Deaths in September 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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

 * Ramón Carande, 99, Spanish historian.
 * Tina Cooper, 68, English pediatrician, cancer.
 * Earl B. Dickerson, 95, American lawyer and politician.
 * Phil Feldesman, 67, Russian-born American bridge player.
 * R. B. Freeman, 71, English zoologist, heart attack.
 * Ivor Guy, 59, English footballer.
 * Murray Hamilton, 63, American actor (Jaws), lung cancer.
 * Colin McCathie, 76, Australian politician.
 * Bobby Moers, 68, American basketball, football and baseball player.
 * Eddie Vitch, 83, Polish-born American-Australian comedian

2

 * Frank Bartkus, 70, American soccer player.
 * Thomas Butler Dowda, 87, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1941–1953).
 * Mahmoud Kaveh, 25, Iranian soldier, killed in action.
 * Nuno Morais, 63, Portuguese Olympic sprinter (1948).
 * Philip Radcliffe, 81, English musicologist.
 * Billy Taylor, 80, American jazz bassist.
 * Malcolm Walker, 52, English cricketer, traffic collision.
 * Jim Wilson, 64, American baseball player, cancer.

3

 * Vasantrao Ghatge, 70, Indian business magnate.
 * Wirgiliusz Gryń, 58, Polish actor.
 * Horace King, Baron Maybray-King, 85, British politician.
 * Pino Mercanti, 75, Italian filmmaker.
 * Glennon T. Moran, 67, American general and flying ace, cancer.
 * Kit Mouat, 66, English poet and activist.
 * Ted Moult, 60, British radio and television personality, suicide by gunshot.
 * Knocky Parker, 68, American jazz pianist.
 * Vittorino Veronese, 76, Italian lawyer, director-general of UNESCO (1958–1961).
 * Frank Corbett Welch, 86, Canadian politician and horticulturalist.
 * Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr., 80, American jurist.

4

 * Edd Ashe, 78, American comic writer and cartoonist.
 * Christer Boustedt, 47, Swedish musician and actor.
 * Alexei Fofanov, 71, Soviet soldier.
 * Françoise Gaudet-Smet, 83, Canadian writer.
 * Roberto Gavaldón, 77, Mexican film director.
 * Otto Glória, 69, Brazilian football manager.
 * Hank Greenberg, 75, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Detroit Tigers), kidney cancer.
 * Decio Klettenberg, 84, Brazilian Olympic rower (1936).
 * Wayne Nance, 30, American serial killer, shot.
 * Frank Stewart, 76, Australian footballer.
 * Sid Tanenbaum, 60, American basketball player, stabbed.
 * Walter Wanderley, 54, Brazilian musician, cancer.
 * Dov Zakin, 63, Israeli politician.

5

 * Neerja Bhanot, 22, Indian flight purser, shot.
 * Alvin Heaps, 66, American labor union leader.
 * Noel Kempff Mercado, 62, Bolivian biologist and environmentalist, shot.
 * József Kiss, 77, Hungarian Olympic runner (1948).
 * Alfredo Rossi, 80, Italian pianist.
 * Erich Schumacher, 77, German theatre director.
 * Ganapathi Thanikaimoni, 48, Indian palynologist, shot.
 * Trần Quốc Hoàn, 70, Vietnamese politician.

6

 * Weston Bousfield, 82, American psychologist.
 * Jacek Daniluk, 25, Polish Olympic equestrian (1980).
 * Thomas Wardrope Eadie, 88, Canadian business executive.
 * William Littell Everitt, 86, American electrical engineer.
 * George Gipe, 53, American author and screenwriter, allergic reaction to a bee sting.
 * John Stanley Grauel, 68, American priest and Christian Zionist leader.
 * George P. Monaghan, 85, American lawyer and emergency services commissioner.
 * Leonard Outerbridge, 98, Canadian politician.
 * Ernest Schmidt, 75, American basketball player.
 * Blanche Sweet, 90, American silent film actress, stroke.
 * Hiroshi Tadano, 72, Japanese Olympic skier (1936).
 * Fred Taggart, 80, English golfer.

7

 * Ola Bøe, 76, Norwegian fiddler.
 * Skipper Bowles, 66, American politician and businessman, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Les Bury, 73, English-Australian politician.
 * Paul Roberts Cannon, 94, American physician.
 * Nelson Dunford, 79, American mathematician.
 * Raimundo Infante, 58, Chilean footballer.
 * Lloyd Kerns, 65, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1967–1972).
 * Spencer Le Marchant, 55, British politician.
 * Monte McDaniel, 91, American football player and coach.
 * Jack Mizuha, 72, American jurist.
 * Dan K. Moore, 80, American politician, governor of North Carolina (1965–1969).
 * Omar Ali Saifuddien III, 71, Bruneian royal, sultan (1950–1957).
 * P. S. Ramakrishna Rao, 67, Indian filmmaker.
 * Sir Percy Rugg, 80, British politician.
 * Vladimir Vlasov, 83, Soviet composer.
 * Capus M. Waynick, 96, American diplomat.
 * Hewitt T. Wheless, 72, American general

8

 * José Carrasco Tapia, 43, Chilean journalist, murdered.
 * Vladimír Janoušek, 64, Czech painter and sculptor.
 * Ray Nazarro, 83, American filmmaker.
 * Idar Norstrand, 71, Norwegian politician.
 * Reece Sailer, 70, American entomologist.
 * Alfred Schaefer, 81, Swiss banker.
 * Tomasz Stefaniszyn, 57, Polish footballer.
 * George Tully, 72, Canadian Olympic fencer (1936).

9

 * Kessler R. Cannon, 70, American politician and radio broadcaster, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1961–1964).
 * Getzel Kressel, 75, Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli biographer.
 * Albert Malet, 73-74, French painter.
 * Robert Shackleton, 66, English linguist.
 * Magda Tagliaferro, 93, Brazilian pianist.
 * Franciszek Tim, 62, Polish footballer.

10

 * Pepper Adams, 55, American jazz saxophonist, lung cancer.
 * Mary V. Austin, 86, Australian political activist.
 * Jake Bornheimer, 59, American basketball player.
 * Deane Gundlock, 72, Canadian politician.
 * María Dolores Katarain, 32, Spanish Basque separatist leader, shot.
 * Sobhi Mahmassani, 77, Lebanese lawyer and politician, lung cancer.
 * Ronnie Shade, 47, Scottish golfer
 * Harry Shafransky, 56, Polish-born Canadian politician, heart attack.
 * Koji Shima, 85, Japanese filmmaker.
 * Andrei Zazroyev, 60, Soviet Georgian football player and manager.

11

 * Revington Arthur, 79, American painter.
 * Red Bethea, 81, American football player.
 * Arthur Carr, 76, British Olympic equestrian (1948).
 * Harry Haslam, 65, English football player and manager.
 * Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, 83, Greek politician, prime minister (1945, 1967).
 * Galo Miño, 33, Ecuadorian Olympic sports shooter (1984), shot.
 * Otho Nitcholas, 77, American baseball player.
 * Felix Perrault, 70, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1965–1979).
 * Henry DeWolf Smyth, 88, American physicist and diplomat, cardiac arrest.
 * Noel Streatfeild, 90, English children's author.
 * Billy Walsh, 75, Australian footballer.

12

 * Philip Ingress Bell, 86, British politician.
 * Marcel Boigegrain, 57, French Olympic rower (1948).
 * James Louis Connolly, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Ernst Haas, 65, Austrian-born American photojournalist, stroke.
 * Edwin B. Hooper, 77, American naval admiral.
 * Jacques Henri Lartigue, 92, French photographer and painter.
 * Terence MacDonagh, 78, English oboist.
 * Manjula, 31, Indian actress, suicide by fire.
 * Harold Moody, 70, British Olympic shot putter (1948).
 * Frank Nelson, 75, American actor (The Jack Benny Program), cancer.
 * Ernst Paulus, 89, German Olympic athlete (1928).
 * Gerhard Rohlfs, 94, German linguist.
 * Annibale Ruccello, 30, Italian playwright, traffic collision.
 * Jim Shilling, 72, American baseball player.
 * Bruce Wardlaw, 72, Australian cricketer and footballer.
 * Charlotte Wolff, 88, German-British sexologist.

13

 * Dick May, 76, Australian footballer.
 * Antonio Mota, 47, Mexican footballer.
 * Robert Nisbet, 85, British Olympic rower (1928).
 * Neil Robinson, 24, Northern Irish racing cyclist, racing crash.
 * Sam Shields, 57, Scottish footballer.
 * Oscar Wight, 80, Guyanese cricketer.
 * Roger Wrightson, 46, English cricketer.

14

 * William Edmund Barrett, 85, American writer (The Lilies of the Field).
 * John Bingham, 32-33, Northern Irish loyalist soldier, shot.
 * Leslie Blanchard, 52, American hairdresser and legal figure (Braschi v. Stahl Associates Co.), AIDS.
 * David Harold Byrd, 86, American oil executive.
 * Charles Caputo, 74, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1967–1978).
 * Marcel Couraud, 73, French conductor and organist.
 * Georgia Engelhard, 79, American mountaineer.
 * Gordon McLendon, 65, American radio broadcaster, cancer.
 * Jean Preuss, 82, French racing cyclist.

15

 * Chris Abel, 74, English footballer.
 * Gustaf Andersson, 83, Swedish Olympic speed skater (1928).
 * Don Bennett, 76, Australian-British politician and pilot, MP (1945).
 * Jaroslav Burgr, 80, Czech footballer.
 * Bill Butler, 66, Australian footballer.
 * William Goode, 79, British colonial administrator, governor of Singapore (1957–1959).
 * Virginia Gregg, 70, American actress, lung cancer.
 * Eric Hiscock, 78, British sailor and author.
 * Joe Hiscock, 81-82, British trade unionist.
 * Joseph M. Pettit, 70, American engineer and academic administrator, cancer.
 * Elizabeth Titzel Riefstahl, 97, American archaeologist.
 * Freimut Stein, 62, German Olympic figure skater (1952).
 * Ramón Alberto Villaverde, 56, Uruguayan footballer.

16

 * Charlie Adams, 89, Australian footballer.
 * Engelbert Brenner, 82, Austrian-born American oboist.
 * Jim Brough, 82, English rugby player.
 * Leobardo Candiani, 81, Mexican Olympic fencer (1932).
 * Judith Crawley, 72, Canadian filmmaker.
 * Puran Chandra Gupta, 74, Indian journalist.
 * Denis Guye, 85, English Olympic rower (1928).
 * Darold Jenkins, 67, American football player.
 * Walter Lehweß-Litzmann, 79, German Luftwaffe pilot.
 * Francesco Malatesta, 79, Italian Olympic cyclist (1928).
 * Walter Matthews, 86, Canadian politician.
 * Žarko Mihajlović, 66, Yugoslav football manager.
 * Ernst-Eduard Rull, 91, Estonian sports shooter.
 * Karel Svolinský, 90, Czech artist and typeface designer.
 * Bob Thyne, 66, Scottish footballer.

17

 * Erich Bautz, 73, German racing cyclist.
 * Johnny Cook, 60, American football player, leukemia.
 * Joe Kennedy, 60, English footballer.
 * Pat Phoenix, 62, English actress (Coronation Street), lung cancer.
 * Henrik Sjögren, 87, Swedish ophthamologist, describer of Sjögren syndrome.
 * Albert Titley, 74, English footballer.

18

 * Marius Beraru, 65, Romanian football player and manager.
 * David Dodge Boyden, 75, American musicologist.
 * Aljoša Buha, 24, Yugoslav Bosnian musician (Crvena jabuka), traffic collision.
 * Elwyn Davies, 77, Welsh academic administrator.
 * Johann Dick, 59, West German retired soldier, shot.
 * Hettie Ewing, 89, American missionary.
 * Jon Gould, 33, American film executive, AIDS.
 * Joseph Hibbert, 91-92, Jamaican Rastafari preacher.
 * Corita Kent, 67, American artist, ovarian cancer.
 * Wilhelm Kimmich, 89, German painter.
 * Shelton Perera, 47, Sri Lankan musician.

19

 * Hubert Badanai, 91, Italian-born Canadian politician.
 * Len Childs, 84-85, British trade unionist.
 * Vivian Duncan, 89, American vaudeville performer.
 * James H. Gray Sr., 70, American politician, heart attack.
 * Ainslie Meares, 76, Australian psychiatrist, pneumonia.
 * Baxter Morgan, 68, Canadian politician.
 * Ramón Orriols, 74, Spanish footballer.
 * Sir Lawrence Pendred, 87, British RAF officer.
 * Red Shurtliffe, 79, American football player.
 * Wyatt Turner, 77, American baseball player.

20

 * John C. Becher, 71, American actor, cancer.
 * Christopher Butler, 84, British Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Johannes Caspers, 76, German politician.
 * Chester A. Chesney, 70, American politician and football player, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).
 * Sir Norman Chester, 78, British economist.
 * Ray Eddy, 75, American basketball player and coach.
 * Lionel Farris, 81, English table tennis player.
 * James Hardy, 65, American Olympic rower (1948).
 * Elizabeth Hirschboeck, 83, American religious sister and humanitarian.
 * Pleas Jones, 73, American jurist.
 * Fred Macbeth, 76, Canadian Olympic sprinter (1928).
 * Sverre Marstrander, 75, Norwegian archaeologist.
 * Bob McChesney, 74, American football player.
 * Haruhiko Nishi, 93, Japanese diplomat.
 * William W. Outerbridge, 80, American naval admiral.
 * Dennis Spooner, 53, English television writer, heart attack.
 * Anders Ström, 85, Swedish Olympic skier (1928).
 * Nicolae Testemițanu, 59, Soviet Moldovan surgeon and politician.
 * Nico van der Laan, 78, Dutch architect.

21

 * Jonah Barrington, 82, British journalist.
 * Rolf Gustafsson, 79, Swedish Olympic boxer (1928).
 * Wilhelm Heun, 91, German general.
 * Cheryl Keeton, 36, American lawyer, murdered.
 * John Kuck, 81, American Olympic shot putter (1928).
 * Helen Bell Milburn, 98, Canadian radiologist.
 * Pierre Wigny, 81, Belgian politician.
 * Clancy Williams, 43, American football player, cancer.
 * Rex Woods, 94, British Olympic athlete (1924, 1928).

22

 * József Asbóth, 69, Hungarian tennis player.
 * Bernie Cummins, 86, American jazz drummer.
 * Janet Davies, 59, English actress (Dad's Army), breast cancer.
 * Yussuf Hamis, 65, Israeli politician.
 * Tom Lovatt-Williams, 89, English poet.
 * Theodore H. McCrea, 78, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Sohan Singh Misha, 52, Indian poet.
 * Lloyd Peterson, 86, American college sports coach.
 * Erik Svensson, 83, Swedish Olympic jumper (1928, 1932).
 * Abdel-Kader Zaaf, 69, Algerian racing cyclist.

23

 * Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield, 96, Austro-Hungarian-Italian flying ace.
 * Theresa Sherrer Davidson, 92, American lawyer and classical scholar.
 * Gordie Drillon, 72, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Barbara Gilewska, 74, Polish actress.
 * Bert Hodges, 81, Welsh cricketer.
 * Sir Vincent Lloyd-Jones, 84, Welsh jurist.
 * Yelena Maksimova, 80, Soviet actress.
 * Domingo Moreno Jimenes, 92, Dominican writer.
 * Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp, 75, German Nazi officer.
 * C. A. Patrides, 55,-56, American writer, AIDS.
 * Percy Peter, 84, English Olympic swimmer (1920, 1924, 1928).
 * Jack Shook, 76, American guitarist.

24

 * Uell Stanley Andersen, 69, American football player.
 * Edwin John Beer, 107, British chemist and geologist.
 * Prudence Glynn, 51, British journalist and author, intracerebral hemorrhage.
 * Hiroshi Hara, 75, Japanese botanist.
 * Bert Price, 79, Canadian politician.
 * Dorothy Pilley Richards, 92, English mountaineer.
 * Kamer Sadık, 74-75, Turkish actor.
 * Harald Selås, 78, Norwegian politician.
 * Adolf Tolkachev, 59, Soviet electronics engineer and double agent, execution by shooting.

25

 * Geoff Alley, 83, New Zealand rugby player and librarian.
 * Ted Bishop, 73, American golfer.
 * Darshan Singh Canadian, 68-69, Indian trade unionist, murdered.
 * John Carroll, 64, Canadian politician.
 * Henning Helgesson, 86, Swedish footballer.
 * Svante Johansson, 59, Swedish Olympic diver (1948).
 * Bill Lever, 82, Australian footballer.
 * Donald MacDonald, 77, Canadian politician, cancer.
 * Nikolay Semyonov, 90, Soviet chemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1956).
 * Hubertus Strughold, 88, German-American physiologist and war criminal.
 * Hans Vogt, 83, Norwegian linguist.
 * James B. Wilson, 90, American football player and coach.

26

 * Moussa Ali Abdoulkader, 63, Djiboutian politician.
 * Jacob Agus, 74, Polish-born American rabbi and theologian.
 * Mirta Cerra Herrera, 82, Cuban painter.
 * Roger Howard Cilley, 68, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Wilson Faumuina, 32, American football player, heart failure.
 * Hugh Franklin, 70, American actor, cancer.
 * H. D. S. Haverbeck, 72, American philatelist.
 * Bert Humpish, 84, English footballer.
 * Brian Desmond Hurst, 91, Irish film director.
 * Billy Key, 90, British general.
 * André Maelbrancke, 68, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * Roger Rousseau, 65, Canadian diplomat.
 * Noboru Terada, 68, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1936).

27

 * Tony Acquaviva, 61, American composer.
 * Walter Brecht, 86, German scientist.
 * Cliff Burton, 24, American bassist (Metallica), traffic collision.
 * Jessie Eden, 84, British trade unionist.
 * Giuseppe Ghedina, 87, Italian Olympic skier (1924).
 * Michael Joseph Hogan, 78, British jurist.
 * Richard Krygier, 69, Polish-born Australian journalist.
 * Olga Masters, 67, Australian author and writer.
 * Éva Ruttkai, 58, Hungarian actress, breast cancer.
 * Chuck Sheerin, 77, American baseball player.
 * Georg Voggenreiter, 74, German racing cyclist.

28

 * Denis Carey, 77, British actor
 * Howard Graham, 88, Canadian general.
 * Sir Robert Helpmann, 77, Australian ballet dancer, choreographer, and actor (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).
 * Hazdayi Penso, 72, Turkish basketball player.
 * Ewa Szelburg-Zarembina, 87, Polish novelist.
 * Kiyoshi Tanimoto, 77, Japanese Methodist minister and hibakusha.
 * Richard C. Turner, 58, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate (1961–1965), heart attack.
 * Glauco Vanz, 66, Italian footballer.
 * Anthony Vince, 84, Canadian Olympic sprinter (1924).

29

 * Billy Bottrill, 83, English footballer.
 * Les Field, 64, Australian footballer.
 * Prince Georg of Denmark, 66, Danish royal and diplomat.
 * Sir Reg Goodwin, 78, British politician.
 * Artie Gore, 78, American baseball umpire.
 * Maurice Harland, 90, British Anglican prelate.
 * M. D. H. Jayawardena, 71, Sri Lankan politician.
 * Lilian Hamilton Jeffery, 71, British archaeologist.
 * Betty Kean, 71, American actress.
 * Moestopo, 73, Indonesian general.
 * Joe Nolan, 57, Canadian-American ice hockey player.
 * Al Passarell, 36, Canadian politician, plane crash.
 * Helmut Qualtinger, 57, Austrian actor, liver disease.
 * Theodor Schwenk, 75, German anthroposophist and water researcher.

30

 * Franz Burda, 83, German publisher.
 * Arthur A. Cohen, 58, American novelist and theologian, leukemia.
 * Brewster Hughes, 73, Nigerian guitarist.
 * Storm Jameson, 95, English journalist and author.
 * Nicholas Kaldor, 78, Hungarian-British economist.
 * Noel Kirsten, 60, South African cricketer.
 * Laurier Lister, 79, English theatre producer.
 * Buster Millerick, 80, American racehorse trainer.
 * Tommy Reynolds, 69, American jazz clarinetist.
 * Kamaruzaman Sjam, 62, Indonesian communist activist, executed.
 * Wilfrid Timms, 84, English cricketer.
 * Sir John Westall, 85, New Zealand general.