# Deaths in April 1995
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1995.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## April 1995
### 1

* Charles Bell, 59, American photorealist who created large scale still lifes, AIDS.
* Stanley Adair Cain, 92, American botanist and pioneer of plant ecology and environmental studies.
* James Cameron, 56, American football coach.
* H. Adams Carter, 80, American mountaineer, language teacher, and editor of the American Alpine Journal.
* Samson De Brier, 96, actor and occultist.
* Francisco Moncion, 76, Dominican-American ballet dancer.
* Johnny Nicholls, 63, English football player.
* Lucie Rie, 93, British ceramicist, stroke.
* Víctor Valussi, 82, Argentine football player.

### 2

* Hannes Alfvén, 86, Swedish physicist.
* Irv Frew, 87, Scottish-Canadian ice hockey player.
* Henri Guérin, 73, French football player.
* Julius Hemphill, 57, American saxophonist and composer.
* Leo LeBlanc, 55, American country musician, guitarist, and pianist who was legally blind.
* Raúl Martínez, 67, Cuban painter, designer, photographer, muralist, and graphic artist.
* Dragoslav Mitrinović, 86, Serbian mathematician.
* Harvey Penick, 90, American golfer, coach, and writer on golf.

### 3

* Alfred J. Billes, 92, Canadian businessman and co-founder of Canadian Tire.
* Charles H. Hayes, 88, United States Marine Corps general.
* David Herbert, 86, British writer and raconteur, kidney failure.
* Gracita Morales, 66, Spanish actress.
* Park No-sik, 65, South Korean actor.
* Vera Szemere, 71, Hungarian actress.
* Marion Tinsley, 68, American mathematician and checkers player, pancreatic cancer.
* Bogusław Zych, 43, Polish fencer, traffic collision.

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* Richard Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian, 67, British peer and physiologist.
* Lyndon Bolton, 95, British Olympic horseman.
* Rita Cadillac, 58, French dancer, singer, and actress, cancer.
* Kenny Everett, 50, British comedian, AIDS-related illness.
* Abraham Kattumana, 51, Indian Catholic archbishop.
* Priscilla Lane, 79, American actress (Saboteur, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Roaring Twenties), lung cancer.
* Hansa Jivraj Mehta, 97, Indian social activist, independence activist, feminist and writer.
* Shirley Patterson, 72, Canadian-American B-movie actress, cancer.
* Victor León Esteban San Miguel y Erce, 90, Spanish Carmelite friar.
* Jo Sinclair, 81, American novelist whose real name was Ruth Seid, cancer.

### 5

* Nicolaas Cortlever, 79, Dutch chess master.
* Adalbert Dickhut, 71, German gymnast.
* Emilio Greco, 81, Italian sculptor, engraver, medallist, writer and poet.
* Baby K, 2, American anencephalic baby who became the center of a medical controversy, heart attack.
* Christian Pineau, 90, French Resistance fighter and politician.
* Ron Richardson, 43, American actor and operatic baritone, AIDS-related complications.
* Oskar Schnirch, 92, Austrian cinematographer.

### 6

* Ioannis Alevras, 82-83, Greek politician.
* Rogelio Farías, 45, Chilean football midfielder.
* Alton Meister, 72, American biochemist.
* Trevor Park, 67, British lecturer and politician.
* V. J. Sukselainen, 88, Finnish politician and 24th Prime Minister of Finland.

### 7

* Viktor Adamishin, 33, Russian militia captain, killed in action.
* Peter Brinson, 75, British ballet and dance writer, lecturer, and promoter.
* Nicholas Ingram, 31, British-American murder convict, execution by electric chair.
* Philip Jebb, 68, British architect and politician.
* Bill Lange, 67, American gridiron football player.
* Hsin Ping, 56, Taiwanese Buddhist monk, kidney cancer.
* Kannur Rajan, 58, Indian music composer.
* Frank Secory, 82, American gridiron football player and umpire.

### 8

* Maurice Allom, 89, English cricketer.
* Hans Bodensteiner, 82, German politician.
* Herb Connolly, 73, American politician from Massachusetts.
* René de Buzelet, 87, French tennis player.

### 9

* Bob Allison, 60, American baseball player.
* Nguyễn Hữu An, 68, People's Army of Vietnam general.
* Bonnie Bird, 80, American modern dancer and dance educator.
* Paola Borboni, 95, Italian stage and film actress, stroke.
* John Chamberlain, 91, American journalist, historian, columnist and literary critic.
* George Hurley, 86, American gridiron football player.
* Edda Mussolini, 84, Daughter of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
* Shinnen Tagaya, 75, Japanese politician.

### 10

* Feng Depei, 88, Chinese neuroscientist and physiologist.
* Morarji Desai, 99, 4th Prime Minister of India.
* Annie Fischer, 80, Hungarian pianist.
* Günter Guillaume, 68, German spy for the Stasi and politician, kidney cancer.
* Glyn Jones, 90, Welsh writer.
* Hannah Lamdan, 90, Israeli politician.
* Billy Myers, 84, American baseball player.
* Chen Yun, 89, Chinese political leader of the Chinese Communist Party.

### 11

* E. K. Imbichi Bava, 77, Indian politician and a leader of the Communist Party of India.
* T. Keith Glennan, 89, American administrator and first leader of NASA, complications from a stroke.
* Vic Hey, 82, Australian rugby player and coach.
* Nikolai Kostrov, 93, Russian Soviet painter, graphic artist, and illustrator.
* Kim Yong-ik, 74, Korean–American writer.

### 12

* Buck Cheves, 96, American college football player and referee.
* John Dowdy, 83, American politician.
* Alberto Larraguibel, 75, Chilean Army officer and equestrian, lung cancer.
* Philip H. Lathrop, 82, American cinematographer.
* Chris Pyne, 56, British jazz trombonist.
* Mou Zongsan, 85, Chinese philosopher.

### 13

* John Austrheim, 82, Norwegian politician.
* Peter Bastiansen, 82, Norwegian politician.
* Andy Branigan, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Edward F. Henderson, 77, British diplomat.
* Lang Jingshan, 102, Chinese photojournalist.
* Hal Peck, 77, American baseball right fielder.
* Allan Scott, 88, American screenwriter.
* Bill Thurman, 74, American actor (The Last Picture Show, Silverado, Close Encounters of the Third Kind).
* Aleksandras Vanagas, 60, Lithuanian linguist and etymologist.

### 14

* Mario Carotenuto, 78, Italian actor, cancer.
* Brian Coffey, 89, Irish poet and publisher.
* Michael Fordham, 89, English child psychiatrist and Jungian analyst.
* Burl Ives, 85, American singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Big Country, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer), Oscar winner (1959), mouth cancer.
* Hildegard Lächert, 75, German female guard at several nazi concentration camps during World War II.
* António Lopes Ribeiro, 86, Portuguese film director.

### 15

* Michael Aldred, 49, British record producer, music journalist, and television presenter, AIDS-related complications.
* Emin Bektöre, 88-89, Crimean Tatar folklorist, ethnographer, lyricist, and activist.
* Cleo Brown, 87, American pianist and singer.
* Fred Cuny, 50, American humanitarian.
* Gilbert Moses, 52, American film and television director, multiple myeloma.
* Harry Shoulberg, 91, American expressionist painter.

### 16

* Olavi Ahonen, 54, Finnish basketball player.
* Cheyenne Brando, 25, French fashion model and daughter of actor Marlon Brando, suicide by hanging.
* Cy Endfield, 80, American screenwriter, director, author, magician and inventor.
* Arthur English, 75, British actor and comedian, pulmonary emphysema.
* Josef Hügi, 65, Swiss football player.
* August E. Johansen, 89, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.
* Iqbal Masih, 11-12, Pakistani Christian boy who became a symbol of abusive child labour in Pakistan, homicide.
* Alfred Ryder, 79, American actor.

### 17

* Ted Ball, 56, Australian golfer.
* Jimmy D'Aquisto, 59, Italian-American luthier who built archtop guitars.
* Anton Murray, 72, South African cricketer.
* Frank E. Resnik, 66, American chemist and CEO of Philip Morris USA.
* Max Wünsche, 80, Germany commander in the Waffen-SS during World War II.
* Nan Youngman, 88, English painter and educationalist.

### 18

* Arturo Frondizi, 86, Argentine lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina.
* Edward P. Gallogly, 75, American politician.
* Rafael Chaparro Madiedo, 31, Colombian writer, lupus.
* Roza Makagonova, 67, Soviet/Russian actress.

### 19

* Preston Blair, 86, American animator (Bambi, Pinocchio, Fantasia).
* J. Peter Grace, 81, American industrialist.
* Porter Hardy Jr., 91, American businessman and politician.
* Neil Paterson, 78, Scottish writer of novels, short stories and screenplays.
* Aldo Richins, 84, American gridiron football player.
* Richard Snell, 64, American white supremacist and convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

### 20

* Elsa Benham, 86, American silent film actress and dancer.
* Paul A. Catlin, 46, American mathematician and educator.
* Milovan Dilas, 83, Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author.
* Sunil Jayasinghe, 39, Sri Lankan ODI cricketer, suicide.
* Elting E. Morison, 85, American historian, military biographer, and author.
* Bob Wyatt, 93, English cricketer.

### 21

* José del Carmen, 77, Colombian fencer.
* Stafford Heginbotham, 61, British businessman and chairman of Bradford City football club.
* Amir Machmud, 72, Indonesian military general.
* Malcolm Murray, 90, Swedish Army general.
* Tessie O'Shea, 82, Welsh singer, instrumentalist, and actress, heart failure.
* Roberto Parra Sandoval, 73, Chilean singer-songwriter, guitarist and folklorist.
* Kang Shi'en, 80, Chinese communist revolutionary.
* Carl Whitaker, 83, American physician and family therapy pioneer.

### 22

* Carl Albert, 32, American musician, car accident.
* Violetta Bovt, 67, American-Soviet ballet dancer.
* Carlo Ceresoli, 84, Italian football goalkeeper.
* Norton Clapp, 89, American businessman.
* Charles Granger, 82, Canadian politician.
* Tony Jaros, 75, American basketball player.
* Jane Kenyon, 47, American poet and translator, leukemia.
* Maggie Kuhn, 89, American activist and founder of the Gray Panthers movement, heart failure.
* Henry May, 83, New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
* Don Pullen, 53, American jazz pianist and organist, lymphoma.
* Joe Sheeketski, 87, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.

### 23

* Douglas Lloyd Campbell, 99, Canadian politician who served as the 13th Premier of Manitoba.
* Howard Cosell, 77, American sportscaster, heart failure.
* Viktor Getmanov, 54, Soviet/Russian football player.
* John C. Stennis, 93, American politician and U.S. Senator.
* Lonesome Sundown, 66, American blues singer and guitarist.
* Robert Selby Taylor, 86, Anglican bishop.

### 24

* Ronald Alexander, 78, American playwright.
* Hideyuki Ashihara, 50, Japanese master of karate who founded Ashihara karate, ALS.
* Lodewijk Bruckman, 91, Dutch magic realist painter.
* Stanley Burbury, 85, Australian jurist.
* Florrie Burke, 76, Irish footballer.
* Marie Epstein, 95, French actress, film director, and film preservationist.
* Iosif Kheifits, 90, Russian film director.
* Johannes Ott, 75, German art director.

### 25

* Lou Ambers, 81, American World Lightweight boxing champion.
* Art Fleming, 70, American actor and first television host of the game show Jeopardy!, pancreatic cancer.
* Andrea Fortunato, 23, Italian football player, leukemia.
* Horst-Günter Gregor, 56, German swimmer.
* Alexander Knox, 88, Canadian-British actor (Wilson, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Longest Day), bone cancer.
* Walter Marty, 84, American high jumper.
* Attilio Moresi, 61, Swiss cyclist.
* Ginger Rogers, 83, American actress (Top Hat, Kitty Foyle, Primrose Path) and dancer, Oscar winner (1941), diabetes.
* G. M. Syed, 91, Pakistani politician.

### 26

* Bruce Bosley, 61, American football player.
* Joseph M. Bryan, 99, American insurance executive, broadcast pioneer, and philanthropist.
* Egon Franke, 82, German politician.
* Otto Friedrich, 66, American journalist, author, and historian, lung cancer.
* Sammy Jackson, 57, American actor.
* Willi Krakau, 83, German racing driver.
* Corliss Lamont, 93, American socialist and humanist philosopher.
* Hugh Morton, Baron Morton of Shuna, 65, Scottish lawyer and judge.
* Peter Wright, 78, English scientist and MI5 intelligence officer.

### 27

* Ivo Arčanin, 88, Yugoslav swimmer.
* Silverio Blasi, 73, Italian television and stage director, actor and screenwriter.
* Albert Brown, 83, English cricketer and snooker player.
* Katherine DeMille, 83, Canadian-American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
* Willem Frederik Hermans, 73, Dutch writer, lung cancer.
* Kent Peterson, 69, American baseball player.
* Raphael Rabello, 32, Brazilian guitarist and composer.
* Auto Shankar, 41, Indian criminal and gangster, suicide.
* Steve Wittman, 91, Air-racer and aircraft engineer, plane crash.
* Jerauld Wright, 96, United States Navy Commander-in-Chief, pneumonia.

### 28

* Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier, 77, French geographer.
* Thomas Binkley, 63, American musicologist and lutenist.
* Peaches Davis, 89, Major Leagues baseball pitcher.
* Corky Devlin, 63, American basketball player.
* Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero, 84, Filipino playwright, director, teacher and theater artist.
* Hana Janků, 54, Czech soprano.
* Gus Polidor, 33, Venezuelan baseball player, homicide.
* Henry C. Rogers, 81, American publicist.
* Andrew Salkey, 67, Panamanian novelist and poet.
* Walter Tracy, 81, English type designer, typographer and writer.

### 29

* Inger Marie Andersen, 64, Norwegian actress.
* Talley Beatty, 76, American dancer, choreographer, and teacher.
* Angier Biddle Duke, 79, American diplomat and ambassador.
* Gary Fallon, 56, American gridiron football player and coach.
* Charles McGinnis, 88, American track and field athlete.
* Ray Prim, 88, American baseball player.

### 30

* Eric Barber, 79, English cricketer.
* Christopher Chadman, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS-related complications.
* Michael Graham Cox, 57, English actor (A Bridge Too Far, Watership Down, The Lord of the Rings).
* Maung Maung Kha, 74, Burmese politician and prime minister.