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

## February 1995
### 1

* Róbert Antal, 73, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic gold medalist.
* Joe Bacuzzi, 78, English footballer and coach.
* Lajos Balthazár, 73, Hungarian fencer and Olympic silver medalist.
* François Boutin, 58, French thoroughbred horse trainer, heart attack.
* Gerard Carlier, 77, Dutch athlete who participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
* Richey Edwards, 27, Welsh musician. (disappeared on this date)
* Yngve Gamlin, 68, Swedish actor and film director.
* Karl Gruber, 85, Austrian politician and diplomat.
* Leon Leonard, 85, American politician.
* Jill Phipps, 31, English animal rights activist, crushed by a lorry during a protest.
* Walter Wischniewsky, 82, German film editor.

### 2

* Tikvah Alper, 86, South African scientist whose work helped develop prion theory.
* Raymond Bark-Jones, 83, English rugby union lock.
* Doug Berndt, 45, American figure skater and Olympic bronze medalist.
* Phillip Borsos, 41, Australian-born Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter, leukemia.
* Chandulal Chandrakar, 75, Indian journalist and politician.
* John Clogston, 41, American journalist and academic.
* André Frossard, 80, French journalist and essayist.
* Thomas Hayward, 77, American operatic tenor, kidney failure.
* David Kindersley, 79, British stone letter-carver and typeface designer.
* Fred Perry, 85, English tennis champion.
* Donald Pleasence, 75, English actor (Halloween, You Only Live Twice, The Great Escape), BAFTA winner (1959), heart failure.
* Herman Tuvesson, 92, Swedish wrestler.
* Willard Waterman, 80, American actor (The Great Gildersleeve, The Apartment, Dennis the Menace), bone cancer.

### 3

* Ragnar Berge, 70, Norwegian footballer who played for Vålerenga Fotball.
* Pavol Hrivnák, 63, Slovak politician.
* Art Kane, 69, American photographer, suicide.
* Nicolás Lindley López, 86, Peruvian military commander.
* Andrei Nikolsky, 36, Russian pianist, traffic collision.
* Ingeborg Nilsson, 70, Norwegian figure skater.
* John Pinsent, 72, English classical scholar who specialized in Greek mythology.
* Abbas Zaryab, 75, Iranian historian, writer, literature professor and Iranologist.

### 4

* David Alexander, 56, Welsh singer and entertainer, heart attack.
* Hamza Boubakeur, 82, French politician and Muslim cleric.
* Godfrey Brown, 79, British track and field athlete and Olympic champion.
* Abel Santa Cruz, 80, Argentine screenwriter, cancer.
* Aloísio de Oliveira, 80, Brazilian record producer, singer, actor and composer.
* Manohar Hardikar, 58, Indian Test cricket player.
* Patricia Highsmith, 74, American author (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt), lung cancer and aplastic anemia.
* Scott Smith, 46, American gay rights activist, AIDS-related pneumonia.
* Roel Wiersma, 62, Dutch footballer.
* Walter Zeller, 67, German Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

### 5

* Jimmy Allen, 85, English footballer and football manager.
* Frank Costin, 74, British automotive engineer.
* Des Foley, 54, Irish Gaelic football player and hurler.
* Doug McClure, 59, American actor (The Virginian, Out of This World, Gidget), lung cancer.
* Frederick Riddle, 82, British violist.
* Bhanubandhu Yugala, 84, Thai film director, playwright, composer and author.

### 6

* Flora Anne Armitage, 83, American biographer and novelist.
* Richard H. Bassett, 94, American impressionist painter.
* Elmer Burkart, 78, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Edy Campagnoli, 60, Italian television personality and actress.
* Chester E. Holifield, 91, American businessman and politician.
* Hans Hummel, 50, Austrian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
* Jeanette Kawas, 49, Honduran environmental activist, homicide.
* Mira Lobe, 81, Austrian children's writer.
* Maruja Mallo, 93, Spanish surrealist painter.
* James Merrill, 68, American poet, AIDS-related complications.
* Gustav Rödel, 79, German fighter pilot and fighter ace.
* Art Taylor, 65, American jazz drummer.
* Xia Yan, 94, Chinese playwright, screenwriter, and politician.

### 7

* Roy S. Benson, 88, American naval officer.
* Jean Giraudeau, 78, French tenor and artist.
* Odd Grythe, 76, Norwegian radio and television personality.
* Billy Jones, 45, American guitarist, singer, and founding member of the Outlaws, suicide by gunshot.
* Massimo Pallottino, 85, Italian archaeologist specializing in Etruscan civilization and art.
* Cecil Upshaw, 52, American baseball player, heart attack.
* Helen Wallis, 70, British Map Curator at the British Museum, cancer.

### 8

* Józef Maria Bocheński, 92, Polish Dominican, logician and philosopher.
* Kalpana Datta, 81, Indian independence movement activist.
* May Miller, 96, American poet, playwright and educator.
* Tika Ram Paliwal, 85, Indian politician.
* Osvaldo Panzutto, 65, Argentine football player.
* Gloria Shea, 84, American film actress.
* Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman, 81, Indian Navy admiral.
* Willi Soukop, 88, English sculptor.
* Rachel Thomas, 89, Welsh actress, fall.
* Ole Torvalds, 78, Finnish-Swedish journalist and poet.
* Buck Warnick, 79, American composer, arranger, lyricist, conductor, and musical director.

### 9

* J. William Fulbright, 89, American senator and congressman, stroke.
* Maurice Halperin, 88, American writer, professor, diplomat, and accused Soviet spy.
* Kalevi Keihänen, 70, Finnish entrepreneur.
* Eugen Loderer, 74, German trade union leader.
* Ignazio Spalla, 70, Italian film actor.
* David Wayne, 81, American actor (Finian's Rainbow, House Calls, The Andromeda Strain), Tony winner (1947, 1954), lung cancer.

### 10

* Leila Arjumand Banu, 66, Bangladeshi singer and social activist.
* Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay, 78, Bengali writer and editor.
* Straight Clark, 70, American tennis player.
* Jesús Garay, 64, Spanish football player.
* Paul Monette, 49, American author, poet, and activist, AIDS-related complications.
* Leonard Silk, 77, American economist, author, and journalist.

### 11

* Lillian K. Bradley, 73, American mathematician and mathematics educator.
* L. C. Graves, 76, American police detective.
* Otto Kratky, 92, Austrian physicist.
* Harry Merkel, 77, German racing driver.
* Bob Randall, 57, American screenwriter, playwright, novelist, and television producer.

### 12

* Nat Holman, 98, American basketball player and college coach.
* Philip Taylor Kramer, 42, American bass guitar player, traffic collision.
* Earring George Mayweather, 67, American electric blues and Chicago blues harmonica player, songwriter and singer, liver cancer.
* Rachid Mimouni, 49, Algerian writer, teacher and human rights activist, hepatitis.
* Tony Secunda, 54, English manager of rock groups (The Moody Blues, Procol Harum, The Move and Motörhead), heart attack.
* Astrid Villaume, 71, Danish actress of stage and film.

### 13

* Sylvester Ahola, 92, American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
* James P. Berkeley, 87, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.
* Bill Beveridge, 85, Canadian ice hockey goaltender in the NHL.
* Alberto Burri, 79, Italian artist.
* Wilton Gaynair, 68, Jamaican jazz saxophonist.
* Ray Hamilton, 79, American gridiron football player.
* Guglielmo Mancori, 67, Italian cinematographer, lighting director and camera operator.
* Jack O'Billovich, 52, Canadian football player.
* Shimon Schwab, 86, German-American Orthodox rabbi.
* Bruno Visentini, 80, Italian politician, senator, minister, and industrialist.
* Li Zhisui, 75, Chinese physician and confidante of Mao Zedong.

### 14

* Ogdo Aksyonova, 59, Dolgan poet, the founder of Dolgan written literature.
* Maria Andergast, 82, German actress.
* Jack Cleary, 83, Australian rules footballer.
* Constance Teander Cohen, 74, American painter.
* Roger de Grey, 76, British landscape painter.
* Nigel Finch, 45, English film director and filmmaker, AIDS-related illness.
* Michael V. Gazzo, 71, American playwright and actor (The Godfather Part II, 1st & Ten, Last Action Hero), stroke.
* Len Goulden, 82, English football player.
* Abderrahmane Kaki, 60, Algerian actor and playwright.
* Ischa Meijer, 52, Dutch journalist, television presenter, radio presenter, critic and author, heart attack.
* U Nu, 87, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma.
* Achille Piccini, 83, Italian football player.

### 15

* Rachid Baba Ahmed, 48, Algerian record producer, composer, and singer, murdered.
* Sergio Bertoni, 79, Italian footballer.
* Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose, 85, British nobleman, politician, and newspaper proprietor.
* Italo Alighiero Chiusano, 68, Italian writer and critic.
* Francis Taylor, Baron Taylor of Hadfield, 90, English businessman who founded Taylor Woodrow.
* John J. Louis Jr., 69, American businessman and diplomat.
* David Monas Maloney, 82, American Roman Catholic bishop.

### 16

* Svend Albinus, 93, Danish architect.
* Anna Margaret Ross Alexander, 81, American philanthropist.
* Nicolae Costin, 58, Moldovan politician and one of the leaders of the national emancipation movement.
* Mildred Esther Mathias, 88, American botanist and professor.
* Rachel Tzabari, 85, Israeli politician.
* Margaret Wade, 82, American basketball player and coach.
* David E. Ward, 85, American politician.
* Lois Wilde, 87, American actress, model, dancer, and beauty contest winner.

### 17

* Charles Balloun, 90, American politician from Iowa.
* Werner Bruschke, 96, East German politician and member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
* Paddy Collins, 91, Irish hurler.
* Thelma Hulbert, 81, English visual artist known for her still lives and landscapes.
* Mirosław Żuławski, 82, Polish writer, prosaist, diplomat and screenwriter.

### 18

* Zair Azgur, 87, Soviet and Belarusian sculptor.
* Walter Ball, 83, Canadian cartoonist.
* Denny Cordell, 51, English record producer, lymphoma.
* Eddie Gilbert, 33, American professional wrestler and booker, heart attack.
* Bill Graham, 75, Australian politician.
* Yank Lawson, 83, American jazz trumpeter.
* Tracie McBride, 19, American soldier and murder victim.
* Kenneth Setton, 80, American historian and an expert on the history of medieval Europe.
* Bob Stinson, 35, American rock guitarist who founded The Replacements, organ failure.

### 19

* Soup Cable, 81, American professional basketball player.
* Yan Chernyak, 85, World War II spy for the Soviet Union.
* Louis-Pierre Cécile, 90, Canadian politician.
* Nicholas Fairbairn, 61, Scottish politician, liver cirrhosis.
* Nigel Findley, 35, Canadian game designer, editor, and science fiction author, heart attack.
* John Howard, 81, American actor (The Philadelphia Story, Lost Horizon, Bulldog Drummond Comes Back).
* Gaul Machlis, 76, Israeli football player and manager.
* Noel Rockmore, 86, American painter, draughtsman, and sculptor.
* Richard Matthews, 73, New Zealand plant virologist.
* Calder Willingham, 72, American novelist and screenwriter (Paths of Glory, One-Eyed Jacks, The Graduate), cancer.

### 20

* Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, 84, Orthodox Jewish rabbi.
* Robert Bolt, 70, English playwright and screenwriter (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, A Man for All Seasons), Oscar winner (1966, 1967), stroke.
* Arthur Burge, 77, Australian water polo player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.
* Néstor Mora, 31, Colombian racing cyclist, bicycle accident.

### 21

* Paul L. Bates, 86, United States Army officer.
* István Bárány, 87, Hungarian swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist.
* Bjarne Henning-Jensen, 86, Danish film director and screenwriter.
* Cristian Popescu, 35, Romanian poet.
* Juhan Viiding, 46, Estonian poet and actor, suicide.

### 22

* Richard Arbib, 77, American industrial designer.
* Ed Flanders, 60, American actor (St. Elsewhere, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Exorcist III), Emmy winner (1976, 1977, 1983), suicide by gunshot.
* Karl-Arne Holmsten, 83, Swedish film actor.
* Jim Katcavage, 60, American gridiron football player.
* Nicholas Pennell, 56, English actor.
* Emmanuel Roblès, 80, Algerian-French novelist and playwright.

### 23

* Norm Burns, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
* Valerio Cassani, 72, Italian footballer.
* Arrigo Cervetto, 67, Italian communist revolutionary and politician.
* Sidney Robertson Cowell, 91, American ethnomusicologist.
* Melvin Franklin, 52, American singer.
* Mehr Abdul Haq, 79, Pakistani philologist.
* Don Heck, 66, American comic book artist (Iron Man, The Avengers, Black Widow), lung cancer.
* James Herriot, 78, English veterinarian and author (All Creatures Great and Small), prostate cancer.
* Norman Hunter, 95, British children's author.
* John Paul, 73, British actor (Doomwatch, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb).
* Margaret Woodbridge, 93, American swimmer and Olympic champion.
* Peter Wykeham, 79, Royal Air Force Air marshal and flying ace during World War II.

### 24

* Roberto Ago, 87, Italian jurist.
* Felix Ermacora, 71, Austrian politician and human rights activist.
* Hans Hessling, 91, German film and television actor.
* Tatsumi Kumashiro, 67, Japanese film director, pulmonary embolism.
* Hideko Maehata, 80, Japanese swimmer.
* N. G. Krishna Murti, 85, Indian civil engineer.
* Jack Wallace, 69, American football player and coach, traffic accident.

### 25

* Francesco Antonazzi, 70, Italian football player.
* Gediminas Baravykas, 54, Lithuanian architect.
* Anne Davies, 64, American figure skater.
* Rudolf Hausner, 80, Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor.
* O Jin-u, 77, North Korean general and politician, lung cancer.
* Victor Montagu, 88, British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP).
* John O'Brien, 67, New Zealand representative rower.
* José Antonio Rojo, 72, Spanish film editor, heart attack.
* Mariam Vattalil, 41, Indian activist and nun, murdered.
* Terence Weil, 73, British cellist.

### 26

* Zenon Ivanovich Borevich, 72, Russian mathematician.
* Jack Clayton, 73, British film director (The Great Gatsby, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Innocents).
* Barry Dyson, 52, English football player, heart attack.
* Willie Johnson, 71, American electric blues guitarist.
* Þórunn Elfa Magnúsdóttir, 84, Icelandic writer.

### 27

* John Alford, 75, Archdeacon of Halifax.
* Ann Ayars, 76, American soprano and actress.
* Bill Bailey, 85, Irish-American Communist Party labor activist who fought in the Spanish Civil War, lung disease.
* Gerhard Boetzelen, 89, German rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.
* Bernard Cornfeld, 67, Turkish businessman and international financier.
* Tom Evans, 65, Australian politician.
* Giga Norakidze, 64, Georgian football player and manager.
* Antonio Tróccoli, 70, Argentine politician.

### 28

* Walter Allen, 84, English literary critic and novelist.
* Ragnvald Mikal Andersen, 95, Norwegian politician.
* Wally Millies, 88, American baseball player, scout and manager.
* Bill Richards, 71, Canadian violinist, composer, arranger, and editor.
* Keith Rigg, 88, Australian cricketer.
* Max Rudolf, 92, German conductor and music educator.
* Leonard Shure, 84, American concert pianist.