# Deaths in September 1985
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 1985.
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 1985
### 1

* Robert S. Babcock, 70, American politician, lieutenant governor of Vermont (1959–1961).
* Stefan Bellof, 27, German racing driver, racing crash.
* Laxmikant Bhembre, 79, Indian writer and liberation activist.
* Lloyd Davenport, 73, American baseball player.
* Eileen de Coppet, Princess of Albania, 62, English-American socialite.
* Sir David Derham, 65, Australian jurist and academic administrator.
* Tom Stanley Hepworth, 69, Australian educator.
* Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, 92, Pakistani diplomat.
* Saunders Lewis, 91, Welsh politician and writer.
* Richie Panch, 30, American racing driver, plane crash.
* Sir James Pitman, 84, English educationalist and politician, MP (1945–1964).
* Evelyn Sharp, Baroness Sharp, 82, British civil servant.
* Dale Singleton, 30, American motorcycle racer, plane crash.
* Harold H. Velde, 75, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1957).

### 2

* Anna Banti, 90, Italian writer.
* Yvonne Barrett, 39, Australian singer, strangled.
* Gershon Benjamin, 86, Romanian-born American painter.
* Eveline M. Burns, 85, American economist.
* Donald Craik, 54, Canadian politician.
* Eleanor Layfield Davis, 73-74, American painter.
* V. Dharmalingam, 67, Sri Lankan politician, MP (1960–1983), shot.
* John Oscar Egeland, 94, Norwegian shipping magnate.
* Gonzalo Güell, 90, Cuban politician, prime minister (1958–1959).
* Bob Kinney, 64, American basketball player.
* Abe Lenstra, 64, Dutch footballer.
* Nils Sæbø, 88, Norwegian Olympic equestrian (1936).
* Alex Stevenson, 73, Irish footballer.
* Sir Hugh Walmsley, 87, British RAF commander.
* Jay Youngblood, 30, American professional wrestler, complications from a heart attack.

### 3

* Alexis I. du Pont Bayard, 67, American politician, lieutenant governor of Delaware (1949–1953), complications from surgery.
* Jocelyn Bonham-Carter, 81, English cricketer and civil servant.
* He Zhuguo, 87-88, Chinese general.
* Jo Jones, 73, American jazz drummer, pneumonia.
* Frank Kilby, 79, New Zealand rugby player.
* Dragan Mance, 22, Yugoslav footballer, traffic collision.
* Johnny Marks, 75, American songwriter ("Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", "A Holly Jolly Christmas"), complications from diabetes.
* Bonaro W. Overstreet, 82, American author, stroke.
* Gilles Thomas, 55, French author.

### 4

* Larry Beauregard, 28, Canadian flautist, colon cancer.
* Art Bramhall, 76, American baseball, basketball and football player.
* Michel Brunet, 68, Canadian historian.
* Andrzej Chudziński, 36, Polish Olympic swimmer (1972).
* Isabel Jeans, 93, English actress (Gigi).
* Lidija Liepiņa, 94, Soviet Latvian chemist.
* Mira Mihelič, 73, Yugoslav writer.
* José Nozari, 71-72, Mexican Olympic sports shooter (1948).
* George O'Brien, 86, American actor (Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans).
* Georgeann Robinson, 67, American Osage artist.
* Oldřich Sedlák, 62, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.
* Vasyl Stus, 47, Soviet Ukrainian dissident, starvation.

### 5

* George Arnott, 84, Australian footballer.
* Jimmy Cotter, 26, New Zealand rugby player, traffic collision.
* Tibor Czorba, 78-79, Hungarian artist.
* Gerald Dreyer, 55, South African boxer.
* Maud Johnson, 66-67, American journalist and author.
* Albert Larsen, 84, Danish Olympic runner (1924, 1928).
* Jim McGlone, 88, Australian footballer.
* Philip M. Morse, 82, American physicist.
* Mieczysław Mümler, 85, Polish-English flying ace.
* Carolynne Snowden, 85, American actress and singer.
* Jiřina Štěpničková, 73, Czechoslovak actress.
* Rupert Tang Choon, 71, Trinidadian cricketer.
* Willem van der Oord, 65, Dutch hydraulic engineer.
* Blaine Walsh, 60, American sportscaster.

### 6

* J. R. Bailey, 48, American singer and songwriter.
* Johnny Desmond, 65, American singer, cancer.
* Jane Frazee, 70, American actress, pneumonia.
* Heydar Ghiai, 62, Iranian-French architect.
* Little Brother Montgomery, 79, American jazz and blues musician.
* Léon Orthel, 79, Dutch composer.
* Rodney Porter, 67, British biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1972), traffic collision.
* Richiardi Jr, 61, Peruvian-American magician.
* Barnet J. Segal, 87, American businessman and investor.
* Shi Liang, 85, Chinese lawyer and jurist.
* Tscherim Soobzokov, 61, Russian-born American spy and Nazi collaborator, injuries sustained in an explosion.
* Joseph Janney Steinmetz, 79, American photographer.
* Dick Zoll, 71, American football player.

### 7

* Ferenc Csanádi, 60, Hungarian football manager.
* Tom Fena, 75, American football player.
* Harold Gomberg, 68, American oboist, heart attack.
* George Heywood, 78, English footballer.
* Patrick Kelly, 67, South African-born Scottish footballer.
* Bruiser Kinard, 70, American football player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Nazim Osmanov, 46, Soviet Uzbek politician.
* Ivy Parker, 77, American chemist.
* Josef Věromír Pleva, 86, Czechoslovak children's author.
* George Pólya, 97, Hungarian-American mathematician, complications from a stroke.
* Viv Randall, 71, Australian footballer.
* Finn Seemann, 40, Norwegian footballer, traffic collision.
* Doris Svedlund, 58, Swedish actress.
* Jacoba van Velde, 82, Dutch novelist.
* Sir Ellis Waterhouse, 80, English art historian, heart attack.
* José Zabala-Santos, 74, Filipino cartoonist.

### 8

* Harry Bailey, 62, Australian psychiatrist, suicide by drug overdose.
* John Franklin Enders, 88, American virologist, Nobel Prize recipient (1954).
* Buck Jones, 96, American football player.
* Norman Magee, 62, Canadian politician.
* Frederick May, 74, Irish composer.
* Ana Mendieta, 36, Cuban-American artist, fall.
* Emmy Brady Rogers, 87, American pianist.
* Jim Shanahan, 84, Australian footballer.

### 9

* John Baker, Baron Baker, 84, British structural engineer.
* Patrick Burke, 81, Irish politician, TD (1944–1973).
* Neil Davis, 51, Australian photojournalist, tank fire.
* Paul Flory, 75, American chemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1974), heart attack.
* Rod Funseth, 52, American golfer, cancer.
* Ernesto Ganelli, 84, Italian architect.
* Robert Henderson, 80, American actor.
* Yaacob Abdul Latiff, 67, Malaysian politician, mayor of Kuala Lumpur (1972–1980).
* Luis Padilla Nervo, 91, Mexican diplomat.
* Sun Zhen, 93, Chinese general.
* Antonino Votto, 88, Italian opera conductor.
* Ahmad Zamir, 55, Pakistani naval admiral.

### 10

* Alex Buchanan, 79, MP (1955–1972).
* Chong Yun Jing, 22, Singaporean administrative officer, medical malpractice.
* Marianus Czerny, 89, German physicist.
* M. L. Ahamed Fareeth, 45, Sri Lankan politician, MP (since 1977).
* Ettore Maria Fizzarotti, 69, Italian filmmaker.
* John Goleby, 50, Australian politician.
* Ebbie Goodfellow, 78, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
* Guy Thompson Griffith, 77, English historian.
* Chakali Ilamma, 89, Indian independence activist.
* Bonifaty Kedrov, 81, Soviet philosopher.
* Alexa Kenin, 23, American actress.
* Werner Meyer, 71, Swiss Olympic handball player (1936).
* Ernst Öpik, 91, Estonian-Northern Irish astrophysicist.
* Samuel Oshoffa, 75, Nigerian evangelist, traffic collision.
* Jock Stein, 62, Scottish football player and manager, pulmonary edema.

### 11

* William Alwyn, 79, English composer.
* Dame Henrietta Barnett, 80, English RAF commander.
* Eleanor Dark, 84, Australian novelist (The Timeless Land, Prelude to Christopher, Return to Coolami).
* Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel, 93, German microbiologist.
* Federico Melchor, 70, Spanish politician and journalist.
* Masako Natsume, 27, Japanese actress, leukemia.
* David Rioch, 85, American neuroanatomist.
* Jean Albert Sulpice, 72, French curler.
* Andrew C. Thornton II, 40, American drug smuggler and narcotics officer, fall.
* Fred Urmson, 77, English footballer.
* Luigi Velluti, 76, Italian sculptor.

### 12

* Sylvia Benton, 98, British archaeologist.
* Maurice Anthony Biot, 80, Belgian-American physicist.
* Bartolome Cabangbang, 67, Filipino politician, stroke.
* Frank Carpay, 68, Dutch-New Zealand industrial engineer.
* Franz Josef Conrad, 41, German politician.
* Galina Dzhunkovskaya, 62, Soviet navigator.
* Herb Eisele, 81, American football coach.
* Raymond Fife, 12, American murder victim.
* John Kerans, 70, British naval officer and politician, MP (1959–1964).
* Tom Knowles, 77, English rugby player.
* Galo Ocampo, 71, Filipino artist, cardiac arrest.
* Sam Reese, 55, American actor, stroke.
* Namik Resuli, 77, Albanian linguist.
* Steamboat Struss, 76, American baseball player.

### 13

* Allan Bergkvist, 77, Swedish chess player.
* E. L. M. Burns, 88, Canadian general and diplomat.
* Winifred Cecil, 78, American opera singer.
* George Roche Evans, 62, American Roman Catholic prelate.
* Kim Yong-woo, 73, South Korean scouting leader.
* J. P. Kuiper, 63, Dutch social medicine professor.
* Gordon Lawson, 85, New Zealand rugby player.
* Stan McKenzie, 89, Australian footballer.
* Art Murakowski, 60, American football player.
* Odhise Paskali, 71, Albanian sculptor.
* Charles D. Phelps, 47, American ophthalmologist, cancer.
* Andy Philipsen, 45-46, Canadian politician, traffic collision.
* Augusto Rademaker, 80, Brazilian naval admiral and politician, vice president (1969–1974).
* Dane Rudhyar, 90, American astrologer, writer and composer.
* Muriel Smith, 62, American singer, cancer.
* Hugo Spadafora, 45, Panamanian physician, mercenary and dissident, beheaded.
* Hans Raj Vohra, 75-76, Indian journalist and approver.
* Peter Wright, 77, Australian mining executive.

### 14

* Frank Baker, 76, American football player.
* Julian Beck, 60, American actor, stomach cancer.
* Albert Bennett, 75, English cricketer.
* Kath Bonnin, 74, Australian nurse.
* Ernie Collihole, 54, Australian footballer.
* Claire Cribbs, 73, American basketball player.
* Bob Danskin, 77, English footballer.
* Bakhshi Galandarli, 82, Soviet Azerbaijani actor and theatre director.
* Worth Tuttle Hedden, 89, American author.
* John Holt, 62, American educator and author (How Children Fail), cancer.
* Niel Morgan, 81, Welsh cricketer and diplomat.
* Joselito Rodríguez, 78, Mexican film director.

### 15

* Wolfgang Abendroth, 79, German political scientist and jurist.
* Bruno Banducci, 63, Italian-born American football player, heart attack.
* Norman Banks, 79, Australian radio announcer and television presenter.
* Kálmán Czakó, 66, Hungarian jurist.
* René De Smet, 54, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Marcel Dyf, 85, French painter.
* Eureka Forbes, 80, American politician, member of the Hawaii House of Representatives (1959–1966) and Senate (1966–1974).
* Dick Godlove, 80, American college sports coach.
* Maurice Grosclaude, 85, French Olympic runner (1924).
* Pinchas Litvinovsky, 91, Russian-born Israeli painter.
* Nick Paithouski, 67, Canadian footballer.
* William B. Willcox, 77, American historian, cancer.
* Cootie Williams, 74, American trumpeter, kidney disease.
* Alexei Yepishev, 77, Soviet diplomat, politician and general.

### 16

* Einari Aalto, 59, Finnish Olympic swimmer (1952).
* Victor Bourdillon, 88, South African-born Zimbabwean cricketer.
* John Lloyd, 77, Canadian politician.
* Malcolm Pitt, 88, American college sports coach.
* Birgit Ridderstedt, 70, Swedish folk singer.
* Art Scholl, 53, American stunt pilot, plane crash.
* Herb Trawick, 64, Canadian football player.
* Kurt Wegner, 77, German artist.

### 17

* Laura Ashley, 60, Welsh fashion designer, complications from a fall.
* Carmen Barth, 73, American Olympic boxer (1932).
* John Bowle, 79, English historian.
* Henry Stuart Carter, 75, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1948–1960).
* James Mercer, 69, Ghanaian diplomat.
* Fred Polak, 78, Dutch futurologist.
* Petter Ravn, 76, Norwegian footballer.
* Fran Ross, 50, American author (Oreo), cancer.
* Gerrit Van Roekel, 86, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (1967–1971).
* Hurtle Willsmore, 95, Australian cricketer.

### 18

* Monroe Beardsley, 69, American art philosopher.
* Roderick Cameron, 71, American travel writer, AIDS.
* Iorwerth Evans, 79, Welsh rugby player.
* Louis G. Friedrichs, 68, American football player and coach.
* Ed Don George, 80, American professional wrestler.
* A. Earl Hedrick, 89, American art director.
* Gerald Holtom, 71, English artist, designer of the peace sign.
* Arthur Goodwin Hudson, 80, Australian Anglican prelate.
* Ed Lewis, 76, American jazz trumpeter.
* Walter James Nungester, 84, American immunologist.
* Don Otten, 64, American basketball player.
* Harvey Parry, 85, American stuntman and actor.
* John Kingsley Read, 49, British politician.
* Charles Rowley, 78, Australian academic.
* Theodore O. Yntema, 85, American economist and business executive.

### 19

* Bob Barnwell, 69, American football and basketball coach.
* Italo Calvino, 61, Italian writer (Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities), complications from a stroke.
* Rockdrigo González, 34, Mexican singer-songwriter, earthquake.
* Charlie Holmes, 75, American saxophonist.
* Emila Medková, 56, Czechoslovak photographer.
* Charles E. Thornton, 50, American journalist, missile strike.
* Hans Weidel, 82, German jurist and Nazi activist.
* Klaus Wittkugel, 74, German artist.

### 20

* Karl Angerstein, 94, German general.
* Tommy D'Arcy, 53, Scottish footballer.
* Irmgard Enderle, 90, German politician and journalist.
* Eileen Furley, 85, Australian politician.
* Grace Jordan, 93, American writer and journalist.
* Taizo Kawamoto, 71, Japanese footballer.
* Guy L'Écuyer, 54, Canadian actor.
* Ernest Nagel, 83, Austrian-born American sociologist, pneumonia.
* Dick Ottele, 58, American football player.
* Alexander Sagadin, 70, Austrian Olympic equestrian (1956).
* Ruhi Su, 72-73, Turkish singer, prostate cancer.

### 21

* Claire de Lorez, 90, American actress.
* Paul Ernst, 85, American writer.
* Gu Long, 47, Hong Kong-born Taiwanese filmmaker and novelist, cirrhosis.
* Jeff Jefferson, 63, American baseball player.
* Anzelmas Matutis, 62, Soviet Lithuanian poet.
* Ethel Rudkin, 91-92, English writer and folklorist.
* Isabel Grenfell Quallo, 92, Congolese-born British-American community activist.
* Amarnath Vidyalankar, 82, Indian politician, MP (1952–1967, 1971–1977).

### 22

* Robert Elmore, 72, American composer.
* Charles Errickson, 87, American college sports coach.
* Dickie Henderson, 62, English comedian and actor, pancreatic cancer.
* Reidar Jørgensen, 80, Norwegian Olympic runner (1928) and botanist.
* Nico Kasanda, 46, Congolese musician.
* Endre Nemes, 75, Hungarian-born Swedish artist.
* D. J. Opperman, 70, South African poet.
* Robinsón Pitalúa, 21, Colombian Olympic boxer (1984), drowned.
* Philippe Pottier, 47, Swiss footballer.
* Edwin Schutte, 79, American basketball coach.
* Axel Springer, 73, German publisher and businessman, heart attack.
* Geneviève Tabouis, 92, French historian and journalist.
* Edward Allen Tamm, 79, American jurist and intelligence agent, cancer.

### 23

* Stefan Dembicki, 72, French footballer.
* Coe Glade, 85, American opera singer.
* Malcolm Mercer Hollett, 93, Canadian politician.
* Saturno Meletti, 78-79, Italian opera singer.
* Phil O'Connor, 31, English-Australian footballer, traffic collision.
* Charles Phillips, 84, British archaeologist.
* Herman Seborg, 78, American football player.
* Larry Shue, 39, American actor, plane crash.
* Mickey Simpson, 71, American actor, heart failure.
* Charlie Tyson, 87, Australian footballer.

### 24

* Hal C. Banks, 76, Canadian trade unionist, heart disease.
* Ángel Custodio Loyola, 59, Venezuelan songwriter and singer.
* Cor Kools, 78, Dutch footballer.
* Ron Lewin, 65, English footballer.
* David Lewis, 76, American jurist.
* Paul Mann, 71, Canadian actor, stroke.
* Elizabeth Sadoques Mason, 88, American nurse.
* Antonio Poma, 75, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
* Odd Schjerve, 51, Norwegian businessman.
* Henno Sepmann, 60, Estonian architect.

### 25

* Bill Banker, 78, American football player, heart attack.
* Margaret Fishback, 85, American poet.
* Herbert Greene, 64, American conductor and musical director, heart attack.
* Zofia Jaroszewska, 83, Polish actress.
* Orlando Martins, 85, Nigerian actor.
* Albert Moeschinger, 88, Swiss composer.
* Oleksandr Perviy, 24, Soviet Ukrainian Olympic weightlifter (1980), heart attack.
* Chelikani Venkata Rama Rao, 84, Indian politician.
* George Ronald Richards, 79, British-born Australian intelligence operative.
* William Cumming Rose, 98, American biochemist.
* Hans Schmoller, 69, German-British typographer.
* Moshe Zvi Segal, 81, Ukrainian-born Israeli rabbi.
* Jay Sommers, 68, American television producer (Green Acres, Petticoat Junction), heart disease.
* Tommy Treacy, 81, Irish hurler.
* Werner Vordtriede, 70, German-American language professor.

### 26

* Frank Bracht, 75, American film editor.
* Tatton Brinton, 69, British politician, MP (1964–1974).
* Peter Craigie, 47, British biblical scholar, traffic collision.
* Pierre Dufau, 77, French architect.
* Charles Gonnet, 87, French poet.
* Reuben Hill, 73, American sociologist, heart attack.
* Anton Janda, 81, Austrian footballer.
* Max Leslie, 82, American naval admiral.
* Jacques Locas, 59, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Colin McLachlan, 60, New Zealand politician, MP (1966–1981).
* Lloyd Nosler, 84, American filmmaker.
* Checco Rissone, 76, Italian actor.
* Yona Wallach, 41, Israeli poet, breast cancer.

### 27

* Ernie Dickens, 64, Canadian football and ice hockey player.
* Iris du Pré, 71, English pianist and composer.
* Eugenio Gaddini, 69, Italian physician.
* Dirk Geijskes, 78, Dutch biologist and ethnologist.
* Leonard Gribble, 77, English writer.
* Nikolai Gulayev, 67, Soviet flying ace.
* Paul McNulty, 83, American football player.
* Lloyd Nolan, 83, American actor (The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial), lung cancer.
* Ryūtarō Ōtomo, 73, Japanese actor.
* Estanislao Shilinsky, 74, Lithuanian-born Mexican comedian.
* Bruce Smalls, 30, American police officer, shot.
* Herb Wallerstein, 59, American television and film producer, bludgeoned.
* G. P. Wells, 84, British zoologist.
* Joanna Wichmann, 80, German artist.

### 28

* L. B. Abbott, 77, American cinematographer.
* Josef Dobeš, 81, Czechoslovak Olympic equestrian (1936).
* Roy Genders, 72, English cricketer.
* Hec Highton, 61, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Ellen Isefiær, 85, Norwegian actress and director.
* André Kertész, 91, Hungarian-American photographer.
* Henry Lamar, 79, American college sports coach.
* Papaliʻi Laupepa, 44, Samoan politician.
* Maurice Jupurrurla Luther, 39-40, Australian education advocate.
* Gohar Mamajiwala, 74, Indian actress and singer.
* Richard C. Mangrum, 78, American general.
* Zdzisław Michalski, 57, Polish Olympic rower (1952).
* Zaki Osman, 86-87, Egyptian footballer.
* Lobsang Samten Taklha, 51-52, Tibetan politician and medical director.
* Robert Lyster Thornton, 76, British-American physicist.
* Laurie Walquist, 87, American football player.

### 29

* Oswald Cheesman, 72, New Zealand musician.
* Helmut Damerius, 79, German theatre director.
* Abdallah Farhat, 71, Tunisian politician.
* Charles K. Fletcher, 82, American politician and banker, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1949), cancer.
* Joan Fry, 79, British tennis player.
* Victor Gold, 63, Austrian-born British chemist.
* Sukemasa Irie, 80, Japanese essayist.
* Aubrey Rodway Johnson, 84, British linguist and biblical scholar.
* Arthur Krams, 73, American set designer.
* Timothy McAuliffe, 76, Irish politician, senator (1961–1969, 1973–1983).
* John J. Sawtelle, 91, American politician.
* Esmond Wickremesinghe, 65, Sri Lankan politician and media proprietor.
* Archie Williams, 58, Scottish footballer.
* Mieczysław Zub, 31, Polish convicted serial killer, suicide.

### 30

* Herbert Bayer, 85, Austrian-American artist and architect.
* Paul Berlenbach, 84, American boxer.
* Marcus Boyall, 67, Australian footballer.
* Floyd Crosby, 85, American cinematographer (Tabu: A Story of the South Seas).
* Carlo de Ferrariis Salzano, 80, Italian diplomat.
* John P. Humes, 64, American diplomat, stroke.
* Marnie Kennedy, 65-66, Australian writer.
* Pierre Lacans, 28, French rugby player.
* Helen MacInnes, 77, Scottish-American novelist, complications from a stroke.
* Konstanty Mackiewicz, 90, Polish painter.
* Charles Richter, 85, American seismologist, developer of the Richter scale, heart failure.
* Al Romero, 74, Mexican Olympic boxer (1932).
* Robert Shtilmark, 76, Soviet author and journalist.
* Simone Signoret, 64, French actress (Room at the Top, Casque d'Or, The Crucible), pancreatic cancer.
* Carl Ueter, 85, German composer.