Deaths in June 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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

 * Dame Margaret Blackwood, 77, Australian botanist and geneticist.
 * Emery Blagdon, 78, American artist.
 * Jo Gartner, 32, Austrian racing driver, racing crash.
 * Alex Gorgal, 86, Polish-born American football player.
 * Manuel Gouveia, 62, Portuguese Olympic gymnast (1952).
 * Ernst Hack, 39, Austrian Olympic wrestler (1972).
 * Mason Hoffenberg, 63, American writer, lung cancer.
 * Floyd Johnson, 85, American boxer.
 * Anděla Kozáková-Jírová, 89, Czech lawyer.
 * Herschel Levit, 74, American artist.
 * Rudolf Sonneborn, 87, American oil executive.
 * George G. Tapper, 69, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1947–1951) and Senate (1953–1956, 1965).
 * Charles F. Wennerstrum, 96, American jurist.
 * Edmund Wood, 83, English footballer.

2

 * Stanley Corrsin, 66, American physicist.
 * T. S. Durairaj, 75, Indian filmmaker.
 * Jimmy Grafton, 70, English screenwriter and theatre agent.
 * Hartmann Grasser, 71, German flying ace.
 * Arthur Hoérée, 89, Belgian musicologist.
 * Aurèle Joliat, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Lya Lys, 78, German-born American actress, heart failure.
 * Fay Marbe, 87, American actress.
 * Wendell H. Meade, 74, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1949).
 * Nanha, 43, Pakistani actor and comedian, suicide by gunshot.
 * Frank D. Upchurch, 92, American politician, member of the Florida Senate (1943).
 * Peter Wilson, 79, New Zealand cricketer.

3

 * Ted Bank, 88, American football player and coach.
 * Aloys Bigirumwami, 81, Rwandan Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Colin English, 90, American academic administrator.
 * John Gilmour, 79, British botanist.
 * Grace Wyndham Goldie, 86, British television producer.
 * Robert La Tourneaux, 45, American actor, AIDS.
 * Max Munk, 95, German-American aerospace engineer.
 * Dame Anna Neagle, 81, English actress.
 * Louie De Votie Newton, 94, American Baptist leader.
 * Jack Orrison, 76, American actor and screenwriter.
 * Michael Taylor, 59, American interior designer.
 * Frans Van Dessel, 75, Belgian footballer.
 * Patricia Wheel, 60, American actress.

4

 * Frederick Chauncy, 81, British Olympic hurdler (1928).
 * Dame Helen Gardner, 78, English literary critic.
 * Charles Harrison, 71, Australian politician.
 * Ahmad Saeed Kazmi, 73, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
 * Tom Lee, 66, American politician, member of the New Mexico Senate (1967–1978).
 * Vladas Mieželis, 91, Soviet Lithuanian general.
 * Clifford Mollison, 89, British actor.
 * Len Scott, 79, New Zealand rugby player.
 * Paul Stevens, 65, American actor, pneumonia.

5

 * Dolly Akers, 85, American politician.
 * John Francis Bannon, 80-81, American historian.
 * John Bevan, 38, Welsh rugby player, cancer.
 * Fanny Buss, 76, New Zealand fashion designer.
 * Robert DiBernardo, 49, American mobster (Gambino crime family), shot.
 * Bryan Grant, 76, American tennis player.
 * Helmut Grunsky, 81, German mathematician.
 * Sybil Kennedy, 86, Canadian sculptor.
 * Alexander Lipmann-Kessel, 71, South African surgeon.
 * Henri Michel, 79, French historian.
 * Togo Mizrahi, 85, Egyptian actor and filmmaker.
 * Joe Mulligan, 72, American baseball player.
 * Andor Ónody, 65, Hungarian football player and manager.
 * Arthur Pink, 85, Australian footballer.
 * Ernie Roderick, 72, British boxer.
 * Lisa Ullrich, 85, German politician.
 * Jesse Winters, 92, American baseball player.

6

 * John Carmichael, 83, American sports journalist.
 * George Fazio, 73, American golfer.
 * Joseph Fischer, 77, Luxembourgian footballer.
 * Dennis Grainger, 66, English footballer.
 * Petrus Hugo, 68, South African flying ace.
 * Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, 95, Indian writer.
 * William Joynt, 97, Australian author.
 * Valentyn Rechmedin, 70, Soviet Ukrainian journalist.
 * Dick Rowe, 64, British record producer.
 * Henry Nash Smith, 79, American literary scholar.
 * Robert Stuart, 77, Argentine cricketer.
 * Johnnie Tolan, 68, American racing driver.
 * Ramón Torralba, 90, Spanish footballer.
 * Annes Varjun, 78, Soviet Estonian ceramicist.
 * Grinton I. Will, 83, American librarian.
 * Tony Wright, 60, English actor.

7

 * Lloyd M. Bradfield, 85, American football and basketball coach.
 * James Fifer, 55, American Olympic rower (1956).
 * Georges Halbout, 90, French sculptor.
 * Brooks Holder, 71, American baseball player.
 * Jan Kavan, 81, Czech sculptor.
 * Morice Lipsi, 88, French sculptor.
 * Ralph Pickford, 83, English psychologist.
 * Pilloo Pochkhanawala, 63, Indian sculptor, cancer.
 * Sara Sadíqova, 79, Soviet actress and singer.
 * Taungpulu Kaba-Aye Sayadaw, 89, Burmese Buddhist monk.

8

 * Harold Abbott, 79, Australian painter.
 * Anthony Turner Andreasen, 79, British surgeon.
 * Harry Frederick Baker, 81, Australian aviator and motorcycle racer.
 * Thomas Burrow, 76, British Indologist.
 * F. Curtis Canfield, 82, American theatre director.
 * Elsa Gidlow, 87, British-born Canadian-American writer.
 * Vernon Loton, 80, Australian cricketer.
 * Edward Montgomery, 79, Australian politician.

9

 * Arnaldo Benfenati, 62, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Matilde Díaz Vélez, 86, Argentine philanthropist.
 * Ilona Harima, 75, Finnish artist.
 * Edwin Kuh, 61, American economist.
 * Ernst Peschl, 79, German mathematician.
 * Milton Richman, 64, American sports journalist, heart attack.
 * Karl Skytte, 78, Danish politician.
 * Tony Starcer, 66, American soldier and artist.
 * Glan Williams, 74, British caricaturist.

10

 * Emilio de los Santos, 82, Dominican politician, president (1963).
 * Franc Hale, 79-81, American actress.
 * Merle Miller, 67, American writer.
 * Edgar Petersen, 82, German fighter pilot.
 * Louis Risacher, 91, French flying ace.
 * Edward Sagarin, 72, American sociologist, heart attack.
 * Dick Sudirman, 64, Indonesian badminton player.
 * Dennis Thompson, 61, English footballer.
 * Reginald Lawson Waterfield, 86, British astronomer.
 * William C. White, 89, American football coach.
 * Samuel Zauber, 85, Romanian footballer.

11

 * James Amster, 77, American interior decorator, leukemia.
 * Chesley Bonestell, 98, American painter.
 * Marcantonio Bragadin, 79, Italian naval admiral.
 * Porter Charleston, 82, American baseball player.
 * Frank Cousins, 81, British politician, MP (1965–1966).
 * Reed De Rouen, 69, American actor and screenwriter.
 * Alfred Goulder, 78, English cricketer.
 * John J. Kinzer, 95, American politician.
 * Robert K. Ottum, 61, American sports journalist, cancer.
 * Jim Trueman, 51, American businessman and racing team owner, colon cancer.

12

 * Jackie Burns, 79, English footballer.
 * Pierce H. Deamer Jr., 79, American politician, member of the New Jersey State Senate (1962–1966).
 * Harry Hanson, 85, Swedish Olympic sailor (1928).
 * Edward Henderson, 76, English Anglican prelate.
 * Harry Houghton, 85, British Olympic athlete (1924, 1928).
 * Zdeněk Koubek, 72, Czech track athlete.
 * Geoffrey Raphael, 76, English cricketer.
 * Naboua Ratieta, 48, I-Kiribati politician.
 * William Byron Rumford, 78, American politician.
 * Seonu Hwi, 64, South Korean novelist.
 * Basil Snell, 79, British Anglican prelate.
 * Murray Van Wagoner, 88, American politician, governor of Michigan (1941–1943).
 * John Steven Watson, 70, English historian and academic administrator.

13

 * Frank Abruzzino, 78, American football player.
 * R. Bintoro, 61, Indonesian general.
 * Eugene Brodhagen, 68, American football and wrestling coach.
 * Deep Diver, 17, British Thoroughbred racehorse.
 * Wilfrid Eggleston, 85, British-Canadian journalist.
 * Jim Ferrier, 71, Australian-American golfer.
 * Benny Goodman, 77, American bandleader and swing musician, heart attack.
 * Dana McLean Greeley, 77, American Unitarian leader.
 * Harlan N. Hartness, 88, American general.
 * John Jerome Hill, 67, American politician.
 * Tom Klose, 68, Australian cricketer.
 * Dean Reed, 47, American-East German singer and actor, drowned.
 * Ulla Strömstedt, 46, Swedish actress.
 * Carl O. Wegner, 88, American politician.
 * Adam Yacenda, 70, American political advisor and newspaper publisher.

14

 * Dimitrije Bogdanović, 55, Yugoslav historian.
 * Jaap Boot, 83, Dutch Olympic athlete (1924).
 * Jorge Luis Borges, 86, Argentine writer, liver cancer.
 * Mushy Callahan, 80, American boxer.
 * James A. Cullimore, 80, American Mormon leader.
 * John Daley, 80, English cricketer.
 * Joan Eyles, 78, British geologist.
 * Ben Field, 85, American novelist.
 * David Kalstone, 52-53, American literary critic, AIDS.
 * Kim Swoo-geun, 55, South Korean architect.
 * Alan Jay Lerner, 67, American lyricist, lung cancer.
 * Denis McGrath, 75, New Zealand politician and lawyer.
 * Norbert Nuttelman, 75, American politician.
 * Giorgio Pellini, 62, Italian Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).
 * Marlin Perkins, 81, American zoologist (Wild Kingdom), lymphatic cancer.
 * Robert Presnell Jr., 71, American screenwriter.
 * Settimio Simonini, 72, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Karl Söllner, 83, Austrian-American chemist.
 * Anthony Spilotro, 48, American mobster, blunt force trauma.
 * Michael Spilotro, 41, American mobster, blunt force trauma.

15

 * Choi Yong-sool, 81, South Korean martial artist, founder of Hapkido.
 * Frank Dickens, 86, English biochemist.
 * Francis Galtier, 79, French Olympic sprinter (1924).
 * Sambhu Ghosh, 59, Indian politician.
 * Willie Hoel, 65, Norwegian actor.
 * William Howard Melish, 76, American social leader and Anglican priest.
 * Otto Rathsman, 68, Swedish diplomat.
 * Walter V. Schaefer, 81, American jurist.
 * Werner Streib, 75, German flying ace.
 * Keki Tarapore, 75, Indian cricketer.
 * Rini Templeton, 50, American artist.
 * Donald Tye, 73, American baseball player.

16

 * Christian Beullac, 62, French politician.
 * Danny Clapton, 51, English footballer.
 * Lady Diana Cooper, 93, English actress and aristocrat.
 * Maurice Duruflé, 84, French composer.
 * Joe Greene, 71, American songwriter, kidney failure.
 * John Hayes, 88, Australian politician.
 * Léon Lippens, 74, Belgian naturalist.
 * Erlendur Patursson, 72, Faroese politician.
 * George Pearce, 77, English cricketer.
 * Juanchín Ramírez, 80, Puerto Rican musician.
 * Luisa Sala, 62, Spanish actress, choked.
 * Joginder Sen, 81, Indian politician and diplomat.

17

 * Anahareo, 79, Canadian animal rights activist.
 * William Attaway, 74, American author, heart failure.
 * Leonardo Borgese, 81, Italian painter.
 * Prink Callison, 86, American football player and coach.
 * Edward Francis Cavanagh Jr., 79, American firefighter.
 * Rick Concannon, 78, American football player.
 * Ted J. Kent, 84, American film editor.
 * Desiderio Medina, 66, Chilean footballer.
 * Gilbert Raynes, 82, British Olympic gymnast (1928).
 * Felipe Rosas, 76, Mexican footballer.
 * Kate Smith, 79, American singer, respiratory arrest.
 * Joseph Stone, Baron Stone, 83, British physician.
 * Harold W. Tribble, 86, American academic administrator.
 * Archie Wood, 60, Scottish footballer.
 * Domingo Zaldúa, 82, Spanish footballer.

18

 * Albert Anderson, 78, Northern Irish politician.
 * Ara Bekaryan, 73, Soviet Armenian painter.
 * Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 64, American writer, throat cancer.
 * Walter Gilbert, 87, Canadian-American pilot.
 * Sonja Johnsson, 90, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1912).
 * Sidney Lens, 74, American political activist and author, melanoma.
 * Khandavalli Lakshmi Ranjanam, 78, Indian writer.
 * Floyd Van Nest Schultz, 75, American electrical engineer.
 * Frederick Spence, 84, South African cricketer.
 * Charles Twigg, 93, English-born South African cricketer.
 * Jack Wagener, 81, English cricketer.

19

 * Bentot, 65, Filipino comedian, heart failure.
 * Len Bias, 22, American basketball player, cocaine overdose.
 * Lindley Bothwell, 84, American agriculturalist.
 * Coluche, 41, French comedian and actor, traffic collision.
 * Nelson Cruikshank, 83, American labor activist.
 * Antonio Díaz Martínez, 53, Peruvian communist activist, shot.
 * Lidiya Khaindrova, 76, Soviet poet.
 * Ryuichi Matsuda, 65, Japanese entomologist.
 * Paulina Radziulytė, 81, Soviet Lithuanian-American basketball player and Olympic runner (1928).
 * Jules-Jean Ravel, 85, French politician.
 * Norb Sacksteder, 90, American football player.
 * Sir Shiu-kin Tang, 85, Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist.
 * Ronald L. Thompson, 86, American politician.
 * Alfred Vagts, 93, German-American historian and poet.
 * William Webster, 76, English cricketer.

20

 * Peter Boughey, 74, British special agent.
 * H. G. Cochran, 62, American prison warden and politician.
 * David Vivian Currie, 73, Canadian soldier.
 * The Duke of Paducah, 85, American comedian and banjoist.
 * Julie Duncan, 67, American actress.
 * Richard Eybner, 90, Austrian actor.
 * Joseph Forer, 75, American attorney.
 * Tim Herbert, 71, American actor, heart attack.
 * Roy Shepherd, 78-79, Australian pianist.
 * Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit, 82, Dutch poet and literary historian.
 * Béla Szepes, 82, Hungarian Olympic skier and athlete (1924, 1928).
 * William Horace Taylor, 96, Canadian politician, MP (1926–1945).

21

 * Ivan Burenin, 89, Soviet general.
 * Cathal Coughlan, 48, Irish politician, TD (since 1983).
 * Roger Drayton, 61, New Zealand politician, MP (1969–1978).
 * Lloyd Espenschied, 97, American electrical engineer.
 * Georges Garreau, 83, French Olympic diver (1924).
 * Archduchess Margaretha of Austria, 92, Austrian royal.
 * Helge Miettunen, 69, Finnish politician.
 * Helmut Petri, 78, German anthropologist.
 * Arnie Portocarrero, 54, American baseball player.
 * Assi Rahbani, 63, Lebanese musician.

22

 * Mary Anderson, 88, American actress.
 * Alpheus Deane, 69, American baseball player.
 * Joséphine Thérèse Koster, 83, Dutch botanist.
 * Urban Odson, 67, American football player.
 * William J. Scott, 59, American politician, heart attack.
 * Luciano Sderci, 61, Italian violin maker.
 * Rufus Stokes, 61, American mechanic and inventor, mesothelioma.
 * Martin Thornton, 70, English theologian.
 * Pauline Vinson, 70, American artist.
 * Robert F. Young, 71, American science fiction writer.

23

 * Geraldine Aves, 87, British civil servant and social reformist.
 * Marko Čelebonović, 83, Yugoslav painter.
 * Renato De Sanzuane, 61, Italian Olympic water polo player (1952).
 * Alfred Paul Dorjahn, 91, American classicist.
 * Sir Moses Finley, 74, American-born British classical scholar, stroke.
 * Jerzy Putrament, 75, Polish writer and politician.
 * Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, 78, British jurist.
 * Kåre Siem, 72, Norwegian musician.
 * Nigel Stock, 66, British actor.

24

 * Mika Antić, 54, Yugoslav film director and poet.
 * Liliane Barrard, 37-38, French mountaineer, hypoxia.
 * Maurice Barrard, 44-45, French mountaineer, hypoxia.
 * Tove Birkelund, 57, Danish geologist.
 * Ray Bomba, 79, American sound editor.
 * Sidney M. Cadwell, 93, American polymer scientist.
 * Elwood Engel, 69, American vehicle designer.
 * Thomas M. Fitzpatrick, 95, American football and basketball player and coach.
 * Loy Hanning, 68, American baseball player.
 * George Howe, 86, English actor.
 * Ján Kroner, 59, Czechoslovak actor.
 * Jesse Marcel, 79, American Air Force colonel, investigator of the Roswell incident.
 * Ximena McGlashan, 92, American entomologist.
 * Lodovico Rocca, 90, Italian composer.
 * Annabelle Terhune, 82, American journalist.
 * Rex Warner, 81, English classicist.
 * Dennis Ziadie, 39, Jamaican footballer, traffic collision.

25

 * Laurie Fishlock, 79, English cricketer.
 * Francis J. Galbraith, 72, American diplomat.
 * Kazimierz Gzowski, 84, Polish Olympic equestrian (1928).
 * Gwilym Kessey, 67, Australian cricketer.
 * A. J. Lockhart, 88, American baseball player.
 * Gabriel Lozès, 68, Beninese politician, diplomat and physician.
 * Clarence C. Mitchell, 89, American politician.
 * Reinhold Münzenberg, 77, German footballer.
 * Ivan Sabolić, 64, Yugoslav sculptor.
 * Dame Mary Welsh, 89, British military personnel.

26

 * Sanford Brown, 77, American politician.
 * Aimé Deolet, 80, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * Gong Zutong, 81, Chinese optical phsyicist.
 * William Lovelock, 87, English composer.
 * Kunio Maekawa, 81, Japanese architect.
 * Ed Molinski, 68, American football player.
 * Sir Jock Pagan, 72, Australian politician and businessman.
 * Sid Plunkett, 65, English footballer.
 * Stewart W. Proudfoot, 77, Canadian politician.
 * Ruth Roach, 89-90, American rodeo equestrian.
 * Charles Rogers, 84, American football player and coach.
 * Teiji Takai, 75, Japanese painter.
 * Väino Tamm, 55, Soviet Estonian interior designer.
 * Seif el-Din el-Zoubi, 72-73, Israeli politician.

27

 * Nellie Weldon Cocroft, 100, American composer.
 * Edna Mae Cooper, 85, American actress.
 * Zoltán Gárdonyi, 80, Hungarian composer.
 * Charles Jordan, 71, Canadian singer.
 * Joe Maphis, 65, American guitarist, lung cancer.
 * Jock McNaughton, 74, Scottish footballer.
 * Bill Miller, 50, Australian footballer.
 * Don Rogers, 23, American football player, cocaine overdose.
 * Albert Wiesener, 84, Norwegian lawyer.

28

 * Pearly Brown, 70, American singer and guitarist.
 * Haji Mohammad Danesh, 86, Bangladeshi politician.
 * Gilberte Géniat, 70, French actress.
 * Yvonne Hakim-Rimpel, 79-80, Haitian journalist and feminist, heart attack.
 * Frank Jewett, 69, American Olympic sailor (1936).
 * Marjorie Tuite, 63, American social activist, pancreatic cancer.

29

 * Thomas Albright, 76, American baseball player.
 * Mario Amaya, 52, American museum director, AIDS.
 * Lako Bodra, 66, Indian writer and linguist.
 * Jack Christiansen, 57, American football player.
 * Walter Early Craig, 77, American jurist.
 * Robert Drivas, 50, American actor, AIDS.
 * John Porter East, 55, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (since 1981), suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
 * Dusolina Giannini, 83, American-Swiss singer.
 * Clair L. Gleason, 63, American college sports coach.
 * Tiko Jelisavčić, 56-57, Yugoslav football player and coach.
 * Wendell P. Kay, 72, American politician.
 * Earl Landgrebe, 70, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1969–1975), heart attack.
 * Edward D. MacArthur, 66, Canadian politician.
 * Kyaw Nyein, 73, Burmese politician.
 * Dan Pagis, 55, Israeli poet, cancer.
 * Sir Desmond Pond, 66, British psychiatrist.
 * Siddiqur Rahman, 34, Bangladeshi politician.
 * Robert Ryder, 78, British politician, MP (1950–1955).
 * Kenyon Taylor, 78, English electrical engineer.
 * Cliff Townshend, 70, English saxophonist.
 * Wirt Williams, 64, American journalist and novelist.
 * Frank Wise, 89, Australian politician.

30

 * Fernando Ansola, 46, Spanish footballer.
 * Jack Beveridge, 79, Australian footballer.
 * Pierre Costantini, 97, French soldier and journalist.
 * Horst Förster, 66, German conductor.
 * Margalo Gillmore, 89, English-born American actress, cancer.
 * Guan Zilan, 83, Chinese painter.
 * Roman Gul, 89, Russian-American writer.
 * Soichi Ichida, 75, Japanese philatelist.
 * László Lékai, 76, Hungarian Roman Catholic cardinal.
 * Mauricio Magdaleno, 80, Mexican filmmaker.
 * Marjorie Matthews, 70, American Methodist bishop, breast cancer.
 * Juan Alberto Montes, 83, Argentine historian.
 * Iris Noble, 64, Canadian-American biographer.
 * Almeda Riddle, 87, American singer.
 * Ernst Sabeditsch, 66, Austrian footballer.