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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 1987.
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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.
1
- Dennis Coi, 26, Canadian figure skater, AIDS.
- Gerhard Fieseler, 91, German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion and aircraft designer and manufacturer.[1]
- Philip Friend, 72, British film and television actor (The Highwayman).
- Arnaldo Momigliano, 78, Italian historian of classical antiquity.[2]
- Alan Reid, 72, Australian political journalist, cancer.[3]
- Pinky Whitney, 82, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Phillies).[4]
2
- Cam Carreon, 50, American Major League baseballer (Chicago White Sox).[5]
- Brian Clay, 52, Australian rugby league footballer (St. George Dragons, Australia), heart disease.[6]
- LeGrande A. Diller, American general in the U.S. Army, cancer.[7]
- Ken Flower, 73, English-born Rhodesian police officer and intelligence chief, heart attack.[8]
- Remzi Aydın Jöntürk, 50, Turkish actor and screenwriter (Yarınsız Adam, Yıkılmayan Adam), traffic accident.
- Ramesh Naidu, 55, Indian composer, instrumentalist and singer.
- Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, 60, Argentine Army division general and politician, de facto President of Argentina.
- Stephen B. Small, 40, American businessman, kidnapped and held for ransom, asphyxiation during captivity.[9]
3
- Diana Caldwell, 73, English woman, best known for her part in the murder of Lord Erroll.[10]
- Carter W. Clarke, 90. American intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, heart attack.[11]
- Ned Day, 42, American journalist and newspaper reporter, heart attack.[12]
- Morton Feldman, 61, American composer, pancreatic cancer.[13]
- Maxwell Fry, 88, English architect and writer.[14]
- Doris Gates, 85, American writer of children's fiction (Blue Willow), heart attack.[15]
- Merlin Minshall, 80, British naval officer and adventurer.
- Aleksandr Nadiradze, 73, Georgian engineer, involved in militarising the Soviet space program.
- Viktor Nekrasov, 76, Soviet writer, journalist and editor, cancer.[16]
- Lee Theodore, 54, American Broadway theatre director and performer.[17]
- Rusty Wescoatt, 76, American supporting actor.
4
- Bill Bowes, 79, English test cricketer, player in the Bodyline series, heart attack.[18]
- George M. Chinn, 85, American weapons expert and soldier.[19]
- Richard Marquand, 49, Welsh film and television director (Return of the Jedi), stroke.[20]
5
- Richard D. Adams, 78, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.[21]
- Wolfgang Fortner, 79, German composer and conductor.[22]
- Scott Irwin, 35, American professional wrestler, brain tumour.
- Salvador Lutteroth, 90, Mexican professional wrestling promoter.
- Quinn Martin, 65, American television producer (The Fugitive), heart attack.[23]
6
- Jack d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 74, British Army general and politician, Member of Parliament.[24]
- Arun Kumar Choudhury, 64, Indian head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Calcutta.
- William Haley, 86, British newspaper editor and Director-General of the BBC.[25]
- Paul Hiebert, 95, Canadian writer and humorist (Sarah Binks).[26]
7
- Gordon Gollob, 75, Austrian fighter pilot during World War II, fighter ace.
- Harry Locke, 73, English actor.
8
- Robert Sharples, 74, British musical conductor, composer and bandleader.
- Margaret Mary Smith, 70, South African ichthyologist.[27]
9
- Sam Brody, 80, English-founding member of the Workers Film and Photo League, injuries from a fall.[28]
- Tom Davis, 76, Irish international footballer (New Brighton, Oldham Athletic, Ireland).
- Bill Fraser, 79, Scottish actor (When We Are Married), emphysema.
- Gunnar de Frumerie, 79, Swedish composer and pianist.
- Gerrit Jan Heijn, 56, Dutch businessman, murdered after abduction.[29]
- Vratislav Mazák, 50, Czech biologist specialising in paleoanthropology.
- Al Read, 78, British radio comedian, stroke.
- Dora Zaslavsky, 83, Russian-born American pianist.[30]
10
- Benjamin Howard Baker, 95, English international footballer (Corinthian), high jumper and triple jumper, dual Olympian.[31]
11
- Kerstin Bernadotte, 76, Swedish journalist and magazine editor.[32]
- Hugh David, 62, British actor and television director (Doctor Who).
- Charles Fleming, 71, New Zealand geologist and ornithologist.[33]
- Lorne Greene, 72, Canadian actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), pneumonia.[34]
- Harry Gale Nye Jr., 79, American entrepreneur and world champion sailor.[35]
- Hervey Rhodes, 92, British politician, Member of Parliament.[36]
- Sandilyan, 76, Indian writer.
- Manikuntala Sen, 75–76, member of the Communist Party of India.
- Nareshchandra Singh, 78, Indian ruler of Sarangarh State.
- Surendra, 76, Indian singer and actor.
- Peter Tosh, 42, Jamaican reggae singer and musician, murdered in home invasion.[37]
- Mahadevi Varma, 80, Indian poet and writer.[38]
- John Lloyd Waddy, 70, Australian officer in the Royal Australian Air Force and politician (New South Wales).[39]
- Frank Wiziarde, 71, American actor and television personality.[40]
12
- J. Lawton Collins, 91, American army general, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, cardiac arrest.[41]
- William Dickson, 88, British Royal Naval Air Service aviator, Chief of the Defence Staff.[42]
- John Qualen, 87, Canadian-born American actor, heart failure.[43]
- John J. Voll, 65, American officer in the U.S. Air Force, World War II flying ace.
13
- Aníbal Gordon, Argentinian suspected of being a leader of the Triple A death squad, lung cancer.[44]
- Mervyn LeRoy, 86, American film director and actor (The Wizard of Oz), heart issues.[45]
14
- Julien Kialunda, 37, Congolese international footballer (Anderlecht, Zaire), AIDS.[46]
- Erik Lundberg, 80, Swedish economist.[47]
- Stormont Mancroft, 73, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
- Arthur W. Vanaman, 95, American general in the U.S. Air Corps and Air Force.[48]
- Henry Wrigley, 95, Australian Air Vice Marshal in the Royal Australian Air Force.[49]
15
- David Akui, 67, American soldier, captured first Japanese prisoner of war in World War II.
- Wilhelm Berlin, 98, Nazi German general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.
- Leon Hirszman, 49, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (They Don't Wear Black Tie), AIDS.[50]
- Harry Holcombe, 80, American actor and radio director (Bonanza).[51]
- Moazzam Jah, 79, Indian royal, son of the last Nizam of Hyderabad.[52]
- Nilo Menéndez, 84, Cuban-born American songwriter ("Aquellos Ojos Verdes").[53]
- George Edward Pendray, 86, American author, founder of the American Interplanetary Society.[54]
- Joe Reisman, 62, American musician, bandleader and record producer, heart attack.[55]
16
- William Richard Joseph Cook, 82, British mathematician, leader in development of hydrogen bomb, stroke.[56]
- Simon Gipps-Kent, 28, English theatre and film actor, morphine poisoning.
- Howard Moss, 65, American poet and dramatist, heart attack.[57]
- Christopher Soames, 66, British politician, Member of Parliament, Governor of Southern Rhodesia, pancreatitis.[58]
17
- K. Jack Bauer, 62, American writer and naval historian, co-founder of North American Society for Oceanic History, heart attack.[59]
- Vladimir Basov, 64, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter, stroke.
- Francis E. Dorn, 76, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cancer.[60]
- George Dwyer, 78, English Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Birmingham.[61]
- Musa Gareyev, 65, Soviet Air Force squadron leader, cancer.[62]
- Carol Henry, 69, American actor.
- Henry Kroeger, 70, Russian-born Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta, lymphoma and pneumonia.
- Philip Wayne Powell, 73–74, American historian of the American Southwest and Spanish colonialism, heart attack.[63]
- Dieter Schidor, 39, German actor (Cross of Iron, Querelle), AIDS.
18
- Golbery do Couto e Silva, 76, Brazilian army general and politician, Chief of Staff of the Presidency.[64]
- Frederic Fitch, 79, American logician, professor at Yale University.[65]
- Olinka Hrdy, 85, American artist.
- Emil Schram, 93, American president of the New York Stock Exchange.[66]
- Américo Tomás, 92, Portuguese Navy officer and politician, President of Portugal, infection.[67]
19
- Lean Alejandro, 27, Filipino student leader and political activist, assassinated.[68]
- Betty Burbridge, 91, American screenwriter and actress.
- Einar Gerhardsen, 90, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway.[69]
- Nyamyn Jagvaral, 68, Mongolian politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural.
- Muhammad Mansuruddin, 83, Bangladeshi author, literary critic and essayist.
- Graciela Olivarez, 59, American lawyer, advocate for civil rights and for the poor.[70]
- Ralph Steinhauer, 82, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.[71]
- Ken Uston, 52, American blackjack player, heart failure.[72]
20
- George William Goddard, 98, English-born American general in the U.S. Air Force.[73]
- Greville Howard, 78, British politician, Member of Parliament.
- K. C. S. Mani, 65, Indian socialist activist, attempted to assassinate C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer.
- Michael Stewart, 63, American playwright, screenwriter and novelist, pneumonia.[74]
- Péter Török, 36, Hungarian international footballer (Vasas, Hungary).[75]
21
- Aimo Aaltonen, 81, Finnish politician, leader of Communist Party of Finland.
- Sven Andersson, 77, Swedish politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs.[76]
- Ruth Attaway, 77, American film and stage actress, injuries from a fire.[77]
- John Chandos, 70, Scottish film and television actor.
- William Kwai-sun Chow, 73, American martial artist.
- J. Clyde Morris, 78, American civic leader.
- Jaco Pastorius, 35, American jazz bassist and composer, brain hemorrhage after assault.[78]
22
- Hákun Djurhuus, 78, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.[79]
- H. R. Gross, 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, Alzheimer's disease.[80]
- Norman Luboff, 70, American music arranger and publisher, choir director, lung cancer.[81]
- Carman Maxwell, 84, American animator and voice actor (Bosko).[82]
- Dan Rowan, 65, American actor and comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), lymphoma.[83]
23
- Walter M. Baumhofer, 82, American illustrator.
- Bob Fosse, 60, American dancer, choreographer and director, heart attack.[84]
- Louis Kentner, 82, Hungarian and British pianist.
- Rajendra Krishan, 68, Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter.
- Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, 34, Dutch-born American wrestler, opera singer and actor, heart failure.
- O. B. McClinton, 47, American country music singer and songwriter, abdominal cancer.[85]
24
- Drew Bundini Brown, 59, American assistant trainer and cornerman of Muhammad Ali.[86]
- John Nelson Cooper, 80, American custom knifemaker, founding member of the Knifemakers' Guild.
- Damiaen Joan van Doorninck, 85, Dutch officer, lieutenant commander in the Royal Netherlands Navy Reserve.
- Erhard Kroeger, 82, Nazi German SS officer, involved in resettlement of Baltic Germans before World War II.
- Dorothy Meyer, 62, American film and television actress.
- Victor Mollo, 78, British contract bridge player, journalist and author, heart attack.[87]
- Joseph Tabenkin, 66, Israeli military commander.
25
- Mary Astor, 81, American actress (The Maltese Falcon), respiratory failure.[88]
- Gerald Chapman, 37, English theatre director, AIDS.[89]
- Duffy Daugherty, 72, American college football player and coach, kidney failure.[90]
- Hassan El-Hassani, 71, Algerian comedian.
- Harry Holtzman, 75, American artist and founding member of the American Abstract Artists, pancreatic cancer.[91]
- Victoria Kent, 90, Spanish lawyer and republican politician, heart attack.[92]
- Abba Kovner, 69, Lithuanian-born Israeli partisan leader, poet and writer, laryngeal cancer.[93]
- Gennady Mikhasevich, 40, Soviet serial killer, executed.
- Emlyn Williams, 81, Welsh writer and actor (Night Must Fall), bowel cancer.[94]
26
- Edgar Anstey, 80, British documentary filmmaker (Thirty Million Letters, Snow).[95]
- Ethel Catherwood, 79, Canadian high jumper and javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist.[96]
- Co Prins, 49, Dutch international footballer (Ajax, Netherlands), heart attack.[97]
- Andi Ramang, 63, Indonesian international footballer (Makassar, Indonesia).[98]
- Howard W. Robison, 71, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.[99]
- Sergio Santander, 33, Chilean race car driver, racing crash.
- Herbert Tichy, 75, Austrian writer and climber, made first ascent of Cho Oyu.
27
- John Newbold Camp, 79, American banker and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.[100]
- J. N. Findlay, 83, South African philosopher.[101]
- Robert Benjamin Greenblatt, 80–81, Canadian endocrinologist.[102]
- Maria Guardiola, 92, Portuguese politician, anti-feminist.[103]
- M. K. K. Nair, 66, Indian art connoisseur, officer of the Indian Administrative Service, cancer.
- Eddy de Wind, 71, Dutch Holocaust survivor, physician and psychoanalyst.[104]
28
- Willard Harrison Bennett, 84, American plasma physicist.[105]
- Roman Brandstaetter, 81, Polish writer, poet and playwright, heart attack.[106]
- Mehdi Hashemi, 42–43, Iranian Shi'a cleric, senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, executed.[107]
- Belle Linsky, 82–83, Ukrainian-born American businesswoman and philanthropist.[108]
- Ray Madden, 95, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cardiac arrhythmia.[109]
29
- Darach Ó Catháin, 64, Irish sean-nós singer.
- Elizabeth Eden, 41, American trans woman, pneumonia.[110]
- Henry Ford II, 70, American president of Ford Motor Company, pneumonia.[111]
- Vinodini Nilkanth, 80, Indian Gujarati writer.
- Sebastian Peschko, 77, German classical pianist.
- Mario Prestifilippo, 28, Italian member of the Sicilian Mafia, suspected murderer, shot.[112]
30
- Alfred Bester, 73, American science fiction author and scriptwriter (The Demolished Man), complications from broken hip.[113]
- Geoffrey Bowers, 33, American attorney, AIDS.[114]
- Geoffrey Burridge, 38, English theatre and television actor, AIDS.
- Herbert Sobel, 75, American soldier in World War II, his story featured in Band of Brothers, malnutrition.
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- A. K. Brohi, 72, Pakistani politician and lawyer.
- Ephraim Hertzano, 74–75, Romanian-born Israeli board game designer, inventor of the game Rummikub.
- Alice Rahon, 83, French-born Mexican poet and artist.[115]
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