# Deaths in October 1994
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 1994.
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.

## October 1994
### 1

* David Berg, 75, American founder and leader of religious movement The Family International.
* Ron Herron, 64, English architect and teacher.
* Bud Houser, 93, American field athlete.
* Donald Roy Irvine, 74, Canadian politician.
* Oluyemi Kayode, 26, Nigerian sprinter, traffic collision.
* Paul Lorenzen, 79, German philosopher and mathematician.
* Marjorie Weaver, 81, American actress, heart attack.

### 2

* Matthew Black, 86, Scottish minister and biblical scholar.
* Claude Harris, Jr., 54, American politician.
* Harry Hodgkinson, 81, British writer, journalist, and naval intelligence officer.
* Harriet Nelson, 85, American singer and actress (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), heart failure.

### 3

* Tim Asch, 62, American anthropologist, photographer, and ethnographic filmmaker, cancer.
* Virginia Dale, 77, American actress and dancer.
* Lassi Parkkinen, 77, Finnish speed skater.
* Heinz Rühmann, 92, German film actor.
* Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis, 92, German Benedictine and nobleman.
* Dub Taylor, 87, American actor (The Wild Bunch, Bonnie and Clyde, Casey Jones).

### 4

* Yardena Alotin, 64, Israeli composer and pianist.
* Bill Challis, 90, American jazz arranger.
* Danny Gatton, 49, American guitarist, suicide.
* Shmuel Merlin, 84, Israeli Revisionist Zionist activist and politician.
* Effat Nagy, 89, Egyptian artist.
* John Opper, 85, American abstract painter.
* Andrea Velis, 62, American operatic tenor.

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* Luc Jouret, 46, Belgian religious cult leader, suicide.
* Gordon Juckes, 80, Canadian ice hockey administrator.
* Nini Rosso, 68, Italian jazz trumpeter and composer, lung cancer.
* Walt Schlinkman, 72, American gridiron football player and coach.
* William R. Smedberg III, 92, United States Navy vice admiral.
* Jacques Tarride, 91, French actor.
* Doug Wildey, 72, American cartoonist and comic book artist.

### 6

* Jo Colruyt, 66, Belgian businessman.
* Per Mørch Hansson, 89, Norwegian sportsman and businessman.
* G. Joseph Tauro, 88, American judge and Chief justice (1970-1976).
* Tadeusz Żakiej, 79, Polish musicologist and music publicist, and food writer.

### 7

* Piotr Alberti, 80, Soviet/Russian painter.
* Maya Bulgakovа, 62, Soviet/Russian actress, traffic collision.
* Bruce Cork, 78, American physicist.
* Ray Ellefson, 72, American basketball player.
* Jack Fitzgerald, 80, Irish Labour Party politician.
* Carlos Gracie, 92, Brazilian martial artist.
* Viktors Hatuļevs, 39, Soviet/Latvian ice hockey defenseman and left winger.
* James Hill, 75, British film and television director, screenwriter and producer.
* Niels Kaj Jerne, 82, Danish immunologist.
* Maurício do Valle, 66, Brazilian film actor, diabetes.

### 8

* Anthony Abell, 87, British colonial official.
* Diana Churchill, 81, English actress, multiple sclerosis.
* Brian Hartley, 55, British mathematician specialising in group theory, heart attack.
* Khaled al-Hassan, 66, Palestinian politician, adviser of Yasser Arafat and founder of militant organization Fatah.
* Alan M. Holman, 89, American football player and coach.
* Jan de Koning, 68, Dutch politician and social geographer, cancer.
* John Neely, 64, American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger.

### 9

* Raich Carter, 80, English sportsman.
* Bill Fox, 95, New Zealand politician.
* Idris Hopkins, 83, Welsh football player.
* Nikolai Karetnikov, 64, Soviet /Russian composer of underground music.
* Fred Lebow, 62, American runner and race director.
* Philip Burton Moon, 87, British nuclear physicist.
* Lawrence Simmons, 83, American football and baseball coach.
* Rolf Thiele, 76, German film director, producer and screenwriter.

### 10

* Richard J. C. Atkinson, 74, British prehistorian and archaeologist.
* John C. Champion, 70, American producer and screenwriter.
* Nola Luxford, 92, New Zealand-American film actress.
* SM Sultan, 71, Bangladeshi painter.

### 11

* Jarvis Hunt, 90, American politician.
* Keiji Imai, 77, Japanese sprinter.
* Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov, 74, French Resistance member.
* Frank McGuire, 79, American basketball coach.

### 12

* John Blackburn, 61, British politician.
* Raymond Garrett, 93, Australian military officer, photographer, and politician.
* Gérald Godin, 55, Quebec poet and politician.
* Aslam Khan, 76, Pakistani brigadier, captured Kennedy Peak (Myanmar) during WWII
* Werner Kubitzki, 79, German field hockey player.
* Manole Marcus, 66, Romanian film director and screenwriter.
* Yakov Punkin, 72, Ukrainian featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler.
* Sady Rebbot, 59, French actor, cancer.

### 13

* Fiodar Fiodaraŭ, 83, Soviet/Belarusian physicist.
* Ture Königson, 84, Swedish evangelical politician.
* Eric Morse, 5, American murder victim, fall.
* Samuel Jacob Sesanus Olsen, 90, Faroese teacher, writer and translator.
* Guido Wolf, 70, Liechtenstein sports shooter.

### 14

* Gioconda de Vito, 87, Italian-British violinist.
* Harry Fleer, 78, American actor.
* Setu Madhavrao Pagdi, 84, Indian civil servant, polyglot, and historian.
* Nikolai Skomorokhov, 74, Soviet Air Forces flying ace during World War II, traffic collision.
* Karl Edward Wagner, 48, American writer, poet, editor, and publisher.
* Petar Šegedin, 68, Yugoslav steeplechase and long-distance runner.
* Ada Valerie-Tal, 58, Israeli actress (Bar 51), heart disease.

### 15

* Avis Acres, 84, New Zealand artist, writer, illustrator and conservationist.
* Jean Dasté, 90, French actor and theatre director.
* Sarah Kofman, 60, French philosopher, suicide.
* George Meader, 87, American politician.
* Jozo Tomasevich, 86, American economist and military historian.

### 16

* Joan Airey, 68, British artistic gymnast.
* Kunigunde Bachl, 75, German physician and politician, member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein
* Peter Bromilow, 61, English actor (Camelot, The Railway Children, The Rocketeer).
* Ed Cody, 71, American football player and coach.
* Monja Danischewsky, 83, British producer and writer.
* Michela Fanini, 21, Italian racing cyclist, traffic collision.
* Ganesh Ghosh, 94, Indian independence activist, revolutionary and politician.
* Josef Kraft, 73, German Luftwaffe pilot during World War II and later an officer in the German Air Force.

### 17

* P. M. Aboobacker, Indian politician.
* George Barrows, 80, American actor.
* Ralph Hill, 86, American runner.
* Dmitry Kholodov, 27, Russian journalist, homicide.
* Gus Risman, 83, Welsh rugby player.

### 18

* Herman Ahlsell, 75, Swedish director and actor.
* Lee Allen, 67, American tenor saxophone player.
* Walker Lee Cisler, 97, American engineer and business executive.
* Xavier Depraz, 68, French opera singer and actor.
* Else Klink, 86, German Eurythmist.
* Eddie Mast, 46, American basketball player.
* Conchita Montes, 80, Spanish film actress.
* Max Müller, 88, German philosopher and Catholic intellectual.
* Li Qingwei, 74, People's Republic of China politician.

### 19

* Ray Birdwhistell, 76, American anthropologist.
* Hedi Flitz, 94, German politician.
* M. C. M. Kaleel, 94, Ceylonese physician, social worker and politician.
* Jacopo Napoli, 83, Italian composer.
* Martha Raye, 78, American comic actress and singer, pneumonia.
* Nyanaponika Thera, 93, German-born Theravada Buddhist monk and scholar.
* Oldřich Černík, 72, Czech politician and Prime minister of Czechoslovakia.

### 20

* Sergei Bondarchuk, 74, Soviet/Russian actor, film director, and screenwriter, heart attack.
* Shlomo Carlebach, 69, Jewish rabbi, spiritual leader, composer, and singer, heart attack.
* Viola Gråsten, 83, Swedish textile designer.
* Barbara Ingram, 46, American R&B singer and songwriter.
* Hakob Karapents, 69, Iranian-Armenian author.
* Burt Lancaster, 80, American actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry, Birdman of Alcatraz), Oscar winner (1961), heart attack.
* Robert Medley, 88, English artist.
* Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, 69, Italian film actor.
* Francis Steegmuller, 88, American biographer, translator and fiction writer.

### 21

* Bunny Adair, 89, Australian politician.
* Thore Ehrling, 81, Swedish trumpeter, composer, and bandleader.
* George H. Gay, 77, United States Navy bomber pilot during World War II.
* Jerome Wiesner, 79, American engineer and president of MIT.

### 22

* Wali Ahmed, Bangladesh Awami League politician.
* William Frankena, 86, American moral philosopher.
* Harold Hopkins, 75, British physicist.
* Handel Manuel, 76, Indian pianist, organist, conductor, composer and accompanist.
* Rollo May, 85, American existential psychologist and author.
* Jimmy Miller, 52, American record producer and musician, liver disease.
* Benoît Régent, 41, French actor, aneurysm.
* Andrea Zambelli, 67, Italian bobsledder.

### 23

* Jack Gibson, 86, English schoolmaster, academic and mountaineer.
* Robert Lansing, 66, American actor (12 O'Clock High. The Equalizer, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues), cancer.
* Bill Leonard, 78, American journalist and television executive, stroke.
* Yisroel Ber Odesser, 106, Israeli Breslover Hasid and rabbi.
* Cornelis Pama, 77, Dutch bookseller, publisher, heraldist and genealogist.

### 24

* René Clermont, 72, French stage and film actor and playwright.
* Sólo̱n Zéfyros Gri̱goriádi̱s, 82, Greek Navy officer, journalist, writer and politician.
* Hans Jacobs, 87, German sailplane designer and pioneer.
* Edward St John, 78, Australian barrister, anti-nuclear activist and politician.
* Raul Julia, 54, Puerto Rican actor (Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Addams Family, Presumed Innocent), Emmy winner (1995), stroke.
* John Lautner, 83, American architect.
* Ian Potter, 92, Australian stockbroker, businessman and philanthropist.
* Guy Powles, 89, New Zealand diplomat, and New Zealand's first Ombudsman.
* Alexander Shelepin, 76, Soviet politician and security and intelligence officer.
* Notable people killed in the 1994 Colombo suicide attack
** Ossie Abeygunasekera, 44, Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament
** Gamini Dissanayake, 52, Sri Lankan politician and Leader of the Opposition
** Weerasinghe Mallimaratchi, 64, Sri Lankan politician and cabinet minister
** G. M. Premachandra, 54, Sri Lankan politician and cabinet minister

### 25

* Yang Dezhi, 83, Chinese general and politician.
* George Fallon, 80, American baseball player.
* Bob Gantt, 72, American basketball player.
* Emil Grünig, 79, Swiss sport shooter.
* Lillian Hayman, 72, American actress and singer, heart attack.
* Kara Hultgreen, 29, American naval aviator, plane crash.
* Hou Jingru, 92, Chinese Army officer and politician.
* Antal Kocsis, 88, Hungarian boxer.
* József Kozma, 69, Hungarian basketball player.
* Karl-Heinz Metzner, 71, German football player.
* Mildred Natwick, 89, American actress (Barefoot in the Park, Dangerous Liaisons, The Snoop Sisters), Emmy winner (1974), cancer.
* Frank Spaniel, 66, American gridiron football player.

### 26

* Norma Dee Edwards, 82, American politician.
* Wilbert Harrison, 65, American rhythm and blues musician, stroke.
* Herbert Holba, 62, Austrian film director and screenwriter.
* Stella Kübler, 72, German Jewish woman and Gestapo collaborator during WorldWar II, suicide by drowning.
* Tutta Rolf, 87, Norwegian-Swedish film and theatre actress and singer.

### 27

* Kay Bell, 80, American gridiron football player, cancer.
* Wally Halder, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.
* James Schwarzenbach, 83, Swiss right-wing politician and publicist.
* Omar Wahrouch, 68, Moroccan singer-poet and songwriter.
* Robert White, 57, American soul musician and a guitarist (Funk Brothers).

### 28

* William Boon, 83, British chemist.
* Marcia Anastasia Christoforides, 85, British philanthropist, art collector, and racehorse owner.
* Calvin Souther Fuller, 92, American physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
* Doghmi Larbi, 63, Moroccan actor.
* Ramakrushna Nanda, 88, Indian writer, educator and children's author.
* Irene Robertson, 62, American hurdler.

### 29

* Shlomo Goren, 76, Polish-Israeli Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi and Talmudic scholar.
* Ernst Heinrichsohn, 74, German lawyer and SS officer during World War II.
* Jalmari Kivenheimo, 105, Finnish gymnast.
* Manuel Barbachano Ponce, 69, Mexican film producer, director, and screenwriter.
* Pearl Primus, 74, American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist.

### 30

* Frank Coggins, 50, American baseball player.
* Oakley C. Collins, 78, American politician.
* Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, 88, Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist, diabetes.
* Swaran Singh, 87, Indian politician, heart attack.

### 31

* Hal Ellson, 84, American author of pulp fiction, heart attack.
* John Pope-Hennessy, 80, British art historian.
* Lester Sill, 76, American record label executive.
* Erling Stordahl, 71, Norwegian farmer and singer.