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

## June 1988
### 1

* Leon Belasco, 85, Russian-American actor (My Sister Eileen) and musician.
* Herbert Feigl, 85, Austrian-American philosopher (nomological danglers), cancer.
* Luis Franco, 89, Argentinian essayist and poet.
* Peter Hurkos, 77, Dutch-American who claimed psychic powers, heart attack.
* Ricky May, 44, New Zealand-born Australian jazz singer and musician, heart attack.
* Victor Willing, 60, British painter of nudes, multiple sclerosis.

### 2

* Iosif Grigulevich, 75, Soviet secret police operative.
* Fred Halstead, 61, American Socialist Workers Party candidate for President of the United States, liver cancer.
* Horace Hildreth, 85, American politician and diplomat, ambassador to Pakistan, heart attack.
* Raj Kapoor, 63, Indian actor, producer and director (Awaara), asthma.
* Nigel Tangye, 79, British airman, novelist and journalist, worked for MI5.

### 3

* Alexandre Bennigsen, 75, Soviet scholar of Islam.
* Kitty Canutt, 88, American professional bronc rider.
* Anna Mahler, 85, Austrian-born English sculptor, daughter of Gustav Mahler.
* Davey Moore, 28, American professional boxer, asphyxia from being pinned under vehicle.
* Jessica Nelson North, 96, American writer and poet.
* Brian Spencer, 38, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders), shot in robbery.
* Carl Wagener, 86, Nazi German army general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.

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* Majnun Gorakhpuri, 84, Pakistani short story writer, poet and literary critic.
* Floyd Miller, 76, American member of the Communist Party USA.
* Douglas Nicholls, 81, Australian pastor, campaigner for aboriginal reconciliation, Governor of South Australia.
* Renzo Palmer, 57, Italian film, television and stage actor, cancer.
* Allan Reuss, 72, American jazz guitarist and composer ("More and More").

### 5

* Michael Barrington, 63, British actor (Porridge, Edward the Seventh), heart attack.
* Robert Dudley Edwards, 79, Irish historian.
* Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., 57, American chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, heart attack.
* Roland Ritchie, 77, Canadian lawyer and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

### 6

* Thomas DiBella, 82, American mobster of the Colombo crime family.
* Gheorghe Eminescu, 98, Romanian historian, respiratory infection.
* Chandra Fernando, 46, Sri Lankan priest, assassinated.
* John Jordan, 58, Irish poet and short-story writer.
* Jacques Le Roy Ladurie, 86, French politician, Minister of Agriculture, member of the French Resistance.
* Lê Thị Lựu, 77, Vietnamese painter.
* Jacques Ledoux, 66–67, Belgian cinema specialist, curator of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium.
* Joe Partridge, 55, Rhodesian cricketer (South Africa).

### 7

* Martin Sommer, 73, Nazi German SS Hauptscharführer, the "Hangman of Buchenwald".
* Vernon Washington, 64, American actor (The Last Starfighter, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning).

### 8

* Russell Harty, 53, English television talk show host, liver failure caused by hepatitis.
* Yvonne Hubert, 93, Belgian-born Canadian pianist.
* Roger Lyndon, 70, American mathematician (Lyndon words, Craig-Lyndon interpolation).
* Eli Mintz, 83, Austro-Hungarian–born American actor (All My Children), pneumonia.
* Philippe Nguyễn Kim Điền, 67, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Huế.
* Chuck Roberson, 69, American actor and stuntman, cancer.

### 9

* Newt Allen, 87, American Negro League baseballer (Kansas City Monarchs).
* Rashid Behbudov, 73, Azerbaijani singer and actor (The Cloth Peddler).
* Leon Falk Jr., 86, American steel company executive (Falk Laboratory School), stroke.
* Karl Kraus, 50, German theoretical physicist (quantum mechanics), cancer.
* Cyril Magnin, 88, American businessman, chief executive of Joseph Magnin, cardiac failure.

### 10

* Byron G. Allen, 86, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives.
* Arthur Gary Bishop, 35, American convicted sex offender and serial killer, executed.
* Rudolph Dunbar, 80, Guyanese conductor, clarinetist and composer, cancer.
* Louis L'Amour, 80, American novelist (Last of the Breed, Shalako), lung cancer (non-smoker).
* Willie Ross, 77, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland, cancer.
* Henryk Stażewski, 94, Polish painter, visual artist and writer.
* Josep Tarradellas, 89, Spanish politician, President of the Government of Catalonia, chronic lung ailment.

### 11

* Mike Clancy (Christopher J. Clancy), 63, American professional wrestler, NWA World Junior Heavyweight champion.
* Nathan Cook, 38, American actor (Hotel), allergic reaction to penicillin.
* Ernani Cuenco, 52, Filipino composer, film scorer and musical director (Bato sa Buhangin).
* Christine Fabréga, 57, French actress and television personality.
* Giuseppe Saragat, 89, Italian politician, President of Italy, heart disease.
* Marianne Van Hirtum, 52, Belgian author.

### 12

* Eugenie Baird, 64, American singer.
* Marcel Poot, 87, Belgian composer, professor and musician.

### 13

* Thomas McKeown, 75, British physician.
* Emil Telmányi, 95, Hungarian violinist.

### 14

* Robert R. Barry, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.
* Johnny Farrell, 87, American golfer, U.S. Open winner, stroke.
* Sara Gallardo, 56, Argentinian author and journalist, asthma.
* Alma Lloyd, 74, American actress (If I Were King, Song of the Saddle, The Big Noise).

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* Frank A. Beach, 77, American ethologist and author (behavioral endocrinology).
* Floyd J. McCree, 65, American politician, mayor of the city of Flint, Michigan, cardiac arrest.
* Robert Seymour, 33, Northern Irish loyalist, shot by I.R.A.
* Willie Velasquez, 44, American social activist, founded the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, kidney cancer.
* Clement Vismara, 90, Italian Roman Catholic priest and missionary.
* George Ward, 80, British politician, Secretary of State for Air.

### 16

* Kim Milford, 37, American actor (The Rocky Horror Show, Jesus Christ Superstar), complications following open heart surgery.
* Andrea Pazienza, 32, Italian comics artist and painter, heroin overdose.
* Miguel Piñero, 41, Puerto Rican–born American playwright and actor (Short Eyes), cirrhosis.

### 17

* Brian Baronet, 27, South African professional boxer, complications from knock out.
* Elizabeth Lane, 82, English barrister and judge (High Court).

### 18

* Archie Cochrane, 79, Scottish physician (randomized controlled trial).
* Elizabeth Gardner, 30, British theoretical physicist (Gardner transition), cancer.
* Prince Kan'in Haruhito, 85, Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
* Kjell Kleppe, 53, Norwegian biochemist and molecular biologist (PCR).
* Wilford Leach, 58, American director and screenwriter (The Pirates of Penzance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood), cancer.
* Sallie Martin, 92, American gospel singer.
* E. Hoffmann Price, 89, American writer of popular fiction (Through the Gates of the Silver Key).
* Iasyr Shivaza, 82, Soviet poet and writer.

### 19

* M. Ajmal, 78, Indian-born Pakistani actor (Heer Ranjha).
* Marco Donat-Cattin, 34, Italian terrorist (Prima Linea), pedestrian road accident.
* William Harold Hutt, 88, English economist, stroke.
* Marie Logoreci, 67, Albanian actress (The Great Warrior Skanderbeg).
* Teru Shimada, 82, Japanese-born American actor (You Only Live Twice).
* Gladys Spellman, 70, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, complications from coma.
* Aaly Tokombaev, 83, Kyrgyz poet, composer and novelist.

### 20

* Aracy de Almeida, 73, Brazilian singer, heart attack.
* Alex Bein, 85, German-born Israeli Jewish historian and zionist historiographer (biography of Theodor Herzl).
* Alfred Renard, 93, Belgian aviator, hit by car.
* Robert Yellowtail, 98, American leader of the Crow Nation.

### 21

* Bobby Dodd, 79, American college football player and coach (Georgia Tech), lung cancer.
* John Duncan Sr., 69, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cancer.
* George Ivașcu, 76, Romanian journalist and communist militant, heart attack exacerbated by pneumonia.
* Pedrito Rico, 55, Spanish singer, dancer and actor.
* Sverre Riisnæs, 90, Norwegian jurist and public prosecutor, member of Nasjonal Samling in World War II.
* T. E. Utley, 67, British journalist and writer (The Daily Telegraph).

### 22

* Jesse Ed Davis, 43, American guitarist, drug overdose.
* Dennis Day, 72, American actor, comedian and singer (The Jack Benny Program), brain bleed.
* Hank Edwards, 69, American Major League baseballer (Cleveland Indians).
* Bramwell Fletcher, 84, English actor (Svengali).
* Rose Franken, 92, American writer and playwright (Claudia).
* Pieter Grobbelaar, 79, South African military commander, Commandant General of South African Defence Force.
* Bhadant Anand Kausalyayan, 83, Indian Buddhist monk.
* H. S. Lee, 87, Malaysian politician, minister of Finance and Transport.
* Leonard Matlovich, 44, American Vietnam War veteran, first gay service member to out himself to military, HIV.
* Howard Mitchell, 77, American cellist and conductor (National Symphony Orchestra), heart failure.
* Stuart Randall, 78, American actor (Cimarron City, Laramie).
* Xiao Jun, 80, Chinese author.

### 23

* Viola Gentry, 93–94, American aviator.
* Albert C. Johnston, 87, American doctor and writer who tried to pass as white.
* Liang Shuming, 94, Chinese philosopher, politician and writer.
* Henry Murray, 95, American psychologist (Thematic Apperception Test), pneumonia.
* Heinz Pagels, 49, American physicist and author, president of the International League for Human Rights, mountain climbing accident.

### 24

* Marta Abba, 87, Italian actress, cerebral haemorrhage.
* Bùi Xuân Phái, 67, Vietnamese painter.
* Mihai Beniuc, 80, Romanian poet, dramatist and novelist, president of the Writers' Union of Romania.
* Roberto Cueva del Río, 80, Mexican muralist, domestic accident.
* Csaba Kesjár, 26, Hungarian racing driver, racing accident.
* Irene Taylor, 81–82, American singer ("Mississippi Mud", "Willow Weep for Me").

### 25

* Jean Boffety, 63, French cinematographer (A Simple Story).
* Șerban Cioculescu, 85, Romanian literary critic and columnist.
* Mildred Gillars, 87, American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany, convicted of treason against U.S.A, colon cancer.
* Svavar Guðnason, 78, Icelandic painter.
* Ali Hashemi, 26, Iranian military commander.
* Neville Pickering, 64, New Zealand politician, member of New Zealand Parliament, Mayor of Christchurch.
* Hillel Slovak, 26, Israeli-born American musician, guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, overdose.
* Jimmy Soul, 45, American vocalist ("If You Wanna Be Happy"), heart attack.

### 26

* Hans Urs von Balthasar, 82, Swiss theologian and Catholic priest, heart attack.
* Marion Hall Best, 83, Australian interior designer.
* Sandy Campbell, 66, Broadway actor.
* Heinrich Heim, 88, Nazi German lawyer, aide to Martin Bormann, recorded Hitler's Table Talk.
* Walter Matoni, 70, Nazi German Luftwaffe ace, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.
* Yves Pratte, 63, Canadian lawyer and jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, heart attack.
* Hans Rosenberg, 84, German historian.

### 27

* Léonie Adams, 88, American poet, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
* Akilan, 65–66, Indian novelist.
* Michael Barry, 78, British television producer and director.
* John Groth, 80, American illustrator.
* Aparicio Méndez, 83, Uruguayan lawyer and politician, President of Uruguay.
* R. Muttusamy, 62, Sri Lankan music director and singer.

### 28

* A. Aiyappan, 83, superintendent of Government Museum, Chennai.
* William Nordeen, 51, American captain in the US Navy, car bomb.
* Iris Origo, 85, English-born Italian biographer and writer (War in Val d'Orcia).
* Kurt Raab, 46, West German actor, screenwriter and playwright, AIDS.

### 29

* Tengku Ampuan Afzan, 55, Malaysian Queen consort of Pahang, cancer.
* Alexander Gorkin, 90, Soviet politician, chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.
* John Peet, 72–73, British journalist who defected to East Germany.
* Franciszka Themerson, 81, Polish-born British painter, illustrator and filmmaker.

### 30

* Alan W. Bishop, 68, British geotechnical engineer (slope stability).
* Chacrinha, 70, Brazilian comedian, radio and TV personality, heart attack.
* Johanna Hofer, 91, German-born American actress.
* A. S. Nair, 57, Indian painter, illustrator and cartoonist.
* Suthi Veerabhadra Rao, 41, Indian film actor, heart attack.

### Unknown date

* Tommy Brookins, 81, founder of the Harlem Globetrotters, stroke. (died by June 5)
* Dave Crawford, 44, American R&B musician and songwriter ("Young Hearts Run Free", "What a Man"), murdered.
* Eric Jennings, 65, English FIFA-listed football referee.