Deaths in May 1995

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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

 * Erwin Leonard Guy Abel, 83, New Zealand businessman.
 * Reuel Denney, 82, American poet and academic.
 * Carl S. Herz, 65, American-Canadian mathematician.
 * George MacKinnon, 89, American politician, attorney, and judge.
 * Mikhail Zimyanin, 80, Soviet/Russian politician and diplomat.

2

 * Luciano Anceschi, 84, Italian literary critic and essayist.
 * Edwin Blum, 88, American screenwriter.
 * Albert Bousser, 89, Luxembourgish politician, railway inspector, and trade unionist.
 * Don Brockett, 65, American actor (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Flashdance, The Silence of the Lambs), heart attack.
 * John Bunting, 76, Australian public servant and diplomat.
 * Sir Michael Hordern, 83, English actor (The Dock Brief, Barry Lyndon, Watership Down), kidney disease.
 * Allan O. Hunter, 78, American politician.
 * Manfred Kersch, 81, German athlete.
 * Rudolf Perešin, 37, Croatian fighter pilot, killed in action.
 * Dežo Ursiny, 47, Slovak rock musician, screenwriter and director.
 * Werner Veigel, 66, Dutch-German journalist and news presenter, brain cancer.
 * Keith Zettlemoyer, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

3

 * John Warren Aldrich, 89, American ornithologist.
 * Johnny Leonard, 91, Australian rules football player and coach.
 * Adele Marcus, 89, American pianist and music educator.
 * Adolf Schlyßleder, 85, German film editor and assistant director.
 * Bruno Torpigliani, 80, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.

4

 * Andrey Abramov, 58, Soviet/Russian boxer.
 * Arne Arnardo, 82, Norwegian circus performer and owner.
 * Murray Barr, 86, Canadian physician and medical researcher.
 * Cornelio Fabro, 83, Italian Catholic priest.
 * Thomas Anthony Harris, 85, American psychiatrist and author, heart attack.
 * Louis Krasner, 91, Ukrainian-American violinist.
 * Hitomi Nozoe, 58, Japanese actress popular in the 1950s and early 1960s, cancer.
 * Lewis Thompson Preston, 68, American banker, CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co. and president of the World Bank.
 * Connie Wisniewski, 73, American baseball player, cancer.

5

 * Josef Bek, 76, Czech film and television actor.
 * Mikhail Botvinnik, 83, Russian chess player, pancreatic cancer.
 * David Connell, 63-64, American television producer (Sesame Street, The Electric Company).
 * Geno DeNobile, 62, Canadian football player.
 * Earl Faircloth, 74, American politician and lawyer.
 * Richard D. McCarthy, 67, American politician.
 * Nagabhushanam, 73, Indian actor and comedian.
 * Alastair Pilkington, 75, British engineer and businessman.
 * Ye Qianyu, 88, Chinese painter and pioneering manhua artist.
 * Edward W. Snedeker, 92, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.
 * Anthony Wagner, 86, English Officer of Arms at the College of Arms.

6

 * John Black Aird, 72, Canadian lawyer, corporate director and political figure.
 * Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, 88, Portuguese writer and journalist.
 * Noel Brotherston, 38, Northern Irish footballer, heart attack.
 * Bucky Calabrese, 67, American upright bassist.
 * Ippolito Gonzalez, 40, American police sergeant.
 * Gottfried Haberler, 94, Austrian-American economist.
 * Adriano Mantelli, 82, Italian aircraft designer.
 * Georgios Mavros, 86, Greek jurist and politician.
 * Clarence Paul, 67, American songwriter, record producer and singer, diabetes.

7

 * Katharine Banham, 97, English psychologist who specialized in developmental psychology.
 * Gus Bell, 66, American Major League Baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Milwaukee Braves).
 * María Luisa Bemberg, 73, Argentine film writer, director and actress, cancer.
 * Ray Buckton, 72, British trade unionist.
 * Clifford Clogg, 45, American sociologist, demographer, and statistician.
 * Ernest H. Martin, 75, American Broadway and film producer of musicals.
 * Ray McKinley, 84, American jazz drummer, singer, and bandleader.
 * Giti Pashaei, 54, Iranian singer and musician, breast cancer.
 * Mariya Polyakova, 87, Soviet colonel and spy.
 * Ioannis Toumbas, 94, Greek naval officer and politician.
 * Helen Varcoe, 88, English swimmer and Olympic medalist.

8

 * Carroll Best, American banjo player.
 * Prem Bhatia, 72, Indian diplomat and journalist.
 * Jacques Isorni, 83, French lawyer and memoirist.
 * Marshal Royal, 82, American alto saxophonist and clarinetist, brother of Ernie Royal.
 * Bill Spivey, 66, American basketball player.
 * Teresa Teng, 42, Taiwanese singer, asthma.

9

 * Jeanne Darville, 70, Danish film actress.
 * Alf Henrikson, 89, Swedish author, poet and translator.
 * Percy Mansell, 75, South African cricket player.
 * Charles Monteith, 74, British literary editor.
 * Kanhiyalal Prabhakar Mishra, 88, Indian journalist, writer and freedom fighter.
 * John Elwood Price, 59, American composer, pianist, ethnomusicologist, and music teacher.
 * Earl H. Pritchard, 87, American scholar of China.
 * Magda Rurac, 76, Romanian tennis player in the 1940s and 1950s.

10

 * Brigitte Alexander, 83, German-born Mexican author, actress, director and translator.
 * Harold Berens, 92, British comedian and character actor.
 * Georgios Candilis, 82, Greek-French architect and urbanist.
 * Ilio DiPaolo, 68, Italian professional wrestler and restaurateur.
 * Karl Drewo, 65, Austrian jazz saxophonist.
 * Alexander Elbrächter, 87, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Freddy Fernández, 61, Mexican film and television actor, esophageal cancer.
 * Duncan McKenzie, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Juan Manuel López Mella, 30, Spanish motorcycle racer, traffic collision.
 * Jimmy Raney, 67, American jazz guitarist.
 * Carlos Rinaldi, 80, Argentine film director, film editor and screenwriter.
 * Steffie Spira, 86, Austrian-German actress.
 * Gil Steinke, 76, American football player and coach.
 * Joe Vetrano, 76, American gridiron football player.
 * Dicky Zulkarnaen, 55, Indonesian actor.

11

 * Reza Abdoh, 32, Iranian playwright and director, AIDS.
 * David Avidan, 61, Israeli poet and playwright.
 * José T. Joya, 63, Filipino abstract artist.
 * Arthur Lubin, 96, American film director.
 * Boris Pash, 94, United States Army military intelligence officer.
 * John Phillips, 80, British actor.
 * Ivo Samkalden, 82, Dutch politician and jurist.
 * Bill Shelton, 92, Australian rules football player.
 * Pete Tinsley, 82, American gridiron football player.

12

 * Len Beadell, 72, Australian surveyor, road builder, bushman, artist and author.
 * Giorgio Belladonna, 71, Italian bridge player.
 * John Blight, 81, Australian poet.
 * Andrei Boltnev, 49, Soviet/Russian actor, stroke.
 * Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman, 81, British lawyer and political advisor.
 * Bogo Grafenauer, 79, Slovenian historian.
 * Ștefan Kovács, 74, Romanian football player and coach.
 * Vernon L. Lowrance, 86, United States Navy vice admiral.
 * Mia Martini, 47, Italian singer and songwriter, heart failure.
 * Adolfo Pedernera, 76, Argentinian footballer.
 * Maria Teresa Riedl, 57, Italian tennis player.
 * Marcel Rubin, 89, Austrian composer and music critic.
 * Karl Vennberg, 85, Swedish poet, writer and translator.

13

 * Francisco Moreno Capdevila, 69, Spanish-Mexican artist.
 * Alan Maley, 64, British visual effects artist (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Spy Who Loved Me), Oscar winner (1972), heart attack.
 * Robert Marley, 85, Jamaican cricket player.
 * Teddy Sandford, 84, English football player.
 * Hao Wang, 73, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician.

14

 * Christian B. Anfinsen, 79, American biochemist and Nobel Prize for Chemistry laureate, heart attack.
 * Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt, 75, Colombian sculptor, liver cancer.
 * Jessy Blackburn, 101, British aviation pioneer.
 * Mary Brazier, 90, American neuroscientist.
 * Ted James, 76, American politician.
 * Jean Laurent, 88, French football player.
 * Tommy Prothro, 74, American football coach, cancer.
 * Hamilton Lavity Stoutt, 66, British Virgin Islander politician and first Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands.
 * Richard Udugama, 83, Sri Lankan military leader, politician and diplomat.

15

 * Lionel Brodie, 77, Australian tennis player.
 * Benjamin Bubar Jr., 77, American politician and ordained minister.
 * Dora Chapman, 84, Australian painter.
 * Seymour Durst, 81, American real estate investor and developer.
 * Billy Lott, 60, American gridiron football player.
 * Taizan Maezumi, 64, Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher and rōshi, drowned.
 * Grace Matthews, 84, Canadian actress in the era of old-time radio and the early years of television.
 * Fred G. Moritt, 89, American lawyer, singer, composer, lyricist and politician.
 * Eric Porter, 67, English actor, colorectal cancer.
 * Luis Antonio Ramírez, 72, Puerto Rican composer.
 * Pia Tassinari, 91, Italian opera singer who was first a soprano and later a mezzo-soprano.

16

 * Edris Allan, 86, Jamaican community worker, political figure and women's rights advocate.
 * Red Amick, 66, American racecar driver.
 * Harry E. Bergold Jr., 63, American diplomat and ambassador.
 * Parelius Hjalmar Bang Berntsen, 85, Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
 * Ray Bower, 72, Australian rules footballer.
 * Lola Flores, 72, Spanish singer, dancer and actress, breast cancer.
 * Gertrude Grob-Prandl, 77, Austrian soprano.
 * Ragnhild Hatton, 82, Norwegian-British professor of International History at the London School of Economics.
 * Raymond Lyttleton, 84, British mathematician and theoretical astronomer.
 * Thomas Lee Ward, 59, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

17

 * Toe Blake, 82, Canadian ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Girvies Davis, 37, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Geoffrey Dickens, 63, British politician, liver cancer.
 * Joe McKenney, 90, American football player and coach.
 * Catfish Metkovich, 74, American baseball player.
 * Leonid Ivanovich Volkov, 60, Ice hockey player.

18

 * Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, 83, Irish peer and proponent of the Hollow Earth concept.
 * Elisha Cook Jr., 91, American actor (The Maltese Falcon, Rosemary's Baby, Shane), stroke.
 * Francis Judd Cooke, 84, American composer, organist, cellist, pianist, conductor, and choir director.
 * Alexander Godunov, 45, Russian ballet dancer and actor (Die Hard, Witness, The Money Pit), hepatitis.
 * Robert Harris, 95, English actor.
 * Jack Kramer, 77, American baseball player.
 * Henri Laborit, 80, French surgeon, neurobiologist, writer and philosopher.
 * Elizabeth Montgomery, 62, American actress (Bewitched, The Legend of Lizzie Borden, A Case of Rape), colorectal cancer.
 * Dorothy Poynton-Hill, 79, American diver.
 * Sabine Sinjen, 52, German film actress, cancer.
 * Michael P. W. Stone, 69, British-American businessman and government administrator.
 * Tor Ulven, 41, Norwegian poet, suicide.
 * Peter van de Kamp, 93, Dutch astronomer.

19

 * Robert Sinclair Dietz, 80, American geologist.
 * Derek Ford, 62, English film director and writer.
 * Hans Jürgen Kiebach, 64, German production designer, art director and set decorator.
 * Trevor Lewis, 75, British water polo player and Olympian.
 * Robert Riger, 70, American sports illustrator, photographer, television director, and cinematographer.
 * Nico van Gageldonk, 81, Dutch cyclist and Olympian.

20

 * Maurice Banide, 90, French football player and manager.
 * Les Cowie, 70, Australian rugby player.
 * Oscar Gjøslien, 85, Norwegian cross-country skier.
 * Burton Jastram, 84, American rower.
 * Ulysses Kay, 78, American composer, Parkinson's disease.
 * Florijan Matekalo, 75, Yugoslav and Croatian football player.
 * Les Smith, 77, English football player, Alzheimer's disease.

21

 * Les Aspin, 56, American politician and member of the U.S. House of Representatives, stroke.
 * Larry Hillblom, 52, American businessman and co-founder of DHL.
 * Chaudhry Altaf Hussain, 65, Pakistani politician.
 * Giuseppe Peruchetti, 87, Italian football player and coach.
 * Agnelo Rossi, 82, Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Annie M. G. Schmidt, 84, Dutch writer, heart attack.
 * Mükbile Sultan, 83, Ottoman princess and granddaughter of Mehmed V.

22

 * Robert Flemyng, 83, British actor, pneumonia.
 * Claude Itzykson, 57, French theoretical physicist.
 * Butch Morse, 84, American gridiron football player.
 * Derek Reeves, 60, English football player.

23

 * Pierre Baratin, 74, French cyclist.
 * Ross Flood, 84, American wrestler and Olympian medalist.
 * Patricia Ford, 74, Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Party politician.
 * Dan Fortmann, 79, American gridiron football player.
 * Gavriil Kachalin, 84, Soviet/Russian football player and coach.
 * Mick Pyne, 54, English jazz pianist.
 * Torolv Solheim, 87, Norwegian resistance member during World War II, essayist, and politician.

24

 * Ole Borge, 79, Norwegian jurist and resistance member during World War II.
 * Paul J. Kramer, 91, American biologist and plant physiologist.
 * Ichisada Miyazaki, 93, Japanese historian.
 * Youakim Moubarac, 70, Lebanese Islamologist, Orientalist and Arabist.
 * Harold Wilson, 79, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Alzheimer's disease and colorectal cancer.

25

 * Jack Allen, 87, English film, theatre and television actor.
 * Élie Bayol, 81, French racing driver.
 * Veronica Bulshefski, 79, Director of the United States Navy Nurse Corps.
 * Ted Calland, 62, English professional footballer.
 * Boyden Carpenter, 86, American hillbilly and bluegrass artist.
 * Krešimir Ćosić, 46, Croatian basketball player and coach, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
 * Dick Curless, 63, American country music singer, stomach cancer.
 * Alice Day, 89, American film actress.
 * Dany Robin, 68, French actress, domestic fire.
 * Samuel A. Tamposi, 70, American real estate developer, lymphoma.

26

 * Tony Azito, 46, American dancer and actor (The Addams Family, Moonstruck, Union City), HIV/AIDS.
 * David S. Breslow, 78, American industrial chemist best known for his work on polymers.
 * Friz Freleng, 89, American animator (Looney Tunes).
 * Edmund Hansen, 94, Danish track cyclist and Olympian.
 * Kamukara Purushothaman, 64, Indian singer.
 * Sigmund Skard, 91, Norwegian poet, essayist and professor of American literature.
 * Mordechai Surkis, 87, Israeli politician.
 * Eriprando Visconti, 62, Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer, pulmonary emphysema.

27

 * Ștefan Bănică Sr., 61, Romanian actor.
 * Severn Darden, 65, American comedian and actor (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Back to School, Saturday the 14th), heart failure.
 * Epi Drost, 49, Dutch association football player and manager, heart attack.
 * László Kalmár, 63, Hungarian composer and editor.
 * Mike McQuay, 45, American science fiction writer, heart attack.
 * Christopher B. "Stubb" Stubblefield, 64, American barbecue restaurateur.

28

 * Roy Ankrah, 69, Ghanaian boxer who won the British Empire super featherweight title.
 * Helen Ballard, 87, British horticulturist.
 * Gunnar Huseby, 71, Icelandic track and field athlete.
 * Henning Kronstam, 60, Danish ballet dancer, ballet master and company director.
 * Ernie Lewis, 70, American gridiron football player.
 * Irfan Ljubijankić, 42, Bosnian classical music composer, politician and diplomat, killed in action.
 * Jean Muir, 66, British fashion designer, breast cancer.
 * Arifin C. Noer, 54, Indonesian poet, theater director and film producer, liver cancer.
 * Daniela Rocca, 57, Italian actress, model and writer, heart attack.
 * Sinedu Tadesse, 19, Ethiopian student, suicide.
 * Tahsin Taha, 54, Kurdish singer.
 * Matthew E. Welsh, 82, American politician.

29

 * Santiago Armada, 57, Cuban artist and designer.
 * Juan Boria, 90, Puerto Rican poet.
 * Ralph Gustafson, 85, Canadian poet and professor at Bishop's University.
 * Mike Pentz, 70, South African-British physicist and activist in the peace movement, leukemia.
 * Archibald Russell, 90, British aerospace engineer.
 * Glen Selbo, 69, American basketball and baseball player.
 * Margaret Chase Smith, 97, American politician, lung cancer.
 * Kurt Weiß, 89, German field hockey player and Olympian.

30

 * Robert Alexander Anderson, 100, American composer.
 * Glenn Burke, 42, American Major League Baseball player who was the first to come out as gay, AIDS complications.
 * Ted Drake, 82, English footballer.
 * Lofty England, 83, British engineer and motor company manager.
 * Antonio Flores, 33, Spanish singer-songwriter and actor, drug overdose.
 * William McVey, 89, American sculptor, animalier and teacher.
 * Ray Novotny, 87, American football player and coach.
 * Giuseppe Sartore, 58, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Philip Sherrard, 72, British author, translator and philosopher.
 * Bobby Stokes, 44, English footballer, pneumonia.
 * Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu, 97, Romanian novelist, poet and translator.
 * Arthur M. Young, 89, American inventor, helicopter pioneer, cosmologist, philosopher, astrologer, and author.

31

 * Roy Beddington, 85, British painter, illustrator, poet, writer on fishing, and journalist.
 * Guillermo Bermúdez, 71, Colombian architect.
 * Norm Brown, 76, American baseball player.
 * Stanley Elkin, 65, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist, heart attack.
 * Emilio García Gómez, 89, Spanish Arabist, literary historian and critic.
 * Ingrid Semmingsen, 85, Norwegian historian.
 * Pavel Šivic, 87, Slovenian composer, concert pianist, and music educator.
 * Warren Sonbert, 47, American experimental filmmaker, complications from AIDS