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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Elizabeth Bodine, 88, American humanitarian.
• Charles Chew, 63, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate (since 1967), throat cancer.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.

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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Enrique Villegas, 72, Argentine pianist.
• Lucille Wall, 88, American actress (General Hospital).

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.
• Jaak Tamleht, 44, Soviet Estonian actor.
• Jean Van Gool, 55, French footballer.
• Joe Wirkkunen, 58, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey coach, home fire accident
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Don Wilkerson, 53–54, American saxophonist.
• Richard Wootton, 80, Australian cricketer.

19

• Andre the Seal, 25, American harbor seal.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• Jacques Gelman, 75–77, Russian-born Mexican film producer.
• Floyd Gottfredson, 81, American comic book cartoonist.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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).
• Vincente Minnelli, 83, American film director.
• 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).
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• William C. Andrews, 85, British art director.
• Karel Aubroeck, 91, Belgian sculptor.
• Jim Braxton, 37, American NFL football player, lung cancer.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• Harold Woolley, Baron Woolley, 81, British unionist and life peer.

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41. Upi (July 29, 1986). "Jim Braxton". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
42. Upi (August 4, 1986). "Deng Jiaxian, China Scientist; Developed Nuclear Weapons". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
43. Folkart, Burt a (July 31, 1986). "Managed Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck : Gordon Mills, 51; Songwriter and Agent". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
44. Upi (July 31, 1986). "John Dalton, 55, Dies; Ex-Virginia Governor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
45. John Bruein Anderson 31.7.86. Retrieved 12 Oct 2024.
46. Archives, L. A. Times (August 1, 1986). "Justin Moisescu Dies; Patriarch of Romanian Orthodox Church". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
47. Ap (August 1, 1986). "Teddy Wilson Dies; Pianist and Leader Of 30's Jazz Combos". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 8, 2024.

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