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

## October 1987
### 1

* Richard Blackburn, 69, Australian judge and legal academic, cancer.
* Douglas Cleverdon, 84, English radio producer and bookseller.
* June Clyde, 77, American actress, singer and dancer (A Strange Adventure, A Study in Scarlet).
* Valeriya Golubtsova, 86, Soviet scientist, director of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
* Geoffrey Jackson, 72, British diplomat and writer, ambassador to Uruguay, kidnapped by guerrillas.
* Zina Morhange, 78, Polish-born French physician, member of the French Resistance.
* Abdur Rahim, 69, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.

### 2

* Madeleine Carroll, 81, English actress (The 39 Steps), pancreatic cancer.
* Sir Peter Medawar, 72, Brazilian-born British biologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
* Russell Rouse, 73, American screenwriter, director and producer (The Well, Pillow Talk), heart failure.
* Hryhoriy Vasiura, 72, Soviet officer in the Red Army and in the German Schutzmannschaft, executed.

### 3

* Jean Anouilh, 77, French dramatist and screenwriter (Antigone), heart attack.
* Catherine Bramwell-Booth, 104, English Salvation Army officer, granddaughter of Salvation Army founder.
* Hans Gál, 97, Austrian and Scottish composer.
* Maria Ivogün, 95, Hungarian soprano singer.
* Kalervo Palsa, 40, Finnish artist, pneumonia.

### 4

* Mercer Cook, 84, American diplomat and professor, U.S. Ambassador to the Gambia, Senegal and Niger, pneumonia.
* Eric Gandar Dower, 92–93, Scottish politician and businessman, Member of Parliament.
* Mian Arshad Hussain, 77, Pakistani politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister and Ambassador to Sweden.
* Eloise Wilkin, 83, American illustrator of Little Golden Books, cancer.
* Hubert Yencesse, 87, French sculptor.

### 5

* Manny Cussins, British businessman, chairman of Waring & Gillow and Leeds United F.C..

### 6

* Roald Jensen, 44, Norwegian international footballer (Brann, Heart of Midlothian, Norway), heart failure.
* Eugen Steimle, 77, Nazi German SS commander, death sentence commuted.

### 7

* Charles J. Carney, 74, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart ailment.
* Phil Flanagan, 77, American AFL footballer (Boston Shamrocks).
* John Fletcher, 46, English tubist and French horn player, cerebral haemorrhage.
* Greta Granstedt, 80, American film and television actress.
* Cedric Phatudi, 75, South African politician, Chief Minister of Lebowa.
* Sarkes Tarzian, 87, Ottoman-born American engineer, inventor and broadcaster.
* Bobby Walston, 58, American NFL footballer (Philadelphia Eagles), heart attack.

### 8

* Spencer Gordon Bennet, 94, American film producer and director.
* Alberto Segismundo Cruz, 87, Filipino poet, short story writer and novelist.
* Mona Douglas, 89, British Manx poet, novelist and journalist.
* Rolf Dudley-Williams, 79, British aeronautical engineer and politician, Member of Parliament.
* Roger Lancelyn Green, 68, British biographer and children's writer (King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table).
* Nader Mahdavi, 24, Persian Revolutionary Guard Corps naval commander.
* Donald McWhinnie, 66, British BBC executive and director.
* Konstantinos Tsatsos, 88, Greek diplomat and politician, President of Greece.

### 9

* Mohammad Farhad, 49, Bangladeshi guerrilla force commander, Bangladesh Communist Party president, heart attack.
* Guru Gopinath, 79, Indian actor and dancer.
* Clare Boothe Luce, 84, American politician, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, member of U.S. House of Representatives, brain cancer.
* William P. Murphy, 95, American physician, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (pernicious anemia).
* Henry Studholme, 88, British politician, Member of Parliament.
* Carlos Volante, 81, Argentinian international footballer (Flamengo, Argentina).

### 10

* Carlos Ancira, 58, Mexican film actor.
* Behice Boran, 77, Turkish Marxist–Leninist politician and author, Member of Parliament, heart disease.
* Jaroslav Bouček, 74, Czechoslovakian international footballer (Sparta Prague, Czechoslovakia).
* Gretl Braun, 72, German sister of Eva Braun.
* Peter Clyne, 60, Austrian-Australian lawyer and businessman, heart attack.
* Oretha Castle Haley, 48, American civil rights activist, ovarian cancer.
* Malathi, 20, Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers fighter, died in combat.

### 11

* Uwe Barschel, 43, German politician, Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, suicide.
* Eske Brun, 83, Danish high civil servant and governor of Greenland.
* Jaime Pardo Leal, 46, Colombian lawyer, union leader, and politician, assassinated.
* Niall Macpherson, 79, Scottish politician, Minister of Pensions and National Insurance.
* Alan McNicoll, 79, Australian Vice Admiral in the Royal Australian Navy, ambassador to Turkey.
* Koldo Mitxelena, 71–72, Spanish Basque linguist, reconstructed Proto-Basque language.
* Fritz Rössler, 75, German neo-Nazi politician.

### 12

* Fahri Korutürk, 84, Turkish admiral, diplomat and politician, President of Turkey.
* Alf Landon, 100, American oil man and politician, Republican candidate in 1936 presidential election.
* Russ Letlow, 74, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers).
* Philleo Nash, 77, American government official and politician, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, renal cancer.
* Gustavo Baz Prada, 93, Mexican politician and doctor, Governor of the State of Mexico.

### 13

* Walter Houser Brattain, 85, American physicist (point-contact transistor), Nobel laureate in Physics, Alzheimer's disease.
* Kishore Kumar, 58, Indian actor and playback singer, heart attack.
* Nilgün Marmara, 29, Turkish poet, suicide.
* Lucy Monroe, 80, American operatic soprano and dancer, cancer.
* Walter Fraser Oakeshott, 83, British vice-chancellor of Oxford, discovered Le Morte d'Arthur Winchester manuscript.
* Anwar Kamal Pasha, 62, Pakistani film director and producer.

### 14

* Elżbieta Barszczewska, 73, Polish stage and film actress.
* Rodolfo Halffter, 86, Spanish composer.
* Finlay J. MacDonald, 62, Scottish journalist, producer and writer.
* Basil Wright, 80, English documentary filmmaker (The Song of Ceylon).

### 15

* Arthur Benson, 79, British colonial administrator, Governor of Northern Rhodesia.
* Thomas Andrew Donnellan, 73, American Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Atlanta, stroke.
* Juda Hirsch Quastel, 88, British-Canadian biochemist.
* Thomas Sankara, 37, Burkinabe politician, President of Burkina Faso, Prime Minister of Upper Volta, assassinated.
* Donald Wandrei, 79, American science fiction and fantasy writer, and poet.

### 16

* Joseph Höffner, 80, German Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne, brain tumour.
* Nazir Hussain, 65, Indian actor, director and screenwriter.
* Margo Lee, 64, Australian actor and singer.
* Aleksandr Sery, 59, Soviet film director (Gentlemen of Fortune), suicide.
* Dana Suesse, 75, American musician, composer and lyricist ("You Oughta Be in Pictures"), stroke.

### 17

* Ruby Dandridge, 87, American actress (Amos 'n' Andy, Judy Canova Show), heart attack.
* Roderich Menzel, 80, Czech-German amateur tennis player and writer.
* Peter Pund, 80, American college football player.
* Hirsch Schwartzberg, 79, Lithuanian-born American leader of holocaust survivors.
* Abdul Malek Ukil, 63, Bangladeshi politician, Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad.

### 18

* Theodore Brameld, 83, American philosopher and educator, pneumonia.
* Pete Carpenter, 73, American jazz trombonist and arranger, lung cancer.
* Adriaan Ditvoorst, 47, Dutch film director and screenwriter (Paranoia).
* Prince Emanuel of Liechtenstein, 78, Liechtenstein sovereign family member.
* Sol Goldman, 70, American real estate investor and philanthropist.
* Philip Levine, 87, Belorus-born American immuno-hematologist.
* Louis Miriani, 90, American politician, mayor of Detroit.

### 19

* Hermann Lang, 78, German racing driver.
* Igor Newerly, 84, Polish novelist.
* Jacqueline du Pré, 42, British cellist, multiple sclerosis.
* Ben Stahl, 77, American artist, illustrator and author.
* Ernie Toseland, 82, English footballer (Manchester City).

### 20

* Georges Douking, 85, French stage, film and television actor (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie).
* Andrey Kolmogorov, 84, Russian mathematician (probability theory).
* Mecha Ortiz, 87, Argentinian actress (El canto del cisne).
* Lars-Erik Sjöberg, 43, Swedish international ice hockey player, cancer.

### 21

* Igor Chernat, 20–21, Soviet serial killer, executed.
* Pál Gábor, 55, Hungarian film director and screenwriter (Angi Vera).
* Bob Simmons, 64, English actor and stunt man (James Bond series).
* Albert Western, 64, Australian rules footballer (South Fremantle).
* He Yingqin, 97, Chinese politician, Premier of the Republic of China.

### 22

* K. G. Adiyodi, 60, Indian politician, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
* Archduke Anton of Austria, 86, Austrian noble.
* John H. Masters, 74, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
* Taylor Scott, 40, English Fleet Air Arm pilot and test pilot for British Aerospace, test flight accident.
* Andrey Starostin, 81, Soviet footballer and author.
* Lino Ventura, 68, Italian-born French actor (Les Misérables), heart attack.

### 23

* Constantin Alajalov, 86, Armenian-born American painter and illustrator.
* Fred Hughson, 73, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy).
* Raymond W. Ketchledge, 67, American engineer (computerized telephone switching control systems), cancer.
* Barry Levinson, 54–55, American film producer.
* A. L. Morton, 84, English Marxist historian.
* Jimmy Mullen, 64, English international footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers, England).
* Della H. Raney, 75, American nurse in the Army Nurse Corps.
* Gene Rodgers, 77, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger.
* Alejandro Scopelli, 79, Argentine international footballer and coach (Estudiantes, Argentina).
* Ted Taylor, 53, American blues singer, car crash.

### 24

* Enid Chadwick, 84, British religious artist.
* Raymond Francis, 76, British actor (No Hiding Place).
* Leo Hepp, 80, Nazi German military officer in the Wehrmacht.
* Kelvin Martin, 23, American criminal, shot.

### 25

* Ivan Beshoff, appr. 104, Russian mutineer in 1905 on battleship Potemkin.
* Cecil Brown, 80, American journalist and war correspondent.
* Marta Feuchtwanger, 96, German exile to America, devoted life to promoting work of her deceased writer husband.
* Maxwell Finland, 85, Russian-born American medical researcher, expert on infectious diseases, heart attack.
* Louis Guttman, 71, American sociologist (social statistics), melanoma.
* Willis Jackson, 55, American jazz tenor saxophonist, complications from heart surgery.
* Gerald Pearson, 82, American physicist at Bell Labs (photovoltaic cell).
* J. A. Ratcliffe, 84, British radio physicist.
* Kate L. Turabian, 94, American educator and author (A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations).

### 26

* Herbert Anaya, 32–33, El Salvadoran president of the Human Rights Commission of El Salvador, assassinated.
* Greg Bautzer, 76, American attorney who represented famous clients, heart failure.
* Aldo Boffi, 72, Italian international footballer (AC Milan, Italy).
* Edith Luckett Davis, 99, American actress, mother of Nancy Reagan, stroke.
* Victor Ganz, 74, American business owner and art collector, lung cancer.
* Carolus Lassila, 65, Finnish diplomat, ambassador to eight countries, flash flood.
* Bjørge Lillelien, 60, Norwegian sports journalist and commentator (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation), cancer.
* Adam Wolanin, 67, Polish-American international footballer (Pogoń Lwów, United States).

### 27

* Burnett Bolloten, 77–78, British-American writer, scholar of the Spanish Civil War, prostate cancer.
* Jorge Dalto, 39, Argentine-born American pianist, cancer.
* Jean Hélion, 83, French painter, pneumonia.
* John Oliver Killens, 71, American novelist, cancer.
* Kosaraju, 82, Indian lyricist and poet.
* Vijay Merchant, 76, Indian test cricketer (Bombay, India).
* Mario Merola, 65, American attorney and member of New York City Council, stroke.
* John C. Young, 75, American businessman, developer of Chinatown, San Francisco.

### 28

* D. Djajakusuma, 69, Indonesian film director.
* André Masson, 91, French artist.
* Sir Jasper More, 80, British politician, Member of Parliament.

### 29

* Albert P. Crary, 76, American polar geophysicist and glaciologist, first to set foot on both North and South Poles, spinal tumour.
* William Davis, 86, British Royal Navy admiral.
* Robert Heber-Percy, 75, English eccentric.
* Woody Herman, 74, American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and big band leader, heart failure.
* Kamal el-Mallakh, 69, Egyptian archaeologist, discovered Khufu ship.
* Ram Awtar Sharma, 79, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
* Frederic M. Wheelock, 85, American Latin professor (Wheelock's Latin), heart attack.

### 30

* Thomas G. Bergin, 82, American scholar of Italian literature.
* Joseph Campbell, 83, American writer on comparative mythology and religion (The Hero with a Thousand Faces), cancer.
* Sydney Vernon Petersen, 73, South African poet and author, kidney failure.
* Chaudhary Dalbir Singh, 61, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
* Grady B. Wilson, 67–68, American evangelist, heart failure.

### 31

* Paul D. Adams, 81, American general in the U.S. Army.
* Raj Chandra Bose, 86, Indian and American mathematician and statistician (error-correcting codes).
* Ruel Vance Churchill, 87, American mathematician and author.
* Josef Erber, 90, Nazi German SS-Oberscharführer at Auschwitz, received life sentence, traffic accident.
* Jimmy Jewell, 33–34, British rock climber, climbing accident.
* Hans Sommer, 73, Nazi German member of the Sicherheitsdienst, Stasi spy.

### Unknown date

* Filippo Buccola, 101, Italian-American mobster, member of the Patriarca crime family.