• Source: Deaths in August 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.




August 1987






= 1

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Benson Fong, 70, American actor, stroke.
Howdy Forrester, 65, American bluegrass fiddler.
S. Marshall Kempner, 88, American investment banker, founder of the French Bank of California, heart failure.
Pola Negri, 90, Polish-American actress and singer, pneumonia and brain tumour.




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Mohammad Choucair, 70, Lebanese politician, assassinated.
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, 66, President of Bangladesh, chairman of U.N. Commission on Human Rights, heart attack.
Tom Doerr, 39–40, American gay activist.
Jaime Ferrer, 70, Filipino lawyer, guerrilla and politician, Secretary of Local Government, assassinated.
Clement Howell, 51, Turks and Caicos politician, presumed airplane crash.
David N. Johnson, 65, American organist and composer.
David A. Martin, 50, American founding member and bass player for Sam the Sham, heart attack.
Mangkunegara VIII, 62, Indonesian politician, last ruler of Mangkunegaran, Java.
Myron Stout, 78–79, American abstract painter, lung cancer.
Yves Volel, 52–53, Haitian lawyer, activist and presidential candidate, assassinated.




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Garrick Agnew, 56, Australian swimmer, businessman and dual Olympian, heart attack.
Edward Cowart, 62, American circuit judge, heart attack.
Joseph Desch, 80, American electrical engineer and inventor.
Dorothy Hammerstein, 88, Australian-born American interior designer and decorator, wife of Oscar Hammerstein II.
William S. Moorhead, 64, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.
Ivan Mykolaichuk, 46, Ukrainian actor and screenwriter (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors).
Ivan Svanidze, 59, German-born Soviet academic specialising in agriculture and African Studies.




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Dick Farney, 65, Brazilian jazz pianist, composer and singer.
Kenny Price, 56, American country music singer, songwriter and actor, heart attack.
Jesse M. Unruh, 64, American politician, minority leader and speaker of the California State Assembly, prostate cancer.
John W. Wydler, 63, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.




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Anatoli Papanov, 64, Soviet actor, heart attack.
Salvador Flores Rivera, 67, Mexican composer and singer.
Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, 59, Japanese novelist and translator of French literature, carotid aneurysm.




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Abbas Babaei, 36, Iranian pilot, brigadier-general in Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, shot down.
Sherwood Bailey, 64, American child actor, cancer.
Paula Bauersmith, 78, American actress, cancer.
Ira C. Eaker, 91, U.S. Army Air Forces general during World War II.
Lena Küchler-Silberman, 77, Polish member of the Jewish resistance.
Myles Lane, 83, American NHL ice hockey player (New York Rangers) and Supreme Court justice, Alzheimer's disease.
Léon Noël, 99, French diplomat and politician, ambassador to Poland.




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Mihailo Apostolski, 80, Macedonian general and politician.
Jeanne Boitel, 83, French film actress, member of French Resistance.
Camille Chamoun, 87, Lebanese politician, President of Lebanon, heart attack.
Andrew D. Holt, 82, American educator, president of the University of Tennessee.
Nobusuke Kishi, 90, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan, heart complications.
Jaap van Praag, 77, Dutch football administrator, chairman AFC Ajax, traffic accident.




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Danilo Blanuša, 83, Yugoslavian mathematician, physicist and engineer, professor at the University of Zagreb.
Julián Gorkin, 86, Spanish revolutionary socialist, leader of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification.
Laurence Hyde, 73, English-born Canadian film maker, painter and graphic artist.
Nirmal Mahto, 36, Indian political activist, leader of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, murdered.
Trevor O'Keeffe, 18–19, Irish man murdered while hitchhiking in France.
Irwin Schiff, 50, American businessman and mob associate, murdered.




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Rudolf Broby-Johansen, 86, Danish art historian, communist activist and writer.
Leon Keyserling, 79, American economist and lawyer, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
August Miete, 78, Nazi German SS member and mass murderer, sentenced to life imprisonment.
Henry Morgan, 80, Irish first-class cricketer.




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Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, 94, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece, heart failure.
Casey Donovan, (John Culver), 43, American pornographic actor, AIDS.
Edmund Germer, 85, German inventor, father of the fluorescent lamp.
Uys Krige, 77, South African writer of novels, poems and plays.
Patrick O'Boyle, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Washington.
Prince Yamashina Takehiko, 89, Japanese head of the Yamashina-no-miya.
Raquel Torres, 78, Mexican-born American film actress, heart attack.




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Eugene Bordinat, 67, American automobile designer and corporate executive (Ford Motor Company).
Živko Čingo, 51, Yugoslavian writer.
F. Herrick Herrick, 85, American film director.
Walter Herrmann, 76, German nuclear physicist and mechanical engineer.
Clara Peller, 85, Russian-born American manicurist and television personality, heart failure.
Alexander Ziegler, 43, Swiss author and actor, suicide.




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Crystal Bennett, 68, British archaeologist, founded the British Institute in Amman, liver disease.
Lester Gaba, 80, American sculptor and writer, colon cancer.
Dmitri Klebanov, 69, Ukrainian composer.
Sally Long, 85, American dancer and actress.
Fatime Sokoli, 39, Albanian folk music singer.




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Thomas B. Manuel, 88, American community leader and politician, heart attack.




= 14

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Sydney Bromley, 78, English actor, cancer.
Bernard Fagg, 71, British archaeologist and museum curator.
Mary-Louise Hooper, 80, American heiress and activist in the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements.
Narayana Kasturi, 89, Indian writer, professor and journalist.
Brewster Mason, 64, English actor, injuries from a fall.
Vincent Persichetti, 72, American composer and pianist.
Edgar Rosenberg, 61, German-born British film and television producer, suicide.
Shigeo Sasaki, 74, Japanese mathematician (Sasakian manifolds).
Wylie Sypher, 81, American non-fiction writer.




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Konstantin Aleksandrov, 67, Soviet sailor and Olympian.
Hanna Greally, 63, Irish writer, incarcerated against her will in psychiatric hospital for 18 years.
Ubaldo Ragona, 70, Italian film director and screenwriter.
Dan Sandifer, 60, American NFL player (Washington Redskins), heart disease.
Robert Leonard Ewing Scott, 90, American convicted murderer.
Louis Scutenaire, 82, Belgian French-language poet and anarchist.
K. K. Shetty, 86, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.




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Pepe Cáceres, 52, Colombian bullfighter, complications from a goring.
Dorothy Hughes, 77, English-born Kenyan architect and politician.
Sumiko Kurishima, 85, Japanese actress, master of traditional Japanese dance.
Samuel Lubell, 75, American public opinion pollster and author, stroke.
Edwin Barnard Martin, 68, Canadian member of the British Free Corps in Nazi Germany.
Andrei Mironov, 46, Soviet actor, complications from mis-administered drug.
Peter Schidlof, 65, Austrian-born British violist, co-founder of the Amadeus Quartet.
Nick Vanos, 24, American NBA basketballer (Phoenix Suns), plane crash.
Charles H. Wesley, 95, American historian, minister and author.




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Leon Berkowitz, 75, American artist, cancer.
Frank Beswick, 75, British politician, deputy leader of the House of Lords.
Clarence Brown, 97, American film director (Anna Karenina, National Velvet), kidney failure.
Gary Chester, 62, American studio drummer and author.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, 84, Brazilian poet and writer, heart attack.
Rudolf Hess, 93, German Nazi official, Deputy Führer, ostensibly suicide by hanging.
Harold McCluskey, 75, American chemical operations technician and radiation survivor, coronary artery disease.
Shaike Ophir, 58, Israeli actor, playwright and director (The Policeman), lung cancer.
Antti Rantamaa, 52, Finnish priest, member of Finnish Parliament.
Tjilik Riwut, 69, Indonesian Air Force officer, governor of Central Kalimantan, hepatitis.
Heinz Schubert, 73, Nazi German SS officer and war criminal.
Tillit Sidney Teddlie, 102, American singing teacher, composer and minister.




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Keerthisena Abeywickrama, 53, Sri Lankan politician, member of parliament, grenade attack.
Shichirō Fukazawa, 73, Japanese author.
Ralph Haver, 71–72, American architect (Haver Homes), pulmonary disease.
Dambudzo Marechera, 35, Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and poet, pulmonary disorder.




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Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 58, British nobleman and peer, heart attack.
Laxmi Narayan Mishra, 83, Indian Hindi play writer.
Sachin Nag, 67, Indian swimmer and water polo player, Olympian.
Hayden Rorke, 76, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie), multiple myeloma.
Paul Schlack, 89, German chemist.
Harold Sherman, 89, American writer and "parapsychologist".
Yidnekatchew Tessema, 65, Ethiopian international footballer (Saint George, Ethiopia).




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Winifred Bryson, 94, American stage and silent-screen actress (A Heart to Let).
José Bueno y Monreal, 82, Spanish cardinal, Roman Catholic archbishop of Seville.




= 21

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Frances Mary Albrier, 88, American civil rights activist.
Bombolo, (Franco Lechner), 56, Italian actor and comedian, complications from surgery.
Dorothy Adlington Cadbury, 94, English botanist and director of confectionery company Cadbury.
Steve Davis, 58, American jazz bassist (John Coltrane Quartet).
Li Fang-Kuei, 85, Chinese linguist.
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, 78, Italian composer of film scores.
Glesca Marshall, 80, American actress.
Irving Thalberg Jr., 56, American author, son of Norma Shearer, cancer.




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Arne Brustad, 75, Norwegian international footballer (Lyn Fotball, Norway) and Olympic medalist.
Leonard Caston, 70, American blues pianist and guitarist, heart disease.
Mary Dobkin, 84, Russian-born American amateur sports coach, stroke.
Joseph P. Lash, 77, American political activist, journalist and writer (Pulitzer Prize winner), heart ailment.
Ted Sherdeman, 78, American radio producer and screenwriter (My Favorite Martian, The Flying Nun, Bewitched).
John Milton Bryan Simpson, 84, American circuit judge.




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Griselda Allan, 81, English artist.
Siegfried Borris, 80, German composer.
Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., 84, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cardiac arrest.
Sheila van Damm, 65, British motor rally driver, owner of Windmill Theatre in London.
Malcolm Kirk, 51, English professional wrestler and rugby league player (Featherstone Rovers), died in the ring.
Paulo Navalho, 20, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer, heart attack during a game.
Didier Pironi, 35, French racing driver and power boat racer, powerboat racing accident.
Stéphanos I Sidarouss, 83, Egyptian priest of the Coptic Catholic Church.




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Michèle Alfa, 76, French actress, hider of French Resistance leaders.
Douglas Byng, 94, English comic singer and songwriter.
Carlos Cossio, 84, Argentinian university reformer, lawyer and professor.
Wayne Hansen, 58, American NFL footballer (Chicago Bears), bone cancer.
W. W. Keeler, 79, American engineer and oilman, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Bayard Rustin, 75, American civil and gay rights activist, perforated appendix.




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Héctor Abad Gómez, 66, Colombian doctor, university professor and human rights leader, murdered.
Otto Höfler, 86, Austrian philologist specialising in Germanic studies.
Sam Kahn, 75, South African politician, member of parliament.
John Ortell Kingston, 68, American Trustee of the Davis County Cooperative Society, Utah.
Victor Stafford Reid, 74, Jamaican writer.
Fernando Ramos da Silva, 19, Brazilian actor (Pixote), police shootout.




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Vern Gardner, 62, American basketballer, stroke.
John Goddard, 68, Barbadian cricketer, captain of West Indies Test team.
Marcelo Ramos Motta, 56, Brazilian writer, heart attack.
Alberto Socarras, 78, Cuban-American flautist.
Georg Wittig, 90, German chemist (Wittig reaction), Nobel laureate in Chemistry.




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Ben Branch, 59, American entrepreneur, jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader.
Joan Haythorne, 72, British actress.
Scott La Rock, 25, American hip-hop disc jockey and music producer, murdered.
Peter Mehringer, 77, American freestyle wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.
Charlie Smalls, 43, American composer and songwriter, burst appendix.




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Lillian Chase, 93, Canadian physician, researcher in the treatment of diabetes.
John Huston, 81, American film director and actor (The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen, Moulin Rouge), pneumonia.
Hoàng Cơ Minh, 52, Vietnamese Navy commodore-admiral, leader of anti-communist resistance.
Harold Samuel, 75, British founder of Land Securities.
Jack Young, 62, Australian motorcycle speedway rider, Speedway World Champion.




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Naji al-Ali, 48–49, Palestinian cartoonist, assassinated.
Archie Campbell, 72, American comedian and writer, heart attack.
Bernadene Hayes, 75, American film and television actress (Some Like It Hot, Dick Tracy's Dilemma), heart problems.
Lee Marvin, 63, American film and television actor (The Dirty Dozen, The Big Heat), heart attack.
John R. Napier, 70, British primatologist, paleoanthropologist and physician.
Jean Schlumberger, 80, French jewellery designer.
Phillip Hagar Smith, 82, American electrical engineer (Smith chart).




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Wade H. McCree, 67, American judge, Solicitor General of the United States, bone cancer.
George Mikes, 75, Hungarian-born British journalist and writer, leukemia.
Vic Silayan, 58, Filipino actor (Kisapmata, Of the Flesh), heart attack.
John C. Sjogren, 71, American soldier in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient, cancer.
Frank Stojack, 75, Canadian-born NFL footballer (Brooklyn Dodgers), wrestler (world champion), Alzheimer's disease.
Dick Young, 69, American sportswriter (New York Daily News).




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Thomas Agro, 55, American gangster with the Gambino crime family.
Lenore Lonergan, 59, American stage and film actress, cancer.




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