Deaths in April 1995

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

April 1995

1

• Charles Bell, 59, American photorealist who created large scale still lifes, AIDS.
• Stanley Adair Cain, 92, American botanist and pioneer of plant ecology and environmental studies.
• James Cameron, 56, American football coach.
• H. Adams Carter, 80, American mountaineer, language teacher, and editor of the American Alpine Journal.
• Gwyn Davies, 75, Welsh cricketer.
• Samson De Brier, 96, actor and occultist.
• Francisco Moncion, 76, Dominican-American ballet dancer.
• Achmad Nawir, 82, Indonesian footballer.
• Johnny Nicholls, 63, English football player.
• Erling Nielsen, 72, Danish Olympic field hockey player.
• Lucie Rie, 93, British ceramicist, stroke.
• Víctor Valussi, 82, Argentine football player.

2

• Hannes Alfvén, 86, Swedish physicist.
• Gaston Étienne, 93, Belgian Olympic athlete.
• Irv Frew, 87, Scottish-Canadian ice hockey player.
• Henri Guérin, 73, French football player.
• Julius Hemphill, 57, American saxophonist and composer.
• Leo LeBlanc, 55, American country musician, guitarist, and pianist who was legally blind.
• Raúl Martínez, 67, Cuban painter, designer, photographer, muralist, and graphic artist.
• Dragoslav Mitrinović, 86, Serbian mathematician.
• Harvey Penick, 90, American golfer, coach, and writer on golf.

3

• Alfred J. Billes, 92, Canadian businessman and co-founder of Canadian Tire.
• Charles H. Hayes, 88, United States Marine Corps general.
• David Herbert, 86, British writer and raconteur, kidney failure.
• Fernando Huergo, 86, Argentine fencer and Olympian.
• Gracita Morales, 66, Spanish actress.
• Park No-sik, 65, South Korean actor.
• Vera Szemere, 71, Hungarian actress.
• Marion Tinsley, 68, American mathematician and checkers player, pancreatic cancer.
• Bogusław Zych, 43, Polish Olympic fencer, traffic collision.

4

• Richard Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian, 67, British peer and physiologist.
• Lyndon Bolton, 95, British Olympic horseman.
• Rita Cadillac, 58, French dancer, singer, and actress, cancer.
• Kenny Everett, 50, British comedian, AIDS-related illness.
• Abraham Kattumana, 51, Indian Catholic archbishop.
• Priscilla Lane, 79, American actress, lung cancer.
• Hansa Jivraj Mehta, 97, Indian social activist, independence activist, feminist and writer.
• Shirley Patterson, 72, Canadian-American B-movie actress, cancer.
• Paul Raymond, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Joe Richey, 64, American college basketball player.
• Victor León Esteban San Miguel y Erce, 90, Spanish Carmelite friar.
• Jo Sinclair, 81, American novelist whose real name was Ruth Seid, cancer.

5

• Mike Colman, 26, American ice hockey player.
• Nicolaas Cortlever, 79, Dutch chess master.
• Adalbert Dickhut, 71, German gymnast and Olympian.
• Emilio Greco, 81, Italian sculptor, engraver, medallist, writer and poet.
• Baby K, 2, American anencephalic baby who became the center of a medical controversy, heart attack.
• Christian Pineau, 90, French Resistance fighter and politician.
• Ron Richardson, 43, American actor and operatic baritone, AIDS-related complications.
• Oskar Schnirch, 92, Austrian cinematographer.

6

• Ioannis Alevras, 82-83, Greek politician.
• Rogelio Farías, 45, Chilean football midfielder.
• Jan Kula, 73, Polish Olympic ski jumper.
• Alton Meister, 72, American biochemist.
• Trevor Park, 67, British lecturer and politician.
• V. J. Sukselainen, 88, Finnish politician and 24th Prime Minister of Finland.

7

• Viktor Adamishin, 33, Russian militia captain, killed in action.
• Gordon Amos, 90, Australian cricketer.
• Peter Brinson, 75, British ballet and dance writer, lecturer, and promoter.
• Nicholas Ingram, 31, British-American murder convict, execution by electric chair.
• Philip Jebb, 68, British architect and politician.
• Bill Lange, 67, American gridiron football player.
• George Lucas, 94, Australian rules footballer.
• Hsin Ping, 56, Taiwanese Buddhist monk, kidney cancer.
• Kannur Rajan, 58, Indian music composer.
• Frank Secory, 82, American baseball player,, and umpire.

8

• Maurice Allom, 89, English cricketer.
• Hans Bodensteiner, 82, German politician.
• Herb Connolly, 73, American politician from Massachusetts.
• René de Buzelet, 87, French tennis player.
• Frank Dunster, 74, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player.
• George Clifton Edwards Jr., 80, American circuit judge.

9

• Bob Allison, 60, American baseball player.
• Nguyễn Hữu An, 68, People's Army of Vietnam general.
• Bonnie Bird, 80, American modern dancer and dance educator.
• Paola Borboni, 95, Italian stage and film actress, stroke.
• John Chamberlain, 91, American journalist, historian, columnist and literary critic.
• Robert Cobb, 37, American football player.
• George Hurley, 86, American gridiron football player.
• Karel Kněnický, 87, Czech Olympic sprinter.
• Kazimierz Kucharski, 86, Polish Olympic sprinter.
• Edda Mussolini, 84, Daughter of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
• Henry Oliver, 92, British middle-distance runner and Olympian.
• Shinnen Tagaya, 75, Japanese politician.

10

• Chen Yun, 89, Chinese political leader of the Chinese Communist Party.
• Morarji Desai, 99, 4th Prime Minister of India.
• Feng Depei, 88, Chinese neuroscientist and physiologist.
• Annie Fischer, 80, Hungarian pianist.
• Günter Guillaume, 68, German spy for the Stasi and politician, kidney cancer.
• Glyn Jones, 90, Welsh writer.
• Otto Kolar, 83, American basketball player.
• Hannah Lamdan, 90, Israeli politician.
• Billy Myers, 84, American baseball player.
• Harold Lyman Ryan, 71, American district judge.

11

• E. K. Imbichi Bava, 77, Indian politician and a leader of the Communist Party of India.
• Maurice Fenn, 83, Fijian cricketer.
• T. Keith Glennan, 89, American administrator and first leader of NASA, complications from a stroke.
• Vic Hey, 82, Australian rugby player and coach.
• Nikolai Kostrov, 93, Russian Soviet painter, graphic artist, and illustrator.
• Kim Yong-ik, 74, Korean–American writer.

12

• Franco Cacioni, 62, Venezuelan Olympic cyclist.
• Buck Cheves, 96, American college football player and referee.
• John Dowdy, 83, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Alberto Larraguibel, 75, Chilean Army officer and equestrian sports|equestrian], lung cancer.
• Philip H. Lathrop, 82, American cinematographer.
• Chris Pyne, 56, British jazz trombonist.
• Mou Zongsan, 85, Chinese philosopher.

13

• John Austrheim, 82, Norwegian politician.
• Peter Bastiansen, 82, Norwegian politician.
• Andy Branigan, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Aristide Compagnoni, 84, Italian cross-country skier.
• Roy Fountain, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• Cocaína García, 89, Cuban baseball player.
• Edward F. Henderson, 77, British diplomat.
• Lang Jingshan, 102, Chinese photojournalist.
• Mal McMullen, 67, American basketball player and golfer.
• Hal Peck, 77, American baseball right fielder.
• Allan Scott, 88, American screenwriter.
• Bill Thurman, 74, American actor.
• Aleksandras Vanagas, 60, Lithuanian linguist and etymologist.

14

• Mario Carotenuto, 78, Italian actor, cancer.
• Brian Coffey, 89, Irish poet and publisher.
• Michael Fordham, 89, English child psychiatrist and Jungian analyst.
• Burl Ives, 85, American singer and actor, Oscar winner, mouth cancer.
• Hildegard Lächert, 75, German female guard at several nazi concentration camps during World War II.
• Frans Möller, 98, Swedish Olympic swimmer.
• António Lopes Ribeiro, 86, Portuguese film director.

15

• Michael Aldred, 49, British record producer, music journalist, and television presenter, AIDS-related complications.
• Emin Bektöre, 88-89, Crimean Tatar folklorist, ethnographer, lyricist, and activist.
• Cleo Brown, 87, American pianist and singer.
• Fred Cuny, 50, American humanitarian.
• Victor Klees, 87, Luxembourgian footballer and Olympic water polo player.
• Gilbert Moses, 52, American film and television director, multiple myeloma.
• Harry Shoulberg, 91, American expressionist painter.
• Günter Stephan, 82, German footballer.

16

• Olavi Ahonen, 54, Finnish basketball player.
• Lloyd Bennett, 79, Australian rules footballer.
• Cheyenne Brando, 25, French fashion model and daughter of actor Marlon Brando, suicide by hanging.
• Cy Endfield, 80, American screenwriter, director, author, magician and inventor.
• Arthur English, 75, British actor and comedian, pulmonary emphysema.
• Josef Hügi, 65, Swiss football player.
• August E. Johansen, 89, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives, Alzheimer's disease.
• Iqbal Masih, 11-12, Pakistani Christian boy who became a symbol of abusive child labour in Pakistan, homicide.
• Alfred Ryder, 79, American actor.

17

• Ted Ball, 56, Australian golfer.
• Jimmy D'Aquisto, 59, Italian-American luthier who built archtop guitars.
• Clark G. Fiester, 61, American businessman and government official, Assistant [Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics)|Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition)], plane crash.
• Sonny Boy Jeffries, 80, American baseball player.
• Anton Murray, 72, South African cricketer.
• Frank E. Resnik, 66, American chemist and CEO of Philip Morris USA.
• Max Wünsche, 80, German commander in the Waffen-SS during World War II.
• Nan Youngman, 88, English painter and educationalist.

18

• Elizabeth Emry, 72, American baseball player.
• Arturo Frondizi, 86, Argentine lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina.
• Edward P. Gallogly, 75, American politician.
• Rafael Chaparro Madiedo, 31, Colombian writer, lupus.
• Roza Makagonova, 67, Soviet/Russian actress.

19

• Preston Blair, 86, American animator.
• J. Peter Grace, 81, American industrialist.
• Porter Hardy Jr., 91, American businessman and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Daniel Octobre, 91, French painter.
• Neil Paterson, 78, Scottish writer of novels, short stories and screenplays.
• Sylvio de Rezende, 77, Brazilian Olympic equestrian.
• Aldo Richins, 84, American gridiron football player.
• Richard Snell, 64, American white supremacist and convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Wilson (pitcher)|Jack Wilson], 83, American baseball player.

20

• Elsa Benham, 86, American silent film actress and dancer.
• Paul A. Catlin, 46, American mathematician and educator.
• Milovan Dilas, 83, Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author.
• Harold Fong, 56, American district judge.
• Sunil Jayasinghe, 39, Sri Lankan ODI cricketer, suicide.
• Gary MacGregor, 40, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Elting E. Morison, 85, American historian, military biographer, and author.
• Milton Wallace, 83, Canadian Olympic long-distance runner.
• Bob Wyatt, 93, English cricketer.

21

• José del Carmen, 77, Colombian Olympic fencer.
• Ingvar Ericsson, 81, Swedish Olympic cyclist.
• Stafford Heginbotham, 61, British businessman and chairman of Bradford City football club.
• Amir Machmud, 72, Indonesian military general.
• Malcolm Murray, 90, Swedish Army general.
• Tessie O'Shea, 82, Welsh singer, instrumentalist, and actress, heart failure.
• Roberto Parra Sandoval, 73, Chilean singer-songwriter, guitarist and folklorist.
• Kang Shi'en, 80, Chinese communist revolutionary.
• Carl Whitaker, 83, American physician and family therapy pioneer.

22

• Carl Albert, 32, American musician, car accident.
• Violetta Bovt, 67, American-Soviet ballet dancer.
• Carlo Ceresoli, 84, Italian football goalkeeper.
• Norton Clapp, 89, American businessman.
• Charles Granger, 82, Canadian politician.
• Tony Jaros, 75, American basketball player.
• Jane Kenyon, 47, American poet and translator, leukemia.
• Maggie Kuhn, 89, American activist and founder of the Gray Panthers movement, heart failure.
• Henry May, 83, New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
• Don Pullen, 53, American jazz pianist and organist, lymphoma.
• Eddie Rucinski, 78, American football player.
• Joe Sheeketski, 87, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
• Ben Whittam, 85, Australian rules footballer.

23

• Douglas Lloyd Campbell, 99, Canadian politician who served as the 13th Premier of Manitoba.
• Howard Cosell, 77, American sportscaster, heart failure.
• Viktor Getmanov, 54, Soviet/Russian football player.
• John C. Stennis, 93, American politician and U.S. Senator.
• Lonesome Sundown, 66, American blues singer and guitarist.
• Robert Selby Taylor, 86, Anglican bishop.

24

• Ronald Alexander, 78, American playwright.
• Hideyuki Ashihara, 50, Japanese master of karate who founded Ashihara karate, ALS.
• Lodewijk Bruckman, 91, Dutch magic realist painter.
• Stanley Burbury, 85, Australian jurist.
• Florrie Burke, 76, Irish footballer.
• John Campbell, 87, American baseball player.
• Marie Epstein, 95, French actress, film director, and film preservationist.
• Iosif Kheifits, 90, Russian film director.
• Johannes Ott, 75, German art director.

25

• Lou Ambers, 81, American World Lightweight boxing champion.
• Art Fleming, 70, American actor and first television host of the game show Jeopardy!, pancreatic cancer.
• Andrea Fortunato, 23, Italian football player, leukemia.
• Horst-Günter Gregor, 56, German swimmer and Olympian.
• Alexander Knox, 88, Canadian-British actor, bone cancer.
• Walter Marty, 84, American high jumper.
• Attilio Moresi, 61, Swiss cyclist.
• Ginger Rogers, 83, American actress and dancer, Oscar winner, diabetes.
• Lev Shankovsky, 91, Ukrainian military historian.
• G. M. Syed, 91, Pakistani politician.

26

• Bruce Bosley, 61, American football player.
• Joseph M. Bryan, 99, American insurance executive, broadcast pioneer, and philanthropist.
• Egon Franke, 82, German politician.
• Otto Friedrich, 66, American journalist, author, and historian, lung cancer.
• Sammy Jackson, 57, American actor.
• Willi Krakau, 83, German racing driver.
• Corliss Lamont, 93, American socialist and humanist philosopher.
• Al Lucas, 72, American basketball player.
• Hugh Morton, Baron Morton of Shuna, 65, Scottish lawyer and judge.
• Peter Wright, 78, English scientist and MI5 intelligence officer.

27

• Ivo Arčanin, 88, Yugoslav Olympic swimmer.
• Silverio Blasi, 73, Italian television and stage director, actor and screenwriter.
• Albert Brown, 83, English cricketer and snooker player.
• Harold Daly, 79, Australian rules footballer.
• Katherine DeMille, 83, Canadian-American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Willem Frederik Hermans, 73, Dutch writer, lung cancer.
• Kent Peterson, 69, American baseball player.
• Raphael Rabello, 32, Brazilian guitarist and composer.
• Auto Shankar, 41, Indian criminal and gangster, suicide.
• Steve Wittman, 91, Air-racer and aircraft engineer, plane crash.
• Jerauld Wright, 96, United States Navy Commander-in-Chief, pneumonia.

28

• Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier, 77, French geographer.
• Thomas Binkley, 63, American musicologist and lutenist.
• Peaches Davis, 89, Major Leagues baseball pitcher.
• Corky Devlin, 63, American basketball player.
• Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero, 84, Filipino playwright, director, teacher and theater artist.
• Hana Janků, 54, Czech soprano.
• Gus Polidor, 33, Venezuelan baseball player, homicide.
• Stan Robinson, 84, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Henry C. Rogers, 81, American publicist.
• Andrew Salkey, 67, Panamanian novelist and poet.
• Angelo Savelli, 83, Italian painter.
• Walter Tracy, 81, English type designer, typographer and writer.

29

• Inger Marie Andersen, 64, Norwegian actress.
• Talley Beatty, 76, American dancer, choreographer, and teacher.
• Angier Biddle Duke, 79, American diplomat and ambassador.
• Gary Fallon, 56, American gridiron football player and coach.
• Charles McGinnis, 88, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
• Ray Prim, 88, American baseball player.
• Joe Prokop, 74, American football player.

30

• Eric Barber, 79, English cricketer.
• Christopher Chadman, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS-related complications.
• Michael Graham Cox, 57, English actor.
• Maung Maung Kha, 74, Burmese politician and prime minister.
• Mārtiņš Mazūrs, 87, Latvian Olympic cyclist.