Deaths in June 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 1987

1

  • Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, 72, Indian film director, novelist and journalist.
  • Errol Barrow, 67, Caribbean statesman, Prime Minister of Barbados.[1]
  • Francis B. Burch, 68, American politician, Attorney General of Maryland, cancer.[2]
  • Rashid Karami, 65, Lebanese statesman, Prime Minister of Lebanon, assassinated.[3]

2

  • Georges Doriot, 87, French-American businessman, founded American Research and Development Corporation, lung cancer.[4]
  • Klaus Gamber, 70, German Catholic liturgist.
  • Sammy Kaye, 77, American bandleader and songwriter (Blueberry Hill, Harbour Lights), cancer.[5]
  • François Perroux, 83, French economist, professor at the Collège de France.[6]
  • Sebastiaan Matheus Sigismund de Ranitz, 86, Dutch jurist and Nazi collaborator.[7]
  • Andrés Segovia, 94, Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist, heart attack.[8]

3

  • Bruno Bernard, 75, American photographer known for pin-up photography of Marilyn Monroe, cancer.[9]
  • Jackie Fields, 79, American professional boxer, world welterweight champion.[10]
  • Curt McDowell, 42, American underground filmmaker, AIDS.[11]
  • Malcolm McLeod, 73, American law enforcement officer, Sheriff of Robeson County, North Carolina, heart attack.[12]
  • Alan Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 52, British landowner and hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords.[13]
  • Will Sampson, 53, American actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), kidney failure.[14]
  • Herbert Schultze, 77, German submarine commander during World War II.

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

  • Marguerite de Angeli, 98, American writer and illustrator of children's books (The Door in the Wall).[58]
  • June Knight, 74, American actress and singer, stroke.[59]
  • Wandjuk Marika, 56–57, Aboriginal Australian painter, actor and indigenous land rights activist.[60]
  • Mangal Singh, 95, Indian politician and legislator, member of Central Legislative Assembly.
  • Kōji Tsuruta, 62, Japanese actor and singer, lung cancer.
  • Kid Thomas Valentine, 91, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.[61]

17

18

19

  • C. R. Cheney, 80, English medieval historian.[68]
  • Ian Donald, 76, English physician, pioneered diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics.[69]
  • Joseph Schwab, 26, German spree killer in Australia, shot by police.[70]
  • Pearl Vasudevi, 72, Sri Lankan actress.[71]

20

  • Salim Ali, 90, Indian ornithologist and naturalist, prostate cancer.[72]
  • Frederic B. Butler, 90, American general in the U.S. Army in World War 2.[73]
  • Leonid Kharitonov, 57, Soviet actor, stroke.
  • Hiro Saga, 73, Japanese noblewoman and memoir writer.

21

  • Mariano Cañardo, 81, Spanish road racing cyclist.
  • Abram Chasins, 83, American composer, pianist and author, cancer.[74]
  • Eastman Jacobs, 84–85, American aerodynamicist.[75]
  • Madman Muntz, 73, American businessman, engineer and car salesman, lung cancer.[76]
  • Kyril Vassilev, 79, Bulgarian-born American portrait painter, heart attack.[77]
  • Phil Weintraub, 79, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants), heart attack.[78]

22

23

24

25

26

  • Henk Badings, 80, Indonesian-Dutch composer.[92]
  • Arthur F. Burns, 83, Austro-Hungarian–born American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, heart surgery.[93]
  • George Johnson, 74, American jazz reedist.
  • Wayne Meylan, 41, American NFL footballer (Cleveland Browns), plane crash.[94]
  • Richard Pim, 86, British civil servant and naval officer.[95]
  • Gerhard Wagner, 88, German naval rear admiral.[96]
  • Tony Webster, 65, American screenwriter, esophageal cancer.[97]

27

28

  • Gajananrao Joshi, 76, Indian vocalist and violinist.
  • Jim Taylor, 86, Australian-born Papua New Guinean explorer, pneumonia.[103]

29

30

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