Deaths in September 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 1987

1 Ralph Cobbold, 81, English cricketer. Dennis Coi, 26, Canadian figure skater, AIDS. Gerhard Fieseler, 91, German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion and aircraft designer and manufacturer.Gerhard Fieseler. Britannica. Retrieved 31 Aug 2024. Philip Friend, 72, British film and television actor (The Highwayman). Arnaldo Momigliano, 78, Italian historian of classical antiquity.A.D. Momigliano, Historian and Classics Professor, Dies. New York Times. Retrieved 31 Aug 2024. Alan Reid, 72, Australian political journalist, cancer.Obituary: Mr Alan Reid. Trove (Canberra Times). Retrieved 31 Aug 2024. Pinky Whitney, 82, American Major League baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).Pinky Whitney. MLB.com. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.

2 Leon Blevins, 61, American basketball player and coach. Cam Carreon, 50, American Major League baseball player (Chicago White Sox).Cam Carreon #45. MLB.com. Retrieved 31 Aug 2024. Brian Clay, 52, Australian rugby league footballer (St. George Dragons, Australia), heart disease.Brian Clay. Rugby League Project. Retrieved 31 Aug 2024. LeGrande A. Diller, American general in the U.S. Army, cancer.Gravestone: LeGrande Albert Diller 2.9.87. Retrieved 31 Aug 2024. Ken Flower, 73, English-born Rhodesian police officer and intelligence chief, heart attack.Foreign News Briefs. United Press International. Retrieved 31 Aug 2024. Thomas Hambrook, 65, New Zealand cricketer. Remzi Aydın Jöntürk, 50, Turkish actor and screenwriter (Yarınsız Adam, Yıkılmayan Adam), traffic accident. Ramesh Naidu, 53, Indian composer, instrumentalist and singer. Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, 60, Argentine Army division general and politician, de facto President of Argentina. Stephen B. Small, 40, American businessman, kidnapped and held for ransom, asphyxiation during captivity.Three Held in Abduction of Media Family Member : Illinois Kidnap Victim Buried Alive, Dies. L.A. Times. Retrieved 31 Aug 2024.

3 Tom Amrhein, 76, American soccer player. Diana Caldwell, 73, English woman, best known for her part in the murder of Lord Erroll.Lady Delamere, Figure in Murder. New York Times. Retrieved 1 Sep 2024. Carter W. Clarke, 90. American intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, heart attack. Doug Cooper, 48, American NASCAR driver. Ned Day, 42, American journalist and newspaper reporter, heart attack.Las Vegas journalist Ned Day, 42, known…. Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 1 Sep 2024. Morton Feldman, 61, American composer, pancreatic cancer. Gordon Fletcher, 79, Australian rugby league footballer. Maxwell Fry, 88, English architect and writer.Maxwell Fry. Britannica. Retrieved 1 Sep 2024. Doris Gates, 85, American writer of children's fiction (Blue Willow), heart attack.Obituary: Doris Gates 3.9.87. Retrieved 1 Sep 2024. Georges Gourdy, 81, French Olympic boxer (1924). Drago Husjak, 61, Yugoslavian Olympic rower (1952). Merlin Minshall, 80, British naval officer and adventurer. Aleksandr Nadiradze, 73, Georgian engineer, involved in militarising the Soviet space program. Viktor Nekrasov, 76, Soviet writer, journalist and editor, cancer. Lee Theodore, 54, American Broadway theatre director and performer. Rusty Wescoatt, 76, American supporting actor.

4 Bill Bowes, 79, English test cricketer, player in the Bodyline series, heart attack.Bill Bowes. Wisden. Retrieved 2 Sep 2024. George M. Chinn, 85, American weapons expert and soldier.Gravestone: Col George Morgan Chinn 4.9.87. Retrieved 2 Sep 2024. Richard Marquand, 49, Welsh film and television director (Return of the Jedi), stroke. Norm McDermott, 74, Australian rules footballer. Harry Oliver White, 92, Canadian politician, member of the Canada House of Commons (1945–1962).

5 Richard D. Adams, 78, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.Richard Donald Adams. Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 2 Sep 2024. Takeo Akuta, 83, Japanese baseball player and manager. Wolfgang Fortner, 79, German composer and conductor.Wolfgang Fortner. Britannica. Retrieved 2 Sep 2024. Floyd Iglehart, 53, American NFL player (Los Angeles Rams). Scott Irwin, 35, American professional wrestler, brain tumour. Salvador Lutteroth, 90, Mexican professional wrestling promoter. Quinn Martin, 65, American television producer (The Fugitive), heart attack.

6 Jack d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 74, British Army general and politician, Member of Parliament.Jack D'Avigdor-Goldsmid. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 Sep 2024. Arun Kumar Choudhury, 64, Indian head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Calcutta. William Haley, 86, British newspaper editor and Director-General of the BBC.William J. Haley, British Journalist, Dies at 86. New York Times. Retrieved 2 Sep 2024. Paul Hiebert, 95, Canadian writer and humorist (Sarah Binks).Memorable Manitobans: Paul Gerhardt Hiebert (1892-1987). Manitoba Historical Society. Retrieved 2 Sep 2024. Arthur Smith, 79, Australian rules footballer.

7 Mario Beltrami, 85, Italian painter. Gordon Gollob, 75, Austrian fighter pilot during World War II, fighter ace. Harry Locke, 73, English actor.

8 Robert Sharples, 74, British musical conductor, composer and bandleader. Margaret Mary Smith, 70, South African ichthyologist.Margaret Mary Smith. Taylor and Francis Online (African Journal of Marine Science). Retrieved 21 Sep 2024. Frank Thornton, 88, English cricketer. Jiří Zavřel, 76, Czech Olympic rower (1936).

9 Sam Brody, 80, English-founding member of the Workers Film and Photo League, injuries from a fall. Norman Lethbridge Cowper, 90, Australian lawyer. Tom Davis, 76, Irish international footballer (New Brighton, Oldham Athletic, Ireland). Bill Fraser, 79, Scottish actor (When We Are Married), emphysema. Gunnar de Frumerie, 79, Swedish composer and pianist. Gerrit Jan Heijn, 56, Dutch businessman, murdered after abduction.Murderer of Gerrit Jan Heijne dies. Dutch News. Retrieved 3 Sep 2024. Vratislav Mazák, 50, Czech biologist specialising in paleoanthropology. Al Read, 78, British radio comedian, stroke. Dora Zaslavsky, 83, Russian-born American pianist.Dora Zaslavsky Koch Dead; Pianist and Teacher Was 82. New York Times. Retrieved 3 Sep 2024.

10 Wallace Allen, 66, Irish cricketer. Benjamin Howard Baker, 95, English international footballer (Corinthian), high jumper and triple jumper, dual Olympian.Benjamin Howard Baker: Goalkeeper, Olympian, Corinthian. Everton Heritage Society. Retrieved 3 Sep 2024. Werner de Spoelberch, 85, Belgian Olympic alpine skier (1936).

11 Kerstin Bernadotte, 76, Swedish journalist and magazine editor.Gravestone: Kerstin Elin Margareta Wijkmark Bernadotte 11.9.87. Retrieved 3 Sep 2024. Hugh David, 62, British actor and television director (Doctor Who). Charles Fleming, 71, New Zealand geologist and ornithologist.Charles Alexander Fleming, 9 September 1916 - 11 September 1987. Royal Society. Retrieved 3 Sep 2024. Ivylyn Girardeau, 86, American doctor and missionary. Lorne Greene, 72, Canadian actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), pneumonia.Lorne Greene, 72, 'Bonanza' Star, Dies. L.A. Times. Retrieved 3 Sep 2024. Harry Gale Nye Jr., 79, American entrepreneur and world champion sailor.Harry G. Nye, Champion Yachtsman. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 3 Sep 2024. Harry Peace, 74, Canadian Olympic wrestler (1948). William Pearson, 74, Australian cricketer. Hervey Rhodes, 92, British politician, Member of Parliament.Mr Hervey Rhodes. UK Parliament. Retrieved 3 Sep 2024. Sandilyan, 76, Indian writer. Manikuntala Sen, 75–76, member of the Communist Party of India. Nareshchandra Singh, 78, Indian ruler of Sarangarh State. Surendra, 76, Indian singer and actor. Peter Tosh, 42, Jamaican reggae singer and musician, murdered in home invasion.Gunmen Kill Peter Tosh, Reggae Star, in Jamaica. New York Times. Retrieved 3 Sep 2024. Mahadevi Varma, 80, Indian poet and writer.Mahadevi Varma. Britannica. Retrieved 3 Sep 2024. John Lloyd Waddy, 70, Australian officer in the Royal Australian Air Force and politician (New South Wales).Group Captain John Lloyd Waddy. Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 3 Sep 2024. Frank Wiziarde, 71, American actor and television personality.Whizzo, popular clown, is dead. Newspapers.com (The Manhattan Mercury). Retrieved 3 Sep 2024.

12 J. Lawton Collins, 91, American army general, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, cardiac arrest. William Dickson, 88, British Royal Naval Air Service aviator, Chief of the Defence Staff.William Forster Dickson. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 4 Sep 2024. Merv Leith, 65, Australian rules footballer. John Qualen, 87, Canadian-born American actor, heart failure.John Qualen, 87; Character Actor in Films, TV. L.A. Times. Retrieved 4 Sep 2024. Väinö Sipilä, 89, Finnish Olympic long-distance runner (1924, 1928). John J. Voll, 65, American officer in the U.S. Air Force, World War II flying ace.

13 Aníbal Gordon, Argentinian suspected of being a leader of the Triple A death squad, lung cancer.Anibal Gordon, Guilty Of Argentine Killings. New York Times. Retrieved 4 Sep 2024. John Green, 79, English cricketer. Mervyn LeRoy, 86, American film director and actor (The Wizard of Oz), heart issues.Mervyn LeRoy, 86, Dies; Director and Producer. New York Times. Retrieved 4 Sep 2024. Charlie Parks, 70, American baseball player.

14 Octave Dayen, 81, French Olympic cyclist (1928). Julien Kialunda, 47, Congolese international footballer (Anderlecht, Zaire), AIDS.Kialunda, Julien. National Football Teams. Retrieved 4 Sep 2024. Erik Lundberg, 80, Swedish economist. Stormont Mancroft, 73, British politician, member of the House of Lords. Arthur W. Vanaman, 95, American general in the U.S. Air Corps and Air Force.Gravestone: MG Arthur William Vanaman 14.9.87. Retrieved 4 Sep 2024. Henry Wrigley, 95, Australian Air Vice Marshal in the Royal Australian Air Force.Air Vice Marshal Henry Neilson Wrigley. Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 4 Sep 2024.

15 David Akui, 67, American soldier, captured first Japanese prisoner of war in World War II. Wilhelm Berlin, 98, Nazi German general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient. Yevgeniya Bogdanovskaya, 69, Soviet Olympic diver (1952). Leon Hirszman, 49, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (They Don't Wear Black Tie), AIDS. Harry Holcombe, 80, American actor and radio director (Bonanza).H. Holcombe; Radio, Stage, Movie Actor. L.A. Times. Retrieved 4 Sep 2024. David Janes, 43, English cricketer. Moazzam Jah, 79, Indian royal, son of the last Nizam of Hyderabad.Prince Moazzam Jah and his nocturnal court. The Hindu. Retrieved 4 Sep 2024. Jimmy Johnson, 68, American baseball player. Harry Malcolm, 81, American NFL player. Nilo Menéndez, 84, Cuban-born American songwriter ("Aquellos Ojos Verdes").Nilo Menendez, Composer of 'Green Eyes,' Dies at 84. L.A. Times. Retrieved 4 Sep 2024. George Edward Pendray, 86, American author, founder of the American Interplanetary Society.G. E. Pendray, 86, Rocket Proponent. New York Times. Retrieved 4 Sep 2024. Joe Reisman, 62, American musician, bandleader and record producer, heart attack.Joe Reisman; Produced Hits for Page, Como. L.A. Times. Retrieved 4 Sep 2024.

16 Nils Björklöf, 66, Finnish Olympic spirit canoeist (1948). William Richard Joseph Cook, 82, British mathematician, leader in development of hydrogen bomb, stroke.William Richard Joseph Cook, 10 April 1905 - 16 September 1987. Royal Society. Retrieved 4 Sep 2024. Simon Gipps-Kent, 28, English theatre and film actor, morphine poisoning. Howard Moss, 65, American poet and dramatist, heart attack.