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

## September 1986
### 1

* Buddy Boone, 53, Canadian National Hockey League player (Boston Bruins).
* Tina Cooper, 68, English pediatrician (child abuse), cancer.
* Earl B. Dickerson, 95, American lawyer and politician (Hansberry v. Lee).
* Murray Hamilton, 63, American actor (Jaws, The Graduate), lung cancer.

### 2

* Frank Bartkus, 70, American Olympic soccer goalkeeper (1936).
* Thomas Butler Dowda, 87, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1941-1953).
* Mahmoud Kaveh, 25, Iranian military commander (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), killed in action.
* Billy Taylor, 80, American jazz bassist, stroke.
* Jim Wilson, 64, American Major League baseballer (Boston/Milwaukee Braves), lung cancer.

### 3

* Vasantrao Ghatge, 70, Indian business magnate.
* Wirgiliusz Gryń, 58, Polish actor (Pastorale Heroica).
* Horace King, 85, British politician, Speaker of the House of Commons, stroke.
* Ted Moult, 60, British radio and television personality (Brain of Britain), suicide.
* Vittorino Veronese, 76, Italian lawyer, director-general of UNESCO.
* Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr., 80, American district judge (Massachusetts).

### 4

* Christer Boustedt, 47, Swedish musician and actor.
* Sid Elliott, 71, Australian rugby league footballer.
* Roberto Gavaldón, 77, Mexican film director (Macario).
* Otto Glória, 69, Brazilian football manager (Benfica, Nigeria).
* Hank Greenberg, 75, American baseballer (Detroit Tigers), kidney cancer.
* Wayne Nance, 30, American serial killer ("The Missoula Mauler"), shot.
* Sid Tanenbaum, 60, American basketball player (New York Knicks), murdered.
* Walter Wanderley, 54, Brazilian organist and pianist ("Summer Samba"), cancer.

### 5

* Neerja Bhanot, 22, Indian flight purser, saved passengers from hijackers, shot.
* Alvin Heaps, 66, American labor union leader (Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union).
* Noel Kempff Mercado, 62, Bolivian biologist and environmentalist, murdered.
* Ganapathi Thanikaimoni, 48, Indian palynologist, shot.
* Trần Quốc Hoàn, 70, North Vietnamese politician (Ministry of Public Security).

### 6

* Weston Bousfield, 82, American psychologist.
* Jacek Daniluk, 25, Polish Olympic equestrian (1980).
* William Littell Everitt, 86, American electrical engineer.
* George Gipe, 53, American author and screenwriter (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid), allergic reaction to bee sting.
* John Stanley Grauel, 68, American priest and Christian Zionist leader.
* Suresh Joshi, 65, Indian Gujarati writer (Grihapravesh), kidney failure.
* George P. Monaghan, 85, American lawyer and commissioner of fire and police.
* Blanche Sweet, 90, American silent-screen actress (The Lonedale Operator, Judith of Bethulia), stroke.

### 7

* Skipper Bowles, 66, American politician and businessman, Lou Gehrig's disease.
* Les Bury, 73, English-born Australian politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Treasurer.
* Nelson Dunford, 79, American mathematician (Dunford–Pettis property).
* Antonín Gregor, 77, Czechoslovak politician.
* Spencer Le Marchant, 55, British politician, Member of Parliament.
* Dan K. Moore, 80, American politician, Governor of North Carolina.
* Omar Ali Saifuddien III, 71, Bruneian royal, Sultan of Brunei.
* P. S. Ramakrishna Rao, 67, Indian filmmaker.
* Vladimir Vlasov, 83, Soviet composer and conductor.
* Hewitt T. Wheless, 72, American air force general.

### 8

* Ferenc Hatlaczky, 52, Hungarian Olympic sprint canoer (1956).
* Vladimír Janoušek, 64, Czech sculptor and painter.
* Ray Nazarro, 83, American film and television director and screenwriter (Bullfighter and the Lady).
* Alfred Schaefer, 81, Swiss banker, president of the Union Bank of Switzerland.

### 9

* Kessler R. Cannon, 70, American politician and radio broadcaster, member of the Oregon House of Representatives.
* Robert Shackleton, 66, English philologist.
* Magda Tagliaferro, 93, Brazilian pianist, heart attack.
* Andrew Zondo, 19, South African criminal, executed for murder.

### 10

* Pepper Adams, 55, American jazz saxophonist and composer, lung cancer.
* Dame Mary Austin, 86, Australian community worker and political activist.
* Jake Bornheimer, 59, American National Basketball Association player (Philadelphia Warriors).
* Deane Gundlock, 72, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1972).
* Kairyūyama Teruhisa, 47, Japanese sumo wrestler.
* María Dolores Katarain, 32, Spanish Basque separatist leader, murdered.
* Anna Koutsoyiannis, 53–54, Greek-born British microeconomist.
* Sobhi Mahmassani, 77, Lebanese lawyer and politician, Member of Parliament, lung cancer.
* Ronnie Shade, 47, Scottish golfer.
* Koji Shima, 85, Japanese actor, film director and screenwriter (Unforgettable Trail).

### 11

* Arthur Carr, 76, British Olympic equestrian bronze medalist (1948).
* Harry Haslam, 65, English footballer and manager (Sheffield United).
* Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, 83, Greek politician, Prime Minister, heart attack.
* Henry DeWolf Smyth, 88, American physicist and diplomat, participant in the Manhattan Project, cardiac arrest.
* Noel Streatfeild, 90, English children's author (The Circus Is Coming).

### 12

* Marcel Boigegrain, 57, French Olympic coxswain (1948).
* James Louis Connolly, 91, American bishop of the Diocese of Fall River.
* Ernst Haas, 65, Austrian-born American photojournalist, stroke.
* Jacques Henri Lartigue, 92, French photographer and painter.
* Manjula, 31, Indian actress in Kannada language films (Sampathige Savaal, Eradu Kanasu), suicide.
* Harold Moody, 70, British shot putter and Olympian.
* Frank Nelson, 75, American comedic actor (The Jack Benny Program), cancer.
* Gerhard Rohlfs, 94, German linguist.
* Charlotte Wolff, 88, German-British sexologist, proponent of racist views.

### 13

* Antonio Mota, 47, Mexican footballer (Necaxa, Mexico).
* Neil Robinson, 24, Northern Irish racing cyclist, racing crash.

### 14

* Charlie Adams 89, Australian rules footballer.
* William Edmund Barrett, 85, American writer (The Lilies of the Field).
* John Bingham, 32–33, Northern Irish loyalist soldier, shot.
* David Harold Byrd, 86, American oil executive.
* William Hall, 83, American actor.
* Gordon McLendon, 65, American radio broadcaster, cancer.

### 15

* Don Bennett, 76, Australian air vice marshal in the Royal Air Force and British politician, Member of Parliament.
* Jaroslav Burgr, 80, Czechoslavakian footballer (Sparta Prague, Czechoslovakia).
* Bill Butler, 66, Australian rules footballer.
* Virginia Gregg, 70, American actress (Dragnet), lung cancer.
* Eric Hiscock, 78, British sailor and author.
* Joseph M. Pettit, 70, American engineer and academic administrator, president of Georgia Tech, cancer.
* Elizabeth Titzel Riefstahl, 97, American archaeologist.
* Ramón Alberto Villaverde, 56, Uruguayan footballer (FC Barcelona).

### 16

* Jim Brough, 82, English footballer, rugby union and rugby league player (Leeds, Great Britain).
* Leobardo Candiani, 81, Mexican Olympic fencer (1932).
* Judith Crawley, 72, Canadian film producer, cinematographer, director, and screenwriter.
* Beppe Croce, 71, Italian Olympic sailor (1948).
* Puran Chandra Gupta, 74, Indian journalist (Dainik Jagran).
* Denis Guye, 85, English Olympic rower (1928).
* Darold Jenkins, 67, American college football player (Missouri).
* Walter Lehweß-Litzmann, 79, Nazi German Luftwaffe pilot, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.

### 17

* Erich Bautz, 73, German racing cyclist.
* Johnny Cook, 60, American CFL player.
* Alec Fraser-Brunner, 80, British ichthyologist, curator of the Van Kleef Aquarium, designer of the Merlion.
* Jon Gould, 33, American film executive, AIDS.
* Joe Kennedy, 60, English footballer (West Bromwich Albion).
* Pat Phoenix, 62, English actress (Coronation Street), lung cancer.
* Henrik Sjögren, 87, Swedish ophthalmologist, describer of Sjögren syndrome.

### 18

* Aljoša Buha, 24, Yugoslavian musician (Crvena Jabuka), traffic collision.
* Corita Kent, 67, American artist, ovarian cancer.
* Shelton Perera, 47, Sri Lankan tabla player and singer.

### 19

* Hubert Badanai, 91, Italian-born Canadian politician.
* Harry J. W. Belvin, American politician, chief of Choctaw Nation, member of Oklahoma House of Representatives and Senate.
* Ulrich Erfurth, 76, German director.
* James H. Gray Sr., 70, American politician, mayor of Albany, Georgia, editor of The Albany Herald, heart attack.
* Ainslie Meares, 76, Australian psychiatrist, pneumonia.

### 20

* John C. Becher, 71, American actor, cancer.
* Christopher Butler, 84, English bishop.
* Chester A. Chesney, 70, American politician and NFL footballer (Chicago Bears), member of U.S. House of Representatives.
* Norman Chester, 78, British economist, warden of Nuffield College, Oxford.
* Ray Eddy, 75, American basketballer and coach.
* James Hardy, 63, American Olympic rower (1948).
* Iorgu Iordan, 97, Romanian linguist, diplomat and politician.
* Viktor Khokhryakov, 73, Soviet Russian actor.
* William W. Outerbridge, 80, American navy rear admiral, fired first shots in defence of U.S.A. in World War II.
* Dennis Spooner, 53, English television writer (Doctor Who), heart attack.
* Nicolae Testemițanu, 59, Soviet surgeon and politician, Minister of Health for Moldova.

### 21

* Jonah Barrington, 82, British journalist (Daily Express).
* George Brenlin, 58, American actor (Young and Dangerous).
* Cheryl Keaton, 36, American lawyer and murder victim.
* John Kuck, 81, American shot putter and Olympic gold medalist.
* Clancy Williams, 43, American NFL footballer (Los Angeles Rams), cancer.

### 22

* József Asbóth, 69, Hungarian tennis player, French Open winner.
* Bernie Cummins, 86, American jazz drummer.
* Janet Davies, 59, English actress (Dad's Army), breast cancer.
* Yussuf Hamis, 65, Israeli Arab politician, member of the Knesset (1955-1965).
* Sohan Singh Misha, 52, Indian Punjabi poet.
* Abdel-Kader Zaaf, 69, Algerian racing cyclist.

### 23

* Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield, 96, Austro-Hungarian World War I flying ace.
* Theresa Sherrer Davidson, 92, American classicist and lawyer.
* Gordie Drillon, 72, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
* Barbara Gilewska, 74, Polish actress and dancer.
* Bert Hodges, 81, Welsh cricketer.
* Sir Vincent Lloyd-Jones, 84, Welsh barrister and judge of the High Court.
* Domingo Moreno Jimenes, 92, Dominican writer.
* Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp, 75, Nazi German Waffen-SS officer.
* C. A. Patrides, 56, American writer, AIDS.

### 24

* Uell Stanley Andersen, 69, American NFL footballer (Cleveland Rams) and author (Three Magic Words).
* Maurice Delvart, 87, French Olympic sprinter (1920).
* Prudence Glynn, 51, British fashion editor and author, brain haemorrhage.
* Haskell Harr, 92, American percussionist, composer, and bandleader.
* Dorothy Pilley Richards, 92, English mountaineer and writer (Climbing Days).
* Adolf Tolkachev, 59, Soviet electronics engineer and double agent, executed.

### 25

* Geoff Alley, 83, New Zealand rugby union player and librarian.
* Ted Bishop, 73, American golfer.
* Bill Booth, 67, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Darshan Singh Canadian, 68–69, Indian Sikh trade unionist, murdered.
* John Carroll, 64, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
* Henning Helgesson, 86, Swedish footballer.
* Svante Johansson, 59, Swedish Olympic diver (1948).
* Donald MacDonald, 77, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, cancer.
* Marcel Rüedi, 47, Swiss mountain climber, died on a climb.
* Nikolay Semyonov, 90, Soviet physicist and chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
* Hubertus Strughold, 88, German-American physiologist and unconvicted war criminal (space medicine).
* Hans Vogt, 83, Norwegian linguist (Caucasian languages).

### 26

* Jacob Agus, 74, Polish-born American rabbi and theologian.
* Roger Howard Cilley, 68, American bishop.
* Wilson Faumuina, 32, American NFL footballer (Atlanta Falcons), heart failure.
* Hugh Franklin, 70, American actor (All My Children), cancer.
* Brian Desmond Hurst, 91, Irish film director (Scrooge).
* Billy Key, 90, British Indian Army general.

### 27

* Tony Acquaviva, 61, American composer and conductor, diabetes.
* Cliff Burton, 24, American bassist (Metallica), traffic collision.
* Jessie Eden, 84, British trade union leader.
* Michael Joseph Hogan, 78, Irish juror and judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong.
* Olga Masters, 67, Australian journalist (The Sydney Morning Herald, Manly Daily).
* Éva Ruttkai, 58, Hungarian actress, breast cancer.
* Georg Voggenreiter, 74, German racing cyclist, German National Road Race winner.

### 28

* Denis Carey, 77, British actor (A Beast With Two Backs, The Barchester Chronicles).
* Carmen De Rue, 78, American child actress and dancer, heart attack.
* Justo Gonzalo, 76, Spanish neuroscientist.
* Howard Graham, 88, Canadian army general, Chief of the General Staff.
* Sir Robert Helpmann, 77, Australian ballet dancer, choreographer and actor (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), emphysema.
* Ewa Szelburg-Zarembina, 87, Polish novelist.
* Kiyoshi Tanimoto, 77, Japanese Methodist minister and Hiroshima survivor.
* Richard C. Turner, 58, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate, heart attack.

### 29

* Les Field, 64, Australian rules footballer.
* Prince Georg of Denmark, 66, Danish royal and diplomat.
* Reg Goodwin, 78, British politician, leader of the Greater London Council.
* Artie Gore, 78, American baseball umpire.
* Maurice Harland, 90, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Durham.
* M. D. H. Jayawardena, 71, Sri Lankan politician, Minister of Health, heart ailment.
* Betty Kean, 71, American actress, cancer.
* Moestopo, 73, Indonesian general.
* Helmut Qualtinger, 57, Austrian actor and cabaret performer, liver disease.
* Theodor Schwenk, 75, German anthroposophist, water researcher and author (Sensitive Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air).

### 30

* Franz Burda, 83, German publisher (Hubert Burda Media).
* Arthur A. Cohen, 58, American novelist and theologian, leukemia.
* Ben Dova, 81, German-American acrobat and actor.
* Storm Jameson, 95, English journalist and author (In the Days of Simon Stern).
* Nicholas Kaldor, 78, Hungarian-born British economist (cobweb model).
* Noel Kirsten, 60, South African cricketer.
* Laurier Lister, 79, English theatre writer, actor and director.
* Buster Millerick, 80, American racehorse trainer.
* Tommy Reynolds, 69, American jazz clarinetist.
* Kamaruzaman Sjam, 62, Indonesian communist activist, executed.