Deaths in April 1995

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

1

 * Charles Bell, 59, American photorealist who created large scale still lifes, AIDS.
 * Stanley Adair Cain, 92, American botanist and pioneer of plant ecology and environmental studies.
 * James Cameron, 56, American football coach.
 * H. Adams Carter, 80, American mountaineer, language teacher, and editor of the American Alpine Journal.
 * Samson De Brier, 96, actor and occultist.
 * Francisco Moncion, 76, Dominican-American ballet dancer.
 * Johnny Nicholls, 63, English football player.
 * Lucie Rie, 93, British ceramicist, stroke.
 * Víctor Valussi, 82, Argentine football player.

2

 * Hannes Alfvén, 86, Swedish physicist.
 * Irv Frew, 87, Scottish-Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Henri Guérin, 73, French football player.
 * Julius Hemphill, 57, American saxophonist and composer.
 * Leo LeBlanc, 55, American country musician, guitarist, and pianist who was legally blind.
 * Raúl Martínez, 67, Cuban painter, designer, photographer, muralist, and graphic artist.
 * Dragoslav Mitrinović, 86, Serbian mathematician.
 * Harvey Penick, 90, American golfer, coach, and writer on golf.

3

 * Alfred J. Billes, 92, Canadian businessman and co-founder of Canadian Tire.
 * Charles H. Hayes, 88, United States Marine Corps general.
 * David Herbert, 86, British writer and raconteur, kidney failure.
 * Gracita Morales, 66, Spanish actress.
 * Park No-sik, 65, South Korean actor.
 * Vera Szemere, 71, Hungarian actress.
 * Marion Tinsley, 68, American mathematician and checkers player, pancreatic cancer.
 * Bogusław Zych, 43, Polish fencer, traffic collision.

4

 * Richard Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian, 67, British peer and physiologist.
 * Lyndon Bolton, 95, British Olympic horseman.
 * Rita Cadillac, 58, French dancer, singer, and actress, cancer.
 * Kenny Everett, 50, British comedian, AIDS-related illness.
 * Abraham Kattumana, 51, Indian Catholic archbishop.
 * Priscilla Lane, 79, American actress (Saboteur, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Roaring Twenties), lung cancer.
 * Hansa Jivraj Mehta, 97, Indian social activist, independence activist, feminist and writer.
 * Shirley Patterson, 72, Canadian-American B-movie actress, cancer.
 * Victor León Esteban San Miguel y Erce, 90, Spanish Carmelite friar.
 * Jo Sinclair, 81, American novelist whose real name was Ruth Seid, cancer.

5

 * Nicolaas Cortlever, 79, Dutch chess master.
 * Adalbert Dickhut, 71, German gymnast.
 * Emilio Greco, 81, Italian sculptor, engraver, medallist, writer and poet.
 * Baby K, 2, American anencephalic baby who became the center of a medical controversy, heart attack.
 * Christian Pineau, 90, French Resistance fighter and politician.
 * Ron Richardson, 43, American actor and operatic baritone, AIDS-related complications.
 * Oskar Schnirch, 92, Austrian cinematographer.

6

 * Ioannis Alevras, 82-83, Greek politician.
 * Rogelio Farías, 45, Chilean football midfielder.
 * Alton Meister, 72, American biochemist.
 * Trevor Park, 67, British lecturer and politician.
 * V. J. Sukselainen, 88, Finnish politician and 24th Prime Minister of Finland.

7

 * Viktor Adamishin, 33, Russian militia captain, killed in action.
 * Peter Brinson, 75, British ballet and dance writer, lecturer, and promoter.
 * Nicholas Ingram, 31, British-American murder convict, execution by electric chair.
 * Philip Jebb, 68, British architect and politician.
 * Bill Lange, 67, American gridiron football player.
 * Hsin Ping, 56, Taiwanese Buddhist monk, kidney cancer.
 * Kannur Rajan, 58, Indian music composer.
 * Frank Secory, 82, American gridiron football player and umpire.

8

 * Maurice Allom, 89, English cricketer.
 * Hans Bodensteiner, 82, German politician.
 * Herb Connolly, 73, American politician from Massachusetts.
 * René de Buzelet, 87, French tennis player.

9

 * Bob Allison, 60, American baseball player.
 * Nguyễn Hữu An, 68, People's Army of Vietnam general.
 * Bonnie Bird, 80, American modern dancer and dance educator.
 * Paola Borboni, 95, Italian stage and film actress, stroke.
 * John Chamberlain, 91, American journalist, historian, columnist and literary critic.
 * George Hurley, 86, American gridiron football player.
 * Edda Mussolini, 84, Daughter of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
 * Shinnen Tagaya, 75, Japanese politician.

10

 * Feng Depei, 88, Chinese neuroscientist and physiologist.
 * Morarji Desai, 99, 4th Prime Minister of India.
 * Annie Fischer, 80, Hungarian pianist.
 * Günter Guillaume, 68, German spy for the Stasi and politician, kidney cancer.
 * Glyn Jones, 90, Welsh writer.
 * Hannah Lamdan, 90, Israeli politician.
 * Billy Myers, 84, American baseball player.
 * Chen Yun, 89, Chinese political leader of the Chinese Communist Party.

11

 * E. K. Imbichi Bava, 77, Indian politician and a leader of the Communist Party of India.
 * T. Keith Glennan, 89, American administrator and first leader of NASA, complications from a stroke.
 * Vic Hey, 82, Australian rugby player and coach.
 * Nikolai Kostrov, 93, Russian Soviet painter, graphic artist, and illustrator.
 * Kim Yong-ik, 74, Korean–American writer.

12

 * Buck Cheves, 96, American college football player and referee.
 * John Dowdy, 83, American politician.
 * Alberto Larraguibel, 75, Chilean Army officer and equestrian, lung cancer.
 * Philip H. Lathrop, 82, American cinematographer.
 * Chris Pyne, 56, British jazz trombonist.
 * Mou Zongsan, 85, Chinese philosopher.

13

 * John Austrheim, 82, Norwegian politician.
 * Peter Bastiansen, 82, Norwegian politician.
 * Andy Branigan, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Edward F. Henderson, 77, British diplomat.
 * Lang Jingshan, 102, Chinese photojournalist.
 * Hal Peck, 77, American baseball right fielder.
 * Allan Scott, 88, American screenwriter.
 * Bill Thurman, 74, American actor (The Last Picture Show, Silverado, Close Encounters of the Third Kind).
 * Aleksandras Vanagas, 60, Lithuanian linguist and etymologist.

14

 * Mario Carotenuto, 78, Italian actor, cancer.
 * Brian Coffey, 89, Irish poet and publisher.
 * Michael Fordham, 89, English child psychiatrist and Jungian analyst.
 * Burl Ives, 85, American singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Big Country, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer), Oscar winner (1959), mouth cancer.
 * Hildegard Lächert, 75, German female guard at several nazi concentration camps during World War II.
 * António Lopes Ribeiro, 86, Portuguese film director.

15

 * Michael Aldred, 49, British record producer, music journalist, and television presenter, AIDS-related complications.
 * Emin Bektöre, 88-89, Crimean Tatar folklorist, ethnographer, lyricist, and activist.
 * Cleo Brown, 87, American pianist and singer.
 * Fred Cuny, 50, American humanitarian.
 * Gilbert Moses, 52, American film and television director, multiple myeloma.
 * Harry Shoulberg, 91, American expressionist painter.

16

 * Olavi Ahonen, 54, Finish basketball player.
 * Cheyenne Brando, 25, French fashion model and daughter of actor Marlon Brando, suicide by hanging.
 * Cy Endfield, 80, American screenwriter, director, author, magician and inventor.
 * Arthur English, 75, British actor and comedian, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Josef Hügi, 65, Swiss football player.
 * August E. Johansen, 89, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Iqbal Masih, 11-12, Pakistani Christian boy who became a symbol of abusive child labour in Pakistan", homicide.
 * Alfred Ryder, 79, American actor.

17

 * Ted Ball, 56, Australian golfer.
 * Jimmy D'Aquisto, 59, Italian-American luthier who built archtop guitars.
 * Anton Murray, 72, South African cricketer.
 * Frank E. Resnik, 66, American chemist and CEO of Philip Morris USA.
 * Max Wünsche, 80, Germany commander in the Waffen-SS during World War II.
 * Nan Youngman, 88, English painter and educationalist.

18

 * Arturo Frondizi, 86, Argentine lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina.
 * Edward P. Gallogly, 75, American politician.
 * Rafael Chaparro Madiedo, 31, Colombian writer, lupus.
 * Roza Makagonova, 67, Soviet/Russian actress.

19

 * Preston Blair, 86, American animator (Bambi, Pinocchio, Fantasia).
 * J. Peter Grace, 81, American industrialist.
 * Porter Hardy Jr., 91, American businessman and politician.
 * Neil Paterson, 78, Scottish writer of novels, short stories and screenplays.
 * Aldo Richins, 84, American gridiron football player.
 * Richard Snell, 64, American white supremacist and convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

20

 * Elsa Benham, 86, American silent film actress and dancer.
 * Paul A. Catlin, 46, American mathematician and educator.
 * Milovan Dilas, 83, Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author.
 * Sunil Jayasinghe, 39, Sri Lankan ODI cricketer, suicide.
 * Elting E. Morison, 85, American historian, military biographer, and author.
 * Bob Wyatt, 93, English cricketer.

21

 * José del Carmen, 77, Colombian fencer.
 * Stafford Heginbotham, 61, British businessman and chairman of Bradford City football club.
 * Amir Machmud, 72, Indonesian military general.
 * Malcolm Murray, 90, Swedish Army general.
 * Tessie O'Shea, 82, Welsh singer, instrumentalist, and actress, heart failure.
 * Roberto Parra Sandoval, 73, Chilean singer-songwriter, guitarist and folklorist.
 * Kang Shi'en, 80, Chinese communist revolutionary.
 * Carl Whitaker, 83, American physician and family therapy pioneer.

22

 * Carl Albert, 32, American musician, car accident.
 * Violetta Bovt, 67, American-Soviet ballet dancer.
 * Carlo Ceresoli, 84, Italian football goalkeeper.
 * Norton Clapp, 89, American businessman.
 * Charles Granger, 82, Canadian politician.
 * Tony Jaros, 75, American basketball player.
 * Jane Kenyon, 47, American poet and translator, leukemia.
 * Maggie Kuhn, 89, American activist and founder of the Gray Panthers movement, heart failure.
 * Henry May, 83, New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
 * Don Pullen, 53, American jazz pianist and organist, lymphoma.
 * Joe Sheeketski, 87, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.

23

 * Douglas Lloyd Campbell, 99, Canadian politician who served as the 13th Premier of Manitoba.
 * Howard Cosell, 77, American sportscaster, heart failure.
 * Viktor Getmanov, 54, Soviet/Russian football player.
 * John C. Stennis, 93, American politician and U.S. Senator.
 * Lonesome Sundown, 66, American blues singer and guitarist.
 * Robert Selby Taylor, 86, Anglican bishop.

24

 * Ronald Alexander, 78, American playwright.
 * Hideyuki Ashihara, 50, Japanese master of karate who founded Ashihara karate, ALS.
 * Lodewijk Bruckman, 91, Dutch magic realist painter.
 * Stanley Burbury, 85, Australian jurist.
 * Florrie Burke, 76, Irish footballer.
 * Marie Epstein, 95, Actress, scenarist, film director, and film preservationist.
 * Iosif Kheifits, 90, Russian film director.
 * Johannes Ott, 75, German art director.

25

 * Lou Ambers, 81, American World Lightweight boxing champion.
 * Art Fleming, 70, American actor and first television host of the game show Jeopardy!, pancreatic cancer.
 * Andrea Fortunato, 23, Italian football player, leukemia.
 * Horst-Günter Gregor, 56, German swimmer.
 * Alexander Knox, 88, Canadian-British actor (Wilson, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Longest Day), bone cancer.
 * Walter Marty, 84, American high jumper.
 * Attilio Moresi, 61, Swiss cyclist.
 * Ginger Rogers, 83, American actress (Top Hat, Kitty Foyle, Primrose Path) and dancer, Oscar winner (1941), diabetes.
 * G. M. Syed, 91, Pakistani politician.

26

 * Bruce Bosley, 61, American football player.
 * Joseph M. Bryan, 99, American insurance executive, broadcast pioneer, and philanthropist.
 * Egon Franke, 82, German politician.
 * Otto Friedrich, 66, American journalist, author, and historian, lung cancer.
 * Sammy Jackson, 57, American actor.
 * Willi Krakau, 83, German racing driver.
 * Corliss Lamont, 93, American socialist and humanist philosopher.
 * Hugh Morton, Baron Morton of Shuna, 65, Scottish lawyer and judge.
 * Peter Wright, 78, English scientist and MI5 intelligence officer.

27

 * Ivo Arčanin, 88, Yugoslav swimmer.
 * Silverio Blasi, 73, Italian television and stage director, actor and screenwriter.
 * Albert Brown, 83, English cricketer and snooker player.
 * Katherine DeMille, 83, Canadian-American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Willem Frederik Hermans, 73, Dutch writer, lung cancer.
 * Kent Peterson, 69, American baseball player.
 * Raphael Rabello, 32, Brazilian guitarist and composer.
 * Auto Shankar, 41, Indian criminal and gangster, suicide.
 * Steve Wittman, 91, Air-racer and aircraft engineer, plane crash.
 * Jerauld Wright, 96, United States Navy Commander-in-Chief, pneumonia.

28

 * Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier, 77, French geographer.
 * Thomas Binkley, 63, American musicologist and lutenist.
 * Peaches Davis, 89, Major Leagues baseball pitcher.
 * Corky Devlin, 63, American basketball player.
 * Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero, 84, Filipino playwright, director, teacher and theater artist.
 * Hana Janků, 54, Czech soprano.
 * Gus Polidor, 33, Venezuelan baseball player, homicide.
 * Henry C. Rogers, 81, American publicist.
 * Andrew Salkey, 67, Panamanian novelist and poet.
 * Walter Tracy, 81, English type designer, typographer and writer.

29

 * Inger Marie Andersen, 64, Norwegian actress.
 * Talley Beatty, 76, American dancer, choreographer, and teacher.
 * Angier Biddle Duke, 79, American diplomat and ambassador.
 * Gary Fallon, 56, American gridiron football player and coach.
 * Charles McGinnis, 88, American track and field athlete.
 * Ray Prim, 88, American baseball player.

30

 * Eric Barber, 79, English cricketer.
 * Christopher Chadman, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS-related complications.
 * Michael Graham Cox, 57, English actor (A Bridge Too Far, Watership Down, The Lord of the Rings).
 * Maung Maung Kha, 74, Burmese politician and prime minister.