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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

April 1986

1

• Erik Bruhn, 57, Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer, lung cancer. ^[1]
• Syd Copley, 80, British cricketer.
• Donald Grobe, 56, American singer.
• Theodore N. Kaufman, 76, American businessman and eugenics advocate.
• Vic Lawrence, 58, Australian rules footballer.
• Lucy Mair, 85, British anthropologist.
• Margaret Masterman, 75, British linguist. ^[2]
• Kenneth E. Priebe, 73, American politician.
• Barry Robins, 41, American actor, AIDS.
• Dick Scesniak, 45, American football coach, heart attack. ^[3]
• Al Sellinger, 71, American Olympic cyclist (1936).
• Shuvee, 20, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Tony Siano, 79, American NFL football player.
• Earl W. Vaughn, 57, American politician and judge, cancer.

2

• François Aman-Jean, 91, French writer.
• Floyd M. Baker, 94, Canadian politician.
• Wilfred Broadhead, 82, English cricketer.
• Bobby Dobbs, 63, American CFL football player.
• Gerald Goddard, 65, South African Olympic water polo player (1952).
• Dagbjartur Grímsson, 54, Icelandic footballer.
• Eugene Raymond Hall, 83, American zoologist.
• Lloyd A. Jeffress, 85, American acoustical scientist.
• Raymond Lapin, 67, American banking executive. ^[4]
• John F. McCormick, 84, American sailor.
• Helen H. Nowlis, 72, American psychologist.
• Thomas Gerald Room, 83, Australian mathematician.
• Ben Schoeman, 81, South African politician.
• Takakura Teru, 94, Japanese writer and politician.
• Milt Trost, 73, American NFL football player.

3

• Geoffrey H. Arnott, 84, Australian businessman (Arnott's Group).
• Alfred Bütow, 83, German art director.
• Bobby Clack, 60, American actor.
• Everett T. Copenhaver, 87, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives (1939–1941).
• George Kirstein, 76, American publisher, heart attack. ^[5]
• Mary C. McCall Jr., 81, American screenwriter, cancer. ^[6]
• Charles Moeller, 74, Belgian Roman Catholic priest and theologian.
• Elisha Netanyahu, 73, Israeli mathematician.
• Reinhard Opitz, 51, German social scientist, cancer.
• Sir Peter Pears, 75, British singer. ^[7]
• Elisabeth Radó, 86, Yugoslav singer.
• Rei, 74, Brazilian footballer.
• Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, 80, Iranian ayatollah. ^[8]
• Nanna Svartz, 95, Swedish physician.

4

• Diane Barwick, 47, Canadian-born Australian anthropologist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Maria Beruski, 26–27, Brazilian teacher, fire.
• Bill Boaks, 81, British politician and naval officer.
• Geoffrey Burton, 76, English cricketer.
• Mario Cagna, 74, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Charles DeBow, 68, American fighter pilot. ^[9]
• Hasted Dowker, 86, Canadian Anglican prelate.
• Rebeca Gerschman, 82, Argentine biochemist.
• Sascha Gorodnitzki, 81, Russian-born American pianist. ^[10]
• Sir Laurence Hartnett, 87, Australian engineer.
• Ira V. Hiscock, 93, American bacteriologist. ^[11]
• Billy Hole, 66, English motorcycle racer.
• Clive Hughes, 38, Australian politician, skin cancer.
• Zoltán Kaszab, 70, Hungarian entomologist.
• Mimmo Poli, 65, Italian actor, heart attack.
• Carlo Taranto, 64, Italian actor.
• Josef Vosolsobě, 81, Czechoslovak Olympic long jumper (1936).

5

• Jeanne Clery, 19, American murder victim.
• Lookout Masuku, 45, Zimbabwean militant, meningitis.
• Colin McCool, 69, Australian cricketer.
• Valentín Parera, 90, Spanish actor.
• Moshe Pearlman, 74–75, English-Israeli writer.
• Manly Wade Wellman, 82, American writer.

6

• José Luis de Arrese, 80, Spanish politician.
• Pesach Burstein, 89, Polish-born American comedian and actor. ^[12]
• Roy Cheville, 88, American Mormon theologian.
• Glen Cooper, 70, Australian Air Force pilot.
• El Solitario, 39, Mexican professional wrestler, cardiac arrest.
• Boris Gutnikov, 54, Soviet violinist.
• Raimundo Orsi, 84, Argentine footballer.
• Sergio Rodríguez, 58, Uruguayan footballer.
• Jussi Saukkonen, 81, Finnish politician.
• Eric Sixsmith, 81, British general.
• Thomas Ward, 78, Scottish Olympic wrestler (1936).

7

• Chester Erskine, 80, American filmmaker. ^[13]
• Akira Hagiwara, 29, Japanese racing driver, racing crash.
• Leonid Kantorovich, 74, Soviet economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize recipient (1975). ^[14]
• Cecil King, 65, Irish painter.
• Leslie Lewis, 61, British Olympic sprinter (1948, 1952).
• Donald Gaines Murray, 71, American attorney.
• William Homan Thorpe, 84, British zoologist.
• Beulah Tingley, 92, American social activist.
• Valerie von Martens, 91, German-Austrian actress.
• W. H. Walsh, 72, British philosopher and classicist.
• Michael Warriner, 77, English Olympic rower (1928).

8

• Theodore C. Achilles, 80, American diplomat. ^[15]
• Alma Vessells John, 79, American nurse and radio personality, stroke.
• Alec Knight, 87, New Zealand cricketer.
• George Kenneth Mallory, 86, American pathologist.
• Robert du Mesnil du Buisson, 90, French archaeologist.
• Pauline Newman, 98, Russian-born American labor activist, stroke. ^[16]
• Yukiko Okada, 18, Japanese singer, suicide by jumping.
• William Luther Rhodes, 67, American judge.
• Imre Sörés, 79, Hungarian art director.

9

• Andrée Blouin, 64, Central African human rights activist, lymphoma.
• Charles Bosanquet, 82, English academic administrator.
• Bob Casey, 77, American jazz musician.
• Heinz Conrads, 72, Austrian actor.
• Robert C. Fritz, 65–66, American ceramics and glass artist.
• Alfredo Gaona, 74, Mexican Olympic boxer (1928).
• Johnny Hundley, 71, American baseball player.
• Stig Johanson, 66, Swedish actor.
• Dick Kokos, 58, American Major League baseball player.
• Les Pearson, 76, American baseball player.
• Leo Quenneville, 85, Canadian NHL ice hockey player.
• Vergil D. Reed, 88–89, American advertising executive and university professor.
• Karel VI Schwarzenberg, 74, Czechoslovak politician and aristocrat.
• Rezső Wanié, 77, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (1928).

10

• Joseph P. Addabbo, 61, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1961), bladder cancer. ^[17]
• Peter M. Busch, 51, United States Marine Corps officer and political candidate, plane crash. ^[18]
• Eugene E. Campbell, 70, American historian.
• Linda Creed, 37, American songwriter, breast cancer. ^[19]
• Thomas Durnell, 84, English cricketer.
• Alex Gray, 87, Scottish-born Canadian ice hockey player.
• Eugen Grimminger, 93, German resistance member (White Rose).
• Luther Harvel, 80, American Major League baseball player and manager.
• John Kelley, 78, American ice hockey coach.
• Garnet Lamb, 78, Australian rules footballer.
• Ron Tucker, 64, Australian rules footballer.
• Saul J. Turell, 65, American documentarian.

11

• William A. Caldwell, 79, American journalist.
• Penelope Chetwode, 76, English travel writer.
• Charles Darlington, 81, American diplomat. ^[20]
• Israel Goldstein, 89, American-Israeli rabbi, founder of Brandeis University. ^[21]
• Sir Ronald Gould, 81, British trade unionist.
• Ethel Haythornthwaite, 92, English conservationist
• Stanislav Jungwirth, 55, Czechoslovak Olympic runner (1952, 1956).
• Jack Manners, 71, Canadian CFL football player.
• Peter Nchabeleng, 58, South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, internal bleeding.
• Josef Růžička, 61, Czechoslovak Olympic wrestler (1952).

12

• Neil Adams, 62, Australian rugby player.
• Einar Ágústsson, 63, Icelandic politician.
• Meri Avidzba, 69, Soviet fighter pilot.
• Joseph Dervaes, 79, Belgian racing cyclist.
• José Jabardo, 71, Spanish racing cyclist.
• Valentin Kataev, 89, Soviet writer. ^[22]
• Sidney Matthew Metzger, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Dave Nelson, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• François Neuville, 73, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Walter Tille, 79, German trade unionist.
• Jean-François Tournon, 80, French Olympic fencer (1952).
• Bill Welsh, 77, Australian rules footballer.

13

• Bruce F. Allen, 68, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1953–1963).
• Dorothy Ashby, 53, American jazz musician. ^[23]
• Sulo Bärlund, 75, Finnish Olympic shot putter (1936).
• Frank DeCicco, 50, American mobster (Gambino crime family), car bomb. ^[24]
• Johnny Dollar, 53, American country musician. ^[25]
• Richmond Bowling Keech, 89, American judge.
• Tamás Major, 76, Hungarian actor.
• Stephen Stucker, 38, American actor ( Airplane! , The Kentucky Fried Movie ), AIDS.
• Andrew Tsu, 100, Chinese Anglican prelate.
• Jack van Bebber, 78, American Olympic gold medalist wrestler (1932).

14

• J. Lindsay Almond, 87, American politician and judge, governor of Virginia (1958–1962), member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1946–1948). ^[26]
• Simone de Beauvoir, 78, French writer, feminist and philosopher, pneumonia. ^[27]
• Nitin Bose, 88, Indian filmmaker.
• Jole Bovio Marconi, 89, Italian archaeologist.
• Whitford Brown, 75, New Zealand politician.
• Sidney Cope, 81, English cricketer.
• Arne Halonen, 87, Finnish journalist.
• Torbjørn Kristoffersen, 93, Norwegian Olympic gymnast (1920).
• Doc Land, 82, American Major League baseball player.
• John C. Munn, 79, American soldier officer.
• Tito Novaro, 67, Mexican actor and director.
• Daniela Zanetta, 23, Italian human rights activist, epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica.

15

• Sergei Anokhin, 76, Soviet pilot.
• George E. Burch, 76, American cardiologist.
• Redmund Geach, 53, South African cricketer.
• Jean Genet, 75, French novelist and playwright, throat cancer. ^[28]
• Edmund Hakewill-Smith, 90, British general.
• Don Hoefler, 63, American journalist, coined "Silicon Valley". ^[29]
• Jiang Zhaohe, 81, Chinese artist.
• Nathan O. Kaplan, 68, American biochemist.
• Paul F. Lorence, 31, American Air Force pilot, killed in battle.
• Robert Marjolin, 74, French economist and politician. ^[30]
• Tim McIntire, 41, American actor, heart failure. ^[31]
• John Archibald Mills, 75, Canadian politician.
• Vlastimil Moravec, 36, Czechoslovak Olympic cyclist (1972, 1976), traffic collision.
• Dudley Gwynne Perkins, 75, Welsh radio broadcaster.
• Fernando L. Ribas-Dominicci, 33, American Air Force pilot, killed in battle.
• Edwin R. Thiele, 90, American archaeologist and missionary.

16

• Allan Cunningham Anderson, 89, Scottish-born Canadian diplomat.
• Graham Bagnall, 73, New Zealand librarian and historian.
• Dave Bell, 76, Scottish footballer.
• Carlo Biagi, 71, Italian footballer.
• Mae Capone, 89, American wife of Al Capone.
• Pia Colombo, 51, French singer, cancer.
• Scrapper Farrell, 70, American NFL football player.
• Charles Goldenberg, 75, American NFL football player (Green Bay Packers).
• Alfred Hopkins, 85, British Olympic weightlifter (1928).
• Molly Luce, 89, American painter.
• Bob May, 76, Australian politician.
• Joe Price, 99, Australian rules footballer.
• Dyke Smith, 74, American football player.
• Bob Stam, 67, Dutch footballer.

17

• Ruka Broughton, 45, New Zealand university lecturer and priest.
• Robert R. Casey, 70, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–1976). ^[32]
• Stafford Castledine, 74, English cricketer.
• Paul Costello, 91, American Olympic rower (1920, 1924, 1928).
• Marcel Dassault, 94, French aircraft manufacturer. ^[33]
• Gaston Ducayla, 87, French Olympic wrestler (1924).
• Victor H. Espinoza, 56, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Hermann Friedrich Graebe, 85, German engineer.
• George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington, 91, Scottish hereditary peer.
• Henry Hall, 93, American ski jumper.
• Bessie Head, 48, South African-Botswanan writer, hepatitis.
• Emma Henry, 38–39, Filipino police officer, shot.
• Viktor Kokochashvili, 81, Soviet Georgian chemist.
• Teddy Kotick, 57, American jazz musician, brain cancer.
• Carl Lee, 59, American actor, AIDS.
• Herb Peschel, 72, Canadian CFL football player.
• Dominique Ponchardier, 69, French writer and diplomat.
• Maria Wardasówna, 78, Polish writer and aviator.

18

• Eddie Bauer, 86, American businessman (Eddie Bauer). ^[34]
• George Durning, 87, American Major League baseball player.
• Atulya Ghosh, 81, Indian politician.
• John Grady, 62–63, Australian author.
• Hugh Hough, 62, American author.
• Antonio Lauro, 68, Venezuelan musician.
• Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, 74, German submarine commander.
• Sir Victor Raikes, 85, British politician, MP (1931–1957).
• Aleksander Rozmus, 85, Polish Olympic ski jumper (1928).
• Tran Minh Tiet, 63, South Vietnamese politician and judge.

19

• Gudrun Stig Aagaard, 91, Danish textile artist.
• Gordon Abbott, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• George Breitman, 70, American political activist, heart attack. ^[35]
• Aileen Britton, 70, Australian actress.
• James Carne, 80, British soldier VC recipient.
• Alvin Childress, 78, American actor ( Amos 'n' Andy ). ^[36]
• Fred Duncan, 72, Australian politician.
• Arthur T. Gibbons, 83, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1935–1954).
• Adrian Gill, 49, Australian meteorologist and oceanographer, colon cancer. ^[37]
• Peter Higson, 80, English cricketer.
• Émile Maggi, 78, French Olympic racewalker (1948, 1952).
• William S. Thomas, 84, American Episcopalian prelate.
• Dag Wirén, 80, Swedish composer.
• Estelle Yancey, 90, American blues singer.

20

• Aleksei Arbuzov, 77, Soviet playwright. ^[38]
• Max Benedict, 66, Austrian-born English film editor.
• Doris Dawson, 81, American actress.
• Jean De Rode, 72, Belgian Olympic rower (1936).
• Eddie Feinberg, 68, American Major League baseball player.
• Jean-Jacques Gautier, 77, French writer.
• Sibte Hassan, 69, Pakistani political activist.
• Bun LaPrairie, 74, American NHL ice hockey player.
• Milton Mayer, 77, American journalist. ^[39]
• Edward McNair, 72, American Episcopal prelate.
• Marie Nyswander, 67, American psychoanalyst, cancer.
• Alif Piriyev, 64, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier.

21

• Teodoro Casana Robles, 86, Peruvian lawyer, archaeologist and geographer.
• George Collingwood, 82, British general.
• Marjorie Eaton, 85, American actress and painter.
• Nanna Egedius, 72, Norwegian Olympic figure skater (1936).
• Tiny Gooch, 82, American football player and political activist.
• Salah Jahin, 55, Egyptian poet, playwright and political cartoonist.
• Jozef Kalina, 61, Czechoslovak Olympic basketball player (1948).
• Matsunobori Shigeo, 61, Japanese sumo wrestler.

22

• Salvador Agron, 42, American gangster, internal bleeding.
• Mircea Eliade, 79, Romanian-American writer and historian. ^[40]
• Dame Honor Fell, 85, British cell biologist.
• Cliff Finch, 59, American politician, governor of Mississippi (1976–1980), heart attack. ^[41]
• Claude Fortier, 64, Canadian physiologist.
• David Funchess, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair. ^[42]
• Go Se-tae, 60–61, South Korean Olympic basketball player (1956).
• Kaino Haapanen, 74, Finnish politician.
• Errol Laughlin, 38, South African cricketer.
• Dick Moores, 76, American cartoonist ( Gasoline Alley ). ^[43]
• William P. Murphy, 87, American judge.
• Bogoljub Nedeljković, 65–66, Yugoslav politician.
• Robert Smock, 77, American horticulturist.
• Edmond Ténoudji, 83, French Algerian producer.

23

• Harold Arlen, 81, American composer ("Over the Rainbow", "The Man That Got Away", "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive"), cancer. ^[44]
• George H. Barker, 84–85, American football player.
• Louis Cardwell, 73, English footballer.
• Manuel Figueroa, 81, Chilean footballer.
• Yuri Gulyayev, 55, Soviet singer, heart failure.
• John W. F. M. Huffer, 90, American fighter pilot.
• Sir Charles Johnston, 74, British diplomat.
• Jim Laker, 64, English cricketer, complications from gallbladder surgery.
• Doxie Moore, 75, American basketball player and NBL coach.
• Otto Preminger, 80, Austrian-American filmmaker ( Anatomy of a Murder , Exodus , Laura ), lung cancer. ^[45]
• Arnold Rørholt, 77, Norwegian jurist.
• Harald Nicolai Samuelsberg, 74, Norwegian politician.
• Harold E. Wagoner, 81, American architect. ^[46]
• Alberto Zorrilla, 80, Argentine Olympic swimmer (1924, 1928).

24

• Vic Baltzell, 73, American NFL football player.
• Bert Blake, 78, English footballer.
• Antun Bonifačić, 84, Croatian-American politician and writer.
• Gladys Colton, 76–77, English educationist.
• Max Dennis, 60, American politician, member of the Ohio Senate (1965–1976).
• Ivan Duichev, 78, Bulgarian historian and paleographer.
• Bill Edrich, 70, British cricketer.
• Gerardo Guerrieri, 66, Italian filmmaker.
• Norm Hillard, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• Éva Kelemen, 65, Hungarian actress.
• Haldur Lasthein, 80, Danish footballer.
• Garnet Mackley, 102, New Zealand politician and railway manager, MP (1943–1949).
• Dimitar Paskov, 71, Bulgarian chemist.
• Wallis Simpson, 89, American-British socialite, widow of Edward VIII, pneumonia. ^[47]
• Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen, 82, American art patron. ^[48]

25

• Michael Creswell, 76, British diplomat.
• Tite Figueroa, 59, Puerto Rican baseball player.
• Fred Hunt, 62, English pianist.
• DeWitt Hyde, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1959). ^[49]
• Urylee Leonardos, 75, American actress and singer.

26

• Ángel Blanco, 47, Mexican professional wrestler, traffic collision.
• Nellie Breen, 89, American dancer and comedian.
• Broderick Crawford, 74, American actor ( All the King's Men , Highway Patrol ), stroke. ^[50]
• Hermann Gmeiner, 66, Austrian philanthropist.
• Kemal Gülçelik, 62–63, Turkish footballer.
• Leo Hofstee, 82, Dutch-born American Roman Catholic priest.
• Valery Khodemchuk, 35, Soviet Ukrainian engineer, reactor explosion.
• Johnny Kitzmiller, 81, American NFL football player.
• Cliff Leeman, 72, American jazz drummer.
• Bessie Love, 87, American-British actress. ^[51]
• Séamus McElwain, 26, Irish militant (Provisional Irish Republican Army), shot.
• O. Leslie Stone, 82, American Mormon leader.
• Dechko Uzunov, 87, Bulgarian painter.
• Lou van Burg, 68, Dutch-German television personality and singer.

27

• Frederick Dawson, 68, New Zealand cricketer.
• Tim Greve, 60, Norwegian historian, cancer.
• Ed Halicki, 80, American NFL football player.
• J. Allen Hynek, 75, American ufologist, creator of the close encounter scale, brain cancer. ^[52]
• Eduard Imhof, 91, Swiss cartographer.
• Marty Karow, 81, American Major League baseball player.
• Åke Kromnow, 71, Swedish historian.
• Verena Loewensberg, 73, Swiss painter.
• Lolita, 36, Italian singer, stabbed.
• Evi Maltagliati, 77, Italian actress.
• Tom McLachlan, 79, Australian rugby league footballer.
• William Morrell, 86, New Zealand historian.
• Bayless Rose, 95, American musician.
• Juan Tapia Sánchez, 71, Spanish politician, cancer.

28

• R. H. Bing, 71, American mathematician.
• Geoff Brokenshire, 63, Australian rules footballer.
• Louis H. Burke, 81, American judge.
• Marcel Hellman, 87, Romanian-born British film producer.
• Rabiul Awal Kiran Khan, 45–46, Bangladeshi politician, shot.
• Fred Lutkefedder, 76, American soccer player.
• Evan Mackie, 68, New Zealand flying ace, cancer.
• Dave McClain, 48, American football player and coach, cardiac arrest. ^[53]
• Vladimír Novák, 82, Czechoslovak Olympic skier (1928, 1932).
• Ramu III, appr. 23, American orca, cardiovascular failure.
• Pat Seerey, 63, American Major League baseball player.
• Charles B. Washington, 62, American civil rights activist.

29

• Gilbert Baker, 75, Hong Kong Anglican prelate.
• Sidney Bowman, 78, American Olympic jumper (1928, 1932).
• Henri de France, 74, French television engineer.
• Alejandro González Malavé, 28, Puerto Rican undercover agent, shot.
• Edwin Graves, 88, American Olympic rower (1920).
• Vickie Panos, 66, Canadian baseball player.
• Dick Powell, 81, American NFL football player.
• Raúl Prebisch, 85, Argentine economist.
• Thomas N. Scortia, 59, American author, leukemia. ^[54]
• Glen Byam Shaw, 81, English actor and theatre director.
• Bernhard Wosien, 77, German choreographer.

30

• Sheila Borrett, 80, British radio presenter, stroke.
• Antoinette Butte, 87, French scouting leader.
• Jørgen Hansen, 54, Danish Olympic footballer (1960).
• Bill Higdon, 62, American Major League baseball player.
• Henry Kemp-Blair, 56, South African-American playwright and theatre director, heart attack.
• Odd Solumsmoen, 68, Norwegian novelist.
• Thelma Stefani, 37, Argentine actress and dancer, suicide by jumping.
• Robert Stevenson, 81, British-American filmmaker ( Mary Poppins , Bedknobs and Broomsticks , The Love Bug ). ^[55]
• George Whitcombe, 84, Welsh footballer.

References

1. Erik Bruhn Dies in Toronto; Top Dancer of his Generation
2. Obituary: Margaret Masterman
3. Dick Scesniak, four days shy of celebrating his third...
4. Raymond H. Lapin, 67, Dead; Fought Nixon at Fannie Mae
5. George G. Kirstein, Ex-Publisher
6. Mary C. McCall Jr., Major TV, Film Writer, Dies at 81 (subscription required)
7. Peter Pears dies at his festival home
8. Ayatollah Kazem Shariat-Madari of Iran, 87
9. Charles H. DeBow Jr.
10. Sascha Gorodnitzki, Pianist, and Juilliard Faculty Members
11. Dr. Ira V. Hiscock, Ex-Head Of Yale's Public Health Unit
12. Pesach Burnstein, Yiddish Star, Dies
13. Chester Erskine Dies; Director and Producer
14. Leonid V. Kantorovich Dies; Won Nobel Economics Prize
15. Theodore C. Achilles, A Longtime Diplomat
16. Pauline Newman, An Early Organizer of Clothing Workers
17. Rep. Joseph Addabbo Dies; Head of Key Defense Panel
18. "Officials Confirm Three Dead In Crash Of Plane Carrying Candidatess". AP News. April 11, 1986. Archived from the original on April 15, 2021.
19. Linda Creed, Songwriter, 37; Known for the 'Philly Sound'
20. Charles F. Darlington Jr., 81, Envoy and Economist, Dies
21. Rabbi Israel Goldstein, A Founder of Brandeis
22. Valenton Katayev is Dead at 89; A Soviet Novelist and Playwright
23. Harpist Dorothy Ashby made her mark in jazz
24. Diocese Prohibits Mass as Mob Figure's Burial
25. Country music producer Johnny Dollar dies
26. Lindsay Almond of Virginia; Led State During Race Battle
27. Simone de Beauvoir, Author and Intellectual, Dies in Paris at 78
28. Jean Genet, The Playwright, Dies at 75
29. Dan Hoefler, 63, Silicon Valley Publicist, Dies (subscription required)
30. Robert Marjolin, Economist and Common Market Official
31. Tim McIntire
32. Bob Casey, 70, Ex-Congressman (subscription required)
33. Marcel Dassault, Leading Figure in French Aviation, is Dead at 94
34. Eddie Bauer, Pioneer in Use of Down Garments, is Dead
35. George Breitman
36. Alvin Childress Dead; Starred as TV's 'Amos'
37. Adrian Edmund Gill, 22 February 1937 - 19 April 1986
38. Aleksei Arbuzov, Playwright, Dies
39. Essayist Milton Mayer Dies at 77 (subscription required)
40. Professor Mircea Eliade, 79; Writer and Religious Scholar
41. Charles (Cliff) Finch Dies at 59; Governor of Mississippi in 1970's
42. Vietnam Veteran is Put to Death in Florida
43. Richard Moores Dies at 77; Drew 'Gasoline Alley' Strip
44. Harold Arlen, Composer of Song Standards
45. Otto Preminger, 80, Dies; Producer and Director
46. Harold E. Wagoner, 81, designer of contemporary church buildings
47. Duchess of Windsor, 89, Dies in France; Woman Who Won a King
48. Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen, 82, a leader in cultural, artistic affairs
49. Dewitt S. Hyde
50. Broderick Crawford, Oscar-Winning Tough, Dies
51. Bessie Love, 87, an Actress From Silent-Film to TV Eras
52. J. Allen Hynek, Astronomer and U.F.O. Consultant, Dies
53. Dave McClain Dies; Coach of Football at U. of Wisconsin
54. Thomas Scortia, Best-Selling Writer of Science Fiction Stories, Dies at 59 (subscription required)
55. Robert Stevenson, 81, Dies; Directed Walt Disney Films