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

## March 1987
### 1

* Freddie Green, 75, American swing jazz guitarist, heart attack.
* Bertrand de Jouvenel, 83, French philosopher and political economist.
* Don MacBeth, 37, Canadian jockey, cancer.
* Vern Partlow, 76, American newspaper reporter and folk singer, blacklisted during McCarthy era, cancer.
* Wolfgang Seidel, 60, German Formula 1 racing driver, heart attack.

### 2

* Randolph Scott, 89, American film actor (The Last of the Mohicans), heart and lung ailments.
* Lolo Soetoro, 52, Indonesian geographer, stepfather of Barack Obama, liver failure.

### 3

* Danny Kaye, 76, American singer, actor, dancer and comedian, internal bleeding and hepatitis.
* Cyril Pearl, 82, Australian journalist, author and television personality.
* Rafael M. Salas, 58, Filipino head of United Nations Population Fund, heart attack.
* Hana Vítová, 73, Czechoslovakian film actress.

### 4

* Georges Arnaud, 69, French author, heart attack.
* Maria Jolas, 94, American pacifist, a founding member of Transition in Paris.
* Seibo Kitamura, 102, Japanese sculptor.
* Eliseo Moreno, 27, American spree killer, executed.

### 5

* James W. Blanchard, 83, American submarine commander and rear admiral, respiratory arrest.
* John Brooke, 64, Northern Irish politician, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
* Albert Costain, 76, British politician, Member of Parliament.
* Abdulgani Dahiwala, 78, Indian Gujarati poet.
* Harry Dudkin, 78, American politician and judge, clerk of the New Jersey General Assembly, murdered.
* Andrey A. Fedorov, 78, Soviet biologist, botanist and taxonomist.
* Joe Purcell, 63, American politician, acting Governor of Arkansas.
* Don Yenko, 59, American car dealer and racecar driver, aeroplane crash.

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* Inder Raj Anand, Indian film dialogue and screenwriter.
* Mel Boozer, 41, American university professor and LGBT activist, AIDS.
* Edward Carson, 67, British politician, Member of Parliament.
* Eddie Durham, 80, American jazz guitarist, trombonist and composer, fall.
* J. Spencer Trimingham, 82, English scholar on Islam in Africa.
* Edward Zorinsky, 58, American politician, U.S. Senator, heart attack.

### 7

* Yuri Chulyukin, 57, Soviet film director, actor and songwriter.
* Henri Decaë, 71, French cinematographer.
* Evelyn Dove, 85, British singer and actress, pneumonia.
* Paul R. Evans, 55, American-born furniture designer, sculptor and artist, heart attack.
* Waldo Salt, 72, American screenwriter (Midnight Cowboy, Coming Home), lung cancer.

### 8

* Erwin Jollasse, 95, Nazi German general, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
* Iwao Yamawaki, 88, Japanese photographer and architect.

### 9

* Zeke Bonura, 78, American Major League baseballer (Chicago White Sox).
* Ronald W. Clark, 70, British author, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Donald Jay Grout, 84, American musicologist, author of A Short History of Opera.
* Allan Jaffe, 51, American jazz tubist, cancer.
* Andrew Kayiira, 42, leader of the Uganda Freedom Movement, murdered.
* Yusuf al-Khal, 69, Lebanese-Syrian poet, journalist and publisher.
* Richard F. Kneip, 54, American diplomat and politician, governor of South Dakota, U.S. ambassador to Singapore, cancer.
* Bobby Locke, 69, South African professional golfer, meningitis.
* Fred W. Thompson, 86, Canadian-American labour organizer and historian, member of Industrial Workers of the World.
* Arthur Tolcher, 64, British harmonica player.

### 10

* Dwight W. Burney, 95, American politician, Governor of Nebraska.
* Robert Colby, 64, American songwriter, music publisher and theatrical producer ("Jilted"), cancer.
* George Glamack, 68, American professional basketballer (Rochester Royals).
* Jeannette Mirsky, 83, American writer.
* Daniel Morgan, 37, British private investigator, victim of unsolved murder.
* Johannes Quasten, 86, German Roman Catholic theologian.

### 11

* Joe Gladwin, 81, English actor (Coronation Street, Last of the Summer Wine), bronchial cancer.

### 12

* Woody Hayes, 74, American college football coach (Ohio State), heart attack.
* Micheline Kahn, 97, French harpist and pianist.
* Richard Levinson, 52, American screenwriter and producer (Columbo), heart attack.
* Jack Marks, 92, English performer and screenwriter (Up for the Cup), lung cancer.

### 13

* Edward Peck Curtis, 90, American World War I flying ace, Air Service Major General, pneumonia.
* Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi, 77, Indian Muslim scholar and poet.
* Bernhard Grzimek, 77, German zoo director, author and animal conservationist, heart attack.
* Peter Henrici, 63, Swiss mathematician (numerical analysis).
* David Lewis, 83, American Hollywood film producer (Dark Victory), pneumonia.
* Gerald Moore, 87, English classical pianist.
* Hugh Roberton, 86, Australian politician, Minister for Social Services, Australian Ambassador to Ireland.
* Fela Sowande, 81, Nigerian musician and composer.

### 14

* Peter Beter, 65, American attorney and financier.
* Tex Fletcher, 77, American singing cowboy, actor and radio & television personality.
* Rushdi al-Kikhya, 87–88, Syrian political leader, Speaker of the Parliament of Syria.
* Ivor Preece, 66, English international rugby union footballer (Coventry, England).
* Ali Muhammad Rashidi, 81, Pakistani journalist, politician and diplomat.
* Gerard Steenson, appr. 29, Irish republican paramilitary commander, ambushed and killed.
* Ian MacAlister Stewart, 91, Scottish military officer in the British Army.

### 15

* Douglas Abbott, 87, Canadian Member of Parliament, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
* W. Sterling Cole, 82, American politician, lawyer, and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, cancer.
* Red Dutton, 89, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Montreal Maroons), coach and executive.
* Léon Fleuriot, 64, French linguist and Celtic scholar.
* Don Gant, 44, American singer, songwriter and record producer, boating accident.

### 16

* Bob Kline, 77, American Major League baseballer (Boston Red Sox).
* Vivian Martin, 93, American stage and silent-screen actress.
* Scott McKay, 71, American actor, kidney failure.
* Juan Gómez Millas, 86, Chilean fascist politician.
* Allan Perry-Keene, 88, English officer in the Royal Air Force, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force.
* Joseph E. Schaefer, 68, American soldier in the U.S. Army, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* Samuel H. Shapiro, 79, American politician, Governor of Illinois.
* Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, 57, Danish architect, designed the Grande Arche.

### 17

* Tom Cothran, 39, American musicologist and composer, AIDS.
* Georg Lammers, 81, German sprinter and Olympic medalist.
* Antonio Lopez, 44, Puerto Rican fashion illustrator, complication of AIDS.
* Ron Saggers, 69, Australian Test cricketer.
* Derief Taylor, 76, Jamaican first-class cricketer and coach.
* Salvatore Toma, 35, Italian poet, suicide.
* Santo Trafficante Jr., 72, American Mafia boss, allied with Sam Giancana.

### 18

* Milorad Arsenijević, 80, Yugoslavian footballer and manager, and Olympian (BSK Beograd, Yugoslavia).
* Bil Baird, 82, American puppeteer, pneumonia and cancer.
* Claude I. Bakewell, 74, American lawyer, member of U.S. House of Representatives, emphysema.
* Lewis Bandt, 77, Australian car designer, designed and built the first utes, car accident.
* Elizabeth Poston, 81, English composer, pianist and writer.

### 19

* Punaloor Balan, 60, Indian writer and poet, cancer.
* Louis de Broglie, 94, French physicist contributing to quantum theory and Nobel laureate in Physics.
* Robert-Jean Longuet, 85, French lawyer, journalist and militant socialist.
* Juan Mascaró, 89, Spanish translator.
* Ruth Meiers, 61, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota, cancer.
* Emile Meyer, 76, American actor.
* Arch Oboler, 79, American playwright, novelist and director (Lights Out), heart failure.
* Harold Rosenthal, 69, English music critic, writer and opera broadcaster.
* Tony Stratton Smith, 53, English rock music manager, founded record label Charisma Records, pancreatic cancer.

### 20

* Warren G. Brown, 66, American rodeo cowboy, prostate cancer.
* Licio Giorgieri, 61, Italian air force general, murdered.
* Norman Harris, 39, American guitarist and songwriter, cardiovascular disease.
* Russell Ohl, 89, American scientist, patented the modern solar cell.
* Rita Streich, 66, German opera singer.
* Kenneth Threadgill, 77, American country singer and tavern owner, pulmonary embolism.
* Harry Windsor, 72, Irish-born Australian cardiac surgeon.

### 21

* Walter L. Gordon, 81, Canadian businessman, politician and writer, President of the Privy Council, heart attack.
* Dean Paul Martin, 35, American pop singer and actor, air crash.
* Robert Preston, 68, American actor and singer (The Music Man), lung cancer.
* Jacob Taubes, 64, Austrian rabbi, philosopher and scholar of Judaism.

### 22

* Louis M. Hacker, 88, American economic historian, professor of economics.
* Charlie Jarzombek, 44, American race car driver, racing accident.
* Bill McGuffie, 59, British pianist, film composer and conductor, cancer.
* Joan Shawlee, 61, American film and television actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Some Like It Hot), breast cancer.

### 23

* Emilio Giuseppe Dossena, 83, Italian painter.
* Maurice Dunand, 89, French archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East.
* Walter Walford Johnson, 82, American businessman and politician, Governor of Colorado.
* Edward Lamb, 85, American businessman, broadcasting executive and labour lawyer.
* Reg Lye, 74, Australian actor.
* John Mariucci, 70, American ice hockey player, administrator and coach, cancer.
* Morton Minsky, 85, American burlesque owner, co-owner of Minsky's Burlesque, cancer.
* Tony Pacheco, 59, Cuban-born baseballer and Major League coach (Houston Astros).
* Herald F. Stout, 83, American admiral in the U.S. Navy.
* Ilse Totzke, 73, German musician, survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

### 24

* Vicente Calderón, 73, Spanish businessman, president of Atlético Madrid.
* Alan Gale, 56, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy) and commentator, heart attack.
* Takeru Higuchi, 69, American chemist, invented time-release medication capsule.
* Sarah Goddard Power, 51, American political activist, suicide.

### 25

* Carolin Babcock, 74, American tennis player, U.S. Open doubles champion, stroke.
* Gusta Fučíková, 83, Czechoslovakian publicist, editor and politician.
* Ivan Ivanov-Vano, 87, Soviet animator and screenwriter.
* John Kloss, 49, American fashion designer, known for lingerie and sleepwear, suicide.
* Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., 83, American diplomat and statesman, Executive Director of UNICEF, cancer.
* Moustache, 58, French actor and jazz drummer, car accident.

### 26

* Walter Abel, 88, American actor, heart attack.
* Henrieta Delavrancea, 89, Romanian architect.
* Ohene Djan, 63, Ghanaian sports administrator and politician, member of the Legislative Assembly.
* Robert Gwyn Macfarlane, 79, English hematologist.
* Georg Muche, 91, German painter, architect and author.
* Eugen Jochum, 84, German conductor.
* Mary Odette, 85, French-born British silent-screen actress.
* Michael Stancliffe, 70, English Anglican priest, Dean of Winchester.

### 27

* Giuseppe Ambrosoli, 63, Italian Catholic priest, renal failure.
* Rudolph Anders, 91, German-born American actor.
* William Bowers, 71, American reporter, playwright and screenwriter, respiratory failure.
* Tim Lee Carter, 76, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, anaemia.
* Erich Clar, 84, Austrian organic chemist.
* Olha Franko, 90, Ukrainian writer, creator of the first Ukrainian cookbook.
* Luis Chávez y González, 85, El Salvadoran Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of San Salvador.
* Lloyd Goodrich, 89, American art historian, cancer.
* Stane Kavčič, 67, Prime Minister of Slovenia.
* Tonny Koeswoyo, 51, Indonesian rock musician and leader of the group Koes Plus.
* Peter Mason, 65, English-born Australian physicist and science communicator.
* Hans-Georg von der Osten, 91, German World War I flying ace and Luftwaffe commander during World War II.
* Martin Provensen, 70, American illustrator, heart attack.

### 28

* Horace M. Albright, 97, American conservationist, director of the National Park Service.
* Alphonse Alley, 56, Beninese military officer, President of Dahomey (Benin).
* Oliver K. Kelley, 82, Finnish-born American engineer, developed the automatic transmission.
* Lê Văn Kim, 68–69, South Vietnamese army general.
* Maria von Trapp, 82, Austrian matriarch of the Trapp family, heart failure.
* Patrick Troughton, 67, English actor (Doctor Who), heart attack.

### 29

* Richard Aaron, 85, Welsh philosopher.
* Lawrence Anini, appr. 26, Nigerian bandit, executed.
* Jakob Nacken, 81, German-born American circus performer.
* Akaki Shanidze, 100, Georgian linguist and philologist.
* John Wiley, 60, South African cricketer and politician, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, suicide.
* Richard Wilson, 66, American science fiction writer.

### 30

* Pyotr Gusev, 82, Russian ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer.
* Veniamin Levich, 69, Soviet-born American chemist (Levich equation), cardiac arrest.
* Clint Murchison Jr., 63, American businessman, founder of the Dallas Cowboys football team, pneumonia.
* Giorgio Pini, 88, Italian politician and journalist.
* Dorothy Ward, 96, English actress.
* Lynn Townsend White Jr., 79, American historian, heart failure.

### 31

* David Adler, 51, American physicist and MIT professor (Condensed matter physics), heart attack.
* Unicorn Chan, 46–47, Hong Kong actor, martial artist and stuntman, car crash.
* Ram Panjwani, 75, Indian writer and folk singer.

### Unknown date

* Arthur Holland, 70, English football referee.
* Lesley Osmond, 65, British actress.