Deaths in February 1988

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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

 * N. M. Bodecker, 66, Danish-born American author and illustrator of children's books (Tales of Magic), colon cancer.
 * Marcel Bozzuffi, 58, French film actor (The French Connection).
 * John Grist Brainerd, 83–84, American electrical engineer (ENIAC).
 * Gerald Butler, 80, English writer of crime and thriller novels (Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, There Is a Death, Elizabeth).
 * Ted Hill, 72, Australian barrister, lawyer and communist activist, Chairman of the Communist Party of Australia.
 * Thomas Francis Johnson, 78, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, car crash.
 * Heather O'Rourke, 12, American child actress (Poltergeist), congenital stenosis of intestine.
 * Stephen Taylor, 77, British physician and politician, member of the House of Lords.
 * Eddie Townsend, 73, American professional boxing trainer, cancer.
 * Marisa Vernati, 67, Italian actress.

2

 * Richard Chase, 83, American folklorist.
 * Caroline Chew, 86, American dancer.
 * Solomon Cutner, 85, British pianist.
 * Quamrul Hassan, 66, Bengali artist, heart attack.
 * Thomas Lamb, 91, American industrial designer, pneumonia.
 * Rossana Martini, 62, Italian actress and model.
 * Normie Smith, 79, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Maroons).
 * G. Mennen Williams, 76, American politician, governor of Michigan, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, stroke.

3

 * Ronald Bladen, 69, Canadian-American painter and sculptor, cancer.
 * Sam D'Allesandro, 31, American writer and poet, AIDS.
 * Robert Duncan, 69, American poet, heart attack.
 * Radamés Gnattali, 82, Brazilian composer.
 * Werner Kissling, 92, German-born Scottish ethnographer and photographer.
 * René Massigli, 99, French diplomat, French Ambassador to the U.K. and Turkey.
 * Jocko Thompson, 71, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Phillies).
 * Dymock Watson, 84, British Royal Navy officer, Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic.
 * Lewis Wolberg, 82, American psychoanalyst (hypnoanalysis), heart attack.
 * Sewall Wright, 98, American geneticist, fall.

4

 * Clyde Coombs, 75, American psychologist (Coombs' method).
 * Frank Giacoia, 63, American comics artist (Captain America, The Amazing Spider-Man).
 * Dhamma Jagoda, 47, Sri Lankan theatre and television play director and actor.
 * Bill Narduzzi, 51, American football player and coach, Hodgkin's disease.
 * Jonas Turkow, 89, Polish-Israeli actor, director and writer.

5

 * Ove Arup, 92, English engineer, design engineer for Sydney Opera House.
 * Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, 73, American mathematician, president of the Mathematics Association of America.
 * Bennie Dobbins, 55, American stuntman and actor (Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Ferris Bueller's Day Off), heart attack.
 * Clement Hurd, 80, American illustrator of children's books (Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Emeric Pressburger, 85, Hungarian-born British film director and producer (49th Parallel), pneumonia.

6

 * Gary Berland, 37, American professional poker player, blood disorder.
 * Richard Bock, 61, American jazz record producer.
 * Marghanita Laski, 72, English journalist and novelist, lung disease.
 * Nick Pietrosante, 50, American NFL footballer (Detroit Lions), prostate cancer.
 * Barclay Plager, 46, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues), brain cancer.
 * Carmen Polo, 87, Spanish wife of Francisco Franco, bronchial pneumonia.
 * Zvonimir Rogoz, 100. Croatian actor.

7

 * Upendranath Barman, 88, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
 * Lin Carter, 57, American science fiction and fantasy author (Ballantine Adult Fantasy series), cancer.
 * Ray Martin, 69, Austrian-British orchestra leader, cancer.
 * Ririd Myddelton, 85, English High Sheriff of Denbighshire, Equerry to The Queen.
 * Tony Santos Sr., 67, Filipino actor and director (Badjao: The Sea Gypsies).

8

 * Pietro Arcari, 78, Italian footballer (AC Milan, Genoa).
 * Dolores Camarillo, 77, Mexican actress (Ahí está el detalle).
 * Allan Cuthbertson, 67, Australian-British actor (Fawlty Towers - Gourmet Night, Edge of Darkness).
 * Ralph Flanagan, 69, American swimmer and Olympic medalist.
 * Hans Krueger, 78, Nazi German Gestapo captain in occupied Poland, responsible for massacres against Poles and Jews.
 * Daisy Turner, 104, American storyteller and poet.
 * Frank Varey, 79, English speedway rider.
 * Alfréd Wetzler, 69, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian writer (Vrba–Wetzler report).
 * Helen Wood, 70, American film and radio actress.

9

 * Kurt Herbert Adler, 69, Austrian-American conductor, heart attack.
 * Ermal Allen, 69, American professional footballer (Cleveland Browns) and coach (Dallas Cowboys), cancer.
 * Marjorie May Bacon, 86, British printmaker and painter.
 * Henry Burrell, 83, Australian navy commander, Vice Admiral of Royal Australian Navy.
 * Israel Nathan Herstein, 64, Polish-American mathematician (ring theory), cancer.
 * Phillip Hutchinson, 24, American bank robber, murderer and escaped convict, shot by police.
 * Charles Moses, 88, British-Australian administrator, general manager of Australian Broadcasting Commission.
 * Fritz Redl, 85, Austrian-born American child psychoanalyst.
 * William Sackville, 66, British peer, suicide.

10

 * Nat Cohen, 82, British film producer (The Sleeping Tiger, The Tommy Steele Story, Carry On ...), heart attack.
 * Alfred Eichner, 50, American economist.
 * Cynthia Gooding, 63, American folk singer, cancer.
 * Wolfgang Lange, 89, Nazi German general
 * Lothar Malskat, 74, German painter and art restorer.
 * Don Patterson, 51, American jazz organist.
 * Chaya Mushka Schneerson, 86, Russian-American wife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Jewish spiritual leader.

11

 * Mary E. Black, 92, American waver and weaving instructor.
 * Marion Crawford, 78, Scottish governess to Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth, cancer.
 * René Hall, 75, American guitarist, heart disease.
 * Virgil D. Hawkins, 81, American attorney, kidney failure.
 * Gail L. Ireland, 92, American politician, Attorney General of Colorado.
 * Amirteymour Kalali, 93, Iranian politician, member of the Parliament of Iran.

12

 * Robert Coin, 86, French sculptor and engraver.
 * Briggs Gordon, 38, American television host.
 * Max Heine, 76–77, German-born American value investor and fund manager, traffic accident.
 * Gustav Koranteng-Addow, 69, Ghanaian Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice.
 * Bernard Lippmann, 73, American theoretical physicist (Lippmann–Schwinger equation in scattering theory).

13

 * John Curulewski, 37, American musician, original member of Styx, brain aneurysm.
 * Ron Embleton, 57, British illustrator and comics artist (Mickey Mouse Weekly, Penthouse), heart attack.
 * Dorothy Kurgans Goldberg, 79, American artist and writer, Supreme Court justice, lung cancer.
 * Léon Goossens, 90, English oboist.
 * Ivan Peries, 66, Sri Lankan Artist.

14

 * Nora Astorga, 39, Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter and politician, Nicaraguan Ambassador to the United Nations, cervical cancer.
 * Frederick Loewe, 86, German-American composer (My Fair Lady), cardiac arrest.
 * Cal Niday, 73, American racecar driver, heart attack.
 * Mark Serrurier, 83, American president of Moviola, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Alfonso Valdés Cobián, 97, Puerto Rican industrialist and politician, cofounder of Cervecería India, heart attack.
 * Lynette White, 20, Welsh murder victim.
 * Joseph Wresinski, 71, French priest.

15

 * Joseph O. Butcher, 75, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
 * Pat Close, 39, American child actor (Imitation of Christ, Sunrise at Campobello), liver disease.
 * Al Cohn, 62, American jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer, liver cancer.
 * Richard Feynman, 69, American theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, kidney failure.
 * Neil R. Jones, 78, American science fiction writer.
 * Jay Leyda, 78, American filmmaker and film historian, heart failure.
 * Francisco Manrique, 69, Argentine naval officer and presidential candidate, lymphoma.
 * Gardiner Means, 91, American economist (The Modern Corporation and Private Property), stroke.
 * Arthur Mizener, 80, American professor of English and literary critic (The Far Side of Paradise), heart failure.

16

 * Jean Carignan, 71, Canadian fiddler.
 * Charles Delaunay, 77, French author and jazz expert, co-founder of Hot Club de France, Parkinson's disease.
 * Hélène Gordon-Lazareff, 78, Russian-born French journalist.
 * Vijaya Kumaratunga, 42, Sri Lankan actor, singer and politician, assassinated.
 * Ye Shengtao, 93, Chinese writer, journalist and politician, Chinese Vice-Minister of Culture.

17

 * John M. Allegro, 65, English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, heart attack.
 * Alexander Bashlachev, 27, Soviet poet, singer-songwriter and guitarist, probable suicide.
 * Yuri Ovchinnikov, 53, Soviet bio-organic chemist, contributed to Soviet biological weapons program.
 * Veijo Pasanen, 57, Finnish actor (Pikku Kakkonen).
 * Alain Savary, 69, French politician, Minister of National Education.
 * Karpoori Thakur, 64, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar, cardiac arrest.
 * Reginald Uren, 81, New Zealand architect.

18

 * Michael Howard, 71, British actor and comedian.
 * Walter Ohmsen, 76, Nazi German officer in the German navy, first German to sight the D-Day naval force.
 * Giovanni Savonuzzi, 77, Italian automobile designer (Cisitalia, Carrozzeria Ghia, Chrysler).

19

 * Isabel Bishop, 85, American painter and graphic artist (Tidying Up), Parkinson's disease.
 * René Char, 80, French poet, member of the French resistance, heart attack.
 * André Cournand, 92, French-American physician (cardiac catheterization), Nobel laureate in Medicine, pneumonia.
 * William W. Eagles, 93, American officer, Major General in the U.S. Army.
 * Gloria Hollister, 87, American explorer and scientist (New York Zoological Society), cardiac arrest.
 * S. V. Sahasranamam, 74, Indian actor and director, heart attack.
 * Frank Strafaci, 71, American amateur golfer.
 * Eric Stryker, 33, American gay pornographic performer and model, AIDS.

20

 * MaKee K. Blaisdell, 56, American actor (Hawaiian Eye), heart failure.
 * Bob O'Farrell, 91, American Major League baseballer (Chicago Cubs, New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals).
 * Mildred Seydell, 98, American journalist.
 * Roger J. Williams, 94, Indian-born American biochemist (nutrition), pneumonia.
 * Jim Woods, American Major League baseball sportscaster, cancer.

21

 * Angie Debo, 98, American historian who focused on Native American and Oklahoma history.
 * Cornelis van Eesteren, 90, Dutch architect and urban planner (Lelystad).
 * David Otis Fuller, 84, American Baptist pastor.
 * Aidan McAnespie, 23, Irish murder victim, killed by British soldier.
 * Aleksandar Tomašević, 79, Serbian international footballer and manager (BASK, Yugoslavia).
 * Heydar Yaghma, 64, Iranian poet.

22

 * Charles L. Banks, 73, American officer in the U.S. Marine Corps (Battle of Chosin Reservoir).
 * Edward Vaughan Bevan, 80, British rower and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Albert Collier, 78, Australian rules footballer (Collingwood).
 * Barrie Heath, 71, British Royal Air Force pilot in the Battle of Britain.
 * Afro Poli, 85, Italian operatic baritone.
 * Pao Ming Pu, 77, Chinese mathematician (Systolic geometry).
 * Cecil Ramage, 93, Scottish barrister, actor and politician, Member of Parliament.
 * Larry Shay, 90, American songwriter (When You're Smiling), lung cancer and emphysema.

23

 * Pete Donohue, 87, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds).
 * Joseph Karakis, 85, Ukrainian architect (National Museum of the History of Ukraine).
 * Leroy Leblanc, 73, American swing musician.

24

 * Irwin Chanin, 96, American architect and real estate developer (Richard Rodgers Theatre, The Century).
 * Rose Coyle, 73, Miss America 1936.
 * James H. Douglas Jr., 88, American lawyer, senior official in U.S. Government, Secretary of the Air Force, cancer.
 * Memphis Slim, 72, American blues pianist, singer and composer (Every Day I Have the Blues), renal failure.
 * Mamdouh Salem, 69, Prime Minister of Egypt.
 * Timothy Scott, 32, American Broadway actor and dancer, AIDS.
 * Seymour Siegel, 60, American rabbi, professor of Ethics and Theology.
 * Bluma Zeigarnik, 87, Soviet psychologist.

25

 * Bernard Ashmole, 93, British archaeologist and art historian.
 * William Harold Cox, 86, American judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.
 * Kurt Mahler, 84, German-born British-Australian mathematician (Mahler's inequality, Mahler's compactness theorem).
 * Peck Morrison, 68, American jazz bassist.
 * Dori Seda, 37, American comic artist, influenza.
 * H. E. Todd, 80, English writer of children's fiction (Bobby Brewster).

26

 * Edward Byrne, 22, American police officer, murdered in the line of duty.
 * Kang Mun-bong, 64, South Korean military officer.
 * Joseph Kiselewski, 87, American sculptor.

27

 * Basil Boothroyd, 77, English humorous writer (Punch).
 * George Clutesi, 83, Canadian artist, actor and writer (Dreamspeaker).
 * Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers, 89, French excommunicated Catholic bishop.
 * Franck Lavaud, 85, Haitian general and politician, President of Haiti.
 * Frane Milčinski, 73, Slovene poet and writer (Twinkle Sleepyhead).
 * Gene de Paul, 68, American pianist, composer and songwriter (Teach Me Tonight), brain tumour.
 * Kenneth Peach, 84, American cinematographer.
 * Jack Roberts, 78, American judge.

28

 * Beatrice Burns, 82, American First Lady of Hawaii, wife of John A. Burns.
 * Irja Hagfors, 82, Finnish dance artist and choreographer.
 * Edith North Johnson, 85, American blues singer, pianist and songwriter.
 * Harvey Kuenn, 57, American Major League baseballer (Detroit Tigers, San Francisco Giants), heart disease and diabetes.
 * Mikhail Naimy, 98, Lebanese poet, novelist and philosopher, pneumonia.
 * Asakazu Nakai, 86, Japanese cinematographer (Stray Dog, Ran).
 * Kylie Tennant, 75, Australian novelist, playwright and historian (Ride on Stranger).

29

 * Beatriz Guido, 65, Argentinian novelist and screenwriter (The Kidnapper, Traitors of San Angel).
 * John Henry Guinness, 52, British chairman of Guinness Mahon.
 * Sidney Harmon, 80, American movie producer and screenwriter (The Talk of the Town).
 * Paul Ramsey, 74, American Methodist ethicist, heart attack.
 * Karl Zimmer, 76, German nuclear chemist.

Unknown date

 * John Smith, 49, English footballer (West Ham United).
 * Dick Walker, 74, English footballer (West Ham United).