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

## December 1995
### 1

* Dennis Allen, 55, American actor and comedian.
* Emil Banjavic, 80, American football player.
* O. Roy Chalk, 88, American entrepreneur.
* Vaman Krushna Chorghade, 81, Indian writer and educator.
* Luigi Giacobbe, 88, Italian cyclist.
* Henry Holbert, 68, American football player and coach.
* Martti Liimo, 54, Finnish basketball player.
* Sergio Pesce, 79, Italian cinematographer.
* Colin Tapley, 88, New Zealand actor.
* Maxwell R. Thurman, 64, American Army general, leukemia.

### 2

* Robertson Davies, 82, Canadian novelist, heart attack.
* Art Herring, 89, American baseball player.
* Roxie Roker, 66, American actress (The Jeffersons), breast cancer.
* Mária Telkes, 94, Hungarian-American biophysicist, scientist and inventor.
* Biem Dudok van Heel, 81, Dutch sailor and Olympian.
* Ira Wallach, 82, American screenwriter and novelist, pneumonia.

### 3

* Hans Aardal, 74, Norwegian politician.
* Josep Bartolí, 85, Spanish painter, cartoonist and writer.
* Genni Batterham, 40, Australian film maker, writer and disability rights activist, multiple sclerosis.
* James Colgate Cleveland, 75, American politician
* Jimmy Jewel, 85, British comedic actor.
* Alexander Kaidanovsky, 49, Soviet/Russian actor, film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
* Lautaro Murúa, 68, Chilean-Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter, lung cancer.
* Rodney Paavola, 56, American ice hockey player.
* Gerard John Schaefer, 49, American murderer, serial killer, and police officer, stabbed.

### 4

* Warren Ambrose, 81, American mathematician.
* Little Beaver, 61, Canadian midget wrestler, pulmonary emphysema.
* Leonidas Berry, 93, American pioneer in gastroscopy and endoscopy.
* Giorgio Bocchino, 82, Italian fencer and Olympic medalist.
* Petar Gligorovski, 57, Yugoslav and Macedonian animated film director and artist.
* Rudolf Hruska, 80, Austrian automobile designer and engineer.
* Robert Parrish, 79, American film director, editor, writer, and child actor.
* Jerry White, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by electrocution.

### 5

* Desmond Flower, 10th Viscount Ashbrook, 90, Irish peer and soldier.
* Ilio Bosi, 92, Italian communist politician and trade unionist.
* Reiner Bredemeyer, 66, German composer.
* Bill Bruton, 70, American Major League Baseball player, traffic accident.
* L. B. Cole, 77, American comic book artist.
* Charles Evans, 77, British mountaineer, surgeon, and educator.
* Victor Matthews, Baron Matthews, 76, British peer and proprietor of the Daily Express.
* Lisa McPherson, 36, American member of the Church of Scientology, pulmonary embolism.
* Clair Cameron Patterson, 73, American geochemist.
* Keith Runcorn, 73, British geophysicist.

### 6

* Yvonne Chauffin, 90, French writer and critic.
* Gerard Cowhig, 74, American gridiron football player.
* Cosslett Ó Cuinn, 88, Irish Anglican priest and biblical scholar.
* Busta Jones, 44, American musician.
* Trevor Key, 48, British photographer, brain tumour.
* Melvin Kranzberg, 78, American historian.
* Margaret Mayall, 93, American astronomer.
* Jack Milne, 88, American speedway rider.
* Robert Earl O'Neal, 34, American white supremacist and convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Robert Phalen, 58, American actor (Halloween, Starman, Three Days of the Condor), complications from AIDS.
* Claire Polin, 69, American composer, flautist and musicologist.
* Luis Regueiro, 87, Spanish football player and Olympian.
* James Reston, 86, American journalist.
* Mario Vicini, 82, Italian road bicycle racer.
* Dmitri Volkogonov, 67, Russian historian and Colonel general, brain cancer.

### 7

* James Derek Birchall, 65, English chemist, materials scientist, and inventor, traffic accident.
* Edmund D. Campbell, 96, American lawyer and politician.
* Harry Cavers, 85, Canadian politician.
* Nick Connor, 91, American politician.
* Mildred Adams Fenton, 96, American paleontologist and geologist.
* Kathleen Harrison, 103, English actress.
* Stella Inda, 71, Mexican film actress, pneumonia.
* Joe Kelly, 90, Australian politician.
* Johnny Mowers, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Masashi Watanabe, 59, Japanese football player and manager.

### 8

* James Austin, 82, American football player.
* Arthur Birch, 80, Australian organic chemist.
* Ernest L. Boyer, 67, American educator and United States Commissioner of Education.
* Tom Burns, 89, British-Chilean publisher and editor.
* Bill Coldwell, 63, English football manager and scout.
* John Gillett, 69–70, British film critic and researcher.
* George J. Lewis, 91, Mexican actor, stroke.
* Robert Manuel, 79, French actor and film director.
* Maino Neri, 71, Italian football player and manager.
* Ding Shande, 84, Chinese composer.

### 9

* Severo Antonelli, 88, American photographer.
* Toni Cade Bambara, 56, American author, documentary film-maker, and social activist, colorectal cancer.
* Vivian Blaine, 74, American actress (Guys and Dolls) and singer, heart failure.
* Mario Brini, 87, Italian prelate.
* George Brown, 80, British sailor and Olympic athlete.
* Pierre-Georges Castex, 80, French academic, literary critic and author.
* Hugh Clegg, 75, British academic and director, stroke.
* Tom Cole, 88–89, Australian labourer, outdoorsman and author.
* Benoit Comeau, 79, Canadian politician.
* Douglas Corrigan, 88, American aviator.
* Gwen Harwood, 75, Australian poet.
* Benny Lee, 79, Scottish comedy actor and singer.
* Gillian Rose, 48, British philosopher and non-fiction writer, ovarian cancer.
* Katharine Way, 93, American physicist.

### 10

* Godfrey Agnew, 82, British civil servant.
* Alex Aronson, 83, German author.
* Kamal Bhattacharya, 80, Indian cricketer.
* Bonvi, 54, Italian comic book artist, car accident.
* Saša Božović, 83, Yugoslav partisan, physician, and author.
* Sarvadaman Chowla, 88, British-Indian American mathematician.
* Mary Lascelles, 95, British literary scholar.
* Paul Lohmann, 69, American cinematographer (Coffy, Nashville, Mommie Dearest).
* Lavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, 79, British noblewoman.
* Phil Piratin, 88, British communist politician.
* Darren Robinson, 28, American rapper, cardiac arrest, heart attack.

### 11

* Greg Bahnsen, 47, American Calvinist philosopher, apologist, and debater, complications following surgery.
* Étienne Becker, 59, French cinematographer.
* Allene Jeanes, 89, American chemical researcher.
* Arthur Mullard, 85, English actor, comedian and singer.
* Euan Robertson, 47, New Zealand distance runner and Olympian, heart attack.
* Abolhassan Sadighi, 101, Iranian sculptor and painter .
* Robert Shelton, 69, American music and film critic.
* Miko Tripalo, 69, Croatian politician.

### 12

* Roberto Agramonte, 91, Cuban ambassador, philosopher, and politician.
* Ike Altgens, 76, American photojournalist, photo editor, and field reporter, carbon monoxide poisoning.
* Evangeline Bruce, 81, American society hostess and writer.
* R. Ramanathan Chettiar, 82, Indian businessman and politician.
* Ángel Crespo, 69, Spanish poet and translator.
* Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, 83, Danish princess.
* Giovanni Giacomazzi, 67, Italian football player.
* Sanusi Hardjadinata, 81, Indonesian politician.
* Oles Honchar, 77, Ukrainian writer and public figure.
* Lyudmil Kirkov, 61, Bulgarian film director and actor.
* David Lightbown, 63, British politician.
* Andrew Nelson Lytle, 92, American novelist, dramatist, and essayist.
* David Marshall, 87, Singaporean politician and first Chief Minister, lung cancer.
* Moshe-Zvi Neria, 82, Israeli Orthodox writer and politician.
* Andrew Olle, 47, Australian radio and television presenter, brain cancer.
* Homer Thornberry, 86, American politician and judge.

### 13

* Gerda Bengtsson, 95, Danish textile artist who specialized in embroidery.
* Chrysanthos Mentis Bostantzoglou, 76–77, Greek political cartoonist, playwright, lyricist and painter.
* Ernie Case, 75, American quarterback for UCLA Bruins football and the Baltimore Colts.
* Ann Nolan Clark, 99, American writer who won the Newbery Medal.
* René Cloërec, 84, French composer and conductor.
* Anatoly Dyatlov, 64, Soviet engineer in charge during the Chernobyl disaster, heart attack.
* Nancy LaMott, 43, American singer, uterine cancer.

### 14

* Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 10th Viscount Boyne, 64, Irish peer, soldier and banker.
* Eddie Clamp, 61, English footballer.
* G. C. Edmondson, 73, American science fiction author .
* Rob Harris, 28, American skysurfer, accident.
* Eduardo Simian, 80, Chilean football player and politician.
* Constance Tipper, 101, English metallurgist and crystallographer.

### 15

* János Adorján, 57, Hungarian handball player.
* Calvin Clarke, 79, American baseball player in the Negro leagues.
* Mano Dayak, 45, Nigerien Tuareg freedom fighter, activist and politician, plane crash.
* Marion Holley, 85, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
* Sariamin Ismail, 86, Indonesian novelist.
* Miroslav Katětov, 77, Czech mathematician, chess master, and psychologist.
* Johnny Lytle, 63, American vibraphone player.
* Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, 83, Spanish politician and minister, traffic collision.
* Diana Poulton, 92, English lutenist.
* Jan Říha, 80, Czech football player.

### 16

* Albert Alberts, 84, Dutch writer, translator, and journalist.
* Giulio Cappelli, 84, Italian footballer.
* Simone Genevois, 83, French film actress.
* Shui Hua, 79, Chinese film director and screenwriter.
* Anthony Ingrassia, 51, American director, producer, and playwright.
* Bert Marcelo, 59, Filipino television personality.
* Johnny Moss, 88, American poker player.
* Charles Sauriol, 91, Canadian naturalist.
* Mariele Ventre, 56, Italian musician and singer, breast cancer.

### 17

* Isa Alptekin, 94, Chinese Uyghur nationalist and pan-Turkic politician.
* Hendrikus Berkhof, 81, Dutch theologian.
* Alfred Bula, 87, Swiss racing cyclist.
* Alfa Castaldi, 68, Italian photographer.
* Arthur Cirilli, 80, American lawyer, politician, and judge.
* Dorothy B. Porter, 90, American librarian, bibliographer and curator.
* Olivette Thibault, 81, Canadian actress from Quebec.
* Peter Warlock, 91, British magician.
* Takuma Yasui, 86, Japanese economist.

### 18

* Panchito Alba, 70, Filipino film actor.
* Brian Brockless, 69, English organist and composer.
* Maurie Fields, 70, Australian vaudeville performer, actor and stand-up comedian.
* Yelena Miroshina, 21, Russian diver, fall.
* António Roquete, 89, Portuguese football goalkeeper.
* Nathan Rosen, 86, Israeli physicist.
* Martin Růžek, 77, Czech actor.
* Ross Thomas, 69, American writer of crime fiction, lung cancer.
* Mohammad Yeganeh, 72, Iranian economist.
* Konrad Zuse, 85, German engineer.

### 19

* Nita Barrow, 79, Governor-General of Barbados, stroke.
* Max Beer, 83, Swiss long-distance runner who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
* Céline Figard, 19, French murder victim, strangulation.
* Linda Hayes, 77, American actress.
* Jack Hively, 85, American film editor and film and television director.
* René Lemoine, 89, French fencer and Olympian.
* Masako Shinpo, 82, Japanese track and field athlete and Olympian.
* Henri Virlogeux, 71, French actor.
* Harold Watkinson, 85, British businessman and politician.

### 20

* Suzanne Baron, 68, French film editor.
* Alexina Duchamp, 89, American art dealer and wife of Marcel Duchamp.
* John Jacques, Baron Jacques, 90, British businessman and politician.
* Allan Mackintosh, 59, Danish physicist.
* Mario Procaccino, 83, Italian-American lawyer and politician.
* Maan Sassen, 84, Dutch politician.
* Madge Sinclair, 57, Jamaican-American actress (Trapper John, M.D., Coming to America, The Lion King), Emmy winner (1991), leukemia.
* Notable people killed in American Airlines Flight 965:
** Paris Kanellakis, 42, Greek American computer scientist.
** Benny Ramírez, 63, Colombian professional wrestler.

### 21

* Trenchard Cox, 90, British museum director.
* Sammy Creason, 51, American session drummer, brain aneurism.
* R. F. V. Heuston, 72, British professor of law.
* Roddy Lamb, 96, American gridiron football player.
* Boris Ponomarev, 90, Soviet politician, ideologist, and historian.

### 22

* Jean Aubry, 82, French gymnast and Olympian.
* Lawrence Berk, 87, American composer, pianist, and music educator.
* Ted Carroll, 56, Irish hurler.
* Pierre Cour, 79, French songwriter and lyricist.
* Ferris Jennings, 82, American gridiron football player.
* Takuzo Kawatani, 54, Japanese film actor, lung cancer.
* Osvald Käpp, 90, Estonian wrestler and Olympian.
* David Land, 77, British impresario and theatre producer.
* Butterfly McQueen, 84, American actress (Gone with the Wind, The Mosquito Coast, Duel in the Sun).
* James Meade, 88, English economist.
* Tom Pettit, 64, American journalist.

### 23

* Helen Andersen, 76, Canadian artist, cancer.
* Attilio Bulgheri, 82, Italian football player.
* Ralph H. Demmler, 91, American lawyer.
* Gabrielle Keiller, 87, Scottish socialite, golfer, art collector and archaeological photographer.
* Karl Jamshed Khandalavala, 91, Indian Air Force officer, Parsi art connoisseur, and lawyer.
* Patric Knowles, 84, English actor, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Olof Rydbeck, 82, Swedish diplomat.

### 24

* Phillip E. Areeda, 65, American lawyer and legal scholar, leukemia.
* Aharon Becker, 90, Israeli politician.
* Lojze Krakar, 69, Slovene poet, literary historian, and essayist.
* Carlos Lapetra, 57, Spanish football player.
* Geoffrey Pinnington, 76, British journalist.
* Jo Schouwenaar-Franssen, 86, Dutch politician .
* Jack Siggins, 86, Irish rugby player.

### 25

* Frederick Becton, 87, United States Navy officer and destroyer commander during World War II.
* James Boucher, 85, Irish cricketer.
* Chang Kee-ryo, 84, South Korean surgeon, educator, and philanthropist.
* Akira Kono, 66, Japanese gymnast.
* Emmanuel Levinas, 89, French-Lithuanian philosopher.
* Marijan Lipovšek, 85, Slovenian pianist, composer and writer on music.
* Dean Martin, 78, American singer ("Ain't That a Kick in the Head?", "That's Amore"), comedian and actor (The Dean Martin Show), pulmonary emphysema.
* Henri Patrelle, 77, French football player and executive.
* Allen Russell Patrick, 85, Canadian politician .
* Víctor Peralta, 87, Argentine boxer.
* Nicolas Slonimsky, 101, Russian-American musicologist.

### 26

* Hüsamettin Böke, 85, Turkish footballer and referee.
* Al DeRogatis, 68, American gridiron football player, cancer.
* Dudar Hahanov, 74, Soviet composer, violinist and conductor.
* Walter Horn, 87, German-American medievalist scholar.
* Ángel Sauce, 84, Venezuelan composer, conductor and teacher.

### 27

* Ferdinand Auth, 81, German politician.
* Al Barlick, 80, American umpire in Major League Baseball.
* Jeremy John Beadle, 39, British critic, writer and broadcaster, AIDS-related complications.
* Edgar Bischoff, 83, Romanian-French composer and lyricist.
* Henk Bouwman, 69, Dutch field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
* Lois Bulley, 94, British county councillor, philanthropist and political activist.
* Thomas C. Chalmers, 78, American physician and medical researcher.
* Shura Cherkassky, 86, Ukrainian-American concert pianist.
* William Campbell Gault, 85, American writer.
* Boris Gnedenko, 83, Soviet/Ukrainian mathematician.
* Winslow Hall, 83, American rower and Olympian.
* Syd Herlong, 86, American politician.
* Oscar Judd, 87, Canadian-American baseball player.
* Genrikh Kasparyan, 85, Soviet chess player.
* Enzo Serafin, 83, Italian cinematographer.

### 28

* Madeleine Barot, 86, French activist and theologian.
* Virginius Dabney, 94, American teacher, journalist, and writer.
* Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis, 70, American electric blues musician, heart attack.
* Walther Killy, 78, German literary scholar.
* Michel Michelet, 101, Ukrainian composer of film scores.
* Howard C. Petersen, 85, American government official and banker.

### 29

* Shirley Ascott, 65, British sprint canoer.
* Nello Celio, 81, President of Switzerland.
* Harold Collison, 86, British trade unionist.
* Harry Cripps, 54, English football player.
* Lita Grey, 87, American actress, cancer.
* Hans Henkemans, 82, Dutch pianist, teacher, composer of classical music and psychiatrist.
* Philippus Jacobus Idenburg, 94, Dutch statistician.
* Johan Manusama, 85, Dutch Schoolteacher and Moluccan independence activist.

### 30

* Poul Andersen, 65, Danish footballer.
* Hubert Clompe, 85, Romanian ski jumper who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics.
* Ralph Flanagan, 81, American big band leader, pianist, composer, and arranger.
* Doris Grau, 71, American script supervisor and voice actress (The Simpsons, The Critic, DuckTales), lung disease.
* Richard Hornung, 45, American costume designer (Barton Fink, Miller's Crossing, Young Guns), AIDS.
* Aleksandre Machavariani, 82, Georgian composer and conductor.
* Heiner Müller, 66, German poet and playwright, laryngeal cancer.
* Suzanne Prou, 75, French novelist.
* Nestor Redondo, 67, Filipino comics artist.
* Katarina Taikon, 63, Swedish civil rights activist, writer and actor.

### 31

* David Anderson, 79, Scottish judge, politician and Solicitor General for Scotland.
* Francis Woodman Cleaves, 84, American sinologist, linguist, and historian.
* Gabriel d'Aubarède, 97, French novelist, literary critic and journalist.
* Fritz Eckhardt, 88, Austrian actor, director, and writer.
* Daniel O. Graham, 70, American Army officer.
* Eduardo Hernández Moncada, 96, Mexican composer and conductor.
* Bill Nyrop, 43, American ice hockey player, colon cancer.
* Elisabeth Pinajeff, 95, Russian-German actress.