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-born American businessman, founded American Research and Development Corporation , 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
Alexander Altmann , 81, Austro-Hungarian–born American Orthodox Jewish scholar and rabbi.[ 18]
Colin Colahan , 90, Australian painter and sculptor.[ 19]
Fulton Mackay , 64, Scottish actor and playwright, stomach cancer.[ 20]
Mari Mori , 84, Japanese author, heart failure.[ 21]
Richard Münch , 71, German actor.
Eduard Petiška , 63, Czechoslovakian writer.
Aneesur Rahman , 59, Indian-born American physicist (molecular dynamics ).[ 22]
Dragan Sotirović , 74, Serbian-born major in the Yugoslavian army.
7
John Blofeld , 74, British writer on Asian thought and religion, cancer.[ 23]
Shosei Go , 70, Taiwanese baseballer who played in Japan (Mainichi Orions , Tokyo Giants ).[ 24]
Hashimoto Mantaro , 54, Japanese sinologist and linguist.[ 25]
Herbert M. Seneviratne , 61, Sri Lankan lyricist and actor.[ 26]
Cahit Zarifoğlu , 46, Turkish poet and writer.[ 27]
8
Gary Driscoll , 41, American R&B-style drummer, murdered.[ 28]
George Finey , 92, Australian newspaper artist.[ 29]
Yogi Horton , 33, American R&B, funk, jazz and rock drummer, suicide.
Alexander Iolas , 79, Egyptian-born American art gallerist, AIDS.[ 30]
Daniel Mandell , 91, American film editor.[ 31]
Jacques Fred Petrus , 39, West Indian–born businessman and a pioneer of post-disco music, murdered.
9
Kenneth Althaus , 91, American brigadier general in the U.S. Army.[ 32]
Raya Dunayevskaya , 77, Russian-born American philosopher, founder of Marxist humanism in the United States.[ 33]
Monique Haas , 77, French pianist.[ 34]
Gustaf Håkansson , 101, Swedish cyclist who cycled the length of Sweden in a race at age 66.[ 35]
Louis Van Iersel , 93, American sergeant in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient.[ 36]
Madge Kennedy , 96, American actress, respiratory failure.[ 37]
Grandon Rhodes , 82, American actor.[ 38]
Wilhelm Runge , 91, German electrical engineer and physicist (radar ).
10
Daud Beureueh , 87, Indonesian military governor of Aceh.[ 39]
Shamraj Bhalerao , 88, Indian noble.
Elizabeth Hartman , 43, American actress (A Patch of Blue , You're a Big Boy Now ).[ 40]
Jeevan , 71, Indian actor.
Alain Montpetit , 36, Canadian television and radio personality and actor, overdose.
Booty Wood , 67, American jazz trombonist.[ 41]
11
Ralph Guldahl , 75, American professional golfer, heart attack.[ 42]
Aleksandr Lokshin , 66, Soviet composer of classical music.
Enrique del Moral , 82, Mexican architect.
Álvaro Vieira Pinto , 77, Brazilian philosopher and translator.
B. S. Madhava Rao , 87, Indian mathematician and physicist.
Dan Vadis , 49, American actor (The Triumph of Hercules ), overdose.
12
Tuvia Bielski , 81, Belarusian militant, leader of the Bielski group .[ 43]
Bill Edwards , 81, American NFL coach (Detroit Lions ).[ 44]
Paul Janes , 75, German international footballer (Fortuna Düsseldorf , Germany ).[ 45]
C. F. Russell , 90, American occultist.
Apostol Sokolov , 69, Bulgarian international footballer (Levski Sofia , Bulgaria ).[ 46]
Józef Tusk , 80, Polish luthier , grandfather of Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk .
13
Huck Betts , 90, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Phillies ).[ 47]
Vera Caspary , 87, American screenwriter, novelist and playwright, stroke.[ 48]
Bernard Hesling , 82, British-born Australian muralist and painter.[ 49]
Johnny High , 30, American NBA basketballer (Phoenix Suns ), car accident.[ 50]
Kanam E. J. , 61, Indian novelist, short story writer and lyricist.
Heinz Kloss , 82, German linguist.[ 51]
Cemil Meriç , 70, Turkish writer and translator.[ 52]
Geraldine Page , 62, American actress (The Trip to Bountiful , Hondo , Summer and Smoke ), heart attack.[ 53]
14
Stanisław Bareja , 57, Polish filmmaker (Teddy Bear ).
Curt Boettcher , 43, American musician and record producer, heart attack.[ 54]
Les Favell , 57, Australian test cricketer.[ 55]
Burhanuddin Harahap , 70, Indonesian politician and lawyer, Prime Minister of Indonesia , heart attack.[ 56]
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
Harold F. Cherniss , 83, American classicist and historian of ancient philosophy.[ 63]
Jay Lawrence , 63, American stand-up comedian and actor.[ 64]
Bruce Marshall , 87, Scottish writer (Father Malachy's Miracle ).[ 65]
Georgy Nissky , 84, Soviet painter.[ 66]
Art Spector , 66, American NBA basketballer (Boston Celtics ).[ 67]
19
C. R. Cheney , 80, English medieval historian.[ 68]
Teresa Cormack , 6, New Zealand murder victim.
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.[ 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
Nicholas Alkemade , 64, British tail gunner in the R.A.F. during World War II, survived freefall of 5.5 km.[ 79]
Fred Astaire , 88, American actor, singer and dancer (Funny Face , The Towering Inferno ), pneumonia.[ 80]
Mao Bangchu , 83, Chinese army general.[ 81]
John Hewitt , 79, Northern Irish poet.[ 82]
Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali , 94, Moroccan Salafi .
Joseph Meyer , 93, American songwriter ("California, Here I Come "; "If You Knew Susie ").
Robert N. C. Nix Sr. , 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cardiac arrest.[ 83]
Frank Rehak , 60, American jazz trombonist, throat cancer.
23
Adrienne Gessner , 90, Austrian actress.[ 84]
Tito Lara , 54, Puerto Rican singer.
Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort , 90, British peeress, niece of Queen Mary .[ 85]
Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo , 86, Indonesian founder of the Subud movement.[ 86]
24
25
John Ness Beck , 56, American composer and arranger of choral music, cancer.
Boudleaux Bryant , 67, half of American husband-and-wife songwriting team ("Love Hurts ", "Wake Up Little Susie "), cancer.[ 89]
Nibaran Chandra Laskar , 85, Indian singer and politician, member of parliament.[ 90]
Tony Skyrme , 64, British physicist, embolism.[ 91]
26
Henk Badings , 80, Indonesian-born 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
Ratomir Dugonjić , 71, Yugoslavian politician and ambassador, president of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina .
Althea Flynt , 33, American co-publisher of Hustler magazine, wife of Larry Flynt , drowning after overdose.[ 98]
Pat McGuigan , 52, Irish singer.
Donald Nixon , 72, American brother of U.S. President Richard Nixon , pneumonia.[ 99]
František Šafránek , 56, Czechoslovakian international footballer (Dukla Prague , Czechoslovakia ), heart failure.[ 100]
W. Horace Schmidlapp , 71, American investment banker and Broadway producer, husband of Carole Landis .[ 101]
Billy Snedden , 60, Australian politician, speaker of the House of Representatives, Leader of the Opposition , heart attack.[ 102]
28
29
Elizabeth Cotten , 94, American folk and blues musician.[ 104]
C. Hamilton Ellis , 78, English railway writer and painter.[ 105]
Antonio Janni , 82, Italian football manager and international player (Torino , Italy ), Olympic medalist.[ 106]
Ērihs Pētersons , 77, Latvian international footballer (RFK Riga , Latvia ) and ice hockey player (Latvia ).
Murray Sanders , 77, American physician and military officer, biological warfare pioneer in World War II.[ 107]
Shmuel Tamir , 64, Israeli independence fighter and lawyer.[ 108]
30
Ramani Bartholomeusz , 20, Sri Lankan actress and model, Miss Sri Lanka 1985, pushed out of moving car.[ 109]
King Donovan , 69, American actor and director, cancer.[ 110]
Maurice Geraghty , 78, American screenwriter, film director and producer.
Li Hanhun , 91, Chinese army general.
Federico Mompou , 94, Spanish composer and pianist, respiratory failure.[ 111]
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