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

## February 1988
### 1

* N. M. Bodecker, 66, Danish-born American author and illustrator of children's books (Tales of Magic), colon cancer.
* Marcel Bozzuffi, 58, French film actor (The French Connection).
* John Grist Brainerd, 83, American electrical engineer (ENIAC).
* Gerald Butler, 80, English writer of crime and thriller novels (Kiss the Blood Off My Hands; There Is a Death, Elizabeth).
* Ted Hill, 72, Australian barrister, lawyer and communist activist, chairman of the Communist Party of Australia.
* Thomas Francis Johnson, 78, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, car crash.
* Heather O'Rourke, 12, American child actress (Poltergeist), congenital stenosis of intestine.
* Stephen Taylor, 77, British physician and politician, member of the House of Lords.
* Eddie Townsend, 73, American professional boxing trainer, cancer.
* Marisa Vernati, 67, Italian actress.

### 2

* Richard Chase, 83, American folklorist.
* Caroline Chew, 86, American dancer.
* Solomon Cutner, 85, British pianist.
* Quamrul Hassan, 66, Bengali artist, heart attack.
* Thomas Lamb, 91, American industrial designer, pneumonia.
* Rossana Martini, 62, Italian actress and model.
* Normie Smith, 79, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Maroons).
* G. Mennen Williams, 76, American politician, Governor of Michigan, ambassador to the Philippines, stroke.

### 3

* Ronald Bladen, 69, Canadian-American painter and sculptor, cancer.
* Sam D'Allesandro, 31, American writer and poet, AIDS.
* Robert Duncan, 69, American poet, heart attack.
* Radamés Gnattali, 82, Brazilian composer and conductor.
* Werner Kissling, 92, German-born Scottish ethnographer and photographer.
* René Massigli, 99, French diplomat, ambassador to the U.K. and Turkey.
* Jocko Thompson, 71, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Dymock Watson, 84, British Royal Navy officer, Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic.
* Lewis Wolberg, 82, American psychoanalyst (hypnoanalysis), heart attack.
* Sewall Wright, 98, American geneticist, fall.

### 4

* Clyde Coombs, 75, American psychologist (Coombs' method).
* Frank Giacoia, 63, American comics artist (Captain America, The Amazing Spider-Man).
* Dhamma Jagoda, 47, Sri Lankan theatre and television play director and actor.
* Bill Narduzzi, 51, American football player and coach, Hodgkin's disease.
* Jonas Turkow, 89, Polish-Israeli actor, director and writer.

### 5

* Ove Arup, 92, English engineer, design engineer for Sydney Opera House.
* Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, 73, American mathematician, president of the Mathematics Association of America.
* Bennie Dobbins, 55, American stuntman and actor (Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Ferris Bueller's Day Off), heart attack.
* Clement Hurd, 80, American illustrator of children's books (Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny), Alzheimer's disease.
* Emeric Pressburger, 85, Hungarian-born British film director and producer (49th Parallel), pneumonia.

### 6

* Gary Berland, 37, American professional poker player, blood disorder.
* Richard Bock, 61, American jazz record producer.
* Marghanita Laski, 72, English journalist and novelist, lung disease.
* Nick Pietrosante, 50, American NFL footballer (Detroit Lions), prostate cancer.
* Barclay Plager, 46, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues), brain cancer.
* Carmen Polo, 87, Spanish wife of Francisco Franco, bronchial pneumonia.
* Zvonimir Rogoz, 100. Croatian actor.

### 7

* Upendranath Barman, 88, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
* Lin Carter, 57, American science fiction and fantasy author (Ballantine Adult Fantasy series), cancer.
* Ray Martin, 69, Austrian-born British orchestra leader, cancer.
* Ririd Myddelton, 85, English High Sheriff of Denbighshire, Equerry to The Queen.
* Tony Santos Sr., 67, Filipino actor and director (Badjao: The Sea Gypsies).

### 8

* Pietro Arcari, 78, Italian footballer (AC Milan, Genoa).
* Dolores Camarillo, 77, Mexican actress (Ahí está el detalle).
* Allan Cuthbertson, 67, Australian-British actor (Fawlty Towers – Gourmet Night, Edge of Darkness).
* Santosh Dutta, 62, Bengali actor (Sonar Kella, Joi Baba Felunath).
* Ralph Flanagan, 69, American swimmer and Olympic medalist.
* Hans Krueger, 78, Nazi German Gestapo captain in occupied Poland, responsible for massacres against Poles and Jews.
* Daisy Turner, 104, American storyteller and poet.
* Frank Varey, 79, English speedway rider.
* Alfréd Wetzler, 69, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian writer (Vrba–Wetzler report).
* Helen Wood, 70, American film and radio actress.

### 9

* Kurt Herbert Adler, 69, Austrian-American conductor, heart attack.
* Ermal Allen, 69, American professional footballer (Cleveland Browns) and coach (Dallas Cowboys), cancer.
* Marjorie May Bacon, 86, British printmaker and painter.
* Henry Burrell, 83, Australian navy commander, vice admiral of the Royal Australian Navy.
* Israel Nathan Herstein, 64, Polish-born American mathematician (ring theory), cancer.
* Phillip Hutchinson, 24, American bank robber, murderer and escaped convict, shot by police.
* Charles Moses, 88, British-born Australian administrator, general manager of Australian Broadcasting Commission.
* Fritz Redl, 85, Austrian-American child psychoanalyst.
* William Sackville, 66, British peer, suicide.

### 10

* Nat Cohen, 82, British film producer (The Sleeping Tiger, The Tommy Steele Story, Carry On ...), heart attack.
* Alfred Eichner, 50, American economist.
* Cynthia Gooding, 63, American folk singer, cancer.
* Wolfgang Lange, 89, Nazi German army general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.
* Lothar Malskat, 74, German painter and art restorer.
* Don Patterson, 51, American jazz organist.
* Chaya Mushka Schneerson, 86, Russian-American wife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Jewish spiritual leader.

### 11

* Mary E. Black, 92, American waver and weaving instructor.
* Marion Crawford, 78, Scottish governess to Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth, cancer.
* René Hall, 75, American guitarist, heart disease.
* Virgil D. Hawkins, 81, American attorney, kidney failure.
* Gail L. Ireland, 92, American politician, Attorney General of Colorado.
* Amirteymour Kalali, 93, Iranian politician, member of the Parliament of Iran.

### 12

* Robert Coin, 86, French sculptor and engraver.
* Briggs Gordon, 38, American television host.
* Max Heine, 76–77, German-born American value investor and fund manager, traffic accident.
* Gustav Koranteng-Addow, 69, Ghanaian Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice.
* Bernard Lippmann, 73, American theoretical physicist (Lippmann–Schwinger equation in scattering theory).

### 13

* John Curulewski, 37, American musician, original member of Styx, brain aneurysm.
* Ron Embleton, 57, British illustrator and comics artist (Mickey Mouse Weekly, Penthouse), heart attack.
* Dorothy Kurgans Goldberg, 79, American artist and writer, Supreme Court justice, lung cancer.
* Léon Goossens, 90, English oboist.
* Ivan Peries, 66, Sri Lankan Artist.

### 14

* Nora Astorga, 39, Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter and politician, ambassador to the United Nations, cervical cancer.
* Frederick Loewe, 86, German-born American composer (My Fair Lady), cardiac arrest.
* Cal Niday, 73, American racecar driver, heart attack.
* Mark Serrurier, 83, American president of Moviola, Alzheimer's disease.
* Alfonso Valdés Cobián, 97, Puerto Rican industrialist and politician, cofounder of Cervecería India, heart attack.
* Lynette White, 20, Welsh murder victim.
* Joseph Wresinski, 71, French priest.

### 15

* Joseph O. Butcher, 75, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
* Pat Close, 39, American child actor (Imitation of Christ, Sunrise at Campobello), liver disease.
* Al Cohn, 62, American jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer, liver cancer.
* Richard Feynman, 69, American theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, kidney failure.
* Neil R. Jones, 78, American science fiction writer.
* Jay Leyda, 78, American filmmaker and film historian, heart failure.
* Francisco Manrique, 69, Argentinian naval officer and presidential candidate, lymphoma.
* Gardiner Means, 91, American economist (The Modern Corporation and Private Property), stroke.
* Arthur Mizener, 80, American professor of English and literary critic (The Far Side of Paradise), heart failure.

### 16

* Jean Carignan, 71, Canadian fiddler.
* Charles Delaunay, 77, French author and jazz expert, co-founder of Hot Club de France, Parkinson's disease.
* Hélène Gordon-Lazareff, 78, Russian-born French journalist.
* Vijaya Kumaratunga, 42, Sri Lankan actor, singer and politician, assassinated.
* Ye Shengtao, 93, Chinese writer, journalist and politician, Chinese Vice-Minister of Culture.

### 17

* John M. Allegro, 65, English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, heart attack.
* Alexander Bashlachev, 27, Soviet poet, singer-songwriter and guitarist, probable suicide.
* Yuri Ovchinnikov, 53, Soviet bio-organic chemist, contributed to Soviet biological weapons program.
* Veijo Pasanen, 57, Finnish actor (Pikku Kakkonen).
* Alain Savary, 69, French politician, Minister of National Education.
* Karpoori Thakur, 64, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar, cardiac arrest.
* Reginald Uren, 81, New Zealand architect.

### 18

* Michael Howard, 71, British actor and comedian.
* Walter Ohmsen, 76, Nazi German officer in the Kriegsmarine, first German to sight the D-Day naval force.
* Giovanni Savonuzzi, 77, Italian automobile designer (Cisitalia, Carrozzeria Ghia, Chrysler).

### 19

* Isabel Bishop, 85, American painter and graphic artist (Tidying Up), Parkinson's disease.
* René Char, 80, French poet, member of the French resistance, heart attack.
* André Cournand, 92, French-born American physician (cardiac catheterization), Nobel laureate in Medicine, pneumonia.
* William W. Eagles, 93, American general in the U.S. Army.
* Gloria Hollister, 87, American explorer and scientist (New York Zoological Society), cardiac arrest.
* S. V. Sahasranamam, 74, Indian actor and director, heart attack.
* Frank Strafaci, 71, American amateur golfer.
* Eric Stryker, 33, American gay pornographic performer and model, AIDS.

### 20

* MaKee K. Blaisdell, 56, American actor (Hawaiian Eye), heart failure.
* Bob O'Farrell, 91, American Major League baseballer (Chicago Cubs, New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals).
* Mildred Seydell, 98, American journalist.
* Roger J. Williams, 94, Indian-born American biochemist (nutrition), pneumonia.
* Jim Woods, 71, American Major League baseball sportscaster, cancer.

### 21

* Angie Debo, 98, American historian who focused on Native American and Oklahoma history.
* Cornelis van Eesteren, 90, Dutch architect and urban planner (Lelystad).
* David Otis Fuller, 84, American Baptist pastor.
* Aidan McAnespie, 23, Irish murder victim, killed by British soldier.
* Aleksandar Tomašević, 79, Serbian international footballer and manager (BASK, Yugoslavia).
* Heydar Yaghma, 64, Iranian poet.

### 22

* Charles L. Banks, 73, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps (Battle of Chosin Reservoir).
* Albert Collier, 78, Australian rules footballer (Collingwood).
* Barrie Heath, 71, British Royal Air Force pilot in the Battle of Britain.
* Afro Poli, 85, Italian operatic baritone.
* Pao Ming Pu, 77, Chinese mathematician (systolic geometry).
* Cecil Ramage, 93, Scottish barrister, actor and politician, Member of Parliament.
* Larry Shay, 90, American songwriter ("When You're Smiling"), lung cancer and emphysema.

### 23

* Edward Vaughan Bevan, 80, British rower and Olympic gold medalist.
* Pete Donohue, 87, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds).
* Joseph Karakis, 85, Ukrainian architect (National Museum of the History of Ukraine).
* Leroy Leblanc, 73, American swing musician.

### 24

* Irwin Chanin, 96, American architect and real estate developer (Richard Rodgers Theatre, The Century).
* Rose Coyle, 73, Miss America 1936.
* James H. Douglas Jr., 88, American lawyer, senior official in U.S. Government, Secretary of the Air Force, cancer.
* Memphis Slim, 72, American blues pianist, singer and composer ("Every Day I Have the Blues"), renal failure.
* Mamdouh Salem, 69, Prime Minister of Egypt.
* Timothy Scott, 32, American Broadway actor and dancer, AIDS.
* Seymour Siegel, 60, American rabbi, professor of Ethics and Theology.
* Bluma Zeigarnik, 87, Soviet psychologist.

### 25

* Bernard Ashmole, 93, British archaeologist and art historian.
* William Harold Cox, 86, American judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.
* Kurt Mahler, 84, German-born British-Australian mathematician (Mahler's inequality, Mahler's compactness theorem).
* Peck Morrison, 68, American jazz bassist.
* Dori Seda, 37, American comic artist, influenza.
* H. E. Todd, 80, English writer of children's fiction (Bobby Brewster).

### 26

* Edward Byrne, 22, American police officer, murdered in the line of duty.
* Kang Mun-bong, 64, South Korean military officer.
* Joseph Kiselewski, 87, American sculptor.
* Frane Milčinski, 73, Slovenian poet and writer (Twinkle Sleepyhead).

### 27

* Basil Boothroyd, 77, English humorous writer (Punch).
* George Clutesi, 83, Canadian artist, actor and writer (Dreamspeaker).
* Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers, 89, French excommunicated Catholic bishop.
* Franck Lavaud, 85, Haitian general and politician, president of Haiti.
* Gene de Paul, 68, American pianist, composer and songwriter ("Teach Me Tonight"), brain tumour.
* Kenneth Peach, 84, American cinematographer.
* Jack Roberts, 78, American judge.

### 28

* Beatrice Burns, 82, American First Lady of Hawaii, wife of John A. Burns.
* Irja Hagfors, 82, Finnish dance artist and choreographer.
* Edith North Johnson, 85, American blues singer, pianist and songwriter.
* Harvey Kuenn, 57, American Major League baseballer (Detroit Tigers, San Francisco Giants), heart disease and diabetes.
* Mikhail Naimy, 98, Lebanese poet, novelist and philosopher, pneumonia.
* Asakazu Nakai, 86, Japanese cinematographer (Stray Dog, Ran).
* Kylie Tennant, 75, Australian novelist, playwright and historian (Ride on Stranger).

### 29

* John Henry Guinness, 52, British chairman of Guinness Mahon, complications from a fall.
* Sidney Harmon, 80, American movie producer and screenwriter (The Talk of the Town).
* Paul Ramsey, 74, American Methodist ethicist, heart attack.
* Karl Zimmer, 76, German nuclear chemist, heart attack.

### Unknown date

* John Smith, 49, English footballer (West Ham United).
* Dick Walker, 74, English footballer (West Ham United).