The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
Carlo Confalonieri , 93, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Dean of the College of Cardinals .[ 1]
Paul Detlefsen , 86, Danish-born American commercial artist (The Adventures of Mark Twain ).
Marion Grant , 68, American historian and writer, sister of Katharine Hepburn , heart attack.[ 2]
Ignatius Joseph Kasimo Hendrowahyono , 86, Indonesian politician, Minister of Trade and Agriculture .[ 3]
James Horan , 75, Irish Roman Catholic priest.[ 4]
Lena Kennedy , 72, English author.[ 5]
Willem Klein , 73, Dutch mental calculator , murdered.[ 6]
Syd Negus , 74, Australian politician, senator for Western Australia.[ 7]
Ken Roskie , 65, American NFL player.
Robert Wolfgang Schnell , 70, German writer.
José María Vidal , 51, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid , Spain ), heart attack.[ 8]
Aligholi Ardalan , 86, Iranian diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs .
Sunil Banerjee , 66, Indian cricket umpire.
Roy Cohn , 59, American lawyer and prosecutor, Joseph McCarthy 's chief counsel, prosecuted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg , AIDS.[ 9]
Renato Leduc , 88, Mexican poet and journalist.
Shakti Prasad , 58, Indian Kannada actor (Immadi Pulikeshi , Antha ).
George Agnost , 63, American attorney, cardiac arrest.[ 10]
Paul de Groot , 87, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives , leader of the Communist Party .[ 11]
Otmar Emminger , 75, German economist, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank , heart attack.[ 12]
Brian Flynn , 57, Australian cricketer.
Stefania Górska , 79, Polish actress.
Thad Hutcheson , 70, American attorney.[ 13]
George Kuznets , 77, American economist (agricultural economics ).[ 14]
Beryl Markham , 83, British-born Kenyan aviator, first to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic from Britain to North America (West with the Night ).[ 15]
Carl Mork , 79, South African-born Australian rugby league footballer.
Y. Eswara Reddy , 70–71, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha , leader of the Communist Party of India .
Florence Reece , 86, American social activist and songwriter ("Which Side Are You On? "), heart attack.[ 16]
František Šembera , 81, Czechoslovak Olympic equestrian (1960 ).
Rupert de Smidt , 102, South African cricketer.
Hudson Tannis , 58, Vicentian politician, deputy prime minister of Saint Vicent and the Grenadines (1980-1984), plane crash .[ 17]
Joe Thomas , 77, American jazz saxophonist.[ 18]
William B. Williams , 62, American disc jockey (WNEW , Make Believe Ballroom ), coined "Chairman of the Board" for Frank Sinatra , respiratory failure.[ 19]
Bennie J. George , 67, American coach (Delaware State University ).
Harry Giles , 74, Australian rules footballer.
Charles Haworth , 79, American Olympic long-distance runner (1928 ).
Hyllus Maris , 52, Australian Aboriginal rights activist (Women of the Sun ), cancer.[ 20]
Bob Roggy , 29, American javelin thrower, fall.[ 21]
Roger Rouge , 72, Swiss Olympic sailor (1964 ).
Willem Ruis , 41, Dutch game show presenter, cardiac arrest.
Thomas J. Valentino , 79, Italian-born American businessman, compiled libraries of sound effects.[ 22]
John Alexander , 90, American football player.
Ferenc Cziráki , 72, Hungarian Olympic handball player. (1936 ).
Banesh Hoffmann , 79, British-born American physicist and mathematician (Einstein–Infeld–Hoffmann equations ).[ 23]
Lester Lautenschlaeger , 82, American football player (Tulane ) and politician.
Emanuel Löffler , 84, Czechoslovakian Olympic gymnast (1928 ).
Katharine Krom Merritt , 100, American physician specializing in pediatrics (Kasabach–Merritt syndrome ).[ 24]
Luciana Peverelli , 84, Italian writer and journalist.
Himzo Polovina , 59, Yugoslavian singer and songwriter, heart attack.[ 25]
George Poyser , 71, Australian politician, member of the Australian Senate (1966-1975).
Karl Streibel , 82, German concentration camp commander (Trawniki concentration camp ),
Alessandro Catalani , 81, Italian cyclist.
Maria Dunin , 87, Polish painter.
Emilio Fernández , 82, Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter (María Candelaria ), heart attack.[ 26]
Harry H. Johnson , 91, American army general.
Philomé Obin , 94, Haitian painter.[ 27]
Clara Tabody , 71, Hungarian actress, dancer, and singer.
Jorge Vieira , 87, Portuguese Olympic footballer (1928 ).
Kim Williams , 62, American writer, naturalist and commentator on National Public Radio (All Things Considered ), cancer.[ 28]
Beppe Wolgers , 57, Swedish lyricist and author, peptic ulcer.
Lou Zontini , 68, American NFL player.
Anne Bahlke , 83, American physician.
Leonard Arthur Hawes , British army officer.
Ladislav Hojer , 28, Czechoslovakian serial killer, executed.[ 29]
Alfred Jones , 86, English cricketer.
William J. Schroeder , 54, American soldier and artificial heart recipient, lung infection.[ 30]
Julie Tullis , 47, British climber and filmmaker, died during descent of K2 .[ 31]
Paul G. Chandler , 96, American coach, educator, and college president (Kent State University ).
Yehoshua Cohen , 64, Israeli Zionist militant (Lehi ), assassinated two U.N. envoys, heart attack.[ 32]
Giovanni Garaventa , 86, Italian Olympic middle-distance runner (1924 ).
Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer , 93, American architect and women's rights activist.[ 33]
Lowell A. Nelson , 68, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1957-1958).
Harold Ave , 86, American basketball and football coach.
Angelo Congear , 101, Australian rules footballer.
Clarence Maddern , 64, American Major League Baseball player.
Eoin McNamee , 71–72, Irish Republican, Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army , cancer.[ 34]
Salvador Nocetti , 73, Argentine-born Chilean footballer and manager.
Gustav Adolf Nosske , 83, German lawyer and convicted war criminal.
Jef Scherens , 77, Belgian track cyclist, multiple world champion.
Ignaz Sigl , 84, Austrian footballer.
Ruth Teitelbaum , 62, American mathematician and computer programmer, original ENIAC programmer.
Arthur Capell , 84, Australian linguist (Australian and Austronesian languages).[ 35]
Paraskeva Clark , 87, Russian-born Canadian painter, stroke.[ 36]
Suzanne Delvé , 93, French actress.
Vratislav Effenberger , 63, Czechoslovakian writer.[ 37]
Lyle Engel , 71, American magazine publisher and book producer.[ 38]
Jacqueline Gadsden , 86, American silent-screen actress (It ).[ 39]
K. C. George , 83, Indian politician, member of Rajya Sabha , Minister for Food and Forests.[ 40]
Luther Carrington Goodrich , 91, American sinologist and author.[ 41]
Tom Greenwade , 81, American Major League baseball scout, heart failure.[ 42]
Holger Guldager , 81, Danish Olympic cyclist (1924 ).
John H. Hamilton Jr. , 67, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1965-1978).
Guy H. Jones , 75, American politician and lawyer.
Palapatti Sadaya Goundar Kailasam , 70, Indian jurist, judge of the Supreme Court of India .
Don McRae , 71, New Zealand cricketer and footballer.
Alan Rouse , 34, British mountaineer, died on descent from K2 .[ 43]
Jon Snersrud , 83, Norwegian Olympic skier (1928 ).
Arun Shridhar Vaidya , 60, Indian army general, assassinated.[ 44]
Karl Duldig , 83, Polish-born Australian sculptor.[ 45]
Bud Edwards , 78, American football player.
Tom Gorman , 67, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants ) and umpire, heart attack.[ 46]
Peter Mahon , 62, New Zealand High Court judge, heart failure.[ 47]
Chuck McKinley , 45, American tennis player, multiple U.S. Open winner, brain tumour.[ 48]
Hans-Joachim Riecke , 87, Nazi German politician.[ 49]
Heinz Strehl , 48, West German footballer (FC Nürnberg , West Germany ), heart failure.[ 50]
Howard Finn , 68, American city planner and architect, heart attack.[ 51]
Benjamin Frank , 66-67, Indian cricketer.
Howard Jarvis , 82, American politician, businessman and lobbyist, blood disease.[ 52]
Leroy Lins , 73, American basketball player.
Paola Mori , 57, Italian actress, wife of Orson Welles , traffic collision.[ 53]
Léonard Mulamba , 57–58, Zairian politician and diplomat, prime minister of Congo-Léopoldville , ambassador to three countries.
Evaline Ness , 75, American children's author (Sam, Bangs & Moonshine ), heart attack.[ 54]
Louis Peglion , 80, French road bicycle racer.
Hans Pesser , 74, Austrian footballer (Rapid Wien , Austria ).
Felix Salzer , 82, Austrian-American musicologist.[ 55]
Jean Bailhache , 75, French writer and translator.
Way Bandy , 45, American makeup artist, AIDS.[ 56]
Pius Anthony Benincasa , 73, American auxiliary bishop.
Joe Bolton , 75, American television and radio personality (WPIX – The Dick Tracy Show ), heart attack.[ 57]
Pepper Constable , 72, American football player and doctor, drowned.[ 58]
Anna Dodas i Noguer , 23, Spanish Catalan poet, murdered.
Víctor García Garzena , 72, Chilean lawyer and politician, member of the Senate of Chile (1969-1973).
Caterina Jarboro , 88, American opera singer.[ 59]
Avraham Katz , 54-55, Israeli politician.
Janko Lavrin , 99, Slovenian-born British novelist and historian.[ 60]
Helen Mack , 72, American actress (While Paris Sleeps , Son of Kong ), cancer.[ 61]
Mãe Menininha do Gantois , 92, Brazilian spiritual leader, head of the Ilê Axé Iyá Omin Iyamassê temple.[ 62]
Kapur Singh , 77, Indian Sikh politician, member of the Lok Sabha .
Jomí García Ascot , 59, Tunisian-born Mexican poet and film director.
Charlie Greenhill , 84, Australian rules footballer.
Michael Lawrence Haider , 81, American petroleum engineer, founder of the National Academy of Engineering and chairman of Exxon Coorporation .[ 63]
Henry Kristian Larsen , 72, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1936 ).
Stjepan Ljubić , 80, Yugoslavian Olympic cyclist (1928 ).
Alexander Barras , 72, Australian cricketer.
Billy Libbis , 83, Australian rules footballer.
Winthrop Sargeant , 82, American violinist and music critic (The New Yorker ).[ 64]
John Trevelyan , 83, English secretary of the Board of the British Board of Film Censors .[ 65]
Harald Wiberg , 78, Swedish writer and illustrator.
Ronnie Aird , 84, British army officer and cricketer.
Patrick Beesly , 73, British intelligence officer and author.
Reginald Fenderson , 74, American actor.
Sonia Rosemary Keppel , 86, British author and socialite, grandmother of Queen Camilla .
John Maude , 85, British judge and politician, member of the House of Commons .[ 66]
William T. Pheiffer , 88, American politician and diplomat, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, ambassador to the Dominican Republic.[ 67]
Ryan Price , 74, British racehorse trainer.
Jaime Sáenz , 64, Bolivian poet, novelist and journalist.
Esther Shemitz , 86, American painter (Hiss case ).[ 68]
Nikolaos Syllas , 71, Greek Olympic discus thrower (1936 , 1948 , 1952 ).
M. G. Chakrapani , 75, Indian actor and film producer (Mahamaya , Thaai Magalukku Kattiya Thaali ).[ 69]
Shipwreck Kelly , 76, American NFL footballer (Brooklyn Dodgers ), stroke.[ 70]
Walt Lanfranconi , 69, American Major League Baseball player.
Charles Loewen , 85, Canadian-born British army general.[ 71]
Luis Pasarín , 84, Spanish footballer and manager.
Sammy Vick , 91, American Major League baseballer (New York Yankees ).[ 72]
Hermione Baddeley , 79, English actress (Room at the Top , The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore , The Aristocats ), stroke.[ 75]
Wilfred Beaver , 89, British and American flying ace.[ 76]
Hugo Brouwer , 73, Dutch artist.
Jaap Burger , 81, Dutch politician, member of the European Parliament .[ 77]
Hugh De Lacy , 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945-1947), cancer.[ 78]
John Donnelly , Canadian Olympic coxswain (1928 ).
Zia Fatehabadi , 73, Indian poet.
Gérard Gasiorowski , 56, French photographer and painter, heart attack.[ 79]
Raphael Glorieux , 57, Belgian Olympic cyclist (1948 ).
Georg Løkkeberg , 76, Norwegian actor and director.
Lorenzo Tucker , 79, American actor, lung cancer.[ 80]
Milton Acorn , 63, Canadian poet and playwright, heart attack.[ 81]
Barbara Bartay , 65, Czechoslovakian-born American actress, colorectal cancer.
Walter Brooke , 71, American actor (The Graduate ), emphysema.[ 82]
Joy Bright Hancock , 88, American naval officer.[ 83]
Edward Howell , 84, British-Australian actor and producer (A Country Practice ).[ 84]
Thad Jones , 63, American jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader, cancer.[ 85]
Vichna Kaplan , 72–73, Russian-born American academic administrator.[ 86]
Gauriprasanna Mazumder , 60, Indian lyricist (Palatak ).
Zygmunt Menkes , 90, Polish painter.
George Rainbird , 81, British publisher.
Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish , 85, Bangladeshi politician, president of Awami League .[ 87]
Austin Warren , 87, American literary critic and professor of English.[ 88]
Bata , 78, Spanish footballer (Athletic Bilbao , Spain ).[ 89]
Armando Bréa , 87, Brazilian Olympic middle-distance runner (1932 ).
William C. Chase , 91, American World War II general.[ 90]
Chaim Levanon , 87, Polish-born Israeli politician, mayor of Tel Aviv.
Felix Mitchell , 31, American drug lord, murdered.[ 91]
Alexandre O'Neill , 61, Portuguese writer.
Roscoe Charles Wilson , 81, American air force general, commandant of the USAF Air War College .[ 92]
Vali Akhundov , 70, Azerbaijani politician, first secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party .
Lamb Barbee , 70, American Negro League baseball player.
Celâl Bayar , 103, Turkish politician, prime minister and president.[ 93]
Jacques Bonnet , 47, French Olympic field hockey player (1960 ).
Ed Carrington , 41, American football player (Houston Oilers ), rock climbing accident.
Bruce Cowling , 66, American actor.[ 94]
Charlie Eckert , 89, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Athletics ).[ 95]
Dots Johnson , 73, American actor (Paisan , The Joe Louis Story ).[ 96]
Walter T. Kelley , 88–89, American beekeeper.
Sobha Singh , 84, Indian painter.[ 97]
William Craig Smith , 67, American art director.
F. Palmer Weber , 72, American businessman and activist.[ 98]
Lloyd Budd , 72, English cricketer.
Bill Callihan , 70, American National Football League player (Detroit Lions ).
Florencio Castelló , 80-81, Spanish-born Mexican actor.
Eric Cook , 77, Canadian politician.
Rosita Díaz Gimeno , 77, Spanish actress.
Ben C. Duniway , 78, American judge, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1961-1986).[ 99]
José Estrada , 48, Mexican director and screenwriter (Mexican, You Can Do It ).
Bill Evans , 87, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
Adrienne Fazan , 80, American film editor (An American in Paris , Gigi ).
Donald Fortier , 39, American intelligence agent (National Security Council ), cancer.[ 100]
Herman H. Hanneken , 93, American Marine Corps general, Medal of Honor recipient.[ 101]
Charles Janssens , 80, Belgian actor.
Mikhail Kuznetsov , 68, Soviet actor (Ivan the Terrible ).
Warren P. Mason , 85, American electrical engineer, physicist and author.[ 102]
Sid Meehl , 72, Australian rules footballer.
Eduardo Quisumbing , 90, Filipino botanist.[ 103]
Germaine Acremant , 97, French novelist and playwright.
Harry Benjamin , 101, German-American sexologist and endocrinologist (transgender studies).[ 104]
John P. Caufield , 67, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate , fire director for the Newark Fire Department .[ 105]
George Diehl , 68, American Major League Baseball player (Boston Braves ).
George Palmer , 83, Australian cricketer.
Joe Tarto , 84, American jazz tubist and bassist.
Ronald Bates , 54, American ballet lighting designer, heart attack.[ 106]
Allen Case , 51, American actor (The Deputy ), heart attack.[ 107]
Bernie Elsey , 79–80, Australian entrepreneur and property developer, cancer.[ 108]
Amos Kent , 84, American college football player (Sewanee ).
M. Stanley Livingston , 81, American physicist, co-inventor of the cyclotron , associate director of the National Accelerator Laboratory , prostate cancer.[ 109]
Syed Hasan Mahmood , 63, Pakistani politician and cricket administrator, Chief Minister of Bahawalpur State.[ 110]
Mary Moody Northen , 94, American financier and philanthropist, chairman of the board for American National Insurance Company and Moody National Bank .[ 111]
David Rabinovitz , 78, American jurist.
Fernando Vaz , 68, Portuguese footballer and manager (Casa Pia ).[ 112]
Raymond Abellio , 78, French writer.
Baldric , 25, American-born French Thoroughbred racehorse.
Clarence Berryman , 80, American Olympic wrestler (1928 ).
Elsie M. Burrows , 72, English botanist.
Marion Fyfe , 88, New Zealand zoologist.
Hu Harries , 64, Canadian politician.
Thomas Harpur , 70, New Zealand cricketer.
Marvin Hatley , 81, American film composer (Hal Roach Studio ).[ 113]
Walther Hess , 86, German cricketer.
Ted Knight , 62, American actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show , Caddyshack , Too Close for Comfort ), colon cancer.[ 114]
Sándor von Korompay , 74, Hungarian Olympic rower (1936 ).
Kent T. Lundgren , 72, American politician.
Allan Parkhill , 74, New Zealand rugby player.
Mutsuo Sugiura , 68, Japanese engineer.
Rosa Torras , 91, Spanish Olympic tennis player (1924 ).
Harleigh Trecker , 75, American social work academic and administrator.
Snehansu Kanta Acharya , 72, Indian politician.
Georgy Agzamov , 31, Soviet chess player, fall.
Daniel Fignolé , 72, Haitian politician, provisional president (1957).[ 115]
Bernard Fonlon , 61, Cameroonian politician and educator.
Edward Ford , 84, Australian physician.
Eddie Hinson , 73, Australian rugby league player.
Joyce Mansour , 58, Egyptian-French poet, cancer.
Dragutin Mitić , 68, Yugoslav-American tennis player.
George Nēpia , 81, New Zealand rugby union and rugby league player.
Alfred Pilkington , 85, English cricketer.
Harry Romm , 89, American producer and agent.
Paul Sciacca , 77, American mobster (Bonanno crime family ).
Olga Šilhánová , 65, Czech Olympic gymnast (1948 ).
Robbie Wijting , 61, Dutch general.
Giorgi Chitaia , 95, Soviet Georgian ethnographer .
Arthur Cunliffe , 77, English footballer.
Alexander Dolgun , 59, American writer and Gulag survivor, kidney failure.[ 116]
Russell Lee , 83, American photographer.[ 117]
Don Simmons , 68, Australian politician.
Elvi Sinervo , 74, Finnish writer.
Cyril Trailor , 67, Welsh footballer.
Philippe Valois , 79, Canadian politician.
Ellis Achong , 82, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer.
Giles Baring , 76, English cricketer.
Alfred Fagon , 49, British playwright, heart attack.
L. Raymond Fennell , 92, Canadian politician.
Roy King , 82, American painter and sculptor.
Vladimir Kuznetsov , 55, Soviet Olympic javelin thrower (1952 , 1956 , 1964 ).
Lu Shijia , 75, Chinese physicist and aerospace engineer.
Sax Mallard , 70, American jazz musician, cancer.
Harold Matthews , 83, Australian rules footballer.
Col Mitchell , 72, Australian rules footballer.
Alex Munro , 74, Scottish footballer.
Ronald Taylor , 77, English cricketer.
Stuart Young , 52, English business executive.
Margaret Wood Bancroft , 93, American naturalist.
Forrest E. Everhart , 64, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
Thomas Kilbride , 75, Irish politician.
Walter Kutschmann , 72, German-Argentine Einsatzkommando and war criminal, heart attack.[ 118]
Edward P. Larkin , 71, American politician.
Aldo Longinotti , 76, Italian Olympic boxer (1932 ).
Otto Mortensen , 79, Danish composer.
George Pelawa , 18, American ice hockey player, traffic collision.
Dame Annabelle Rankin , 78, Australian politician.
John Tuggle , 25, American NFL football player (New York Giants ), cancer.[ 119]
Bernice T. Van der Vries , 96, American politician.
Gordon Webber , 73, American writer.
Carl Alberg , 85, Swedish boat designer.
Jorge Alessandri , 90, Chilean politician, president (1958–1964).[ 120]
Edward Buehrig , 75, American political scientist.
Elizabeth Coatsworth , 93, American author (The Cat Who Went to Heaven ).[ 121]
Henry Moore , 88, English sculptor.[ 122]
Urho Kekkonen , 85, Finnish politician, president (1956–1982) and prime minister (1950–1953, 1954–1956).[ 123]
Goffredo Parise , 56, Italian writer and journalist.
Čestmír Řanda , 62, Czech actor.
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^ Edward Welsford (Teddy) Howell (1902–1986) . Australian Dictionary of Biography . Retrieved 19 Oct 2024.
^ Thad Jones dies in Denmark; Trumpeter and Band Leader . New York Times . Retrieved 19 Oct 2024.
^ Vichna (Eisen) Kaplan . University of Toronto . Retrieved 19 Oct 2024.
^ The Salanga Massacre of 1922: Bangladesh's forgotten bloodbath . The Daily Star . Retrieved 19 Oct 2024.
^ Austin Warren . New York Times . Retrieved 19 Oct 2024.
^ Bata Agustín Sauto Arana (Player) . National Football Teams . Retrieved 21 Oct 2024.
^ Gen. William Chase, Liberator of Bataan, Dies . L.A. Times . Retrieved 21 Oct 2024.
^ Drug Boss Stabbed to Death in Prison . L.A. Times . Retrieved 21 Oct 2024.
^ Roscoe Charles Wilson . Atomic Heritage Foundation . Retrieved 21 Oct 2024.
^ Helped End Sultans’ Reign : Ex-Turkey Leader Celal Bayar Dies . L.A. Times . Retrieved 23 Oct 2024. (subscription required)
^ Clyde Bruce Cowling 22.8.86 . Retrieved 23 Oct 2024.
^ Charlie Eckert obit . Philadelphia Inquirer . Retrieved 23 Oct 2024.
^ Dots Johnson, actor, credited and uncredited in several films . New York Amsterdam News . Retrieved 23 Oct 2024.
^ Self-taught philosopher-painter Sobha Singh passes away . India Today . Retrieved 23 Oct 2024.
^ F. Palmer Weber, 72, is dead . New York Times . Retrieved 23 Oct 2024.
^ "Obituary" . New York Times . August 29, 1986.
^ Donald R. Fortier, Reagan Aide, Dies of Cancer at 39 . L.A. Times . Retrieved 23 Oct 2024. (subscription required)
^ Herman Henry Hanneken . Congressional Medal of Honor Society . Retrieved 23 Oct 2024.
^ Warren P. Mason, 1900-1986 . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America . Retrieved 23 Oct 2024.
^ Quisumbing, Eduardo A. . National Academy of Science and Technology . Retrieved 23 Oct 2024.
^ Harry Benjamin dies at 101; Specialist in Transsexualism . New York Times . Retrieved 24 Oct 2024.
^ John Caufield, a State Senator and Fire Director of Newark . New York Times . Retrieved 24 Oct 2024.
^ Ronald Bates, Stage Designer . New York Times . Retrieved 24 Oct 2024.
^ Allen Case, 51, Dies; Actor in Variety of TV Western Shows . L.A. Times . Retrieved 24 Oct 2024. (subscription required)
^ Russ Hinze, Bernie Elsey and Alex Dewar (l-r) at the opening of the Tiki Village Hotel, Surfers Paradise, Queensland . City Libraries, City of Gold Coast . Retrieved 24 Oct 2024.
^ M. Stanley Livingston; Atom-Smasher Builder . New York Times . Retrieved 24 Oct 2024.
^ Makhdoomzada Syed Hasan Mahmood . CricInfo . Retrieved 24 Oct 2024.
^ Mary Moody Northen, Texas Millionaire, Dies . New York Times . Retrieved 24 Oct 2024.
^ National football team manager Fernando Vaz . Eu-Football . Retrieved 24 Oct 2024.
^ T. Marvin Hatley 26.8.86 . Retrieved 23 Oct 2024.
^ Ted Knight, Winner of 2 Emmy Awards for Television Series
^ Daniel Fignole, Ex-Haiti Leader, Dies (subscription required)
^ Alexander Dolgun; American was held 8 years in the Gulag
^ Russell Lee, American Photographer is dead
^ Walter Kutschmann, a Nazi Gestapo chief blamed for the...
^ Tuggle, ex-Giant, dies of cancer at 25
^ Jorge Alessandri, 90, Former Chilean Leader
^ Elizabeth Coatsworth, Author, Is Dead at 93
^ Monumental Moore: obituary of Henry Moore, sculptor – archive, 1986
^ Urho Kekkonen, 85, is dead; Finnish President for 25 years