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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.
1
- Wilhelm Altar, 94, Austrian theoretical physicist and magneto ionic theory pioneer.[1]
- Jack Birney, 66, Australian politician.[2]
- Bill Bryant, 88, Australian cricketer.[3]
- Warren Caro, 87, American theater executive.[4]
- Ted Hawkins, 58, American singer-songwriter.[5]
- Nina Leen, 90, Russian-born American photographer for Life.[6]
- J. Miller Leavy, 89, American prosecuting lawyer.[7]
- Ralph W. Nicholson, 78, American civil servant, military officer, and business executive.[8]
- Jess Stacy, 90, American jazz pianist who played with Benny Goodman.[9]
- Jack G. Thayer, 72, American radio executive and disc jockey.[10]
- Ralph E. Van Norstrand, 57, American politician who was Republican Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives.[11]
- Arthur Earl Walker, 87, Canadian-American neurosurgeon, neuroscientist and epileptologist.[12]
- Fred West, 53, English serial killer, suicide.[13]
- Eugene Wigner, 92, Hungarian physicist Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, pneumonia.[14]
2
- Hulbert Aldrich, 87, American banking executive who led the New York Trust Company.[15]
- Ephraim Amu, 95, Ghanaian composer, musicologist and teacher.[16]
- Joe Balsis, 73–74, American professional pool player.[17]
- Siad Barre, 84–85, Somalian military leader and statesman, 3rd President of Somalia, heart attack.[18]
- Don Elston, 65, American baseball player.[19]
- Tun Mustapha, 76, Malaysian politician and Chief Minister of Sabah.[20]
- Nancy Kelly, 73, American actress, diabetes.[21]
- Keith McDaniel, 38, American principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and on Broadway.[22]
- Manuel Rivera, 67, Spanish painter.[23]
- Henry Graham Sharp, 77, British figure skater and world champion in 1939.[24]
3
- Ollie Bejma, 87, American Major League Baseball infielder (Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns).[25]
- Philip Burton, 86, Irish Fine Gael politician, farmer and auctioneer.
- Al Duncan, 67, American blues drummer.[26]
- Mickey Haefner, 82, All American baseball player.[27]
- Roland Harrah III, 21, American film and television child actor, musician, and artist, suicide.
- Arne Hestenes, 74, Norwegian journalist and author.[28]
- Byron MacGregor, 46, Canadian news anchor and news director.[29]
- Robert Marquis, 67–68, German-American architect and academic, complication during surgery. [30]
- Robert Nesbitt, 88, English theatre director, theatrical producer and impresario.[31]
- Edward Nugent, 90, American actor, writer, and director.[32]
- Andrija Puharich, 76, American physician.[33]
- Robley C. Williams, 86, pioneering American biophysicist and virologist.[34]
4
- Naomi Amir, 63, American-Israeli pediatric neurologist.[35]
- Ramón Artigas, 86, Spanish swimmer and Olympic athlete.[36]
- Vladas Drėma, 84, Lithuanian historian.[37]
- Dorothy Granger, 83, American actress, cancer.[38]
- Harry Gumbert, 85, American baseball player.[39]
- Jim Lee Howell, 80, American football player and coach for the NFL's New York Giants.[40]
- Robert Latham, 82, British editor, scholar, and Pepys Librarian.[41]
- Eduardo Mata, 52, Mexican conductor and composer, plane crash.[42]
- Valery Nosik, 54, Soviet/Russian actor.
- Victor Riesel, 81, American newspaper journalist and columnist, heart failure.[43]
- Heshmat Sanjari, 77, Iranian conductor and composer.
- Brooks Stevens, 83, American graphic and industrial designer.[44]
- Sol Tax, 87, American anthropologist who founded the academic journal Current Anthropology.[45]
5
- Semi Joseph Begun, 89, German-American engineer and inventor.[46]
- Somerset de Chair, 83, English author, politician, and poet.[47]
- Victor Mitchell, 71, American bridge player.[48]
- Ben Rich, 69, American engineer and the second Director of Lockheed's Skunk Works from 1975 to 1991, esophageal cancer.[49]
- Mansour Sattari, 46, Iranian Air Force leader, plane crash.[50]
- Kiyoo Wadati, 92, Japanese seismologist.
6
- Robert Abajian, 62, American fashion designer and fashion industry executive.[51]
- Paul-Émile Allard, 74, Canadian provincial politician.[52]
- Philip Brady, 101, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
- James Clay, 59, American jazz tenor saxophonist and flutist.[53]
- Todor Diev, 60, Bulgarian football player.[54]
- Agustín Gaínza, 72, Spanish football player.[55]
- Joe Slovo, 68, ANC activist and South African minister of Housing, cancer.[56]
7
- Ali Aliyev, 57, Soviet freestyle wrestler of Avar-Dagestani descent.[57]
- Harry Golombek, 83, British chess grandmaster, chess correspondent, and author of more than 30 books on chess.[58]
- Larry Grayson, 71, English comedian and television presenter.[59]
- Arthur Leavins, 77, British violinist who was concertmaster of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.[60]
- Walter Rand, 75, American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey.[61]
- Murray Rothbard, 68, American economist, heart attack.[62]
- Art Stoefen, 80, American basketball player.
- Ted Tetzlaff, 91, American cinematographer.[63]
8
- Hugó Ballya, 86, Hungarian rower who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics.[64]
- Beatrice Burnham, 92, American silent film actress.
- Lemuel Diggs, 95, American pathologist who specialized in sickle cell anemia and hematology.[65]
- Loulou Gasté, 86, French composer, songwriter.[66]
- Madhu Limaye, 72, Indian socialist essayist and activist, particularly active in the 1970s.[67]
- Carlos Monzón, 52, Argentine boxer, traffic accident.[68]
- Sylvia B. Seaman, 94, American novelist and suffragist.[69]
- Cao Tianqin, 74, Chinese biochemist.[70]
9
- Óscar Mendoza Azurdia, 77, Guatemalan general and military junta leader.
- Jan Bauch, 96, Czech painter and sculptor.[71]
- Gordon Bruce, 64, Australian politician.
- Peter Cook, 57, English comedian and writer, gastrointestinal bleeding.[72]
- Sterling Dow, 91, American classical archaeologist, epigrapher, and professor of archaeology at Harvard University.[73]
- Gisela Mauermayer, 81, German discus thrower.[74]
- Ralph Merrifield, 81, English museum curator and archaeologist who was director of the Museum of London.[75]
- Stig Sjölin, 66, Swedish boxer.[76]
- Souphanouvong, 85, Laotian royal prince and Communist leader, 1st President of Laos.[77]
- Xie Youfa, 77, Chinese lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army.
10
- Roy Ashton, 85, Australian makeup artist and tenor.[78]
- John H. Bloomer, 64, American attorney and politician who served as President of the Vermont State Senate, accident.[79]
- Crosby Bonsall, 74, American artist and children's book author and illustrator.[80]
- Fred Böhler, 82, Swiss jazz keyboardist and bandleader.[81]
- Nicholas Cavaliere, 95, American cinematographer.
- Boris Gurevich, 63, Soviet/Russian flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler.[82]
- George McNeil, 86, American abstract expressionist painter.[83]
- Michael Meinecke, 53, German art historian, archaeologist, and museum director.
- Scotty Rankine, 86, Canadian long-distance runner.[84]
- Arthur Ruysschaert, 84, Belgian football player.[85]
- Roderick Stephens, 85–86, American sailor and yacht designer.[86]
- Kathleen Tynan, 57, Canadian-British journalist, author, and screenwriter, cancer.[87]
11
- Raf Baldassarre, 62, Italian film actor.
- Ignacio Matte Blanco, 86, Chilean psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.[88]
- John Gere, 73, English art historian and curator at the British Museum.[89]
- Josef Gingold, 85, Russian-American violinist.[90]
- Mildred Barry Hughes, 92, American politician who was the first woman elected to the New Jersey Senate.[91]
- Onat Kutlar, 58, Turkish writer, journalist, and poet, bomb attack.[92]
- Denis Neville, 79, English football player and manager.[93]
- Lewis Nixon III, 76, United States Army officer, diabetes.
- Peter Pratt, 71, British opera singer and actor.[94]
- Roque Esteban Scarpa, 80, Chilean writer, literary critic and scholar.[95]
- Hannes Trautloft, 82, German Luftwaffe flying ace during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
- Theodor Wisch, 87, German Waffen-SS general during World War II.
- Paul Zumthor, 79, Swiss philologist.[96]
12
- Kay Aldridge, 77, American actress, lung cancer.[97]
- Tino Carraro, 84, Italian stage, television and film actor.[98]
- Henry Cieman, 89–90, Canadian racewalker and Olympian.[99]
- Robert R. Coats, 84, American geologist.[100]
- Raymond George, 77, American gridiron football player and coach.[101]
- Takako Irie, 83, Japanese actress, pneumonia.[102]
- Jack Lee, 74, English football player.[103]
- George Price, 93, American cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine for six decades.[104]
- Kenneth Sterling, 74, American medical doctor and researcher.[105]
13
- Johnny Carroll, 57, American rockabilly musician, liver failure.[106]
- Richard Causton, 74, British businessman and author on Buddhism.[107]
- Max Harris, 73, Australian poet, critic, columnist, commentator, publisher, and bookseller.[108]
- Ray Johnson, 67, American artist, suicide.[109]
- David Looker, 81, British bobsledder.
- Walter Sheridan, 69, American Federal investigator who prosecuted Jimmy Hoffa.[110]
- Mervyn Stockwood, 81, Welsh Church of England priest.[111]
- Zsigmond Villányi, 45, Hungarian modern pentathlete.[112]
14
- Joe Mike Augustine, 83, native leader and historian of the Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation.[113]
- Huang Chieh, 93, Taiwanese politician and general.[114]
- Mark Finch, 33, English promoter of LGBTQ cinema, suicide.[115]
- Alexander Gibson, 68, Scottish conductor.[116]
- Barbara Jelavich, 71, American professor of history at Indiana University, cancer.[117]
- David Elliot Johnson, 61, American 14th Bishop of Massachusetts in The Episcopal Church.[118]
- Daniel Robbins, 62, American art historian, art critic, and curator, cancer.[119]
- Stafford Somerfield, 84, British newspaper editor.[120]
- Ruby Starr, 45, American rock singer and recording artist, cancer.[121]
- Amos N. Wilson, 53, American writer.
15
- Jef Bruyninckx, 76, Belgian actor, editor and director.
- Cleo Rickman Fitch, 84, American archaeological researcher.[122]
- Josef Kemr, 72, Czech actor.[123]
- Vera Maxwell, 93, American sportswear and fashion designer.[124]
- Vitaly Parkhimovich, 51, Soviet /Russiansport shooter.[125]
- Frederick J. Schlink, 103, American consumer rights activist.[126]
16
- Abel Cestac, 76, Argentine boxer.[127]
- John Charters, 81, New Zealand rower and Olympic medalist.
- Paul Delouvrier, 80, French administrator and economist.[128]
- Bill Dillard, 83, American jazz trumpeter.[129]
- Eric Mottram, 70, British teacher, critic, editor and poet.[130]
17
- Evadne Baker, 57, English actress.
- Rolf Böger, 86, German politician of the Free Democratic Party.
- Éamonn Goulding, 61, Irish hurler and Gaelic football player.
- Wilhelm Haferkamp, 71, German politician.[131]
- Miguel Torga, 87, Portuguese writer.[132]
18
- Kay B. Barrett, 92, Hollywood talent scout and agent known for her impact on Gone with the Wind, stroke.[133]
- Adolf Butenandt, 91, German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[134]
- Clifford Fagan, 83, American basketball player.
- Roger Gilson, 47, Luxembourgian cyclist.[135]
- Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, 79, Lithuanian-British industrialist.[136]
- Ron Luciano, 57, American Major League Baseball umpire, suicide.[137]
- Ján Takáč, 85, Slovak long-distance runner.[138]
19
- Roy Barratt, 52, English cricketer.[139]
- Reinhard Böhler, 49–50, sidecarcross rider and the first-ever Sidecarcross World Championship.[140]
- Daryl Chapin, 88, American physicist, best known for co-inventing solar cells.[141]
- John Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray, 84, British peer, businessman and polo player.[142]
- Hubert Fol, 69, French jazz saxophonist and bandleader.[143]
- Hermann Henselmann, 89, German architect.[144]
- Gene MacLellan, 56, Canadian singer-songwriter ("Snowbird", "Put Your Hand in the Hand", "The Call"), suicide.[145]
- Patricia Teherán Romero, 25, Colombian singer and composer, traffic collision.
- Italo Viglianesi, 79, Italian trade unionist politician and syndicalist.
20
- Thomas Arbuthnott, 83, New Zealand boxer.[146]
- Mehdi Bazargan, 87, 46th Prime Minister of Iran, heart attack.[147]
- Garrett Howard, 95, Irish hurler.
- Nobuo Kaneko, 71, Japanese actor.[148]
- Arthur MacDonald, 75, Australian Army officer and Chief of the General Staff.
- Norris Weese, 43, American gridiron football player, bone cancer.[149]
21
- Armando Alemán, 90, Spanish fencer.[150]
- Russ Bauers, 80, Major League Baseball player.[151]
- Kenneth Budd, 69, English mural artist.[152]
- Philippe Casado, 30, French professional road bicycle racer.[153]
- Alex Groza, 68, American basketball player.[154]
- John Halas, 82, Hungarian animator.[155]
- Edward Hidalgo, 82, United States Secretary of the Navy in the Carter administration.[156]
- Joseph Mruk, 91, American businessman and Republican politician.[157]
- Bernard L. Oser, 95, American biochemist and food scientist.[158]
- Sidney Slon, 84, American radio and television writer and actor.[159]
- John Coyle White, 70, American chairman of the Democratic National Committee.[160]
22
- Jerry Blackwell, 45, professional wrestler, pneumonia.
- Stuart Davies, 88, British aerospace engineer.
- Lawrie Fernandes, 66, Field hockey player.[161]
- Henry Gladstone, American radio newscaster and actor, heart failure.[162]
- Rose Kennedy, 104, American philanthropist, pneumonia.[163]
- Christopher Palmer, 48, British composer.[164]
- Giulio Turcato, 82, Italian artist.[165]
23
- Donald Collier, 83, American archaeologist, ethnologist, and museologist.[166]
- Albertis Harrison, 88, American politician and jurist who was the 59th Governor of Virginia.[167]
- Ken Hill, 57, English playwright and director, cancer.[168]
- Peter Luke, 75, British writer, editor, and producer.[169]
- Carl Mulleneaux, 80, American gridiron football player.[170]
- Helen Phillips, 81, American sculptor.[171][172]
- Saul Rogovin, 72, American professional baseball player, bone cancer.[173]
- Edward Shils, 84, American sociologist and professor at the University of Chicago.[174]
- Egidio Viganò, 74, Italian Roman Catholic priest.
24
- Alf Clay, 81, Australian rules footballer.[175]
- David Cole, 32, American record producer, meningitis.[176]
- Edward Colman, 89, American cinematographer (Mary Poppins, The Absent-Minded Professor, That Darn Cat!).[177]
- Leopoldo Máximo Falicov, 61, Argentine theoretical physicist.[178]
- Al Hessberg, 78, American college football player and lawyer.[179]
- Anton Idzkovsky, 87, Ukrainian football player and manager.
- Regina Linnanheimo, 79, Finnish actor and screenwriter.[180]
- Victor Reinganum, 87–88, British artist and illustrator.[181]
- Kermit Smith Jr., 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[182]
25
- George P. Baker, 91, fifth dean of the Harvard Business School.[183]
- Fritz Dorls, 84, German far-right politician and former Nazi Party member.
- Erich Hof, 58, Austrian football player and coach, lung cancer.[184]
- John Smith, 63, American actor (Laramie, Cimarron City, Circus World), cirrhosis.[185]
- Suzanne Storrs, 60, American beauty queen and actress.[186]
- William Sylvester, 72, American actor (2001: A Space Odyssey, Gemini Man, Gorgo).[187]
- Albert W. Tucker, 89, Canadian mathematician.[188]
26
- Ole Ålgård, 74, Norwegian diplomat.[189]
- Franz Allers, 89, American conductor.[190]
- Charles Altemose, 81, American soccer player.[191]
- Marcel Bidot, 92, French professional road bicycle racer who won two stages of the Tour de France.[192]
- Vic Buckingham, 79, English footballer and manager.[193]
- William Cammisano, 80, American mobster and member of the Kansas City crime family, kidney failure.[194]
- Louis Heren, 75, British journalist.[195]
- Alaric Jacob, 85, British writer.
- Bernardo Leighton, 85, Chilian politician, cardiovascular disease.[196]
- Gordon Oliver, 84, American actor and film producer.
- Geoffrey Parsons, 65, Australian pianist, cancer.[197]
- John Vaughan-Morgan, Baron Reigate, 89, British politician.
- Cecil Roy, 94, American actress.[198]
- Zeng Shaoshan, 80, Chinese politician.
- Ian Tomlinson, 58, Australian triple jumper and long jumper.[199]
- Pat Welsh, 79, American actress (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), pneumonia.
27
- Raynald Arseneault, 49, Canadian composer and organist.[200]
- Alexis Brimeyer, 48, pretender who claimed connection to various European thrones, AIDS-related complications.[201]
- Bob Chandler, 45, American gridiron football player, lung cancer.[202]
- Richard A. Moore, 81, American lawyer and communications executive and ambassador, prostate cancer.[203]
- Raphael M. Robinson, 83, American mathematician.[204]
- Jean Tardieu, 91, French dramatist, artist, and musician.[205]
28
- Philip Burton, 90, Welsh theatre director, producer, and teacher.[206]
- Aldo Gordini, 73, Racecar driver.
- James P. Grant, 72, Canadian-American diplomat, children's advocate, and Director of UNICEF.[207]
- Richard L. Roudebush, 77, U.S. Representative from Indiana.[208]
- Ferruccio Tagliavini, 81, Italian opera singer.
- George Woodcock, 82, Canadian writer, philosopher, essayist and literary critic.[209]
29
- Antonio Brivio, 89, Italian bobsledder and racing driver.[210]
- Dickie Burnell, 77, English rower and fold medalist.[211]
- Guy Clutton-Brock, 88, English social worker and later a Zimbabwean nationalist.[212]
- Joseph Aubin Doiron, 72, Canadian politician.
- Kuldar Sink, 52, Estonian composer and flautist.[213]
- Song Sung-il, 25, South Korean wrestler, stomach cancer.
30
- Angela Calomiris, 78, American photographer and secret FBI informant.[214]
- Robert Craig, 77, Scottish academic and church leader.
- Mumtaz Daultana, 78, Indian politician.
- Gerald Durrell, 70, British naturalist, author, and television presenter.[215]
- George James, 88, American jazz saxophonist.[216]
- Arthur Julian, 71, American television writer and producer (Gimme a Break!, Amen, The Carol Burnett Show).[217]
- Olga Modrachová, 64, Czechoslovak high jumper, pentathlete, long jumper, sprinter and hurdler.[218]
- George Poyser, 84, English footballer and manager.[219]
31
- George Abbott, 107, American writer, director, and producer, stroke.[220]
- Leo Joseph Brust, 79, American Catholic bishop.
- Paul Collins, 68, Canadian long-distance runner and Olympic athlete.[221]
- Bernard N. Fields, 56, American microbiologist and virologist, pancreatic cancer.[222]
- James Johnson, 86, English MP.[citation needed].
- Gerhart Lüders, 74, German physicist.
- Kerttu Saalasti, 87, Finnish politician.
- John Smith, 74, longtime chairman of Liverpool F.C.[223]
- George Stibitz, 90, American computational engineer.[224]
- James Wilson, 94, American long-distance motorcyclist and author.
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