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Famous People Who Died in 1994 (Part 4)

1994 Calendar

Deaths 601 - 800 of 1,101

  • Jul 25 John M Dengler, American jazz multi-instrumentalist - bass sax/trumpet/trombone (The Intensely Vigorous Jazz Band), dies from cancer at 67 [1]
  • Jul 26 Marino Iandiorio, Italian canned tomato pioneer, dies at 64
  • Jul 26 Owen "Terry" Scott, British actor and comedian (Terry and June, Carry On Films), dies of cancer at 67
  • Jul 26 Thomas Davis, US movie editor/son of MGM-chief Frank D, dies at 26
  • Jul 27 Kevin Carter, South African photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner (member of the Bang-Bang Club), commits suicide at 33
  • Jul 27 Rosa Chacel, Spanish author, dies at 96
  • Jul 27 Tatiana Tauer, Russian classical harpist, dies of cancer at 48
  • Jul 28 Bernard Delfont, Russian-British impresario (Thorn EMI), dies at 84
  • Jul 28 Colin Turnbull, British-American anthropologist (The Forest People), dies at 69
  • Jul 28 Ralph Herman, American Emmy Award-winning composer (From the Scriptures; Circus Time), orchestra leader, and music director (ABC-TV, 1952-71), dies after a stroke at 80
  • Jul 28 Selwyn Powell, British magazine editor (The Geographical Magazine; Night & Day), dies at 82

Jul 29 British biochemist who developed protein crystallography to study molecular structure, including that of vitamin B12 (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1964), dies of a stroke at 84 [1]

  • Jul 29 Francisco Veguillas, Spanish general, murdered at 68
  • Jul 29 James Herman Barrett Jr, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel killed by anti-abortion extremist Paul Hill at 74
  • Jul 29 John Bayard Britton, American doctor who performed abortions, and killed by anti-abortion extremist Paul Hill, in Pensacola, Florida
  • Jul 30 Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst, dies at 90
  • Jul 30 Henry Mackie, designer of the Belfast Calorimeter, dies at 73
  • Jul 30 Theo van Scheltinga, skater, dies at 80
  • Jul 31 Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66
  • Jul 31 Caitlin Thomas (née Macnamara), British author (Leftover Life to Kill) and the wife of the poet and writer Dylan Thomas, dies at 80
  • Jul 31 G de Ru, chairman of Dutch Reformed Synode, dies
  • Jul 31 Pieter C. Buitendijk, co-founder (Free Netherlands), dies at 92
  • Aug 1 George Dixon, American jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
  • Aug 1 Gerard van de Groenekan, furniture maker/designer, dies at 90
  • Aug 2 Bert Freed, American character actor (Shane, Invaders From Mars), dies of a heart attack at 74
  • Aug 2 Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38
  • Aug 3 Hidalgo Moya, American architect and designer (Skylon), dies at 74
  • Aug 3 Innokenti Smoktunovski, Russian actor (Hamlet), dies at 69
  • Aug 4 Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian and politician, dies at 69
  • Aug 4 Richard Du Cann, English lawyer and QC, dies at 65
  • Aug 4 Solomon Adler, English-born economist and alleged spy for China, dies at 85
  • Aug 5 Amy Sacks, American TV producer (ABC sports, Disney), dies of Lupus at 39
  • Aug 5 Audrey Langford, English singing teacher, dies at 82
  • Aug 5 Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84
  • Aug 5 Terry Hibbitt, English footballer, dies at 47
  • Aug 6 Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter (Volare), dies at 66
  • Aug 7 Larry Martyn, British comedy actor (Are You Being Served), dies at 60
  • Aug 7 Robert Hutton [Winne], American actor (Torture Garden, Rocket), dies at 74
  • Aug 8 Henriette Santer, Dutch-English clinical psychologist, dies at 62
  • Aug 8 Leonid Leonov, Russian writer and playwright (Russky Lesson), dies at 95
  • Aug 8 Robin Cavendish, English campaigner for the disabled, dies at 64
  • Aug 9 Clarence Ford, American jazz and R&B clarinet and saxophone player, dies at 64
  • Aug 9 Mien van 't Sant, Dutch author (Mieke serial), dies at 93
  • Aug 9 Toby Rowland, American theatrical manager (London), dies at 77
  • Aug 10 Bill Baker, American doo-wop singer The Five Satins - "In The Still Of The Night"), dies at 58
  • Aug 11 Dorothy Grenfell Williams, radio producer and broadcaster, dies at 60
  • Aug 11 Gordon Cullen, architect, dies at 80
  • Aug 11 Mark "Red" Mitchell, American actor (JFK; 8 Seconds; Want to Live), dies when his car is struck by a train at 33
  • Aug 12 Gene Cherico, American jazz bassist, dies at 59
  • Aug 12 Manfred Salzgeber, German film distributor/publicist, dies at about 51
  • Aug 13 Manfred Wörner, German general and Secretary-General of NATO (1988-94), dies at 59
  • Aug 13 Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, French violinist and composer, dies at 75
  • Aug 14 Alice Childress, American playwright, actress and writer, dies at 77
  • Aug 14 Bill Cowley, creator (Lyke Wake Walk), dies at 78
  • Aug 14 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-British author (Crowds and Power) and winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, dies at 89
  • Aug 14 Joan Harrison, English screenwriter and producer who often worked with Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca, They Won't Believe Me), dies at 83
  • Aug 14 Patrick Meehan, Scottish petty criminal, wrongly convicted of murder and later given a royal pardon, dies of throat cancer at 67 [1]
  • Aug 14 Tom Greenshields, English sculptor, dies at 79
  • Aug 15 Shepherd Mead, American writer (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying), dies of stroke at 80
  • Aug 15 Simon R. Naoli, Tanzanian marathoner, dies in an accident at 28
  • Aug 15 Wout Wagtmans, Dutch cyclist (Rome-Naples-Rome 1957), dies at 64
  • Aug 16 Earnest Pawel, Polish/American author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74
  • Aug 16 Frits de Knight, photographer, dies of AIDS at 40
  • Aug 16 Henry Geldzahler, US critic, dies
  • Aug 16 John Doucette, American actor (The Lone Ranger, Lock Up, Big Town), dies of cancer at 73
  • Aug 17 Jack Sharkey, American boxer (NYSAC, NBA and lineal heavyweight champion 1932-33), dies at 91
  • Aug 18 Gottlob Frick, German opera singer, dies at 88
  • Aug 18 Judy Ann Scott-Fox, literary agent, dies at 56
  • Aug 18 Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British biochemist (Nobel 1952), dies at 79
  • Aug 19 John George Hughes, British academic and 9th bishop of Kensington (1987-1994), dies at 59
  • Aug 19 Ladislav Fuks, Czech writer, dies at 70

Aug 19 American chemist, engineer and peace activist (1954 Nobel prize for Chemistry, 1962 Nobel Peace Prize), dies at 93

  • Aug 19 Nancy Lancaster, American British decorator (Colefax and Fowler), dies at 96
  • Aug 19 Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet poet, dies at 64
  • Aug 19 Walter Bartley, English biochemist, dies at 78
  • Aug 20 Aleksander Petrovic, Serbian film director (I Even Met Happy Gypsies), dies at 65
  • Aug 20 Kalman Kahana, Polish co-founder of state Israel, dies at 81
  • Aug 20 Revilo P. Oliver, American right-wing advocate who alleged Lee Harvey Oswald was part of a Soviet conspiracy, dies at 86
  • Aug 21 Anita Lizana, Chilean tennis player (US Nat C'ships 1937; first Latin American major winner), dies at 78
  • Aug 21 Danitra Vance, American comedienne (SNL, 1985), and actress (Jumpin' At The Boneyard), dies of breast cancer at 40
  • Aug 21 Hein Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch eccentric millionaire, dies at 73
  • Aug 22 Leo Lerman, American writer and editor (Condé Nast Publications), dies at 80
  • Aug 22 Tom Quirke, journalist, dies at 42
  • Aug 23 Henri Rousselot, French admiral (submarine commander WWII), dies at 82
  • Aug 23 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70
  • Aug 23 Rabah Stambouli, Algerian sociologist/politician, murdered at 65
  • Aug 23 Richard Jock Kinneir, British graphic designer (modern road signs), dies at 77
  • Aug 24 Jason McRoy, English mountain bike racer, dies in a motorcycle accident at 23
  • Aug 25 Ramdas Nayak, Indian Hindu leader and politician, murdered at 52
  • Aug 26 Tariq Yunus, Indian actor (Bollywood; Ashanti; Deceivers), dies at 54
  • Aug 27 Roberto Goyeneche [El Polaco], Argentine tango singer (Maria), dies at 68
  • Aug 28 Alfonso Letelier (-Llona), Chilean composer and educator (El Hombre ante la Ciencia - (Man Before Science)), dies at 88
  • Aug 28 David Wright, South African-British poet (Deafness: A Personal Account), dies of cancer at 74
  • Aug 28 Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian pater, murdered
  • Aug 28 Pieter de Cort, Belgian rock guitarist (Betty Goes Green), dies of cancer at 25
  • Aug 29 Arthur Ernest Mourant, British hematologist, dies at 90
  • Aug 29 Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian Catholic priest, shot dead
  • Aug 29 Marea Hartman, English sports executive (President Amateur Athletic Association of England 1991-94; integrated women's athletics), dies at 74
  • Aug 29 Michael Peters, American choreographer and dancer (Dreamgirls; Michael Jackson videos "Beat It" and "Thriller"), dies of complications from AIDS at 46
  • Aug 29 Phillip Gilmore, American actor (Malcolm X), dies at 38
  • Aug 29 Tushar Kanti Ghosh, Indian journalist and world's oldest and longest serving newspaper editor (Amrita Bazar Patrika), dies at 95
  • Aug 30 Lindsay Anderson, British director (If ...), dies at 71
  • Aug 30 Michael Gribble, American film animator (Mike & Spike Festival), dies of cancer at 42
  • Aug 31 Artur Balsam, Polish-American pianist, dies at 88
  • Aug 31 Barbara Avedon, American scriptwriter (Bewitched), dies at 69
  • Aug 31 Norman "Doc" Jones, American jazz bass player (Jo Jo Parnell Trio), dies at 68
  • Sep 1 Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
  • Sep 1 Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, Anglican pastor and bishop, dies at 88
  • Sep 1 Pieter C "Piet" Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71
  • Sep 1 Wallis Mathias, Pakistan cricket batsman (21 Tests; first non-Muslim to play for Pakistan), dies at 59
  • Sep 2 Detlef Macha, German track cyclist (World C'ship gold GDR 4000m individual pursuit 1978, 81, 82, team 1981), dies by suicide at 35
  • Sep 2 Harry Vincent Kemp, poet, dies at 82
  • Sep 2 Mildred Mcafee Horton, US 1st head mistress of WAVES, dies
  • Sep 2 Richard M Major, US anti-terror specialist (CIA Red Book), dies at 72
  • Sep 2 Roy Castle, English dancer, actor and tv presenter (Dr Who & the Daleks), dies of lung cancer at 62
  • Sep 3 Billy Wright, English soccer defender (105 caps, captain x 90; Wolverhampton Wanderers 490 games) and manager (Arsenal 1962-66), dies at 70
  • Sep 3 James T. Aubrey, American television executive (President of the CBS television network 1959-65), dies of a heart attack at 75
  • Sep 3 Major Lance, American soul singer ("The Monkey Time"; "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um"), dies between 52 and 55 [year of birth disputed]
  • Sep 3 Marijke Vetter, Dutch journalist, dies at 82
  • Sep 3 Nikos Ghika, Greek artist, dies at 88
  • Sep 3 Roswell Gilbert, who mercy killed his ailing wife, dies at 85
  • Sep 4 Ladislav Holoubek, Slovak conductor (Košice Opera, 1966-81), and composer (Rodina), dies at 81
  • Sep 4 Laurens van Deenen, Dutch biochemist, dies at 66
  • Sep 4 Louis Myers, American blues guitarist and harmonica player, dies at 64
  • Sep 5 Billy Usselton, American big band jazz saxophonist (Les Brown and His Band of Renown), dies at 68
  • Sep 5 John Newman, Australian state politician (Labor), murdered at 47 by local club owner and political opponent Phuong Ngo who had run against Newman as an independent
  • Sep 5 Teddy Millington-Drake, English painter, dies at 62
  • Sep 6 Duccio Tessari, Italian director, dies of cancer at 67
  • Sep 6 Max Kaminsky, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (Max Kaminsky Orchestra), dies at 85

Sep 6 British rock session pianist (Rolling Stones (1967-75); The Who - "Getting In Tune"; The Kinks - "Sunny Afternoon"; Beatles - "Revolution"; John Lennon - "Jealous Guy"; Quicksilver Messenger Service), dies after surgical complications at 50

  • Sep 6 Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55
  • Sep 7 Dennis Morgan [Stanley], American actor (21 Beacon Street), dies at 85
  • Sep 7 Eric Crozier, British theater producer and librettist (worked with Benjamin Britten), dies at 79
  • Sep 7 Godfrey Quigley, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon, Educating Rita, Rooney), dies at 71
  • Sep 7 James Clavell, British-American novelist (Tai-Pan; Shogun; Noble House; King Rat), screenwriter (The Fly; The Great Escape), and film director (King Rat; To Sir, with Love), dies of comoplications of a stroke while battling cancer at 72
  • Sep 7 Terence Young, British film director (Dr No, Thunderball), dies of at 79
  • Sep 8 Deborah Beer, British still photographer (Pasolini, Fellini), dies at 44
  • Sep 8 Edna Manilow, mother of singer Barry Manilow, dies of lung cancer at 70
  • Sep 8 Rex Alston, English sports broadcaster and author (BBC radio), dies at 93
  • Sep 9 Patrick O'Neal, American actor (Under Siege, The Stepford Wives, King Rat, Night of the Iguana), dies at 66
  • Sep 10 Amy Clampitt, American poet (Silence Opens), dies at 74
  • Sep 10 Charles Drake [Ruppert], American actor (Harvey, Air Force, Glenn Miller Story), dies of a heart attack at 92
  • Sep 11 Frederick R. Weisman, American philanthropist (Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation), dies at 82
  • Sep 11 Sara Southern, American actress and mother of Elizabeth Taylor, dies at 99
  • Sep 11 William Obanhein, American police officer and actor (Officer Obie-Alice's Restaurant), dies at 69
  • Sep 12 Boris Yegorov, Soviet physician and cosmonaut (Voskhod I), dies at 56
  • Sep 12 Douglas MacKenzie Davey, British occupational psychologist, dies at 72
  • Sep 12 Major Bill Smith, American record producer, dies at 72
  • Sep 12 Tom Ewell [Sam Yewell Tompkins], American actor (Tom Ewell Show, The Seven Year Itch), dies at 85
  • Sep 13 John Stevens, British jazz drummer (Spontaneous Music Ensemble), dies of a heart attack at 54
  • Sep 13 Kaleria Fadicheva, Russian ballerina (Kirov) and choreographer, dies at 58 [1]
  • Sep 13 Pieter Zaanen, Dutch architect (Musical Trade scholarship, Amsterdam), dies at 63
  • Sep 14 David van Cup, sculptor/painter, dies at 57
  • Sep 15 (Frank) Haywood Henry, American jazz and session baritone saxophone player, dies at 81
  • Sep 15 Earl George, American composer and pedagogue, dies at 70
  • Sep 15 Mark Stevens, American actor (Big Town, Martin Kane, Private Eye), dies of cancer at 77
  • Sep 15 Michael Joyce, Irish stage manager and theatre director, dies at 48
  • Sep 16 Alain Bernardin, French impresario of the Crazy Horse Saloon, dies at 78
  • Sep 16 Albert de Courtray, French archbishop of Lyon/cardinal, dies at 71
  • Sep 16 Bernie Lazaroff Leighton, pianist, dies at 73
  • Sep 16 Dolly Hare, German/British actress (Broken Blossom), dies at 84
  • Sep 16 Jack Dodson, American character actor (he Andy Griffith Show - "Howard Sprague"), dies of heart failure at 63
  • Sep 16 Johnny Berry, English soccer right winger (4 caps; Manchester United, Birmingham City), dies from cancer at 68
  • Sep 17 Henk Figee, Dutch author (Shoes of the Sea), and publisher, dies at 46
  • Sep 17 Iris Adrian, American actress (Blue Hawaii, Bluebeard), dies at 82
  • Sep 17 John DeLaFose, American French speaking zydeco musician, dies at 55
  • Sep 17 Paul Nicholas Young, architect, dies at 47
  • Sep 18 Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer, dies from AIDS complications at 44
  • Sep 19 Frankie Kennedy, Irish folk flute player (Altan), dies of Ewing's Sarcoma at 38
  • Sep 19 Sandra Fisher, American painter, dies at 47
  • Sep 20 Davidson Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author, dies at 70
  • Sep 20 Jimmy Hamilton, American jazz saxophonist, dies at 77
  • Sep 20 Jule Styne [Julius Stein], British-American Academy and Tony Award-winning songwriter ("Three Coins In The Fountain"; "Time After Time"), and Broadway composer (Funny Girl; Hallelujah, Baby!; Gypsy), dies at 88
  • Sep 21 "Ossie" O. S. Nock, English railway writer, dies at 69
  • Sep 21 Arthur Krim, American director (United Artists, Orion Pictures), dies
  • Sep 22 (John Edward) "Teddy" Buckner, American Dixieland jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
  • Sep 22 Edward Shackleton, English explorer, geographer and Labour Party politician, dies at 83
  • Sep 22 Forest 'Bud' Sagendorf, American cartoonist (Popeye), dies at 79
  • Sep 22 Leonard Feather, British jazz critic and musician, dies at 80
  • Sep 22 Mattie Moss Clark, American gospel singer, and music minister, dies of diabetes complications at 69
  • Sep 23 Alec Dickson, British founder of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), dies at 80
  • Sep 23 Ali Kouider Benyahia [sheik Boualem], Alg Muslim leader, shot at 26
  • Sep 23 Cherif Gousmi [kalief Abu Abdallah Ahmed], Alger Muslim leader, shot
  • Sep 23 Dalton Reed, American soul singer, dies of heart failure at 42
  • Sep 23 Georgi, Tsar Nicholas II's brother, buried
  • Sep 23 Jerry Barber, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1961), dies of mitral valve prolapse and stroke at 78
  • Sep 23 John van Damme, businessman, hanged in Singapore at 59
  • Sep 23 Madeleine Renaud, French actress and theater director (Plaisir), dies at 94
  • Sep 23 Robert Bloch, American sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho), dies of cancer at 77
  • Sep 24 Colin Berry Haycraft, British publisher, dies at 65
  • Sep 24 David Napley, English solicitor, dies at 79
  • Sep 24 Guido Santórsola, Brazilian-Uruguayan composer and violinist, dies at 89
  • Sep 24 Otto F. Walter, Swiss writer and publisher (Walter Verlag), dies of pulmonary cancer at 66
  • Sep 25 John Richard Ravensdale, British historian, dies at 73
  • Sep 25 Ludwig Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, German Prince of Prussia, dies at 86
  • Sep 25 Mark Alexander Abrams, English market researcher, dies at 88


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