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

## April 1987
### 1

* Henri Cochet, 85, French tennis player, world number one player.
* Victor D'Amico, 82, American teaching artist, Director of the Department of Education of the Museum of Modern Art.
* James Edward Doyle, 71, American lawyer, United States district judge.
* Vladimir Popov, 56, Soviet animator and art director.

### 2

* Tommy Davis, 52, American NFL footballer (San Francisco 49ers), lung cancer.
* Trevor Hockey, 43, British footballer and Welsh international (Birmingham City, Wales), heart attack.
* Eleanor Leacock, 64, American anthropologist and social theorist, stroke.
* Larry Marley, 41–42, Irish member of the IRA, shot.
* Wang Renmei, 72, Chinese actress and singer, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Buddy Rich, 69, American jazz drummer, songwriter and bandleader, cardiac failure
* Harry Watt, 80, Scottish documentary and feature film director (The Siege of Pinchgut).
* Kansuke Yamamoto, 73, Japanese photographer and poet.

### 3

* Robert Dalban, 83, French actor.
* Anne Grey, 80, English actress.
* Tom Sestak, 51, American AFL footballer (Buffalo Bills), heart attack.

### 4

* Agyeya, 76, Indian poet, novelist and revolutionary.
* C. L. Moore, 76, American science fiction and fantasy writer.
* Michael Redstone, 84, American entrepreneur, founder of the Northeast Theater Corporation.
* Osman Saleh Sabbe, 54–55, Eritrean-born writer and political activist.
* Le Tari, 40, American film and television actor, heart attack.
* Chögyam Trungpa, 48, Tibetan Buddhist meditation master, cardiac arrest.

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* Jack Howe, 71, English international footballer (Derby County, England).
* Leabua Jonathan, 72, Prime Minister of Lesotho, heart attack.
* Jan Lindblad, 54, Swedish naturalist, writer and film maker, kidney failure.
* Tsuneko Nakazato, 77, Japanese novelist, colon cancer.
* Jim White, 67, American NFL footballer (New York Giants).

### 6

* Vicente Cañas, 47, Spanish Christian missionary, assassinated.
* James G. Donovan, 88, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
* Jean-Baptiste Doumeng, 67, French businessman and communist politician.
* Henry Lucien de Vries, 77, Surinamese politician and entrepreneur, Governor General of Suriname.

### 7

* Terry Carr, 50, American science fiction fan, author and editor, heart failure.
* Will Hindle, 57, American filmmaker of personal 16mm movies, heart attack.
* Charles Hope, 75, British peer and businessman, director of Eagle Star Insurance.
* John Lehmann, 79, English publisher and poet.
* Nick De Noia, 45, American director, screenwriter and choreographer, murdered.
* Noel F. Parrish, 77, American brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force, cardiac arrest.
* Paul Peek, 82, American attorney and politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California.
* Walter H. Reynolds, 86, American politician, mayor of Providence, Rhode Island.
* Maxine Sullivan, 75, American jazz vocalist, seizure.

### 8

* Tommy Abbott, 52, American actor, dancer and choreographer (West Side Story).
* Terry Allen, 62, English flyweight boxer and World Champion.
* Anni Frind, 87, German lyric soprano.
* Andrei Getman, 83, Soviet military commander, Red Army general.
* Kevin McNamara, 60, Irish Catholic academic, Archbishop of Dublin, cancer.
* Ervin Nyiregyházi, 84, Hungarian-born American pianist and composer, colon cancer.

### 9

* James Leroy Bondsteel, 39, American soldier in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient.
* James Bush, 79, American actor.
* Al Dodd, 41, American NFL footballer (New Orleans Saints).
* Emil M. Mrak, 85, American food scientist and microbiologist, chancellor of the University of California, Davis, heart attack.

### 10

* Horst Dassler, 51, German businessman, chairman of Adidas, cancer.
* Birgit Dressel, 26. West German heptathlete and Olympian, organ failure.
* Berta Drews, 85, German actress.

### 11

* Carleton F. Bryant, 94, American Vice Admiral in the U.S. Navy.
* Erskine Caldwell, 83, American novelist and short story writer (Tobacco Road), emphysema and lung cancer.
* Netania Davrath, 55, Ukrainian-born Israeli soprano opera and concert singer.
* Rudolf Krause, 80, East German racing driver.
* Primo Levi, 67, Italian chemist, writer and Jewish Holocaust survivor, suicide.
* Frederick Joseph Loftus-Tottenham, 88, Irish-born general in the British Indian Army.
* Kent Taylor, 79, American film and television actor.
* Hédi Váradi, 57, Hungarian actress.

### 12

* Mike Von Erich, (Michael Adkisson), 23, American professional wrestler, suicide.
* René Hardy, 76, French citizen, member of the French Resistance during World War II.
* Akram Pahalwan, 57, Pakistani wrestler.
* Hertha von Walther, 83, German film actress.

### 13

* Dennis Allen, 35, Australian drug dealer, accused murderer, heart failure.
* Herbert Blumer, 87, American sociologist and NFL footballer (Chicago Cardinals).
* Joe Colquhoun, 60, British comics artist (Charley's War), heart attack.
* Simha Flapan, 76, Israeli historian and politician.
* Gerry McAloon, 70, Scottish footballer (Brentford), hypothermia.
* Guido Sala, 58, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and world champion kart racer.

### 14

* Brian Carlson, 54, Australian international rugby league footballer (North Sydney, Australia).
* Karl Höller, 79, German composer.
* Julius Sumner Miller, 77, American physicist and television personality, leukemia.

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* Orland K. Armstrong, 93, American journalist and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
* Hans-Joachim Born, 77, German radiochemist.
* Rachel Burrows, 74, Irish actress and broadcaster.
* Mickey Finn, 35, Irish fiddler.
* Peter Benjamin Graham, 61, Australian visual artist, printer and art theorist.
* Louis R. Lowery, 70, American U.S. Marine Corps officer and combat photographer, aplastic anemia.
* Press Maravich, 71, American college and professional basketball coach, prostate cancer.
* Masatoshi Nakayama, 74, Japanese karate master.
* Samuel Rothschild, 87, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Montreal Maroons).

### 16

* Charlotte Curtis, 58, American journalist, columnist and editor at The New York Times, cancer.
* Fateh Muhammad Panipati, 82, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
* Bikash Roy, 70, Indian actor and filmmaker.
* Juan Evangelista Venegas, 58, Puerto Rican boxer and Olympic medalist, fall.

### 17

* Carlton Barrett, 36, Jamaican reggae drummer, murdered.
* Arthur Delaney, 59, English painter.
* Cecil Harmsworth King, 86, English chairman of International Publishing Corporation, director of the Bank of England.
* Hena Rodríguez, 81, Colombian painter, educator, and first female Colombian sculptor.
* Dick Shawn, 63, American actor and comedian, heart attack.
* Willi Smith, 39, American fashion designer, pneumonia.
* Cornelius Van Til, 91, Dutch-born American Christian philosopher.

### 18

* Eduardo Alcaraz, 72, Chilean-Mexican actor.
* Carlos Baker, 77, American writer, biographer and professor of literature.
* Heinie Beau, 76, American jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist, cancer.
* Kenneth Cook, 57, Australian journalist, television documentary maker and novelist (Wake in Fright), heart attack.
* Hugh B. Cott, 86, British zoologist.
* Vincent Hanley, 33, Irish radio DJ and television presenter, AIDS.
* Jim Langton, 69, Irish hurler.
* Joe Robb, 50, American NFL footballer (St. Louis Cardinals).

### 19

* Hugh Brannum, 77, American vocalist, composer and actor, cancer.
* Milt Kahl, 78, American animator for the Disney Studio, pneumonia.
* David G. Mandelbaum, 75, American anthropologist, cancer.
* Maxwell D. Taylor, 85, American army general and diplomat, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, ambassador to South Vietnam.
* Antony Tudor, 79, English dancer and choreographer, founded London Ballet, heart attack.

### 20

* Nicholas Acquavella, 88, American art dealer and gallerist, founder of Acquavella Galleries.
* Con Cremin, 78, Irish diplomat, U.N. representative.

### 21

* Joseph Alcazar, 77, Spanish-born French international footballer (Marseille, France).
* Gustav Bergmann, 80, Austrian-born American philosopher.
* Wenike Opurum Briggs, 69, Nigerian lawyer, journalist and politician.
* Edith Green, 77, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cancer.
* Moosa AbdulRahman Hassan, Omani businessman, tribal leader and landlord.
* Haruyasu Nakajima, 77, Japanese baseballer (Yomiuri Giants).
* Hildrus Poindexter, 85, American bacteriologist (tropical diseases).

### 22

* Irving Ashby, 66, American jazz guitarist, heart attack.
* Margaret Ponce Israel, 57, American painter and ceramicist, traffic accident.
* Masumi Mitsui, 99, Japanese-born Canadian World War I veteran.
* J. Edwin Orr, 75, Irish-born American Baptist minister, professor and author.

### 24

* Josephine Bell, 89, English physician and writer.
* Larry Bethea, 30, American NFL footballer (Dallas Cowboys), suicide.
* Henry Murdoch, 66, Aboriginal Australian actor and stockman.
* Pablo Acosta Villarreal, 50, Mexican narcotics smuggler and crime boss, gunned down by Mexican Federal Police.
* Berhanu Zerihun, 53–54, Ethiopian writer and journalist.

### 25

* Blas Roca Calderio, 78, Cuban politician and Marxist theorist, President of the National Assembly of People's Power.
* Pētõr Damberg, 78, Latvian Livonian linguist and poet.
* Maurice Gibson, 73, Northern Irish High Court judge, car bomb.
* Charlotte May Pierstorff, 78, American girl who was shipped alive through the U.S. postal system by parcel post.

### 26

* Bill Amos, 88, American college football player and coach.
* Oliver J. Flanagan, 66, Irish Fine Gael politician, Minister for Defence.
* Archie M. Gubbrud, 76, American politician, Governor of South Dakota, lung cancer.
* Frederick N. Howser, 82, American politician, Attorney General of California.
* Dudley Mason, 85, British master of the tanker SS Ohio in World War II, George Cross recipient.
* John Silkin, 64, British politician and solicitor, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.
* Frank Szymanski, 63, American NFL footballer (Philadelphia Eagles).
* Amelita Ward, 63, American film actress.

### 27

* John Burrows, 73, American Major League baseballer (Chicago Cubs), house fire.
* Attila Hörbiger, 91, Austrian stage and movie actor, stroke.
* Alice Nāmakelua, 94, Hawaiian composer and performer.

### 28

* Hannelore Baron, 60, German-born American artist, cancer.
* Xavier Fourcade, 60, French-born American contemporary art dealer, pneumonia.
* Paidi Lakshmayya, 83, Indian actor, writer and politician, member of parliament.
* William Marchant, appr. 38, Northern Irish loyalist, shot by IRA gunmen.
* Emil Staiger, 79, Swiss historian, writer and professor of German studies.

### 29

* Héctor Carmona, 61, Chilean modern pentathlete and Olympian.
* Gus Johnson, 48, American NBA basketballer (Baltimore Bullets), brain cancer.
* Helmut Laux, 70, Nazi German photographer.
* Philip Lombardo, 78, American boss of the Genovese crime family.
* Russ Saunders, 81, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers).
* Thomas Trenchard, 63, British hereditary peer, Minister of State for Defence Procurement.
* Zachari Zachariev, 83, Bulgarian military pilot and commander.

### 30

* Marc Aaronson, 36, American astronomer, observatory accident.
* Hugh Dempster, 86, British theatre and film actor, heart failure.

### Unknown date

* Arthur Lane, 76, British actor.