Deaths in April 1994

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

April 1994

1

• Cliff Addison, 80, British chemist.
• John Chase, 87, American ice hockey player, Olympian, and coach.
• Robert Doisneau, 81, French photographer.
• Alexander Kaletchitz, 96, American Olympic boxer.
• John McMullan, 60, American gridiron football player.
• Thomas Head Raddall, 90, Canadian writer.
• Netty Simons, 80, American pianist, music editor, and composer.
• Gennady Voronov, 83, Soviet/Russian statesman.

2

• Irene Baker, 92, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Betty Furness, 78, American actress, consumer advocate, and commentator.
• Raymond Z. Gallun, 83, American science fiction writer.
• Rowland Greenberg, 73, Norwegian jazz trumpeter.
• Gil Paulsen, 91, American baseball player.
• Edward Vissers, 81, Belgian road bicycle racer.

3

• Agostinho da Silva, 88, Portuguese philosopher, essayist, and writer.
• Tom Hamilton, 88, American football player, coach, and naval aviator.
• Beverly Johnson, 46, American rock climber and adventurer, helicopter crash.
• Chad Kinch, 35, American basketball player, AIDS-related complications.
• Jérôme Lejeune, 67, French pediatrician and geneticist, cancer.
• Aharon Remez, 74, Israeli Air Force commander, politician and diplomat.
• William Thompson, 88, Canadian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Willis A. Trafton Jr., 76, American lawyer and politician.
• Armand Vetulani, 84, Polish art historian and educator, tumor.
• Frank Wells, 62, American businessman and president of The Walt Disney Company, helicopter crash.

4

• Misael Acosta Solís, 83, Ecuadorian naturalist.
• Pippo Barzizza, 91, Italian composer, arranger, conductor and music director.
• Luther Cressman, 96, American archaeologist.
• André Derrien, 98, French Olympic sailor.
• Kurt Meisel, 81, Austrian actor and film director.
• Gabriella Mészáros, 80, Hungarian gymnast and Olympian.
• Ginny Simms, 80, American singer and film actress.
• Valentin Stănescu, 71, Romanian goalkeeper and football manager.
• Jean-Pierre Weisgerber, 89, Luxembourgish football player and Olympian.

5

• Harold V. Almquist, 90, American college football player and athletics coach.
• Ada Carrasco, 81, Mexican actress, heart attack.
• Kurt Cobain, 27, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, suicide by gunshot.
• Lou Dials, 90, American baseball player.
• Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga, 75, Uruguayan jurist, traffic collision.
• Bobby Hofman, 68, American baseball player, and coach, cancer.
• Otari Kvantrishvili, 46, Georgian mafia boss, homicide.
• Charles Newton, 77, American gridiron football player.
• Arthur Vere Harvey, Baron Harvey of Prestbury, 88, British Royal Air Force officer and a politician.
• Marlon Riggs, 37, American filmmaker, poet, and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications.
• Ghulam Fareed Sabri, 64, Pakistani qawwali singer.
• Roy Smeck, 94, American musician.
• André Tchelistcheff, 92, American winemaker.

6

• Margit Albrechtsson, 76, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.
• Hub Barker, 75, American football player.
• Klaus Bodinger, 61, German swimmer.
• Dick Cary, 77, American jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger.
• Shekhar Chatterjee, 70, Indian actor and film director.
• Bernard Ciza, Burundian politician, Minister of Public Works, assassinated.
• Sheck Exley, 45, American cave diver, diving accident.
• Bill Ford, 78, American baseball player.
• Juvénal Habyarimana, 57, Rwandan politician and military officer, president of Rwanda, assassinated.
• Catherine Lombard, 28, French freestyle skier, AIDS-related complications.
• Patricia Ann McGee, 67, Native American tribal leader.
• Kahnu Charan Mohanty, 87, Indian novelist.
• Déogratias Nsabimana, 48, Rwandan military officer, chief of staff of the Rwandan Armed Forces, assassinated.
• Cyprien Ntaryamira, 39, Burundian politician, president of Burundi, assassinated.
• Cuthbert Peacocke, 90, Irish Anglican bishop.
• Goody Rosen, 81, Canadian baseball player.
• Cyriaque Simbizi, Burundian politician, Minister of Communication, assassinated.
• Paola Tovaglia, 28, Italian children's television presenter, brain cancer.

7

• Harry Adaskin, 92, Canadian violinist, academic, and radio broadcaster.
• Robert P. Baldwin, 76, American USAF pilot.
• Lee Brilleaux, 41, English R&B singer and musician, lymphoma.
• Ken Carson, 79, American singer, songwriter, and musician.
• Bill Dickinson, 77, Scottish rugby player and coach.
• Ștefan Dobay, 84, Romanian football player.
• Antônio Jacobina Filho, 87, Brazilian Olympic water polo player.
• François de Grossouvre, 76, French politician, suicide by gunshot.
• Cecil Gould, 75, British art historian and curator, brain cancer.
• Albert Guðmundsson, 70, Icelandic football player and politician.
• Ramesh Chandra Jha, 65, Indian poet, novelist and freedom fighter.
• Archibald Kennedy, 7th Marquess of Ailsa, 68, Scottish peer.
• Cesar Legaspi, 77, Filipino painter, prostate cancer.
• Golo Mann, 85, German historian and essayist.
• Ruben Rustia, 70, Filipino actor.
• Sigmund Ruud, 86, Norwegian ski jumper and Olympian.
• Charles W. Shea, 72, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Auguste Sirot, 74, French Olympic gymnast.
• Agathe Uwilingiyimana, 40, Prime Minister of Rwanda, murdered.

8

• Irene Eisinger, 90, German-British opera singer and film actress.
• Josef Neumann, 83, Swiss athlete and Olympian.
• François Rozet, 95, French-Canadian actor.
• Jean-Marie Rudasingwa, 33, Rwandan Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Roman Seljak, 59, Yugoslavian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Leonard Small, 88, Scottish minister and author.
• Paul Söllner, 82, German Olympic rower.
• Dada Vujasinović, 30, Serbian journalist and reporter.
• Åke Wallenquist, 90, Swedish astronomer.

9

• Gaston Bauer, 58, Luxembourgian footballer.
• Lewis Billups, 30, American gridiron football player, car crash.
• M. S. Fernando, 58, Sri Lankan singer and musician.
• Marcel Ichac, 87, French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director.
• Mieczysław Maneli, 72, Polish lawyer, diplomat and academic.
• Theodore D. Mann, 71, American politician.
• Douglas McKay, 89, Australian cricketer.
• Hal Missingham, 87, Australian artist and watercolourist.
• Keith Park, 73, Australian rules footballer.
• Anthony E. Pratt, 90, English musician and inventor of board game Cluedo, Alzheimer's disease.
• Paul Păun, 78, Romanian-Israeli avant-garde poet and visual artist.
• Keith Watson, 59, British comics artist, cancer.

10

• Terry Adlington, 58, English footballer.
• Viktor Afanasyev, 71, Soviet/Russian journalist and professor of philosophy.
• Reinaldo Gorno, 75, Argentine long-distance runner and Olympian.
• Sam B. Hall, 70, American lawyer, politician, and judge.
• John O'Brien, 33, American author, suicide.
• V. G. W. Ratnayake, 85, Sri Lankan politician.

11

• Wesley Barry, 86, American actor, director, and producer.
• John Block, 64, Dutch aviation pioneer.
• Sticks Evans, 71, American drummer, percussionist, arranger and musical director.
• Matthew Feldman, 75, American politician.
• Johnny Posewitz, 87, American basketball player.
• Chu Tunan, 95, Chinese politician.
• Bill Wondolowski, 47, American football player.

12

• Elissa Aalto, 71, Finnish architect.
• Bob Cryer, 59, English politician, traffic collision.
• Daniel Levinson, 73, American psychologist.
• Branko Mikulić, 65, Yugoslavian statesman, lung cancer.
• Pamela Mitford, 86, English socialite and one of the Mitford sisters.
• Joseph Nelis, 77, Belgian football player.
• Frank V. Phillips, 82, American cinematographer.

13

• Kurt Aland, 79, German theologian and biblical scholar.
• Jørgen Buckhøj, 59, Danish actor
• Fred Dawley, 73, American football player.
• Bob Dummett, 58, Australian rules footballer.
• Birnie Duthie, 88, British Olympic alpine skier.
• Piet Engels, 70, Dutch politician.
• Robert K. A. Gardiner, 79, Ghanaian government official, university professor, and economist.
• Claude Heymann, 86, French screenwriter and film director.
• Rudolf Hrušínský, 73, Czech actor and director.
• Giuseppe Kressevich, 78, Italian Olympic racewalker.
• Nikolai Kryuchkov, 83, Soviet/Russian film actor.
• John Marriott, 81, Australian politician.
• Bert Ramelson, 84, British communist politician.
• Mika Tiivola, 71, Finnish businessman.

14

• Bobby Gurney, 86, English football player and manager.
• Evelyn King, 86, British politician.
• Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, 96, Pakistani organic chemist, painter, and poet.
• Hugh Springer, 80, Barbados politician and fourth Governor-general of Barbados.

15

• István Boros, 84, Male Hungarian international table tennis player.
• Walter Clegg, 73, British Conservative politician.
• John Curry, 44, British figure skater and Olympian, heart attack.
• Vardges Petrosyan, 61, Armenian writer of fiction and drama, homicide.
• Milan Skřont, 63, Czech Olympic racewalker.

16

• Anna-Kaarina Aalto, 73, Finnish physician and politician, MP.
• József Albert, 81, Hungarian football player.
• Chris Carroll, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• Renu Chakravartty, 76, Indian politician and leader of Communist Party of India.
• Ralph Ellison, 80, American novelist, literary critic, and scholar, pancreatic cancer.
• Leslie Flint, 83, British psychic medium.
• John McLiam, 76, Canadian actor, Parkinson's disease.
• Reginald Parkin, 84, English cricketer.
• Victor Popov, 56, Russian theoretical physicist.
• José Ramón Sauto, 81, Mexican football player.
• Samuel Selvon, 70, Trinidad and Tobago writer, respiratory failure.
• Allan "Whitey" Snyder, 79, American make-up artist.
• Ron Vawter, 45, American actor, heart attack.

17

• Don Jefferson, 98, American baseball player.
• Robert Legget, 89, Canadian civil engineer, historian and writer.
• Karl Lillge, 76, American basketball player.
• Arthur Muhl, 81, Australian cricketer.
• André Oriol, 91, French Olympic rower.
• Roger Sperry, 80, American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• Walter Wilson, 80, American baseball player.
• Manno Wolf-Ferrari, 82, Italian conductor.

18

• Tamás Aczél, 72, Hungarian poet, writer, and journalist.
• Dener, 23, Brazilian football player and manager, traffic collision.
• George Hesik, 80, American basketball player.
• Ken Oosterbroek, 32, South African photojournalist, shot.
• Ruggero Orlando, 86, Italian journalist, writer and politician.
• Bill Rexford, 67, American racecar driver.
• Anni Stolte, 79, German Olympic swimmer.

19

• Taisia Afonina, 80, Soviet/Russian painter and watercolorist.
• Virginia Bell, 66, American baseball player.
• Michael Carreras, 66, British film producer and director.
• Larry Davis, 57, American blues musician, cancer.
• Rodolfo de Álzaga, 63, Argentine racing driver.
• Josip Kujundžić, 79, Yugoslavian Olympic gymnast.
• Tommy McCue, 80, English rugby player.
• Edward Raymond Neaher, 81, American district judge.
• Rolf Paetz, 71, German football player.

20

• Anna Molka Ahmed, 76, Pakistani artist.
• Jean Carmet, 73, French actor, heart attack.
• Miguel Diab, 73, Uruguayan Olympic basketball player.
• Frederick Feary, 82, American Olympic boxer.
• Frederick Fortune, 73, American bobsledder and Olympian.
• Rosalie Gicanda, 66, Rwandan queen, murdered.
• Jean Ousset, 79, French catholic ideologist, stroke.
• Qəmər Salamzadə, 85, Azerbaijani and Soviet film director and screenwriter.
• Dennis Cleveland Stewart, 46, American actor and dancer, AIDS-related disease.

21

• Robert Bonnett, 77, Australian politician.
• Clyde Crabtree, 88, American gridiron football player.
• Howard Barraclough Fell, 76, New Zealand zoologist.
• Ruth Hiatt, 88, American actress.
• Edmond Keosayan, 57, Armenian and Soviet film director and musician, laryngeal cancer.
• Rolf Schønheyder, 80, Norwegian Olympic sprinter.
• Raúl Soldi, 89, Argentine painter and production designer.

22

• Charles Reginald Dodwell, 72, British art historian.
• Oretta Fiume, 74, Italian film actress.
• Karl Hess, 70, American speechwriter and author.
• Jan Klingers, 64, Dutch Olympic canoeist.
• Richard Nixon, 81, 37th President of the United States, stroke.
• Don Simensen, 67, American football player.
• Emil Uremovich, 77, American football player.

23

• Lucho Bermúdez, 82, Colombian musician, DJ, and performer, heart attack.
• Cécile Dreesmann, 74, Dutch textile artist.
• Zhu Futang, 94, Chinese pediatrician.
• Jimmy Izquierdo, 32, Ecuadorian football player, traffic collision.
• Flavio Mogherini, 72, Italian production designer, art director and film director.

24

• Donald J. Atwood Jr., 69, American engineer and Deputy Secretary of Defense.
• Edwin Adams Davis, 90, American historian.
• Lawren P. Harris, 83, Canadian visual artist and art educator.
• S. L. Kirloskar, 90, Indian businessman.
• Gus Leishman, 82, Australian rules footballer.
• Margot Trooger, 70, German film actress.

25

• Swede Ellstrom, 87, American football player.
• Georgios Gennimatas, 54, Greek politician, lung cancer.
• Gordon Jones, 64, American Major League Baseball player.
• Mike Kreevich, 85, American baseball player.
• David Langton, 82, British actor.
• Giovanni Pettinati, 68, Italian racing cyclist.
• Roberto Scarone, 76, Uruguayan football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.

26

• Andrey Ayzderdzis, 35, Russian politician, homicide.
• Rostam Bastuni, 71, Israeli politician and journalist.
• Arne Larsson, 59, Swedish footballer.
• Mas Oyama, 70, Korean-Japanese karate master, lung cancer.
• Bill Pellington, 66, American gridiron football player.
• Bob Pike, 60, Australian politician.
• Manuel Enríquez Salazar, 67, Mexican composer, violinist and pedagogue.
• Zein al-Sharaf Talal, 77, Queen of Jordan as the wife of King Talal.
• Maximilian von Edelsheim, 96, German nazi Wehrmacht general during World War II.

27

• Lynne Frederick, 39, English actress.
• Vasilis Goulandris, 80, Greek shipowner and art collector.
• Jim Snyder, 74, American college basketball player and coach.
• Timothy Wilson Spencer, 32, American serial killer, execution by electrocution.

28

• Oleg Borisov, 64, Soviet and Russian actor, leukemia.
• Darryl Carlton, 40, American football player.
• Robert Spencer Carr, 85, American writer of science fiction and fantasy.
• Avner Hizkiyahu, 67, Israeli actor and singer.
• Gerhard Lindemann, 97, German nazi Wehrmacht general during World War II.
• John Preston, 48, American author of gay erotica, AIDS-related complications.
• Berton Roueché, 84, American medical writer, suicide.

29

• Marcel Bernard, 79, French tennis player.
• Jimmy Darden, 71, American basketball player and coach.
• Juan Guilbe, 79, Puerto Rican baseball player.
• Ignacio Farrés Iquino, 83, Spanish film director, screenwriter, and producer.
• Russell Kirk, 75, American political theorist and writer.
• John Mangum, 51, American football player.
• Bill Quinn, 81, American actor.
• Sak Sutsakhan, 66, Cambodian soldier and anti-communist politician.

30

• Herbert Bowden, Baron Aylestone, 89, British politician.
• Chris A. Butler, 41, American set decorator, complications from AIDS.
• George Constantin, 60, Romanian actor.
• Sorie Ibrahim Koroma, 64, Sierra Leonean politician and labor activist.
• Ina Lamason, 82, New Zealand cricketer.
• Roland Ratzenberger, 33, Austrian racing driver, racing accident.
• Ferdinando Scarfiotti, 53, Italian art director and production designer.
• Richard Scarry, 74, American children's author and illustrator, heart attack.