Famous Deaths for Year 1987

Months in Year 1987: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 337

Jan 1st - Gustav Knuth, actor (Heidi, Rats), dies at 85
Jan 4th - F van Heek, Dutch sociologist, dies at 79
Jan 4th - Jack Martin, cricketer (Eng pace bowler, 1-111 & 0-18 in Test), dies
Jan 4th - Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at 91
Jan 5th - Margaret Laurence, Canadian author, dies at 60
Jan 5th - Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-born Canadian cross-country skier (b. 1875)
Jan 7th - Larry Carr, pianist (Flight to Rhythm), dies at 72
Jan 8th - P G Joshi, cricketer (12 Tests for India 1951-60, ct 18 stp 9), dies
Jan 8th - Peter Adams, actor (Alternative, Blowing Hot & Cold), dies at 69
Jan 9th - Arthur Lake, actor (Dagwood-Blondie), dies at 81
Jan 9th - Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919)
Jan 10th - Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (b. 1919)
Jan 10th - Sir David Robinson, English philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904)
Jan 11th - Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist (b. 1911)
Jan 13th - E van Ruller, Dutch journalist/co-founder (Trouw, Loyal), dies
Jan 14th - Douglas Sirk, director (Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje), dies at 86
Jan 15th - Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58
Jan 15th - Gerrit Borgers, Dutch literary, dies at 69
Jan 15th - Ray Bolger, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), dies at 83
Jan 16th - Earl Wilson, Bdwy columnist (Midnight Earl), dies in Yonkers at 79
Jan 16th - Ilse Langen, writer, dies at 87
Jan 16th - Joyce Jameson, comedienne (Spike Jones Show), dies at 54
Jan 16th - Bertram Wainer, Australian pro-abortion campaigner (b. 1928)
Jan 17th - Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (b. 1908)
Jan 19th - Gerald Brenan, English writer, dies at 92
Jan 20th - Tom Dollery, cricketer (4 Tests for Eng 1947-50), dies
Jan 21st - Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer (7th Day), dies at 83
Jan 21st - Charles Goodell, American politician (b. 1926)
Jan 22nd - R Budd Dwyer, Penns State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy & perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference
Jan 25th - Emil Hlobil, composer, dies at 85
Jan 29th - Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski, composer, dies at 73
Jan 30th - Angelo Rutherford, actor (Willie-Gentle Ben), dies at 32
Jan 30th - Ken Drake, actor (Crime & Punishment USA), dies
Jan 31st - Yves Allégret, French film director (b. 1907)
Feb 1st - Erin Westmore, makeup artist (Hollywood Backstage), dies at 82
Feb 1st - Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director (b. 1900)
Feb 2nd - Alfred Lion, record founder (Blue Note), dies at 78
Feb 2nd - Patrick "Spike" Hughes, Brit jazz musician (Cinderella), dies at 78
Feb 2nd - Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927)
Feb 2nd - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (b. 1922)
Pianist Liberace (Feb 4th) Feb 4th - Liberace, pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman), dies at 67
Feb 4th - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (b. 1902)
Feb 8th - Bronislawa Wajs [Papuscha], writer, dies
Feb 8th - Harriet MacGibbon, American actress, dies of a pulmonary & cardiac failure at 81
Feb 8th - Hendrik Koekoek, founder (Dutch Boer party), dies at 74
Feb 10th - Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
Feb 11th - Sadequain, famous Pakistani painter and artist. (b. 1930)
Feb 12th - Lang Jeffries, Canadian actor (Skip-Rescue 8), dies at 55
Feb 13th - M L "Curly" Page, cricketer (NZ Test capt 1933), dies
Feb 14th - Bola Sete, guitarist, dies at 63
Feb 14th - Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, composer, dies at 82
Feb 14th - Karolos Koun, Greek theater director (b. 1908)
Feb 15th - Jimmy Holiday, US singer (Baby I Love You), dies at 42
Feb 15th - Osmo Uolevi Lindeman, composer, dies at 57
Feb 16th - Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, composer, dies at 82
Feb 17th - Hal K Dawson, actor (Another Language, Wells Fargo), dies
Feb 17th - Verree Teasdale, actress (Skyscraper Souls), dies
Feb 20th - Ivan Brkanovic, composer, dies at 80
Pop Artist Andy Warhol (Feb 22nd) Feb 22nd - Andy Warhol, pop artist, dies of a heart attack at 58
Feb 22nd - David Susskind, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), dies at 66
Feb 22nd - Glenway Wescott, US writer (Apartment in Athens), dies at 85
Feb 23rd - Esmond Knight, actor (Black Narcissus, Henry V), dies at 80
Feb 24th - Jim Connors, Legendary Radio personality (b. 1940)
Feb 25th - James Coco, actor (Joe-Dumplings), dies at 58
Feb 27th - Joan Greenwood, English actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister), dies at 65
Feb 28th - Anny Ondra, actress (Blackmail), dies at 83
Feb 28th - Nora Kaye, US ballet dancer, dies at 67
Mar 2nd - Randolph Scott, actor (Fort Worth, Gung Ho, Jesse James), dies at 89
Mar 3rd - Danny Kaye, comedian (Danny Kaye Show), dies at 74
Mar 11th - [Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74
Mar 13th - Bernhard Grzimek, West German zoologist, dies at 77
Mar 13th - Finn Videro, composer, dies at 80
Mar 13th - Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87
Mar 15th - Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY), dies at 82
Mar 16th - Scott McKay, actor (Guest in House, 30 Seconds over Tokyo), dies at 71
Mar 17th - Santo Trafficante, Jr., American gangster (b. 1914)
Mar 18th - Bil Baird, puppeteer (Jack Paar Show), dies at 82
Mar 19th - Arch Oboler, radio writer (Lights Out), dies at 77
Mar 19th - Emile Meyer, actor (Young Jesse James, Lineup), dies
Mar 19th - Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94
Mar 19th - Tony Stratton-Smith, journalist/record co CEO (Charisma), dies at 53
Mar 20th - Norman Harris, guitarist (O'Jays), dies at 39 of heart failure
Mar 21st - Dean Paul Martin, actor (Billy-Misfits of Science), dies at 35
Mar 21st - Robert Preston, actor (Harold Hill-Music Man), dies at 68
Mar 22nd - Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott & Costello Show), dies at 58
Mar 23rd - Dean Paul Martin, musician/tennis pro, killed in plane crash at 29
Mar 25th - Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79), dies at 83
Mar 26th - Walter Abel, actor (Suspicion), dies at 88
Mar 26th - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
Mar 27th - Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90
Mar 28th - Maria Augusta Trapp, singer (Trapp Family Singers), dies at 82
Mar 28th - Patrick Troughton, actor (Dr Who-Dr Who), dies at 56
Jazz Drummer/Band Leader Buddy Rich (Apr 2nd) Apr 2nd - Buddy Rich, drummer/orchestra leader (Away We Go), dies at 69
Apr 3rd - Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
Apr 4th - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, author (Judgment Night), dies at 76
Apr 4th - C.L. Moore, American writer (b. 1911)
Apr 7th - Maxine Sullivan, [Williams], US actress (Going Places), dies at 75
Apr 8th - Francis C Denebrink, US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea) dies at 90
Apr 11th - Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83
Apr 11th - Kent Taylor, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders), dies at 79
Apr 11th - Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67
Apr 12th - Ewan Calague, economist/statistician (Social Security) dies at 90
Apr 12th - Mike Von Erich, American wrestler
Apr 14th - Karl Holler, composer, dies at 79
Apr 17th - Carlton Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer (No woman no cry), dies at 36
Apr 17th - Dick Shawn, comedian (Producers), dies on stage at 57
Apr 17th - Cecil Harmsworth King, owner of Mirror Group Newspapers (b. 1901)
Apr 19th - Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum, Actor (Mr Green Jeans), dies at 77
Apr 19th - Maxwell D Taylor, US commander 101st airborne (WW II), dies at 85
Apr 20th - Antony Tudor, dancer/choreographer (Amer Ballet Theater) dies at 78
Apr 21st - Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77
Apr 26th - John Ernest Silkin, British politician (b. 1923)
Apr 26th - Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan (b. 1922)
Apr 28th - Ben Linder, development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua
Apr 30th - Hugh Dempster, actor (Anna Karenina, Candles at Nine), dies
May 3rd - Dicky Fuller, cricketer (one Test for WI 1935, one run, 0-12), dies
May 3rd - Yolande Christina Dalida, dies at 54
May 4th - Cathryn Damon, actress (Mary Campbell-Soap), dies at 56
May 4th - Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer, dies at 59
May 4th - Paul Butterfield, singer/harmonica player, dies of drug abuse at 44
CIA Director William Casey (May 6th) May 6th - William J Casey, director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73
May 7th - Colin Blakely, dies at 56
May 8th - Pam Ewing, (Victoria Principal) character on Dallas, is killed off
May 8th - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (b. 1920)
May 9th - Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, pres of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 78
May 12th - Victor Feldman, pianist/drummer, dies at 53
May 14th - Rita Hayworth, actress (Gilda), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 68
May 15th - John Baur, museum director, dies at 78
May 15th - Wynne Gibson, actor (Night After Night, Aggie Appleby), dies
May 17th - Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, economist (Nobel 1974), dies at 88
May 18th - Wilbur J Cohen, 1st employee of Social Security System, dies at 73
May 19th - Alice B[radley] Sheldon, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71
May 19th - James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b. 1915)
May 21st - Alejandro Rey, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun), dies at 57
May 22nd - Mario Zafred, composer, dies at 65
May 23rd - Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), dies at 86
May 24th - Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold, actress (Gigi, Music Man), dies at 89
May 27th - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
May 28th - Charles Ludlam, actor (Big Easy), dies at 44
May 29th - Alain Vincx, Belgian stuntman, dies in an accident at 40
May 30th - Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks), dies at 94
May 30th - Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist, dies at 71
May 31st - Dorothy Patrick, actress (Torch Song, New Orleans, High Wall), dies
Jun 1st - Errol W Barrow, PM of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
Jun 1st - Rashid Karami, 10 time premier of Lebanon, dies in bomb attack at 65
Jun 2nd - Andres Segovia, Spanish composer/guitarist, dies at 94
Jun 2nd - Sammy Kaye, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 77
Jun 3rd - Will Sampson, actor (From Here to Eternity, Yellow Rose), dies at 54
Jun 7th - John Blofeld, writer/translator/Zen practitioner, dies at 73
Jun 8th - Yogi Horton, drummer (Luther Vandross), commits suicide at 33