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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 1988

1

• Lucien Ballard, 80, American cinematographer. ^[1]
• Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 90, English writer. ^[2]
• Pavle Vuisić, 62, Yugoslav actor.

2

• Robert Blucke, 91, British Royal Air Force officer ^[3]
• Hamengkubuwono IX, 76, Indonesian politician and Javanese Royal, Vice President of Indonesia, internal bleeding. ^[4]
• Sir Peter Hunt, 72, head of the British Army, Chief of the General Staff.
• Alec Issigonis, 81, Ottoman-British automotive designer. ^[5]

3

• Marco Galli, 31, Italian water polo player and Olympian.
• Franz Josef Strauss, 73, German politician. ^[6]

4

• Geoffrey Household, 87, British novelist specialising in thrillers. ^[7]
• Abdul Majid Kabar, 79, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya.
• Margaret Lacey, 76, British actress and ballet teacher.

5

• Curt Hjelm, 74, Swedish international footballer.
• Ron Staniforth, 64, English international footballer.
• Lois W., (Lois Wilson), 97, American co-founder of Al-Anon for alcoholics.

6

• Paul Ledoux, 74, Belgian astrophysicist.
• Don Terry, 86, American film actor.

7

• George Ansell, 78, English footballer (Norwich City).
• Otto Arnholz, 94, German politician, member of the German Bundestag.
• Sándor Bíró, 77, Hungarian international footballer.
• Billy Daniels, 73, American singer, stomach cancer. ^[8]
• Kurt Honolka, 75, German musicologist, journalist, and music and theatre critic.
• Chet Phillips, 74, American gymnast and Olympian.

8

• Edward George Warris Hulton, 81, British magazine publisher and writer.
• Wally Lemm, 68, American NFL football coach.
• Ernst Hermann Meyer, 82, German composer and musicologist.
• Sam Richardson, 70, Canadian long jumper and triple jumper, Olympic gold medalist.
• Pál Titkos, 80, Hungarian international footballer.

9

• Mousey Alexander, 66, American jazz drummer, heart and kidney failure. ^[9]
• Edward Chodorov, 84, American playwright, film writer and producer. ^[10]
• Cliff Gallup, 58, American guitarist, heart attack.
• Jackie Milburn, 64, English international footballer.
• Felix Wankel, 86, German mechanical engineer, Hitler Youth leader, inventor of the Wankel rotary engine ^[11]

10

• Samuel A. Adams, 54, analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency. ^[12]
• Bhabani Bhattacharya, 81, Indian writer.
• Juan Pujol García, ('Garbo', 'Alaric'), 76, Spanish spy and double agent.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Montgomery Tully, 84, Irish film director and writer.

11

• Buck Clarke, 55, American jazz percussionist.
• Thaddeus J. Dulski, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, leukemia.
• Morgan Farley, 90, American film and television actor.
• Wayland Flowers, 48, American actor, comedian and puppeteer, complications from AIDS. ^[13]
• Bonita Granville, 65, American actress and producer, lung cancer. ^[14]
• Robert Edward Gross, 83, American surgeon and a medical researcher. ^[15]
• Ursula Nordstrom, 78, American publisher and editor, ovarian cancer. ^[16]
• Joel Oppenheimer, 58, American poet, lung cancer. ^[17]
• Red Owens, 63, American NBA basketballer.
• Hugh Percy, 74, British soldier and peer, heart attack.

12

• Ruth Manning-Sanders, 102, Welsh-English poet and author.
• Ken Murray, 85, American comedian, actor, radio and television personality and author. ^[18]
• Bill Newman, 60, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
• Rafael García Serrano, 71, Spanish writer and journalist.
• Coby Whitmore, 75, American painter and magazine illustrator.

13

• Norman Barry, 90, American judge, politician and football coach, heart attack.
• Melvin Frank, 75, American screenwriter, film producer and film director, complications from open heart surgery. ^[19]
• Irene Hunt, 96, American silent-screen actress.
• Mike Venezia, 43, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey, horse racing accident.

14

• Charles Augustus, 76, German prince, head of the house of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
• Qian Changzhao, 88, Chinese politician. ^[20]
• Harry Creswick, 85–86, British librarian, head of the university libraries at Oxford and Cambridge.
• Mary Morris, 72, Fijian-British actress, heart failure.
• Vic Raschi, 69, American Major League baseballer, heart attack. ^[21]
• René Vietto, 74, French road racing cyclist.
• John White, 53, American AFL footballer.

15

• John Ball, 77, American mystery novel writer.
• Victor Copps, 69, Canadian politician, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.
• James Craig, 46, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, shot.
• Clifford Krueger, 70, American politician, Member of the Wisconsin Senate, hepatitis.
• Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, 96, English composer, music critic, pianist and writer.
• Julian Alfred Steyermark, 79, Venezuelan-American botanist.

16

• Queen Farida of Egypt, 67, consort of King Farouk of Egypt, leukemia. ^[22]
• Abdulrahman Fawzi, 78, Egyptian international footballer and manager.
• Muzafer Sherif, 82, Ottoman-American social psychologist. ^[23]

17

• William Henry Bramble, 87, British union leader and Chief Minister of Montserrat.
• Richard L. Frey, 83, American contract bridge player, writer, editor and commentator, cancer. ^[24]
• Anthony A. Hoekema, 74–75, Dutch-American Calvinist minister.

18

• Paulius Galaunė, 98, Lithuanian art historian, museum curator and graphic artist.

19

• Son House, 86, American singer and guitarist, cancer of the larynx. ^[25]
• Marcos de Mendonça, 93, Brazilian international footballer.
• Sten Suvio, 76, Finnish boxer and Olympic gold medal winner.

20

• Mark Evans Austad, 71, American radio and television commentator, U.S. Ambassador to Finland and Norway.
• Vladimir Gorb, 84, Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist and art teacher.
• Orval Leroy Lewis, 72, American mechanical and chemical engineer, president of American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
• Nino Nutrizio, 77, Italian journalist.
• Sheila Scott, 66, English aviator, cancer. ^[26]
• Mogens Wöldike, 91, Danish conductor, choirmaster and organist.

21

• Reggie Otero, 73, Cuban Major League baseballer, heart attack.

22

• Henry Armstrong, 75, American boxer, multiple world champion. ^[27]
• Plácido Galindo, 82, Peruvian international footballer.
• Clare Stevenson, 85, Australian director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.

23

• Hap Emms, 83, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, team owner and general manager, heart failure.
• Asashio Tarō III, 58, Japanese sumo wrestler, stroke.

24

• Stanisław Hachorek, 61, Polish footballer and coach.

25

• Bob Carey, 58, American NFL footballer.
• Boobie Clark, 38, American NFL footballer, blood clot in lung.
• Eric Larson, 83, American animator for Walt Disney Studios. ^[28]
• John Poole-Hughes, 72, Welsh bishop.
• Milton Rokeach, 69, Polish-American social psychologist.

26

• Tatapuram Sukumaran, 65, Malayalam writer.

27

• Frank Devlin, 88, Irish badminton player.
• Merv Everett, 71, Australian politician and judge, Federal Senator.
• Charles Hawtrey, 73, English actor, comedian, singer, pianist and theatre director, peripheral vascular disease.
• Rudolf Jordan, 86, German Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt for the Nazis.
• Erika von Thellmann, 86, Austrian film and television actress.

28

• Pietro Annigoni, 78, Italian artist and portrait painter (Queen Elizabeth II), kidney failure. ^[29]
• John Backus, 77, Lithuanian-American physicist and acoustician.
• Teikō Shiotani, 89, Japanese photographer.

29

• Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, 85, Indian social reformer and freedom activist.
• Andy Cohen, 84, American MLB baseballer.
• Joe Comfort, 71, American jazz double bassist.
• Thomas Cooray, 86, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal ^[30]
• Dom Dallessandro, 74, American MLB baseballer.
• Nataša Gollová, 76, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian actress ^[31]
• Mary Kid, 87, German actress.
• Bill Mason, 58–59, Canadian naturalist, author, artist, filmmaker and conservationist, cancer.
• Orlando Montenegro Medrano, 68, Nicaraguan politician and attorney, acting President of Nicaragua.
• Ross Rocklynne, 75, American science fiction author.

30

• Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, 88, German film actor.
• T. Hee, 77, American animator and director.
• John Myers Myers, 82, American writer.
• Florence Nagle, 94, British breeder of racehorses and pedigree dogs, horse trainer and feminist.
• Francisco Rodrigues, 63, Brazilian international footballer.
• Liz Whitney Tippett, 82, American socialite and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses, cancer.

31

• Ladislau da Guia, 82, Brazilian footballer.
• John Houseman, 86, Romanian-British-American actor and producer, spinal cancer. ^[32]
• Ken Niles, 81, American radio announcer. ^[33]
• Alfred Pellan, 82, Canadian painter, leukemia.
• George Uhlenbeck, 87, Dutch-American theoretical physicist.

Unknown date

• Mavis Freeman, 69, American swimmer and Olympic medalist.
• Ron Gingell, 67–68, English footballer.
• Harry Lowe, 81, Scottish-footballer in England.
• Frederick Roffey, 93, English rugby union and rugby league footballer.

References

1. Glenn Collins (October 6, 1988). "Lucien Ballard, Cinematographer" . The New York Times . p. B 26. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
2. "Sir Sacheverell Sitwell Dies at 90, Last of Trio of Literary Eccentrics" . The New York Times . October 3, 1988. p. B 6. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
3. Air Vice Marshal R S Blucke
4. Indonesia, News & Views. April 1988. p. 2.
5. Jonathan Wood (2005). Alec Issigonis: The Man Who Made the Mini. DB Publishing. p. 300. ISBN   978-1-85983-449-7.
6. The New York Times Biographical Service. New York Times & Arno Press. 1988. p. 1092.
7. Herbert Mitgang (October 7, 1988). "Geoffrey Household, 87, Novelist Who Wrote Suspense Works, Dies" . The New York Times . p. A 24. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
8. Mark A. Uhlig (October 10, 1988). "Billy Daniels, Who Rose to Fame On 'Old Black Magic,' Dies at 73" . The New York Times . p. B 8. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
9. MOUSEY ALEXANDER, JAZZ DRUMMER, DIES. Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
10. William H. Honan (October 12, 1988). "Edward Chodorov, 84, Playwright And Writer and Producer of Films" . The New York Times . p. D 27. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
11. Frank Northen Magill; Alison Aves (November 1999). Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th century, O-Z. Routledge. pp. 3881–. ISBN   978-1-57958-048-3.
12. RETIRED CIA ANALYST SAMUEL A. ADAMS DIES. Washington Post. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
13. "Wayland Flowers Dies; Ventriloquist Was 48" . The New York Times . October 12, 1988. p. D 27. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
14. Flint, Peter B. (October 12, 1988). "Bonita G. Wrather, 65, an Actress and Executive". The New York Times . Retrieved July 18, 2020.
15. Susan Heller Anderson (October 15, 1988). "Robert Gross, 83, Heart Surgeon" . The New York Times . p. 1 37. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
16. Susan Heller Anderson (October 12, 1988). "Ursula Nordstrom, 78, a Nurturer Of Authors for Children, Is Dead" . The New York Times . p. D 27. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
17. "Joel Oppenheimer, 58, A Columnist and Poet" . The New York Times . October 13, 1988. p. B 20. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
18. John T. McQuiston (October 14, 1988). "Ken Murray, 85, Vaudeville Star Who Later Recorded Hollywood" . The New York Times . p. A 22. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
19. Glenn Collins (October 15, 1988). "MELVIN FRANK, PRODUCER, DIRECTOR AND WRITER OF MOVIES, DIES AT 75" . The New York Times . p. 1 37. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
20. "Qian Changzhao, Politician, 89" . The New York Times . October 16, 1988. p. 1 34. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
21. Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr. (October 16, 1988). "Vic Raschi, Star Yankee Pitcher From 1946 to 1953, Dead at 69" . The New York Times . p. 1 34. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
22. "Ex-Queen Farida of Egypt; First Wife of King Farouk". Los Angeles Times. October 17, 1988. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
23. "Muzafer Sherif, 82, Psychologist Who Studied Hostility of Groups" . The New York Times . October 27, 1988. p. D 23. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
24. Alan Truscott (October 19, 1988). "Richard L. Frey, Leading Figure In Contract Bridge, Is Dead at 83" . The New York Times . p. B 5. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
25. Nick Talevski (1999). The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries. Omnibus. p. 195. ISBN   978-0-7119-7548-4.
26. "Sheila Scott, 61, British Aviator" . The New York Times . October 21, 1988. p. B 5. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
27. Bob Mee (1997). Boxing Heroes & Champions. Universal International. p. 21. ISBN   978-1-876142-43-8.
28. "Eric Larson Dies at 83; Disney Film Animator" . The New York Times . October 27, 1988. p. D 23. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
29. Pietro Annigoni, 78, Dies in Italy; Noted for Portrait of Elizabeth II. New York Times. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
30. The Pope Speaks. Our Sunday Visitor, Incorporated. 1988. p. 384.
31. Transit (in German). Neue Kritik. 2005. p. 152. ISBN   978-3-8015-0381-9.
32. Frederick Maurice Speed (1989). Film Review. 1989-90. W.H. Allen. p. 166. ISBN   978-1-85227-166-4.
33. "Ken Niles Dies at 82; a Pioneer Broadcaster" . The New York Times . November 2, 1988. p. D 27. Retrieved April 1, 2024.