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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 1988
1
John Dearden , 80, American Roman Catholic cardinal, pancreatic cancer.
[1]
Florence Eldridge , 86, American actress.
[2]
Sheldon Kinser , 45, American race car driver.
Georges Wambst , 86, French cyclist.
[3]
Gertrude Welcker , 92, German stage and silent-screen actress.
[4]
2
Steve Anderson , 82, American hurdler and Olympic medalist.
Raymond Carver , 50, American short-story writer and poet, lung cancer.
[5]
Nityanand Kanungo , 88, Indian politician, Governor of Bihar and Gujarat.
Nada Klaić , 68, Croatian historian.
3
Lillian Bilocca , 59, British fisheries worker, peritoneal cancer.
Campbell Copelin , 87, English-Australian actor.
Tucker McGuire , 75, American-British film and television actress.
Krishnaswami Ramiah , 96, Indian agricultural scientist, geneticist and parliamentarian.
Paddy Walsh , 81, Australian rules footballer.
Vic Watson , 90, English international footballer.
4
Allan Adair , 90, British army Major General.
Brian Brake , 61, New Zealand photographer, heart attack.
Charles B. Brownson , 74, American World War II veteran, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
Toshiwo Doko , 91, Japanese engineer.
[6]
Harry Lee Waterfield , 77, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.
5
Red Davis , 80, American NFL footballer.
James Devereux , 85, American general of the U.S. Marine Corps, member of U.S. House of Representatives, pneumonia.
Colin Higgins , 47, French-Australian-American screenwriter, actor, director and producer, AIDS-related illness.
[7]
Arif Hussain Hussaini , 41, Indian-Pakistani revolutionary leader, assassinated.
Ralph Meeker , 67, American film, stage and television actor, heart attack.
[8]
6
John Bingham , 79, English thriller, detective and spy novelist, MI5 spy.
Anatoly Levchenko , 47, Soviet cosmonaut, brain tumour.
[9]
Francis Ponge , 89, French essayist and poet.
[10]
J. Skelly Wright , 77, American circuit judge.
[11]
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8
Alan Ameche , 55, American NFL player, heart attack.
[12]
Kid Chocolate , 78, Cuban boxer.
George Estregan , 49, Filipino film actor.
Henri Frenay , 82, French military officer and member of the French Resistance.
Félix Leclerc , 82, Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and political activist.
Alan Napier , 85, English actor.
[13]
Dominic Serventy , 84, Australian ornithologist.
9
Jimmie Fidler , 89, American columnist, journalist and radio and television personality.
[14]
Owen Jenkins , 82, Welsh Anglican priest.
Giacinto Scelsi , 83, Italian composer, cerebral hemorrhage.
[15]
Ramón Valdés , 63, Mexican actor and comedian, stomach cancer.
[16]
10
Arnulfo Arias , 86, Panamanian politician, doctor and writer, President of Panama, heart attack.
Jean Brachet , 79, Belgian biochemist.
Jan-Magnus Bruheim , 74, Norwegian poet and children's writer.
Adela Rogers St. Johns , 94, American journalist, novelist and screenwriter.
Paul Thek , 54, American painter and sculptor, AIDS.
[17]
11
Nellikode Bhaskaran , 64, Indian actor.
Alfred Kelbassa , 63, German international footballer.
K. Avukader Kutty Naha , 68, Indian politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Kerala.
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle , 56, French opera director, set and costume designer, pulmonary embolism following a fall.
Anne Ramsey , 59, American actress, cancer.
[18]
Jack Regan , 75, Australian rules footballer.
12
13
Mel Almada , 75, Mexican Major League baseballer.
Fred Below , 61, American blues drummer, liver cancer.
Per Digerud , 55, Norwegian cyclist and Olympian.
Keith Hancock , 90, Australian historian and academic.
James Heaslip , 87, Australian politician, member of South Australian Parliament.
Sydney Jacobson , 79, British journalist, editor and political commentator.
Gajanan Jagirdar , 81, Indian film director, screenwriter and actor, heart attack.
Otto Passman , 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
[20]
William H. Phelps Jr. , 85, Venezuelan ornithologist and businessman.
[21]
Tenor Saw , 21, Jamaican dancehall singjay, hit and run accident.
Gordon H. Scherer , 81, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
[22]
Edward Bennett Williams , 68, American lawyer and businessman, colon cancer.
[23]
14
Roy Buchanan , 48, American guitarist and blues musician, suicide by hanging.
Robert Calvert , 43, South African–born British writer, poet and musician, heart attack.
Michael Crowder , 54, British historian and author.
Enzo Ferrari , 90, Italian motor racing driver and car maker, leukemia.
[24]
Hollis Dow Hedberg , 84, American geologist.
[25]
15
Rudy Collins , 54, American jazz drummer.
Ronald Stein , 58, American film composer, pancreatic cancer.
Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt , 86, German composer, musicologist and music historian and critic.
Hartman Turnbow , 83, Mississippi farmer, orator and activist during the Civil Rights Movement.
16
Rashad Barmada , 74–75, Syrian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Syria.
Fred Butters , 84, English international rugby league footballer.
Ron McAuliffe , 70, Australian politician and rugby league administrator, Australian senator, stroke.
Rick Newsom , 38, American NASCAR Winston Cup driver, plane crash.
17
Akhtar Abdur Rahman , 64, Pakistani Army general, plane crash.
Arnold Lewis Raphel , 45, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, plane crash.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. , 74, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.
Siddique Salik , 52, Pakistani army officer, plane crash.
Victoria Shaw , 53, Australian film and television actress, emphysema.
Samuel Silkin , 70, British politician, Attorney General for England and Wales.
Jack Straus , 58, American professional poker player, aortic aneurysm.
Bob Troughton , 84, Australian rules footballer.
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , 64, Pakistani military officer, President of Pakistan, plane crash.
[26]
18
Sir Frederick Ashton , 83, British ballet dancer and choreographer.
[27]
Don Hummel , 80, American businessman and politician, mayor of Tucson.
Michael Perrin , 82, Canadian-British scientist.
Jessica Powers , 83, American poet and nun, stroke.
Ernst Simon , 88, German educator and religious philosopher.
19
20
21
H. G. Adler , 78, Czechoslovakian-English German-language poet and novelist.
Ray Eames , 78, American artist and designer.
[29]
Eino Kirjonen , 55, Finnish ski jumper and Olympian.
Stuart Leary , 55, South African footballer and first-class cricketer, suicide.
Jerry Warren , 63, American film director, producer, editor, screenwriter, cinematographer and actor, lung cancer.
22
23
Gerald Drayson Adams , 88, Canadian-American business executive and literary agent.
José Manuel de Sousa e Faro Nobre de Carvalho , 76, Portuguese army brigadier-general.
C. Desmond Greaves , 74, English Marxist activist and historian.
Laud Humphreys , 57, American sociologist and Episcopal priest, lung cancer.
Josef Klehr , 83, German Nazi SS-Oberscharführer, Nazi concentration camp supervisor.
Hans Lewy , 83, Prussian-American mathematician.
[30]
Alf Martinsen , 76, Norwegian international footballer and Olympic medalist.
Menotti Del Picchia , 96, Brazilian poet, journalist and painter.
Jack Sher , 75, American newspaper columnist, songwriter, film director, film writer and producer.
[31]
24
Pierre Béchu , 29, French ice dancer and Olympian, road accident.
Leonard Frey , 49, American actor, complications from AIDS.
[32]
Kenneth Leighton , 58, British composer and pianist, oesophageal cancer.
Nat Stuckey , 54, American country singer, lung cancer.
25
Price Daniel , 77, American jurist and politician, stroke.
[33]
Françoise Dolto , 79, French pediatrician and psychoanalyst, pulmonary fibrosis.
[34]
Gilbert Gil , 74, French film actor.
Art Rooney , 87, American founding owner of Pittsburgh Steelers NFL football team, complications of a stroke.
[35]
26
Donald De Lue , 90, American sculptor.
Carlos Paião , 30, Portuguese singer and songwriter, car accident.
Fred Peart , 74, British politician, leader of the Houses of Lords and Commons.
Milton Sperling , 76, American film producer and screenwriter, cancer.
27
Max Black , 79, Azerbaijani-British-American philosopher.
[36]
Charles Farrell , 88, Irish stage, film and television actor.
Irene Higginbotham , 70, American songwriter and concert pianist.
Jack Kane , 80, Australian senator.
Mario Montenegro , 60, Filipino film actor, heart attack.
William Sargant , 81, British psychiatrist.
28
Hazel Dawn , 98, American stage, film and television actress.
[37]
Paul Grice , 75, British philosopher of language.
[38]
Guy Hocquenghem , 41, French writer and philosopher, AIDS-related complications.
Jean Marchand , 69, Canadian trade unionist and politician.
Max Shulman , 69, American writer and humorist, bone cancer.
[39]
29
David A. Hargrave , 42, American game designer and writer of fantasy and science fiction role-playing games.
Horace Henderson , 83, American jazz pianist, organist, arranger and bandleader.
Wilfred Johnson , 52, American mobster, murdered.
Algirdas Klimaitis , 77–78, Lithuanian paramilitary commander.
30
31
Unknown date
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"Toshiwo Doko Is Dead; Industry Chief Was 91" .
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"Colin Higgins, Film Director, 47, Creator of 'Harold and Maude' " .
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"Ralph Meeker, 67, Star of 'Picnic' And Featured Actor in Films, Dies" .
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"Francis Ponge, Writer Of 'Thing-Poetry,' 89" .
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"Alan Ameche, 55, Football Star in 1950's" .
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"Alan Napier, Actor, Dies at 85" .
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"Paul Thek Dead at 54; An Artist of the Surreal" .
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"Anne Ramsey, 59, Best Known in Role Of Ogreish 'Momma' " .
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"William H. Phelps Jr. Dies at 85; Ornithologist and Conservationist" .
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^
"Gordon Scherer, 81; Served in the House And United Nations" .
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"Jack Sher, 75, Writer And Director of Films" .
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