Deaths in December 1986
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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 1986
[edit]1
[edit]- Ernest Burkhart, 94, American murderer (Osage Indian murders).
- Lee Dorsey, 61, American singer ("Ya Ya", "Working in the Coal Mine"), emphysema.[1]
- Horace Heidt, 85, American pianist and big band leader.[2]
- Bobby Layne, 59, American NFL footballer (Detroit Lions), cardiac arrest.[3]
- Robert Lee, 73, Taiwanese-born British actor (Mind Your Language).
- Lien Chen-tung, 82, Taiwanese politician, Minister of the Interior.
- Frank McCarthy, 74, American U.S. army general and film producer (Patton), cancer.[4]
- Martin John O'Connor, 86, American Roman Catholic Prelate, rector of the Pontifical North American College.[5]
- Wanis al-Qaddafi, 64, Libyan politician, prime minister of Libya, heart attack.
2
[edit]- Desi Arnaz, 69, Cuban-American actor (I Love Lucy) and television producer (Desilu), lung cancer.[6]
- Vrest Orton, 89, American businessman (Vermont Country Store).[7]
- Billy Rancher, 29, American musician, cancer.
- Ken Scott, 58, American actor.
- Dick van Dyke, 55, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives, suicide.[8]
- Eli L. Whiteley, 72, American infantry captain in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient, heart attack.[9]
3
[edit]- Ajit Kumar Basu, 73–74, Indian cardiac surgeon, recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.[10]
- Lena Frances Edwards, 86, American physician, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom.[11]
- Austin Hayes, 28, English-born footballer (Northampton Town, Ireland), lung cancer.[12]
- Bob Howard, 80, American singer.[13]
- Anthony Mascarenhas, 58, Pakistani journalist and author (Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood).[14]
- Bob Moorhead, 48, American Major League baseballer (New York Mets).[15]
4
[edit]- Campo Elías Delgado, 52, Colombian spree killer, shot.[16]
- Reuben Nakian, 89, American sculptor, heart failure.[17]
5
[edit]- Raymond Caruana, 26, Maltese political activist, shot.[18]
- Nil Ratan Dhar, 94, Indian soil scientist, founding member of The World Academy of Sciences, complications from fall.[19]
- Charles Duguid, 102, Scottish-born Australian physician and Aboriginal rights activist.[20]
- Roberto Escalada, 72, Argentinian actor, heart attack.
- Theodor Kretschmer, 85, Nazi German Wehrmacht general, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.[21]
- Lê Trọng Tấn, 72, Vietnamese army general.[22]
- Rolf Schock, 53, French-born American philosopher, accident while repairing vehicle.[23]
- Edward Youde, 65, British politician and diplomat, Governor of Hong Kong, ambassador to China, heart attack.[24]
6
[edit]- René Brô, 56, French artist.[25]
- Rozelle Gayle, 67, American jazz pianist and actor, cancer.[26]
- Robert J. Love, 68, Canadian-born American flying ace, heart failure.[27]
- Bhagwan Sahay, 81, Indian politician, governor of Kerala and Jammu and Kashmir.[28]
7
[edit]- Enrico Arrigoni, 92, Italian-American anarchist and political activist.
- Roberto Bianchi Montero, 79, Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
- Sydney J. Harris, 69, American journalist (Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times).[29]
- Concha Méndez, 88, Spanish poet and dramatist (Generation of '27).
- Homa J. Porter, 90, American businessman and political activist.[30]
8
[edit]- Ernst Biberstein, 87, Nazi German colonel and war criminal.
- Harrison Brown, 69, American nuclear chemist and geochemist (Manhattan Project), lung cancer.[31]
- Walter E. Foran, 67, American politician, member of New Jersey Senate, lung cancer.[32]
- Georg Henke, 78, East German diplomat, ambassador to North Korea.[33]
- Hollywood Fats, 32, American blues guitarist, heart attack.[34]
- Anatoly Marchenko, 48, Soviet dissident and author, hunger strike.[35]
- John Melville, 84, British painter.[36]
- Arthur S. Moreau Jr., 55, American naval admiral, heart attack.[37]
- Heinz Neukirchen, 71, Nazi German naval admiral.
- Henry Reed, 72, British poet and radio dramatist.[38]
- Christopher Sykes, 79, English writer and biographer.[39]
- Harald Throne-Holst, 81, Norwegian chemical engineer, president of the Federation of Norwegian Industries.
9
[edit]- Linda Cook, 24, English murder victim.[40]
- Éamon de Valera, Jnr., 73, Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist, illegally supplied babies to childless couples.[41]
- Maurice E. Dockrell, 78, Irish politician, Teachta Dála, Lord Mayor of Dublin.[42]
- T. J. Morgan, 79, Welsh academic, Professor of Welsh at Swansea University.[43]
- Walter J. Stoessel Jr., 66, American diplomat, U.S. Secretary of State, ambassador to three countries, leukemia.[44]
- Maxwell Wintrobe, 85, Austrian-born American physician (hematology).[45]
- Anatoly Zverev, 55, Russian artist.
10
[edit]- George Ambrum, 43, Australian rugby league player (North Sydney, Australia).[46]
- Susan Cabot, 59, American actress (Tomahawk, Gunsmoke), murdered.[47]
- Bruno Mora, 49, Italian footballer (AC Milan, Italy), stomach tumour.[48]
- Fred Stone, 51, Canadian musician.[49]
- Leon G. Turrou, 91, American special agent with the FBI.
- Kate Wolf, 44, American folk singer, leukemia.[50]
11
[edit]- Karl-Gustav Lagerfelt, 77, Swedish diplomat, ambassador to Austria and the Netherlands.
- Clarence A. Martin, 90, American army general.
- Fritz Maurischat, 93, German production designer (Martin Luther).
- Gus Walker, 74, English bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force.[51]
12
[edit]- Rashid Choudhury, 54, Bangladeshi artist.[52]
- Antoni Gościński, 77, Polish medic and Nazi concentration camp internee.
- Gary Lewis, 44, American NFL football player (San Francisco 49ers), Lou Gehrig's disease.[53]
- Harry Owens, 84, American bandleader and songwriter ("Sweet Leilani").[54]
- Carlos Ramírez, 70, Colombian baritone and actor.[55]
- Alexander H. Smith, 82, American mycologist (fungi).[56]
- Clifford Stine, 80, American cinematographer (The Incredible Shrinking Man).
- Paul Verner, 75, East German politician (Socialist Unity Party of Germany).[57]
- Buddy Williams, 68, Australian country singer.
- Johnny Wyrostek, 67, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds).[58]
13
[edit]- Heather Angel, 77, British actress (Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland), cancer.[59]
- Ella Baker, 83, American civil rights activist.[60]
- Kuwasi Balagoon, 39, American anarchist and political activist (Black Panther Party), fungal pneumonia.
- Glyn Daniel, 72, Welsh archaeologist and editor (Antiquity).[61]
- Thomas Jefferson, 66, American jazz trumpeter.
- Martha Mears, 76, American singer ("Long Ago (and Far Away)", "My Foolish Heart").
- Smita Patil, 31, Indian actress (Bhumika, Chakra), complications from childbirth.[62]
- Kim Peyton, 29, American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist, brain tumour.[63]
- İlhami Sancar, 76–77, Turkish politician, Ministry of National Defense).
- Henry Winston, 75, American political activist, member of Communist Party USA.[64]
14
[edit]- Bassey Eyo Ephraim Adam III, 81, Nigerian Efik leader.
- Cheryl Araujo, 25, American rape victim who inspired the movie The Accused, traffic collision.[65]
- Claude Bertrand, 67, French actor, cancer.
- Antal Páger, 87, Hungarian actor (Drama of the Lark).
- Pedro Sainz Rodríguez, 89, Spanish writer and royal advisor.
- Teh Cheang Wan, 58, Singaporean politician (Minister of National Development), suicide.[66]
15
[edit]- David James, 66, British politician, author and adventurer, Member of Parliament.[67]
- Friedrich Karl von Koenig-Warthausen, 80, German aviator and world circumnavigator.
- Serge Lifar, 81, Soviet and French ballet dancer and choreographer (Paris Opera).[68]
- Seymour Lipton, 83, American sculptor (New York School).[69]
- Mykolas Ruzgys, 71, American-born Lithuanian basketball player and coach.[70]
- John Zaremba, 78, American actor (Ben Casey, The Time Tunnel).[71]
16
[edit]- Clyde Vidrine, 47–48, American bodyguard for Edwin Edwards, shot.[72]
17
[edit]- Peter Beauvais, 70, German television director and scriptwriter.
- Guillermo Cano Isaza, 61, Colombian journalist, editor of El Espectador, murdered.[73]
- Oscar Goldman, 60–61, American mathematician.[74]
- Oakley Haldeman, 77, American songwriter, composer and author ("Here Comes Santa Claus").
- Władysław Moes, 86, Polish landowner, inspiration for Tadzio in Death in Venice.
- Mary Verghese, 61, Indian physician.
18
[edit]- George Amy, 83, American film editor (Air Force, Yankee Doodle Dandy).
- Mamo Clark, 72, American actress (One Million B.C.), cancer.[75]
- Winifred Deforest Coffin, 75, American actress (The Red Skelton Show).[76]
- John D. deButts, 71, American businessman, chief executive officer of AT&T, heart attack.[77]
- Morton Fried, 63, American anthropology teacher, cardiac arrest.[78]
- Dorothy Molter, 79, American resort owner (Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness).[79]
- Thomas M. Tarpley, 64, American general in the U.S. Army.
19
[edit]- V. C. Andrews, 63, American novelist (Flowers in the Attic), breast cancer.[80]
- Andrei Chabanenko, 77, Soviet naval admiral.
- Werner Dankwort, 91, German diplomat, ambassador to Brazil and Canada.[81]
- Fritiof Fryxell, 86, American geologist and naturalist.[82]
- Hulan Jack, 79, Saint Lucian–born American politician, cancer.[83]
- Kenyon Nicholson, 92, American playwright.
- Ernest Gordon Rupp, 76, British Methodist preacher, theologian and historian.
20
[edit]- Ferdinand Brandner, 83, Austrian aerospace engineer, Nazi SS member.
- Rossella Como, 47, Italian actress and television personality, cancer.[84]
- Joe DeSa, 27, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Cardinals), traffic collision.[85]
- Julie Kogon, 68, American lightweight boxer.
- Kathleen Morris, 93, Canadian painter, member of Beaver Hall Group.
- William A. Nolen, 58, American surgeon and medical columnist (McCall's magazine).[86]
- Silvano Melea Otieno, 54–55, Kenyan lawyer, heart attack.[87]
- Sir Harry Platt, 100, English orthopaedic surgeon, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.[88]
- Floriano Vaz, 23, Indian writer, shot.[89]
21
[edit]- Willy Coppens, 94, Belgian flying ace, "balloon buster".[90]
- Gilbert Laithwaite, 92, Irish-born British diplomat.[91]
- S. Nadesan, 82, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.[92]
- Francis Junior Pierce, 62, American hospital corpsman, Medal of Honor recipient, lung cancer.
- Bill Simpson, 55, Scottish actor (Dr. Finlay's Casebook), pneumonia.[93]
22
[edit]- Mary Burchell, (Ida Cook), 82, British novelist and humanitarian, cancer.[94]
- Celius Dougherty, 84, American composer.[95]
- Maurice Grosser, 83, American painter and author.[96]
- John Macy, 69, American government administrator, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.[97]
- Nii Amaa Ollennu, 80, Ghanaian politician, acting president.
- David Penhaligon, 42, British politician, Member of Parliament, President of the Liberal Party, traffic collision.[98]
- Saqi, 61, Pakistani actor.
- Jean-Paul St. Laurent, 74, Canadian politician, House of Commons member.[99]
- Harvey Stephens, 85, American actor and pilot.[100]
23
[edit]- Gerhard Bienert, 88, German actor.[101]
- Marjorie Husted, 94, American businesswoman ("Betty Crocker").[102]
- Hazard E. Reeves, 80, American sound editor, heart attack.[103]
- R. Gordon Wasson, 88, American ethnomycologist (hallucinogenic mushrooms) and author.[104]
24
[edit]- Guy Barnett, 58, British politician, Member of Parliament, heart attack.[105]
- Gardner Fox, 75, American comic book writer and novelist, co-creator of Flash, pneumonia.
- Eric Malcolm Jones, 79, British intelligence officer, director of GCHQ.[106]
- Arnold Kettle, 70, British Marxist literary critic.[107]
- Bob Lulham, 60, Australian rugby league player (Balmain Tigers, Australia), heart attack.[108]
- Albert Widmann, 74, German chemist and convicted war criminal (Aktion T4).
- Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley, 80, English astronomer, Astronomer Royal.[109]
25
[edit]- Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, 86, Bulgarian philosopher.
- Friedrich von Ledebur, 86, Austrian actor, (Moby Dick, Alexander the Great).[110]
- James C. Oliver, 91, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[111]
- Hamao Umezawa, 72, Japanese microbiologist, pneumonia.[112]
26
[edit]- Carl Cohen, 73, American gambling executive (El Rancho Vegas, Sands Hotel and Casino).[113]
- Bina Das, 75, Indian revolutionary.[114]
- Leslie Dwyer, 80, English actor, respiratory failure.
- Elsa Lanchester, 84, British actress (Witness for the Prosecution, Come to the Stable, Mary Poppins), pneumonia.[115]
27
[edit]- George Dangerfield, 82, American author (The Strange Death of Liberal England), literary editor of Vanity Fair, leukemia.[116]
- Amanda Junquera Butler, 88, Spanish writer.
- Lars-Erik Larsson, 78, Swedish composer and conductor (A Winter's Tale, Pastoral Suite), diabetes.
- Dumas Malone, 94, American historian (Jefferson and His Time).[117]
- Albert W. Sherer Jr., 70, American diplomat, ambassador to Togo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea and Czechoslovakia.[118]
28
[edit]- Joseph Leon Blau, 77, American philosopher and Jewish historian.[119]
- Lothar Bolz, 83, East German politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs.[120]
- Terry Dolan, 36, American right-wing political activist, closeted homosexual who publicly attacked gay rights, AIDS.[121]
- Huang Kecheng, 84, Chinese People's Liberation Army general.[122]
- Alton Lennon, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.[123]
- John D. MacDonald, 70, American novelist (The Executioners), complications from heart surgery.[124]
- Jan Nieuwenhuys, 64, Dutch painter.
- Joel Resnicoff, 38, American artist and fashion illustrator, AIDS.[125]
29
[edit]- John Antill, 82, Australian composer (Corroboree).[126]
- Orville Hodge, 82, American Auditor of Public Accounts and convicted embezzler.[127]
- Philip B. Hofmann, 77, American businessman, chairman of Johnson & Johnson, heart attack.[128]
- Sitaram Lalas, 78, Indian lexicographer.
- Harold Macmillan, 92, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.[129]
- Grete Mosheim, 81, German-born actress (Car of Dreams), cancer.[130]
- Pietro Parente, 95, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.[131]
- Andrei Tarkovsky, 54, Soviet film director (Mirror, Andrei Rublev, Stalker), lung cancer.[132]
30
[edit]- Cassie Brown, 67, Canadian journalist and author (Death on the Ice, The Wreck of the Florizel).
- İlhan Koman, 65, Turkish-Swedish sculptor (Akdeniz).
- Charles Magnante, 81, American accordionist.
- Era Bell Thompson, 81, American novelist.[133]
31
[edit]- Piero Chiara, 73, Italian writer.
- Donald Fleming, 81, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament, International Monetary Fund official, stroke.[134]
- Lloyd Haynes, 52, American actor (Room 222), lung cancer.[135]
- Geoffrey Audley Miles, 96, British admiral in the Royal Navy.
- Raj Narain, 69, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha, heart attack.[136]
- Don Sleet, 48, American jazz trumpeter, lymphoma.[137]
- Bartho Smit, 62, South African writer, cancer.
- Esther Sutherland, 54, American actress.
- Dwight Taylor, 83, American author and screenwriter, heart attack.
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[edit]- Pearl Frush, 79, American pin-up and glamour illustration artist.
- Jim O'Connolly, 60, English actor, director and screenwriter (Edgar Wallace Mysteries).
- Robert Osgood, 64–65, American expert on foreign and military policy,
- Toño Salazar, 99, Salvadoran caricaturist, illustrator and diplomat, Parkinson's disease.
- John R. Wiegand, 74, German-born American scientist (Wiegand effect).
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