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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 1988.
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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
- Luis Walter Alvarez, 77, American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics (Alvarez hypothesis), esophageal cancer.[1]
- Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad, 58, Indian politician and cricketer, Maharaja of Baroda, member of Lok Sabha.[2]
- Hugh Hunt, 86, American set decorator (Ben-Hur, Julius Caesar).[3]
- Gerald Mast, 48, American author and film historian, AIDS.[4]
- Robert Menaker, 84, American exporter, allegedly worked for Soviet intelligence during World War II.[5]
- Esmeralda Ruspoli, 60, Italian actress (Seven Seas to Calais, Romeo and Juliet).
- Leonor Sullivan, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.[6]
2
- Alexander Aigner, 79, Austrian mathematician (Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht).
- Dorothy Crawford, 77, Australian actress, co-founded Crawford Productions with her brother Hector Crawford.[7]
- Jim Bagby Jr., 71, American Major League baseballer (Cleveland Indians).[8]
- Erik Frey, 80, Austrian film actor.[9]
- Gibril Sesay, 79, Sierra Leonean diplomat, ambassador to Egypt.[10]
- Robert Watts, 65, American artist, lung cancer.[11]
3
- John Goodison, 44–45, English rock musician, songwriter and record producer ("Give a Little Love"), heart attack.[12]
- Ferit Melen, 81, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey, heart condition.[13]
- Ewing Mitchell, 77, American actor (Sky King, The Adventures of Champion), stroke.[14]
- Ferenc Sas, 73, Hungarian international footballer (Hungária MTK, Hungary).[15]
- Bibi Torriani, 76, Swiss ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.[16]
4
- Joseph Ceravolo, 54, American poet, bile duct cancer.[17]
- Leonard Huxley, 86, English-born Australian physicist, Rhodes Scholar.[18]
5
- Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare, 72, Indian politician, Governor of Andhra Pradesh.
- Lawrence Brown, 81, American jazz trombonist (Duke Ellington orchestra), stroke.[19]
- Gert Fröbe, 75, German actor (Goldfinger, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines), heart attack.[20]
- Boris Smyslovsky, 90, Russian-Finnish general.[21]
6
- Leroy Brown, 37, American professional wrestler, stroke.
- Frank Burke, 69, American officer in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient.[22]
- Autry Inman, 59, American country and rockabilly musician.[23]
- Myrtle Byram McGraw, 89, American psychologist and neurobiologist, pneumonia.[24]
- Harold Rosson, 93, American cinematographer (The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain).[25]
- Karni Singh, 64, Indian Maharaja of Bikaner, member of Lok Sabha.[26]
- Dan Spring, 77, Irish Labour Party politician (Teachta Dála) and Gaelic footballer (Kerry).[27]
- Stefan Themerson, 78, Polish-English writer of children's literature, poet and novelist.[28]
7
- Abdul Haq Akorwi, 76, Pakistani Islamic scholar and politician (National Assembly).
- Gaja Alaga, 64, Croatian theoretical physicist (nuclear physics).
- Sedad Hakkı Eldem, 80, Turkish architect (Istanbul Justice Palace).[29]
- Vivi Janiss, 77, American actress (The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues, Man on the Prowl, First, You Cry).[30]
8
- Janine Balding, 20, Australian murder victim.[31]
- G. M. Durrani, 68–69, Indian radio drama artist, playback singer and actor.
9
- Mona Best, 64, Indian-born British owner of the Casbah Coffee Club, mother of Pete Best, heart attack.[32]
- Leroy McGuirk, 77, American professional wrestler and promoter.
10
- Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 56, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (Macunaíma).
- Jaclyn Dowaliby, 7, American murder victim.[33]
- Jam Ghulam Qadir Khan, 68, Pakistani Chief Minister of Balochistan, heart failure.[34]
- Virginia Satir, 72, American author and psychotherapist, pancreatic cancer.[35]
11
- Wilhelm Batz, 72, Nazi German Luftwaffe fighter ace.[36]
- Roger Hargreaves, 53, British cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books (Mr. Men Little Miss, Timbuctoo), stroke.[37]
- Julius Mackerle, 79, Czechoslovakian inventor and automobile engineer.
- Fiqrete Shehu, 68, Albanian politician, wife of Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu.
- John Sylvester White, 68, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter).[38]
12
- Alan Bible, 78, American lawyer and politician, Nevada Attorney General, United States Senator, respiratory illness.[39]
- Hans Frei, 66, American biblical scholar, stroke.[40]
- Stephen B. Grimes, 61, English production designer and art director (Out of Africa).
- Margaret McFarland, 83, American child psychologist, consultant to TV show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, myelofibrosis.[41]
- Bill Mitchell, 76, American automobile designer (General Motors), heart failure.[42]
- John D. J. Moore, 77, American lawyer and business executive, ambassador to Ireland, bone cancer.[43]
- Lauris Norstad, 81, American general in the US Army and Air Force, cardiac arrest.[44]
- Charlie Palmieri, 60, Puerto Rican bandleader, heart attack.[45]
- Mars Ravelo, 71, Filipino comic book cartoonist and graphic novelist, heart attack.
13
- Julian Banzon, 80, Filipino biochemist (alternative fuels).[46]
- Gerd Hornberger, 78. German sprinter and Olympic medalist.[47]
- Christian Kampmann, 49, Danish writer and journalist, murdered.
- Peter Young, 73, British Army officer and military historian, founded The Sealed Knot.[48]
14
- Donald Albery, 74, English theatre impresario, director and administrator of the London Festival Ballet.[49]
- William Edward Cousins, 86, American Roman Catholic bishop, Archbishop of Milwaukee.[50]
- Roy Dutton, 71, British Royal Air Force officer and flying ace.[51]
15
- Samuel E. Beetley, 74, American film editor (The Longest Day, Doctor Dolittle).
- Frank Francis, 86, English academic librarian and curator (British Museum).[52]
- Henry Wallich, 74, German-born American economist, columnist for Newsweek magazine, member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.[53]
16
- Axel von Ambesser, 78, German playwright, actor and film director.[54]
- Becky Bell, 17, American teenage girl, septic abortion.[55]
- Max Loehr, 84, German art historian and professor of Chinese art, Parkinson's disease.[56]
- Richard Paul Lohse, 86, Swiss painter and graphic artist.[57]
- Dick Pym, 95, English international footballer (Bolton Wanderers, England).[58]
- Ramon S. Subejano, 82–83, Filipino-American soldier.[59]
- Bob Trice, 62, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia / Kansas City Athletics).[60]
17
- Nellie Beer, 88, British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester.[61]
- Sir John Biggs-Davison, 70, British politician, Member of Parliament.[62]
- Walter P. Chrysler Jr., 79, American art collector and theatre and film producer (Chrysler Museum of Art), cancer.[63]
- Roman Davydov, 75, Soviet animator and artist (Adventures of Mowgli).[64]
- Beulah Mae Donald, 67, American woman who successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan.[65]
- Hilde Güden, 71, Austrian soprano (Vienna State Opera).[66]
- Nat Jackley, 79, English comic actor, cancer.
- Emment Kapengwe, 45, Zambian footballer (Aston Villa, Zambia), stroke.
- Rowena Reed Kostellow, 88, American industrial designer and professor (Pratt Institute), heart attack.[67]
- Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox, 71, aspirant head of the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii.[68]
18
- Ho Chong, 92, South Korean politician, President of South Korea.[69]
- Kathleen Collins, 46, American poet, filmmaker and civil rights activist (Losing Ground), breast cancer.[70]
- David Dodd, 93, American financial analyst and author (Security Analysis), respiratory failure.[71]
- John Elliot, 90, British transport and railway manager (Southern Railway, British Railways).[72]
- Albert E. Jenner Jr., 81, American lawyer, assistant counsel to Warren Commission, Watergate counsel, neurological disease.[73]
- David McFall, 68, Scottish sculptor.[74]
- Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, 82, Iranian poet (Heydar Babaya Salam).
- Alan Watt, 87, Australian diplomat, secretary of the Department of External Affairs.[75]
19
- P. Shilu Ao, 71, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Nagaland.
- Michael Fessier, 82, American screenwriter and film producer.[76]
- P. A. P. Moran, 71, Australian statistician (probability theory, population and evolutionary genetics), stroke.[77]
- Eduard Pestel, 74, German industrial designer, economist and politician.[78]
- Win Maw Oo, 16, Burmese student activist, killed during the 8888 uprising.[79]
20
- Tim Davis, 44, American drummer, singer and songwriter, co-founded the Steve Miller Band, diabetes.
- Roy Kinnear, 54, English actor and comedian (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), heart attack following horse fall.[80]
- Eileen O'Faolain, 88, Irish writer of children's books, stroke.[81]
- Walter Reckless, 89, American criminologist (containment theory).[82]
- Doris Wells, 44, Venezuelan actress, writer and producer.
- Sam Woodyard, 63, American jazz drummer, cancer.[83]
21
- Rudi Alvađ, 59, Serbian half of comedy duo Momo and Uzeir.
- Harold Balfour, 90, British politician, Member of Parliament, Under-Secretary of State for Air.[84]
- Glenn Robert Davis, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[85]
- Robert Gwathmey, 85, American painter, Parkinson's disease.[86]
- Henry Koster, 83, German-American film director, liver cancer.[87]
- Christine Norden, 63, British actress (An Ideal Husband, Mine Own Executioner), pneumonia.[88]
- S. B. P. Pattabhirama Rao, 76, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
- Zubeida, 76–77, Indian actress (Alam Ara, Devdas).
22
- Rais Amrohvi, 74, Pakistani scholar, poet and psychoanalyst, assassinated.[89]
- Maximilian von Fürstenberg, 83, Dutch-Belgian Roman Catholic cardinal, cerebral hemorrhage.[90]
23
- Mary Colvin, 80, English director of the Women's Royal Army Corps.[91]
- Tom Hawkins, 61, American writer, probable author of the Wanda Tinasky letters, murder-suicide.[92]
- Arwel Hughes, 79, Welsh orchestral conductor and composer.[93]
- Trilok Kapoor, 76, Indian actor.
- Phil Leslie, 79, American comedy writer, cancer.[94]
- Lyell McEwin, 91, Australian politician, president of the South Australian Legislative Council.[95]
- Tibor Sekelj, 76, Hungarian-born Yugoslavian polyglot and world-traveller.[96]
24
- Aziz Suryal Atiya, 90, Egyptian Coptic historian, founder of the Institute of Coptic Studies.[97]
- Basil de Ferranti, 58, British businessman and politician, member of the House of Commons, cancer.[98]
- Nancy Hale, 80, American novelist (The Prodigal Women), stroke.[99]
- Joe Don Looney, 45, American NFL footballer (Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins), motorcycle accident.[100]
- Shamsul Huda Panchbagi, 90–91, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician, member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly.
25
- bpNichol, 43, Canadian poet and writer.[101]
- James L. Buie, 68, American scientist and inventor (transistor–transistor logic), emphysema.[102]
- Billy Carter, 51, American farmer, businessman and politician, brother of Jimmy Carter, pancreatic cancer.[103]
- Nipper Pat Daly, 75, British boxer.
- Francis DeSales, 76, American actor (Two Faces West, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), cancer.[104]
- Antonino Saetta, 65, Italian magistrate, assassinated.[105]
- Arthur Võõbus, 79, Estonian theologian.[106]
26
- Guillermo Battaglia, 88, Argentine film actor (La Historia Oficial), heart attack.
- Alister Clarke, 71, Australian rugby league player (St. George, Canterbury).[107]
- Paul Cowan, 48, American journalist (The Village Voice), leukemia.[108]
- Bruce Haack, 57, Canadian musician and composer, heart failure.[109]
- Lincoln Hudson, 72, U.S. Army Air Force officer in World War II.[110]
- Lord Melody, 62, Trinidadian singer ("Shame and Scandal"), cancer.[111]
- Sergey Shcherbakov, 26–27, Soviet serial killer, executed.
- Branko Zebec, 59, Yugoslavian international footballer (Partizan Belgrade, Yugoslavia), alcohol-related illness.[112]
27
- Teofilo Camomot, 74, Filipino Roman Catholic Archbishop, car accident.[113]
- Demetrius Comino, 85, Australian engineer and inventor (Slotted angle), founded the Comino Foundation, heart attack.[114]
- Willis Edwards, 85, English international footballer (Leeds United, England).[115]
- George Grant, 69, Canadian philosopher and professor.[116]
- J. C. Heard, 71, American swing, bop and blues drummer, heart attack.[117]
- Ken McIver, 59, Australian politician, member of the Parliament of Western Australia.[118]
- Paul Reinman, 78, American comic book artist (The Incredible Hulk, X-Men).[119]
- William V. Shannon, 61, American journalist and author, ambassador to Ireland, lymphoma.[120]
28
- Margerie Bonner, 83, American actress, scriptwriter and novelist, wife of Malcolm Lowry.[121]
- Frank Caplan, 77, English-born American toy collector and manufacturer, pneumonia.[122]
- Ethel Grandin, 94, American silent-screen actress.[123]
- Charles R. Jonas, 83, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.[124]
- Beldon Katleman, 74, American businessman (El Rancho Vegas).
- Vicko Krstulović, 83, Yugoslav communist politician, President of the Presidium of the Croatian Parliament.
29
- Charles Addams, 76, American cartoonist (The Addams Family), heart attack.[125]
- Barney Josephson, 86, American founder of Café Society in New York, hemorrhage.[126]
30
- Chick Chandler, 83, American film actor (Soldiers of Fortune), heart attack.[127]
- Al Holbert, 41, American car racing driver, aeroplane crash.[128]
- Dhulappa Bhaurao Navale, 78, Indian freedom fighter.
- Joachim Prinz, 86, German-American rabbi, heart attack.[129]
- Chino Roces, 75, Filipino businessman and newspaper owner and publisher (The Manila Times), cancer.[130]
- David E. Satterfield III, 67, American lawyer and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.[131]
- Eddie Shimwell, 68, English international footballer (Blackpool).[132]
- Muriel S. Snowden, 72, American founder and director of Freedom House, cancer.[133]
- Trường Chinh, 81, Vietnamese communist political leader, President of Vietnam, fall.[134]
Unknown date
- Harry Jeffra, 73, American boxer, world bantamweight and featherweight champion.
- Prentice Moreland, 63, American R&B singer.
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