Deaths in September 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 1986

1

• Ramón Carande, 99, Spanish historian.
• Tina Cooper, 68, English pediatrician, cancer.
• Earl B. Dickerson, 95, American lawyer and politician.
• Phil Feldesman, 67, Russian-born American bridge player.
• R. B. Freeman, 71, English zoologist, heart attack.
• Ivor Guy, 59, English footballer.
• Murray Hamilton, 63, American actor (Jaws), lung cancer.^[1]
• Colin McCathie, 76, Australian politician.
• Bobby Moers, 68, American basketball, football and baseball player.
• Eddie Vitch, 83, Polish-born American-Australian comedian

2

• Frank Bartkus, 70, American soccer player.
• Thomas Butler Dowda, 87, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1941–1953).^[2]
• Mahmoud Kaveh, 25, Iranian soldier, killed in action.
• Nuno Morais, 63, Portuguese Olympic sprinter (1948).
• Philip Radcliffe, 81, English musicologist.
• Billy Taylor, 80, American jazz bassist.
• Malcolm Walker, 52, English cricketer, traffic collision.
• Jim Wilson, 64, American baseball player, cancer.

3

• Vasantrao Ghatge, 70, Indian business magnate.
• Wirgiliusz Gryń, 58, Polish actor.
• Horace King, Baron Maybray-King, 85, British politician.
• Pino Mercanti, 75, Italian filmmaker.
• Glennon T. Moran, 67, American general and flying ace, cancer.
• Kit Mouat, 66, English poet and activist.
• Ted Moult, 60, British radio and television personality, suicide by gunshot.
• Knocky Parker, 68, American jazz pianist.
• Vittorino Veronese, 76, Italian lawyer, director-general of UNESCO (1958–1961).
• Frank Corbett Welch, 86, Canadian politician and horticulturalist.
• Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr., 80, American jurist.^[3]

4

• Edd Ashe, 78, American comic writer and cartoonist.
• Christer Boustedt, 47, Swedish musician and actor.
• Alexei Fofanov, 71, Soviet soldier.
• Françoise Gaudet-Smet, 83, Canadian writer.
• Roberto Gavaldón, 77, Mexican film director.
• Otto Glória, 69, Brazilian football manager.
• Hank Greenberg, 75, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Detroit Tigers), kidney cancer.^[4]
• Decio Klettenberg, 84, Brazilian Olympic rower (1936).
• Wayne Nance, 30, American serial killer, shot.
• Frank Stewart, 76, Australian footballer.
• Sid Tanenbaum, 60, American basketball player, stabbed.^[5]
• Walter Wanderley, 54, Brazilian musician, cancer.
• Dov Zakin, 63, Israeli politician.

5

• Neerja Bhanot, 22, Indian flight purser, shot.
• Alvin Heaps, 66, American labor union leader.^[6]
• Noel Kempff Mercado, 62, Bolivian biologist and environmentalist, shot.
• József Kiss, 77, Hungarian Olympic runner (1948).
• Alfredo Rossi, 80, Italian pianist.
• Erich Schumacher, 77, German theatre director.
• Ganapathi Thanikaimoni, 48, Indian palynologist, shot.
• Trần Quốc Hoàn, 70, Vietnamese politician.

6

• Weston Bousfield, 82, American psychologist.
• Jacek Daniluk, 25, Polish Olympic equestrian (1980).
• Thomas Wardrope Eadie, 88, Canadian business executive.
• William Littell Everitt, 86, American electrical engineer.^[7]
• George Gipe, 53, American author and screenwriter, allergic reaction to a bee sting.^[8]
• John Stanley Grauel, 68, American priest and Christian Zionist leader.^[9]
• George P. Monaghan, 85, American lawyer and emergency services commissioner.
• Leonard Outerbridge, 98, Canadian politician.
• Ernest Schmidt, 75, American basketball player.
• Blanche Sweet, 90, American silent film actress, stroke.^[10]
• Hiroshi Tadano, 72, Japanese Olympic skier (1936).
• Fred Taggart, 80, English golfer.

7

• Ola Bøe, 76, Norwegian fiddler.
• Skipper Bowles, 66, American politician and businessman, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[11]
• Les Bury, 73, English-Australian politician.
• Paul Roberts Cannon, 94, American physician.
• Nelson Dunford, 79, American mathematician.
• Raimundo Infante, 58, Chilean footballer.
• Lloyd Kerns, 65, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1967–1972).
• Spencer Le Marchant, 55, British politician.
• Monte McDaniel, 91, American football player and coach.
• Jack Mizuha, 72, American jurist.
• Dan K. Moore, 80, American politician, governor of North Carolina (1965–1969).^[12]
• Omar Ali Saifuddien III, 71, Bruneian royal, sultan (1950–1957).^[13]
• P. S. Ramakrishna Rao, 67, Indian filmmaker.
• Sir Percy Rugg, 80, British politician.
• Vladimir Vlasov, 83, Soviet composer.
• Capus M. Waynick, 96, American diplomat.
• Hewitt T. Wheless, 72, American general

8

• José Carrasco Tapia, 43, Chilean journalist, murdered.
• Vladimír Janoušek, 64, Czech painter and sculptor.
• Ray Nazarro, 83, American filmmaker.
• Idar Norstrand, 71, Norwegian politician.
• Reece Sailer, 70, American entomologist.
• Alfred Schaefer, 81, Swiss banker.
• Tomasz Stefaniszyn, 57, Polish footballer.
• George Tully, 72, Canadian Olympic fencer (1936).

9

• Kessler R. Cannon, 70, American politician and radio broadcaster, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1961–1964).^[14]
• Getzel Kressel, 75, Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli biographer.
• Albert Malet, 73-74, French painter.
• Robert Shackleton, 66, English linguist.
• Magda Tagliaferro, 93, Brazilian pianist.
• Franciszek Tim, 62, Polish footballer.

10

• Pepper Adams, 55, American jazz saxophonist, lung cancer.^[15]
• Mary V. Austin, 86, Australian political activist.
• Jake Bornheimer, 59, American basketball player.
• Deane Gundlock, 72, Canadian politician.
• María Dolores Katarain, 32, Spanish Basque separatist leader, shot.
• Sobhi Mahmassani, 77, Lebanese lawyer and politician, lung cancer.
• Ronnie Shade, 47, Scottish golfer
• Harry Shafransky, 56, Polish-born Canadian politician, heart attack.
• Koji Shima, 85, Japanese filmmaker.
• Andrei Zazroyev, 60, Soviet Georgian football player and manager.

11

• Revington Arthur, 79, American painter.
• Red Bethea, 81, American football player.
• Arthur Carr, 76, British Olympic equestrian (1948).
• Harry Haslam, 65, English football player and manager.
• Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, 83, Greek politician, prime minister (1945, 1967).
• Galo Miño, 33, Ecuadorian Olympic sports shooter (1984), shot.
• Otho Nitcholas, 77, American baseball player.
• Felix Perrault, 70, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1965–1979).
• Henry DeWolf Smyth, 88, American physicist and diplomat, cardiac arrest.^[16]
• Noel Streatfeild, 90, English children's author.
• Billy Walsh, 75, Australian footballer.

12

• Philip Ingress Bell, 86, British politician.
• Marcel Boigegrain, 57, French Olympic rower (1948).
• James Louis Connolly, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Ernst Haas, 65, Austrian-born American photojournalist, stroke.^[17]
• Edwin B. Hooper, 77, American naval admiral.
• Jacques Henri Lartigue, 92, French photographer and painter.^[18]
• Terence MacDonagh, 78, English oboist.
• Manjula, 31, Indian actress, suicide by fire.
• Harold Moody, 70, British Olympic shot putter (1948).
• Frank Nelson, 75, American actor (The Jack Benny Program), cancer.^[19]
• Ernst Paulus, 89, German Olympic athlete (1928).
• Gerhard Rohlfs, 94, German linguist.
• Annibale Ruccello, 30, Italian playwright, traffic collision.
• Jim Shilling, 72, American baseball player.
• Bruce Wardlaw, 72, Australian cricketer and footballer.
• Charlotte Wolff, 88, German-British sexologist.

13

• Dick May, 76, Australian footballer.
• Antonio Mota, 47, Mexican footballer.
• Robert Nisbet, 85, British Olympic rower (1928).
• Neil Robinson, 24, Northern Irish racing cyclist, racing crash.
• Sam Shields, 57, Scottish footballer.
• Oscar Wight, 80, Guyanese cricketer.
• Roger Wrightson, 46, English cricketer.

14

• William Edmund Barrett, 85, American writer (The Lilies of the Field).^[20]
• John Bingham, 32-33, Northern Irish loyalist soldier, shot.
• Leslie Blanchard, 52, American hairdresser and legal figure (Braschi v. Stahl Associates Co.), AIDS.
• David Harold Byrd, 86, American oil executive.
• Charles Caputo, 74, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1967–1978).
• Marcel Couraud, 73, French conductor and organist.
• Georgia Engelhard, 79, American mountaineer.
• Gordon McLendon, 65, American radio broadcaster, cancer.^[21]
• Jean Preuss, 82, French racing cyclist.

15

• Chris Abel, 74, English footballer.
• Gustaf Andersson, 83, Swedish Olympic speed skater (1928).
• Don Bennett, 76, Australian-British politician and pilot, MP (1945).
• Jaroslav Burgr, 80, Czech footballer.
• Bill Butler, 66, Australian footballer.
• William Goode, 79, British colonial administrator, governor of Singapore (1957–1959).
• Virginia Gregg, 70, American actress, lung cancer.^[22]
• Eric Hiscock, 78, British sailor and author.
• Joe Hiscock, 81-82, British trade unionist.
• Joseph M. Pettit, 70, American engineer and academic administrator, cancer.
• Elizabeth Titzel Riefstahl, 97, American archaeologist.^[23]
• Freimut Stein, 62, German Olympic figure skater (1952).
• Ramón Alberto Villaverde, 56, Uruguayan footballer.

16

• Charlie Adams, 89, Australian footballer.
• Engelbert Brenner, 82, Austrian-born American oboist.
• Jim Brough, 82, English rugby player.
• Leobardo Candiani, 81, Mexican Olympic fencer (1932).
• Judith Crawley, 72, Canadian filmmaker.
• Puran Chandra Gupta, 74, Indian journalist.
• Denis Guye, 85, English Olympic rower (1928).
• Darold Jenkins, 67, American football player.
• Walter Lehweß-Litzmann, 79, German Luftwaffe pilot.
• Francesco Malatesta, 79, Italian Olympic cyclist (1928).
• Walter Matthews, 86, Canadian politician.
• Žarko Mihajlović, 66, Yugoslav football manager.
• Ernst-Eduard Rull, 91, Estonian sports shooter.
• Karel Svolinský, 90, Czech artist and typeface designer.
• Bob Thyne, 66, Scottish footballer.

17

• Erich Bautz, 73, German racing cyclist.
• Johnny Cook, 60, American football player, leukemia.
• Joe Kennedy, 60, English footballer.
• Pat Phoenix, 62, English actress (Coronation Street), lung cancer.^[24]
• Henrik Sjögren, 87, Swedish ophthamologist, describer of Sjögren syndrome.
• Albert Titley, 74, English footballer.

18

• Marius Beraru, 65, Romanian football player and manager.
• David Dodge Boyden, 75, American musicologist.
• Aljoša Buha, 24, Yugoslav Bosnian musician (Crvena jabuka), traffic collision.
• Elwyn Davies, 77, Welsh academic administrator.
• Johann Dick, 59, West German retired soldier, shot.
• Hettie Ewing, 89, American missionary.
• Jon Gould, 33, American film executive, AIDS.
• Joseph Hibbert, 91-92, Jamaican Rastafari preacher.
• Corita Kent, 67, American artist, ovarian cancer.^[25]
• Wilhelm Kimmich, 89, German painter.
• Shelton Perera, 47, Sri Lankan musician.

19

• Hubert Badanai, 91, Italian-born Canadian politician.
• Len Childs, 84-85, British trade unionist.
• Vivian Duncan, 89, American vaudeville performer.
• James H. Gray Sr., 70, American politician, heart attack.
• Ainslie Meares, 76, Australian psychiatrist, pneumonia.
• Baxter Morgan, 68, Canadian politician.
• Ramón Orriols, 74, Spanish footballer.
• Sir Lawrence Pendred, 87, British RAF officer.
• Red Shurtliffe, 79, American football player.
• Wyatt Turner, 77, American baseball player.

20

• John C. Becher, 71, American actor, cancer.
• Christopher Butler, 84, British Roman Catholic prelate.
• Johannes Caspers, 76, German politician.
• Chester A. Chesney, 70, American politician and football player, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).^[26]
• Sir Norman Chester, 78, British economist.
• Ray Eddy, 75, American basketball player and coach.
• Lionel Farris, 81, English table tennis player.
• James Hardy, 65, American Olympic rower (1948).
• Elizabeth Hirschboeck, 83, American religious sister and humanitarian.
• Pleas Jones, 73, American jurist.
• Fred Macbeth, 76, Canadian Olympic sprinter (1928).
• Sverre Marstrander, 75, Norwegian archaeologist.
• Bob McChesney, 74, American football player.
• Haruhiko Nishi, 93, Japanese diplomat.
• William W. Outerbridge, 80, American naval admiral.
• Dennis Spooner, 53, English television writer, heart attack.
• Anders Ström, 85, Swedish Olympic skier (1928).
• Nicolae Testemițanu, 59, Soviet Moldovan surgeon and politician.
• Nico van der Laan, 78, Dutch architect.

21

• Jonah Barrington, 82, British journalist.
• Rolf Gustafsson, 79, Swedish Olympic boxer (1928).
• Wilhelm Heun, 91, German general.
• Cheryl Keeton, 36, American lawyer, murdered.
• John Kuck, 81, American Olympic shot putter (1928).
• Helen Bell Milburn, 98, Canadian radiologist.
• Pierre Wigny, 81, Belgian politician.
• Clancy Williams, 43, American football player, cancer.^[27]
• Rex Woods, 94, British Olympic athlete (1924, 1928).

22

• József Asbóth, 69, Hungarian tennis player.
• Bernie Cummins, 86, American jazz drummer.
• Janet Davies, 59, English actress (Dad's Army), breast cancer.
• Yussuf Hamis, 65, Israeli politician.
• Tom Lovatt-Williams, 89, English poet.
• Theodore H. McCrea, 78, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Sohan Singh Misha, 52, Indian poet.
• Lloyd Peterson, 86, American college sports coach.
• Erik Svensson, 83, Swedish Olympic jumper (1928, 1932).
• Abdel-Kader Zaaf, 69, Algerian racing cyclist.

23

• Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield, 96, Austro-Hungarian-Italian flying ace.
• Theresa Sherrer Davidson, 92, American lawyer and classical scholar.
• Gordie Drillon, 72, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Barbara Gilewska, 74, Polish actress.
• Bert Hodges, 81, Welsh cricketer.
• Sir Vincent Lloyd-Jones, 84, Welsh jurist.
• Yelena Maksimova, 80, Soviet actress.
• Domingo Moreno Jimenes, 92, Dominican writer.
• Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp, 75, German Nazi officer.
• C. A. Patrides, 55,-56, American writer, AIDS.
• Percy Peter, 84, English Olympic swimmer (1920, 1924, 1928).
• Jack Shook, 76, American guitarist.

24

• Uell Stanley Andersen, 69, American football player.
• Edwin John Beer, 107, British chemist and geologist.
• Prudence Glynn, 51, British journalist and author, intracerebral hemorrhage.
• Hiroshi Hara, 75, Japanese botanist.
• Bert Price, 79, Canadian politician.
• Dorothy Pilley Richards, 92, English mountaineer.
• Kamer Sadık, 74-75, Turkish actor.
• Harald Selås, 78, Norwegian politician.
• Adolf Tolkachev, 59, Soviet electronics engineer and double agent, execution by shooting.

25

• Geoff Alley, 83, New Zealand rugby player and librarian.
• Ted Bishop, 73, American golfer.
• Darshan Singh Canadian, 68-69, Indian trade unionist, murdered.
• John Carroll, 64, Canadian politician.
• Henning Helgesson, 86, Swedish footballer.
• Svante Johansson, 59, Swedish Olympic diver (1948).
• Bill Lever, 82, Australian footballer.
• Donald MacDonald, 77, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Nikolay Semyonov, 90, Soviet chemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1956).^[28]
• Hubertus Strughold, 88, German-American physiologist and war criminal.
• Hans Vogt, 83, Norwegian linguist.
• James B. Wilson, 90, American football player and coach.

26

• Moussa Ali Abdoulkader, 63, Djiboutian politician.
• Jacob Agus, 74, Polish-born American rabbi and theologian.
• Mirta Cerra Herrera, 82, Cuban painter.
• Roger Howard Cilley, 68, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Wilson Faumuina, 32, American football player, heart failure.^[29]
• Hugh Franklin, 70, American actor, cancer.
• H. D. S. Haverbeck, 72, American philatelist.
• Bert Humpish, 84, English footballer.
• Brian Desmond Hurst, 91, Irish film director.
• Billy Key, 90, British general.
• André Maelbrancke, 68, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Roger Rousseau, 65, Canadian diplomat.
• Noboru Terada, 68, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1936).

27

• Tony Acquaviva, 61, American composer.
• Walter Brecht, 86, German scientist.
• Cliff Burton, 24, American bassist (Metallica), traffic collision.^[30]
• Jessie Eden, 84, British trade unionist.
• Giuseppe Ghedina, 87, Italian Olympic skier (1924).
• Michael Joseph Hogan, 78, British jurist.
• Richard Krygier, 69, Polish-born Australian journalist.
• Olga Masters, 67, Australian author and writer.
• Éva Ruttkai, 58, Hungarian actress, breast cancer.
• Chuck Sheerin, 77, American baseball player.
• Georg Voggenreiter, 74, German racing cyclist.

28

• Denis Carey, 77, British actor
• Howard Graham, 88, Canadian general.
• Sir Robert Helpmann, 77, Australian ballet dancer, choreographer, and actor (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).^[31]
• Hazdayi Penso, 72, Turkish basketball player.
• Ewa Szelburg-Zarembina, 87, Polish novelist.
• Kiyoshi Tanimoto, 77, Japanese Methodist minister and hibakusha.
• Richard C. Turner, 58, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate (1961–1965), heart attack.
• Glauco Vanz, 66, Italian footballer.
• Anthony Vince, 84, Canadian Olympic sprinter (1924).

29

• Billy Bottrill, 83, English footballer.
• Les Field, 64, Australian footballer.
• Prince Georg of Denmark, 66, Danish royal and diplomat.
• Sir Reg Goodwin, 78, British politician.
• Artie Gore, 78, American baseball umpire.
• Maurice Harland, 90, British Anglican prelate.
• M. D. H. Jayawardena, 71, Sri Lankan politician.
• Lilian Hamilton Jeffery, 71, British archaeologist.
• Betty Kean, 71, American actress.^[32]
• Moestopo, 73, Indonesian general.
• Joe Nolan, 57, Canadian-American ice hockey player.
• Al Passarell, 36, Canadian politician, plane crash.
• Helmut Qualtinger, 57, Austrian actor, liver disease.
• Theodor Schwenk, 75, German anthroposophist and water researcher.

30

• Franz Burda, 83, German publisher.
• Arthur A. Cohen, 58, American novelist and theologian, leukemia.^[33]
• Brewster Hughes, 73, Nigerian guitarist.
• Storm Jameson, 95, English journalist and author.^[34]
• Nicholas Kaldor, 78, Hungarian-British economist.^[35]
• Noel Kirsten, 60, South African cricketer.
• Laurier Lister, 79, English theatre producer.
• Buster Millerick, 80, American racehorse trainer.^[36]
• Tommy Reynolds, 69, American jazz clarinetist.
• Kamaruzaman Sjam, 62, Indonesian communist activist, executed.
• Wilfrid Timms, 84, English cricketer.
• Sir John Westall, 85, New Zealand general.

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