• Source: Deaths in March 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.




March 1987






= 1

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Freddie Green, 75, American swing jazz guitarist, heart attack.
Bertrand de Jouvenel, 83, French philosopher and political economist.
Don MacBeth, 37, Canadian jockey, cancer.
Vern Partlow, 76, American newspaper reporter and folk singer, blacklisted during McCarthy era, cancer.
Wolfgang Seidel, 60, German Formula 1 racing driver, heart attack.




= 2

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Randolph Scott, 89, American film actor (The Last of the Mohicans), heart and lung ailments.
Lolo Soetoro, 52, Indonesian geographer, stepfather of Barack Obama, liver failure.




= 3

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Danny Kaye, 76, American singer, actor, dancer and comedian, internal bleeding and hepatitis.
Cyril Pearl, 82, Australian journalist, author and television personality.
Rafael M. Salas, 58, Filipino head of United Nations Population Fund, heart attack.
Hana Vítová, 73, Czechoslovakian film actress.




= 4

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Georges Arnaud, 69, French author, heart attack.
Maria Jolas, 94, American pacifist, a founding member of Transition in Paris.
Seibo Kitamura, 102, Japanese sculptor.
Eliseo Moreno, 27, American spree killer, executed.




= 5

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James W. Blanchard, 83, American submarine commander and rear admiral, respiratory arrest.
John Brooke, 64, Northern Irish politician, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
Albert Costain, 76, British politician, Member of Parliament.
Abdulgani Dahiwala, 78, Indian Gujarati poet.
Harry Dudkin, 78, American politician and judge, clerk of the New Jersey General Assembly, murdered.
Andrey A. Fedorov, 78, Soviet biologist, botanist and taxonomist.
Joe Purcell, 63, American politician, acting Governor of Arkansas.
Don Yenko, 59, American car dealer and racecar driver, aeroplane crash.




= 6

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Inder Raj Anand, Indian film dialogue and screenwriter.
Mel Boozer, 41, American university professor and LGBT activist, AIDS.
Edward Carson, 67, British politician, Member of Parliament.
Eddie Durham, 80, American jazz guitarist, trombonist and composer, fall.
J. Spencer Trimingham, 82, English scholar on Islam in Africa.
Edward Zorinsky, 58, American politician, U.S. Senator, heart attack.




= 7

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Yuri Chulyukin, 57, Soviet film director, actor and songwriter.
Henri Decaë, 71, French cinematographer.
Evelyn Dove, 85, British singer and actress, pneumonia.
Paul R. Evans, 55, American-born furniture designer, sculptor and artist, heart attack.
Waldo Salt, 72, American screenwriter (Midnight Cowboy, Coming Home), lung cancer.




= 8

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Erwin Jollasse, 95, Nazi German general, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
Iwao Yamawaki, 88, Japanese photographer and architect.




= 9

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Zeke Bonura, 78, American Major League baseballer (Chicago White Sox).
Ronald W. Clark, 70, British author, cerebral hemorrhage.
Donald Jay Grout, 84, American musicologist, author of A Short History of Opera.
Allan Jaffe, 51, American jazz tubist, cancer.
Andrew Kayiira, 42, leader of the Uganda Freedom Movement, murdered.
Yusuf al-Khal, 69, Lebanese-Syrian poet, journalist and publisher.
Richard F. Kneip, 54, American diplomat and politician, governor of South Dakota, U.S. ambassador to Singapore, cancer.
Bobby Locke, 69, South African professional golfer, meningitis.
Fred W. Thompson, 86, Canadian-American labour organizer and historian, member of Industrial Workers of the World.
Arthur Tolcher, 64, British harmonica player.




= 10

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Dwight W. Burney, 95, American politician, Governor of Nebraska.
Robert Colby, 64, American songwriter, music publisher and theatrical producer ("Jilted"), cancer.
George Glamack, 68, American professional basketballer (Rochester Royals).
Jeannette Mirsky, 83, American writer.
Daniel Morgan, 37, British private investigator, victim of unsolved murder.
Johannes Quasten, 86, German Roman Catholic theologian.




= 11

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Joe Gladwin, 81, English actor (Coronation Street, Last of the Summer Wine), bronchial cancer.




= 12

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Woody Hayes, 74, American college football coach (Ohio State), heart attack.
Micheline Kahn, 97, French harpist and pianist.
Richard Levinson, 52, American screenwriter and producer (Columbo), heart attack.
Jack Marks, 92, English performer and screenwriter (Up for the Cup), lung cancer.




= 13

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Edward Peck Curtis, 90, American World War I flying ace, Air Service Major General, pneumonia.
Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi, 77, Indian Muslim scholar and poet.
Bernhard Grzimek, 77, German zoo director, author and animal conservationist, heart attack.
Peter Henrici, 63, Swiss mathematician (numerical analysis).
David Lewis, 83, American Hollywood film producer (Dark Victory), pneumonia.
Gerald Moore, 87, English classical pianist.
Hugh Roberton, 86, Australian politician, Minister for Social Services, Australian Ambassador to Ireland.
Fela Sowande, 81, Nigerian musician and composer.




= 14

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Peter Beter, 65, American attorney and financier.
Tex Fletcher, 77, American singing cowboy, actor and radio & television personality.
Rushdi al-Kikhya, 87–88, Syrian political leader, Speaker of the Parliament of Syria.
Ivor Preece, 66, English international rugby union footballer (Coventry, England).
Ali Muhammad Rashidi, 81, Pakistani journalist, politician and diplomat.
Gerard Steenson, appr. 29, Irish republican paramilitary commander, ambushed and killed.
Ian MacAlister Stewart, 91, Scottish military officer in the British Army.




= 15

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Douglas Abbott, 87, Canadian Member of Parliament, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
W. Sterling Cole, 82, American politician, lawyer, and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, cancer.
Red Dutton, 89, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Montreal Maroons), coach and executive.
Léon Fleuriot, 64, French linguist and Celtic scholar.
Don Gant, 44, American singer, songwriter and record producer, boating accident.




= 16

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Bob Kline, 77, American Major League baseballer (Boston Red Sox).
Vivian Martin, 93, American stage and silent-screen actress.
Scott McKay, 71, American actor, kidney failure.
Juan Gómez Millas, 86, Chilean fascist politician.
Allan Perry-Keene, 88, English officer in the Royal Air Force, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force.
Joseph E. Schaefer, 68, American soldier in the U.S. Army, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
Samuel H. Shapiro, 79, American politician, Governor of Illinois.
Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, 57, Danish architect, designed the Grande Arche.




= 17

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Tom Cothran, 39, American musicologist and composer, AIDS.
Georg Lammers, 81, German sprinter and Olympic medalist.
Antonio Lopez, 44, Puerto Rican fashion illustrator, complication of AIDS.
Ron Saggers, 69, Australian Test cricketer.
Derief Taylor, 76, Jamaican first-class cricketer and coach.
Salvatore Toma, 35, Italian poet, suicide.
Santo Trafficante Jr., 72, American Mafia boss, allied with Sam Giancana.




= 18

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Milorad Arsenijević, 80, Yugoslavian footballer and manager, and Olympian (BSK Beograd, Yugoslavia).
Bil Baird, 82, American puppeteer, pneumonia and cancer.
Claude I. Bakewell, 74, American lawyer, member of U.S. House of Representatives, emphysema.
Lewis Bandt, 77, Australian car designer, designed and built the first utes, car accident.
Elizabeth Poston, 81, English composer, pianist and writer.




= 19

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Punaloor Balan, 60, Indian writer and poet, cancer.
Louis de Broglie, 94, French physicist contributing to quantum theory and Nobel laureate in Physics.
Robert-Jean Longuet, 85, French lawyer, journalist and militant socialist.
Juan Mascaró, 89, Spanish translator.
Ruth Meiers, 61, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota, cancer.
Emile Meyer, 76, American actor.
Arch Oboler, 79, American playwright, novelist and director (Lights Out), heart failure.
Harold Rosenthal, 69, English music critic, writer and opera broadcaster.
Tony Stratton Smith, 53, English rock music manager, founded record label Charisma Records, pancreatic cancer.




= 20

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Warren G. Brown, 66, American rodeo cowboy, prostate cancer.
Licio Giorgieri, 61, Italian air force general, murdered.
Norman Harris, 39, American guitarist and songwriter, cardiovascular disease.
Russell Ohl, 89, American scientist, patented the modern solar cell.
Rita Streich, 66, German opera singer.
Kenneth Threadgill, 77, American country singer and tavern owner, pulmonary embolism.
Harry Windsor, 72, Irish-born Australian cardiac surgeon.




= 21

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Walter L. Gordon, 81, Canadian businessman, politician and writer, President of the Privy Council, heart attack.
Dean Paul Martin, 35, American pop singer and actor, air crash.
Robert Preston, 68, American actor and singer (The Music Man), lung cancer.
Jacob Taubes, 64, Austrian rabbi, philosopher and scholar of Judaism.




= 22

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Louis M. Hacker, 88, American economic historian, professor of economics.
Charlie Jarzombek, 44, American race car driver, racing accident.
Bill McGuffie, 59, British pianist, film composer and conductor, cancer.
Joan Shawlee, 61, American film and television actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Some Like It Hot), breast cancer.




= 23

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Emilio Giuseppe Dossena, 83, Italian painter.
Maurice Dunand, 89, French archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East.
Walter Walford Johnson, 82, American businessman and politician, Governor of Colorado.
Edward Lamb, 85, American businessman, broadcasting executive and labour lawyer.
Reg Lye, 74, Australian actor.
John Mariucci, 70, American ice hockey player, administrator and coach, cancer.
Morton Minsky, 85, American burlesque owner, co-owner of Minsky's Burlesque, cancer.
Tony Pacheco, 59, Cuban-born baseballer and Major League coach (Houston Astros).
Herald F. Stout, 83, American admiral in the U.S. Navy.
Ilse Totzke, 73, German musician, survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.




= 24

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Vicente Calderón, 73, Spanish businessman, president of Atlético Madrid.
Alan Gale, 56, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy) and commentator, heart attack.
Takeru Higuchi, 69, American chemist, invented time-release medication capsule.
Sarah Goddard Power, 51, American political activist, suicide.




= 25

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Carolin Babcock, 74, American tennis player, U.S. Open doubles champion, stroke.
Gusta Fučíková, 83, Czechoslovakian publicist, editor and politician.
Ivan Ivanov-Vano, 87, Soviet animator and screenwriter.
John Kloss, 49, American fashion designer, known for lingerie and sleepwear, suicide.
Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., 83, American diplomat and statesman, Executive Director of UNICEF, cancer.
Moustache, 58, French actor and jazz drummer, car accident.




= 26

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Walter Abel, 88, American actor, heart attack.
Henrieta Delavrancea, 89, Romanian architect.
Ohene Djan, 63, Ghanaian sports administrator and politician, member of the Legislative Assembly.
Robert Gwyn Macfarlane, 79, English hematologist.
Georg Muche, 91, German painter, architect and author.
Eugen Jochum, 84, German conductor.
Mary Odette, 85, French-born British silent-screen actress.
Michael Stancliffe, 70, English Anglican priest, Dean of Winchester.




= 27

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Giuseppe Ambrosoli, 63, Italian Catholic priest, renal failure.
Rudolph Anders, 91, German-born American actor.
William Bowers, 71, American reporter, playwright and screenwriter, respiratory failure.
Tim Lee Carter, 76, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, anaemia.
Erich Clar, 84, Austrian organic chemist.
Olha Franko, 90, Ukrainian writer, creator of the first Ukrainian cookbook.
Luis Chávez y González, 85, El Salvadoran Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of San Salvador.
Lloyd Goodrich, 89, American art historian, cancer.
Stane Kavčič, 67, Prime Minister of Slovenia.
Tonny Koeswoyo, 51, Indonesian rock musician and leader of the group Koes Plus.
Peter Mason, 65, English-born Australian physicist and science communicator.
Hans-Georg von der Osten, 91, German World War I flying ace and Luftwaffe commander during World War II.
Martin Provensen, 70, American illustrator, heart attack.




= 28

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Horace M. Albright, 97, American conservationist, director of the National Park Service.
Alphonse Alley, 56, Beninese military officer, President of Dahomey (Benin).
Oliver K. Kelley, 82, Finnish-born American engineer, developed the automatic transmission.
Lê Văn Kim, 68–69, South Vietnamese army general.
Maria von Trapp, 82, Austrian matriarch of the Trapp family, heart failure.
Patrick Troughton, 67, English actor (Doctor Who), heart attack.




= 29

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Richard Aaron, 85, Welsh philosopher.
Lawrence Anini, appr. 26, Nigerian bandit, executed.
Jakob Nacken, 81, German-born American circus performer.
Akaki Shanidze, 100, Georgian linguist and philologist.
John Wiley, 60, South African cricketer and politician, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, suicide.
Richard Wilson, 66, American science fiction writer.




= 30

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Pyotr Gusev, 82, Russian ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer.
Veniamin Levich, 69, Soviet-born American chemist (Levich equation), cardiac arrest.
Clint Murchison Jr., 63, American businessman, founder of the Dallas Cowboys football team, pneumonia.
Giorgio Pini, 88, Italian politician and journalist.
Dorothy Ward, 96, English actress.
Lynn Townsend White Jr., 79, American historian, heart failure.




= 31

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David Adler, 51, American physicist and MIT professor (Condensed matter physics), heart attack.
Unicorn Chan, 46–47, Hong Kong actor, martial artist and stuntman, car crash.
Ram Panjwani, 75, Indian writer and folk singer.




= Unknown date

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Arthur Holland, 70, English football referee.
Lesley Osmond, 65, British actress.




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