# Deaths in March 1988
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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.

## March 1988
### 1

* Joe Besser, 80, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges, The Joey Bishop Show), heart failure.
* Ernest Cuneo, 82, American newspaperman (McClure Newspaper Syndicate, The Saturday Evening Post) and NFL footballer (Brooklyn Dodgers), heart attack.
* Sohan Lal Dwivedi, 82, Indian poet.
* Yoshi Katō, 75, Japanese stage and film actor.
* Tommy Potter, 69, American jazz double bassist.
* Jean Le Poulain, 63, French stage actor and director, heart attack.
* Ed Roman, 57, American college basketballer, convicted of point shaving, leukemia.
* Kay Sutton, 72, American actress.
* Benjamin F. Wilson, 66, American soldier in the US army, Medal of Honor recipient.

### 2

* Chuck Arnett, 60, American artist and dancer, AIDS.
* Tommy Breen, 75, Irish international footballer (Manchester United, Ireland).
* Raymond Hewitt, 47, American civil rights activist, leader of the Black Panther Party, heart attack.
* J. Saunders Redding, 81, American professor and author, heart failure.
* Leslie Turner, 88, American cartoonist and writer (Captain Easy).

### 3

* Peter D. Martin, 65, American college professor and founder of City Lights Bookstore, emphysema.
* Henryk Szeryng, 69, Polish-Mexican violinist, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Lois Wilson, 93, American silent-screen actress (The Covered Wagon, The Great Gatsby), pneumonia.
* Sewall Wright, 98, American geneticist (population genetics), complications of hip fracture.

### 4

* Ernesto Duarte Brito, 65, Cuban-Spanish musician.
* James Peter Davis, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of San Juan and of Santa Fe.
* Beatriz Guido, 65, Argentinian novelist and screenwriter (The Kidnapper, Traitors of San Angel).
* Parry Moon, 90, American electrical engineer and author.
* Franco Scalamandré, 89, Italian-American textile designer, co-founder of Scalamandré Inc.

### 5

* Lewis J. Fields, 78, American general in U.S. Marine Corps.
* Alfred Hollings, 81, New Zealand lawyer and cricketer (Wellington).
* Margaret Irving, 90, American actress (The People's Choice, Animal Crackers).
* William L. Marbury Jr., 86, American lawyer at Marbury, Miller & Evans, heart attack.
* Alberto Olmedo, 54, Argentine comedian and actor, fall from building.

### 6

* Jeanne Aubert, 88, French singer and actress.
* Mairéad Farrell, 31, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.
* Joan Hassall, 82, English wood engraver and book illustrator.
* Daniel McCann, 30, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.
* Dick Ricketts, 54, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Cardinals) and NBA basketballer (St. Louis Hawks), leukemia.
* Stanlake J. W. T. Samkange, 65–66, Zimbabwean writer of historical novels, heart and lung ailments.
* Seán Savage, 23, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.

### 7

* Edmund Berkeley, 79, American computer scientist, co-founded the Association for Computing Machinery.
* Guido Celano, 83, Italian actor, voice actor and director.
* Divine, 42, American singer, actor and drag queen (Pink Flamingos, Hairspray), heart failure.
* Gordon Huntley, 62, British steel guitar player (Matthews Southern Comfort), cancer.
* Robert Livingston, 83, American film actor (The Three Mesquiteers, The Bold Caballero), emphysema.
* Joe Loco, 66, Puerto Rican Latin jazz and pop pianist and arranger.
* Rafael Quiñones Vidal, 95, Puerto Rican journalist.

### 8

* Gordon Carpenter, 68, American basketballer and Olympic gold medalist, national coach.
* Amar Singh Chamkila, 27, Indian singer and musician, murdered.
* Ken Colyer, 59, English jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
* Werner Hartmann, 76, German physicist (microelectronics), complications after prostate surgery.
* África de las Heras, 78, Spanish-born Soviet communist.
* Frank Osborne, 91, South African–born English international footballer and manager (Tottenham Hotspur, Fulham, England).
* Harold Pierce, 70, American entrepreneur, founded Harold's Chicken Shack restaurant chain, prostate cancer.
* Lala Abdul Rashid, 65, Pakistani hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
* Don Redden, 24, American basketballer, heart failure.
* Guy Tirolien, 71, Guadeloupean poet.

### 9

* Milton Galamison, 64, American Presbyterian minister, cancer.
* John Joseph Harper, 36, Canadian aboriginal leader, shot by police.
* Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 83, West German politician, Chancellor of West Germany, heart failure.
* Poondi Kumaraswamy, 57, Indian hydrologist (Kumaraswamy distribution).
* Janusz Piekałkiewicz, 62–63, Polish historian, writer and director.
* M. E. Aldrich Rope, 96, English stained-glass artist.
* M. B. Sreenivasan, 62, Indian music director, heart attack.

### 10

* Glenn Cunningham, 78, American middle-distance runner and Olympic medalist, heart attack.
* Andy Gibb, 30, English singer and songwriter ("I Just Want to Be Your Everything", "Shadow Dancing"), myocarditis.
* Svetislav Glišović, 74, Yugoslavian international footballer and manager (BSK Beograd, Yugoslavia).
* Abdul Khaliq, 54, Pakistani sprinter and Olympian, "The Flying Bird of Asia".
* Hugh Lindsay, 34, English equerry to Queen Elizabeth II, killed in an avalanche.
* Phạm Hùng, 75, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, heart attack.
* Jock Semple, 84, Scottish-born American runner and sports official, cancer.
* Joey Sternaman, 88, American NFL footballer (Chicago Bears).
* William Wordsworth, 79, English composer.

### 11

* Rashid Bakr, 54, Sudanese politician, Prime Minister of Sudan.
* Christianna Brand, 80, British crime writer and children's author (Green for Danger).
* Harry Brauner, 80, Romanian composer.
* Nicholas Eliot, 74, British peer, Earl of St Germans.
* Khurshid Hasan Khurshid, 64, Indian-Pakistani politician, President of Azad Kashmir, road accident.

### 12

* Samaresh Basu, 63, Indian writer (Prajapati).
* Alessandro Bausani, 66, Italian scholar of Islam and Middle Eastern studies.
* Romare Bearden, 76, American artist, author and songwriter, bone cancer.
* Arnold Bell, 86, British actor.
* DeWitt Bodeen, 79, American film screenwriter and television writer (Cat People).
* Vicky Longomba, 55, Congolese singer and founding member of TPOK Jazz.
* Billie Rhodes, 93, American actress.
* Karen Steele, 56, American actress and model (Marty, Ride Lonesome), cancer.

### 13

* Olive Carey, 92, American film and television actress.
* Yngve Ekström, 74, Swedish furniture designer.
* John Holmes, 43, American pornographic film actor, cardio-respiratory arrest.
* Patesko, 77, Brazilian international footballer (Palestra Itália, Nacional, Brazil).
* Xavier Saint-Macary, 39, French actor (Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo), heart attack.
* Steno, 71, Italian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer (Un giorno in pretura, Febbre da cavallo).
* Irving Younger, 55, American lawyer and writer, pancreatic cancer.

### 14

* Abbas Abbasi, 63, Pakistani hereditary leader, Nawab and Amir of Bahawalpur State.
* Willi Apel, 94, German-American musicologist and author (The Harvard Dictionary of Music).
* Bruno Balz, 85, German songwriter.
* Rudolf Gramlich, 79, SS officer and German international footballer (Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany).
* Carter B. Magruder, 87, American general in the U.S. Army, lung ailments.
* Henrik Malyan, 62, Georgian-Armenian film director and writer (Nahapet).
* Zeb Terry, 96, American Major League baseballer (Chicago Cubs).
* Saul Weingeroff, 72, American professional wrestling manager.

### 15

* Laura Caller, 72–73, Peruvian union lawyer.
* Amaro da Cunha, 75, Brazilian rower and Olympian, brother of Carmen Miranda.
* Willie Darden, 54, American murderer, executed.
* Ivan Dubasov, 90, Soviet artist.
* Chevene Bowers King, 64, American attorney and civil rights leader, prostate cancer.
* Henry N. Manney III, 65, American journalist known for writings on cars, motorcycles and travel.
* Edita Morris, 86, Swedish-American writer and political activist (The Flowers of Hiroshima).
* Frank Perkins, 79, American song composer ("Stars Fell on Alabama").
* Dmitri Polyakov, 66, Ukrainian-Soviet operative and spy for the United States, executed.
* William J. Porter, 73, British-born American diplomat, ambassador to Algeria, South Korea, Canada and Saudi Arabia, cancer.
* John Sloan, 83, American businessman, president of Cain-Sloan, heart attack.
* Victor Wickersham, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

### 16

* Dorothy Adams, 88, American actress (The Best Years of Our Lives).
* Nazir Dekhaiya, 67, Indian poet, bronchopneumonia.
* Rollie Dotsch, 75, American football coach (Birmingham Stallions), pancreatic cancer.
* Paul Kohner, 85, Austro-Hungarian–born American talent agent and producer, heart attack.
* Dan Laner, 65, Austrian-born Israeli general.
* Erich Probst, 60, Austrian international footballer (Rapid Wien, Admira Wien, Austria).
* Dannie Richmond, 56, American jazz drummer, heart attack.
* Jigger Statz, 90, American Major League baseballer (Chicago Cubs).
* Mickey Thompson, 59, American auto racing builder and promoter, murdered.

### 17

* Raffaele Arié, 67, Bulgarian bass.
* Nikolas Asimos, 38, Greek composer and singer.
* Bruce C. Clarke, 86, American general in the U.S. Army, stroke.
* Roland Drew, 87, American actor (Ramona, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer).
* Franz-Otto Krüger, 70, German film and television actor.
* Patrick Mphephu, 63–64, South African politician, president of Venda.
* Jaimal Singh Padda, 44–45, Indian poet and communist activist, shot by extremists.
* Tan Siew Sin, 71, Malaysian politician, Minister of Finance, heart attack.

### 18

* Gerald Abraham, 84, English musicologist, editor and music critic.
* Billy Butterfield, 71, American jazz bandleader, cancer.
* Oliver Dawnay, 67, British civil servant, private secretary to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
* Karl Maria Demelhuber, 91, Nazi German SS general.
* Joan Field, 72, American violinist.
* Percy Thrower, 75, British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer.
* Frank Wayne, 70, American game show producer and host (The Price Is Right).

### 19

* Reyner Banham, 66, English architectural critic and writer, cancer.
* Sabino Barinaga, 65, Spanish footballer and manager (Real Madrid), heart disease.
* Philip Birnbaum, 83, American religious author and translator.
* Bun Cook, 84, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (New York Rangers).
* Suzy Frelinghuysen, (a.k.a. Suzy Morris), 76, American abstract painter and opera singer, stroke.
* Máirtín Ó Direáin, 77, Irish poet.
* Sid Harkreader, 90, American fiddler and string band leader.
* Pamela Manson, 59, British actress.

### 20

* Dick Bell, 74, Canadian politician, member of the Canadian Parliament, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.
* Gil Evans, 75, Canadian-American jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, peritonitis.
* Akhilbandhu Ghosh, 67, Indian Bengali singer.
* Samuel W. Reynolds, 97, American politician, U.S. senator, pneumonia.
* Greer Skousen, 71, Mexican basketballer and Olympian.

### 21

* Virginia Axline, 76, American psychologist and author (Dibs in Search of Self, Play Therapy).
* Marie Burke, 93, English actress of stage, cinema and television.
* George W. Lehr, 51, American politician, State Auditor of Missouri, brain tumour.
* Robert McIntosh, 80, Indian-born English cricketer (Oxford University).
* Edd Roush, 94, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds).
* Charley Shipp, 74, American NBL and NBA basketballer and coach (Oshkosh All-Stars).
* Sigfrit Steiner, 81, Swiss actor.
* Patrick Steptoe, 74, English obstetrician and gynaecologist, pioneer of in-vitro fertilisation.

### 22

* Gudmund Harlem, 70, Norwegian politician, Minister of Defence and Social Affairs.
* Rudolf Matz, 86, Croatian composer.
* Kathleen Napoli McKenna, 90, Irish nationalist activist and journalist.
* Lester Rawlins, 63, American actor (A Man for All Seasons, The Old Glory), cardiac arrest.

### 23

* Theodore Fred Abel, 91, Soviet-born American sociology professor (Theodore Abel papers).
* John Charles Bolsinger, 30, American serial killer, suicide.
* Jimmy Jacobs, 58, American handball player, leukemia.
* Moody Jones, 79, American blues guitarist and singer.
* Isaiah L. Kenen, 83, Canadian-American journalist and lawyer, founder of the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs.
* Dayton Lummis, 84, American actor (The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell).
* Pash, 37, Indian poet, murdered.
* Stephen Boleslav Roman, 66, Canadian mining engineer.

### 24

* Pete Estes, 72, American automotive engineer, president of General Motors, heart attack.
* Turhan Feyzioğlu, 65–66, Turkish academic and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey.
* Sirkazhi Govindarajan, 55, Indian singer, heart attack.
* Abdullahi Issa, 67, Somali politician, Prime Minister of Italian Somalia.

### 25

* James J. Howard, 60, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
* Robert Joffrey, 57, American dancer and choreographer, co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, organ failure.
* Leona Maricle, 82, American actress, heart attack.
* Vera Pagava, 81, Georgian artist.
* Al Schwartz, 77, American screenwriter and producer (The Red Skelton Show), brother of Sherwood Schwartz.

### 26

* Miguel Abuelo, 42, Argentinian rock musician and singer, cardiac arrest.
* Robert Fairbairn, 77, Scottish banker, chairman of Clydesdale Bank.
* Musa Kaleem, 67, American jazz saxophonist and flautist.
* Julian Pierce, 42, American lawyer and activist, murdered (body found on this date).

### 27

* Lee Guber, 67, American theatre producer, brain cancer.
* Gordon Merrick, 71, American Broadway actor and author, lung cancer.
* Renato Salvatori, 55, Italian actor, liver cirrhosis.
* Charles Willeford, 69, American writer (Cockfighter), heart attack.

### 28

* David R. Bennion, 59, Californian winemaker, founder of Ridge Vineyards, car accident.
* Shu-tien Li, 88, Chinese-American hydraulic engineer.
* S. N. Tripathi, 75, Indian composer.
* Neil Williams, 53, American painter, heart attack.

### 29

* Ted Kluszewski, 63, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds), heart attack.
* Sheila Manahan, 64, Irish actress (Only Two Can Play).
* Jacques Santi, 49, French actor and film producer (The Aeronauts).
* Dulcie September, 52, South African anti-Apartheid activist, assassinated.
* Clarence Gilbert Taylor, 89, American aviation entrepreneur, co-founder of the Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corporation.

### 30

* Ranulph Bacon, 81, British police officer, Inspector-General of Police of British Ceylon.
* Georgia Ellis, 71, American actress (Gunsmoke).
* Edgar Faure, 79, French politician, lawyer and historian, Prime Minister of France.
* John Clellon Holmes, 62, American author and poet (Go), cancer.
* Beulah Levy Ledner, 94, American pastry chef (Doberge cake).
* Jimmy McGuigan, 64, Scottish footballer and manager (Crewe Alexandra).
* Doris Pawn, 93, American silent-screen actress.
* Arnie Zane, 39, American photographer, choreographer and dancer, AIDS.

### 31

* Nicola Alexandrovich Benois, 86, Russian-born Italian stage designer (La Scala).
* Talib Rasul Hakim, 47–48, American composer.
* William McMahon, 80, Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia, cancer.
* Manuel Silos, 82, Filipino film-maker (Biyaya ng Lupa – Blessings of the Land).

### Unknown date

* Harry Kane, 75, American illustrator (Three Investigators), aneurysm.
* Bernard Rudofsky, 82, Austrian-American writer and architect (Architecture Without Architects), cancer.