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

## September 1988
### 1

* Luis Walter Alvarez, 77, American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics (Alvarez hypothesis), esophageal cancer.
* Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad, 58, Indian politician and cricketer, Maharaja of Baroda, member of Lok Sabha.
* Hugh Hunt, 86, American set decorator (Ben-Hur, Julius Caesar).
* Gerald Mast, 48, American author and film historian, AIDS.
* Robert Menaker, 84, American exporter, allegedly worked for Soviet intelligence during World War II.
* Esmeralda Ruspoli, 60, Italian actress (Seven Seas to Calais, Romeo and Juliet).
* Leonor Sullivan, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.

### 2

* Alexander Aigner, 79, Austrian mathematician (Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht).
* Dorothy Crawford, 77, Australian actress, co-founded Crawford Productions with her brother Hector Crawford.
* Jim Bagby Jr., 71, American Major League baseballer (Cleveland Indians).
* Erik Frey, 80, Austrian film actor.
* Gibril Sesay, 79, Sierra Leonean diplomat, ambassador to Egypt.
* Robert Watts, 65, American artist, lung cancer.

### 3

* John Goodison, 44–45, English rock musician, songwriter and record producer ("Give a Little Love"), heart attack.
* Ferit Melen, 81, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey, heart condition.
* Ewing Mitchell, 77, American actor (Sky King, The Adventures of Champion), stroke.
* Ferenc Sas, 73, Hungarian international footballer (Hungária MTK, Hungary).
* Bibi Torriani, 76, Swiss ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.

### 4

* Joseph Ceravolo, 54, American poet, bile duct cancer.
* Leonard Huxley, 86, English-born Australian physicist, Rhodes Scholar.

### 5

* Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare, 72, Indian politician, Governor of Andhra Pradesh.
* Lawrence Brown, 81, American jazz trombonist (Duke Ellington orchestra), stroke.
* Gert Fröbe, 75, German actor (Goldfinger, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines), heart attack.
* Boris Smyslovsky, 90, Russian-Finnish general.

### 6

* Leroy Brown, 37, American professional wrestler, stroke.
* Frank Burke, 69, American officer in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient.
* Autry Inman, 59, American country and rockabilly musician.
* Myrtle Byram McGraw, 89, American psychologist and neurobiologist, pneumonia.
* Harold Rosson, 93, American cinematographer (The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain).
* Karni Singh, 64, Indian Maharaja of Bikaner, member of Lok Sabha.
* Dan Spring, 77, Irish Labour Party politician (Teachta Dála) and Gaelic footballer (Kerry).
* Stefan Themerson, 78, Polish-English writer of children's literature, poet and novelist.
* Julie Ward, 28, British murder victim.

### 7

* Abdul Haq Akorwi, 76, Pakistani Islamic scholar and politician (National Assembly).
* Gaja Alaga, 64, Croatian theoretical physicist (nuclear physics).
* Sedad Hakkı Eldem, 80, Turkish architect (Istanbul Justice Palace).
* Vivi Janiss, 77, American actress (The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues, Man on the Prowl, First, You Cry).

### 8

* Janine Balding, 20, Australian murder victim.
* G. M. Durrani, 68–69, Indian radio drama artist, playback singer and actor.

### 9

* Mona Best, 64, Indian-born British owner of the Casbah Coffee Club, mother of Pete Best, heart attack.
* Leroy McGuirk, 77, American professional wrestler and promoter.

### 10

* Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 56, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (Macunaíma).
* Jaclyn Dowaliby, 7, American murder victim.
* Jam Ghulam Qadir Khan, 68, Pakistani Chief Minister of Balochistan, heart failure.
* Virginia Satir, 72, American author and psychotherapist, pancreatic cancer.

### 11

* Wilhelm Batz, 72, Nazi German Luftwaffe fighter ace.
* Roger Hargreaves, 53, British cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books (Mr. Men Little Miss, Timbuctoo), stroke.
* Julius Mackerle, 79, Czechoslovakian inventor and automobile engineer.
* Fiqrete Shehu, 68, Albanian politician, wife of Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu.
* John Sylvester White, 68, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter).

### 12

* Alan Bible, 78, American lawyer and politician, Nevada Attorney General, United States Senator, respiratory illness.
* Hans Frei, 66, American biblical scholar, stroke.
* Stephen B. Grimes, 61, English production designer and art director (Out of Africa).
* Margaret McFarland, 83, American child psychologist, consultant to TV show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, myelofibrosis.
* Bill Mitchell, 76, American automobile designer (General Motors), heart failure.
* John D. J. Moore, 77, American lawyer and business executive, ambassador to Ireland, bone cancer.
* Lauris Norstad, 81, American general in the US Army and Air Force, cardiac arrest.
* Charlie Palmieri, 60, Puerto Rican bandleader, heart attack.
* Mars Ravelo, 71, Filipino comic book cartoonist and graphic novelist, heart attack.

### 13

* Julian Banzon, 80, Filipino biochemist (alternative fuels).
* Gerd Hornberger, 78. German sprinter and Olympic medalist.
* Christian Kampmann, 49, Danish writer and journalist, murdered.
* Peter Young, 73, British Army officer and military historian, founded The Sealed Knot.

### 14

* Donald Albery, 74, English theatre impresario, director and administrator of the London Festival Ballet.
* William Edward Cousins, 86, American Roman Catholic bishop, Archbishop of Milwaukee.
* Roy Dutton, 71, British Royal Air Force officer and flying ace.

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* Samuel E. Beetley, 74, American film editor (The Longest Day, Doctor Dolittle).
* Frank Francis, 86, English academic librarian and curator (British Museum).
* Henry Wallich, 74, German-born American economist, columnist for Newsweek magazine, member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

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* Axel von Ambesser, 78, German playwright, actor and film director.
* Becky Bell, 17, American teenage girl, septic abortion.
* Max Loehr, 84, German art historian and professor of Chinese art, Parkinson's disease.
* Richard Paul Lohse, 86, Swiss painter and graphic artist.
* Dick Pym, 95, English international footballer (Bolton Wanderers, England).
* Ramon S. Subejano, 82–83, Filipino-American soldier.
* Bob Trice, 62, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia / Kansas City Athletics).

### 17

* Nellie Beer, 88, British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester.
* Sir John Biggs-Davison, 70, British politician, Member of Parliament.
* Walter P. Chrysler Jr., 79, American art collector and theatre and film producer (Chrysler Museum of Art), cancer.
* Roman Davydov, 75, Soviet animator and artist (Adventures of Mowgli).
* Beulah Mae Donald, 67, American woman who successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan.
* Hilde Güden, 71, Austrian soprano (Vienna State Opera).
* Nat Jackley, 79, English comic actor, cancer.
* Emment Kapengwe, 45, Zambian footballer (Aston Villa, Zambia), stroke.
* Rowena Reed Kostellow, 88, American industrial designer and professor (Pratt Institute), heart attack.
* Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox, 71, aspirant head of the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

### 18

* Ho Chong, 92, South Korean politician, President of South Korea.
* Kathleen Collins, 46, American poet, filmmaker and civil rights activist (Losing Ground), breast cancer.
* David Dodd, 93, American financial analyst and author (Security Analysis), respiratory failure.
* John Elliot, 90, British transport and railway manager (Southern Railway, British Railways).
* Albert E. Jenner Jr., 81, American lawyer, assistant counsel to Warren Commission, Watergate counsel, neurological disease.
* David McFall, 68, Scottish sculptor.
* Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, 82, Iranian poet (Heydar Babaya Salam).
* Alan Watt, 87, Australian diplomat, secretary of the Department of External Affairs.

### 19

* P. Shilu Ao, 71, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Nagaland.
* Michael Fessier, 82, American screenwriter and film producer.
* P. A. P. Moran, 71, Australian statistician (probability theory, population and evolutionary genetics), stroke.
* Eduard Pestel, 74, German industrial designer, economist and politician.
* Win Maw Oo, 16, Burmese student activist, killed during the 8888 uprising.

### 20

* Tim Davis, 44, American drummer, singer and songwriter, co-founded the Steve Miller Band, diabetes.
* Roy Kinnear, 54, English actor and comedian (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), heart attack following horse fall.
* Eileen O'Faolain, 88, Irish writer of children's books, stroke.
* Walter Reckless, 89, American criminologist (containment theory).
* Doris Wells, 44, Venezuelan actress, writer and producer.
* Sam Woodyard, 63, American jazz drummer, cancer.

### 21

* Rudi Alvađ, 59, Serbian half of comedy duo Momo and Uzeir.
* Harold Balfour, 90, British politician, Member of Parliament, Under-Secretary of State for Air.
* Glenn Robert Davis, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
* Robert Gwathmey, 85, American painter, Parkinson's disease.
* Henry Koster, 83, German-American film director, liver cancer.
* Christine Norden, 63, British actress (An Ideal Husband, Mine Own Executioner), pneumonia.
* S. B. P. Pattabhirama Rao, 76, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
* Zubeida, 76–77, Indian actress (Alam Ara, Devdas).

### 22

* Rais Amrohvi, 74, Pakistani scholar, poet and psychoanalyst, assassinated.
* Maximilian von Fürstenberg, 83, Dutch-Belgian Roman Catholic cardinal, cerebral hemorrhage.

### 23

* Mary Colvin, 80, English director of the Women's Royal Army Corps.
* Tom Hawkins, 61, American writer, probable author of the Wanda Tinasky letters, murder-suicide.
* Arwel Hughes, 79, Welsh orchestral conductor and composer.
* Trilok Kapoor, 76, Indian actor.
* Phil Leslie, 79, American comedy writer, cancer.
* Lyell McEwin, 91, Australian politician, president of the South Australian Legislative Council.
* Tibor Sekelj, 76, Hungarian-born Yugoslavian polyglot and world-traveller.

### 24

* Aziz Suryal Atiya, 90, Egyptian Coptic historian, founder of the Institute of Coptic Studies.
* Basil de Ferranti, 58, British businessman and politician, member of the House of Commons, cancer.
* Nancy Hale, 80, American novelist (The Prodigal Women), stroke.
* Joe Don Looney, 45, American NFL footballer (Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins), motorcycle accident.
* Shamsul Huda Panchbagi, 90–91, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician, member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly.

### 25

* bpNichol, 43, Canadian poet and writer.
* James L. Buie, 68, American scientist and inventor (transistor–transistor logic), emphysema.
* Billy Carter, 51, American farmer, businessman and politician, brother of Jimmy Carter, pancreatic cancer.
* Nipper Pat Daly, 75, British boxer.
* Francis DeSales, 76, American actor (Two Faces West, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), cancer.
* Antonino Saetta, 65, Italian magistrate, assassinated.
* Arthur Võõbus, 79, Estonian theologian.

### 26

* Guillermo Battaglia, 88, Argentine film actor (La Historia Oficial), heart attack.
* Alister Clarke, 71, Australian rugby league player (St. George, Canterbury).
* Paul Cowan, 48, American journalist (The Village Voice), leukemia.
* Bruce Haack, 57, Canadian musician and composer, heart failure.
* Lincoln Hudson, 72, U.S. Army Air Force officer in World War II.
* Lord Melody, 62, Trinidadian singer ("Shame and Scandal"), cancer.
* Sergey Shcherbakov, 26–27, Soviet serial killer, executed.
* Branko Zebec, 59, Yugoslavian international footballer (Partizan Belgrade, Yugoslavia), alcohol-related illness.

### 27

* Teofilo Camomot, 74, Filipino Roman Catholic Archbishop, car accident.
* Demetrius Comino, 85, Australian engineer and inventor (Slotted angle), founded the Comino Foundation, heart attack.
* Willis Edwards, 85, English international footballer (Leeds United, England).
* George Grant, 69, Canadian philosopher and professor.
* J. C. Heard, 71, American swing, bop and blues drummer, heart attack.
* Ken McIver, 59, Australian politician, member of the Parliament of Western Australia.
* Paul Reinman, 78, American comic book artist (The Incredible Hulk, X-Men).
* William V. Shannon, 61, American journalist and author, ambassador to Ireland, lymphoma.

### 28

* Margerie Bonner, 83, American actress, scriptwriter and novelist, wife of Malcolm Lowry.
* Frank Caplan, 77, English-born American toy collector and manufacturer, pneumonia.
* Ethel Grandin, 94, American silent-screen actress.
* Charles R. Jonas, 83, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.
* Beldon Katleman, 74, American businessman (El Rancho Vegas).
* Vicko Krstulović, 83, Yugoslav communist politician, President of the Presidium of the Croatian Parliament.

### 29

* Charles Addams, 76, American cartoonist (The Addams Family), heart attack.
* Barney Josephson, 86, American founder of Café Society in New York, hemorrhage.

### 30

* Chick Chandler, 83, American film actor (Soldiers of Fortune), heart attack.
* Al Holbert, 41, American car racing driver, aeroplane crash.
* Dhulappa Bhaurao Navale, 78, Indian freedom fighter.
* Joachim Prinz, 86, German-American rabbi, heart attack.
* Chino Roces, 75, Filipino businessman and newspaper owner and publisher (The Manila Times), cancer.
* David E. Satterfield III, 67, American lawyer and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.
* Eddie Shimwell, 68, English international footballer (Blackpool).
* Muriel S. Snowden, 72, American founder and director of Freedom House, cancer.
* Trường Chinh, 81, Vietnamese communist political leader, President of Vietnam, fall.

### Unknown date

* Harry Jeffra, 73, American boxer, world bantamweight and featherweight champion.
* Prentice Moreland, 63, American R&B singer.