Draft:Deaths in October 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 1986

1

• Reice Hamel, 66, American recording engineer.
• Archie League, 79, American air traffic controller.
• William Manning, 83, Australian politician.
• Daan Monjé, 60, Dutch politician.
• Seán Moore, 73, Irish politician, TD (1965–1982).
• Fernand Picard, 69, Canadian politician.
• John Potts, 82, English footballer.
• Dražen Ričl, 24, Yugoslav Bosnian rock musician (Crvena jabuka) and comedian, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
• Frank Samblebe, 71, Australian footballer.

2

• Dòmhnall Iain Dhonnchaidh, 67, Scottish poet and philosopher.
• Mikhail Masson, 88, Soviet archaeologist.
• Bernard Radford, 78, English footballer.
• Ron Rutherford, 80, Australian footballer.
• F. Wayne Valley, 72, American businessman and football executive (Oakland Raiders), cancer.

3

• Vince DiMaggio, 74, American baseball player, colon cancer.
• Bruno Innocenti, 80, Italian sculptor.
• Witold Jakóbczyk, 77, Polish historian.
• Shunzo Kido, 97, Japanese Olympic equestrian (1928, 1932).
• Heinie Mueller, 74, American baseball player.
• Terry Pitt, 49, British political researcher and advisor, choked.
• Sergey Preminin, 20, Soviet sailor (K-219), hyperthermia.
• José Lino Vaamonde, 86, Spanish architect.

4

• Raymond E. Baldwin, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1946–1949), governor of Connecticut (1939–1941, 1943–1946).
• Robert Broadbent, 81, Australian Olympic cyclist (1924).
• Mike Butterworth, 62, British comic book writer, heart attack.
• Jeff Clements, 54, English rugby player.
• Sarala Devi, 82, Indian politician and social activist.
• Arno von Lenski, 93, German general and politician.
• Raimundo Morales, 88, Spanish Olympic tennis player (1924).
• Desiderius Orban, 101, Hungarian-Australian artist.
• Valentín Sabate, 64, Spanish Olympic water polo player (1948).
• Willi Schuh, 85, Swiss musicologist.

5

• Diego Angulo Íñiguez, 85, Spanish art historian.
• George Packer Berry, 87, American medical educator and physician.
• Mike Burgmann, 39, Australian racing driver, racing crash.
• Sir Timothy Creasey, 63, British general.
• Abraham Feinberg, 87, American rabbi, activist and singer, cancer.
• Rudolf Flesch, 75, Austrian-born American readability expert and author (Why Johnny Can't Read).
• William Karlsen, 76, Norwegian Olympic swimmer (1932).
• Zdzisław Kumiszcze, 51, Polish Olympic hurdler (1960).
• Collette Lyons, 78, American actress.
• Héctor Maturano, 63, Argentine Olympic boxer (1952).
• John J. McEleney, 90, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Mairin Mitchell, 91, British writer and journalist.
• Peter Phelps, 77, English cricketer.
• Emanuel Sayles, 79, American banjoist.
• Hal B. Wallis, 87, American film producer (Casablanca, True Grit, The Adventures of Robin Hood), diabetes.
• James H. Wilkinson, 67, English mathematician, heart attack.

6

• Marie-Hélène Arnaud, 52, French model and actress.
• Yuri Babayev, 58, Soviet physicist, one of the designers of the Tsar Bomba.
• Gokulbhai Bhatt, 88, Indian politician and social worker.
• Harold Brooke, 87, Australian Olympic sailor (1960).
• Loris Gizzi, 87, Italian actor.
• Aleksandr Kronrod, 64, Soviet mathematician and computer scientist, stroke.
• Robert L. Larson, 88, American jurist.
• Tom Ledwidge, 75, Australian footballer.
• Guy Prendergast, 81, British soldier and explorer.
• David Rubinoff, 89, Russian-born American violinist.
• Robert Six, 79, American businessman.
• Wallace Wade, 94, American football player and sports coach.

7

• Germain Burger, 86, British filmmaker.
• Irvine Finlay Corbett, 71, Canadian politician.
• Cheryl Crawford, 84, American theatre producer.
• Sir Arthur Galsworthy, 70, British diplomat and soldier.
• Yōjirō Ishizaka, 86, Japanese writer.
• Iwan Iwanoff, 67, Bulgarian-Australian architect.
• Liu Bocheng, 93, Chinese general.
• Jerzy Łojek, 54, Polish historian.
• Anthony McFeely, 77, Irish Roman Catholic prelate.
• David D. O'Malley, 73, American politician, heart attack.
• George Owens, 86, Australian footballer.
• Sir J. G. Phillips, 75, Australian economist, suicide.
• Paul Tournier, 88, Swiss physician and pastoral counselor.

8

• Nels Anderson, 97, American sociologist.
• Walter Burkemo, 67, American golfer.
• Gerhard Dietrich, 58, German pedagogue.
• Ícaro Mello, 72, Brazilian Olympic jumper (1936).
• Ba. Na. Sundara Rao, 68, Indian poet and historian, cardiac arrest.
• Edna Roper, 73, Australian politician.
• Laurence H. Snyder, 85, American geneticist.
• Max Surkont, 64, American baseball player.
• Megumu Tamura, 59, Japanese footballer, cancer.

9

• Lajos Balogh, 83, Hungarian athlete.
• Arild Brinchmann, 64, Norwegian theatre director and film producer.
• Ted Freeman, 86, Canadian politician.
• Stan Greatrex, 75, English racing cyclist.
• Eddie Johnson, 58, American Olympic boxer (1948).
• Vasile Patilineț, 62, Romanian politician and diplomat.
• Harald Reinl, 78, Austrian film director, stabbed.
• James J. Reynolds, 79, American labor board administrator.
• Jo-Jo White, 77, American baseball player.

10

• Lyndall Barbour, 70, Australian actress.
• Gerold Braunmühl, 51, German diplomat, shot.
• Mary Cholmondeley, Lady Delamere, 80, British socialite and heiress.
• Antonio di Benedetto, 63, Argentine novelist.
• Han Drijver, 59, Dutch Olympic field hockey player (1948, 1952).
• Nieves Hernández, 84, Mexican footballer.
• Sigfred Jensen, 77, Danish footballer.
• Rusty Lane, 87, American actor.
• Marie Neurath, 88, German pictographer.
• Frank O'Neal, 65, American cartoonist.
• Michele Pellegrino, 83, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
• Michael Player, 25-26, American serial killer, suicide by gunshot.
• Priaulx Rainier, 83, South African-British composer.
• William Kevin Rowell, 58, Australian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Russ Van Atta, 80, American baseball player.
• Gleb Wataghin, 86, Ukrainian-Italian physicist.

11

• Gregorio Álvarez, 96, Argentine historian.
• Mansi Barberis, 87, Romanian musician.
• Rusty Blakey, 74, Canadian aviator.
• Bob Brooker, 59, Australian footballer.
• Norm Cash, 52, American baseball player, drowned.
• John Crockett, 68, British television and stage director.
• Georges Dumézil, 88, French linguist, stroke.
• Barker Fairley, 99, British-Canadian painter and literary scholar.
• David Hand, 86, American animator, stroke.
• Hanford L. King Jr., 65, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Gyula Kovács, 69, Hungarian Olympic wrestler (1948, 1952, 1956).
• Boris Leven, 78, Russian-born American production designer.
• Ed McNamara, 65, Canadian actor.
• Robert Scholz, 83, Austrian-born American pianist.
• Al Ullman, 72, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1957–1981), prostate cancer.

12

• Szabolcs Fényes, 74, Hungarian film composer.
• John J. Herrera, 76, American attorney and activist.
• George Mandy, 80, South African cricketer.
• Peter Mathieson, 71, New Zealand swimmer.
• Bronte Clucas Quayle, 66, Australian civil servant, heart failure.
• Jūlijs Vanags, 83, Soviet Latvian writer.

13

• Maidie Andrews, 93, English actress.
• Eunice Crowther, 70, British dancer and choreographer.
• Léon H. Dupriez, 84, Belgian economist.
• Ken Earl, 60, English cricketer.
• Andreas Grasmo, 73, Norwegian priest and organizational leader.
• Abram Hill, 76, American playwright.
• Fred K. Mahaffey, 52, American general, cancer.
• William M. McAllister, 80, American jurist and politician.
• Sir Joseph Napier, 4th Baronet, 91, British hereditary peer and soldier.
• William Passmore, 71, South African Olympic boxer (1936).
• Charles H. Reardon, 70, Canadian politician.
• Hermann von Siemens, 101, German industrialist.

14

• Milovan Ćirić, 68, Yugoslav footballer.
• Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr., 69, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1957).
• Yvette Dugay, 54, American actress.
• Izrael Hieger, 85, Russian-born British biochemist.
• Spec O'Donnell, 75, American actor.
• Barry Salvage, 39, English footballer, heart attack.
• Bojan Štih, 63, Yugoslav Slovene essayist and stage director.
• Keenan Wynn, 70, American actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Takahiko Yamanouchi, 84, Japanese theoretical physicist.

15

• Carroll A. Edson, 94, American scouting leader.
• Harvey V. Higley, 93, American chemist.
• Alex Josey, 76, British-Singaporean journalist, Parkinson's disease.
• Larry Kopf, 95, American baseball player.
• Rani Padmini, 23-24, Indian actress, homicide.
• Jacqueline Roque, 59, French muse, wife of Pablo Picasso, suicide by gunshot.
• Marcus Samuel, 3rd Viscount Bearsted, 77, British businessman and hereditary peer.
• Jerry Smith, 43, American football player, AIDS.
• Al Stricklin, 78, American pianist, cancer.
• John D. Thompson Jr., 57, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (since 1971), cancer.
• Christine Wttewaall van Stoetwegen, 85, Dutch politician.
• William Richard Watkins, 82, English cricketer.

16

• Ralph Palmer Agnew, 85, American mathematician.
• Manolo Álvarez Mera, 62, Cuban-American singer.
• Manorama Basu, 88, Bangladeshi feminist.
• Harold Beamish, 90, New Zealand flying ace.
• Kiril Bratanov, 75, Bulgarian biologist, heart attack.
• Joseph Fontaine, 86, Canadian politician.
• Arthur Grumiaux, 65, Belgian violinist, stroke.
• Yukihiko Haida, 77, American musician.
• Giovanni Invernizzi, 60, Italian Olympic rower (1948, 1952).
• Sydney Jagbir, 73, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer.
• Jeanne MacKenzie, 64, English writer, ovarian cancer.
• Hugh Austin Windle Pilkington, 44, British philanthropist, traffic collision.
• Sandro Puppo, 68, Italian football player and manager.
• Carlo Romei, 61, Italian politician.
• Ted Sagar, 76, English footballer.
• Richard R. Stout, 74, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate (1952–1974), cardiac arrest.
• Jacques Van Caelenberghe, 76, Belgian footballer.
• Fred Vaughan, 82, American football player.
• Princess Yolanda of Savoy, 85, Italian royal.

17

• Boris Arkadyev, 87, Soviet football player and coach.
• Sir Malcolm Burns, 76, New Zealand agricultural scientist.
• Hamish Fraser, 73, Scottish journalist and political activist.
• Stan Judkins, 79, Australian footballer.
• Ron Kass, 51, American film producer, cancer.
• Leah Rhodes, 84, American costume designer.
• Carlos Rodríguez, 77, Mexican Olympic sports shooter (1952).

18

• Billy Bennington, 85-86, English hammered dulcimer player.
• Earl Frederick Crabb, 87, Canadian-American flying ace.
• Sverre Ingolf Haugli, 61, Norwegian Olympic speed skater (1952).
• Niat Qabool Hayat Kakakhel, 81, Pakistani politician.
• Clyde S. Kilby, 84, American writer.
• Alan Little, 52, English social scientist.
• John J. McNamara, 54, American author and Olympic sailor (1964).

19

• Moses Asch, 80, Polish-born American recording engineer and record executive.
• Anne McGrew Bennett, 82, American writer.
• Karlo Bulić, 76, Yugoslav Croatian actor.
• George Cheroke, 65, American football player.
• Dele Giwa, 39, Nigerian journalist, assassination by bomb.
• Leon Henderson, 91, American economist.
• Stanley Lebowsky, 59, American composer and conductor.
• Balthasar Linsinger, 83-84, Austrian priest.
• Oldřich Lipský, 62, Czechoslovak filmmaker.
• Samora Machel, 53, Mozambican politician, president (since 1975), plane crash.
• Simon Mahon, 72, British politician, MP (1955–1979).
• H. Freeman Matthews, 87, American diplomat.
• Lawrence McKillip, 62, American Olympic bobsledder (1956, 1964).
• Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair, 64, Indian actor.
• George Pipgras, 86, American baseball player.
• Joe Ryan, 69, Australian footballer.
• Arseny Sokolov, 76, Soviet theoretical physicist.
• May Wilson, 80-81, American artist, pneumonia.

20

• Luciano Agnolín, 71, Argentine footballer.
• Taylor Booth, 53, American mathematician.
• Michael Joe Costello, 82, Irish military leader.
• Anton Krammer, 57, Austrian footballer.
• Alain Moineau, 58, French cyclist.
• George Tuttle, 81, American football player.
• Tadao Uesako, 65, Japanese Olympic gymnast (1952).
• Tommy Walker, 63, American event director, composer of "Charge".

21

• Theodor Busse, 88, German soldier.
• Harry H. Cooley, 92, American politician.
• Pelagio Cruz, 74, Filipino general.
• Gisela Fackeldey, 65, German actress.
• Gadabout Gaddis, 90, American fisherman and television presenter.
• Fritz Hochwälder, 75, Austrian playwright.
• T. Krishna, 36, Indian filmmaker.
• Lionel Murphy, 64, Australian politician and jurist, cancer.
• Betsy Muus, 95, Belgian sculptor.
• Edwin Albert Robson, 81, American jurist.
• Vittorio Tracuzzi, 63, Italian basketball player.
• Dominique Urbany, 83, Luxembourgish politician.
• Diwakarla Venkatavadhani, 75, Indian writer and scholar.

22

• Jane Dornacker, 39, American musician and traffic reporter, helicopter crash.
• Ivor Francis, 67, Canadian-American actor.
• Reg Humphries, 75, Australian footballer.
• Bhagwanti Navani, 46, Indian singer and actress.
• Jesse Pike, 96, American Olympic cyclist (1912).
• Haki Abaz Skuqi, 28, Albanian pilot, plane crash.
• Sven Strömberg, 75, Swedish Olympic runner (1936).
• Thorgeir Stubø, 42, Norwegian jazz musician.
• Albert Szent-Györgyi, 93, Hungarian biochemist and politician, Nobel Prize recipient (1937).
• Jenny Toitgans, 81, Belgian Olympic athlete (1928).
• Bernard Joseph Topel, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Ye Jianying, 89, Chinese politician and general.

23

• Paul Brophy, 49, American firefighter, dehydration.
• Peggy Pond Church, 82, American poet, suicide.
• Johnny Dell Isola, 74, American football player.
• Edward Adelbert Doisy, 92, American biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1943).
• Esquerita, 48/51, American musician, AIDS.
• Ivor D. Fenton, 97, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1939–1963).
• Georg Funkquist, 86, Swedish actor.
• Paul Gehrman, 74, American baseball player.
• Ronald Long, 75, English-American actor.
• Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, 92, British intelligence officer and mountaineer.

24

• John R. Allan, 80, Scottish journalist and radio broadcaster.
• Hugh Craig Atkinson, 52, American librarian.
• Michael Brennan, 90, Irish general.
• L. B. Day, 54, American politician, heart attack.
• Johnny Dyani, 40, South African musician.
• Percy Feltham, 84, Australian politician.
• Eugênio Gudin, 100, Brazilian economist.
• František Janda, 76, Czech Olympic wrestler (1936).
• Enrique Margall, 42, Spanish basketball player.
• Doc Mathis, 77, American sports coach and athletics administrator.
• Sir Henry Osmond-Clarke, 81, British surgeon.

25

• Larry Beil, 63, American football player.
• Phyllis Blakeley, 64, Canadian historian.
• Elizabeth H. Brödel, 83, American medical illustrator.
• Guillermo Eizaguirre, 77, Spanish footballer.
• Jack Hartigan, 58, Australian footballer.
• Joseph B. Johnson, 93, American politician, governor of Vermont (1955–1959).
• Bunyan Joseph, 92, Indian priest and hymnwriter.
• Howard S. McDonald, 92, American academic administrator.
• G. A. St Poole, 58, British naval officer.
• Tadao Tannaka, 77, Japanese mathematician.
• Forrest Tucker, 67, American actor, lung cancer.
• Evelyn Waldren, 78, American pilot.

26

• Arne Andersen, 86, Norwegian footballer.
• Sidney Bollon, 86, English cricketer.
• Hüseyin Çakıroğlu, 29, Turkish footballer, cancer.
• John Henry Cates, 90, Canadian politician.
• Ed Holley, 87, American baseball player.
• Gordon Jolly, 73, New Zealand lawn bowler.
• John H. Lyons Jr., 66, American labor union leader.
• Jackson Scholz, 89, American Olympic sprinter (1920, 1924).

27

• Sherman Adams, 87, American politician, governor of New Hampshire (1949–1953), member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1947).
• Alfred Au, 87, German footballer.
• Alan Branscombe, 50, English musician.
• Bob Ingamells, 72, Australian politician.
• Alvin Kahle, 76, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1965–1974).
• Albert Maes, 80, Belgian Olympic weightlifter (1924, 1928).
• Roger Rabiniaux, 71, French poet.
• Carl-Enock Svensson, 91, Swedish Olympic athlete (1920).
• Geoff Willis, 65, Australian footballer.

28

• Robert Arthur, 76, American film producer.
• Julien Joseph Audette, 72, Canadian aviator.
• Afzal Bangash, 62, Pakistani politician, kidney failure.
• John Braine, 64, English novelist, gastrointestinal bleeding.
• Richard Elton Goodwin, 78, British general.
• Marga Klompé, 74, Dutch politician.
• Adelaide Lawson, 97, American painter.
• Ian Marter, 42, English actor (Doctor Who) and writer, heart attack.
• Emil Moeller, 84, Canadian politician.
• Eddie Waring, 76, British rugby player, dementia.
• René Weissmann, 56, French Olympic boxer (1952).

29

• Nikolaos Angelakis, 81, Greek footballer.
• Louis J. Battan, 63, American atmospheric scientist.
• Eva Beatrice Dykes, 93, American educator.
• Gottfried Eichelbrönner, 84, German politician.
• Mimis Fotopoulos, 73, Greek actor and writer, heart attack.
• Marcel Gascoin, 79, French furniture designer.
• Gunnar Halle, 78, Norwegian engineer and soldier.
• Maurice Leblanc-Smith, 90, British flying ace.
• Abel Meeropol, 83, American songwriter and poet ("Strange Fruit").
• Ronald Thom, 63, Canadian architect.
• Harry Voigt, 73, German Olympic runner (1936).
• Brian Courtenay Yarde, 81, British RAF officer.

30

• Côtis-Capel, 71, French poet.
• Olaf Hansen, 80, Norwegian Olympic boxer (1924).
• Reginald Keller, 92, English cricketer.
• Otto Knefler, 63, German footballer.
• Andrzej Markowski, 62, Polish composer.
• Tandiono Manu, 73, Indonesian politician.
• Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt, 85, German politician.
• Fritz Tillmann, 75, German actor.
• Richard Yaffe, 83, American journalist.

31

• Harry Askew, 68, British Olympic jumper (1948).
• John Blackinger, 81, American politician and football executive.
• Bob Hardisty, 64, English footballer.
• Alfred Hauge, 71, Norwegian writer and educator.
• Guy Murray Logan, 87, Canadian politician.
• Marcella Martin, 70, American actress (Gone with the Wind).
• Fred R. Mast, 89, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1953–1967).
• Robert S. Mulliken, 90, American chemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1966), heart failure.
• Bruno Snell, 90, German classical philologist.
• Gregorio F. Zaide, 79, Filipino historian and politician.

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