Deaths in August 1995

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

August 1995

1

• Julián Berrendero, 83, Spanish road racing cyclist who twice won the Vuelta a España.
• Phyllis Brooks, 80, American actress and model.
• Frank W. Cyr, 95, American educator and author.
• Martha Genenger, 83, German Olympic swimmer.
• Colin Falkland Gray, 80, New Zealand fighter ace during World War II.
• Ruby Knezovich, 77, Canadian baseball player.
• Satoshi Matsui, 80, Japanese Olympic basketball player.
• Esther Muir, 92, American actress.
• Gopalaswami Parthasarathy, 83, Indian journalist, educationist, and diplomat.
• Ralf Thienel, 36, German rower and Olympian.
• Rudolph F. Zallinger, 75, Austrian-Russian artist.

2

• Irwin Bazelon, 73, American composer of contemporary classical music.
• Thomas Brimelow, Baron Brimelow, 79, British diplomat.
• Lillian Bronson, 92, American character actress.
• Fred Daly, 83, Australian politician.
• Eva Gredal, 68, Danish politician.
• Oonagh Guinness, 85, Anglo-Irish socialite, society hostess and art collector.
• Yury Iosifovich Koval, 57, Russian author, artist, and screenplay writer, heart attack.
• Juan López Moctezuma, 63, Mexican film director and actor.
• Carl Bernard Rubin, 75, American district judge.
• Brian Smith, 54, Canadian ice hockey player, and sportscaster, shot.

3

• Lionel Philias Coderre, 80, Canadian politician.
• Harry Craft, 80, American Major League Baseball player, and manager.
• Mary Lena Faulk, 69, American golfer.
• Brendon Hackwill, 53, Australian rules footballer and Olympic basketball player.
• Ida Lupino, 77, British-American actress and film director, stroke.
• Alan Mitchell, 72, British forester, dendrologist and botanist.
• Edward Whittemore, 62, American novelist.

4

• Alejandro Almendras, 76, Filipino politician.
• Cal Anderson, 47, American military officer and politician.
• Jacques Aubert, 78, Swiss entomologist.
• Dick Bartell, 87, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease.
• Jock Carroll, 76, Canadian writer, journalist and photographer.
• Uno Fransson, 67, Swedish Olympic discus thrower.
• Jean-Pierre Frisch, 87, Luxembourgish Olympic football player.
• Antonio Leonviola, 82, Italian screenwriter and film director.
• J. Howard Marshall, 90, American billionaire, oil executive, and husband of Anna Nicole Smith.
• Kiiti Morita, 80, Japanese mathematician.
• Said Ramadan, 69, Egyptian political activist and humanitarian.
• Bernie Ruelle, 74, American ice hockey player.

5

• Agha Hasan Abedi, 73, Pakistani banker.
• Fletcher Allen, 90, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.
• Menachem Avidom, 87, Israeli composer.
• Clarice Blackburn, 74, American actress, cancer.
• Allan Bridge, 50, American conceptual artist.
• Angelo Brovelli, 84, American NFL football player.
• J. Marshall Brown, 68, American politician and insurance agent.
• Massimiliano Capuzzoni, 26, Italian rugby player, diving accident.
• Mark Colton, 34, British racing driver and software author, racing accident.
• Eduardo Endtner, 53, Brazilian Olympic rower.
• Izet Nanić, 29, Bosnian Army brigade commander, killed in action.
• Robert Shaw, 95, English cricketer and Royal Navy officer.
• Francesco Suppo, 79, Italian Olympic wrestler.

6

• Irja Aav, 51, Estonian actress.
• Hugh Borton, 92, American historian.
• André Fleury, 92, French composer, pianist, organist, and pedagogue.
• Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester, 81, British barrister and politician.
• Nadira, 26, Pakistani film actress and dancer, homicide.
• Gil Patrick, 87, Australian rules footballer.
• Toney Penna, 87, Italian-American golfer and designer of golf clubs and gear.
• Ike Petersen, 86, American football player.
• George Svendsen, 82, American gridiron football player.
• Montri Tramote, 95, Thai musician and scholar, heart failure.

7

• David Begelman, 73, American film producer, suicide.
• Brigid Brophy, 66, British novelist, multiple sclerosis.
• Tyra Hunter, 24, transgender hairdresser.
• Haim Kaufman, 60, Israeli politician.
• Dursley McLinden, 30, Manx actor.
• Don Patinkin, 73, American-Israeli monetary economist.
• Tom Scott, 77, Scottish poet, editor, and prose writer.
• Harold Stewart, 78, Australian poet and oriental scholar.
• Maksim Tank, 82, Belarusian Soviet journalist, poet and translator.

8

• John Adams, 57, American football player.
• Kurt Becher, 85, German SS officer who was Commissar of all Nazi concentration camps.
• Ronald Beeson, 58, English cricket player.
• Fyodor Dyachenko, 78, Russian/Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with 425 kills.
• Carol Hughes, 85, American actress.
• Herbert Ihlefeld, 81, German Luftwaffe military aviator and fighter ace.
• Edmund Wainwright, 92, Australian cricketer.

9

• Teodoro Alcalde, 81, Peruvian football player and Olympian.
• Jerry Garcia, 53, American guitarist, heart attack.
• Suen Kam Shun, 88, Chinese football player and Olympian.
• Romuald Spasowski, 74, Polish diplomat, ambassador and defector, cancer.
• Luis Procuna, 72, Mexican bullfighter and actor, plane crash.

10

• Gijs van Aardenne, 65, Dutch politician, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Leo Apostel, 69, Belgian philosopher.
• Donald Bisset, 84, British character actor and children's author.
• Thomas Elliot Bowman III, 76, American carcinologist.
• Wei-Liang Chow, 83, Chinese mathematician.
• Florestan Fernandes, 75, Brazilian sociologist and politician.
• Josseline Gaël, 78, French film actress.
• Fay Honey Knopp, 76, American Quaker minister, and peace and civil rights advocat.
• Marcel Moussy, 71, French screenwriter and television director.
• Harishankar Parsai, 72, Indian writer.
• Aldo Protti, 75, Italian baritone.
• Baba Rexheb, 93, Albanian Islamic scholar and Sufi.
• Niilo Ryhtä, 88, Finnish politician.
• Tikiri Banda Subasinghe, 81, Sri Lankan statesman.
• Axel Svendsen, 83, Danish Olympic canoeist.
• Ray Whittorn, 83, Australian politician.
• Peter Williams, 81, English designer and dance critic, heart attack.

11

• Libby Altwerger, 80, Canadian artist and educator.
• Karel Berman, 76, Czech composer, opera singer, music educator.
• Sam Berman, 88, American caricaturist of the 1940s and 1950s.
• Joseph Bermingham, 76, Irish Labour Party politician.
• Alonzo Church, 92, American mathematician.
• Reg Date, 74, Australian soccer player.
• Damon Edge, 45, American musician, heart attack.
• Phil Harris, 91, American comedian and actor, heart attack.
• Frank Kendrick, 81, Australian rules footballer.
• John H. Pratt, 84, American lawyer and district judge.
• Al Smith, 91, American baseball player.
• Wilbur Stark, 83, American writer and film, television, and radio producer and director.
• Herbert Sumsion, 96, English organist.

12

• Bobby Burns, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jean Chapel, 70, American country singer and songwriter.
• Frank Cvitanovich, 67, Canadian filmmaker.
• Louise Lorimer, 97, American actress.
• Marty Paich, 70, American arranger, composer, pianist, and bandleader, colorectal cancer.
• Bruno Pasquini, 80, Italian racing cyclist.
• Russ Reader, 72, American football player.
• Achille Togliani, 71, Italian singer and actor.
• Felipe Tromp, 77, Governor of Aruba.

13

• Bruce Grant, 31, New Zealand Olympic alpine skier.
• Alison Hargreaves, 33, British mountain climber, exposure during climb.
• Pêr-Jakez Helias, 80-81, Breton stage actor, journalist, author, poet, and writer.
• Víctor Klein, 77, Chilean footballer.
• Jan Křesadlo, 68, Czech psychologist, novelist and poet.
• Mickey Mantle, 63, American Hall of Fame baseball player, liver cancer.
• Jesse Thomas, 84, American blues singer.
• Hanna Waag, 91, German film actress.

14

• Helmut Beumann, 82, German historian.
• Labron Harris, 86, American golfer and golf coach.
• Frances Margaret McGuire, 95, Australian author, community leader and philanthropist.
• Zdeněk Špinar, 79, Czech paleontologist and author.

15

• Viv Allen, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Erbie Bowser, 77, American blues pianist and singer.
• Michael A. Hess, 43, Irish-American lawyer and chief legal counsel to the RNC, complications from AIDS.
• Humphrey Moore, 86, British pacifist and journalist.
• Reginald Rodrigues, 73, Indian Olympic field hockey player.
• John Cameron Swayze, 89, American news commentator and game show panelist.
• Abdul Momin Talukdar, 65, Bangladeshi politician.
• Wally Wilson, 74, Canadian ice hockey player.

16

• Brooke Benjamin, 66, English mathematical physicist and mathematician.
• Ljubiša Broćić, 83, Serbian football manager.
• Park Dae-jong, 78, South Korean Olympic footballer.
• Irène de Lipkowski, 96, French politician.
• Bobby DeBarge, 39, American R&B musician, AIDS related complications.
• Eddie Hart, 73, Australian rules footballer.
• Oveta Culp Hobby, 90, American lawyer, politician and cabinet member, stroke.
• John Lowe, 83, Scottish football player.
• J. P. McCarthy, 62, American radio personality, pneumonia.
• Leon Moser, 52, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Howie Shannon, 72, American basketball player and coach, lung cancer.
• António Vilar, 82, Portuguese actor.

17

• George Bekefi, 70, American plasma physicist, inventor, and professor at MIT.
• Walter Cartier, 73, American boxer and actor.
• Mike Condello, 49, American rock musician, producer, and songwriter, suicide.
• Wild Bill Davis, 76, American organist, pianist, and arranger.
• Helen Singer Kaplan, 66, Austrian-American sex therapist, cancer.
• Howard Koch, 93, American screenwriter, Oscar winner.
• Rollie Miles, 68, Canadian football player.
• Julius Monk, 82, American cabaret impresario.
• Jaroslav Papoušek, 66, Czech film director and screenwriter.
• Carl Samuelson, 68, American football player.
• Marjorie Sykes, 90, British educator and peace activist in India.
• David Warrilow, 60, English actor, AIDS-related complications.
• Ted Whitten, 62, Australian rules footballer, prostate cancer.

18

• Julio Caro Baroja, 80, Spanish anthropologist, historian, linguist and essayist.
• Alexander Zeisal Bielski, 82, Belarus leader of the Bielski partisans during World War II.
• Philip Hodgins, 36, Australian poet.
• Dick Hogan, 77, American actor.
• Alex Joffé, 76, French film director and screenwriter.
• James Maxwell, 66, American actor and director.
• Helmuth Schlömer, 102, German Wehrmacht general during World War II.
• Dmitri Shepilov, 89, Soviet economist, lawyer and politician.
• Andrew Wood Wilkinson, 81, Scottish paediatrician.

19

• John H. Adams, 80, American National Champion Thoroughbred racing jockey.
• Silvio Amadio, 69, Italian film director and screenwriter.
• Rollen Henry Anthis, 79, United States Air Force Major General.
• Danny Arnold, 70, American producer, writer, comedian, actor and director.
• Jean Bocahut, 75, French Olympic rower.
• Jack Carter, 87, Australian cricketer.
• Robert C. Frasure, 53, American diplomat and ambassador, traffic collision.
• William Summer Johnson, 82, American chemist and teacher.
• Pierre Schaeffer, 85, French composer, Alzheimer's disease.

20

• Maly Delschaft, 96, German actress.
• Paul Foster, 75, American gospel singer with The Soul Stirrers.
• John Gilmore, 63, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and percussionist.
• Bill Kennedy, 76, American professional baseball pitcher.
• Von McDaniel, 56, American professional baseball player.
• Hugo Pratt, 68, Italian comics creator, colorectal cancer.
• Red Rhodes, 64, American pedal steel guitarist, pneumonia.
• Vladimír Škutina, 64, Czech writer, playwright, journalist, and television producer, cancer.

21

• Sally A. Bailie, 58, English trainer and owner of Thoroughbred racehorses, cancer.
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 84, Indian astrophysicist, heart attack.
• Hal Cihlar, 81, American professional basketball player.
• Manfred Donike, 61, German biochemist and cyclist, heart attack.
• Anatole Fistoulari, 88, Ukrainian-British conductor.
• Sven Höglund, 84, Swedish cyclist and Olympian.
• Nanni Loy, 69, Italian director for film and television, heart attack, cancer.
• Len Martin, 76, Australian sports broadcaster.
• Ken Rickards, 71, West Indian cricketer.
• Robert T. Smith, 77, American World War II fighter pilot and flying ace.
• Chuck Stevenson, 75, American racecar driver.

22

• Gilles Andruet, 37, French chess player, beaten to death, blunt trauma.
• Mohammed Usman Arif, 72, Indian politician.
• Johnny Carey, 76, Irish football player and manager.
• José Antonio Girón, 83, Spanish Falangist politician.
• René Notten, 45, Dutch football player and manager, heart attack.
• Stefan Ślopek, 80, Polish microbiologist and immunologist.

23

• Jaroslava Bajerová, 85, Czech gymnast and Olympian.
• Johan Bergenstråhle, 60, Swedish film director and screenwriter.
• Mel Brown, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Alfred Eisenstaedt, 96, German-American photographer.
• Dwayne Goettel, 31, Canadian electronic musician.
• Leslie Graves, 35, American actress, AIDS-related illness.
• Arthur Holt, 81, British politician.
• Gordon White, Baron White of Hull, 72, British-American peer and industrialist.
• Judith McHale, 52, Canadian Olympic swimmer.
• Chen Pixian, 79, Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician.
• Cleveland Robinson, 80, American civil rights activist, kidney failure.
• Adele Simpson, 91, American fashion designer.
• Henrik Skougaard, 85, Norwegian Olympic equestrian.
• Sylvester Stadler, 84, Austrian commander of the Waffen-SS during World War II.

24

• Zbyněk Brynych, 68, Czech film director.
• Jack Burns, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• Gary Crosby, 62, American singer and actor, lung cancer.
• Richard Degener, 83, American diver and Olympian.
• Erich Geiringer, 78, New Zealand physician, writer, publisher.
• Sundaram Karivaradhan, 41, Indian racing driver, designer and business executive, plane crash.
• Killer Karl Krupp, 61, Dutch-American professional wrestler, cardioplegia.
• Eugene McDowell, 31, American basketball player.
• Jason McRoy, 23, English mountain bike racer, traffic collision.
• Suad Švraka, 67, Yugoslavian footballer.

25

• Johannes Antonsson, 73, Swedish politician.
• John S. Badeau, 92, American diplomat, engineer, minister, and scholar.
• John Brunner, 60, British sci-fi author, heart attack.
• Setsuko, Princess Chichibu, 85, member of the Japanese Imperial Family, heart failure.
• Francis Lawrence Jobin, 81, Canadian politician Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.
• Esteban Martín, 58, Spanish cyclist.
• John Mills, 75, American basketball player.
• Ludmilla Pajo, 47, Russian-Albanian writer and journalist.
• Arch Shields, 81, Australian rules footballer.
• Brede Skistad, 47, Norwegian football player and manager.
• Doug Stegmeyer, 43, American rock bassist and vocalist, suicide by gunshot.

26

• Antonio Brancaccio, 72, Italian judge, cancer.
• John Costello, 51-52, British military historian.
• Annie Kriegel, 68, French communist historian.
• Miklós Mihó, 82, Hungarian Olympic rower.
• Olimi III of Toro, 49, Ugandan monarch and 11th Omukama of the Kingdom of Toro.
• Ronald White, 57, American musician, leukemia.
• Evelyn Wood, 86, American teacher who popularized speed reading.

27

• Dick Bentley, 88, Australian comedian and actor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Hans-Jürgen Dollheiser, 66, German Olympic field hockey player.
• Glennon Patrick Flavin, 79, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Carl Giles, 78, English cartoonist.
• Mary Beth Hughes, 75, American actress.
• Big Dee Irwin, 63, American singer and songwriter.
• Václav Ježek, 71, Czech-Slovak football coach.
• Allen Van, 80, American Olympic ice hockey player.

28

• Earl W. Bascom, 89, American visual artist, rodeo performer, inventor, and actor, heart failure.
• Michael Ende, 65, German author, stomach cancer.
• Thomas Gardner Ford, 77, American politician and businessman.
• Fritz Pliska, 79, German football player and coach.
• Juan Ríos, 53, Puerto Rican baseball player.
• Gerard Salton, 68, German-American professor of computer science.
• Page Smith, 77, American historian, professor, author, and newspaper columnist.
• Michael VerMeulen, 38, American journalist and magazine editor of British GQ, drug overdose.

29

• Al Akins, 74, American football halfback and defensive back.
• Harry Broadhurst, 89, British Royal Air Force commander and flying ace during World War II.
• Selma Burke, 94, American sculptor.
• Enrique Carreras, 70, Peruvian-Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.
• Pierre-Max Dubois, 65, French composer of classical music and conductor.
• François Hélary, 71, French cyclist.
• Art Jones, 76, American gridiron football player.
• Frank Perry, 65, American film director, prostate cancer.
• Nanda Primavera, 97, Italian actress.
• George Schmidt, 67, American football player.

30

• Agepê, 53, Brazilian singer and composer, diabetes.
• Fischer Black, 57, American economist, throat cancer.
• Carlos de Anda, 87, Mexican sprinter and Olympian.
• Nikolay Kuznetsov, 64, Soviet Azerbaijani Olympic water polo player.
• Azel Randolph Lusby, 88, Canadian lawyer and politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Sterling Morrison, 53, American guitarist, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Lev Polugaevsky, 60, Belarusian chess Grandmaster, brain cancer.
• Alex Rado, 84, American football player.
• Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, 58, Polish science fiction author, suicide.

31

• Murray Bornstein, 77, American neuroscientist.
• Mildred Coles, 75, American actress.
• Bill Deague, 82, Australian rules footballer.
• Barry Lee Fairchild, 41, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• David Farrar, 87, English actor.
• Horst Janssen, 65, German graphic artist and printmaker.
• J. Erik Jonsson, 93, American businessman and mayor of Dallas.
• Gertrud Luckner, 94, German social worker and anti-Nazi resister during World War II.
• Carmen Mathews, 84, American actress and environmentalist.
• Jean Monnier, 71, French Olympic ski jumper.
• A. A. Rahim, 75, Indian politician, freedom fighter, and union minister.
• Beant Singh, 73, Indian politician and Chief Minister of Punjab, assassination.
• Dilawar Singh Babbar, 25, Indian suicide bomber and assassin of Beant Singh.