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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 1986

1

• Albert Aley, 66, American filmmaker.^[1]
• Rattan Bai, 95, Indian actress and singer.
• Teodor Bieregowoj, 77, Polish Olympic racewalker (1936).
• Lord David Cecil, 83, British historian.^[2]
• Kenneth de Burgh Codrington, 86, British archaeologist.
• Roger Erell, 78, French architect.
• Marty Friedman, 96, American basketball player and coach.
• Bill Hall, 57, American Major League baseball player.
• Emmet Lavery, 83, American screenwriter.^[3]
• Pavao Löw, 75, Yugoslav footballer.
• Harry McQuinn, 80, American racing driver.
• Eibhlín Ní Bhriain, 60, Irish journalist.
• Bruce Norris, 61, American NHL ice hockey executive (Detroit Red Wings), liver failure.^[4]

2

• Leo Bensemann, 73, New Zealand artist and typographer.
• Vera Buck, 82, Australian pianist and composer.
• John Chenoweth, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1941–1949, 1951–1965).
• Patrick Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 4th Baron Derwent, 84, British politician and hereditary peer.
• Bob Finley, 70, American Major League baseball player.
• Hartford N. Gunn Jr., 59, American television executive (PBS), leukoencephalopathy.^[5]
• John Hargis, 65, American NBA basketball player.
• Günther Heydemann, 71, German U-boat commander.
• John Howard, 84, British civil engineer.
• Wilbur V. Hubbard, 78, American college sports coach, stroke.
• Herb Magidson, 79, American lyricist.^[6]
• Patricia Miles Martin, 86, American author.
• Percy McKelvey, 89, Canadian politician.
• Una Merkel, 82, American actress (Summer and Smoke, The Ponder Heart).^[7]
• Nonna Muravyova, 79, Soviet politician.
• Jock Richardson, 79, Scottish footballer.
• Bill Veeck, 71, American Major League baseball executive, lung cancer.^[8]
• Frithjov Meier Vik, 83, Norwegian politician.

3

• Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, 89, American journalist.^[9]
• Lindesay Clark, 89, Australian mining engineer and executive.
• John Cronin, 69, British politician, MP (1955–1979), heart attack.
• George G. Finch, 83, American general.
• Dustin Gee, 43, British comedian, heart attack.
• Clare W. Graves, 71, American psychologist.
• Chico Hernández, 70, Cuban Major League baseball player.
• Jimmy Ithell, 69, Welsh footballer.
• Jens Bjerre Jacobsen, 82, Danish composer.
• Georg Krause, 84, German cinematographer (Paths of Glory).
• Jim Quinn, 81, Australian rules footballer.
• Nani Wartabone, 78, Indonesian politician.
• Jan Zumbach, 70, Polish flying ace.

4

• Giuseppe Addobbati, 76, Italian actor.
• Gösta Bernhard, 75, Swedish actor and filmmaker.
• Henry Field, 83, American anthropologist, respiratory failure.^[10]
• Wilbur R. Franks, 84, Canadian scientist, inventor of the g-suit.
• Jan Huges, 81, Dutch Olympic rower (1928).
• Christopher Isherwood, 81, British-American writer (Goodbye to Berlin, A Single Man, Christopher and His Kind), prostate cancer.^[11]
• Jack Little, 77, American-Australian broadcaster.
• Walter K. Long, 81, American historian.
• Phil Lynott, 36, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy) and songwriter ("The Boys Are Back in Town"), sepsis.
• Lisi Mangold, 35, Swiss actress, cancer.
• Dave Morey, 96, American college sports coach.
• Edward Pugh, 76, British Anglican prelate.
• Frits Schutte, 88, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1924).
• Maskoen Soemadiredja, 78, Indonesian politician.
• J. B. H. Wadia, 84, Indian filmmaker.

5

• Johnnie S. Aikens, 71, American politician.
• Sir John Barlow, 2nd Baronet, 87, British politician, MP (1945–1966).
• Elena de Galantha, 95, Hungarian-American histologist.^[12]
• Joseph DiVarco, 74, American mobster.^[13]
• Thomas Heathcote, 68, British actor.
• Don McKellar, 61, Australian politician.
• Ilmari Salminen, 83, Finnish Olympic long-distance runner (1936).^[14]
• Eivind Sværen, 68, Norwegian shot putter.
• Wei Wu Wei, 90, British theatre producer and Taoist philosopher.
• Radovan Zogović, 78, Yugoslav poet.

6

• Ronnie Cord, 42, Brazilian singer.
• Johnny Dawson, 83, American golfer.
• Shanti Kumar Desai, 77, Indian music director.
• Jan Halle, 82, Dutch footballer.
• Christopher Jayawardena, 87, Sri Lankan conservationist.
• Frank Miller, 73, American cellist.
• Fernand Oubradous, 82, French musician.
• N. K. Seshan, 58, Indian politician.
• James E. Van Zandt, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1939–1943, 1947–1963).^[15]

7

• Germaine Arbeau-Bonnefoy, 92, French pianist.
• Joe Burns, 85, American Major League baseball player (Chicago White Sox).^[16]
• P. D. Eastman, 76, American children's author (Are You My Mother?, Go, Dog. Go!, Sam and the Firefly), pneumonia.^[17]
• Joe Busbey Hamiter, 86, American judge.
• Wilfred Holmes, 85, American naval officer.
• Suleiman Khater, 24–25, Egyptian mass murderer (Ras Burqa massacre), suicide by hanging.
• John C. Mandanici, 68, American politician.
• Nicholas Mormando, 41, American mobster (Gambino crime family), shot.
• Juan Rulfo, 68, Mexican author and screenwriter.^[18]
• George Sixta, 76, American cartoonist.^[19]
• Fred Thomsen, 88, American NFL football player and coach.
• Rex Wailes, 84, English historian and engineer.

8

• Gordon Adamson, 81, Canadian architect.
• Basil Fitzherbert, 14th Baron Stafford, 59, English hereditary peer.
• Pierre Fournier, 79, French cellist.
• Sidney Harrison, 82, British pianist and composer.
• Maria L. de Hernández, 89, Mexican-American civil rights activist.
• Henry Lillee, 74, Irish Anglican prelate.
• Josette Nevière, 52, French Olympic skier (1956).
• Neil Savaryn, 80, Russian-Canadian Greek Catholic prelate.
• Hans Schmitz, 89, German politician.
• Mansel Thomas, 76, Welsh composer.

9

• Jimmy Adams, 75, Scottish golfer.
• Lucia Chase, 88, American dancer and actress.^[20]
• Michel de Certeau, 60, French sociologist, pancreatic cancer.
• W. S. Graham, 67, Scottish poet.
• Harry Hopkins, 73, New Zealand civil engineer and academics administrator.
• Wilson Jones, 71, Welsh footballer.
• Rod Macalpine-Downie, 51, English sailboat designer.
• Fabio Mangilli, 74, Italian Olympic equestrian (1948).
• Carl Ross, 84, English fishing entrepreneur.
• Henry Tucker, 82, Bermudan politician.

10

• Ernst Angel, 91, Austrian-born American poet and screenwriter.
• Moritz Daublebsky-Sterneck, 73, Austrian humanitarian.
• Joe Farrell, 48, American jazz musician, myelodysplastic syndrome.^[21]
• Emil Forrer, 91, Swiss linguist and archaeologist.
• Eta Harich-Schneider, 91, German musicologist.
• Edward G. Janeway, 84, American politician, member of the Vermont Senate (1959–1979).
• Roy Johnson, 90, American Major League baseball player and coach.
• Joseph Kraft, 61, American journalist, heart failure.^[22]
• Ernst Lehner, 73, German footballer.
• Wilhelm Philipp, 69, German flying ace.
• Reg Rattey, 67, Australian soldier, VC recipient.
• James Terry Roach, 25, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.
• Ramón Sainz de Varanda, 61, Spanish politician.
• Werner Schindler, 80, Swiss architect.^[23]
• Jaroslav Seifert, 84, Czechoslovak writer, Nobel Prize recipient (1984).^[24]
• Martin Stevens, 56, British politician, MP (since 1979).
• Rogelio Tapia, 82, Spanish footballer.
• James M. Tunnell Jr., 75, American politician.
• Carlo Varetto, 80, Italian Olympic sports shooter (1936, 1956).

11

• Ilya Averbakh, 51, Soviet film director.
• Prescott E. Bloom, 43, American politician, house fire.^[25]
• Phil Brady, 42, American NFL football player.
• Sid Chaplin, 69, English writer.
• Robert E. Coulson, 73, American politician.
• Andrzej Czok, 37, Polish mountaineer, pulmonary edema.
• Clarence Ekstrom, 83, American naval admiral.
• Annie Hooper, 88, American sculptor.
• Kazuo Kamimura, 45, Japanese manga artist, hypopharyngeal cancer.
• Walter P. Kellenberg, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Heinz Plumanns, 83, German Olympic diver (1928).
• Henri-Charles Puech, 83, French historian.
• Maja Refsum, 88, Norwegian sculptor.
• Grover Resinger, 70, American Major League baseball coach.
• Roger Trinquier, 77, French soldier.

12

• Jack Andrews, 82, Northern Irish politician.
• Marcel Arland, 86, French novelist.
• Robert C. Atherton, 77, American magazine editor and publisher.
• Hinko Bauer, 77, Yugoslav architect.
• Joseph Ben-David, 65, Hungarian-Israeli sociologist.
• Ludwig Biermann, 78, German astronomer.
• Ladislao Brazionis, 56, Uruguayan footballer.
• Martin Burkenroad, 75, American marine biologist.
• Juan Carlos Corazzo, 78, Uruguayan footballer.
• Assia Dagher, 77, Lebanese-Egyptian actress.
• Bob Kaufman, 60, American poet and jazz musician, emphysema.^[26]
• Lars Leksell, 78, Swedish physician.
• Herbert Prince, 94, English footballer.
• Eduardo Risso, 60, Uruguayan Olympic rower (1948, 1952).^[27]
• Eddie Solomon, 34, American Major League baseball player, traffic collision.^[28]
• Sunawar Sukowati, 63, Indonesian politician.
• Norman Turnbull, 85, Canadian politician.
• Hoylande Young, 82, American chemist.

13

• Alberto Abdala, 65, Uruguayan politician, vice president (1967–1972).
• Lurline Collier, 92, American educator.
• Mike Garcia, 62, American Major League baseball player, diabetes.
• Jacqueline Groag, 82, English textile designer.
• Jan Holobrádek, 70, Czechoslovak Olympic rower (1936).
• Abdul Fattah Ismail, 46, South Yemeni politician, killed in battle.^[29]
• Pierre Mwana Kasongo, 47, Zairian footballer.
• Wilhelm Kunst, 76, German wood sculptor.
• Kevin Longbottom, 45, Australian rugby league player.
• Nicolò Tronci, 80, Italian Olympic gymnast (1936).
• Sayuri Yōko, 84, Japanese actress.

14

• Daniel Balavoine, 33, French singer, helicopter crash.
• William W. Hagerty, 69, American academic administrator, cancer.^[30]
• Geoffrey Herklots, 83–84, British botanist and ornithologist.
• Alv Johnsen, 66, Norwegian physician and soldier.
• Jaime Silvério Marques, 70–71, Portuguese colonial administrator, governor of Macau (1959–1962).
• Carolyn Conn Moore, 82, American politician.
• Donna Reed, 64, American actress (From Here to Eternity, It's a Wonderful Life, The Donna Reed Show), pancreatic cancer.^[31]
• Reg Reid, 86, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto St. Patricks).^[32]
• Juan Manuel Rozas, 49–50, Spanish writer.
• Raissa Ruus, 43, Soviet Estonian Olympic runner (1972).
• Thierry Sabine, 36, French motorcycle racer, helicopter crash.
• Alfred Schlecht, 82, Swiss footballer.
• Robert Trösch, 74, Swiss actor.
• Valerian Zorin, 84, Soviet diplomat.

15

• Samuel Bason, 91, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (1947–1959).
• Alfred Bestall, 93, British cartoonist (Rupert Bear).
• Lamar Boren, 68, American cinematographer.
• Knut Brynildsen, 68, Norwegian footballer.
• Jean Cassou, 88, French poet.
• George Cobb, 71, American golf course designer.
• Jim Crowley, 83, American football player.^[33]
• Emil Hasler, 84, German art director.
• Les MacFarlane, 66, Australian politician.
• Thomas A. Maloney, 96, American politician, member of the California Senate (1925–1933) and State Assembly (1933–1957).^[34]
• Nyle McFarlane, 50, American football player.
• Anni Rehborn, 81, German swimmer.
• Vladimir Rodimushkin, 64, Soviet Olympic rower (1952).^[35]
• Fred Thomas, 93, American Major League baseball player.
• Anna Zemánková, 77, Czechoslovak painter.

16

• Herbert W. Armstrong, 93, American evangelist, founder of the Worldwide Church of God.^[36]
• Sir Laurence Durlacher, 81, British naval admiral.
• Mervin Glennie, 67, English cricketer.
• Eduard Götzl, 64, Czech-born German politician.
• James L. Hicks, 70, American journalist, stroke.^[37]
• Hu Yuzhi, 89, Chinese politician.
• Archie E. O'Neil, 80, American general.
• Bill Richardson, 77, British newspaper editor.
• Gene Rose, 72, American NFL football player.
• Stjepan Šulek, 71, Yugoslav Croatian composer.
• Ryūzaburō Umehara, 97, Japanese painter.
• Pearl Warren, 74, American community leader.
• Peter Waterman, 51, English boxer.

17

• Ernest C. Arbuckle, 73, American business leader and academic administrator, traffic collision.^[38]
• Earl Conrad, 79, American author and historian, lymphoma.^[39]
• Tommy Frame, 83, Scottish footballer.
• Robert Lyden, 43, American actor.
• A. C. N. Nambiar, 89–90, Indian diplomat.
• Halldor O. Opedal, 90, Norwegian folklorist.

18

• Donald Putnam Abbott, 65, American zoologist.
• Maurice Brennan, 72, British aeronautical engineer.
• Frida Clara, 77, Italian Olympic skier (1936).
• Robert MacFarlan Cole III, 96, American chemical engineer.^[40]
• Araldo di Crollalanza, 93, Italian politician.
• Walo Hörning, 75, Swiss Olympic fencer (1948).
• Lennox Johnston, 86, Scottish physician and anti-smoking advocate.
• Edwin Luke, 74, American actor.
• McKinley Mitchell, 51, American blues musician.^[41]
• Eugen Ray, 28, German sprinter, traffic collision.
• Edmundo Rivero, 74, Argentine musician.
• Nancy Wilson Ross, 84, American novelist.^[42]
• Pat Quinn, 55, English rugby union and rugby league player.
• Ishimoda Shō, 73, Japanese historian.
• Arthur Wheat, 64, English footballer.

19

• Gérard Caron, 69, Canadian pianist.
• Sammy Drechsel, 60, German comedian and sports broadcaster.
• Kanwar Lal Gupta, 61, Indian politician.
• E. Lowell Kelly, 80, American psychologist.
• Sam Martindale, 80, English rugby union player.
• Nikola Perlić, 73, Yugoslav footballer.
• Nino Salvo, 56, Italian businessman, cancer.
• R. Tom Sawyer, 84, American locomotive engineer.
• Hans Hartvig Seedorff, 93, Danish poet and lyricist.
• George Sinker, 85, Indian-British Anglican prelate.
• Sir Colin Syme, 82, Australian businessman and lawyer.
• Vainerere Tangatapoto, 73, Cook Islands politician.
• Carol Stuart Watson, 54, American illustrator.
• Cy Wentworth, 82, American NFL football player.
• Adam Włodek, 63, Polish poet.

20

• Sidney Barton, 76, British politician.
• Obrad Belošević, 57, Yugoslav basketball referee.
• Stanley George Browne, 78, British medical researcher.
• John D. Calandra, 57, American politician, heart attack.^[43]
• Sir Alec Clegg, 76, English educationalist.
• Louis Hartz, 66, American historian and political scientist, seizure.
• Theodor Hoelty-Nickel, 91, German-American musicologist.
• Robert Judd, 59–60, American actor.
• Franz Kemser, 75, German Olympic bobsledder (1952).^[44]
• Alex Munro, 74, Scottish comedian.
• Elizabeth Nickell-Lean, 77, English singer and actor.
• Grace E. Pickford, 83, British-American biologist.
• Harold John Pye, 84, British manufacturing executive.
• Tove Tellback, 86, Norwegian actress.
• Eyaz Zaxoyî, 25, Iraqi composer, tuberculosis.

21

• Edith Clara Batho, 90, British academic administrator.
• W. W. Behrens Jr., 63, American naval admiral and oceanographer, heart attack.^[45]
• William Bryant, 86, English footballer.
• Zuck Carlson, 81, American NFL football player (Chicago Bears).^[46]
• Mary Eristavi, 97, Russian-French aristocrat and fashion model.
• Violet B. Haas, 59, American mathematician, brain cancer.
• Tatsumi Hijikata, 57, Japanese choreographer.
• Doug Keene, 57, English footballer.
• Bogna Krasnodębska-Gardowska, 85, Polish painter.
• Martin C. Lueck, 97, American politician.
• Sir Gordon MacMillan, 89, Scottish general.
• Clara Moores, 89, American actress.
• Günther Pape, 78, German general.
• Baby Ray, 71, American NFL football player (Green Bay Packers), heart attack.^[47]
• Anders Törnkvist, 65, Swedish Olympic skier (1948, 1952).
• Ferol Sibley Warthen, 95, American painter.
• Margery Wilson, 89, American actress, stroke.^[48]

22

• Frederick George Beale, 79, British police officer.
• Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, 66, British aristocrat.
• Scott Dobson, 67, English art critic.
• Ilse Fromm-Michaels, 97, German pianist and composer.
• Thomas Baden Morris, 85, English playwright.
• Gilbert Roberts, 85, English naval officer.
• Mary Eleanor Spear, 88, American data visualization specialist.
• Carl Wittman, 42, American gay rights activist, suicide by drug overdose.

23

• Ann Andrews, 95, American actress.^[49]
• Charles Bergonzi, 75, Monegasque Olympic sports shooter (1952).
• Joseph Beuys, 64, German sculptor and art theorist, heart failure.^[50]
• Yvonne Lefébure, 87, French pianist.
• Tina Leser, 75, American fashion designer.
• Charles Moore, 57, American choreographer.
• Quinn Tamm, 75, American federal agent.
• Willard Van Dyke, 79, American filmmaker, heart attack.^[51]

24

• Ottorino Aloisio, 83, Italian architect.
• John Boozer, 47, American Major League baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), Hodgkin lymphoma.^[52]
• Sir Victor Crutchley, 92, British naval admiral, VC recipient.
• Emerson LeRoy Cummings, 83, American general.
• Mary Hewins, 71, British autobiographer.
• L. Ron Hubbard, 74, American author (Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Battlefield Earth), founder of the Church of Scientology, complications from a stroke.^[53]
• Flo Hyman, 31, American Olympic volleyball player (1984), aortic dissection.^[54]
• Masazumi Inada, 89, Japanese general.
• Niilo Juvonen, 57, Finnish Olympic skier (1952).
• Gordon MacRae, 64, American actor (Oklahoma!, On Moonlight Bay, Carousel), pneumonia.^[55]
• Matthew Francis McGuire, 87, American judge.
• Hap Perry, 89, American college sports coach.
• Alfred Schlemm, 91, German general.
• Léopold Szondi, 92, Hungarian psychologist.
• John Vaughan Wilkes, 83, English academics administrator.

25

• Antony Gibbs, 5th Baron Aldenham, 63, British hereditary peer.
• Robert Ancelin, 87, French actor.
• Gunnar Bergh, 76, Swedish Olympic discus thrower (1936).
• Pat Coffee, 70, American NFL football player.
• Edda Ferronao, 52, Italian actress.
• Albert Grossman, 59, American music manager (Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Gordon Lightfoot), heart attack.^[56]
• Alfred Huber, 75, German footballer.
• Josef Kammhuber, 89, German general.
• Bill Kraus, 38, American gay rights activist, AIDS.
• Ernst Schnabel, 72, German writer.
• Tony Scornavacca, 59, American painter, lung cancer.
• Dennis Smith, 73, New Zealand cricketer.
• Oswald J. Smith, 96, Canadian evangelist.

26

• Frank Camp, 80, American football player.
• José Luis Costa, 76, Spanish footballer.
• Gérard Duquet, 76, Canadian politician.
• Mercy Hatton, 95, British actress.
• George Hindori, 52, Surinamese politician.
• Katherine G. Howard, 87, American diplomat and politician.
• Bernard Lorjou, 77, French painter.
• Norman MacKenzie, 92, Canadian politician and academics administrator.
• Julien Médécin, 91, Monegasque architect.
• Nicholas Moore, 67, English poet.
• Ruben Nirvi, 80, Finnish linguist.^[57]
• Zabelle Panosian, 94, Ottoman-born American singer.
• Gertrude Warner, 68, American radio personality, cancer.^[58]

27

• Nikhil Banerjee, 54, Indian sitarist, heart attack.^[59]
• Arthur Llewellyn Basham, 71, British historian.
• Edward Biberman, 81, American artist, cancer.^[60]
• Lincoln Borglum, 73, American sculptor.^[61]
• Leslie William Cannon, 81, British Air Force officer.
• Worden Day, 73, American painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
• Robert Fraser, 48, English art dealer, AIDS.
• Britte Hughey, 75, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1956–1964).^[62]
• Karl Köther, 80, German Olympic cyclist (1928).
• Truman H. Landon, 80, American general.
• Flint Magama, Zimbabwean army officer, helicopter crash.
• Ken Moule, 60, English jazz pianist.
• Lilli Palmer, 71, German-American actress (But Not for Me), stomach cancer.^[63]
• Seán Quinn, 55–56, Irish footballer.
• Michal Vičan, 60, Czechoslovak footballer.
• George Wade, 94, English pottery manufacturer.

28

• Arthur Baxter, 76, Scottish cricketer.
• Richard E. Berlin, 91-92, American president and CEO of the Hearst Foundation.
• Ham Dowling, 90, American football player and roadway engineer.
• Tom Grubbs, 91, American Major League baseball player.
• James Edward Moore, 83, American general.^[64]
• Dorothée Pullinger, 92, French-British automobile engineer.
• Allen Saunders, 86, American cartoonist.^[65]
• Zonja Wallen-Lawrence, 93, Swedish-born American biochemist.
• American astronauts killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (crew of STS-51-L):^[66]
  • Gregory Jarvis, 41.
  • Christa McAuliffe, 37.
  • Ronald McNair, 35.
  • Ellison Onizuka, 39.
  • Judith Resnik, 36.
  • Dick Scobee, 46.
  • Michael J. Smith, 40.

29

• Arabik Baghdasarian, 46, Iranian graphic designer.
• Everett Barksdale, 75, American jazz musician.
• Kenneth Came, 60, English cricketer.
• Leif Erickson, 74, American actor, cancer.^[67]
• Edmond Leveugle, 81, French footballer.
• Manfred Metzger, 80, Swiss Olympic sailor (1960).^[68]
• Otho Prior-Palmer, 88, British politician, MP (1945–1964).
• Édouard Souberbielle, 86, French organist.

30

• Jean Sala Breitenstein, 85, American judge.
• Fédérico Ezquerra, 76, Spanish cyclist.
• Jessie Scott Hathcock, 91, American educator and civil rights activist.
• Alexander Hemphill, 64, American lawyer and politician.
• Nils Astrup Hoel, 86, Norwegian businessman.
• Ivan Papanin, 91, Soviet polar explorer.
• Gusztáv Sebes, 80, Hungarian footballer.
• Ray Thorburn, 55, Australian politician.
• Les Townsend, 71, Australian cricket umpire.
• Percy Vivian, 83, Canadian politician.
• Dame Jocelyn Woollcombe, 87, British naval director.

31

• Tom Adey, 84, English footballer.
• Bill Bryson Sr., 70, American sports journalist.
• John Moore Caldicott, 85, Zimbabwean politician.
• P. J. Conkwright, 80, American graphic designer.
• Freddie Burke Frederick, 65, American actor.
• Philip Jessup, 88, American diplomat and judge.^[69]
• Murray Kane, 70, American composer and band manager.
• Moderato, 83, Brazilian footballer.
• Dick Seabrook, 75–76, British trade unionist.
• Boris Smolar, 88, Russian-born American journalist.
• H. E. Tester, 80–81, Danish philatelist.
• Silvio Tozzi, 77, Italian Olympic wrestler (1932, 1936).
• Charles Turzak, 86, American artist.^[70]
• Arie van der Stel, 91, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1920).
• Tony Velona, 65, American songwriter.

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59. Nikhil Banerjee Dies; Sitar Virtuoso Was 55
60. Edward Biberman, Celebrated L.A. Artist, Dies (subscription required)
61. Lincoln Borglum Dies; Aided at Mt. Rushmore
62. Britte Hughey dies, services held today
63. Lilli Palmer, Actress on TV, Stage and Screen for 50 Years
64. James E. Moore, Retired Army General, Dies (subscription required)
65. Allen Saunders Dies; 'Mary Worth' Creator
66. The Shuttle Explodes: 6 in Crew and High-School Teacher are Killed 74 Seconds After Liftoff
67. Leif Erickson Is Dead; A Movie and TV Actor
68. "Olympedia – Manfred Metzger". www.olympedia.org.
69. Philip C. Jessup Dies; Helped End Berlin Blockade
70. Charles Turzak (subscription required)

External links

• List of January 1986 deaths at IMDb