Draft:Deaths in October 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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

 * Reice Hamel, 66, American recording engineer.
 * Archie League, 79, American air traffic controller.
 * William Manning, 83, Australian politician.
 * Daan Monjé, 60, Dutch politician.
 * Seán Moore, 73, Irish politician, TD (1965–1982).
 * Fernand Picard, 69, Canadian politician.
 * John Potts, 82, English footballer.
 * Dražen Ričl, 24, Yugoslav Bosnian rock musician (Crvena jabuka) and comedian, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
 * Frank Samblebe, 71, Australian footballer.

2

 * Dòmhnall Iain Dhonnchaidh, 67, Scottish poet and philosopher.
 * Mikhail Masson, 88, Soviet archaeologist.
 * Bernard Radford, 78, English footballer.
 * Ron Rutherford, 80, Australian footballer.
 * F. Wayne Valley, 72, American businessman and football executive (Oakland Raiders), cancer.

3

 * Vince DiMaggio, 74, American baseball player, colon cancer.
 * Bruno Innocenti, 80, Italian sculptor.
 * Witold Jakóbczyk, 77, Polish historian.
 * Shunzo Kido, 97, Japanese Olympic equestrian (1928, 1932).
 * Heinie Mueller, 74, American baseball player.
 * Terry Pitt, 49, British political researcher and advisor, choked.
 * Sergey Preminin, 20, Soviet sailor (K-219), hyperthermia.
 * José Lino Vaamonde, 86, Spanish architect.

4

 * Raymond E. Baldwin, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1946–1949), governor of Connecticut (1939–1941, 1943–1946).
 * Robert Broadbent, 81, Australian Olympic cyclist (1924).
 * Mike Butterworth, 62, British comic book writer, heart attack.
 * Jeff Clements, 54, English rugby player.
 * Sarala Devi, 82, Indian politician and social activist.
 * Arno von Lenski, 93, German general and politician.
 * Raimundo Morales, 88, Spanish Olympic tennis player (1924).
 * Desiderius Orban, 101, Hungarian-Australian artist.
 * Valentín Sabate, 64, Spanish Olympic water polo player (1948).
 * Willi Schuh, 85, Swiss musicologist.

5

 * Diego Angulo Íñiguez, 85, Spanish art historian.
 * George Packer Berry, 87, American medical educator and physician.
 * Mike Burgmann, 39, Australian racing driver, racing crash.
 * Sir Timothy Creasey, 63, British general.
 * Abraham Feinberg, 87, American rabbi, activist and singer, cancer.
 * Rudolf Flesch, 75, Austrian-born American readability expert and author (Why Johnny Can't Read).
 * William Karlsen, 76, Norwegian Olympic swimmer (1932).
 * Zdzisław Kumiszcze, 51, Polish Olympic hurdler (1960).
 * Collette Lyons, 78, American actress.
 * Héctor Maturano, 63, Argentine Olympic boxer (1952).
 * John J. McEleney, 90, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Mairin Mitchell, 91, British writer and journalist.
 * Peter Phelps, 77, English cricketer.
 * Emanuel Sayles, 79, American banjoist.
 * Hal B. Wallis, 87, American film producer (Casablanca, True Grit, The Adventures of Robin Hood), diabetes.
 * James H. Wilkinson, 67, English mathematician, heart attack.

6

 * Marie-Hélène Arnaud, 52, French model and actress.
 * Yuri Babayev, 58, Soviet physicist, one of the designers of the Tsar Bomba.
 * Gokulbhai Bhatt, 88, Indian politician and social worker.
 * Harold Brooke, 87, Australian Olympic sailor (1960).
 * Loris Gizzi, 87, Italian actor.
 * Aleksandr Kronrod, 64, Soviet mathematician and computer scientist, stroke.
 * Robert L. Larson, 88, American jurist.
 * Tom Ledwidge, 75, Australian footballer.
 * Guy Prendergast, 81, British soldier and explorer.
 * David Rubinoff, 89, Russian-born American violinist.
 * Robert Six, 79, American businessman.
 * Wallace Wade, 94, American football player and sports coach.

7

 * Germain Burger, 86, British filmmaker.
 * Irvine Finlay Corbett, 71, Canadian politician.
 * Cheryl Crawford, 84, American theatre producer.
 * Sir Arthur Galsworthy, 70, British diplomat and soldier.
 * Yōjirō Ishizaka, 86, Japanese writer.
 * Iwan Iwanoff, 67, Bulgarian-Australian architect.
 * Liu Bocheng, 93, Chinese general.
 * Jerzy Łojek, 54, Polish historian.
 * Anthony McFeely, 77, Irish Roman Catholic prelate.
 * David D. O'Malley, 73, American politician, heart attack.
 * George Owens, 86, Australian footballer.
 * Sir J. G. Phillips, 75, Australian economist, suicide.
 * Paul Tournier, 88, Swiss physician and pastoral counselor.

8

 * Nels Anderson, 97, American sociologist.
 * Walter Burkemo, 67, American golfer.
 * Gerhard Dietrich, 58, German pedagogue.
 * Ícaro Mello, 72, Brazilian Olympic jumper (1936).
 * Ba. Na. Sundara Rao, 68, Indian poet and historian, cardiac arrest.
 * Edna Roper, 73, Australian politician.
 * Laurence H. Snyder, 85, American geneticist.
 * Max Surkont, 64, American baseball player.
 * Megumu Tamura, 59, Japanese footballer, cancer.

9

 * Lajos Balogh, 83, Hungarian athlete.
 * Arild Brinchmann, 64, Norwegian theatre director and film producer.
 * Ted Freeman, 86, Canadian politician.
 * Stan Greatrex, 75, English racing cyclist.
 * Eddie Johnson, 58, American Olympic boxer (1948).
 * Vasile Patilineț, 62, Romanian politician and diplomat.
 * Harald Reinl, 78, Austrian film director, stabbed.
 * James J. Reynolds, 79, American labor board administrator.
 * Jo-Jo White, 77, American baseball player.

10

 * Lyndall Barbour, 70, Australian actress.
 * Gerold Braunmühl, 51, German diplomat, shot.
 * Mary Cholmondeley, Lady Delamere, 80, British socialite and heiress.
 * Antonio di Benedetto, 63, Argentine novelist.
 * Han Drijver, 59, Dutch Olympic field hockey player (1948, 1952).
 * Nieves Hernández, 84, Mexican footballer.
 * Sigfred Jensen, 77, Danish footballer.
 * Rusty Lane, 87, American actor.
 * Marie Neurath, 88, German pictographer.
 * Frank O'Neal, 65, American cartoonist.
 * Michele Pellegrino, 83, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
 * Michael Player, 25-26, American serial killer, suicide by gunshot.
 * Priaulx Rainier, 83, South African-British composer.
 * William Kevin Rowell, 58, Australian Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Russ Van Atta, 80, American baseball player.
 * Gleb Wataghin, 86, Ukrainian-Italian physicist.

11

 * Gregorio Álvarez, 96, Argentine historian.
 * Mansi Barberis, 87, Romanian musician.
 * Rusty Blakey, 74, Canadian aviator.
 * Bob Brooker, 59, Australian footballer.
 * Norm Cash, 52, American baseball player, drowned.
 * John Crockett, 68, British television and stage director.
 * Georges Dumézil, 88, French linguist, stroke.
 * Barker Fairley, 99, British-Canadian painter and literary scholar.
 * David Hand, 86, American animator, stroke.
 * Hanford L. King Jr., 65, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Gyula Kovács, 69, Hungarian Olympic wrestler (1948, 1952, 1956).
 * Boris Leven, 78, Russian-born American production designer.
 * Ed McNamara, 65, Canadian actor.
 * Robert Scholz, 83, Austrian-born American pianist.
 * Al Ullman, 72, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1957–1981), prostate cancer.

12

 * Szabolcs Fényes, 74, Hungarian film composer.
 * John J. Herrera, 76, American attorney and activist.
 * George Mandy, 80, South African cricketer.
 * Peter Mathieson, 71, New Zealand swimmer.
 * Bronte Clucas Quayle, 66, Australian civil servant, heart failure.
 * Jūlijs Vanags, 83, Soviet Latvian writer.

13

 * Maidie Andrews, 93, English actress.
 * Eunice Crowther, 70, British dancer and choreographer.
 * Léon H. Dupriez, 84, Belgian economist.
 * Ken Earl, 60, English cricketer.
 * Andreas Grasmo, 73, Norwegian priest and organizational leader.
 * Abram Hill, 76, American playwright.
 * Fred K. Mahaffey, 52, American general, cancer.
 * William M. McAllister, 80, American jurist and politician.
 * Sir Joseph Napier, 4th Baronet, 91, British hereditary peer and soldier.
 * William Passmore, 71, South African Olympic boxer (1936).
 * Charles H. Reardon, 70, Canadian politician.
 * Hermann von Siemens, 101, German industrialist.

14

 * Milovan Ćirić, 68, Yugoslav footballer.
 * Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr., 69, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1957).
 * Yvette Dugay, 54, American actress.
 * Izrael Hieger, 85, Russian-born British biochemist.
 * Spec O'Donnell, 75, American actor.
 * Barry Salvage, 39, English footballer, heart attack.
 * Bojan Štih, 63, Yugoslav Slovene essayist and stage director.
 * Keenan Wynn, 70, American actor, pancreatic cancer.
 * Takahiko Yamanouchi, 84, Japanese theoretical physicist.

15

 * Carroll A. Edson, 94, American scouting leader.
 * Harvey V. Higley, 93, American chemist.
 * Alex Josey, 76, British-Singaporean journalist, Parkinson's disease.
 * Larry Kopf, 95, American baseball player.
 * Rani Padmini, 23-24, Indian actress, homicide.
 * Jacqueline Roque, 59, French muse, wife of Pablo Picasso, suicide by gunshot.
 * Marcus Samuel, 3rd Viscount Bearsted, 77, British businessman and hereditary peer.
 * Jerry Smith, 43, American football player, AIDS.
 * Al Stricklin, 78, American pianist, cancer.
 * John D. Thompson Jr., 57, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (since 1971), cancer.
 * Christine Wttewaall van Stoetwegen, 85, Dutch politician.
 * William Richard Watkins, 82, English cricketer.

16

 * Ralph Palmer Agnew, 85, American mathematician.
 * Manolo Álvarez Mera, 62, Cuban-American singer.
 * Manorama Basu, 88, Bangladeshi feminist.
 * Harold Beamish, 90, New Zealand flying ace.
 * Kiril Bratanov, 75, Bulgarian biologist, heart attack.
 * Joseph Fontaine, 86, Canadian politician.
 * Arthur Grumiaux, 65, Belgian violinist, stroke.
 * Yukihiko Haida, 77, American musician.
 * Giovanni Invernizzi, 60, Italian Olympic rower (1948, 1952).
 * Sydney Jagbir, 73, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer.
 * Jeanne MacKenzie, 64, English writer, ovarian cancer.
 * Hugh Austin Windle Pilkington, 44, British philanthropist, traffic collision.
 * Sandro Puppo, 68, Italian football player and manager.
 * Carlo Romei, 61, Italian politician.
 * Ted Sagar, 76, English footballer.
 * Richard R. Stout, 74, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate (1952–1974), cardiac arrest.
 * Jacques Van Caelenberghe, 76, Belgian footballer.
 * Fred Vaughan, 82, American football player.
 * Princess Yolanda of Savoy, 85, Italian royal.

17

 * Boris Arkadyev, 87, Soviet football player and coach.
 * Sir Malcolm Burns, 76, New Zealand agricultural scientist.
 * Hamish Fraser, 73, Scottish journalist and political activist.
 * Stan Judkins, 79, Australian footballer.
 * Ron Kass, 51, American film producer, cancer.
 * Leah Rhodes, 84, American costume designer.
 * Carlos Rodríguez, 77, Mexican Olympic sports shooter (1952).

18

 * Billy Bennington, 85-86, English hammered dulcimer player.
 * Earl Frederick Crabb, 87, Canadian-American flying ace.
 * Sverre Ingolf Haugli, 61, Norwegian Olympic speed skater (1952).
 * Niat Qabool Hayat Kakakhel, 81, Pakistani politician.
 * Clyde S. Kilby, 84, American writer.
 * Alan Little, 52, English social scientist.
 * John J. McNamara, 54, American author and Olympic sailor (1964).

19

 * Moses Asch, 80, Polish-born American recording engineer and record executive.
 * Anne McGrew Bennett, 82, American writer.
 * Karlo Bulić, 76, Yugoslav Croatian actor.
 * George Cheroke, 65, American football player.
 * Dele Giwa, 39, Nigerian journalist, assassination by bomb.
 * Leon Henderson, 91, American economist.
 * Stanley Lebowsky, 59, American composer and conductor.
 * Balthasar Linsinger, 83-84, Austrian priest.
 * Oldřich Lipský, 62, Czechoslovak filmmaker.
 * Samora Machel, 53, Mozambican politician, president (since 1975), plane crash.
 * Simon Mahon, 72, British politician, MP (1955–1979).
 * H. Freeman Matthews, 87, American diplomat.
 * Lawrence McKillip, 62, American Olympic bobsledder (1956, 1964).
 * Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair, 64, Indian actor.
 * George Pipgras, 86, American baseball player.
 * Joe Ryan, 69, Australian footballer.
 * Arseny Sokolov, 76, Soviet theoretical physicist.
 * May Wilson, 80-81, American artist, pneumonia.

20

 * Luciano Agnolín, 71, Argentine footballer.
 * Taylor Booth, 53, American mathematician.
 * Michael Joe Costello, 82, Irish military leader.
 * Anton Krammer, 57, Austrian footballer.
 * Alain Moineau, 58, French cyclist.
 * George Tuttle, 81, American football player.
 * Tadao Uesako, 65, Japanese Olympic gymnast (1952).
 * Tommy Walker, 63, American event director, composer of "Charge".

21

 * Theodor Busse, 88, German soldier.
 * Harry H. Cooley, 92, American politician.
 * Pelagio Cruz, 74, Filipino general.
 * Gisela Fackeldey, 65, German actress.
 * Gadabout Gaddis, 90, American fisherman and television presenter.
 * Fritz Hochwälder, 75, Austrian playwright.
 * T. Krishna, 36, Indian filmmaker.
 * Lionel Murphy, 64, Australian politician and jurist, cancer.
 * Betsy Muus, 95, Belgian sculptor.
 * Edwin Albert Robson, 81, American jurist.
 * Vittorio Tracuzzi, 63, Italian basketball player.
 * Dominique Urbany, 83, Luxembourgish politician.
 * Diwakarla Venkatavadhani, 75, Indian writer and scholar.

22

 * Jane Dornacker, 39, American musician and traffic reporter, helicopter crash.
 * Ivor Francis, 67, Canadian-American actor.
 * Reg Humphries, 75, Australian footballer.
 * Bhagwanti Navani, 46, Indian singer and actress.
 * Jesse Pike, 96, American Olympic cyclist (1912).
 * Haki Abaz Skuqi, 28, Albanian pilot, plane crash.
 * Sven Strömberg, 75, Swedish Olympic runner (1936).
 * Thorgeir Stubø, 42, Norwegian jazz musician.
 * Albert Szent-Györgyi, 93, Hungarian biochemist and politician, Nobel Prize recipient (1937).
 * Jenny Toitgans, 81, Belgian Olympic athlete (1928).
 * Bernard Joseph Topel, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Ye Jianying, 89, Chinese politician and general.

23

 * Paul Brophy, 49, American firefighter, dehydration.
 * Peggy Pond Church, 82, American poet, suicide.
 * Johnny Dell Isola, 74, American football player.
 * Edward Adelbert Doisy, 92, American biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1943).
 * Esquerita, 48/51, American musician, AIDS.
 * Ivor D. Fenton, 97, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1939–1963).
 * Georg Funkquist, 86, Swedish actor.
 * Paul Gehrman, 74, American baseball player.
 * Ronald Long, 75, English-American actor.
 * Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, 92, British intelligence officer and mountaineer.

24

 * John R. Allan, 80, Scottish journalist and radio broadcaster.
 * Hugh Craig Atkinson, 52, American librarian.
 * Michael Brennan, 90, Irish general.
 * L. B. Day, 54, American politician, heart attack.
 * Johnny Dyani, 40, South African musician.
 * Percy Feltham, 84, Australian politician.
 * Eugênio Gudin, 100, Brazilian economist.
 * František Janda, 76, Czech Olympic wrestler (1936).
 * Enrique Margall, 42, Spanish basketball player.
 * Doc Mathis, 77, American sports coach and athletics administrator.
 * Sir Henry Osmond-Clarke, 81, British surgeon.

25

 * Larry Beil, 63, American football player.
 * Phyllis Blakeley, 64, Canadian historian.
 * Elizabeth H. Brödel, 83, American medical illustrator.
 * Guillermo Eizaguirre, 77, Spanish footballer.
 * Jack Hartigan, 58, Australian footballer.
 * Joseph B. Johnson, 93, American politician, governor of Vermont (1955–1959).
 * Bunyan Joseph, 92, Indian priest and hymnwriter.
 * Howard S. McDonald, 92, American academic administrator.
 * G. A. St Poole, 58, British naval officer.
 * Tadao Tannaka, 77, Japanese mathematician.
 * Forrest Tucker, 67, American actor, lung cancer.
 * Evelyn Waldren, 78, American pilot.

26

 * Arne Andersen, 86, Norwegian footballer.
 * Sidney Bollon, 86, English cricketer.
 * Hüseyin Çakıroğlu, 29, Turkish footballer, cancer.
 * John Henry Cates, 90, Canadian politician.
 * Ed Holley, 87, American baseball player.
 * Gordon Jolly, 73, New Zealand lawn bowler.
 * John H. Lyons Jr., 66, American labor union leader.
 * Jackson Scholz, 89, American Olympic sprinter (1920, 1924).

27

 * Sherman Adams, 87, American politician, governor of New Hampshire (1949–1953), member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1947).
 * Alfred Au, 87, German footballer.
 * Alan Branscombe, 50, English musician.
 * Bob Ingamells, 72, Australian politician.
 * Alvin Kahle, 76, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1965–1974).
 * Albert Maes, 80, Belgian Olympic weightlifter (1924, 1928).
 * Roger Rabiniaux, 71, French poet.
 * Carl-Enock Svensson, 91, Swedish Olympic athlete (1920).
 * Geoff Willis, 65, Australian footballer.

28

 * Robert Arthur, 76, American film producer.
 * Julien Joseph Audette, 72, Canadian aviator.
 * Afzal Bangash, 62, Pakistani politician, kidney failure.
 * John Braine, 64, English novelist, gastrointestinal bleeding.
 * Richard Elton Goodwin, 78, British general.
 * Marga Klompé, 74, Dutch politician.
 * Adelaide Lawson, 97, American painter.
 * Ian Marter, 42, English actor (Doctor Who) and writer, heart attack.
 * Emil Moeller, 84, Canadian politician.
 * Eddie Waring, 76, British rugby player, dementia.
 * René Weissmann, 56, French Olympic boxer (1952).

29

 * Nikolaos Angelakis, 81, Greek footballer.
 * Louis J. Battan, 63, American atmospheric scientist.
 * Eva Beatrice Dykes, 93, American educator.
 * Gottfried Eichelbrönner, 84, German politician.
 * Mimis Fotopoulos, 73, Greek actor and writer, heart attack.
 * Marcel Gascoin, 79, French furniture designer.
 * Gunnar Halle, 78, Norwegian engineer and soldier.
 * Maurice Leblanc-Smith, 90, British flying ace.
 * Abel Meeropol, 83, American songwriter and poet ("Strange Fruit").
 * Ronald Thom, 63, Canadian architect.
 * Harry Voigt, 73, German Olympic runner (1936).
 * Brian Courtenay Yarde, 81, British RAF officer.

30

 * Côtis-Capel, 71, French poet.
 * Olaf Hansen, 80, Norwegian Olympic boxer (1924).
 * Reginald Keller, 92, English cricketer.
 * Otto Knefler, 63, German footballer.
 * Andrzej Markowski, 62, Polish composer.
 * Tandiono Manu, 73, Indonesian politician.
 * Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt, 85, German politician.
 * Fritz Tillmann, 75, German actor.
 * Richard Yaffe, 83, American journalist.

31

 * Harry Askew, 68, British Olympic jumper (1948).
 * John Blackinger, 81, American politician and football executive.
 * Bob Hardisty, 64, English footballer.
 * Alfred Hauge, 71, Norwegian writer and educator.
 * Guy Murray Logan, 87, Canadian politician.
 * Marcella Martin, 70, American actress (Gone with the Wind).
 * Fred R. Mast, 89, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1953–1967).
 * Robert S. Mulliken, 90, American chemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1966), heart failure.
 * Bruno Snell, 90, German classical philologist.
 * Gregorio F. Zaide, 79, Filipino historian and politician.