Deaths in February 1995

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

February 1995

1

• Róbert Antal, 73, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic gold medalist.
• Joe Bacuzzi, 78, English footballer and coach.
• Lajos Balthazár, 73, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
• François Boutin, 58, French thoroughbred horse trainer, heart attack.
• Gerard Carlier, 77, Dutch Olympic high jumper.
• Richey Edwards, 27, Welsh musician.
• Yngve Gamlin, 68, Swedish actor and film director.
• Karl Gruber, 85, Austrian politician and diplomat.
• Yves Leduc, 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Leon Leonard, 85, American politician.
• Jill Phipps, 31, English animal rights activist, crushed by a lorry during a protest.
• Walter Wischniewsky, 82, German film editor.

2

• Tikvah Alper, 86, South African scientist whose work helped develop prion theory.
• Raymond Bark-Jones, 83, English rugby union lock.
• Doug Berndt, 45, American figure skater and Olympian.
• Phillip Borsos, 41, Australian-born Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter, leukemia.
• Chandulal Chandrakar, 75, Indian journalist and politician.
• John Clogston, 41, American journalist and academic.
• André Frossard, 80, French journalist and essayist.
• Thomas Hayward, 77, American operatic tenor, kidney failure.
• David Kindersley, 79, British stone letter-carver and typeface designer.
• Mate Mojtić, 81, Yugoslavian Olympic rower.
• Fred Perry, 85, English tennis champion.
• Donald Pleasence, 75, English actor, BAFTA winner, heart failure.
• Herman Tuvesson, 92, Swedish Olympic wrestler.
• Willard Waterman, 80, American actor, bone cancer.

3

• Ragnar Berge, 70, Norwegian footballer who played for Vålerenga Fotball.
• Pavol Hrivnák, 63, Slovak politician.
• Art Kane, 69, American photographer, suicide.
• Nicolás Lindley López, 86, Peruvian military commander.
• Andrei Nikolsky, 36, Russian pianist, traffic collision.
• Ingeborg Nilsson, 70, Norwegian figure skater and Olympian.
• John Pinsent, 72, English classical scholar who specialized in Greek mythology.
• Abbas Zaryab, 75, Iranian historian, writer, literature professor and Iranologist.

4

• David Alexander, 56, Welsh singer and entertainer, heart attack.
• Hamza Boubakeur, 82, French politician and Muslim cleric.
• Godfrey Brown, 79, British track and field athlete and Olympic champion.
• Abel Santa Cruz, 80, Argentine screenwriter, cancer.
• Aloísio de Oliveira, 80, Brazilian record producer, singer, actor and composer.
• Eric Grimbeek, 86, South African Olympic sprinter.
• Manohar Hardikar, 58, Indian Test cricket player.
• Patricia Highsmith, 74, American author, lung cancer and aplastic anemia.
• Charlie Montgomery, 70, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Dave Newman, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• Scott Smith, 46, American gay rights activist, AIDS-related pneumonia.
• Roel Wiersma, 62, Dutch footballer.
• Walter Zeller, 67, German Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

5

• Jimmy Allen, 85, English footballer and football manager.
• Frank Costin, 74, British automotive engineer.
• Des Foley, 54, Irish Gaelic football player and hurler.
• Doug McClure, 59, American actor, lung cancer.
• Frederick Riddle, 82, British violist.
• Bhanubandhu Yugala, 84, Thai film director, playwright, composer and author.

6

• Flora Anne Armitage, 83, American biographer and novelist.
• Richard H. Bassett, 94, American impressionist painter.
• Elmer Burkart, 78, American baseball player.
• Edy Campagnoli, 60, Italian television personality and actress.
• Chester E. Holifield, 91, American businessman and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Hans Hummel, 50, Austrian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
• Jeanette Kawas, 49, Honduran environmental activist, homicide.
• Mira Lobe, 81, Austrian children's writer.
• Maruja Mallo, 93, Spanish surrealist painter.
• James Merrill, 68, American poet, AIDS-related complications.
• Gustav Rödel, 79, German fighter pilot and fighter ace.
• Art Taylor, 65, American jazz drummer.
• Xia Yan, 94, Chinese playwright, screenwriter, and politician.

7

• Roy S. Benson, 88, American naval officer.
• Jean Giraudeau, 78, French tenor and artist.
• Odd Grythe, 76, Norwegian radio and television personality.
• Billy Jones, 45, American guitarist, singer, and founding member of the Outlaws, suicide by gunshot.
• Eugène Kracher, 85, French Olympic wrestler.
• Massimo Pallottino, 85, Italian archaeologist specializing in Etruscan civilization and art.
• John Thomas, 58, Australian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Cecil Upshaw, 52, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Helen Wallis, 70, British Map Curator at the British Museum, cancer.

8

• Józef Maria Bocheński, 92, Polish Dominican, logician and philosopher.
• Kalpana Datta, 81, Indian independence movement activist.
• May Miller, 96, American poet, playwright and educator.
• Tika Ram Paliwal, 85, Indian politician.
• Osvaldo Panzutto, 65, Argentine football player.
• Gloria Shea, 84, American film actress.
• Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman, 81, Indian Navy admiral.
• Willi Soukop, 88, English sculptor.
• Rachel Thomas, 89, Welsh actress, fall.
• Ole Torvalds, 78, Finnish-Swedish journalist and poet.
• Buck Warnick, 79, American composer, arranger, lyricist, conductor, and musical director.

9

• J. William Fulbright, 89, American senator and congressman, stroke.
• Muriel Guggolz, 90, American Olympic fencer.
• Maurice Halperin, 88, American writer, professor, diplomat, and accused Soviet spy.
• Kalevi Keihänen, 70, Finnish entrepreneur.
• Eugen Loderer, 74, German trade union leader.
• Ignazio Spalla, 70, Italian film actor.
• David Wayne, 81, American actor, Tony winner, lung cancer.

10

• Leila Arjumand Banu, 66, Bangladeshi singer and social activist.
• Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay, 78, Bengali writer and editor.
• Straight Clark, 70, American tennis player.
• Jesús Garay, 64, Spanish football player.
• Paul Monette, 49, American author, poet, and activist, AIDS-related complications.
• Leonard Silk, 77, American economist, author, and journalist.

11

• Lillian K. Bradley, 73, American mathematician and mathematics educator.
• Irving Loeb Goldberg, 88, American circuit judge.
• L. C. Graves, 76, American police detective.
• Otto Kratky, 92, Austrian physicist.
• Herbert McWilliams, 87, South African Olympic sailor.
• Harry Merkel, 77, German racing driver.
• Bob Randall, 57, American screenwriter, playwright, novelist, and television producer.

12

• Nat Holman, 98, American basketball player and college coach.
• Philip Taylor Kramer, 42, American bass guitar player, traffic collision.
• Earring George Mayweather, 67, American electric blues and Chicago blues harmonica player, songwriter and singer, liver cancer.
• Rachid Mimouni, 49, Algerian writer, teacher and human rights activist, hepatitis.
• Frank Jerome Murray, 90, American district judge.
• Tony Secunda, 54, English manager of rock groups, heart attack.
• Astrid Villaume, 71, Danish actress of stage and film.

13

• Sylvester Ahola, 92, American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
• James P. Berkeley, 87, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.
• Bill Beveridge, 85, Canadian ice hockey goaltender in the NHL.
• Alberto Burri, 79, Italian artist.
• Wilton Gaynair, 68, Jamaican jazz saxophonist.
• Ray Hamilton, 79, American gridiron football player.
• Guglielmo Mancori, 67, Italian cinematographer, lighting director and camera operator.
• Sepp Mühlbauer, 90, Swiss Olympic ski jumper.
• Jack O'Billovich, 52, Canadian football player.
• Shimon Schwab, 86, German-American Orthodox rabbi.
• Zeki Şensan, 57, Turkish Olympic footballer.
• Bruno Visentini, 80, Italian politician, senator, minister, and industrialist.
• Li Zhisui, 75, Chinese physician and confidante of Mao Zedong.

14

• Ogdo Aksyonova, 59, Dolgan poet, the founder of Dolgan written literature.
• Maria Andergast, 82, German actress.
• Jack Cleary, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Constance Teander Cohen, 74, American painter.
• Roger de Grey, 76, British landscape painter.
• Nigel Finch, 45, English film director and filmmaker, AIDS-related illness.
• Michael V. Gazzo, 71, American playwright and actor, stroke.
• Len Goulden, 82, English football player.
• Søren Jensen, 75, Danish Olympic rower.
• Abderrahmane Kaki, 60, Algerian actor and playwright.
• Ischa Meijer, 52, Dutch journalist, television presenter, radio presenter, critic and author, heart attack.
• U Nu, 87, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma.
• Bob Oristaglio, 70, American football player.
• Al Russas, 71, American football player.

15

• Rachid Baba Ahmed, 48, Algerian record producer, composer, and singer, murdered.
• Sergio Bertoni, 79, Italian footballer and Olympian.
• Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose, 85, British nobleman, politician, and newspaper proprietor.
• Italo Alighiero Chiusano, 68, Italian writer and critic.
• Francis Taylor, Baron Taylor of Hadfield, 90, English businessman who founded Taylor Woodrow.
• John J. Louis Jr., 69, American businessman and diplomat.
• David Monas Maloney, 82, American Roman Catholic bishop.
• Clyde Van Sickle, 87, American football player.

16

• Svend Albinus, 93, Danish architect.
• Anna Margaret Ross Alexander, 81, American philanthropist.
• Nicolae Costin, 58, Moldovan politician and one of the leaders of the national emancipation movement.
• Joe Foden, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• Mildred Esther Mathias, 88, American botanist and professor.
• Bill Regan, 86, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Rachel Tzabari, 85, Israeli politician.
• Margaret Wade, 82, American basketball player and coach.
• David E. Ward, 85, American politician.
• Lois Wilde, 87, American actress, model, dancer, and beauty contest winner.

17

• Charles Balloun, 90, American politician from Iowa.
• Werner Bruschke, 96, East German politician and member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
• Paddy Collins, 91, Irish hurler.
• Thelma Hulbert, 81, English visual artist known for her still lives and landscapes.
• John Kilkenny, 93, American judge.
• Vin Smith, 81, Australian rules footballer.
• Mirosław Żuławski, 82, Polish writer, prosaist, diplomat and screenwriter.

18

• Zair Azgur, 87, Soviet and Belarusian sculptor.
• Walter Ball, 83, Canadian cartoonist.
• Denny Cordell, 51, English record producer, lymphoma.
• Eddie Gilbert, 33, American professional wrestler and booker, heart attack.
• Bill Graham, 75, Australian politician.
• Ralph Jones, 73, American football player.
• Yank Lawson, 83, American jazz trumpeter.
• Tracie McBride, 19, American soldier and murder victim.
• Kenneth Setton, 80, American historian and an expert on the history of medieval Europe.
• Bob Stinson, 35, American rock guitarist who founded The Replacements, organ failure.

19

• Soup Cable, 81, American professional basketball player.
• Yan Chernyak, 85, World War II spy for the Soviet Union.
• Louis-Pierre Cécile, 90, Canadian politician.
• Nicholas Fairbairn, 61, Scottish politician, liver cirrhosis.
• Nigel Findley, 35, Canadian game designer, editor, and science fiction author, heart attack.
• John Howard, 81, American actor.
• Gaul Machlis, 76, Israeli football player and manager.
• Richard Matthews, 73, New Zealand plant virologist.
• Noel Rockmore, 86, American painter, draughtsman, and sculptor.
• Teodoro Salah, 77, Chilean Olympic water polo player.
• Calder Willingham, 72, American novelist and screenwriter, cancer.

20

• Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, 84, Orthodox Jewish rabbi.
• Robert Bolt, 70, English playwright and screenwriter, Oscar winner, stroke.
• Arthur Burge, 77, Australian Olympic water polo player.
• Néstor Mora, 31, Colombian racing cyclist and Olympian, bicycle accident.
• William Strydom, 52, South African cricketer.

21

• Paul L. Bates, 86, United States Army officer.
• István Bárány, 87, Hungarian swimmer and Olympian.
• Kim Byung-sun, 22, South Korean volleyball player and Olympian.
• Bjarne Henning-Jensen, 86, Danish film director and screenwriter.
• Cristian Popescu, 35, Romanian poet.
• Juhan Viiding, 46, Estonian poet and actor, suicide.

22

• Richard Arbib, 77, American industrial designer.
• Ed Flanders, 60, American actor, Emmy Award|Emmy] winner, suicide by gunshot.
• Karl-Arne Holmsten, 83, Swedish film actor.
• Jim Katcavage, 60, American gridiron football player.
• Nicholas Pennell, 56, English actor.
• Emmanuel Roblès, 80, Algerian-French novelist and playwright.

23

• Norm Burns, 77, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Valerio Cassani, 72, Italian footballer and Olympian.
• Arrigo Cervetto, 67, Italian communist revolutionary and politician.
• Sidney Robertson Cowell, 91, American ethnomusicologist.
• Melvin Franklin, 52, American singer.
• Mehr Abdul Haq, 79, Pakistani philologist.
• Don Heck, 66, American comic book artist, lung cancer.
• James Herriot, 78, English veterinarian and author, prostate cancer.
• Norman Hunter, 95, British children's author.
• Georges Metayer, 90, French Olympic wrestler.
• John Paul, 73, British actor.
• Margaret Woodbridge, 93, American swimmer and Olympic champion.
• Peter Wykeham, 79, Royal Air Force Air marshal and flying ace during World War II.

24

• Roberto Ago, 87, Italian jurist.
• Felix Ermacora, 71, Austrian politician and human rights activist.
• Hans Hessling, 91, German film and television actor.
• Tatsumi Kumashiro, 67, Japanese film director, pulmonary embolism.
• Hideko Maehata, 80, Japanese swimmer and Olympian.
• N. G. Krishna Murti, 85, Indian civil engineer.
• Jack Wallace, 69, American football player and coach, traffic accident.
• Woody Williams, 82, American baseball player.

25

• Francesco Antonazzi, 70, Italian football player and Olympian.
• Gediminas Baravykas, 54, Lithuanian architect.
• Jimmy Chetcuti, 81, Maltese Olympic water polo player.
• Anne Davies, 64, American figure skater.
• Rudolf Hausner, 80, Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor.
• O Jin-u, 77, North Korean general and politician, lung cancer.
• Victor Montagu, 88, British Conservative Member of Parliament.
• Julian Nunamaker, 49, American football player.
• John O'Brien, 67, New Zealand rower and Olympian.
• José Antonio Rojo, 72, Spanish film editor, heart attack.
• Mariam Vattalil, 41, Indian activist and nun, murdered.
• Terence Weil, 73, British cellist.

26

• Zenon Ivanovich Borevich, 72, Russian mathematician.
• Jack Clayton, 73, British film director.
• Barry Dyson, 52, English football player, heart attack.
• Willie Johnson, 71, American electric blues guitarist.
• Þórunn Elfa Magnúsdóttir, 84, Icelandic writer.
• Mehmet Türüt, 50, Turkish Olympic wrestler.

27

• John Alford, 75, Archdeacon of Halifax.
• Ann Ayars, 76, American soprano and actress.
• Bill Bailey, 85, Irish-American Communist Party labor activist who fought in the Spanish Civil War, lung disease.
• Gerhard Boetzelen, 89, German Olympic rower.
• Julienne Boudewijns, 65, Belgian Olympic gymnast.
• Bernard Cornfeld, 67, Turkish businessman and international financier.
• Tom Evans, 65, Australian politician.
• Fernando Hernández, 70, Mexican Olympic equestrian.
• Giga Norakidze, 64, Georgian football player and manager.
• Antonio Tróccoli, 70, Argentine politician.

28

• Walter Allen, 84, English literary critic and novelist.
• Ragnvald Mikal Andersen, 95, Norwegian politician.
• Mark Houston, 48, American composer, lyricist, actor, and director.
• George Kratina, 85, American sculptor.
• Wally Millies, 88, American baseball player, scout and manager.
• Bill Richards, 71, Canadian violinist, composer, arranger, and editor.
• Keith Rigg, 88, Australian cricketer.
• Max Rudolf, 92, German conductor and music educator.
• Leonard Shure, 84, American concert pianist.
• Joe Vodicka, 73, American football player.