• Source: Deaths in June 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.




June 1986






= 1

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Dame Margaret Blackwood, 77, Australian botanist and geneticist.
Emery Blagdon, 78, American artist.
Jo Gartner, 32, Austrian racing driver, racing crash.
Alex Gorgal, 86, Polish-born American NFL football player.
Manuel Gouveia, 62, Portuguese Olympic gymnast (1952).
Ernst Hack, 39, Austrian Olympic wrestler (1972).
Mason Hoffenberg, 63, American writer, lung cancer.
Floyd Johnson, 85, American boxer.
Anděla Kozáková-Jírová, 89, Czech lawyer.
Herschel Levit, 74, American artist.
Rudolf Sonneborn, 87, American oil executive.
George G. Tapper, 69, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1947–1951) and Senate (1953–1956, 1965).
Charles F. Wennerstrum, 96, American jurist.
Edmund Wood, 83, English footballer.




= 2

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Stanley Corrsin, 66, American physicist.
T. S. Durairaj, 75, Indian filmmaker.
Jimmy Grafton, 70, English screenwriter and theatre agent.
Hartmann Grasser, 71, German flying ace.
Arthur Hoérée, 89, Belgian musicologist.
Aurèle Joliat, 84, Canadian NHL ice hockey player.
Lya Lys, 78, German-born American actress, heart failure.
Fay Marbe, 87, American actress.
Wendell H. Meade, 74, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1949).
Nanha, 43, Pakistani actor and comedian, suicide by gunshot.
Frank D. Upchurch, 92, American politician, member of the Florida Senate (1943).
Peter Wilson, 79, New Zealand cricketer.




= 3

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Ted Bank, 88, American football player and coach.
Aloys Bigirumwami, 81, Rwandan Roman Catholic prelate.
Colin English, 90, American academic administrator.
John Gilmour, 79, British botanist.
Grace Wyndham Goldie, 86, British television producer.
Robert La Tourneaux, 45, American actor, AIDS.
Max Munk, 95, German-American aerospace engineer.
Dame Anna Neagle, 81, English actress.
Louie De Votie Newton, 94, American Baptist leader.
Jack Orrison, 76, American actor and screenwriter.
Michael Taylor, 59, American interior designer.
Frans Van Dessel, 75, Belgian footballer.
Patricia Wheel, 60, American actress.




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Frederick Chauncy, 81, British Olympic hurdler (1928).
Dame Helen Gardner, 78, English literary critic.
Charles Harrison, 71, Australian politician.
Ahmad Saeed Kazmi, 73, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
Tom Lee, 66, American politician, member of the New Mexico Senate (1967–1978).
Vladas Mieželis, 91, Soviet Lithuanian general.
Clifford Mollison, 89, British actor.
Len Scott, 79, New Zealand rugby league player.
Paul Stevens, 65, American actor, pneumonia.




= 5

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Dolly Akers, 85, American politician.
John Francis Bannon, 80–81, American historian.
John Bevan, 38, Welsh rugby player, cancer.
Fanny Buss, 76, New Zealand fashion designer.
Robert DiBernardo, 49, American mobster (Gambino crime family), shot.
Bryan Grant, 76, American tennis player.
Helmut Grunsky, 81, German mathematician.
Sybil Kennedy, 86, Canadian sculptor.
Alexander Lipmann-Kessel, 71, South African surgeon.
Henri Michel, 79, French historian.
Togo Mizrahi, 85, Egyptian actor and filmmaker.
Joe Mulligan, 72, American Major League baseball player.
Andor Ónody, 65, Hungarian football player and manager.
Arthur Pink, 85, Australian rules footballer.
Ernie Roderick, 72, British boxer.
Lisa Ullrich, 85, German politician.
Jesse Winters, 92, American Major League baseball player.




= 6

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John Carmichael, 83, American sports journalist.
George Fazio, 73, American golfer.
Joseph Fischer, 77, Luxembourgian footballer.
Dennis Grainger, 66, English footballer.
Petrus Hugo, 68, South African flying ace.
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, 95, Indian writer.
William Joynt, 97, Australian author.
Valentyn Rechmedin, 70, Soviet Ukrainian journalist.
Dick Rowe, 64, British record producer.
Henry Nash Smith, 79, American literary scholar.
Robert Stuart, 77, Argentine cricketer.
Johnnie Tolan, 68, American racing driver.
Ramón Torralba, 90, Spanish footballer.
Annes Varjun, 78, Soviet Estonian ceramicist.
Grinton I. Will, 83, American librarian.
Tony Wright, 60, English actor.




= 7

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Lloyd M. Bradfield, 85, American football and basketball coach.
James Fifer, 55, American Olympic rower (1956).
Georges Halbout, 90, French sculptor.
Brooks Holder, 71, American baseball player.
Jan Kavan, 81, Czech sculptor.
Morice Lipsi, 88, French sculptor.
Ralph Pickford, 83, English psychologist.
Pilloo Pochkhanawala, 63, Indian sculptor, cancer.
Sara Sadíqova, 79, Soviet actress and singer.
Taungpulu Kaba-Aye Sayadaw, 89, Burmese Buddhist monk.




= 8

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Harold Abbott, 79, Australian painter.
Anthony Turner Andreasen, 79, British surgeon.
Harry Frederick Baker, 81, Australian aviator and motorcycle racer.
Thomas Burrow, 76, British Indologist.
F. Curtis Canfield, 82, American theatre director.
Elsa Gidlow, 87, British-born Canadian-American writer.
Vernon Loton, 80, Australian cricketer.
Edward Montgomery, 79, Australian politician.




= 9

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Arnaldo Benfenati, 62, Italian racing cyclist.
Matilde Díaz Vélez, 86, Argentine philanthropist.
Ilona Harima, 75, Finnish artist.
Edwin Kuh, 61, American economist.
Ernst Peschl, 79, German mathematician.
Milton Richman, 64, American sports journalist, heart attack.
Karl Skytte, 78, Danish politician.
Tony Starcer, 66, American soldier and artist.
Glan Williams, 74, British caricaturist.




= 10

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Emilio de los Santos, 82, Dominican politician, president of the Dominican Republic (1963).
Franc Hale, 79–81, American actress.
Merle Miller, 67, American writer.
Edgar Petersen, 82, German fighter pilot.
Louis Risacher, 91, French flying ace.
Edward Sagarin, 72, American sociologist, heart attack.
Dick Sudirman, 64, Indonesian badminton player.
Dennis Thompson, 61, English footballer.
Reginald Lawson Waterfield, 86, British astronomer.
William C. White, 89, American football coach.
Samuel Zauber, 85, Romanian footballer.




= 11

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James Amster, 77, American interior decorator, leukemia.
Chesley Bonestell, 98, American painter.
Marcantonio Bragadin, 79, Italian naval admiral.
Porter Charleston, 82, American baseball player.
Frank Cousins, 81, British politician, MP (1965–1966).
Reed De Rouen, 69, American actor and screenwriter.
Alfred Goulder, 78, English cricketer.
John J. Kinzer, 95, American politician.
Robert K. Ottum, 61, American sports journalist, cancer.
Jim Trueman, 51, American businessman and racing team owner, colon cancer.




= 12

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Jackie Burns, 79, English footballer.
Pierce H. Deamer Jr., 79, American politician, member of the New Jersey State Senate (1962–1966).
Harry Hanson, 85, Swedish Olympic sailor (1928).
Edward Henderson, 76, English Anglican prelate.
Harry Houghton, 85, British Olympic athlete (1924, 1928).
Zdeněk Koubek, 72, Czech track athlete.
Geoffrey Raphael, 76, English cricketer.
Naboua Ratieta, 48, I-Kiribati politician.
William Byron Rumford, 78, American politician.
Seonu Hwi, 64, South Korean novelist.
Basil Snell, 79, British Anglican prelate.
Murray Van Wagoner, 88, American politician, governor of Michigan (1941–1943).
John Steven Watson, 70, English historian and academic administrator.




= 13

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Frank Abruzzino, 78, American NFL football player.
R. Bintoro, 61, Indonesian general.
Eugene Brodhagen, 68, American football and wrestling coach.
Deep Diver, 17, British Thoroughbred racehorse.
Wilfrid Eggleston, 85, British-Canadian journalist.
Jim Ferrier, 71, Australian-American golfer.
Benny Goodman, 77, American bandleader and swing musician, heart attack.
Dana McLean Greeley, 77, American Unitarian leader.
Harlan N. Hartness, 88, American general.
John Jerome Hill, 67, American politician.
Tom Klose, 68, Australian cricketer.
Dean Reed, 47, American-East German singer and actor, drowned.
Ulla Strömstedt, 46, Swedish actress.
Carl O. Wegner, 88, American politician.
Adam Yacenda, 70, American political advisor and newspaper publisher.




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Dimitrije Bogdanović, 55, Yugoslav historian.
Jaap Boot, 83, Dutch Olympic athlete (1924).
Jorge Luis Borges, 86, Argentine writer, liver cancer.
Mushy Callahan, 80, American boxer.
James A. Cullimore, 80, American Mormon leader.
John Daley, 80, English cricketer.
Joan Eyles, 78, British geologist.
Ben Field, 85, American novelist.
David Kalstone, 52–53, American literary critic, AIDS.
Kim Swoo-geun, 55, South Korean architect.
Alan Jay Lerner, 67, American lyricist, lung cancer.
Denis McGrath, 75, New Zealand politician and lawyer.
Norbert Nuttelman, 75, American politician.
Giorgio Pellini, 62, Italian Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).
Marlin Perkins, 81, American zoologist (Wild Kingdom), lymphatic cancer.
Robert Presnell Jr., 71, American screenwriter.
Settimio Simonini, 72, Italian racing cyclist.
Karl Söllner, 83, Austrian-American chemist.
Anthony Spilotro, 48, American mobster, blunt force trauma.
Michael Spilotro, 41, American mobster, blunt force trauma.




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Choi Yong-sool, 81, South Korean martial artist, founder of Hapkido.
Frank Dickens, 86, English biochemist.
Francis Galtier, 79, French Olympic sprinter (1924).
Sambhu Ghosh, 59, Indian politician.
Willie Hoel, 65, Norwegian actor.
William Howard Melish, 76, American social leader and Anglican priest.
Otto Rathsman, 68, Swedish diplomat.
Walter V. Schaefer, 81, American jurist.
Werner Streib, 75, German flying ace.
Keki Tarapore, 75, Indian cricketer.
Rini Templeton, 50, American artist.
Donald Tye, 73, American baseball player.




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Christian Beullac, 62, French politician.
Danny Clapton, 51, English footballer.
Lady Diana Cooper, 93, English actress and aristocrat.
Maurice Duruflé, 84, French composer.
Joe Greene, 71, American songwriter, kidney failure.
John Hayes, 88, Australian politician.
Léon Lippens, 74, Belgian naturalist.
Erlendur Patursson, 72, Faroese politician.
George Pearce, 77, English cricketer.
Juanchín Ramírez, 80, Puerto Rican musician.
Luisa Sala, 62, Spanish actress, choked.
Joginder Sen, 81, Indian politician and diplomat.




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Anahareo, 79, Canadian animal rights activist.
William Attaway, 74, American author, heart failure.
Leonardo Borgese, 81, Italian painter.
Prink Callison, 86, American football player and coach.
Edward Francis Cavanagh Jr., 79, American firefighter.
Rick Concannon, 78, American NFL football player.
Ted J. Kent, 84, American film editor.
Desiderio Medina, 66, Chilean footballer.
Gilbert Raynes, 82, British Olympic gymnast (1928).
Felipe Rosas, 76, Mexican footballer.
Kate Smith, 79, American singer, respiratory arrest.
Joseph Stone, Baron Stone, 83, British physician.
Harold W. Tribble, 86, American academic administrator.
Archie Wood, 60, Scottish footballer.
Domingo Zaldúa, 82, Spanish footballer.




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Albert Anderson, 78, Northern Irish politician.
Ara Bekaryan, 73, Soviet Armenian painter.
Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 64, American writer, throat cancer.
Walter Gilbert, 87, Canadian-American pilot.
Sonja Johnsson, 90, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1912).
Sidney Lens, 74, American political activist and author, melanoma.
Khandavalli Lakshmi Ranjanam, 78, Indian writer.
Floyd Van Nest Schultz, 75, American electrical engineer.
Frederick Spence, 84, South African cricketer.
Charles Twigg, 93, English-born South African cricketer.
Jack Wagener, 81, English cricketer.




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Bentot, 65, Filipino comedian, heart failure.
Len Bias, 22, American basketball player, cocaine overdose.
Lindley Bothwell, 84, American agriculturalist.
Coluche, 41, French comedian and actor, traffic collision.
Nelson Cruikshank, 83, American labor activist.
Antonio Díaz Martínez, 53, Peruvian communist activist, shot.
Lidiya Khaindrova, 76, Soviet poet.
Ryuichi Matsuda, 65, Japanese entomologist.
Paulina Radziulytė, 81, Soviet Lithuanian-American basketball player and Olympic runner (1928).
Jules-Jean Ravel, 85, French politician.
Norb Sacksteder, 90, American NFL football player.
Sir Shiu-kin Tang, 85, Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist.
Ronald L. Thompson, 86, American politician.
Alfred Vagts, 93, German-American historian and poet.
William Webster, 76, English cricketer.




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Peter Boughey, 74, British special agent.
H. G. Cochran, 62, American prison warden and politician.
David Vivian Currie, 73, Canadian soldier.
The Duke of Paducah, 85, American comedian and banjoist.
Julie Duncan, 67, American actress.
Richard Eybner, 90, Austrian actor.
Joseph Forer, 75, American attorney.
Tim Herbert, 71, American actor, heart attack.
Roy Shepherd, 78–79, Australian pianist.
Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit, 82, Dutch poet and literary historian.
Béla Szepes, 82, Hungarian Olympic skier and athlete (1924, 1928).
William Horace Taylor, 96, Canadian politician, MP (1926–1945).




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Ivan Burenin, 89, Soviet general.
Cathal Coughlan, 48, Irish politician, TD (since 1983).
Roger Drayton, 61, New Zealand politician, MP (1969–1978).
Lloyd Espenschied, 97, American electrical engineer.
Georges Garreau, 83, French Olympic diver (1924).
Archduchess Margaretha of Austria, 92, Austrian royal.
Helge Miettunen, 69, Finnish politician.
Helmut Petri, 78, German anthropologist.
Arnie Portocarrero, 54, American Major League baseball player.
Assi Rahbani, 63, Lebanese musician.




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Mary Anderson, 88, American actress.
Alpheus Deane, 69, American baseball player.
Joséphine Thérèse Koster, 83, Dutch botanist.
Urban Odson, 67, American NFL football player.
William J. Scott, 59, American politician, heart attack.
Luciano Sderci, 61, Italian violin maker.
Rufus Stokes, 61, American mechanic and inventor, mesothelioma.
Martin Thornton, 70, English theologian.
Pauline Vinson, 70, American artist.
Robert F. Young, 71, American science fiction writer.




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Geraldine Aves, 87, British civil servant and social reformist.
Marko Čelebonović, 83, Yugoslav painter.
Renato De Sanzuane, 61, Italian Olympic water polo player (1952).
Alfred Paul Dorjahn, 91, American classicist.
Sir Moses Finley, 74, American-born British classical scholar, stroke.
Jerzy Putrament, 75, Polish writer and politician.
Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, 78, British jurist.
Kåre Siem, 72, Norwegian musician.
Nigel Stock, 66, British actor.




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Mika Antić, 54, Yugoslav film director and poet.
Liliane Barrard, 37–38, French mountaineer, hypoxia.
Maurice Barrard, 44–45, French mountaineer, hypoxia.
Tove Birkelund, 57, Danish geologist.
Ray Bomba, 79, American sound editor.
Sidney M. Cadwell, 93, American polymer scientist.
Elwood Engel, 69, American vehicle designer.
Thomas M. Fitzpatrick, 95, American football and basketball player and coach.
Loy Hanning, 68, American Major League baseball player.
George Howe, 86, English actor.
Ján Kroner, 59, Czechoslovak actor.
Jesse Marcel, 79, American Air Force colonel, investigator of the Roswell incident.
Ximena McGlashan, 92, American entomologist.
Lodovico Rocca, 90, Italian composer.
Annabelle Terhune, 82, American journalist.
Rex Warner, 81, English classicist.
Dennis Ziadie, 39, Jamaican footballer, traffic collision.




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Laurie Fishlock, 79, English cricketer.
Francis J. Galbraith, 72, American diplomat.
Kazimierz Gzowski, 84, Polish Olympic equestrian (1928).
Gwilym Kessey, 67, Australian cricketer.
A. J. Lockhart, 88, American baseball player.
Gabriel Lozès, 68, Beninese politician, diplomat and physician.
Clarence C. Mitchell, 89, American politician.
Reinhold Münzenberg, 77, German footballer.
Ivan Sabolić, 64, Yugoslav sculptor.
Dame Mary Welsh, 89, British military personnel.




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Sanford Brown, 77, American politician.
Aimé Deolet, 80, Belgian racing cyclist.
Gong Zutong, 81, Chinese optical physicist.
William Lovelock, 87, English composer.
Kunio Maekawa, 81, Japanese architect.
Ed Molinski, 68, American football player.
Sir Jock Pagan, 72, Australian politician and businessman.
Sid Plunkett, 65, English footballer.
Stewart W. Proudfoot, 77, Canadian politician.
Ruth Roach, 89–90, American rodeo equestrian.
Charles Rogers, 84, American NFL football player and coach.
Teiji Takai, 75, Japanese painter.
Väino Tamm, 55, Soviet Estonian interior designer.
Seif el-Din el-Zoubi, 72–73, Israeli politician.




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Nellie Weldon Cocroft, 100, American composer.
Edna Mae Cooper, 85, American actress.
Zoltán Gárdonyi, 80, Hungarian composer.
Charles Jordan, 71, Canadian singer.
Joe Maphis, 65, American guitarist, lung cancer.
Jock McNaughton, 74, Scottish footballer.
Bill Miller, 50, Australian rules footballer.
Don Rogers, 23, American NFL football player, cocaine overdose.
Albert Wiesener, 84, Norwegian lawyer.




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Pearly Brown, 70, American singer and guitarist.
Haji Mohammad Danesh, 86, Bangladeshi politician.
Gilberte Géniat, 70, French actress.
Yvonne Hakim-Rimpel, 79–80, Haitian journalist and feminist, heart attack.
Frank Jewett, 69, American Olympic sailor (1936).
Marjorie Tuite, 63, American social activist, pancreatic cancer.




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Thomas Albright, 76, American baseball player.
Mario Amaya, 52, American museum director, AIDS.
Lako Bodra, 66, Indian writer and linguist.
Jack Christiansen, 57, American NFL football player.
Walter Early Craig, 77, American jurist.
Robert Drivas, 50, American actor, AIDS.
John Porter East, 55, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (since 1981), suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
Dusolina Giannini, 83, American-Swiss singer.
Clair L. Gleason, 63, American college sports coach.
Tiko Jelisavčić, 56–57, Yugoslav football player and coach.
Wendell P. Kay, 72, American politician.
Earl Landgrebe, 70, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1969–1975), heart attack.
Edward D. MacArthur, 66, Canadian politician.
Kyaw Nyein, 73, Burmese politician.
Dan Pagis, 55, Israeli poet, cancer.
Sir Desmond Pond, 66, British psychiatrist.
Siddiqur Rahman, 34, Bangladeshi politician.
Robert Ryder, 78, British politician, MP (1950–1955).
Kenyon Taylor, 78, English electrical engineer.
Cliff Townshend, 70, English saxophonist.
Wirt Williams, 64, American journalist and novelist.
Frank Wise, 89, Australian politician.




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Fernando Ansola, 46, Spanish footballer.
Jack Beveridge, 79, Australian rules footballer.
Pierre Costantini, 97, French soldier and journalist.
Horst Förster, 66, German conductor.
Margalo Gillmore, 89, English-born American actress, cancer.
Guan Zilan, 83, Chinese painter.
Roman Gul, 89, Russian-American writer.
Soichi Ichida, 75, Japanese philatelist.
László Lékai, 76, Hungarian Roman Catholic cardinal.
Mauricio Magdaleno, 80, Mexican filmmaker.
Marjorie Matthews, 70, American Methodist bishop, breast cancer.
Juan Alberto Montes, 83, Argentine historian.
Iris Noble, 64, Canadian-American biographer.
Almeda Riddle, 87, American singer.
Ernst Sabeditsch, 66, Austrian footballer.




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