The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.
January 1995
1 Wilhelm Altar, 94, Austrian theoretical physicist and magneto ionic theory pioneer. Jack Birney, 66, Australian politician. Bill Bryant, 88, Australian cricketer. Warren Caro, 87, American theater executive. Ted Hawkins, 58, American singer-songwriter. Nina Leen, 90, Russian-born American photographer for Life. J. Miller Leavy, 89, American prosecuting lawyer. Ralph W. Nicholson, 78, American civil servant, military officer, and business executive. Jess Stacy, 90, American jazz pianist who played with Benny Goodman. Jack G. Thayer, 72, American radio executive and disc jockey. Ralph E. Van Norstrand, 57, American politician who was Republican Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives. Arthur Earl Walker, 87, Canadian-American neurosurgeon, neuroscientist and epileptologist. Fred West, 53, English serial killer, suicide. Eugene Wigner, 92, Hungarian physicist Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, pneumonia.
2 Hulbert Aldrich, 87, American banking executive who led the New York Trust Company. Ephraim Amu, 95, Ghanaian composer, musicologist and teacher. Joe Balsis, 73–74, American professional pool player. Siad Barre, 84–85, Somalian military leader and statesman, 3rd President of Somalia, heart attack. Don Elston, 65, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers). Harry de Keijser, 94, Dutch Olympic athlete (1924). Tun Mustapha, 76, Malaysian politician and Chief Minister of Sabah. Nancy Kelly, 73, American actress, diabetes. Keith McDaniel, 38, American principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and on Broadway. Manuel Rivera, 67, Spanish painter. John Rodgers, 34, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). Henry Graham Sharp, 77, British figure skater, world champion, and Olympian (1936, 1948).
3 Ollie Bejma, 87, American Major League Baseball infielder (Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns). Philip Burton, 86, Irish Fine Gael politician, farmer and auctioneer. Bob Darnell, 64, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Al Duncan, 67, American blues drummer. Mickey Haefner, 82, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox, Boston Braves). Roland Harrah III, 21, American film and television child actor, musician, and artist, suicide. Arne Hestenes, 74, Norwegian journalist and author. Byron MacGregor, 46, Canadian news anchor and news director. Robert Marquis, 67–68, German-American architect and academic, complication during surgery. Robert Nesbitt, 88, English theatre director, theatrical producer and impresario. Edward Nugent, 90, American actor, writer, and director. Jacques Peten, 82, Belgian Olympic alpine skier (1936), and tennis player. Stanley Powell, 78, Welsh rugby footballer. Andrija Puharich, 76, American physician. Jim Tyack, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Robley C. Williams, 86, pioneering American biophysicist and virologist.
4 Naomi Amir, 63, American-Israeli pediatric neurologist. Ramón Artigas, 86, Spanish Olympic swimmer (1928). Vladas Drėma, 84, Lithuanian historian. Dorothy Granger, 83, American actress, cancer. Harry Gumbert, 85, American baseball player. Jim Lee Howell, 80, American football player and coach (New York Giants). Robert Latham, 82, British editor, scholar, and Pepys Librarian. Eduardo Mata, 52, Mexican conductor and composer, plane crash. Valery Nosik, 54, Soviet/Russian actor. Ralph Onis, 86, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Victor Riesel, 81, American newspaper journalist and columnist, heart failure. Heshmat Sanjari, 77, Iranian conductor and composer. Brooks Stevens, 83, American graphic and industrial designer. Sol Tax, 87, American anthropologist who founded the academic journal Current Anthropology.
5 Semi Joseph Begun, 89, German-American engineer and inventor. Somerset de Chair, 83, English author, politician, and poet. Art Demery, 80, American baseball player. Victor Mitchell, 71, American bridge player. Ben Rich, 69, American engineer and the second Director of Lockheed's Skunk Works from 1975 to 1991, esophageal cancer. Mansour Sattari, 46, Iranian Air Force leader, plane crash. Hubert Teitelbaum, 79, American district judge (United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania). Floyd Volker, 73, American basketball player. Kiyoo Wadati, 92, Japanese seismologist. Rex Yeatman, 75, English cricketer.
6 Robert Abajian, 62, American fashion designer and fashion industry executive. Paul-Émile Allard, 74, Canadian provincial politician. Philip Brady, 101, Irish Fianna Fáil politician. James Clay, 59, American jazz tenor saxophonist and flutist. Todor Diev, 60, Bulgarian football player and Olympian (1956, 1960). Agustín Gaínza, 72, Spanish football player. Michael Pickering, 53, Australian rules footballer. Joe Slovo, 68, ANC activist and South African minister of Housing, cancer.
7 Ali Aliyev, 57, Soviet freestyle wrestler and Olympian (1960, 1964, 1968). Harry Golombek, 83, British chess grandmaster, chess correspondent, and author of more than 30 books on chess. Larry Grayson, 71, English comedian and television presenter. Arthur Leavins, 77, British violinist who was concertmaster of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Walter Rand, 75, American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey. Murray Rothbard, 68, American economist, heart attack. Art Stoefen, 80, American basketball player. Ted Tetzlaff, 91, American cinematographer. Kite Thomas, 71, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Washington Senators). Lincoln Williams, 77, American baseball player.
8 Hugó Ballya, 86, Hungarian rower and Olympian (1936). Beatrice Burnham, 92, American silent film actress. Lemuel Diggs, 95, American pathologist who specialized in sickle cell anemia and hematology. Loulou Gasté, 86, French composer, songwriter. Madhu Limaye, 72, Indian socialist essayist and activist, particularly active in the 1970s. Carlos Monzón, 52, Argentine boxer, traffic accident. Sylvia B. Seaman, 94, American novelist and suffragist. Cao Tianqin, 74, Chinese biochemist. Robert Vintousky, 92, French Olympic pole vaulter (1928).
9 Óscar Mendoza Azurdia, 77, Guatemalan general and military junta leader. Jan Bauch, 96, Czech painter and sculptor.BARTOŠ, Josef; KOVÁŘOVÁ, Stanislava; TRAPL, Miloš. Osobnosti českých dějin. Olomouc : ALDA, 1995. . Kapitola Bauch Jan, s. 13–14. Gordon Bruce, 64, Australian politician. Peter Cook, 57, English comedian and writer, gastrointestinal bleeding. Sterling Dow, 91, American classical archaeologist, epigrapher, and professor of archaeology at Harvard University. Gisela Mauermayer, 81, German Olympic discus thrower (1936). Ralph Merrifield, 81, English museum curator and archaeologist who was director of the Museum of London. Gérard Simond, 90, French Olympic ice hockey player (1928). Stig Sjölin, 66, Swedish boxer and Olympian (1952, 1956). Souphanouvong, 85, Laotian royal prince and Communist leader, 1st President of Laos.Souphanouvong, "red prince" of Laos, dies aged 86. Hartford-hwp.com (January 12, 1995). Retrieved on November 17, 2013. Xie Youfa, 77, Chinese lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army.
10 Roy Ashton, 85, Australian makeup artist and tenor. John H. Bloomer, 64, American attorney and politician who served as President of the Vermont State Senate, accident. Crosby Bonsall, 74, American artist and children's book author and illustrator. Fred Böhler, 82, Swiss jazz keyboardist and bandleader.Rainer E. Lotz, "Fred Böhler". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld Nicholas Cavaliere, 95, American cinematographer. Boris Gurevich, 63, Soviet/Russian wrestler and Olympian (1952). George McNeil, 86, American abstract expressionist painter. Michael Meinecke, 53, German art historian, archaeologist, and museum director. Scotty Rankine, 86, Canadian long-distance runner and Olympian (1932, 1936). Arthur Ruysschaert, 84, Belgian football player. Roderick Stephens, 85–86, American sailor and yacht designer. Kathleen Tynan, 57, Canadian-British journalist, author, and screenwriter, cancer.
11 Raf Baldassarre, 62, Italian film actor. Ignacio Matte Blanco, 86, Chilean psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. John Gere, 73, English art historian and curator at the British Museum. Josef Gingold, 85, Russian-American violinist. Les Handley, 76, Australian rules footballer. Mildred Barry Hughes, 92, American politician who was the first woman elected to the New Jersey Senate. Ad Kaland, 72, Dutch politician, member of the Senate (1977–1994). Onat Kutlar, 58, Turkish writer, journalist, and poet, bomb attack. Denis Neville, 79, English football player and manager. Lewis Nixon III, 76, United States Army officer, diabetes. Peter Pratt, 71, British opera singer and actor. Roque Esteban Scarpa, 80, Chilean writer, literary critic and scholar. Hannes Trautloft, 82, German Luftwaffe flying ace during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Theodor Wisch, 87, German Waffen-SS general during World War II. Paul Zumthor, 79, Swiss philologist.
12 Kay Aldridge, 77, American actress, lung cancer. Tino Carraro, 84, Italian stage, television and film actor. Henry Cieman, 88, Canadian Olympic racewalker (1932). Robert R. Coats, 84, American geologist. Raymond George, 77, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions, Philadelphia Eagles), and coach. Takako Irie, 83, Japanese actress, pneumonia. Jack Lee, 74, English football player. George Price, 93, American cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine for six decades. Kenneth Sterling, 74, American medical doctor and researcher. Rodolfo de Zorzi, 73, Argentine footballer.
13 Johnny Carroll, 57, American rockabilly musician. Richard Causton, 74, British businessman and author on Buddhism. Max Harris, 73, Australian poet, critic, and bookseller. Ray Johnson, 67, American artist, suicide. David Looker, 81, British bobsledder. Walter Sheridan, 69, American Federal investigator who prosecuted Jimmy Hoffa. Mervyn Stockwood, 81, Welsh Church of England priest. Johann von Szabados, 88, Austrian Olympic weightlifter (1936). Zsigmond Villányi, 45, Hungarian modern pentathlete (1972). Michael Wrigley, 70, English cricketer and British Army officer.
14 Joe Mike Augustine, 83, native leader and historian of the Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation. Huang Chieh, 93, Taiwanese politician and general. Mark Finch, 33, English promoter of LGBTQ cinema, suicide. Alexander Gibson, 68, Scottish conductor. Barbara Jelavich, 71, American professor of history at Indiana University, cancer. David Elliot Johnson, 61, American 14th Bishop of Massachusetts in The Episcopal Church. Neil Rengel, 88, American football player (Frankford Yellow Jackets). Daniel Robbins, 62, American art historian, art critic, and curator, cancer. Stafford Somerfield, 84, British newspaper editor.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 872 Ruby Starr, 45, American rock singer and recording artist, cancer. Amos N. Wilson, 53, American writer.
15 Jef Bruyninckx, 76, Belgian actor, editor and director. Cleo Rickman Fitch, 84, American archaeological researcher. Janina Kaczkowska, 90, Polish painter. Josef Kemr, 72, Czech actor. Vera Maxwell, 93, American sportswear and fashion designer. Vitaly Parkhimovich, 51, Soviet Russian Olympic sport shooter (1968, 1972). Frederick J. Schlink, 103, American consumer rights activist. Harry Sharp, 77, English cricketer.
16 Abel Cestac, 76, Argentine boxer. John Charters, 81, New Zealand rower. Paul Delouvrier, 80, French administrator and economist. Bill Dillard, 83, American jazz trumpeter.