The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 1995
1
- Julián Berrendero, 83, Spanish road racing cyclist who twice won the Vuelta a España.[1]
- Phyllis Brooks, 80, American actress and model.[2]
- Martha Genenger, 83, German swimmer and Olympian.[3]
- Colin Falkland Gray, 80, New Zealand fighter ace during World War II.[4]
- Esther Muir, 92, American actress.[5]
- Gopalaswami Parthasarathy, 83, Indian journalist, educationist, and diplomat.
- Rudolph F. Zallinger, 75, Austrian-Russian artist.
2
- Irwin Bazelon, 73, American composer of contemporary classical music.[6]
- Thomas Brimelow, Baron Brimelow, 79, British diplomat.[7]
- Lillian Bronson, 92, American character actress.[8][9]
- Fred Daly, 83, Australian politician.
- Eva Gredal, 68, Danish politician.
- Oonagh Guinness, 85, Anglo-Irish socialite, society hostess and art collector.
- Yury Iosifovich Koval, 57, Russian author, artist, and screenplay writer, heart attack.[10]
- Juan López Moctezuma, 63, Mexican film director and actor.[11]
- Brian Smith, 54, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster, shot.[12]
3
- Lionel Philias Coderre, 80, Canadian politician.[13]
- Harry Craft, 80, American Major League Baseball player and manager.[14]
- Mary Lena Faulk, 69, American golfer.[15]
- Ida Lupino, 77, British-American actress (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, High Sierra) and film director (The Hitch-Hiker), stroke.[16]
- Alan Mitchell, 72, British forester, dendrologist and botanist.
- Edward Whittemore, 62, American novelist.[17]
4
- Alejandro Almendras, 76, Filipino politician.[18]
- Cal Anderson, 47, American military officer and politician.[19]
- Jacques Aubert, 78, Swiss entomologist.[20]
- Dick Bartell, 87, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease.[21]
- Jock Carroll, 76, Canadian writer, journalist and photographer.[22]
- Jean-Pierre Frisch, 87, Luxembourgian football player.[23]
- Antonio Leonviola, 82, Italian screenwriter and film director.
- J. Howard Marshall, 90, American billionaire, oil executive, and husband of Anna Nicole Smith.[24]
- Kiiti Morita, 80, Japanese mathematician.[25]
- Said Ramadan, 69, Egyptian political activist and humanitarian.[26]
5
- Agha Hasan Abedi, 73, Pakistani banker.[27]
- Fletcher Allen, 90, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.[28][29]
- Menachem Avidom, 87, Israeli composer.[30]
- Clarice Blackburn, 74, American actress, cancer.[31]
- Allan Bridge, 50, American conceptual artist.[32]
- Angelo Brovelli, 84, American NFL football player.[33]
- J. Marshall Brown, 68, American politician and insurance agent.[34]
- Massimiliano Capuzzoni, 26, Italian rugby player, diving accident.[35]
- Mark Colton, 34, British racing driver and software author, racing accident.[36]
- Izet Nanić, 29, Bosnian Army brigade commander, killed in action.
6
- Irja Aav, 51, Estonian actress.[37]
- Hugh Borton, 92, American historian.[38]
- André Fleury, 92, French composer, pianist, organist, and pedagogue.[39]
- Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester, 81, British barrister and politician.
- Nadira, 27, Pakistani film actress and dancer, homicide.
- Toney Penna, 87, Italian-American golfer and designer of golf clubs and gear.
- George Svendsen, 82, American gridiron football player.[40]
- Montri Tramote, 95, Thai musician and scholar, heart failure.[41]
7
- David Begelman, 73, American film producer, suicide.[42]
- Brigid Brophy, 66, British novelist, multiple sclerosis.[43]
- Tyra Hunter, 24, transgender hairdresser.
- Haim Kaufman, 60, Israeli politician.
- Dursley McLinden, 30, Manx actor.
- Don Patinkin, 73, American-Israeli monetary economist.[44]
- Tom Scott, 77, Scottish poet, editor, and prose writer.[45]
- Harold Stewart, 78, Australian poet and oriental scholar.[46]
- Maksim Tank, 82, Belarusian Soviet journalist, poet and translator.
8
- Kurt Becher, 85, German SS officer who was Commissar of all Nazi concentration camps.[47]
- Ronald Beeson, 58, English cricket player.[48]
- Fyodor Dyachenko, 78, Russian/Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with 425 kills.
- Carol Hughes, 85, American actress.
- Herbert Ihlefeld, 81, German Luftwaffe military aviator and fighter ace.
9
- Teodoro Alcalde, 81, Peruvian football player.[49]
- Jerry Garcia, 53, American guitarist (The Grateful Dead), heart attack.[50]
- Suen Kam Shun, 88, Chinese football player.
- Romuald Spasowski, 74, Polis diplomat, ambassador and defector, cancer.[51]
10
- Gijs van Aardenne, 65, Dutch politician, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[52]
- Leo Apostel, 69, Belgian philosopher.[53]
- Donald Bisset, 84, British character actor and children's author.[54]
- Thomas Elliot Bowman III, 76, American carcinologist.[55]
- Wei-Liang Chow, 83, Chinese mathematician.[56]
- Florestan Fernandes, 75, Brazilian sociologist and politician.
- Josseline Gaël, 78, French film actress.[57]
- Fay Honey Knopp, 76, American Quaker minister, and peace and civil rights advocat.[58]
- Marcel Moussy, 71, French screenwriter and television director.
- Harishankar Parsai, 72, Indian writer.
- Aldo Protti, 75, Italian baritone.[59]
- Baba Rexheb, 93, Albanian Islamic scholar and Sufi.
- Niilo Ryhtä, 88, Finnish politician.
- Tikiri Banda Subasinghe, 81, Sri Lankan statesman.
- Ray Whittorn, 83, Australian politician.
- Peter Williams, 81, English designer and dance critic, heart attack.[60]
11
- Libby Altwerger, 80, Canadian artist and educator.[61]
- Karel Berman, 76, Czech composer, opera singer, music educator.[62]
- Sam Berman, 88, American caricaturist of the 1940s and 1950s.[63]
- Joseph Bermingham, 76, Irish Labour Party politician.[64]
- Alonzo Church, 92, American mathematician.[65]
- Reg Date, 74, Australian soccer player.
- Damon Edge, 45, American musician, heart attack.
- Phil Harris, 91, American comedian and actor (The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, The Aristocats), heart attack.[66]
- Wilbur Stark, 83, American writer and film, television, and radio producer and director.[67]
- Herbert Sumsion, 96, English organist.[68]
12
- Bobby Burns, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).[69]
- Jean Chapel, 70, American country singer and songwriter.[70]
- Frank Cvitanovich, 67, Canadian filmmaker.[71]
- Louise Lorimer, 97, American actress.[72]
- Marty Paich, 70, American arranger, composer, pianist, and bandleader, colorectal cancer.[73][74]
- Bruno Pasquini, 80, Italian racing cyclist.[75]
- Achille Togliani, 71, Italian singer and actor.
- Felipe Tromp, 77, Governor of Aruba.
13
- Alison Hargreaves, 33, British mountain climber, exposure during climb.[76]
- Pêr-Jakez Helias, 80-81, Breton stage actor, journalist, author, poet, and writer.[77]
- Jan Křesadlo, 68, Czech psychologist, novelist and poet.[78]
- Mickey Mantle, 63, American baseball player, liver cancer.[79]
- Jesse Thomas, 84, American blues singer.[80]
- Hanna Waag, 91, German film actress.
14
- Helmut Beumann, 82, German historian.[81]
- Labron Harris, 86, American golfer and golf coach.[82]
- Frances Margaret McGuire, 95, Australian author, community leader and philanthropist.
- Zdeněk Špinar, 79, Czechoslovak paleontologist and author.
15
- Erbie Bowser, 77, American blues pianist and singer.[83]
- Michael A. Hess, 43, Irish-American lawyer and chief legal counsel to the RNC, complications from AIDS.
- Humphrey Moore, 86, British pacifist and journalist.[84]
- Reginald Rodrigues, 73, Indian field hockey player and Olympian.[85]
- John Cameron Swayze, 89, American news commentator and game show panelist.[86]
- Abdul Momin Talukdar, 65, Bangladeshi politician.[87]
16
- Brooke Benjamin, 66, English mathematical physicist and mathematician.[88]
- Ljubiša Broćić, 83, Serbian football manager.
- Irène de Lipkowski, 96, French politician.[89]
- Bobby DeBarge, 39, American R&B musician, AIDS related complications.[90]
- Oveta Culp Hobby, 90, American lawyer, politician and cabinet member, stroke.[91]
- John Lowe, 83, Scottish football player.
- J. P. McCarthy, 62, American radio personality, pneumonia.[92]
- Leon Moser, 52, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[93]
- Howie Shannon, 72, American basketball player and coach, lung cancer.
- António Vilar, 82, Portuguese actor.[94]
17
- George Bekefi, 70, American plasma physicist, inventor, and professor at MIT.[95]
- Walter Cartier, 73, American boxer and actor.[96]
- Mike Condello, 49, American rock musician, producer, and songwriter, suicide.[97]
- Wild Bill Davis, 76, American organist, pianist, and arranger.[98]
- Helen Singer Kaplan, 66, Austrian-American sex therapist, cancer.[99]
- Howard Koch, 93, American screenwriter (Casablanca, Sergeant York, Letter from an Unknown Woman), Oscar winner (1944).[100]
- Rollie Miles, 68, Canadian football player.
- Julius Monk, 82, American cabaret impresario.[101]
- Jaroslav Papoušek, 66, Czech film director and screenwriter.[102]
- Carl Samuelson, 68, American football player.[103]
- Marjorie Sykes, 90, British educator and peace activist in India.[104]
- David Warrilow, 60, English actor (Barton Fink, Radio Days, Simon), AIDS-related complications.[105]
- Ted Whitten, 62, Australian rules footballer, prostate cancer.
18
- Julio Caro Baroja, 80, Spanish anthropologist, historian, linguist and essayist.[106]
- Alexander Zeisal Bielski, 82, Belarus leader of the Bielski partisans during World War II.[107]
- Philip Hodgins, 36, Australian poet.[108]
- Dick Hogan, 77, American actor (Rope).[109]
- Alex Joffé, 76, French film director and screenwriter.[110]
- James Maxwell, 66, American actor and director.[111]
- Helmuth Schlömer, 102, German Wehrmacht general during World War II.
- Dmitri Shepilov, 89, Soviet economist, lawyer and politician.
- Andrew Wood Wilkinson, 81, Scottish paediatrician.[112]
19
- John H. Adams, 80, American National Champion Thoroughbred racing jockey.[113]
- Silvio Amadio, 69, Italian film director and screenwriter.[114]
- Rollen Henry Anthis, 79, United States Air Force Major General.[115]
- Danny Arnold, 70, American producer, writer, comedian, actor and director.[116]
- Jean Bocahut, 75, French rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.[117]
- Jack Carter, 87, Australian cricketer.[118]
- Robert C. Frasure, 53, American diplomat and ambassador, traffic collision.
- William Summer Johnson, 82, American chemist and teacher.[119]
- Pierre Schaeffer, 85, French composer, Alzheimer's disease.[120]
20
- Maly Delschaft, 96, German actress.[121]
- Paul Foster, 75, American gospel singer with The Soul Stirrers.[122]
- John Gilmore, 63, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and percussionist.[123]
- Bill Kennedy, 76, American professional baseball pitcher.[124]
- Von McDaniel, 56, American professional baseball player.[125]
- Hugo Pratt, 68, Italian comics creator, colorectal cancer.[126]
- Red Rhodes, 64, American pedal steel guitarist, pneumonia.[127]
- Vladimír Škutina, 64, Czech writer, playwright, journalist, and television producer, cancer.[128]
21
- Sally A. Bailie, 58, English trainer and owner of Thoroughbred racehorses, cancer.[129]
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 84, Indian astrophysicist, heart attack.[130]
- Hal Cihlar, 81, American professional basketball player.[131]
- Manfred Donike, 61, German biochemist and cyclist, heart attack.[132]
- Anatole Fistoulari, 88, Ukrainian-British conductor.[133]
- Sven Höglund, 84, Swedish cyclist.[134]
- Nanni Loy, 69, Italian director for film and television, heart attack, cancer.[135]
- Len Martin, 76, Australian sports broadcaster.[136]
- Ken Rickards, 71, West Indian cricketer.[137]
- Robert T. Smith, 77, American World War II fighter pilot and flying ace.[138]
- Chuck Stevenson, 75, American racecar driver.
22
- Gilles Andruet, 37, French chess player, beaten to death, blunt trauma.[139]
- Mohammed Usman Arif, 72, Indian politician.
- Johnny Carey, 76, Irish football player and manager.[140]
- José Antonio Girón, 83, Spanish Falangist politician.[141]
- René Notten, 45, Dutch football player and manager, heart attack.
- Stefan Ślopek, 80, Polish microbiologist and immunologist.
23
- Jaroslava Bajerová, 85, Czech gymnast who won silver at the 1936 Summer Olympics.[142]
- Johan Bergenstråhle, 60, Swedish film director and screenwriter.[143]
- Alfred Eisenstaedt, 96, German-American photographer.[144]
- Dwayne Goettel, 31, Canadian electronic musician (Skinny Puppy).[145]
- Leslie Graves, 35, American actress (Piranha II: The Spawning, Capitol), AIDS-related illness.[146]
- Arthur Holt, 81, British politician.
- Gordon White, Baron White of Hull, 72, British-American peer and industrialist.[147]
- Chen Pixian, 79, Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician.
- Cleveland Robinson, 80, American civil rights activist, kidney failure.[148]
- Adele Simpson, 91, American fashion designer.[149]
- Sylvester Stadler, 84, Austrian commander of the Waffen-SS during World War II.
24
- Zbyněk Brynych, 68, Czech film director.[150]
- Jack Burns, 76, Australian rules footballer.[151]
- Gary Crosby, 62, American singer and actor, lung cancer.[152]
- Richard Degener, 83, American diver.[153]
- Erich Geiringer, 78, New Zealand physician, writer, publisher.[154]
- Killer Karl Krupp, 61, Dutch-American professional wrestler, cardioplegia.
- Jason McRoy, 23, English mountain bike racer, traffic collision.
25
- Johannes Antonsson, 73, Swedish politician.[155]
- John S. Badeau, 92, American diplomat, engineer, minister, and scholar.[156]
- John Brunner, 60, British sci-fi author, heart attack.[157]
- Setsuko, Princess Chichibu, 85, member of the Japanese Imperial Family, heart failure.
- Francis Lawrence Jobin, 81, Canadian politician Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.
- Eugene McDowell, 32, American basketball player.
- Ludmilla Pajo, 47, Russian-Albanian writer and journalist.
- Brede Skistad, 47, Norwegian football player and manager.[158]
- Doug Stegmeyer, 43, American rock bassist and vocalist, suicide by gunshot.[159]
26
- Antonio Brancaccio, 72, Italian judge, cancer.[160]
- John Costello, 51-52, British military historian.[161]
- Annie Kriegel, 68, French communist historian.[162]
- Olimi III of Toro, 49, Ugandan monarch and 11th Omukama of the Kingdom of Toro.[163]
- Ronald White, 56, American musician (The Miracles), leukemia.[164]
- Evelyn Wood, 86, American teacher who popularized speed reading.[165]
27
- Dick Bentley, 88, Australian comedian and actor, Alzheimer's disease.[166]
- Glennon Patrick Flavin, 79, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Carl Giles, 78, English cartoonist.[167]
- Mary Beth Hughes, 75, American actress.[168]
- Big Dee Irwin, 63, American singer and songwriter.
- Václav Ježek, 71, Czechoslovakian/Slovak football coach.
28
- Earl W. Bascom, 89, American visual artist, rodeo performer, inventor, and actor, heart failure.[169]
- Michael Ende, 65, German author (The NeverEnding Story, Momo, Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver), stomach cancer.[170]
- Thomas Gardner Ford, 77, American politician and businessman.
- Fritz Pliska, 79, German football player and coach.[171]
- Gerard Salton, 68, German-American professor of Computer Science.[172]
- Page Smith, 77, American historian, professor, author, and newspaper columnist.[173]
- Michael VerMeulen, 38, American journalist and magazine editor of British GQ, drug overdose.[174]
29
- Al Akins, 74, American football halfback and defensive back.[175]
- Harry Broadhurst, 89, British Royal Air Force commander and flying ace during World War II.[176]
- Selma Burke, 94, American sculptor.[177]
- Enrique Carreras, 70, Peruvian-Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.[178]
- Pierre-Max Dubois, 65, French composer of classical music and conductor.[179]
- Art Jones, 76, American gridiron football player.[180]
- Frank Perry, 65, American film director (David and Lisa, Mommie Dearest, Diary of a Mad Housewife), prostate cancer.[181]
- Nanda Primavera, 97, Italian actress.
30
- Agepê, 53, Brazilian singer and composer, diabetes.
- Fischer Black, 57, American economist, throat cancer.[182]
- Carlos de Anda, 87, Mexican sprinter.[183]
- Nikolay Kuznetsov, 64, Azerbaijani water polo player.[184]
- Sterling Morrison, 53, American guitarist (the Velvet Underground), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.[185]
- Lev Polugaevsky, 60, Belarusian chess Grandmaster, brain cancer.[186]
- Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, 58, Polish science fiction author, suicide.
31
- Murray Bornstein, 77, American neuroscientist.[187]
- Mildred Coles, 75, American actress.
- Barry Lee Fairchild, 41, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[188]
- David Farrar, 87, English actor.[189]
- Horst Janssen, 65, German graphic artist and printmaker.[190]
- J. Erik Jonsson, 93, American businessman and mayor of Dallas.[191]
- Gertrud Luckner, 94, German social worker and anti-Nazi resisister during World War II.[192]
- Carmen Mathews, 84, American actress and environmentalist.
- A. A. Rahim, 75, Indian politician, freedom fighter, and union minister.
- Beant Singh, 73, Indian politician and Chief Minister of Punjab, assassination.[193]
- Dilawar Singh Babbar, 25, Indian suicide bomber and assassin of Beant Singh.[194]
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