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

## July 1987
### 1

* Kurt Lamm, 68, German-born American footballer, coach and manager, heart attack.
* Jerry Livingston, 78, American songwriter ("The Twelfth of Never") and dance orchestra pianist, heart condition.
* Bridget Sequeira, 81, Pakistani-Indian religious sister.
* Snakefinger, 38, English musician, singer and songwriter (The Residents), heart attack.
* Soetran, 66, Indonesian military officer and politician, Governor of Irian Jaya, liver cancer.

### 2

* Michael Bennett, 44, American theatre director, writer and dancer, lymphoma.
* Václav Černý, 82, Czechoslovakian literary scholar, writer and philosopher.
* Denis Larkin, 79, Irish politician (Teachta Dála, Lord Mayor of Dublin) and trade union official.
* Karl Linnas, 67, Estonian sentenced to death during the Holocaust trials, heart failure.
* George S. Wise, 81, American sociologist, president of Tel Aviv University, heart failure.

### 3

* Viola Dana, 90, American silent-screen actress (The Girl Without a Soul, Blue Jeans).
* John H. Mercer, 64, British glaciologist.
* William Wiard, 59, American film and television director, cancer.

### 4

* Edward Addison, 88, British Royal Air Force air vice marshal.
* Alexander Gordon-Lennox, 76, British Royal Navy rear admiral, president of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
* Abdul Halim, 75, Indonesian politician, Prime Minister of Indonesia.
* Sally Hamlin, 84, American child actor and pianist.
* Dan James, 49, American NFL footballer (Pittsburgh Steelers).
* Bengt Strömgren, 79, Danish astronomer and astrophysicist (Strömgren sphere), heart failure.

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* Bobby Ancell, 76, Scottish international footballer and manager (St Mirren, Scotland).
* Karna Maria Birmingham, 86, Australian artist, illustrator and print maker
* Alan Gibson, 49, Canadian film and television director (Churchill and the Generals, A Woman Called Golda).

### 6

* László Pusztai, 41, Hungarian international footballer (Ferencvárosi, Hungary), car accident.

### 7

* Finis Jennings Dake, 84, American Pentecostal minister, Parkinson's disease.
* Michael J. Eagen, 80. American chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
* René Gérard, 73, French international footballer (Montpellier, France).
* H. R. Jothipala, 51, Sri Lankan playback singer, liver failure.
* Ernest Achey Loftus, 103, British soldier and diarist.
* John Meredith Rockingham, 75, Australian-born Canadian Army general.
* Hannelore Schroth, 65, German actress.
* John Singer, 63, English actor (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street).
* Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, 84, Dutch-born French classical pianist.

### 8

* Gerardo Diego, 90, Spanish poet, Generation of '27 member.
* Alvin O'Konski, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, cardiac arrest.
* Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee, 87, Thai aviator, Royal Thai Air Force officer, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand.
* Franjo Wölfl, 69, Yugoslavian international footballer (Građanski Zagreb, Yugoslavia).

### 9

* Michiyo Fukaya, 34, American feminist poet and activist, suicide.
* Ashley Kriel, 20, South African anti-apartheid activist, killed by police.
* Waris Mir, 48, Pakistani journalist and academic, cardiac arrest.
* Hezekiah Ochuka, 33, Kenyan private in the Kenyan Air Force, Kenyan leader for 6 hours, hanged.
* Paul Rapoport, 47, American lawyer, AIDS.
* Ulas Samchuk, 82, Ukrainian writer, journalist and anti-semite.
* Ernest Ward, 66, English rugby league footballer (Bradford Northern, Great Britain).

### 10

* Doug Dobell, 69, British record store proprietor and record producer (77 Records), heart attack.
* John Hammond, 76, American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic, stroke.
* Harold Rice, 75, American educator and magician.
* Tanya Zolotoroff Nash, 89, Russian-born American Deaf Rights activist.

### 11

* Joe Bennett, 87, American baseball player.
* Hannah Billig, 85, British medical doctor.
* Marion Brooks, 91, American silent-screen actress, entertainment journalist and screenwriter.
* Cyril McLaglen, 87, British and American film actor.
* Truman J. Nelson, 75–76, American novelist and essayist, civil rights activist, heart failure.
* Fernando Garcia Ponce, 53, Mexican architect and artist, heart attack.
* Avi Ran, 23, Israeli international footballer (Maccabi Haifa, Israel), hit by racing boat.
* Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, 87, Russian-born American Talmudic scholar and rabbi.
* Robert Love Taylor, 87, American district judge.
* Tom Waddell, 49, American physician, decathlete Olympian and founder of the Gay Olympics, AIDS.

### 12

* Peter Gimbel, 60, American filmmaker and underwater photojournalist, cancer.
* Harold Goodwin, 84, American actor.
* Emilio el Moro, 63, Spanish Flamenco singer, guitarist and humorist.
* Nathan Perlmutter, 63–64, American executive director of the Anti-Defamation League, lung cancer.
* Marguerite Renoir, 80, French film editor.
* Andrei Snezhnevsky, 83, Soviet psychiatrist, lung cancer.

### 13

* Patience Collier, 76, British actress.
* Robert Francis, 85, American poet.
* Silas Jayne, 80, American horse trainer and murderer, leukemia.
* Eric Worrell, 62, Australian naturalist and science writer, established Australian Reptile Park, heart attack.

### 14

* Salvador E. Felices, 63, Puerto Rican general in the U.S. Air Force.
* Fritz Holt, 46, American theatre producer and director (La Cage aux Folles), pneumonia.
* William Overton, 47, United States district judge, cancer.
* Sao Saimong, 73, Burmese government minister.
* William Stuart-Houston, 76, English-born American half-nephew of Adolf Hitler.
* Pak Yung-sun, 30, North Korean table tennis player, world champion.
* Viktor Zhdanov, 73, Soviet virologist and epidemiologist, instrumental in eradicating smallpox, cerebral hemorrhage.

### 15

* Lee Ballanfant, 91, American Major League baseball umpire.
* J. Rives Childs, 94, American diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, North Yemen and Ethiopia, pulmonary infection.
* Polly Elwes, 59, British BBC television in-vision announcer and reporter (Tonight), bone cancer.
* Lee Gaines, 73, American jazz singer and lyricist ("Take the A Train", "Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'"), cancer.
* Fernando Van Zeller Guedes, 84, Portuguese wine producer (Sogrape).
* Pete King, 28, British musician, testicular cancer.
* Jack O'Hagan, 88, Australian singer, songwriter and radio personality ("Along the Road to Gundagai", "Our Don Bradman").
* Margarete Schlegel, 87, German and British theatre and film actress and soprano operetta singer (Berlin-Alexanderplatz).

### 16

* Harry Ayres, 74, New Zealand mountaineer and guide, suspected suicide.
* Alfie Bass, 71, English actor, heart attack.
* Pierre Lardinois, 62, Dutch politician and diplomat, member of the House of Representatives, cancer.
* Juraj Lupták, 45, Czechoslovakian rapist and serial killer, hanged.
* Rudolph Palumbo, 86, British property developer.
* Tony Tani, 69, Japanese entertainer, liver cancer.
* Cliff Wilton, 71, Scottish rugby union player, President of the Scottish Rugby Union.

### 17

* Marjorie Cottle, 86, English motorcycle trials rider.
* Dominick V. Daniels, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
* Jörg Fauser, 43, German writer, poet and journalist, hit by truck.
* Yūjirō Ishihara, 52, Japanese actor and singer, liver cancer.
* Howard McGhee, 69, American bebop jazz trumpeter.
* Mathura Prasad Mishra, 69, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
* Kristjan Palusalu, 79, Estonian heavyweight wrestler and dual Olympic gold medalist.
* Leon B. Poullada, 74, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Togo, prostate cancer.

### 18

* Anthony Casamento, 66, American marine corporal, Medal of Honor recipient.
* George Dahl, 93, American architect, dehydration.
* Gilberto Freyre, 87, Brazilian sociologist, writer and congressman, brain hemorrhage.
* Alfredo Ruano, 54, El Salvadoran international footballer (Alianza, El Salvador), heart attack.

### 19

* Clementina de Jesus, 86, Brazilian samba singer, stroke.
* Jane Kendeigh, 65, American flight nurse of the U.S. Navy.
* Aadhavan Sundaram, 45, Indian Tamil writer, drowned.
* Brij Lal Varma, 70–71, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha, cabinet minister.

### 20

* Ichirō Arishima, 71, Japanese comedian and actor (King Kong vs. Godzilla).
* Norbert Casteret, 89, French caver, adventurer and writer.
* Richard Egan, 65, American actor (The Glory Brigade, The Kid from Left Field), prostate cancer.
* Margit Johnsen, 74, Norwegian sailor in the merchant navy.
* Dmitry Lelyushenko, 85, Soviet army general, Hero of the Soviet Union.
* Alexander Wood, 80, Scottish American international footballer (Leicester City, United States).

### 21

* John Armstrong, 71, Irish Anglican bishop, Archbishop of Armagh.
* Donald Cressey, 68, American penologist, sociologist and criminologist, heart attack.
* Louis DaPron, 74, American dancer, choreographer and dance instructor, heart attack.
* Bert Keyes, 56, American pianist, songwriter and singer ("Love on a Two-Way Street").
* Stella Steyn, 79, Irish artist.
* Burke Trend, 73, British civil servant, rector of Lincoln College.

### 22

* Adele Comandini, 89, American screenwriter (Three Smart Girls).
* Fahrettin Kerim Gökay, 87, Turkish politician and diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland.
* Eugene Halliday, 75, British artist and writer.
* Natalie Hinderas, 60, American pianist and composer, cancer.
* Mary Cover Jones, 89, American developmental psychologist, pioneer of behaviour therapy.
* Jack Lescoulie, 74, American radio and television announcer and host (Today), colon cancer.
* C. B. Macpherson, 75, Canadian political scientist.
* Don McMahon, 57, American Major League baseballer (Milwaukee Braves, San Francisco Giants), heart attack.
* Nick Perls, 55, American audio engineer, founder and owner of Yazoo Records and Blue Goose Records.
* Raja Shankar, 55, Indian actor.
* A. G. Kripal Singh, 53, Indian Test cricketer and national selector, cardiac arrest.
* Henry Tayali, 43, Zambian painter, sculptor and printmaker.

### 23

* DeVeren Bookwalter, 47, American actor and director (Cyrano de Bergerac), stomach cancer.
* Song Deok-gi, 94, Korean martial artist.
* Art Jarrett, 80, American singer, actor and bandleader, pneumonia.
* Alex Sadkin, 38, American record producer and engineer, motor accident.
* Manuel Suárez y Suárez, 91, Spanish-born Mexican entrepreneur and patron of the arts (Casino de la Selva, Hotel de México).

### 24

* Anna-Eva Bergman, 78, Norwegian abstract expressionist artist.
* Franz Burri, 85, Swiss political figure, disseminator of Nazi propaganda.
* Pat Clancy, 68, Australian trade unionist, heart attack.
* Dick Wellstood, 59, American jazz pianist, heart attack.

### 25

* Malcolm Baldrige Jr., 64, American businessman, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, rodeo accident.
* Charles Stark Draper, 85, American scientist and engineer, "father of inertial navigation".
* Lydie Marland, 87, American first lady of Oklahoma.
* Tracy Read, 25, American race car driver, race crash.

### 26

* Jim Bishop, 79, American journalist and author (The Day Lincoln Was Shot), respiratory failure.
* Chinmoy Chattopadhyay, 56, Indian singer.
* Phyllis Cilento, 93, Australian medical practitioner, advocate of family planning and promoter of racist beliefs.
* Frank Marshall Davis, 81, American journalist, poet and political activist, heart attack.
* Tawfiq al-Hakim, 88, Egyptian writer.
* Joe Liggins, 71, American R&B, jazz and blues pianist and vocalist, stroke.
* Carmelita Maracci, 79, American concert dancer and choreographer, heart attack.
* Kenneth Muse, 77, American animator (Tom and Jerry).
* Mario Radice, 88, Italian painter
* Hugh Wheeler, 75, British-born American novelist, screenwriter and poet (Sweeney Todd).

### 27

* Travis Jackson, 83, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants), Alzheimer's disease.
* Jan Mikusiński, 74, Polish mathematician (mathematical analysis).
* K. L. N. Prasad, 59, Indian politician, Rajya Sabha member.

### 28

* James Burnham, 81, American philosopher and political theorist, kidney and liver cancer.
* Feodor Fedorenko, 79, Soviet Nazi collaborator and war criminal, executed.
* Carlton Fredericks, 76, American radio commentator and writer on health and nutrition, heart attack.
* Jack Renshaw, 77, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales.
* Ismet Alajbegović Šerbo, 62, Bosnian accordionist, composer and writer of folk songs.
* Nguyễn Tuân, 77, Vietnamese author.
* Philip E. Vernon, 82, British-born Canadian psychologist and author.
* Levie Vorst, 83, Dutch rabbi of Rotterdam.

### 29

* Arthur J. Bressan Jr., 44, American director, writer and documentarian (Buddies), AIDS.
* Arthur Chipperfield, 81, Australian test cricketer.
* Aleksey Sukletin, 44, Soviet serial killer, rapist and cannibal, executed.

### 30

* Vicky Clement-Jones, 38, Hong Kong–born English physician and medical researcher, ovarian cancer.
* Lado Davidov, 62, Soviet soldier during the Second World War and Hero of the Soviet Union.
* McDonald Hobley, 70, British BBC Television continuity announcer, heart attack.
* Bernard Sta Maria, 42–43, Malaysian politician and author, member of Malacca State Legislative Assembly, bronchitis.
* Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, 92, Indian Bengali language author.
* Narciso Soldan, 59, Italian footballer (AC Milan, Torino FC).
* Michel Tapié, 78, French art critic, curator, and collector.

### 31

* Kenneth Carllile, 56, American country music guitarist and songwriter, heart attack.
* Joseph E. Levine, 81, American film distributor, financier and producer (Godzilla, King of the Monsters!).
* Justine W. Polier, 84, American lawyer, first woman Justice in New York.
* Michael Staniforth, 44, British actor (Rentaghost), AIDS.
* Paul Yakabuski, 64, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, head injuries from fall.

### Unknown date

* Sari Maritza, 77, Chinese-born British film actress.
* Joe Mondragon, 67, American jazz bassist.
* Hugh Perceval, 79, British screenwriter and film producer.