Deaths in August 1995

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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

 * Julián Berrendero, 83, Spanish road racing cyclist who twice won the Vuelta a España.
 * Phyllis Brooks, 80, American actress and model.
 * Martha Genenger, 83, German swimmer and Olympian.
 * Colin Falkland Gray, 80, New Zealand fighter ace during World War II.
 * Esther Muir, 92, American actress.
 * Gopalaswami Parthasarathy, 83, Indian journalist, educationist, and diplomat.
 * Rudolph F. Zallinger, 75, Austrian-Russian artist.

2

 * Irwin Bazelon, 73, American composer of contemporary classical music.
 * Thomas Brimelow, Baron Brimelow, 79, British diplomat.
 * Lillian Bronson, 92, American character actress.
 * Fred Daly, 83, Australian politician.
 * Eva Gredal, 68, Danish politician.
 * Oonagh Guinness, 85, Anglo-Irish socialite, society hostess and art collector.
 * Yury Iosifovich Koval, 57, Russian author, artist, and screenplay writer, heart attack.
 * Juan López Moctezuma, 63, Mexican film director and actor.
 * Brian Smith, 54, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster, shot.

3

 * Lionel Philias Coderre, 80, Canadian politician.
 * Harry Craft, 80, American Major League Baseball player and manager.
 * Mary Lena Faulk, 69, American golfer.
 * Ida Lupino, 77, British-American actress (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, High Sierra) and film director (The Hitch-Hiker), stroke.
 * Alan Mitchell, 72, British forester, dendrologist and botanist.
 * Edward Whittemore, 62, American novelist.

4

 * Alejandro Almendras, 76, Filipino politician.
 * Cal Anderson, 47, American military officer and politician.
 * Jacques Aubert, 78, Swiss entomologist.
 * Dick Bartell, 87, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Jock Carroll, 76, Canadian writer, journalist and photographer.
 * Jean-Pierre Frisch, 87, Luxembourgian football player.
 * Antonio Leonviola, 82, Italian screenwriter and film director.
 * J. Howard Marshall, 90, American billionaire, oil executive, and husband of Anna Nicole Smith.
 * Kiiti Morita, 80, Japanese mathematician.
 * Said Ramadan, 69, Egyptian political activist and humanitarian.

5

 * Agha Hasan Abedi, 73, Pakistani banker.
 * Fletcher Allen, 90, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.
 * Menachem Avidom, 87, Israeli composer.
 * Clarice Blackburn, 74, American actress, cancer.
 * Allan Bridge, 50, American conceptual artist.
 * Angelo Brovelli, 84, American NFL football player.
 * J. Marshall Brown, 68, American politician and insurance agent.
 * Massimiliano Capuzzoni, 26, Italian rugby player, diving accident.
 * Mark Colton, 34, British racing driver and software author, racing accident.
 * Izet Nanić, 29, Bosnian Army brigade commander, killed in action.

6

 * Irja Aav, 51, Estonian actress.
 * Hugh Borton, 92, American historian.
 * André Fleury, 92, French composer, pianist, organist, and pedagogue.
 * Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester, 81, British barrister and politician.
 * Nadira, 27, Pakistani film actress and dancer, homicide.
 * Toney Penna, 87, Italian-American golfer and designer of golf clubs and gear.
 * George Svendsen, 82, American gridiron football player.
 * Montri Tramote, 95, Thai musician and scholar, heart failure.

7

 * David Begelman, 73, American film producer, suicide.
 * Brigid Brophy, 66, British novelist, multiple sclerosis.
 * Tyra Hunter, 24, transgender hairdresser.
 * Haim Kaufman, 60, Israeli politician.
 * Dursley McLinden, 30, Manx actor.
 * Don Patinkin, 73, American-Israeli monetary economist.
 * Tom Scott, 77, Scottish poet, editor, and prose writer.
 * Harold Stewart, 78, Australian poet and oriental scholar.
 * Maksim Tank, 82, Belarusian Soviet journalist, poet and translator.

8

 * Kurt Becher, 85, German SS officer who was Commissar of all Nazi concentration camps.
 * Ronald Beeson, 58, English cricket player.
 * Fyodor Dyachenko, 78, Russian/Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with 425 kills.
 * Carol Hughes, 85, American actress.
 * Herbert Ihlefeld, 81, German Luftwaffe military aviator and fighter ace.

9

 * Teodoro Alcalde, 81, Peruvian football player.
 * Jerry Garcia, 53, American guitarist (The Grateful Dead), heart attack.
 * Suen Kam Shun, 88, Chinese football player.
 * Romuald Spasowski, 74, Polis diplomat, ambassador and defector, cancer.

10

 * Gijs van Aardenne, 65, Dutch politician, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Leo Apostel, 69, Belgian philosopher.
 * Donald Bisset, 84, British character actor and children's author.
 * Thomas Elliot Bowman III, 76, American carcinologist.
 * Wei-Liang Chow, 83, Chinese mathematician.
 * Florestan Fernandes, 75, Brazilian sociologist and politician.
 * Josseline Gaël, 78, French film actress.
 * Fay Honey Knopp, 76, American Quaker minister, and peace and civil rights advocat.
 * Marcel Moussy, 71, French screenwriter and television director.
 * Harishankar Parsai, 72, Indian writer.
 * Aldo Protti, 75, Italian baritone.
 * Baba Rexheb, 93, Albanian Islamic scholar and Sufi.
 * Niilo Ryhtä, 88, Finnish politician.
 * Tikiri Banda Subasinghe, 81, Sri Lankan statesman.
 * Ray Whittorn, 83, Australian politician.
 * Peter Williams, 81, English designer and dance critic, heart attack.

11

 * Libby Altwerger, 80, Canadian artist and educator.
 * Karel Berman, 76, Czech composer, opera singer, music educator.
 * Sam Berman, 88, American caricaturist of the 1940s and 1950s.
 * Joseph Bermingham, 76, Irish Labour Party politician.
 * Alonzo Church, 92, American mathematician.
 * Reg Date, 74, Australian soccer player.
 * Damon Edge, 45, American musician, heart attack.
 * Phil Harris, 91, American comedian and actor (The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, The Aristocats), heart attack.
 * Wilbur Stark, 83, American writer and film, television, and radio producer and director.
 * Herbert Sumsion, 96, English organist.

12

 * Bobby Burns, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
 * Jean Chapel, 70, American country singer and songwriter.
 * Frank Cvitanovich, 67, Canadian filmmaker.
 * Louise Lorimer, 97, American actress.
 * Marty Paich, 70, American arranger, composer, pianist, and bandleader, colorectal cancer.
 * Bruno Pasquini, 80, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Achille Togliani, 71, Italian singer and actor.
 * Felipe Tromp, 77, Governor of Aruba.

13

 * Alison Hargreaves, 33, British mountain climber, exposure during climb.
 * Pêr-Jakez Helias, 80-81, Breton stage actor, journalist, author, poet, and writer.
 * Jan Křesadlo, 68, Czech psychologist, novelist and poet.
 * Mickey Mantle, 63, American baseball player, liver cancer.
 * Jesse Thomas, 84, American blues singer.
 * Hanna Waag, 91, German film actress.

14

 * Helmut Beumann, 82, German historian.
 * Labron Harris, 86, American golfer and golf coach.
 * Frances Margaret McGuire, 95, Australian author, community leader and philanthropist.
 * Zdeněk Špinar, 79, Czechoslovak paleontologist and author.

15

 * Erbie Bowser, 77, American blues pianist and singer.
 * Michael A. Hess, 43, Irish-American lawyer and chief legal counsel to the RNC, complications from AIDS.
 * Humphrey Moore, 86, British pacifist and journalist.
 * Reginald Rodrigues, 73, Indian field hockey player and Olympian.
 * John Cameron Swayze, 89, American news commentator and game show panelist.
 * Abdul Momin Talukdar, 65, Bangladeshi politician.

16

 * Brooke Benjamin, 66, English mathematical physicist and mathematician.
 * Ljubiša Broćić, 83, Serbian football manager.
 * Irène de Lipkowski, 96, French politician.
 * Bobby DeBarge, 39, American R&B musician, AIDS related complications.
 * Oveta Culp Hobby, 90, American lawyer, politician and cabinet member, stroke.
 * John Lowe, 83, Scottish football player.
 * J. P. McCarthy, 62, American radio personality, pneumonia.
 * Leon Moser, 52, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Howie Shannon, 72, American basketball player and coach, lung cancer.
 * António Vilar, 82, Portuguese actor.

17

 * George Bekefi, 70, American plasma physicist, inventor, and professor at MIT.
 * Walter Cartier, 73, American boxer and actor.
 * Mike Condello, 49, American rock musician, producer, and songwriter, suicide.
 * Wild Bill Davis, 76, American organist, pianist, and arranger.
 * Helen Singer Kaplan, 66, Austrian-American sex therapist, cancer.
 * Howard Koch, 93, American screenwriter (Casablanca, Sergeant York, Letter from an Unknown Woman), Oscar winner (1944).
 * Rollie Miles, 68, Canadian football player.
 * Julius Monk, 82, American cabaret impresario.
 * Jaroslav Papoušek, 66, Czech film director and screenwriter.
 * Carl Samuelson, 68, American football player.
 * Marjorie Sykes, 90, British educator and peace activist in India.
 * David Warrilow, 60, English actor (Barton Fink, Radio Days, Simon), AIDS-related complications.
 * Ted Whitten, 62, Australian rules footballer, prostate cancer.

18

 * Julio Caro Baroja, 80, Spanish anthropologist, historian, linguist and essayist.
 * Alexander Zeisal Bielski, 82, Belarus leader of the Bielski partisans during World War II.
 * Philip Hodgins, 36, Australian poet.
 * Dick Hogan, 77, American actor (Rope).
 * Alex Joffé, 76, French film director and screenwriter.
 * James Maxwell, 66, American actor and director.
 * Helmuth Schlömer, 102, German Wehrmacht general during World War II.
 * Dmitri Shepilov, 89, Soviet economist, lawyer and politician.
 * Andrew Wood Wilkinson, 81, Scottish paediatrician.

19

 * John H. Adams, 80, American National Champion Thoroughbred racing jockey.
 * Silvio Amadio, 69, Italian film director and screenwriter.
 * Rollen Henry Anthis, 79, United States Air Force Major General.
 * Danny Arnold, 70, American producer, writer, comedian, actor and director.
 * Jean Bocahut, 75, French rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.
 * Jack Carter, 87, Australian cricketer.
 * Robert C. Frasure, 53, American diplomat and ambassador, traffic collision.
 * William Summer Johnson, 82, American chemist and teacher.
 * Pierre Schaeffer, 85, French composer, Alzheimer's disease.

20

 * Maly Delschaft, 96, German actress.
 * Paul Foster, 75, American gospel singer with The Soul Stirrers.
 * John Gilmore, 63, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and percussionist.
 * Bill Kennedy, 76, American professional baseball pitcher.
 * Von McDaniel, 56, American professional baseball player.
 * Hugo Pratt, 68, Italian comics creator, colorectal cancer.
 * Red Rhodes, 64, American pedal steel guitarist, pneumonia.
 * Vladimír Škutina, 64, Czech writer, playwright, journalist, and television producer, cancer.

21

 * Sally A. Bailie, 58, English trainer and owner of Thoroughbred racehorses, cancer.
 * Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 84, Indian astrophysicist, heart attack.
 * Hal Cihlar, 81, American professional basketball player.
 * Manfred Donike, 61, German biochemist and cyclist, heart attack.
 * Anatole Fistoulari, 88, Ukrainian-British conductor.
 * Sven Höglund, 84, Swedish cyclist.
 * Nanni Loy, 69, Italian director for film and television, heart attack, cancer.
 * Len Martin, 76, Australian sports broadcaster.
 * Ken Rickards, 71, West Indian cricketer.
 * Robert T. Smith, 77, American World War II fighter pilot and flying ace.
 * Chuck Stevenson, 75, American racecar driver.

22

 * Gilles Andruet, 37, French chess player, beaten to death, blunt trauma.
 * Mohammed Usman Arif, 72, Indian politician.
 * Johnny Carey, 76, Irish football player and manager.
 * José Antonio Girón, 83, Spanish Falangist politician.
 * René Notten, 45, Dutch football player and manager, heart attack.
 * Stefan Ślopek, 80, Polish microbiologist and immunologist.

23

 * Jaroslava Bajerová, 85, Czech gymnast who won silver at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
 * Johan Bergenstråhle, 60, Swedish film director and screenwriter.
 * Alfred Eisenstaedt, 96, German-American photographer.
 * Dwayne Goettel, 31, Canadian electronic musician (Skinny Puppy).
 * Leslie Graves, 35, American actress (Piranha II: The Spawning, Capitol), AIDS-related illness.
 * Arthur Holt, 81, British politician.
 * Gordon White, Baron White of Hull, 72, British-American peer and industrialist.
 * Chen Pixian, 79, Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician.
 * Cleveland Robinson, 80, American civil rights activist, kidney failure.
 * Adele Simpson, 91, American fashion designer.
 * Sylvester Stadler, 84, Austrian commander of the Waffen-SS during World War II.

24

 * Zbyněk Brynych, 68, Czech film director.
 * Jack Burns, 76, Australian rules footballer.
 * Gary Crosby, 62, American singer and actor, lung cancer.
 * Richard Degener, 83, American diver.
 * Erich Geiringer, 78, New Zealand physician, writer, publisher.
 * Killer Karl Krupp, 61, Dutch-American professional wrestler, cardioplegia.
 * Jason McRoy, 23, English mountain bike racer, traffic collision.

25

 * Johannes Antonsson, 73, Swedish politician.
 * John S. Badeau, 92, American diplomat, engineer, minister, and scholar.
 * John Brunner, 60, British sci-fi author, heart attack.
 * Setsuko, Princess Chichibu, 85, member of the Japanese Imperial Family, heart failure.
 * Francis Lawrence Jobin, 81, Canadian politician Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.
 * Eugene McDowell, 32, American basketball player.
 * Ludmilla Pajo, 47, Russian-Albanian writer and journalist.
 * Brede Skistad, 47, Norwegian football player and manager.
 * Doug Stegmeyer, 43, American rock bassist and vocalist, suicide by gunshot.

26

 * Antonio Brancaccio, 72, Italian judge, cancer.
 * John Costello, 51-52, British military historian.
 * Annie Kriegel, 68, French communist historian.
 * Olimi III of Toro, 49, Ugandan monarch and 11th Omukama of the Kingdom of Toro.
 * Ronald White, 56, American musician (The Miracles), leukemia.
 * Evelyn Wood, 86, American teacher who popularized speed reading.

27

 * Dick Bentley, 88, Australian comedian and actor, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Glennon Patrick Flavin, 79, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Carl Giles, 78, English cartoonist.
 * Mary Beth Hughes, 75, American actress.
 * Big Dee Irwin, 63, American singer and songwriter.
 * Václav Ježek, 71, Czechoslovakian/Slovak football coach.

28

 * Earl W. Bascom, 89, American visual artist, rodeo performer, inventor, and actor, heart failure.
 * Michael Ende, 65, German author (The NeverEnding Story, Momo, Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver), stomach cancer.
 * Thomas Gardner Ford, 77, American politician and businessman.
 * Fritz Pliska, 79, German football player and coach.
 * Gerard Salton, 68, German-American professor of Computer Science.
 * Page Smith, 77, American historian, professor, author, and newspaper columnist.
 * Michael VerMeulen, 38, American journalist and magazine editor of British GQ, drug overdose.

29

 * Al Akins, 74, American football halfback and defensive back.
 * Harry Broadhurst, 89, British Royal Air Force commander and flying ace during World War II.
 * Selma Burke, 94, American sculptor.
 * Enrique Carreras, 70, Peruvian-Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.
 * Pierre-Max Dubois, 65, French composer of classical music and conductor.
 * Art Jones, 76, American gridiron football player.
 * Frank Perry, 65, American film director (David and Lisa, Mommie Dearest, Diary of a Mad Housewife), prostate cancer.
 * Nanda Primavera, 97, Italian actress.

30

 * Agepê, 53, Brazilian singer and composer, diabetes.
 * Fischer Black, 57, American economist, throat cancer.
 * Carlos de Anda, 87, Mexican sprinter.
 * Nikolay Kuznetsov, 64, Azerbaijani water polo player.
 * Sterling Morrison, 53, American guitarist (the Velvet Underground), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
 * Lev Polugaevsky, 60, Belarusian chess Grandmaster, brain cancer.
 * Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, 58, Polish science fiction author, suicide.

31

 * Murray Bornstein, 77, American neuroscientist.
 * Mildred Coles, 75, American actress.
 * Barry Lee Fairchild, 41, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * David Farrar, 87, English actor.
 * Horst Janssen, 65, German graphic artist and printmaker.
 * J. Erik Jonsson, 93, American businessman and mayor of Dallas.
 * Gertrud Luckner, 94, German social worker and anti-Nazi resisister during World War II.
 * Carmen Mathews, 84, American actress and environmentalist.
 * A. A. Rahim, 75, Indian politician, freedom fighter, and union minister.
 * Beant Singh, 73, Indian politician and Chief Minister of Punjab, assassination.
 * Dilawar Singh Babbar, 25, Indian suicide bomber and assassin of Beant Singh.