Deaths in July 1995

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

July 1995

1

• Paul Nguyễn Văn Bình, 84, Vietnamese prelate of the Catholic Church and first Archbishop of Saigon.
• Akanu Ibiam, 88, Nigerian medical missionary and politician.
• Wolfman Jack, 57, American disc jockey.
• Bruce Mitchell, 86, South African cricket opening batsman.
• Nikolay Peyko, 79, Russian composer and educator.
• Roger Dale Stafford, 43, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.

2

• Bert Edwards, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• Menachem Mendel Futerfas, 87, Russian educator and rabbi.
• John C. Higgins, 87, Canadian-American screenwriter.
• Gervase Jackson-Stops, 48, British architectural historian and journalist.
• Zdeněk Košler, 67, Czech conductor.
• Lloyd MacPhail, 75, Canadian politician and 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.
• Geraint Morgan, 74, British lawyer and politician.
• George Seldes, 104, American investigative journalist.
• Krissy Taylor, 17, American model, asthma.
• Maria Vinogradova, 72, Russian actress.

3

• Charley Eckman, 73, American basketball coach and referee, colorectal cancer.
• Ricardo Alonso González, 67, American tennis champion, stomach cancer.
• Bert Hardy, 82, British photographer.
• Alexander Langer, 49, Italian journalist, peace activist, politician, and teacher, suicide.
• Eddie Mazur, 65, Canadian ice hockey player.
• George Williams, 72, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Gil J Wolman, 65, French artist and member of the Ultra-Lettrist movement.

4

• Margaret F. Ackroyd, 87, American civil servant from Providence, Rhode Island.
• Andrew John Berger, 79, American ornithologist from the American Museum of Natural History.
• Arsen Diklić, 72, Serbian poet, novelist and film director.
• Seán Fallon, 57, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
• Eva Gabor, 76, Hungarian-American actress and socialite, pneumonia.
• Yevhen Hutsalo, 58, Ukrainian writer and journalist.
• Adeline Kerrar, 70, American baseball player.
• Bharat Rangachary, 41, Indian Bollywood film director and producer.
• Bob Ross, 52, American television painter, lymphoma.
• Gilberto Bosques Saldívar, 102, Mexican diplomat.
• Åke Samuelsson, 81, Swedish footballer.
• Karim Sanjabi, 89, Iranian politician.

5

• Bernice Ackerman, 69–70, American meteorologist and first woman weathercaster in the U.S.
• Stepan Bakhayev, 73, Soviet Air Force major and flying ace.
• Renato Baldini, 73, Italian film actor.
• Viktoria Brezhneva, 86, wife of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, diabetes.
• Christian Calmes, 81, Luxembourgish civil servant, lawyer, and historian.
• Johan Koren Christie, 85, Norwegian engineer and air force officer.
• John Dittrich, 62, American gridiron football player.
• Takeo Fukuda, 90, Japanese politician, 46th Prime Minister of Japan, pulmonary emphysema.
• Foster Furcolo, 83, American lawyer, writer, and politician.
• Jüri Järvet, 76, Soviet/Estonian actor and theatre director.
• Ray Nolting, 81, American gridiron football player, and college football coach.

6

• Saidye Rosner Bronfman, 98, Canadian philanthropist and matriarch of the Bronfman family.
• Philip Clarke, 62, Irish politician, cyclist, and Irish Republican Army member.
• Colin Crampton, 62, Australian rules footballer.
• Horace Garner, 71, American baseball player.
• Aziz Nesin, 79, Turkish writer, heart attack.
• Howard Henry Peckham, 84, American historian.
• Eduardo Viso, 75, Spanish football player and football manager.

7

• Geoffrey Freeman Allen, 73, British writer on railways.
• Jean Bony, 86, French medieval architectural historian.
• Martin Bucksbaum, 74, American businessman and shopping center development pioneer.
• Dave Elliman, 93, Australian rules footballer.
• Marga Höffgen, 74, German contralto.
• Helene Johnson, 89, African-American poet during the Harlem Renaissance.
• Léon Le Calvez, 86, French bicycle racer.
• Eeva-Liisa Manner, 73, Finnish poet and playwright.
• Peter Murray-Willis, 84, English cricketer.
• Ralph Neves, 78, American jockey.
• Thomas Tyra, 62, American composer, arranger, and bandmaster.
• Al Unser, 82, American baseball player.

8

• Günter Bialas, 87, German composer.
• Paul Bonneau, 76, French conductor, composer and arranger.
• Edmondo Fabbri, 73, Italian football player and coach.
• Jean-Paul Harroy, 86, Belgian colonial civil servant and governor Ruanda-Urundi.
• George Johnson, 74, Canadian medical doctor and political reformer.
• Pál Kovács, 82, Hungarian fencer and Olympian.
• Dorothy Stanley-Turner, 78, English racing driver.
• Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder, 89, Dutch missionary and linguist.

9

• Dennis Allen, 56, English football player and manager.
• Kazimierz Godłowski, 60, Polish archeologist and historian.
• Federico Marietti, 69, Italian Olympic basketball player.
• Vera Thomas, 73, English table tennis and tennis player.
• James Cameron Tudor, 75, Barbadian politician and diplomat.

10

• Mehmet Ali Aybar, 86, Turkish politician and Olympian, heart failure.
• Reds Bagnell, 66, American football player.
• August Belmont IV, 86, American investment banker and thoroughbred racehorse owner.
• James Harvey Brown, 89, American politician and judge.
• Văn Cao, 71, Vietnamese composer.
• Hugh Dundas, 74, British RAF fighter pilot during World War II and television executive.
• Barbara Lyon, 63, American singer and actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Alfonso Zirpoli, 90, American district judge.

11

• John Cruickshank, 70, Irish scholar and writer on the French language, literature and culture.
• David J. Kennedy, 88, American politician.
• Gojko Nikoliš, 83, Yugoslavia/Serbian partisan general, physician, and historian.
• Helma Seitz, 82, German actress.
• Don Starr, 77, American actor, fall.
• Armand Walter, 87, French Olympic gymnast.

12

• Lennart Ahlin, 78, Swedish sports shooter and Olympian.
• Michael Clegg, 62, British museum curator, naturalist, and television presenter.
• Earl Coleman, 69, American jazz singer.
• Ashapoorna Devi, 86, Indian novelist and poet.
• Gordon Flemyng, 61, Scottish television and film director.
• Erich Kulka, 84, Czech-Israeli writer, historian and journalist.
• Sean Mayes, 50, British pianist and writer.
• John Yudkin, 84, British physiologist and nutritionist

13

• Ali Al-Wardi, 81, Iraqi social scientist.
• Aimé Barelli, 78, French jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and band leader.
• Varyl Begg, 86, British Royal Navy admiral, Alzheimer's disease.
• József Bencsics, 61, Hungarian football player.
• Garth Butler, 72, English footballer.
• Devyani Chaubal, 52–53, Indian journalist and columnist.
• Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, 75, Danish toy manufacturer and managing director of Lego.
• Bilge Karasu, 65, Turkish short story writer and novelist.
• Peter Morrison, 51, British politician.
• Matti Pellonpää, 44, Finnish actor and a musician, heart attack.

14

• Elsebeth Brehm, 93, Danish tennis player and Olympian.
• Henri Gastaut, 80, French neurologist and epileptologist.
• Noel Orange, 55, Australian rules footballer.
• Herb Rowland, 84, Canadian Olympic wrestler.
• Sergey Shupletsov, 25, Russian freestyle skier and Olympic medalist, traffic collision.
• Volodymyr, 69, Ukrainian patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

15

• Bill Amick, 69, American NASCAR driver.
• Khalid Bakdash, 82–83, Syrian communist politician.
• Delia Bogard, 74, American actress and dancer.
• Sylvia Bossu, 33, French conceptual artist, car accident.
• Robert-Joseph Coffy, 74, French Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Marseille.
• Brian Molony, 62, Australian rules footballer.
• Cyril Solomon, 84, Australian cricketer.
• Ivano Staccioli, 68, Italian film actor.

16

• Charles Bruck, 84, French-American conductor and teacher.
• Torfi Bryngeirsson, 68, Icelandic Olympic pole vaulter.
• Louis Darmanin, 86, Maltese Olympic water polo player.
• Gustaf Ekström, 87, Swedish chemist, SS volunteer, and politician.
• Mordechai Gur, 65, Israeli military officer and politician, suicide.
• Patsy Ruth Miller, 91, American actress, heart attack.
• Zenonas Puzinauskas, 75, Lithuanian basketball player.
• May Sarton, 83, Belgian-American feminist writer, breast cancer.
• Sir Stephen Spender, 86, English poet and writer.
• Charles Woodbridge, 93, American missionary, minister, and founding member of the National Association of Evangelicals.
• Elvis Álvarez, 30, Colombian flyweight boxer, homicide.

17

• Lionel Billas, 66, French Olympic long-distance runner.
• Gani Bobi, 51, Albanian philosopher and sociologist from Kosovo.
• Harvey Charters, 83, Canadian Olympic canoeist.
• Robert Close, 92, Australian novelist.
• Ephraim Evron, 75, Israeli diplomat.
• Juan Manuel Fangio, 84, Argentine race car driver.
• Harry Guardino, 69, American actor, lung cancer.
• Herb Hippauf, 56, American professional baseball player, and scout, cancer.
• Rainer Kunad, 58, German conductor and composer.
• Michael Ljunggren, 33, Swedish outlaw biker and gangster, murdered.

18

• Bernard Bolender, 42, American mass murderer, execution by electrocution.
• Fabio Casartelli, 24, Italian cyclist and Olympian, bicycle crash during the 1995 Tour de France.
• Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, 95, Swedish Olympic modern pentathlete, and naval officer.
• Ryōichi Sasakawa, 96, Japanese suspected war criminal, businessman, politician, and philanthropist.
• Subagio Sastrowardoyo, 71, Indonesian poet, short-story writer, essayist and literary critic.
• Princess Srinagarindra, The Princess Mother of Thailand, 94, Thai princess, kidney disease.
• Thomas Tang, 73, American lawyer and circuit judge.

19

• Michael Andrews, 66, British painter.
• Balakrishna, 78, Indian actor.
• Sydney Lipton, 89, British dance band leader.
• Brian Lloyd, 68, English rower and Olympian.
• Víctor Manuel Mendoza, 81, Mexican film actor.
• Tomás Méndez, 68, Mexican composer and singer of Mexican music and ranchera music.
• Kim Pong-ryul, 77, North Korean general of the Korean People's Army.
• René Privat, 64, French road bicycle racer.

20

• Pierre Barbet, 70, French science fiction writer.
• Bernard Callinan, 82, Australian soldier, civil engineer, businessman, and sport administrator.
• Cesare Emiliani, 72, Italian-American scientist, geologist, micropaleontologist, and founder of paleoceanography.
• Helmut Gernsheim, 82, German photographer, collector and historian.
• Arthur Herrdin, 76, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.
• Ernest Mandel, 72, Belgian Marxian economist and a Trotskyist activist and theorist, heart attack.
• Natalia Shpiller, 85, Czech-Russian operatic soprano and a People's Artist of Russia.
• Raimundo Tupper, 26, Chilean football player, suicide.

21

• Viktor Barannikov, 54, Soviet Interior Minister in 1991 and Russia Minister from 1992 to 1993.
• Yves Cros, 71, French athlete and Olympian.
• Heinrich Dumoulin, 90, German Jesuit theologian, philosopher and author.
• Aad de Graaf, 55, Dutch cyclist and Olympian.
• Jon Hinson, 53, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Sajjad Hussain, 78, Indian film score composer.
• Claude McLin, 69, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
• Pavle Šovljanski, 67, Yugoslavian Olympic boxer.
• Elleston Trevor, 75, British novelist and playwright.
• Michael Wisher, 60, English actor.
• Tarzan Woltzen, 90, American basketball player.

22

• Tami Ben-Ami, 39–40, Israeli supermodel, cervical cancer.
• Jack Bergin, 74, New Zealand neurologist.
• Dudley Baldwin Bonsal, 88, American district judge.
• Otakar Borůvka, 96, Czech mathematician known for his contribution to graph theory.
• Dave Clark, 86, pioneering African-American record promoter.
• Daniel Dixon, 2nd Baron Glentoran, 83, Northern Ireland soldier and politician.
• Percy Humphrey, 90, American jazz trumpeter and band leader.
• Roly Jenkins, 76, English cricketeer.
• Cecil Kerr, 85, Australian rules footballer.
• Harold Larwood, 90, British cricket player.
• Elyse Pahler, 15, American high school freshman.
• Shiva Kumar Rai, 76, Indian writer and politician.
• Joshua Smith, 90, Australian artist.

23

• Ray Beverton, 72, British biologist who made important contributions to fisheries science.
• Vernon Cheadle, 85, American botanist, educator and university administrator.
• Chuck Hanger, 71, American basketball player.
• Ewa Malewicka, 40, Polish Olympic speed skater.
• Mario Passano, 70, Argentine film actor and tango performer, heart attack.
• Berta Scharrer, 88, American scientist.
• Trần Kim Tuyến, 70, Vietnamese diplomat and Chief of intelligence of South Vietnam.
• Kees Verwey, 95, Dutch painter.

24

• Sadik Achmet, 48, Greek medical doctor and politician, traffic collision.
• Turan Amirsoleimani, 90, Iranian royal.
• Martha Boaz, 83, American librarian.
• Endre Bán, 61, Hungarian Catholic priest, theologian, and professor.
• Judith Dvorkin, 67, American composer and librettist.
• Hassan Katsina, 62, Nigerian general and last Governor of Northern Nigeria.
• Jerry Lordan, 61, English songwriter, composer and singer, acute renal failure.
• Jerzy Toeplitz, 85, Russian film maker.
• Theo Wied, 72, German Olympic gymanst.
• Hans Wind, 75, Finnish fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.

25

• Janice Elliott, 63, English fiction writer, journalist and children's writer.
• Eddie Isbey, 77, New Zealand politician.
• Toy Ledbetter, 67, American football player.
• Ernestina Maenza, 86, Spanish Olympic alpine skier.
• Rosalia Maggio, 74, Italian actress, dancer, singer and showgirl, cancer.
• Osvaldo Pugliese, 89, Argentine tango musician.
• Charlie Rich, 62, American singer, pulmonary embolism.
• Hermine Tobolowsky, 74, American Equal Rights Amendment activist.

26

• Doris Akers, 72, American gospel music composer, arranger and singer, spinal cord neoplasm.
• Laurindo Almeida, 77, Brazilian guitarist and composer in classical, jazz, and Latin music, cancer.
• Jaime de Mora y Aragón, 70, Spanish aristocrat and actor.
• Gawain Westray Bell, 86, British colonial administrator and Governor of Northern Nigeria.
• Sam Benson, 86, Australian politician.
• Eleanore Griffin, 91, American screenwriter, Oscar winner.
• Heinrich Heesch, 89, German mathematician.
• Baruch Korff, 81, Ukrainian-American Orthodox rabbi and American-Jewish community activist.
• Pietro Leoni, 86, Mexican Dominican priest.
• Boy Lornsen, 72, German sculptor and children's author.
• Raymond Mailloux, 77, Canadian politician and Cabinet Minister.
• George Rodger, 87, British photojournalist.
• George W. Romney, 88, American politician and 43rd Governor of Michigan and father of Mitt Romney, heart attack.
• Ismayil Shykhly, 76, Azerbaijani writer.

27

• Iza Bieżuńska-Małowist, 78, Polish historian and professor at the University of Warsaw.
• Don Carpenter, 64, American novelist and playwright, suicide.
• Vladimír Dzurilla, 52, Slovak ice hockey goaltender and Olympian.
• Melih Esenbel, 80, Turkish diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Rick Ferrell, 89, American Hall of Fame baseball player, coach, and scout.
• Eric Fright, 77, English footballer and Olympian.
• Fanahan McSweeney, 47, Irish sprinter and Olympian.
• Miklós Rózsa, 88, Hungarian film composer, Oscar winner.

28

• Susie Cooper, 92, British artist.
• Douglas Dalton, 82, New Zealand rugby player.
• Eddie Hinton, 51, American songwriter and session musician.
• Casper Oimoen, 89, American ski jumper and Olympian.

29

• Juozas Bulavas, 86, Lithuanian legal scholar, academic, and politician.
• Bruno Da Col, 82, Italian Olympic ski jumper.
• Philippe De Lacy, 78, French-American silent film era child actor, cancer.
• Les Elgart, 77, American swing jazz bandleader and trumpeter.
• Canray Fontenot, 72, American Creole fiddle player.
• Kurt Gudewill, 84, German musicologist.
• Leo Kofler, 88, Austrian-German Marxist sociologist.
• Miklós Meszéna, 54, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
• Kevin Tame, 63, Australian footballer.
• Severino Varela, 81, Uruguayan football player.

30

• Nalin Angammana, 49–50, Sri Lanka Army officer, homicide.
• Aleksander Bardini, 81, Polish theatre and opera director, actor, and educator.
• Pelle Christensen, 72, Norwegian actor and translator.
• Nando Cicero, 64, Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Charles Dunn, 80, British japanologist from the SOAS University of London.
• Alfredo Giannetti, 71, Italian screenwriter and film director.
• Anthony Jennings, 50, New Zealand harpsichordist, organist, director, and academic.
• Harry L. Shorto, 75, British linguist and leading scholar of Mon and Khmer languages.
• Verner E. Suomi, 79, Finnish-American educator, inventor, and scientist.

31

• Joan Embury Cochran, 82, New Zealand social reformer and sex educator.
• Bernhard Jope, 81, German Luftwaffe bomber pilot during World War II.
• Risto Lamppu, 70, Finnish Olympic field hockey player.
• Harry Madison, 85, Canadian Olympic wrestler.
• Thomas E. Morgan, 88, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Genevieve Tobin, 95, American actress.
• Lola Todd, 91, American silent film era actress.