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

## September 1995
### 1

* Sylvia Gytha de Lancey Chapman, 98, New Zealand doctor and welfare worker.
* María de la Cruz, 82, Chilean political activist, journalist, writer, and political commentator.
* Joseph N. Gallo, 83, American mobster and member of the Gambino crime family.
* Wilhelm Sold, 84, German football player.
* Benay Venuta, 85, American actress, singer, and dancer, lung cancer.

### 2

* Simona Arghir-Sandu, 46, Romanian handballer, cancer.
* Bahri Guiga, 91, Tunisian lawyer and politician.
* Václav Neumann, 74, Czech conductor, violinist, and opera director.
* Earl T. Newbry, 95, American businessman and politician.

### 3

* Lance Adams-Schneider, 75, New Zealand politician.
* Mary Adshead, 91, British painter, muralist, illustrator and designer, heart failure.
* Earle Birney, 91, Canadian poet and novelist.
* Mort Browne, 87, Australian rules footballer.
* D. C. Coleman, 75, British economic historian.
* Parker Morton, 83, Australian rules football player and coach.
* Ricardo Sánchez, 54, American poet, cancer.

### 4

* Paulo Gracindo, 84, Brazilian actor, prostate cancer.
* Chuck Greenberg, 45, American musician (Shadowfax), heart attack.
* Edmond Jouhaud, 90, French general involved in the Algiers putsch of 1961.
* William Kunstler, 76, American lawyer and civil rights activist.
* Fabio Pittorru, 66, Italian novelist, screenwriter, journalist and film director.

### 5

* John Britten, 45, New Zealand mechanical engineer, cancer.
* Tom Chisari, 72, American football coach.
* Salil Chowdhury, 69, Indian songwriter, lyricist, writer, and poet.
* Girija, 57, Indian actress.
* Vinko Golob, 74, Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player.
* Paul Julian, 81, American background animator, sound effects artist and voice actor.
* Eny Karim, 84, Indonesian politician and civil servant.
* Ahmed Koulamallah, 83, Chadian politician.
* John Megna, 42, American actor, director and educator, AIDS-related complications.
* Ante Nardelli, 58, Croatian water polo player.
* Jean-Luc Pépin, 70, Canadian academic, and politician.
* Francis Showering, 83, English brewer, heart attack.
* Zulu Sofola, 60, Nigerian playwright and dramatist.
* Benyamin Sueb, 56, Indonesian actor, comedian and singer.
* Karl Warner, 87, American athlete and Olympic champion.

### 6

* Sergio Atzeni, 42, Italian writer, drowned.
* Michelangelo Borriello, 86, Italian sports shooter and Olympic athlete.
* Gianni Caldana, 81, Italian track and field athlete who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
* Bill DeCorrevont, 76, American gridiron football player.
* Mary Doran, 84, American actress.
* Buster Mathis, 52, American boxer, heart failure.
* Ralph Rosenblum, 69, American film editor (Annie Hall, The Producers, Fail-Safe).
* B. K. Thapar, 73, Indian archaeologist.

### 7

* John B. Calhoun, 78, American ethologist and behavioral researcher.
* Richard Guy Condon, 43, American anthropologist, disappeared on this date and is presumed dead.
* Al Papai, 78, American Major League Baseball player.
* Michel Scob, 60, French cyclist.

### 8

* Peter Baxandall, 74, English audio engineer and electronics engineer.
* Madge Biggs, 93, Falkland Islands librarian and politician.
* Paco Campos, 79, Spanish footballer .
* Eileen Chang, 74, Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter.
* Rose Chernin, 93, American communist and activist of Russian birth, Alzheimer's disease.
* José Luis González Dávila, 52, Mexican football player.
* Olga Ivinskaya, 83, Russian poet and writer, cancer.
* Safa Khulusi, 78, Iraqi historian, novelist, poet, journalist and broadcaster.
* Erich Kunz, 86, Austrian operatic bass baritone at the Vienna State Opera and Metropolitan Opera.
* Halldis Moren Vesaas, 87, Norwegian poet, translator and writer of children's books.
* Michael Nigg, 26, American waiter, homicide by gunshot wound.

### 9

* Ida Carroll, 89, British music educator, double bassist, and composer.
* Marina Núñez del Prado, 86, Bolivian sculptor.
* Reinhard Furrer, 54, German physicist and astronaut, aircraft crash.
* Lin Houston, 74, American gridiron football player.
* Benjamin Mazar, 89, Israeli historian.
* Erik Nilsson, 79, Swedish football player.
* Béla Pálfi, 72, Serbian football player of Hungarian ethnicity.
* Akimitsu Takagi, 74, Japanese crime fiction writer, stroke.
* Ron Talsky, 60, American costume designer.
* Keith Wayne, 50, American actor (Night of the Living Dead), suicide.
* Jamie Whitten, 85, American politician and United States House of Representatives representative, heart failure.

### 10

* Harriet Bell, 72, American advocate for disability rights.
* Charles Denner, 69, French actor, cancer.
* Molly Hide, 81, English cricketer.
* Derek Meddings, 64, British special effects designer (Superman, Thunderbirds, Batman), Oscar winner (1979), colorectal cancer.
* Shoji Suzuki, 63, Japanese jazz clarinet player and band leader.

### 11

* Fred Campbell, 84, Australian politician and Queensland Legislative Assembly member.
* Georges Canguilhem, 91, French philosopher and physician.
* Anita Harding, 42, Irish-British neurologist, colorectal cancer.
* Roger W. Heyns, 77, American professor and academic.
* Charles J. Hitch, 85, American economist and Assistant Secretary of Defense.
* Peter McIntyre, 85, New Zealand painter and author.
* Kieth O'dor, 33, British racing driver, racing accident.
* Vladislav Strzhelchik, 74, Soviet/Russian actor, brain cancer.

### 12

* Lubomír Beneš, 59, Czech animator, director, and author.
* Johnny Bothwell, 76, American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader.
* Jeremy Brett, 61, English actor (Sherlock Holmes, My Fair Lady, War and Peace), heart failure.
* Grahame Clark, 88, British archaeologist.
* Larry Gales, 59, American jazz double-bassist, leukemia.
* Tom Helmore, 91, English actor (Vertigo, The Time Machine, This Could Be the Night).
* Frederick Augustus Irving, 101, American Army officer.
* Katherine Locke, 85, American actress.
* Ernest Pohl, 62, Polish football player.
* Geoffrey Stokes, 55, American journalist and writer on music and sports, esophageal cancer.

### 13

* Aluf Joseph Avidar, 89, Israeli statesman, author and ambassador.
* Fritz Bennewitz, 69, German theatre director.
* Eberhard Godt, 95, German naval officer.
* Francesco Messina, 94, Italian sculptor.
* Maheswar Neog, 80, Indian academic.
* Harold Shepherdson, 76, English football player and coach.
* Frank Silva, 44, American set dresser and actor (Twin Peaks), AIDS-related complications.

### 14

* Leon Adams, 90, American journalist, publicist and historian.
* Maurice K. Goddard, 83, American cabinet officer for six governors, suicide.
* Emerson John Moore, 57, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Eiji Okada, 75, Japanese actor (Hiroshima mon amour, The Ugly American), heart failure.
* Naomi Smith, 15, English schoolgirl.
* A. E. Wilder-Smith, 79, British organic chemist and young Earth creationist.

### 15

* Harry Calder, 94, English cricketer.
* Douglass Cater, 72, American journalist, political aide, and college president.
* Dirceu, 43, Brazilian football player, traffic collision.
* Dietrich Hrabak, 80, German fighter pilot during World War II.
* Sam McCluskie, 63, British trade unionist.
* David McMullin, 87, American field hockey player and Olympian.
* Pedro Nolasco, 33, Dominican boxer.
* Gunnar Nordahl, 73, Swedish footballer.
* Rien Poortvliet, 63, Dutch draughtsman and painter, bone cancer.
* Nap Reyes, 75, American Major League Baseball player.
* Michio Watanabe, 72, Japanese politician and Deputy Prime Minister of Japan, heart failure.

### 16

* Michael Balfour, 86, English historian and civil servant.
* Leo Horn, 79, Dutch football referee.
* Aldo Novarese, 75, Italian type designer.
* Pierre Olaf, 67, French actor.
* Jack Wink, 73, American football player and coach.

### 17

* Gottfried Bermann, 98, German publisher.
* Catherine Cobb, 92, British jeweler and silversmith.
* Yehuda Getz, 70–71, Israeli rabbi of the Western Wall for 27 years, heart attack.
* Astrid Krebsbach, 82, German table tennis player.
* Helen Nearing, 91, American author and vegetarianism advocate, single-car accident.
* Friedrich Schütter, 74, German film and television actor.
* Rakel Seweriin, 89, Norwegian politician.
* Grady Sutton, 89, American actor.
* Lucien Victor, 64, Belgian cyclist.

### 18

* Doreen Cannon, 64, American teacher of acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
* Donald Davie, 73, English Movement poet, and literary critic.
* Jean Gol, 53, Belgian politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Kaka Hathrasi, 89, Hindi satirist and humorist poet of India.
* George S. Howard, 93, American conductor of The United States Air Force Band between 1947 and 1963.
* Tony Paulekas, 83, American gridiron football player.
* Oleh Tverdokhlib, 25, Ukrainian track and field athlete, domestic accident.

### 19

* Mr. Bo, 63, American blues guitarist and singer, pneumonia.
* Melbourne Brindle, 90, Australian-American illustrator and painter.
* Walter Gross, 83, German-Israeli journalist who worked for Haaretz from 1949 through 1995.
* Rauf Hajiyev, 73, Soviet and Azerbaijani composer and politician.
* Rudolf Peierls, 88, German-born British physicist.
* Orville Redenbacher, 88, American entrepreneur and businessman, heart attack.
* Clinton Stephens, 75, American badminton player.

### 20

* Charles Albanese, 58, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Emmy Albus, 83, German sprinter.
* Rene Anselmo, 69, American television executive.
* Mikhail Bogdanov, 80, Russian production designer and Academy Award nominee.
* Eulie Chowdhury, 71, Indian architect.
* Walter A. Haas Jr., 79, President and CEO (1958–1976) and Chairman (1970–1981) of Levi Strauss & Co.
* Monica Maurice, 87, British industrialist.
* René Zazzo, 84, French psychologist and pedagogue.

### 21

* Andy the Clown, 77, American clown associated with the Chicago White Sox.
* Tony Cuccinello, 87, American baseball player and coach.
* Delfy de Ortega, 75, Italian-Argentine actress, cancer.
* Alan Christopher Deere, 77, New Zealand fighter ace during World War ||.
* Frank Hall, 74, Irish broadcaster, journalist and film censor, heart attack.
* Harry Hurwitz, 57, American film director, screenwriter, actor and producer, heart attack.
* William Murray, 83, British educationist who created the Ladybird Peter and Jane books.
* Rudy Perpich, 67, American politician and Governor of Minnesota, colorectal cancer.
* Irven Spence, 86, American animator.

### 22

* Julio Alejandro, 88, Spanish screenwriter.
* Eigil Axgil, 80, Danish gay rights activist.
* Dolly Collins, 62, English folk musician, arranger and composer.
* Raimondo Del Balzo, 56, Italian screenwriter and director, cancer.
* Albert Goodwin, 89, English historian.
* Phillip Ingle, 34, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Bruno Junk, 65, Estonian race walker.
* Nasiha Kapidžić-Hadžić, 63, Bosnian children's author and poet.
* Antonio Pujol, 82, Mexican painter and printmaker.
* John Whitney, 78, American animator, composer and inventor.

### 23

* Thomas Beck, 85, American film and stage actor, Alzheimer's disease.
* Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, 75, French poet.
* Fabien Galateau, 82, French road bicycle racer.
* Abdelkrim Laribi, 51, Algerian football player.
* Booker T. Laury, 81, American boogie-woogie, blues, gospel and jazz pianist and singer, cancer.
* K. Thurairatnam, 65, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.
* Joseph W. Tkach, 68, American evangelist and pastor of the Worldwide Church of God.
* Albrecht Unsöld, 90, German astrophysicist.

### 24

* Éric Borel, 16, French high school student and spree killer, suicide.
* Peter Butler, 94, New Zealand seaman, trade unionist, and local politician.
* Paula Dvorak, 82, Austrian film editor.
* Keith Johnson, 66, Australian politician.
* Tom McBride, 42, American photographer, model, and actor, AIDS-related complications.
* Arthur Walsh, 72, Canadian actor and dancer.

### 25

* Dave Bowen, 67, Welsh football player, manager, and captain.
* Gustav Brom, 74, Czech big band leader, arranger, clarinetist and composer.
* Annie Elizabeth Delany, 104, American dentist and civil rights pioneer.
* Dorothy Dickson, 102, American actress and dancer on the London stage.
* Maryse Justin, 36, Mauritian long-distance runner, cancer.
* Dick Steinberg, 60, American football executive, stomach cancer.
* Kei Tomiyama, 56, Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator, pancreatic cancer.

### 26

* Flora Blanc, 78, American theatre school director and painter.
* Jack Broadstock, 74, Australian rules footballer.
* Xenia Cage, 82, American painter, sculptor, bookbinder, conservator, and musician.
* Lenny Hambro, 71, American jazz musician.
* Lynette Roberts, 86, Welsh poet and novelist.
* Kay Twomey, 81, American songwriter and music arranger.

### 27

* Baha Akşit, 81, Turkish physician and politician.
* Sasha Argov, 80, Israeli composer.
* Jean Arnot, 92, Australian women's rights activist, trade unionist, and librarian.
* Sean Conway, 64, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
* Laurence Jones, 62, British Royal Air Force commander.
* Karl-Heinz Marbach, 78, German naval officer.
* Christopher Shaw, 71, British composer.
* Wilfried Soltau, 83, West German sprint canoer and Olympian.
* Alison Steele, 58, American disk jockey known as 'Nightbird', stomach cancer.
* Jürgen Wattenberg, 94, German naval officer and U-boat commander during World War II.

### 28

* Rabah Belamri, 48, Algerian writer, complications following surgery.
* Edgardo Coghlan, 66–67, Mexican painter.
* Al Cromwell, 57, Canadian blues and folk musician.
* Robert Curran, 72, Scottish nationalist political activist.
* Billy Elliot, 31, Northern Irish loyalist and paramilitary leader, shot.
* Olive Gibbs, 77, British politician and anti-nuclear weapons.
* Albert Johanneson, 55, South African football player.
* Aurelius Marie, 90, Dominican politician and jurist, cancer.
* Edmundo O'Gorman, 88, Mexican writer, historian and philosopher.
* Frederick N. Tebbe, 60, American chemist.

### 29

* Alfred Felix Landon Beeston, 84, English Orientalist.
* Gerd Bucerius, 89, German politician, publisher and journalist.
* Michael Carr, 62, English cricketer.
* James Downie, 73, New Zealand racing cyclist.
* Seger Ellis, 91, American jazz pianist and vocalist.
* Susan Fleetwood, 51, British actress, ovarian cancer.
* Francis Johnson, 84, British architect.
* Madalyn Murray O'Hair, 76, American activist, asphyxia.
* Kostas Papachristos, 79, Greek actor.

### 30

* Joe Azbell, 68, American journalist and writer, lung cancer.
* Bertrand Boissonnault, 88, Canadian fencer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
* George Kirby, 72, American comedian, Parkinson's disease.
* Jean-Luc Lagarce, 38, French actor, theatre director and playwright, AIDS-related complications.
* Jakob Segal, 84, Russian-German professor of biology .
* Bertil von Wachenfeldt, 86, Swedish sprinter and Olympian.
* Frederick Warner, 77, British diplomat.