Deaths in June 1985

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 1985.

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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.

June 1985

1

• Aubrey Aitken, 73, English Anglican prelate.
• John C. Arrowsmith, 90, American general.
• Lester Barnard, 90, American college sports coach.
• Bruce Burnett, 30, New Zealand health educator and activist, AIDS.
• William W. Davies, 85, American general.
• Richard Greene, 66, English actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood), cardiac arrest.^[1]
• Maria Knebel, 87, Soviet actress and theatre director.
• Arthur Mansfield, 78, American baseball player and coach.
• Willie McCall, 64, Scottish footballer.
• Juan Q. Miranda, 73, Filipino politician.
• Gwilym A. Price, 90, American lawyer, banker and politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1923–1924).
• Jack Roberts, 75, English footballer.
• Eugène Séguy, 95, French artist and entomologist.
• Anita Sharp-Bolster, 89, Irish actress.
• Eugene Stringer, 82, American football player.
• Francesco Vida, 81, Italian skier.

2

• Izak Aloni, 80, Israeli chessmaster.
• George Brown, Baron George-Brown, 70, British politician and diplomat, MP (1945–1970), stroke.^[2]
• Bruce Crane, 75, American businessman and politician.^[3]
• Gilberto Elsa, 47, Italian Olympic swimmer (1960).
• Mark W. Hannaford, 60, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1975–1979), lung cancer.^[4]
• Dorothy Mueller, 59, American baseball player.
• Benjamin H. Oehlert Jr., 75, American diplomat and business executive.^[5]
• André Salardaine, 76, French politician.
• Tiger Tjalkalyirri, c. 78-79, Australian Aboriginal activist.
• Dave Wareham, 60, American basketball player.

3

• Edmond Beauchamp, 85, French actor.
• Tjeerd Boersma, 70, Dutch Olympic sprinter (1936).
• William Francis Buckley, 57, American diplomat, CIA officer, and kidnapping victim, heart attack.
• Harry Kershaw, 78, British trade unionist.
• J. A. R. Lenman, 60-61, British neurologist.
• Arch MacDonald, 73, American broadcast journalist.^[6]
• Sidney Montagu, 11th Duke of Manchester, 56, British hereditary peer.
• Nugroho Notosusanto, 54, Indonesian military historian and writer.
• Wawrzyniec Staliński, 85, Polish footballer.
• Sean Sullivan, 63, Canadian actor.
• Dame Dorothy Tangney, 78, Australian politician.
• Don Wheldon, 30, American ice hockey player, lightning strike.
• Tono Zancanaro, 79, Italian artist.

4

• Mikhail Fichtenholz, 65, Soviet violinist, heart attack.
• Frank Field, 80, Australian politician.
• Thomas W. Herren, 89, American general.
• Charlie Jones, 73, Welsh footballer.
• Dagfin Juel, 76, Norwegian politician.
• Kaisyn Kuliev, 67, Soviet poet.
• John Ringling North, 81, American circus executive (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus), stroke.^[7]
• Gerald Augustine John Ryan, 61, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Samuel Segal, Baron Segal, 83, British politician, MP (1945–1950).
• Gleb Struve, 87, Russian-American literary historian and poet.
• Lucien Tremblay, 73, Canadian jurist and politician.

5

• Doug Hayes, 88, Australian footballer.
• Frank Hodges, 94, English footballer.
• Puttanna Kanagal, 51, Indian filmmaker.
• Bobby Marlow, 55, American football player, heart attack.
• Fred Marshall, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1963).^[8]
• C. Roger Myers, 79, Canadian psychologist.
• Joe Walding, 58, New Zealand politician, MP (1967–1975, 1978–1981).
• Johanna Wolf, 85, German secretary to Adolf Hitler.

6

• Willy Bocklant, 44, Belgian racing cyclist.
• William John Burton, 77, New Zealand draughtsman, rifleman and archer.
• Willis E. Donley, 83, American politician and lawyer.^[9]
• Henry Beetle Hough, 88, American journalist.^[10]
• Vladimir Jankélévitch, 82, French philosopher and musicologist.
• Pavel Kabanov, 65, Soviet soldier.
• Leonard Lake, 39, American serial killer, suicide by cyanide poisoning.
• Kurt Ranke, 77, German ethnologist (Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales).
• Václav Vohralík, 93, Czechoslovak Olympic track and field athlete (1920).
• George Vokins, 88, British Olympic pentathlete (1924).
• Norman W. Walker, 99, British businessman.

7

• Rudolf Burkert, 80, Czechoslovak Olympic skier (1928).
• Ronald Burns, 81, Indian-Australian Olympic sprinter (1928).
• Alden C. Coder, 75, American football coach.
• Raymond Hull, 66, English-born Canadian author, playwright and screenwriter.
• Walter H. Johns, 76, Canadian academic administrator.
• Henk Keemink, 82, Dutch Olympic racewalker (1924).
• Věra Lišková, 60, Czechoslovak sculptor.
• Henry Lee Moon, 84, American journalist and civil rights activist.^[11]
• Joe Murphy, 53, Australian footballer.
• Gordon Rollings, 59, English actor.
• Geoffrey Roscoe, 84, Australian educator and public servant.
• Stanley Skinner, 91, English-born American ice hockey player.
• Leonard Sorkin, 69, American violinist.^[12]
• Klaudia Taev, 79, Soviet Estonian opera singer and vocal pedagogue.
• Leslie L. Westin, 67, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1955–1962), heart attack.

8

• Evelyn M. Anderson, 86, American biochemist and physiologist.
• Sir Henry Clay, 6th Baronet, 76, British engineer and hereditary peer.
• Edward Edgar Foden, 72, British marine engineer.
• John Gilby, 84, New Zealand rower.
• William Ernest Hamilton, 83, Canadian politician.
• Hu Feng, 82, Chinese writer, cancer.
• Afet İnan, 76, Turkish historian and sociologist.
• Fritz Keller, 71, German-born French footballer.
• Charles LeMaire, 88, American costume designer.
• Blanche Brillon Macdonald, 54, Canadian model and Indigenous rights activist.
• Paavo Miettinen, 66, Finnish Olympic fencer (1952).
• Olof Möller, 61, Swedish science fiction author.
• Arvīds Petersons, 71, Soviet Latvian ice hockey player.
• Richard West, 64, English cricketer.

9

• Clifford Evans, 73, Welsh actor (The Curse of the Werewolf, Kiss of the Vampire).
• Matsutarō Kawaguchi, 85, Japanese author and screenwriter.
• Homer L. Pearson, 84, American politician, lieutenant governor of Colorado (1947–1949).
• Ronnie Rooke, 73, English footballer.
• Cyril Towers, 78, Australian rugby player.
• Marion Vanderhoef, 90, American tennis player.

10

• Gaetano Cecere, 90, American sculptor.
• George Chandler, 86, American actor (Lassie), cancer.^[13]
• Clarence T. Edwinson, 72, American flying ace and skeet shooter.
• Gurli Ewerlund, 82, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1924).
• Cyril Lilburne, 82, Australian footballer.
• Bob Prince, 68, American sportscaster (Pittsburgh Pirates), oral cancer.^[14]

11

• Wendell B. Barnes, 75, American politician, administrator of the Small Business Administration (1954–1959), member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives (1950–1952), heart attack.^[15]
• Rona Hurley, 87, New Zealand farmer.
• Amy Hutchinson, 96, New Zealand social worker and maternity reformer.
• Charles-Emmanuel Janssen, 78, Belgian businessman and politician.
• George F. Kosco, 77, American aerologist and polar explorer.
• Elizabeth Lawrence, 81, American horitculturalist.
• Sapfo Notara, c. 77-78, Greek actress.
• Pengiran Abu Bakar, 78, Bruneian nobleman, civil servant, and politician.
• Karen Ann Quinlan, 31, American woman in right to die case, respiratory failure.^[16]
• Pedro Regueiro, 75, Spanish footballer.
• Raymond Robinson, 74, American disfigured man and urban legend subject.
• Vic Tanny, 73, American bodybuilder, heart failure.^[17]

12

• Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia, 72, German royal.
• Katinka Andrássy, 92, Hungarian noblewoman and socialite, first lady (1918–1919).
• Dino Barsotti, 82, Italian Olympic rower (1932, 1936).
• Mildred Caverly, 91, American golfer.
• Andrew Deoki, 67-68, Fijian politician.
• Gia-Fu Feng, 66, Chinese-born American translator.
• Hua Luogeng, 74, Chinese mathematician, heart attack.
• Dominique Laffin, 33, French actress, heart attack.
• Marcela Paz, 83, Chilean writer.
• S. P. Pillai, 71, Indian actor.
• Helmuth Plessner, 92, German philosopher.
• Alastair Smallwood, 92, British rugby player.
• Norman William Whittaker, 91, Canadian judge and politician.

13

• Vasily Arkhipov, 78, Soviet general.
• Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan, 85, Scottish civil engineer.
• Albert Geyser, 67, South African cleric, theologian and anti-Apartheid activist, heart attack.
• Urmas Kibuspuu, 31, Soviet Estonian actor, brain cancer.
• Herman Kling, 71, Swedish politician and diplomat.
• Helen Shaw, 72, New Zealand author.

14

• Eric Bols, 81, British general.
• D. William Brosnan, 82, American railroad executive, cancer.^[18]
• Wilner Burke, 77, American band director (Lumberjack Band).
• Irene Delroy, 84, American actress.
• Bernard Gruver, 61, American animator, leukemia.
• Walter Johnson, 69, American political historian, complications from a stroke.^[19]
• Thamsanqa Mnyele, 36, South African-Botswanan artist, shot.
• Ivan Travkin, 76, Soviet submarine commander.

15

• Charles Brockway, 78, English cricketer.
• Mona Burgin, 82, New Zealand educator.
• Laurie Crouch, 67, Australian footballer.
• Percy Fender, 92, English cricketer.
• Mário Guimarães Ferri, 66-67, Brazilian ecologist and botanist.
• Felix Greene, 76, British journalist, cancer.^[20]
• Bert Grimm, 85, American tattoo artist.
• Rodney Hallworth, 56, British journalist.
• Len Hopwood, 81, English cricketer.
• Martin Willoughby Parr, 92, British colonial administrator.
• Francis Rush, 64, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1967–1972).^[21]
• Andy Stanfield, 57, American Olympic sprinter (1952).
• Robert Stethem, 23, American Naval diver, shot.^[22]
• Gärda Svensson, 89, Swedish politician.
• David Wheat, 63, American jazz and folk musician.

16

• Yoʻldosh Aʼzamov, 76, Soviet Uzbek filmmaker and actor.
• John Y. Brown Sr., 85, American politician, member of the U.S. (1933–1935) and Kentucky House of Representatives (4x), pneumonia.^[23]
• Sir Adrian Curlewis, 84, Australian barrister.
• Alexis FitzGerald Snr, 68, Irish politician, senator (1969–1981).
• Jim Hammond, 77, English footballer.
• James Lordi, 74, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1970–1972).
• Rose Mackwelung, 72-73, Micronesian education activist.
• Jonati Mavoa, 65, Fijian politician.
• Alois Mertes, 63, German politician and diplomat, complications from a stroke.
• Harry Oliver, 86, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Ernst Orvil, 87, Norwegian author.
• George Whitecross Paton, 82, Australian legal scholar and academic administrator.
• Leonard J. Russell, 52-53, American politician, cancer.
• Waldo S. Tippin, 85, American sports coach.

17

• Bernard Bergin, 71, Irish cricketer.
• Russell S. Berkey, 91, American naval admiral.^[24]
• John Boulting, 71, English filmmaker, cancer.^[25]
• Jim Cornford, 73, English cricketer.
• Federico Curiel, 68, Mexican filmmaker.
• James Cyriax, 80, British medical doctor.
• Pieter De Somer, 67, Belgian biologist and physician.
• Pop Dunkley, 80, English rugby player.
• Georgia Hale, 84, American actress.
• Tai Kato, 68, Japanese film director.
• Caroline Ella Heminway Kierstead, 80, American geologist and paleontologist.
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik, 93, German general.
• Kirill Moskalenko, 83, Soviet field marshal.^[26]
• Hettie Shumway, 81, American philanthropist.
• Masaharu Taniguchi, 91, Japanese New Thought leader, founder of Seicho-No-Ie.^[27]
• William McLaughlin Taylor Jr., 76, American judge.

18

• Paul Colin, 92, French artist.
• Andi Depu, 77, Indonesian revolutionary leader.
• John England, 73, Australian politician.
• Kazuo Nagano, 32, Japanese fraudster, stabbed.^[28]
• Axel Strøm, 84, Norwegian physician.
• John Sutro, 82, British film producer.

19

• Ilka Gedő, 64, Hungarian painter.
• Maya Kristalinskaya, 53, Soviet singer.
• Christopher Le Fleming, 77, English composer.
• Bonnie Nettles, 57, American cult leader (Heaven's Gate), melanoma.
• Marjorie Acker Phillips, 90, American painter and art collector, respiratory failure.^[29]
• Chester Sayers, 85, American-born Canadian politician.
• Kenneth Shugart, 59, American naval admiral and basketball player.^[30]
• W. Scott Wilkinson, 90, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1920–1924).

20

• Albert Beech, 72, English footballer.
• Warren Cowgill, 55, American linguist, cancer.^[31]
• Laxmi Das, 67, Indian politician, MP (1962–1967).
• Hilton A. Dickson Jr., 61, American politician, attorney general of New Mexico (1959–1960).
• Svend Frederiksen, 69, Danish footballer.
• Daan Jahja, 60, Indonesian politician and soldier, heart attack.
• Alex Kennedy, 92, Australian footballer.
• John Kirakosyan, 56, Soviet Armenian diplomat and historian.
• Ben H. Lewis, 82, American politician.
• Cipriano Pons, 95, Argentine Olympic fencer (1924).
• Gordon Shrum, 89, Canadian academic administrator.
• Dragomir Tošić, 75, Yugoslav footballer and civil engineer.
• Xuân Thủy, 72, Vietnamese politician and diplomat.^[32]
• Alex Vömel, 87, German gallery owner.

21

• Bahram Aryana, 79, Iranian field marshal.^[33]
• Ettore Boiardi, 87, Italian-born American chef and businessman (Chef Boyardee).^[34]
• Bruno Brandes, 75, German politician.
• Tage Erlander, 84, Swedish politician, prime minister (1946–1969), pneumonia.^[35]
• Hermann Haller, 75, Swiss film editor.
• Desmond White, 73, Scottish footballer.
• Rayma Wilson, 74, American Olympic runner (1928).
• Charles Wojtkoski, 63, American comic book writer and artist, creator of Blue Beetle.

22

• Alice Chancellor, 72, American electronics engineer.
• T. R. Fyvel, 77-78, British writer.
• David B. Goodstein, 53, American magazine publisher (The Advocate) and LGBT rights activist, colorectal cancer.^[36]
• Patricia Ward Hales, 56, British tennis player.
• Seniha Nafız Hızal, 87-88, Turkish politician.
• Walter Stauffer McIlhenny, 74, American businessman (Tabasco) and general, stroke.^[37]
• Lee W. Minton, 73, American labor unionist.
• Mohar Singh Rathore, 59, Indian politician, MP (since 1984).
• Herman Sokol, 68, American chemist.^[38]
• Piero Tellini, 68, Italian filmmaker.
• Kathryn Slaughter Wittichen, 89, American clubwoman.
• Günter Wyszecki, 59, German-Canadian physicist and color scientist.

23

• Alf Anderson, 71, American baseball player.
• Robert Bolgar, 72, English classical scholar.
• Bob Coolbaugh, 45, American football player.^[39]
• Fred Edmunds, 84, Australian politician.
• Cecil Isbell, 69, American football player and coach.
• David Stanley Jacubanis, 74, Russian-born American bank robber.
• Walter Kotschnig, 84, Austrian-American diplomat.^[40]
• René Lécuron, 76, French Olympic runner (1936).
• P. K. Le Roux, 80, South African politician.
• Joe Lintzenich, 77, American football player.
• Leonid Rumyantsev, 69, Soviet footballer.
• Hubert Schulze-Pellengahr, 85, German politician.
• Notable people killed in the bombing of Air India Flight 182:
  • Yelavarthy Nayudamma, 62, Indian chemical engineer and scientist.^[41]
  • Inder Thakur, 35, Indian actor, fashion designer and model.^[42]

24

• Ejnar Andersen, 73, Danish footballer.^[43]
• Charu Chandra Bhandari, 88, Indian lawyer, politician and independence activist.
• Gloria de Herrera, 56, American art collector and restorer, throat cancer.
• Valentine Dyall, 77, English actor and radio personality (Appointment with Fear).
• Eugene M. Emme, 65, American aviation historian, cancer.
• Walter Goldwater, 77, American bookseller, publisher and chess player.^[44]
• Thomas Hagen, 65, New Caledonian politician.
• Hans Mariacher, 74, Austrian Olympic ski jumper (1936).
• Kuninori Marumo, 93, Japanese naval admiral.
• Pete McArdle, 56, Irish-born American Olympic long-distance runner (1964).^[45]
• Rodolfo Nieto, 48, Mexican painter.
• John Sellars, 61, English footballer.

25

• Pee Wee Crayton, 70, American singer and guitarist ("Blues After Hours"), heart attack.^[46]
• William J. Driver, 67, American administrator, commissioner of the Social Security Administration (1980–1981), administrator of Veterans Affairs (1965–1969), kidney failure.^[47]
• Sten Forshufvud, 82, Swedish toxicologist.
• Morris Mason, 31, American convicted murderer and rapist, execution by electric chair.^[48]
• Raoul Naroll, 64, Canadian-born American anthropologist.^[49]
• Otto L. Nelson Jr., 82, American general.
• John R. Solomon, 75, Canadian politician.
• Albert Waters, 83, English cricketer.

26

• Anastasia Abramova, 83, Russian ballerina.
• Felix Dias Bandaranaike, 54, Sri Lankan politician, MP (1960–1977), cancer.
• Pat Curran, 76, New Zealand trade unionist and politician.
• Frank Dancewicz, 60, American football player.
• Sir Arthur fforde, 84, English civil servant.
• Tina Gray, 100, Scottish surgeon.
• Jaroslav Kožešník, 78, Czechoslovak mathematician.
• Torstein Kvamme, 92, Norwegian politician.
• Maurice Miles, 76-77, English conductor.
• John Phillips, 74, South African cricketer.
• Wes Schulmerich, 83, American baseball player.
• Sid Wileman, 75, English footballer.

27

• Declan Affley, 45, Australian folk singer and musician, aortic dissection.^[50]
• Bjørn Christophersen, 84, Norwegian historian.
• William D. Clark, 68, English public servant.
• James Craig, 73, American actor, lung cancer.^[51]
• Muhlis Erkmen, 93-94, Turkish politician.
• William Evans, Baron Energlyn, 72, Welsh geologist and life peer.
• Grete Hinterhofer, 85, Austrian pianist and composer.
• Yona Kesse, 77, Russian-born Israeli politician, MK (1949–1965).
• Eleanor La Mance, 86, American opera singer.
• Bill Langenberg, 81, Australian rugby player.
• Morris Mirkin, 66, American businessman (Budget Rent a Car), cancer.^[52]
• Konstantinos Mitsou, 75-76, Greek general, traffic collision.
• Patrick Joseph Morrissey, 49, Irish police officer, shot.
• Preston E. Peden, 70, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1949).
• John Pozzobon, 80, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate and activist (Pilgrim Mother Campaign), traffic collision.
• Kovkab Safaraliyeva, 78, Soviet Azerbaijani pianist.
• Élias Sarkis, 60, Lebanese politician, president (1976–1982), cancer.^[53]
• South African anti-Apartheid activists murdered this day:
  • Fort Calata, 28.
  • Matthew Goniwe, 38.
  • Sicelo Mhlauli, 36.
  • Sparrow Mkhonto, 33.

28

• Howard Wright Alexander, 74, Canadian-American mathematician.
• Boris Blai, 91, Ukrainian-born American sculptor and academic administrator.
• Denis Martin Cowley, 66, British barrister.
• Lambros Konstantaras, 72, Greek actor.
• John H. Leims, 64, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Kalle Matilainen, 85, Finnish Olympic runner (1928).
• Máire Ní Scolaí, 76, Irish singer.
• Herb Schumm, 42, Canadian football player.
• Mischa Spoliansky, 86, Russian-born British composer.
• Jimmy Thomson, 76, Scottish-born American golfer.
• Lynd Ward, 80, American artist and wordless novelist, complications from Alzheimer's disease.^[54]

29

• Jaroslav Dietl, 56, Czechoslovak screenwriter and playwright.
• Max Grässli, 83, Swiss diplomat.
• Mel Kenealy, 82, American racing driver.
• Andrzej Kijowski, 56, Polish essayist and screenwriter.
• Enrique Lantigua, 75, Dominican baseball player.
• Dora Maxwell, 87-88, American credit unionist.
• Orville Singer, 86, American baseball player.
• Frank E. Snodgrass, 65, American oceanographer.
• Walter Rudi Wand, 56, German judge.

30

• K. H. Ara, 71, Indian painter.
• James Dewar, 88, Canadian baker, inventor of the Twinkie.^[55]
• Mihai Flamaropol, 66, Romanian footballer, ice hockey player and ice hockey coach.
• Natalie Hays Hammond, 81, American artist.
• Robert Martin, 66, English cricketer.
• Sir Anthony Miers, 78, Scottish naval admiral.
• Max-Josef Pemsel, 88, German general.
• Milada Petříková-Pavlíková, 89, Czechoslovak architect.
• John Nyathi Pokela, 62, South African political activist.
• Haruo Remeliik, 54, Palauan politician, president (since 1981), shot.^[56]
• Swami Rudrananda, 84, Indian-Fijian Hindu monk.
• Edward Slaughter, 82, American football player and coach.
• Carl-Erik Stockenberg, 60, Swedish handball player.
• Clarence D. Tuska, 88, American radio engineer.
• Patricia Walker-Shaw, 45, American insurance executive.