# Deaths in May 1987
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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 1987.
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.

## May 1987
### 1

* Paul Geidel, 93, American murderer, second longest serving U.S. prison inmate.
* Bobo Holloman, 64, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Browns), heart attack.
* Antonio Borja Won Pat, 78, Guam politician, Guam's Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
* Dick Surhoff, 57, American NBA basketballer (New York Knicks).
* James W. Sutherland, 69, American U.S. Army general.
* Fujio Yoshida, 99, Japanese artist.

### 2

* Karl Davis, 25, American fashion designer, pneumonia.
* Michael Gover, 73, English actor (Survivors).
* John E. Kerrigan, 78, American politician, acting Mayor of Boston, Governor of Massachusetts, cardiac arrest.
* Harold K. Schneider, 61–62, American economic anthropologist, complications from surgery.

### 3

* Joyce Coad, 70, American child actress.
* Roberto Concepcion, 83, Filipino lawyer, Chief Justice of the Philippines.
* Dalida, 54, Egyptian-born French singer and actress (Bambino, Gondolier), suicide.
* Viola Grosvenor, 74, British aristocrat, Duchess of Westminster, car accident.
* Dick Kelsey, 82, American animation art director, theme park designer and illustrator of children's books.

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* Paul Butterfield, 44, American blues harmonica player, singer and bandleader, overdose.
* Cathryn Damon, 56, American actress (Soap), ovarian cancer.
* Paul Groesse, 81, Hungarian-born American Academy Award–winning art director, pneumonia.
* Khalilullah Khalili, 79, Afghan poet, historian and diplomat.
* Konstanty Jeleński, 65, Polish essayist.
* Tomohiro Kojiri, 29, Japanese journalist for newspaper Asahi Shimbun, murdered.
* Wilbur Little, 59, American jazz bassist.
* Michael Minor, 46, American illustrator, art director on Star Trek movies.

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* Sir Hugh Fraser, 50, British chairman of the House of Fraser, Harrods, and Whyte & Mackay, cancer.
* Herbert Hasler, 73, British officer in the Royal Marines and yachtsman.
* Allen Jones, 46, American record producer and songwriter ("Hard to Handle"), heart attack.
* Robert Stanford Tuck, 70, British fighter pilot and flying ace in the Royal Air Force.
* Phil Woolpert, 71, American college basketball coach, lung cancer.

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* William J. Casey, 74, American CIA director, brain tumour.
* Muhammadullah Hafezzi, 91–92, Bangladeshi politician and Islamic leader.
* Karel Plicka, 92, Czechoslovakian photographer, film director and cinematographer.
* David Weitzman, 88, British politician.

### 7

* Boom-Boom Beck, 82, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Colin Blakely, 56, Northern Irish actor (Murder on the Orient Express, A Man for All Seasons), leukaemia.
* Stewart McKinney, 56, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, pneumonia (AIDS).
* Paul Popham, 45, American gay rights activist, AIDS.
* Dudley Ryder, 94, British hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords.
* Karl Schuke, 80, German organ builder.

### 8

* Marjorie Barnard, 89, Australian novelist and historian.
* Sidney Cohen, 76, American psychiatrist, professor of medicine and author, heart failure.
* Alberta Gay, 74, American mother of Marvin and Frankie Gaye, bone cancer.
* Sir James Plimsoll, 70, Australian diplomat, Governor of Tasmania, ambassador to the U.S.A., heart attack.
* Doris Stokes, 67, British "spiritualist", "medium" and author, brain cancer.
* Carl Tchilinghiryan, 77, German businessman, co-founder of coffee house Tchibo.
* Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) killed during the Loughgall ambush:
** Declan Arthurs, 21, Northern Irish IRA member, shot.
** Patrick Joseph Kelly, 30, Northern Irish IRA commander, shot.
** Jim Lynagh, 31, Northern Irish IRA member, shot.
** Pádraig McKearney, 32, Northern Irish IRA member, shot.

### 9

* Obafemi Awolowo, 78, Nigerian nationalist and statesman, Premier of Western Nigeria.
* Jimmy Kruger, 69, South African lawyer and politician, President of the Senate.
* Noel Murless, 77, English racehorse trainer.
* John M. Schiff, 82, American investment banker, partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., national president of the Boy Scouts of America.

### 10

* Sadamichi Hirasawa, 95, Japanese tempera painter, convicted of mass poisoning, pneumonia.
* Nicolette Macnamara, 76, British artist and author.
* Wilhelm Strienz, 86, German bass operatic singer.

### 11

* James Jesus Angleton, 69, American intelligence operative and C.I.A chief, cancer.

### 12

* Victor Feldman, 53, English jazz musician, heart attack.
* Chinn Ho, 83, Hawaiian entrepreneur and businessman, owner of Honolulu Star-Bulletin, heart failure.
* Ion Pistol, 40, Romanian convicted murderer, executed.
* Nora Rubashova, 78, Belarusian Catholic nun.
* Robert Trimbole, 56, Australian businessman, drug baron and organized crime figure, heart attack.
* Michel Van Wijnendaele, 27–28, Belgian mass murderer, suicide.

### 13

* Signe Amundsen, 87, Norwegian soprano.
* F. R. Crawley, 75, Canadian film producer, cinematographer and director.
* Richard Ellmann, 69, American literary critic and biographer of Irish writers, motor neurone disease.
* Phil Moore, 69, American jazz pianist and bandleader, heart attack.
* Ismael Rivera, 55, Puerto Rican composer and salsa singer, heart attack.
* Forbes Robinson, 60, British bass.
* Elly Winter, 88, German communist and political activist.

### 14

* Tsai Chen-chou, 40, Taiwanese politician and businessman, liver disease.
* Kris Derrig, 33, American luthier and musician, cancer.
* Rita Hayworth, 68, American actress and dancer (Gilda), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Jānis Lipke, 87, Latvian rescuer of Jews in World War II.
* Luke Sewell, 86, American Major league baseballer (Cleveland Indians).
* Elizabeth Zarubina, 87, Soviet spy, traffic accident.
* Vitomil Zupan, 73, Austro-Hungarian–born Slovene writer.

### 15

* Wynne Gibson, 88, American actress, cerebral thrombosis.
* Raynor Johnson, 86, English-born Australian parapsychologist, physicist and author.
* Kalyanakit Kitiyakara, 57, Thai cardiothoracic surgeon.
* Máire MacNeill, 82, Irish journalist, folklorist and translator.
* Barry Mannakee, 39, British police officer with Royal Protection Squad, bodyguard to Diana, Princess of Wales, traffic accident.
* L. G. Pine, 79, British writer, lecturer and researcher.
* Lionel Van Praag, 78, Australian motorcycle speedway champion.

### 16

* Lionel Cooper, 65, Australian international rugby league footballer (Huddersfield, Australia).
* Frank Mayborn, 83, American newspapers editor, publisher and broadcaster.
* Ronnie Shakes, 40, American stand up comedian, heart attack.
* Michael Wood, 69, British medical doctor, cancer.

### 17

* Wilbur J. Cohen, 73, American social scientist and civil servant, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
* Gunnar Myrdal, 88, Swedish economist, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences.
* Dudley C. Sharp, 82, American Secretary of the Air Force, cancer.

### 18

* Mahdi Amel, 51, Lebanese Marxist philosopher and militant, assassinated.
* Heðin Brú, 86, Faroese novelist and translator.
* Hossein Fardoust, 70, Iranian military officer, deputy head of SAVAK, heart attack.
* Santo Mazzarino, 71, Italian historian.

### 19

* James Everett Chase, 73, American politician, Mayor of Spokane, cancer.
* Hamid Reza Chitgar, 38, Iranian communist politician, exiled to France, assassinated.
* Deepak Dhawan, 32, Indian political activist, member of the Communist Party of India, murdered.
* Almerigo Grilz, 34, Italian politician and independent war correspondent, killed in war zone.
* Huntington D. Sheldon, 84, American C.I.A. director of Current Intelligence, murdered.
* Stanisław Szukalski, 93, Polish-American sculptor and painter.
* James Tiptree, Jr., (Alice Bradley Sheldon), 71, American science fiction and fantasy author, suicide.

### 20

* William Creighton, 77, American Anglican bishop, heart attack.
* Harvey Goldberg, 65, American historian and political activist, liver cancer.
* Herbert Jacobs, 84, American journalist for the Milwaukee Journal, professor of journalism, cancer.
* Ganpatrao Jadhav, 79, Indian freedom activist, journalist and writer.
* Edward Earl Johnson, 26, American convicted murderer, executed.
* Elmer Ray, 76, American heavyweight boxer.
* George Shibata, 60, American military officer, attorney and actor.
* Ma Sicong, 75, Chinese violinist and composer, died during heart operation.
* Colston Warne, 86, American professor of economics.

### 21

* Archie Carr, 77, American herpetologist and ecologist, professor of zoology, cancer.
* Finis Alonzo Crutchfield Jr., 70, American clergyman and bishop (United Methodist Church), AIDS.
* Alejandro Rey, 57, Argentinian-American actor and television director, lung cancer.

### 22

* Paddy Belton, 60, Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
* Thornton Freeland, 89, American film director.
* Heinrich Mückter, 72, German medical doctor and pharmacologist, developed thalidomide.
* Keidrych Rhys, 71, Welsh literary journalist, editor and poet, editor of periodical Wales.

### 24

* Alan Samuel Butler, 88, British aviator, chairman of De Havilland Aircraft Company.
* James J. Delaney, 86, American politician, chair of the House Rules Committee.
* Hermione Gingold, 89, English actress, heart problems complicated by pneumonia.
* Siegmund Klein, 85, German-born American bodybuilder and magazine publisher, cancer.
* Lajos Ligeti, 64, Hungarian orientalist and philologist.
* Thomas Burdett Money-Coutts, 85, English peer.
* Eugen Relgis, 92, Romanian writer and pacifist philosopher.

### 25

* Charley Brock, 71, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers).
* Winthrop G. Brown, 79, American lawyer and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Korea and Laos.
* Hugh Lester Campbell, 78, Canadian air marshal in the Royal Canadian Air Force and politician.
* Peter Coe, 58, English director and actor, car accident.
* Peter Gerald Charles Dickens, 70, English Royal Navy officer during World War II.
* Hermann Glöckner, 98, German painter and sculptor.
* William Kelly Harrison Jr., 91, American U.S. Army general.
* Don Sidle, 40, American ABA basketballer (Miami Floridians).
* Paweł Tuchlin, 41, Polish serial killer, hanged.

### 26

* Rose Chan, 62, Chinese-born Malaysian cabaret dancer.
* Alvin Duke Chandler, 84, American Navy officer, president of the College of William & Mary.
* Paul Rimstead, 51–52, Canadian journalist (Toronto Sun), hemorrhage.
* Arthur M. Sackler, 73, American psychiatrist and marketer of pharmaceuticals, heart attack.
* Robert Wilkins, 91, American country blues guitarist and vocalist.
* Ajita Wilson, 37, American transgender actress, brain hemorrhage.

### 27

* Alvin C. Eurich, 84, American educator, president of the State University of New York.
* Colin McCahon, 67, New Zealand artist.
* John Howard Northrop, 95, American biochemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, suicide.
* Richard Bruce Nugent, 80, American writer and painter.
* Fatemeh Pahlavi, 58, Iranian royal, cancer.

### 28

* Léon Lambert, 58, Belgian banker and art collector, AIDS.
* Charles Ludlam, 44, American actor, director and playwright, pneumonia (AIDS).
* Arthur Matsu, 83, American NFL footballer (Dayton Triangles) and coach.

### 29

* Jean Delay, 79, French psychiatrist, neurologist and writer.
* Vettam Mani, 65, Indian scholar and writer.
* Charan Singh, 84, Prime Minister of India, cardiovascular collapse.
* Phyllis Tate, 76, English composer.

### 30

* Frank Carlson, 94, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
* Eliot Hodgkin, 81, English painter.
* Miyuki Ishikawa, 90, Japanese midwife, real estate agent and serial killer.
* Honorino Landa, 44, Chilean international footballer (Unión Española, Chile), cancer.
* Frank Licht, 71, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island, cancer.
* Hallam L. Movius, 79, American archaeologist.
* Turk Murphy, 71, American trombonist and bandleader, bone cancer.
* Norman Nicholson, 73, English poet.
* Hilde Weissner, 77, German actress.

### 31

* John Abraham, 49, Indian filmmaker, short story writer and screenwriter, complications from a fall.
* Jerry Adair, 50, American Major League baseballer (Baltimore Orioles), liver cancer.
* Hubert Raymond Allen, 68, British Royal Air Force officer.
* Charles Drew, 70, British cardiothoracic surgeon, throat cancer.
* Wilbur Evans, 81, American actor and singer.
* Gertrude Jones Hawk, 83–84, American candy maker and entrepreneur (Gertrude Hawk Chocolates).
* Kolbein Lauring, 72, Norwegian resistance member during World War II.
* Dorothy Patrick, 65, Canadian-born American film actress (Till the Clouds Roll By), heart attack.
* Roy Winsor, 75, American soap opera writer, producer and mystery novelist (Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life), heart attack.

### Unknown date

* Sunny Harnett, 63, American model and actress, injuries sustained in a fire.
* Dev Raj Singh Thakur, Indian Air Force warrant officer, killed the killer of Mahatma Gandhi.