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

## December 1994
### 1

* Samia Gamal, 70, Egyptian belly dancer and actress.
* Reg Garvin, 82, Australian rules football player.
* William S. Hanna, 71, American politician.
* Helen McCloy, 90, American writer.
* Calvin Mooers, 75, American computer scientist.

### 2

* Bogumił Andrzejewski, 72, Polish writer and linguist.
* Julien Davies Cornell, 84, American lawyer who defended pacifist Ezra Pound.
* Miguel M. Delgado, 88, Mexican film director and screenwriter, cancer.
* Orhan Şaik Gökyay, 92, Turkish author.
* Alan Splet, 54, American sound designer and sound editor (Eraserhead, Dune, Blue Velvet).
* Reginald Claude Sprigg, 75, Australian geologist and conservationist.

### 3

* Giorgi Chanturia, 35, Georgian politician and the National Democratic Party leader, homicide.
* Craig Coleman, 33, American artist.
* John E. Henderson, 77, American politician of the Republican Party.
* Earl Johnson, 75, American baseball player and scout and World War II veteran.
* Mihail Lozanov, 83, Bulgarian football player.

### 4

* Reaves H. Baysinger, 92, American gridiron football player and coach.
* Geoffrey Elton, 73, German-British political and constitutional historian, heart attack.
* Ichiro Ogimura, 62, Japanese table tennis player and coach, lung cancer.
* Julio Ramón Ribeyro, 65, Peruvian writer.
* Gertrud Schiller, 89, German writer.
* István Timár, 54, Hungarian canoe racer.

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* Woody Abernathy, 79, American baseball player.
* Asım Orhan Barut, 68, Turkish-American theoretical physicist.
* Harry Horner, 84, American art director (The Hustler, The Heiress, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?), Oscar winner (1950, 1962), pneumonia.
* Günter Meisner, 68, German actor (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, The Boys from Brazil, The Winds of War).
* Saïd Mohammedi, 81, Algerian politician.
* Rudy Pilous, 80, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
* Dick Rifenburg, 68, American gridiron football player and sports broadcaster.
* E.W. Swackhamer, 67, American television and film director.

### 6

* Heinz Baas, 72, German football player and manager.
* Máire de Paor, 69, Irish historian and archaeologist.
* Otar Gordeli, 66, Georgian musician.
* Richard Markowitz, 68, American film and television composer (Murder, She Wrote, The Wild Wild West, Police Story).
* Alun Owen, 69, British screenwriter.
* Gian Maria Volonté, 61, Italian actor, heart attack.

### 7

* Elga Andersen, 59, German actress and singer, cancer.
* Pierre Cloarec, 85, French road bicycle racer.
* Franz Lucas, 83, German SS officer and Auschwitz concentration camp doctor during World War II.
* Edward Rell Madigan, 58, American politician, lung cancer.
* J. C. Tremblay, 55, Canadian ice hockey player, kidney cancer.

### 8

* Antônio Carlos Jobim, 67, Brazilian musician, heart failure.
* Semni Karusou, 96, Greek archaeologist and art historian.
* Enrique Líster, 87, Spanish communist politician and military officer.
* Crawford Nalder, 84, Australian politician.

### 9

* Antal Apró, 81, Hungarian politician.
* John Joe Barry, 69, Irish middle-distance runner and Olympian.
* Max Bill, 85, Swiss architect, painter and sculptor, heart attack.
* O. C. Fisher, 91, American politician.
* Pat Haggerty, 67, American football official in the National Football League, cancer.
* Garnett Silk, 28, Jamaican reggae musician and Rastafarian, domestic accident.
* Alex Wilson, 87, Canadian sprinter.

### 10

* Henry Bernard, 82, French architect and urban planner.
* Friedel Dzubas, 79, German-American abstract painter.
* Keith Joseph, 76, British barrister and politician.
* Jiří Marek, 80, Czech publicist, scriptwriter, and writer.

### 11

* Magnus Andersen, 78, Norwegian politician.
* Dionísio Azevedo, 72, Brazilian actor and director, lung cancer.
* Edward A. Craig, 98, United States Marine Corps officer.
* Vera Kuznetsova, 87, Soviet/Russian actress.
* Stanisław Maczek, 102, Polish military officer of World War I and World War II.
* Carl Marzani, 82, American spy.
* George Phillips, 73, American gridiron football player.
* Philip Phillips, 94, American archaeologist.
* Yuli Raizman, 90, Soviet/Russian film director, screenwriter.
* Kenneth Rush, 84, American diplomat and ambassador.
* Avet Terterian, 65, Soviet/Armenian composer.
* Yao Yilin, 77, Chinese politician and Vice Premier.

### 12

* John Hearne, 68, Jamaican writer.
* Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, 75, Palestinian translator.
* Nicolaas Kuiper, 74, Dutch mathematician.
* Annelise Reenberg, 75, Danish film director.
* Stuart Roosa, 61, American astronaut, pancreatic cancer.
* Sir Evelyn Shuckburgh, 85, British diplomat.
* Donna J. Stone, 61, American poet and philanthropist.
* Frederick Turnovsky, 77, New Zealand businessman and arts advocate.

### 13

* Glenn M. Anderson, 81, American politician.
* Norman Beaton, 60, British actor, heart attack.
* Philip S. Foner, 83, American historian.
* Philip Hauser, 85, American academic.
* Antoine Pinay, 102, French politician and Prime Minister of France.
* Charlie Richard, 53, American football coach.
* Olga Rubtsova, 85, Soviet/Russian chess player.

### 14

* Orval Faubus, 84, American politician and governor of Arkansas, prostate cancer.
* Edmund Hudleston, 85, British Royal Air Force air marshal.
* Mary Ann McCall, 75, American pop and jazz singer.
* Robert Mersey, 77, American musician, arranger and record producer.
* Catherine Filene Shouse, 98, American researcher and philanthropist.
* Franco Venturi, 80, Italian historian, essayist and journalist.

### 15

* Oscar Bidegain, 89, Argentine politician.
* Boris Chichibabin, 71, Soviet/Russian writer.
* Arthur de la Mare, 80, British diplomat and High Commissioner of Singapore.
* Piero Gardoni, 60, Italian professional footballer.
* Mollie Phillips, 87, British skater.
* Hazel Brannon Smith, 80, American journalist, publisher and Pulitzer Prize winner.
* Harry Tobias, 99, American lyricist.

### 16

* Patrick Cobbold, 60, British football executive.
* David Dunlap, 84, American rower.
* Mary Durack, 81, Australian novelist and historian.
* Les Gandar, 75, New Zealand politician.

### 17

* Pierre Baruzy, 97, French boxing champion and manager.
* Deon Dreyer, 20, South African recreational scuba diver, drowned.
* Hambardzum Galstyan, 39, Armenian politician and historian, homicide.
* Ella Hval, 90, Norwegian actress.
* Stefano Sertorelli, 82, Italian soldier, skier and Olympian.
* Olavi Talja, 69, Finnish sprinter, middle-distance runner and Olympian.
* Ajahn Thate, 92, Thai meditation master and buddhist monk.

### 18

* Roger Apéry, 78, Greek-French mathematician, Parkinson's disease.
* Henry Banks, 81, American racecar driver.
* Phil Bengtson, 81, American gridiron football player and coach.
* Heinz Bernard, 70, British actor, director and theatre manager.
* Don Fedderson, 81, American television executive.
* David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead, 81, British politician.
* Peter Hebblethwaite, 64, British priest, journalist, and biographer.
* F. Bradford Morse, 73, American politician.
* Lilia Skala, 98, Austrian-American actress (Lilies of the Field, Flashdance, Charly).
* Suryakantam, 70, Indian actress.

### 19

* Vera Chaplina, 86, Soviet/Russian children's writer and naturalist.
* Bill Douglass, 71, American jazz drummer.
* Vadim Kozin, 91, Russian tenor and songwriter.
* Noel Pointer, 39, American musician, stroke.
* K. A. P. Viswanatham, 95, Indian politician.

### 20

* Eva Alexanderson, 83, Swedish translator and writer.
* Daniel I. Arnon, 84, Polish-American plant physiologist, heart failure.
* Stephen Coughlan, 83, Irish politician.
* Alexander Felszeghy, 61, Czechoslovak association football player and coach.
* Valeriy Kryvov, 43, Soviet/Ukrainian volleyball player.
* Cyril Ponnamperuma, 71, Sri Lankan scientist.
* Phelim O'Neill, 2nd Baron Rathcavan, 85, British politician.
* Dean Rusk, 85, American politician and Secretary of State, heart failure.
* Bob Wellman, 69, American baseball player, manager and scout.

### 21

* Göte Almqvist, 73, Swedish ice hockey player.
* Butch Hartman, 54, American stock car racing driver, heart attack.
* Mabel Poulton, 93, English actress.
* Audrey Sale-Barker, 91, British aviator and alpine skier.
* Koreya Senda, 90, Japanese stage director and translator, and actor.

### 22

* Gérard Loiselle, 73, Canadian politician.
* Nobuko Otowa, 70, Japanese actress, liver cancer.
* Atte Pakkanen, 82, Finnish politician.
* J. A. Todd, 86, English mathematician.

### 23

* Tony Doyle, 41, Australian politician, AIDS-related complications.
* Mark Foo, 36, Singapore-American surfer, surfing accident.
* Johnny Mince, 82, American swing jazz clarinetist.
* Sebastian Shaw, 89, English actor (Return of the Jedi) and author.
* Charles Wesley Shilling, 93, American physician and navy officer.
* Teiji Ōmiya, 66, Japanese voice actor, colorectal cancer.

### 24

* John Boswell, 47, American historian and professor, AIDS-related complications.
* Rossano Brazzi, 78, Italian actor.
* Maurice Chéhab, 89, Lebanese archaeologist and museum curator.
* John T. Dugan, 74, American screenwriter.
* Julie Haydon, 84, American actress, cancer.
* Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel, 94, Austrian actress.
* John Osborne, 65, English playwright (Look Back in Anger and actor (Get Carter), diabetes.
* Aleksandr Uvarov, 72, Russian ice hockey player.
* Eduardo Orrego Villacorta, 61, Peruvian politician and architect, cancer.

### 25

* Buddy Ace, 58, American singer, heart attack.
* Ghulam Ahmed Chishti, 89, Pakistani film score composer, heart attack.
* Pierre Dreyfus, 87, French businessman and civil servant.
* Cyril Garnham, 93, British parasitologist.
* Masjkur, 89, Indonesian politician.
* Zail Singh, 78, Indian politician and former President of India, traffic collision.
* Czesław Spychała, 77, Polish tennis player.

### 26

* Robert Emhardt, 80, American actor (3:10 to Yuma).
* Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan, 82, British businessman and peer.
* Sylva Koscina, 61, Yugoslav/Croatian actress (Hercules, Judex, The Secret War of Harry Frigg), breast cancer.
* Kothuku Nanappan, 59, Malayalam film actor.
* Dennis Osadebay, 83, Nigerian politician, poet, and journalist.
* Pietro Pavan, 91, Italian Catholic cardinal.
* Allie Reynolds, 77, American baseball player.
* Germaine Rouer, 97, French actress.
* Karl Schiller, 83, German scientist and politician.
* Parveen Shakir, 42, Pakistani writer and poet, traffic collision.
* Seetharaman Sundaram, 93, Indian lawyer and yoga as exercise pioneer .

### 27

* Winsome Fanny Barker, 87, South African botanist and plant collector.
* Fanny Cradock, 85, English restaurant critic, television chef and writer.
* Marjorie Joyner, 98, American businesswoman, philanthropist, and activist.
* Peter May, 64, English cricket player and administrator, brain cancer.
* Steve Plytas, 81, British actor.
* Haki Toska, 74, Albanian politician.

### 28

* Julius Adler, 88, Jewish-American actor and writer.
* Ursula Appolloni, 65, Canadian politician, lung cancer.
* Georgy Baydukov, 87, Soviet/Russian aircraft test pilot and writer.
* Victor FitzGeorge-Balfour, 81, British Army officer.
* Joseph Holland, 84, American stage actor.
* Gopalaswamy Mahendraraja, 38, Sri Lankan member of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, executed.
* Arnljot Norwich, 71, Norwegian politician.

### 29

* Woodrow A. Abbott, 75, American officer.
* Robert Barbour, 95, Australian cricket player.
* Bernard Cousino, 92, American inventor.
* Manuel Mora, 85, Costa Rican politician.
* Frank Thring, 68, Australian actor (Ben-Hur, King of Kings, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) and theatre director, cancer.

### 30

* Geoff Bradford, 67, English football player.
* Dmitri Ivanenko, 90, Soviet/Russian physicist.
* Andrei Kuznetsov, 28, Soviet/Russian volleyball player, traffic collision.
* Hap Moran, 93, American gridiron football player.
* Anton Rom, 85, German rower and Olympic champion.
* Maureen Starkey Tigrett, 48, British hairdresser and wife of beatle Ringo Starr, leukemia.
* Xu Yixin, 83, Chinese politician.

### 31

* Leigh Bowery, 33, Australian performance artist, club promoter, and fashion designer, AIDS-related complications.
* Jacques Dimont, 49, French fencer and Olympic champion.
* Leo Fuchs, 83, Polish-American actor and coupletist.
* Elma Karlowa, 62, Yugoslav/Croatian actress, diabetes.
* Bruno Pezzey, 39, Austrian football player, cardioplegia.
* Woody Strode, 80, American athlete and actor (Spartacus, The Ten Commandments, Once Upon a Time in the West), lung cancer.
* Harri Webb, 74, Welsh poet, journalist and librarian, stroke.