Deaths in July 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1987

1

  • Kurt Lamm, 68, German-born American soccer player, coach and manager, heart attack.[1]
  • Jerry Livingston, 78, American songwriter (The Twelfth of Never) and dance orchestra pianist, heart condition.[2]
  • Bridget Sequeira, 81, Pakistani-Indian religious sister.
  • Snakefinger, 38, English musician, singer and songwriter (The Residents), heart attack.
  • Soetran, 66, Indonesian military officer and politician, Governor of Irian Jaya, liver cancer.

2

  • Michael Bennett, 44, American theatre director, writer and dancer, lymphoma.[3]
  • Václav Černý, 82, Czechoslovakian literary scholar, writer and philosopher.[4]
  • Denis Larkin, 79, Irish politician (Teachta Dála, Lord Mayor of Dublin) and trade union official.[5]
  • Karl Linnas, 67, Estonian sentenced to death during the Holocaust trials, heart failure.[6]
  • George S. Wise, 81, American sociologist, president of Tel Aviv University, heart failure.[7]

3

  • Viola Dana, 90, American silent-screen actress.[8]
  • John H. Mercer, 64, British glaciologist.[9]
  • William Wiard, 59, American film and television director, cancer.

4

5

  • Bobby Ancell, 76, Scottish international footballer and manager (St Mirren, Scotland).[14]
  • Alan Gibson, 49, Canadian film and television director.

6

7

8

9

10

  • Doug Dobell, 69, British record store proprietor and record producer, ran Dobell's Record Shop, heart attack.
  • John Hammond, 76, American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic, stroke.[31]
  • Harold Rice, 75, American educator and magician.
  • Tanya Zolotoroff Nash, 89, Russian-born American Deaf Rights activist.[32]

11

  • Hannah Billig, 85, British medical doctor.[33]
  • Marion Brooks, 91, American silent-screen actress, entertainment journalist and screenwriter.
  • Cyril McLaglen, 87, British and American film actor.
  • Truman J. Nelson, 75–76, American novelist and essayist, civil rights activist, heart failure.[34]
  • Fernando Garcia Ponce, 53, Mexican architect and artist, heart attack.[35]
  • Avi Ran, 23, Israeli international footballer (Maccabi Haifa, Israel), hit by racing boat.[36]
  • Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, 87, Russian-born American Talmudic scholar and rabbi.[37]
  • Robert Love Taylor, 87, American district judge.[38]
  • Tom Waddell, 49, American physician, decathlete Olympian and founder of the Gay Olympics, AIDS.[39]

12

13

14

  • Salvador E. Felices, 63, Puerto Rican general in the U.S. Air Force.[46]
  • Fritz Holt, 46, American theatre producer and director (La Cage aux Folles), pneumonia.[47]
  • William Overton, 47, United States district judge, cancer.[48]
  • Sao Saimong, 73, Burmese government minister.
  • William Stuart-Houston, 76, English-born American half-nephew of Adolf Hitler.[49]
  • Pak Yung-sun, 30, North Korean table tennis player, world champion.
  • Viktor Zhdanov, 73, Soviet virologist and epidemiologist, instrumental in eradicating smallpox, cerebral hemorrhage.[50]

15

16

  • Harry Ayres, 74, New Zealand mountaineer and guide, suspected suicide.
  • Alfie Bass, 71, English actor, heart attack.
  • Pierre Lardinois, 62, Dutch politician and diplomat, member of the House of Representatives, cancer.[57]
  • Juraj Lupták, 45, Czechoslovakian rapist and serial killer, hanged.
  • Rudolph Palumbo, 86, British property developer.
  • Tony Tani, 69, Japanese entertainer, liver cancer.
  • Cliff Wilton, 71, Scottish rugby union player, president of the Scottish Rugby Union.

17

18

19

20

21

  • John Armstrong, 71, Irish Anglican bishop, Archbishop of Armagh.[73]
  • Donald Cressey, 68, American penologist, sociologist and criminologist, heart attack.[74]
  • Louis DaPron, 74, American dancer, choreographer and dance instructor, heart attack.[75]
  • Bert Keyes, 56, American pianist, songwriter and singer.
  • Stella Steyn, 79, Irish artist.[76]
  • Burke Trend, 73, British civil servant, rector of Lincoln College.[77]

22

23

24

  • Anna-Eva Bergman, 78, Norwegian abstract expressionist artist.[86]
  • Franz Burri, 85, Swiss political figure, disseminator of Nazi propaganda.
  • Pat Clancy, 68, Australian trade unionist, heart attack.[87]
  • Dick Wellstood, 59, American jazz pianist, heart attack.[88]

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27

28

29

30

31

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  47. ^ George W. Holt 3d, Producer and Director. New York Times. Retrieved 3 Aug 2024.
  48. ^ "William Overton, A U.S. Judge, Dies". The New York Times. July 15, 1987. p. B 6. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
  49. ^ William Patrick Hitler. The United States Navy Memorial. Retrieved 3 Aug 2024.
  50. ^ Untimely Death of Soviet Virologist After Hostile Letters. Nature, 8.10.87. Retrieved 3 Aug 2024.
  51. ^ Lee Ballanfant. Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved 4 Aug 2024.
  52. ^ "J. Rives Childs Is Dead; Authority on Casanova". The New York Times. July 16, 1987. p. D 22. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
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  58. ^ Ex-Rep. Dominick V. Daniels; Held Jersey Seat in Congress. New York Times. Retrieved 4 Aug 2024.
  59. ^ Jörg Fauser’s crazed, leaping, unmoored voyage. The Guardian (year of death only). Retrieved 4 Aug 2024.
  60. ^ Popular Japanese Actor, Producer Yujiro Ishihara. L.A. Times. Retrieved 4 Aug 2024.
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  63. ^ "Leon B. Poullada, Ex-Envoy And Afghan Expert, Is Dead". The New York Times. July 23, 1987. p. A 25. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
  64. ^ "Anthony Casamento Is Dead; Received the Medal of Honor". The New York Times. July 22, 1987. p. B 6. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
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  66. ^ "Gilberto Freyre of Brazil Dies". The New York Times. July 19, 1987. p. 1 25. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
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  69. ^ Navy Flight Nurse Jane Kendeigh, Documenting a First. National Museum of the Pacific War. Retrieved 4 Aug 2024.
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  80. ^ Andrew L. Yarrow (July 23, 1987). "Longtime Co-Host of 'Today'". The New York Times. p. A 25. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
  81. ^ C.B. Macpherson, 1911–1987. Taylor and Francis Online. Retrieved 5 Aug 2024.
  82. ^ Don McMahon Dies. New York Times. Retrieved 5 Aug 2024.
  83. ^ Amritsar Govindsingh Kripal Singh. Wisden. Retrieved 5 Aug 2024.
  84. ^ DeVeren Bookwalter. New York Times. Retrieved 5 Aug 2024.
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