Deaths in October 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 1986

1

• Archie League, 79, American air traffic controller.
• William Manning, 83, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (1956-1974).
• Seán Moore, 73, Irish politician, member of Dáil Éireann, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
• Fernand Picard, 69, Canadian politician, member of the National Assembly of Quebec (1966-1976).
• John Potts, 82, English footballer.
• Dražen Ričl, 24, Yugoslavian rock musician (Crvena jabuka) and comedian, traffic collision.
• Frank Samblebe, 71, Australian rules footballer.

2

• Ron Rutherford, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• F. Wayne Valley, 72, American businessman and football executive, owner of Oakland Raiders, cancer.

3

• Vince DiMaggio, 74, American Major League baseballer (Pittsburgh Pirates), brother of Joe DiMaggio, colon cancer.
• Shunzo Kido, 97, Japanese Olympic equestrian (1928, 1932).
• Heinie Mueller, 74, American Major League Baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
• Sergey Preminin, 20, Soviet navy sailor, averted meltdown in nuclear submarine K-219, hyperthermia.
• Han Xianchu, 73, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army.

4

• Raymond E. Baldwin, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate and Governor of Connecticut.
• Robert Broadbent, 81, Australian Olympic cyclist (1924).
• Mike Butterworth, 62, British comic book writer (The Trigan Empire), heart attack.
• Jeff Clements, 54, English rugby union player.
• Sarala Devi, 82, Indian politician and social activist, member of Odisha Legislative Assembly.
• Arno von Lenski, 93, Nazi German Wehrmacht general and politician.
• Raimundo Morales, 88, Spanish Olympic tennis player (1924).
• Desiderius Orban, 101, Hungarian and Australian painter, kidney disease.
• Valentín Sabate, 64, Spanish Olympic water polo player (1948).

5

• George Packer Berry, 87, American physician and medical educator.
• Mike Burgmann, 39, Australian racing driver, racing crash.
• Timothy Creasey, 63, British army general.
• Abraham Feinberg, 87, American rabbi, activist and singer, cancer.
• Rudolf Flesch, 75, Austrian-born American readability expert and author (Why Johnny Can't Read).
• William Karlsen, 76 Norwegian Olympic backstroke swimmer (1932).
• Zdzisław Kumiszcze, 49, Polish Olympic hurdler (1960).
• Collette Lyons, 78, American actress, wife of George Randolph Hearst.
• Héctor Maturano, 65, Argentine Olympic boxer (1952).
• Mairin Mitchell, 91, British and Irish writer and journalist.
• Peter Phelps, 77, English cricketer.
• Emanuel Sayles, 79, American jazz banjoist.
• Hal B. Wallis, 87, American film producer (Casablanca, True Grit, The Adventures of Robin Hood), diabetes.
• James H. Wilkinson, 67, English mathematician (Wilkinson matrix, Wilkinson's polynomial), heart attack.

6

• Marie-Hélène Arnaud, 52, French model and actress, the "face of Chanel".
• Yuri Babayev, 58, Soviet physicist, co-designers of the Tsar Bomba.
• Gokulbhai Bhatt, 88, Indian politician and social worker, Chief Minister of Sirohi State.
• Harold Brooke, 87, Australian Olympic sailor (1960).
• Loris Gizzi, 87, Italian actor.
• Robert L. Larson, 88, American jurist.
• Tom Ledwidge, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• Guy Prendergast, 81, British army officer and explorer.
• David Rubinoff, 89, Russian-born American violinist.
• Robert Six, 79, American businessman, CEO of Continental Airlines.
• Wallace Wade, 94, American football player and sports coach.

7

• Germain Burger, 86, British cinematographer and director.
• Allan Macy Butler, 92, American pediatrician.
• Cheryl Crawford, 84, American theatre producer and director (Group Theatre).
• Irvine Finlay Corbett, 71, Canadian politician, plane crash.
• Arthur Galsworthy, 70, British diplomat, High Commissioner to New Zealand, ambassador to the Republic of Ireland.
• Yōjirō Ishizaka, 86, Japanese novelist and short story writer.
• Iwan Iwanoff, 67, Bulgarian and Australian architect, pneumonia.
• Liu Bocheng, 93, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army.
• Jerzy Łojek, 54, Polish historian.
• David D. O'Malley, 73, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1958-1977).
• George Owens, 86, Australian rules footballer.
• J. G. Phillips, 75, Australian economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, suicide.
• Paul Tournier, 88, Swiss physician and pastoral counselor, cancer.

8

• Nels Anderson, 97, American sociologist and author (The Hobo).
• Walter Burkemo, 67, American golfer, PGA Championship winner.
• Gerhard Dietrich, 58, German pedagogue.
• Ícaro Mello, 72, Brazilian Olympic high jumper (1936).
• Edna Roper, 73, Australian politician.
• Shadi Abdel Salam, 56, Egyptian film director and screenwriter (The Night of Counting the Years).
• Max Surkont, 64, American Major League baseballer (Boston/Milwaukee Braves).

9

• Lajos Balogh, Hungarian Olympic long jumper (1928).
• Eddie Johnson, 58, American Olympic boxer (1948).
• Harald Reinl, 78, Austrian film director (Chariots of the Gods), murdered.
• James J. Reynolds, Jr., 79, American civil servant, Under Secretary of Labor.
• Jo-Jo White, 77, American Major League baseballer (Detroit Tigers).

10

• Lyndall Barbour, 70, Australian actress.
• Gerold Braunmühl, 51, West German diplomat, assassinated.
• Mary Cholmondeley, 80, British socialite and heiress.
• Antonio di Benedetto, 63, Argentinian novelist (Zama).
• Han Drijver, 59, Dutch Olympic field hockey player. (1948, 1952).
• Nieves Hernández, 84, Mexican Olympic footballer (1928).
• Sigfred Jensen, 77, Danish footballer.
• Rusty Lane, 87, American actor and college professor (Crime with Father).
• Marie Neurath, 88, German and English designer and illustrator of children's books, co-developer of Isotype.
• Frank O'Neal, 65, American cartoonist.
• Michele Pellegrino, 83, Italian cardinal.
• Michael Player, 25–26, American serial killer (Skid Row Slayer), suicide.
• Priaulx Rainier, 83, South African–born British composer.
• Russ Van Atta, 80, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Browns).
• Gleb Wataghin, 86, Ukrainian-Italian physicist.

11

• Gregorio Álvarez, 96, Argentinian historian and physician.
• Bob Brooker, 59, Australian rules footballer.
• Norm Cash, 52, American Major League baseballer (Detroit Tigers), drowned.
• John Crockett, 68, British television and stage director.
• Georges Dumézil, 88, French linguist, stroke.
• Barker Fairley, 99, British-born Canadian painter and literary scholar.
• David Hand, 86, American animator (Walt Disney Productions), stroke.
• Gyula Kovács, 69, Hungarian Olympic wrestler (1948, 1952, 1956).
• Boris Leven, 78, Russian-born American production designer and Academy Award winner (West Side Story).
• Ed McNamara, 65, Canadian actor (For Gentlemen Only, Bayo).
• Bronte Clucas Quayle, 66, Australian barrister, civil servant, and solicitor.
• Al Ullman, 72, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, prostate cancer.

12

• Szabolcs Fényes, 74, Hungarian composer.
• John J. Herrera, 76, American attorney and activist, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
• George Mandy, 80, South African cricketer.

13

• Maidie Andrews, 93, English actress.
• Eunice Crowther, 70, British singer, dancer, and choreographer.
• Ken Earl, 60, English cricketer.
• Abram Hill, 76, American playwright (On Strivers Row), co-founded American Negro Theatre, emphysema.
• Fred K. Mahaffey, 52, American army general, commander in chief U.S. Readiness Command, cancer.
• Claude Mulot, 44, French director and screenwriter.
• Sir Joseph Napier, 4th Baronet, 91, British baronet and soldier.
• William Passmore, 71, South African Olympic boxer (1936).
• Hermann von Siemens, 101, German industrialist, chairman of Siemens.

14

• Milovan Ćirić, 68, Yugoslavian footballer and manager (Red Star Belgrade).
• Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr., 69, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1951-1957).
• Yvette Dugay, 54, American actress (Cattle Queen of Montana).
• Spec O'Donnell, 75, American actor.
• Takanori Ogisu, 84, Japanese-born French painter.
• Barry Salvage, 39, English footballer (Brentford, Millwall), heart attack.
• Keenan Wynn, 70, American actor (The Hucksters), pancreatic cancer.
• Takahiko Yamanouchi, 84, Japanese theoretical physicist (quantum mechanics).

15

• Al Stricklin, 78, American pianist.
• Alex Josey, 76, British-Singaporean journalist, known for biography of Lee Kuan Yew, Parkinson's disease.
• Larry Kopf, 95, American Major League Baseball player.
• Rani Padmini, 23–24, Indian actress (Parankimala, Kilikkonjal), murdered.
• Jacqueline Roque, 60, French wife of Pablo Picasso, suicide.
• Marcus Samuel, 77, British businessman and hereditary peer, director of Lloyds Bank.
• Jerry Smith, 43, American NFL footballer (Washington Redskins), AIDS.
• Christine Wttewaall van Stoetwegen, 85, Dutch lawyer, feminist, and politician, member of the Netherlands House of Representatives (1945-1971).

16

• Manolo Álvarez Mera, 62, Cuban-born tenor.
• Harold Beamish, 90, New Zealand WW1 flying ace.
• Joseph Fontaine, 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1945-1957).
• Arthur Grumiaux, 65, Belgian violin virtuoso, stroke.
• Yukihiko Haida, 77, American composer and ukulele player.
• Giovanni Invernizzi, 60, Italian Olympic rower (1948, 1952).
• Sydney Jagbir, 73, Trinidadian cricketer.
• Manas Mukherjee, 43, Indian composer.
• Sandro Puppo, 68, Italian footballer and manager (Venezia, Italy), Olympic gold medalist.
• Carlo Romei, 61, Italian politician.
• Ted Sagar, 76, English international footballer (Everton, England).
• Jacques Van Caelenberghe, 76, Belgian footballer.
• Princess Yolanda of Savoy, 85, Italian royal, daughter of Victor Emmanuel III, heart failure.

17

• Boris Arkadyev, 87, Soviet footballer and coach (Soviet Union).
• Jean Bidot, 81, French cyclist.
• Malcolm Burns, 76, New Zealand agricultural scientist, university lecturer and administrator.
• Hamish Fraser, 73, Scottish journalist and political activist, Red Terror participant.
• Stan Judkins, 79, Australian rules footballer (Richmond).
• Ron Kass, 51, American film producer (Naked Yoga), cancer.
• Leah Rhodes, 84, American costume designer (Adventures of Don Juan).
• Carlos Rodríguez, 77, Mexican Olympic sports shooter (1952).
• René Thirifays, 66, Belgian footballer.

18

• Earl Frederick Crabb, 87, Canadian WWI flying ace.
• Sverre Ingolf Haugli, Norwegian Olympic speed skater (1952, 1956).
• Niat Qabool Hayat Kakakhel, 81, Pakistani politician.
• Clyde S. Kilby, 84, American writer, founded Marion E. Wade Center.
• John J. McNamara, 54, American author and Olympic sailor (1964).
• Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann, 92, Polish army general.

19

• Moses Asch, 80, Polish-born American recording engineer and executive, founder of Folkways Records.
• Aquino de Bragança, 62, Indian-born Mozambican journalist and diplomat, plane crash.
• Karlo Bulić, 76, Yugoslavian actor (Naše malo misto).
• George Cheroke, 65, American football player (Cleveland Browns).
• Dele Giwa, 39, Nigerian journalist, founder of Newswatch magazine, assassinated.
• Leon Henderson, 91, American economist, administrator of the Office of Price Administration.
• Stanley Lebowsky, 59, American composer and conductor (Chicago, Jesus Christ Superstar).
• Oldřich Lipský, 62, Czechoslovakian film director and screenwriter.
• Samora Machel, 53, Mozambican politician, president of Mozambique, plane crash.
• Simon Mahon, 72, British politician, Member of Parliament.
• H. Freeman Matthews, 87, American diplomat, ambassador to Austria, The Netherlands and Sweden.
• Lawrence McKillip, 62, American Olympic bobsledder (1956, 1964).
• Peter McLean, 61, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Shafeek Nader, 60, co-founder of Northwestern Connecticut Community College, brother of Ralph Nader, heart failure.
• Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair, 64, Indian Malayalam actor (Chemmeen).
• George Pipgras, 86, American Major League baseballer (New York Yankees) and umpire.
• Joe Ryan, 69, Australian rules footballer.
• Arseny Sokolov, 76, Soviet theoretical physicist (synchrotron radiation).
• May Wilson, 80–81, American artist, pneumonia.

20

• Luciano Agnolín, 70, Argentine footballer.
• Michael Joe Costello, 82, Irish military leader (Irish War of Independence).
• Anton Krammer, 57, Austrian Olympic footballer (1952).
• Alain Moineau, 58, French Olympic cyclist (1948).
• George Tuttle, 81, American NFL player (Green Bay Packers), and politician.
• Tadao Uesako, 65. Japanese Olympic gymnast (1952).
• Hugh Vaughan-Thomas, 76, Welsh cricketer.
• Tommy Walker, 63, American event director, composer of "Charge!", complications of heart surgery.

21

• Theodor Busse, 88, Nazi German army General of the Infantry).
• Pelagio Cruz, 74, Filipino military general, chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
• Gisela Fackeldey, 65, German actress.
• Gadabout Gaddis, 90, American fisherman and television presenter (The Flying Fisherman).
• Fritz Hochwälder, 75, Austrian playwright.
• T. Krishna, 36, Indian Telugu film director and screenwriter (Pratighatana, Repati Pourulu).
• Lionel Murphy, 64, Australian politician and judge, Attorney-General of Australia, justice of the High Court of Australia, cancer.
• Betsy Muus, 95, Belgian sculptor.
• Edwin Albert Robson, 81, American jurist.
• George Taylor, 76, English cricketer.
• Vittorio Tracuzzi, 63, Italian Olympic basketball player (1948).
• Diwakarla Venkatavadhani, 75, Indian Telugu writer.
• Kas Vidruk 61, Canadian CFL player.

22

• Haki Abaz Skuqi, 28, Albanian military pilot, plane crash.
• Jane Dornacker, 39, American rock musician, comedian and traffic reporter (Leila and the Snakes), helicopter crash.
• Ivor Francis, 67, Canadian-American actor (Room 222).
• Bhagwanti Navani, 46, Indian Sindhi singer and actress.
• Albert Szent-Györgyi, 93, Hungarian biochemist and politician (Vitamin C), Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine).
• Wayland Hand, 79, American folklorist.
• Reg Humphries, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• Jesse Pike, 96, American Olympic cyclist (1912).
• Sven Strömberg, 75, Swedish Olympic sprinter (1936).
• Thorgeir Stubø, 42, Norwegian jazz guitarist and composer.
• Jenny Toitgans, 81, Belgian Olympic discus thrower (1928).
• Bernard Joseph Topel, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Spokane.
• Ye Jianying, 89, Chinese politician and army general.

23

• Paul Brophy, 49, American firefighter, condition sparked right to die debate, dehydration.
• Johnny Dell Isola, 74, American NFL player (New York Giants).
• Edward Adelbert Doisy, 92, American biochemist, 1943 Nobel Prize Laureate.
• Esquerita, 48–51, American singer, songwriter and pianist, AIDS.
• Ivor D. Fenton, 97, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1939-1963).
• Georg Funkquist, 86, Swedish actor.
• Paul Gehrman, 74, American Major League Baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
• Ronald Long, 75, English-American actor (Love of Life), heart faailure.
• Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, 92, British intelligence officer (MI6) and mountaineer.

24

• John R. Allan, 80, Scottish author and journalist.
• Hugh Craig Atkinson, 52, American librarian.
• Michael Brennan, 90, Irish general, Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces.
• Johnny Dyani, 40, South African jazz double bassist, vocalist and pianist (The Blue Notes), liver ailment.
• František Janda, 76, Czech Olympic wrestler (1936).
• Joseph B. Johnson, 93, Swedish-born American politician, Governor of Vermont.
• Enrique Margall, 42, Spanish Olympic basketball player (1968, 1972).
• Henry Osmond-Clarke, 83, British surgeon.

25

• Larry Beil, 63, American NFL footballer (New York Giants).
• Elizabeth H. Brödel, 83, American medical illustrator.
• Carroll A. Edson, 94, American scouting leader, co-founded Order of the Arrow.
• Guillermo Eizaguirre, 77, Spanish international footballer (Sevilla, Spain).
• Ricardo Sanz García, 87, Spanish militant, leader of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo.
• Jack Hartigan, 58, Australian rules footballer.
• Anthony Hill, 85, English cricketer.
• Howard S. McDonald, 92, American academic administrator, president of the California State University.
• Władysław Soporek, 57, Polish footballer and manager.
• Tadao Tannaka, 77, Japanese mathematician (Tannaka–Krein duality).
• Forrest Tucker, 67, American actor (F Troop), lung cancer.

26

• Arne Andersen, 86, Norwegian football player.
• Hüseyin Çakıroğlu, 29, Turkish footballer.
• Ed Holley, 87, American Major League baseball player.
• Jackson Scholz, 89, American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist.
• Marcel Simon, 79, French religious historian (Verus Israel).

27

• Sherman Adams, 87, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
• Alan Branscombe, 50, English jazz pianist and alto saxophonist.
• Bob Ingamells, 72, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1959-1976).
• Albert Maes, 80, Belgian Olympic weightlifter (1924, 1928).
• Roland Piétri, 76, French actor and director.
• Carl-Enock Svensson, 91, Swedish Olympic athlete (1920).
• Geoff Willis, 65, Australian rules footballer.

28

• Robert Arthur, 76, American film producer and screenwriter (Francis the Talking Mule).
• Afzal Bangash, 62, Pakistani politician and activist.
• Sidney Bollon, 86, English cricketer.
• John Braine, 64, English novelist (Room at the Top), gastric haemorrhage.
• Richard Elton Goodwin, 79, British army officer.
• Marga Klompé, 74, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Adelaide Lawson, 97, American artist.
• Ian Marter, 42, English actor (Doctor Who) and writer, heart attack.
• Emil Moeller, 84, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1962-1966).
• Eddie Waring, 76, British rugby league commentator, dementia.
• René Weissmann, 56, French Olympic boxer (1952).

29

• Gottfried Eichelbrönner, 84, German farmer and politician, member of the Landtag of Bavaria (1946-1962).
• Mimis Fotopoulos, 73, Greek actor and writer, heart attack.
• Marcel Gascoin, 79, French furniture designer.
• Maurice Leblanc-Smith, 90, British WW1 flying ace.
• Arturo Medina, 88, Chilean Olympic athlete (1920).
• Abel Meeropol, 83, American songwriter and poet ("Strange Fruit").
• Aaron Resnick, 71, American architect, co-founder of Usonia Historic District, heart attack.
• Ronald Thom, 63, Canadian architect (Massey College).
• Harry Voigt, 73, German Olympic athlete (1936).

30

• Reginald Keller, 92, English cricketer and British Army officer.
• Otto Knefler, 63, German footballer and manager.
• Andrzej Markowski, 62, Polish composer and conductor, founder of Wratislavia Cantans festival.
• Tandiono Manu, 73, Indonesian politician, Minister of Agriculture.
• Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt, 85, German politician, Federal Minister of Health.
• Frank Spillane, 83, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Fritz Tillmann, 75, German actor.

31

• Harry Askew, 68, British Olympic long jumper (1948).
• John Blackinger, 81, American football executive (San Francisco 49ers) and politician.
• Olaf Hansen, 80, Norwegian Olympic boxer (1924 Summer Olympics).
• Bob Hardisty, 64, English footballer (Great Britain Olympic football team).
• Marcella Martin, 70, American actress (Gone with the Wind).
• Robert S. Mulliken, 90, American physicist and chemist (molecular orbital theory), Nobel laureate (Chemistry), heart failure.
• Bruno Snell, 90, German classical philologist (Die Entdeckung des Geistes).
• Félicien Vervaecke, 79, Belgian cyclist.
• Gregorio F. Zaide, 79, Filipino historian, president of the Philippine Historical Association.

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