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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

• Ramón Carande, 99, Spanish historian.
• Tina Cooper, 68, English pediatrician, cancer.
• Earl B. Dickerson, 95, American lawyer and politician.
• Phil Feldesman, 67, Russian-born American bridge player.
• R. B. Freeman, 71, English zoologist, heart attack.
• Ivor Guy, 59, English footballer.
• Murray Hamilton, 63, American actor ( Jaws ), lung cancer. ^[1]
• Colin McCathie, 76, Australian politician.
• Bobby Moers, 68, American basketball, football and baseball player.
• Eddie Vitch, 83, Polish-born American-Australian comedian

2

• Frank Bartkus, 70, American soccer player.
• Thomas Butler Dowda, 87, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1941–1953). ^[2]
• Mahmoud Kaveh, 25, Iranian soldier, killed in action.
• Nuno Morais, 63, Portuguese Olympic sprinter (1948).
• Philip Radcliffe, 81, English musicologist.
• Billy Taylor, 80, American jazz bassist.
• Malcolm Walker, 52, English cricketer, traffic collision.
• Jim Wilson, 64, American baseball player, cancer.

3

• Vasantrao Ghatge, 70, Indian business magnate.
• Wirgiliusz Gryń, 58, Polish actor.
• Horace King, Baron Maybray-King, 85, British politician.
• Pino Mercanti, 75, Italian filmmaker.
• Glennon T. Moran, 67, American general and flying ace, cancer.
• Kit Mouat, 66, English poet and activist.
• Ted Moult, 60, British radio and television personality, suicide by gunshot.
• Knocky Parker, 68, American jazz pianist.
• Vittorino Veronese, 76, Italian lawyer, director-general of UNESCO (1958–1961).
• Frank Corbett Welch, 86, Canadian politician and horticulturalist.
• Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr., 80, American jurist. ^[3]

4

• Edd Ashe, 78, American comic writer and cartoonist.
• Christer Boustedt, 47, Swedish musician and actor.
• Alexei Fofanov, 71, Soviet soldier.
• Françoise Gaudet-Smet, 83, Canadian writer.
• Roberto Gavaldón, 77, Mexican film director.
• Otto Glória, 69, Brazilian football manager.
• Hank Greenberg, 75, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Detroit Tigers), kidney cancer. ^[4]
• Decio Klettenberg, 84, Brazilian Olympic rower (1936).
• Wayne Nance, 30, American serial killer, shot.
• Frank Stewart, 76, Australian footballer.
• Sid Tanenbaum, 60, American basketball player, stabbed. ^[5]
• Walter Wanderley, 54, Brazilian musician, cancer.
• Dov Zakin, 63, Israeli politician.

5

• Neerja Bhanot, 22, Indian flight purser, shot.
• Alvin Heaps, 66, American labor union leader. ^[6]
• Noel Kempff Mercado, 62, Bolivian biologist and environmentalist, shot.
• József Kiss, 77, Hungarian Olympic runner (1948).
• Alfredo Rossi, 80, Italian pianist.
• Erich Schumacher, 77, German theatre director.
• Ganapathi Thanikaimoni, 48, Indian palynologist, shot.
• Trần Quốc Hoàn, 70, Vietnamese politician.

6

• Weston Bousfield, 82, American psychologist.
• Jacek Daniluk, 25, Polish Olympic equestrian (1980).
• Thomas Wardrope Eadie, 88, Canadian business executive.
• William Littell Everitt, 86, American electrical engineer. ^[7]
• George Gipe, 53, American author and screenwriter, allergic reaction to a bee sting. ^[8]
• John Stanley Grauel, 68, American priest and Christian Zionist leader. ^[9]
• George P. Monaghan, 85, American lawyer and emergency services commissioner.
• Leonard Outerbridge, 98, Canadian politician.
• Ernest Schmidt, 75, American basketball player.
• Blanche Sweet, 90, American silent film actress, stroke. ^[10]
• Hiroshi Tadano, 72, Japanese Olympic skier (1936).
• Fred Taggart, 80, English golfer.

7

• Ola Bøe, 76, Norwegian fiddler.
• Skipper Bowles, 66, American politician and businessman, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ^[11]
• Les Bury, 73, English-Australian politician.
• Paul Roberts Cannon, 94, American physician.
• Nelson Dunford, 79, American mathematician.
• Raimundo Infante, 58, Chilean footballer.
• Lloyd Kerns, 65, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1967–1972).
• Spencer Le Marchant, 55, British politician.
• Monte McDaniel, 91, American football player and coach.
• Jack Mizuha, 72, American jurist.
• Dan K. Moore, 80, American politician, governor of North Carolina (1965–1969). ^[12]
• Omar Ali Saifuddien III, 71, Bruneian royal, sultan (1950–1957). ^[13]
• P. S. Ramakrishna Rao, 67, Indian filmmaker.
• Sir Percy Rugg, 80, British politician.
• Vladimir Vlasov, 83, Soviet composer.
• Capus M. Waynick, 96, American diplomat.
• Hewitt T. Wheless, 72, American general

8

• José Carrasco Tapia, 43, Chilean journalist, murdered.
• Vladimír Janoušek, 64, Czech painter and sculptor.
• Ray Nazarro, 83, American filmmaker.
• Idar Norstrand, 71, Norwegian politician.
• Reece Sailer, 70, American entomologist.
• Alfred Schaefer, 81, Swiss banker.
• Tomasz Stefaniszyn, 57, Polish footballer.
• George Tully, 72, Canadian Olympic fencer (1936).

9

• Kessler R. Cannon, 70, American politician and radio broadcaster, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1961–1964). ^[14]
• Getzel Kressel, 75, Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli biographer.
• Albert Malet, 73-74, French painter.
• Robert Shackleton, 66, English linguist.
• Magda Tagliaferro, 93, Brazilian pianist.
• Franciszek Tim, 62, Polish footballer.

10

• Pepper Adams, 55, American jazz saxophonist, lung cancer. ^[15]
• Mary V. Austin, 86, Australian political activist.
• Jake Bornheimer, 59, American basketball player.
• Deane Gundlock, 72, Canadian politician.
• María Dolores Katarain, 32, Spanish Basque separatist leader, shot.
• Sobhi Mahmassani, 77, Lebanese lawyer and politician, lung cancer.
• Ronnie Shade, 47, Scottish golfer
• Harry Shafransky, 56, Polish-born Canadian politician, heart attack.
• Koji Shima, 85, Japanese filmmaker.
• Andrei Zazroyev, 60, Soviet Georgian football player and manager.

11

• Revington Arthur, 79, American painter.
• Red Bethea, 81, American football player.
• Arthur Carr, 76, British Olympic equestrian (1948).
• Harry Haslam, 65, English football player and manager.
• Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, 83, Greek politician, prime minister (1945, 1967).
• Galo Miño, 33, Ecuadorian Olympic sports shooter (1984), shot.
• Otho Nitcholas, 77, American baseball player.
• Felix Perrault, 70, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1965–1979).
• Henry DeWolf Smyth, 88, American physicist and diplomat, cardiac arrest. ^[16]
• Noel Streatfeild, 90, English children's author.
• Billy Walsh, 75, Australian footballer.

12

• Philip Ingress Bell, 86, British politician.
• Marcel Boigegrain, 57, French Olympic rower (1948).
• James Louis Connolly, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Ernst Haas, 65, Austrian-born American photojournalist, stroke. ^[17]
• Edwin B. Hooper, 77, American naval admiral.
• Jacques Henri Lartigue, 92, French photographer and painter. ^[18]
• Terence MacDonagh, 78, English oboist.
• Manjula, 31, Indian actress, suicide by fire.
• Harold Moody, 70, British Olympic shot putter (1948).
• Frank Nelson, 75, American actor ( The Jack Benny Program ), cancer. ^[19]
• Ernst Paulus, 89, German Olympic athlete (1928).
• Gerhard Rohlfs, 94, German linguist.
• Annibale Ruccello, 30, Italian playwright, traffic collision.
• Jim Shilling, 72, American baseball player.
• Bruce Wardlaw, 72, Australian cricketer and footballer.
• Charlotte Wolff, 88, German-British sexologist.

13

• Dick May, 76, Australian footballer.
• Antonio Mota, 47, Mexican footballer.
• Robert Nisbet, 85, British Olympic rower (1928).
• Neil Robinson, 24, Northern Irish racing cyclist, racing crash.
• Sam Shields, 57, Scottish footballer.
• Oscar Wight, 80, Guyanese cricketer.
• Roger Wrightson, 46, English cricketer.

14

• William Edmund Barrett, 85, American writer ( The Lilies of the Field ). ^[20]
• John Bingham, 32-33, Northern Irish loyalist soldier, shot.
• Leslie Blanchard, 52, American hairdresser and legal figure ( Braschi v. Stahl Associates Co. ), AIDS.
• David Harold Byrd, 86, American oil executive.
• Charles Caputo, 74, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1967–1978).
• Marcel Couraud, 73, French conductor and organist.
• Georgia Engelhard, 79, American mountaineer.
• Gordon McLendon, 65, American radio broadcaster, cancer. ^[21]
• Jean Preuss, 82, French racing cyclist.

15

• Chris Abel, 74, English footballer.
• Gustaf Andersson, 83, Swedish Olympic speed skater (1928).
• Don Bennett, 76, Australian-British politician and pilot, MP (1945).
• Jaroslav Burgr, 80, Czech footballer.
• Bill Butler, 66, Australian footballer.
• William Goode, 79, British colonial administrator, governor of Singapore (1957–1959).
• Virginia Gregg, 70, American actress, lung cancer. ^[22]
• Eric Hiscock, 78, British sailor and author.
• Joe Hiscock, 81-82, British trade unionist.
• Joseph M. Pettit, 70, American engineer and academic administrator, cancer.
• Elizabeth Titzel Riefstahl, 97, American archaeologist. ^[23]
• Freimut Stein, 62, German Olympic figure skater (1952).
• Ramón Alberto Villaverde, 56, Uruguayan footballer.

16

• Charlie Adams, 89, Australian footballer.
• Engelbert Brenner, 82, Austrian-born American oboist.
• Jim Brough, 82, English rugby player.
• Leobardo Candiani, 81, Mexican Olympic fencer (1932).
• Judith Crawley, 72, Canadian filmmaker.
• Puran Chandra Gupta, 74, Indian journalist.
• Denis Guye, 85, English Olympic rower (1928).
• Darold Jenkins, 67, American football player.
• Walter Lehweß-Litzmann, 79, German Luftwaffe pilot.
• Francesco Malatesta, 79, Italian Olympic cyclist (1928).
• Walter Matthews, 86, Canadian politician.
• Žarko Mihajlović, 66, Yugoslav football manager.
• Ernst-Eduard Rull, 91, Estonian sports shooter.
• Karel Svolinský, 90, Czech artist and typeface designer.
• Bob Thyne, 66, Scottish footballer.

17

• Erich Bautz, 73, German racing cyclist.
• Johnny Cook, 60, American football player, leukemia.
• Joe Kennedy, 60, English footballer.
• Pat Phoenix, 62, English actress ( Coronation Street ), lung cancer. ^[24]
• Henrik Sjögren, 87, Swedish ophthamologist, describer of Sjögren syndrome.
• Albert Titley, 74, English footballer.

18

• Marius Beraru, 65, Romanian football player and manager.
• David Dodge Boyden, 75, American musicologist.
• Aljoša Buha, 24, Yugoslav Bosnian musician (Crvena jabuka), traffic collision.
• Elwyn Davies, 77, Welsh academic administrator.
• Johann Dick, 59, West German retired soldier, shot.
• Hettie Ewing, 89, American missionary.
• Jon Gould, 33, American film executive, AIDS.
• Joseph Hibbert, 91-92, Jamaican Rastafari preacher.
• Corita Kent, 67, American artist, ovarian cancer. ^[25]
• Wilhelm Kimmich, 89, German painter.
• Shelton Perera, 47, Sri Lankan musician.

19

• Hubert Badanai, 91, Italian-born Canadian politician.
• Len Childs, 84-85, British trade unionist.
• Vivian Duncan, 89, American vaudeville performer.
• James H. Gray Sr., 70, American politician, heart attack.
• Ainslie Meares, 76, Australian psychiatrist, pneumonia.
• Baxter Morgan, 68, Canadian politician.
• Ramón Orriols, 74, Spanish footballer.
• Sir Lawrence Pendred, 87, British RAF officer.
• Red Shurtliffe, 79, American football player.
• Wyatt Turner, 77, American baseball player.

20

• John C. Becher, 71, American actor, cancer.
• Christopher Butler, 84, British Roman Catholic prelate.
• Johannes Caspers, 76, German politician.
• Chester A. Chesney, 70, American politician and football player, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951). ^[26]
• Sir Norman Chester, 78, British economist.
• Ray Eddy, 75, American basketball player and coach.
• Lionel Farris, 81, English table tennis player.
• James Hardy, 65, American Olympic rower (1948).
• Elizabeth Hirschboeck, 83, American religious sister and humanitarian.
• Pleas Jones, 73, American jurist.
• Fred Macbeth, 76, Canadian Olympic sprinter (1928).
• Sverre Marstrander, 75, Norwegian archaeologist.
• Bob McChesney, 74, American football player.
• Haruhiko Nishi, 93, Japanese diplomat.
• William W. Outerbridge, 80, American naval admiral.
• Dennis Spooner, 53, English television writer, heart attack.
• Anders Ström, 85, Swedish Olympic skier (1928).
• Nicolae Testemițanu, 59, Soviet Moldovan surgeon and politician.
• Nico van der Laan, 78, Dutch architect.

21

• Jonah Barrington, 82, British journalist.
• Rolf Gustafsson, 79, Swedish Olympic boxer (1928).
• Wilhelm Heun, 91, German general.
• Cheryl Keeton, 36, American lawyer, murdered.
• John Kuck, 81, American Olympic shot putter (1928).
• Helen Bell Milburn, 98, Canadian radiologist.
• Pierre Wigny, 81, Belgian politician.
• Clancy Williams, 43, American football player, cancer. ^[27]
• Rex Woods, 94, British Olympic athlete (1924, 1928).

22

• József Asbóth, 69, Hungarian tennis player.
• Bernie Cummins, 86, American jazz drummer.
• Janet Davies, 59, English actress ( Dad's Army ), breast cancer.
• Yussuf Hamis, 65, Israeli politician.
• Tom Lovatt-Williams, 89, English poet.
• Theodore H. McCrea, 78, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Sohan Singh Misha, 52, Indian poet.
• Lloyd Peterson, 86, American college sports coach.
• Erik Svensson, 83, Swedish Olympic jumper (1928, 1932).
• Abdel-Kader Zaaf, 69, Algerian racing cyclist.

23

• Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield, 96, Austro-Hungarian-Italian flying ace.
• Theresa Sherrer Davidson, 92, American lawyer and classical scholar.
• Gordie Drillon, 72, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Barbara Gilewska, 74, Polish actress.
• Bert Hodges, 81, Welsh cricketer.
• Sir Vincent Lloyd-Jones, 84, Welsh jurist.
• Yelena Maksimova, 80, Soviet actress.
• Domingo Moreno Jimenes, 92, Dominican writer.
• Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp, 75, German Nazi officer.
• C. A. Patrides, 55,-56, American writer, AIDS.
• Percy Peter, 84, English Olympic swimmer (1920, 1924, 1928).
• Jack Shook, 76, American guitarist.

24

• Uell Stanley Andersen, 69, American football player.
• Edwin John Beer, 107, British chemist and geologist.
• Prudence Glynn, 51, British journalist and author, intracerebral hemorrhage.
• Hiroshi Hara, 75, Japanese botanist.
• Bert Price, 79, Canadian politician.
• Dorothy Pilley Richards, 92, English mountaineer.
• Kamer Sadık, 74-75, Turkish actor.
• Harald Selås, 78, Norwegian politician.
• Adolf Tolkachev, 59, Soviet electronics engineer and double agent, execution by shooting.

25

• Geoff Alley, 83, New Zealand rugby player and librarian.
• Ted Bishop, 73, American golfer.
• Darshan Singh Canadian, 68-69, Indian trade unionist, murdered.
• John Carroll, 64, Canadian politician.
• Henning Helgesson, 86, Swedish footballer.
• Svante Johansson, 59, Swedish Olympic diver (1948).
• Bill Lever, 82, Australian footballer.
• Donald MacDonald, 77, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Nikolay Semyonov, 90, Soviet chemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1956). ^[28]
• Hubertus Strughold, 88, German-American physiologist and war criminal.
• Hans Vogt, 83, Norwegian linguist.
• James B. Wilson, 90, American football player and coach.

26

• Moussa Ali Abdoulkader, 63, Djiboutian politician.
• Jacob Agus, 74, Polish-born American rabbi and theologian.
• Mirta Cerra Herrera, 82, Cuban painter.
• Roger Howard Cilley, 68, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Wilson Faumuina, 32, American football player, heart failure. ^[29]
• Hugh Franklin, 70, American actor, cancer.
• H. D. S. Haverbeck, 72, American philatelist.
• Bert Humpish, 84, English footballer.
• Brian Desmond Hurst, 91, Irish film director.
• Billy Key, 90, British general.
• André Maelbrancke, 68, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Roger Rousseau, 65, Canadian diplomat.
• Noboru Terada, 68, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1936).

27

• Tony Acquaviva, 61, American composer.
• Walter Brecht, 86, German scientist.
• Cliff Burton, 24, American bassist (Metallica), traffic collision. ^[30]
• Jessie Eden, 84, British trade unionist.
• Giuseppe Ghedina, 87, Italian Olympic skier (1924).
• Michael Joseph Hogan, 78, British jurist.
• Richard Krygier, 69, Polish-born Australian journalist.
• Olga Masters, 67, Australian author and writer.
• Éva Ruttkai, 58, Hungarian actress, breast cancer.
• Chuck Sheerin, 77, American baseball player.
• Georg Voggenreiter, 74, German racing cyclist.

28

• Denis Carey, 77, British actor
• Howard Graham, 88, Canadian general.
• Sir Robert Helpmann, 77, Australian ballet dancer, choreographer, and actor ( Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ). ^[31]
• Hazdayi Penso, 72, Turkish basketball player.
• Ewa Szelburg-Zarembina, 87, Polish novelist.
• Kiyoshi Tanimoto, 77, Japanese Methodist minister and hibakusha.
• Richard C. Turner, 58, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate (1961–1965), heart attack.
• Glauco Vanz, 66, Italian footballer.
• Anthony Vince, 84, Canadian Olympic sprinter (1924).

29

• Billy Bottrill, 83, English footballer.
• Les Field, 64, Australian footballer.
• Prince Georg of Denmark, 66, Danish royal and diplomat.
• Sir Reg Goodwin, 78, British politician.
• Artie Gore, 78, American baseball umpire.
• Maurice Harland, 90, British Anglican prelate.
• M. D. H. Jayawardena, 71, Sri Lankan politician.
• Lilian Hamilton Jeffery, 71, British archaeologist.
• Betty Kean, 71, American actress. ^[32]
• Moestopo, 73, Indonesian general.
• Joe Nolan, 57, Canadian-American ice hockey player.
• Al Passarell, 36, Canadian politician, plane crash.
• Helmut Qualtinger, 57, Austrian actor, liver disease.
• Theodor Schwenk, 75, German anthroposophist and water researcher.

30

• Franz Burda, 83, German publisher.
• Arthur A. Cohen, 58, American novelist and theologian, leukemia. ^[33]
• Brewster Hughes, 73, Nigerian guitarist.
• Storm Jameson, 95, English journalist and author. ^[34]
• Nicholas Kaldor, 78, Hungarian-British economist. ^[35]
• Noel Kirsten, 60, South African cricketer.
• Laurier Lister, 79, English theatre producer.
• Buster Millerick, 80, American racehorse trainer. ^[36]
• Tommy Reynolds, 69, American jazz clarinetist.
• Kamaruzaman Sjam, 62, Indonesian communist activist, executed.
• Wilfrid Timms, 84, English cricketer.
• Sir John Westall, 85, New Zealand general.

References

1. Murray Hamilton, a character actor for over 40 years
2. Obituary for Thomas Butler Dowda (Aged 87)
3. Progressive District Judge Wyzanski is Dead at 80
4. Hank Greenberg, top hitter and member of Hall of Fame
5. Sid Tanenbaum, 60, is slain; N.Y.U. basketball star in 40's
6. Alvin Heaps, former Chicago labor leader (subscription required)
7. William L. Everitt, 86, Dies; Telecommunications Expert
8. George Gipe Is Dead at 53; A Film and Television Writer
9. Rev. J. S. Grauel, 68, A Supporter of Israel
10. Blanche Sweet, film actress
11. Remembering Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles Jr. '41 (1919-1986)
12. Dan Moore, 80, Dies; Governor and Justice
13. Omar Ali Saifuddin; Former Brunei Sultan
14. Obituary for Kessler Cannon (Aged 70)
15. Pepper Adams Dead; Baritone Saxophonist
16. Dr. Henry Smyth, ex-member of Atom Panel
17. Ernst Haas, photojournalist and innovator, is dead at 65
18. Lartigue is dead; Photographer, 92
19. Frank Nelson
20. William E. Barrett dies at 85; Author of 'Lilies of the Field'
21. Radio Pioneer McLendon, 65, Dies in Texas (subscription required)
22. Virginia Gregg Is Dead at 70; Off-Screen Voice in 'Psycho'
23. Elizabeth Riefstahl
24. Pat Phoenix, British Soap Opera Queen, Dies at 62 (subscription required)
25. Corita Kent, Artist and Nun, Designed 'Love' Stamp on 60's
26. Former Bear, Congressman 'Chet' Chesney (subscription required)
27. Services Scheduled for Clancy Williams (subscription required)
28. Nikolai Semyonov, Winner of 1956 Nobel in Chemistry
29. Wilson Faumuina, 32, a former Atlanta Falcons... (subscription required)
30. Metallica Cancels Tour After Member's Death
31. Sir Robert Helpmann is dead; A Dancer, Actor and Director
32. Betty Kean, 69, a TV Actress And Part of 50's Comedy Act
33. Arthur A. Cohen, Author, Dies at 58
34. Storm Jameson, English Writer of 50 Books
35. Nicholas Kaldor is Dead at 78; British Pro-labor Economist
36. Obituary for Michael Millerick