# Deaths in October 1988
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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), car accident.
* Trevor Herion, 29, Irish singer and songwriter, suicide.
* Sacheverell Sitwell, 90, English writer.
* Pavle Vuisić, 62, Yugoslavian actor (Kamiondžije).

### 2

* Hamengkubuwono IX, 76, Indonesian politician and Javanese Royal, Vice President of Indonesia, internal bleeding.
* Peter Hunt, 72, British Army general, Chief of the General Staff.
* Alec Issigonis, 81, Ottoman-born British automotive designer (Mini).
* Thomas J. Kelly, 65, American soldier in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient, heart attack.
* Generoso Pope Jr., 61, American media mogul (National Enquirer), heart attack.
* Florence E. Wall, 95, American cosmetic chemist.

### 3

* Mae Brussell, 66, American radio personality, challenger of the Warren Commission report, cancer.
* Richard Evelyn Byrd III, 68, American officer in US Navy, Antarctic explorer, malnutrition & dehydration. (body found this date)
* Clarence Carnes, 61, American murderer (Battle of Alcatraz), AIDS.
* Ma Haide, 78, American doctor who practiced medicine in China, cancer and diabetes.
* Ruth Hale Oliver, 78, American astrologer and actress.
* Franz Josef Strauss, 73, German politician, Minister-President of Bavaria, heart failure.

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* 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).
* Geoffrey Household, 87, British novelist specialising in thrillers (Rogue Male).
* Margaret Lacey, 76, British actress and ballet teacher (Diamonds Are Forever).

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* Ron Staniforth, 64, English international footballer (Stockport County, England).
* 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), cancer.
* Paul Ledoux, 74, Belgian astrophysicist.
* Don Terry, 86, American actor (Don Winslow of the Navy, Don Winslow of the Coast Guard).

### 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.
* Christian Herbert, 84, British barrister and peer, Governor of British Guiana.
* Stéphane Lupasco, 88, Romanian philosopher, developed non-Aristotelian logic.

### 8

* Charles Beauclerk, 73, British soldier and hereditary peer, Duke of St Albans.
* Harold Dorman, 61, American rock and roll singer and songwriter ("Mountain of Love").
* Boob Fowler, 87, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds).
* Edward George Warris Hulton, 81, British magazine publisher and writer.
* Hans Kuhn, 89, German philologist, specialised in Germanic studies.
* Wally Lemm, 68, American NFL football coach (Houston Oilers, St. Louis Cardinals).
* Ernst Hermann Meyer, 82, German composer and musicologist.
* Pál Titkos, 80, Hungarian international footballer (MTK Hungária, Hungary).

### 9

* Mousey Alexander, 66, American jazz drummer, heart and kidney failure.
* Edward Chodorov, 84, American playwright, film writer and producer.
* Cliff Gallup, 58, American guitarist, heart attack.
* Jackie Milburn, 64, English international footballer (Newcastle United, England), lung cancer.
* Felix Wankel, 86, German mechanical engineer, Hitler Youth leader and anti-Semite, inventor of the Wankel rotary engine.

### 10

* Samuel A. Adams, 54, American analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, heart attack.
* Bhabani Bhattacharya, 81, Indian writer.
* David Croudip, 30, American NFL footballer (Atlanta Falcons), car crash.
* Juan Pujol García, ('Garbo', 'Alaric'), 76, Spanish spy and double agent.
* Kurt Marshall, 22, American gay model and actor, AIDS.
* 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 (Captain Kangaroo), AIDS.
* Bonita Granville, 65, American actress and producer (Nancy Drew, These Three), lung cancer.
* Robert Edward Gross, 83, American surgeon and a medical researcher.
* Roy Herrick, 52, British actor.
* Max Imdahl, 63, German art historian.
* Guido Monzino, 60, Italian mountain climber and explorer, led first Italian expedition to climb Mount Everest, heart failure.
* Ursula Nordstrom, 78, American publisher and editor of children's books, ovarian cancer.
* Joel Oppenheimer, 58, American poet, columnist in The Village Voice, lung cancer.
* Hugh Percy, 74, British soldier and peer, Duke of Northumberland, heart attack.

### 12

* Ruth Manning-Sanders, 102, Welsh-born English poet and author.
* Ken Murray, 85, American comedian, actor and author (Bill and Coo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance).
* Rafael García Serrano, 71, Spanish writer and journalist.
* Coby Whitmore, 75, American painter and magazine illustrator (The Saturday Evening Post).

### 13

* Norman Barry, 90, American judge, politician and football coach (Chicago Cardinals), heart attack.
* Melvin Frank, 75, American screenwriter and producer (A Touch of Class, White Christmas), complications from heart surgery.
* 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.
* Katriel Katz, 79, Israeli diplomat, ambassador to the Soviet Union and Poland.
* Mary Morris, 72, Fijian-born British actress, heart failure.
* Vic Raschi, 69, American Major League baseballer (New York Yankees), heart attack.
* René Vietto, 74, French road racing cyclist.

### 15

* John Ball, 77, American mystery novel writer (In the Heat of the Night), colon cancer.
* Victor Copps, 69, Canadian politician, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.
* James Craig, 46, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, shot.
* Piero Fornasetti, 74, Italian artist and designer, died during minor operation.
* Khudu Mammadov, 60, Azerbaijani geologist (crystal chemistry).
* Rallou Manou, 72–73, Greek choreographer.
* Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, 96, English composer, pianist and writer (Gulistan).

### 16

* William A. Earle, 68–69, American philosopher.
* Queen Farida of Egypt, 67, Egyptian consort of King Farouk, leukemia.
* Abdulrahman Fawzi, 78, Egyptian international footballer and manager (Zamalek, Egypt).
* Christian Matras, 87, Faroese poet.
* Muzafer Sherif, 82, Ottoman-born American social psychologist, heart attack.
* Edward Wright, 76, English painter.

### 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.
* Adélaïde Hautval, 82, French physician, provided medical care in Auschwitz concentration camp, suicide.
* Anthony A. Hoekema, 74–75, Dutch-born American Calvinist minister, heart attack.
* Alec Peterson, 80, British teacher, instrumental in introducing the International Baccalaureate.

### 18

* Michael ffolkes, 63, British illustrator and cartoonist (The Daily Telegraph, Punch), pancreas and liver disease.
* Kamel Hana Gegeo, Iraqi bodyguard, food taster for Saddam Hussein, murdered.
* Caswell Silver, 72, American geologist, president of Sundance Oil Company, heart attack.

### 19

* Labdhi Bhandari, 40, Indian 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.
* Lawrence W. Butler, 80, American special effects artist, inventor of bluescreening process (The Thief of Bagdad), heart attack.
* William Joseph Campbell, 83, American judge (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois).
* Fathead, 27–28, Jamaican-born American dancehall deejay, murdered.
* Son House, 86, American singer and guitarist, cancer of the larynx.
* Helen O'Bannon, 49, American economist, Secretary of Public Welfare for Pennsylvania, cancer.
* Sten Suvio, 76, Finnish boxer and Olympic gold medalist.
* Friedrich Weinreb, 77, Dutch economist, World War II swindler.

### 20

* Mark Evans Austad, 71, American radio and television commentator, ambassador to Finland and Norway, heart disease.
* Marion William Isbell, 83, American restaurateur, founder of Ramada Inns.
* Juan Salcedo Jr., 84, Filipino physician and scientist (Secretary of Health).
* Sheila Scott, 66, English aviator, cancer.
* Mogens Wöldike, 91, Danish conductor (Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra).

### 21

* Guido Beck, 85, Argentinian physicist, car accident.
* Reggie Otero, 73, Cuban Major League baseballer (Chicago Cubs), heart attack.
* Nyari Welly, 43, Indian politician (Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly).

### 22

* Henry Armstrong, 75, American boxer, multiple world champion, heart failure.
* Cynthia Freeman (Bea Feinberg), 73, American novelist (No Time For Tears), cancer.
* Plácido Galindo, 82, Peruvian international footballer (Universitario de Deportes, Peru).
* Clare Stevenson, 85, Australian director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.
* Esat Oktay Yıldıran, 39, Turkish military officer, governor of Diyarbakır Prison, assassinated.

### 23

* Hap Emms, 83, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, coach and team owner (Barrie Flyers), heart failure.
* Laurence Irving, 91, English book illustrator and Hollywood set designer.
* André Neher, 74, French Jewish scholar and philosopher.
* 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.
* Samuel B. Fuller, 83, American entrepreneur, president of the National Negro Business League, kidney failure.
* Benny Joy, 52, American rockabilly guitarist and singer, cancer.
* Ratna Mohini, 84, Javanese dancer.
* Valerie Taylor, 85, English actress (Berkeley Square).

### 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.
* Eric Larson, 83, American animator for Walt Disney Studios (Winnie the Pooh).
* Luther Lassiter, 69, American pool player, seven-time world pocket billiard champion.
* Milton Rokeach, 69, Polish-born American social psychologist.
* Harold Leeming Sheehan, 88, British physician (Sheehan's syndrome).

### 26

* R. K. Baliga, 58, Indian engineer, founder of Electronics City, diabetes-related complications.
* Georgette Cohan, 88, American actress (Mr. Pim Passes By).
* Ruth Gervis, 94, British illustrator (Ballet Shoes).
* Tatapuram Sukumaran, 65, Indian Malayalam writer.

### 27

* Frank Devlin, 88, Irish badminton player.
* Charles Hawtrey, 73, English actor and comedian (Carry On), vascular disease.
* Curt Herzstark, 86, Austrian engineer.
* Rudolf Jordan, 86, Nazi German Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt.
* Jack Kane, 80, Australian politician, member of the Australian Senate.
* Ruhollah Khatami, 81, Iranian cleric.
* Kenneth Thorpe Rowe, 88, American professor of drama and playwriting.

### 28

* Pietro Annigoni, 78, Italian artist and portrait painter (Queen Elizabeth II), kidney failure.
* John Backus, 77, American physicist and acoustician.
* Shoki Coe, 74, Taiwanese Presbyterian minister.
* Alva B. Lasswell, 83, American linguist and cryptanalyst in the U.S. Marine Corps.
* Jack de Manio, 74, British journalist and radio presenter (Today).
* Frank Schwable, 80, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
* Teikō Shiotani, 89, Japanese photographer.

### 29

* Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, 85, Indian social reformer and freedom activist.
* Andy Cohen, 84, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants).
* Joe Comfort, 71, American jazz double bassist.
* Thomas Cooray, 86, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Colombo.
* Nataša Gollová, 76, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian actress (Eva tropí hlouposti).
* Bill Mason, 58–59, Canadian author, filmmaker and conservationist, cancer.
* Orlando Montenegro Medrano, 68, Nicaraguan politician and attorney, acting President of Nicaragua.
* Robert Olejnik, 77, Nazi German flying ace.
* Ross Rocklynne, 75, American science fiction author (The Men and the Mirror), heart disease.

### 30

* Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, 88, German film actor.
* T. Hee, 77, American animator and director (Walt Disney Animation Studios).
* Tasos Leivaditis, 66, Greek poet.
* John Myers Myers, 82, American writer (Silverlock).
* Florence Nagle, 94, British breeder of racehorses and pedigree dogs, horse trainer and feminist.
* Raúl Pellegrin, 30, Chilean guerrilla leader (Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front).
* Francisco Rodrigues, 63, Brazilian international footballer (Palmeiras, Fluminense, Brazil).
* Liz Whitney Tippett, 82, American socialite and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses, cancer.

### 31

* John Houseman, 86, Romanian-born American actor and producer (Citizen Kane, The Blue Dahlia), cancer.
* Ken Niles, 81, American radio announcer and film narrator (Out of the Past), heart failure.
* Alfred Pellan, 82, Canadian painter, leukemia.
* Vasco Ronchi, 90, Italian physicist (Ronchi test).
* Theodor Schneider, 77, German mathematician (Gelfond–Schneider theorem).
* George Uhlenbeck, 87, Dutch-American theoretical physicist (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process).

### Unknown date

* Gerry Livingston, 73–74, Canadian businessman.
* Denis Martin, 67–68, Northern Irish singer, actor and theatre producer.
* Anant Sharma, 68, Indian Railway Union leader and politician, Minister of State for Industry.