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).
• Paul Detlefsen, 86, Danish-born American commercial artist.
• Sully Glasser, 63, Canadian football player.
• Marion Grant, 68, American historian, heart attack.
• 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.
• 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.
• Beryl Markham, 83, British-born Kenyan aviator.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lester Lautenschlaeger, 82, American football player and politician.
• Emanuel Löffler, 84, Czech Olympic gymnast (1928, 1936).
• Katharine Krom Merritt, 100, American physician.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Benjamin Frank, 66-67, Indian cricketer.
• Roberto Hodge, 42, Chilean footballer, pancreatic cancer.
• Howard Jarvis, 82, American politician, businessman and lobbyist.
• Leroy Lins, 73, American basketball player.
• Paola Mori, 57, Italian actress, traffic collision.
• 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).
• Hans Pesser, 74, Austrian footballer.
• Felix Salzer, 82, Austrian-American musicologist.

13

• Jean Bailhache, 75, French writer.
• Way Bandy, 45, American makeup artist, AIDS.
• 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.
• Pepper Constable, 72, American football player and doctor, drowned.
• Víctor García Garzena, 72, Chilean politician and lawyer.
• Caterina Jarboro, 88, American singer.
• Janko Lavrin, 99, Slovene writer and historian.
• Jan Lotz, 75, South African rugby player.
• Helen Mack, 72, American actress.
• 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.
• 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).
• Ryan Price, 74, British racehorse trainer.
• Jaime Sáenz, 64, Bolivian writer.
• Esther Shemitz, 86, American painter.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• Joy Bright Hancock, 88, American naval officer.
• Edward Howell, 84, British-Australian actor and theatre and television producer.
• Thad Jones, 63, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• John P. Caufield, 67, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate (since 1979).
• 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.
• Clarence Berryman, 80, American Olympic wrestler (1928).
• Allen Case, 51, American actor, heart attack.
• 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.
• Syed Hasan Mahmood, 63, Pakistani politician and cricketer.
• Mary Moody Northen, 94, American philanthropist.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• Russell Lee, 83, American photographer.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• Edward Buehrig, 75, American political scientist.
• Elizabeth Coatsworth, 93, American author (The Cat Who Went to Heaven).
• Henry Moore, 88, English sculptor.
• Urho Kekkonen, 85, Finnish politician, president (1956–1982) and prime minister (1950–1953, 1954–1956).
• Goffredo Parise, 56, Italian writer and journalist.
• Čestmír Řanda, 62, Czech actor.