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

## August 1986
### 1

* Carlo Confalonieri, 93, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Dean of the College of Cardinals.
* Paul Detlefsen, 86, Danish-born American commercial artist (The Adventures of Mark Twain).
* Marion Grant, 68, American historian and writer, sister of Katharine Hepburn, heart attack.
* Ignatius Joseph Kasimo Hendrowahyono, 86, Indonesian politician, Minister of Trade and Agriculture.
* James Horan, 75, Irish Roman Catholic priest.
* Lena Kennedy, 72, English author.
* Willem Klein, 73, Dutch mental calculator, murdered.
* Syd Negus, 74, Australian politician, senator for Western Australia.
* José María Vidal, 51, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid, Spain), heart attack.

### 2

* Aligholi Ardalan, 86, Iranian diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
* Sunil Banerjee, 66, Indian cricket umpire.
* Roy Cohn, 59, American lawyer and prosecutor, Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel, prosecuted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, AIDS.
* Renato Leduc, 88, Mexican poet and journalist.
* Shakti Prasad, 58, Indian Kannada actor (Immadi Pulikeshi, Antha).

### 3

* George Agnost, 63, American attorney, cardiac arrest.
* Paul de Groot, 87, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives, leader of the Communist Party.
* Otmar Emminger, 75, German economist, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, heart attack.
* Brian Flynn, 57, Australian cricketer.
* Stefania Górska, 79, Polish actress.
* Thad Hutcheson, 70, American attorney.
* George Kuznets, 77, American economist (agricultural economics).
* Beryl Markham, 83, British-born Kenyan aviator, first to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic from Britain to North America (West with the Night).
* Y. Eswara Reddy, 70–71, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha, leader of the Communist Party of India.
* Florence Reece, 86, American social activist and songwriter ("Which Side Are You On?"), heart attack.
* Joe Thomas, 77, American jazz saxophonist.
* William B. Williams, 62, American disc jockey (WNEW, Make Believe Ballroom), coined "Chairman of the Board" for Frank Sinatra, respiratory failure.

### 4

* Bennie J. George, 67, American coach (Delaware State University).
* Harry Giles, 74, Australian rules footballer.
* Charles Haworth, 79, American Olympic long-distance runner (1928).
* Hyllus Maris, 52, Australian Aboriginal rights activist (Women of the Sun), cancer.
* Bob Roggy, 29, American javelin thrower, fall.
* Willem Ruis, 41, Dutch game show presenter, cardiac arrest.
* Thomas J. Valentino, 79, Italian-born American businessman, compiled libraries of sound effects.

### 5

* John Alexander, 90, American football player.
* Ferenc Cziráki, 72, Hungarian Olympic handball player. (1936).
* Banesh Hoffmann, 79, British-born American physicist and mathematician (Einstein–Infeld–Hoffmann equations).
* Katharine Krom Merritt, 100, American physician specializing in pediatrics (Kasabach–Merritt syndrome).
* Himzo Polovina, 59, Yugoslavian singer and songwriter, heart attack.
* Karl Streibel, 82, German concentration camp commander (Trawniki concentration camp),

### 6

* Alessandro Catalani, 81, Italian cyclist.
* Maria Dunin, 87, Polish painter.
* Emilio Fernández, 82, Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter (María Candelaria), heart attack.
* Harry H. Johnson, 91, American army general.
* Philomé Obin, 94, Haitian painter.
* Kim Williams, 62, American writer, naturalist and commentator on National Public Radio (All Things Considered), cancer.
* Beppe Wolgers, 57, Swedish lyricist and author, peptic ulcer.

### 7

* Anne Bahlke, 83, American physician.
* Leonard Arthur Hawes, British army officer.
* Ladislav Hojer, 28, Czechoslovakian serial killer, executed.
* Alfred Jones, 86, English cricketer.
* William J. Schroeder, 54, American soldier and artificial heart recipient, lung infection.
* Julie Tullis, 47, British climber and filmmaker, died during descent of K2.

### 8

* Paul G. Chandler, 96, American coach, educator, and college president (Kent State University).
* Yehoshua Cohen, 64, Israeli Zionist militant (Lehi), assassinated two U.N. envoys, heart attack.
* Giovanni Garaventa, 86, Italian Olympic middle-distance runner (1924).
* Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer, 93, American architect and women's rights activist.

### 9

* Harold Ave, 86, American basketball and football coach.
* Angelo Congear, 101, Australian rules footballer.
* Eoin McNamee, 71–72, Irish Republican, Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army, cancer.
* Gustav Adolf Nosske, 83, German lawyer and convicted war criminal.
* Jef Scherens, 77, Belgian track cyclist, multiple world champion.
* Ruth Teitelbaum, 62, American mathematician and computer programmer, original ENIAC programmer.

### 10

* Arthur Capell, 84, Australian linguist (Australian and Austronesian languages).
* Paraskeva Clark, 87, Russian-born Canadian painter, stroke.
* Suzanne Delvé, 93, French actress.
* Vratislav Effenberger, 63, Czechoslovakian writer.
* Lyle Engel, 71, American magazine publisher and book producer.
* Jacqueline Gadsden, 86, American silent-screen actress (It).
* K. C. George, 83, Indian politician, member of Rajya Sabha, Minister for Food and Forests.
* Luther Carrington Goodrich, 91, American sinologist and author.
* Tom Greenwade, 81, American Major League baseball scout, heart failure.
* Holger Guldager, 81, Danish Olympic cyclist (1924).
* John H. Hamilton Jr., 67, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1965-1978).
* Guy H. Jones, 75, American politician and lawyer.
* Palapatti Sadaya Goundar Kailasam, 70, Indian jurist, judge of the Supreme Court of India.
* Alan Rouse, 34, British mountaineer, died on descent from K2.
* Arun Shridhar Vaidya, 60, Indian army general, assassinated.

### 11

* Karl Duldig, 83, Polish-born Australian sculptor.
* Bud Edwards, 78, American football player.
* Tom Gorman, 67, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants) and umpire, heart attack.
* Peter Mahon, 62, New Zealand High Court judge, heart failure.
* Chuck McKinley, 45, American tennis player, multiple U.S. Open winner, brain tumour.
* Hans-Joachim Riecke, 87, Nazi German politician.
* Heinz Strehl, 48, West German footballer (FC Nürnberg, West Germany), heart failure.

### 12

* Howard Finn, 68, American city planner and architect, heart attack.
* Benjamin Frank, 66-67, Indian cricketer.
* Howard Jarvis, 82, American politician, businessman and lobbyist, blood disease.
* Paola Mori, 57, Italian actress, wife of Orson Welles, traffic collision.
* Léonard Mulamba, 57–58, Zairian politician and diplomat, prime minister of Congo-Léopoldville, ambassador to three countries.
* Evaline Ness, 75, American children's author (Sam, Bangs & Moonshine), heart attack.
* Hans Pesser, 74, Austrian footballer (Rapid Wien, Austria).
* Felix Salzer, 82, Austrian-American musicologist.

### 13

* Jean Bailhache, 75, French writer and translator.
* Way Bandy, 45, American makeup artist, AIDS.
* Pius Anthony Benincasa, 73, American auxiliary bishop.
* Joe Bolton, 75, American television and radio personality (WPIX – The Dick Tracy Show), heart attack.
* Pepper Constable, 72, American football player and doctor, drowned.
* Anna Dodas i Noguer, 23, Spanish Catalan poet, murdered.
* Víctor García Garzena, 72, Chilean lawyer and politician, member of the Senate of Chile (1969-1973).
* Caterina Jarboro, 88, American opera singer.
* Avraham Katz, 54-55, Israeli politician.
* Janko Lavrin, 99, Slovenian-born British novelist and historian.
* Helen Mack, 72, American actress (While Paris Sleeps, Son of Kong), cancer.
* Mãe Menininha do Gantois, 92, Brazilian spiritual leader, head of the Ilê Axé Iyá Omin Iyamassê temple.
* Kapur Singh, 77, Indian Sikh politician, member of the Lok Sabha.

### 14

* Jomí García Ascot, 59, Tunisian-born Mexican poet and film director.
* Charlie Greenhill, 84, Australian rules footballer.
* Michael Lawrence Haider, 81, American petroleum engineer, founder of the National Academy of Engineering and chairman of Exxon Coorporation.

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* Alexander Barras, 72, Australian cricketer.
* Winthrop Sargeant, 82, American violinist and music critic (The New Yorker).
* John Trevelyan, 83, English secretary of the Board of the British Board of Film Censors.
* Harald Wiberg, 78, Swedish writer and illustrator.

### 16

* Ronnie Aird, 84, British army officer and cricketer.
* Patrick Beesly, 73, British intelligence officer and author.
* Reginald Fenderson, 74, American actor.
* Sonia Rosemary Keppel, 86, British author and socialite, grandmother of Queen Camilla.
* John Maude, 85, British judge and politician, member of the House of Commons.
* William T. Pheiffer, 88, American politician and diplomat, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
* Ryan Price, 74, British racehorse trainer.
* Jaime Sáenz, 64, Bolivian poet, novelist and journalist.
* Esther Shemitz, 86, American painter (Hiss case).

### 17

* M. G. Chakrapani, 75, Indian actor and film producer (Mahamaya, Thaai Magalukku Kattiya Thaali).
* Shipwreck Kelly, 76, American NFL footballer (Brooklyn Dodgers), stroke.
* Charles Loewen, 85, Canadian-born British army general.
* Sammy Vick, 91, American Major League baseballer (New York Yankees).

### 18

* Bruce F. Beilfuss, 71, American lawyer and jurist.
* Vivian Stuart, 72, British writer.

### 19

* Hermione Baddeley, 79, English actress (Room at the Top, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, The Aristocats), stroke.
* Wilfred Beaver, 89, British and American flying ace.
* Hugo Brouwer, 73, Dutch artist.
* Jaap Burger, 81, Dutch politician, member of the European Parliament.
* Hugh De Lacy, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945-1947), cancer.
* John Donnelly, Canadian Olympic coxswain (1928).
* Zia Fatehabadi, 73, Indian poet.
* Gérard Gasiorowski, 56, French photographer and painter, heart attack.
* Raphael Glorieux, 57, Belgian Olympic cyclist (1948).
* Lorenzo Tucker, 79, American actor, lung cancer.

### 20

* Milton Acorn, 63, Canadian poet and playwright, heart attack.
* Barbara Bartay, 65, Czechoslovakian-born American actress, colorectal cancer.
* Walter Brooke, 71, American actor (The Graduate), emphysema.
* Joy Bright Hancock, 88, American naval officer.
* Edward Howell, 84, British-Australian actor and producer (A Country Practice).
* Thad Jones, 63, American jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader, cancer.
* Vichna Kaplan, 72–73, Russian-born American academic administrator.
* Gauriprasanna Mazumder, 60, Indian lyricist (Palatak).
* Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish, 85, Bangladeshi politician, president of Awami League.
* Austin Warren, 87, American literary critic and professor of English.

### 21

* Bata, 78, Spanish footballer (Athletic Bilbao, Spain).
* Armando Bréa, 87, Brazilian Olympic middle-distance runner (1932).
* William C. Chase, 91, American World War II general.
* Chaim Levanon, 87, Polish-born Israeli politician, mayor of Tel Aviv.
* Felix Mitchell, 31, American drug lord, murdered.
* Alexandre O'Neill, 61, Portuguese writer.
* Roscoe Charles Wilson, 81, American air force general, commandant of the USAF Air War College.

### 22

* Vali Akhundov, 70, Azerbaijani politician, first secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party.
* Lamb Barbee, 70, American Negro League baseball player.
* Celâl Bayar, 103, Turkish politician, prime minister and president.
* Jacques Bonnet, 47, French Olympic field hockey player (1960).
* Ed Carrington, 41, American football player (Houston Oilers), rock climbing accident.
* Bruce Cowling, 66, American actor.
* Charlie Eckert, 89, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Athletics).
* Dots Johnson, 73, American actor (Paisan, The Joe Louis Story).
* Walter T. Kelley, 88–89, American beekeeper.
* Sobha Singh, 84, Indian painter.
* F. Palmer Weber, 72, American businessman and activist.

### 23

* Lloyd Budd, 72, English cricketer.
* Bill Callihan, 70, American National Football League player (Detroit Lions).
* Florencio Castelló, 80-81, Spanish-born Mexican actor.
* Eric Cook, 77, Canadian politician.
* Rosita Díaz Gimeno, 77, Spanish actress.
* Ben C. Duniway, 78, American judge, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1961-1986).
* José Estrada, 48, Mexican director and screenwriter (Mexican, You Can Do It).
* Bill Evans, 87, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
* Adrienne Fazan, 80, American film editor (An American in Paris, Gigi).
* Donald Fortier, 39, American intelligence agent (National Security Council), cancer.
* Herman H. Hanneken, 93, American Marine Corps general, Medal of Honor recipient.
* Charles Janssens, 80, Belgian actor.
* Mikhail Kuznetsov, 68, Soviet actor (Ivan the Terrible).
* Warren P. Mason, 85, American electrical engineer, physicist and author.
* Eduardo Quisumbing, 90, Filipino botanist.

### 24

* Germaine Acremant, 97, French novelist and playwirght.
* Harry Benjamin, 101, German-American sexologist and endocrinologist (transgender studies).
* John P. Caufield, 67, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate, fire director for the Newark Fire Department.
* George Diehl, 68, American Major League Baseball player (Boston Braves).

### 25

* Ronald Bates, 54, American ballet lighting designer, heart attack.
* Allen Case, 51, American actor (The Deputy), heart attack.
* Bernie Elsey, 79–80, Australian entrepreneur and property developer, cancer.
* Amos Kent, 84, American college football player (Sewanee).
* M. Stanley Livingston, 81, American physicist, co-inventor of the cyclotron, associate director of the National Accelerator Laboratory, prostate cancer.
* Syed Hasan Mahmood, 63, Pakistani politician and cricket administrator, Chief Minister of Bahawalpur State.
* Mary Moody Northen, 94, American financier and philanthropist, chairman of the board for American National Insurance Company and Moody National Bank.
* Fernando Vaz, 68, Portuguese footballer and manager (Casa Pia).

### 26

* Raymond Abellio, 78, French writer.
* Baldric, 25, American-born French Thoroughbred racehorse.
* Clarence Berryman, 80, American Olympic wrestler (1928).
* Elsie M. Burrows, 72, English botanist.
* Marion Fyfe, 88, New Zealand zoologist.
* Hu Harries, 64, Canadian politician.
* Thomas Harpur, 70, New Zealand cricketer.
* Marvin Hatley, 81, American film composer (Hal Roach Studio).
* Walther Hess, 86, German cricketer.
* Ted Knight, 62, American actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Caddyshack, Too Close for Comfort), colon cancer.
* Sándor von Korompay, 74, Hungarian Olympic rower (1936).
* Kent T. Lundgren, 72, American politician.
* Allan Parkhill, 74, New Zealand rugby player.
* Mutsuo Sugiura, 68, Japanese engineer.
* Rosa Torras, 91, Spanish Olympic tennis player (1924).

### 27

* Snehansu Kanta Acharya, 72, Indian politician.
* Georgy Agzamov, 31, Soviet chess player, fall.
* Daniel Fignolé, 72, Haitian politician, provisional president (1957).
* Bernard Fonlon, 61, Cameroonian politician and educator.
* Edward Ford, 84, Australian physician.
* Eddie Hinson, 73, Australian rugby league player.
* Joyce Mansour, 58, Egyptian-French poet, cancer.
* Dragutin Mitić, 68, Yugoslav-American tennis player.
* George Nēpia, 81, New Zealand rugby union and rugby league player.
* Alfred Pilkington, 85, English cricketer.
* Paul Sciacca, 77, American mobster (Bonanno crime family).
* Olga Šilhánová, 65, Czech Olympic gymnast (1948).
* Robbie Wijting, 61, Dutch general.

### 28

* Giorgi Chitaia, 95, Soviet Georgian ethnographer.
* Arthur Cunliffe, 77, English footballer.
* Alexander Dolgun, 59, American writer and Gulag survivor, kidney failure.
* Russell Lee, 83, American photographer.
* Don Simmons, 68, Australian politician.
* Elvi Sinervo, 74, Finnish writer.
* Cyril Trailor, 67, Welsh footballer.
* Philippe Valois, 79, Canadian politician.

### 29

* Ellis Achong, 82, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer.
* Giles Baring, 76, English cricketer.
* Alfred Fagon, 49, British playwright, heart attack.
* L. Raymond Fennell, 92, Canadian politician.
* Roy King, 82, American painter and sculptor.
* Vladimir Kuznetsov, 55, Soviet Olympic javelin thrower (1952, 1956, 1964).
* Lu Shijia, 75, Chinese physicist and aerospace engineer.
* Sax Mallard, 70, American jazz musician, cancer.
* Harold Matthews, 83, Australian rules footballer.
* Col Mitchell, 72, Australian rules footballer.
* Alex Munro, 74, Scottish footballer.
* Ronald Taylor, 77, English cricketer.
* Stuart Young, 52, English business executive.

### 30

* Margaret Wood Bancroft, 93, American naturalist.
* Forrest E. Everhart, 64, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
* Thomas Kilbride, 75, Irish politician.
* Walter Kutschmann, 72, German-Argentine Einsatzkommando and war criminal, heart attack.
* Edward P. Larkin, 71, American politician.
* Aldo Longinotti, 76, Italian Olympic boxer (1932).
* Otto Mortensen, 79, Danish composer.
* George Pelawa, 18, American ice hockey player, traffic collision.
* Dame Annabelle Rankin, 78, Australian politician.
* John Tuggle, 25, American NFL football player, cancer.
* Bernice T. Van der Vries, 96, American politician.
* Gordon Webber, 73, American writer.

### 31

* Carl Alberg, 85, Swedish boat designer.
* Jorge Alessandri, 90, Chilean politician, president (1958–1964).
* Edward Buehrig, 75, American political scientist.
* Elizabeth Coatsworth, 93, American author (The Cat Who Went to Heaven).
* Henry Moore, 88, English sculptor.
* Urho Kekkonen, 85, Finnish politician, president (1956–1982) and prime minister (1950–1953, 1954–1956).
* Goffredo Parise, 56, Italian writer and journalist.
* Čestmír Řanda, 62, Czech actor.