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

## April 1994
### 1

* Cliff Addison, 80, British chemist.
* John Chase, 87, American ice hockey player and coach.
* Robert Doisneau, 81, French photographer.
* John McMullan, 60, American gridiron football player.
* Thomas Head Raddall, 90, Canadian writer.
* Netty Simons, 80, American pianist, music editor, and composer.
* Gennady Voronov, 83, Soviet/Russian statesman.

### 2

* Irene Baker, 92, American politician.
* Betty Furness, 78, American actress, consumer advocate, and commentator.
* Raymond Z. Gallun, 83, American science fiction writer.
* Rowland Greenberg, 73, Norwegian jazz trumpeter.
* Edward Vissers, 81, Belgian road bicycle racer.

### 3

* Agostinho da Silva, 88, Portuguese philosopher, essayist, and writer.
* Tom Hamilton, 88, American football player, coach, and naval aviator.
* Beverly Johnson, 46, American rock climber and adventurer, helicopter crash.
* Chad Kinch, 35, American basketball player, AIDS-related complications.
* Jérôme Lejeune, 67, French pediatrician and geneticist, cancer.
* Aharon Remez, 74, Israeli Air Force commander, politician and diplomat.
* Willis A. Trafton Jr., 76, American lawyer and politician.
* Armand Vetulani, 84, Polish art historian and educator, tumor.
* Frank Wells, 62, American businessman and president of The Walt Disney Company, helicopter crash.

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* Misael Acosta Solís, 83, Ecuadorian naturalist.
* Pippo Barzizza, 91, Italian composer, arranger, conductor and music director.
* Luther Cressman, 96, American archaeologist.
* André Derrien, 98, French sailor.
* Kurt Meisel, 81, Austrian actor and film director.
* Gabriella Mészáros, 80, Hungarian gymnast and Olympian.
* Ginny Simms, 80, American singer and film actress.
* Valentin Stănescu, 71, Romanian goalkeeper and football manager.
* Jean-Pierre Weisgerber, 89, Luxembourgish football player.

### 5

* Ada Carrasco, 81, Mexican actress, heart attack.
* Kurt Cobain, 27, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, suicide by gunshot.
* Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga, 75, Uruguayan jurist, traffic collision.
* Bobby Hofman, 68, American baseball player and coach, cancer.
* Otari Kvantrishvili, 46, Georgian mafia boss, homicide.
* Charles Newton, 77, American gridiron football player.
* Arthur Vere Harvey, Baron Harvey of Prestbury, 88, British Royal Air Force officer and a politician.
* Marlon Riggs, 37, American filmmaker, poet, and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications.
* Ghulam Fareed Sabri, 64, Pakistani qawwali singer.
* Roy Smeck, 94, American musician.
* André Tchelistcheff, 92, American winemaker.

### 6

* Klaus Bodinger, 61, German swimmer.
* Dick Cary, 77, American jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger.
* Shekhar Chatterjee, 70, Indian actor and film director.
* Sheck Exley, 45, American cave diver, diving accident.
* Juvénal Habyarimana, 57, Rwandan politician and military officer, assassinated.
* Catherine Lombard, 28, French freestyle skier, AIDS-related complications.
* Patricia Ann McGee, 67, Native American tribal leader.
* Kahnu Charan Mohanty, 87, Indian novelist.
* Cyprien Ntaryamira, 39, Burundian politician, assassinated.
* Cuthbert Peacocke, 90, Irish Anglican bishop.
* Goody Rosen, 81, Canadian baseball player.
* Paola Tovaglia, 28, Italian children's television presenter, brain cancer.

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* Harry Adaskin, 92, Canadian violinist, academic, and radio broadcaster.
* Lee Brilleaux, 41, English R&B singer and musician, lymphoma.
* Bill Dickinson, 77, Scottish rugby player and coach.
* Ștefan Dobay, 84, Romanian football player.
* François de Grossouvre, 76, French politician, suicide by gunshot.
* Cecil Gould, 75, British art historian and curator, brain cancer.
* Albert Guðmundsson, 70, Icelandic football player and politician.
* Ramesh Chandra Jha, 65, Indian poet, novelist and freedom fighter.
* Archibald Kennedy, 7th Marquess of Ailsa, 68, Scottish peer.
* Cesar Legaspi, 77, Filipino painter, prostate cancer.
* Golo Mann, 85, German historian and essayist.
* Ruben Rustia, 70, Filipino actor.
* Sigmund Ruud, 86, Norwegian ski jumper.
* Agathe Uwilingiyimana, 40, Prime Minister of Rwanda, murdered.

### 8

* Irene Eisinger, 90, German-British opera singer and film actress.
* François Rozet, 95, French-Canadian actor.
* Leonard Small, 88, Scottish minister and author.
* Dada Vujasinović, 30, Serbian journalist and reporter.
* Åke Wallenquist, 90, Swedish astronomer.

### 9

* Lewis Billups, 30, American gridiron football player, car crash.
* M. S. Fernando, 58, Sri Lankan singer and musician.
* Marcel Ichac, 87, French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director.
* Mieczysław Maneli, 72, Polish lawyer, diplomat and academic.
* Theodore D. Mann, 71, American politician.
* Hal Missingham, 87, Australian artist and watercolourist.
* Anthony E. Pratt, 90, English musician and inventor of board game Cluedo, Alzheimer's disease.
* Paul Păun, 78, Romanian-Israeli avant-garde poet and visual artist.
* Keith Watson, 59, British comics artist, cancer.

### 10

* Terry Adlington, 58, English footballer.
* Viktor Afanasyev, 71, Soviet/Russian journalist and professor of philosophy.
* Reinaldo Gorno, 75, Argentine long-distance runner and Olympian.
* Sam B. Hall, 70, American lawyer, politician, and judge.
* John O'Brien, 33, American author (Leaving Las Vegas), suicide.
* V. G. W. Ratnayake, 85, Sri Lankan politician.

### 11

* Wesley Barry, 86, American actor, director, and producer.
* John Block, 64, Dutch aviation pioneer.
* Sticks Evans, 71, American drummer, percussionist, arranger and musical director.
* Matthew Feldman, 75, American politician.
* Chu Tunan, 95, Chinese politician.

### 12

* Elissa Aalto, 71, Finnish architect.
* Bob Cryer, 59, English politician, traffic collision.
* Daniel Levinson, 73, American psychologist.
* Branko Mikulić, 65, Yugoslavian statesman, lung cancer.
* Pamela Mitford, 86, English socialite and one of the Mitford sisters.
* Joseph Nelis, 77, Belgian football player.
* Frank V. Phillips, 82, American cinematographer (The Black Hole, Pete's Dragon, The Apple Dumpling Gang).

### 13

* Kurt Aland, 79, German theologian and biblical scholar.
* Jørgen Buckhøj, 59, Danish actor
* Piet Engels, 70, American politician.
* Robert K. A. Gardiner, 79, Ghanaian government official, university professor, and economist.
* Claude Heymann, 86, French screenwriter and film director.
* Rudolf Hrušínský, 73, Czech actor and director.
* Nikolai Kryuchkov, 83, Soviet/Russian film actor.
* John Marriott, 81, Australian politician.
* Bert Ramelson, 84, British communist politician.
* Mika Tiivola, 71, Finnish businessman.

### 14

* Bobby Gurney, 86, English football player and manager.
* Evelyn King, 86, British politician.
* Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, 96, Pakistani organic chemist, painter, and poet.
* Hugh Springer, 80, Barbados politician and fourth Governor-general of Barbados.

### 15

* István Boros, 84, Male Hungarian international table tennis player.
* Walter Clegg, 73, British Conservative politician.
* John Curry, 44, British figure skater, heart attack.
* Vardges Petrosyan, 61, Armenian writer of fiction and drama, homicide.

### 16

* Anna-Kaarina Aalto, 73, Finnish physician and politician, MP.
* József Albert, 81, Hungarian football player.
* Renu Chakravartty, 76, Indian politician and leader of Communist Party of India.
* Ralph Ellison, 80, American novelist, literary critic, and scholar, pancreatic cancer.
* Leslie Flint, 83, British psychic medium.
* John McLiam, 76, Canadian actor (Cool Hand Luke, In Cold Blood, First Blood), Parkinson's disease.
* Victor Popov, 56, Russian theoretical physicist.
* José Ramón Sauto, 81, Mexican football player.
* Samuel Selvon, 70, Trinidad and Tobago writer, respiratory failure.
* Allan "Whitey" Snyder, 79, American make-up artist.
* Ron Vawter, 45, American actor (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Sex, Lies, and Videotape), heart attack.

### 17

* Robert Legget, 89, Canadian civil engineer, historian and writer.
* Roger Sperry, 80, American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel prize laureate.
* Walter Wilson, 80, American baseball player.
* Manno Wolf-Ferrari, 82, Italian conductor.

### 18

* Tamás Aczél, 72, Hungarian poet, writer, and journalist.
* Dener, 23, Brazilian football player and manager, traffic collision.
* Ken Oosterbroek, 32, South African photojournalist, shot.
* Ruggero Orlando, 86, Italian journalist, writer and politician.
* Bill Rexford, 67, American racecar driver.

### 19

* Taisia Afonina, 80, Soviet/Russian painter and watercolorist.
* Michael Carreras, 66, British film producer and director.
* Larry Davis, 57, American blues musician, cancer.
* Rodolfo de Álzaga, 63, Argentine racing driver.
* Tommy McCue, 80, English rugby player.
* Rolf Paetz, 71, German football player.

### 20

* Anna Molka Ahmed, 76, Pakistani artist.
* Jean Carmet, 73, French actor, heart attack.
* Miguel Diab, 73, Uruguayan basketball player.
* Frederick Feary, 82, American boxer.
* Frederick Fortune, 73, American bobsledder and Olympian.
* Rosalie Gicanda, 66, Rwandan queen, murdered.
* Jean Ousset, 79, French catholic ideologist, stroke.
* Qəmər Salamzadə, 85, Azerbaijani and Soviet film director and screenwriter.
* Dennis Cleveland Stewart, 46, American actor (Grease) and dancer, AIDS-related disease.

### 21

* Robert Bonnett, 77, Australian politician.
* Darryl Carlton, 40, American gridiron football player.
* Clyde Crabtree, 88, American gridiron football player.
* Howard Barraclough Fell, 76, New Zealand zoologist.
* Ruth Hiatt, 88, American actress.
* Edmond Keosayan, 57, Armenian and Soviet film director and musician, laryngeal cancer.
* Raúl Soldi, 89, Argentine painter and production designer.

### 22

* Charles Reginald Dodwell, 72, British art historian.
* Oretta Fiume, 74, Italian film actress.
* Karl Hess, 70, American speechwriter and author.
* Richard Nixon, 81, 37th President of the United States, stroke.

### 23

* Lucho Bermúdez, 82, Colombian musician, DJ, and performer, heart attack.
* Cécile Dreesmann, 74, Dutch textile artist.
* Zhu Futang, 94, Chinese pediatrician.
* Jimmy Izquierdo, 32, Ecuadorian football player, traffic collision.
* Flavio Mogherini, 72, Italian production designer, art director and film director.

### 24

* Donald J. Atwood Jr., 69, American engineer and Deputy Secretary of Defense.
* Edwin Adams Davis, 90, American historian.
* Lawren P. Harris, 83, Canadian visual artist and art educator.
* S. L. Kirloskar, 90, Indian businessman.
* Margot Trooger, 70, German film actress.

### 25

* Georgios Gennimatas, 54, Greek politician, lung cancer.
* Gordon Jones, 64, American Major League Baseball player.
* Mike Kreevich, 85, American baseball player.
* David Langton, 82, British actor.
* Giovanni Pettinati, 68, Italian racing cyclist.
* Roberto Scarone, 76, Uruguayan football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.

### 26

* Andrey Ayzderdzis, 35, Russian politician, homicide.
* Rostam Bastuni, 71, Israeli politician and journalist.
* Mas Oyama, 70, Korean-Japanese karate master, lung cancer.
* Bob Pike, 60, Australian politician.
* Manuel Enríquez Salazar, 67, Mexican composer, violinist and pedagogue.
* Zein al-Sharaf Talal, 77, Queen of Jordan as the wife of King Talal.
* Maximilian von Edelsheim, 96, German nazi Wehrmacht general during World War II.

### 27

* Lynne Frederick, 39, English actress (Nicholas and Alexandra, Henry VIII and His Six Wives, The Amazing Mr. Blunden).
* Vasilis Goulandris, 80, Greek shipowner and art collector.
* Bill Pellington, 66, American gridiron football player.
* Timothy Wilson Spencer, 32, American serial killer, execution by electrocution.

### 28

* Oleg Borisov, 64, Soviet and Russian actor, leukemia.
* Robert Spencer Carr, 85, American writer of science fiction and fantasy.
* Avner Hizkiyahu, 67, Israeli actor (Impossible on Saturday, The Thin Line) and singer.
* Gerhard Lindemann, 97, German nazi Wehrmacht general during World War II..
* John Preston, 48, American author of gay erotica, AIDS-related complications.
* Berton Roueché, 84, American medical writer, suicide.

### 29

* Marcel Bernard, 79, French tennis player.
* Jimmy Darden, 71, American basketball player and coach.
* Ignacio Farrés Iquino, 83, Spanish film director, screenwriter, and producer.
* Russell Kirk, 75, American political theorist and writer.
* Bill Quinn, 81, American actor (Archie Bunker's Place, The Birds, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier).
* Sak Sutsakhan, 66, Cambodian soldier and anti-communist politician.

### 30

* Herbert Bowden, Baron Aylestone, 89, British politician.
* George Constantin, 60, Romanian actor.
* Sorie Ibrahim Koroma, 64, Sierra Leonean politician and labor activist.
* Roland Ratzenberger, 33, Austrian racing driver, racing accident.
* Ferdinando Scarfiotti, 53, Italian art director and production designer.
* Richard Scarry, 74, American children's author and illustrator, heart attack.