Deaths in December 1988
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 1988
1
- Martin Hinds, 47, British scholar of the Middle East, historiographer of early Islamic history.[1]
- Włodzimierz Mazur, 34, Polish international footballer (Zagłębie Sosnowiec, Poland).[2]
- J. Vernon McGee, 84, American Presbyterian minister and radio minister, heart failure.[3]
2
- Karl-Heinz Bürger, 84, Nazi German member of the SS.
- Tata Giacobetti, 66, Italian singer and jazz musician (Quartetto Cetra).[4]
- Lloyd Rees, 93, Australian landscape painter.[5]
3
- Panos Gavalas, 62, Greek singer.[6]
- John Maher, 48, American former child alcoholic and heroin addict, founded Delancey Street Foundation, pneumonia.[7]
- Johnny Paychek, 74, American boxer.[8]
- Erwin Sick, 79, German inventor and entrepreneur, heart attack.[9]
- Thawan Thamrongnawasawat, 87, Thai politician and Prime Minister of Thailand.
4
- Osman Achmatowicz, 89, Polish chemist (Achmatowicz reaction).
- Gerd Arntz, 87, German artist (woodcuts).[10]
- Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry, 85, Pakistani nuclear physicist.
- Fernand Mourlot, 93, French director of Mourlot Studios.
- Kola Onadipe, 66, Nigerian author of children's books (Sugar Girl), stroke.[11]
- Göran von Otter, 81, Swedish diplomat.
- Jangal Santhal, 62–63, Indian political activist.
- Sir David Trench, 73, British Army officer, Governor of Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands.[12]
- Alberto Uria, 64, Uruguayan racing driver.
5
- Winfield S. Harpe, 51, American pilot, general in the U.S. Air Force, air crash.[13]
- August Lenz, 78, German international footballer (Borussia Dortmund, Germany) and Olympian.[14]
- Erik Lundin, 84, Swedish chess master.
- Teodor Parnicki, 79–80, Polish writer of historical novels.[15]
- William Everett Potter, 83, American engineer and military officer, Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, heart failure.[16]
6
- Bill Harris, 63, American guitarist, Bill Harris.[17]
- Timothy Patrick Murphy, 29, American actor (Dallas), AIDS.
- Roy Orbison, 52, American singer and songwriter (Pretty Woman, Only the Lonely, Crying), heart attack.[18]
- Charles Saxon, 68, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), heart failure.[19]
- Veerendra, 40, Indian film actor and director.[20]
7
- Christopher Connelly, 47, American actor (Peyton Place), lung cancer.[21]
- Josephine Groves Holloway, 90, American scouting leader.[22]
- Dorothy Jordan, 82, American actress, heart failure.[23]
- Mitsu Yashima, 80, Japanese-born American artist and children's book author.[24]
8
- Ivan Bonar, 64, American actor (General Hospital).
- John Joe McGirl, 67, Irish republican, Sinn Féin politician and Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army.[25]
- Gene Quill, 60, American jazz alto saxophonist.
- Hellmuth Reymann, 96, Nazi German army officer, defender of Berlin.[26]
- Anne Seymour, 79, American film and television actress, heart failure.[27]
- Ludovico Silva, 50–51, Venezuelan poet and philosopher.
- Ulanhu, 80, Chinese founding Chairman of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Vice President of People's Republic of China.[28]
9
- Rafael Calvo, 76, Spanish actor (Miracle of Marcelino).
- Kainikkara Kumara Pillai, 88, Indian actor, short story writer and playwright.
10
- Dennis Arundell, 90, British actor, director and composer of incidental music.[29]
- Richard S. Castellano, 55, American actor (Lovers and Other Strangers, The Godfather), heart attack.[30]
- Scott Johnson, 27, American student killed in Australia in a gay-hate attack.[31] (body found on this date)
- Johnny Lawrence, 77, English cricketer (Somerset, Lincolnshire).[32]
- Elizabeth Rawson, 54, British classical scholar (biography of Cicero).[33]
- Dorothy de Rothschild, 93, English philanthropist and activist for Jewish affairs.[34]
- John Baker White, 86, English politician and amateur spy, Member of Parliament.
- Lawrence Wien, 83, American lawyer and real estate investor, prostate cancer.[35]
11
- Kari Kairamo, 55, Finnish chairman and CEO of Nokia, suicide.[36]
- Nagendra Singh, 74, Indian lawyer, President of the International Court of Justice, Nagendra Singh.[37]
12
- K. K. Chen, 90, Chinese-American scientist, pharmacological researcher at Eli Lilly and Company (ephedrine).[38]
- Dick Clair, 57, American television producer, actor and writer (It's a Living, The Facts of Life, Mama's Family), AIDS.
- Bruce Alan Davis, 40, American serial killer, suicide.
- June Tarpé Mills, 76, American comic book creator (Miss Fury).[39]
- Henri Peyre, 87, French-born American linguist, heart failure.[40]
- Anthony Provenzano, 71, American mobster of the Genovese crime family, heart attack.[41]
- Joe Reichler, 73, American sports writer (Associated Press), cancer.[42]
- Rudolf Schündler, 82, German actor and director (The Exorcist), heart attack.
- Loudon Wainwright Jr., 63, American writer and columnist (The View from Here), colon cancer.[43]
13
- Hans Fischer, 27, Brazilian cyclist and Olympian, cardiac arrest.[44]
- Brynmor John, 54, British politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, heart attack.[45]
- María Teresa León, 85, Spanish writer.[46]
- Muhammad Mangundiprojo, 83, Indonesian soldier, revolutionary and civil servant.
- Bill Nichols, 70, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.[47]
- Fyodor Reshetnikov, 82, Soviet painter.[48]
- Brian Sinclair, 73, British veterinary surgeon and novelist, heart attack.
- Betty Snowball, 80, English women's test cricketer, international squash and lacrosse player for Scotland.[49]
- Roy Urquhart, 87, British Army Major General.[50]
14
- Charlie T. Black, 87, American college basketballer.
- Narciso Busquets, 58, Mexican actor of theatre, film, television and radio.
- Evald Schorm, 56, Czechoslovakian film and stage director, screenwriter and actor.[51]
- Jean Schramme, 59, Belgian planter, mercenary in Belgian Congo.
- Stuart Symington, 57, American businessman and politician, U.S. Secretary of the Air Force, heart failure.[52]
- Win Oo, 53, Burmese actor, singer, director, writer and publisher, colorectal cancer.
15
- Leonid Andrussow, 92, German chemical engineer (hydrogen cyanide).
- Andrew James Wray Geddes, 82, Indian-born British Royal Air Force officer, led planning for Operation Manna.[53]
- Muriel Martin-Harvey, 97, English stage actress.
16
- Anna Jean Ayres, 68, American occupational therapist and educational psychologist, complications of breast cancer.[54]
- Frank Bonham, 74, American author of Westerns and young adult novels.[55]
- Tom Eastick, 88, Australian Army artillery officer during World War II.[56]
- Joe Hatten, 72, American Major League baseballer (Brooklyn Dodgers).[57]
- Hunter "Stork" Hendry, 93, Australian test cricketer.[58]
- Ryōhei Koiso, 85, Japanese artist.[59]
- Gisella Perl, 81, Hungarian gynecologist, helped women at Auschwitz concentration camp.[60]
- Babe Pratt, 72, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs), heart attack.[61]
- Sylvester, 41, American singer-songwriter, AIDS.[62]
17
- Jerry Hopper, 81, American film and television director, heart disease.[63]
- Jimmie Mattern, 83, American aviator.[64]
- Gisella Perl, 81, Hungarian-American gynecologist, providing assistance to prisoners at Auschwitz.
18
- R. Arumugam, 35, Malaysian international footballer (Selangor, Malaysia), car accident.[65]
- Niyazi Berkes, 80, Turkish Cypriot sociologist.
- Milt Gantenbein, 78, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers).[66]
- Ka. Naa. Subramanyam, 76, Indian writer and literary critic.[67]
19
- Robert Bernstein, 69, American comic book writer, playwright and concert impresario, heart failure.[68]
- Umashankar Joshi, 77, Indian poet and writer, lung cancer.[69]
- Joseph Towles, 52, African American anthropologist and author, AIDS.
20
- B. Jayamma, 73, Indian actress and singer.[70]
- György Marik, 64, Hungarian international footballer (Vasas, Hungary).[71]
- Alphonse Ouimet, 80, Canadian television pioneer, president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, heart failure.[72]
- Max Robinson, 49, American broadcast journalist, co-anchor on ABC World News Tonight, AIDS.[73]
- Elizabeth Scott, 71, American mathematician specialising in statistics.[74]
21
- Bernt Carlsson, 60, Swedish diplomat, Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Lockerbie aeroplane disaster.[75]
- Eithne Dunne, 69, Irish actress.[76]
- James Fuller, 50, American automobile executive (Volkswagen), Lockerbie aeroplane disaster.[77]
- Matthew Gannon, 34, American CIA officer, Lockerbie aeroplane disaster.[78]
- Paul Jeffreys, 36, English rock musician (Cockney Rebel), Lockerbie aeroplane disaster.[79]
- Willie Kamm, 88, American Major League baseballer (Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians), Parkinson's disease.[80]
- Philip Magnus, British biographer.[81]
- Federico Moura, 37, Argentinian singer, songwriter and record producer, lead vocalist of Virus, AIDS.
- Aileen Palmer, 73, British-born Australian poet.[82]
- Curt Richter, 94, American biologist and geneticist (circadian rhythm).[83]
- Dave Ruhl, 68, Canadian professional wrestler.
- Merryle Rukeyser, 91, American financial columnist, heart failure.[84]
- Bob Steele, 81, American actor, heart failure.[85]
- Nikolaas Tinbergen, 81, Dutch biologist and ornithologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, stroke.[86]
- Venus Xtravaganza, 23, American transgender performer, strangled.[87]
22
- Franziska Boas, 86, American dancer.[88]
- Chico Mendes, 44, Brazilian trade union member and environmental activist, murdered.[89]
- Tom William Scott, 86, American brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force.[90]
- Tucker Smith, 52, American actor, dancer and singer (West Side Story), cancer.[91]
- Rexhai Surroi, 59, Yugoslav Albanian journalist, diplomat and writer, Yugoslav Ambassador to five countries, car accident.[92]
- Wang Bingnan, 79–80, Chinese diplomat, Chinese Ambassador to Poland.[93]
23
- Gerhard Adler, 84, German analytical psychologist.[94]
- Elvin C. Drake, 85, American track and field coach, heart attack.[95]
- Carlo Scorza, 91, Italian Secretary of the National Fascist Party.[96]
24
- Blanche Barrow, 77, American member of the Barrow Gang, lung cancer.
- Whitney Bourne, 74, American actress (Head over Heels).
- Mary Cavendish, 93, Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth II.
- Jainendra Kumar, 83, Indian writer.[97]
- Theyre Lee-Elliott, 85, English artist.
- Alfred M. Pride, 91, American admiral of the U.S. Navy, heart attack.[98]
- Noel Willman, 70, Irish-born American actor and theatre director (The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Odessa File), heart attack.[99]
25
- Bunny Bell, 77, English footballer (Tranmere Rovers, Everton).
- Jan Białostocki, 67, Polish art historian.[100]
- Terence Dudley, 69, British television director and producer for the BBC (Doctor Who, All Creatures Great and Small), cancer.
- Evgeny Golubev, 78, Soviet composer.
- W. F. Grimes, 83, Welsh archaeologist.[101]
- Denis Matthews, 69, English pianist and musicologist, suicide.[102]
- John Ulric Nef, 89, American economic historian, co-founder of Committee on Social Thought.[103]
- Shōhei Ōoka, 79, Japanese novelist and translator of French literature.[104]
- Edward Pelham-Clinton, 68, English lepidopterist and military officer, Duke of Newcastle.[105]
- Cynthia Stone, 62, American actress.[106]
- Napoleon Andrew Tuiteleleapaga, 84, Samoan lawyer, author and musician, myocardial infarction.
26
- Herluf Bidstrup, 76, Danish cartoonist (Land og Folk).[107]
- Anthony Gaeta, 61, American politician, Borough President of Staten Island, heart attack.[108]
- Evie Hayes, 76, American-born Australian actor and singer (Come Up Smiling, Annie Get Your Gun), heart attack.[109]
- Julanne Johnston, 88, American silent-screen actress (The Thief of Bagdad).[110]
- John Loder, 90, English-American film actor.
- Glenn McCarthy, 81, American oil tycoon.[111]
- Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga, 41, Indian politician, member of the Indian National Congress, assassinated.[112]
- Gunnar Rosendal, 91, Swedish Lutheran priest.
- Charles Smith, 68, American actor (The Shop Around the Corner, The Major and the Minor).
- Pablo Sorozábal, 91, Spanish composer.[113]
- Tao Zhiyue, 95–96, Chinese military officer and politician, lieutenant general of the National Revolutionary Army of China.
27
- Hal Ashby, 59, American film director (Coming Home, Shampoo), pancreatic cancer.[114]
- Joseph Beam, 33, American gay rights activist, AIDS.
- Walter Crook, 76, English international footballer and manager (Blackburn Rovers, England).
- Jack Favor, 77, American rodeo performer, acquitted after serving time for murder, cancer.[115]
- Fox Harris, 52, American actor (Repo Man), lung cancer.
- Freda James, 77, British tennis player and Wimbledon Doubles champion.
- Vaso Katraki, 74, Greek painter and engraver.[116]
- Khin Kyi, 76, Burmese politician and diplomat, Burmese Ambassador to India, stroke.[117]
- Donald Laycock, 51–52, Australian linguist and anthropologist (languages of Papua New Guinea).[118]
- C. J. McLin, 67, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.[119]
- Jess Oppenheimer, 75, American radio and television writer and director (I Love Lucy), heart failure.[120]
- Tecwyn Roberts, 63, Welsh-born American spaceflight engineer, helped design NASA's Mission Control Center.[121]
28
- Alberto Armando, 78, Argentine businessman and football manager (Boca Juniors).
- Karlfried Graf Dürckheim, 92, German diplomat and psychotherapist.[122]
- Björn Kurtén, 64, Finnish vertebrate paleontologist.[123]
- Charlotte Peters, 75, American television show host.[124]
29
- Émile Aillaud, 86, French architect (La Grande Borne).
- Mike Beuttler, 48, British Formula One driver, complications from AIDS.[125]
- Carl J. Johnson, 59, American physician, whistleblower on effects of nuclear testing, complications following coronary bypass.[126]
- Rita Rait-Kovaleva, 91, Soviet literary translator and writer, translator of The Catcher in the Rye into Russian.
30
- Faber Birren, 88, American writer, consultant on colour theory, stroke.[127]
- Jan Baalsrud, 71, Norwegian Resistance commando.[128]
- Yuli Daniel, 63, Soviet writer and dissident (Sinyavsky–Daniel trial), stroke.[129]
- Takeo Fujisawa, 78, Japanese businessman, co-founder of Honda Motor Co., heart attack.[130]
- Dennis H. Klatt, 50, American researcher in speech and hearing science, cancer.[131]
- Ernesto Lazzatti, 73, Argentinian international footballer (Boca Juniors, Argentina).[132]
- Isamu Noguchi, 84, American artist and landscape architect, heart failure.[133]
- Nikolai Sologubov, 64, Russian ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.[134]
31
- Yara Amaral, 52, Brazilian actress (Mulher Objeto), heart attack from drowning.
- Christopher Andrewes, 92, British virologist who discovered the human influenza A virus.[135]
- Ahmet Arvasi, 56, Turkish writer and philosopher.[136]
- Oliver L. Austin, 85, American ornithologist.[137]
- Nicolas Calas, 81, Greek-American poet and art critic, heart failure.[138]
- Loel Guinness, 82, British politician, Member of Parliament, heart disease.[139]
Unknown date
- Charles Ganimian, 61–62, American musician and singer.[140]
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