• Source: Deaths in September 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.




September 1987






= 1

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Dennis Coi, 26, Canadian figure skater, AIDS.
Gerhard Fieseler, 91, German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion and aircraft designer and manufacturer.
Philip Friend, 72, British film and television actor (The Highwayman).
Arnaldo Momigliano, 78, Italian historian of classical antiquity.
Alan Reid, 72, Australian political journalist, cancer.
Pinky Whitney, 82, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Phillies).




= 2

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Cam Carreon, 50, American Major League baseballer (Chicago White Sox).
Brian Clay, 52, Australian rugby league footballer (St. George Dragons, Australia), heart disease.
LeGrande A. Diller, American general in the U.S. Army, cancer.
Ken Flower, 73, English-born Rhodesian police officer and intelligence chief, heart attack.
Remzi Aydın Jöntürk, 50, Turkish actor and screenwriter (Yarınsız Adam, Yıkılmayan Adam), traffic accident.
Ramesh Naidu, 55, Indian composer, instrumentalist and singer.
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, 60, Argentine Army division general and politician, de facto President of Argentina.
Stephen B. Small, 40, American businessman, kidnapped and held for ransom, asphyxiation during captivity.




= 3

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Diana Caldwell, 73, English woman, best known for her part in the murder of Lord Erroll.
Carter W. Clarke, 90. American intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, heart attack.
Ned Day, 42, American journalist and newspaper reporter, heart attack.
Morton Feldman, 61, American composer, pancreatic cancer.
Maxwell Fry, 88, English architect and writer.
Doris Gates, 85, American writer of children's fiction (Blue Willow), heart attack.
Merlin Minshall, 80, British naval officer and adventurer.
Aleksandr Nadiradze, 73, Georgian engineer, involved in militarising the Soviet space program.
Viktor Nekrasov, 76, Soviet writer, journalist and editor, cancer.
Lee Theodore, 54, American Broadway theatre director and performer.
Rusty Wescoatt, 76, American supporting actor.




= 4

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Bill Bowes, 79, English test cricketer, player in the Bodyline series, heart attack.
George M. Chinn, 85, American weapons expert and soldier.
Richard Marquand, 49, Welsh film and television director (Return of the Jedi), stroke.




= 5

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Richard D. Adams, 78, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.
Wolfgang Fortner, 79, German composer and conductor.
Scott Irwin, 35, American professional wrestler, brain tumour.
Salvador Lutteroth, 90, Mexican professional wrestling promoter.
Quinn Martin, 65, American television producer (The Fugitive), heart attack.




= 6

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Jack d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 74, British Army general and politician, Member of Parliament.
Arun Kumar Choudhury, 64, Indian head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Calcutta.
William Haley, 86, British newspaper editor and Director-General of the BBC.
Paul Hiebert, 95, Canadian writer and humorist (Sarah Binks).




= 7

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Gordon Gollob, 75, Austrian fighter pilot during World War II, fighter ace.
Harry Locke, 73, English actor.




= 8

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Robert Sharples, 74, British musical conductor, composer and bandleader.
Margaret Mary Smith, 70, South African ichthyologist.




= 9

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Sam Brody, 80, English-founding member of the Workers Film and Photo League, injuries from a fall.
Tom Davis, 76, Irish international footballer (New Brighton, Oldham Athletic, Ireland).
Bill Fraser, 79, Scottish actor (When We Are Married), emphysema.
Gunnar de Frumerie, 79, Swedish composer and pianist.
Gerrit Jan Heijn, 56, Dutch businessman, murdered after abduction.
Vratislav Mazák, 50, Czech biologist specialising in paleoanthropology.
Al Read, 78, British radio comedian, stroke.
Dora Zaslavsky, 83, Russian-born American pianist.




= 10

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Benjamin Howard Baker, 95, English international footballer (Corinthian), high jumper and triple jumper, dual Olympian.




= 11

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Kerstin Bernadotte, 76, Swedish journalist and magazine editor.
Hugh David, 62, British actor and television director (Doctor Who).
Charles Fleming, 71, New Zealand geologist and ornithologist.
Lorne Greene, 72, Canadian actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), pneumonia.
Harry Gale Nye Jr., 79, American entrepreneur and world champion sailor.
Hervey Rhodes, 92, British politician, Member of Parliament.
Sandilyan, 76, Indian writer.
Manikuntala Sen, 75–76, member of the Communist Party of India.
Nareshchandra Singh, 78, Indian ruler of Sarangarh State.
Surendra, 76, Indian singer and actor.
Peter Tosh, 42, Jamaican reggae singer and musician, murdered in home invasion.
Mahadevi Varma, 80, Indian poet and writer.
John Lloyd Waddy, 70, Australian officer in the Royal Australian Air Force and politician (New South Wales).
Frank Wiziarde, 71, American actor and television personality.




= 12

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J. Lawton Collins, 91, American army general, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, cardiac arrest.
William Dickson, 88, British Royal Naval Air Service aviator, Chief of the Defence Staff.
John Qualen, 87, Canadian-born American actor, heart failure.
John J. Voll, 65, American officer in the U.S. Air Force, World War II flying ace.




= 13

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Aníbal Gordon, Argentinian suspected of being a leader of the Triple A death squad, lung cancer.
Mervyn LeRoy, 86, American film director and actor (The Wizard of Oz), heart issues.




= 14

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Julien Kialunda, 37, Congolese international footballer (Anderlecht, Zaire), AIDS.
Erik Lundberg, 80, Swedish economist.
Stormont Mancroft, 73, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
Arthur W. Vanaman, 95, American general in the U.S. Air Corps and Air Force.
Henry Wrigley, 95, Australian Air Vice Marshal in the Royal Australian Air Force.




= 15

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David Akui, 67, American soldier, captured first Japanese prisoner of war in World War II.
Wilhelm Berlin, 98, Nazi German general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.
Leon Hirszman, 49, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (They Don't Wear Black Tie), AIDS.
Harry Holcombe, 80, American actor and radio director (Bonanza).
Moazzam Jah, 79, Indian royal, son of the last Nizam of Hyderabad.
Nilo Menéndez, 84, Cuban-born American songwriter ("Aquellos Ojos Verdes").
George Edward Pendray, 86, American author, founder of the American Interplanetary Society.
Joe Reisman, 62, American musician, bandleader and record producer, heart attack.




= 16

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William Richard Joseph Cook, 82, British mathematician, leader in development of hydrogen bomb, stroke.
Simon Gipps-Kent, 28, English theatre and film actor, morphine poisoning.
Howard Moss, 65, American poet and dramatist, heart attack.
Christopher Soames, 66, British politician, Member of Parliament, Governor of Southern Rhodesia, pancreatitis.




= 17

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K. Jack Bauer, 62, American writer and naval historian, co-founder of North American Society for Oceanic History, heart attack.
Vladimir Basov, 64, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter, stroke.
Francis E. Dorn, 76, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cancer.
George Dwyer, 78, English Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Birmingham.
Musa Gareyev, 65, Soviet Air Force squadron leader, cancer.
Carol Henry, 69, American actor.
Henry Kroeger, 70, Russian-born Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta, lymphoma and pneumonia.
Philip Wayne Powell, 73–74, American historian of the American Southwest and Spanish colonialism, heart attack.
Dieter Schidor, 39, German actor (Cross of Iron, Querelle), AIDS.




= 18

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Golbery do Couto e Silva, 76, Brazilian army general and politician, Chief of Staff of the Presidency.
Frederic Fitch, 79, American logician, professor at Yale University.
Olinka Hrdy, 85, American artist.
Emil Schram, 93, American president of the New York Stock Exchange.
Américo Tomás, 92, Portuguese Navy officer and politician, President of Portugal, infection.




= 19

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Lean Alejandro, 27, Filipino student leader and political activist, assassinated.
Betty Burbridge, 91, American screenwriter and actress.
Einar Gerhardsen, 90, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway.
Nyamyn Jagvaral, 68, Mongolian politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural.
Muhammad Mansuruddin, 83, Bangladeshi author, literary critic and essayist.
Graciela Olivarez, 59, American lawyer, advocate for civil rights and for the poor.
Ralph Steinhauer, 82, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.
Ken Uston, 52, American blackjack player, heart failure.




= 20

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George William Goddard, 98, English-born American general in the U.S. Air Force.
Greville Howard, 78, British politician, Member of Parliament.
K. C. S. Mani, 65, Indian socialist activist, attempted to assassinate C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer.
Michael Stewart, 63, American playwright, screenwriter and novelist, pneumonia.
Péter Török, 36, Hungarian international footballer (Vasas, Hungary).




= 21

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Aimo Aaltonen, 81, Finnish politician, leader of Communist Party of Finland.
Sven Andersson, 77, Swedish politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Ruth Attaway, 77, American film and stage actress, injuries from a fire.
John Chandos, 70, Scottish film and television actor.
William Kwai-sun Chow, 73, American martial artist.
J. Clyde Morris, 78, American civic leader.
Jaco Pastorius, 35, American jazz bassist and composer, brain hemorrhage after assault.




= 22

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Hákun Djurhuus, 78, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
H. R. Gross, 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, Alzheimer's disease.
Norman Luboff, 70, American music arranger and publisher, choir director, lung cancer.
Carman Maxwell, 84, American animator and voice actor (Bosko).
Dan Rowan, 65, American actor and comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), lymphoma.




= 23

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Walter M. Baumhofer, 82, American illustrator.
Bob Fosse, 60, American dancer, choreographer and director, heart attack.
Louis Kentner, 82, Hungarian and British pianist.
Rajendra Krishan, 68, Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter.
Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, 34, Dutch-born American wrestler, opera singer and actor, heart failure.
O. B. McClinton, 47, American country music singer and songwriter, abdominal cancer.




= 24

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Drew Bundini Brown, 59, American assistant trainer and cornerman of Muhammad Ali.
John Nelson Cooper, 80, American custom knifemaker, founding member of the Knifemakers' Guild.
Damiaen Joan van Doorninck, 85, Dutch officer, lieutenant commander in the Royal Netherlands Navy Reserve.
Erhard Kroeger, 82, Nazi German SS officer, involved in resettlement of Baltic Germans before World War II.
Dorothy Meyer, 62, American film and television actress.
Victor Mollo, 78, British contract bridge player, journalist and author, heart attack.
Joseph Tabenkin, 66, Israeli military commander.




= 25

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Mary Astor, 81, American actress (The Maltese Falcon), respiratory failure.
Gerald Chapman, 37, English theatre director, AIDS.
Duffy Daugherty, 72, American college football player and coach, kidney failure.
Hassan El-Hassani, 71, Algerian comedian.
Harry Holtzman, 75, American artist and founding member of the American Abstract Artists, pancreatic cancer.
Victoria Kent, 90, Spanish lawyer and republican politician, heart attack.
Abba Kovner, 69, Lithuanian-born Israeli partisan leader, poet and writer, laryngeal cancer.
Gennady Mikhasevich, 40, Soviet serial killer, executed.
Emlyn Williams, 81, Welsh writer and actor (Night Must Fall), bowel cancer.




= 26

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Edgar Anstey, 80, British documentary filmmaker (Thirty Million Letters, Snow).
Ethel Catherwood, 79, Canadian high jumper and javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist.
Co Prins, 49, Dutch international footballer (Ajax, Netherlands), heart attack.
Andi Ramang, 63, Indonesian international footballer (Makassar, Indonesia).
Howard W. Robison, 71, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
Sergio Santander, 33, Chilean race car driver, racing crash.
Herbert Tichy, 75, Austrian writer and climber, made first ascent of Cho Oyu.




= 27

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John Newbold Camp, 79, American banker and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
J. N. Findlay, 83, South African philosopher.
Robert Benjamin Greenblatt, 80–81, Canadian endocrinologist.
Maria Guardiola, 92, Portuguese politician, anti-feminist.
M. K. K. Nair, 66, Indian art connoisseur, officer of the Indian Administrative Service, cancer.
Eddy de Wind, 71, Dutch Holocaust survivor, physician and psychoanalyst.




= 28

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Willard Harrison Bennett, 84, American plasma physicist.
Roman Brandstaetter, 81, Polish writer, poet and playwright, heart attack.
Mehdi Hashemi, 42–43, Iranian Shi'a cleric, senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, executed.
Belle Linsky, 82–83, Ukrainian-born American businesswoman and philanthropist.
Ray Madden, 95, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cardiac arrhythmia.




= 29

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Darach Ó Catháin, 64, Irish sean-nós singer.
Elizabeth Eden, 41, American trans woman, pneumonia.
Henry Ford II, 70, American president of Ford Motor Company, pneumonia.
Vinodini Nilkanth, 80, Indian Gujarati writer.
Sebastian Peschko, 77, German classical pianist.
Mario Prestifilippo, 28, Italian member of the Sicilian Mafia, suspected murderer, shot.




= 30

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Alfred Bester, 73, American science fiction author and scriptwriter (The Demolished Man), complications from broken hip.
Geoffrey Bowers, 33, American attorney, AIDS.
Geoffrey Burridge, 38, English theatre and television actor, AIDS.
Herbert Sobel, 75, American soldier in World War II, his story featured in Band of Brothers, malnutrition.




= Unknown date

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A. K. Brohi, 72, Pakistani politician and lawyer.
Ephraim Hertzano, 74–75, Romanian-born Israeli board game designer, inventor of the game Rummikub.
Alice Rahon, 83, French-born Mexican poet and artist.




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