Famous People Who Died in 1995

Deaths 1 - 200 of 1,116

Jan 4 Robert Clifford Latham, English Pepys scholar, dies at 82
Jan 4 Sol Tax, American anthropologist (founded the journal Current Anthropology), dies at 87
Jan 5 Francis Lopez, Basque-French chanson and operetta composer (La Belle de Cadiz; Andalousie; The Three Musketeers), dies at 78
Jan 5 Mansour Sattari, Iranian Brigadier General and commandant (Iran Air Force), dies at 46
Jan 5 Somerset de Chair, British writer, politician and poet, dies at 83
Jan 6 Edward Sutcliffe, British judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77
Jan 6 James Clay, American jazz tenor saxophonist, dies at 59
Jan 6 Joe Slovo, Latvian/South African attorney/sect-gen (SACR), dies at 68
Jan 6 Karl Guttmann, Austrian-Dutch playwright and director (Pinter), dies at 81
Jan 7 Arthur Leavins, British violinist, dies at 77
Jan 7 Harry Golombek, British chess grandmaster, author (3-time British champion), dies at 83
Jan 7 Larry Grayson, British comedian (Generation Game), dies at 71
Jan 7 Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
Jan 7 Viktor Vorobyov, Russian general-major, dies in battle during war in Chechnya
Jan 8 Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer (Undisputed world middleweight champion 1970-74, 76-77), dies in a car accident at 52
Jan 8 Joyce McCartan, Irish peace campaigner, dies at 68
Jan 9 Gisela Mauermeyer, German discus thrower (Olympic gold 1936), dies at 81
Jan 9 Peter Cook, English comic/actor (Peter n' Dud, Bedazzled), dies at 57
Jan 9 Souphanouvong, President of Laos (1975-87), dies at 85
Jan 10 Elaine Greene, literary Agent, dies at 74

Jan 10 Fred Böhler, Swiss jazz bandleader, pianist, and early proponent of the Hammond organ, dies at 82
Jan 10 Halton Kathleen Tynan, writer, dies at 57
Jan 11 John AG Gere, English art historian (Raphael & his Circle), dies at 73
Jan 11 Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (Primrose Quartet; Cleveland Orchestra, 1947-60) and pedagogue (Indiana University, 1960-95), dies following a heart attack at 85
Jan 11 Onat Kutlar, Turkish screenplay/producer (Hazal), murdered at 59
Jan 12 George Price, cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 93
Jan 12 Marion Herbst, German/Dutch jewelry designer, dies at 50
Jan 13 Arnold Smith, painter (Vigelius Prize 1935), dies at 89
Jan 13 Arthur Mervyn Stockwood, Anglican bishop (Southwark England), dies at 81
Jan 13 Maxwell Henley Harris, Australian poet and publisher (Critics), dies at 73
Jan 14 Alexander Gibson, British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera, dies at 68
Jan 14 Mark Finch, film festival organizer, dies at 33
Jan 14 Ruby Starr [Constance Henrietta Mierzwiak], American rock singer (Black Oak Arkansas), dies of a brain tumor at 44
Jan 14 Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, newspaper editor, dies at 84
Jan 15 Sollie McElroy, R&B singer (Flamingos - "Golden Teardrops"), dies at 61
Jan 16 William Dillard, American jazz trumpeter and Broadway singer dies from complications of Lupus, at 83 [1]
Jan 17 Isador Caplan, British lawyer and Aldeburgh Festival pioneer, dies at 82
Jan 17 Urias Nooteboom, Dutch journalist/critic (The Time), dies at 54
Jan 18 Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1939 for work on sex hormones), dies at 91
Jan 18 Charles Baskerville, American pop vocalist (Shep and the Limelites - "Daddy's Home"), dies at 54

Jan 18 Joseph Kagan, Lithuanian-British businessman, and inventor (Gannex raincoats), dies at 79
Jan 18 Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire in the American League (1969-79), dies at 57
Jan 19 Eugene Fuller, polymath/linguist, dies at 80
Jan 19 Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter ("Snowbird"; "Put Your Hand in the Hand"), takes his own life at 56
Jan 20 Mehdi Bazargan, director Iranian oil corp/premier (1979), dies at 86
Jan 21 Flavio "Negao" Pires da Conceicao, drug Trafficker, dies at 25
Jan 21 John Halas, Hungarian-American cartoonist and animator (Animal Farm), dies at 82
Jan 21 Philippe Casado, Moroccan/French cyclist, dies at 30
Jan 22 Christopher Francis Palmer, British composer, orchestrator, and musicologist, dies of AIDS complications 48
Jan 22 Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler, dies at 45
Jan 22 Mahmoud Sayed Selim, Egyptian moslim leader, shot to death at 29
Jan 22 Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar), dies at 88
Jan 22 Nico Adriaans, Dutch AIDS activist, founder of Rotterdam Junkiebond, dies of AIDS at 37
Jan 22 Ronald Harris, British 1st Church Estates Commissioner, dies at 81

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890-1995)

Jan 22 American matriarch, mother of JFK, RFK & Ted, dies at 104

Jan 23 Bill Horton, American doo-wop singer (The Silhouettes - "Get A Job"), dies at 65
Jan 23 Harold Collett Dent, British journalist and educationist, dies at 100
Jan 23 Ken Hill, English playwright and director, dies at 57
Jan 23 Michael Whalley Wickham, English artist, dies at 91
Jan 23 Peter Luke, British playwright, dies at 75
Jan 24 Ian Prestt, English ornithologist, dies at 65
Jan 24 Victor Reinganum, English artist and illustrator, dies at 87
Jan 24 Wim H Sinnige, Amsterdam PvdA alderman of Finance, dies at 60
Jan 25 John Smith, American actor (Cimarron City, Laramie, 7 Angry Men), dies at 63
Jan 25 Peter Black, English TV critic, dies at 82
Jan 25 Tom Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Brave Dodo), dies at 62
Jan 25 William Sylvester, American actor (2001: A Space Odyssey, Gemini Man), dies at 72
Jan 26 Bernardo Leighton, Chilian politician (1964-70), dies
Jan 26 Geoffrey Penwill Parsons, piano accompnaist, dies at 65
Jan 26 Louis Heren, journalist, dies at 65
Jan 26 Vic Buckingham, English soccer player/trainer (Ajax), dies at 79
Jan 27 Geoffrey Parsons, Australian-British concert pianist, accompanist, and harpsichord player. dies of cancer at 65
Jan 27 Halsey S. Colchester, British SAS officer, MI6-spy and priest, dies at 76
Jan 27 Jean Tardieu, French dramatist, dies at 91
Jan 27 Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, dies at 83
Jan 27 Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, General Secretary of the Council of Churches of the Netherlands, dies at 64
Jan 28 Barrie Wilson, British religious scholar (How Jesus Became Christian), dies at 59
Jan 28 George Woodcock, Canadian writer of political biography and history (Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements), dies at 82
Jan 28 James P Grant, American director of UNICEF (1980-95), dies at 72
Jan 28 Jim Gilbert, British artist and criminal, dies at 61
Jan 28 Philip Burton, Welsh theater director, acting teacher and mentor to Richard Burton, dies at 90
Jan 28 Walter Allen, English writer and literary critic, dies at 83
Jan 29 Chris de Marigny, British dance administrator, dies at 52
Jan 29 Dickie Burnell, British rower (Olympic gold double sculls 1948), dies at 77
Jan 29 Guy Clutton-Brock, English social worker (declared a national hero in Zimbabwe), dies at 88
Jan 29 Kuldar Sink, Estonian composer, dies at 52
Jan 29 Ray Cecil, British architect, dies at 69
Jan 30 George James, American jazz saxophonist, dies at 88
Jan 30 George Poyser, English soccer defender (Brentford) and manager (Notts County, Manchester City), dies at 84
Jan 30 Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zoologist and author (My Family and Other Animals), dies at 70
Jan 31 George Abbott, American theater producer and film director (Damn Yankees; Pajama Game), dies at 107
Jan 31 George Stibitz, American mathematician and scientist, dies at 90
Jan 31 James Johnson, English MP (Labour, 1950..83), dies at 86
Jan 31 Sir John Smith, English soccer administrator (chairman Liverpool F.C. 1973-90), dies at 74
Feb 1 Michael Cesar, American man & self-proclaimed 'Pope of Pot', dies of liver cancer at 52
Feb 2 Alexis d'Anjou de Bourbon-Condé, French prince/Russian, dies at 47
Feb 2 Andre Frossard, French publicist (Defense of Pope), dies at 80
Feb 2 David Kindersley, British stone letter-carver and typeface designer, dies at 79
Feb 2 Donald Pleasence, British actor (You Only Live Twice, Escape from New York, Halloween), dies from heart failure at 75

Fred Perry (1909-1995)

Feb 2 English tennis player/broadcaster (8 x Grand Slam singles, 6 x Grand Slam doubles titles; Davis Cup 1933, 34, 35, 36), dies of broken ribs at 85

Feb 2 Phillip Borsos, Tasmanian/Canadian director (Mean Season), dies
Feb 3 Art Kane [Kanofsky], American art director (Seventeen Magazine), and portrait photographer (A Great Day In Harlem), takes his own life at 69
Feb 3 John Pinsent, English classical scholar (Greek mythology), dies at 72
Feb 3 Turner Fodrell, American blues and folk singer, and guitarist, dies at 66
Feb 4 Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies
Feb 4 Godfrey Brown, British athlete, 4 X 400m runner (Olympic gold 1936), dies at 79
Feb 4 Manohar Hardikar, Indian cricketer (batted in 2 Tests India v WI 1958-59), dies at 58
Feb 4 Patricia Highsmith [Plangman], American novel writer (Strangers On A Train; The Talented Mr. Ripley; The Price of Salt), dies of lung cancer at 74
Feb 4 Roel Wiersma, Dutch soccer star (PSV), dies at 62
Feb 5 Court Benson, Canadian-American actor and broadcaster, dies at 79
Feb 5 Doug Mcclure, US rodeo rider/actor (Trampas-Virginian), dies at 59
Feb 5 Frederick Craig Riddle, British violist, dies at 82
Feb 5 Judith Fluks, Amsterdam's activist, dies
Feb 5 Kimberley Leston, journalist, dies at 35
Feb 6 Art Taylor, American jazz drummer (Bud Powell, Red Garland, John Coltrane, Donald Byrd), band leader (Taylor's Wailers), and writer (Notes and Tones), dies at 65
Feb 6 James Ingram Merrill, American poet (Braving the Elements), dies at 68
Feb 7 Helen Wallis, cartographer/Librarian, dies at 70
Feb 7 Massimo Pallottino, Italian archaeologist (Etruscologia), dies at 86
Feb 7 William Harry "Billy" Jones, American rock guitarist (The Outlaws), dies of self-inflicted gunshot at 45
Feb 8 B. G. Hooghoudt, Dutch radiotelescope builder (Dwingeloo/Westerbork), dies at 70
Feb 8 Clay Warnick, American choral director (Your Show Of Shows), dies at 79
Feb 8 J. William Fulbright, US politician (Senator-Arkansas 1945-74) and founder of the Fulbright scholarship, dies at 89
Feb 8 Wilhelm J. Soukop, Austrian-British sculptor, dies at 88
Feb 9 David Wayne, American stage and screen actor (Andromeda Strain, Adam's Rib), dies of lung cancer at 81
Feb 9 J. William Fulbright, American senator from Arkansas, known for opposition to the Vietnam War), dies at 89
Feb 10 Kenton Kilmer, American writer, dies of cancer at 85
Feb 10 Paul Monette, American writer, dies of AIDS at 49
Feb 10 S van der Linde, church historian, dies at 89
Feb 12 Earring George Mayweather, American blues harmonica player, dies of liver cancer at 66
Feb 12 L Jansma, Fries publisher (Friese stamp), dies
Feb 12 Nat Holman, American Basketball HOF coach (NCAA, NIT C'ships 1950 CCNY), dies at 98
Feb 12 Rachid Mimouni, Algerian author (L'Honneur de la Tribu), dies at 49
Feb 12 Terence Beckles, English pianist and teacher, dies at 82
Feb 12 Tony Secunda, English rock band manager (The Moody Blues), dies at 54
Feb 13 Abdelhafid Said, Algerian student leader, murdered
Feb 13 Alberto Burri, Italian abstract painter, dies at 79
Feb 13 Azeddine Medjoubi, head Algerian nationally theater, murdered at 49
Feb 13 Joan A C Ramsey nee Hamilton, lady Ramsey of Canterbury, dies at 84
Feb 13 Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair, Jamaican jazz saxophonist, dies at 68
Feb 14 Israël "Ischa" Meijer, Dutch journalist, critic and author (Een Dik Uur Ischa, Boezemvriend), dies of a myocardial infarction at 52
Feb 14 Michael V. Gazzo, American playwright (A Hatful Of Rain), and actor (The Godfather Part II; Cookie; Fear City), dies of complications from a stroke at 71
Feb 14 Nigel Finch, English TV director and film-maker (Chelsea Hotel; Vampyr; Stonewall), dies from AIDS-related illness at 45
Feb 14 Roger de Grey, British landscape painter and President of Royal Academy (1984-93), dies at 76
Feb 14 Siem Suurhoff, Dutch TV-director (Behind the News, Sonja), dies at 58
Feb 14 U Nu, 1st Prime Minister of Burma (1948-56, 1960-62), dies at 87
Feb 15 Joseph Ortiz, French-Algerian extremist and rebel (barricade uprising), dies at 77
Feb 15 Lord Taylor of Hadfield, British President of Taylor Woodrow Group, dies at 90
Feb 15 Nabila Diahnine, Algerian architect/feminist, murdered at 33
Feb 15 Sahnoun Jawhari, Tunisian Annahda-leader, dies at 40 in jail
Feb 15 Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose, British Conservative Lower house leader (1941-45), dies at 85
Feb 16 John Everett Allen, American businessman, dies at 91
Feb 17 Thelma Hulbert, English painter (Le Sacre du Printemps), dies at 81
Feb 17 Uta Graf, German born American singer and teacher, dies at 80
Feb 18 Dennis "Denny" Cordell, British rock music and record producer (The Moody Blues, Leon Russell), dies of lymphoma at 51
Feb 18 John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, American jazz trumpeter (Dogtown Blues, Stormy Weather), dies of a heart attack at 84
Feb 18 Robert "Bob" Stinson, American rock guitarist (The Replacements), dies of organ failure at 35
Feb 19 Calder Willingham, American novelist and scriptwriter (End as a Man), dies at 72
Feb 19 Ian Ball, newspaper photographer, dies at 80
Feb 19 John Howard, American actor (The Philadelphia Story, My Three Sons), dies of heart failure at 81
Feb 19 Shlomo Averbach, Israeli ultra-orthodox rabbi, dies at 84
Feb 20 John Humphreys Whitfield, British scholar of Italian language & literature, dies at 88
Feb 20 Shlomo Averbach, Rabbi, buried in Jerusalem, 250,000 attend
Feb 21 Robert Bolt, British playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70
Feb 22 Ed Flanders, actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60
Feb 22 Elfi Althoff-Jacobi, Austrian circus director, dies at 80
Feb 22 Emmanuel Roblès, Algerian-French novelist and playwright (Lesson Hauteurs), dies at 80
Feb 22 Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of President Boudiaf, dies

James Herriot (1916-1995)

Feb 23 British veterinarian and novelist (All Creatures Great and Small), dies of prostate cancer at 78

Feb 23 Melvin Franklin, American musician (The Temptations), dies at 52
Feb 23 Norman Hunter, English children's writer (Professor Branestawm), dies at 95
Feb 23 Peter Wykeham, Royal Air Force fighter pilot, dies at 79
Feb 24 Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89
Feb 25 Jack Clayton, British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73
Feb 25 Oh Jin Woo, Korean minister of defense, dies
Feb 25 Terence Weil, British cellist (English Chamber Orchestra; Melos Ensemble), dies at 73
Feb 26 Frank O’Keefe, American southern rock bassist (The Outlaws, 1968-76), dies of pain medication overdose at 44
Feb 26 Willie Johnson, American electric blues guitarist (Howlin' Wolf's "How Many More Years"), dies at 71
Feb 27 Bernard Cornfield, financier, dies at 67
Feb 27 Philip Sherrington, opus Dei Priest, dies at 51
Feb 28 (Herman) "Ace" Wallace, American St. Louis blues guitarist and singer, dies at 69
Feb 28 Keith Rigg, Australian cricket batsman (8 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 127; Victoria), dies at 88
Feb 28 Max Rudolf, German-American conductor (Cincinnati Symphony, 1958-70), and pedagogue (Curtis Institute, 1970-73 and 1980-95), dies at 92
Mar 1 César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish soccer forward (12 caps; Barcelona) and manager (Zaragoza, Barcelona), dies at 74
Mar 1 Earl Blackwell, American society impresario (Celebrity Register), dies at 85

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