Deaths in October 1988

1

• Lucien Ballard, 80, American cinematographer.^[1]
• Sacheverell Sitwell, 90, English writer.^[2]
• Pavle Vuisić, 62, Yugoslav actor.

2

• Hamengkubuwono IX, 76, Indonesian politician and Javanese Royal, Vice President of Indonesia, internal bleeding.^[3]
• Peter Hunt, 72, head of the British Army, Chief of the General Staff.
• Alec Issigonis, 81, Ottoman-British automotive designer.^[4]

3

• Marco Galli, 31, Italian water polo player and Olympian.
• Franz Josef Strauss, 73, German politician.^[5]

4

• Geoffrey Household, 87, British novelist specialising in thrillers.^[6]
• Abdul Majid Kabar, 79, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya.
• Margaret Lacey, 76, British actress and ballet teacher.

5

• Curt Hjelm, 74, Swedish international footballer.
• Ron Staniforth, 64, English international footballer.
• Lois W., (Lois Wilson), 97, American co-founder of Al-Anon for alcoholics.

6

• Paul Ledoux, 74, Belgian astrophysicist.
• Don Terry, 86, American film actor.

7

• Otto Arnholz, 94, German politician, member of the German Bundestag.
• Sándor Bíró, 77, Hungarian international footballer.
• Billy Daniels, 73, American singer, stomach cancer.^[7]
• Kurt Honolka, 75, German musicologist, journalist, and music and theatre critic.
• Chet Phillips, 74, American gymnast and Olympian.

8

• Edward George Warris Hulton, 81, British magazine publisher and writer.
• Wally Lemm, 68, American NFL football coach.
• Ernst Hermann Meyer, 82, German composer and musicologist.
• Sam Richardson, 70, Canadian long jumper and triple jumper, Olympic gold medalist.
• Pál Titkos, 80, Hungarian international footballer.

9

• Edward Chodorov, 84, American playwright, film writer and producer.^[8]
• Cliff Gallup, 58, American guitarist, heart attack.
• Jackie Milburn, 64, English international footballer.
• Felix Wankel, 86, German mechanical engineer, Hitler Youth leader, inventor of the Wankel rotary engine^[9]

10

• Bhabani Bhattacharya, 81, Indian writer.
• Juan Pujol García, ('Garbo', 'Alaric'), 76, Spanish spy and double agent.^{[citation needed]}
• Montgomery Tully, 84, Irish film director and writer.

11

• Buck Clarke, 55, American jazz percussionist.
• Thaddeus J. Dulski, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, leukemia.
• Morgan Farley, 90, American film and television actor.
• Wayland Flowers, 48, American actor, comedian and puppeteer, complications from AIDS.^[10]
• Bonita Granville, 65, American actress and producer, lung cancer.^[11]
• Robert Edward Gross, 83, American surgeon and a medical researcher.^[12]
• Ursula Nordstrom, 78, American publisher and editor, ovarian cancer.^[13]
• Joel Oppenheimer, 58, American poet, lung cancer.^[14]
• Red Owens, 63, American NBA basketballer.
• Hugh Percy, 74, British soldier and peer, heart attack.

12

• Ruth Manning-Sanders, 102, Welsh-English poet and author.
• Ken Murray, 85, American comedian, actor, radio and television personality and author.^[15]
• Bill Newman, 60, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
• Rafael García Serrano, 71, Spanish writer and journalist.
• Coby Whitmore, 75, American painter and magazine illustrator.

13

• Norman Barry, 90, American judge, politician and football coach, heart attack.
• Melvin Frank, 75, American screenwriter, film producer and film director, complications from open heart surgery.^[16]
• Irene Hunt, 96, American silent-screen actress.
• Mike Venezia, 43, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey, horse racing accident.

14

• Charles Augustus, 76, German prince, head of the house of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
• Qian Changzhao, 88, Chinese politician.^[17]
• Harry Creswick, 85–86, British librarian, head of the university libraries at Oxford and Cambridge.
• Mary Morris, 72, Fijian-British actress, heart failure.
• Vic Raschi, 69, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.^[18]
• René Vietto, 74, French road racing cyclist.
• John White, 53, American AFL footballer.

15

• John Ball, 77, American mystery novel writer.
• Victor Copps, 69, Canadian politician, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.
• James Craig, 46, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, shot.
• Clifford Krueger, 70, American politician, Member of the Wisconsin Senate, hepatitis.
• Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, 96, English composer, music critic, pianist and writer.
• Julian Alfred Steyermark, 79, Venezuelan-American botanist.

16

• Queen Farida of Egypt, 67, consort of King Farouk of Egypt, leukemia.^[19]
• Abdulrahman Fawzi, 78, Egyptian international footballer and manager.
• Muzafer Sherif, 82, Ottoman-American social psychologist.^[20]

17

• William Henry Bramble, 87, British union leader and Chief Minister of Montserrat.
• Richard L. Frey, 83, American contract bridge player, writer, editor and commentator, cancer.^[21]
• Anthony A. Hoekema, 74–75, Dutch-American Calvinist minister.

18

• Paulius Galaunė, 98, Lithuanian art historian, museum curator and graphic artist.

19

• Son House, 86, American singer and guitarist, cancer of the larynx.^[22]
• Marcos de Mendonça, 93, Brazilian international footballer.
• Sten Suvio, 76, Finnish boxer and Olympic gold medal winner.

20

• Mark Evans Austad, 71, American radio and television commentator, U.S. Ambassador to Finland and Norway.
• Vladimir Gorb, 84, Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist and art teacher.
• Orval Leroy Lewis, 72, American mechanical and chemical engineer, president of American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
• Nino Nutrizio, 77, Italian journalist.
• Sheila Scott, 66, English aviator, cancer.^[23]
• Mogens Wöldike, 91, Danish conductor, choirmaster and organist.

21

• Reggie Otero, 73, Cuban Major League baseballer, heart attack.

22

• Henry Armstrong, 75, American boxer, multiple world champion.^[24]
• Plácido Galindo, 82, Peruvian international footballer.
• Clare Stevenson, 85, Australian director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.

23

• Hap Emms, 83, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, team owner and general manager, heart failure.
• Asashio Tarō III, 58, Japanese sumo wrestler, stroke.

24

• Stanisław Hachorek, 61, Polish footballer and coach.

25

• Bob Carey, 58, American NFL footballer.
• Boobie Clark, 38, American NFL footballer, blood clot in lung.
• Eric Larson, 83, American animator for Walt Disney Studios.^[25]
• John Poole-Hughes, 72, Welsh bishop.
• Milton Rokeach, 69, Polish-American social psychologist.

26

• Tatapuram Sukumaran, 65, Malayalam writer.

27

• Frank Devlin, 88, Irish badminton player.
• Merv Everett, 71, Australian politician and judge, Federal Senator.
• Charles Hawtrey, 73, English actor, comedian, singer, pianist and theatre director, peripheral vascular disease.
• Rudolf Jordan, 86, German Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt for the Nazis.
• Erika von Thellmann, 86, Austrian film and television actress.

28

• Pietro Annigoni, 78, Italian artist, kidney failure.
• John Backus, 77, Lithuanian-American physicist and acoustician.
• Teikō Shiotani, 89, Japanese photographer.

29

• Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, 85, Indian social reformer and freedom activist.
• Andy Cohen, 84, American MLB baseballer.
• Joe Comfort, 71, American jazz double bassist.
• Thomas Cooray, 86, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal^[26]
• Dom Dallessandro, 74, American MLB baseballer.
• Nataša Gollová, 76, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian actress^[27]
• Mary Kid, 87, German actress.
• Bill Mason, 58–59, Canadian naturalist, author, artist, filmmaker and conservationist, cancer.
• Orlando Montenegro Medrano, 68, Nicaraguan politician and attorney, acting President of Nicaragua.
• Ross Rocklynne, 75, American science fiction author.

30

• Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, 88, German film actor.
• T. Hee, 77, American animator and director.
• John Myers Myers, 82, American writer.
• Florence Nagle, 94, British breeder of racehorses and pedigree dogs, horse trainer and feminist.
• Francisco Rodrigues, 63, Brazilian international footballer.
• Liz Whitney Tippett, 82, American socialite and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses, cancer.

31

• Ladislau da Guia, 82, Brazilian footballer.
• John Houseman, 86, Romanian-British-American actor and producer, spinal cancer.^[28]
• Ken Niles, 81, American radio announcer.^[29]
• Alfred Pellan, 82, Canadian painter, leukemia.
• George Uhlenbeck, 87, Dutch-American theoretical physicist.

Unknown date

• Mavis Freeman, 69, American swimmer and Olympic medalist.
• Ron Gingell, 67–68, English footballer.
• Harry Lowe, 81, Scottish-footballer in England.
• Frederick Roffey, 93, English rugby union and rugby league footballer.