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

## March 1986
### 1

* Valentine Britten, 83, British librarian.
* Pierre Charton, 81, French racing cyclist.
* Rosario Couture, 80, Canadian NHL ice hockey player.
* Cahir Davitt, 91, Irish judge.
* Tommy Farr, 72, Welsh boxer.
* Gerhard Meidell Gerhardsen, 73, Norwegian economist.
* Charles Hahn, 92, German Olympic rower (1920).
* Ken Holley, 66, American football player.
* Marcel Liebman, 56, Belgian political scientist.
* William Modisane, 62, South African writer.
* Harvey H. Nininger, 99, American scientist in the study of meteorites.
* Samuel Roper, 90, American Klansman and law enforcement officer.
* Ernie Rosteck, 63, American NFL football player.
* Jens Stefenson, 91, Swedish naval officer and Olympic diver (1912).
* Katherine Amelia Towle, 87, American military director and academic administrator.
* Luigi Zucchini, 70, Italian Olympic ice hockey player (1936).

### 2

* Jocko Collins, 80, American NBA basketball referee and baseball scouting agent.
* Eileen Olive Deste, 77, New Zealand photographer.
* Hymie Ginsburg, 71, American NBL basketball player.
* Frank W. Hawthorne, 85, American judge.
* W. Stuart Helm, 77, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1957–1958, 1963–1964).
* Alice Mann, 86, American actress.
* Zafer al-Masri, 45–46, Palestinian politician, shot.
* William D. Mullins, 54, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (after 1977), cancer.
* Jacob P. Nathanson, 85, Russian-born American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1927–1933).
* Cesare Polacco, 85, Italian actor.
* Edmund Port, 80, American judge.
* Jimmy Reynolds, 65, American baseball player.
* Margaret Trist, 71, Australian writer.

### 3

* Peter Capell, 73, German actor.
* Paul Castner, 89, American Major League baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
* Gordon Collins, 71, English cricketer.
* Winfield S. Cunningham, 86, American naval admiral.
* Léonard Daghelinckx, 85, Belgian Olympic cyclist (1920, 1924).
* Charles A. Halleck, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1935–1969).
* Ernst König, 77, German general.
* David Macindoe, 68, English cricketer.
* Dmitri Protopopov, 88, Soviet Tajik politician.
* Mohinder Singh Randhawa, 77, Indian historian and agriculturalist.

### 4

* Archibald Charles Barrington, 79, New Zealand peace activist.
* Ding Ling, 81, Chinese author.
* Hans Gillesberger, 76, Austrian choir director.
* Howard Greenfield, 49, American songwriter ("Love Will Keep Us Together", "(Is This the Way to) Amarillo", "Everybody's Somebody's Fool"), AIDS.
* František Hochmann, 81, Czechoslovak Olympic footballer (1924).
* Albert L. Lehninger, 69, American biochemist.
* Edward MacLysaght, 98, English-Irish genealogist.
* Richard Manuel, 42, Canadian musician (The Band), suicide by hanging.
* Leonid Meshkov, 70, Soviet Olympic swimmer (1952).
* George Owen, 84, Canadian-American NHL ice hockey player, stroke.
* Lyudmila Rudenko, 81, Soviet chess player.
* Elizabeth Smart, 72, Canadian writer.
* John Spence, 65, British politician, MP (since 1970).

### 5

* Necati Çelim, 76–77, Turkish politician.
* Franciska Clausen, 87, Danish painter.
* Grady W. Dalton, 77, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1958-1971).
* Beatrice Centner Davidson, 76–77, Canadian architect.
* Emily Benton Frith, 91, American film producer.
* Teddy Hoad, 90, Barbadian cricketer.
* Sir Basil McFarland, 88, Northern Irish politician.
* George Nelson, 77, American industrial designer.
* Bernard Rowe, 81, English Olympic wrestler (1924, 1928).
* Veikko Ruotsalainen, 77, Finnish Olympic skier (1928).
* George Smith, 71, American NBL football player.
* Helmut Thielicke, 77, German theologian.
* Notable Nigerian soldiers executed by firing squad:
** Daniel Bamidele, 36–37.
** Musa Bityonɡ.
** Mamman Jiya Vatsa, 45.

### 6

* Madhavrao Bagal, 90, Indian writer and social activist.
* Robert Bateson, 73, English RAF pilot.
* Jack Binder, 83, American comic book artist.
* Emilio de Brigard Ortiz, 97, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate.
* Eric Brown, 61, Scottish golfer, stroke.
* Adolph Caesar, 52, American actor (A Soldier's Story, The Color Purple), heart attack.
* Georgia O'Keeffe, 98, American painter.
* Orlando Paladino Orlandini, 81, Italian sculptor.
* Vahram Papazyan, 93, Ottoman-American Olympic runner (1912).
* Jerry Paulson, 50, American NBL basketball player.
* István Pelle, 78, Hungarian Olympic gymnast (1932).
* Max Shacklady, 67, English Olympic boxer (1948).
* Robert Early Strawbridge Jr., 89, American polo player.
* George Thornewell, 87, English footballer.
* Zhu Guangqian, 88, Chinese literary scholar.

### 7

* Emma Baron, 81, Italian actress.
* Olin G. Blackwell, 71, American prison warden (Alcatraz).
* Charles Catlow, 78, English cricketer.
* Wal Cherry, 53, Australian theatre director, heart disease.
* Giacomo Di Segni, 66, Italian Olympic boxer (1948, 1952).
* Robert Howland, 80, English Olympic shot putter (1928).
* Carmel Humphries, 76, Irish zoologist.
* Jacob Javits, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1954) and Senate (1957–1981), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Henry Harrison Mayes, 88, American evangelist.
* Bert Metzger, 77, American football player.
* Jimmy Moore, 82, American Major League baseball player.

### 8

* Victor Borghi, 73, Swiss Olympic skier (1948).
* T.H. Chan, 62–63, Hong Kong real estate entrepreneur.
* Hubert Fichte, 50, German novelist, AIDS.
* Kaarlo Halttunen, 76, Finnish actor.
* Hans Knecht, 72, Swiss racing cyclist.
* Moses Mabhida, 62, South African politician, heart attack.
* Kersti Merilaas, 72, Soviet Estonian poet.
* Jackie Morton, 71, English footballer.

### 9

* André Barbeau, 54, Canadian neurologist.
* Ned Calmer, 78, American journalist.
* Alex Chaplin, 94, Scottish footballer.
* James Crump, 87, American baseball player.
* Joseph-Léon Deslières, 92, Canadian politician.
* Victor Forget, 69, Canadian politician.
* Joe A. Griffiths, 75–76, Maltese footballer.
* Hannah Kudjoe, 67, Ghanaian political activist.
* John MacLean, 85, English cricketer.
* Ignác Molnár, 84, Hungarian footballer.
* Anthony Otter, 89, British Anglican prelate.
* Arthur Rude, 59, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1966–1976).
* Michael Strunge, 27, Danish poet, fall.

### 10

* Walter Blankenburg, 82, German hymnologist.
* Latham Castle, 86, American judge.
* Seydou Cissokho, 56, Senegalese politician.
* Myron Cohen, 83, Russian-born American comedian, heart attack.
* Fred Downer, 89, American baseball player.
* Heinz Emmerich, 78, German footballer.
* E. Gwyndaf Evans, 73, Welsh poet.
* Aram Haigaz, 85, Armenian-American writer.
* Magnus Colcord Heurlin, 90, American painter.
* George Horsburgh, 75, Scottish rugby player.
* Ruth Agatha Houghton, 76, American nurse.
* Yaakov Kamenetsky, 95, Russian-American rabbi.
* Franz Karasek, 61, Austrian politician.
* Dominica Legge, 80, British linguist.
* Reg Manning, 80, American cartoonist.
* Lew Mathe, 70, American bridge player.
* Ray Milland, 79, Welsh-American actor (The Lost Weekend, The Thief, The Jungle Princess), lung cancer.
* Elizabeth Monroe, 81, English historian.
* Emerson Norton, 85, American Olympic athlete (1924).

### 11

* Victor Ankarcrona, 89, Swedish Olympic equestrian (1924, 1928).
* Ari Ankorion, 77, Russian-Israeli politician.
* Pat Barlow, 71, Irish footballer.
* Mai Clifford, 72, Irish trade unionist.
* Georg-Peter Eder, 65, German flying ace.
* Henry Friendly, 82, American judge, suicide by drug overdose.
* Ricardo Frione, 75, Uruguayan footballer.
* Lurline Hook, 70–71, Australian diver.
* Sherman Kent, 82, American intelligence analyst and historian.
* Heinrich Lützenkirchen, 76, German politician.
* Giuseppe Moruzzi, 75, Italian neuroscientist.
* Herbert Runge, 73, German Olympic boxer (1936).
* Shwe Done Bi Aung, 80, Burmese filmmaker.
* Heinz Eberhard Strüning, 89, German painter.
* Sonny Terry, 74, American blues musician.
* Michel Van Vaerenbergh, 66, Belgian footballer.
* Onslow Whitford, 62, New Zealand cricketer.
* Václav Zavázal, 65, Czech Olympic sports shooter (1960).

### 12

* Ruth Abrams, 73–74, American painter.
* Percy Birtchnell, 75, British historian, heart attack.
* Richard Declerck, 86, Belgian politician.
* Fred Hancock, 67, American Major League baseball player.
* Claude L. Harrison, 99, Canadian politician.
* Bunker Hill, 44, American musician.
* Thure Johansson, 73, Swedish Olympic wrestler (1948).
* Nina Katzir, 71, Polish-Israeli socialite, first lady (1973–1978).
* James Maurice Scott, 79, British writer and explorer.
* Soedjono Hoemardani, 67, Indonesian general, internal bleeding.
* Frank W. Tomasello, 86, American judge.

### 13

* Jack Bruton, 82, English footballer.
* Howard W. Cameron, 70, American politician.
* Andy Chisick, 69, American football player.
* Robert Courrier, 90, French biologist.
* Álvaro Fayad, 39, Colombian guerrilla leader (19th of April Movement), shot.
* Jesse A. Fernández, 60, Cuban artist.
* Eugen Gerstenmaier, 79, German politician.
* Jack Harvey, 78, American politician.
* Alan Hector, 46, South African cricketer.
* Hồ Văn Nhựt, 80, Vietnamese physician.
* Reg Hopkinson, 69, Australian rugby league footballer.
* S. Kanapathipillai, 86, Sri Lankan writer.
* Josef Kuchař, 84, Czechoslovak Olympic footballer (1920 Summer Olympics).
* Angelo Litrico, 58, Italian fashion designer.
* Donald Manes, 52, American politician, suicide by stabbing.
* Felix Scheffler, 71, German soldier.
* Allene Talmey, 83, American journalist.
* Jack Warner, 82, American Major League baseball player.
* Walter Weidauer, 86, German politician.

### 14

* K. C. Abraham, 87, Indian politician.
* Harold Arlin, 90, American radio announcer and engineer.
* Ed Aspatore, 76, American NFL football player.
* Edith Atwater, 74, American actress, cancer.
* Bertrand Harris Bronson, 83, American academic.
* James Vincent Casey, 71, American Roman Catholic prelate.
* Kálmán Cseh von Szent-Katolna, 93, Hungarian Olympic equestrian (1928).
* John Fulton, Baron Fulton, 83, British academic administrator.
* Georgie Harris, 87, British actor.
* Nilo Hovey, 79, American clarinetist and musicologist.
* Harald Leth, 87, Danish painter.
* Jose Roy, 81, Filipino politician.
* Kodardas Kalidas Shah, 77, Indian politician.
* Servaas Theron, 67, South African flying ace.
* Sir Huw Wheldon, 69, Welsh broadcaster, cancer.
* Audrey Williamson, 72, British writer.

### 15

* Raymond B. Allen, 83, American educator.
* Martin Cooper, 76, English musicologist.
* Raymond Philip Etteldorf, 74, American Roman Catholic prelate.
* Alexandru Giugaru, 88, Romanian actor.
* Hendrik Greyvenstein, 69, South African soldier.
* Walter Lenkeit, 85, German veterinarian.
* Lü Bing-Chuan, 56, Taiwanese musicologist.
* Rupert G. Miller, 53, American statistician, lymphoma.
* Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal.
* Bill Patton, 73, American Major League baseball player.
* Pandelis Prevelakis, 77, Greek writer.
* Ramón S. Sabat, 83–84, Cuban artist.
* Andrew J. Santaniello Jr., 59, American politician, member of the Connecticut Senate (since 1983).
* Sir Henry Skinner, 59, British barrister.

### 16

* Abdurrahman Baswedan, 77, Indonesian diplomat.
* Pat Carroll, 30, Irish hurler.
* Lalit Kumar Doley, 58, Indian politician.
* George Jackson, 64, British animator.
* Hans Kloss, 80, Austrian bank manager and lawyer.
* Jean Letourneau, 78, French politician.
* Sir John Nicholson, 3rd Baronet, 82, English surgeon.
* Mihal Prifti, 67, Albanian politician.
* Ouvry Lindfield Roberts, 87, British general.
* Morteza Haeri Yazdi, 69, Iranian Shia cleric.

### 17

* Edward Jordan Dimock, 96, American judge.
* John Bagot Glubb, 88, British general.
* Peter Lienhardt, 58, British anthropologist.
* Clarence D. Lester, 63, American fighter pilot.
* Janette Sebring Lowrey, 94, American author (The Poky Little Puppy).
* Dave McCormick, 42, American NFL football player.
* Heinz Nixdorf, 60, German computer engineer (Nixdorf Computer).
* Raimundo, 2nd Duke of Castel Duino, 79, Italian hereditary peer.
* James Shuler, 26, American boxer, traffic collision.
* Arne Sultan, 60, American filmmaker.
* Sir Eric St Johnston, 75, British constable.
* Igor Tselovalnikov, 42, Soviet Olympic cyclist (1968, 1972).
* David Dortch Warriner, 57, American judge, heart attack.
* Gerhard Weber, 76, German architect.
* Sir Maurice Yonge, 86, English zoologist.

### 18

* Ludvík Aškenazy, 65, Czechoslovak writer.
* Janina Brzostowska, 88, Polish writer.
* Rolf Daleng, 56, Norwegian dancer and choreographer.
* Helmut Jahn, 68, German footballer.
* Bernard Malamud, 71, American novelist (The Natural).
* Bob Polk, 71, American basketball coach.

### 19

* Elisabeth Barker, 75, English historian and journalist.
* Linden Cameron, 68, Australian soldier and politician.
* Henri Courtemanche, 69, Canadian politician.
* Jon Lormer, 79, American actor, cancer.
* Norman McEachern, 86, Irish Olympic runner (1924, 1928).
* Marius Sandberg, 89, Dutch footballer.
* Júlia Székely, 79, Hungarian writer.
* Niyom Thongchit, 76–77, Thai boxing coach.
* Robert Dorsey Watkins, 85, American judge.

### 20

* Antonio Carrillo Flores, 76, Mexican politician.
* Mauricio de la Serna, 83, Mexican filmmaker.
* John Joseph Dougherty, 78, American Roman Catholic prelate.
* Tom Gale, 73, Australian rules footballer.
* Perry B. Jackson, 90, American judge.
* Kenichi Konishi, 77, Japanese Olympic field hockey player (1932).
* Samson Kutateladze, 71, Soviet hydrodynamicist.

### 21

* Raymond Burke, 81, American clarinetist.
* Derek Farr, 74, English actor (The Dam Busters).
* Horst Fischer, 55, German trumpeter.
* Fred Kijek, 66, Canadian football player.
* Chris Koch, 58, South African rugby player.
* Medardo Lamberti, 95, Italian Olympic rower (1928).
* Toby Robins, 55, Canadian actress, breast cancer.

### 22

* Harriette Simpson Arnow, 77, American writer.
* John W. Bricker, 92, American politician, governor of Ohio (1939–1945), member of the U.S. Senate (1947–1959).
* Sydney Checkland, 69, Canadian-British economist.
* Olive Deering, 67, American actress, cancer.
* Mark Dinning, 52, American singer ("Teen Angel"), heart attack.
* Denys Gaith, 76, Syrian Greek Catholic prelate.
* Marit Halset, 73, Norwegian actress.
* Martin Harlinghausen, 84, German general.
* Howard Harris, 74, American comedy writer.
* Jimmy Jones, 73, British tennis player.
* Michele Sindona, 65, Italian banker, mobster and convicted felon, suicide by cyanide poisoning.
* Charles Starrett, 82, American actor, cancer.
* Hellmut Wolff, 79, German occultist.

### 23

* René Cornu, 56, French Olympic swimmer (1948).
* Sir Leo de Gale, 64, Grenadian politician, governor-general (1974–1978).
* Moshe Feinstein, 91, Russian-American rabbi.
* Étienne Mattler, 80, French footballer.
* Sir Walter Merton, 80, British RAF officer.
* Ruth L. Saw, 84, British philosopher.
* Lev Smirnov, 74, Soviet judge.
* Josephine B. Sneed, 86, American politician.
* Stanley Stephens, 73, Australian politician.
* Viola S. Wendt, 78, American poet.
* Anastasia Zuyeva, 89, Soviet actress.

### 24

* Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos, 79, Portuguese politician.
* Walter Colbath, 80, American Olympic diver (1928).
* Sarah Cunningham, 67, American actress.
* Anders Dahlgren, 60, Swedish politician.
* L. Harold DeWolf, 81, American theologian.
* Wesley Ferguson, 63–64, American botanist.
* Hank Grampp, 82, American Major League baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
* Loy W. Henderson, 93, American diplomat.
* Gordon Hocking, 66, Australian rules footballer.
* Edmond Leclère, 74, French Olympic basketball player (1936).
* Michael, Prince of Montenegro, 77, Montenegrin royal, head of the house of Petrović-Njegoš (after 1921).
* Dimitrije Najdanović, 88, Yugoslav theologian.
* Krzysztof Mikołaj Radziwiłł, 87, Polish politician.
* Ernest Rogez, 78, French Olympic water polo player (1928).
* Maurício Sirotsky Sobrinho, 60, Brazilian business executive and journalist, cardiac arrest.
* Joseph Zuken, 73, Canadian politician.

### 25

* Daisy Bacon, 87, American magazine publisher.
* Gloria Blondell, 70, American actress, cancer.
* Warren Bockwinkel, 74, American professional wrestler.
* George Cehanovsky, 93, Russian-American singer.
* George Grant, 83, American Major League baseball player.
* Eddie McAteer, 71, Northern Irish politician.
* Allan McHardy, 71, Australian rules footballer.
* Norayr Mnatsakanyan, 63, Soviet Armenian singer.
* Jean van Heijenoort, 73, French-Mexican mathematics historian.
* Saifuddin Zuhri, 66, Indonesian politician.

### 26

* Mel Bosser, 72, American Major League baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
* Chen Yonggui, 71, Chinese politician, vice premier (1975–1980), lung cancer.
* Andrew Freeth, 73, British painter.
* Anthony T. Lucas, 74–75, Irish archaeologist.
* Tony Panaccion, 77, American NFL football player.
* Pedro Puente, 78, Peruvian Olympic sports shooter (1960, 1964).
* Bartlett Robinson, 73, American actor, cancer.

### 27

* Abdul Hai Arifi, 87–88, Pakistani Islamic scholar and pharmacologist.
* Cass Canfield, 88, American publisher.
* Dudley Cockle, 78, English cricketer.
* Sir Harold Harding, 86, British civil engineer.
* Masanosuke Ikeda, 88, Japanese politician, renal failure.
* Richard Geraint Rees, 78, British judge.
* Julian Roosevelt, 61, American Olympic sailor (1952), liver cancer.
* Constantin Stanciu, 78, Romanian footballer.
* Albert Tate Jr., 65, American judge.

### 28

* Abdul Hakeem Chowdhury, 61, Bangladeshi politician.
* Oliver E. Crockford, 92–93, Canadian politician.
* Howard Ford, 80, English Olympic athlete (1928).
* Virginia Gilmore, 66, American actress, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
* Norman Hilberry, 87, American physicist, influenza.
* Mahsum Korkmaz, 29–30, Turkish Kurd militant, shot.
* Olle Nordberg, 80, Swedish painter.
* Gustav Weinkötz, 73, German Olympic high jumper (1936).

### 29

* Jessie Cross, 78, American Olympic runner (1928).
* Giuseppe Gorletti, 94, Italian Olympic wrestler (1920, 1924).
* Haane Manahi, 72, New Zealand soldier, traffic collision.
* William D. Murray, 77, American college athletics coach.
* Steere Noda, 93–94, American politician and lawyer.
* Harry Ritz, 78, American comedian, pneumonia.

### 30

* Helga Anders, 38, Austrian actress, heart failure.
* Herman A. Blumenthal, 69, American production designer.
* James Cagney, 86, American actor (Angels with Dirty Faces, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Love Me or Leave Me), heart attack.
* John Ciardi, 69, American poet and translator.
* Yasuko Endō, 17, Japanese singer, suicide by jumping.
* James L. Jones Sr., 73, American soldier.
* Robin Jones, 42, British Olympic figure skater (1960).
* Alan Missen, 60, Australian politician, heart attack.
* Jean Vigoureux, 78, French-American artist.
* Beatrice White, 83, British literary scholar.

### 31

* Richard Aldrich, 83, American theatre producer.
* Kees Bastiaans, 76, Dutch painter.
* Andrew Fekete, 31, British artist, respiratory failure.
* P. Gopalan, 79, Indian politician.
* Ray Greenwood, 88, American politician.
* O'Kelly Isley Jr., 48, American singer (The Isley Brothers), heart attack.
* Adam Kossowski, 80, Polish-British artist.
* Alan Lloyd, 43, American composer, AIDS.
* Jerry Paris, 60, American actor (The Dick Van Dyke Show) and television director (Happy Days), brain cancer.