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

## June 1986
### 1

* Dame Margaret Blackwood, 77, Australian botanist and geneticist.
* Emery Blagdon, 78, American artist.
* Jo Gartner, 32, Austrian racing driver, racing crash.
* Alex Gorgal, 86, Polish-born American NFL football player.
* Manuel Gouveia, 62, Portuguese Olympic gymnast (1952).
* Ernst Hack, 39, Austrian Olympic wrestler (1972).
* Mason Hoffenberg, 63, American writer, lung cancer.
* Floyd Johnson, 85, American boxer.
* Noel Jones, 66, Australian rugby league footballer.
* Anděla Kozáková-Jírová, 89, Czech lawyer.
* Herschel Levit, 74, American artist.
* Rudolf Sonneborn, 87, American oil executive.
* George G. Tapper, 69, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1947–1951) and Senate (1953–1956, 1965).
* Charles F. Wennerstrum, 96, American jurist.
* Edmund Wood, 83, English footballer.

### 2

* Stanley Corrsin, 66, American physicist.
* T. S. Durairaj, 75, Indian filmmaker.
* Jimmy Grafton, 70, English screenwriter and theatre agent.
* Hartmann Grasser, 71, German flying ace.
* Arthur Hoérée, 89, Belgian musicologist.
* Aurèle Joliat, 84, Canadian NHL ice hockey player.
* Lya Lys, 78, German-born American actress, heart failure.
* Fay Marbe, 87, American actress.
* Wendell H. Meade, 74, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1949).
* Nanha, 43, Pakistani actor and comedian, suicide by gunshot.
* Frank D. Upchurch, 92, American politician, member of the Florida Senate (1943).
* Peter Wilson, 79, New Zealand cricketer.

### 3

* Ted Bank, 88, American football player and coach.
* Aloys Bigirumwami, 81, Rwandan Roman Catholic prelate.
* Colin English, 90, American academic administrator.
* John Gilmour, 79, British botanist.
* Grace Wyndham Goldie, 86, British television producer.
* Robert La Tourneaux, 45, American actor, AIDS.
* Max Munk, 95, German-American aerospace engineer.
* Dame Anna Neagle, 81, English actress.
* Louie De Votie Newton, 94, American Baptist leader.
* Jack Orrison, 76, American actor and screenwriter.
* Michael Taylor, 59, American interior designer.
* Frans Van Dessel, 75, Belgian footballer.
* Patricia Wheel, 60, American actress.

### 4

* Frederick Chauncy, 81, British Olympic hurdler (1928).
* Dame Helen Gardner, 78, English literary critic.
* Charles Harrison, 71, Australian politician.
* Ahmad Saeed Kazmi, 73, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
* Tom Lee, 66, American politician, member of the New Mexico Senate (1967–1978).
* Vladas Mieželis, 91, Soviet Lithuanian general.
* Clifford Mollison, 89, British actor.
* Len Scott, 79, New Zealand rugby league player.
* Paul Stevens, 65, American actor, pneumonia.

### 5

* Dolly Akers, 85, American politician.
* John Francis Bannon, 80–81, American historian.
* John Bevan, 38, Welsh rugby player, cancer.
* Fanny Buss, 76, New Zealand fashion designer.
* Robert DiBernardo, 49, American mobster (Gambino crime family), shot.
* Bryan Grant, 76, American tennis player.
* Helmut Grunsky, 81, German mathematician.
* Sybil Kennedy, 86, Canadian sculptor.
* Alexander Lipmann-Kessel, 71, South African surgeon.
* Henri Michel, 79, French historian.
* Togo Mizrahi, 85, Egyptian actor and filmmaker.
* Joe Mulligan, 72, American Major League baseball player.
* Andor Ónody, 65, Hungarian football player and manager.
* Arthur Pink, 85, Australian rules footballer.
* Ernie Roderick, 72, British boxer.
* Lisa Ullrich, 85, German politician.
* Jesse Winters, 92, American Major League baseball player.

### 6

* John Carmichael, 83, American sports journalist.
* George Fazio, 73, American golfer.
* Joseph Fischer, 77, Luxembourgish footballer.
* Dennis Grainger, 66, English footballer.
* Petrus Hugo, 68, South African flying ace.
* Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, 95, Indian writer.
* William Joynt, 97, Australian author.
* Valentyn Rechmedin, 70, Soviet Ukrainian journalist.
* Dick Rowe, 64, British record producer.
* Henry Nash Smith, 79, American literary scholar.
* Robert Stuart, 77, Argentine cricketer.
* Johnnie Tolan, 68, American racing driver.
* Ramón Torralba, 90, Spanish footballer.
* Annes Varjun, 78, Soviet Estonian ceramicist.
* Grinton I. Will, 83, American librarian.
* Tony Wright, 60, English actor.

### 7

* Lloyd M. Bradfield, 85, American football and basketball coach.
* James Fifer, 55, American Olympic rower (1956).
* Georges Halbout, 90, French sculptor.
* Brooks Holder, 71, American baseball player.
* Jan Kavan, 81, Czech sculptor.
* Morice Lipsi, 88, French sculptor.
* Ralph Pickford, 83, English psychologist.
* Pilloo Pochkhanawala, 63, Indian sculptor, cancer.
* Sara Sadíqova, 79, Soviet actress and singer.
* Taungpulu Kaba-Aye Sayadaw, 89, Burmese Buddhist monk.

### 8

* Harold Abbott, 79, Australian painter.
* Anthony Turner Andreasen, 79, British surgeon.
* Harry Frederick Baker, 81, Australian aviator and motorcycle racer.
* Thomas Burrow, 76, British Indologist.
* F. Curtis Canfield, 82, American theatre director.
* Elsa Gidlow, 87, British-born Canadian-American writer.
* Vernon Loton, 80, Australian cricketer.
* Edward Montgomery, 79, Australian politician.

### 9

* Arnaldo Benfenati, 62, Italian racing cyclist.
* Matilde Díaz Vélez, 86, Argentine philanthropist.
* Ilona Harima, 75, Finnish artist.
* Edwin Kuh, 61, American economist.
* Ernst Peschl, 79, German mathematician.
* Milton Richman, 64, American sports journalist, heart attack.
* Karl Skytte, 78, Danish politician.
* Tony Starcer, 66, American soldier and artist.
* Glan Williams, 74, British caricaturist.

### 10

* Emilio de los Santos, 82, Dominican politician, president of the Dominican Republic (1963).
* Franc Hale, 79–81, American actress.
* Merle Miller, 67, American writer.
* Edgar Petersen, 82, German fighter pilot.
* Louis Risacher, 91, French flying ace.
* Edward Sagarin, 72, American sociologist, heart attack.
* Dick Sudirman, 64, Indonesian badminton player.
* Dennis Thompson, 61, English footballer.
* Reginald Lawson Waterfield, 86, British astronomer.
* William C. White, 89, American football coach.
* Samuel Zauber, 85, Romanian footballer.

### 11

* James Amster, 77, American interior decorator, leukemia.
* Chesley Bonestell, 98, American painter.
* Marcantonio Bragadin, 79, Italian naval admiral.
* Porter Charleston, 82, American baseball player.
* Frank Cousins, 81, British politician, MP (1965–1966).
* Reed De Rouen, 69, American actor and screenwriter.
* Alfred Goulder, 78, English cricketer.
* John J. Kinzer, 95, American politician.
* Robert K. Ottum, 61, American sports journalist, cancer.
* Jim Trueman, 51, American businessman and racing team owner, colon cancer.

### 12

* Jackie Burns, 79, English footballer.
* Pierce H. Deamer Jr., 79, American politician, member of the New Jersey State Senate (1962–1966).
* Harry Hanson, 85, Swedish Olympic sailor (1928).
* Edward Henderson, 76, English Anglican prelate.
* Harry Houghton, 85, British Olympic athlete (1924, 1928).
* Zdeněk Koubek, 72, Czech track athlete.
* Geoffrey Raphael, 76, English cricketer.
* Naboua Ratieta, 48, I-Kiribati politician.
* William Byron Rumford, 78, American politician.
* Seonu Hwi, 64, South Korean novelist.
* Basil Snell, 79, British Anglican prelate.
* Murray Van Wagoner, 88, American politician, governor of Michigan (1941–1943).
* John Steven Watson, 70, English historian and academic administrator.

### 13

* Frank Abruzzino, 78, American NFL football player.
* R. Bintoro, 61, Indonesian general.
* Eugene Brodhagen, 68, American football and wrestling coach.
* Deep Diver, 17, British Thoroughbred racehorse.
* Wilfrid Eggleston, 85, British-Canadian journalist.
* Jim Ferrier, 71, Australian-American golfer.
* Benny Goodman, 77, American bandleader and swing musician, heart attack.
* Dana McLean Greeley, 77, American Unitarian leader.
* Harlan N. Hartness, 88, American general.
* John Jerome Hill, 67, American politician.
* Tom Klose, 68, Australian cricketer.
* Dean Reed, 47, American-East German singer and actor, drowned.
* Ulla Strömstedt, 46, Swedish actress.
* Carl O. Wegner, 88, American politician.
* Adam Yacenda, 70, American political advisor and newspaper publisher.

### 14

* Dimitrije Bogdanović, 55, Yugoslav historian.
* Jaap Boot, 83, Dutch Olympic athlete (1924).
* Jorge Luis Borges, 86, Argentine writer, liver cancer.
* Mushy Callahan, 80, American boxer.
* James A. Cullimore, 80, American Mormon leader.
* John Daley, 80, English cricketer.
* Joan Eyles, 78, British geologist.
* Ben Field, 85, American novelist.
* David Kalstone, 52–53, American literary critic, AIDS.
* Kim Swoo-geun, 55, South Korean architect.
* Alan Jay Lerner, 67, American lyricist, lung cancer.
* Denis McGrath, 75, New Zealand politician and lawyer.
* Norbert Nuttelman, 75, American politician.
* Giorgio Pellini, 62, Italian Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).
* Marlin Perkins, 81, American zoologist (Wild Kingdom), lymphatic cancer.
* Robert Presnell Jr., 71, American screenwriter.
* Settimio Simonini, 72, Italian racing cyclist.
* Karl Söllner, 83, Austrian-American chemist.
* Anthony Spilotro, 48, American mobster, blunt force trauma.
* Michael Spilotro, 41, American mobster, blunt force trauma.

### 15

* Choi Yong-sool, 81, South Korean martial artist, founder of Hapkido.
* Frank Dickens, 86, English biochemist.
* Francis Galtier, 79, French Olympic sprinter (1924).
* Sambhu Ghosh, 59, Indian politician.
* Willie Hoel, 65, Norwegian actor.
* William Howard Melish, 76, American social leader and Anglican priest.
* Otto Rathsman, 68, Swedish diplomat.
* Walter V. Schaefer, 81, American jurist.
* Werner Streib, 75, German flying ace.
* Keki Tarapore, 75, Indian cricketer.
* Rini Templeton, 50, American artist.
* Donald Tye, 73, American baseball player.

### 16

* Christian Beullac, 62, French politician.
* Danny Clapton, 51, English footballer.
* Lady Diana Cooper, 93, English actress and aristocrat.
* Michael Duffield, 71, English-born Australian actor.
* Maurice Duruflé, 84, French composer.
* Joe Greene, 71, American songwriter, kidney failure.
* John Hayes, 88, Australian politician.
* Léon Lippens, 74, Belgian naturalist.
* Erlendur Patursson, 72, Faroese politician.
* George Pearce, 77, English cricketer.
* Juanchín Ramírez, 80, Puerto Rican musician.
* Luisa Sala, 62, Spanish actress, choked.
* Joginder Sen, 81, Indian politician and diplomat.

### 17

* Anahareo, 79, Canadian animal rights activist.
* William Attaway, 74, American author, heart failure.
* Leonardo Borgese, 81, Italian painter.
* Prink Callison, 86, American football player and coach.
* Edward Francis Cavanagh Jr., 79, American firefighter.
* Rick Concannon, 78, American NFL football player.
* Ted J. Kent, 84, American film editor.
* Desiderio Medina, 66, Chilean footballer.
* Gilbert Raynes, 82, British Olympic gymnast (1928).
* Felipe Rosas, 76, Mexican footballer.
* Kate Smith, 79, American singer, respiratory arrest.
* Joseph Stone, Baron Stone, 83, British physician.
* Harold W. Tribble, 86, American academic administrator.
* Archie Wood, 60, Scottish footballer.
* Domingo Zaldúa, 82, Spanish footballer.

### 18

* Albert Anderson, 78, Northern Irish politician.
* Ara Bekaryan, 73, Soviet Armenian painter.
* Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 64, American writer, throat cancer.
* Walter Gilbert, 87, Canadian-American pilot.
* Sonja Johnsson, 90, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1912).
* Sidney Lens, 74, American political activist and author, melanoma.
* Khandavalli Lakshmi Ranjanam, 78, Indian writer.
* Floyd Van Nest Schultz, 75, American electrical engineer.
* Frederick Spence, 84, South African cricketer.
* Charles Twigg, 93, English-born South African cricketer.
* Jack Wagener, 81, English cricketer.

### 19

* Bentot, 65, Filipino comedian, heart failure.
* Len Bias, 22, American basketball player, cocaine overdose.
* Lindley Bothwell, 84, American agriculturalist.
* Coluche, 41, French comedian and actor, traffic collision.
* Nelson Cruikshank, 83, American labor activist.
* Antonio Díaz Martínez, 53, Peruvian communist activist, shot.
* Lidiya Khaindrova, 76, Soviet poet.
* Ryuichi Matsuda, 65, Japanese entomologist.
* Paulina Radziulytė, 81, Soviet Lithuanian-American basketball player and Olympic runner (1928).
* Jules-Jean Ravel, 85, French politician.
* Norb Sacksteder, 90, American NFL football player.
* Sir Shiu-kin Tang, 85, Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist.
* Ronald L. Thompson, 86, American politician.
* Alfred Vagts, 93, German-American historian and poet.
* William Webster, 76, English cricketer.

### 20

* Peter Boughey, 74, British special agent.
* H. G. Cochran, 62, American prison warden and politician.
* David Vivian Currie, 73, Canadian soldier.
* The Duke of Paducah, 85, American comedian and banjoist.
* Julie Duncan, 67, American actress.
* Richard Eybner, 90, Austrian actor.
* Joseph Forer, 75, American attorney.
* Tim Herbert, 71, American actor, heart attack.
* Roy Shepherd, 78–79, Australian pianist.
* Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit, 82, Dutch poet and literary historian.
* Béla Szepes, 82, Hungarian Olympic skier and athlete (1924, 1928).
* William Horace Taylor, 96, Canadian politician, MP (1926–1945).

### 21

* Ivan Burenin, 89, Soviet general.
* Cathal Coughlan, 48, Irish politician, TD (since 1983).
* Roger Drayton, 61, New Zealand politician, MP (1969–1978).
* Lloyd Espenschied, 97, American electrical engineer.
* Georges Garreau, 83, French Olympic diver (1924).
* Archduchess Margaretha of Austria, 92, Austrian royal.
* Helge Miettunen, 69, Finnish politician.
* Helmut Petri, 78, German anthropologist.
* Arnie Portocarrero, 54, American Major League baseball player.
* Assi Rahbani, 63, Lebanese musician.

### 22

* Mary Anderson, 88, American actress.
* Alpheus Deane, 69, American baseball player.
* Joséphine Thérèse Koster, 83, Dutch botanist.
* Urban Odson, 67, American NFL football player.
* William J. Scott, 59, American politician, heart attack.
* Luciano Sderci, 61, Italian violin maker.
* Rufus Stokes, 61, American mechanic and inventor, mesothelioma.
* Martin Thornton, 70, English theologian.
* Pauline Vinson, 70, American artist.
* Robert F. Young, 71, American science fiction writer.

### 23

* Geraldine Aves, 87, British civil servant and social reformist.
* Marko Čelebonović, 83, Yugoslav painter.
* Renato De Sanzuane, 61, Italian Olympic water polo player (1952).
* Alfred Paul Dorjahn, 91, American classicist.
* Sir Moses Finley, 74, American-born British classical scholar, stroke.
* Jerzy Putrament, 75, Polish writer and politician.
* Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, 78, British jurist.
* Kåre Siem, 72, Norwegian musician.
* Nigel Stock, 66, British actor.

### 24

* Mika Antić, 54, Yugoslav film director and poet.
* Liliane Barrard, 37–38, French mountaineer, hypoxia.
* Maurice Barrard, 44–45, French mountaineer, hypoxia.
* Tove Birkelund, 57, Danish geologist.
* Ray Bomba, 79, American sound editor.
* Sidney M. Cadwell, 93, American polymer scientist.
* Elwood Engel, 69, American vehicle designer.
* Thomas M. Fitzpatrick, 95, American football and basketball player and coach.
* Loy Hanning, 68, American Major League baseball player.
* James Harrison, 94, American actor.
* George Howe, 86, English actor.
* Ján Kroner, 59, Czechoslovak actor.
* Jesse Marcel, 79, American Air Force colonel, investigator of the Roswell incident.
* Ximena McGlashan, 92, American entomologist.
* Lodovico Rocca, 90, Italian composer.
* Annabelle Terhune, 82, American journalist.
* Rex Warner, 81, English classicist.
* Dennis Ziadie, 39, Jamaican footballer, traffic collision.

### 25

* Laurie Fishlock, 79, English cricketer.
* Francis J. Galbraith, 72, American diplomat.
* Kazimierz Gzowski, 84, Polish Olympic equestrian (1928).
* Gwilym Kessey, 67, Australian cricketer.
* A. J. Lockhart, 88, American baseball player.
* Gabriel Lozès, 68, Beninese politician, diplomat and physician.
* Clarence C. Mitchell, 89, American politician.
* Reinhold Münzenberg, 77, German footballer.
* Ivan Sabolić, 64, Yugoslav sculptor.
* Dame Mary Welsh, 89, British military personnel.

### 26

* Sanford Brown, 77, American politician.
* Aimé Deolet, 80, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Gong Zutong, 81, Chinese optical physicist.
* William Lovelock, 87, English composer.
* Kunio Maekawa, 81, Japanese architect.
* Ed Molinski, 68, American football player.
* Sir Jock Pagan, 72, Australian politician and businessman.
* Sid Plunkett, 65, English footballer.
* Stewart W. Proudfoot, 77, Canadian politician.
* Ruth Roach, 89–90, American rodeo equestrian.
* Charles Rogers, 84, American NFL football player and coach.
* Teiji Takai, 75, Japanese painter.
* Väino Tamm, 55, Soviet Estonian interior designer.
* Seif el-Din el-Zoubi, 72–73, Israeli politician.

### 27

* Nellie Weldon Cocroft, 100, American composer.
* Edna Mae Cooper, 85, American actress.
* Zoltán Gárdonyi, 80, Hungarian composer.
* Charles Jordan, 71, Canadian singer.
* Joe Maphis, 65, American guitarist, lung cancer.
* Jock McNaughton, 74, Scottish footballer.
* Bill Miller, 50, Australian rules footballer.
* Don Rogers, 23, American NFL football player, cocaine overdose.
* Albert Wiesener, 84, Norwegian lawyer.

### 28

* Pearly Brown, 70, American singer and guitarist.
* Haji Mohammad Danesh, 86, Bangladeshi politician.
* Gilberte Géniat, 70, French actress.
* Yvonne Hakim-Rimpel, 79–80, Haitian journalist and feminist, heart attack.
* Frank Jewett, 69, American Olympic sailor (1936).
* Marjorie Tuite, 63, American social activist, pancreatic cancer.

### 29

* Thomas Albright, 76, American baseball player.
* Mario Amaya, 52, American museum director, AIDS.
* Lako Bodra, 66, Indian writer and linguist.
* Jack Christiansen, 57, American NFL Hall of Fame player (Detroit Lions).
* Walter Early Craig, 77, American jurist.
* Robert Drivas, 50, American actor, AIDS.
* John Porter East, 55, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (since 1981), suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
* Dusolina Giannini, 83, American-Swiss singer.
* Clair L. Gleason, 63, American college sports coach (Sterling College).
* Jacques Hélian, 74, French orchestra conductor.
* Tiko Jelisavčić, 56–57, Yugoslav football player and coach.
* Wendell P. Kay, 72, American politician.
* Earl Landgrebe, 70, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1969–1975), heart attack.
* Edward D. MacArthur, 66, Canadian politician.
* Kyaw Nyein, 73, Burmese politician.
* Dan Pagis, 55, Israeli poet, cancer.
* Sir Desmond Pond, 66, British psychiatrist.
* Siddiqur Rahman, 34, Bangladeshi politician.
* Robert Ryder, 78, British politician, MP (1950–1955).
* Kenyon Taylor, 78, English electrical engineer.
* Cliff Townshend, 70, English saxophonist.
* Wirt Williams, 64, American journalist and novelist.
* Frank Wise, 89, Australian politician.

### 30

* Fernando Ansola, 46, Spanish footballer.
* Thomas Barger, 77, American geologist and businessman.
* Jack Beveridge, 79, Australian rules footballer.
* Pierre Costantini, 97, French soldier and journalist.
* Horst Förster, 66, German conductor.
* Margalo Gillmore, 89, English-born American actress, cancer.
* Guan Zilan, 83, Chinese painter.
* Roman Gul, 89, Russian-American writer.
* Soichi Ichida, 75, Japanese philatelist.
* László Lékai, 76, Hungarian Roman Catholic cardinal.
* Mauricio Magdaleno, 80, Mexican filmmaker.
* Marjorie Matthews, 70, American Methodist bishop, breast cancer.
* Juan Alberto Montes, 83, Argentine historian.
* Iris Noble, 64, Canadian-American biographer.
* Almeda Riddle, 87, American singer.
* Ernst Sabeditsch, 66, Austrian footballer.