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

## April 1988
### 1

* Đào Duy Anh, 83, Vietnamese historian.
* Jim Jordan, 91, American actor (Fibber McGee and Molly), stroke resulting from fall.
* Ginette Spanier, 84, French director of the House of Balmain.
* April Tinsley, 8, American murder victim.

### 2

* Jacques André, 69, French fighter pilot in World War II and Olympian.
* Jenő Barcsay, 88, Hungarian painter.
* Lisa Marie Kimmell, 18, American murder victim.
* Pushpaben Mehta, 83, Indian social worker and politician, member of the Rajya Sabha.
* Anthony Pelissier, 75, English actor, screenwriter and director (Personal Affair, The History of Mr. Polly).

### 3

* Milton Caniff, 81, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon), lung cancer.
* Lee Man Fong, 74, Chinese-born Indonesian painter.
* V. S. Wakankar, 68, Indian archaeologist.

### 4

* Florestine Perrault Collins, 93, American professional photographer.
* Myra De Groot, 50, British-born American-Australian actress (The Sullivans, Neighbours), cancer.
* Kai Ewans, 81, Danish-American jazz reedist.
* Karol Fageros, 53, American tennis player, cancer.
* Eric A. Havelock, 84, British classicist.
* Roy Weatherby, 77, American founder and owner of Weatherby rifle company.

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* Boyd Brumbaugh, 72, American NFL footballer (Brooklyn Dodgers), emphysema.
* Mozaffar Firouz, 81, Iranian diplomat, ambassador to the USSR.
* Swede Halbrook, 55, American NBA basketballer (Syracuse Nationals), heart attack.
* Alf Kjellin, 68, Swedish-born American film actor and director, heart attack.
* Elizabeth Linington, 67, American mystery novelist.
* Rosemary Manning, 76, British writer (The Chinese Garden).
* Robert S. Mendelsohn, 61, American pediatrician and critic of modern medical practice, cardiac arrest.
* Pierre Prévert, 71, French film director, screenwriter and actor.
* Alan Shorter, 55, American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, ruptured aorta.

### 6

* Gunārs Astra, 56, Latvian human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident, heart disease.
* John Clements, 77, British actor and producer (Knight Without Armour, South Riding).
* Leroy Kirkland, 82–84, American bandleader, guitarist and songwriter.
* Hamdija Pozderac, 64, Yugoslav communist politician, President of People's Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, stroke.
* Émile Roumer, 85, Haitian poet.

### 7

* Denis Hamilton, 69, English newspaper editor (The Sunday Times, The Times).
* Dinanath Nadim, 72, Indian poet.
* Albert S. Rogell, 86, American film director.

### 8

* Vilayati Ram Katyal, 52, Indian politician, member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

### 9

* Brook Benton, 56, American singer and songwriter ("It's Just a Matter of Time", "Endlessly"), pneumonia.
* Syd Cohen, 81, American Major League baseballer (Washington Senators).
* John Herman Dent, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
* Jerry Harvey, 38, American screenwriter and film programmer (Z Channel), murder-suicide.
* Dave Prater, 50, American soul and rhythm & blues singer and musician, car accident.
* Arturo Rotor, 80, Filipino medical doctor, Executive Secretary of the Philippines, cancer.
* William Horace Temple, 89, Canadian politician and trade unionist.
* Sylvia Thalberg, 80, American screenwriter (Montana Moon).
* Delos Wickens, 78, American experimental research psychologist and author (Ohio State University).

### 10

* Khaqan Abbasi, Pakistani politician, Federal Minister for Production, car hit by missile.
* T. Glynne Davies, 62, Welsh poet, novelist and television and radio broadcaster.
* Cliff Gladwin, 72, English test cricketer (Derbyshire, England).
* Woody Kling, 62, American television writer, producer and composer, brain and lung cancer.
* Ezekias Papaioannou, 79, Greek Cypriot politician.

### 11

* Ithell Colquhoun, 81, British painter, poet and author.
* James R. Domengeaux, 81, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, leukemia.
* Jeff Donnell, 66, American actress (General Hospital, The Phantom Thief), heart attack.
* Jesse L. Lasky Jr., 77, American screenwriter and novelist (Samson and Delilah, The Ten Commandments), pancreatic cancer.

### 12

* Colette Deréal, 60, French actress and singer.
* Sheridan Gibney, 84, American writer and producer in theatre and film (The Story of Louis Pasteur), cancer.
* Hartmann Lauterbacher, 78, Nazi German Deputy Reichsjugendführer, Stabsführer of Hitler Youth, unconvicted war criminal.
* Harry McShane, 96, Scottish socialist.
* Alan Paton, 85, South African writer and anti-Apartheid activist (Cry, the Beloved Country, Too Late the Phalarope), cancer.
* George Rock, 68, American trumpeter and singer (Spike Jones and his City Slickers).
* Frank Skaff, 77, American Major League baseballer (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Athletics), heart attack.

### 13

* Jean Gascon, 67, Canadian opera director and actor, heart attack.
* Leo Zeff, 75, American psychologist and psychotherapist.

### 14

* Daniel Guérin, 83, French libertarian-communist author (Anarchism: From Theory to Practice).
* Jack McIntosh, 78, Scottish-born Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
* Pony Poindexter, 62, American jazz saxophonist.
* Camilla Ravera, 98, Italian politician, first female lifetime senator.
* John Stonehouse, 62, British businessman and minister, Member of Parliament, heart attack.

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* Rosemary Ames, 81, American film actress (Mr. Quincey of Monte Carlo, One More Spring).
* George E. Mylonas, 89, Greek archaeologist, heart attack.
* Maria Ulfah Santoso, 76, Indonesian politician and women's rights activist, Minister of Social Affairs.
* Kenneth Williams, 62, British actor and comedian (Carry On), overdose of barbiturates.

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* John Anderson, 79, British Army general, Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff.
* José Dolhem, 43, French racing driver, power boat racing accident.
* Youri Egorov, 33, Soviet classical pianist, AIDS.
* Jacques de Kadt, 90, Dutch politician, member of Dutch parliament.
* John Reardon, 58, American baritone and actor (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood), pneumonia (AIDS).
* Clifford Roach, 84, Trinidadian test cricketer (Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies).
* Bobby Thompson, 76, English stand-up comedian and actor, emphysema and cancer.
* Khalil al-Wazir, 52, Palestinian leader, assassinated.

### 17

* Linda Batista, 68, Brazilian musician.
* Carlotta Corpron, 86, American photographer.
* Albert Fennell, 68, British film and television producer (The Avengers).
* Toni Frissell, 81, American photographer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Paul L. Freeman Jr., 80, American general in the U.S. Army, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Army Europe, heart ailment.
* Anthony Gaggi, 62, American mobster in the Gambino crime family, heart attack.
* Felicity Lane-Fox, 69, English member of the House of Lords, champion of disability issues.
* Patrick Mphephu, 63–64, South African politician, President of Venda.
* Louise Nevelson, 88, Ukrainian-born American sculptor.
* Eva Novak, 90, American film actress (The Romance of Runnibede, The Medicine Man), pneumonia.
* Otto Pächt, 85, Austrian art historian.
* Carlos Sotomayor, 76–77, Chilean painter, heart attack.
* George Williams, 70, American musician and composer ("Happy Days Are Here Again").
* Isaak Yaglom, 67, Soviet mathematician and author.

### 18

* Stanton Delaplane, 80, American travel writer (San Francisco Chronicle), Pulitzer Prize winner, emphysema.
* Pierre Desproges, 48, French humorist, lung cancer.
* Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, 73, Turkish writer and playwright.
* Antonín Puč, 80, Czechoslovakian international footballer (Slavia Prague, Czechoslovakia).
* Oktay Rifat, 73, Turkish writer and playwright.
* Phyllis Ross, 84–85, Canadian economist, chancellor of the University of British Columbia.

### 19

* Margaret A. Edwards, 85, American librarian (Enoch Pratt Free Library, American Library Association).
* Kwon Ki-ok, 87, first Korean female aviator.
* Jonasz Kofta, 45, Polish songwriter and poet, choking.
* Jeanne Rowe Skinner, 71, American Navy officer, First Lady of Guam.
* Albert Ross Tilley, 83, Canadian plastic surgeon, pioneered treatment of burned airmen.

### 20

* Héctor Félix Miranda, 46, Mexican journalist, columnist of the Zeta magazine, assassinated.

### 21

* Andrzej Czabański, 28, Polish murderer, last person executed in Poland.
* I. A. L. Diamond, 67, Romanian-born American screenwriter (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment), multiple myeloma.
* Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia, 90, Russian-French woman, child of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia.
* Buddy Humphrey, 52, American NFL footballer (St. Louis Cardinals), brain tumour.
* Morris Rudensky, 89, American prohibition-era gangster.

### 22

* Peter Helck, 94, American illustrator.
* Hugh S. Knowles, 83, American acoustical engineer and inventor, president of the Acoustical Society of America, cancer.
* Melvin Price, 83, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, pancreatic cancer.
* Irene Rich, 96, American film and radio actress (Queen of the Yukon, Fort Apache), heart failure.
* Barbara Robison, 42, American singer (The Peanut Butter Conspiracy), toxic shock syndrome.
* Tchicaya U Tam'si, 56, Congolese author.

### 23

* Karl Leonhard, 84, German psychiatrist.
* Eitaro Ozawa, 79, Japanese film and stage actor and director.
* Michael Ramsey, 83, British Church of England bishop, Archbishop of Canterbury.

### 24

* Gioacchino Colombo, 85, Italian automobile engine designer (Ferrari Colombo engine).
* Alexander Makinsky, 87, Iranian-born American businessman, assistant vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
* Pavel Wonka, 35, Czechoslovakian political activist, pulmonary embolism.
* Jonathan Woodner, 44, American real estate developer and road racing driver, air crash.

### 25

* René Cardona, 82, Mexican director and actor, (Allá en el Rancho Grande, Santa Claus).
* Lygia Clark, 67, Brazilian artist, co-founded the Neo-Concrete movement, heart attack.
* Carolyn Franklin, 43, American singer-songwriter, sister of Aretha Franklin ("Ain't No Way"), breast cancer.
* Erik Hysén, 81, Swedish footballer (IFK Göteborg).
* Ken Jones, 60, British conductor and composer of film and television music.
* Michael Lantz, 80, American sculptor, president of the National Sculpture Society, stroke.
* Burnita Shelton Matthews, 93, American judge of the United States District Court, stroke.
* Sir Hugh Rankin, 88–89, Tunisian-born British eccentric, president of the British Muslim Society.
* Lanny Ross, 82, American singer, pianist and songwriter, heart failure.
* Clifford D. Simak, 83, American science fiction writer (Way Station, The Visitors).
* Valerie Solanas, 52, American author and feminist, attempted to murder Andy Warhol, pneumonia.
* Zephyr Wright, 72–73, American civil rights activist and personal chef for President Lyndon Johnson, heart condition.

### 26

* Guy Boyd, 64, Australian potter and sculptor, coronary atherosclerosis.
* William Fox-Pitt, 92, English general in the British Army.
* Guillermo Haro, 75, Mexican astronomer (Herbig–Haro objects).
* Desmond Hoare, 77, British Royal Navy engineer officer.
* Frederick D. Patterson, 86, American academic administrator, founder of the United Negro College Fund, heart attack.
* Marian Porwit, 92, Polish military officer, colonel in the Polish Army.
* Bennett Stewart, 75, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
* Arbee Stidham, 71, American blues singer ("My Heart Belongs to You").

### 27

* Fred Bear, 86, American bow hunter and manufacturer, co-founder of Bear Archery, heart attack.
* Christina Bellin, 48, Italian-born American model, brain tumour.
* Valery Legasov, 51, Soviet chemist, chief of Chernobyl disaster investigation commission, suicide.
* David Scarboro, 20, English actor (EastEnders).
* Robert Van Pelt, 90, American attorney, US district judge.
* Olaf Wieghorst, 88, Danish-born American painter.

### 28

* Fenner Brockway, 99, British socialist politician and anti-war activist, member of the House of Lords.
* William Potter Gale, 71, American political activist and white supremacist, emphysema.
* Michael Grumley, 45, American writer and artist (New York Native), AIDS.
* Hagop Hagopian, 36–37, leader of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, assassinated.
* Maxim Mazumdar, 36, Indian-born Canadian playwright and director (Oscar Remembered), AIDS.
* B. W. Stevenson, 38, American country pop singer and musician ("My Maria"), staph infection.

### 29

* Brish Bhan, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Patiala and East Punjab States Union.
* Andrew Cruickshank, 80, Scottish actor (Dr. Finlay's Casebook).
* Irving Kolodin, 80, American music critic and historian (New York Sun, Saturday Review).
* James McCracken, 61, American operatic tenor, stroke.
* Jakob Tuggener, 84, Swiss photographer, filmmaker and painter.
* Martin Wyldeck, 74, English actor.

### 30

* Lola Hoffmann, 84, Latvian-born Chilean physiologist and psychiatrist.
* Man Mountain Mike, 47, American professional wrestler, staph infection.
* Carroll Righter, 88, American "astrologer".
* Alex Sanders, 61, English occultist, Wiccan high priest, lung cancer.
* Robert Leslie Stewart, 70, Scottish executioner.
* Tiger Joe Tomasso, 65–66, Canadian professional wrestler.