The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1987

1

• Kurt Lamm, 68, German-American soccer player, coach, and manager^[1]
• Jerry Livingston, 78, American songwriter and dance orchestra pianist.^[2]
• Bridget Sequeira, 81, Pakistani-Indian religious sister.
• Snakefinger, 38, English musician, singer and songwriter, heart attack.
• Soetran, 66, Indonesian military officer and politician, Governor of Irian Jaya, liver cancer.

2

• Michael Bennett, 44, American musical theatre director, writer, choreographer and dancer, AIDS-related lymphoma.
• Václav Černý, 82, Czechoslovakian literary scholar, writer and philosopher.
• Denis Larkin, 79, Irish politician and trade union official.
• Karl Linnas, 67, Estonian sentenced to death during the Holocaust trials.
• George S. Wise, 81, American sociologist, president of Tel Aviv University, heart failure.^[3]

3

• Viola Dana, 90, American silent-screen actress.
• John H. Mercer, 64, British glaciologist.
• William Wiard, 59, American film and television director, cancer.

4

• Edward Addison, 88, British Royal Air Force air vice marshal.
• Alexander Gordon-Lennox, 76, British Royal Navy rear admiral, president of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
• Abdul Halim, 75, Indonesian politician, Prime Minister of Indonesia.
• Sally Hamlin, 84, American child actor, pianist and recording artist.
• Dan James, 49, American NFL footballer.
• Bengt Strömgren, 79, Danish astronomer and astrophysicist.

5

• Bobby Ancell, 76, Scottish international footballer and manager.
• Alan Gibson, 49, Canadian film and television director.

6

• László Pusztai, 41, Hungarian international footballer, car accident.

7

• Finis Jennings Dake, 84, American Pentecostal minister, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Michael J. Eagen, 80. American chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
• René Gérard, 73, French international footballer.
• H. R. Jothipala, 51, Sri Lankan playback singer, liver failure.
• Ernest Achey Loftus, 103, British soldier, teacher and diarist.
• John Meredith Rockingham, 75, Australian-Major General in the Canadian Army.
• Hannelore Schroth, 65, German film, stage and television actress.
• John Singer, 63, English actor.
• Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, 84, Dutch-classical pianist.

8

• Gerardo Diego, 90, Spanish poet.
• Alvin O'Konski, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee, 87, Thai aviator, Royal Thai Air Force officer, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand.
• Franjo Wölfl, 69, Yugoslavian international footballer.

9

• Michiyo Fukaya, 34, American feminist poet and activist, suicide.
• Ashley Kriel, 20, South African anti-apartheid activist, killed by police.
• Waris Mir, 48, Pakistani journalist, writer and academic, cardiac arrest.
• Hezekiah Ochuka, 33, Kenyan Private in the Kenyan Air Force, Kenyan leader for 6 hours, hanged.
• Paul Rapoport, 47, American lawyer, AIDS.
• Ulas Samchuk, 82, Ukrainian writer, publicist, journalist, and anti-semite.
• Ernest Ward, 66, English rugby league footballer.

10

• Doug Dobell, 69, British record store proprietor and record producer, ran Dobell's Record Shop, heart attack.
• John Hammond, 76, American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic, strokes.^[4]
• Harold Rice, 75, American educator and magician.
• Tanya Zolotoroff Nash, 89, Russian-American Deaf Rights activist.

11

• Hannah Billig, 85, British medical doctor.
• Marion Brooks, 91, American silent-screen actress, entertainment journalist and screenwriter.
• Cyril McLaglen, 87, British and American film actor.
• Truman J. Nelson, 75–76, American writer of historical novels and essays and a civil rights activist, heart failure.^[5]
• Fernando Garcia Ponce, 53, Mexican architect and abstract artist, heart attack.
• Avi Ran, 23, Israeli international footballer, hit by racing boat.
• Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, 87, Russian-American Talmudic scholar and rabbi.
• Robert Love Taylor, 87, American district judge.
• Tom Waddell, 49, American physician, decathlete Olympian and founder of the Gay Olympics, AIDS.

12

• Peter Gimbel, 60, American filmmaker and underwater photojournalist, cancer.^[6]
• Harold Goodwin, 84, American actor.
• Emilio el Moro, 63, Spanish Flamenco singer, guitarist and humorist.
• Nathan Perlmutter, 63–64, American executive director of the Anti-Defamation League.^[7]
• Marguerite Renoir, 80, French film editor.
• Andrei Snezhnevsky, 83, Soviet psychiatrist, lung cancer.

13

• Patience Collier, 76, British actress.
• Robert Francis, 85, American poet.
• Silas Jayne, 80, American horse trainer and murderer, leukemia.
• Eric Worrell, 62, Australian naturalist and science writer.

14

• Salvador E. Felices, 63, Puerto Rican major general in the U.S. Air Force.
• Fritz Holt, 46, American theatre producer and director, pneumonia.
• William Overton, 47, United States district judge, cancer.^[8]
• Sao Saimong, 73, Burmese government minister.
• William Stuart-Houston, 76, English-American half-nephew of Adolf Hitler.
• Pak Yung-sun, 30, North Korean table tennis player, world champion.
• Viktor Zhdanov, 73, Soviet virologist and epidemiologist.

15

• Lee Ballanfant, 91, American Major Leagues baseball umpire.
• J. Rives Childs, 94, American diplomat and writer, U.S. ambassador, cardiac pulmonary infection.^[9]
• Polly Elwes, 59, British BBC Television in-vision announcer and reporter, bone cancer.
• Lee Gaines, 73, American jazz singer and lyricist, cancer.^[10]
• Fernando Van Zeller Guedes, 84, Portuguese wine producer.
• Pete King, 28, British musician, testicular cancer.
• Jack O'Hagan, 88, Australian singer, songwriter and radio personality.
• Margarete Schlegel, 87, German and British theatre and film actress and soprano operetta singer.

16

• Harry Ayres, 74, New Zealand mountaineer and guide, drowned in suspected suicide.
• Alfie Bass, 71, English actor, heart attack.
• Pierre Lardinois, 62, Dutch politician and diplomat.^[11]
• Juraj Lupták, 45, Czechoslovakian rapist and serial killer, hanged.
• Rudolph Palumbo, 86, British property developer.
• Tony Tani, 69, Japanese entertainer, liver cancer.
• Cliff Wilton, 71, Scottish rugby union player, president of the Scottish Rugby Union.

17

• Marjorie Cottle, 86, English motorcycle trials rider.
• Dominick V. Daniels, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Jörg Fauser, 43, German writer, poet and journalist.
• Yūjirō Ishihara, 52, Japanese actor and singer, liver cancer.
• Howard McGhee, 69, American bebop jazz trumpeter.
• Mathura Prasad Mishra, 69, Indian politician, member of the lower house of the Parliament of India.
• Kristjan Palusalu, 79, Estonian heavyweight wrestler and dual Olympic gold medalist.
• Leon B. Poullada, 74, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Togo, prostate cancer.^[12]

18

• Anthony Casamento, 66, American marine corporal, Medal of Honor recipient.^[13]
• George Dahl, 93, American architect, dehydration.
• Gilberto Freyre, 87, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman.^[14]
• Alfredo Ruano, 54, El Salvadoran international footballer, heart attack.

19

• Clementina de Jesus, 86, Brazilian samba singer, stroke.
• Jane Kendeigh, 65, American flight nurse of the U.S. Navy.
• Aadhavan Sundaram, 45, Indian writer, drowned.
• Brij Lal Varma, 70–71, Indian politician, cabinet minister.

20

• Ichirō Arishima, 71, Japanese comedian and actor.
• Norbert Casteret, 89, French caver, adventurer and writer.
• Richard Egan, 65, American actor, prostate cancer.^[15]
• Margit Johnsen, 74, Norwegian sailor in the merchant navy.
• Dmitry Lelyushenko, 85, Soviet army general.
• Alexander Wood, 80, Scottish American international footballer.

21

• John Armstrong, 71, Irish Anglican bishop, Archbishop of Armagh.
• Donald Cressey, 68, American penologist, sociologist and criminologist.
• Louis DaPron, 74, American dancer, choreographer and dance instructor.
• Bert Keyes, 56, American pianist, songwriter, singer and arranger.
• Stella Steyn, 79, Irish artist.
• Burke Trend, 73, British civil servant, rector of Lincoln College.

22

• Adele Comandini, 89, American screenwriter, nominated for Academy Award for Best Story for Three Smart Girls.
• Fahrettin Kerim Gökay, 87, Turkish politician and diplomat, Turkish Ambassador to Switzerland.
• Eugene Halliday, 75, British artist and writer.
• Natalie Hinderas, 60, American pianist and composer, cancer.^[16]
• Mary Cover Jones, 89, American developmental psychologist and pioneer of behaviour therapy.
• Jack Lescoulie, 74, American radio and television announcer and host.^[17]
• C. B. Macpherson, 75, Canadian political scientist.
• Don McMahon, 57, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.
• Nick Perls, 55, American audio engineer and the founder and owner of Yazoo Records.
• Raja Shankar, 55, Indian actor.
• A. G. Kripal Singh, 53, Indian Test cricketer and national selector, cardiac arrest.
• Henry Tayali, 43, Zambian painter, sculptor and printmaker.

23

• DeVeren Bookwalter, 47, American actor and director, stomach cancer.
• Song Deok-gi, 94, Korean martial artist.
• Art Jarrett, 80, American singer, actor and bandleader.
• Manuel Suárez y Suárez, 91, Spanish-Mexican entrepreneur and patron of the arts.

24

• Anna-Eva Bergman, 78, Norwegian abstract expressionist artist.
• Franz Burri, 85, Swiss political figure, disseminator of Nazi propaganda.
• Pat Clancy, 68, Australian trade unionist, heart attack.
• Dick Wellstood, 59, American jazz pianist, heart attack.^[18]

25

• Malcolm Baldrige Jr., 64, American businessman, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, internal injuries from rodeo accident.^[19]
• Charles Stark Draper, 85, American scientist and engineer, \"father of inertial navigation\".^[20]
• Lydie Marland, 87, American first lady of Oklahoma.
• Tracy Read, 25, American race car driver, race crash.
• Alex Sadkin, 38, American record producer, engineer, mixer and mastering engineer, motor accident.

26

• Jim Bishop, 79, American journalist and author, respiratory failure.^[21]
• Chinmoy Chattopadhyay, 56, Indian singer.
• Phyllis Cilento, 93, Australian medical practitioner, medical journalist and advocate of family planning.
• Frank Marshall Davis, 81, American journalist, poet, political activist and businessman.
• Tawfiq al-Hakim, 88, Egyptian writer.
• Joe Liggins, 71, American R&B, jazz and blues pianist and vocalist, stroke.
• Carmelita Maracci, 79. American concert dancer and choreographer, heart attack.^[22]
• Kenneth Muse, 77, American animator best known for the Tom and Jerry series.
• Mario Radice, 88, Italian painter
• Hugh Wheeler, 75, British-American novelist, screenwriter, librettist and poet.^[23]

27

• Travis Jackson, 83, American Major league baseballer, Alzheimer's disease.^[24]
• Jan Mikusiński, 74, Polish mathematician.
• K. L. N. Prasad, 59, Indian politician, member of Parliament.

28

• James Burnham, 81, American philosopher and political theorist, kidney and liver cancer.^[25]
• Feodor Fedorenko, 79, Soviet Nazi collaborator and war criminal, executed.
• Carlton Fredericks, 76, American radio commentator and writer on health and nutrition, heart attack.^[26]
• Jack Renshaw, 77, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales.
• Ismet Alajbegović Šerbo, 62, Bosnian accordionist, composer and writer of folk songs.
• Nguyễn Tuân, 77, Vietnamese author.
• Philip E. Vernon, 82, British-Canadian psychologist and author.
• Levie Vorst, 83, Dutch rabbi of Rotterdam.

29

• Arthur J. Bressan Jr., 44, American director, writer, producer and documentarian, AIDS.
• Arthur Chipperfield, 81, Australian test cricketer.
• Aleksey Sukletin, 44, Soviet serial killer, rapist and cannibal, executed.

30

• Vicky Clement-Jones, 38, Hong Kong-English physician and medical researcher, ovarian cancer.
• Lado Davidov, 62, Soviet soldier during the Second World War and Hero of the Soviet Union.
• McDonald Hobley, 70, British BBC Television continuity announcer, heart attack.
• Bernard Sta Maria, 42–43, Malaysian politician, community leader and author, bronchitis.
• Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, 92, Indian author.
• Narciso Soldan, 59, Italian footballer.
• Michel Tapié, 78, French art critic, curator, and collector.

31

• Kenneth Carllile, 56, American country music guitarist and songwriter, heart attack.
• Joseph E. Levine, 81, American film distributor, financier and producer.^[27]
• Justine W. Polier, 84, American lawyer, the first woman Justice in New York.
• Michael Staniforth, 44, British stage actor, AIDS.
• Paul Yakabuski, 64, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Unknown date

• Sari Maritza, 77, British film actress.
• Joe Mondragon, 67, American jazz bassist.
• Hugh Perceval, 79, British screenwriter and film producer.