Deaths in January 1985

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

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.

• William Ernest Bowman, 73, English writer and engineer.
• Sigerson Clifford, 71, Irish poet and playwright.
• Herb Coleman, 61, American football player.
• Aristos Constantinou, 40, Cypriot-British fashion designer (Ariella), shot.
• Raoul Pene Du Bois, 70, American costume designer and set designer, stroke.^[1]
• Herbert Hambleton, 88, British footballer and soldier.
• Bill Henry, 60, American basketball player.
• Rodolfo Mayer, 74, Brazilian actor.
• Jim Milburn, 65, English footballer.
• Hermann Reutter, 84, German pianist and composer.
• Alice B. Russell, 95, American actress and film producer.
• Herbert M. Shelton, 89, American alternative medicine advocate, Parkinson's disease.
• Cecile Vashaw, 75, American composer.
• Jakob Vogt, 82, German Olympic weightlifter (1928).
• Vladimir Weisberg, 60, Soviet painter.

• Sir Basil Bartlett, 79, British actor and screenwriter.
• Robert E. Cushman Jr., 70, American general and CIA official, heart attack.^[2]
• Jacques de Lacretelle, 96, French novelist.
• Gabriel Elorde, 49, Filipino boxer, lung cancer.^[3]
• Ted Jefferies, 76, American football player and coach.
• Clarence John Laughlin, 79, American photographer.^[4]

• Lucien Cailliet, 93, French-American composer.
• Eckhard Christian, 77, German general.
• Norbert Hougardy, 75, Belgian politician.
• Bodil Joensen, 40, Danish pornographic actress, cirrhosis.
• Thomas Herbert Johnson, 82, American bibliographer.
• René Le Roy, 86, French flutist.
• Tadeusz Pełczyński, 92, Polish general.
• Bryna Raeburn, 69, American actress.
• Bahram Sadeghi, 47, Iranian novelist and poet.

• Michael Ala, 61, Vanuatuan politician.
• William Moore Benidickson, 73, Canadian politician.
• Allan Lister Samuel Brown, 67, Canadian politician.
• Victor Delhez, 82, Belgian-Argentine woodcarver.
• Harry Haywood, 86, American political activist.
• Sir Brian Horrocks, 89, British general and Olympic athlete (1924).^[5]
• David Dene Martin, 32, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.^[6]
• Lovro von Matačić, 85, Yugoslav Croatian conductor and composer.
• Russell Page, 78, British landscape architect, cancer.^[7]
• Lloyd Sealy, 68, American police officer and federal agent, heart attack.^[8]
• Wim Bos Verschuur, 80, Surinamese politician.

• Sadie Aitken, 79, Scottish theatre manager.
• Norberto Anido, 51, Argentine footballer.
• William Gidley Emmett, 97, British educationalist and industrial chemist.
• Sir Arthur John Grattan-Bellew, 81, Irish colonial administrator.
• John Paxton, 73, American screenwriter, emphysema.
• Franjo Punčec, 71, Yugoslav tennis player.
• Alexis Rannit, 70, Estonian-American poet, heart attack.^[9]
• Robert Surtees, 78, American cinematographer (Ben-Hur).^[10]
• Richard H. Thompson, 81, American philatelist.
• Matilde Urrutia, 73, Chilean memoirist.
• Raymonde Vincent, 76, French writer.

• Mary Bastian, 36-37, Sri Lankan priest and human rights activist, shot.
• Elsy Blom-Wirz, 69, Swiss sculptor.
• Margaret Digby, 82, British writer.
• Helen Phillips Levin, 60, American disability rights advocate, respiratory disease.^[11]
• Lloyd Miller, 69, Australian triple jumper.
• Cornelius Osgood, 79, American anthropologist, heart attack.^[12]
• Robert W. Welch Jr., 85, American political organizer (John Birch Society).^[13]

• Edith Batten, 79, British educationalist and welfare worker.
• Billy Brown, 84, English footballer.
• Ruth Godfrey, 62, American actress, COPD.
• Johnny Guarnieri, 67, American pianist, heart attack.^[14]
• Esther Hill, 89, Canadian architect.
• Charles Evans Hughes III, 69, American architect.^[15]
• Ian Hugo, 86, American filmmaker.
• Vladimir Kokkinaki, 80, Soviet test pilot.^[16]
• Johann Ludwig, 81, German footballer.
• Eugene Lyons, 86, Russian-born American journalist.^[17]
• Albert McInroy, 83, English footballer.
• Barbara Myerhoff, 49, American anthropologist and filmmaker, lung cancer.^[18]
• Will Oursler, 71, American author.^[19]
• José Maria Pedroto, 56, Portuguese football player and manager, cancer.
• Lev Tsipursky, 55, Soviet Olympic cyclist (1952).
• Jules Vandooren, 76, French footballer.
• Zbysław Zając, 51, Polish racing cyclist and Olympic sprinter (1964).

• Eva Bowring, 92, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1954).
• Les Clenshaw, 79, English footballer.
• Aracy Cortes, 80, Brazilian singer and actress.
• James Dugundji, 65, American mathematician.
• Stig H:son Ericson, 87, Swedish naval admiral.
• Bjørn Føyn, 86, Norwegian zoologist.
• Esme Haywood, 84, English cricketer.
• Sir Harold Hillier, 80, English horticulturalist.
• John E. Horne, 76, American political strategist, administrator of the Small Business Administration (1961–1963), heart attack.^[20]
• Vladimir Maneev, 52, Soviet Olympic wrestler (1956), heart attack.
• Charles A. Marshall, 86, American cinematographer.
• Grace Morley, 84, American-Indian art historian and museum curator.^[21]
• Lette Valeska, 99, German-American painter and photographer.

• Penelope Johnson Allen, 98, American journalist and historian.
• Wyatt Rainey Blassingame, 75, American writer.
• Don Brennan, 64, English cricketer.
• John Cavanaugh, 63, American sculptor, lung cancer.
• Nichidatsu Fujii, 99, Japanese Buddhist monk and peace activist.
• William Arthur Harland, 58, Northern Irish physician.
• Marie Heffenisch, 82, Luxembourgish human rights activist.
• Erich Kull, 53, Swiss Olympic speed skater (1956).
• Henri Louette, 84, Belgian ice hockey player.
• Sir Robert Mayer, 105, German-born British philanthropist.^[22]

• André Bjerke, 66, Norwegian writer and poet.
• Beno Blachut, 71, Czechoslovak singer.
• Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone, 102, American singer.^[23]
• G. Homer Durham, 73, American academic administrator and Mormon leader.
• Edwin D. Eshleman, 64, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1967–1977), cancer.^[24]
• Cie Frazier, 80, American jazz drummer.^[25]
• Edna Indermaur, 92, American singer.
• Anton Karas, 78, Austrian composer and zither player.^[26]
• Mary Kenneth Keller, 71, American computer scientist.
• Idar Kristiansen, 52, Norwegian writer.

• Richard Bartholomew, 58, Indian artist and art critic.
• Edward Buzzell, 89, American filmmaker.
• Kenny Clare, 55, British jazz drummer, esophageal cancer.
• Hubert H. Crawford, 74, American painter.
• Ralph Jesson, 91, American football coach.
• Donald M. Jones, 64, American college sports coach.
• Charles E. Kelly, 64, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.^[27]
• André Mattoni, 84, Austrian actor.
• Sir William McKell, 93, Australian politician, governor-general (1947–1953).
• Noëlle Norman, 64, French actress.
• Henry Olsson, 88, Swedish literary scholar.
• Edgar Reinhardt, 70, German Olympic handball player (1936).
• Joseph Carl Shaw, 29, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.^[28]
• Errol White, 83, British geologist.

• Vilanova Artigas, 69, Brazilian architect.
• John W. Byrnes, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1973), stroke.^[29]
• Mark Kenny Carroll, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, cancer.
• George Cassidy, 79, Australian footballer.
• Harry Froboess, 85, German diver and stuntman.
• Dave Hunter, 71, Canadian politician, heart attack.
• Sabri Kiraz, 66-67, Turkish football manager.
• Paul Luty, 52, British actor and wrestler.
• T. T. Macan, 74, British zoologist.
• Éloi Machoro, 35-36, New Caledonian politician, shot.

• Baek Nak-jun, 89, South Korean politician, acting president (1960).
• Peter Chong, 86, American actor.
• Curt Dawson, 45, American actor, AIDS.^[30]
• Jerome H. Holland, 69, American diplomat and academic administrator, cancer.^[31]
• Pug Manders, 71, American football player, heart attack.
• Adam Marczyński, 76, Polish painter.
• Sir Kenneth O'Connor, 88, British judge.
• Madan Puri, 69, Indian actor.
• Mitani Takanobu, 92, Japanese diplomat.
• Irena Trečiokaitė-Žebenkienė, 75, Soviet Lithuanian painter.
• Sam Valentine, 50, American football player.
• Moira Verschoyle, 81, Irish novelist and playwright.
• Adam Walsh, 83, American football player and coach, lung cancer.^[32]
• Carol Wayne, 42, American actress, drowned.^[33]

• Teodoro Agoncillo, 72, Filipino historian.
• Alfred Allen, Baron Allen of Fallowfield, 70, British trade unionist.
• Avis Christiansen, 89, American hymnwriter.
• Jetta Goudal, 93, Dutch-American actress.^[34]
• Anagarika Govinda, 86, German Buddhist monk and poet.
• Ed Gross, 68, American Olympic gymnast (1932).
• Rubin Juster, 61, American football player.
• Suzanne Kiffer-Porte, 83, French Olympic swimmer (1924).
• Annada Munsi, 79, Indian painter and musicologist.
• Robert Odeman, 80, German composer and pianist.
• Cleo O'Donnell Jr., 63, American basketball coach.
• Karl Schmitt-Walter, 84, German opera singer.
• Allan Shivers, 77, American politician, governor of Texas (1949–1957), heart attack.^[35]
• June Tripp, 83, British-American actress.
• Gisken Wildenvey, 92, Norwegian novelist.

• Louis Abramson, 97, American architect.^[36]
• Đuka Agić, 78, Yugoslav Croatian footballer.
• Martin Dzúr, 65, Czechoslovak politician.
• Marshall Kent, 76, American actor.
• Bill Murphy, 70, American football player.
• Edward Peter, 82-83, Trinidadian cricketer.
• Margaret Pilkington, 78, British scouting organization executive.
• Puccio Pucci, 80, Italian Olympic runner (1924) and lawyer.
• Josef Sedláček, 91, Austrian footballer.
• Fumio Yanoguchi, 67, Japanese recording engineer.

• Keith Brennan, 69, Australian diplomat.
• Lou Bruce, 51, Canadian football player.
• Ken Chase, 71, American baseball player.
• Robert Fitzgerald, 74, American poet, literary critic and translator.^[37]
• Paul Gipson, 38, American football player, heart attack.^[38]
• Daniel Lecourtois, 82, French actor.
• Stanley Nibbs, 70, British Virgin Islander educator.
• Arnt Njargel, 83, Norwegian politician.
• Leo O'Connor, 94, Australian cricketer.
• Ruth Orkin, 63, American photographer and filmmaker, cancer.^[39]
• Saidie Patterson, 78, Northern Irish trade unionist and peace activist.
• Cyril Snedden, 91, New Zealand cricketer.
• Árpád Szenes, 87, Hungarian-French painter.

• Ezio Acchini, 63, Italian Olympic rower (1948).
• Evelyn Barron, 86, Australian politician.
• Luiz Carvalho, 77, Brazilian footballer.
• Edna Meade Colson, 96, American educator.
• Walter Franz, 77, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1955–1971).
• Richmond Francis Hanna, 71, Canadian politician, MP (1953–1957).
• Horrie Jenkin, 91, Australian footballer.
• George Nicksich, 56, American football player, liver failure.
• Harry Rigby, 59, American theatre producer.^[40]
• Philaxinos Samuel, 54, Indian Syrian Orthodox prelate.
• Joseph Simonson, 80, American diplomat.^[41]

• Mordechai Bentov, 84, Russian-born Israeli politician and journalist.
• Wilfrid Brambell, 72, Irish actor (Steptoe and Son), cancer.
• Josef Dahmen, 81, German actor.
• Kal P. Dal, 35, Swedish rock musician, stroke.
• Werly Fairburn, 60, American rockabilly musician.
• Werner Kern, 78, German chemist.
• Lee Hsiu-fen, 74, Chinese politician.
• Noel Lytton, 4th Earl of Lytton, 84, British writer and hereditary peer.
• Charles Russell, 66, American actor.
• Neil D. Schaerrer, 54, American Mormon organizer and attorney.
• Anwar Shemza, 56, Pakistani-British artist and writer, heart attack.
• Georgie Stoll, 79, American composer and musical director.^[42]
• Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, 75-76, Sudanese politician, religious thinker, and convicted apostate, execution by hanging.
• Santiago Urtizberea, 75, Spanish football player and coach.
• John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, 78, British educationalist and museum curator.^[43]

• Howard M. Baldrige, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1931–1933).
• Juan Antonio Corretjer, 76, Puerto Rican poet and independence activist, heart attack.^[44]
• Byington Ford, 94, American real estate developer, pancreatic cancer.
• Jack Gariss, 64, American meditation instructor.
• Sylvain Grysolle, 69, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Shelah Richards, 81, Irish actress and television producer.
• Tom Richards, 74, Welsh Olympic runner (1948).
• Svein Rosseland, 90, Norwegian astrophysicist.
• Virginia Tucker, 75, American mathematician.
• Eric Voegelin, 84, German-American political philosopher.^[45]

• Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh, 79, British economist.
• Arthur Harold John Brook, 77-78, English brewing executive.
• Robert Fraser, 80, Australian-British television executive.
• Dermot St. John Gogarty, 76, Irish architect.
• James Hugh Keeley Jr., 89, American diplomat.
• Gillis William Long, 61, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1963–1965, since 1973), heart failure.^[46]
• Gabiden Mustafin, 82, Soviet Kazakh writer and politician.
• Karel Soucek, 37, Czechoslovak-Canadian daredevil, injuries sustained from a fall.^[47]

• James Beard, 81, American chef, cookbook author, and television personality, heart failure.^[48]
• Alida Fowlkes, 76, American preservationist.
• Nancy Eaton, 23, Canadian heiress, stabbed.
• Eddie Graham, 55, American professional wrestler, suicide by gunshot.
• Arthur Ernest Hagg, 96-97, British aircraft and boat designer.
• Roy V. Harris, 89, American politician.
• Jim Houghton, 73, Australian politician.
• Betty Joel, 90, British furniture and interior designer.
• Yusuf Lule, 72, Ugandan politician, president (1979), kidney failure.^[49]
• Jan Peka, 90, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.
• Luise Ullrich, 74, Austrian actress, cancer.

• William J. Bain, 88, Canadian architect.
• Sir Arthur Bryant, 85, English historian and journalist.^[50]
• Maria Bujakowa, 83, Polish sculptor.
• Henri Dorgères, 87, French political activist.
• Wilbur Dyer, 77, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1974–1980).^[51]
• František Fuhrherr-Nový, 81, Czechoslovak Olympic pole vaulter (1924).
• Mikhail Gromov, 85, Soviet aviator.^[52]
• Paul Harteck, 82, Austrian-American chemist.^[53]
• Daniel W. Lee, 65, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Catherine Nimmo, 97, Dutch-American vegan activist.
• Bernhard Sprengel, 85, German art collector and chocolate manufacturer.

• Hira Lal Atal, 79, Indian general.
• Hugh Brown, 78, British-born American sportswriter.
• Francisco Campana, 59, Argentine footballer.
• Lois Delander, 73, American model.
• Mark Hodson, 77, British Anglican prelate.
• Sir Emile Littler, 81, English theatre producer.
• Harry H. Peterson, 94, American lawyer, judge and politician, attorney general of Minnesota (1933–1936).
• Rubén Rabanal, 49-50, Argentine politician.
• Itsurō Sakisaka, 87, Japanese economist.
• Shigetaka Takashima, 77, Japanese physicist.
• Arthur Tyler, 77, English cricketer.
• Vladimir Vetrov, 52, Soviet double agent, executed.
• Botir Zokirov, 48, Soviet Uzbek singer.

• Antonio Andrés Sancho, 71, Spanish racing cyclist.
• Betty Carnegy-Arbuthnott, 78, British Olympic fencer (1936, 1948).
• Alan Finger, 75, Australian medical practitioner and political activist.
• Ron Fry, 47, Australian footballer.
• Dalmacio Langarica, 65, Spanish racing cyclist.
• H. H. Lewis, 84, American poet.
• Linda Reaves, 35, American schoolteacher, shot.
• Hubertus-Maria Ritter von Heigl, 87, German general.
• Pyotr Suvchinsky, 92, Russian-French music writer.

• Patrick Harvey Ashby, 94, Canadian politician.
• Ralph Broome, 95, British Olympic bobsledder (1924).
• Frank Campbell, 77, Scottish footballer.
• Sir David Scott Fox, 74, British diplomat.
• Helen Morgan Hamilton, 88, American soldier.
• Ilias Iliou, 80, Greek politician.
• Ajoy Kar, 70, Indian filmmaker.
• Samuel Koechlin, 59, Swiss Olympic equestrian (1956).
• Col Laidlaw, 88, Australian footballer.
• Yevgeny Maskinskov, 54, Soviet Olympic racewalker (1956).
• John Purdue, 74, New Zealand rugby player.
• Najmadin Shukr Rauf, 27, Iraqi Kurdish guerrilla fighter, shot.
• Paul Smith, 78, American film composer (Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella).
• Lisa Ullmann, 77, German-British dance teacher.
• Koos van der Wildt, 79, Dutch footballer.

• Sos Alikhanian, 78, Soviet Armenian geneticist.
• James Cameron, 73, British journalist.^[54]
• Kenny Clarke, 71, American jazz drummer, heart attack.^[55]
• Lawrence Alexander Glenn, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Sir David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech, 66, British diplomat and politician, MP (1950–1961), traffic collision.
• Anne Spencer Parry, 53, Australian fantasy author, cancer.
• Mario Petri, 63, Italian singer and actor.
• Clara Weisenborn, 77, American politician, member of the Ohio Senate (1967–1974).

• Doug Chapman, 54, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jeremiah Chirau, 61, Zimbabwean tribal chief and politician.^[56]
• Eric Cross, 88, English cricketer.
• Ursula Katherine Duncan, 74, Scottish botanist.
• Bill Gavin, 77, American radio personality and publisher, cancer.^[57]
• Charles Goldhamer, 81, American-born Canadian artist.
• Arend Hauer, 75, Dutch actor.
• Joseph Howard Hodges, 73, American Roman Catholic prelate, lung cancer.^[58]
• Ife Holmes, 79, American basketball player.
• Bernard Pask, 48, English footballer.
• Salipada Pendatun, 72, Filipino politician, traffic collision.

• Gertrude Bancroft, 76, American economist.
• Éliane Basse, 85, French paleontologist.
• Alfredo Foni, 74, Italian football player and coach.
• Rudolf Gamsjäger, 75, Austrian opera administrator.
• Anna Colquitt Hunter, 93, American preservationist.
• Les Irwin, 86, Australian politician, MP (1963–1972).
• Tommy Jarrell, 83, American fiddler and banjoist, heart failure.^[59]
• Melvin Judkins, 62, American physician.
• André Laloux, 87, Belgian tennis player.
• Laurence Patrick Lee, 71-72, New Zealand cartographer.
• Wade Nichols, 38, American actor, AIDS.
• Leopold Pars, 89, British mathematician.
• Jean-Pierre Rassam, 43, French film producer, drug overdose.
• Fred Shields, 72, American soccer player.
• Arthur Percy Swallow, 91, Canadian politician.
• Yves Van Strydonk De Burkel, 77, Belgian Olympic equestrian (1936).
• Bernard Pierre Wolff, 54, French-born American photographer, AIDS.^[60]

• Neil Cameron, Baron Cameron of Balhousie, 64, British RAF officer, cancer.
• Ernest Chambers, 77, English racing cyclist.
• Donald Cochrane, 80, Australian politician.
• Billy Cook, 75, Australian racing jockey.
• Luis Dato, 78, Filipino poet.
• Chic Murray, 65, Scottish comedian and actor.
• Natalma, 27, American-bred Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• "King" Bennie Nawahi, 85, American guitarist.
• Herbert Parsons Patterson, 59, American banker, respiratory failure.^[61]
• Ngoi Pēwhairangi, 63, New Zealand Māori activist.
• Don Raye, 75, American songwriter ("Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy").
• Onslow S. Rolfe, 90, American general.
• Jorge Sagredo Pizarro, 29, Chilean serial killer, execution by firing squad.
• William Schneiderman, 79, American political activist.^[62]
• Freda Swain, 82, British composer and pianist.
• Claude Titre, 54, French actor.
• Carlos Topp Collins, 35, Chilean serial killer, execution by firing squad.

• Salih Mahdi Ammash, 60-61, Iraqi politician, vice president (1970–1971).
• Joe Bradshaw, 87, American baseball player.
• Walt Brewster, 77, American football player.
• Benedict Garmisa, 71, American politician, heart attack.^[63]
• Pedro González Bueno, 89, Spanish politician.
• Ivar Haglund, 79, American folk singer and restaurateur (Ivar's).
• Harold Innes, 75, New Zealand businessman.
• Felix H. Man, 91, German-British photojournalist.
• Ken Mayer, 66, American actor (Space Patrol), heart attack.^[64]
• Paul Mugnier, 78, French Olympic skier (1932).
• Marjorie Naylor, 76-77, New Zealand artist.
• Jim Reynolds, 65, American football player.
• F. R. Scott, 85, Canadian poet and lawyer.
• John Clay Walker, 36, American journalist, blunt force trauma.
• Tom White, 67, British Olympic runner (1948, 1952).

• Charlie Anderson, 81, Australian footballer.
• Arnie Arenz, 73, American football player.
• Menachem Bader, 89, Austrian-born Israeli politician.
• Reginald Baker, 88, British film producer.
• John L. Childs, 86, American educator.
• Tatsuzō Ishikawa, 79, Japanese writer.
• Armand "Jump" Jackson, 67, American blues musician.
• Dutch Lonborg, 86, American college sports player and coach.
• Józef Mackiewicz, 82, Polish writer.
• Jean-Pierre Moris, 81, Luxembourgish Olympic swimmer (1924).
• Jimmy Noel, 81, American actor and stuntman.
• James L. Reid, 77, American politician and judge, member of the Maine House of Representatives (1950–1956).
• Gerard Rotherham, 85, English cricketer.

• List of January 1985 deaths at IMDb