Deaths in September 1988

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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

 * Luis Walter Alvarez, 77, American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, esophageal cancer.
 * Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad, 58, Indian politician and cricketer, Maharaja of Baroda.
 * Hugh Hunt, 86, American set decorator (Ben-Hur, Julius Caesar).
 * Gerald Mast, 48, American author and film historian, AIDS.
 * Robert Menaker, 84, American exporter, allegedly worked for Soviet intelligence during World War II.
 * Esmeralda Ruspoli, 60, Italian actress (Seven Seas to Calais, Romeo and Juliet).
 * Leonor Sullivan, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.

2

 * Alexander Aigner, 79, Austrian mathematician (Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht).
 * Dorothy Crawford, 77, Australian actress, co-founded Crawford Productions with her brother Hector Crawford.
 * Jim Bagby Jr., 71, American Major League baseballer (Cleveland Indians).
 * Erik Frey, 80, Austrian film actor.
 * Gibril Sesay, 79, Sierra Leonean diplomat, Ambassador of Sierra Leone to Egypt.
 * Robert Watts, 65, American artist, lung cancer.

3

 * John Goodison, 44–45, English rock musician, songwriter and record producer (Give a Little Love), heart attack.
 * Ferit Melen, 81, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey, heart condition.
 * Ewing Mitchell, 77, American actor (Sky King, The Adventures of Champion), stroke.
 * Ferenc Sas, 73, Hungarian international footballer (Hungária MTK, Hungary).
 * Bibi Torriani, 76, Swiss ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.

4

 * Joseph Ceravolo, 54, American poet, bile duct cancer.
 * Leonard Huxley, 86, English-born Australian physicist, Rhodes Scholar.

5

 * Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare, 72, Indian politician, Governor of Andhra Pradesh.
 * Lawrence Brown, 81, American jazz trombonist (Duke Ellington orchestra), stroke.
 * Gert Fröbe, 75, German actor (Goldfinger, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines), heart attack.
 * Boris Smyslovsky, 90, Russian-Finnish general.

6

 * Axel von Ambesser, 78, German playwright, actor and film director.
 * Leroy Brown, 37, American professional wrestler, stroke.
 * Frank Burke, 69, American officer in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient.
 * Autry Inman, 59, American country and rockabilly musician.
 * Myrtle Byram McGraw, 89, American psychologist and neurobiologist, pneumonia.
 * Harold Rosson, 93, American cinematographer (The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain).
 * Karni Singh, 64, Indian Maharaja of Bikaner.
 * Dan Spring, 77, Irish Labour Party politician and Gaelic footballer.
 * Stefan Themerson, 78, Polish-writer of children's literature, poet and novelist.

7

 * Abdul Haq Akorwi, 76, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
 * Gaja Alaga, 64, Croatian theoretical physicist, specialising in nuclear physics.
 * Sedad Hakkı Eldem, 80, Turkish architect (Istanbul Justice Palace).
 * Vivi Janiss, 77, American actress (The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues, Man on the Prowl, First, You Cry).

8

 * Janine Balding, Australian murder victim.
 * G. M. Durrani, 68–69, Indian radio drama artist, playback singer and actor.

9

 * Mona Best, 64, British owner of the Casbah Coffee Club, mother of Pete Best, heart attack.
 * Leroy McGuirk, 77, American professional wrestler and promoter.

10

 * Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 56, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (Macunaíma).
 * Jaclyn Dowaliby, 7, American murder victim.
 * Jam Ghulam Qadir Khan, 68, Pakistani Chief Minister of Balochistan, heart failure.
 * Virginia Satir, 72, American author and psychotherapist, pancreatic cancer.

11

 * Wilhelm Batz, 72, Nazi German Luftwaffe fighter ace.
 * Roger Hargreaves, 53, British cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books (Mr. Men Little Miss, Timbuctoo), stroke.
 * Julius Mackerle, 79, Czechoslovakian inventor and automobile engineer.
 * Fiqrete Shehu, 68, Albanian politician, wife of Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu.
 * John Sylvester White, 68, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter).

12

 * Alan Bible, 78, American lawyer and politician, Nevada Attorney General, United States Senator, respiratory illness.
 * Hans Frei, 66, American biblical scholar, stroke.
 * Stephen B. Grimes, 61, English production designer and art director (Out of Africa).
 * Margaret McFarland, 83, American child psychologist, consultant to TV show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, myelofibrosis.
 * Bill Mitchell, 76, American automobile designer (General Motors), heart failure.
 * John D. J. Moore, 77, American lawyer and business executive, United States Ambassador to Ireland, bone cancer.
 * Lauris Norstad, 81, American General in the US Army and Air Force, cardiac arrest.
 * Charlie Palmieri, 60, Puerto Rican bandleader, heart attack.
 * Mars Ravelo, 71, Filipino comic book cartoonist and graphic novelist, heart attack.

13

 * Julian Banzon, 80, Filipino biochemist (alternative fuels).
 * Gerd Hornberger, 78. German sprinter and Olympic medalist.
 * Christian Kampmann, 49, Danish writer and journalist, murdered.
 * Peter Young, 73, British Army officer and military historian, founded The Sealed Knot.

14

 * Donald Albery, 74, English theatre impresario, director and administrator of the London Festival Ballet.
 * William Edward Cousins, 86, American Roman Catholic bishop, Archbishop of Milwaukee.
 * Roy Dutton, 71, British Royal Air Force officer and flying ace.

15

 * Samuel E. Beetley, 74, American film editor (The Longest Day, Doctor Dolittle).
 * Frank Francis, 86, English academic librarian and curator (British Museum).
 * Henry Wallich, 74, German-born American economist, columnist for Newsweek magazine.

16

 * Becky Bell, 17, American teenage girl, septic abortion.
 * Max Loehr, 84, German art historian and professor of Chinese art, Parkinson's disease.
 * Richard Paul Lohse, 86, Swiss painter and graphic artist.
 * Dick Pym, 95, English international footballer (Bolton Wanderers, England).
 * Ramon S. Subejano, 82–83, Filipino-American soldier.
 * Bob Trice, 62, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia / Kansas City Athletics).

17

 * John Biggs-Davison, 70, British politician, Member of Parliament.
 * Walter P. Chrysler Jr., 79, American art collector and theatre and film producer, cancer.
 * Roman Davydov, 75, Soviet animator and artist (Adventures of Mowgli).
 * Beulah Mae Donald, 67, American woman who successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan.
 * Hilde Güden, 71, Austrian soprano.
 * Nat Jackley, 79, English comic actor, cancer.
 * Emment Kapengwe, 45, Zambian footballer (Aston Villa, national team), stroke.
 * Rowena Reed Kostellow, 88, American industrial designer and professor, heart attack.
 * Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox, 71, aspirant head of the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

18

 * Ho Chong, 92, South Korean politician, President of South Korea.
 * Kathleen Collins, 46, American poet, filmmaker and civil rights activist (Losing Ground), breast cancer.
 * David Dodd, 93, American financial analyst and author (Security Analysis), respiratory failure.
 * John Elliot, 90, British transport and railway manager (Southern Railway, British Railways).
 * Albert E. Jenner Jr., 81, American lawyer (Jenner & Block), assistant counsel to the Warren Commission, Watergate counsel, neurological disease.
 * David McFall, 68, Scottish sculptor.
 * Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, 82, Iranian poet (Heydar Babaya Salam).
 * Alan Watt, 87, Australian diplomat, secretary of the Department of External Affairs.

19

 * P. Shilu Ao, 71, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Nagaland.
 * Enrico Cerulli, 90, Italian scholar of Somali and Ethiopian studies, Governor of Scioa and Harar.
 * Michael Fessier, 82, American screenwriter and film producer.
 * P. A. P. Moran, 71, Australian statistician (probability theory, population and evolutionary genetics), stroke.
 * Eduard Pestel, 74, German industrial designer, economist and politician.
 * Win Maw Oo, 16, Burmese student activist, killed during the 8888 uprising.

20

 * Tim Davis, 44, American drummer, singer and songwriter, co-founded the Steve Miller Band, complications from diabetes.
 * Roy Kinnear, 54, English actor and comedian (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), heart attack following horse fall.
 * Eileen O'Faolain, 88, Irish writer of children's books, stroke.
 * Walter Reckless, 89, American criminologist (containment theory).
 * Tibor Sekelj, 76, Hungarian-born Yugoslavian polyglot and world-traveller.
 * Doris Wells, 44, Venezuelan actress, writer and producer.
 * Sam Woodyard, 63, American jazz drummer, cancer.

21

 * Rudi Alvađ, 59, Serbian half of comedy duo Momo and Uzeir.
 * Harold Balfour, 90, British politician, Member of Parliament, Under-Secretary of State for Air.
 * Glenn Robert Davis, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Robert Gwathmey, 85, American painter, Parkinson's disease.
 * Henry Koster, 83, German-American film director, liver cancer.
 * Christine Norden, 63, British actress (An Ideal Husband, Mine Own Executioner), pneumonia.
 * S. B. P. Pattabhirama Rao, 76, Indian politician.
 * Zubeida, 76–77, Indian actress.

22

 * Rais Amrohvi, 74, Pakistani scholar, poet and psychoanalyst, assassinated.
 * Maximilian von Fürstenberg, 83, Dutch-Belgian Roman Catholic cardinal, cerebral hemorrhage.

23

 * Mary Colvin, 80, English director of the Women's Royal Army Corps.
 * Tom Hawkins, 61, American writer, probable author of the Wanda Tinasky letters, murder-suicide.
 * Arwel Hughes, 79, Welsh orchestral conductor and composer.
 * Trilok Kapoor, 76, Indian actor.
 * Phil Leslie, 79, American comedy writer, cancer.
 * Lyell McEwin, 91, Australian politician, president of the South Australian Legislative Council.

24

 * Aziz Suryal Atiya, 90, Egyptian Coptic historian, founder of the Institute of Coptic Studies.
 * Basil de Ferranti, 58, British businessman and politician, member of the House of Commons, cancer.
 * Nancy Hale, 80, American novelist (The Prodigal Women), stroke.
 * Joe Don Looney, 45, American NFL footballer (Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins), motorcycle accident.
 * Shamsul Huda Panchbagi, 90–91, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician, member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly.

25

 * bpNichol, 43, Canadian poet and writer.
 * James L. Buie, 68, American scientist and inventor (Transistor–transistor logic), emphysema.
 * Billy Carter, 51, American farmer, businessman and politician, brother of Jimmy Carter, pancreatic cancer.
 * Nipper Pat Daly, 75, British boxer.
 * Francis DeSales, 76, American actor (Two Faces West, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), cancer.
 * Antonino Saetta, 65, Italian magistrate, assassinated.
 * Arthur Võõbus, 79, Estonian theologian.

26

 * Guillermo Battaglia, 88, Argentine film actor (La Historia Oficial), heart attack.
 * Alister Clarke, 71, Australian rugby league player (St. George, Canterbury).
 * Paul Cowan, 48, American journalist (The Village Voice), leukemia.
 * Bruce Haack, 57, Canadian musician and composer, heart failure.
 * Lincoln Hudson, 72, U.S. Army Air Force officer in World War II.
 * Lord Melody, 62, Trinidadian singer (Shame and Scandal), cancer.
 * Sergey Shcherbakov, 26–27, Soviet serial killer.
 * Branko Zebec, 59, Yugoslavian international footballer (Partizan Belgrade, Yugoslavia), alcohol-related illness.

27

 * Teofilo Camomot, 74, Filipino Roman Catholic Archbishop, car accident.
 * Demetrius Comino, 85, Australian engineer and inventor (Slotted angle), founded the Comino Foundation, heart attack.
 * Willis Edwards, 85, English international footballer (Leeds United, England).
 * George Grant, 69, Canadian philosopher and professor.
 * J. C. Heard, 71, American swing, bop and blues drummer, heart attack.
 * Ken McIver, 59, Australian politician, member of the parliament of Western Australia.
 * Paul Reinman, 78, American comic book artist (The Incredible Hulk, X-Men).
 * William V. Shannon, 61, American journalist and author, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, lymphoma.

28

 * Margerie Bonner, 83, American actress, scriptwriter and novelist, wife of Malcolm Lowry.
 * Frank Caplan, 77, English-born American toy collector and manufacturer, pneumonia.
 * Ethel Grandin, 94, American silent-screen actress.
 * Charles R. Jonas, 83, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.
 * Beldon Katleman, 74, American businessman (El Rancho Vegas).
 * Vicko Krstulović, 83, Yugoslav communist politician, President of the Presidium of the Croatian Parliament.

29

 * Charles Addams, 76, American cartoonist (The Addams Family), heart attack.
 * Barney Josephson, 86, American founder of Café Society in New York, hemorrhage.

30

 * Chick Chandler, 83, American film actor (Soldiers of Fortune), heart attack.
 * Al Holbert, 41, American car racing driver, aeroplane crash.
 * Dhulappa Bhaurao Navale, 78, Indian freedom fighter.
 * Joachim Prinz, 86, German-American rabbi, heart attack.
 * Chino Roces, 75, Filipino businessman and newspaper owner and publisher (The Manila Times), cancer.
 * David E. Satterfield III, 67, American lawyer and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.
 * Eddie Shimwell, 68, English international footballer (Blackpool).
 * Muriel S. Snowden, 72, American founder and director of Freedom House, cancer.
 * Trường Chinh, 81, Vietnamese communist political leader, President of Vietnam, fall.

Unknown date

 * Harry Jeffra, 73, American boxer, world bantamweight and featherweight champion.
 * Prentice Moreland, 63, American R&B singer.