The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September

1

• Luis Walter Alvarez, 77, American physicist
• Hugh Hunt, 86, American production designer
• Leonor Sullivan, 86, American politician

2

• Gabriele Patriarca, 72, Italian painter
• Robert Watts, 65, American artist

3

• Ferenc Sas, Hungarian footballer
• Richard Torriani, Swiss ice hockey player

4

• Dick Clark, American basketball player
• Leonard Huxley, Australian physicist

5

• Lawrence Brown, American trombonist
• Gert Fröbe, German actor
• Giuseppe Garlato, Italian politician

6

• Harold Rosson, American cinematographer
• Vojtěch Věchet, Czechoslovak footballer

7

• Pietro Conti, Italian politician
• Raymond Dubly, French footballer
• Vivi Janiss, American actress
• Thelma Payne, American diver

8

• Mandrake, Brazilian singer and percussionist

9

• Maisie Carr, Australian ecologist

10

• Ghulam Qadir Khan, Pakistani prince (b. 1920))
• Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist (b.1916))
• Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Brazilian film director (b. 1932))

11

• Vincas Bartuška, Lithuanian footballer (b.1901))
• Wilhelm Batz, German aviator (b.1916))
• Roger Hargreaves, British writer (b. 1935))
• Giuseppe Lanza, Italian writer, playwright (b. 1900))

12

• Stephen B. Grimes, American production designer (b. 1927))
• Bill Mitchell, American designer (b.1912))
• Lauris Norstad, U.S. general (b. 1907))

13

• September 13 – Gerd Hornberger, German sprinter (b. 1910))
• September 13 – Christian Kampmann, Danish writer (b. 1939))

14

• September 14 – Alberto Giacomelli, Italian magistrate (b. 1919))

15

• September 15 – Roberto Copernico, Italian football manager (b. 1904))
• September 15 – Vasily Mzhavanadze, Soviet politician (b. 1902))
• September 15 – Jean Sacha, French film editor (b.1912))

16

• September 16 – Ciccio Errigo, Italian poet (b.1904))
• September 16 – Richard Paul Lohse, Swiss painter (b.1902))
• September 16 – Gabriel Stanislaw Morvay, Polish artist (b. 1934))
• September 16 – Dick Pym, English footballer (b.1893))

17

• September 17 – Giorgio Bernardi, Italian football referee (b.1912))
• September 17 – Hilde Güden, Austrian soprano (b.1917))
• September 17 – Emment Kapengwe, Zambian footballer (b.1943))

18

• September 18 – David Dodd, American economist (b. 1895))
• September 18 – Ernestine Jones, American actress (b.1912))
• September 18 – Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Iranian poet (b. 1906))

19

• September 19 – Călin Alupi, Romanian painter (b.1906))
• September 19 – Enrico Cerulli, Italian diplomat (b. 1898))

20

• September 20 – Tim Davis, American percussionist (b. 1943))
• September 20 – Agostino Gamba, Italian football referee (b. 1904))
• September 20 – Roy Kinnear, British actor (b. 1934))
• September 20 – Tibor Sekelj, Yugoslav writer (b. 1912))

21

• September 21 – André Hurtevent, French football manager (b.1906))
• September 21 – Henry Koster, German film director (b. 1905))
• September 21 – Aurel Milloss, Hungarian dancer (b.1906))

22

• September 22 – Maximilien de Fürstenberg, Belgian cardinal (b. 1904))
• September 22 – Josif Kricheli, Georgian chess composer (b. 1931))

23

• September 23 – Roberto Cimetta, Italian actor (b.1949))

24

• September 24 – Pietro Verri, Italian general (b.1908))

25

• September 25 – Antonino Saetta, Italian magistrate (b.1922))

26

• September 26 – Bruce Haack, Canadian composer and record producer (b. 1931))
• September 26 – Giovanni Orsomando, Italian composer (b. 1895))
• September 26 – Mauro Rostagno, Italian sociologist (b. 1942))
• September 26 – Paolo Spriano, Italian historian (b. 1925))
• September 26 – Branko Zebec, Yugoslav football manager (b.1929))

27

• September 27 – Nicola Angelucci, Italian lawyer (b. 1895))
• September 27 – Giorgio Candeloro, Italian historian (b.1909))
• September 27 – Stefano Dal Lago (born 1964), Italian roller hockey player)
• September 27 – Willis Edwards, English footballer and manager (b. 1903))
• September 27 – David Nelson, Scottish football manager (b. 1918))
• September 27 – Paolo Sica, Italian architect (b.1935))

28

• September 28 – Giovanni Bontate, Italian mobster (b. 1946))
• September 28 – Marcello Conversi, Italian physicist (b. 1917))
• September 28 – Alexander Goldstein, Polish chess composer (b. 1911))
• September 28 – Ethel Grandin, American actress (b.1894))

29

• September 29 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b.1912))
• September 29 – Alberto Gattoni, Italian politician (b. 1911))
• September 29 – Raúl Landini, Argentine boxer (b. 1909))
• September 29 – Franco Momigliano, Italian anti-fascist partisan (b. 1916))
• September 29 – Saverio Turiello, Italian boxer (b. 1910))

30

• September 30 – Fernando Bassoli, Italian politician (b. 1907))
• September 30 – Vicente Beltrán Anglada, Spanish writer (b. 1915))
• September 30 – Chick Chandler, American actor (b.1905))
• September 30 – David E. Satterfield III, American politician (b. 1920))
• September 30 – Joseph Sullivan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901))
• September 30 – Trường Chinh, Vietnamese politician (b. 1907))

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