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

## March 1994
### 1

* Manmohan Desai, 57, Indian film producer and director.
* Eliseo Diego, 74, Cuban poet and writer of short stories.
* Ludwig Günderoth, 83, German football player and manager.
* Alexei Haieff, 79, American composer of orchestral and choral works.
* Herbert Schade, 71, West German long-distance runner and Olympian.
* Dallas Shirley, 80, American basketball referee.
* Armonía Somers, 79, Uruguayan feminist, pedagogue, and novelist.
* Tim Souster, 51, British composer and writer on music.
* Ethel Terrell, 68, American politician.
* Joe Tipton, 72, American baseball player.

### 2

* Kleggie Hermsen, 70, American basketball player.
* Walter Kent, 82, American composer and conductor.
* Giuseppe La Loggia, 82, Italian politician, lawyer and teacher.
* Donald M. MacKinnon, 80, Scottish philosopher and theologian.
* Anita Morris, 50, American actress, singer and dancer, ovarian cancer.
* Yevgeniya Zhigulenko, 73, Soviet pilot and navigator during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union.

### 3

* Ida Gramcko, 69, Venezuelan essayist and poet.
* Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, 75, Composer and music editor.
* Karel Kryl, 49, Czechoslovak poet, singer-songwriter and activist, heart attack.
* Bilge Olgaç, 54, Turkish film director.
* Ezra Stone, 76, American actor and director, traffic collision.
* Lars Widding, 69, Swedish author and journalist.
* John Edward Williams, 71, American author, editor and professor.
* Gary Wood, 52, American gridiron football player.

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* Gianni Agus, 76, Italian actor.
* Aníbal, 53, Mexican Luchador (professional wrestler), brain cancer.
* John Candy, 43, Canadian actor (Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Spaceballs, Uncle Buck) and comedian, Emmy winner (1982, 1983), heart attack.
* George Edward Hughes, 75, Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician.
* Marie-Joseph Lemieux, 91, Canadian Catholic archbishop and Holy See diplomat.

### 5

* Abdullah as-Sallal, 77, President of the Yemen Arab Republic.
* Joseph Birdsell, 85, American anthropologist.
* Arnold Brown, 66, Canadian politician.
* Jan Dobraczyński, 83, Polish writer, novelist, and politician.
* Abd El-Karim Sakr, 75, Egyptian football player.

### 6

* Tengiz Abuladze, 70, Georgian film director, screenwriter, and theatre teacher.
* Mane Bajić, 52, Serbian midfielder, traffic collision.
* Larry Eyler, 41, American serial killer, AIDS-related complications.
* Yvonne Fair, 51, American singer, cancer.
* Conrad Heidkamp, 88, German football player and manager.
* Melina Mercouri, 73, Greek actress, singer, activist and politician, cancer.
* Tony Momsen, 66, American gridiron football player.
* Ken Noritake, 71, Japanese football player.

### 7

* Ray Arcel, 94, American boxing trainer.
* Fortunato Arena, 71, Italian stuntman and actor.
* James Hannigan, 65, Irish-prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Stew Hofferth, 81, American baseball player.

### 8

* Mervyn Brogan, 79, Australian Army general.
* Leonard K. Carson, 70, American Air Force fighter ace.
* Rosemary Du Cros, 92, British aviation pioneer.
* John Ewart, 66, Australian actor, head and neck cancer.
* Knut Haukelid, 82, Norwegian military officer.
* Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya, 86, Russian memoirist and Gulag prisoner.
* Yvonne Martin, 82, French film editor.
* Brian McGowan, 58, Australian politician.
* Jack Spector, 65, American radio DJ and TV host, heart attack.

### 9

* Zoltán Beke, 82, Romanian football player and coach.
* Karl Wilhelm Berkhan, 78, American politician.
* Wilhelm Brese, 97, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Charles Bukowski, 73, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer, leukemia.
* Paul Dubreil, 90, French mathematician.
* Elbie Fletcher, 77, American baseball player.
* Jon Kimche, 84, Swiss-British journalist and historian.
* Moe Purtill, 77, American swing jazz drummer.
* Devika Rani, 85, Indian actress.
* Fernando Rey, 76, Spanish actor, bladder cancer.
* Lawrence E. Spivak, 93, American publisher and journalist.

### 10

* Roger Bocquet, 72, Swiss football player.
* Rupert Bruce-Mitford, 79, British archaeologist and scholar.
* Aurelio Galleppini, 76, Italian comics artist and illustrator.
* Pierre-Olivier Lapie, 92, French essayist and novelist.
* Robert Shea, 61, American novelist and journalist.

### 11

* Fausta Cialente, 95, Italian novelist, journalist and political activist.
* Evelyn Gardner, 90, British socialite.
* Aldo Puccinelli, 73, Italian football player and manager.
* Kaku Takashina, 75, Japanese actor.
* Brenda Wootton, 66, English folk singer and poet.

### 12

* Gordy Coleman, 59, American baseball player.
* Philippe Daudy, 68, French member of the French Resistance, journalist, and novelist.
* Frank Gorrell, 66, American politician, choking incident.
* Don Joseph, 70, American jazz musician.
* Mehmed Orhan, 84, Ottoman prince and head of the Ottoman dynasty.

### 13

* Danny Barker, 85, American jazz musician, vocalist, and author .
* Jean Gourguet, 91, French film director, screenwriter and film producer.
* Sam Ranzino, 66, American college and basketball player.
* Martha Esther Rogers, 79, American nurse, theorist, and author.
* Buddy Rosar, 79, American baseball player.
* Eva Gräfin Finck von Finckenstein, 90, American politician.
* John Yeon, 83, American architect, heart failure.

### 14

* Tei Abal, 61-62, Papua New Guinean politician.
* Sally Belfrage, 57, American writer and journalist, cancer.
* Serge Blusson, 65, French cyclist and Olympian.
* Tony Freitas, 85, American baseball player.
* Otto Hartmann, 90, Austrian stage and film actor.
* Sheila Humphreys, 95, Irish political activist.
* Willie Hobbs Moore, 59, American physicist and engineer, cancer.
* Floyd Reid, 66, American gridiron football player.
* Indra Sen, 90, Indian psychologist.
* Georges Claes sr., 74, Belgian racing cyclist.

### 15

* Charlie Bivins, 55, American gridiron football player.
* Bill Green, 53, American basketball player.
* Jack Hargreaves, 82, English television presenter and writer.
* M. K. Indira, 77, Indian novelist.
* Tom Kirk, 77, Australian rugby player.
* Josef Kohout, 79, Austrian Nazi concentration camp survivor and author.
* Jürgen Manger, 71, German actor and comedian.

### 16

* Albert Bühlmann, 70, Swiss physician, heart failure.
* Nicolas Flagello, 66, American composer and conductor of classical music.
* Richard Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford, 86, British politician.
* Mykola Kudrytsky, 31, Ukrainian football player, traffic collision.
* Eric Show, 37, American Major League Baseball player, drug overdose.
* Kantarō Suga, 59, Japanese actor, traffic accident.

### 17

* Kalyan Bulchand Advani, 82, Indian poet, critic, and scholar.
* Charlotte Auerbach, 94, German geneticist.
* Wilson Homer Elkins, 85, American educator and university administrator.
* Walter Janka, 79, German communist, political activist and writer.
* Elenjikal Chandy Kuruvila, 71, Indian Navy flag officer.
* Ellsworth Vines, 82, American tennis champion
* Mai Zetterling, 68, Swedish actress, novelist and film director, cancer.

### 18

* Mehboob Alam, 46, Pakistani actor.
* William Bergsma, 72, American composer and teacher, heart attack.
* Peter Borgelt, 66, German television actor, cancer.
* Yehia Chahine, 76, Egyptian film producer and actor.
* Andrew Crawford, 76, Scottish actor.
* David Ginsburg, 73, British politician.
* Erwin Kohn, 82, Austrian table tennis player.
* Günter Mittag, 67, German politician.

### 19

* Rafig Babayev, 56, Azerbaijani jazz musician and author of scores for films, terrorist attack.
* José Coronel Hurtecho, 88, Nicaraguan poet, critic, playwright, and diplomat.
* Jim Lawrence, 75, American author.
* Josef Meixner, 85, German theoretical physicist.
* Charles Paris, 82, American comic book artist.
* Benjamin Clemens Stone, 60, British–American botanist.

### 20

* Ilaria Alpi, 32, Italian journalist, killed in ambush.
* Ramón Camps, 67, Argentine general during the dirty war, prostate cancer.
* Irvin Flores, 69, Puerto Rican political activist.
* Lewis Grizzard, 47, American writer and humorist.
* Reg Groth, 80, Australian politician.
* Miran Hrovatin, 44, Italian photographer and camera operator, killed in ambush.
* Alfonso Rodríguez Salas, 54, Spanish football player, colorectal cancer.

### 21

* Macdonald Carey, 81, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Shadow of a Doubt, Lock-Up), lung cancer.
* Lili Damita, 89, French-American actress and singer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Franz Pelikan, 68, Austrian football goalkeeper.
* Dack Rambo, 52, American actor (Dallas, The Guns of Will Sonnett, The Loretta Young Show), AIDS-related complications.

### 22

* Dan Hartman, 43, American musician and record producer, AIDS-related complications.
* Horton Holcombe Hobbs, Jr., 79, American taxonomist and carcinologist.
* Walter Lantz, 94, American cartoonist and animator (Woody Woodpecker), heart failure.
* Ulrich Poltera, 71, Swiss ice hockey player.

### 23

* Luis Donaldo Colosio, 44, Mexican economist and politician, homicide.
* Nancy Cárdenas, 59, Mexican actor, poet, writer and feminist.
* Álvaro del Portillo, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop and prelate of Opus Dei.
* Giulietta Masina, 73, Italian film actress, lung cancer.
* Goar Mestre, 81, Cuban-Argentine businessman, cancer.
* Donald Swann, 70, Welsh musician, singer and entertainer, cancer.
* Paula Trueman, 96, American actress (The Outlaw Josey Wales, Dirty Dancing, Moonstruck).
* Valentina Vladimirova, 66, Ukrainian-Russian actress.
* Roger Wolff, 82, American baseball player.

### 24

* Zbigniew Gołąb, 71, Polish-American linguist and slavist.
* Hans Jakob, 85, German football player.
* John L. May, 71, American Roman Catholic archbishop, brain cancer.
* Walle Nauta, 77, Dutch-American neuroscientist.
* Edith Porada, 81, Austrian-American art historian and archaeologist.
* David van Vactor, 87, American composer of contemporary classical music.
* Jiang Yizhen, 79, Chinese communist politician.

### 25

* Rudi Feld, 97, German art director and set designer.
* Angelines Fernández, 69, Spanish-Mexican actress and comedian, lung cancer.
* Bernard Kangro, 83, Estonian writer and poet.
* Max Petitpierre, 95, Swiss politician and jurist.
* Jesus M. Vargas, 89, Filipino politician.

### 26

* Dame Whina Cooper, 98, New Zealand Māori leader.
* Wadad Hamdi, 70, Egyptian actress, stabbed.
* Owen McCann, 86, South African Catholic cardinal and journalist.
* Margaret Millar, 79, American-Canadian writer.

### 27

* Otto Bonsema, 84, Dutch football player and manager.
* Frances Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Kingsbridge, 87, British writer and biographer.
* Elisabeth Schmid, 81, German archaeologist and osteologist.
* Lawrence Wetherby, 86, American politician.

### 28

* Richard Brandram, 82, British Army officer.
* Albert Goldman, 66, American academic and author.
* Ștefan Gușă, 53, Romanian general, cancer.
* Eugène Ionesco, 84, Romanian-French playwright.
* Cyrus Longworth Lundell, 86, American botanist.
* Ira Murchison, 61, American sprinter and Olympic champion, cancer.
* Wendell Niles, 89, American radio and television announcer, cancer.

### 29

* Paul Grimault, 89, French animator.
* Lynda Hull, 39, American poet, car accident.
* William Huston Natcher, 84, American politician.
* Charles Oser, 92, American politician.
* Bill Travers, 72, British actor, screenwriter, and animal rights activist.
* Jiang Zehan, 91, Chinese mathematician.

### 30

* Ina Hooft, 100, Dutch painter.
* Leslie Howard Saunders, 94, Canadian politician and Mayor of Toronto.
* William Arthur Ward, 72, American motivational writer.
* Sid Weiss, 79, American jazz double-bassist.

### 31

* Léon Degrelle, 87, Belgian politician and nazi collaborator, heart attack.
* Henri Gouhier, 94, French philosopher and literary critic.
* William Henry Hance, 42, American soldier and serial killer, execution by electrocution.
* Medea Japaridze, 71, Soviet/Georgian actress.
* Mohibullah "Mo" Khan, 56, Pakistani squash player.
* José Escobar Saliente, 85, Spanish comic book writer and artist.