Deaths in May 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 1986

1

• Hylda Baker, 81, English actress and comedian, pneumonia.
• John Bartlett, 40, New Zealand botanist.
• Reg Boyle, 83, Australian footballer.
• Dennis Emery, 52, English footballer.
• Heinrich Fraenkel, 88, Polish-British screenwriter and biographer.
• Mirrie Hill, 96, Australian composer.
• Mirko Javornik, 76, Slovenian writer.
• Arthur Lipsett, 49, Canadian filmmaker, suicide.
• Alastair McIntyre, 59, British film editor, complications from a stroke.
• Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, 87, American children's author.
• Hugo Peretti, 69, American songwriter.
• Sir James Ramsay, 69, Australian politician.
• Millicent Silver, 80, English harpsichordist.
• Alfredo Varela Jr., 73, Mexican screenwriter.
• Ed Wells, 85, American baseball player.

2

• Sir Marcus Beeck, 62, Australian farmer and business executive.
• Wallace Bishop, 80, American drummer.
• W. Sheffield Cowles, 87, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1948–1956).
• Sergio Cresto, 30, American racing driver, car explosion.
• William Edward Doyle, 75, American jurist.
• Georgy Gause, 75, Soviet biologist.
• Edwin Sherbon Hills, 79, Australian geologist.
• Wilfrid Kidson, 79, South African cricketer.
• Lotte Brand Philip, 75, German art historian.
• Edward Righton Jr, 73, English cricketer.
• Violet Rucroft, 83, New Zealand conservationist.
• Gertrud Theiler, 88, South African parasitologist.
• Henri Toivonen, 29, Finnish racing driver, car explosion.
• Jan Wojciechowski, 81, Polish footballer.

3

• Robert Alda, 72, American actor.
• Carlton W. Barrett, 66, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Nicolò Nicolosi, 73, Italian footballer.
• Royce S. Pitkin, 84, American academic administrator.
• Wang Li, 85, Chinese linguist.

4

• Kotti Chave, 74, Finnish-born Swedish actor.
• Richard Daniel, 85, German general.
• Jean Gagé, 83, French historian.
• Paul Magnus Gross, 90, American chemist.
• Enzo Liberti, 60, Italian actor, complications from heart surgery.
• Hugh Luby, 72, American baseball player.
• Benjamin Muse, 88, American politician and journalist, member of the Virginia Senate (1936).
• Paul Richards, 77, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Romeo Rivers, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, 89, American journalist.
• James Allen Vann, 46, American historian.

5

• Joe Childress, 52, American football player, cancer.
• Bill Cook, 90, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
• Emygdio de Barros, 90-91, Brazilian painter.
• Käthe Haack, 88, German actress.
• Knud Hvidberg, 58, Danish artist.
• René Joffroy, 70, French archaeologist.
• Sully Kothmann, 53, American Olympic figure skater (1956).
• Billy Mackel, 73, American guitarist.
• Louis Betbeder Matibet, 84, French chess player.
• Satrio, 69, Indonesian military doctor and politician.
• John Austin Victoreen, 83, American physicist.
• George White, 81, Australian politician.
• Julia Wojciechowska, 71, Polish Olympic gymnast (1936).

6

• Fred C. Cole, 74, American librarian, heart failure.
• Albert Ernest Forsythe, 89, American aviator.
• Giuseppe Giaccone, 85, Italian footballer.
• Lorenzo Minio-Paluello, 78, Italian linguist and translator.
• Jack Rickards, 57, Zimbabwean Olympic sports shooter (1964).
• Héctor Ruiz Martínez, 42, Puerto Rican politician.
• Sri Sabaratnam, 33, Sri Lankan militant (Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization), shot.
• Len Schulte, 69, American baseball player.
• Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, 92, Soviet weapon designer (SKS).
• Stefan Sznuk, 89-90, Polish-Canadian aviator.
• Toralf Westermoen, 71, Norwegian boat designer.

7

• Laura Alves, 64, Portuguese actress.
• Ferdinand Bruhin, 77, Swiss footballer.
• Charlie Colombo, 65, American soccer player.
• Florence Dagmar, 90, American actress.
• Gaston Defferre, 75, French politician.
• Cornelia Johanna de Vogel, 81, Dutch classical scholar and theologian.
• Jean-Pierre Hagnauer, 73, French Olympic ice hockey player (1936).
• Peter Haworth, 96-97, British-born Canadian painter.
• André Jubelin, 79, French naval admiral.
• Robert A. Lovett, 90, American politician, secretary of defense (1951–1953).
• Al Mooney, 80, American aircraft designer.
• Jeffrey Mylett, 36, American actor and songwriter, AIDS.
• Juan Nakpil, 86, Filipino architect.
• Jonas Persson, 72, Swedish Olympic cyclist (1936).
• Alfredo Pezzana, 93, Italian Olympic fencer (1936).
• Edward Root, 83, Australian rugby player.
• Selman Selmanagić, 81, Bosnian-German architect.
• Herma Szabo, 84, Austrian Olympic figure skater (1924).
• Haldun Taner, 71, Turkish playwright, heart attack.
• George Weaver, 77, Canadian politician, MP (1949–1957).

8

• Ernle Bradford, 64, British historian.
• Melanija Bugarinović, 80, Yugoslav singer.
• Erwin Chamberlain, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Ivan Corry, 78, Australian footballer.
• Eugenie Gershoy, 85, American artist.
• R. M. Jackson, 82, British jurist.
• Majid Salek Mahmoudi, 33, Iranian serial killer, suicide by hanging.
• Raffaele Nasi, 76, Italian Olympic skier (1936).
• Richard W. Richards, 91, Australian physicist.
• Manny Shinwell, 101, British politician, MP (1922–1924, 1928–1931, 1935–1970).
• Leland Stark, 78, American Anglican prelate.
• Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach, 48, German socialite, oral cancer.

9

• Mikhail Alpatov, 83, Soviet historian and art theorist.
• Nelson Ball, 77, New Zealand rugby player.
• Herschel Bernardi, 62, American actor (Arnie, Peter Gunn, Fiddler on the Roof), heart attack.
• Mirosław Bojanowicz, 79-80, Polish-British philatelist.
• Peter Jackson, 80, English footballer.
• Eana Jeans, 95, New Zealand painter.
• Thomas Liao, 76, Taiwanese politician.
• Colin Lyman, 72, English footballer.
• Tenzing Norgay, 71, Nepalese-Indian mountaineer (1953 British Mount Everest expedition), cerebral hemorrhage.
• Alden Pasche, 75, American basketball coach.

10

• Aleksandr Akimov, 33, Soviet engineer, acute radiation syndrome.
• Al Burruss, 58, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives (since 1964), pancreatic cancer.
• Wilbur Hogg, 69, American Anglican prelate.
• Anna Kamieńska, 66, Polish writer.
• Tagir Kusimov, 77, Soviet general.
• Leopoldo Ruiz, 59, Argentine golfer.
• Gregory Ryan, 73, Australian cricketer.
• Josimo Morais Tavares, 32-33, Brazilian Roman Catholic priest, homicide.
• John Wheatley, 59, American physicist.
• Charles "Hungry" Williams, 51, American drummer, Paget's disease of bone.

11

• Edoardo Anton, 76, Italian filmmaker.
• Jimmy Hines, 82, American golfer.
• Viktor Kibenok, 23, Soviet firefighter, acute radiation syndrome.
• Gerry H. Kisters, 67, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Kilby MacDonald, 72, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Walter K. Martinez, 55, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1966–1984), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Henry Plumer McIlhenny, 75, American art curator and connoisseur.
• Fritz Pollard, 92, American football player and coach.
• Volodymyr Pravyk, 23, Soviet firefighter, acute radiation syndrome.

12

• Helge Akre, 83, Norwegian diplomat.
• Sofía Álvarez Vignoli, 86, Uruguayan jurist, first lady (1976).
• Elisabeth Bergner, 88, Austrian-British actress, cancer.
• Mary deGarmo Bryan, 94, American dietician.
• Harold W. Clark, 94, American creationist.
• Albert Cooper, 75, British politician, MP (1950–1966, 1970–1974).
• Joseph Fadahunsi, 84-85, Nigerian politician.
• Fred Kormis, 91, German sculptor.
• Eleanor Frances Lattimore, 81, American writer.
• William Harrington Leahy, 81, American naval admiral.
• Wanda Jean Mays, 26, American missing persons case, fall.
• Alicia Moreau de Justo, 100, Argentine social activist and politician.
• Ramon Muller, 51, Argentine footballer.
• Bill Nairn, 73, Canadian football player.
• Reuben Harold Tweten, 87, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1947–1956).

13

• Alexander Archdale, 80, British-Australian actor.
• Maria Bellonci, 83, Italian writer.
• George Gaines, 52, American set decorator.
• Vasily Ignatenko, 25, Soviet firefighter, acute radiation syndrome.
• Robert LeFevre, 74, American libertarian autarchist activist.
• Peadar O'Donnell, 93, Irish politician, TD (1923–1927).

14

• Janne Aikala, 10, Finnish murder victim.
• Solomon Blatt Sr., 91, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (since 1932).
• Henry E. Eccles, 87, American naval admiral.
• Pierino Favalli, 72, Italian racing cyclist.
• Fuang Jotiko, 70-71, Thai Buddhist monk.
• William Lindsay, 40, British actor.
• Norma Millay, 91-92, American singer and actress.
• Frank O'Rourke, 92, Canadian-American baseball player.
• Mose Rager, 75, American guitarist.
• Joe Sparma, 44, American baseball player, complications from heart surgery.
• Nelson Stacy, 64, American racing driver.
• C. H. V. Sutherland, 78, English numismatist.
• Leonid Toptunov, 25, Soviet electrical engineer, acute radiation syndrome.
• Tom Turner, 69, American baseball player.
• Steef van Musscher, 84, Dutch Olympic jumper (1928).
• Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis, 84, Dutch botanist.
• Robert Zielinski, 84, American football player.

15

• Constantine John Alexopoulos, 79, American mycologist.
• John F. Bassett, 47, Canadian tennis player and businessman, brain cancer.
• Hel Braun, 71, German mathematician.
• Elio de Angelis, 28, Italian racing driver, smoke inhalation.
• Johnny Gottselig, 80, Russian-born American ice hockey player.
• Rose Lokissim, 30-31, Chadian soldier, shot.
• Mieczysław Palus, 64, Polish ice hockey player.
• Shirley Leon Quimby, 92, American physicist.
• Sir Maxwell Richmond, 85, New Zealand naval admiral.
• Willie Telfer, 77, Scottish footballer.
• Luis Torres Nadal, 42, Puerto Rican playwright and theatre director, homicide.
• Bill Tricklebank, 70, New Zealand cricketer.
• Theodore H. White, 71, American political journalist, stroke.

16

• Anton Banko, 58, Slovenian inventor and engineer.
• Lothar Beutel, 84, German soldier.
• Joe Bootham, 74, New Zealand painter.
• Ronald Robson, 73, South African cricketer.
• Mykola Tytenok, 23, Soviet firefighter, acute radiation syndrome.
• John H. Yancey, 68, American soldier.

17

• John Gibson, 37, American actor, plane crash.
• Freddie Jakeman, 66, English cricketer.
• Masaji Kitano, 91, Japanese general, physician, and war criminal (Unit 731).
• Preben Lundgren Kristensen, 62, Danish Olympic cyclist (1952).
• Roberts Pakalns, 74, Soviet Latvian footballer.
• Lyudmila Pakhomova, 39, Soviet Olympic ice dancer (1976), leukemia.
• Jack Waldman, 33, American musician, lymphoma.

18

• Charles Albertine, 57, American composer.
• Robert Page Arnot, 95, British journalist.
• Gustl Berauer, 73, Czechoslovak skier.
• John W. Bubbles, 84, American tap dancer and actor.
• Yaşar Erkan, 75, Turkish Olympic wrestler (1936).
• Gianni Gambi, 78, Italian Olympic swimmer (1928).
• Giuseppe Lazzati, 76, Italian Roman Catholic priest and politician.
• Louis L. Madsen, 78, American academic administrator.
• John Guthrie Paterson, 84, Australian politician.
• James Phemister, 93, Scottish geologist.
• Kanuri Lakshmana Rao, 83, Indian politician, MP (1962–1977).
• Peter Wehle, 72, Austrian actor.
• Spades Wood, 77, American baseball player.
• Zé Luiz, 56, Brazilian basketball player.

19

• Howard Benge, 72, New Zealand rower.
• George Boyes, 75, South African cricketer.
• Joe Greenwald, 97, American Olympic equestrian (1920).
• Jimmy Lyons, 54, American saxophonist, lung cancer.
• Sarath Muttetuwegama, 68, Sri Lankan politician.
• Bernard Naylor, 78, English-Canadian composer.
• Tibor Nyilas, 71, Hungarian-born American Olympic fencer (1948).
• Knut Rød, 85, Norwegian police officer and Nazi collaborator.
• Len Stansbridge, 67, English footballer.
• Leonard Trent, 71, New Zealand aviator.
• Behçet Uz, 92-93, Turkish politician.
• Titus Vibe-Müller, 73, Norwegian film director.

20

• Helen Belyea, 73, Canadian geologist.
• Clyde Bernhardt, 80, American trombonist.
• Karol Olgierd Borchardt, 81, Polish naval captain and writer.
• Danielle Chenard, 28, Canadian Olympic handball player (1976).
• Evo Anton DeConcini, 85, American jurist.
• Gordon Hickman Garland, 88, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1937–1943).
• Frank McMahon, 83, Canadian oil executive.
• Fritz Moegle, 69, Austrian art director.
• Melvin R. Novick, 53, American statistician.
• James O'Keeffe, 73-74, Irish politician, TD (1961–1965).
• Dudley Spurling, 72, Bermudian politician and Olympic swimmer (1936).
• Helen B. Taussig, 87, American cardiologist, traffic collision.
• Pim van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout, 93, Dutch politician and diplomat.
• Robert Wood, 61, American television executive.

21

• Kenny Carter, 25, British motorcycle racer, suicide by gunshot.
• Ralph Evinrude, 78, American businessman.
• Yetta Dorothea Geffen, 94, American musician and journalist.
• Juozas Grušas, 84, Soviet Lithuanian writer.
• Viggo Jørgensen, 86, Danish footballer.
• Mary Kawena Pukui, 91, American writer.

22

• Umar al-Tilmisani, 81, Egyptian Islamist (Muslim Brotherhood).
• James "Lugs" Branigan, 76, Irish boxer.
• George Chapman, 82, Australian cricketer.
• Renaat Demoen, 71, Belgian cartoonist.
• George Forrest, 81, Scottish-Canadian footballer.
• Martin Gabel, 74, American actor and filmmaker, heart attack.
• Desmond Gillespie, 74, Northern Irish politician.
• James Gentle, 81, American soccer player.
• Lol Hamlett, 69, English footballer.
• Lon Hatherell, 55, Australian rugby player.
• Hisatora Kumagai, 82, Japanese filmmaker.
• Gordon Nell, 78, American baseball player.
• Georgie Nokes, 49, American actor.
• Avery Rockefeller, 82, American investment banker and conservationist, heart attack.
• Yechezkel Taub, 90, Polish-Israeli rabbi.
• Lady Gwen Thompson, 57, American writer.
• Harvey Uhlenhopp, 70, American jurist.
• Archie Van Winkle, 61, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Charles F. Voegelin, 80, American linguist.

23

• Gerald Covey, 58, Canadian Olympic canoer (1948).
• Henri de La Bastide, 69, French writer.
• William J. Garsoe, 68, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives (1973–1980).
• Emma Genevieve Gillette, 88, American conservationist.
• Edward Hart, 74-75, Scottish physician.
• Sterling Hayden, 70, American actor (Dr. Strangelove, The Killing, The Asphalt Jungle), prostate cancer.
• Lloyd Hulbert, 67, American botanist.
• William Johnston, 71, British Anglican prelate.
• Henry Arnold Karo, 82, American naval admiral.
• Hugh McMullen, 84, American baseball player.
• Archie Sam, 71, American Natchez leader.
• August Schaffer, 80, Austrian Olympic cyclist (1928).
• Altiero Spinelli, 78, Italian politician, MEP (since 1979).
• George Thompson, 79, Australian footballer.
• Movlid Visaitov, 72, Soviet soldier.
• Elena Žalinkevičaitė-Petrauskienė, 85, Soviet Lithuanian actress.

24

• Gunnar Björnstrand, 76, Swedish actor.
• Yakima Canutt, 90, American actor and stuntman, cardiac arrest.
• Mick Cossey, 51, New Zealand rugby player.
• Margit Dajka, 78, Hungarian actress.
• Tommy Dea, 77, Australian footballer.
• Rich Ferguson, 54, Canadian runner.
• Erich Gerberding, 64, German actor.
• Eduardo González-Gallarza, 88, Spanish general and politician.
• George Gordon, 79, American animator.
• Chris Graham, 86, Canadian Olympic boxer (1920).
• Robert Holmes, 60, British scriptwriter.
• Sam B. Holt, 83, American sports coach.
• Fazlul Karim, 80, Bangladeshi politician and lawyer.
• Władysław Masłowski, 52, Polish journalist.
• Gord Pettinger, 74, British-born Canadian ice hockey player.
• Henry Power, 81, Australian footballer.
• Arthur Rubloff, 83, American real estate developer.
• John Santall, 78, English cricketer.
• Stephen D. Thorne, 33, American aviator, plane crash.
• Eva Waldemarsson, 82, Swedish writer.

25

• Nisson Alpert, 58, Polish-born American rabbi.
• Carlo Betocchi, 87, Italian poet.
• Chester B. Bowles, 85, American politician and diplomat, governor of Connecticut (1949–1951), member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–1961), Parkinson's disease.
• Árpád Lajtos, 75, Hungarian soldier.
• Rolf Lauer, 54, German Olympic gymnast (1952).
• Owen Hood Phillips, 78, British jurist.
• Shrikant Verma, 54, Indian politician and poet.
• John Verney, 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke, 90, British hereditary peer.

26

• Vitaly Abalakov, 80, Soviet inventor and mountaineer.
• Peggy Ann Clifford, 65, English actress.
• Gian-Carlo Coppola, 22, American film producer and actor, boating accident.
• Glynn R. Donaho, 81, American naval admiral, pneumonia.
• Godfrey Higgs, 78, Bahamian Olympic sailor (1952).
• James J. Y. Liu, 59-60, Chinese-American literary scholar.

27

• Bernard Ades, 82, American attorney and civil rights activist.
• Ismail al-Faruqi, 65, Palestinian-American philosopher, stabbed.
• Lois Lamya al-Faruqi, 59, American art scholar, stabbed.
• Chris Anderson, 60, Scottish footballer, motor neurone disease.
• Tsendiin Damdinsüren, 77, Mongolian writer and linguist.
• Henry Dreyer, 75, American Olympic hammer thrower (1936, 1948).
• Harry Easton Godwin, 78, American musical scholar.
• Jaakko Kunnas, 82, Finnish Olympic gymnast (1928).
• Ajoy Mukherjee, 85, Indian politician.
• Jaideva Singh, 92, Indian musicologist.
• Johnny Sisk, 79, American football player.
• Limmie Snell, 37, American singer, renal failure.
• Giorgos Tzifos, 67-68, Greek actor.
• Charles Bierer Wrightsman, 90, American oil executive.

28

• Marguerite Courtot, 88, American actress.
• Taylor Douthit, 85, American baseball player.
• Bill Findlay, 72, Australian footballer.
• Paul Florence, 86, American baseball player.
• Gunnar Hägg, 82, Swedish chemist.
• Lea Ivanova, 62, Bulgarian jazz singer.
• Don MacLaughlin, 79, American actor.
• Borislav Milić, 60, Yugoslav chess player.
• Archibald Hugh Mitchell, 82, Canadian politician, MP (1935–1940).
• Lurene Tuttle, 78, American actress, cancer.

29

• Alena Aladava, 79, Soviet Belarusian art historian and curator.
• Nicole Algan, 61, French sculptor.
• Onelio Jorge Cardoso, 72, Cuban filmmaker.
• José Luis Carreño, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic priest.
• Mary Davidson, 83-84, Irish politician.
• Inge Landgut, 63, German actress.
• Thomas C. Lynch, 82, American lawyer.
• Adriaan A. van der Willigen, 76, Dutch philatelist.

30

• Richard Armstrong, 82, English writer.
• José de Caralt, 79, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (1928).
• Perry Ellis, 46, American fashion designer, AIDS.
• Boy Gobert, 60, German actor.
• Donald S. Klopfer, 84, American publisher (Random House).
• Gulshan Mehra, 49, Indian cricketer.
• Hank Mobley, 55, American saxophonist, pneumonia.
• Teiichiro Morinaga, 75, Japanese banker and businessman.

31

• Sylvia Coleridge, 76, British actress.
• Roger W. Cutler Jr., 70, American Olympic rower (1936).
• Jane Frank, 67, American artist.
• Great Nephew, 22-23, British Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Florence Elsie Inman, 94, Canadian politician, complications from a heart attack.
• T. R. Mahalingam, 59, Indian flautist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Dixie McArthur, 94, American baseball player.
• Ron Neville, 56, Australian-born Papua New Guinean politician, traffic collision.
• James Rainwater, 68, American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1975).
• Albert Reed Jr., 64, American actor.
• Dora Russell, 92, British author and feminist.
• Patrick Shea, 78, Northern Irish civil servant.
• Hugh Webster, 58, Scottish-born Canadian actor.
• Michel Wyder, 36, Swiss racing driver, racing collision.