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

• Patesko, 78, Brazilian footballer
• Dino Bovoli, 74, Italian football manager
• Cees Groot, 56, Dutch footballer
• John Holmes, 44, American pornographic actor
• Xavier Saint-Macary, 40, actor French
• Steno, 70, Italian film director

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

• Gerald Abraham, 84, English musicologist
• Karl Maria Demelhuber, 92, German general
• Joan Field, 73, American violinist
• Anna Miserocchi, 63, Italian actress

19

• Reyner Banham, 66, British art critic
• Sabino Barinaga, 66, Spanish football player and manager
• Bun Cook, 83, Canadian ice hockey player

20

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

21

• Marie Burke, 94, British actress
• Edd Roush, 95, American baseball player
• Charley Shipp, 75, American basketball player
• Patrick Steptoe, 75, English gynaecologist

22

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

23

• Dayton Lummis, 85, American actor

25

• Robert Joffrey, 58, American dancer

27

• Jole Fierro, 62, Italian actress
• Renato Salvatori, 54, Italian actor
• Pierre Virion, 99, French journalist
• Charles Willeford, 69, American writer, poet, and art critic

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 – Doris Pawn, American actress (b.1894))
• March 30 – Luis Ravaschino, Argentine footballer (b.1903))
• March 30 – Arnie Zane, American dancer (b. 1948))

31

• William McMahon, 80, Australian politician

References