Deaths in June 1987

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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[edit]

1[edit]

• Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, 72, Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist and journalist.
• Errol Barrow, 67, Caribbean statesman, Prime Minister of Barbados.^[1]
• Francis B. Burch, 68, American politician, Attorney General of state of Maryland.
• Rashid Karami, 65, Lebanese statesman, Prime Minister of Lebanon, assassinated.

2[edit]

• Klaus Gamber, 70, German Catholic liturgist.
• Sammy Kaye, 77, American bandleader and songwriter.^[2]
• François Perroux, 83, French economist, professor at the Collège de France.
• Andrés Segovia, 94, Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist, heart attack.

3[edit]

• Bruno Bernard, 75, American photographer known for pin-up photography of Marilyn Monroe, cancer.^[3]
• Jackie Fields, 79, American professional boxer, world welterweight champion.
• Curt McDowell, 42, American underground filmmaker, AIDS.
• Malcolm McLeod, 73, American law enforcement officer, Sheriff of Robeson County, North Carolina, heart attack.
• Alan Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 52, British landowner and hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords.
• Will Sampson, 53, American painter, actor and rodeo performer, post-operative kidney failure.^[4]
• Herbert Schultze, 77, German submarine commander during World War II.

4[edit]

• Maurizio Vitale Cesa, 41, Italian entrepreneur and sportswear inventor.
• Ann Evers, 71, American film actress.
• Noel Guillen, 60, Trinidadian cricketer.
• Dean Moon, 60, American automobile designer.

5[edit]

• Mansel Carter, 85, American businessman and prospector, cancer.
• Vasant Kumar Pandit, 66, Indian politician, member of parliament.

6[edit]

• Alexander Altmann, 81, Austro-Hungarian–born American Orthodox Jewish scholar and rabbi.
• Colin Colahan, 90, Australian painter and sculptor.
• Fulton Mackay, 64, Scottish actor and playwright, stomach cancer.
• Mari Mori, 84, Japanese author, heart failure.
• Richard Münch, 71, German actor.
• Eduard Petiška, 63, Czechoslovakian writer.
• Aneesur Rahman, 59, Indian-American physicist.
• Dragan Sotirović, 74, Serbian-Major in the Yugoslavian Army.

7[edit]

• John Blofeld, 74, British writer on Asian thought and religion, cancer.
• Shosei Go, 70, Taiwanese baseballer who played in Japan.
• Hashimoto Mantaro, 54, Japanese sinologist and linguist.
• Herbert M. Seneviratne, 61, Sri Lankan lyricist and actor.
• Cahit Zarifoğlu, 46, Turkish poet and writer.

8[edit]

• Gary Driscoll, 41, American R&B-style drummer, murdered.
• George Finey, 92, Australian newspaper artist.
• Yogi Horton, 33, American R&B, funk, jazz and rock drummer, suicide.
• Alexander Iolas, 79, Egyptian-Greek-American art gallerist, AIDS.^[5]
• Daniel Mandell, 91, American film editor.^[6]
• Jacques Fred Petrus, 39, West Indian-businessman and a pioneer of post-disco music, murdered.

9[edit]

• Kenneth Althaus, 91, American brigadier general in the U.S. Army.
• Raya Dunayevskaya, 77, Russian-American philosopher, founder of Marxist humanism in the United States.
• Monique Haas, 77, French pianist.
• Gustaf Håkansson, 101, Swedish cyclist who cycled the length of Sweden in a race at age 66.
• Louis Van Iersel, 93, American sergeant in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Madge Kennedy, 96, American stage, film and television actress, respiratory failure.^[7]
• Grandon Rhodes, 82, American actor.
• Wilhelm Runge, 91, German electrical engineer and physicist.

10[edit]

• Daud Beureueh, 87, Indonesian military Governor of Aceh.
• Shamraj Bhalerao, 88, Indian noble.
• Elizabeth Hartman, 43, American stage and screen actress, suicide by jumping.^[8]
• Jeevan, 71, Indian actor.
• Alain Montpetit, 36, Canadian television and radio personality and actor, overdose.
• Booty Wood, 67, American jazz trombonist.

11[edit]

• Ralph Guldahl, 75, American professional golfer.^[9]
• 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, overdose.

12[edit]

• Tuvia Bielski, 81, Belarusian militant, leader of the Bielski group.
• Bill Edwards, 81, American football player and NFL coach.
• Paul Janes, 75, German international footballer.
• C. F. Russell, 90, American occultist.
• Apostol Sokolov, 69, Bulgarian footballer.
• Józef Tusk, 80, Polish luthier, grandfather of Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk.

13[edit]

• Huck Betts, 90, American Major League baseballer.
• Vera Caspary, 87, American screenwriter, novelist and playwright, stroke.^[10]
• Bernard Hesling, 82, British-Australian muralist and painter.
• Johnny High, 30, American NBA basketballer, car accident.
• Kanam E. J., 61, Indian novelist, short story writer and lyricist.
• Heinz Kloss, 82, German linguist.
• Cemil Meriç, 70, Turkish writer and translator.
• Geraldine Page, 62, American film, stage and television actress, heart attack.^[11]

14[edit]

• Stanisław Bareja, 57, Polish filmmaker.
• Curt Boettcher, 43, American musician and record producer, complications of treatment for lung infection.
• Les Favell, 57, Australian test cricketer.
• Burhanuddin Harahap, 70, Indonesian politician and lawyer, Prime Minister of Indonesia.

15[edit]

• Walter Heller, 71, American economist, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.
• J. M. Johnson, 75, Nigerian politician and Federal Cabinet Minister.

16[edit]

• Marguerite de Angeli, 98, American writer and illustrator of children's books.
• June Knight, 74, American theatre and film actress and singer, stroke.
• Wandjuk Marika, 56–57, Aboriginal Australian painter, actor, composer and indigenous land rights activist.
• 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.^[12]

17[edit]

• Dick Howser, 51, American Major League baseballer, brain tumour.^[13]

18[edit]

• Harold F. Cherniss, 83, American classicist and historian of ancient philosophy.^[14]
• Jay Lawrence, 63, American stand-up comedian and actor.
• Bruce Marshall, 87, Scottish writer.
• Georgy Nissky, 84, Soviet painter.
• Art Spector, 66, American basketballer.

19[edit]

• C. R. Cheney, 80, English medieval historian.
• Ian Donald, 76, English physician, pioneered diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics.
• Joseph Schwab, 26, German spree killer in Australia, shot by police.
• Pearl Vasudevi, 72, Sri Lankan actress.

20[edit]

• Salim Ali, 90, Indian ornithologist and naturalist, prostate cancer.^[15]
• Frederic B. Butler, 90, American officer in the U.S. Army in World War 2.
• Leonid Kharitonov, 57, Soviet actor, stroke.
• Hiro Saga, 73, Japanese noblewoman and memoir writer.

21[edit]

• Mariano Cañardo, 81, Spanish road racing cyclist.
• Abram Chasins, 83, American composer, pianist, music broadcaster and author.^[16]
• Eastman Jacobs, 84–85, American aerodynamicist.
• Madman Muntz, 73, American businessman, engineer and car salesman.
• Kyril Vassilev, 79, Bulgarian-American portrait painter, heart-attack.^[17]
• Phil Weintraub, 79, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.

22[edit]

• Nicholas Alkemade, 64, British tail gunner in the R.A.F. during World War II, survived freefall of 5.5 km.
• Fred Astaire, 88, American actor, singer and dancer, pneumonia.^[18]
• Mao Bangchu, 83, Chinese army major general.
• John Hewitt, 79, Northern Irish poet.
• Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali, 94, Moroccan Salafi.
• Joseph Meyer, 93, American songwriter.
• Robert N. C. Nix Sr., 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.^[19]
• Frank Rehak, 60, American jazz trombonist, throat cancer.

23[edit]

• Adrienne Gessner, 90, Austrian actress.
• Tito Lara, 54, Puerto Rican singer.
• Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, 90, British peeress, niece of Queen Mary.
• Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo, 86, Indonesian founder of the Subud movement.

24[edit]

• Linc Chamberland, 46, American jazz guitarist, leukemia.
• Jackie Gleason, 71, American actor and comedian.
• Hines Johnson, 76, Jamaican Test cricketer for the West Indies.

25[edit]

• John Ness Beck, 56, American composer and arranger of choral music, cancer.
• Boudleaux Bryant, 67, half of American husband-and-wife country music and pop songwriting team.
• Nibaran Chandra Laskar, 85, Indian singer and politician, member of parliament.
• Tony Skyrme, 64, British physicist, embolism.

26[edit]

• Henk Badings, 80, Indonesian-Dutch composer.
• Arthur F. Burns, 83, Austro-Hungarian–born American economist and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.^[20]
• George Johnson, 74, American jazz reedist.
• Wayne Meylan, 41, American NFL footballer, plane crash.
• Richard Pim, 86, British civil servant and naval officer.
• Gerhard Wagner, 88, German naval rear admiral.
• Tony Webster, 65, American screenwriter.

27[edit]

• Ratomir Dugonjić, 71, Yugoslavian partisan fighter, politician, and ambassador.
• Althea Flynt, 33, American co-publisher of pornographic magazine Hustler, wife of Larry Flynt, drowned in bathtub after overdose.^[21]
• Pat McGuigan, 52, Irish singer.
• Donald Nixon, 72, American brother of U.S. President Richard Nixon, pneumonia.
• František Šafránek, 56, Czechoslovakian international footballer, heart failure.
• W. Horace Schmidlapp, 71, American investment banker and Broadway producer.
• Billy Snedden, 60, Australian politician, speaker of the House of Representatives, heart attack.

28[edit]

• Gajananrao Joshi, 76, Indian vocalist and violinist.
• Jim Taylor, 86, Australian-Papua New Guinean explorer.

29[edit]

• Elizabeth Cotten, 94, American folk and blues musician.^[22]
• C. Hamilton Ellis, 78, English railway writer and painter.
• Antonio Janni, 82, Italian football manager and international player, Olympic medalist.
• Ēriks Pētersons, 77, Latvian international footballer and ice hockey player.
• Murray Sanders, 77, American physician and military officer, and biological warfare pioneer during World War II.
• Shmuel Tamir, 64, Israeli independence fighter and lawyer.^[23]

30[edit]

• Ramani Bartholomeusz, 20, Sri Lankan actress and model, Miss Sri Lanka 1985, pushed out of moving car.
• King Donovan, 69, American film, stage and television actor and director, cancer.^[24]
• Maurice Geraghty, 78, American screenwriter, film director and producer.
• Li Hanhun, 91, Chinese army general.
• Federico Mompou, 94, Spanish composer and pianist, respiratory failure.^[25]

Unknown date[edit]

• Glen Daly, 66–67, Scottish singer and entertainer.
• Georges Doriot, 87, French-American academic, businessman and financier, lung cancer.
• John J. Reynolds, 97, American Olympic marathoner.

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