Deaths in September 1995

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

  September 1995

1

• Sylvia Gytha de Lancey Chapman, 98, New Zealand doctor and welfare worker.
• María de la Cruz, 82, Chilean political activist, journalist, writer, and political commentator.
• Joseph N. Gallo, 83, American mobster and member of the Gambino crime family.
• Wilhelm Sold, 84, German football player and Olympian.
• Gino Sopracordevole, 90, Italian rower and Olympian.
• Benay Venuta, 85, American actress, singer, and dancer, lung cancer.

  2

• Simona Arghir-Sandu, 46, Romanian Olympic handballer, cancer.
• Don Gibson, 87, Australian rules footballer.
• Bahri Guiga, 91, Tunisian lawyer and politician.
• Lenie Lanting-Keller, 70, Dutch Olympic diver.
• Václav Neumann, 74, Czech conductor, violinist, and opera director.
• Earl T. Newbry, 95, American businessman and politician.
• Joseph O'Keefe, 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.

  3

• Lance Adams-Schneider, 75, New Zealand politician.
• Mary Adshead, 91, British painter, muralist, illustrator and designer, heart failure.
• Earle Birney, 91, Canadian poet and novelist.
• Mort Browne, 87, Australian rules footballer.
• D. C. Coleman, 75, British economic historian.
• Parker Morton, 83, Australian rules football player and coach.
• Ricardo Sánchez, 54, American poet, cancer.
• Louis van Biljon, 68, South African Olympic sprinter.

  4

• Don Deeks, 72, American football player.
• Paulo Gracindo, 84, Brazilian actor, prostate cancer.
• Chuck Greenberg, 45, American musician, heart attack.
• Edmond Jouhaud, 90, French general involved in the Algiers putsch of 1961.
• William Kunstler, 76, American lawyer and civil rights activist.
• Fabio Pittorru, 66, Italian novelist, screenwriter, journalist and film director.
• Roman Zvonkov, 28, Ukrainian biathlete and Olympian.

  5

• John Britten, 45, New Zealand mechanical engineer, cancer.
• Tom Chisari, 72, American football coach.
• Salil Chowdhury, 69, Indian songwriter, lyricist, writer, and poet.
• Girija, 57, Indian actress.
• Vinko Golob, 74, Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player.
• Paul Julian, 81, American background animator, sound effects artist and voice actor.
• Eny Karim, 84, Indonesian politician and civil servant.
• Ahmed Koulamallah, 83, Chadian politician.
• John Megna, 42, American actor, director and educator, AIDS-related complications.
• Ante Nardelli, 58, Croatian water polo player and Olympian.
• Bob O'Shaughnessy, 74, American basketball player.
• Jean-Luc Pépin, 70, Canadian academic, and politician.
• Francis Showering, 83, English brewer, heart attack.
• Zulu Sofola, 60, Nigerian playwright and dramatist.
• Benyamin Sueb, 56, Indonesian actor, comedian and singer.
• Karl Warner, 87, American Olympic athlete.
• Charles Willoughby, 101, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.

  6

• Sergio Atzeni, 42, Italian writer, drowned.
• Michelangelo Borriello, 86, Italian Olympic sports shooter.
• Gianni Caldana, 81, Italian Olympic track and field athlete.
• Bill DeCorrevont, 76, American gridiron football player.
• Mary Doran, 84, American actress.
• Hugo Hollas, 49, American football player.
• Warren Ingersoll, 87, American Olympic field hockey player.
• Mo Lisby, 82, American baseball player.
• Buster Mathis, 52, American boxer, heart failure.
• Larry O'Connor, 78, Canadian Olympic hurdler.
• Ralph Rosenblum, 69, American film editor.
• B. K. Thapar, 73, Indian archaeologist.

  7

• John B. Calhoun, 78, American ethologist and behavioral researcher.
• Richard Guy Condon, 43, American anthropologist, disappeared on this date and is presumed dead.
• Henri Klein, 51, Luxembourgian footballer.
• Al Papai, 78, American Major League Baseball player.
• Michel Scob, 60, French Olympic cyclist.

  8

• Peter Baxandall, 74, English audio engineer and electronics engineer.
• Madge Biggs, 93, Falkland Islands librarian and politician.
• Paco Campos, 79, Spanish footballer.
• Eileen Chang, 74, Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter.
• Rose Chernin, 93, American communist and activist of Russian birth, Alzheimer's disease.
• José Luis González Dávila, 52, Mexican football player and Olympian.
• Olga Ivinskaya, 83, Russian poet and writer, cancer.
• Safa Khulusi, 78, Iraqi historian, novelist, poet, journalist and broadcaster.
• Erich Kunz, 86, Austrian operatic bass baritone at the Vienna State Opera and Metropolitan Opera.
• Halldis Moren Vesaas, 87, Norwegian poet, translator and writer of children's books.
• Michael Nigg, 26, American waiter, homicide by gunshot wound.

  9

• Ida Carroll, 89, British music educator, double bassist, and composer.
• Marina Núñez del Prado, 86, Bolivian sculptor.
• Reinhard Furrer, 54, German physicist and astronaut, aircraft crash.
• Lin Houston, 74, American gridiron football player.
• Benjamin Mazar, 89, Israeli historian.
• Erik Nilsson, 79, Swedish football player and Olympian.
• Béla Pálfi, 72, Yugoslavian footballer and Olympian.
• Akimitsu Takagi, 74, Japanese crime fiction writer, stroke.
• Ron Talsky, 60, American costume designer.
• Keith Wayne, 50, American actor, suicide.
• Jamie Whitten, 85, American politician and United States House of Representatives representative, heart failure.

  10

• Harriet Bell, 72, American advocate for disability rights.
• Charles Denner, 69, French actor, cancer.
• Molly Hide, 81, English cricketer.
• Derek Meddings, 64, British special effects designer, Oscar winner, colorectal cancer.
• Shoji Suzuki, 63, Japanese jazz clarinet player and band leader.

  11

• Fred Campbell, 84, Australian politician and Queensland Legislative Assembly member.
• Georges Canguilhem, 91, French philosopher and physician.
• Bruno Eliasen, 62, Danish footballer.
• Anita Harding, 42, Irish-British neurologist, colorectal cancer.
• Roger W. Heyns, 77, American professor and academic.
• Charles J. Hitch, 85, American economist and Assistant Secretary of Defense.
• Peter McIntyre, 85, New Zealand painter and author.
• Kieth O'dor, 33, British racing driver, racing accident.
• Vladislav Strzhelchik, 74, Soviet/Russian actor, brain cancer.

  12

• Lubomír Beneš, 59, Czech animator, director, and author.
• Johnny Bothwell, 76, American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader.
• Jeremy Brett, 61, English actor, heart failure.
• Grahame Clark, 88, British archaeologist.
• Larry Gales, 59, American jazz double-bassist, leukemia.
• Tom Helmore, 91, English actor.
• Frederick Augustus Irving, 101, American Army officer.
• Katherine Locke, 85, American actress.
• Ernest Pohl, 62, Polish football player and Olympian.
• Ponnuswami Sitaram, 63, Indian cricketer.
• Geoffrey Stokes, 55, American journalist and writer on music and sports, esophageal cancer.
• Ted Wood, 79, Australian rules footballer.

  13

• Aluf Joseph Avidar, 89, Israeli statesman, author and ambassador.
• Fritz Bennewitz, 69, German theatre director.
• Eberhard Godt, 95, German naval officer.
• Francesco Messina, 94, Italian sculptor.
• Maheswar Neog, 80, Indian academic.
• Achille Piccini, 83, Italian football player and Olympian.
• Harold Shepherdson, 76, English football player and coach.
• Frank Silva, 44, American set dresser and actor, AIDS-related complications.

  14

• Leon Adams, 90, American journalist, publicist and historian.
• Maurice K. Goddard, 83, American cabinet officer for six governors, suicide.
• Emerson John Moore, 57, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Eiji Okada, 75, Japanese actor, heart failure.
• Willy Olsen, 74, Norwegian footballer.
• Naomi Smith, 15, English schoolgirl.
• A. E. Wilder-Smith, 79, British organic chemist and young Earth creationist.

  15

• Harry Calder, 94, English cricketer.
• Douglass Cater, 72, American journalist, political aide, and college president.
• Dirceu, 43, Brazilian football player and Olympian, traffic collision.
• Dietrich Hrabak, 80, German fighter pilot during World War II.
• Sam McCluskie, 63, British trade unionist.
• David McMullin, 87, American field hockey player and Olympian.
• Pedro Nolasco, 33, Dominican boxer and Olympian, shot.
• Gunnar Nordahl, 73, Swedish footballer.
• Rien Poortvliet, 63, Dutch draughtsman and painter, bone cancer.
• Nap Reyes, 75, American Major League Baseball player.
• Gavin Smith, 47, Australian rules footballer.
• Michio Watanabe, 72, Japanese politician and Deputy Prime Minister of Japan, heart failure.

  16

• Michael Balfour, 86, English historian and civil servant.
• Leo Horn, 79, Dutch football referee.
• Aldo Novarese, 75, Italian type designer.
• Harold Obunga, 35, Kenyan Olympic boxer.
• Pierre Olaf, 67, French actor.
• Jack Wink, 73, American football player and coach.

  17

• Gottfried Bermann, 98, German publisher.
• Catherine Cobb, 92, British jeweler and silversmith.
• Yehuda Getz, 70–71, Israeli rabbi of the Western Wall for 27 years, heart attack.
• Astrid Krebsbach, 82, German table tennis player.
• Helen Nearing, 91, American author and vegetarianism advocate, single-car accident.
• Friedrich Schütter, 74, German film and television actor.
• Rakel Seweriin, 89, Norwegian politician.
• Grady Sutton, 89, American actor.
• Lucien Victor, 64, Belgian cyclist and Olympian.

  18

• Doreen Cannon, 64, American teacher of acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
• Donald Davie, 73, English Movement poet, and literary critic.
• Jean Gol, 53, Belgian politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Kaka Hathrasi, 89, Hindi satirist and humorist poet of India.
• George S. Howard, 93, American conductor of The [United States Air Force Band] between 1947 and 1963.
• Tony Paulekas, 83, American gridiron football player.
• Oleh Tverdokhlib, 25, Ukrainian track and field athlete and Olympian, domestic accident.

  19

• Mr. Bo, 63, American blues guitarist and singer, pneumonia.
• Melbourne Brindle, 90, Australian-American illustrator and painter.
• Walter Gross, 83, German-Israeli journalist who worked for Haaretz from 1949 through 1995.
• Rauf Hajiyev, 73, Soviet and Azerbaijani composer and politician.
• Mem Lovett, 83, American baseball player.
• Sir Rudolf Peierls, 88, German-born British physicist.
• Orville Redenbacher, 88, American entrepreneur and businessman, heart attack.
• Clinton Stephens, 75, American badminton player.

  20

• Charles Albanese, 58, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Emmy Albus, 83, German sprinter and Olympian.
• Rene Anselmo, 69, American television executive.
• Mikhail Bogdanov, 80, Russian production designer and Academy Award nominee.
• Eulie Chowdhury, 71, Indian architect.
• Walter A. Haas Jr., 79, President and CEO and Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.
• Monica Maurice, 87, British industrialist.
• Tokibayama Toshio, 51, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• René Zazzo, 84, French psychologist and pedagogue.

  21

• Andy the Clown, 77, American clown associated with the Chicago White Sox.
• Tony Cuccinello, 87, American baseball player and coach.
• Delfy de Ortega, 75, Italian-Argentine actress, cancer.
• Alan Christopher Deere, 77, New Zealand fighter ace during World War ||.
• Frank Hall, 74, Irish broadcaster, journalist and film censor, heart attack.
• Harry Hurwitz, 57, American film director, screenwriter, actor and producer, heart attack.
• William Murray, 83, British educationist who created the Ladybird Peter and Jane books.
• Rudy Perpich, 67, American politician and Governor of Minnesota, colorectal cancer.
• Irven Spence, 86, American animator.
• Reg Twite, 84, Australian rules footballer.

  22

• Julio Alejandro, 88, Spanish screenwriter.
• Eigil Axgil, 80, Danish gay rights activist.
• Dolly Collins, 62, English folk musician, arranger and composer.
• Raimondo Del Balzo, 56, Italian screenwriter and director, cancer.
• Albert Goodwin, 89, English historian.
• Phillip Ingle, 34, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Bruno Junk, 65, Estonian race walker and Olympian.
• Nasiha Kapidžić-Hadžić, 63, Bosnian children's author and poet.
• Antonio Pujol, 82, Mexican painter and printmaker.
• John Whitney, 78, American animator, composer and inventor.
• Claus Wunderlich, 73, German Olympic sailor.

  23

• Thomas Beck, 85, American film and stage actor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, 75, French poet.
• Fabien Galateau, 82, French road bicycle racer.
• Gerard Kuppen, 80, Dutch footballer.
• Abdelkrim Laribi, 51, Algerian football player.
• Booker T. Laury, 81, American boogie-woogie, blues, gospel and jazz pianist and singer, cancer.
• K. Thurairatnam, 65, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.
• Joseph W. Tkach, 68, American evangelist and pastor of the Worldwide Church of God.
• Albrecht Unsöld, 90, German astrophysicist.

  24

• Éric Borel, 16, French high school student and spree killer, suicide.
• Peter Butler, 94, New Zealand seaman, trade unionist, and local politician.
• Paula Dvorak, 82, Austrian film editor.
• Mac Hill, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• Keith Johnson, 66, Australian politician.
• Tom McBride, 42, American photographer, model, and actor, AIDS-related complications.
• Parvaz Mirza, 24, English cricketer.
• Antoine Schlindwein, 84, French Olympic gymnast.
• Arthur Walsh, 72, Canadian actor and dancer.

  25

• Dave Bowen, 67, Welsh football player, manager, and captain.
• Gustav Brom, 74, Czech big band leader, arranger, clarinetist and composer.
• Annie Elizabeth Delany, 104, American dentist and civil rights pioneer.
• Dorothy Dickson, 102, American actress and dancer on the London stage.
• Maryse Justin, 36, Mauritian long-distance runner and Olympian, cancer.
• Dick Steinberg, 60, American football executive, stomach cancer.
• Kei Tomiyama, 56, Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator, pancreatic cancer.

  26

• Giancarlo Agazzi, 63, Italian ice hockey player and Olympian.
• Flora Blanc, 78, American theatre school director and painter.
• Jack Broadstock, 74, Australian rules footballer.
• Xenia Cage, 82, American painter, sculptor, bookbinder, conservator, and musician.
• Lenny Hambro, 71, American jazz musician.
• Lynette Roberts, 86, Welsh poet and novelist.
• Kay Twomey, 81, American songwriter and music arranger.

  27

• Baha Akşit, 81, Turkish physician and politician.
• Sasha Argov, 80, Israeli composer.
• Jean Arnot, 92, Australian women's rights activist, trade unionist, and librarian.
• Sean Conway, 64, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
• Laurence Jones, 62, British Royal Air Force commander.
• Karl-Heinz Marbach, 78, German naval officer.
• Christopher Shaw, 71, British composer.
• Wilfried Soltau, 83, German Olympic canoeist.
• Alison Steele, 58, American disk jockey known as 'Nightbird', stomach cancer.
• Jürgen Wattenberg, 94, German naval officer and U-boat commander during World War II.
• Hermann Zobel, 87, Danish Olympic equestrian.

  28

• Rabah Belamri, 48, Algerian writer, complications following surgery.
• Edgardo Coghlan, 66–67, Mexican painter.
• Al Cromwell, 57, Canadian blues and folk musician.
• Robert Curran, 72, Scottish nationalist political activist.
• Billy Elliot, 31, Northern Irish loyalist and paramilitary leader, shot.
• Olive Gibbs, 77, British politician and anti-nuclear weapons.
• Albert Johanneson, 55, South African football player.
• Aurelius Marie, 90, Dominican politician and jurist, cancer.
• Edmundo O'Gorman, 88, Mexican writer, historian and philosopher.
• Frederick N. Tebbe, 60, American chemist.

  29

• Alfred Felix Landon Beeston, 84, English Orientalist.
• Gerd Bucerius, 89, German politician, publisher and journalist.
• Michael Carr, 62, English cricketer.
• James Downie, 73, New Zealand racing cyclist.
• Seger Ellis, 91, American jazz pianist and vocalist.
• Susan Fleetwood, 51, British actress, ovarian cancer.
• Francis Johnson, 84, British architect.
• Madalyn Murray O'Hair, 76, American activist, asphyxia.
• Kostas Papachristos, 79, Greek actor.
• Clarrie Riordan, 78, Australian rules footballer.

  30

• Joe Azbell, 68, American journalist and writer, lung cancer.
• Bertrand Boissonnault, 88, Canadian Olympic fencer.
• George Kirby, 72, American comedian, Parkinson's disease.
• Jean-Luc Lagarce, 38, French actor, theatre director and playwright, AIDS-related complications.
• Junior Robinson, 27, American football player.
• Jakob Segal, 84, Russian-German professor of biology.
• Bertil von Wachenfeldt, 86, Swedish sprinter and Olympian.
• Frederick Warner, 77, British diplomat.