# Deaths in April 1986
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1986.
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.

## April 1986
### 1

* Erik Bruhn, 57, Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer, lung cancer.
* Syd Copley, 80, British cricketer.
* Donald Grobe, 56, American singer.
* Theodore N. Kaufman, 76, American businessman and eugenics advocate.
* Vic Lawrence, 58, Australian rules footballer.
* Lucy Mair, 85, British anthropologist.
* Margaret Masterman, 75, British linguist.
* Kenneth E. Priebe, 73, American politician.
* Barry Robins, 41, American actor, AIDS.
* Dick Scesniak, 45, American football coach, heart attack.
* Al Sellinger, 71, American Olympic cyclist (1936).
* Shuvee, 20, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
* Tony Siano, 79, American NFL football player.
* Earl W. Vaughn, 57, American politician and judge, cancer.

### 2

* François Aman-Jean, 91, French writer.
* Floyd M. Baker, 94, Canadian politician.
* Wilfred Broadhead, 82, English cricketer.
* Bobby Dobbs, 63, American CFL football player.
* Gerald Goddard, 65, South African Olympic water polo player (1952).
* Dagbjartur Grímsson, 54, Icelandic footballer.
* Eugene Raymond Hall, 83, American zoologist.
* Lloyd A. Jeffress, 85, American acoustical scientist.
* Raymond Lapin, 67, American banking executive.
* Helen H. Nowlis, 72, American psychologist.
* Thomas Gerald Room, 83, Australian mathematician.
* Ben Schoeman, 81, South African politician.
* Takakura Teru, 94, Japanese writer and politician.
* Milt Trost, 73, American NFL football player.

### 3

* Geoffrey H. Arnott, 84, Australian businessman (Arnott's Group).
* Alfred Bütow, 83, German art director.
* Bobby Clack, 60, American actor.
* Everett T. Copenhaver, 87, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives (1939–1941).
* George Kirstein, 76, American publisher, heart attack.
* Mary C. McCall Jr., 81, American screenwriter, cancer.
* Charles Moeller, 74, Belgian Roman Catholic priest and theologian.
* Elisha Netanyahu, 73, Israeli mathematician.
* Reinhard Opitz, 51, German social scientist, cancer.
* Sir Peter Pears, 75, British singer.
* Elisabeth Radó, 86, Yugoslav singer.
* Rei, 74, Brazilian footballer.
* Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, 80, Iranian ayatollah.
* Nanna Svartz, 95, Swedish physician.

### 4

* Diane Barwick, 47, Canadian-born Australian anthropologist, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Maria Beruski, 26–27, Brazilian teacher, fire.
* Bill Boaks, 81, British politician and naval officer.
* Geoffrey Burton, 76, English cricketer.
* Mario Cagna, 74, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
* Charles DeBow, 68, American fighter pilot.
* Hasted Dowker, 86, Canadian Anglican prelate.
* Rebeca Gerschman, 82, Argentine biochemist.
* Sascha Gorodnitzki, 81, Russian-born American pianist.
* Sir Laurence Hartnett, 87, Australian engineer.
* Ira V. Hiscock, 93, American bacteriologist.
* Billy Hole, 66, English motorcycle racer.
* Clive Hughes, 38, Australian politician, skin cancer.
* Zoltán Kaszab, 70, Hungarian entomologist.
* Mimmo Poli, 65, Italian actor, heart attack.
* Carlo Taranto, 64, Italian actor.
* Josef Vosolsobě, 81, Czechoslovak Olympic long jumper (1936).

### 5

* Jeanne Clery, 19, American murder victim.
* Lookout Masuku, 45, Zimbabwean militant, meningitis.
* Colin McCool, 69, Australian cricketer.
* Valentín Parera, 90, Spanish actor.
* Moshe Pearlman, 74–75, English-Israeli writer.
* Manly Wade Wellman, 82, American writer.

### 6

* José Luis de Arrese, 80, Spanish politician.
* Pesach Burstein, 89, Polish-born American comedian and actor.
* Roy Cheville, 88, American Mormon theologian.
* Glen Cooper, 70, Australian Air Force pilot.
* El Solitario, 39, Mexican professional wrestler, cardiac arrest.
* Boris Gutnikov, 54, Soviet violinist.
* Raimundo Orsi, 84, Argentine footballer.
* Sergio Rodríguez, 58, Uruguayan footballer.
* Jussi Saukkonen, 81, Finnish politician.
* Eric Sixsmith, 81, British general.
* Thomas Ward, 78, Scottish wrestler.

### 7

* Chester Erskine, 80, American filmmaker.
* Akira Hagiwara, 29, Japanese racing driver, racing crash.
* Leonid Kantorovich, 74, Soviet economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize recipient (1975).
* Cecil King, 65, Irish painter.
* Leslie Lewis, 61, British Olympic sprinter (1948, 1952).
* Donald Gaines Murray, 71, American attorney.
* William Homan Thorpe, 84, British zoologist.
* Beulah Tingley, 92, American social activist.
* Valerie von Martens, 91, German-Austrian actress.
* W. H. Walsh, 72, British philosopher and classicist.
* Michael Warriner, 77, English Olympic rower (1928).

### 8

* Theodore C. Achilles, 80, American diplomat.
* Alma Vessells John, 79, American nurse and radio personality, stroke.
* Alec Knight, 87, New Zealand cricketer.
* George Kenneth Mallory, 86, American pathologist.
* Robert du Mesnil du Buisson, 90, French archaeologist.
* Pauline Newman, 98, Russian-born American labor activist, stroke.
* Yukiko Okada, 18, Japanese singer, suicide by jumping.
* William Luther Rhodes, 67, American judge.

### 9

* Andrée Blouin, 64, Central African human rights activist, lymphoma.
* Charles Bosanquet, 82, English academic administrator.
* Bob Casey, 77, American jazz musician.
* Heinz Conrads, 72, Austrian actor.
* Robert C. Fritz, 65–66, American ceramics and glass artist.
* Alfredo Gaona, 74, Mexican Olympic boxer (1928).
* Johnny Hundley, 71, American baseball player.
* Stig Johanson, 66, Swedish actor.
* Dick Kokos, 58, American Major League baseball player.
* Les Pearson, 76, American baseball player.
* Leo Quenneville, 85, Canadian NHL ice hockey player.
* Vergil D. Reed, 88–89, American advertising executive and university professor.
* Karel VI Schwarzenberg, 74, Czechoslovak politician and aristocrat.
* Rezső Wanié, 77, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (1928).

### 10

* Joseph P. Addabbo, 61, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1961), bladder cancer.
* Peter M. Busch, 51, United States Marine Corps officer.
* Eugene E. Campbell, 70, American historian.
* Linda Creed, 37, American songwriter, breast cancer.
* Thomas Durnell, 84, English cricketer.
* Alex Gray, 87, Scottish-born Canadian ice hockey player.
* Eugen Grimminger, 93, German resistance member (White Rose).
* Luther Harvel, 80, American Major League baseball player and manager.
* John Kelley, 78, American ice hockey coach.
* Garnet Lamb, 78, Australian rules footballer.
* Ron Tucker, 64, Australian rules footballer.
* Saul J. Turell, 65, American documentarian.

### 11

* William A. Caldwell, 79, American journalist.
* Penelope Chetwode, 76, English travel writer.
* Charles Darlington, 81, American diplomat.
* Israel Goldstein, 89, American-Israeli rabbi, founder of Brandeis University.
* Sir Ronald Gould, 81, British trade unionist.
* Ethel Haythornthwaite, 92, English conservationist
* Stanislav Jungwirth, 55, Czechoslovak Olympic runner (1952, 1956).
* Jack Manners, 71, Canadian CFL football player.
* Peter Nchabeleng, 58, South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, internal bleeding.
* Josef Růžička, 61, Czechoslovak Olympic wrestler (1952).

### 12

* Neil Adams, 62, Australian rugby player.
* Einar Ágústsson, 63, Icelandic politician.
* Meri Avidzba, 69, Soviet fighter pilot.
* Joseph Dervaes, 79, Belgian racing cyclist.
* José Jabardo, 71, Spanish racing cyclist.
* Valentin Kataev, 89, Soviet writer.
* Sidney Matthew Metzger, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate.
* Dave Nelson, 76, Australian rules footballer.
* François Neuville, 73, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Walter Tille, 79, German trade unionist.
* Jean-François Tournon, 80, French Olympic fencer (1952).
* Bill Welsh, 77, Australian rules footballer.

### 13

* Bruce F. Allen, 68, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1953–1963).
* Dorothy Ashby, 53, American jazz musician.
* Sulo Bärlund, 75, Finnish Olympic shot putter (1936).
* Frank DeCicco, 50, American mobster (Gambino crime family), car bomb.
* Johnny Dollar, 53, American country musician.
* Richmond Bowling Keech, 89, American judge.
* Tamás Major, 76, Hungarian actor.
* Stephen Stucker, 38, American actor (Airplane!, The Kentucky Fried Movie), AIDS.
* Andrew Tsu, 100, Chinese Anglican prelate.
* Jack van Bebber, 78, American Olympic wrestler (1932).

### 14

* J. Lindsay Almond, 87, American politician and judge, governor of Virginia (1958–1962), member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1946–1948).
* Simone de Beauvoir, 78, French writer, feminist and philosopher, pneumonia.
* Nitin Bose, 88, Indian filmmaker.
* Jole Bovio Marconi, 89, Italian archaeologist.
* Whitford Brown, 75, New Zealand politician.
* Sidney Cope, 81, English cricketer.
* Arne Halonen, 87, Finnish journalist.
* Torbjørn Kristoffersen, 93, Norwegian Olympic gymnast (1920).
* Doc Land, 82, American Major League baseball player.
* Daniela Zanetta, 23, Italian human rights activist, epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica.

### 15

* Sergei Anokhin, 76, Soviet pilot.
* George E. Burch, 76, American cardiologist.
* Redmund Geach, 53, South African cricketer.
* Jean Genet, 75, French novelist and playwright, throat cancer.
* Edmund Hakewill-Smith, 90, British general.
* Don Hoefler, 63, American journalist, coined "Silicon Valley".
* Jiang Zhaohe, 81, Chinese artist.
* Nathan O. Kaplan, 68, American biochemist.
* Paul F. Lorence, 31, American Air Force pilot, killed in battle.
* Robert Marjolin, 74, French economist and politician.
* Tim McIntire, 41, American actor, heart failure.
* John Archibald Mills, 75, Canadian politician.
* Vlastimil Moravec, 36, Czechoslovak Olympic cyclist (1972, 1976), traffic collision.
* Dudley Gwynne Perkins, 75, Welsh radio broadcaster.
* Fernando L. Ribas-Dominicci, 33, American Air Force pilot, killed in battle.
* Edwin R. Thiele, 90, American archaeologist and missionary.

### 16

* Allan Cunningham Anderson, 89, Scottish-born Canadian diplomat.
* Graham Bagnall, 73, New Zealand librarian and historian.
* Dave Bell, 76, Scottish footballer.
* Carlo Biagi, 71, Italian footballer.
* Mae Capone, 89, American wife of Al Capone.
* Pia Colombo, 51, French singer, cancer.
* Scrapper Farrell, 70, American NFL football player.
* Charles Goldenberg, 75, American NFL football player (Green Bay Packers).
* Alfred Hopkins, 85, British Olympic weightlifter (1928).
* Molly Luce, 89, American painter.
* Bob May, 76, Australian politician.
* Joe Price, 99, Australian rules footballer.
* Dyke Smith, 74, American football player.
* Bob Stam, 67, Dutch footballer.

### 17

* Ruka Broughton, 45, New Zealand university lecturer and priest.
* Robert R. Casey, 70, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–1976).
* Stafford Castledine, 74, English cricketer.
* Paul Costello, 91, American Olympic rower (1920, 1924, 1928).
* Marcel Dassault, 94, French aircraft manufacturer.
* Gaston Ducayla, 87, French Olympic wrestler (1924).
* Victor H. Espinoza, 56, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
* Hermann Friedrich Graebe, 85, German engineer.
* George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington, 91, Scottish hereditary peer.
* Henry Hall, 93, American ski jumper.
* Bessie Head, 48, South African-Botswanan writer, hepatitis.
* Emma Henry, 38–39, Filipino police officer, shot.
* Viktor Kokochashvili, 81, Soviet Georgian chemist.
* Teddy Kotick, 57, American jazz musician, brain cancer.
* Carl Lee, 59, American actor, AIDS.
* Herb Peschel, 72, Canadian CFL football player.
* Dominique Ponchardier, 69, French writer and diplomat.
* Maria Wardasówna, 78, Polish writer and aviator.

### 18

* Eddie Bauer, 86, American businessman (Eddie Bauer).
* George Durning, 87, American Major League baseball player.
* Atulya Ghosh, 81, Indian politician.
* John Grady, 62–63, Australian author.
* Hugh Hough, 62, American author.
* Antonio Lauro, 68, Venezuelan musician.
* Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, 74, German submarine commander.
* Sir Victor Raikes, 85, British politician, MP (1931–1957).
* Aleksander Rozmus, 85, Polish Olympic ski jumper (1928).
* Tran Minh Tiet, 63, South Vietnamese politician and judge.

### 19

* Gudrun Stig Aagaard, 91, Danish textile artist.
* Gordon Abbott, 71, Australian rules footballer.
* George Breitman, 70, American political activist, heart attack.
* Aileen Britton, 70, Australian actress.
* James Carne, 80, British soldier VC recipient.
* Alvin Childress, 78, American actor (Amos 'n' Andy).
* Fred Duncan, 72, Australian politician.
* Arthur T. Gibbons, 83, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1935–1954).
* Adrian Gill, 49, Australian meteorologist and oceanographer, colon cancer.
* Peter Higson, 80, English cricketer.
* Émile Maggi, 78, French Olympic racewalker (1948, 1952).
* William S. Thomas, 84, American Episcopalian prelate.
* Dag Wirén, 80, Swedish composer.
* Estelle Yancey, 90, American blues singer.

### 20

* Aleksei Arbuzov, 77, Soviet playwright.
* Max Benedict, 66, Austrian-born English film editor.
* Doris Dawson, 81, American actress.
* Jean De Rode, 72, Belgian Olympic rower (1936).
* Eddie Feinberg, 68, American Major League baseball player.
* Jean-Jacques Gautier, 77, French writer.
* Sibte Hassan, 69, Pakistani political activist.
* Bun LaPrairie, 74, American NHL ice hockey player.
* Milton Mayer, 77, American journalist.
* Edward McNair, 72, American Episcopal prelate.
* Marie Nyswander, 67, American psychoanalyst, cancer.
* Alif Piriyev, 64, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier.

### 21

* Teodoro Casana Robles, 86, Peruvian lawyer, archaeologist and geographer.
* George Collingwood, 82, British general.
* Marjorie Eaton, 85, American actress and painter.
* Nanna Egedius, 72, Norwegian Olympic figure skater (1936).
* Tiny Gooch, 82, American football player and political activist.
* Salah Jahin, 55, Egyptian poet, playwright and political cartoonist.
* Jozef Kalina, 61, Czechoslovak Olympic basketball player (1948).
* Matsunobori Shigeo, 61, Japanese sumo wrestler.

### 22

* Salvador Agron, 42, American gangster, internal bleeding.
* Mircea Eliade, 79, Romanian-American writer and historian.
* Dame Honor Fell, 85, British cell biologist.
* Cliff Finch, 59, American politician, governor of Mississippi (1976–1980), heart attack.
* Claude Fortier, 64, Canadian physiologist.
* David Funchess, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.
* Go Se-tae, 60–61, South Korean Olympic basketball player (1956).
* Kaino Haapanen, 74, Finnish politician.
* Errol Laughlin, 38, South African cricketer.
* Dick Moores, 76, American cartoonist (Gasoline Alley).
* William P. Murphy, 87, American judge.
* Bogoljub Nedeljković, 65–66, Yugoslav politician.
* Robert Smock, 77, American horticulturist.

### 23

* Harold Arlen, 81, American composer ("Over the Rainbow", "The Man That Got Away", "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive"), cancer.
* George H. Barker, 84–85, American football player.
* Louis Cardwell, 73, English footballer.
* Manuel Figueroa, 81, Chilean footballer.
* Yuri Gulyayev, 55, Soviet singer, heart failure.
* John W. F. M. Huffer, 90, American fighter pilot.
* Sir Charles Johnston, 74, British diplomat.
* Jim Laker, 64, English cricketer, complications from gallbladder surgery.
* Doxie Moore, 75, American basketball player and NBL coach.
* Otto Preminger, 80, Austrian-American filmmaker (Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura), lung cancer.
* Arnold Rørholt, 77, Norwegian jurist.
* Harald Nicolai Samuelsberg, 74, Norwegian politician.
* Harold E. Wagoner, 81, American architect.
* Alberto Zorrilla, 80, Argentine Olympic swimmer (1924, 1928).

### 24

* Vic Baltzell, 73, American NFL football player.
* Bert Blake, 78, English footballer.
* Antun Bonifačić, 84, Croatian-American politician and writer.
* Gladys Colton, 76–77, English educationist.
* Max Dennis, 60, American politician, member of the Ohio Senate (1965–1976).
* Ivan Duichev, 78, Bulgarian historian and paleographer.
* Bill Edrich, 70, British cricketer.
* Gerardo Guerrieri, 66, Italian filmmaker.
* Norm Hillard, 70, Australian rules footballer.
* Éva Kelemen, 65, Hungarian actress.
* Haldur Lasthein, 80, Danish footballer.
* Garnet Mackley, 102, New Zealand politician and railway manager, MP (1943–1949).
* Dimitar Paskov, 71, Bulgarian chemist.
* Wallis Simpson, 89, American-British socialite, widow of Edward VIII, pneumonia.
* Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen, 82, American art patron.

### 25

* Michael Creswell, 76, British diplomat.
* Tite Figueroa, 59, Puerto Rican baseball player.
* Fred Hunt, 62, English pianist.
* DeWitt Hyde, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1959).
* Urylee Leonardos, 75, American actress and singer.

### 26

* Ángel Blanco, 47, Mexican professional wrestler, traffic collision.
* Nellie Breen, 89, American dancer and comedian.
* Broderick Crawford, 74, American actor (All the King's Men, Highway Patrol), stroke.
* Hermann Gmeiner, 66, Austrian philanthropist.
* Kemal Gülçelik, 62–63, Turkish footballer.
* Leo Hofstee, 82, Dutch-born American Roman Catholic priest.
* Valery Khodemchuk, 35, Soviet Ukrainian engineer, reactor explosion.
* Johnny Kitzmiller, 81, American NFL football player.
* Cliff Leeman, 72, American jazz drummer.
* Bessie Love, 87, American-British actress.
* Séamus McElwain, 26, Irish militant (Provisional Irish Republican Army), shot.
* O. Leslie Stone, 82, American Mormon leader.
* Dechko Uzunov, 87, Bulgarian painter.
* Lou van Burg, 68, Dutch-German television personality and singer.

### 27

* Frederick Dawson, 68, New Zealand cricketer.
* Tim Greve, 60, Norwegian historian, cancer.
* Ed Halicki, 80, American NFL football player.
* J. Allen Hynek, 75, American ufologist, creator of the close encounter scale, brain cancer.
* Eduard Imhof, 91, Swiss cartographer.
* Marty Karow, 81, American Major League baseball player.
* Åke Kromnow, 71, Swedish historian.
* Verena Loewensberg, 73, Swiss painter.
* Lolita, 36, Italian singer, stabbed.
* Evi Maltagliati, 77, Italian actress.
* William Morrell, 86, New Zealand historian.
* Bayless Rose, 95, American musician.
* Juan Tapia Sánchez, 71, Spanish politician, cancer.

### 28

* R. H. Bing, 71, American mathematician.
* Geoff Brokenshire, 63, Australian rules footballer.
* Louis H. Burke, 81, American judge.
* Marcel Hellman, 87, Romanian-born British film producer.
* Rabiul Awal Kiran Khan, 45–46, Bangladeshi politician, shot.
* Fred Lutkefedder, 76, American soccer player.
* Evan Mackie, 68, New Zealand flying ace, cancer.
* Dave McClain, 48, American football player and coach, cardiac arrest.
* Vladimír Novák, 82, Czechoslovak Olympic skier (1928).
* Ramu III, appr. 23, American orca, cardiovascular failure.
* Pat Seerey, 63, American Major League baseball player.
* Charles B. Washington, 62, American civil rights activist.

### 29

* Gilbert Baker, 75, Hong Kong Anglican prelate.
* Sidney Bowman, 78, American Olympic jumper (1928, 1932).
* Henri de France, 74, French television engineer.
* Alejandro González Malavé, 28, Puerto Rican undercover agent, shot.
* Edwin Graves, 88, American Olympic rower (1920).
* Vickie Panos, 66, Canadian baseball player.
* Dick Powell, 81, American NFL football player.
* Raúl Prebisch, 85, Argentine economist.
* Thomas N. Scortia, 59, American author, leukemia.
* Glen Byam Shaw, 81, English actor and theatre director.
* Bernhard Wosien, 77, German choreographer.

### 30

* Sheila Borrett, 80, British radio presenter, stroke.
* Antoinette Butte, 87, French scouting leader.
* Jørgen Hansen, 54, Danish Olympic footballer (1960).
* Bill Higdon, 62, American Major League baseball player.
* Henry Kemp-Blair, 56, South African-American playwright and theatre director, heart attack.
* Odd Solumsmoen, 68, Norwegian novelist.
* Thelma Stefani, 37, Argentine actress and dancer, suicide by jumping.
* Robert Stevenson, 81, British-American filmmaker (Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Love Bug).
* George Whitcombe, 84, Welsh footballer.