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.
March 1988
1 Joe Besser, 80, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges, The Joey Bishop Show), heart failure. Ernest Cuneo, 82, American newspaperman (McClure Newspaper Syndicate, The Saturday Evening Post) and NFL footballer (Brooklyn Dodgers), heart attack.Ernest L. Cuneo, 82; Owned News Service. New York Times. Retrieved 2 Jun 2024. Sohan Lal Dwivedi, 82, Indian poet.Sohan Lal Dwivedi. WorldCat. Retrieved 31 Oct 2024. Yoshi Katō, 75, Japanese stage and film actor.Yoshi Katō. WorldCat. Retrieved 31 Oct 2024. Luis Márquez, 62, Puerto Rican baseball player (Homestead Grays, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates). Tommy Potter, 69, American jazz double bassist.Tommy Potter. WorldCat. Retrieved 31 Oct 2024. Jean Le Poulain, 63, French stage actor and director, heart attack. Carl Raguse, 85, American Olympic equestrian (1936). Ed Roman, 57, American college basketballer, convicted of point shaving, leukemia.Ed Roman, 57, Basketball Player In City College's Two-Title Season. New York Times. Retrieved 3 Jul 2024. Kay Sutton, 72, American actress.Kay Sutton. WorldCat. Retrieved 31 Oct 2024. Benjamin F. Wilson, 66, American soldier in the US army, Medal of Honor recipient.Benjamin F. Wilson. Congressional Medal of Honor Society. Retrieved 16 Jul 2024.
2 Chuck Arnett, 60, American artist and dancer, AIDS.Arnett, Chuck. GLBT Historical Society. Retrieved 26 May 2024. Tommy Breen, 75, Irish international footballer (Manchester United, Ireland).Tommy Breen Thomas Breen (Player). National Football Teams. Retrieved 31 Oct 2024. Raymond Hewitt, 47, American civil rights activist, leader of the Black Panther Party, heart attack.Ex-Panthers Reunite at Leader’s Funeral. L.A. Times. Retrieved 11 Jun 2024. Kate Mahaut, 80, Danish Olympic fencer (1948, 1952). J. Saunders Redding, 81, American professor and author, heart failure.J. Saunders Redding, 81, Is Dead; Pioneer Black Ivy League Teacher. New York Times. Retrieved 3 Jul 2024. Ronald Senior, 83, British Army officer. Leslie Turner, 88, American cartoonist and writer (Captain Easy).Leslie Turner, Pioneered Action Comic Strip. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 13 Jul 2024.
3 Harold Langley, 84, British Olympic jumper (1924). Peter D. Martin, 65, American college professor and founder of City Lights Bookstore, emphysema.Peter Martin, 65, Dies; Founder of a Bookshop. New York Times. Retrieved 22 Jun 2024. Wollert Nygren, 81, Norwegian Olympic speed skater (1928). Henryk Szeryng, 69, Polish-Mexican violinist, cerebral hemorrhage.Henryk Szeryng, Violinist, Dies; Player in Romantic Style Was 69. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024. Lois Wilson, 93, American silent-screen actress (The Covered Wagon, The Great Gatsby), pneumonia. Sewall Wright, 98, American geneticist (population genetics), complications of hip fracture.Sewall Wright, 98, Who Formed Mathematical Basis for Evolution. New York Times. Retrieved 16 Jul 2024.
4 Ernesto Duarte Brito, 65, Cuban-Spanish musician.Duarte Brito, Ernesto. Kansalliskirjaston hakupalvelu (The National Library). Retrieved 6 Jun 2024. James Peter Davis, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of San Juan and of Santa Fe. Beatriz Guido, 65, Argentinian novelist and screenwriter (The Kidnapper, Traitors of San Angel).Beatriz Guido, 63, Argentine author and cultural…. Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 2 Nov 2024. Olavi Latsa, 58, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (1956). Parry Moon, 90, American electrical engineer and author.Parry Moon. WorldCat. Retrieved 31 Oct 2024. Franco Scalamandré, 89, Italian-American textile designer, co-founder of Scalamandré Inc.Franco Scalamandre, 89, Leader In Making of Decorative Textiles. New York Times. Retrieved 5 Jul 2024.
5 Hyliard Chappell, 71, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1968–1972). Lewis J. Fields, 78, American general in U.S. Marine Corps.Gen. L.J. Fields Dies. Washington Post. Retrieved 7 Jun 2024. Alfred Hollings, 81, New Zealand lawyer and cricketer (Wellington).Alfred Hollings. Wisden. Retrieved 13 Jun 2024. Rupert Horsley, 82, English cricketer and teacher. Margaret Irving, 90, American actress (The People's Choice, Animal Crackers).Irving, Margaret (1898–1988). Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 14 Jun 2024. Eddie Kolar, 78, American basketball player. William L. Marbury Jr., 86, American lawyer at Marbury, Miller & Evans, heart attack.William L. Marbury Dead at 86; Lawyer and a Fellow of Harvard. New York Times. Retrieved 22 Jun 2024. János Németh, 81, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (1932, 1936). Alberto Olmedo, 54, Argentine comedian and actor, fall from building.36 years after the death of Alberto Olmedo: the most iconic films to remember him. Ground News. Retrieved 29 Jun 2024.
6 Jeanne Aubert, 88, French singer and actress.Jeanne Aubert, une étoile des années folles (Jeanne Aubert, a star of the Roaring Twenties). Societe D'Histoire Du Vesinet. Retrieved 26 May 2024. Eric Crompton, 74, Australian rules footballer. Mairéad Farrell, 31, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.18 Bullets Hit IRA Man, Gibraltar Inquest Told. Washington Post. Retrieved 7 Jun 2024. Joan Hassall, 82, English wood engraver and book illustrator.Hassall, Joan (1906–1988). encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 11 Jun 2024. Buster Henderson, 76–77, West Indian cricket umpire. Lou Legett, 86, American MLB player (Boston Braves, Boston Red Sox). Daniel McCann, 30, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.Three IRA members shot dead in Gibraltar. BBC News. Retrieved 22 Jun 2024. Dick Ricketts, 54, American Major League baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and NBA basketballer (St. Louis Hawks), leukemia.Richard James Ricketts. MLB.com. Retrieved 3 Jul 2024. Stanlake J. W. T. Samkange, 65–66, Zimbabwean writer of historical novels, heart and lung ailments.Stanlake Samkange, Zimbabwe Politician, 65. New York Times. Retrieved 5 Jul 2024. Seán Savage, 23, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.Three IRA members shot dead in Gibraltar. BBC News. Retrieved 22 Jun 2024.
7 Edmund Berkeley, 79, American computer scientist, co-founded the Association for Computing Machinery.Edmund C. Berkeley. IEEE Computer Society. Retrieved 28 May 2024. Guido Celano, 83, Italian actor, voice actor and director.Guido Celano. WorldCat. Retrieved 31 Oct 2024. Divine, 42, American singer, actor and drag queen (Pink Flamingos, Hairspray), heart failure.Divine, Transvestite Film Actor, Found Dead in Hollywood at 42. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024. Martin Finn, 70, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1969–1977). 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.Joe Loco. Oxford Reference. Retrieved 21 Jun 2024. Youssef Abou Ouf, 63, Egyptian Olympic basketball player (1948, 1952). Rafael Quiñones Vidal, 95, Puerto Rican journalist. Olof Stahre, 78, Swedish Army officer and Olympic equestrian (1948, 1952).
8 Bob Addison, 79, Australian rules footballer. Ray Bromley, 72, Australian rules footballer. Gordon Carpenter, 68, American basketballer and Olympic gold medalist (1948), national coach.Gordon Carpenter International Stats. Basketball Reference. Retrieved 31 Oct 2024. Bruce Carruthers, 85, Australian rules footballer. Amar Singh Chamkila, 27, Indian singer and musician, murdered.Who Killed Amar Singh Chamkila And Why? All You Need To Know About Punjabi Singer's Assassination. India Times. Retrieved 31 May 2024. Ken Colyer, 59, English jazz trumpeter and cornetist. Werner Hartmann, 76, German physicist (microelectronics), complications after prostate surgery.Werner Hartmann. TU Dresden. Retrieved 11 Jun 2024. Katalin Hemrik, 46, Hungarian Olympic cross-country skier (1964). África de las Heras, 78, Spanish-born Soviet communist.África de las Heras, la española que creó (desde Uruguay) la red de espías de la KGB en América del Sur (Africa de las Heras, the Spanish woman who created (from Uruguay) the KGB spy network in South America). BBC News. Retrieved 11 Jun 2024. Frank Osborne, 91, South African–born English international footballer and manager (Tottenham Hotspur, Fulham, England).Frank Osborne. Fulham F.C.. Retrieved 30 Jun 2024. Harold Pierce, 70, American entrepreneur, founded Harold's Chicken Shack restaurant chain, prostate cancer.Chicken King Harold P. Pierce, 70. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2 Jul 2024. Lala Abdul Rashid, 65, Pakistani hockey player and Olympic gold medalist (1960).Abdul Rashid. Olympedia. Retrieved 31 Oct 2024. Don Redden, 24, American basketballer, heart failure.Don Redden, Basketball Player, 24. New York Times. Retrieved 3 Jul 2024. Guy Tirolien, 71, Guadeloupean poet.Career, biography and origin of guy tirolien. Naija News. Retrieved 12 Jul 2024.
9 Milton Galamison, 64, American Presbyterian minister, cancer. Béla Háray, 72, Hungarian Olympic field and ice hockey player (1936 Winter, 1936 Summer). John Joseph Harper, 36, Canadian aboriginal leader, shot by police.The Death of John Joseph Harper. The Aboriginal Justice Implementation Commission. Retrieved 11 Jun 2024. Harold Johnson, 81, Australian rugby league player and coach. Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 83, West German politician, Chancellor of West Germany, heart failure. Poondi Kumaraswamy, 57, Indian hydrologist (Kumaraswamy distribution).Ponnambalam Kumaraswamy. Indian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 Jun 2024. Janusz Piekałkiewicz, 62–63, Polish historian, writer and director.Janusz Piekałkiewicz. WorldCat. Retrieved 31 Oct 2024. 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 (1932, 1936), heart attack. Andy Gibb, 30, English singer and songwriter ("I Just Want to Be Your Everything", "Shadow Dancing"), myocarditis.Andy Gibb, 30, Singer in 70's, Dies in Britain. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024. Svetislav Glišović, 74, Yugoslavian international footballer and manager (BSK Beograd, Yugoslavia).Glišović Svetislav. reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 10 Jun 2024. Abdul Khaliq, 54, Pakistani sprinter and Olympian, "The Flying Bird of Asia".Abdul Khaliq. Olympedia.com. Retrieved 16 Jun 2024. Hugh Lindsay, 34, English equerry to Queen Elizabeth II, killed in an avalanche.Prince Charles’ Ski Party Hit by Avalanche; 1 Killed : Wales Seen Weeping for His Friend. L.A. Times. Retrieved 20 Jun 2024. Kristian Madsen, 95, Danish Olympic gymnast (1920). Phạm Hùng, 75, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, heart attack.Pham Hung, 75, Prime Minister Of Vietnam and Early Rebel, Dies. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024. Jock Semple, 84, Scottish-born American runner and sports official, cancer.Jock Semple, Marathon Official. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024. Joey Sternaman, 88, American NFL footballer (Chicago Bears).Joseph T. Sternaman, Pioneer Quarterback, 88. New York Times. Retrieved 10 Jul 2024. William Wordsworth, 79, English composer.Wordsworth, William (Brocklesby). Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 16 Jul 2024.
11 Rashid Bakr, 54, Sudanese politician, Prime Minister of Sudan. Jack Bedwell, 72, English cricketer. Christianna Brand, 80, British crime writer and children's author (Green for Danger).Christianna Brand. WorldCat. Retrieved 31 Oct 2024. Harry Brauner, 80, Romanian composer.Harry Brauner. WorldCat. Retrieved 31 Oct 2024. Lee Daney, 83, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics).