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

## June 1987
### 1

* Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, 72, Indian film director, novelist and journalist.
* Errol Barrow, 67, Caribbean statesman, Prime Minister of Barbados.
* Francis B. Burch, 68, American politician, Attorney General of Maryland, cancer.
* Rashid Karami, 65, Lebanese statesman, Prime Minister of Lebanon, assassinated.

### 2

* Georges Doriot, 87, French-born American businessman, founded American Research and Development Corporation, cancer.
* Klaus Gamber, 70, German Catholic liturgist.
* Sammy Kaye, 77, American bandleader and songwriter ("Blueberry Hill", "Harbour Lights"), cancer.
* François Perroux, 83, French economist, professor at the Collège de France.
* Sebastiaan Matheus Sigismund de Ranitz, 86, Dutch jurist and Nazi collaborator.
* Andrés Segovia, 94, Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist, heart attack.

### 3

* Bruno Bernard, 75, American photographer known for pin-up photography of Marilyn Monroe, cancer.
* Jackie Fields, 79, American professional boxer, world welterweight champion.
* Curt McDowell, 42, American underground filmmaker, AIDS.
* Malcolm McLeod, 73, American law enforcement officer, Sheriff of Robeson County, North Carolina, heart attack.
* Alan Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 52, British landowner and hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords.
* Will Sampson, 53, American actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), kidney failure.
* Herbert Schultze, 77, German submarine commander during World War II.

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* Maurizio Vitale Cesa, 41, Italian entrepreneur and sportswear inventor, AIDS.
* Ann Evers, 71, American film actress.
* Noel Guillen, 60, Trinidadian cricketer.
* Dean Moon, 60, American automobile designer.

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* Mansel Carter, 85, American businessman and prospector, cancer.
* Vasant Kumar Pandit, 66, Indian politician, member of parliament.

### 6

* Alexander Altmann, 81, Austro-Hungarian–born American Orthodox Jewish scholar and rabbi.
* Colin Colahan, 90, Australian painter and sculptor.
* Fulton Mackay, 64, Scottish actor and playwright, stomach cancer.
* Mari Mori, 84, Japanese author, heart failure.
* Richard Münch, 71, German actor.
* Eduard Petiška, 63, Czechoslovakian writer.
* Aneesur Rahman, 59, Indian-born American physicist (molecular dynamics).
* Dragan Sotirović, 74, Serbian-born major in the Yugoslavian army.

### 7

* John Blofeld, 74, British writer on Asian thought and religion, cancer.
* Shosei Go, 70, Taiwanese baseballer who played in Japan (Mainichi Orions, Tokyo Giants).
* Hashimoto Mantaro, 54, Japanese sinologist and linguist.
* Herbert M. Seneviratne, 61, Sri Lankan lyricist and actor.
* Cahit Zarifoğlu, 46, Turkish poet and writer.

### 8

* Gary Driscoll, 41, American R&B-style drummer, murdered.
* George Finey, 92, Australian newspaper artist.
* Yogi Horton, 33, American R&B, funk, jazz and rock drummer, suicide.
* Alexander Iolas, 79, Egyptian-born American art gallerist, AIDS.
* Daniel Mandell, 91, American film editor.
* Jacques Fred Petrus, 39, West Indian–born businessman and a pioneer of post-disco music, murdered.

### 9

* Kenneth Althaus, 91, American brigadier general in the U.S. Army.
* Raya Dunayevskaya, 77, Russian-born American philosopher, founder of Marxist humanism in the United States.
* Monique Haas, 77, French pianist.
* Gustaf Håkansson, 101, Swedish cyclist who cycled the length of Sweden in a race at age 66.
* Louis Van Iersel, 93, American sergeant in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient.
* Madge Kennedy, 96, American actress, respiratory failure.
* Grandon Rhodes, 82, American actor.
* Wilhelm Runge, 91, German electrical engineer and physicist (radar).

### 10

* Daud Beureueh, 87, Indonesian military governor of Aceh.
* Shamraj Bhalerao, 88, Indian noble.
* Elizabeth Hartman, 43, American actress (A Patch of Blue, You're a Big Boy Now).
* Jeevan, 71, Indian actor.
* Alain Montpetit, 36, Canadian television and radio personality and actor, overdose.
* Booty Wood, 67, American jazz trombonist.

### 11

* Ralph Guldahl, 75, American professional golfer, heart attack.
* Aleksandr Lokshin, 66, Soviet composer of classical music.
* Enrique del Moral, 82, Mexican architect.
* Álvaro Vieira Pinto, 77, Brazilian philosopher and translator.
* B. S. Madhava Rao, 87, Indian mathematician and physicist.
* Dan Vadis, 49, American actor (The Triumph of Hercules), overdose.

### 12

* Tuvia Bielski, 81, Belarusian militant, leader of the Bielski group.
* Bill Edwards, 81, American NFL coach (Detroit Lions).
* Paul Janes, 75, German international footballer (Fortuna Düsseldorf, Germany).
* C. F. Russell, 90, American occultist.
* Apostol Sokolov, 69, Bulgarian international footballer (Levski Sofia, Bulgaria).
* Józef Tusk, 80, Polish luthier, grandfather of Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk.

### 13

* Huck Betts, 90, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Vera Caspary, 87, American screenwriter, novelist and playwright, stroke.
* Bernard Hesling, 82, British-born Australian muralist and painter.
* Johnny High, 30, American NBA basketballer (Phoenix Suns), car accident.
* Kanam E. J., 61, Indian novelist, short story writer and lyricist.
* Heinz Kloss, 82, German linguist.
* Cemil Meriç, 70, Turkish writer and translator.
* Geraldine Page, 62, American actress (The Trip to Bountiful, Hondo, Summer and Smoke), heart attack.

### 14

* Stanisław Bareja, 57, Polish filmmaker (Teddy Bear).
* Curt Boettcher, 43, American musician and record producer, heart attack.
* Les Favell, 57, Australian test cricketer.
* Burhanuddin Harahap, 70, Indonesian politician and lawyer, Prime Minister of Indonesia, heart attack.

### 15

* Walter Heller, 71, American economist, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, heart attack.
* J. M. Johnson, 75, Nigerian politician and Federal Cabinet Minister.

### 16

* Marguerite de Angeli, 98, American writer and illustrator of children's books (The Door in the Wall).
* June Knight, 74, American actress and singer, stroke.
* Wandjuk Marika, 56–57, Aboriginal Australian painter, actor and indigenous land rights activist.
* Mangal Singh, 95, Indian politician and legislator, member of Central Legislative Assembly.
* Kōji Tsuruta, 62, Japanese actor and singer, lung cancer.
* Kid Thomas Valentine, 91, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.

### 17

* Dick Howser, 51, American Major League baseballer and manager (Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Royals), brain tumour.

### 18

* Harold F. Cherniss, 83, American classicist and historian of ancient philosophy.
* Jay Lawrence, 63, American stand-up comedian and actor.
* Bruce Marshall, 87, Scottish writer (Father Malachy's Miracle).
* Georgy Nissky, 84, Soviet painter.
* Art Spector, 66, American NBA basketballer (Boston Celtics).

### 19

* C. R. Cheney, 80, English medieval historian.
* Teresa Cormack, 6, New Zealand murder victim.
* Ian Donald, 76, English physician, pioneered diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics.
* Joseph Schwab, 26, German spree killer in Australia, shot by police.
* Pearl Vasudevi, 72, Sri Lankan actress.

### 20

* Salim Ali, 90, Indian ornithologist and naturalist, prostate cancer.
* Frederic B. Butler, 90, American general in the U.S. Army.
* Leonid Kharitonov, 57, Soviet actor, stroke.
* Hiro Saga, 73, Japanese noblewoman and memoir writer.

### 21

* Mariano Cañardo, 81, Spanish road racing cyclist.
* Abram Chasins, 83, American composer, pianist and author, cancer.
* Eastman Jacobs, 84–85, American aerodynamicist.
* Madman Muntz, 73, American businessman, engineer and car salesman, lung cancer.
* Kyril Vassilev, 79, Bulgarian-born American portrait painter, heart attack.
* Phil Weintraub, 79, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants), heart attack.

### 22

* Nicholas Alkemade, 64, British tail gunner in the R.A.F. during World War II, survived freefall of 5.5 km.
* Fred Astaire, 88, American actor, singer and dancer (Funny Face, The Towering Inferno), pneumonia.
* Mao Bangchu, 83, Chinese army general.
* John Hewitt, 79, Northern Irish poet.
* Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali, 94, Moroccan Salafi.
* Joseph Meyer, 93, American songwriter ("California, Here I Come"; "If You Knew Susie").
* Robert N. C. Nix Sr., 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cardiac arrest.
* Frank Rehak, 60, American jazz trombonist, throat cancer.

### 23

* Adrienne Gessner, 90, Austrian actress.
* Tito Lara, 54, Puerto Rican singer.
* Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, 90, British peeress, niece of Queen Mary.
* Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo, 86, Indonesian founder of the Subud movement.

### 24

* Linc Chamberland, 46, American jazz guitarist, leukemia.
* Jackie Gleason, 71, American actor and comedian (The Hustler, Smokey and the Bandit), cancer.
* Hines Johnson, 76, Jamaican Test cricketer for the West Indies.

### 25

* John Ness Beck, 56, American composer and arranger of choral music, cancer.
* Boudleaux Bryant, 67, half of American husband-and-wife songwriting team ("Love Hurts", "Wake Up Little Susie"), cancer.
* Nibaran Chandra Laskar, 85, Indian singer and politician, member of parliament.
* Tony Skyrme, 64, British physicist, embolism.

### 26

* Henk Badings, 80, Indonesian-born Dutch composer.
* Arthur F. Burns, 83, Austro-Hungarian–born American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, heart surgery.
* George Johnson, 74, American jazz reedist.
* Wayne Meylan, 41, American NFL footballer (Cleveland Browns), plane crash.
* Richard Pim, 86, British civil servant and naval officer.
* Gerhard Wagner, 88, German naval rear admiral.
* Tony Webster, 65, American screenwriter, esophageal cancer.

### 27

* Ratomir Dugonjić, 71, Yugoslavian politician and ambassador, president of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
* Althea Flynt, 33, American co-publisher of Hustler magazine, wife of Larry Flynt, drowning after overdose.
* Pat McGuigan, 52, Irish singer.
* Donald Nixon, 72, American brother of U.S. President Richard Nixon, pneumonia.
* František Šafránek, 56, Czechoslovakian international footballer (Dukla Prague, Czechoslovakia), heart failure.
* W. Horace Schmidlapp, 71, American investment banker and Broadway producer, husband of Carole Landis.
* Billy Snedden, 60, Australian politician, speaker of the House of Representatives, Leader of the Opposition, heart attack.

### 28

* Gajananrao Joshi, 76, Indian vocalist and violinist.
* Jim Taylor, 86, Australian-born Papua New Guinean explorer, pneumonia.

### 29

* Elizabeth Cotten, 94, American folk and blues musician.
* C. Hamilton Ellis, 78, English railway writer and painter.
* Antonio Janni, 82, Italian football manager and international player (Torino, Italy), Olympic medalist.
* Ērihs Pētersons, 77, Latvian international footballer (RFK Riga, Latvia) and ice hockey player (Latvia).
* Murray Sanders, 77, American physician and military officer, biological warfare pioneer in World War II.
* Shmuel Tamir, 64, Israeli independence fighter and lawyer.

### 30

* Ramani Bartholomeusz, 20, Sri Lankan actress and model, Miss Sri Lanka 1985, pushed out of moving car.
* King Donovan, 69, American actor and director, cancer.
* Maurice Geraghty, 78, American screenwriter, film director and producer.
* Li Hanhun, 91, Chinese army general.
* Federico Mompou, 94, Spanish composer and pianist, respiratory failure.

### Unknown date

* Glen Daly, 66–67, Scottish singer and entertainer ("The Celtic Song").
* John J. Reynolds, 97, American Olympic marathoner.