# Deaths in July 1995
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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

## July 1995
### 1

* Paul Nguyễn Văn Bình, 84, Vietnamese prelate of the Catholic Church and first Archbishop of Saigon.
* Akanu Ibiam, 88, Nigerian medical missionary and politician.
* Wolfman Jack, 57, American disc jockey.
* Bruce Mitchell, 86, South African cricket opening batsman.
* Nikolay Peyko, 79, Russian composer and educator.
* Roger Dale Stafford, 43, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.

### 2

* Menachem Mendel Futerfas, 87, Russian educator and rabbi.
* John C. Higgins, 87, Canadian-American screenwriter.
* Gervase Jackson-Stops, 48, British architectural historian and journalist.
* Zdeněk Košler, 67, Czech conductor.
* Lloyd MacPhail, 75, Canadian politician and 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.
* Geraint Morgan, 74, British lawyer and politician.
* George Seldes, 104, American investigative journalist.
* Krissy Taylor, 17, American model, asthma.
* Maria Vinogradova, 72, Russian actress.

### 3

* Charley Eckman, 73, American basketball coach and referee, colorectal cancer.
* Ricardo Alonso González, 67, American tennis champion, stomach cancer.
* Bert Hardy, 82, British photographer.
* Alexander Langer, 49, Italian journalist, peace activist, politician, and teacher, suicide.
* Eddie Mazur, 65, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Gil J Wolman, 65, French artist and member of the Ultra-Lettrist movement.

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* Margaret F. Ackroyd, 87, American civil servant from Providence, Rhode Island.
* Andrew John Berger, 79, American ornithologist from the American Museum of Natural History.
* Arsen Diklić, 72, Serbian poet, novelist and film director.
* Seán Fallon, 57, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
* Eva Gabor, 76, Hungarian-American actress (Green Acres, The Aristocats, The Rescuers) and socialite, pneumonia.
* Yevhen Hutsalo, 58, Ukrainian writer and journalist.
* Bharat Rangachary, 41, Indian Bollywood film director and producer.
* Bob Ross, 52, American television painter (The Joy of Painting), lymphoma.
* Gilberto Bosques Saldívar, 102, Mexican diplomat.
* Åke Samuelsson, 81, Swedish footballer.
* Karim Sanjabi, 89, Iranian politician.

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* Bernice Ackerman, 69–70, American meteorologist and first woman weathercaster in the U.S.
* Stepan Bakhayev, 73, Soviet Air Force major and flying ace.
* Renato Baldini, 73, Italian film actor.
* Viktoria Brezhneva, 86, wife of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, diabetes.
* Christian Calmes, 81, Luxembourgish civil servant, lawyer, and historian.
* Johan Koren Christie, 85, Norwegian engineer and air force officer.
* John Dittrich, 62, American gridiron football player.
* Takeo Fukuda, 90, Japanese politician, 46th Prime Minister of Japan, pulmonary emphysema.
* Foster Furcolo, 83, American lawyer, writer, and politician.
* Jüri Järvet, 76, Soviet/Estonian actor and theatre director.
* Ray Nolting, 81, American gridiron football player and college football coach.

### 6

* Saidye Rosner Bronfman, 98, Canadian philanthropist and matriarch of the Bronfman family.
* Philip Clarke, 62, Irish politician, cyclist, and Irish Republican Army member.
* Aziz Nesin, 79, Turkish writer, heart attack.
* Howard Henry Peckham, 84, American historian.
* Eduardo Viso, 75, Spanish football player and football manager.

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* Geoffrey Freeman Allen, 73, British writer on railways.
* Jean Bony, 86, French medieval architectural historian.
* Martin Bucksbaum, 74, American businessman and shopping center development pioneer.
* Marga Höffgen, 74, German contralto.
* Helene Johnson, 89, African-American poet during the Harlem Renaissance.
* Léon Le Calvez, 86, French bicycle racer.
* Eeva-Liisa Manner, 73, Finnish poet and playwright.
* Ralph Neves, 78, American jockey.
* Thomas Tyra, 62, American composer, arranger, and bandmaster.
* Al Unser, 82, American baseball player.

### 8

* Günter Bialas, 87, German composer.
* Paul Bonneau, 76, French conductor, composer and arranger.
* Edmondo Fabbri, 73, Italian football player and coach.
* Jean-Paul Harroy, 86, Belgian colonial civil servant and governor Ruanda-Urundi.
* George Johnson, 74, Canadian medical doctor and political reformer.
* Pál Kovács, 82, Hungarian athlete and Olympian.
* Dorothy Stanley-Turner, 78, English racing driver.
* Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder, 89, Dutch missionary and linguist.

### 9

* Dennis Allen, 56, English football player and manager.
* Kazimierz Godłowski, 60, Polish archeologist and historian.
* Vera Thomas, 73, English table tennis and tennis player.
* James Cameron Tudor, 75, Barbadian politician and diplomat.

### 10

* Mehmet Ali Aybar, 86, Turkish politician and Olympian, heart failure.
* Reds Bagnell, 66, American football player.
* August Belmont IV, 86, American investment banker and thoroughbred racehorse owner.
* James Harvey Brown, 89, American politician and judge.
* Văn Cao, 71, Vietnamese composer.
* Hugh Dundas, 74, British RAF fighter pilot during World War II and television executive .
* Barbara Lyon, 63, American singer and actress, cerebral hemorrhage.

### 11

* John Cruickshank, 70, Irish scholar and writer on the French language, literature and culture.
* David J. Kennedy, 88, American politician.
* Gojko Nikoliš, 83, Yugoslavia/Serbian partisan general, physician, and historian.
* Helma Seitz, 82, German actress.
* Don Starr, 77, American actor, fall.

### 12

* Lennart Ahlin, 78, Swedish sports shooter.
* Michael Clegg, 62, British museum curator, naturalist, and television presenter.
* Earl Coleman, 69, American jazz singer.
* Ashapoorna Devi, 86, Indian novelist and poet.
* Gordon Flemyng, 61, Scottish television and film director.
* Erich Kulka, 84, Czech-Israeli writer, historian and journalist.
* Sean Mayes, 50, British pianist and writer.
* John Yudkin, 84, British physiologist and nutritionist

### 13

* Ali Al-Wardi, 81, Iraqi social scientist.
* Aimé Barelli, 78, French jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and band leader.
* Varyl Begg, 86, British Royal Navy admiral, Alzheimer's disease.
* József Bencsics, 61, Hungarian football player.
* Garth Butler, 72, English footballer.
* Devyani Chaubal, 52–53, Indian journalist and columnist.
* Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, 75, Danish toy manufacturer and managing director of Lego.
* Bilge Karasu, 65, Turkish short story writer and novelist.
* Peter Morrison, 51, British politician.
* Matti Pellonpää, 44, Finnish actor and a musician, heart attack.

### 14

* Elsebeth Brehm, 93, Danish tennis player and Olympic athlete.
* Henri Gastaut, 80, French neurologist and epileptologist.
* Sergey Shupletsov, 25, Russian freestyle skier and Olympic medalist, traffic collision.
* Volodymyr, 69, Ukrainian patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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* Bill Amick, 69, American NASCAR driver.
* Khalid Bakdash, 82–83, Syrian communist politician.
* Delia Bogard, 74, American actress and dancer.
* Sylvia Bossu, 33, French conceptual artist, car accident.
* Robert-Joseph Coffy, 74, French Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Marseille.
* Ivano Staccioli, 68, Italian film actor.

### 16

* Charles Bruck, 84, French-American conductor and teacher.
* Torfi Bryngeirsson, 68, Icelandic athlete who competed in the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics.
* Gustaf Ekström, 87, Swedish chemist, SS volunteer, and politician.
* Mordechai Gur, 65, Israeli military officer and politician, suicide.
* Patsy Ruth Miller, 91, American actress, heart attack.
* Zenonas Puzinauskas, 75, Lithuanian basketball player.
* May Sarton, 83, Belgian-American feminist writer, breast cancer.
* Stephen Spender, 86, English poet and writer.
* Charles Woodbridge, 93, American missionary, minister, and founding member of the National Association of Evangelicals.
* Elvis Álvarez, 30, Colombian flyweight boxer, homicide.

### 17

* Lionel Billas, 66, French long-distance runner who competed in the marathon at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
* Gani Bobi, 51, Albanian philosopher and sociologist from Kosovo.
* Harvey Charters, 83, Canadian flatwater canoeist who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
* Robert Close, 92, Australian novelist.
* Ephraim Evron, 75, Israeli diplomat.
* Juan Manuel Fangio, 84, Argentine race car driver.
* Harry Guardino, 69, American actor (Dirty Harry, The Enforcer, Pork Chop Hill), lung cancer.
* Herb Hippauf, 56, American professional baseball player and scout, cancer.
* Rainer Kunad, 58, German conductor and composer.
* Michael Ljunggren, 33, Swedish outlaw biker and gangster, murdered.

### 18

* Bernard Bolender, 42, American mass murderer, execution by electrocution.
* Fabio Casartelli, 24, Italian cyclist, bicycle crash during the 1995 Tour de France.
* Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, 95, Swedish modern pentathlete and naval officer.
* Ryōichi Sasakawa, 96, Japanese suspected war criminal, businessman, politician, and philanthropist.
* Subagio Sastrowardoyo, 71, Indonesian poet, short-story writer, essayist and literary critic.
* Princess Srinagarindra, The Princess Mother of Thailand, 94, Thai princess, kidney disease.

### 19

* Michael Andrews, 66, British painter.
* Balakrishna, 78, Indian actor.
* Sydney Lipton, 89, British dance band leader.
* Brian Lloyd, 68, English rower and Olympian.
* Víctor Manuel Mendoza, 81, Mexican film actor.
* Tomás Méndez, 68, Mexican composer and singer of Mexican music and ranchera music.
* Kim Pong-ryul, 77, North Korean general of the Korean People's Army.
* René Privat, 64, French road bicycle racer.

### 20

* Pierre Barbet, 70, French science fiction writer.
* Bernard Callinan, 82, Australian soldier, civil engineer, businessman, and sport administrator.
* Cesare Emiliani, 72, Italian-American scientist, geologist, micropaleontologist, and founder of paleoceanography.
* Helmut Gernsheim, 82, German photographer, collector and historian.
* Ernest Mandel, 72, Belgian Marxian economist and a Trotskyist activist and theorist, heart attack.
* Natalia Shpiller, 85, Czech-Russian operatic soprano and a People's Artist of Russia.
* Raimundo Tupper, 26, Chilean football player, suicide.

### 21

* Viktor Barannikov, 54, Soviet Interior Minister in 1991 and Russia Minister from 1992 to 1993.
* Yves Cros, 71, French athlete and Olympian.
* Heinrich Dumoulin, 90, German Jesuit theologian, philosopher and author.
* Jon Hinson, 53, American politician.
* Sajjad Hussain, 78, Indian film score composer.
* Claude McLin, 69, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
* Elleston Trevor, 75, British novelist and playwright.
* Michael Wisher, 60, English actor (Doctor Who).

### 22

* Tami Ben-Ami, 39–40, Israeli supermodel, cervical cancer.
* Jack Bergin, 74, New Zealand neurologist.
* Otakar Borůvka, 96, Czech mathematician known for his contribution to graph theory.
* Dave Clark, 86, pioneering African-American record promoter.
* Daniel Dixon, 2nd Baron Glentoran, 83, Northern Ireland soldier and politician.
* Percy Humphrey, 90, American jazz trumpeter and band leader.
* Roly Jenkins, 76, English cricketeer.
* Harold Larwood, 90, British cricket player.
* Elyse Pahler, 15, American high school freshman.
* Shiva Kumar Rai, 76, Indian writer and politician.
* Joshua Smith, 90, Australian artist.

### 23

* Ray Beverton, 72, British biologist who made important contributions to fisheries science.
* Vernon Cheadle, 85, American botanist, educator and university administrator.
* Chuck Hanger, 71, American basketball player.
* Mario Passano, 70, Argentine film actor and tango performer, heart attack.
* Berta Scharrer, 88, American scientist.
* Trần Kim Tuyến, 70, Vietnamese diplomat and Chief of intelligence of South Vietnam.
* Kees Verwey, 95, Dutch painter.

### 24

* Sadik Achmet, 48, Greek medical doctor and politician, traffic collision.
* Turan Amirsoleimani, 90, Iranian royal.
* Martha Boaz, 83, American librarian.
* Endre Bán, 61, Hungarian Catholic priest, theologian, and professor.
* Judith Dvorkin, 67, American composer and librettist.
* Hassan Katsina, 62, Nigerian general and last Governor of Northern Nigeria.
* Jerry Lordan, 61, English songwriter, composer and singer, acute renal failure.
* Jerzy Toeplitz, 85, Russian film maker.
* Hans Wind, 75, Finnish fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.

### 25

* Janice Elliott, 63, English fiction writer, journalist and children's writer.
* Eddie Isbey, 77, New Zealand politician.
* Rosalia Maggio, 74, Italian actress, dancer, singer and showgirl, cancer.
* Osvaldo Pugliese, 89, Argentine tango musician.
* Charlie Rich, 62, American singer, pulmonary embolism.
* Hermine Tobolowsky, 74, American Equal Rights Amendment activist.

### 26

* Doris Akers, 72, American gospel music composer, arranger and singer, spinal cord neoplasm.
* Laurindo Almeida, 77, Brazilian guitarist and composer in classical, jazz, and Latin music, cancer.
* Jaime de Mora y Aragón, 70, Spanish aristocrat and actor.
* Gawain Westray Bell, 86, British colonial administrator and Governor of Northern Nigeria.
* Sam Benson, 86, Australian politician.
* Eleanore Griffin, 91, American screenwriter (Boys Town), Oscar winner (1939).
* Heinrich Heesch, 89, German mathematician.
* Baruch Korff, 81, Ukrainian-American Orthodox rabbi and American-Jewish community activist.
* Pietro Leoni, 86, Mexican Dominican priest.
* Boy Lornsen, 72, German sculptor and children's author.
* Raymond Mailloux, 77, Canadian politician and Cabinet Minister.
* George Rodger, 87, British photojournalist.
* George W. Romney, 88, American politician and 43rd Governor of Michigan and father of Mitt Romney, heart attack.
* Ismayil Shykhly, 76, Azerbaijani writer.

### 27

* Iza Bieżuńska-Małowist, 78, Polish historian and professor at the University of Warsaw.
* Don Carpenter, 64, American novelist and playwright, suicide .
* Vladimír Dzurilla, 52, Slovak ice hockey goaltender and Olympian.
* Melih Esenbel, 80, Turkish diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
* Rick Ferrell, 89, American Major League Baseball baseball player, coach, and scout.
* Miklós Rózsa, 88, Hungarian film composer (Ben-Hur, Spellbound, The Thief of Baghdad), Oscar winner (1946, 1948, 1960).

### 28

* Susie Cooper, 92, British artist.
* Douglas Dalton, 82, New Zealand rugby player.
* Eddie Hinton, 51, American songwriter and session musician.
* Casper Oimoen, 89, American ski jumper.

### 29

* Juozas Bulavas, 86, Lithuanian legal scholar, academic, and politician.
* Philippe De Lacy, 78, French-American silent film era child actor, cancer.
* Les Elgart, 77, American swing jazz bandleader and trumpeter.
* Canray Fontenot, 72, American Creole fiddle player.
* Kurt Gudewill, 84, German musicologist.
* Leo Kofler, 88, Austrian-German Marxist sociologist.
* Miklós Meszéna, 54, Hungarian fencer.
* Kevin Tame, 63, Australian footballer.
* Severino Varela, 81, Uruguayan football player.

### 30

* Nalin Angammana, 49–50, Sri Lanka Army officer, homicide.
* Aleksander Bardini, 81, Polish theatre and opera director, actor, and educator.
* Pelle Christensen, 72, Norwegian actor and translator.
* Nando Cicero, 64, Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.
* Charles Dunn, 80, British japanologist from the SOAS University of London.
* Alfredo Giannetti, 71, Italian screenwriter and film director.
* Anthony Jennings, 50, New Zealand harpsichordist, organist, director, and academic.
* Harry L. Shorto, 75, British linguist and leading scholar of Mon and Khmer languages.
* Verner E. Suomi, 79, Finnish-American educator, inventor, and scientist.

### 31

* Joan Embury Cochran, 82, New Zealand social reformer and sex educator.
* Bernhard Jope, 81, German Luftwaffe bomber pilot during World War II.
* Thomas E. Morgan, 88, American politician.
* Genevieve Tobin, 95, American actress.
* Lola Todd, 91, American silent film era actress.