Deaths in May 1985

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 1985

Sir Basil Arthur, 56, New Zealand politician, MP (since 1962). Joseph H. Barnett, 53, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (since 1967). Eugenie Briollet, 84, French Olympic diver (1924). Archibald Crossley, 88, American statistician and pollster.ARCHIBALD CROSLEY DIES AT 88; HELPED DEVELOP SCIENTIFIC POLLING Howard Emslie, 62, South African cricketer. Frank Glieber, 51, American sportscaster, heart attack.Frank Glieber Is Dead; CBS Sports Announcer Robert Holt, 71, Australian politician, MP (1955–1958). Regis Malady, 68, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1969–1974). George Pravda, 68, Czechoslovak actor. Albie Reisz, 67, American football player. Denise Robins, 88, English novelist.Denise Robins obituary Leonard Ross, 39, American writer, legal scholar and game show contestant, suicide by drowning.LEONARD M. ROSS, LAW SCHOLAR, DIES William Jay Schieffelin Jr., 93, American businessman and philanthropist.WILLIAM JAY SCHIEFFELIN JR., 94, IMPORTER OF WINES AND SPIRITS

2 Phyllis Bedells, 91, British ballerina and dance teacher. Bent Berger, 86, Norwegian judge and politician. Attilio Bettega, 32, Italian rally driver, racing collision. Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte, 77, British theatre manager and businesswoman, lung cancer.Bridget D'Oyly Carte, Leader Of Gilbert Banarsidas Chaturvedi, 92, Indian writer and journalist. Larry Clinton, 75, American trumpeter ("Heart and Soul") and bandleader, cancer.LARRY CLINTON, BAND LEADER WHO WROTE 'DIPSY DOODLE' Alfredo Corrias, 89, Italian politician. Milton S. Eisenhower, 85, American academic administrator.MILTON S. EISENHOWER DIES AT 85: SERVED AS ADVISER TO PRESIDENT Leonard Falcone, 86, Italian-born American musician. Ernie Hart, 74, American comic book writer and artist. Ole Kielberg, 73, Danish painter. Hal Le Roy, 71, American actor and tap dancer. Harold C. Ostertag, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1965). Väinö Suvivuo, 68, Finnish Olympic hurdler (1952). Alfred Wilson, 81, Scottish rugby player.

3 Alexander Aksinin, 35, Soviet Ukrainian painter, plane crash. Nathaniel Avery, 46, American golf caddie. Wojciech Belon, 33, Polish singer and poet. Harry Collins, 65, American magician. Jon Gudbjørn Dybendal, 80, Norwegian politician. Ruth Forsling, 62, Swedish politician, MP (1964). Melvin Fritzel, 78, American college sports coach. Werner Jacobi, 81, German physicist. Harold Koplar, 70, American hotelier, heart attack. Cythna Letty, 90, South African artist. Stasys Raštikis, 88, Lithuanian general, heart attack. Walter Reside, 79, New Zealand rugby player. R. D. Smith, 70, British teacher, radio producer, and possible spy, cirrhosis. Sir Percy Spender, 87, Australian politician and diplomat, MP (1937–1951).

4 Evsei Agron, 53, Soviet-American mobster, shot.Salesman is slain in Brooklyn Jan Appel, 94, German communist activist. Ernest Harlington Barnes, 86, Bermudian politician. Horatio Fitch, 84, American Olympic runner (1924). Emilie Virginia Haynsworth, 68, American mathematician. Bill Kunkel, 48, American baseball player and umpire, cancer.Bill Kunkel, Former Pitcher And Umpire, Is Dead at 48 Alix Mathon, 76, Haitian novelist. Clarence Wiseman, 77, Canadian minister, general of The Salvation Army (1974–1977).

5 Sir Donald Bailey, 83, English civil engineer.Sir Donald Bailey, WW II Engineer, Dies Carter Brown, 61, English-born Australian novelist, heart attack.CARTER BROWN, WRITER; BOOKS SOLD IN MILLIONS Gino Buzzanca, 73, Italian actor. George Edward Cire, 62, American judge. Julián Marchena, 88, Costa Rican poet. Daniel R. McLeod, 71, American politician, attorney general of South Carolina (1959–1983).Dan McLeod, 71, who served as South… Charles Shipman Payson, 86, American baseball executive.CHARLES PAYSON, 86; WEALTHY SPORTSMAN AND PHILANTHROPIST Helene Rosson, 87, American actress. Stefan Szende, 84, Hungarian-Swedish political scientist. Piet van Kempen, 86, Dutch track cyclist. Angela Vode, 93, Yugoslav Slovenian author and human rights activist.

6 Nicolai Cikovsky, 90, Russian-American painter. Pete Desjardins, 78, American Olympic diver (1924, 1928). Henning Elbirk, 76, Danish composer. Joe Glenn, 76, American baseball player. John C. Heldt, 85, American football player and coach. Kirby Higbe, 70, American baseball player.Kirby Higbe Is Dead at 70; Former Pitcher for Dodgers Rice Mountjoy, 84, American sports coach. William V. Rattan, 94, American football player and coach. Johnny Stanley, 79, Australian footballer. Francis L. Urry, 77, American actor, heart attack.Francis L. Urry, 77, Dies; Noted for Acting Career Julie Vega, 16, Filipino actress and singer, cardiac arrest.

7 Dawn Addams, 54, British actress (The Moon Is Blue, A King in New York, The Saint), lung cancer.DAWN ADDAMS, 54, ACTRESS IS DEAD Luis Arenal Bastar, 76, Mexican artist. Miles B. Carpenter, 95, American sculptor. Louis Malter, 78, American physicist. Líctor Hazael Marroquín García, 42, Mexican vehicle thief, cirrhosis. Carlos Mota Pinto, 48, Portuguese politician, prime minister (1978–1979), heart attack.CARLOS MOTA PINTO, 48, JURIST; SERVED AS PORTUGAL'S PREMIER Donald Smith, 79, Canadian politician, MP (1949–1953).

8 Frederick Bailey, 65, English cricketer. Robert Halperin, 77, American business executive and Olympic yacht racer (1960, cancer.Halperin Wilma Scott Heide, 64, American feminist activist and author, heart attack. John Herbert Hollomon Jr., 66, American academic administrator. Tom Hooson, 52, British politician, MP (since 1979), cancer. Karl Marx, 87, German composer. Susan Morrow, 52, American actress. Edmond O'Brien, 69, American actor (The Barefoot Contessa, Seven Days in May, Fantastic Voyage), complications from Alzheimer's disease.EDMOND O'BRIEN, ACTOR, DIES AT 69 Hugh Shaw, 56, Scottish footballer. Harry Snell, 68, Swedish Olympic cyclist (1948). Skippy Stivers, 81, American football and baseball player. Theodore Sturgeon, 67, American fantasy author, pulmonary fibrosis.THEODORE STURGION DIES; WRITER OF FANTISIES Dolph Sweet, 64, American actor (Gimme a Break!), stomach cancer.Dolph Sweet--Popular Stage, TV Series Actor--Dead at 64

9 Aksel Airo, 87, Finnish general. Homer Barnett, 78-79, American anthropologist. Chateaugay, 25, American Thoroughbred racehorse. Reginald Dixon, 80, English organist. Charlie Drummond, 64, Scottish rugby player. Leslie Hale, Baron Hale, 82, British politician, MP (1945–1968). Earl Keeley, 48, Canadian football player. Bob Kellogg, 67, American football player. Neville Linney, 51, Australian footballer. Frances Mossiker, 79, American novelist.Frances Mossiker Dies; Author and Historian Edward Nash, 83, English cricketer and footballer. Svea Norén, 89, Swedish Olympic figure skater (1920). Adriaan Paulen, 82, Dutch athlete and sporting official. Eric Solomon, 77, Australian politician. Rupert Trimmingham, 85, Trinidadian-American soldier.

10 Tahar Ben Ammar, 95, Tunisian politician, prime minister (1954–1956). Pramathanath Bishi, 83, Indian writer and politician, MP (1972–1978). Toni Branca, 68, Swiss racing driver. Arthur Bronwell, 75, American electrical engineer and academic administrator. Walter Burch, 77, American baseball player. Sisouk na Champassak, 57, Laotian royal. Abbie Cox, 82, Canadian ice hockey player. Sir Peter Foster, 72, English barrister. Tomás Perrín, 71, Mexican actor. Florizel von Reuter, 95, American violinist and composer. Les Reynolds, 85, Australian footballer. Yin Zizhong, 75-76, Chinese musician and composer.

11 Johnny Bero, 62, American baseball player. Ramón Bragaña, 76, Cuban-Mexican baseball player. Bud Engdahl, 66, American basketball player. Ria Ginster, 87, German singer. Chester Gould, 84, American cartoonist (Dick Tracy), heart failure.CHESTER GOULD, CARTOONIST, DIES AT AT 84 Patricia McGerr, 67, American novelist. Jack Staulcup, 77, American bandleader. John Stewart of Ardvorlich, 81, Scottish historian. Bud Teachout, 81, American baseball player.

12 Rodolfo Arízaga, 58, Argentine composer. Francis Rodwell Banks, 87, British engineer. Emil Beier, 91, German politician. Jean Dubuffet, 83, French artist, emphysema.JEAN DUBUFFET, PAINTER AND SCULPTOR, IS DEAD Cornelius Van Hemert Engert, 97, Austrian-born American diplomat, pneumonia.CORNELIUS ENGERT, DIPLOMAT; WORKED FOR U.S. IN MIDEAST Katie Kibuka, 62-63, Ugandan feminist activist. Halo Meadows, 80, American writer and actress. Josephine Miles, 73, American poet and literary critic.Josephine Miles Dies; A Poet and Professor Ewart Morrison, 85, English cricketer. Sir Edward Sayers, 82, New Zealand parasitologist. Sid Smith, 56, Australian footballer. Song Kok Hoo, 78-79, Singaporean police officer. B. Vijayalakshmi, 32, Indian physicist, stomach cancer. Steve Weston, 44-45, Canadian actor, fall. Bohdan Wodiczko, 73, Polish conductor.

13 John Africa, 53, American social activist (MOVE), fire. Bond Almand, 91, American judge. Clotilde Coulombe, 93, Canadian pianist and Roman Catholic nun. Rose May Davis, 90, American chemist. Selma Diamond, 64, Canadian-born American actress (Night Court) and comedian, lung cancer.SELMA DIAMOND, 64, IS DEAD; COMEDY WRITER AND ACTRESS Leo Disend, 69, American football player. Revaz Dogonadze, 53, Soviet Georgian electrochemist and physicist. Richard Donovan, 83, American Olympic speed skater (1924). Ben Gardner, 65, American basketball player. William Harvell, 77, British Olympic cyclist (1932). Morley Jennings, 95, American baseball and football player and coach. Leatrice Joy, 91, American actress, anemia.Leatrice Joy, 91, Dies; Actress in Silent Films Sándor Józan, 52, Hungarian diplomat. Brian Kelly, 67, Australian footballer. Marc Krasner, 72-73, Russian-French mathematician. Ti Manno, 31, Haitian singer and musician, AIDS. Aleksandr Mikulin, 90, Soviet aircraft engine designer. Mildred Scheel, 53, German physician, cancer.Dr. Mildred Scheel obituary Leif Sinding, 89, Norwegian journalist and film director. Denmei Suzuki, 85, Japanese actor. Mary Behrendsen Ward, 91, American poet and author. Zhou Enshou, 80-81, Chinese politician.

14 Elsie Bramell, 75, Australian anthropologist. Harry Byrd, 60, American baseball player, lung cancer. John T. Clancy, 82, American politician, stroke.JOHN T. CLANCY, 82, EX-BOROUGH CHIEF Alexander Mitchell Donnet, 68, Scottish trade unionist. Sammy Downs, 73, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1944–1948) and state senate (1948–1952, 1960–1964). María Luisa Escobar, 81, Venezuelan pianist, composer, and musicologist. Don Grosso, 70, Canadian ice hockey player. Charles Leonard Hamblin, 62, Australian computer scientist and philosopher. Bahram Mansurov, 74, Soviet Azerbaijani tar musician. Frederick Matthews, 72, English Anglican prelate. C. H. Sibghatullah, 71, Indian politician. Frank Westmore, 62, American makeup artist.Frank Westmore, 62, A Film Makeup Artist Barbara Yung, 26, Hong Kong actress, suicide by gas inhalation. Ladislav Ženíšek, 81, Czechoslovak football player and manager.

15 Junab Ali, 48, Bangladeshi politician. Jackie Curtis, 38, American actor, heroin overdose.Jackie Curtis, 38, Performer And Writer for Warhol Films Arthur Faulkner, 63, New Zealand politician, MP (1957–1981). Nigel Henderson, 68, English artist and photographer. Osmo Kaipainen, 51, Finnish politician, MP (1970–1975). Renato Olmi, 70, Italian footballer. Emerson Spencer, 78, American Olympic sprinter (1928). Christos Tsoutsouvis, 31-32, Greek far-left militant, shot. Heinz Wemper, 81, German actor.

16 Johnny Broaca, 75, American baseball player.