Deaths in April 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

April 1986

1

• Erik Bruhn, 57, Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer, lung cancer.
• Syd Copley, 80, British cricketer.
• Donald Grobe, 56, American singer.
• Theodore N. Kaufman, 76, American businessman and eugenics advocate.
• Vic Lawrence, 58, Australian rules footballer.
• Lucy Mair, 85, British anthropologist.
• Margaret Masterman, 75, British linguist.
• Kenneth E. Priebe, 73, American politician.
• Barry Robins, 41, American actor, AIDS.
• Dick Scesniak, 45, American football coach, heart attack.
• Al Sellinger, 71, American Olympic cyclist (1936).
• Shuvee, 20, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Tony Siano, 79, American NFL football player.
• Earl W. Vaughn, 57, American politician and judge, cancer.

2

• François Aman-Jean, 91, French writer.
• Floyd M. Baker, 94, Canadian politician.
• Wilfred Broadhead, 82, English cricketer.
• Bobby Dobbs, 63, American CFL football player.
• Gerald Goddard, 65, South African Olympic water polo player (1952).
• Dagbjartur Grímsson, 54, Icelandic footballer.
• Eugene Raymond Hall, 83, American zoologist.
• Lloyd A. Jeffress, 85, American acoustical scientist.
• Raymond Lapin, 67, American banking executive.
• Helen H. Nowlis, 72, American psychologist.
• Thomas Gerald Room, 83, Australian mathematician.
• Ben Schoeman, 81, South African politician.
• Takakura Teru, 94, Japanese writer and politician.
• Milt Trost, 73, American NFL football player.

3

• Geoffrey H. Arnott, 84, Australian businessman (Arnott's Group).
• Bobby Clack, 60, American actor.
• Everett T. Copenhaver, 87, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives (1939–1941).
• George Kirstein, 76, American publisher, heart attack.
• Mary C. McCall Jr., 81, American screenwriter, cancer.
• Charles Moeller, 74, Belgian Roman Catholic priest and theologian.
• Elisha Netanyahu, 73, Israeli mathematician.
• Reinhard Opitz, 51, German social scientist, cancer.
• Sir Peter Pears, 75, British singer.
• Elisabeth Radó, 86, Yugoslav singer.
• Rei, 74, Brazilian footballer.
• Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, 80, Iranian ayatollah.
• Nanna Svartz, 95, Swedish physician.

4

• Diane Barwick, 47, Canadian-born Australian anthropologist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Maria Beruski, 26–27, Brazilian teacher, fire.
• Bill Boaks, 81, British politician and naval officer.
• Geoffrey Burton, 76, English cricketer.
• Mario Cagna, 74, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Charles DeBow, 68, American fighter pilot.
• Hasted Dowker, 86, Canadian Anglican prelate.
• Rebeca Gerschman, 82, Argentine biochemist.
• Sascha Gorodnitzki, 81, Russian-born American pianist.
• Sir Laurence Hartnett, 87, Australian engineer.
• Ira V. Hiscock, 93, American bacteriologist.
• Billy Hole, 66, English motorcycle racer.
• Clive Hughes, 38, Australian politician, skin cancer.
• Zoltán Kaszab, 70, Hungarian entomologist.
• Mimmo Poli, 65, Italian actor, heart attack.
• Carlo Taranto, 64, Italian actor.
• Josef Vosolsobě, 81, Czechoslovak Olympic long jumper (1936).

5

• Lookout Masuku, 45, Zimbabwean militant, meningitis.
• Colin McCool, 69, Australian cricketer.
• Valentín Parera, 90, Spanish actor.
• Moshe Pearlman, 74–75, English-Israeli writer.
• Manly Wade Wellman, 82, American writer.

6

• José Luis de Arrese, 80, Spanish politician.
• Pesach Burstein, 89, Polish-born American comedian and actor.
• Roy Cheville, 88, American Mormon theologian.
• Glen Cooper, 70, Australian Air Force pilot.
• El Solitario, 39, Mexican professional wrestler, cardiac arrest.
• Boris Gutnikov, 54, Soviet violinist.
• Raimundo Orsi, 84, Argentine footballer.
• Sergio Rodríguez, 58, Uruguayan footballer.
• Jussi Saukkonen, 81, Finnish politician.
• Eric Sixsmith, 81, British general.
• Thomas Ward, 78, Scottish wrestler.

7

• Chester Erskine, 80, American filmmaker.
• Akira Hagiwara, 29, Japanese racing driver, racing crash.
• Leonid Kantorovich, 74, Soviet economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize recipient (1975).
• Cecil King, 65, Irish painter.
• Leslie Lewis, 61, British Olympic sprinter (1948, 1952).
• Donald Gaines Murray, 71, American attorney.
• William Homan Thorpe, 84, British zoologist.
• Beulah Tingley, 92, American social activist.
• Valerie von Martens, 91, German-Austrian actress.
• W. H. Walsh, 72, British philosopher and classicist.
• Michael Warriner, 77, English Olympic rower (1928).

8

• Theodore C. Achilles, 80, American diplomat.
• Alma Vessells John, 79, American nurse and radio personality, stroke.
• Alec Knight, 87, New Zealand cricketer.
• George Kenneth Mallory, 86, American pathologist.
• Robert du Mesnil du Buisson, 90, French archaeologist.
• Pauline Newman, 98, Russian-born American labor activist, stroke.
• Yukiko Okada, 18, Japanese singer, suicide by jumping.
• William Luther Rhodes, 67, American judge.

9

• Andrée Blouin, 64, Central African human rights activist, lymphoma.
• Charles Bosanquet, 82, English academic administrator.
• Bob Casey, 77, American jazz musician.
• Heinz Conrads, 72, Austrian actor.
• Robert C. Fritz, 65–66, American ceramics and glass artist.
• Alfredo Gaona, 74, Mexican Olympic boxer (1928).
• Johnny Hundley, 71, American baseball player.
• Stig Johanson, 66, Swedish actor.
• Dick Kokos, 58, American Major League baseball player.
• Les Pearson, 76, American baseball player.
• Leo Quenneville, 85, Canadian NHL ice hockey player.
• Vergil D. Reed, 88–89, American advertising executive and university professor.
• Karel VI Schwarzenberg, 74, Czechoslovak politician and aristocrat.
• Rezső Wanié, 77, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (1928).

10

• Joseph P. Addabbo, 61, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1961), bladder cancer.
• Eugene E. Campbell, 70, American historian.
• Linda Creed, 37, American songwriter, breast cancer.
• Thomas Durnell, 84, English cricketer.
• Alex Gray, 87, Scottish-born Canadian ice hockey player.
• Eugen Grimminger, 93, German resistance member (White Rose).
• Luther Harvel, 80, American Major League baseball player and manager.
• John Kelley, 78, American ice hockey coach.
• Garnet Lamb, 78, Australian rules footballer.
• Ron Tucker, 64, Australian rules footballer.
• Saul J. Turell, 65, American documentarian.

11

• William A. Caldwell, 79, American journalist.
• Penelope Chetwode, 76, English travel writer.
• Charles Darlington, 81, American diplomat.
• Israel Goldstein, 89, American-Israeli rabbi, founder of Brandeis University.
• Sir Ronald Gould, 81, British trade unionist.
• Ethel Haythornthwaite, 92, English conservationist
• Stanislav Jungwirth, 55, Czechoslovak runner.
• Jack Manners, 71, Canadian CFL football player.
• Peter Nchabeleng, 58, South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, internal bleeding.
• Josef Růžička, 61, Czechoslovak Olympic wrestler (1952).

12

• Neil Adams, 62, Australian rugby player.
• Einar Ágústsson, 63, Icelandic politician.
• Meri Avidzba, 69, Soviet fighter pilot.
• Joseph Dervaes, 79, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Valentin Kataev, 89, Soviet writer.
• Sidney Matthew Metzger, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Dave Nelson, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• François Neuville, 73, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Walter Tille, 79, German trade unionist.
• Jean-François Tournon, 80, French Olympic fencer (1952).
• Bill Welsh, 77, Australian rules footballer.

13

• Bruce F. Allen, 68, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1953–1963).
• Dorothy Ashby, 53, American jazz musician.
• Sulo Bärlund, 75, Finnish Olympic shot putter (1936).
• Frank DeCicco, 50, American mobster (Gambino crime family), car bomb.
• Johnny Dollar, 53, American country musician.
• Richmond Bowling Keech, 89, American judge.
• Tamás Major, 76, Hungarian actor.
• Stephen Stucker, 38, American actor (Airplane!, The Kentucky Fried Movie), AIDS.
• Andrew Tsu, 100, Chinese Anglican prelate.
• Jack van Bebber, 78, American Olympic wrestler (1932).

14

• J. Lindsay Almond, 87, American politician and judge, governor of Virginia (1958–1962), member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1946–1948).
• Simone de Beauvoir, 78, French writer, feminist and philosopher, pneumonia.
• Nitin Bose, 88, Indian filmmaker.
• Jole Bovio Marconi, 89, Italian archaeologist.
• Whitford Brown, 75, New Zealand politician.
• Sidney Cope, 81, English cricketer.
• Arne Halonen, 87, Finnish journalist.
• Torbjørn Kristoffersen, 93, Norwegian Olympic gymnast (1920).
• Doc Land, 82, American Major League baseball player.
• Daniela Zanetta, 23, Italian human rights activist, epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica.

15

• Sergei Anokhin, 76, Soviet pilot.
• Redmund Geach, 53, South African cricketer.
• Jean Genet, 75, French novelist and playwright, throat cancer.
• Edmund Hakewill-Smith, 90, British general.
• Don Hoefler, 63, American journalist, coined "Silicon Valley".
• Jiang Zhaohe, 81, Chinese artist.
• Nathan O. Kaplan, 68, American biochemist.
• Paul F. Lorence, 31, American Air Force pilot, killed in battle.
• Robert Marjolin, 74, French economist and politician.
• Tim McIntire, 41, American actor, heart failure.
• John Archibald Mills, 75, Canadian politician.
• Vlastimil Moravec, 36, Czechoslovak Olympic cyclist (1972, 1976), traffic collision.
• Dudley Gwynne Perkins, 75, Welsh radio broadcaster.
• Fernando L. Ribas-Dominicci, 33, American Air Force pilot, killed in battle.
• Edwin R. Thiele, 90, American archaeologist and missionary.

16

• Allan Cunningham Anderson, 89, Scottish-born Canadian diplomat.
• Graham Bagnall, 73, New Zealand librarian and historian.
• Dave Bell, 76, Scottish footballer.
• Carlo Biagi, 71, Italian footballer.
• Mae Capone, 89, American wife of Al Capone.
• Pia Colombo, 51, French singer, cancer.
• Charles Goldenberg, 75, American NFL football player.
• Alfred Hopkins, 85, British Olympic weightlifter (1928).
• Molly Luce, 89, American painter.
• Bob May, 76, Australian politician.
• Joe Price, 99, Australian rules footballer.
• Dyke Smith, 74, American football player.
• Bob Stam, 67, Dutch footballer.

17

• Ruka Broughton, 45, New Zealand university lecturer and priest.
• Robert R. Casey, 70, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–1976).
• Stafford Castledine, 74, English cricketer.
• Paul Costello, 91, American Olympic rower (1920, 1924, 1928).
• Marcel Dassault, 94, French aircraft manufacturer.
• Gaston Ducayla, 87, French Olympic wrestler (1924).
• Victor H. Espinoza, 56, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Hermann Friedrich Graebe, 85, German engineer.
• George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington, 91, Scottish hereditary peer.
• Henry Hall, 93, American ski jumper.
• Bessie Head, 48, South African-Botswanan writer, hepatitis.
• Emma Henry, 38–39, Filipino police officer, shot.
• Viktor Kokochashvili, 81, Soviet Georgian chemist.
• Teddy Kotick, 57, American jazz musician, brain cancer.
• Carl Lee, 59, American actor, AIDS.
• Herb Peschel, 72, Canadian CFL football player.
• Dominique Ponchardier, 69, French writer and diplomat.
• Maria Wardasówna, 78, Polish writer and aviator.

18

• Eddie Bauer, 86, American businessman (Eddie Bauer).
• George Durning, 87, American Major League baseball player.
• Atulya Ghosh, 81, Indian politician.
• John Grady, 62–63, Australian author.
• Hugh Hough, 62, American author.
• Antonio Lauro, 68, Venezuelan musician.
• Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, 74, German submarine commander.
• Sir Victor Raikes, 85, British politician, MP (1931–1957).
• Aleksander Rozmus, 85, Polish Olympic ski jumper (1928).
• Tran Minh Tiet, 63, South Vietnamese politician and judge.

19

• Gudrun Stig Aagaard, 91, Danish textile artist.
• Gordon Abbott, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• George Breitman, 70, American political activist, heart attack.
• Aileen Britton, 70, Australian actress.
• James Carne, 80, British soldier.
• Alvin Childress, 78, American actor (Amos 'n' Andy).
• Fred Duncan, 72, Australian politician.
• Arthur T. Gibbons, 83, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1935–1954).
• Adrian Gill, 49, Australian meteorologist and oceanographer, colon cancer.
• Peter Higson, 80, English cricketer.
• Émile Maggi, 78, French Olympic racewalker (1948, 1952).
• William S. Thomas, 84, American Episcopalian prelate.
• Dag Wirén, 80, Swedish composer.
• Estelle Yancey, 90, American blues singer.

20

• Aleksei Arbuzov, 77, Soviet playwright.
• Max Benedict, 66, Austrian-born English film editor.
• Doris Dawson, 81, American actress.
• Jean De Rode, 72, Belgian Olympic rower (1936).
• Eddie Feinberg, 68, American Major League baseball player.
• Jean-Jacques Gautier, 77, French writer.
• Sibte Hassan, 69, Pakistani political activist.
• Bun LaPrairie, 74, American NHL ice hockey player.
• Milton Mayer, 77, American journalist.
• Edward McNair, 72, American Episcopal prelate.
• Marie Nyswander, 67, American psychoanalyst, cancer.
• Alif Piriyev, 64, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier.

21

• Teodoro Casana Robles, 86, Peruvian lawyer, archaeologist and geographer.
• George Collingwood, 82, British general.
• Marjorie Eaton, 85, American actress and painter.
• Nanna Egedius, 72, Norwegian Olympic figure skater (1936).
• Tiny Gooch, 82, American football player and political activist.
• Salah Jahin, 55, Egyptian poet, playwright and political cartoonist.
• Jozef Kalina, 61, Czechoslovak Olympic basketball player (1948).
• Matsunobori Shigeo, 61, Japanese sumo wrestler.

22

• Salvador Agron, 42, American gangster, internal bleeding.
• Mircea Eliade, 79, Romanian-American writer and historian.
• Dame Honor Fell, 85, British cell biologist.
• Cliff Finch, 59, American politician, governor of Mississippi (1976–1980), heart attack.
• Claude Fortier, 64, Canadian physiologist.
• David Funchess, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.
• Go Se-tae, 60–61, South Korean Olympic basketball player (1956).
• Kaino Haapanen, 74, Finnish politician.
• Errol Laughlin, 38, South African cricketer.
• Dick Moores, 76, American cartoonist (Gasoline Alley).
• William P. Murphy, 87, American judge.
• Bogoljub Nedeljković, 65–66, Yugoslav politician.
• Robert Smock, 77, American horticulturist.

23

• Harold Arlen, 81, American composer ("Over the Rainbow", "The Man That Got Away", "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive"), cancer.
• George H. Barker, 84–85, American football player.
• Louis Cardwell, 73, English footballer.
• Manuel Figueroa, 81, Chilean footballer.
• Yuri Gulyayev, 55, Soviet singer, heart failure.
• John W. F. M. Huffer, 90, American fighter pilot.
• Sir Charles Johnston, 74, British diplomat.
• Jim Laker, 64, English cricketer, complications from gallbladder surgery.
• Doxie Moore, 75, American basketball player and NBL coach.
• Otto Preminger, 80, Austrian-American filmmaker (Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura), lung cancer.
• Arnold Rørholt, 77, Norwegian jurist.
• Harald Nicolai Samuelsberg, 74, Norwegian politician.
• Harold E. Wagoner, 81, American architect.
• Alberto Zorrilla, 80, Argentine Olympic swimmer (1924, 1928).

24

• Vic Baltzell, 73, American NFL football player.
• Bert Blake, 78, English footballer.
• Antun Bonifačić, 84, Croatian-American politician and writer.
• Gladys Colton, 76–77, English educationist.
• Max Dennis, 60, American politician, member of the Ohio Senate (1965–1976).
• Bill Edrich, 70, British cricketer.
• Gerardo Guerrieri, 66, Italian filmmaker.
• Norm Hillard, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• Haldur Lasthein, 80, Danish footballer.
• Garnet Mackley, 102, New Zealand politician and railway manager, MP (1943–1949).
• Dimitar Paskov, 71, Bulgarian chemist.
• Wallis Simpson, 89, American-British socialite, widow of Edward VIII, pneumonia.
• Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen, 82, American art patron.

25

• Michael Creswell, 76, British diplomat.
• Tite Figueroa, 59, Puerto Rican baseball player.
• Fred Hunt, 62, English pianist.
• DeWitt Hyde, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1959).
• Urylee Leonardos, 75, American actress and singer.

26

• Ángel Blanco, 47, Mexican professional wrestler, traffic collision.
• Nellie Breen, 89, American dancer and comedian.
• Broderick Crawford, 74, American actor (All the King's Men, Highway Patrol), stroke.
• Hermann Gmeiner, 66, Austrian philanthropist.
• Kemal Gülçelik, 62–63, Turkish footballer.
• Valery Khodemchuk, 35, Soviet Ukrainian engineer, reactor explosion.
• Johnny Kitzmiller, 81, American NFL football player.
• Cliff Leeman, 72, American jazz drummer.
• Bessie Love, 87, American-British actress.
• Séamus McElwain, 26, Irish militant (Provisional Irish Republican Army), shot.
• O. Leslie Stone, 82, American Mormon leader.
• Dechko Uzunov, 87, Bulgarian painter.
• Lou van Burg, 68, Dutch-German television personality and singer.

27

• Frederick Dawson, 68, New Zealand cricketer.
• Tim Greve, 58, Norwegian historian, cancer.
• Ed Halicki, 80, American NFL football player.
• J. Allen Hynek, 75, American ufologist, creator of the close encounter scale, brain cancer.
• Eduard Imhof, 91, Swiss cartographer.
• Marty Karow, 81, American Major League baseball player.
• Åke Kromnow, 71, Swedish historian.
• Verena Loewensberg, 73, Swiss painter.
• Lolita, 36, Italian singer, stabbed.
• Evi Maltagliati, 77, Italian actress.
• William Morrell, 86, New Zealand historian.
• Bayless Rose, 95, American musician.
• Juan Tapia Sánchez, 71, Spanish politician, cancer.

28

• R. H. Bing, 71, American mathematician.
• Geoff Brokenshire, 63, Australian rules footballer.
• Louis H. Burke, 81, American judge.
• Marcel Hellman, 87, Romanian-born British film producer.
• Rabiul Awal Kiran Khan, 45–46, Bangladeshi politician, shot.
• Fred Lutkefedder, 76, American soccer player.
• Evan Mackie, 68, New Zealand flying ace, cancer.
• Dave McClain, 48, American football player and coach, cardiac arrest.
• Vladimír Novák, 82, Czechoslovak Olympic skier (1928).
• Ramu III, appr. 23, American orca, cardiovascular failure.
• Pat Seerey, 63, American Major League baseball player.
• Charles B. Washington, 62, American civil rights activist.

29

• Gilbert Baker, 75, Hong Kong Anglican prelate.
• Sidney Bowman, 78, American Olympic jumper (1928, 1932).
• Henri de France, 74, French television engineer.
• Alejandro González Malavé, 28, Puerto Rican undercover agent, shot.
• Edwin Graves, 88, American Olympic rower (1920).
• Vickie Panos, 66, Canadian baseball player.
• Dick Powell, 81, American NFL football player.
• Raúl Prebisch, 85, Argentine economist.
• Thomas N. Scortia, 59, American author, leukemia.
• Glen Byam Shaw, 81, English actor and theatre director.
• Bernhard Wosien, 77, German choreographer.

30

• Sheila Borrett, 80, British radio presenter, stroke.
• Antoinette Butte, 87, French scouting leader.
• Jørgen Hansen, 54, Danish footballer.
• Bill Higdon, 62, American Major League baseball player.
• Henry Kemp-Blair, 56, South African-American playwright and theatre director, heart attack.
• Odd Solumsmoen, 68, Norwegian novelist.
• Thelma Stefani, 37, Argentine actress and dancer, suicide by jumping.
• Robert Stevenson, 81, British-American filmmaker (Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Love Bug).
• George Whitcombe, 84, Welsh footballer.