Deaths in October 1994
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 1994
1
- David Berg, 75, American founder and leader of religious movement The Family International.
- Ron Herron, 64, English architect and teacher.[1]
- Bud Houser, 93, American field athlete.[2]
- Donald Roy Irvine, 74, Canadian politician.
- Oluyemi Kayode, 26, Nigerian sprinter, traffic collision.[3]
- Paul Lorenzen, 79, German philosopher and mathematician.[4]
- Marjorie Weaver, 81, American actress, heart attack.[5]
2
- Matthew Black, 86, Scottish minister and biblical scholar.[6]
- Claude Harris, Jr., 54, American politician.
- Harry Hodgkinson, 81, British writer, journalist, and naval intelligence officer.
- Harriet Nelson, 85, American singer and actress (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), heart failure.[7]
3
- Tim Asch, 62, American anthropologist, photographer, and ethnographic filmmaker, cancer.[8]
- Virginia Dale, 77, American actress and dancer.[9]
- Lassi Parkkinen, 77, Finnish speed skater.[10]
- Heinz Rühmann, 92, German film actor.[11]
- Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis, 92, German Benedictine and nobleman.
- Dub Taylor, 87, American actor (The Wild Bunch, Bonnie and Clyde, Casey Jones).
4
- Yardena Alotin, 64, Israeli composer and pianist.[12]
- Bill Challis, 90, American jazz arranger.[13]
- Danny Gatton, 49, American guitarist, suicide.[14]
- Shmuel Merlin, 84, Israeli Revisionist Zionist activist and politician.
- Effat Nagy, 89, Egyptian artist.
- John Opper, 85, American abstract painter.[15]
- Andrea Velis, 62, American operatic tenor.[16]
5
- Luc Jouret, 46, Belgian religious cult leader, suicide.[17]
- Gordon Juckes, 80, Canadian ice hockey administrator.
- Nini Rosso, 68, Italian jazz trumpeter and composer, lung cancer.
- Walt Schlinkman, 72, American gridiron football player and coach.[18]
- William R. Smedberg III, 92, United States Navy vice admiral.
- Jacques Tarride, 91, French actor.
- Doug Wildey, 72, American cartoonist and comic book artist.[19]
6
- Jo Colruyt, 66, Belgian businessman.
- Per Mørch Hansson, 89, Norwegian sportsman and businessman.
- G. Joseph Tauro, 88, American judge and Chief justice (1970-1976).[20]
- Tadeusz Żakiej, 79, Polish musicologist and music publicist, and food writer.[21]
7
- Piotr Alberti, 80, Soviet/Russian painter.
- Maya Bulgakovа, 62, Soviet/Russian actress, traffic collision.[22]
- Bruce Cork, 78, American physicist.
- Ray Ellefson, 72, American basketball player.[23]
- Jack Fitzgerald, 80, Irish Labour Party politician.
- Carlos Gracie, 92, Brazilian martial artist.
- Viktors Hatuļevs, 39, Soviet/Latvian ice hockey defenseman and left winger.
- James Hill, 75, British film and television director, screenwriter and producer.[24]
- Niels Kaj Jerne, 82, Danish immunologist.[25]
- Maurício do Valle, 66, Brazilian film actor, diabetes.
8
- Anthony Abell, 87, British colonial official.[26]
- Diana Churchill, 81, English actress, multiple sclerosis.[27]
- Brian Hartley, 55, British mathematician specialising in group theory, heart attack.
- Khaled al-Hassan, 66, Palestinian politician, adviser of Yasser Arafat and founder of militant organization Fatah.[28]
- Alan M. Holman, 89, American football player and coach.
- Jan de Koning, 68, Dutch politician and social geographer, cancer.
- John Neely, 64, American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger.
9
- Raich Carter, 80, English sportsman.[29]
- Bill Fox, 95, New Zealand politician.
- Idris Hopkins, 83, Welsh football player.
- Nikolai Karetnikov, 64, Soviet /Russian composer of underground music.
- Fred Lebow, 62, American runner and race director.[30]
- Philip Burton Moon, 87, British nuclear physicist.[31]
- Lawrence Simmons, 83, American football and baseball coach.
- Rolf Thiele, 76, German film director, producer and screenwriter.[32]
10
- Richard J. C. Atkinson, 74, British prehistorian and archaeologist.[33]
- John C. Champion, 70, American producer and screenwriter.[34]
- Nola Luxford, 92, New Zealand-American film actress.
- SM Sultan, 71, Bangladeshi painter.
11
- Jarvis Hunt, 90, American politician.
- Keiji Imai, 77, Japanese sprinter.[35]
- Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov, 74, French Resistance member.
- Frank McGuire, 79, American basketball coach.[36]
12
- John Blackburn, 61, British politician.
- Raymond Garrett, 93, Australian military officer, photographer, and politician.
- Gérald Godin, 55, Quebec poet and politician.[37]
- Aslam Khan, 76, Pakistani brigadier, captured Kennedy Peak (Myanmar) during WWII[38]
- Werner Kubitzki, 79, German field hockey player.[39]
- Manole Marcus, 66, Romanian film director and screenwriter.
- Yakov Punkin, 72, Ukrainian featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler.[40]
- Sady Rebbot, 59, French actor, cancer.[41]
13
- Fiodar Fiodaraŭ, 83, Soviet/Belarusian physicist.
- Ture Königson, 84, Swedish evangelical politician.
- Eric Morse, 5, American murder victim, fall.[42]
- Samuel Jacob Sesanus Olsen, 90, Faroese teacher, writer and translator.
- Guido Wolf, 70, Liechtenstein sports shooter.[43]
14
- Gioconda de Vito, 87, Italian-British violinist.[44]
- Harry Fleer, 78, American actor.
- Setu Madhavrao Pagdi, 84, Indian civil servant, polyglot, and historian.
- Nikolai Skomorokhov, 74, Soviet Air Forces flying ace during World War II, traffic collision.
- Karl Edward Wagner, 48, American writer, poet, editor, and publisher.
- Petar Šegedin, 68, Yugoslav steeplechase and long-distance runner.[45]
- Ada Valerie-Tal, 58, Israeli actress (Bar 51), heart disease.[46]
15
- Avis Acres, 84, New Zealand artist, writer, illustrator and conservationist.[47]
- Jean Dasté, 90, French actor and theatre director.[48]
- Sarah Kofman, 60, French philosopher, suicide.[49]
- George Meader, 87, American politician.[50]
- Jozo Tomasevich, 86, American economist and military historian.[51]
16
- Joan Airey, 68, British artistic gymnast.[52]
- Kunigunde Bachl, 75, German physician and politician, member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein[53]
- Peter Bromilow, 61, English actor (Camelot, The Railway Children, The Rocketeer).
- Ed Cody, 71, American football player and coach.[54]
- Monja Danischewsky, 83, British producer and writer.
- Michela Fanini, 21, Italian racing cyclist, traffic collision.[55]
- Ganesh Ghosh, 94, Indian independence activist, revolutionary and politician.
- Josef Kraft, 73, German Luftwaffe pilot during World War II and later an officer in the German Air Force.
17
- P. M. Aboobacker, Indian politician.[56]
- George Barrows, 80, American actor.
- Ralph Hill, 86, American runner.[57]
- Dmitry Kholodov, 27, Russian journalist, homicide.[58]
- Gus Risman, 83, Welsh rugby player.
18
- Herman Ahlsell, 75, Swedish director and actor.[59]
- Lee Allen, 67, American tenor saxophone player.[60]
- Walker Lee Cisler, 97, American engineer and business executive.[61]
- Xavier Depraz, 68, French opera singer and actor.[62]
- Else Klink, 86, German Eurythmist.
- Eddie Mast, 46, American basketball player.[63]
- Conchita Montes, 80, Spanish film actress.[64]
- Max Müller, 88, German philosopher and Catholic intellectual.[65]
- Li Qingwei, 74, People's Republic of China politician.
19
- Ray Birdwhistell, 76, American anthropologist.[66]
- Hedi Flitz, 94, German politician.
- M. C. M. Kaleel, 94, Ceylonese physician, social worker and politician.
- Jacopo Napoli, 83, Italian composer.
- Martha Raye, 78, American comic actress and singer, pneumonia.[67]
- Nyanaponika Thera, 93, German-born Theravada Buddhist monk and scholar.
- Oldřich Černík, 72, Czech politician and Prime minister of Czechoslovakia.[68]
20
- Sergei Bondarchuk, 74, Soviet/Russian actor, film director, and screenwriter, heart attack.[69]
- Shlomo Carlebach, 69, Jewish rabbi, spiritual leader, composer, and singer, heart attack.[70]
- Viola Gråsten, 83, Swedish textile designer.
- Barbara Ingram, 46, American R&B singer and songwriter.
- Hakob Karapents, 69, Iranian-Armenian author.[71]
- Burt Lancaster, 80, American actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry, Birdman of Alcatraz), Oscar winner (1961), heart attack.[72]
- Robert Medley, 88, English artist.[73]
- Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, 69, Italian film actor.[74]
- Francis Steegmuller, 88, American biographer, translator and fiction writer.[75]
21
- Bunny Adair, 89, Australian politician.
- Thore Ehrling, 81, Swedish trumpeter, composer, and bandleader.
- George H. Gay, 77, United States Navy bomber pilot during World War II.[76]
- Jerome Wiesner, 79, American engineer and president of MIT.[77]
22
- Wali Ahmed, Bangladesh Awami League politician.[78]
- William Frankena, 86, American moral philosopher.[79]
- Harold Hopkins, 75, British physicist.
- Handel Manuel, 76, Indian pianist, organist, conductor, composer and accompanist.
- Rollo May, 85, American existential psychologist and author.[80]
- Jimmy Miller, 52, American record producer and musician, liver disease.[81]
- Benoît Régent, 41, French actor, aneurysm.
- Andrea Zambelli, 67, Italian bobsledder.
23
- Jack Gibson, 86, English schoolmaster, academic and mountaineer.
- Robert Lansing, 66, American actor (12 O'Clock High. The Equalizer, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues), cancer.[82]
- Bill Leonard, 78, American journalist and television executive, stroke.[83]
- Yisroel Ber Odesser, 106, Israeli Breslover Hasid and rabbi.
- Cornelis Pama, 77, Dutch bookseller, publisher, heraldist and genealogist.
24
- René Clermont, 72, French stage and film actor and playwright.[84]
- Sólo̱n Zéfyros Gri̱goriádi̱s, 82, Greek Navy officer, journalist, writer and politician.
- Hans Jacobs, 87, German sailplane designer and pioneer.
- Edward St John, 78, Australian barrister, anti-nuclear activist and politician.[85]
- Raul Julia, 54, Puerto Rican actor (Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Addams Family, Presumed Innocent), Emmy winner (1995), stroke.[86]
- John Lautner, 83, American architect.[87]
- Ian Potter, 92, Australian stockbroker, businessman and philanthropist.[88]
- Guy Powles, 89, New Zealand diplomat, and New Zealand's first Ombudsman.
- Alexander Shelepin, 76, Soviet politician and security and intelligence officer.[89]
- Notable people killed in the 1994 Colombo suicide attack
- Ossie Abeygunasekera, 44, Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament
- Gamini Dissanayake, 52, Sri Lankan politician and Leader of the Opposition[90]
- Weerasinghe Mallimaratchi, 64, Sri Lankan politician and cabinet minister
- G. M. Premachandra, 54, Sri Lankan politician and cabinet minister
25
- Yang Dezhi, 83, Chinese general and politician.[91]
- George Fallon, 80, American baseball player.[92]
- Bob Gantt, 72, American basketball player.[93]
- Emil Grünig, 79, Swiss sport shooter.[94]
- Lillian Hayman, 72, American actress and singer, heart attack.[95]
- Kara Hultgreen, 29, American naval aviator, plane crash.[96]
- Hou Jingru, 92, Chinese Army officer and politician.
- Antal Kocsis, 88, Hungarian boxer.[97]
- József Kozma, 69, Hungarian basketball player.[98]
- Karl-Heinz Metzner, 71, German football player.[99]
- Mildred Natwick, 89, American actress (Barefoot in the Park, Dangerous Liaisons, The Snoop Sisters), Emmy winner (1974), cancer.[100]
- Frank Spaniel, 66, American gridiron football player.
26
- Norma Dee Edwards, 82, American politician.[101]
- Wilbert Harrison, 65, American rhythm and blues musician, stroke.[102]
- Herbert Holba, 62, Austrian film director and screenwriter.[103]
- Stella Kübler, 72, German Jewish woman and Gestapo collaborator during WorldWar II, suicide by drowning.
- Tutta Rolf, 87, Norwegian-Swedish film and theatre actress and singer.[104]
27
- Kay Bell, 80, American gridiron football player, cancer.[105]
- Wally Halder, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.[106]
- James Schwarzenbach, 83, Swiss right-wing politician and publicist.
- Omar Wahrouch, 68, Moroccan singer-poet and songwriter.
- Robert White, 57, American soul musician and a guitarist (Funk Brothers).
28
- William Boon, 83, British chemist.[107]
- Marcia Anastasia Christoforides, 85, British philanthropist, art collector, and racehorse owner.
- Calvin Souther Fuller, 92, American physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories.[108]
- Doghmi Larbi, 63, Moroccan actor.
- Ramakrushna Nanda, 88, Indian writer, educator and children's author.
- Irene Robertson, 62, American hurdler.[109]
29
- Shlomo Goren, 76, Polish-Israeli Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi and Talmudic scholar.[110]
- Ernst Heinrichsohn, 74, German lawyer and SS officer during World War II.
- Jalmari Kivenheimo, 105, Finnish gymnast.[111]
- Manuel Barbachano Ponce, 69, Mexican film producer, director, and screenwriter.[112]
- Pearl Primus, 74, American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist.[113]
30
- Frank Coggins, 50, American baseball player.[114]
- Oakley C. Collins, 78, American politician.
- Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, 88, Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist, diabetes.[115]
- Swaran Singh, 87, Indian politician, heart attack.[116]
31
- Hal Ellson, 84, American author of pulp fiction, heart attack.[117]
- John Pope-Hennessy, 80, British art historian.[118]
- Lester Sill, 76, American record label executive.[119]
- Erling Stordahl, 71, Norwegian farmer and singer.
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