Famous People Who Died in 1994

Deaths 1 - 200 of 1,113

• Jan 1 Arthur Porritt, New Zealand athlete (Olympic bronze 100m 1924) and 11th governor-general of New Zealand 1967-72, dies at 93

• Jan 1 Werner Schwab, Austrian playwright (Female Presidents) & artist, dies at 35
• Jan 2 Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (17th Governor of Washington) & chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), dies at 79
• Jan 2 Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French director of IMF (1963-73), dies at 81
• Jan 2 Sammy Taft, Canadian businessman (coined term "hat trick"), dies at 81
• Jan 3 Frank Belknap Long, American writer (Rim of the Unknown), dies at 92
• Jan 3 Heather Sears, British actress (b. 1935)
• Jan 3 Roel Bazen, Dutch sound technician (Van Kooten & The Bie), dies at 48
• Jan 4 Jim Booth, New Zealand producer (Heavenly Creatures), dies at 48
• Jan 4 Michiel P "Michael" Gorsira, Gov of Curacao (1951-67), dies at 80
• Jan 4 R. D. Burman, Indian film score composer (1942: A Love Story), dies at 54
• Jan 5 Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator (BBC radio commentator & cake connoisseur), dies at 81
• Jan 5 Louis R J Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor of Zoelen, dies at 87
• Jan 5 Tip O'Neill, American politician and 47th speaker of the house (D-Ma: 1977-86), dies of cancer at 81
• Jan 5 Victor van Os, Dutch jazz guitarist, dies at 39
• Jan 5 William Raynor, American screenwriter (Gomer Pyle; Get Smart; McDuff, The Talking Dog; Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 73
• Jan 6 "Iron" Adriaan van Es, Dutch undersec of Navy (1963-72), dies at 80
• Jan 6 Gerardus J Sizoo, physicist/director of Dutch Free University, dies
• Jan 6 Morty the Moose, American character alces (Northern Exposure), dies at 6
• Jan 6 Virginia Kelley Clinton, Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70
• Jan 7 Bobby Pratt, American jazz trombone and piano player, dies at 67
• Jan 7 Lewis Boddington, Welsh aerospace Engineer (RAE), dies at 85
• Jan 7 Llewellyn Rees, British theatre actor (A Fish Called Wanda, Invisible Creature), dies at 92
• Jan 7 Lynn Blessing, American vibes player, dies at 65
• Jan 7 Phoumi Vongvichit, President of Laos (1986-91), dies at 84
• Jan 7 Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Italian actor (Cafe Express, Octopus), dies of heart failure at 52
• Jan 8 Edward Duke, actor (Decadence, Silver Bears), dies of cancer at 40
• Jan 8 Harvey Haddix, American baseball pitcher (12 perfect inning game), dies at 68
• Jan 8 Jay Blackton, American conductor and arranger (Guys & Dolls; Oklahoma!), dies at 84
• Jan 8 Lady Caithness, wife of British undersecretary, commits suicide
• Jan 8 Pat Buttram, actor (Haney-Green Acres), dies of kidney failure at 78
• Jan 8 Sri Chandrashekhara Saraswathi, guru of Kanchi, dies at 99
• Jan 9 Silas Hogan, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 82
• Jan 10 Catharina I "Ien" Dales, min of Internal affairs (1989-94), dies at 62
• Jan 10 Charles "Chub" Feeney, baseball pres (National League), dies at 72
• Jan 10 Michael Aldridge, British actor (Last of the Summer Wine, Murder in Cathedral), dies at 73
• Jan 11 Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician, dies at 92
• Jan 11 John Bradley, United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt. Suribachi (see Iwo Jima), dies of a stroke at 70
• Jan 11 Roger "Ram" Ramirez, American jazz piano player and composer, dies at 80
• Jan 12 Robert Horen, American stage and screen actor, dies of cancer at 68
• Jan 12 Samuel Bronston, Romanian-American film producer (El Cid), dies at 85
• Jan 13 Frederick William Sternfield, musicologist, dies at 79
• Jan 13 Johan Jørgen Holst, Norwegian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (worked on the Oslo Peace Accords), dies at 56
• Jan 14 Esther Ralston, American actress (Tin Pan Alley, San Francisco Docks), dies at 91
• Jan 14 Federica Montseny, anarchist/Sp minister of Health (1936), dies at 80
• Jan 14 Zino Davidoff, Ukrainian businessman, dies at 87
• Jan 15 György Cziffra, Hungarian-French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72

• Jan 15 Martin Kosleck, German actor (Pursuit to Algiers; Agent for H.A.R.M.), dies at 89
• Jan 15 Philippe Brun, French jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
• Jan 16 Stephen Kritsick, veterinarian (Good Morning America), dies at 42
• Jan 17 Allan Gilbert Odell, American Ad exec (Burma Shave), dies at 90
• Jan 17 Chung Il Kwon, Prime Minister of South Korea (1964-70), dies
• Jan 17 Grady "Fats" Jackson, tenor Sax Player, dies at 66
• Jan 17 Han Jansen, Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies at 61
• Jan 17 Helen Stephens, American athlete (Olympic gold 100m & 4x100m relay 1936), dies at 75
• Jan 17 Klaas Peereboom, Dutch sports reporter (Het Parool), dies at 77
• Jan 17 Noel Chiboust, French jazz trumpeter and saxophonist, dies at 84
• Jan 17 Yevgeny Ivanov, Soviet spy involved in the Profumo affair (b. 1926)
• Jan 18 Arthur Altman, American songwriter ("All Or Nothing At All"), dies at 83
• Jan 18 Torbjörn Hultcrantzn, Swedish jazz double bass player, dies at 56
• Jan 20 Aar van de Werfhorst [pseudonym for Pieter Gerhardus Jansen], Dutch writer, dies at 87
• Jan 20 Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan vice-pres (1963-66), dies at about 81
• Jan 20 Matt Busby, Scottish soccer forward (Manchester City, Liverpool) and manager (Manchester United 1945-69, 70–71; Scotland 1958), dies from cancer at 84
• Jan 21 Basel al-Assad, Syrian president Hafez al-Assad's son and chosen successor, dies in car accident at 31
• Jan 22 (Aristotelis) "Telly" Savalas, American actor (Kojak; On Her Majesty's Secret Service), and singer ("If"), dies of prostate cancer at 72
• Jan 22 Frances Gifford, dies of emphysema, at 71
• Jan 22 Irving B. Kahn, American inventor of the teleprompter, dies at 76
• Jan 22 Jean-Louis Barrault, French stage actor, director and producer (Les Enfants du Paradis), dies at 83
• Jan 22 Rhett Forrester, American singer (Riot) (b. 1956)
• Jan 23 Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
• Jan 23 Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian marshal (Flight KAL 007), dies at 76
• Jan 23 Oliver Smith, American 7-time Tony Award-winning set designer (Guys & Dolls), dies at 75
• Jan 23 Sherry Mathis, American actress (Search for Tomorrow), dies of cancer at 44
• Jan 23 Suzanne M. Blum, French lawyer (Charlie Chaplin), dies at 95
• Jan 24 Michalis Vranopoulos, head of Greek state bank, murdered at 48
• Jan 24 Yves Navarre, French writer (Le Jardin d'acclimatation), dies at 53
• Jan 25 Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician (Regular Expressions), dies at 85
• Jan 27 Claude Akins, American character actor (B. J. and the Bear; The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo; Movin' On), dies of cancer at 67
• Jan 27 Eddie Calhoun, American jazz bassist, dies at 72
• Jan 27 Joe Mays, American character actor (Mr. Saturday Night; The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd), dies of AIDS at 45
• Jan 27 Stanley Adams, American lyricist and songwriter ("What a Diff'rence a Day Makes"), dies from cancer at 86
• Jan 28 Hal Smith, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show-Otis Campbell), dies at 77
• Jan 28 Hermanus P "Piet" Mulder, Dutch journalist (Het Parool), dies at 79
• Jan 28 William Levitt, builder (Levittown), dies of kidney failure at 86
• Jan 29 Jevgeni P Leonov, Russian actor (Gori, Moja Zvezda), dies at 67
• Jan 29 Nick Cravat [Nicholas Cuccia], American actor (Twilight Zone - "Gremlin" in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" episode), dies of lung cancer at 82
• Jan 29 Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (World C'ship gold Super-G 1989, 91), dies of a broken neck from accident during World Cup event in Germany at 26
• Jan 30 Bahjat Talhouni, Prime Minister of Jordan (1960-62, 64-65, 67-69, 69-70), dies
• Jan 30 Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, American blues singer ("Sittin' Here Cryin'"), dies at 64
• Jan 30 Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, American jazz vocalist and trumpeter (International Sweethearts of Rhythm), dies at 86
• Jan 30 Jan L N Schaefer, Dutch undersecretary of Housing (PvdA), dies at 53
• Jan 31 Pierre Boulle, French writer (Executioner), dies at 81
• Feb 1 Fouad Fram al-Boustani, Lebanese historian (Rawaeaa), dies at 88
• Feb 1 John Littlejohn [Funchess], American electric blues slide guitarist ("So-Called Friends"), dies of renal failure at 62
• Feb 1 Olan Soule, American character radio and screen actor (The First Nighter Program; Captain Midnight; Dragnet; Arnie), dies of lung cancer at 84
• Feb 2 John Wesley Funchess Littlejohn, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 62
• Feb 2 Stephen Barclay, actor (Pride of the Plains), dies at 75
• Feb 2 Willie Mae "Mother" Smith (née Ford), American gospel singer, evangelist, and folk artist, dies at 89
• Feb 2 Zilner Randolph, American jazz trumpeter, arranger, and music educator, dies at 95
• Feb 4 Han Jansen, Dutch painter, dies at 62
• Feb 4 Harold Schneider, US producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55
• Feb 4 Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist and director (KNMI), dies at 84
• Feb 4 Justinus Darmojuwono, Indonesian archbishop/cardinal, dies at 79

• Feb 5 Fred de Bruyne, Flemish cyclist/gang leader (Paris-Nice), dies at 63
• Feb 5 Hermann Abs, German banker to Adolf Hitler & Konrad Adenauer and director of Deutsche Bank (1938-45), dies at 92
• Feb 5 Kenneth "Buddy" Scott, blues guitarist/Singer, dies at 59
• Feb 6 Gwendoline "Gwen" Watford, British actress (Present Laughter, Cleopatra, Taste the Blood of Dracula), dies from cancer at 66
• Feb 6 Ignace Strasfogel, Polish/US pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 84

• Feb 6 Joseph Cotten, American actor (Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Airport 77, Hearse), dies from pneumonia at 88
• Feb 6 Norman Del Mar, British conductor and writer (Conducting Brahms), dies at 74
• Feb 7 Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem minister (CRM 1965-66), dies at 74
• Feb 7 Richard Bissell, US under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84
• Feb 7 Witold Lutosławski, Polish pianist, composer, and conductor (Musique funèbre; Trois poèmes d'Henri Michaux), dies of cancer at 81
• Feb 8 Jacob Firet, Dutch theologist (Agogic Moment), dies at 70
• Feb 8 Ken Hall, Australian director and producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92
• Feb 8 Raymond Scott, American composer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
• Feb 9 Arnold Smith, British 1st Secretary-General of Commonwealth (1965-75), dies at 79
• Feb 9 Bud Wilkinson, American college football coach (Oklahoma), dies at 77
• Feb 9 Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (Nobel 1975), dies at 59
• Feb 9 Jarmila Novotna, Czech-American soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at 86
• Feb 9 Louis Kaufman, American violinist and conductor (Gone With The Wind), dies at 88
• Feb 11 Antonio Martin, Spanish cyclist, dies in cycling accident at 23
• Feb 11 Neil Bonnett, American race car driver, dies at 47
• Feb 11 Sorrell Booke, American actor (Boss Hogg in Dukes of Hazard), dies of colorectal cancer at 64
• Feb 11 Vincent Wigglesworth, British entomologist (Metamorphosis hormones), dies at 94
• Feb 11 William Conrad [John Cann], American actor (The Killers, Bullwinkle Show, Cannon), dies of a heart attack at 73
• Feb 12 Donald Judd, American minimalist sculptor and artist, dies of cancer at 65
• Feb 12 Ray Dandridge, American Baseball HOF third baseman (3 × NgL All-Star 1935, 37, 44; American Association MVP 1950 Minneapolis Millers), dies at 80
• Feb 12 Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate, dies at 43
• Feb 13 Michael Lindsay, British-Australian scholar (aided communists against Japanese occupation in China), dies at 84
• Feb 13 Theo Bitter, Dutch painter and set designer, dies at 79
• Feb 14 Andrei Chikatilo, Soviet-Russian serial killer who murdered at least 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990, executed by a single gunshot at 57
• Feb 14 Christopher Lasch, American historian and author (The Culture of Narcissism), dies of metastatic cancer at 61
• Feb 14 Gary "BB" Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer, dies at 47
• Feb 15 Andrei Tsjikatilo [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed
• Feb 15 Maria Britneva, Russian actress (A Room with a View, Maurice), dies of heart failure 72
• Feb 15 Tiger Haynes, American actor (Moscow on the Hudson, Cosby Show), dies at 79
• Feb 17 Gretchen Fraser, American slalom skier (Olympic gold 1948, 1st American Olympic skiing gold), dies at 75
• Feb 17 Randy Shilts, American journalist (& the band played on), dies of AIDs at 41
• Feb 18 Peter Caddy, British caterer (co-founder of the Findhorn Community, dies at 76
• Feb 19 Derek Jarman, English filmmaker (The Tempest), artist and gay rights activist, dies of AIDS at 52
• Feb 19 Fausto Bara, Mexican-American actor (The Renegades - "Gaucho"), dies of AIDS at 42
• Feb 19 Georges Watin, Algerian-French officer (OAS), dies at 71
• Feb 19 Renske Vellinga, Dutch speed-skater, dies in auto-accident at 19
• Feb 19 Vittorio Rieti, Jewish Italian-American composer, dies at 96
• Feb 20 Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at 52
• Feb 20 Manuel F "Garincha" dos Santos, soccer player (Brazil), dies at 49
• Feb 20 Willi Schmidt, German director (Eli), dies at 84
• Feb 22 "Papa" John Creach, American blues violinist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane), dies of heart failure at 76
• Feb 23 Stuart Berger, doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40

• Feb 24 Donald Phillips, pianist and composer, dies at 80
• Feb 24 Eduard Pavlovich Kugno, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 58
• Feb 24 Jean Sablon, French pop singer-songwriter, dies at 87
• Feb 24 Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative, dies at 83
• Feb 24 Lores Bonney, Australian aviator, 1st female solo flight Australia to UK, dies at 96
• Feb 25 Baruch Goldstein, physician/murderer (53 in mosque), lynched at 42
• Feb 25 Hugh Tayfield, cricketer (170 wickets for South Africa in 37 Tests), dies

• Feb 25 Wladyslaw Sila-Nowicki, Polish lawyer and adviser to Solidarity labor union, dies of heart disease at 80
• Feb 25 Yann Piat, French MP (FN/PR), murdered at 44
• Feb 26 Avery Fisher, US audio manufacturer (1st hi-fi), dies at 87
• Feb 26 Bill Hicks, American stand-up comedian and social critic, dies of pancreatic cancer at 32
• Feb 26 Leopold "Hans" Kohr, Austrian social philosopher, dies at 84
• Feb 27 "Hans" Leopold Kohr, Austrian social philosopher and economist, dies at 84
• Feb 27 Harold Acton, English-Italian historian and art collector, dies at 84
• Feb 27 Karl I Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor, dies at 66
• Feb 27 Laurence Craigie, American aviator (1st US jet pilot), dies at 92
• Feb 27 Roosevelt Holts, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 89
• Feb 28 (Elbert) "Skippy" Williams, American jazz tenor saxophonist and musical arranger, dies at 77
• Feb 28 Aisin Giorro Pu Chieh, brother of Last Emperor of China, dies at 86
• Feb 28 Buster Holmes, American chef and New Orleans restaurateur, dies at 88
• Feb 28 G. O. Sayles, English historian, dies at 92
• Feb 28 Leopoldina Poldi Feichtegger Gerhard, dies at 90
• Feb 28 Pu Yi, brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, dies at 87
• Mar 1 Alexei Haieff, Russian-American composer (Princess Zondilda), dies at 79
• Mar 1 Dallas Shirley, American Basketball Hall of Fame referee (officiated 2,000+ games in 33-year career), dies at 80
• Mar 1 Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74
• Mar 1 Manmohan Desai, Indian filmmaker (Amar Akbar Anthony, Suhaag), dies at 57
• Mar 1 Sandro Fuga, Italian composer & pianist, dies at 87
• Mar 1 Timothy Andrew James Souster, British composer, dies at 51
• Mar 1 Walter Kent, American composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82
• Mar 2 Charles Brink, German-born British classical scholar (Horace), dies at 86
• Mar 2 Donald M. MacKinnon, Scottish philosopher, dies at 80
• Mar 3 Anita Morris, actress (Nine), dies of cancer at 50
• Mar 3 Bob Crisp, South African cricket fast bowler (9 Tests, 20 wickets; Rhodesia, Western Province, Worcestershire), dies at 82
• Mar 3 Ezra Stone [Chaim Feinstone], American director, actor and producer (My Living Doll, Henry Aldrich), dies in a road accident at 76
• Mar 3 Karel Kryl, Czechoslovak folk singer, dies at 49
• Mar 3 Mauritius van Haegendoren, Flemish historian and senator, dies at 90
• Mar 3 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Polish-Israeli composer and music editor, dies at 75

• Mar 5 Abdullah Al-Sallal, President of Yemen (1962-67), dies
• Mar 5 Joe Daley, American jazz tenor, clarinet and flute player, dies at 75
• Mar 5 Paul Vincze, Jewish-Hungarian designer of coins and medal, dies at 86
• Mar 6 Leighton Noble [Faye Leighton Jepson], American big band singer, bandleader, and TV host, dies at 81
• Mar 6 Max Schubert, Australian pioneering winemaker (Penfolds), dies at 89

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