The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 1985
1 Pedro Aleandro, 74, Argentine actor. Adolf Andersson, 97, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1908). Maxwell Frederic Coplan, 73, American photographer. Lonnie Hillyer, 45, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.LONNIE HILLYER Ian Hull, 69, Australian footballer. Bogusław Leśnodorski, 71, Polish historian. Clarence H. Lobo, 72, American Acjachemen tribal spokesman.Clarence H. Lobo, 72, chief of the... Desmond McMullen, 67, British flying ace. Mertz Mortorelli, 64, American football coach. Pauli Murray, 74, American priest and civil rights activist, pancreatic cancer.DR. PAULI MURRAY, EPISCOPAL PRIEST Wallace Sterling, 78, American academic administrator.WALLACE STERLING; LED STANFORD U. Marcel Thibaud, 88, French politician. Thomas Patrick Thornton, 87, American jurist. Jean Van Den Bosch, 86, Belgian Olympic racing cyclist (1924).
2 Ruth M. Briggs, 74, American soldier and politician.Lieut. Col. Ruth Briggs, 74; Served Allied Headquarters Guy Bush, 83, American baseball player.Guy Bush obituary Edward Evarts, 59, American neuroscientist, heart attack.Dr. Edward Evarts, 59, Pioneer in Brain Study Luang Pu Waen Suciṇṇo, 98, Thai Buddhist monk. James Minter, 67, Australian cricketer. Hector Nicol, 64, Scottish comedian, singer, and actor. David Purley, 40, British racing driver, plane crash. Red Watkins, 80, American football and baseball coach. D. Ray White, 58, American mountain dancer, shot. Eric Wilson, 84, American Olympic track and field athlete (1924).
3 Erik Ågren, 69, Swedish Olympic boxer (1936). Bob Baker, 68, Australian politician. Charles Herbert Colvin, 92, American aeronautical engineer.CHARLES H. COLVIN Irvin Ehrenpreis, 65, American literary scholar, fall.Irvin Ehrenpreis Dies at 65; Authority on Jonathan Swift Frank Engledow, 94, British botanist. Rodolfo Ghioldi, 94, Argentine politician. Ferdinand Haberl, 79, German composer and theologian. Herbert Hirschman, 71, American television producer. Patricia Hornsby-Smith, Baroness Hornsby-Smith, 71, British politician, MP (1950–1966, 1970–1974) and member of the House of Lords (since 1974). Nelson Leigh, 80, American actor. Nils Meinander, 74, Finnish politician. Rutherford George Montgomery, 91, American children's author. Friedrich Ruge, 90, German naval admiral. Frank J. Selke, 92, Canadian ice hockey executive.FRANK SELKE Roger Seydoux, 77, French diplomat. Mary Steel Stevenson, 88, Scottish-born Australian politician. Wilhelmina Magdalene Stuart, 89, New Zealand telegraphist. Cooney Weiland, 80, Canadian ice hockey player.
4 Haakon Chevalier, 83, American writer and translator.Haakon Chevalier, 83, Author and Translator Cecil Cook, 87, Australian physician. Jan de Quay, 83, Dutch politician, prime minister (1959–1963).JAN E. DE QUAY IS DEAD AT 83; WAS PREMIER OF NETHERLANDS Moussa Diakité, 57-58, Guinean politician, executed. Henry Ellenbogen, 85, Austrian-born American politician and jurist, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1933–1938).Henry Ellenbogen Dies at 85; Longtime Judge in Pittsburgh Edward V. Gant, 66-67, American academic administrator. Joseph P. Monaghan, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1933–1937). George Oldfield, 61, English police detective, heart failure.George Oldfield Is Dead at 61; Hunted the 'Yorkshire Ripper' Mamba Sano, 81-82, Guinean politician. Lotte Strauss, 72, German-American pathologist. Willem Visser 't Hooft, 84, Dutch theologian, emphysema.W.A. VISSER 'T HOOFT, CHURCHMAN, DIES AT 84 Frank Walsh, 79, American baseball umpire. Chris Woods, 59, American jazz saxophonist.Chris Woods, 59, Dies; Jazz Alto Saxophonist
5 Ethel H. Bailey, 88, American engineer.BAILEY Margery C. Carlson, 92, American botanist. Barry Crane, 57, American television producer and bridge player, bludgeoned.BARRY CRANE, BRIDGE EXPERT, FOUND SLAIN IN LOS ANGELES Charles J. Ducey, 79, American Knights of Columbus fraternity leader. Edgar Dunbar, 83, Australian footballer. Bladen Hawke, 9th Baron Hawke, 83, British politician and hereditary peer. Ken Kuronuma, 83, Japanese novelist. Bill Luckett, 81, English footballer. Raoul Palmer, 80, French gynecologist. Jack Robertson, 79, South African cricketer. Paulino Uzcudun, 86, Spanish boxer.Paulino Uzcudun, two-time European heavyweight boxing champion, died Thursday... Mario Vušković, 31, Yugoslav Croatian footballer, traffic collision.
6 C. Douglas Cairns, 71, American politician.C. Douglas Cairns, Former Burlington Mayor, Dies Frederick Kaufman, 65, Austrian-American chemist, respiratory disease.FREDERICK KAUFMAN John Schneider Jr., 66, American politician. Cecil Herbert Sharpley, 76, English-born Australian politician and trade unionist. Marion Webster, 64, Canadian-American biochemist. Nikolai Yegipko, 81, Soviet naval admiral.
7 Irma Andersson-Kottö, 90, Swedish botanist. Charles R. Clason, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1937–1949).Charles R. Clason, 94, Dies; Ex-Bay State Congressman György Harag, 60, Romanian actor and director. Sharafat Hussain Khan, 55, Indian singer, lung cancer. Shōzō Sakurai, 96, Japanese general. John Scarne, 82, American magician and author.JOHN SCARNE, GAMBLING EXPERT Ewen Solon, 67, New Zealand-British actor. Fernando Tropea, 80, Italian film editor. Ljubov Nikolaevna Vassiljeva, 84, Soviet botanist. Laron Williams, 36, American convicted serial killer, beaten. Volodymyr Yurkevych, 72, Soviet Ukrainian bandurist.
8 Wim Addicks, 88, Dutch footballer. Rebekah Colberg, 66, Puerto Rican athlete. Gardner Cowles Jr., 82, American newspaper magnate.GARDNER COWLES JR. IS DEAD AT 82; HELPED BUILD PUBLISHING EMPIRE Phil Foster, 72, American actor (Laverne & Shirley), heart attack.PHIL FOSTER, 72, THE COMEDIAN AND ACTOR IN 'LAVERNE' SERIES Frank Hampson, 66, British cartoonist, stroke. Simon Kuznets, 84, Russian-American economist, Nobel Prize recipient (1971).SIMON KUZNETS IS DEAD AT 84; NOBEL LAUREATE IN ECONOMICS Jean-Paul Le Chanois, 75, French filmmaker. Niall Molloy, 52, Irish Roman Catholic priest, murdered. Solomon Pekar, 68, Soviet Ukrainian theoretical physicist. Victor Rendina, 68, American actor. Ursula Batchelder Stone, 85, American business researcher.STONE Guinean politicians executed on this date: Mamadi Keïta, 51-52. Ismaël Touré, 59. Diarra Traoré, 49-50, prime minister (1984).
9 Trygve Braarud, 81, Norwegian botanist. Rafael Campos, 49, American actor, stomach cancer.RAFAEL CAMPOS Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, 89, Luxembourgish monarch, grand duchess (1919–1964).CHARLOTTE, LONGTIME LUXEMBOURG RULER, DIES Milo Cipra, 78, Yugoslav Croatian composer. David R. Goddard, 77, American plant physiologist. Pierre-Paul Grassé, 89, French zoologist. Luiz Henrique Rosa, 46, Brazilian musician, traffic collision. Kuuno Honkonen, 63, Finnish politician and Olympic high jumper (1948). Arne Odd Johnsen, 75, Norwegian historian. Jimmy Kinnon, 74, Scottish-born American support group founder (Narcotics Anonymous), lung cancer.Jimmy Kinnon obituary James Rupert Lawson, 67, American Black nationalist activist, complications from a stroke.James R. Lawson, 67, Harlem-Based Activist Kārlis Lobe, 90, Latvian soldier. Margaret Molesworth, 90, Australian tennis player. Wout Steenhuis, 62, Dutch musician.
10 Keith Fleming, 75, Australian footballer. Ahsan Habib, 68, Bangladeshi poet. Kai Holm, 89, Danish actor. John Kavanagh, 72, New Zealand Roman Catholic prelate. Nat G. Kiefer, 46, American politician, member of the Louisiana State Senate (since 1970), liver disease.State Sen. Nat Kiefer, D-New Orleans, who carried his... Bill Morgan, 75, American football player. Hilgard Muller, 71, South African politician and diplomat. Arthur J. Ornitz, 68, American cinematographer.ARTHUR ORNITZ Fernando Pereira, 35, Portuguese-Dutch photographer, drowned. Zenon Stefaniuk, 55, Polish boxer.
11 John Boulicault, 79, American Olympic racing cyclist (1924). Chu Chia-Jen, 84-85, Chinese aviation engineer. George Duvivier, 64, American jazz bassist, cancer.George Duvivier Dies; Bassist for Top Bands Roberto Genta, 78, Argentine Olympic sprinter (1932). Taneli Kekkonen, 56, Finnish diplomat, suicide by hanging. Galina Kopernak, 83, Russian-American actress. Timoteus Pokora, 57, Czechoslovak Sinologist. Gil Robinson, 75, American football player. Georges Verriest, 75, French footballer.
12 Sir Robertson Crichton, 72, British jurist. Thomas Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde, 94, Scottish politician and hereditary peer, MP (1940–1955) and member of the House of Lords (since 1955). Gene McEver, 76, American football player and coach. Grady Louis McMurtry, 66, American magician and occultist. Arnold Miller, 62, American miner and labor activist.Arnold Miller, Once Reform President of UMW, Dies at 62 Kevin O'Neill, 77, Australian footballer. Clemens Pasch, 74, German artist. Lettice Ramsey, 86, British photographer. Max Rippon, 64, Australian footballer. H. J. Ryser, 61, American mathematician. Tokkie Smith, 50-51, South African-Hong Kong football executive, traffic collision. Serm Vinicchayakul, 78, Thai economist and politician.
13 Joe Aguirre, 66, American football player. Charles K. Bliss, 87, Austrian-Australian semiotician. Claudio Cassinelli, 46, Italian actor, helicopter crash.Italian actor Claudio Cassinelli, 46, and a helicopter pilot... Stokeley Fulton, 55, American college sports coach, cancer.FOR THE RECORD Sir Derrick Gunston, 94, British politician, MP (1924–1945). Matthias Hoogen, 81, German politician, member of the Bundestag (1949–1964). Dorothy Houston Jacobson, 77, American political scientist.Dorothy H. Jacobson Dies Hermann Lehmann, 75, German-born British physician and biochemist. Allan Quartermain, 71, Australian footballer.
14 Larry Drake, 64, American baseball player. Debaprasad Ghosh, 91, Indian politician and mathematician. Blake Huffman, 83, Canadian politician, MP (1949–1958). Lily May Ledford, 68, American folk musician.Lily Ledford, country-music pioneer, dies Dikki Madhava Rao, 66, Indian actor. Theo Schoon, 69, Dutch-born New Zealand photographer and artist. Lluís Solé, 77, Spanish geographer. Henk van Tilburg, 86, Dutch footballer. William White, 64, American film producer and actor.
15 Frank S. Besson Jr., 75, American general, cancer.Retired Gen. Frank Besson Dies Diego Giacometti, 82, Swiss-French artist. Pearl Kibre, 84, American historian.DR. PEARL KIBRE Jean-Louis Marnat, 49, French racing driver, traffic collision. Federico Norcia, 81, Italian chess player. M. Blaine Peterson, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1963). Earl D Thomas, 87, American civic leader.
16 Walter Aveyard, 67, English footballer. Heinrich Böll, 67, German novelist, Nobel Prize recipient (1972).HEINRICH BOLL, WEST GERMAN NOVELIST, DEAD AT 67 Clive Braybrook, 83, Australian cricketer. Elie Grekoff, 70, Russian-born French artist. Ursula Kathleen Hicks, 88, Irish-born British economist. Wayne King, 84, American songwriter and bandleader.Musician Wayne King, Known as the ‘Waltz King,’ Dies at 84 Robert Siohan, 91, French composer. Kurt von Fritz, 84, German philologist. Elsie Wagstaff, 86, English actress. George H. Wilson, 79, American politician and jurist, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).
17 Leslie C. Arends, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1935–1974), heart attack.LESLIE ARENDS, 40-YEAR HOUSE MEMBER, DIES Donald Davidson, 80, South African cricketer. Philippe de Chérisey, 62, French writer and humorist. Hugh Dunbar, 82, Australian footballer.