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

## August 1988
### 1

* Orville Carlisle, 71, American inventor of the model rocket motor.
* Red Coffey, 65, American voice actor and comedian (Tom and Jerry).
* John Dearden, 80, American Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Detroit, pancreatic cancer.
* Florence Eldridge, 86, American actress (Long Day's Journey into Night).
* Yoshimoto Ishin, 72, Japanese businessman and Jodo Shinshu Buddhist priest.
* Kim Yong-ki, 79, South Korean agrarian movement leader.
* Sheldon Kinser, 45, American race car driver, cancer.
* John F. Laboon, 67, American officer in the U.S. Navy and Roman Catholic chaplain.
* Steve Mills, 34, English footballer (Southampton), leukemia.
* Gertrude Welcker, 92, German stage and silent-screen actress (Chronicles of the Gray House, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler).

### 2

* Jack Breslin, 68, American university administrator (Michigan State University).
* Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate, the "Green Grocer", intestinal cancer.
* Raymond Carver, 50, American short-story writer (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral), lung cancer.
* Nityanand Kanungo, 88, Indian politician, governor of Bihar and Gujarat, member of Lok Sabha.
* Nada Klaić, 68, Croatian historian.
* José Magriñá, 70, Cuban footballer (national team).

### 3

* Lillian Bilocca, 59, British fisheries worker, known for improving safety in the fishing industry, peritoneal cancer.
* Campbell Copelin, 87, English-born Australian actor.
* Tucker McGuire, 75, American-born British film and television actress.
* Krishnaswami Ramiah, 96, Indian agricultural scientist and geneticist, director of National Rice Research Institute.
* Vic Watson, 90, English international footballer (West Ham United, England).

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* Sir Allan Adair, 90, British army general.
* Brian Brake, 61, New Zealand photographer, heart attack.
* Richard Leppla, 74, Nazi German fighter ace.
* George Commey Mills-Odoi, 72, Ghanaian judge and Attorney General.
* Ofelia Uribe de Acosta, 87, Colombian author, editor and suffragist.
* Joe Vandeleur, 84, Indian-born Anglo-Irish British Army officer.
* Harry Lee Waterfield, 77, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.

### 5

* James Devereux, 85, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps, member of U.S. House of Representatives, pneumonia.
* Colin Higgins, 47, French-Australian-American screenwriter, actor and director (Harold and Maude, 9 to 5), AIDS.
* Arif Hussain Hussaini, 41, Indian-Pakistani revolutionary leader, assassinated.
* James M. Masters Sr., 77, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps, cancer.
* Ralph Meeker, 67, American actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Paths of Glory), heart attack.
* Gil North, 72, British author of detective stories (Cluff).

### 6

* John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, 79, English thriller, detective and spy novelist (My Name Is Michael Sibley), MI5 spy.
* James Hervey Johnson, 87, American atheist, writer and editor of The Truth Seeker, white supremacist, heart attack.
* Anatoly Levchenko, 47, Soviet cosmonaut, brain tumour.
* Illa Martin, 88, German dendrologist, botanist, conservationist and dentist.
* Francis Ponge, 89, French poet.
* J. Skelly Wright, 77, American circuit judge, prostate cancer.

### 7

* David L. Hoggan, 65, American author, neo-Nazi, anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, heart attack.
* Wilfred Jackson, 82, American animator (Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphony).
* David E. Skinner II, 67–68, American shipping heir, owner of the Space Needle and Seattle Seahawks, cancer.

### 8

* Alan Ameche, 55, American NFL player (Baltimore Colts), heart attack.
* Kid Chocolate, 78, Cuban boxer, World Junior Lightweight Champion.
* George Estregan, 49, Filipino film actor.
* Henri Frenay, 82, French military officer and member of the French Resistance.
* William Kininmonth, 83, Scottish architect.
* Félix Leclerc, 82, Canadian singer-songwriter, heart attack.
* Liu Liangmo, 78, Chinese musician and Christian leader.
* Alan Napier, 85, English actor (Batman), pneumonia.
* Dominic Serventy, 84, Australian ornithologist, president of Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.

### 9

* Woodrow Adams, 71, American guitarist and harmonica player.
* Jimmie Fidler, 89, American columnist, journalist and radio and television personality.
* M. Carl Holman, 69, American civil rights advocate (Civil Rights Commission), cancer.
* Giacinto Scelsi, 83, Italian composer, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Ramón Valdés, 63, Mexican actor and comedian (El Chavo del Ocho), stomach cancer.

### 10

* Arnulfo Arias, 86, Panamanian politician, President of Panama, heart attack.
* Antoine Blanchard, 77, French painter (Cafe de la Paix).
* Jean Brachet, 79, Belgian biochemist (RNA).
* Gerd Grieg, 93, Norwegian actress.
* Benny Johnson, 40, American NFL football player (Houston Oilers), heart attack.
* Guido Mannari, 43, Italian actor (The Driver's Seat), heart attack.
* Havzi Nela, 54, Albanian poet, executed.
* Adela Rogers St. Johns, 94, American journalist, novelist and screenwriter, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
* Paul Thek, 54, American painter and sculptor, AIDS.

### 11

* Nellikode Bhaskaran, 64, Indian Malayalam actor (Sarapancharam).
* Alfred Kelbassa, 63, German international footballer (STV Horst-Emscher, Borussia Dortmund, West Germany).
* Pauline Lafont, 25, French actress, hiking accident.
* K. Avukader Kutty Naha, 68, Indian politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Kerala.
* Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, 56, French opera director, pulmonary embolism following a fall.
* Anne Ramsey, 59, American actress (The Goonies, Throw Momma from the Train), cancer.
* Jack Regan, 75, Australian rules footballer (Collingwood).

### 12

* Jean-Michel Basquiat, 27, American artist (Hollywood Africans), heroin overdose.
* Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar, 92, Indian guru, writer and spiritual leader.

### 13

* Mel Almada, 75, Mexican Major League baseballer (Boston Red Sox).
* Fred Below, 61, American blues drummer, liver cancer.
* Keith Hancock, 90, Australian historian and academic.
* Martin Hellinger, 84, Nazi German dentist, convicted war criminal, tasked with removing gold filling from corpses at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
* Thomas Henty, 32, English actor, haemophilia.
* John Wendell Holmes, 78, Canadian diplomat, Canadian delegate to the United Nations.
* Gajanan Jagirdar, 81, Indian film director, screenwriter and actor, heart attack.
* Peggy Mann, 69, American Big Band singer.
* Otto Passman, 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
* William H. Phelps Jr., 85, Venezuelan ornithologist and businessman, circulatory problems.
* Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao, 72, Indian author, author of the National Pledge of India.
* Tenor Saw, 21, Jamaican dancehall singjay, hit and run accident.
* Gordon H. Scherer, 81, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
* Edward Bennett Williams, 68, American lawyer and businessman, co-founder of Williams & Connolly, colon cancer.

### 14

* Roy Buchanan, 48, American guitarist and blues musician, suicide.
* Robert Calvert, 43, South African–born British writer, poet and musician, heart attack.
* Michael Crowder, 54, British historian and author.
* Enzo Ferrari, 90, Italian motor racing driver and car maker, leukemia.
* Kōri Hisataka, 81, Japanese founder of Shōrinjiryū Kenkōkan Karate.
* Kailas Nath Wanchoo, 85, Indian Chief Justice.
* Monroe Wheeler, 89, American publisher and museum coordinator (Museum of Modern Art), stroke.

### 15

* Barry Bingham Sr., 82, American media patriarch in Louisville, Kentucky, brain tumour.
* Rudy Collins, 54, American jazz drummer.
* Han Deqin, 95, Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army.
* Ronald Stein, 58, American film composer, pancreatic cancer.
* Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, 86, German composer and music historian.
* Hartman Turnbow, 83, Mississippi orator and activist during the Civil Rights Movement.

### 16

* Rashad Barmada, 74–75, Syrian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Syria.
* Smokey Haangala, 38, Zambian poet and composer.
* Herbert Pagani, 44, Italian artist and musician, leukaemia.

### 17

* Jack Cutting, 80, American international content supervisor and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios.
* Nino Frank, 84, Italian-born French film critic and writer, coined the term "film noir".
* Bruno Mathsson, 81, Swedish architect and furniture designer.
* Connie Meijer, 25, Dutch cyclist, heart attack.
* Akhtar Abdur Rahman, 64, Pakistani Army general, plane crash.
* Arnold Lewis Raphel, 45, American diplomat, ambassador to Pakistan, plane crash.
* Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 74, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.
* Siddique Salik, 52, Pakistani army officer, plane crash.
* Victoria Shaw, 53, Australian film and television actress, emphysema.
* Samuel Silkin, 70, British politician, Attorney General for England and Wales.
* Jack Straus, 58, American professional poker player, aortic aneurysm.
* Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 64, Pakistani military officer, President of Pakistan, plane crash.

### 18

* Frederick Ashton, 83, British ballet dancer and choreographer (Symphonic Variations, Ondine).
* Felix Maria Davídek, 67, Czechoslovakian Roman Catholic bishop.
* Li Gotami Govinda, 92, Indian painter, writer and composer.
* Seiryū Inoue, 56–57, Japanese photographer.
* Gary Little, 49, American judge, focus of sexual abuse allegations, suicide.
* Michael Perrin, 82, Canadian-born British scientist, directed first British atomic bomb program.
* Jessica Powers, 83, American poet and nun, stroke.
* Ernst Simon, 88, German educator and religious philosopher.

### 19

* Enrico Cerulli, 90, Italian scholar of Somali and Ethiopian studies, Governor of Scioa and Harar, ambassador to Iran.
* Patrick Donner, 83, British Member of Parliament.
* Don Haggerty, 74, American actor (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Sands of Iwo Jima).
* Jerome Zerbe, 84, American photographer.

### 20

* Jean-Paul Aron, 63, French writer and journalist, AIDS.
* Leon McAuliffe, 71, American Western swing guitarist.
* Joan G. Robinson, 78, British author and illustrator of children's books (When Marnie Was There).
* Lazarus Salii, 51, Palau politician, President of Palau, suicide.

### 21

* H. G. Adler, 78, Czechoslovakian-English poet and novelist, Holocaust survivor, heart failure.
* Teddy Diaz, 25, Filipino musician and composer (The Dawn), murdered.
* Ray Eames, 78, American artist and designer.
* Chris Gittins, 86, British actor (The Archers).
* Stuart Leary, 55, South African footballer (Charlton Athletic) and first-class cricketer, suicide.
* Jerry Warren, 63, American film director, screenwriter and actor (Teenage Zombies), lung cancer.

### 22

* Rejhan Demirdžić, 61, Bosnian half of comedy duo Momo and Uzeir.

### 23

* Gerald Drayson Adams, 88, Canadian-American business executive and film writer (Dead Reckoning, The Big Steal).
* José Manuel de Sousa e Faro Nobre de Carvalho, 76, Portuguese army general, Governor of Macau.
* C. Desmond Greaves, 74, English Marxist activist and historian.
* Laud Humphreys, 57, American sociologist and Episcopal priest, lung cancer.
* Josef Klehr, 83, Nazi German SS-Oberscharführer, concentration camp supervisor and war criminal.
* Hans Lewy, 83, Prussian-born American mathematician (partial differential equations), leukemia.
* Menotti Del Picchia, 96, Brazilian poet, journalist and painter.
* Jack Sher, 75, American newspaper columnist and film writer (Goodbye, Raggedy Ann), respiratory and heart problems.
* Robert Walcott, 78, American historian.

### 24

* C. Chhunga, 72, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Mizoram.
* Leonard Frey, 49, American actor (Fiddler on the Roof), AIDS.
* Kenneth Leighton, 58, British composer and pianist, oesophageal cancer.
* Abu Jafar Shamsuddin, 77, Bangladeshi writer.
* Nat Stuckey, 54, American country singer ("Sweet Thang"), lung cancer.

### 25

* Caziel, 82, Polish-born artist.
* Price Daniel, 77, American jurist and politician, Governor of Texas, stroke.
* Françoise Dolto, 79, French pediatrician and psychoanalyst, pulmonary fibrosis.
* Percy Foreman, 86, American criminal defense attorney (James Earl Ray), cardiac arrest.
* Henry Joseph Gallagher, 73, British soldier in the Korean War (Distinguished Conduct Medal).
* Jimmy Lloyd, 69, American actor (The Sea Hound).
* Irving Mansfield, 80, American producer, publicist and writer, heart attack.
* Art Rooney, 87, American owner of Pittsburgh Steelers NFL team, stroke.

### 26

* Donald De Lue, 90, American sculptor (Harvey S. Firestone Memorial).
* Oscar Marzaroli, 55, Italian-born Scottish photographer, cancer.
* Carlos Paião, 30, Portuguese singer and songwriter, car accident.
* Fred Peart, 74, British politician, leader of the Houses of Lords and Commons.
* Milton Sperling, 76, American film producer and screenwriter, owner of United States Pictures, cancer.

### 27

* Lala Aragami, 65, Indian poet.
* Jinavajiralongkorn, 91, Supreme Patriarch of Thailand.
* Max Black, 79, Azerbaijani-born British-American philosopher of language, mathematics, science and art, heart complications.
* Charles Farrell, 88, Irish-born stage, film and television actor.
* Gunther von Fritsch, 82, Austro-Hungarian born American film director (The Curse of the Cat People), stroke.
* Irene Higginbotham, 70, American songwriter and concert pianist ("Good Morning Heartache").
* John Lie, 77, Indonesian Navy rear admiral, stroke.
* Mario Montenegro, 60, Filipino film actor, heart attack.
* John Riordan, 85, American mathematician and author (combinatorics), Alzheimer's disease.
* William Sargant, 81, British psychiatrist (electroconvulsive therapy).
* Costas Taktsis, 60, Greek writer, murdered.
* Benjamin Willis, 86, American educator and school administrator, heart attack.

### 28

* Hazel Dawn, 98, American actress (The Pink Lady).
* Paul Grice, 75, British philosopher of language.
* Guy Hocquenghem, 41, French writer and philosopher, AIDS.
* Jean Marchand, 69, Canadian trade unionist and politician, Member of Parliament, Secretary of State for Canada.
* Max Shulman, 69, American writer and humorist (Dobie Gillis), bone cancer.

### 29

* David A. Hargrave, 42, American game designer and writer of fantasy and science fiction role-playing games (Arduin).
* Horace Henderson, 83, American jazz pianist, organist and bandleader.
* Wilfred Johnson, 52, American mobster, member of Gambino crime family, murdered.
* Algirdas Klimaitis, 77–78, Lithuanian paramilitary commander, antisemite (Kaunas pogrom).
* Mykola Lukash, 68, Ukrainian literary translator, cancer.
* Lưu Quang Vũ, 40, Vietnamese playwright and poet, traffic collision.
* Abuna Takla Haymanot, 70, Ethiopian patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
* Xuân Quỳnh, 45, Vietnamese poet, car crash.

### 30

* James N. Black, 48, American jazz drummer.
* Eren Eyüboğlu, 75, Romanian-born Turkish artist.
* Nikolai Fefilov, 42, Soviet serial killer, strangled in jail.
* Jack Marshall, 76, New Zealand politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand.
* Helenus Milmo, 80, Irish lawyer in Britain and High Court judge.
* Leonidas Proaño, 78, Ecuadorian prelate, Bishop of Riobamba.

### 31

* Grace Eldering, 87, American public health scientist (whooping cough vaccine).
* Lin Jaldati, 75, Dutch-born, East German-based singer, Holocaust survivor.
* Vasil Mzhavanadze, 85, Georgian politician, First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party.

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* Surat Alley, 82–83, Indian trade unionist and political activist in Britain.