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

## May 1986
### 1

* Hylda Baker, 81, English actress and comedian, pneumonia.
* John Bartlett, 40, New Zealand botanist.
* Reg Boyle, 83, Australian rules footballer.
* Dennis Emery, 52, English footballer.
* Heinrich Fraenkel, 88, Polish-British screenwriter and biographer.
* Mirrie Hill, 96, Australian composer.
* Mirko Javornik, 76, Slovenian writer.
* Arthur Lipsett, 49, Canadian filmmaker, suicide.
* Alastair McIntyre, 59, British film editor, complications from a stroke.
* Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, 87, American children's author.
* Hugo Peretti, 69, American songwriter.
* Sir James Ramsay, 69, Australian politician.
* Millicent Silver, 80, English harpsichordist.
* Alfredo Varela Jr., 73, Mexican screenwriter.
* Ed Wells, 85, American Major League baseball player.

### 2

* Sir Marcus Beeck, 62, Australian farmer and business executive.
* Wallace Bishop, 80, American drummer.
* W. Sheffield Cowles, 87, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1948–1956).
* Sergio Cresto, 30, American racing driver, car explosion.
* William Edward Doyle, 75, American jurist.
* Georgy Gause, 75, Soviet biologist.
* Edwin Genung, 78, American Olympic middle-distance runner (1932).
* Edwin Sherbon Hills, 79, Australian geologist.
* Wilfrid Kidson, 79, South African cricketer.
* Lotte Brand Philip, 75, German art historian.
* Edward Righton Jr, 73, English cricketer.
* Violet Rucroft, 83, New Zealand conservationist.
* Gertrud Theiler, 88, South African parasitologist.
* Henri Toivonen, 29, Finnish racing driver, car explosion.
* Jan Wojciechowski, 81, Polish footballer.

### 3

* Robert Alda, 72, American actor.
* Carlton W. Barrett, 66, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
* Ed Courtney Jr., 80, Australian rugby league footballer.
* Clarence Drouillard, 72, Canadian National Hockey League player (Detroit Red Wings).
* Nicolò Nicolosi, 73, Italian footballer.
* Royce S. Pitkin, 84, American academic administrator.
* Wang Li, 85, Chinese linguist.

### 4

* Kotti Chave, 74, Finnish-born Swedish actor.
* Richard Daniel, 85, German general.
* Jean Gagé, 83, French historian.
* Paul Magnus Gross, 90, American chemist.
* Enzo Liberti, 60, Italian actor, complications from heart surgery.
* Hugh Luby, 72, American baseball player.
* Benjamin Muse, 88, American politician and journalist, member of the Virginia Senate (1936).
* Paul Richards, 77, American Major League baseball player, heart attack.
* Romeo Rivers, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, 89, American journalist.
* James Allen Vann, 46, American historian.

### 5

* Louis Betbeder Matibet, 84, French chess master.
* Joe Childress, 52, American NFL football player, cancer.
* Bill Cook, 90, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, cancer.
* Emygdio de Barros, 90–91, Brazilian painter.
* Käthe Haack, 88, German actress.
* Knud Hvidberg, 58, Danish artist.
* René Joffroy, 70, French archaeologist.
* Sully Kothmann, 53, American Olympic figure skater (1956).
* Billy Mackel, 73, American guitarist.
* Louis Betbeder Matibet, 84, French chess player.
* Satrio, 69, Indonesian military doctor and politician.
* John Austin Victoreen, 83, American physicist.
* George White, 81, Australian politician.
* Julia Wojciechowska, 71, Polish Olympic gymnast (1936).

### 6

* Fred C. Cole, 74, American librarian, heart failure.
* Albert Ernest Forsythe, 89, American aviator.
* Giuseppe Giaccone, 85, Italian footballer.
* Lorenzo Minio-Paluello, 78, Italian linguist and translator.
* Jack Rickards, 57, Zimbabwean Olympic sports shooter (1964).
* Héctor Ruiz Martínez, 42, Puerto Rican politician.
* Sri Sabaratnam, 33, Sri Lankan militant (Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization), shot.
* Len Schulte, 69, American Major League baseball player.
* Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, 92, Soviet weapon designer (SKS).
* Stefan Sznuk, 89–90, Polish-Canadian aviator.
* Toralf Westermoen, 71, Norwegian boat designer.

### 7

* Laura Alves, 64, Portuguese actress.
* Ferdinand Bruhin, 77, Swiss footballer.
* Charlie Colombo, 65, American soccer player.
* Florence Dagmar, 90, American actress.
* Gaston Defferre, 75, French politician.
* Cornelia Johanna de Vogel, 81, Dutch classical scholar and theologian.
* Jean-Pierre Hagnauer, 73, French Olympic ice hockey player (1936).
* Peter Haworth, 96–97, British-born Canadian painter.
* André Jubelin, 79, French naval admiral.
* Robert A. Lovett, 90, American politician, secretary of defense (1951–1953).
* Al Mooney, 80, American aircraft designer.
* Jeffrey Mylett, 36, American actor and songwriter, AIDS.
* Juan Nakpil, 86, Filipino architect.
* Jonas Persson, 72, Swedish Olympic cyclist (1936).
* Alfredo Pezzana, 93, Italian Olympic fencer (1936).
* Edward Root, 83, Australian rugby league player.
* Selman Selmanagić, 81, Bosnian-German architect.
* Herma Szabo, 84, Austrian Olympic figure skater (1924).
* Haldun Taner, 71, Turkish playwright, heart attack.
* George Weaver, 77, Canadian politician, MP (1949–1957).

### 8

* Ernle Bradford, 64, British historian.
* Melanija Bugarinović, 80, Yugoslav singer.
* Erwin Chamberlain, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Ivan Corry, 78, Australian rules footballer.
* Eugenie Gershoy, 85, American artist.
* R. M. Jackson, 82, British jurist.
* Majid Salek Mahmoudi, 33, Iranian serial killer, suicide by hanging.
* Raffaele Nasi, 76, Italian Olympic skier (1936).
* Richard W. Richards, 91, Australian physicist.
* Manny Shinwell, 101, British politician, MP (1922–1924, 1928–1931, 1935–1970).
* Leland Stark, 78, American Anglican prelate.
* Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach, 48, German socialite, oral cancer.

### 9

* Mikhail Alpatov, 83, Soviet historian and art theorist.
* Nelson Ball, 77, New Zealand rugby player.
* Herschel Bernardi, 62, American actor (Arnie, Peter Gunn, Fiddler on the Roof), heart attack.
* Mirosław Bojanowicz, 79–80, Polish-British philatelist.
* Peter Jackson, 80, English footballer.
* Eana Jeans, 95, New Zealand painter.
* Thomas Liao, 76, Taiwanese politician.
* Colin Lyman, 72, English footballer.
* Tenzing Norgay, 71, Nepalese-Indian mountaineer (1953 British Mount Everest expedition), cerebral hemorrhage.
* Alden Pasche, 75, American basketball coach.

### 10

* Aleksandr Akimov, 33, Soviet engineer, acute radiation syndrome.
* Al Burruss, 58, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives (since 1964), pancreatic cancer.
* Wilbur Hogg, 69, American Anglican prelate.
* Anna Kamieńska, 66, Polish writer.
* Lillian Kasindorf Kavey, 96, American banker and activist.
* Tagir Kusimov, 77, Soviet general.
* Leopoldo Ruiz, 59, Argentine golfer.
* Gregory Ryan, 73, Australian cricketer.
* Josimo Morais Tavares, 32–33, Brazilian Roman Catholic priest, homicide.
* John Wheatley, 59, American physicist.
* Charles "Hungry" Williams, 51, American drummer, Paget's disease of bone.

### 11

* Edoardo Anton, 76, Italian filmmaker.
* Jimmy Hines, 82, American golfer.
* Viktor Kibenok, 23, Soviet firefighter, acute radiation syndrome.
* Gerry H. Kisters, 67, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
* Kilby MacDonald, 72, Canadian NHL ice hockey player.
* Walter K. Martinez, 55, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1966–1984), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Henry Plumer McIlhenny, 75, American art curator and connoisseur.
* Fritz Pollard, 92, American NFL football player and coach.
* Volodymyr Pravyk, 23, Soviet firefighter, acute radiation syndrome.

### 12

* Helge Akre, 83, Norwegian diplomat.
* Sofía Álvarez Vignoli, 86, Uruguayan jurist, first lady (1976).
* Elisabeth Bergner, 88, Austrian-British actress, cancer.
* Mary deGarmo Bryan, 94, American dietician.
* Harold W. Clark, 94, American creationist.
* Albert Cooper, 75, British politician, MP (1950–1966, 1970–1974).
* Joseph Fadahunsi, 84–85, Nigerian politician.
* Fred Kormis, 91, German sculptor.
* Eleanor Frances Lattimore, 81, American writer.
* William Harrington Leahy, 81, American naval admiral.
* Wanda Jean Mays, 26, American missing persons case, fall.
* Alicia Moreau de Justo, 100, Argentine social activist and politician.
* Ramon Muller, 51, Argentine footballer.
* Bill Nairn, 73, Canadian football player.
* Reuben Harold Tweten, 87, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1947–1956).

### 13

* Alexander Archdale, 80, British-Australian actor.
* Maria Bellonci, 83, Italian writer.
* George Gaines, 52, American set decorator.
* Vasily Ignatenko, 25, Soviet firefighter, acute radiation syndrome.
* Robert LeFevre, 74, American libertarian autarchist activist.
* Peadar O'Donnell, 93, Irish politician, TD (1923–1927).

### 14

* Janne Aikala, 10, Finnish murder victim.
* Solomon Blatt Sr., 91, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (since 1932).
* Henry E. Eccles, 87, American naval admiral.
* Pierino Favalli, 72, Italian racing cyclist.
* Fuang Jotiko, 70–71, Thai Buddhist monk.
* William Lindsay, 40, British actor.
* Norma Millay, 91–92, American singer and actress.
* Frank O'Rourke, 92, Canadian-American Major League baseball player.
* Mose Rager, 75, American guitarist.
* Joe Sparma, 44, American Major League baseball player, complications from heart surgery.
* Nelson Stacy, 64, American racing driver.
* C. H. V. Sutherland, 78, English numismatist.
* Leonid Toptunov, 25, Soviet electrical engineer, acute radiation syndrome.
* Tom Turner, 69, American Major League baseball player.
* Steef van Musscher, 84, Dutch Olympic jumper (1928).
* Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis, 84, Dutch botanist.
* Robert Zielinski, 84, American football player.

### 15

* Constantine John Alexopoulos, 79, American mycologist.
* John F. Bassett, 47, Canadian tennis player and businessman, brain cancer.
* Hel Braun, 71, German mathematician.
* Elio de Angelis, 28, Italian racing driver, smoke inhalation.
* Johnny Gottselig, 80, Russian-born NHL American ice hockey player.
* Rose Lokissim, 30–31, Chadian soldier, shot.
* Mieczysław Palus, 64, Polish ice hockey player.
* Shirley Leon Quimby, 92, American physicist.
* Sir Maxwell Richmond, 85, New Zealand naval admiral.
* Willie Telfer, 77, Scottish footballer.
* Luis Torres Nadal, 42, Puerto Rican playwright and theatre director, homicide.
* Bill Tricklebank, 70, New Zealand cricketer.
* Theodore H. White, 71, American political journalist, stroke.

### 16

* Anton Banko, 58, Slovenian inventor and engineer.
* Lothar Beutel, 84, German soldier.
* Joe Bootham, 74, New Zealand painter.
* Ralph Eaton, 87, American soldier, United States Army officer.
* Ronald Robson, 73, South African cricketer.
* Mykola Tytenok, 23, Soviet firefighter, acute radiation syndrome.
* John H. Yancey, 68, American soldier.

### 17

* John Gibson, 37, American actor, plane crash.
* Freddie Jakeman, 66, English cricketer.
* Masaji Kitano, 91, Japanese general, physician, and war criminal (Unit 731).
* Preben Lundgren Kristensen, 62, Danish Olympic cyclist (1952).
* Roberts Pakalns, 74, Soviet Latvian footballer.
* Lyudmila Pakhomova, 39, Soviet Olympic ice dancer (1976), leukemia.
* Jack Waldman, 33, American musician, lymphoma.

### 18

* Charles Albertine, 57, American composer.
* Robert Page Arnot, 95, British journalist.
* Gustl Berauer, 73, Czechoslovak skier.
* John W. Bubbles, 84, American tap dancer and actor.
* Yaşar Erkan, 75, Turkish Olympic wrestler (1936).
* Gianni Gambi, 78, Italian Olympic swimmer (1928).
* Giuseppe Lazzati, 76, Italian Roman Catholic priest and politician.
* Louis L. Madsen, 78, American academic administrator.
* John Guthrie Paterson, 84, Australian politician.
* James Phemister, 93, Scottish geologist.
* Kanuri Lakshmana Rao, 83, Indian politician, MP (1962–1977).
* Peter Wehle, 72, Austrian actor.
* Spades Wood, 77, American Major League baseball player.
* Zé Luiz, 56, Brazilian basketball player and Olympian.

### 19

* Howard Benge, 72, New Zealand rower.
* George Boyes, 75, South African cricketer.
* Joe Greenwald, 97, American Olympic equestrian (1920).
* Jimmy Lyons, 54, American saxophonist, lung cancer.
* Sarath Muttetuwegama, 68, Sri Lankan politician.
* Bernard Naylor, 78, English-Canadian composer.
* Tibor Nyilas, 71, Hungarian-born American Olympic fencer (1948).
* Knut Rød, 85, Norwegian police officer and Nazi collaborator.
* Len Stansbridge, 67, English footballer.
* Leonard Trent, 71, New Zealand aviator.
* Behçet Uz, 92–93, Turkish politician.
* Titus Vibe-Müller, 73, Norwegian film director.

### 20

* Helen Belyea, 73, Canadian geologist.
* Clyde Bernhardt, 80, American trombonist.
* Karol Olgierd Borchardt, 81, Polish naval captain and writer.
* Danielle Chenard, 28, Canadian Olympic handball player (1976).
* Evo Anton DeConcini, 85, American jurist.
* Gordon Hickman Garland, 88, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1937–1943).
* Frank McMahon, 83, Canadian oil executive.
* Fritz Moegle, 69, Austrian art director.
* Melvin R. Novick, 53, American statistician.
* James O'Keeffe, 73–74, Irish politician, TD (1961–1965).
* Dudley Spurling, 72, Bermudian politician and Olympic swimmer (1936).
* Helen B. Taussig, 87, American cardiologist, traffic collision.
* Pim van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout, 93, Dutch politician and diplomat.
* Robert Wood, 61, American television executive.

### 21

* Heather Baden-Powell, 70, English secretary.
* Kenny Carter, 25, British motorcycle racer, suicide by gunshot.
* Ralph Evinrude, 78, American businessman.
* Yetta Dorothea Geffen, 94, American musician and journalist.
* Juozas Grušas, 84, Soviet Lithuanian writer.
* Viggo Jørgensen, 86, Danish Olympic footballer (1920).
* Mary Kawena Pukui, 91, American writer.

### 22

* Umar al-Tilmisani, 81, Egyptian Islamist (Muslim Brotherhood).
* James "Lugs" Branigan, 76, Irish boxer.
* George Chapman, 82, Australian cricketer.
* Renaat Demoen, 71, Belgian cartoonist.
* George Forrest, 81, Scottish-Canadian soccer player.
* Martin Gabel, 74, American actor and filmmaker, heart attack.
* Desmond Gillespie, 74, Northern Irish politician.
* James Gentle, 81, American soccer player.
* Lol Hamlett, 69, English footballer.
* Lon Hatherell, 55, Australian rugby player.
* Hisatora Kumagai, 82, Japanese filmmaker.
* Gordon Nell, 78, American baseball player.
* Georgie Nokes, 49, American actor.
* Avery Rockefeller, 82, American investment banker and conservationist, heart attack.
* Yechezkel Taub, 90, Polish-Israeli rabbi.
* Lady Gwen Thompson, 57, American writer.
* Harvey Uhlenhopp, 70, American jurist.
* Archie Van Winkle, 61, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
* Charles F. Voegelin, 80, American linguist.

### 23

* Gerald Covey, 58, Canadian Olympic canoer (1948).
* Henri de La Bastide, 69, French writer.
* William J. Garsoe, 68, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives (1973–1980).
* Emma Genevieve Gillette, 88, American conservationist.
* Edward Hart, 74–75, Scottish physician.
* Sterling Hayden, 70, American actor (Dr. Strangelove, The Killing, The Asphalt Jungle), prostate cancer.
* Lloyd Hulbert, 67, American botanist.
* William Johnston, 71, British Anglican prelate.
* Henry Arnold Karo, 82, American naval admiral.
* Hugh McMullen, 84, American Major League baseball player.
* Archie Sam, 71, American Natchez leader.
* August Schaffer, 80, Austrian Olympic cyclist (1928).
* Altiero Spinelli, 78, Italian politician, MEP (since 1979).
* George Thompson, 79, Australian rules footballer.
* Movlid Visaitov, 72, Soviet soldier.
* Elena Žalinkevičaitė-Petrauskienė, 85, Soviet Lithuanian actress.

### 24

* Gunnar Björnstrand, 76, Swedish actor.
* Yakima Canutt, 90, American actor and stuntman, cardiac arrest.
* Mick Cossey, 51, New Zealand rugby player.
* Margit Dajka, 78, Hungarian actress.
* Tommy Dea, 77, Australian rules footballer.
* Rich Ferguson, 54, Canadian runner.
* Erich Gerberding, 64, German actor.
* Eduardo González-Gallarza, 88, Spanish general and politician.
* George Gordon, 79, American animator.
* Chris Graham, 86, Canadian Olympic boxer (1920).
* Robert Holmes, 60, British scriptwriter.
* Sam B. Holt, 83, American sports coach.
* Fazlul Karim, 80, Bangladeshi politician and lawyer.
* Władysław Masłowski, 52, Polish journalist.
* Gord Pettinger, 74, British-born Canadian ice hockey player.
* Henry Power, 81, Australian rules footballer.
* Arthur Rubloff, 83, American real estate developer.
* John Santall, 78, English cricketer.
* Stephen D. Thorne, 33, American aviator, plane crash.
* Eva Waldemarsson, 82, Swedish writer.

### 25

* Nisson Alpert, 58, Polish-born American rabbi.
* Guy Amsler, 90, American attorney.
* Carlo Betocchi, 87, Italian poet.
* Chester B. Bowles, 85, American politician and diplomat, governor of Connecticut (1949–1951), member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–1961), Parkinson's disease.
* Louella E. Cable, 85, American ichthyologist.
* Árpád Lajtos, 75, Hungarian soldier.
* Rolf Lauer, 54, German Olympic gymnast (1952).
* Owen Hood Phillips, 78, British jurist.
* Shrikant Verma, 54, Indian politician and poet.
* John Verney, 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke, 90, British hereditary peer.

### 26

* Vitaly Abalakov, 80, Soviet inventor and mountaineer.
* Peggy Ann Clifford, 65, English actress.
* Gian-Carlo Coppola, 22, American film producer and actor, boating accident.
* Glynn R. Donaho, 81, American naval admiral, pneumonia.
* Godfrey Higgs, 78, Bahamian Olympic sailor (1952).
* James J. Y. Liu, 59–60, Chinese-American literary scholar.

### 27

* Bernard Ades, 82, American attorney and civil rights activist.
* Chris Anderson, 60, Scottish footballer and football administrator.
* Ismail al-Faruqi, 65, Palestinian-American philosopher, stabbed.
* Lois Lamya al-Faruqi, 59, American art scholar, stabbed.
* Chris Anderson, 60, Scottish footballer, motor neurone disease.
* Tsendiin Damdinsüren, 77, Mongolian writer and linguist.
* Henry Dreyer, 75, American Olympic hammer thrower (1936, 1948).
* Harry Easton Godwin, 78, American musical scholar.
* Jaakko Kunnas, 82, Finnish Olympic gymnast (1928).
* Ajoy Mukherjee, 85, Indian politician.
* Jaideva Singh, 92, Indian musicologist.
* Johnny Sisk, 79, American NFL football player.
* Limmie Snell, 37, American singer, renal failure.
* Giorgos Tzifos, 67–68, Greek actor.
* Charles Bierer Wrightsman, 90, American oil executive.

### 28

* Marguerite Courtot, 88, American actress.
* Taylor Douthit, 85, American Major League baseball player.
* Bill Findlay, 72, Australian rules footballer.
* Paul Florence, 86, American Major League baseball player.
* Gunnar Hägg, 82, Swedish chemist.
* Lea Ivanova, 62, Bulgarian jazz singer.
* Don MacLaughlin, 79, American actor.
* Borislav Milić, 60, Yugoslav chess player.
* Archibald Hugh Mitchell, 82, Canadian politician, MP (1935–1940).
* Lurene Tuttle, 78, American actress, cancer.

### 29

* Alena Aladava, 79, Soviet Belarusian art historian and curator.
* Nicole Algan, 61, French sculptor.
* Onelio Jorge Cardoso, 72, Cuban filmmaker.
* José Luis Carreño, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic priest.
* Mary Davidson, 83–84, Irish politician.
* Inge Landgut, 63, German actress.
* Thomas C. Lynch, 82, American lawyer.
* Adriaan A. van der Willigen, 76, Dutch philatelist.

### 30

* Richard Armstrong, 82, English writer.
* José de Caralt, 79, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (1928).
* Perry Ellis, 46, American fashion designer, AIDS.
* Boy Gobert, 60, German actor.
* Donald S. Klopfer, 84, American publisher (Random House).
* Gulshan Mehra, 49, Indian cricketer.
* Hank Mobley, 55, American saxophonist, pneumonia.
* Teiichiro Morinaga, 75, Japanese banker and businessman.

### 31

* Sylvia Coleridge, 76, British actress.
* Roger W. Cutler Jr., 70, American Olympic rower (1936).
* Jane Frank, 67, American artist.
* Great Nephew, 22–23, British Thoroughbred racehorse.
* Florence Elsie Inman, 94, Canadian politician, complications from a heart attack.
* T. R. Mahalingam, 59, Indian flautist, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Dixie McArthur, 94, American Major League baseball player.
* Ron Neville, 56, Australian-born Papua New Guinean politician, traffic collision.
* James Rainwater, 68, American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1975).
* Albert Reed Jr., 64, American actor.
* Dora Russell, 92, British author and feminist.
* Patrick Shea, 78, Northern Irish civil servant.
* Hugh Webster, 58, Scottish-born Canadian actor.
* Michel Wyder, 36, Swiss racing driver, racing collision.