Deaths in March 1995
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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1995
1
- Edmund Fisher, 56, British publisher, cancer.[1]
- Walter Anderson, 84, British trade unionist.[2]
- Fred J. Borch, 84, American businessman who was chairman and CEO of General Electric.[3]
- Eugenio Corecco, 63, Swiss Catholic bishop, cancer.[4]
- Simon C. Dik, 54, Dutch linguist.[5]
- Jackie Holmes, 74, American racecar driver.
- Georges J. F. Köhler, 48, German biologist, heart attack.[6]
- Vladislav Listyev, 38, Russian journalist, murdered.[7]
- Ferdinand Lundberg, 89, American journalist.[8]
- Herb Meadow, 83, American television producer and writer, heart attack.[9]
- Emil Petru, 55, Romanian football player and Olympian (1964).[10]
- Hugh Auchincloss Steers, 32, American painter, AIDS-related complications.[11]
- César Rodríguez Álvarez, 74, Spanish football forward and manager.[12]
2
- Suzanne Bastid, 88, French professor of law.[13]
- David Davis, 93, New Zealand cricketer.[14]
- Henry Felsen, 78, American writer.[15]
- Vivian MacKerrell, 50, British actor, esophageal cancer.
- Ray Moore, 68, American Major League Baseball player.[16]
3
- Rafael Aguilar, 65, Ecuadorian ballet dancer and choreographer.[17]
- Vincent L. Broderick, 74, United States District Judge, cancer.[18]
- Al Christy, 76, American actor, advertising executive, and radio and television announcer.[19]
- Nikhil Ghosh, 76, Indian musician, teacher and writer.[20]
- Humphry Greenwood, 67, English ichthyologist.
- Sheikh Anwarul Haq, 77, Pakistani jurist and an academic.
- Howard W. Hunter, 87, American President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, prostate cancer.[21]
- Lyman Kirkpatrick, 77, inspector general and executive director of the CIA.[22]
- Douglas Stewart, 75, American film editor (The Right Stuff, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid), Oscar winner (1984).
- Jean Thureau, 67, French Olympic hurdler (1952).[23]
- Pierre Tisseyre, 85, French-Canadian lawyer, journalist, writer and Quebec literary editor.[24]
- Đàm Quang Trung, 73, Vietnamese general in the People's Army of Vietnam.
4
- Eden Ahbez, 86, American songwriter and recording artist, traffic collision.[25]
- Fred Bergdinon, 88, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).[26]
- Bernhard Greulich, 92, German athlete and Olympian (1936).[27]
- Iftekhar, 75, Indian actor.
- James Bryan McMillan, 78, American district judge (United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina).[28]
- Vira Misevych, 49, Soviet/Russian equestrian and Olympic champion (1980).[29]
- Dan Păltinișanu, 43, Romanian footballer.[30]
- Peggy Solomon, 86, American bridge player.
- Matt Urban, 75, United States Army lieutenant colonel and one of the most decorated soldiers of World War II.[31]
- Andrzej Wołkowski, 82, Polish ice hockey player and Olympian (1936).[32]
- Gloria Wood, 71, American singer and voice actress.[33]
5
- Jalal Agha, 49, Indian actor and director in Bollywood films, heart attack.[34]
- Frieda Belinfante, 90, Dutch freedom fighter during World War II, cellist, and orchestra conductor, cancer.[35]
- Henry Benson, Baron Benson, 85, British accountant.[36]
- Juan Guerrero Burciaga, 65, United States District Judge.[37]
- Gregg Hansford, 42, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer, racing accident.[38]
- Roy Hughes, 84, American baseball player.[39]
- Marguerite Kelsey, 86, British artists' model.[40]
- Roger MacBride, 65, American lawyer, political figure, writer, and television producer.[41]
- Nancy O'Neil, 83, Australian-born British actress.
- Vivian Stanshall, 51, English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician, domestic fire.[42]
- Erwin Verstegen, 24, Dutch Olympic archer (1992).[43]
6
- Franco Bertinetti, 71, Italian fencer and Olympic gold medalist (1952, 1956).[44]
- Gabriel Bracho, 79, Venezuelan artist.
- Noël de Mille, 85, Canadian Olympic rower (1932).[45]
- Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass, 54, Polish actress, stroke.[46]
- Moturi Satyanarayana, 93, Indian independence activist.
- Delroy Wilson, 46, Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer, cirrhosis.[47]
7
- John J. Allen Jr., 95, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1947-1959).[48]
- Henry Bichel, 83, Australian rugby league footballer.[49]
- Don Cook, 74, American journalist.[50]
- Ivan Craig, 83, Scottish actor.
- Harold W. Hannold, 83, American Republican Party politician.
- Róża Herman, 93, Polish chess player.
- Najib Kilani, 63, Egyptian poet and novelist.
- John Lambert, 68, British composer and music educator.[51]
- B. N. B. Rao, 85, Indian surgeon, medical academic, researcher, and writer.
- Norman Rosten, 82, American poet, playwright, and novelist.[52]
- Paul-Émile Victor, 87, French ethnologist and explorer.[53]
- Kazimierz Wiłkomirski, 94, Polish cellist, composer and conductor.[54]
8
- Manuel Escobar, 70, Salvadorian Olympic sailor (1968).[55]
- Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan, 94, Russian-Israeli botanist.
- Geoff Frood, 88, Australian rules footballer.[56]
- Rudolf Geigy, 92, Swiss biologist, assisted suicide.[57][58]
- Junpei Gomikawa, 78, Japanese novelist.[59]
- Paul Horgan, 91, American novelist and historian.[60]
- Ike Lozada, 54, Filipino comedian, actor and TV host, heart attack.
- John Ormond, 89, New Zealand businessman and farmer.
- Sooranad Kunjan Pillai, 83, Indian writer, literary critic, and scholar of the Malayalam language.
- Ingo Schwichtenberg, 29, German drummer, suicide.[61]
- William Elwood Steckler, 81, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana).[62]
9
- Ian Ballantine, 79, American publisher, heart attack.[63]
- Edward Bernays, 103, Austrian-born American propagandist.[64]
- Bill Cassidy, 54, Scottish football player and manager.[65]
- Cedric Elmes 85, New Zealand cricketer.[66]
- Yisrael Galil, 71, Israeli firearm designer.[67]
- Paco Jamandreu, 75, Argentine fashion designer and actor, heart attack.
- Ricardo Mañé, 47, Uruguayan mathematician.
- Robert Sheats, 79, United States Navy Master Diver.
10
- Rigmor Andersen, 91, Danish designer, educator and author.[68]
- Fred Davis, 77, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins, Chicago Bears).[69]
- Doris Duranti, 77, Italian film actress.[70]
- John F. Gerry, 69, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of New Jersey).[71]
- Wilhelm Heckmann, 97, German concert and easy listening musician.
- Russell Keays, 81, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1962, 1965-1968).[72]
- David D. Keck, 91, American botanist.[73]
- Alexander Hyatt King, 83, English musicologist, bibliographer, and music librarian of the British Library and British Museum.[74]
- Ovidi Montllor, 53, Spanish singer and actor, esophageal cancer.[75]
- Mattityahu Peled, 71, Israeli public figure.[76]
- Irene Tedrow, 87, American actress, stroke.
- Michal Tučný, 48, Czech singer and songwriter, cancer, liver cancer.
- Dicky Zulkarnaen, 55, Indonesian actor.
11
- Antonio León Amador, 85, Spanish football player.
- Rein Aun, 54, Soviet Estonian decathlete and Olympic medalist (1964, 1968).[77]
- Jean Bayard, 97, French Olympic rugby player (1924).[78]
- Bobby Ewer, 90, Australian rules footballer.[79]
- Alf Goullet, 103, Australian cyclist.
- Carlos Albán Holguín, 64, Colombian lawyer and politician.[80]
- Wilfred Jacobs, 75, first Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda.
- Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundian politician and the Minister for Mines and Energy, assassinated.[81]
- Don Lane, 59, Australian politician and minister.
- Don Manno, 79, American baseball player (Boston Bees/Braves).[82]
- Jean-Pierre Masson, 76, Canadian film and television actor.
- Herb McCracken, 95, American football player and coach.[83]
- Gérard Pasquier, 66, French Olympic alpine skier (1956), and curler.[84]
- Lotte Rausch, 81, German stage and film actress.
- María Rosa Salgado, 65, Spanish actress.[85]
- James Scott-Hopkins, 73, British Conservative politician.
- Myfanwy Talog, 50, Welsh actress, breast cancer.
- Väinö Valve, 99, Finnish general and navy commander.
- Karl Österreicher, 72, Austrian conductor and music teacher.
12
- Mija Aleksić, 71, Serbian actor.[86]
- Dumitru Almaș, 86, Romanian journalist, novelist, historian, writer and professor.[87]
- Madis Aruja, 59, Estonian conservationist, geographer and ski-orienteer.[88]
- Juanin Clay, 45, American actress and director.[89]
- Jørgen Jensen, 55, Danish Olympic wrestler (1960, 1964).[90]
- Jack Mowat, 86, Scottish football referee.[91]
- Rick Muther, 59, American racing driver.
13
- Mieczysław Balcer, 88, Polish football player.
- Leon Day, 78, American baseball Hall of Fame player, heart attack.[92]
- Jonas C. Greenfield, 68, American scholar of Semitic languages.[93]
- Odette Hallowes, 82, French intelligence officer.[94]
- William Hulse, 74, American middle-distance runner.
- Abdul Ali Mazari, 48-49, Afghan warlord and politician, executed by the Taliban.[95]
14
- Dennis Bell, 46, American journalist Pulitzer Prize winner, pneumonia.[96]
- Frank Blair, 79, broadcast journalist for NBC News who was news anchor of Today.[97]
- Alessandro Cutolo, 95, Italian academic, television presenter, actor and historian.[98]
- William Alfred Fowler, 83, American physicist.[99]
- Georges Gschwind, 85, Swiss Olympic rower (1936).[100]
- John Peters Humphrey, 89, Canadian legal scholar, jurist, and human rights advocate.[101]
- Charlie Letchas, 79, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Senators).[102]
- Hughie Price, 86, Australian rules footballer.[103]
- Ed Roberts, 56, American activist.[104]
- Gerard Victory, 73, Irish composer.[105]
- W. Arthur Winstead, 91, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1943-1965).[106]
15
- Bhupinder Singh Brar, 68, Indian politician.
- Milo Calhoun, 54, Jamaican boxer who won the British Commonwealth middleweight title.
- Florence Chadwick, 76, American long-distance swimmer and first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions.[107]
- Wolfgang Harich, 71, East German philosopher and journalist.[108]
- Carlos Menem Jr., 26, Argentine rally driver, helicopter crash.[109]
- Fred Mulley, 76, British politician, barrister and economist.
- Silvio Oltra, 37, Argentine racing driver, helicopter crash.[110]
- Steve Sharkey, 76, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals).[111]
16
- John Cavosie, 87, American football player (Portsmouth Spartans).[112]
- Albert Hackett, 95, American dramatist and screenwriter.[113]
- Paul Kipkoech, 32, Kenyan long-distance runner and Olympian (1984).[114]
- Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, 83, British Commando during World War II and nobleman.[115]
- Art Mollner, 82, American basketball player and Olympian (1936).[116]
- Heinrich Sutermeister, 84, Swiss composer.[117]
17
- Amiraslan Aliyev, 34, Azerbaijan military officer and National Hero of Azerbaijan, killed in action.[118]
- Al Alvarez, 82, American basketball player.[119]
- Rick Aviles, 42, American actor (Ghost, Carlito's Way, The Stand), AIDS-related complications.[120]
- Paul Backman, 74, Finnish cyclist and Olympian (1948, 1952).[121]
- Donald Baverstock, 71, British television producer and executive.[122]
- Vladimir Bunchikov, 92, Russian baritone.[123]
- Helen Christie, 80, British actress.
- Seymour Clark, 92, English cricketer.[124]
- Theresa Clay, 84, English entomologist.[125]
- Flor Contemplacion, 42, Filipina domestic worker executed in Singapore for murder, hanged.[126]
- Estálin, 72, Spanish screenwriter and film director, liver cancer.[127]
- Pedro J. González, 99, Mexican activist, musician and radio personality.[128]
- Arthur Highland, 83, American competition swimmer and Olympian (1936).[129]
- Julius Janowsky, 64, Austrian Olympic diver (1952).[130]
- Rovshan Javadov, 43, Azerbaijani Armed Forces officer and politician.
- Muriel Kauffman, 78, American civic leader and philanthropist.
- Ahmad Khomeini, 49, Iranian politician and son of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, heart attack.[131]
- Ronnie Kray, 61, British criminal and twin brother of Reggie Kray, heart attack.[132]
- Robert Monroe, 79, American radio broadcasting executive.[133]
- Sunnyland Slim, 88, American blues pianist, kidney failure.[134]
- Howard Thomas, 90, Canadian wrestler and Olympian (1932, 1936).[135]
- Jimmy Uchrinscko, 94, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[136]
18
- Sadri Alışık, 69, Turkish actor.[137]
- Gé Dekker, 90, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1924).[138]
- Merv Harvey, 76, Australian cricketer.[139]
- James H. Howard, 81, United States Air Force general and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[140]
- Vern Huffman, 80, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions).[141]
- Hugh Kelsey, 69, Scottish bridge player and writer.[142]
- Pengiran Ahmad Raffae, 87, Malaysian politician.
- Fred Ramsey, 80, American writer on jazz and record producer.[143]
- Gerry Shaw, 52, Canadian football player.
- Eric Winkler, 75, Canadian politician.[144]
19
- Stan Ackermans, 58, Dutch mathematician.[145]
- Nike Ardilla, 19, Indonesian singer, actress, and model, traffic accident.[146]
- Trevor Blokdyk, 59, South African motorcycle speedway rider and Formula One driver.
- Walter F. Boone, 97, United States Navy admiral.[147]
- Max Braithwaite, 83, Canadian novelist.[148]
- Tony Chachere, 89, American businessman and chef.[149]
- Len Harris, 70, Australian rules footballer.[150]
- Wolfgang Plath, 64, German musicologist.[151]
- Jürgen Schütz, 55, German football player.
- Gerard Tebroke, 45, Dutch long-distance runner and Olympian (1980), brain haemorrhage.[152]
- Yasuo Yamada, 62, Japanese voice actor (Lupin III), complications from a brain hemorrhage.
20
- Michael Arattukulam, 84, first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alleppey.
- Russell Braddon, 74, Australian writer of novels, biographies and TV scripts.[153]
- Thomas J. Grasso, 32, American double murderer, execution by lethal injection.[154]
- Harry Jones, 72, Welsh cricketer.[155]
- James Kilfedder, 66, Northern Ireland unionist politician.[156]
- Sidney Kingsley, 88, American dramatist.[157]
- Werner Liebrich, 68, German football player, heart failure.[158]
- Luis Saslavsky, 91, Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.[159]
- Big John Studd, 47, American professional wrestler, lymphoma cancer.[160]
- Víctor Ugarte, 68, Bolivian football player.
21
- Paul Callaway, 85, American organist and conductor.[161]
- William Henderson, 77, South African cricketer.[162]
- Amir H. Jamal, 73, Tanzanian politician and diplomat.
- Connie Kreski, 48, American model and actress, lung cancer.
- Étienne Martin, 82, French sculptor.[163]
- Francis E. Merritt, 74, American college football player (Army Cadets) and athletics director (Air Force Falcons).[164]
- Tony Monopoly, 50, Australian cabaret singer and actor.
- Bob Morton, 51, Australian rules footballer.[165]
- Wedell Østergaard, 70, Danish Olympic cyclist (1952).[166]
- Robert Urquhart, 72, Scottish character actor.[167]
- James Bud Walton, 73, American businessman and co-founder of Walmart.
22
- Robert Beauchamp, 71-72, American figurative painter and arts educator, prostate cancer.[168]
- Jack Eastwood, 87, Canadian Olympic figure skater (1928).[169]
- James G. Horsfall, 90, American biologist, plant pathologist, and agriculturist.[170]
- Huang Jiqing, 90, Chinese geologist.
- Peter Woods, 64, British journalist, cancer.[171]
23
- Qadeeruddin Ahmed, 85-86, Pakistani jurist and former Governor of Sindh province.[172]
- Alan Barton, 41, British singer and member of the duo Black Lace, traffic accident.[173]
- Shakti Chattopadhyay, 61, Indian poet and writer.[174]
- Davie Cooper, 39, Scottish football player, brain haemorrhage.[175]
- Alfons Deloor, 84, Belgian racing cyclist.[176]
- Vladimir Ivashov, 55, Soviet/Russian actor, heart attack.
- Jerry Lester, 85, American comedian, singer and performer, Alzheimer's disease.[177]
- Hal Mooney, 84, American composer and arranger.[178]
- Irving Shulman, 81, American author and screenwriter, Alzheimer's disease.[179]
- Sam Thomson, 83, Scottish sportsman.[180]
- Lou Zhicen, 75, Chinese pharmacognosist and educator.
24
- Chet Mutryn, 74, American gridiron football player (Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Colts).[181]
- Joseph Needham, 94, British biochemist, historian, and sinologist, Parkinson's disease.[182]
- Carlo Pavesi, 71, Italian fencer and Olympian (1952, 1956, 1960).[183]
- Henri Xhonneux, 49, Belgian film director and screenwriter.
25
- James Samuel Coleman, 68, American sociologist.[184]
- James Gardner, 87, British designer.[185]
- John Hugenholtz, 80, Dutch designer of race tracks and cars, traffic collision.
- Stuart Milner-Barry, 88, British chess player, chess writer, and codebreaker during World War II.
- Hugh Wade, 93, American politician.
26
- John Bright, 86, American biblical scholar.[186]
- Raúl Cascaret, 32, Cuban wrestler and Olympian (1980).[187]
- Belgin Doruk, 58, Turkish film actress.[188]
- Eazy-E, 30, American rapper and record producer, complications from AIDS.[189]
- Frans Mahn, 61, Dutch cyclist.[190]
- Vladimir Maksimov, 64, Russian writer.[191][192]
- Alejandro Morera, 85, Costa Rican football player.[193]
- Ko Takamoro, 87, Japanese football player.[194]
27
- René Allio, 70, French film and theater director.[195]
- John F. Blake, 72, American intelligence official who was Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.[196]
- Paul Brinegar, 77, American actor (Rawhide, Lancer, High Plains Drifter), pulmonary emphysema.[197]
- Albert Drach, 92, Austrian-Jewish writer who won the Georg Büchner Prize in 1988.[198]
- Margita Figuli, 85, Slovak prose writer, translator and children's author.
- Maurizio Gucci, 46, Italian businessman and the one-time head of the Gucci fashion house, homicide.
- Tony Lovink, 92, Dutch diplomat.
- Chet Nichols Jr., 64, American baseball player (Boston/Milwaukee Braves, Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds).[199]
- Imre Nyéki, 66, Hungarian swimmer and Olympic medalist (1948, 1952).[200]
28
- Fred Backway, 81, Australian rules footballer.[201]
- Julian Cayo-Evans, 57, Welsh political activist.[202]
- Mogens Ellegaard, 60, Danish accordionist.[203]
- Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, 68, German journalist, lung cancer.[204]
- Louis Gilliéron, 85, Swiss Olympic field hockey player (1936).[205]
- Billy Green, 85, Australian rules footballer.[206]
- William Hayter, 88, British diplomat, ambassador to the Soviet Union, and Warden of New College, Oxford.[207]
- Jim Hovey, 72, Australian rules footballer.[208]
- Jack Jennings, 71, Australian politician.
- Hari Dev Joshi, 73, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
- Ana Mariscal, 71, Spanish film actress, director, screenwriter and film producer.
- Hugh O'Connor, 32, American actor (In the Heat of the Night), suicide.[209]
- Albert Pratz, 80, Canadian violinist, conductor, and composer.
- Steve Stonebreaker, 56, American gridiron football player (Minnesota Vikings, Baltimore Colts, New Orleans Saints), suicide.[210]
- Harold M. Weintraub, 49, American scientist, brain tumor.[211]
29
- Robert Breusch, 87, German-American number theorist.[212]
- Harindra Dave, 64, Indian poet, journalist, playwright and novelist.
- Allan Fjeldheim, 76, Norwegian pair skater and Olympian (1948).[213]
- Richard F. Gallagher, 85, American baseball, basketball and American football coach and administrator.
- Antony Hamilton, 42, English–Australian actor, model and dancer, pneumonia.[214]
- Milton Horn, 88, Russian American sculptor and artist.[215]
- Carl Jefferson, 75, American jazz record producer.[216]
- Jimmy McShane, 37, Irish singer and front-man of band Baltimora, AIDS.[217]
- Mort Meskin, 78, American comic book artist.[218]
- Terry Moore, 82, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), and manager, and coach.[219]
- Donald Morrow, 86, Canadian politician.
- Katherine Squire, 92, American actress.[220]
- John Terry, 81, British film financier and lawyer.[221]
- Pops Yoshimura, 72, Japanese motorcycle tuner and race team owner, cancer.
30
- Arkadiusz Bachur, 33, Polish Olympic equestrian (1992).[222]
- Rozelle Claxton, 82, American jazz pianist.[223]
- Marcus Ervine-Andrews, 83, Irish officer in the British Army and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- Paul Grubenthal, 62, Austrian Olympic gymnast (1952).[224]
- Charles Irving, 70, British politician.
- William Kooistra, 68, American Olympic water polo player (1952, 1956).[225]
- Tony Lock, 65, English cricket player.[226]
- Willem Peters, 91, Dutch triple jumper and Olympian (1924, 1928, 1932).[227]
- Paul A. Rothchild, 59, American record producer, lung cancer.[228]
- John Lighton Synge, 98, Irish mathematician and physicist.[229]
31
- Robert Annis, 66, American soccer player and Olympian (1948).[230]
- Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern Jr., 90, Swedish officer and horse rider and Olympian (1932, 1948, 1952, 1956).[231]
- Max Brüel, 67, Danish architect and jazz musician.[232]
- Roberto Juarroz, 69, Argentine poet.
- Ryogo Kubo, 75, Japanese mathematical physicist.
- Leo W. Morgan, 81, Australian rules footballer.[233]
- Kazuo Noda, 86, Japanese swimmer and Olympian (1924, 1928).[234]
- Rudy Rutherford, 70, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.[235]
- Selena, 23, American singer, murdered.[236]
- Madeleine Sologne, 82, French actress.[237]
- Carl Story, 78, American bluegrass musician.[238]
- Kim Yong-shik, 81, South Korean lawyer and diplomat.