The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
1
- Sergei Dubov, 50, Russian journalist, publisher and entrepreneur, homicide.[1]
- Ray Ferris, 73, Northern Irish football player.[2]
- Guy Lefranc, 74, French director and screenwriter.[3]
- John Littlejohn, 62, American electric blues guitarist, kidney failure.[4]
- Jo Richardson, 70, British Labour Party politician.
- Radovan Samardžić, 71, Yugoslav/Serbian historian and academic.[5]
- Olan Soule, 84, American actor, lung cancer.[6]
2
- Steve Barclay, 75, American film actor.[7]
- Jean Couturier, 82, French basketball player.[8]
- Marija Gimbutas, 73, Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist.[9]
- Zaim Imamović, 73, Bosnian folk singer, accordionist and author.[10]
- Otto Kippes, 88, German Catholic priest.
- Yōichi Nakanishi, 76, Japanese politician and Governor of Ishikawa Prefecture.
- John Rewald, 81, American academic, author and art historian.[11]
- Willie Mae Ford Smith, 89, American gospel musician and Christian evangelist.[12]
- Mary Washburn, 86, American sprinter.[13]
- Anona Winn, 90, Australian-British actress, broadcaster and singer.
3
- Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov, 90, Soviet and Russian physicist and academic.
- Roberto Amoroso, 83, Italian screenwriter and film producer.
- Rauf Atakishiyev, 68, Soviet and Azerbaijani singer and pianist.
- Carroll Borland, 79, American professor, writer, and actress, pneumonia.
- Herbert Busemann, 88, German-American mathematician.
- Frederick Copleston, 86, English Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian.[14]
- Justinus Darmojuwono, 79, Indonesian Roman Catholic cardinal.
- Walter Havighurst, 92, American novelist, critic, and literary and social historian.[15]
- Alan Helffrich, 93, American athlete and Olympic champion.[16]
- Ellen King, 85, Scottish swimmer and Olympian.[17]
- Patrick El Mabrouk, 65, French middle-distance runner and Olympian.[18]
- Raúl Padilla, 75, Mexican actor, heart attack.
- Glenn Wade Salisbury, 83, American agriculture biologist.
- Georgy Shchedrovitsky, 64, Soviet and Russian philosopher and methodologist.
- Dale Warren, 54, American musician.
4
- Jane Arbor, 90, British writer.[19]
- Fred De Bruyne, 63, Belgian road cyclist.
- Brunetto Bucciarelli Ducci, 79, Italian politician and magistrate.
- Bedri Gürsoy, 92, Turkish football player.
- Mikhail Linge, 35, Soviet and Russian middle-distance runner and Olympic champion, murdered.[20]
- Thelma Stovall, 74, American politician.
5
- Hermann Josef Abs, 92, German banker and advisor to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.[21]
- Ben Enwonwu, 72, Nigerian painter and sculptor.
- Joachim Halupczok, 25, Polish racing cyclist, heart failure.[22]
- Tiana Lemnitz, 96, German operatic soprano.[23]
- George Sauer, 83, American football player, coach, and football executive.[24]
- James F. Walker, 80, American graphic artist.
6
- Joseph Cotten, 88, American actor (Citizen Kane, Shadow of a Doubt, The Third Man), pneumonia.[25]
- Norman Del Mar, 74, British conductor, horn player, and biographer.[26]
- Felice Gremo, 92, Italian racing cyclist.[27]
- Ross Grimsley, 71, American Major League Baseball player.[28]
- Jack Kirby, 76, American comic book artist and writer (Fantastic Four, Captain America, X-Men), heart failure.[29]
- Aurora Mardiganian, 93, Armenian-American author and actress.
- Hilda Simms, 75, American stage actress, pancreatic cancer.[30]
- Ignace Strasfogel, 84, Polish pianist, composer and conductor, Alzheimer's disease.[31]
- Luis Alberto Sánchez, 93, Peruvian jurist, philosopher, writer and politician.[32]
- Gwen Watford, 66, English actress, cancer.[33]
7
- Richard M. Bissell, Jr., 84, American CIA officer.[34]
- Billy Briscoe, 97, English football player.
- Laurence Brown, 86, English Anglican clergyman.
- Jorge Brum do Canto, 83, Portuguese film director and actor.
- Witold Lutosławski, 81, Polish composer and conductor.[35]
- Bill McDonald, 77, American basketball player.
- Stephen Milligan, 45, British politician and journalist, erotic asphyxiation.
- Charles Leslie Richardson, 85, British Army officer.
- Arnold Smith, 79, Canadian diplomat.
- Maarten Vrolijk, 74, Dutch socialist politician.[36]
8
- Ken G. Hall, 92, Australian film producer and director.[37]
- Amparo Ochoa, 47, Mexican singer-songwriter.
- Bob Reynolds, 79, American gridiron football player.[38]
- Raymond Scott, 85, American musician, record producer, and inventor of electronic instruments.[39]
9
- Raymond A. Hare, 92, American diplomat and ambassador.[40]
- Louis Kaufman, 88, American violinist.[41]
- Gherasim Luca, 80, Romanian surrealist theorist and poet, suicide.[42]
- Jarmila Novotná, 86, Czechoslovak and Chech soprano and actress.[43]
- Howard Temin, 59, American geneticist and virologist, lung cancer.[44]
- Bud Wilkinson, 77, American football player, coach, broadcaster, and politician.[45]
10
- Mel Calman, 62, British cartoonist, thrombosis.[46]
- Robert Crépeaux, 93, French chess master.
- Fritz John, 83, German-American mathematician.[47]
- Dominic McGlinchey, 39–40, Irish republican paramilitary leader, shot.[48]
- Augusts Voss, 77, Soviet and Latvian politician.
11
- Neil Bonnett, 47, American racing driver, racing accident.
- Sorrell Booke, 64, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, Fail-Safe, Freaky Friday), colorectal cancer.[49]
- William Conrad, 73, American actor (Jake and the Fatman, Cannon, The Killers), heart failure.[50]
- Joseph Cordeiro, 76, Pakistani Catholic priest.
- Paul Feyerabend, 70, Austrian philosopher of science, brain cancer.[51]
- Mercè Comaposada i Guillén, 92, Spanish pedagogue, lawyer, and anarcha-feminist.
- Sune Mangs, 61, Swedish actor.
- Antonio Martín, 23, Spanish road bicycle racer, bicycle accident.[52]
- Saul Weprin, 66, American attorney and politician, stroke.
- Vincent Wigglesworth, 94, British entomologist.[53]
12
- Charles Critchfield, 83, American mathematical physicist.
- Ray Dandridge, 80, American Negro league baseball player.[54]
- Ivor Darreg, 76, American composer of xenharmonic music.
- Rafael Durán, 82, Spanish actor.[55]
- Rahela Ferari, 82, Yugoslavian and Serbian actress.
- Donald Judd, 65, American minimalist artist, lymphoma.[56]
- Richard Luyt, 78, South African Governor of British Guiana.
- Sue Rodriguez, 43, Canadian right-to-die activist, ALS.
- Karl Wirtz, 83, German nuclear physicist.
13
- James Aitchison, 73, Scottish cricketer.[57]
- Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker, 84, British peer and academic.[58]
- Robert Bloom, 85, American oboist, composer and arranger.[59]
- Walter Judd, 95, American politician and physician.
- Mostafa Salimi, 90, Iranian football player and manager.
- Robert Sherrod, 85, American journalist, editor and writer, pulmonary emphysema.[60]
14
- Pietro Belluschi, 94, Italian-American architect.[61]
- Andrei Chikatilo, 57, Soviet serial killer, execution by shooting.[62]
- Ivan Chodák, 80, Slovak football player and coach.
- Jean Goldschmit, 69, Luxembourgian road bicycle racer.
- Tiger Haynes, 79, American actor and film and jazz musician.[63]
- Margaret Lane, 87, British journalist, biographer and novelist.[64]
- Christopher Lasch, 61, American historian, moralist and social critic, leukemia.[65]
- Henry Milton Taylor, 90, Governor-general of the Bahamas.
15
- Richard Emory, 75, American actor, stroke.[66]
- Frank Kitto, 90, Australian lawyer and judge.
- Liu Ningyi, 86, Chinese politician.
- Andrea Heinemann Simon, 84, American civil rights activist and mother of singer Carly Simon, lung cancer.[67]
16
- Noël Foré, 61, Belgian road bicycle racer.[68]
- François Marty, 89, French Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Paris, railway accident.[69]
- Richard O'Kane, 83, American Navy submarine commander during World War II.[70]
- Bob C. Riley, 69, American educator and politician.
- Ann Wigmore, 84, Lithuanian-American holistic health practitioner and naturopath.[71]
17
- Neville Broderick, 66, Australian rules football player.
- Aleksandr Chakovsky, 80, Soviet/Russian editor and novelist.[72]
- Gretchen Fraser, 75, American alpine ski racer and Olympian.[73]
- Rosario García Ortega, 82, Argentine actress.
- Chimanbhai Patel, 64, Indian politician.
- Randy Shilts, 42, American journalist and author, AIDS-related complications.[74]
- Vilmos Varjú, 56, Hungarian shot putter and Olympian.[75]
18
- Annemarie Ackermann, 80, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- Ruth Adler, 49, British feminist and human rights campaigner.[76]
- Michel Duran, 93, French actor, author, and screenwriter.
- Jake Gaither, 90, American gridiron football coach.[77]
- Gopi Krishna, 58, Indian dancer, actor and choreographer, heart attack.
- Beltrán Alfonso Osorio, 75, Spanish peer and jockey.
- Robert H. Park, 91, American electrical engineer and inventor.
- Ameer Hamza Shinwari, 87, Afghanistan Pashto-language poet.[78]
- John Tedder, 2nd Baron Tedder, 67, British noble and chemist.
- Ralph W. Tyler, 91, American educator.[79]
- Barbara Willard, 84, British novelist.
19
- Johnny Hancocks, 74, English football player and manager.[80]
- Derek Jarman, 52, English film director, author and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications.[81]
- Patrick O'Reilly, 66, Irish politician.
- Fyodor Odinokov, 81, Soviet and Russian actor.
- Vittorio Rieti, 96, Italian-American composer.[82]
- Ivan Sidorenko, 74, Soviet sniper during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Yitzhak Yitzhaky, 57, Israeli educator and politician.
21
- Gerda Alexander, 86, German-Danish teacher and psychologist.
- Evgeny Belyaev, 67, Russian tenor.[85]
- Oscar Collazo, 80, Puerto Rican militant.
- Homa Darabi, 54, Iranian pediatrician, academic and political activist, suicide.
- Mary Lasker, 93, American health activist and philanthropist.[86]
- Johannes Steinhoff, 80, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II, and NATO official.[87]
22
- Papa John Creach, 76, American blues violinist.[88]
- Hans Hürlimann, 75, Swiss politician.
- Lore Lorentz, 73, German kabarett artist and standup comedian, pneumonia.[89]
- János Pap, 68, Hungarian communist politician, suicide.
- T. Chalapathi Rao, 73, Indian film music director.
- Barry Warren, 60, British actor.[90]
- Dan Zakhem, 35, Israeli performance artist, AIDS-related brain cancer.
23
- Marvin Burke, 75, American NASCAR racecar driver.[91]
- Odd Højdahl, 73, Norwegian politician.
- Arthur Piantadosi, 77, American sound engineer (All the President's Men, Tootsie, Altered States), Oscar winner (1977).
- Jackie Power, 77, Irish hurler and gaelic football player.
- Manfredo Tafuri, 58, Italian architect, historian, critic and academic, heart attack.[92]
24
- Alighiero Boetti, 53, Italian conceptual artist.
- Maude Bonney, 96, South African-Australian aviator.[93]
- Ulrich Gabler, 80, German U-boat chief engineer during World War II .
- Robert Gronowski, 67, Polish football player and manager.
- Ion Lăpușneanu, 85, Romanian football goalkeeper.[94]
- Ladislav Mňačko, 75, Slovak writer and journalist.[95]
- Jean Sablon, 87, French singer, songwriter, composer and actor.[96]
- Dinah Shore, 77, American singer, actress, and television personality, ovarian cancer.[97]
- Hugh Tayfield, 65, South African cricket player.
25
- Marvin J. Ashton, 78, American politician, writer, and apostle of the LDS Church.[98]
- Russell Bufalino, 90, Italian-American mobster, heart attack.
- Givi Chokheli, 56, Georgian football player.[99]
- Baruch Goldstein, 37, American-Israeli mass murderer and religious extremist, beaten to death.
- Hamoud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 47, Saudi royal and businessman.
- Jersey Joe Walcott, 80, American boxer.[100]
26
- Else Ahlmann-Ohlsen, 86, Danish fencer.[101]
- Tarık Buğra, 75, Turkish journalist, novelist and short story author.
- J. L. Carr, 81, English novelist, publisher, and eccentric.[102]
- Sofka Dolgorouky, 86, Russian-British princess, writer and communist.[103]
- Avery Fisher, 87, Amateur violinist and philanthropist.[104]
- Bill Hicks, 32, American stand-up comedian, satirist, and musician, pancreatic cancer.[105]
- Leopold Kohr, 84, Austrian-American economist, jurist and political scientist.[106]
- Jack Oatey, 73, Australian rules football player and coach.
27
- Harold Acton, 89, British writer, scholar, and aesthete.[107]
- Layton Fergusson, 85, Canadian politician.
- Arnold Townsend, 81, English cricket player.[108]
- Tor Ørvig, 77, Norwegian-Swedish paleontologist.
28
- Olivier Alain, 75, French organist, pianist, musicologist and composer.[109]
- Harvey Leibenstein, 71, Ukrainian-American economist.[110]
- Pujie, 86, Chinese Qing dynasty imperial prince.
- Enrico Maria Salerno, 67, Italian actor, voice actor and film director, lung cancer.[111]
- Jimmy Stevens, 74, Ni-Vanuatu nationalist and politician, stomach cancer.
- Jürgen von Alten, 91, German actor, screenwriter and film director.[112]
- Skippy Williams, 77, American jazz tenor saxophonist and musical arranger.[113]
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