Deaths in August 1994

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

August 1994

1

• Pierre Alleene, 85, French Olympic weighlifter.
• Mario Baroni, 67, Italian racing cyclist.
• Harold Boardman, 87, British politician.
• Bernie James, 88, American baseball player.
• George Malcolm Laws, 75, American folk music scholar.
• Romilly Lunge, 89, British film actor.
• Valery Yardy, 46, Soviet/Russian road cyclist and Olympian.

2

• Eduardo Folle, 72, Uruguayan Olympic basketball player.
• Bert Freed, 74, American actor, heart attack.
• Kelpo Gröndahl, 74, Finnish Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler.
• W. Pat Jennings, 74, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Dick Jones, 92, American baseball player.

3

• Hoyt Franklin Clines, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Wally Downer, 90, Canadian politician.
• Arie Richard Hanitzsch, 66, Brazilian Olympic diver.
• James William Holmes, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Hidalgo Moya, 74, American architect.
• Jim Reilly, 46, American football player.
• Darryl Richley, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Innokenty Smoktunovsky, 69, Soviet/Russian theater and film actor.
• Norm Stott, 90, Australian rules footballer.
• John Zenda, 50, American actor.

4

• Solomon Adler, 84, English-American economist and Soviet spy.
• Cyro dos Anjos, 87, Brazilian journalist, and writer.
• Thomas Fulton, 44, American conductor, kidney failure.
• Jürgen Jürgens, 68, German choral conductor and teacher.
• Art Lassiter, 66, American singer, cancer.
• Steve Myhra, 60, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Giovanni Spadolini, 69, Italian politician and statesman, cancer.
• Rolf Greger Strøm, 54, Norwegian Olympic luger.

5

• Louis H. Bean, 98, American economic and political analyst.
• Clive Caldwell, 83, Australian flying ace during World War II.
• Cornelia C. Cameron, 83, American geologist.
• Alain de Changy, 72, Belgian racing driver.
• Terry Hibbitt, 46, English football player, cancer.
• Solomon Kullback, 87, American cryptanalyst and mathematician.
• Paul Sæthrang, 76, Norwegian footballer.
• Frederick Wheeler, 80, Australian public servant.
• Muhammad Yaqub Ali, 82, Pakistani judge.

6

• Henri Arends, 73, Dutch conductor.
• Steven F. Arnold, 51, American visual artist and protégé of Salvador Dalí, AIDS.
• Max Coley, 67, American football coach.
• Stephen Farrer, 86, South African cricketer.
• Domenico Modugno, 66, Italian singer, songwriter, actor, and politician, heart attack.
• Jacques Pelzer, 70, Belgian musician.
• Evan Vogds, 71, American gridiron football player.

7

• Ignazio Balsamo, 81, Italian actor.
• Gérard Chapdelaine, 59, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Rubi Dalma, 88, Italian actress.
• Liu Haisu, 98, Chinese painter and art educator.
• Leon Goldsworthy, 85, Australian bomb and mine specialist during World War II.
• Robert Hutton, 74, American actor, pneumonia.
• Larry Martyn, 60, British actor.
• Bob Wells, 49, American football player.

8

• Iberê Camargo, 79, Brazilian painter.
• Robin Cavendish, 64, British advocate for disabled people and medical aid developer.
• Serge Leclaire, 70, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
• Leonid Leonov, 95, Soviet/Russian novelist and playwright.
• Frank Negri, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• Morde_kay Seter, 78, Russian-Israeli composer.
• Ada Smith, 91, British Olympic gymnast.

9

• Feroza Adam, 32, South African political activist, injuries sustained in a road accident.
• Howard W. Carson, 84, American politician.
• Aldo Donelli, 87, American football player and coach, and soccer player.
• William Galbraith, 87, United States Navy admiral, gymnast and Olympic medalist.
• Klaus Holighaus, 54, German glider designer and pilot, gliding accident.
• Olle Johansson, 66, Swedish swimmer, water polo player and Olympian.
• Tony Kaska, 83, American football player.
• Helena Rasiowa, 77, Polish mathematician.

10

• Biswamoy Biswas, 71, Indian ornithologist.
• Marie Dollinger, 83, German track and field athlete and Olympian.
• Heinz Hügelshofer, 75, Swiss Olympic speed skater.
• Eliyahu Lankin, 79, Israeli zionist activist, Irgun member and politician.
• Doug Lewis, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Vladimir Melanin, 60, Soviet/Russian biathlete and Olympian.
• Kay Petre, 91, Canadian motor racer.
• Horrie Stanway, 85, Australian rules footballer.
• Jessie Sumner, 96, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.

11

• Stanislav Chekan, 72, Soviet/Russian actor of theater and cinema.
• Gordon Cullen, 80, British architect and urban designer.
• Peter Cushing, 81, English actor, prostate cancer.
• Bert Graham, 73, Australian rules footballer.
• Marko Jozinović, 74, Bosnian Croat catholic archbishop.
• David Vern Reed, 79, American writer.

12

• Wing-tsit Chan, 92, Chinese scholar and professor.
• Gene Cherico, 59, American jazz double-bassist.
• Barbara Grabowska, 39, Polish actress, fall from train.
• Dale Hamilton, 74, American basketball player.
• Anton Giulio Majano, 85, Italian screenwriter and film director.
• Steve Puidokas, 39, American college basketball player.
• Barry Shipman, 82, Canadian-American screenwriter.
• B. K. Tikader, 66, Indian arachnologist and zoologist.
• Harold Tower, 83, American Olympic rower.
• Włodzimierz Źróbik, 68, Polish Olympic bobsledder.

13

• Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, 75, French violinist and composer.
• Valentin Kuzin, 67, Soviet/Russian ice hockey player and Olympian.
• Simon Robert Naali, 28, Tanzanian marathon runner and Olympian, traffic collision.
• J. A. O. Preus II, 74, American Lutheran pastor, professor, and author.
• Rao Gopal Rao, 57, Indian actor, producer, and politician.
• Manfred Wörner, 59, German politician and diplomat, colorectal cancer.

14

• Elias Canetti, 89, Bulgarian-Swiss-British novelist, playwright, and writer.
• Alice Childress, 77, American novelist, playwright, producer and actress, cancer.
• Stanisław Gucwa, 75, Polish politician and economist.
• Joan Harrison, 87, English screenwriter.
• Joe Palma, 89, American actor.
• Arthur Palmer, 82, British politician.
• Rajasri, 59, Indian lyricist, dialogue writer and music composer.

15

• Paul Anderson, 61, American weightlifter, strongman, powerlifter, and Olympian nephritis.
• Erik Anker, 90, Norwegian Olympic sailor, and businessperson.
• Joe Brovia, 72, American baseball player, cancer.
• Syd Dale, 70, English music composer and arranger.
• Juan Martínez, 69, Spanish Olympic equestrian.
• Shepherd Mead, 80, American writer.
• Joseph Palmer II, 80, American diplomat and State Department official.
• Steve Petro, 79, American gridiron football player.
• Kailash Sankhala, 69, Indian biologist and conservationist.
• Wout Wagtmans, 64, Dutch road bicycle racer.

16

• Rolando Aguirre, 90, Argentine Olympic sailor.
• Wahbi al-Hariri, 80, Syrian-American artist, architect, archaeologist, and author.
• Francisco Antúnez, 71, Spanish football player.
• Tay Brown, 82, American college football player and coach.
• Harry Collier, 86, Australian rules footballer.
• John Doucette, 73, American actor.
• Ahmad Fardid, 85, Iranian philosopher and professor.
• Henry Geldzahler, 59, Belgian-American curator of contemporary art, liver cancer.
• Stan Devenish Meares, 88, Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist.
• Alan Nutter, 73, Australian rules footballer.

17

• Sig Andrusking, 81, American football player.
• Luigi Chinetti, 93, Italian-American racecar driver.
• Bennie Le Sueur, 77, Australian rules footballer.
• Cecil A. Partee, 73, American attorney and politician.
• Thomas Pollock, 69, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian, stroke.
• Jack Sharkey, 91, Lithuanian-American world heavyweight boxing champion.

18

• John Beavan, Baron Ardwick, 84, British journalist.
• Alfred Belzile, 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Martin Cahill, 45, Irish criminal, homicide.
• Henri Calef, 84, French screenwriter and film director.
• Gottlob Frick, 88, German operatic bass.
• Yeshayahu Leibowitz, 91, Israeli Orthodox Jewish intellectual and polymath.
• Daltro Menezes, 56, Brazilian football manager.
• Charles Redland, 83, Swedish jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
• Omori Sogen, 90, Japanese Buddhist monk.
• Richard Laurence Millington Synge, 79, British biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• Yuri Tsitsinov, 56, Soviet Russian ice hockey player and Olympian.
• Vazgen I, 85, Romanian Catholicos of All Armenians.

19

• Louis de Froment, 72, French conductor.
• Ladislav Fuks, 70, Czech novelist and writer.
• Anthony Peter Khoraish, 86, Lebanese Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant.
• Nancy Lancaster, 96, British interior designer.
• Otto-Iivari Meurman, 104, Finnish architect.
• Linus Pauling, 93, American chemist, peace activist, and author, prostate cancer.
• Robert Rozhdestvensky, 62, Soviet/Russian poet and songwriter, heart attack.

20

• Odessa Grady Clay, 77, Mother of boxing champion Muhammad Ali, cardiovascular disease.
• Hermann Hackmann, 80, German war criminal and SS captain during World War II.
• Revilo P. Oliver, 86, American university professor, suicide.
• Aleksandar Petrović, 65, Yugoslav/Serbian film director.
• Roy Simmons, Sr., 92, American lacrosse coach.

21

• Albert Blaustein, 72, American civil rights and human rights lawyer.
• Rose Laub Coser, 78, German-American sociologist and social justice activist.
• Kathleen Frances Daly, 96, Canadian painter.
• Anita Lizana, 78, Chilean tennis player, stomach cancer.
• Danitra Vance, 40, American comedian and actress, breast cancer.
• Luis Villodas, 76, Puerto Rican baseball player.

22

• Tadeusz Adamowski, 92, Polish-American ice hockey player and Olympian.
• António de Almeida, 78, Portuguese Olympic equestrian.
• Harry Gamage, 94, American football player and coach.
• Gilles Groulx, 62, Canadian film director.
• Allan Houser, 80, Chiricahua Apache sculptor, painter and illustrator.
• Gary Jasgur, 58, American child actor.
• André Rossi, 73, French politician.

23

• Bill Burnett, 77, South African Anglican archbishop.
• Joyce Chen, 76, Chinese-American chef, author, and television personality, Alzheimer's disease.
• Gene Filipski, 63, American gridiron football player.
• Zoltán Fábri, 76, Hungarian film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
• Jack Giles, 73, Australian rules footballer.
• René Møller, 48, Danish footballer.
• Carlos Rojas Pavez, 87, Chilean politician.
• Alfredo Pérez, 65, Argentine football player.
• Jim Prendergast, 77, American baseball player.
• Gehendra Bahadur Rajbhandari, 70, Prime Minister of Nepal.
• Arati Saha, 53, Indian long-distance swimmer and Olympian, jaundice.
• Fisher Tull, 59, American composer, arranger, and trumpeter.
• Paolo Volponi, 70, Italian writer, poet, and politician.

24

• Sonny Chillingworth, 62, American guitarist and singer.
• Peggy Fears, 91, American actress.
• Cecil Holmes, 73, New Zealand film director and writer.
• Birutė Nedzinskienė, 38, Lithuanian politician.
• Rickie Sorensen, 47, American child actor, cancer.

25

• Béla Bácskai, 82, Hungarian Olympic field hockey player.
• Hugh Culverhouse, 75, American businessman and attorney, lung cancer.
• Cliff Garrison, 88, American baseball player.
• Creadel "Red" Jones, 53, American soul guitarist.
• Marten Mendez, 77, American badminton player.
• Bidhyanath Pokhrel, 76, Nepali poet and politician.
• Boris Roatta, 14, French child actor, bicycle accident.

26

• Yehoshafat Harkabi, 72, Israeli military intelligence officer and professor.
• Ljubomir Lovrić, 74, Serbian football goalkeeper, Olympian, manager.
• Richard Southam, 87, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• George Stewart, 92, Australian rules footballer.
• Norman Warwick, 74, British cinematographer.
• Bert Yancey, 56, American golfer, heart attack.

27

• Beba Bidart, 70, Argentine tango singer, actress and dancer, heart attack.
• Adam Kelso Fulton, 65, Scottish international rugby player.
• Roberto Goyeneche, 68, Argentine tango singer, pneumonia.
• Bill J. Griffith, 88, Australian rules footballer.
• Fred Griffiths, 82, English film and television actor.
• Sig Gryska, 79, American baseball player.
• Battling Shaw, 83, Mexican boxer.
• Meredith Thompson, 33, American DEA agent, plane crash.

28

• Dain Clay, 75, American baseball player.
• Léonce Crétin, 84, French Olympic cross-country skier.
• Pepita Embil, 76, Spanish Basque soprano.
• Rui Filipe, 26, Portuguese football player, traffic collision.
• Aldis Intlers, 29, Latvian-Soviet bobsledder and Olympian, traffic collision.
• Vincent Leonard, 85, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
• Neil Mochan, 67, Scottish football player.
• Ernie Roberts, 82, British politician.
• Lucien Seignol, 86, French architect.
• David Wright, 74, South African-British poet, cancer.

29

• Jorge Berroeta, 76, Chilean Olympic swimmer.
• Tushar Kanti Ghosh, 96, Indian journalist and author.
• Bruno Habārovs, 55, Soviet Latvian fencer and Olympian.
• Jack Miller, 78, American politician and jurist.
• Arthur Mourant, 90, British chemist, hematologist and geneticist.
• Annibale Pelaschiar, 82, Italian Olympic sailor.
• Michael Peters, 46, American choreographer and director, AIDS-related complications.
• Everett Robinson, 77, American baseball player and manager.

30

• Lindsay Anderson, 71, British film and theatre director, and film critic, heart attack.
• Jan Gerbich, 93, Polish Olympic boxer.
• Olav Gjærevoll, 77, Norwegian botanist and politician.
• Alfonso Oiterong, 69, President of Palau.
• Filippo Zappata, 100, Italian engineer and aircraft designer.
• Hubert Zemke, 80, United States Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.

31

• Barbara Avedon, 69, American television writer, political activist, and feminist.
• Mercedes Carvajal de Arocha, 91, Trinidadian-Venezuelan writer, politician and diplomat.
• Mike Garbark, 78, American baseball player.
• Ram Dulari Sinha, 71, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
• John Walton, 67, Australian politician.