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

## August 1995
### 1

* Julián Berrendero, 83, Spanish road racing cyclist who twice won the Vuelta a España.
* Phyllis Brooks, 80, American actress and model.
* Frank W. Cyr, 95, American educator and author.
* Martha Genenger, 83, German Olympic swimmer.
* Colin Falkland Gray, 80, New Zealand fighter ace during World War II.
* Esther Muir, 92, American actress.
* Gopalaswami Parthasarathy, 83, Indian journalist, educationist, and diplomat.
* Rudolph F. Zallinger, 75, Austrian-Russian artist.

### 2

* Irwin Bazelon, 73, American composer of contemporary classical music.
* Thomas Brimelow, Baron Brimelow, 79, British diplomat.
* Lillian Bronson, 92, American character actress.
* Fred Daly, 83, Australian politician.
* Eva Gredal, 68, Danish politician.
* Oonagh Guinness, 85, Anglo-Irish socialite, society hostess and art collector.
* Yury Iosifovich Koval, 57, Russian author, artist, and screenplay writer, heart attack.
* Juan López Moctezuma, 63, Mexican film director and actor.
* Brian Smith, 54, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster, shot.

### 3

* Lionel Philias Coderre, 80, Canadian politician.
* Harry Craft, 80, American Major League Baseball player and manager.
* Mary Lena Faulk, 69, American golfer.
* Ida Lupino, 77, British-American actress (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, High Sierra) and film director (The Hitch-Hiker), stroke.
* Alan Mitchell, 72, British forester, dendrologist and botanist.
* Edward Whittemore, 62, American novelist.

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* Alejandro Almendras, 76, Filipino politician.
* Cal Anderson, 47, American military officer and politician.
* Jacques Aubert, 78, Swiss entomologist.
* Dick Bartell, 87, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease.
* Jock Carroll, 76, Canadian writer, journalist and photographer.
* Jean-Pierre Frisch, 87, Luxembourgish football player.
* Antonio Leonviola, 82, Italian screenwriter and film director.
* J. Howard Marshall, 90, American billionaire, oil executive, and husband of Anna Nicole Smith.
* Kiiti Morita, 80, Japanese mathematician.
* Said Ramadan, 69, Egyptian political activist and humanitarian.

### 5

* Agha Hasan Abedi, 73, Pakistani banker.
* Fletcher Allen, 90, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.
* Menachem Avidom, 87, Israeli composer.
* Clarice Blackburn, 74, American actress, cancer.
* Allan Bridge, 50, American conceptual artist.
* Angelo Brovelli, 84, American NFL football player.
* J. Marshall Brown, 68, American politician and insurance agent.
* Massimiliano Capuzzoni, 26, Italian rugby player, diving accident.
* Mark Colton, 34, British racing driver and software author, racing accident.
* Izet Nanić, 29, Bosnian Army brigade commander, killed in action.

### 6

* Irja Aav, 51, Estonian actress.
* Hugh Borton, 92, American historian.
* André Fleury, 92, French composer, pianist, organist, and pedagogue.
* Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester, 81, British barrister and politician.
* Nadira, 26, Pakistani film actress and dancer, homicide.
* Toney Penna, 87, Italian-American golfer and designer of golf clubs and gear.
* George Svendsen, 82, American gridiron football player.
* Montri Tramote, 95, Thai musician and scholar, heart failure.

### 7

* David Begelman, 73, American film producer, suicide.
* Brigid Brophy, 66, British novelist, multiple sclerosis.
* Tyra Hunter, 24, transgender hairdresser.
* Haim Kaufman, 60, Israeli politician.
* Dursley McLinden, 30, Manx actor.
* Don Patinkin, 73, American-Israeli monetary economist.
* Tom Scott, 77, Scottish poet, editor, and prose writer.
* Harold Stewart, 78, Australian poet and oriental scholar.
* Maksim Tank, 82, Belarusian Soviet journalist, poet and translator.

### 8

* Kurt Becher, 85, German SS officer who was Commissar of all Nazi concentration camps.
* Ronald Beeson, 58, English cricket player.
* Fyodor Dyachenko, 78, Russian/Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with 425 kills.
* Carol Hughes, 85, American actress.
* Herbert Ihlefeld, 81, German Luftwaffe military aviator and fighter ace.

### 9

* Teodoro Alcalde, 81, Peruvian football player.
* Jerry Garcia, 53, American guitarist (The Grateful Dead), heart attack.
* Suen Kam Shun, 88, Chinese football player.
* Romuald Spasowski, 74, Polish diplomat, ambassador and defector, cancer.

### 10

* Gijs van Aardenne, 65, Dutch politician, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Leo Apostel, 69, Belgian philosopher.
* Donald Bisset, 84, British character actor and children's author.
* Thomas Elliot Bowman III, 76, American carcinologist.
* Wei-Liang Chow, 83, Chinese mathematician.
* Florestan Fernandes, 75, Brazilian sociologist and politician.
* Josseline Gaël, 78, French film actress.
* Fay Honey Knopp, 76, American Quaker minister, and peace and civil rights advocat.
* Marcel Moussy, 71, French screenwriter and television director.
* Harishankar Parsai, 72, Indian writer.
* Aldo Protti, 75, Italian baritone.
* Baba Rexheb, 93, Albanian Islamic scholar and Sufi.
* Niilo Ryhtä, 88, Finnish politician.
* Tikiri Banda Subasinghe, 81, Sri Lankan statesman.
* Ray Whittorn, 83, Australian politician.
* Peter Williams, 81, English designer and dance critic, heart attack.

### 11

* Libby Altwerger, 80, Canadian artist and educator.
* Karel Berman, 76, Czech composer, opera singer, music educator.
* Sam Berman, 88, American caricaturist of the 1940s and 1950s.
* Joseph Bermingham, 76, Irish Labour Party politician.
* Alonzo Church, 92, American mathematician.
* Reg Date, 74, Australian soccer player.
* Damon Edge, 45, American musician, heart attack.
* Phil Harris, 91, American comedian and actor (The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, The Aristocats), heart attack.
* Wilbur Stark, 83, American writer and film, television, and radio producer and director.
* Herbert Sumsion, 96, English organist.

### 12

* Bobby Burns, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
* Jean Chapel, 70, American country singer and songwriter.
* Frank Cvitanovich, 67, Canadian filmmaker.
* Louise Lorimer, 97, American actress.
* Marty Paich, 70, American arranger, composer, pianist, and bandleader, colorectal cancer.
* Bruno Pasquini, 80, Italian racing cyclist.
* Achille Togliani, 71, Italian singer and actor.
* Felipe Tromp, 77, Governor of Aruba.

### 13

* Alison Hargreaves, 33, British mountain climber, exposure during climb.
* Pêr-Jakez Helias, 80-81, Breton stage actor, journalist, author, poet, and writer.
* Jan Křesadlo, 68, Czech psychologist, novelist and poet.
* Mickey Mantle, 63, American baseball player, liver cancer.
* Jesse Thomas, 84, American blues singer.
* Hanna Waag, 91, German film actress.

### 14

* Helmut Beumann, 82, German historian.
* Labron Harris, 86, American golfer and golf coach.
* Frances Margaret McGuire, 95, Australian author, community leader and philanthropist.
* Zdeněk Špinar, 79, Czechoslovak paleontologist and author.

### 15

* Erbie Bowser, 77, American blues pianist and singer.
* Michael A. Hess, 43, Irish-American lawyer and chief legal counsel to the RNC, complications from AIDS.
* Humphrey Moore, 86, British pacifist and journalist.
* Reginald Rodrigues, 73, Indian field hockey player and Olympian.
* John Cameron Swayze, 89, American news commentator and game show panelist.
* Abdul Momin Talukdar, 65, Bangladeshi politician.

### 16

* Brooke Benjamin, 66, English mathematical physicist and mathematician.
* Ljubiša Broćić, 83, Serbian football manager.
* Irène de Lipkowski, 96, French politician.
* Bobby DeBarge, 39, American R&B musician, AIDS related complications.
* Oveta Culp Hobby, 90, American lawyer, politician and cabinet member, stroke.
* John Lowe, 83, Scottish football player.
* J. P. McCarthy, 62, American radio personality, pneumonia.
* Leon Moser, 52, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Howie Shannon, 72, American basketball player and coach, lung cancer.
* António Vilar, 82, Portuguese actor.

### 17

* George Bekefi, 70, American plasma physicist, inventor, and professor at MIT.
* Walter Cartier, 73, American boxer and actor.
* Mike Condello, 49, American rock musician, producer, and songwriter, suicide.
* Wild Bill Davis, 76, American organist, pianist, and arranger.
* Helen Singer Kaplan, 66, Austrian-American sex therapist, cancer.
* Howard Koch, 93, American screenwriter (Casablanca, Sergeant York, Letter from an Unknown Woman), Oscar winner (1944).
* Rollie Miles, 68, Canadian football player.
* Julius Monk, 82, American cabaret impresario.
* Jaroslav Papoušek, 66, Czech film director and screenwriter.
* Carl Samuelson, 68, American football player.
* Marjorie Sykes, 90, British educator and peace activist in India.
* David Warrilow, 60, English actor (Barton Fink, Radio Days, Simon), AIDS-related complications.
* Ted Whitten, 62, Australian rules footballer, prostate cancer.

### 18

* Julio Caro Baroja, 80, Spanish anthropologist, historian, linguist and essayist.
* Alexander Zeisal Bielski, 82, Belarus leader of the Bielski partisans during World War II.
* Philip Hodgins, 36, Australian poet.
* Dick Hogan, 77, American actor (Rope).
* Alex Joffé, 76, French film director and screenwriter.
* James Maxwell, 66, American actor and director.
* Helmuth Schlömer, 102, German Wehrmacht general during World War II.
* Dmitri Shepilov, 89, Soviet economist, lawyer and politician.
* Andrew Wood Wilkinson, 81, Scottish paediatrician.

### 19

* John H. Adams, 80, American National Champion Thoroughbred racing jockey.
* Silvio Amadio, 69, Italian film director and screenwriter.
* Rollen Henry Anthis, 79, United States Air Force Major General.
* Danny Arnold, 70, American producer, writer, comedian, actor and director.
* Jean Bocahut, 75, French rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.
* Jack Carter, 87, Australian cricketer.
* Robert C. Frasure, 53, American diplomat and ambassador, traffic collision.
* William Summer Johnson, 82, American chemist and teacher.
* Pierre Schaeffer, 85, French composer, Alzheimer's disease.

### 20

* Maly Delschaft, 96, German actress.
* Paul Foster, 75, American gospel singer with The Soul Stirrers.
* John Gilmore, 63, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and percussionist.
* Bill Kennedy, 76, American professional baseball pitcher.
* Von McDaniel, 56, American professional baseball player.
* Hugo Pratt, 68, Italian comics creator, colorectal cancer.
* Red Rhodes, 64, American pedal steel guitarist, pneumonia.
* Vladimír Škutina, 64, Czech writer, playwright, journalist, and television producer, cancer.

### 21

* Sally A. Bailie, 58, English trainer and owner of Thoroughbred racehorses, cancer.
* Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 84, Indian astrophysicist, heart attack.
* Hal Cihlar, 81, American professional basketball player.
* Manfred Donike, 61, German biochemist and cyclist, heart attack.
* Anatole Fistoulari, 88, Ukrainian-British conductor.
* Sven Höglund, 84, Swedish cyclist.
* Nanni Loy, 69, Italian director for film and television, heart attack, cancer.
* Len Martin, 76, Australian sports broadcaster.
* Ken Rickards, 71, West Indian cricketer.
* Robert T. Smith, 77, American World War II fighter pilot and flying ace.
* Chuck Stevenson, 75, American racecar driver.

### 22

* Gilles Andruet, 37, French chess player, beaten to death, blunt trauma.
* Mohammed Usman Arif, 72, Indian politician.
* Johnny Carey, 76, Irish football player and manager.
* José Antonio Girón, 83, Spanish Falangist politician.
* René Notten, 45, Dutch football player and manager, heart attack.
* Stefan Ślopek, 80, Polish microbiologist and immunologist.

### 23

* Jaroslava Bajerová, 85, Czech gymnast who won silver at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
* Johan Bergenstråhle, 60, Swedish film director and screenwriter.
* Alfred Eisenstaedt, 96, German-American photographer.
* Dwayne Goettel, 31, Canadian electronic musician (Skinny Puppy).
* Leslie Graves, 35, American actress (Piranha II: The Spawning, Capitol), AIDS-related illness.
* Arthur Holt, 81, British politician.
* Gordon White, Baron White of Hull, 72, British-American peer and industrialist.
* Chen Pixian, 79, Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician.
* Cleveland Robinson, 80, American civil rights activist, kidney failure.
* Adele Simpson, 91, American fashion designer.
* Sylvester Stadler, 84, Austrian commander of the Waffen-SS during World War II.

### 24

* Zbyněk Brynych, 68, Czech film director.
* Jack Burns, 76, Australian rules footballer.
* Gary Crosby, 62, American singer and actor, lung cancer.
* Richard Degener, 83, American diver.
* Erich Geiringer, 78, New Zealand physician, writer, publisher.
* Killer Karl Krupp, 61, Dutch-American professional wrestler, cardioplegia.
* Jason McRoy, 23, English mountain bike racer, traffic collision.

### 25

* Johannes Antonsson, 73, Swedish politician.
* John S. Badeau, 92, American diplomat, engineer, minister, and scholar.
* John Brunner, 60, British sci-fi author, heart attack.
* Setsuko, Princess Chichibu, 85, member of the Japanese Imperial Family, heart failure.
* Francis Lawrence Jobin, 81, Canadian politician Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.
* Eugene McDowell, 32, American basketball player.
* Ludmilla Pajo, 47, Russian-Albanian writer and journalist.
* Brede Skistad, 47, Norwegian football player and manager.
* Doug Stegmeyer, 43, American rock bassist and vocalist, suicide by gunshot.

### 26

* Antonio Brancaccio, 72, Italian judge, cancer.
* John Costello, 51-52, British military historian.
* Annie Kriegel, 68, French communist historian.
* Olimi III of Toro, 49, Ugandan monarch and 11th Omukama of the Kingdom of Toro.
* Ronald White, 57, American musician (The Miracles), leukemia.
* Evelyn Wood, 86, American teacher who popularized speed reading.

### 27

* Dick Bentley, 88, Australian comedian and actor, Alzheimer's disease.
* Glennon Patrick Flavin, 79, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Carl Giles, 78, English cartoonist.
* Mary Beth Hughes, 75, American actress.
* Big Dee Irwin, 63, American singer and songwriter.
* Václav Ježek, 71, Czechoslovakian/Slovak football coach.

### 28

* Earl W. Bascom, 89, American visual artist, rodeo performer, inventor, and actor, heart failure.
* Michael Ende, 65, German author (The NeverEnding Story, Momo, Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver), stomach cancer.
* Thomas Gardner Ford, 77, American politician and businessman.
* Fritz Pliska, 79, German football player and coach.
* Gerard Salton, 68, German-American professor of Computer Science.
* Page Smith, 77, American historian, professor, author, and newspaper columnist.
* Michael VerMeulen, 38, American journalist and magazine editor of British GQ, drug overdose.

### 29

* Al Akins, 74, American football halfback and defensive back.
* Harry Broadhurst, 89, British Royal Air Force commander and flying ace during World War II.
* Selma Burke, 94, American sculptor.
* Enrique Carreras, 70, Peruvian-Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.
* Pierre-Max Dubois, 65, French composer of classical music and conductor.
* Art Jones, 76, American gridiron football player.
* Frank Perry, 65, American film director (David and Lisa, Mommie Dearest, Diary of a Mad Housewife), prostate cancer.
* Nanda Primavera, 97, Italian actress.

### 30

* Agepê, 53, Brazilian singer and composer, diabetes.
* Fischer Black, 57, American economist, throat cancer.
* Carlos de Anda, 87, Mexican sprinter.
* Nikolay Kuznetsov, 64, Azerbaijani water polo player.
* Sterling Morrison, 53, American guitarist (the Velvet Underground), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
* Lev Polugaevsky, 60, Belarusian chess Grandmaster, brain cancer.
* Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, 58, Polish science fiction author, suicide.

### 31

* Murray Bornstein, 77, American neuroscientist.
* Mildred Coles, 75, American actress.
* Barry Lee Fairchild, 41, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* David Farrar, 87, English actor.
* Horst Janssen, 65, German graphic artist and printmaker.
* J. Erik Jonsson, 93, American businessman and mayor of Dallas.
* Gertrud Luckner, 94, German social worker and anti-Nazi resister during World War II.
* Carmen Mathews, 84, American actress and environmentalist.
* A. A. Rahim, 75, Indian politician, freedom fighter, and union minister.
* Beant Singh, 73, Indian politician and Chief Minister of Punjab, assassination.
* Dilawar Singh Babbar, 25, Indian suicide bomber and assassin of Beant Singh.