page_title: 1994
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1994 / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: Screenshot of Peter Cushing from the trailer for the film The Brides Of Dracula
context_page_description: 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1994th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 994th year of the 2nd millennium, the 94th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1990s decade.
  The year 1994 was designated as the "International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.
context_section_description: August 3 – Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Russian actor (b. 1925)
  August 4 – Giovanni Spadolini, Italian Prime Minister (b. 1925)
  August 6 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter and actor turned politician (b. 1928)
  August 11 – Peter Cushing, English actor (b. 1913)
  August 13 – Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (b. 1934)
  August 14 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer (b. 1905)
  August 16 – John Doucette, American actor (b. 1921)
  August 17 – Jack Sharkey, American boxer (b. 1902)
  August 18 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist (b. 1914)
  August 19
  Linus Pauling, American chemist (b. 1901)
  Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet poet (b. 1932)
  August 20 – Aleksandar Petrović, French film director (b. 1929)
  August 21 – Anita Lizana, Chilean tennis champion (b. 1915)
  August 23 – Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian film director (b. 1917)
  August 27 – Roberto Goyeneche, Argentine tango singer (b. 1926)
  August 30 – Lindsay Anderson, British film director (b. 1923)
caption: Peter Cushing
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