Deaths in May 1988
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.
 
May 1988
1
- Joseph F. Ambrose, 91, American World War I veteran
 - Bill Amor, 68, English Olympic footballer (1948).
 - Claude Demetrius, 71, American songwriter ("Hard Headed Woman").[1]
 - Ben Lexcen, 52, Australian yachtsman and marine architect, designed winged keel which won America's Cup, heart attack.[2]
 - Tom Pappas, 46, American aide to US Representative Roy Dyson, suicide after allegations of homosexuality with Dyson.[3]
 - Paolo Stoppa, 81, Italian actor, leukemia.[4]
 - Raoul Thiercelin, 90, French Olympic rugby union player (1920).
 - Yan Wenliang, 94, Chinese painter.
 
2
- John Weir Foote, 83, Canadian military chaplain and politician (Legislative Assembly of Ontario).[5]
 - Art Hefner, 74, American Negro League baseball player.
 - Pavel Kadochnikov, 72, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter.
 - Sorabji Mehta, 83-84, Indian cricketer.
 - Henry Picker, 76, German lawyer and author, published transcripts of Adolf Hitler's informal talks (Table Talk).[6]
 
3
- Jackson Miles Abbott, 68, American officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, environmentalist, cancer.[7]
 - Carl Erhardt, 91, English international ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist (1936).[8]
 - Julia Butler Hansen, 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1960-1974).[9]
 - José María Jáuregui, 92, Spanish Olympic footballer (1928).
 - Lim Keng Peng, 35, Singaporean murderer, killed in police ambush.[10]
 - Boy Louw, 82, South African rugby union player (Western Province, South Africa).
 - Premendra Mitra, 83, Indian poet, writer and film director.[11]
 - Lev Pontryagin, 79, Soviet mathematician (Pontryagin duality, Pontryagin cohomology operation).[12]
 - Abraham Seidenberg, 71, American mathematician (Tarski–Seidenberg theorem).[13]
 - Bill Speidel, 76, American newspaper columnist (The Seattle Times).[14]
 - Paul Vario, 73, American mobster from the Lucchese crime family, respiratory arrest.[15]
 
4
- Ed Bakey, 62, American film and television actor.
 - Stanley William Hayter, 86, English painter (Atelier 17 studio), cardiac arrest.[16]
 - Carl Jensen, 67, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate and House of Representatives, cancer.[17]
 - Jan Mazurkiewicz, 91, Polish army general and politician.
 - Tom Overton, 58, American sound engineer (A Star Is Born).
 - Oleg Zhakov, 83, Soviet film actor.[18]
 
5
- Billo Frómeta, 72, Dominican orchestra conductor and composer, stroke.[19]
 - Ernie Hammond, 77, Australian rules footballer.
 - Harold Hull, 67, American basketball player.
 - D.D. Kashyap, 77–78, Indian film director.[20]
 - Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, 90, American writer The Making of a Southerner.[21]
 - Hamid Mirza, 70, Iranian heir presumptive of former ruling dynasty of Iran, son of last Qajar Crown Prince of Iran.
 - George Rose, 68, English actor and singer (My Fair Lady, The Mystery of Edwin Drood), murdered.[22]
 - Michael Shaara, 59, American author (The Killer Angels), heart attack.[23]
 - R. J. Unstead, 72, British historian and author, heart failure.[24]
 
6
- Joep Brandes, 67, Dutch footballer.
 - Richard Caliguiri, 56, American politician, mayor of Pittsburgh, amyloidosis.[25]
 - Weldon Edwards, 64, American NFL player (Washington Redskins).
 - Herbert L. Hart, 91, American college football and basketball player and coach.
 - Caleb Rodney Layton III, 80, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Delaware).
 - Costantino Nivola, 76, Italian-born American sculptor, heart attack.[26]
 - Hans Popper, 84, Austrian-born American pathologist and hepatologist, pancreatic cancer.[27]
 
7
- Nara Nath Acharya, 82, Nepalese Pandit and writer (biography of Bhanubhakta Acharya).
 - Fernand Donna, 66, French Olympic sprint canoeist (1948).
 - Auguste Maltais, 72, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1949-1958).
 - Alberto de Zavalía, 77, Argentine film director and producer.
 
8
- Robert A. Heinlein, 80, American science fiction author (Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress), emphysema and heart failure.[28]
 - Nappy Lamare, 82, American jazz banjoist, guitarist and vocalist.[29]
 - Domingo Ortega, 82, Spanish matador.[30]
 - Charles Pollock, 85, American abstract painter, brother of artist Jackson Pollock, stroke.[31]
 - Ruby M. Rouss, 66, American member of the US Army Women's Army Corps and politician, president of the Virgin Islands Legislature, diabetes.[32]
 - Abdel Moneim Wahby, 76, Egyptian Olympic basketball player (1936).
 
9
- Alfons Julen, 89, Swiss Olympic cross-country skier (1924, 1928).
 - Willie Moir, 66, Scottish international footballer (Bolton Wanderers).[33]
 
10
- Wendell Bill, 78, Australian cricketer.
 - Ciarán Bourke, 53, Irish musician (The Dubliners).[34]
 - José Guardiola, 66, Spanish film actor.
 - Hugh Laing, 76, Barbados-born American ballet dancer, cancer.[35]
 - Ion Neacșu, 57, Romanian footballer.
 - Richard B. Ogilvie, 65, American attorney and law enforcement officer, Governor of Illinois, heart attack.[36]
 - John Sterling Rockefeller, 83, American philanthropist, conservationist, and amateur ornithologist.[37]
 - Shen Congwen, 85, Chinese writer, heart attack.[38]
 
11
- Domenico Cambieri, 73, Italian Olympic rower (1948, 1952).
 - Isabella Gordon, 86, Scottish marine biologist (crabs, sea spiders).[39]
 - George Gordon-Lennox, 79, British army general in World War II.[40]
 - Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann, 83, German ethnologist.[41]
 - Kim Philby, 76, British intelligence officer and spy (Cambridge Five), heart failure.[42]
 - Edmund Sobkowiak, 74, Polish Olympic boxer (1936).
 
12
- Jaime Giralt, 86, Spanish Olympic rower (1924).
 - Jacquelyn Kelley, 61, American AAGPBL player.
 - Paul Osborn, 86, American playwright and screenwriter (On Borrowed Time, Morning's at Seven).[43]
 - Chick Parsons, 86, American diplomat and decorated World War II veteran.[44]
 - Hank Schenz, 69, American MLB player (Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Giants).
 
13
- Chet Baker, 58, American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (It Could Happen to You), fall from building.[45]
 - John Garrison, 79, American Olympic ice hockey player (1932, 1936).
 - Paul Genge, 74, American actor (Bullitt).[46]
 - Sergey Gorshkov, 78, Soviet Admiral of the Fleet.[47]
 - Friedrich Guggenberger, 73, Nazi German admiral and U-boat commander.[48]
 - Caecilia Loots, 84, Dutch resistance member known for saving Jewish children during World War II.[49]
 - Nikolay Makarov, 73, Soviet firearms designer (Makarov pistol).
 - Irene Manton, 84, British botanist (ferns and algae), Professor of Botany at the University of Leeds.[50]
 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 83, Welsh soldier and landowner.[51]
 
14
- Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 73, German-born curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[52]
 - Fred Atkins, 77–78, New Zealand-born Canadian professional wrestler (Maple Leaf Wrestling).[53]
 - Willem Drees, 101, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands.[54]
 - Ernesto Giménez Caballero, 88, Spanish writer, diplomat and pioneer of Fascism, founder of La Gaceta Literaria.[55]
 - Wayne Jarratt, 31, Australian actor (Prisoner), brain tumour.[56]
 - Schute Merritt, 77, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
 
15
- Andrew Duggan, 64, American actor (Seven Days in May), throat cancer.[57]
 - Fulvia Franco, 56, Italian actress and model (Miss Italia).[58]
 - Lois Maloy, 85, American illustrator of children's books.[59]
 - Greta Nissen, 82, Norwegian-American film and stage actress, Parkinson's disease.[60]
 - Sol Polk, 71, American businessman, co-founder of Polk Brothers.[61]
 - P. R. Shyamsunder, 64, Indian cricketer.
 - Thomas E. Stephens, 84, Irish-American politician.[62]
 - Heikki Taskinen, 82, Finnish Olympic discus thrower (1928).
 
16
- Kay Baxter, 42, American bodybuilder, car crash.[63]
 - Gordon Garlick, 71, English cricketer.
 - Chan Htoon, 82, Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma.
 - Charles Keeping, 63, English illustrator (The Highwayman) and children's book author, brain tumour.[64]
 - Jules Levin, 66, American politician.
 - Anatoli Maslyonkin, 57, Soviet international footballer (Spartak Moscow, USSR) and Olympic gold medalist (1956).[65]
 - Joe Matte, 80, Canadian NHL player (Detroit Cougars, Chicago Black Hawks).
 - Torahiko Miyahata, 85, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1924).
 - Peter J. Ortiz, 74, United States Marine Corps colonel, cancer.[66]
 - Bruce Watson, 78, Scottish organic chemist and politician, leader of the Scottish National Party.
 - Sidney Wewege, 80, South African cricketer.
 
17
- Frank Gallop, 87, American radio and television personality.[67]
 - Elio Gerussi, 52, Italian racing cyclist.
 - Guy Glover, 77, Canadian producer (National Film Board of Canada).
 - Al Wiseman, 69, American cartoonist (Dennis the Menace).
 
18
- Daws Butler, 71, American voice actor (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss), heart attack.[68]
 - Drew Ellis, 73, American NFL player (Philadelphia Eagles).
 - Anthony Forwood, 72, English actor (Knights of the Round Table), liver cancer and Parkinson's disease.[69]
 - Christopher Gore, 43, American screenwriter and playwright (Fame), AIDS.[70]
 - Daniel Lewis James, 77, American writer (Famous All Over Town), heart attack.[71]
 - R. B. Nunnery, 54, American AFL player (Dallas Texans).
 - Brandon Rhys-Williams, 60, British politician, Member of Parliament, pneumonia.[72]
 - Armand Savoie, 58, Canadian Olympic boxer (1948).
 - Michiko Tanaka, 78, Japanese singer and actress.[73]
 - Enzo Tortora, 59, Italian television presenter and politician, member of European Parliament, cancer.
 
19
- Kurt-Caesar Hoffmann, 92 Nazi German navy vice admiral (Scharnhorst).[74]
 - Dave McCleave, 76, British Olympic boxer (1932).
 - Lloyd Vaughan, 79, American animator (Warner Bros.).[75]
 
20
- Ana Aslan, 91, Romanian biologist and physician, specialist in gerontology.[76]
 - Nick Corwin, 8, American murder victim.
 - Bjørn Gulbrandsen, 61, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player (1952).
 - Paddy Harold, 65, Irish Olympic rower (1948).
 - Dick Jacobs, 70, American musician, arranger and orchestrator.[77]
 - František Kiehlmann, 86, Czechoslovakian Olympic hurdler (1920).
 - Anthony C. Perera, 66, Sri Lankan actor.[78]
 - Marion G. Romney, 90, American Mormon leader.[79]
 - Victorio Unamuno, 78, Spanish footballer (Real Betis).
 
21
- Harry Babasin, 67, American jazz bassist, emphysema.[80]
 - Richard J. Daronco, 56, American lawyer and judge, assassinated.[81]
 - Sammy Davis Sr., 87, American dancer (Will Mastin Trio), father of Sammy Davis Jr.[82]
 - John D. Fitzgerald, 82, American author (The Great Brain).[83]
 - Bruno Frei, 90, Austrian political writer and journalist.[84]
 - Dino Grandi, 92, Italian Fascist politician, ambassador to the U.K.[85]
 - Clement Hill, 83, Australian cricketer.
 - Barbara Laage, 67, French film actress.[86]
 - Guillermo Marín, 82, Spanish film and theater actor.
 - Pino Romualdi, 74, Italian right-wing politician, Member of the European Parliament, cancer.[87]
 - Zano West, 71, American basketball player.
 
22
- Giorgio Almirante, 73, Italian politician, founder and leader of neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, stroke.[88]
 - W. H. Canaway, 62, British author.
 - Lionel Edirisinghe, 75, Sri Lankan musicologist, principal at the University of the Visual and Performing Arts.[89]
 - Edgar Johnston, 92, Australian WWI flying ace.
 
23
- Aya Kitō, 25, Japanese diarist, spinocerebellar ataxia.[90]
 - Carl Littlefield, 71, American NFL player (Cleveland Rams, Pittsburgh Pirates).
 - Emanuel Paul, 84, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
 - David Schoenbrun, 73, American broadcast journalist (CBS), heart attack.[91]
 - Roberto Succo, 26, Italian serial killer, suicide.[92]
 - Tony Viramontes, 31, American artist, AIDS.[93]
 
24
- Tom Adair, 74, American songwriter and composer ("Let's Get Away from It All", "There's No You").[94]
 - Tom Burtt, 73, New Zealand cricketer.
 - Freddie Frith, 79, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion.
 - Jamie Hamilton, 87, British rower and Olympic medalist (1928), publisher (Hamish Hamilton).[95]
 - Bill Horton, 41, Canadian ice hockey player.
 - Ernest Labrousse, 93, French historian.
 - Aleksei Losev, 94, Soviet philosopher.[96]
 - Galiano Pividori, 72, Italian racing cyclist.
 - Leo Schamroth, 63, South African cardiologist.[97]
 
25
- Monte Kay, 63, American record producer, heart failure.[98]
 - Ruth Malcomson, 82, Miss America 1924.[99]
 - Charlie Perkins, 82, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics, Brooklyn Dodgers).
 - Leon Shimkin, 81, American businessman (Simon & Schuster).[100]
 - Martin Slavin, 66, British composer for movies and television (Information Received, The Cool Mikado), road accident.[101]
 - Bill Steinmetz, 89, American Olympic speed skater (1924).
 - Karl August Wittfogel, 91, German-American playwright and historian, pneumonia.[102]
 
26
- Antonio Bardellino, 43, Italian mobster, boss of the Casalesi clan, assumed murdered.
 - Jules Gales, 63, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer (1948, 1952).
 - Robert Graf, 81, American Olympic canoeist (1936).
 - Juan Orol, 90, Spanish-born Mexican actor and director (Gangsters Versus Cowboys, Sandra, la mujer de fuego), liver disease.[103]
 - Frederick Parker, 75, English cricketer and British Army officer.
 - Dick Strahs, 64, American MLB player (Chicago White Sox).
 - Nicolò Vittori, 79, Italian Olympic rower (1928, 1936).
 
27
- Bill Bollinger, 48, American sculptor.[104]
 - Carlos Choque, 75, Argentine Olympic sports shooter (1952).
 - John DiGilio, 55, American mobster with the Genovese crime family, murdered.[105]
 - Paul Lafond, 68, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1970-1988).
 - Florida Friebus, 78, American writer and actress (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Bob Newhart Show).[106]
 - James O'Brien, 62, Canadian Olympic sprinter (1948).
 - Hjördis Petterson, 79, Swedish actress.
 - Ernst Ruska, 81, German physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics (electron optics).[107]
 - Lars Sæter, 93, Norwegian politician.
 - Ralph Townsend, 66, American Olympic cross-country skier (1948).
 
28
- Adolfo Contoli, 90, Italian Olympic athlete (1924).
 - Felix Morrow, 81, American communist political activist and newspaper editor.[108]
 - Sy Oliver, 77, American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader.[109]
 - Evelyn Page, 89, New Zealand artist.[110]
 - Charlie Sevior, 80, Australian rules footballer.
 - Norman Skelhorn, 78, English barrister, Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales.[111]
 - Dodë Tahiri, 69, Albanian footballer.
 - Bjarne Undheim, 83, Norwegian educator and politician.
 - Alfredo Volpi, 92, Brazilian painter.[112]
 
29
- Charla Doherty, 41, American actress (Days of Our Lives).[113]
 - Sheridan Dufferin, 49, British patron of the arts, AIDS.
 - Henry Johansen, 83, Norwegian international footballer and Olympic medalist (Vålerenga, Norway).[114]
 - Salem bin Laden, 42, Saudi Arabian investor and businessman, half brother of Osama bin Laden, plane crash.
 - Vladimír Menšík, 59, Czechoslovakian actor and entertainer, asthma.[115]
 - Hans Ola Sørlie, 34, Norwegian actor.
 - Siaka Stevens, 82, Sierra Leone politician, Prime Minister and President of Sierra Leone.[116]
 - Roy Williams, 59, Australian rules footballer.
 - Elaine Black Yoneda, 81, American labour and civil rights activist, member of Communist Party, heart attack.[117]
 
30
- Hans Bryner, 77, Swiss Olympic sailor (1948, 1952, 1960, 1964).
 - Iseline Crivelli, 85, Italian Olympic alpine skier (1936).
 - Curtis Hollingsworth, 71, American Negro League baseball player (Birmingham Black Barons).
 - Miroslav Nový, 57, Czechoslovakian Olympic ice hockey player (1952).
 - Ella Raines, 67, American actress (Phantom Lady, Brute Force), throat cancer.[118]
 - Peter Timmis, 45, English cricketer.
 
31
- June Buchanan, 100, American founder of Alice Lloyd College.[119]
 - Murray Gainger, 48, Australian rules footballer.
 - Jimmy Hartnett, 61, Irish footballer (Middlesbrough).
 - Dwarka Prasad Mishra, 86, Indian politician, writer and journalist, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
 - Arthur Olliver, 71, Australian rules footballer.
 - Tursun Uljabayev, 72, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan.
 
Unknown date
- Rosa Collazo, 83–84, Puerto Rican political activist (Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico), plotted to kill U.S. president Harry Truman.
 
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