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.
May 1995
1 Erwin Leonard Guy Abel, 83, New Zealand businessman. Reuel Denney, 82, American poet and academic. Alan Fuller, 82, Australian rules footballer. 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. Kiplyn Davis, 15, American high school student. Sir Michael Hordern, 83, English actor (The Dock Brief, Barry Lyndon, Watership Down), kidney disease. Allan O. Hunter, 78, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1951-1955). Manfred Kersch, 81, German athlete. Dušan Mavec, 47, Slovenian Olympic equestrian (1984). Rudolf Perešin, 37, Croatian fighter pilot, killed in action. Ashleigh Pilbrow, 82, English hurdler and Olympian (1936). Dežo Ursiny, 47, Slovak rock musician, screenwriter and director. Werner Veigel, 66, Dutch-German journalist and news presenter (Tagesschau), 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. Jim Redstone, 79, Australian rules footballer. 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 and Olympian (1960). 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, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965-1971). Keith McPhee, 80, Australian rules footballer. 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. Gerrit van Wees, 82, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1936).
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. Knut Gadd, 78, Swedish Olympic water polo player (1948). 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 (Kentucky Wildcats). Teresa Teng, 42, Taiwanese singer, asthma.
9 Jeanne Darville, 70, Danish film actress. Alf Henrikson, 89, Swedish author, poet and translator. Marguerite Jones, 77, Canadian baseball player. Percy Mansell, 75, South African cricket player. Charles Monteith, 74, British literary editor. Kanhiyalal Prabhakar Mishra, 88, Indian journalist, writer and freedom fighter. Nils Nicklén, 78, Finnish high jumper and Olympian (1948). 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. Peter Townsend, 85, English cricketer.
10 Brigitte Alexander, 83, German-born Mexican author, actress, director and translator. Wal Armour, 74, Australian rules footballer. 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.Klaus Schulz, "Karl Drewo". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld Ernst Eggerbauer, 63, German Olympic ice hockey player (1960). Alexander Elbrächter, 87, German politician and member of the Bundestag. Freddy Fernández, 61, Mexican film and television actor, esophageal cancer. Johnny Leonard, 91, Australian rules footballer and coach. 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 (Philadelphia Eagles), and coach. Joe Vetrano, 76, American gridiron football player (San Francisco 49ers). 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 (Green Bay Packers).
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. Robert Lattermann, 64, Austrian Olympic equestrian (1956). 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. Robert De Waele, 61, Belgian Olympic canoeist (1960). Seymour Durst, 81, American real estate investor and developer. Norm Locking, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks). Billy Lott, 60, American gridiron football player (New York Giants, Oakland Raiders, Boston Patriots). 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. Gaston Mobati, 33, Congolese footballer. 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. Eugen Studach, 87, Swiss rower and Olympian (1936). 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. Doug Woodward, 70, Canadian Olympic sailor (1952, 1964).
17 Toe Blake, 82, Canadian ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League (Montreal Canadiens), 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, Soviet Russian ice hockey player and Olympian (1964).
18 Brinsley 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.