Deaths in August 1986

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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.

## August 1986

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* 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]

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* 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).

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* 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]

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* 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]

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* 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),

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* 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.

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* 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]

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* 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).

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* 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.

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* 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]

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* 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]

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* 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]

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* 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.

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* 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).

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* 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.

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* 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).

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* 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]

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* Harun Babunagari, 83-84, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educationist.[73]
* Bruce F. Beilfuss, 71, American lawyer and jurist.
* Vivian Stuart, 72, British writer.[74]

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* 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]

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* 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]

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* 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]

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* 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]

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* 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]

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* 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.

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* 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]

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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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