Deaths in April 1994

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

1

 * Cliff Addison, 80, British chemist.
 * John Chase, 87, American ice hockey player and coach.
 * Robert Doisneau, 81, French photographer.
 * John McMullan, 60, American gridiron football player.
 * Thomas Head Raddall, 90, Canadian writer.
 * Netty Simons, 80, American pianist, music editor, and composer.
 * Gennady Voronov, 83, Soviet/Russian statesman.

2

 * Irene Baker, 92, American politician.
 * Betty Furness, 78, American actress, consumer advocate, and commentator.
 * Raymond Z. Gallun, 83, American science fiction writer.
 * Rowland Greenberg, 73, Norwegian jazz trumpeter.
 * Edward Vissers, 81, Belgian road bicycle racer.

3

 * Agostinho da Silva, 88, Portuguese philosopher, essayist, and writer.
 * Tom Hamilton, 88, American football player, coach, and naval aviator.
 * Beverly Johnson, 46, American rock climber and adventurer, helicopter crash.
 * Chad Kinch, 35, American basketball player, AIDS-related complications.
 * Jérôme Lejeune, 67, French pediatrician and geneticist, cancer.
 * Aharon Remez, 74, Israeli Air Force commander, politician and diplomat.
 * Willis A. Trafton Jr., 76, American lawyer and politician.
 * Armand Vetulani, 84, Polish art historian and educator, tumor.
 * Frank Wells, 62, American businessman and president of The Walt Disney Company, helicopter crash.

4

 * Misael Acosta Solís, 83, Ecuadorian naturalist.
 * Pippo Barzizza, 91, Italian composer, arranger, conductor and music director.
 * Luther Cressman, 96, American archaeologist.
 * André Derrien, 98, French sailor.
 * Kurt Meisel, 81, Austrian actor and film director.
 * Gabriella Mészáros, 80, Hungarian gymnast and Olympian.
 * Ginny Simms, 80, American singer and film actress.
 * Valentin Stănescu, 71, Romanian goalkeeper and football manager.
 * Jean-Pierre Weisgerber, 89, Luxembourgian football player.

5

 * Ada Carrasco, 81, Mexican actress, heart attack.
 * Kurt Cobain, 27, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, suicide by gunshot.
 * Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga, 75, Uruguayan jurist, traffic collision.
 * Bobby Hofman, 68, American baseball player and coach, cancer.
 * Otari Kvantrishvili, 46, Georgian mafia boss, homicide.
 * Charles Newton, 77, American gridiron football player.
 * Arthur Vere Harvey, Baron Harvey of Prestbury, 88, British Royal Air Force officer and a politician.
 * Marlon Riggs, 37, American filmmaker, poet, and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications.
 * Ghulam Fareed Sabri, 64, Pakistani qawwali singer.
 * Roy Smeck, 94, American musician.
 * André Tchelistcheff, 92, American winemaker.

6

 * Klaus Bodinger, 61, German swimmer.
 * Dick Cary, 77, American jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger.
 * Shekhar Chatterjee, 70, Indian actor and film director.
 * Sheck Exley, 45, American cave diver, diving accident.
 * Juvénal Habyarimana, 57, Rwandan politician and military officer, assassinated.
 * Catherine Lombard, 28, French freestyle skier, AIDS-related complications.
 * Patricia Ann McGee, 67, Native American tribal leader.
 * Kahnu Charan Mohanty, 87, Indian novelist.
 * Cyprien Ntaryamira, 39, Burundian politician, assassinated.
 * Cuthbert Peacocke, 90, Irish Anglican bishop.
 * Goody Rosen, 81, Canadian baseball player.
 * Paola Tovaglia, 28, Italian children's television presenter, brain cancer.

7

 * Harry Adaskin, 92, Canadian violinist, academic, and radio broadcaster.
 * Lee Brilleaux, 41, English R&B singer and musician, lymphoma.
 * Bill Dickinson, 77, Scottish rugby player and coach.
 * Ștefan Dobay, 84, Romanian football player.
 * François de Grossouvre, 76, French politician, suicide by gunshot.
 * Cecil Gould, 75, British art historian and curator, brain cancer.
 * Albert Guðmundsson, 70, Icelandic football player and politician.
 * Ramesh Chandra Jha, 65, Indian poet, novelist and freedom fighter.
 * Archibald Kennedy, 7th Marquess of Ailsa, 68, Scottish peer.
 * Cesar Legaspi, 77, Filipino painter, prostate cancer.
 * Golo Mann, 85, German historian and essayist.
 * Sigmund Ruud, 86, Norwegian ski jumper.
 * Agathe Uwilingiyimana, 40, Prime Minister of Rwanda, murdered.

8

 * Irene Eisinger, 90, German-British opera singer and film actress.
 * François Rozet, 95, French-Canadian actor.
 * Leonard Small, 88, Scottish minister and author.
 * Dada Vujasinović, 30, Serbian journalist and reporter.
 * Åke Wallenquist, 90, Swedish astronomer.

9

 * Lewis Billups, 30, American gridiron football player, car crash.
 * M. S. Fernando, 58, Sri Lankan singer and musician.
 * Marcel Ichac, 87, French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director.
 * Mieczysław Maneli, 72, Polish lawyer, diplomat and academic.
 * Theodore D. Mann, 71, American politician.
 * Hal Missingham, 87, Australian artist and watercolourist.
 * Anthony E. Pratt, 90, English musician and inventor of board game Cluedo, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Paul Păun, 78, Romanian-Israeli avant-garde poet and visual artist.
 * Keith Watson, 59, British comics artist, cancer.

10

 * Terry Adlington, 58, English footballer.
 * Viktor Afanasyev, 71, Soviet/Russian journalist and professor of philosophy.
 * Reinaldo Gorno, 75, Argentine long-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Sam B. Hall, 70, American lawyer, politician, and judge.
 * John O'Brien, 33, American author (Leaving Las Vegas), suicide.
 * V. G. W. Ratnayake, 85, Sri Lankan politician.

11

 * Wesley Barry, 86, American actor, director, and producer.
 * John Block, 64, Dutch aviation pioneer.
 * Sticks Evans, 71, American drummer, percussionist, arranger and musical director.
 * Matthew Feldman, 75, American politician.
 * Chu Tunan, 95, Chinese politician.

12

 * Elissa Aalto, 71, Finnish architect.
 * Bob Cryer, 59, English politician, traffic collision.
 * Daniel Levinson, 73, American psychologist.
 * Branko Mikulić, 65, Yugoslavian statesman, lung cancer.
 * Pamela Mitford, 86, English socialite and one of the Mitford sisters.
 * Joseph Nelis, 77, Belgian football player.
 * Frank V. Phillips, 82, American cinematographer (The Black Hole, Pete's Dragon, The Apple Dumpling Gang).

13

 * Kurt Aland, 79, German theologian and biblical scholar.
 * Jørgen Buckhøj, 59, Danish actor
 * Piet Engels, 70, American politician.
 * Robert K. A. Gardiner, 79, Ghanaian government official, university professor, and economist.
 * Claude Heymann, 86, French screenwriter and film director.
 * Rudolf Hrušínský, 73, Czech actor and director.
 * Nikolai Kryuchkov, 83, Soviet/Russian film actor.
 * John Marriott, 81, Australian politician.
 * Bert Ramelson, 84, British communist politician.
 * Mika Tiivola, 71, Finnish businessman.

14

 * Bobby Gurney, 86, English football player and manager.
 * Evelyn King, 86, British politician.
 * Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, 96, Pakistani organic chemist, painter, and poet.
 * Hugh Springer, 80, Barbados politician and fourth Governor-general of Barbados.

15

 * István Boros, 84, Male Hungarian international table tennis player.
 * Walter Clegg, 73, British Conservative politician.
 * John Curry, 44, British figure skater, heart attack.
 * Vardges Petrosyan, 61, Armenian writer of fiction and drama, homicide.

16

 * Anna-Kaarina Aalto, 73, Finnish physician and politician, MP.
 * József Albert, 81, Hungarian football player.
 * Renu Chakravartty, 76, Indian politician and leader of Communist Party of India.
 * Ralph Ellison, 80, American novelist, literary critic, and scholar, pancreatic cancer.
 * Leslie Flint, 83, British psychic medium.
 * John McLiam, 76, Canadian actor (Cool Hand Luke, In Cold Blood, First Blood), Parkinson's disease.
 * Victor Popov, 56, Russian theoretical physicist.
 * José Ramón Sauto, 81, Mexican football player.
 * Samuel Selvon, 70, Trinidad and Tobago writer, respiratory failure.
 * Allan "Whitey" Snyder, 79, American make-up artist.
 * Ron Vawter, 45, American actor (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Sex, Lies, and Videotape), heart attack.

17

 * Robert Legget, 89, Canadian civil engineer, historian and writer.
 * Roger Sperry, 80, American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel prize laureate.
 * Walter Wilson, 80, American baseball player.
 * Manno Wolf-Ferrari, 82, Italian conductor.

18

 * Tamás Aczél, 72, Hungarian poet, writer, and journalist.
 * Dener, 23, Brazilian football player and manager, traffic collision.
 * Ken Oosterbroek, 32, South African photojournalist, shot.
 * Ruggero Orlando, 86, Italian journalist, writer and politician.
 * Bill Rexford, 67, American racecar driver.

19

 * Taisia Afonina, 80, Soviet/Russian painter and watercolorist.
 * Michael Carreras, 66, British film producer and director.
 * Larry Davis, 57, American blues musician, cancer.
 * Rodolfo de Álzaga, 63, Argentine racing driver.
 * Tommy McCue, 80, English rugby player.
 * Rolf Paetz, 71, German football player.

20

 * Anna Molka Ahmed, 76, Pakistani artist.
 * Jean Carmet, 73, French actor, heart attack.
 * Miguel Diab, 73, Uruguayan basketball player.
 * Frederick Feary, 82, American boxer.
 * Frederick Fortune, 73, American bobsledder and Olympian.
 * Rosalie Gicanda, 66, Rwandan queen, murdered.
 * Jean Ousset, 79, French catholic ideologist, stroke.
 * Qəmər Salamzadə, 85, Azerbaijani and Soviet film director and screenwriter.
 * Dennis Cleveland Stewart, 46, American actor (Grease) and dancer, AIDS-related disease.

21

 * Robert Bonnett, 77, Australian politician.
 * Darryl Carlton, 40, American gridiron football player.
 * Clyde Crabtree, 88, American gridiron football player.
 * Howard Barraclough Fell, 76, New Zealand zoologist.
 * Ruth Hiatt, 88, American actress.
 * Edmond Keosayan, 57, Armenian and Soviet film director and musician, laryngeal cancer.
 * Raúl Soldi, 89, Argentine painter and production designer.

22

 * Charles Reginald Dodwell, 72, British art historian.
 * Oretta Fiume, 74, Italian film actress.
 * Karl Hess, 70, American speechwriter and author.
 * Richard Nixon, 81, 37th President of the United States, stroke.

23

 * Lucho Bermúdez, 82, Colombian musician, DJ, and performer, heart attack.
 * Cécile Dreesmann, 74, Dutch textile artist.
 * Zhu Futang, 94, Chinese pediatrician.
 * Jimmy Izquierdo, 31, Ecuadorian football player, traffic collision.
 * Flavio Mogherini, 72, Italian production designer, art director and film director.

24

 * Donald J. Atwood Jr., 69, American engineer and Deputy Secretary of Defense.
 * Edwin Adams Davis, 90, American historian.
 * Lawren P. Harris, 83, Canadian visual artist and art educator.
 * S. L. Kirloskar, 90, Indian businessman.
 * Margot Trooger, 70, German film actress.

25

 * Georgios Gennimatas, 54, Greek politician, lung cancer.
 * Gordon Jones, 64, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Mike Kreevich, 85, American baseball player.
 * David Langton, 82, British actor.
 * Giovanni Pettinati, 68, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Roberto Scarone, 76, Uruguayan football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.

26

 * Andrey Ayzderdzis, 35, Russian politician, homicide.
 * Rostam Bastuni, 71, Israeli politician and journalist.
 * Mas Oyama, 70, Korean-Japanese karate master, lung cancer.
 * Bob Pike, 60, Australian politician.
 * Manuel Enríquez Salazar, 67, Mexican composer, violinist and pedagogue.
 * Zein al-Sharaf Talal, 77, Queen of Jordan as the wife of King Talal.
 * Maximilian von Edelsheim, 96, German nazi Wehrmacht general during World War II.

27

 * Lynne Frederick, 39, English actress (Nicholas and Alexandra, Henry VIII and His Six Wives, The Amazing Mr. Blunden).
 * Vasilis Goulandris, 80, Greek shipowner and art collector.
 * Bill Pellington, 66, American gridiron football player.
 * Timothy Wilson Spencer, 32, American serial killer, execution by electrocution.

28

 * Oleg Borisov, 64, Soviet and Russian actor, leukemia.
 * Robert Spencer Carr, 85, American writer of science fiction and fantasy.
 * Gerhard Lindemann, 97, German nazi Wehrmacht general during World War II..
 * John Preston, 48, American author of gay erotica, AIDS-related complications.
 * Berton Roueché, 84, American medical writer, suicide.

29

 * Marcel Bernard, 79, French tennis player.
 * Jimmy Darden, 71, American basketball player and coach.
 * Ignacio Farrés Iquino, 83, Spanish film director, screenwriter, and producer.
 * Russell Kirk, 75, American political theorist and writer.
 * Bill Quinn, 81, American actor (Archie Bunker's Place, The Birds, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier).
 * Sak Sutsakhan, 66, Cambodian soldier and anti-communist politician.

30

 * Herbert Bowden, Baron Aylestone, 89, British politician.
 * George Constantin, 60, Romanian actor.
 * Sorie Ibrahim Koroma, 64, Sierra Leonean politician and labor activist.
 * Roland Ratzenberger, 33, Austrian racing driver, racing accident.
 * Ferdinando Scarfiotti, 53, Italian art director and production designer.
 * Richard Scarry, 74, American children's author and illustrator, heart attack.