Deaths in January 1995

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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

 * Wilhelm Altar, 94, Austrian theoretical physicist and magneto ionic theory pioneer.
 * Jack Birney, 66, Australian politician.
 * Bill Bryant, 88, Australian cricketer.
 * Warren Caro, 87, American theater executive
 * Ted Hawkins, 58, American singer-songwriter.
 * Nina Leen, 90, Russian-born American photographer for Life
 * J. Miller Leavy, 89, American prosecuting lawyer.
 * Ralph W. Nicholson, 78, American civil servant, military officer, and business executive
 * Jess Stacy, 90, American jazz pianist who played with Benny Goodman.
 * Jack G. Thayer, 72, American radio executive and disc jockey.
 * Ralph E. Van Norstrand, 57, American politician who was Republican Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives
 * Arthur Earl Walker, 87, Canadian-American neurosurgeon, neuroscientist and epileptologist.
 * Fred West, 53, English serial killer, suicide.
 * Eugene Wigner, 92, Hungarian physicist Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, pneumonia.

2

 * Hulbert Aldrich, 87, American banking executive who led the New York Trust Company
 * Ephraim Amu, 95, Ghanaian composer, musicologist and teacher.
 * Joe Balsis, 73–74, American professional pool player.
 * Siad Barre, 84–85, Somalian military leader and statesman, 3rd President of Somalia, heart attack.
 * Don Elston, 65, American baseball player.
 * Tun Mustapha, 76, Malaysian politician and Chief Minister of Sabah
 * Nancy Kelly, 73, American actress, diabetes.
 * Keith McDaniel, 38, American principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and on Broadway
 * Manuel Rivera, 67, Spanish painter
 * Henry Graham Sharp, 77, British figure skater and world champion in 1939.

3

 * Ollie Bejma, 87, American Major League Baseball infielder (Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns).
 * Philip Burton, 86, Irish Fine Gael politician, farmer and auctioneer.
 * Al Duncan, 67, American blues drummer
 * Mickey Haefner, 82, All American baseball player.
 * Roland Harrah III, 21, American film and television child actor, musician, and artist, suicide.
 * Arne Hestenes, 74, Norwegian journalist and author.
 * Byron MacGregor, 46, Canadian news anchor and news director.
 * Robert Marquis, 67–68, German-American architect and academic, complication during surgery
 * Robert Nesbitt, 88, English theatre director, theatrical producer and impresario.
 * Edward Nugent, 90, American actor, writer, and director.
 * Andrija Puharich, 76, American physician.
 * Robley C. Williams, 86, pioneering American biophysicist and virologist.

4

 * Naomi Amir, 63, American-Israeli pediatric neurologist.
 * Ramón Artigas, 86, Spanish swimmer and Olympic athlete.
 * Vladas Drėma, 84, Lithuanian historian.
 * Dorothy Granger, 83, American actress, cancer.
 * Harry Gumbert, 85, American baseball player.
 * Jim Lee Howell, 80, American football player and coach for the NFL's New York Giants.
 * Robert Latham, 82, British editor, scholar, and Pepys Librarian.
 * Eduardo Mata, 52, Mexican conductor and composer, plane crash.
 * Valery Nosik, 54, Soviet/Russian actor.
 * Victor Riesel, 81, American newspaper journalist and columnist, heart failure.
 * Heshmat Sanjari, 77, Iranian conductor and composer.
 * Brooks Stevens, 83, American graphic and industrial designer.
 * Sol Tax, 87, American anthropologist who founded the academic journal Current Anthropology.

5

 * Semi Joseph Begun, 89, German-American engineer and inventor.
 * Somerset de Chair, 83, English author, politician, and poet.
 * Victor Mitchell, 71, American bridge player.
 * Ben Rich, 69, American engineer and the second Director of Lockheed's Skunk Works from 1975 to 1991, esophageal cancer.
 * Mansour Sattari, 46, Iranian Air Force leader, plane crash.
 * Kiyoo Wadati, 92, Japanese seismologist.

6

 * Robert Abajian, 62, American fashion designer and fashion industry executive.
 * Paul-Émile Allard, 74, Canadian provincial politician.
 * Philip Brady, 101, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
 * Tor Burman, 73, Swedish equestrian who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.
 * James Clay, 59, American jazz tenor saxophonist and flutist.
 * Todor Diev, 60, Bulgarian football player.
 * Agustín Gaínza, 72, Spanish football player.
 * Joe Slovo, 68, ANC activist and South African minister of Housing, cancer.

7

 * Ali Aliyev, 57, Soviet freestyle wrestler of Avar-Dagestani descent.
 * Harry Golombek, 83, British chess grandmaster, chess correspondent, and author of more than 30 books on chess.
 * Larry Grayson, 71, English comedian and television presenter.
 * Arthur Leavins, 77, British violinist who was concertmaster of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
 * Walter Rand, 75, American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey.
 * Murray Rothbard, 68, American economist, heart attack.
 * Art Stoefen, 80, American basketball player.
 * Ted Tetzlaff, 91, American cinematographer.

8

 * Hugó Ballya, 86, Hungarian rower who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
 * Beatrice Burnham, 92, American silent film actress.
 * Lemuel Diggs, 95, American pathologist who specialized in sickle cell anemia and hematology.
 * Loulou Gasté, 86, French composer, songwriter.
 * Madhu Limaye, 72, Indian socialist essayist and activist, particularly active in the 1970s.
 * Carlos Monzón, 52, Argentine boxer, traffic accident.
 * Sylvia B. Seaman, 94, American novelist and suffragist.
 * Cao Tianqin, 74, Chinese biochemist.

9

 * Óscar Mendoza Azurdia, 77, Guatemalan general and military junta leader.
 * Jan Bauch, 96, Czech painter and sculptor.
 * Gordon Bruce, 64, Australian politician.
 * Peter Cook, 57, English comedian and writer, gastrointestinal bleeding.
 * Sterling Dow, 91, American classical archaeologist, epigrapher, and professor of archaeology at Harvard University.
 * Gisela Mauermayer, 81, German discus thrower.
 * Ralph Merrifield, 81, English museum curator and archaeologist who was director of the Museum of London.
 * Stig Sjölin, 66, Swedish boxer.
 * Souphanouvong, 85, Laotian royal prince and Communist leader, 1st President of Laos.
 * Xie Youfa, 77, Chinese lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army.

10

 * Roy Ashton, 85, Australian makeup artist and tenor.
 * John H. Bloomer, 64, American attorney and politician who served as President of the Vermont State Senate, accident.
 * Crosby Bonsall, 74, American artist and children's book author and illustrator.
 * Fred Böhler, 82, Swiss jazz keyboardist and bandleader.
 * Nicholas Cavaliere, 95, American cinematographer.
 * Boris Gurevich, 63, Soviet/Russian flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler.
 * George McNeil, 86, American abstract expressionist painter.
 * Michael Meinecke, 53, German art historian, archaeologist, and museum director.
 * Scotty Rankine, 86, Canadian long-distance runner.
 * Arthur Ruysschaert, 84, Belgian football player.
 * Roderick Stephens, 85–86, American sailor and yacht designer.
 * Kathleen Tynan, 57, Canadian-British journalist, author, and screenwriter, cancer.

11

 * Raf Baldassarre, 62, Italian film actor.
 * Ignacio Matte Blanco, 86, Chilean psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
 * John Gere, 73, English art historian and curator at the British Museum.
 * Josef Gingold, 85, Russian-American violinist.
 * Mildred Barry Hughes, 92, American politician who was the first woman elected to the New Jersey Senate.
 * Onat Kutlar, 58, Turkish writer, journalist, and poet, bomb attack.
 * Denis Neville, 79, English football player and manager.
 * Lewis Nixon III, 76, United States Army officer, diabetes.
 * Peter Pratt, 71, British opera singer and actor.
 * Roque Esteban Scarpa, 80, Chilean writer, literary critic and scholar.
 * Hannes Trautloft, 82, German Luftwaffe flying ace during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
 * Theodor Wisch, 87, German Waffen-SS general during World War II.
 * Paul Zumthor, 79, Swiss philologist.

12

 * Kay Aldridge, 77, American actress, lung cancer.
 * Tino Carraro, 84, Italian stage, television and film actor.
 * Henry Cieman, 89–90, Canadian racewalker and Olympian.
 * Robert R. Coats, 84, American geologist.
 * Raymond George, 77, American gridiron football player and coach.
 * Takako Irie, 83, Japanese actress, pneumonia.
 * Jack Lee, 74, English football player.
 * George Price, 93, American cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine for six decades.
 * Kenneth Sterling, 74, American medical doctor and researcher.

13

 * Johnny Carroll, 57, American rockabilly musician, liver failure.
 * Richard Causton, 74, British businessman and author on Buddhism.
 * Max Harris, 73, Australian poet, critic, columnist, commentator, publisher, and bookseller.
 * Ray Johnson, 67, American artist, suicide.
 * David Looker, 81, British bobsledder.
 * Walter Sheridan, 69, American Federal investigator who prosecuted Jimmy Hoffa.
 * Mervyn Stockwood, 81, Welsh Church of England priest.
 * Zsigmond Villányi, 45, Hungarian modern pentathlete.

14

 * Joe Mike Augustine, 83, native leader and historian of the Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation.
 * Huang Chieh, 93, Taiwanese politician and general.
 * Mark Finch, 33, English promoter of LGBTQ cinema, suicide.
 * Alexander Gibson, 68, Scottish conductor.
 * Barbara Jelavich, 71, American professor of history at Indiana University, cancer.
 * David Elliot Johnson, 61, American 14th Bishop of Massachusetts in The Episcopal Church.
 * Daniel Robbins, 62, American art historian, art critic, and curator, cancer.
 * Stafford Somerfield, 84, British newspaper editor.
 * Ruby Starr, 45, American rock singer and recording artist, cancer.
 * Amos N. Wilson, 53, American writer.

15

 * Jef Bruyninckx, 76, Belgian actor, editor and director.
 * Cleo Rickman Fitch, 84, American archaeological researcher.
 * Josef Kemr, 72, Czech actor.
 * Vera Maxwell, 93, American sportswear and fashion designer.
 * Vitaly Parkhimovich, 51, Soviet /Russiansport shooter.
 * Frederick J. Schlink, 103, American consumer rights activist.

16

 * Abel Cestac, 76, Argentine boxer.
 * John Charters, 81, New Zealand rower and Olympic medalist.
 * Paul Delouvrier, 80, French administrator and economist.
 * Bill Dillard, 83, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Eric Mottram, 70, British teacher, critic, editor and poet.

17

 * Evadne Baker, 57, English actress.
 * Rolf Böger, 86, German politician of the Free Democratic Party.
 * Éamonn Goulding, 61, Irish hurler and Gaelic football player.
 * Wilhelm Haferkamp, 71, German politician.
 * Miguel Torga, 87, Portuguese writer.

18

 * Kay B. Barrett, 92, Hollywood talent scout and agent known for her impact on Gone with the Wind, stroke.
 * Adolf Butenandt, 91, German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
 * Clifford Fagan, 83, American basketball player.
 * Roger Gilson, 47, Luxembourgian cyclist.
 * Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, 79, Lithuanian-British industrialist.
 * Ron Luciano, 57, American Major League Baseball umpire, suicide.
 * Ján Takáč, 85, Slovak long-distance runner.

19

 * Roy Barratt, 52, English cricketer.
 * Reinhard Böhler, 49–50, sidecarcross rider and the first-ever Sidecarcross World Championship.
 * Daryl Chapin, 88, American physicist, best known for co-inventing solar cells.
 * John Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray, 84, British peer, businessman and polo player.
 * Hubert Fol, 69, French jazz saxophonist and bandleader.
 * Hermann Henselmann, 89, German architect.
 * Gene MacLellan, 56, Canadian singer-songwriter ("Snowbird", "Put Your Hand in the Hand", "The Call"), suicide.
 * Patricia Teherán Romero, 25, Colombian singer and composer, traffic collision.
 * Italo Viglianesi, 79, Italian trade unionist politician and syndicalist.

20

 * Thomas Arbuthnott, 83, New Zealand boxer.
 * Mehdi Bazargan, 87, 46th Prime Minister of Iran, heart attack.
 * Garrett Howard, 95, Irish hurler.
 * Nobuo Kaneko, 71, Japanese actor.
 * Arthur MacDonald, 75, Australian Army officer and Chief of the General Staff.
 * Norris Weese, 43, American gridiron football player, bone cancer.

21

 * Armando Alemán, 90, Spanish fencer.
 * Russ Bauers, 80, Major League Baseball player.
 * Kenneth Budd, 69, English mural artist.
 * Philippe Casado, 30, French professional road bicycle racer.
 * Alex Groza, 68, American basketball player.
 * John Halas, 82, Hungarian animator.
 * Edward Hidalgo, 82, United States Secretary of the Navy in the Carter administration.
 * Joseph Mruk, 91, American businessman and Republican politician.
 * Bernard L. Oser, 95, American biochemist and food scientist.
 * Sidney Slon, 84, American radio and television writer and actor.
 * John Coyle White, 70, American chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

22

 * Jerry Blackwell, 45, professional wrestler, pneumonia.
 * Stuart Davies, 88, British aerospace engineer.
 * Lawrie Fernandes, 66, Field hockey player.
 * Henry Gladstone, American radio newscaster and actor, heart failure.
 * Rose Kennedy, 104, American philanthropist, pneumonia.
 * Christopher Palmer, 48, British composer.
 * Giulio Turcato, 82, Italian artist.

23

 * Donald Collier, 83, American archaeologist, ethnologist, and museologist.
 * Albertis Harrison, 88, American politician and jurist who was the 59th Governor of Virginia.
 * Ken Hill, 57, English playwright and director, cancer.
 * Peter Luke, 75, British writer, editor, and producer.
 * Carl Mulleneaux, 80, American gridiron football player.
 * Helen Phillips, 81, American sculptor.
 * Saul Rogovin, 72, American professional baseball player, bone cancer.
 * Edward Shils, 84, American sociologist and professor at the University of Chicago.
 * Egidio Viganò, 74, Italian Roman Catholic priest.

24

 * Alf Clay, 81, Australian rules footballer.
 * David Cole, 32, American record producer, meningitis.
 * Edward Colman, 89, American cinematographer (Mary Poppins, The Absent-Minded Professor, That Darn Cat!).
 * Leopoldo Máximo Falicov, 61, Argentine theoretical physicist.
 * Al Hessberg, 78, American college football player and lawyer.
 * Anton Idzkovsky, 87, Ukrainian football player and manager.
 * Regina Linnanheimo, 79, Finnish actor and screenwriter.
 * Victor Reinganum, 87–88, British artist and illustrator.
 * Kermit Smith Jr., 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

25

 * George P. Baker, 91, fifth dean of the Harvard Business School.
 * Fritz Dorls, 84, German far-right politician and former Nazi Party member.
 * Erich Hof, 58, Austrian football player and coach, lung cancer.
 * John Smith, 63, American actor (Laramie, Cimarron City, Circus World), cirrhosis.
 * Suzanne Storrs, 60, American beauty queen and actress.
 * William Sylvester, 72, American actor (2001: A Space Odyssey, Gemini Man, Gorgo).
 * Albert W. Tucker, 89, Canadian mathematician.

26

 * Ole Ålgård, 74, Norwegian diplomat.
 * Franz Allers, 89, American conductor.
 * Charles Altemose, 81, American soccer player.
 * Marcel Bidot, 92, French professional road bicycle racer who won two stages of the Tour de France.
 * Vic Buckingham, 79, English footballer and manager.
 * William Cammisano, 80, American mobster and member of the Kansas City crime family, kidney failure.
 * Louis Heren, 75, British journalist.
 * Alaric Jacob, 85, British writer.
 * Bernardo Leighton, 85, Chilian politician, cardiovascular disease.
 * Gordon Oliver, 84, American actor and film producer.
 * Geoffrey Parsons, 65, Australian pianist, cancer.
 * John Vaughan-Morgan, Baron Reigate, 89, British politician.
 * Cecil Roy, 94, American actress.
 * Zeng Shaoshan, 80, Chinese politician.
 * Ian Tomlinson, 58, Australian triple jumper and long jumper.
 * Pat Welsh, 79, American actress (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), pneumonia.

27

 * Raynald Arseneault, 49, Canadian composer and organist.
 * Alexis Brimeyer, 48, pretender who claimed connection to various European thrones, AIDS-related complications.
 * Bob Chandler, 45, American gridiron football player, lung cancer.
 * Richard A. Moore, 81, American lawyer and communications executive and ambassador, prostate cancer.
 * Raphael M. Robinson, 83, American mathematician.
 * Jean Tardieu, 91, French dramatist, artist, and musician.

28

 * Philip Burton, 90, Welsh theatre director, producer, and teacher.
 * Aldo Gordini, 73, Racecar driver.
 * James P. Grant, 72, Canadian-American diplomat, children's advocate, and Director of UNICEF.
 * Richard L. Roudebush, 77, U.S. Representative from Indiana.
 * Ferruccio Tagliavini, 81, Italian opera singer.
 * George Woodcock, 82, Canadian writer, philosopher, essayist and literary critic.

29

 * Antonio Brivio, 89, Italian bobsledder and racing driver.
 * Dickie Burnell, 77, English rower and fold medalist.
 * Guy Clutton-Brock, 88, English social worker and later a Zimbabwean nationalist.
 * Joseph Aubin Doiron, 72, Canadian politician.
 * Kuldar Sink, 52, Estonian composer and flautist.
 * Song Sung-il, 25, South Korean wrestler, stomach cancer.

30

 * Angela Calomiris, 78, American photographer and secret FBI informant.
 * Robert Craig, 77, Scottish academic and church leader.
 * Mumtaz Daultana, 78, Indian politician.
 * Gerald Durrell, 70, British naturalist, author, and television presenter.
 * George James, 88, American jazz saxophonist.
 * Arthur Julian, 71, American television writer and producer (Gimme a Break!, Amen, The Carol Burnett Show).
 * Olga Modrachová, 64, Czechoslovak high jumper, pentathlete, long jumper, sprinter and hurdler.
 * George Poyser, 84, English footballer and manager.

31

 * George Abbott, 107, American writer, director, and producer, stroke.
 * Leo Joseph Brust, 79, American Catholic bishop.
 * Paul Collins, 68, Canadian long-distance runner and Olympic athlete.
 * Bernard N. Fields, 56, American microbiologist and virologist, pancreatic cancer.
 * James Johnson, 86, English MP..
 * Gerhart Lüders, 74, German physicist.
 * Kerttu Saalasti, 87, Finnish politician.
 * John Smith, 74, longtime chairman of Liverpool F.C.
 * George Stibitz, 90, American computational engineer.
 * James Wilson, 94, American long-distance motorcyclist and author.