Deaths in September 1988

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 1988

1 Luis Walter Alvarez, 77, American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics (Alvarez hypothesis), esophageal cancer. Kenichi Furuya, 75, Japanese Olympic ice hockey player (1936). Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad, 58, Indian politician and cricketer, Maharaja of Baroda, member of Lok Sabha.Maharaja Fatehsinhrao Gaekwad. The Maharaja Sayajirao University Of Baroda. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Hugh Hunt, 86, American set decorator (Ben-Hur, Julius Caesar).Obituary: Hugh Hunt. The Reading Chronicle. Retrieved 14 Jun 2024. Gerald Mast, 48, American author and film historian, AIDS.Gerald Mast, 48, Dies; Wrote Histories of Film. New York Times. Retrieved 22 Jun 2024. Robert Menaker, 84, American exporter, allegedly worked for Soviet intelligence during World War II.Obit: Robert O. Menaker. Newspapers.com (The Journal News). Retrieved 23 Jun 2024. 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 (1953–1977), heart failure.Leonor K. Sullivan, 86, Democrat of Missouri. New York Times. Retrieved 11 Jul 2024.

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.Dorothy Muriel Crawford (1911–1988). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 2 Jun 2024. Jim Bagby Jr., 71, American Major League baseball player (Cleveland Indians).Jim Bagby #17. MLB.com. Retrieved 24 Sep 2024. Heinz Förstendorf, 80, German Olympic field hockey player (1928). Erik Frey, 80, Austrian film actor.Gravestone: Erik Frey 2.9.88. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Bill Northam, 82, Australian businessman and Olympic sailor (1964). Marshall Riddle, 70, American Negro Leagues baseball player. Gibril Sesay, 79, Sierra Leonean diplomat, ambassador to Egypt.Sesay, al-Hajj Shaikh Jibril (known as Shaikh Gibril Sesay). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024. Robert Watts, 65, American artist, lung cancer.Robert Watts, Artist And 'Fluxus' Figure, Dies of Cancer at 65. New York Times. Retrieved 15 Jul 2024. Bert White, 81, Australian rules footballer.

3 Bob Bonte, 59, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1948). John Goodison, 44–45, English rock musician, songwriter and record producer ("Give a Little Love"), heart attack.Backbeat Gold: Johnny B Great and the first single released by a Coventry pop group. Coventry Telegraph. Retrieved 10 Jun 2024. Ferit Melen, 81, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey, heart condition. Ewing Mitchell, 77, American actor (Sky King, The Adventures of Champion), stroke.Ewing Young Mitchell, 77. L.A. Times. Retrieved 25 Jun 2024. Ferenc Sas, 73, Hungarian international footballer (Hungária MTK, Hungary).Sas, Ferenc. National Football Teams. Retrieved 12 Jul 2024. Bibi Torriani, 76, Swiss ice hockey player and Olympic medalist (1928, 1936, 1948).Bibi Torriani. Olympedia. Retrieved 12 Jul 2024.

4 Joseph Ceravolo, 54, American poet, bile duct cancer.Joseph Ceravolo, 54, A Prize-Winning Poet. New York Times. Retrieved 31 May 2024. Dick Clark, 44, American ABA player (Minnesota Muskies, Houston Mavericks). Carlos García, 86, Chilean footballer. Leonard Huxley, 86, English-born Australian physicist, Rhodes Scholar.Leonard George Holden Huxley 1902-1988. Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 14 Jun 2024.

5 Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare, 72, Indian politician, Governor of Andhra Pradesh. Lawrence Brown, 81, American jazz trombonist (Duke Ellington orchestra), stroke. Gert Fröbe, 75, German actor (Goldfinger, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines), heart attack. Boris Smyslovsky, 90, Russian-Finnish general.Boris Smyslovsky, 91;. L.A. Times. Retrieved 8 Jul 2024.

6 Leroy Brown, 37, American professional wrestler, stroke. Frank Burke, 69, American officer in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient.Medal of Honor Monday: Army 1st Lt. Francis Burke. U.S. Department of Defense. Retrieved 30 May 2024. Rudolf Falk, 90, Swedish Olympic long-distance runner (1920). Autry Inman, 59, American country and rockabilly musician.Obituary for Autry Inman. tennessean.newspapers.com. Retrieved 14 Jun 2024. Lew Krausse Sr., 76, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics) and scout. Myrtle Byram McGraw, 89, American psychologist and neurobiologist, pneumonia.Myrtle B. McGraw (1899–1988).. American Psychological Association. Retrieved 22 Jun 2024. Harold Rosson, 93, American cinematographer (The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain). Karni Singh, 64, Indian Maharaja of Bikaner, member of Lok Sabha.Karni Singh. Olympedia. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024. Dan Spring, 77, Irish Labour Party politician (Teachta Dála) and Gaelic footballer (Kerry).Spring, Daniel. Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 9 Jul 2024. Stefan Themerson, 78, Polish-English writer of children's literature, poet and novelist.Stefan Themerson Obituary Thursday September 8 1988. Newspapers.com (The Guardian). Retrieved 12 Jul 2024. Vojtěch Věchet, 76, Czech footballer. Julie Ward, 28, British murder victim.

7 Abdul Haq Akorwi, 76, Pakistani Islamic scholar and politician (National Assembly). Gaja Alaga, 64, Croatian theoretical physicist (nuclear physics). Raymond Dubly, 94, French Olympic footballer (1920, 1924). Sedad Hakkı Eldem, 80, Turkish architect (Istanbul Justice Palace).Eldem, Sedad Hakki. encyclopedia.com (death year only). Retrieved 6 Jun 2024. Vivi Janiss, 77, American actress (The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues, Man on the Prowl, First, You Cry).Vivi Janiss. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Bill Lumsden, 63, Australian rules footballer. Thelma Payne, 92, American Olympic diver (1920).

8 Janine Balding, 20, Australian murder victim.Nine words that stunned Australia: The brutal murder of Janine Balding. NZ Herald. Retrieved 26 May 2024. G. M. Durrani, 68–69, Indian radio drama artist, playback singer and actor. Fred Hawking, 78, Australian rules footballer. Rats Henderson, 91, American Negro League baseball player. Danny Livingstone, 54, Antiguan cricketer.

9 Mona Best, 64, Indian-born British owner of the Casbah Coffee Club, mother of Pete Best, heart attack.Obituary: Mona 'Mo' Shaw Best 9.9.88. Liverpool Echo, 12 Sep 1988. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Leroy McGuirk, 77, American professional wrestler and promoter. Albert Taylor, 77, Canadian Olympic rower (1932).

10 Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 56, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (Macunaíma). Jaclyn Dowaliby, 7, American murder victim.David Dowaliby. National Registry of Exonerations. Retrieved 5 Jun 2024. Russ Elliott, 70, Australian rules footballer. Jam Ghulam Qadir Khan, 68, Pakistani Chief Minister of Balochistan, heart failure. Virginia Satir, 72, American author and psychotherapist, pancreatic cancer.

11 Vincas Bartuška, 87, Lithuanian Olympic footballer (1924). Wilhelm Batz, 72, Nazi German Luftwaffe fighter ace.Batz, Wilhelm "Willi". Traces of War. Retrieved 25 Oct 2024. Roger Hargreaves, 53, British cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books (Mr. Men Little Miss, Timbuctoo), stroke. Julius Mackerle, 79, Czech inventor and automobile engineer. Fiqrete Shehu, 68, Albanian politician, wife of Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu. John Sylvester White, 68, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter)."John Sylvester White, TV actor, 68, dies here", The Honolulu Advertiser (September 13, 1988), p. D-2.

12 Alan Bible, 78, American lawyer and politician, Nevada Attorney General, United States Senator (1954–1974), respiratory illness. Hans Frei, 66, American biblical scholar, stroke.Hans W. Frei, 66; Theologian Studied Biblical Narrative. New York Times. Retrieved 9 Jun 2024. Stephen B. Grimes, 61, English production designer and art director (Out of Africa). Ferd Hayward, 77, Canadian Olympic athlete (1952). Margaret McFarland, 83, American child psychologist, consultant to TV show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, myelofibrosis.Overlooked No More: Margaret McFarland, Mentor to Mister Rogers. New York Times. Retrieved 22 Jun 2024. Bill Mitchell, 76, American automobile designer (General Motors), heart failure.William L. Mitchell, Auto Executive, 76. New York Times. Retrieved 25 Jun 2024. John D. J. Moore, 77, American lawyer and business executive, ambassador to Ireland, bone cancer. Lauris Norstad, 81, American general in the US Army and Air Force, cardiac arrest. Charlie Palmieri, 60, Puerto Rican bandleader, heart attack. Mars Ravelo, 71, Filipino comic book cartoonist and graphic novelist, heart attack.

13 Julian Banzon, 80, Filipino biochemist (alternative fuels).Julian Banzon. Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. Retrieved 28 May 2024. Gerd Hornberger, 78. German sprinter and Olympic medalist (1936).Gerd Hornberger. Olympedia.com. Retrieved 13 Jun 2024. Christian Kampmann, 49, Danish writer and journalist, murdered. Peter Young, 73, British Army officer and military historian, founded The Sealed Knot.Young, Peter. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024.

14 Donald Albery, 74, English theatre impresario, director and administrator of the London Festival Ballet. Maurice Allard, 66, Canadian politician, member of the Canada House of Commons (1958–1962, 1965–1968). William Edward Cousins, 86, American Roman Catholic bishop, Archbishop of Milwaukee.Rev. William Edward Cousins, 86, Retired Archbishop of Milwaukee. New York Times. Retrieved 2 Jun 2024. Roy Dutton, 71, British Royal Air Force officer and flying ace.Gravestone: Air Commodore Roy Gilbert Dutton 14.9.88. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Louis Quinn, 73, American television and film actor (77 Sunset Strip).

15 Samuel E. Beetley, 74, American film editor (The Longest Day, Doctor Dolittle). George Hendricks Beverley, 91, American Air Force officer. Billy Bischoff, 75, Australian rugby league footballer. Frank Francis, 86, English academic librarian and curator (British Museum)."Sir Frank Francis – Obituary", The Times, 16 September 1988, p. 20 Ludovic Franck, 80, Belgian Olympic sailor (1928, 1948). Henry Wallich, 74, German-born American economist, columnist for Newsweek magazine, member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.Henry C. Wallich, 74, Dies; Served on Federal Reserve. New York Times. Retrieved 14 Jul 2024.

16 Axel von Ambesser, 78, German playwright, actor and film director.Axel von Ambesser. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Becky Bell, 17, American teenage girl, septic abortion.Abortion Law Blamed in Death. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 28 May 2024. Hans Höfner, 75, Austrian Olympic cyclist (1936). Max Loehr, 84, German art historian and professor of Chinese art, Parkinson's disease.Max Loehr, 84, a Leading Scholar in Oriental Art. New York Times. Retrieved 21 Jun 2024. Richard Paul Lohse, 86, Swiss painter and graphic artist.Richard Paul Lohse. https://www.tate.org.uk/. Retrieved 21 Jun 2024. Artur Nielsen, 93, Danish Olympic long-distance runner (1920). Dick Pym, 95, English international footballer (Bolton Wanderers, England).Dick Pym. England Football Online. Retrieved 3 Jul 2024. Ramon S. Subejano, 82–83, Filipino-American soldier.Ramon Subejano, 83; Hero of World War II. New York Times. Retrieved 11 Jul 2024. Bob Trice, 62, American Major League baseball player (Philadelphia / Kansas City Athletics).Bob Trice. MLB.com. Retrieved 13 Jul 2024.

17 Nellie Beer, 88, British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester. Sir John Biggs-Davison, 70, British politician, Member of Parliament.Sir John Biggs-Davison. UK Parliament. Retrieved 29 May 2024. Walter P. Chrysler Jr., 79, American art collector and theatre and film producer (Chrysler Museum of Art), cancer.