australian rules footballer.[82]
- Jean Gascon, 67, Canadian opera director and actor, heart attack.[83]
- Nat Singh Somnath, 72-73, Indian Olympic hammer thrower (1948).[84]
- Leo Zeff, 75, American psychologist and psychotherapist.[85]
14
- Arild Amundsen, 77, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1960).[86]
- S. H. Barnett, 79, American screenwriter (Father Goose).[87]
- Richard Fanshawe, 81, British Olympic equestrian (1936).[88]
- Daniel Guérin, 83, French libertarian-communist author (Anarchism: From Theory to Practice).[89]
- Jack McIntosh, 78, Scottish-born Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1972).[90]
- Pony Poindexter, 62, American jazz saxophonist.[91]
- Camilla Ravera, 98, Italian politician, first female lifetime senator.[92]
- John Stonehouse, 62, British businessman and minister, Member of Parliament, heart attack.[93]
- Ralph Winegarner, 78, American MLB player (Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns).[94]
15
- Rosemary Ames, 81, American film actress (Mr. Quincey of Monte Carlo, One More Spring).[95]
- Fred Linkmeyer, 78, American fencer.
- George E. Mylonas, 89, Greek archaeologist, heart attack.[96]
- Maria Ulfah Santoso, 76, Indonesian politician and women's rights activist, Minister of Social Affairs.
- Robert Skene, 79, English cricketer.
- Kenneth Williams, 62, British actor and comedian (Carry On), overdose of barbiturates.[97]
- Robert H. York, 74, American US Army officer.
16
- J. Blaine Anderson, 66, American circuit judge.[98]
- John Anderson, 79, British Army general, Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff.[99]
- José Dolhem, 43, French racing driver, power boat racing accident.[100]
- Youri Egorov, 33, Soviet classical pianist, AIDS.[101]
- George R. Howsam, 93, Canadian WWI flying ace.
- Jacques de Kadt, 90, Dutch politician, member of Dutch parliament.[102]
- Francesco Pretti, 84, Italian Olympic racewalker (1932, 1948).[103]
- John Reardon, 58, American baritone and actor (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood), pneumonia (AIDS).[104]
- Clifford Roach, 84, Trinidadian test cricketer (Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies).[105]
- Bobby Thompson, 76, English stand-up comedian and actor, emphysema and cancer.[106]
- Khalil al-Wazir, 52, Palestinian leader, assassinated.[107]
17
- Linda Batista, 68, Brazilian musician.[108]
- Carlotta Corpron, 86, American photographer.[109]
- Albert Fennell, 68, British film and television producer (The Avengers).[110]
- Toni Frissell, 81, American photographer, Alzheimer's disease.[111]
- Paul L. Freeman Jr., 80, American general in the U.S. Army, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Army Europe, heart ailment.[112]
- Anthony Gaggi, 62, American mobster in the Gambino crime family, heart attack.[113]
- Felicity Lane-Fox, 69, English member of the House of Lords, champion of disability issues.[114]
- Patrick Mphephu, 63–64, South African politician, President of Venda.[115]
- Louise Nevelson, 88, Ukrainian-born American sculptor.[116]
- Eva Novak, 90, American film actress (The Romance of Runnibede, The Medicine Man), pneumonia.[117]
- Otto Pächt, 85, Austrian art historian.[118]
- Carlos Sotomayor, 76–77, Chilean painter, heart attack.
- George Williams, 70, American musician and composer ("Happy Days Are Here Again").[119]
- Isaak Yaglom, 67, Soviet mathematician and author.[120]
18
- Stanton Delaplane, 80, American travel writer (San Francisco Chronicle), Pulitzer Prize winner, emphysema.[121]
- Pierre Desproges, 48, French humorist, lung cancer.[122]
- Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, 73, Turkish writer and playwright.
- Lawrence E. Imhoff, 92, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1933-1939, 1941-1943).[123]
- Antonín Puč, 80, Czechoslovakian international footballer (Slavia Prague, Czechoslovakia).[124]
- Oktay Rifat, 73, Turkish writer and playwright.[125]
- Phyllis Ross, 84–85, Canadian economist, chancellor of the University of British Columbia.[126]
- Viktor Salmhofer, 78, Austrian Olympic sprint canoeist (1948).[127]
- Ike Williams, 85, American NFL player (Staten Island Stapletons).[128]
19
- Margaret A. Edwards, 85, American librarian (Enoch Pratt Free Library, American Library Association).
- Kwon Ki-ok, 87, first Korean female aviator.[129]
- Jonasz Kofta, 45, Polish songwriter and poet, choking.[130]
- Jeanne Rowe Skinner, 71, American Navy officer, First Lady of Guam.[131]
- Albert Ross Tilley, 83, Canadian plastic surgeon, pioneered treatment of burned airmen.[132]
20
- Héctor Félix Miranda, 46, Mexican journalist, columnist of the Zeta magazine, assassinated.[133]
- Osias Godin, 76, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1965).[134]
- Robert Jehle, 35, Swiss Olympic handball player (1980).[135]
- Rémi Schelcher, 82, French Olympic sailor (1936).[136]
21
- Carl Årmann, 93, Swedish army officer and Olympian (1924).[137]
- Andrzej Czabański, 28, Polish murderer, last person executed in Poland.
- I. A. L. Diamond, 67, Romanian-born American screenwriter (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment), multiple myeloma.[138]
- Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia, 90, Russian-French woman, child of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia.
- Buddy Humphrey, 52, American NFL footballer (St. Louis Cardinals), brain tumour.[139]
- Luke Lindon, 72, American NFL player (Detroit Lions).[140]
- Morris Rudensky, 89, American prohibition-era gangster.[141]
22
- Len Church, 46, American MLB player (Chicago Cubs).[142]
- Johnny Egan, 90, Australian rules footballer.[143]
- Cyril Fordham, 81, English cricketer.
- Peter Helck, 94, American illustrator.[144]
- Hugh S. Knowles, 83, American acoustical engineer and inventor, president of the Acoustical Society of America, cancer.[145]
- Helge Meuller, 79, Swedish Olympic sports shooter (1936).[146]
- Melvin Price, 83, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1945-1988), pancreatic cancer.[147]
- Irene Rich, 96, American film and radio actress (Queen of the Yukon, Fort Apache), heart failure.[148]
- Barbara Robison, 42, American singer (The Peanut Butter Conspiracy), toxic shock syndrome.[149]
- Tchicaya U Tam'si, 56, Congolese author.[150]
23
- Axel Grönberg, 69, Swedish Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler (1948, 1952).[151]
- Karl Leonhard, 84, German psychiatrist.[152]
- Henry Newman, 81, Australian cricketer.
- Eitaro Ozawa, 79, Japanese film and stage actor and director.[153]
- Michael Ramsey, 83, British Church of England bishop, Archbishop of Canterbury.[154]
- Adolf Rubi, 83, Swiss Olympic skier (1928).[155]
- Gill Stegall, 26, American football player.
24
- Gioacchino Colombo, 85, Italian automobile engine designer (Ferrari Colombo engine).
- Bram Groeneweg, 83, Dutch Olympic long-distance runner (1928).[156]
- Macon M. Long, 103, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate.
- Alexander Makinsky, 87, Iranian-born American businessman, assistant vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
- Kenneth Payne, 75, British Olympic rower (1932).[157]
- Cecil Smith, 60, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1974-1979).[158]
- Pavel Wonka, 35, Czechoslovakian political activist, pulmonary embolism.[159]
- Jonathan Woodner, 44, American real estate developer and road racing driver, air crash.[160]
25
- René Cardona, 82, Mexican director and actor, (Allá en el Rancho Grande, Santa Claus).[161]
- Lygia Clark, 67, Brazilian artist, co-founded the Neo-Concrete movement, heart attack.[162]
- Carolyn Franklin, 43, American singer-songwriter, sister of Aretha Franklin ("Ain't No Way"), breast cancer.[163]
- Erik Hysén, 81, Swedish footballer (IFK Göteborg).
- Ken Jones, 60, British conductor and composer of film and television music.[164]
- Michael Lantz, 80, American sculptor, president of the National Sculpture Society, stroke.[165]
- Burnita Shelton Matthews, 93, American judge of the United States District Court, stroke.[166]
- Ferenc Pataki, 70, Hungarian Olympic gymnast (1948, 1952).[167]
- Sir Hugh Rankin, 88–89, Tunisian-born British eccentric, president of the British Muslim Society.[168]
- Lanny Ross, 82, American singer, pianist and songwriter, heart failure.[169]
- Clifford D. Simak, 83, American science fiction writer (Way Station, The Visitors).[170]
- Valerie Solanas, 52, American author and feminist, attempted to murder Andy Warhol, pneumonia.[171]
- Zephyr Wright, 72–73, American civil rights activist and personal chef for President Lyndon Johnson, heart condition.
26
- Guy Boyd, 64, Australian potter and sculptor, coronary atherosclerosis.[172]
- Paul Buckley, 74, Australian rules footballer.[173]
- William Fox-Pitt, 92, English general in the British Army.[174]
- Alf Hansen, 88, Norwegian footballer.[175]
- Guillermo Haro, 75, Mexican astronomer (Herbig–Haro objects).[176]
- Desmond Hoare, 77, British Royal Navy engineer officer.[177]
- Frederick D. Patterson, 86, American academic administrator, founder of the United Negro College Fund, heart attack.[178]
- Marian Porwit, 92, Polish military officer, colonel in the Polish Army.[179]
- Bennett Stewart, 75, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1979-1981).[180]
- Arbee Stidham, 71, American blues singer ("My Heart Belongs to You").[181]
27
- Fred Bear, 86, American bow hunter and manufacturer, co-founder of Bear Archery, heart attack.[182]
- Christina Bellin, 48, Italian-born American model, brain tumour.[183]
- Jack Fleischman, 86, American NFL player (Providence Steamrollers).[184]
- Valery Legasov, 51, Soviet chemist, chief of Chernobyl disaster investigation commission, suicide.[185]
- David Scarboro, 20, English actor (EastEnders).[186]
- Arnie Shockley, 84, American NFL player (Boston Bulldogs).[187]
- Tommy Thomas, 88, American MLB player (Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns).[188]
- Robert Van Pelt, 90, American attorney, US district judge.[189]
- Olaf Wieghorst, 88, Danish-born American painter.[190]
28
- Fenner Brockway, 99, British socialist politician and anti-war activist, member of the House of Lords.[191]
- William Potter Gale, 71, American political activist and white supremacist, emphysema.[192]
- Michael Grumley, 45, American writer and artist (New York Native), AIDS.[193]
- Hagop Hagopian, 36–37, leader of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, assassinated.[194]
- Maxim Mazumdar, 36, Indian-born Canadian playwright and director (Oscar Remembered), AIDS.[195]
- Bob Robson, 30, American soccer player.[196]
- B. W. Stevenson, 38, American country pop singer and musician ("My Maria"), staph infection.[197]
29
- Brish Bhan, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Patiala and East Punjab States Union.
- Andrew Cruickshank, 80, Scottish actor (Dr. Finlay's Casebook).[198]
- Dom Dallessandro, 74, American MLB player (Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs).[199]
- Harold Dickinson, 79, Australian rules footballer.[200]
- Irving Kolodin, 80, American music critic and historian (New York Sun, Saturday Review).[201]
- James McCracken, 61, American operatic tenor, stroke.[202]
- Jakob Tuggener, 84, Swiss photographer, filmmaker and painter.[203]
- Martin Wyldeck, 74, English actor.[204]
30
- Yehiel Duvdevani, 91-92, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1949-1951).
- Lola Hoffmann, 84, Latvian-born Chilean physiologist and psychiatrist.[205]
- Iwakaze Kakutaro, 54, Japanese sumo wrestler.[206]
- Man Mountain Mike, 47, American professional wrestler, staph infection.
- Carroll Righter, 88, American "astrologer".[207]
- Alex Sanders, 61, English occultist, Wiccan high priest, lung cancer.[208]
- Robert Leslie Stewart, 70, Scottish executioner.
- Tiger Joe Tomasso, 65–66, Canadian professional wrestler.
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External links
- List of April 1988 deaths at IMDb
