The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 1986
1
Adil Abdullah , 63, Iraqi footballer.
Jean Baratte , 63, French footballer.
Willy Berger , 80, Hungarian-born Israeli footballer.
Harry Bolton , 67, American NFL football player.
E. E. Y. Hales , 77, English religious historian.
Willard Ames Holbrook Jr. , 88, American general.[ 1]
Christa Merten , 41, West German Olympic runner (1972 ), suicide.
Andrew Miller , 59, British naval admiral.
Moccasin , 23, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
Karl Myrbäck , 85, Swedish chemist.
Sam Ramsden , 72, Australian politician.
Sir Iain Sutherland , 61, British diplomat, heart attack.[ 2]
Roger Cuthbert Wakefield , 80, English surveyor and rugby player.
Edward Curtis Wells , 75, American business executive (Boeing ).
2
Alfred Grimwood , 80, English cricketer.
Louis Harant , 90, American Olympic sports shooter (1920 ).
Hoàng Văn Thái , 71, Vietnamese general.
René Létourneau , 73, Canadian politician.
Peanuts Lowrey , 68, American Major League baseball player.[ 3]
Erwin Milzkott , 73, German musician.
Hilyard Robinson , 86–87, American architect.
3
Jonathan B. Bingham , 72, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1983), pneumonia.[ 4]
Elizabeth Bodine , 88, American humanitarian.
Charles Chew , 63, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate (since 1967), throat cancer.[ 5]
Bruce Chown , 92, Canadian physician.
Ubirajara Fidalgo , 37, Brazilian actor and director.
Monk Higgins , 55, American saxophonist, respiratory disease.
Bill McCahan , 65, American Major League baseball player, cancer.
Quinn McNemar , 86, American psychologist and statistician.
Mona Ray , 81, American actress.
Curley Russell , 69, American jazz musician, emphysema.
Andrew C. Tychsen , 93, American general.
Rudy Vallée , 84, American singer and musician, cancer.[ 6]
Erling Westher , 83, Norwegian pianist.
4
Paul Adams , 65, American college sports coach, heart attack.
Margaret Cuninggim , 71, American academic administrator.
Leo Lermond , 80, American Olympic runner (1928 ).
Peter F. Mack Jr. , 69, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1963).[ 7]
Benjamin Menor , 63, American jurist, throat cancer.
Flor Peeters , 83, Belgian composer.
Oscar Roettger , 86, American Major League baseball player.
Theodor S. Slen , 100, American politician and lawyer, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1935–1940), pneumonia.
Oscar Zariski , 87, Russian-born American mathematician.[ 8]
5
Thomas Arnold , 85, British Olympic bobsledder (1924 ).
Noel Counihan , 72, Australian painter and cartoonist.
Alan Gemmell , 73, British biologist and botanist.
Rosaire Gendron , 65, Canadian politician.
Ulrich Hofmann , 83, German mathematician.
Ruth Jones , 40, American basketball coach, ovarian cancer.
Javad Khamenei , 90, Iranian Shia cleric.
Biff Lee , 78, American NFL football player.
Richard Lowe , 82, English cricketer.
Gisiro Maruyama , 70, Japanese mathematician.
O Yoon , 40, South Korean painter, cirrhosis.
Benjamin B. Patterson , 76, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1957–1966).
K. Krishna Pillai , 62, Indian politician.
Sir Folliott Sandford , 79, British civil servant.
Albert Scherrer , 78, Swiss racing driver.
Georg-Wilhelm Schulz , 80, German U-boat commander.
Yaroslav Stetsko , 74, Soviet Ukrainian politician, prime minister of the Ukrainian national government (1941) .
Sir John Toothill , 77, English electrical engineer.
James Walsh , 73, Australian cricketer.
6
Stephen Brunauer , 83, American chemist.
Vic Carroll , 73, American NFL football player.
Germán Frers , 86, Argentine Olympic sailor (1936 ).
Walter Hollitscher , 75, Austrian philosopher.
Lothar Kreyssig , 87, German jurist.
Andrée Le Coultre , 68–69, French painter.
Herbert Leonhardt , 61, German Olympic skier (1956 ).
Robert S. Lopez , 75, Italian-born American historian, cancer.
Jagjivan Ram , 78, Indian politician.
Rodrigo Rojas de Negri , 19, Chilean photographer, burned .
Clarence Streit , 90, American journalist, renal failure.[ 9]
Kōji Wada , 42, Japanese actor.
Blanka Waleská , 76, Czech actress.
Benjamin D. Wood , 91, American academic administrator.
Clarrie Wyatt , 82, Australian rules footballer.
Eddie Yuhas , 61, American Major League baseball player.
7
Willi Ankermüller , 85, German politician.
Mai Bhagi , 79–80, Pakistani musician.
Carnera , 77, Brazilian footballer.
Gunnar Christensen , 72, Danish Olympic athlete (1936 ).
Harry Davis , 75, Welsh-born New Zealand potter.
Frederick Kohner , 80, Austrian-born American novelist (Gidget ).
Sven Johnson , 86, Swedish Olympic gymnast (1920 ).
Christopher C. McGrath , 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1953).[ 10]
Earl J. Merritt , 89, American sports coach.
Len Vautier , 77, Australian rules footballer.
Hazel Browne Williams , 79, American educator.
8
C. W. Armstrong , 87, Northern Irish politician, MP (1954–1959).
Paolo Brignoli , 44, Italian entomologist.
Johnny Cooney , 85, American Major League baseball player.
Adolfo Linvel , 74–75, Argentine actor.
Nina Morgana , 94, American singer.
Pedro Ortiz Dávila , 74, Puerto Rican singer.
Hyman G. Rickover , 86, American admiral.[ 11]
Skeeter Webb , 76, American Major League baseball player.
Robert J. Wood , 81, American general.
9
Tommy Barnett , 77, English footballer.
Nellie Campobello , 85, Mexican writer, heart failure.
Marietta Canty , 80, American actress.
Calvin Carter , 61, American record producer.
Julio Córdova , 75, Chilean footballer.
Laxmi Narayan Bhanja Deo , 73, Indian politician.
Sir Percy Edward Kent , 73, British geologist.
María Laffitte , 83, Spanish women's rights activist and writer.
John Leighly , 90, American geographer.
Carl "Spider" Lockhart , 43, American NFL football player, lymphoma.[ 12]
Red Lucas , 84, American Major League baseball player.
Boris Mayzel , 79, Soviet composer.
Walter Romanowicz , 68, American soccer player.
Chandrashekhar Singh , 58, Indian politician.
Ruth Warren , 85, American actress.
Paul Yuzyk , 73, Canadian politician.
10
Rafael Gil , 73, Spanish film director.
Brendan Glynn , 76, Irish politician, TD (1954–1957).
Jody Lawrance , 55, American actress.
Lê Duẩn , 79, Vietnamese politician.[ 13]
Harl Maggert , 72, American Major League baseball player.
Csilla Molnár , 17, Hungarian beauty queen, suicide by drug overdose.
Nicholas VI , 73, Greek Orthodox prelate, patriarch of Alexandria (since 1968).
Park Taewon , 76, Korean writer.
Aukusti Pasanen , 83, Finnish politician.
Tadeusz Piotrowski , 46, Polish mountaineer, fall .
Roman Ulrich Sexl , 46, Austrian theoretical physicist.
Štefan Stanislay , 83, Czechoslovak athlete.
Don S. Wenger , 74, American general.
11
John Clayden , 82, Rhodesian jurist.
Larry D. Gilbertson , 68, American politician.
Lillian Rosanoff Lieber , 99, Russian-born American mathematician.
Bill Purcell , 81, Australian rules footballer.
Hortensia Santoveña , 73, Mexican actress.
Dutch Thiele , 93, American NFL football player.[ 14]
Enrique Villegas , 72, Argentine pianist.
Lucille Wall , 88, American actress (General Hospital ).[ 15]
12
Dame Kate Isabel Campbell , 87, Australian physician.
Wacław Kisielewski , 43, Polish pianist, traffic collision.
Faydang Lobliayao , 75–76, Laotian politician.
Dermod MacCarthy , 75, British pediatrician.
Gene Mayl , 84, American NFL footballer and basketballer.
Nea Morin , 81, British mountaineer.
Kamaran Mukeri , 56–57, Iraqi poet.
Krum Penev , 84, Bulgarian poet and playwright.
Jean Zizine , 63, French Olympic field hockey player (1952 ).
13
Sir Max Bemrose , 82, English politician and industrialist.
Walter Bradshaw , 77, Australian-born British cricketer.
Coke Escovedo , 45, American percussionist, cirrhosis.
Gary Famiglietti , 72, American NFL football player.
Edmund Dwen Gill , 77, Australian geologist.
Brion Gysin , 70, British-Canadian writer, painter and inventor, lung cancer.
Hong Jin-ki , 69, South Korean jurist.
Géza Kardos , 68, Hungarian Olympic basketball player (1948 ).
Orígenes Lessa , 83, Brazilian writer.
Edward Lipiński , 97, Polish politician and economist.
Margaret Ransone Murray , 84, American biologist.
Ladislav Pešek , 79, Czechoslovak actor.
Ralph Steiner , 87, American photographer.[ 16]
Jaak Tamleht , 44, Soviet Estonian actor.
Jean Van Gool , 55, French footballer.
Joe Wirkkunen , 58, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey coach, home fire accident[ 17] [ 18]
Mel Zajac , 30, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1976 ), drowned.
14
John Bridger , 66, English cricketer, traffic collision.
Arthur Ford , 82–83, Australian Olympic wrestler (1928 ).
Anthony Hadingham , 73, English cricketer.
William E. Hess , 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1929–1937, 1939–1949, 1951–1961).
Wally Holborow , 72, American Major League baseball player.
Raymond Loewy , 92, French-born American industrial designer.[ 19]
Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi , 72, Iranian poet.
Joseph Vogt , 91, German historian.
Jack Whitehead , 73, Australian rules footballer.
15
Carolina Correa Londoño , 81, Colombian socialite, first lady (1953–1957).
Florence Halop , 63, American actress, lung cancer.[ 20]
Iain Hamilton , 66, Scottish journalist.
Billy Haughton , 62, American harness driver , head injury.
Sir John Mellor, 2nd Baronet , 93, British politician, MP (1935–1955).
Benny Rubin , 87, American actor and comedian, heart attack.[ 21]
Alfonso Thiele , 66, American-Italian racing driver.
16
Joseph T. Bayly , 66, American author and publishing executive.
Vasudeo Sitaram Bendrey , 92, Indian author and historian.
Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby , 86, British politician, MP (1924–1958) and member of the House of Lords (since 1958), heart attack.
A. S. Conception , 58, Indian actor and singer.
James Aloysius Coolahan , 83, American jurist.
Stephen Coulter , 71, British novelist.
Dick Crawshaw, Baron Crawshaw of Aintree , 68, British politician, MP (1964–1983).
David Max Eichhorn , 80, American rabbi, heart attack.[ 22]
Carlo Martini , 72, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
Thomas Edwin Nevin , 79, Irish physicist.
Bob O'Dea , 56, New Zealand rugby player.
Bill Rohr , 68, American basketball coach.
Robert C. Rusack , 60, American Anglican prelate, heart attack.
Charles E. Thompson , 97, American politician, member of the Mississippi Senate (1916–1920).
Claire Watson , 59, American singer, brain cancer.
Jerrold R. Zacharias , 81, American physicist.[ 23]
17
Nicholas Ashton , 81, English cricketer.
Alexandru Badea , 48, Romanian footballer.
René de La Croix de Castries , 77, French historian.
Cleo Davis , 67, American musician.
Louis Gardet , 81, French historian and Roman Catholic priest.
Gordon Gibson Sr. , 81, Canadian politician.
Pierre Langlais , 76, French soldier, suicide by jumping.
Tom MacKay , 75, Australian rules footballer.
Norma Moreno Figueroa , 24, Mexican journalist, shot.
Kurt Nielsen , 61, Danish footballer.
George M. O'Brien , 69, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1973), prostate cancer.[ 24]
Oevaang Oeray , 63, Indonesian politician.
Edward E. Willey , 76, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (since 1952), complications from a stroke.
18
Buddy Baer , 71, American boxer and actor.[ 25]
Allan R. Bosworth , 84, American author.
Robert Cover , 42, American law scholar, heart attack.
Margaret Crum , 65, British musicologist.
Maiju Gebhard , 89, Finnish inventor (dish drying cabinet ).
Emil Nofal , 59–60, South African filmmaker.
Sir Stanley Rous , 91, English football referee, president of FIFA (1961–1974), leukemia.
Flora Payne Whitney , 88, American artist.[ 26]
Don Wilkerson , 53–54, American saxophonist.
Richard Wootton , 80, Australian cricketer.
19
Andre the Seal , 25, American harbor seal .[ 27]
Alfredo Binda , 83, Italian racing cyclist.
James Jewett Carnes , 86, American soldier.
Daniel L. Fapp , 82, American cinematographer (The Great Escape , West Side Story ).
Česlovas Gedgaudas , 77, Soviet Lithuanian diplomat.
Noel Hazzard , 62, Australian rugby league player.
Alfred Leopold Luongo , 65, American jurist.[ 28]
Margaret Schlauch , 87, American-Polish historian.
Harold Schuster , 83, American film director.
Murray Vaughan , 87, Canadian philanthropist.
20
Joan Bennett , 90, British literary scholar.
Helen Craig , 74, American actress, cardiac arrest.[ 29]
Liviu Damian , 51, Romanian writer.
Eric Donaldson , 86, Australian rules footballer.
Sam Gary , 69, American blues musician.
Héctor Guerrero , 59, Mexican Olympic basketball player (1948 , 1952 ).
Bo Molenda , 81, American NFL football player.
Bill Steinecke , 79, American Major League baseball player.
21
José Avelino , 95, Filipino politician.
Ion Caraion , 63, Romanian poet.
Cyrus Hashemi , 47, Iranian arms dealer, leukemia.
Kenneth Holland , 75, English cricketer.
John J. Livingood , 83, American physicist.[ 30]
Ernest Maas , 94, American screenwriter.
Timothy O'Connor , 79, Irish politician, TD (1961–1981).
Zhang Yuzhe , 84, Chinese astronomer.
22
Aurelian Andreescu , 44, Romanian singer, heart attack.
Ted Baker , 85, Australian rules footballer.
Ren-Chang Ching , 88, Chinese botanist.
Edward Garmatz , 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1973).[ 31]
Jacques Gelman , 75–77, Russian-born Mexican film producer.
Floyd Gottfredson , 81, American comic book cartoonist.[ 32]
Ede Staal , 44, Dutch musician, cancer.
23
Adolfo Baloncieri , 88, Italian footballer.
Benny Benack , 64, American jazz musician.
Karel Kváček , 74, Czech Olympic wrestler (1936 ).
Billy Joe Mantooth , 35, American NFL football player, traffic collision.
Sir Bryan Matthews , 80, British physiologist.
Carlos Humberto Rodríguez Quirós , 76, Costa Rican Roman Catholic prelate.
Don Seymour , 70, Australian rules footballer.
Kazimierz Sikorski , 91, Polish composer.
Mavis Sweeney , 76–77, Australian pharmacist.
Sylvanus A. Tyler , 71, American mathematician.[ 33]
Sofia W. D. , 61, Indonesian actress and film director.
24
Bernie Bradley , 76, American sports coach.
Clarence Garlow , 75, American musician.
Jim Gordon , 77, Australian soldier.
Urban Hansen , 77, Danish politician.
Lee Hepner , 65, Canadian conductor.
Willy Kaiser , 74, German Olympic boxer (1936 ).
Karl Kühn , 82, Austrian Olympic cyclist (1936 ).
Jayadevi Taayi Ligade , 74, Indian poet.
Fritz Albert Lipmann , 87, German-American biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1953).[ 34]
Laurie Nash , 76, Australian rules footballer and cricketer.
Karel Nedobitý , 80, Czechoslovak Olympic runner (1924 , 1928 ).
Fernand Pouillon , 74, French architect.
Qudrat Ullah Shahab , 69, Pakistani writer.
Trần Văn Chương , 88, South Vietnamese diplomat, strangled.
Yoshiyuki Tsuruta , 82, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1928 , 1932 ), stroke.
25
John Coldham , 85, English cricketer.
Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph , 71, Ghanaian jurist.
Eric Hawkey , 77, Australian Anglican prelate.
Ted Lyons , 85, American Hall of Fame Major League baseball player and manager (Chicago White Sox ).[ 35]
Vincente Minnelli , 83, American film director.[ 36]
Thomas Moone , 77, American Olympic ice hockey player (1936 ).
Alison Parrott , 11, Canadian murder victim.
26
Frederick W. Ford , 76, American government official, chairman of the FCC (1960–1961).[ 37]
Bill Gore , 74, American chemical engineer.
W. Averell Harriman , 94, American politician, governor of New York (1955–1958), U.S. secretary of commerce (1946–1948).[ 38]
Heinz Lazek , 74, Austrian-German boxer.
Gerda Madsen , 84, Danish actress.
Dominique Mbonyumutwa , 65, Rwandan politician, interim president (1961).
Mubarak , 77, Indian actor and film director.
Ervin Mueller , 81, American politician.
Sukarno M. Noor , 54, Indonesian actor.
Boris Režek , 77, Slovenian Olympic skier (1928 ).
Webb Schultz , 88, American Major League baseball player.
Edwin DeHaven Steel Jr. , 82, American jurist.
Ken Watson , 81, Canadian curler.
Frederick S. Wight , 84, American painter.
27
Margarita Argúas , 83, Argentine lawyer.
Henry Bridges , 70, American saxophonist.
Anna Sofie Boesen Dreijer , 87, Danish costume designer.
Louise Fluke , 86, American art teacher, designed the flag of Oklahoma .
Bud Hafey , 73, American Major league baseball player.
LeRoy Holmes , 72, American musician.[ 39]
Hitoshi Kihara , 92, Japanese geneticist.
Sir Osbert Lancaster , 77, English cartoonist.
Nan McKay , 93, Canadian librarian.
Dorothea Neff , 83, Austrian actress.
28
John Alcott , 55, English cinematographer, heart attack.[ 40]
William C. Andrews , 85, British art director.
Karel Aubroeck , 91, Belgian sculptor.
Jim Braxton , 37, American NFL football player, lung cancer.[ 41]
Syd Curnow , 78, South African cricketer.
Edmund Kolanowski , 38, Polish serial killer, execution by hanging.
Ernst Leuenberger , 85, Swiss trade unionist.
Yvan Leyvraz , 31–32, Swiss humanitarian (Solidar Suisse ), shot.
Cristóbal Martí , 83, Spanish footballer.
Cliff Melton , 74, American Major League baseball player.
Joe Oeschger , 94, American Major League baseball player.
Bruce Irving Rankin , 67–68, Canadian diplomat.
Karl-Heinrich Schulz , 80, German general.
Annemarie Selinko , 71, Austrian novelist.
Sir Frank Simpson , 87, British general.
29
Richard David Barnett , 77, British archaeologist.
Ford Brand , 81–82, Canadian politician.
Vittorio Chierroni , 69, Italian Olympic skier (1936 , 1948 ).
David Cooper , 54–55, South African psychiatrist.
Deng Jiaxian , 62, Chinese physicist.[ 42]
Nello Falaschi , 73, American NFL football player.
Philip Holligan , 88, British flying ace.
Joe Kopcha , 80, American NFL football player.
Erkki Leikola , 85, Finnish politician.
Gordon Mills , 51, British songwriter ("It's Not Unusual ") and music manager, stomach cancer.[ 43]
Werner Pinzner , 39, German contract killer , suicide by gunshot.
Michael M. Sacher , 68, British business executive.
Idris Suleymanov , 71, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier.
30
Idrees Baig , 74–75, Pakistani cricket umpire.
Stuart Bergsma , 85, American physician and missionary.
Sir Clarence Bird , 101, British general.
Câmara Cascudo , 87, Brazilian anthropologist.
Pina Cipriotto , 75, Italian Olympic gymnast (1936 ).
Bill Clark , 60, American drummer.
James Crockett , 76, American soccer player.
John N. Dalton , 55, American politician, governor of Virginia (1978–1982), lung cancer.[ 44]
Ray Hayes , 80, American NBL basketball player.
Mickey Heath , 82, American Major League baseball player.
Bill Jones , 65, Australian rules footballer.
Alistair Knox , 74, Australian architect.
Konstantine Lortkipanidze , 81, Soviet Georgian writer.
William Saunders , 71, American jockey, cancer.
Lou Sino , 55, American trombonist.
Gaffney Smith , 81–82, American football player.
Alfred Wilcox , 66, English cricketer.
31
Mac Aldrich , 85, American football player.
John Anderson , 42, American racing driver, traffic collision.[ 45]
Enric Casals , 94, Spanish musician.
Lea Davidova-Medene , 65, Soviet Latvian sculptor.
Henri Elby , 67, French politician.
Stanley Ellin , 69, American writer.
John C. Houlihan , 75, American politician.
Iustin , 76, Romanian Orthodox prelate, patriarch (since 1977).[ 46]
Diana King , 67, English actress, cancer.
Bill Loika , 64, American football coach, cancer.
Chiune Sugihara , 86, Japanese diplomat and humanitarian.
Ludwig Wessely , 82, Austrian Olympic hurdler (1928 ).
Teddy Wilson , 73, American pianist, stomach cancer.[ 47]
Harold Woolley, Baron Woolley , 81, British unionist and life peer.
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