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

## January 1987
### 1

* Velma Abbott, 62, American baseballer in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
* Avard Fairbanks, 89, American sculptor, heart attack.
* Maurice Mandelbaum, 78, American philosopher and phenomenologist.

### 2

* Ramón Castroviejo, 82, Spanish and American eye surgeon and corneal transplantation pioneer.
* Hazel Daly, 91, American film actress.
* Lovat Dickson, 84, Canadian publisher and writer.
* Arthur Gould-Porter, 81, English film, television and stage actor.
* Jean de Gribaldy, 64, French road cyclist and directeur sportif.
* Harekrushna Mahatab, 87, Indian politician, leader of the Indian National Congress, Chief Minister of Odisha.
* Alfred Schindler, 92, American industrialist, acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

### 3

* Alex "Big Daddy" Campbell, 55, Scottish folk singer, tuberculosis.
* Arvind Deshpande, 54, Indian film, theatre and television actor and theatre director.
* Sunder Lal, appr. 64, Indian independence activist and politician, Member of Parliament.
* John Bartlow Martin, 71, American diplomat and author, U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, throat cancer.
* William R. Poage, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.
* Franck Sylvain, 77, Haitian politician, acting President of Haiti.

### 4

* Peggy Bacon, 91, American artist, known for satirical caricatures.
* Lauretta Bender, 89, American child neuropsychiatrist, developed the Bender-Gestalt Test.
* Aubert C. Dunn, 90, American attorney and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
* John A. Seitz, 78, American general of the U.S. Army.

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* Margaret Laurence, 60, Canadian novelist and short story writer, suicide.
* Dale Mitchell, 65, American Major League baseballer (Cleveland Indians), heart attack.
* Helenka Pantaleoni, 86, American silent-screen actress.
* Herman Smith-Johannsen, 111, Norwegian skier and supercentenarian, pneumonia.

### 6

* Taddy Aycock, 71, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana.
* Daniel Carney, 42, Rhodesian novelist, cancer.
* Sir Robert Cooke, 56, British politician, Member of Parliament, motor neuron disease.
* Margaret Danhauser, 65, American baseballer in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
* Jaidev, 68, Kenyan-born Indian music composer.
* N. N. Kakkad, 59, Indian poet, cancer.
* Jack Schwarz, 90, American independent producer of low-budget feature films.

### 7

* Martha George, 94, native American tribal leader, chairperson of the Suquamish tribe.
* Lakshmi, 65, Indian writer.
* Avner Less, 71, German-born Israeli police officer, interrogated Adolf Eichmann after he was captured.
* Jackie Mitchell, 73, American female baseballer, struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession.

### 8

* Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, 85, English writer and artist, curator of Watts Gallery.
* Leo Callaghan, 62, Welsh football referee in the English Football League.
* Nana Joshi, 60, Indian Test cricketer, liver cancer.
* Mary Lindell, 91, English woman, front-line nurse in World War I, member of the French Resistance in World War II.
* Walter R. Mansfield, 75, American judge, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, stroke.
* Myron Prinzmetal, 78, American cardiologist.
* Christian F. Schilt, 91, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
* Phil Seghi, 77, American front-office executive in Major League Baseball, cancer.

### 9

* Carl Gunnar Engström, 74, Swedish physician and inventor.
* Arthur Lake, 81, American actor, heart attack.
* Jack Lathrop, 73, American vocalist and guitarist.
* Bill Noël, 72, American oilman, banker and civic leader, cancer.
* Alex B. Novikoff, 73, Russian Empire–born American biologist.

### 10

* Steve Casey, 78, Irish rower and world champion wrestler.
* Ian Harvey, 72, British businessman and politician, Member of Parliament.
* Marion Hutton, 67, American singer and actress, cancer.
* Dominick Labino, 76, American engineer and master craftsman in glass.
* Håkan Malmrot, 87, Swedish swimmer, Olympic champion (1920).
* Handsome Ned, 29, Canadian country singer and songwriter, overdose.
* Sir David Robinson, 82, British entrepreneur and philanthropist, funded Robinson College, Cambridge and Rosie Hospital.
* Ferdinand Maria von Senger und Etterlin, 63, Nazi German soldier, general in the post-war Bundeswehr.

### 11

* Albert Ferber, 75, Swiss pianist.
* Hugo Fregonese, 78, Argentinian film director and screenwriter (My Six Convicts), heart attack.
* Betty von Fürer-Haimendorf, 75–76, British ethnologist in India and Nepal.
* Jacques Hérold, 76, Romanian surrealist painter.

### 12

* Harold Krents, 42, blind American lawyer, author and activist, brain tumour.
* Ralph Maxwell Lewis, 82, American mystic, Imperator of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis.
* Norah Michener, 84–85, Canadian wife of Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada, Alzheimer's disease.
* Glenn Odekirk, 81, American aerospace engineer, cancer.
* Herbert Tiede, 71, German actor.

### 13

* Vladimir Alatortsev, 77, Soviet chess player, author and administrator.
* Alfred Young Allee, 81, American Texas ranger, sheriff and game warden, cancer.
* Anatoly Efros, 61, Soviet theatre and film director, heart attack.
* Charlotte Friend, 65, American virologist, noted for her discovery of the Friend leukemia virus.
* Matt Hazeltine, 53, American NFL footballer (San Francisco 49ers), Lou Gehrig's disease.
* Igor Ilyinsky, 85, Soviet stage and film actor, director and comedian.
* Elvira Ríos, 73, Mexican singer ("Noche de ronda", "Perfidia") and actress, kidney failure and bladder cancer.
* Tony Sansone, 81, Italian-American bodybuilder and model, colon cancer.
* Geoffrey Tiarks, 77, British Anglican bishop.

### 14

* Warwick Oswald Fairfax, 85, Australian businessman and journalist.
* Desmond FitzGerald, 75, Irish architect, designer of original Dublin Airport terminal building.
* Park Jong-chul, 21, South Korean democracy movement activist, death by torture.
* Gerald C. MacCallum Jr., 61, American philosopher, heart attack.
* Douglas Sirk, 89, German-born film director (A Time to Love and a Time to Die).
* Rauli Somerjoki, 39, Finnish rock singer, bronchitis.
* Jai Ram Varma, 82, Indian freedom fighter and politician, Member of Parliament.
* Sam Wagstaff, 65, American art curator and collector, pneumonia.

### 15

* Carl-Fredrik Algernon, 61, Swedish Navy officer, hit by train.
* Harald Bode, 77, German engineer, pioneer in the development of electronic musical instruments.
* Ray Bolger, 83, American actor, singer and dancer, the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, bladder cancer.
* Rudolf Carl, 87, Austrian actor.
* José Antonio Gallardo, 25, Spanish footballer (Málaga), cardiac arrest following injury in game.
* Dolores Hawkins, 57, American rhythm and blues singer.
* John Alexander Fraser Roberts, 87, Welsh geneticist and psychiatrist.
* Heather Thatcher, 90, English actress in theatre and films.
* Philip Young, 76, American government official and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands, heart attack.

### 16

* Achankunju, 56, Indian actor.
* Arthur Drexler, 61, American museum curator, director of the Museum of Modern Art, pancreatic cancer.
* Joyce Jameson, 59, American actress (The Andy Griffith Show, The Apartment), suicide.
* Lita McClinton, 35, American socialite and murder victim.
* Colin Scrimgeour, 83, New Zealand Methodist minister and broadcaster.
* V. Viswanathan, 77, Indian ICS officer, Governor of Kerala, Lieutenant Governor of Himachal Pradesh.
* Bertram Wainer, 58, Australian doctor, campaigned for legal access to abortion in Victoria, heart attack.
* Earl Wilson, 79, American journalist and author, stroke.

### 17

* Aram Avakian, 60, American film editor and director, heart failure.
* Harry Darby, 91, American politician, U.S. Senator.
* Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, 82, Tibetan Buddhist leader.
* Lawrence Kohlberg, 59, American psychologist, suicide.
* Jozo Penava, 77, Bosnian-Herzegovinian music producer, composer and vocalist.
* Fazil Rahu, 52–53, Pakistani political leader, assassinated.
* Gu Zhutong, 94, Chinese military general, Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of China Armed Forces.

### 18

* Sergio Blažić, 35, Croatian hard rock musician (Atomsko Sklonište), Hodgkin's disease.
* Esmail Daghayeghi, 32–33, Iranian military commander, missile strike.
* Renato Guttuso, 75, Italian painter and politician, member of the Senate, cancer.
* Helen Block Lewis, 73, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, cancer.
* Lauro Salas, 58, Mexican lightweight boxer and world champion.
* George Thalben-Ball, 90, Australian-born English organist and composer.

### 19

* Gerald Brenan, 92, Maltese-born writer of British decent who lived mostly in Spain, heart failure.
* Harry Keller, 73, American film editor and director.
* Ira C. Kepford, 67, American pilot with the U.S. Navy, flying ace in World War II.
* Dick Milford, 91, English clergyman.
* George Selkirk, 79, Canadian Major League baseballer (New York Yankees).
* Hermann Voss, 92, German anatomist, unpunished Nazi war criminal.

### 20

* Tom Dollery, 72, English Test cricketer.
* Annie Fox, 93, Canadian-born American, first woman to receive the Purple Heart for combat.
* Hermann Giesler, 88, Nazi German architect.
* Charles Pasquale Greco, 92, American Roman Catholic Church bishop.
* Donald W. MacKinnon, 84, American psychologist and University of California professor.
* Thomas "Ta" Power, 33, Irish politician and paramilitary, shot.
* James L. Richardson, 77, American lieutenant general in the U.S. Army.
* Periyasaamy Thooran, 78, Indian Tamil poet, teacher and composer of Carnatic music.

### 21

* Jenny Aubry, 83, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
* Nina Byron, 86, New Zealand-born American silent-screen actress and showgirl.
* Victor Goddard, 89, British air marshal in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
* Charles Goodell, 60, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, heart attack.
* Ikki Kajiwara, 50, Japanese author, manga writer and film producer.

### 22

* Barbro Alving, 78, Swedish journalist, writer and feminist.
* Ann Parker Bowles, 68, British aristocrat and Girl Guides leader, mother-in-law of Queen Camilla.
* R. Budd Dwyer, 47, American politician, suicide by gunshot.
* Stan Keon, 71, Australian politician, member of the Federal House of Representatives.
* Patrick du Val, 83, British mathematician (du Val singularity).

### 23

* Ben-Zion, 89, Russian-born American painter, sculptor and poet, heart attack.
* E. Nelson Bridwell, 55, American writer for Mad magazine, lung cancer.
* Sergei Chernikov, 74, Russian mathematician.
* Asim Ferhatović, 53, Yugoslavian international footballer (Sarajevo, Yugoslavia), heart attack.
* Gregor Strniša, 56, Slovenian poet, playwright and songwriter.

### 24

* Norman Dodd, 87, American banker.
* Tetsuji Murakami, 59, Japanese karate representative to Europe.
* Clara Thalmann, 78, Swiss journalist, athlete and militia woman who fought during the Spanish Civil War.

### 25

* William Devlin, 75, Scottish film and television actor.
* Julian Hoke Harris, 80, American sculptor.
* Emil Hlobil, 85, Czechoslovakian composer and music professor.
* Henry Krips, 74, Austrian-Australian conductor and composer (South Australian Symphony Orchestra).
* Nahuel Moreno, 62, Argentinian Trotskyist leader.
* Mihrişah Sultan, 70, Ottoman princess, daughter of heir to the throne Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin.
* Piero Vida, 48, Italian film actor.

### 26

* Adolf Ciborowski, 67, Polish architect, urban planner and politician.
* Mollie Maureen, 82, Irish actress.
* Charles Wolcott, 80, American music composer.

### 27

* Allan V. Cox, 60, American geophysicist (geomagnetic reversal), suicide.
* Allison Danzig, 88, American sportswriter, heart attack.
* Geoffrey Charles Evans, 86, English lieutenant general in the British Army.
* Samuel G. Fuqua, 87, American rear admiral of the U.S. Navy.
* Antanas Maceina, 79, Lithuanian philosopher and poet.
* Norman McLaren, 72, Scottish Canadian animator and director, heart attack.
* Ralph G. Neppel, 63, American soldier in the U.S. Army.
* Richard Sapir, 50, American author (The Destroyer), heart attack.

### 28

* Gangadhar V. Chittal, 63, Indian Kannada poet, Parkinson's disease.
* George Dow, 79, British railway employee and author.
* Ralph Faulkner, 95, American fencer, film actor and Olympian.
* Galo Plaza, 80, Ecuadorian statesman, President of Ecuador, heart attack.
* Valerian Trifa, 72, Romanian Orthodox cleric and fascist political activist, heart attack.

### 29

* Carlo Cassola, 69, Italian novelist and essayist (La Ragazza di Bube), heart attack.
* Emvin Cremona, 67, Maltese artist and stamp designer.
* Mounir Abou Fadel, 74, Lebanese politician, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon.
* Josep Vicenç Foix, 94, Spanish Catalan poet, writer and essayist.
* Vincent R. Impellitteri, 86, Italian-American politician and judge, Mayor of New York City, heart failure.
* Gerhard Klopfer, 81, German Nazi Party official and chief deputy of Martin Bormann.
* Princess Pilar of Bavaria, 95, German Royal, only daughter of Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria.
* Eva Primrose, 94, English daughter of Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare.

### 30

* Dionysios Arbouzis, appr. 74, Greek Hellenic Army general.
* Johnnie Cradock, 82, English cook, writer and broadcaster.
* Ken Drake, 65, American film and television actor.
* Ante Topić Mimara, 88, Croatian art collector.
* Héctor Varela, 73, Argentinian tango bandoneónist, bandleader and composer.

### 31

* Yves Allégret, 81, French film director.
* Julian Antonisz, 45, Polish filmmaker, artist and composer.
* Idris Barzani, 42–43, Kurdish politician, heart attack.
* Edmund J. Pendleton, 87, American composer and musician.

### Unknown date

* Delano Ames, 80–81, American writer of detective stories.
* Pierre Chapo, 59, French furniture designer and craftsman, Lou Gehrig's disease.
* Don Levy, 54–55, Australian-born artist and filmmaker, suicide.
* Atholl Oakeley, 86, British wrestler and wrestling promoter.
* Saul Tepper, 87, American illustrator and songwriter.