Deaths Date 1988 January | History by KabAstro

Gaston Eyskens (1905-1988)

Jan 3 Prime Minister of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72), dies at 82

Jan 3 Joie Chitwood, American racedriver & Daredevil (b. 1912)
Jan 3 Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
Jan 3 William Cagney, American producer and actor (Torrid Zone), brother of James Cagney, dies of a heart attack at 82
Jan 4 Lily Laskine, French harpist, dies at 94
Jan 4 Predrag Milošević, Serbian pianist, conductor, composer (Simfonijeta), and pedagogue, dies at 83

Pete Maravich (1947-1988)

Jan 5 American Basketball HOF guard (5 × NBA All-Star; All-NBA First Team 1976, 77; NBA scoring champion 1977 NO/Utah Jazz; Atlanta Hawks), dies of heart failure at 40

Jan 6 Brent Collins, soap actor (Another World), dies of a heart attack at 46
Jan 7 Michel Auclair [Vladimir Vujović], German actor (Funny Face, Day of the Jackal), dies at 65

Trevor Howard (1913-1988)

Jan 7 English actor in over 70 films (Brief Encounter, Superman, The Third Man), dies of bronchitis at 71

Jan 8 Frank Pace Jr, US Secretary of Army (1950-53), dies at 76
Jan 11 Florence Knapp, American, one-time oldest person in the world (b. 1873)
Jan 11 Isidor Isaac Rabi, American nuclear physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, dies at 89

Pappy Boyington (1912-1988)

Jan 11 American combat pilot and US Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II, dies of cancer at 75

Jan 12 Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925)
Jan 12 Willem Hendrik van de Pol, Dutch theologist (Christian Dilemma), dies at 90
Jan 13 Chiang Ching-huo, Chinese politician (son of Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek, President of Taiwan 1978-88), dies at 69

Georgy Malenkov (1902-1988)

Jan 14 Soviet leader who was briefly leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death (1953-55), dies in obscurity at 86

Seán MacBride (1904-1988)

Jan 15 Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army and founder of Amnesty International (Nobel 1974), dies at 83

Jan 16 Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal (b. 1899)
Jan 16 Ballard Berkeley [Blascheck], British actor (Fawlty Towers, East meets West, The BFG), dies at 83
Jan 20 Dora Stratou, Greek choreographer and folklorist (b. 1903)
Jan 20 Philippe de Rothschild, French race-car driver and manager (Bordeaux Vineyard), dies at 86
Jan 21 Abraham Sofaer, Burmese born British actor (Naked Jungle, Elephant Walk), dies at 91
Jan 22 Parker Fennelly, actor (Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm), dies at 96
Jan 23 Charles Glen King, American biochemist and pioneer of nutrition research who isolated vitamin C, dies at 91
Jan 23 Dan Daniel, American politician (Rep-D-VA, 1969-88), dies at 73
Jan 24 Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (b. 1905)
Jan 25 Colleen Moore, American silent screen actress (These Girls Won't Talk), dies at 87
Jan 27 Edward Pawley, American actor (Angels with Dirty Faces), dies t 86
Jan 27 Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian author (Le lieutenant de Kouta), historian, and playwright, dies at 49

Klaus Fuchs (1911-1988)

Jan 28 German-British atomic physicist and spy for the Soviet Union, dies at 76

Jan 29 Bantcho Bantchevsky, Bulgarian-American singer, commits suicide during a performance of at the Metropolitan Opera at 81
Jan 29 James R. Killian Jr., 10th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1948-59), dies at 83
Jan 29 Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch composer and conductor, dies at 46
Jan 30 Corry [Cornelia Diderika] Vonk, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 85