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

## February 1986
### 1

* Ethel Chipchase, 69–70, British trade unionist.
* Manuel Cros, 84, Spanish footballer.
* Theodora McCormick Du Bois, 95, American author.
* Salo Grenning, 67, Norwegian illustrator.
* Dick James, 65, British music producer, heart attack.
* Alberto Moreiras, 66, Spanish Olympic athlete (1948).
* Alva Myrdal, 84, Swedish sociologist and peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient (1982).
* Michael Needham, 75, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1947–1972).
* Beatrice Pearson, 65, American actress.
* Arvo Pentti, 70, Finnish politician.
* Lambert Redd, 77, American Olympic long jumper (1932).
* Ida Rhodes, 85, American mathematician.
* Leonard E. Scott, 68, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (1947–1949).

### 2

* Nils Alwall, 81, Swedish nephrologist.
* Olena Antoniv, 48, Soviet Ukrainian human rights activist, traffic collision.
* Rick E. Carter, 42, American football coach, suicide by hanging.
* Anita Cobby, 26, Australian murder victim.
* Donald Eccles, 77, British actor
* Gao Heng, 85, Chinese linguist and translator.
* Gino Hernandez, 28, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.
* Richard LaPiere, 86, American sociologist.
* Mill Reef, 17, British Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanised.
* John Millar, 62, Scottish footballer.
* Hideo Ohba, 75, Japanese aikido teacher.
* Ruben Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian Olympic equestrian (1948).
* Ivan Ruben, 68, Danish Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).
* Gunnar Simenstad, 71, Norwegian actor.

### 3

* Alexander F. Bell, 70, American football player.
* Donald Briggs, 75, American actor.
* Art Chapman, 73, Canadian Olympic basketball player (1936).
* Claude Green, 79, South African cricketer.
* Luther Harris, 62, American NBL basketball player.
* Charles Leo Hitchcock, 83, American botanist.
* Harold Houghton, 79, English footballer.
* Narciso Ramos, 85, Filipino diplomat and politician, stroke.
* Sylvia Lyons Render, 72, American educator and manuscript curator.
* George C. Sherman Jr., 74, American polo player, leukemia.
* Herbert Smith, 84, British filmmaker.
* Alfred Vohrer, 71, German filmmaker.

### 4

* Phyllis Shand Allfrey, 77, Dominican writer and politician.
* Les Caywood, 82, American NFL football player.
* Margit Elek, 75, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).
* Jānis Kalnbērziņš, 92, Soviet Latvian politician.
* Jim O'Grady, 63, Irish hurler.
* Branko Pešić, 63, Yugoslav politician, mayor of Belgrade (1965–1974), cancer.
* Arthur Schröder, 93, German actor.

### 5

* Grigore Băjenaru, 78, Romanian writer.
* Len Catton, 72, Australian rules footballer.
* Charles Drechsler, 93, American mycologist.
* Florence Fernet-Martel, 93, American-born Canadian feminist and educator.
* Antonio Fustella, 73, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, heart attack.
* Armas-Eino Martola, 89, Finnish general.
* Laurent Merchiers, 81, Belgian politician.
* Furman Nuss, 91, American football and basketball coach.
* Axel Poignant, 79, Australian photographer.
* Howard Vollum, 72, American electronics engineer (Tektronix), stroke.
* Matt Wilkins, 78, Australian rules footballer.

### 6

* Mahieddine Bachtarzi, 88, Algerian singer and composer.
* Georges Cabana, 91, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate.
* Frank Cameron, 93, Australian rules footballer.
* Willard Cantrell, 71, American racing driver.
* Cristóbal Colón de Carvajal, 17th Duke of Veragua, 61, Spanish naval officer, shot.
* Frederick Coutts, 86, British writer and charity worker, General of The Salvation Army (1963–1969).
* Irene Genna, 55, Greek-Italian actress.
* Sallie-Anne Huckstepp, 31, Australian writer, sex-worker and whistle blower, homicide.
* Sergio Iesi, 73, Italian-born Uruguayan Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).
* Sir Holmes Miller, 66, New Zealand surveyor and conservationist.
* Ray Moyer, 87, American set decorator.
* Dandy Nichols, 78, English actress (Till Death Us Do Part).
* Marty Reiter, 74, American NBL basketball player.
* John Ching Hsiung Wu, 86, Chinese judge and author.
* Minoru Yamasaki, 73, American architect (World Trade Center), stomach cancer.

### 7

* Cheikh Anta Diop, 62, Senegalese anthropologist and historian.
* Harris Ellsworth, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1943–1957).
* Austin E. Fife, 76, American folklorist.
* John F. McCarthy Jr., 60, American aeronautical engineer, blood clot.
* John Shea, 72, Australian cricketer.
* Frank Sinclair, 69, Australian rules footballer.
* Dick Southwood, 80, English Olympic rower (1932, 1936).

### 8

* Doug Ball, 90, New Zealand academic administrator.
* Cecil Bryce, 74, Australian cricketer.
* Alexander Ford, 85, Scottish cricketer.
* Yisrael Galili, 74, Russian-born Israeli politician.
* Robert Gebhardt, 65, German footballer.
* Arleigh McCree, 46, American police detective, bomb explosion.
* Sarah Isabella McElligott, 102, New Zealand cook.
* Alexis Obolensky, 70, Russian-born American backgammon player.
* Abram Nicholas Pritzker, 90, American businessman and philanthropist.
* Bogusław Widawski, 51, Polish footballer.

### 9

* Kiichi Arita, 84, Japanese politician.
* Carmen D'Antonio, 74, American actress.
* Joe Gomes, 77, American baseball player.
* Philip Herries Gregory, 78, British mycologist.
* Harold Fidock, 83, Australian cricketer.
* Willie Jackson, 85, Scottish footballer.
* Eleonora Kaminskaitė, 35, Soviet Lithuanian Olympic rower (1976).
* Tauno Kovanen, 68, Finnish Olympic wrestler (1952).
* Ítalo López Vallecillos, 53, Salvadoran writer.
* Lilo Martin, 77, German composer.
* Natalie Masters, 70, American actress.
* Henry William Menard, 65, American geologist, cancer.
* Ben Nye, 79, American makeup artist.
* Jacques Rispal, 62, French actor.
* Dora Oake Russell, 73, Canadian writer.
* Louis Sobol, 89, American journalist.

### 10

* Brian Aherne, 83, English actor (Juarez), heart failure.
* Morris Boyd, 80, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1967–1972).
* Lando Conti, 52, Italian politician, shot.
* James Dillon, 83, Irish politician, TD (1937–1969).
* Humphrey Patrick Guinness, 83, British Olympic polo player (1936).
* Joan Henley, 81, Irish actress.
* Begnon-Damien Koné, 64–65, Burkinabe politician.
* Antoni Reiter, 35, Polish Olympic judoka (1976).
* Art Satherley, 96, British-American record producer.

### 11

* Hans Braarvig, 80, Norwegian writer.
* Arsénio Duarte, 60, Portuguese footballer.
* Frank Herbert, 65, American author (Dune), pulmonary embolism.
* Michael Hollis, 86, Indian Anglican prelate.
* Svend Jacobsen, 79, Danish Olympic fencer (1936).
* Evelio Javier, 43, Filipino politician, shot.
* Edgar Jones, 75, Welsh rugby union and rugby league player.
* Horace Manges, 87, American lawyer.
* Hélène Rivier, 83, Swiss librarian.
* Aat van Rhijn, 93, Dutch politician.
* Jock White, 88, Scottish footballer.

### 12

* Jean Goodwin Ames, 82, American artist.
* Arthur Roderick Collar, 77, English engineer.
* Alice Lent Covert, 72, American novelist.
* Wayne Ewing, 58, American race car builder.
* Joe Goyder, 78, English Olympic boxer (1928).
* Bolesław Konorski, 93, Polish engineer.
* James Joseph Magennis, 66, British naval officer.
* Elena Skuin, 77, Soviet painter.
* Guy Warrack, 86, Scottish composer.

### 13

* Luigi De Manincor, 75, Italian Olympic sailor (1936, 1948).
* Arny Freeman, 77, American actor.
* Bolesław Gebert, 90, Polish politician.
* Guang Qin, 93, Chinese Buddhist monk.
* George Ivask, 78, Russian-American poet and literary critic, heart attack.
* Ed McGhee, 61, American Major League baseball player.
* David Tudor Price, 55, British judge.
* Ashalata Sen, 92, Indian poet and social activist.
* John L. Throckmorton, 72, American general, cancer.

### 14

* Fox Blevins, 75, American baseball player.
* Ernest Borek, 74, Hungarian-born American microbiologist.
* Dorcas Brigham, 89, American botanist.
* Ransom M. Cook, 86, American banker.
* Kevin Curran, 66, Australian rules footballer.
* Margaret L. Curry, 87, American social worker.
* Kanaklata Devi, 76, Indian politician.
* Francisco Ferreira, 66, Portuguese footballer.
* Bert Hawke, 85, Australian politician.
* Roy W. Hill, 86, American automobile dealer and philanthropist.
* Harry S. Kennedy, 84, American Episcopalian prelate.
* Edmund Rubbra, 84, British composer.

### 15

* Henri Bernard, 86, French judge.
* Cornelis de Kiewiet, 83, Dutch-born American historian and academic administrator.
* Ana María Dellai, 56, Argentine Olympic skier (1952).
* Orville Fehlhaber, 82, American politician.
* Galliano Masini, 90, Italian singer.
* Rustin McIntosh, 91, American pediatrician.
* Crawford F. Parker, 79, American politician, lieutenant governor of Indiana (1957–1961).
* John R., 75, American disc jockey.
* Helen Withers, 78, Australian community worker.

### 16

* Wiley T. Buchanan Jr., 73, American diplomat.
* Howard da Silva, 76, American actor (Fiorello!, Oklahoma!), lymphoma.
* Joseph Duell, 29, American ballet dancer and choreographer, suicide by jumping.
* Anton Hilbert, 87, German politician.
* Édouard Leguery, 51, French Olympic rower (1956).
* Phyllis McCarthy, 82, South African dog breeder.
* Tadhg O'Driscoll, 66, Irish footballer.
* Hermon Phillips, 82, American Olympic runner (1928).
* Willibrordus Pouw, 83, Dutch Olympic gymnast (1928).
* John Tripp, 58, British poet.
* Harry Van Arsdale Jr., 80, American labor leader.

### 17

* George Draffen, 86, British soldier.
* Albert Joris, 70, Belgian Olympic sprint canoeist (1936).
* Kikuko Kanai, 74, Japanese composer.
* Jiddu Krishnamurti, 90, Indian philosopher, pancreatic cancer.
* Red Ruffing, 80, American Major League baseball player, heart failure.
* Paul Stewart, 77, American actor, heart failure.
* Izumi Suzuki, 36, Japanese writer, suicide by hanging.
* Nesta Wells, 93, British physician and surgeon.

### 18

* Nelson Cavaquinho, 74, Brazilian samba musician.
* Július Ďuriš, 81, Czechoslovak communist politician.
* Vilmos Kohut, 79, Hungarian footballer.
* Matilda Landsman, 67, American journalist.
* George Makinson, 82, Canadian politician.
* Tezer Özlü, 42, Turkish writer, breast cancer.
* Pierre Schlumberger, 71–72, American oil executive (Schlumberger).
* Jonathan O. Seaman, 74, American general.
* Ted Wegert, 53, American NFL football player.

### 19

* Bill Anderson, 73, English football player and manager.
* Robert Brode, 85, American physicist (Manhattan Project).
* Adolfo Celi, 63, Italian actor (Thunderball) and film director, heart attack.
* Paul Curry, 68, American magician.
* James Eastland, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1941, 1943–1978).
* André Leroi-Gourhan, 74, French archaeologist.
* Francisco Mignone, 88, Brazilian composer.
* Oleg Mutt, 65, Soviet Estonian linguist.
* Humberto Roa, 73, Chilean footballer.
* Barry Seal, 46, American pilot and drug smuggler, shot.
* Dudley Talcott, 86, American sculptor.
* Ab van Bemmel, 73, Dutch Olympic boxer (1936).

### 20

* Tommy Bell, 63, American NFL football referee, leukemia.
* William Albert Beller, 85, American pianist.
* Abdolbaghi Darvish, 37, Iranian Air Force pilot, shootdown.
* Judy-Lynn del Rey, 43, American science fiction magazine editor.
* Tommy Freeman, 82, American boxer.
* Kanu Gandhi, 68–69, Indian photographer.
* Nihar Ranjan Gupta, 74, Indian novelist.
* František Kardaus, 77, Czechoslovak graphic artist.
* Salvador Mota, 63, Mexican footballer.
* Einar Nyheim, 56, Norwegian politician.
* Guillermo Padilla, 73, Colombian Olympic sports shooter (1956).
* Bob Rice, 86, American Major League baseball player.
* Koos Rietkerk, 58, Dutch politician.
* Bert Schneider, 88, American-born Canadian boxer.
* Dorothea Wieck, 78, German actress.

### 21

* Heinz Braun, 48, German painter and actor, cancer.
* Victor Canning, 74, British novelist.
* Jan Eric Cartwright, 47, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives (1971–1973), leukemia.
* Larry Wu-tai Chin, 63, Chinese double agent, suicide by asphyxiation.
* Derek Chittock, 64, British cartoonist and art historian.
* Sir Miles Clifford, 89, British politician.
* Gilbert V. Hartke, 79, American theatre director.
* Agnes Headlam-Morley, 83, British historian.
* Eckhard Hess, 69, German-born American psychologist.
* Yanosuke Hirai, 83, Japanese civil engineer.
* Margaret Hunter, 63, Scottish trade unionist.
* Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese longevity claimant.
* Kenjiro Matsuki, 77, Japanese baseball player.
* Edvardas Mikučiauskas, 84, Soviet Lithuanian footballer.
* Dorothy Rhoads, 90, American writer.
* Helen Hooven Santmyer, 90, American writer ("...And Ladies of the Club").
* Louis Silberkleit, 85, American publisher.
* Mart Stam, 86, Dutch architect.

### 22

* Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, 78, French general and peace activist.
* Tom Bradshaw, 81, Scottish footballer.
* Randolph Claiborne, 79, American Episcopalian prelate.
* John Donnelly, 31, Australian rugby league player, drowned.
* Ida Lublenski Ehrlich, 99, Russian-born American playwright.
* Bob Guelker, 62, American soccer coach.
* Claude Hettier de Boislambert, 79, French politician and resistance leader.
* Philip J. Lang, 74, American composer.
* Duke Lattimore, 81, American baseball player.
* Richard Pescott, 80, Australian botanist.
* Anthony Rawlinson, 59, British civil servant.
* Jean Tangye, 66, English author.
* Wei Pei-lan, 74, Chinese politician.

### 23

* Miklós Asztalos, 86, Hungarian playwright.
* Mathilde Boniface, 74, Belgian politician.
* Ram Nath Chawla, 82, Indian pilot.
* Andoni Elizondo, 53, Spanish footballer.
* Esther V. Hansen, 87, American historian.
* Edwin S. Lowe, 75, Polish-American game entrepreneur.
* Ferenc Mérei, 76, Hungarian psychologist.
* Ernst Neufert, 85, German architect.
* Louis-Philippe Pigeon, 81, Canadian judge.
* Bill Ribchester, 87, Scottish footballer.
* Boris Slutsky, 66, Soviet poet.
* Nino Taranto, 78, Italian actor.

### 24

* Christian H. Armbruster, 64, American politician, respiratory disease.
* Rukmini Devi Arundale, 81, Indian dancer.
* David Ballantyne, 61, New Zealand writer.
* Tommy Douglas, 81, Scottish-born Canadian politician, cancer.
* Harold L. George, 92, American fighter pilot and politician.
* Bill Hickman, 65, American stuntman, cancer.
* Alfred Hurley, 90, British Anglican prelate.
* Harry Lightsey, 85, American football player.
* Marcus Roberto, 55, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1971–1976) and Senate (since 1977), cancer.
* Arthur Rydstrøm, 90, Norwegian Olympic gymnast (1920).
* James Humphrey Walwyn, 72, British naval officer.

### 25

* George Berry, 86, American NFL football player.
* Pasquale Festa Campanile, 58, Italian filmmaker, kidney cancer.
* Joseph Jeffrey Charlebois, 76, Canadian politician and businessman.
* Hugo Larsson, 79, Swedish civil servant and engineer.
* Guy Pawson, 97, British colonial administrator and cricketer.
* Victor Pike, 78, British rugby player and Anglican prelate.
* Marcus Ruddle, 81, Irish cricketer.
* George Susce, 78, American Major League baseball player.
* Helen F. Tucker, 84, American biochemist.
* Nemesio Yabut, 60, Filipino politician.

### 26

* Andy Bakjian, 71, American track and field coach.
* Martin Julian Buerger, 82, American crystallographer.
* Amalia Fleming, 73, Greek politician and physician.
* Taihei Imamura, 74, Japanese film critic.
* Dag Klaveness, 72, Norwegian shipowner.
* Robert Landesmann, 73, French Olympic wrestler (1948).
* Sophocles Papas, 91–93, Ottoman-American music publisher.
* Karel Vlach, 74, Czechoslovak choreographer.
* Lillian Mayfield Wright, 91, American poet.

### 27

* Gholam-Hossein Banan, 74, Iranian musician.
* Gedeon Barcza, 74, Hungarian chess player.
* Pat Beasley, 72, English footballer.
* Eugene Forde, 87, American director.
* Elisabeth Frisk, 76, Swedish actress.
* John Gorwell, 51, Australian rules footballer.
* Bernhard Haurwitz, 80, German-born American meteorologist.
* Arthur Heina, 71, German Olympic swimmer (1936).
* Nancy Brysson Morrison, 82, Scottish author.
* Arnoldo Ortelli, 72, Swiss footballer.
* Jacques Plante, 57, Canadian ice hockey player, stomach cancer.
* Aimé Trantoul, 77, French Olympic cyclist (1928).
* George Weatherill, 85, Australian footballer.

### 28

* Robbie Basho, 45, American musician, stroke.
* Michel Brusseaux, 72, French footballer.
* James J. DeRan Jr., 79, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1943–1950), influenza.
* Edith Ditmas, 89–90, English historian.
* William Dollar, 78, American ballet dancer and choreographer.
* Laura Z. Hobson, 85, American novelist, cancer.
* Robert Lebel, 85, French art historian.
* Mick Moon, 93, Australian soldier.
* Joan Moore, 65–66, British botanist.
* Olof Palme, 59, Swedish politician, prime minister (1969–1976, since 1982), shot.
* Sir Thomas Williams, 70, British politician, MP (1949–1981).