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

## May 1995
### 1

* Erwin Leonard Guy Abel, 83, New Zealand businessman.
* Reuel Denney, 82, American poet and academic.
* Carl S. Herz, 65, American-Canadian mathematician.
* George MacKinnon, 89, American politician, attorney, and judge.
* Mikhail Zimyanin, 80, Soviet/Russian politician and diplomat.

### 2

* Luciano Anceschi, 84, Italian literary critic and essayist.
* Edwin Blum, 88, American screenwriter.
* Albert Bousser, 89, Luxembourgish politician, railway inspector, and trade unionist.
* Don Brockett, 65, American actor (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Flashdance, The Silence of the Lambs), heart attack.
* John Bunting, 76, Australian public servant and diplomat.
* Kiplyn Davis, 15, American high school student.
* Sir Michael Hordern, 83, English actor (The Dock Brief, Barry Lyndon, Watership Down), kidney disease.
* Allan O. Hunter, 78, American politician.
* Manfred Kersch, 81, German athlete.
* Rudolf Perešin, 37, Croatian fighter pilot, killed in action.
* Dežo Ursiny, 47, Slovak rock musician, screenwriter and director.
* Werner Veigel, 66, Dutch-German journalist and news presenter, brain cancer.
* Keith Zettlemoyer, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

### 3

* John Warren Aldrich, 89, American ornithologist.
* Johnny Leonard, 91, Australian rules football player and coach.
* Adele Marcus, 89, American pianist and music educator.
* Adolf Schlyßleder, 85, German film editor and assistant director.
* Bruno Torpigliani, 80, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.

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* Andrey Abramov, 58, Soviet/Russian boxer.
* Arne Arnardo, 82, Norwegian circus performer and owner.
* Murray Barr, 86, Canadian physician and medical researcher.
* Cornelio Fabro, 83, Italian Catholic priest.
* Thomas Anthony Harris, 85, American psychiatrist and author, heart attack.
* Louis Krasner, 91, Ukrainian-American violinist.
* Hitomi Nozoe, 58, Japanese actress popular in the 1950s and early 1960s, cancer.
* Lewis Thompson Preston, 68, American banker, CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co. and president of the World Bank.
* Connie Wisniewski, 73, American baseball player, cancer.

### 5

* Josef Bek, 76, Czech film and television actor.
* Mikhail Botvinnik, 83, Russian chess player, pancreatic cancer.
* David Connell, 63-64, American television producer (Sesame Street, The Electric Company).
* Geno DeNobile, 62, Canadian football player.
* Earl Faircloth, 74, American politician and lawyer.
* Richard D. McCarthy, 67, American politician.
* Nagabhushanam, 73, Indian actor and comedian.
* Alastair Pilkington, 75, British engineer and businessman.
* Ye Qianyu, 88, Chinese painter and pioneering manhua artist.
* Edward W. Snedeker, 92, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.
* Anthony Wagner, 86, English Officer of Arms at the College of Arms.

### 6

* John Black Aird, 72, Canadian lawyer, corporate director and political figure.
* Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, 88, Portuguese writer and journalist.
* Noel Brotherston, 38, Northern Irish footballer, heart attack.
* Bucky Calabrese, 67, American upright bassist.
* Ippolito Gonzalez, 40, American police sergeant.
* Gottfried Haberler, 94, Austrian-American economist.
* Adriano Mantelli, 82, Italian aircraft designer.
* Georgios Mavros, 86, Greek jurist and politician.
* Clarence Paul, 67, American songwriter, record producer and singer, diabetes.

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* Katharine Banham, 97, English psychologist who specialized in developmental psychology.
* Gus Bell, 66, American Major League Baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Milwaukee Braves).
* María Luisa Bemberg, 73, Argentine film writer, director and actress, cancer.
* Ray Buckton, 72, British trade unionist.
* Clifford Clogg, 45, American sociologist, demographer, and statistician.
* Ernest H. Martin, 75, American Broadway and film producer of musicals.
* Ray McKinley, 84, American jazz drummer, singer, and bandleader.
* Giti Pashaei, 54, Iranian singer and musician, breast cancer.
* Mariya Polyakova, 87, Soviet colonel and spy.
* Ioannis Toumbas, 94, Greek naval officer and politician.
* Helen Varcoe, 88, English swimmer and Olympic medalist.

### 8

* Carroll Best, American banjo player.
* Prem Bhatia, 72, Indian diplomat and journalist.
* Jacques Isorni, 83, French lawyer and memoirist.
* Marshal Royal, 82, American alto saxophonist and clarinetist, brother of Ernie Royal.
* Bill Spivey, 66, American basketball player.
* Teresa Teng, 42, Taiwanese singer, asthma.

### 9

* Jeanne Darville, 70, Danish film actress.
* Alf Henrikson, 89, Swedish author, poet and translator.
* Percy Mansell, 75, South African cricket player.
* Charles Monteith, 74, British literary editor.
* Kanhiyalal Prabhakar Mishra, 88, Indian journalist, writer and freedom fighter.
* John Elwood Price, 59, American composer, pianist, ethnomusicologist, and music teacher.
* Earl H. Pritchard, 87, American scholar of China.
* Magda Rurac, 76, Romanian tennis player in the 1940s and 1950s.

### 10

* Brigitte Alexander, 83, German-born Mexican author, actress, director and translator.
* Harold Berens, 92, British comedian and character actor.
* Georgios Candilis, 82, Greek-French architect and urbanist.
* Ilio DiPaolo, 68, Italian professional wrestler and restaurateur.
* Karl Drewo, 65, Austrian jazz saxophonist.
* Alexander Elbrächter, 87, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Freddy Fernández, 61, Mexican film and television actor, esophageal cancer.
* Duncan McKenzie, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Juan Manuel López Mella, 30, Spanish motorcycle racer, traffic collision.
* Jimmy Raney, 67, American jazz guitarist.
* Carlos Rinaldi, 80, Argentine film director, film editor and screenwriter.
* Steffie Spira, 86, Austrian-German actress.
* Gil Steinke, 76, American football player and coach.
* Joe Vetrano, 76, American gridiron football player.
* Dicky Zulkarnaen, 55, Indonesian actor.

### 11

* Reza Abdoh, 32, Iranian playwright and director, AIDS.
* David Avidan, 61, Israeli poet and playwright.
* José T. Joya, 63, Filipino abstract artist.
* Arthur Lubin, 96, American film director.
* Boris Pash, 94, United States Army military intelligence officer.
* John Phillips, 80, British actor.
* Ivo Samkalden, 82, Dutch politician and jurist.
* Bill Shelton, 92, Australian rules football player.
* Pete Tinsley, 82, American gridiron football player.

### 12

* Len Beadell, 72, Australian surveyor, road builder, bushman, artist and author.
* Giorgio Belladonna, 71, Italian bridge player.
* John Blight, 81, Australian poet.
* Andrei Boltnev, 49, Soviet/Russian actor, stroke.
* Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman, 81, British lawyer and political advisor.
* Bogo Grafenauer, 79, Slovenian historian.
* Ștefan Kovács, 74, Romanian football player and coach.
* Vernon L. Lowrance, 86, United States Navy vice admiral.
* Mia Martini, 47, Italian singer and songwriter, heart failure.
* Adolfo Pedernera, 76, Argentinian footballer.
* Maria Teresa Riedl, 57, Italian tennis player.
* Marcel Rubin, 89, Austrian composer and music critic.
* Karl Vennberg, 85, Swedish poet, writer and translator.

### 13

* Francisco Moreno Capdevila, 69, Spanish-Mexican artist.
* Alan Maley, 64, British visual effects artist (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Spy Who Loved Me), Oscar winner (1972), heart attack.
* Robert Marley, 85, Jamaican cricket player.
* Teddy Sandford, 84, English football player.
* Hao Wang, 73, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician.

### 14

* Christian B. Anfinsen, 79, American biochemist and Nobel Prize for Chemistry laureate, heart attack.
* Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt, 75, Colombian sculptor, liver cancer.
* Jessy Blackburn, 101, British aviation pioneer.
* Mary Brazier, 90, American neuroscientist.
* Ted James, 76, American politician.
* Jean Laurent, 88, French football player.
* Tommy Prothro, 74, American football coach, cancer.
* Hamilton Lavity Stoutt, 66, British Virgin Islander politician and first Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands.
* Richard Udugama, 83, Sri Lankan military leader, politician and diplomat.

### 15

* Lionel Brodie, 77, Australian tennis player.
* Benjamin Bubar Jr., 77, American politician and ordained minister.
* Dora Chapman, 84, Australian painter.
* Seymour Durst, 81, American real estate investor and developer.
* Billy Lott, 60, American gridiron football player.
* Taizan Maezumi, 64, Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher and rōshi, drowned.
* Grace Matthews, 84, Canadian actress in the era of old-time radio and the early years of television.
* Fred G. Moritt, 89, American lawyer, singer, composer, lyricist and politician.
* Eric Porter, 67, English actor, colorectal cancer.
* Luis Antonio Ramírez, 72, Puerto Rican composer.
* Pia Tassinari, 91, Italian opera singer who was first a soprano and later a mezzo-soprano.

### 16

* Edris Allan, 86, Jamaican community worker, political figure and women's rights advocate.
* Red Amick, 66, American racecar driver.
* Harry E. Bergold Jr., 63, American diplomat and ambassador.
* Parelius Hjalmar Bang Berntsen, 85, Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
* Ray Bower, 72, Australian rules footballer.
* Lola Flores, 72, Spanish singer, dancer and actress, breast cancer.
* Gertrude Grob-Prandl, 77, Austrian soprano.
* Ragnhild Hatton, 82, Norwegian-British professor of International History at the London School of Economics.
* Raymond Lyttleton, 84, British mathematician and theoretical astronomer.
* Thomas Lee Ward, 59, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

### 17

* Toe Blake, 82, Canadian ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League, Alzheimer's disease.
* Girvies Davis, 37, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Geoffrey Dickens, 63, British politician, liver cancer.
* Joe McKenney, 90, American football player and coach.
* Catfish Metkovich, 74, American baseball player.
* Leonid Ivanovich Volkov, 60, Russian ice hockey player.

### 18

* Brinsley Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, 83, Irish peer and proponent of the Hollow Earth concept.
* Elisha Cook Jr., 91, American actor (The Maltese Falcon, Rosemary's Baby, Shane), stroke.
* Francis Judd Cooke, 84, American composer, organist, cellist, pianist, conductor, and choir director.
* Alexander Godunov, 45, Russian ballet dancer and actor (Die Hard, Witness, The Money Pit), hepatitis.
* Robert Harris, 95, English actor.
* Jack Kramer, 77, American baseball player.
* Henri Laborit, 80, French surgeon, neurobiologist, writer and philosopher.
* Elizabeth Montgomery, 62, American actress (Bewitched, The Legend of Lizzie Borden, A Case of Rape), colorectal cancer.
* Dorothy Poynton-Hill, 79, American diver.
* Sabine Sinjen, 52, German film actress, cancer.
* Michael P. W. Stone, 69, British-American businessman and government administrator.
* Tor Ulven, 41, Norwegian poet, suicide.
* Peter van de Kamp, 93, Dutch astronomer.

### 19

* Robert Sinclair Dietz, 80, American geologist.
* Derek Ford, 62, English film director and writer.
* Hans Jürgen Kiebach, 64, German production designer, art director and set decorator.
* Trevor Lewis, 75, British water polo player and Olympian.
* Robert Riger, 70, American sports illustrator, photographer, television director, and cinematographer.
* Nico van Gageldonk, 81, Dutch cyclist and Olympian.

### 20

* Maurice Banide, 90, French football player and manager.
* Les Cowie, 70, Australian rugby player.
* Oscar Gjøslien, 85, Norwegian cross-country skier.
* Burton Jastram, 84, American rower.
* Ulysses Kay, 78, American composer, Parkinson's disease.
* Florijan Matekalo, 75, Yugoslav and Croatian football player.
* Les Smith, 77, English football player, Alzheimer's disease.

### 21

* Les Aspin, 56, American politician and member of the U.S. House of Representatives, stroke.
* Larry Hillblom, 52, American businessman and co-founder of DHL.
* Chaudhry Altaf Hussain, 65, Pakistani politician.
* Giuseppe Peruchetti, 87, Italian football player and coach.
* Agnelo Rossi, 82, Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Annie M. G. Schmidt, 84, Dutch writer, heart attack.
* Mükbile Sultan, 83, Ottoman princess and granddaughter of Mehmed V.

### 22

* Robert Flemyng, 83, British actor, pneumonia.
* Claude Itzykson, 57, French theoretical physicist.
* Butch Morse, 84, American gridiron football player.
* Derek Reeves, 60, English football player.

### 23

* Pierre Baratin, 74, French cyclist.
* Ross Flood, 84, American wrestler and Olympian medalist.
* Patricia Ford, 74, Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Party politician.
* Dan Fortmann, 79, American gridiron football player.
* Gavriil Kachalin, 84, Soviet/Russian football player and coach.
* Mick Pyne, 54, English jazz pianist.
* Torolv Solheim, 87, Norwegian resistance member during World War II, essayist, and politician.

### 24

* Ole Borge, 79, Norwegian jurist and resistance member during World War II.
* Paul J. Kramer, 91, American biologist and plant physiologist.
* Ichisada Miyazaki, 93, Japanese historian.
* Youakim Moubarac, 70, Lebanese Islamologist, Orientalist and Arabist.
* Harold Wilson, 79, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Alzheimer's disease and colorectal cancer.

### 25

* Jack Allen, 87, English film, theatre and television actor.
* Élie Bayol, 81, French racing driver.
* Veronica Bulshefski, 79, Director of the United States Navy Nurse Corps.
* Ted Calland, 62, English professional footballer.
* Boyden Carpenter, 86, American hillbilly and bluegrass artist.
* Krešimir Ćosić, 46, Croatian basketball player and coach, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
* Dick Curless, 63, American country music singer, stomach cancer.
* Alice Day, 89, American film actress.
* Dany Robin, 68, French actress, domestic fire.
* Samuel A. Tamposi, 70, American real estate developer, lymphoma.

### 26

* Tony Azito, 46, American dancer and actor (The Addams Family, Moonstruck, Union City), HIV/AIDS.
* David S. Breslow, 78, American industrial chemist best known for his work on polymers.
* Friz Freleng, 89, American animator (Looney Tunes).
* Edmund Hansen, 94, Danish track cyclist and Olympian.
* Kamukara Purushothaman, 64, Indian singer.
* Sigmund Skard, 91, Norwegian poet, essayist and professor of American literature.
* Mordechai Surkis, 87, Israeli politician.
* Eriprando Visconti, 62, Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer, pulmonary emphysema.

### 27

* Ștefan Bănică Sr., 61, Romanian actor.
* Severn Darden, 65, American comedian and actor (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Back to School, Saturday the 14th), heart failure.
* Epi Drost, 49, Dutch association football player and manager, heart attack.
* László Kalmár, 63, Hungarian composer and editor.
* Mike McQuay, 45, American science fiction writer, heart attack.
* Christopher B. "Stubb" Stubblefield, 64, American barbecue restaurateur.

### 28

* Roy Ankrah, 69, Ghanaian boxer who won the British Empire super featherweight title.
* Helen Ballard, 87, British horticulturist.
* Gunnar Huseby, 71, Icelandic track and field athlete.
* Henning Kronstam, 60, Danish ballet dancer, ballet master and company director.
* Ernie Lewis, 70, American gridiron football player.
* Irfan Ljubijankić, 42, Bosnian classical music composer, politician and diplomat, killed in action.
* Jean Muir, 66, British fashion designer, breast cancer.
* Arifin C. Noer, 54, Indonesian poet, theater director and film producer, liver cancer.
* Daniela Rocca, 57, Italian actress, model and writer, heart attack.
* Sinedu Tadesse, 19, Ethiopian student, suicide.
* Tahsin Taha, 54, Kurdish singer.
* Matthew E. Welsh, 82, American politician.

### 29

* Santiago Armada, 57, Cuban artist and designer.
* Juan Boria, 90, Puerto Rican poet.
* Ralph Gustafson, 85, Canadian poet and professor at Bishop's University.
* Mike Pentz, 70, South African-British physicist and activist in the peace movement, leukemia.
* Archibald Russell, 90, British aerospace engineer.
* Glen Selbo, 69, American basketball and baseball player.
* Margaret Chase Smith, 97, American politician, lung cancer.
* Kurt Weiß, 89, German field hockey player and Olympian.

### 30

* Robert Alexander Anderson, 100, American composer.
* Glenn Burke, 42, American Major League Baseball player who was the first to come out as gay, AIDS complications.
* Ted Drake, 82, English footballer.
* Lofty England, 83, British engineer and motor company manager.
* Antonio Flores, 33, Spanish singer-songwriter and actor, drug overdose.
* William McVey, 89, American sculptor, animalier and teacher.
* Ray Novotny, 87, American football player and coach.
* Giuseppe Sartore, 58, Italian racing cyclist.
* Philip Sherrard, 72, British author, translator and philosopher.
* Bobby Stokes, 44, English footballer, pneumonia.
* Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu, 97, Romanian novelist, poet and translator.
* Arthur M. Young, 89, American inventor, helicopter pioneer, cosmologist, philosopher, astrologer, and author.

### 31

* Roy Beddington, 85, British painter, illustrator, poet, writer on fishing, and journalist.
* Guillermo Bermúdez, 71, Colombian architect.
* Norm Brown, 76, American baseball player.
* Stanley Elkin, 65, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist, heart attack.
* Emilio García Gómez, 89, Spanish Arabist, literary historian and critic.
* Ingrid Semmingsen, 85, Norwegian historian.
* Pavel Šivic, 87, Slovenian composer, concert pianist, and music educator.
* Warren Sonbert, 47, American experimental filmmaker, complications from AIDS