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

## January 1994
### 1

* William Chappell, 86, British dancer, ballet designer and director.
* Raymond Crotty, 68, Irish economist, writer, and academic.
* Walter Eckhardt, 87, German politician.
* Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, 93, New Zealand physician, statesman and athlete.
* Cesar Romero, 86, American actor (Batman, Ocean's 11, The Thin Man) and activist.
* E. A. Thompson, 79, Irish-British marxist historian.

### 2

* Viktor Aristov, 50, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.
* Miguel M. Delgado, 88, Mexican film director and screenwriter, cancer.
* Lys Gauty, 93, French cabaret singer and actress.
* Dixy Lee Ray, 79, American politician.
* Vitālijs Rubenis, 79, Latvian communist politician.
* William Ryan, 72, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
* Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, 81, French businessman.
* Eddie Smith, 80, American Major League Baseball player.

### 3

* Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, 90, British public servant and politician.
* Norman Hepple, 85, English painter, engraver and sculptor, traffic accident.
* Frank Belknap Long, 92, American writer and poet.
* Marion Ross, 90, Scottish physicist.
* Heather Sears, 58, British actress, multiple organ failure.
* Constantin Vișoianu, 96, Romanian jurist, diplomat, and politician, cancer.

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* Rahul Dev Burman, 54, Indian music director, cardiovascular disease.
* Reijer Hooykaas, 87, Dutch historian of science.
* Eileen Mayo, 87, English-Australian artist and designer.
* Thirukkuralar V. Munusamy, 80, Indian scholar and politician.

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* Aldo Baldin, 49, Brazilian opera tenor.
* David Bates, 77, Northern Irish mathematician and physicist.
* Jeanne Carpenter, 76, American child actress of the silent era, pulmonary emphysema.
* Brian Johnston, 81, British cricket commentator, author, and television presenter, heart attack.
* Eliška Junková, 93, Czechoslovak automobile racer.
* Franz Murer, 81, Austrian SS officer and war criminal.
* Tip O'Neill, 81, American politician, colorectal cancer.
* Peggy Simpson, 80, British actress.

### 6

* Fidel Castaño, 43, Colombian drug lord and paramilitary.
* Oscar Fraley, 79, American sports writer and author.
* Cláudia Magno, 35, Brazilian actress and dancer, AIDS-related complications.
* Per Palle Storm, 83, Danish-Norwegian sculptor and arts professor.
* Adri van Es, 80, Royal Netherlands Navy vice admiral.
* Keith Wells, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

### 7

* Arthur Dooley, 64, English artist and sculptor.
* Charlie McNeil, 57, American gridiron football player.
* Vittorio Mezzogiorno, 52, Italian actor, cancer.
* Llewellyn Rees, 92, English actor.
* Phoumi Vongvichit, 84, President of Laos.

### 8

* Pat Buttram, 78, American actor (Green Acres, Robin Hood, The Fox and the Hound), kidney failure.
* René Faye, 70, French cyclist.
* Harvey Haddix, 68, American baseball pitcher and pitching coach, pulmonary emphysema.
* Harry Boye Karlsen, 73, Norwegian football player.
* Roy Kiyooka, 67, Canadian painter, poet, photographer, and multi-media artist.
* Ruth Osburn, 81, American athlete and Olympian.
* Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, 99, Indian Hindu religious leader.

### 9

* Faruk Barlas, 78, Turkish football player.
* Kayhan Kaynak, 33, Turkish football player, heart attack.
* Madge Ryan, 75, Australian actress.
* Johnny Temple, 66, American Major League Baseball player, pancreatic cancer.
* Joachim Werner, 84, German archaeologist.

### 10

* Michael Aldridge, 73, English actor (Last of the Summer Wine).
* Sven-Erik Bäck, 74, Swedish composer of classical music.
* Ien Dales, 62, Dutch socialist politician and social worker, heart attack.
* Chub Feeney, 72, American baseball executive, heart attack.
* Yigal Hurvitz, 75, Israeli politician.
* Girija Kumar Mathur, 75, Indian Hindi writer.
* Bruno Storti, 80, Italian trade unionist and politician.
* Clem Stralka, 80, American gridiron football player.
* Roman Tkachuk, 61, Soviet theatre and film actor.

### 11

* Arifin Achmad, 69, Indonesian military officer.
* József Háda, 82, Hungarian football player.
* Chester L. Mize, 76, American politician.
* Helmut Poppendick, 92, German physician and SS officer during World War II.
* Ram Ramirez, 80, Puerto Rican born jazz pianist and composer.
* Édouard Rinfret, 88, Canadian politician.
* Emilio Rosenblueth, 67, Mexican engineer.
* Robert Winslow, 77, American gridiron football player and coach.

### 12

* Samuel Bronston, 85, American film producer, film director, and nephew of communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky, pneumonia.
* Goran Ivandić, 38, Yugoslav drummer, suicide.
* Greg Kabat, 82, American and Canadian football player.
* Gustav Naan, 74, Estonian philosopher and physicist.
* Nehemiah Tamari, 47, Israeli general, helicopter crash.
* Arthur Turner, 84, English football player and manager.
* John West Wells, 86, American paleontologist, cnidariologist, and geologist.

### 13

* Hervé Alphand, 86, French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States.
* Erhard Bauer, 68, German football player.
* Johan Jørgen Holst, 56, Norwegian politician.
* Norm Jacobson, 76, Australian rugby player and coach.

### 14

* Ahmad Ali, 84, Pakistani novelist, poet, diplomat and scholar.
* Chesley William Carter, 91, Canadian politician.
* Jack Faber, 91, American sports coach and microbiologist.
* Myron Fohr, 81, American racecar driver.
* Ivan Fuqua, 84, American track and field athlete.
* Fritz Losigkeit, 80, German flying ace during World War II.
* Federica Montseny, 88, Spanish politician, anarchist, intellectual and writer.
* Esther Ralston, 91, American silent film actress, heart attack.
* Delio Rodríguez, 77, Spanish racing cyclist.
* Nubar Terziyan, 84, Turkish actor.

### 15

* Philippe Brun, 85, French trumpeter.
* György Cziffra, 72, Hungarian-French pianist and composer, lung cancer.
* Gabriel-Marie Garrone, 92, French Catholic cardinal.
* Ben H. Guill, 84, American politician.
* Martin Kosleck, 89, German actor.
* Agnar Mykle, 78, Norwegian writer and puppeteer.
* Harry Nilsson, 52, American singer-songwriter ("Everybody's Talkin'"), heart failure.
* Harilal Upadhyay, 77, Indian novelist and poet.

### 16

* Sidon Ebeling, 93, Swedish long-distance runner and Olympian.
* Jack Metcalfe, 81, Australian long jumper, triple jumper and javelin thrower.
* Leland Stowe, 94, American journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
* Pál Szalai, 78, Hungarian police officer who save hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust during World War II.

### 17

* T. T. Fields, 81, American politician.
* Chung Il-kwon, 76, South Korean general and politician, lymphoma.
* Yevgeny Ivanov, 68, Soviet spy.
* Juan Carlos Pugliese, 78, Argentinian lawyer and politician.
* Helen Stephens, 75, American athlete and Olympic champion.
* Robin Turton, Baron Tranmire, 90, British politician.

### 18

* Arthur Altman, 83, American songwriter.
* Silvio Bergamini, 70, Italian rower and Olympian.
* Lee Roy Caffey, 52, American gridiron football player, cancer.
* Frank M. Carpenter, 91, American entomologist and paleontologist, heart attack
* Rosemary Glyde, 45, American musician, cancer.
* Rolf Singer, 87, German mycologist.

### 19

* Eugene Kamenka, 65, Australian political philosopher and scholar.
* Haik Hovsepian Mehr, 49, Iranian-Armenian Protestant minister, murdered.
* Kenneth Utt, 72, American film producer (The Silence of the Lambs), Oscar winner (1992), bone cancer.
* Joseph Vliers, 61, Belgian football player.

### 20

* Matt Busby, 84, Scottish football player and manager, cancer.
* Ľubor Kresák, 66, Slovak astronomer.
* Bedia Muvahhit, 97, Turkish actress.
* Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, 82, Kenyan chieftain and politician.
* Darío Segovia, 61, Paraguayan football player.

### 21

* Bassel al-Assad, 31, Syrian colonel, politician and son of president Hafez al-Assad, traffic collision.
* Giorgio Prosperi, 86, Italian screenwriter.
* Timo Suviranta, 63, Finnish basketball player.
* Tony Waddington, 69, English football manager
* Bill Young, 79, American gridiron football player and coach.

### 22

* Vincent Allard, 72, Belgian entomologist.
* Jean-Louis Barrault, 83, French actor, director and mime artist, heart attack.
* Graziano Battistini, 57, Italian road bicycle racer.
* Rhett Forrester, 37, American rock singer and musician (Riot), shot during carjacking.
* Frances Gifford, 73, American actress, pulmonary emphysema.
* Telly Savalas, 72, American actor (Kojak, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Birdman of Alcatraz) and singer, Emmy winner (1974), cancer.

### 23

* Adolph Baller, 84, Austrian-American pianist, kidney failure.
* Lee Alvin DuBridge, 92, American educator and physicist, pneumonia.
* Klaus Hemmerle, 64, German Roman Catholic bishop, cancer.
* Alexei Mozhaev, 75, Soviet and Russian painter, graphic artist, and art teacher.
* Yngve Nordwall, 85, Swedish film actor and director.
* Nikolai Ogarkov, 76, Soviet military officer and Hero of the Soviet Union.
* Eila Pennanen, 77, Finnish writer, critic, and essayist.
* Brian Redhead, 64, British author, journalist and broadcaster.
* Millie Robinson, 69, Manx racing cyclist and world hour record holder.
* Oliver Smith, 75, American scenic designer and interior designer, pulmonary emphysema.

### 24

* Sidney Quinn Curtiss, 76, American politician.
* Klaus Eichler, 54, German sporting official, plane crash.
* Raymond F. Jones, 78, American science fiction author.
* Yves Navarre, 53, French writer, suicide.
* Helge Vatsend, 65, Norwegian poet and novelist.

### 25

* James Boyce, 46, British politician, heart attack.
* Pat Crawford, 91, American Major League Baseball player.
* Aida McAnn Flemming, 97, Canadian teacher, writer and animal rights advocate.
* Stephen Cole Kleene, 85, American mathematician.
* James Zachery, 35, American gridiron football player, murdered.

### 26

* Ales Adamovich, 66, Soviet and Belarusian writer, critic, and academic, heart attack.
* Elsa Andersson, 99, Swedish diver and Olympian.
* Lejaren Hiller, 69, American composer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Ivan Warner, 74, American lawyer and politician, cancer.

### 27

* Stanley Adams, 86, American lyricist and songwriter, cancer.
* Claude Akins, 67, American actor (B. J. and the Bear, Inherit the Wind, The Caine Mutiny), cancer.
* Eddie Calhoun, 72, American jazz double bassist.
* Alain Daniélou, 86, French historian, musicologist, and indologist.
* Sherm Feller, 75, American musical composer and radio personality.
* Hans H. Gattermann, 62, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Sergei Scherbakov, 75, Russian welterweight boxer.
* Frank Twiss, 83, British Royal Navy admiral.
* Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov, 89, Russian astrophysicist.

### 28

* Afif al-Bizri, 80, Syrian military officer.
* Emily Taft Douglas, 94, American politician.
* Betty Go-Belmonte, 60, Filipina journalist and newspaper publisher.
* Frank Hardy, 76, Australian novelist and writer, heart attack.
* William Levitt, 86, American real-estate developer regarded as the father of modern American suburbia.
* George Rosso, 64, American gridiron football player.
* Hal Smith, 77, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Beauty and the Beast), heart attack.

### 29

* Marguerite Allan, 88, Russian-born British actress.
* Nick Cravat, 82, American actor and stunt performer, cancer, lung cancer.
* Yevgeny Leonov, 67, Soviet and Russian actor, pulmonary embolism.
* Ulrike Maier, 26, Austrian alpine ski racer, World Champion and Olympian, skiing accident.
* Tollien Schuurman, 81, Dutch sprinter and Olympian.
* Jakobína Sigurðardóttir, 75, Icelandic writer.
* Jakob Vaage, 88, Norwegian educator, author and historian.

### 30

* Pierre Boulle, 81, French novelist.
* Claude Nigon, 65, French fencer and Olympian.
* Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby, 81, British peer and philanthropist.
* Laura Nucci, 80, Italian film actress.
* Jan Schaefer, 53, Dutch politician and community organiser, diabetes.
* Rudolf Schwarz, 88, Austrian-American conductor.
* Bahjat Talhouni, 81, Jordanian politician.
* Don Turnbull, 84, Australian tennis player.

### 31

* Master Abdullah, 64, Pakistani film music composer.
* Alberto Sorrentino, 77, Italian film actor.
* Erwin Strittmatter, 81, German writer.
* Tomanija Đuričko, 79, Serbian actress.