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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 1988

1

• N. M. Bodecker, 66, Danish-born American author and illustrator of children's books (Tales of Magic), colon cancer.
• Marcel Bozzuffi, 58, French film actor (The French Connection).
• John Grist Brainerd, 83, American electrical engineer (ENIAC).
• Gerald Butler, 80, English writer of crime and thriller novels (Kiss the Blood Off My Hands; There Is a Death, Elizabeth).
• Ted Hill, 72, Australian barrister, lawyer and communist activist, chairman of the Communist Party of Australia.
• Thomas Francis Johnson, 78, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, car crash.
• Heather O'Rourke, 12, American child actress (Poltergeist), congenital stenosis of intestine.
• Stephen Taylor, 77, British physician and politician, member of the House of Lords.
• Eddie Townsend, 73, American professional boxing trainer, cancer.
• Marisa Vernati, 67, Italian actress.

2

• Richard Chase, 83, American folklorist.
• Caroline Chew, 86, American dancer.
• Solomon Cutner, 85, British pianist.
• Quamrul Hassan, 66, Bengali artist, heart attack.
• Thomas Lamb, 91, American industrial designer, pneumonia.
• Rossana Martini, 62, Italian actress and model.
• Normie Smith, 79, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Maroons).
• G. Mennen Williams, 76, American politician, Governor of Michigan, ambassador to the Philippines, stroke.

3

• Ronald Bladen, 69, Canadian-American painter and sculptor, cancer.
• Sam D'Allesandro, 31, American writer and poet, AIDS.
• Robert Duncan, 69, American poet, heart attack.
• Radamés Gnattali, 82, Brazilian composer and conductor.
• Werner Kissling, 92, German-born Scottish ethnographer and photographer.
• René Massigli, 99, French diplomat, ambassador to the U.K. and Turkey.
• Jocko Thompson, 71, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Phillies).
• Dymock Watson, 84, British Royal Navy officer, Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic.
• Lewis Wolberg, 82, American psychoanalyst (hypnoanalysis), heart attack.
• Sewall Wright, 98, American geneticist, fall.

4

• Clyde Coombs, 75, American psychologist (Coombs' method).
• Frank Giacoia, 63, American comics artist (Captain America, The Amazing Spider-Man).
• Dhamma Jagoda, 47, Sri Lankan theatre and television play director and actor.
• Bill Narduzzi, 51, American football player and coach, Hodgkin's disease.
• Jonas Turkow, 89, Polish-Israeli actor, director and writer.

5

• Ove Arup, 92, English engineer, design engineer for Sydney Opera House.
• Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, 73, American mathematician, president of the Mathematics Association of America.
• Bennie Dobbins, 55, American stuntman and actor (Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Ferris Bueller's Day Off), heart attack.
• Clement Hurd, 80, American illustrator of children's books (Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny), Alzheimer's disease.
• Emeric Pressburger, 85, Hungarian-born British film director and producer (49th Parallel), pneumonia.

6

• Gary Berland, 37, American professional poker player, blood disorder.
• Richard Bock, 61, American jazz record producer.
• Marghanita Laski, 72, English journalist and novelist, lung disease.
• Nick Pietrosante, 50, American NFL footballer (Detroit Lions), prostate cancer.
• Barclay Plager, 46, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues), brain cancer.
• Carmen Polo, 87, Spanish wife of Francisco Franco, bronchial pneumonia.
• Zvonimir Rogoz, 100. Croatian actor.

7

• Upendranath Barman, 88, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
• Lin Carter, 57, American science fiction and fantasy author (Ballantine Adult Fantasy series), cancer.
• Ray Martin, 69, Austrian-born British orchestra leader, cancer.
• Ririd Myddelton, 85, English High Sheriff of Denbighshire, Equerry to The Queen.
• Tony Santos Sr., 67, Filipino actor and director (Badjao: The Sea Gypsies).

8

• Pietro Arcari, 78, Italian footballer (AC Milan, Genoa).
• Dolores Camarillo, 77, Mexican actress (Ahí está el detalle).
• Allan Cuthbertson, 67, Australian-British actor (Fawlty Towers – Gourmet Night, Edge of Darkness).
• Santosh Dutta, 62, Bengali actor (Sonar Kella, Joi Baba Felunath).
• Ralph Flanagan, 69, American swimmer and Olympic medalist.
• Hans Krueger, 78, Nazi German Gestapo captain in occupied Poland, responsible for massacres against Poles and Jews.
• Daisy Turner, 104, American storyteller and poet.
• Frank Varey, 79, English speedway rider.
• Alfréd Wetzler, 69, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian writer (Vrba–Wetzler report).
• Helen Wood, 70, American film and radio actress.

9

• Kurt Herbert Adler, 69, Austrian-American conductor, heart attack.
• Ermal Allen, 69, American professional footballer (Cleveland Browns) and coach (Dallas Cowboys), cancer.
• Marjorie May Bacon, 86, British printmaker and painter.
• Henry Burrell, 83, Australian navy commander, vice admiral of the Royal Australian Navy.
• Israel Nathan Herstein, 64, Polish-born American mathematician (ring theory), cancer.
• Phillip Hutchinson, 24, American bank robber, murderer and escaped convict, shot by police.
• Charles Moses, 88, British-born Australian administrator, general manager of Australian Broadcasting Commission.
• Fritz Redl, 85, Austrian-American child psychoanalyst.
• William Sackville, 66, British peer, suicide.

10

• Nat Cohen, 82, British film producer (The Sleeping Tiger, The Tommy Steele Story, Carry On ...), heart attack.
• Alfred Eichner, 50, American economist.
• Cynthia Gooding, 63, American folk singer, cancer.
• Wolfgang Lange, 89, Nazi German army general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.
• Lothar Malskat, 74, German painter and art restorer.
• Don Patterson, 51, American jazz organist.
• Chaya Mushka Schneerson, 86, Russian-American wife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Jewish spiritual leader.

11

• Mary E. Black, 92, American waver and weaving instructor.
• Marion Crawford, 78, Scottish governess to Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth, cancer.
• René Hall, 75, American guitarist, heart disease.
• Virgil D. Hawkins, 81, American attorney, kidney failure.
• Gail L. Ireland, 92, American politician, Attorney General of Colorado.
• Amirteymour Kalali, 93, Iranian politician, member of the Parliament of Iran.

12

• Robert Coin, 86, French sculptor and engraver.
• Briggs Gordon, 38, American television host.
• Max Heine, 76–77, German-born American value investor and fund manager, traffic accident.
• Gustav Koranteng-Addow, 69, Ghanaian Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice.
• Bernard Lippmann, 73, American theoretical physicist (Lippmann–Schwinger equation in scattering theory).

13

• John Curulewski, 37, American musician, original member of Styx, brain aneurysm.
• Ron Embleton, 57, British illustrator and comics artist (Mickey Mouse Weekly, Penthouse), heart attack.
• Dorothy Kurgans Goldberg, 79, American artist and writer, Supreme Court justice, lung cancer.
• Léon Goossens, 90, English oboist.
• Ivan Peries, 66, Sri Lankan Artist.

14

• Nora Astorga, 39, Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter and politician, ambassador to the United Nations, cervical cancer.
• Frederick Loewe, 86, German-born American composer (My Fair Lady), cardiac arrest.
• Cal Niday, 73, American racecar driver, heart attack.
• Mark Serrurier, 83, American president of Moviola, Alzheimer's disease.
• Alfonso Valdés Cobián, 97, Puerto Rican industrialist and politician, cofounder of Cervecería India, heart attack.
• Lynette White, 20, Welsh murder victim.
• Joseph Wresinski, 71, French priest.

15

• Joseph O. Butcher, 75, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
• Pat Close, 39, American child actor (Imitation of Christ, Sunrise at Campobello), liver disease.
• Al Cohn, 62, American jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer, liver cancer.
• Richard Feynman, 69, American theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, kidney failure.
• Neil R. Jones, 78, American science fiction writer.
• Jay Leyda, 78, American filmmaker and film historian, heart failure.
• Francisco Manrique, 69, Argentinian naval officer and presidential candidate, lymphoma.
• Gardiner Means, 91, American economist (The Modern Corporation and Private Property), stroke.
• Arthur Mizener, 80, American professor of English and literary critic (The Far Side of Paradise), heart failure.

16

• Jean Carignan, 71, Canadian fiddler.
• Charles Delaunay, 77, French author and jazz expert, co-founder of Hot Club de France, Parkinson's disease.
• Hélène Gordon-Lazareff, 78, Russian-born French journalist.
• Vijaya Kumaratunga, 42, Sri Lankan actor, singer and politician, assassinated.
• Ye Shengtao, 93, Chinese writer, journalist and politician, Chinese Vice-Minister of Culture.

17

• John M. Allegro, 65, English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, heart attack.
• Alexander Bashlachev, 27, Soviet poet, singer-songwriter and guitarist, probable suicide.
• Yuri Ovchinnikov, 53, Soviet bio-organic chemist, contributed to Soviet biological weapons program.
• Veijo Pasanen, 57, Finnish actor (Pikku Kakkonen).
• Alain Savary, 69, French politician, Minister of National Education.
• Karpoori Thakur, 64, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar, cardiac arrest.
• Reginald Uren, 81, New Zealand architect.

18

• Michael Howard, 71, British actor and comedian.
• Walter Ohmsen, 76, Nazi German officer in the Kriegsmarine, first German to sight the D-Day naval force.
• Giovanni Savonuzzi, 77, Italian automobile designer (Cisitalia, Carrozzeria Ghia, Chrysler).

19

• Isabel Bishop, 85, American painter and graphic artist (Tidying Up), Parkinson's disease.
• René Char, 80, French poet, member of the French resistance, heart attack.
• André Cournand, 92, French-born American physician (cardiac catheterization), Nobel laureate in Medicine, pneumonia.
• William W. Eagles, 93, American general in the U.S. Army.
• Gloria Hollister, 87, American explorer and scientist (New York Zoological Society), cardiac arrest.
• S. V. Sahasranamam, 74, Indian actor and director, heart attack.
• Frank Strafaci, 71, American amateur golfer.
• Eric Stryker, 33, American gay pornographic performer and model, AIDS.

20

• MaKee K. Blaisdell, 56, American actor (Hawaiian Eye), heart failure.
• Bob O'Farrell, 91, American Major League baseballer (Chicago Cubs, New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals).
• Mildred Seydell, 98, American journalist.
• Roger J. Williams, 94, Indian-born American biochemist (nutrition), pneumonia.
• Jim Woods, 71, American Major League baseball sportscaster, cancer.

21

• Angie Debo, 98, American historian who focused on Native American and Oklahoma history.
• Cornelis van Eesteren, 90, Dutch architect and urban planner (Lelystad).
• David Otis Fuller, 84, American Baptist pastor.
• Aidan McAnespie, 23, Irish murder victim, killed by British soldier.
• Aleksandar Tomašević, 79, Serbian international footballer and manager (BASK, Yugoslavia).
• Heydar Yaghma, 64, Iranian poet.

22

• Charles L. Banks, 73, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps (Battle of Chosin Reservoir).
• Albert Collier, 78, Australian rules footballer (Collingwood).
• Barrie Heath, 71, British Royal Air Force pilot in the Battle of Britain.
• Afro Poli, 85, Italian operatic baritone.
• Pao Ming Pu, 77, Chinese mathematician (systolic geometry).
• Cecil Ramage, 93, Scottish barrister, actor and politician, Member of Parliament.
• Larry Shay, 90, American songwriter ("When You're Smiling"), lung cancer and emphysema.

23

• Edward Vaughan Bevan, 80, British rower and Olympic gold medalist.
• Pete Donohue, 87, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds).
• Joseph Karakis, 85, Ukrainian architect (National Museum of the History of Ukraine).
• Leroy Leblanc, 73, American swing musician.

24

• Irwin Chanin, 96, American architect and real estate developer (Richard Rodgers Theatre, The Century).
• Rose Coyle, 73, Miss America 1936.
• James H. Douglas Jr., 88, American lawyer, senior official in U.S. Government, Secretary of the Air Force, cancer.
• Memphis Slim, 72, American blues pianist, singer and composer ("Every Day I Have the Blues"), renal failure.
• Mamdouh Salem, 69, Prime Minister of Egypt.
• Timothy Scott, 32, American Broadway actor and dancer, AIDS.
• Seymour Siegel, 60, American rabbi, professor of Ethics and Theology.
• Bluma Zeigarnik, 87, Soviet psychologist.

25

• Bernard Ashmole, 93, British archaeologist and art historian.
• William Harold Cox, 86, American judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.
• Kurt Mahler, 84, German-born British-Australian mathematician (Mahler's inequality, Mahler's compactness theorem).
• Peck Morrison, 68, American jazz bassist.
• Dori Seda, 37, American comic artist, influenza.
• H. E. Todd, 80, English writer of children's fiction (Bobby Brewster).

26

• Edward Byrne, 22, American police officer, murdered in the line of duty.
• Kang Mun-bong, 64, South Korean military officer.
• Joseph Kiselewski, 87, American sculptor.
• Frane Milčinski, 73, Slovenian poet and writer (Twinkle Sleepyhead).

27

• Basil Boothroyd, 77, English humorous writer (Punch).
• George Clutesi, 83, Canadian artist, actor and writer (Dreamspeaker).
• Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers, 89, French excommunicated Catholic bishop.
• Franck Lavaud, 85, Haitian general and politician, president of Haiti.
• Gene de Paul, 68, American pianist, composer and songwriter ("Teach Me Tonight"), brain tumour.
• Kenneth Peach, 84, American cinematographer.
• Jack Roberts, 78, American judge.

28

• Beatrice Burns, 82, American First Lady of Hawaii, wife of John A. Burns.
• Irja Hagfors, 82, Finnish dance artist and choreographer.
• Edith North Johnson, 85, American blues singer, pianist and songwriter.
• Harvey Kuenn, 57, American Major League baseballer (Detroit Tigers, San Francisco Giants), heart disease and diabetes.
• Mikhail Naimy, 98, Lebanese poet, novelist and philosopher, pneumonia.
• Asakazu Nakai, 86, Japanese cinematographer (Stray Dog, Ran).
• Kylie Tennant, 75, Australian novelist, playwright and historian (Ride on Stranger).

29

• John Henry Guinness, 52, British chairman of Guinness Mahon, complications from a fall.
• Sidney Harmon, 80, American movie producer and screenwriter (The Talk of the Town).
• Paul Ramsey, 74, American Methodist ethicist, heart attack.
• Karl Zimmer, 76, German nuclear chemist, heart attack.

Unknown date

• John Smith, 49, English footballer (West Ham United).
• Dick Walker, 74, English footballer (West Ham United).

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123. Kutsch, Karl J. and Riemens, Leo (2004). "Poli, Afro". Großes Sängerlexikon 4th Edition, Vol. 1, p. 3715. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 359844088X (in German)
124. Frank Pao-Ming Pu. Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 2 Jul 2024.
125. Cecil Ramage Obituary, The Times (London, England), 26 February 1988
126. "Larry Shay, 90, Dies; Composer and Coach". The New York Times. February 24, 1988. p. D 26. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
127. Edward Bevan. olympedia.org. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
128. Pete Donohue #25. MLB.com. Retrieved 23 Sep 2024.
129. Joseph Karakis. WorldCat. Retrieved 2 Nov 2024.
130. McCall, Michael; Coffey, Kevin (2012). The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Oxford University Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0195395631.
131. Irwin Chanin, Builder of Theaters And Art Deco Towers, Dies at 96. New York Times. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
132. Coyle, Rose (1914–1988). Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2 Jun 2024.
133. "James H. Douglas Jr. Dead at 88; Served Presidents and the Military". The New York Times. February 28, 1988. p. 1 36. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
134. "Memphis Slim, Singer Of Blues, Is Dead at 72". The New York Times. February 27, 1988. p. 1 12. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
135. "Mamdouh Salem, 70; Was Egyptian Premier". The New York Times. February 26, 1988. p. D 17. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
136. Obituaries : Timothy Scott, 32; Danced in Hit ‘Cats’. L.A. Times. Retrieved 6 Jul 2024.
137. Rabbi Seymour Siegel, 61, Leader In Conservative Judaism, Is Dead. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024.
138. Bluma Zeigarnik: A Memoir. Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024.
139. Bernard Ashmole. The British Academy. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
140. William Harold Cox, Outspoken U.S. Judge. New York Times. Retrieved 2 Jun 2024.
141. Kurt Mahler 1903-1988. Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 21 Jun 2024.
142. Morrison, Peck. Library of Congress. Retrieved 26 Jun 2024.
143. "Lonely Nights Artist Dori Seda Dead At 37," The Comics Journal #121 (April 1988).
144. H. E. Todd. WorldCat (year of death only). Retrieved 2 Nov 2024.
145. Officer Guarding Drug Witness Is Slain. New York Times. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
146. Joseph Kiselewski. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 17 Jun 2024.
147. Frane Milčinski. WorldCat. Retrieved 2 Nov 2024.
148. Basil Boothroyd: Writer, Humorist, and Broadcaster. Lincoln Christ's Hospital School. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
149. Obituary for George C. Clutesi (Aged 83). Newspapers.com (Times Colonist). Retrieved 1 June 2024.
150. Obituaries : Gene Vincent de Paul, 68; Pianist and Composer. L.A. Times. Retrieved 4 Jun 2024.
151. Kenneth Peach papers, 1951-1982. UCLA Library Search. Retrieved 30 Jun 2024.
152. Roberts, Jack. Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved 3 Jul 2024.
153. Beatrice Burns eulogized as a woman of wit, compassion. Newspapers.com (Honolulu Star-Bulletin). Retrieved 30 May 2024.
154. Johnson Edith North. Oxford Reference. Retrieved 15 Jun 2024.
155. "Harvey Kuenn, 57, Ex-Manager Of Milwaukee Brewers, Is Dead". The New York Times. February 29, 1988. p. D 15. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
156. "Mikhail Naimy Is Dead; Lebanese Poet Was 98". The New York Times. March 1, 1988. p. D 23. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
157. Kylie Tennant, acclaimed author, dies aged 75. Trove (Canberra Times). Retrieved 12 Jul 2024.
158. Sidney Harmon, 80; Producer. L.A. Times. Retrieved 11 Jun 2024.
159. Dr. Paul Ramsey, 74, a Professor At Princeton for 4 Decades, Dies. New York Times. Retrieved 3 Jul 2024.
160. "Karl Günther Zimmer (1911-1988)". Radiation Research. 1988. Retrieved September 20, 2024.
161. John Smith. West Ham Stats (year of death only). Retrieved 14 Jul 2024.
162. Richard Walker. West Ham Stats (year of death only). Retrieved 14 Jul 2024.

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