Deaths in August 1986
The following is a list of notable deaths in August 1986 .
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.
August 1986
1
Carlo Confalonieri , 93, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, dean of the College of Cardinals (since 1977).[1]
Paul Detlefsen , 86, Danish-born American commercial artist.
Sully Glasser , 63, Canadian football player.
Marion Grant , 68, American historian, heart attack.[2]
Ignatius Joseph Kasimo Hendrowahyono , 86, Indonesian politician.
James Horan , 75, Irish Roman Catholic priest.
Jeanne Humbert , 96, French writer and feminist activist.
Susan Jellicoe , 79, English photographer and writer.
Lena Kennedy , 72, English author.
Willem Klein , 73, Dutch mathematician, stabbed.
Syd Negus , 74, Australian politician.
Robert Wolfgang Schnell , 70, German writer.
José María Vidal , 51, Spanish footballer.
Karl Zimmerman , 91, Swiss sports shooter.
2
Aligholi Ardalan , 86, Iranian diplomat.
Sunil Banerjee , 66, Indian cricket umpire.
Vsevolod Bazhenov , 77, Soviet painter.
Roy Cohn , 59, American lawyer (Donald Trump ) and prosecutor (Julius and Ethel Rosenberg , Army–McCarthy hearings ), AIDS.[3]
Renato Leduc , 88, Mexican poet and journalist.
Shakti Prasad , 58, Indian actor.
3
George Agnost , 63, American attorney, cardiac arrest.
Paul de Groot , 87, Dutch politician.
Rupert de Smidt , 102, South African cricketer.
Otmar Emminger , 75, German economist, heart attack.
Brian Flynn , 57, Australian cricketer.
Thad Hutcheson , 70, American attorney.
Nord Krauskopf , 64, American racing team owner.
George Kuznets , 77, American economist.[4]
Beryl Markham , 83, British-born Kenyan aviator.[5]
Y. Eswara Reddy , 70-71, Indian politician.
Florence Reece , 86, American social activist and songwriter ("Which Side Are You On? "), heart attack.
František Šembera , 81, Czech Olympic equestrian (1960 ).
Joe Thomas , 77, American jazz saxophonist.[6]
William B. Williams , 62, American disc jockey, respiratory failure.
4
Bennie J. George , 67, American college sports coach, pneumonia.
Harry Giles , 74, Australian footballer.
Charles Haworth , 79, American Olympic runner (1928 ).
Pierre Houlès , 40, French photographer.
Hyllus Maris , 52, Australian Aboriginal rights activist, cancer.
Bob Roggy , 29, American javelin thrower, fall.[7]
Roger Rouge , 72, Swiss Olympic sailor (1964 ).
Willem Ruis , 41, Dutch television presenter, cardiac arrest.
5
John Alexander , 90, American football player.
John Anderson , 42, American racing driver, traffic collision.
Ferenc Cziráki , 72, Hungarian Olympic handball player (1936 ).
Banesh Hoffmann , 79, British-American physicist and mathematician.[8]
Lester Lautenschlaeger , 82, American football player and politician.
Emanuel Löffler , 84, Czech Olympic gymnast (1928 , 1936 ).
Katharine Krom Merritt , 100, American physician.[9]
Ernest Campbell Mossner , 78, American academic and biographer.
Himzo Polovina , 59, Yugoslav Bosnian singer and songwriter, heart attack.
George Poyser , 71, Australian politician.
Karl Streibel , 82, German concentration camp official (Trawniki concentration camp ),
6
John Binns , 72, British politician.
Alessandro Catalani , 81, Italian racing cyclist.
Maria Dunin , 87, Polish painter.
James A. Farley Jr. , 58, American sports commissioner, complications from heart surgery.
Emilio Fernández , 82, Mexican filmmaker (María Candelaria ).[10]
Val Gannon , 67, Irish footballer.
Marjorie Hall Harrison , 67, English-born American astronomer.
Timothy Y. Hewlett , 90, American architect.
Hans-Jørgen Holman , 61, Norwegian-American pianist.
Jean-Pierre Jacquillat , 51, French conductor, traffic collision.
Harry H. Johnson , 91, American general.
George J. Minty , 56, American mathematician.
Nikolai Mukho , 72, Soviet painter.
Philomé Obin , 94, Haitian painter.
Simone Plé-Caussade , 88, French composer and pianist.
Julie Tullis , 47, British mountaineer, high-altitude pulmonary edema .
Jorge Vieira , 87, Portuguese footballer.
Kim Williams , 62, American writer and naturalist, cancer.[11]
Beppe Wolgers , 57, Swedish singer and dubber, peptic ulcer disease .
Lou Zontini , 68, American football player.
7
Anne Bahlke , 83, American physician.
Ladislav Hojer , 28, Czech serial killer, execution by hanging.
Alfred Jones , 86, English cricketer.
James Mulroy , 86, Irish police officer, first recipient of the Scott Medal .
William J. Schroeder , 54, American soldier and artificial heart recipient, lung infection.
8
Paul G. Chandler , 96, American academic official and sports coach.
Yehoshua Cohen , 64, Israeli Zionist militant (Lehi ), heart attack.
Col Galbraith , 66, Australian footballer.
Lowell A. Nelson , 68, American politician.
Frederick Newton , 34-35, Dominican militant and coup leader, execution by hanging.
Bernard Pickel , 59, Canadian basketball player.
Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer , 93, American architect and women's rights activist.
9
Harold Ave , 86, American sports coach.
Angelo Congear , 101, Australian footballer.
Clarence Maddern , 64, American baseball player.
Sankar Prasad Mitra , 68, Indian politician and jurist.
Gustav Adolf Nosske , 83, German lawyer and war criminal.
Stanley Pearl , 92, Australian soldier and trench artist .
Edoardo Pecoraio , 75, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
Cyril Plant , 75, British trade unionist.
Jef Scherens , 77, Belgian track cyclist.
Ignaz Sigl , 84, Austrian footballer.
Ruth Teitelbaum , 62, American mathematician and computer programmer.
10
Arthur Capell , 84, Australian linguist.
Paraskeva Clark , 87, Russian-Canadian painter.
Vratislav Effenberger , 63, Czech writer.
Jacqueline Gadsden , 86, American actress.
K. C. George , 83, Indian politician.
Luther Carrington Goodrich , 91, American Sinologist .
Tom Greenwade , 81, American baseball scout, heart failure.[12]
Holger Guldager , 81, Danish Olympic cyclist (1924 ).
John H. Hamilton Jr. , 67, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1965–1978).
Guy H. Jones , 75, American politician and lawyer.
Don McRae , 71, New Zealand cricketer.
Dobrosława Miodowicz-Wolf , 32, Polish mountaineer, exhaustion .
Herb Mols , 71, American sports administrator.[13]
Alan Rouse , 34, British mountaineer, high-altitude pulmonary edema .
Arun Shridhar Vaidya , 60, Indian general, shot.
11
Karl Duldig , 83, Polish-born Australian sculptor.
Bud Edwards , 78, American football player.
Tom Gorman , 67, American baseball player and umpire, heart attack.
Peter Mahon , 62, New Zealand jurist, heart failure.
Chuck McKinley , 45, American tennis player, brain cancer.[14]
Hans-Joachim Riecke , 87, German politician and Nazi official.
Heinz Strehl , 48, German footballer, heart failure.
12
Dame Adelaide Doughty , 77, Australian-British politician.
Howard Finn , 68, American city planner and architect.[15]
Benjamin Frank , 66-67, Indian cricketer.
Roberto Hodge , 42, Chilean footballer, pancreatic cancer.
Howard Jarvis , 82, American politician, businessman and lobbyist.[16]
Leroy Lins , 73, American basketball player.
Paola Mori , 57, Italian actress, traffic collision.[17]
Léonard Mulamba , 57-58, Zairian politician and diplomat, prime minister of Congo-Léopoldville (1965–1966).
Evaline Ness , 75, American children's author (Sam, Bangs & Moonshine ).[18]
Hans Pesser , 74, Austrian footballer.
Felix Salzer , 82, Austrian-American musicologist.
13
Jean Bailhache , 75, French writer.
Way Bandy , 45, American makeup artist, AIDS.[19]
Pius Anthony Benincasa , 73, American Roman Catholic prelate.
Lemoine Blanchard , 75, American politician and businessman.
Joe Bolton , 75, American television and radio personality, heart attack.[20]
Pepper Constable , 72, American football player and doctor, drowned.[21]
Víctor García Garzena , 72, Chilean politician and lawyer.
Caterina Jarboro , 88, American singer.[22]
Janko Lavrin , 99, Slovene writer and historian.
Jan Lotz , 75, South African rugby player.
Helen Mack , 72, American actress.[23]
Mãe Menininha do Gantois , 92, Brazilian spiritual leader.
Arthur Piasecki , 69, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania Senate (1967–1970).
George Todd , 83, Australian footballer.
14
Ken Austin , 71, Australian politician.
Pierre Bertaux , 78, French linguist.
Jomí García Ascot , 59, Spanish-Mexican writer and filmmaker.
Charlie Greenhill , 84, Australian footballer.
Michael Lawrence Haider , 81, American engineer and oil executive.
Henry Kristian Larsen , 72, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1936 ).
Stjepan Ljubić , 80, Yugoslav racing cyclist.
Vera Sogoyan , 60, Soviet painter.
15
Alexander Barras , 72, Australian cricketer.
Richard E. Holz , 71, American composer.
Billy Libbis , 83, Australian footballer.
Louis Peglion , 80, French racing cyclist.
Winthrop Sargeant , 82, American violinist and music critic.[24]
Felix Tikotin , 92, German-Dutch art collector and architect.
John Trevelyan , 83, British censor.
Waldon O. Watson , 79, American sound engineer.
Harald Wiberg , 78, Swedish writer and illustrator.
16
Ronnie Aird , 84, English cricketer.
Patrick Beesly , 73, British author.
Reginald Fenderson , 74, American actor.
John Hurley , 45, American songwriter ("Son of a Preacher Man "), liver failure.
Sonia Rosemary Keppel , 86, British author and socialite.
John Maude , 85, British politician.
Thomas McFall , 73, Irish Anglican prelate.
William T. Pheiffer , 88, American politician and diplomat, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1941–1943).[25]
Ryan Price , 74, British racehorse trainer.
Jaime Sáenz , 64, Bolivian writer.
Esther Shemitz , 86, American painter.[26]
Richard Sneider , 64, American diplomat.
D Subbaramaiah , 81-82, Indian singer.
Nikolaos Syllas , 71, Greek Olympic athlete (1936 , 1948 , 1952 ).
17
M. G. Chakrapani , 75, Indian actor and film producer.
Bengt Ekenberg , 74, Swedish chess player.
William B. Gunter , 67, American jurist, heart attack.
Shipwreck Kelly , 76, American football player, stroke.[27]
Walt Lanfranconi , 69, American baseball player.
Charles Loewen , 85, Canadian-English general.
Peter M. Nicholson , 67, Canadian politician.
Luis Pasarín , 84, Spanish footballer.
Sammy Vick , 91, American baseball player.[28]
18
Fred Ayers , 74, Australian footballer.
Bruce F. Beilfuss , 71, American jurist, cancer.
Nikos Nissiotis , 62, Greek philosopher and basketball coach, traffic collision.
Ken Roskie , 65, American football player.
Vivian Stuart , 72, British writer.
Tikhon Yurkin , 88, Soviet politician.
19
Hermione Baddeley , 79, English actress (Room at the Top , The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore , The Aristocats ), complications from a stroke.[29]
Wilfred Beaver , 89, British-American flying ace.
Jaap Burger , 81, Dutch politician.
Hugh De Lacy , 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1947), cancer.[30]
John Donnelly , 81, Canadian Olympic rower (1928 ).
Zia Fatehabadi , 73, Indian poet.
Raphael Glorieux , 57, Belgian Olympic cyclist (1948 ).
Georg Løkkeberg , 76, Norwegian actor and theatre director.
Juan José Rosón , 53, Spanish politician, heart attack.
Lorenzo Tucker , 79, American actor, lung cancer.[31]
20
Milton Acorn , 63, Canadian poet and playwright, complications from a heart attack.
Barbara Bartay , 65, Czech-American actress, colorectal cancer.
Walter Brooke , 71, American actor, emphysema.[32]
Joy Bright Hancock , 88, American naval officer.[33]
Edward Howell , 84, British-Australian actor and theatre and television producer.
Thad Jones , 63, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.[34]
Vichna Kaplan , 72-73, Russian-born American academic administrator.
Hartford H. Keifer , 84, American zoologist.
Gauriprasanna Mazumder , 60, Indian lyricist.
Zygmunt Menkes , 90, Polish-born American painter, heart attack.
George Rainbird , 81, British publisher.
Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish , 85, Bangladeshi politician.
Austin Warren , 87, American literary critic.
21
Bata , 78, Spanish footballer.
Armando Bréa , 87, Brazilian Olympic runner (1932 ).
George Brenlin , 58, American actor.
William C. Chase , 91, American general.
Felix Mitchell , 31, American crime boss, stabbed.
Alexandre O'Neill , 61, Portuguese writer.
Roscoe Charles Wilson , 81, American general.
22
Vali Akhundov , 70, Soviet Azerbaijani politician.
Lamb Barbee , 70, American baseball player.
Celâl Bayar , 103, Turkish politician, prime minister (1937–1939) and president (1950–1960).[35]
Jacques Bonnet , 47, French Olympic field hockey player (1960 ).
Bruce Cowling , 66, American actor.
Alan de Belin , 32, Australian rower.
Charlie Eckert , 89, American baseball player.[36]
César Graña , 66-67, Peruvian-American sociologist, traffic collision.
Dots Johnson , 73, American actor.
Mel Merritt , 88, American football player.
Sobha Singh , 84, Indian painter.
William Craig Smith , 67, American art director.
Josef Streb , 74, German footballer.
F. Palmer Weber , 72, American businessman and activist.[37]
23
Joe Brown , 78, New Zealand businessman and entertainment promoter.
Lloyd Budd , 72, English cricketer.
Bill Callihan , 70, American football player.
Florencio Castelló , 80-81, Spanish actor.
Ion Clopoțel , 93, Romanian journalist.
Eric Cook , 77, Canadian politician.
Pete Daily , 75, American jazz musician.
Rosita Díaz Gimeno , 77, Spanish actress.
Ben C. Duniway , 78, American jurist.
José Estrada , 48, Mexican filmmaker.
Bill Evans , 87, American baseball player.
Adrienne Fazan , 80, American film editor.
Donald Fortier , 39, American intelligence agent, cancer.[38]
Herman H. Hanneken , 93, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
Marvin Hatley , 81, American film composer.
Charles Janssens , 80, Belgian actor.
Mikhail Kuznetsov , 68, Soviet actor.
Warren P. Mason , 85, American electrical engineer.
Sid Meehl , 72, Australian footballer.
Eduardo Quisumbing , 90, Filipino botanist.
24
Germaine Acremant , 97, French novelist and playwright.
Harry Benjamin , 101, German-American sexologist and endocrinologist.[39]
John P. Caufield , 67, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate (since 1979).[40]
George Diehl , 68, American baseball player.
Lili Larys , 77, Polish dancer.
George Palmer , 83, Australian cricketer.
Katarzyna Szymon , 78, Polish mystic.
Cynthia Clark Wedel , 77, American theological educator.
John Stuart Yeates , 86, New Zealand botanist.
25
Ronald Bates , 54, American lighting designer, heart attack.[41]
Clarence Berryman , 80, American Olympic wrestler (1928 ).
Allen Case , 51, American actor, heart attack.[42]
Bernie Elsey , 79-80, Australian entrepreneur and property developer.
Amos Kent , 84, American football player.
M. Stanley Livingston , 81, American physicist, co-inventor of the cyclotron , prostate cancer.[43]
Syed Hasan Mahmood , 63, Pakistani politician and cricketer.
Mary Moody Northen , 94, American philanthropist.[44]
David Rabinovitz , 78, American jurist.
Henry Neville Southern , 77, English ornithologist.
Vassil Tzankov , 81, Bulgarian geologist and paleontologist.
Fernando Vaz , 68, Portuguese footballer.
26
Raymond Abellio , 78, French writer.
Baldric , 25, American-born French Thoroughbred racehorse.
Elsie M. Burrows , 72, English botanist.
Marion Fyfe , 88, New Zealand zoologist.
Hu Harries , 64, Canadian politician.
Thomas Harpur , 70, New Zealand cricketer.
Walther Hess , 86, German cricketer.
Ted Knight , 62, American actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show , Caddyshack , Too Close for Comfort ), colon cancer.[45]
Sándor von Korompay , 74, Hungarian Olympic rower (1936 ).
Kent T. Lundgren , 72, American politician.
Allan Parkhill , 74, New Zealand rugby player.
Mutsuo Sugiura , 68, Japanese engineer.
Rosa Torras , 91, Spanish Olympic tennis player (1924 ).
27
Snehansu Kanta Acharya , 72, Indian politician.
Georgy Agzamov , 31, Soviet chess player, fall.
Daniel Fignolé , 72, Haitian politician, provisional president (1957).[46]
Bernard Fonlon , 61, Cameroonian politician and educator.
Edward Ford , 84, Australian physician.
Joyce Mansour , 58, Egyptian-French poet, cancer.
Dragutin Mitić , 68, Yugoslav-American tennis player.
George Nēpia , 81, New Zealand rugby player.
Alfred Pilkington , 85, English cricketer.
Paul Sciacca , 77, American mobster (Bonanno crime family ).
Olga Šilhánová , 65, Czech Olympic gymnast (1948 ).
Robbie Wijting , 61, Dutch general.
28
Giorgi Chitaia , 95, Soviet Georgian ethnographer .
Arthur Cunliffe , 77, English footballer.
Alexander Dolgun , 59, American writer and Gulag survivor, kidney failure.[47]
Russell Lee , 83, American photographer.[48]
Don Simmons , 68, Australian politician.
Elvi Sinervo , 74, Finnish writer.
Cyril Trailor , 67, Welsh footballer.
Philippe Valois , 79, Canadian politician.
29
Ellis Achong , 82, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer.
Giles Baring , 76, English cricketer.
Alfred Fagon , 49, British playwright, heart attack.
L. Raymond Fennell , 92, Canadian politician.
Roy King , 82, American painter and sculptor.
Vladimir Kuznetsov , 55, Soviet Olympic javelin thrower (1952 , 1956 , 1964 ).
Lu Shijia , 75, Chinese physicist and aerospace engineer.
Sax Mallard , 70, American jazz musician, cancer.
Harold Matthews , 83, Australian footballer.
Col Mitchell , 72, Australian footballer.
Alex Munro , 74, Scottish footballer.
Ronald Taylor , 77, English cricketer.
Stuart Young , 52, English business executive.
30
Margaret Wood Bancroft , 93, American naturalist.
Forrest E. Everhart , 64, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
Thomas Kilbride , 75, Irish politician.
Walter Kutschmann , 72, German-Argentine Einsatzkommando and war criminal, heart attack.[49]
Edward P. Larkin , 71, American politician.
Aldo Longinotti , 76, Italian Olympic boxer (1932 ).
Otto Mortensen , 79, Danish composer.
George Pelawa , 18, American ice hockey player, traffic collision.
Dame Annabelle Rankin , 78, Australian politician.
John Tuggle , 25, American football player, cancer.[50]
Bernice T. Van der Vries , 96, American politician.
Gordon Webber , 73, American writer.
31
Carl Alberg , 85, Swedish boat designer.
Jorge Alessandri , 90, Chilean politician, president (1958–1964).[51]
Edward Buehrig , 75, American political scientist.
Elizabeth Coatsworth , 93, American author (The Cat Who Went to Heaven ).[52]
Henry Moore , 88, English sculptor.[53]
Urho Kekkonen , 85, Finnish politician, president (1956–1982) and prime minister (1950–1953, 1954–1956).[54]
Goffredo Parise , 56, Italian writer and journalist.
Čestmír Řanda , 62, Czech actor.
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