- Source: Deaths in May 1988
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.
= 1
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Joseph F. Ambrose, 91, American World War I veteran
Claude Demetrius, 71, American songwriter ("Hard Headed Woman").
Ben Lexcen, 52, Australian yachtsman and marine architect, designed winged keel which won America's Cup, heart attack.
Tom Pappas, 46, American aide to US Representative Roy Dyson, suicide after allegations of homosexuality with Dyson.
Paolo Stoppa, 81, Italian actor, leukemia.
Yan Wenliang, 94, Chinese painter.
= 2
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John Weir Foote, 83, Canadian military chaplain and politician (Legislative Assembly of Ontario).
Pavel Kadochnikov, 72, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter.
Henry Picker, 76, German lawyer and author, published transcripts of Adolf Hitler's informal talks (Table Talk).
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Jackson Miles Abbott, 68, American officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, environmentalist, cancer.
Carl Erhardt, 91, English international ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
Julia Butler Hansen, 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
Lim Keng Peng, 35, Singaporean murderer, killed in police ambush.
Boy Louw, 82, South African rugby union player (Western Province, South Africa).
Premendra Mitra, 83, Indian poet, writer and film director.
Lev Pontryagin, 79, Soviet mathematician (Pontryagin duality, Pontryagin cohomology operation).
Abraham Seidenberg, 71, American mathematician (Tarski–Seidenberg theorem).
Bill Speidel, 76, American newspaper columnist (The Seattle Times).
Paul Vario, 73, American mobster from the Lucchese crime family, respiratory arrest.
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Ed Bakey, 62, American film and television actor.
Stanley William Hayter, 86, English painter (Atelier 17 studio), cardiac arrest.
Carl Jensen, 67, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate and House of Representatives, cancer.
Jan Mazurkiewicz, 91, Polish army general and politician.
Oleg Zhakov, 83, Soviet film actor.
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Billo Frómeta, 72, Dominican orchestra conductor and composer, stroke.
D.D. Kashyap, 77–78, Indian film director.
Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, 90, American writer The Making of a Southerner.
Hamid Mirza, 70, Iranian heir presumptive of former ruling dynasty of Iran, son of last Qajar Crown Prince of Iran.
George Rose, 68, English actor and singer (My Fair Lady, The Mystery of Edwin Drood), murdered.
Michael Shaara, 59, American author (The Killer Angels), heart attack.
R. J. Unstead, 72, British historian and author, heart failure.
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Richard Caliguiri, 56, American politician, mayor of Pittsburgh, amyloidosis.
Costantino Nivola, 76, Italian-born American sculptor, heart attack.
Hans Popper, 84, Austrian-born American pathologist and hepatologist, pancreatic cancer.
= 7
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Nara Nath Acharya, 82, Nepalese Pandit and writer (biography of Bhanubhakta Acharya).
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Robert A. Heinlein, 80, American science fiction author (Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress), emphysema and heart failure.
Nappy Lamare, 82, American jazz banjoist, guitarist and vocalist.
Domingo Ortega, 82, Spanish matador.
Charles Pollock, 85, American abstract painter, brother of artist Jackson Pollock, stroke.
Ruby M. Rouss, 66, American member of the US Army Women's Army Corps and politician, president of the Virgin Islands Legislature, diabetes.
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Willie Moir, 66, Scottish international footballer (Bolton Wanderers).
= 10
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Ciarán Bourke, 53, Irish musician (The Dubliners).
Hugh Laing, 76, Barbados-born American ballet dancer, cancer.
Richard B. Ogilvie, 65, American attorney and law enforcement officer, Governor of Illinois, heart attack.
John Sterling Rockefeller, 83, American philanthropist, conservationist, and amateur ornithologist.
Shen Congwen, 85, Chinese writer, heart attack.
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Isabella Gordon, 86, Scottish marine biologist (crabs, sea spiders).
George Gordon-Lennox, 79, British army general in World War II.
Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann, 83, German ethnologist.
Kim Philby, 76, British intelligence officer and spy (Cambridge Five), heart failure.
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Paul Osborn, 86, American playwright and screenwriter (On Borrowed Time, Morning's at Seven).
Chick Parsons, 86, American diplomat and decorated World War II veteran.
= 13
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Chet Baker, 58, American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (It Could Happen to You), fall from building.
Paul Genge, 74, American actor (Bullitt).
Sergey Gorshkov, 78, Soviet Admiral of the Fleet.
Friedrich Guggenberger, 73, Nazi German admiral and U-boat commander.
Caecilia Loots, 84, Dutch resistance member known for saving Jewish children during World War II.
Nikolay Makarov, 73, Soviet firearms designer (Makarov pistol).
Irene Manton, 84, British botanist (ferns and algae), Professor of Botany at the University of Leeds.
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 83, Welsh soldier and landowner.
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Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 73, German-born curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Fred Atkins, 77–78, New Zealand-born Canadian professional wrestler (Maple Leaf Wrestling).
Willem Drees, 101, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
Ernesto Giménez Caballero, 88, Spanish writer, diplomat and pioneer of Fascism, founder of La Gaceta Literaria.
Wayne Jarratt, 31, Australian actor (Prisoner), brain tumour.
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Andrew Duggan, 64, American actor (Seven Days in May), throat cancer.
Fulvia Franco, 56, Italian actress and model (Miss Italia).
Greta Nissen, 82, Norwegian-American film and stage actress, Parkinson's disease.
Sol Polk, 71, American businessman, co-founder of Polk Brothers.
Thomas E. Stephens, 84, Irish-American politician.
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Kay Baxter, 42, American bodybuilder, car crash.
Chan Htoon, 82, Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma.
Charles Keeping, 63, English illustrator (The Highwayman) and children's book author, brain tumour.
Jules Levin, 66, American politician.
Anatoli Maslyonkin, 57, Soviet international footballer (Spartak Moscow, USSR) and Olympic gold medalist.
Peter J. Ortiz, 74, United States Marine Corps colonel, cancer.
Bruce Watson, 78, Scottish organic chemist and politician, leader of the Scottish National Party.
= 17
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Frank Gallop, 87, American radio and television personality.
Guy Glover, 77, Canadian producer (National Film Board of Canada).
= 18
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Daws Butler, 71, American voice actor (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss), heart attack.
Anthony Forwood, 72, English actor (Knights of the Round Table), liver cancer and Parkinson's disease.
Christopher Gore, 43, American screenwriter and playwright (Fame), AIDS.
Daniel Lewis James, 77, American writer (Famous All Over Town), heart attack.
Brandon Rhys-Williams, 60, British politician, Member of Parliament, pneumonia.
Michiko Tanaka, 78, Japanese singer and actress.
Enzo Tortora, 59, Italian television presenter and politician, member of European Parliament, cancer.
= 19
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Kurt-Caesar Hoffmann, 92 Nazi German navy vice admiral (Scharnhorst).
Lloyd Vaughan, 79, American animator (Warner Bros.).
= 20
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Ana Aslan, 91, Romanian biologist and physician, specialist in gerontology.
Dick Jacobs, 70, American musician, arranger and orchestrator.
Anthony C. Perera, 66, Sri Lankan actor.
Marion G. Romney, 90, American Mormon leader.
Victorio Unamuno, 78, Spanish footballer (Real Betis).
= 21
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Harry Babasin, 67, American jazz bassist, emphysema.
Richard J. Daronco, 56, American lawyer and judge, assassinated.
Sammy Davis Sr., 87, American dancer (Will Mastin Trio), father of Sammy Davis Jr.
John D. Fitzgerald, 82, American author (The Great Brain).
Bruno Frei, 90, Austrian political writer and journalist.
Dino Grandi, 92, Italian Fascist politician, ambassador to the U.K.
Barbara Laage, 67, French film actress.
Pino Romualdi, 74, Italian right-wing politician, Member of the European Parliament, cancer.
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Giorgio Almirante, 73, Italian politician, founder and leader of neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, stroke.
Lionel Edirisinghe, 75, Sri Lankan musicologist, principal at the University of the Visual and Performing Arts.
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Aya Kitō, 25, Japanese diarist, spinocerebellar ataxia.
David Schoenbrun, 73, American broadcast journalist (CBS), heart attack.
Roberto Succo, 26, Italian serial killer, suicide.
Tony Viramontes, 31, American artist, AIDS.
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Tom Adair, 74, American songwriter and composer ("Let's Get Away from It All", "There's No You").
Freddie Frith, 79, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion.
Jamie Hamilton, 87, British rower and Olympic medalist, publisher (Hamish Hamilton).
Ernest Labrousse, 93, French historian.
Aleksei Losev, 94, Soviet philosopher.
Leo Schamroth, 63, South African cardiologist.
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Monte Kay, 63, American record producer, heart failure.
Ruth Malcomson, 82, Miss America 1924.
Leon Shimkin, 81, American businessman (Simon & Schuster).
Martin Slavin, 66, British composer for movies and television (Information Received, The Cool Mikado), road accident.
Karl August Wittfogel, 91, German-American playwright and historian, pneumonia.
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Antonio Bardellino, 43, Italian mobster, boss of the Casalesi clan, assumed murdered.
Juan Orol, 90, Spanish-born Mexican actor and director (Gangsters Versus Cowboys, Sandra, la mujer de fuego), liver disease.
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Bill Bollinger, 48, American sculptor.
John DiGilio, 55, American mobster with the Genovese crime family, murdered.
Florida Friebus, 78, American writer and actress (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Bob Newhart Show).
Hjördis Petterson, 79, Swedish actress.
Ernst Ruska, 81, German physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics (electron optics).
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Felix Morrow, 81, American communist political activist and newspaper editor.
Sy Oliver, 77, American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader.
Evelyn Page, 89, New Zealand artist.
Norman Skelhorn, 78, English barrister, Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales.
Alfredo Volpi, 92, Brazilian painter.
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Charla Doherty, 41, American actress (Days of Our Lives).
Sheridan Dufferin, 49, British patron of the arts, AIDS.
Henry Johansen, 83, Norwegian international footballer and Olympic medalist (Vålerenga, Norway).
Salem bin Laden, 42, Saudi Arabian investor and businessman, half brother of Osama bin Laden, plane crash.
Vladimír Menšík, 59, Czechoslovakian actor and entertainer, asthma.
Siaka Stevens, 82, Sierra Leone politician, Prime Minister and President of Sierra Leone.
Elaine Black Yoneda, 81, American labour and civil rights activist, member of Communist Party, heart attack.
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Ella Raines, 67, American actress (Phantom Lady, Brute Force), throat cancer.
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June Buchanan, 100, American founder of Alice Lloyd College.
Dwarka Prasad Mishra, 86, Indian politician, writer and journalist, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
Tursun Uljabayev, 72, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan.
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Rosa Collazo, 83–84, Puerto Rican political activist (Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico), plotted to kill U.S. president Harry Truman.
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