Deaths in May 1988

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 1988

1 Joseph F. Ambrose, 91, American World War I veteran Bill Amor, 68, English Olympic footballer (1948). Claude Demetrius, 71, American songwriter ("Hard Headed Woman").Claude Demetrius. WorldCat. Retrieved 28 Oct 2024. Ben Lexcen, 52, Australian yachtsman and marine architect, designed winged keel which won America's Cup, heart attack. Tom Pappas, 46, American aide to US Representative Roy Dyson, suicide after allegations of homosexuality with Dyson.The top aide to a Maryland congressman jumped to.... United Press International. Retrieved 11 Jul 2024. Paolo Stoppa, 81, Italian actor, leukemia.Daily News. Newspapers.com (Daily News). Retrieved 10 Jul 2024. Raoul Thiercelin, 90, French Olympic rugby union player (1920). Yan Wenliang, 94, Chinese painter.

2 John Weir Foote, 83, Canadian military chaplain and politician (Legislative Assembly of Ontario).John Weir Foote. Government of Canada website. Retrieved 9 Jun 2024. Art Hefner, 74, American Negro League baseball player. Pavel Kadochnikov, 72, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter. Sorabji Mehta, 83-84, Indian cricketer. Henry Picker, 76, German lawyer and author, published transcripts of Adolf Hitler's informal talks (Table Talk).Henry Picker. WorldCat. Retrieved 28 Oct 2024.

3 Jackson Miles Abbott, 68, American officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, environmentalist, cancer.Jackson Miles Abbott, Eagle Expert, Dies at 68. Washington Post. Retrieved 25 May 2024. Carl Erhardt, 91, English international ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist (1936).Oxford DNB Article: 'Erhardt, Carl Alfred (1897-1988), British Olympic Ice Hockey Captain. academia.edu. Retrieved 7 Jun 2024. Julia Butler Hansen, 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1960-1974).Julia Butler Hansen. WA.gov. Retrieved 12 Jun 2024. José María Jáuregui, 92, Spanish Olympic footballer (1928). Lim Keng Peng, 35, Singaporean murderer, killed in police ambush.Ah Huat believed to have killed Chicken-Eater owner. The Straits Times, 7 May 1988, Page 1. Retrieved 20 Jun 2024. Boy Louw, 82, South African rugby union player (Western Province, South Africa). Premendra Mitra, 83, Indian poet, writer and film director. Lev Pontryagin, 79, Soviet mathematician (Pontryagin duality, Pontryagin cohomology operation). Abraham Seidenberg, 71, American mathematician (Tarski–Seidenberg theorem).Abraham Seidenberg, Mathematics: Berkeley. University of California: In Memoriam, 1989. Retrieved 6 Jul 2024. Bill Speidel, 76, American newspaper columnist (The Seattle Times).William C. Speidel; Author and Guide, 76. source. Retrieved 9 Jul 2024. Paul Vario, 73, American mobster from the Lucchese crime family, respiratory arrest.Paul Vario, 73; Called a Leader Of Crime Group. New York Times. Retrieved 14 Jul 2024.

4 Ed Bakey, 62, American film and television actor. Stanley William Hayter, 86, English painter (Atelier 17 studio), cardiac arrest. Carl Jensen, 67, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate and House of Representatives, cancer.Carl A. Jensen Candidate. University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Retrieved 15 Jun 2024. Jan Mazurkiewicz, 91, Polish army general and politician. Oleg Zhakov, 83, Soviet film actor.Oleg Zhakov. WorldCat. Retrieved 28 Oct 2024.

5 Billo Frómeta, 72, Dominican orchestra conductor and composer, stroke.Billo Frómeta. WorldCat. Retrieved 28 Oct 2024. Ernie Hammond, 77, Australian rules footballer. Harold Hull, 67, American basketball player. D.D. Kashyap, 77–78, Indian film director.D.D. Kashyap. WorldCat. Retrieved 28 Oct 2024. Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, 90, American writer The Making of a Southerner.Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin. New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21 Jun 2024. Hamid Mirza, 70, Iranian heir presumptive of former ruling dynasty of Iran, son of last Qajar Crown Prince of Iran. George Rose, 68, English actor and singer (My Fair Lady, The Mystery of Edwin Drood), murdered. Michael Shaara, 59, American author (The Killer Angels), heart attack. R. J. Unstead, 72, British historian and author, heart failure.1988 July - Obituaries. Old Pharosians. Retrieved 13 Jul 2024.

6 Joep Brandes, 67, Dutch footballer. Richard Caliguiri, 56, American politician, mayor of Pittsburgh, amyloidosis.Richard S. Caliguiri Dies at 56 In 3d Term as Pittsburgh Mayor. New York Times. Retrieved 30 May 2024. Weldon Edwards, 64, American NFL player (Washington Redskins). Herbert L. Hart, 91, American college football and basketball player and coach. Caleb Rodney Layton III, 80, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Delaware). Costantino Nivola, 76, Italian-born American sculptor, heart attack. Hans Popper, 84, Austrian-born American pathologist and hepatologist, pancreatic cancer.Dr. Hans Popper, an Authority On Liver Diseases, Is Dead at 84. New York Times. Retrieved 2 Jul 2024.

7 Nara Nath Acharya, 82, Nepalese Pandit and writer (biography of Bhanubhakta Acharya). Fernand Donna, 66, French Olympic sprint canoeist (1948). Auguste Maltais, 72, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1949-1958).

8 Robert A. Heinlein, 80, American science fiction author (Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress), emphysema and heart failure.Robert A. Heinlein Is Dead at 80; Renowned Science-Fiction Writer. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024. Nappy Lamare, 82, American jazz banjoist, guitarist and vocalist.Nappy Lamare. WorldCat. Retrieved 28 Oct 2024. Domingo Ortega, 82, Spanish matador.Domingo Ortega. Britannica. Retrieved 30 Jun 2024. Charles Pollock, 85, American abstract painter, brother of artist Jackson Pollock, stroke. Ruby M. Rouss, 66, American member of the US Army Women's Army Corps and politician, president of the Virgin Islands Legislature, diabetes.Funeral Book for Ruby Margaret Rouss. University of Florida. Retrieved 28 Oct 2024. Abdel Moneim Wahby, 76, Egyptian Olympic basketball player (1936).

9 Alfons Julen, 89, Swiss Olympic cross-country skier (1924, 1928). Willie Moir, 66, Scottish international footballer (Bolton Wanderers).Moir, Willie. National Football Teams. Retrieved 25 Jun 2024.

10 Wendell Bill, 78, Australian cricketer. Ciarán Bourke, 53, Irish musician (The Dubliners).Deaths Elsewhere. Washington Post. Retrieved 29 May 2024. Hugh Laing, 76, Barbados-born American ballet dancer, cancer.Hugh Laing, Specialist in Ballets By Antony Tudor, Is Dead at 77. New York Times. Retrieved 18 Jun 2024. Ion Neacșu, 57, Romanian footballer. Richard B. Ogilvie, 65, American attorney and law enforcement officer, Governor of Illinois, heart attack. John Sterling Rockefeller, 83, American philanthropist, conservationist, and amateur ornithologist.Gravestone: John Sterling Rockefeller 10.5.88. Retrieved 19 Sep 2024. Shen Congwen, 85, Chinese writer, heart attack.

11 Domenico Cambieri, 73, Italian Olympic rower (1948, 1952). Isabella Gordon, 86, Scottish marine biologist (crabs, sea spiders).Remarkable female scientists – Isabella Gordon, Crustacea specialist. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 10 Jun 2024. George Gordon-Lennox, 79, British army general in World War II.Lt.-Gen. Sir George Charles Gordon-Lennox. The Cambridge University Heraldic & Genealogical Society. Retrieved 10 Jun 2024. Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann, 83, German ethnologist.Mühlmann, Wilhelm Emil. Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 26 Jun 2024. Kim Philby, 76, British intelligence officer and spy (Cambridge Five), heart failure.Kim Philby, Double Agent, Dies. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024. Edmund Sobkowiak, 74, Polish Olympic boxer (1936).

12 César Gallardo, 92, Uruguayan Olympic fencer (1948). Jaime Giralt, 86, Spanish Olympic rower (1924). Jacquelyn Kelley, 61, American AAGPBL player. Paul Osborn, 86, American playwright and screenwriter (On Borrowed Time, Morning's at Seven).Paul Osborn, 86, the Playwright Of 'Morning's at 7,' 'Suzie Wong'. New York Times. Retrieved 30 Jun 2024. Chick Parsons, 86, American diplomat and decorated World War II veteran.Without Chick Parsons, General MacArthur May Never Have Made His Famed Return to the Philippines. Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 30 Jun 2024. Hank Schenz, 69, American MLB player (Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Giants).

13 Chet Baker, 58, American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (It Could Happen to You), fall from building.Chet Baker, Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 59 in a Fall. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024. John Garrison, 79, American Olympic ice hockey player (1932, 1936). Paul Genge, 74, American actor (Bullitt).Gravestone: Paul Genge 13.5.88. Retrieved 19 Sep 2024. Sergey Gorshkov, 78, Soviet Admiral of the Fleet.Sergei Gorshkov Dies at 78; Admiral Built Soviet Navy. New York Times. Retrieved 10 Jun 2024. Friedrich Guggenberger, 73, Nazi German admiral and U-boat commander.Guggenberger, Friedrich ('U-28' 'U-81'). Traces of War. Retrieved 19 Sep 2024. Caecilia Loots, 84, Dutch resistance member known for saving Jewish children during World War II.Cilla (Ciel) Loots. Online Begraafplaatsen (gravestone). Retrieved 21 Jun 2024. Nikolay Makarov, 73, Soviet firearms designer (Makarov pistol). Irene Manton, 84, British botanist (ferns and algae), Professor of Botany at the University of Leeds.Irene Manton. 17 April 1904-13 May 1988. JSTOR. Retrieved 22 Jun 2024. Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 83, Welsh soldier and landowner.WYNN family, of Wynnstay Ruabon. Dictionary of Welsh Biography (year of death only). Retrieved 16 Jul 2024.

14 Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 73, German-born curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Obituary: Prinz Ernst Aschwin Georg Carol Heinrich Ignatz zur Lippe-Biesterfeld 14.5.88. NRC Handelsblad. Retrieved 19 Sep 2024. Fred Atkins, 77–78, New Zealand-born Canadian professional wrestler (Maple Leaf Wrestling).Fred Atkins. Australian Wrestling. Retrieved 26 May 2024. Willem Drees, 101, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands.Willem Drees Dies at 101; Postwar Dutch Leader. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024. Ernesto Giménez Caballero, 88, Spanish writer, diplomat and pioneer of Fascism, founder of La Gaceta Literaria.Giménez Caballero, Ernesto 1899-1988. encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 10 Jun 2024. Wayne Jarratt, 31, Australian actor (Prisoner), brain tumour.Obituary for Wayne Jarratt. Newspapers.com (The Sydney Morning Herald). Retrieved 14 Jun 2024. Schute Merritt, 77, American Negro Leagues baseball player.

15 Andrew Duggan, 64, American actor (Seven Days in May), throat cancer. Fulvia Franco, 56, Italian actress and model (Miss Italia).Fulvia Franco. WorldCat. Retrieved 28 Oct 2024. Lois Maloy, 85, American illustrator of children's books. Greta Nissen, 82, Norwegian-American film and stage actress, Parkinson's disease.Greta Nissen; Film Beauty From Norway. L.A. Times. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024. Sol Polk, 71, American businessman, co-founder of Polk Brothers.Sol Polk, Co-founder of Polk Bros. Stores. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2 Jul 2024. P. R. Shyamsunder, 64, Indian cricketer. Thomas E. Stephens, 84, Irish-American politician. Heikki Taskinen, 82, Finnish Olympic discus thrower (1928).

16 Kay Baxter, 42, American bodybuilder, car crash.Woodland Hills Crash Victim Was Pioneering Body Builder. L.A. Times. Retrieved 28 May 2024. Gordon Garlick, 71, English cricketer. Chan Htoon, 82, Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma. Charles Keeping, 63, English illustrator (The Highwayman) and children's book author, brain tumour. Jules Levin, 66, American politician.