Deaths in June 1987

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.

1

 * Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, 72, Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist and journalist.
 * Errol Barrow, 67, Caribbean statesman, Prime Minister of Barbados.
 * 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.
 * François Perroux, 83, French economist, professor at the Collège de France.
 * Sebastiaan Matheus Sigismund de Ranitz, 86, Dutch jurist and Nazi collaborator.
 * Andrés Segovia, 94, Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist, heart attack.

3

 * Bruno Bernard, 75, American photographer known for pin-up photography of Marilyn Monroe, cancer.
 * 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.
 * Herbert Schultze, 77, German submarine commander during World War II.

4

 * Maurizio Vitale Cesa, 41, Italian entrepreneur and sportswear inventor.
 * Ann Evers, 71, American film actress.
 * Noel Guillen, 60, Trinidadian cricketer.
 * Dean Moon, 60, American automobile designer.

5

 * Mansel Carter, 85, American businessman and prospector, cancer.
 * Vasant Kumar Pandit, 66, Indian politician, member of parliament.

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.
 * Daniel Mandell, 91, American film editor.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.

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.

17

 * Dick Howser, 51, American Major League baseballer, brain tumour.

18

 * Harold F. Cherniss, 83, American classicist and historian of ancient philosophy.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Eastman Jacobs, 84–85, American aerodynamicist.
 * Madman Muntz, 73, American businessman, engineer and car salesman.
 * Kyril Vassilev, 79, Bulgarian-American portrait painter, heart-attack.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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

 * Linc Chamberland, 46, American jazz guitarist, leukemia.
 * Jackie Gleason, 71, American actor and comedian.
 * Hines Johnson, 76, Jamaican Test cricketer for the West Indies.

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.
 * 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.
 * 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

 * Gajananrao Joshi, 76, Indian vocalist and violinist.
 * Jim Taylor, 86, Australian-Papua New Guinean explorer.

29

 * Elizabeth Cotten, 94, American folk and blues musician.
 * 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.

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.
 * Maurice Geraghty, 78, American screenwriter, film director and producer.
 * Li Hanhun, 91, Chinese army general.
 * Federico Mompou, 94, Spanish composer and pianist, respiratory failure.

Unknown date

 * Glen Daly, 66–67, Scottish singer and entertainer.
 * Georges Doriot, 87, French-American academic, businessman and financier, lung cancer.
 * John J. Reynolds, 97, American Olympic marathoner.