page_title: 1986
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 1986 / Deaths / October
caption_attribution_description: President of Mozambique Samora Moises Machel speaks with the state department officials and a colonel before departing the United States
context_page_description: 1986 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1986th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 986th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1980s decade.
  The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
context_section_description: October 3 – Han Xianchu, Chinese army general and politician (b. 1913)
  October 4 – Arno von Lenski, German military officer and general (b. 1893)
  October 5
  Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
  James H. Wilkinson, British mathematician (b. 1919)
  October 7 – Wallace Wade, American football coach (b. 1892)
  October 10 – Michele Pellegrino, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1903)
  October 11
  Norm Cash, American baseball player (b. 1934)
  Georges Dumézil, French philologist and historian (b. 1898)
  Boris Leven, Russian-born art director (b. 1908)
  October 14 – Keenan Wynn, American character actor (b. 1916)
  October 15 – Jerry Smith, American football All Pro tight end, Washington Redskins, NFL (b. 1943)
  October 16
  Harold Beamish, New Zealand World War I flying ace (b. 1896)
  Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)
  October 19 – Samora Machel, Mozambican military commander, politician and revolutionary, 1st President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
  October 21 – Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian author (b. 1911)
  October 22 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
  October 23 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
  October 25 – Forrest Tucker, American actor (b. 1919)
  October 26 – Jackson Scholz, American Olympic athlete (b. 1897)
  October 28 – Ian Marter, English actor and writer (b. 1944)
  October 31 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1896)
caption: Samora Machel
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