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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
Ramón Carande , 99, Spanish historian.
Tina Cooper , 68, English pediatrician, cancer.
Earl B. Dickerson , 95, American lawyer and politician.
Phil Feldesman , 67, Russian-born American bridge player.
R. B. Freeman , 71, English zoologist, heart attack.
Ivor Guy , 59, English footballer.
Murray Hamilton , 63, American actor (
Jaws ), lung cancer.
[1]
Colin McCathie , 76, Australian politician.
Bobby Moers , 68, American basketball, football and baseball player.
Eddie Vitch , 83, Polish-born American-Australian comedian
2
Frank Bartkus , 70, American soccer player.
Thomas Butler Dowda , 87, American politician, member of the
Florida House of Representatives (1941–1953).
[2]
Mahmoud Kaveh , 25, Iranian soldier,
killed in action .
Nuno Morais , 63, Portuguese Olympic sprinter (
1948 ).
Philip Radcliffe , 81, English musicologist.
Billy Taylor , 80, American jazz bassist.
Malcolm Walker , 52, English cricketer, traffic collision.
Jim Wilson , 64, American baseball player, cancer.
3
Vasantrao Ghatge , 70, Indian business magnate.
Wirgiliusz Gryń , 58, Polish actor.
Horace King, Baron Maybray-King , 85, British politician.
Pino Mercanti , 75, Italian filmmaker.
Glennon T. Moran , 67, American general and flying ace, cancer.
Kit Mouat , 66, English poet and activist.
Ted Moult , 60, British radio and television personality, suicide by gunshot.
Knocky Parker , 68, American jazz pianist.
Vittorino Veronese , 76, Italian lawyer, director-general of
UNESCO (1958–1961).
Frank Corbett Welch , 86, Canadian politician and horticulturalist.
Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr. , 80, American jurist.
[3]
4
Edd Ashe , 78, American comic writer and cartoonist.
Christer Boustedt , 47, Swedish musician and actor.
Alexei Fofanov , 71, Soviet soldier.
Françoise Gaudet-Smet , 83, Canadian writer.
Roberto Gavaldón , 77, Mexican film director.
Otto Glória , 69, Brazilian football manager.
Hank Greenberg , 75, American
Hall of Fame baseball player (
Detroit Tigers ), kidney cancer.
[4]
Decio Klettenberg , 84, Brazilian Olympic rower (
1936 ).
Wayne Nance , 30, American serial killer, shot.
Frank Stewart , 76, Australian footballer.
Sid Tanenbaum , 60, American basketball player, stabbed.
[5]
Walter Wanderley , 54, Brazilian musician, cancer.
Dov Zakin , 63, Israeli politician.
5
Neerja Bhanot , 22, Indian flight
purser ,
shot .
Alvin Heaps , 66, American labor union leader.
[6]
Noel Kempff Mercado , 62, Bolivian biologist and environmentalist, shot.
József Kiss , 77, Hungarian Olympic runner (
1948 ).
Alfredo Rossi , 80, Italian pianist.
Erich Schumacher , 77, German theatre director.
Ganapathi Thanikaimoni , 48, Indian
palynologist ,
shot .
Trần Quốc Hoàn , 70, Vietnamese politician.
6
Weston Bousfield , 82, American psychologist.
Jacek Daniluk , 25, Polish Olympic equestrian (
1980 ).
Thomas Wardrope Eadie , 88, Canadian business executive.
William Littell Everitt , 86, American electrical engineer.
[7]
George Gipe , 53, American author and screenwriter, allergic reaction to a
bee sting .
[8]
John Stanley Grauel , 68, American priest and
Christian Zionist leader.
[9]
George P. Monaghan , 85, American lawyer and emergency services commissioner.
Leonard Outerbridge , 98, Canadian politician.
Ernest Schmidt , 75, American basketball player.
Blanche Sweet , 90, American silent film actress, stroke.
[10]
Hiroshi Tadano , 72, Japanese Olympic skier (
1936 ).
Fred Taggart , 80, English golfer.
7
Ola Bøe , 76, Norwegian fiddler.
Skipper Bowles , 66, American politician and businessman, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
[11]
Les Bury , 73, English-Australian politician.
Paul Roberts Cannon , 94, American physician.
Nelson Dunford , 79, American mathematician.
Raimundo Infante , 58, Chilean footballer.
Lloyd Kerns , 65, American politician, member of the
Ohio House of Representatives (1967–1972).
Spencer Le Marchant , 55, British politician.
Monte McDaniel , 91, American football player and coach.
Jack Mizuha , 72, American jurist.
Dan K. Moore , 80, American politician,
governor of North Carolina (1965–1969).
[12]
Omar Ali Saifuddien III , 71, Bruneian royal,
sultan (1950–1957).
[13]
P. S. Ramakrishna Rao , 67, Indian filmmaker.
Sir Percy Rugg , 80, British politician.
Vladimir Vlasov , 83, Soviet composer.
Capus M. Waynick , 96, American diplomat.
Hewitt T. Wheless , 72, American general
8
José Carrasco Tapia , 43, Chilean journalist, murdered.
Vladimír Janoušek , 64, Czech painter and sculptor.
Ray Nazarro , 83, American filmmaker.
Idar Norstrand , 71, Norwegian politician.
Reece Sailer , 70, American entomologist.
Alfred Schaefer , 81, Swiss banker.
Tomasz Stefaniszyn , 57, Polish footballer.
George Tully , 72, Canadian Olympic fencer (
1936 ).
9
Kessler R. Cannon , 70, American politician and radio broadcaster, member of the
Oregon House of Representatives (1961–1964).
[14]
Getzel Kressel , 75, Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli biographer.
Albert Malet , 73-74, French painter.
Robert Shackleton , 66, English linguist.
Magda Tagliaferro , 93, Brazilian pianist.
Franciszek Tim , 62, Polish footballer.
10
Pepper Adams , 55, American jazz saxophonist, lung cancer.
[15]
Mary V. Austin , 86, Australian political activist.
Jake Bornheimer , 59, American basketball player.
Deane Gundlock , 72, Canadian politician.
María Dolores Katarain , 32, Spanish Basque separatist leader, shot.
Sobhi Mahmassani , 77, Lebanese lawyer and politician, lung cancer.
Ronnie Shade , 47, Scottish golfer
Harry Shafransky , 56, Polish-born Canadian politician, heart attack.
Koji Shima , 85, Japanese filmmaker.
Andrei Zazroyev , 60, Soviet Georgian football player and manager.
11
Revington Arthur , 79, American painter.
Red Bethea , 81, American football player.
Arthur Carr , 76, British Olympic equestrian (
1948 ).
Harry Haslam , 65, English football player and manager.
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , 83, Greek politician,
prime minister (1945, 1967).
Galo Miño , 33, Ecuadorian Olympic sports shooter (
1984 ), shot.
Otho Nitcholas , 77, American baseball player.
Felix Perrault , 70, American politician, member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives (1965–1979).
Henry DeWolf Smyth , 88, American physicist and diplomat, cardiac arrest.
[16]
Noel Streatfeild , 90, English children's author.
Billy Walsh , 75, Australian footballer.
12
Philip Ingress Bell , 86, British politician.
Marcel Boigegrain , 57, French Olympic rower (
1948 ).
James Louis Connolly , 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
Ernst Haas , 65, Austrian-born American photojournalist, stroke.
[17]
Edwin B. Hooper , 77, American naval admiral.
Jacques Henri Lartigue , 92, French photographer and painter.
[18]
Terence MacDonagh , 78, English oboist.
Manjula , 31, Indian actress, suicide by fire.
Harold Moody , 70, British Olympic shot putter (
1948 ).
Frank Nelson , 75, American actor (
The Jack Benny Program ), cancer.
[19]
Ernst Paulus , 89, German Olympic athlete (
1928 ).
Gerhard Rohlfs , 94, German linguist.
Annibale Ruccello , 30, Italian playwright, traffic collision.
Jim Shilling , 72, American baseball player.
Bruce Wardlaw , 72, Australian cricketer and footballer.
Charlotte Wolff , 88, German-British
sexologist .
13
Dick May , 76, Australian footballer.
Antonio Mota , 47, Mexican footballer.
Robert Nisbet , 85, British Olympic rower (
1928 ).
Neil Robinson , 24, Northern Irish racing cyclist, racing crash.
Sam Shields , 57, Scottish footballer.
Oscar Wight , 80, Guyanese cricketer.
Roger Wrightson , 46, English cricketer.
14
William Edmund Barrett , 85, American writer (
The Lilies of the Field ).
[20]
John Bingham , 32-33, Northern Irish
loyalist soldier, shot.
Leslie Blanchard , 52, American hairdresser and legal figure (
Braschi v. Stahl Associates Co. ), AIDS.
David Harold Byrd , 86, American oil executive.
Charles Caputo , 74, American politician, member of the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1967–1978).
Marcel Couraud , 73, French conductor and organist.
Georgia Engelhard , 79, American mountaineer.
Gordon McLendon , 65, American radio broadcaster, cancer.
[21]
Jean Preuss , 82, French racing cyclist.
15
Chris Abel , 74, English footballer.
Gustaf Andersson , 83, Swedish Olympic speed skater (
1928 ).
Don Bennett , 76, Australian-British politician and pilot,
MP (1945).
Jaroslav Burgr , 80, Czech footballer.
Bill Butler , 66, Australian footballer.
William Goode , 79, British colonial administrator,
governor of Singapore (1957–1959).
Virginia Gregg , 70, American actress, lung cancer.
[22]
Eric Hiscock , 78, British sailor and author.
Joe Hiscock , 81-82, British trade unionist.
Joseph M. Pettit , 70, American engineer and academic administrator, cancer.
Elizabeth Titzel Riefstahl , 97, American archaeologist.
[23]
Freimut Stein , 62, German Olympic figure skater (
1952 ).
Ramón Alberto Villaverde , 56, Uruguayan footballer.
16
Charlie Adams , 89, Australian footballer.
Engelbert Brenner , 82, Austrian-born American oboist.
Jim Brough , 82, English rugby player.
Leobardo Candiani , 81, Mexican Olympic fencer (
1932 ).
Judith Crawley , 72, Canadian filmmaker.
Puran Chandra Gupta , 74, Indian journalist.
Denis Guye , 85, English Olympic rower (
1928 ).
Darold Jenkins , 67, American football player.
Walter Lehweß-Litzmann , 79, German Luftwaffe pilot.
Francesco Malatesta , 79, Italian Olympic cyclist (
1928 ).
Walter Matthews , 86, Canadian politician.
Žarko Mihajlović , 66, Yugoslav football manager.
Ernst-Eduard Rull , 91, Estonian sports shooter.
Karel Svolinský , 90, Czech artist and typeface designer.
Bob Thyne , 66, Scottish footballer.
17
Erich Bautz , 73, German racing cyclist.
Johnny Cook , 60, American football player, leukemia.
Joe Kennedy , 60, English footballer.
Pat Phoenix , 62, English actress (
Coronation Street ), lung cancer.
[24]
Henrik Sjögren , 87, Swedish
ophthamologist , describer of
Sjögren syndrome .
Albert Titley , 74, English footballer.
18
Marius Beraru , 65, Romanian football player and manager.
David Dodge Boyden , 75, American musicologist.
Aljoša Buha , 24, Yugoslav Bosnian musician (
Crvena jabuka ), traffic collision.
Elwyn Davies , 77, Welsh academic administrator.
Johann Dick , 59, West German retired soldier, shot.
Hettie Ewing , 89, American missionary.
Jon Gould , 33, American film executive, AIDS.
Joseph Hibbert , 91-92, Jamaican
Rastafari preacher.
Corita Kent , 67, American artist, ovarian cancer.
[25]
Wilhelm Kimmich , 89, German painter.
Shelton Perera , 47, Sri Lankan musician.
19
Hubert Badanai , 91, Italian-born Canadian politician.
Len Childs , 84-85, British trade unionist.
Vivian Duncan , 89, American vaudeville performer.
James H. Gray Sr. , 70, American politician, heart attack.
Ainslie Meares , 76, Australian psychiatrist, pneumonia.
Baxter Morgan , 68, Canadian politician.
Ramón Orriols , 74, Spanish footballer.
Sir Lawrence Pendred , 87, British
RAF officer.
Red Shurtliffe , 79, American football player.
Wyatt Turner , 77, American baseball player.
20
John C. Becher , 71, American actor, cancer.
Christopher Butler , 84, British Roman Catholic prelate.
Johannes Caspers , 76, German politician.
Chester A. Chesney , 70, American politician and football player, member of the
U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).
[26]
Sir Norman Chester , 78, British economist.
Ray Eddy , 75, American basketball player and coach.
Lionel Farris , 81, English table tennis player.
James Hardy , 65, American Olympic rower (
1948 ).
Elizabeth Hirschboeck , 83, American religious sister and humanitarian.
Pleas Jones , 73, American jurist.
Fred Macbeth , 76, Canadian Olympic sprinter (
1928 ).
Sverre Marstrander , 75, Norwegian archaeologist.
Bob McChesney , 74, American football player.
Haruhiko Nishi , 93, Japanese diplomat.
William W. Outerbridge , 80, American naval admiral.
Dennis Spooner , 53, English television writer, heart attack.
Anders Ström , 85, Swedish Olympic skier (
1928 ).
Nicolae Testemițanu , 59, Soviet Moldovan surgeon and politician.
Nico van der Laan , 78, Dutch architect.
21
Jonah Barrington , 82, British journalist.
Rolf Gustafsson , 79, Swedish Olympic boxer (
1928 ).
Wilhelm Heun , 91, German general.
Cheryl Keeton , 36, American lawyer, murdered.
John Kuck , 81, American Olympic shot putter (
1928 ).
Helen Bell Milburn , 98, Canadian
radiologist .
Pierre Wigny , 81, Belgian politician.
Clancy Williams , 43, American football player, cancer.
[27]
Rex Woods , 94, British Olympic athlete (
1924 ,
1928 ).
22
József Asbóth , 69, Hungarian tennis player.
Bernie Cummins , 86, American jazz drummer.
Janet Davies , 59, English actress (
Dad's Army ), breast cancer.
Yussuf Hamis , 65, Israeli politician.
Tom Lovatt-Williams , 89, English poet.
Theodore H. McCrea , 78, American Roman Catholic prelate.
Sohan Singh Misha , 52, Indian poet.
Lloyd Peterson , 86, American college sports coach.
Erik Svensson , 83, Swedish Olympic jumper (
1928 ,
1932 ).
Abdel-Kader Zaaf , 69, Algerian racing cyclist.
23
Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield , 96, Austro-Hungarian-Italian flying ace.
Theresa Sherrer Davidson , 92, American lawyer and classical scholar.
Gordie Drillon , 72, Canadian ice hockey player.
Barbara Gilewska , 74, Polish actress.
Bert Hodges , 81, Welsh cricketer.
Sir Vincent Lloyd-Jones , 84, Welsh jurist.
Yelena Maksimova , 80, Soviet actress.
Domingo Moreno Jimenes , 92,
Dominican writer.
Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp , 75, German Nazi officer.
C. A. Patrides , 55,-56, American writer, AIDS.
Percy Peter , 84, English Olympic swimmer (
1920 ,
1924 ,
1928 ).
Jack Shook , 76, American guitarist.
24
Uell Stanley Andersen , 69, American football player.
Edwin John Beer , 107, British chemist and geologist.
Prudence Glynn , 51, British journalist and author,
intracerebral hemorrhage .
Hiroshi Hara , 75, Japanese botanist.
Bert Price , 79, Canadian politician.
Dorothy Pilley Richards , 92, English mountaineer.
Kamer Sadık , 74-75, Turkish actor.
Harald Selås , 78, Norwegian politician.
Adolf Tolkachev , 59, Soviet electronics engineer and double agent, execution by shooting.
25
Geoff Alley , 83, New Zealand rugby player and librarian.
Ted Bishop , 73, American golfer.
Darshan Singh Canadian , 68-69, Indian trade unionist, murdered.
John Carroll , 64, Canadian politician.
Henning Helgesson , 86, Swedish footballer.
Svante Johansson , 59, Swedish Olympic diver (
1948 ).
Bill Lever , 82, Australian footballer.
Donald MacDonald , 77, Canadian politician, cancer.
Nikolay Semyonov , 90, Soviet chemist,
Nobel Prize recipient (1956).
[28]
Hubertus Strughold , 88, German-American physiologist and war criminal.
Hans Vogt , 83, Norwegian linguist.
James B. Wilson , 90, American football player and coach.
26
Moussa Ali Abdoulkader , 63, Djiboutian politician.
Jacob Agus , 74, Polish-born American rabbi and theologian.
Mirta Cerra Herrera , 82, Cuban painter.
Roger Howard Cilley , 68, American Roman Catholic prelate.
Wilson Faumuina , 32, American football player, heart failure.
[29]
Hugh Franklin , 70, American actor, cancer.
H. D. S. Haverbeck , 72, American
philatelist .
Bert Humpish , 84, English footballer.
Brian Desmond Hurst , 91, Irish film director.
Billy Key , 90, British general.
André Maelbrancke , 68, Belgian racing cyclist.
Roger Rousseau , 65, Canadian diplomat.
Noboru Terada , 68, Japanese Olympic swimmer (
1936 ).
27
Tony Acquaviva , 61, American composer.
Walter Brecht , 86, German scientist.
Cliff Burton , 24, American bassist (
Metallica ), traffic collision.
[30]
Jessie Eden , 84, British trade unionist.
Giuseppe Ghedina , 87, Italian Olympic skier (
1924 ).
Michael Joseph Hogan , 78, British jurist.
Richard Krygier , 69, Polish-born Australian journalist.
Olga Masters , 67, Australian author and writer.
Éva Ruttkai , 58, Hungarian actress, breast cancer.
Chuck Sheerin , 77, American baseball player.
Georg Voggenreiter , 74, German racing cyclist.
28
Denis Carey , 77, British actor
Howard Graham , 88, Canadian general.
Sir Robert Helpmann , 77, Australian ballet dancer, choreographer, and actor (
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ).
[31]
Hazdayi Penso , 72, Turkish basketball player.
Ewa Szelburg-Zarembina , 87, Polish novelist.
Kiyoshi Tanimoto , 77, Japanese Methodist minister and
hibakusha .
Richard C. Turner , 58, American politician, member of the
Iowa Senate (1961–1965), heart attack.
Glauco Vanz , 66, Italian footballer.
Anthony Vince , 84, Canadian Olympic sprinter (
1924 ).
29
Billy Bottrill , 83, English footballer.
Les Field , 64, Australian footballer.
Prince Georg of Denmark , 66, Danish royal and diplomat.
Sir Reg Goodwin , 78, British politician.
Artie Gore , 78, American baseball umpire.
Maurice Harland , 90, British Anglican prelate.
M. D. H. Jayawardena , 71, Sri Lankan politician.
Lilian Hamilton Jeffery , 71, British archaeologist.
Betty Kean , 71, American actress.
[32]
Moestopo , 73, Indonesian general.
Joe Nolan , 57, Canadian-American ice hockey player.
Al Passarell , 36, Canadian politician, plane crash.
Helmut Qualtinger , 57, Austrian actor, liver disease.
Theodor Schwenk , 75, German
anthroposophist and water researcher.
30
Franz Burda , 83, German publisher.
Arthur A. Cohen , 58, American novelist and theologian, leukemia.
[33]
Brewster Hughes , 73, Nigerian guitarist.
Storm Jameson , 95, English journalist and author.
[34]
Nicholas Kaldor , 78, Hungarian-British economist.
[35]
Noel Kirsten , 60, South African cricketer.
Laurier Lister , 79, English theatre producer.
Buster Millerick , 80, American racehorse trainer.
[36]
Tommy Reynolds , 69, American jazz clarinetist.
Kamaruzaman Sjam , 62, Indonesian communist activist, executed.
Wilfrid Timms , 84, English cricketer.
Sir John Westall , 85, New Zealand general.
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Murray Hamilton, a character actor for over 40 years
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Obituary for Thomas Butler Dowda (Aged 87)
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Hank Greenberg, top hitter and member of Hall of Fame
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Sid Tanenbaum, 60, is slain; N.Y.U. basketball star in 40's
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Alvin Heaps, former Chicago labor leader (subscription required)
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William L. Everitt, 86, Dies; Telecommunications Expert
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George Gipe Is Dead at 53; A Film and Television Writer
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Rev. J. S. Grauel, 68, A Supporter of Israel
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Blanche Sweet, film actress
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Remembering Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles Jr. '41 (1919-1986)
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Dan Moore, 80, Dies; Governor and Justice
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Omar Ali Saifuddin; Former Brunei Sultan
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Obituary for Kessler Cannon (Aged 70)
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Pepper Adams Dead; Baritone Saxophonist
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Dr. Henry Smyth, ex-member of Atom Panel
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Ernst Haas, photojournalist and innovator, is dead at 65
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Lartigue is dead; Photographer, 92
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Frank Nelson
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William E. Barrett dies at 85; Author of 'Lilies of the Field'
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Radio Pioneer McLendon, 65, Dies in Texas (subscription required)
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Virginia Gregg Is Dead at 70; Off-Screen Voice in 'Psycho'
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Elizabeth Riefstahl
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Pat Phoenix, British Soap Opera Queen, Dies at 62 (subscription required)
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Corita Kent, Artist and Nun, Designed 'Love' Stamp on 60's
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Former Bear, Congressman 'Chet' Chesney (subscription required)
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Services Scheduled for Clancy Williams (subscription required)
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Nikolai Semyonov, Winner of 1956 Nobel in Chemistry
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Wilson Faumuina, 32, a former Atlanta Falcons... (subscription required)
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Metallica Cancels Tour After Member's Death
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Sir Robert Helpmann is dead; A Dancer, Actor and Director
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Betty Kean, 69, a TV Actress And Part of 50's Comedy Act
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Arthur A. Cohen, Author, Dies at 58
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Storm Jameson, English Writer of 50 Books
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Nicholas Kaldor is Dead at 78; British Pro-labor Economist
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Obituary for Michael Millerick