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.

March 1987

1 Freddie Green, 75, American swing jazz guitarist, heart attack. Bertrand de Jouvenel, 83, French philosopher and political economist.Bertrand de Jouvenel Dies; Economic Forecast Pioneer. New York Times. Retrieved 22 Jul 2024. Tony Kelly, 68, American basketball player. Roger Leigh-Wood, 80, English Olympic athlete (1928). Don MacBeth, 37, Canadian jockey, cancer.Donald MacBeth Dies at 37; A Leading New York Jockey. New York Times. Retrieved 22 Jul 2024. Vern Partlow, 76, American newspaper reporter and folk singer, blacklisted during McCarthy era, cancer.Vern Partlow; His Peace Song Stirred Ruckus. L.A. Times. Retrieved 22 Jul 2024. Wolfgang Seidel, 60, German Formula 1 racing driver, heart attack. Eddie Skinner, 78, American NASCAR racing driver.

2 Ernest Holmes, 69, South African cricketer. Gord McFarlane, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.(Chicago Black Hawks). Mo Mozzali, 64, American baseball player, scout, and coach. Randolph Scott, 89, American film actor (The Last of the Mohicans), heart and lung ailments. Lolo Soetoro, 52, Indonesian geographer, stepfather of Barack Obama, liver failure.

3 Con Hogan, 83, Australian rules footballer. Danny Kaye, 76, American singer, actor, dancer and comedian, internal bleeding and hepatitis. Balilla Lombardi, 70, Italian footballer.BALILLA LOMBARDI Keith Miller, 65, Australian rules footballer. LaFayette L. Patterson, 98, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1928–1933). Cyril Pearl, 82, Australian journalist, author and television personality.Cyril Altson Pearl (1904–1987). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 22 Jul 2024. Coby Ruskin, 75, American television director and actor. Rafael M. Salas, 58, Filipino head of United Nations Population Fund, heart attack.Rafael M. Salas Dies at Age 58; Headed U.N. Population Agency. New York Times. Retrieved 22 Jul 2024. Hana Vítová, 73, Czech film actress.

4 Georges Arnaud, 69, French author, heart attack.French Novelist and Social Rebel Georges Arnaud, 69. L.A. Times. Retrieved 22 Jul 2024. Bill Chaffey, 72, Australian soldier and politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1940–1973). Maria Jolas, 94, American pacifist, a founding member of Transition in Paris.Maria Jolas, 94, A Translator and Paris Magazine Founder. New York Times. Retrieved 22 Jul 2024. Seibo Kitamura, 102, Japanese sculptor.Seibo Kitamura. Olympedia. Retrieved 22 Jul 2024. Eliseo Moreno, 27, American spree killer, executed.Texan Who Killed 6 in 1983 is Executed by Lethal Injection. New York Times. Retrieved 22 Jul 2024.

5 Len Akin, 70, American NFL player (Chicago Bears). James W. Blanchard, 83, American submarine commander and rear admiral, respiratory arrest.Rear Adm. James Blanchard, Pacific War Submariner, Dies. Washington Post. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. John Brooke, 64, Northern Irish politician, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.Brooke, John Warden. Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Albert Costain, 76, British politician, Member of Parliament.Sir Albert Costain. UK Parliament. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Abdulgani Dahiwala, 78, Indian Gujarati poet. Harry Dudkin, 78, American politician and judge, clerk of the New Jersey General Assembly, murdered.Obituary for Harry Dudkin (Aged 78). Newspapers.com (Bloomfield Life). Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Andrey A. Fedorov, 78, Soviet biologist, botanist and taxonomist. Joe Purcell, 63, American politician, acting Governor of Arkansas.Joe Edward Purcell (1923–1987). Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Don Yenko, 59, American car dealer and racecar driver, aeroplane crash.A single-engine airplane clipped some trees Thursday while attempting.... United Press International. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024.

6 Inder Raj Anand, Indian film dialogue and screenwriter. Mel Boozer, 41, American university professor and LGBT activist, AIDS.Melvin Boozer. New York Times. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Edward Carson, 67, British politician, Member of Parliament.Hon. Edward Carson. UK Parliament (year of death only). Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Eddie Durham, 80, American jazz guitarist, trombonist and composer, fall. J. Spencer Trimingham, 82, English scholar on Islam in Africa.Trimingham, J. Spencer (John Spencer), 1904-. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Edward Zorinsky, 58, American politician, U.S. Senator (since 1976), heart attack.

7 Jan Britstra, 81, Dutch Olympic hurdler (1928). Yuri Chulyukin, 57, Soviet film director, actor and songwriter. Henri Decaë, 71, French cinematographer.Decaë, Henri. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Evelyn Dove, 85, British singer and actress, pneumonia.Evelyn Dove. The National Archives. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Paul R. Evans, 55, American-born furniture designer, sculptor and artist, heart attack.Paul Evans. Roseberys London. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Alan Kuntz, 67, Canadian NHL player (New York Rangers). Waldo Salt, 72, American screenwriter (Midnight Cowboy, Coming Home), lung cancer.

8 Erwin Jollasse, 95, Nazi German general, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.Jollasse, Erwin. Traces of War. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Ede Szomjas, 72, Hungarian Olympic sports shooter (1960). Nils Wallin, 82, Swedish Olympic canoeist (1936). Victor Wells-Cole, 89, British army officer and cricketer. Iwao Yamawaki, 88, Japanese photographer and architect.Iwao Yamawaki. Tate. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024.

9 Boris Andreyev, 81, Soviet Russian Olympic medalist shooter (1952). Zeke Bonura, 78, American Major League baseball player (Chicago White Sox).Ex-Sox Bonura Dies at 78. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Ronald W. Clark, 70, British author, cerebral hemorrhage.Ronald William Clark (1916-1987): a personal memoir. McMaster University. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Doug Davies, 87, Scottish rugby union player. Donald Jay Grout, 84, American musicologist, author of A Short History of Opera.Donald J. Grout. New York Times. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Allan Jaffe, 51, American jazz tubist, cancer.Allan Jaffe, New Orleans Jazz Revivalist, Dies. New York Times. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Andrew Kayiira, 42, leader of the Uganda Freedom Movement, murdered.Revisiting the murder of Dr Kayiira 27 years later. Daily Monitor. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Yusuf al-Khal, 69, Lebanese-Syrian poet, journalist and publisher.Youssef Al-Khal – Poet and journalist. Bible Society Lebanon. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Richard F. Kneip, 54, American diplomat and politician, governor of South Dakota, U.S. ambassador to Singapore, cancer.Richard Kneip. source. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Bobby Locke, 69, South African professional golfer, meningitis. Miguel Palau, 85, Spanish Olympic long-distance runner (1924). John Keating Regan, 75, American district judge. Fred W. Thompson, 86, Canadian-American labour organizer and historian, member of Industrial Workers of the World.Fred Thompson; Led Labor Publishing Firm. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Arthur Tolcher, 64, British harmonica player. Gordon Tottle, 61, American ice hockey player.

10 Colin Anderson, 74, Australian Olympic sports shooter (1956). Dwight Burney, 95, American politician, Governor of Nebraska.Dwight Burney obituary. The Lincoln Star. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Robert Colby, 64, American songwriter, music publisher and theatrical producer ("Jilted"), cancer. George Glamack, 68, American professional basketballer (Rochester Royals).George Glamack. Pro Basketball Encyclopedia. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Jeannette Mirsky, 83, American writer.Jeannette M. Ginsburg, 83, Author and Editor. New York Times. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Daniel Morgan, 37, British private investigator, victim of unsolved murder.Daniel Morgan murder: Met sorry for not disclosing documents at HQ. BBC. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Johannes Quasten, 86, German Roman Catholic theologian.Retirement and Impact. Catholic University of America. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024.

11 Karl Bohren, 84, American football player and coach. Joe Gladwin, 81, English actor (Coronation Street, Last of the Summer Wine), bronchial cancer.Home News in Brief. Catholic Herald. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Fred Lucas, 84, American MLB player (Philadelphia Phillies). Bots Nekola, 80, American MLB player.

12 Robert Barnes, 75, Irish cricketer and rugby union player. Jon R. Collins, 63, American judge, justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada (1966–1971). Ferruccio Dalla Torre, 55, Italian Olympic bobsledder (1964). Bruno Gamba, 57, Italian Olympic rower (1952). Woody Hayes, 74, American college football coach (Ohio State), heart attack. Micheline Kahn, 97, French harpist and pianist. Frans Kuijper, 86, Dutch Olympic water polo player and coach (1928). Richard Levinson, 52, American screenwriter and producer (Columbo), heart attack. Jack Marks, 92, English performer and screenwriter (Up for the Cup), lung cancer.

13 Edward Peck Curtis, 90, American World War I flying ace, Air Service Major General, pneumonia.Edward P. Curtis, Eisenhower Aviation Aide. New York Times. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi, 77, Indian Muslim scholar and poet. Dezső Grósz, 88, Hungarian Olympic footballer (1924). Bernhard Grzimek, 77, German zoo director, author and animal conservationist, heart attack. Jack Haines, 66, English footballer. Peter Henrici, 63, Swiss mathematician (numerical analysis).Obituary to Peter Henrici. Springer. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. David Lewis, 83, American Hollywood film producer (Dark Victory), pneumonia.David Lewis, Producer of Films in ‘30s and ‘40s, Dies. L.A. Times. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Gerald Moore, 87, English classical pianist. Wayne Osborne, 74, American MLB player. Hugh Roberton, 86, Australian politician, Minister for Social Services, Australian Ambassador to Ireland.Hugh Stevenson Roberton (1900–1987). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Fela Sowande, 81, Nigerian musician and composer.Fela Sowande 1905–1987. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024.

14 Peter Beter, 65, American attorney and financier. Tex Fletcher, 77, American singing cowboy, actor and radio & television personality.Obituary for Tex Fletcher (Aged 77). Newspapers.com (Poughkeepsie Journal). Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Rushdi al-Kikhya, 87–88, Syrian political leader, Speaker of the Parliament of Syria. Ivor Preece, 66, English international rugby union footballer (Coventry, England). Ali Muhammad Rashidi, 81, Pakistani journalist, politician and diplomat. Gerard Steenson, appr. 29, Irish republican paramilitary commander, ambushed and killed.Irish Guerrilla Leader Slain; Feud Death Toll Rises to 10. New York Times. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Ian MacAlister Stewart, 91, Scottish military officer in the British Army.Lest we forget: Brigadier Ian Stewart, the first British officer to land on French soil – obituary. The Telegraph. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024.

15 Douglas Abbott, 87, Canadian Member of Parliament, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.The Honourable Douglas Charles Abbott, P.C.. Supreme Court of Canada. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. W. Sterling Cole, 82, American politician, lawyer, and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, cancer. Red Dutton, 89, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Montreal Maroons), coach and executive.Red Dutton. NHL.com. Retrieved 23 Jul 2024. Léon Fleuriot, 64, French linguist and Celtic scholar. Don Gant, 44, American singer, songwriter and record producer, boating accident.

16 León Bozzi, 58, Argentine Olympic sports shooter (1956). Jack Brumfitt, 70, English cricketer. Christof Frommelt, 68, Liechtensteiner Olympic cross-country skier (1948).