The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 1995
1 Charles Bell, 59, American photorealist who created large scale still lifes, AIDS. Stanley Adair Cain, 92, American botanist and pioneer of plant ecology and environmental studies. James Cameron, 56, American football coach. H. Adams Carter, 80, American mountaineer, language teacher, and editor of the American Alpine Journal. Gwyn Davies, 75, Welsh cricketer. Samson De Brier, 96, actor and occultist. Francisco Moncion, 76, Dominican-American ballet dancer. Achmad Nawir, 82, Indonesian footballer. Johnny Nicholls, 63, English football player. Erling Nielsen, 72, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1948, 1960). Lucie Rie, 93, British ceramicist, stroke. Víctor Valussi, 82, Argentine football player.
2 Hannes Alfvén, 86, Swedish physicist. Gaston Étienne, 93, Belgian Olympic athlete (1928). Irv Frew, 87, Scottish-Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Maroons, St. Louis Eagles, Montreal Canadiens). Henri Guérin, 73, French football player. Julius Hemphill, 57, American saxophonist and composer. Leo LeBlanc, 55, American country musician, guitarist, and pianist who was legally blind. Raúl Martínez, 67, Cuban painter, designer, photographer, muralist, and graphic artist. Dragoslav Mitrinović, 86, Serbian mathematician. Harvey Penick, 90, American golfer, coach, and writer on golf.
3 Alfred J. Billes, 92, Canadian businessman and co-founder of Canadian Tire. Charles H. Hayes, 88, United States Marine Corps general. David Herbert, 86, British writer and raconteur, kidney failure. Fernando Huergo, 86, Argentine fencer and Olympian (1948). Gracita Morales, 66, Spanish actress. Park No-sik, 65, South Korean actor. Vera Szemere, 71, Hungarian actress. Marion Tinsley, 68, American mathematician and checkers player, pancreatic cancer. Bogusław Zych, 43, Polish Olympic fencer (1980, 1988), traffic collision.
4 Richard Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian, 67, British peer and physiologist. Lyndon Bolton, 95, British Olympic horseman (1948). Rita Cadillac, 58, French dancer, singer, and actress, cancer. Kenny Everett, 50, British comedian, AIDS-related illness. Abraham Kattumana, 51, Indian Catholic archbishop. Priscilla Lane, 79, American actress (Saboteur, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Roaring Twenties), lung cancer. Hansa Jivraj Mehta, 97, Indian social activist, independence activist, feminist and writer. Shirley Patterson, 72, Canadian-American B-movie actress, cancer. Paul Raymond, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens). Joe Richey, 64, American college basketball player (BYU Cougars). Victor León Esteban San Miguel y Erce, 90, Spanish Carmelite friar. Jo Sinclair, 81, American novelist whose real name was Ruth Seid, cancer.
5 Mike Colman, 26, American ice hockey player (San Jose Sharks). Nicolaas Cortlever, 79, Dutch chess master. Adalbert Dickhut, 71, German gymnast and Olympian (1952). Emilio Greco, 81, Italian sculptor, engraver, medallist, writer and poet. Baby K, 2, American anencephalic baby who became the center of a medical controversy, heart attack. (Registration required) Christian Pineau, 90, French Resistance fighter and politician. Ron Richardson, 43, American actor and operatic baritone, AIDS-related complications. Oskar Schnirch, 92, Austrian cinematographer.
6 Ioannis Alevras, 82-83, Greek politician. Rogelio Farías, 45, Chilean football midfielder. Jan Kula, 73, Polish Olympic ski jumper (1948). Alton Meister, 72, American biochemist. Trevor Park, 67, British lecturer and politician. V. J. Sukselainen, 88, Finnish politician and 24th Prime Minister of Finland.
7 Viktor Adamishin, 33, Russian militia captain, killed in action.Heroes of Russia, MVD RF, Moscow 2002 (listed here) Gordon Amos, 90, Australian cricketer. Peter Brinson, 75, British ballet and dance writer, lecturer, and promoter.. Retrieved October 22, 2009 . Nicholas Ingram, 31, British-American murder convict, execution by electric chair. Philip Jebb, 68, British architect and politician. Bill Lange, 67, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles Rams, Baltimore Colts, Chicago Cardinals). George Lucas, 94, Australian rules footballer. Hsin Ping, 56, Taiwanese Buddhist monk, kidney cancer. Kannur Rajan, 58, Indian music composer. Frank Secory, 82, American baseball player, (Detroit Tigers, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs), and umpire.
8 Maurice Allom, 89, English cricketer. Hans Bodensteiner, 82, German politician. Herb Connolly, 73, American politician from Massachusetts. René de Buzelet, 87, French tennis player. Frank Dunster, 74, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player (1948). George Clifton Edwards Jr., 80, American circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit).
9 Bob Allison, 60, American baseball player (Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins). Nguyễn Hữu An, 68, People's Army of Vietnam general. Bonnie Bird, 80, American modern dancer and dance educator. Paola Borboni, 95, Italian stage and film actress, stroke. John Chamberlain, 91, American journalist, historian, columnist and literary critic. Robert Cobb, 37, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Minnesota Vikings). George Hurley, 86, American gridiron football player (Boston Braves/Redskins). Karel Kněnický, 87, Czech Olympic sprinter (1928, 1936). Kazimierz Kucharski, 86, Polish Olympic sprinter (1936). Edda Mussolini, 84, Daughter of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Henry Oliver, 92, British middle-distance runner and Olympian (1928). Shinnen Tagaya, 75, Japanese politician.
10 Chen Yun, 89, Chinese political leader of the Chinese Communist Party. Morarji Desai, 99, 4th Prime Minister of India. Feng Depei, 88, Chinese neuroscientist and physiologist. Annie Fischer, 80, Hungarian pianist. Günter Guillaume, 68, German spy for the Stasi and politician, kidney cancer. Glyn Jones, 90, Welsh writer. Otto Kolar, 83, American basketball player. Hannah Lamdan, 90, Israeli politician. Billy Myers, 84, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs). Harold L. Ryan, 71, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Idaho).
11 E. K. Imbichi Bava, 77, Indian politician and a leader of the Communist Party of India. Maurice Fenn, 83, Fijian cricketer. T. Keith Glennan, 89, American administrator and first leader of NASA, complications from a stroke. Vic Hey, 82, Australian rugby player and coach. Nikolai Kostrov, 93, Russian Soviet painter, graphic artist, and illustrator. Kim Yong-ik, 74, Korean–American writer.
12 Franco Cacioni, 62, Venezuelan Olympic cyclist (1956). Buck Cheves, 96, American college football player and referee. John Dowdy, 83, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1952-1973). Constance Heaven, 83, British romance writer.Constance Heaven Alberto Larraguibel, 75, Chilean Army officer and equestrian, lung cancer. Philip H. Lathrop, 82, American cinematographer. Mou Zongsan, 85, Chinese philosopher. Chris Pyne, 56, British jazz trombonist.
13 John Austrheim, 82, Norwegian politician. Peter Bastiansen, 82, Norwegian politician. Andy Branigan, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (New York/Brooklyn Americans). Aristide Compagnoni, 84, Italian cross-country skier. Roy Fountain, 80, Australian rules footballer. Cocaína García, 89, Cuban baseball player. Edward F. Henderson, 77, British diplomat. Lang Jingshan, 102, Chinese photojournalist. Mal McMullen, 67, American basketball player and golfer. Hal Peck, 77, American baseball right fielder (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians). Allan Scott, 88, American screenwriter. Bill Thurman, 74, American actor (The Last Picture Show, Silverado, Close Encounters of the Third Kind). Aleksandras Vanagas, 60, Lithuanian linguist and etymologist.
14 Mario Carotenuto, 78, Italian actor, cancer. Brian Coffey, 89, Irish poet and publisher. Michael Fordham, 89, English child psychiatrist and Jungian analyst. Burl Ives, 85, American singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Big Country, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer), Oscar winner (1959), mouth cancer. Hildegard Lächert, 75, German female guard at several nazi concentration camps during World War II. Frans Möller, 98, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1920). António Lopes Ribeiro, 86, Portuguese film director.
15 Michael Aldred, 49, British record producer, music journalist, and television presenter, AIDS-related complications. Emin Bektöre, 88-89, Crimean Tatar folklorist, ethnographer, lyricist, and activist. Cleo Brown, 87, American pianist and singer. Fred Cuny, 50, American humanitarian. Victor Klees, 87, Luxembourgian footballer and Olympic water polo player (1928). Gilbert Moses, 52, American film and television director, multiple myeloma. Harry Shoulberg, 91, American expressionist painter. Günter Stephan, 82, German footballer.
16 Olavi Ahonen, 54, Finnish basketball player. Lloyd Bennett, 79, Australian rules footballer. Cheyenne Brando, 25, French fashion model and daughter of actor Marlon Brando, suicide by hanging. Cy Endfield, 80, American screenwriter, director, author, magician and inventor. Arthur English, 75, British actor and comedian, pulmonary emphysema. Josef Hügi, 65, Swiss football player. August E. Johansen, 89, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1955-1965), Alzheimer's disease. Iqbal Masih, 11-12, Pakistani Christian boy who became a symbol of abusive child labour in Pakistan, homicide. Alfred Ryder, 79, American actor.
17 Ted Ball, 56, Australian golfer. Jimmy D'Aquisto, 59, Italian-American luthier who built archtop guitars. Clark G. Fiester, 61, American businessman and government official, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition), plane crash. Sonny Boy Jeffries, 80, American baseball player. Anton Murray, 72, South African cricketer. Frank E. Resnik, 66, American chemist and CEO of Philip Morris USA. Max Wünsche, 80, German commander in the Waffen-SS during World War II. Nan Youngman, 88, English painter and educationalist.
18 Elizabeth Emry, 72, American baseball player. Arturo Frondizi, 86, Argentine lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina. Edward P. Gallogly, 75, American politician. Rafael Chaparro Madiedo, 31, Colombian writer, lupus. Roza Makagonova, 67, Soviet/Russian actress.
19 Preston Blair, 86, American animator (Bambi, Pinocchio, Fantasia). J. Peter Grace, 81, American industrialist. Porter Hardy Jr., 91, American businessman and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1947-1969). Daniel Octobre, 91, French painter. Neil Paterson, 78, Scottish writer of novels, short stories and screenplays. Sylvio de Rezende, 77, Brazilian Olympic equestrian (1972). Aldo Richins, 84, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions). Richard Snell, 64, American white supremacist and convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Jack Wilson, 83, American baseball player.
20 Elsa Benham, 86, American silent film actress and dancer. Paul A. Catlin, 46, American mathematician and educator. Preface pp. 3–6, Publication list for Paul Catlin, math.wvu.edu Milovan Djilas, 83, Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author. Harold Fong, 56, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Hawaii). Sunil Jayasinghe, 39, Sri Lankan ODI cricketer, suicide. Gary MacGregor, 40, Canadian ice hockey player. Elting E. Morison, 85, American historian, military biographer, and author. Milton Wallace, 83, Canadian Olympic long-distance runner (1936). Bob Wyatt, 93, English cricketer.
21 José del Carmen, 77, Colombian Olympic fencer (1956). Ingvar Ericsson, 81, Swedish Olympic cyclist (1936).