Deaths in January 1994
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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.[1]
- Raymond Crotty, 68, Irish economist, writer, and academic.[2]
- Walter Eckhardt, 87, German politician.[3]
- Bill Latham, 86, Australian rules footballer.[4]
- Carlos Nelli, 91, Brazilian Olympic pole vaulter (1932).[5]
- Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, 93, New Zealand physician, statesman and Olympic athlete (1924).[6]
- Cesar Romero, 86, American actor (Batman, Ocean's 11, The Thin Man) and activist.[7]
- Peggy Simpson, 80, British actress.
- E. A. Thompson, 79, Irish-British marxist historian.[8]
2
- Jan Ambrus, 94, Slovak-born American fighter pilot.[9]
- Viktor Aristov, 50, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.
- Miguel M. Delgado, 88, Mexican film director and screenwriter, cancer.[10]
- Lys Gauty, 93, French cabaret singer and actress.[11]
- Dixy Lee Ray, 79, American politician.[12]
- Vitālijs Rubenis, 79, Latvian communist politician.
- William Ryan, 72, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
- Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, 81, French businessman.[13]
- Eddie Smith, 80, American Major League Baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox).[14]
3
- Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, 90, British public servant and politician.
- Norman Hepple, 85, English painter, engraver and sculptor, traffic accident.[15]
- Frank Belknap Long, 92, American writer and poet.[16]
- Derna Polazzo, 81, Italian Olympic athlete (1928).[17]
- Marion Ross, 90, Scottish physicist.
- Heather Sears, 58, British actress, multiple organ failure.[18]
- Constantin Vișoianu, 96, Romanian jurist, diplomat, and politician, cancer.[19]
4
- Rahul Dev Burman, 54, Indian music director, cardiovascular disease.[20]
- Reijer Hooykaas, 87, Dutch historian of science.[21]
- Eileen Mayo, 87, English-Australian artist and designer.
- Thirukkuralar V. Munusamy, 80, Indian scholar and politician.
- Heinz Schussig, 67, German footballer.[22]
- Billy Sullivan Jr., 83, American baseball player.[23]
- Willie Wells Jr., 71, American baseball player.[24]
5
- Aldo Baldin, 49, Brazilian opera tenor.
- Sir David Bates, 77, Northern Irish mathematician and physicist.[25]
- Jack Brittin, 69, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[26]
- 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.[27]
- Elmar Lipping, 87, Estonian statesman and soldier.
- Franz Murer, 81, Austrian SS officer and war criminal.
- Tip O'Neill, 81, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1953–1987), colorectal cancer.[28]
- Charlie Van Horn, 92, American football player.[29]
6
- Fidel Castaño, 43, Colombian drug lord and paramilitary.
- Oscar Fraley, 79, American sports writer and author.[30]
- 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.[31]
- Keith Wells, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[32]
- Fred Zinner, 90, Belgian Olympic athlete (1924, 1928).[33]
7
- Arthur Dooley, 64, English artist and sculptor.
- Adolf Gruber, 73, Austrian long-distance runner and Olympian (1952, 1956, 1960).[34]
- Charlie McNeil, 57, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers).[35]
- Vittorio Mezzogiorno, 52, Italian actor, cancer.[36]
- Llewellyn Rees, 92, English actor.
- Phoumi Vongvichit, 84, President of Laos.[37]
8
- Hans Asplund, 72, Swedish architect.[38]
- Jay Blackton, 84, American composer and conductor (Oklahoma!, Guys and Dolls).[39]
- Pat Buttram, 78, American actor (Green Acres, Robin Hood, The Fox and the Hound), kidney failure.
- René Faye, 70, French Olympic cyclist (1948).[40]
- Harvey Haddix, 68, American baseball pitcher and pitching coach, pulmonary emphysema.[41]
- Harry Boye Karlsen, 73, Norwegian football player and Olympian (1952).[42]
- Roy Kiyooka, 67, Canadian painter, poet, photographer, and multi-media artist.
- Ruth Osburn, 81, American Olympic discus thrower (1932).[43]
- Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, 99, Indian Hindu religious leader.
9
- Faruk Barlas, 78, Turkish football player and Olympian (1936).[44]
- Luka Ciganović, 78, Yugoslavian Olympic water polo player (1936, 1948).[45]
- Kayhan Kaynak, 33, Turkish football player, heart attack.
- Rigmor Olsen, 86, Danish Olympic swimmer (1928).[46]
- Madge Ryan, 75, Australian actress.
- Johnny Temple, 66, American Major League Baseball player, pancreatic cancer.[47]
- Joachim Werner, 84, German archaeologist.[48]
10
- Michael Aldridge, 73, English actor (Last of the Summer Wine).[49]
- Sven-Erik Bäck, 74, Swedish composer of classical music.[50]
- Ien Dales, 62, Dutch socialist politician and social worker, heart attack.[51]
- Chub Feeney, 72, American baseball executive, heart attack.[52]
- Jean Houdry, 79, French Olympic wrestler (1936).[53]
- 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 (Washington Redskins).[54]
- Roman Tkachuk, 61, Soviet theatre and film actor.
- Miroslav Vejvoda, 61, Czech Olympic sailor (1964, 1972).[55]
- Joe Ware, 80, American baseball player.[56]
11
- Arifin Achmad, 69, Indonesian military officer.[57]
- Les Bollman, 89, Australian rules footballer.[58]
- Walter Driver, 71, Australian cricketer.[59]
- József Háda, 82, Hungarian football player.
- Chester L. Mize, 76, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965–1971).[60]
- Helmut Poppendick, 92, German physician and SS officer during World War II.
- Ram Ramirez, 80, Puerto Rican born jazz pianist and composer.[61]
- Édouard Rinfret, 88, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1945–1952).[62]
- Emilio Rosenblueth, 67, Mexican engineer.
- David Ruíz, 81, Chilean footballer.[63]
- Joe Sprinz, 91, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals).[64]
- Lucas Turk, 95, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[65]
- Robert Winslow, 77, American gridiron football player and coach.[66]
12
- Samuel Bronston, 85, American film producer, film director, and nephew of communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky, pneumonia.[67]
- Goran Ivandić, 38, Yugoslav drummer, suicide.
- Greg Kabat, 82, American and Canadian football player.
- Gustav Naan, 74, Estonian philosopher and physicist.[68]
- Nehemiah Tamari, 47, Israeli army major general, commander of the Central Command (since 1993), helicopter crash.
- Arthur Turner, 84, English football player and manager.[69]
- John West Wells, 86, American paleontologist, cnidariologist, and geologist.[70]
13
- Hervé Alphand, 86, French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States.[71]
- Erhard Bauer, 68, German football player.[72]
- Johan Jørgen Holst, 56, Norwegian politician.
- Norm Jacobson, 76, Australian rugby player and coach.
- Jack McGill, 72, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).[73]
- Jim Patterson, 74, Australian rules footballer.[74]
14
- Ahmad Ali, 84, Pakistani novelist, poet, diplomat and scholar.[75]
- Chesley William Carter, 91, Canadian politician.[76]
- Martin Corke, 70, English cricketer.[77]
- Yeap Cheng Eng, 79–80, Malayan-Chinese footballer and Olympian (1948).[78]
- Jack Faber, 91, American sports coach and microbiologist.[79]
- Myron Fohr, 81, American racecar driver.
- Ivan Fuqua, 84, American track and field athlete and Olympian (1932).[80]
- Fritz Losigkeit, 80, German flying ace during World War II.
- Federica Montseny, 88, Spanish politician, anarchist, intellectual and writer.[81]
- Esther Ralston, 91, American silent film actress, heart attack.[82]
- Delio Rodríguez, 77, Spanish racing cyclist.[83]
- Nubar Terziyan, 84, Turkish actor.
- George Vico, 70, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[84]
15
- Philippe Brun, 85, French trumpeter.[85]
- György Cziffra, 72, Hungarian-French pianist and composer, lung cancer.[86]
- Gabriel-Marie Garrone, 92, French Catholic cardinal.[87]
- Ben H. Guill, 84, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1950–1951).[88]
- Martin Kosleck, 89, German actor.[89]
- Thomas C. McGrath Jr., 66, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965–1967).[90]
- Agnar Mykle, 78, Norwegian writer and puppeteer.[91]
- Harry Nilsson, 52, American singer-songwriter ("Everybody's Talkin'"), heart failure.[92]
- Don Taylor, 73, Australian rules footballer.[93]
- Harilal Upadhyay, 77, Indian novelist and poet.
- Wally Ware, 87, Australian rules footballer.[94]
16
- Sidon Ebeling, 93, Swedish Olympic long-distance runner (1924).[95]
- Jack Metcalfe, 81, Australian athlete and Olympian (1936).[96]
- Leland Stowe, 94, American journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.[97]
- Pál Szalai, 78, Hungarian police officer who save hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust during World War II.[98]
17
- Al Buchanan, 66, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).[99]
- T. T. Fields, 81, American politician.
- Chung Il-kwon, 76, South Korean general and politician, lymphoma.[100]
- Yevgeny Ivanov, 68, Soviet spy.
- Reamer Keller, 89, American cartoonist.[101]
- Juan Carlos Pugliese, 78, Argentinian lawyer and politician.
- Helen Stephens, 75, American athlete and Olympic champion (1936).[102]
- Robin Turton, Baron Tranmire, 90, British politician.
18
- Arthur Altman, 83, American songwriter.[103]
- Silvio Bergamini, 70, Italian Olympic rower (1952).[104]
- Lee Roy Caffey, 52, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, Dallas Cowboys), cancer.[105]
- Frank M. Carpenter, 91, American entomologist and paleontologist, heart attack[106]
- Rosemary Glyde, 45, American musician, cancer.[107]
- Tullik Helsing, 75, Norwegian Olympic diver (1936).[108]
- Tinus Lambillion, 81, Dutch Olympic boxer (1936).[109]
- Rolf Singer, 87, German mycologist.[110]
19
- Eugene Kamenka, 65, Australian political philosopher and scholar.[111]
- Ludvík Kománek, 84, Czech Olympic hurdler (1936) and triple jumper.[112]
- Haik Hovsepian Mehr, 49, Iranian-Armenian Protestant minister, murdered.
- Aubrey Newman, 90, American general and Olympic pentathlete (1928).[113]
- Kenneth Utt, 72, American film producer (The Silence of the Lambs), Oscar winner (1992), bone cancer.[114]
- Joseph Vliers, 61, Belgian football player.[115]
20
- Sir Matt Busby, 84, Scottish football player and manager, cancer.
- Paul Dixon, 86, American baseball player.[116]
- Styrbjörn Holm, 65, Swedish Olympic sailor (1964).[117]
- Ľubor Kresák, 66, Slovak astronomer.[118]
- Bedia Muvahhit, 97, Turkish actress.
- Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, 82, Kenyan chieftain and politician.[119]
- Darío Segovia, 61, Paraguayan football player.
21
- Bassel al-Assad, 31, Syrian colonel, politician and son of president Hafez al-Assad, traffic collision.[120]
- Andrejs Kapmals, 104, Latvian Olympic long-distance runner (1912).[121]
- Timo Suviranta, 63, Finnish Olympic basketball player (1952).[122]
- Tony Waddington, 69, English football manager[123]
- Bill Young, 79, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins), and coach.[124]
22
- Vincent Allard, 72, Belgian entomologist.
- Jean-Louis Barrault, 83, French actor, director and mime artist, heart attack.[125]
- Graziano Battistini, 57, Italian road bicycle racer.[126]
- Rhett Forrester, 37, American rock singer and musician (Riot), shot during carjacking.
- Frances Gifford, 73, American actress, pulmonary emphysema.
- Rudy Miller, 93, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[127]
- Telly Savalas, 72, American actor (Kojak, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Birdman of Alcatraz) and singer, Emmy winner (1974), cancer.[128]
23
- Adolph Baller, 84, Austrian-American pianist, kidney failure.[129]
- Lee Alvin DuBridge, 92, American educator and physicist, pneumonia.[130]
- Klaus Hemmerle, 64, German Roman Catholic bishop, cancer.[131]
- Takashi Kondo, 82, Japanese Olympic gymnast (1932).[132]
- Stan Landes, 70, American baseball umpire.[133]
- 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.[134]
- Brian Redhead, 64, British author, journalist and broadcaster.[135]
- Millie Robinson, 69, Manx racing cyclist and world hour record holder.[136]
- Oliver Smith, 75, American scenic designer and interior designer, pulmonary emphysema.[137]
- Walter Youell, 84, South African Olympic rower (1936).[138]
24
- Sidney Quinn Curtiss, 76, American politician.
- Klaus Eichler, 54, German sporting official, plane crash.[139]
- Raymond F. Jones, 78, American science fiction author.[140]
- Yves Navarre, 53, French writer, suicide.[141]
- Helge Vatsend, 65, Norwegian poet and novelist.
- Paul X. Williams, 85, American district judge (United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas).[142]
25
- James Boyce, 46, British politician, heart attack.[143]
- Pat Crawford, 91, American Major League Baseball player (New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals).[144]
- Aida McAnn Flemming, 97, Canadian teacher, writer and animal rights advocate.
- Stephen Cole Kleene, 85, American mathematician.[145]
- 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 Olympic diver (1912).[146]
- Lejaren Hiller, 69, American composer, Alzheimer's disease.[147]
- Ivan Warner, 74, American lawyer and politician, cancer.[148]
27
- Stanley Adams, 86, American lyricist and songwriter, cancer.[149]
- Claude Akins, 67, American actor (B. J. and the Bear, Inherit the Wind, The Caine Mutiny), cancer.[150]
- Bob Bjorklund, 75, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).[151]
- Eddie Calhoun, 72, American jazz double bassist.[152]
- Alain Daniélou, 86, French historian, musicologist, and indologist.[153]
- 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 and Olympian (1952).[154]
- Don Smith, 83, American basketball player.[155]
- Frank Twiss, 83, British Royal Navy admiral.[156]
- Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov, 89, Russian astrophysicist.
28
- Emily Taft Douglas, 94, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1945–1947).[157]
- Betty Go-Belmonte, 60, Filipina journalist and newspaper publisher.
- Otto Gordziałkowski, 95, Polish Olympic rower (1928).[158]
- Frank Hardy, 76, Australian novelist and writer, heart attack.[159]
- William Levitt, 86, American real-estate developer regarded as the father of modern American suburbia.[160]
- Stefan Maurer, 33, Swiss Olympic cyclist (1984).[161]
- George Rosso, 64, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins).[162]
- Hal Smith, 77, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Beauty and the Beast), heart attack.[163]
29
- Marguerite Allan, 88, Russian-born British actress.
- Bob Bibby, 68, Australian rules footballer.[164]
- Nick Cravat, 82, American actor and stunt performer, cancer, lung cancer.
- Yevgeny Leonov, 67, Soviet and Russian actor, pulmonary embolism.[165]
- Ulrike Maier, 26, Austrian alpine ski racer, World Champion and Olympian (1988, 1992), skiing accident.[166]
- Tollien Schuurman, 81, Dutch sprinter and Olympian (1932).[167]
- Jakobína Sigurðardóttir, 75, Icelandic writer.
- Jakob Vaage, 88, Norwegian educator, author and historian.
30
- Pierre Boulle, 81, French novelist.[168]
- Väinö Järvenpää, 60, Finnish Olympic wrestler (1960).[169]
- Claude Nigon, 65, French fencer and Olympian (1952, 1956).[170]
- Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby, 81, British peer and philanthropist.[171]
- Laura Nucci, 80, Italian film actress.
- Jan Schaefer, 53, Dutch politician and community organiser, diabetes.[172]
- Rudolf Schwarz, 88, Austrian-American conductor.[173]
- Bahjat Talhouni, 81, Jordanian politician.[174]
- Don Turnbull, 84, Australian tennis player.
31
- Master Abdullah, 64, Pakistani film music composer.
- Alan Anton, 61, Australian rules footballer.[175]
- Dieudonné Devrindt, 82, Belgian Olympic sprinter (1936).[176]
- Arnolds Krūkliņš, 79, Latvian racewalker and Olympian (1936).[177]
- Mary Meijer-van der Sluis, 76, Dutch fencer and Olympian (1948).[178]
- Alberto Sorrentino, 77, Italian film actor.
- Erwin Strittmatter, 81, German writer.[179]
- Tomanija Đuričko, 79, Serbian actress.[180]