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, 81, American actor
• Tommy Breen, 76, Irish footballer
• Tommy Potter, 69, American double bass player

2

• John Clellon Holmes, 61, American poet
• Kate Mahaut, 79, Danish fencer
• Harry Lundahl, 82, Swedish football player and manager

3

• Henryk Szeryng, 69, Polish violinist
• Lois Wilson, 93, American actress
• Sewall Wright, 98, American geneticist

4

• Anna Maestri, 64, Italian actress

5

• János Németh, 62, Hungarian water polo player

6

• Jeanne Aubert, 87, French actress
• Dick Ricketts, 55, American basketball player

7

• Guido Celano, 83, Italian actor
• Divine, 42, American actor
• Robert Livingston, 84, American actor
• Olof Stahre, 78, Swedish knight

8

• Gordon Carpenter, 68, American basketball player and coach
• Lala Abdul Rashid, 66, Pakistani field hockey player

9

• Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 84, German politician
• Poondi Kumaraswamy, 58, Indian engineer (b.1930))

10

• Glenn Cunningham, 79, American middle-distance runner
• Andy Gibb, 30, British singer
• Svetislav Glišović, 75, Yugoslav football manager
• Nikolai Karakulov, 70, Soviet sprinter
• Phạm Hùng, 76, Vietnamese politician
• Joey Sternaman, 88, American football player

11

• Christianna Brand, 81, British writer
• Abdullahi Issa Mohamud, 66, Somali politician
• Máirtín Ó Direáin, 78, Irish poet

12

• Alessandro Bausani, 67, Italian Islamist
• Romare Bearden, 77, American writer
• Marcello Del Bello, 67, Italian tennis player
• Angiola Minella, 68, Italian partisan
• Gianna Pederzini, 88, Italian mezzo-soprano
• Billie Rhodes, 94, American actress
• Bernard Rudofsky, 83, Austrian architect
• Karen Steele, 57, American actress

13

• March 13 – Patesko, Brazilian footballer (b.1910))
• March 13 – Dino Bovoli, Italian football manager (b.1914))
• March 13 – Cees Groot, Dutch footballer (b.1932))
• March 13 – John Holmes, American pornographic actor (b. 1944))
• March 13 – Xavier Saint-Macary, actor French (b.1948))
• March 13 – Steno, Italian film director (b. 1917))

14

• Willi Apel, 95, German musicologist
• Rudolf Gramlich, 80, German football manager
• Ru den Hamer, 71, Dutch water polo player

15

• Dannie Richmond, 57, American drummer

16

• Dorothy Adams, 88, American actress
• Erich Probst, 61, Austrian footballer

17

• Gösta Alexandersson, 79, Swedish actor
• Bruce Clarke, 87, U.S. general
• Franz-Otto Krüger, 71, German actor, director and screenwriter

18

• March 18 – Gerald Abraham, English musicologist (b. 1904))
• March 18 – Karl Maria Demelhuber, German general (b. 1896))
• March 18 – Joan Field, American violinist (b. 1915))
• March 18 – Anna Miserocchi, Italian actress (b.1925))

19

• March 19 – Reyner Banham, British art critic (b. 1922))
• March 19 – Sabino Barinaga, Spanish football player and manager (b.1922))
• March 19 – Bun Cook, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904))

20

• Gil Evans, 76, Canadian pianist
• Greer Skousen, 71, Mexican basketball player

21

• March 21 – Marie Burke, British actress (b.1894))
• March 21 – Edd Roush, American baseball player (b. 1893))
• March 21 – Charley Shipp, American basketball player (b. 1913))
• March 21 – Patrick Steptoe, English gynaecologist (b.1913))

22

• Lester Rawlins, 64, American actor
• André Saeys, 77, Belgian footballer

23

• Dayton Lummis, 85, American actor

25

• March 25 – Apel·les Fenosa, Spanish sculptor (b.1899))
• March 25 – Robert Joffrey, American dancer (b. 1930))
• March 25 – Leonid Pavlovich Maximychev, Soviet film director (b.1927))
• March 25 – Emilio Radius, Italian journalist (b. 1904))

27

• March 27 – Damaso of Celle Ligure, Italian priest (b. 1907))
• March 27 – Jole Fierro, Italian actress (b.1926))
• March 27 – Adolfo Geri, Italian actor (b.1912))
• March 27 – Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b.1934))
• March 27 – Pierre Virion, French journalist (b.1899))
• March 27 – Charles Willeford, American writer, poet, and art critic (b. 1919))

28

• Frans Peeraer, 75, Belgian footballer

29

• Jacques Santi, 59, France actor
• Dulcie September, 53, South African activist

30

• March 30 – Nicola Alexandrovich Benois, Russian set designer (b. 1901))
• March 30 – Edgar Faure, French writer (b. 1908))
• March 30 – Fritz Helmut Landshoff, German publisher (b.1901))
• March 30 – Doris Pawn, American actress (b.1894))
• March 30 – Luis Ravaschino, Argentine footballer (b.1903))
• March 30 – Francesco Rodolico, Italian mineralogist (b. 1905))
• March 30 – Arnie Zane, American dancer (b. 1948))

31

• William McMahon, 80, Australian politician

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