Deaths in January 1994

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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

 * William Chappell, 86, British dancer, ballet designer and director.
 * Raymond Crotty, 68, Irish economist, writer, and academic.
 * Walter Eckhardt, 87, German politician.
 * Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, 93, New Zealand physician, statesman and athlete.
 * Cesar Romero, 86, American actor (Batman, Ocean's 11, The Thin Man) and activist.
 * E. A. Thompson, 79, Irish-British marxist historian.

2

 * Viktor Aristov, 50, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.
 * Miguel M. Delgado, 88, Mexican film director and screenwriter, cancer.
 * Lys Gauty, 93, French cabaret singer and actress.
 * Dixy Lee Ray, 79, American politician.
 * Vitālijs Rubenis, 79, Latvian communist politician.
 * William Ryan, 72, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
 * Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, 81, French businessman.
 * Eddie Smith, 80, American Major League Baseball player.

3

 * Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, 90, British public servant and politician.
 * Norman Hepple, 85, English painter, engraver and sculptor, traffic accident.
 * Frank Belknap Long, 92, American writer and poet.
 * Marion Ross, 90, Scottish physicist.
 * Heather Sears, 58, British actress, multiple organ failure.
 * Constantin Vișoianu, 96, Romanian jurist, diplomat, and politician, cancer.

4

 * Rahul Dev Burman, 54, Indian music director, cardiovascular disease.
 * Reijer Hooykaas, 87, Dutch historian of science.
 * Eileen Mayo, 87, English-Australian artist and designer.
 * Thirukkuralar V. Munusamy, 80, Indian scholar and politician.

5

 * Aldo Baldin, 49, Brazilian opera tenor.
 * David Bates, 77, Northern Irish mathematician and physicist.
 * Jeanne Carpenter, 76, American child actress of the silent era, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Brian Johnston, 81, British cricket commentator, author, and television presenter, heart attack.
 * Eliška Junková, 93, Czechoslovak automobile racer.
 * Franz Murer, 81, Austrian SS officer and war criminal.
 * Tip O'Neill, 81, American politician, colorectal cancer.
 * Peggy Simpson, 80, British actress.

6

 * Fidel Castaño, 43, Colombian drug lord and paramilitary.
 * Oscar Fraley, 79, American sports writer and author.
 * Cláudia Magno, 35, Brazilian actress and dancer, AIDS-related complications.
 * Per Palle Storm, 83, Danish-Norwegian sculptor and arts professor.
 * Adri van Es, 80, Royal Netherlands Navy vice admiral.
 * Keith Wells, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

7

 * Arthur Dooley, 64, English artist and sculptor.
 * Charlie McNeil, 57, American gridiron football player.
 * Vittorio Mezzogiorno, 52, Italian actor, cancer.
 * Llewellyn Rees, 92, English actor.
 * Phoumi Vongvichit, 84, President of Laos.

8

 * Pat Buttram, 78, American actor (Green Acres, Robin Hood, The Fox and the Hound), kidney failure.
 * René Faye, 70, French cyclist.
 * Harvey Haddix, 68, American baseball pitcher and pitching coach, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Harry Boye Karlsen, 73, Norwegian football player.
 * Roy Kiyooka, 67, Canadian painter, poet, photographer, and multi-media artist.
 * Ruth Osburn, 81, American athlete and Olympian.
 * Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, 99, Indian Hindu religious leader.

9

 * Faruk Barlas, 78, Turkish football player.
 * Kayhan Kaynak, 33, Turkish football player, heart attack.
 * Madge Ryan, 75, Australian actress.
 * Johnny Temple, 66, American Major League Baseball player, pancreatic cancer.
 * Joachim Werner, 84, German archaeologist.

10

 * Michael Aldridge, 73, English actor (Last of the Summer Wine).
 * Sven-Erik Bäck, 74, Swedish composer of classical music.
 * Ien Dales, 62, Dutch socialist politician and social worker, heart attack.
 * Chub Feeney, 72, American baseball executive, heart attack.
 * Yigal Hurvitz, 75, Israeli politician.
 * Girija Kumar Mathur, 75, Indian Hindi writer.
 * Bruno Storti, 80, Italian trade unionist and politician.
 * Clem Stralka, 80, American gridiron football player.
 * Roman Tkachuk, 61, Soviet theatre and film actor.

11

 * Arifin Achmad, 69, Indonesian military officer.
 * József Háda, 82, Hungarian football player.
 * Chester L. Mize, 76, American politician.
 * Helmut Poppendick, 92, German physician and SS officer during World War II.
 * Ram Ramirez, 80, Puerto Rican born jazz pianist and composer.
 * Édouard Rinfret, 88, Canadian politician.
 * Emilio Rosenblueth, 67, Mexican engineer.
 * Robert Winslow, 77, American gridiron football player and coach.

12

 * Samuel Bronston, 85, American film producer, film director, and nephew of communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky, pneumonia.
 * Goran Ivandić, 38, Yugoslav drummer, suicide.
 * Greg Kabat, 82, American and Canadian football player.
 * Gustav Naan, 74, Estonian philosopher and physicist.
 * Nehemiah Tamari, 47, Israeli general, helicopter crash.
 * Arthur Turner, 84, English football player and manager.
 * John West Wells, 86, American paleontologist, cnidariologist, and geologist.

13

 * Hervé Alphand, 86, French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States.
 * Erhard Bauer, 68, German football player.
 * Johan Jørgen Holst, 56, Norwegian politician.
 * Norm Jacobson, 76, Australian rugby player and coach.

14

 * Ahmad Ali, 84, Pakistani novelist, poet, diplomat and scholar.
 * Chesley William Carter, 91, Canadian politician.
 * Jack Faber, 91, American sports coach and microbiologist.
 * Myron Fohr, 81, American racecar driver.
 * Ivan Fuqua, 84, American track and field athlete.
 * Fritz Losigkeit, 80, German flying ace during World War II.
 * Federica Montseny, 88, Spanish politician, anarchist, intellectual and writer.
 * Esther Ralston, 91, American silent film actress, heart attack.
 * Delio Rodríguez, 77, Spanish racing cyclist.
 * Nubar Terziyan, 84, Turkish actor.

15

 * Philippe Brun, 85, French trumpeter.
 * György Cziffra, 72, Hungarian-French pianist and composer, lung cancer.
 * Gabriel-Marie Garrone, 92, French Catholic cardinal.
 * Ben H. Guill, 84, American politician.
 * Martin Kosleck, 89, German actor.
 * Agnar Mykle, 78, Norwegian writer and puppeteer.
 * Harry Nilsson, 52, American singer-songwriter ("Everybody's Talkin'"), heart failure.
 * Harilal Upadhyay, 77, Indian novelist and poet.

16

 * Sidon Ebeling, 93, Swedish long-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Jack Metcalfe, 81, Australian long jumper, triple jumper and javelin thrower.
 * Leland Stowe, 94, American journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
 * Pál Szalai, 78, Hungarian police officer who save hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust during World War II.

17

 * T. T. Fields, 81, American politician.
 * Chung Il-kwon, 76, South Korean general and politician, lymphoma.
 * Yevgeny Ivanov, 68, Soviet spy.
 * Juan Carlos Pugliese, 78, Argentinian lawyer and politician.
 * Helen Stephens, 75, American athlete and Olympic champion.
 * Robin Turton, Baron Tranmire, 90, British politician.

18

 * Arthur Altman, 83, American songwriter.
 * Silvio Bergamini, 70, Italian rower and Olympian.
 * Lee Roy Caffey, 52, American gridiron football player, cancer.
 * Frank M. Carpenter, 91, American entomologist and paleontologist, heart attack
 * Rosemary Glyde, 45, American musician, cancer.
 * Rolf Singer, 87, German mycologist.

19

 * Eugene Kamenka, 65, Australian political philosopher and scholar.
 * Haik Hovsepian Mehr, 49, Iranian-Armenian Protestant minister, murdered.
 * Kenneth Utt, 72, American film producer (The Silence of the Lambs), Oscar winner (1992), bone cancer.
 * Joseph Vliers, 61, Belgian football player.

20

 * Matt Busby, 84, Scottish football player and manager, cancer.
 * Ľubor Kresák, 66, Slovak astronomer.
 * Bedia Muvahhit, 97, Turkish actress.
 * Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, 82, Kenyan chieftain and politician.
 * Darío Segovia, 61, Paraguayan football player.

21

 * Bassel al-Assad, 31, Syrian colonel, politician and son of president Hafez al-Assad, traffic collision.
 * Giorgio Prosperi, 86, Italian screenwriter.
 * Timo Suviranta, 63, Finnish basketball player.
 * Tony Waddington, 69, English football manager
 * Bill Young, 79, American gridiron football player and coach.

22

 * Vincent Allard, 72, Belgian entomologist.
 * Jean-Louis Barrault, 83, French actor, director and mime artist, heart attack.
 * Graziano Battistini, 57, Italian road bicycle racer.
 * Rhett Forrester, 37, American rock singer and musician (Riot), shot during carjacking.
 * Frances Gifford, 73, American actress, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Telly Savalas, 72, American actor (Kojak, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Birdman of Alcatraz) and singer, Emmy winner (1974), cancer.

23

 * Adolph Baller, 84, Austrian-American pianist, kidney failure.
 * Lee Alvin DuBridge, 92, American educator and physicist, pneumonia.
 * Klaus Hemmerle, 64, German Roman Catholic bishop, cancer.
 * Alexei Mozhaev, 75, Soviet and Russian painter, graphic artist, and art teacher.
 * Yngve Nordwall, 85, Swedish film actor and director.
 * Nikolai Ogarkov, 76, Soviet military officer and Hero of the Soviet Union.
 * Eila Pennanen, 77, Finnish writer, critic, and essayist.
 * Brian Redhead, 64, British author, journalist and broadcaster.
 * Millie Robinson, 69, Manx racing cyclist and world hour record holder.
 * Oliver Smith, 75, American scenic designer and interior designer, pulmonary emphysema.

24

 * Sidney Quinn Curtiss, 76, American politician.
 * Raymond F. Jones, 78, American science fiction author.
 * Yves Navarre, 53, French writer, suicide.
 * Helge Vatsend, 65, Norwegian poet and novelist.

25

 * James Boyce, 46, British politician, heart attack.
 * Pat Crawford, 91, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Aida McAnn Flemming, 97, Canadian teacher, writer and animal rights advocate.
 * Stephen Cole Kleene, 85, American mathematician.
 * James Zachery, 35, American gridiron football player, murdered.

26

 * Ales Adamovich, 66, Soviet and Belarusian writer, critic, and academic, heart attack.
 * Elsa Andersson, 99, Swedish diver and Olympian.
 * Lejaren Hiller, 69, American composer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Ivan Warner, 74, American lawyer and politician, cancer.

27

 * Stanley Adams, 86, American lyricist and songwriter, cancer.
 * Claude Akins, 67, American actor (B. J. and the Bear, Inherit the Wind, The Caine Mutiny), cancer.
 * Eddie Calhoun, 72, American jazz double bassist.
 * Alain Daniélou, 86, French historian, musicologist, and indologist.
 * Sherm Feller, 75, American musical composer and radio personality.
 * Hans H. Gattermann, 62, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Sergei Scherbakov, 75, Russian welterweight boxer.
 * Frank Twiss, 83, British Royal Navy admiral.
 * Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov, 89, Russian astrophysicist.

28

 * Afif al-Bizri, 80, Syrian military officer.
 * Emily Taft Douglas, 94, American politician.
 * Betty Go-Belmonte, 60, Filipina journalist and newspaper publisher.
 * Frank Hardy, 76, Australian novelist and writer, heart attack.
 * William Levitt, 86, American real-estate developer regarded as the father of modern American suburbia.
 * George Rosso, 64, American gridiron football player.
 * Hal Smith, 77, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Beauty and the Beast), heart attack.

29

 * Marguerite Allan, 88, Russian-born British actress.
 * Nick Cravat, 82, American actor and stunt performer, cancer, lung cancer.
 * Yevgeny Leonov, 67, Soviet and Russian actor, pulmonary embolism.
 * Ulrike Maier, 26, Austrian alpine ski racer, World Champion and Olympian, skiing accident.
 * Tollien Schuurman, 81, Dutch sprinter and Olympian.
 * Jakobína Sigurðardóttir, 75, Icelandic writer.
 * Jakob Vaage, 88, Norwegian educator, author and historian.

30

 * Pierre Boulle, 81, French novelist.
 * Claude Nigon, 65, French fencer and Olympian.
 * Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby, 81, British peer and philanthropist.
 * Laura Nucci, 80, Italian film actress.
 * Jan Schaefer, 53, Dutch politician and community organiser, diabetes.
 * Rudolf Schwarz, 88, Austrian-American conductor.
 * Bahjat Talhouni, 81, Jordanian politician.
 * Don Turnbull, 84, Australian tennis player.

31

 * Master Abdullah, 64, Pakistani film music composer.
 * Alberto Sorrentino, 77, Italian film actor.
 * Erwin Strittmatter, 81, German writer.
 * Tomanija Đuričko, 79, Serbian actress.