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.
- 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.[13]
- 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.[14]
- Benjamin Frank, 66-67, Indian cricketer.
- Roberto Hodge, 42, Chilean footballer, pancreatic cancer.
- Howard Jarvis, 82, American politician, businessman and lobbyist.[15]
- Leroy Lins, 73, American basketball player.
- Paola Mori, 57, Italian actress, traffic collision.[16]
- 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).[17]
- Hans Pesser, 74, Austrian footballer.
- Felix Salzer, 82, Austrian-American musicologist.
13
- Jean Bailhache, 75, French writer.
- Way Bandy, 45, American makeup artist, AIDS.[18]
- 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.[19]
- Pepper Constable, 72, American football player and doctor, drowned.[20]
- Víctor García Garzena, 72, Chilean politician and lawyer.
- Caterina Jarboro, 88, American singer.[21]
- Janko Lavrin, 99, Slovene writer and historian.
- Jan Lotz, 75, South African rugby player.
- Helen Mack, 72, American actress.[22]
- 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.[23]
- 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).[24]
- Ryan Price, 74, British racehorse trainer.
- Jaime Sáenz, 64, Bolivian writer.
- Esther Shemitz, 86, American painter.[25]
- 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.[26]
- 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.[27]
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.[28]
- 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.[29]
- 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.[30]
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.[31]
- Joy Bright Hancock, 88, American naval officer.[32]
- Edward Howell, 84, British-Australian actor and theatre and television producer.
- Thad Jones, 63, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.[33]
- 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).[34]
- 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.[35]
- 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.[36]
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.[37]
- 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.[38]
- John P. Caufield, 67, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate (since 1979).[39]
- 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.[40]
- Clarence Berryman, 80, American Olympic wrestler (1928).
- Allen Case, 51, American actor, heart attack.[41]
- 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.[42]
- Syed Hasan Mahmood, 63, Pakistani politician and cricketer.
- Mary Moody Northen, 94, American philanthropist.[43]
- 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.[44]
- 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).[45]
- 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.[46]
- Russell Lee, 83, American photographer.[47]
- 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.[48]
- 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.[49]
- 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).[50]
- Edward Buehrig, 75, American political scientist.
- Elizabeth Coatsworth, 93, American author (The Cat Who Went to Heaven).[51]
- Henry Moore, 88, English sculptor.[52]
- Urho Kekkonen, 85, Finnish politician, president (1956–1982) and prime minister (1950–1953, 1954–1956).[53]
- Goffredo Parise, 56, Italian writer and journalist.
- Čestmír Řanda, 62, Czech actor.
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