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The following is a list of notabledeaths in January 1987.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• Velma Abbott, 62, American baseballer in theAll-American Girls Professional Baseball League.^[1]
• Avard Fairbanks, 89, American sculptor, heart attack.^[2]
• Joseph Hirkala, 63, American politician, member of theNew JerseyGeneral Assembly andSenate.
• Maurice Mandelbaum, 78, American philosopher andphenomenologist.^[3]
• Ernie Maun, 85, American MLB player.
• Roger McHugh, 78, Irish politician, member of theSeanad Éireann (1954-1957).
• Gustavo Teixeira, 78, Portuguese footballer.

• Des Barchard, 64, New Zealand rugby league footballer.
• Ramón Castroviejo, 82, Spanish and American eye surgeon and corneal transplantation pioneer.^[4]
• Elina Colomer, 64, Argentine film actress.
• Hazel Daly, 91, American film actress.
• Lovat Dickson, 84, Canadian publisher and writer.^[5]
• Arthur Gould-Porter, 81, English film, television and stage actor.
• Jean de Gribaldy, 64, French road cyclist anddirecteur sportif.
• Harekrushna Mahatab, 87, Indian politician, leader of theIndian National Congress, Chief Minister of Odisha.
• Julio Moreno, 65, Cuban-born American MLB player (Washington Senators).
• Paul Parisel, 82, French Olympic wrestler (1924,1928).
• Leo Sack, 72, American basketball player.
• Alfred Schindler, 92, American industrialist, actingU.S. Secretary of Commerce.^[6]
• Ted Thorndike, 34, American Olympic ice hockey player (1976).
• Bill Upton, 57, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics).

• Alex "Big Daddy" Campbell, 55, Scottish folk singer, tuberculosis.
• Andrew Collier, 62, Canadian forces officer.
• Arvind Deshpande, 54, Indian film, theatre and television actor and theatre director.
• Rodolfo Kuhn, 52, Argentine film director and writer.
• Sunder Lal, appr. 64, Indian independence activist and politician, Member of Parliament.
• Trude Lehmann, 94, German film actress.
• John Bartlow Martin, 71, American diplomat and author, U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, throat cancer.^[7]
• William R. Poage, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1937-1978), heart failure.^[8]
• Franck Sylvain, 77, Haitian politician, acting President of Haiti.

• Paul Francis Anderson, 69, American prelate.
• Peggy Bacon, 91, American artist, known for satirical caricatures.^[9]
• Lauretta Bender, 89, American child neuropsychiatrist, developed theBender-Gestalt Test.^[10]
• Dave Burke, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• Aubert C. Dunn, 90, American attorney and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1935-1937).^[11]
• Jack Martin, 69, English cricketer.
• Tony Rensa, 85, American MLB player.
• John A. Seitz, 78, American general of the U.S. Army.^[12]
• Tom Verdell, 81, American college football player and coach.

• Arthur Collinson, 57, Australian rugby league player.
• Salter Hayden, 90, Canadian politician, member of theSenate of Canada (1940-1983).
• Elie Hervier, 90, French sculptor.
• Margaret Laurence, 60, Canadian novelist and short story writer, suicide.^[13]
• Dale Mitchell, 65, American Major League baseballer (Cleveland Indians), heart attack.^[14]
• Helenka Pantaleoni, 86, American silent-screen actress.^[15]
• Ambrogio Portalupi, 43, Italian racing cyclist.
• Herman Smith-Johannsen, 111, Norwegian skier and supercentenarian, pneumonia.^[16]

• Taddy Aycock, 71, American politician,Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana.^[17]
• Daniel Carney, 42, Rhodesian novelist, cancer.^[18]
• Sir Robert Cooke, 56, British politician, Member of Parliament, motor neuron disease.^[19]
• Anghel Crețeanu, 76, Romanian footballer.
• Margaret Danhauser, 65, American baseballer in theAll-American Girls Professional Baseball League.^[20]
• Jaidev, 68, Kenyan-born Indian music composer.
• N. N. Kakkad, 59, Indian poet, cancer.
• Ted Scalissi, 65, American football and basketball player.
• Jack Schwarz, 90, American independent producer of low-budget feature films.

• Martha George, 94, native American tribal leader, chairperson of theSuquamish tribe.
• Willie Hermiston, 73, Scottish cricketer.
• Lakshmi, 65, Indian writer.^[21]
• Avner Less, 71, German-born Israeli police officer, interrogatedAdolf Eichmann after he was captured.
• Magnar Lundemo, 48, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (1960,1964).
• Charles Lyon, 71, American Olympic sailor (1932).
• Jackie Mitchell, 73, American female baseballer, struck outBabe Ruth andLou Gehrig in succession.^[22]

• Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, 85, English writer and artist, curator ofWatts Gallery.^[23]
• Leo Callaghan, 62, Welsh football referee in theEnglish Football League.
• Jack Corcoran, 82, American NFL player.
• Gurney Evans, 79, Canadian politician, member of theLegislative Assembly of Manitoba (1953-1969).
• Nana Joshi, 60, Indian Test cricketer, liver cancer.^[24]
• Mary Lindell, 91, English woman, front-line nurse in World War I, member of theFrench Resistance in World War II.^[25]
• Walter R. Mansfield, 75, American judge, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, stroke.^[26]
• Elmer Miller, 83, American MLB player (Philadelphia Phillies).
• Myron Prinzmetal, 78, American cardiologist.^[27]
• Christian F. Schilt, 91, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps,Medal of Honor recipient.^[28]
• Phil Seghi, 77, American front-office executive in Major League Baseball, cancer.^[29]

• Carl Gunnar Engström, 74, Swedish physician and inventor.
• Frank Koon, 78, American college football and basketball coach.
• Arthur Lake, 81, American actor, heart attack.^[30]
• Jack Lathrop, 73, American vocalist and guitarist.
• Blake Miller, 97, American football player and coach.
• Bill Noël, 72, American oilman, banker and civic leader, cancer.^[31]
• Alex B. Novikoff, 73, Russian Empire–born American biologist.^[32]
• Shabtai Shikhman, 71, Polish-born Israeli politician, member of theKnesset (1959-1965).

• Thomas Offenberg Backer, 94, Norwegian engineer.
• Steve Casey, 78, Irish rower and world champion wrestler.
• Ian Harvey, 72, British businessman and politician, Member of Parliament.^[33]
• Frank Hiller, 66, American MLB player.
• Marion Hutton, 67, American singer and actress, cancer.^[34]
• Dominick Labino, 76, American engineer and master craftsman in glass.^[35]
• Frank Makosky, 76, American MLB player (New York Yankees).
• Håkan Malmrot, 87, Swedish swimmer, Olympic champion (1920).^[36]
• Handsome Ned, 29, Canadian country singer and songwriter, overdose.
• Sir David Robinson, 82, British entrepreneur and philanthropist, fundedRobinson College, Cambridge andRosie Hospital.^[37]
• Ferdinand Maria von Senger und Etterlin, 63, Nazi German soldier, general in the post-war Bundeswehr.^[38]

• Albert Ferber, 75, Swiss pianist.
• Hugo Fregonese, 78, Argentinian film director and screenwriter (My Six Convicts), heart attack.
• Betty von Fürer-Haimendorf, 75–76, Britishethnologist in India and Nepal.
• Jacques Hérold, 76, Romanian surrealist painter.^[39]
• Pierre-Louis, 69, French film actor.

• William Craner, 80, British Olympic sprinter (1928).
• Harold Krents, 42, blind American lawyer, author and activist, brain tumour.^[40]
• Ralph Maxwell Lewis, 82, American mystic, Imperator of theAncient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis.^[41]
• Norah Michener, 84–85, Canadian wife ofRoland Michener,Governor General of Canada, Alzheimer's disease.^[42]
• Glenn Odekirk, 81, American aerospace engineer, cancer.^[43]
• Herbert Tiede, 71, German actor.

• Vladimir Alatortsev, 77, Soviet chess player, author and administrator.^[44]
• Alfred Young Allee, 81, American Texas ranger, sheriff and game warden, cancer.^[45]
• Thomas Davidson, 80, South African cricketer.
• Anatoly Efros, 61, Soviet theatre and film director, heart attack.^[46]
• Charlotte Friend, 65, American virologist, noted for her discovery of theFriend leukemia virus.^[47]
• Matt Hazeltine, 53, American NFL footballer (San Francisco 49ers), Lou Gehrig's disease.^[48]
• Igor Ilyinsky, 85, Soviet stage and film actor, director and comedian.^[49]
• Edward D. Kuekes, 85, American editorial cartoonist.
• Tom Morgan, 56, American MLB player.
• Elvira Ríos, 73, Mexican singer ("Noche de ronda", "Perfidia") and actress, kidney failure and bladder cancer.^[50]
• Tony Sansone, 81, Italian-American bodybuilder and model, colon cancer.
• Geoffrey Tiarks, 77, British Anglican bishop.^[51]

• Alister Clark, 83, Irish Olympic hurdler (1928).
• Turgut Demirağ, 65, Turkish film director, producer, and screenwriter.
• Warwick Oswald Fairfax, 85, Australian businessman and journalist.^[52]
• Desmond FitzGerald, 75, Irish architect, designer of originalDublin Airport terminal building.^[53]
• Park Jong-chul, 21, South Korean democracy movement activist, death by torture.^[54]
• Gerald C. MacCallum Jr., 61, American philosopher, heart attack.^[55]
• Douglas Sirk, 89, German-born film director (A Time to Love and a Time to Die).^[56]
• Rauli Somerjoki, 39, Finnish rock singer, bronchitis.
• Jai Ram Varma, 82, Indian freedom fighter and politician, Member of Parliament.
• Sam Wagstaff, 65, American art curator and collector, pneumonia.^[57]
• James Wright, 74, English cricketer.

• Carl-Fredrik Algernon, 61, Swedish Navy officer, hit by train.^[58]
• Harald Bode, 77, German engineer, pioneer in the development of electronic musical instruments.^[59]
• Ray Bolger, 83, American actor, singer and dancer, the Scarecrow inThe Wizard of Oz, bladder cancer.^[60]
• Rudolf Carl, 87, Austrian actor.
• Jim Champion, 61, American football player and coach.
• José Antonio Gallardo, 25, Spanish footballer (Málaga), cardiac arrest following injury in game.^[61]
• Dolores Hawkins, 57, American rhythm and blues singer.^[62]
• Tom Joyce, 85, Australian rules footballer.
• George Markstein, 60, British journalist and writer (The Prisoner).
• Ed Nicholson, 63, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Signe Ramberg, 86, Norwegian actress.
• John Alexander Fraser Roberts, 87, Welsh geneticist and psychiatrist.^[63]
• Heather Thatcher, 90, English actress in theatre and films.
• Philip Young, 76, American government official and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands, heart attack.^[64]

• Achankunju, 56, Indian actor.^[65]
• Art Davis, 73, American actor, musician, and singer.
• Arthur Drexler, 61, American museum curator, director of theMuseum of Modern Art, pancreatic cancer.^[66]
• Rolando Hammer, 65, Chilean Olympic basketball player (1948).
• Joyce Jameson, 59, American actress (The Andy Griffith Show,The Apartment), suicide.^[67]
• Lita McClinton, 35, American socialite and murder victim.^[68]
• Colin Scrimgeour, 83, New Zealand Methodist minister and broadcaster.^[69]
• V. Viswanathan, 77, IndianICS officer, Governor of Kerala, Lieutenant Governor of Himachal Pradesh.
• Bertram Wainer, 58, Australian doctor, campaigned for legal access to abortion in Victoria, heart attack.^[70]
• Earl Wilson, 79, American journalist and author, stroke.^[71]

• Aram Avakian, 60, American film editor and director, heart failure.^[72]
• Ed Busch, 69, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics).
• Harry Darby, 91, American politician, U.S. Senator (1949-1950).^[73]
• Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, 82, Tibetan Buddhist leader.
• Lawrence Kohlberg, 59, American psychologist, suicide.^[74]
• Jozo Penava, 77, Bosnian-Herzegovinian music producer, composer and vocalist.
• Fazil Rahu, 52–53, Pakistani political leader, assassinated.^[75]
• Gu Zhutong, 94, Chinese military general, Chief of the General Staff of theRepublic of China Armed Forces.^[76]

• Sergio Blažić, 35, Croatian hard rock musician (Atomsko Sklonište), Hodgkin's disease.
• Esmail Daghayeghi, 32–33, Iranian military commander, missile strike.
• Renato Guttuso, 75, Italian painter and politician, member of the Senate, cancer.^[77]
• Sigurd Herbern, 86, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1936).
• Thomas Jameson, 78, English cricketer.
• Helen Block Lewis, 73, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, cancer.^[78]
• Lauro Salas, 58, Mexican lightweight boxer and world champion.
• George Thalben-Ball, 90, Australian-born English organist and composer.^[79]
• William Woodward, 66, Australian Olympic rower (1948).

• Max Bly, 81, American Olympic bobsledder (1936).
• Gerald Brenan, 92, Maltese-born writer of British decent who lived mostly in Spain, heart failure.^[80]
• Humphrey Edwardes-Jones, 81, BritishRAF commander.
• Norman Ella, 76, Australian Olympic rower (1936).
• Fernand Fabre, 87, French actor.
• Harry Keller, 73, American film editor and director.^[81]
• Ira C. Kepford, 67, American pilot with the U.S. Navy, flying ace in World War II.^[82]
• Dick Milford, 91, English clergyman.^[83]
• George Selkirk, 79, Canadian Major League baseballer (New York Yankees).^[84]
• Hermann Voss, 92, German anatomist, unpunished Nazi war criminal.^[85]

• Hank Behrman, 65, American MLB player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
• Tom Dollery, 72, English Test cricketer.^[86]
• Annie Fox, 93, Canadian-born American, first woman to receive thePurple Heart for combat.^[87]
• Hermann Giesler, 88, Nazi German architect.
• Charles Pasquale Greco, 92, American Roman Catholic Church bishop.^[88]
• Donald W. MacKinnon, 84, American psychologist andUniversity of California professor.^[89]
• Thomas "Ta" Power, 33, Irish politician and paramilitary, shot.^[90]
• James L. Richardson, 77, American lieutenant general in the U.S. Army.
• Periyasaamy Thooran, 78, Indian Tamil poet, teacher and composer ofCarnatic music.

• Jenny Aubry, 83, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.^[91]
• Nina Byron, 86, New Zealand-born American silent-screen actress and showgirl.
• David Cummings, 92, British Olympic athlete (1924).
• Victor Goddard, 89, British air marshal in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.^[92]
• Charles Goodell, 60, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, heart attack.^[93]
• Gordon Gore, 73, American NFL player (Detroit Lions).
• Ikki Kajiwara, 50, Japanese author, manga writer and film producer.

• Barbro Alving, 78, Swedish journalist, writer and feminist.
• Georges Buchard, 93, French Olympic fencer (1924,1928,1932,1936).
• Ann Parker Bowles, 68, British aristocrat andGirl Guides leader, mother-in-law ofQueen Camilla.^[94]
• Zsófia Dénes, 102, Hungarian writer.
• R. Budd Dwyer, 47, American politician, suicide by gunshot.^[95]
• Stan Keon, 71, Australian politician, member of the Federal House of Representatives.^[96]
• Patrick du Val, 83, British mathematician (du Val singularity).^[97]

• Ben-Zion, 89, Russian-born American painter, sculptor and poet, heart attack.^[98]
• E. Nelson Bridwell, 55, American writer forMad magazine andDC Comics, lung cancer.
• Per Cederblom, 85, Swedish Olympic swimmer.
• Sergei Chernikov, 74, Russian mathematician.^[99]
• Asim Ferhatović, 53, Yugoslavian international footballer (Sarajevo,Yugoslavia), heart attack.^[100]
• Ginette Gaubert, 82, French actress and model.
• William Howell, 85, Australian cricketer.
• Neo Chwee Kok, 55, Singaporean Olympic swimmer (1952).
• Gregor Strniša, 56, Slovenian poet, playwright and songwriter.

• Norman Dodd, 87, American banker.^[101]
• Tetsuji Murakami, 59, Japanese karate representative to Europe.
• Mario Sánchez, 60, Mexican Olympic footballer (1948).
• Imre Szentpály, 82, Hungarian Olympic polo player (1936).
• Clara Thalmann, 78, Swiss journalist, athlete and militia woman who fought during the Spanish Civil War.^[102]

• William Devlin, 75, Scottish film and television actor.^[103]
• Julian Hoke Harris, 80, American sculptor.
• Emil Hlobil, 85, Czechoslovakian composer and music professor.
• Henry Krips, 74, Austrian-Australian conductor and composer (South Australian Symphony Orchestra).^[104]
• Sven Lindqvist, 83, Swedish Olympic footballer (1924).
• Nahuel Moreno, 62, Argentinian Trotskyist leader.
• Mihrişah Sultan, 70, Ottoman princess, daughter of heir to the throneŞehzade Yusuf Izzeddin.
• Piero Vida, 48, Italian film actor.

• Earl Bartlett, 78, American NFL player.
• Adolf Ciborowski, 67, Polish architect, urban planner and politician.
• Mollie Maureen, 82, Irish actress.
• Charles Wolcott, 80, American music composer.^[105]

• Norene Arnold, 59, AmericanAAGPBL player.
• Allan V. Cox, 60, American geophysicist (geomagnetic reversal), suicide.^[106]
• Allison Danzig, 88, American sportswriter, heart attack.^[107]
• Horace Hall Edwards, 84, American politician, member of theVirginia House of Delegates (1934-1940).
• Geoffrey Charles Evans, 86, English lieutenant general in the British Army.^[108]
• Samuel G. Fuqua, 87, American rear admiral of the U.S. Navy,Medal of Honor recipient.^[109]
• Antanas Maceina, 79, Lithuanian philosopher and poet.^[110]
• Norman McLaren, 72, Scottish Canadian animator and director, heart attack.^[111]
• Ralph G. Neppel, 63, American soldier in the U.S. Army,Medal of Honor recipient.^[112]
• Liesl Perkaus, 81, Austrian Olympic athlete (1928).
• Richard Sapir, 50, American author (The Destroyer), heart attack.^[113]
• Gus Zitrides, 71, American college football player and coach.

• Gangadhar V. Chittal, 63, Indian Kannada poet, Parkinson's disease.^[114]
• George Dow, 79, British railway employee and author.^[115]
• Ralph Faulkner, 95, American fencer, film actor and Olympian (1932).^[116]
• Galo Plaza, 80, Ecuadorian statesman,President of Ecuador, heart attack.^[117]
• Valerian Trifa, 72, Romanian Orthodox cleric and fascist political activist, heart attack.^[118]

• Carlo Cassola, 69, Italian novelist and essayist (La Ragazza di Bube), heart attack.^[119]
• Emvin Cremona, 67, Maltese artist and stamp designer.^[120]
• Mounir Abou Fadel, 74, Lebanese politician, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon.
• George Flamank, 82, American college football and basketball coach.
• Josep Vicenç Foix, 94, Spanish Catalan poet, writer and essayist.^[121]
• Werner Heilig, 65, German footballer.
• Vincent R. Impellitteri, 86, Italian-American politician and judge,Mayor of New York City, heart failure.^[122]
• Gerhard Klopfer, 81, German Nazi Party official and chief deputy ofMartin Bormann.^[123]
• Princess Pilar of Bavaria, 95, German Royal, only daughter ofPrince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria.
• Eva Primrose, 94, English daughter ofHenry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare.
• Peter Zivic, 85, American Olympic boxer (1920).

• Dionysios Arbouzis, appr. 74, Greek Hellenic Army general.
• Johnnie Cradock, 82, English cook, writer and broadcaster.
• Ken Drake, 65, American film and television actor.
• Virgil Eikenberg, 62, American NFL player (Chicago Cardinals).
• Ante Topić Mimara, 88, Croatian art collector.^[124]
• Tony Tonelli, 69, American NFL player (Detroit Lions).
• Héctor Varela, 73, Argentinian tangobandoneónist, bandleader and composer.^[125]

• Yves Allégret, 81, French film director.^[126]
• Julian Antonisz, 45, Polish filmmaker, artist and composer.
• Idris Barzani, 42–43, Kurdish politician, heart attack.
• Julius C. Daugherty Sr., 63, American politician, member of theGeorgia House of Representatives (1966-1986).
• Joseph Jastine, 78, Belgian Olympic field hockey player (1928).
• Tadeusz Krzyżanowski, 66, Polish Olympic shot putter (1952).
• Jorge Peñaloza, 64, Chilean footballer.
• Edmund J. Pendleton, 87, American composer and musician.^[127]

• Delano Ames, 80–81, American writer of detective stories.
• Pierre Chapo, 59, French furniture designer and craftsman, Lou Gehrig's disease.
• Don Levy, 54–55, Australian-born artist and filmmaker, suicide.
• Atholl Oakeley, 86, British wrestler and wrestling promoter.
• Saul Tepper, 87, American illustrator and songwriter.

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