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

## October 1986
### 1

* Archie League, 79, American air traffic controller.
* Seán Moore, 73, Irish politician, member of Dáil Éireann, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
* Dražen Ričl, 24, Yugoslavian rock musician (Crvena jabuka) and comedian, traffic collision.

### 2

* F. Wayne Valley, 72, American businessman and football executive, owner of Oakland Raiders, cancer.

### 3

* Vince DiMaggio, 74, American Major League baseballer (Pittsburgh Pirates), brother of Joe DiMaggio, colon cancer.
* Shunzo Kido, 97, Japanese Olympic equestrian (1928, 1932).
* Sergey Preminin, 20, Soviet navy sailor, averted meltdown in nuclear submarine K-219, hyperthermia.
* Han Xianchu, 73, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army.

### 4

* Raymond E. Baldwin, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate and Governor of Connecticut.
* Robert Broadbent, 81, Australian Olympic cyclist (1924).
* Mike Butterworth, 62, British comic book writer (The Trigan Empire), heart attack.
* Jeff Clements, 54, English rugby union player.
* Sarala Devi, 82, Indian politician and social activist, member of Odisha Legislative Assembly.
* Arno von Lenski, 93, Nazi German Wehrmacht general and politician.
* Desiderius Orban, 101, Hungarian and Australian painter, kidney disease.

### 5

* George Packer Berry, 87, American physician and medical educator.
* Mike Burgmann, 39, Australian racing driver, racing crash.
* Timothy Creasey, 63, British army general.
* Abraham Feinberg, 87, American rabbi, activist and singer, cancer.
* Rudolf Flesch, 75, Austrian-born American readability expert and author (Why Johnny Can't Read).
* William Karlsen, 76 Norwegian Olympic backstroke swimmer (1932).
* Collette Lyons, 78, American actress, wife of George Randolph Hearst.
* Mairin Mitchell, 91, British and Irish writer and journalist.
* Hal B. Wallis, 87, American film producer (Casablanca, True Grit, The Adventures of Robin Hood), diabetes.
* James H. Wilkinson, 67, English mathematician (Wilkinson matrix, Wilkinson's polynomial), heart attack.

### 6

* Marie-Hélène Arnaud, 52, French model and actress, the "face of Chanel".
* Yuri Babayev, 58, Soviet physicist, co-designers of the Tsar Bomba.
* Gokulbhai Bhatt, 88, Indian politician and social worker, Chief Minister of Sirohi State.
* Harold Brooke, 87, Australian Olympic sailor (1960).
* Loris Gizzi, 87, Italian actor.
* Guy Prendergast, 81, British army officer and explorer.
* David Rubinoff, 89, Russian-born American violinist.
* Robert Six, 79, American businessman, CEO of Continental Airlines.
* Wallace Wade, 94, American football player and sports coach.

### 7

* Germain Burger, 86, British cinematographer and director.
* Allan Macy Butler, 92, American pediatrician.
* Cheryl Crawford, 84, American theatre producer and director (Group Theatre).
* Irvine Finlay Corbett, 71, Canadian politician, plane crash.
* Arthur Galsworthy, 70, British diplomat, High Commissioner to New Zealand, ambassador to the Republic of Ireland.
* Yōjirō Ishizaka, 86, Japanese novelist and short story writer.
* Iwan Iwanoff, 67, Bulgarian and Australian architect, pneumonia.
* Liu Bocheng, 93, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army.
* Jerzy Łojek, 54, Polish historian.
* J. G. Phillips, 75, Australian economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, suicide.
* Paul Tournier, 88, Swiss physician and pastoral counselor, cancer.

### 8

* Nels Anderson, 97, American sociologist and author (The Hobo).
* Walter Burkemo, 67, American golfer, PGA Championship winner.
* Gerhard Dietrich, 58, German pedagogue.
* Shadi Abdel Salam, 56, Egyptian film director and screenwriter (The Night of Counting the Years).
* Max Surkont, 64, American Major League baseballer (Boston/Milwaukee Braves).

### 9

* Lajos Balogh, Hungarian Olympic long jumper (1928).
* Eddie Johnson, 58, American Olympic boxer (1948).
* Harald Reinl, 78, Austrian film director (Chariots of the Gods), murdered.
* Jo-Jo White, 77, American Major League baseballer (Detroit Tigers).

### 10

* Lyndall Barbour, 70, Australian actress.
* Gerold Braunmühl, 51, West German diplomat, assassinated.
* Mary Cholmondeley, 80, British socialite and heiress.
* Antonio di Benedetto, 63, Argentinian novelist (Zama).
* Han Drijver, 59, Dutch Olympic field hockey player. (1948, 1952).
* Nieves Hernández, 84, Mexican Olympic footballer (1928).
* Sigfred Jensen, 77, Danish footballer.
* Rusty Lane, 87, American actor and college professor (Crime with Father).
* Marie Neurath, 88, German and English designer and illustrator of children's books, co-developer of Isotype.
* Michael Player, 25–26, American serial killer (Skid Row Slayer), suicide.
* Priaulx Rainier, 83, South African–born British composer.
* Russ Van Atta, 80, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Browns).
* Gleb Wataghin, 86, Ukrainian-Italian physicist.

### 11

* Gregorio Álvarez, 96, Argentinian historian and physician.
* Bob Brooker, 59, Australian rules footballer.
* Norm Cash, 52, American Major League baseballer (Detroit Tigers), drowned.
* John Crockett, 68, British television and stage director.
* Georges Dumézil, 88, French linguist, stroke.
* Barker Fairley, 99, British-born Canadian painter and literary scholar.
* David Hand, 86, American animator (Walt Disney Productions), stroke.
* Boris Leven, 78, Russian-born American production designer and Academy Award winner (West Side Story).
* Ed McNamara, 65, Canadian actor (For Gentlemen Only, Bayo).
* Al Ullman, 72, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, prostate cancer.

### 12

* Szabolcs Fényes, 74, Hungarian composer.
* John J. Herrera, 76, American attorney and activist, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens.

### 13

* Maidie Andrews, 93, English actress.
* Eunice Crowther, 70, British singer, dancer, and choreographer.
* Ken Earl, 60, English cricketer.
* Abram Hill, 76, American playwright (On Strivers Row), co-founded American Negro Theatre, emphysema.
* Fred K. Mahaffey, 52, American army general, commander in chief U.S. Readiness Command, cancer.
* Hermann von Siemens, 101, German industrialist, chairman of Siemens.

### 14

* Milovan Ćirić, 68, Yugoslavian footballer and manager (Red Star Belgrade).
* Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr., 69, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1951-1957).
* Yvette Dugay, 54, American actress (Cattle Queen of Montana).
* Spec O'Donnell, 75, American actor.
* Takanori Ogisu, 84, Japanese-born French painter.
* Barry Salvage, 39, English footballer (Brentford, Millwall), heart attack.
* Keenan Wynn, 70, American actor (The Hucksters), pancreatic cancer.
* Takahiko Yamanouchi, 84, Japanese theoretical physicist (quantum mechanics).

### 15

* Al Stricklin, 78, American pianist.
* Alex Josey, 76, British-Singaporean journalist, known for biography of Lee Kuan Yew, Parkinson's disease.
* Rani Padmini, 23–24, Indian actress (Parankimala, Kilikkonjal), murdered.
* Jacqueline Roque, 60, French wife of Pablo Picasso, suicide.
* Marcus Samuel, 77, British businessman and hereditary peer, director of Lloyds Bank.
* Jerry Smith, 43, American NFL footballer (Washington Redskins), AIDS.

### 16

* Manolo Álvarez Mera, 62, Cuban-born tenor.
* Harold Beamish, 90, New Zealand WW1 flying ace.
* Joseph Fontaine, 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1945-1957).
* Arthur Grumiaux, 65, Belgian violin virtuoso, stroke.
* Yukihiko Haida, 77, American composer and ukulele player.
* Giovanni Invernizzi, 60, Italian Olympic rower (1948, 1952).
* Sydney Jagbir, 73, Trinidadian cricketer.
* Manas Mukherjee, 43, Indian composer.
* Sandro Puppo, 68, Italian footballer and manager (Venezia, Italy), Olympic gold medalist.
* Ted Sagar, 76, English international footballer (Everton, England).
* Princess Yolanda of Savoy, 85, Italian royal, daughter of Victor Emmanuel III, heart failure.

### 17

* Boris Arkadyev, 87, Soviet footballer and coach (Soviet Union).
* Jean Bidot, 81, French cyclist.
* Malcolm Burns, 76, New Zealand agricultural scientist, university lecturer and administrator.
* Hamish Fraser, 73, Scottish journalist and political activist, Red Terror participant.
* Stan Judkins, 79, Australian rules footballer (Richmond).
* Ron Kass, 51, American film producer (Naked Yoga), cancer.
* Leah Rhodes, 84, American costume designer (Adventures of Don Juan).

### 18

* Earl Frederick Crabb, 87, Canadian WWI flying ace.
* Sverre Ingolf Haugli, Norwegian Olympic speed skater (1952, 1956).
* Niat Qabool Hayat Kakakhel, 81, Pakistani politician.
* Clyde S. Kilby, 84, American writer, founded Marion E. Wade Center.
* Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann, 92, Polish army general.

### 19

* Moses Asch, 80, Polish-born American recording engineer and executive, founder of Folkways Records.
* Aquino de Bragança, 62, Indian-born Mozambican journalist and diplomat.
* Karlo Bulić, 76, Yugoslavian actor (Naše malo misto).
* George Cheroke, 65, American football player (Cleveland Browns).
* Dele Giwa, 39, Nigerian journalist, founder of Newswatch magazine, assassinated.
* Leon Henderson, 91, American economist, administrator of the Office of Price Administration.
* Stanley Lebowsky, 59, American composer and conductor (Chicago, Jesus Christ Superstar).
* Oldřich Lipský, 62, Czechoslovakian film director and screenwriter.
* Samora Machel, 53, Mozambican politician, president of Mozambique, plane crash.
* Simon Mahon, 72, British politician, Member of Parliament.
* H. Freeman Matthews, 87, American diplomat, ambassador to Austria, The Netherlands and Sweden.
* Shafeek Nader, 60, co-founder of Northwestern Connecticut Community College, brother of Ralph Nader, heart failure.
* Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair, 64, Indian Malayalam actor (Chemmeen).
* George Pipgras, 86, American Major League baseballer (New York Yankees) and umpire.
* Arseny Sokolov, 76, Soviet theoretical physicist (synchrotron radiation).
* May Wilson, 80–81, American artist, pneumonia.

### 20

* Luciano Agnolín, 70, Argentine footballer.
* Michael Joe Costello, 82, Irish military leader (Irish War of Independence).
* Tommy Walker, 63, American event director, composer of "Charge!", complications of heart surgery.

### 21

* Theodor Busse, 88, Nazi German army General of the Infantry).
* Pelagio Cruz, 74, Filipino military general, chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
* Gisela Fackeldey, 65, German actress.
* Gadabout Gaddis, 90, American fisherman and television presenter (The Flying Fisherman).
* Fritz Hochwälder, 75, Austrian playwright.
* T. Krishna, 36, Indian Telugu film director and screenwriter (Pratighatana, Repati Pourulu).
* Lionel Murphy, 64, Australian politician and judge, Attorney-General of Australia, justice of the High Court of Australia, cancer.
* Diwakarla Venkatavadhani, 75, Indian Telugu writer.

### 22

* Jane Dornacker, 39, American rock musician, comedian and traffic reporter (Leila and the Snakes), helicopter crash.
* Ivor Francis, 67, Canadian-American actor (Room 222).
* Bhagwanti Navani, 46, Indian Sindhi singer and actress.
* Albert Szent-Györgyi, 93, Hungarian biochemist and politician (Vitamin C), Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine).
* Wayland Hand, 79, American folklorist.
* Reg Humphries, 75, Australian rules footballer.
* Bernard Joseph Topel, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Spokane.
* Ye Jianying, 89, Chinese politician and army general.

### 23

* Paul Brophy, 49, American firefighter, condition sparked right to die debate, dehydration.
* Johnny Dell Isola, 74, American NFL player (New York Giants).
* Edward Adelbert Doisy, 92, American biochemist, 1943 Nobel Prize Laureate.
* Esquerita, 48–51, American singer, songwriter and pianist, AIDS.
* Ivor D. Fenton, 97, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1939-1963).
* Georg Funkquist, 86, Swedish actor.
* Paul Gehrman, 74, American Major League Baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
* Ronald Long, 75, English-American actor (Love of Life), heart faailure.
* Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, 92, British intelligence officer (MI6) and mountaineer.

### 24

* John R. Allan, 80, Scottish author and journalist.
* Hugh Craig Atkinson, 52, American librarian.
* Michael Brennan, 90, Irish general, Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces.
* Johnny Dyani, 40, South African jazz double bassist, vocalist and pianist (The Blue Notes), liver ailment.
* František Janda, 76, Czech Olympic wrestler (1936).
* Joseph B. Johnson, 93, Swedish-born American politician, Governor of Vermont.

### 25

* Larry Beil, 63, American NFL footballer (New York Giants).
* Elizabeth H. Brödel, 83, American medical illustrator.
* Carroll A. Edson, 94, American scouting leader, co-founded Order of the Arrow.
* Guillermo Eizaguirre, 77, Spanish international footballer (Sevilla, Spain).
* Ricardo Sanz García, 87, Spanish militant, leader of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo.
* Jack Hartigan, 58, Australian rules footballer.
* Anthony Hill, 85, English cricketer.
* Howard S. McDonald, 92, American academic administrator, president of the California State University.
* Tadao Tannaka, 77, Japanese mathematician (Tannaka–Krein duality).
* Forrest Tucker, 67, American actor (F Troop), lung cancer.

### 26

* Arne Andersen, 86, Norwegian football player.
* Hüseyin Çakıroğlu, 29, Turkish footballer.
* Ed Holley, 87, American Major League baseball player.
* Jackson Scholz, 89, American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist.
* Marcel Simon, 79, French religious historian (Verus Israel).

### 27

* Sherman Adams, 87, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
* Alan Branscombe, 50, English jazz pianist and alto saxophonist.
* Bob Ingamells, 72, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1959-1976).

### 28

* Robert Arthur, 76, American film producer and screenwriter (Francis the Talking Mule).
* Afzal Bangash, 62, Pakistani politician and activist.
* Sidney Bollon, 86, English cricketer.
* John Braine, 64, English novelist (Room at the Top), gastric haemorrhage.
* Richard Elton Goodwin, 79, British army officer.
* Marga Klompé, 74, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
* Ian Marter, 42, English actor (Doctor Who) and writer, heart attack.
* Eddie Waring, 76, British rugby league commentator, dementia.

### 29

* Gottfried Eichelbrönner, 84, German farmer and politician, member of the Landtag of Bavaria (1946-1962).
* Mimis Fotopoulos, 73, Greek actor and writer, heart attack.
* Marcel Gascoin, 79, French furniture designer.
* Abel Meeropol, 83, American songwriter and poet ("Strange Fruit").
* Aaron Resnick, 71, American architect, co-founder of Usonia Historic District, heart attack.
* Ronald Thom, 63, Canadian architect (Massey College).

### 30

* Reginald Keller, 92, English cricketer and British Army officer.
* Andrzej Markowski, 62, Polish composer and conductor, founder of Wratislavia Cantans festival.
* Tandiono Manu, 73, Indonesian politician, Minister of Agriculture.
* Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt, 85, German politician, Federal Minister of Health.

### 31

* Harry Askew, 68, British Olympic long jumper (1948).
* John Blackinger, 81, American football executive (San Francisco 49ers) and politician.
* Olaf Hansen, 80, Norwegian Olympic boxer (1924 Summer Olympics).
* Bob Hardisty, 64, English footballer (Great Britain Olympic football team).
* Marcella Martin, 70, American actress (Gone with the Wind).
* Robert S. Mulliken, 90, American physicist and chemist (molecular orbital theory), Nobel laureate (Chemistry), heart failure.
* Bruno Snell, 90, German classical philologist (Die Entdeckung des Geistes).
* Gregorio F. Zaide, 79, Filipino historian, president of the Philippine Historical Association.