Deaths in March 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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

 * Freddie Green, 75, American swing jazz guitarist, heart attack.
 * Bertrand de Jouvenel, 83, French philosopher and political economist.
 * Don MacBeth, 37, Canadian jockey, cancer.
 * Vern Partlow, 76, American newspaper reporter and folk singer, blacklisted during the McCarthy era, cancer.
 * Wolfgang Seidel, 60, German Formula 1 racing driver, heart attack.

2

 * Randolph Scott, 89, American film actor, heart and lung ailments.
 * Lolo Soetoro, 52, Indonesian geographer, stepfather of Barack Obama, liver failure.

3

 * Danny Kaye, 76, American singer, actor, dancer and comedian, complications from internal bleeding and hepatitis.
 * Cyril Pearl, 82, Australian journalist, author and television personality.
 * Rafael M. Salas, 58, Filipino head of the United Nations Population Fund, heart attack.
 * Hana Vítová, 73, Czechoslovakian film actress.

4

 * Georges Arnaud, 69, French author, heart attack.
 * Maria Jolas, 94, American pacifist, one of the founding members of transition in Paris.
 * Seibo Kitamura, 102, Japanese sculptor.
 * Eliseo Moreno, 27, American spree killer, executed.

5

 * James W. Blanchard, 83, American submarine commander and rear admiral.
 * John Brooke, 64, Northern Irish politician, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
 * Albert Costain, 76, British politician, Member of Parliament.
 * Abdulgani Dahiwala, 78, Indian Gujarati poet.
 * Harry Dudkin, 78, American politician and judge, Clerk of the New Jersey General Assembly, murdered.
 * Andrey A. Fedorov, 78, Soviet biologist, botanist and taxonomist.
 * Joe Purcell, 63, American politician, acting Governor of Arkansas.
 * Don Yenko, 59, American car dealer and racecar driver, aeroplane crash.

6

 * Inder Raj Anand, Indian film dialogue and screenwriter.
 * Mel Boozer, 41, American university professor and LGBT activist, AIDS.
 * Edward Carson, 67, British politician, Member of Parliament.
 * Eddie Durham, 80, American jazz guitarist, trombonist, composer and arranger.
 * J. Spencer Trimingham, 82, English scholar on Islam in Africa.
 * Edward Zorinsky, 58, American politician, U.S. Senator, heart attack.

7

 * Yuri Chulyukin, 57, Soviet film director, screenwriter, actor and songwriter.
 * Henri Decaë, 71, French cinematographer.
 * Evelyn Dove, 85, British singer and actress, pneumonia.
 * Paul R. Evans, 55, American-furniture designer, sculptor and artist, heart attack.
 * Waldo Salt, 72, American screenwriter.

8

 * Erwin Jollasse, 95, German Wehrmacht general, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
 * Iwao Yamawaki, 88, Japanese photographer and architect.

9

 * Zeke Bonura, 78, American Major League baseballer.
 * Ronald W. Clark, 70, British author of biography, fiction and non-fiction, stroke.
 * Donald Jay Grout, 84, American musicologist, author of \"A Short History of Opera\".
 * Allan Jaffe, 51, American jazz tubist.
 * Andrew Kayiira, 42, leader of the Uganda Freedom Movement, shot.
 * Yusuf al-Khal, 69, Lebanese-Syrian poet, journalist and publisher.
 * Richard F. Kneip, 54, American diplomat and politician, governor of South Dakota, cancer.
 * Bobby Locke, 69, South African professional golfer.
 * Fred W. Thompson, 86, Canadian-American labour organizer and historian.
 * Arthur Tolcher, 64, British harmonica player.

10

 * Dwight W. Burney, 95, American politician, Governor of Nebraska.
 * Robert Colby, 64, American songwriter, music publisher and theatrical producer.
 * George Glamack, 68, American professional basketballer.
 * Jeannette Mirsky, 83, American writer.
 * Daniel Morgan, 37, British private investigator, victim of unsolved murder.
 * Johannes Quasten, 86, German Roman Catholic theologian.

11

 * Joe Gladwin, 81, English actor, bronco-pneumonia complications.

12

 * Woody Hayes, 74, American college football coach, heart attack.
 * Micheline Kahn, 97, French harpist and pianist.
 * Richard Levinson, 52, American screenwriter and producer, heart attack.
 * Jack Marks, 92, English performer and screenwriter, lung cancer.

13

 * Edward Peck Curtis, 90, American World War I flying ace AND Air Service Major General, pneumonia.
 * Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi, 77, Indian Muslim scholar, jurist, literary critic and poet.
 * Bernhard Grzimek, 77, German zoo director, zoologist, author and animal conservationist.
 * Peter Henrici, 63, Swiss mathematician.
 * David Lewis, 83, American Hollywood film producer.
 * Gerald Moore, 87, English classical pianist.
 * Hugh Roberton, 86, Australian politician, Minister for Social Services, Australian Ambassador to Ireland.
 * Fela Sowande, 81, Nigerian musician and composer.

14

 * Peter Beter, 65, American attorney and financier.
 * Tex Fletcher, 77, American singing cowboy, actor, night club performer, and radio and television personality.
 * Rushdi al-Kikhya, 87–88, Syrian political leader, Speaker of the Parliament of Syria.
 * Ivor Preece, 66, English international rugby union footballer.
 * Ali Muhammad Rashidi, 81, Pakistani writer, journalist, politician, and diplomat.
 * Gerard Steenson, appr. 29, Irish republican paramilitary commander, ambushed and killed.
 * Ian MacAlister Stewart, 91, Scottish military officer, brigadier in the British Army.

15

 * Douglas Abbott, 87, Canadian Member of Parliament and justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
 * W. Sterling Cole, 82, American politician, lawyer, and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
 * Red Dutton, 89, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, coach and executive.
 * Léon Fleuriot, 64, French linguist and Celtic scholar.
 * Don Gant, 44, American singer, songwriter and record producer, boating accident.

16

 * Bob Kline, 77, American Major League baseballer.
 * Vivian Martin, 93, American stage and silent-screen actress.
 * Scott McKay, 71, American film, television and theatre actor, kidney failure.
 * Juan Gómez Millas, 86, Chilean fascist politician and educator.
 * Allan Perry-Keene, 88, English officer in the Royal Air Force, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force.
 * Joseph E. Schaefer, 68, American soldier in the U.S. Army, recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War II.
 * Samuel H. Shapiro, 79, American politician, Governor of Illinois.
 * Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, 57, Danish architect, designed the Grande Arche near Paris.

17

 * Tom Cothran, 39, American musicologist and composer, AIDS.
 * Georg Lammers, 81, German sprinter and Olympic medalist.
 * Antonio Lopez, 44, Puerto Rican fashion illustrator, complication of AIDS.
 * Ron Saggers, 69, Australian Test cricketer.
 * Derief Taylor, 76, Jamaican first-class cricketer and coach.
 * Salvatore Toma, 35, Italian poet, suicide.
 * Santo Trafficante Jr., 72, American Mafia boss, allied with Sam Giancana.

18

 * Milorad Arsenijević, 80, Yugoslavian footballer and manager, and Olympian.
 * Bil Baird, 82, American puppeteer, pneumonia and cancer.
 * Claude I. Bakewell, 74, American lawyer, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Lewis Bandt, 77, Australian car designer, designed and built the first utes, car accident.
 * Elizabeth Poston, 81, English composer, pianist and writer.

19

 * Punaloor Balan, 60, Indian writer and a poet.
 * Louis de Broglie, 94, French physicist contributing to quantum theory and Nobel laureate in Physics.
 * Robert-Jean Longuet, 85, French lawyer, journalist and militant socialist.
 * Juan Mascaró, 89, Spanish translator.
 * Ruth Meiers, 61, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota.
 * Emile Meyer, 76, American actor.
 * Arch Oboler, 79, American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer and director.
 * Harold Rosenthal, 69, English music critic, writer, lecturer, and broadcaster about opera.
 * Tony Stratton Smith, 53, English rock music manager, founded record label Charisma Records, pancreatic cancer.

20

 * Warren G. Brown, 66, American rodeo cowboy, prostate cancer.
 * Licio Giorgieri, 61, Italian air force general, murdered.
 * Norman Harris, 39, American guitarist, producer, music arranger and songwriter, cardiovascular disease.
 * Russell Ohl, 89, American scientist, generally recognised for patenting the modern solar cell.
 * Rita Streich, 66, German opera singer.
 * Kenneth Threadgill, 77, American country singer and tavern owner, pulmonary embolism.
 * Harry Windsor, 72, Irish-Australian cardiac surgeon.

21

 * Walter L. Gordon, 81, Canadian accountant, businessman, politician and writer.
 * Dean Paul Martin, 35, American pop singer and film and television actor, air crash.
 * Robert Preston, 68, American stage and film actor and singer, lung cancer.
 * Jacob Taubes, 64, Austrian sociologist of religion, philosopher and scholar of Judaism.

22

 * Louis M. Hacker, 88, American economic historian, professor of economics.
 * Charlie Jarzombek, 44, American race car driver, racing accident..
 * Bill McGuffie, 59, British pianist, film composer and conductor, cancer.
 * Joan Shawlee, 61, American film and television actress, breast cancer.

23

 * Emilio Giuseppe Dossena, 83, Italian painter.
 * Maurice Dunand, 89, French archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East.
 * Walter Walford Johnson, 82, American businessman and politician, governor of Colorado.
 * Edward Lamb, 85, American businessman, broadcasting executive and labour lawyer.
 * Reg Lye, 74, Australian actor.
 * John Mariucci, 70, American ice hockey player, administrator and coach.
 * Morton Minsky, 85, American burlesque owner, co-owner of Minsky's Burlesque, cancer.
 * Tony Pacheco, 59, Cuban-baseballer and Major League coach.
 * Herald F. Stout, 83, American admiral in the U.S. Navy.
 * Ilse Totzke, 73, German musician, survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

24

 * Vicente Calderón, 73, Spanish businessman, president of Atlético Madrid.
 * Alan Gale, 56, Australian rules footballer and commentator, heart attack.
 * Takeru Higuchi, 69, American chemist, "the father of physical pharmacy".
 * Sarah Goddard Power, 51, American political activist, suicide.

25

 * Carolin Babcock, 74, American tennis player, U.S. Open doubles champion, stroke.
 * Gusta Fučíková, 83, Czechoslovakian publicist, editor and politician.
 * Ivan Ivanov-Vano, 87, Soviet animator and screenwriter.
 * John Kloss, 49, American fashion designer, known for lingerie and sleepwear, suicide.
 * Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., 83, American diplomat and statesman, and Executive Director of UNICEF.
 * Moustache, 58, French actor and jazz drummer, car accident.

26

 * Walter Abel, 88, American stage, film and radio actor, myocardial infarction.
 * Henrieta Delavrancea, 89, Romanian architect.
 * Ohene Djan, 63, Ghanaian sports administrator and politician, member of the Legislative Assembly.
 * Robert Gwyn Macfarlane, 79, English hematologist.
 * Georg Muche, 91, German painter, printmaker, architect, author and teacher.
 * Eugen Jochum, 84, German conductor.
 * Mary Odette, 85, French-silent-screen actress.
 * Michael Stancliffe, 70, English Anglican priest, Dean of Winchester.

27

 * Giuseppe Ambrosoli, 63, Italian Catholic priest, renal failure.
 * Rudolph Anders, 91, German-American actor.
 * William Bowers, 71, American reporter, playwright and screenwriter.
 * Tim Lee Carter, 76, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Erich Clar, 84, Austrian organic chemist.
 * Olha Franko, 90, Ukrainian writer, creator of the first Ukrainian cookbook.
 * Luis Chávez y González, 85, El Salvadoran Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of San Salvador.
 * Lloyd Goodrich, 89, American art historian, cancer.
 * Stane Kavčič, 67, Prime Minister of Slovenia.
 * Tonny Koeswoyo, 51, Indonesian rock musician and leader of the group Koes Plus.
 * Peter Mason, 65, English-Australian physicist, educator and science communicator.
 * Hans-Georg von der Osten, 91, German World War I flying ace and Luftwaffe commander during World War II.
 * Martin Provensen, 70, American illustrator, heart attack.

28

 * Horace M. Albright, 97, American conservationist, director of the National Park Service.
 * Alphonse Alley, 56, Beninese military officer, President of Dahomey (Benin).
 * Oliver K. Kelley, 82, Finnish-American engineer involved in developing the automatic transmission.
 * Lê Văn Kim, 68–69, South Vietnamese army general.
 * Maria von Trapp, 82, Austrian matriarch of the Trapp family, heart failure.
 * Patrick Troughton, 67, English actor, known for playing Doctor Who, heart attack.

29

 * Richard Aaron, 85, Welsh philosopher.
 * Lawrence Anini, appr. 26, Nigerian bandit, executed.
 * Jakob Nacken, 81, German-American circus performer.
 * Akaki Shanidze, 100, Georgian linguist and philologist.
 * John Wiley, 60, South African cricketer and politician, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, suicide.
 * Richard Wilson, 66, American science fiction writer.

30

 * Pyotr Gusev, 82, Russian ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer.
 * Veniamin Levich, 69, Soviet dissident, physical chemist and electro-chemist.
 * Clint Murchison Jr., 63, American businessman and founder of the Dallas Cowboys football team, pneumonia.
 * Giorgio Pini, 88, Italian politician and journalist.
 * Dorothy Ward, 96, English actress.
 * Lynn Townsend White Jr., 79, American historian.

31

 * David Adler, 51, American physicist and MIT professor.
 * Unicorn Chan, 46–47, Hong Kong actor, martial artist and stuntman, car crash.
 * Ram Panjwani, 75, Indian writer and folk singer.

Unknown date

 * Arthur Holland, 70, English football referee.
 * Lesley Osmond, 65, British actress.