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

## May 1994
### 1

* Imre Gyöngyössy, 64, Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
* Yigal Mossinson, 76, Israeli novelist, playwright, and inventor.
* Ayrton Senna, 34, Brazilian racing driver, racing accident.
* Arnold Strippel, 82, German Nazi SS commander during World War II.

### 2

* Nathan Adler, 83, American psychoanalyst and professor of clinical psychology.
* Fahrettin Akbaş, 66-67, Turkish wrestler.
* Louis Calaferte, 65, French novelist.
* Anita Durante, 96, Italian actress.
* Buck Fausett, 86, American baseball player and manager.

### 3

* Francis Bell, 50, New Zealand actor, suicide.
* William Dickey, 65, American poet and professor of English, AIDS-related complications.
* Vladimir Kostine, 72, Russian basketball referee.
* Felipe Galarza Sánchez, 81, Spanish military officer.

### 4

* Per Engdahl, 85, Swedish far-right politician.
* Roger Jenkins, 82, American-Canadian ice hockey player.
* Kōtō Matsudaira, 91, Japanese diplomat.
* Josip Palada, 82, Yugoslavian tennis player.
* Al Sanders, 44, American basketball player.

### 5

* Egan Chambers, 73, Canadian politician.
* Joe Layton, 63, American director and choreographer.
* Harry O'Boyle, 89, American gridiron football player.
* Mário Quintana, 87, Brazilian writer and translator.
* Louise Troy, 60, American actress of stage and screen, breast cancer.
* Noel Wimalasena, 80, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.

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* Gunnar Åhs, 78, Swedish bobsledder.
* Rafael Baledón, 74, Mexican film actor, director, screenwriter, and producer.
* Murray Boltinoff, 83, American writer and editor of comic books.
* John Henry Bremridge, 67, Hong Kong politician.
* Mkhitar Djrbashian, 75, Armenian mathematician.
* Ahmed Juffali, 70, Saudi businessman, heart attack.
* Malvina Pastorino, 77, Argentine film actress, fall.
* Moses Rosen, 81, Romanian rabbi.
* Fred Sadoff, 67, American actor, AIDS-related complications.
* Antal Szendey, 79, Hungarian rower and Olympian.

### 7

* Haim Bar-Lev, 69, Israeli general and politician, cancer.
* Clement Greenberg, 85, American essayist and visual art critic.
* John Thomas Howell, 90, American botanist and taxonomist.
* Mpinga Kasenda, 56, Prime Minister of Zaire under Mobutu Sese Seko, accident.
* Pahor Labib, 88, Egyptian egyptologist and coptologist.
* Andy McEvoy, 55, Irish football player.
* Chuck Taylor, 74, American football player and coach.
* Aharon Yariv, 73, Israeli politician and general.

### 8

* Edith Bullock, 91, American businesswoman and politician.
* Einar Diesen, 96, Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor.
* Jim Finks, 66, American football player, coach, and executive, lung cancer.
* Steven Keats, 49, American actor (Death Wish, Black Sunday, Silent Rage), suicide.
* George Peppard, 65, American actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's, The A-Team, The Carpetbaggers), lung cancer.
* Murray Spivack, 90, Russian-American sound engineer.

### 9

* Anni Albers, 94, American textile artist and printmaker.
* Ralph Brickner, 69, American Major League Baseball player.
* Allan Frost Archer, 86, American entomologist and arachnologist.
* Bengt Lehander, 68, Swedish Air Force officer.
* Heinz-Werner Meyer, 61, German trade union leader and politician.

### 10

* Cleanth Brooks, 87, American literary critic and professor.
* John Wayne Gacy Jr., 52, American serial killer and sex offender, execution by lethal injection.
* Lucebert, 69, Dutch poet and painter.
* Elias Motsoaledi, 69, South African anti-apartheid activist.
* Lil Picard, 94, German-American actress, artist, and journalist.

### 11

* Louis-Thomas Achille, 84, Martiniquais intellectual, educator and musician.
* David Howard Adeney, 82, British missionary and university evangelist.
* S. A. Ajayi, 89, Nigerian statesman.
* Alfred James Broomhall, 82, British missionary in China and author.
* Timothy Carey, 65, American actor (The Killing, Paths of Glory, One-Eyed Jacks), stroke.
* Nikolay Fyodorov, 80, Soviet-Russian animator, director, writer and cartoonist.
* Henri Guisol, 89, French film actor.
* Lloyd Hughes, 81, Australian politician.
* Helmut Käser, 81, Swiss lawyer and general secretary of FIFA.
* Romano Puppo, 61, Italian stuntman and actor, traffic collision.
* Bennie Warren, 82, American Major League Baseball player.

### 12

* Xen Balaskas, 83, South African cricket player.
* Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet, 91, British politician, art collector and philanthropist.
* Catherine Berndt, 76, Australian anthropologist.
* Paul Cushing Child, 92, American civil servant, diplomat, and artist.
* Erik Erikson, 91, Danish-German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst.
* Si Johnson, 87, American baseball player.
* Roy J. Plunkett, 83, American chemist, cancer.
* John Smith, 55, Scottish politician, heart attack.
* André Zwobada, 84, French screenwriter, producer and film director.

### 13

* Vladimir Antoshin, 64, Soviet/Russian chess Grandmaster.
* Duncan Hamilton, 74, British racing driver.
* John Francis Kennedy, 88, American politician.
* John Swainson, 68, Canadian-American politician and jurist.

### 14

* Dave Albritton, 81, American high jumper, and coach, and politician.
* Cihat Arman, 78, Turkish football goalkeeper and manager.
* W. Graham Claytor, Jr., 82, American Navy officer, attorney, and government official.
* Burt Monroe, 63, American ornithologist.
* Brian Roper, 64, British-American actor, and real estate agent.
* Olga Spiridonović, 70, Serbian actress.
* Leonard Teale, 71, Australian actor, radio announcer, and presenter.
* Robert G. Vosper, 80, American educator and librarian.

### 15

* Omprakesh Agrawal, 39, Indian snooker player, cancer.
* Leonard Carpenter, 91, American rower and Olympian.
* Royal Dano, 71, American actor (The Outlaw Josey Wales, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, The Right Stuff), heart attack.
* Oskar Heil, 86, German electrical engineer and inventor.
* Sherman Landers, 96, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
* Alexander Nove, 78, British professor of Economics.
* Gilbert Roland, 88, Mexican-American actor, cancer.
* Robert T. Secrest, 90, American politician.

### 16

* Val A. Browning, 98, American gunmaker and philanthropist.
* Alain Cuny, 85, French actor in theatre and cinema.
* Dalmiro Finol, 74, Venezuelan baseball player.
* Zdeňka Honsová, 66, Czech gymnast and Olympian.
* Phani Majumdar, 82, Indian film director.
* Roy McElroy, 87, New Zealand lawyer and politician.
* Alfred Otto Carl Nier, 82, American physicist.
* Paul Shulman, 72, Israeli Navy officer.

### 17

* Gérson da Silva, 28, Brazilian football player, AIDS-related complications.
* Nicolás Gómez Dávila, 80, Colombian philosopher, cardiovascular disease.
* Leonila Garcia, 87, Filipino pharmacist.
* Irène Hamoir, 87, Belgian novelist and poet.
* Étienne Hirsch, 93, French civil engineer and member of the French Resistance during World War II.
* Vladimír Podzimek, 29, Czechoslovakian ski jumper and Olympian, suicide.
* Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, 82, Austrian anthropologist and archaeologist.
* John Thanos, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

### 18

* Harry Barker, 95, New Zealand newspaper journalist and editor.
* John Cramer, 98, Australian politician, heart attack.
* Manuel Manahan, 78, Filipino politician, journalist, and businessman.
* Mamintal A.J. Tamano, 65, Filipino politician statesman.

### 19

* Joseph Chatt, 79, British chemist.
* Jacques Ellul, 82, French philosopher and sociologist.
* Henry Morgan, 79, American humorist, lung cancer.
* Luis Ocaña, 48, Spanish road bicycle racer, suicide.
* Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 64, American socialite, writer, and First Lady of the United States, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

### 20

* Bartine Burkett, 96, American film actress, heart attack.
* Fernande Giroux, Canadian actress and jazz singer.
* Ingrid Hafner, 57, British actress, ALS.
* Kasu Brahmananda Reddy, 84, Indian politician.
* Jiří Sobotka, 82, Czechoslovak football player.

### 21

* Martin Doherty, 35, Irish republican and IRA volunteer, shot.
* Giovanni Goria, 50, Italian politician, lung cancer.
* David S. Holmes Jr., 79, American politician.
* Masayoshi Ito, 80, Japanese politician.
* Norman Low, 80, Scottish football player and manager.
* Ralph Miliband, 70, British sociologist, heart attack.
* Johan Hendrik Weidner, 81, Dutch member of the resistance during World War II.
* Cliff Wilson, 60, Welsh snooker player.

### 22

* Jane Dulo, 76, American actress and comedian.
* Gerhard Krüger, 85, German Nazi Party student leader and later a neo-Nazi figure.
* Mitacq, 66, Belgian comics author.
* Norman Read, 62, New Zealand racewalker and Olympian, heart attack.

### 23

* Al Baldwin, 71, American gridiron football player.
* Ray Candy, 42, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
* George de Godzinsky, 79, Russian-Finnish composer and conductor.
* Olav Hauge, 85, Norwegian horticulturist, translator and poet.
* Leo Kuper, 89, South African sociologist.
* George Metesky, 90, American electrician and mechanic.
* Joe Pass, 65, American jazz guitarist, liver cancer.
* Oscar Saul, 81, American screenwriter.
* Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers, 86, British politician.

### 24

* Martin Goldsmith, 80, American screenwriter and novelist.
* Julien Hébert, 76, Québécois industrial designer.
* Bill Schutte, 84, American football player and coach.
* John Wain, 69, English poet, novelist, and critic.

### 25

* Joe Brainard, 52, American artist and writer, AIDS-related complications.
* Willi Eichhorn, 85, German rower and Olympian.
* Eric Gale, 55, American jazz and R&B guitarist, lung cancer.
* John Mackie, Baron John-Mackie, 84, British politician.
* Robert Paverick, 81, Belgian football player.

### 26

* Károly Antal, 84, Hungarian sculptor.
* George Ball, 84, American diplomat and banker.
* Muriel Cooper, 69, American book designer, digital designer, and researcher.
* Shelby Cullom Davis, 85, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.
* Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji, 97, Bhutanese royal and politician.
* Gil Fuller, 74, American jazz arranger, composer and bandleader.
* André Gérard, 83, French football player and manager.
* Jules Keignaert, 86, French water polo player and politician.
* Hezy Leskly, 41, Israeli poet, choreographer, painter and art critic, AIDS-related complications.
* Pug Lund, 81, American gridiron football player.
* Norberto Menéndez, 57, Argentine football player.
* Sonny Sharrock, 53, American jazz guitarist, heart attack.
* Robbie Stanley, 26, American auto racing driver, racing accident.
* Red Treadway, 74, American baseball player.

### 27

* Klaus Beckmann, 49, German politician.
* Charles Rodman Campbell, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by hanging.
* Luis de Carlos, 87, Spanish football executive.
* Lakshman Shastri Joshi, 93, Indian writer, scholar, and literary critic.
* George Melinkovich, 82, American football player and coach.
* Red Rodney, 66, American jazz trumpeter, lung cancer.
* Art Spinney, 66, American football player.

### 28

* Julius Boros, 74, American golfer, heart attack.
* James Burke, 67, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
* Daniel Flood, 90, American attorney and politician.
* Zainulabedin Gulamhusain Rangoonwala, 80, Indian activist and banker.
* Hugh Stirling, 86, Canadian football player.
* Max Walter Svanberg, 82, Swedish painter, illustrator, and designer.
* Branislav Varsik, 90, Slovak historian and archivist.

### 29

* José Bohr, 92, German-Chilean film director, producer, actor and screenwriter.
* Peter Cranmer, 79, English sportsman.
* Raymond Fellay, 62, Swiss alpine skier and Olympian.
* Erich Honecker, 81, German communist politician and leader of the GDR, liver cancer.
* Oliver Jackson, 61, American jazz drummer, heart failure.
* Joseph Janni, 78, British film producer.
* Harry Levin, 81, American literary critic and scholar.
* Áskell Löve, 77, Icelandic botanist.
* Lady May Abel Smith, 88, British noblewoman.

### 30

* Malouf Abraham Sr., 78, American businessman and politician.
* Serge Afanasyan, 81, Armenian historian.
* Ezra Taft Benson, 94, American farmer, government official, and religious leader, heart failure.
* Marcel Bich, 79, Italian-French industrialist and co-founder of Bic.
* Agostino Di Bartolomei, 39, Italian football player, suicide.
* Donald Hill, 71, British engineer and historian of science and technology.
* Jack Krol, 57, American baseball coach and manager, cancer.
* Juan Carlos Onetti, 84, Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories, heart attack.
* Juzo Sanada, 71, Japanese baseball player.
* Pavle Savić, 85, Serbian physicist and chemist.
* István Tamássy, 83, Hungarian football player.

### 31

* Frank Beck, 51, English convicted child sex offender, heart attack.
* Mbaye Diagne, 36, Senegalese military officer, killed in action.
* Sidney Gilliat, 86, English film director, producer and writer.
* Manny Klein, 86, American jazz trumpeter.
* Herva Nelli, 85, Italian-American operatic soprano, leukemia.
* Samta Prasad, 72, Indian classical musician and tabla player.
* Henri Woode, 84, American composer, lyricist, arranger, and singer.
* Hannah Marie Wormington, 79, American archaeologist.