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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 1988

1

• Leon Belasco, 85, Russian-American actor ( My Sister Eileen ) and musician. ^[1]
• Herbert Feigl, 85, Austrian-American philosopher, cancer.
• Peter Hurkos, 77, Dutch-American who claimed psychic powers. ^[2]
• Ricky May, 44, New Zealand-Australian jazz singer and musician, heart attack.

2

• Iosif Grigulevich, 75, Soviet secret police operative.
• Fred Halstead, 61, American Socialist Workers Party candidate for President of the United States. ^[3]
• Horace Hildreth, 85, American politician and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, heart attack. ^[4]
• Raj Kapoor, 63, Indian actor, producer and director, asthma. ^[5]
• Annette Poivre, 70, French stage and film actress.

3

• Alexandre Bennigsen, 75, Soviet scholar of Islam. ^[6]
• Kitty Canutt, 88, American professional bronc rider.
• Anna Mahler, 85, Austrian-sculptor.
• Davey Moore, 28, American professional boxer, asphyxia from being pinned under vehicle. ^[7]
• Brian Spencer, 38, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, shot in drug-related robbery.

4

• Majnun Gorakhpuri, 84, Pakistani short story writer, poet and literary critic.
• Ed Matesic, 80, American NFL football player.
• Sir Douglas Nicholls, 81, Australian pastor, campaigner for aboriginal reconciliation, Governor of South Australia.
• Renzo Palmer, 57, Italian film, television and stage actor, cancer.
• Allan Reuss, 72, American jazz guitarist.

5

• Michael Barrington, 63, British actor ( Porridge , Edward the Seventh ), heart attack.
• Robert Dudley Edwards, 79, Irish historian.
• James H. Gildea, 97, American politician, newspaperman and member of the U.S. House of Representatives. ^[8]
• Roland Ritchie, 77, Canadian lawyer and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

6

• Thomas DiBella, 82, American mobster of the Colombo crime family.
• John Jordan, 58, Irish poet and short-story writer.

7

• John Kerns, 65, Canadian football player, heart attack.

8

• Russell Harty, 53, English television presenter of arts programs and chat shows, liver failure caused by hepatitis. ^[9]
• Roger Lyndon, 70, American mathematician.
• Chuck Roberson, 69, American actor and stuntman, cancer.

9

• Newt Allen, 87, American Negro League baseballer (Kansas City Monarchs). ^[10]
• Rashid Behbudov, 73, Azerbaijani singer and actor (The Cloth Peddler).

10

• Byron G. Allen, 86, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives. ^[11]
• Arthur Gary Bishop, 35, American convicted sex offender and serial killer, executed by lethal injection. ^[12]
• Louis L'Amour, 80, American novelist and short story writer, lung cancer (non-smoker). ^[13]
• Willie Ross, 77, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland, cancer.
• Henryk Stażewski, 94, Polish painter, visual artist and writer.
• Josep Tarradellas, 89, Spanish politician, President of the Government of Catalonia. ^[14]

11

• Mike Clancy, 63, American professional wrestler, NWA World Junior Heavyweight champion.
• Nathan Cook, 38, American actor (Hotel), allergic reaction to penicillin. ^[15]
• Ernani Cuenco, 52, Filipino composer, film scorer and musical director ( Bato sa Buhangin ). ^[16]
• Nick O'Donnell, 62, Irish hurler.
• Lee Priester, 85, American Olympic javelin thrower.
• Giuseppe Saragat, 89, Italian politician, President of Italy. ^[17]
• Marianne Van Hirtum, 52, Belgian author.

12

• Eugenie Baird, 64, American singer.
• Georg Hochgesang, 90, German international footballer.
• Gennadi Krasnitsky, 47, Uzbekistani international footballer, suicide by jumping.
• Marcel Poot, 87, Belgian composer, professor and musician.
• Franz Zingerle, 79, Austrian alpine skier and world champion.

13

• Lucien Cardin, 69, Canadian lawyer, judge and politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada. ^[18]
• Emil Telmányi, 95, Hungarian-violinist.

14

• Robert R. Barry, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives. ^[19]
• Johnny Farrell, 87, American golfer, U.S. Open winner, stroke. ^[20]

15

• Frank A. Beach, 77, American ethologist and author (behavioral endocrinology). ^[21]
• Hans Blöcker, 90, German politician, member of the German Bundestag.
• Hall Haynes, 59, American NFL footballer.
• Floyd J. McCree, 65, American politician.
• Robert Seymour, appr. 33, Northern Irish loyalist, shot.
• George Ward, 80, British politician, Secretary of State for Air.

16

• Kim Milford, 37, American actor, singer-songwriter and composer, complications following open heart surgery.
• Andrea Pazienza, 32, Italian comics artist and painter, heroin overdose.
• Miguel Piñero, 41, Puerto Rican–born American playwright and actor, cirrhosis.

17

• Brian Baronet, 27, South African professional boxer. ^[22]
• Elizabeth Lane, 82, English barrister and judge.

18

• Archie Cochrane, 79, Scottish physician (Randomized controlled trial). ^[23]
• Wilford Leach, 58, American theatre director, set designer, film director and screenwriter, AIDS-related stomach cancer. ^[24]
• Sallie Martin, 92, American gospel singer. ^[25]
• E. Hoffmann Price, 89, American writer of popular fiction.

19

• M. Ajmal, 78, Indian-Pakistani actor (Heer Ranjha).
• Marie Logoreci, 67, Albanian film and stage actress.
• Teru Shimada, 82, Japanese-American actor.
• Gladys Spellman, 70, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, complications from coma. ^[26]

20

• Aracy de Almeida, 73, Brazilian singer, heart attack. ^[27]
• Alex Bein, 85, German-Jewish historian and zionist historiographer (biography of Theodor Herzl). ^[28]

21

• John Duncan Sr., 69, American attorney and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cancer. ^[29]
• George Ivașcu, 76, Romanian journalist, literary critic and communist militant.
• Tella Kitchen, 86, American folk artist.
• Sverre Riisnæs, 90, Norwegian jurist and public prosecutor.
• T. E. Utley, 67, British journalist and writer.

22

• Jesse Ed Davis, 43, American guitarist, drug overdose.
• Dennis Day, 72, American actor, comedian and singer. ^[30]
• Hank Edwards, 69, American Major League baseballer.
• Bramwell Fletcher, 84, English stage, film and television actor. ^[31]
• Rose Franken, 92, American writer and playwright.
• Pieter Grobbelaar, 79, South African military commander, Commandant General of South African Defence Force.
• Perry Jackson, 68, American NFL football player.
• Jep Lacoste, 66, French rugby league coach.
• Leonard Matlovich, 44, American Vietnam War veteran, first gay service member to out himself to military, HIV.
• Howard Mitchell, 77, American cellist and conductor. ^[32]
• Burrill Phillips, 80, American composer and pianist, complications after heart attack.
• Stuart Randall, 78, American actor of film and television.

23

• Andrei Glanzmann, 81, Romanian international footballer.
• Dragan Godžić, 61, Serbian basketballer and coach.
• Sid Handleman, 67, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Ontario, heart attack.
• Henry Murray, 95, American psychologist, pneumonia.
• Liang Shuming, 94, Chinese philosopher, politician and writer.

24

• Marta Abba, 87, Italian actress, cerebral haemorrhage. ^[33]
• Bùi Xuân Phái, 67, Vietnamese painter. ^[34]
• Mihai Beniuc, 80, Romanian poet, dramatist and novelist, president of the Writers' Union of Romania.
• Roberto Cueva del Río, 80, Mexican muralist.
• Tex Leyendecker, 82, American NFL footballer.

25

• Jean Boffety, 63, French cinematographer (A Simple Story). ^[35]
• Șerban Cioculescu, 85, Romanian literary critic and columnist. ^[36]
• Mildred Gillars, 87, American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany, convicted of treason against U.S.A, colon cancer.
• Neville Pickering, 64, New Zealand politician, member of New Zealand Parliament.
• Hillel Slovak, 26, Israeli-American musician, guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, overdose .
• Jimmy Soul, 45, American vocalist, heart attack.

26

• Hans Urs von Balthasar, 82, Swiss theologian and Catholic priest. ^[37]
• Marion Hall Best, 83, Australian interior designer. ^[38]
• Sandy Campbell, 46, Broadway actor.
• Ludovik Jakova, 66, Albanian footballer and coach of Albanian national football team.
• Herb Mobberley, 83, Canadian football player.
• Yves Pratte, 63, Canadian lawyer and jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, heart attack.

27

• Léonie Adams, 88, American poet, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. ^[39]
• Akilan, 65–66, Indian novelist.
• Michael Barry, 78, British television producer and director. ^[40]
• John Groth, 80, American illustrator. ^[41]
• Robert Margerit, 78, French journalist and writer.
• Aparicio Méndez, 83, Uruguayan lawyer, President of Uruguay. ^[42]
• R. Muttusamy, 62, Sri Lankan music director and singer.
• José Ignacio Palma, 78, Chilean engineer and politician.
• Heinz Rehfuss, 71, Swiss-American operatic bass-baritone. ^[43]
• Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan, 85–86, Indian Congress politician, Governor of Sikkim.
• Louis Versyp, 79, Belgian international footballer and manager, Olympian.

28

• A. Aiyappan, 83, superintendent of Government Museum, Chennai.
• Iris Origo, 85, English-Italian biographer and writer.
• Kurt Raab, 46, West German stage and film actor, screenwriter and playwright, complications from AIDS.

29

• Tengku Ampuan Afzan, 55, Malaysian Queen consort of Pahang, cancer.
• John Peet, 72–73, British journalist who defected to East Germany.
• Franciszka Themerson, 81, Polish-British painter, illustrator, filmmaker and stage designer.
• Albert Trueman, 86, American-Canadian teacher, professor and university administrator.

30

• Alan W. Bishop, 68, British geotechnical engineer (slope stability). ^[44]
• Chacrinha, 70, Brazilian comedian, radio and TV personality, heart attack.
• A. S. Nair, 57, Indian painter, illustrator and cartoonist.
• Bill Ramsay, 60, Australian middle-distance runner and Olympian.
• Suthi Veerabhadra Rao, 41, Indian film actor, heart attack.

Unknown date

• Tommy Brookins, 81, founder of the Harlem Globetrotters. ^[45]
• Dave Crawford, 44, American R&B musician and songwriter ( Young Hearts Run Free , What a Man), murdered.

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