Deaths in September 1994
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.
September 1994
1
- Konrad Ameln, 95, German hymnologist and musicologist.[1]
- Artur Balsam, 88, Polish-American classical pianist and pedagogue.[2]
- Ellen Broe, 94, Danish nurse.[3]
- Thomas Chastain, 73, American author of crime fiction, lung cancer.[4]
- Hollis B. Chenery, 76, American economist.[5]
- Bob Greenwood, 66, Mexican baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[6]
- Wallis Mathias, 59, Pakistani cricket player.
- Gaston Péloquin, 54, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1993-).[7]
- Charles Saunders, 91, New Zealand rower and Olympian (1932).[8]
2
- Roy Castle, 62, English dancer, singer, actor, television presenter and musician, lung cancer.[9]
- Jesús Chousal, 83, Chilean Olympic cyclist (1936).[10]
- Walter Chyzowych, 57, Ukrainian-American soccer player.
- Ricardo Conde, 63, Spanish Olympic athlete (1952).[11]
- Édouard Delberghe, 58, French racing cyclist.[12]
- Patrick Hughes, 85, Irish Olympic boxer (1932).[13]
- Rajko Kušić, 39, Yugoslavian Olympic judoka (1980).[14]
- Eugene Lawler, 61, American computer scientist.
- Giuseppe Martano, 83, Italian road bicycle racer.[15]
- Mildred H. McAfee, 94, American academic, naval officer, and religious leader.[16]
- Harold Lamont Otey, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by electrocution.[17]
- Józef Światło, 79, Polish intelligence officer and defector .[18]
3
- Vito Ananis, 79, American football player (Washington Redskins).[19]
- James Thomas Aubrey, Jr., 75, American television and film executive, heart attack.[20]
- Harold Brewster, 91, American Olympic field hockey player (1932).[21]
- Jack Cassin, 79, Australian rules footballer.[22]
- Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, 88, Greek painter, sculptor, engraver, writer and academic.[23]
- Monja Jaona, 84, Malagasy politician and nationalist.
- Major Lance, 55, American R&B singer, cardiovascular disease.[24]
- Bernice Robinson, 80, American Civil Rights activist and education proponent.
- Glen Rose, 89, American college basketball and football coach (Arkansas Razorbacks).[25]
- Billy Wright, 70, English football player, stomach cancer.[26]
4
- Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter, 72, English publisher and politician.[27]
- Richard Martin, 76, American actor, leukemia.
- Sonia Martínez, 30, Spanish actress.
- Åke Ödmark, 77, Swedish high jumper and Olympian (1936).[28]
- Ted Riches, 87, Australian rules footballer.[29]
- Roger Thomas, 68, British politician and Member of Parliament.[30]
- Robert Weaver, 70, American illustrator.[31]
5
- Hank Aguirre, 63, American baseball player and businessman, prostate cancer.[32]
- Shimshon Amitsur, 73, Israeli mathematician.[33]
- Carl T. Burgess, 83, American politician.[34]
- Allan Hender, 86, Australian rules footballer.[35]
- José Martins, 88, Portuguese footballer and Olympian (1928).[36]
- Bob Matheson, 49, American gridiron football player, lymphoma (Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins).[37]
- John Newman, 47, Australian politician, murdered.
- Rudolf Raftl, 83, Austrian football goalkeeper.[38]
- Karen Maud Rasmussen, 88, Danish Olympic swimmer (1924).[39]
- Cliff Speegle, 76, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.[40]
- Ike Williams, 71, American Lightweight world boxing champion.
- Fred Wilt, 73, American runner, Olympian (1948, 1952), and FBI agent.[41]
6
- Louie Beltran, 58, Philippine journalist and columnist, heart attack.
- Rita Briggs, 65, American baseball player.[42]
- Egon Eis, 83, Austrian screenwriter.[43]
- Edward Russell Gaines, 67, New Zealand Catholic bishop.
- Nicky Hopkins, 50, English pianist and organist.[44]
- Max Kaminsky, 85, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.[45]
- Duccio Tessari, 67, Italian director, screenwriter and actor, cancer.[46]
- Paul Xuereb, 71, Maltese politician and President of Malta.
7
- James Clavell, 72, Australian-American author (Shōgun) and screenwriter (The Great Escape, The Fly), cancer.[47]
- Eric Crozier, 79, British theatrical director and opera librettist.[48]
- Georges Damitio, 70, French Olympic high jumper (1948, 1952).[49]
- Chester A. Dolan, Jr., 86, American politician.
- Alfred Loomis, 81, American investment banker, sailor and Olympic champion (1948).[50]
- Frederick Manfred, 82, American writer of Westerns, brain cancer.[51]
- Dennis Morgan, 85, American actor-singer.[52]
- Godfrey Quigley, 71, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Get Carter), Alzheimer's disease.
- Nisith Ranjan Ray, 84, Indian historian and social activist.
- Abul Lais Siddiqui, 78, Pakistani author, researcher, and scholar of Urdu.
- John Vigurs, 64, British rower and Olympian (1960).[53]
- Terence Young, 79, Irish film director (Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Thunderball), heart attack.[54]
8
- Juan Alonso, 66, Spanish football player.[55]
- Clara Breed, 88, American librarian.[56]
- Peggy Guido, 82, English archaeologist and prehistorian.
- Walter Heiligenberg, 56, German scientist and neuroethologist, plane crash.[57]
- Sister Parish, 84, American interior decorator and socialite.[58]
- János Szentágothai, 81, Hungarian neuroscientist, academian and politician.[59]
- Eijirō Tōno, 86, Japanese actor (Seven Samurai, Tokyo Story, Tora! Tora! Tora!), heart failure.[60]
9
- Robert Austerlitz, 70, Romanian-American linguist.[61]
- Tom Bawden, 81, Australian rules footballer.[62]
- Käthe Braun, 80, German actress.[63]
- Tom Burnette, 79, American football player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Eagles).[64]
- Donald Court, 82, British paediatrician.
- Reg Downing, 89, Australian lawyer, trade unionist and politician.
- Alfred R. Loeblich, 80, American micropaleontology.[65]
- Hugo Miranda, 64, Chilean Olympic cyclist (1952).[66]
- Douglas Morrow, 80, American screenwriter and film producer, aneurysm.[67]
- Patrick O'Neal, 66, American actor (The Way We Were, The Stepford Wives, Under Siege), respiratory failure.[68]
- Jiří Prchal, 46, Czech Olympic cyclist (1972).[69]
10
- Frank Broome, 79, English football player and manager.[70]
- Amy Clampitt, 74, American poet and author.[71]
- Mariateresa Di Lascia, 40, Italian politician, writer, and human rights activist, cancer.
- Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky, 79, Soviet/Russian poet and lyricist.
- Charles Drake, 76, American actor.[72]
- Tom Haine, 61, American volleyball player and Olympian (1968).[73]
- Caleb Martin, 70, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).[74]
- Max Morlock, 69, German football player, cancer.[75]
11
- Shimon Avidan, 83, Israeli officer.[76]
- Gunnar Eide, 71, Norwegian footballer.[77]
- Dernell Every, 88, American Olympic fencer (1928, 1932, 1948).[78]
- Marianne Hold, 61, German movie actress, heart attack.[79]
- Raffaele Sansone, 83, Italo-Uruguayan football player and coach, Uruguay.[80]
- Sara Sothern, 99, American stage actress, and mother of Elizabeth Taylor.[81]
- Jessica Tandy, 85, British actress (Driving Miss Daisy, Fried Green Tomatoes, Cocoon), Oscar winner (1990), ovarian cancer.[82]
12
- Avtandil Ch'k'uaseli, 62, Soviet Georgian Olympic football player (1952).[83]
- Frank Eugene Corder, 38, American truck driver and soldier, suicide by plane crash.[84]
- Theo Crosby, 69, South African architect, writer and sculptor.[85]
- Jean-Baptiste Duroselle, 76, French historian and professor.[86]
- Tom Ewell, 85, American actor, and producer.[87]
- Hunter Lane, 94, American baseball player (Boston Braves).[88]
- Pat Screen, 51, American attorney, and politician.
- Frank White, 67, English botanist.[89]
- Boris Borisovich Yegorov, 56, Soviet physician-cosmonaut, heart attack.[90]
13
- Arthur Adel, 85, American astronomer and astrophysicist, cancer.[91]
- Hind al-Husseini, 78, Palestinian woman.[92]
- Erich Buschenhagen, 98, German general in the Nazi Germany Wehrmacht.
- Juozas Girnius, 79, Lithuanian existentialist philosopher.
- Richard Herrnstein, 64, American psychologist at Harvard University, lung cancer.[93]
- Arthur Siegel, 70, American songwriter, heart failure.[94]
- John Stevens, 54, English drummer.[95]
- Woodie Wilson, 68, American stock car racing driver, cancer.
14
- William Berntsen, 82, Danish Olympic sailor (1948, 1952, 1960, 1964, 1968).[96]
- Heinz Gerischer, 75, German scientist.
- Marika Krevata, 83, Greek actress.
- David van de Kop, 56, Dutch painter, draftsman and sculptor.[97]
15
- Dave Diehl, 75, American football player (Detroit Lions).[98]
- Ernst Fuchs, 57, Swiss racing cyclist.[99]
- Haywood Henry, 81, American jazz baritone saxophonist.[100]
- Héléna Manson, 96, French film actress.
- Moana Pozzi, 33, Italian pornographic actress, television personality and politician, liver cancer.
- Kai Sjøberg, 58, Norwegian footballer.[101]
- Mark Stevens, 77, American actor, cancer.[102]
16
- Johnny Berry, 68, English football player.[103]
- Harry Chozen, 78, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[104]
- Jorge Luis Córdova, 87, Puerto Rican judge and politician.
- Jaywant Dalvi, 69, Indian writer.
- Felisa Rincón de Gautier, 97, Puerto Rican politician and women's rights activist, heart attack.[105]
- Albert Decourtray, 71, French catholic cardinal, cerebral hemorrhage.[106]
- Jack Dodson, 63, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D., All's Fair).[107]
- Dolly Haas, 84, German-American actress and singer, ovarian cancer.[108]
- Bernie Leighton, 73, American jazz pianist.[109]
- Noel Park, 73, Australian soldier, grazier and politician.
- C. K. Ra, 77, Indian painter and writer.
- Marshall Sprague, 85, American journalist and author.[110]
- Maureen Stewart, 29, Costa Rican sprinter and Olympian (1988).[111]
17
- Iris Adrian, 82, American actress and dancer.[112]
- Arnold Badjou, 85, Belgian football goalkeeper.[113]
- John Delafose, 55, American French-speaking Creole Zydeco accordionist.[114]
- Gego, 82, Venezuelan visual artist.[115]
- Vladimir Gershuni, 64, Soviet dissident and poet.
- Vitas Gerulaitis, 40, American tennis player, carbon monoxide poisoning.[116]
- Katsuhiko Nakagawa, 32, Japanese actor and musician, leukemia.
- Edward James Patten, 89, American lawyer and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1963-1981).[117]
- Sir Karl Popper, 92, Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator.[118]
- Katy Rodolph, 63, American alpine skier and Olympian (1952).[119]
- Thorsten Sellin, 97, Swedish-American sociologist, penologist and criminologist.[120]
- Ken Snelling, 75, American football player (Green Bay Packers).[121]
- Peter Zaremba, 86, American Olympic hammer thrower (1932).[122]
18
- Alexis Akrithakis, 60, Greek artist, heart attack.[123]
- Hallgrímur Helgason, 79, Icelandic composer, violinist, musicologist, conductor, and music educator.[124]
- Clarence Long, 85, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1963-1985).[125]
- Franco Moschino, 44, Italian fashion designer and HIV/AIDS activists, AIDS.[126]
- Ivan Snoj, 70, Croatian handball coach and referee, official, journalist and publicist.
- Clarence Williams, 39, American gridiron football player (San Diego Chargers, Washington Redskins), shot.[127]
19
- Anatoli Bulakov, 64, Soviet Russian boxer and Olympian (1952).[128]
- Alberto Closas, 72, Spanish film actor, lung cancer.
- Joseph Iléo, 73, Congolese politician, Prime Minister.[129]
- Frankie Kennedy, 38, Northern Irish flute and tin whistle player, Ewing's sarcoma.
- Don Lash, 82, American long-distance runner and Olympian (1936), spinal tumor.[130]
20
- Juan Acosta, 87, Chilean Olympic long-distance runner (1936).[131]
- Benny Baker, 87, American actor and comedian.[132]
- Michael Dekel, 74, Israeli politician.
- Jimmy Hamilton, 77, American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist.[133]
- Abioseh Nicol, 70, Sierra Leone Creole academic, diplomat, physician, and writer.[134]
- Reto Rossetti, 85, British poet and Esperantist professor.
- Jule Styne, 88, English-born American songwriter and composer.[135]
- Bjarne Øen, 95, Norwegian pilot and airforce general.
- Petr Čepek, 54, Czech actor, lung cancer.
21
- Jimmy Carter, 70, American world lightweight boxing champion[136]
- Arthur B. Krim, 84, American entertainment lawyer and movie studio chairman.[137]
- Louis Orvoën, 74, French politician.
- Russell Rowe, 79, Canadian politician.
22
- Teddy Buckner, 85, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.[138]
- Maria Carta, 60, Italian folk music singer-songwriter, cancer.[139]
- Igor Chislenko, 55, Soviet/Russian football player.[140]
- Dorothy Dehner, 93, American painter and sculptor.[141]
- Leonard Feather, 80, British-American jazz pianist, composer, and producer.[142]
- Albert Hassler, 90, French Olympic ice hockey player and speed skater (1924, 1928, 1936).[143]
- Gerhard von Hessert, 88, German bobsledder and Olympian (1932).[144]
- Edoardo Molinar, 87, Italian cyclist.[145]
- Hedwig Potthast, 82, German secretary and mistress of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.
- Andrew Rothstein, 95, British journalist.[146]
- Bud Sagendorf, 79, American cartoonist, brain cancer.
- Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, 83, British geographer, Royal Air Force officer and politician.[147]
- Fred Thomas Wood, 76, Chilean footballer.[148]
23
- Jerry Barber, 78, American golfer.
- Robert Bloch, 77, American author (Psycho), cancer.[149]
- Walter Gibbons, 40, American record producer and DJ, AIDS-related complications.
- Alfred Lemmnitz, 89, East German politician.
- Pye Lewis, 85, Australian rules footballer.[150]
- Antanas Mikėnas, 70, Soviet Lithuanian Olympic racewalker (1956).[151]
- Severino Minelli, 85, Swiss football player.[152]
- Zbigniew Nienacki, 65, Polish writer.
- Jürgen Ohlsen, 77, German actor.[153]
- Madeleine Renaud, 94, French actress.[154]
- Nagendra Prasad Rijal, 67, Prime Minister of Nepal.
- Johannes van Damme, 59, Dutch engineer and businessman, executed .
24
- Buddy Amendola, 64, American college football coach (Central Connecticut Blue Devils).[155]
- Barry Bishop, 62, American mountaineer, scientist, photographer and scholar, traffic accident.
- Kathleen Collins, 91, American film actress of the silent era.
- Carlos de Cárdenas, 90, Cuban Olympic sailor (1948, 1952, 1956).[156]
- Joe Drake, 31, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers).[157]
- Joe Madro, 81, American National Football League football coach.
- Ruth Niehaus, 69, German actress.[158]
- Mark Prudkin, 96, Soviet/Russian actor of theater and cinema.[159]
- Guido Santórsola, 89, Brazilian-Uruguayan composer, violinist, and conductor.
- Otto Friedrich Walter, 66, Swiss publisher, author and novelist.[160]
- Muhammed Wattad, 57, Israeli Arab journalist, writer and politician, traffic collision.
25
- Mark Alexander Abrams, 88, British social scientist.[161]
- Sašo Mirjanič, 26, Slovenian Olympic rower (1988, 1992), traffic collision.[162]
- Antonio Negrini, 91, Italian Olympic cyclist (1924).[163]
- Paul Oglesby, 55, American gridiron football player (Oakland Raiders).[164]
- Lise Ringheim, 68, Danish film actress.
- Charles Gage Van Riper, 88, American speech therapist.
- Albert Watson, 72, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1963-1971).[165]
26
- Maurice Ashley, 87, British historian .[166]
- Miguel Ángel Lauri, 86, Argentine football player.[167]
- Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, 86, German member of the House of Hohenzollern.
- D. A. Webb, 82, Irish botanist, traffic collision.[168]
27
- Nigel Bowen, 83, Australian lawyer, politician and judge.
- Frank Brickey, 82, American basketball and football coach (Arizona State Flagstaff–Lumberjacks).[169]
- Denys Haynes, 81, English classical scholar, archaeologist, and museum curator, heart failure.[170]
- Vernon Kirby, 83, South African tennis player.
- Carlos Lleras Restrepo, 86, Colombian politician and lawyer, respiratory failure.[171]
- György Tóth, 79, Hungarian football player and coach.
28
- Urmas Alender, 40, Estonian singer and musician.
- Greg Latta, 41, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears), heart attack.[172]
- Abeti Masikini, 39, Belgian Congo singer, uterine cancer.
- José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, 48, Mexican political figure, homicide.
- Harry Saltzman, 78, Canadian theatre and film producer, heart attack.[173]
- Owen Scheetz, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[174]
- Robert L. F. Sikes, 88, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1941-1944, 1945-1979).[175]
- K. A. Thangavelu, 77, Indian actor and comedian.
- Ze'ev Tzur, 83, Israeli politician.
29
- Ray Bamford, 79, Australian rules footballer.[176]
- Bruce Edge, 70, Australian rules footballer.[177]
- Cheb Hasni, 26, Algerian raï singer, terrorist attack.[178]
- O. S. Nock, 89, British railway signal engineer and author.[179]
- Frederick Schiller, 93, Austrian-British film actor.
- Jack Spinks, 64, American gridiron football player.[180]
30
- Simeon Adebo, 80, Nigerian administrator, lawyer and diplomat.[181]
- Wilhelm Ernst Barkhoff, 78, German solicitor, banker, social reformer and anthroposophist.
- Lina Basquette, 87, American actress, lymphoma.[182]
- Michael Flannery, 91, Irish republican and founder of NORAID.[183]
- Edmund Giemsa, 81, Polish soccer player.[184]
- Elmer Kolberg, 78, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers).[185]
- André Michel Lwoff, 92, French microbiologist and Nobel Prize laureate.[186]
- Pierre Sabbagh, 76, French television journalist, producer and director.[187]
- Alex Scott, 34, British thoroughbred racehorse trainer, shot.
- Roberto Eduardo Viola, 69, Argentine military officer and President of Argentina.[188]
- Sydney Walker, 73, American actor and voice artist, cancer.[189]