Deaths in January 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 1986

1

• Albert Aley, 66, American filmmaker.
• Rattan Bai, 95, Indian actress and singer.
• Teodor Bieregowoj, 77, Polish Olympic racewalker (1936).
• Lord David Cecil, 83, British historian.
• Kenneth de Burgh Codrington, 86, British archaeologist.
• Roger Erell, 78, French architect.
• Marty Friedman, 96, American basketball player and coach.
• Bill Hall, 57, American Major League baseball player.
• Emmet Lavery, 83, American screenwriter.
• Pavao Löw, 75, Yugoslav footballer.
• Harry McQuinn, 80, American racing driver.
• Eibhlín Ní Bhriain, 60, Irish journalist.
• Bruce Norris, 61, American NHL ice hockey executive (Detroit Red Wings), liver failure.

2

• Leo Bensemann, 73, New Zealand artist and typographer.
• Vera Buck, 82, Australian pianist and composer.
• John Chenoweth, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1941–1949, 1951–1965).
• Patrick Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 4th Baron Derwent, 84, British politician and hereditary peer.
• Bob Finley, 70, American Major League baseball player.
• Hartford N. Gunn Jr., 59, American television executive (PBS), leukoencephalopathy.
• John Hargis, 65, American NBA basketball player.
• Günther Heydemann, 71, German U-boat commander.
• John Howard, 84, British civil engineer.
• Wilbur V. Hubbard, 78, American college sports coach, stroke.
• Herb Magidson, 79, American lyricist.
• Patricia Miles Martin, 86, American author.
• Percy McKelvey, 89, Canadian politician.
• Una Merkel, 82, American actress (Summer and Smoke, The Ponder Heart).
• Nonna Muravyova, 79, Soviet politician.
• Jock Richardson, 79, Scottish footballer.
• Bill Veeck, 71, American Major League baseball executive, lung cancer.
• Frithjov Meier Vik, 83, Norwegian politician.

3

• Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, 89, American journalist.
• Lindesay Clark, 89, Australian mining engineer and executive.
• John Cronin, 69, British politician, MP (1955–1979), heart attack.
• George G. Finch, 83, American general.
• Dustin Gee, 43, British comedian, heart attack.
• Clare W. Graves, 71, American psychologist.
• Chico Hernández, 70, Cuban Major League baseball player.
• Jimmy Ithell, 69, Welsh footballer.
• Jens Bjerre Jacobsen, 82, Danish composer.
• Georg Krause, 84, German cinematographer (Paths of Glory).
• Jim Quinn, 81, Australian rules footballer.
• Nani Wartabone, 78, Indonesian politician.
• Jan Zumbach, 70, Polish flying ace.

4

• Giuseppe Addobbati, 76, Italian actor.
• Gösta Bernhard, 75, Swedish actor and filmmaker.
• Henry Field, 83, American anthropologist, respiratory failure.
• Wilbur R. Franks, 84, Canadian scientist, inventor of the g-suit.
• Jan Huges, 81, Dutch Olympic rower (1928).
• Christopher Isherwood, 81, British-American writer (Goodbye to Berlin, A Single Man, Christopher and His Kind), prostate cancer.
• Jack Little, 77, American-Australian broadcaster.
• Walter K. Long, 81, American historian.
• Phil Lynott, 36, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy) and songwriter ("The Boys Are Back in Town"), sepsis.
• Lisi Mangold, 35, Swiss actress, cancer.
• Dave Morey, 96, American college sports coach.
• Edward Pugh, 76, British Anglican prelate.
• Frits Schutte, 88, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1924).
• Maskoen Soemadiredja, 78, Indonesian politician.
• J. B. H. Wadia, 84, Indian filmmaker.

5

• Johnnie S. Aikens, 71, American politician.
• Sir John Barlow, 2nd Baronet, 87, British politician, MP (1945–1966).
• Elena de Galantha, 95, Hungarian-American histologist.
• Joseph DiVarco, 74, American mobster.
• Thomas Heathcote, 68, British actor.
• Don McKellar, 61, Australian politician.
• Ilmari Salminen, 83, Finnish Olympic long-distance runner (1936).
• Eivind Sværen, 68, Norwegian shot putter.
• Wei Wu Wei, 90, British theatre producer and Taoist philosopher.
• Radovan Zogović, 78, Yugoslav poet.

6

• Ronnie Cord, 42, Brazilian singer.
• Johnny Dawson, 83, American golfer.
• Shanti Kumar Desai, 77, Indian music director.
• Jan Halle, 82, Dutch footballer.
• Christopher Jayawardena, 87, Sri Lankan conservationist.
• Frank Miller, 73, American cellist.
• Fernand Oubradous, 82, French musician.
• N. K. Seshan, 58, Indian politician.
• James E. Van Zandt, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1939–1943, 1947–1963).

7

• Germaine Arbeau-Bonnefoy, 92, French pianist.
• Joe Burns, 85, American Major League baseball player.
• P. D. Eastman, 76, American children's author (Are You My Mother?, Go, Dog. Go!, Sam and the Firefly), pneumonia.
• Joe Busbey Hamiter, 86, American judge.
• Wilfred Holmes, 85, American naval officer.
• Suleiman Khater, 24–25, Egyptian mass murderer (Ras Burqa massacre), suicide by hanging.
• John C. Mandanici, 68, American politician.
• Nicholas Mormando, 41, American mobster (Gambino crime family), shot.
• Juan Rulfo, 68, Mexican author and screenwriter.
• Fred Thomsen, 88, American NFL football player and coach.
• Rex Wailes, 84, English historian and engineer.

8

• Gordon Adamson, 81, Canadian architect.
• Basil Fitzherbert, 14th Baron Stafford, 59, English hereditary peer.
• Pierre Fournier, 79, French cellist.
• Sidney Harrison, 82, British pianist and composer.
• Maria L. de Hernández, 89, Mexican-American civil rights activist.
• Henry Lillee, 74, Irish Anglican prelate.
• Josette Nevière, 52, French Olympic skier (1956).
• Neil Savaryn, 80, Russian-Canadian Greek Catholic prelate.
• Hans Schmitz, 89, German politician.
• Mansel Thomas, 76, Welsh composer.

9

• Jimmy Adams, 75, Scottish golfer.
• Lucia Chase, 88, American dancer and actress.
• Michel de Certeau, 60, French sociologist, pancreatic cancer.
• W. S. Graham, 67, Scottish poet.
• Harry Hopkins, 73, New Zealand civil engineer and academics administrator.
• Wilson Jones, 71, Welsh footballer.
• Rod Macalpine-Downie, 51, English sailboat designer.
• Fabio Mangilli, 74, Italian Olympic equestrian (1948).
• Carl Ross, 84, English fishing entrepreneur.
• Henry Tucker, 82, Bermudan politician.

10

• Ernst Angel, 91, Austrian-born American poet and screenwriter.
• Moritz Daublebsky-Sterneck, 73, Austrian humanitarian.
• Joe Farrell, 48, American jazz musician, myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Emil Forrer, 91, Swiss linguist and archaeologist.
• Eta Harich-Schneider, 91, German musicologist.
• Edward G. Janeway, 84, American politician, member of the Vermont Senate (1959–1979).
• Roy Johnson, 90, American Major League baseball player and coach.
• Joseph Kraft, 61, American journalist, heart failure.
• Ernst Lehner, 73, German footballer.
• Wilhelm Philipp, 69, German flying ace.
• Reg Rattey, 67, Australian soldier.
• James Terry Roach, 25, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.
• Ramón Sainz de Varanda, 61, Spanish politician.
• Jaroslav Seifert, 84, Czechoslovak writer, Nobel Prize recipient (1984).
• Martin Stevens, 56, British politician, MP (since 1979).
• Rogelio Tapia, 82, Spanish footballer.
• James M. Tunnell Jr., 75, American politician.
• Carlo Varetto, 80, Italian Olympic sports shooter (1936, 1956).

11

• Ilya Averbakh, 51, Soviet film director.
• Prescott E. Bloom, 43, American politician, house fire.
• Phil Brady, 42, American NFL football player.
• Sid Chaplin, 69, English writer.
• Robert E. Coulson, 73, American politician.
• Andrzej Czok, 37, Polish mountaineer, pulmonary edema.
• Clarence Ekstrom, 83, American naval admiral.
• Annie Hooper, 88, American sculptor.
• Kazuo Kamimura, 45, Japanese manga artist, hypopharyngeal cancer.
• Walter P. Kellenberg, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Heinz Plumanns, 83, German Olympic diver (1928).
• Henri-Charles Puech, 83, French historian.
• Maja Refsum, 88, Norwegian sculptor.
• Grover Resinger, 70, American Major League baseball coach.
• Roger Trinquier, 77, French soldier.

12

• Jack Andrews, 82, Northern Irish politician.
• Marcel Arland, 86, French novelist.
• Robert C. Atherton, 77, American magazine editor and publisher.
• Hinko Bauer, 77, Yugoslav architect.
• Joseph Ben-David, 65, Hungarian-Israeli sociologist.
• Ludwig Biermann, 78, German astronomer.
• Ladislao Brazionis, 56, Uruguayan footballer.
• Martin Burkenroad, 75, American marine biologist.
• Juan Carlos Corazzo, 78, Uruguayan footballer.
• Assia Dagher, 77, Lebanese-Egyptian actress.
• Bob Kaufman, 60, American poet and jazz musician, emphysema.
• Lars Leksell, 78, Swedish physician.
• Herbert Prince, 94, English footballer.
• Eduardo Risso, 60, Uruguayan Olympic rower (1952).
• Eddie Solomon, 34, American Major League baseball player, traffic collision.
• Sunawar Sukowati, 63, Indonesian politician.
• Norman Turnbull, 85, Canadian politician.
• Hoylande Young, 82, American chemist.

13

• Alberto Abdala, 65, Uruguayan politician, vice president (1967–1972).
• Lurline Collier, 92, American educator.
• Mike Garcia, 62, American Major League baseball player, diabetes.
• Jacqueline Groag, 82, English textile designer.
• Jan Holobrádek, 70, Czechoslovak Olympic rower (1936).
• Abdul Fattah Ismail, 46, South Yemeni politician, killed in battle.
• Pierre Mwana Kasongo, 47, Zairian footballer.
• Wilhelm Kunst, 76, German wood sculptor.
• Kevin Longbottom, 45, Australian rugby league player.
• Nicolò Tronci, 80, Italian Olympic gymnast (1936).
• Sayuri Yōko, 84, Japanese actress.

14

• Daniel Balavoine, 33, French singer, helicopter crash.
• William W. Hagerty, 69, American academic administrator, cancer.
• Geoffrey Herklots, 83–84, British botanist and ornithologist.
• Alv Johnsen, 66, Norwegian physician and soldier.
• Jaime Silvério Marques, 70–71, Portuguese colonial administrator, governor of Macau (1959–1962).
• Carolyn Conn Moore, 82, American politician.
• Donna Reed, 64, American actress (From Here to Eternity, It's a Wonderful Life, The Donna Reed Show), pancreatic cancer.
• Juan Manuel Rozas, 49–50, Spanish writer.
• Raissa Ruus, 43, Soviet Estonian Olympic runner (1972).
• Thierry Sabine, 36, French motorcycle racer, helicopter crash.
• Alfred Schlecht, 82, Swiss footballer.
• Robert Trösch, 74, Swiss actor.
• Valerian Zorin, 84, Soviet diplomat.

15

• Samuel Bason, 91, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (1947–1959).
• Alfred Bestall, 93, British cartoonist (Rupert Bear).
• Lamar Boren, 68, American cinematographer.
• Knut Brynildsen, 68, Norwegian footballer.
• Jean Cassou, 88, French poet.
• George Cobb, 71, American golf course designer.
• Jim Crowley, 83, American football player.
• Emil Hasler, 84, German art director.
• Les MacFarlane, 66, Australian politician.
• Thomas A. Maloney, 96, American politician, member of the California Senate (1925–1933) and State Assembly (1933–1957).
• Nyle McFarlane, 50, American football player.
• Anni Rehborn, 81, German swimmer.
• Vladimir Rodimushkin, 64, Soviet Olympic rower (1952).
• Fred Thomas, 93, American Major League baseball player.
• Anna Zemánková, 77, Czechoslovak painter.

16

• Herbert W. Armstrong, 93, American evangelist, founder of the Worldwide Church of God.
• Sir Laurence Durlacher, 81, British naval admiral.
• James L. Hicks, 70, American journalist, stroke.
• Hu Yuzhi, 89, Chinese politician.
• Archie E. O'Neil, 80, American general.
• Bill Richardson, 77, British newspaper editor.
• Gene Rose, 72, American NFL football player.
• Stjepan Šulek, 71, Yugoslav Croatian composer.
• Ryūzaburō Umehara, 97, Japanese painter.
• Pearl Warren, 74, American community leader.
• Peter Waterman, 51, English boxer.

17

• Ernest C. Arbuckle, 73, American business leader and academic administrator, traffic collision.
• Earl Conrad, 79, American author and historian, lymphoma.
• Tommy Frame, 83, Scottish footballer.
• Robert Lyden, 43, American actor.
• A. C. N. Nambiar, 89–90, Indian diplomat.
• Halldor O. Opedal, 90, Norwegian folklorist.

18

• Donald Putnam Abbott, 65, American zoologist.
• Maurice Brennan, 72, British aeronautical engineer.
• Frida Clara, 77, Italian Olympic skier (1936).
• Robert MacFarlan Cole III, 96, American chemical engineer.
• Walo Hörning, 75, Swiss Olympic fencer (1948).
• Lennox Johnston, 86, Scottish physician and anti-smoking advocate.
• Edwin Luke, 74, American actor.
• McKinley Mitchell, 51, American blues musician.
• Eugen Ray, 28, German sprinter, traffic collision.
• Edmundo Rivero, 74, Argentine musician.
• Nancy Wilson Ross, 84, American novelist.
• Pat Quinn, 55, English rugby union and rugby league player.
• Ishimoda Shō, 73, Japanese historian.
• Arthur Wheat, 64, English footballer.

19

• Gérard Caron, 69, Canadian pianist.
• Sammy Drechsel, 60, German comedian and sports broadcaster.
• Kanwar Lal Gupta, 61, Indian politician.
• E. Lowell Kelly, 80, American psychologist.
• Nikola Perlić, 73, Yugoslav footballer.
• Nino Salvo, 56, Italian businessman, cancer.
• R. Tom Sawyer, 84, American locomotive engineer.
• Hans Hartvig Seedorff, 93, Danish poet and lyricist.
• George Sinker, 85, Indian-British Anglican prelate.
• Sir Colin Syme, 82, Australian businessman and lawyer.
• Vainerere Tangatapoto, 73, Cook Islands politician.
• Carol Stuart Watson, 54, American illustrator.
• Cy Wentworth, 82, American NFL football player.
• Adam Włodek, 63, Polish poet.

20

• Sidney Barton, 76, British politician.
• Obrad Belošević, 57, Yugoslav basketball referee.
• Stanley George Browne, 78, British medical researcher.
• John D. Calandra, 57, American politician, heart attack.
• Sir Alec Clegg, 76, English educationalist.
• Louis Hartz, 66, American historian and political scientist, seizure.
• Theodor Hoelty-Nickel, 91, German-American musicologist.
• Robert Judd, 59–60, American actor.
• Franz Kemser, 75, German Olympic bobsledder (1952).
• Alex Munro, 74, Scottish comedian.
• Grace E. Pickford, 83, British-American biologist.
• Harold John Pye, 84, British manufacturing executive.
• Tove Tellback, 86, Norwegian actress.
• Eyaz Zaxoyî, 25, Iraqi composer, tuberculosis.

21

• Edith Clara Batho, 90, British academic administrator.
• W. W. Behrens Jr., 63, American naval admiral and oceanographer, heart attack.
• William Bryant, 86, English footballer.
• Zuck Carlson, 81, American NFL football player.
• Mary Eristavi, 97, Russian-French aristocrat and fashion model.
• Violet B. Haas, 59, American mathematician, brain cancer.
• Tatsumi Hijikata, 57, Japanese choreographer.
• Doug Keene, 57, English footballer.
• Bogna Krasnodębska-Gardowska, 85, Polish painter.
• Martin C. Lueck, 97, American politician.
• Sir Gordon MacMillan, 89, Scottish general.
• Clara Moores, 89, American actress.
• Günther Pape, 78, German general.
• Baby Ray, 71, American NFL football player, heart attack.
• Anders Törnkvist, 65, Swedish Olympic skier (1948, 1952).
• Ferol Sibley Warthen, 95, American painter.
• Margery Wilson, 89, American actress, stroke.

22

• Frederick George Beale, 79, British police officer.
• Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, 66, British aristocrat.
• Scott Dobson, 67, English art critic.
• Ilse Fromm-Michaels, 97, German pianist and composer.
• Thomas Baden Morris, 85, English playwright.
• Gilbert Roberts, 85, English naval officer.
• Mary Eleanor Spear, 88, American data visualization specialist.
• Carl Wittman, 42, American gay rights activist, suicide by drug overdose.

23

• Ann Andrews, 95, American actress.
• Charles Bergonzi, 75, Monegasque Olympic sports shooter (1952).
• Joseph Beuys, 64, German sculptor and art theorist, heart failure.
• Yvonne Lefébure, 87, French pianist.
• Tina Leser, 75, American fashion designer.
• Charles Moore, 57, American choreographer.
• Quinn Tamm, 75, American federal agent.
• Willard Van Dyke, 79, American filmmaker, heart attack.

24

• Ottorino Aloisio, 83, Italian architect.
• John Boozer, 47, American Major League baseball player, Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Sir Victor Crutchley, 92, British naval admiral.
• Emerson LeRoy Cummings, 83, American general.
• Mary Hewins, 71, British autobiographer.
• L. Ron Hubbard, 74, American author (Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Battlefield Earth), founder of the Church of Scientology, complications from a stroke.
• Flo Hyman, 31, American Olympic volleyball player (1984), aortic dissection.
• Masazumi Inada, 89, Japanese general.
• Niilo Juvonen, 57, Finnish Olympic skier (1952).
• Gordon MacRae, 64, American actor (Oklahoma!, On Moonlight Bay, Carousel), pneumonia.
• Matthew Francis McGuire, 87, American judge.
• Hap Perry, 89, American college sports coach.
• Alfred Schlemm, 91, German general.
• Léopold Szondi, 92, Hungarian psychologist.
• John Vaughan Wilkes, 83, English academics administrator.

25

• Antony Gibbs, 5th Baron Aldenham, 63, British hereditary peer.
• Robert Ancelin, 87, French actor.
• Gunnar Bergh, 76, Swedish Olympic discus thrower (1936).
• Pat Coffee, 70, American NFL football player.
• Edda Ferronao, 52, Italian actress.
• Albert Grossman, 59, American music manager (Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Gordon Lightfoot), heart attack.
• Alfred Huber, 75, German footballer.
• Josef Kammhuber, 89, German general.
• Bill Kraus, 38, American gay rights activist, AIDS.
• Ernst Schnabel, 72, German writer.
• Tony Scornavacca, 59, American painter, lung cancer.
• Dennis Smith, 73, New Zealand cricketer.
• Oswald J. Smith, 96, Canadian evangelist.

26

• Frank Camp, 80, American football player.
• José Luis Costa, 76, Spanish footballer.
• Gérard Duquet, 76, Canadian politician.
• Mercy Hatton, 95, British actress.
• George Hindori, 52, Surinamese politician.
• Katherine G. Howard, 87, American diplomat and politician.
• Bernard Lorjou, 77, French painter.
• Norman MacKenzie, 92, Canadian politician and academics administrator.
• Julien Médécin, 91, Monegasque architect.
• Nicholas Moore, 67, English poet.
• Zabelle Panosian, 94, Ottoman-born American singer.
• Gertrude Warner, 68, American radio personality, cancer.

27

• Nikhil Banerjee, 54, Indian sitarist, heart attack.
• Arthur Llewellyn Basham, 71, British historian.
• Edward Biberman, 81, American artist, cancer.
• Lincoln Borglum, 73, American sculptor.
• Leslie William Cannon, 81, British Air Force officer.
• Robert Fraser, 48, English art dealer, AIDS.
• Britte Hughey, 75, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1956–1964).
• Karl Köther, 80, German Olympic cyclist (1928).
• Truman H. Landon, 80, American general.
• Ken Moule, 60, English jazz pianist.
• Lilli Palmer, 71, German-American actress (But Not for Me), stomach cancer.
• Seán Quinn, 55–56, Irish footballer.
• Michal Vičan, 60, Czechoslovak footballer.
• George Wade, 94, English pottery manufacturer.

28

• Arthur Baxter, 76, Scottish cricketer.
• Ham Dowling, 90, American football player and roadway engineer.
• Tom Grubbs, 91, American Major League baseball player.
• James Edward Moore, 83, American general.
• Dorothée Pullinger, 92, French-British automobile engineer.
• Allen Saunders, 86, American cartoonist.
• Zonja Wallen-Lawrence, 93, Swedish-born American biochemist.
• American astronauts killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster:
  • Gregory Jarvis, 41.
  • Christa McAuliffe, 37.
  • Ronald McNair, 35.
  • Ellison Onizuka, 39.
  • Judith Resnik, 36.
  • Dick Scobee, 46.
  • Michael J. Smith, 40.

29

• Arabik Baghdasarian, 46, Iranian graphic designer.
• Everett Barksdale, 75, American jazz musician.
• Kenneth Came, 60, English cricketer.
• Leif Erickson, 74, American actor, cancer.
• Manfred Metzger, 80, Swiss Olympic sailor (1960).
• Otho Prior-Palmer, 88, British politician, MP (1945–1964).
• Édouard Souberbielle, 86, French organist.

30

• Jean Sala Breitenstein, 85, American judge.
• Jessie Scott Hathcock, 91, American educator and civil rights activist.
• Alexander Hemphill, 64, American lawyer and politician.
• Nils Astrup Hoel, 86, Norwegian businessman.
• Ivan Papanin, 91, Soviet polar explorer.
• Gusztáv Sebes, 80, Hungarian footballer.
• Ray Thorburn, 55, Australian politician.
• Percy Vivian, 83, Canadian politician.
• Dame Jocelyn Woollcombe, 87, British naval director.

31

• Tom Adey, 84, English footballer.
• Bill Bryson Sr., 70, American sports journalist.
• John Moore Caldicott, 85, Zimbabwean politician.
• P. J. Conkwright, 80, American graphic designer.
• Freddie Burke Frederick, 65, American actor.
• Philip Jessup, 88, American diplomat and judge.
• Murray Kane, 70, American composer and band manager.
• Moderato, 83, Brazilian footballer.
• Dick Seabrook, 75–76, British trade unionist.
• Boris Smolar, 88, Russian-born American journalist.
• H. E. Tester, 80–81, Danish philatelist.
• Silvio Tozzi, 77, Italian Olympic wrestler (1932, 1936).
• Charles Turzak, 86, American artist.
• Arie van der Stel, 91, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1920).
• Tony Velona, 65, American songwriter.