Deaths in October 1988

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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

 * Lucien Ballard, 80, American cinematographer (The Caretakers), complications from car accident.
 * Trevor Herion, 29, Irish singer and songwriter, suicide.
 * Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 90, English writer.
 * Pavle Vuisić, 62, Yugoslav actor.

2

 * Hamengkubuwono IX, 76, Indonesian politician and Javanese Royal, Vice President of Indonesia, internal bleeding.
 * Sir Peter Hunt, 72, English head of the British Army, Chief of the General Staff.
 * Alec Issigonis, 81, Ottoman-British automotive designer (Mini).
 * Thomas J. Kelly, 65, American soldier in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient, heart attack.
 * Generoso Pope Jr., 61, American media mogul (National Enquirer), heart attack.
 * Florence E. Wall, 95, American cosmetic chemist.

3

 * Mae Brussell, 66, American radio personality, challenger of the Warren Commission report, cancer.
 * Richard Evelyn Byrd III, 68, American officer in US Navy, Antarctic explorer, malnutrition & dehydration. (body found this date)
 * Clarence Carnes, 61, American murderer (Battle of Alcatraz), AIDS.
 * Ma Haide, 78, American doctor who practiced medicine in China, cancer and diabetes.
 * Ruth Hale Oliver, 78, American astrologer and actress.
 * Franz Josef Strauss, 73, German politician, Minister-President of Bavaria, heart failure.

4

 * Carlo Carretto, 78, Italian writer and Catholic priest, member of the Little Brothers of the Gospel.
 * Zlatko Grgić, 57, Croatian-born Canadian animator (Dream Doll).
 * Geoffrey Household, 87, British novelist specialising in thrillers (Rogue Male).
 * Margaret Lacey, 76, British actress and ballet teacher (Diamonds Are Forever).

5

 * Ron Staniforth, 64, English international footballer (Stockport County, England).
 * Lois W., (Lois Wilson), 97, American co-founder of Al-Anon for alcoholics.

6

 * Severiano Briseño, 86, Mexican composer.
 * Dean Burk, 84, American biochemist and cancer researcher (Lineweaver–Burk plot), cancer.
 * Paul Ledoux, 74, Belgian astrophysicist.
 * Don Terry, 86, American actor (Don Winslow of the Navy, Don Winslow of the Coast Guard).

7

 * George Ansell, 78, English footballer (Norwich City).
 * Sándor Bíró, 77, Hungarian international footballer (MTK Budapest, Hungary).
 * Billy Daniels, 73, American singer (That Old Black Magic), stomach cancer.
 * Christian Herbert, 84, British barrister and peer, Governor of British Guiana.
 * Stéphane Lupasco, 88, Romanian philosopher, developed non-Aristotelian logic.

8

 * Charles Beauclerk, 73, British soldier and hereditary peer, Duke of St Albans.
 * Harold Dorman, 61, American rock and roll singer and songwriter (Mountain of Love).
 * Boob Fowler, 87, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds).
 * Edward George Warris Hulton, 81, British magazine publisher and writer.
 * Hans Kuhn, 89, German philologist, specialised in Germanic studies.
 * Wally Lemm, 68, American NFL football coach (Houston Oilers, St. Louis Cardinals).
 * Ernst Hermann Meyer, 82, German composer and musicologist.
 * Pál Titkos, 80, Hungarian international footballer (MTK Hungária, Hungary).

9

 * Mousey Alexander, 66, American jazz drummer, heart and kidney failure.
 * Edward Chodorov, 84, American playwright, film writer and producer.
 * Cliff Gallup, 58, American guitarist, heart attack.
 * Jackie Milburn, 64, English international footballer (Newcastle United, Newcastle United), lung cancer.
 * Felix Wankel, 86, German mechanical engineer, Hitler Youth leader and anti-Semite, inventor of the Wankel rotary engine.

10

 * Samuel A. Adams, 54, analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, heart attack.
 * Bhabani Bhattacharya, 81, Indian writer.
 * David Croudip, 30, American NFL footballer (Atlanta Falcons), car crash.
 * Juan Pujol García, ('Garbo', 'Alaric'), 76, Spanish spy and double agent.
 * Kurt Marshall, 22, American gay model and an actor, AIDS.
 * Montgomery Tully, 84, Irish film director and writer.

11

 * Buck Clarke, 55, American jazz percussionist.
 * Thaddeus J. Dulski, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, leukemia.
 * Morgan Farley, 90, American film and television actor.
 * Wayland Flowers, 48, American actor, comedian and puppeteer (Captain Kangaroo), AIDS.
 * Bonita Granville, 65, American actress and producer (Nancy Drew, These Three), lung cancer.
 * Robert Edward Gross, 83, American surgeon and a medical researcher.
 * Roy Herrick, 52, British actor.
 * Max Imdahl, 63, German art historian.
 * Guido Monzino, 60, Italian mountain climber and explorer, heart failure.
 * Ursula Nordstrom, 78, American publisher and editor of children's books, ovarian cancer.
 * Joel Oppenheimer, 58, American poet, columnist in The Village Voice, lung cancer.
 * Hugh Percy, 74, British soldier and peer, Duke of Northumberland, heart attack.

12

 * Ruth Manning-Sanders, 102, Welsh-English poet and author.
 * Ken Murray, 85, American comedian, actor and author (Bill and Coo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance).
 * Rafael García Serrano, 71, Spanish writer and journalist.
 * Coby Whitmore, 75, American painter and magazine illustrator (The Saturday Evening Post).

13

 * Norman Barry, 90, American judge, politician and football coach (Chicago Cardinals), heart attack.
 * Melvin Frank, 75, American screenwriter and producer (A Touch of Class, White Christmas), complications from heart surgery.
 * Irene Hunt, 96, American silent-screen actress.
 * Mike Venezia, 43, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey, horse racing accident.

14

 * Kathleen Blackshear, 91, American artist.
 * Charles Augustus, 76, German prince, head of the house of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
 * Katriel Katz, 79, Israeli diplomat, ambassador to the Soviet Union and Poland.
 * Mary Morris, 72, Fijian-British actress, heart failure.
 * Vic Raschi, 69, American Major League baseballer (New York Yankees), heart attack.
 * René Vietto, 74, French road racing cyclist.

15

 * John Ball, 77, American mystery novel writer (In the Heat of the Night), colon cancer.
 * Victor Copps, 69, Canadian politician, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.
 * James Craig, 46, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, shot.
 * Piero Fornasetti, 74, Italian artist and designer, died during minor operation.
 * Khudu Mammadov, 60, Azerbaijani geologist (crystal chemistry).
 * Rallou Manou, 72–73, Greek choreographer.
 * Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, 96, English composer, pianist and writer.

16

 * William A. Earle, 68–69, American philosopher.
 * Queen Farida of Egypt, 67, consort of King Farouk of Egypt, leukemia.
 * Abdulrahman Fawzi, 78, Egyptian international footballer and manager (Zamalek, Egypt).
 * Christian Matras, 87, Faroese poet.
 * Muzafer Sherif, 82, Ottoman-American social psychologist, heart attack.
 * Edward Wright, 76, English painter.

17

 * Oved Ben-Ami, 83, Israeli politician, co-founder of the cities of Netanya and Ashdod.
 * William Henry Bramble, 87, British union leader and Chief Minister of Montserrat.
 * Adélaïde Hautval, 82, French physician, provide medical care in Auschwitz concentration camp, suicide.
 * Anthony A. Hoekema, 74–75, Dutch-American Calvinist minister, heart attack.
 * Alec Peterson, 80, British teacher, instrumental in introducing the International Baccalaureate.

18

 * Michael ffolkes, 63, British illustrator and cartoonist (The Daily Telegraph, Punch), pancreas and liver disease.
 * Kamel Hana Gegeo, Iraqi bodyguard, food taster for Saddam Hussein, murdered.
 * Christopher Hoban, 26, American police officer, murdered.
 * Caswell Silver, 72, American geologist, president of Sundance Oil Company, heart attack.

19

 * Labdhi Bhandari, 40, Professor of Marketing at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, air crash.
 * Henry W. Buse Jr., 76, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
 * Lawrence W. Butler, 80, American special effects artist, inventor of the bluescreening process (The Thief of Bagdad), heart attack.
 * William Joseph Campbell, 83, American judge (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois).
 * Fathead, 27–28, Jamaican-born American dancehall deejay, murdered.
 * Son House, 86, American singer and guitarist, cancer of the larynx.
 * Helen O'Bannon, 49, American economist, Secretary of Public Welfare for Pennsylvania, cancer.
 * Sten Suvio, 76, Finnish boxer and Olympic gold medal winner.
 * Friedrich Weinreb, 77, Dutch economist, and swindler in World War II.

20

 * Mark Evans Austad, 71, American radio and television commentator, U.S. Ambassador to Finland and Norway, heart disease.
 * Marion William Isbell, 83, American restaurateur, founder of Ramada Inns.
 * Juan Salcedo Jr., 84, Filipino physician and scientist.
 * Sheila Scott, 66, English aviator, cancer.

21

 * Guido Beck, 85, Argentine physicist, car accident.
 * Reggie Otero, 73, Cuban Major League baseballer (Chicago Cubs), heart attack.
 * Nyari Welly, 43, Indian politician, (Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly).

22

 * Henry Armstrong, 75, American boxer, multiple world champion, heart failure.
 * Cynthia Freeman, 73, American novelist, cancer.
 * Plácido Galindo, 82, Peruvian international footballer (Universitario de Deportes, Peru).
 * Clare Stevenson, 85, Australian director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.
 * Esat Oktay Yıldıran, 39, Turkish military officer, governor of Diyarbakır Prison, assassinated.

23

 * Hap Emms, 83, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, coach and team owner (Barrie Flyers), heart failure.
 * Laurence Irving, 91, English book illustrator and Hollywood set designer.
 * André Neher, 74, French Jewish scholar and philosopher.
 * Asashio Tarō III, 58, Japanese sumo wrestler, stroke.

24

 * William T. R. Fox, 76, American foreign policy professor (Columbia University), coined the term "superpower", heart disease.
 * Samuel B. Fuller, 83, American entrepreneur, president of the National Negro Business League, kidney failure.
 * Benny Joy, 52, American rockabilly guitarist and singer, cancer.
 * Ratna Mohini, 84, Javanese dancer.
 * Valerie Taylor, 85, English actress (Berkeley Square).

25

 * Kathleen Baxter, 87, English women's rights activist (National Council of Women).
 * Bob Carey, 58, American NFL footballer (Los Angeles Rams).
 * Boobie Clark, 38, American NFL footballer (Cincinnati Bengals), blood clot in lung.
 * Eric Larson, 83, American animator for Walt Disney Studios (Winnie the Pooh).
 * Luther Lassiter, 69, American pool player, seven-time world pocket billiard champion.
 * Milton Rokeach, 69, Polish-born American social psychologist.
 * Harold Leeming Sheehan, 88, British physician.

26

 * R. K. Baliga, 58, Indian engineer, founder of Electronics City, diabetes-related complications.
 * Georgette Cohan, 88, American actress (Mr. Pim Passes By).
 * Ruth Gervis, 94, British illustrator (Ballet Shoes).
 * Tatapuram Sukumaran, 65, Indian Malayalam writer.

27

 * Frank Devlin, 88, Irish badminton player.
 * Charles Hawtrey, 73, English actor and comedian, (Carry On), vascular disease.
 * Curt Herzstark, 86, Austrian engineer.
 * Rudolf Jordan, 86, German Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt for the Nazis.
 * Jack Kane, 80, Australian politician, member of the Australian Senate.
 * Ruhollah Khatami, 81, Iranian cleric.
 * Kenneth Thorpe Rowe, 88, American professor of drama and playwriting.

28

 * Pietro Annigoni, 78, Italian artist and portrait painter (Queen Elizabeth II), kidney failure.
 * John Backus, 77, Lithuanian-American physicist and acoustician.
 * Shoki Coe, 74, Taiwanese Presbyterian minister.
 * Alva B. Lasswell, 83, American linguist and cryptanalyst in the U.S. Marine Corps.
 * Jack de Manio, 74, British journalist and radio presenter (Today).
 * Frank Schwable, 80, American general in the US Marine Corps.
 * Teikō Shiotani, 89, Japanese photographer.

29

 * Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, 85, Indian social reformer and freedom activist.
 * Andy Cohen, 84, American MLB baseballer (New York Giants).
 * Joe Comfort, 71, American jazz double bassist.
 * Thomas Cooray, 86, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Colombo.
 * Nataša Gollová, 76, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian actress (Eva tropí hlouposti).
 * Bill Mason, 58–59, Canadian author, filmmaker and conservationist, cancer.
 * Orlando Montenegro Medrano, 68, Nicaraguan politician and attorney, acting President of Nicaragua.
 * Robert Olejnik, 77, Nazi German flying ace.
 * Ross Rocklynne, 75, American science fiction author (The Men and the Mirror), heart disease.

30

 * Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, 88, German film actor.
 * T. Hee, 77, American animator and director (Walt Disney Animation Studios).
 * Tasos Leivaditis, 66, Greek poet.
 * John Myers Myers, 82, American writer (Silverlock).
 * Florence Nagle, 94, British breeder of racehorses and pedigree dogs, horse trainer and feminist.
 * Raúl Pellegrin, 30, Chilean guerrilla leader.
 * Francisco Rodrigues, 63, Brazilian international footballer (Palmeiras, Fluminense, Brazil).
 * Liz Whitney Tippett, 82, American socialite and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses, cancer.

31

 * John Houseman, 86, Romanian-American actor and producer (Citizen Kane, The Blue Dahlia, The Paper Chase), cancer.
 * Ken Niles, 81, American radio announcer and film narrator (Out of the Past), heart failure.
 * Alfred Pellan, 82, Canadian painter, leukemia.
 * Vasco Ronchi, 90, Italian physicist (optics).
 * Theodor Schneider, 77, German mathematician (Gelfond–Schneider theorem).
 * George Uhlenbeck, 87, Dutch-American theoretical physicist (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process).

Unknown date

 * Gerry Livingston, 73–74, Canadian businessman.
 * Denis Martin, 67–68, Northern Irish singer, actor and theatre producer.
 * Anant Sharma, 68, Indian Railway Union leader and politician, Minister of State for Industry.