Deaths in January 1995

The following is a list of **deaths that should be noted in January 1995**. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.

Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, where they came from, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and a source.

### 1

- Eugene Wigner, 92, Hungarian theoretical physicist
- Fred West, 53, English serial killer

### 2

- Auguste Hargus, 85, German field hockey player
- Siad Barre, 75, President of Somalia
- Henry Graham Sharp, 77, British figure skater
- Nancy Kelly, 73, American actress
- Joe Balsis, 74, American professional pool player

### 3

- Andrija Puharich, 76, American physician
- Edward Nugent, 90, American actor

### 4

- Ramón Artigas, 86, Spanish swimmer
- Eduardo Mata, 52, Mexican conductor
- Dorothy Granger, 83, American actress

### 5

- Mansour Sattari, 46, Iranian general
- Francis Lopez, 78, French composer
- Kiyoo Wadati, 92, Japanese seismologist

### 6

- Karl Guttmann, 81, Dutch theater director
- James Clay, 59, American saxophonist
- Joe Slovo, 68, South African politician
- Agustín Gaínza, 72, Spanish football
- Todor Diev, 60, Bulgarian footballer

### 7

- Murray Rothbard, 68, American economist
- Ali Aliyev, 57, Soviet freestyle wrestler
- Harry Golombek, 83, British chess player

### 8

- Maud Bruce, 100, American forewoman
- Carlos Monzón, 52, Argentine professional boxer

### 9

- Gisela Mauermayer, 81, German athlete
- Óscar Mendoza Azurdia, 78, Vice President of Guatemala
- Peter Cook, 57, English satirist
- Souphanouvong, 85, President of Laos
- Stig Sjödin, 66, Swedish middleweight boxer
- Elizabeth Roboz Einstein, 90, American chemist

### 10

- Boris Gurevich, 63, Russian wrestler
- Gabriel Aragón, 74, Spanish clown

### 11

- Ad Kaland, 72, Dutch Politician
- Denis Neville, 79, English football player
- Lewis Nixon III, 76, United States Army officer
- Josef Gingold, 85, Russian-American violinist
- Theodor Wisch, 87, SS general
- Paul Zumthor, 79, Swiss philologist

### 12

- Takako Irie, 83, Japanese actress
- Kay Aldridge, 77, American actress
- Marion Herbst, 50, Dutch visual artist

### 13

- Zsigmond Villányi, 45, Hungarian modern pentathlete
- Ray Johnson, 67, American artist

### 15

- Jef Bruyninckx, 76, Belgian actor
- Eric Mottram, 70, British teacher

### 16

- Paul Delouvrier, 80, French civil servant

### 17

- Rolf Böger, 86, German politician
- Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, 79, Lithuanian-British industrialist
- Miguel Torga, 87, Portuguese writer
- Wilhelm Haferkamp, 71, German politician

### 18

- Adolf Butenandt, 91, German biochemist
- Ron Luciano, 57, American baseball umpire

### 19

- Hermann Henselmann, 89, German architect

### 20

- Thomas Arbuthnott, 83, New Zealand boxer
- Mehdi Bazargan, 87, Prime Minister of Iran

### 21

- Alex Groza, 68, American professional basketball player
- Russ Bauers, 80, American baseball player
- Philippe Casado, 30, French bicycler
- Edward Hidalgo, 82, American politician

### 22

- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 104, American philanthropist

### 23

- Saul Rogovin, 72, American baseball player
- Edward Shils, 84, American sociologist
- Albertis Harrison, 88, American politician

### 25

- Albert W. Tucker, 89, Canadian mathematician
- Erich Hof, 58, Austrian footballer
- John Smith, 63, American actor
- William Sylvester, 72, American actor

### 26

- Geoffrey Parsons, 65, Australian pianist
- Marcel Bidot, 92, French bicycler
- Bernardo Leighton, 85, Chilean Christian Democratic Party politician
- Vic Buckingham, 79, English footballer

### 27

- Jean Tardieu, 91, French visual artist
- Raphael M. Robinson, 83, American mathematician

### 28

- Ferruccio Tagliavini, 81, Italian operatic tenor
- Aldo Gordini, 73, Motorsports racing driver
- George Woodcock, 82, Canadian writer

### 29

- Dickie Burnell, 77, British rower

### 30

- Gerald Durrell, 70, British naturalist

### 31

- George Abbott, 107, American theater producer
- George Stibitz, 90, Bell Labs researcher; one of the fathers of the modern first digital compute

## Other websites

- _The Guardian_, UK obituaries
- _The Telegraph_ obituaries
- Obituaries, _Chicago Tribune_
- Obituaries, _Los Angeles Times_
- _The New York Times_, US obituaries
- _The Washington Post_ obituaries
- _The Sydney Morning Herald_, Australian obituaries