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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 1987 .
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.
June 1987
1
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas , 72, Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist and journalist.
Errol Barrow , 67, Caribbean statesman, Prime Minister of Barbados.
[1]
Francis B. Burch , 68, American politician, Attorney General of state of Maryland.
Rashid Karami , 65, Lebanese statesman, Prime Minister of Lebanon, assassinated.
2
Klaus Gamber , 70, German Catholic liturgist.
Sammy Kaye , 77, American bandleader and songwriter.
[2]
François Perroux , 83, French economist, professor at the
Collège de France .
Sebastiaan Matheus Sigismund de Ranitz , 86, Dutch jurist and Nazi collaborator.
[3]
Andrés Segovia , 94, Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist, heart attack.
3
Bruno Bernard , 75, American photographer known for pin-up photography of
Marilyn Monroe , cancer.
[4]
Jackie Fields , 79, American professional boxer, world welterweight champion.
Curt McDowell , 42, American underground filmmaker, AIDS.
Malcolm McLeod , 73, American law enforcement officer, Sheriff of
Robeson County, North Carolina , heart attack.
Alan Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie , 52, British landowner and hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords.
Will Sampson , 53, American painter, actor and rodeo performer, post-operative kidney failure.
[5]
Herbert Schultze , 77, German submarine commander during World War II.
4
5
6
Alexander Altmann , 81, Austro-Hungarian–born American Orthodox Jewish scholar and rabbi.
Colin Colahan , 90, Australian painter and sculptor.
Fulton Mackay , 64, Scottish actor and playwright, stomach cancer.
Mari Mori , 84, Japanese author, heart failure.
Richard Münch , 71, German actor.
Eduard Petiška , 63, Czechoslovakian writer.
Aneesur Rahman , 59, Indian-American physicist.
Dragan Sotirović , 74, Serbian-Major in the Yugoslavian Army.
7
John Blofeld , 74, British writer on Asian thought and religion, cancer.
Shosei Go , 70, Taiwanese baseballer who played in Japan.
Hashimoto Mantaro , 54, Japanese sinologist and linguist.
Herbert M. Seneviratne , 61, Sri Lankan lyricist and actor.
Cahit Zarifoğlu , 46, Turkish poet and writer.
8
Gary Driscoll , 41, American R&B-style drummer, murdered.
George Finey , 92, Australian newspaper artist.
Yogi Horton , 33, American R&B, funk, jazz and rock drummer, suicide.
Alexander Iolas , 79, Egyptian-Greek-American art gallerist, AIDS.
[6]
Daniel Mandell , 91, American film editor.
[7]
Jacques Fred Petrus , 39, West Indian-businessman and a pioneer of post-disco music, murdered.
9
Kenneth Althaus , 91, American brigadier general in the U.S. Army.
Raya Dunayevskaya , 77, Russian-American philosopher, founder of Marxist humanism in the United States.
Monique Haas , 77, French pianist.
Gustaf Håkansson , 101, Swedish cyclist who cycled the length of Sweden in a race at age 66.
Louis Van Iersel , 93, American sergeant in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient.
Madge Kennedy , 96, American stage, film and television actress, respiratory failure.
[8]
Grandon Rhodes , 82, American actor.
Wilhelm Runge , 91, German electrical engineer and physicist.
10
Daud Beureueh , 87, Indonesian military Governor of Aceh.
Shamraj Bhalerao , 88, Indian noble.
Elizabeth Hartman , 43, American stage and screen actress, suicide by jumping.
[9]
Jeevan , 71, Indian actor.
Alain Montpetit , 36, Canadian television and radio personality and actor, overdose.
Booty Wood , 67, American jazz trombonist.
11
Ralph Guldahl , 75, American professional golfer.
[10]
Aleksandr Lokshin , 66, Soviet composer of classical music.
Enrique del Moral , 82, Mexican architect.
Álvaro Vieira Pinto , 77, Brazilian philosopher and translator.
B. S. Madhava Rao , 87, Indian mathematician and physicist.
Dan Vadis , 49, American actor, overdose.
12
Tuvia Bielski , 81, Belarusian militant, leader of the
Bielski group .
Bill Edwards , 81, American football player and NFL coach.
Paul Janes , 75, German international footballer.
C. F. Russell , 90, American occultist.
Apostol Sokolov , 69, Bulgarian footballer.
Józef Tusk , 80, Polish
luthier , grandfather of Polish Prime Minister,
Donald Tusk .
13
Huck Betts , 90, American Major League baseballer.
Vera Caspary , 87, American screenwriter, novelist and playwright, stroke.
[11]
Bernard Hesling , 82, British-Australian muralist and painter.
Johnny High , 30, American NBA basketballer, car accident.
Kanam E. J. , 61, Indian novelist, short story writer and lyricist.
Heinz Kloss , 82, German linguist.
Cemil Meriç , 70, Turkish writer and translator.
Geraldine Page , 62, American film, stage and television actress, heart attack.
[12]
14
Stanisław Bareja , 57, Polish filmmaker.
Curt Boettcher , 43, American musician and record producer, complications of treatment for lung infection.
Les Favell , 57, Australian test cricketer.
Burhanuddin Harahap , 70, Indonesian politician and lawyer, Prime Minister of Indonesia.
15
Walter Heller , 71, American economist, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.
J. M. Johnson , 75, Nigerian politician and Federal Cabinet Minister.
16
Marguerite de Angeli , 98, American writer and illustrator of children's books.
June Knight , 74, American theatre and film actress and singer, stroke.
Wandjuk Marika , 56–57, Aboriginal Australian painter, actor, composer and indigenous land rights activist.
Mangal Singh , 95, Indian politician and legislator, member of Central Legislative Assembly.
Kōji Tsuruta , 62, Japanese actor and singer, lung cancer.
Kid Thomas Valentine , 91, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
[13]
17
18
Harold F. Cherniss , 83, American classicist and historian of ancient philosophy.
[15]
Jay Lawrence , 63, American stand-up comedian and actor.
Bruce Marshall , 87, Scottish writer.
Georgy Nissky , 84, Soviet painter.
Art Spector , 66, American basketballer.
19
C. R. Cheney , 80, English medieval historian.
Ian Donald , 76, English physician, pioneered diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics.
Joseph Schwab , 26, German spree killer in Australia, shot by police.
Pearl Vasudevi , 72, Sri Lankan actress.
20
Salim Ali , 90, Indian ornithologist and naturalist, prostate cancer.
[16]
Frederic B. Butler , 90, American officer in the U.S. Army in World War 2.
Leonid Kharitonov , 57, Soviet actor, stroke.
Hiro Saga , 73, Japanese noblewoman and memoir writer.
21
Mariano Cañardo , 81, Spanish road racing cyclist.
Abram Chasins , 83, American composer, pianist, music broadcaster and author.
[17]
Eastman Jacobs , 84–85, American aerodynamicist.
Madman Muntz , 73, American businessman, engineer and car salesman.
Kyril Vassilev , 79, Bulgarian-American portrait painter, heart-attack.
[18]
Phil Weintraub , 79, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.
22
Nicholas Alkemade , 64, British tail gunner in the R.A.F. during World War II, survived freefall of 5.5 km.
Fred Astaire , 88, American actor, singer and dancer, pneumonia.
[19]
Mao Bangchu , 83, Chinese army major general.
John Hewitt , 79, Northern Irish poet.
Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali , 94, Moroccan
Salafi .
Joseph Meyer , 93, American songwriter.
Robert N. C. Nix Sr. , 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
[20]
Frank Rehak , 60, American jazz trombonist, throat cancer.
23
Adrienne Gessner , 90, Austrian actress.
Tito Lara , 54, Puerto Rican singer.
Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort , 90, British peeress, niece of Queen Mary.
Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo , 86, Indonesian founder of the
Subud movement.
24
25
John Ness Beck , 56, American composer and arranger of choral music, cancer.
Boudleaux Bryant , 67, half of American husband-and-wife country music and pop songwriting team.
Nibaran Chandra Laskar , 85, Indian singer and politician, member of parliament.
Tony Skyrme , 64, British physicist, embolism.
26
Henk Badings , 80, Indonesian-Dutch composer.
Arthur F. Burns , 83, Austro-Hungarian–born American economist and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.
[21]
George Johnson , 74, American jazz reedist.
Wayne Meylan , 41, American NFL footballer, plane crash.
Richard Pim , 86, British civil servant and naval officer.
Gerhard Wagner , 88, German naval rear admiral.
Tony Webster , 65, American screenwriter.
27
Ratomir Dugonjić , 71, Yugoslavian partisan fighter, politician, and ambassador.
Althea Flynt , 33, American co-publisher of pornographic magazine
Hustler , wife of
Larry Flynt , drowned in bathtub after overdose.
[22]
Pat McGuigan , 52, Irish singer.
Donald Nixon , 72, American brother of U.S. President Richard Nixon, pneumonia.
František Šafránek , 56, Czechoslovakian international footballer, heart failure.
W. Horace Schmidlapp , 71, American investment banker and Broadway producer.
Billy Snedden , 60, Australian politician, speaker of the House of Representatives, heart attack.
28
29
Elizabeth Cotten , 94, American folk and blues musician.
[23]
C. Hamilton Ellis , 78, English railway writer and painter.
Antonio Janni , 82, Italian football manager and international player, Olympic medalist.
Ēriks Pētersons , 77, Latvian international footballer and ice hockey player.
Murray Sanders , 77, American physician and military officer, and
biological warfare pioneer during World War II.
Shmuel Tamir , 64, Israeli independence fighter and lawyer.
[24]
30
Ramani Bartholomeusz , 20, Sri Lankan actress and model, Miss Sri Lanka 1985, pushed out of moving car.
King Donovan , 69, American film, stage and television actor and director, cancer.
[25]
Maurice Geraghty , 78, American screenwriter, film director and producer.
Li Hanhun , 91, Chinese army general.
Federico Mompou , 94, Spanish composer and pianist, respiratory failure.
[26]
Unknown date
References
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"PRIME MINISTER OF BARBADOS, ERROL W. BARROW, DIES AT 67" .
The New York Times . June 2, 1987. p. D 23. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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Stephen Holden (June 4, 1987).
"SAMMY KAYE, 77, BANDLEADER FOR 50 YEARS, DIES OF CANCER" .
The New York Times . p. D 26. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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"Jhr.Mr. S.M.S. de Ranitz" (in Dutch).
Parlementair Documentatie Centrum . Archived from
the original on January 27, 2022. Retrieved June 11, 2024 .
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"BRUNO BERNARD" .
The New York Times . June 5, 1987. p. D 16. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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"Will Sampson, 53, Portrayed An Indian in 'Cuckoo's Nest' " .
The New York Times . June 4, 1987. p. D 26. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
^ John Russell (June 12, 1987).
"Alexander Iolas, Ex-Dancer And Surrealist-Art Champion" .
The New York Times . p. D 28. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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"Daniel Mandell, Won 3 Film Editing Oscars" .
The New York Times . June 13, 1987. p. 1 44. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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"Madge Kennedy Dies; A Film and Stage Star" .
The New York Times . June 13, 1987. p. 1 44. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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"Elizabeth Hartman, 'Patch of Blue' Star, Is Suspected Suicide" .
The New York Times . June 12, 1987. p. D 28. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr. (June 14, 1987).
"GOLFER DOMINATED TOUR, THEN QUIT" .
The New York Times . p. 1 46. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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"VERA CASPARY, SCREENWRITER AND NOVELIST" .
The New York Times . June 17, 1987. p. B 11. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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Elizabeth Kolbert (June 15, 1987).
"A STAR OF STAGE AND FILM" .
The New York Times . p. B 14. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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"Kid Thomas Valentine, Jazz Band Trumpeter" .
The New York Times . June 19, 1987. p. D 16. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr. (June 18, 1987).
"EX-MANAGER OF ROYALS" .
The New York Times . p. B 12. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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"Harold F. Cherniss, an Expert In Greek Philosophy, Is Dead" .
The New York Times . July 12, 1987. p. 1 22. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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"Salim Ali Dies in India; Authority on Wildlife" .
The New York Times . June 21, 1987. p. 1 34. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
^ Joan Cook (June 23, 1987).
"Abram Chasins, WQXR Executive, Dies at 83" .
The New York Times . p. D 30. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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"KYRIL P. VASSILEV" .
The New York Times . June 25, 1987. p. B 16. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
^ Richard F. Shepard (June 23, 1987).
"FRED ASTAIRE, THE ULTIMATE DANCER, DIES" .
The New York Times . p. A 1. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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"Robert Nix, a Congressman For 2 Decades, Is Dead at 88" .
The New York Times . June 23, 1987. p. D 30. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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"Arthur F. Burns Is Dead at 83; A Shaper of Economic Policy" .
The New York Times . June 27, 1987. p. 1 1. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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"ALTHEA FLYNT, PUBLISHER, DIES" .
The New York Times . June 29, 1987. p. B 14. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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"Elizabeth (Libba) Cotten, 95, A Blues and Folk Songwriter" .
The New York Times . June 30, 1987. p. B 8. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
^ William G. Blair (June 30, 1987).
"SHMUEL TAMIR, ISRAELI LAWYER AND EX-JUSTICE MINISTER, DIES" .
The New York Times . p. B 8. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
^ Esther Iverem (July 4, 1987).
"THEATER, FILM AND TV ACTOR" .
The New York Times . p. 1 7. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .
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John Rockwell (July 1, 1987).
"Federico Mompou, Spanish Composer, Dies" .
The New York Times . p. D 23. Retrieved May 3, 2024 .