Deaths in April 1988

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

April 1988

1

• Đào Duy Anh, 83, Vietnamese historian.[1]
• Jim Jordan, 91, American actor (Fibber McGee and Molly), stroke resulting from fall.[2]
• Ginette Spanier, 84, French director of the House of Balmain.[3]
• April Tinsley, 8, American murder victim.[4]

2

• Jacques André, 69, French fighter pilot in World War II and Olympian.[5]
• Jenő Barcsay, 88, Hungarian painter.[6]
• Lisa Marie Kimmell, 18, American murder victim.[7]
• Pushpaben Mehta, 83, Indian social worker and politician, member of the Rajya Sabha.[8]
• Anthony Pelissier, 75, English actor, screenwriter and director (Personal Affair, The History of Mr. Polly).[9]

3

• Milton Caniff, 81, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon), lung cancer.[10]
• Lee Man Fong, 74, Chinese-born Indonesian painter.[11]
• V. S. Wakankar, 68, Indian archaeologist.[12]

4

• Florestine Perrault Collins, 93, American professional photographer.[13]
• Myra De Groot, 50, British-born American-Australian actress (The Sullivans, Neighbours), cancer.[14]
• Kai Ewans, 81, Danish-American jazz reedist.[15]
• Karol Fageros, 53, American tennis player, cancer.[16]
• Eric A. Havelock, 84, British classicist.[17]
• Roy Weatherby, 77, American founder and owner of Weatherby rifle company.[18]

5

• Boyd Brumbaugh, 72, American NFL footballer (Brooklyn Dodgers), emphysema.
• Mozaffar Firouz, 81, Iranian diplomat, ambassador to the USSR.[19]
• Swede Halbrook, 55, American NBA basketballer (Syracuse Nationals), heart attack.[20]
• Alf Kjellin, 68, Swedish-born American film actor and director, heart attack.[21]
• Elizabeth Linington, 67, American mystery novelist.[22]
• Rosemary Manning, 76, British writer (The Chinese Garden).[23]
• Robert S. Mendelsohn, 61, American pediatrician and critic of modern medical practice, cardiac arrest.[24]
• Pierre Prévert, 71, French film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Alan Shorter, 55, American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, ruptured aorta.[25]

6

• Gunārs Astra, 56, Latvian human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident, heart disease.[26]
• John Clements, 77, British actor and producer (Knight Without Armour, South Riding).[27]
• Leroy Kirkland, 82–84, American bandleader, guitarist and songwriter.
• Hamdija Pozderac, 64, Yugoslav communist politician, President of People's Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, stroke.[28]
• Émile Roumer, 85, Haitian poet.[29]

7

• Denis Hamilton, 69, English newspaper editor (The Sunday Times, The Times).[30]
• Dinanath Nadim, 72, Indian poet.
• Albert S. Rogell, 86, American film director.[31]

8

• Vilayati Ram Katyal, 52, Indian politician, member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.[32]

9

• Brook Benton, 56, American singer and songwriter ("It's Just a Matter of Time", "Endlessly"), pneumonia.[33]
• Syd Cohen, 81, American Major League baseballer (Washington Senators).[34]
• John Herman Dent, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[35]
• Jerry Harvey, 38, American screenwriter and film programmer (Z Channel), murder-suicide.[36]
• Dave Prater, 50, American soul and rhythm & blues singer and musician, car accident.[37]
• Arturo Rotor, 80, Filipino medical doctor, Executive Secretary of the Philippines, cancer.
• William Horace Temple, 89, Canadian politician and trade unionist.[38]
• Sylvia Thalberg, 80, American screenwriter (Montana Moon).
• Delos Wickens, 78, American experimental research psychologist and author (Ohio State University).[39]

10

• Khaqan Abbasi, Pakistani politician, Federal Minister for Production, car hit by missile.
• T. Glynne Davies, 62, Welsh poet, novelist and television and radio broadcaster.[40]
• Cliff Gladwin, 72, English test cricketer (Derbyshire, England).[41]
• Woody Kling, 62, American television writer, producer and composer, brain and lung cancer.[42]
• Ezekias Papaioannou, 79, Greek Cypriot politician.

11

• Ithell Colquhoun, 81, British painter, poet and author.[43]
• James R. Domengeaux, 81, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, leukemia.[44]
• Jeff Donnell, 66, American actress (General Hospital, The Phantom Thief), heart attack.[45]
• Jesse L. Lasky Jr., 77, American screenwriter and novelist (Samson and Delilah, The Ten Commandments), pancreatic cancer.[46]

12

• Colette Deréal, 60, French actress and singer.
• Sheridan Gibney, 84, American writer and producer in theatre and film (The Story of Louis Pasteur), cancer.[47]
• Hartmann Lauterbacher, 78, Nazi German Deputy Reichsjugendführer, Stabsführer of Hitler Youth, unconvicted war criminal.[48]
• Harry McShane, 96, Scottish socialist.[49]
• Alan Paton, 85, South African writer and anti-Apartheid activist (Cry, the Beloved Country, Too Late the Phalarope), cancer.[50]
• George Rock, 68, American trumpeter and singer (Spike Jones and his City Slickers).[51]
• Frank Skaff, 77, American Major League baseballer (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Athletics), heart attack.[52]

13

• Jean Gascon, 67, Canadian opera director and actor, heart attack.[53]
• Leo Zeff, 75, American psychologist and psychotherapist.[54]

14

• Daniel Guérin, 83, French libertarian-communist author (Anarchism: From Theory to Practice).[55]
• Jack McIntosh, 78, Scottish-born Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.[56]
• Pony Poindexter, 62, American jazz saxophonist.[57]
• Camilla Ravera, 98, Italian politician, first female lifetime senator.[58]
• John Stonehouse, 62, British businessman and minister, Member of Parliament, heart attack.[59]

15

• Rosemary Ames, 81, American film actress (Mr. Quincey of Monte Carlo, One More Spring).[60]
• George E. Mylonas, 89, Greek archaeologist, heart attack.[61]
• Maria Ulfah Santoso, 76, Indonesian politician and women's rights activist, Minister of Social Affairs.
• Kenneth Williams, 62, British actor and comedian (Carry On), overdose of barbiturates.[62]

16

• John Anderson, 79, British Army general, Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff.[63]
• José Dolhem, 43, French racing driver, power boat racing accident.[64]
• Youri Egorov, 33, Soviet classical pianist, AIDS.[65]
• Jacques de Kadt, 90, Dutch politician, member of Dutch parliament.[66]
• John Reardon, 58, American baritone and actor (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood), pneumonia (AIDS).[67]
• Clifford Roach, 84, Trinidadian test cricketer (Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies).[68]
• Bobby Thompson, 76, English stand-up comedian and actor, emphysema and cancer.[69]
• Khalil al-Wazir, 52, Palestinian leader, assassinated.[70]

17

• Linda Batista, 68, Brazilian musician.[71]
• Carlotta Corpron, 86, American photographer.[72]
• Albert Fennell, 68, British film and television producer (The Avengers).[73]
• Toni Frissell, 81, American photographer, Alzheimer's disease.[74]
• Paul L. Freeman Jr., 80, American general in the U.S. Army, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Army Europe, heart ailment.[75]
• Anthony Gaggi, 62, American mobster in the Gambino crime family, heart attack.[76]
• Felicity Lane-Fox, 69, English member of the House of Lords, champion of disability issues.[77]
• Patrick Mphephu, 63–64, South African politician, President of Venda.[78]
• Louise Nevelson, 88, Ukrainian-born American sculptor.[79]
• Eva Novak, 90, American film actress (The Romance of Runnibede, The Medicine Man), pneumonia.[80]
• Otto Pächt, 85, Austrian art historian.[81]
• Carlos Sotomayor, 76–77, Chilean painter, heart attack.
• George Williams, 70, American musician and composer ("Happy Days Are Here Again").[82]
• Isaak Yaglom, 67, Soviet mathematician and author.[83]

18

• Stanton Delaplane, 80, American travel writer (San Francisco Chronicle), Pulitzer Prize winner, emphysema.[84]
• Pierre Desproges, 48, French humorist, lung cancer.[85]
• Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, 73, Turkish writer and playwright.
• Antonín Puč, 80, Czechoslovakian international footballer (Slavia Prague, Czechoslovakia).[86]
• Oktay Rifat, 73, Turkish writer and playwright.[87]
• Phyllis Ross, 84–85, Canadian economist, chancellor of the University of British Columbia.[88]

19

• Margaret A. Edwards, 85, American librarian (Enoch Pratt Free Library, American Library Association).
• Kwon Ki-ok, 87, first Korean female aviator.[89]
• Jonasz Kofta, 45, Polish songwriter and poet, choking.[90]
• Jeanne Rowe Skinner, 71, American Navy officer, First Lady of Guam.[91]
• Albert Ross Tilley, 83, Canadian plastic surgeon, pioneered treatment of burned airmen.[92]

20

• Héctor Félix Miranda, 46, Mexican journalist, columnist of the Zeta magazine, assassinated.[93]

21

• Andrzej Czabański, 28, Polish murderer, last person executed in Poland.
• I. A. L. Diamond, 67, Romanian-born American screenwriter (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment), multiple myeloma.[94]
• Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia, 90, Russian-French woman, child of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia.
• Buddy Humphrey, 52, American NFL footballer (St. Louis Cardinals), brain tumour.[95]
• Morris Rudensky, 89, American prohibition-era gangster.[96]

22

• Peter Helck, 94, American illustrator.[97]
• Hugh S. Knowles, 83, American acoustical engineer and inventor, president of the Acoustical Society of America, cancer.[98]
• Melvin Price, 83, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, pancreatic cancer.[99]
• Irene Rich, 96, American film and radio actress (Queen of the Yukon, Fort Apache), heart failure.[100]
• Barbara Robison, 42, American singer (The Peanut Butter Conspiracy), toxic shock syndrome.[101]
• Tchicaya U Tam'si, 56, Congolese author.[102]

23

• Karl Leonhard, 84, German psychiatrist.[103]
• Eitaro Ozawa, 79, Japanese film and stage actor and director.[104]
• Michael Ramsey, 83, British Church of England bishop, Archbishop of Canterbury.[105]

24

• Gioacchino Colombo, 85, Italian automobile engine designer (Ferrari Colombo engine).
• Alexander Makinsky, 87, Iranian-born American businessman, assistant vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
• Pavel Wonka, 35, Czechoslovakian political activist, pulmonary embolism.[106]
• Jonathan Woodner, 44, American real estate developer and road racing driver, air crash.[107]

25

• René Cardona, 82, Mexican director and actor, (Allá en el Rancho Grande, Santa Claus).[108]
• Lygia Clark, 67, Brazilian artist, co-founded the Neo-Concrete movement, heart attack.[109]
• Carolyn Franklin, 43, American singer-songwriter, sister of Aretha Franklin ("Ain't No Way"), breast cancer.[110]
• Erik Hysén, 81, Swedish footballer (IFK Göteborg).
• Ken Jones, 60, British conductor and composer of film and television music.[111]
• Michael Lantz, 80, American sculptor, president of the National Sculpture Society, stroke.[112]
• Burnita Shelton Matthews, 93, American judge of the United States District Court, stroke.[113]
• Sir Hugh Rankin, 88–89, Tunisian-born British eccentric, president of the British Muslim Society.[114]
• Lanny Ross, 82, American singer, pianist and songwriter, heart failure.[115]
• Clifford D. Simak, 83, American science fiction writer (Way Station, The Visitors).[116]
• Valerie Solanas, 52, American author and feminist, attempted to murder Andy Warhol, pneumonia.[117]
• Zephyr Wright, 72–73, American civil rights activist and personal chef for President Lyndon Johnson, heart condition.

26

• Guy Boyd, 64, Australian potter and sculptor, coronary atherosclerosis.[118]
• William Fox-Pitt, 92, English general in the British Army.[119]
• Guillermo Haro, 75, Mexican astronomer (Herbig–Haro objects).[120]
• Desmond Hoare, 77, British Royal Navy engineer officer.[121]
• Frederick D. Patterson, 86, American academic administrator, founder of the United Negro College Fund, heart attack.[122]
• Marian Porwit, 92, Polish military officer, colonel in the Polish Army.[123]
• Bennett Stewart, 75, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.[124]
• Arbee Stidham, 71, American blues singer ("My Heart Belongs to You").[125]

27

• Fred Bear, 86, American bow hunter and manufacturer, co-founder of Bear Archery, heart attack.[126]
• Christina Bellin, 48, Italian-born American model, brain tumour.[127]
• Valery Legasov, 51, Soviet chemist, chief of Chernobyl disaster investigation commission, suicide.[128]
• David Scarboro, 20, English actor (EastEnders).[129]
• Robert Van Pelt, 90, American attorney, US district judge.[130]
• Olaf Wieghorst, 88, Danish-born American painter.[131]

28

• Fenner Brockway, 99, British socialist politician and anti-war activist, member of the House of Lords.[132]
• William Potter Gale, 71, American political activist and white supremacist, emphysema.[133]
• Michael Grumley, 45, American writer and artist (New York Native), AIDS.[134]
• Hagop Hagopian, 36–37, leader of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, assassinated.[135]
• Maxim Mazumdar, 36, Indian-born Canadian playwright and director (Oscar Remembered), AIDS.[136]
• B. W. Stevenson, 38, American country pop singer and musician ("My Maria"), staph infection.[137]

29

• Brish Bhan, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Patiala and East Punjab States Union.
• Andrew Cruickshank, 80, Scottish actor (Dr. Finlay's Casebook).[138]
• Irving Kolodin, 80, American music critic and historian (New York Sun, Saturday Review).[139]
• James McCracken, 61, American operatic tenor, stroke.[140]
• Jakob Tuggener, 84, Swiss photographer, filmmaker and painter.[141]
• Martin Wyldeck, 74, English actor.[142]

30

• Lola Hoffmann, 84, Latvian-born Chilean physiologist and psychiatrist.[143]
• Man Mountain Mike, 47, American professional wrestler, staph infection.
• Carroll Righter, 88, American "astrologer".[144]
• Alex Sanders, 61, English occultist, Wiccan high priest, lung cancer.[145]
• Robert Leslie Stewart, 70, Scottish executioner.
• Tiger Joe Tomasso, 65–66, Canadian professional wrestler.

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