Deaths in February 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 1986

1

• Ethel Chipchase, 69–70, British trade unionist.
• Manuel Cros, 84, Spanish footballer.
• Theodora McCormick Du Bois, 95, American author.
• Salo Grenning, 67, Norwegian illustrator.
• Dick James, 65, British music producer, heart attack.
• Max Kröckel, 84, German Olympic skier (1928).
• Alberto Moreiras, 66, Spanish Olympic athlete (1948).
• Alva Myrdal, 84, Swedish sociologist and peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient (1982).
• Michael Needham, 75, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1947–1972).
• Beatrice Pearson, 65, American actress.
• Arvo Pentti, 70, Finnish politician.
• Lambert Redd, 77, American Olympic long jumper (1932).
• Ida Rhodes, 85, American mathematician.
• Leonard E. Scott, 68, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (1947–1949).

2

• Nils Alwall, 81, Swedish nephrologist.
• Olena Antoniv, 48, Soviet Ukrainian human rights activist, traffic collision.
• Rick E. Carter, 42, American football coach, suicide by hanging.
• Anita Cobby, 26, Australian murder victim.
• Donald Eccles, 77, British actor
• Gao Heng, 85, Chinese linguist and translator.
• Gino Hernandez, 28, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.
• Richard LaPiere, 86, American sociologist.
• Mill Reef, 17, British Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanised.
• John Millar, 62, Scottish footballer.
• Hideo Ohba, 75, Japanese aikido teacher.
• Ruben Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian Olympic equestrian (1948).
• Ivan Ruben, 68, Danish Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).
• Gunnar Simenstad, 71, Norwegian actor.

3

• Alexander F. Bell, 70, American football player.
• Donald Briggs, 75, American actor.
• Art Chapman, 73, Canadian Olympic basketball player (1936).
• Claude Green, 79, South African cricketer.
• Luther Harris, 62, American NBL basketball player.
• Charles Leo Hitchcock, 83, American botanist.
• Harold Houghton, 79, English footballer.
• Narciso Ramos, 85, Filipino diplomat and politician, stroke.
• Sylvia Lyons Render, 72, American educator and manuscript curator.
• George C. Sherman Jr., 74, American polo player, leukemia.
• Herbert Smith, 84, British filmmaker.
• Alfred Vohrer, 71, German filmmaker.

4

• Phyllis Shand Allfrey, 77, Dominican writer and politician.
• Les Caywood, 82, American NFL football player.
• Margit Elek, 75, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).
• Jānis Kalnbērziņš, 92, Soviet Latvian politician.
• Jim O'Grady, 63, Irish hurler.
• Branko Pešić, 63, Yugoslav politician, mayor of Belgrade (1965–1974), cancer.
• Arthur Schröder, 93, German actor.

5

• Grigore Băjenaru, 78, Romanian writer.
• Len Catton, 72, Australian rules footballer.
• Charles Drechsler, 93, American mycologist.
• Florence Fernet-Martel, 93, American-born Canadian feminist and educator.
• Antonio Fustella, 73, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, heart attack.
• Armas-Eino Martola, 89, Finnish general.
• Laurent Merchiers, 81, Belgian politician.
• Furman Nuss, 91, American football and basketball coach.
• Axel Poignant, 79, Australian photographer.
• Howard Vollum, 72, American electronics engineer (Tektronix), stroke.
• Matt Wilkins, 78, Australian rules footballer.

6

• Mahieddine Bachtarzi, 88, Algerian singer and composer.
• Georges Cabana, 91, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Frank Cameron, 93, Australian rules footballer.
• Willard Cantrell, 71, American racing driver.
• Cristóbal Colón de Carvajal, 17th Duke of Veragua, 61, Spanish naval officer, shot.
• Frederick Coutts, 86, British writer and charity worker, General of The Salvation Army (1963–1969).
• Irene Genna, 55, Greek-Italian actress.
• Sallie-Anne Huckstepp, 31, Australian writer, sex-worker and whistle blower, homicide.
• Sergio Iesi, 73, Italian-born Uruguayan Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).
• Ken McMullen, 44, Australian rugby union player.
• Sir Holmes Miller, 66, New Zealand surveyor and conservationist.
• Ray Moyer, 87, American set decorator.
• Dandy Nichols, 78, English actress (Till Death Us Do Part).
• Marty Reiter, 74, American NBL basketball player.
• John Ching Hsiung Wu, 86, Chinese judge and author.
• Minoru Yamasaki, 73, American architect (World Trade Center), stomach cancer.

7

• Cheikh Anta Diop, 62, Senegalese anthropologist and historian.
• Harris Ellsworth, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1943–1957).
• Austin E. Fife, 76, American folklorist.
• John F. McCarthy Jr., 60, American aeronautical engineer, blood clot.
• Robert P. Mills, 65, American magazine editor and literary agent.
• Armand Preud'homme, 81, Belgian composer and organist.
• John Shea, 72, Australian cricketer.
• Frank Sinclair, 69, Australian rules footballer.
• Dick Southwood, 80, English Olympic rower (1932, 1936).

8

• Doug Ball, 90, New Zealand academic administrator.
• Cecil Bryce, 74, Australian cricketer.
• Alexander Ford, 85, Scottish cricketer.
• Yisrael Galili, 74, Russian-born Israeli politician.
• Robert Gebhardt, 65, German footballer.
• Arleigh McCree, 46, American police detective, bomb explosion.
• Sarah Isabella McElligott, 102, New Zealand cook.
• Alexis Obolensky, 70, Russian-born American backgammon player.
• Abram Nicholas Pritzker, 90, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Bogusław Widawski, 51, Polish footballer.

9

• Kiichi Arita, 84, Japanese politician.
• Carmen D'Antonio, 74, American actress.
• Joe Gomes, 77, American baseball player.
• Philip Herries Gregory, 78, British mycologist.
• Harold Fidock, 83, Australian cricketer.
• Willie Jackson, 85, Scottish footballer.
• Eleonora Kaminskaitė, 35, Soviet Lithuanian Olympic rower (1976).
• Tauno Kovanen, 68, Finnish Olympic wrestler (1952).
• Ítalo López Vallecillos, 53, Salvadoran writer.
• Lilo Martin, 77, German composer.
• Natalie Masters, 70, American actress.
• Henry William Menard, 65, American geologist, cancer.
• Ben Nye, 79, American makeup artist.
• Jacques Rispal, 62, French actor.
• Dora Oake Russell, 73, Canadian writer.
• Louis Sobol, 89, American journalist.

10

• Brian Aherne, 83, English actor (Juarez), heart failure.
• Morris Boyd, 80, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1967–1972).
• Lando Conti, 52, Italian politician, shot.
• James Dillon, 83, Irish politician, TD (1937–1969).
• Humphrey Patrick Guinness, 83, British Olympic polo player (1936).
• Joan Henley, 81, Irish actress.
• Begnon-Damien Koné, 64–65, Burkinabe politician.
• Antoni Reiter, 35, Polish Olympic judoka (1976).
• Art Satherley, 96, British-American record producer.

11

• Hans Braarvig, 80, Norwegian writer.
• Arsénio Duarte, 60, Portuguese footballer.
• Frank Herbert, 65, American author (Dune), pulmonary embolism.
• Michael Hollis, 86, Indian Anglican prelate.
• Svend Jacobsen, 79, Danish Olympic fencer (1936).
• Evelio Javier, 43, Filipino politician, shot.
• Edgar Jones, 75, Welsh rugby union and rugby league player.
• Horace Manges, 87, American lawyer.
• Pauline Polaire, 81, Italian actress.
• Hélène Rivier, 83, Swiss librarian.
• Aat van Rhijn, 93, Dutch politician.
• Jock White, 88, Scottish footballer.

12

• Jean Goodwin Ames, 82, American artist.
• Arthur Roderick Collar, 77, English engineer.
• Alice Lent Covert, 72, American novelist.
• Wayne Ewing, 58, American race car builder.
• Joe Goyder, 78, English Olympic boxer (1928).
• Bolesław Konorski, 93, Polish engineer.
• James Joseph Magennis, 66, British naval officer, VC recipient.
• Elena Skuin, 77, Soviet painter.
• Guy Warrack, 86, Scottish composer.

13

• Luigi De Manincor, 75, Italian Olympic sailor (1936, 1948).
• Arny Freeman, 77, American actor.
• Bolesław Gebert, 90, Polish politician.
• Guang Qin, 93, Chinese Buddhist monk.
• George Ivask, 78, Russian-American poet and literary critic, heart attack.
• Robert MacFarlane, 77, Scottish cricketer.
• Ed McGhee, 61, American Major League baseball player.
• David Tudor Price, 55, British judge.
• Ashalata Sen, 92, Indian poet and social activist.
• John L. Throckmorton, 72, American general, cancer.

14

• Fox Blevins, 75, American baseball player.
• Ernest Borek, 74, Hungarian-born American microbiologist.
• Dorcas Brigham, 89, American botanist.
• Ransom M. Cook, 86, American banker.
• Kevin Curran, 66, Australian rules footballer.
• Margaret L. Curry, 87, American social worker.
• Kanaklata Devi, 76, Indian politician.
• Francisco Ferreira, 66, Portuguese footballer.
• Bert Hawke, 85, Australian politician.
• Roy W. Hill, 86, American automobile dealer and philanthropist.
• Harry S. Kennedy, 84, American Episcopalian prelate.
• Edmund Rubbra, 84, British composer.

15

• Henri Bernard, 86, French judge.
• Cornelis de Kiewiet, 83, Dutch-born American historian and academic administrator.
• Ana María Dellai, 56, Argentine Olympic skier (1952).
• Orville Fehlhaber, 82, American politician.
• Fred Laws, 80, Australian rugby league player.
• Galliano Masini, 90, Italian singer.
• Rustin McIntosh, 91, American pediatrician.
• Crawford F. Parker, 79, American politician, lieutenant governor of Indiana (1957–1961).
• John R., 75, American disc jockey.
• Helen Withers, 78, Australian community worker.

16

• Wiley T. Buchanan Jr., 73, American diplomat.
• Howard da Silva, 76, American actor (Fiorello!, Oklahoma!), lymphoma.
• Joseph Duell, 29, American ballet dancer and choreographer, suicide by jumping.
• Anton Hilbert, 87, German politician.
• Édouard Leguery, 51, French Olympic rower (1956).
• Phyllis McCarthy, 82, South African dog breeder.
• Tadhg O'Driscoll, 66, Irish footballer.
• Hermon Phillips, 82, American Olympic runner (1928).
• Willibrordus Pouw, 83, Dutch Olympic gymnast (1928).
• John Tripp, 58, British poet.
• Harry Van Arsdale Jr., 80, American labor leader.

17

• George Draffen, 86, British soldier.
• Albert Joris, 70, Belgian Olympic sprint canoeist (1936).
• Kikuko Kanai, 74, Japanese composer.
• Jiddu Krishnamurti, 90, Indian philosopher, pancreatic cancer.
• Red Ruffing, 80, American Major League baseball player, heart failure.
• Paul Stewart, 77, American actor, heart failure.
• Izumi Suzuki, 36, Japanese writer, suicide by hanging.
• Nesta Wells, 93, British physician and surgeon.

18

• Nelson Cavaquinho, 74, Brazilian samba musician.
• Július Ďuriš, 81, Czechoslovak communist politician.
• Vilmos Kohut, 79, Hungarian footballer.
• Matilda Landsman, 67, American journalist.
• George Makinson, 82, Canadian politician.
• Tezer Özlü, 42, Turkish writer, breast cancer.
• Pierre Schlumberger, 71–72, American oil executive (Schlumberger).
• Jonathan O. Seaman, 74, American general.
• Ted Wegert, 53, American NFL football player.

19

• Bill Anderson, 73, English football player and manager.
• Robert Brode, 85, American physicist (Manhattan Project).
• Adolfo Celi, 63, Italian actor (Thunderball) and film director, heart attack.
• Paul Curry, 68, American magician.
• James Eastland, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1941, 1943–1978).
• André Leroi-Gourhan, 74, French archaeologist.
• Francisco Mignone, 88, Brazilian composer.
• Oleg Mutt, 65, Soviet Estonian linguist.
• Humberto Roa, 73, Chilean footballer.
• Barry Seal, 46, American pilot and drug smuggler, shot.
• Dudley Talcott, 86, American sculptor.
• Ab van Bemmel, 73, Dutch Olympic boxer (1936).

20

• Tommy Bell, 63, American NFL football referee, leukemia.
• William Albert Beller, 85, American pianist.
• Abdolbaghi Darvish, 37, Iranian Air Force pilot, shootdown.
• Judy-Lynn del Rey, 43, American science fiction magazine editor.
• Tommy Freeman, 82, American boxer.
• Kanu Gandhi, 68–69, Indian photographer.
• Nihar Ranjan Gupta, 74, Indian novelist.
• František Kardaus, 77, Czechoslovak graphic artist.
• Salvador Mota, 63, Mexican footballer.
• Einar Nyheim, 56, Norwegian politician.
• Guillermo Padilla, 73, Colombian Olympic sports shooter (1956).
• Bob Rice, 86, American Major League baseball player.
• Koos Rietkerk, 58, Dutch politician.
• Bert Schneider, 88, American-born Canadian Olympic boxer (1920).
• Dorothea Wieck, 78, German actress.

21

• Heinz Braun, 48, German painter and actor, cancer.
• Victor Canning, 74, British novelist.
• Jan Eric Cartwright, 47, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives (1971–1973), leukemia.
• Larry Wu-tai Chin, 63, Chinese double agent, suicide by asphyxiation.
• Derek Chittock, 64, British cartoonist and art historian.
• Sir Miles Clifford, 89, British politician.
• Gilbert V. Hartke, 79, American theatre director.
• Agnes Headlam-Morley, 83, British historian.
• Eckhard Hess, 69, German-born American psychologist.
• Yanosuke Hirai, 83, Japanese civil engineer.
• Margaret Hunter, 63, Scottish trade unionist.
• Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese longevity claimant.
• Kenjiro Matsuki, 77, Japanese baseball player.
• Edvardas Mikučiauskas, 84, Soviet Lithuanian footballer.
• Dorothy Rhoads, 90, American writer.
• Helen Hooven Santmyer, 90, American writer ("...And Ladies of the Club").
• Louis Silberkleit, 85, American publisher.
• Mart Stam, 86, Dutch architect.

22

• Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, 78, French general and peace activist.
• Tom Bradshaw, 81, Scottish footballer.
• Randolph Claiborne, 79, American Episcopalian prelate.
• John Donnelly, 31, Australian rugby league player, drowned.
• Ida Lublenski Ehrlich, 99, Russian-born American playwright.
• Bob Guelker, 62, American soccer coach.
• Claude Hettier de Boislambert, 79, French politician and resistance leader.
• Philip J. Lang, 74, American composer.
• Duke Lattimore, 81, American baseball player.
• Richard Pescott, 80, Australian botanist.
• Anthony Rawlinson, 59, British civil servant.
• Jean Tangye, 66, English author.
• Wei Pei-lan, 74, Chinese politician.

23

• Miklós Asztalos, 86, Hungarian playwright.
• Mathilde Boniface, 74, Belgian politician.
• Ram Nath Chawla, 82, Indian pilot.
• Andoni Elizondo, 53, Spanish footballer.
• Esther V. Hansen, 87, American historian.
• Edwin S. Lowe, 75, Polish-American game entrepreneur.
• Ferenc Mérei, 76, Hungarian psychologist.
• Ernst Neufert, 85, German architect.
• Ørnulv Ødegård, 84, Norwegian psychiatrist.
• Louis-Philippe Pigeon, 81, Canadian judge.
• Bill Ribchester, 87, Scottish footballer.
• Boris Slutsky, 66, Soviet poet.
• Nino Taranto, 78, Italian actor.
• Beatrix Thomson, 85, British actress.

24

• Christian H. Armbruster, 64, American politician, respiratory disease.
• Rukmini Devi Arundale, 81, Indian dancer.
• David Ballantyne, 61, New Zealand writer.
• Tommy Douglas, 81, Scottish-born Canadian politician, cancer.
• Harold L. George, 92, American fighter pilot and politician.
• Bill Hickman, 65, American stuntman, cancer.
• Alfred Hurley, 90, British Anglican prelate.
• Harry Lightsey, 85, American football player.
• Gertrude Meredith, 93, American Olympic pair skater (1932).
• Marcus Roberto, 55, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1971–1976) and Senate (since 1977), cancer.
• Arthur Rydstrøm, 90, Norwegian Olympic gymnast (1920).
• James Humphrey Walwyn, 72, British naval officer.

25

• George Berry, 86, American NFL football player.
• Pasquale Festa Campanile, 58, Italian filmmaker, kidney cancer.
• Joseph Jeffrey Charlebois, 76, Canadian politician and businessman.
• Hugo Larsson, 79, Swedish civil servant and engineer.
• Guy Pawson, 97, British colonial administrator and cricketer.
• Victor Pike, 78, British rugby player and Anglican prelate.
• Marcus Ruddle, 81, Irish cricketer.
• George Susce, 78, American Major League baseball player.
• Helen F. Tucker, 84, American biochemist.
• Nemesio Yabut, 60, Filipino politician.

26

• Andy Bakjian, 71, American track and field coach.
• Martin Julian Buerger, 82, American crystallographer.
• Amalia Fleming, 73, Greek politician and physician.
• Taihei Imamura, 74, Japanese film critic.
• Dag Klaveness, 72, Norwegian shipowner.
• Robert Landesmann, 73, French Olympic wrestler (1948).
• Sophocles Papas, 91–93, Ottoman-American music publisher.
• Karel Vlach, 74, Czechoslovak choreographer.
• Lillian Mayfield Wright, 91, American poet.

27

• Gholam-Hossein Banan, 74, Iranian musician.
• Gedeon Barcza, 74, Hungarian chess player.
• Pat Beasley, 72, English footballer.
• Eugene Forde, 87, American director.
• Elisabeth Frisk, 76, Swedish actress.
• John Gorwell, 51, Australian rules footballer.
• Bernhard Haurwitz, 80, German-born American meteorologist.
• Arthur Heina, 71, German Olympic swimmer (1936).
• Nancy Brysson Morrison, 82, Scottish author.
• Arnoldo Ortelli, 72, Swiss footballer.
• Jacques Plante, 57, Canadian ice hockey player, stomach cancer.
• Aimé Trantoul, 77, French Olympic cyclist (1928).
• George Weatherill, 85, Australian footballer.

28

• Robbie Basho, 45, American musician, stroke.
• Michel Brusseaux, 72, French footballer.
• James J. DeRan Jr., 79, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1943–1950), influenza.
• Edith Ditmas, 89–90, English historian.
• William Dollar, 78, American ballet dancer and choreographer.
• Laura Z. Hobson, 85, American novelist, cancer.
• Robert Lebel, 85, French art historian.
• Mick Moon, 93, Australian soldier, VC recipient.
• Joan Moore, 65–66, British botanist.
• Olof Palme, 59, Swedish politician, prime minister (1969–1976, since 1982), shot.
• Sir Thomas Williams, 70, British politician, MP (1949–1981).

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