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.

1

 * Adil Abdullah, 63, Iraqi footballer.
 * Jean Baratte, 63, French footballer.
 * Willy Berger, 80, Hungarian-born Israeli footballer.
 * Harry Bolton, 67, American football player.
 * 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.
 * Karl Myrbäck, 85, Swedish chemist.
 * Sam Ramsden, 72, Australian politician.
 * Sir Iain Sutherland, 61, British diplomat, heart attack.
 * 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 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 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 baseball player.
 * 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 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 football player.
 * 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 footballer.
 * Eddie Yuhas, 61, American 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).
 * Earl J. Merritt, 89, American sports coach.
 * Len Vautier, 77, Australian 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 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 naval admiral.
 * Skeeter Webb, 76, American 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 football player, lymphoma.
 * Red Lucas, 84, American 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 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 footballer.
 * Hortensia Santoveña, 73, Mexican actress.
 * Dutch Thiele, 93, American football player.
 * Enrique Villegas, 72, Argentine pianist.
 * Lucille Wall, 88, American actress (General Hospital).

12

 * Dame Kate Isabel Campbell, 87, Australian physician.
 * Wacław Kisielewski, 43, Polish pianist, traffic collision.
 * Faydang Lobliayao, 75-76, Laotian politician.
 * Dermod MacCarthy, 75, British pediatrician.
 * Gene Mayl, 84, American football and basketball player.
 * 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 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.
 * 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 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 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 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.
 * 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).
 * Emil Nofal, 59-60, South African filmmaker.
 * Sir Stanley Rous, 91, English football referee, president of FIFA (1961–1974), leukemia.
 * Flora Payne Whitney, 88, American artist.
 * Don Wilkerson, 53-54, American saxophonist.
 * Richard Wootton, 80, Australian cricketer.

19

 * Andre the Seal, 25, American harbor seal.
 * Alfredo Binda, 83, Italian racing cyclist.
 * James Jewett Carnes, 86, American soldier.
 * Daniel L. Fapp, 82, American cinematographer (The Great Escape, West Side Story).
 * Česlovas Gedgaudas, 77, Soviet Lithuanian diplomat.
 * Noel Hazzard, 62, Australian rugby player.
 * Alfred Leopold Luongo, 65, American jurist.
 * Margaret Schlauch, 87, American-Polish historian.
 * Harold Schuster, 83, American film director.
 * Murray Vaughan, 87, Canadian philanthropist.

20

 * Joan Bennett, 90, British literary scholar.
 * Helen Craig, 74, American actress, cardiac arrest.
 * Liviu Damian, 51, Romanian writer.
 * Eric Donaldson, 86, Australian footballer.
 * Sam Gary, 69, American blues musician.
 * Héctor Guerrero, 59, Mexican Olympic basketball player (1948, 1952).
 * Bo Molenda, 81, American football player.
 * Bill Steinecke, 79, American baseball player.

21

 * José Avelino, 95, Filipino politician.
 * Ion Caraion, 63, Romanian poet.
 * Cyrus Hashemi, 47, Iranian arms dealer, leukemia.
 * Kenneth Holland, 75, English cricketer.
 * John J. Livingood, 83, American physicist.
 * Ernest Maas, 94, American screenwriter.
 * Timothy O'Connor, 79, Irish politician, TD (1961–1981).
 * Zhang Yuzhe, 84, Chinese astronomer.

22

 * Aurelian Andreescu, 44, Romanian singer, heart attack.
 * Ted Baker, 85, Australian footballer.
 * Ren-Chang Ching, 88, Chinese botanist.
 * Edward Garmatz, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1973).
 * Jacques Gelman, 75/77, Russian-born Mexican film producer.
 * Floyd Gottfredson, 81, American comic book cartoonist.
 * Ede Staal, 44, Dutch musician, cancer.

23

 * Adolfo Baloncieri, 88, Italian footballer.
 * Benny Benack, 64, American jazz musician.
 * Karel Kváček, 74, Czech Olympic wrestler (1936).
 * Billy Joe Mantooth, 35, American football player, traffic collision.
 * Sir Bryan Matthews, 80, British physiologist.
 * Carlos Humberto Rodríguez Quirós, 76, Costa Rican Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Don Seymour, 70, Australian footballer.
 * Kazimierz Sikorski, 91, Polish composer.
 * Mavis Sweeney, 76-77, Australian pharmacist.
 * Sylvanus A. Tyler, 71, American mathematician.
 * Sofia W. D., 61, Indonesian actress and film director.

24

 * Bernie Bradley, 76, American sports coach.
 * Clarence Garlow, 75, American musician.
 * Jim Gordon, 77, Australian soldier.
 * Urban Hansen, 77, Danish politician.
 * Lee Hepner, 65, Canadian conductor.
 * Willy Kaiser, 74, German Olympic boxer (1936).
 * Karl Kühn, 82, Austrian Olympic cyclist (1936).
 * Jayadevi Taayi Ligade, 74, Indian poet.
 * Fritz Albert Lipmann, 87, German-American biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1953).
 * Laurie Nash, 76, Australian footballer and cricketer.
 * Karel Nedobitý, 80, Czechoslovak Olympic runner (1924, 1928).
 * Fernand Pouillon, 74, French architect.
 * Qudrat Ullah Shahab, 69, Pakistani writer.
 * Trần Văn Chương, 88, South Vietnamese diplomat, strangled.
 * Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, 82, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1928, 1932), stroke.

25

 * John Coldham, 85, English cricketer.
 * Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph, 71, Ghanaian jurist.
 * Eric Hawkey, 77, Australian Anglican prelate.
 * Ted Lyons, 85, American Hall of Fame baseball player and manager (Chicago White Sox).
 * Vincente Minnelli, 83, American film director.
 * Thomas Moone, 77, American Olympic ice hockey player (1936).
 * Alison Parrott, 11, American murder victim.

26

 * Frederick W. Ford, 76, American government official, chairman of the FCC (1960–1961).
 * Bill Gore, 74, American chemical engineer.
 * W. Averell Harriman, 94, American politician, governor of New York (1955–1958), U.S. secretary of commerce (1946–1948).
 * Heinz Lazek, 74, Austrian-German boxer.
 * Gerda Madsen, 84, Danish actress.
 * Dominique Mbonyumutwa, 65, Rwandan politician, interim president (1961).
 * Mubarak, 77, Indian actor and film director.
 * Ervin Mueller, 81, American politician.
 * Sukarno M. Noor, 54, Indonesian actor.
 * Boris Režek, 77, Slovenian Olympic skier (1928).
 * Webb Schultz, 88, American baseball player.
 * Edwin DeHaven Steel Jr., 82, American jurist.
 * Ken Watson, 81, Canadian curler.
 * Frederick S. Wight, 84, American painter.

27

 * Margarita Argúas, 83, Argentine lawyer.
 * Henry Bridges, 70, American saxophonist.
 * Anna Sofie Boesen Dreijer, 87, Danish costume designer.
 * Louise Fluke, 86, American art teacher, designed the flag of Oklahoma.
 * Bud Hafey, 73, American baseball player.
 * LeRoy Holmes, 72, American musician.
 * Hitoshi Kihara, 92, Japanese geneticist.
 * Sir Osbert Lancaster, 77, English cartoonist.
 * Nan McKay, 93, Canadian librarian.
 * Dorothea Neff, 83, Austrian actress.

28

 * John Alcott, 55, English cinematographer, heart attack.
 * William C. Andrews, 85, British art director.
 * Karel Aubroeck, 91, Belgian sculptor.
 * Jim Braxton, 37, American football player, lung cancer.
 * Syd Curnow, 78, South African cricketer.
 * Edmund Kolanowski, 38, Polish serial killer, execution by hanging.
 * Ernst Leuenberger, 85, Swiss trade unionist.
 * Yvan Leyvraz, 31-32, Swiss humanitarian (Solidar Suisse), shot.
 * Cristóbal Martí, 83, Spanish footballer.
 * Cliff Melton, 74, American baseball player.
 * Joe Oeschger, 94, American baseball player.
 * Bruce Irving Rankin, 67-68, Canadian diplomat.
 * Karl-Heinrich Schulz, 80, German general.
 * Annemarie Selinko, 71, Austrian novelist.
 * Sir Frank Simpson, 87, British general.

29

 * Richard David Barnett, 77, British archaeologist.
 * Ford Brand, 81-82, Canadian politician.
 * Vittorio Chierroni, 69, Italian Olympic skier (1936, 1948).
 * David Cooper, 54-55, South African psychiatrist.
 * Deng Jiaxian, 62, Chinese physicist.
 * Nello Falaschi, 73, American football player.
 * Philip Holligan, 88, British flying ace.
 * Joe Kopcha, 80, American football player.
 * Erkki Leikola, 85, Finnish politician.
 * Gordon Mills, 51, British songwriter ("It's Not Unusual") and music manager, stomach cancer.
 * Werner Pinzner, 39, German contract killer, suicide by gunshot.
 * Michael M. Sacher, 68, British business executive.
 * Idris Suleymanov, 71, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier.

30

 * Idrees Baig, 74-75, Pakistani cricket umpire.
 * Stuart Bergsma, 85, American physician and missionary.
 * Sir Clarence Bird, 101, British general.
 * Câmara Cascudo, 87, Brazilian anthropologist.
 * Pina Cipriotto, 75, Italian Olympic gymnast (1936).
 * Bill Clark, 60, American drummer.
 * James Crockett, 76, American soccer player.
 * John N. Dalton, 55, American politician, governor of Virginia (1978–1982), lung cancer.
 * Ray Hayes, 80, American basketball player.
 * Mickey Heath, 82, American baseball player.
 * Bill Jones, 65, Australian footballer.
 * Alistair Knox, 74, Australian architect.
 * Konstantine Lortkipanidze, 81, Soviet Georgian writer.
 * William Saunders, 71, American jockey, cancer.
 * Lou Sino, 55, American trombonist.
 * Gaffney Smith, 81-82, American football player.
 * Alfred Wilcox, 66, English cricketer.

31

 * Mac Aldrich, 85, American football player.
 * Enric Casals, 94, Spanish musician.
 * Lea Davidova-Medene, 65, Soviet Latvian sculptor.
 * Henri Elby, 67, French politician.
 * Stanley Ellin, 69, American writer.
 * John C. Houlihan, 75, American politician.
 * Iustin, 76, Romanian Orthodox prelate, patriarch (since 1977).
 * Diana King, 67, English actress, cancer.
 * Bill Loika, 64, American football coach, cancer.
 * Chiune Sugihara, 86, Japanese diplomat and humanitarian.
 * Ludwig Wessely, 82, Austrian Olympic hurdler (1928).
 * Teddy Wilson, 73, American pianist, stomach cancer.
 * Harold Woolley, Baron Woolley, 81, British unionist and life peer.