The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.
May 1994
1
- Imre Gyöngyössy, 64, Hungarian film director and screenwriter.[1]
- Yigal Mossinson, 76, Israeli novelist, playwright, and inventor.[2]
- Ayrton Senna, 34, Brazilian racing driver, racing accident. For more information, see Death of Ayrton Senna.[3]
- Arnold Strippel, 82, German Nazi SS commander during World War II.
2
- Nathan Adler, 83, American psychoanalyst and professor of clinical psychology.
- Fahrettin Akbaş, 66-67, Turkish wrestler.[4]
- Louis Calaferte, 65, French novelist.[5]
- Anita Durante, 96, Italian actress.
- Buck Fausett, 86, American baseball player and manager.[6]
3
- Francis Bell, 50, New Zealand actor, suicide.[7]
- William Dickey, 65, American poet and professor of English, AIDS-related complications.[8]
- Vladimir Kostine, 72, Russian basketball referee.
- Felipe Galarza Sánchez, 81, Spanish military officer.
4
- Per Engdahl, 85, Swedish far-right politician.
- Roger Jenkins, 82, American-Canadian ice hockey player.[9]
- Kōtō Matsudaira, 91, Japanese diplomat.
- Josip Palada, 82, Yugoslavian tennis player.
5
- Egan Chambers, 73, Canadian politician.
- Joe Layton, 63, American director and choreographer.[10]
- Harry O'Boyle, 89, American gridiron football player.[11]
- Mário Quintana, 87, Brazilian writer and translator.[12]
- Louise Troy, 60, American actress of stage and screen, breast cancer.[13]
- Noel Wimalasena, 80, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.
6
- Gunnar Åhs, 78, Swedish bobsledder.
- Rafael Baledón, 74, Mexican film actor, director, screenwriter, and producer.[14]
- Murray Boltinoff, 83, American writer and editor of comic books.
- John Henry Bremridge, 67, Hong Kong politician.
- Mkhitar Djrbashian, 75, Armenian mathematician.
- Ahmed Juffali, 70, Saudi businessman, heart attack.[15]
- Malvina Pastorino, 77, Argentine film actress, fall.
- Moses Rosen, 81, Romanian rabbi.[16]
- Fred Sadoff, 67, American actor, AIDS-related complications.[17]
- Antal Szendey, 79, Hungarian rower and Olympian.[18]
7
- Haim Bar-Lev, 69, Israeli general and politician, cancer.[19]
- Clement Greenberg, 85, American essayist and visual art critic.[20]
- John Thomas Howell, 90, American botanist and taxonomist.[21]
- Mpinga Kasenda, 56, Prime Minister of Zaire under Mobutu Sese Seko, accident.
- Pahor Labib, 88, Egyptian egyptologist and coptologist.
- Andy McEvoy, 55, Irish football player.[22]
- Chuck Taylor, 74, American football player and coach.[23]
- Aharon Yariv, 73, Israeli politician and general.[24]
8
- Edith Bullock, 91, American businesswoman and politician.
- Einar Diesen, 96, Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor.
- Jim Finks, 66, American football player, coach, and executive, lung cancer.[25]
- Steven Keats, 49, American actor (Death Wish, Black Sunday, Silent Rage), suicide.[26]
- George Peppard, 65, American actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's, The A-Team, The Carpetbaggers), lung cancer.[27]
- Murray Spivack, 90, Russian-American sound engineer.[28]
9
- Anni Albers, 94, American textile artist and printmaker.[29]
- Ralph Brickner, 69, American Major League Baseball player.[30]
- Allan Frost Archer, 86, American entomologist and arachnologist.
- Bengt Lehander, 68, Swedish Air Force officer.
- Heinz-Werner Meyer, 61, German trade union leader and politician.
10
- Cleanth Brooks, 87, American literary critic and professor.[31]
- John Wayne Gacy Jr., 52, American serial killer and sex offender, execution by lethal injection.[32]
- Lucebert, 69, Dutch poet and painter.[33]
- Elias Motsoaledi, 69, South African anti-apartheid activist.[34]
- Lil Picard, 94, German-American actress, artist, and journalist.[35]
11
- Louis-Thomas Achille, 84, Martiniquais intellectual, educator and musician.[36]
- David Howard Adeney, 82, British missionary and university evangelist.[37]
- S. A. Ajayi, 89, Nigerian statesman.[38]
- Alfred James Broomhall, 82, British missionary in China and author.
- Timothy Carey, 65, American actor (The Killing, Paths of Glory, One-Eyed Jacks), stroke.[39]
- Nikolay Fyodorov, 80, Soviet-Russian animator, director, writer and cartoonist.[40]
- Henri Guisol, 89, French film actor.[41]
- Lloyd Hughes, 81, Australian politician.
- Helmut Käser, 81, Swiss lawyer and general secretary of FIFA.
- Romano Puppo, 61, Italian stuntman and actor, traffic collision.
- Bennie Warren, 82, American Major League Baseball player.[42]
12
- Xen Balaskas, 83, South African cricket player.
- Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet, 91, British politician, art collector and philanthropist.
- Catherine Berndt, 76, Australian anthropologist.[43]
- Paul Cushing Child, 92, American civil servant, diplomat, and artist.[44]
- Erik Erikson, 91, Danish-German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst.[45]
- Si Johnson, 87, American baseball player.[46]
- Roy J. Plunkett, 83, American chemist, cancer.[47]
- John Smith, 55, Scottish politician, heart attack.[48]
- André Zwobada, 84, French screenwriter, producer and film director.[49]
13
- Vladimir Antoshin, 64, Soviet/Russian chess Grandmaster.
- Duncan Hamilton, 74, British racing driver.[50]
- John Francis Kennedy, 88, American politician.
- John Swainson, 68, Canadian-American politician and jurist.[51]
14
- Dave Albritton, 81, American high jumper, and coach, and politician.
- Cihat Arman, 78, Turkish football goalkeeper and manager.[52]
- W. Graham Claytor, Jr., 82, American Navy officer, attorney, and government official.[53]
- Burt Monroe, 63, American ornithologist.
- Brian Roper, 64, British-American actor, and real estate agent.
- Olga Spiridonović, 70, Serbian actress.
- Leonard Teale, 71, Australian actor, radio announcer, and presenter.[54]
- Robert G. Vosper, 80, American educator and librarian.
15
- Omprakesh Agrawal, 39, Indian snooker player, cancer.
- Leonard Carpenter, 91, American rower and Olympian.[55]
- Royal Dano, 71, American actor (The Outlaw Josey Wales, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, The Right Stuff), heart attack.[56]
- Oskar Heil, 86, German electrical engineer and inventor.
- Sherman Landers, 96, American track and field athlete and Olympian.[57]
- Alexander Nove, 78, British professor of Economics.[58]
- Gilbert Roland, 88, Mexican-American actor, cancer.[59]
- Robert T. Secrest, 90, American politician.
16
- Val A. Browning, 98, American gunmaker and philanthropist.[60]
- Alain Cuny, 85, French actor in theatre and cinema.[61]
- Dalmiro Finol, 74, Venezuelan baseball player.
- Zdeňka Honsová, 66, Czech gymnast and Olympian.[62]
- Phani Majumdar, 82, Indian film director.
- Roy McElroy, 87, New Zealand lawyer and politician.
- Alfred Otto Carl Nier, 82, American physicist.[63]
- Paul Shulman, 72, Israeli Navy officer.
17
- Gérson da Silva, 28, Brazilian football player, AIDS-related complications.
- Nicolás Gómez Dávila, 80, Colombian philosopher, cardiovascular disease.
- Leonila Garcia, 87, Filipino pharmacist.
- Irène Hamoir, 87, Belgian novelist and poet.[64]
- Étienne Hirsch, 93, French civil engineer and member of the French Resistance during World War II.[65]
- Vladimír Podzimek, 29, Czechoslovakian ski jumper and Olympian, suicide.[66]
- Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, 82, Austrian anthropologist and archaeologist.[67]
- John Thanos, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[68]
18
- Harry Barker, 95, New Zealand newspaper journalist and editor.[69]
- John Cramer, 98, Australian politician, heart attack.[70]
- Manuel Manahan, 78, Filipino politician, journalist, and businessman.
- Mamintal A.J. Tamano, 65, Filipino politician statesman.
19
- Joseph Chatt, 79, British chemist.[71]
- Jacques Ellul, 82, French philosopher and sociologist.[72]
- Henry Morgan, 79, American humorist, lung cancer.[73]
- Luis Ocaña, 48, Spanish road bicycle racer, suicide.[74]
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 64, American socialite, writer, and First Lady of the United States, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[75]
20
- Bartine Burkett, 96, American film actress, heart attack.[76]
- Fernande Giroux, Canadian actress and jazz singer.
- Ingrid Hafner, 57, British actress, ALS.[77]
- Kasu Brahmananda Reddy, 84, Indian politician.
- Jiří Sobotka, 82, Czechoslovak football player.
21
- Martin Doherty, 35, Irish republican and IRA volunteer, shot.
- Giovanni Goria, 50, Italian politician, lung cancer.[78]
- David S. Holmes Jr., 79, American politician.[79]
- Masayoshi Ito, 80, Japanese politician.
- Norman Low, 80, Scottish football player and manager.[80]
- Ralph Miliband, 70, British sociologist, heart attack.[81]
- Johan Hendrik Weidner, 81, Dutch member of the resistance during World War II.
- Cliff Wilson, 60, Welsh snooker player.
22
- Jane Dulo, 75, American actress and comedian.
- Gerhard Krüger, 85, German Nazi Party student leader and later a neo-Nazi figure.
- Mitacq, 66, Belgian comics author.[82]
- Norman Read, 62, New Zealand racewalker and Olympian, heart attack.[83]
23
- Al Baldwin, 71, American gridiron football player.[84]
- Ray Candy, 42, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
- George de Godzinsky, 79, Russian-Finnish composer and conductor.[85]
- Olav Hauge, 85, Norwegian horticulturist, translator and poet.
- Leo Kuper, 89, South African sociologist.[86]
- George Metesky, 90, American electrician and mechanic.[87]
- Joe Pass, 65, American jazz guitarist, liver cancer.[88]
- Oscar Saul, 81, American screenwriter.[89]
- Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers, 86, British politician.
24
- Martin Goldsmith, 80, American screenwriter and novelist.
- Julien Hébert, 76, Québécois industrial designer.[90]
- Bill Schutte, 84, American football player and coach.
- John Wain, 69, English poet, novelist, and critic.[91]
25
- Joe Brainard, 52, American artist and writer, AIDS-related complications.[92]
- Willi Eichhorn, 85, German rower and Olympian.[93]
- Eric Gale, 55, American jazz and R&B guitarist, lung cancer.[94]
- John Mackie, Baron John-Mackie, 84, British politician.
- Robert Paverick, 81, Belgian football player.
26
- Károly Antal, 84, Hungarian sculptor.
- George Ball, 84, American diplomat and banker.[95]
- Muriel Cooper, 69, American book designer, digital designer, and researcher.[96]
- Shelby Cullom Davis, 85, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.[97]
- Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji, 97, Bhutanese royal and politician.
- Gil Fuller, 74, American jazz arranger, composer and bandleader.[98]
- André Gérard, 83, French football player and manager.
- Jules Keignaert, 86, French water polo player and politician.[99]
- Hezy Leskly, 41, Israeli poet, choreographer, painter and art critic, AIDS-related complications.
- Pug Lund, 81, American gridiron football player.
- Norberto Menéndez, 57, Argentine football player.
- Sonny Sharrock, 53, American jazz guitarist, heart attack.[100]
- Robbie Stanley, 26, American auto racing driver, racing accident.
- Red Treadway, 74, American baseball player.[101]
27
- Klaus Beckmann, 49, German politician.
- Charles Rodman Campbell, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by hanging.[102]
- Luis de Carlos, 87, Spanish football executive.
- Lakshman Shastri Joshi, 93, Indian writer, scholar, and literary critic.
- George Melinkovich, 82, American football player and coach.
- Red Rodney, 66, American jazz trumpeter, lung cancer.[103]
- Art Spinney, 66, American football player.[104]
28
- Julius Boros, 74, American golfer, heart attack.[105]
- James Burke, 67, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
- Daniel Flood, 90, American attorney and politician.[106]
- Zainulabedin Gulamhusain Rangoonwala, 80, Indian activist and banker.
- Hugh Stirling, 86, Canadian football player.
- Max Walter Svanberg, 82, Swedish painter, illustrator, and designer.[107]
- Branislav Varsik, 90, Slovak historian and archivist.
29
- José Bohr, 92, German-Chilean film director, producer, actor and screenwriter.
- Peter Cranmer, 79, English sportsman.
- Raymond Fellay, 62, Swiss alpine skier and Olympian.[108]
- Erich Honecker, 81, German communist politician and leader of the GDR, liver cancer.[109]
- Oliver Jackson, 61, American jazz drummer, heart failure.[110]
- Joseph Janni, 78, British film producer.[111]
- Harry Levin, 81, American literary critic and scholar.[112]
- Áskell Löve, 77, Icelandic botanist.
- Lady May Abel Smith, 88, British noblewoman.
30
- Malouf Abraham Sr., 78, American businessman and politician.[113]
- Serge Afanasyan, 81, Armenian historian.[114]
- Ezra Taft Benson, 94, American farmer, government official, and religious leader, heart failure.[115]
- Marcel Bich, 79, Italian-French industrialist and co-founder of Bic.[116]
- Agostino Di Bartolomei, 39, Italian football player, suicide.[117]
- Donald Hill, 71, British engineer and historian of science and technology.
- Jack Krol, 57, American baseball coach and manager, cancer.[118]
- Juan Carlos Onetti, 84, Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories, heart attack.[119]
- Juzo Sanada, 71, Japanese baseball player.[120]
- Pavle Savić, 85, Serbian physicist and chemist.[121]
- István Tamássy, 83, Hungarian football player.
31
- Frank Beck, 51, English convicted child sex offender, heart attack.
- Mbaye Diagne, 36, Senegalese military officer, killed in action.
- Sidney Gilliat, 86, English film director, producer and writer.[122]
- Manny Klein, 86, American jazz trumpeter.[123]
- Herva Nelli, 85, Italian-American operatic soprano, leukemia.[124]
- Samta Prasad, 72, Indian classical musician and tabla player.[125]
- Henri Woode, 84, American composer, lyricist, arranger, and singer.
- Hannah Marie Wormington, 79, American archaeologist.[126]
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