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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
[edit]1
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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.[1]
3
[edit]- Vince DiMaggio, 74, American baseball player, colon cancer.[2]
- 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
[edit]- Raymond E. Baldwin, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1946–1949), governor of Connecticut (1939–1941, 1943–1946).[3]
- 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
[edit]- 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.[4]
- Rudolf Flesch, 75, Austrian-born American readability expert and author (Why Johnny Can't Read).[5]
- 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.[6]
- James H. Wilkinson, 67, English mathematician, heart attack.
6
[edit]- 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.[7]
- Robert Six, 79, American businessman.[8]
- Wallace Wade, 94, American football player and sports coach.[9]
7
[edit]- 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.[10]
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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.[11]
- 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]
12
[edit]- Szabolcs Fényes, 74, Hungarian film composer.
- John J. Herrera, 76, American attorney and activist.[13]
- 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
[edit]- 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]
14
[edit]- Milovan Ćirić, 68, Yugoslav footballer.
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr., 69, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1957).[15]
- 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.[16]
- Takahiko Yamanouchi, 84, Japanese theoretical physicist.
15
[edit]- 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.[17]
- 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
[edit]- 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.[18]
- 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.[19]
- Jacques Van Caelenberghe, 76, Belgian footballer.
- Fred Vaughan, 82, American football player.
- Princess Yolanda of Savoy, 85, Italian royal.
17
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Moses Asch, 80, Polish-born American recording engineer and record executive.[20]
- 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.[21]
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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.[22]
- 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
[edit]- 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).[23]
- Jenny Toitgans, 81, Belgian Olympic athlete (1928).
- Bernard Joseph Topel, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate.
- Ye Jianying, 89, Chinese politician and general.
23
[edit]- Paul Brophy, 49, American firefighter, dehydration.[24]
- Peggy Pond Church, 82, American poet, suicide.
- Johnny Dell Isola, 74, American football player.
- Edward Adelbert Doisy, 92, American biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1943).[25]
- Esquerita, 48/51, American musician, AIDS.
- Ivor D. Fenton, 97, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1939–1963).[26]
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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.[27]
- Evelyn Waldren, 78, American pilot.
26
[edit]- 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).[28]
27
[edit]- Sherman Adams, 87, American politician, governor of New Hampshire (1949–1953), member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1947).[29]
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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").[30]
- Ronald Thom, 63, Canadian architect.
- Harry Voigt, 73, German Olympic runner (1936).
- Brian Courtenay Yarde, 81, British RAF officer.
30
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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.[31]
- Bruno Snell, 90, German classical philologist.
- Gregorio F. Zaide, 79, Filipino historian and politician.
References
[edit]- ^ Found of Raiders dies of cancer
- ^ Vince DiMaggio is dead at 74
- ^ Ex-Governor Baldwin of Connecticut is dead
- ^ Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg
- ^ Dr. Rudolf Flesch, 75, authority on literacy
- ^ Hal B. Wallis, film producer, is dead
- ^ David Rubinoff, 89, Violinist
- ^ Robert F. Six, Founder of airline and aviation pioneer, dies at 79
- ^ Wallace Wade, Coach Who Took Rose Bowl East, Dies (subscription required)
- ^ Liu Bocheng, military leader in two Chinese revolutions
- ^ Ex-Tiger Norm Cash is dead (subscription required)
- ^ Former Representative Al Ullman Dies
- ^ Obituary for John J. Herrera, Houston Chronicle - 1986-10-14
- ^ Hermann von Siemens, Director of German concern for 27 years
- ^ Shepard J. Crumpacker
- ^ Keenan Wynn is dead at 70; Third-generation performer
- ^ Jacqueline Picasso dies; Artist's wife and muse
- ^ Arthur Grumiaux, A Belgian Violinist; Beethoven Exponent
- ^ Richard R. Stout Dies at 74; Former Jersey State Senator
- ^ Moses Asch, who founded Folkways Records, dies at 81
- ^ Samora M. Machel, Man of Charisma
- ^ 'Gadabout' Gaddis, the Flying Fisherman, dies
- ^ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Dead; Research Isolated Vitamin C
- ^ Funeral services held for Paul Brophy
- ^ Edward Doisy Sr.; Won Nobel Prize
- ^ Dr. Ivor D. Fenton, 97, Dies; Was Congressman 24 Years
- ^ Forrest Tucker, 67, is dead; Film, TV and stage veteran
- ^ Jackson Scholz, 89; American Olympian Portrayed in Movie
- ^ Sherman Adams is Dead at 87; Eisenhower Aide Left Under Fire
- ^ Abel Meeropol, 83, A Songwriter, Dies
- ^ Dr. Robert S. Mulliken Dead; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
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