Deaths in March 1995

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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

 * Edmund Fisher (publisher), 56, British publisher, cancer.
 * Walter Anderson, 84, British trade unionist.
 * Fred J. Borch, 84, American businessman who was chairman and CEO of General Electric.
 * Eugenio Corecco, 63, Swiss Catholic bishop, cancer.
 * Simon C. Dik, 54, Dutch linguist.
 * Jackie Holmes, 74, American racecar driver.
 * Georges J. F. Köhler, 48, German biologist, heart attack.
 * Vladislav Listyev, 38, Russian journalist, murdered.
 * Ferdinand Lundberg, 89, American journalist.
 * Herb Meadow, 83, American television producer and writer, heart attack.
 * Emil Petru, 55, Romanian football player.
 * Hugh Auchincloss Steers, 32, American painter, AIDS-related complications.
 * César Rodríguez Álvarez, 74, Spanish football forward and manager.

2

 * Suzanne Bastid, 88, French professor of law.
 * Henry Felsen, 78, American writer.
 * Vivian MacKerrell, 50, British actor, esophageal cancer.
 * Ray Moore, 68, American Major League Baseball player.

3

 * Rafael Aguilar, 65, Ecuadorian ballet dancer and choreographer.
 * Vincent L. Broderick, 74, United States District Judge, cancer.
 * Al Christy, 76, American actor, advertising executive, and radio and television announcer.
 * Nikhil Ghosh, 76, Indian musician, teacher and writer.
 * Humphry Greenwood, 67, English ichthyologist.
 * Sheikh Anwarul Haq, 77, Pakistani jurist and an academic.
 * Howard W. Hunter, 87, American President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, prostate cancer.
 * Lyman Kirkpatrick, 77, inspector general and executive director of the CIA.
 * Douglas Stewart, 75, American film editor (The Right Stuff, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid), Oscar winner (1984).
 * Pierre Tisseyre, 85, French-Canadian lawyer, journalist, writer and Quebec literary editor.
 * Đàm Quang Trung, 73, Vietnamese general in the People's Army of Vietnam.

4

 * Eden Ahbez, 86, American songwriter and recording artist, traffic collision.
 * Iftekhar, 75, Indian actor.
 * Vira Misevych, 49, Soviet/Russian equestrian and Olympic champion.
 * Peggy Solomon, 86, American bridge player.
 * Matt Urban, 75, United States Army lieutenant colonel and one of the.
 * Gloria Wood, 71, American singer and voice actress.

5

 * Jalal Agha, 49, Indian actor and director in Bollywood films, heart attack.
 * Frieda Belinfante, 90, Dutch freedom fighter during World War II, cellist, and orchestra conductor, cancer.
 * Henry Benson, Baron Benson, 85, British accountant.
 * Juan Guerrero Burciaga, 65, United States District Judge.
 * Gregg Hansford, 42, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer, racing accident.
 * Roy Hughes, 84, American baseball player.
 * Marguerite Kelsey, 86, British artists' model.
 * Roger MacBride, 65, American lawyer, political figure, writer, and television producer.
 * Nancy O'Neil, 83, Australian-born British actress.
 * Vivian Stanshall, 51, English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician, domestic fire.

6

 * Franco Bertinetti, 71, Italian fencer and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Gabriel Bracho, 79, Venezuelan artist.
 * Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass, 54, Polish actress, stroke.
 * Moturi Satyanarayana, 93, Indian independence activist.
 * Delroy Wilson, 46, Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer, cirrhosis.

7

 * John J. Allen Jr., 95, American politician.
 * Don Cook, 74, American journalist.
 * Ivan Craig, 83, Scottish actor.
 * Harold W. Hannold, 83, American Republican Party politician.
 * Róża Herman, 93, Polish chess player.
 * Najib Kilani, 63, Egyptian poet and novelist.
 * John Lambert, 68, British composer and music educator.
 * B. N. B. Rao, 85, Indian surgeon, medical academic, researcher, and writer.
 * Norman Rosten, 82, American poet, playwright, and novelist.
 * Paul-Émile Victor, 87, French ethnologist and explorer (b. 1907).
 * Kazimierz Wiłkomirski, 94, Polish cellist, composer and conductor.

8

 * Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan, 94, Russian-Israeli botanist.
 * Junpei Gomikawa, 78, Japanese novelist.
 * Paul Horgan, 91, American novelist and historian.
 * Ike Lozada, 54, Filipino comedian, actor and TV host, heart attack.
 * John Ormond, 89, New Zealand businessman and farmer.
 * Sooranad Kunjan Pillai, 83, Indian, researcher, lexicographer, poet, essayist, literary critic, orator, grammarian, educationist, and scholar of the Malayalam language.
 * Ingo Schwichtenberg, 29, German drummer, suicide.

9

 * Ian Ballantine, 79, American publisher, heart attack.
 * Edward Bernays, 103, Austrian-born American propagandist.
 * Bill Cassidy, 54, Scottish football player and manager.
 * Yisrael Galil, 71, Israeli firearm designer.
 * Paco Jamandreu, 75, Argentine fashion designer and actor, heart attack.
 * Ricardo Mañé, 47, Uruguayan mathematician.
 * Robert Sheats, 79, United States Navy Master Diver.

10

 * Rigmor Andersen, 91, Danish designer, educator and author.
 * Fred Davis, 77, American gridiron football player.
 * Doris Duranti, 77, Italian film actress.
 * Wilhelm Heckmann, 97, German concert and easy listening musician.
 * David D. Keck, 91, American botanist.
 * Alexander Hyatt King, 83, English musicologist, bibliographer, and music librarian of the British Library and British Museum.
 * Ovidi Montllor, 53, Spanish singer and actor, esophageal cancer.
 * Mattityahu Peled, 71, Israeli public figure.
 * Irene Tedrow, 87, American actress, stroke.
 * Michal Tučný, 48, Czech singer and songwriter, cancer, liver cancer.
 * Dicky Zulkarnaen, 55, Indonesian actor.

11

 * Antonio León Amador, 85, Spanish football player.
 * Rein Aun, 54, Estonian multitalented athlete and Olympic medalist.
 * Jean Bayard, 97, French rugby union player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
 * Alf Goullet, 103, Australian cyclist.
 * Carlos Albán Holguín, 64, Colombian lawyer and politician.
 * Wilfred Jacobs, 75, first Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda.
 * Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundian politician and the Minister for Mines and Energy, assassinated.
 * Don Lane, 59, Australian politician and minister.
 * Jean-Pierre Masson, 76, Canadian film and television actor.
 * Herb McCracken, 95, American football player and coach.
 * Lotte Rausch, 81, German stage and film actress.
 * María Rosa Salgado, 65, Spanish actress.
 * James Scott-Hopkins, 73, British Conservative politician.
 * Myfanwy Talog, 50, Welsh actress, breast cancer.
 * Väinö Valve, 99, Finnish general and navy commander.
 * Karl Österreicher, 72, Austrian conductor and music teacher.

12

 * Mija Aleksić, 71, Serbian actor.
 * Dumitru Almaș, 86, Romanian journalist, novelist, historian, writer and professor.
 * Madis Aruja, 59, Estonian conservationist, geographer and ski-orienteer.
 * Juanin Clay, 45, American actress and director.
 * Jack Mowat, 86, Scottish football referee.
 * Rick Muther, 59, American racing driver.

13

 * Mieczysław Balcer, 88, Polish football player.
 * Leon Day, 78, American baseball player, heart attack.
 * Jonas C. Greenfield, 68, American scholar of Semitic languages.
 * Odette Hallowes, 82, French intelligence officer.
 * William Hulse, 74, American middle-distance runner.
 * Abdul Ali Mazari, 48-49, Afghan warlord and politician, executed by the Taliban.

14

 * Dennis Bell, 46, American journalist Pulitzer Prize winner, pneumonia.
 * Frank Blair, 79, broadcast journalist for NBC News who was news anchor of Today.
 * Alessandro Cutolo, 95, Italian academic, television presenter, actor and historian.
 * William Alfred Fowler, 83, American physicist.
 * John Peters Humphrey, 89, Canadian legal scholar, jurist, and human rights advocate.
 * Ed Roberts, 56, American activist.
 * Gerard Victory, 73, Irish composer.
 * W. Arthur Winstead, 91, American politician.

15

 * Bhupinder Singh Brar, 68, Indian politician.
 * Milo Calhoun, 54, Jamaican boxer who won the British Commonwealth middleweight title.
 * Florence Chadwick, 76, American long-distance swimmer and first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions.
 * Wolfgang Harich, 71, East German philosopher and journalist.
 * Fred Mulley, 76, British politician, barrister and economist.

16

 * John Cavosie, 87, American football player.
 * Albert Hackett, 95, American dramatist and screenwriter.
 * Paul Kipkoech, 32, Kenyan long-distance runner.
 * Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, 83, British Commando during World War II and nobleman.
 * Art Mollner, 82, American basketball player.
 * Heinrich Sutermeister, 84, Swiss composer.

17

 * Amiraslan Aliyev, 34, Azerbaijan military officer and National Hero of Azerbaijan, killed in action.
 * Rick Aviles, 42, American actor (Ghost, Carlito's Way, The Stand), AIDS-related complications.
 * Paul Backman, 74, Finnish cyclist.
 * Donald Baverstock, 71, British television producer and executive.
 * Vladimir Bunchikov, 92, Russian baritone.
 * Helen Christie, 80, British actress.
 * Seymour Clark, 92, English cricketer.
 * Theresa Clay, 84, English entomologist.
 * Flor Contemplacion, 42, Filipina domestic worker executed in Singapore for murder, hanged.
 * Estálin, 72, Spanish screenwriter and film director, liver cancer.
 * Pedro J. González, 99, Mexican activist, musician and radio personality.
 * Arthur Highland, 83, American competition swimmer.
 * Rovshan Javadov, 43, Azerbaijani Armed Forces officer and politician.
 * Muriel Kauffman, 78, American civic leader and philanthropist.
 * Ahmad Khomeini, 49, younger son of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and father of Hassan Khomeini.
 * Ronnie Kray, 61, British criminal and twin brother of Reggie Kray, heart attack.
 * Robert Monroe, 79, American radio broadcasting executive.
 * Sunnyland Slim, 88, American blues pianist, kidney failure.

18

 * Sadri Alışık, 69, Turkish actor.
 * Merv Harvey, 76, Australian cricketer.
 * James H. Howard, 81, United States Air Force general and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 * Vern Huffman, 80, American gridiron football player.
 * Hugh Kelsey, 69, Scottish bridge player and writer.
 * Pengiran Ahmad Raffae, 87, Malaysian politician.
 * Fred Ramsey, 80, American writer on jazz and record producer.
 * Gerry Shaw, 52, Canadian football player.
 * Eric Winkler, 75, Canadian politician.

19

 * Stan Ackermans, 58, Dutch mathematician.
 * Nike Ardilla, 19, Indonesian singer, actress, and model, traffic accident.
 * Trevor Blokdyk, 59, South African motorcycle speedway rider and Formula One driver.
 * Walter F. Boone, 97, United States Navy admiral.
 * Max Braithwaite, 83, Canadian novelist.
 * Tony Chachere, 89, American businessman and chef.
 * Wolfgang Plath, 64, German musicologist.
 * Jürgen Schütz, 55, German football player.
 * Gerard Tebroke, 45, Dutch runner who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics, brain haemorrhage.
 * Yasuo Yamada, 62, Japanese voice actor (Lupin III), complications from a brain hemorrhage.

20

 * Michael Arattukulam, 84, first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alleppey.
 * Russell Braddon, 74, Australian writer of novels, biographies and TV scripts.
 * Thomas J. Grasso, 32, American double murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * James Kilfedder, 66, Northern Ireland unionist politician.
 * Sidney Kingsley, 88, American dramatist.
 * Werner Liebrich, 68, German football player, heart failure.
 * Luis Saslavsky, 91, Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.
 * Big John Studd, 47, American professional wrestler, lymphoma cancer.
 * Víctor Ugarte, 68, Bolivian football player.

21

 * Paul Callaway, 85, American organist and conductor.
 * Amir H. Jamal, 73, Tanzanian politician and diplomat.
 * Connie Kreski, 48, American model and actress, lung cancer.
 * Étienne Martin, 82, French sculptor.
 * Tony Monopoly, 50, Australiancabaret singer and actor.
 * Robert Urquhart, 72, Scottish character actor.
 * James Bud Walton, 73, American businessman and co-founder of Walmart.

22

 * Robert Beauchamp, 71-72, American figurative painter and arts educator, prostate cancer.
 * Jack Eastwood, 87, Canadian figure skater.
 * James G. Horsfall, 90, American biologist, plant pathologist, and agriculturist.
 * Huang Jiqing, 90, Chinese geologist.
 * Peter Woods, 64, British journalist, cancer.

23

 * Qadeeruddin Ahmed, 85-86, Pakistani jurist and former Governor of Sindh province.
 * Alan Barton, 41, British singer and member of the duo Black Lace, traffic accident.
 * Shakti Chattopadhyay, 61, Indian poet and writer.
 * Davie Cooper, 39, Scottish football player, brain haemorrhage.
 * Alfons Deloor, 84, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * Vladimir Ivashov, 55, Soviet/Russian actor, heart attack.
 * Jerry Lester, 85, American comedian, singer and performer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Hal Mooney, 84, American composer and arranger.
 * Irving Shulman, 81, American author and screenwriter, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Lou Zhicen, 75, Chinese pharmacognosist and educator.

24

 * Chet Mutryn, 74, American gridiron football player.
 * Joseph Needham, 94, British biochemist, historian, and sinologist, Parkinson's disease.
 * Carlo Pavesi, 71, Italian fencer.
 * Henri Xhonneux, 49, Belgian film director and screenwriter.

25

 * James Samuel Coleman, 68, American sociologist.
 * James Gardner, 87, British designer.
 * John Hugenholtz, 80, Dutch designer of race tracks and cars, traffic collision.
 * Stuart Milner-Barry, 88, British chess player, chess writer, and codebreaker during World War II.
 * Hugh Wade, 93, American politician.

26

 * John Bright, 86, American biblical scholar.
 * Raúl Cascaret, 32, Cuban wrestler who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics.
 * Belgin Doruk, 58, Turkish film actress.
 * Eazy-E, 30, American rapper and record producer, complications from AIDS.
 * Frans Mahn, 61, Dutch cyclist.
 * Vladimir Maksimov, 64, Russian writer.
 * Alejandro Morera Soto, 85, Costa Rican football player.
 * Ko Takamoro, 87, Japanese football player.

27

 * René Allio, 70, French film and theater director.
 * John F. Blake, 72, American intelligence official who was Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
 * Paul Brinegar, 77, American actor (Rawhide, Lancer, High Plains Drifter), pulmonary emphysema.
 * Albert Drach, 92, Austrian-Jewish writer who won the Georg Büchner Prize in 1988.
 * Margita Figuli, 85, Slovak prose writer, translator and children's author.
 * Maurizio Gucci, 46, Italian businessman and the one-time head of the Gucci fashion house, homicide.
 * Tony Lovink, 92, Dutch diplomat.
 * Chet Nichols Jr., 64, American baseball player.
 * Imre Nyéki, 66, Hungarian swimmer and Olympic medalist.

28

 * Julian Cayo-Evans, 57, Welsh political activist.
 * Mogens Ellegaard, 60, Danish accordionist.
 * Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, 68, German journalist, lung cancer.
 * William Hayter, 88, British diplomat, ambassador to the Soviet Union, and Warden of New College, Oxford.
 * Jack Jennings, 71, Australian politician.
 * Hari Dev Joshi, 73, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
 * Ana Mariscal, 71, Spanish film actress, director, screenwriter and film producer.
 * Hugh O'Connor, 32, American actor (In the Heat of the Night), suicide.
 * Albert Pratz, 80, Canadian violinist, conductor, and composer.
 * Steve Stonebreaker, 56, American gridiron football player, suicide.
 * Harold M. Weintraub, 49, American scientist, brain tumor.

29

 * Robert Breusch, 87, German-American number theorist.
 * Harindra Dave, 64, Indian poet, journalist, playwright and novelist.
 * Allan Fjeldheim, 76, Norwegian pair skater.
 * Richard F. Gallagher, 85, American baseball, basketball and American football coach and administrator.
 * Antony Hamilton, 42, English–Australian actor, model and dancer, pneumonia.
 * Milton Horn, 88, Russian American sculptor and artist.
 * Carl Jefferson, 75, American jazz record producer.
 * Jimmy McShane, 37, Irish singer and front-man of band Baltimora, AIDS.
 * Mort Meskin, 78, American comic book artist.
 * Terry Moore, 82, American baseball player and manager, and coach.
 * Donald Morrow, 86, Canadian politician.
 * Katherine Squire, 92, American actress.
 * John Terry, 81, British film financier and lawyer.
 * Pops Yoshimura, 72, Japanese motorcycle tuner and race team owner, cancer.

30

 * Arkadiusz Bachur, 33, Polish equestrian.
 * Rozelle Claxton, 82, American jazz pianist.
 * Marcus Ervine-Andrews, 83, Irish officer in the British Army and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
 * Charles Irving, 70, British politician.
 * Tony Lock, 65, English cricket player.
 * Willem Peters, 91, Dutch athlete.
 * Paul A. Rothchild, 59, American record producer, lung cancer.
 * John Lighton Synge, 98, Irish mathematician and physicist.

31

 * Robert Annis, 66, American soccer player.
 * Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern Jr., 90, Swedish officer and horse rider and Olympian.
 * Max Brüel, 67, Danish architect and jazz musician.
 * Roberto Juarroz, 69, Argentine poet.
 * Ryogo Kubo, 75, Japanese mathematical physicist.
 * Rudy Rutherford, 70, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.
 * Selena, 23, American singer, murdered.
 * Madeleine Sologne, 82, French actress.
 * Carl Story, 78, American bluegrass musician.
 * Kim Yong-shik, 81, South Korean lawyer and diplomat.