Deaths in January 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 1987

1 Velma Abbott, 62, American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.Flora Velma Abbott. All American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Avard Fairbanks, 89, American sculptor, heart attack.Obituary for Avard Tennyson Fairbanks (Aged 89). Newspapers.com (The Daily Herald). Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Joseph Hirkala, 63, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly and Senate. Maurice Mandelbaum, 78, American philosopher and phenomenologist.Maurice H. Mandelbaum 1908 - 1987. JSTOR (from American Philosophical Association). Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Ernie Maun, 85, American MLB player. Roger McHugh, 78, Irish politician, member of the Seanad Éireann (1954-1957). Gustavo Teixeira, 78, Portuguese footballer.

2 Des Barchard, 64, New Zealand rugby league footballer. Ramón Castroviejo, 82, Spanish and American eye surgeon and corneal transplantation pioneer.Ramon Castroviejo, 82, Developer of Cornea Transplant Procedures. New York Times. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Hazel Daly, 91, American film actress. Lovat Dickson, 84, Canadian publisher and writer.Lovat Dickson. The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Arthur Gould-Porter, 81, English film, television and stage actor. Jean de Gribaldy, 64, French road cyclist and directeur sportif. Harekrushna Mahatab, 87, Indian politician, leader of the Indian National Congress, Chief Minister of Odisha. Julio Moreno, 65, Cuban-born American MLB player (Washington Senators). Paul Parisel, 82, French Olympic wrestler (1924, 1928). Leo Sack, 72, American basketball player. Alfred Schindler, 92, American industrialist, acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce.Obituary for Alfred Schindler (Aged 92). Newspapers.com (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Ted Thorndike, 34, American Olympic ice hockey player (1976). Bill Upton, 57, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics).

3 Alex "Big Daddy" Campbell, 55, Scottish folk singer, tuberculosis. Andrew Collier, 62, Canadian forces officer. Arvind Deshpande, 54, Indian film, theatre and television actor and theatre director. Sunder Lal, appr. 64, Indian independence activist and politician, Member of Parliament. John Bartlow Martin, 71, American diplomat and author, U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, throat cancer. William R. Poage, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1937-1978), heart failure.Former U.S. Rep. William R. (Bob) Poage Dies. Washington Post. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Franck Sylvain, 77, Haitian politician, acting President of Haiti.

4 Paul Francis Anderson, 69, American prelate. Peggy Bacon, 91, American artist, known for satirical caricatures. Lauretta Bender, 89, American child neuropsychiatrist, developed the Bender-Gestalt Test. Dave Burke, 70, Australian rules footballer. Aubert C. Dunn, 90, American attorney and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1935-1937).Culberson Dunn Headstone. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Jack Martin, 69, English cricketer. Tony Rensa, 85, American MLB player. John A. Seitz, 78, American general of the U.S. Army.Obituary, Toledo Blade, January 7, 1987 Tom Verdell, 81, American college football player and coach.

5 Arthur Collinson, 57, Australian rugby league player. Salter Hayden, 90, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1940-1983). Elie Hervier, 90, French sculptor. Margaret Laurence, 60, Canadian novelist and short story writer, suicide. Dale Mitchell, 65, American Major League baseball player (Cleveland Indians), heart attack. Helenka Pantaleoni, 86, American silent-screen actress. Ambrogio Portalupi, 43, Italian racing cyclist. Herman Smith-Johannsen, 111, Norwegian skier and supercentenarian, pneumonia.Herman Smith-Johannsen. Canadian Ski Hall of Fame & Museum. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024.

6 Taddy Aycock, 71, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana.Former Lt Gov Aycock of Franklin dead @ 71 -- part 1. Newspapers.com (The Daily Review). Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Daniel Carney, 42, Rhodesian novelist, cancer.Carney, 42, Zimbabwean author best known…. Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Sir Robert Cooke, 56, British politician, Member of Parliament, motor neuron disease.The Papers of Sir Robert Cooke, MP (1930-1987). UK Parliament (year of death only). Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Anghel Crețeanu, 76, Romanian footballer. Margaret Danhauser, 65, American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.Margaret Brown. All American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Jaidev, 68, Kenyan-born Indian music composer. N. N. Kakkad, 59, Indian poet, cancer. Ted Scalissi, 65, American football and basketball player. Jack Schwarz, 90, American independent producer of low-budget feature films.

7 Martha George, 94, native American tribal leader, chairperson of the Suquamish tribe. Willie Hermiston, 73, Scottish cricketer. Lakshmi, 65, Indian writer.Lakshmi's women stand for courage and conviction. The Hindu. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Avner Less, 71, German-born Israeli police officer, interrogated Adolf Eichmann after he was captured. Magnar Lundemo, 48, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (1960, 1964). Charles Lyon, 71, American Olympic sailor (1932). Jackie Mitchell, 73, American female baseball player, struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession.Mitchell, Jackie (1914–1987). Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024.

8 Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, 85, English writer and artist, curator of Watts Gallery.'Blunt, Wilfrid Jasper Walter. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Leo Callaghan, 62, Welsh football referee in the English Football League. Jack Corcoran, 82, American NFL player. Gurney Evans, 79, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1953-1969). Nana Joshi, 60, Indian Test cricketer, liver cancer.Nana Joshi. Wisden. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Mary Lindell, 91, English woman, front-line nurse in World War I, member of the French Resistance in World War II. Walter R. Mansfield, 75, American judge, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, stroke.Walter R. Mansfield, Federal Judge, is Dead at 75. New York Times. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Elmer Miller, 83, American MLB player (Philadelphia Phillies). Myron Prinzmetal, 78, American cardiologist.Obituaries: Myron Prinzmetal; Pioneer Cardiologist. L.A. Times. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Christian F. Schilt, 91, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps, Medal of Honor recipient.General, USMC (Retired), (1895-1987). Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Phil Seghi, 77, American front-office executive in Major League Baseball, cancer.

9 Carl Gunnar Engström, 74, Swedish physician and inventor. Frank Koon, 78, American college football and basketball coach. Arthur Lake, 81, American actor, heart attack.'Dagwood' of Movies, Arthur Lake, Is Dead. New York Times. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Jack Lathrop, 73, American vocalist and guitarist. Blake Miller, 97, American football player and coach. Bill Noël, 72, American oilman, banker and civic leader, cancer.Noël, William Douglas (1914–1987). Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 17 Jul 2024. Alex B. Novikoff, 73, Russian Empire–born American biologist. Shabtai Shikhman, 71, Polish-born Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1959-1965).

10 Thomas Offenberg Backer, 94, Norwegian engineer. Steve Casey, 78, Irish rower and world champion wrestler. Ian Harvey, 72, British businessman and politician, Member of Parliament.Mr Ian Harvey. UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 Jul 2024. Frank Hiller, 66, American MLB player. Marion Hutton, 67, American singer and actress, cancer. Dominick Labino, 76, American engineer and master craftsman in glass. Frank Makosky, 76, American MLB player (New York Yankees). Håkan Malmrot, 87, Swedish swimmer, Olympic champion (1920).Håkan Malmrot Handsome Ned, 29, Canadian country singer and songwriter, overdose. Sir David Robinson, 82, British entrepreneur and philanthropist, funded Robinson College, Cambridge and Rosie Hospital.Sir David Robinson. Robinson College, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 18 Jul 2024. Ferdinand Maria von Senger und Etterlin, 63, Nazi German soldier, general in the post-war Bundeswehr.Senger und Etterlin, von, Ferdinand Maria Johann. Traces of War (its source: PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001. Retrieved 18 Jul 2024.

11 Albert Ferber, 75, Swiss pianist. Hugo Fregonese, 78, Argentinian film director and screenwriter (My Six Convicts), heart attack. Betty von Fürer-Haimendorf, 75–76, British ethnologist in India and Nepal. Jacques Hérold, 76, Romanian surrealist painter.Jacques Herold. The Annex Galleries. Retrieved 18 Jul 2024.

12 William Craner, 80, British Olympic sprinter (1928). Harold Krents, 42, blind American lawyer, author and activist, brain tumour.Harold Krents, Lawyer, Dies; Inspired 'Butterflies are Free'. New York Times. Retrieved 18 Jul 2024. Ralph Maxwell Lewis, 82, American mystic, Imperator of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis.Ralph M. Lewis; Leader of Rosicrucians for 49 Years. L.A. Times. Retrieved 18 Jul 2024. Norah Michener, 84–85, Canadian wife of Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada, Alzheimer's disease.Obituary for Nora Michener (Aged 86). Newspapers.com (Edmonton Journal). Retrieved 18 Jul 2024. Glenn Odekirk, 81, American aerospace engineer, cancer. Herbert Tiede, 71, German actor.

13 Vladimir Alatortsev, 77, Soviet chess player, author and administrator.Vladimir Alatortsev Tombstone 13.1.87. Retrieved 18 Jul 2024. Alfred Young Allee, 81, American Texas ranger, sheriff and game warden, cancer.Alfred Y. Allee Is Dead at 81; Ex-Captain of Texas Rangers. New York Times. Retrieved 18 Jul 2024. Thomas Davidson, 80, South African cricketer. Anatoly Efros, 61, Soviet theatre and film director, heart attack. Charlotte Friend, 65, American virologist, noted for her discovery of the Friend leukemia virus. Matt Hazeltine, 53, American NFL footballer (San Francisco 49ers), Lou Gehrig's disease. Igor Ilyinsky, 85, Soviet stage and film actor, director and comedian.Igor Ilinsky. Britannica. Retrieved 18 Jul 2024. Edward D. Kuekes, 85, American editorial cartoonist. Tom Morgan, 56, American MLB player. Elvira Ríos, 73, Mexican singer ("Noche de ronda", "Perfidia") and actress, kidney failure and bladder cancer. Tony Sansone, 81, Italian-American bodybuilder and model, colon cancer. Geoffrey Tiarks, 77, British Anglican bishop.

14 Alister Clark, 83, Irish Olympic hurdler (1928). Warwick Oswald Fairfax, 85, Australian businessman and journalist.Sir Warwick Oswald Fairfax (1901–1987). Sydney Morning Herald via ANU. Retrieved 18 Jul 2024. Desmond FitzGerald, 75, Irish architect, designer of original Dublin Airport terminal building.FitzGerald, Desmond. Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 18 Jul 2024. Park Jong-chul, 21, South Korean democracy movement activist, death by torture.Seoul Student's Torture Death Changes Political Landscape. New York Times. Retrieved 18 Jul 2024. Gerald C. MacCallum Jr., 61, American philosopher, heart attack.Gerald C. MacCallum, Jr. 1925-1987. JSTOR (American Philosophical Association). Retrieved 18 Jul 2024. Douglas Sirk, 89, German-born film director (A Time to Love and a Time to Die). Rauli Somerjoki, 39, Finnish rock singer, bronchitis. Jai Ram Varma, 82, Indian freedom fighter and politician, Member of Parliament. Sam Wagstaff, 65, American art curator and collector, pneumonia. James Wright, 74, English cricketer.

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