The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 1986
1
Dame Margaret Blackwood , 77, Australian botanist and geneticist.
Emery Blagdon , 78, American artist.
Jo Gartner , 32, Austrian racing driver, racing crash .
Alex Gorgal , 86, Polish-born American NFL football player.
Manuel Gouveia , 62, Portuguese Olympic gymnast (1952 ).
Ernst Hack , 39, Austrian Olympic wrestler (1972 ).
Mason Hoffenberg , 63, American writer, lung cancer.[ 1]
Floyd Johnson , 85, American boxer.
Anděla Kozáková-Jírová , 89, Czech lawyer.
Herschel Levit , 74, American artist.
Rudolf Sonneborn , 87, American oil executive.[ 2]
George G. Tapper , 69, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1947–1951) and Senate (1953–1956, 1965).
Charles F. Wennerstrum , 96, American jurist.[ 3]
Edmund Wood , 83, English footballer.
2
Stanley Corrsin , 66, American physicist.
T. S. Durairaj , 75, Indian filmmaker.
Jimmy Grafton , 70, English screenwriter and theatre agent.
Hartmann Grasser , 71, German flying ace.
Arthur Hoérée , 89, Belgian musicologist.
Aurèle Joliat , 84, Canadian NHL ice hockey player.[ 4]
Lya Lys , 78, German-born American actress, heart failure.
Fay Marbe , 87, American actress.
Wendell H. Meade , 74, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1949).
Nanha , 43, Pakistani actor and comedian, suicide by gunshot.
Frank D. Upchurch , 92, American politician, member of the Florida Senate (1943).
Peter Wilson , 79, New Zealand cricketer.
3
Ted Bank , 88, American football player and coach.
Aloys Bigirumwami , 81, Rwandan Roman Catholic prelate.
Colin English , 90, American academic administrator.
John Gilmour , 79, British botanist.
Grace Wyndham Goldie , 86, British television producer.
Robert La Tourneaux , 45, American actor, AIDS.
Max Munk , 95, German-American aerospace engineer.
Dame Anna Neagle , 81, English actress.[ 5]
Louie De Votie Newton , 94, American Baptist leader.
Jack Orrison , 76, American actor and screenwriter.
Michael Taylor , 59, American interior designer.[ 6]
Frans Van Dessel , 75, Belgian footballer.
Patricia Wheel , 60, American actress.[ 7]
4
Frederick Chauncy , 81, British Olympic hurdler (1928 ).
Dame Helen Gardner , 78, English literary critic.
Charles Harrison , 71, Australian politician.
Ahmad Saeed Kazmi , 73, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
Tom Lee , 66, American politician, member of the New Mexico Senate (1967–1978).
Vladas Mieželis , 91, Soviet Lithuanian general.
Clifford Mollison , 89, British actor.
Len Scott , 79, New Zealand rugby league player.
Paul Stevens , 65, American actor, pneumonia.[ 8]
5
Dolly Akers , 85, American politician.
John Francis Bannon , 80–81, American historian.
John Bevan , 38, Welsh rugby player, cancer.
Fanny Buss , 76, New Zealand fashion designer.
Robert DiBernardo , 49, American mobster (Gambino crime family ), shot.
Bryan Grant , 76, American tennis player.[ 9]
Helmut Grunsky , 81, German mathematician.
Sybil Kennedy , 86, Canadian sculptor.
Alexander Lipmann-Kessel , 71, South African surgeon.
Henri Michel , 79, French historian.
Togo Mizrahi , 85, Egyptian actor and filmmaker.
Joe Mulligan , 72, American Major League baseball player.
Andor Ónody , 65, Hungarian football player and manager.
Arthur Pink , 85, Australian rules footballer.
Ernie Roderick , 72, British boxer.
Lisa Ullrich , 85, German politician.
Jesse Winters , 92, American Major League baseball player.
6
John Carmichael , 83, American sports journalist.
George Fazio , 73, American golfer.[ 10]
Joseph Fischer , 77, Luxembourgian footballer.
Dennis Grainger , 66, English footballer.
Petrus Hugo , 68, South African flying ace.
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar , 95, Indian writer.
William Joynt , 97, Australian author.
Valentyn Rechmedin , 70, Soviet Ukrainian journalist.
Dick Rowe , 64, British record producer.
Henry Nash Smith , 79, American literary scholar.
Robert Stuart , 77, Argentine cricketer.
Johnnie Tolan , 68, American racing driver.
Ramón Torralba , 90, Spanish footballer.
Annes Varjun , 78, Soviet Estonian ceramicist.
Grinton I. Will , 83, American librarian.
Tony Wright , 60, English actor.
7
Lloyd M. Bradfield , 85, American football and basketball coach.
James Fifer , 55, American Olympic rower (1956 ).
Georges Halbout , 90, French sculptor.
Brooks Holder , 71, American baseball player.
Jan Kavan , 81, Czech sculptor.
Morice Lipsi , 88, French sculptor.
Ralph Pickford , 83, English psychologist.
Pilloo Pochkhanawala , 63, Indian sculptor, cancer.
Sara Sadíqova , 79, Soviet actress and singer.
Taungpulu Kaba-Aye Sayadaw , 89, Burmese Buddhist monk.
8
Harold Abbott , 79, Australian painter.
Anthony Turner Andreasen , 79, British surgeon.
Harry Frederick Baker , 81, Australian aviator and motorcycle racer.
Thomas Burrow , 76, British Indologist .
F. Curtis Canfield , 82, American theatre director.
Elsa Gidlow , 87, British-born Canadian-American writer.
Vernon Loton , 80, Australian cricketer.
Edward Montgomery , 79, Australian politician.
9
Arnaldo Benfenati , 62, Italian racing cyclist.
Matilde Díaz Vélez , 86, Argentine philanthropist.
Ilona Harima , 75, Finnish artist.
Edwin Kuh , 61, American economist.[ 11]
Ernst Peschl , 79, German mathematician.
Milton Richman , 64, American sports journalist, heart attack.[ 12]
Karl Skytte , 78, Danish politician.
Tony Starcer , 66, American soldier and artist.
Glan Williams , 74, British caricaturist.
10
Emilio de los Santos , 82, Dominican politician, president of the Dominican Republic (1963).
Franc Hale , 79–81, American actress.
Merle Miller , 67, American writer.
Edgar Petersen , 82, German fighter pilot.
Louis Risacher , 91, French flying ace.
Edward Sagarin , 72, American sociologist, heart attack.
Dick Sudirman , 64, Indonesian badminton player.
Dennis Thompson , 61, English footballer.
Reginald Lawson Waterfield , 86, British astronomer.
William C. White , 89, American football coach.
Samuel Zauber , 85, Romanian footballer.
11
James Amster , 77, American interior decorator, leukemia.
Chesley Bonestell , 98, American painter.[ 13]
Marcantonio Bragadin , 79, Italian naval admiral.
Porter Charleston , 82, American baseball player.
Frank Cousins , 81, British politician, MP (1965–1966).
Reed De Rouen , 69, American actor and screenwriter.
Alfred Goulder , 78, English cricketer.
John J. Kinzer , 95, American politician.
Robert K. Ottum , 61, American sports journalist, cancer.
Jim Trueman , 51, American businessman and racing team owner, colon cancer.[ 14]
12
Jackie Burns , 79, English footballer.
Pierce H. Deamer Jr. , 79, American politician, member of the New Jersey State Senate (1962–1966).
Harry Hanson , 85, Swedish Olympic sailor (1928 ).
Edward Henderson , 76, English Anglican prelate.
Harry Houghton , 85, British Olympic athlete (1924 , 1928 ).
Zdeněk Koubek , 72, Czech track athlete.
Geoffrey Raphael , 76, English cricketer.
Naboua Ratieta , 48, I-Kiribati politician.
William Byron Rumford , 78, American politician.
Seonu Hwi , 64, South Korean novelist.
Basil Snell , 79, British Anglican prelate.
Murray Van Wagoner , 88, American politician, governor of Michigan (1941–1943).[ 15]
John Steven Watson , 70, English historian and academic administrator.
13
Frank Abruzzino , 78, American NFL football player.
R. Bintoro , 61, Indonesian general.
Eugene Brodhagen , 68, American football and wrestling coach.
Deep Diver , 17, British Thoroughbred racehorse.
Wilfrid Eggleston , 85, British-Canadian journalist.
Jim Ferrier , 71, Australian-American golfer.[ 16]
Benny Goodman , 77, American bandleader and swing musician, heart attack.[ 17]
Dana McLean Greeley , 77, American Unitarian leader.
Harlan N. Hartness , 88, American general.[ 18]
John Jerome Hill , 67, American politician.
Tom Klose , 68, Australian cricketer.
Dean Reed , 47, American-East German singer and actor, drowned.[ 19]
Ulla Strömstedt , 46, Swedish actress.
Carl O. Wegner , 88, American politician.
Adam Yacenda , 70, American political advisor and newspaper publisher.
14
Dimitrije Bogdanović , 55, Yugoslav historian.
Jaap Boot , 83, Dutch Olympic athlete (1924 ).
Jorge Luis Borges , 86, Argentine writer, liver cancer.[ 20]
Mushy Callahan , 80, American boxer.
James A. Cullimore , 80, American Mormon leader.
John Daley , 80, English cricketer.
Joan Eyles , 78, British geologist.
Ben Field , 85, American novelist.
David Kalstone , 52–53, American literary critic, AIDS.
Kim Swoo-geun , 55, South Korean architect.
Alan Jay Lerner , 67, American lyricist, lung cancer.[ 21]
Denis McGrath , 75, New Zealand politician and lawyer.
Norbert Nuttelman , 75, American politician.
Giorgio Pellini , 62, Italian Olympic fencer (1948 , 1952 ).
Marlin Perkins , 81, American zoologist (Wild Kingdom ), lymphatic cancer.[ 22]
Robert Presnell Jr. , 71, American screenwriter.
Settimio Simonini , 72, Italian racing cyclist.
Karl Söllner , 83, Austrian-American chemist.
Anthony Spilotro , 48, American mobster, blunt force trauma.
Michael Spilotro , 41, American mobster, blunt force trauma.
15
Choi Yong-sool , 81, South Korean martial artist, founder of Hapkido .
Frank Dickens , 86, English biochemist.
Francis Galtier , 79, French Olympic sprinter (1924 ).
Sambhu Ghosh , 59, Indian politician.
Willie Hoel , 65, Norwegian actor.
William Howard Melish , 76, American social leader and Anglican priest.[ 23]
Otto Rathsman , 68, Swedish diplomat.
Walter V. Schaefer , 81, American jurist.
Werner Streib , 75, German flying ace.
Keki Tarapore , 75, Indian cricketer.
Rini Templeton , 50, American artist.
Donald Tye , 73, American baseball player.
16
Christian Beullac , 62, French politician.
Danny Clapton , 51, English footballer.
Lady Diana Cooper , 93, English actress and aristocrat.[ 24]
Maurice Duruflé , 84, French composer.[ 25]
Joe Greene , 71, American songwriter, kidney failure.
John Hayes , 88, Australian politician.
Léon Lippens , 74, Belgian naturalist.
Erlendur Patursson , 72, Faroese politician.
George Pearce , 77, English cricketer.
Juanchín Ramírez , 80, Puerto Rican musician.
Luisa Sala , 62, Spanish actress, choked.
Joginder Sen , 81, Indian politician and diplomat.
17
Anahareo , 79, Canadian animal rights activist.
William Attaway , 74, American author, heart failure.
Leonardo Borgese , 81, Italian painter.
Prink Callison , 86, American football player and coach.
Edward Francis Cavanagh Jr. , 79, American firefighter.
Rick Concannon , 78, American NFL football player.
Ted J. Kent , 84, American film editor.
Desiderio Medina , 66, Chilean footballer.
Gilbert Raynes , 82, British Olympic gymnast (1928 ).
Felipe Rosas , 76, Mexican footballer.
Kate Smith , 79, American singer, respiratory arrest.[ 26]
Joseph Stone, Baron Stone , 83, British physician.
Harold W. Tribble , 86, American academic administrator.
Archie Wood , 60, Scottish footballer.
Domingo Zaldúa , 82, Spanish footballer.
18
Albert Anderson , 78, Northern Irish politician.
Ara Bekaryan , 73, Soviet Armenian painter.
Frances Scott Fitzgerald , 64, American writer, throat cancer.[ 27]
Walter Gilbert , 87, Canadian-American pilot.
Sonja Johnsson , 90, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1912 ).
Sidney Lens , 74, American political activist and author, melanoma.
Khandavalli Lakshmi Ranjanam , 78, Indian writer.
Floyd Van Nest Schultz , 75, American electrical engineer.
Frederick Spence , 84, South African cricketer.
Charles Twigg , 93, English-born South African cricketer.
Jack Wagener , 81, English cricketer.
19
Bentot , 65, Filipino comedian, heart failure.
Len Bias , 22, American basketball player, cocaine overdose.
Lindley Bothwell , 84, American agriculturalist.
Coluche , 41, French comedian and actor, traffic collision.[ 28]
Nelson Cruikshank , 83, American labor activist.
Antonio Díaz Martínez , 53, Peruvian communist activist, shot .
Lidiya Khaindrova , 76, Soviet poet.
Ryuichi Matsuda , 65, Japanese entomologist.
Paulina Radziulytė , 81, Soviet Lithuanian-American basketball player and Olympic runner (1928 ).
Jules-Jean Ravel , 85, French politician.
Norb Sacksteder , 90, American NFL football player.
Sir Shiu-kin Tang , 85, Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist.
Ronald L. Thompson , 86, American politician.
Alfred Vagts , 93, German-American historian and poet.
William Webster , 76, English cricketer.
20
Peter Boughey , 74, British special agent.
H. G. Cochran , 62, American prison warden and politician.
David Vivian Currie , 73, Canadian soldier.
The Duke of Paducah , 85, American comedian and banjoist.[ 29]
Julie Duncan , 67, American actress.
Richard Eybner , 90, Austrian actor.
Joseph Forer , 75, American attorney.
Tim Herbert , 71, American actor, heart attack.
Roy Shepherd , 78–79, Australian pianist.
Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit , 82, Dutch poet and literary historian.
Béla Szepes , 82, Hungarian Olympic skier and athlete (1924 , 1928 ).
William Horace Taylor , 96, Canadian politician, MP (1926–1945).
21
Ivan Burenin , 89, Soviet general.
Cathal Coughlan , 48, Irish politician, TD (since 1983).
Roger Drayton , 61, New Zealand politician, MP (1969–1978).
Lloyd Espenschied , 97, American electrical engineer.[ 30]
Georges Garreau , 83, French Olympic diver (1924 ).
Archduchess Margaretha of Austria , 92, Austrian royal.
Helge Miettunen , 69, Finnish politician.
Helmut Petri , 78, German anthropologist.
Arnie Portocarrero , 54, American Major League baseball player.
Assi Rahbani , 63, Lebanese musician.
22
Mary Anderson , 88, American actress.
Alpheus Deane , 69, American baseball player.
Joséphine Thérèse Koster , 83, Dutch botanist.
Urban Odson , 67, American NFL football player.
William J. Scott , 59, American politician, heart attack.[ 31]
Luciano Sderci , 61, Italian violin maker.
Rufus Stokes , 61, American mechanic and inventor, mesothelioma.
Martin Thornton , 70, English theologian.
Pauline Vinson , 70, American artist.
Robert F. Young , 71, American science fiction writer.
23
Geraldine Aves , 87, British civil servant and social reformist.
Marko Čelebonović , 83, Yugoslav painter.
Renato De Sanzuane , 61, Italian Olympic water polo player (1952 ).
Alfred Paul Dorjahn , 91, American classicist.
Sir Moses Finley , 74, American-born British classical scholar, stroke.[ 32]
Jerzy Putrament , 75, Polish writer and politician.
Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen , 78, British jurist.
Kåre Siem , 72, Norwegian musician.
Nigel Stock , 66, British actor.[ 33]
24
Mika Antić , 54, Yugoslav film director and poet.
Liliane Barrard , 37–38, French mountaineer, hypoxia .
Maurice Barrard , 44–45, French mountaineer, hypoxia .
Tove Birkelund , 57, Danish geologist.
Ray Bomba , 79, American sound editor.
Sidney M. Cadwell , 93, American polymer scientist.
Elwood Engel , 69, American vehicle designer.
Thomas M. Fitzpatrick , 95, American football and basketball player and coach.
Loy Hanning , 68, American Major League baseball player.
George Howe , 86, English actor.
Ján Kroner , 59, Czechoslovak actor.
Jesse Marcel , 79, American Air Force colonel, investigator of the Roswell incident .
Ximena McGlashan , 92, American entomologist.
Lodovico Rocca , 90, Italian composer.
Annabelle Terhune , 82, American journalist.
Rex Warner , 81, English classicist.
Dennis Ziadie , 39, Jamaican footballer, traffic collision.
25
Laurie Fishlock , 79, English cricketer.
Francis J. Galbraith , 72, American diplomat.
Kazimierz Gzowski , 84, Polish Olympic equestrian (1928 ).
Gwilym Kessey , 67, Australian cricketer.
A. J. Lockhart , 88, American baseball player.
Gabriel Lozès , 68, Beninese politician, diplomat and physician.
Clarence C. Mitchell , 89, American politician.
Reinhold Münzenberg , 77, German footballer.
Ivan Sabolić , 64, Yugoslav sculptor.
Dame Mary Welsh , 89, British military personnel.
26
Sanford Brown , 77, American politician.
Aimé Deolet , 80, Belgian racing cyclist.
Gong Zutong , 81, Chinese optical physicist.
William Lovelock , 87, English composer.
Kunio Maekawa , 81, Japanese architect.
Ed Molinski , 68, American football player.
Sir Jock Pagan , 72, Australian politician and businessman.
Sid Plunkett , 65, English footballer.
Stewart W. Proudfoot , 77, Canadian politician.
Ruth Roach , 89–90, American rodeo equestrian.
Charles Rogers , 84, American NFL football player and coach.
Teiji Takai , 75, Japanese painter.
Väino Tamm , 55, Soviet Estonian interior designer.
Seif el-Din el-Zoubi , 72–73, Israeli politician.
27
Nellie Weldon Cocroft , 100, American composer.
Edna Mae Cooper , 85, American actress.
Zoltán Gárdonyi , 80, Hungarian composer.
Charles Jordan , 71, Canadian singer.
Joe Maphis , 65, American guitarist, lung cancer.
Jock McNaughton , 74, Scottish footballer.
Bill Miller , 50, Australian rules footballer.
Don Rogers , 23, American NFL football player, cocaine overdose.
Albert Wiesener , 84, Norwegian lawyer.
28
Pearly Brown , 70, American singer and guitarist.
Haji Mohammad Danesh , 86, Bangladeshi politician.
Gilberte Géniat , 70, French actress.
Yvonne Hakim-Rimpel , 79–80, Haitian journalist and feminist, heart attack.
Frank Jewett , 69, American Olympic sailor (1936 ).
Marjorie Tuite , 63, American social activist, pancreatic cancer.
29
Thomas Albright , 76, American baseball player.
Mario Amaya , 52, American museum director, AIDS.
Lako Bodra , 66, Indian writer and linguist.
Jack Christiansen , 57, American NFL football player.[ 34]
Walter Early Craig , 77, American jurist.
Robert Drivas , 50, American actor, AIDS.[ 35]
John Porter East , 55, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (since 1981), suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
Dusolina Giannini , 83, American-Swiss singer.
Clair L. Gleason , 63, American college sports coach.
Tiko Jelisavčić , 56–57, Yugoslav football player and coach.
Wendell P. Kay , 72, American politician.
Earl Landgrebe , 70, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1969–1975), heart attack.[ 36]
Edward D. MacArthur , 66, Canadian politician.
Kyaw Nyein , 73, Burmese politician.
Dan Pagis , 55, Israeli poet, cancer.
Sir Desmond Pond , 66, British psychiatrist.
Siddiqur Rahman , 34, Bangladeshi politician.
Robert Ryder , 78, British politician, MP (1950–1955).
Kenyon Taylor , 78, English electrical engineer.
Cliff Townshend , 70, English saxophonist.
Wirt Williams , 64, American journalist and novelist.
Frank Wise , 89, Australian politician.
30
Fernando Ansola , 46, Spanish footballer.
Jack Beveridge , 79, Australian rules footballer.
Pierre Costantini , 97, French soldier and journalist.
Horst Förster , 66, German conductor.
Margalo Gillmore , 89, English-born American actress, cancer.[ 37]
Guan Zilan , 83, Chinese painter.
Roman Gul , 89, Russian-American writer.
Soichi Ichida , 75, Japanese philatelist.
László Lékai , 76, Hungarian Roman Catholic cardinal.[ 38]
Mauricio Magdaleno , 80, Mexican filmmaker.
Marjorie Matthews , 70, American Methodist bishop, breast cancer.
Juan Alberto Montes , 83, Argentine historian.
Iris Noble , 64, Canadian-American biographer.
Almeda Riddle , 87, American singer.
Ernst Sabeditsch , 66, Austrian footballer.
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