Deaths in March 1988

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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

 * Joe Besser, 80, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges, The Joey Bishop Show), heart failure.
 * Tommy Breen, 75, Irish international footballer (Manchester United, Ireland).
 * Ernest Cuneo, 82, American newspaperman (McClure Newspaper Syndicate, The Saturday Evening Post), heart attack.
 * Sohan Lal Dwivedi, 82, Indian poet.
 * Yoshi Katō, 75, Japanese stage and film actor.
 * Tommy Potter, 69, American jazz double bassist.
 * Jean Le Poulain, 63, French stage actor and director, heart attack.
 * Ed Roman, 57, American college basketballer, convicted of point shaving, leukemia.
 * Kay Sutton, 72, American actress.
 * Benjamin F. Wilson, 66, American soldier in the US army, Medal of Honor.

2

 * Chuck Arnett, 60, American artist and dancer, AIDS.
 * Raymond Hewitt, 47, American civil rights activist, leader of the Black Panther Party, heart attack.
 * J. Saunders Redding, 81, American professor and author, heart failure.
 * Leslie Turner, 88, American cartoonist and writer (Captain Easy).

3

 * Peter D. Martin, 65, American college professor and founder of City Lights Bookstore, emphysema.
 * Henryk Szeryng, 69, Polish-Mexican violinist, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Lois Wilson, 93, American silent-screen actress (The Covered Wagon, The Great Gatsby), pneumonia.
 * Sewall Wright, 98, American geneticist, complications of hip fracture.

4

 * Ernesto Duarte Brito, 65, Cuban-Spanish musician.
 * James Peter Davis, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of San Juan and of Santa Fe..
 * Parry Moon, 90, American electrical engineer and author.
 * Franco Scalamandré, 89, Italian-American textile designer, co-founder of Scalamandré Inc.

5

 * Santosh Dutta, 62, Bengali actor (Sonar Kella, Joi Baba Felunath).
 * Lewis J. Fields, 78, American lieutenant general in U.S. Marine Corps.
 * Alfred Hollings, 81, New Zealand lawyer and cricketer (Wellington).
 * Margaret Irving, 90, American actress (The People's Choice, Animal Crackers).
 * William L. Marbury Jr., 86, American lawyer at Marbury, Miller & Evans, heart attack.
 * Alberto Olmedo, 54, Argentine comedian and actor, fall from building.

6

 * Jeanne Aubert, 88, French singer and actress.
 * Mairéad Farrell, 31, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.
 * Joan Hassall, 82, English wood engraver and book illustrator.
 * Daniel McCann, 30, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.
 * Dick Ricketts, 54, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Cardinals) and NBA basketballer (St. Louis Hawks), leukemia.
 * Stanlake J. W. T. Samkange, 65–66, Zimbabwean writer of historical novels, heart and lung ailments.
 * Seán Savage, 23, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.

7

 * Edmund Berkeley, 79, American computer scientist, co-founded the Association for Computing Machinery.
 * Guido Celano, 83, Italian actor, voice actor and director.
 * Divine, 42, American singer, actor and drag queen (Pink Flamingos, Hairspray), heart failure.
 * Gordon Huntley, 62, British steel guitar player (Matthews Southern Comfort), cancer.
 * Robert Livingston, 83, American film actor (The Three Mesquiteers, The Bold Caballero), emphysema.
 * Joe Loco, 66, Puerto Rican Latin jazz and pop pianist and arranger.
 * Rafael Quiñones Vidal, 95, Puerto Rican journalist.

8

 * Gordon Carpenter, 68, American basketballer and Olympic gold medalist, national coach.
 * Amar Singh Chamkila, 27, Indian singer and musician, gunned down.
 * Ken Colyer, 59, English jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
 * Werner Hartmann, 76, German physicist (microelectronics), complications after prostate surgery.
 * África de las Heras, 78, Spanish-born Soviet communist.
 * Frank Osborne, 91, South-African–born English international footballer and manager (Tottenham Hotspur, Fulham, England).
 * Harold Pierce, 70, American entrepreneur, founded Harold's Chicken Shack restaurant chain, prostate cancer.
 * Lala Abdul Rashid, 65, Pakistani hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Don Redden, 24, American basketballer, heart failure.
 * Guy Tirolien, 71, Guadeloupean poet.

9

 * Milton Galamison, 64, American Presbyterian minister, cancer.
 * John Joseph Harper, 36, Canadian aboriginal leader, shot by police.
 * Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 83, West German politician, Chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany, heart failure.
 * Poondi Kumaraswamy, 57, Indian hydrologist (Kumaraswamy distribution).
 * Janusz Piekałkiewicz, 62–63, Polish underground soldier, historian, writer and director.
 * M. E. Aldrich Rope, 96, English stained-glass artist.
 * M. B. Sreenivasan, 62, Indian music director, heart attack.

10

 * Glenn Cunningham, 78, American middle-distance runner and Olympic medalist, heart attack.
 * Andy Gibb, 30, English singer and songwriter (I Just Want to Be Your Everything, Shadow Dancing), myocarditis.
 * Svetislav Glišović, 74, Yugoslavian international footballer and manager (BSK Beograd, Yugoslavia).
 * Abdul Khaliq, 54, Pakistani sprinter and Olympian, "The Flying Bird of Asia".
 * Hugh Lindsay, 34, English equerry to Queen Elizabeth II, killed in an avalanche.
 * Phạm Hùng, 75, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, heart attack.
 * Jock Semple, 84, Scottish-born American runner and sports official, cancer.
 * Joey Sternaman, 88, American NFL footballer (Chicago Bears).
 * William Wordsworth, 79, English composer.

11

 * Rashid Bakr, 54, Sudanese politician, Prime Minister of Sudan.
 * Christianna Brand, 80, British crime writer and children's author (Green for Danger).
 * Harry Brauner, 80, Romanian composer.
 * Nicholas Eliot, 74, British peer, Earl of St Germans.
 * Khurshid Hasan Khurshid, 64, Indian-Pakistani politician, President of Azad Kashmir, road accident.

12

 * Samaresh Basu, 63, Indian writer (Prajapati).
 * Alessandro Bausani, 66, Italian scholar of Islam and Middle Eastern studies.
 * Romare Bearden, 76, American artist, author and songwriter, complications from bone cancer.
 * Arnold Bell, 86, British actor.
 * DeWitt Bodeen, 79, American film screenwriter and television writer (Cat People).
 * Vicky Longomba, 55, Congolese singer and founding member of TPOK Jazz.
 * Billie Rhodes, 93, American actress.
 * Bernard Rudofsky, 82, Austrian-American writer and architect (Architecture Without Architects), cancer.
 * Karen Steele, 56, American actress and model (Marty, Ride Lonesome), cancer.

13

 * Olive Carey, 92, American film and television actress.
 * Yngve Ekström, 74, Swedish furniture designer
 * John Holmes, 43, American pornographic film actor, cardio-respiratory arrest.
 * Patesko, 77, Brazilian international footballer (Palestra Itália, Nacional, Brazil).
 * Xavier Saint-Macary, 39, French actor (Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo), heart attack.
 * Steno, 71, Italian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer (Un giorno in pretura, Febbre da cavallo).
 * Irving Younger, 55, American lawyer and writer, pancreatic cancer.

14

 * Abbas Abbasi, 63, Pakistani hereditary leader, Nawab and Amir of Bahawalpur State.
 * Willi Apel, 94, German-American musicologist and author (The Harvard Dictionary of Music).
 * Bruno Balz, 85, German songwriter.
 * Rudolf Gramlich, 79, SS officer and German international footballer (Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany).
 * Carter B. Magruder, 87, American general in the U.S. Army, lung ailments.
 * Henrik Malyan, 62, Georgian-Armenian film director and writer (Nahapet).
 * Zeb Terry, 96, American Major League baseballer (Chicago Cubs).
 * Saul Weingeroff, 72, American professional wrestling manager.

15

 * Laura Caller, 72–73, Peruvian union lawyer.
 * Amaro da Cunha, 75, Brazilian rower and Olympian, brother of Carmen Miranda.
 * Willie Darden, 54, American murderer, executed.
 * Ivan Dubasov, 90, Soviet artist.
 * Chevene Bowers King, 64, American attorney and civil rights leader, prostate cancer.
 * Henry N. Manney III, 65, American journalist known for writings on cars, motorcycles and travel.
 * Edita Morris, 86, Swedish-American writer and political activist (The Flowers of Hiroshima).
 * Frank Perkins, 79, American song composer (Stars Fell on Alabama).
 * Dmitri Polyakov, 66, Ukrainian-Soviet operative and spy for the United States, executed by shooting.
 * William J. Porter, 73, British-American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Algeria, South Korea, Canada and Saudi Arabia, cancer.
 * John Sloan, 83, American businessman, president of Cain-Sloan, heart attack.
 * Victor Wickersham, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

16

 * Dorothy Adams, 88, American actress (The Best Years of Our Lives).
 * Nazir Dekhaiya, 67, Indian poet, bronchopneumonia.
 * Rollie Dotsch, 75, American football coach (Birmingham Stallions), pancreatic cancer.
 * Paul Kohner, 85, Austro-Hungarian–born American talent agent and producer, heart attack.
 * Dan Laner, 65, Austrian-born Israeli general.
 * Erich Probst, 60, Austrian international footballer (Rapid Wien, Admira Wien, Austria).
 * Dannie Richmond, 56, American jazz drummer, heart attack.
 * Jigger Statz, 90, American Major League baseballer (Chicago Cubs).
 * Mickey Thompson, 59, American auto racing builder and promoter, gunned down.

17

 * Raffaele Arié, 67, Bulgarian bass.
 * Nikolas Asimos, 38, Greek composer and singer.
 * Bruce C. Clarke, 86, United States Army general, stroke.
 * Roland Drew, 87, American actor (Ramona, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer).
 * Franz-Otto Krüger, 70, German film and television actor.
 * Patrick Mphephu, 63–64, South African politician, President of Venda.
 * Jaimal Singh Padda, 44–45, Indian poet and communist activist, shot by extremists.
 * Tan Siew Sin, 71, Malaysian politician, Minister of Finance, heart attack.

18

 * Gerald Abraham, 84, English musicologist, editor and music critic.
 * Billy Butterfield, 71, American jazz bandleader, cancer.
 * Oliver Dawnay, 67, British civil servant, private secretary to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
 * Karl Maria Demelhuber, 91, Nazi German SS general.
 * Joan Field, 72, American violinist.
 * Máirtín Ó Direáin, 77, Irish poet.
 * Percy Thrower, 75, British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer.
 * Frank Wayne, 70, American game show producer and host (The Price Is Right).

19

 * Reyner Banham, 66, English architectural critic and writer, cancer.
 * Sabino Barinaga, 65, Spanish footballer and manager (Real Madrid), heart disease.
 * Philip Birnbaum, 83, American religious author and translator.
 * Bun Cook, 84, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (New York Rangers).
 * Suzy Frelinghuysen, (a.k.a. Suzy Morris), 76, American abstract painter and opera singer, stroke.
 * Máirtín Ó Direáin, 77, Irish poet.
 * Sid Harkreader, 90, American fiddle player and string band leader.
 * Pamela Manson, 59, British actress.

20

 * Dick Bell, 74, Canadian politician, member of the Canadian Parliament, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.
 * Gil Evans, 75, Canadian-American jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, peritonitis.
 * Akhilbandhu Ghosh, 67, Indian Bengali singer.
 * Samuel W. Reynolds, 97, American politician, U.S. senator, pneumonia.
 * Greer Skousen, 71, Mexican basketballer.

21

 * Virginia Axline, 76, American psychologist and author (Dibs in Search of Self, Play Therapy).
 * Marie Burke, 93, English actress of stage, cinema and television.
 * George W. Lehr, 51, American politician, State Auditor of Missouri, brain tumour.
 * Robert McIntosh, 80, Indian-born English cricketer (Oxford University).
 * Edd Roush, 94, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds).
 * Charley Shipp, 74, American NBL and NBA basketballer and coach (Oshkosh All-Stars).
 * Sigfrit Steiner, 81, Swiss actor.
 * Patrick Steptoe, 74, English obstetrician and gynaecologist, pioneer of in-vitro fertilisation.

22

 * Gudmund Harlem, 70, Norwegian politician (Minister of Defence).
 * Rudolf Matz, 86, Croatian composer.
 * Kathleen Napoli McKenna, 90, Irish nationalist activist and journalist.
 * Lester Rawlins, 63, American actor (A Man for All Seasons, The Old Glory), cardiac arrest.

23

 * Theodore Fred Abel, 91, Soviet-born American sociology professor (Theodore Abel papers).
 * John Charles Bolsinger, 30, American serial killer, suicide.
 * Jimmy Jacobs, 58, American handball player, leukemia.
 * Moody Jones, 79, American blues guitarist and singer.
 * Isaiah L. Kenen, 83, Canadian-American journalist and lawyer, founder of the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs.
 * Deborah Linsley, 22, English murder victim.
 * Dayton Lummis, 84, American actor (The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell).
 * Pash, 37, Indian poet, gunned down.
 * Stephen Boleslav Roman, 66, Canadian mining engineer.

24

 * Pete Estes, 72, American automotive engineer, president of General Motors, heart attack.
 * Turhan Feyzioğlu, 65–66, Turkish academic and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey.
 * Sirkazhi Govindarajan, 55, Indian singer, heart attack.
 * Abdullahi Issa, 67, Somali politician, Prime Minister of Italian Somalia.

25

 * James J. Howard, 60, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
 * Robert Joffrey, 57, American dancer and choreographer, co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, organ failure.
 * Leona Maricle, 82, American actress, heart attack.
 * Vera Pagava, 81, Georgian artist.
 * Al Schwartz, 77, American screenwriter and producer (The Red Skelton Show), brother of Sherwood Schwartz.

26

 * Miguel Abuelo, 42, Argentine rock musician and singer, cardiac arrest.
 * Robert Fairbairn, 77, Scottish banker, chairman of Clydesdale Bank.
 * Musa Kaleem, 67, American jazz saxophonist and flautist.
 * Julian Pierce, 42, American lawyer and activist, murdered (body found on this date).

27

 * Lee Guber, 67, American theatre producer, brain cancer.
 * Gordon Merrick, 71, American Broadway actor and author, lung cancer.
 * Renato Salvatori, 55, Italian actor, liver cirrhosis.
 * Charles Willeford, 69, American writer (Cockfighter), heart attack.

28

 * David R. Bennion, 59, Californian winemaker, founder of Ridge Vineyards, car accident.
 * Shu-tien Li, 88, Chinese-American hydraulic engineer.
 * S. N. Tripathi, 75, Indian composer.
 * Neil Williams, 53, American painter, heart attack.

29

 * Ted Kluszewski, 63, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds), heart attack.
 * Sheila Manahan, 64, Irish actress (Only Two Can Play).
 * Jacques Santi, 49, French actor and film producer (The Aeronauts).
 * Dulcie September, 52, South African anti-Apartheid activist, assassinated.
 * Clarence Gilbert Taylor, 89, American aviation entrepreneur, co-founder of the Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corporation.

30

 * Ranulph Bacon, 81, British police officer, Inspector-General of Police of British Ceylon.
 * Georgia Ellis, 71, American actress (Gunsmoke).
 * Edgar Faure, 79, French politician, lawyer and historian, Prime Minister of France.
 * John Clellon Holmes, 62, American author and poet (Go), cancer.
 * Beulah Levy Ledner, 94, American pastry chef (Doberge cake).
 * Jimmy McGuigan, 64, Scottish footballer and manager (Crewe Alexandra).
 * Doris Pawn, 93, American silent-screen actress.
 * Arnie Zane, 39, American photographer, choreographer and dancer, AIDS.

31

 * Nicola Alexandrovich Benois, 86, Russian-born Italian stage designer (La Scala).
 * Talib Rasul Hakim, 47–48, American composer.
 * Harry Kane, 75, American illustrator (Three Investigators), aneurysm.
 * Sir William McMahon, 80, Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia, cancer.
 * Manuel Silos, 82, Filipino film-maker (Biyaya ng Lupa – Blessings of the Land).