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

## January 1995
### 1

* Wilhelm Altar, 94, Austrian theoretical physicist and magneto ionic theory pioneer.
* Jack Birney, 66, Australian politician.
* Bill Bryant, 88, Australian cricketer.
* Warren Caro, 87, American theater executive.
* Ted Hawkins, 58, American singer-songwriter.
* Nina Leen, 90, Russian-born American photographer for Life.
* J. Miller Leavy, 89, American prosecuting lawyer.
* Ralph W. Nicholson, 78, American civil servant, military officer, and business executive.
* Jess Stacy, 90, American jazz pianist who played with Benny Goodman.
* Jack G. Thayer, 72, American radio executive and disc jockey.
* Ralph E. Van Norstrand, 57, American politician who was Republican Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
* Arthur Earl Walker, 87, Canadian-American neurosurgeon, neuroscientist and epileptologist.
* Fred West, 53, English serial killer, suicide.
* Eugene Wigner, 92, Hungarian physicist Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, pneumonia.

### 2

* Hulbert Aldrich, 87, American banking executive who led the New York Trust Company.
* Ephraim Amu, 95, Ghanaian composer, musicologist and teacher.
* Joe Balsis, 73–74, American professional pool player.
* Siad Barre, 84–85, Somalian military leader and statesman, 3rd President of Somalia, heart attack.
* Don Elston, 65, American baseball player.
* Tun Mustapha, 76, Malaysian politician and Chief Minister of Sabah.
* Nancy Kelly, 73, American actress, diabetes.
* Keith McDaniel, 38, American principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and on Broadway.
* Manuel Rivera, 67, Spanish painter.
* Henry Graham Sharp, 77, British figure skater and world champion in 1939.

### 3

* Ollie Bejma, 87, American Major League Baseball infielder (Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns).
* Philip Burton, 86, Irish Fine Gael politician, farmer and auctioneer.
* Al Duncan, 67, American blues drummer.
* Mickey Haefner, 82, All American baseball player.
* Roland Harrah III, 21, American film and television child actor, musician, and artist, suicide.
* Arne Hestenes, 74, Norwegian journalist and author.
* Byron MacGregor, 46, Canadian news anchor and news director.
* Robert Marquis, 67–68, German-American architect and academic, complication during surgery.
* Robert Nesbitt, 88, English theatre director, theatrical producer and impresario.
* Edward Nugent, 90, American actor, writer, and director.
* Andrija Puharich, 76, American physician.
* Robley C. Williams, 86, pioneering American biophysicist and virologist.

### 4

* Naomi Amir, 63, American-Israeli pediatric neurologist.
* Ramón Artigas, 86, Spanish swimmer and Olympic athlete.
* Vladas Drėma, 84, Lithuanian historian.
* Dorothy Granger, 83, American actress, cancer.
* Harry Gumbert, 85, American baseball player.
* Jim Lee Howell, 80, American football player and coach for the NFL's New York Giants.
* Robert Latham, 82, British editor, scholar, and Pepys Librarian.
* Eduardo Mata, 52, Mexican conductor and composer, plane crash.
* Valery Nosik, 54, Soviet/Russian actor.
* Victor Riesel, 81, American newspaper journalist and columnist, heart failure.
* Heshmat Sanjari, 77, Iranian conductor and composer.
* Brooks Stevens, 83, American graphic and industrial designer.
* Sol Tax, 87, American anthropologist who founded the academic journal Current Anthropology.

### 5

* Semi Joseph Begun, 89, German-American engineer and inventor.
* Somerset de Chair, 83, English author, politician, and poet.
* Victor Mitchell, 71, American bridge player.
* Ben Rich, 69, American engineer and the second Director of Lockheed's Skunk Works from 1975 to 1991, esophageal cancer.
* Mansour Sattari, 46, Iranian Air Force leader, plane crash.
* Kiyoo Wadati, 92, Japanese seismologist.

### 6

* Robert Abajian, 62, American fashion designer and fashion industry executive.
* Paul-Émile Allard, 74, Canadian provincial politician.
* Philip Brady, 101, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
* James Clay, 59, American jazz tenor saxophonist and flutist.
* Todor Diev, 60, Bulgarian football player.
* Agustín Gaínza, 72, Spanish football player.
* Joe Slovo, 68, ANC activist and South African minister of Housing, cancer.

### 7

* Ali Aliyev, 57, Soviet freestyle wrestler of Avar-Dagestani descent.
* Harry Golombek, 83, British chess grandmaster, chess correspondent, and author of more than 30 books on chess.
* Larry Grayson, 71, English comedian and television presenter.
* Arthur Leavins, 77, British violinist who was concertmaster of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
* Walter Rand, 75, American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey.
* Murray Rothbard, 68, American economist, heart attack.
* Art Stoefen, 80, American basketball player.
* Ted Tetzlaff, 91, American cinematographer.

### 8

* Hugó Ballya, 86, Hungarian rower who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
* Beatrice Burnham, 92, American silent film actress.
* Lemuel Diggs, 95, American pathologist who specialized in sickle cell anemia and hematology.
* Loulou Gasté, 86, French composer, songwriter.
* Madhu Limaye, 72, Indian socialist essayist and activist, particularly active in the 1970s.
* Carlos Monzón, 52, Argentine boxer, traffic accident.
* Sylvia B. Seaman, 94, American novelist and suffragist.
* Cao Tianqin, 74, Chinese biochemist.

### 9

* Óscar Mendoza Azurdia, 77, Guatemalan general and military junta leader.
* Jan Bauch, 96, Czech painter and sculptor.
* Gordon Bruce, 64, Australian politician.
* Peter Cook, 57, English comedian and writer, gastrointestinal bleeding.
* Sterling Dow, 91, American classical archaeologist, epigrapher, and professor of archaeology at Harvard University.
* Gisela Mauermayer, 81, German discus thrower.
* Ralph Merrifield, 81, English museum curator and archaeologist who was director of the Museum of London.
* Stig Sjölin, 66, Swedish boxer.
* Souphanouvong, 85, Laotian royal prince and Communist leader, 1st President of Laos.
* Xie Youfa, 77, Chinese lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army.

### 10

* Roy Ashton, 85, Australian makeup artist and tenor.
* John H. Bloomer, 64, American attorney and politician who served as President of the Vermont State Senate, accident.
* Crosby Bonsall, 74, American artist and children's book author and illustrator.
* Fred Böhler, 82, Swiss jazz keyboardist and bandleader.
* Nicholas Cavaliere, 95, American cinematographer.
* Boris Gurevich, 63, Soviet/Russian flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler.
* George McNeil, 86, American abstract expressionist painter.
* Michael Meinecke, 53, German art historian, archaeologist, and museum director.
* Scotty Rankine, 86, Canadian long-distance runner.
* Arthur Ruysschaert, 84, Belgian football player.
* Roderick Stephens, 85–86, American sailor and yacht designer.
* Kathleen Tynan, 57, Canadian-British journalist, author, and screenwriter, cancer.

### 11

* Raf Baldassarre, 62, Italian film actor.
* Ignacio Matte Blanco, 86, Chilean psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
* John Gere, 73, English art historian and curator at the British Museum.
* Josef Gingold, 85, Russian-American violinist.
* Mildred Barry Hughes, 92, American politician who was the first woman elected to the New Jersey Senate.
* Onat Kutlar, 58, Turkish writer, journalist, and poet, bomb attack.
* Denis Neville, 79, English football player and manager.
* Lewis Nixon III, 76, United States Army officer, diabetes.
* Peter Pratt, 71, British opera singer and actor.
* Roque Esteban Scarpa, 80, Chilean writer, literary critic and scholar.
* Hannes Trautloft, 82, German Luftwaffe flying ace during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
* Theodor Wisch, 87, German Waffen-SS general during World War II.
* Paul Zumthor, 79, Swiss philologist.

### 12

* Kay Aldridge, 77, American actress, lung cancer.
* Tino Carraro, 84, Italian stage, television and film actor.
* Henry Cieman, 89–90, Canadian racewalker and Olympian.
* Robert R. Coats, 84, American geologist.
* Raymond George, 77, American gridiron football player and coach.
* Takako Irie, 83, Japanese actress, pneumonia.
* Jack Lee, 74, English football player.
* George Price, 93, American cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine for six decades.
* Kenneth Sterling, 74, American medical doctor and researcher.

### 13

* Johnny Carroll, 57, American rockabilly musician, liver failure.
* Richard Causton, 74, British businessman and author on Buddhism.
* Max Harris, 73, Australian poet, critic, columnist, commentator, publisher, and bookseller.
* Ray Johnson, 67, American artist, suicide.
* David Looker, 81, British bobsledder.
* Walter Sheridan, 69, American Federal investigator who prosecuted Jimmy Hoffa.
* Mervyn Stockwood, 81, Welsh Church of England priest.
* Zsigmond Villányi, 45, Hungarian modern pentathlete.

### 14

* Joe Mike Augustine, 83, native leader and historian of the Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation.
* Huang Chieh, 93, Taiwanese politician and general.
* Mark Finch, 33, English promoter of LGBTQ cinema, suicide.
* Alexander Gibson, 68, Scottish conductor.
* Barbara Jelavich, 71, American professor of history at Indiana University, cancer.
* David Elliot Johnson, 61, American 14th Bishop of Massachusetts in The Episcopal Church.
* Daniel Robbins, 62, American art historian, art critic, and curator, cancer.
* Stafford Somerfield, 84, British newspaper editor.
* Ruby Starr, 45, American rock singer and recording artist, cancer.
* Amos N. Wilson, 53, American writer.

### 15

* Jef Bruyninckx, 76, Belgian actor, editor and director.
* Cleo Rickman Fitch, 84, American archaeological researcher.
* Josef Kemr, 72, Czech actor.
* Vera Maxwell, 93, American sportswear and fashion designer.
* Vitaly Parkhimovich, 51, Soviet /Russiansport shooter.
* Frederick J. Schlink, 103, American consumer rights activist.

### 16

* Abel Cestac, 76, Argentine boxer.
* John Charters, 81, New Zealand rower and Olympic medalist.
* Paul Delouvrier, 80, French administrator and economist.
* Bill Dillard, 83, American jazz trumpeter.
* Eric Mottram, 70, British teacher, critic, editor and poet.

### 17

* Evadne Baker, 57, English actress.
* Rolf Böger, 86, German politician of the Free Democratic Party.
* Éamonn Goulding, 61, Irish hurler and Gaelic football player.
* Wilhelm Haferkamp, 71, German politician.
* Miguel Torga, 87, Portuguese writer.

### 18

* Kay B. Barrett, 92, Hollywood talent scout and agent known for her impact on Gone with the Wind, stroke.
* Adolf Butenandt, 91, German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
* Clifford Fagan, 83, American basketball player.
* Roger Gilson, 47, Luxembourgish cyclist.
* Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, 79, Lithuanian-British industrialist.
* Ron Luciano, 57, American Major League Baseball umpire, suicide.
* Ján Takáč, 85, Slovak long-distance runner.

### 19

* Roy Barratt, 52, English cricketer.
* Reinhard Böhler, 49–50, German sidecarcross rider and the first-ever Sidecarcross World Championship.
* Daryl Chapin, 88, American physicist, best known for co-inventing solar cells.
* John Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray, 84, British peer, businessman and polo player.
* Hubert Fol, 69, French jazz saxophonist and bandleader.
* Hermann Henselmann, 89, German architect.
* Gene MacLellan, 56, Canadian singer-songwriter ("Snowbird", "Put Your Hand in the Hand", "The Call"), suicide.
* Patricia Teherán Romero, 25, Colombian singer and composer, traffic collision.
* Italo Viglianesi, 79, Italian trade unionist politician and syndicalist.

### 20

* Thomas Arbuthnott, 83, New Zealand boxer.
* Mehdi Bazargan, 87, 46th Prime Minister of Iran, heart attack.
* Garrett Howard, 95, Irish hurler.
* Nobuo Kaneko, 71, Japanese actor.
* Arthur MacDonald, 75, Australian Army officer and Chief of the General Staff.
* Norris Weese, 43, American gridiron football player, bone cancer.

### 21

* Armando Alemán, 90, Spanish fencer.
* Russ Bauers, 80, Major League Baseball player.
* Kenneth Budd, 69, English mural artist.
* Philippe Casado, 30, French professional road bicycle racer.
* Alex Groza, 68, American basketball player.
* John Halas, 82, Hungarian animator.
* Edward Hidalgo, 82, United States Secretary of the Navy in the Carter administration.
* Joseph Mruk, 91, American businessman and Republican politician.
* Bernard L. Oser, 95, American biochemist and food scientist.
* Sidney Slon, 84, American radio and television writer and actor.
* John Coyle White, 70, American chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

### 22

* Jerry Blackwell, 45, professional wrestler, pneumonia.
* Stuart Davies, 88, British aerospace engineer.
* Lawrie Fernandes, 66, Indian field hockey player.
* Henry Gladstone, American radio newscaster and actor, heart failure.
* Rose Kennedy, 104, American philanthropist, pneumonia.
* Christopher Palmer, 48, British composer.
* Giulio Turcato, 82, Italian artist.

### 23

* Donald Collier, 83, American archaeologist, ethnologist, and museologist.
* Albertis Harrison, 88, American politician and jurist who was the 59th Governor of Virginia.
* Ken Hill, 57, English playwright and director, cancer.
* Peter Luke, 75, British writer, editor, and producer.
* Carl Mulleneaux, 80, American gridiron football player.
* Nilesh Naik, 24, Indian environmental activist.
* Helen Phillips, 81, American sculptor.
* Saul Rogovin, 72, American professional baseball player, bone cancer.
* Edward Shils, 84, American sociologist and professor at the University of Chicago.
* Egidio Viganò, 74, Italian Roman Catholic priest.

### 24

* Alf Clay, 81, Australian rules footballer.
* David Cole, 32, American record producer, meningitis.
* Edward Colman, 89, American cinematographer (Mary Poppins, The Absent-Minded Professor, That Darn Cat!).
* Leopoldo Máximo Falicov, 61, Argentine theoretical physicist.
* Al Hessberg, 78, American college football player and lawyer.
* Anton Idzkovsky, 87, Ukrainian football player and manager.
* Regina Linnanheimo, 79, Finnish actor and screenwriter.
* Victor Reinganum, 87–88, British artist and illustrator.
* Kermit Smith Jr., 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

### 25

* George P. Baker, 91, fifth dean of the Harvard Business School.
* Fritz Dorls, 84, German far-right politician and former Nazi Party member.
* Erich Hof, 58, Austrian football player and coach, lung cancer.
* John Smith, 63, American actor (Laramie, Cimarron City, Circus World), cirrhosis.
* Suzanne Storrs, 60, American beauty queen and actress.
* William Sylvester, 72, American actor (2001: A Space Odyssey, Gemini Man, Gorgo).
* Albert W. Tucker, 89, Canadian mathematician.

### 26

* Ole Ålgård, 74, Norwegian diplomat.
* Franz Allers, 89, American conductor.
* Charles Altemose, 81, American soccer player.
* Marcel Bidot, 92, French professional road bicycle racer who won two stages of the Tour de France.
* Vic Buckingham, 79, English footballer and manager.
* William Cammisano, 80, American mobster and member of the Kansas City crime family, kidney failure.
* Louis Heren, 75, British journalist.
* Alaric Jacob, 85, British writer.
* Bernardo Leighton, 85, Chilian politician, cardiovascular disease.
* Gordon Oliver, 84, American actor and film producer.
* Geoffrey Parsons, 65, Australian pianist, cancer.
* John Vaughan-Morgan, Baron Reigate, 89, British politician.
* Cecil Roy, 94, American actress.
* Zeng Shaoshan, 80, Chinese politician.
* Ian Tomlinson, 58, Australian triple jumper and long jumper.
* Pat Welsh, 79, American actress (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), pneumonia.

### 27

* Raynald Arseneault, 49, Canadian composer and organist.
* Alexis Brimeyer, 48, pretender who claimed connection to various European thrones, AIDS-related complications.
* Bob Chandler, 45, American gridiron football player, lung cancer.
* Richard A. Moore, 81, American lawyer and communications executive and ambassador, prostate cancer.
* Raphael M. Robinson, 83, American mathematician.
* Jean Tardieu, 91, French dramatist, artist, and musician.

### 28

* Philip Burton, 90, Welsh theatre director, producer, and teacher.
* Aldo Gordini, 73, French racecar driver.
* James P. Grant, 72, Canadian-American diplomat, children's advocate, and Director of UNICEF.
* Richard L. Roudebush, 77, U.S. Representative from Indiana.
* Ferruccio Tagliavini, 81, Italian opera singer.
* George Woodcock, 82, Canadian writer, philosopher, essayist and literary critic.

### 29

* Antonio Brivio, 89, Italian bobsledder and racing driver.
* Dickie Burnell, 77, English rower and fold medalist.
* Guy Clutton-Brock, 88, English social worker and later a Zimbabwean nationalist.
* Joseph Aubin Doiron, 72, Canadian politician.
* Kuldar Sink, 52, Estonian composer and flautist.
* Song Sung-il, 25, South Korean wrestler, stomach cancer.

### 30

* Angela Calomiris, 78, American photographer and secret FBI informant.
* Robert Craig, 77, Scottish academic and church leader.
* Mumtaz Daultana, 78, Indian politician.
* Gerald Durrell, 70, British naturalist, author, and television presenter.
* George James, 88, American jazz saxophonist.
* Arthur Julian, 71, American television writer and producer (Gimme a Break!, Amen, The Carol Burnett Show).
* Olga Modrachová, 64, Czechoslovak high jumper, pentathlete, long jumper, sprinter and hurdler.
* George Poyser, 84, English footballer and manager.

### 31

* George Abbott, 107, American writer, director, and producer, stroke.
* Leo Joseph Brust, 79, American Catholic bishop.
* Paul Collins, 68, Canadian long-distance runner and Olympic athlete.
* Bernard N. Fields, 56, American microbiologist and virologist, pancreatic cancer.
* James Johnson, 86, English MP..
* Gerhart Lüders, 74, German physicist.
* Kerttu Saalasti, 87, Finnish politician.
* John Smith, 74, longtime chairman of Liverpool F.C.
* George Stibitz, 90, American computational engineer.
* James Wilson, 94, American long-distance motorcyclist and author.