Deaths in January 1995

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

  January 1995

1

• Wilhelm Altar, 94, Austrian theoretical physicist and magneto ionic theory pioneer.
• Jack Birney, 66, Australian politician.
• Bill Bryant, 88, Australian cricketer.
• Warren Caro, 87, American theater executive.
• Ted Hawkins, 58, American singer-songwriter.
• Nina Leen, 90, Russian-born American photographer for Life.
• J. Miller Leavy, 89, American prosecuting lawyer.
• Ralph W. Nicholson, 78, American civil servant, military officer, and business executive.
• Jess Stacy, 90, American jazz pianist who played with Benny Goodman.
• Jack G. Thayer, 72, American radio executive and disc jockey.
• Ralph E. Van Norstrand, 57, American politician who was Republican Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
• Arthur Earl Walker, 87, Canadian-American neurosurgeon, neuroscientist and epileptologist.
• Fred West, 53, English serial killer, suicide.
• Eugene Wigner, 92, Hungarian physicist Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, pneumonia.

  2

• Hulbert Aldrich, 87, American banking executive who led the New York Trust Company.
• Ephraim Amu, 95, Ghanaian composer, musicologist and teacher.
• Joe Balsis, 73–74, American professional pool player.
• Siad Barre, 84–85, Somalian military leader and statesman, 3rd President of Somalia, heart attack.
• Don Elston, 65, American baseball player.
• Harry de Keijser, 94, Dutch Olympic athlete.
• Tun Mustapha, 76, Malaysian politician and Chief Minister of Sabah.
• Nancy Kelly, 73, American actress, diabetes.
• Keith McDaniel, 38, American principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and on Broadway.
• Manuel Rivera, 67, Spanish painter.
• John Rodgers, 34, American football player.
• Henry Graham Sharp, 77, British figure skater, world champion, and Olympian.

  3

• Ollie Bejma, 87, American Major League Baseball infielder.
• Philip Burton, 86, Irish Fine Gael politician, farmer and auctioneer.
• Bob Darnell, 64, American baseball player.
• Al Duncan, 67, American blues drummer.
• Mickey Haefner, 82, American baseball player.
• Roland Harrah III, 21, American film and television child actor, musician, and artist, suicide.
• Arne Hestenes, 74, Norwegian journalist and author.
• Byron MacGregor, 46, Canadian news anchor and news director.
• Robert Marquis, 67–68, German-American architect and academic, complication during surgery.
• Robert Nesbitt, 88, English theatre director, theatrical producer and impresario.
• Edward Nugent, 90, American actor, writer, and director.
• Jacques Peten, 82, Belgian Olympic alpine skier, and tennis player.
• Stanley Powell, 78, Welsh rugby footballer.
• Andrija Puharich, 76, American physician.
• Jim Tyack, 83, American baseball player.
• Robley C. Williams, 86, pioneering American biophysicist and virologist.

  4

• Naomi Amir, 63, American-Israeli pediatric neurologist.
• Ramón Artigas, 86, Spanish Olympic swimmer.
• Vladas Drėma, 84, Lithuanian historian.
• Dorothy Granger, 83, American actress, cancer.
• Harry Gumbert, 85, American baseball player.
• Jim Lee Howell, 80, American football player and coach.
• Robert Latham, 82, British editor, scholar, and Pepys Librarian.
• Eduardo Mata, 52, Mexican conductor and composer, plane crash.
• Valery Nosik, 54, Soviet/Russian actor.
• Ralph Onis, 86, American baseball player.
• Victor Riesel, 81, American newspaper journalist and columnist, heart failure.
• Heshmat Sanjari, 77, Iranian conductor and composer.
• Brooks Stevens, 83, American graphic and industrial designer.
• Sol Tax, 87, American anthropologist who founded the academic journal Current Anthropology.

  5

• Semi Joseph Begun, 89, German-American engineer and inventor.
• Somerset de Chair, 83, English author, politician, and poet.
• Art Demery, 80, American baseball player.
• Victor Mitchell, 71, American bridge player.
• Ben Rich, 69, American engineer and the second Director of Lockheed's Skunk Works from 1975 to 1991, esophageal cancer.
• Mansour Sattari, 46, Islamic [Republic of Iran Air Force|Iranian Air Force] leader, plane crash.
• Hubert Teitelbaum, 79, American district judge.
• Floyd Volker, 73, American basketball player.
• Kiyoo Wadati, 92, Japanese seismologist.
• Rex Yeatman, 75, English cricketer.

  6

• Robert Abajian, 62, American fashion designer and fashion industry executive.
• Paul-Émile Allard, 74, Canadian provincial politician.
• Philip Brady, 101, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
• James Clay, 59, American jazz tenor saxophonist and flutist.
• Todor Diev, 60, Bulgarian football player and Olympian.
• Agustín Gaínza, 72, Spanish football player.
• Michael Pickering, 53, Australian rules footballer.
• Joe Slovo, 68, ANC activist and South African minister of Housing, cancer.

  7

• Ali Aliyev, 57, Soviet freestyle wrestler and Olympian.
• Harry Golombek, 83, British chess grandmaster, chess correspondent, and author of more than 30 books on chess.
• Larry Grayson, 71, English comedian and television presenter.
• Arthur Leavins, 77, British violinist who was concertmaster of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
• Walter Rand, 75, American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey.
• Murray Rothbard, 68, American economist, heart attack.
• Art Stoefen, 80, American basketball player.
• Ted Tetzlaff, 91, American cinematographer.
• Kite Thomas, 71, American baseball player.
• Lincoln Williams, 77, American baseball player.

  8

• Hugó Ballya, 86, Hungarian rower and Olympian.
• Beatrice Burnham, 92, American silent film actress.
• Lemuel Diggs, 95, American pathologist who specialized in sickle cell anemia and hematology.
• Loulou Gasté, 86, French composer, songwriter.
• Madhu Limaye, 72, Indian socialist essayist and activist, particularly active in the 1970s.
• Carlos Monzón, 52, Argentine boxer, traffic accident.
• Sylvia B. Seaman, 94, American novelist and suffragist.
• Cao Tianqin, 74, Chinese biochemist.
• Robert Vintousky, 92, French Olympic pole vaulter.

  9

• Óscar Mendoza Azurdia, 77, Guatemalan general and military junta leader.
• Jan Bauch, 96, Czech painter and sculptor.
• Gordon Bruce, 64, Australian politician.
• Peter Cook, 57, English comedian and writer, gastrointestinal bleeding.
• Sterling Dow, 91, American classical archaeologist, epigrapher, and professor of archaeology at Harvard University.
• Gisela Mauermayer, 81, German Olympic discus thrower.
• Ralph Merrifield, 81, English museum curator and archaeologist who was director of the Museum of London.
• Gérard Simond, 90, French Olympic ice hockey player.
• Stig Sjölin, 66, Swedish boxer and Olympian.
• Souphanouvong, 85, Laotian royal prince and Communist leader, 1st President of Laos.
• Xie Youfa, 77, Chinese lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army.

  10

• Roy Ashton, 85, Australian makeup artist and tenor.
• John H. Bloomer, 64, American attorney and politician who served as President of the Vermont State Senate, accident.
• Crosby Bonsall, 74, American artist and children's book author and illustrator.
• Fred Böhler, 82, Swiss jazz keyboardist and bandleader.
• Nicholas Cavaliere, 95, American cinematographer.
• Boris Gurevich, 63, Soviet/Russian wrestler and Olympian.
• George McNeil, 86, American abstract expressionist painter.
• Michael Meinecke, 53, German art historian, archaeologist, and museum director.
• Scotty Rankine, 86, Canadian long-distance runner and Olympian.
• Arthur Ruysschaert, 84, Belgian football player.
• Roderick Stephens, 85–86, American sailor and yacht designer.
• Kathleen Tynan, 57, Canadian-British journalist, author, and screenwriter, cancer.

  11

• Raf Baldassarre, 62, Italian film actor.
• Ignacio Matte Blanco, 86, Chilean psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
• John Gere, 73, English art historian and curator at the British Museum.
• Josef Gingold, 85, Russian-American violinist.
• Les Handley, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• Mildred Barry Hughes, 92, American politician who was the first woman elected to the New Jersey Senate.
• Ad Kaland, 72, Dutch politician, member of the Senate.
• Onat Kutlar, 58, Turkish writer, journalist, and poet, bomb attack.
• Denis Neville, 79, English football player and manager.
• Lewis Nixon III, 76, United States Army officer, diabetes.
• Peter Pratt, 71, British opera singer and actor.
• Roque Esteban Scarpa, 80, Chilean writer, literary critic and scholar.
• Hannes Trautloft, 82, German Luftwaffe flying ace during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
• Theodor Wisch, 87, German Waffen-SS general during World War II.
• Paul Zumthor, 79, Swiss philologist.

  12

• Kay Aldridge, 77, American actress, lung cancer.
• Tino Carraro, 84, Italian stage, television and film actor.
• Henry Cieman, 88, Canadian Olympic racewalker.
• Robert R. Coats, 84, American geologist.
• Raymond George, 77, American gridiron football player, and coach.
• Takako Irie, 83, Japanese actress, pneumonia.
• Jack Lee, 74, English football player.
• George Price, 93, American cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine for six decades.
• Kenneth Sterling, 74, American medical doctor and researcher.
• Rodolfo de Zorzi, 73, Argentine footballer.

  13

• Johnny Carroll, 57, American rockabilly musician, liver failure.
• Richard Causton, 74, British businessman and author on Buddhism.
• Max Harris, 73, Australian poet, critic, columnist, commentator, publisher, and bookseller.
• Ray Johnson, 67, American artist, suicide.
• David Looker, 81, British bobsledder.
• Walter Sheridan, 69, American Federal investigator who prosecuted Jimmy Hoffa.
• Mervyn Stockwood, 81, Welsh Church of England priest.
• Johann von Szabados, 88, Austrian Olympic weightlifter.
• Zsigmond Villányi, 45, Hungarian modern pentathlete.
• Michael Wrigley, 70, English cricketer and British Army officer.

  14

• Joe Mike Augustine, 83, native leader and historian of the Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation.
• Huang Chieh, 93, Taiwanese politician and general.
• Mark Finch, 33, English promoter of LGBTQ cinema, suicide.
• Alexander Gibson, 68, Scottish conductor.
• Barbara Jelavich, 71, American professor of history at Indiana University, cancer.
• David Elliot Johnson, 61, American 14th Bishop of Massachusetts in The Episcopal Church.
• Neil Rengel, 88, American football player.
• Daniel Robbins, 62, American art historian, art critic, and curator, cancer.
• Stafford Somerfield, 84, British newspaper editor.
• Ruby Starr, 45, American rock singer and recording artist, cancer.
• Amos N. Wilson, 53, American writer.

  15

• Jef Bruyninckx, 76, Belgian actor, editor and director.
• Cleo Rickman Fitch, 84, American archaeological researcher.
• Janina Kaczkowska, 90, Polish painter.
• Josef Kemr, 72, Czech actor.
• Vera Maxwell, 93, American sportswear and fashion designer.
• Vitaly Parkhimovich, 51, Soviet Russian Olympic sport shooter.
• Frederick J. Schlink, 103, American consumer rights activist.
• Harry Sharp, 77, English cricketer.

  16

• Abel Cestac, 76, Argentine boxer.
• John Charters, 81, New Zealand rower.
• Paul Delouvrier, 80, French administrator and economist.
• Bill Dillard, 83, American jazz trumpeter.
• Eric Mottram, 70, British teacher, critic, editor and poet.

  17

• Evadne Baker, 57, English actress.
• Rolf Böger, 86, German politician of the Free Democratic Party.
• Éamonn Goulding, 61, Irish hurler and Gaelic football player.
• Wilhelm Haferkamp, 71, German politician.
• John Hall, 71, American baseball player.
• Miguel Torga, 87, Portuguese writer.

  18

• Kay B. Barrett, 92, Hollywood talent scout and agent known for her impact on Gone with the Wind, stroke.
• Adolf Butenandt, 91, German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• Clifford Fagan, 83, American basketball player.
• Roger Gilson, 47, Luxembourgish cyclist and Olympian.
• Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, 79, Lithuanian-British industrialist.
• Ron Luciano, 57, American Major League Baseball umpire, suicide.
• Neil McIntosh, 74, Australian rules footballer.
• Ján Takáč, 85, Slovak Olympic long-distance runner.

  19

• Roy Barratt, 52, English cricketer.
• Reinhard Böhler, 49–50, German sidecarcross rider and the first-ever Sidecarcross World Championship.
• Daryl Chapin, 88, American physicist, best known for co-inventing solar cells.
• John Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray, 84, British peer, businessman and polo player.
• Hubert Fol, 69, French jazz saxophonist and bandleader.
• Pedro Goić, 98, Yugoslav Olympic hammer thrower.
• Charles Hauert, 86, Swiss Olympic fencer.
• Hermann Henselmann, 89, German architect.
• Gene MacLellan, 56, Canadian singer-songwriter |Snowbird]", "Put Your Hand in the Hand", "The Call, suicide.
• [Patricia Teherán Romero, 25, Colombian singer and composer, traffic collision.
• Italo Viglianesi, 79, Italian trade unionist politician and syndicalist.

  20

• Thomas Arbuthnott, 83, New Zealand Olympic boxer.
• Mehdi Bazargan, 87, 46th Prime Minister of Iran, heart attack.
• Mark Filley, 82, American baseball player.
• Buddy Gremp, 75, American baseball player.
• Garrett Howard, 95, Irish hurler.
• Nobuo Kaneko, 71, Japanese actor.
• Arthur MacDonald, 75, Australian Army officer and Chief of the General Staff.
• Franklin E. Sigler, 70, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Norris Weese, 43, American gridiron football player, bone cancer.

  21

• Armando Alemán, 90, Spanish Olympic fencer.
• Russ Bauers, 80, Major League Baseball player.
• Kenneth Budd, 69, English mural artist.
• Philippe Casado, 30, French professional road bicycle racer.
• Alex Groza, 68, American basketball player, and Olympian.
• John Halas, 82, Hungarian animator.
• Edward Hidalgo, 82, United States Secretary of the Navy in the Carter administration.
• George Kinek, 66, American football player.
• Joseph Mruk, 91, American businessman and Republican politician.
• Bernard L. Oser, 95, American biochemist and food scientist.
• Sidney Slon, 84, American radio and television writer and actor.
• Attila Szekrényessy, 82, Hungarian figure skater and Olympian.
• John Coyle White, 70, American chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

  22

• Jerry Blackwell, 45, professional wrestler, pneumonia.
• Eric Cunningham, 37, American football player.
• Stuart Davies, 88, British aerospace engineer.
• Lawrie Fernandes, 66, Indian Olympic field hockey player.
• Henry Gladstone, American radio newscaster and actor, heart failure.
• Rose Kennedy, 104, American philanthropist, pneumonia.
• Christopher Palmer, 48, British composer.
• Hilda Smith, 85, British Olympic gymnast.
• Giulio Turcato, 82, Italian artist.

  23

• Donald Collier, 83, American archaeologist, ethnologist, and museologist.
• Steve Fowdy, 79, American basketball player.
• Albertis Harrison, 88, American politician and jurist who was the 59th Governor of Virginia.
• Ken Hill, 57, English playwright and director, cancer.
• György Libik, 75, Hungarian Olympic alpine skier.
• Peter Luke, 75, British writer, editor, and producer.
• Carl Mulleneaux, 80, American gridiron football player.
• Nilesh Naik, 24, Indian environmental activist.
• Helen Phillips, 81, American sculptor.
• Saul Rogovin, 72, American professional baseball player, bone cancer.
• Edward Shils, 84, American sociologist and professor at the University of Chicago.
• Egidio Viganò, 74, Italian Roman Catholic priest.

  24

• Alf Clay, 81, Australian rules footballer.
• David Cole, 32, American record producer, meningitis.
• Edward Colman, 89, American cinematographer.
• Leopoldo Máximo Falicov, 61, Argentine theoretical physicist.
• Ross Fielder, 69, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Al Hessberg, 78, American college football player and lawyer.
• Anton Idzkovsky, 87, Ukrainian football player and manager.
• Herb Karpel, 77, American baseball player.
• Regina Linnanheimo, 79, Finnish actor and screenwriter.
• Shokichi Nanba, 83, Japanese Olympic rower.
• Eom Par-yong, 63, South Korean Olympic sprinter.
• Victor Reinganum, 87–88, British artist and illustrator.
• Sergio Rolandi, 67, Italian Olympic sports shooter.
• Kermit Smith Jr., 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

  25

• George P. Baker, 91, fifth dean of the Harvard Business School.
• Fritz Dorls, 84, German far-right politician and former Nazi Party member.
• Erich Hof, 58, Austrian football player and coach, lung cancer.
• Aage Jensen, 79, Danish Olympic rower.
• John Smith, 63, American actor |Laramie], Cimarron City, Circus World, cirrhosis.
• [Suzanne Storrs, 60, American beauty queen and actress.
• William Sylvester, 72, American actor |2001: A Space Odyssey], Gemini Man, Gorgo.
• [Albert W. Tucker, 89, Canadian mathematician.
• Hans van Wijnen, 57, Dutch Olympic volleyball player.

  26

• Ole Ålgård, 74, Norwegian diplomat.
• Franz Allers, 89, American conductor.
• Charles Altemose, 81, American soccer player and Olympian.
• Marcel Bidot, 92, French professional road bicycle racer who won two stages of the Tour de France.
• Vic Buckingham, 79, English footballer and manager.
• William Cammisano, 80, American mobster and member of the Kansas City crime family, kidney failure.
• Alan Fitcher, 86, Australian rules footballer.
• Louis Heren, 75, British journalist.
• Alaric Jacob, 85, British writer.
• Bernardo Leighton, 85, Chilian politician, cardiovascular disease.
• Gordon Oliver, 84, American actor and film producer.
• Geoffrey Parsons, 65, Australian pianist, cancer.
• Rocco Pirro, 78, American football player.
• John Vaughan-Morgan, Baron Reigate, 89, British politician.
• Carlos Rodríguez-Feo, 89, Cuban Olympic sports shooter.
• Cecil Roy, 94, American actress.
• Zeng Shaoshan, 80, Chinese politician.
• Kurama Tatsuya, 42, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Dick Tettelbach, 65, American baseball player.
• Ian Tomlinson, 58, Australian jumper and Olympian.
• Pat Welsh, 79, American actress, pneumonia.

  27

• Raynald Arseneault, 49, Canadian composer and organist.
• Alexis Brimeyer, 48, pretender who claimed connection to various European thrones, AIDS-related complications.
• Bob Chandler, 45, American gridiron football player, lung cancer.
• Richard A. Moore, 81, American lawyer and communications executive and ambassador, prostate cancer.
• Raphael M. Robinson, 83, American mathematician.
• Jean Tardieu, 91, French dramatist, artist, and musician.

  28

• Philip Burton, 90, Welsh theatre director, producer, and teacher.
• Aldo Gordini, 73, French racecar driver.
• James P. Grant, 72, Canadian-American diplomat, children's advocate, and Director of UNICEF.
• Richard L. Roudebush, 77, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Ferruccio Tagliavini, 81, Italian opera singer.
• George Woodcock, 82, Canadian writer, philosopher, essayist and literary critic.

  29

• Antonio Brivio, 89, Italian Olympic bobsledder, and racing driver.
• Dickie Burnell, 77, English rower and Olympic medalist.
• Guy Clutton-Brock, 88, English social worker and later a Zimbabwean nationalist.
• Joseph Aubin Doiron, 72, Canadian politician.
• James Lawrence, 87, American Olympic rower.
• Dick Molloy, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• Kuldar Sink, 52, Estonian composer and flautist.
• Song Sung-il, 25, South Korean wrestler and Olympian, stomach cancer.
• Antony Warr, 81, English sportsman.

  30

• Angela Calomiris, 78, American photographer and secret FBI informant.
• Robert Craig, 77, Scottish academic and church leader.
• Mumtaz Daultana, 78, Indian politician.
• Gerald Durrell, 70, British naturalist, author, and television presenter.
• George James, 88, American jazz saxophonist.
• Arthur Julian, 71, American television writer and producer.
• Olga Modrachová, 64, Czechoslovak Olympic high jumper.
• George Poyser, 84, English footballer and manager.

  31

• George Abbott, 107, American writer, director, and producer, stroke.
• Leo Joseph Brust, 79, American Catholic bishop.
• Paul Collins, 68, Canadian long-distance runner and Olympian.
• Bernard N. Fields, 56, American microbiologist and virologist, pancreatic cancer.
• Jack Foster, 82, Australian rules footballer.
• James Johnson, 86, English MP..
• Gerhart Lüders, 74, German physicist.
• Kerttu Saalasti, 87, Finnish politician.
• John Smith, 74, longtime chairman of Liverpool F.C.
• George Stibitz, 90, American computational engineer.
• James Wilson, 94, American long-distance motorcyclist and author.
• André Wollscheidt, 80, Luxembourgian Olympic boxer.