Deaths in July 1994

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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

 * Markus Barth, 78, Swiss scholar of theology.
 * George Cannon, 62, Canadian pro wrestler and wrestling manager, cancer.
 * Helena Grossówna, 89, Polish actress and dancer.
 * Asif Maharammov, 41, Azerbaijani lieutenant colonel, tuberculosis.

2

 * Lucio Amelio, 62, Italian art dealer, curator, and actor.
 * Roberto Balado, 25, Cuban amateur boxer and Olympic champion, railway accident.
 * Andrés Escobar, 27, Colombian football player, homicide.
 * Maung Maung, 69, President of Burma and writer, heart attack.
 * Ralph Rinzler, 59, American mandolin player, folksinger, and festival organizer.
 * Marion Williams, 66, American gospel singer.

3

 * Zelma Watson George, 90, American opera singer and philanthropist.
 * Lew Hoad, 59, Australian tennis player, leukemia.
 * Felix Kelly, 80, New Zealand-British graphic designer, painter, stage designer, and illustrator.
 * John Aloysius Marshall, 66, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
 * Petey Sarron, 87, American boxer.
 * Héctor Xavier, 73, Mexican sketch artist.

4

 * Almiro Bergamo, 81, Italian rower and Olympian.
 * Stevan Dohanos, 87, American artist and illustrator, pneumonia.
 * Alfred Harvey, 80, American comic book publisher and comic book character creator (Richie Rich, Little Dot).
 * Joey Marella, 31, American professional wrestling referee, traffic collision.
 * Gerard C. Smith, 80, American attorney and defense expert.
 * Hedda Zinner, 90, German actress, comedian, journalist and radio director.

5

 * Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, 86, Indian independence activist and writer.
 * Charles Comfort, 93, Scottish-Canadian painter, sculptor, and writer.
 * Ju Do-il, 72, North Korean army officer, politician and the personal guard of Kim Il Sung.
 * Mammadali Huseynov, 72, Azerbaijani/Soviet archaeologist.
 * Lennart Klingström, 78, Swedish sprint canoeist and Olympian.
 * Tawfiq Ziad, 65, Palestinian Israeli politician, traffic collision.

6

 * Alfonso Casasempere, 84, Chilean swimmer and Olympian.
 * Geoff McQueen, 46, British television screenwriter, aneurysm.
 * Cameron Mitchell, 75, American actor (Death of a Salesman, How to Marry a Millionaire, The High Chaparral), lung cancer.
 * Baruch Osnia, 88, Israeli politician.
 * Jim Stott, 74, English rugby player.

7

 * Aspy Adajania, 52, Indian officer and boxing administrator.
 * Aaron Antonovsky, 70, Israeli-American sociologist and academic.
 * Carlo Chiti, 69, Italian racing car and engine designer.
 * Anita Garvin, 88, American stage performer and film actress.
 * Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, 87, German paratroop officer during World War II and academic.
 * Anna Kostrova, 84, Soviet/Russian painter, graphic artist, and book illustrator.
 * John S.R. Shad, 71, American diplomat and ambassador.
 * Ka. Mu. Sheriff, 79, Indian writer and poet.

8

 * Christian-Jaque, 89, French filmmaker, heart attack.
 * Robert B. Hauser, 75, American cinematographer.
 * Kim Il Sung, 82, Founder and first leader of North Korea, heart attack.
 * Robert Edwin Lee, 75, American playwright and lyricist.
 * Lars-Eric Lindblad, 67, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer.
 * José García Narezo, 71, Mexican painter.
 * Dick Sargent, 64, American actor (Bewitched, Operation Petticoat, Down to Earth), prostate cancer.

9

 * Enrico Airoldi, 70, Italian bobsledder.
 * Trevor King, 41, British Ulster loyalist and UVF member.
 * Sabby Lewis, 79, American jazz pianist, band leader, and arranger.
 * Bill Mosienko, 72, Ukrainian Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Paul M. Naghdi, 70, Iranian-American engineer, lung cancer.
 * Surendra Nath, 68, Indian politician and Governor of Punjab.
 * W. L. Warren, 64, British historian and medievalist.

10

 * Lélia Gonzalez, 59, Brazilian politician, anthropologist and human rights activist.
 * André Joseph Guillaume Henri Kostermans, 88, Indonesian botanist.
 * Robert Mellin, 91, Ukrainian-American composer, lyricist and music publisher.
 * Earl Strom, 66, American National Basketball Association referee, brain cancer.

11

 * Lex Humphries, 57, American jazz drummer.
 * Gary Kildall, 52, American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur, injury.
 * Rama Raghoba Rane, 76, Indian Army officer.
 * Savannah, 23, American pornographic film actress, suicide.

12

 * Abdul Jamil Abdul Rais, 82, Malaysian civil servant.
 * James H. Aitchison, 85-86, Canadian academic and politician.
 * Elder Paisios of Mount Athos, 69, Greek Eastern Orthodox monk, cancer.
 * James Joll, 76, British historian.
 * Irena Krzywicka, 95, Polish feminist, writer, and women's rights activist.
 * David Malcolm Lewis, 66, English historian.
 * Wal-Berg, 83, French composer and conductor.

13

 * Eddie Boyd, 79, American blues pianist, singer and songwriter.
 * Anita Bärwirth, 75, German gymnast.
 * Gerry Couture, 68, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * John Kramer, 59, Danish football player.
 * Juozas Miltinis, 86, Lithuanian actor and theatre director.
 * Jimmie Reese, 92, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Murray Tyrrell, 80, Australian public servant.
 * Marik Vos-Lundh, 71, Swedish costume designer.
 * Olin Chaddock Wilson, 85, American astronomer.

14

 * Robert Jungk, 81, Austrian writer, journalist, historian and pacifist.
 * Eric Linden, 84, American actor.
 * Alberto Lionello, 64, Italian film actor, singer and presenter, cancer.
 * Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, 96, Dutch engraver, visual artist, and book designer.
 * César Tovar, 54, Venezuelan baseball player, pancreatic cancer.

15

 * Patricio Carvajal, 77, Chilean admiral and member of the military dictatorship, suicide.
 * Harald Molander, 84, Swedish film producer.
 * Mona Rico, 87, Mexican-American actress.
 * William Walters, 86, South African athlete and Olympian.

16

 * Madzy Rollin Couquerque, 91, Dutch hockey- and tennis player.
 * Robert Médus, 65, French rugby union and rugby league football player.
 * William Revelli, 92, American conductor.
 * Julian Schwinger, 76, American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, pancreatic cancer.

17

 * Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana, 86, Indonesian novelist and poet.
 * Krešimir Arapović, 69, Croatian football player and manager.
 * Jean Borotra, 95, French tennis champion.
 * Harry Harris, 74, British-American biochemist and geneticist.
 * Horrie Gorringe, 99, Australian rules football player.
 * Billy Hillenbrand, 72, American gridiron football player.
 * Henry Maier, 76, American politician, pneumonia.
 * Jerry Mays, 54, American gridiron football player, melanoma.
 * Enrique San Pedro, 66, Cuban-American Roman Catholic bishop and missionary.
 * Gozo Shioda, 78, Japanese master of aikido.

18

 * Predrag Golubović, 59, Serbian film director and screenwriter.
 * Merle Hapes, 75, American gridiron football player.
 * Leonas Petrauskas, 75, Lithuanian basketball player.
 * Jens Scheer, 59, German physicist and anti-nuclear activist.
 * Michele Zaza, 49, Italian member of the Camorra criminal organisation, heart attack.

19

 * Eilís Dillon, 74, Irish author.
 * Rudolf Firkušný, 82, Moravian-American classical pianist.
 * Ray Flaherty, 90, American NBA football player and coach.
 * Ernst Müller-Hermann, 78, German politician.
 * Andy Penman, 51, Scottish football player.
 * Gottfried Reinhardt, 81, Austrian-American film director and producer, pancreatic cancer.
 * W. L. Warren, 64, British historian and medievalist.
 * Han Xu, 70, Chinese diplomat.

20

 * Paul Delvaux, 96, Belgian painter.
 * Patrick J. Hillings, 71, American politician.
 * Suzanne Juyol, 74, French opera soprano.
 * Laila Shahzada, 68, Pakistani abstract painter, killed in gas explosion.
 * Choi Yung-keun, 71, South Korean football player.

21

 * Pere Calders, 80, Spanish writer and cartoonist.
 * Dorothy Collins, 67, Canadian-American singer, actress, and recording artist, asthma.
 * John Ernest, 72, American abstract artist.
 * Clarissa Kaye, 63, Australian actress, cancer.
 * Charles Lynch, 74, Canadian journalist and author.
 * Marijac, 85, French comics writer, artist, and editor.
 * Henri Mouillefarine, 83, French cyclist.
 * Hugh Scott, 93, American lawyer and politician, heart attack.

22

 * Colin Cole, 78, English cricket player.
 * Jack Harrold, 74, American opera singer.
 * Jim Healy, 70, American sports commentator, complications of liver cancer.
 * Alexandre Hogue, 96, American artist.
 * Kho Ping Hoo, 67/68, Indonesian writer.

23

 * Eva Bacon, 85, Austrian-Australian activist and feminist.
 * Mario Brega, 71, Italian actor, heart attack.
 * Umberto Cerati, 83, Italian long-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Hans J. Salter, 98, Austrian-American film composer (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).
 * Lennox Sebe, 67, President of Ciskei.
 * John Marlow Thompson, 79, British RAF officer and flying ace during World War II.

24

 * Leo Brongersma, 87, Dutch zoologist, herpetologist, and author.
 * Helen Cordero, 79, American Cochiti Pueblo potter.
 * Utaro Hashimoto, 87, Japanese 9-dan Go player.
 * Robert Wangila, 26, Kenyan boxer and Olympic champion, injuries sustained during boxing match.

25

 * Walter Baxter, 79, English novelist.
 * Gerald Eades Bentley, 92, American academic and literary scholar.
 * Jack Clemo, 78, British poet and writer.
 * David Regan, 55, British academic, suicide.
 * William E. Schevill, 88, American paleontologist.

26

 * James Luther Adams, 92, American theologian.
 * Roland Gladu, 83, Canadian baseball third baseman.
 * Christy Henrich, 22, American artistic gymnast, anorexia nervosa.
 * W. Dorr Legg, 89, American landscape architect gay rights activist.
 * Tonia Marketaki, 51, Greek film director and screenwriter.
 * Ernst Schröder, 79, German actor, suicide.
 * Terry Scott, 67, English actor and comedian, cancer.
 * Junnosuke Yoshiyuki, 70, Japanese novelist and short-story writer, liver cancer.

27

 * Kevin Carter, 33, South African photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, suicide.
 * Rosa Chacel, 96, Spanish writer.
 * Irving Folwartshny, 80, American hammer thrower and weight thrower.
 * Eduard Kolmanovsky, 71, Soviet/Russian composer.
 * Howie Livingston, 72, American gridiron football player.
 * Tai Solarin, 71, Nigerian educator and author.

28

 * Bernard Delfont, 84, Russian-British theatrical impresario.
 * Arthur Holt, 83, British cricket player.
 * Alfred Phillips, 86, Canadian diver and Olympian.
 * Erwin Ringel, 73, Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist.
 * Colin Turnbull, 69, British-American anthropologist, AIDS-related complications.
 * Munawwaruz Zaman, 44, Pakistani field hockey player, heart atack.

29

 * Grigol Abashidze, 79, Georgian poet.
 * John Britton, 69, American physician, homicide.
 * Dorothy Hodgkin, 84, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Mussum, 53, Brazilian actor and musician, cardiovascular disease.
 * Paul Francis Tanner, 89, American Roman Catholic bishop.

30

 * Ipče Ahmedovski, 28, Serbian and Macedonian folk singer, road accident.
 * John Barnabas, 64, Indian evolutionary biologist.
 * Janis Carter, 80, American actress, heart attack.
 * Lionel Deraniyagala, 53, Sri Lankan actor.
 * Konstantin Kalser, 73, German-American film producer and advertising executive.
 * Derek Raymond, 63, English crime writer.
 * Ryszard Riedel, 37, Polish singer and songwriter.
 * Theo van Scheltinga, 80, Dutch chess player.

31

 * Joe Bratty, 33, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, shot by the IRA.
 * Raymond Elder, 32, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, shot by the IRA.
 * Carlos A. Santos-Viola, 82, Filipino architect.
 * Anne Shelton, 70, English vocalist, heart attack.
 * Caitlin Thomas, 80, English author and the wife of writer Dylan Thomas.