Deaths in August 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

1

 * Carlo Confalonieri, 93, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, dean of the College of Cardinals (since 1977).
 * Paul Detlefsen, 86, Danish-born American commercial artist.
 * Sully Glasser, 63, Canadian football player.
 * Marion Grant, 68, American historian, heart attack.
 * Ignatius Joseph Kasimo Hendrowahyono, 86, Indonesian politician.
 * James Horan, 75, Irish Roman Catholic priest.
 * Jeanne Humbert, 96, French writer and feminist activist.
 * Susan Jellicoe, 79, English photographer and writer.
 * Lena Kennedy, 72, English author.
 * Willem Klein, 73, Dutch mathematician, stabbed.
 * Syd Negus, 74, Australian politician.
 * Robert Wolfgang Schnell, 70, German writer.
 * José María Vidal, 51, Spanish footballer.
 * Karl Zimmerman, 91, Swiss sports shooter.

2

 * Aligholi Ardalan, 86, Iranian diplomat.
 * Sunil Banerjee, 66, Indian cricket umpire.
 * Vsevolod Bazhenov, 77, Soviet painter.
 * Roy Cohn, 59, American lawyer (Donald Trump) and prosecutor (Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Army–McCarthy hearings), AIDS.
 * Renato Leduc, 88, Mexican poet and journalist.
 * Shakti Prasad, 58, Indian actor.

3

 * George Agnost, 63, American attorney, cardiac arrest.
 * Paul de Groot, 87, Dutch politician.
 * Rupert de Smidt, 102, South African cricketer.
 * Otmar Emminger, 75, German economist, heart attack.
 * Brian Flynn, 57, Australian cricketer.
 * Thad Hutcheson, 70, American attorney.
 * Nord Krauskopf, 64, American racing team owner.
 * George Kuznets, 77, American economist.
 * Beryl Markham, 83, British-born Kenyan aviator.
 * Y. Eswara Reddy, 70-71, Indian politician.
 * Florence Reece, 86, American social activist and songwriter ("Which Side Are You On?"), heart attack.
 * František Šembera, 81, Czech Olympic equestrian (1960).
 * Joe Thomas, 77, American jazz saxophonist.
 * William B. Williams, 62, American disc jockey, respiratory failure.

4

 * Bennie J. George, 67, American college sports coach, pneumonia.
 * Harry Giles, 74, Australian footballer.
 * Charles Haworth, 79, American Olympic runner (1928).
 * Pierre Houlès, 40, French photographer.
 * Hyllus Maris, 52, Australian Aboriginal rights activist, cancer.
 * Bob Roggy, 29, American javelin thrower, fall.
 * Roger Rouge, 72, Swiss Olympic sailor (1964).
 * Willem Ruis, 41, Dutch television presenter, cardiac arrest.

5

 * John Alexander, 90, American football player.
 * John Anderson, 42, American racing driver, traffic collision.
 * Ferenc Cziráki, 72, Hungarian Olympic handball player (1936).
 * Banesh Hoffmann, 79, British-American physicist and mathematician.
 * Lester Lautenschlaeger, 82, American football player and politician.
 * Emanuel Löffler, 84, Czech Olympic gymnast (1928, 1936).
 * Katharine Krom Merritt, 100, American physician.
 * Ernest Campbell Mossner, 78, American academic and biographer.
 * Himzo Polovina, 59, Yugoslav Bosnian singer and songwriter, heart attack.
 * George Poyser, 71, Australian politician.
 * Karl Streibel, 82, German concentration camp official (Trawniki concentration camp),

6

 * John Binns, 72, British politician.
 * Alessandro Catalani, 81, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Maria Dunin, 87, Polish painter.
 * James A. Farley Jr., 58, American sports commissioner, complications from heart surgery.
 * Emilio Fernández, 82, Mexican filmmaker (María Candelaria).
 * Val Gannon, 67, Irish footballer.
 * Marjorie Hall Harrison, 67, English-born American astronomer.
 * Timothy Y. Hewlett, 90, American architect.
 * Hans-Jørgen Holman, 61, Norwegian-American pianist.
 * Jean-Pierre Jacquillat, 51, French conductor, traffic collision.
 * Harry H. Johnson, 91, American general.
 * George J. Minty, 56, American mathematician.
 * Nikolai Mukho, 72, Soviet painter.
 * Philomé Obin, 94, Haitian painter.
 * Simone Plé-Caussade, 88, French composer and pianist.
 * Julie Tullis, 47, British mountaineer, high-altitude pulmonary edema.
 * Jorge Vieira, 87, Portuguese footballer.
 * Kim Williams, 62, American writer and naturalist, cancer.
 * Beppe Wolgers, 57, Swedish singer and dubber, peptic ulcer disease.
 * Lou Zontini, 68, American football player.

7

 * Anne Bahlke, 83, American physician.
 * Ladislav Hojer, 28, Czech serial killer, execution by hanging.
 * Alfred Jones, 86, English cricketer.
 * James Mulroy, 86, Irish police officer, first recipient of the Scott Medal.
 * William J. Schroeder, 54, American soldier and artificial heart recipient, lung infection.

8

 * Paul G. Chandler, 96, American academic official and sports coach.
 * Yehoshua Cohen, 64, Israeli Zionist militant (Lehi), heart attack.
 * Col Galbraith, 66, Australian footballer.
 * Lowell A. Nelson, 68, American politician.
 * Frederick Newton, 34-35, Dominican militant and coup leader, execution by hanging.
 * Bernard Pickel, 59, Canadian basketball player.
 * Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer, 93, American architect and women's rights activist.

9

 * Harold Ave, 86, American sports coach.
 * Angelo Congear, 101, Australian footballer.
 * Clarence Maddern, 64, American baseball player.
 * Sankar Prasad Mitra, 68, Indian politician and jurist.
 * Gustav Adolf Nosske, 83, German lawyer and war criminal.
 * Stanley Pearl, 92, Australian soldier and trench artist.
 * Edoardo Pecoraio, 75, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Cyril Plant, 75, British trade unionist.
 * Jef Scherens, 77, Belgian track cyclist.
 * Ignaz Sigl, 84, Austrian footballer.
 * Ruth Teitelbaum, 62, American mathematician and computer programmer.

10

 * Arthur Capell, 84, Australian linguist.
 * Paraskeva Clark, 87, Russian-Canadian painter.
 * Vratislav Effenberger, 63, Czech writer.
 * Jacqueline Gadsden, 86, American actress.
 * K. C. George, 83, Indian politician.
 * Luther Carrington Goodrich, 91, American Sinologist.
 * Tom Greenwade, 81, American baseball scout, heart failure.
 * Holger Guldager, 81, Danish Olympic cyclist (1924).
 * John H. Hamilton Jr., 67, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1965–1978).
 * Guy H. Jones, 75, American politician and lawyer.
 * Don McRae, 71, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Dobrosława Miodowicz-Wolf, 32, Polish mountaineer, exhaustion.
 * Herb Mols, 71, American sports administrator.
 * Alan Rouse, 34, British mountaineer, high-altitude pulmonary edema.
 * Arun Shridhar Vaidya, 60, Indian general, shot.

11

 * Karl Duldig, 83, Polish-born Australian sculptor.
 * Bud Edwards, 78, American football player.
 * Tom Gorman, 67, American baseball player and umpire, heart attack.
 * Peter Mahon, 62, New Zealand jurist, heart failure.
 * Chuck McKinley, 45, American tennis player, brain cancer.
 * Hans-Joachim Riecke, 87, German politician and Nazi official.
 * Heinz Strehl, 48, German footballer, heart failure.

12

 * Dame Adelaide Doughty, 77, Australian-British politician.
 * Howard Finn, 68, American city planner and architect.
 * Benjamin Frank, 66-67, Indian cricketer.
 * Roberto Hodge, 42, Chilean footballer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Howard Jarvis, 82, American politician, businessman and lobbyist.
 * Leroy Lins, 73, American basketball player.
 * Paola Mori, 57, Italian actress, traffic collision.
 * Léonard Mulamba, 57-58, Zairian politician and diplomat, prime minister of Congo-Léopoldville (1965–1966).
 * Evaline Ness, 75, American children's author (Sam, Bangs & Moonshine).
 * Hans Pesser, 74, Austrian footballer.
 * Felix Salzer, 82, Austrian-American musicologist.

13

 * Jean Bailhache, 75, French writer.
 * Way Bandy, 45, American makeup artist, AIDS.
 * Pius Anthony Benincasa, 73, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Lemoine Blanchard, 75, American politician and businessman.
 * Joe Bolton, 75, American television and radio personality, heart attack.
 * Pepper Constable, 72, American football player and doctor, drowned.
 * Víctor García Garzena, 72, Chilean politician and lawyer.
 * Caterina Jarboro, 88, American singer.
 * Janko Lavrin, 99, Slovene writer and historian.
 * Jan Lotz, 75, South African rugby player.
 * Helen Mack, 72, American actress.
 * Mãe Menininha do Gantois, 92, Brazilian spiritual leader.
 * Arthur Piasecki, 69, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania Senate (1967–1970).
 * George Todd, 83, Australian footballer.

14

 * Ken Austin, 71, Australian politician.
 * Pierre Bertaux, 78, French linguist.
 * Jomí García Ascot, 59, Spanish-Mexican writer and filmmaker.
 * Charlie Greenhill, 84, Australian footballer.
 * Michael Lawrence Haider, 81, American engineer and oil executive.
 * Henry Kristian Larsen, 72, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1936).
 * Stjepan Ljubić, 80, Yugoslav racing cyclist.
 * Vera Sogoyan, 60, Soviet painter.

15

 * Alexander Barras, 72, Australian cricketer.
 * Richard E. Holz, 71, American composer.
 * Billy Libbis, 83, Australian footballer.
 * Louis Peglion, 80, French racing cyclist.
 * Winthrop Sargeant, 82, American violinist and music critic.
 * Felix Tikotin, 92, German-Dutch art collector and architect.
 * John Trevelyan, 83, British censor.
 * Waldon O. Watson, 79, American sound engineer.
 * Harald Wiberg, 78, Swedish writer and illustrator.

16

 * Ronnie Aird, 84, English cricketer.
 * Patrick Beesly, 73, British author.
 * Reginald Fenderson, 74, American actor.
 * John Hurley, 45, American songwriter ("Son of a Preacher Man"), liver failure.
 * Sonia Rosemary Keppel, 86, British author and socialite.
 * John Maude, 85, British politician.
 * Thomas McFall, 73, Irish Anglican prelate.
 * William T. Pheiffer, 88, American politician and diplomat, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1941–1943).
 * Ryan Price, 74, British racehorse trainer.
 * Jaime Sáenz, 64, Bolivian writer.
 * Esther Shemitz, 86, American painter.
 * Richard Sneider, 64, American diplomat.
 * D Subbaramaiah, 81-82, Indian singer.
 * Nikolaos Syllas, 71, Greek Olympic athlete (1936, 1948, 1952).

17

 * M. G. Chakrapani, 75, Indian actor and film producer.
 * Bengt Ekenberg, 74, Swedish chess player.
 * William B. Gunter, 67, American jurist, heart attack.
 * Shipwreck Kelly, 76, American football player, stroke.
 * Walt Lanfranconi, 69, American baseball player.
 * Charles Loewen, 85, Canadian-English general.
 * Peter M. Nicholson, 67, Canadian politician.
 * Luis Pasarín, 84, Spanish footballer.
 * Sammy Vick, 91, American baseball player.

18

 * Fred Ayers, 74, Australian footballer.
 * Bruce F. Beilfuss, 71, American jurist, cancer.
 * Nikos Nissiotis, 62, Greek philosopher and basketball coach, traffic collision.
 * Ken Roskie, 65, American football player.
 * Vivian Stuart, 72, British writer.
 * Tikhon Yurkin, 88, Soviet politician.

19

 * Hermione Baddeley, 79, English actress (Room at the Top, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, The Aristocats), complications from a stroke.
 * Wilfred Beaver, 89, British-American flying ace.
 * Jaap Burger, 81, Dutch politician.
 * Hugh De Lacy, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1947), cancer.
 * John Donnelly, 81, Canadian Olympic rower (1928).
 * Zia Fatehabadi, 73, Indian poet.
 * Raphael Glorieux, 57, Belgian Olympic cyclist (1948).
 * Georg Løkkeberg, 76, Norwegian actor and theatre director.
 * Juan José Rosón, 53, Spanish politician, heart attack.
 * Lorenzo Tucker, 79, American actor, lung cancer.

20

 * Milton Acorn, 63, Canadian poet and playwright, complications from a heart attack.
 * Barbara Bartay, 65, Czech-American actress, colorectal cancer.
 * Walter Brooke, 71, American actor, emphysema.
 * Joy Bright Hancock, 88, American naval officer.
 * Edward Howell, 84, British-Australian actor and theatre and television producer.
 * Thad Jones, 63, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.
 * Vichna Kaplan, 72-73, Russian-born American academic administrator.
 * Hartford H. Keifer, 84, American zoologist.
 * Gauriprasanna Mazumder, 60, Indian lyricist.
 * Zygmunt Menkes, 90, Polish-born American painter, heart attack.
 * George Rainbird, 81, British publisher.
 * Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish, 85, Bangladeshi politician.
 * Austin Warren, 87, American literary critic.

21

 * Bata, 78, Spanish footballer.
 * Armando Bréa, 87, Brazilian Olympic runner (1932).
 * George Brenlin, 58, American actor.
 * William C. Chase, 91, American general.
 * Felix Mitchell, 31, American crime boss, stabbed.
 * Alexandre O'Neill, 61, Portuguese writer.
 * Roscoe Charles Wilson, 81, American general.

22

 * Vali Akhundov, 70, Soviet Azerbaijani politician.
 * Lamb Barbee, 70, American baseball player.
 * Celâl Bayar, 103, Turkish politician, prime minister (1937–1939) and president (1950–1960).
 * Jacques Bonnet, 47, French Olympic field hockey player (1960).
 * Bruce Cowling, 66, American actor.
 * Alan de Belin, 32, Australian rower.
 * Charlie Eckert, 89, American baseball player.
 * César Graña, 66-67, Peruvian-American sociologist, traffic collision.
 * Dots Johnson, 73, American actor.
 * Mel Merritt, 88, American football player.
 * Sobha Singh, 84, Indian painter.
 * William Craig Smith, 67, American art director.
 * Josef Streb, 74, German footballer.
 * F. Palmer Weber, 72, American businessman and activist.

23

 * Joe Brown, 78, New Zealand businessman and entertainment promoter.
 * Lloyd Budd, 72, English cricketer.
 * Bill Callihan, 70, American football player.
 * Florencio Castelló, 80-81, Spanish actor.
 * Ion Clopoțel, 93, Romanian journalist.
 * Eric Cook, 77, Canadian politician.
 * Pete Daily, 75, American jazz musician.
 * Rosita Díaz Gimeno, 77, Spanish actress.
 * Ben C. Duniway, 78, American jurist.
 * José Estrada, 48, Mexican filmmaker.
 * Bill Evans, 87, American baseball player.
 * Adrienne Fazan, 80, American film editor.
 * Donald Fortier, 39, American intelligence agent, cancer.
 * Herman H. Hanneken, 93, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
 * Marvin Hatley, 81, American film composer.
 * Charles Janssens, 80, Belgian actor.
 * Mikhail Kuznetsov, 68, Soviet actor.
 * Warren P. Mason, 85, American electrical engineer.
 * Sid Meehl, 72, Australian footballer.
 * Eduardo Quisumbing, 90, Filipino botanist.

24

 * Germaine Acremant, 97, French novelist and playwright.
 * Harry Benjamin, 101, German-American sexologist and endocrinologist.
 * John P. Caufield, 67, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate (since 1979).
 * George Diehl, 68, American baseball player.
 * Lili Larys, 77, Polish dancer.
 * George Palmer, 83, Australian cricketer.
 * Katarzyna Szymon, 78, Polish mystic.
 * Cynthia Clark Wedel, 77, American theological educator.
 * John Stuart Yeates, 86, New Zealand botanist.

25

 * Ronald Bates, 54, American lighting designer, heart attack.
 * Clarence Berryman, 80, American Olympic wrestler (1928).
 * Allen Case, 51, American actor, heart attack.
 * Bernie Elsey, 79-80, Australian entrepreneur and property developer.
 * Amos Kent, 84, American football player.
 * M. Stanley Livingston, 81, American physicist, co-inventor of the cyclotron, prostate cancer.
 * Syed Hasan Mahmood, 63, Pakistani politician and cricketer.
 * Mary Moody Northen, 94, American philanthropist.
 * David Rabinovitz, 78, American jurist.
 * Henry Neville Southern, 77, English ornithologist.
 * Vassil Tzankov, 81, Bulgarian geologist and paleontologist.
 * Fernando Vaz, 68, Portuguese footballer.

26

 * Raymond Abellio, 78, French writer.
 * Baldric, 25, American-born French Thoroughbred racehorse.
 * Elsie M. Burrows, 72, English botanist.
 * Marion Fyfe, 88, New Zealand zoologist.
 * Hu Harries, 64, Canadian politician.
 * Thomas Harpur, 70, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Walther Hess, 86, German cricketer.
 * Ted Knight, 62, American actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Caddyshack, Too Close for Comfort), colon cancer.
 * Sándor von Korompay, 74, Hungarian Olympic rower (1936).
 * Kent T. Lundgren, 72, American politician.
 * Allan Parkhill, 74, New Zealand rugby player.
 * Mutsuo Sugiura, 68, Japanese engineer.
 * Rosa Torras, 91, Spanish Olympic tennis player (1924).

27

 * Snehansu Kanta Acharya, 72, Indian politician.
 * Georgy Agzamov, 31, Soviet chess player, fall.
 * Daniel Fignolé, 72, Haitian politician, provisional president (1957).
 * Bernard Fonlon, 61, Cameroonian politician and educator.
 * Edward Ford, 84, Australian physician.
 * Joyce Mansour, 58, Egyptian-French poet, cancer.
 * Dragutin Mitić, 68, Yugoslav-American tennis player.
 * George Nēpia, 81, New Zealand rugby player.
 * Alfred Pilkington, 85, English cricketer.
 * Paul Sciacca, 77, American mobster (Bonanno crime family).
 * Olga Šilhánová, 65, Czech Olympic gymnast (1948).
 * Robbie Wijting, 61, Dutch general.

28

 * Giorgi Chitaia, 95, Soviet Georgian ethnographer.
 * Arthur Cunliffe, 77, English footballer.
 * Alexander Dolgun, 59, American writer and Gulag survivor, kidney failure.
 * Russell Lee, 83, American photographer.
 * Don Simmons, 68, Australian politician.
 * Elvi Sinervo, 74, Finnish writer.
 * Cyril Trailor, 67, Welsh footballer.
 * Philippe Valois, 79, Canadian politician.

29

 * Ellis Achong, 82, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer.
 * Giles Baring, 76, English cricketer.
 * Alfred Fagon, 49, British playwright, heart attack.
 * L. Raymond Fennell, 92, Canadian politician.
 * Roy King, 82, American painter and sculptor.
 * Vladimir Kuznetsov, 55, Soviet Olympic javelin thrower (1952, 1956, 1964).
 * Lu Shijia, 75, Chinese physicist and aerospace engineer.
 * Sax Mallard, 70, American jazz musician, cancer.
 * Harold Matthews, 83, Australian footballer.
 * Col Mitchell, 72, Australian footballer.
 * Alex Munro, 74, Scottish footballer.
 * Ronald Taylor, 77, English cricketer.
 * Stuart Young, 52, English business executive.

30

 * Margaret Wood Bancroft, 93, American naturalist.
 * Forrest E. Everhart, 64, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
 * Thomas Kilbride, 75, Irish politician.
 * Walter Kutschmann, 72, German-Argentine Einsatzkommando and war criminal, heart attack.
 * Edward P. Larkin, 71, American politician.
 * Aldo Longinotti, 76, Italian Olympic boxer (1932).
 * Otto Mortensen, 79, Danish composer.
 * George Pelawa, 18, American ice hockey player, traffic collision.
 * Dame Annabelle Rankin, 78, Australian politician.
 * John Tuggle, 25, American football player, cancer.
 * Bernice T. Van der Vries, 96, American politician.
 * Gordon Webber, 73, American writer.

31

 * Carl Alberg, 85, Swedish boat designer.
 * Jorge Alessandri, 90, Chilean politician, president (1958–1964).
 * Edward Buehrig, 75, American political scientist.
 * Elizabeth Coatsworth, 93, American author (The Cat Who Went to Heaven).
 * Henry Moore, 88, English sculptor.
 * Urho Kekkonen, 85, Finnish politician, president (1956–1982) and prime minister (1950–1953, 1954–1956).
 * Goffredo Parise, 56, Italian writer and journalist.
 * Čestmír Řanda, 62, Czech actor.