Deaths in September 1995

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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

 * Sylvia Gytha de Lancey Chapman, 98, New Zealand doctor and welfare worker.
 * María de la Cruz, 82, Chilean political activist, journalist, writer, and political commentator.
 * Joseph N. Gallo, 83, American mobster and member of the Gambino crime family.
 * Wilhelm Sold, 84, German football player.
 * Benay Venuta, 85, American actress, singer, and dancer, lung cancer.

2

 * Simona Arghir-Sandu, 46, Romanian handballer, cancer.
 * Bahri Guiga, 91, Tunisian lawyer and politician.
 * Václav Neumann, 74, Czech conductor, violinist, and opera director.
 * Earl T. Newbry, 95, American businessman and politician.

3

 * Lance Adams-Schneider, 75, New Zealand politician.
 * Mary Adshead, 91, British painter, muralist, illustrator and designer, heart failure.
 * Earle Birney, 91, Canadian poet and novelist.
 * Mort Browne, 87, Australian rules footballer.
 * D. C. Coleman, 75, British economic historian.
 * Parker Morton, 83, Australian rules football player and coach.
 * Ricardo Sánchez, 54, American poet, cancer.

4

 * Paulo Gracindo, 84, Brazilian actor, prostate cancer.
 * Chuck Greenberg, 45, American musician (Shadowfax), heart attack.
 * Edmond Jouhaud, 90, French general involved in the Algiers putsch of 1961.
 * William Kunstler, 76, American lawyer and civil rights activist.
 * Fabio Pittorru, 66, Italian novelist, screenwriter, journalist and film director.

5

 * John Britten, 45, New Zealand mechanical engineer, cancer.
 * Tom Chisari, 72, American football coach.
 * Salil Chowdhury, 69, Indian songwriter,lyricist, writer, and poet.
 * Girija, 57, Indian actress.
 * Vinko Golob, 74, Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player.
 * Paul Julian, 81, American background animator, sound effects artist and voice actor.
 * Eny Karim, 84, Indonesian politician and civil servant.
 * Ahmed Koulamallah, 83, Chadian politician.
 * John Megna, 42, American actor, director and educator, AIDS-related complications.
 * Ante Nardelli, 58, Croatian water polo player.
 * Jean-Luc Pépin, 70, Canadian academic, and politician.
 * Francis Showering, 83, English brewer, heart attack.
 * Zulu Sofola, 60, Nigerian playwright and dramatist.
 * Benyamin Sueb, 56, Indonesian actor, comedian and singer.
 * Karl Warner, 87, American athlete and Olympic champion.

6

 * Sergio Atzeni, 42, Italian writer, drowned.
 * Michelangelo Borriello, 86, Italian sports shooter and Olympic athlete.
 * Gianni Caldana, 81, Italian track and field athlete who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
 * Bill DeCorrevont, 76, American gridiron football player.
 * Mary Doran, 84, American actress.
 * Buster Mathis, 52, American boxer, heart failure.
 * Ralph Rosenblum, 69, American film editor (Annie Hall, The Producers, Fail-Safe).
 * B. K. Thapar, 73, Indian archaeologist.

7

 * John B. Calhoun, 78, American ethologist and behavioral researcher.
 * Richard Guy Condon, 43, American anthropologist, disappeared on this date and is presumed dead.
 * Al Papai, 78, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Michel Scob, 60, French cyclist.

8

 * Peter Baxandall, 74, English audio engineer and electronics engineer.
 * Madge Biggs, 93, Falkland Islands librarian and politician.
 * Paco Campos, 79, Spanish footballer.
 * Eileen Chang, 74, Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter.
 * Rose Chernin, 93, American communist and activist of Russian birth, Alzheimer's disease.
 * José Luis González Dávila, 52, Mexican football player.
 * Olga Ivinskaya, 83, Russian poet and writer, cancer.
 * Safa Khulusi, 78, Iraqi historian, novelist, poet, journalist and broadcaster.
 * Erich Kunz, 86, Austrian operatic bass baritone at the Vienna State Opera and Metropolitan Opera.
 * Halldis Moren Vesaas, 87, Norwegian poet, translator and writer of children's books.

9

 * Ida Carroll, 89, British music educator, double bassist, and composer.
 * Marina Núñez del Prado, 86, Bolivian sculptor.
 * Reinhard Furrer, 54, German physicist and astronaut, aircraft crash.
 * Lin Houston, 74, American gridiron football player.
 * Benjamin Mazar, 89, Israeli historian.
 * Erik Nilsson, 79, Swedish football player.
 * Béla Pálfi, 72, Serbian football player of Hungarian ethnicity.
 * Akimitsu Takagi, 74, Japanese crime fiction writer, stroke.
 * Ron Talsky, 60, American costume designer.
 * Keith Wayne, 50, American actor (Night of the Living Dead), suicide.
 * Jamie Whitten, 85, American politician and United States House of Representatives representative, heart failure.

10

 * Harriet Bell, 72, American advocate for disability rights.
 * Charles Denner, 69, French actor, cancer.
 * Molly Hide, 81, English cricketer.
 * Derek Meddings, 64, British special effects designer (Superman, Thunderbirds, Batman), Oscar winner (1979), colorectal cancer.
 * Shoji Suzuki, 63, Japanese jazz clarinet player and band leader.

11

 * Fred Campbell, 84, Australian politician and Queensland Legislative Assembly member.
 * Georges Canguilhem, 91, French philosopher and physician.
 * Anita Harding, 42, Irish-British neurologist, colorectal cancer.
 * Roger W. Heyns, 77, American professor and academic.
 * Charles J. Hitch, 85, American economist and Assistant Secretary of Defense.
 * Peter McIntyre, 85, New Zealand painter and author.
 * Kieth O'dor, 33, British racing driver, racing accident.
 * Vladislav Strzhelchik, 74, Soviet/Russian actor, brain cancer.

12

 * Lubomír Beneš, 59, Czech animator, director, and author.
 * Johnny Bothwell, 76, American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader.
 * Jeremy Brett, 61, English actor (Sherlock Holmes, My Fair Lady, War and Peace), heart failure.
 * Grahame Clark, 88, British archaeologist.
 * Larry Gales, 59, American jazz double-bassist, leukemia.
 * Tom Helmore, 91, English actor (Vertigo, The Time Machine, This Could Be the Night).
 * Frederick Augustus Irving, 101, American Army officer.
 * Katherine Locke, 85, American actress.
 * Ernest Pohl, 62, Polish football player.
 * Geoffrey Stokes, 55, American journalist and writer on music and sports, esophageal cancer.

13

 * Aluf Joseph Avidar, 89, Israeli statesman, author and ambassador.
 * Fritz Bennewitz, 69, German theatre director.
 * Eberhard Godt, 95, German naval officer.
 * Francesco Messina, 94, Italian sculptor.
 * Maheswar Neog, 80, Indian academic.
 * Harold Shepherdson, 76, English football player and coach.
 * Frank Silva, 44, American set dresser and actor (Twin Peaks), AIDS-related complications.

14

 * Leon Adams, 90, American journalist, publicist and historian.
 * Maurice K. Goddard, 83, American cabinet officer for six governors, suicide.
 * Emerson John Moore, 57, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Eiji Okada, 75, Japanese actor (Hiroshima mon amour, The Ugly American), heart failure.
 * A. E. Wilder-Smith, 79, British organic chemist and young Earth creationist.

15

 * Harry Calder, 94, English cricket player.
 * Douglass Cater, 72, American journalist, political aide, and college president.
 * Dirceu, 43, Brazilian football player, traffic collision.
 * Dietrich Hrabak, 80, German fighter pilot during World War II.
 * Sam McCluskie, 63, British trade unionist.
 * David McMullin, 87, American field hockey player and Olympian.
 * Pedro Nolasco, 33, Dominican boxer.
 * Gunnar Nordahl, 73, Swedish footballer.
 * Rien Poortvliet, 63, Dutch draughtsman and painter, bone cancer.
 * Nap Reyes, 75, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Michio Watanabe, 72, Japanese politician and Deputy Prime Minister of Japan, heart failure.

16

 * Michael Balfour, 86, English historian and civil servant.
 * Leo Horn, 79, Dutch football referee.
 * Aldo Novarese, 75, Italian type designer.
 * Pierre Olaf, 67, French actor.
 * Jack Wink, 73, American football player and coach.

17

 * Gottfried Bermann, 98, German publisher.
 * Catherine Cobb, 92, British jeweler and silversmith.
 * Yehuda Getz, 70–71, Israeli rabbi of the Western Wall for 27 years, heart attack.
 * Astrid Krebsbach, 82, German table tennis player.
 * Helen Nearing, 91, American author and vegetarianism advocate, single-car accident.
 * Friedrich Schütter, 74, German film and television actor.
 * Rakel Seweriin, 89, Norwegian politician.
 * Grady Sutton, 89, American actor.
 * Lucien Victor, 64, Belgian cyclist.

18

 * Doreen Cannon, 64, American teacher of acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
 * Donald Davie, 73, English Movement poet, and literary critic.
 * Jean Gol, 53, Belgian politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Kaka Hathrasi, 89, Hindi satirist and humorist poet of India.
 * George S. Howard, 93, American conductor of The United States Air Force Band between 1947 and 1963.
 * Tony Paulekas, 83, American gridiron football player.
 * Oleh Tverdokhlib, 25, Ukrainian track and field athlete, domestic accident.

19

 * Mr. Bo, 63, American blues guitarist and singer, pneumonia.
 * Melbourne Brindle, 90, Australian-American illustrator and painter.
 * Walter Gross, 83, German-Israeli journalist who worked for Haaretz from 1949 through 1995.
 * Rauf Hajiyev, 73, Soviet and Azerbaijani composer and politician.
 * Rudolf Peierls, 88, German-born British physicist.
 * Orville Redenbacher, 88, American entrepreneur and businessman, heart attack.
 * Clinton Stephens, 75, American badminton player.

20

 * Charles Albanese, 58, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Emmy Albus, 83, German sprinter.
 * Rene Anselmo, 69, American television executive.
 * Mikhail Bogdanov, 80, Russian production designer and Academy Award nominee.
 * Eulie Chowdhury, 71, Indian architect.
 * Walter A. Haas Jr., 79, President and CEO (1958–1976) and Chairman (1970–1981) of Levi Strauss & Co.
 * Monica Maurice, 87, British industrialist.
 * René Zazzo, 84, French psychologist and pedagogue.

21

 * Andy the Clown, 77, American clown associated with the Chicago White Sox.
 * Tony Cuccinello, 87, American baseball player and coach.
 * Delfy de Ortega, 75, Italian-Argentine actress, cancer.
 * Alan Christopher Deere, 77, New Zealand fighter ace during World War ||.
 * Frank Hall, 74, Irish broadcaster, journalist and film censor, heart attack.
 * Harry Hurwitz, 57, American film director, screenwriter, actor and producer, heart attack.
 * William Murray, 83, British educationist who created the Ladybird Peter and Jane books.
 * Rudy Perpich, 67, American politician and Governor of Minnesota, colorectal cancer.
 * Irven Spence, 86, American animator.

22

 * Julio Alejandro, 88, Spanish screenwriter.
 * Eigil Axgil, 80, Danish gay rights activist.
 * Dolly Collins, 62, English folk musician, arranger and composer.
 * Raimondo Del Balzo, 56, Italian screenwriter and director, cancer.
 * Albert Goodwin, 89, English historian.
 * Phillip Ingle, 34, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Bruno Junk, 65, Estonian race walker.
 * Nasiha Kapidžić-Hadžić, 63, Bosnian children's author and poet.
 * Antonio Pujol, 82, Mexican painter and printmaker.
 * John Whitney, 78, American animator, composer and inventor.

23

 * Thomas Beck, 85, American film and stage actor, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, 75, French poet.
 * Fabien Galateau, 82, French road bicycle racer.
 * Abdelkrim Laribi, 51, Algerian football player.
 * Booker T. Laury, 81, American boogie-woogie, blues, gospel and jazz pianist and singer, cancer.
 * K. Thurairatnam, 65, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.
 * Joseph W. Tkach, 68, American evangelist and pastor of the Worldwide Church of God.
 * Albrecht Unsöld, 90, German astrophysicist.

24

 * Éric Borel, 16, French high school student and spree killer, suicide.
 * Peter Butler, 94, New Zealand seaman, trade unionist, and local politician.
 * Paula Dvorak, 82, Austrian film editor.
 * Keith Johnson, 66, Australian politician.
 * Tom McBride, 42, American photographer, model, and actor, AIDS-related complications.
 * Arthur Walsh, 72, Canadian actor and dancer.

25

 * Dave Bowen, 67, Welsh football player, manager, and captain.
 * Gustav Brom, 74, Czech big band leader, arranger, clarinetist and composer.
 * Annie Elizabeth Delany, 104, American dentist and civil rights pioneer.
 * Dorothy Dickson, 102, American actress and dancer on the London stage.
 * Maryse Justin, 36, Mauritian long-distance runner, cancer.
 * Dick Steinberg, 60, American football executive, stomach cancer.
 * Kei Tomiyama, 56, Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator, pancreatic cancer.

26

 * Flora Blanc, 78, American theatre school director and painter.
 * Jack Broadstock, 74, Australian rules footballer.
 * Xenia Cage, 82, American painter, sculptor, bookbinder, conservator, and musician.
 * Lenny Hambro, 71, American jazz musician.
 * Lynette Roberts, 86, Welsh poet and novelist.
 * Kay Twomey, 81, American songwriter and music arranger.

27

 * Baha Akşit, 81, Turkish physician and politician.
 * Sasha Argov, 80, Israeli composer.
 * Jean Arnot, 92, Australian women's rights activist, trade unionist, and librarian.
 * Sean Conway, 64, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
 * Laurence Jones, 62, British Royal Air Force commander.
 * Karl-Heinz Marbach, 78, German naval officer.
 * Christopher Shaw, 71, British composer.
 * Wilfried Soltau, 83, West German sprint canoer and Olympian.
 * Alison Steele, 58, American disk jockey known as 'Nightbird', stomach cancer.
 * Jürgen Wattenberg, 94, German naval officer and U-boat commander during World War II.

28

 * Rabah Belamri, 48, Algerian writer, complications following surgery.
 * Edgardo Coghlan, 66–67, Mexican painter.
 * Al Cromwell, 57, Canadian blues and folk musician.
 * Robert Curran, 72, Scottish nationalist political activist.
 * Billy Elliot, 31, Northern Irish loyalist and paramilitary leader, shot.
 * Olive Gibbs, 77, British politician and anti-nuclear weapons.
 * Albert Johanneson, 55, South African football player.
 * Aurelius Marie, 90, Dominican politician and jurist, cancer.
 * Edmundo O'Gorman, 88, Mexican writer, historian and philosopher.
 * Frederick N. Tebbe, 60, American chemist.

29

 * Alfred Felix Landon Beeston, 84, English Orientalist.
 * Gerd Bucerius, 89, German politician, publisher and journalist.
 * Michael Carr, 62, English cricketer.
 * James Downie, 73, New Zealand racing cyclist.
 * Seger Ellis, 91, American jazz pianist and vocalist.
 * Susan Fleetwood, 51, British actress, ovarian cancer.
 * Francis Johnson, 84, British architect.
 * Madalyn Murray O'Hair, 76, American activist, asphyxia.
 * Kostas Papachristos, 79, Greek actor.

30

 * Joe Azbell, 68, American journalist and writer, lung cancer.
 * Bertrand Boissonnault, 88, Canadian fencer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
 * George Kirby, 72, American comedian, Parkinson's disease.
 * Jean-Luc Lagarce, 38, French actor, theatre director and playwright, AIDS-related complications.
 * Jakob Segal, 84, Russian-German professor of biology.
 * Bertil von Wachenfeldt, 86, Swedish sprinter and Olympian.
 * Frederick Warner, 77, British diplomat.