The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.
May 1995
1
- Erwin Leonard Guy Abel, 83, New Zealand businessman.[1]
- Reuel Denney, 82, American poet and academic.[2]
- Carl S. Herz, 65, American-Canadian mathematician.
- George MacKinnon, 89, American politician, attorney, and judge.
- Mikhail Zimyanin, 80, Soviet/Russian politician and diplomat.
2
- Luciano Anceschi, 84, Italian literary critic and essayist.[3]
- Edwin Blum, 88, American screenwriter.[4]
- Albert Bousser, 89, Luxembourgish politician, railway inspector, and trade unionist.
- Don Brockett, 65, American actor (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Flashdance, The Silence of the Lambs), heart attack.
- John Bunting, 76, Australian public servant and diplomat.[5]
- Sir Michael Hordern, 83, English actor (The Dock Brief, Barry Lyndon, Watership Down), kidney disease.[6]
- Allan O. Hunter, 78, American politician.
- Manfred Kersch, 81, German athlete.
- Rudolf Perešin, 37, Croatian fighter pilot, killed in action.
- Dežo Ursiny, 47, Slovak rock musician, screenwriter and director.
- Werner Veigel, 66, Dutch-German journalist and news presenter, brain cancer.
- Keith Zettlemoyer, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[7]
3
- John Warren Aldrich, 89, American ornithologist.[8]
- Johnny Leonard, 91, Australian rules football player and coach.
- Adele Marcus, 89, American pianist and music educator.[9]
- Adolf Schlyßleder, 85, German film editor and assistant director.[10]
- Bruno Torpigliani, 80, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
4
- Andrey Abramov, 58, Soviet/Russian boxer.[11]
- Arne Arnardo, 82, Norwegian circus performer and owner.[12]
- Murray Barr, 86, Canadian physician and medical researcher.[13]
- Cornelio Fabro, 83, Italian Catholic priest.[14]
- Thomas Anthony Harris, 85, American psychiatrist and author, heart attack.[15]
- Louis Krasner, 91, Ukrainian-American violinist.[16]
- Hitomi Nozoe, 58, Japanese actress popular in the 1950s and early 1960s, cancer.
- Lewis Thompson Preston, 68, American banker, CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co. and president of the World Bank.[17]
- Connie Wisniewski, 73, American baseball player, cancer.
5
- Josef Bek, 76, Czech film and television actor.[18]
- Mikhail Botvinnik, 83, Russian chess player, pancreatic cancer.[19]
- David Connell, 63-64, American television producer (Sesame Street, The Electric Company).[20]
- Geno DeNobile, 62, Canadian football player.
- Earl Faircloth, 74, American politician and lawyer.[21]
- Richard D. McCarthy, 67, American politician.[22]
- Nagabhushanam, 73, Indian actor and comedian.
- Alastair Pilkington, 75, British engineer and businessman.[23]
- Ye Qianyu, 88, Chinese painter and pioneering manhua artist.
- Edward W. Snedeker, 92, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.
- Anthony Wagner, 86, English Officer of Arms at the College of Arms.[24]
6
- John Black Aird, 72, Canadian lawyer, corporate director and political figure.[25]
- Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, 88, Portuguese writer and journalist.[26]
- Noel Brotherston, 38, Northern Irish footballer, heart attack.[27]
- Bucky Calabrese, 67, American upright bassist.[28]
- Ippolito Gonzalez, 40, American police sergeant.[29]
- Gottfried Haberler, 94, Austrian-American economist.[30]
- Adriano Mantelli, 82, Italian aircraft designer.
- Georgios Mavros, 86, Greek jurist and politician.
- Clarence Paul, 67, American songwriter, record producer and singer, diabetes.[31]
7
- Katharine Banham, 97, English psychologist who specialized in developmental psychology.[32]
- Gus Bell, 66, American Major League Baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Milwaukee Braves).[33]
- María Luisa Bemberg, 73, Argentine film writer, director and actress, cancer.[34]
- Ray Buckton, 72, British trade unionist.[35]
- Clifford Clogg, 45, American sociologist, demographer, and statistician.[36]
- Ernest H. Martin, 75, American Broadway and film producer of musicals.[37]
- Ray McKinley, 84, American jazz drummer, singer, and bandleader.[38]
- Giti Pashaei, 54, Iranian singer and musician, breast cancer.
- Mariya Polyakova, 87, Soviet colonel and spy.
- Ioannis Toumbas, 94, Greek naval officer and politician.
- Helen Varcoe, 88, English swimmer and Olympic medalist.[39]
8
- Carroll Best, American banjo player.[40]
- Prem Bhatia, 72, Indian diplomat and journalist.[41]
- Jacques Isorni, 83, French lawyer and memoirist.[42]
- Marshal Royal, 82, American alto saxophonist and clarinetist, brother of Ernie Royal.[43]
- Bill Spivey, 66, American basketball player.[44]
- Teresa Teng, 42, Taiwanese singer, asthma.[45]
9
- Jeanne Darville, 70, Danish film actress.
- Alf Henrikson, 89, Swedish author, poet and translator.
- Percy Mansell, 75, South African cricket player.[46]
- Charles Monteith, 74, British literary editor.[47]
- Kanhiyalal Prabhakar Mishra, 88, Indian journalist, writer and freedom fighter.
- John Elwood Price, 59, American composer, pianist, ethnomusicologist, and music teacher.[48]
- Earl H. Pritchard, 87, American scholar of China.[49]
- Magda Rurac, 76, Romanian tennis player in the 1940s and 1950s.
10
- Brigitte Alexander, 83, German-born Mexican author, actress, director and translator.
- Harold Berens, 92, British comedian and character actor.[50]
- Georgios Candilis, 82, Greek-French architect and urbanist.[51]
- Ilio DiPaolo, 68, Italian professional wrestler and restaurateur.
- Karl Drewo, 65, Austrian jazz saxophonist.[52]
- Alexander Elbrächter, 87, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- Freddy Fernández, 61, Mexican film and television actor, esophageal cancer.
- Duncan McKenzie, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[53]
- Juan Manuel López Mella, 30, Spanish motorcycle racer, traffic collision.
- Jimmy Raney, 67, American jazz guitarist.[54]
- Carlos Rinaldi, 80, Argentine film director, film editor and screenwriter.
- Steffie Spira, 86, Austrian-German actress.[55]
- Gil Steinke, 76, American football player and coach.[56]
- Joe Vetrano, 76, American gridiron football player.[57]
- Dicky Zulkarnaen, 55, Indonesian actor.
11
- Reza Abdoh, 32, Iranian playwright and director, AIDS.[58]
- David Avidan, 61, Israeli poet and playwright.[59]
- José T. Joya, 63, Filipino abstract artist.
- Arthur Lubin, 96, American film director.[60]
- Boris Pash, 94, United States Army military intelligence officer.
- John Phillips, 80, British actor.[61]
- Ivo Samkalden, 82, Dutch politician and jurist.[62]
- Bill Shelton, 92, Australian rules football player.
- Pete Tinsley, 82, American gridiron football player.
12
- Len Beadell, 72, Australian surveyor, road builder, bushman, artist and author.[63]
- Giorgio Belladonna, 71, Italian bridge player.[64]
- John Blight, 81, Australian poet.[65]
- Andrei Boltnev, 49, Soviet/Russian actor, stroke.[66]
- Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman, 81, British lawyer and political advisor.[67]
- Bogo Grafenauer, 79, Slovenian historian.[68]
- Ștefan Kovács, 74, Romanian football player and coach.
- Vernon L. Lowrance, 86, United States Navy vice admiral.
- Mia Martini, 47, Italian singer and songwriter, heart failure.[69]
- Adolfo Pedernera, 76, Argentinian footballer.[70]
- Maria Teresa Riedl, 57, Italian tennis player.
- Marcel Rubin, 89, Austrian composer and music critic.[71]
- Karl Vennberg, 85, Swedish poet, writer and translator.[72]
13
- Francisco Moreno Capdevila, 69, Spanish-Mexican artist.
- Alan Maley, 64, British visual effects artist (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Spy Who Loved Me), Oscar winner (1972), heart attack.
- Robert Marley, 85, Jamaican cricket player.[73]
- Teddy Sandford, 84, English football player.[74]
- Hao Wang, 73, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician.
14
- Christian B. Anfinsen, 79, American biochemist and Nobel Prize for Chemistry laureate, heart attack.[75]
- Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt, 75, Colombian sculptor, liver cancer.[76]
- Jessy Blackburn, 101, British aviation pioneer.[77]
- Mary Brazier, 90, American neuroscientist.
- Ted James, 76, American politician.
- Jean Laurent, 88, French football player.[78]
- Tommy Prothro, 74, American football coach, cancer.[79]
- Hamilton Lavity Stoutt, 66, British Virgin Islander politician and first Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands.
- Richard Udugama, 83, Sri Lankan military leader, politician and diplomat.
15
- Lionel Brodie, 77, Australian tennis player.[80]
- Benjamin Bubar Jr., 77, American politician and ordained minister.
- Dora Chapman, 84, Australian painter.[81]
- Seymour Durst, 81, American real estate investor and developer.[82]
- Billy Lott, 60, American gridiron football player.[83]
- Taizan Maezumi, 64, Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher and rōshi, drowned.[84]
- Grace Matthews, 84, Canadian actress in the era of old-time radio and the early years of television.
- Fred G. Moritt, 89, American lawyer, singer, composer, lyricist and politician.
- Eric Porter, 67, English actor, colorectal cancer.[85]
- Luis Antonio Ramírez, 72, Puerto Rican composer.[86]
- Pia Tassinari, 91, Italian opera singer who was first a soprano and later a mezzo-soprano.[87]
16
- Edris Allan, 86, Jamaican community worker, political figure and women's rights advocate.[88]
- Red Amick, 66, American racecar driver.
- Harry E. Bergold Jr., 63, American diplomat and ambassador.[89]
- Parelius Hjalmar Bang Berntsen, 85, Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.[90]
- Ray Bower, 72, Australian rules footballer.[91]
- Lola Flores, 72, Spanish singer, dancer and actress, breast cancer.[92]
- Gertrude Grob-Prandl, 77, Austrian soprano.[93]
- Ragnhild Hatton, 82, Norwegian-British professor of International History at the London School of Economics.[94]
- Raymond Lyttleton, 84, British mathematician and theoretical astronomer.[95]
- Thomas Lee Ward, 59, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[96]
17
- Toe Blake, 82, Canadian ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League, Alzheimer's disease.[97]
- Girvies Davis, 37, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[98]
- Geoffrey Dickens, 63, British politician, liver cancer.[99]
- Joe McKenney, 90, American football player and coach.
- Catfish Metkovich, 74, American baseball player.[100]
- Leonid Ivanovich Volkov, 60, Ice hockey player.
18
- Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, 83, Irish peer and proponent of the Hollow Earth concept.
- Elisha Cook Jr., 91, American actor (The Maltese Falcon, Rosemary's Baby, Shane), stroke.[101]
- Francis Judd Cooke, 84, American composer, organist, cellist, pianist, conductor, and choir director.
- Alexander Godunov, 45, Russian ballet dancer and actor (Die Hard, Witness, The Money Pit), hepatitis.[102]
- Robert Harris, 95, English actor.[103]
- Jack Kramer, 77, American baseball player.[104]
- Henri Laborit, 80, French surgeon, neurobiologist, writer and philosopher.[105]
- Elizabeth Montgomery, 62, American actress (Bewitched, The Legend of Lizzie Borden, A Case of Rape), colorectal cancer.[106]
- Dorothy Poynton-Hill, 79, American diver.[107]
- Sabine Sinjen, 52, German film actress, cancer.[108]
- Michael P. W. Stone, 69, British-American businessman and government administrator.[109]
- Tor Ulven, 41, Norwegian poet, suicide.[110]
- Peter van de Kamp, 93, Dutch astronomer.[111]
19
- Robert Sinclair Dietz, 80, American geologist.[112]
- Derek Ford, 62, English film director and writer.[113]
- Hans Jürgen Kiebach, 64, German production designer, art director and set decorator.[114]
- Trevor Lewis, 75, British water polo player and Olympian.[115]
- Robert Riger, 70, American sports illustrator, photographer, television director, and cinematographer.[116]
- Nico van Gageldonk, 81, Dutch cyclist and Olympian.[117]
20
- Maurice Banide, 90, French football player and manager.[118]
- Les Cowie, 70, Australian rugby player.
- Oscar Gjøslien, 85, Norwegian cross-country skier.
- Burton Jastram, 84, American rower.[119]
- Ulysses Kay, 78, American composer, Parkinson's disease.[120]
- Florijan Matekalo, 75, Yugoslav and Croatian football player.[121]
- Les Smith, 77, English football player, Alzheimer's disease.
21
- Les Aspin, 56, American politician and member of the U.S. House of Representatives, stroke.[122]
- Larry Hillblom, 52, American businessman and co-founder of DHL.
- Chaudhry Altaf Hussain, 65, Pakistani politician.
- Giuseppe Peruchetti, 87, Italian football player and coach.
- Agnelo Rossi, 82, Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.[123]
- Annie M. G. Schmidt, 84, Dutch writer, heart attack.[124]
- Mükbile Sultan, 83, Ottoman princess and granddaughter of Mehmed V.
22
- Robert Flemyng, 83, British actor, pneumonia.[125]
- Claude Itzykson, 57, French theoretical physicist.[126]
- Butch Morse, 84, American gridiron football player.[127]
- Derek Reeves, 60, English football player.
23
- Pierre Baratin, 74, French cyclist.[128]
- Ross Flood, 84, American wrestler and Olympian medalist.[129]
- Patricia Ford, 74, Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Party politician.[130]
- Dan Fortmann, 79, American gridiron football player.
- Gavriil Kachalin, 84, Soviet/Russian football player and coach.
- Mick Pyne, 54, English jazz pianist.[131]
- Torolv Solheim, 87, Norwegian resistance member during World War II, essayist, and politician.
24
- Ole Borge, 79, Norwegian jurist and resistance member during World War II.[132]
- Paul J. Kramer, 91, American biologist and plant physiologist.[133]
- Ichisada Miyazaki, 93, Japanese historian.
- Youakim Moubarac, 70, Lebanese Islamologist, Orientalist and Arabist.[134]
- Harold Wilson, 79, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Alzheimer's disease and colorectal cancer.[135]
25
- Jack Allen, 87, English film, theatre and television actor.[136]
- Élie Bayol, 81, French racing driver.[137]
- Veronica Bulshefski, 79, Director of the United States Navy Nurse Corps.[138]
- Ted Calland, 62, English professional footballer.
- Boyden Carpenter, 86, American hillbilly and bluegrass artist.[139]
- Krešimir Ćosić, 46, Croatian basketball player and coach, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.[140]
- Dick Curless, 63, American country music singer, stomach cancer.[141]
- Alice Day, 89, American film actress.
- Dany Robin, 68, French actress, domestic fire.[142]
- Samuel A. Tamposi, 70, American real estate developer, lymphoma.[143]
26
- Tony Azito, 46, American dancer and actor (The Addams Family, Moonstruck, Union City), HIV/AIDS.[144]
- David S. Breslow, 78, American industrial chemist best known for his work on polymers.[145]
- Friz Freleng, 89, American animator (Looney Tunes).[146]
- Edmund Hansen, 94, Danish track cyclist and Olympian.[147]
- Kamukara Purushothaman, 64, Indian singer.
- Sigmund Skard, 91, Norwegian poet, essayist and professor of American literature.[148]
- Mordechai Surkis, 87, Israeli politician.
- Eriprando Visconti, 62, Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer, pulmonary emphysema.[149]
27
- Ștefan Bănică Sr., 61, Romanian actor.
- Severn Darden, 65, American comedian and actor (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Back to School, Saturday the 14th), heart failure.[150]
- Epi Drost, 49, Dutch association football player and manager, heart attack.[151]
- László Kalmár, 63, Hungarian composer and editor.[152]
- Mike McQuay, 45, American science fiction writer, heart attack.[153]
- Christopher B. "Stubb" Stubblefield, 64, American barbecue restaurateur.[154]
28
- Roy Ankrah, 69, Ghanaian boxer who won the British Empire super featherweight title.[155]
- Helen Ballard, 87, British horticulturist.[156]
- Gunnar Huseby, 71, Icelandic track and field athlete.
- Henning Kronstam, 60, Danish ballet dancer, ballet master and company director.[157]
- Ernie Lewis, 70, American gridiron football player.[158]
- Irfan Ljubijankić, 42, Bosnian classical music composer, politician and diplomat, killed in action.
- Jean Muir, 66, British fashion designer, breast cancer.[159]
- Arifin C. Noer, 54, Indonesian poet, theater director and film producer, liver cancer.[160]
- Daniela Rocca, 57, Italian actress, model and writer, heart attack.[161]
- Sinedu Tadesse, 19, Ethiopian student, suicide.[162]
- Tahsin Taha, 54, Kurdish singer.[163]
- Matthew E. Welsh, 82, American politician.[164]
29
- Santiago Armada, 57, Cuban artist and designer.[165]
- Juan Boria, 90, Puerto Rican poet.[166]
- Ralph Gustafson, 85, Canadian poet and professor at Bishop's University.[167]
- Mike Pentz, 70, South African-British physicist and activist in the peace movement, leukemia.
- Archibald Russell, 90, British aerospace engineer.
- Glen Selbo, 69, American basketball and baseball player.[168]
- Margaret Chase Smith, 97, American politician, lung cancer.[169]
- Kurt Weiß, 89, German field hockey player and Olympian.[170]
30
- Robert Alexander Anderson, 100, American composer.[171][172]
- Glenn Burke, 42, American Major League Baseball player who was the first to come out as gay, AIDS complications.[173]
- Ted Drake, 82, English footballer.[174]
- Lofty England, 83, British engineer and motor company manager.[175]
- Antonio Flores, 33, Spanish singer-songwriter and actor, drug overdose.[176]
- William McVey, 89, American sculptor, animalier and teacher.
- Ray Novotny, 87, American football player and coach.[177]
- Giuseppe Sartore, 58, Italian racing cyclist.[178]
- Philip Sherrard, 72, British author, translator and philosopher.[179]
- Bobby Stokes, 44, English footballer, pneumonia.[180]
- Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu, 97, Romanian novelist, poet and translator.
- Arthur M. Young, 89, American inventor, helicopter pioneer, cosmologist, philosopher, astrologer, and author.[181]
31
- Roy Beddington, 85, British painter, illustrator, poet, writer on fishing, and journalist.[182]
- Guillermo Bermúdez, 71, Colombian architect.[183]
- Norm Brown, 76, American baseball player.[184]
- Stanley Elkin, 65, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist, heart attack.[185]
- Emilio García Gómez, 89, Spanish Arabist, literary historian and critic.[186]
- Ingrid Semmingsen, 85, Norwegian historian.[187]
- Pavel Šivic, 87, Slovenian composer, concert pianist, and music educator.[188]
- Warren Sonbert, 47, American experimental filmmaker, complications from AIDS[189]
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