Deaths in December 1994

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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

 * Samia Gamal, 70, Egyptian belly dancer and actress.
 * Reg Garvin, 82, Australian rules football player.
 * William S. Hanna, 71, American politician.
 * Helen McCloy, 90, American writer.
 * Calvin Mooers, 75, American computer scientist.

2

 * Bogumił Andrzejewski, 72, Polish writer and linguist.
 * Julien Davies Cornell, 84, American lawyer who defended pacifist Ezra Pound.
 * Miguel M. Delgado, 88, Mexican film director and screenwriter, cancer.
 * Orhan Şaik Gökyay, 92, Turkish author.
 * Alan Splet, 54, American sound designer and sound editor (Eraserhead, Dune, Blue Velvet).
 * Reginald Claude Sprigg, 75, Australian geologist and conservationist.

3

 * Giorgi Chanturia, 35, Georgian politician and the National Democratic Party leader, homicide.
 * John E. Henderson, 77, American politician of the Republican Party.
 * Earl Johnson, 75, American baseball player and scout and World War II veteran.
 * Mihail Lozanov, 83, Bulgarian football player.

4

 * Reaves H. Baysinger, 92, American gridiron football player and coach.
 * Geoffrey Elton, 73, German-British political and constitutional historian, heart attack.
 * Ichiro Ogimura, 62, Japanese table tennis player and coach, lung cancer.
 * Julio Ramón Ribeyro, 65, Peruvian writer.
 * Gertrud Schiller, 89, German writer.
 * István Timár, 54, Hungarian canoe racer.

5

 * Woody Abernathy, 79, American baseball player.
 * Asım Orhan Barut, 68, Turkish-American theoretical physicist.
 * Harry Horner, 84, American art director (The Hustler, The Heiress, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?), Oscar winner (1950, 1962), pneumonia.
 * Günter Meisner, 68, German actor (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, The Boys from Brazil, The Winds of War).
 * Saïd Mohammedi, 81, Algerian politician.
 * Rudy Pilous, 80, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
 * Dick Rifenburg, 68, American gridiron football player and sports broadcaster.
 * E.W. Swackhamer, 67, American television and film director.

6

 * Heinz Baas, 72, German football player and manager.
 * Máire de Paor, 69, Irish historian and archaeologist.
 * Otar Gordeli, 66, Georgian musician.
 * Richard Markowitz, 68, American film and television composer (Murder, She Wrote, The Wild Wild West, Police Story).
 * Alun Owen, 69, British screenwriter.
 * Gian Maria Volonté, 61, Italian actor, heart attack.

7

 * Elga Andersen, 59, German actress and singer, cancer.
 * Pierre Cloarec, 85, French road bicycle racer.
 * Franz Lucas, 83, German SS officer and Auschwitz concentration camp doctor during World War II.
 * Edward Rell Madigan, 58, American politician, lung cancer.
 * J. C. Tremblay, 55, Canadian ice hockey player, kidney cancer.

8

 * Antônio Carlos Jobim, 67, Brazilian musician, heart failure.
 * Semni Karusou, 96, Greek archaeologist and art historian.
 * Enrique Líster, 87, Spanish communist politician and military officer.
 * Crawford Nalder, 84, Australian politician.

9

 * Antal Apró, 81, Hungarian politician.
 * John Joe Barry, 69, Irish middle-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Max Bill, 85, Swiss architect, painter and sculptor, heart attack.
 * O. C. Fisher, 91, American politician.
 * Pat Haggerty, 67, American football official in the National Football League, cancer.
 * Garnett Silk, 28, Jamaican reggae musician and Rastafarian, domestic accident.
 * Alex Wilson, 87, Canadian sprinter.

10

 * Henry Bernard, 82, French architect and urban planner.
 * Friedel Dzubas, 79, German-American abstract painter.
 * Keith Joseph, 76, British barrister and politician.
 * Jiří Marek, 80, Czech publicist, scriptwriter, and writer.

11

 * Magnus Andersen, 78, Norwegian politician.
 * Dionísio Azevedo, 72, Brazilian actor and director, lung cancer.
 * Edward A. Craig, 98, United States Marine Corps officer.
 * Vera Kuznetsova, 87, Soviet/Russian actress.
 * Stanisław Maczek, 102, Polish military officer of World War I and World War II.
 * Carl Marzani, 82, American spy.
 * George Phillips, 73, American gridiron football player.
 * Philip Phillips, 94, American archaeologist.
 * Yuli Raizman, 90, Soviet/Russian film director, screenwriter.
 * Kenneth Rush, 84, American diplomat and ambassador.
 * Avet Terterian, 65, Soviet/Armenian composer.
 * Yao Yilin, 77, Chinese politician and Vice Premier.

12

 * John Hearne, 68, Jamaican writer.
 * Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, 75, Palestinian translator.
 * Nicolaas Kuiper, 74, Dutch mathematician.
 * Annelise Reenberg, 75, Danish film director.
 * Stuart Roosa, 61, American astronaut, pancreatic cancer.
 * Sir Evelyn Shuckburgh, 85, British diplomat.
 * Donna J. Stone, 61, American poet and philanthropist.
 * Frederick Turnovsky, 77, New Zealand businessman and arts advocate.

13

 * Glenn M. Anderson, 81, American politician.
 * Norman Beaton, 60, British actor, heart attack.
 * Philip S. Foner, 83, American historian.
 * Philip Hauser, 85, American academic.
 * Antoine Pinay, 102, French politician and Prime Minister of France.
 * Charlie Richard, 53, American football coach.
 * Olga Rubtsova, 85, Soviet/Russian chess player.

14

 * Orval Faubus, 84, American politician and governor of Arkansas, prostate cancer.
 * Edmund Hudleston, 85, British Royal Air Force air marshal.
 * Mary Ann McCall, 75, American pop and jazz singer.
 * Robert Mersey, 77, American musician, arranger and record producer.
 * Catherine Filene Shouse, 98, American researcher and philanthropist.
 * Franco Venturi, 80, Italian historian, essayist and journalist.

15

 * Oscar Bidegain, 89, Argentine politician.
 * Boris Chichibabin, 71, Soviet/Russian writer.
 * Arthur de la Mare, 80, British diplomat and High Commissioner of Singapore.
 * Piero Gardoni, 60, Italian professional footballer.
 * Mollie Phillips, 87, British skater.
 * Hazel Brannon Smith, 80, American journalist, publisher and Pulitzer Prize winner.
 * Harry Tobias, 99, American lyricist.

16

 * Patrick Cobbold, 60, British football executive.
 * David Dunlap, 84, American rower.
 * Mary Durack, 81, Australian novelist and historian.
 * Les Gandar, 75, New Zealand politician.

17

 * Pierre Baruzy, 97, French boxing champion and manager.
 * Deon Dreyer, 20, South African recreational scuba diver, drowned.
 * Hambardzum Galstyan, 39, Armenian politician and historian, homicide.
 * Ella Hval, 90, Norwegian actress.
 * Stefano Sertorelli, 82, Italian soldier, skier and Olympian.
 * Olavi Talja, 69, Finnish sprinter, middle-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Ajahn Thate, 92, Thai meditation master and buddhist monk.

18

 * Roger Apéry, 78, Greek-French mathematician, Parkinson's disease.
 * Henry Banks, 81, American racecar driver.
 * Phil Bengtson, 81, American gridiron football player and coach.
 * Heinz Bernard, 70, British actor, director and theatre manager.
 * Don Fedderson, 81, American television executive.
 * David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead, 81, British politician.
 * Peter Hebblethwaite, 64, British priest, journalist, and biographer.
 * F. Bradford Morse, 73, American politician.
 * Lilia Skala, 98, Austrian-American actress (Lilies of the Field, Flashdance, Charly).
 * Suryakantam, 70, Indian actress.

19

 * Vera Chaplina, 86, Soviet/Russian children's writer and naturalist.
 * Bill Douglass, 71, American jazz drummer.
 * Vadim Kozin, 91, Russian tenor and songwriter.
 * Noel Pointer, 39, American musician, stroke.
 * K. A. P. Viswanatham, 95, Indian politician.

20

 * Eva Alexanderson, 83, Swedish translator and writer.
 * Daniel I. Arnon, 84, Polish-American plant physiologist, heart failure.
 * Stephen Coughlan, 83, Irish politician.
 * Alexander Felszeghy, 61, Czechoslovak association football player and coach.
 * Valeriy Kryvov, 43, Soviet/Ukrainian volleyball player.
 * Cyril Ponnamperuma, 71, Sri Lankan scientist.
 * Phelim O'Neill, 2nd Baron Rathcavan, 85, British politician.
 * Dean Rusk, 85, American politician and Secretary of State, heart failure.
 * Bob Wellman, 69, American baseball player, manager and scout.

21

 * Göte Almqvist, 73, Swedish ice hockey player.
 * Butch Hartman, 54, American stock car racing driver, heart attack.
 * Mabel Poulton, 93, English actress.
 * Audrey Sale-Barker, 91, British aviator and alpine skier.
 * Koreya Senda, 90, Japanese stage director and translator, and actor.

22

 * Gérard Loiselle, 73, Canadian politician.
 * Nobuko Otowa, 70, Japanese actress, liver cancer.
 * Atte Pakkanen, 82, Finnish politician.
 * J. A. Todd, 86, English mathematician.

23

 * Tony Doyle, 41, Australian politician, AIDS-related complications.
 * Mark Foo, 36, Singapore-American surfer, surfing accident.
 * Johnny Mince, 82, American swing jazz clarinetist.
 * Sebastian Shaw, 89, English actor (Return of the Jedi) and author.
 * Charles Wesley Shilling, 93, American physician and navy officer.
 * Teiji Ōmiya, 66, Japanese voice actor, colorectal cancer.

24

 * John Boswell, 47, American historian and professor, AIDS-related complications.
 * Rossano Brazzi, 78, Italian actor.
 * Maurice Chéhab, 89, Lebanese archaeologist and museum curator.
 * John T. Dugan, 74, American screenwriter.
 * Julie Haydon, 84, American actress, cancer.
 * Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel, 94, Austrian actress.
 * John Osborne, 65, English playwright (Look Back in Anger and actor (Get Carter), diabetes.
 * Aleksandr Uvarov, 72, Russian ice hockey player.
 * Eduardo Orrego Villacorta, 61, Peruvian politician and architect, cancer.

25

 * Buddy Ace, 58, American singer, heart attack.
 * Ghulam Ahmed Chishti, 89, Pakistani film score composer, heart attack.
 * Pierre Dreyfus, 87, French businessman and civil servant.
 * Cyril Garnham, 93, British parasitologist.
 * Masjkur, 89, Indonesian politician.
 * Zail Singh, 78, Indian politician and former President of India, traffic collision.
 * Czesław Spychała, 77, Polish tennis player.

26

 * Robert Emhardt, 80, American actor (3:10 to Yuma).
 * Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan, 82, British businessman and peer.
 * Sylva Koscina, 61, Yugoslav/Croatian actress (Hercules, Judex, The Secret War of Harry Frigg), breast cancer.
 * Kothuku Nanappan, 59, Malayalam film actor.
 * Dennis Osadebay, 83, Nigerian politician, poet, and journalist.
 * Pietro Pavan, 91, Italian Catholic cardinal.
 * Allie Reynolds, 77, American baseball player.
 * Germaine Rouer, 97, French actress.
 * Karl Schiller, 83, German scientist and politician.
 * Parveen Shakir, 42, Pakistani writer and poet, traffic collision.
 * Seetharaman Sundaram, 93, Indian lawyer and yoga as exercise pioneer.

27

 * Winsome Fanny Barker, 87, South African botanist and plant collector.
 * Fanny Cradock, 85, English restaurant critic, television chef and writer.
 * Marjorie Joyner, 98, American businesswoman, philanthropist, and activist.
 * Peter May, 64, English cricket player and administrator, brain cancer.
 * Steve Plytas, 81, British actor.
 * Haki Toska, 74, Albanian politician.

28

 * Julius Adler, 88, Jewish-American actor and writer.
 * Ursula Appolloni, 65, Canadian politician, lung cancer.
 * Georgy Baydukov, 87, Soviet/Russian aircraft test pilot and writer.
 * Victor FitzGeorge-Balfour, 81, British Army officer.
 * Joseph Holland, 84, American stage actor.
 * Gopalaswamy Mahendraraja, 38, Sri Lankan member of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, executed.
 * Arnljot Norwich, 71, Norwegian politician.

29

 * Woodrow A. Abbott, 75, American officer.
 * Robert Barbour, 95, Australian cricket player.
 * Bernard Cousino, 92, American inventor.
 * Manuel Mora, 85, Costa Rican politician.
 * Frank Thring, 68, Australian actor (Ben-Hur, King of Kings, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) and theatre director, cancer.

30

 * Geoff Bradford, 67, English football player.
 * Dmitri Ivanenko, 90, Soviet/Russian physicist.
 * Andrei Kuznetsov, 28, Soviet/Russian volleyball player, traffic collision.
 * Hap Moran, 93, American gridiron football player.
 * Anton Rom, 85, German rower.
 * Maureen Starkey Tigrett, 48, British hairdresser and wife of beatle Ringo starr, leukemia.
 * Xu Yixin, 83, Chinese politician.

31

 * Leigh Bowery, 33, Australian performance artist, club promoter, and fashion designer, AIDS-related complications.
 * Jacques Dimont, 49, French fencer and Olympic champion.
 * Leo Fuchs, 83, Polish-American actor and coupletist.
 * Elma Karlowa, 62, Yugoslav/Croatian actress, diabetes.
 * Bruno Pezzey, 39, Austrian football player, cardioplegia.
 * Woody Strode, 80, American athlete and actor (Spartacus, The Ten Commandments, Once Upon a Time in the West), lung cancer.
 * Harri Webb, 74, Welsh poet, journalist and librarian, stroke.