Deaths in May 1988
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.[1]
- Paolo Stoppa, 81, Italian actor, leukemia.
2
- John Weir Foote, 83, Canadian military chaplain and politician (Legislative Assembly of Ontario).[2]
- 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.[3]
- Carl Erhardt, 91, English international ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.[4]
- Julia Butler Hansen, 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.[5]
- Takeshi Kimura, 76, Japanese screenwriter, throat obstruction.
- Lim Keng Peng, 35, Singaporean murderer, killed in police ambush.[6]
- Boy Louw, 82, South African rugby union player (Western Province, South Africa).
- Premendra Mitra, 83, Indian poet, writer and film director.[7]
- Lev Pontryagin, 79, Soviet mathematician (Pontryagin duality, Pontryagin cohomology operation).[8]
- Bill Speidel, 76, American newspaper columnist.
- Paul Vario, 73, American mobster from the Lucchese crime family, respiratory failure from lung cancer.
4
- Ed Bakey, 62, American film and television actor.
- Stanley William Hayter, 86, English painter (Atelier 17 studio).[9]
- Carl Jensen, 67, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate and House of Representatives, cancer.[10]
- Jan Mazurkiewicz, 91, Polish army general and politician.
- Oleg Zhakov, 83, Soviet film actor.
5
- Billo Frómeta, 72, Dominican orchestra conductor and composer, stroke.
- D.D. Kashyap, 77–78, Indian film director.
- Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, 90, American writer.[11]
- 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 in theatre and film, murdered.[12]
- Michael Shaara, 59, American author of science fiction, sports fiction and historical fiction, heart attack.[13]
6
- Richard Caliguiri, 56, American politician, mayor of Pittsburgh, amyloidosis.[14]
- Costantino Nivola, 76, Italian-American sculptor, heart attack.[15]
- Hans Popper, 84, Austrian-born American pathologist and hepatologist, pancreatic cancer.[16]
- Austin Robertson Sr., 79, Australian rules footballer.
7
- Nara Nath Acharya, 82, Nepalese Pandit.
- Alberto de Zavalía, 77, Argentine film director and film producer.[17]
8
- Robert A. Heinlein, 80, American science fiction author, emphysema and heart failure.[18]
- Nappy Lamare, 82, American jazz banjoist, guitarist and vocalist.
- Domingo Ortega, 82, Spanish matador.[19]
- Charles Pollock, 85, American abstract painter, brother of artist Jackson Pollock.[20]
- Abdel Moneim Wahby, 76, Egyptian international basketballer, referee and Olympian.
9
- Willie Moir, 66, Scottish international footballer (Bolton Wanderers).[21]
- Moses Scott, 76, Archbishop of the Province of West Africa.
10
- Ciarán Bourke, 53, Irish musician (The Dubliners).[22]
- Hugh Laing, 76, Barbados-born American ballet dancer, cancer.[23]
- Richard B. Ogilvie, 65, American attorney and law enforcement officer, Governor of Illinois.[24]
- John Sterling Rockefeller, 83, American philanthropist, conservationist, and amateur ornithologist.
- Shen Congwen, 85, Chinese writer, heart attack.[25]
11
- Isabella Gordon, 86, Scottish marine biologist (crabs, sea spiders).[26]
- George Gordon-Lennox, 79, British army general in World War II.[27]
- Hans Peter Keller, 73, German poet.
- Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann, 83, German ethnologist.[28]
- Kim Philby, 76, British intelligence officer and spy (Cambridge Five), heart failure.[29]
12
- Paul Osborn, 86, American playwright and screenwriter (On Borrowed Time, Morning's at Seven).[30]
- Chick Parsons, 86, American diplomat and decorated World War II veteran.[31]
- Hank Schenz, 69, American Major League baseballer.
13
- Chet Baker, 58, American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (It Could Happen to You), fall from building.[32]
- Paul Genge, 74, American actor (Bullitt).
- Sergey Gorshkov, 78, Soviet Admiral of the Fleet.[33]
- Friedrich Guggenberger, 73, German admiral and Nazi U-boat commander.
- Caecilia Loots, 84, Dutch resistance member known for saving Jewish children during World War II.[34]
- Nikolay Makarov, 73, Soviet firearms designer (Makarov pistol).
- Irene Manton, 84, British botanist (ferns and algae), Professor of Botany at University of Leeds.[35]
- Albertine Winner, 81, British physician and medical administrator.
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).[36]
- Willem Drees, 101, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands.[37]
- Ernesto Giménez Caballero, 88, Spanish writer, diplomat and pioneer of Fascism.[38]
- Wayne Jarratt, 31, Australian actor (Prisoner), brain tumour.[39]
- Zhuang Xiquan, 99, Chinese politician.
15
- Andrew Duggan, 64, American actor (Seven Days in May), throat cancer.[40]
- Fulvia Franco, 56, Italian actress and model.
- Greta Nissen, 82, Norwegian-American film and stage actress, Parkinson's disease.[41]
- Sol Polk, 71, American businessman, co-founder of Polk Brothers.[42]
- Thomas E. Stephens, 84, Irish-American politician.[43]
16
- Kay Baxter, 42, American bodybuilder, car crash.[44]
- 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.[45]
- Jules Levin, 66, American politician.
- Anatoli Maslyonkin, 57, Soviet international footballer (Spartak Moscow, USSR) and Olympic gold medalist.[46]
- Peter J. Ortiz, 74, United States Marine Corps colonel, cancer.[47]
- Bruce Watson, 78, Scottish organic chemist and politician.
17
- Frank Gallop, 87, American radio and television personality.[48]
- Guy Glover, 77, Canadian producer (National Film Board of Canada).
18
- Daws Butler, 71, American voice actor (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss), heart attack.[49]
- Anthony Forwood, 72, English actor (Knights of the Round Table), liver cancer and Parkinson's disease.[50]
- Christopher Gore, 43, American screenwriter and playwright (Fame), AIDS.[51]
- Daniel Lewis James, 77, American writer (Famous All Over Town), heart attack.[52]
- Brandon Rhys-Williams, 60, British politician, Member of Parliament, pneumonia.[53]
- Enzo Tortora, 59, Italian television presenter, cancer.
19
- Kurt-Caesar Hoffmann, 92 Nazi German navy admiral (Scharnhorst).[54]
- Lloyd Vaughan, 79, American animator.
20
- Ana Aslan, 91, Romanian biologist and physician, specialist in gerontology.[55]
- Nick Corwin, 8, American murder victim.[56]
- Dick Jacobs, 70, American musician, arranger and orchestrator.
- Anthony C. Perera, 66, Sri Lankan actor.[57]
- Mike Reinbach, 39, American Major League baseballer, car accident.
- Marion G. Romney, 90, American Mormon leader.[58]
- Victorio Unamuno, 78, Spanish footballer.
21
- Harry Babasin, 67, American jazz bassist, emphysema.[59]
- Richard J. Daronco, 56, American lawyer and judge, assassinated.[60]
- Sammy Davis Sr., 87, American dancer (Will Mastin Trio), father of Sammy Davis Jr.[61]
- John D. Fitzgerald, 82, American author (The Great Brain).[62]
- Bruno Frei, 90, Austrian political writer and journalist.
- Dino Grandi, 92, Italian Fascist politician, Ambassador of Italy to the U.K.[63]
- Barbara Laage, 67, French film actress.[64]
22
- Giorgio Almirante, 73, Italian politician, founder and leader of neo-fascist Italian Social Movement.[65]
- Lionel Edirisinghe, 75, Sri Lankan musicologist, principal at the University of the Visual and Performing Arts.[66]
23
- Aya Kitō, 25, Japanese diarist, spinocerebellar ataxia.
- Roberto Succo, 26, Italian serial killer, suicide.[67]
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).[68]
- Ernest Labrousse, 93, French historian.
- Aleksei Losev, 94, Soviet philosopher.[69]
25
- Monte Kay, 63, American record producer, heart failure.[70]
- Ruth Malcomson, 82, Miss America 1924.[71]
- Karl August Wittfogel, 91, German-American playwright and historian, pneumonia.[72]
26
- Antonio Bardellino, 43, Italian mobster, boss of the Casalesi clan, assassinated.
- Juan Orol, 90, Spanish-Mexican actor and director (Gangsters Versus Cowboys, Sandra, la mujer de fuego), liver disease.[73]
- Nicolò Vittori, 79, Italian rower and Olympic gold medalist.
27
- Bill Bollinger, 48, American artist.
- John DiGilio, 55, American mobster with the Genovese crime family, murdered.[74]
- Florida Friebus, 78, American writer and actress (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Bob Newhart Show).[75]
- Hjördis Petterson, 79, Swedish actress.
- Ernst Ruska, 81, German physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics.[76]
- Alwyn Warren, 87, New Zealand Anglican Bishop of Christchurch.
28
- Felix Morrow, 81, American communist political activist and newspaper editor.[77]
- Sy Oliver, 77, American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader.[78]
- Evelyn Page, 89, New Zealand artist.[79]
- Alfredo Volpi, 92, Brazilian painter.
- S. B. Yalegama, 62, Sri Lankan politician, member of Parliament, assassinated.
29
- Charla Doherty, 41, American actress (Days of Our Lives).[80]
- Sheridan Dufferin, 49, British patron of the arts, AIDS.
- Henry Johansen, 83, Norwegian international footballer (Vålerenga, Norway).[81]
- 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.[82]
- Siaka Stevens, 82, Sierra Leone politician, Prime Minister and President of Sierra Leone.[83]
- Elaine Black Yoneda, 81, American labour and civil rights activist, member of Communist Party, heart attack.[84]
30
- Ella Raines, 67, American actress (Phantom Lady, Brute Force), throat cancer.[85]
31
- June Buchanan, 100, American founder of Alice Lloyd College.[86]
- Dwarka Prasad Mishra, 86, Indian politician, writer and journalist (Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh).
- Eduardo de Robertis, 74, Argentine physician and biologist.
- 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.
- Ted Ward, 70–71, Welsh international rugby union and rugby league footballer.
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