• Source: Deaths in September 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.




September 1986






= 1

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Tina Cooper, 68, English pediatrician (child abuse), cancer.
Earl B. Dickerson, 95, American lawyer and politician (Hansberry v. Lee).
Murray Hamilton, 63, American actor (Jaws, The Graduate), lung cancer.




= 2

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Thomas Butler Dowda, 87, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives.
Mahmoud Kaveh, 25, Iranian military commander (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), killed in action.
Billy Taylor, 80, American jazz bassist, stroke.
Jim Wilson, 64, American Major League baseballer (Boston/Milwaukee Braves), lung cancer.




= 3

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Vasantrao Ghatge, 70, Indian business magnate.
Wirgiliusz Gryń, 58, Polish actor (Pastorale Heroica).
Horace King, 85, British politician, Speaker of the House of Commons, stroke.
Ted Moult, 60, British radio and television personality (Brain of Britain), suicide.
Vittorino Veronese, 76, Italian lawyer, director-general of UNESCO.
Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr., 80, American district judge (Massachusetts).




= 4

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Roberto Gavaldón, 77, Mexican film director (Macario).
Otto Glória, 69, Brazilian football manager (Benfica, Nigeria).
Hank Greenberg, 75, American baseballer (Detroit Tigers), kidney cancer.
Wayne Nance, 30, American serial killer ("The Missoula Mauler"), shot.
Sid Tanenbaum, 60, American basketball player (New York Knicks), murdered.
Walter Wanderley, 54, Brazilian organist and pianist ("Summer Samba"), cancer.




= 5

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Neerja Bhanot, 22, Indian flight purser, saved passengers from hijackers, shot.
Alvin Heaps, 66, American labor union leader (Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union).
Noel Kempff Mercado, 62, Bolivian biologist and environmentalist, murdered.
Ganapathi Thanikaimoni, 48, Indian palynologist, shot.
Trần Quốc Hoàn, 70, North Vietnamese politician (Ministry of Public Security).




= 6

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William Littell Everitt, 86, American electrical engineer.
George Gipe, 53, American author and screenwriter (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid), allergic reaction to bee sting.
John Stanley Grauel, 68, American priest and Christian Zionist leader.
Suresh Joshi, 65, Indian Gujarati writer (Grihapravesh), kidney failure.
George P. Monaghan, 85, American lawyer and commissioner of fire and police.
Blanche Sweet, 90, American silent-screen actress (The Lonedale Operator, Judith of Bethulia), stroke.




= 7

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Skipper Bowles, 66, American politician and businessman, Lou Gehrig's disease.
Les Bury, 73, English-born Australian politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Treasurer.
Nelson Dunford, 79, American mathematician (Dunford–Pettis property).
Spencer Le Marchant, 55, British politician, Member of Parliament.
Dan K. Moore, 80, American politician, Governor of North Carolina.
Omar Ali Saifuddien III, 71, Bruneian royal, Sultan of Brunei.
P. S. Ramakrishna Rao, 67, Indian filmmaker.
Vladimir Vlasov, 83, Soviet composer and conductor.
Hewitt T. Wheless, 72, American air force general.




= 8

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Ray Nazarro, 83, American film and television director and screenwriter (Bullfighter and the Lady).
Alfred Schaefer, 81, Swiss banker, president of the Union Bank of Switzerland.




= 9

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Kessler R. Cannon, 70, American politician and radio broadcaster, member of the Oregon House of Representatives.
Robert Shackleton, 66, English philologist.
Magda Tagliaferro, 93, Brazilian pianist, heart attack.
Andrew Zondo, 19, South African criminal, executed for murder.




= 10

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Pepper Adams, 55, American jazz saxophonist and composer, lung cancer.
María Dolores Katarain, 32, Spanish Basque separatist leader, murdered.
Anna Koutsoyiannis, 53–54, Greek-born British microeconomist.
Sobhi Mahmassani, 77, Lebanese lawyer and politician, Member of Parliament, lung cancer.
Ronnie Shade, 47, Scottish golfer
Koji Shima, 85, Japanese actor, film director and screenwriter (Unforgettable Trail).




= 11

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Harry Haslam, 65, English footballer and manager (Sheffield United).
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, 83, Greek politician, Prime Minister, heart attack.
Henry DeWolf Smyth, 88, American physicist and diplomat, participant in the Manhattan Project, cardiac arrest.
Noel Streatfeild, 90, English children's author (The Circus Is Coming).




= 12

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Ernst Haas, 65, Austrian-born American photojournalist, stroke.
Jacques Henri Lartigue, 92, French photographer and painter.
Manjula, 31, Indian actress in Kannada language films (Sampathige Savaal, Eradu Kanasu), suicide.
Harold Moody, 70, British shot putter and Olympian.
Frank Nelson, 75, American comedic actor (The Jack Benny Program), cancer.
Gerhard Rohlfs, 94, German linguist.
Charlotte Wolff, 88, German-British sexologist, proponent of racist views.




= 13

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Antonio Mota, 47, Mexican footballer (Necaxa, Mexico).
Neil Robinson, 24, Northern Irish racing cyclist, racing crash.




= 14

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William Edmund Barrett, 85, American writer (The Lilies of the Field).
John Bingham, 32–33, Northern Irish loyalist soldier, shot.
David Harold Byrd, 86, American oil executive.
Gordon McLendon, 65, American radio broadcaster, cancer.




= 15

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Don Bennett, 76, Australian air vice marshal in the Royal Air Force and British politician, Member of Parliament.
Jaroslav Burgr, 80, Czechoslavakian footballer (Sparta Prague, Czechoslovakia).
Virginia Gregg, 70, American actress (Dragnet), lung cancer.
Eric Hiscock, 78, British sailor and author.
Joseph M. Pettit, 70, American engineer and academic administrator, president of Georgia Tech, cancer.
Elizabeth Titzel Riefstahl, 97, American archaeologist.
Ramón Alberto Villaverde, 56, Uruguayan footballer (FC Barcelona).




= 16

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Jim Brough, 82, English footballer, rugby union and rugby league player (Leeds, Great Britain).
Puran Chandra Gupta, 74, Indian journalist (Dainik Jagran).
Walter Lehweß-Litzmann, 79, Nazi German Luftwaffe pilot, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.




= 17

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Alec Fraser-Brunner, 80, British ichthyologist, curator of the Van Kleef Aquarium, designer of the Merlion.
Jon Gould, 33, American film executive, AIDS.
Joe Kennedy, 60, English footballer (West Bromwich Albion).
Pat Phoenix, 62, English actress (Coronation Street), lung cancer.
Henrik Sjögren, 87, Swedish ophthalmologist, describer of Sjögren syndrome.




= 18

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Aljoša Buha, 24, Yugoslavian musician (Crvena Jabuka), traffic collision.
Corita Kent, 67, American artist, ovarian cancer.
Shelton Perera, 47, Sri Lankan tabla player and singer.




= 19

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Harry J. W. Belvin, American politician, chief of Choctaw Nation, member of Oklahoma House of Representatives and Senate.
James H. Gray Sr., 70, American politician, mayor of Albany, Georgia, editor of the The Albany Herald, heart attack.
Ainslie Meares, 76, Australian psychiatrist, pneumonia.




= 20

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John C. Becher, 71, American actor, cancer.
Chester A. Chesney, 70, American politician and NFL footballer (Chicago Bears), member of U.S. House of Representatives.
Norman Chester, 78, British economist, warden of Nuffield College, Oxford.
Ray Eddy, 75, American basketballer and coach.
Iorgu Iordan, 97, Romanian linguist, diplomat and politician.
William W. Outerbridge, 80, American navy rear admiral, fired first shots in defence of U.S.A. in World War II.
Dennis Spooner, 53, English television writer (Doctor Who), heart attack.
Nicolae Testemițanu, 59, Soviet surgeon and politician, Minister of Health for Moldova.




= 21

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Jonah Barrington, 82, British journalist (Daily Express).
George Brenlin, 58, American actor (Young and Dangerous).
John Kuck, 81, American shot putter and Olympic gold medalist.
Clancy Williams, 43, American NFL footballer (Los Angeles Rams), cancer.




= 22

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József Asbóth, 69, Hungarian tennis player, French Open winner.
Bernie Cummins, 86, American jazz drummer.
Janet Davies, 59, English actress (Dad's Army), breast cancer.
Sohan Singh Misha, 52, Indian Punjabi poet.
Abdel-Kader Zaaf, 69, Algerian racing cyclist.




= 23

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Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield, 96, Austro-Hungarian World War I flying ace.
Gordie Drillon, 72, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
Sir Vincent Lloyd-Jones, 84, Welsh barrister and judge of the High Court.
Domingo Moreno Jimenes, 92, Dominican writer.
Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp, 75, Nazi German Waffen-SS officer.
C. A. Patrides, 56, American writer, AIDS.




= 24

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Uell Stanley Andersen, 69, American NFL footballer (Cleveland Rams) and author (Three Magic Words).
Prudence Glynn, 51, British fashion editor and author, brain haemorrhage.
Dorothy Pilley Richards, 92, English mountaineer and writer (Climbing Days).
Adolf Tolkachev, 59, Soviet electronics engineer and double agent, executed.




= 25

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Ted Bishop, 73, American golfer.
Darshan Singh Canadian, 68–69, Indian Sikh trade unionist, murdered.
Donald MacDonald, 77, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, cancer.
Marcel Rüedi, 47, Swiss mountain climber, died on a climb.
Nikolay Semyonov, 90, Soviet physicist and chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
Hubertus Strughold, 88, German-American physiologist and unconvicted war criminal (space medicine).
Hans Vogt, 83, Norwegian linguist (Caucasian languages).




= 26

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Jacob Agus, 74, Polish-born American rabbi and theologian.
Wilson Faumuina, 32, American NFL footballer (Atlanta Falcons), heart failure.
Hugh Franklin, 70, American actor (All My Children), cancer.
Brian Desmond Hurst, 91, Irish film director (Scrooge).
Billy Key, 90, British Indian Army general.




= 27

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Tony Acquaviva, 61, American composer and conductor, diabetes.
Cliff Burton, 24, American bassist (Metallica), traffic collision.
Jessie Eden, 84, British trade union leader.
Michael Joseph Hogan, 78, Irish juror and judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong.
Olga Masters, 67, Australian journalist (The Sydney Morning Herald, Manly Daily).
Éva Ruttkai, 58, Hungarian actress, breast cancer.
Georg Voggenreiter, 74, German racing cyclist, German National Road Race winner.




= 28

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Denis Carey, 77, British actor (A Beast With Two Backs, The Barchester Chronicles).
Justo Gonzalo, 76, Spanish neuroscientist.
Howard Graham, 88, Canadian army general, Chief of the General Staff.
Sir Robert Helpmann, 77, Australian ballet dancer, choreographer and actor (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), emphysema.
Ewa Szelburg-Zarembina, 87, Polish novelist.
Kiyoshi Tanimoto, 77, Japanese Methodist minister and Hiroshima survivor.
Richard C. Turner, 58, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate, heart attack.




= 29

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Prince Georg of Denmark, 66, Danish royal and diplomat.
Reg Goodwin, 78, British politician, leader of the Greater London Council.
Maurice Harland, 90, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Durham.
M. D. H. Jayawardena, 71, Sri Lankan politician, Minister of Health, heart ailment.
Betty Kean, 71, American actress, cancer.
Moestopo, 73, Indonesian general.
Helmut Qualtinger, 57, Austrian actor and cabaret performer, liver disease.
Theodor Schwenk, 75, German anthroposophist, water researcher and author (Sensitive Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air).




= 30

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Franz Burda, 83, German publisher (Hubert Burda Media).
Arthur A. Cohen, 58, American novelist and theologian, leukemia.
Storm Jameson, 95, English journalist and author (In the Days of Simon Stern).
Nicholas Kaldor, 78, Hungarian-born British economist (cobweb model).
Laurier Lister, 79, English theatre writer, actor and director.
Buster Millerick, 80, American racehorse trainer.
Tommy Reynolds, 69, American jazz clarinetist.
Kamaruzaman Sjam, 62, Indonesian communist activist, executed.




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