The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
Archie League , 79, American air traffic controller.[ 1]
William Manning , 83, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (1956-1974).
Seán Moore , 73, Irish politician, member of Dáil Éireann , Lord Mayor of Dublin .[ 2]
Fernand Picard , 69, Canadian politician, member of the National Assembly of Quebec (1966-1976).
John Potts , 82, English footballer.
Dražen Ričl , 24, Yugoslavian rock musician (Crvena jabuka ) and comedian, traffic collision.[ 3]
Frank Samblebe , 71, Australian rules footballer.
Vince DiMaggio , 74, American Major League baseballer (Pittsburgh Pirates ), brother of Joe DiMaggio , colon cancer.[ 5]
Shunzo Kido , 97, Japanese Olympic equestrian (1928 , 1932 ).
Heinie Mueller , 74, American Major League Baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies ).
Sergey Preminin , 20, Soviet navy sailor, averted meltdown in nuclear submarine K-219 , hyperthermia.[ 6]
Han Xianchu , 73, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army .[ 7]
Raymond E. Baldwin , 93, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate and Governor of Connecticut .[ 8]
Robert Broadbent , 81, Australian Olympic cyclist (1924 ).
Mike Butterworth , 62, British comic book writer (The Trigan Empire ), heart attack.
Jeff Clements , 54, English rugby union player.
Sarala Devi , 82, Indian politician and social activist, member of Odisha Legislative Assembly .[ 9]
Arno von Lenski , 93, Nazi German Wehrmacht general and politician.[ 10]
Raimundo Morales , 88, Spanish Olympic tennis player (1924 ).
Desiderius Orban , 101, Hungarian and Australian painter, kidney disease.[ 11]
Valentín Sabate , 64, Spanish Olympic water polo player (1948 ).
George Packer Berry , 87, American physician and medical educator.
Mike Burgmann , 39, Australian racing driver, racing crash .[ 12]
Timothy Creasey , 63, British army general.[ 13]
Abraham Feinberg , 87, American rabbi, activist and singer, cancer.[ 14]
Rudolf Flesch , 75, Austrian-born American readability expert and author (Why Johnny Can't Read ).[ 15]
William Karlsen , 76 Norwegian Olympic backstroke swimmer (1932 ).
Zdzisław Kumiszcze , 49, Polish Olympic hurdler (1960 ).
Collette Lyons , 78, American actress, wife of George Randolph Hearst .[ 16]
Héctor Maturano , 65, Argentine Olympic boxer (1952 ).
Mairin Mitchell , 91, British and Irish writer and journalist.[ 17]
Peter Phelps , 77, English cricketer.
Emanuel Sayles , 79, American jazz banjoist.
Hal B. Wallis , 87, American film producer (Casablanca , True Grit , The Adventures of Robin Hood ), diabetes.[ 18]
James H. Wilkinson , 67, English mathematician (Wilkinson matrix , Wilkinson's polynomial ), heart attack.[ 19]
Marie-Hélène Arnaud , 52, French model and actress, the "face of Chanel ".
Yuri Babayev , 58, Soviet physicist, co-designers of the Tsar Bomba .[ 20]
Gokulbhai Bhatt , 88, Indian politician and social worker, Chief Minister of Sirohi State.[ 21]
Harold Brooke , 87, Australian Olympic sailor (1960 ).
Loris Gizzi , 87, Italian actor.
Robert L. Larson , 88, American jurist.
Tom Ledwidge , 75, Australian rules footballer.
Guy Prendergast , 81, British army officer and explorer.
David Rubinoff , 89, Russian-born American violinist.[ 22]
Robert Six , 79, American businessman, CEO of Continental Airlines .[ 23]
Wallace Wade , 94, American football player and sports coach.[ 24]
Germain Burger , 86, British cinematographer and director.
Allan Macy Butler , 92, American pediatrician.
Cheryl Crawford , 84, American theatre producer and director (Group Theatre ).[ 25]
Irvine Finlay Corbett , 71, Canadian politician, plane crash.[ 26]
Arthur Galsworthy , 70, British diplomat, High Commissioner to New Zealand, ambassador to the Republic of Ireland.[ 27]
Yōjirō Ishizaka , 86, Japanese novelist and short story writer.
Iwan Iwanoff , 67, Bulgarian and Australian architect, pneumonia.[ 28]
Liu Bocheng , 93, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army .[ 29]
Jerzy Łojek , 54, Polish historian.
David D. O'Malley , 73, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1958-1977).
George Owens , 86, Australian rules footballer.
J. G. Phillips , 75, Australian economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia , suicide.[ 30]
Paul Tournier , 88, Swiss physician and pastoral counselor , cancer.[ 31]
Nels Anderson , 97, American sociologist and author (The Hobo ).[ 32]
Walter Burkemo , 67, American golfer, PGA Championship winner.[ 33]
Gerhard Dietrich , 58, German pedagogue.
Ícaro Mello , 72, Brazilian Olympic high jumper (1936 ).
Edna Roper , 73, Australian politician.
Shadi Abdel Salam , 56, Egyptian film director and screenwriter (The Night of Counting the Years ).[ 34]
Max Surkont , 64, American Major League baseballer (Boston/Milwaukee Braves ).[ 35]
Lajos Balogh , Hungarian Olympic long jumper (1928 ).
Eddie Johnson , 58, American Olympic boxer (1948 ).
Harald Reinl , 78, Austrian film director (Chariots of the Gods ), murdered.[ 36]
James J. Reynolds, Jr. , 79, American civil servant, Under Secretary of Labor .
Jo-Jo White , 77, American Major League baseballer (Detroit Tigers ).[ 37]
Lyndall Barbour , 70, Australian actress.
Gerold Braunmühl , 51, West German diplomat, assassinated.[ 38]
Mary Cholmondeley , 80, British socialite and heiress.[ 39]
Antonio di Benedetto , 63, Argentinian novelist (Zama ).
Han Drijver , 59, Dutch Olympic field hockey player. (1948 , 1952 ).
Nieves Hernández , 84, Mexican Olympic footballer (1928 ).
Sigfred Jensen , 77, Danish footballer.
Rusty Lane , 87, American actor and college professor (Crime with Father ).
Marie Neurath , 88, German and English designer and illustrator of children's books, co-developer of Isotype .[ 40]
Frank O'Neal , 65, American cartoonist.
Michele Pellegrino , 83, Italian cardinal.
Michael Player , 25–26, American serial killer (Skid Row Slayer), suicide.[ 41]
Priaulx Rainier , 83, South African–born British composer.[ 42]
Russ Van Atta , 80, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Browns ).[ 43]
Gleb Wataghin , 86, Ukrainian-Italian physicist.[ 44]
Gregorio Álvarez , 96, Argentinian historian and physician.
Bob Brooker , 59, Australian rules footballer.
Norm Cash , 52, American Major League baseballer (Detroit Tigers ), drowned.[ 45]
John Crockett , 68, British television and stage director.
Georges Dumézil , 88, French linguist, stroke.[ 46]
Barker Fairley , 99, British-born Canadian painter and literary scholar.[ 47]
David Hand , 86, American animator (Walt Disney Productions ), stroke.[ 48]
Gyula Kovács , 69, Hungarian Olympic wrestler (1948 , 1952 , 1956 ).
Boris Leven , 78, Russian-born American production designer and Academy Award winner (West Side Story ).[ 49]
Ed McNamara , 65, Canadian actor (For Gentlemen Only , Bayo ).[ 50]
Bronte Clucas Quayle , 66, Australian barrister, civil servant, and solicitor.
Al Ullman , 72, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, prostate cancer.[ 51]
Maidie Andrews , 93, English actress.
Eunice Crowther , 70, British singer, dancer, and choreographer.
Ken Earl , 60, English cricketer.
Abram Hill , 76, American playwright (On Strivers Row ), co-founded American Negro Theatre , emphysema.[ 53]
Fred K. Mahaffey , 52, American army general, commander in chief U.S. Readiness Command , cancer.[ 54]
Claude Mulot , 44, French director and screenwriter.
Sir Joseph Napier, 4th Baronet , 91, British baronet and soldier.
William Passmore , 71, South African Olympic boxer (1936 ).
Hermann von Siemens , 101, German industrialist, chairman of Siemens .[ 55]
Milovan Ćirić , 68, Yugoslavian footballer and manager (Red Star Belgrade ).[ 56]
Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. , 69, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1951-1957).
Yvette Dugay , 54, American actress (Cattle Queen of Montana ).
Spec O'Donnell , 75, American actor.
Takanori Ogisu , 84, Japanese-born French painter.
Barry Salvage , 39, English footballer (Brentford , Millwall ), heart attack.[ 57]
Keenan Wynn , 70, American actor (The Hucksters ), pancreatic cancer.[ 58]
Takahiko Yamanouchi , 84, Japanese theoretical physicist (quantum mechanics ).
Al Stricklin , 78, American pianist.
Alex Josey , 76, British-Singaporean journalist, known for biography of Lee Kuan Yew , Parkinson's disease.[ 59]
Larry Kopf , 95, American Major League Baseball player.
Rani Padmini , 23–24, Indian actress (Parankimala , Kilikkonjal ), murdered.[ 60]
Jacqueline Roque , 60, French wife of Pablo Picasso , suicide.[ 61]
Marcus Samuel , 77, British businessman and hereditary peer, director of Lloyds Bank .[ 62]
Jerry Smith , 43, American NFL footballer (Washington Redskins ), AIDS.[ 63]
Christine Wttewaall van Stoetwegen , 85, Dutch lawyer, feminist, and politician, member of the Netherlands House of Representatives (1945-1971).
Manolo Álvarez Mera , 62, Cuban-born tenor.
Harold Beamish , 90, New Zealand WW1 flying ace.
Joseph Fontaine , 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1945-1957).
Arthur Grumiaux , 65, Belgian violin virtuoso, stroke.[ 64]
Yukihiko Haida , 77, American composer and ukulele player.
Giovanni Invernizzi , 60, Italian Olympic rower (1948 , 1952 ).
Sydney Jagbir , 73, Trinidadian cricketer.
Manas Mukherjee , 43, Indian composer.
Sandro Puppo , 68, Italian footballer and manager (Venezia , Italy ), Olympic gold medalist.[ 65]
Carlo Romei , 61, Italian politician.
Ted Sagar , 76, English international footballer (Everton , England ).[ 66]
Jacques Van Caelenberghe , 76, Belgian footballer.
Princess Yolanda of Savoy , 85, Italian royal, daughter of Victor Emmanuel III , heart failure.[ 67]
Boris Arkadyev , 87, Soviet footballer and coach (Soviet Union ).[ 68]
Jean Bidot , 81, French cyclist.
Malcolm Burns , 76, New Zealand agricultural scientist, university lecturer and administrator.
Hamish Fraser , 73, Scottish journalist and political activist, Red Terror participant.[ 69]
Stan Judkins , 79, Australian rules footballer (Richmond ).[ 70]
Ron Kass , 51, American film producer (Naked Yoga ), cancer.[ 71]
Leah Rhodes , 84, American costume designer (Adventures of Don Juan ).[ 72]
Carlos Rodríguez , 77, Mexican Olympic sports shooter (1952 ).
René Thirifays , 66, Belgian footballer.
Earl Frederick Crabb , 87, Canadian WWI flying ace.
Sverre Ingolf Haugli , Norwegian Olympic speed skater (1952 , 1956 ).
Niat Qabool Hayat Kakakhel , 81, Pakistani politician.
Clyde S. Kilby , 84, American writer, founded Marion E. Wade Center .[ 73]
John J. McNamara , 54, American author and Olympic sailor (1964 ).
Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann , 92, Polish army general.[ 74]
Moses Asch , 80, Polish-born American recording engineer and executive, founder of Folkways Records .[ 75]
Aquino de Bragança , 62, Indian-born Mozambican journalist and diplomat, plane crash .[ 76]
Karlo Bulić , 76, Yugoslavian actor (Naše malo misto ).
George Cheroke , 65, American football player (Cleveland Browns ).
Dele Giwa , 39, Nigerian journalist, founder of Newswatch magazine, assassinated.[ 77]
Leon Henderson , 91, American economist, administrator of the Office of Price Administration .[ 78]
Stanley Lebowsky , 59, American composer and conductor (Chicago , Jesus Christ Superstar ).[ 79]
Oldřich Lipský , 62, Czechoslovakian film director and screenwriter.
Samora Machel , 53, Mozambican politician, president of Mozambique, plane crash .[ 80]
Simon Mahon , 72, British politician, Member of Parliament.[ 81]
H. Freeman Matthews , 87, American diplomat, ambassador to Austria, The Netherlands and Sweden.[ 82]
Lawrence McKillip , 62, American Olympic bobsledder (1956 , 1964 ).
Peter McLean , 61, Australian rugby league footballer.
Shafeek Nader , 60, co-founder of Northwestern Connecticut Community College , brother of Ralph Nader , heart failure.[ 83]
Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair , 64, Indian Malayalam actor (Chemmeen ).
George Pipgras , 86, American Major League baseballer (New York Yankees ) and umpire.[ 84]
Joe Ryan , 69, Australian rules footballer.
Arseny Sokolov , 76, Soviet theoretical physicist (synchrotron radiation ).
May Wilson , 80–81, American artist, pneumonia.[ 85]
Luciano Agnolín , 70, Argentine footballer.
Michael Joe Costello , 82, Irish military leader (Irish War of Independence ).[ 86]
Anton Krammer , 57, Austrian Olympic footballer (1952 ).
Alain Moineau , 58, French Olympic cyclist (1948 ).
George Tuttle , 81, American NFL player (Green Bay Packers ), and politician.
Tadao Uesako , 65. Japanese Olympic gymnast (1952 ).
Hugh Vaughan-Thomas , 76, Welsh cricketer.
Tommy Walker , 63, American event director, composer of "Charge! ", complications of heart surgery.[ 87]
Theodor Busse , 88, Nazi German army General of the Infantry ).[ 88]
Pelagio Cruz , 74, Filipino military general, chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines .
Gisela Fackeldey , 65, German actress.[ 89]
Gadabout Gaddis , 90, American fisherman and television presenter (The Flying Fisherman ).[ 90]
Fritz Hochwälder , 75, Austrian playwright.[ 91]
T. Krishna , 36, Indian Telugu film director and screenwriter (Pratighatana , Repati Pourulu ).[ 92]
Lionel Murphy , 64, Australian politician and judge, Attorney-General of Australia , justice of the High Court of Australia , cancer.[ 93]
Betsy Muus , 95, Belgian sculptor.
Edwin Albert Robson , 81, American jurist.
George Taylor , 76, English cricketer.
Vittorio Tracuzzi , 63, Italian Olympic basketball player (1948 ).
Diwakarla Venkatavadhani , 75, Indian Telugu writer.
Kas Vidruk 61, Canadian CFL player.
Haki Abaz Skuqi , 28, Albanian military pilot, plane crash.[ 94]
Jane Dornacker , 39, American rock musician, comedian and traffic reporter (Leila and the Snakes ), helicopter crash.[ 95]
Ivor Francis , 67, Canadian-American actor (Room 222 ).[ 96]
Bhagwanti Navani , 46, Indian Sindhi singer and actress.
Albert Szent-Györgyi , 93, Hungarian biochemist and politician (Vitamin C ), Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine).[ 97]
Wayland Hand , 79, American folklorist.
Reg Humphries , 75, Australian rules footballer.
Jesse Pike , 96, American Olympic cyclist (1912 ).
Sven Strömberg , 75, Swedish Olympic sprinter (1936 ).
Thorgeir Stubø , 42, Norwegian jazz guitarist and composer.
Jenny Toitgans , 81, Belgian Olympic discus thrower (1928 ).
Bernard Joseph Topel , 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Spokane .[ 98]
Ye Jianying , 89, Chinese politician and army general.[ 99]
Paul Brophy , 49, American firefighter, condition sparked right to die debate, dehydration.[ 100]
Johnny Dell Isola , 74, American NFL player (New York Giants ).
Edward Adelbert Doisy , 92, American biochemist, 1943 Nobel Prize Laureate.
Esquerita , 48–51, American singer, songwriter and pianist, AIDS.[ 101]
Ivor D. Fenton , 97, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1939-1963).
Georg Funkquist , 86, Swedish actor.
Paul Gehrman , 74, American Major League Baseball player (Cincinnati Reds ).
Ronald Long , 75, English-American actor (Love of Life ), heart faailure.[ 102]
Conrad O'Brien-ffrench , 92, British intelligence officer (MI6 ) and mountaineer.[ 103]
John R. Allan , 80, Scottish author and journalist.
Hugh Craig Atkinson , 52, American librarian.
Michael Brennan , 90, Irish general, Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces .[ 104]
Johnny Dyani , 40, South African jazz double bassist, vocalist and pianist (The Blue Notes ), liver ailment.[ 105]
František Janda , 76, Czech Olympic wrestler (1936 ).
Joseph B. Johnson , 93, Swedish-born American politician, Governor of Vermont .[ 106]
Enrique Margall , 42, Spanish Olympic basketball player (1968 , 1972 ).
Henry Osmond-Clarke , 83, British surgeon.
Larry Beil , 63, American NFL footballer (New York Giants ).
Elizabeth H. Brödel , 83, American medical illustrator.
Carroll A. Edson , 94, American scouting leader, co-founded Order of the Arrow .[ 107]
Guillermo Eizaguirre , 77, Spanish international footballer (Sevilla , Spain ).[ 108]
Ricardo Sanz García , 87, Spanish militant, leader of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo .
Jack Hartigan , 58, Australian rules footballer.
Anthony Hill , 85, English cricketer.
Howard S. McDonald , 92, American academic administrator, president of the California State University .[ 109]
Władysław Soporek , 57, Polish footballer and manager.
Tadao Tannaka , 77, Japanese mathematician (Tannaka–Krein duality ).[ 110]
Forrest Tucker , 67, American actor (F Troop ), lung cancer.[ 111]
Arne Andersen , 86, Norwegian football player.
Hüseyin Çakıroğlu , 29, Turkish footballer.
Ed Holley , 87, American Major League baseball player.
Jackson Scholz , 89, American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist.[ 112]
Marcel Simon , 79, French religious historian (Verus Israel ).[ 113]
Sherman Adams , 87, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire , member of U.S. House of Representatives .[ 114]
Alan Branscombe , 50, English jazz pianist and alto saxophonist.
Bob Ingamells , 72, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1959-1976).
Albert Maes , 80, Belgian Olympic weightlifter (1924 , 1928 ).
Roland Piétri , 76, French actor and director.
Carl-Enock Svensson , 91, Swedish Olympic athlete (1920 ).
Geoff Willis , 65, Australian rules footballer.
Robert Arthur , 76, American film producer and screenwriter (Francis the Talking Mule ).[ 115]
Julien Joseph Audette , 72, Canadian aviator.
Afzal Bangash , 62, Pakistani politician and activist.
Sidney Bollon , 86, English cricketer.
John Braine , 64, English novelist (Room at the Top ), gastric haemorrhage.[ 116]
Richard Elton Goodwin , 79, British army officer.
Marga Klompé , 74, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives .[ 117]
Adelaide Lawson , 97, American artist.
Ian Marter , 42, English actor (Doctor Who ) and writer, heart attack.
Emil Moeller , 84, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1962-1966).
Eddie Waring , 76, British rugby league commentator, dementia.[ 118]
René Weissmann , 56, French Olympic boxer (1952 ).
Gottfried Eichelbrönner , 84, German farmer and politician, member of the Landtag of Bavaria (1946-1962).
Mimis Fotopoulos , 73, Greek actor and writer, heart attack.
Marcel Gascoin , 79, French furniture designer.
Maurice Leblanc-Smith , 90, British WW1 flying ace.
Arturo Medina , 88, Chilean Olympic athlete (1920 ).
Abel Meeropol , 83, American songwriter and poet ("Strange Fruit ").[ 119]
Aaron Resnick , 71, American architect, co-founder of Usonia Historic District , heart attack.[ 120]
Ronald Thom , 63, Canadian architect (Massey College ).[ 121]
Harry Voigt , 73, German Olympic athlete (1936 ).
Reginald Keller , 92, English cricketer and British Army officer.
Otto Knefler , 63, German footballer and manager.
Andrzej Markowski , 62, Polish composer and conductor, founder of Wratislavia Cantans festival.[ 122]
Tandiono Manu , 73, Indonesian politician, Minister of Agriculture.
Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt , 85, German politician, Federal Minister of Health .[ 123]
Frank Spillane , 83, Australian rugby league footballer.
Fritz Tillmann , 75, German actor.
Harry Askew , 68, British Olympic long jumper (1948 ).
John Blackinger , 81, American football executive (San Francisco 49ers ) and politician.
Olaf Hansen , 80, Norwegian Olympic boxer (1924 Summer Olympics ).
Bob Hardisty , 64, English footballer (Great Britain Olympic football team ).[ 124]
Marcella Martin , 70, American actress (Gone with the Wind ).
Robert S. Mulliken , 90, American physicist and chemist (molecular orbital theory ), Nobel laureate (Chemistry), heart failure.[ 125]
Bruno Snell , 90, German classical philologist (Die Entdeckung des Geistes ).[ 126]
Félicien Vervaecke , 79, Belgian cyclist.
Gregorio F. Zaide , 79, Filipino historian, president of the Philippine Historical Association .[ 127]
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