Deaths in October 1988

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 1988

1 Lucien Ballard, 80, American cinematographer (The Caretakers), car accident. Victor Coverley-Price, 87, British painter. Trevor Herion, 29, Irish singer and songwriter, suicide.B-Side the Leeside: Trevor Herion - Beauty Life. Irish Examiner (year of death only). Retrieved 12 Jun 2024. Sacheverell Sitwell, 90, English writer. Pavle Vuisić, 62, Serbian actor (Kamiondžije). Jim Young, 66, Australian rules footballer.

2 Robert Blucke, 91, British RAF officer. Hamengkubuwono IX, 76, Indonesian politician and Javanese Royal, Vice President of Indonesia, internal bleeding.Hamengku Buwono IX, 78, Indonesia Sultan. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Jul 2024. Peter Hunt, 72, British Army general, Chief of the General Staff. Sir Alec Issigonis, 81, Ottoman-born British automotive designer (Mini).Alec Issigonis Dies; Auto Designer, 81, Introduced the Mini. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Jul 2024. Thomas J. Kelly, 65, American soldier in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient, heart attack.Thomas J. Kelly, 65; Won Medal of Honor. New York Times. Retrieved 16 Jun 2024. Jean Moulin, 83, Luxembourgian Olympic sprinter (1928). Generoso Pope Jr., 61, American media mogul (National Enquirer), heart attack.Generoso P. Pope Jr. Dead at 61; The National Enquirer's Publisher. New York Times. Retrieved 2 Jul 2024. Florence E. Wall, 95, American cosmetic chemist.Florence E. Wall, 95, Authority on Cosmetics. New York Times. Retrieved 14 Jul 2024.

3 Mae Brussell, 66, American radio personality, challenger of the Warren Commission report, cancer.Conspiracy Theorist Mae Brussell Dies of Cancer. The Monterey Herald (Wayback Machine). Retrieved 30 May 2024. Richard Evelyn Byrd III, 68, American officer in US Navy, Antarctic explorer, malnutrition & dehydration.Death of Admiral's Son Explained by Coroner. New York Times. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. (body found this date) Clarence Carnes, 61, American murderer (Battle of Alcatraz), AIDS.Clarence Carnes, 61; Tried to Flee Alcatraz. New York Times. Retrieved 31 May 2024. Marco Galli, 31, Italian Olympic water polo player (1984). Ma Haide, 78, American doctor who practiced medicine in China, cancer and diabetes.Dr. George Hatem Is Dead at 78; Leader in Public Health in China. New York Times. Retrieved 21 Jun 2024. Ruth Hale Oliver, 78, American astrologer and actress. Franz Josef Strauss, 73, German politician, Minister-President of Bavaria, heart failure.Franz Josef Strauss Is Dead at 73; Conservative Led Bavarian State. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Jul 2024.

4 William Melville Alexander, 90, Canadian WWI flying ace. Carlo Carretto, 78, Italian writer and Catholic priest, member of the Little Brothers of the Gospel. Zlatko Grgić, 57, Croatian-born Canadian animator (Dream Doll).Zlatko Grgić. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 10 Jun 2024. Geoffrey Household, 87, British novelist specialising in thrillers (Rogue Male). Margaret Lacey, 76, British actress and ballet teacher (Diamonds Are Forever). Thérèse Leduc, 54, French Olympic alpine skier (1960).

5 Art Gagne, 90, Canadian NHL player (Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins). Curt Hjelm, 74, Swedish footballer (Sleipner). Dermie O'Connell, 60, American NBA player (Boston Celtics, St. Louis Bombers). Ron Staniforth, 64, English international footballer (Stockport County, England).Ron Staniforth Ronald Staniforth (Player). National Football Teams. Retrieved 9 Jul 2024. Lois W., (Lois Wilson), 97, American co-founder of Al-Anon for alcoholics.Lois Burnham Wilson, a Founder Of Al-Anon Groups, Is Dead at 97. New York Times. Retrieved 14 Jul 2024.

6 Severiano Briseño, 86, Mexican composer.Severiano Briseño. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Dean Burk, 84, American biochemist and cancer researcher (Lineweaver–Burk plot), cancer.Dean Burk, 84, Chemist for Cancer Institute. New York Times. Retrieved 30 May 2024. Paul Ledoux, 74, Belgian astrophysicist.Obituary - Ledoux, Paul. Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol.155, No. 2/May (hosted by adsabs.harvard.edu), p.179, 1989. Retrieved 20 Jun 2024. Don Terry, 86, American actor (Don Winslow of the Navy, Don Winslow of the Coast Guard).Don Terry. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024.

7 George Ansell, 78, English footballer (Norwich City). Sándor Bíró, 77, Hungarian international footballer (MTK Budapest, Hungary).Sándor Bíró (Player). National Football Teams. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Billy Daniels, 73, American singer ("That Old Black Magic"), stomach cancer. Christian Herbert, 84, British barrister and peer, Governor of British Guiana. Stéphane Lupasco, 88, Romanian philosopher, developed non-Aristotelian logic.Stéphane Lupasco. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Ivan More, 91, Australian rules footballer. Karl Pedersen, 86, Norwegian Olympic wrestler (1928). Chet Phillips, 74, American Olympic gymnast (1936).

8 Charles Beauclerk, 73, British soldier and hereditary peer, Duke of St Albans."Obituary: The Duke of St Albans.", The Times, London, 11 October 1988 Bob Boken, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox). Harold Dorman, 61, American rock and roll singer and songwriter ("Mountain of Love"). Boob Fowler, 87, American Major League baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).Boob Fowler. MLB.com. Retrieved 24 Sep 2024. Edward George Warris Hulton, 81, British magazine publisher and writer.Sir Edward George Warris Hulton. Britannica. Retrieved 14 Jun 2024. Hans Kuhn, 89, German philologist, specialised in Germanic studies. Wally Lemm, 68, American NFL football coach (Houston Oilers, St. Louis Cardinals).Former Houston coach dies. Newspapers.com (The Galveston Daily News). Retrieved 20 Jun 2024. Ernst Hermann Meyer, 82, German composer and musicologist.Ernest Meyer. Oxford Reference (year of death only). Retrieved 24 Jun 2024. Reino Nori, 75, American NFL player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Bears). Sam Richardson, 70, Canadian Olympic athlete (1936). Fred Shepherd, 65, American Negro Leagues baseball player. Pál Titkos, 80, Hungarian international footballer (MTK Hungária, Hungary).Pál Titkos (Coach). National Football Teams. Retrieved 12 Jul 2024.

9 Mousey Alexander, 66, American jazz drummer, heart and kidney failure.Mousey Alexander, Jazz Drummer, Dies. Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 25 May 2024. Edward Chodorov, 84, American playwright, film writer and producer. Cliff Gallup, 58, American guitarist, heart attack. Bob Goslin, 61, New Zealand Olympic boxer (1948). Jackie Milburn, 64, English international footballer (Newcastle United, England), lung cancer.Newcastle United all-time hero Jackie Milburn died on this day in 1988. Chronicle Live. Retrieved 24 Jun 2024. Felix Wankel, 86, German mechanical engineer, Hitler Youth leader and anti-Semite, inventor of the Wankel rotary engine.Felix Wankel, Inventor, Is Dead; Creator of Rotary Engine Was 86. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Jul 2024.

10 Samuel A. Adams, 54, American analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, heart attack.Samuel Adams, Ex-C.I.A. Officer And Libel Case Figure, Dies at 54. New York Times. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Gösta Bergström, 85, Swedish Olympic long distance runner (1924). Bhabani Bhattacharya, 81, Indian writer.Bhabani Bhattacharya. The Open University. Retrieved 28 May 2024. David Croudip, 30, American NFL footballer (Atlanta Falcons), car crash.Death of an N.F.L. Player: Questions Persist. New York Times. Retrieved 2 Jun 2024. John Daly, 70, Irish rugby league and union player. Juan Pujol García, 76, Spanish spy and double agent.'The greatest double agent of the Second World War'. mi5.gov.uk (year of death only). Retrieved 22 Jun 2024. Kurt Marshall, 22, American gay model and actor, AIDS."Kurt Marshall (1965-1988)." Manshots. May 1989. Montgomery Tully, 84, Irish film director and writer.

11 Buck Clarke, 55, American jazz percussionist. Thaddeus J. Dulski, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959-1974), leukemia.Thaddeus Dulski, 73, an Ex-Congressman. New York Times. Retrieved 6 Jun 2024. Morgan Farley, 90, American film and television actor.Morgan Farley Dies; Stage Actor Was 87. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Jun 2024. Wayland Flowers, 48, American actor, comedian and puppeteer (Captain Kangaroo), AIDS. Bonita Granville, 65, American actress and producer (Nancy Drew, These Three), lung cancer. Robert Edward Gross, 83, American surgeon and a medical researcher. Roy Herrick, 52, British actor. Max Imdahl, 63, German art historian.Denken als Ereignis. Zeit Online. Retrieved 14 Jun 2024. Guido Monzino, 60, Italian mountain climber and explorer, led first Italian expedition to climb Mount Everest, heart failure.Villa del Balbianello on Lake Como Celebrates an Anniversary. comersee-special.de. Retrieved 25 Jun 2024. Ursula Nordstrom, 78, American publisher and editor of children's books, ovarian cancer. Joel Oppenheimer, 58, American poet, columnist in The Village Voice, lung cancer. Red Owens, 63, American NBA player (Anderson Packers, Tri-Cities Blackhawks/Milwaukee Hawks). Hugh Percy, 74, British soldier and peer, Duke of Northumberland, heart attack.Hugh Algernon Percy, Duke of Northumberland, 74. New York Times. Retrieved 29 Jun 2024. Giuseppe Tonucci, 50, Italian Olympic cyclist (1960).

12 Ruth Manning-Sanders, 102, Welsh-born English poet and author.Ruth Manning-Sanders. Modernist Archives Publishing Project. Retrieved 22 Jun 2024. Ken Murray, 85, American comedian, actor and author (Bill and Coo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance). Rafael García Serrano, 71, Spanish writer and journalist. Coby Whitmore, 75, American painter and magazine illustrator (The Saturday Evening Post).M.C. Whitmore, Social Security Number 287-10-5182, at the Social Security Death Index via FamilySearch.org.

13 Norman Barry, 90, American judge, politician and football coach (Chicago Cardinals), heart attack.Names in the News - Oct. 18, 1988. L.A. Times. Retrieved 28 May 2024. Reggie Bell, 84, British Olympic middle-distance runner (1928). Oscar Dose, 87, Swedish Olympic diver (1920). Melvin Frank, 75, American screenwriter and producer (A Touch of Class, White Christmas), complications from heart surgery. Irene Hunt, 96, American silent-screen actress. Ramón Romero, 29, Dominican-born American MLB player (Cleveland Indians). Mike Venezia, 43, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey, horse racing accident.Jockey Killed in an Accident at Belmont. New York Times. Retrieved 14 Jul 2024.

14 Serafín Aedo, 79, Spanish international footballer. Kathleen Blackshear, 91, American artist. Charles Augustus, 76, German prince, head of the house of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Jesús Dermit, 79, Spanish racing cyclist. Abie Hood, 85, American MLB player (Boston Braves). Katriel Katz, 79, Israeli diplomat, ambassador to the Soviet Union and Poland. Mary Morris, 72, Fijian-born British actress, heart failure. Vic Raschi, 69, American Major League baseball player (New York Yankees), heart attack. René Vietto, 74, French road racing cyclist.How the legend of Rene Vietto and the Tour de France continues. The Sunday Times (year of death only). Retrieved 14 Jul 2024. John White, 53, American AFL player (Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders).

15 John Ball, 77, American mystery novel writer (In the Heat of the Night), colon cancer.John Ball Dies at 77; A Critic and Novelist Known for Mysteries. New York Times. Retrieved 26 May 2024. Victor Copps, 69, Canadian politician, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.Victor Kennedy Copps. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. Retrieved 2 Jun 2024. James Craig, 46, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, shot.Loyalist James Craig linked to murder of comedian Patrick Kielty's father. The Irish News. Retrieved 2 Jun 2024.