Deaths in July 1988

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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

 * James Edgar Broyhill, 96, American founder of Broyhill Furniture Industries.
 * Lex van Delden, 68, Dutch composer.
 * Guido Fibbia, 70, Italian World War II fighter pilot.
 * Anton Leader, 74, American radio and television director, liver ailment.
 * Alice Nunn, 60, American actress (Pee-wee's Big Adventure), heart attack.
 * Hermann Volk, 84, German Roman Catholic cardinal, Bishop of Mainz.

2

 * Arnold Burmeister, 89, Nazi German general in the Wehrmacht.
 * Vibert Douglas, 93, Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist.
 * Johann Baptist Gradl, 84, German politician.
 * Mahmoud Mirza, 82, Iranian prince of the Qajar dynasty.
 * Aldo Tonti, 78, Italian cinematographer (The Savage Innocents).
 * Eddie Vinson, 70, American alto saxophonist, heart attack.

3

 * Ed Birchall, 64, Ho-Ho the Clown, heart attack.
 * Gabriel Dell, 68, American actor, leukemia.
 * Richard Schulze-Kossens, 73, Nazi German Obersturmbannführer in the Waffen-SS, lung cancer.
 * Steve Walsh, 29, British disc jockey, heart failure.
 * Fritz Wiessner, 88, German-American pioneer of free climbing, stroke.

4

 * Adrian Adonis, 34, American professional wrestler (American Wrestling Association, World Wrestling Federation), traffic accident.
 * Ralph Dennis, 56, American crime fiction author, kidney failure.
 * Shivkumar Joshi, 71, Indian author.
 * Ferial Karim, 50, Lebanese-Indian actress and singer, Femina Miss India 1962, heart failure.
 * Donald MacLaren, 95, Canadian World War I flying ace.
 * Tom Manley, 75, English footballer (Manchester United, Brentford).
 * Dave McKigney, 56, Canadian professional wrestler, traffic accident.
 * William Thetford, 65, American psychologist and professor, heart attack.
 * Lee Weyer, 51, American Major League baseball umpire, heart attack.

6

 * Hoang Van Chi, 74, Vietnamese political writer.
 * John Drury Clark, 80, American rocket fuel developer, chemist and science fiction writer.
 * Víctor Junco, 71, Mexican actor (La Otra, Misterio).
 * William Smythe, 95, American physicist at Caltech.
 * David T. Wilentz, 93, American attorney (Lindbergh kidnapping trial).

7

 * William R. Cox, 87, American writer, heart failure.
 * Jimmy Edwards, 68, English comedy writer and actor (Take It from Here, Whack-O!), pneumonia.
 * Helen Gandy, 91, American secretary to Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover, heart attack.
 * David Atlee Phillips, 65, American Central Intelligence Agency officer, cancer.

8

 * Ray Barbuti, 83, American sprinter and Olympic dual gold medalist.
 * Antony Fisher, 73, British businessman and think tank founder (Institute of Economic Affairs, Atlas Network), heart disorder.
 * Ranjit Khanwilkar, 27, Indian cricketer (Karnataka), train accident.
 * Freddie West, 92, British Royal Air Force officer.

9

 * Ian Allan, 70, Scottish Royal Air Force officer and World War II flying ace.
 * Alexandru Graur, 88, Romanian linguist.
 * Anthony Holland, 60, American actor, suicide.
 * Jackie Presser, 61, American labour leader, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, cardiac arrest.
 * Barbara Woodhouse, 78, Irish-British dog trainer, author and TV personality, stroke.

10

 * Alf Ackerman, 59, South African footballer and manager (Carlisle United).
 * Noel Barber, 78, British novelist and journalist.
 * Errol John, 63, Trinidad and Tobago–born English actor and playwright (Moon on a Rainbow Shawl).
 * Enrique Lihn, 58, Chilean poet, cancer.
 * N. Krishna Pillai, 71, Indian dramatist, translator and historian of Malayalam language.
 * Vicente Saadi, 74, Argentinian politician, Governor of Catamarca.

11

 * Mike Bamber, 57, British businessman and football executive (Brighton & Hove Albion).
 * Robert Ferro, 46, American novelist, AIDS.
 * Milton Krims, 84, American screenwriter and novelist, pneumonia.
 * Jarava Lal Mehta, 75–76, Indian philosopher, heart attack.
 * Lída Merlínová, 82, Czech writer.
 * James Gordon Shanklin, 78, American FBI agent, known for the investigation of the J.F.K. assassination, cancer.
 * Barbara Wootton, 91, British sociologist and criminologist, member of the House of Lords.

12

 * Al Bedner, 90, American football player.
 * Josephine Douglas, 61, British actress and producer (Six-Five Special, Emergency Ward 10), cancer.
 * Raymond W. Goldsmith, 83, Belgian-born American economist, heart failure.
 * Michael Jary, 81, German composer.
 * Joshua Logan, 79, American stage & film director and screenwriter (South Pacific), supranuclear palsy.
 * John Massis, 48, Belgian strongman and teeth-acrobat, suicide.
 * Mitsuo Nakamura, 77, Japanese writer of biographies and stage-plays.
 * Katta Subba Rao, 48, Indian film director.
 * Julian Trevelyan, 78, English artist and poet.

13

 * Huub Bals, 51, Dutch creator and director of International Film Festival Rotterdam, heart attack.
 * Ji Dengkui, 65, Chinese political figure, Vice Premier of People's Republic of China.
 * Hilda Gobbi, 75, Hungarian actress.
 * Christine Mohrmann, 84, Dutch linguist.
 * Phil Monroe, 71, American animator and director (Warner Bros. Cartoons), pancreatic cancer.
 * Richard Vogt, 75, German boxer and Olympic medalist.

14

 * William Ofori Atta, 77, Ghanaian politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
 * Peter Raw, 66, Australian R.A.A.F. pilot and senior officer, lymphoma.
 * Georg Stetter, 92, Austrian-German nuclear physicist.
 * Whitey Witt, 92, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Athletics, New York Yankees).

15

 * Eleanor Estes, 82, American children's writer (Ginger Pye, The Moffats), stroke.
 * Tore Keller, 83, Swedish international footballer and Olympic medalist (IK Sleipner, Sweden).
 * Nozomu Matsumoto, 83, Japanese businessman and inventor, founded Pioneer Corporation.
 * Armand Mouyal, 62, French world champion fencer and Olympic medalist.

16

 * Herbert L. Anderson, 74, American nuclear physicist (University of Chicago), lung failure due to poisoning.
 * Whitfield Connor, 71, American actor, director and producer, respiratory complications.
 * Samuel Ruben, 88, American inventor, founder of Duracell.
 * Joseph Szydlowski, 91, French Polish-Israeli aircraft engine designer, founded Turbomeca.

17

 * Bruiser Brody, 42, American professional wrestler, stabbed.
 * Milton Krasner, 84, American cinematographer (Three Coins in the Fountain, Beneath the Planet of the Apes), heart failure.

18

 * Valery Burati, 80, American Union organiser, acting chief of the Labor Division of Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers.
 * Elsa Gress, 69, Danish essayist and novelist.
 * Birger Kaipiainen, 73, Finnish ceramist and designer.
 * Emil T. Kaiser, 50, Hungarian-born American biochemist (enzyme modification), complications following kidney transplant.
 * Jake W. Lindsey, 67, American soldier in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient, heart attack.
 * Nico, 49, German singer and actress (Chelsea Girls), cerebral hemorrhage resulting from fall.
 * Joly Braga Santos, 64, Portuguese composer and conductor, stroke.
 * John W. Schaum, 83, American pianist and composer.
 * Miklós Szentkuthy, 80, Hungarian writer.

19

 * Vilhelm Aubert, 66, Norwegian sociologist, co-founded the Norwegian Institute for Social Research.
 * Geoffrey H. Bourne, 78, Australian-American anatomist and primatologist (histochemistry), heart failure.

20

 * Mark Boxer, 57, British magazine editor, brain tumour.
 * John W. Galbreath, 90, American building contractor and sportsman, owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

21

 * Jack Clark, 62, American television personality, game show host and announcer (The Cross-Wits), bone cancer.
 * Raphael Soriano, 83, Greek-born American architect and educator.
 * K. Vijayan, 48, Indian film director.

22

 * Avtar Singh Brahma, 36–37, Indian revolutionary and founder of the Khalistan Liberation Force.
 * Larry Clemmons, 81, American animator, screenwriter and voice actor (Walt Disney Company).
 * Duane Jones, 51, American actor (Night of the Living Dead), cardiopulmonary arrest.
 * Luigi Lucioni, 87, Italian American painter.
 * Patrick Newell, 56, British actor (The Avengers), heart attack.

23

 * Jahangir Khan, 78, Indian test cricketer and Pakistani cricket administrator.
 * Stuart Legg, 77, English documentary filmmaker (Churchill's Island, Warclouds in the Pacific).
 * Heinz Pagels, 49, American physicist, mountaineering accident.
 * Bandu Patil, 52, Indian hockey player and Olympic gold medalist, cardiac arrest.

24

 * Priscilla Bowman, 60, American jazz and rhythm and blues singer (Hands Off), lung cancer.
 * Ilona Elek, 81, Hungarian fencer and dual Olympic gold medalist.
 * John Harris, 71, Scottish footballer (Chelsea) and manager (Sheffield United).
 * Robert McClory, 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
 * G. Tyler Miller, 85, American president of Madison College.
 * Mira Schendel, 69, Brazilian artist, lung cancer.
 * Michel Villey, 74, French legal philosopher and historian.

25

 * Judith Barsi, 10, American child actress (Jaws: The Revenge), murder-suicide by father.
 * Bob Currie, 70, English motorcycling writer and road tester (The Motor Cycle, The Classic Motor Cycle), heart failure.
 * Memphis Tennessee Garrison, 98, activist for African Americans.
 * Douglas Hickox, 59, English director (The Hound of the Baskervilles, Brannigan), complications from heart surgery.
 * Glenn Killinger, 89, American NFL footballer (New York Giants).
 * James Silver, 81, American history professor and author, fought for racial equality, emphysema.
 * Giuliana Stramigioli, 73, Italian business woman and Japanologist.

26

 * Murari Mohan Mukherjee, 73, Indian plastic surgeon.
 * Max Raison, 86, English cricketer (Essex) and publisher (Picture Post, New Scientist).
 * Tetsuji Takechi, 75, Japanese theatre and film director, critic and author, pancreatic cancer.

27

 * Jack Drees, 71, American sportscaster, cancer.
 * Brigitte Horney, 77, German actress (Münchhausen).
 * M. Kalyanasundaram, 78, Indian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu.
 * Mary Simms Oliphant, 97, American historian.
 * Frank Zamboni, 87, American businessman and inventor, (ice resurfacer), heart attack.

28

 * Caleb Gattegno, 76, Egyptian educator, psychologist and mathematician, complications of cancer surgery.
 * Harold R. Harris, 92, American test pilot and U.S. Army Air Force officer, pneumonia.
 * Syed Modi, 25, Indian badminton player, murdered.
 * Charles Nicks, 47, American gospel musician, heart failure.
 * John Wheatley, 80, Scottish politician and judge, Solicitor General for Scotland.

29

 * Ellin Berlin, 85, American author, wife of Irving Berlin, stroke.
 * Pete Drake, 55, American record producer and pedal steel guitar player (Stand by Your Man, Lay Lady Lay), emphysema.
 * Günther Radusch, 75, Nazi German Luftwaffe pilot and fighter ace.

30

 * William de Silva, 79, Sri Lankan politician, member of the Ceylon Parliament.
 * Bob Woytowich, 46, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Los Angeles Kings), car crash after heart attack.

31

 * Stephen Murray-Smith, 65, Australian writer and editor, heart attack.
 * André Navarra, 76, French cellist, heart attack.
 * Fanny Rowe, 75, English stage, film and television actress (Fresh Fields, After Henry).
 * Trinidad Silva, 38, American comedian and actor, car crash.
 * Raymond Stross, 72, British-film producer, heart disease.

Unknown date

 * William Rolls, 73, British flying ace in World War II.