Famous Deaths for December 1987
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◀ 1986 1987 1988 ▶ | ||||||
Months in 1987: January February March April May June July August September October November
Deaths 1 - 29 of 29
1st - Donn Fulton Eisele, Col USAF/astronaut, dies of a heart attack at 57
1st - James Arthur Baldwin, writer (Another Country), dies at 63
1st - Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager (b. 1918)
2nd - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914)
4th - Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 90
5th - "Fat" Larry James, US drummer (Fat Larry's Band-Zoom), dies at 38
6th - James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies
10th - Jascha Heifetz, Russia, violinist, dies at 86
11th - G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (b. 1923)
12th - Louis de Meester, composer, dies at 83
12th - Enrique JorrÃn, Cuban musician and composer (b. 1926)
14th - Paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade), dies
16th - Albert P Morano, (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59), dies at 79
17th - Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87
17th - Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84
17th - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (b. 1903)
18th - Conny Plank, German record producer and musician (b. 1940)
21st - Robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies
21st - John Spence, founding No Doubt member (b. 1969)
22nd - Alice Terry, [Taaffe], actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), dies
22nd - Leonidas Zoras, composer, dies at 82
24th - John M "Joop" de Uyl, Dutch social-dem premier (1973-77), dies at 68
24th - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919)
24th - M. G. Ramachandran, Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu (b. 1917)
27th - Priscilla Dean, actress (Outside the Law), dies of injuries at 91
27th - Rewi Alley, NZ author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing
27th - Geoffrey D Lloyd, Chairman of the guild of British Newspaper editors (b. 1933)
28th - Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81
31st - [Gordon] Randall [P D] Garrett, author (Lord Darcy), dies at 60
