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

## August 1994
### 1

* Mario Baroni, 67, Italian racing cyclist.
* Harold Boardman, 87, British politician.
* George Malcolm Laws, 75, American folk music scholar.
* Romilly Lunge, 89, British film actor.
* Valery Yardy, 46, Soviet/Russian road cyclist and Olympian.

### 2

* Eduardo Folle, 72, Uruguayan basketball player and Olympian.
* Bert Freed, 74, American actor, heart attack.
* Kelpo Gröndahl, 74, Finnish light-heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler.
* W. Pat Jennings, 74, American politician.

### 3

* Hoyt Franklin Clines, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Wally Downer, 90, Canadian politician.
* James William Holmes, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Hidalgo Moya, 74, American architect.
* Darryl Richley, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Innokenty Smoktunovsky, 69, Soviet/Russian theater and film actor.
* John Zenda, 50, American actor.

### 4

* Solomon Adler, 84, English-American economist and Soviet spy.
* Cyro dos Anjos, 87, Brazilian journalist, and writer.
* Thomas Fulton, 44, American conductor, kidney failure.
* Jürgen Jürgens, 68, German choral conductor and teacher.
* Art Lassiter, 66, American singer, cancer.
* Steve Myhra, 60, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
* Giovanni Spadolini, 69, Italian politician and statesman, cancer.

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* Louis H. Bean, 98, American economic and political analyst.
* Clive Caldwell, 84, Australian flying ace during World War II.
* Cornelia C. Cameron, 83, American geologist.
* Alain de Changy, 72, Belgian racing driver.
* Terry Hibbitt, 46, English football player, cancer.
* Solomon Kullback, 87, American cryptanalyst and mathematician.
* Frederick Wheeler, 80, Australian public servant.
* Muhammad Yaqub Ali, 82, Pakistani judge.

### 6

* Henri Arends, 73, Dutch conductor.
* Steven F. Arnold, 51, American visual artist and protégé of Salvador Dalí, AIDS.
* Domenico Modugno, 66, Italian singer, songwriter, actor, and politician, heart attack.
* Jacques Pelzer, 70, Belgian musician.
* Evan Vogds, 71, American gridiron football player.

### 7

* Ignazio Balsamo, 81, Italian actor.
* Rubi Dalma, 88, Italian actress.
* Liu Haisu, 98, Chinese painter and art educator.
* Leon Goldsworthy, 85, Australian bomb and mine specialist during World War II.
* Robert Hutton, 74, American actor, pneumonia.
* Larry Martyn, 60, British actor (Are You Being Served?, The Dick Emery Show, Whoops Baghdad).

### 8

* Iberê Camargo, 79, Brazilian painter.
* Robin Cavendish, 64, British advocate for disabled people and medical aid developer.
* Serge Leclaire, 70, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
* Leonid Leonov, 95, Soviet/Russian novelist and playwright.
* Morde_kay Seter, 78, Russian-Israeli composer.
* Ada Smith, 91, British gymnast.

### 9

* Feroza Adam, 32, South African political activist, injuries sustained in a road accident.
* Howard W. Carson, 84, American politician.
* Aldo Donelli, 87, American football player and coach, and soccer player.
* William Galbraith, 87, United States Navy admiral, gymnast and Olympic medalist.
* Klaus Holighaus, 54, German glider designer and pilot, gliding accident.
* Olle Johansson, 66, Swedish swimmer, water polo player and Olympian.
* Helena Rasiowa, 77, Polish mathematician.

### 10

* Biswamoy Biswas, 71, Indian ornithologist.
* Marie Dollinger, 83, German track and field athlete.
* Eliyahu Lankin, 79, Israeli zionist activist, Irgun member and politician.
* Vladimir Melanin, 60, Soviet/Russian biathlete and Olympian.
* Kay Petre, 91, Canadian motor racer.
* Jessie Sumner, 96, American politician.

### 11

* Stanislav Chekan, 72, Soviet/Russian actor of theater and cinema.
* Gordon Cullen, 80, British architect and urban designer.
* Peter Cushing, 81, English actor (Star Wars, Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein), prostate cancer.
* Marko Jozinović, 74, Bosnian Croat catholic archbishop.
* David Vern Reed, 79, American writer.

### 12

* Wing-tsit Chan, 92, Chinese scholar and professor.
* Gene Cherico, 59, American jazz double-bassist.
* Barbara Grabowska, 39, Polish actress, fall from train.
* Dale Hamilton, 74, American basketball player.
* Anton Giulio Majano, 85, Italian screenwriter and film director.
* Barry Shipman, 82, Canadian-American screenwriter.
* B. K. Tikader, 66, Indian arachnologist and zoologist.
* Harold Tower, 83, American rower and Olympian.

### 13

* Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, 75, French violinist and composer.
* Valentin Kuzin, 67, Soviet/Russian ice hockey player.
* Simon Robert Naali, 28, Tanzanian marathon runner, traffic collision.
* J. A. O. Preus II, 74, American Lutheran pastor, professor, and author.
* Rao Gopal Rao, 57, Indian actor, producer, and politician.
* Manfred Wörner, 59, German politician and diplomat, colorectal cancer.

### 14

* Elias Canetti, 89, Bulgarian-Swiss-British novelist, playwright, and writer.
* Alice Childress, 77, American novelist, playwright, producer and actress, cancer.
* Stanisław Gucwa, 75, Polish politician and economist.
* Joan Harrison, 87, English screenwriter (Rebecca, Foreign Correspondent, Saboteur).
* Joe Palma, 89, American actor (The Three Stooges).
* Arthur Palmer, 82, British politician.
* Rajasri, 59, Indian lyricist, dialogue writer and music composer.

### 15

* Paul Anderson, 61, American weightlifter, strongman, and powerlifter, nephritis.
* Erik Anker, 90, Norwegian sailor and businessperson.
* Joe Brovia, 72, American baseball player, cancer.
* Syd Dale, 70, English music composer and arranger.
* Shepherd Mead, 80, American writer.
* Joseph Palmer II, 80, American diplomat and State Department official.
* Steve Petro, 79, American gridiron football player.
* Kailash Sankhala, 69, Indian biologist and conservationist.
* Wout Wagtmans, 64, Dutch road bicycle racer.

### 16

* Rolando Aguirre, 90, Argentine sailor.
* Wahbi al-Hariri, 80, Syrian-American artist, architect, archaeologist, and author.
* Francisco Antúnez, 71, Spanish football player.
* Harry Collier, 86, Australian rules football player.
* John Doucette, 73, American actor (Cleopatra, True Grit, Patton).
* Ahmad Fardid, 85, Iranian philosopher and professor.
* Henry Geldzahler, 59, Belgian-American curator of contemporary art, liver cancer.

### 17

* Luigi Chinetti, 93, Italian-American racecar driver.
* Cecil A. Partee, 73, American attorney and politician.
* Thomas Pollock, 69, Canadian ice hockey player, stroke.
* Jack Sharkey, 91, Lithuanian-American world heavyweight boxing champion.

### 18

* John Beavan, Baron Ardwick, 84, British journalist.
* Martin Cahill, 45, Irish criminal, homicide.
* Henri Calef, 84, French screenwriter and film director.
* Gottlob Frick, 88, German operatic bass.
* Yeshayahu Leibowitz, 91, Israeli Orthodox Jewish intellectual and polymath.
* Daltro Menezes, 56, Brazilian football manager.
* Charles Redland, 83, Swedish jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
* Omori Sogen, 90, Japanese Buddhist monk.
* Richard Laurence Millington Synge, 79, British biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate.
* Vazgen I, 85, Romanian Catholicos of All Armenians.

### 19

* Louis de Froment, 72, French conductor.
* Ladislav Fuks, 70, Czech novelist and writer.
* Anthony Peter Khoraish, 86, Lebanese Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant.
* Nancy Lancaster, 96, British interior designer.
* Otto-Iivari Meurman, 104, Finnish architect.
* Linus Pauling, 93, American chemist, peace activist, and author, prostate cancer.
* Robert Rozhdestvensky, 62, Soviet/Russian poet and songwriter, heart attack.

### 20

* Odessa Grady Clay, 77, Mother of boxing champion Muhammad Ali, cardiovascular disease.
* Hermann Hackmann, 80, German war criminal and SS captain during World War II.
* Revilo P. Oliver, 86, American university professor, suicide.
* Aleksandar Petrović, 65, Yugoslav/Serbian film director.
* Roy Simmons, Sr., 92, American lacrosse coach.

### 21

* Albert Blaustein, 72, American civil rights and human rights lawyer.
* Rose Laub Coser, 78, German-American sociologist and social justice activist.
* Kathleen Frances Daly, 96, Canadian painter.
* Anita Lizana, 78, Chilean tennis player, stomach cancer.
* Danitra Vance, 40, American comedian and actress (Saturday Night Live), breast cancer.

### 22

* Tadeusz Adamowski, 92, Polish-American ice hockey player.
* Harry Gamage, 94, American football player and coach.
* Gilles Groulx, 62, Canadian film director.
* Allan Houser, 80, Chiricahua Apache sculptor, painter and illustrator.
* Gary Jasgur, 58, American child actor.
* André Rossi, 73, French politician.

### 23

* Bill Burnett, 77, South African Anglican archbishop.
* Joyce Chen, 76, Chinese-American chef, author, and television personality, Alzheimer's disease.
* Gene Filipski, 63, American gridiron football player.
* Zoltán Fábri, 76, Hungarian film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
* Carlos Rojas Pavez, 87, Chilean politician.
* Alfredo Pérez, 65, Argentine football player.
* Gehendra Bahadur Rajbhandari, 70, Prime Minister of Nepal.
* Arati Saha, 53, Indian long-distance swimmer and Olympian, jaundice.
* Fisher Tull, 59, American composer, arranger, and trumpeter.
* Paolo Volponi, 70, Italian writer, poet, and politician.

### 24

* Sonny Chillingworth, 62, American guitarist and singer.
* Peggy Fears, 91, American actress.
* Cecil Holmes, 73, New Zealand film director and writer.
* Birutė Nedzinskienė, 38, Lithuanian politician.
* Rickie Sorensen, 47, American child actor (The Sword in the Stone, Father of the Bride, A Lust to Kill), cancer.

### 25

* Hugh Culverhouse, 75, American businessman and attorney, lung cancer.
* Cliff Garrison, 88, American baseball player.
* Creadel "Red" Jones, 53, American soul guitarist.
* Marten Mendez, 77, American badminton player.
* Bidhyanath Pokhrel, 76, Nepali poet and politician.
* Boris Roatta, 14, French child actor, bicycle accident.

### 26

* Yehoshafat Harkabi, 72, Israeli military intelligence officer and professor.
* Ljubomir Lovrić, 74, Serbian football goalkeeper, manager and journalist.
* Norman Warwick, 74, British cinematographer.
* Bert Yancey, 56, American golfer, heart attack.

### 27

* Beba Bidart, 70, Argentine tango singer, actress and dancer, heart attack.
* Adam Kelso Fulton, 65, Scottish international rugby player.
* Roberto Goyeneche, 68, Argentine tango singer, pneumonia.
* Fred Griffiths, 82, English film and television actor.
* Battling Shaw, 83, Mexican boxer.

### 28

* Pepita Embil, 76, Spanish Basque soprano.
* Rui Filipe, 26, Portuguese football player, traffic collision.
* Aldis Intlers, 29, Latvian-Soviet bobsledder and Olympian, traffic collision.
* Vincent Leonard, 85, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
* Neil Mochan, 67, Scottish football player.
* Ernie Roberts, 82, British politician.
* David Wright, 74, South African-British poet, cancer.

### 29

* Tushar Kanti Ghosh, 96, Indian journalist and author.
* Bruno Habārovs, 55, Latvian fencer and Olympian.
* Jack Miller, 78, American politician and jurist.
* Arthur Mourant, 90, British chemist, hematologist and geneticist.
* Michael Peters, 46, American choreographer and director, AIDS-related complications.

### 30

* Lindsay Anderson, 71, British film and theatre director, and film critic, heart attack.
* Olav Gjærevoll, 77, Norwegian botanist and politician.
* Alfonso Oiterong, 69, President of Palau.
* Filippo Zappata, 100, Italian engineer and aircraft designer.
* Hubert Zemke, 80, United States Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.

### 31

* Barbara Avedon, 69, American television writer, political activist, and feminist.
* Mercedes Carvajal de Arocha, 91, Trinidadian-Venezuelan writer, politician and diplomat.
* Mike Garbark, 78, American baseball player.
* Ram Dulari Sinha, 71, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
* John Walton, 67, Australian politician.