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.

June 1986

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.