Deaths in April 1988

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

1

 * Đào Duy Anh, 83, Vietnamese historian.
 * Jim Jordan, 91, American actor (Fibber McGee and Molly), stroke resulting from fall.
 * April Tinsley, 8, American murder victim.

2

 * Jacques André, 69, French fighter pilot in World War II, Olympian.
 * Jenő Barcsay, 88, Hungarian painter.
 * Lisa Marie Kimmell, American murder victim.
 * Pushpaben Mehta, 83, Indian social worker and politician.
 * Anthony Pelissier, 75, English actor, screenwriter and director (Personal Affair, The History of Mr. Polly).

3

 * Milton Caniff, 81, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon), lung cancer.
 * Lee Man Fong, 74, Chinese-born Indonesian painter.
 * V. S. Wakankar, 68, Indian archaeologist.

4

 * Florestine Perrault Collins, 93, American professional photographer.
 * Myra De Groot, 50, British-born American-Australian actress (The Sullivans, Neighbours), cancer.
 * Kai Ewans, 81, Danish-American jazz reedist.
 * Gaston Eyskens, 82, Belgian politician and Prime Minister.
 * Karol Fageros, 53, American tennis player, cancer.
 * Eric A. Havelock, 84, British classicist.
 * Roy Weatherby, 77, American founder and owner of Weatherby rifle company.
 * Delos Wickens, 78, American experimental research psychologist and author (Ohio State University).

5

 * Boyd Brumbaugh, 72, American NFL footballer (Brooklyn Dodgers), emphysema.
 * Mozaffar Firouz, 81, Iranian diplomat, Iranian ambassador to the USSR.
 * Swede Halbrook, 55, American NBA basketballer (Syracuse Nationals), heart attack.
 * Alf Kjellin, 68, Swedish-born American film actor and director, heart attack.
 * Elizabeth Linington, 67, American mystery novelist.
 * Rosemary Manning, 76, British writer (The Chinese Garden).
 * Robert S. Mendelsohn, 61, American pediatrician and critic of modern medical practice, cardiac arrest.
 * Pierre Prévert, 71, French film director, screenwriter and actor.
 * Alan Shorter, 55, American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, ruptured aorta.

6

 * Gunārs Astra, 56, Latvian human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident, heart disease.
 * John Clements, 77, British actor and producer (Knight Without Armour, South Riding).
 * Leroy Kirkland, 82–84, American bandleader, guitarist and songwriter.
 * Hamdija Pozderac, 64, Yugoslav communist politician, President of People's Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, stroke.

7

 * Denis Hamilton, 69, English newspaper editor (The Sunday Times, The Times).
 * Dinanath Nadim, 72, Indian poet.
 * Albert S. Rogell, 86, American film director.

8

 * Vilayati Ram Katyal, 52, Indian politician, member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

9

 * Brook Benton, 56, American singer and songwriter (It's Just a Matter of Time, Endlessly), pneumonia.
 * Syd Cohen, 81, American Major League baseballer (Washington Senators).
 * John Herman Dent, 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Jerry Harvey, 38, American screenwriter and film programmer (Z Channel), murder-suicide.
 * Dave Prater, 50, American soul and rhythm & blues singer and musician, car accident.
 * Arturo Rotor, 80, Filipino medical doctor, Executive Secretary of the Philippines, cancer.
 * Willy Schaeffler, 72, German-American skier and coach, ski resort developer.
 * William Horace Temple, 89, Canadian politician and trade unionist.
 * Sylvia Thalberg, 80, American screenwriter (Montana Moon).

10

 * Khaqan Abbasi, Pakistani politician, Federal Minister for Production, car hit by missile.
 * Cliff Gladwin, 72, English test cricketer (Derbyshire, England).
 * Woody Kling, 62, American television writer, producer and composer, brain and lung cancer.
 * Ezekias Papaioannou, 79, Greek Cypriot politician.

11

 * Ithell Colquhoun, 81, British painter, poet and author.
 * James R. Domengeaux, 81, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, leukemia.
 * Jeff Donnell, 66, American actress (General Hospital, The Phantom Thief), heart attack.
 * Jesse L. Lasky Jr., 77, American screenwriter and novelist (Samson and Delilah, The Ten Commandments), pancreatic cancer.

12

 * Colette Deréal, 60, French actress and singer.
 * Sheridan Gibney, 84, American writer and producer in theatre and film (The Story of Louis Pasteur), cancer.
 * Hartmann Lauterbacher, 78, German Nazi, Deputy Reichsjugendführer, Stabsführer of Hitler Youth, unconvicted war criminal.
 * Harry McShane, 96, Scottish socialist.
 * Alan Paton, 85, South African writer and anti-Apartheid activist, cancer.
 * George Rock, 68, American trumpet player and singer (Spike Jones and his City Slickers).
 * Frank Skaff, 77, American Major League baseballer (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Athletics), heart attack.

13

 * Jean Gascon, 67, Canadian opera director and actor, heart attack.
 * Leo Zeff, 75, American psychologist and psychotherapist.

14

 * Daniel Guérin, 83, French libertarian-communist author (Anarchism: From Theory to Practice).
 * Jack McIntosh, 78, Scottish-born Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
 * Pony Poindexter, 62, American jazz saxophonist.
 * Camilla Ravera, 98, Italian politician, first female lifetime senator.
 * John Stonehouse, 62, British businessman and minister, Member of Parliament, heart attack.

15

 * Rosemary Ames, 81, American film actress (Mr. Quincey of Monte Carlo, One More Spring).
 * George E. Mylonas, 89, Greek archaeologist, heart attack.
 * Maria Ulfah Santoso, 76, Indonesian politician and women's rights activist, Minister of Social Affairs.
 * Kenneth Williams, 62, British actor and comedian (Carry On), overdose of barbiturates.

16

 * John Anderson, 79, British Army general, Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff.
 * José Dolhem, 43, French racing driver, power boat racing accident.
 * Youri Egorov, 33, Soviet classical pianist, complications from AIDS.
 * Jacques de Kadt, 90, Dutch politician, member of Dutch parliament.
 * John Reardon, 58, American baritone and actor (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood), pneumonia (AIDS).
 * Clifford Roach, 84, Trinidadian test cricketer (Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies).
 * Bobby Thompson, 76, English stand-up comedian and actor, emphysema and cancer.
 * Khalil al-Wazir, 52, Palestinian leader, assassinated.

17

 * Linda Batista, 68, Brazilian musician.
 * Carlotta Corpron, 86, American photographer.
 * Albert Fennell, 68, British film and television producer (The Avengers).
 * Toni Frissell, 81, American photographer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Paul L. Freeman Jr., 80, American general in the U.S. Army, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Army Europe, heart ailment.
 * Anthony Gaggi, 62, American mobster in the Gambino crime family, heart attack.
 * Felicity Lane-Fox, 69, member of the House of Lords, champion of disability issues.
 * Patrick Mphephu, 63–64, South African politician, President of Venda.
 * Louise Nevelson, 88, Ukrainian-American sculptor.
 * Eva Novak, 90, American film actress (The Romance of Runnibede, The Medicine Man), pneumonia.
 * Otto Pächt, 85, Austrian art historian.
 * Carlos Sotomayor, 76–77, Chilean painter, heart attack.
 * George Williams, 70, American musician and composer.
 * Isaak Yaglom, 67, Soviet mathematician and author.

18

 * Stanton Delaplane, 80, American travel writer (San Francisco Chronicle), Pulitzer Prize winner, emphysema.
 * Pierre Desproges, 48, French humorist, lung cancer.
 * Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, 73, Turkish writer and playwright.
 * Antonín Puč, 80, Czechoslovakian international footballer (Slavia Prague, Czechoslovakia).
 * Oktay Rifat, 73, Turkish writer and playwright.
 * Phyllis Ross, 84–85, Canadian economist, chancellor of University of British Columbia.

19

 * Margaret A. Edwards, 85, American librarian (Enoch Pratt Free Library, American Library Association).
 * Kwon Ki-ok, 87, first Korean female aviator.
 * Jonasz Kofta, 45, Polish songwriter and poet, choking.
 * Jeanne Rowe Skinner, 71, American Navy officer, First Lady of Guam.
 * Albert Ross Tilley, 83, Canadian plastic surgeon, pioneered treatment of burned airmen.

20

 * Héctor Félix Miranda, 46, Mexican journalist, columnist of the Zeta magazine, assassinated.

21

 * Andrzej Czabański, 28, Polish murderer, last person executed in Poland.
 * I. A. L. Diamond, 67, Romanian-born American screenwriter (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment), multiple myeloma.
 * Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia, 90, Russian-French woman, child of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia.
 * Buddy Humphrey, 52, American NFL footballer (St. Louis Cardinals), brain tumour.
 * Morris Rudensky, 89, American prohibition-era gangster.

22

 * Peter Helck, 94, American illustrator.
 * Hugh S. Knowles, 83, American acoustical engineer and inventor, president of the Acoustical Society of America, cancer.
 * Melvin Price, 83, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cancer.
 * Irene Rich, 96, American film and radio actress (Queen of the Yukon, Fort Apache), heart failure.
 * Barbara Robison, 42, American singer (The Peanut Butter Conspiracy), toxic shock syndrome.
 * Tchicaya U Tam'si, 56, Congolese author.

23

 * Karl Leonhard, 84, German psychiatrist.
 * Eitaro Ozawa, 79, Japanese film and stage actor and director.
 * Michael Ramsey, 83, British Church of England bishop, Archbishop of Canterbury.

24

 * Gioacchino Colombo, 85, Italian automobile engine designer (Ferrari Colombo engine).
 * Alexander Makinsky, 87, Iranian-born American businessman, assistant vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
 * Pavel Wonka, 35, Czechoslovak political activist, pulmonary embolism.
 * Jonathan Woodner, 44, American real estate developer and road racing driver, air crash.

25

 * René Cardona, 82, Mexican director and actor, (Allá en el Rancho Grande, Santa Claus).
 * Lygia Clark, 67, Brazilian artist, co-founded the Neo-Concrete movement, heart attack.
 * Carolyn Franklin, 43, American singer-songwriter, sister of Aretha Franklin (Ain't No Way), breast cancer.
 * Erik Hysén, 81, Swedish footballer (IFK Göteborg).
 * Ken Jones, 60, British conductor and composer of film and television music.
 * Michael Lantz, 80, American sculptor, president of the National Sculpture Society, stroke.
 * Burnita Shelton Matthews, 93, American judge of the United States District Court, stroke.
 * Sir Hugh Rankin, 88–89, Tunisian-born British eccentric, president of the British Muslim Society.
 * Lanny Ross, 82, American singer, pianist and songwriter, heart failure.
 * Clifford D. Simak, 83, American science fiction writer (Way Station, The Visitors).
 * Valerie Solanas, 52, American author and feminist, attempted to murder Andy Warhol, pneumonia.
 * Zephyr Wright, 72–73, American civil rights activist and personal chef for President Lyndon Johnson, heart condition.

26

 * Guy Boyd, 64, Australian potter and sculptor, coronary atherosclerosis.
 * William Fox-Pitt, 92, English general in the British Army.
 * Guillermo Haro, 75, Mexican astronomer (Herbig–Haro objects).
 * Desmond Hoare, 77, British Royal Navy engineer officer.
 * Frederick D. Patterson, 86, American academic administrator, founder of the United Negro College Fund, heart attack.
 * Marian Porwit, 92, Polish military officer, colonel in the Polish Army.
 * Bennett Stewart, 75, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Arbee Stidham, 71, American blues singer.

27

 * Fred Bear, 86, American bow hunter and manufacturer, co-founder of Bear Archery, heart attack.
 * Christina Bellin, 48, Italian-born American model, brain tumour.
 * Valery Legasov, 51, Soviet chemist, chief of Chernobyl disaster investigation commission, suicide.
 * David Scarboro, 20, English actor (EastEnders).
 * Robert Van Pelt, 90, American attorney, US district judge.
 * Olaf Wieghorst, 88, Danish-born American painter.

28

 * Fenner Brockway, 99, British socialist politician and anti-war activist, member of the House of Lords.
 * William Potter Gale, 71, American political activist and white supremacist, emphysema.
 * Michael Grumley, 45, American writer and artist (New York Native), AIDS.
 * Hagop Hagopian, 36–37, leader of Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, assassinated.
 * Maxim Mazumdar, 36, Indian-born Canadian playwright and director (Oscar Remembered), AIDS.
 * B. W. Stevenson, 38, American country pop singer and musician, staph infection.

29

 * Brish Bhan, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Patiala and East Punjab States Union.
 * Andrew Cruickshank, 80, Scottish actor (Dr. Finlay's Casebook).
 * Irving Kolodin, 80, American music critic and historian (New York Sun, Saturday Review).
 * James McCracken, 61, American operatic tenor, stroke.
 * Jakob Tuggener, 84, Swiss photographer, filmmaker and painter.
 * Martin Wyldeck, 74, English actor.

30

 * Lola Hoffmann, 84, Latvian-born Chilean physiologist and psychiatrist.
 * Man Mountain Mike, 47, American professional wrestler, staph infection.
 * Carroll Righter, 88, American "astrologer".
 * Alex Sanders, 61, English occultist, Wiccan high priest, lung cancer.
 * Robert Leslie Stewart, 70, Scottish executioner.
 * Tiger Joe Tomasso, 65–66, Canadian professional wrestler.

Unknown date

 * T. Glynne Davies, 62, Welsh poet, novelist and television and radio broadcaster.
 * Émile Roumer, 85, Haitian poet.
 * Ginette Spanier, 84, French director of the House of Balmain.