Deaths in March 1994

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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

 * Manmohan Desai, 57, Indian film producer and director.
 * Eliseo Diego, 70, Cuban poet and writer of short stories.
 * Ludwig Günderoth, 83, German football player and manager.
 * Alexei Haieff, 79, American composer of orchestral and choral works.
 * Herbert Schade, 71, West German long-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Dallas Shirley, 80, American basketball referee.
 * Armonía Somers, 79, Uruguayan feminist, pedagogue, and novelist.
 * Tim Souster, 51, British composer and writer on music.
 * Ethel Terrell, 68, American politician.
 * Joe Tipton, 72, American baseball player.

2

 * Kleggie Hermsen, 70, American basketball player.
 * Walter Kent, 82, American composer and conductor.
 * Giuseppe La Loggia, 82, Italian politician, lawyer and teacher.
 * Donald M. MacKinnon, 80, Scottish philosopher and theologian.
 * Anita Morris, 50, American actress, singer and dancer, ovarian cancer.
 * Yevgeniya Zhigulenko, 73, Soviet pilot and navigator during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union.

3

 * Ida Gramcko, 69, Venezuelan essayist and poet.
 * Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, 75, Composer and music editor.
 * Karel Kryl, 49, Czechoslovak poet, singer-songwriter and activist, heart attack.
 * Bilge Olgaç, 54, Turkish film director.
 * Ezra Stone, 76, American actor and director, traffic collision.
 * Lars Widding, 69, Swedish author and journalist.
 * John Edward Williams, 71, American author, editor and professor.
 * Gary Wood, 52, American gridiron football player.

4

 * Gianni Agus, 76, Italian actor.
 * Aníbal, 53, Mexican Luchador (professional wrestler), brain cancer.
 * John Candy, 43, Canadian actor (Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Spaceballs, Uncle Buck) and comedian, Emmy winner (1982, 1983), heart attack.
 * George Edward Hughes, 75, Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician.
 * Marie-Joseph Lemieux, 91, Canadian Catholic archbishop and Holy See diplomat.

5

 * Abdullah as-Sallal, 77, President of the Yemen Arab Republic.
 * Joseph Birdsell, 85, American anthropologist.
 * Arnold Brown, 66, Canadian politician.
 * Jan Dobraczyński, 83, Polish writer, novelist, and politician.
 * Abd El-Karim Sakr, 75, Egyptian football player.

6

 * Tengiz Abuladze, 70, Georgian film director, screenwriter, and theatre teacher.
 * Mane Bajić, 52, Serbian midfielder, traffic collision.
 * Larry Eyler, 41, American serial killer, AIDS-related complications.
 * Yvonne Fair, 51, American singer, cancer.
 * Conrad Heidkamp, 88, German football player and manager.
 * Melina Mercouri, 73, Greek actress, singer, activist and politician, cancer.
 * Tony Momsen, 66, American gridiron football player.
 * Ken Noritake, 71, Japanese football player.

7

 * Ray Arcel, 94, American boxing trainer.
 * Fortunato Arena, 71, Italian stuntman and actor.
 * James Hannigan, 65, Irish-prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Stew Hofferth, 81, American baseball player.

8

 * Mervyn Brogan, 79, Australian Army general.
 * Leonard K. Carson, 70, American Air Force fighter ace.
 * Rosemary Du Cros, 92, British aviation pioneer.
 * John Ewart, 66, Australian actor, head and neck cancer.
 * Knut Haukelid, 82, Norwegian military officer.
 * Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya, 86, Russian memoirist and Gulag prisoner.
 * Yvonne Martin, 82, French film editor.
 * Brian McGowan, 58, Australian politician.
 * Jack Spector, 65, Radio DJ, Heart attack on air while playing I'm in the Mood for Love on WHLI

9

 * Zoltán Beke, 82, Romanian football player and coach.
 * Karl Wilhelm Berkhan, 78, American politician.
 * Wilhelm Brese, 97, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Charles Bukowski, 73, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer, leukemia.
 * Paul Dubreil, 90, French mathematician.
 * Elbie Fletcher, 77, American baseball player.
 * Jon Kimche, 84, Swiss-British journalist and historian.
 * Moe Purtill, 77, American swing jazz drummer.
 * Devika Rani, 85, Indian actress.
 * Fernando Rey, 76, Spanish actor, bladder cancer.
 * Lawrence E. Spivak, 93, American publisher and journalist.

10

 * Roger Bocquet, 72, Swiss football player.
 * Rupert Bruce-Mitford, 79, British archaeologist and scholar.
 * Aurelio Galleppini, 76, Italian comics artist and illustrator.
 * Pierre-Olivier Lapie, 92, French essayist and novelist.
 * Robert Shea, 61, American novelist and journalist.

11

 * Fausta Cialente, 95, Italian novelist, journalist and political activist.
 * Evelyn Gardner, 90, British socialite.
 * Aldo Puccinelli, 73, Italian football player and manager.
 * Kaku Takashina, 75, Japanese actor.
 * Brenda Wootton, 66, English folk singer and poet.

12

 * Gordy Coleman, 59, American baseball player.
 * Philippe Daudy, 68, French member of the French Resistance, journalist, and novelist.
 * Frank Gorrell, 66, American politician, choking incident.
 * Don Joseph, 70, American jazz musician.
 * Mehmed Orhan, 86, Ottoman prince and head of the Ottoman dynasty,

13

 * Danny Barker, 85, American jazz musician, vocalist, and author.
 * Jean Gourguet, 91, French film director, screenwriter and film producer.
 * Sam Ranzino, 66, American college and basketball player.
 * Martha Esther Rogers, 79, American nurse, theorist, and author.
 * Buddy Rosar, 80, American baseball player.
 * Eva Gräfin Finck von Finckenstein, 90, American politician.
 * John Yeon, 83, American architect, heart failure.

14

 * Tei Abal, 61-62, Papua New Guinean politician.
 * Sally Belfrage, 57, American writer and journalist, cancer.
 * Serge Blusson, 65, French cyclist and Olympian.
 * Tony Freitas, 85, American baseball player.
 * Otto Hartmann, 90, Austrian stage and film actor.
 * Sheila Humphreys, 95, Irish political activist.
 * Willie Hobbs Moore, 59, American physicist and engineer, cancer.
 * Floyd Reid, 66, American gridiron football player.
 * Indra Sen, 90, Indian psychologist.
 * Georges Claes sr., 74, Belgian racing cyclist.

15

 * Charlie Bivins, 55, American gridiron football player.
 * Bill Green, 53, American basketball player.
 * Jack Hargreaves, 82, English television presenter and writer.
 * M. K. Indira, 77, Indian novelist.
 * Tom Kirk, 78, Australian rugby player.
 * Josef Kohout, 79, Austrian Nazi concentration camp survivor and author.
 * Jürgen Manger, 71, German actor and comedian.

16

 * Albert Bühlmann, 70, Swiss physician, heart failure.
 * Nicolas Flagello, 66, American composer and conductor of classical music.
 * Richard Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford, 86, British politician.
 * Mykola Kudrytsky, 31, Ukrainian football player, traffic collision.
 * Eric Show, 37, American Major League Baseball player, drug overdose.
 * Kantarō Suga, 59, Japanese actor, traffic accident.

17

 * Kalyan Bulchand Advani, 82, Indian poet, critic, and scholar.
 * Charlotte Auerbach, 94, German geneticist.
 * Wilson Homer Elkins, 85, American educator and university administrator.
 * Walter Janka, 79, German communist, political activist and writer.
 * Elenjikal Chandy Kuruvila, 71, Indian Navy flag officer.
 * Ellsworth Vines, 82, American tennis champion
 * Mai Zetterling, 68, Swedish actress, novelist and film director, cancer.

18

 * Mehboob Alam, 46, Pakistani actor.
 * William Bergsma, 72, American composer and teacher, heart attack.
 * Peter Borgelt, 66, German television actor, cancer.
 * Yehia Chahine, 76, Egyptian film producer and actor.
 * Andrew Crawford, 76, Scottish actor.
 * David Ginsburg, 73, British politician.
 * Erwin Kohn, 82, Austrian table tennis player.
 * Günter Mittag, 67, German politician.

19

 * Rafig Babayev, 57, Azerbaijani jazz musician and author of scores for films, terrorist attack.
 * José Coronel Hurtecho, 88, Nicaraguan poet, critic, playwright, and diplomat.
 * Jim Lawrence, 75, American author.
 * Josef Meixner, 85, German theoretical physicist.
 * Charles Paris, 82, American comic book artist.
 * Benjamin Clemens Stone, 61, British–American botanist.

20

 * Ilaria Alpi, 32, Italian journalist, killed in ambush.
 * Ramón Camps, 67, Argentine general during the dirty war, prostate cancer.
 * Irvin Flores, 69, Puerto Rican political activist.
 * Lewis Grizzard, 47, American writer and humorist.
 * Reg Groth, 80, Australian politician.
 * Miran Hrovatin, 44, Italian photographer and camera operator, killed in ambush.
 * Alfonso Rodríguez Salas, 54, Spanish football player, colorectal cancer.

21

 * Macdonald Carey, 81, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Shadow of a Doubt, Lock-Up), lung cancer.
 * Lili Damita, 89, French-American actress and singer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Franz Pelikan, 68, Austrian football goalkeeper.
 * Dack Rambo, 52, American actor (Dallas, The Guns of Will Sonnett, The Loretta Young Show), AIDS-related complications.

22

 * Dan Hartman, 43, American musician and record producer, AIDS-related complications.
 * Horton Holcombe Hobbs, Jr., 79, American taxonomist and carcinologist.
 * Walter Lantz, 94, American cartoonist and animator (Woody Woodpecker), heart failure.
 * Ulrich Poltera, 71, Swiss ice hockey player.

23

 * Luis Donaldo Colosio, 44, Mexican economist and politician, homicide.
 * Nancy Cárdenas, 59, Mexican actor, poet, writer and feminist.
 * Álvaro del Portillo, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop and prelate of Opus Dei.
 * Giulietta Masina, 73, Italian film actress, lung cancer.
 * Goar Mestre, 81, Cuban-Argentine businessman, cancer.
 * Donald Swann, 70, Welsh musician, singer and entertainer, cancer.
 * Paula Trueman, 96, American actress (The Outlaw Josey Wales, Dirty Dancing, Moonstruck).
 * Valentina Vladimirova, 66, Ukrainian-Russian actress.
 * Roger Wolff, 82, American baseball player.

24

 * Zbigniew Gołąb, 71, Polish-American linguist and slavist.
 * Hans Jakob, 85, German football player.
 * John L. May, 71, American Roman Catholic archbishop, brain cancer.
 * Walle Nauta, 77, Dutch-American neuroscientist.
 * Edith Porada, 81, Austrian-American art historian and archaeologist.
 * David van Vactor, 87, American composer of contemporary classical music.
 * Jiang Yizhen, 79, Chinese communist politician.

25

 * Rudi Feld, 97, German art director and set designer.
 * Angelines Fernández, 69, Spanish-Mexican actress and comedian, lung cancer.
 * Bernard Kangro, 83, Estonian writer and poet.
 * Max Petitpierre, 95, Swiss politician and jurist.
 * Jesus M. Vargas, 89, Filipino politician.

26

 * Dame Whina Cooper, 98, New Zealand Māori leader.
 * Wadad Hamdi, 70, Egyptian actress, stabbed.
 * Owen McCann, 86, South African Catholic cardinal and journalist.
 * Margaret Millar, 79, American-Canadian writer.

27

 * Otto Bonsema, 84, Dutch football player and manager.
 * Frances Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Kingsbridge, 87, British writer and biographer.
 * Elisabeth Schmid, 81, German archaeologist and osteologist.
 * Lawrence Wetherby, 86, American politician.

28

 * Richard Brandram, 82, British Army officer.
 * Albert Goldman, 66, American academic and author.
 * Ștefan Gușă, 53, Romanian general, cancer.
 * Eugène Ionesco, 84, Romanian-French playwright.
 * Cyrus Longworth Lundell, 86, American botanist.
 * Ira Murchison, 61, American sprinter and Olympic champion, cancer.
 * Wendell Niles, 89, American radio and television announcer, cancer.

29

 * Paul Grimault, 89, French animator.
 * Lynda Hull, 39, American poet, car accident.
 * William Huston Natcher, 84, American politician.
 * Charles Oser, 92, American politician.
 * Bill Travers, 72, British actor, screenwriter, and animal rights activist.
 * Jiang Zehan, 91, Chinese mathematician.

30

 * Ina Hooft, 100, Dutch painter.
 * Leslie Howard Saunders, 94, Canadian politician and Mayor of Toronto.
 * William Arthur Ward, 72, American motivational writer.
 * Sid Weiss, 79, American jazz double-bassist.

31

 * Léon Degrelle, 87, Belgian politician and nazi collaborator, heart attack.
 * Henri Gouhier, 95, French philosopher and literary critic.
 * William Henry Hance, 42, American soldier and serial killer, execution by electrocution.
 * Medea Japaridze, 71, Soviet/Georgian actress.
 * Mohibullah "Mo" Khan, 56, Pakistani squash player.
 * José Escobar Saliente, 85, Spanish comic book writer and artist.