Deaths in December 1995

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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

 * Dennis Allen, 55, American actor and comedian.
 * Emil Banjavic, 80, American football player.
 * O. Roy Chalk, 88, American entrepreneur.
 * Vaman Krushna Chorghade, 81, Indian writer and educator.
 * Luigi Giacobbe, 88, Italian cyclist.
 * Henry Holbert, 68, American football player and coach.
 * Martti Liimo, 54, Finnish basketball player.
 * Sergio Pesce, 79, Italian cinematographer.
 * Colin Tapley, 88, New Zealand actor.
 * Maxwell R. Thurman, 64, American Army general, leukemia.

2

 * Robertson Davies, 82, Canadian novelist, heart attack.
 * Art Herring, 89, American baseball player.
 * Roxie Roker, 66, American actress (The Jeffersons), breast cancer.
 * Mária Telkes, 94, Hungarian-American biophysicist, scientist and inventor.
 * Biem Dudok van Heel, 81, Dutch sailor and Olympian.
 * Ira Wallach, 82, American screenwriter and novelist, pneumonia.

3

 * Hans Aardal, 74, Norwegian politician.
 * Josep Bartolí, 85, Spanish painter, cartoonist and writer.
 * Genni Batterham, 40, Australian film maker, writer and disability rights activist, multiple sclerosis.
 * James Colgate Cleveland, 75, American politician
 * Jimmy Jewel, 85, British comedic actor.
 * Alexander Kaidanovsky, 49, Soviet/Russian actor, film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
 * Lautaro Murúa, 68, Chilean-Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter, lung cancer.
 * Rodney Paavola, 56, American ice hockey player.
 * Gerard John Schaefer, 49, American murderer, serial killer, and police officer, stabbed.

4

 * Warren Ambrose, 81, American mathematician.
 * Little Beaver, 61, Canadian midget wrestler, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Leonidas Berry, 93, American pioneer in gastroscopy and endoscopy.
 * Giorgio Bocchino, 82, Italian fencer and Olympic medalist.
 * Petar Gligorovski, 57, Yugoslav and Macedonian animated film director and artist.
 * Rudolf Hruska, 80, Austrian automobile designer and engineer.
 * Robert Parrish, 79, American film director, editor, writer, and child actor.
 * Jerry White, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by electrocution.

5

 * Desmond Flower, 10th Viscount Ashbrook, 90, Irish peer and soldier.
 * Ilio Bosi, 92, Italian communist politician and trade unionist.
 * Reiner Bredemeyer, 66, German composer.
 * Bill Bruton, 70, American Major League Baseball player, traffic accident.
 * L. B. Cole, 77, American comic book artist.
 * Charles Evans, 77, British mountaineer, surgeon, and educator.
 * Victor Matthews, Baron Matthews, 76, British peer and proprietor of the Daily Express.
 * Lisa McPherson, 36, American member of the Church of Scientology, pulmonary embolism.
 * Clair Cameron Patterson, 73, American geochemist.
 * Keith Runcorn, 73, British geophysicist.

6

 * Yvonne Chauffin, 90, French writer and critic.
 * Gerard Cowhig, 74, American gridiron football player.
 * Cosslett Ó Cuinn, 88, Irish Anglican priest and biblical scholar.
 * Busta Jones, 44, American musician.
 * Trevor Key, 48, British photographer, brain tumour.
 * Melvin Kranzberg, 78, American historian.
 * Margaret Mayall, 93, American astronomer.
 * Jack Milne, 88, American speedway rider.
 * Robert Earl O'Neal, 34, American white supremacist and convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Robert Phalen, 58, American actor (Halloween, Starman, Three Days of the Condor), complications from AIDS.
 * Claire Polin, 69, American composer, flautist and musicologist.
 * Luis Regueiro, 87, Spanish football player and Olympian.
 * James Reston, 86, American journalist.
 * Mario Vicini, 82, Italian road bicycle racer.
 * Dmitri Volkogonov, 67, Russian historian and Colonel general, brain cancer.

7

 * James Derek Birchall, 65, English chemist, materials scientist, and inventor, traffic accident.
 * Edmund D. Campbell, 96, American lawyer and politician.
 * Harry Cavers, 85, Canadian politician.
 * Nick Connor, 91, American politician.
 * Mildred Adams Fenton, 96, American paleontologist and geologist.
 * Kathleen Harrison, 103, English actress.
 * Stella Inda, 71, Mexican film actress, pneumonia.
 * Joe Kelly, 90, Australian politician.
 * Johnny Mowers, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Masashi Watanabe, 59, Japanese football player and manager.

8

 * James Austin, 82, American football player.
 * Arthur Birch, 80, Australian organic chemist.
 * Ernest L. Boyer, 67, American educator and United States Commissioner of Education.
 * Tom Burns, 89, British-Chilean publisher and editor.
 * Bill Coldwell, 63, English football manager and scout.
 * John Gillett, 69-70, British film critic and researcher.
 * George J. Lewis, 91, Mexican actor, stroke.
 * Robert Manuel, 79, French actor and film director.
 * Maino Neri, 71, Italian football player and manager.
 * Ding Shande, 84, Chinese composer.

9

 * Severo Antonelli, 88, American photographer.
 * Toni Cade Bambara, 56, American author, documentary film-maker, and social activist, colorectal cancer.
 * Vivian Blaine, 74, American actress (Guys and Dolls) and singer, heart failure.
 * Mario Brini, 87, Italian prelate.
 * George Brown, 80, British sailor and Olympic athlete.
 * Pierre-Georges Castex, 80, French academic, literary critic and author.
 * Hugh Clegg, 75, British academic and director, stroke.
 * Tom Cole, 88-89, Australian labourer, outdoorsman and author.
 * Benoit Comeau, 79, Canadian politician.
 * Douglas Corrigan, 88, American aviator.
 * Gwen Harwood, 75, Australian poet.
 * Benny Lee, 79, Scottish comedy actor and singer.
 * Gillian Rose, 48, British philosopher and non-fiction writer, ovarian cancer.
 * Katharine Way, 93, American physicist.

10

 * Godfrey Agnew, 82, British civil servant.
 * Alex Aronson, 83, German author.
 * Kamal Bhattacharya, 80, Indian cricketer.
 * Bonvi, 54, Italian comic book artist, car accident.
 * Saša Božović, 83, Yugoslav partisan, physician, and author.
 * Sarvadaman Chowla, 88, British-Indian American mathematician.
 * Mary Lascelles, 95, British literary scholar.
 * Paul Lohmann, 69, American cinematographer (Coffy, Nashville, Mommie Dearest).
 * Lavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, 79, British noblewoman.
 * Phil Piratin, 88, British communist politician.
 * Darren Robinson, 28, American rapper, cardiac arrest, heart attack.

11

 * Greg Bahnsen, 47, American Calvinist philosopher, apologist, and debater, complications following surgery.
 * Étienne Becker, 59, French cinematographer.
 * Allene Jeanes, 89, American chemical researcher.
 * Arthur Mullard, 85, English actor, comedian and singer.
 * Euan Robertson, 47, New Zealand distance runner and Olympian, heart attack.
 * Abolhassan Sadighi, 101, Iranian sculptor and painter.
 * Robert Shelton, 69, American music and film critic.
 * Miko Tripalo, 69, Croatian politician.

12

 * Roberto Agramonte, 91, Cuban ambassador, philosopher, and politician.
 * Ike Altgens, 76, American photojournalist, photo editor, and field reporter, carbon monoxide poisoning.
 * Evangeline Bruce, 81, American society hostess and writer.
 * R. Ramanathan Chettiar, 82, Indian businessman and politician.
 * Ángel Crespo, 69, Spanish poet and translator.
 * Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, 83, Danish princess.
 * Giovanni Giacomazzi, 67, Italian football player.
 * Sanusi Hardjadinata, 81, Indonesian politician.
 * Oles Honchar, 77, Ukrainian writer and public figure.
 * Lyudmil Kirkov, 61, Bulgarian film director and actor.
 * David Lightbown, 63, British politician.
 * Andrew Nelson Lytle, 92, American novelist, dramatist, and essayist.
 * David Marshall, 87, Singaporean politician and first Chief Minister, lung cancer.
 * Moshe-Zvi Neria, 82, Israeli Orthodox writer and politician.
 * Andrew Olle, 47, Australian radio and television presenter, brain cancer.
 * Homer Thornberry, 86, American politician and judge.

13

 * Gerda Bengtsson, 95, Danish textile artist who specialized in embroidery.
 * Chrysanthos Mentis Bostantzoglou, 76-77, Greek political cartoonist, playwright, lyricist and painter.
 * Ernie Case, 75, American quarterback for UCLA Bruins football and the Baltimore Colts.
 * Ann Nolan Clark, 99, American writer who won the Newbery Medal.
 * René Cloërec, 84, French composer and conductor.
 * Anatoly Dyatlov, 64, Soviet engineer in charge during the Chernobyl disaster, heart attack.
 * Nancy LaMott, 43, American singer, uterine cancer.

14

 * Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 10th Viscount Boyne, 64, Irish peer, soldier and banker.
 * Eddie Clamp, 61, English footballer.
 * G. C. Edmondson, 73, American science fiction author.
 * Rob Harris, 28, American skysurfer, accident.
 * Eduardo Simian, 80, Chilean football player and politician.
 * Constance Tipper, 101, English metallurgist and crystallographer.

15

 * János Adorján, 57, Hungarian handball player.
 * Calvin Clarke, 79, American baseball player in the Negro leagues.
 * Mano Dayak, 45, Nigerien Tuareg freedom fighter, activist and politician, plane crash.
 * Marion Holley, 85, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
 * Sariamin Ismail, 86, Indonesian novelist.
 * Miroslav Katětov, 77, Czech mathematician, chess master, and psychologist.
 * Johnny Lytle, 63, American vibraphone player.
 * Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, 83, Spanish politician and minister, traffic collision.
 * Diana Poulton, 92, English lutenist.
 * Jan Říha, 80, Czech football player.

16

 * Albert Alberts, 84, Dutch writer, translator, and journalist.
 * Giulio Cappelli, 84, Italian footballer.
 * Simone Genevois, 83, French film actress.
 * Shui Hua, 79, Chinese film director and screenwriter.
 * Anthony Ingrassia, 51, American director, producer, and playwright.
 * Bert Marcelo, 59, Filipino television personality.
 * Johnny Moss, 88, American poker player.
 * Charles Sauriol, 91, Canadian naturalist.
 * Mariele Ventre, 56, Italian musician and singer, breast cancer.

17

 * Isa Alptekin, 94, Chinese Uyghur nationalist and pan-Turkic politician.
 * Hendrikus Berkhof, 81, Dutch theologian.
 * Alfred Bula, 87, Swiss racing cyclist.
 * Alfa Castaldi, 68, Italian photographer.
 * Arthur Cirilli, 80, American lawyer, politician, and judge.
 * Dorothy B. Porter, 90, American librarian, bibliographer and curator.
 * Olivette Thibault, 81, Canadian actress from Quebec.
 * Peter Warlock, 91, British magician.
 * Takuma Yasui, 86, Japanese economist.

18

 * Panchito Alba, 70, Filipino film actor.
 * Brian Brockless, 69, English organist and composer.
 * Maurie Fields, 70, Australian vaudeville performer, actor and stand-up comedian.
 * Yelena Miroshina, 21, Russian diver, fall.
 * António Roquete, 89, Portuguese football goalkeeper.
 * Nathan Rosen, 86, Israeli physicist.
 * Martin Růžek, 77, Czech actor.
 * Ross Thomas, 69, American writer of crime fiction, lung cancer.
 * Mohammad Yeganeh, 72, Iranian economist.
 * Konrad Zuse, 85, German engineer.

19

 * Nita Barrow, 79, Governor-General of Barbados, stroke.
 * Max Beer, 83, Swiss long-distance runner who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
 * Linda Hayes, 77, American actress.
 * Jack Hively, 85, American film editor and film and television director.
 * René Lemoine, 89, French fencer and Olympian.
 * Masako Shinpo, 82, Japanese track and field athlete and Olympian.
 * Henri Virlogeux, 71, French actor.
 * Harold Watkinson, 85, British businessman and politician.

20

 * Suzanne Baron, 68, French film editor.
 * Alexina Duchamp, 89, American art dealer and wife of Marcel Duchamp.
 * John Jacques, Baron Jacques, 90, British businessman and politician.
 * Paris Kanellakis, 42, Greek American computer scientist.
 * Allan Mackintosh, 59, Danish physicist.
 * Mario Procaccino, 83, Italian-American lawyer and politician.
 * Maan Sassen, 84, Dutch politician.
 * Madge Sinclair, 57, Jamaican-American actress (Trapper John, M.D., Coming to America, The Lion King), Emmy winner (1991), leukemia.

21

 * Trenchard Cox, 90, British museum director.
 * Sammy Creason, 51, American session drummer, brain aneurism.
 * R. F. V. Heuston, 72, British professor of law.
 * Roddy Lamb, 96, American gridiron football player.
 * Boris Ponomarev, 90, Soviet politician, ideologist, and historian.

22

 * Jean Aubry, 82, French gymnast and Olympian.
 * Lawrence Berk, 87, American composer, pianist, and music educator.
 * Ted Carroll, 56, Irish hurler.
 * Pierre Cour, 79, French songwriter and lyricist.
 * Ferris Jennings, 82, American gridiron football player.
 * Takuzo Kawatani, 54, Japanese film actor, lung cancer.
 * Osvald Käpp, 90, Estonian wrestler and Olympian.
 * David Land, 77, British impresario and theatre producer.
 * Butterfly McQueen, 84, American actress (Gone with the Wind, The Mosquito Coast, Duel in the Sun).
 * James Meade, 88, English economist.
 * Tom Pettit, 64, American journalist.

23

 * Helen Andersen, 76, Canadian artist, cancer.
 * Attilio Bulgheri, 82, Italian football player.
 * Ralph H. Demmler, 91, American lawyer.
 * Gabrielle Keiller, 87, Scottish socialite, golfer, art collector and archaeological photographer.
 * Karl Jamshed Khandalavala, 91, Indian Air Force officer, Parsi art connoisseur, and lawyer.
 * Patric Knowles, 84, English actor, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Olof Rydbeck, 82, Swedish diplomat.

24

 * Phillip E. Areeda, 65, American lawyer and legal scholar, leukemia.
 * Aharon Becker, 90, Israeli politician.
 * Lojze Krakar, 69, Slovene poet, literary historian, and essayist.
 * Carlos Lapetra, 57, Spanish football player.
 * Geoffrey Pinnington, 76, British journalist.
 * Jo Schouwenaar-Franssen, 86, Dutch politician.
 * Jack Siggins, 86, Irish rugby player.

25

 * Frederick Becton, 87, United States Navy officer and destroyer commander during World War II.
 * Michel Berto, 56, French actor.
 * James Boucher, 85, Irish cricketer.
 * Chang Kee-ryo, 84, South Korean surgeon, educator, and philanthropist.
 * Akira Kono, 66, Japanese gymnast.
 * Emmanuel Levinas, 89, French-Lithuanian philosopher.
 * Marijan Lipovšek, 85, Slovenian pianist, composer and writer on music.
 * Dean Martin, 78, American singer ("Ain't That a Kick in the Head?", "That's Amore"), comedian and actor (The Dean Martin Show), pulmonary emphysema.
 * Henri Patrelle, 77, French football player and executive.
 * Allen Russell Patrick, 85, Canadian politician.
 * Víctor Peralta, 87, Argentine boxer.
 * Nicolas Slonimsky, 101, Russian-American musicologist.

26

 * Hüsamettin Böke, 85, Turkish footballer and referee.
 * Al DeRogatis, 68, American gridiron football player, cancer.
 * Walter Horn, 87, German-American medievalist scholar.
 * Ángel Sauce, 84, Venezuelan composer, conductor and teacher.

27

 * Ferdinand Auth, 81, German politician.
 * Al Barlick, 80, American umpire in Major League Baseball.
 * Jeremy John Beadle, 39, British critic, writer and broadcaster, AIDS-related complications.
 * Edgar Bischoff, 83, Romanian-French composer and lyricist.
 * Henk Bouwman, 69, Dutch field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
 * Lois Bulley, 94, British county councillor, philanthropist and political activist.
 * Thomas C. Chalmers, 78, American physician and medical researcher.
 * Shura Cherkassky, 86, Ukrainian-American concert pianist.
 * William Campbell Gault, 85, American writer.
 * Boris Gnedenko, 83, Soviet/Ukrainian mathematician.
 * Winslow Hall, 83, American rower and Olympian.
 * Syd Herlong, 86, American politician.
 * Oscar Judd, 87, Canadian-American baseball player.
 * Genrikh Kasparyan, 85, Soviet chess player.
 * Enzo Serafin, 83, Italian cinematographer.

28

 * Madeleine Barot, 86, French activist and theologian.
 * Virginius Dabney, 94, American teacher, journalist, and writer.
 * Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis, 70, American electric blues musician, heart attack.
 * Walther Killy, 78, German literary scholar.
 * Michel Michelet, 101, Ukrainian composer of film scores.
 * Howard C. Petersen, 85, American government official and banker.

29

 * Shirley Ascott, 65, British sprint canoer.
 * Nello Celio, 81, President of Switzerland.
 * Harold Collison, 86, British trade unionist.
 * Harry Cripps, 54, English football player.
 * Lita Grey, 87, American actress, cancer.
 * Hans Henkemans, 82, Dutch pianist, teacher, composer of classical music and psychiatrist.
 * Philippus Jacobus Idenburg, 94, Dutch statistician.
 * Johan Manusama, 85, Dutch Schoolteacher and Moluccan independence activist.

30

 * Poul Andersen, 65, Danish footballer.
 * Hubert Clompe, 85, Romanian ski jumper who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics.
 * Ralph Flanagan, 81, American big band leader, pianist, composer, and arranger.
 * Doris Grau, 71, American script supervisor and voice actress (The Simpsons, The Critic, DuckTales), lung disease.
 * Richard Hornung, 45, American costume designer (Barton Fink, Miller's Crossing, Young Guns), AIDS.
 * Aleksandre Machavariani, 82, Georgian composer and conductor.
 * Heiner Müller, 66, German poet and playwright, laryngeal cancer.
 * Suzanne Prou, 75, French novelist.
 * Nestor Redondo, 67, Filipino comics artist.
 * Katarina Taikon, 63, Swedish civil rights activist, writer and actor.

31

 * David Anderson, 79, Scottish judge, politician and Solicitor General for Scotland.
 * Francis Woodman Cleaves, 84, American sinologist, linguist, and historian.
 * Gabriel d'Aubarède, 97, French novelist, literary critic and journalist.
 * Fritz Eckhardt, 88, Austrian actor, director, and writer.
 * Daniel O. Graham, 70, American Army officer.
 * Eduardo Hernández Moncada, 96, Mexican composer and conductor.
 * Bill Nyrop, 43, American ice hockey player, colon cancer.
 * Elisabeth Pinajeff, 95, Russian-German actress.