# Deaths in January 1986
## Contents

* 1
* 2
* 3
* 4
* 5
* 6
* 7
* 8
* 9
* 10
* 11
* 12
* 13
* 14
* 15
* 16
* 17
* 18
* 19
* 20
* 21
* 22
* 23
* 24
* 25
* 26
* 27
* 28
* 29
* 30
* 31
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 1951.
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.

## January 1986
### 1

* Albert Aley, 66, American filmmaker.
* Rattan Bai, 95, Indian actress and singer.
* Teodor Bieregowoj, 77, Polish Olympic racewalker (1936).
* Lord David Cecil, 83, British historian.
* Kenneth de Burgh Codrington, 86, British archaeologist.
* Roger Erell, 78, French architect.
* Marty Friedman, 96, American basketball player and coach.
* Bill Hall, 57, American Major League baseball player.
* Emmet Lavery, 83, American screenwriter.
* Pavao Löw, 75, Yugoslav footballer.
* Harry McQuinn, 80, American racing driver.
* Eibhlín Ní Bhriain, 60, Irish journalist.
* Bruce Norris, 61, American NHL ice hockey executive (Detroit Red Wings), liver failure.

### 2

* Leo Bensemann, 73, New Zealand artist and typographer.
* Vera Buck, 82, Australian pianist and composer.
* John Chenoweth, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1941–1949, 1951–1965).
* Patrick Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 4th Baron Derwent, 84, British politician and hereditary peer.
* Bob Finley, 70, American Major League baseball player.
* Hartford N. Gunn Jr., 59, American television executive (PBS), leukoencephalopathy.
* John Hargis, 65, American NBA basketball player.
* Günther Heydemann, 71, German U-boat commander.
* John Howard, 84, British civil engineer.
* Wilbur V. Hubbard, 78, American college sports coach, stroke.
* Herb Magidson, 79, American lyricist.
* Patricia Miles Martin, 86, American author.
* Percy McKelvey, 89, Canadian politician.
* Una Merkel, 82, American actress (Summer and Smoke, The Ponder Heart).
* Nonna Muravyova, 79, Soviet politician.
* Jock Richardson, 79, Scottish footballer.
* Bill Veeck, 71, American Major League baseball executive, lung cancer.
* Frithjov Meier Vik, 83, Norwegian politician.

### 3

* Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, 89, American journalist.
* Lindesay Clark, 89, Australian mining engineer and executive.
* John Cronin, 69, British politician, MP (1955–1979), heart attack.
* George G. Finch, 83, American general.
* Dustin Gee, 43, British comedian, heart attack.
* Clare W. Graves, 71, American psychologist.
* Chico Hernández, 70, Cuban Major League baseball player.
* Jimmy Ithell, 69, Welsh footballer.
* Jens Bjerre Jacobsen, 82, Danish composer.
* Georg Krause, 84, German cinematographer (Paths of Glory).
* Jim Quinn, 81, Australian rules footballer.
* Nani Wartabone, 78, Indonesian politician.
* Jan Zumbach, 70, Polish flying ace.

### 4

* Giuseppe Addobbati, 76, Italian actor.
* Gösta Bernhard, 75, Swedish actor and filmmaker.
* Henry Field, 83, American anthropologist, respiratory failure.
* Wilbur R. Franks, 84, Canadian scientist, inventor of the g-suit.
* Jan Huges, 81, Dutch Olympic rower (1928).
* Christopher Isherwood, 81, British-American writer (Goodbye to Berlin, A Single Man, Christopher and His Kind), prostate cancer.
* Jack Little, 77, American-Australian broadcaster.
* Walter K. Long, 81, American historian.
* Phil Lynott, 36, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy) and songwriter ("The Boys Are Back in Town"), sepsis.
* Lisi Mangold, 35, Swiss actress, cancer.
* Dave Morey, 96, American college sports coach.
* Edward Pugh, 76, British Anglican prelate.
* Frits Schutte, 88, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1924).
* Maskoen Soemadiredja, 78, Indonesian politician.
* J. B. H. Wadia, 84, Indian filmmaker.

### 5

* Johnnie S. Aikens, 71, American politician.
* Sir John Barlow, 2nd Baronet, 87, British politician, MP (1945–1966).
* Elena de Galantha, 95, Hungarian-American histologist.
* Joseph DiVarco, 74, American mobster.
* Thomas Heathcote, 68, British actor.
* Don McKellar, 61, Australian politician.
* Ilmari Salminen, 83, Finnish Olympic long-distance runner (1936).
* Eivind Sværen, 68, Norwegian shot putter.
* Wei Wu Wei, 90, British theatre producer and Taoist philosopher.
* Radovan Zogović, 78, Yugoslav poet.

### 6

* Ronnie Cord, 42, Brazilian singer.
* Johnny Dawson, 83, American golfer.
* Shanti Kumar Desai, 77, Indian music director.
* Jan Halle, 82, Dutch footballer.
* Christopher Jayawardena, 87, Sri Lankan conservationist.
* Frank Miller, 73, American cellist.
* Fernand Oubradous, 82, French musician.
* N. K. Seshan, 58, Indian politician.
* James E. Van Zandt, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1939–1943, 1947–1963).

### 7

* Germaine Arbeau-Bonnefoy, 92, French pianist.
* Joe Burns, 85, American Major League baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
* P. D. Eastman, 76, American children's author (Are You My Mother?, Go, Dog. Go!, Sam and the Firefly), pneumonia.
* Joe Busbey Hamiter, 86, American judge.
* Wilfred Holmes, 85, American naval officer.
* Suleiman Khater, 24–25, Egyptian mass murderer (Ras Burqa massacre), suicide by hanging.
* John C. Mandanici, 68, American politician.
* Nicholas Mormando, 41, American mobster (Gambino crime family), shot.
* Juan Rulfo, 68, Mexican author and screenwriter.
* Fred Thomsen, 88, American NFL football player and coach.
* Rex Wailes, 84, English historian and engineer.

### 8

* Gordon Adamson, 81, Canadian architect.
* Basil Fitzherbert, 14th Baron Stafford, 59, English hereditary peer.
* Pierre Fournier, 79, French cellist.
* Sidney Harrison, 82, British pianist and composer.
* Maria L. de Hernández, 89, Mexican-American civil rights activist.
* Henry Lillee, 74, Irish Anglican prelate.
* Josette Nevière, 52, French Olympic skier (1956).
* Neil Savaryn, 80, Russian-Canadian Greek Catholic prelate.
* Hans Schmitz, 89, German politician.
* Mansel Thomas, 76, Welsh composer.

### 9

* Jimmy Adams, 75, Scottish golfer.
* Lucia Chase, 88, American dancer and actress.
* Michel de Certeau, 60, French sociologist, pancreatic cancer.
* W. S. Graham, 67, Scottish poet.
* Harry Hopkins, 73, New Zealand civil engineer and academics administrator.
* Wilson Jones, 71, Welsh footballer.
* Rod Macalpine-Downie, 51, English sailboat designer.
* Fabio Mangilli, 74, Italian Olympic equestrian (1948).
* Carl Ross, 84, English fishing entrepreneur.
* Henry Tucker, 82, Bermudan politician.

### 10

* Ernst Angel, 91, Austrian-born American poet and screenwriter.
* Moritz Daublebsky-Sterneck, 73, Austrian humanitarian.
* Joe Farrell, 48, American jazz musician, myelodysplastic syndrome.
* Emil Forrer, 91, Swiss linguist and archaeologist.
* Eta Harich-Schneider, 91, German musicologist.
* Edward G. Janeway, 84, American politician, member of the Vermont Senate (1959–1979).
* Roy Johnson, 90, American Major League baseball player and coach.
* Joseph Kraft, 61, American journalist, heart failure.
* Ernst Lehner, 73, German footballer.
* Wilhelm Philipp, 69, German flying ace.
* Reg Rattey, 67, Australian soldier.
* James Terry Roach, 25, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.
* Ramón Sainz de Varanda, 61, Spanish politician.
* Jaroslav Seifert, 84, Czechoslovak writer, Nobel Prize recipient (1984).
* Martin Stevens, 56, British politician, MP (since 1979).
* Rogelio Tapia, 82, Spanish footballer.
* James M. Tunnell Jr., 75, American politician.
* Carlo Varetto, 80, Italian Olympic sports shooter (1936, 1956).

### 11

* Ilya Averbakh, 51, Soviet film director.
* Prescott E. Bloom, 43, American politician, house fire.
* Phil Brady, 42, American NFL football player.
* Sid Chaplin, 69, English writer.
* Robert E. Coulson, 73, American politician.
* Andrzej Czok, 37, Polish mountaineer, pulmonary edema.
* Clarence Ekstrom, 83, American naval admiral.
* Annie Hooper, 88, American sculptor.
* Kazuo Kamimura, 45, Japanese manga artist, hypopharyngeal cancer.
* Walter P. Kellenberg, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate.
* Heinz Plumanns, 83, German Olympic diver (1928).
* Henri-Charles Puech, 83, French historian.
* Maja Refsum, 88, Norwegian sculptor.
* Grover Resinger, 70, American Major League baseball coach.
* Roger Trinquier, 77, French soldier.

### 12

* Jack Andrews, 82, Northern Irish politician.
* Marcel Arland, 86, French novelist.
* Robert C. Atherton, 77, American magazine editor and publisher.
* Hinko Bauer, 77, Yugoslav architect.
* Joseph Ben-David, 65, Hungarian-Israeli sociologist.
* Ludwig Biermann, 78, German astronomer.
* Ladislao Brazionis, 56, Uruguayan footballer.
* Martin Burkenroad, 75, American marine biologist.
* Juan Carlos Corazzo, 78, Uruguayan footballer.
* Assia Dagher, 77, Lebanese-Egyptian actress.
* Bob Kaufman, 60, American poet and jazz musician, emphysema.
* Lars Leksell, 78, Swedish physician.
* Herbert Prince, 94, English footballer.
* Eduardo Risso, 60, Uruguayan Olympic rower (1952).
* Eddie Solomon, 34, American Major League baseball player, traffic collision.
* Sunawar Sukowati, 63, Indonesian politician.
* Norman Turnbull, 85, Canadian politician.
* Hoylande Young, 82, American chemist.

### 13

* Alberto Abdala, 65, Uruguayan politician, vice president (1967–1972).
* Lurline Collier, 92, American educator.
* Mike Garcia, 62, American Major League baseball player, diabetes.
* Jacqueline Groag, 82, English textile designer.
* Jan Holobrádek, 70, Czechoslovak Olympic rower (1936).
* Abdul Fattah Ismail, 46, South Yemeni politician, killed in battle.
* Pierre Mwana Kasongo, 47, Zairian footballer.
* Wilhelm Kunst, 76, German wood sculptor.
* Kevin Longbottom, 45, Australian rugby league player.
* Nicolò Tronci, 80, Italian Olympic gymnast (1936).
* Sayuri Yōko, 84, Japanese actress.

### 14

* Daniel Balavoine, 33, French singer, helicopter crash.
* William W. Hagerty, 69, American academic administrator, cancer.
* Geoffrey Herklots, 83–84, British botanist and ornithologist.
* Alv Johnsen, 66, Norwegian physician and soldier.
* Jaime Silvério Marques, 70–71, Portuguese colonial administrator, governor of Macau (1959–1962).
* Carolyn Conn Moore, 82, American politician.
* Donna Reed, 64, American actress (From Here to Eternity, It's a Wonderful Life, The Donna Reed Show), pancreatic cancer.
* Juan Manuel Rozas, 49–50, Spanish writer.
* Raissa Ruus, 43, Soviet Estonian Olympic runner (1972).
* Thierry Sabine, 36, French motorcycle racer, helicopter crash.
* Alfred Schlecht, 82, Swiss footballer.
* Robert Trösch, 74, Swiss actor.
* Valerian Zorin, 84, Soviet diplomat.

### 15

* Samuel Bason, 91, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (1947–1959).
* Alfred Bestall, 93, British cartoonist (Rupert Bear).
* Lamar Boren, 68, American cinematographer.
* Knut Brynildsen, 68, Norwegian footballer.
* Jean Cassou, 88, French poet.
* George Cobb, 71, American golf course designer.
* Jim Crowley, 83, American football player.
* Emil Hasler, 84, German art director.
* Les MacFarlane, 66, Australian politician.
* Thomas A. Maloney, 96, American politician, member of the California Senate (1925–1933) and State Assembly (1933–1957).
* Nyle McFarlane, 50, American football player.
* Anni Rehborn, 81, German swimmer.
* Vladimir Rodimushkin, 64, Soviet Olympic rower (1952).
* Fred Thomas, 93, American Major League baseball player.
* Anna Zemánková, 77, Czechoslovak painter.

### 16

* Herbert W. Armstrong, 93, American evangelist, founder of the Worldwide Church of God.
* Sir Laurence Durlacher, 81, British naval admiral.
* Mervin Glennie, 67, English cricketer.
* Eduard Götzl, 64, Czech-born German politician.
* James L. Hicks, 70, American journalist, stroke.
* Hu Yuzhi, 89, Chinese politician.
* Archie E. O'Neil, 80, American general.
* Bill Richardson, 77, British newspaper editor.
* Gene Rose, 72, American NFL football player.
* Stjepan Šulek, 71, Yugoslav Croatian composer.
* Ryūzaburō Umehara, 97, Japanese painter.
* Pearl Warren, 74, American community leader.
* Peter Waterman, 51, English boxer.

### 17

* Ernest C. Arbuckle, 73, American business leader and academic administrator, traffic collision.
* Earl Conrad, 79, American author and historian, lymphoma.
* Tommy Frame, 83, Scottish footballer.
* Robert Lyden, 43, American actor.
* A. C. N. Nambiar, 89–90, Indian diplomat.
* Halldor O. Opedal, 90, Norwegian folklorist.

### 18

* Donald Putnam Abbott, 65, American zoologist.
* Maurice Brennan, 72, British aeronautical engineer.
* Frida Clara, 77, Italian Olympic skier (1936).
* Robert MacFarlan Cole III, 96, American chemical engineer.
* Araldo di Crollalanza, 93, Italian politician.
* Walo Hörning, 75, Swiss Olympic fencer (1948).
* Lennox Johnston, 86, Scottish physician and anti-smoking advocate.
* Edwin Luke, 74, American actor.
* McKinley Mitchell, 51, American blues musician.
* Eugen Ray, 28, German sprinter, traffic collision.
* Edmundo Rivero, 74, Argentine musician.
* Nancy Wilson Ross, 84, American novelist.
* Pat Quinn, 55, English rugby union and rugby league player.
* Ishimoda Shō, 73, Japanese historian.
* Arthur Wheat, 64, English footballer.

### 19

* Gérard Caron, 69, Canadian pianist.
* Sammy Drechsel, 60, German comedian and sports broadcaster.
* Kanwar Lal Gupta, 61, Indian politician.
* E. Lowell Kelly, 80, American psychologist.
* Nikola Perlić, 73, Yugoslav footballer.
* Nino Salvo, 56, Italian businessman, cancer.
* R. Tom Sawyer, 84, American locomotive engineer.
* Hans Hartvig Seedorff, 93, Danish poet and lyricist.
* George Sinker, 85, Indian-British Anglican prelate.
* Sir Colin Syme, 82, Australian businessman and lawyer.
* Vainerere Tangatapoto, 73, Cook Islands politician.
* Carol Stuart Watson, 54, American illustrator.
* Cy Wentworth, 82, American NFL football player.
* Adam Włodek, 63, Polish poet.

### 20

* Sidney Barton, 76, British politician.
* Obrad Belošević, 57, Yugoslav basketball referee.
* Stanley George Browne, 78, British medical researcher.
* John D. Calandra, 57, American politician, heart attack.
* Sir Alec Clegg, 76, English educationalist.
* Louis Hartz, 66, American historian and political scientist, seizure.
* Theodor Hoelty-Nickel, 91, German-American musicologist.
* Robert Judd, 59–60, American actor.
* Franz Kemser, 75, German Olympic bobsledder (1952).
* Alex Munro, 74, Scottish comedian.
* Grace E. Pickford, 83, British-American biologist.
* Harold John Pye, 84, British manufacturing executive.
* Tove Tellback, 86, Norwegian actress.
* Eyaz Zaxoyî, 25, Iraqi composer, tuberculosis.

### 21

* Edith Clara Batho, 90, British academic administrator.
* W. W. Behrens Jr., 63, American naval admiral and oceanographer, heart attack.
* William Bryant, 86, English footballer.
* Zuck Carlson, 81, American NFL football player (Chicago Bears).
* Mary Eristavi, 97, Russian-French aristocrat and fashion model.
* Violet B. Haas, 59, American mathematician, brain cancer.
* Tatsumi Hijikata, 57, Japanese choreographer.
* Doug Keene, 57, English footballer.
* Bogna Krasnodębska-Gardowska, 85, Polish painter.
* Martin C. Lueck, 97, American politician.
* Sir Gordon MacMillan, 89, Scottish general.
* Clara Moores, 89, American actress.
* Günther Pape, 78, German general.
* Baby Ray, 71, American NFL football player, heart attack.
* Anders Törnkvist, 65, Swedish Olympic skier (1948, 1952).
* Ferol Sibley Warthen, 95, American painter.
* Margery Wilson, 89, American actress, stroke.

### 22

* Frederick George Beale, 79, British police officer.
* Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, 66, British aristocrat.
* Scott Dobson, 67, English art critic.
* Ilse Fromm-Michaels, 97, German pianist and composer.
* Thomas Baden Morris, 85, English playwright.
* Gilbert Roberts, 85, English naval officer.
* Mary Eleanor Spear, 88, American data visualization specialist.
* Carl Wittman, 42, American gay rights activist, suicide by drug overdose.

### 23

* Ann Andrews, 95, American actress.
* Charles Bergonzi, 75, Monegasque Olympic sports shooter (1952).
* Joseph Beuys, 64, German sculptor and art theorist, heart failure.
* Yvonne Lefébure, 87, French pianist.
* Tina Leser, 75, American fashion designer.
* Charles Moore, 57, American choreographer.
* Quinn Tamm, 75, American federal agent.
* Willard Van Dyke, 79, American filmmaker, heart attack.

### 24

* Ottorino Aloisio, 83, Italian architect.
* John Boozer, 47, American Major League baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), Hodgkin lymphoma.
* Sir Victor Crutchley, 92, British naval admiral, VC recipient.
* Emerson LeRoy Cummings, 83, American general.
* Mary Hewins, 71, British autobiographer.
* L. Ron Hubbard, 74, American author (Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Battlefield Earth), founder of the Church of Scientology, complications from a stroke.
* Flo Hyman, 31, American Olympic volleyball player (1984), aortic dissection.
* Masazumi Inada, 89, Japanese general.
* Niilo Juvonen, 57, Finnish Olympic skier (1952).
* Gordon MacRae, 64, American actor (Oklahoma!, On Moonlight Bay, Carousel), pneumonia.
* Matthew Francis McGuire, 87, American judge.
* Hap Perry, 89, American college sports coach.
* Alfred Schlemm, 91, German general.
* Léopold Szondi, 92, Hungarian psychologist.
* John Vaughan Wilkes, 83, English academics administrator.

### 25

* Antony Gibbs, 5th Baron Aldenham, 63, British hereditary peer.
* Robert Ancelin, 87, French actor.
* Gunnar Bergh, 76, Swedish Olympic discus thrower (1936).
* Pat Coffee, 70, American NFL football player.
* Edda Ferronao, 52, Italian actress.
* Albert Grossman, 59, American music manager (Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Gordon Lightfoot), heart attack.
* Alfred Huber, 75, German footballer.
* Josef Kammhuber, 89, German general.
* Bill Kraus, 38, American gay rights activist, AIDS.
* Ernst Schnabel, 72, German writer.
* Tony Scornavacca, 59, American painter, lung cancer.
* Dennis Smith, 73, New Zealand cricketer.
* Oswald J. Smith, 96, Canadian evangelist.

### 26

* Frank Camp, 80, American football player.
* José Luis Costa, 76, Spanish footballer.
* Gérard Duquet, 76, Canadian politician.
* Mercy Hatton, 95, British actress.
* George Hindori, 52, Surinamese politician.
* Katherine G. Howard, 87, American diplomat and politician.
* Bernard Lorjou, 77, French painter.
* Norman MacKenzie, 92, Canadian politician and academics administrator.
* Julien Médécin, 91, Monegasque architect.
* Nicholas Moore, 67, English poet.
* Zabelle Panosian, 94, Ottoman-born American singer.
* Gertrude Warner, 68, American radio personality, cancer.

### 27

* Nikhil Banerjee, 54, Indian sitarist, heart attack.
* Arthur Llewellyn Basham, 71, British historian.
* Edward Biberman, 81, American artist, cancer.
* Lincoln Borglum, 73, American sculptor.
* Leslie William Cannon, 81, British Air Force officer.
* Worden Day, 73, American painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
* Robert Fraser, 48, English art dealer, AIDS.
* Britte Hughey, 75, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1956–1964).
* Karl Köther, 80, German Olympic cyclist (1928).
* Truman H. Landon, 80, American general.
* Ken Moule, 60, English jazz pianist.
* Lilli Palmer, 71, German-American actress (But Not for Me), stomach cancer.
* Seán Quinn, 55–56, Irish footballer.
* Michal Vičan, 60, Czechoslovak footballer.
* George Wade, 94, English pottery manufacturer.

### 28

* Arthur Baxter, 76, Scottish cricketer.
* Richard E. Berlin, 91-92, American president and CEO of the Hearst Foundation.
* Ham Dowling, 90, American football player and roadway engineer.
* Tom Grubbs, 91, American Major League baseball player.
* James Edward Moore, 83, American general.
* Dorothée Pullinger, 92, French-British automobile engineer.
* Allen Saunders, 86, American cartoonist.
* Zonja Wallen-Lawrence, 93, Swedish-born American biochemist.
* American astronauts killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (crew of STS-51-L):
** Gregory Jarvis, 41.
** Christa McAuliffe, 37.
** Ronald McNair, 35.
** Ellison Onizuka, 39.
** Judith Resnik, 36.
** Dick Scobee, 46.
** Michael J. Smith, 40.

### 29

* Arabik Baghdasarian, 46, Iranian graphic designer.
* Everett Barksdale, 75, American jazz musician.
* Kenneth Came, 60, English cricketer.
* Leif Erickson, 74, American actor, cancer.
* Manfred Metzger, 80, Swiss Olympic sailor (1960).
* Otho Prior-Palmer, 88, British politician, MP (1945–1964).
* Édouard Souberbielle, 86, French organist.

### 30

* Jean Sala Breitenstein, 85, American judge.
* Fédérico Ezquerra, 76, Spanish cyclist.
* Jessie Scott Hathcock, 91, American educator and civil rights activist.
* Alexander Hemphill, 64, American lawyer and politician.
* Nils Astrup Hoel, 86, Norwegian businessman.
* Ivan Papanin, 91, Soviet polar explorer.
* Gusztáv Sebes, 80, Hungarian footballer.
* Ray Thorburn, 55, Australian politician.
* Percy Vivian, 83, Canadian politician.
* Dame Jocelyn Woollcombe, 87, British naval director.

### 31

* Tom Adey, 84, English footballer.
* Bill Bryson Sr., 70, American sports journalist.
* John Moore Caldicott, 85, Zimbabwean politician.
* P. J. Conkwright, 80, American graphic designer.
* Freddie Burke Frederick, 65, American actor.
* Philip Jessup, 88, American diplomat and judge.
* Murray Kane, 70, American composer and band manager.
* Moderato, 83, Brazilian footballer.
* Dick Seabrook, 75–76, British trade unionist.
* Boris Smolar, 88, Russian-born American journalist.
* H. E. Tester, 80–81, Danish philatelist.
* Silvio Tozzi, 77, Italian Olympic wrestler (1932, 1936).
* Charles Turzak, 86, American artist.
* Arie van der Stel, 91, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1920).
* Tony Velona, 65, American songwriter.