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

## May 1988
### 1

* Joseph F. Ambrose, 91, American World War I veteran
* Claude Demetrius, 71, American songwriter ("Hard Headed Woman").
* Ben Lexcen, 52, Australian yachtsman and marine architect, designed winged keel which won America's Cup, heart attack.
* Tom Pappas, 46, American aide to US Representative Roy Dyson, suicide after allegations of homosexuality with Dyson.
* Paolo Stoppa, 81, Italian actor, leukemia.
* Yan Wenliang, 94, Chinese painter.

### 2

* John Weir Foote, 83, Canadian military chaplain and politician (Legislative Assembly of Ontario).
* Pavel Kadochnikov, 72, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter.
* Henry Picker, 76, German lawyer and author, published transcripts of Adolf Hitler's informal talks (Table Talk).

### 3

* Jackson Miles Abbott, 68, American officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, environmentalist, cancer.
* Carl Erhardt, 91, English international ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
* Julia Butler Hansen, 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
* Lim Keng Peng, 35, Singaporean murderer, killed in police ambush.
* Boy Louw, 82, South African rugby union player (Western Province, South Africa).
* Premendra Mitra, 83, Indian poet, writer and film director.
* Lev Pontryagin, 79, Soviet mathematician (Pontryagin duality, Pontryagin cohomology operation).
* Abraham Seidenberg, 71, American mathematician (Tarski–Seidenberg theorem).
* Bill Speidel, 76, American newspaper columnist (The Seattle Times).
* Paul Vario, 73, American mobster from the Lucchese crime family, respiratory arrest.

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* Ed Bakey, 62, American film and television actor.
* Stanley William Hayter, 86, English painter (Atelier 17 studio), cardiac arrest.
* Carl Jensen, 67, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate and House of Representatives, cancer.
* Jan Mazurkiewicz, 91, Polish army general and politician.
* Oleg Zhakov, 83, Soviet film actor.

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* Billo Frómeta, 72, Dominican orchestra conductor and composer, stroke.
* D.D. Kashyap, 77–78, Indian film director.
* Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, 90, American writer The Making of a Southerner.
* Hamid Mirza, 70, Iranian heir presumptive of former ruling dynasty of Iran, son of last Qajar Crown Prince of Iran.
* George Rose, 68, English actor and singer (My Fair Lady, The Mystery of Edwin Drood), murdered.
* Michael Shaara, 59, American author (The Killer Angels), heart attack.
* R. J. Unstead, 72, British historian and author, heart failure.

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* Richard Caliguiri, 56, American politician, mayor of Pittsburgh, amyloidosis.
* Costantino Nivola, 76, Italian-born American sculptor, heart attack.
* Hans Popper, 84, Austrian-born American pathologist and hepatologist, pancreatic cancer.

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* Nara Nath Acharya, 82, Nepalese Pandit and writer (biography of Bhanubhakta Acharya).

### 8

* Robert A. Heinlein, 80, American science fiction author (Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress), emphysema and heart failure.
* Nappy Lamare, 82, American jazz banjoist, guitarist and vocalist.
* Domingo Ortega, 82, Spanish matador.
* Charles Pollock, 85, American abstract painter, brother of artist Jackson Pollock, stroke.
* Ruby M. Rouss, 66, American member of the US Army Women's Army Corps and politician, president of the Virgin Islands Legislature, diabetes.

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* Willie Moir, 66, Scottish international footballer (Bolton Wanderers).

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* Ciarán Bourke, 53, Irish musician (The Dubliners).
* Hugh Laing, 76, Barbados-born American ballet dancer, cancer.
* Richard B. Ogilvie, 65, American attorney and law enforcement officer, Governor of Illinois, heart attack.
* John Sterling Rockefeller, 83, American philanthropist, conservationist, and amateur ornithologist.
* Shen Congwen, 85, Chinese writer, heart attack.

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* Isabella Gordon, 86, Scottish marine biologist (crabs, sea spiders).
* George Gordon-Lennox, 79, British army general in World War II.
* Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann, 83, German ethnologist.
* Kim Philby, 76, British intelligence officer and spy (Cambridge Five), heart failure.

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* Paul Osborn, 86, American playwright and screenwriter (On Borrowed Time, Morning's at Seven).
* Chick Parsons, 86, American diplomat and decorated World War II veteran.

### 13

* Chet Baker, 58, American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (It Could Happen to You), fall from building.
* Paul Genge, 74, American actor (Bullitt).
* Sergey Gorshkov, 78, Soviet Admiral of the Fleet.
* Friedrich Guggenberger, 73, Nazi German admiral and U-boat commander.
* Caecilia Loots, 84, Dutch resistance member known for saving Jewish children during World War II.
* Nikolay Makarov, 73, Soviet firearms designer (Makarov pistol).
* Irene Manton, 84, British botanist (ferns and algae), Professor of Botany at the University of Leeds.
* Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 83, Welsh soldier and landowner.

### 14

* Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 73, German-born curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
* Fred Atkins, 77–78, New Zealand-born Canadian professional wrestler (Maple Leaf Wrestling).
* Willem Drees, 101, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
* Ernesto Giménez Caballero, 88, Spanish writer, diplomat and pioneer of Fascism, founder of La Gaceta Literaria.
* Wayne Jarratt, 31, Australian actor (Prisoner), brain tumour.

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* Andrew Duggan, 64, American actor (Seven Days in May), throat cancer.
* Fulvia Franco, 56, Italian actress and model (Miss Italia).
* Lois Maloy, 85, American illustrator of children's books.
* Greta Nissen, 82, Norwegian-American film and stage actress, Parkinson's disease.
* Sol Polk, 71, American businessman, co-founder of Polk Brothers.
* Thomas E. Stephens, 84, Irish-American politician.

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* Kay Baxter, 42, American bodybuilder, car crash.
* Chan Htoon, 82, Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma.
* Charles Keeping, 63, English illustrator (The Highwayman) and children's book author, brain tumour.
* Jules Levin, 66, American politician.
* Anatoli Maslyonkin, 57, Soviet international footballer (Spartak Moscow, USSR) and Olympic gold medalist.
* Peter J. Ortiz, 74, United States Marine Corps colonel, cancer.
* Bruce Watson, 78, Scottish organic chemist and politician, leader of the Scottish National Party.

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* Frank Gallop, 87, American radio and television personality.
* Guy Glover, 77, Canadian producer (National Film Board of Canada).

### 18

* Daws Butler, 71, American voice actor (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss), heart attack.
* Anthony Forwood, 72, English actor (Knights of the Round Table), liver cancer and Parkinson's disease.
* Christopher Gore, 43, American screenwriter and playwright (Fame), AIDS.
* Daniel Lewis James, 77, American writer (Famous All Over Town), heart attack.
* Brandon Rhys-Williams, 60, British politician, Member of Parliament, pneumonia.
* Michiko Tanaka, 78, Japanese singer and actress.
* Enzo Tortora, 59, Italian television presenter and politician, member of European Parliament, cancer.

### 19

* Kurt-Caesar Hoffmann, 92 Nazi German navy vice admiral (Scharnhorst).
* Lloyd Vaughan, 79, American animator (Warner Bros.).

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* Ana Aslan, 91, Romanian biologist and physician, specialist in gerontology.
* Nick Corwin, 8, American murder victim.
* Dick Jacobs, 70, American musician, arranger and orchestrator.
* Anthony C. Perera, 66, Sri Lankan actor.
* Marion G. Romney, 90, American Mormon leader.
* Victorio Unamuno, 78, Spanish footballer (Real Betis).

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* Harry Babasin, 67, American jazz bassist, emphysema.
* Richard J. Daronco, 56, American lawyer and judge, assassinated.
* Sammy Davis Sr., 87, American dancer (Will Mastin Trio), father of Sammy Davis Jr.
* John D. Fitzgerald, 82, American author (The Great Brain).
* Bruno Frei, 90, Austrian political writer and journalist.
* Dino Grandi, 92, Italian Fascist politician, ambassador to the U.K.
* Barbara Laage, 67, French film actress.
* Pino Romualdi, 74, Italian right-wing politician, Member of the European Parliament, cancer.

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* Giorgio Almirante, 73, Italian politician, founder and leader of neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, stroke.
* Lionel Edirisinghe, 75, Sri Lankan musicologist, principal at the University of the Visual and Performing Arts.

### 23

* Aya Kitō, 25, Japanese diarist, spinocerebellar ataxia.
* David Schoenbrun, 73, American broadcast journalist (CBS), heart attack.
* Roberto Succo, 26, Italian serial killer, suicide.
* Tony Viramontes, 31, American artist, AIDS.

### 24

* Tom Adair, 74, American songwriter and composer ("Let's Get Away from It All", "There's No You").
* Freddie Frith, 79, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion.
* Jamie Hamilton, 87, British rower and Olympic medalist, publisher (Hamish Hamilton).
* Ernest Labrousse, 93, French historian.
* Aleksei Losev, 94, Soviet philosopher.
* Leo Schamroth, 63, South African cardiologist.

### 25

* Monte Kay, 63, American record producer, heart failure.
* Ruth Malcomson, 82, Miss America 1924.
* Leon Shimkin, 81, American businessman (Simon & Schuster).
* Martin Slavin, 66, British composer for movies and television (Information Received, The Cool Mikado), road accident.
* Karl August Wittfogel, 91, German-American playwright and historian, pneumonia.

### 26

* Antonio Bardellino, 43, Italian mobster, boss of the Casalesi clan, assumed murdered.
* Juan Orol, 90, Spanish-born Mexican actor and director (Gangsters Versus Cowboys, Sandra, la mujer de fuego), liver disease.

### 27

* Bill Bollinger, 48, American sculptor.
* John DiGilio, 55, American mobster with the Genovese crime family, murdered.
* Florida Friebus, 78, American writer and actress (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Bob Newhart Show).
* Hjördis Petterson, 79, Swedish actress.
* Ernst Ruska, 81, German physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics (electron optics).

### 28

* Felix Morrow, 81, American communist political activist and newspaper editor.
* Sy Oliver, 77, American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader.
* Evelyn Page, 89, New Zealand artist.
* Norman Skelhorn, 78, English barrister, Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales.
* Alfredo Volpi, 92, Brazilian painter.

### 29

* Charla Doherty, 41, American actress (Days of Our Lives).
* Sheridan Dufferin, 49, British patron of the arts, AIDS.
* Henry Johansen, 83, Norwegian international footballer and Olympic medalist (Vålerenga, Norway).
* Salem bin Laden, 42, Saudi Arabian investor and businessman, half brother of Osama bin Laden, plane crash.
* Vladimír Menšík, 59, Czechoslovakian actor and entertainer, asthma.
* Siaka Stevens, 82, Sierra Leone politician, Prime Minister and President of Sierra Leone.
* Elaine Black Yoneda, 81, American labour and civil rights activist, member of Communist Party, heart attack.

### 30

* Ella Raines, 67, American actress (Phantom Lady, Brute Force), throat cancer.

### 31

* June Buchanan, 100, American founder of Alice Lloyd College.
* Dwarka Prasad Mishra, 86, Indian politician, writer and journalist, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
* Tursun Uljabayev, 72, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan.

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* Rosa Collazo, 83–84, Puerto Rican political activist (Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico), plotted to kill U.S. president Harry Truman.