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]
- Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, 93, New Zealand physician, statesman and athlete.[4]
- Cesar Romero, 86, American actor (Batman, Ocean's 11, The Thin Man) and activist.[5]
- E. A. Thompson, 79, Irish-British marxist historian.[6]
2
- Viktor Aristov, 50, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.
- Miguel M. Delgado, 88, Mexican film director and screenwriter, cancer.[7]
- Lys Gauty, 93, French cabaret singer and actress.[8]
- Dixy Lee Ray, 79, American politician.[9]
- Vitālijs Rubenis, 79, Latvian communist politician.
- William Ryan, 72, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
- Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, 81, French businessman.[10]
- Eddie Smith, 80, American Major League Baseball player.[11]
3
- Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, 90, British public servant and politician.
- Norman Hepple, 85, English painter, engraver and sculptor, traffic accident.[12]
- Frank Belknap Long, 92, American writer and poet.[13]
- Marion Ross, 90, Scottish physicist.
- Heather Sears, 58, British actress, multiple organ failure.[14]
- Constantin Vișoianu, 96, Romanian jurist, diplomat, and politician, cancer.[15]
4
- Rahul Dev Burman, 54, Indian music director, cardiovascular disease.[16]
- Reijer Hooykaas, 87, Dutch historian of science.[17]
- Eileen Mayo, 87, English-Australian artist and designer.
- Thirukkuralar V. Munusamy, 80, Indian scholar and politician.
5
- Aldo Baldin, 49, Brazilian opera tenor.
- David Bates, 77, Northern Irish mathematician and physicist.[18]
- 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.[19]
- Franz Murer, 81, Austrian SS officer and war criminal.
- Tip O'Neill, 81, American politician, colorectal cancer.[20]
- Peggy Simpson, 80, British actress.
6
- Fidel Castaño, 43, Colombian drug lord and paramilitary.
- Oscar Fraley, 79, American sports writer and author.[21]
- 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.[22]
- Keith Wells, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[23]
7
- Arthur Dooley, 64, English artist and sculptor.
- Charlie McNeil, 57, American gridiron football player.
- Vittorio Mezzogiorno, 52, Italian actor, cancer.[24]
- Llewellyn Rees, 92, English actor.
- Phoumi Vongvichit, 84, President of Laos.[25]
8
- Pat Buttram, 78, American actor (Green Acres, Robin Hood, The Fox and the Hound), kidney failure.
- René Faye, 70, French cyclist.[26]
- Harvey Haddix, 68, American baseball pitcher and pitching coach, pulmonary emphysema.[27]
- Harry Boye Karlsen, 73, Norwegian football player.[28]
- Roy Kiyooka, 67, Canadian painter, poet, photographer, and multi-media artist.
- Ruth Osburn, 81, American athlete and Olympian.[29]
- Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, 99, Indian Hindu religious leader.
9
- Faruk Barlas, 78, Turkish football player.[30]
- Kayhan Kaynak, 33, Turkish football player, heart attack.
- Madge Ryan, 75, Australian actress.
- Johnny Temple, 66, American Major League Baseball player, pancreatic cancer.[31]
- Joachim Werner, 84, German archaeologist.[32]
10
- Michael Aldridge, 73, English actor (Last of the Summer Wine).[33]
- Sven-Erik Bäck, 74, Swedish composer of classical music.[34]
- Ien Dales, 62, Dutch socialist politician and social worker, heart attack.[35]
- Chub Feeney, 72, American baseball executive, heart attack.[36]
- 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.[37]
- Roman Tkachuk, 61, Soviet theatre and film actor.
11
- Arifin Achmad, 69, Indonesian military officer.[38]
- József Háda, 82, Hungarian football player.
- Chester L. Mize, 76, American politician.[39]
- Helmut Poppendick, 92, German physician and SS officer during World War II.
- Ram Ramirez, 80, Puerto Rican born jazz pianist and composer.[40]
- Édouard Rinfret, 88, Canadian politician.
- Emilio Rosenblueth, 67, Mexican engineer.
- Robert Winslow, 77, American gridiron football player and coach.[41]
12
- Samuel Bronston, 85, American film producer, film director, and nephew of communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky, pneumonia.[42]
- Goran Ivandić, 38, Yugoslav drummer, suicide.
- Greg Kabat, 82, American and Canadian football player.
- Gustav Naan, 74, Estonian philosopher and physicist.[43]
- Nehemiah Tamari, 47, Israeli army major general, commander of the Central Command (since 1993), helicopter crash.
- Arthur Turner, 84, English football player and manager.[44]
- John West Wells, 86, American paleontologist, cnidariologist, and geologist.[45]
13
- Hervé Alphand, 86, French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States.[46]
- Erhard Bauer, 68, German football player.[47]
- Johan Jørgen Holst, 56, Norwegian politician.
- Norm Jacobson, 76, Australian rugby player and coach.
14
- Ahmad Ali, 84, Pakistani novelist, poet, diplomat and scholar.[48]
- Chesley William Carter, 91, Canadian politician.
- Jack Faber, 91, American sports coach and microbiologist.
- Myron Fohr, 81, American racecar driver.
- Ivan Fuqua, 84, American track and field athlete.[49]
- Fritz Losigkeit, 80, German flying ace during World War II.
- Federica Montseny, 88, Spanish politician, anarchist, intellectual and writer.[50]
- Esther Ralston, 91, American silent film actress, heart attack.[51]
- Delio Rodríguez, 77, Spanish racing cyclist.[52]
- Nubar Terziyan, 84, Turkish actor.
15
- Philippe Brun, 85, French trumpeter.[53]
- György Cziffra, 72, Hungarian-French pianist and composer, lung cancer.[54]
- Gabriel-Marie Garrone, 92, French Catholic cardinal.[55]
- Ben H. Guill, 84, American politician.
- Martin Kosleck, 89, German actor.[56]
- Agnar Mykle, 78, Norwegian writer and puppeteer.[57]
- Harry Nilsson, 52, American singer-songwriter ("Everybody's Talkin'"), heart failure.[58]
- Harilal Upadhyay, 77, Indian novelist and poet.
16
- Sidon Ebeling, 93, Swedish long-distance runner and Olympian.[59]
- Jack Metcalfe, 81, Australian long jumper, triple jumper and javelin thrower.[60]
- Leland Stowe, 94, American journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.[61]
- Pál Szalai, 78, Hungarian police officer who save hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust during World War II.[62]
17
- T. T. Fields, 81, American politician.
- Chung Il-kwon, 76, South Korean general and politician, lymphoma.[63]
- Yevgeny Ivanov, 68, Soviet spy.
- Juan Carlos Pugliese, 78, Argentinian lawyer and politician.
- Helen Stephens, 75, American athlete and Olympic champion.[64]
- Robin Turton, Baron Tranmire, 90, British politician.
18
- Arthur Altman, 83, American songwriter.[65]
- Silvio Bergamini, 70, Italian rower and Olympian.[66]
- Lee Roy Caffey, 52, American gridiron football player, cancer.[67]
- Frank M. Carpenter, 91, American entomologist and paleontologist, heart attack[68]
- Rosemary Glyde, 45, American musician, cancer.[69]
- Rolf Singer, 87, German mycologist.[70]
19
- Eugene Kamenka, 65, Australian political philosopher and scholar.[71]
- Haik Hovsepian Mehr, 49, Iranian-Armenian Protestant minister, murdered.
- Kenneth Utt, 72, American film producer (The Silence of the Lambs), Oscar winner (1992), bone cancer.[72]
- Joseph Vliers, 61, Belgian football player.[73]
20
- Matt Busby, 84, Scottish football player and manager, cancer.
- Ľubor Kresák, 66, Slovak astronomer.[74]
- Bedia Muvahhit, 97, Turkish actress.
- Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, 82, Kenyan chieftain and politician.[75]
- Darío Segovia, 61, Paraguayan football player.
21
- Bassel al-Assad, 31, Syrian colonel, politician and son of president Hafez al-Assad, traffic collision.
- Giorgio Prosperi, 86, Italian screenwriter.[76]
- Timo Suviranta, 63, Finnish basketball player.[77]
- Tony Waddington, 69, English football manager[78]
- Bill Young, 79, American gridiron football player and coach.[79]
22
- Vincent Allard, 72, Belgian entomologist.
- Jean-Louis Barrault, 83, French actor, director and mime artist, heart attack.[80]
- Graziano Battistini, 57, Italian road bicycle racer.[81]
- Rhett Forrester, 37, American rock singer and musician (Riot), shot during carjacking.
- Frances Gifford, 73, American actress, pulmonary emphysema.
- Telly Savalas, 72, American actor (Kojak, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Birdman of Alcatraz) and singer, Emmy winner (1974), cancer.[82]
23
- Adolph Baller, 84, Austrian-American pianist, kidney failure.[83]
- Lee Alvin DuBridge, 92, American educator and physicist, pneumonia.[84]
- Klaus Hemmerle, 64, German Roman Catholic bishop, cancer.[85]
- 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.[86]
- Brian Redhead, 64, British author, journalist and broadcaster.[87]
- Millie Robinson, 69, Manx racing cyclist and world hour record holder.[88]
- Oliver Smith, 75, American scenic designer and interior designer, pulmonary emphysema.[89]
24
- Sidney Quinn Curtiss, 76, American politician.
- Klaus Eichler, 54, German sporting official, plane crash.[90]
- Raymond F. Jones, 78, American science fiction author.[91]
- Yves Navarre, 53, French writer, suicide.[92]
- Helge Vatsend, 65, Norwegian poet and novelist.
25
- James Boyce, 46, British politician, heart attack.[93]
- Pat Crawford, 91, American Major League Baseball player.[94]
- Aida McAnn Flemming, 97, Canadian teacher, writer and animal rights advocate.
- Stephen Cole Kleene, 85, American mathematician.[95]
- 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 diver and Olympian.[96]
- Lejaren Hiller, 69, American composer, Alzheimer's disease.[97]
- Ivan Warner, 74, American lawyer and politician, cancer.[98]
27
- Stanley Adams, 86, American lyricist and songwriter, cancer.[99]
- Claude Akins, 67, American actor (B. J. and the Bear, Inherit the Wind, The Caine Mutiny), cancer.[100]
- Eddie Calhoun, 72, American jazz double bassist.[101]
- Alain Daniélou, 86, French historian, musicologist, and indologist.[102]
- 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.
- Frank Twiss, 83, British Royal Navy admiral.[103]
- Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov, 89, Russian astrophysicist.
28
- Afif al-Bizri, 80, Syrian military officer.
- Emily Taft Douglas, 94, American politician.[104]
- Betty Go-Belmonte, 60, Filipina journalist and newspaper publisher.
- Frank Hardy, 76, Australian novelist and writer, heart attack.[105]
- William Levitt, 86, American real-estate developer regarded as the father of modern American suburbia.[106]
- George Rosso, 64, American gridiron football player.
- Hal Smith, 77, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Beauty and the Beast), heart attack.[107]
29
- Marguerite Allan, 88, Russian-born British actress.
- Nick Cravat, 82, American actor and stunt performer, cancer, lung cancer.
- Yevgeny Leonov, 67, Soviet and Russian actor, pulmonary embolism.[108]
- Ulrike Maier, 26, Austrian alpine ski racer, World Champion and Olympian, skiing accident.[109]
- Tollien Schuurman, 81, Dutch sprinter and Olympian.[110]
- Jakobína Sigurðardóttir, 75, Icelandic writer.
- Jakob Vaage, 88, Norwegian educator, author and historian.
30
- Pierre Boulle, 81, French novelist.[111]
- Claude Nigon, 65, French fencer and Olympian.[112]
- Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby, 81, British peer and philanthropist.[113]
- Laura Nucci, 80, Italian film actress.
- Jan Schaefer, 53, Dutch politician and community organiser, diabetes.[114]
- Rudolf Schwarz, 88, Austrian-American conductor.[115]
- Bahjat Talhouni, 81, Jordanian politician.[116]
- Don Turnbull, 84, Australian tennis player.
31
- Master Abdullah, 64, Pakistani film music composer.
- Alberto Sorrentino, 77, Italian film actor.
- Erwin Strittmatter, 81, German writer.[117]
- Tomanija Đuričko, 79, Serbian actress.[118]
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