Deaths in June 1988

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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

 * Leon Belasco, 85, Russian-American actor (My Sister Eileen) and musician.
 * Herbert Feigl, 85, Austrian-American philosopher (nomological danglers), cancer.
 * Luis Franco, 89, Argentinian essayist and poet.
 * Peter Hurkos, 77, Dutch-American who claimed psychic powers, heart attack.
 * Ricky May, 44, New Zealand-born Australian jazz singer and musician, heart attack.
 * Victor Willing, 60, British painter of nudes, multiple sclerosis.

2

 * Iosif Grigulevich, 75, Soviet secret police operative.
 * Fred Halstead, 61, American Socialist Workers Party candidate for President of the United States, liver cancer.
 * Horace Hildreth, 85, American politician and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, heart attack.
 * Raj Kapoor, 63, Indian actor, producer and director (Awaara), asthma.
 * Nigel Tangye, 79, British airman, novelist and journalist, worked for MI5.

3

 * Alexandre Bennigsen, 75, Soviet scholar of Islam.
 * Kitty Canutt, 88, American professional bronc rider.
 * Anna Mahler, 85, Austrian-sculptor, daughter of Gustav Mahler.
 * Davey Moore, 28, American professional boxer, asphyxia from being pinned under vehicle.
 * Jessica Nelson North, 96, American writer and poet.
 * Brian Spencer, 38, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders), shot in robbery.
 * Carl Wagener, 86, Nazi German general.

4

 * Majnun Gorakhpuri, 84, Pakistani short story writer, poet and literary critic.
 * Floyd Miller, 76, American member of the Communist Party USA.
 * Sir Douglas Nicholls, 81, Australian pastor, campaigner for aboriginal reconciliation, Governor of South Australia.
 * Renzo Palmer, 57, Italian film, television and stage actor, cancer.
 * Allan Reuss, 72, American jazz guitarist and composer (More and More).

5

 * Michael Barrington, 63, British actor (Porridge, Edward the Seventh), heart attack.
 * Robert Dudley Edwards, 79, Irish historian.
 * Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., 57, American chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, heart attack.
 * Roland Ritchie, 77, Canadian lawyer and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

6

 * Thomas DiBella, 82, American mobster of the Colombo crime family.
 * Gheorghe Eminescu, 98, Romanian historian, respiratory infection.
 * Chandra Fernando, 46, Sri Lankan priest, assassinated.
 * John Jordan, 58, Irish poet and short-story writer.
 * Jacques Le Roy Ladurie, 86, French politician, Minister of Agriculture, member of the French Resistance.
 * Lê Thị Lựu, 77, Vietnamese painter.
 * Jacques Ledoux, 66–67, Belgian cinema specialist, curator of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium.
 * Joe Partridge, 55, Rhodesian cricketer (South Africa).

7

 * Martin Sommer, 73, Nazi German SS Hauptscharführer, the "Hangman of Buchenwald".
 * Vernon Washington, 64, American actor (The Last Starfighter, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning).

8

 * Russell Harty, 53, English television presenter of arts programs and chat shows, liver failure caused by hepatitis.
 * Yvonne Hubert, 93, Belgian-born Canadian pianist.
 * Roger Lyndon, 70, American mathematician (Lyndon words, Craig-Lyndon interpolation).
 * Eli Mintz, 83, Austro-Hungarian–born American actor (All My Children), pneumonia.
 * Philippe Nguyễn Kim Điền, 67, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Huế.
 * Chuck Roberson, 69, American actor and stuntman, cancer.

9

 * Newt Allen, 87, American Negro League baseballer (Kansas City Monarchs).
 * Rashid Behbudov, 73, Azerbaijani singer and actor (The Cloth Peddler).
 * Leon Falk Jr., 86, American steel company executive (Falk Laboratory School), stroke.
 * Karl Kraus, 50, German theoretical physicist (quantum mechanics), cancer.
 * Cyril Magnin, 88, American businessman, chief executive of Joseph Magnin, cardiac failure.

10

 * Byron G. Allen, 86, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives.
 * Arthur Gary Bishop, 35, American convicted sex offender and serial killer, executed by lethal injection.
 * Rudolph Dunbar, 80, Guyanese conductor, clarinetist and composer, cancer.
 * Louis L'Amour, 80, American novelist (Last of the Breed, Shalako), lung cancer (non-smoker).
 * Willie Ross, 77, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland, cancer.
 * Henryk Stażewski, 94, Polish painter, visual artist and writer.
 * Josep Tarradellas, 89, Spanish politician, President of the Government of Catalonia, chronic lung ailment.

11

 * Mike Clancy, 63, American professional wrestler, NWA World Junior Heavyweight champion.
 * Nathan Cook, 38, American actor (Hotel), allergic reaction to penicillin.
 * Ernani Cuenco, 52, Filipino composer, film scorer and musical director (Bato sa Buhangin).
 * Christine Fabréga, 57, French actress and television personality.
 * Giuseppe Saragat, 89, Italian politician, President of Italy, heart disease.
 * Marianne Van Hirtum, 52, Belgian author.

12

 * Eugenie Baird, 64, American singer.
 * Marcel Poot, 87, Belgian composer, professor and musician.

13

 * Thomas McKeown, 75, British physician.
 * Emil Telmányi, 95, Hungarian violinist.

14

 * Robert R. Barry, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.
 * Johnny Farrell, 87, American golfer, U.S. Open winner, stroke.
 * Sara Gallardo, 56, Argentinian author and journalist, asthma.
 * Prince Kan'in Haruhito, 85, Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
 * Alma Lloyd, 74, American actress (If I Were King, Song of the Saddle, The Big Noise).

15

 * Frank A. Beach, 77, American ethologist and author (behavioral endocrinology).
 * Floyd J. McCree, 65, American politician, mayor of the City of Flint, Michigan, cardiac arrest.
 * Robert Seymour, 33, Northern Irish loyalist, shot by I.R.A.
 * Willie Velasquez, 44, American social activist, founded the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, kidney cancer.
 * Clement Vismara, 90, Italian Roman Catholic priest and missionary.
 * George Ward, 80, British politician, Secretary of State for Air.

16

 * Kim Milford, 37, American actor (The Rocky Horror Show, Jesus Christ Superstar), complications following open heart surgery.
 * Andrea Pazienza, 32, Italian comics artist and painter, heroin overdose.
 * Miguel Piñero, 41, Puerto Rican–born American playwright and actor (Short Eyes), cirrhosis.

17

 * Brian Baronet, 27, South African professional boxer, complications from knock out.
 * Elizabeth Lane, 82, English barrister and judge.

18

 * Archie Cochrane, 79, Scottish physician (Randomized controlled trial).
 * Elizabeth Gardner, 30, British theoretical physicist (Gardner transition), cancer.
 * Kjell Kleppe, 53, Norwegian biochemist and molecular biologist (PCR).
 * Wilford Leach, 58, American director and screenwriter (The Pirates of Penzance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood), cancer.
 * Sallie Martin, 92, American gospel singer.
 * E. Hoffmann Price, 89, American writer of popular fiction (Through the Gates of the Silver Key).
 * Iasyr Shivaza, 82, Soviet poet and writer.

19

 * M. Ajmal, 78, Indian-Pakistani actor (Heer Ranjha).
 * Marco Donat-Cattin, 34, Italian terrorist (Prima Linea), pedestrian road accident.
 * William Harold Hutt, 88, English economist, strole.
 * Marie Logoreci, 67, Albanian actress (The Great Warrior Skanderbeg).
 * Teru Shimada, 82, Japanese-born American actor (You Only Live Twice).
 * Gladys Spellman, 70, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, complications from coma.
 * Aaly Tokombaev, 83, Kyrgyz poet, composer and novelist.

20

 * Aracy de Almeida, 73, Brazilian singer, heart attack.
 * Alex Bein, 85, German-Jewish historian and zionist historiographer (biography of Theodor Herzl).
 * Alfred Renard, 93, Belgian aviator, hit by car.
 * Robert Yellowtail, 98, American leader of the Crow Nation.

21

 * Bobby Dodd, 79, American college football player and coach (Georgia Tech), lung cancer.
 * John Duncan Sr., 69, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cancer.
 * George Ivașcu, 76, Romanian journalist and communist militant.
 * Pedrito Rico, 55, Spanish singer, dancer and actor.
 * Sverre Riisnæs, 90, Norwegian jurist and public prosecutor, member of Nasjonal Samling in World War II.
 * T. E. Utley, 67, British journalist and writer.

22

 * Jesse Ed Davis, 43, American guitarist, drug overdose.
 * Dennis Day, 72, American actor, comedian and singer (The Jack Benny Program), brain bleed.
 * Hank Edwards, 69, American Major League baseballer (Cleveland Indians).
 * Bramwell Fletcher, 84, English actor (Svengali).
 * Rose Franken, 92, American writer and playwright (Claudia).
 * Pieter Grobbelaar, 79, South African military commander, Commandant General of South African Defence Force.
 * Bhadant Anand Kausalyayan, 83, Indian Buddhist monk.
 * Perry Jackson, 68, American NFL football player.
 * H. S. Lee, 87, Malaysian politician, Minister of Finance and Transport.
 * Leonard Matlovich, 44, American Vietnam War veteran, first gay service member to out himself to military, HIV.
 * Howard Mitchell, 77, American cellist and conductor (National Symphony Orchestra), heart failure.
 * Stuart Randall, 78, American actor (Cimarron City, Laramie).
 * Xiao Jun, 80, Chinese author.

23

 * Viola Gentry, 93–94, American aviator.
 * Albert C. Johnston, 87, American doctor and writer who tried to pass as white.
 * Liang Shuming, 94, Chinese philosopher, politician and writer.
 * Henry Murray, 95, American psychologist (Thematic Apperception Test), pneumonia.
 * Heinz Pagels, 49, American physicist and author, mountain climbing accident.

24

 * Marta Abba, 87, Italian actress, cerebral haemorrhage.
 * Bùi Xuân Phái, 67, Vietnamese painter.
 * Mihai Beniuc, 80, Romanian poet, dramatist and novelist, president of the Writers' Union of Romania.
 * Roberto Cueva del Río, 80, Mexican muralist.
 * Csaba Kesjár, 26, Hungarian racing driver, racing accident.
 * Irene Taylor, 81–82, American singer (Mississippi Mud, Willow Weep for Me).

25

 * Jean Boffety, 63, French cinematographer (A Simple Story).
 * Șerban Cioculescu, 85, Romanian literary critic and columnist.
 * Mildred Gillars, 87, American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany, convicted of treason against U.S.A, colon cancer.
 * Svavar Guðnason, 78, Icelandic painter.
 * Ali Hashemi, 26, Iranian military commander.
 * Neville Pickering, 64, New Zealand politician, member of New Zealand Parliament.
 * Hillel Slovak, 26, Israeli-American musician, guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, overdose.
 * Jimmy Soul, 45, American vocalist (If You Wanna Be Happy), heart attack.

26

 * Hans Urs von Balthasar, 82, Swiss theologian and Catholic priest, heart attack.
 * Marion Hall Best, 83, Australian interior designer.
 * Sandy Campbell, 46, Broadway actor.
 * Heinrich Heim, 88, Nazi German lawyer, aide to Martin Bormann, recorded Hitler's Table Talk.
 * Walter Matoni, 70, Nazi German Luftwaffe ace.
 * Yves Pratte, 63, Canadian lawyer and jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, heart attack.
 * Hans Rosenberg, 84, German historian.

27

 * Léonie Adams, 88, American poet, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
 * Akilan, 65–66, Indian novelist.
 * Michael Barry, 78, British television producer and director.
 * John Groth, 80, American illustrator.
 * Aparicio Méndez, 83, Uruguayan lawyer and politician, President of Uruguay.
 * R. Muttusamy, 62, Sri Lankan music director and singer.
 * Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan, 85–86, Indian Congress politician, Governor of Sikkim.

28

 * A. Aiyappan, 83, superintendent of Government Museum, Chennai.
 * William Nordeen, 51, American captain in the US Navy, car bomb.
 * Iris Origo, 85, English-Italian biographer and writer (War in Val d'Orcia).
 * Kurt Raab, 46, West German actor, screenwriter and playwright, AIDS.

29

 * Tengku Ampuan Afzan, 55, Malaysian Queen consort of Pahang, cancer.
 * Alexander Gorkin, 90, Soviet politician, Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.
 * John Peet, 72–73, British journalist who defected to East Germany.
 * Franciszka Themerson, 81, Polish-born British painter, illustrator and filmmaker.

30

 * Alan W. Bishop, 68, British geotechnical engineer (slope stability).
 * Chacrinha, 70, Brazilian comedian, radio and TV personality, heart attack.
 * Johanna Hofer, 91, German-born American actress.
 * A. S. Nair, 57, Indian painter, illustrator and cartoonist.
 * Suthi Veerabhadra Rao, 41, Indian film actor, heart attack.

Unknown date

 * Tommy Brookins, 81, founder of the Harlem Globetrotters, stroke. (died by June 5)
 * Dave Crawford, 44, American R&B musician and songwriter (Young Hearts Run Free, What a Man), murdered.
 * Eric Jennings, 65, English FIFA-listed football referee.