Deaths in May 1994

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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

 * Imre Gyöngyössy, 64, Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
 * Yigal Mossinson, 76, Israeli novelist, playwright, and inventor.
 * Ayrton Senna, 34, Brazilian racing driver, racing accident. For more information, see Death of Ayrton Senna.
 * Arnold Strippel, 82, German Nazi SS commander during World War II.

2

 * Nathan Adler, 83, American psychoanalyst and professor of clinical psychology.
 * Fahrettin Akbaş, 66-67, Turkish wrestler.
 * Louis Calaferte, 65, French novelist.
 * Anita Durante, 96, Italian actress.
 * Buck Fausett, 86, American baseball player and manager.

3

 * Francis Bell, 50, New Zealand actor, suicide.
 * William Dickey, 65, American poet and professor of English, AIDS-related complications.
 * Vladimir Kostine, 72, Russian basketball referee.
 * Felipe Galarza Sánchez, 81, Spanish military officer.

4

 * Per Engdahl, 85, Swedish far-right politician.
 * Roger Jenkins, 82, American-Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Kōtō Matsudaira, 91, Japanese diplomat.
 * Josip Palada, 82, Yugoslavian tennis player.

5

 * Egan Chambers, 73, Canadian politician.
 * Joe Layton, 63, American director and choreographer.
 * Harry O'Boyle, 89, American gridiron football player.
 * Mário Quintana, 87, Brazilian writer and translator.
 * Louise Troy, 60, American actress of stage and screen, breast cancer.
 * Noel Wimalasena, 80, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.

6

 * Gunnar Åhs, 78, Swedish bobsledder.
 * Rafael Baledón, 74, Mexican film actor, director, screenwriter, and producer.
 * Murray Boltinoff, 83, American writer and editor of comic books.
 * John Henry Bremridge, 67, Hong Kong politician.
 * Mkhitar Djrbashian, 75, Armenian mathematician.
 * Ahmed Juffali, 70, Saudi businessman, heart attack.
 * Malvina Pastorino, 77, Argentine film actress, fall.
 * Moses Rosen, 81, Romanian rabbi.
 * Fred Sadoff, 67, American actor, AIDS-related complications.
 * Antal Szendey, 79, Hungarian rower and Olympian.

7

 * Haim Bar-Lev, 69, Israeli general and politician, cancer.
 * Clement Greenberg, 85, American essayist and visual art critic.
 * John Thomas Howell, 90, American botanist and taxonomist.
 * Mpinga Kasenda, 56, Prime Minister of Zaire under Mobutu Sese Seko, accident.
 * Pahor Labib, 88, Egyptian egyptologist and coptologist.
 * Andy McEvoy, 55, Irish football player.
 * Chuck Taylor, 74, American football player and coach.
 * Aharon Yariv, 73, Israeli politician and general.

8

 * Edith Bullock, 91, American businesswoman and politician.
 * Einar Diesen, 96, Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor.
 * Jim Finks, 66, American football player, coach, and executive, lung cancer.
 * Steven Keats, 49, American actor (Death Wish, Black Sunday, Silent Rage), suicide.
 * George Peppard, 65, American actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's, The A-Team, The Carpetbaggers), lung cancer.
 * Murray Spivack, 90, Russian-American sound engineer.

9

 * Anni Albers, 94, American textile artist and printmaker.
 * Ralph Brickner, 69, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Allan Frost Archer, 86, American entomologist and arachnologist.
 * Bengt Lehander, 68, Swedish Air Force officer.
 * Heinz-Werner Meyer, 61, German trade union leader and politician.

10

 * Cleanth Brooks, 87, American literary critic and professor.
 * John Wayne Gacy Jr., 52, American serial killer and sex offender, execution by lethal injection.
 * Lucebert, 69, Dutch poet and painter.
 * Elias Motsoaledi, 69, South African anti-apartheid activist.
 * Lil Picard, 94, German-American actress, artist, and journalist.

11

 * Louis-Thomas Achille, 84, Martiniquais intellectual, educator and musician.
 * David Howard Adeney, 82, British missionary and university evangelist.
 * S. A. Ajayi, 89, Nigerian statesman.
 * Alfred James Broomhall, 82, British missionary in China and author.
 * Timothy Carey, 65, American actor (The Killing, Paths of Glory, One-Eyed Jacks), stroke.
 * Nikolay Fyodorov, 80, Soviet-Russian animator, director, writer and cartoonist.
 * Henri Guisol, 89, French film actor.
 * Lloyd Hughes, 81, Australian politician.
 * Helmut Käser, 81, Swiss lawyer and general secretary of FIFA.
 * Romano Puppo, 61, Italian stuntman and actor, traffic collision.
 * Bennie Warren, 82, American Major League Baseball player.

12

 * Xen Balaskas, 83, South African cricket player.
 * Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet, 91, British politician, art collector and philanthropist.
 * Catherine Berndt, 76, Australian anthropologist.
 * Paul Cushing Child, 92, American civil servant, diplomat, and artist.
 * Erik Erikson, 91, Danish-German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst.
 * Si Johnson, 87, American baseball player.
 * Roy J. Plunkett, 83, American chemist, cancer.
 * John Smith, 55, Scottish politician, heart attack.
 * André Zwobada, 84, French screenwriter, producer and film director.

13

 * Vladimir Antoshin, 64, Soviet/Russian chess Grandmaster.
 * Duncan Hamilton, 74, British racing driver.
 * John Francis Kennedy, 88, American politician.
 * John Swainson, 68, Canadian-American politician and jurist.

14

 * Dave Albritton, 81, American high jumper, and coach, and politician.
 * Cihat Arman, 78, Turkish football goalkeeper and manager.
 * W. Graham Claytor, Jr., 82, American Navy officer, attorney, and government official.
 * Burt Monroe, 63, American ornithologist.
 * Brian Roper, 64, British-American actor, and real estate agent.
 * Olga Spiridonović, 70, Serbian actress.
 * Leonard Teale, 71, Australian actor, radio announcer, and presenter.
 * Robert G. Vosper, 80, American educator and librarian.

15

 * Omprakesh Agrawal, 39, Indian snooker player, cancer.
 * Leonard Carpenter, 91, American rower and Olympian.
 * Royal Dano, 71, American actor (The Outlaw Josey Wales, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, The Right Stuff), heart attack.
 * Oskar Heil, 86, German electrical engineer and inventor.
 * Sherman Landers, 96, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
 * Alexander Nove, 78, British professor of Economics.
 * Gilbert Roland, 88, Mexican-American actor, cancer.
 * Robert T. Secrest, 90, American politician.

16

 * Val A. Browning, 98, American gunmaker and philanthropist.
 * Alain Cuny, 85, French actor in theatre and cinema.
 * Dalmiro Finol, 74, Venezuelan baseball player.
 * Zdeňka Honsová, 66, Czech gymnast and Olympian.
 * Phani Majumdar, 82, Indian film director.
 * Roy McElroy, 87, New Zealand lawyer and politician.
 * Alfred Otto Carl Nier, 82, American physicist.
 * Paul Shulman, 72, Israeli Navy officer.

17

 * Gérson da Silva, 28, Brazilian football player, AIDS-related complications.
 * Nicolás Gómez Dávila, 80, Colombian philosopher, cardiovascular disease.
 * Leonila Garcia, 87, Filipino pharmacist.
 * Irène Hamoir, 87, Belgian novelist and poet.
 * Étienne Hirsch, 93, French civil engineer and member of the French Resistance during World War II.
 * Vladimír Podzimek, 29, Czechoslovakian ski jumper and Olympian, suicide.
 * Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, 82, Austrian anthropologist and archaeologist.
 * John Thanos, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

18

 * Harry Barker, 95, New Zealand newspaper journalist and editor.
 * John Cramer, 98, Australian politician, heart attack.
 * Manuel Manahan, 78, Filipino politician, journalist, and businessman.
 * Mamintal A.J. Tamano, 65, Filipino politician statesman.

19

 * Joseph Chatt, 79, British chemist.
 * Jacques Ellul, 82, French philosopher and sociologist.
 * Henry Morgan, 79, American humorist, lung cancer.
 * Luis Ocaña, 48, Spanish road bicycle racer, suicide.
 * Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 64, American socialite, writer, and First Lady of the United States, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

20

 * Bartine Burkett, 96, American film actress, heart attack.
 * Fernande Giroux, Canadian actress and jazz singer.
 * Ingrid Hafner, 57, British actress, ALS.
 * Kasu Brahmananda Reddy, 84, Indian politician.
 * Jiří Sobotka, 82, Czechoslovak football player.

21

 * Martin Doherty, 35, Irish republican and IRA volunteer, shot.
 * Giovanni Goria, 50, Italian politician, lung cancer.
 * David S. Holmes Jr., 79, American politician.
 * Masayoshi Ito, 80, Japanese politician.
 * Norman Low, 80, Scottish football player and manager.
 * Ralph Miliband, 70, British sociologist, heart attack.
 * Johan Hendrik Weidner, 81, Dutch member of the resistance during World War II.
 * Cliff Wilson, 60, Welsh snooker player.

22

 * Jane Dulo, 75, American actress and comedian.
 * Gerhard Krüger, 85, German Nazi Party student leader and later a neo-Nazi figure.
 * Mitacq, 66, Belgian comics author.
 * Norman Read, 62, New Zealand racewalker and Olympian, heart attack.

23

 * Al Baldwin, 71, American gridiron football player.
 * Ray Candy, 42, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
 * George de Godzinsky, 79, Russian-Finnish composer and conductor.
 * Olav Hauge, 85, Norwegian horticulturist, translator and poet.
 * Leo Kuper, 89, South African sociologist.
 * George Metesky, 90, American electrician and mechanic.
 * Joe Pass, 65, American jazz guitarist, liver cancer.
 * Oscar Saul, 81, American screenwriter.
 * Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers, 86, British politician.

24

 * Martin Goldsmith, 80, American screenwriter and novelist.
 * Julien Hébert, 76, Québécois industrial designer.
 * Bill Schutte, 84, American football player and coach.
 * John Wain, 69, English poet, novelist, and critic.

25

 * Joe Brainard, 52, American artist and writer, AIDS-related complications.
 * Willi Eichhorn, 85, German rower and Olympian.
 * Eric Gale, 55, American jazz and R&B guitarist, lung cancer.
 * John Mackie, Baron John-Mackie, 84, British politician.
 * Robert Paverick, 81, Belgian football player.

26

 * Károly Antal, 84, Hungarian sculptor.
 * George Ball, 84, American diplomat and banker.
 * Muriel Cooper, 69, American book designer, digital designer, and researcher.
 * Shelby Cullom Davis, 85, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.
 * Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji, 97, Bhutanese royal and politician.
 * Gil Fuller, 74, American jazz arranger, composer and bandleader.
 * André Gérard, 83, French football player and manager.
 * Jules Keignaert, 86, French water polo player and politician.
 * Hezy Leskly, 41, Israeli poet, choreographer, painter and art critic, AIDS-related complications.
 * Pug Lund, 81, American gridiron football player.
 * Norberto Menéndez, 57, Argentine football player.
 * Sonny Sharrock, 53, American jazz guitarist, heart attack.
 * Robbie Stanley, 26, American auto racing driver, racing accident.
 * Red Treadway, 74, American baseball player.

27

 * Klaus Beckmann, 49, German politician.
 * Charles Rodman Campbell, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by hanging.
 * Luis de Carlos, 87, Spanish football executive.
 * Lakshman Shastri Joshi, 93, Indian writer, scholar, and literary critic.
 * George Melinkovich, 82, American football player and coach.
 * Red Rodney, 66, American jazz trumpeter, lung cancer.
 * Art Spinney, 66, American football player.

28

 * Julius Boros, 74, American golfer, heart attack.
 * James Burke, 67, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
 * Daniel Flood, 90, American attorney and politician.
 * Zainulabedin Gulamhusain Rangoonwala, 80, Indian activist and banker.
 * Hugh Stirling, 86, Canadian football player.
 * Max Walter Svanberg, 82, Swedish painter, illustrator, and designer.
 * Branislav Varsik, 90, Slovak historian and archivist.

29

 * José Bohr, 92, German-Chilean film director, producer, actor and screenwriter.
 * Peter Cranmer, 79, English sportsman.
 * Raymond Fellay, 62, Swiss alpine skier and Olympian.
 * Erich Honecker, 81, German communist politician and leader of the GDR, liver cancer.
 * Oliver Jackson, 61, American jazz drummer, heart failure.
 * Joseph Janni, 78, British film producer.
 * Harry Levin, 81, American literary critic and scholar.
 * Áskell Löve, 77, Icelandic botanist.
 * Lady May Abel Smith, 88, British noblewoman.

30

 * Malouf Abraham Sr., 78, American businessman and politician.
 * Serge Afanasyan, 81, Armenian historian.
 * Ezra Taft Benson, 94, American farmer, government official, and religious leader, heart failure.
 * Marcel Bich, 79, Italian-French industrialist and co-founder of Bic.
 * Agostino Di Bartolomei, 39, Italian football player, suicide.
 * Donald Hill, 71, British engineer and historian of science and technology.
 * Jack Krol, 57, American baseball coach and manager, cancer.
 * Juan Carlos Onetti, 84, Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories, heart attack.
 * Juzo Sanada, 71, Japanese baseball player.
 * Pavle Savić, 85, Serbian physicist and chemist.
 * István Tamássy, 83, Hungarian football player.

31

 * Frank Beck, 51, English convicted child sex offender, heart attack.
 * Mbaye Diagne, 36, Senegalese military officer, killed in action.
 * Sidney Gilliat, 86, English film director, producer and writer.
 * Manny Klein, 86, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Herva Nelli, 85, Italian-American operatic soprano, leukemia.
 * Samta Prasad, 72, Indian classical musician and tabla player.
 * Henri Woode, 84, American composer, lyricist, arranger, and singer.
 * Hannah Marie Wormington, 79, American archaeologist.