Deaths in August 1994

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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

 * Mario Baroni, 67, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Harold Boardman, 87, British politician.
 * George Malcolm Laws, 75, American folk music scholar.
 * Romilly Lunge, 89, British film actor.
 * Valery Yardy, 46, Soviet/Russian road cyclist and Olympian.

2

 * Eduardo Folle, 72, Uruguayan basketball player and Olympian.
 * Bert Freed, 74, American actor, heart attack.
 * Kelpo Gröndahl, 74, Finnish light-heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler.
 * W. Pat Jennings, 74, American politician.

3

 * Hoyt Franklin Clines, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Wally Downer, 90, Canadian politician.
 * James William Holmes, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Hidalgo Moya, 74, American architect.
 * Darryl Richley, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Innokenty Smoktunovsky, 69, Soviet/Russian theater and film actor.
 * John Zenda, 50, American actor.

4

 * Solomon Adler, 84, English-American economist and Soviet spy.
 * Cyro dos Anjos, 87, Brazilian journalist, and writer.
 * Thomas Fulton, 44, American conductor, kidney failure.
 * Jürgen Jürgens, 68, German choral conductor and teacher.
 * Art Lassiter, 66, American singer, cancer.
 * Steve Myhra, 60, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
 * Giovanni Spadolini, 69, Italian politician and statesman, cancer.

5

 * Louis H. Bean, 98, American economic and political analyst.
 * Clive Caldwell, 84, Australian flying ace during World War II.
 * Cornelia C. Cameron, 83, American geologist.
 * Alain de Changy, 72, Belgian racing driver.
 * Terry Hibbitt, 46, English football player, cancer.
 * Solomon Kullback, 87, American cryptanalyst and mathematician.
 * Frederick Wheeler, 80, Australian public servant.
 * Muhammad Yaqub Ali, 82, Pakistani judge.

6

 * Henri Arends, 73, Dutch conductor.
 * Steven F. Arnold, 51, American visual artist and protégé of Salvador Dalí, AIDS.
 * Domenico Modugno, 66, Italian singer, songwriter, actor, and politician, heart attack.
 * Jacques Pelzer, 70, Belgian musician.
 * Evan Vogds, 71, American gridiron football player.

7

 * Ignazio Balsamo, 81, Italian actor.
 * Rubi Dalma, 88, Italian actress.
 * Liu Haisu, 98, Chinese painter and art educator.
 * Leon Goldsworthy, 85, Australian bomb and mine specialist during World War II.
 * Robert Hutton, 74, American actor, pneumonia.
 * Larry Martyn, 60, British actor (Are You Being Served?, The Dick Emery Show, Whoops Baghdad).

8

 * Iberê Camargo, 79, Brazilian painter.
 * Robin Cavendish, 64, British advocate for disabled people and medical aid developer.
 * Serge Leclaire, 70, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
 * Leonid Leonov, 95, Soviet/Russian novelist and playwright.
 * Morde_kay Seter, 78, Russian-Israeli composer.
 * Ada Smith, 91, British gymnast.

9

 * Feroza Adam, 32, South African political activist, injuries sustained in a road accident.
 * Howard W. Carson, 84, American politician.
 * Aldo Donelli, 87, American football player and coach, and soccer player.
 * William Galbraith, 87, United States Navy admiral, gymnast and Olympic medalist.
 * Klaus Holighaus, 54, German glider designer and pilot, gliding accident.
 * Olle Johansson, 66, Swedish swimmer, water polo player and Olympian.
 * Helena Rasiowa, 77, Polish mathematician.

10

 * Biswamoy Biswas, 71, Indian ornithologist.
 * Marie Dollinger, 83, German track and field athlete.
 * Eliyahu Lankin, 79, Israeli zionist activist, Irgun member and politician.
 * Vladimir Melanin, 60, Soviet/Russian biathlete and Olympian.
 * Kay Petre, 91, Canadian motor racer.
 * Jessie Sumner, 96, American politician.

11

 * Stanislav Chekan, 72, Soviet/Russian actor of theater and cinema.
 * Gordon Cullen, 80, British architect and urban designer.
 * Peter Cushing, 81, English actor (Star Wars, Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein), prostate cancer.
 * Marko Jozinović, 74, Bosnian Croat catholic archbishop.
 * David Vern Reed, 79, American writer.

12

 * Wing-tsit Chan, 92, Chinese scholar and professor.
 * Gene Cherico, 59, American jazz double-bassist.
 * Barbara Grabowska, 39, Polish actress, fall from train.
 * Dale Hamilton, 74, American basketball player.
 * Anton Giulio Majano, 85, Italian screenwriter and film director.
 * Barry Shipman, 82, Canadian-American screenwriter.
 * B. K. Tikader, 66, Indian arachnologist and zoologist.
 * Harold Tower, 83, American rower and Olympian.

13

 * Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, 75, French violinist and composer.
 * Valentin Kuzin, 67, Soviet/Russian ice hockey player.
 * Simon Robert Naali, 28, Tanzanian marathon runner, traffic collision.
 * J. A. O. Preus II, 74, American Lutheran pastor, professor, and author.
 * Rao Gopal Rao, 57, Indian actor, producer, and politician.
 * Manfred Wörner, 59, German politician and diplomat, colorectal cancer.

14

 * Elias Canetti, 89, Bulgarian-Swiss-British novelist, playwright, and writer.
 * Alice Childress, 77, American novelist, playwright, producer and actress, cancer.
 * Stanisław Gucwa, 75, Polish politician and economist.
 * Joan Harrison, 87, English screenwriter (Rebecca, Foreign Correspondent, Saboteur).
 * Joe Palma, 89, American actor (The Three Stooges).
 * Arthur Palmer, 82, British politician.
 * Rajasri, 59, Indian lyricist, dialogue writer and music composer.

15

 * Paul Anderson, 61, American weightlifter, strongman, and powerlifter, nephritis.
 * Erik Anker, 90, Norwegian sailor and businessperson.
 * Joe Brovia, 72, American baseball player, cancer.
 * Syd Dale, 70, English music composer and arranger.
 * Shepherd Mead, 80, American writer.
 * Joseph Palmer II, 80, American diplomat and State Department official.
 * Steve Petro, 79, American gridiron football player.
 * Kailash Sankhala, 69, Indian biologist and conservationist.
 * Wout Wagtmans, 64, Dutch road bicycle racer.

16

 * Rolando Aguirre, 90, Argentine sailor.
 * Wahbi al-Hariri, 80, Syrian-American artist, architect, archaeologist, and author.
 * Francisco Antúnez, 71, Spanish football player.
 * Harry Collier, 86, Australian rules football player.
 * John Doucette, 73, American actor (Cleopatra, True Grit, Patton).
 * Ahmad Fardid, 85, Iranian philosopher and professor.
 * Henry Geldzahler, 59, Belgian-American curator of contemporary art, liver cancer.

17

 * Luigi Chinetti, 93, Italian-American racecar driver.
 * Cecil A. Partee, 73, American attorney and politician.
 * Thomas Pollock, 69, Canadian ice hockey player, stroke.
 * Jack Sharkey, 91, Lithuanian-American world heavyweight boxing champion.

18

 * John Beavan, Baron Ardwick, 84, British journalist.
 * Martin Cahill, 45, Irish criminal, homicide.
 * Henri Calef, 84, French screenwriter and film director.
 * Gottlob Frick, 88, German operatic bass.
 * Yeshayahu Leibowitz, 91, Israeli Orthodox Jewish intellectual and polymath.
 * Daltro Menezes, 56, Brazilian football manager.
 * Charles Redland, 83, Swedish jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
 * Omori Sogen, 90, Japanese Buddhist monk.
 * Richard Laurence Millington Synge, 79, British biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate.
 * Vazgen I, 85, Romanian Catholicos of All Armenians.

19

 * Louis de Froment, 72, French conductor.
 * Ladislav Fuks, 70, Czech novelist and writer.
 * Anthony Peter Khoraish, 86, Lebanese Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant.
 * Nancy Lancaster, 96, British interior designer.
 * Otto-Iivari Meurman, 104, Finnish architect.
 * Linus Pauling, 93, American chemist, peace activist, and author, prostate cancer.
 * Robert Rozhdestvensky, 62, Soviet/Russian poet and songwriter, heart attack.

20

 * Odessa Grady Clay, 77, Mother of boxing champion Muhammad Ali, cardiovascular disease.
 * Hermann Hackmann, 80, German war criminal and SS captain during World War II.
 * Revilo P. Oliver, 86, American university professor, suicide.
 * Aleksandar Petrović, 65, Yugoslav/Serbian film director.
 * Roy Simmons, Sr., 92, American lacrosse coach.

21

 * Albert Blaustein, 72, American civil rights and human rights lawyer.
 * Rose Laub Coser, 78, German-American sociologist and social justice activist.
 * Kathleen Frances Daly, 96, Canadian painter.
 * Anita Lizana, 78, Chilean tennis player, stomach cancer.
 * Danitra Vance, 40, American comedian and actress (Saturday Night Live), breast cancer.

22

 * Tadeusz Adamowski, 92, Polish-American ice hockey player.
 * Harry Gamage, 94, American football player and coach.
 * Gilles Groulx, 62, Canadian film director.
 * Allan Houser, 80, Chiricahua Apache sculptor, painter and illustrator.
 * Gary Jasgur, 58, American child actor.
 * André Rossi, 73, French politician.

23

 * Bill Burnett, 77, South African Anglican archbishop.
 * Joyce Chen, 76, Chinese-American chef, author, and television personality, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Gene Filipski, 63, American gridiron football player.
 * Zoltán Fábri, 76, Hungarian film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
 * Carlos Rojas Pavez, 87, Chilean politician.
 * Alfredo Pérez, 65, Argentine football player.
 * Gehendra Bahadur Rajbhandari, 70, Prime Minister of Nepal.
 * Arati Saha, 53, Indian long-distance swimmer and Olympian, jaundice.
 * Fisher Tull, 59, American composer, arranger, and trumpeter.
 * Paolo Volponi, 70, Italian writer, poet, and politician.

24

 * Sonny Chillingworth, 62, American guitarist and singer.
 * Peggy Fears, 91, American actress.
 * Cecil Holmes, 73, New Zealand film director and writer.
 * Birutė Nedzinskienė, 38, Lithuanian politician.
 * Rickie Sorensen, 47, American child actor (The Sword in the Stone, Father of the Bride, A Lust to Kill), cancer.

25

 * Hugh Culverhouse, 75, American businessman and attorney, lung cancer.
 * Cliff Garrison, 88, American baseball player.
 * Creadel "Red" Jones, 53, American soul guitarist.
 * Marten Mendez, 77, American badminton player.
 * Bidhyanath Pokhrel, 76, Nepali poet and politician.
 * Boris Roatta, 14, French child actor, bicycle accident.

26

 * Yehoshafat Harkabi, 72, Israeli military intelligence officer and professor.
 * Ljubomir Lovrić, 74, Serbian football goalkeeper, manager and journalist.
 * Norman Warwick, 74, British cinematographer.
 * Bert Yancey, 56, American golfer, heart attack.

27

 * Beba Bidart, 70, Argentine tango singer, actress and dancer, heart attack.
 * Adam Kelso Fulton, 65, Scottish international rugby player.
 * Roberto Goyeneche, 68, Argentine tango singer, pneumonia.
 * Fred Griffiths, 82, English film and television actor.
 * Battling Shaw, 83, Mexican boxer.

28

 * Pepita Embil, 76, Spanish Basque soprano.
 * Rui Filipe, 26, Portuguese football player, traffic collision.
 * Aldis Intlers, 29, Latvian-Soviet bobsledder and Olympian, traffic collision.
 * Vincent Leonard, 85, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
 * Neil Mochan, 67, Scottish football player.
 * Ernie Roberts, 82, British politician.
 * David Wright, 74, South African-British poet, cancer.

29

 * Tushar Kanti Ghosh, 96, Indian journalist and author.
 * Bruno Habārovs, 55, Latvian fencer and Olympian.
 * Jack Miller, 78, American politician and jurist.
 * Arthur Mourant, 90, British chemist, hematologist and geneticist.
 * Michael Peters, 46, American choreographer and director, AIDS-related complications.

30

 * Lindsay Anderson, 71, British film and theatre director, and film critic, heart attack.
 * Olav Gjærevoll, 77, Norwegian botanist and politician.
 * Alfonso Oiterong, 69, President of Palau.
 * Filippo Zappata, 100, Italian engineer and aircraft designer.
 * Hubert Zemke, 80, United States Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.

31

 * Barbara Avedon, 69, American television writer, political activist, and feminist.
 * Mercedes Carvajal de Arocha, 91, Trinidadian-Venezuelan writer, politician and diplomat.
 * Mike Garbark, 78, American baseball player.
 * Ram Dulari Sinha, 71, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
 * John Walton, 67, Australian politician.