Deaths in August 1995
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 1995.
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.
August 1995
1
- Julián Berrendero, 83, Spanish road racing cyclist who twice won the Vuelta a España.[1]
- Phyllis Brooks, 80, American actress and model.[2]
- Frank W. Cyr, 95, American educator and author.[3]
- Martha Genenger, 83, German Olympic swimmer (1936).[4]
- Colin Falkland Gray, 80, New Zealand fighter ace during World War II.[5]
- Ruby Knezovich, 77, Canadian baseball player.[6]
- Satoshi Matsui, 80, Japanese Olympic basketball player (1936).[7]
- Esther Muir, 92, American actress.[8]
- Gopalaswami Parthasarathy, 83, Indian journalist, educationist, and diplomat.
- Ralf Thienel, 36, German rower and Olympian (1988).[9]
- Rudolph F. Zallinger, 75, Austrian-Russian artist.
2
- Irwin Bazelon, 73, American composer of contemporary classical music.[10]
- Thomas Brimelow, Baron Brimelow, 79, British diplomat.[11]
- Lillian Bronson, 92, American character actress.[12]
- Fred Daly, 83, Australian politician.
- Eva Gredal, 68, Danish politician.
- Oonagh Guinness, 85, Anglo-Irish socialite, society hostess and art collector.
- Yury Iosifovich Koval, 57, Russian author, artist, and screenplay writer, heart attack.[13]
- Juan López Moctezuma, 63, Mexican film director and actor.[14]
- Carl Bernard Rubin, 75, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio).[15]
- Brian Smith, 54, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars), and sportscaster, shot.[16]
3
- Lionel Philias Coderre, 80, Canadian politician.[17]
- Harry Craft, 80, American Major League Baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), and manager (Kansas City Athletics, Houston Colt .45s).[18]
- Mary Lena Faulk, 69, American golfer.[19]
- Brendon Hackwill, 53, Australian rules footballer and Olympic basketball player (1964).[20]
- Ida Lupino, 77, British-American actress (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, High Sierra) and film director (The Hitch-Hiker), stroke.[21]
- Alan Mitchell, 72, British forester, dendrologist and botanist.
- Edward Whittemore, 62, American novelist.[22]
4
- Alejandro Almendras, 76, Filipino politician.[23]
- Cal Anderson, 47, American military officer and politician.[24]
- Jacques Aubert, 78, Swiss entomologist.[25]
- Dick Bartell, 87, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease.[26]
- Jock Carroll, 76, Canadian writer, journalist and photographer.[27]
- Uno Fransson, 67, Swedish Olympic discus thrower (1948).[28]
- Jean-Pierre Frisch, 87, Luxembourgish Olympic football player (1936).[29]
- Antonio Leonviola, 82, Italian screenwriter and film director.
- J. Howard Marshall, 90, American billionaire, oil executive, and husband of Anna Nicole Smith.[30]
- Kiiti Morita, 80, Japanese mathematician.[31]
- Said Ramadan, 69, Egyptian political activist and humanitarian.[32]
- Bernie Ruelle, 74, American ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).[33]
5
- Agha Hasan Abedi, 73, Pakistani banker.[34]
- Fletcher Allen, 90, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.[35][36]
- Menachem Avidom, 87, Israeli composer.[37]
- Clarice Blackburn, 74, American actress, cancer.[38]
- Allan Bridge, 50, American conceptual artist.[39]
- Angelo Brovelli, 84, American NFL football player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[40]
- J. Marshall Brown, 68, American politician and insurance agent.[41]
- Massimiliano Capuzzoni, 26, Italian rugby player, diving accident.[42]
- Mark Colton, 34, British racing driver and software author, racing accident.[43]
- Eduardo Endtner, 53, Brazilian Olympic rower (1960).[44]
- Izet Nanić, 29, Bosnian Army brigade commander, killed in action.
- Robert Shaw, 95, English cricketer and Royal Navy officer.[45]
- Francesco Suppo, 79, Italian Olympic wrestler (1948).[46]
6
- Irja Aav, 51, Estonian actress.[47]
- Hugh Borton, 92, American historian.[48]
- André Fleury, 92, French composer, pianist, organist, and pedagogue.[49]
- Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester, 81, British barrister and politician.
- Nadira, 26, Pakistani film actress and dancer, homicide.
- Gil Patrick, 87, Australian rules footballer.[50]
- Toney Penna, 87, Italian-American golfer and designer of golf clubs and gear.
- Ike Petersen, 86, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions).[51]
- George Svendsen, 82, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers).[52]
- Montri Tramote, 95, Thai musician and scholar, heart failure.[53]
7
- David Begelman, 73, American film producer, suicide.[54]
- Brigid Brophy, 66, British novelist, multiple sclerosis.[55]
- Tyra Hunter, 24, transgender hairdresser.
- Haim Kaufman, 60, Israeli politician.
- Dursley McLinden, 30, Manx actor.
- Don Patinkin, 73, American-Israeli monetary economist.[56]
- Tom Scott, 77, Scottish poet, editor, and prose writer.[57]
- Harold Stewart, 78, Australian poet and oriental scholar.[58]
- Maksim Tank, 82, Belarusian Soviet journalist, poet and translator.
8
- John Adams, 57, American football player (Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Rams).[59]
- Kurt Becher, 85, German SS officer who was Commissar of all Nazi concentration camps.[60]
- Ronald Beeson, 58, English cricket player.[61]
- Fyodor Dyachenko, 78, Russian/Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with 425 kills.
- Carol Hughes, 85, American actress.
- Herbert Ihlefeld, 81, German Luftwaffe military aviator and fighter ace.
- Edmund Wainwright, 92, Australian cricketer.[62]
9
- Teodoro Alcalde, 81, Peruvian football player and Olympian (1936).[63]
- Jerry Garcia, 53, American guitarist (The Grateful Dead), heart attack.[64]
- Suen Kam Shun, 88, Chinese football player and Olympian (1936).[65]
- Romuald Spasowski, 74, Polish diplomat, ambassador and defector, cancer.[66]
- Luis Procuna, 72, Mexican bullfighter and actor, plane crash.[67]
10
- Gijs van Aardenne, 65, Dutch politician, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[68]
- Leo Apostel, 69, Belgian philosopher.[69]
- Donald Bisset, 84, British character actor and children's author.[70]
- Thomas Elliot Bowman III, 76, American carcinologist.[71]
- Wei-Liang Chow, 83, Chinese mathematician.[72]
- Florestan Fernandes, 75, Brazilian sociologist and politician.
- Josseline Gaël, 78, French film actress.[73]
- Fay Honey Knopp, 76, American Quaker minister, and peace and civil rights advocat.[74]
- Marcel Moussy, 71, French screenwriter and television director.
- Harishankar Parsai, 72, Indian writer.
- Aldo Protti, 75, Italian baritone.[75]
- Baba Rexheb, 93, Albanian Islamic scholar and Sufi.
- Niilo Ryhtä, 88, Finnish politician.
- Tikiri Banda Subasinghe, 81, Sri Lankan statesman.
- Axel Svendsen, 83, Danish Olympic canoeist (1936).[76]
- Ray Whittorn, 83, Australian politician.
- Peter Williams, 81, English designer and dance critic, heart attack.[77]
11
- Libby Altwerger, 80, Canadian artist and educator.[78]
- Karel Berman, 76, Czech composer, opera singer, music educator.[79]
- Sam Berman, 88, American caricaturist of the 1940s and 1950s.[80]
- Joseph Bermingham, 76, Irish Labour Party politician.[81]
- Alonzo Church, 92, American mathematician.[82]
- Reg Date, 74, Australian soccer player.
- Damon Edge, 45, American musician, heart attack.
- Phil Harris, 91, American comedian and actor (The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, The Aristocats), heart attack.[83]
- Frank Kendrick, 81, Australian rules footballer.[84]
- John H. Pratt, 84, American lawyer and district judge (United States District Court for the District of Columbia).[85]
- Al Smith, 91, American baseball player (New York Giants).[86]
- Wilbur Stark, 83, American writer and film, television, and radio producer and director.[87]
- Herbert Sumsion, 96, English organist.[88]
12
- Bobby Burns, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).[89]
- Jean Chapel, 70, American country singer and songwriter.[90]
- Frank Cvitanovich, 67, Canadian filmmaker.[91]
- Louise Lorimer, 97, American actress.[92]
- Marty Paich, 70, American arranger, composer, pianist, and bandleader, colorectal cancer.[93]
- Bruno Pasquini, 80, Italian racing cyclist.[94]
- Russ Reader, 72, American football player (Chicago Bears).[95]
- Achille Togliani, 71, Italian singer and actor.
- Felipe Tromp, 77, Governor of Aruba.
13
- Bruce Grant, 31, New Zealand Olympic alpine skier (1984).[96]
- Alison Hargreaves, 33, British mountain climber, exposure during climb.[97]
- Pêr-Jakez Helias, 80-81, Breton stage actor, journalist, author, poet, and writer.[98]
- Víctor Klein, 77, Chilean footballer.[99]
- Jan Křesadlo, 68, Czech psychologist, novelist and poet.[100]
- Mickey Mantle, 63, American Hall of Fame baseball player (New York Yankees), liver cancer.[101]
- Jesse Thomas, 84, American blues singer.[102]
- Hanna Waag, 91, German film actress.
14
- Helmut Beumann, 82, German historian.[103]
- Labron Harris, 86, American golfer and golf coach.[104]
- Frances Margaret McGuire, 95, Australian author, community leader and philanthropist.
- Zdeněk Špinar, 79, Czech paleontologist and author.
15
- Viv Allen, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Americans).[105]
- Erbie Bowser, 77, American blues pianist and singer.[106]
- Michael A. Hess, 43, Irish-American lawyer and chief legal counsel to the RNC, complications from AIDS.
- Humphrey Moore, 86, British pacifist and journalist.[107]
- Reginald Rodrigues, 73, Indian Olympic field hockey player (1948).[108]
- John Cameron Swayze, 89, American news commentator and game show panelist.[109]
- Abdul Momin Talukdar, 65, Bangladeshi politician.[110]
- Wally Wilson, 74, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).[111]
16
- Brooke Benjamin, 66, English mathematical physicist and mathematician.[112]
- Ljubiša Broćić, 83, Serbian football manager.
- Park Dae-jong, 78, South Korean Olympic footballer (1948).[113]
- Irène de Lipkowski, 96, French politician.[114]
- Bobby DeBarge, 39, American R&B musician, AIDS related complications.[115]
- Eddie Hart, 73, Australian rules footballer.[116]
- Oveta Culp Hobby, 90, American lawyer, politician and cabinet member, stroke.[117]
- John Lowe, 83, Scottish football player.
- J. P. McCarthy, 62, American radio personality, pneumonia.[118]
- Leon Moser, 52, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[119]
- Howie Shannon, 72, American basketball player (Providence Steamrollers, Boston Celtics) and coach (Virginia Tech Hokies), lung cancer.[120]
- António Vilar, 82, Portuguese actor.[121]
17
- George Bekefi, 70, American plasma physicist, inventor, and professor at MIT.[122]
- Walter Cartier, 73, American boxer and actor.[123]
- Mike Condello, 49, American rock musician, producer, and songwriter, suicide.[124]
- Wild Bill Davis, 76, American organist, pianist, and arranger.[125]
- Helen Singer Kaplan, 66, Austrian-American sex therapist, cancer.[126]
- Howard Koch, 93, American screenwriter (Casablanca, Sergeant York, Letter from an Unknown Woman), Oscar winner (1944).[127]
- Rollie Miles, 68, Canadian football player.
- Julius Monk, 82, American cabaret impresario.[128]
- Jaroslav Papoušek, 66, Czech film director and screenwriter.[129]
- Carl Samuelson, 68, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).[130]
- Marjorie Sykes, 90, British educator and peace activist in India.[131]
- David Warrilow, 60, English actor (Barton Fink, Radio Days, Simon), AIDS-related complications.[132]
- Ted Whitten, 62, Australian rules footballer, prostate cancer.[133]
18
- Julio Caro Baroja, 80, Spanish anthropologist, historian, linguist and essayist.[134]
- Alexander Zeisal Bielski, 82, Belarus leader of the Bielski partisans during World War II.[135]
- Philip Hodgins, 36, Australian poet.[136]
- Dick Hogan, 77, American actor (Rope).[137]
- Alex Joffé, 76, French film director and screenwriter.[138]
- James Maxwell, 66, American actor and director.[139]
- Helmuth Schlömer, 102, German Wehrmacht general during World War II.
- Dmitri Shepilov, 89, Soviet economist, lawyer and politician.
- Andrew Wood Wilkinson, 81, Scottish paediatrician.[140]
19
- John H. Adams, 80, American National Champion Thoroughbred racing jockey.[141]
- Silvio Amadio, 69, Italian film director and screenwriter.[142]
- Rollen Henry Anthis, 79, United States Air Force Major General.[143]
- Danny Arnold, 70, American producer, writer, comedian, actor and director.[144]
- Jean Bocahut, 75, French Olympic rower (1948).[145]
- Jack Carter, 87, Australian cricketer.[146]
- Robert C. Frasure, 53, American diplomat and ambassador, traffic collision.
- William Summer Johnson, 82, American chemist and teacher.[147]
- Pierre Schaeffer, 85, French composer, Alzheimer's disease.[148]
20
- Maly Delschaft, 96, German actress.[149]
- Paul Foster, 75, American gospel singer with The Soul Stirrers.[150]
- John Gilmore, 63, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and percussionist.[151]
- Bill Kennedy, 76, American professional baseball pitcher (Washington Senators).[152]
- Von McDaniel, 56, American professional baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).[153]
- Hugo Pratt, 68, Italian comics creator, colorectal cancer.[154]
- Red Rhodes, 64, American pedal steel guitarist, pneumonia.[155]
- Vladimír Škutina, 64, Czech writer, playwright, journalist, and television producer, cancer.[156]
21
- Sally A. Bailie, 58, English trainer and owner of Thoroughbred racehorses, cancer.[157]
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 84, Indian astrophysicist, heart attack.[158]
- Hal Cihlar, 81, American professional basketball player.[159]
- Manfred Donike, 61, German biochemist and cyclist, heart attack.[160]
- Anatole Fistoulari, 88, Ukrainian-British conductor.[161]
- Sven Höglund, 84, Swedish cyclist and Olympian (1932).[162]
- Nanni Loy, 69, Italian director for film and television, heart attack, cancer.[163]
- Len Martin, 76, Australian sports broadcaster.[164]
- Ken Rickards, 71, West Indian cricketer.[165]
- Robert T. Smith, 77, American World War II fighter pilot and flying ace.[166]
- Chuck Stevenson, 75, American racecar driver.[167]
22
- Gilles Andruet, 37, French chess player, beaten to death, blunt trauma.[168]
- Mohammed Usman Arif, 72, Indian politician.
- Johnny Carey, 76, Irish football player and manager.[169]
- José Antonio Girón, 83, Spanish Falangist politician.[170]
- René Notten, 45, Dutch football player and manager, heart attack.[171]
- Stefan Ślopek, 80, Polish microbiologist and immunologist.
23
- Jaroslava Bajerová, 85, Czech gymnast and Olympian (1936).[172]
- Johan Bergenstråhle, 60, Swedish film director and screenwriter.[173]
- Mel Brown, 83, Australian rules footballer.[174]
- Alfred Eisenstaedt, 96, German-American photographer.[175]
- Dwayne Goettel, 31, Canadian electronic musician (Skinny Puppy).[176]
- Leslie Graves, 35, American actress (Piranha II: The Spawning, Capitol), AIDS-related illness.[177]
- Arthur Holt, 81, British politician.
- Gordon White, Baron White of Hull, 72, British-American peer and industrialist.[178]
- Judith McHale, 52, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1960).[179]
- Chen Pixian, 79, Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician.
- Cleveland Robinson, 80, American civil rights activist, kidney failure.[180]
- Adele Simpson, 91, American fashion designer.[181]
- Henrik Skougaard, 85, Norwegian Olympic equestrian (1936).[182]
- Sylvester Stadler, 84, Austrian commander of the Waffen-SS during World War II.
24
- Zbyněk Brynych, 68, Czech film director.[183]
- Jack Burns, 76, Australian rules footballer.[184]
- Gary Crosby, 62, American singer and actor, lung cancer.[185]
- Richard Degener, 83, American diver and Olympian (1932, 1936).[186]
- Erich Geiringer, 78, New Zealand physician, writer, publisher.[187]
- Sundaram Karivaradhan, 41, Indian racing driver, designer and business executive, plane crash.[188]
- Killer Karl Krupp, 61, Dutch-American professional wrestler, cardioplegia.
- Eugene McDowell, 31, American basketball player (Florida Gators, FC Barcelona Bàsquet).[189]
- Jason McRoy, 23, English mountain bike racer, traffic collision.
- Suad Švraka, 67, Yugoslavian footballer.[190]
25
- Johannes Antonsson, 73, Swedish politician.[191]
- John S. Badeau, 92, American diplomat, engineer, minister, and scholar.[192]
- John Brunner, 60, British sci-fi author, heart attack.[193]
- Setsuko, Princess Chichibu, 85, member of the Japanese Imperial Family, heart failure.
- Francis Lawrence Jobin, 81, Canadian politician Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.
- Esteban Martín, 58, Spanish cyclist.[194]
- John Mills, 75, American basketball player.[195]
- Ludmilla Pajo, 47, Russian-Albanian writer and journalist.
- Arch Shields, 81, Australian rules footballer.[196]
- Brede Skistad, 47, Norwegian football player and manager.[197]
- Doug Stegmeyer, 43, American rock bassist and vocalist, suicide by gunshot.[198]
26
- Antonio Brancaccio, 72, Italian judge, cancer.[199]
- John Costello, 51-52, British military historian.[200]
- Annie Kriegel, 68, French communist historian.[201]
- Miklós Mihó, 82, Hungarian Olympic rower (1936).[202]
- Olimi III of Toro, 49, Ugandan monarch and 11th Omukama of the Kingdom of Toro.[203]
- Ronald White, 57, American musician (The Miracles), leukemia.[204]
- Evelyn Wood, 86, American teacher who popularized speed reading.[205]
27
- Dick Bentley, 88, Australian comedian and actor, Alzheimer's disease.[206]
- Hans-Jürgen Dollheiser, 66, German Olympic field hockey player (1952).[207]
- Glennon Patrick Flavin, 79, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Carl Giles, 78, English cartoonist.[208]
- Mary Beth Hughes, 75, American actress.[209]
- Big Dee Irwin, 63, American singer and songwriter.
- Václav Ježek, 71, Czech-Slovak football coach.
- Allen Van, 80, American Olympic ice hockey player (1952).[210]
28
- Earl W. Bascom, 89, American visual artist, rodeo performer, inventor, and actor, heart failure.[211]
- Michael Ende, 65, German author (The NeverEnding Story, Momo, Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver), stomach cancer.[212]
- Thomas Gardner Ford, 77, American politician and businessman.
- Fritz Pliska, 79, German football player and coach.[213]
- Juan Ríos, 53, Puerto Rican baseball player (Kansas City Royals).[214]
- Gerard Salton, 68, German-American professor of computer science.[215]
- Page Smith, 77, American historian, professor, author, and newspaper columnist.[216]
- Michael VerMeulen, 38, American journalist and magazine editor of British GQ, drug overdose.[217]
29
- Al Akins, 74, American football halfback and defensive back (Cleveland Browns).[218]
- Harry Broadhurst, 89, British Royal Air Force commander and flying ace during World War II.[219]
- Selma Burke, 94, American sculptor.[220]
- Enrique Carreras, 70, Peruvian-Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.[221]
- Pierre-Max Dubois, 65, French composer of classical music and conductor.[222]
- François Hélary, 71, French cyclist.[223]
- Art Jones, 76, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).[224]
- Frank Perry, 65, American film director (David and Lisa, Mommie Dearest, Diary of a Mad Housewife), prostate cancer.[225]
- Nanda Primavera, 97, Italian actress.
- George Schmidt, 67, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Cardinals).[226]
30
- Agepê, 53, Brazilian singer and composer, diabetes.
- Fischer Black, 57, American economist, throat cancer.[227]
- Carlos de Anda, 87, Mexican sprinter and Olympian (1932).[228]
- Nikolay Kuznetsov, 64, Soviet Azerbaijani Olympic water polo player (1964).[229]
- Azel Randolph Lusby, 88, Canadian lawyer and politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1953-1957).[230]
- Sterling Morrison, 53, American guitarist (the Velvet Underground), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.[231]
- Lev Polugaevsky, 60, Belarusian chess Grandmaster, brain cancer.[232]
- Alex Rado, 84, American football player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[233]
- Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, 58, Polish science fiction author, suicide.
31
- Murray Bornstein, 77, American neuroscientist.[234]
- Mildred Coles, 75, American actress.
- Bill Deague, 82, Australian rules footballer.[235]
- Barry Lee Fairchild, 41, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[236]
- David Farrar, 87, English actor.[237]
- Horst Janssen, 65, German graphic artist and printmaker.[238]
- J. Erik Jonsson, 93, American businessman and mayor of Dallas.[239]
- Gertrud Luckner, 94, German social worker and anti-Nazi resister during World War II.[240]
- Carmen Mathews, 84, American actress and environmentalist.
- Jean Monnier, 71, French Olympic ski jumper (1948).[241]
- A. A. Rahim, 75, Indian politician, freedom fighter, and union minister.
- Beant Singh, 73, Indian politician and Chief Minister of Punjab, assassination.[242]
- Dilawar Singh Babbar, 25, Indian suicide bomber and assassin of Beant Singh.[243]
