Deaths in April 1986

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.Erik Bruhn Dies in Toronto; Top Dancer of his Generation 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.Obituary: Margaret Masterman Kenneth E. Priebe, 73, American politician. Barry Robins, 41, American actor, AIDS. Dick Scesniak, 45, American football coach, heart attack.Dick Scesniak, four days shy of celebrating his third... 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.Raymond H. Lapin, 67, Dead; Fought Nixon at Fannie Mae 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). 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.George G. Kirstein, Ex-Publisher Mary C. McCall Jr., 81, American screenwriter, cancer.Mary C. McCall Jr., Major TV, Film Writer, Dies at 81 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.Peter Pears dies at his festival home Elisabeth Radó, 86, Yugoslav singer. Rei, 74, Brazilian footballer. Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, 80, Iranian ayatollah.Ayatollah Kazem Shariat-Madari of Iran, 87 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.Charles H. DeBow Jr. Hasted Dowker, 86, Canadian Anglican prelate. Rebeca Gerschman, 82, Argentine biochemist. Sascha Gorodnitzki, 81, Russian-born American pianist.Sascha Gorodnitzki, Pianist, and Juilliard Faculty Members Sir Laurence Hartnett, 87, Australian engineer. Ira V. Hiscock, 93, American bacteriologist.Dr. Ira V. Hiscock, Ex-Head Of Yale's Public Health Unit 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.Pesach Burnstein, Yiddish Star, Dies 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.Chester Erskine Dies; Director and Producer Akira Hagiwara, 29, Japanese racing driver, racing crash. Leonid Kantorovich, 74, Soviet economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize recipient (1975).Leonid V. Kantorovich Dies; Won Nobel Economics Prize 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.Theodore C. Achilles, A Longtime Diplomat 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.Pauline Newman, An Early Organizer of Clothing Workers Yukiko Okada, 18, Japanese singer, suicide by jumping. William Luther Rhodes, 67, American judge.

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.Rep. Joseph Addabbo Dies; Head of Key Defense Panel Peter M. Busch, 51, United States Marine Corps officer and political candidate, plane crash. Eugene E. Campbell, 70, American historian. Linda Creed, 37, American songwriter, breast cancer.Linda Creed, Songwriter, 37; Known for the 'Philly Sound' 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.Charles F. Darlington Jr., 81, Envoy and Economist, Dies Israel Goldstein, 89, American-Israeli rabbi, founder of Brandeis University.Rabbi Israel Goldstein, A Founder of Brandeis 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 (1948, 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.Valenton Katayev is Dead at 89; A Soviet Novelist and Playwright 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.Harpist Dorothy Ashby made her mark in jazz Sulo Bärlund, 75, Finnish Olympic shot putter (1936). Frank DeCicco, 50, American mobster (Gambino crime family), car bomb.Diocese Prohibits Mass as Mob Figure's Burial Johnny Dollar, 53, American country musician.Country music producer Johnny Dollar dies 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).Lindsay Almond of Virginia; Led State During Race Battle Simone de Beauvoir, 78, French writer, feminist and philosopher, pneumonia.Simone de Beauvoir, Author and Intellectual, Dies in Paris at 78 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. 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.Jean Genet, The Playwright, Dies at 75 Edmund Hakewill-Smith, 90, British general. Don Hoefler, 63, American journalist, coined "Silicon Valley".Dan Hoefler, 63, Silicon Valley Publicist, Dies 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.Robert Marjolin, Economist and Common Market Official Tim McIntire, 41, American actor, heart failure.Tim McIntire 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).Bob Casey, 70, Ex-Congressman