Deaths in March 1988

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.[1]
  • Tommy Breen, 75, Irish international footballer (Manchester United, Ireland).
  • Ernest Cuneo, 82, American lawyer and newspaperman (McClure Newspaper Syndicate, The Saturday Evening Post).[2]
  • Sohan Lal Dwivedi, 82, Indian poet.
  • Yoshi Katō, 75, Japanese stage and film actor.
  • Luis Márquez, 62, Puerto Rican Major League baseballer, murdered.
  • Tommy Potter, 69, American jazz double bassist.
  • Jean Le Poulain, 63, French stage actor and director.[3]

2

  • Chuck Arnett, 60, American artist and dancer, AIDS.[4]
  • Raymond Hewitt, 47, American civil rights activist, leader of the Black Panther Party, heart attack.[5]
  • Harry Lundahl, 82, Swedish international footballer and manager.
  • Thomas Vezzetti, 59–60, American politician, mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, heart attack.[6]

3

  • Harold Langley, 84, British triple jumper and Olympian.
  • Henryk Szeryng, 69, Polish-Mexican violinist, cerebral hemorrhage.[7]
  • Lois Wilson, 93, American silent-screen actress, pneumonia.[8]
  • Sewall Wright, 98, American geneticist.

4

5

6

  • Jeanne Aubert, 88, French singer and actress.[15]
  • Mairéad Farrell, 31, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.[16]
  • Joan Hassall, 82, English wood engraver and book illustrator.[17]
  • Daniel McCann, 30, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.
  • Dick Ricketts, 54, American Major League baseballer and NBA basketballer, leukemia.
  • Seán Savage, 23, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.

7

8

9

10

  • Glenn Cunningham, 78, American middle-distance runner and Olympic medalist.[30]
  • Andy Gibb, 30, English singer and songwriter (I Just Want to Be Your Everything, Shadow Dancing), myocarditis.[31]
  • Svetislav Glišović, 74, Yugoslavian international footballer and manager (BSK Beograd, Yugoslavia).[32]
  • Abdul Khaliq, 54, Pakistani sprinter and Olympian, "The Flying Bird of Asia".[33]
  • Hugh Lindsay, 34, English equerry to Queen Elizabeth II, killed in an avalanche.[34]
  • Phạm Hùng, 75, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.[35]
  • Jock Semple, 84, Scottish-American runner and sports official, cancer of the liver and pancreas.
  • Joey Sternaman, 88, American NFL footballer.
  • William Wordsworth, 79, English composer.

11

12

13

  • Olive Carey, 92, American film and television actress.[41]
  • Yngve Ekström, 74, Swedish furniture designer
  • John Holmes, 43, American pornographic film actor, cardio-respiratory arrest.[42]
  • Patesko, 77, Brazilian international footballer.
  • Vladimir Sakson, 60, Soviet painter, book illustrator and stage designer.
  • Steno, 71, Italian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.

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20

21

22

23

24

25

  • James J. Howard, 60, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.[80]
  • Robert Joffrey, 57, American dancer and choreographer, co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, organ failure.[81]
  • Thomas William Lyons, 64, American Roman Catholic bishop, hepatitis from transfusion.
  • Al Schwartz, 77, American screenwriter, television producer and director, brother of Sherwood Schwartz.

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31

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