Deaths in December 1986

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 1986.

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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

1

• Percy Bullock, 93, English cricketer.
• Ernest Burkhart, 94, American murderer (Osage Indian murders).
• Fred Collard, 74, Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives (1961–1975).
• Lee Dorsey, 61, American singer ("Ya Ya", "Working in the Coal Mine"), emphysema.^[1]
• Halbert Harvill, 93, American university president, coach, and politician (Austin Peay State University).
• 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.
• Mabel Watson Raimey, 90, American lawyer.
• Yury Tymoshenko, 67, Soviet Ukrainian actor and director.

2

• Desi Arnaz, 69, Cuban-American actor (I Love Lucy) and television producer (Desilu), lung cancer.^[6]
• Paul Bascomb, 74, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
• Vrest Orton, 89, American businessman (Vermont Country Store).^[7]
• Domingo Pino, 64, Chilean footballer.
• Billy Rancher, 29, American musician, cancer.
• Ken Scott, 58, American actor.
• Arvid Thörn, 75, Swedish footballer.
• 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

• Guillermo Baldwin, 76, Peruvian Olympic sports shooter (1956).
• 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

• Leslie Bolton, 77, Danish footballer.
• Hugh Boyle, 88, Irish-born South African bishop.
• Campo Elías Delgado, 52, Colombian spree killer, shot.^[16]
• Lynwood Gill, 95, Australian cricketer.
• Reuben Nakian, 89, American sculptor, heart failure.^[17]
• Maurice Willems, 57, Belgian footballer.

5

• George Abrams, 87, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
• Moshe Baram, 75, Russian-born Israeli politician.
• Alf Baud, 94, Australian rules footballer.
• 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

• René Brô, 56, French artist.^[25]
• George Crerar 72, Scottish cricketer and rugby union player.
• Thomas Dowler, 78, American collegiate athlete.
• Elvie Dreeszen, 66, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate (1981–1983).
• Rozelle Gayle, 67, American jazz pianist and actor, cancer.^[26]
• Robert J. Love, 68, Canadian-born American flying ace, heart failure.^[27]
• Mary Paxton Keeley, 100, American journalist.
• Bhagwan Sahay, 81, Indian politician, governor of Kerala and Jammu and Kashmir.^[28]

7

• Enrico Arrigoni, 92, Italian-American anarchist and political activist.
• Roberto Bianchi Montero, 79, Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
• John Bogart, 86, American Major League Baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
• 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]
• Kostas Poulis, 58, Greek footballer and Olympian (1952).
• Albert Schwartz, 78, American Olympic swimmer (1932).
• Avraham Shekhterman, 76, Russian-born Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1969-1977).

8

• 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]
• Ernest Gross, 83, French Olympic footballer (1924).
• Georg Henke, 78, East German diplomat, ambassador to North Korea.^[33]
• Hollywood Fats, 32, American blues guitarist, heart attack.^[34]
• Pip Koehler, 84, American Major League Baseball player (New York Giants).
• 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.
• Józef Pisarski, 73, Polish Olympic boxer (1936).
• 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

• 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]
• Sherwood Fries, 66, American NFL player (Green Bay Packers).
• Odd Hilt, 71, Norwegian sculptor.
• 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]
• Edgardo Vaghi, 71, Italian racer and Olympic bobsledder (1936).
• Maxwell Wintrobe, 85, Austrian-born American physician (hematology).^[45]
• Anatoly Zverev, 55, Russian artist.

10

• George Ambrum, 43, Australian rugby league player (North Sydney, Australia).^[46]
• Kamal Bhandarkar, 75, Indian cricketer.
• Benoît Bickel, 86, Swiss writer.
• Si Burick, 77, American sports editor and columnist.
• Susan Cabot, 59, American actress (Tomahawk, Gunsmoke), murdered.^[47]
• Yrjö Hakoila, 54, Finnish Olympic rower (1952).
• Emil Johansson, 79, Swedish Olympic boxer (1928).
• Bert LaBrucherie, 81, American college football player and coach.
• Bruno Mora, 49, Italian footballer (AC Milan, Italy), stomach tumour.^[48]
• Rino Pucci, 64, Italian Olympic cyclist (1948).
• 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

• Jean-Paul Deschatelets, 74, Canadian politician.
• José Domínguez Rodríguez, 71, Cuban bishop.
• Don Keyter, 55, Australian rules footballer.
• Ferenc Kolláth, 72, Hungarian Olympic footballer (1936).
• Ed Kotowich, 52, Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
• 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).
• Olav O. Nomeland, 67, Norwegian politician, member of the Storting (1965-1973).
• Harold Osborn, 77, New Zealand cricketer.
• Gus Walker, 74, English bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force.^[51]

12

• Rashid Choudhury, 54, Bangladeshi artist.^[52]
• Yvonne Deslandres, 63, French writer, curator, archivist, and art historian.
• Antoni Gościński, 77, Polish medic and Nazi concentration camp internee.
• Léon Jean, 85, French politician.
• 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

• 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

• 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.
• Leo Dove, 83, Australian Olympic sports shooter (1948).
• Fritz Goro, 84–85, German-born American photographer.
• Aleksey Gushchin, 64, Soviet Olympic gold medalist sports shooter (1960).
• John Anker Johansen, 92, Norwegian Olympic gymnast (1920).
• Dick Mehen, 64, American basketball player.
• 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

• David James, 66, British politician, author and adventurer, Member of Parliament.^[67]
• Friedrich Karl von Koenig-Warthausen, 80, German aviator and world circumnavigator.
• Erkki Koutonen, 60, American Olympic jumper (1948).
• 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

• Lucy Thurston Blaisdell, 83, First Lady of Honolulu (1955–1959).
• Bryant L. Boatner, 79, United States Air Force general.
• Jake Caulfield, 69, American Major League Baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
• Arpad Darazs, 64, Hungarian-American music educator.
• Oleg Goncharenko, 55, Soviet Ukrainian Olympic speed skater (1956, 1960).
• Paul McConkey, 30, British slalom canoeist.
• Clyde Vidrine, 47–48, American bodyguard for Edwin Edwards, shot.^[72]

17

• Peter Beauvais, 70, German television director and scriptwriter.
• Guillermo Cano Isaza, 61, Colombian journalist, editor of El Espectador, murdered.^[73]
• Alfred Williams Carter, 92, Canadian WWI flying ace.
• John Lambert Gibson, 80, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1945–1953).
• William Gillies, 72, Scottish Olympic sports shooter (1960, 1964)
• 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.
• Graeme Pinfold, 50, Australian rules footballer.
• Leonard Rochford, 90, British WWI flying ace.
• Hans Stelges, German Olympic long-distance runner (1928).
• Mary Verghese, 61, Indian physician.

18

• George Amy, 83, American film editor (Air Force, Yankee Doodle Dandy).
• Alain Caron, 48, Canadian ice hockey player.
• 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]
• Ulrico Girardi, 56, Italian Olympic bobsledder (1956).
• Jules Migeot, 88, Belgian Olympic sprinter (1920, 1924).
• Dorothy Molter, 79, American resort owner (Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness).^[79]
• Bill Shanner, 92, American Major League Baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
• Thomas M. Tarpley, 64, American general in the U.S. Army.
• Steve Uhrinyak, 72, American NFL player (Washington Redskins).

19

• Torsten Anderson, 82, New Zealand wrestler.
• V. C. Andrews, 63, American novelist (Flowers in the Attic), breast cancer.^[80]
• Mario de Armas, 70, Cuban Olympic sports shooter (1952)
• Avelar Brandão Vilela, 74, Brazilian cardinal.
• Andrei Chabanenko, 77, Soviet naval admiral.
• Bert Cook, 62, New Zealand rugby union and league player.
• Werner Dankwort, 91, German diplomat, ambassador to Brazil and Canada.^[81]
• Willy Favre, 43, Swiss Olympic alpine skier (1964, 1968)
• Fritiof Fryxell, 86, American geologist and naturalist.^[82]
• Domingo García, 82, Peruvian footballer.
• Roger Grove, 78, American NFL player (Green Bay Packers).
• Hulan Jack, 79, Saint Lucian–born American politician, cancer.^[83]
• Del Lyman, 68, American NFL player.
• Kenyon Nicholson, 92, American playwright.
• Ernest Gordon Rupp, 76, British Methodist preacher, theologian and historian.
• Al Stokes, 86, American Major League Baseball player (Boston Red Sox).

20

• 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]
• Zoltán Greguss, 83, Hungarian actor.
• Julie Kogon, 68, American lightweight boxer.
• Allen Lewis, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• 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

• 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]
• Sven-Ove Svensson, 64, Swedish footballer.

22

• Mary Burchell, (Ida Cook), 82, British novelist and humanitarian, cancer.^[94]
• Helena Modjeska Chase, 86, American artist and writer.
• Fred Cooper, 65, English cricketer.
• 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]
• Sieglinda Zigler, 67, Brazilian Olympic swimmer (1936).

23

• Heidi Abel, 57, Swiss television presenter.
• Gerhard Bienert, 88, German actor.^[101]
• John Davies, 43, Australian rules footballer.
• Marjorie Husted, 94, American businesswoman ("Betty Crocker").^[102]
• János Karlovits, 87, Hungarian Olympic pole vaulter (1928).
• Hazard E. Reeves, 80, American sound editor, heart attack.^[103]
• R. Gordon Wasson, 88, American ethnomycologist (hallucinogenic mushrooms) and author.^[104]
• Dan Wilson, 71, American baseball player.

24

• 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]
• Gerda Munck, 85, Danish Olympic fencer (1932).
• Jimmy Nelson, 67, American football player.
• Ed O'Keefe, 73, Australian rules footballer.
• Karla Runkehl, 56, German actress.
• Albert Widmann, 74, German chemist and convicted war criminal (Aktion T4).
• Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley, 80, English astronomer, Astronomer Royal.^[109]

25

• Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, 86, Bulgarian philosopher.
• Édouard Barbazan, 84, French Olympic high jumper (1924).
• Alexander Maurice Cameron, 88, British Army officer.
• Stefan Haag, 61 Austrian-Australian singer, director, and producer.
• 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

• William Macmahon Ball, 85, Australian academic and diplomat.
• Carl Cohen, 73, American gambling executive (El Rancho Vegas, Sands Hotel and Casino).^[113]
• Bobby Crues, 67, American minor league baseball player.
• Bina Das, 75, Indian revolutionary.^[114]
• Jerry Dolan, 85, Australian rules footballer.
• Leslie Dwyer, 80, English actor, respiratory failure.
• Håkon Gundersen, 79, Norwegian Olympic footballer (1936 Summer Olympics).
• Elsa Lanchester, 84, British actress (Witness for the Prosecution, Come to the Stable, Mary Poppins), pneumonia.^[115]
• Alain Le Léap, 85, French trade unionist.
• Niilo Orama, 60, Finnish Olympic sailor (1948 Summer Olympics).
• Bob Wilson, 88, Australian rules footballer.
• Symplicjusz Zwierzewski, 83, Polish footballer.

27

• George Dangerfield, 82, American author (The Strange Death of Liberal England), literary editor of Vanity Fair, leukemia.^[116]
• Tom Hanson, 95, Australian rules footballer.
• Amanda Junquera Butler, 88, Spanish writer.
• Cara Knott, 20, American murder victim.
• Lars-Erik Larsson, 78, Swedish composer and conductor (A Winter's Tale, Pastoral Suite), diabetes.
• Clive Longe, 47, British Olympic athlete (1968).
• Dumas Malone, 94, American historian (Jefferson and His Time).^[117]
• Semyon Rzhishchin, 53, Soviet Russian Olympic athlete (1960).
• John Addison Scott, 80, American navy officer.
• Albert W. Sherer Jr., 70, American diplomat, ambassador to Togo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea and Czechoslovakia.^[118]
• Louis Van Lint, 77, Belgian painter.
• Jack Wallaesa, 67, American Major League Baseball player.

28

• Joseph Leon Blau, 77, American philosopher and Jewish historian.^[119]
• Lothar Bolz, 83, East German politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs.^[120]
• Märta Boman, 84, Swedish politician.
• Jacques Couderc de Fonlongue, 95, French Olympic equestrian (1928).
• Terry Dolan, 36, American right-wing political activist, closeted homosexual who publicly attacked gay rights, AIDS.^[121]
• Harry Else, 80, American Negro league baseball player.
• 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

• John Antill, 82, Australian composer (Corroboree).^[126]
• Venka Asenova, 56, Bulgarian chess player.
• 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

• Cassie Brown, 67, Canadian journalist and author (Death on the Ice, The Wreck of the Florizel).
• Thomas R. Fortune, 69, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1969–1982).
• Michael Hankinson, 80, British screenwriter, film editor, and director.
• İlhan Koman, 65, Turkish-Swedish sculptor (Akdeniz).
• Charles Magnante, 81, American accordionist.
• Lazarus Phillips, 91, Canadian lawyer and politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1968-1970).
• Era Bell Thompson, 81, American novelist.^[133]
• Antero Vanhanen, 51, Russian-born Finnish Olympic wrestler (1960).

31

• Clayton Bourne, 82, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1924).
• Provine Bradley, 79, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
• 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]
• Nathaniel Honono, 78, South African activist.
• Ole Johansen, 82, Norwegian politician.
• Geoffrey Audley Miles, 96, British admiral in the Royal Navy.
• Raj Narain, 69, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha, heart attack.^[136]
• Elmer Plummer, 76, American water color painter.
• 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.
• Edoardo Toniolo, 79, Italian actor.
• Esther Vagning, 81, Danish pianist.

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• 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).