Deaths in July 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1986

1 Adil Abdullah, 63, Iraqi footballer. Jean Baratte, 63, French footballer. Willy Berger, 80, Hungarian-born Israeli footballer. Harry Bolton, 67, American NFL football player (Detroit Lions). Alf Bond, 75, English football referee. E. E. Y. Hales, 77, English religious historian. Willard Ames Holbrook Jr., 88, American general. Christa Merten, 41, West German Olympic runner (1972), suicide. Andrew Miller, 59, British naval admiral. Moccasin, 23, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. John Murio, 84, American tennis player. Karl Myrbäck, 85, Swedish chemist. Sam Ramsden, 72, Australian politician. Sir Iain Sutherland, 61, British diplomat, heart attack.Sir Iain Sutherland. New York Times. Retrieved 21 Sep 2024. Roger Cuthbert Wakefield, 80, English surveyor and rugby player. Edward Curtis Wells, 75, American business executive (Boeing).

2 Alfred Grimwood, 80, English cricketer. Louis Harant, 90, American Olympic sports shooter (1920). Hoàng Văn Thái, 71, Vietnamese general. René Létourneau, 73, Canadian politician. Peanuts Lowrey, 68, American Major League baseball player. Erwin Milzkott, 73, German musician. Hilyard Robinson, 86–87, American architect.

3 Jonathan B. Bingham, 72, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1983), pneumonia. Elizabeth Bodine, 88, American humanitarian. Charles Chew, 63, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate (since 1967), throat cancer. Bruce Chown, 92, Canadian physician. Ubirajara Fidalgo, 37, Brazilian actor and director. Monk Higgins, 55, American saxophonist, respiratory disease. Bill McCahan, 65, American Major League baseball player, cancer. Quinn McNemar, 86, American psychologist and statistician. Mona Ray, 81, American actress. Curley Russell, 69, American jazz musician, emphysema. Andrew C. Tychsen, 93, American general. Rudy Vallée, 84, American singer and musician, cancer. Erling Westher, 83, Norwegian pianist.

4 Paul Adams, 65, American college sports coach, heart attack. Margaret Cuninggim, 71, American academic administrator. Leo Lermond, 80, American Olympic runner (1928). Peter F. Mack Jr., 69, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1963). Benjamin Menor, 63, American jurist, throat cancer. Flor Peeters, 83, Belgian composer. Oscar Roettger, 86, American Major League baseball player. Eddie Shu, 67, American jazz musician. Theodor S. Slen, 100, American politician and lawyer, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1935–1940), pneumonia. Oscar Zariski, 87, Russian-born American mathematician.

5 Thomas Arnold, 85, British Olympic bobsledder (1924). Noel Counihan, 72, Australian painter and cartoonist. Alan Gemmell, 73, British biologist and botanist. Rosaire Gendron, 65, Canadian politician. Ulrich Hofmann, 83, German mathematician. Ruth Jones, 40, American basketball coach, ovarian cancer. Javad Khamenei, 90, Iranian Shia cleric. Biff Lee, 78, American NFL football player. Richard Lowe, 82, English cricketer. Gisiro Maruyama, 70, Japanese mathematician. O Yoon, 40, South Korean painter, cirrhosis. Benjamin B. Patterson, 76, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1957–1966). K. Krishna Pillai, 62, Indian politician. Sir Folliott Sandford, 79, British civil servant. Albert Scherrer, 78, Swiss racing driver. Georg-Wilhelm Schulz, 80, German U-boat commander. Yaroslav Stetsko, 74, Soviet Ukrainian politician, prime minister of the Ukrainian national government (1941). Sir John Toothill, 77, English electrical engineer. James Walsh, 73, Australian cricketer.

6 Stephen Brunauer, 83, American chemist. Vic Carroll, 73, American NFL football player (Washington Redskins, New York Giants). Germán Frers, 86, Argentine Olympic sailor (1936). Walter Hollitscher, 75, Austrian philosopher. Lothar Kreyssig, 87, German jurist. Andrée Le Coultre, 68–69, French painter. Herbert Leonhardt, 61, German Olympic skier (1956). Robert S. Lopez, 75, Italian-born American historian, cancer. Jagjivan Ram, 78, Indian politician. Rodrigo Rojas de Negri, 19, Chilean photographer, burned. Clarence Streit, 90, American journalist, renal failure. Kōji Wada, 42, Japanese actor. Blanka Waleská, 76, Czech actress. Benjamin D. Wood, 91, American academic administrator. Clarrie Wyatt, 82, Australian rules footballer. Eddie Yuhas, 61, American Major League baseball player.

7 Willi Ankermüller, 85, German politician. Mai Bhagi, 79–80, Pakistani musician. Carnera, 77, Brazilian footballer. Gunnar Christensen, 72, Danish Olympic athlete (1936). Harry Davis, 75, Welsh-born New Zealand potter. Frederick Kohner, 80, Austrian-born American novelist (Gidget). Sven Johnson, 86, Swedish Olympic gymnast (1920). Christopher C. McGrath, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1953).Christopher C. McGrath dies; Former Bronx Congressman Earl J. Merritt, 89, American sports coach. Len Vautier, 77, Australian rules footballer. Hazel Browne Williams, 79, American educator.

8 C. W. Armstrong, 87, Northern Irish politician, MP (1954–1959). Paolo Brignoli, 44, Italian entomologist. Johnny Cooney, 85, American Major League baseball player. Adolfo Linvel, 74–75, Argentine actor. Nina Morgana, 94, American singer. Pedro Ortiz Dávila, 74, Puerto Rican singer. Hyman G. Rickover, 86, American admiral. Skeeter Webb, 76, American Major League baseball player. Robert J. Wood, 81, American general.

9 Tommy Barnett, 77, English footballer. Nellie Campobello, 85, Mexican writer, heart failure. Marietta Canty, 80, American actress. Calvin Carter, 61, American record producer. Julio Córdova, 75, Chilean footballer. Laxmi Narayan Bhanja Deo, 73, Indian politician. Sir Percy Edward Kent, 73, British geologist. María Laffitte, 83, Spanish women's rights activist and writer. John Leighly, 90, American geographer. Carl "Spider" Lockhart, 43, American NFL football player, lymphoma. Red Lucas, 84, American Major League baseball player. Boris Mayzel, 79, Soviet composer. Walter Romanowicz, 68, American soccer player. Chandrashekhar Singh, 58, Indian politician. Ruth Warren, 85, American actress. Paul Yuzyk, 73, Canadian politician.

10 Rafael Gil, 73, Spanish film director. Brendan Glynn, 76, Irish politician, TD (1954–1957). Jody Lawrance, 55, American actress. Lê Duẩn, 79, Vietnamese politician. Harl Maggert, 72, American Major League baseball player. Csilla Molnár, 17, Hungarian beauty queen, suicide by drug overdose. Nicholas VI, 73, Greek Orthodox prelate, patriarch of Alexandria (since 1968). Park Taewon, 76, Korean writer. Aukusti Pasanen, 83, Finnish politician. Tadeusz Piotrowski, 46, Polish mountaineer, fall. Roman Ulrich Sexl, 46, Austrian theoretical physicist. Štefan Stanislay, 83, Czechoslovak athlete. Don S. Wenger, 74, American general.

11 John Clayden, 82, Rhodesian jurist. Larry D. Gilbertson, 68, American politician. Lillian Rosanoff Lieber, 99, Russian-born American mathematician. Bill Purcell, 81, Australian rules footballer. Hortensia Santoveña, 73, Mexican actress. Dutch Thiele, 93, American NFL football player. Enrique Villegas, 72, Argentine pianist. Lucille Wall, 88, American actress (General Hospital).

12 Dame Kate Isabel Campbell, 87, Australian physician. Ingram Capper, 78, British Olympic sports shooter (1952) Wacław Kisielewski, 43, Polish pianist, traffic collision. Faydang Lobliayao, 75–76, Laotian politician. Dermod MacCarthy, 75, British pediatrician. Gene Mayl, 84, American NFL footballer and basketballer. Nea Morin, 81, British mountaineer. Kamaran Mukeri, 56–57, Iraqi poet. Krum Penev, 84, Bulgarian poet and playwright. Jean Zizine, 63, French Olympic field hockey player (1952).

13 Sir Max Bemrose, 82, English politician and industrialist. Walter Bradshaw, 77, Australian-born British cricketer. Coke Escovedo, 45, American percussionist, cirrhosis. Gary Famiglietti, 72, American NFL football player. Edmund Dwen Gill, 77, Australian geologist. Brion Gysin, 70, British-Canadian writer, painter and inventor, lung cancer. Hong Jin-ki, 69, South Korean jurist. Géza Kardos, 68, Hungarian Olympic basketball player (1948). Orígenes Lessa, 83, Brazilian writer. Edward Lipiński, 97, Polish politician and economist. Margaret Ransone Murray, 84, American biologist. Ladislav Pešek, 79, Czechoslovak actor. Ralph Steiner, 87, American photographer. Jaak Tamleht, 44, Soviet Estonian actor. Jean Van Gool, 55, French footballer. Joe Wirkkunen, 58, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey coach, home fire accident Mel Zajac, 30, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1976), drowned.

14 John Bridger, 66, English cricketer, traffic collision. Arthur Ford, 82–83, Australian Olympic wrestler (1928). Anthony Hadingham, 73, English cricketer. William E. Hess, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1929–1937, 1939–1949, 1951–1961). Wally Holborow, 72, American Major League baseball player. Raymond Loewy, 92, French-born American industrial designer. Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi, 72, Iranian poet. Joseph Vogt, 91, German historian. Jack Whitehead, 73, Australian rules footballer.

15 Carolina Correa Londoño, 81, Colombian socialite, first lady (1953–1957). Florence Halop, 63, American actress, lung cancer. Iain Hamilton, 66, Scottish journalist. Billy Haughton, 62, American harness driver, head injury. Sir John Mellor, 2nd Baronet, 93, British politician, MP (1935–1955). Benny Rubin, 87, American actor and comedian, heart attack. Alfonso Thiele, 66, American-Italian racing driver.

16 Joseph T. Bayly, 66, American author and publishing executive. Vasudeo Sitaram Bendrey, 92, Indian author and historian. Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby, 86, British politician, MP (1924–1958) and member of the House of Lords (since 1958), heart attack. A. S. Conception, 58, Indian actor and singer. James Aloysius Coolahan, 83, American jurist. Stephen Coulter, 71, British novelist. Dick Crawshaw, Baron Crawshaw of Aintree, 68, British politician, MP (1964–1983). David Max Eichhorn, 80, American rabbi, heart attack. Carlo Martini, 72, Italian Roman Catholic prelate. Thomas Edwin Nevin, 79, Irish physicist. Bob O'Dea, 56, New Zealand rugby player. Bill Rohr, 68, American basketball coach. Robert C. Rusack, 60, American Anglican prelate, heart attack. Charles E. Thompson, 97, American politician, member of the Mississippi Senate (1916–1920). Claire Watson, 59, American singer, brain cancer. Jerrold R. Zacharias, 81, American physicist.

17 Nicholas Ashton, 81, English cricketer. Alexandru Badea, 48, Romanian footballer. René de La Croix de Castries, 77, French historian. Cleo Davis, 67, American musician. Louis Gardet, 81, French historian and Roman Catholic priest. Gordon Gibson Sr., 81, Canadian politician. Pierre Langlais, 76, French soldier, suicide by jumping. Tom MacKay, 75, Australian rules footballer. Norma Moreno Figueroa, 24, Mexican journalist, shot. Kurt Nielsen, 61, Danish footballer. George M. O'Brien, 69, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1973), prostate cancer. Oevaang Oeray, 63, Indonesian politician. René Pedroli, 71, Swiss road bicycle racer. Edward E. Willey, 76, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (since 1952), complications from a stroke.

18 Buddy Baer, 71, American boxer and actor. Allan R. Bosworth, 84, American author. Robert Cover, 42, American law scholar, heart attack. Margaret Crum, 65, British musicologist. Maiju Gebhard, 89, Finnish inventor (dish drying cabinet). J. Lister Holmes, 95, American architect. Emil Nofal, 59–60, South African filmmaker. Sir Stanley Rous, 91, English football referee, president of FIFA (1961–1974), leukemia.