Deaths in April 1988
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 1988[edit]
1[edit]
- Đào Duy Anh, 83, Vietnamese historian.[1]
- Nell Jackson, 58, American sprinter and Olympic track coach.
- Jim Jordan, 91, American actor, stroke resulting from fall.
- April Tinsley, 8, American murder victim.
2[edit]
- Jacques André, 69, French fighter pilot in World War II, Olympian.[2]
- Jenő Barcsay, 88, Hungarian painter.
- Pushpaben Mehta, 83, Indian social worker and politician.
- Anthony Pelissier, 75, English actor, screenwriter, producer and director.[3]
- Vernon W. Thomson, 82, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, Governor of Wisconsin.[4]
3[edit]
- Milton Caniff, 81, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon).[5]
- Lee Man Fong, 74, Chinese-born Indonesian painter.[6]
- V. S. Wakankar, 68, Indian archeologist.
4[edit]
- Florestine Perrault Collins, 93, American professional photographer.
- Myra De Groot, 50, British-born American-Australian actress (The Sullivans, Neighbours), cancer.[7]
- Kai Ewans, 81, Danish-American jazz reedist.
- Gaston Eyskens, 82, Belgian politician and Prime Minister.
- Karol Fageros, 53, American tennis player.[8]
- Eric A. Havelock, 84, British classicist.[9]
5[edit]
- Boyd Brumbaugh, 72, American NFL footballer (Brooklyn Dodgers), emphysema.
- Mozaffar Firouz, 81, Iranian diplomat, Iranian ambassador to the USSR.[10]
- Swede Halbrook, 55, American NBA basketballer, heart attack.
- Alf Kjellin, 68, Swedish film actor and director, heart attack.
- Alan Shorter, 55, American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, ruptured aorta.
6[edit]
- Gunārs Astra, 56, Latvian human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident, heart disease.[11]
- John Clements, 77, British actor and producer (Knight Without Armour, South Riding).[12]
- Leroy Kirkland, 82–84, American arranger, bandleader, guitarist and songwriter.
- Hamdija Pozderac, 64, Yugoslav communist politician, President of People's Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[13]
7[edit]
- Cesar Bresgen, 74, Austrian composer.
- Denis Hamilton, 69, English newspaper editor.[14]
- Dinanath Nadim, 72, Indian poet.
- Albert S. Rogell, 86, American film director.
- Christopher Rollinson, 59, New Zealand boxer.
8[edit]
- Charles Higounet, 77, French historian medievalist.[15]
9[edit]
- Brook Benton, 56, American singer and songwriter (It's Just a Matter of Time, Endlessly), pneumonia.[16]
- Syd Cohen, 81, American Major League baseballer (Washington Senators).[17]
- John Herman Dent, 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.[18]
- Dave Prater, 50, American soul and rhythm & blues singer and musician, car accident.[19]
- Willy Schaeffler, 72, German-American skier and coach, ski resort developer.[20]
10[edit]
- Khaqan Abbasi, Pakistani politician, Federal Minister for Production, car hit by missile.
- Turgut Atakol, 72, Turkish basketballer and international referee.
- Cliff Gladwin, 72, English test cricketer.
- Woody Kling, 62, American television writer, producer, playwright and composer, brain and lung cancer.
- Shigeo Sugiura, 70, Japanese swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
- Teóphilo, 87, Brazilian international football.
11[edit]
- Ithell Colquhoun, 81, British painter, poet and author.[21]
- James R. Domengeaux, 81, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.[22]
- Jeff Donnell, 66, American actress (General Hospital, The Phantom Thief), heart attack.[23]
- Wolfram Fiedler, 36, East German luger and Olympic medalist, cancer.
- Jesse L. Lasky Jr., 77, American screenwriter, novelist, playwright and poet, pancreatic cancer.
12[edit]
- Colette Deréal, 60, French actress and singer.
- Sheridan Gibney, 84, American writer and producer in theatre and film.
- Hartmann Lauterbacher, 78, German Nazi, Deputy Reichsjugendführer, Stabsführer of Hitler Youth, unconvicted war criminal.
- Harry McShane, 96, Scottish socialist.
- May Owen, 96, American medical doctor.
- Alan Paton, 85, South African writer and anti-Apartheid activist.[24]
- Frank Skaff, 77, American Major League baseballer.[25]
13[edit]
- Jean Gascon, 67, Canadian opera director and actor, heart attack.[26]
14[edit]
- Daniel Guérin, 83, French libertarian-communist author.
- Pony Poindexter, 62, American jazz saxophonist.
- Camilla Ravera, 98, Italian politician, first female lifetime senator.[27]
- John Stonehouse, 62, British businessman and minister, Member of Parliament, heart attack.[28]
15[edit]
- Rosemary Ames, 81, American film actress (Mr. Quincey of Monte Carlo, One More Spring).[29]
- George E. Mylonas, 89, Greek archaeologist, heart attack.[30]
- Maria Ulfah Santoso, 76, Indonesian politician and women's rights activist.
- Kenneth Williams, 62, British actor and comedian, overdose of barbiturates.[31]
16[edit]
- John Anderson, 79, British Army general, Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff.[32]
- José Dolhem, 43, French racing driver, power boat racing accident.[33]
- Youri Egorov, 33, Soviet classical pianist, complications from AIDS.[34]
- Doug Mudgway, 63, New Zealand amateur wrestler.
- Francesco Pretti, 84, Italian racewalker and Olympian.
- John Reardon, 58, American baritone and actor, AIDS related pneumonia.
- Clifford Roach, 84, West Indian test cricketer.
- Bobby Thompson, 76, English stand-up comedian and actor, emphysema and cancer.
- Khalil al-Wazir, 52, Palestinian leader, assassinated.
17[edit]
- Linda Batista, 68, Brazilian musician.
- Carlotta Corpron, 86, American photographer.[35]
- Albert Fennell, 68, British film and television producer (The Avengers).
- Toni Frissell, 81, American photographer, Alzheimer's disease.[36]
- Paul L. Freeman Jr., 80, American general in the U.S. Army, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Army Europe.[37]
- Anthony Gaggi, 62, American mobster in the Gambino crime family, heart attack.[38]
- Władysław Lemiszko, 76, Polish international ice hockey player and Olympian.
- Patrick Mphephu, 63–64, South African politician, President of Venda.[39]
- Louise Nevelson, 88, Ukrainian-American sculptor.[40]
- Eva Novak, 90, American film actress, pneumonia.[41]
- Otto Pächt, 85, Austrian art historian.
- Carlos Sotomayor, 76–77, Chilean painter, heart attack.
- Ormond Wilson, 80, New Zealand politician, Member of Parliament, stroke.
- Isaak Yaglom, 67, Soviet mathematician and author.
18[edit]
- Stanton Delaplane, 80, American travel writer (San Francisco Chronicle), introduced Irish coffee to the United States, Pulitzer Prize winner.[42]
- Pierre Desproges, 48, French humorist, lung cancer.[43]
- Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, 73, Turkish writer and playwright.
- Lawrence E. Imhoff, 92, American soldier and lawyer, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
- Antonín Puč, 80, Czechoslovakian international footballer.
- Bess Bolden Walcott, 101, American educator, librarian, museum curator and activist.
19[edit]
- Margaret A. Edwards, 85, American librarian (Enoch Pratt Free Library, American Library Association).
- Kwon Ki-ok, 87, first Korean female aviator.
- Claude Lister, 76, British tennis player and coach.
- Piotr Nazarov, 66, Soviet painter and art teacher.
20[edit]
- Héctor Félix Miranda, 46, Mexican journalist, columnist of the Zeta magazine, assassinated.[44]
21[edit]
- Andrzej Czabański, 28, Polish murderer, last person executed in Poland.
- I. A. L. Diamond, 67, Romanian-born American screenwriter (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment), multiple myeloma.[45]
- Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia, 90, Russian-French woman, child of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia.
- Buddy Humphrey, 52, American NFL footballer, brain tumour.[46]
- Paul Steinitz, 78, English organist.
22[edit]
- Kenneth Haworth, 85, English Dean of Salisbury.
- Peter Helck, 94, American illustrator.
- Melvin Price, 83, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.[47]
- Irene Rich, 96, American film and radio actress, heart failure.[48]
- Tchicaya U Tam'si, 56, Congolese author.
23[edit]
- Axel Grönberg, 69, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.
- Karl Leonhard, 84, German psychiatrist.
- Eitaro Ozawa, 79, Japanese film and stage actor and director.
- Michael Ramsey, 83, British Church of England bishop, Archbishop of Canterbury.[49]
24[edit]
- Gioacchino Colombo, 85, Italian automobile engine designer (Ferrari Colombo engine).
- Mikhail Trufanov, 66, Soviet painter.
25[edit]
- René Cardona, 82, Mexican director and actor, (Allá en el Rancho Grande, Santa Claus).
- Lygia Clark, 67, Brazilian artist, co-founded the Neo-Concrete movement, heart attack.[50]
- Carolyn Franklin, 43, American singer-songwriter, sister of Aretha Franklin (Ain't No Way), breast cancer.[51]
- George Henson, 76, English footballer.
- Ken Jones, 60, British conductor and composer of film and television music.
- Ferenc Pataki, 70, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic gold medalist.
- Edward Chester Plow, 83, Canadian soldier, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, lung cancer.
- Lanny Ross, 82, American singer, pianist and songwriter.[52]
- Clifford D. Simak, 83, American science fiction writer.
- Valerie Solanas, 52, American author and feminist, attempted to murder Andy Warhol, pneumonia.[53]
26[edit]
- Guy Boyd, 64, Australian potter and sculptor, coronary atherosclerosis.[54]
- William Fox-Pitt, 92, English general in the British Army.[55]
- Guillermo Haro, 75, Mexican astronomer.
- Frederick D. Patterson, 86, American academic administrator.
- M. V. P. Peiris, 89, Sri Lankan orthopaedic surgeon and politician.
- Bennett Stewart, 75, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
27[edit]
- Fred Bear, 86, American bow hunter and manufacturer, co-founder of Bear Archery, heart attack.[56]
- Christina Bellin, 48, Italian-born American model, brain tumour.[57]
- Helene Thomas Bennett, 86, American bacteriologist and businesswoman.
- Valery Legasov, 51, Soviet chemist, chief of Chernobyl disaster investigation commission, suicide by hanging.[58]
- David Scarboro, 20, English actor.
- Arnie Shockley, 84, American NFL footballer.
- Tommy Thomas, 88, American Major League baseballer.
28[edit]
- Fenner Brockway, 99, British socialist politician and anti-war activist, member of the House of Lords.[59]
- Michael Grumley, 45, American writer and artist.[60]
- William Potter Gale, 71, American political activist and white supremacist.[61]
- Hagop Hagopian, 36–37, leader of Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, assassinated.
- Broadus Mitchell, 95, American historian, writer and professor.[62]
- B. W. Stevenson, 38, American country pop singer and musician, staph infection after heart surgery.
29[edit]
- Brish Bhan, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Patiala and East Punjab States Union.
- Andrew Cruickshank, 80, Scottish actor (Dr. Finlay's Casebook).[63]
- Irving Kolodin, 80, American music critic and historian.[64]
- James McCracken, 61, American operatic tenor.
- Martin Wyldeck, 74, English actor.
- Bill Zock, 70, Canadian football player.
30[edit]
- Tiger Joe Tomasso, 65–66, Canadian professional wrestler.
Unknown date[edit]
- T. Glynne Davies, 62, Welsh poet, novelist and television and radio broadcaster.
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