Deaths in July 1995

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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

 * Paul Nguyễn Văn Bình, 84, Vietnamese prelate of the Catholic Church and first Archbishop of Saigon.
 * Akanu Ibiam, 88, Nigerian medical missionary and politician.
 * Wolfman Jack, 57, American disc jockey.
 * Bruce Mitchell, 86, South African cricket opening batsman.
 * Nikolay Peyko, 79, Russian composer and educator.
 * Roger Dale Stafford, 43, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.

2

 * Menachem Mendel Futerfas, 87, Russian educator and rabbi.
 * John C. Higgins, 87, Canadian-American screenwriter.
 * Gervase Jackson-Stops, 48, British architectural historian and journalist.
 * Zdeněk Košler, 67, Czech conductor.
 * Lloyd MacPhail, 75, Canadian politician and 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.
 * Geraint Morgan, 74, British lawyer and politician.
 * George Seldes, 104, American investigative journalist.
 * Krissy Taylor, 17, American model, asthma.
 * Maria Vinogradova, 72, Russian actress.

3

 * Charley Eckman, 73, American basketball coach and referee, colorectal cancer.
 * Ricardo Alonso González, 67, American tennis champion, stomach cancer.
 * Bert Hardy, 82, British photographer.
 * Alexander Langer, 49, Italian journalist, peace activist, politician, and teacher, suicide.
 * Eddie Mazur, 65, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Gil J Wolman, 65, French artist and member of the Ultra-Lettrist movement.

4

 * Margaret F. Ackroyd, 87, American civil servant from Providence, Rhode Island.
 * Andrew John Berger, 79, American ornithologist from the American Museum of Natural History.
 * Arsen Diklić, 72, Serbian poet, novelist and film director.
 * Seán Fallon, 57, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
 * Eva Gabor, 76, Hungarian-American actress (Green Acres, The Aristocats, The Rescuers) and socialite, pneumonia.
 * Yevhen Hutsalo, 58, Ukrainian writer and journalist.
 * Bharat Rangachary, 41, Indian Bollywood film director and producer.
 * Bob Ross, 52, American television painter (The Joy of Painting), lymphoma.
 * Gilberto Bosques Saldívar, 102, Mexican diplomat.
 * Åke Samuelsson, 81, Swedish footballer.
 * Karim Sanjabi, 89, Iranian politician.

5

 * Bernice Ackerman, 69–70, American meteorologist and first woman weathercaster in the U.S.
 * Stepan Bakhayev, 73, Soviet Air Force major and flying ace.
 * Renato Baldini, 73, Italian film actor.
 * Viktoria Brezhneva, 86, wife of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, diabetes.
 * Christian Calmes, 81, Luxembourg civil servant, lawyer, and historian.
 * Johan Koren Christie, 85, Norwegian engineer and air force officer.
 * John Dittrich, 62, American gridiron football player.
 * Takeo Fukuda, 90, Japanese politician, 46th Prime Minister of Japan, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Foster Furcolo, 83, American lawyer, writer, and politician.
 * Jüri Järvet, 76, Soviet/Estonian actor and theatre director.
 * Ray Nolting, 81, American gridiron football player and college football coach.

6

 * Saidye Rosner Bronfman, 98, Canadian philanthropist and matriarch of the Bronfman family.
 * Philip Clarke, 62, Irish politician, cyclist, and Irish Republican Army member.
 * Aziz Nesin, 79, Turkish writer, heart attack.
 * Howard Henry Peckham, 84, American historian.
 * Eduardo Viso, 75, Spanish football player and football manager.

7

 * Geoffrey Freeman Allen, 73, British writer on railways.
 * Jean Bony, 86, French medieval architectural historian.
 * Martin Bucksbaum, 74, American businessman and shopping center development pioneer.
 * Marga Höffgen, 74, German contralto.
 * Helene Johnson, 89, African-American poet during the Harlem Renaissance.
 * Léon Le Calvez, 86, French bicycle racer.
 * Eeva-Liisa Manner, 73, Finnish poet and playwright.
 * Ralph Neves, 78, American jockey.
 * Thomas Tyra, 62, American composer, arranger, and bandmaster.
 * Al Unser, 82, American baseball player.

8

 * Günter Bialas, 87, German composer.
 * Paul Bonneau, 76, French conductor, composer and arranger.
 * Edmondo Fabbri, 73, Italian football player and coach.
 * Jean-Paul Harroy, 86, Belgian colonial civil servant and governor Ruanda-Urundi.
 * George Johnson, 74, Canadian medical doctor and political reformer.
 * Pál Kovács, 82, Hungarian athlete and Olympian.
 * Dorothy Stanley-Turner, 78, English racing driver.
 * Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder, 89, Dutch missionary and linguist.

9

 * Dennis Allen, 56, English football player and manager.
 * Kazimierz Godłowski, 60, Polish archeologist and historian.
 * Vera Thomas, 73, English table tennis and tennis player.
 * James Cameron Tudor, 75, Barbadian politician and diplomat.

10

 * Mehmet Ali Aybar, 86, Turkish politician and Olympian, heart failure.
 * Reds Bagnell, 66, American football player.
 * August Belmont IV, 86, American investment banker and thoroughbred racehorse owner.
 * James Harvey Brown, 89, American politician and judge.
 * Văn Cao, 71, Vietnamese composer.
 * Hugh Dundas, 74, British RAF fighter pilot during World War II and television executive.
 * Barbara Lyon, 63, American singer and actress, cerebral hemorrhage.

11

 * John Cruickshank, 70, Irish scholar and writer on the French language, literature and culture.
 * David J. Kennedy, 88, American politician.
 * Gojko Nikoliš, 83, Yugoslavia/Serbian partisan general, physician, and historian.
 * Helma Seitz, 82, German actress.
 * Don Starr, 77, American actor, fall.

12

 * Lennart Ahlin, 78, Swedish sports shooter.
 * Michael Clegg, 62, British museum curator, naturalist, and television presenter.
 * Earl Coleman, 69, American jazz singer.
 * Ashapoorna Devi, 86, Indian novelist and poet.
 * Gordon Flemyng, 61, Scottish television and film director.
 * Erich Kulka, 84, Czech-Israeli writer, historian and journalist.
 * Sean Mayes, 50, British pianist and writer.
 * John Yudkin, 84, British physiologist and nutritionist

13

 * Ali Al-Wardi, 81, Iraqi social scientist.
 * Aimé Barelli, 78, French jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and band leader.
 * Varyl Begg, 86, British Royal Navy admiral, Alzheimer's disease.
 * József Bencsics, 61, Hungarian football player.
 * Garth Butler, 72, English footballer.
 * Devyani Chaubal, 52–53, Indian journalist and columnist.
 * Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, 75, Danish toy manufacturer and managing director of Lego.
 * Bilge Karasu, 65, Turkish short story writer and novelist.
 * Peter Morrison, 51, British politician.
 * Matti Pellonpää, 44, Finnish actor and a musician, heart attack.

14

 * Elsebeth Brehm, 93, Danish tennis player and Olympic athlete.
 * Henri Gastaut, 80, French neurologist and epileptologist.
 * Sergey Shupletsov, 25, Russian freestyle skier and Olympic medalist, traffic collision.
 * Volodymyr, 69, Ukrainian patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

15

 * Bill Amick, 69, American NASCAR driver.
 * Khalid Bakdash, 82–83, Syrian communist politician.
 * Delia Bogard, 74, American actress and dancer.
 * Sylvia Bossu, 33, French conceptual artist, car accident.
 * Robert-Joseph Coffy, 74, French Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Marseille.
 * Ivano Staccioli, 68, Italian film actor.

16

 * Charles Bruck, 84, French-American conductor and teacher.
 * Torfi Bryngeirsson, 68, Icelandic athlete who competed in the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics.
 * Gustaf Ekström, 87, Swedish chemist, SS volunteer, and politician.
 * Mordechai Gur, 65, Israeli military officer and politician, suicide.
 * Patsy Ruth Miller, 91, American actress, heart attack.
 * Zenonas Puzinauskas, 75, Lithuanian basketball player.
 * May Sarton, 83, Belgian-American feminist writer, breast cancer.
 * Stephen Spender, 86, English poet and writer.
 * Charles Woodbridge, 93, American missionary, minister, and founding member of the National Association of Evangelicals.
 * Elvis Álvarez, 30, Colombian flyweight boxer, homicide.

17

 * Lionel Billas, 66, French long-distance runner who competed in the marathon at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
 * Gani Bobi, 51, Albanian philosopher and sociologist from Kosovo.
 * Harvey Charters, 83, Canadian flatwater canoeist who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
 * Robert Close, 92, Australian novelist.
 * Ephraim Evron, 75, Israeli diplomat.
 * Juan Manuel Fangio, 84, Argentine race car driver.
 * Harry Guardino, 69, American actor (Dirty Harry, The Enforcer, Pork Chop Hill), lung cancer.
 * Herb Hippauf, 56, American professional baseball player and scout, cancer.
 * Rainer Kunad, 58, German conductor and composer.
 * Michael Ljunggren, 33, Swedish outlaw biker and gangster, murdered.

18

 * Bernard Bolender, 42, American mass murderer, execution by electrocution.
 * Fabio Casartelli, 24, Italian cyclist, bicycle crash during the 1995 Tour de France.
 * Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, 95, Swedish modern pentathlete and naval officer.
 * Ryōichi Sasakawa, 96, Japanese suspected war criminal, businessman, politician, and philanthropist.
 * Subagio Sastrowardoyo, 71, Indonesian poet, short-story writer, essayist and literary critic.
 * Princess Srinagarindra, The Princess Mother of Thailand, 94, Thai princess, kidney disease.

19

 * Michael Andrews, 66, British painter.
 * Balakrishna, 78, Indian actor.
 * Sydney Lipton, 89, British dance band leader.
 * Brian Lloyd, 68, English rower and Olympian.
 * Víctor Manuel Mendoza, 81, Mexican film actor.
 * Tomás Méndez, 68, Mexican composer and singer of Mexican music and ranchera music.
 * Kim Pong-ryul, 77, North Korean general of the Korean People's Army.
 * René Privat, 64, French road bicycle racer.

20

 * Pierre Barbet, 70, French science fiction writer.
 * Bernard Callinan, 82, Australian soldier, civil engineer, businessman, and sport administrator.
 * Cesare Emiliani, 72, Italian-American scientist, geologist, micropaleontologist, and founder of paleoceanography.
 * Helmut Gernsheim, 82, German photographer, collector and historian.
 * Ernest Mandel, 72, Belgian Marxian economist and a Trotskyist activist and theorist, heart attack.
 * Natalia Shpiller, 85, Czech-Russian operatic soprano and a People's Artist of Russia.
 * Raimundo Tupper, 26, Chilean football player, suicide.

21

 * Viktor Barannikov, 54, Soviet Interior Minister in 1991 and Russia Minister from 1992 to 1993.
 * Yves Cros, 71, French athlete and Olympian.
 * Heinrich Dumoulin, 90, German Jesuit theologian, philosopher and author.
 * Jon Hinson, 53, American politician.
 * Sajjad Hussain, 78, Indian film score composer.
 * Claude McLin, 69, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
 * Elleston Trevor, 75, British novelist and playwright.
 * Michael Wisher, 60, English actor (Doctor Who).

22

 * Tami Ben-Ami, 39–40, Israeli supermodel, cervical cancer.
 * Jack Bergin, 74, New Zealand neurologist.
 * Otakar Borůvka, 96, Czech mathematician known for his contribution to graph theory.
 * Dave Clark, 86, pioneering African-American record promoter.
 * Daniel Dixon, 2nd Baron Glentoran, 83, Northern Ireland soldier and politician.
 * Percy Humphrey, 90, American jazz trumpeter and band leader.
 * Roly Jenkins, 76, English cricketeer.
 * Harold Larwood, 90, British cricket player.
 * Shiva Kumar Rai, 76, Indian writer and politician.
 * Joshua Smith, 90, Australian artist.

23

 * Ray Beverton, 72, British biologist who made important contributions to fisheries science.
 * Vernon Cheadle, 85, American botanist, educator and university administrator.
 * Chuck Hanger, 71, American basketball player.
 * Mario Passano, 70, Argentine film actor and tango performer, heart attack.
 * Berta Scharrer, 88, American scientist.
 * Trần Kim Tuyến, 70, Vietnamese diplomat and Chief of intelligence of South Vietnam.
 * Kees Verwey, 95, Dutch painter.

24

 * Sadik Achmet, 48, Greek medical doctor and politician, traffic collision.
 * Turan Amirsoleimani, 90, Iranian royal.
 * Martha Boaz, 83, American librarian.
 * Endre Bán, 61, Hungarian Catholic priest, theologian, and professor.
 * Judith Dvorkin, 67, American composer and librettist.
 * Hassan Katsina, 62, Nigerian general and last Governor of Northern Nigeria.
 * Jerry Lordan, 61, English songwriter, composer and singer, acute renal failure.
 * Jerzy Toeplitz, 85, Russian film maker.
 * Hans Wind, 75, Finnish fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.

25

 * Janice Elliott, 63, English fiction writer, journalist and children's writer.
 * Eddie Isbey, 77, New Zealand politician.
 * Rosalia Maggio, 74, Italian actress, dancer, singer and showgirl, cancer.
 * Osvaldo Pugliese, 89, Argentine tango musician.
 * Charlie Rich, 62, American singer, pulmonary embolism.
 * Hermine Tobolowsky, 74, American Equal Rights Amendment activist.

26

 * Doris Akers, 72, American gospel music composer, arranger and singer, spinal cord neoplasm.
 * Laurindo Almeida, 77, Brazilian guitarist and composer in classical, jazz, and Latin music, cancer.
 * Jaime de Mora y Aragón, 70, Spanish aristocrat and actor.
 * Gawain Westray Bell, 86, British colonial administrator and Governor of Northern Nigeria.
 * Sam Benson, 86, Australian politician.
 * Eleanore Griffin, 91, American screenwriter (Boys Town), Oscar winner (1939).
 * Heinrich Heesch, 89, German mathematician.
 * Baruch Korff, 81, Ukrainian-American Orthodox rabbi and American-Jewish community activist.
 * Pietro Leoni, 86, Mexican Dominican priest.
 * Boy Lornsen, 72, German sculptor and children's author.
 * Raymond Mailloux, 77, Canadian politician and Cabinet Minister.
 * George Rodger, 87, British photojournalist.
 * George W. Romney, 88, American politician and 43rd Governor of Michigan and father of Mitt Romney, heart attack.
 * Ismayil Shykhly, 76, Azerbaijani writer.

27

 * Iza Bieżuńska-Małowist, 78, Polish historian and professor at the University of Warsaw.
 * Don Carpenter, 64, American novelist and playwright, suicide.
 * Vladimír Dzurilla, 52, Slovak ice hockey goaltender and Olympian.
 * Melih Esenbel, 80, Turkish diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
 * Rick Ferrell, 89, American Major League Baseball baseball player, coach, and scout.
 * Miklós Rózsa, 88, Hungarian film composer (Ben-Hur, Spellbound, The Thief of Baghdad), Oscar winner (1946, 1948, 1960).

28

 * Susie Cooper, 92, British artist.
 * Douglas Dalton, 82, New Zealand rugby player.
 * Eddie Hinton, 51, American songwriter and session musician.
 * Casper Oimoen, 89, American ski jumper.

29

 * Juozas Bulavas, 86, Lithuanian legal scholar, academic, and politician.
 * Philippe De Lacy, 78, French-American silent film era child actor, cancer.
 * Les Elgart, 77, American swing jazz bandleader and trumpeter.
 * Canray Fontenot, 72, American Creole fiddle player.
 * Kurt Gudewill, 84, German musicologist.
 * Leo Kofler, 88, Austrian-German Marxist sociologist.
 * Miklós Meszéna, 54, Hungarian fencer.
 * Kevin Tame, 63, Australian footballer.
 * Severino Varela, 81, Uruguayan football player.

30

 * Nalin Angammana, 49–50, Sri Lanka Army officer, homicide.
 * Aleksander Bardini, 81, Polish theatre and opera director, actor, and educator.
 * Pelle Christensen, 72, Norwegian actor and translator.
 * Nando Cicero, 64, Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.
 * Charles Dunn, 80, British japanologist from the SOAS University of London.
 * Alfredo Giannetti, 71, Italian screenwriter and film director.
 * Anthony Jennings, 50, New Zealand harpsichordist, organist, director, and academic.
 * Harry L. Shorto, 75, British linguist and leading scholar of Mon and Khmer languages.
 * Verner E. Suomi, 79, Finnish-American educator, inventor, and scientist.

31

 * Joan Embury Cochran, 82, New Zealand social reformer and sex educator.
 * Bernhard Jope, 81, German Luftwaffe bomber pilot during World War II.
 * Thomas E. Morgan, 88, American politician.
 * Genevieve Tobin, 95, American actress.
 * Lola Todd, 91, American silent film era actress.