Deaths in February 1995

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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

 * Róbert Antal, 73, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Joe Bacuzzi, 78, English footballer and coach.
 * Lajos Balthazár, 73, Hungarian fencer and Olympic silver medalist.
 * François Boutin, 58, French thoroughbred horse trainer, heart attack.
 * Gerard Carlier, 77, Dutch athlete who participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
 * Richey Edwards, 27, Welsh musician. (disappeared on this date)
 * Yngve Gamlin, 68, Swedish actor and film director.
 * Karl Gruber, 85, Austrian politician and diplomat.
 * Leon Leonard, 85, American politician.
 * Jill Phipps, 31, English animal rights activist, crushed by a lorry during a protest.
 * Walter Wischniewsky, 82, German film editor.

2

 * Tikvah Alper, 86, South African scientist whose work helped develop prion theory.
 * Raymond Bark-Jones, 83, English rugby union lock.
 * Doug Berndt, 45, American figure skater and Olympic bronze medalist.
 * Phillip Borsos, 41, Australian-born Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter, leukemia.
 * Chandulal Chandrakar, 75, Indian journalist and politician.
 * John Clogston, 41, American journalist and academic.
 * André Frossard, 80, French journalist and essayist.
 * Thomas Hayward, 77, American operatic tenor, kidney failure.
 * David Kindersley, 79, British stone letter-carver and typeface designer.
 * Fred Perry, 85, English tennis champion.
 * Donald Pleasence, 75, English actor (Halloween, You Only Live Twice, The Great Escape), BAFTA winner (1959), heart failure.
 * Herman Tuvesson, 92, Swedish wrestler.
 * Willard Waterman, 80, American actor (The Great Gildersleeve, The Apartment, Dennis the Menace), bone cancer.

3

 * Ragnar Berge, 70, Norwegian footballer who played for Vålerenga Fotball.
 * Pavol Hrivnák, 63, Slovak politician.
 * Art Kane, 69, American photographer, suicide.
 * Nicolás Lindley López, 86, Peruvian military commander.
 * Andrei Nikolsky, 36, Russian pianist, traffic collision.
 * Ingeborg Nilsson, 70, Norwegian figure skater.
 * John Pinsent, 72, English classical scholar who specialized in Greek mythology.
 * Abbas Zaryab, 75, Iranian historian, writer, literature professor and Iranologist.

4

 * David Alexander, 56, Welsh singer and entertainer, heart attack.
 * Hamza Boubakeur, 82, French politician and Muslim cleric.
 * Godfrey Brown, 79, British track and field athlete and Olympic champion.
 * Abel Santa Cruz, 80, Argentine screenwriter, cancer.
 * Aloísio de Oliveira, 80, Brazilian record producer, singer, actor and composer.
 * Manohar Hardikar, 58, Indian Test cricket player.
 * Patricia Highsmith, 74, American author (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt), lung cancer and aplastic anemia.
 * Scott Smith, 46, American gay rights activist, AIDS-related pneumonia.
 * Roel Wiersma, 62, Dutch footballer.
 * Walter Zeller, 67, German Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

5

 * Jimmy Allen, 85, English footballer and football manager.
 * Frank Costin, 74, British automotive engineer.
 * Des Foley, 54, Irish Gaelic football player and hurler.
 * Doug McClure, 59, American actor (The Virginian, Out of This World, Gidget), lung cancer.
 * Frederick Riddle, 82, British violist.
 * Bhanubandhu Yugala, 84, Thai film director, playwright, composer and author.

6

 * Flora Anne Armitage, 83, American biographer and novelist.
 * Richard H. Bassett, 94, American impressionist painter.
 * Elmer Burkart, 78, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
 * Edy Campagnoli, 60, Italian television personality and actress.
 * Chester E. Holifield, 91, American businessman and politician.
 * Hans Hummel, 50, Austrian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
 * Jeanette Kawas, 49, Honduran environmental activist, homicide.
 * Mira Lobe, 81, Austrian children's writer.
 * Maruja Mallo, 93, Spanish surrealist painter.
 * James Merrill, 68, American poet, AIDS-related complications.
 * Gustav Rödel, 79, German fighter pilot and fighter ace.
 * Art Taylor, 65, American jazz drummer.
 * Xia Yan, 94, Chinese playwright, screenwriter, and politician.

7

 * Roy S. Benson, 88, American naval officer.
 * Jean Giraudeau, 78, French tenor and artist.
 * Odd Grythe, 76, Norwegian radio and television personality.
 * Billy Jones, 45, American guitarist, singer, and founding member of the Outlaws, suicide by gunshot.
 * Massimo Pallottino, 85, Italian archaeologist specializing in Etruscan civilization and art.
 * Cecil Upshaw, 52, American baseball player, heart attack.
 * Helen Wallis, 70, British Map Curator at the British Museum, cancer.

8

 * Józef Maria Bocheński, 92, Polish Dominican, logician and philosopher.
 * Kalpana Datta, 81, Indian independence movement activist.
 * May Miller, 96, American poet, playwright and educator.
 * Tika Ram Paliwal, 85, Indian politician.
 * Osvaldo Panzutto, 65, Argentine football player.
 * Gloria Shea, 84, American film actress.
 * Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman, 81, Indian Navy admiral.
 * Willi Soukop, 88, English sculptor.
 * Rachel Thomas, 89, Welsh actress, fall.
 * Ole Torvalds, 78, Finnish-Swedish journalist and poet.
 * Buck Warnick, 79, American composer, arranger, lyricist, conductor, and musical director.

9

 * J. William Fulbright, 89, American senator and congressman, stroke.
 * Maurice Halperin, 88, American writer, professor, diplomat, and accused Soviet spy.
 * Kalevi Keihänen, 70, Finnish entrepreneur.
 * Eugen Loderer, 74, German trade union leader.
 * Ignazio Spalla, 70, Italian film actor.
 * David Wayne, 81, American actor (Finian's Rainbow, House Calls, The Andromeda Strain), Tony winner (1947, 1954), lung cancer.

10

 * Leila Arjumand Banu, 66, Bangladeshi singer and social activist.
 * Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay, 78, Bengali writer and editor.
 * Straight Clark, 70, American tennis player.
 * Jesús Garay, 64, Spanish football player.
 * Paul Monette, 49, American author, poet, and activist, AIDS-related complications.
 * Leonard Silk, 77, American economist, author, and journalist.

11

 * Lillian K. Bradley, 73, American mathematician and mathematics educator.
 * L. C. Graves, 76, American police detective.
 * Otto Kratky, 92, Austrian physicist.
 * Harry Merkel, 77, German racing driver.
 * Bob Randall, 57, American screenwriter, playwright, novelist, and television producer.

12

 * Nat Holman, 98, American basketball player and college coach.
 * Philip Taylor Kramer, 42, American bass guitar player, traffic collision.
 * Earring George Mayweather, 67, American electric blues and Chicago blues harmonica player, songwriter and singer, liver cancer.
 * Rachid Mimouni, 49, Algerian writer, teacher and human rights activist, hepatitis.
 * Tony Secunda, 54, English manager of rock groups (The Moody Blues, Procol Harum, The Move and Motörhead), heart attack.
 * Astrid Villaume, 71, Danish actress of stage and film.

13

 * Sylvester Ahola, 92, American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
 * James P. Berkeley, 87, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.
 * Bill Beveridge, 85, Canadian ice hockey goaltender in the NHL.
 * Alberto Burri, 79, Italian artist.
 * Wilton Gaynair, 68, Jamaican jazz saxophonist.
 * Ray Hamilton, 79, American gridiron football player.
 * Guglielmo Mancori, 67, Italian cinematographer, lighting director and camera operator.
 * Jack O'Billovich, 52, Canadian football player.
 * Shimon Schwab, 86, German-American Orthodox rabbi..
 * Bruno Visentini, 80, Italian politician, senator, minister, and industrialist.
 * Li Zhisui, 75, Chinese physician and confidante of Mao Zedong.

14

 * Ogdo Aksyonova, 59, Dolgan poet, the founder of Dolgan written literature.
 * Maria Andergast, 82, German actress.
 * Jack Cleary, 83, Australian rules footballer.
 * Constance Teander Cohen, 74, American painter.
 * Roger de Grey, 76, British landscape painter.
 * Nigel Finch, 45, English film director and filmmaker, AIDS-related illness.
 * Michael V. Gazzo, 71, American playwright and actor (The Godfather Part II, 1st & Ten, Last Action Hero), stroke.
 * Len Goulden, 82, English football player.
 * Abderrahmane Kaki, 60, Algerian actor and playwright.
 * Ischa Meijer, 52, Dutch journalist, television presenter, radio presenter, critic and author, heart attack.
 * U Nu, 87, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma.
 * Achille Piccini, 83, Italian football player.

15

 * Rachid Baba Ahmed, 48, Algerian record producer, composer, and singer, murdered.
 * Sergio Bertoni, 79, Italian footballer.
 * Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose, 85, British nobleman, politician, and newspaper proprietor.
 * Italo Alighiero Chiusano, 68, Italian writer and critic.
 * Francis Taylor, Baron Taylor of Hadfield, 90, English businessman who founded Taylor Woodrow.
 * John J. Louis Jr., 69, American businessman and diplomat.
 * David Monas Maloney, 82, American Roman Catholic bishop.

16

 * Svend Albinus, 93, Danish architect.
 * Anna Margaret Ross Alexander, 81, American philanthropist.
 * Nicolae Costin, 58, Moldovan politician and one of the leaders of the national emancipation movement.
 * Mildred Esther Mathias, 88, American botanist and professor.
 * Rachel Tzabari, 85, Israeli politician.
 * Margaret Wade, 82, American basketball player and coach.
 * David E. Ward, 85, American politician.
 * Lois Wilde, 87, American actress, model, dancer, and beauty contest winner.

17

 * Charles Balloun, 90, American politician from Iowa.
 * Werner Bruschke, 96, East German politician and member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
 * Paddy Collins, 91, Irish hurler.
 * Thelma Hulbert, 81, English visual artist known for her still lives and landscapes.
 * Mirosław Żuławski, 82, Polish writer, prosaist, diplomat and screenwriter.

18

 * Zair Azgur, 87, Soviet and Belarusian sculptor.
 * Walter Ball, 83, Canadian cartoonist.
 * Denny Cordell, 51, English record producer, lymphoma.
 * Eddie Gilbert, 33, American professional wrestler and booker, heart attack.
 * Bill Graham, 75, Australian politician.
 * Yank Lawson, 83, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Kenneth Setton, 80, American historian and an expert on the history of medieval Europe.
 * Bob Stinson, 35, American rock guitarist who founded The Replacements, organ failure.

19

 * Soup Cable, 81, American professional basketball player.
 * Yan Chernyak, 85, World War II spy for the Soviet Union. ''
 * Louis-Pierre Cécile, 90, Canadian politician.
 * Nicholas Fairbairn, 61, Scottish politician, liver cirrhosis.
 * Nigel Findley, 35, Canadian game designer, editor, and science fiction author, heart attack.
 * John Howard, 81, American actor (The Philadelphia Story, Lost Horizon, Bulldog Drummond Comes Back).
 * Gaul Machlis, 76, Israeli football player and manager.
 * Noel Rockmore, 86, American painter, draughtsman, and sculptor.
 * Richard Matthews, 73, New Zealand plant virologist.
 * Calder Willingham, 72, American novelist and screenwriter (Paths of Glory, One-Eyed Jacks, The Graduate), cancer.

20

 * Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, 84, Orthodox Jewish rabbi.
 * Robert Bolt, 70, English playwright and screenwriter (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, A Man for All Seasons), Oscar winner (1966, 1967), stroke.
 * Arthur Burge, 77, Australian water polo player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.
 * Néstor Mora, 31, Colombian racing cyclist, bicycle accident.

21

 * Paul L. Bates, 86, United States Army officer.
 * István Bárány, 87, Hungarian swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist.
 * Bjarne Henning-Jensen, 86, Danish film director and screenwriter.
 * Cristian Popescu, 35, Romanian poet.
 * Juhan Viiding, 46, Estonian poet and actor, suicide.

22

 * Richard Arbib, 77, American industrial designer.
 * Ed Flanders, 60, American actor (St. Elsewhere, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Exorcist III), Emmy winner (1976, 1977, 1983), suicide by gunshot.
 * Karl-Arne Holmsten, 83, Swedish film actor.
 * Jim Katcavage, 60, American gridiron football player.
 * Nicholas Pennell, 56, English actor.
 * Emmanuel Roblès, 80, Algerian-French novelist and playwright.

23

 * Norm Burns, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
 * Valerio Cassani, 72, Italian footballer.
 * Arrigo Cervetto, 67, Italian communist revolutionary and politician.
 * Sidney Robertson Cowell, 91, American ethnomusicologist.
 * Melvin Franklin, 52, American singer.
 * Mehr Abdul Haq, 79, Pakistani philologist.
 * Don Heck, 66, American comic book artist (Iron Man, The Avengers, Black Widow), lung cancer.
 * James Herriot, 78, English veterinarian and author (All Creatures Great and Small), prostate cancer.
 * Norman Hunter, 95, British children's author.
 * John Paul, 73, British actor (Doomwatch, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb).
 * Margaret Woodbridge, 93, American swimmer and Olympic champion.
 * Peter Wykeham, 79, Royal Air Force Air marshal and flying ace during World War II.

24

 * Roberto Ago, 87, Italian jurist.
 * Felix Ermacora, 71, Austrian politician and human rights activist.
 * Hans Hessling, 91, German film and television actor.
 * Tatsumi Kumashiro, 67, Japanese film director, pulmonary embolism.
 * Hideko Maehata, 80, Japanese swimmer.
 * N. G. Krishna Murti, 85, Indian civil engineer.
 * Jack Wallace, 69, American football player and coach, traffic accident.

25

 * Francesco Antonazzi, 70, Italian football player.
 * Gediminas Baravykas, 54, Lithuanian architect.
 * Anne Davies, 64, American figure skater.
 * Rudolf Hausner, 80, Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor.
 * O Jin-u, 77, North Korean general and politician, lung cancer.
 * Victor Montagu, 88, British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP).
 * John O'Brien, 67, New Zealand representative rower.
 * José Antonio Rojo, 72, Spanish film editor, heart attack.
 * Mariam Vattalil, 41, Indian activist and nun, murdered.
 * Terence Weil, 73, British cellist.

26

 * Zenon Ivanovich Borevich, 72, Russian mathematician.
 * Jack Clayton, 73, British film director (The Great Gatsby, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Innocents).
 * Barry Dyson, 52, English football player, heart attack.
 * Willie Johnson, 71, American electric blues guitarist.
 * Þórunn Elfa Magnúsdóttir, 84, Icelandic writer.

27

 * John Alford, 75, Archdeacon of Halifax.
 * Ann Ayars, 76, American soprano and actress.
 * Bill Bailey, 85, Irish-American Communist Party labor activist who fought in the Spanish Civil War, lung disease.
 * Gerhard Boetzelen, 89, German rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.
 * Bernard Cornfeld, 67, Turkish businessman and international financier.
 * Tom Evans, 65, Australian politician.
 * Giga Norakidze, 64, Georgian football player and manager.
 * Antonio Tróccoli, 70, Argentine politician.

28

 * Walter Allen, 84, English literary critic and novelist.
 * Ragnvald Mikal Andersen, 95, Norwegian politician.
 * Wally Millies, 88, American baseball player, scout and manager.
 * Bill Richards, 71, Canadian violinist, composer, arranger, and editor.
 * Keith Rigg, 88, Australian cricketer.
 * Max Rudolf, 92, German conductor and music educator.
 * Leonard Shure, 84, American concert pianist.