Deaths in January 1994

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 1994

1

• William Chappell, 86, British dancer, ballet designer and director.
• Raymond Crotty, 68, Irish economist, writer, and academic.
• Walter Eckhardt, 87, German politician.
• Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, 93, New Zealand physician, statesman and athlete.
• Cesar Romero, 86, American actor (Batman, Ocean's 11, The Thin Man) and activist.
• E. A. Thompson, 79, Irish-British marxist historian.

2

• Viktor Aristov, 50, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.
• Miguel M. Delgado, 88, Mexican film director and screenwriter, cancer.
• Lys Gauty, 93, French cabaret singer and actress.
• Dixy Lee Ray, 79, American politician.
• Vitālijs Rubenis, 79, Latvian communist politician.
• William Ryan, 72, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
• Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, 81, French businessman.
• Eddie Smith, 80, American Major League Baseball player.

3

• Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, 90, British public servant and politician.
• Norman Hepple, 85, English painter, engraver and sculptor, traffic accident.
• Frank Belknap Long, 92, American writer and poet.
• Marion Ross, 90, Scottish physicist.
• Heather Sears, 58, British actress, multiple organ failure.
• Constantin Vișoianu, 96, Romanian jurist, diplomat, and politician, cancer.

4

• Rahul Dev Burman, 54, Indian music director, cardiovascular disease.
• Reijer Hooykaas, 87, Dutch historian of science.
• Eileen Mayo, 87, English-Australian artist and designer.
• Thirukkuralar V. Munusamy, 80, Indian scholar and politician.

5

• Aldo Baldin, 49, Brazilian opera tenor.
• David Bates, 77, Northern Irish mathematician and physicist.
• Jeanne Carpenter, 76, American child actress of the silent era, pulmonary emphysema.
• Brian Johnston, 81, British cricket commentator, author, and television presenter, heart attack.
• Eliška Junková, 93, Czechoslovak automobile racer.
• Franz Murer, 81, Austrian SS officer and war criminal.
• Tip O'Neill, 81, American politician, colorectal cancer.
• Peggy Simpson, 80, British actress.

6

• Fidel Castaño, 43, Colombian drug lord and paramilitary.
• Oscar Fraley, 79, American sports writer and author.
• Cláudia Magno, 35, Brazilian actress and dancer, AIDS-related complications.
• Per Palle Storm, 83, Danish-Norwegian sculptor and arts professor.
• Adri van Es, 80, Royal Netherlands Navy vice admiral.
• Keith Wells, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

7

• Arthur Dooley, 64, English artist and sculptor.
• Charlie McNeil, 57, American gridiron football player.
• Vittorio Mezzogiorno, 52, Italian actor, cancer.
• Llewellyn Rees, 92, English actor.
• Phoumi Vongvichit, 84, President of Laos.

8

• Pat Buttram, 78, American actor (Green Acres, Robin Hood, The Fox and the Hound), kidney failure.
• René Faye, 70, French cyclist.
• Harvey Haddix, 68, American baseball pitcher and pitching coach, pulmonary emphysema.
• Harry Boye Karlsen, 73, Norwegian football player.
• Roy Kiyooka, 67, Canadian painter, poet, photographer, and multi-media artist.
• Ruth Osburn, 81, American athlete and Olympian.
• Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, 99, Indian Hindu religious leader.

9

• Faruk Barlas, 78, Turkish football player.
• Kayhan Kaynak, 33, Turkish football player, heart attack.
• Madge Ryan, 75, Australian actress.
• Johnny Temple, 66, American Major League Baseball player, pancreatic cancer.
• Joachim Werner, 84, German archaeologist.

10

• Michael Aldridge, 73, English actor (Last of the Summer Wine).
• Sven-Erik Bäck, 74, Swedish composer of classical music.
• Ien Dales, 62, Dutch socialist politician and social worker, heart attack.
• Chub Feeney, 72, American baseball executive, heart attack.
• Yigal Hurvitz, 75, Israeli politician.
• Girija Kumar Mathur, 75, Indian Hindi writer.
• Bruno Storti, 80, Italian trade unionist and politician.
• Clem Stralka, 80, American gridiron football player.
• Roman Tkachuk, 61, Soviet theatre and film actor.

11

• Arifin Achmad, 69, Indonesian military officer.
• József Háda, 82, Hungarian football player.
• Chester L. Mize, 76, American politician.
• Helmut Poppendick, 92, German physician and SS officer during World War II.
• Ram Ramirez, 80, Puerto Rican born jazz pianist and composer.
• Édouard Rinfret, 88, Canadian politician.
• Emilio Rosenblueth, 67, Mexican engineer.
• Robert Winslow, 77, American gridiron football player and coach.

12

• Samuel Bronston, 85, American film producer, film director, and nephew of communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky, pneumonia.
• Goran Ivandić, 38, Yugoslav drummer, suicide.
• Greg Kabat, 82, American and Canadian football player.
• Gustav Naan, 74, Estonian philosopher and physicist.
• Nehemiah Tamari, 47, Israeli general, helicopter crash.
• Arthur Turner, 84, English football player and manager.
• John West Wells, 86, American paleontologist, cnidariologist, and geologist.

13

• Hervé Alphand, 86, French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States.
• Erhard Bauer, 68, German football player.
• Johan Jørgen Holst, 56, Norwegian politician.
• Norm Jacobson, 76, Australian rugby player and coach.

14

• Ahmad Ali, 84, Pakistani novelist, poet, diplomat and scholar.
• Chesley William Carter, 91, Canadian politician.
• Jack Faber, 91, American sports coach and microbiologist.
• Myron Fohr, 81, American racecar driver.
• Ivan Fuqua, 84, American track and field athlete.
• Fritz Losigkeit, 80, German flying ace during World War II.
• Federica Montseny, 88, Spanish politician, anarchist, intellectual and writer.
• Esther Ralston, 91, American silent film actress, heart attack.
• Delio Rodríguez, 77, Spanish racing cyclist.
• Nubar Terziyan, 84, Turkish actor.

15

• Philippe Brun, 85, French trumpeter.
• György Cziffra, 72, Hungarian-French pianist and composer, lung cancer.
• Gabriel-Marie Garrone, 92, French Catholic cardinal.
• Ben H. Guill, 84, American politician.
• Martin Kosleck, 89, German actor.
• Agnar Mykle, 78, Norwegian writer and puppeteer.
• Harry Nilsson, 52, American singer-songwriter ("Everybody's Talkin'"), heart failure.
• Harilal Upadhyay, 77, Indian novelist and poet.

16

• Sidon Ebeling, 93, Swedish long-distance runner and Olympian.
• Jack Metcalfe, 81, Australian long jumper, triple jumper and javelin thrower.
• Leland Stowe, 94, American journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
• Pál Szalai, 78, Hungarian police officer who save hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust during World War II.

17

• T. T. Fields, 81, American politician.
• Chung Il-kwon, 76, South Korean general and politician, lymphoma.
• Yevgeny Ivanov, 68, Soviet spy.
• Juan Carlos Pugliese, 78, Argentinian lawyer and politician.
• Helen Stephens, 75, American athlete and Olympic champion.
• Robin Turton, Baron Tranmire, 90, British politician.

18

• Arthur Altman, 83, American songwriter.
• Silvio Bergamini, 70, Italian rower and Olympian.
• Lee Roy Caffey, 52, American gridiron football player, cancer.
• Frank M. Carpenter, 91, American entomologist and paleontologist, heart attack
• Rosemary Glyde, 45, American musician, cancer.
• Rolf Singer, 87, German mycologist.

19

• Eugene Kamenka, 65, Australian political philosopher and scholar.
• Haik Hovsepian Mehr, 49, Iranian-Armenian Protestant minister, murdered.
• Kenneth Utt, 72, American film producer (The Silence of the Lambs), Oscar winner (1992), bone cancer.
• Joseph Vliers, 61, Belgian football player.

20

• Matt Busby, 84, Scottish football player and manager, cancer.
• Ľubor Kresák, 66, Slovak astronomer.
• Bedia Muvahhit, 97, Turkish actress.
• Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, 82, Kenyan chieftain and politician.
• Darío Segovia, 61, Paraguayan football player.

21

• Bassel al-Assad, 31, Syrian colonel, politician and son of president Hafez al-Assad, traffic collision.
• Giorgio Prosperi, 86, Italian screenwriter.
• Timo Suviranta, 63, Finnish basketball player.
• Tony Waddington, 69, English football manager
• Bill Young, 79, American gridiron football player and coach.

22

• Vincent Allard, 72, Belgian entomologist.
• Jean-Louis Barrault, 83, French actor, director and mime artist, heart attack.
• Graziano Battistini, 57, Italian road bicycle racer.
• Rhett Forrester, 37, American rock singer and musician (Riot), shot during carjacking.
• Frances Gifford, 73, American actress, pulmonary emphysema.
• Telly Savalas, 72, American actor (Kojak, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Birdman of Alcatraz) and singer, Emmy winner (1974), cancer.

23

• Adolph Baller, 84, Austrian-American pianist, kidney failure.
• Lee Alvin DuBridge, 92, American educator and physicist, pneumonia.
• Klaus Hemmerle, 64, German Roman Catholic bishop, cancer.
• Alexei Mozhaev, 75, Soviet and Russian painter, graphic artist, and art teacher.
• Yngve Nordwall, 85, Swedish film actor and director.
• Nikolai Ogarkov, 76, Soviet military officer and Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Eila Pennanen, 77, Finnish writer, critic, and essayist.
• Brian Redhead, 64, British author, journalist and broadcaster.
• Millie Robinson, 69, Manx racing cyclist and world hour record holder.
• Oliver Smith, 75, American scenic designer and interior designer, pulmonary emphysema.

24

• Sidney Quinn Curtiss, 76, American politician.
• Raymond F. Jones, 78, American science fiction author.
• Yves Navarre, 53, French writer, suicide.
• Helge Vatsend, 65, Norwegian poet and novelist.

25

• James Boyce, 46, British politician, heart attack.
• Pat Crawford, 91, American Major League Baseball player.
• Aida McAnn Flemming, 97, Canadian teacher, writer and animal rights advocate.
• Stephen Cole Kleene, 85, American mathematician.
• James Zachery, 35, American gridiron football player, murdered.

26

• Ales Adamovich, 66, Soviet and Belarusian writer, critic, and academic, heart attack.
• Elsa Andersson, 99, Swedish diver and Olympian.
• Lejaren Hiller, 69, American composer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Ivan Warner, 74, American lawyer and politician, cancer.

27

• Stanley Adams, 86, American lyricist and songwriter, cancer.
• Claude Akins, 67, American actor (B. J. and the Bear, Inherit the Wind, The Caine Mutiny), cancer.
• Eddie Calhoun, 72, American jazz double bassist.
• Alain Daniélou, 86, French historian, musicologist, and indologist.
• Sherm Feller, 75, American musical composer and radio personality.
• Hans H. Gattermann, 62, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
• Sergei Scherbakov, 75, Russian welterweight boxer.
• Frank Twiss, 83, British Royal Navy admiral.
• Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov, 89, Russian astrophysicist.

28

• Afif al-Bizri, 80, Syrian military officer.
• Emily Taft Douglas, 94, American politician.
• Betty Go-Belmonte, 60, Filipina journalist and newspaper publisher.
• Frank Hardy, 76, Australian novelist and writer, heart attack.
• William Levitt, 86, American real-estate developer regarded as the father of modern American suburbia.
• George Rosso, 64, American gridiron football player.
• Hal Smith, 77, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Beauty and the Beast), heart attack.

29

• Marguerite Allan, 88, Russian-born British actress.
• Nick Cravat, 82, American actor and stunt performer, cancer, lung cancer.
• Yevgeny Leonov, 67, Soviet and Russian actor, pulmonary embolism.
• Ulrike Maier, 26, Austrian alpine ski racer, World Champion and Olympian, skiing accident.
• Tollien Schuurman, 81, Dutch sprinter and Olympian.
• Jakobína Sigurðardóttir, 75, Icelandic writer.
• Jakob Vaage, 88, Norwegian educator, author and historian.

30

• Pierre Boulle, 81, French novelist.
• Claude Nigon, 65, French fencer and Olympian.
• Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby, 81, British peer and philanthropist.
• Laura Nucci, 80, Italian film actress.
• Jan Schaefer, 53, Dutch politician and community organiser, diabetes.
• Rudolf Schwarz, 88, Austrian-American conductor.
• Bahjat Talhouni, 81, Jordanian politician.
• Don Turnbull, 84, Australian tennis player.

31

• Master Abdullah, 64, Pakistani film music composer.
• Alberto Sorrentino, 77, Italian film actor.
• Erwin Strittmatter, 81, German writer.
• Tomanija Đuričko, 79, Serbian actress.

References

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3. Lists of deaths by year
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