Deaths in August 1986

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

August 1986

1

• Carlo Confalonieri, 93, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Dean of the College of Cardinals.
• Paul Detlefsen, 86, Danish-born American commercial artist.
• Marion Grant, 68, American historian and writer, sister of Katharine Hepburn, heart attack.
• Ignatius Joseph Kasimo Hendrowahyono, 86, Indonesian politician, Minister of Trade and Agriculture.
• James Horan, 75, Irish Roman Catholic priest.
• Lena Kennedy, 72, English author.
• Willem Klein, 73, Dutch mental calculator, murdered.
• Syd Negus, 74, Australian politician, senator for Western Australia.
• Ken Roskie, 65, American NFL player.
• Robert Wolfgang Schnell, 70, German writer.
• José María Vidal, 51, Spanish footballer, heart attack.

2

• Aligholi Ardalan, 86, Iranian diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Sunil Banerjee, 66, Indian cricket umpire.
• Roy Cohn, 59, American lawyer and prosecutor, Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel, prosecuted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, AIDS.
• Renato Leduc, 88, Mexican poet and journalist.
• Shakti Prasad, 58, Indian Kannada actor.

3

• George Agnost, 63, American attorney, cardiac arrest.
• Paul de Groot, 87, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives, leader of the Communist Party.
• Otmar Emminger, 75, German economist, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, heart attack.
• Brian Flynn, 57, Australian cricketer.
• Thad Hutcheson, 70, American attorney.
• George Kuznets, 77, American economist.
• Beryl Markham, 83, British-born Kenyan aviator, first to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic from Britain to North America.
• Carl Mork, 79, South African-born Australian rugby league footballer.
• Y. Eswara Reddy, 70–71, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha, leader of the Communist Party of India.
• Florence Reece, 86, American social activist and songwriter, heart attack.
• František Šembera, 81, Czech Olympic equestrian.
• Rupert de Smidt, 102, South African cricketer.
• Hudson Tannis, 58, Vicentian politician, [Deputy Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|deputy Prime Minister of Finland|prime minister of Saint Vicent and the Grenadines], plane crash.
• Joe Thomas, 77, American jazz saxophonist.
• William B. Williams, 62, American disc jockey, coined "Chairman of the Board" for Frank Sinatra, respiratory failure.

4

• Bennie J. George, 67, American coach.
• Harry Giles, 74, Australian rules footballer.
• Charles Haworth, 79, American Olympic long-distance runner.
• Hyllus Maris, 52, Australian Aboriginal rights activist, cancer.
• Bob Roggy, 29, American javelin thrower, fall.
• Roger Rouge, 72, Swiss Olympic sailor.
• Willem Ruis, 41, Dutch game show presenter, cardiac arrest.
• Thomas J. Valentino, 79, Italian-born American businessman, compiled libraries of sound effects.

5

• John Alexander, 90, American football player.
• Ferenc Cziráki, 72, Hungarian Olympic handball player..
• Banesh Hoffmann, 79, British-born American physicist and mathematician.
• Lester Lautenschlaeger, 82, American football player and politician.
• Emanuel Löffler, 84, Czech Olympic gymnast.
• Katharine Krom Merritt, 100, American physician specializing in pediatrics.
• Luciana Peverelli, 84, Italian writer and journalist.
• Himzo Polovina, 59, Bosnian singer and songwriter, heart attack.
• George Poyser, 71, Australian politician, member of the Australian Senate.
• Karl Streibel, 82, German concentration camp commander,

6

• Alessandro Catalani, 81, Italian cyclist.
• Maria Dunin, 87, Polish painter.
• Emilio Fernández, 82, Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter, heart attack.
• Harry H. Johnson, 91, American army general.
• Philomé Obin, 94, Haitian painter.
• Jorge Vieira, 87, Portuguese Olympic footballer.
• Kim Williams, 62, American writer, naturalist and commentator on National Public Radio, cancer.
• Beppe Wolgers, 57, Swedish lyricist and author, peptic ulcer.
• Lou Zontini, 68, American NFL player.

7

• Anne Bahlke, 83, American physician.
• Leonard Arthur Hawes, British army officer.
• Ladislav Hojer, 28, Czech serial killer, executed.
• Alfred Jones, 86, English cricketer.
• William J. Schroeder, 54, American soldier and artificial heart recipient, lung infection.
• Julie Tullis, 47, British climber and filmmaker, died during descent of K2.

8

• Paul G. Chandler, 96, American coach, educator, and college president.
• Yehoshua Cohen, 64, Israeli Zionist militant, assassinated two U.N. envoys, heart attack.
• Giovanni Garaventa, 86, Italian Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer, 93, American architect and women's rights activist.
• Lowell A. Nelson, 68, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

9

• Harold Ave, 86, American basketball and football coach.
• Angelo Congear, 101, Australian rules footballer.
• Clarence Maddern, 64, American Major League Baseball player.
• Eoin McNamee, 71–72, Irish Republican, Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army, cancer.
• Salvador Nocetti, 73, Argentine-born Chilean footballer and manager.
• Gustav Adolf Nosske, 83, German lawyer and convicted war criminal.
• Jef Scherens, 77, Belgian track cyclist, multiple world champion.
• Ignaz Sigl, 84, Austrian footballer.
• Ruth Teitelbaum, 62, American mathematician and computer programmer, original ENIAC programmer.

10

• Arthur Capell, 84, Australian linguist.
• Paraskeva Clark, 87, Russian-born Canadian painter, stroke.
• Vratislav Effenberger, 63, Czech writer.
• Lyle Engel, 71, American magazine publisher and book producer.
• Jacqueline Gadsden, 86, American silent-screen actress.
• K. C. George, 83, Indian politician, member of Rajya Sabha, Minister for Food and Forests.
• Luther Carrington Goodrich, 91, American sinologist and author.
• Tom Greenwade, 81, American Major League baseball scout, heart failure.
• Holger Guldager, 81, Danish Olympic cyclist.
• John H. Hamilton Jr., 67, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Guy H. Jones, 75, American politician and lawyer.
• Palapatti Sadaya Goundar Kailasam, 70, Indian jurist, judge of the Supreme Court of India.
• Don McRae, 71, New Zealand cricketer and footballer.
• Alan Rouse, 34, British mountaineer, died on descent from K2.
• Jon Snersrud, 83, Norwegian Olympic skier.
• Arun Shridhar Vaidya, 60, Indian army general, assassinated.

11

• Karl Duldig, 83, Polish-born Australian sculptor.
• Bud Edwards, 78, American football player.
• Tom Gorman, 67, American Major League baseball player and umpire, heart attack.
• Peter Mahon, 62, New Zealand High Court judge, heart failure.
• Chuck McKinley, 45, American tennis player, multiple U.S. Open winner, brain tumour.
• Hans-Joachim Riecke, 87, Nazi German politician.
• Heinz Strehl, 48, West German footballer, heart failure.

12

• Howard Finn, 68, American city planner and architect, heart attack.
• Benjamin Frank, 66-67, Indian cricketer.
• Howard Jarvis, 82, American politician, businessman and lobbyist, blood disease.
• Leroy Lins, 73, American basketball player.
• Paola Mori, 57, Italian actress, wife of Orson Welles, traffic collision.
• Léonard Mulamba, 57–58, Zairian politician and diplomat, prime minister of Congo-Léopoldville, ambassador to three countries.
• Evaline Ness, 75, American children's author, heart attack.
• Louis Peglion, 80, French road bicycle racer.
• Hans Pesser, 74, Austrian footballer.
• Felix Salzer, 82, Austrian-American musicologist.

13

• Jean Bailhache, 75, French writer and translator.
• Way Bandy, 45, American makeup artist, AIDS.
• Pius Anthony Benincasa, 73, American auxiliary bishop.
• Joe Bolton, 75, American television and radio personality, heart attack.
• Pepper Constable, 72, American football player and doctor, drowned.
• Anna Dodas i Noguer, 23, Spanish Catalan poet, murdered.
• Víctor García Garzena, 72, Chilean lawyer and politician, member of the Senate of Chile.
• Caterina Jarboro, 88, American opera singer.
• Avraham Katz, 54-55, Israeli politician.
• Janko Lavrin, 99, Slovenian-born British novelist and historian.
• Helen Mack, 72, American actress, cancer.
• Mãe Menininha do Gantois, 92, Brazilian spiritual leader, head of the Ilê Axé Iyá Omin Iyamassê temple.
• Kapur Singh, 77, Indian Sikh politician, member of the Lok Sabha.

14

• Jomí García Ascot, 59, Tunisian-born Mexican poet and film director.
• Charlie Greenhill, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• Michael Lawrence Haider, 81, American petroleum engineer, founder of the National Academy of Engineering and chairman of Exxon Coorporation.
• Henry Kristian Larsen, 72, Danish Olympic field hockey player.
• Stjepan Ljubić, 80, Yugoslav Olympic cyclist.

15

• Alexander Barras, 72, Australian cricketer.
• Billy Libbis, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Winthrop Sargeant, 82, American violinist and music critic.
• John Trevelyan, 83, English secretary of the Board of the British Board of Film Censors.
• Harald Wiberg, 78, Swedish writer and illustrator.

16

• Ronnie Aird, 84, British army officer and cricketer.
• Patrick Beesly, 73, British intelligence officer and author.
• Reginald Fenderson, 74, American actor.
• Sonia Rosemary Keppel, 86, British author and socialite, grandmother of Queen Camilla.
• John Maude, 85, British judge and politician, member of the House of Commons.
• William T. Pheiffer, 88, American politician and diplomat, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
• Ryan Price, 74, British racehorse trainer.
• Jaime Sáenz, 64, Bolivian poet, novelist and journalist.
• Esther Shemitz, 86, American painter.
• Nikolaos Syllas, 71, Greek Olympic discus thrower.

17

• M. G. Chakrapani, 75, Indian actor and film producer.
• Shipwreck Kelly, 76, American NFL footballer, stroke.
• Walt Lanfranconi, 69, American Major League Baseball player.
• Charles Loewen, 85, Canadian-born British army general.
• Luis Pasarín, 84, Spanish footballer, manager, and Olympian.
• Sammy Vick, 91, American Major League baseball player.

18

• Harun Babunagari, 83-84, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educationist.
• Bruce F. Beilfuss, 71, American lawyer and jurist.
• Vivian Stuart, 72, British writer.

19

• Hermione Baddeley, 79, English actress, stroke.
• Wilfred Beaver, 89, British and American flying ace.
• Hugo Brouwer, 73, Dutch artist.
• Jaap Burger, 81, Dutch politician, member of the European Parliament.
• Hugh De Lacy, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, cancer.
• John Donnelly, 81, Canadian Olympic coxswain.
• Zia Fatehabadi, 73, Indian poet.
• Gérard Gasiorowski, 56, French photographer and painter, heart attack.
• Raphael Glorieux, 57, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
• Lorenzo Tucker, 79, American actor, lung cancer.

20

• Milton Acorn, 63, Canadian poet and playwright, heart attack.
• Barbara Bartay, 65, Czech-born American actress, colorectal cancer.
• Walter Brooke, 71, American actor, emphysema.
• Joy Bright Hancock, 88, American naval officer.
• Edward Howell, 84, British-Australian actor and producer.
• Thad Jones, 63, American jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader, cancer.
• Vichna Kaplan, 72–73, Russian-born American academic administrator.
• Gauriprasanna Mazumder, 60, Indian lyricist.
• Zygmunt Menkes, 90, Polish painter.
• George Rainbird, 81, British publisher.
• Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish, 85, Bangladeshi politician, president of Awami League.
• Austin Warren, 87, American literary critic and professor of English.

21

• Bata, 78, Spanish footballer.
• Armando Bréa, 87, Brazilian Olympic middle-distance runner.
• William C. Chase, 91, American World War II general.
• Chaim Levanon, 87, Polish-born Israeli politician, mayor of Tel Aviv.
• Felix Mitchell, 31, American drug lord, murdered.
• Alexandre O'Neill, 61, Portuguese writer.
• Roscoe Charles Wilson, 81, American air force general, commandant of the USAF Air War College.

22

• Vali Akhundov, 70, Azerbaijani politician, first secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party.
• Lamb Barbee, 70, American Negro League baseball player.
• Celâl Bayar, 103, Turkish politician, prime minister and president.
• Jacques Bonnet, 47, French Olympic field hockey player.
• Ed Carrington, 41, American football player, rock climbing accident.
• Bruce Cowling, 66, American actor.
• Charlie Eckert, 89, American Major League baseball player.
• Dots Johnson, 73, American actor.
• Walter T. Kelley, 88–89, American beekeeper.
• Sobha Singh, 84, Indian painter.
• F. Palmer Weber, 72, American businessman and activist.

23

• Lloyd Budd, 72, English cricketer.
• Bill Callihan, 70, American National Football League player.
• Eric Cook, 77, Canadian politician.
• Ben C. Duniway, 78, American judge, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
• José Estrada, 48, Mexican director and screenwriter.
• Bill Evans, 87, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
• Adrienne Fazan, 80, American film editor.
• Donald Fortier, 39, American intelligence agent, cancer.
• Herman H. Hanneken, 93, American Marine Corps general, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Mikhail Kuznetsov, 68, Soviet actor.
• Warren P. Mason, 85, American electrical engineer, physicist and author.
• Sid Meehl, 72, Australian rules footballer.
• Eduardo Quisumbing, 90, Filipino botanist.

24

• Germaine Acremant, 97, French novelist and playwright.
• Harry Benjamin, 101, German-American sexologist and endocrinologist.
• John P. Caufield, 67, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate, fire director for the Newark Fire Department.
• George Diehl, 68, American Major League Baseball player.
• George Palmer, 83, Australian cricketer.
• Joe Tarto, 84, American jazz tubist and bassist.

25

• Ronald Bates, 54, American ballet lighting designer, heart attack.
• Allen Case, 51, American actor, heart attack.
• Bernie Elsey, 79–80, Australian entrepreneur and property developer, cancer.
• Amos Kent, 84, American college football player.
• M. Stanley Livingston, 81, American physicist, co-inventor of the cyclotron, associate director of the National Accelerator Laboratory, prostate cancer.
• Syed Hasan Mahmood, 63, Pakistani politician and cricket administrator, Chief Minister of Bahawalpur State.
• Mary Moody Northen, 94, American financier and philanthropist, chairman of the board for American National Insurance Company and Moody National Bank.
• David Rabinovitz, 78, American jurist.
• Fernando Vaz, 68, Portuguese footballer and manager.

26

• Raymond Abellio, 78, French writer.
• Baldric, 25, American-born French Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Clarence Berryman, 80, American Olympic wrestler.
• Elsie M. Burrows, 72, English botanist.
• Marion Fyfe, 88, New Zealand zoologist.
• Hu Harries, 64, Canadian politician.
• Thomas Harpur, 70, New Zealand cricketer.
• Marvin Hatley, 81, American film composer.
• Walther Hess, 86, German cricketer.
• Ted Knight, 62, American actor, colon cancer.
• Sándor von Korompay, 74, Hungarian Olympic rower.
• Kent T. Lundgren, 72, American politician.
• Allan Parkhill, 74, New Zealand rugby player.
• Mutsuo Sugiura, 68, Japanese engineer.
• Rosa Torras, 91, Spanish Olympic tennis player.
• Harleigh Trecker, 75, American social work academic and administrator.

27

• Snehansu Kanta Acharya, 72, Indian politician.
• Georgy Agzamov, 31, Soviet chess player, fall.
• Daniel Fignolé, 72, Haitian politician, provisional president.
• Bernard Fonlon, 61, Cameroonian politician and educator.
• Edward Ford, 84, Australian physician.
• Eddie Hinson, 73, Australian rugby league player.
• Joyce Mansour, 58, Egyptian-French poet, cancer.
• Dragutin Mitić, 68, Yugoslav-American tennis player.
• George Nēpia, 81, New Zealand rugby union and rugby league player.
• Alfred Pilkington, 85, English cricketer.
• Paul Sciacca, 77, American mobster.
• Olga Šilhánová, 65, Czech Olympic gymnast.
• Robbie Wijting, 61, Dutch general.

28

• Giorgi Chitaia, 95, Soviet Georgian ethnographer.
• Arthur Cunliffe, 77, English footballer.
• Alexander Dolgun, 59, American writer and Gulag survivor, kidney failure.
• Russell Lee, 83, American photographer.
• Don Simmons, 68, Australian politician.
• Elvi Sinervo, 74, Finnish writer.
• Cyril Trailor, 67, Welsh footballer.
• Philippe Valois, 79, Canadian politician.

29

• Ellis Achong, 82, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer.
• Giles Baring, 76, English cricketer.
• Alfred Fagon, 49, British playwright, heart attack.
• L. Raymond Fennell, 92, Canadian politician.
• Roy King, 82, American painter and sculptor.
• Vladimir Kuznetsov, 55, Soviet Olympic javelin thrower.
• Lu Shijia, 75, Chinese physicist and aerospace engineer.
• Sax Mallard, 70, American jazz musician, cancer.
• Harold Matthews, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Col Mitchell, 72, Australian rules footballer.
• Alex Munro, 74, Scottish footballer.
• Ronald Taylor, 77, English cricketer.
• Stuart Young, 52, English business executive.

30

• Margaret Wood Bancroft, 93, American naturalist.
• Forrest E. Everhart, 64, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Thomas Kilbride, 75, Irish politician.
• Walter Kutschmann, 72, German-Argentine Einsatzkommando and war criminal, heart attack.
• Edward P. Larkin, 71, American politician.
• Aldo Longinotti, 76, Italian Olympic boxer.
• Otto Mortensen, 79, Danish composer.
• George Pelawa, 18, American ice hockey player, traffic collision.
• Dame Annabelle Rankin, 78, Australian politician.
• John Tuggle, 25, American NFL football player, cancer.
• Bernice T. Van der Vries, 96, American politician.
• Gordon Webber, 73, American writer.

31

• Carl Alberg, 85, Swedish boat designer.
• Jorge Alessandri, 90, Chilean politician, president.
• Edward Buehrig, 75, American political scientist.
• Elizabeth Coatsworth, 93, American author.
• Henry Moore, 88, English sculptor.
• Urho Kekkonen, 85, Finnish politician, president and prime minister.
• Goffredo Parise, 56, Italian writer and journalist.
• Čestmír Řanda, 62, Czech actor.