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.Albert Aley Rattan Bai, 95, Indian actress and singer. Teodor Bieregowoj, 77, Polish Olympic racewalker (1936). Lord David Cecil, 83, British historian.Lord David Cecil, 83, Historian and Writer 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.Emmet Lavery, 84, Award-Winning Screenwriter and Playwright, Dies 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.Bruce A. Norris, 61, Is Dead; Ex-Owner of Hockey Team

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.Hartford N. Gunn Jr. is Dead; Public Broadcasting Founder 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.Herbert Magidson Patricia Miles Martin, 86, American author. Percy McKelvey, 89, Canadian politician. Una Merkel, 82, American actress (Summer and Smoke, The Ponder Heart).Una Merkel Dies at Age of 82; From Silent Films to a Tony Nonna Muravyova, 79, Soviet politician. Jock Richardson, 79, Scottish footballer. Bill Veeck, 71, American Major League baseball executive, lung cancer.Bill Veeck, Baseball Innovator, Dies Frithjov Meier Vik, 83, Norwegian politician.

3 Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, 89, American journalist.Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, 89, A Writer on Women's Issues 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.Henry Field, Anthropologist Who Aided Presidents, Dies 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.Christopher Isherwood is Dead at 81 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.Funeral services will be held Wednesday for Dr. Elena... Joseph DiVarco, 74, American mobster.Joseph Divarco, 74, Chicago Mob Leader 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).James E. Van Zandt is Dead; Former Congressman was 87

7 Germaine Arbeau-Bonnefoy, 92, French pianist. Joe Burns, 85, American Major League baseball player (Chicago White Sox). P. D. Eastman, 76, American children's author (Are You My Mother?, Go, Dog. Go!, Sam and the Firefly), pneumonia.P. D. Eastman 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.Juan Rulfo, a Novelist and Short Story Writer George Sixta, 76, American cartoonist. 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.Lucia Chase of Ballet Theater is Dead 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.Jazz Musician Joe Farrell Dies; Played 3 Different Instruments 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.Joseph Kraft, the Journalist, Dies; Capital Columns Widely Printed Ernst Lehner, 73, German footballer. Wilhelm Philipp, 69, German flying ace. Reg Rattey, 67, Australian soldier, VC recipient. James Terry Roach, 25, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair. Ramón Sainz de Varanda, 61, Spanish politician. Werner Schindler, 80, Swiss architect. Jaroslav Seifert, 84, Czechoslovak writer, Nobel Prize recipient (1984).Jaroslav Seifert, Czech Poet, is Dead 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.State Sen. Bloom, Daughter Killed in Fire at Home 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.Bob Kaufman Lars Leksell, 78, Swedish physician. Herbert Prince, 94, English footballer. Eduardo Risso, 60, Uruguayan Olympic rower (1948, 1952). Eddie Solomon, 34, American Major League baseball player, traffic collision.Eddie Solomon Jr., who pitched for the... 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.Around the World; South Yemen Reports Ex-Chief Died 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.W. W. Hagerty, 69; President Emeritus of Drexel University 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.Donna Reed, Oscar Winner and TV Star, is Dead at 64 Reg Reid, 86, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto St. Patricks). 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.Jim Crowley, Final Member of Four Horsemen, is Dead 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).T. A. Maloney, Veteran Lawmaker, Dies at 96