Deaths in February 1988

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.N. M. Bodecker, 66; He Wrote and Drew Books for Children. New York Times. Retrieved 29 May 2024. Marcel Bozzuffi, 58, French film actor (The French Connection).Marcel Bozzuffi, Actor In Bad-Guy Roles, 59. New York Times. Retrieved 29 May 2024. 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.Profile - Edward (Ted) Hill (1915-1988). Australian National University. Retrieved 13 Jun 2024. Thomas Francis Johnson, 78, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1959-1963), car crash.Thomas Johnson, 78; Lost Post in Congress. New York Times. Retrieved 15 Jun 2024. Ion Lungu, 66, Romanian footballer. Heather O'Rourke, 12, American child actress (Poltergeist), congenital stenosis of intestine.‘Poltergeist’ Star Heather O’Rourke Dies at Age of 12. L.A. Times. Retrieved 30 Jun 2024. Red Phillips, 79, American MLB player (Detroit Tigers). Stephen Taylor, 77, British physician and politician, member of the House of Lords.Stephen James Lake Taylor, Lord Taylor of Harlow (1910-1988). UK Parliament (year of death only). Retrieved 12 Jul 2024. Eddie Townsend, 73, American professional boxing trainer, cancer.Edward Townsend, an American boxing trainer who led six.... United Press International. Retrieved 12 Jul 2024. Marisa Vernati, 67, Italian actress.Marisa Vernati. WorldCat. Retrieved 1 Nov 2024.

2 Frederick Blaney, 69, Irish cricketer. Richard Chase, 83, American folklorist.Richard Chase. WorldCat. Retrieved 1 Nov 2024. Caroline Chew, 86, American dancer. Solomon Cutner, 85, British pianist.Solomon, British Pianist, 85, Dies. New York Times. Retrieved 2 Jun 2024. Quamrul Hassan, 66, Bengali artist, heart attack.Quamrul Hassan’s death anniversary Wednesday. New Age. Retrieved 11 Jun 2024. Thomas Lamb, 91, American industrial designer, pneumonia.Thomas B. Lamb, 91, an Inventor, Industrial Designer and Cartoonist. New York Times. Retrieved 18 Jun 2024. Percy Lawrie, 85, English cricketer. Rossana Martini, 62, Italian actress and model.Rossana Martini. WorldCat. Retrieved 1 Nov 2024. Carlos Monges, 61, Mexican Olympic sprinter (1948). Normie Smith, 79, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Maroons).Normie Smith. hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 8 Jul 2024. 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.Bringing back Sam. Bay Area Reporter (death year only). Retrieved 2 Jun 2024. Robert Duncan, 69, American poet, heart attack. Radamés Gnattali, 82, Brazilian composer and conductor. Werner Kissling, 92, German-born Scottish ethnographer and photographer.Werner Kissling (1895-1988), ethnographer, amateur photographer, University of Leeds Employee. University of Leeds. Retrieved 17 Jun 2024. René Massigli, 99, French diplomat, ambassador to the U.K. and Turkey.Massigli, René 1888-1988. snac. Retrieved 1 Nov 2024. Kenneth Lee Porter, 91, American WWI flying ace. Jocko Thompson, 71, American Major League baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).Jocko Thompson. MLB.com. Retrieved 12 Jul 2024. Dymock Watson, 84, British Royal Navy officer, Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic. Lewis Wolberg, 82, American psychoanalyst (hypnoanalysis), heart attack.Lewis Wolberg, 82, Clinic Psychoanalyst In New York, Is Dead. New York Times. Retrieved 16 Jul 2024. Sewall Wright, 98, American geneticist, fall.

4 Clyde Coombs, 75, American psychologist (Coombs' method).Clyde H. Coombs Papers, 1932-1988 (majority within 1964-1987). University of Michigan Library. Retrieved 2 Jun 2024. Frank Giacoia, 63, American comics artist (Captain America, The Amazing Spider-Man).Frank Giacoia. WorldCat. Retrieved 1 Nov 2024. Dhamma Jagoda, 47, Sri Lankan theatre and television play director and actor.Dhamma Jagoda's insight into life through drama. Daily News Archives. Retrieved 14 Jun 2024. Franz Mandl, 71, Austrian Olympic footballer (1936). Bill Narduzzi, 51, American football player and coach, Hodgkin's disease.William Narduzzi, Columbia Coach, 51. New York Times. Retrieved 27 Jun 2024. Krzysztof Sitkowski, 52, Polish Olympic basketball player (1960, 1964). Jonas Turkow, 89, Polish-Israeli actor, director and writer.Turkov, Yonas (February 15, 1898–February 4, 1988). Leksikon Fun Der Nayer Yidisher Literatur. Retrieved 13 Jul 2024.

5 Ove Arup, 92, English engineer, design engineer for Sydney Opera House.Sir Ove Arup. Plaques of London. Retrieved 26 May 2024. Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, 73, American mathematician, president of the Mathematics Association of America.Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, 1979-1980 MAA President. Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 28 May 2024. Inger Carlsen, 69, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1936). Bennie Dobbins, 55, American stuntman and actor (Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Ferris Bueller's Day Off), heart attack.Obituaries : Benny Dobbins; U.S. Action Film Director. L.A. Times. Retrieved 5 Jun 2024. Clement Hurd, 80, American illustrator of children's books (Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny), Alzheimer's disease.Clement G. Hurd, 80, Illustrator Of Many Children's Books, Dies. New York Times. Retrieved 13 Jun 2024. Emeric Pressburger, 85, Hungarian-born British film director and producer (49th Parallel), pneumonia.Emeric Pressburger Is Dead at 85; The Screenwriter for 'Red Shoes'. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024.

6 Gary Berland, 37, American professional poker player, blood disorder. Richard Bock, 61, American jazz record producer.Richard Bock. WorldCat. Retrieved 1 Nov 2024. 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.Carmen Polo de Franco, Widow Of Spanish Dictator, Dead at 87. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024. Zvonimir Rogoz, 100. Croatian actor.Rogoz, Zvonimir (1887–1988). Slovenska biografija. Retrieved 3 Jul 2024.

7 Upendranath Barman, 88, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.Upendranath Barman. Constitution of India. Retrieved 27 May 2024. Lin Carter, 57, American science fiction and fantasy author (Ballantine Adult Fantasy series), cancer.Lin Carter papers, 1900s-2001 and undated. Duke University. Retrieved 31 May 2024. Aldo Federici, 67, Italian Olympic ice hockey player (1948, 1956). Martine Géliot, 39, French classical harpist. Ray Martin, 69, Austrian-born British orchestra leader, cancer.Ray Martin. WorldCat. Retrieved 1 Nov 2024. Ririd Myddelton, 85, English High Sheriff of Denbighshire, Equerry to The Queen.Lt-Colonel Ririd Myddelton (1902 - 1988). National Trust Collections (year of death only). Retrieved 27 Jun 2024. Dermot O'Brien, 81, Australian rules footballer. 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).Dolores Camarillo. La Vanguardia. Retrieved 30 May 2024. Allan Cuthbertson, 67, Australian-British actor (Fawlty Towers – Gourmet Night, Edge of Darkness).Allan Cuthbertson Obit. Newspapers.com (The Guardian). Retrieved 2 Jun 2024. Santosh Dutta, 62, Bengali actor (Sonar Kella, Joi Baba Felunath).Santosh Dutta. WorldCat. Retrieved 31 Oct 2024. Ralph Flanagan, 69, American swimmer and Olympic medalist (1932, 1936).Names in the News - Feb. 17, 1988. L.A. Times. Retrieved 8 Jun 2024. Hans Krueger, 78, Nazi German Gestapo captain in occupied Poland, responsible for massacres against Poles and Jews.Hans Krueger and the Murder of the Jews in the Stanislawow Region (Galicia). Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center (year of death only, p. 20). Retrieved 18 Jun 2024. Swayne Latham, 90, American college football player (Vanderbilt Commodores). Daisy Turner, 104, American storyteller and poet.Daisy Turner. Grafton Historical Society. Retrieved 12 Jul 2024. Frank Varey, 79, English speedway rider.Frank Varey (1929-1945). Manchester History (year of death only). Retrieved 14 Jul 2024. Alfréd Wetzler, 69, Slovak writer (Vrba–Wetzler report).Rudolf Vrba. Chicago Tribune (year of death only). Retrieved 15 Jul 2024. Helen Wood, 70, American film and radio actress.Obituary for Helen Henriksen Wood. Newspapers.com (L.A. Times). Retrieved 1 Nov 2024.

9 Kurt Herbert Adler, 69, Austrian-American conductor, heart attack.Kurt Adler, Conductor Who Led San Francisco Opera, Dies at 82. New York Times. Retrieved 25 May 2024. 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.Obituary: Sir Henry Burrell. Trove (Canberra Times). Retrieved 30 May 2024. Israel Nathan Herstein, 64, Polish-born American mathematician (ring theory), cancer. Phillip Hutchinson, 24, American bank robber, murderer and escaped convict, shot by police.Phillip Hutchinson gunned down by police. Newspapers.com (The Republic). Retrieved 13 Jun 2024. Charles Moses, 88, British-born Australian administrator, general manager of Australian Broadcasting Commission.Moses, Sir Charles Joseph (1900–1988). Australian National University. Retrieved 26 Jun 2024. Fritz Redl, 85, Austrian-American child psychoanalyst.Fritz Redl (1902–1988): Obituary.. APA PsycNet. Retrieved 3 Jul 2024. William Sackville, 66, British peer, suicide.Passings: William Herbrand Sackville, British Lord. L.A. Times. Retrieved 4 Jun 2024.

10 Jim Bailey, 79, English cricketer. Nat Cohen, 82, British film producer (The Sleeping Tiger, The Tommy Steele Story, Carry On ...), heart attack. Alfred Eichner, 50, American economist.Alfred S. Eichner Is Dead at 50; Major Post-Keynesian Economist. New York Times. Retrieved 6 Jun 2024. Cynthia Gooding, 63, American folk singer, cancer.Cynthia Gooding. WorldCat. Retrieved 1 Nov 2024. Wolfgang Lange, 89, Nazi German army general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.Lange, Wolfgang (Generalleutnant). Traces of War. Retrieved 1 Nov 2024. Lothar Malskat, 74, German painter and art restorer.Lothar Malskat. WorldCat. Retrieved 1 Nov 2024. Don Patterson, 51, American jazz organist. Chaya Mushka Schneerson, 86, Russian-American wife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Jewish spiritual leader.Chaya Schneerson, Wife of the Leader Of the Lubavitchers. New York Times. Retrieved 5 Jul 2024.

11 Mary E. Black, 92, American waver and weaving instructor.Mary E. Black. Nova Scotia Archives. Retrieved 29 May 2024. Marion Crawford, 78, Scottish governess to Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth, cancer.Marion Crawford. Macmillan Publishers (death year only). Retrieved 2 Jun 2024. René Hall, 75, American guitarist, heart disease. Virgil D. Hawkins, 81, American attorney, kidney failure.Virgil D. Hawkins; Broke Color Barrier To Become Lawyer. New York Times. Retrieved 11 Jun 2024. Gail L. Ireland, 92, American politician, Attorney General of Colorado. Amirteymour Kalali, 93, Iranian politician, member of the Parliament of Iran. Neville Mckoy, 41, Jamaican cricketer.

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