Famous People Who Died in 1986 (Part 2)

Deaths 201 - 400 of 430

• Jun 13 Jim Ferrier, Australian golfer (PGA C'ship 1947), dies at 71

• Jun 14 Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), dies at 81
• Jun 15 Keki Tarapore, Indian cricketer (Test for India 1948), killed by motor-scooter at 75
• Jun 16 Maurice Duruflé, French organist (St. Etienne-du-Mond, 1929-75), composer (Requiem, Op. 9), and teacher (Paris Conservatory, 1943-70), dies at 84
• Jun 17 Jozef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 75
• Jun 17 Kate Smith, American singer ("God Bless America"; "When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain"), radio star, and NHL Philadelphia Flyers good luck charm, dies of respiratory arrest at 78
• Jun 18 Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (b. 1921)
• Jun 19 Coluche [Michel Colucci], French comedian (My Best Friend's Girl), dies at 41
• Jun 19 Len Bias, American basketball player (Boston Celtics pick for 1986 draft), dies of a cocaine-induced seizure at 22
• Jun 19 Murray P Haydon, artificial heart recipient, dies in Louisville at 59
• Jun 20 Tim Herbert, American comedian (Dagmar's Canteen), dies at 71
• Jun 21 Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer, with his lyricist brother, Mansour (Biya el-Khawatim - The Ring Seller), dies at 63
• Jun 22 Matti Rautio, Finnish classical composer (The Blue Heron), dies at 64 
• Jun 23 Nigel Stock, British actor (Lost Continent, Young Sherlock Holmes), dies at 66
• Jun 25 Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet, dies at 63
• Jun 26 Laurie Fishlock, cricketer (4 Tests for England), dies
• Jun 27 (Otis W.) "Joe" Maphis, American session and country music guitarist ("Dim Lights"), dies of lung cancer at 75
• Jun 27 Don Rogers, of Cleveland Browns, dies of cocaine poisoning
• Jun 27 Edna Mae Cooper, actress (Folly of Vanity, Grounds for Divorce), dies
• Jun 27 George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player, dies at 81
• Jun 27 Zoltán Gárdonyi, Hungarian composer, dies at 80
• Jun 29 Dusolina Giannini, Italian-American dramatic soprano (New York Metropolitan Opera, 1935-42), and teacher, dies at 83
• Jun 29 Ida Mae McKenzie, American actress, dies at 75
• Jun 29 Jack Christiansen, American NFL football player. 1951-58 (Detroit Lions - 3 x Champion, 5 X Pro Bowl), NFL and college coach (San Francisco 49ers, Stanford University), dies after surgical complications at 57
• Jun 29 John P. East, American politician (Sen-R-NC), dies at 55
• Jun 29 Robert Drivas [Choromokos], American stage and screen actor (Cool Hand Luke; Illustrated Man; Our Private World), and theater director, dies of AIDS complications at 50
• Jul 1 Roy Poole, actor (Winds of War), dies at 62
• Jul 2 Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player, dies at 68

• Jul 4 Flor Peeters, Flemish organist (St. Rumbold's Cathedral - Mechelen, 1923-86), composer (Lied Symphony), and pedagogue, dies on his 83rd birthday
• Jul 4 Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (algebraic geometry), dies at 87
• Jul 6 Jagjivan Ram, Indian independence activist and politician, dies at 78
• Jul 8 Hyman G. Rickover, US Admiral (father of modern nuclear navy, at 63 years the longest serving US naval officer), dies at 86
• Jul 9 Karl-Heinz Beckurts, West german Siemens manager, murdered at 56
• Jul 9 Lê Duẩn, Vietnamese communist politician (General Secretary of Vietnam 1960-86), dies at 78
• Jul 13 Joseph "Coke" Escovedo, Mexican-American percussionist (Santana; Malo; Azteca), dies from cirrhosis at 45
• Jul 14 Raymond Loewy, French-American industrial designer, dies at 92
• Jul 15 Benny Rubin, American actor and comedian (Benny Rubin Show), dies at 87
• Jul 15 Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (Hambletonian x 4; Little Brown Jug x 5; Messenger Stakes x 7), dies from head injuries in fall at Yonkers Raceway at 62
• Jul 15 Florence Halop, American actress (Night Court, 1985-86 -"Florence"; St Elsewhere, 1984-85), dies of lung cancer at 63
• Jul 18 Stanley Rous, British soccer official (6th President FIFA 1961-74), dies at 91
• Jul 19 Alfredo Binda, Italian road cyclist (first to win Giro d'Italia x 5; World Road Race C'ship 1927, 30, 32), dies at 83
• Jul 20 Helen Craig, American actress (Snake Pit, They Live by Night), dies at 74
• Jul 21 Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
• Jul 21 Paulo Correia, Guinea-Bissau colonel and putschist, executed (b. 1942)
• Jul 21 Virginia Hewitt, American actress (Carol-Space Patrol), dies of cancer at 60
• Jul 23 Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, Finnish composer, dies at 73
• Jul 24 Fritz A. Lipman, German-American biochemist (discoverer co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87
• Jul 24 Laurie Nash, Australian cricket fast-bowler (2 Tests, 10 wickets) and VFL player and coach (South Melbourne), dies at 76
• Jul 25 Ted Lyons, American Baseball HOF pitcher (MLB All-Star 1939; AL wins leader 1925, 27; AL ERA leader 1942; no-hitter 1926; Chicago White Sox) and manager (Chicago WS 1926-28), dies at 85
• Jul 25 Vincente Minnelli, American director (Gigi, Goodbye Charlie), dies in LA at 76
• Jul 26 W. Averell Harriman, American politician (Gov-D-NY) and ambassador to USSR (1943-46), dies at 94
• Jul 27 Leroy Holmes, American orchestra leader (The Tonight Show, 1956-57), dies at 72
• Jul 28 Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter and sculptor (Iron Tower), dies at 91
• Jul 28 Cliff Melton, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1942; NL saves leader 1937; NY Giants), dies at 74
• Jul 28 Syd Curnow, South African cricket batsman (7 Tests, HS 47; Transvaal), dies at 78
• Jul 29 Gordon Mills, British songwriter (Tom Jones - "It's Not Unusual"), dies of cancer at 51
• Jul 31 Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (Vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania, 1939-41), who issued thousands of travel visas to imperiled Jews, dies at 88
• Jul 31 Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist and arranger (Billie Holiday; Benny Goodman), dies of stomach cancer at 73 [1]
• Aug 1 Robert Wolfgang Schnell, German writer, dies at 70
• Aug 1 Willem Klein, variety artist, dies at about 73
• Aug 2 Roy Cohn, American lawyer ("grand inquisitor" for US Senator Joseph McCarthy; George Steinbrenner; Aristotle Onassis; Donald Trump; Mafia figures: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York), dies of complications of AIDS at 59
• Aug 2 Roy Marcus Cohn, American lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies of AIDS at 59
• Aug 3 Beryl Markham (née Clutterbuck), British-Kenyan; racehorse trainer, aviator, and memoirist, dies at 83
• Aug 3 Joe Thomas, American jazz tenor saxophonist, vocalist (Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra), bandleader, and undertaker, dies at 77
• Aug 3 Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician (CPN) and editor (The Truth), dies at 87
• Aug 3 Rupert de Smidt, South African cricketer (Western Province 1911-13), dies at 102
• Aug 3 Willem Ruis, Dutch TV host (Willem Ruis Show), dies at 41
• Aug 3 William B. Williams, American DJ (WNEW - Make Believe Ballroom), and TV announcer/second banana (Sammy and Company), dies of acute anemia and respiratory failure at 62
• Aug 6 Emilio Fernandez, Mexican director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), dies at 82
• Aug 6 Manfred Hausmann, writer, dies at 87
• Aug 6 William J Schroeder, (longest-survivor with permanent artificial) heart, dies at 54, after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump)
• Aug 9 Jef Scherens, Belgian track cyclist (World C'ships gold sprint 1932-37, 47), dies at 77
• Aug 10 Don McRae, New Zealand cricket medium pace bowler (1 Test; Canterbury CA) and soccer goalkeeper (1 cap; Nomads United FC), dies at 71

• Aug 13 Caterina Jarboro, African-American opera singer and 1st black female performer to sing on opera stage in US, dies at 88
• Aug 13 Helen Mack, American actress (Son of Kong, Milky Way), dies of cancer at 72
• Aug 15 Richard E. Holz, American composer for brass band (Salvation Army), dies at 74
• Aug 16 Jaime Saenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1921)
• Aug 16 John Hurley, American songwriter ("Son of a Preacher Man"), dies from liver failure and a brain hemorrhage at 45
• Aug 16 Werner Fussan, German composer (Heiteres Aquarium) and educator, dies at 73
• Aug 19 Hermione Baddeley, British actress (Camp Runamuck; Maude), dies at 79
• Aug 19 Lorenzo Tucker 'the Black Valentino', American actor (Black King), dies at 79
• Aug 20 Donn Bennett, TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76
• Aug 20 Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923)
• Aug 20 Thad Jones, American jazz saxophonist, flugelhorn player, arranger, bandleader, and composer (Count Basie; Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra), dies of cancer at 63
• Aug 20 Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71
• Aug 23 Charles Janssens, Belgian actor (Mira, Malpertuis), dies at 80
• Aug 25 Allen Case, actor (Deputy, Legend of Jesse James), dies at 51
• Aug 26 Jennifer Levin, American murder victim, strangled by Robert Chambers in New York City's Central Park aged 18
• Aug 26 Ted Knight [Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka], American actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show - "Ted Baxter"; Too Close for Comfort), dies of colorectal cancer at 62
• Aug 30 Ellis Achong, West Indian cricket spin bowler (6 Tests, 8 wickets; Trinidad; 1st of Chinese descent to play a Test match), dies at 82
• Aug 30 Otto Mortensen, Danish composer and musicologist, dies at 79
• Aug 31 Goffredo Parise, Italian writer (Il padrone), dies at 56
• Aug 31 Henry Moore, English artist and sculptor (known for Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae), dies at 88
• Aug 31 Urho Kekkonen, Finnish politician (8th President of Finland 1956-81), dies at 85
• Sep 1 Murray Hamilton, American character actor (Rich Man Poor Man, Anatomy of a Murder), dies of lung cancer at 63
• Sep 2 Benny Payne, American jazz pianist (Cab Calloway; Billy Daniels Show), dies at 78 or 79 [some sources cite date as January 2]
• Sep 2 Philip Radcliffe, English composer, dies at 81

• Sep 6 Blanche Sweet, American actress (DW Griffith movies), dies at 90
• Sep 7 Ruth Polsky, American record promoter, dies after being run over by a cab at 30
• Sep 7 Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, Russian-Soviet conductor and composer, dies at 83
• Sep 12 Frank Nelson, American comedic radio and screen actor (The Jack Benny Show; I Love Lucy), dies of cancer at 75
• Sep 12 Jacques-Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter, dies at 92
• Sep 15 Virginia Gregg, American radio and screen actress, singer and double bassist, dies of lung cancer at 70
• Sep 17 Patricia "Pat" Phoenix, British actress (Coronation Street, L Shaped Room), dies of lung cancer at 62
• Sep 19 Vivian Duncan, American vaudevillian (Duncan Sisters), actress (Topsy and Eva), dies of complications from Alzheimer's disease at 89
• Sep 21 Pierre Wigny, Belgium politician (Minister of Foreign affairs 1958-61), dies at 81
• Sep 22 Bernie Cummins, American jazz drummer and big band bandleader ("Dark Eyes"), dies at 86
• Sep 23 Paddy Stone, Canadian choreographer (Piccadilly Palace), dies at 62
• Sep 25 Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician and former president of the Canadian Labour Congress (1967-74), dies at 77
• Sep 25 Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist, dies at 77
• Sep 25 Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian Chemist and Nobel Prize winner, dies at 90
• Sep 26 Hugh Franklin, American soap opera actor (b. 1916)
• Sep 27 Cliff Burton, American rock bassist (Metallica), dies in bus crash at 24
• Sep 28 Carmen De Rue, American child actor in silent films, dies at 78
• Sep 28 Robert Helpmann, Australian actor, choreographer and dancer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Don Quixote), dies at 77
• Sep 29 Betty Kean, American actress (Amy Tucker-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69
• Oct 3 Vince DiMaggio, American baseball center fielder (MLB All Star 1943-44; Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 74
• Oct 5 Emanuel Sayles, American jazz banjo player (Preservation Hall Jazz Band), dies at 79
• Oct 5 Hal B. Wallis [Aaron Blum Wolowicz], American movie producer (Casablanca; Maltese Falcon; Martin & Lewis; Elvis movies; Barefoot in the Park), dies at 87
• Oct 5 James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (numerical analysis), dies of a heart attack at 67
• Oct 6 Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
• Oct 7 Cheryl Crawford, American actress and producer (Touch of Venus, Brigadoon), dies at 84
• Oct 8 Walter Burkemo, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1953), dies at 67
• Oct 10 (Ivy) Priaulx Rainier, South African-British composer (Ploërmel), dies at 83
• Oct 10 Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist, dies at 86
• Oct 11 Norm Cash, American baseball 1st baseman (5 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1968; AL batting champion 1961; Detroit Tigers), dies from drowning at 51
• Oct 14 Keenan Wynn, American actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor), dies at 70
• Oct 14 Mary Lund, American women first to receive an artificial heart, dies at 40
• Oct 16 Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian concert violinist, dies of a stroke at 65
• Oct 16 C Wttewaall van Stoetwegen, CHU Member of Dutch parliament, dies at 85
• Oct 19 Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist, editor, and founder of Newswatch magazine, is assassinated by a mail bomb at 39
• Oct 19 Moses Asch, Polish-American recording engineer (founder of Folkways Records), dies at 81 [1]
• Oct 20 Samora Machel, President of Mozambique, dies in air crash at 53
• Oct 21 Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge, dies at 64
• Oct 22 Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian biochemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937), dies at 93
• Oct 22 Ivor Francis, Canadian-American radio, stage, and screen character actor (Dusty's Trail; The Prisoner of Second Avenue), and acting teacher, dies at 67
• Oct 22 Jane Dornacker, American stand-up comic, songwriter, rock vocalist (The Tubes), and ill-fated traffic reporter, dies in a helicopter crash at 39
• Oct 22 Ye Jianying, Chinese communist general and politician (Head of State of the People's Republic of China 1978-83), dies at 89
• Oct 23 Edward A Doisy Sr, American bio-chemist (Vitamin K1, Nobel 1943), dies at 92
• Oct 25 Forrest Tucker, American actor (F Troop, Dusty Trail, The Crawling Eye), dies of lung cancer and emphysema at 67
• Oct 26 Jackson Scholz, American athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 100m 1920, 200m 1924), dies at 89
• Oct 27 Alan Branscombe, British jazz and session pianist, vibraphonist, and saxophonist (Tubby Hayes; Beatles - "Got To Get You Into My Life"), dies at 50
• Oct 28 John Braine, English novelist (Life at the Top), dies at 64
• Oct 28 Marga Klompé, Dutch 1st female minister (CRM), dies at 74
• Oct 29 Abel Meeropol, American songwriter ("Strange Fruit"; "The House I Live In'), and librettist ("The Good Soldier Schweick"), dies at 83
• Oct 29 Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
• Oct 29 Osamu Shimizu, Japanese composer, dies at 74
• Oct 29 Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68
• Oct 30 Andrzej Markowski, Polish composer, dies at 62
• Oct 31 Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist and physicist (Nobel 1966), dies at 90
• Nov 1 Serge Garant, Canadian composer and conductor (Anerca), dies at 57
• Nov 1 Sippie Wallace [Beulah Belle Thomas], American blues singer ("Women Be Wise"), dies on her 88th birthday
• Nov 2 Paul Frees [Solomon Hersh Frees], American voice actor (voice of Boris Badenov in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show), dies at 66
• Nov 3 E. Cuyler Hammond, American epidemiologist (first to link smoking with lung cancer), dies at 74
• Nov 3 Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, American jazz saxophonist (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band), dies of cancer at 65
• Nov 4 Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
• Nov 4 Zlatan Vauda, Slovene composer and conductor (RTB Children's Choir, 1953-86), dies at 86
• Nov 5 (Ulysses) Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Robins; The Coasters - "Charlie Brown"; "Youngblood"), dies of a heart attack at 61
• Nov 5 Claude Jutra, Québécois actor and film director (b. 1930)
• Nov 6 Elisabeth Grümmer, German-Alsatian soprano, dies at 75
• Nov 6 Lili Kraus, Czech-Hungarian-British concert pianist and educator, dies at 81
• Nov 7 Tracy Pew, Australian musician (The Birthday Party) (b. 1957)
• Nov 8 Beatrice Kay, American singer and actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & the Col), dies at 78

• Nov 10 Francis "King" Clancy, Canadian NHL ice hockey defenseman, 1921-36, 3X Stanley Cup (Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs), referee (1938-49), coach, 1953-56 (Toronto), executive, and trophy namesake, dies of septic shock at 84
• Nov 10 Gordon Richards, British jockey (26 x British flat racing Champion Jockey; 4,870 race wins), dies of a heart attack at 82
• Nov 10 Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino film actor and politician, dies of a heart attack at 70
• Nov 11 Roger C. Carmel, American actor (Star Trek - "Harry Mudd"; The Mothers-in-Law - "Roger"), dies at 54
• Nov 13 Rolando Olalia, Philippines worker's union leader, murdered
• Nov 13 Rudolf Schock, German opera tenor, dies at 71
• Nov 13 Thierry Le Luron, French humorist, dies at 34
• Nov 15 Alexandre Tansman, Polish composer (Dyptique), dies at 89
• Nov 15 John E. Grotberg, American politician (Rep-R-IL, 1985-86), dies of cancer in office at 61
• Nov 16 Siobhán McKenna [Cionnaith], Irish stage actress (Saint Joan, The Chalk Garden), dies of lung cancer at 63
• Nov 17 Alan Hewitt, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian), dies at 71
• Nov 17 Georges Besse, French president-director of Renault, murdered
• Nov 18 Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS) (b. 1960)
• Nov 18 Lajos Bárdos, Hungarian conductor, composer, musicologist and professor, dies at 87
• Nov 20 William Bradford Huie, American writer and publisher, dies at 76
• Nov 21 Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b. 1947)
• Nov 21 Jerry Colonna, American actor (Jerry Colonna Show, Alice in Wonderland, Road to Singapore), dies at 82
• Nov 21 Marcelino Sánchez, Puerto Rican actor (The Warriors), dies of AIDS at 28
• Nov 22 (Benjamin) "Scatman" Crothers, American singer, musician ("I'd Rather Be a Hummingbird"), and actor (Chico and the Man - "Louie"; The Shining), dies of lung cancerat 76
• Nov 22 Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player (Australian C'ship 1947), dies at 65
• Nov 22 Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician, dies at 73
• Nov 22 Robert Whitney, American conductor (Louisville Orchestra, 1937-67), educator (University of Louisville, 1956-71), and composer, dies at 82
• Nov 26 Betico Croes, Arubian politician, dies in an accident at 48
• Nov 27 Steve Tracy, actor (Percival-Little House on Praire), dies at 61

• Nov 29 Herb Vigran, American character actor (The Ed Wynn Show - "Ernie"; Gunsmoke - "Judge Brooker"; The Jack Benny Program), dies of cancer at 76
• Dec 1 Bobby Layne, American College and Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback (NFL champion 1952-53, 57; 6 x Pro Bowl; Detroit Lions), dies of cardiac arrest at 59
• Dec 1 Horace Heidt, American orchestra leader (Swift Show Wagon), dies at 85
• Dec 1 [Irving] Lee Dorsey, American pop and R&B singer (Working in the Coal Mine), dies at 61

• Dec 2 John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (b. 1912)

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