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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 1988

1

• Margot Bryant, 90, English actress ( Coronation Street ).
• Marcel Hillaire, 79, German-American character actor.
• Clementine Hunter, 101, American folk artist.
• Anwar Hussain, 62, Indian actor and producer.
• John S. Millis, 84, American president of Western Reserve College, cancer. ^[1]
• Anatoli Nenartovich, 72, Russian painter.
• Rolf Presthus, 51, Norwegian politician and lawyer, member of the Norwegian Parliament, cerebral hemorrhage. ^[2]
• Max Siegel, 69, American psychologist, president of American Psychological Association, heart attack.
• Anna Sipos, 79, Hungarian international table tennis player and world champion.
• Dan Spring, 77, Irish Labour Party politician and Gaelic footballer.

2

• Dada Bhagwan, 79, Indian spiritual leader, founded the Akram Vignan movement.
• Bill Crawford-Compton, 72, New Zealand flying ace of Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
• E. B. Ford, 86, British ecological geneticist. ^[3]
• Jesse Gray, 64, American civil rights leader and politician. ^[4]
• Fritz Heider, 91, Austrian psychologist.
• Peter Mills, 61, English eccentric and pretender.
• Varadarajan Mudaliar, 61, Indian crime boss, heart attack.

3

• Rose Ausländer, 86, Austro-Hungarian-poet. ^[5]
• William Cagney, 82, American film producer and actor ( Lost in the Stratosphere , Flirting with Danger ), brother of James Cagney. ^[6]
• Joie Chitwood, 75, American racecar driver and businessman.
• Lance Collins, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• John Dopyera, 94, Slovak-American inventor and entrepreneur.
• Gaston Eyskens, 82, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Belgium. ^[7]
• Bill Gibb, 44, Scottish fashion designer, bowel cancer.
• Nando González, 66, Spanish international footballer.
• Gladys Lunn, 79, English middle-distance runner and javelin thrower.
• Franz Muxeneder, 67, Austrian actor.

4

• Ruth Bleier, 64, American neurophysiologist, cancer. ^[8]
• Leo de Block, 83, Dutch politician and businessman.
• William Gilpin, 85, English bishop.
• Henfil, 43, Brazilian cartoonist, caricaturist, journalist and writer, AIDS from blood transfusion.
• Lily Laskine, 94, French harpist. ^[9]
• Carl Shipp Marvel, 93, American chemist.

5

• Joe Keohane, 69, Irish Gaelic football manager, selector and player.
• \"Pistol\" Pete Maravich, 40, American basketball player, heart failure. ^[10]
• Go Mishima, 63–64, Japanese homoerotic fetish artist, founder of magazine Sabu, complications from cirrhosis.
• Herbert Waddell, 85, Scottish international rugby union player.

6

• Bern Dibner, 90, Ukrainian-American electrical engineer, industrialist and historian of science and technology. ^[11]
• Yustin Sirutis, 79, American boxer. ^[12]

7

• Michel Auclair, 65, German-born French actor ( Funny Face , The Day of the Jackal ). ^[13]
• Zara Cisco Brough, 69, Chief of the Nipmuc Nation. ^[14]
• Cyril Gwynn, 90, British poet.
• Trevor Howard, 74, English stage, film and television actor, cirrhosis of the liver. ^[15]
• Arthur R. M. Lower, 98, Canadian historian.
• Venko Markovski, 72, Bulgarian and Macedonian writer, poet, partisan and Communist politician.
• Michael Mills, 68, English television producer and director.
• Marilyn Schreffler, 42, American voice actress, colorectal infection caused by liver cancer.
• Alfred Ubbelohde, 80, Belgian-English physical chemist.

8

• Vyacheslav Aleksandrov, 20, Soviet Guards Junior Sergeant and squad commander in the Afghanistan war, Mujahideen attack.
• Ray Bauduc, 81, American jazz drummer. ^[16]
• Gérard Buhr, 59, French film and television actor.
• Jared French, 82, American painter. ^[17]
• Einar Gjerstad, 90, Swedish archaeologist.
• Boyd "Red" Morgan, 72, American NFL footballer, movie actor and stuntman.
• Frank Pace, 75, American politician and business executive, U.S. Secretary of the Army, heart attack.
• Chen Bing Sun, 73–74, Chinese-Filipino artist, playwright and songwriter, cancer. ^[18]

9

• Gregory Ain, 79, American architect. ^[19]
• Juraj Krnjević, 92, Croatian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia.
• Thierry Maulnier, 78, French journalist, essayist, dramatist and literary critic.
• Jukichi Uno, 73, Japanese actor.

10

• Hilde Bussmann, 73, German international table tennis player and world champion.
• Hugh A. Robertson, 55, American film director and editor. ^[20]

11

• Pappy Boyington, 75, American combat pilot and U.S. Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II, lung cancer. ^[21]
• Robert F. Kennon, 85, American politician and judge, Governor of Louisiana. ^[22]
• Isidor Isaac Rabi, 89, Austro-Hungarian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Laureate, cancer. ^[23]
• John J. Williams, 83, American businessman and politician, U.S. Senator.

12

• Joe Albany, 63, American modern jazz pianist, respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. ^[24]
• Hiram Bingham IV, 84, American diplomat (U.S. Foreign Service). ^[25]
• Suniti Choudhury, 70, Indian nationalist.
• Connie Mulder, 62, South African politician and cabinet minister.
• Piero Taruffi, 81, Italian racing driver.
• F. D. Washington, 75, American minister.

13

• Viktors Arājs, 78, Russian-Nazi officer, leader of the Arajs Kommando.
• Chiang Ching-kuo, 77, Chinese politician, eldest son of Chiang Kai-shek, heart attack. ^[26]
• Donald Healey, 89, English car designer, rally driver and speed record holder. ^[27]
• Kenneth Marks, 67, British politician, member of Parliament.
• Mavelikara Krishnankutty Nair, 67, Indian Carnatic Mridangam player.

14

• Walter Assef, 74, Canadian politician and Vaudevillian, mayor of Thunder Bay. ^[28]
• Jimmy Maelen, 47, American percussionist, leukemia.
• Georgy Malenkov, 86, Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union. ^[29]

15

• Arthur James Richard Ash, 81, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. ^[30]
• Ingeborg Beling, 83, German ethologist (chronobiology). ^[31]
• Seán MacBride, 83, Irish Republican Army leader and politician, recipient of Nobel Peace Prize. ^[32]
• Viana Moog, 81, Brazilian lawyer, journalist, novelist and essayist.
• Maurice K. Temerlin, 64, American psychologist and author.

16

• Andrija Artuković, 88, Croatian lawyer and politician, Minister of Interior of Croatia. ^[33]
• Ballard Berkeley, 83, English actor ( Fawlty Towers ).
• Otto Degener, 88, American botanist and conservationist.
• Harlan Hubbard, 88, American artist and writer.
• Joseph Hutchinson, 85, British biologist.
• Lakshmi Kant Jha, 74, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. ^[34]
• Adelfo Magallanes, 77, Peruvian footballer.

17

• Belle Baranceanu, 85, American artist
• Leela Mishra, 80, Indian actress, heart attack.
• Roy Padilla Sr., 61, Filipino politician, governor of Camarines Norte, assassinated.
• Edward Weinfeld, 86, Judge of the U.S. District Court. ^[35]

18

• Val Doube, 73, Australian politician, 73, Victorian Minister of Health.
• Jean Mitry, 83, French film theorist, critic and filmmaker. ^[36]
• Santiago Polanco-Abreu, 67, resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.
• John Rossiter, 74, Australian politician, member of Victorian Legislative Assembly, father of Susan Renouf.

19

• Amelia Bayntun, 68, English actress ( Blitz! , Carry On).
• Bridget Boland, 74, Irish-British screenwriter (War and Peace, Gaslight), playwright and novelist. ^[37]
• Cesare Brandi, 81, Italian art critic and historian. ^[38]
• Gladys Elphick, 83, Australian founding president of the Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia.
• Yevgeny Mravinsky, 84, Russian conductor and pianist.

20

• Paul Esser, 74, German stage and television actor, and voice actor.
• Abdul Ghaffar Khan, 97, Pakistani independence activist, complications of a stroke. ^[39]
• Philippe de Rothschild, 85, French Grand Prix motor racing driver, screenwriter and playwright. ^[40]
• James D. Theberge, 57, American diplomat, United States ambassador to Nicaragua and Chile, heart attack. ^[41]

21

• Vincent Lingiari, 79, Australian Aboriginal rights activist.
• Joe Mooney, 71, Irish senator.
• Abraham Sofaer, 91, Burmese-British actor of stage, film and television, congestive heart failure.
• Zev Vilnay, 87, Moldovan-Israeli geographer, author and lecturer. ^[42]

22

• Marvin Felix Camillo, 50–51, American theater director and actor.
• Parker Fennelly, 96, American actor of film, television and radio. ^[43]

23

• Bantcho Bantchevsky, 81, Bulgarian-born American singer, public suicide. ^[44]
• Dan Daniel, 73, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives. ^[45]
• Johnny Gee, 72, American Major League baseballer. ^[46]
• Charles Glen King, 91, American biochemist. ^[47]
• Hollingsworth Morse, 77, American television director.

24

• Anthony Courtney, 79, British Royal Navy officer and politician. ^[48]
• Werner Fenchel, 82, German-Danish mathematician.

25

• Jurgis Baltrušaitis, 84, Lithuanian art historian and art critic.
• Steve Chomyszak, 43, American AFL and NFL footballer, pancreatic cancer.
• Colleen Moore, 88, American silent-screen actress, cancer. ^[49]
• Chen Shixiang, 82, Chinese entomologist.

26

• Raymond Charles Barker, 76, American author, leader of the New Thought spiritual movement. ^[50]
• Paul G. Goebel, 86, American NFL footballer.
• Gershon Iskowitz, 68, Polish-Canadian artist.
• Hugh J. Schonfield, 86, British bible scholar. ^[51]
• Raymond Williams, 66, Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic. ^[52]
• Freddie Wolff, 77, British sprinter and Olympic gold medalist.

27

• Massa Makan Diabaté, 49, Malian historian, author and playwright.
• Kemal Faruki, 77, Turkish international footballer.
• Edward Pawley, 86, American actor of radio, films and Broadway.

28

• Frederick Sumner Brackett, 91, American physicist (spectroscopy).
• Klaus Fuchs, 76, German theoretical physicist and Soviet spy. ^[53]

29

• Mihiel Gilormini, 69, American U.S. Air Force officer in World War II.
• James Rhyne Killian, 83, American president of MIT, chair of President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
• Seth Neddermeyer, 80, American physicist, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Rogier van Otterloo, 46, Dutch composer and conductor, mesothelioma.

30

• Bum Day, 89, American footballer.
• Robert Juday, 87, American high jumper and Olympian.
• S. K. Wankhede, 73, Indian cricket administrator, politician, Deputy speaker of Bombay Legislative Assembly.

31

• David Ahern, 40, Australian composer and music critic, asthma attack.
• Homer Brightman, 86, American screenwriter (Cinderella, The Three Caballeros ).
• Wallace Kyle, 78, Australian Air Chief Marshal, Governor of Western Australia.
• Al Laney, 92, American sportswriter. ^[54]
• Charley Way, 90, American football player and coach.

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