Deaths in October 1995

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

  October 1995

1

• Aditya Vikram Birla, 51, Indian industrialist, prostate cancer.
• Einer Boberg, 59-60, Danish-Canadian speech pathologist.
• René Cloke, 90, British illustrator and watercolorist.
• Margaret Gorman, 90, American beauty queen and 1st Miss America.
• Marcel Noual, 83, French Olympic swimmer.
• Felipe Rivera, 24, Chilean tennis player, traffic collision.
• Henry P. Smith III, 84, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Ady Stefanetti, 52, Luxembourgian Olympic gymnast.

  2

• John Ayers, 42, American National Football League offensive lineman, liver cancer.
• Otto Chr. Bastiansen, 77, Norwegian chemist.
• Hajir Darioush, 57, Iranian film maker.
• Helmut Degen, 84, German composer.
• Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, 67, British artist and teacher.
• Ben Meier, 77, American politician.

  3

• Col Austen, 74, Australian rules footballer.
• Orlando Aloysius Battista, 78, Canadian chemist and writer.
• John Chickerneo, 78, American football player.
• Kevin Commins, 67, South African cricketer.
• Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, 86, Brazilian intellectual and activist.
• George Hoskins, 78, Australian rules footballer.
• Štefan Jačiansky, 65, Slovak football manager.
• Nippy Jones, 70, American baseball player.
• Elena Quiroga, 73, Spanish writer.
• Francis O. Schmitt, 91, American biologist and professor.
• M. P. Sivagnanam, 89, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
• Gene Smith, 83, American baseball player.
• Leon Surmelian, 89, Armenian-American author.
• Charles L. Veach, 51, American astronaut, cancer.

  4

• Fabio Albarelli, 52, Italian competitive sailor and Olympic medalist.
• Matt Armstrong, 83, Scottish footballer.
• Woody Bledsoe, 73, American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Else Brems, 87, Danish contralto.
• Arturo García Buhr, 89, Argentine actor and film director, suicide.
• Dean Roden Chapman, 73, American mechanical engineer with NASA.
• Fred Fehl, 89, American photographer.
• John L. Greene, 82, American screenwriter.
• Masood Rana, 57, Pakistani film playback singer.
• Eu Chooi Yip, 76, Malaysian politician and Singaporean activist.

  5

• Walter Edwin Arnoldi, 77, American aeronautical engineer.
• Karl Johan Baadsvik, 85, Norwegian-Canadian Olympic skier.
• Arthur Barbosa, 87, English artist.
• Lillian Fuchs, 93, American viola player, composer and teacher.
• Linda Gary, 50, American voice actress.
• Dick Jurgens, 85, American bandleader.
• Pin Malakul, 91, Thai educator and politician.
• Abdurehim Ötkür, 72, Uyghur author and poet.

  6

• Michael Allen, 62, English cricketer.
• Paul Baize, 94, French pediatrician and amateur astronomer.
• Karl Band, 94, German architect.
• Eileen Cassidy, 63, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
• Benoît Chamoux, 34, French Alpinist, disappeared during climb.
• Hughie Charles, 88, English songwriter and impresario.
• José Antonio de Armas Chitty, 86, Venezuelan historian, poet, biographer and researcher.
• Peter Kirkpatrick, 79, British rower and Olympian.
• Iván Mándy, 76, Hungarian writer.
• Anthony Newlands, 70, British actor.

  7

• Ya'akov Arnon, 82, Israeli economist and government official.
• Mikhail Butkevich, 69, Soviet/Russian theatre director and drama professor at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts.
• Roberto Cabrera, 81, Chilean footballer.
• Ralph Churchfield, 77, American basketball player.
• Gérard de Vaucouleurs, 77, French astronomer.
• Emanuele Del Vecchio, 61, Brazilian football forward.
• Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann, 44, German far-left militant, cancer.
• Louis Meyer, 91, American Hall of Fame race car driver.
• Olga Taussky-Todd, 89, Austrian and later Czech-American mathematician.
• Harley A. Wilhelm, 95, American chemist.

  8

• Erich Brost, 91, German journalist and publisher.
• John Cairncross, 82, Scottish civil servant and Soviet spy during World War II.
• Alvaro Cartei, 84, Italian painter and ceramist.
• William D. Hutchinson, 63, American politician and judge.
• Christopher Keene, 48, American conductor and director of the New York City Opera, AIDS.
• Jim Little, 57, Australian rules footballer.
• Kentarō Ogawa, 61, Japanese baseball player.
• Olavi Salsola, 61, Finnish middle distance runner and Olympian.
• Patric Walker, 64, American-British astrologer.
• Geoffrey Warnock, 72, English philosopher and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.

  9

• Kamal Bose, 80, Indian cinematographer.
• Sagramor de Scuvero Brandão, 74, Brazilian actress and radio personality.
• Henry W. Clune, 105, American writer and journalist.
• Alec Douglas-Home, 92, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• Zaim Imamović, 34, Bosnian commander, killed in action.
• Luis López, 26, Mexican Olympic gymnast.
• Marja Obrębska, 91, Polish painter.
• Kukrit Pramoj, 84, Thai politician and 13th Prime Minister of Thailand, diabetes.
• John A. Scali, 77, American journalist and diplomat.

  10

• Fateh Chand Badhwar, 94-95, Indian civil servant.
• Doug Cline, 57, American football player.
• Robert Finch, 70, American politician, heart attack.
• Ed Gill, 100, American baseball player.
• Paolo Gucci, 64, Italian businessman and fashion designer.
• Carl Barton Huffaker, 81, American biologist, ecologist and agricultural entomologist.
• Allan Jacobsen, 79, Australian rules footballer.
• Lars Näsman, 52, Finnish football player and coach.
• Doug Russell, 84, American gridiron football player.

  11

• Isolde Ahlgrimm, 81, Austrian harpsichordist and fortepianist.
• Donald Beckford, 88, Jamaican cricketer.
• Graciela Amaya de García, 100, Mexican feminist and labour organizer.
• Huang Yijun, 80, Chinese conductor and composer.
• Jeff York, 83, American actor |Old Yeller], The Postman Always Rings Twice.

  12

• [Eleanor Aller, 78, American cellist.
• Harald Barlie, 58, Norwegian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympian.
• George Blaikie, 80, Australian author and journalist.
• Gary Bond, 55, English actor and singer, AIDS-related complications.
• Adolf Flubacher, 94, Swiss footballer and Olympian.
• David McLean, 73, American actor, lung cancer.
• Edmundo Ohaco, 69, Chilean Olympic hurdler.
• Hans Wärmling, 52, Swedish musician and songwriter, drowned.

  13

• John Tyler Caldwell, 83, American academic and professor of political science.
• Geoffrey Chung, 44, Jamaican musician, recording engineer, and record producer, liver failure.
• Albert Dubreucq, 71, French footballer and coach.
• Michael Lah, 83, Slovenian-American animator.
• Henry Roth, 89, American novelist and short story writer.
• Béla Varga, 92, Hungarian Catholic priest and politician.
• Jean Weber, 89, French film actor.
• Herbert Weißbach, 93, German actor, cabaret artist, and voice actor.

  14

• John R. P. French, 82, American psychologist.
• William Fritz, 81, Canadian sprinter and Olympian.
• Robert Howell Hall, 73, American judge.
• Gunvor Hofmo, 74, Norwegian writer.
• Edith Pargeter, 82, English author.
• Helen Vlachos, 83, Greek journalist and anti-junta of 1967–1974|junta] activist.
• Karl Widmark, 84, Swedish sprint canoeists.

  15

• Akhat Bragin, 42, Ukrainian businessman, bomb attack.
• Marco Campos, 19, Brazilian racing driver, racing accident.
• Claudine Chomat, 80, French communist militant and member of the resistance during World War II.
• Marco Gavelli, 80, Italian Olympic wrestler.
• Thelma Griffith Haynes, 82, Canadian-American Major League Baseball executive.
• Augusto Larrabure, 83, Peruvian Olympic sports shooter.
• Eugenia Rusin, 62, Polish Olympic shot putter.
• Bengt Åkerblom, 28, Swedish ice hockey player.

  16

• Richard Caldicot, 87, British actor.
• Günther Happich, 43, Austrian football midfielder.
• Jimmie Lewallen, 76, American stock car racing driver, cancer.
• Augustine Martin, 59, Irish academic, writer, broadcaster and literary critic.
• Joe Pearce, 85, Australian rugby player and coach.
• Thoogudeepa Srinivas, 52, Indian film actor.
• Joe Szekely, 70, American baseball player.
• John Walker, 88, American art curator.

  17

• Wal Alexander, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• Mike Brittain, 32, American basketball player.
• Peter Hinchliff, 66, South African Anglican priest and academic.
• Fachtna O'Donovan, 74, Irish sportsperson.
• Oza Tétrault, 87, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Pál Zolnay, 67, Hungarian film director, screenwriter and actor.

  18

• Claudio Brook, 68, Mexican actor, stomach cancer.
• Franco Fabrizi, 79, Italian actor, cancer.
• Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, 71, American lawyer and civil rights activist.
• Edward Griffiths, 66, British politician.
• Lloyd Guenther, 88, American Olympic speed skater.
• Bryan Johnson, 69, English singer and actor.
• Tommy Lyttle, 56, Irish Ulster loyalist and paramilitary, heart attack.
• William Mackey, 80, Canadian Catholic priest and Jesuit educator, sepsis.
• Ted Sturgis, 82, American jazz bassist.
• Ted Whiteaway, 66, British racing driver.

  19

• Don Cherry, 58, American jazz trumpeter, liver cancer.
• Don Faurot, 93, American college football player and coach.
• Norman Jones, 71, Canadian-born Bermudian Olympic sailor.
• Kumari Naaz, 51, Indian film actress.
• Harilaos Perpessas, 88, Greek composer.
• Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, 84, Ukrainian-Canadian linguist, lexicographer, author and publicist.
• Don Williams, 59, Australian rules football player.

  20

• George Allen, 67, Australian rules footballer.
• Eric Birley, 89, British historian and archaeologist.
• William D. Campbell, 88, American leader of the international Scouting movement.
• Riccardo Carapellese, 73, Italian football manager and player.
• Jack Rose, 83, American screenwriter.
• Christopher Stone, 53, American actor, heart attack.
• John Tonkin, 93, Australian politician.

  21

• Maxene Andrews, 79, American singer and actress and member of The Andrews Sisters.
• Jesús Blasco, 75, Spanish comic book author.
• José Ignacio Cabrujas, 58, Venezuelan playwright and theater director, heart attack.
• Harold I. Cammer, 86, American lawyer who co-founded the National Lawyers Guild.
• Manuel Vázquez Gallego, 65, Spanish cartoonist.
• Linda Goodman, 70, American astrologer and poet, diabetes.
• Nancy Graves, 55, American sculptor, painter, and printmaker, ovarian cancer.
• Sverre Hansen, 76, Norwegian actor.
• Hans Helfritz, 93, German composer and photographer.
• Shannon Hoon, 28, American singer-songwriter, drug overdose.
• Egidio Massaria, 70, Italian Olympic swimmer.
• Vada Pinson, 57, American baseball player and coach, stroke.
• Abel Salazar, 78, Mexican actor, producer and director, Alzheimer's disease.
• Anatoly Shelyukhin, 65, Soviet cross-country skier and Olympian.

  22

• Kingsley Amis, 73, English author.
• Bob Campiglio, 87, American football player.
• Mario Costa, 91, Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
• Simone Gallimard, 77, French editor and publisher, cancer.
• Frank Jordan, 90, Australian cricketer.
• Ralph Whitlock, 81, British farmer, conservationist, writer, and broadcaster.
• Mary Wickes, 85, American actress |White Christmas], Sister Act, The [Hunchback of Notre Dame, complications following surgery.

  23

• Bert Bandstra, 73, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Johnny Bookman, 63, American gridiron football player.
• Helen Gilbert, 80, American film actress and musician.
• Don Pendleton, 67, American author of fiction and non-fiction books.

  24

• Marion Adnams, 96, English painter, printmaker and draughtswoman.
• Jan Bartosik, 47, Polish Olympic sailor.
• Syed Abuzar Bukhari, Pakistani scholar and president of Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam.
• Émile Jonassaint, 82, Haitian jurist and politician.
• Hermann Langbein, 83, Austrian communist resistance fighter and historian.
• Lyman Linde, 75, American baseball player.
• Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley, 71, Venezuelan lawyer and diplomat
• Anna Wood, 15, Australian teenager, drug overdose.
• Ronnie Selby Wright, 87, Scottish Church of Scotland minister.

  25

• Agha Saadat Ali, 66, Pakistani cricketer.
• François Brousse, 82, French philosophy professor and poet.
• Noel Crump, 78, New Zealand freestyle swimmer.
• Kenneth Dadzie, 65, Ghanaian diplomat and 1st African Secretary-General of UNCTAD.
• Gavin Ewart, 79, British poet.
• Robert Grieve, 84, Scottish civil servant and planner.
• David Healy, 66, American actor.
• Bernhard Heiliger, 79, German artist.
• Jan Hoffman, 89, Polish pianist and music educator.
• Milt Laurent, 93, American baseball player.
• Alan Lavers, 83, English cricketer.
• Viveca Lindfors, 74, Swedish actress, arthritis.
• Bobby Riggs, 77, American tennis player, prostate cancer.
• B. F. Sisk, 84, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Miljenko Smoje, 72, Croatian writer and journalist, lung cancer.
• Peter Stallard, 80, British colonial governor.

  26

• Kumbha Ram Arya, 81, Indian politician.
• Georgia Neese Clark Gray, 97, first woman Treasurer of the United States.
• Hamilton E. Holmes, 54, American orthopedic physician, heart failure.
• Wilhelm Freddie, 86, Danish painter.
• Fylymon Kurchaba, 81, Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, auxiliary bishop of Lviv.
• Henry Latulippe, 82, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Jim Morgan, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• Thomas Francis Murphy, 89, American district judge.
• John Sangster, 66, Australian jazz composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist.

  27

• André Berge, 93, French physician and psychoanalyst.
• Marta Colvin, 87-88, Chileán sculptor.
• Jacques Heurgon, 92, French historian and classical philologist.
• Mumtaz Mufti, 90, Pakistani writer.
• Stan Renehan, 65, American Olympic sailor.
• Richard Ryder, 53, American actor, AIDS-related complications.
• John Scaife, 86, Australian cricketer.
• Slobodan Selenić, 62, Serbian writer, literary critic, and academic, cancer.

  28

• Fouad Abdulhameed Alkhateeb, 69-70, Saudi Arabian ambassador, author, and businessman.
• Chingiz Babayev, 31, Azerbaijani officer and National Hero of Azerbaijan, killed in action.
• Thomas Bellew, 52, Irish politician.
• Julien Bertheau, 85, French actor.
• Edward Drabiński, 83, Polish football player and manager.
• Morris Williams, 71, Australian politician.

  29

• Robert Boeser, 68, American Olympic ice hockey player.
• Fred Gerbic, 63, New Zealand politician.
• Jean Heather, 74, American actress.
• Minna Lederman, 99, American editor and writer on music and dance.
• Al Niemiec, 84, American baseball second basemen and shortstop.
• Pierre Hornus, 87, French footballer
• Terry Southern, 71, American screenwriter and author.
• Jimmy Swan, 81, American country musician.

  30

• Louis Abolafia, 54, American artist and social activist, drug overdose.
• Paolo Alatri, 77, Italian historian and Marxist politician.
• Anastasios Balkos, 79, Greek Army lieutenant general and conservative politician.
• Stephen Bekassy, 88, Hungarian-born American film actor.
• Virginia Bradford, 95, American actress.
• Brian Easdale, 86, British composer of orchestral, choral and film music.
• Paul Ferris, 54, English film composer and actor, suicide.
• Doug Oldershaw, 80, American football player.
• Ermanno Pignatti, 74, Italian weightlifter and Olympian.
• David M. Schneider, 76, American cultural anthropologist.

  31

• Royal B. Allison, 76, United States Air Force lieutenant general, cancer.
• Word Baker, 72, American theatre director.
• Caroline Bammel, 55, English historian, classicist, and academic, cancer.
• Glenn Berry, 90, American Olympic gymnast.
• Alan Bush, 94, British composer, pianist, and conductor.
• Jim Campbell, 71, American baseball executive.
• Rosalind Cash, 56, American actress, cancer.
• Derek Enright, 60, British Labour politician.
• Hans Grieder, 93, Swiss Olympic gymnast.
• Dr. Hepcat, 82, American blues pianist, singer, and baseball commentator.
• Lou Levy, 84, American music publisher.
• Joel Mason, 83, American NFL football player, and NBL basketball player.
• Mario Napolitano, 85, Italian chess master.
• Henry Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland, 42, British peer, neurological disorder.
• Bill Rowling, 67, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand, cancer.