The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 1994
1
- Samia Gamal, 70, Egyptian belly dancer and actress.[1]
- Reg Garvin, 82, Australian rules football player.
- William S. Hanna, 71, American politician.
- Helen McCloy, 90, American writer.[2]
- Calvin Mooers, 75, American computer scientist.[3]
2
- Bogumił Andrzejewski, 72, Polish writer and linguist.
- Julien Davies Cornell, 84, American lawyer who defended pacifist Ezra Pound.[4]
- Miguel M. Delgado, 88, Mexican film director and screenwriter, cancer.[5]
- Orhan Şaik Gökyay, 92, Turkish author.[6]
- Alan Splet, 54, American sound designer and sound editor (Eraserhead, Dune, Blue Velvet).
- Reginald Claude Sprigg, 75, Australian geologist and conservationist.
3
- Giorgi Chanturia, 35, Georgian politician and the National Democratic Party leader, homicide.
- John E. Henderson, 77, American politician of the Republican Party.
- Earl Johnson, 75, American baseball player and scout and World War II veteran.[7]
- Mihail Lozanov, 83, Bulgarian football player.[8]
4
- Reaves H. Baysinger, 92, American gridiron football player and coach.
- Geoffrey Elton, 73, German-British political and constitutional historian, heart attack.[9]
- Ichiro Ogimura, 62, Japanese table tennis player and coach, lung cancer.
- Julio Ramón Ribeyro, 65, Peruvian writer.[10]
- Gertrud Schiller, 89, German writer.
- István Timár, 54, Hungarian canoe racer.[11]
5
- Woody Abernathy, 79, American baseball player.[12]
- Asım Orhan Barut, 68, Turkish-American theoretical physicist.[13]
- Harry Horner, 84, American art director (The Hustler, The Heiress, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?), Oscar winner (1950, 1962), pneumonia.[14]
- Günter Meisner, 68, German actor (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, The Boys from Brazil, The Winds of War).[15]
- Saïd Mohammedi, 81, Algerian politician.
- Rudy Pilous, 80, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
- Dick Rifenburg, 68, American gridiron football player and sports broadcaster.[16]
- E.W. Swackhamer, 67, American television and film director.[17]
6
- Heinz Baas, 72, German football player and manager.[18]
- Máire de Paor, 69, Irish historian and archaeologist.
- Otar Gordeli, 66, Georgian musician.[19]
- Richard Markowitz, 68, American film and television composer (Murder, She Wrote, The Wild Wild West, Police Story).[20]
- Alun Owen, 69, British screenwriter.[21]
- Gian Maria Volonté, 61, Italian actor, heart attack.[22]
7
- Elga Andersen, 59, German actress and singer, cancer.
- Pierre Cloarec, 85, French road bicycle racer.[23]
- Franz Lucas, 83, German SS officer and Auschwitz concentration camp doctor during World War II.
- Edward Rell Madigan, 58, American politician, lung cancer.[24]
- J. C. Tremblay, 55, Canadian ice hockey player, kidney cancer.
8
- Antônio Carlos Jobim, 67, Brazilian musician, heart failure.[25]
- Semni Karusou, 96, Greek archaeologist and art historian.
- Enrique Líster, 87, Spanish communist politician and military officer.[26]
- Crawford Nalder, 84, Australian politician.
9
- Antal Apró, 81, Hungarian politician.
- John Joe Barry, 69, Irish middle-distance runner and Olympian.[27]
- Max Bill, 85, Swiss architect, painter and sculptor, heart attack.[28]
- O. C. Fisher, 91, American politician.[29]
- Pat Haggerty, 67, American football official in the National Football League, cancer.
- Garnett Silk, 28, Jamaican reggae musician and Rastafarian, domestic accident.
- Alex Wilson, 87, Canadian sprinter.[30]
10
- Henry Bernard, 82, French architect and urban planner.[31]
- Friedel Dzubas, 79, German-American abstract painter.[32]
- Keith Joseph, 76, British barrister and politician.[33]
- Jiří Marek, 80, Czech publicist, scriptwriter, and writer.
11
- Magnus Andersen, 78, Norwegian politician.
- Dionísio Azevedo, 72, Brazilian actor and director, lung cancer.[34]
- Edward A. Craig, 98, United States Marine Corps officer.[35]
- Vera Kuznetsova, 87, Soviet/Russian actress.
- Stanisław Maczek, 102, Polish military officer of World War I and World War II.[36]
- Carl Marzani, 82, American spy.[37]
- George Phillips, 73, American gridiron football player.[38]
- Philip Phillips, 94, American archaeologist.[39]
- Yuli Raizman, 90, Soviet/Russian film director, screenwriter.[40]
- Kenneth Rush, 84, American diplomat and ambassador.[41]
- Avet Terterian, 65, Soviet/Armenian composer.
- Yao Yilin, 77, Chinese politician and Vice Premier.[42]
12
- John Hearne, 68, Jamaican writer.[43]
- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, 75, Palestinian translator.[44]
- Nicolaas Kuiper, 74, Dutch mathematician.[45]
- Annelise Reenberg, 75, Danish film director.
- Stuart Roosa, 61, American astronaut, pancreatic cancer.[46]
- Sir Evelyn Shuckburgh, 85, British diplomat.[47]
- Donna J. Stone, 61, American poet and philanthropist.
- Frederick Turnovsky, 77, New Zealand businessman and arts advocate.
13
- Glenn M. Anderson, 81, American politician.[48]
- Norman Beaton, 60, British actor, heart attack.
- Philip S. Foner, 83, American historian.[49]
- Philip Hauser, 85, American academic.[50]
- Antoine Pinay, 102, French politician and Prime Minister of France.[51]
- Charlie Richard, 53, American football coach.
- Olga Rubtsova, 85, Soviet/Russian chess player.[52]
14
- Orval Faubus, 84, American politician and governor of Arkansas, prostate cancer.[53]
- Edmund Hudleston, 85, British Royal Air Force air marshal.
- Mary Ann McCall, 75, American pop and jazz singer.[54]
- Robert Mersey, 77, American musician, arranger and record producer.[55]
- Catherine Filene Shouse, 98, American researcher and philanthropist.[56]
- Franco Venturi, 80, Italian historian, essayist and journalist.[57]
15
- Oscar Bidegain, 89, Argentine politician.
- Boris Chichibabin, 71, Soviet/Russian writer.[58]
- Arthur de la Mare, 80, British diplomat and High Commissioner of Singapore.
- Piero Gardoni, 60, Italian professional footballer.
- Mollie Phillips, 87, British skater.[59]
- Hazel Brannon Smith, 80, American journalist, publisher and Pulitzer Prize winner.[60]
- Harry Tobias, 99, American lyricist.[61]
16
- Patrick Cobbold, 60, British football executive.
- David Dunlap, 84, American rower.[62]
- Mary Durack, 81, Australian novelist and historian.[63]
- Les Gandar, 75, New Zealand politician.
17
- Pierre Baruzy, 97, French boxing champion and manager.[64]
- Deon Dreyer, 20, South African recreational scuba diver, drowned.
- Hambardzum Galstyan, 39, Armenian politician and historian, homicide.
- Ella Hval, 90, Norwegian actress.
- Stefano Sertorelli, 82, Italian soldier, skier and Olympian.[65]
- Olavi Talja, 69, Finnish sprinter, middle-distance runner and Olympian.[66]
- Ajahn Thate, 92, Thai meditation master and buddhist monk.
18
- Roger Apéry, 78, Greek-French mathematician, Parkinson's disease.[67]
- Henry Banks, 81, American racecar driver.
- Phil Bengtson, 81, American gridiron football player and coach.
- Heinz Bernard, 70, British actor, director and theatre manager.
- Don Fedderson, 81, American television executive.
- David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead, 81, British politician.
- Peter Hebblethwaite, 64, British priest, journalist, and biographer.[68]
- F. Bradford Morse, 73, American politician.[69]
- Lilia Skala, 98, Austrian-American actress (Lilies of the Field, Flashdance, Charly).[70]
- Suryakantam, 70, Indian actress.
19
- Vera Chaplina, 86, Soviet/Russian children's writer and naturalist.[71]
- Bill Douglass, 71, American jazz drummer.[72]
- Vadim Kozin, 91, Russian tenor and songwriter.
- Noel Pointer, 39, American musician, stroke.[73]
- K. A. P. Viswanatham, 95, Indian politician.
20
- Eva Alexanderson, 83, Swedish translator and writer.
- Daniel I. Arnon, 84, Polish-American plant physiologist, heart failure.[74]
- Stephen Coughlan, 83, Irish politician.
- Alexander Felszeghy, 61, Czechoslovak association football player and coach.[75]
- Valeriy Kryvov, 43, Soviet/Ukrainian volleyball player.
- Cyril Ponnamperuma, 71, Sri Lankan scientist.[76]
- Phelim O'Neill, 2nd Baron Rathcavan, 85, British politician.
- Dean Rusk, 85, American politician and Secretary of State, heart failure.[77]
- Bob Wellman, 69, American baseball player, manager and scout.[78]
21
- Göte Almqvist, 73, Swedish ice hockey player.[79]
- Butch Hartman, 54, American stock car racing driver, heart attack.
- Mabel Poulton, 93, English actress.[80]
- Audrey Sale-Barker, 91, British aviator and alpine skier.
- Koreya Senda, 90, Japanese stage director and translator, and actor.
22
- Gérard Loiselle, 73, Canadian politician.
- Nobuko Otowa, 70, Japanese actress, liver cancer.[81]
- Atte Pakkanen, 82, Finnish politician.
- J. A. Todd, 86, English mathematician.[82]
23
- Tony Doyle, 41, Australian politician, AIDS-related complications.
- Mark Foo, 36, Singapore-American surfer, surfing accident.
- Johnny Mince, 82, American swing jazz clarinetist.[83]
- Sebastian Shaw, 89, English actor (Return of the Jedi) and author.[84]
- Charles Wesley Shilling, 93, American physician and navy officer.
- Teiji Ōmiya, 66, Japanese voice actor, colorectal cancer.
24
- John Boswell, 47, American historian and professor, AIDS-related complications.[85]
- Rossano Brazzi, 78, Italian actor.[86]
- Maurice Chéhab, 89, Lebanese archaeologist and museum curator.
- John T. Dugan, 74, American screenwriter.
- Julie Haydon, 84, American actress, cancer.[87]
- Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel, 94, Austrian actress.[88]
- John Osborne, 65, English playwright (Look Back in Anger and actor (Get Carter), diabetes.[89]
- Aleksandr Uvarov, 72, Russian ice hockey player.[90]
- Eduardo Orrego Villacorta, 61, Peruvian politician and architect, cancer.
25
- Buddy Ace, 58, American singer, heart attack.[91]
- Ghulam Ahmed Chishti, 89, Pakistani film score composer, heart attack.
- Pierre Dreyfus, 87, French businessman and civil servant.
- Cyril Garnham, 93, British parasitologist.[92]
- Masjkur, 89, Indonesian politician.
- Zail Singh, 78, Indian politician and former President of India, traffic collision.[93]
- Czesław Spychała, 77, Polish tennis player.
26
- Robert Emhardt, 80, American actor (3:10 to Yuma).
- Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan, 82, British businessman and peer.[94]
- Sylva Koscina, 61, Yugoslav/Croatian actress (Hercules, Judex, The Secret War of Harry Frigg), breast cancer.[95]
- Kothuku Nanappan, 59, Malayalam film actor.
- Dennis Osadebay, 83, Nigerian politician, poet, and journalist.[96]
- Pietro Pavan, 91, Italian Catholic cardinal.[97]
- Allie Reynolds, 77, American baseball player.[98]
- Germaine Rouer, 97, French actress.[99]
- Karl Schiller, 83, German scientist and politician.[100]
- Parveen Shakir, 42, Pakistani writer and poet, traffic collision.
- Seetharaman Sundaram, 93, Indian lawyer and yoga as exercise pioneer .
27
- Winsome Fanny Barker, 87, South African botanist and plant collector.
- Fanny Cradock, 85, English restaurant critic, television chef and writer.[101]
- Marjorie Joyner, 98, American businesswoman, philanthropist, and activist.[102]
- Peter May, 64, English cricket player and administrator, brain cancer.
- Steve Plytas, 81, British actor.
- Haki Toska, 74, Albanian politician.
28
- Julius Adler, 88, Jewish-American actor and writer.[103]
- Ursula Appolloni, 65, Canadian politician, lung cancer.
- Georgy Baydukov, 87, Soviet/Russian aircraft test pilot and writer.
- Victor FitzGeorge-Balfour, 81, British Army officer.
- Joseph Holland, 84, American stage actor.[104]
- Gopalaswamy Mahendraraja, 38, Sri Lankan member of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, executed.
- Arnljot Norwich, 71, Norwegian politician.[105]
29
- Woodrow A. Abbott, 75, American officer.[106]
- Robert Barbour, 95, Australian cricket player.[107]
- Bernard Cousino, 92, American inventor.
- Manuel Mora, 85, Costa Rican politician.
- Frank Thring, 68, Australian actor (Ben-Hur, King of Kings, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) and theatre director, cancer.[108]
30
- Geoff Bradford, 67, English football player.[109]
- Dmitri Ivanenko, 90, Soviet/Russian physicist.
- Andrei Kuznetsov, 28, Soviet/Russian volleyball player, traffic collision.
- Hap Moran, 93, American gridiron football player.[110]
- Anton Rom, 85, German rower.
- Maureen Starkey Tigrett, 48, British hairdresser and wife of beatle Ringo starr, leukemia.
- Xu Yixin, 83, Chinese politician.
31
- Leigh Bowery, 33, Australian performance artist, club promoter, and fashion designer, AIDS-related complications.[111]
- Jacques Dimont, 49, French fencer and Olympic champion.[112]
- Leo Fuchs, 83, Polish-American actor and coupletist.[113]
- Elma Karlowa, 62, Yugoslav/Croatian actress, diabetes.
- Bruno Pezzey, 39, Austrian football player, cardioplegia.[114]
- Woody Strode, 80, American athlete and actor (Spartacus, The Ten Commandments, Once Upon a Time in the West), lung cancer.[115]
- Harri Webb, 74, Welsh poet, journalist and librarian, stroke.
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