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

## February 1987
### 1

* Alessandro Blasetti, 86, Italian film director and screenwriter, complications from fall.
* Christian Broda, 70, Austrian lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice, heart attack.
* Sala Burton, 61, Polish-born American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, colon cancer.
* Salvadora Debayle, 91, First Lady of Nicaragua.
* Gustav Knuth, 85, German film actor.
* Lee Aubrey "Speed" Riggs, 79, American tobacco auctioneer, voice of Lucky Strike cigarettes, heart failure.

### 2

* Carlos José Castilho, 59, Brazilian international footballer (Fluminense, Brazil), suicide.
* Walter Clutterbuck, 92, English general in the British Army.
* Yakov Estrin, 63, Soviet chess player, ICCF World Champion.
* Spike Hughes, 78, British musician and composer.
* Alfred Lion, 78, German-born American record executive, co-founded Blue Note Records, heart failure.
* Olive Little, 69, American baseballer in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
* Alistair MacLean, 64, Scottish novelist of thrillers and adventure stories (The Guns of Navarone), heart failure.
* David du Plessis, 81, South African-born American Pentecostal minister.
* Ken Reid, 67, British comic artist and writer, co-creator of Roger the Dodger, stroke.

### 3

* Donald Aronow, 59, American speedboat designer, builder and racer, murdered.
* Mustafa Bouyali, 46–47, leader of the Algerian Islamic Armed Movement, killed in an ambush.
* Theodore Cogswell, 68, American science fiction author.
* Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, 82, younger brother of Japanese Emperor Hirohito, lung cancer.
* George Derwent Thomson, 83–84, British classical scholar and Marxist philosopher.

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* Bruce Jacobi, 51, American race car driver, racing accident.
* Meena Keshwar Kamal, 30, Afghani revolutionary political and women's rights activist, assassinated.
* Liberace, 67, American pianist, singer and actor, pneumonia.
* Fyfe Robertson, 84, Scottish television journalist and broadcaster.
* Carl Rogers, 85, American psychologist, heart attack after fall.
* Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, 78, Welsh newspaper journalist, radio and television broadcaster.
* Patrick Waddington, 85, English actor.
* George W. Woodruff, 91, American engineer and businessman, pneumonia.

### 5

* E. Michael Burke, 70, American navy officer, circus manager and Major League Baseball executive, cancer.
* William Collier Jr., 84, American stage performer, producer and film actor.
* Klāvs Elsbergs, 28, Latvian poet and translator, fall from building.
* David Ensor, 80, British actor and politician, Member of Parliament.
* Armando Fosco, 64, American leader of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
* Gustav Lechner, 73, Austro-Hungarian–born Yugoslavian international footballer (Beograd, Yugoslavia).
* Otto Wöhler, 92, Nazi German general, convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

### 6

* Lalithambika Antharjanam, 77, Indian author.
* Julien Chouinard, 58, Canadian lawyer and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, brain cancer.
* Donald MacCrimmon MacKay, 64, British physicist and professor.
* K. C. Nag, 93, Indian Bengali mathematician and author of mathematics textbooks.

### 7

* John Leypoldt, 40, American NFL footballer (Buffalo Bills), dysentery.
* Bennetto Payne, 77, Mexican professional boxer.
* Stuart T. Saunders, 77, American railroad executive, heart failure.
* Claudio Villa, 61, Italian singer and actor, heart attack.
* Adriaan van Wijngaarden, 70, Dutch mathematician and computer scientist.

### 8

* Tony Destra, 32, American drummer, traffic collision.
* Hendrik Koekoek, 74, Dutch farmer, politician and founder of the defunct Farmers' Party.
* Elsie Lee, 75, American author of fiction and non-fiction.
* Harriet MacGibbon, 81, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies).
* Max Seydewitz, 94, German politician, Minister-President of Saxony.
* Bronisława Wajs, 78, Polish-Romani classic poet and singer.

### 9

* Larry French, 79, American Major League baseballer (Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates), kidney and heart disease.
* Louis Plack Hammett, 92, American physical chemist (Hammett equation).
* Edna Manley, 86, Jamaican artist.

### 10

* Angela Giussani, 64, Italian co-writer of comic book anti-hero series, Diabolik.
* Robert O'Brien, 78, American racing driver.
* William Rose, 68, American screenwriter (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner).
* Hans Rosenthal, 61, German director and radio & television host.
* Sadequain, 56, Pakistani artist and poet.
* John Raymond Ylitalo, 70, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, cancer.

### 11

* Mark Ashton, 26, British gay rights activist, pneumonia.
* Edith Gyömrői Ludowyk, 90, Hungarian-born psychotherapist, poet and communist militant.
* Andy Linden, 64, American race car driver.
* John Malachi, 67, American jazz pianist.
* Bill McGee, 77, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Cardinals).

### 12

* Jules Bergman, 57, American broadcast writer and journalist, science editor for ABC News.
* Lang Jeffries, 56, Canadian-American television and film actor, cancer.
* Dennis Poore, 70, British entrepreneur, financier and racing driver.

### 13

* M. Bhaktavatsalam, 89, Indian independence activist and politician, Chief Minister of Madras State.
* Clifford Bias, 76, American alleged psychic.
* Dorothy Dean, 54, American writer and actress, cancer.
* Dhumal, 72, Indian actor in Bollywood films, heart attack.
* Curly Page, 84, New Zealand Test cricketer and international rugby union player.

### 14

* Rolf Dahlgren, 54, Swedish-Danish botanist and professor, traffic collision.
* Kulada Charan Das Gupta, 87, Indian judge of the Supreme Court of India.
* Wendy Holcombe, 23, American banjo player and singer, congenital heart defect.
* Dmitry Kabalevsky, 82, Soviet composer, conductor and pianist.
* Karolos Koun, 78, Greek theatre director, heart attack.
* Tsai Lan-chin, 22, Taiwanese singer and songwriter, heart attack.
* Bola Sete, 63, Brazilian jazz guitarist, pneumonia and lung cancer.

### 15

* Jimmy Holiday, 52, American R&B singer and songwriter, heart failure.
* John Myhill, 63, British mathematician (Myhill–Nerode theorem).

### 16

* Norman Crowther Hunt, 66, British scholar and politician, Minister of State, heart attack.

### 17

* Leo Anchóriz, 54, Spanish actor and writer, cardiac disease.
* T. M. Chummar, 87, Indian academic and writer of Malayalam literature.
* Hal K. Dawson, 90, American actor.
* Hubert Howard, 79, English intelligence officer.
* Frank Kurtis, 79, American racing car designer, heart attack.
* Diederick Charles Mathew, 58, Aruban politician and teacher, deputy commissioner for Aruba.
* Husayn Muruwwa, appr. 77, Lebanese Marxist philosopher, journalist and author, assassinated.
* Romola Remus, 86, American actress (The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays).
* Verree Teasdale, 83, American actress.

### 18

* William Coldstream, 78, English realist painter and art teacher.
* Bryce Harlow, 70, American army officer and advisor to U.S. presidents, lung disease.
* Boris Kowerda, 79, Soviet monarchist, diplomat and convicted murderer.

### 19

* Hugh Greene, 76, British television executive and journalist, director-general of the BBC, cancer.
* Henry-Russell Hitchcock, 83, American architectural historian and professor, cancer.
* Robert E. Kuttner, 59, American biologist and white supremacist.
* Kirsten Walther, 53, Danish actress, heart failure.

### 20

* Wayne Boring, 81, American comic book artist, known for his work on Superman, heart attack.
* Caesar Gatimu, 65, Kenyan Roman Catholic Bishop of Nyeri.
* Edgar P. Jacobs, 82, Belgian comic book creator (Blake and Mortimer).
* Joseph Parecattil, 74, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ernakulam.
* Lev Russov, 61, Soviet painter, graphic artist and sculptor, heart disease.
* AKM Samsuzzoha, appr. 62, Bangladeshi politician, member of parliament.
* C. C. Wei, 72, Chinese-born American contract bridge player, complications from diabetes.
* Willi Welscher, 80, German hurdler and Olympian.

### 21

* William T. Fairbourn, 72, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
* Petro Grigorenko, 79, Ukrainian-born general in the Soviet Army, founder of human rights movement in the Soviet Union.
* Helen Taft Manning, 95, American professor of history, daughter of President William Taft, pneumonia.
* Noel Odell, 96, English geologist and mountaineer.
* George Tibbles, 73, American composer and screenwriter.
* Meir Ya'ari, 89, Israeli politician, educator and social activist.

### 22

* Naomi Drake, 80, American Registrar of the Bureau of Vital Statistics for New Orleans.
* Habib Painter, 72, Indian Qawwal and folk singer.
* John Paul Scott, 60, American criminal, only escapee from Alcatraz to reach San Francisco shore.
* David Susskind, 66, American producer and TV talk show host, heart attack.
* Andy Warhol, 58, American artist, director and writer, sudden post-operative irregular heartbeat.
* Glenway Wescott, 85, American poet and novelist, stroke.

### 23

* José Afonso, 57, Portuguese singer-songwriter and activist, heart failure.
* Cyril Butcher, 77, English actor and director.
* John Counsell, 81, English actor, director and theatre manager.
* Jack Heinz, 78, American business executive and CEO of Heinz, cancer.
* Esmond Knight, 80, English actor, heart attack.
* Edward Lansdale, 79, American general in the U.S. Air Force, heart ailment.
* George Musulin, 72, American army officer of the OSS, CIA operative, diabetes.
* Polly Ward, 74, British singer and actress.

### 24

* Kakai Kilonzo, 32–33, Kenyan musician, malaria.
* Edwin McArthur, 79, American classical music conductor and pianist.

### 25

* William G. Barr, 67, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
* S. H. Bihari, 66, Indian songwriter and poet.
* James Coco, 56, American actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death), heart attack.
* John Collin, 58, British actor (Z-Cars).
* Arthur A. Collins, 77, American radio engineer and entrepreneur.
* Jess Larson, 82, American lawyer, first Administrator of General Services.
* E. D. Nixon, 87, American civil rights leader and union organizer, respiratory and heart ailments.
* Krishna Chandra Panigrahi, 77, Indian historian and archaeologist.

### 26

* Knut Frydenlund, 59, Norwegian diplomat and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Audrey Marie Hilley, 53, American murderer and suspected serial killer, hypothermia and exposure.
* Fredric R. Mann, 83, American industrialist and patron of the arts, U.S. Ambassador to Barbados, cancer.
* Paul Taunton Matthews, 67, British theoretical physicist, cycling accident.

### 27

* Franciszek Blachnicki, 65, Polish priest, poisoning.
* Jose W. Diokno, 65, Filipino nationalist, lawyer and statesman, Senator of the Philippines, cancer.
* Bill Holman, 83, American cartoonist (Smokey Stover).
* Fumio Kamei, 78, Japanese documentary and fiction film director.
* Latif-ur Rehman, 58, Indian and Pakistani hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
* Colvin R. de Silva, 81–82, Sri Lankan politician, Minister of Plantation Industries.

### 28

* Nasim Amrohvi, 78, Pakistani Urdu poet and philosopher.
* Frederic G. Donner, 84, American chairman and CEO of the General Motors Corporation.
* Joan Greenwood, 65, English actress (Kind Hearts and Coronets), bronchitis and asthma.
* Nora Kaye, 67, American ballerina, cancer.
* William F. McKee, 80, American general in the U.S. Air Force, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.
* Anny Ondra, 83, Czechoslovakian film actress (Blackmail).
* Stephen Tennant, 80, British socialite.

### Unknown date

* Raquel Martínez, 78, Chilean sprinter and Olympian.
* Adi Pherozeshah Marzban, 72, Indian Gujarati Parsi playwright, actor and director, lung cancer.
* Clare Rendlesham, 67, British fashion editor and boutique manager. (died by February 4)