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

## July 1985
### 1

* Pedro Aleandro, 74, Argentine actor.
* Adolf Andersson, 97, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1908).
* Maxwell Frederic Coplan, 73, American photographer.
* Lonnie Hillyer, 45, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.
* Ian Hull, 69, Australian footballer.
* Bogusław Leśnodorski, 71, Polish historian.
* Clarence H. Lobo, 72, American Acjachemen tribal spokesman.
* Desmond McMullen, 67, British flying ace.
* Mertz Mortorelli, 64, American football coach.
* Pauli Murray, 74, American priest and civil rights activist, pancreatic cancer.
* Wallace Sterling, 78, American academic administrator.
* Marcel Thibaud, 88, French politician.
* Thomas Patrick Thornton, 87, American jurist.
* Jean Van Den Bosch, 86, Belgian Olympic racing cyclist (1924).

### 2

* Ruth M. Briggs, 74, American soldier and politician.
* Guy Bush, 83, American baseball player.
* Edward Evarts, 59, American neuroscientist, heart attack.
* Luang Pu Waen Suciṇṇo, 98, Thai Buddhist monk.
* James Minter, 67, Australian cricketer.
* Hector Nicol, 64, Scottish comedian, singer, and actor.
* David Purley, 40, British racing driver, plane crash.
* Red Watkins, 80, American football and baseball coach.
* D. Ray White, 58, American mountain dancer, shot.
* Eric Wilson, 84, American Olympic track and field athlete (1924).

### 3

* Erik Ågren, 69, Swedish Olympic boxer (1936).
* Bob Baker, 68, Australian politician.
* Charles Herbert Colvin, 92, American aeronautical engineer.
* Irvin Ehrenpreis, 65, American literary scholar, fall.
* Frank Engledow, 94, British botanist.
* Rodolfo Ghioldi, 94, Argentine politician.
* Ferdinand Haberl, 79, German composer and theologian.
* Herbert Hirschman, 71, American television producer.
* Patricia Hornsby-Smith, Baroness Hornsby-Smith, 71, British politician, MP (1950–1966, 1970–1974) and member of the House of Lords (since 1974).
* Nelson Leigh, 80, American actor.
* Nils Meinander, 74, Finnish politician.
* Rutherford George Montgomery, 91, American children's author.
* Friedrich Ruge, 90, German naval admiral.
* Frank J. Selke, 92, Canadian ice hockey executive.
* Roger Seydoux, 77, French diplomat.
* Mary Stevenson, 88, Scottish-born Australian politician.
* Wilhelmina Magdalene Stuart, 89, New Zealand telegraphist.
* Cooney Weiland, 80, Canadian ice hockey player.

### 4

* Haakon Chevalier, 83, American writer and translator.
* Cecil Cook, 87, Australian physician.
* Jan de Quay, 83, Dutch politician, prime minister (1959–1963).
* Moussa Diakité, 57-58, Guinean politician, executed.
* Henry Ellenbogen, 85, Austrian-born American politician and jurist, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1933–1938).
* Edward V. Gant, 66-67, American academic administrator.
* Joseph P. Monaghan, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1933–1937).
* George Oldfield, 61, English police detective, heart failure.
* Mamba Sano, 81-82, Guinean politician.
* Lotte Strauss, 72, German-American pathologist.
* Willem Visser 't Hooft, 84, Dutch theologian, emphysema.
* Frank Walsh, 79, American baseball umpire.
* Chris Woods, 59, American jazz saxophonist.

### 5

* Ethel H. Bailey, 88, American engineer.
* Margery C. Carlson, 92, American botanist.
* Barry Crane, 57, American television producer and bridge player, bludgeoned.
* Charles J. Ducey, 79, American Knights of Columbus fraternity leader.
* Edgar Dunbar, 83, Australian footballer.
* Bladen Hawke, 9th Baron Hawke, 83, British politician and hereditary peer.
* Ken Kuronuma, 83, Japanese novelist.
* Bill Luckett, 81, English footballer.
* Raoul Palmer, 80, French gynecologist.
* Jack Robertson, 79, South African cricketer.
* Paulino Uzcudun, 86, Spanish boxer.
* Mario Vušković, 31, Yugoslav Croatian footballer, traffic collision.

### 6

* C. Douglas Cairns, 71, American politician.
* Frederick Kaufman, 65, Austrian-American chemist, respiratory disease.
* John Schneider Jr., 66, American politician.
* Cecil Herbert Sharpley, 76, English-born Australian politician and trade unionist.
* Marion Webster, 64, Canadian-American biochemist.
* Nikolai Yegipko, 81, Soviet naval admiral.

### 7

* Irma Andersson-Kottö, 90, Swedish botanist.
* Charles R. Clason, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1937–1949).
* György Harag, 60, Romanian actor and director.
* Sharafat Hussain Khan, 55, Indian singer, lung cancer.
* Shōzō Sakurai, 96, Japanese general.
* John Scarne, 82, American magician and author.
* Ewen Solon, 67, New Zealand-British actor.
* Fernando Tropea, 80, Italian film editor.
* Ljubov Nikolaevna Vassiljeva, 84, Soviet botanist.
* Laron Williams, 36, American convicted serial killer, beaten.
* Volodymyr Yurkevych, 72, Soviet Ukrainian bandurist.

### 8

* Wim Addicks, 88, Dutch footballer.
* Rebekah Colberg, 66, Puerto Rican athlete.
* Gardner Cowles Jr., 82, American newspaper magnate.
* Phil Foster, 72, American actor (Laverne & Shirley), heart attack.
* Frank Hampson, 66, British cartoonist, stroke.
* Simon Kuznets, 84, Russian-American economist, Nobel Prize recipient (1971).
* Jean-Paul Le Chanois, 75, French filmmaker.
* Niall Molloy, 52, Irish Roman Catholic priest, murdered.
* Solomon Pekar, 68, Soviet Ukrainian theoretical physicist.
* Victor Rendina, 68, American actor.
* Ursula Batchelder Stone, 85, American business researcher.
* Guinean politicians executed on this date:
** Mamadi Keïta, 51-52.
** Ismaël Touré, 59.
** Diarra Traoré, 49-50, prime minister (1984).

### 9

* Trygve Braarud, 81, Norwegian botanist.
* Rafael Campos, 49, American actor, stomach cancer.
* Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, 89, Luxembourgish monarch, grand duchess (1919–1964).
* Milo Cipra, 78, Yugoslav Croatian composer.
* David R. Goddard, 77, American plant physiologist.
* Pierre-Paul Grassé, 89, French zoologist.
* Luiz Henrique Rosa, 46, Brazilian musician, traffic collision.
* Kuuno Honkonen, 63, Finnish politician and Olympic high jumper (1948).
* Arne Odd Johnsen, 75, Norwegian historian.
* Jimmy Kinnon, 74, Scottish-born American support group founder (Narcotics Anonymous), lung cancer.
* James Rupert Lawson, 67, American Black nationalist activist, complications from a stroke.
* Kārlis Lobe, 90, Latvian soldier.
* Margaret Molesworth, 90, Australian tennis player.
* Wout Steenhuis, 62, Dutch musician.

### 10

* Keith Fleming, 75, Australian footballer.
* Ahsan Habib, 68, Bangladeshi poet.
* Kai Holm, 89, Danish actor.
* John Kavanagh, 72, New Zealand Roman Catholic prelate.
* Nat G. Kiefer, 46, American politician, member of the Louisiana State Senate (since 1970), liver disease.
* Bill Morgan, 75, American football player.
* Hilgard Muller, 71, South African politician and diplomat.
* Arthur J. Ornitz, 68, American cinematographer.
* Fernando Pereira, 35, Portuguese-Dutch photographer, drowned.
* Zenon Stefaniuk, 55, Polish boxer.

### 11

* John Boulicault, 79, American Olympic racing cyclist (1924).
* Chu Chia-Jen, 84-85, Chinese aviation engineer.
* George Duvivier, 64, American jazz bassist, cancer.
* Roberto Genta, 78, Argentine Olympic sprinter (1932).
* Taneli Kekkonen, 56, Finnish diplomat, suicide by hanging.
* Galina Kopernak, 83, Russian-American actress.
* Timoteus Pokora, 57, Czechoslovak Sinologist.
* Gil Robinson, 75, American football player.
* Georges Verriest, 75, French footballer.

### 12

* Sir Robertson Crichton, 72, British jurist.
* Thomas Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde, 94, Scottish politician and hereditary peer, MP (1940–1955) and member of the House of Lords (since 1955).
* Gene McEver, 76, American football player and coach.
* Grady Louis McMurtry, 66, American magician and occultist.
* Arnold Miller, 62, American miner and labor activist.
* Kevin O'Neill, 77, Australian footballer.
* Clemens Pasch, 74, German artist.
* Lettice Ramsey, 86, British photographer.
* Max Rippon, 64, Australian footballer.
* H. J. Ryser, 61, American mathematician.
* Tokkie Smith, 50-51, South African-Hong Kong football executive, traffic collision.
* Serm Vinicchayakul, 78, Thai economist and politician.

### 13

* Joe Aguirre, 66, American football player.
* Charles K. Bliss, 87, Austrian-Australian semiotician.
* Claudio Cassinelli, 46, Italian actor, helicopter crash.
* Stokeley Fulton, 55, American college sports coach, cancer.
* Sir Derrick Gunston, 94, British politician, MP (1924–1945).
* Matthias Hoogen, 81, German politician, member of the Bundestag (1949–1964).
* Dorothy Houston Jacobson, 77, American political scientist.
* Hermann Lehmann, 75, German-born British physician and biochemist.
* Allan Quartermain, 71, Australian footballer.

### 14

* Larry Drake, 64, American baseball player.
* Debaprasad Ghosh, 91, Indian politician and mathematician.
* Blake Huffman, 83, Canadian politician, MP (1949–1958).
* Lily May Ledford, 68, American folk musician.
* Dikki Madhava Rao, 66, Indian actor.
* Theo Schoon, 69, Dutch-born New Zealand photographer and artist.
* Lluís Solé, 77, Spanish geographer.
* Henk van Tilburg, 86, Dutch footballer.
* William White, 64, American film producer and actor.

### 15

* Frank S. Besson Jr., 75, American general, cancer.
* Diego Giacometti, 82, Swiss-French artist.
* Pearl Kibre, 84, American historian.
* Jean-Louis Marnat, 49, French racing driver, traffic collision.
* Federico Norcia, 81, Italian chess player.
* M. Blaine Peterson, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1963).
* Earl D Thomas, 87, American civic leader.

### 16

* Walter Aveyard, 67, English footballer.
* Heinrich Böll, 67, German novelist, Nobel Prize recipient (1972).
* Clive Braybrook, 83, Australian cricketer.
* Elie Grekoff, 70, Russian-born French artist.
* Ursula Kathleen Hicks, 88, Irish-born British economist.
* Wayne King, 84, American songwriter and bandleader.
* Robert Siohan, 91, French composer.
* Kurt von Fritz, 84, German philologist.
* Elsie Wagstaff, 86, English actress.
* George H. Wilson, 79, American politician and jurist, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).

### 17

* Leslie C. Arends, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1935–1974), heart attack.
* Donald Davidson, 80, South African cricketer.
* Philippe de Chérisey, 62, French writer and humorist.
* Hugh Dunbar, 82, Australian footballer.
* Susanne Langer, 89, American philosopher.
* Margo, 68, Mexican actress, brain cancer.
* Arnold Mitchell, 67, American social scientist.
* Edith Rogers, 90, Canadian politician.
* Wynn Stewart, 51, American country singer, heart attack.
* Subho Tagore, 73, Indian painter, poet, and magazine editor.
* Abdul Hady Talukdar, 79-80, Bangladeshi academic administrator.

### 18

* Shahnawaz Bhutto, 26, Pakistani political activist.
* Louisa Ghijs, 83, Belgian actress.
* Bob Hoffman, 86, American sports promoter.
* Princess Isabel Alfonsa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, 80, Spanish royal.
* Robert Raglan, 76, British actor (Dad's Army).
* Vicente Saldivar, 42, Mexican professional wrestler, cancer.
* Henry C. Segal, 84, American journalist.
* Tommy L. Smith, 71, Australian footballer.
* David Theander, 93, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1912).
* José María Vélaz, 74, Chilean-born Venezuelan Jesuit priest.

### 19

* Zygmunt Adamczyk, 62, Polish footballer.
* Mathew Anden, 42, German-born American actor, stomach cancer.
* Rolland Busch, 64, Australian theologian.
* John Canaday, 78, American art historian and critic, pancreatic cancer.
* Kher Jagatsingh, 53, Mauritian politician.
* Ted Johnson, 61, New Zealand Olympic rower (1952).
* Richard C. Meyer, 65, German-American film editor.
* Henry Mollison, 80, British actor.
* Ewen Montagu, 84, British jurist and naval intelligence officer (Operation Mincemeat).
* Leonida Repaci, 87, Italian writer.
* Sjumandjaja, 51, Indonesian filmmaker and actor.
* Janusz Zajdel, 46, Polish science fiction author, lung cancer.

### 20

* Leo Alexander, 79, Austrian-American neurologist and medical advisor, cancer.
* Fritz Bultman, 66, American artist.
* Bruno de Finetti, 79, Italian statistician.
* Estelle Evans, 78, American actress (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Learning Tree).
* Peter Glob, 74, Danish archaeologist.
* Egon Johnsson, 58, Swedish footballer.
* Maki Skosana, 24, South African factory worker, burned.
* Athos Valsecchi, 65, Italian politician.
* John J. Wicker Jr., 91, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (1932–1936).

### 21

* Alvah Bessie, 81, American screenwriter, member of the "Hollywood Ten", heart attack.
* Pat Fletcher, 69, Canadian golfer.
* Jack Gaughan, 54, American illustrator.
* Victor Hammer, 83, American businessman.
* Arthur Klæbo, 76, Norwegian journalist.
* Charles L. Kuhn, 83, American art historian and museum curator.
* Zoran Radmilović, 52, Yugoslav actor.
* Keith Simpson, 78, English forensic pathologist.
* Ulla-Britt Söderlund, 41, Swedish costume designer, cancer.
* Johnny Tomaini, 83, American football player.
* Vicki Vola, 68, American actress.
* Aristid von Grosse, 80, German-American nuclear chemist.
* Dorian Williams, 71, British equestrian, pancreatic cancer.
* Lawrence Woolner, 73, American film producer.

### 22

* Mahua Roy Choudhury, 26, Indian actress, injuries sustained in a fire.
* Ramadevi Choudhury, 85, Indian social reformist and independence activist.
* J. Edward Hutchinson, 70, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1963–1977).
* Matti Järvinen, 76, Finnish Olympic javelin thrower (1932).
* Trevor Jones, 67, Australian footballer.
* Liminha, 55, Brazilian footballer, pneumonia.
* William L. Pfeiffer, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).
* Paul Pleiger, 85, German economist and businessman.
* Sir Peter Roberts, 3rd Baronet, 73, British politician, MP (1945–1966).
* Jaap Spaanderman, 88, Dutch pianist and cellist.
* Tauno Suoniemi, 57, Finnish Olympic weightlifter (1952).
* Julian Stanley Wise, 85, American volunteer rescuer.

### 23

* Lloyd R. Baumgart, 77, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1957–1964).
* Fred Birrell, 71, Australian politician, MP (1963–1974).
* Roy Emery Dunn, 99, American politician.
* Alphonse Feyder, 69, Luxembourgish footballer.
* Kay Kyser, 80, American bandleader.
* Mickey Shaughnessy, 64, American actor and comedian, heart failure.
* Rose Smith, 94, British union organizer.
* Stan Turner, 71, English-born Canadian RAF officer.
* Tom Waldman, 63, American screenwriter.
* Johnny Wardle, 62, English cricketer.

### 24

* José Bódalo, 69, Spanish actor.
* Hubert John Collar, 85, Hong Kong businessman.
* Aftab Uddin Chowdhury, 73, Bangladeshi politician, MP (1979–1984).
* Les Gaunt, 67, English footballer.
* William Hall, 2nd Viscount Hall, 72, Welsh businessman and hereditary peer.
* Philip Kelly, 83, Canadian politician.
* Ted Kleinhans, 86, American baseball player.
* Alice D. G. Miller, 91, American screenwriter.
* Ezechiele Ramin, 32, Italian missionary, shot.
* László Salgó, 75, Hungarian politician and rabbi.
* Ganesh Lal Shrestha, 73-74, Nepalese musician and poet.
* Peter Tamony, 82, American etymologist.
* Frances Winwar, 85, Italian-born American writer.
* Donald O. Wright, 92, American politician, lieutenant governor of Minnesota (1954–1955).

### 25

* Bhudo Advani, 79, Indian actor.
* Silvio Alverà, 63, Italian Olympic alpine skier (1948, 1952).
* Božo Broketa, 62, Yugoslav footballer.
* Hamlet Gonashvili, 57, Soviet Georgian singer.
* Hoover, c. 14, American harbor seal known to mimic human speech.
* Walter Hussey, 76, English Anglican priest and art patron.
* Stephen Knight, 33, British author.
* Curly Linton, 89, Australian footballer.
* Aleksey Malchevskiy, 69, Soviet ornithologist.
* Piano Red, 73, American blues musician.
* Karel Shook, 64, American ballet dancer and choreographer.

### 26

* Grace Albee, 94, American wood engraver.
* K. J. Callahan, 88, American jurist and politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1931–1935).
* J. D. Grey, 78, American pastor.
* Marcus Hines, 65, Australian footballer.
* Harold Lang, 64, American dancer and actor, pancreatic cancer.
* Ann May, 86, American actress.
* Roger Monclin, 82, French militant pacifist and writer.
* Fredy Perlman, 50, Czechoslovak-born American author, complications from heart surgery.
* Walter Richter, 80, German actor.
* Sir Oliver Simmonds, 87, British politician, MP (1931–1945).
* Jindřich Uher, 74, Czechoslovak politician.
* Camiel Van de Velde, 82, Belgian Olympic runner (1924).

### 27

* Shigeru Amachi, 54, Japanese actor.
* Michel Audiard, 65, French film director.
* John L. Ayers, 83, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1957–1966).
* Elizabeth Cleaver, 46, Canadian children's author.
* Joe Crozier, 70, Scottish footballer.
* Antun Fischer, 74, Yugoslav Serbian Olympic wrestler (1936).
* Frederick Stanley Gordon, 87, New Zealand flying ace.
* Henry Hay, 75, American journalist and translator.
* Adelheid Kofler, 96, Austrian inventor and mineralogist.
* Jules Patient, 80, French Guianese politician.
* Louise Roy, 61, Canadian singer.
* Smoky Joe Wood, 95, American baseball player.
* Carl Yowell, 82, American baseball player.

### 28

* Israel Breslow, 79, Russian-born American union manager.
* Masoud Monfared Niyaki, 55, Iranian general.
* Tommy Priestley, 74, Northern Irish footballer.
* Anna Klindt Sørensen, 85, Danish painter.
* Grant Williams, 53, American actor (The Incredible Shrinking Man, Hawaiian Eye), sepsis.
* Zhou Chunquan, 79, Chinese general.

### 29

* Martha-Bryan Allen, 82, American actress.
* Petar Čule, 87, Yugoslav Bosnian Roman Catholic prelate.
* Izaak Huru Doko, 71, Indonesian politician.
* Eric Glass, 75, Australian footballer.
* Vlastimil Hála, 61, Czechoslovak jazz trumpeter.
* Paul Mondoloni, 68, French mobster, shot.
* James Nolan, 69, American actor, cancer.
* Petr Sepeši, 25, Czechoslovak singer, traffic collision.
* Judah Waten, 74, Russian-born Australian novelist.

### 30

* Cvetka Ahlin, 57, Slovenian singer.
* Frederick Arthur Dewhurst, 74, Canadian politician.
* Carol Eckman, 47, American basketball coach.
* Ibrahim Geagea, 61, Lebanese Olympic alpine skier (1952, 1956, 1960).
* Iosif Gikhman, 67, Soviet mathematician.
* Peter Knight, 68, English composer.
* André Obrecht, 85, French executioner.
* Julia Robinson, 65, American mathematician, leukemia.
* Robert Sénéchal, 93, French racing driver and car manufacturer.
* Myrl Shoemaker, 72, American politician, lieutenant governor of Ohio (since 1983), member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1967–1982), cancer.

### 31

* Ruth Morris Bakwin, 87, American pediatrician.
* Eugene Carson Blake, 78, American Presbyterian church leader.
* Stella Blum, 68, American fashion historian, cancer.
* Murray Chapple, 55, New Zealand cricketer.
* Arkady Chepelev, 70, Soviet soldier.
* Reginald Fulljames, 88, English cricketer.
* Jeff Glick, 78, American bridge player.
* Ed Kolman, 69, American football player.
* Germaine Krull, 87, German photographer.
* Walter Kuusela, 81, Finnish politician.
* Dick Vance, 69, American jazz trumpeter.