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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

December 1986

1

• Ernest Burkhart, 94, American murderer (Osage Indian murders).
• Lee Dorsey, 61, American singer ("Ya Ya", "Working in the Coal Mine"), emphysema.
• Horace Heidt, 85, American pianist and big band leader.
• Bobby Layne, 59, American NFL footballer (Detroit Lions), cardiac arrest.
• Robert Lee, 73, Taiwanese-born British actor (Mind Your Language).
• Lien Chen-tung, 82, Taiwanese politician, Minister of the Interior.
• Frank McCarthy, 74, American U.S. army general and film producer (Patton), cancer.
• Martin John O'Connor, 86, American Roman Catholic Prelate, rector of the Pontifical North American College.
• Wanis al-Qaddafi, 64, Libyan politician, prime minister of Libya, heart attack.

2

• Desi Arnaz, 69, Cuban-American actor (I Love Lucy) and television producer (Desilu), lung cancer.
• Vrest Orton, 89, American businessman (Vermont Country Store).
• Billy Rancher, 29, American musician, cancer.
• Ken Scott, 58, American actor.
• Dick van Dyke, 55, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives, suicide.
• Eli L. Whiteley, 72, American infantry captain in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient, heart attack.

3

• Ajit Kumar Basu, 73–74, Indian cardiac surgeon, recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.
• Lena Frances Edwards, 86, American physician, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom.
• Austin Hayes, 28, English-born footballer (Northampton Town, Ireland), lung cancer.
• Bob Howard, 80, American singer.
• Anthony Mascarenhas, 58, Pakistani journalist and author (Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood).
• Bob Moorhead, 48, American Major League baseballer (New York Mets).

4

• Campo Elías Delgado, 52, Colombian spree killer, shot.
• Reuben Nakian, 89, American sculptor, heart failure.

5

• Raymond Caruana, 26, Maltese political activist, shot.
• Nil Ratan Dhar, 94, Indian soil scientist, founding member of The World Academy of Sciences, complications from fall.
• Charles Duguid, 102, Scottish-born Australian physician and Aboriginal rights activist.
• Roberto Escalada, 72, Argentinian actor, heart attack.
• Theodor Kretschmer, 85, Nazi German Wehrmacht general, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
• Lê Trọng Tấn, 72, Vietnamese army general.
• Rolf Schock, 53, French-born American philosopher, accident while repairing vehicle.
• Edward Youde, 65, British politician and diplomat, Governor of Hong Kong, ambassador to China, heart attack.

6

• René Brô, 56, French artist.
• Rozelle Gayle, 67, American jazz pianist and actor, cancer.
• Robert J. Love, 68, Canadian-born American flying ace, heart failure.
• Bhagwan Sahay, 81, Indian politician, governor of Kerala and Jammu and Kashmir.

7

• Enrico Arrigoni, 92, Italian-American anarchist and political activist.
• Roberto Bianchi Montero, 79, Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
• Sydney J. Harris, 69, American journalist (Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times).
• Concha Méndez, 88, Spanish poet and dramatist (Generation of '27).
• Homa J. Porter, 90, American businessman and political activist.

8

• Ernst Biberstein, 87, Nazi German colonel and war criminal.
• Harrison Brown, 69, American nuclear chemist and geochemist (Manhattan Project), lung cancer.
• Walter E. Foran, 67, American politician, member of New Jersey Senate, lung cancer.
• Georg Henke, 78, East German diplomat, ambassador to North Korea.
• Hollywood Fats, 32, American blues guitarist, heart attack.
• Anatoly Marchenko, 48, Soviet dissident and author, hunger strike.
• John Melville, 84, British painter.
• Arthur S. Moreau Jr., 55, American naval admiral, heart attack.
• Heinz Neukirchen, 71, Nazi German naval admiral.
• Henry Reed, 72, British poet and radio dramatist.
• Christopher Sykes, 79, English writer and biographer.
• Harald Throne-Holst, 81, Norwegian chemical engineer, president of the Federation of Norwegian Industries.

9

• Linda Cook, 24, English murder victim.
• Éamon de Valera, Jnr., 73, Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist, illegally supplied babies to childless couples.
• Maurice E. Dockrell, 78, Irish politician, Teachta Dála, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
• T. J. Morgan, 79, Welsh academic, Professor of Welsh at Swansea University.
• Walter J. Stoessel Jr., 66, American diplomat, U.S. Secretary of State, ambassador to three countries, leukemia.
• Maxwell Wintrobe, 85, Austrian-born American physician (hematology).
• Anatoly Zverev, 55, Russian artist.

10

• George Ambrum, 43, Australian rugby league player (North Sydney, Australia).
• Susan Cabot, 59, American actress (Tomahawk, Gunsmoke), murdered.
• Bruno Mora, 49, Italian footballer (AC Milan, Italy), stomach tumour.
• Fred Stone, 51, Canadian musician.
• Leon G. Turrou, 91, American special agent with the FBI.
• Kate Wolf, 44, American folk singer, leukemia.

11

• Karl-Gustav Lagerfelt, 77, Swedish diplomat, ambassador to Austria and the Netherlands.
• Clarence A. Martin, 90, American army general.
• Fritz Maurischat, 93, German production designer (Martin Luther).
• Gus Walker, 74, English bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force.

12

• Rashid Choudhury, 54, Bangladeshi artist.
• Antoni Gościński, 77, Polish medic and Nazi concentration camp internee.
• Gary Lewis, 44, American NFL football player (San Francisco 49ers), Lou Gehrig's disease.
• Harry Owens, 84, American bandleader and songwriter ("Sweet Leilani").
• Carlos Ramírez, 70, Colombian baritone and actor.
• Alexander H. Smith, 82, American mycologist (fungi).
• Clifford Stine, 80, American cinematographer (The Incredible Shrinking Man).
• Paul Verner, 75, East German politician (Socialist Unity Party of Germany).
• Buddy Williams, 68, Australian country singer.
• Johnny Wyrostek, 67, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds).

13

• Heather Angel, 77, British actress (Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland), cancer.
• Ella Baker, 83, American civil rights activist.
• Kuwasi Balagoon, 39, American anarchist and political activist (Black Panther Party), fungal pneumonia.
• Glyn Daniel, 72, Welsh archaeologist and editor (Antiquity).
• Thomas Jefferson, 66, American jazz trumpeter.
• Martha Mears, 76, American singer ("Long Ago (and Far Away)", "My Foolish Heart").
• Smita Patil, 31, Indian actress (Bhumika, Chakra), complications from childbirth.
• Kim Peyton, 29, American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist, brain tumour.
• İlhami Sancar, 76–77, Turkish politician, Ministry of National Defense).
• Henry Winston, 75, American political activist, member of Communist Party USA.

14

• Bassey Eyo Ephraim Adam III, 81, Nigerian Efik leader.
• Cheryl Araujo, 25, American rape victim who inspired the movie The Accused, traffic collision.
• Claude Bertrand, 67, French actor, cancer.
• Antal Páger, 87, Hungarian actor (Drama of the Lark).
• Pedro Sainz Rodríguez, 89, Spanish writer and royal advisor.
• Teh Cheang Wan, 58, Singaporean politician (Minister of National Development), suicide.

15

• David James, 66, British politician, author and adventurer, Member of Parliament.
• Friedrich Karl von Koenig-Warthausen, 80, German aviator and world circumnavigator.
• Serge Lifar, 81, Soviet and French ballet dancer and choreographer (Paris Opera).
• Seymour Lipton, 83, American sculptor (New York School).
• Mykolas Ruzgys, 71, American-born Lithuanian basketball player and coach.
• John Zaremba, 78, American actor (Ben Casey, The Time Tunnel).

16

• Clyde Vidrine, 47–48, American bodyguard for Edwin Edwards, shot.

17

• Peter Beauvais, 70, German television director and scriptwriter.
• Guillermo Cano Isaza, 61, Colombian journalist, editor of El Espectador, murdered.
• Oscar Goldman, 60–61, American mathematician.
• Oakley Haldeman, 77, American songwriter, composer and author ("Here Comes Santa Claus").
• Władysław Moes, 86, Polish landowner, inspiration for Tadzio in Death in Venice.
• Mary Verghese, 61, Indian physician.

18

• George Amy, 83, American film editor (Air Force, Yankee Doodle Dandy).
• Mamo Clark, 72, American actress (One Million B.C.), cancer.
• Winifred Deforest Coffin, 75, American actress (The Red Skelton Show).
• John D. deButts, 71, American businessman, chief executive officer of AT&T, heart attack.
• Morton Fried, 63, American anthropology teacher, cardiac arrest.
• Dorothy Molter, 79, American resort owner (Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness).
• Thomas M. Tarpley, 64, American general in the U.S. Army.

19

• V. C. Andrews, 63, American novelist (Flowers in the Attic), breast cancer.
• Andrei Chabanenko, 77, Soviet naval admiral.
• Werner Dankwort, 91, German diplomat, ambassador to Brazil and Canada.
• Fritiof Fryxell, 86, American geologist and naturalist.
• Hulan Jack, 79, Saint Lucian–born American politician, cancer.
• Kenyon Nicholson, 92, American playwright.
• Ernest Gordon Rupp, 76, British Methodist preacher, theologian and historian.

20

• Ferdinand Brandner, 83, Austrian aerospace engineer, Nazi SS member.
• Rossella Como, 47, Italian actress and television personality, cancer.
• Joe DeSa, 27, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Cardinals), traffic collision.
• Julie Kogon, 68, American lightweight boxer.
• Kathleen Morris, 93, Canadian painter, member of Beaver Hall Group.
• William A. Nolen, 58, American surgeon and medical columnist (McCall's magazine).
• Silvano Melea Otieno, 54–55, Kenyan lawyer, heart attack.
• Sir Harry Platt, 100, English orthopaedic surgeon, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
• Floriano Vaz, 23, Indian writer, shot.

21

• Willy Coppens, 94, Belgian flying ace, "balloon buster".
• Gilbert Laithwaite, 92, Irish-born British diplomat.
• S. Nadesan, 82, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.
• Francis Junior Pierce, 62, American hospital corpsman, Medal of Honor recipient, lung cancer.
• Bill Simpson, 55, Scottish actor (Dr. Finlay's Casebook), pneumonia.

22

• Mary Burchell, (Ida Cook), 82, British novelist and humanitarian, cancer.
• Celius Dougherty, 84, American composer.
• Maurice Grosser, 83, American painter and author.
• John Macy, 69, American government administrator, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
• Nii Amaa Ollennu, 80, Ghanaian politician, acting president.
• David Penhaligon, 42, British politician, Member of Parliament, President of the Liberal Party, traffic collision.
• Saqi, 61, Pakistani actor.
• Jean-Paul St. Laurent, 74, Canadian politician, House of Commons member.
• Harvey Stephens, 85, American actor and pilot.

23

• Gerhard Bienert, 88, German actor.
• Marjorie Husted, 94, American businesswoman ("Betty Crocker").
• Hazard E. Reeves, 80, American sound editor, heart attack.
• R. Gordon Wasson, 88, American ethnomycologist (hallucinogenic mushrooms) and author.

24

• Guy Barnett, 58, British politician, Member of Parliament, heart attack.
• Gardner Fox, 75, American comic book writer and novelist, co-creator of Flash, pneumonia.
• Eric Malcolm Jones, 79, British intelligence officer, director of GCHQ.
• Arnold Kettle, 70, British Marxist literary critic.
• Bob Lulham, 60, Australian rugby league player (Balmain Tigers, Australia), heart attack.
• Albert Widmann, 74, German chemist and convicted war criminal (Aktion T4).
• Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley, 80, English astronomer, Astronomer Royal.

25

• Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, 86, Bulgarian philosopher.
• Friedrich von Ledebur, 86, Austrian actor, (Moby Dick, Alexander the Great).
• James C. Oliver, 91, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Hamao Umezawa, 72, Japanese microbiologist, pneumonia.

26

• Carl Cohen, 73, American gambling executive (El Rancho Vegas, Sands Hotel and Casino).
• Bina Das, 75, Indian revolutionary.
• Leslie Dwyer, 80, English actor, respiratory failure.
• Elsa Lanchester, 84, British actress (Witness for the Prosecution, Come to the Stable, Mary Poppins), pneumonia.

27

• George Dangerfield, 82, American author (The Strange Death of Liberal England), literary editor of Vanity Fair, leukemia.
• Amanda Junquera Butler, 88, Spanish writer.
• Cara Knott, 20, American murder victim.
• Lars-Erik Larsson, 78, Swedish composer and conductor (A Winter's Tale, Pastoral Suite), diabetes.
• Dumas Malone, 94, American historian (Jefferson and His Time).
• Albert W. Sherer Jr., 70, American diplomat, ambassador to Togo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea and Czechoslovakia.

28

• Joseph Leon Blau, 77, American philosopher and Jewish historian.
• Lothar Bolz, 83, East German politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Terry Dolan, 36, American right-wing political activist, closeted homosexual who publicly attacked gay rights, AIDS.
• Huang Kecheng, 84, Chinese People's Liberation Army general.
• Alton Lennon, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
• John D. MacDonald, 70, American novelist (The Executioners), complications from heart surgery.
• Jan Nieuwenhuys, 64, Dutch painter.
• Joel Resnicoff, 38, American artist and fashion illustrator, AIDS.

29

• John Antill, 82, Australian composer (Corroboree).
• Orville Hodge, 82, American Auditor of Public Accounts and convicted embezzler.
• Philip B. Hofmann, 77, American businessman, chairman of Johnson & Johnson, heart attack.
• Sitaram Lalas, 78, Indian lexicographer.
• Harold Macmillan, 92, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• Grete Mosheim, 81, German-born actress (Car of Dreams), cancer.
• Pietro Parente, 95, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
• Andrei Tarkovsky, 54, Soviet film director (Mirror, Andrei Rublev, Stalker), lung cancer.

30

• Cassie Brown, 67, Canadian journalist and author (Death on the Ice, The Wreck of the Florizel).
• İlhan Koman, 65, Turkish-Swedish sculptor (Akdeniz).
• Charles Magnante, 81, American accordionist.
• Era Bell Thompson, 81, American novelist.

31

• Piero Chiara, 73, Italian writer.
• Donald Fleming, 81, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament, International Monetary Fund official, stroke.
• Lloyd Haynes, 52, American actor (Room 222), lung cancer.
• Geoffrey Audley Miles, 96, British admiral in the Royal Navy.
• Raj Narain, 69, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha, heart attack.
• Don Sleet, 48, American jazz trumpeter, lymphoma.
• Bartho Smit, 62, South African writer, cancer.
• Esther Sutherland, 54, American actress.
• Dwight Taylor, 83, American author and screenwriter, heart attack.

Unknown date

• Pearl Frush, 79, American pin-up and glamour illustration artist.
• Jim O'Connolly, 60, English actor, director and screenwriter (Edgar Wallace Mysteries).
• Robert Osgood, 64–65, American expert on foreign and military policy,
• Toño Salazar, 99, Salvadoran caricaturist, illustrator and diplomat, Parkinson's disease.
• John R. Wiegand, 74, German-born American scientist (Wiegand effect).

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132. Andrei Tarkovsky, Director and Soviet Emigre, Dies at 54. New York Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
133. Era Bell Thompson, 80, Dies; Novelist and Editor at Ebony. New York Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
134. Donald Fleming. The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
135. Actor Lloyd Haynes of Emmy-Winning 'Room 222' Dies at 52. L.A. Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
136. Raj Narain, 69, Indian Socialist: Helped Defeat Two Governments. New York Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.
137. Don Sleet. New York Times. Retrieved 27 Sep 2024.

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