Deaths in October 1994

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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

 * David Berg, 75, American founder and leader of religious movement The Family International.
 * Ron Herron, 64, English architect and teacher.
 * Bud Houser, 93, American field athlete.
 * Donald Roy Irvine, 74, Canadian politician.
 * Oluyemi Kayode, 26, Nigerian sprinter, traffic collision.
 * Paul Lorenzen, 79, German philosopher and mathematician.
 * Marjorie Weaver, 81, American actress, heart attack.

2

 * Matthew Black, 86, Scottish minister and biblical scholar.
 * Claude Harris, Jr., 54, American politician.
 * Harry Hodgkinson, 81, British writer, journalist, and naval intelligence officer.
 * Harriet Nelson, 85, American singer and actress (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), heart failure.

3

 * Tim Asch, 62, American anthropologist, photographer, and ethnographic filmmaker, cancer.
 * Virginia Dale, 77, American actress and dancer.
 * Lassi Parkkinen, 77, Finnish speed skater.
 * Heinz Rühmann, 92, German film actor.
 * Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis, 92, German Benedictine and nobleman.
 * Dub Taylor, 87, American actor (The Wild Bunch, Bonnie and Clyde, Casey Jones).

4

 * Yardena Alotin, 64, Israeli composer and pianist.
 * Bill Challis, 90, American jazz arranger.
 * Danny Gatton, 49, American guitarist, suicide.
 * Shmuel Merlin, 84, Israeli Revisionist Zionist activist and politician.
 * Effat Nagy, 89, Egyptian artist.
 * John Opper, 85, American abstract painter.
 * Andrea Velis, 62, American operatic tenor.

5

 * Luc Jouret, 46, Belgian religious cult leader, suicide.
 * Gordon Juckes, 80, Canadian ice hockey administrator.
 * Nini Rosso, 68, Italian jazz trumpeter and composer, lung cancer.
 * Walt Schlinkman, 72, American gridiron football player and coach.
 * William R. Smedberg III, 92, United States Navy vice admiral.
 * Jacques Tarride, 91, French actor.
 * Doug Wildey, 72, American cartoonist and comic book artist.

6

 * Jo Colruyt, 66, Belgian businessman.
 * Per Mørch Hansson, 89, Norwegian sportsman and businessman.
 * G. Joseph Tauro, 88, American judge and Chief justice (1970-1976).
 * Tadeusz Żakiej, 79, Polish musicologist and music publicist, and food writer.

7

 * Piotr Alberti, 80, Soviet/Russian painter.
 * Maya Bulgakovа, 62, Soviet/Russian actress, traffic collision.
 * Bruce Cork, 78, American physicist.
 * Ray Ellefson, 66, American basketball player.
 * Jack Fitzgerald, 80, Irish Labour Party politician.
 * Carlos Gracie, 92, Brazilian martial artist.
 * Viktors Hatuļevs, 39, Soviet/Latvian ice hockey defenseman and left winger.
 * James Hill, 75, British film and television director, screenwriter and producer.
 * Niels Kaj Jerne, 82, Danish immunologist.
 * Maurício do Valle, 66, Brazilian film actor, diabetes.

8

 * Anthony Abell, 87, British colonial official.
 * Diana Churchill, 81, English actress, multiple sclerosis.
 * Brian Hartley, 55, British mathematician specialising in group theory, heart attack.
 * Khaled al-Hassan, 66, Palestinian politician, adviser of Yasser Arafat and founder of militant organization Fatah.
 * Alan M. Holman, 89, American football player and coach.
 * Jan de Koning, 68, Dutch politician and social geographer, cancer.
 * John Neely, 64, American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger.

9

 * Raich Carter, 80, English sportsman.
 * Bill Fox, 95, New Zealand politician.
 * Idris Hopkins, 83, Welsh football player.
 * Nikolai Karetnikov, 64, Soviet /Russian composer of underground music.
 * Fred Lebow, 62, American runner and race director.
 * Philip Burton Moon, 87, British nuclear physicist.
 * Lawrence Simmons, 83, American football and baseball coach.
 * Rolf Thiele, 76, German film director, producer and screenwriter.

10

 * Richard J. C. Atkinson, 74, British prehistorian and archaeologist.
 * John C. Champion, 70, American producer and screenwriter.
 * Nola Luxford, 92, New Zealand-American film actress.
 * SM Sultan, 71, Bangladeshi painter.

11

 * Jarvis Hunt, 90, American politician.
 * Keiji Imai, 77, Japanese sprinter.
 * Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov, 74, French Resistance member.
 * Frank McGuire, 79, American basketball coach.

12

 * John Blackburn, 61, British politician.
 * Raymond Garrett, 93, Australian military officer, photographer, and politician.
 * Gérald Godin, 55, Quebec poet and politician.
 * Werner Kubitzki, 79, German field hockey player.
 * Manole Marcus, 66, Romanian film director and screenwriter.
 * Yakov Punkin, 72, Ukrainian featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler.
 * Sady Rebbot, 59, French actor, cancer.

13

 * Fiodar Fiodaraŭ, 83, Soviet/Belarusian physicist.
 * Ture Königson, 84, Swedish evangelical politician.
 * Eric Morse, 5, American murder victim, fall.
 * Samuel Jacob Sesanus Olsen, 90, Faroese teacher, writer and translator.
 * Guido Wolf, 70, Liechtenstein sports shooter.

14

 * Gioconda de Vito, 87, Italian-British violinist.
 * Harry Fleer, 78, American actor.
 * Setu Madhavrao Pagdi, 84, Indian civil servant, polyglot, and historian.
 * Nikolai Skomorokhov, 74, Soviet Air Forces flying ace during World War II, traffic collision.
 * Karl Edward Wagner, 48, American writer, poet, editor, and publisher.
 * Petar Šegedin, 68, Yugoslav steeplechase and long-distance runner.

15

 * Avis Acres, 84, New Zealand artist, writer, illustrator and conservationist.
 * Jean Dasté, 90, Frenck actor and theatre director.
 * Sarah Kofman, 60, French philosopher, suicide.
 * George Meader, 87, American politician.
 * Jozo Tomasevich, 86, American economist and military historian.

16

 * Joan Airey, 68, British artistic gymnast.
 * Kunigunde Bachl, 75, German physician and politician, member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein
 * Peter Bromilow, 61, English actor (Camelot, The Railway Children, The Rocketeer).
 * Ed Cody, 71, American football player and coach.
 * Monja Danischewsky, 83, British producer and writer.
 * Michela Fanini, 21, Italian racing cyclist, traffic collision.
 * Ganesh Ghosh, 94, Indian independence activist, revolutionary and politician.
 * Josef Kraft, 73, German Luftwaffe pilot during World War II and later an officer in the German Air Force.

17

 * P. M. Aboobacker, Indian politician.
 * George Barrows, 80, American actor.
 * Ralph Hill, 86, American runner.
 * Dmitry Kholodov, 27, Russian journalist, homicide.
 * Gus Risman, 83, Welsh rugby player.

18

 * Herman Ahlsell, 75, Swedish director and actor.
 * Lee Allen, 67, American tenor saxophone player.
 * Walker Lee Cisler, 97, American engineer and business executive.
 * Xavier Depraz, 68, French opera singer and actor.
 * Else Klink, 86, German Eurythmist.
 * Eddie Mast, 46, American basketball player.
 * Conchita Montes, 80, Spanish film actress.
 * Max Müller, 88, German philosopher and Catholic intellectual.
 * Li Qingwei, 74, People's Republic of China politician.

19

 * Ray Birdwhistell, 76, American anthropologist.
 * Hedi Flitz, 94, German politician.
 * M. C. M. Kaleel, 94, Ceylonese physician, social worker and politician.
 * Jacopo Napoli, 83, Italian composer.
 * Martha Raye, 78, American comic actress and singer, pneumonia.
 * Nyanaponika Thera, 93, German-born Theravada Buddhist monk and scholar.
 * Oldřich Černík, 72, Czech politician and Prime minister of Czechoslovakia.

20

 * Sergei Bondarchuk, 74, Soviet/Russian actor, film director, and screenwriter, heart attack.
 * Shlomo Carlebach, 69, Jewish rabbi, spiritual leader, composer, and singer, heart attack.
 * Viola Gråsten, 83, Swedish textile designer.
 * Barbara Ingram, 46, American R&B singer and songwriter.
 * Hakob Karapents, 69, Iranian-Armenian author.
 * Burt Lancaster, 80, American actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry, Birdman of Alcatraz), Oscar winner (1961), heart attack.
 * Robert Medley, 88, English artist.
 * Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, 69, Italian film actor.
 * Francis Steegmuller, 88, American biographer, translator and fiction writer.

21

 * Bunny Adair, 89, Australian politician.
 * Thore Ehrling, 81, Swedish trumpeter, composer, and bandleader.
 * George H. Gay, 77, United States Navy bomber pilot during World War II.
 * Jerome Wiesner, 79, American engineer and president of MIT.

22

 * Wali Ahmed, Bangladesh Awami League politician.
 * William Frankena, 86, American moral philosopher.
 * Harold Hopkins, 75, British physicist.
 * Handel Manuel, 76, Indian pianist, organist, conductor, composer and accompanist.
 * Rollo May, 85, American existential psychologist and author.
 * Jimmy Miller, 52, American record producer and musician, liver disease.
 * Benoît Régent, 41, French actor, aneurysm.
 * Andrea Zambelli, 67, Italian bobsledder.

23

 * Jack Gibson, 86, English schoolmaster, academic and mountaineer.
 * Robert Lansing, 66, American actor (12 O'Clock High. The Equalizer, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues), cancer.
 * Bill Leonard, 78, American journalist and television executive, stroke.
 * Yisroel Ber Odesser, 106, Israeli Breslover Hasid and rabbi.
 * Cornelis Pama, 77, Dutch bookseller, publisher, heraldist and genealogist.

24

 * René Clermont, 72, French stage and film actor and playwright.
 * Sólo̱n Zéfyros Gri̱goriádi̱s, 82, Greek Navy officer, journalist, writer and politician.
 * Hans Jacobs, 87, German sailplane designer and pioneer.
 * Edward St John, 78, Australian barrister, anti-nuclear activist and politician.
 * Raul Julia, 54, Puerto Rican actor (Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Addams Family, Presumed Innocent), Emmy winner (1995), stroke.
 * John Lautner, 83, American architect.
 * Ian Potter, 92, Australian stockbroker, businessman and philanthropist.
 * Guy Powles, 89, New Zealand diplomat, and New Zealand's first Ombudsman.
 * Alexander Shelepin, 76, Soviet politician and security and intelligence officer.
 * Notable people killed in the 1994 Colombo suicide attack
 * Ossie Abeygunasekera, 44, Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament
 * Gamini Dissanayake, 52, Sri Lankan politician and Leader of the Opposition
 * Weerasinghe Mallimaratchi, 64, Sri Lankan politician and cabinet minister
 * G. M. Premachandra, 54, Sri Lankan politician and cabinet minister

25

 * Yang Dezhi, 83, Chinese general and politician.
 * George Fallon, 80, American baseball player.
 * Bob Gantt, 72, American basketball player.
 * Emil Grünig, 79, Swiss sport shooter.
 * Lillian Hayman, 72, American actress and singer, heart attack.
 * Kara Hultgreen, 29, American naval aviator, plane crash.
 * Hou Jingru, 92, Chinese Army officer and politician.
 * Antal Kocsis, 88, Hungarian boxer.
 * József Kozma, 69, Hungarian basketball player.
 * Karl-Heinz Metzner, 71, German football player.
 * Mildred Natwick, 89, American actress (Barefoot in the Park, Dangerous Liaisons, The Snoop Sisters), Emmy winner (1974), cancer.
 * Frank Spaniel, 66, American gridiron football player.

26

 * Norma Dee Edwards, 82, American politician.
 * Wilbert Harrison, 65, American rhythm and blues musician, stroke.
 * Herbert Holba, 62, Austrian film director and screenwriter.
 * Stella Kübler, 72, German Jewish woman and Gestapo collaborator during WorldWar II, suicide by drowning.
 * Tutta Rolf, 87, Norwegian-Swedish film and theatre actress and singer.

27

 * Kay Bell, 80, American gridiron football player, cancer.
 * Wally Halder, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * James Schwarzenbach, 83, Swiss right-wing politician and publicist.
 * Omar Wahrouch, 68, Moroccan singer-poet and songwriter.
 * Robert White, 57, American soul musician and a guitarist (Funk Brothers).

28

 * William Boon, 83, British chemist.
 * Marcia Anastasia Christoforides, 85, British philanthropist, art collector, and racehorse owner.
 * Calvin Souther Fuller, 92, American physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
 * Doghmi Larbi, 63, Moroccan actor.
 * Ramakrushna Nanda, 88, Indian writer, educator and children's author.
 * Irene Robertson, 62, American hurdler.

29

 * Shlomo Goren, 77, Polish-Israeli Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi and Talmudic scholar.
 * Ernst Heinrichsohn, 74, German lawyer and SS officer during World War II.
 * Jalmari Kivenheimo, 105, Finnish gymnast.
 * Manuel Barbachano Ponce, 69, Mexican film producer, director, and screenwriter.
 * Pearl Primus, 74, American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist.

30

 * Frank Coggins, 50, American baseball player.
 * Oakley C. Collins, 78, American politician.
 * Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, 88, Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist, diabetes.
 * Swaran Singh, 87, Indian politician, heart attack.

31

 * Hal Ellson, 84, American author of pulp fiction, heart attack.
 * John Pope-Hennessy, 80, British art historian.
 * Lester Sill, 76, American record label executive.
 * Erling Stordahl, 71, Norwegian farmer and singer.