Deaths in March 1994


Deaths in March 1994


The following is a list of notable deaths in March 1994.

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.

March 1994

1

  • Manmohan Desai, 57, Indian film producer and director.
  • Eliseo Diego, 70, Cuban poet and writer of short stories.
  • Ludwig Günderoth, 83, German football player and manager.
  • Alexei Haieff, 79, American composer of orchestral and choral works.
  • Herbert Schade, 71, West German long-distance runner and Olympian.
  • Dallas Shirley, 80, American basketball referee.
  • Armonía Somers, 79, Uruguayan feminist, pedagogue, and novelist.
  • Tim Souster, 51, British composer and writer on music.
  • Ethel Terrell, 68, American politician.
  • Joe Tipton, 72, American baseball player.

2

  • Kleggie Hermsen, 70, American basketball player.
  • Walter Kent, 82, American composer and conductor.
  • Giuseppe La Loggia, 82, Italian politician, lawyer and teacher.
  • Donald M. MacKinnon, 80, Scottish philosopher and theologian.
  • Anita Morris, 50, American actress, singer and dancer, ovarian cancer.
  • Yevgeniya Zhigulenko, 73, Soviet pilot and navigator during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union.

3

  • Ida Gramcko, 69, Venezuelan essayist and poet.
  • Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, 75, Composer and music editor.
  • Karel Kryl, 49, Czechoslovak poet, singer-songwriter and activist, heart attack.
  • Bilge Olgaç, 54, Turkish film director.
  • Ezra Stone, 76, American actor and director, traffic collision.
  • Lars Widding, 69, Swedish author and journalist.
  • John Edward Williams, 71, American author, editor and professor.
  • Gary Wood, 52, American gridiron football player.

4

  • Gianni Agus, 76, Italian actor.
  • Aníbal, 53, Mexican Luchador (professional wrestler), brain cancer.
  • John Candy, 43, Canadian actor (Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Spaceballs, Uncle Buck) and comedian, Emmy winner (1982, 1983), heart attack.
  • George Edward Hughes, 75, Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician.
  • Marie-Joseph Lemieux, 91, Canadian Catholic archbishop and Holy See diplomat.

5

  • Abdullah as-Sallal, 77, President of the Yemen Arab Republic.
  • Joseph Birdsell, 85, American anthropologist.
  • Arnold Brown, 66, Canadian politician.
  • Jan Dobraczyński, 83, Polish writer, novelist, and politician.
  • Abd El-Karim Sakr, 75, Egyptian football player.

6

  • Tengiz Abuladze, 70, Georgian film director, screenwriter, and theatre teacher.
  • Mane Bajić, 52, Serbian midfielder, traffic collision.
  • Larry Eyler, 41, American serial killer, AIDS-related complications.
  • Yvonne Fair, 51, American singer, cancer.
  • Conrad Heidkamp, 88, German football player and manager.
  • Melina Mercouri, 73, Greek actress, singer, activist and politician, cancer.
  • Tony Momsen, 66, American gridiron football player.
  • Ken Noritake, 71, Japanese football player.

7

  • Ray Arcel, 94, American boxing trainer.
  • Fortunato Arena, 71, Italian stuntman and actor.
  • James Hannigan, 65, Irish-prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • Stew Hofferth, 81, American baseball player.

8

  • Mervyn Brogan, 79, Australian Army general.
  • Leonard K. Carson, 70, American Air Force fighter ace.
  • Rosemary Du Cros, 92, British aviation pioneer.
  • John Ewart, 66, Australian actor, head and neck cancer.
  • Knut Haukelid, 82, Norwegian military officer.
  • Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya, 86, Russian memoirist and Gulag prisoner.
  • Yvonne Martin, 82, French film editor.
  • Brian McGowan, 58, Australian politician.
  • Jack Spector, 65, Radio DJ, Heart attack on air while playing I'm in the Mood for Love on WHLI

9

  • Zoltán Beke, 82, Romanian football player and coach.
  • Karl Wilhelm Berkhan, 78, American politician.
  • Wilhelm Brese, 97, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
  • Charles Bukowski, 73, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer, leukemia.
  • Paul Dubreil, 90, French mathematician.
  • Elbie Fletcher, 77, American baseball player.
  • Jon Kimche, 84, Swiss-British journalist and historian.
  • Moe Purtill, 77, American swing jazz drummer.
  • Devika Rani, 85, Indian actress.
  • Fernando Rey, 76, Spanish actor, bladder cancer.
  • Lawrence E. Spivak, 93, American publisher and journalist.

10

  • Roger Bocquet, 72, Swiss football player.
  • Rupert Bruce-Mitford, 79, British archaeologist and scholar.
  • Aurelio Galleppini, 76, Italian comics artist and illustrator.
  • Pierre-Olivier Lapie, 92, French essayist and novelist.
  • Robert Shea, 61, American novelist and journalist.

11

  • Fausta Cialente, 95, Italian novelist, journalist and political activist.
  • Evelyn Gardner, 90, British socialite.
  • Aldo Puccinelli, 73, Italian football player and manager.
  • Kaku Takashina, 75, Japanese actor.
  • Brenda Wootton, 66, English folk singer and poet.

12

  • Gordy Coleman, 59, American baseball player.
  • Philippe Daudy, 68, French member of the French Resistance, journalist, and novelist.
  • Frank Gorrell, 66, American politician, choking incident.
  • Don Joseph, 70, American jazz musician.
  • Mehmed Orhan, 86, Ottoman prince and head of the Ottoman dynasty,

13

  • Danny Barker, 85, American jazz musician, vocalist, and author .
  • Jean Gourguet, 91, French film director, screenwriter and film producer.
  • Sam Ranzino, 66, American college and basketball player.
  • Martha Esther Rogers, 79, American nurse, theorist, and author.
  • Buddy Rosar, 80, American baseball player.
  • Eva Gräfin Finck von Finckenstein, 90, American politician.
  • John Yeon, 83, American architect, heart failure.

14

  • Tei Abal, 61-62, Papua New Guinean politician.
  • Sally Belfrage, 57, American writer and journalist, cancer.
  • Serge Blusson, 65, French cyclist and Olympian.
  • Tony Freitas, 85, American baseball player.
  • Otto Hartmann, 90, Austrian stage and film actor.
  • Sheila Humphreys, 95, Irish political activist.
  • Willie Hobbs Moore, 59, American physicist and engineer, cancer.
  • Floyd Reid, 66, American gridiron football player.
  • Indra Sen, 90, Indian psychologist.
  • Georges Claes sr., 74, Belgian racing cyclist.

15

  • Charlie Bivins, 55, American gridiron football player.
  • Bill Green, 53, American basketball player.
  • Jack Hargreaves, 82, English television presenter and writer.
  • M. K. Indira, 77, Indian novelist.
  • Tom Kirk, 78, Australian rugby player.
  • Josef Kohout, 79, Austrian Nazi concentration camp survivor and author.
  • Jürgen Manger, 71, German actor and comedian.

16

  • Albert Bühlmann, 70, Swiss physician, heart failure.
  • Nicolas Flagello, 66, American composer and conductor of classical music.
  • Richard Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford, 86, British politician.
  • Mykola Kudrytsky, 31, Ukrainian football player, traffic collision.
  • Eric Show, 37, American Major League Baseball player, drug overdose.
  • Kantarō Suga, 59, Japanese actor, traffic accident.

17

  • Kalyan Bulchand Advani, 82, Indian poet, critic, and scholar.
  • Charlotte Auerbach, 94, German geneticist.
  • Wilson Homer Elkins, 85, American educator and university administrator.
  • Walter Janka, 79, German communist, political activist and writer.
  • Elenjikal Chandy Kuruvila, 71, Indian Navy flag officer.
  • Ellsworth Vines, 82, American tennis champion
  • Mai Zetterling, 68, Swedish actress, novelist and film director, cancer.

18

  • Mehboob Alam, 46, Pakistani actor.
  • William Bergsma, 72, American composer and teacher, heart attack.
  • Peter Borgelt, 66, German television actor, cancer.
  • Yehia Chahine, 76, Egyptian film producer and actor.
  • Andrew Crawford, 76, Scottish actor.
  • David Ginsburg, 73, British politician.
  • Erwin Kohn, 82, Austrian table tennis player.
  • Günter Mittag, 67, German politician.

19

  • Rafig Babayev, 57, Azerbaijani jazz musician and author of scores for films, terrorist attack.
  • José Coronel Hurtecho, 88, Nicaraguan poet, critic, playwright, and diplomat.
  • Jim Lawrence, 75, American author.
  • Josef Meixner, 85, German theoretical physicist.
  • Charles Paris, 82, American comic book artist.
  • Benjamin Clemens Stone, 61, British–American botanist.

20

  • Ilaria Alpi, 32, Italian journalist, killed in ambush.
  • Ramón Camps, 67, Argentine general during the dirty war, prostate cancer.
  • Irvin Flores, 69, Puerto Rican political activist.
  • Lewis Grizzard, 47, American writer and humorist.
  • Reg Groth, 80, Australian politician.
  • Miran Hrovatin, 44, Italian photographer and camera operator, killed in ambush.
  • Alfonso Rodríguez Salas, 54, Spanish football player, colorectal cancer.

21

  • Macdonald Carey, 81, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Shadow of a Doubt, Lock-Up), lung cancer.
  • Lili Damita, 89, French-American actress and singer, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Franz Pelikan, 68, Austrian football goalkeeper.
  • Dack Rambo, 52, American actor (Dallas, The Guns of Will Sonnett, The Loretta Young Show), AIDS-related complications.

22

  • Dan Hartman, 43, American musician and record producer, AIDS-related complications.
  • Horton Holcombe Hobbs, Jr., 79, American taxonomist and carcinologist.
  • Walter Lantz, 94, American cartoonist and animator (Woody Woodpecker), heart failure.
  • Ulrich Poltera, 71, Swiss ice hockey player.

23

  • Luis Donaldo Colosio, 44, Mexican economist and politician, homicide.
  • Nancy Cárdenas, 59, Mexican actor, poet, writer and feminist.
  • Álvaro del Portillo, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop and prelate of Opus Dei.
  • Giulietta Masina, 73, Italian film actress, lung cancer.
  • Goar Mestre, 81, Cuban-Argentine businessman, cancer.
  • Donald Swann, 70, Welsh musician, singer and entertainer, cancer.
  • Paula Trueman, 96, American actress (The Outlaw Josey Wales, Dirty Dancing, Moonstruck).
  • Valentina Vladimirova, 66, Ukrainian-Russian actress.
  • Roger Wolff, 82, American baseball player.

24

  • Zbigniew Gołąb, 71, Polish-American linguist and slavist.
  • Hans Jakob, 85, German football player.
  • John L. May, 71, American Roman Catholic archbishop, brain cancer.
  • Walle Nauta, 77, Dutch-American neuroscientist.
  • Edith Porada, 81, Austrian-American art historian and archaeologist.
  • David van Vactor, 87, American composer of contemporary classical music.
  • Jiang Yizhen, 79, Chinese communist politician.

25

  • Rudi Feld, 97, German art director and set designer.
  • Angelines Fernández, 69, Spanish-Mexican actress and comedian, lung cancer.
  • Bernard Kangro, 83, Estonian writer and poet.
  • Max Petitpierre, 95, Swiss politician and jurist.
  • Jesus M. Vargas, 89, Filipino politician.

26

  • Dame Whina Cooper, 98, New Zealand Māori leader.
  • Wadad Hamdi, 70, Egyptian actress, stabbed.
  • Owen McCann, 86, South African Catholic cardinal and journalist.
  • Margaret Millar, 79, American-Canadian writer.

27

  • Otto Bonsema, 84, Dutch football player and manager.
  • Frances Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Kingsbridge, 87, British writer and biographer.
  • Elisabeth Schmid, 81, German archaeologist and osteologist.
  • Lawrence Wetherby, 86, American politician.

28

  • Richard Brandram, 82, British Army officer.
  • Albert Goldman, 66, American academic and author.
  • Ștefan Gușă, 53, Romanian general, cancer.
  • Eugène Ionesco, 84, Romanian-French playwright.
  • Cyrus Longworth Lundell, 86, American botanist.
  • Ira Murchison, 61, American sprinter and Olympic champion, cancer.
  • Wendell Niles, 89, American radio and television announcer, cancer.

29

  • Paul Grimault, 89, French animator.
  • Lynda Hull, 39, American poet, car accident.
  • William Huston Natcher, 84, American politician.
  • Charles Oser, 92, American politician.
  • Bill Travers, 72, British actor, screenwriter, and animal rights activist.
  • Jiang Zehan, 91, Chinese mathematician.

30

  • Ina Hooft, 100, Dutch painter.
  • Leslie Howard Saunders, 94, Canadian politician and Mayor of Toronto.
  • William Arthur Ward, 72, American motivational writer.
  • Sid Weiss, 79, American jazz double-bassist.

31

  • Léon Degrelle, 87, Belgian politician and nazi collaborator, heart attack.
  • Henri Gouhier, 95, French philosopher and literary critic.
  • William Henry Hance, 42, American soldier and serial killer, execution by electrocution.
  • Medea Japaridze, 71, Soviet/Georgian actress.
  • Mohibullah "Mo" Khan, 56, Pakistani squash player.
  • José Escobar Saliente, 85, Spanish comic book writer and artist.

References


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