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

## July 1986
### 1

* Adil Abdullah, 63, Iraqi footballer.
* Jean Baratte, 63, French footballer.
* Willy Berger, 80, Hungarian-born Israeli footballer.
* Harry Bolton, 67, American NFL football player (Detroit Lions).
* Alf Bond, 75, English football referee.
* E. E. Y. Hales, 77, English religious historian.
* Willard Ames Holbrook Jr., 88, American general.
* Christa Merten, 41, West German Olympic runner (1972), suicide.
* Andrew Miller, 59, British naval admiral.
* Moccasin, 23, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
* Karl Myrbäck, 85, Swedish chemist.
* Sam Ramsden, 72, Australian politician.
* Sir Iain Sutherland, 61, British diplomat, heart attack.
* Roger Cuthbert Wakefield, 80, English surveyor and rugby player.
* Edward Curtis Wells, 75, American business executive (Boeing).

### 2

* Alfred Grimwood, 80, English cricketer.
* Louis Harant, 90, American Olympic sports shooter (1920).
* Hoàng Văn Thái, 71, Vietnamese general.
* René Létourneau, 73, Canadian politician.
* Peanuts Lowrey, 68, American Major League baseball player.
* Erwin Milzkott, 73, German musician.
* Hilyard Robinson, 86–87, American architect.

### 3

* Jonathan B. Bingham, 72, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1983), pneumonia.
* Elizabeth Bodine, 88, American humanitarian.
* Charles Chew, 63, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate (since 1967), throat cancer.
* Bruce Chown, 92, Canadian physician.
* Ubirajara Fidalgo, 37, Brazilian actor and director.
* Monk Higgins, 55, American saxophonist, respiratory disease.
* Bill McCahan, 65, American Major League baseball player, cancer.
* Quinn McNemar, 86, American psychologist and statistician.
* Mona Ray, 81, American actress.
* Curley Russell, 69, American jazz musician, emphysema.
* Andrew C. Tychsen, 93, American general.
* Rudy Vallée, 84, American singer and musician, cancer.
* Erling Westher, 83, Norwegian pianist.

### 4

* Paul Adams, 65, American college sports coach, heart attack.
* Margaret Cuninggim, 71, American academic administrator.
* Leo Lermond, 80, American Olympic runner (1928).
* Peter F. Mack Jr., 69, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1963).
* Benjamin Menor, 63, American jurist, throat cancer.
* Flor Peeters, 83, Belgian composer.
* Oscar Roettger, 86, American Major League baseball player.
* Theodor S. Slen, 100, American politician and lawyer, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1935–1940), pneumonia.
* Oscar Zariski, 87, Russian-born American mathematician.

### 5

* Thomas Arnold, 85, British Olympic bobsledder (1924).
* Noel Counihan, 72, Australian painter and cartoonist.
* Alan Gemmell, 73, British biologist and botanist.
* Rosaire Gendron, 65, Canadian politician.
* Ulrich Hofmann, 83, German mathematician.
* Ruth Jones, 40, American basketball coach, ovarian cancer.
* Javad Khamenei, 90, Iranian Shia cleric.
* Biff Lee, 78, American NFL football player.
* Richard Lowe, 82, English cricketer.
* Gisiro Maruyama, 70, Japanese mathematician.
* O Yoon, 40, South Korean painter, cirrhosis.
* Benjamin B. Patterson, 76, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1957–1966).
* K. Krishna Pillai, 62, Indian politician.
* Sir Folliott Sandford, 79, British civil servant.
* Albert Scherrer, 78, Swiss racing driver.
* Georg-Wilhelm Schulz, 80, German U-boat commander.
* Yaroslav Stetsko, 74, Soviet Ukrainian politician, prime minister of the Ukrainian national government (1941).
* Sir John Toothill, 77, English electrical engineer.
* James Walsh, 73, Australian cricketer.

### 6

* Stephen Brunauer, 83, American chemist.
* Vic Carroll, 73, American NFL football player (Washington Redskins, New York Giants).
* Germán Frers, 86, Argentine Olympic sailor (1936).
* Walter Hollitscher, 75, Austrian philosopher.
* Lothar Kreyssig, 87, German jurist.
* Andrée Le Coultre, 68–69, French painter.
* Herbert Leonhardt, 61, German Olympic skier (1956).
* Robert S. Lopez, 75, Italian-born American historian, cancer.
* Jagjivan Ram, 78, Indian politician.
* Rodrigo Rojas de Negri, 19, Chilean photographer, burned.
* Clarence Streit, 90, American journalist, renal failure.
* Kōji Wada, 42, Japanese actor.
* Blanka Waleská, 76, Czech actress.
* Benjamin D. Wood, 91, American academic administrator.
* Clarrie Wyatt, 82, Australian rules footballer.
* Eddie Yuhas, 61, American Major League baseball player.

### 7

* Willi Ankermüller, 85, German politician.
* Mai Bhagi, 79–80, Pakistani musician.
* Carnera, 77, Brazilian footballer.
* Gunnar Christensen, 72, Danish Olympic athlete (1936).
* Harry Davis, 75, Welsh-born New Zealand potter.
* Frederick Kohner, 80, Austrian-born American novelist (Gidget).
* Sven Johnson, 86, Swedish Olympic gymnast (1920).
* Christopher C. McGrath, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1953).
* Earl J. Merritt, 89, American sports coach.
* Len Vautier, 77, Australian rules footballer.
* Hazel Browne Williams, 79, American educator.

### 8

* C. W. Armstrong, 87, Northern Irish politician, MP (1954–1959).
* Paolo Brignoli, 44, Italian entomologist.
* Johnny Cooney, 85, American Major League baseball player.
* Adolfo Linvel, 74–75, Argentine actor.
* Nina Morgana, 94, American singer.
* Pedro Ortiz Dávila, 74, Puerto Rican singer.
* Hyman G. Rickover, 86, American admiral.
* Skeeter Webb, 76, American Major League baseball player.
* Robert J. Wood, 81, American general.

### 9

* Tommy Barnett, 77, English footballer.
* Nellie Campobello, 85, Mexican writer, heart failure.
* Marietta Canty, 80, American actress.
* Calvin Carter, 61, American record producer.
* Julio Córdova, 75, Chilean footballer.
* Laxmi Narayan Bhanja Deo, 73, Indian politician.
* Sir Percy Edward Kent, 73, British geologist.
* María Laffitte, 83, Spanish women's rights activist and writer.
* John Leighly, 90, American geographer.
* Carl "Spider" Lockhart, 43, American NFL football player, lymphoma.
* Red Lucas, 84, American Major League baseball player.
* Boris Mayzel, 79, Soviet composer.
* Walter Romanowicz, 68, American soccer player.
* Chandrashekhar Singh, 58, Indian politician.
* Ruth Warren, 85, American actress.
* Paul Yuzyk, 73, Canadian politician.

### 10

* Rafael Gil, 73, Spanish film director.
* Brendan Glynn, 76, Irish politician, TD (1954–1957).
* Jody Lawrance, 55, American actress.
* Lê Duẩn, 79, Vietnamese politician.
* Harl Maggert, 72, American Major League baseball player.
* Csilla Molnár, 17, Hungarian beauty queen, suicide by drug overdose.
* Nicholas VI, 73, Greek Orthodox prelate, patriarch of Alexandria (since 1968).
* Park Taewon, 76, Korean writer.
* Aukusti Pasanen, 83, Finnish politician.
* Tadeusz Piotrowski, 46, Polish mountaineer, fall.
* Roman Ulrich Sexl, 46, Austrian theoretical physicist.
* Štefan Stanislay, 83, Czechoslovak athlete.
* Don S. Wenger, 74, American general.

### 11

* John Clayden, 82, Rhodesian jurist.
* Larry D. Gilbertson, 68, American politician.
* Lillian Rosanoff Lieber, 99, Russian-born American mathematician.
* Bill Purcell, 81, Australian rules footballer.
* Hortensia Santoveña, 73, Mexican actress.
* Dutch Thiele, 93, American NFL football player.
* Enrique Villegas, 72, Argentine pianist.
* Lucille Wall, 88, American actress (General Hospital).

### 12

* Dame Kate Isabel Campbell, 87, Australian physician.
* Ingram Capper, 78, British Olympic sports shooter (1952)
* Wacław Kisielewski, 43, Polish pianist, traffic collision.
* Faydang Lobliayao, 75–76, Laotian politician.
* Dermod MacCarthy, 75, British pediatrician.
* Gene Mayl, 84, American NFL footballer and basketballer.
* Nea Morin, 81, British mountaineer.
* Kamaran Mukeri, 56–57, Iraqi poet.
* Krum Penev, 84, Bulgarian poet and playwright.
* Jean Zizine, 63, French Olympic field hockey player (1952).

### 13

* Sir Max Bemrose, 82, English politician and industrialist.
* Walter Bradshaw, 77, Australian-born British cricketer.
* Coke Escovedo, 45, American percussionist, cirrhosis.
* Gary Famiglietti, 72, American NFL football player.
* Edmund Dwen Gill, 77, Australian geologist.
* Brion Gysin, 70, British-Canadian writer, painter and inventor, lung cancer.
* Hong Jin-ki, 69, South Korean jurist.
* Rudolf Icsey, 81, Hungarian cinematographer.
* Géza Kardos, 68, Hungarian Olympic basketball player (1948).
* Orígenes Lessa, 83, Brazilian writer.
* Edward Lipiński, 97, Polish politician and economist.
* Margaret Ransone Murray, 84, American biologist.
* Ladislav Pešek, 79, Czechoslovak actor.
* Ralph Steiner, 87, American photographer.
* Jaak Tamleht, 44, Soviet Estonian actor.
* Jean Van Gool, 55, French footballer.
* Joe Wirkkunen, 58, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey coach, home fire accident
* Mel Zajac, 30, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1976), drowned.

### 14

* John Bridger, 66, English cricketer, traffic collision.
* Arthur Ford, 82–83, Australian Olympic wrestler (1928).
* Anthony Hadingham, 73, English cricketer.
* William E. Hess, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1929–1937, 1939–1949, 1951–1961).
* Wally Holborow, 72, American Major League baseball player.
* Raymond Loewy, 92, French-born American industrial designer.
* Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi, 72, Iranian poet.
* Joseph Vogt, 91, German historian.
* Jack Whitehead, 73, Australian rules footballer.

### 15

* Carolina Correa Londoño, 81, Colombian socialite, first lady (1953–1957).
* Florence Halop, 63, American actress, lung cancer.
* Iain Hamilton, 66, Scottish journalist.
* Billy Haughton, 62, American harness driver, head injury.
* Sir John Mellor, 2nd Baronet, 93, British politician, MP (1935–1955).
* Benny Rubin, 87, American actor and comedian, heart attack.
* Alfonso Thiele, 66, American-Italian racing driver.

### 16

* Joseph T. Bayly, 66, American author and publishing executive.
* Vasudeo Sitaram Bendrey, 92, Indian author and historian.
* Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby, 86, British politician, MP (1924–1958) and member of the House of Lords (since 1958), heart attack.
* A. S. Conception, 58, Indian actor and singer.
* James Aloysius Coolahan, 83, American jurist.
* Stephen Coulter, 71, British novelist.
* Dick Crawshaw, Baron Crawshaw of Aintree, 68, British politician, MP (1964–1983).
* David Max Eichhorn, 80, American rabbi, heart attack.
* Carlo Martini, 72, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
* Thomas Edwin Nevin, 79, Irish physicist.
* Bob O'Dea, 56, New Zealand rugby player.
* Bill Rohr, 68, American basketball coach.
* Robert C. Rusack, 60, American Anglican prelate, heart attack.
* Charles E. Thompson, 97, American politician, member of the Mississippi Senate (1916–1920).
* Claire Watson, 59, American singer, brain cancer.
* Jerrold R. Zacharias, 81, American physicist.

### 17

* Nicholas Ashton, 81, English cricketer.
* Alexandru Badea, 48, Romanian footballer.
* René de La Croix de Castries, 77, French historian.
* Cleo Davis, 67, American musician.
* Louis Gardet, 81, French historian and Roman Catholic priest.
* Gordon Gibson Sr., 81, Canadian politician.
* Pierre Langlais, 76, French soldier, suicide by jumping.
* Tom MacKay, 75, Australian rules footballer.
* Norma Moreno Figueroa, 24, Mexican journalist, shot.
* Kurt Nielsen, 61, Danish footballer.
* George M. O'Brien, 69, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1973), prostate cancer.
* Oevaang Oeray, 63, Indonesian politician.
* Edward E. Willey, 76, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (since 1952), complications from a stroke.

### 18

* Buddy Baer, 71, American boxer and actor.
* Allan R. Bosworth, 84, American author.
* Robert Cover, 42, American law scholar, heart attack.
* Margaret Crum, 65, British musicologist.
* Maiju Gebhard, 89, Finnish inventor (dish drying cabinet).
* J. Lister Holmes, 95, American architect.
* Emil Nofal, 59–60, South African filmmaker.
* Sir Stanley Rous, 91, English football referee, president of FIFA (1961–1974), leukemia.
* Flora Payne Whitney, 88, American artist.
* Don Wilkerson, 53–54, American saxophonist.
* Richard Wootton, 80, Australian cricketer.

### 19

* Andre the Seal, 25, American harbor seal.
* Alfredo Binda, 83, Italian racing cyclist.
* James Jewett Carnes, 86, American soldier.
* Daniel L. Fapp, 82, American cinematographer (The Great Escape, West Side Story).
* Česlovas Gedgaudas, 77, Soviet Lithuanian diplomat.
* Glenn Graham, 82, American Olympic pole vaulter (1924).
* Noel Hazzard, 62, Australian rugby league player.
* Alfred Leopold Luongo, 65, American jurist.
* Margaret Schlauch, 87, American-Polish historian.
* Harold Schuster, 83, American film director.
* Murray Vaughan, 87, Canadian philanthropist.

### 20

* Joan Bennett, 90, British literary scholar.
* Helen Craig, 74, American actress, cardiac arrest.
* Liviu Damian, 51, Romanian writer.
* Eric Donaldson, 86, Australian rules footballer.
* Sam Gary, 69, American blues musician.
* Héctor Guerrero, 59, Mexican Olympic basketball player (1948, 1952).
* Bo Molenda, 81, American NFL football player.
* Bill Steinecke, 79, American Major League baseball player.

### 21

* José Avelino, 95, Filipino politician.
* Ion Caraion, 63, Romanian poet.
* Cyrus Hashemi, 47, Iranian arms dealer, leukemia.
* Kenneth Holland, 75, English cricketer.
* John J. Livingood, 83, American physicist.
* Ernest Maas, 94, American screenwriter.
* Timothy O'Connor, 79, Irish politician, TD (1961–1981).
* Zhang Yuzhe, 84, Chinese astronomer.

### 22

* Aurelian Andreescu, 44, Romanian singer, heart attack.
* Ted Baker, 85, Australian rules footballer.
* Ren-Chang Ching, 88, Chinese botanist.
* Edward Garmatz, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1973).
* Jacques Gelman, 75–77, Russian-born Mexican film producer.
* Floyd Gottfredson, 81, American comic book cartoonist.
* Ede Staal, 44, Dutch musician, cancer.

### 23

* Adolfo Baloncieri, 88, Italian footballer.
* Benny Benack, 64, American jazz musician.
* Karel Kváček, 74, Czech Olympic wrestler (1936).
* Billy Joe Mantooth, 35, American NFL football player, traffic collision.
* Sir Bryan Matthews, 80, British physiologist.
* Carlos Humberto Rodríguez Quirós, 76, Costa Rican Roman Catholic prelate.
* Don Seymour, 70, Australian rules footballer.
* Kazimierz Sikorski, 91, Polish composer.
* Mavis Sweeney, 76–77, Australian pharmacist.
* Sylvanus A. Tyler, 71, American mathematician.
* Sofia W. D., 61, Indonesian actress and film director.

### 24

* Bernie Bradley, 76, American sports coach.
* Clarence Garlow, 75, American musician.
* Jim Gordon, 77, Australian soldier, VC recipient.
* Urban Hansen, 77, Danish politician.
* Lee Hepner, 65, Canadian conductor.
* Willy Kaiser, 74, German Olympic boxer (1936).
* Hindo Kasimov, 51, Bulgarian actor.
* Gertrude W. Klein 92, American politician, member of the New York City Council (1942-1945).
* Karl Kühn, 82, Austrian Olympic cyclist (1936).
* Jayadevi Taayi Ligade, 74, Indian poet.
* Fritz Albert Lipmann, 87, German-American biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1953).
* Laurie Nash, 76, Australian rules footballer and cricketer.
* Karel Nedobitý, 80, Czechoslovak Olympic runner (1924, 1928).
* Fernand Pouillon, 74, French architect.
* Qudrat Ullah Shahab, 69, Pakistani writer.
* Trần Văn Chương, 88, South Vietnamese diplomat, strangled.
* Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, 82, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1928, 1932), stroke.

### 25

* John Coldham, 85, English cricketer.
* Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph, 71, Ghanaian jurist.
* Eric Hawkey, 77, Australian Anglican prelate.
* Ted Lyons, 85, American Hall of Fame Major League baseball player and manager (Chicago White Sox).
* Vincente Minnelli, 83, American film director.
* Thomas Moone, 77, American Olympic ice hockey player (1936).
* Alison Parrott, 11, Canadian murder victim.

### 26

* Frederick W. Ford, 76, American government official, chairman of the FCC (1960–1961).
* Bill Gore, 74, American chemical engineer.
* W. Averell Harriman, 94, American politician, governor of New York (1955–1958), U.S. secretary of commerce (1946–1948).
* Heinz Lazek, 74, Austrian-German boxer.
* Gerda Madsen, 84, Danish actress.
* Dominique Mbonyumutwa, 65, Rwandan politician, interim president (1961).
* Mubarak, 77, Indian actor and film director.
* Ervin Mueller, 81, American politician.
* Sukarno M. Noor, 54, Indonesian actor.
* Boris Režek, 77, Slovenian Olympic skier (1928).
* Webb Schultz, 88, American Major League baseball player.
* Edwin DeHaven Steel Jr., 82, American jurist.
* Ken Watson, 81, Canadian curler.
* Frederick S. Wight, 84, American painter.

### 27

* Margarita Argúas, 83, Argentine lawyer.
* Henry Bridges, 70, American saxophonist.
* Anna Sofie Boesen Dreijer, 87, Danish costume designer.
* Kenn Duncan, 57, American dance photographer
* Louise Fluke, 86, American art teacher, designed the flag of Oklahoma.
* Bud Hafey, 73, American Major league baseball player.
* LeRoy Holmes, 72, American musician.
* Hitoshi Kihara, 92, Japanese geneticist.
* Sir Osbert Lancaster, 77, English cartoonist.
* Nan McKay, 93, Canadian librarian.
* Dorothea Neff, 83, Austrian actress.

### 28

* John Alcott, 55, English cinematographer, heart attack.
* William C. Andrews, 85, British art director.
* Karel Aubroeck, 91, Belgian sculptor.
* Jim Braxton, 37, American NFL football player, lung cancer.
* Syd Curnow, 78, South African cricketer.
* William Robert Johnson, 67, American prelate.
* Edmund Kolanowski, 38, Polish serial killer, execution by hanging.
* Ernst Leuenberger, 85, Swiss trade unionist.
* Yvan Leyvraz, 31–32, Swiss humanitarian (Solidar Suisse), shot.
* Cristóbal Martí, 83, Spanish footballer.
* Cliff Melton, 74, American Major League baseball player.
* Joe Oeschger, 94, American Major League baseball player.
* Bruce Irving Rankin, 67–68, Canadian diplomat.
* Karl-Heinrich Schulz, 80, German general.
* Annemarie Selinko, 71, Austrian novelist.
* Sir Frank Simpson, 87, British general.

### 29

* Richard David Barnett, 77, British archaeologist.
* Ford Brand, 81–82, Canadian politician.
* Vittorio Chierroni, 69, Italian Olympic skier (1936, 1948).
* David Cooper, 54–55, South African psychiatrist.
* Deng Jiaxian, 62, Chinese physicist.
* Nello Falaschi, 73, American NFL football player.
* Philip Holligan, 88, British flying ace.
* Joe Kopcha, 80, American NFL football player.
* Erkki Leikola, 85, Finnish politician.
* Gordon Mills, 51, British songwriter ("It's Not Unusual") and music manager, stomach cancer.
* Werner Pinzner, 39, German contract killer, suicide by gunshot.
* Michael M. Sacher, 68, British business executive.
* Idris Suleymanov, 71, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier.

### 30

* Idrees Baig, 74–75, Pakistani cricket umpire.
* Stuart Bergsma, 85, American physician and missionary.
* Sir Clarence Bird, 101, British general.
* Câmara Cascudo, 87, Brazilian anthropologist.
* Pina Cipriotto, 75, Italian Olympic gymnast (1936).
* Bill Clark, 60, American drummer.
* James Crockett, 76, American soccer player.
* John N. Dalton, 55, American politician, governor of Virginia (1978–1982), lung cancer.
* Ray Hayes, 80, American NBL basketball player.
* Mickey Heath, 82, American Major League baseball player.
* Bill Jones, 65, Australian rules footballer.
* Alistair Knox, 74, Australian architect.
* Konstantine Lortkipanidze, 81, Soviet Georgian writer.
* William Saunders, 71, American jockey, cancer.
* Lou Sino, 55, American trombonist.
* Gaffney Smith, 81–82, American football player.
* Alfred Wilcox, 66, English cricketer.

### 31

* Mac Aldrich, 85, American football player.
* John Anderson, 42, American racing driver, traffic collision.
* Enric Casals, 94, Spanish musician.
* Lea Davidova-Medene, 65, Soviet Latvian sculptor.
* Henri Elby, 67, French politician.
* Stanley Ellin, 69, American writer.
* John C. Houlihan, 75, American politician.
* Iustin, 76, Romanian Orthodox prelate, patriarch (since 1977).
* Diana King, 67, English actress, cancer.
* Bill Loika, 64, American football coach, cancer.
* Chiune Sugihara, 86, Japanese diplomat and humanitarian.
* Ludwig Wessely, 82, Austrian Olympic hurdler (1928).
* Teddy Wilson, 73, American pianist, stomach cancer.
* Harold Woolley, Baron Woolley, 81, British unionist and life peer.