Deaths in July 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

1

 * Kurt Lamm, 68, German-American soccer player, coach, and manager
 * Jerry Livingston, 78, American songwriter and dance orchestra pianist.
 * Bridget Sequeira, 81, Pakistani-Indian religious sister.
 * Snakefinger, 38, English musician, singer and songwriter, heart attack.
 * Soetran, 66, Indonesian military officer and politician, Governor of Irian Jaya, liver cancer.

2

 * Michael Bennett, 44, American musical theatre director, writer, choreographer and dancer, AIDS-related lymphoma.
 * Václav Černý, 82, Czechoslovakian literary scholar, writer and philosopher.
 * Denis Larkin, 79, Irish politician and trade union official.
 * Karl Linnas, 67, Estonian sentenced to death during the Holocaust trials.
 * George S. Wise, 81, American sociologist, president of Tel Aviv University, heart failure.

3

 * Viola Dana, 90, American silent-screen actress.
 * John H. Mercer, 64, British glaciologist.
 * William Wiard, 59, American film and television director, cancer.

4

 * Edward Addison, 88, British Royal Air Force air vice marshal.
 * Alexander Gordon-Lennox, 76, British Royal Navy rear admiral, president of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
 * Abdul Halim, 75, Indonesian politician, Prime Minister of Indonesia.
 * Sally Hamlin, 84, American child actor, pianist and recording artist.
 * Dan James, 49, American NFL footballer.
 * Bengt Strömgren, 79, Danish astronomer and astrophysicist.

5

 * Bobby Ancell, 76, Scottish international footballer and manager.
 * Alan Gibson, 49, Canadian film and television director.

6

 * László Pusztai, 41, Hungarian international footballer, car accident.

7

 * Finis Jennings Dake, 84, American Pentecostal minister, complications from Parkinson's disease.
 * Michael J. Eagen, 80. American chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
 * René Gérard, 73, French international footballer.
 * H. R. Jothipala, 51, Sri Lankan playback singer, liver failure.
 * Ernest Achey Loftus, 103, British soldier, teacher and diarist.
 * John Meredith Rockingham, 75, Australian-Major General in the Canadian Army.
 * Hannelore Schroth, 65, German film, stage and television actress.
 * John Singer, 63, English actor.
 * Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, 84, Dutch-classical pianist.

8

 * Gerardo Diego, 90, Spanish poet.
 * Alvin O'Konski, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee, 87, Thai aviator, Royal Thai Air Force officer, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand.
 * Franjo Wölfl, 69, Yugoslavian international footballer.

9

 * Michiyo Fukaya, 34, American feminist poet and activist, suicide.
 * Ashley Kriel, 20, South African anti-apartheid activist, killed by police.
 * Waris Mir, 48, Pakistani journalist, writer and academic, cardiac arrest.
 * Hezekiah Ochuka, 33, Kenyan Private in the Kenyan Air Force, Kenyan leader for 6 hours, hanged.
 * Paul Rapoport, 47, American lawyer, AIDS.
 * Ulas Samchuk, 82, Ukrainian writer, publicist, journalist, and anti-semite.
 * Ernest Ward, 66, English rugby league footballer.

10

 * Doug Dobell, 69, British record store proprietor and record producer, ran Dobell's Record Shop, heart attack.
 * John Hammond, 76, American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic, strokes.
 * Harold Rice, 75, American educator and magician.
 * Tanya Zolotoroff Nash, 89, Russian-American Deaf Rights activist.

11

 * Hannah Billig, 85, British medical doctor.
 * Marion Brooks, 91, American silent-screen actress, entertainment journalist and screenwriter.
 * Cyril McLaglen, 87, British and American film actor.
 * Truman J. Nelson, 75–76, American writer of historical novels and essays and a civil rights activist, heart failure.
 * Fernando Garcia Ponce, 53, Mexican architect and abstract artist, heart attack.
 * Avi Ran, 23, Israeli international footballer, hit by racing boat.
 * Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, 87, Russian-American Talmudic scholar and rabbi.
 * Robert Love Taylor, 87, American district judge.
 * Tom Waddell, 49, American physician, decathlete Olympian and founder of the Gay Olympics, AIDS.

12

 * Peter Gimbel, 60, American filmmaker and underwater photojournalist, cancer.
 * Harold Goodwin, 84, American actor.
 * Emilio el Moro, 63, Spanish Flamenco singer, guitarist and humorist.
 * Nathan Perlmutter, 63–64, American executive director of the Anti-Defamation League.
 * Marguerite Renoir, 80, French film editor.
 * Andrei Snezhnevsky, 83, Soviet psychiatrist, lung cancer.

13

 * Patience Collier, 76, British actress.
 * Robert Francis, 85, American poet.
 * Silas Jayne, 80, American horse trainer and murderer, leukemia.
 * Eric Worrell, 62, Australian naturalist and science writer.

14

 * Salvador E. Felices, 63, Puerto Rican major general in the U.S. Air Force.
 * Fritz Holt, 46, American theatre producer and director, pneumonia.
 * William Overton, 47, United States district judge, cancer.
 * Sao Saimong, 73, Burmese government minister.
 * William Stuart-Houston, 76, English-American half-nephew of Adolf Hitler.
 * Pak Yung-sun, 30, North Korean table tennis player, world champion.
 * Viktor Zhdanov, 73, Soviet virologist and epidemiologist.

15

 * Lee Ballanfant, 91, American Major Leagues baseball umpire.
 * J. Rives Childs, 94, American diplomat and writer, U.S. ambassador, cardiac pulmonary infection.
 * Polly Elwes, 59, British BBC Television in-vision announcer and reporter, bone cancer.
 * Lee Gaines, 73, American jazz singer and lyricist, cancer.
 * Fernando Van Zeller Guedes, 84, Portuguese wine producer.
 * Pete King, 28, British musician, testicular cancer.
 * Jack O'Hagan, 88, Australian singer, songwriter and radio personality.
 * Margarete Schlegel, 87, German and British theatre and film actress and soprano operetta singer.

16

 * Harry Ayres, 74, New Zealand mountaineer and guide, drowned in suspected suicide.
 * Alfie Bass, 71, English actor, heart attack.
 * Pierre Lardinois, 62, Dutch politician and diplomat.
 * Juraj Lupták, 45, Czechoslovakian rapist and serial killer, hanged.
 * Rudolph Palumbo, 86, British property developer.
 * Tony Tani, 69, Japanese entertainer, liver cancer.
 * Cliff Wilton, 71, Scottish rugby union player, president of the Scottish Rugby Union.

17

 * Marjorie Cottle, 86, English motorcycle trials rider.
 * Dominick V. Daniels, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Jörg Fauser, 43, German writer, poet and journalist.
 * Yūjirō Ishihara, 52, Japanese actor and singer, liver cancer.
 * Howard McGhee, 69, American bebop jazz trumpeter.
 * Mathura Prasad Mishra, 69, Indian politician, member of the lower house of the Parliament of India.
 * Kristjan Palusalu, 79, Estonian heavyweight wrestler and dual Olympic gold medalist.
 * Leon B. Poullada, 74, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Togo, prostate cancer.

18

 * Anthony Casamento, 66, American marine corporal, Medal of Honor recipient.
 * George Dahl, 93, American architect, dehydration.
 * Gilberto Freyre, 87, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman.
 * Alfredo Ruano, 54, El Salvadoran international footballer, heart attack.

19

 * Clementina de Jesus, 86, Brazilian samba singer, stroke.
 * Jane Kendeigh, 65, American flight nurse of the U.S. Navy.
 * Aadhavan Sundaram, 45, Indian writer, drowned.
 * Brij Lal Varma, 70–71, Indian politician, cabinet minister.

20

 * Ichirō Arishima, 71, Japanese comedian and actor.
 * Norbert Casteret, 89, French caver, adventurer and writer.
 * Richard Egan, 65, American actor, prostate cancer.
 * Margit Johnsen, 74, Norwegian sailor in the merchant navy.
 * Dmitry Lelyushenko, 85, Soviet army general.
 * Alexander Wood, 80, Scottish American international footballer.

21

 * John Armstrong, 71, Irish Anglican bishop, Archbishop of Armagh.
 * Donald Cressey, 68, American penologist, sociologist and criminologist.
 * Louis DaPron, 74, American dancer, choreographer and dance instructor.
 * Bert Keyes, 56, American pianist, songwriter, singer and arranger.
 * Stella Steyn, 79, Irish artist.
 * Burke Trend, 73, British civil servant, rector of Lincoln College.

22

 * Adele Comandini, 89, American screenwriter, nominated for Academy Award for Best Story for Three Smart Girls.
 * Fahrettin Kerim Gökay, 87, Turkish politician and diplomat, Turkish Ambassador to Switzerland.
 * Eugene Halliday, 75, British artist and writer.
 * Natalie Hinderas, 60, American pianist and composer, cancer.
 * Mary Cover Jones, 89, American developmental psychologist and pioneer of behaviour therapy.
 * Jack Lescoulie, 74, American radio and television announcer and host.
 * C. B. Macpherson, 75, Canadian political scientist.
 * Don McMahon, 57, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.
 * Nick Perls, 55, American audio engineer and the founder and owner of Yazoo Records.
 * Raja Shankar, 55, Indian actor.
 * A. G. Kripal Singh, 53, Indian Test cricketer and national selector, cardiac arrest.
 * Henry Tayali, 43, Zambian painter, sculptor and printmaker.

23

 * DeVeren Bookwalter, 47, American actor and director, stomach cancer.
 * Song Deok-gi, 94, Korean martial artist.
 * Art Jarrett, 80, American singer, actor and bandleader.
 * Manuel Suárez y Suárez, 91, Spanish-Mexican entrepreneur and patron of the arts.

24

 * Anna-Eva Bergman, 78, Norwegian abstract expressionist artist.
 * Franz Burri, 85, Swiss political figure, disseminator of Nazi propaganda.
 * Pat Clancy, 68, Australian trade unionist, heart attack.
 * Dick Wellstood, 59, American jazz pianist, heart attack.

25

 * Malcolm Baldrige Jr., 64, American businessman, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, internal injuries from rodeo accident.
 * Charles Stark Draper, 85, American scientist and engineer, \"father of inertial navigation\".
 * Lydie Marland, 87, American first lady of Oklahoma.
 * Tracy Read, 25, American race car driver, race crash.
 * Alex Sadkin, 38, American record producer, engineer, mixer and mastering engineer, motor accident.

26

 * Jim Bishop, 79, American journalist and author, respiratory failure.
 * Chinmoy Chattopadhyay, 56, Indian singer.
 * Phyllis Cilento, 93, Australian medical practitioner, medical journalist and advocate of family planning.
 * Frank Marshall Davis, 81, American journalist, poet, political activist and businessman.
 * Tawfiq al-Hakim, 88, Egyptian writer.
 * Joe Liggins, 71, American R&B, jazz and blues pianist and vocalist, stroke.
 * Carmelita Maracci, 79. American concert dancer and choreographer, heart attack.
 * Kenneth Muse, 77, American animator best known for the Tom and Jerry series.
 * Mario Radice, 88, Italian painter
 * Hugh Wheeler, 75, British-American novelist, screenwriter, librettist and poet.

27

 * Travis Jackson, 83, American Major league baseballer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Jan Mikusiński, 74, Polish mathematician.
 * K. L. N. Prasad, 59, Indian politician, member of Parliament.

28

 * James Burnham, 81, American philosopher and political theorist, kidney and liver cancer.
 * Feodor Fedorenko, 79, Soviet Nazi collaborator and war criminal, executed.
 * Carlton Fredericks, 76, American radio commentator and writer on health and nutrition, heart attack.
 * Jack Renshaw, 77, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales.
 * Ismet Alajbegović Šerbo, 62, Bosnian accordionist, composer and writer of folk songs.
 * Nguyễn Tuân, 77, Vietnamese author.
 * Philip E. Vernon, 82, British-Canadian psychologist and author.
 * Levie Vorst, 83, Dutch rabbi of Rotterdam.

29

 * Arthur J. Bressan Jr., 44, American director, writer, producer and documentarian, AIDS.
 * Arthur Chipperfield, 81, Australian test cricketer.
 * Aleksey Sukletin, 44, Soviet serial killer, rapist and cannibal, executed.

30

 * Vicky Clement-Jones, 38, Hong Kong-English physician and medical researcher, ovarian cancer.
 * Lado Davidov, 62, Soviet soldier during the Second World War and Hero of the Soviet Union.
 * McDonald Hobley, 70, British BBC Television continuity announcer, heart attack.
 * Bernard Sta Maria, 42–43, Malaysian politician, community leader and author, bronchitis.
 * Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, 92, Indian author.
 * Narciso Soldan, 59, Italian footballer.
 * Michel Tapié, 78, French art critic, curator, and collector.

31

 * Kenneth Carllile, 56, American country music guitarist and songwriter, heart attack.
 * Joseph E. Levine, 81, American film distributor, financier and producer.
 * Justine W. Polier, 84, American lawyer, the first woman Justice in New York.
 * Michael Staniforth, 44, British stage actor, AIDS.
 * Paul Yakabuski, 64, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Unknown date

 * Sari Maritza, 77, British film actress.
 * Joe Mondragon, 67, American jazz bassist.
 * Hugh Perceval, 79, British screenwriter and film producer.