Deaths in January 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 1987

1

  • Velma Abbott, 57, American baseballer in the American Girls Professional Baseball League.[1]
  • Avard Fairbanks, 89, American sculptor, heart attack.[2]
  • Maurice Mandelbaum, 78, American philosopher and phenomenologist.[3]

2

  • Ramón Castroviejo, 82, Spanish and American eye surgeon and corneal transplantation pioneer.[4]
  • Hazel Daly, 91, American film actress.
  • Lovat Dickson, 84, Canadian publisher and writer.[5]
  • Arthur Gould-Porter, 81, English film, television and stage actor.
  • Jean de Gribaldy, 64, French road cyclist and directeur sportif.
  • Harekrushna Mahatab, 87, Indian politician, leader of the Indian National Congress, Chief Minister of Odisha.
  • Alfred Schindler, 92, American industrialist, acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce.[6]

3

  • Alex "Big Daddy" Campbell, 55, Scottish folk singer, tuberculosis.
  • Arvind Deshpande, 54, Indian film, theatre and television actor and theatre director.
  • Sunder Lal, Indian independence activist and politician, Member of Parliament.
  • John Bartlow Martin, 71, American diplomat, author and ambassador, throat cancer.[7]
  • William R. Poage, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.[8]
  • Franck Sylvain, 77, Haitian politician, acting President of Haiti.

4

  • Peggy Bacon, 91, American artist, known for satirical caricatures.[9]
  • Lauretta Bender, 89, American child neuropsychiatrist, developed the Bender-Gestalt Test.[10]
  • Aubert C. Dunn, 90, American attorney and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[11]
  • John A. Seitz, 78, American general of the U.S. Army.[12]

5

  • Margaret Laurence, 60, Canadian novelist and short story writer, suicide.[13]
  • Dale Mitchell, 65, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.[14]
  • Helenka Pantaleoni, 86, American silent-screen actress.[15]
  • Herman Smith-Johannsen, 111, Norwegian skier and supercentenarian, pneumonia.[16]

6

  • Taddy Aycock, 71, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana.[17]
  • Daniel Carney, 42, Rhodesian novelist, cancer.[18]
  • Sir Robert Cooke, 56, British politician, Member of Parliament, motor neuron disease.[19]
  • Margaret Danhauser, 65, American baseballer in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.[20]
  • Jaidev, 68, Kenyan-Indian music composer.
  • N. N. Kakkad, 59, Indian poet, cancer.
  • Jack Schwarz, 90, American independent producer of low-budget feature films.

7

  • Martha George, 94, native American tribal leader, chairperson of the Suquamish tribe.
  • Lakshmi, 65, Indian writer.[21]
  • Avner Less, 71, German-Israeli police officer, interrogated Adolf Eichmann after he was captured.
  • Jackie Mitchell, 73, American female baseballer, struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession.[22]

8

9

  • Carl Gunnar Engström, 74, Swedish physician and inventor.
  • Arthur Lake, 81, American actor, heart attack.[30]
  • Jack Lathrop, 73, American vocalist and guitarist.
  • Bill Noël, 72, American oilman, industrialist, banker, philanthropist and civic leader, cancer.[31]
  • Alex B. Novikoff, 73, Russian Empire–born American biologist.[32]

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

  • Aram Avakian, 60, American film editor and director, heart failure.[71]
  • Harry Darby, 91, American politician, U.S. Senator.[72]
  • Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, 82, Tibetan Buddhist leader.
  • Lawrence Kohlberg, 59, American psychologist, suicide.[73]
  • Jozo Penava, 77, Bosnian-Herzegovinian music producer, composer, arranger, musician and vocalist.
  • Fazil Rahu, 52–53, Pakistani political leader, assassinated.[74]
  • Gu Zhutong, 94, Chinese military general, Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of China Armed Forces.[75]

18

19

  • Gerald Brenan, 92, Maltese-writer of British decent who lived mostly in Spain, heart failure.[79]
  • Harry Keller, 73, American film editor and director.[80]
  • Ira C. Kepford, 67, American pilot with the U.S. Navy, flying ace in World War II.[81]
  • Dick Milford, 91, English clergyman.[82]
  • George Selkirk, 79, Canadian Major League baseballer (New York Yankees).[83]
  • Hermann Voss, 92, German anatomist, unpunished Nazi war criminal.[84]

20

21

  • Jenny Aubry, 83, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.[90]
  • Nina Byron, 86, New Zealand-American silent-screen actress and showgirl.
  • Victor Goddard, 89, British senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.[91]
  • Charles Goodell, 60, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, heart attack.[92]
  • Ikki Kajiwara, 50, Japanese author, manga writer and film producer.

22

23

24

  • Norman Dodd, 87, American banker and bank manager.[100]
  • Tetsuji Murakami, 59, Japanese karate representative to Europe.
  • Clara Thalmann, 78, Swiss journalist, athlete and militia woman who fought during the Spanish Civil War.[101]

25

  • William Devlin, 75, Scottish film and television actor.[102]
  • Julian Hoke Harris, 80, American sculptor.
  • Emil Hlobil, 85, Czech composer and music professor.
  • Henry Krips, 74, Austrian-Australian conductor and composer (South Australian Symphony Orchestra).[103]
  • Nahuel Moreno, 62, Argentinian Trotskyist leader.
  • Mihrişah Sultan, 70, Ottoman princess, daughter of heir to the throne Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin.
  • Piero Vida, 48, Italian film actor.

26

27

28

  • Gangadhar V. Chittal, 63, Indian Kannada poet, Parkinson's disease.[113]
  • George Dow, 79, British railway employee and author.[114]
  • Ralph Faulkner, 95, American fencer, film actor and Olympian.[115]
  • Galo Plaza, 80, Ecuadorian statesman, President of Ecuador, heart attack.[116]
  • Valerian Trifa, 72, Romanian Orthodox cleric and fascist political activist, heart attack.[117]

29

30

  • Dionysios Arbouzis, appr. 74, Greek Hellenic Army general.
  • Johnnie Cradock, 82, English cook, writer and broadcaster.
  • Ken Drake, 65, American film and television actor.
  • Ante Topić Mimara, 88, Croatian art collector.[123]
  • Héctor Varela, 73, Argentinian tango bandoneónist, bandleader and composer.[124]

31

Unknown date

  • Delano Ames, 80–81, American writer of detective stories.
  • Pierre Chapo, 59, French furniture designer and craftsman, Lou Gehrig's disease.
  • Don Levy, 54–55, Australian-born artist and filmmaker, suicide.
  • Atholl Oakeley, 86, British wrestler and wrestling promoter.
  • Saul Tepper, 87, American illustrator and songwriter.

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  47. ^ "Matt Hazeltine, 53, Is Dead; Former Linebacker for 49ers". The New York Times. January 17, 1987. p. 1 15. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
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