Deaths in April 1985

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1985.

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 1985

1 Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg, 78, German conductor. Frank Bykowski, 70, American football player and coach. Alec Clifton-Taylor, 77, English architectural historian and television presenter. Gerald Gregg, 78, American book cover artist. Gregorio Sciltian, 84, Russian Armenian-Italian painter.Gregorio Sciltian, the Russian-born painter best known for his... Alexander Severance, 79, American basketball and baseball coach, heart attack.Alexander G. Severance, Villanova head basketball coach for a... Larry Shaw, 60, American science fiction author and literary agent, cancer. Julian Thornton-Duesbery, 82, British academic administrator and Anglican prelate. Douglass Wallop, 65, American novelist (The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant) and playwright.John Douglass Wallop Dies; Author of Novel on Yankees

2 Kelly Alexander Sr., 69, American civil rights activist, chair of the NAACP (1983–1984).KELLY ALEXANDER OF N. A. A. C. P. DIES S. Omar Barker, 90, American politician and poet, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1924–1926). Dame Doris Fitton, 87, Australian actress and theatre director. Witold Gieras, 87, Polish footballer. John Richardson, 76, English cricketer. Alexandre Rignault, 84, French actor. Bernard Shore, 89, English viola player. William Stevenson, 84, American diplomat, academic administrator and Olympic track and field athlete (1924).WILLIAM STEVENSON, LAWYER, EDUCATOR AND U. S. DIPLOMAT John-Michael Tebelak, 35, American playwright, heart attack.John-Michael Tebelak Dead; Wrote the Musical 'Godspell' Paul Wohl, 84, German-American journalist.Paul Wohl, Journalist, Dead; Wrote About Political Affairs

3 Hugo Balzer, 90, German conductor. Leo Douglass, 84, American football player. Jimmy Kelly, 70, Irish hurler. Helmut Niedermayr, 69, German racing driver. Frode Onarheim, 85, Norwegian military officer and businessman. Oreco, 52, Brazilian footballer. Dan Ormsbee, 101, American architect. Ganapati Ram, 58, Indian politician, MP (1952–1967). Leo Riemens, 74, Dutch musicologist. Toivo Sariola, 70, Finnish Olympic sprinter (1936). Frazier Thomas, 66, American television personality (Garfield Goose and Friends), stroke.`BOZO` HOST FRAZIER THOMAS DIES William Twaits, 74, Canadian oil executive. Bazyli Wójtowicz, 86, Polish sculptor. Hsien-wen Wu, 85, Chinese zoologist.

4 Dinara Asanova, 42, Soviet Kyrgyzstani film director, heart disease. Raymond Briggs, 90, English general. Bob Chitty, 68, Australian footballer. Mildred Cram, 95, American author and screenwriter. Ramón Alva de la Canal, 92, Mexican artist, heart attack. Calvin S. Hall, 76, American psychologist. Hanon Izakson, 76, Soviet mechanical engineer. Yisrael Mendel Kaplan, 71, American Orthodox Jewish rabbi. Roy Long, 70, Australian footballer. Mary Elizabeth Sharpe, 100, American architect and philanthropist. Hannes Sirola, 94, Finnish Olympic gymnast (1912). William B. Stansbury, 62, American politician, traffic collision.William Stansbury, Ex-Mayor of Louisville, Is Killed by Car Hermann Strasburger, 75, German historian. Georg von Boisman, 74, Swedish Olympic pentathlete (1936).

5 Ernie Coward, 69, Australian footballer. Charis Frankenburg, 93, British author. Tyrell Johnson, 68, Trinidadian cricketer. Philip Jongeneel, 91, Dutch Olympic rower (1920). Connie Kelly, 36, Irish hurler. Bill Kern, 78, American football player and coach. Lo Man-wai, 89-90, Hong Kong politician and lawyer. Emil Milan, 62, American woodcarver. Arthur Negus, 82, British television personality and antiques expert. Fran Polsfoot, 57, American football player and coach, brain cancer.Fran Polsfoot, Denver Broncos Aide and Former NFL Player, Dies at 57 Hannes Schroll, 75, Austrian ski racer. Hal Totten, 83, American sportscaster. Margaret Trowell, 80-81, British artist. Gerhard Wilck, 86, German soldier.

6 Edward Cleary, 71, Australian cricketer. Arnold Daghani, 76, Romanian-English diarist. Mark Lothar, 82, German composer. Henriette Mathieu-Faraggi, 69, French nuclear physicist André Néron, 62, French mathematician. Terence Sanders, 83, British Olympic rower (1924). Maria Stencel, 85, Polish nurse. Stanisław Zaczyk, 61, Polish actor.

7 Bajou Baijnauth, 68, Guyanese cricketer. Michael Blees, 22, Australian footballer. Torstein Børte, 85, Norwegian politician. Paul Fayman, 63, Polish-born Australian property developer. Geoffrey Loney, 91, Australian cricketer. David Loveday, 88, British Anglican prelate. Willie McRae, 61, Scottish activist, lawyer and politician, suicide by gunshot. Luther Metke, 100, American poet. Jack Mitchell, 87, American banker and businessman (United Airlines).John J. Mitchell, Co-Founder of United Airlines, Dies at 87 Carl Schmitt, 96, German political theorist.

8 J. Fred Coots, 87, American songwriter ("Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town").John Frederick Coots obituary Rosa Estiarte, 25, Spanish Olympic swimmer (1976), suicide. Julieta Kirkwood, 49, Chilean feminist activist and sociologist. Eugen König, 88, German general. Phonse Kyne, 69, Australian footballer. Helen Moses, 79, American Olympic swimmer (1920). Wilf Nixon, 102, English footballer. Adam Smith, 81, American Olympic swimmer (1924). Joe Sullivan, 74, American baseball player, lung cancer. Charlie Wilson, 79, English footballer.

9 Gordon Clark, 82, American philosopher and theologian. Mary Beth Dolin, 49, American-born Canadian politician, breast cancer. Ella Ehlers, 80, German educator and activist. Donald B. Fullerton, 92, American missionary and evangelist. Arthur C. Hohmann, 89, American police officer. Sana'a Mehaidli, 16, Lebanese militant, suicide bombing. Şaziye Moral, 81-82, Turkish actress. Allan K. Smith, 96, American attorney. Ernie Taylor, 59, English footballer.

10 David Blair, 67, Scottish golfer. Cora Coralina, 95, Brazilian author. Angelo Donghia, 50, American interior designer, pneumonia.ANGELO DONGHIA DEAD AT 50; INFLUENTIAL INTERIOR DESIGNER Alfredo Duhalde, 86, Chilean politician, vice president and acting president (1946). Dame Annis Gillie, 84, British physician. Charles William Johnson, 93, Canadian politician. Robert Maragh, 50, Jamaican cricketer. C. S. Schilbred, 78, Norwegian genealogist and historian. Klaus Scholder, 55, German historian. Eusebio Sempere, 62, Spanish artist. Zisis Verros, 104, Greek guerrilla fighter.

11 Bunny Ahearne, 84, British ice hockey administrator. Jackie Bestall, 84, English footballer. Arthur Carson, 89, American academic administrator. André de Dienes, 71, Hungarian-American photographer. Susan Ertz, 98, English author. Tullio Favali, 38, Italian missionary, shot.FATHER TULLIO FAVALI, 39; SLAIN IN PHILIPPINES Gennady Galkin, 50, Soviet Olympic diver (1956, 1960). John Gilroy, 86, English artist and illustrator. Enver Hoxha, 76, Albanian dictator, first secretary (since 1941) and prime minister (1944–1954), arrhythmia.ENVER HOXHA DIES; ALBANIAN LEADER Samuel K. McConnell Jr., 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1944–1957). Enid McLeod, 88-89, British cultural diplomat. Peter Alsing Nielsen, 77, Danish painter. Ram Narayan Sharma, 69, Indian politician and independence activist. Catherine Stermann, 35, French actress, suicide. Olga Tufnell, 80, British archaeologist. Fred Uhlman, 84, German-English writer and painter. Henriëtte van den Brandeler, 100, Dutch composer. Gunnar Westman, 70, Danish sculptor. Bela Zaboly, 74, Hungarian-American cartoonist (Popeye), heart disease.

12 Édouard Baumann, 90, French footballer. Louise Seaman Bechtel, 90, American author and book editor.Louise Seaman Bechtel Dies; Authority on Juvenile Books Thomas Dixon, 79, Irish cricketer. Cecil Manning, 92, British politician, MP (1944–1950). Seiji Miyaguchi, 71, Japanese actor. Vicenç Sasot, 67, Spanish football player and manager. Herman Alfred Schmid, 74, American general. Floyd Theard, 40, American basketball player and coach, heart attack.University of Denver basketball coach Floyd Theard, whose Pioneers... Ramavtar Tyagi, 60, Indian poet. Ron Walden, 77, Australian footballer.

13 Mahmut Bajraktarević, 75, Yugoslav Bosnian mathematician. Justin W. Brierly, 79, American educator and lawyer. Jack Buckley, 81, English footballer. Sir Clavering Fison, 92, English politician and businessman, MP (1929–1931). Kit Klein, 75, American Olympic speed skater (1932). Margarete Hielscher, 85, German doctor and war criminal. Maurits Lieftinck, 81, Dutch entomologist. Oscar Nemon, 79, Croatian-born English sculptor.Oscar Nemon, 79, Sculptor Of 50 Likenesses of Churchill Nancy V. Rawls, 59, American diplomat.Nancy V. Rawls Dies; A Former U.S. Envoy

14 Elvin Barr, 76, Australian footballer. Everett Busch, 92, American general.Memorial services were held Thursday for Everett Busch, a... Noele Gordon, 65, English actress, stomach cancer. Takis Miliadis, 62, Greek actor, injuries sustained in a traffic collision. Kate Roberts, 94, Welsh author. Glyn Samuel, 67, Welsh cricketer. Fred Stammers, 66, Australian footballer.

15 Zarifa Aliyeva, 60, Soviet Azerbaijani ophthalmologist, cancer. Sir Raphael Cilento, 91, Australian medical practitioner. Chick Davies, 85, American basketball coach.CHICK DAVIES Sambhu Nath De, 70, Indian virologist and toxicologist. C. Sydney Frost, 91, Canadian banker. Buck Giles, 81, American baseball player. Frank Ingram, 79, Canadian ice hockey player. Bernabe Lovina, 63, Filipino Olympic sprinter (1948). Elisa Martínez Contreras, c. 85, Guatemalan socialite, first lady (1945–1951). Jack Medica, 70, American Olympic swimmer (1936), heart attack. Sir Frank Meere, 89, Australian public servant. Myles Murray, 78, Canadian politician. Hedevig Rasmussen, 82, Danish Olympic swimmer (1924). Inés Rodena, 79, Cuban radio and television writer. Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon, 75, French film director. Sam Weaver, 76, English footballer. Moehadji Widjaja, 54, Indonesian politician, heart attack.

16 Tadeusz Bartosik, 59, Polish actor. Scott Brady, 60, American actor (Shotgun Slade), respiratory failure.Scott Brady, Actor, Is Dead; Appeared in Films and on TV George A. Cincotta, 70, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1959–1978), heart attack.GEORGE A. CINCOTTA Katharina Kern, 84, German anti-Nazism activist. Ed McGinley, 85, American football player and coach. Robert Cotton Money, 96, British general. T. L. Sherred, 69, American science fiction author. Benny Zientara, 67, American baseball player.

17 John Selwyn Bromley, 71-72, British naval historian. Basil Bunting, 85, British poet.BASIL BUNTING Reginald Craig, 68, Australian cricketer. Lula Owl Gloyne, 93, American nurse. Mario Mazzacurati, 81, Italian racing driver. Evadne Price, 96, Australian-British writer, actress and astrologer. Germaine Sablon, 85, French singer and actress. Walter Weir, 55, Canadian politician, heart attack.Ex-premiers attend Weir funeral

18 James Briley, 28, American convicted serial killer, execution by electric chair.KILLER IS PUT TO DEATH IN VIRGINIA AFTER INMATES RIOT IN HIS SUPPORT Gertrude Caton Thompson, 97, English archaeologist. Friedrich Kiefer, 87, German zoologist. D. I. Suchianu, 89, Romanian essayist. Josip Weissgerber, 62, Yugoslav Croatian philosopher and missionary.

19 Pavel Batov, 87, Soviet general. Jack Broome, 84, American-born British naval officer. Józef Gromek, 53, Polish chess player, heart attack. Willie Mabon, 59, American R&B musician. John Manifold, 69, Australian poet. Bruce R. McConkie, 69, American Mormon apostle.Bruce R. McConkie, a Leader Of the Mormons, Dies at 69 Ivan Menzies, 89, English actor and singer. Anthony Murmu, 54, Indian politician, MP (1977–1980), shot.