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

## August 1985
### 1

* Sandy Bell, 79, South African cricketer.
* Alois Carigiet, 82, Swiss artist and illustrator.
* F. N. Cook, 80, Australian naval officer.
* Jack Dootson, 71, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1941–1943, 1951–1953, 1963–1967).
* Helene Engelmann, 87, Austrian Olympic pair skater (1924).
* Edward McClaren, 83, American physician.
* Manuel Meana, 83, Spanish footballer.
* Lawrence D. Miles, 81, American engineer.
* Harry Mittleman, 85, American building contractor and real estate developer.
* Jules Moch, 92, French politician.
* Victoria Mxenge, 43, South African anti-apartheid activist, shot.
* Al Overton, 73, American sound engineer (Diamonds Are Forever).
* Fernando Previtali, 78, Italian conductor.
* Dorothy Burney Richards, 91, American conservationist (Beaversprite).
* James L. Shaver, 83, American politician, lieutenant governor of Arkansas (1943–1947).
* Andy Stynchula, 46, American football player, traffic collision.
* D. H. Turner, 54, English historian and museum curator.
* Joseph Walker, 92, American cinematographer (It's a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night).
* Patty Willis, 75, American aviator.

### 2

* Curt F. Bühler, 80, American librarian and literary scholar.
* María Caviglia, 90, Argentine politician.
* Philip Don Estridge, 48, American computer engineer, plane crash.
* Frank Faylen, 79, American actor, respiratory disease.
* Rose Goldsen, 68, American sociologist.
* Bob Holt, 56, American voice actor (The Great Grape Ape Show, The Incredible Hulk, The Lorax), heart attack.
* John S. Rice, 86, American politician and diplomat, ambassador to the Netherlands (1961–1964), member of the Pennsylvania Senate (1933–1940).
* Karl Heinz Stroux, 77, German actor and theatre director.
* Richard Walker, 67, English angler and fishing writer.
* Ralph Younger, 81, British general.

### 3

* Eileen Beldon, 83, English actress.
* Mosco Carner, 80, Austrian-born British musicologist and conductor.
* Gordon Churchill, 86, Canadian politician, MP (1951–1968).
* Banarasi Das, 73, Indian politician.
* George Dempsey, 79, Australian Olympic racing cyclist (1924).
* Coleman Dowell, 60, American writer, suicide by jumping.
* Miranda Downes, 35, Australian screenwriter, murdered.
* Ludwig Jetzinger, 93, Austrian footballer.
* Alphonse Leboulanger, 79, French racing cyclist.
* Cloy Mattox, 82, American baseball player.
* R. Hunter Middleton, 87, Scottish-born American typeface designer.
* Harry Phillips, 76, American jurist, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.

### 4

* Mario Dubsky, 46, English artist, AIDS.
* Fritz Eikemeier, 77, German police officer.
* Michel Jourdan, 59, French actor.
* Max Krook, 72, American astrophysicist and mathematician.
* William F. Leonard, 71, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
* Maurice Petherick, 90, British politician, MP (1931–1945).
* Orange Phelps, 98, American politician and theater executive, mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon (1929–1935).
* Ivan Radoev, 83, Bulgarian footballer.
* Mitch Sutton, 34, American football player.
* Zbyněk Vostřák, 65, Czechoslovak composer.
* Don Whillans, 52, English mountaineer, heart attack.
* Q. V. Williamson, 66, American politician, respiratory failure.
* Pierre Young, 59, French-born British engineer and mathematician.

### 5

* Ernest Adam, 85, Belgian politician.
* Lorne Betts, 67, Canadian composer.
* Aub Charleston, 83, Australian footballer.
* Sir Lionel Denny, 88, British politician, Lord Mayor of London (1965–1966).
* Chester Wilson Emmons, 84, American mycologist.
* Arnold Horween, 87, American football player and coach.
* Olav Kielland, 83, Norwegian composer.
* Ted Kimball, 75, American radio broadcaster.
* Charles Pruitt, 55, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (since 1970), heart attack.
* Mona Richardson, 38, American singer and actress.
* Gladys Byram Shepperd, 83, American educator.
* Francis Xavier Thomas, 79, Australian Roman Catholic prelate.
* Arnold Wilkins, 78, British radar developer.

### 6

* Krystyna Ankwicz, 78, Polish actress.
* William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany, 80, Scottish politician, MP (1931–1945, 1951–1956).
* Leon Bogues, 57, American politician, lung cancer.
* Forbes Burnham, 62, Guyanese politician, president (since 1980) and prime minister (1964–1980), heart failure.
* Ninni Cassarà, 38, Italian police officer, shot.
* Juanita Craft, 83, American civil rights activist and politician.
* Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés, 82, Honduran politician, president (1971–1972).
* Karl Diebitsch, 86, German artist and SS weapon designer.
* Ken Ernst, 67, American cartoonist.
* Ann Govednik, 69, American Olympic swimmer (1932, 1936).
* John Harmon, 80, American actor.
* Jeanne Helbling, 82, French actress.
* Johann Kurz, 71, Austrian Roman Catholic prelate.
* George Leite, 64, American author.
* Ronald Melville, 82, English botanist.
* Dorothy Pantin, 89, Manx surgeon.
* Enrico Ruberti, 70, Italian Olympic rower (1948).

### 7

* Joanne Cole, 51, British artist and illustrator (Bod), cancer.
* Alan Fitch, 70, British politician, MP (1958–1983).
* Irene Gilbert, 76-77, Irish fashion designer.
* Grayson Hall, 62, American actress (The Night of the Iguana, One Life to Live, Dark Shadows), lung cancer.
* Barrington Hill, 70, English cricketer.
* Edward Mowinckel-Larsen, 90, Norwegian engineer.
* Juan Nelson, 94, Argentine Olympic polo player (1924, 1936).
* David Robertson, 84, Scottish-American footballer.
* Johnny Rucker, 68, American baseball player.
* Gábor Szegő, 90, Hungarian-American mathematician.

### 8

* Benny Barnes, 51, American singer.
* Louise Brooks, 78, American actress (Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl, Beggars of Life), heart attack.
* Alfredo De Marsico, 97, Italian politician.
* Roddie Edmonds, 65, American soldier and humanitarian.
* Milton H. Greene, 63, American photographer, lymphoma.
* Sayed Houda, 84, Egyptian footballer.
* Les Jago, 77, Australian footballer.
* Louis Meeuwessen, 81, Dutch Olympic boxer (1924).
* Edward Pimental, 20, American soldier, shot.
* Gennaro Vitiello, 55, Italian actor and director.
* Leo Weisgerber, 86, German linguist.

### 9

* Fred Åkerström, 48, Swedish singer and guitarist.
* Mario J. Cariello, 78, American politician and jurist, cancer.
* Clive Churchill, 58, Australian rugby player and coach.
* Garrett W. Hagedorn, 74, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate (since 1968), heart attack.
* Willem Kremer, 89, Dutch theologian.
* Lance McCaskill, 85, New Zealand conservationist.
* Florence Mophosho, 64, South African anti-apartheid activist.
* Mauri Sariola, 60, Finnish novelist.
* Thelma Van Norte, 73, American medical librarian.

### 10

* Kenny Baker, 72, American singer and actor, heart attack.
* Nate Barragar, 78, American football player.
* Louise Landry Gadbois, 88, Canadian painter.
* Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, 85-86, Ukrainian-born Israeli rabbi.
* Beryl H. Potter, 84, American astronomer.
* Edward Ernest Swanstrom, 82, American Roman Catholic prelate.

### 11

* Frank Birkenhead, 87, English comedian (Morris and Cowley).
* Kurt Bühligen, 67, German flying ace.
* Nick Ceroli, 45, American drummer, heart attack.
* Manuel Conde, 69, Filipino actor and filmmaker.
* János Drapál, 37, Hungarian racing cyclist, racing crash.
* Sir John Grace, 80, New Zealand diplomat.
* Hector Grey, 81, Scottish businessman.
* Helen Webb Harris, 85, American educator, golfer and playwright.
* Pavel Korovkin, 72, Soviet mathematician.
* Manuel António Vassalo e Silva, 85, Portuguese colonial administrator.

### 12

* Billy Devore, 74, American racing driver.
* Folke Fridell, 80, Swedish writer.
* Sir Harry Godwin, 84, English botanist.
* Patrick Hines, 55, American actor, heart attack.
* Alfons Luczny, 91, German general.
* Jack Manke, 68, American politician, member of the South Dakota Senate (since 1981), heart attack.
* Jim Pender, 73, Australian footballer.
* Kyu Sakamoto, 43, Japanese singer ("Sukiyaki"), plane crash.
* Kåre Stokkeland, 67, Norwegian politician.
* Masanori Tsuji, 39, Japanese Olympic racing cyclist (1964), plane crash.
* Manfred Winkelhock, 33, German racing driver, racing crash.
* Xiao Hua, 69, Chinese general.

### 13

* Slobodan Aligrudić, 50, Yugoslav actor.
* Albert Bonzano, 80, French Olympic rower (1924, 1928).
* Cecil Browne, 89, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Edwin Duerr, 81, American theatre director.
* Josef Fath, 73, German footballer.
* Ida Lough, 82, New Zealand weaver.
* J. Willard Marriott, 84, American business executive (Marriott Corporation), heart attack.
* Marion Martin, 76, American actress.
* Shiva Naipaul, 40, Trinidadian-British novelist and journalist, heart attack.
* Paul Edward Paget, 84, English architect.
* Åse Gruda Skard, 79, Norwegian psychologist.
* Nelson B. Tinnin, 79, American politician, member of the Missouri Senate (1961–1985).

### 14

* Manuel Armanqué, 84, Spanish Olympic water polo player (1920).
* Bobbie Barwell, 89, New Zealand photographer.
* Marie Bell, 84, French actress and theatre director.
* Józef Chlebowczyk, 61, Polish historian.
* Dick Crayne, 72, American football player.
* María Olimpia de Obaldía, 93, Panamanian poet.
* Nazlı Ecevit, 85, Turkish painter.
* Sergio Galeotti, 40, Italian architect and businessman (Armani), heart attack.
* Alfred Hayes, 74, American poet and screenwriter.
* Lina Heydrich, 74, German memoirist.
* Walter C. Langsam, 79, American academic administrator.
* Murray Shelton, 92, American football player.
* Merwin H. Silverthorn, 88, American general.
* Gale Sondergaard, 86, American actress (Anthony Adverse, Anna and the King of Siam, The Mark of Zorro).

### 15

* Cecil Boswell, 75, English cricketer.
* Joe Carveth, 67, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Lester Cole, 81, American screenwriter, part of the Hollywood Ten, heart attack.
* Donald Ferguson, 64, American Olympic racing cyclist (1956).
* Ivan Gronsky, 90, Soviet writer.
* Christian Alusine Kamara-Taylor, 68, Sierra Leonean politician, prime minister (1975–1978).
* Bernard Loomer, 73, American theologian.
* Robert Maxwell, 83, American Olympic runner (1928).
* Leon Prima, 78, American trumpeter.
* Sidney A. von Luther, 60, American politician, member of the New York State Senate (1971–1974).
* Richard Yardumian, 68, American composer, heart attack.

### 16

* John Brent, 47, American comedian and actor.
* Dick Drott, 49, American baseball player, stomach cancer.
* Philip J. Lewis, 84, Canadian politician.
* Mario Majoni, 75, Italian Olympic water polo player (1948).
* Géza Toldi, 76, Hungarian footballer.
* Joseph Henry Wegstein, 63, American computer scientist.

### 17

* Gaspare Ambrosini, 98, Italian politician and jurist.
* Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon, 54, British politician and hereditary peer.
* Matsuo Kishi, 78, Japanese filmmaker.
* Honesto Mayoralgo, 51, Filipino basketball player and coach.
* Henriette Mertz, 89, American fringe archaeologist.
* Anatoly Timofeyev, 97, Russian Olympic fencer (1912).
* Joseph T. White, 23, American soldier and defector to North Korea, drowned.

### 18

* Edward Johnston Alexander, 84, American botanist.
* Sir Herbert Andrew, 75, English civil servant.
* Julia Arévalo de Roche, 87, Uruguayan politician.
* Arthur E. Baird, 89, American radio game show host (Professor Quiz).
* Irene Caroline Diner Koenigsberger, 88, American chemist.
* Michael Long, 56, British jurist.
* Josip Primožič, 85, Yugoslav Olympic gymnast (1924, 1928).

### 19

* Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, 83, English botanist.
* Arthur Ashwell, 77, English cricketer.
* Edward Cooper, 89, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient.
* Nate Harlan, 57, American football player and coach.
* Robert W. Hasbrouck, 89, American general, heart failure.
* Rose Angela Horan, 90, American Roman Catholic nun and philosopher.
* Jānis Matulis, 74, Soviet Latvian Lutheran prelate.
* Bobby Reynolds, 54, American college football player, stroke.
* Curtis Howe Springer, 88, American radio evangelist.
* Cedric Wallace, 76, American jazz musician.
* Hōdai Yamazaki, 70, Japanese poet.

### 20

* Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali, 64, Indian jurist.
* Chow Ching-Wen, 76-77, Chinese human rights activist.
* Clarence Fieber, 71, American baseball player.
* Donald O. Hebb, 81, Canadian neuropsychologist.
* Russ Hoogerhyde, 79, American archer.
* Kenneth Kennedy, 71, Australian Olympic speed skater (1936).
* Harchand Singh Longowal, 53, Indian politician, shot.
* Wilhelm Meendsen-Bohlken, 88, German naval admiral.
* Basil Nicholson, 72, English rugby player.
* Václav Rais, 75, Czechoslovak Olympic fencer (1936).
* William T. Stockton Jr., 66, American politician, member of the Florida Senate (1967–1968).

### 21

* E. Richard Barnes, 79, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1963–1973).
* Sverre Berglie, 74, Norwegian footballer.
* Joseph Eidelberg, 69, Ukrainian-born Israeli linguist and biblical scholar.
* Fernand Guindon, 68, Canadian politician.
* Trygve Heltveit, 71, Norwegian philologist.
* Roy Luebbe, 84, American baseball player.
* David Olère, 83, Polish-born French artist.
* Gheorghe Pintilie, 82, Soviet-Romanian politician and intelligence agent.
* David Reed, 13, American murder victim.
* Maxwell Shaw, 56, British actor.
* Suhaim bin Hamad Al Thani, 51-52, Qatari royal, heart attack.
* István Szendeffy, 85, Hungarian Olympic rower (1924).

### 22

* Burton Y. Berry, 83, American diplomat.
* Octavian Cotescu, 54, Romanian actor.
* Douglas Darby, 74, Australian politician.
* Leo Dean, 70, Australian footballer.
* Paul Peter Ewald, 97, German physicist and crystallographer.
* Charles Gibson, 65, American historian and anthropologist.
* Christian H. Kahl, 80, American politician.
* Aleksandra Khokhlova, 87, Soviet actress and theatre director.
* Peter Torleivson Molaug, 82, Norwegian politician.
* Jerry O'Sullivan, 45, Irish hurler, heart attack.
* Alice Piper, 76, American Paiute activist.
* Turgut Uyar, 58, Turkish poet, cirrhosis.

### 23

* Ginty Lush, 71, Australian cricketer.
* Luís Matoso, 83, Brazilian footballer.
* Arne Nic. Sandnes, 65, Norwegian politician.
* Wang Kunlun, 83, Chinese politician.

### 24

* Robert P. Alexander, 80, American philatelist.
* William V. Banks, 82, American lawyer and radio station proprietor.
* Paul Creston, 78, American composer.
* Colin Crompton, 54, English comedian, lung cancer.
* L.C. Green, 63, American blues musician.
* Adolphe Groscol, 81, Belgian Olympic sprinter (1928).
* Storm Herseth, 87, Norwegian chess player.
* Svend Holm, 89, Danish footballer.
* B. J. Kaston, 79, American arachnologist.
* Noel Martin, 92, British golfer and soldier.
* Boots McClain, 86, American baseball player.
* John Reid, 84, New Zealand diplomat.
* Morrie Ryskind, 89, American screenwriter, playwright, and political activist.
* Soledad Salvador, 28, Filipino activist, beheaded.

### 25

* Robin Andrew, 72, New Zealand lawn bowler.
* Ernst Aust, 62, German political activist.
* Rudi Blesh, 86, American jazz critic, heart attack.
* Arthur Chresby, 77, Australian politician, MP (1958–1961).
* Eugenio Della Casa, 84, Italian Olympic water polo player (1924).
* Paul Harris, 67, American actor.
* Lloyd Hyde, 65, Canadian politician.
* Jee Yong-ju, 36, South Korean boxer, stabbed.
* Robert D. Morrow Sr., 90, American politician.
* Ellis E. Patterson, 87, American politician, lieutenant governor of California (1939–1943), member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1947), cancer.
* Austin Punch, 91, Australian cricketer.
* Fred Raul, 72, Austrian actor.
* Fabri Salcedo, 71, Spanish-born American footballer.
* Samantha Smith, 13, American peace activist and actress (Lime Street), plane crash.
* Hermann Tunner, 72, Austrian Olympic discus thrower (1948).
* Dick Wakefield, 64, American baseball player.
* Pino Zac, 55, Italian cartoonist, stroke.

### 26

* Chang Ch'i-yun, 83, Chinese politician and historian.
* Stu Clarke, 79, American baseball player.
* Norman Douglas, 75, New Zealand politician, MP (1960–1975).
* Åke Fridell, 66, Swedish actor.
* Fred Louis Lerch, 83, Austrian-German actor.
* Per Monsen, 72, Norwegian newspaper editor.
* Sir Edward Paris, 96, British scientist and civil servant.
* Leopoldo Querol, 85, Spanish pianist.
* Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg, 85, Norwegian politician.
* Charles W. Sandman Jr., 63, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1967–1975), complications from a stroke.
* Norman Schneider, 96, Canadian politician, MP (1952–1958).

### 27

* John Albrechtson, 49, Swedish Olympic sailor (1968, 1972, 1976), suicide.
* Rogelio Crespo, 90, Cuban baseball player.
* John Hurley, 91, Australian politician.
* Johnny Lindell, 68, American baseball player, lung cancer.
* Emile Touma, 66, Israeli journalist and historian.
* J. Stafford Wright, 80, British theologian.

### 28

* Ruth Gordon, 88, American actress (Rosemary's Baby, Inside Daisy Clover) and screenwriter (Adam's Rib).
* Berry Johnson, 79, New Zealand rower.
* Iván Marino Ospina, 45, Colombian guerrilla militant, co-founder of the 19th of April Movement, shot.
* Hugh Norman-Walker, 68, British colonial administrator.
* Miguel Otero Silva, 76, Venezuelan writer and politician, heart disease.
* Vince Oliver, 69, American basketball and football player.
* F. Mason Sones, 66, American physician, lung cancer.
* Surya Wonowidjojo, 62, Indonesian cigarette company executive.

### 29

* Alexander Abramsky, 87, Soviet composer.
* Evelyn Ankers, 67, British-American actress (The Wolf Man), ovarian cancer.
* George Bagby, 78, American novelist, cancer.
* Patrick Barr, 77, English actor.
* Lise Børsum, 76, Norwegian World War II resistance member.
* Homer Chase, 68, American communist activist.
* Michael Codd, 69, American police commissioner, heart attack.
* Leo Freisinger, 69, American Olympic speed skater (1936).
* Earl Goheen, 90, American sports coach.
* Paul Kligman, 62, Canadian voice actor (Spider-Man, The Marvel Super Heroes, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer), heart failure.
* Michel Pécheux, 74, French Olympic fencer (1936, 1948).
* M. K. Radha, 74, Indian actor.
* Marco Rigau Gaztambide, 66, Puerto Rican jurist.
* Gholamreza Rouhani, 88, Iranian poet.
* Marguerite Engler Schwarzman, 93, American educator.

### 30

* Paul Bryar, 75, American actor.
* Taylor Caldwell, 84, British-born American novelist, respiratory failure.
* José Cubero Sánchez, 21, Spanish bullfighter, gored.
* Tom Howard, 75, British special effects artist (2001: A Space Odyssey).
* Gerhardt W. Hyatt, 69, American general.
* Philly Joe Jones, 62, American jazz drummer, heart attack.
* Douglas Eric Kimmins, 80, British entomologist.
* Josy Koelsch, 58, French Olympic canoer (1952).
* Paul H. Landis, 84, American sociologist.
* Nora Fry Lavrin, 87-88, English illustrator.
* Euan Miller, 88, British general.
* Yvonne Netter, 96, French feminist activist.
* Tatiana Proskouriakoff, 76, Russian-born American archaeologist.
* Erwin Righter, 88, American football and basketball player.
* Tatsu Tanaka, 93, Japanese politician.

### 31

* Sir Macfarlane Burnet, 85, Australian virologist, Nobel Prize recipient (1960), colorectal cancer.
* Vasily Golubev, 60, Soviet painter.
* Boris Kovzan, 63, Soviet fighter pilot.
* Tom Morrison, 72, New Zealand rugby player.
* No Robbery, 25, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
* John Patric, 83, American writer (National Geographic).
* Clyde Smoll, 71, American baseball player.
* Joseph Carmine Zavatt, 84, American jurist.