Deaths in December 1995

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

  December 1995

1

• Dennis Allen, 55, American actor and comedian.
• Emil Banjavic, 80, American football player.
• O. Roy Chalk, 88, American entrepreneur.
• Vaman Krushna Chorghade, 81, Indian writer and educator.
• Luigi Giacobbe, 88, Italian cyclist.
• Henry Holbert, 68, American football player and coach.
• Martti Liimo, 54, Finnish basketball player and Olympian.
• Sergio Pesce, 79, Italian cinematographer.
• Colin Tapley, 88, New Zealand actor.
• Maxwell R. Thurman, 64, American Army general, leukemia.

  2

• Robertson Davies, 82, Canadian novelist, heart attack.
• Art Herring, 89, American baseball player.
• Roxie Roker, 66, American actress, breast cancer.
• Mária Telkes, 94, Hungarian-American biophysicist, scientist and inventor.
• Biem Dudok van Heel, 77, Dutch Olympic sailor.
• Pekka Viljanen, 74, Finnish Olympic racewalker.
• Ira Wallach, 82, American screenwriter and novelist, pneumonia.

  3

• Hans Aardal, 74, Norwegian politician.
• Josep Bartolí, 85, Spanish painter, cartoonist and writer.
• Genni Batterham, 40, Australian film maker, writer and disability rights activist, multiple sclerosis.
• James Colgate Cleveland, 75, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Jimmy Jewel, 85, British comedic actor.
• Alexander Kaidanovsky, 49, Soviet/Russian actor, film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
• Louise Lenormand, 94, French Olympic diver.
• Lautaro Murúa, 68, Chilean-Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter, lung cancer.
• Rodney Paavola, 56, American Olympic ice hockey player.
• Gerard John Schaefer, 49, American murderer, serial killer, and police officer, stabbed.

  4

• Warren Ambrose, 81, American mathematician.
• Little Beaver, 61, Canadian midget wrestler, pulmonary emphysema.
• Leonidas Berry, 93, American pioneer in gastroscopy and endoscopy.
• Giorgio Bocchino, 82, Italian Olympic fencer.
• Petar Gligorovski, 57, Yugoslav and Macedonian animated film director and artist.
• Rudolf Hruska, 80, Austrian automobile designer and engineer.
• Robert Parrish, 79, American film director, editor, writer, and child actor.
• Jerry White, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by electrocution.

  5

• Keith Aitken, 73, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Desmond Flower, 10th Viscount Ashbrook, 90, Irish peer and soldier.
• Ilio Bosi, 92, Italian communist politician and trade unionist.
• Reiner Bredemeyer, 66, German composer.
• Bill Bruton, 70, American Major League Baseball player, traffic accident.
• L. B. Cole, 77, American comic book artist.
• Charles Evans, 77, British mountaineer, surgeon, and educator.
• Davor Jelaska, 88, Yugoslavian Olympic rower.
• Victor Matthews, Baron Matthews, 76, British peer and proprietor of the Daily Express.
• Lisa McPherson, 36, American member of the Church of Scientology, pulmonary embolism.
• Clair Cameron Patterson, 73, American geochemist.
• Keith Runcorn, 73, British geophysicist.

  6

• Yvonne Chauffin, 90, French writer and critic.
• Gerard Cowhig, 74, American gridiron football player.
• Cosslett Ó Cuinn, 88, Irish Anglican priest and biblical scholar.
• Busta Jones, 44, American musician.
• John Kenerson, 57, American football player.
• Trevor Key, 48, British photographer, brain tumour.
• Melvin Kranzberg, 78, American historian.
• Margaret Mayall, 93, American astronomer.
• Jack Milne, 88, American speedway rider.
• Robert Earl O'Neal, 34, American white supremacist and convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Robert Phalen, 58, American actor |Halloween], Starman, complications from [AIDS.
• Claire Polin, 69, American composer, flautist and musicologist.
• Luis Regueiro, 87, Spanish football player and Olympian.
• James Reston, 86, American journalist.
• Mario Vicini, 82, Italian road bicycle racer.
• Dmitri Volkogonov, 67, Russian historian and Colonel general, brain cancer.

  7

• James Derek Birchall, 65, English chemist, materials scientist, and inventor, traffic accident.
• Edmund D. Campbell, 96, American lawyer and politician.
• Harry Cavers, 85, Canadian politician.
• Nick Connor, 91, American politician.
• Mildred Adams Fenton, 96, American paleontologist and geologist.
• Kathleen Harrison, 103, English actress.
• Stella Inda, 71, Mexican film actress, pneumonia.
• Joe Kelly, 90, Australian politician.
• Sabahattin Kuruoğlu, 57, Turkish footballer.
• Johnny Mowers, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Benn John Valsø, 68, Norwegian Olympic bobsledder.
• Masashi Watanabe, 59, Japanese football player, manager, and Olympian.

  8

• James Austin, 82, American football player.
• Arthur Birch, 80, Australian organic chemist.
• Ernest L. Boyer, 67, American educator and United States Commissioner of Education.
• Tom Burns, 89, British-Chilean publisher and editor.
• Bill Coldwell, 63, English football manager and scout.
• John Gillett, 69–70, British film critic and researcher.
• George J. Lewis, 91, Mexican actor, stroke.
• Robert Manuel, 79, French actor and film director.
• Maino Neri, 71, Italian football player, manager, and Olympian.
• Ding Shande, 84, Chinese composer.

  9

• Severo Antonelli, 88, American photographer.
• Toni Cade Bambara, 56, American author, documentary film-maker, and social activist, colorectal cancer.
• Vivian Blaine, 74, American actress and singer, heart failure.
• Mario Brini, 87, Italian prelate.
• George Brown, 80, British Olympic sailor.
• Pierre-Georges Castex, 80, French academic, literary critic and author.
• Hugh Clegg, 75, British academic and director, stroke.
• Tom Cole, 88–89, Australian labourer, outdoorsman and author.
• Benoit Comeau, 79, Canadian politician.
• Douglas Corrigan, 88, American aviator.
• Gwen Harwood, 75, Australian poet.
• Benny Lee, 79, Scottish comedy actor and singer.
• Gillian Rose, 48, British philosopher and non-fiction writer, ovarian cancer.
• Katharine Way, 93, American physicist.
• Hubert Louis Will, 81, American district judge.

  10

• Godfrey Agnew, 82, British civil servant.
• Alex Aronson, 83, German author.
• Kamal Bhattacharya, 80, Indian cricketer.
• Bonvi, 54, Italian comic book artist, car accident.
• Saša Božović, 83, Yugoslav partisan, physician, and author.
• Sarvadaman Chowla, 88, British-Indian American mathematician.
• Mary Lascelles, 95, British literary scholar.
• Paul Lohmann, 69, American cinematographer |Nashville], Mommie Dearest.
• [Lavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, 79, British noblewoman.
• Phil Piratin, 88, British communist politician.
• Darren Robinson, 28, American rapper, cardiac arrest, heart attack.

  11

• Greg Bahnsen, 47, American Calvinist philosopher, apologist, and debater, complications following surgery.
• Étienne Becker, 59, French cinematographer.
• Allene Jeanes, 89, American chemical researcher.
• Arthur Mullard, 85, English actor, comedian and singer.
• Euan Robertson, 47, New Zealand distance runner and Olympian, heart attack.
• Samuel Murray Rosenstein, 86, American judge.
• Abolhassan Sadighi, 101, Iranian sculptor and painter.
• Robert Shelton, 69, American music and film critic.
• Miko Tripalo, 69, Croatian politician.
• Woody Wheaton, 81, American baseball player.

  12

• Roberto Agramonte, 91, Cuban ambassador, philosopher, and politician.
• Ike Altgens, 76, American photojournalist, photo editor, and field reporter, carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Evangeline Bruce, 81, American society hostess and writer.
• R. Ramanathan Chettiar, 82, Indian businessman and politician.
• Ángel Crespo, 69, Spanish poet and translator.
• Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, 83, Danish princess.
• Jack Friel, 97, American college basketball coach.
• Giovanni Giacomazzi, 67, Italian football player.
• Sanusi Hardjadinata, 81, Indonesian politician.
• Oles Honchar, 77, Ukrainian writer and public figure.
• Danny Kelleher, 29, English cricketer.
• Lyudmil Kirkov, 61, Bulgarian film director and actor.
• David Lightbown, 63, British politician.
• Andrew Nelson Lytle, 92, American novelist, dramatist, and essayist.
• David Marshall, 87, Singaporean politician and first Chief Minister, lung cancer.
• Mike Modak, 73, American baseball player.
• Moshe-Zvi Neria, 82, Israeli Orthodox writer and politician.
• Andrew Olle, 47, Australian radio and television presenter, brain cancer.
• Hugh Stewart, 88, Scottish cricketer.
• Homer Thornberry, 86, American politician and judge.

  13

• Gerda Bengtsson, 95, Danish textile artist who specialized in embroidery.
• Chrysanthos Mentis Bostantzoglou, 76–77, Greek political cartoonist, playwright, lyricist and painter.
• Ernie Case, 75, American quarterback for UCLA Bruins football and the Baltimore Colts.
• Ann Nolan Clark, 99, American writer who won the Newbery Medal.
• René Cloërec, 84, French composer and conductor.
• Anatoly Dyatlov, 64, Soviet engineer in charge during the Chernobyl disaster, heart attack.
• Nancy LaMott, 43, American singer, uterine cancer.
• Eloy de Menezes, 85, Brazilian Olympic equestrian.

  14

• Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 10th Viscount Boyne, 64, Irish peer, soldier and banker.
• Eddie Clamp, 61, English footballer.
• G. C. Edmondson, 73, American science fiction author.
• Rob Harris, 28, American skysurfer, accident.
• Bob Rogers, 72, American Olympic bobsledder.
• Eduardo Simian, 80, Chilean football player and politician.
• Constance Tipper, 101, English metallurgist and crystallographer.

  15

• János Adorján, 57, Hungarian handball player and Olympian.
• Calvin Clarke, 79, American baseball player in the Negro leagues.
• Mano Dayak, 45, Nigerien Tuareg freedom fighter, activist and politician, plane crash.
• Crawford Douglas, 64, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Marion Holley, 85, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
• Dave Holliday, 91, Australian rules footballer.
• Sariamin Ismail, 86, Indonesian novelist.
• Miroslav Katětov, 77, Czech mathematician, chess master, and psychologist.
• Johnny Lytle, 63, American vibraphone player.
• Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, 83, Spanish politician and minister, traffic collision.
• Diana Poulton, 92, English lutenist.
• Jan Říha, 80, Czech football player.

  16

• Albert Alberts, 84, Dutch writer, translator, and journalist.
• Edith Bonlieu, 61, French Olympic alpine skier.
• Giulio Cappelli, 84, Italian footballer and Olympian.
• John A. Field Jr., 85, American judge.
• Simone Genevois, 83, French film actress.
• Shui Hua, 79, Chinese film director and screenwriter.
• Anthony Ingrassia, 51, American director, producer, and playwright.
• Bert Marcelo, 59, Filipino television personality.
• Johnny Moss, 88, American poker player.
• Charles Sauriol, 91, Canadian naturalist.
• Mariele Ventre, 56, Italian musician and singer, breast cancer.

  17

• Isa Alptekin, 94, Chinese Uyghur nationalist and pan-Turkic politician.
• Hendrikus Berkhof, 81, Dutch theologian.
• Cliff Blackmon, 81, American baseball player.
• Alfred Bula, 87, Swiss racing cyclist.
• Alfa Castaldi, 68, Italian photographer.
• Arthur Cirilli, 80, American lawyer, politician, and judge.
• George Cox, 91, American baseball player.
• Franklin Taylor Dupree Jr., 82, American district judge.
• Lawrence Tupper Lydick, 79, American district judge.
• David Nichol, 81, Scottish cricketer.
• Dorothy B. Porter, 90, American librarian, bibliographer and curator.
• Uwe Schmitt, 34, German track and field athlete and Olympian.
• Olivette Thibault, 81, Canadian actress from Quebec.
• Peter Warlock, 91, British magician.
• Takuma Yasui, 86, Japanese economist.

  18

• Panchito Alba, 70, Filipino film actor.
• Brian Brockless, 69, English organist and composer.
• Maurie Fields, 70, Australian vaudeville performer, actor and stand-up comedian.
• Yelena Miroshina, 21, Russian diver and Olympian, fall.
• António Roquete, 89, Portuguese football goalkeeper and Olympian.
• Nathan Rosen, 86, Israeli physicist.
• Martin Růžek, 77, Czech actor.
• Ross Thomas, 69, American writer of crime fiction, lung cancer.
• Mohammad Yeganeh, 72, Iranian economist.
• Konrad Zuse, 85, German engineer.

  19

• Nita Barrow, 79, Governor-General of Barbados, stroke.
• Max Beer, 83, Swiss Olympic long-distance runner.
• Céline Figard, 19, French murder victim, strangulation.
• Linda Hayes, 77, American actress.
• Jack Hively, 85, American film editor and film and television director.
• René Lemoine, 89, French fencer and Olympian.
• Masako Shinpo, 82, Japanese Olympic javelin thrower.
• Henri Virlogeux, 71, French actor.
• Harold Watkinson, 85, British businessman and politician.

  20

• Suzanne Baron, 68, French film editor.
• Alexina Duchamp, 89, American art dealer and wife of Marcel Duchamp.
• John Jacques, Baron Jacques, 90, British businessman and politician.
• Eggy Ley, 67, British jazz musician, heart attack.
• Allan Mackintosh, 59, Danish physicist.
• Mario Procaccino, 83, Italian-American lawyer and politician.
• Maan Sassen, 84, Dutch politician.
• Madge Sinclair, 57, Jamaican-American actress, Emmy Award for [Outstanding Supporting Actress">Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series">Emmy Award for [Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series|Emmy] winner, leukemia.
• Notable people killed in American Airlines Flight 965:
• *Paris Kanellakis, 42, Greek American computer scientist.
• *Benny Ramírez, 63, Colombian professional wrestler.

  21

• Trenchard Cox, 90, British museum director.
• Sammy Creason, 51, American session drummer, brain aneurism.
• R. F. V. Heuston, 72, British professor of law.
• Adalbert Iordache, 76, Romanian Olympic water polo player.
• Roddy Lamb, 96, American gridiron football player.
• Boris Ponomarev, 90, Soviet politician, ideologist, and historian.

  22

• Max Alwin, 56, Dutch Olympic rower.
• Jean Aubry, 82, French Olympic gymnast.
• Lawrence Berk, 87, American composer, pianist, and music educator.
• Ted Carroll, 56, Irish hurler.
• Pierre Cour, 79, French songwriter and lyricist.
• Ferris Jennings, 82, American gridiron football player.
• Takuzo Kawatani, 54, Japanese film actor, lung cancer.
• Osvald Käpp, 90, Estonian wrestler and Olympian.
• David Land, 77, British impresario and theatre producer.
• Basil Malcolm, 83, English cricketer.
• Butterfly McQueen, 84, American actress |Gone with the Wind], The Mosquito Coast, Duel in the Sun.
• [James Meade, 88, English economist.
• Tom Pettit, 64, American journalist.

  23

• Helen Andersen, 76, Canadian artist, cancer.
• Attilio Bulgheri, 82, Italian football player.
• Ralph H. Demmler, 91, American lawyer.
• René Jutras, 82, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Gabrielle Keiller, 87, Scottish socialite, golfer, art collector and archaeological photographer.
• Karl Jamshed Khandalavala, 91, Indian Air Force officer, Parsi art connoisseur, and lawyer.
• Patric Knowles, 84, English actor, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Olof Rydbeck, 82, Swedish diplomat.
• John Shaw, 58, Australian Olympic sailor.

  24

• Phillip E. Areeda, 65, American lawyer and legal scholar, leukemia.
• Aharon Becker, 90, Israeli politician.
• Lojze Krakar, 69, Slovene poet, literary historian, and essayist.
• Carlos Lapetra, 57, Spanish football player.
• Geoffrey Pinnington, 76, British journalist.
• Jo Schouwenaar-Franssen, 86, Dutch politician.
• Jack Siggins, 86, Irish rugby player.

  25

• Frederick Becton, 87, United States Navy officer and destroyer commander during World War II.
• James Boucher, 85, Irish cricketer.
• Chang Kee-ryo, 84, South Korean surgeon, educator, and philanthropist.
• Akira Kono, 66, Japanese Olympic gymnast.
• Emmanuel Levinas, 89, French-Lithuanian philosopher.
• Marijan Lipovšek, 85, Slovenian pianist, composer and writer on music.
• Dean Martin, 78, American singer, comedian and actor, pulmonary emphysema.
• Henri Patrelle, 77, French football player and executive.
• Allen Russell Patrick, 85, Canadian politician.
• Víctor Peralta, 87, Argentine Olympic boxer.
• Nicolas Slonimsky, 101, Russian-American musicologist.

  26

• Hüsamettin Böke, 85, Turkish footballer and referee.
• Al DeRogatis, 68, American gridiron football player, cancer.
• Dudar Hahanov, 74, Soviet composer, violinist and conductor.
• Walter Horn, 87, German-American medievalist scholar.
• Ángel Sauce, 84, Venezuelan composer, conductor and teacher.
• Bob Veselic, 40, American professional baseball player.

  27

• Ferdinand Auth, 81, German politician.
• Al Barlick, 80, American umpire in Major League Baseball.
• Jeremy John Beadle, 39, British critic, writer and broadcaster, AIDS-related complications.
• Edgar Bischoff, 83, Romanian-French composer and lyricist.
• Henk Bouwman, 69, Dutch Olympic field hockey player.
• Lois Bulley, 94, British county councillor, philanthropist and political activist.
• Thomas C. Chalmers, 78, American physician and medical researcher.
• Shura Cherkassky, 86, Ukrainian-American concert pianist.
• William Campbell Gault, 85, American writer.
• Boris Gnedenko, 83, Soviet/Ukrainian mathematician.
• Winslow Hall, 83, American Olympic rower.
• Syd Herlong, 86, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Oscar Judd, 87, Canadian-American baseball player.
• Genrikh Kasparyan, 85, Soviet chess player.
• Enzo Serafin, 83, Italian cinematographer.

  28

• Hipolito Arenas, 88, American baseball player.
• Madeleine Barot, 86, French activist and theologian.
• Virginius Dabney, 94, American teacher, journalist, and writer.
• Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis, 70, American electric blues musician, heart attack.
• Walther Killy, 78, German literary scholar.
• Michel Michelet, 101, Ukrainian composer of film scores.
• Howard C. Petersen, 85, American government official and banker.
• Jim Robinson, 49, American racing driver.
• Massimo Rosi, 51, Italian Olympic swimmer.
• Bill Sharpe, 63, American triple jumper and Olympian.

  29

• Shirley Ascott, 65, British Olympic sprint canoer.
• Gordon Cameron, 73, Australian rules footballer.
• Nello Celio, 81, President of Switzerland.
• Harold Collison, 86, British trade unionist.
• Harry Cripps, 54, English football player.
• Lita Grey, 87, American actress, cancer.
• Hans Henkemans, 82, Dutch pianist, teacher, composer of classical music and psychiatrist.
• Philippus Jacobus Idenburg, 94, Dutch statistician.
• Johan Manusama, 85, Dutch Schoolteacher and Moluccan independence activist.
• Hazel Sanders, 69, English cricketer.

  30

• Poul Andersen, 65, Danish footballer and Olympian.
• Hubert Clompe, 85, Romanian Olympic ski jumper.
• Ralph Flanagan, 81, American big band leader, pianist, composer, and arranger.
• Doris Grau, 71, American script supervisor and voice actress, lung disease.
• Richard Hornung, 45, American costume designer, AIDS.
• Aleksandre Machavariani, 82, Georgian composer and conductor.
• Heiner Müller, 66, German poet and playwright, laryngeal cancer.
• Suzanne Prou, 75, French novelist.
• Nestor Redondo, 67, Filipino comics artist.
• Katarina Taikon, 63, Swedish civil rights activist, writer and actor.

  31

• David Anderson, 79, Scottish judge, politician and Solicitor General for Scotland.
• Francis Woodman Cleaves, 84, American sinologist, linguist, and historian.
• Gabriel d'Aubarède, 97, French novelist, literary critic and journalist.
• Fritz Eckhardt, 88, Austrian actor, director, and writer.
• Daniel O. Graham, 70, American Army officer.
• Ak'ak'i Meipariani, 77, Soviet Georgian Olympic fencer.
• Eduardo Hernández Moncada, 96, Mexican composer and conductor.
• Bill Nyrop, 43, American ice hockey player, colon cancer.
• Elisabeth Pinajeff, 95, Russian-German actress.