Deaths in June 1994

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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

 * Jean-Joël Barbier, 74, French writer and pianist.
 * David Guthrie Catcheside, 87, British plant geneticist.
 * Herrlee Glessner Creel, 89, American sinologist and philosopher.
 * Henri Desroche, 79, French sociologist.
 * David Fairbairn, 77, Australian politician.
 * Frances Heflin, 73, American actress, lung cancer.
 * Frans Mosman, 89, Dutch fencer and Olympian.

2

 * Odd Dahl, 95, Norwegian engineer and explorer.
 * Ole Hegge, 95, Norwegian cross-country skier, ski jumper and Olympian.
 * Sandhya Kumari, 49, Sri Lankan actress.
 * David Stove, 66, Australian philosopher, suicide.

3

 * Puig Aubert, 69, French rugby player, and football player and coach, heart attack.
 * Duarte de Almeida Bello, 72, Portuguese sailor.
 * Stuart Blanch, 76, English Anglican priest, bishop and archbishop.
 * Savaş Buldan, 30, Kurdish businessman, homicide.
 * Jack Cowie, 82, New Zealand cricket player.
 * William Everson, 81, American poet and literary critic.
 * Wally Fowler, 77, American gospel music singer, manager, and music promoter.
 * Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel, 90, Indian politician.
 * Lucien Prival, 92, American film actor.
 * Jack Stroud, 66, American gridiron football player.
 * Pablo Muñoz Vega, 91, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate and Jesuit.

4

 * Giovanni Azzini, 64, Italian football player.
 * Toto Bissainthe, 60, Haitian actress and singer, liver cancer.
 * Zeke Clements, 82, American country musician.
 * Jean Daetwyler, 87, Swiss composer and musician.
 * Derek Leckenby, 51, English musician and lead guitarist, cancer.
 * Roberto Burle Marx, 84, Brazilian landscape architect, painter, naturalist, and musician.
 * Stephen McNally, 82, American actor, heart attack.
 * Gregory Scarpa, 66, American mobster and FBI informant, AIDS-related complications.
 * Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, 84, British politician.
 * Massimo Troisi, 41, Italian actor, cabaret performer, screenwriter, and film director (Il Postino: The Postman, Ricomincio da tre), heart attack.
 * Anatoli Vasiliev, 77, Russian/Soviet realist painter.
 * Earle Warren, 79, American saxophonist.

5

 * Krishna Chaithanya, 75, Indian writer.
 * Albert McDonald Cole, 92, American politician.
 * Nikolay Dementyev, 78, Soviet/Russian football playerand a coach.
 * Buraro Detudamo, 63, Nauruan politician.

6

 * Yohai Ben-Nun, 69, Israeli Navy general.
 * Ramdew Chaitoe, 51, Surinamese artist and a harmonium player.
 * Johnny Downs, 80, American child actor, singer, and dancer, cancer.
 * Princess Faiza Fuad of Egypt, 70, Egyptian princess and a Muhammad Ali Dynasty member.
 * Peter Graves, 82, English actor and nobleman, heart attack.
 * Miloud Hadefi, 45, Algerian football player and manager.
 * Bill Hoffman, 92, American gridiron football player.
 * Mark McManus, 59, Scottish actor, pneumonia.
 * Nicholas Spanos, 52, American professor of psychology, plane crash.
 * Barry Sullivan, 81, American movie actor.

7

 * Verlon Biggs, 51, American gridiron football player, leukemia.
 * Rudolph Cartier, 90, Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer.
 * Anatolii Dorodnitsyn, 83, Russian mathematician, physicist, and professor.
 * Willie Humphrey, 93, American jazz clarinetist.
 * Vincent Nsengiyumva, 58, Rwandan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, homicide.
 * Dennis Potter, 59, English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist (Pennies from Heaven, Blue Remembered Hills, The Singing Detective), pancreatic cancer.

8

 * Eddie Ambrose, 100, American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing.
 * Antonietta Baistrocchi, 38, Italian basketball player.
 * William Marshall, 76, American singer, bandleader and a film actor and director.
 * Dorothy Shoemaker McDiarmid, 87, American politician, heart attack.

9

 * Dhirendra Brahmachari, 70, Indian spiritual leader and yoga instructor, plane crash.
 * István Kocsis, 44, Hungarian football player, cancer.
 * Lynn Harold Loomis, 79, American mathematician.
 * David Reynoso, 68, Mexican actor, cancer.
 * Jan Tinbergen, 91, Dutch economist and Nobel Prize laureate.

10

 * Vic Bradford, 79, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Jimmy Cameron, 70, Canadian cricket player.
 * Mary Maxwell Gates, 64, American businesswoman and civic activist, breast cancer.
 * Nils Holmer, 90, Swedish linguist.
 * Edward Kienholz, 66, American installation artist and assemblage sculptor.
 * Guillermo Pérez de Arce Plummer, 87, Chilean politician and entrepreneur.
 * Noël Vantyghem, 46, Belgian cyclist.

11

 * Herbert Anderson, 77, American actor, stroke.
 * Richard Bartlett, 71, American director and producer in film and TV.
 * Jerome W. Conn, 86, American endocrinologist.
 * Jack Hannah, 81, American animator and writer and director of animated shorts, cancer.
 * Manolita Piña, 111, Spanish-Uruguayan artist and wife of Joaquín Torres García.

12

 * Christopher Collins, 44, American actor (G.I. Joe, Transformers, Inhumanoids) and stand-up comedian, stroke.
 * Menachem Mendel Schneerson, 92, Russian-American Orthodox rabbi
 * Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, American murder victim and ex-wife of former American football player O. J. Simpson, stabbed.
 * Ronald Goldman, 25, American murder victim, stabbed alongside Nicole Brown Simpson.
 * William Elgin Swinton, 93, Scottish paleontologist.

13

 * Anne Hopkins Aitken, 83, American Zen Buddhist, heart attack.
 * Charles Alvin Beckwith, 65, American Special Forces officer.
 * June Dayton, 70, American television actress.
 * Enrique Fava, 74, Argentine actor.
 * Nadia Gray, 70, Romanian film actress, cerebrovascular disease.
 * Stasys Lozoraitis Jr., 69, Lithuanian diplomat and politician, kidney failure.
 * James B. Pollack, 55, American astrophysicist, cancer.
 * K. T. Stevens, 74, American actress, lung cancer.
 * Igor Youskevitch, 82, Russian-Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer.

14

 * Ismail Chirine, 74, Egyptian diplomat and army officer.
 * Lionel Grigson, 52, English jazz musician, writer and teacher.
 * Emil Göing, 82, German basketball player.
 * Denys Hay, 78, British historian.
 * Victor Jorgensen, 80, American photographer and photo journalist.
 * Thomas Joseph Lane, 95, American politician.
 * Henry Mancini, 70, American composer, conductor, pianist and flautist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Marcel Mouloudji, 71, French singer and actor.
 * Michel Vitold, 78, Russian-French stage and film actor.
 * Lucien Vlaemynck, 79, Belgian road bicycle racer.

15

 * Clara Colosimo, 72, Italian film actress.
 * William Goodsir-Cullen, 87, Indian field hockey player and Olympian.
 * Manos Hatzidakis, 68, Greek composer and theorist, pulmonary edema.
 * Rich Johnson, 47, American basketball player.
 * Jack Schwartzman, 61, American film producer (Never Say Never Again, Being There, I Am the Cheese), pancreatic cancer.

16

 * Yohanan Bader, 92, Israeli politician and revisionist Zionist leader.
 * Len Butt, 83, English football player and manager.
 * Chrix Dahl, 88, Norwegian painter and illustrator.
 * Comte George Raphaël Béthenod de Montbressieux, 84, French-Argentine racing driver.
 * Bernard Moitessier, 69, French sailor, prostate cancer.
 * Kristen Pfaff, 27, American musician and singer, drug overdose.
 * Eileen Way, 82, British actress.

17

 * Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov, 88, Soviet/Russian composer.
 * Leonid Baykov, 74, Russian/Soviet painter.
 * Kurt Hessenberg, 85, German composer and professor of art.
 * Eigil Olaf Liane, 78, Norwegian politician.
 * Yuri Nagibin, 74, Soviet/Russian writer, screenwriter and novelist.
 * Branko Petranović, 66, Serbian historian.
 * Len White, 64, English football player.
 * Terence de Vere White, 82, Irish lawyer, writer and editor, Parkinson's disease.
 * Frank Yates, 92, British statistician.

18

 * Arturo Ruiz Castillo, 83, Spanish screenwriter and film director, stroke.
 * Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, 89, Polish-American Orthodox rabbi and holocaust survivor.
 * Margret Hofheinz-Döring, 84, German painter and graphic artist.
 * Roger Lebel, 71, Canadian actor.

19

 * Babatunde Elegbede, 55, Nigerian politician and admiral, homicide.
 * Krešimir Račić, 61, Croatian hammer thrower and Olympian.
 * Bakri Siregar, 71, Indonesian socialist literary critic and writer.

20

 * Robert Armbruster, 96, American composer, conductor, pianist and songwriter.
 * John Farrell, 87, American speed skater and speed skating coach.
 * Frank Filchock, 77, American gridiron football player and coach.
 * Einar Haugen, 88, American linguist, author, and professor.
 * Don Macintosh, 62, Canadian basketball player.
 * Jay Miner, 62, American integrated circuit designer, kidney failure.
 * Robin Raymond, 77, American film actress.
 * Frederick William Rowe, 81, Canadian politician.
 * Vieno Simonen, 95, Finnish politician and farmer.

21

 * Carlos Jiménez Mabarak, 78, Mexican composer.
 * Winston Miller, 83, American screenwriter, film producer, and actor, heart attack.
 * William Wilson Morgan, 88, American astronomer and astrophysicist.
 * Walter Riml, 88, Austrian cameraman and actor.

22

 * Otto Bradfisch, 91, German SS-Obersturmbannführer and war criminal during World War II.
 * Yitzhak Coren, 83, Israeli politician.
 * Jack Davies, 80, English screenwriter, producer, editor and actor.
 * Jorgjia Filçe-Truja, 87, Albanian soprano.
 * Ilya Frez, 84, Soviet/Russian film director.
 * Lisa Lindstrom, 81, American swimmer and Olympian.
 * L. V. Prasad, 86, Indian film producer, actor, director, and cinematographer.
 * Julius Adams Stratton, 93, American electrical engineer.
 * Xəlil Rza Ulutürk, 61, Azerbaijani poet.
 * Eric Bransby Williams, 94, British actor.

23

 * Joe Dobson, 77, American baseball player.
 * Robert T. Orr, 85, American biologist.
 * Chang Shuhong, 90, Chinese painter.
 * Antoni Sobik, 89, Polish fencer.
 * Marv Throneberry, 60, American Major League Baseball player, cancer.
 * Kin Vassy, 50, American singer-songwriter, lung cancer.

24

 * James C. Adkins, 79, American judge.
 * Bondoc Ionescu-Crum, 79, Romanian athlete and football player and manager.
 * Leon MacLaren, 83, British philosopher and the founder of the School of Economic Science.
 * Jean Vallerand, 78, Canadian musician and writer.
 * Vecheslav Zagonek, 74, Soviet/Russian painter.

25

 * Cecil Abel, 91, Papua New Guinean missionary, after an operation.
 * James Philo Hagerstrom, 73, American fighter pilot and flying ace, stomach cancer.
 * Pierre Leichtnam, 83, French middle-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Haji Mastan, 68, Indian mafia gang leader, cardiac arrest.
 * Matvey Shaposhnikov, 87, Soviet military commander.

26

 * Jan-Erik Aarberg, 69, Norwegian sailor.
 * Thomas Armstrong, 96, English organist, conductor, composer and educationalist.
 * Bobby Bonales, 77, Mexican professional wrestler.
 * A. den Doolaard, 93, Dutch writer and journalist.
 * Joseph Aloysius Durick, 79, American Roman Catholic bishop and civil rights advocate.
 * Jahanara Imam, 65, Bangladeshi writer and political activist, cancer.

27

 * Jacques Berthier, 71, French composer of liturgical music.
 * Charles K. Duncan, 82, American Navy admiral, cancer.
 * Sam Hanks, 79, American racecar driver.
 * Louise Henderson, 92, New Zealand artist and painter.
 * Alan Strange, 87, American baseball player and manager.

28

 * Idel Ianchelevici, 85, Romanian-Belgian sculptor and draughtsman.
 * Ulrik Neumann, 75, Danish film actor and musician.
 * Giancarlo Sbragia, 68, Italian actor, stage director and playwright.
 * Fredi Washington, 90, American actress, civil rights activist, and writer, stroke.

29

 * Peter Blair, 62, American naval officer, wrestler and Olympian.
 * Kurt Eichhorn, 85, German conductor.
 * Bob Masterson, 78, American gridiron football player.
 * Ray Mueller, 82, American baseball player.
 * Otis M. Smith, 72, American judge, Michigan Auditor General (1959–1961), Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1961–1966).
 * Jack Unterweger, 43, Austrian serial killer, suicide.

30

 * Georgie Abrams, 75, American boxer.
 * Walter Chikowski, 78, Canadian football player.
 * Jim Doran, 66, American gridiron football player.
 * Don Kolloway, 75, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Dennis J. Roberts, 91, American politician
 * Taro Yashima, 85, Japanese-American artist and children's author.