Deaths in July 1988

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1988

1 Jan de Boer, 89, Dutch Olympic footballer (1924, 1928). James Edgar Broyhill, 96, American founder of Broyhill Furniture Industries.James E. Broyhill, Manufacturer, 96. New York Times. Retrieved 29 May 2024. Costante Degan, 58, Italian politician. Lex van Delden, 68, Dutch composer.Modern Dutch, Kingly Praises, Munich's Maestro. New York Times (death year only). Retrieved 4 Jun 2024. Guido Fibbia, 70, Italian World War II fighter pilot. Gethyn Hewan, 71, English cricketer. Anton Leader, 74, American radio and television director, liver ailment.Anton Morris Leader, Director, 74. New York Times. Retrieved 20 Jun 2024. Alice Nunn, 60, American actress (Pee-wee's Big Adventure), heart attack.Alice Nunn. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Ed Sauer, 69, American MLB player (Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Braves). Hermann Volk, 84, German Roman Catholic cardinal, Bishop of Mainz.Hermann Volk, Cardinal, 84. New York Times. Retrieved 14 Jul 2024.

2 Jimmy Ball, 85, Canadian Olympic sprint runner (1928, 1932). Arnold Burmeister, 89, Nazi German general in the Wehrmacht.Burmeister, Arnold (Generalleutnant). Traces of War. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Roy Deller, 75, Australian rules footballer. Vibert Douglas, 93, Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist.Obituary - Douglas, Alice-Vibert - 1894-1988. SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). Retrieved 25 Jun 2024. Tom Drake, 75, American MLB player (Cleveland Indians, Brooklyn Dodgers). Johann Baptist Gradl, 84, German politician, member of the Bundestag. Mahmoud Mirza, 82, Iranian prince of the Qajar dynasty. Aldo Tonti, 78, Italian cinematographer (The Savage Innocents).Morto Aldo Tonti Maestro Della Luce (Aldo Tonti Master of Light Dies). La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 12 Jul 2024. Eddie Vinson, 70, American alto saxophonist, heart attack.

3 Ed Birchall, 64, Ho-Ho the Clown, heart attack.Edward P. Birchall. The Oklahoman. Retrieved 29 May 2024. Gabriel Dell, 68, American actor, leukemia. Thales McReynolds, 45, American NBA player (Baltimore Bullets). Bob Ross, 79, Australian rules footballer. Richard Schulze-Kossens, 73, Nazi German Obersturmbannführer in the Waffen-SS, lung cancer.Richard Schulze-Kossens, Hitler Adjutant. New York Times. Retrieved 6 Jul 2024. Steve Walsh, 29, British disc jockey, heart failure.DJ dies after Surgery. Newspapers.com (The Guardian). Retrieved 15 Jul 2024. Fritz Wiessner, 88, German-American pioneer of free climbing, stroke.

4 Adrian Adonis, 34, American professional wrestler (American Wrestling Association, World Wrestling Federation), traffic accident. Ralph Dennis, 56, American crime fiction author, kidney failure.Ralph Dennis obit. Newspapers.com (The Atlanta Constitution). Retrieved 4 Jun 2024. Ian Fleming, 79, English cricketer. Shivkumar Joshi, 71, Indian Gujarati author.Shivkumar Joshi. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Ferial Karim, 50, Lebanese-Indian actress and singer, Femina Miss India 1962, heart failure. Donald MacLaren, 95, Canadian World War I flying ace, helped found the Royal Canadian Air Force.Donald MacLaren. The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21 Jun 2024. Tom Manley, 75, English footballer (Manchester United, Brentford).Opposition Player Profile: Tom Manley. http://www.stamford-bridge.com. Retrieved 22 Jun 2024. Dave McKigney, 56, Canadian professional wrestler, traffic accident.Three professional wrestlers were killed and a fourth suffered.... UPI. Retrieved 22 Jun 2024. William Thetford, 65, American psychologist and professor, heart attack. Lee Weyer, 51, American Major League baseball umpire (National League), heart attack.Lee Weyer, 51, Longtime Umpire In the National League, Is Dead. New York Times. Retrieved 15 Jul 2024.

5 Pentti Niinivuori, 56, Finnish Olympic boxer (1952, 1956). Yoshihiko Yoshimatsu, 67, Japanese judoka.

6 Hoang Van Chi, 74, Vietnamese political writer.Hoang Van Chi. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. John Drury Clark, 80, American rocket fuel developer, chemist and science fiction writer. Víctor Junco, 71, Mexican actor (La Otra, Misterio).Víctor Junco. CinéArtistes (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 Jun 2024. William Smythe, 95, American physicist at Caltech. David T. Wilentz, 93, American attorney (Lindbergh kidnapping trial).David Wilentz, 93, the Prosecutor In Lindbergh Kidnapping, Is Dead. New York Times. Retrieved 16 Jul 2024. Rolf Wollner, 82, German Olympic field hockey player (1928).

7 William R. Cox, 87, American writer, heart failure.William R. Cox, 87, Writer of 80 Novels, Including Mysteries. New York Times. Retrieved 2 Jun 2024. Jimmy Edwards, 68, English comedy writer and actor (Take It from Here, Whack-O!), pneumonia. Helen Gandy, 91, American secretary to F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover, heart attack.Helen W. Gandy, Secretary, 91. New York Times. Retrieved 10 Jun 2024. Elmer Johnson, 78, American basketball player. Paula Mollenhauer, 79, German Olympic discus thrower (1928, 1936). David Atlee Phillips, 65, American Central Intelligence Agency officer, cancer.

8 Ray Barbuti, 83, American sprinter and Olympic dual gold medalist (1928).Ray Barbuti, 83, Dies; Gold Medalist in 1928. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Jul 2024. Antony Fisher, 73, British businessman and think tank founder (Institute of Economic Affairs, Atlas Network), heart disorder.The life and work of Sir Antony Fisher. Institute of Economic Affairs. Retrieved 9 Jun 2024. Ranjit Khanwilkar, 27, Indian cricketer (Karnataka), train accident.Khanwilkar, a cricketer gone too soon. Deccan Herald. Retrieved 17 Jun 2024. Freddie West, 92, British Royal Air Force officer, Victoria Cross recipient.Ferdinand Maurice Felix West. WorldCat (year of death only). Retrieved 27 Oct 2024.

9 Ian Allan, 70, Scottish Royal Air Force officer and World War II flying ace.Allan, John Watson "Iain". Traces of War. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Mitchell Clarke, 87, Barbadian cricketer. Frank Ellerbe, 92, American MLB player (Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns). Alexandru Graur, 88, Romanian linguist.Alexandru Graur. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Anthony Holland, 60, American actor, suicide. Jackie Presser, 61, American labour leader, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, cardiac arrest. Barbara Woodhouse, 78, Irish-British dog trainer, author and TV personality (Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way), stroke.

10 Alf Ackerman, 59, South African footballer and manager (Carlisle United). Noel Barber, 78, British novelist and journalist.Noel Barber. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Erik Husted, 88, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1920, 1928). Errol John, 63, Trinidad and Tobago–born English actor and playwright (Moon on a Rainbow Shawl).Errol John. Britannica. Retrieved 15 Jun 2024. Baruch Kamin, 74, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1953-1955). Enrique Lihn, 58, Chilean poet, cancer.Lihn (Enrique) Papers. Online Archive of California. Retrieved 20 Jun 2024. James Mardall, 88, English cricketer and British Army officer. Ernie Nevel, 68, American MLB player (New York Yankees, Cincinnati Redlegs). N. Krishna Pillai, 71, Indian dramatist, translator and historian of Malayalam language. Vicente Saadi, 74, Argentinian politician, Governor of Catamarca.

11 Mike Bamber, 57, British businessman and football executive (Brighton & Hove Albion). Robert Ferro, 46, American novelist, AIDS. Milton Krims, 84, American screenwriter and novelist, pneumonia. Jarava Lal Mehta, 75–76, Indian philosopher, heart attack.J. L. Mehta, Expert on Heidegger, Dies at 76. New York Times. Retrieved 23 Jun 2024. Lída Merlínová, 82, Czech writer. George Nemchik, 73, American Olympic soccer player (1936). James Gordon Shanklin, 78, American FBI agent, known for the investigation of the J.F.K. assassination, cancer.James Shanklin, 78, Led Kennedy Inquiry. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Jul 2024. Ingegärd Töpel, 82, Swedish Olympic diver (1928). Barbara Wootton, 91, British sociologist and criminologist, member of the House of Lords.In Memoriam: Barbara Wootton 1897-1988. JSTOR (from The British Journal of Sociology). Retrieved 17 Jul 2024.

12 Al Bedner, 90, American NFL footballer (New York Giants).Al Bedner. Pro Football Reference. Retrieved 8 Jul 2024. Mick Boon, 85, New Zealand cricketer. Josephine Douglas, 61, British actress and producer (Six-Five Special, Emergency Ward 10), cancer.Josephine Douglas, a leading television presenter and producer of the late fifties and early sixties, who ... britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (The Stage). Retrieved 5 Jun 2024. Raymond W. Goldsmith, 83, Belgian-born American economist, heart failure.Raymond Goldsmith, Noted Economist, Dies at 83. New York Times. Retrieved 10 Jun 2024. Michael Jary, 81, German composer.Jary, Michael. Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek (year of death only). Retrieved 14 Jun 2024. Joshua Logan, 79, American director, playwright and screenwriter (South Pacific), supranuclear palsy.Joshua Logan, Stage and Screen Director, Dies at 79. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Jul 2024. Pelagia Majewska, 55, Polish glider pilot, aviation accident.Niebieska eskadra - groby, cmentarze, pomniki, miejsca pamięci polskich lotników. www.niebieskaeskadra.pl. Retrieved 10 April 2025 John Massis, 48, Belgian strongman and teeth-acrobat, suicide.Het gebeente van John Massis zal toch niet verdwijnen in een anonieme knekelput?. demorgen.be (in Dutch - year of death only). Retrieved 22 Jun 2024. Robert Monteith, 50, New Zealand cricket umpire. Mitsuo Nakamura, 77, Japanese writer of biographies and stage-plays.Mitsuo Nakamura. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Katta Subba Rao, 48, Indian film director. Enzo Sacchi, 62, Italian Olympic cyclist (1952). Julian Trevelyan, 78, English artist and poet.Julian Trevelyan. Britannica. Retrieved 12 Jul 2024.

13 Gillis Andersson, 76, Swedish Olympic footballer (1936). Huub Bals, 51, Dutch creator and director of International Film Festival Rotterdam, heart attack. Ji Dengkui, 65, Chinese political figure, Vice Premier of People's Republic of China. Hilda Gobbi, 75, Hungarian actress.Hilda Gobbi. WorldCat. Retrieved 27 Oct 2024. Christine Mohrmann, 84, Dutch linguist.This (Time) in Linguistics History: Christine Mohrmann (1903-1988). Linguistic Society of America (year of death only). Retrieved 25 Jun 2024. Phil Monroe, 71, American animator and director (Warner Bros. Cartoons), pancreatic cancer.Phil Monroe, 71; TV Commercial, Cartoon Animator. L.A. Times. Retrieved 25 Jun 2024. Peter Philpott, 73, British RAF officer. Ivo Šuprina, 66, Yugoslav footballer. Richard Vogt, 75, German boxer and Olympic medalist (1936).Richard Vogt. Olympedia. Retrieved 14 Jul 2024.

14 Erik Braadland, 77, Norwegian politician. Jerzy Kaczkowski, 50, Polish Olympic weightlifter (1964). Harcharan Singh Manget, 56, Indian air force officer, helicopter crash.Harcharan Singh Manget: The Su-7 That Defied the Odds Brian McDonald, 60, Australian rules footballer. William Ofori Atta, 77, Ghanaian politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs. Peter Raw, 66, Australian R.A.A.F. pilot and senior officer, lymphoma.Peter Frank Raw (1922–1988). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 3 Jul 2024. Georg Stetter, 92, Austrian-German nuclear physicist. Whitey Witt, 92, American Major League baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, New York Yankees).Whitey Witt. MLB.com. Retrieved 16 Jul 2024.

15 Clyde Beck, 88, American MLB player (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds). Jan Brzák-Felix, 76, Czech Olympic canoeist (1936, 1948, 1952). Nils Christiansen, 75, Filipino-American Olympic swimmer (1936).