The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 1995
1
- Charles Bell, 59, American photorealist who created large scale still lifes, AIDS.[1]
- Stanley Adair Cain, 92, American botanist and pioneer of plant ecology and environmental studies.[2]
- James Cameron, 56, American football coach.
- H. Adams Carter, 80, American mountaineer, language teacher, and editor of the American Alpine Journal.[3]
- Samson De Brier, 96, actor and occultist.[4]
- Francisco Moncion, 76, Dominican-American ballet dancer.[5]
- Johnny Nicholls, 63, English football player.[6]
- Lucie Rie, 93, British ceramicist, stroke.[7]
- Víctor Valussi, 82, Argentine football player.
2
- Hannes Alfvén, 86, Swedish physicist.[8]
- Irv Frew, 87, Scottish-Canadian ice hockey player.[9]
- Henri Guérin, 73, French football player.
- Julius Hemphill, 57, American saxophonist and composer.[10]
- Leo LeBlanc, 55, American country musician, guitarist, and pianist who was legally blind.
- Raúl Martínez, 67, Cuban painter, designer, photographer, muralist, and graphic artist.[11]
- Dragoslav Mitrinović, 86, Serbian mathematician.[12]
- Harvey Penick, 90, American golfer, coach, and writer on golf.[13]
3
- Alfred J. Billes, 92, Canadian businessman and co-founder of Canadian Tire.[14]
- Charles H. Hayes, 88, United States Marine Corps general.
- David Herbert, 86, British writer and raconteur, kidney failure.[15]
- Gracita Morales, 66, Spanish actress.[16]
- Park No-sik, 65, South Korean actor.[17]
- Vera Szemere, 71, Hungarian actress.
- Marion Tinsley, 68, American mathematician and checkers player, pancreatic cancer.[18]
- Bogusław Zych, 43, Polish fencer, traffic collision.[19]
4
- Richard Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian, 67, British peer and physiologist.[20]
- Lyndon Bolton, 95, British Olympic horseman.[21]
- Rita Cadillac, 58, French dancer, singer, and actress, cancer.
- Kenny Everett, 50, British comedian, AIDS-related illness.[22]
- Abraham Kattumana, 51, Indian Catholic archbishop.
- Priscilla Lane, 79, American actress (Saboteur, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Roaring Twenties), lung cancer.[23]
- Hansa Jivraj Mehta, 97, Indian social activist, independence activist, feminist and writer.
- Shirley Patterson, 72, Canadian-American B-movie actress, cancer.
- Victor León Esteban San Miguel y Erce, 90, Spanish Carmelite friar.[24]
- Jo Sinclair, 81, American novelist whose real name was Ruth Seid, cancer.[25]
5
- Nicolaas Cortlever, 79, Dutch chess master.
- Adalbert Dickhut, 71, German gymnast.[26]
- Emilio Greco, 81, Italian sculptor, engraver, medallist, writer and poet.[27]
- Baby K, 2, American anencephalic baby who became the center of a medical controversy, heart attack.[28]
- Christian Pineau, 90, French Resistance fighter and politician.[29]
- Ron Richardson, 43, American actor and operatic baritone, AIDS-related complications.[30]
- Oskar Schnirch, 92, Austrian cinematographer.[31]
6
- Ioannis Alevras, 82-83, Greek politician.[32]
- Rogelio Farías, 45, Chilean football midfielder.[33]
- Alton Meister, 72, American biochemist.[34]
- Trevor Park, 67, British lecturer and politician.
- V. J. Sukselainen, 88, Finnish politician and 24th Prime Minister of Finland.
7
- Viktor Adamishin, 33, Russian militia captain, killed in action.[35]
- Peter Brinson, 75, British ballet and dance writer, lecturer, and promoter.[36]
- Nicholas Ingram, 31, British-American murder convict, execution by electric chair.[37]
- Philip Jebb, 68, British architect and politician.[38]
- Bill Lange, 67, American gridiron football player.
- Hsin Ping, 56, Taiwanese Buddhist monk, kidney cancer.
- Kannur Rajan, 58, Indian music composer.
- Frank Secory, 82, American gridiron football player and umpire.[39]
8
- Maurice Allom, 89, English cricketer.[40]
- Hans Bodensteiner, 82, German politician.
- Herb Connolly, 73, American politician from Massachusetts.[41]
- René de Buzelet, 87, French tennis player.
9
- Bob Allison, 60, American baseball player.[42]
- Nguyễn Hữu An, 68, People's Army of Vietnam general.
- Bonnie Bird, 80, American modern dancer and dance educator.[43]
- Paola Borboni, 95, Italian stage and film actress, stroke.[44]
- John Chamberlain, 91, American journalist, historian, columnist and literary critic.[45]
- George Hurley, 86, American gridiron football player.[46]
- Edda Mussolini, 84, Daughter of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.[47]
- Shinnen Tagaya, 75, Japanese politician.[48]
10
- Feng Depei, 88, Chinese neuroscientist and physiologist.
- Morarji Desai, 99, 4th Prime Minister of India.[49]
- Annie Fischer, 80, Hungarian pianist.[50]
- Günter Guillaume, 68, German spy for the Stasi and politician, kidney cancer.[51]
- Glyn Jones, 90, Welsh writer.[52]
- Hannah Lamdan, 90, Israeli politician.
- Billy Myers, 84, American baseball player.[53]
- Chen Yun, 89, Chinese political leader of the Chinese Communist Party.[54]
11
- E. K. Imbichi Bava, 77, Indian politician and a leader of the Communist Party of India.[55]
- T. Keith Glennan, 89, American administrator and first leader of NASA, complications from a stroke.[56]
- Vic Hey, 82, Australian rugby player and coach.
- Nikolai Kostrov, 93, Russian Soviet painter, graphic artist, and illustrator.
- Kim Yong-ik, 74, Korean–American writer.[57]
12
- Buck Cheves, 96, American college football player and referee.
- John Dowdy, 83, American politician.
- Alberto Larraguibel, 75, Chilean Army officer and equestrian, lung cancer.
- Philip H. Lathrop, 82, American cinematographer.[58]
- Chris Pyne, 56, British jazz trombonist.[59]
- Mou Zongsan, 85, Chinese philosopher.
13
- John Austrheim, 82, Norwegian politician.[60]
- Peter Bastiansen, 82, Norwegian politician.[61]
- Andy Branigan, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.[62]
- Edward F. Henderson, 77, British diplomat.[63]
- Lang Jingshan, 102, Chinese photojournalist.[64]
- Hal Peck, 77, American baseball right fielder.[65]
- Allan Scott, 88, American screenwriter.[66]
- Bill Thurman, 74, American actor (The Last Picture Show, Silverado, Close Encounters of the Third Kind).
- Aleksandras Vanagas, 60, Lithuanian linguist and etymologist.
14
- Mario Carotenuto, 78, Italian actor, cancer.[67]
- Brian Coffey, 89, Irish poet and publisher.[68]
- Michael Fordham, 89, English child psychiatrist and Jungian analyst.[69]
- Burl Ives, 85, American singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Big Country, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer), Oscar winner (1959), mouth cancer.[70]
- Hildegard Lächert, 75, German female guard at several nazi concentration camps during World War II.
- António Lopes Ribeiro, 86, Portuguese film director.[71]
15
- Michael Aldred, 49, British record producer, music journalist, and television presenter, AIDS-related complications.
- Emin Bektöre, 88-89, Crimean Tatar folklorist, ethnographer, lyricist, and activist.[72]
- Cleo Brown, 87, American pianist and singer.[73]
- Fred Cuny, 50, American humanitarian.
- Gilbert Moses, 52, American film and television director, multiple myeloma.[74]
- Harry Shoulberg, 91, American expressionist painter.
16
- Olavi Ahonen, 54, Finish basketball player.[75]
- Cheyenne Brando, 25, French fashion model and daughter of actor Marlon Brando, suicide by hanging.[76]
- Cy Endfield, 80, American screenwriter, director, author, magician and inventor.[77][78]
- Arthur English, 75, British actor and comedian, pulmonary emphysema.[79]
- Josef Hügi, 65, Swiss football player.
- August E. Johansen, 89, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.[80]
- Iqbal Masih, 11-12, Pakistani Christian boy who became a symbol of abusive child labour in Pakistan", homicide.[81]
- Alfred Ryder, 79, American actor.[82]
17
- Ted Ball, 56, Australian golfer.[83]
- Jimmy D'Aquisto, 59, Italian-American luthier who built archtop guitars.
- Anton Murray, 72, South African cricketer.
- Frank E. Resnik, 66, American chemist and CEO of Philip Morris USA.[84]
- Max Wünsche, 80, Germany commander in the Waffen-SS during World War II.
- Nan Youngman, 88, English painter and educationalist.[85]
18
- Arturo Frondizi, 86, Argentine lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina.[86]
- Edward P. Gallogly, 75, American politician.[87]
- Rafael Chaparro Madiedo, 31, Colombian writer, lupus.[88]
- Roza Makagonova, 67, Soviet/Russian actress.
19
- Preston Blair, 86, American animator (Bambi, Pinocchio, Fantasia).[89]
- J. Peter Grace, 81, American industrialist.[90]
- Porter Hardy Jr., 91, American businessman and politician.[91]
- Neil Paterson, 78, Scottish writer of novels, short stories and screenplays.[92]
- Aldo Richins, 84, American gridiron football player.[93]
- Richard Snell, 64, American white supremacist and convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[94]
20
- Elsa Benham, 86, American silent film actress and dancer.[95]
- Paul A. Catlin, 46, American mathematician and educator.[96]
- Milovan Dilas, 83, Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author.
- Sunil Jayasinghe, 39, Sri Lankan ODI cricketer, suicide.[97]
- Elting E. Morison, 85, American historian, military biographer, and author.[98]
- Bob Wyatt, 93, English cricketer.[99]
21
- José del Carmen, 77, Colombian fencer.[100]
- Stafford Heginbotham, 61, British businessman and chairman of Bradford City football club.[101]
- Amir Machmud, 72, Indonesian military general.
- Malcolm Murray, 90, Swedish Army general.
- Tessie O'Shea, 82, Welsh singer, instrumentalist, and actress, heart failure.[102]
- Roberto Parra Sandoval, 73, Chilean singer-songwriter, guitarist and folklorist.
- Kang Shi'en, 80, Chinese communist revolutionary.
- Carl Whitaker, 83, American physician and family therapy pioneer.[103]
22
- Carl Albert, 32, American musician, car accident.[104]
- Violetta Bovt, 67, American-Soviet ballet dancer.[105]
- Carlo Ceresoli, 84, Italian football goalkeeper.[106]
- Norton Clapp, 89, American businessman.[107]
- Charles Granger, 82, Canadian politician.
- Tony Jaros, 75, American basketball player.[108]
- Jane Kenyon, 47, American poet and translator, leukemia.[109]
- Maggie Kuhn, 89, American activist and founder of the Gray Panthers movement, heart failure.[110]
- Henry May, 83, New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
- Don Pullen, 53, American jazz pianist and organist, lymphoma.[111]
- Joe Sheeketski, 87, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
23
- Douglas Lloyd Campbell, 99, Canadian politician who served as the 13th Premier of Manitoba.[112]
- Howard Cosell, 77, American sportscaster, heart failure.[113]
- Viktor Getmanov, 54, Soviet/Russian football player.[114]
- John C. Stennis, 93, American politician and U.S. Senator.[115]
- Lonesome Sundown, 66, American blues singer and guitarist.[116]
- Robert Selby Taylor, 86, Anglican bishop.[117]
24
- Ronald Alexander, 78, American playwright.[118]
- Hideyuki Ashihara, 50, Japanese master of karate who founded Ashihara karate, ALS.[119]
- Lodewijk Bruckman, 91, Dutch magic realist painter.[120]
- Stanley Burbury, 85, Australian jurist.
- Florrie Burke, 76, Irish footballer.
- Marie Epstein, 95, Actress, scenarist, film director, and film preservationist.[121]
- Iosif Kheifits, 90, Russian film director.[122]
- Johannes Ott, 75, German art director.
25
- Lou Ambers, 81, American World Lightweight boxing champion.[123]
- Art Fleming, 70, American actor and first television host of the game show Jeopardy!, pancreatic cancer.[124]
- Andrea Fortunato, 23, Italian football player, leukemia.[125]
- Horst-Günter Gregor, 56, German swimmer.[126]
- Alexander Knox, 88, Canadian-British actor (Wilson, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Longest Day), bone cancer.[127]
- Walter Marty, 84, American high jumper.
- Attilio Moresi, 61, Swiss cyclist.[128]
- Ginger Rogers, 83, American actress (Top Hat, Kitty Foyle, Primrose Path) and dancer, Oscar winner (1941), diabetes.[129]
- G. M. Syed, 91, Pakistani politician.
26
- Bruce Bosley, 61, American football player.[130]
- Joseph M. Bryan, 99, American insurance executive, broadcast pioneer, and philanthropist.[131]
- Egon Franke, 82, German politician.
- Otto Friedrich, 66, American journalist, author, and historian, lung cancer.[132]
- Sammy Jackson, 57, American actor.
- Willi Krakau, 83, German racing driver.
- Corliss Lamont, 93, American socialist and humanist philosopher.[133]
- Hugh Morton, Baron Morton of Shuna, 65, Scottish lawyer and judge.[134]
- Peter Wright, 78, English scientist and MI5 intelligence officer.[135]
27
- Ivo Arčanin, 88, Yugoslav swimmer.[136]
- Silverio Blasi, 73, Italian television and stage director, actor and screenwriter.[137]
- Albert Brown, 83, English cricketer and snooker player.[138]
- Katherine DeMille, 83, Canadian-American actress, Alzheimer's disease.[139]
- Willem Frederik Hermans, 73, Dutch writer, lung cancer.[140]
- Kent Peterson, 69, American baseball player.[141]
- Raphael Rabello, 32, Brazilian guitarist and composer.
- Auto Shankar, 41, Indian criminal and gangster, suicide.
- Steve Wittman, 91, Air-racer and aircraft engineer, plane crash.
- Jerauld Wright, 96, United States Navy Commander-in-Chief, pneumonia.[142]
28
- Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier, 77, French geographer.[143]
- Thomas Binkley, 63, American musicologist and lutenist.[144]
- Peaches Davis, 89, Major Leagues baseball pitcher.
- Corky Devlin, 63, American basketball player.[145]
- Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero, 84, Filipino playwright, director, teacher and theater artist.
- Hana Janků, 54, Czech soprano.[146]
- Gus Polidor, 33, Venezuelan baseball player, homicide.[147]
- Henry C. Rogers, 81, American publicist.[148]
- Andrew Salkey, 67, Panamanian novelist and poet.[149]
- Walter Tracy, 81, English type designer, typographer and writer.[150]
29
- Inger Marie Andersen, 64, Norwegian actress.
- Talley Beatty, 76, American dancer, choreographer, and teacher.[151]
- Angier Biddle Duke, 79, American diplomat and ambassador.[152]
- Gary Fallon, 56, American gridiron football player and coach.
- Charles McGinnis, 88, American track and field athlete.[153]
- Ray Prim, 88, American baseball player.[154]
30
- Eric Barber, 79, English cricketer.[155]
- Christopher Chadman, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS-related complications.[156]
- Michael Graham Cox, 57, English actor (A Bridge Too Far, Watership Down, The Lord of the Rings).[157]
- Maung Maung Kha, 74, Burmese politician and prime minister.
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