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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 ( The Caretakers ), complications from car accident. ^[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

• Mae Brussell, 66, American radio personality, challenger of the Warren Commission report, cancer. ^[6]
• Richard Evelyn Byrd III, 68, American officer in the U.S. Navy and Antarctic explorer, son of Richard E. Byrd. ^[7] (body found on this date)
• Clarence Carnes, 61, American murderer (Battle of Alcatraz), AIDS. ^[8]
• Marco Galli, 31, Italian water polo player and Olympian.
• Franz Josef Strauss, 73, German politician. ^[9]

4

• Carlo Carretto, 78, Italian writer and Catholic priest, member of the Little Brothers of the Gospel.
• Zlatko Grgić, 57, Croatian-born Canadian animator ( Dream Doll ). ^[10]
• Geoffrey Household, 87, British novelist specialising in thrillers. ^[11]
• 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

• Severiano Briseño, 86, Mexican composer.
• Dean Burk, 84, American biochemist and cancer researcher (Lineweaver–Burk plot). ^[12]
• Paul Ledoux, 74, Belgian astrophysicist.
• Don Terry, 86, American film actor.

7

• George Ansell, 78, English footballer (Norwich City).
• Sándor Bíró, 77, Hungarian international footballer (MTK Budapest, Hungary).
• Billy Daniels, 73, American singer ( That Old Black Magic ), stomach cancer. ^[13]
• Kurt Honolka, 75, German musicologist, journalist, and music and theatre critic.
• Chet Phillips, 74, American gymnast and Olympian.

8

• Harold Dorman, 61, American rock and roll singer and songwriter ( Mountain of Love ).
• Boob Fowler, 87, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds). ^[14]
• 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. ^[15]
• Edward Chodorov, 84, American playwright, film writer and producer. ^[16]
• 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 ^[17]

10

• Samuel A. Adams, 54, analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency. ^[18]
• Bhabani Bhattacharya, 81, Indian writer. ^[19]
• David Croudip, 30, American NFL footballer (Atlanta Falcons), car crash. ^[20]
• 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. ^[21]
• Morgan Farley, 90, American film and television actor. ^[22]
• Wayland Flowers, 48, American actor, comedian and puppeteer ( Captain Kangaroo ), AIDS. ^[23]
• Bonita Granville, 65, American actress and producer ( Nancy Drew , These Three ), lung cancer. ^[24]
• Robert Edward Gross, 83, American surgeon and a medical researcher. ^[25]
• Ursula Nordstrom, 78, American publisher and editor, ovarian cancer. ^[26]
• Joel Oppenheimer, 58, American poet, lung cancer. ^[27]
• 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. ^[28]
• 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 (Chicago Cardinals), heart attack. ^[29]
• Melvin Frank, 75, American screenwriter and film producer (A Touch of Class, White Christmas), complications from open heart surgery. ^[30]
• Irene Hunt, 96, American silent-screen actress.
• Mike Venezia, 43, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey, horse racing accident.

14

• Kathleen Blackshear, 91, American artist.
• Charles Augustus, 76, German prince, head of the house of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
• 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. ^[31]
• René Vietto, 74, French road racing cyclist.
• John White, 53, American AFL footballer.

15

• John Ball, 77, American mystery novel writer ( In the Heat of the Night ). ^[32]
• Victor Copps, 69, Canadian politician, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario. ^[33]
• James Craig, 46, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, shot. ^[34]
• Piero Fornasetti, 74, Italian artist and designer, died during minor operation. ^[35]
• 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

• William A. Earle, 68–69, American philosopher. ^[36]
• Queen Farida of Egypt, 67, consort of King Farouk of Egypt, leukemia. ^[37]
• Abdulrahman Fawzi, 78, Egyptian international footballer and manager (Zamalek, Egypt).
• Muzafer Sherif, 82, Ottoman-American social psychologist. ^[38]

17

• Oved Ben-Ami, 83, Israeli politician, co-founder of the cities of Netanya and Ashdod.
• 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. ^[39]
• Anthony A. Hoekema, 74–75, Dutch-American Calvinist minister.

18

• Michael ffolkes, 63, British illustrator and cartoonist (The Daily Telegraph, Punch). ^[40]
• Kamel Hana Gegeo, Iraqi bodyguard, food taster for Saddam Hussein, murdered. ^[41]

19

• Labdhi Bhandari, 40, Professor of Marketing at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, air crash.
• Henry W. Buse Jr., 76, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps. ^[42]
• Lawrence W. Butler, 80, American special effects artist, inventor of the bluescreening process (The Thief of Bagdad). ^[43]
• William Joseph Campbell, 83, American judge (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois). ^[44]
• Fathead, 27–28, Jamaican-born American dancehall deejay, murdered.
• Son House, 86, American singer and guitarist, cancer of the larynx. ^[45]
• 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. ^[46]
• 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. ^[47]
• Mogens Wöldike, 91, Danish conductor, choirmaster and organist.

21

• Guido Beck, 85, Argentine physicist, car accident.
• Reggie Otero, 73, Cuban Major League baseballer, heart attack.

22

• Henry Armstrong, 75, American boxer, multiple world champion. ^[48]
• Cynthia Freeman, 73, American novelist, cancer. ^[49]
• Plácido Galindo, 82, Peruvian international footballer (Universitario de Deportes, Peru). ^[50]
• Clare Stevenson, 85, Australian director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.

23

• Hap Emms, 83, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, coach and team owner (Barrie Flyers), heart failure. ^[51]
• Asashio Tarō III, 58, Japanese sumo wrestler, stroke.

24

• William T. R. Fox, 76, American foreign policy professor (Columbia University), coined the term "superpower", heart disease. ^[52]
• Samuel B. Fuller, 83, American entrepreneur, president of the National Negro Business League, kidney failure. ^[53]
• Stanisław Hachorek, 61, Polish footballer and coach.

25

• Kathleen Baxter, 87, English women's rights activist (National Council of Women).
• Bob Carey, 58, American NFL footballer (Los Angeles Rams).
• Boobie Clark, 38, American NFL footballer (Cincinnati Bengals), blood clot in lung. ^[54]
• Eric Larson, 83, American animator for Walt Disney Studios. ^[55]
• John Poole-Hughes, 72, Welsh bishop.
• Milton Rokeach, 69, Polish-American social psychologist.

26

• R. K. Baliga, 58, Indian engineer, founder of Electronics City, diabetes-related complications. ^[56]
• Georgette Cohan, 88, American actress ( Mr. Pim Passes By ).
• Ruth Gervis, 94, British illustrator (Ballet Shoes). ^[57]
• 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. ^[58]
• John Backus, 77, Lithuanian-American physicist and acoustician. ^[59]
• Shoki Coe, 74, Taiwanese Presbyterian minister. ^[60]
• Jack de Manio, 74, British journalist and radio presenter (Today). ^[61]
• Teikō Shiotani, 89, Japanese photographer.

29

• Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, 85, Indian social reformer and freedom activist. ^[62]
• Andy Cohen, 84, American MLB baseballer (New York Giants). ^[63]
• Joe Comfort, 71, American jazz double bassist.
• Thomas Cooray, 86, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Colombo. ^[64]
• Nataša Gollová, 76, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian actress ( Eva tropí hlouposti ). ^[65]
• 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. ^[66]
• Ken Niles, 81, American radio announcer. ^[67]
• 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.

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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.
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7. Son of Polar Explorer Byrd Found Dead in MD. Warehouse. Washington Post. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
8. Clarence Carnes, 61; Tried to Flee Alcatraz. New York Times. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
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11. 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.
12. Dean Burk, 84, Chemist for Cancer Institute. New York Times. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
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