Deaths in December 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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

 * Reg Attwell, 66, English footballer.
 * Percy Bullock, 93, English cricketer.
 * Ernest Burkhart, 94, American murderer (Osage Indian murders)
 * Fred Collard, 74, Australian politician, MP (1961–1975).
 * Lee Dorsey, 61, American singer.
 * Halbert Harvill, 93, American college athletics coach and politician.
 * Horace Heidt, 85, American pianist.
 * Bobby Layne, 59, American football player, cardiac arrest.
 * Robert Lee, 73, Chinese-British actor.
 * Lien Chen-tung, 82, Chinese politician.
 * Frank McCarthy, 74, American government official and film producer (Patton).
 * Walter J. Nega, 69, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate (1979–1983).
 * Martin John O'Connor, 86, American Roman Catholic Prelate auxiliary bishop of Scranton (1943–1946).
 * Wanis al-Qaddafi, 64, Libyan politician, prime minister (1968–1969), heart attack.
 * Mabel Watson Raimey, 90, American lawyer.
 * Fabian Ribeiro, 53, South African doctor and anti-apartheid activist, shot.
 * Florence Ribeiro, 53, South African anti-apartheid activist, shot.
 * Andrea Bernardo Schierhoff, 64, American-Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate auxiliary bishop of La Paz (1968–1982).
 * Yury Tymoshenko, 67, Soviet filmmaker and actor, heart attack.

2

 * Heinrich Amersdorffer, 80, German painter.
 * Desi Arnaz, 69, Cuban-American actor (I Love Lucy) and television producer (Desilu), lung cancer.
 * Paul Bascomb, 74, American saxophonist.
 * Karl H. Borch, 67, Norwegian economist.
 * Ottavia Penna Buscemi, 79, Italian politician.
 * Harry Dahl, 84, Swedish footballer.
 * John Curtis Gowan, 74, American psychologist.
 * Howard Jordan Jr., 69, American academic administrator.
 * Vrest Orton, 89, American businessman.
 * Domingo Pino, 64, Chilean footballer.
 * Billy Rancher, 29, American musician, cancer.
 * Ken Scott, 58, American actor.
 * Arvid Thörn, 75, Swedish footballer.
 * Dick van Dyke, 55, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (since 1985), suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
 * Frank Walton, 68, English footballer.
 * Eli L. Whiteley, 72, American infantry captain, Medal of Honor recipient.

3

 * Guillermo Baldwin, 76, Peruvian Olympic sports shooter (1956).
 * Lena Frances Edwards, 86, American physician.
 * Austin Hayes, 28, English footballer, lung cancer.
 * Bob Howard, 80, American singer.
 * Anthony Mascarenhas, 58, Pakistani journalist.
 * Bob Moorhead, 48, American baseball player.

4

 * Nelson Bengston, 81, American businessman, included on master list of Nixon's political opponents.
 * Leslie Bolton, 77, Danish footballer.
 * Hugh Boyle, 88, Irish-South African Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Port Elizabeth (1951–1976).
 * Campo Elías Delgado, 52, Colombian mass murderer, shot.
 * Lynwood Gill, 95, Australian cricketer.
 * H. de C. Hastings, 84, English architectural journalist.
 * Reuben Nakian, 89, American sculptor.
 * Maurice Willems, 57, Belgian footballer.

5

 * George Abrams, 87, American baseball player.
 * Moshe Baram, 75, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1959–1977).
 * Alf Baud, 94, Australian footballer.
 * Raymond Caruana, 26, Maltese political activist, shot.
 * Nil Ratan Dhar, 94, Indian soil scientist.
 * Charles Duguid, 102, Scottish-born Australian physician and Aboriginal rights activist.
 * Roberto Escalada, 72, Argentine actor, heart attack.
 * Theodor Kretschmer, 85, German general.
 * Lê Trọng Tấn, 72, Vietnamese general.
 * Rolf Schock, 53, American-Swedish philosopher.
 * Sir Edward Youde, 65, British politician and diplomat, governor of Hong Kong (since 1982), heart attack.

6

 * Eva Bednářová, 49, Czech illustrator.
 * René Brô, 56, French artist.
 * Marta Canales, 93, Chilean violinist and composer.
 * George Crerar, 72, Scottish cricketer.
 * Thomas Dowler, 78, American football and basketball player and coach.
 * Elvie Dreeszen, 66, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate (1981–1983).
 * Rozelle Gayle, 67, American jazz pianist, cancer.
 * Alexander Hollaender, 87, German-American radiation biologist, pulmonary embolism.
 * Mary Paxton Keeley, 100, American journalist.
 * Hans Gottfried Kugler, 93, Swiss geologist.
 * Robert J. Love, 68, American flying ace.
 * Malik Oussekine, 22, French student, beaten.
 * Bhagwan Sahay, 81, Indian politician, governor of Kerala (1966–1967) and Jammu and Kashmir (1967–1973).

7

 * Enrico Arrigoni, 92, Italian-American anarchist and political activist.
 * Roberto Bianchi Montero, 79, Italian filmmaker.
 * John Bogart, 86, American baseball player.
 * Sir Terence Garvey, 71, British diplomat.
 * Austen Gittos, 63, New Zealand fencer.
 * Olimpiada Kozlova, 80, Soviet economist.
 * Homa J. Porter, 90, American politician.
 * Kostas Poulis, 58, Greek footballer, cancer.
 * Albert Schwartz, 77, American Olympic Swimmer (1932).
 * Avraham Shekhterman, 76, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1969–1977).

8

 * Ernst Biberstein, 87, German colonel and war criminal.
 * Harrison Brown, 69, American nuclear chemist and geochemist.
 * Walter E. Foran, 67, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate (since 1977), lung cancer.
 * Ernest Gross, 83, French footballer.
 * Sydney J. Harris, 69, American journalist, complications from heart bypass surgery.
 * Georg Henke, 78, East German diplomat.
 * Hollywood Fats, 32, American blues guitarist, heart attack.
 * Pip Koehler, 84, American baseball player.
 * Wolfgang Lentz, 86, German Iranologist.
 * Anatoly Marchenko, 48, Soviet dissident and author, starvation from a hunger strike.
 * John Melville, 84, British painter.
 * Arthur S. Moreau Jr., 55, American naval admiral, heart attack.
 * Heinz Neukirchen, 71, German naval admiral.
 * Józef Pisarski, 73, Polish Olympic boxer (1936).
 * Karl Plattner, 67, Italian painter.
 * Henry Reed, 72, British poet and radio dramatist.
 * Sylvi Siltanen, 77, Finnish politician, MP (1958–1972).
 * Christopher Sykes, 79, English writer.
 * Harald Throne-Holst, 81, Norwegian chemical engineer and businessman.

9

 * Éamon de Valera, Jnr., 73, Irish obstetrician.
 * Maurice E. Dockrell, 78, Irish politician, TD (1943–1977).
 * Sherwood Fries, 66, American football player.
 * Odd Hilt, 71, Norwegian sculptor.
 * T. J. Morgan, 79, Welsh academic.
 * Walter J. Stoessel Jr., 66, American diplomat.
 * Edgardo Vaghi, 71, Italian Olympic bobsledder (1936).
 * Maxwell Wintrobe, 85, Austrian-born American physician.

10

 * Temple Abernathy, 82, American businessman and cross-country traveler.
 * Benoît Bickel, 86, Swiss writer.
 * Kamal Bhandarkar, 75, Indian cricketer.
 * Si Burick, 77, American sports journalist.
 * Susan Cabot, 59, American actress, beaten.
 * Yrjö Hakoila, 54, Finnish Olympic rower (1952).
 * Kenneth Hyde, 56, English historian.
 * Emil Johansson, 79, Swedish Olympic boxer (1928).
 * Jan Klán, 75, Czech-American flying ace.
 * Bert LaBrucherie, 81, American football player and coach.
 * Bruno Mora, 49, Italian footballer, stomach cancer.
 * Rino Pucci, 64, Italian Olympic cyclist (1948).
 * Victor Guillermo Ramos Rangel, 75, Venezuelan musician.
 * Fred Stone, 51, Canadian musician.
 * Leon G. Turrou, 91, American special agent.
 * Kate Wolf, 44, American folk singer, leukemia.

11

 * Jean-Paul Deschatelets, 74, Canadian politician, MP (1953–1965).
 * José Domínguez Rodríguez, 71, Cuban Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Matanzas (since 1961).
 * John Hennig, 75, German theologian.
 * Ferenc Kolláth, 72, Hungarian footballer.
 * Ed Kotowich, 52, Canadian football player, stroke.
 * Karl-Gustav Lagerfelt, 77, Swedish diplomat.
 * Geoffrey S. S. Ludford, 58, British-American mathematician.
 * Clarence A. Martin, 90, American major general.
 * Fritz Maurischat, 93, German production designer.
 * Harold Osborn, 77, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Sir Gus Walker, 74, English fighter pilot.

12

 * Malvin R. Anderson, 92, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1951–1962).
 * Rashid Choudhury, 54, Bangladeshi artist.
 * Alberto Del Nero, 68, Italian politician.
 * Antoni Gościński, 77, Polish medic.
 * Douglas David Higham, 66, English florist and RAF pilot.
 * Léon Jean, 85, French politician.
 * Dewey M. Johnson, 79, American politician, member of the Florida Senate (1941–1943, 1951–1967).
 * Gary Lewis, 44, American football player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Harry Owens, 84, American songwriter.
 * Carlos Ramírez, 70, Colombian singer.
 * Vildan Aşir Savaşır, 82-83, Turkish sports executive.
 * Alexander H. Smith, 82, American mycologist.
 * Clare Spurgin, 89, English magistrate.
 * Clifford Stine, 80, American cinematographer.
 * Paul Verner, 75, East German politician.
 * Buddy Williams, 68, Australian country singer.
 * Johnny Wyrostek, 67, American baseball player.

13

 * Heather Angel, 77, British actress (Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland), cancer.
 * Ella Baker, 83, American civil rights activist.
 * Kuwasi Balagoon, 39, American anarchist and political activist, AIDS.
 * Glyn Daniel, 72, Welsh archaeologist.
 * Thomas Jefferson, 66, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Jarl Johnsen, 73, Norwegian Olympic boxer (1936).
 * Martha Mears, 76, American singer.
 * Smita Patil, 31, Indian actress, complications from childbirth.
 * Kim Peyton, 29, American Olympic swimmer (1976), brain tumor.
 * İlhami Sancar, 76-77, Turkish politician.
 * Henry Winston, 75, American political activist.

14

 * Bassey Eyo Ephraim Adam III, 81, Nigerian Efik leader.
 * Cheryl Araujo, 25, American rape victim whose case became nationalized, traffic collision.
 * Claude Bertrand, 67, French actor, cancer.
 * Leo Dove, 83, Australian Olympic sports shooter (1948).
 * Aleksey Gushchin, 64, Soviet Olympic sports shooter (1960).
 * John Anker Johansen, 92, Norwegian Olympic gymnast (1920).
 * Ray La Varis, 54, New Zealand politician.
 * Dick Mehen, 64, American basketball player.
 * Kenneth Mitchell, 62, English cricketer.
 * Antal Páger, 87, Hungarian actor.
 * Pedro Sainz Rodríguez, 89, Spanish writer and royal advisor.
 * Teh Cheang Wan, 58, Singaporean politician, suicide.

15

 * Edvard Bull Jr., 72, Norwegian historian.
 * Jackie Goode, 62, Irish hurler.
 * David James, 66, British politician, MP (1959–1964, 1970–1979).
 * Friedrich Karl von Koenig-Warthausen, 80, German aviator and world circumnavigator.
 * Erkki Koutonen, 60, American Olympic jumper (1948).
 * Serge Lifar, 81, Soviet Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer.
 * Seymour Lipton, 83, American sculptor.
 * Gordon Norton Ray, 71, American author.
 * Mykolas Ruzgys, 71, American-Lithuanian basketball player and coach.
 * John Thompson, 78, Canadian politician.
 * John Zaremba, 78, American actor.

16

 * Lucy Thurston Blaisdell, 83, American teacher, First Lady of Honolulu (1955–1969).
 * Bryant L. Boatner, 79, American lieutenant general.
 * Jake Caulfield, 69, American baseball player.
 * John Nathaniel Couch, 90, American mycologist.
 * Arpad Darazs, 64, Hungarian-American music educator, leukemia.
 * Oleg Goncharenko, 55, Soviet speed skater.
 * Harald Haberman, 81, Estonian entemologist.
 * Maurice Handford, 58, British horn player.
 * Paul McConkey, 30, British canoeist, traffic collision.
 * Marcel Quinet, 71, Belgian composer.
 * Clyde Vidrine, 47-48, American bodyguard, shot.

17

 * Peter Beauvais, 70, German television director.
 * Guillermo Cano Isaza, 61, Colombian journalist, shot.
 * Alfred Williams Carter, 92, Canadian flying ace.
 * John Lambert Gibson, 80, Canadian politician, MP (1945–1953).
 * William Gillies, 72, Scottish Olympic sports shooter (1960).
 * Oscar Goldman, 60-61, American mathematician.
 * Hubert Guerin, 90, French diplomat.
 * Oakley Haldeman, 77, American songwriter ("Here Comes Santa Claus").
 * J. F. Hendry, 74, Scottish poet.
 * Władysław Moes, 86, Polish landowner, inspiration for Tadzio in Death in Venice.
 * Evgenii Nikishin, 41, Soviet mathematician.
 * Graeme Pinfold, 50, Australian football player.
 * Leonard Rochford, 90, British flying ace.
 * Hans Stelges, 85, German Olympic runner (1928).

18

 * George Amy, 83, American film editor.
 * Alain Caron, 48, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
 * Mamo Clark, 72, American actress.
 * John D. deButts, 71, American businessman, heart attack.
 * Morton Fried, 63, American anthropologist.
 * Ulrico Girardi, 56, Italian Olympic bobsledder (1956).
 * Harry Lind, 80, Scottish rugby player.
 * Jules Migeot, 88, Belgian Olympic sprinter (1920, 1924).
 * Dorothy Molter, 79, American resort owner.
 * Bill Shanner, 92, American baseball player.
 * James Smith, 68-69, Scottish anesthetist.
 * Thomas M. Tarpley, 64, American soldier.
 * Steve Uhrinyak, 72, American football player.

19

 * Torsten Anderson, 82, Swedish-born New Zealand wrestler.
 * V. C. Andrews, 63, American novelist (Flowers in the Attic), breast cancer.
 * Mario de Armas, 70, Cuban Olympic sports shooter (1952).
 * Andrei Chabanenko, 77, Soviet naval admiral.
 * Verona Conway, 76, British plant ecologist.
 * Bert Cook, 62, New Zealand rugby player.
 * Werner Dankwort, 91, German diplomat.
 * Willy Favre, 43, Swiss Olympic skier (1964, 1968).
 * Fritiof Fryxell, 86, American geologist and naturalist.
 * Alice Glasnerová, 81, Czech hospital administrator.
 * Roger Grove, 78, American football player.
 * Hulan Jack, 79, Saint Lucian-born American politician, cancer.
 * Del Lyman, 68, American football player.
 * Kenyon Nicholson, 92, American playwright.
 * Ernest Gordon Rupp, 76, British preacher, theologian and historian.
 * Al Stokes, 86, American baseball player.
 * Avelar Brandão Vilela, 74, Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia (since 1971).

20

 * Ferdinand Brandner, 83, Austrian aerospace engineer.
 * Rossella Como, 47, Italian actress, cancer.
 * Joe DeSa, 27, American baseball player, traffic collision.
 * Michael Griffith, 23, Trinidad and Tobago-born American racial violence victim, traffic collision.
 * Alexander Isserlis, 64, British civil servant.
 * Allen Lewis, 70, Australian footballer.
 * Kathleen Morris, 93, Canadian painter.
 * William A. Nolen, 58, American surgeon and medical columnist.
 * Silvano Melea Otieno, 54-55, Kenyan lawyer, heart attack.
 * Sir Harry Platt, 100, English surgeon.
 * Alicia Urreta, 56, Mexican pianist.
 * Floriano Vaz, 23, Indian writer, shot.

21

 * Virginia C. Bulat, 48, American historian.
 * Willy Coppens, 94, Belgian flying ace.
 * John Harbeson, 98, American architect.
 * Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, 92, British diplomat.
 * Matt Linning, 62, Scottish engineer.
 * Pierre Martin, 54, French spelunker.
 * S. Nadesan, 82, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.
 * Francis Junior Pierce, 62, American hospital corpsman, Medal of Honor recipient, lung cancer.
 * George Sheridan, 57, English footballer.
 * Bill Simpson, 55, Scottish actor (Dr. Finlay's Casebook), pneumonia.
 * Helge Sivertsen, 73, Norwegian politician and Olympic discus thrower (1936).
 * Sven-Ove Svensson, 64, Swedish footballer.

22

 * Mary Burchell, 82, British novelist and humanitarian.
 * Helena Modjeska Chase, 86, American painter and illustrator.
 * Fred Cooper, 65, English cricketer.
 * Celius Dougherty, 84, American composer.
 * Maurice Grosser, 83, American painter.
 * Sarder Jayenuddin, 68, Bangladeshi novelist.
 * John Macy, 69, American government administrator, director of FEMA (1979–1981).
 * Nii Amaa Ollennu, 80, Ghanaian politician, acting president (1970).
 * Carlernst Ortwein, 70, German pianist.
 * David Penhaligon, 42, British politician, MP (since 1974), traffic collision.
 * Saqi, 61, Pakistani actor.
 * Jean-Paul St. Laurent, 74, Canadian politician, MP (1955–1958).
 * Harvey Stephens, 85, American actor and pilot.
 * Sieglinda Zigler, 67, Brazilian Olympic swimmer (1936).

23

 * Heidi Abel, 57, Swiss television presenter.
 * Gerhard Bienert, 88, German actor.
 * John Davies, 43, Australian footballer.
 * Willem Hofhuizen, 71, Dutch painter.
 * Marjorie Husted, 94, American businesswoman (Betty Crocker).
 * J. Hewitt Judd, 87, American numismatist.
 * János Karlovits, 87, Hungarian Olympic pole vaulter (1928).
 * Hazard E. Reeves, 80, American sound editor, heart attack.
 * Antoinette Sasse, 89, French artist.
 * R. Gordon Wasson, 88, American mycologist.
 * Dan Wilson, 71, American baseball player.

24

 * Guy Barnett, 58, British politician, MP (1962–1964, since 1971), heart attack.
 * Maurice Delvart, 87, French Olympic sprinter (1920).
 * Gardner Fox, 75, American comic book writer, co-creator of The Flash, pneumonia.
 * Lila Guerrero, 80, Argentine poet.
 * Sir Eric Malcolm Jones, 79, British intelligence officer.
 * Arnold Kettle, 70, British literary critic.
 * Bob Lulham, 60, Australian rugby player, heart attack.
 * Gerda Munck, 85, Danish Olympic fencer (1932).
 * Jimmy Nelson, 67, American football player.
 * Ed O'Keefe, 73, Australian footballer.
 * Albert Widmann, 74, German chemist and war criminal (Aktion T4).
 * Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley, 80, English astronomer.

25

 * Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, 86, Bulgarian philosopher and esotericist.
 * Édouard Barbazan, 84, French Olympic jumper (1924).
 * Dietrich Bürkel, 81, German politician.
 * Sir Alexander Maurice Cameron, 88, British lieutenant general.
 * Walter Forster, 76, German entomologist.
 * Stefan Haag, 61, Austrian-Australian singer.
 * Kaarel Ird, 77, Soviet Estonian theatre director and actor.
 * James C. Oliver, 91, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1937–1943, 1959–1961).
 * Hamao Umezawa, 72, Japanese microbiologist, pneumonia.

26

 * William Macmahon Ball, 85, Australian diplomat and political scientist.
 * Carl Cohen, 73, American gambling executive.
 * Bobby Crues, 67, American baseball player.
 * Jerry Dolan, 85, Australian football player and coach.
 * Leslie Dwyer, 80, English actor, respiratory failure.
 * Håkon Gundersen, 79, Norwegian footballer.
 * Elsa Lanchester, 84, British actress (Witness for the Prosecution, Come to the Stable, Mary Poppins), pneumonia.
 * Alain Le Léap, 81, French trade unionist.
 * Oldřich Marek, 75, Czech entomologist.
 * Dick Neal Sr., 80, English footballer.
 * Niilo Orama, 60, Finnish Olympic sailor (1948).
 * Robert Stannard, 91, British Anglican prelate.
 * Bill Thompson, 65, Scottish footballer.
 * Bob Wilson, 88, Australian footballer.
 * Symplicjusz Zwierzewski, 83, Polish footballer.

27

 * André Cailleux, 79, French geologist and paleontologist.
 * Stuff Combe, 62, Swiss drummer.
 * George Dangerfield, 82, British-born American journalist, leukemia.
 * Tom Hanson, 95, Australian footballer.
 * Snorri Hjartarson, 80, Icelandic poet.
 * Amanda Junquera Butler, 88, Spanish writer.
 * Cara Knott, 20, American student, murdered.
 * Lars-Erik Larsson, 78, Swedish composer, complications from diabetes.
 * Clive Longe, 47, British Olympic athlete (1968), suicide.
 * Betty Dorothy Lyons, 65, Australian nursing educator, cancer.
 * Dumas Malone, 94, American historian (Jefferson and His Time).
 * Albert W. Sherer Jr., 70, American diplomat.
 * J. M. S. Tompkins, 89, British literary scholar.
 * Louis Van Lint, 77, Belgian painter.
 * Jack Wallaesa, 67, American baseball player.

28

 * Joseph Leon Blau, 77, American philosopher.
 * Lothar Bolz, 83, East German politician.
 * Terry Dolan, 36, American right-wing political activist, AIDS.
 * Harry Else, 80, American baseball player.
 * Jacques Couderc de Fonlongue, 95, French Olympic equestrian (1928).
 * Huang Kecheng, 84, Chinese general.
 * Zinaida Krutikhovskaia, 70, Soviet geophysicist.
 * Alton Lennon, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1957–1973) and U.S. Senate (1953–1954).
 * John D. MacDonald, 70, American novelist (The Executioners), complications from heart surgery.
 * Jan Nieuwenhuys, 64, Dutch painter.
 * Joel Resnicoff, 38, American artist and fashion illustrator, AIDS.
 * Sally Ronk, 74, American economist.

29

 * John Antill, 82, Australian composer.
 * Venka Asenova, 56, Bulgarian chess player.
 * Jim Barnden, 60, New Zealand boxer.
 * Orville Hodge, 82, American auditor.
 * Philip B. Hofmann, 77, American businessman, heart attack.
 * Sitaram Lalas, 78, Indian lexicographer.
 * Harold Macmillan, 92, British politician, prime minister (1957–1963).
 * Grete Mosheim, 81, German actress, cancer.
 * Pietro Parente, 95, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
 * Denis Russell, 77, English cricketer.
 * Gertruda Sekaninová-Čakrtová, 78, Czech politician and diplomat.
 * Andrei Tarkovsky, 54, Soviet film director (Mirror, Andrei Rublev, Stalker).

30

 * Reinhold Benesch, 67, Polish-born American biochemist.
 * Cassie Brown, 67, Canadian journalist.
 * Michael Hankinson, 80, British filmmaker.
 * Grace Hickling, 78, English ornithologist.
 * İlhan Koman, 65, Turkish-Swedish sculptor.
 * Charles Magnante, 81, American accordionist.
 * Lazarus Phillips, 91, Canadian politician.
 * Era Bell Thompson, 81, American journalist.
 * Antero Vanhanen, 51, Finnish Olympic wrestler (1960).
 * John I. Yellott, 78, American solar engineer, heart attack.

31

 * Jack Bailey, 65, English footballer.
 * Clayton Bourne, 82, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1924).
 * Provine Bradley, 79, American baseball player.
 * Vincent I. Breen, 75, American Roman Catholic priest.
 * Alex Brown, 81, Scottish rugby player.
 * Georges Carrère, 89, French violinist.
 * Piero Chiara, 73, Italian writer.
 * Donald Fleming, 81, Canadian politician, MP (1945–1963), stroke.
 * Lloyd Haynes, 52, American actor (Room 222), lung cancer.
 * Nathaniel Honono, 78, South African anti-apartheid activist.
 * Ole Johansen, 82, Norwegian politician.
 * Sir Geoffrey Audley Miles, 96, British naval admiral.
 * Raj Narain, 69, Indian politician.
 * John O'Reilly, 78, Irish-American soldier.
 * Don Sleet, 48, American jazz trumpeter, lymphoma.
 * Bartho Smit, 62, South African writer, cancer.
 * I Gusti Gde Subamia, 65, Indonesian politician.
 * Esther Sutherland, 54, American actress.
 * Dwight Taylor, 83, American author and screenwriter, heart attack.
 * Edoardo Toniolo, 79, Italian actor.
 * Lester Trimble, 63, American composer and music critic.