Deaths in February 1994

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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

 * Sergei Dubov, 50, Russian journalist, publisher and entrepreneur, homicide.
 * Ray Ferris, 73, Northern Irish football player.
 * Guy Lefranc, 74, French director and screenwriter.
 * John Littlejohn, 62, American electric blues guitarist, kidney failure.
 * Jo Richardson, 70, British Labour Party politician.
 * Radovan Samardžić, 71, Yugoslav/Serbian historian and academic.
 * Olan Soule, 84, American actor, lung cancer.

2

 * Steve Barclay, 75, American film actor.
 * Jean Couturier, 82, French basketball player.
 * Marija Gimbutas, 73, Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist.
 * Zaim Imamović, 73, Bosnian folk singer, accordionist and author.
 * Otto Kippes, 88, German Catholic priest.
 * Yōichi Nakanishi, 76, Japanese politician and Governor of Ishikawa Prefecture.
 * John Rewald, 81, American academic, author and art historian.
 * Willie Mae Ford Smith, 89, American gospel musician and Christian evangelist.
 * Mary Washburn, 86, American sprinter.
 * Anona Winn, 90, Australian-British actress, broadcaster and singer.

3

 * Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov, 90, Soviet and Russian physicist and academic.
 * Roberto Amoroso, 83, Italian screenwriter and film producer.
 * Rauf Atakishiyev, 68, Soviet and Azerbaijani singer and pianist.
 * Carroll Borland, 79, American professor, writer, and actress, pneumonia.
 * Herbert Busemann, 88, German-American mathematician.
 * Frederick Copleston, 86, English Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian.
 * Justinus Darmojuwono, 79, Indonesian Roman Catholic cardinal.
 * Walter Havighurst, 92, American novelist, critic, and literary and social historian.
 * Alan Helffrich, 93, American athlete and Olympic champion.
 * Ellen King, 85, Scottish swimmer and Olympian.
 * Patrick El Mabrouk, 65, French middle-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Raúl Padilla, 75, Mexican actor, heart attack.
 * Glenn Wade Salisbury, 83, American agriculture biologist.
 * Georgy Shchedrovitsky, 64, Soviet and Russian philosopher and methodologist.
 * Dale Warren, 54, American musician.

4

 * Jane Arbor, 90, British writer.
 * Fred De Bruyne, 63, Belgian road cyclist.
 * Brunetto Bucciarelli Ducci, 79, Italian politician and magistrate.
 * Bedri Gürsoy, 92, Turkish football player.
 * Mikhail Linge, 35, Soviet and Russian middle-distance runner and Olympic champion, murdered.
 * Thelma Stovall, 74, American politician.

5

 * Hermann Josef Abs, 92, German banker and advisor to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
 * Ben Enwonwu, 72, Nigerian painter and sculptor.
 * Joachim Halupczok, 25, Polish racing cyclist, heart failure.
 * Tiana Lemnitz, 96, German operatic soprano.
 * George Sauer, 83, American football player, coach, and football executive.
 * James F. Walker, 80, American graphic artist.

6

 * Joseph Cotten, 88, American actor (Citizen Kane, Shadow of a Doubt, The Third Man), pneumonia.
 * Norman Del Mar, 74, British conductor, horn player, and biographer.
 * Felice Gremo, 92, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Ross Grimsley, 71, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Jack Kirby, 76, American comic book artist and writer (Fantastic Four, Captain America, X-Men), heart failure.
 * Aurora Mardiganian, 93, Armenian-American author and actress.
 * Hilda Simms, 75, American stage actress, pancreatic cancer.
 * Ignace Strasfogel, 84, Polish pianist, composer and conductor, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Luis Alberto Sánchez, 93, Peruvian jurist, philosopher, writer and politician.
 * Gwen Watford, 66, English actress, cancer.

7

 * Richard M. Bissell, Jr., 84, American CIA officer.
 * Billy Briscoe, 97, English football player.
 * Laurence Brown, 86, English Anglican clergyman.
 * Jorge Brum do Canto, 83, Portuguese film director and actor.
 * Witold Lutosławski, 81, Polish composer and conductor.
 * Bill McDonald, 77, American basketball player.
 * Stephen Milligan, 45, British politician and journalist, erotic asphyxiation.
 * Charles Leslie Richardson, 85, British Army officer.
 * Arnold Smith, 79, Canadian diplomat.
 * Maarten Vrolijk, 74, Dutch socialist politician.

8

 * Ken G. Hall, 92, Australian film producer and director.
 * Amparo Ochoa, 47, Mexican singer-songwriter.
 * Bob Reynolds, 79, American gridiron football player.
 * Raymond Scott, 85, American musician, record producer, and inventor of electronic instruments.

9

 * Raymond A. Hare, 92, American diplomat and ambassador.
 * Louis Kaufman, 88, American violinist.
 * Gherasim Luca, 80, Romanian surrealist theorist and poet, suicide.
 * Jarmila Novotná, 86, Czechoslovak and Chech soprano and actress.
 * Howard Temin, 59, American geneticist and virologist, lung cancer.
 * Bud Wilkinson, 77, American football player, coach, broadcaster, and politician.

10

 * Mel Calman, 62, British cartoonist, thrombosis.
 * Robert Crépeaux, 93, French chess master.
 * Fritz John, 83, German-American mathematician.
 * Dominic McGlinchey, 39–40, Irish republican paramilitary leader, shot.
 * Augusts Voss, 77, Soviet and Latvian politician.

11

 * Neil Bonnett, 47, American racing driver, racing accident.
 * Sorrell Booke, 64, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, Fail-Safe, Freaky Friday), colorectal cancer.
 * William Conrad, 73, American actor (Jake and the Fatman, Cannon, The Killers), heart failure.
 * Joseph Cordeiro, 76, Pakistani Catholic priest.
 * Paul Feyerabend, 70, Austrian philosopher of science, brain cancer.
 * Mercè Comaposada i Guillén, 92, Spanish pedagogue, lawyer, and anarcha-feminist.
 * Sune Mangs, 61, Swedish actor.
 * Antonio Martín, 23, Spanish road bicycle racer, bicycle accident.
 * Saul Weprin, 66, American attorney and politician, stroke.
 * Vincent Wigglesworth, 94, British entomologist.

12

 * Charles Critchfield, 83, American mathematical physicist.
 * Ray Dandridge, 80, American Negro league baseball player.
 * Ivor Darreg, 76, American composer of xenharmonic music.
 * Rafael Durán, 82, Spanish actor.
 * Rahela Ferari, 82, Yugoslavian and Serbian actress.
 * Donald Judd, 65, American minimalist artist, lymphoma.
 * Richard Luyt, 78, South African Governor of British Guiana.
 * Sue Rodriguez, 43, Canadian right-to-die activist, ALS.
 * Karl Wirtz, 83, German nuclear physicist.

13

 * James Aitchison, 73, Scottish cricketer.
 * Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker, 84, British peer and academic.
 * Robert Bloom, 85, American oboist, composer and arranger.
 * Walter Judd, 95, American politician and physician.
 * Mostafa Salimi, 90, Iranian football player and manager.
 * Robert Sherrod, 85, American journalist, editor and writer, pulmonary emphysema.

14

 * Pietro Belluschi, 94, Italian-American architect.
 * Andrei Chikatilo, 57, Soviet serial killer, execution by shooting.
 * Ivan Chodák, 80, Slovak football player and coach.
 * Jean Goldschmit, 69, Luxembourgian road bicycle racer.
 * Tiger Haynes, 79, American actor and film and jazz musician.
 * Margaret Lane, 87, British journalist, biographer and novelist.
 * Christopher Lasch, 61, American historian, moralist and social critic, leukemia.
 * Henry Milton Taylor, 90, Governor-general of the Bahamas.

15

 * Richard Emory, 75, American actor, stroke.
 * Frank Kitto, 90, Australian lawyer and judge.
 * Liu Ningyi, 86, Chinese politician.
 * Andrea Heinemann Simon, 84, American civil rights activist and mother of singer Carly Simon, lung cancer.

16

 * Noël Foré, 61, Belgian road bicycle racer.
 * François Marty, 89, French Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Paris, railway accident.
 * Richard O'Kane, 83, American Navy submarine commander during World War II.
 * Bob C. Riley, 69, American educator and politician.
 * Ann Wigmore, 84, Lithuanian-American holistic health practitioner and naturopath.

17

 * Neville Broderick, 66, Australian rules football player.
 * Aleksandr Chakovsky, 80, Soviet/Russian editor and novelist.
 * Gretchen Fraser, 75, American alpine ski racer and Olympian.
 * Rosario García Ortega, 82, Argentine actress.
 * Chimanbhai Patel, 64, Indian politician.
 * Randy Shilts, 42, American journalist and author, AIDS-related complications.
 * Vilmos Varjú, 56, Hungarian shot putter and Olympian.

18

 * Annemarie Ackermann, 80, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Ruth Adler, 49, British feminist and human rights campaigner.
 * Michel Duran, 93, French actor, author, and screenwriter.
 * Jake Gaither, 90, American gridiron football coach.
 * Gopi Krishna, 58, Indian dancer, actor and choreographer, heart attack.
 * Beltrán Alfonso Osorio, 75, Spanish peer and jockey.
 * Robert H. Park, 91, American electrical engineer and inventor.
 * Ameer Hamza Shinwari, 87, Afghanistan Pashto-language poet.
 * John Tedder, 2nd Baron Tedder, 67, British noble and chemist.
 * Ralph W. Tyler, 91, American educator.
 * Barbara Willard, 84, British novelist.

19

 * Johnny Hancocks, 74, English football player and manager.
 * Derek Jarman, 52, English film director, author and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications.
 * Patrick O'Reilly, 66, Irish politician.
 * Fyodor Odinokov, 81, Soviet and Russian actor.
 * Vittorio Rieti, 96, Italian-American composer.
 * Ivan Sidorenko, 74, Soviet sniper during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union.
 * Yitzhak Yitzhaky, 57, Israeli educator and politician.

20

 * Vladimir Druzhnikov, 71, Soviet actor.
 * Marino Girolami, 80, Italian film director and actor.
 * Rolf Jacobsen, 86, Norwegian author.
 * Víctor Parra, 74, Mexican actor and producer.

21

 * Gerda Alexander, 86, German-Danish teacher and psychologist.
 * Evgeny Belyaev, 67, Russian tenor.
 * Oscar Collazo, 80, Puerto Rican militant.
 * Homa Darabi, 54, Iranian pediatrician, academic and political activist, suicide.
 * Mary Lasker, 93, American health activist and philanthropist.
 * Johannes Steinhoff, 80, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II, and NATO official.

22

 * Papa John Creach, 76, American blues violinist.
 * Hans Hürlimann, 75, Swiss politician.
 * Lore Lorentz, 73, German kabarett artist and standup comedian, pneumonia.
 * János Pap, 68, Hungarian communist politician, suicide.
 * T. Chalapathi Rao, 73, Indian film music director.
 * Barry Warren, 60, British actor.
 * Dan Zakhem, 35, Israeli performance artist, AIDS-related brain cancer.

23

 * Marvin Burke, 75, American NASCAR racecar driver.
 * Odd Højdahl, 73, Norwegian politician.
 * Arthur Piantadosi, 77, American sound engineer (All the President's Men, Tootsie, Altered States), Oscar winner (1977).
 * Jackie Power, 77, Irish hurler and gaelic football player.
 * Manfredo Tafuri, 58, Italian architect, historian, critic and academic, heart attack.

24

 * Alighiero Boetti, 53, Italian conceptual artist.
 * Maude Bonney, 96, South African-Australian aviator.
 * Ulrich Gabler, 80, German U-boat chief engineer during World War II.
 * Robert Gronowski, 67, Polish football player and manager.
 * Ion Lăpușneanu, 85, Romanian football goalkeeper.
 * Ladislav Mňačko, 75, Slovak writer and journalist.
 * Jean Sablon, 87, French singer, songwriter, composer and actor.
 * Dinah Shore, 77, American singer, actress, and television personality, ovarian cancer.
 * Hugh Tayfield, 65, South African cricket player.

25

 * Marvin J. Ashton, 78, American politician, writer, and apostle of the LDS Church.
 * Russell Bufalino, 90, Italian-American mobster, heart attack.
 * Givi Chokheli, 56, Georgian football player.
 * Baruch Goldstein, 37, American-Israeli mass murderer and religious extremist, beaten to death.
 * Hamoud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 47, Saudi royal and businessman.
 * Jersey Joe Walcott, 80, American boxer.

26

 * Else Ahlmann-Ohlsen, 86, Danish fencer.
 * Tarık Buğra, 75, Turkish journalist, novelist and short story author.
 * J. L. Carr, 81, English novelist, publisher, and eccentric.
 * Sofka Dolgorouky, 86, Russian-British princess, writer and communist.
 * Avery Fisher, 87, Amateur violinist and philanthropist.
 * Bill Hicks, 32, American stand-up comedian, satirist, and musician, pancreatic cancer.
 * Leopold Kohr, 84, Austrian-American economist, jurist and political scientist.
 * Jack Oatey, 73, Australian rules football player and coach.

27

 * Harold Acton, 89, British writer, scholar, and aesthete.
 * Layton Fergusson, 85, Canadian politician.
 * Arnold Townsend, 81, English cricket player.
 * Tor Ørvig, 77, Norwegian-Swedish paleontologist.

28

 * Olivier Alain, 75, French organist, pianist, musicologist and composer.
 * Harvey Leibenstein, 71, Ukrainian-American economist.
 * Pujie, 86, Chinese Qing dynasty imperial prince.
 * Enrico Maria Salerno, 67, Italian actor, voice actor and film director, lung cancer.
 * Jimmy Stevens, 74, Ni-Vanuatu nationalist and politician, stomach cancer.
 * Jürgen von Alten, 91, German actor, screenwriter and film director.
 * Skippy Williams, 77, American jazz tenor saxophonist and musical arranger.