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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.
• Jim Jordan, 91, American actor (Fibber McGee and Molly), stroke resulting from fall.
• Ginette Spanier, 84, French director of the House of Balmain.
• April Tinsley, 8, American murder victim.

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

• Gunārs Astra, 56, Latvian human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident, heart disease.
• John Clements, 77, British actor and producer (Knight Without Armour, South Riding).
• 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.
• Émile Roumer, 85, Haitian poet.

7

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

8

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

9

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

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.
• Cliff Gladwin, 72, English test cricketer (Derbyshire, England).
• Woody Kling, 62, American television writer, producer and composer, brain and lung cancer.
• Ezekias Papaioannou, 79, Greek Cypriot politician.

11

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

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.
• Hartmann Lauterbacher, 78, Nazi German Deputy Reichsjugendführer, Stabsführer of Hitler Youth, unconvicted war criminal.
• Harry McShane, 96, Scottish socialist.
• Alan Paton, 85, South African writer and anti-Apartheid activist (Cry, the Beloved Country, Too Late the Phalarope), cancer.
• George Rock, 68, American trumpeter and singer (Spike Jones and his City Slickers).
• Frank Skaff, 77, American Major League baseballer (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Athletics), heart attack.

13

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

14

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

15

• Rosemary Ames, 81, American film actress (Mr. Quincey of Monte Carlo, One More Spring).
• George E. Mylonas, 89, Greek archaeologist, heart attack.
• 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.

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

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.
• 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.
• Morris Rudensky, 89, American prohibition-era gangster.

22

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

23

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

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.
• Jonathan Woodner, 44, American real estate developer and road racing driver, air crash.

25

• René Cardona, 82, Mexican director and actor, (Allá en el Rancho Grande, Santa Claus).
• Lygia Clark, 67, Brazilian artist, co-founded the Neo-Concrete movement, heart attack.
• Carolyn Franklin, 43, American singer-songwriter, sister of Aretha Franklin ("Ain't No Way"), breast cancer.
• Erik Hysén, 81, Swedish footballer (IFK Göteborg).
• Ken Jones, 60, British conductor and composer of film and television music.
• Michael Lantz, 80, American sculptor, president of the National Sculpture Society, stroke.
• Burnita Shelton Matthews, 93, American judge of the United States District Court, stroke.
• Sir Hugh Rankin, 88–89, Tunisian-born British eccentric, president of the British Muslim Society.
• Lanny Ross, 82, American singer, pianist and songwriter, heart failure.
• Clifford D. Simak, 83, American science fiction writer (Way Station, The Visitors).
• Valerie Solanas, 52, American author and feminist, attempted to murder Andy Warhol, pneumonia.
• 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.
• William Fox-Pitt, 92, English general in the British Army.
• Guillermo Haro, 75, Mexican astronomer (Herbig–Haro objects).
• Desmond Hoare, 77, British Royal Navy engineer officer.
• Frederick D. Patterson, 86, American academic administrator, founder of the United Negro College Fund, heart attack.
• Marian Porwit, 92, Polish military officer, colonel in the Polish Army.
• Bennett Stewart, 75, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
• Arbee Stidham, 71, American blues singer ("My Heart Belongs to You").

27

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

28

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

29

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

30

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

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131. Olaf Wieghorst, 88, Artist, Dies; 3 Presidents Owned His Works. New York Times. Retrieved 16 Jul 2024.
132. New Perspectives: Journal of the World Peace Council. Information Centre of the WPC. 1988. p. 30.
133. Obituaries: William P. Gale; Led Several Racist Groups. L.A. Times. Retrieved 8 Jun 2024.
134. "Michael Grumley; Author, 46". The New York Times. April 30, 1988. p. 1 11. Retrieved April 16, 2024.
135. Armenian Guerrilla Leader Slain in Ambush Outside Athens Home. L.A. Times. Retrieved 12 Jun 2024.
136. Maxim Mazumdar (Class of 1967). Old Campionites Association. Retrieved 22 Jun 2024.
137. Country-pop singer B.W. Stevenson dies. United Press International. Retrieved 10 Jul 2024.
138. Death of Andrew Cruickshank. Audio new report. Retrieved 2 Jun 2024.
139. "Irving Kolodin, Music Critic, Dies; Historian of Met Opera Was". The New York Times. April 30, 1988. p. 1 11. Retrieved April 16, 2024.
140. James McCracken, Lauded Tenor And Pillar of the Met, Dies at 61. New York Times. Retrieved 22 Jun 2024.
141. Tuggener, Jakob 1904-1988. Encyclopedia.com (year of death only). Retrieved 12 Jul 2024.
142. Martin Wyldeck. The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 16 Jul 2024.
143. Lola Hoffman. Universidad de Sevilla. Retrieved 13 Jun 2024.
144. Carroll Righter Dies; Hollywood Astrologer. New York Times. Retrieved 3 Jul 2024.
145. Newspaper article – ‘No tears as Witch laid to rest’. alexandrianwitchcraft.org. Retrieved 5 Jul 2024.

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