The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 1995
1 Paul Nguyễn Văn Bình, 84, Vietnamese prelate of the Catholic Church and first Archbishop of Saigon. Akanu Ibiam, 88, Nigerian medical missionary and politician. Wolfman Jack, 57, American disc jockey. Bruce Mitchell, 86, South African cricket opening batsman. Nikolay Peyko, 79, Russian composer and educator. Roger Dale Stafford, 43, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
2 Bert Edwards, 80, Australian rules footballer. Menachem Mendel Futerfas, 87, Russian educator and rabbi. John C. Higgins, 87, Canadian-American screenwriter. Gervase Jackson-Stops, 48, British architectural historian and journalist. Zdeněk Košler, 67, Czech conductor. Lloyd MacPhail, 75, Canadian politician and 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island. Geraint Morgan, 74, British lawyer and politician. George Seldes, 104, American investigative journalist. Krissy Taylor, 17, American model, asthma. Maria Vinogradova, 72, Russian actress.
3 Charley Eckman, 73, American basketball coach and referee, colorectal cancer. Ricardo Alonso González, 67, American tennis champion, stomach cancer. Bert Hardy, 82, British photographer. Alexander Langer, 49, Italian journalist, peace activist, politician, and teacher, suicide. Eddie Mazur, 65, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks). George Williams, 72, Australian rugby league footballer. Gil J Wolman, 65, French artist and member of the Ultra-Lettrist movement.
4 Margaret F. Ackroyd, 87, American civil servant from Providence, Rhode Island. Andrew John Berger, 79, American ornithologist from the American Museum of Natural History. Arsen Diklić, 72, Serbian poet, novelist and film director. Seán Fallon, 57, Irish Fianna Fáil politician. Eva Gabor, 76, Hungarian-American actress (Green Acres, The Aristocats, The Rescuers) and socialite, pneumonia. Yevhen Hutsalo, 58, Ukrainian writer and journalist. Adeline Kerrar, 70, American baseball player. Bharat Rangachary, 41, Indian Bollywood film director and producer. Bob Ross, 52, American television painter (The Joy of Painting), lymphoma. Gilberto Bosques Saldívar, 102, Mexican diplomat. Åke Samuelsson, 81, Swedish footballer. Karim Sanjabi, 89, Iranian politician.
5 Bernice Ackerman, 69–70, American meteorologist and first woman weathercaster in the U.S. Stepan Bakhayev, 73, Soviet Air Force major and flying ace. Renato Baldini, 73, Italian film actor. Viktoria Brezhneva, 86, wife of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, diabetes. Christian Calmes, 81, Luxembourgish civil servant, lawyer, and historian. Johan Koren Christie, 85, Norwegian engineer and air force officer. John Dittrich, 62, American gridiron football player. Takeo Fukuda, 90, Japanese politician, 46th Prime Minister of Japan, pulmonary emphysema. Foster Furcolo, 83, American lawyer, writer, and politician. Jüri Järvet, 76, Estonian actor and theatre director. Ray Nolting, 81, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears), and college football coach.
6 Saidye Rosner Bronfman, 98, Canadian philanthropist and matriarch of the Bronfman family. Philip Clarke, 62, Irish politician, cyclist, and Irish Republican Army member.Death notice published in the Irish Times, 8 July 1995 Colin Crampton, 62, Australian rules footballer. Horace Garner, 71, American baseball player. Aziz Nesin, 79, Turkish writer, heart attack. Howard Henry Peckham, 84, American historian. Eduardo Viso, 75, Spanish football player and football manager.
7 Geoffrey Freeman Allen, 73, British writer on railways. Jean Bony, 86, French medieval architectural historian. Martin Bucksbaum, 74, American businessman and shopping center development pioneer. Dave Elliman, 93, Australian rules footballer. Marga Höffgen, 74, German contralto. Helene Johnson, 89, African-American poet during the Harlem Renaissance. Léon Le Calvez, 86, French bicycle racer. Eeva-Liisa Manner, 73, Finnish poet and playwright. Peter Murray-Willis, 84, English cricketer. Ralph Neves, 78, American jockey. Thomas Tyra, 62, American composer, arranger, and bandmaster. Al Unser, 82, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Cincinnati Reds).
8 Günter Bialas, 87, German composer. Paul Bonneau, 76, French conductor, composer and arranger. Edmondo Fabbri, 73, Italian football player and coach. Jean-Paul Harroy, 86, Belgian colonial civil servant and governor Ruanda-Urundi. George Johnson, 74, Canadian medical doctor and political reformer. Pál Kovács, 82, Hungarian fencer and Olympian (1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960). Dorothy Stanley-Turner, 78, English racing driver. Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder, 89, Dutch missionary and linguist.
9 Dennis Allen, 56, English football player and manager. Kazimierz Godłowski, 60, Polish archeologist and historian. Federico Marietti, 69, Italian Olympic basketball player (1948, 1952). Vera Thomas, 73, English table tennis and tennis player. James Cameron Tudor, 75, Barbadian politician and diplomat.
10 Mehmet Ali Aybar, 86, Turkish politician and Olympian (1928), heart failure. Reds Bagnell, 66, American football player. August Belmont IV, 86, American investment banker and thoroughbred racehorse owner. James Harvey Brown, 89, American politician and judge. Văn Cao, 71, Vietnamese composer. Hugh Dundas, 74, British RAF fighter pilot during World War II and television executive . Barbara Lyon, 63, American singer and actress, cerebral hemorrhage. Alfonso Zirpoli, 90, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of California).
11 John Cruickshank, 70, Irish scholar and writer on the French language, literature and culture. David J. Kennedy, 88, American politician. Gojko Nikoliš, 83, Yugoslavia/Serbian partisan general, physician, and historian. Helma Seitz, 82, German actress. Don Starr, 77, American actor, fall. Armand Walter, 87, French Olympic gymnast (1936).
12 Lennart Ahlin, 78, Swedish sports shooter and Olympian (1964). Michael Clegg, 62, British museum curator, naturalist, and television presenter. Earl Coleman, 69, American jazz singer. Ashapoorna Devi, 86, Indian novelist and poet. Gordon Flemyng, 61, Scottish television and film director. Erich Kulka, 84, Czech-Israeli writer, historian and journalist. Sean Mayes, 50, British pianist and writer. John Yudkin, 84, British physiologist and nutritionist
13 Ali Al-Wardi, 81, Iraqi social scientist. Aimé Barelli, 78, French jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and band leader. Varyl Begg, 86, British Royal Navy admiral, Alzheimer's disease. József Bencsics, 61, Hungarian football player. Garth Butler, 72, English footballer. Devyani Chaubal, 52–53, Indian journalist and columnist. Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, 75, Danish toy manufacturer and managing director of Lego. Bilge Karasu, 65, Turkish short story writer and novelist. Peter Morrison, 51, British politician. Matti Pellonpää, 44, Finnish actor and a musician, heart attack.
14 Elsebeth Brehm, 93, Danish tennis player and Olympian (1920, 1924). Henri Gastaut, 80, French neurologist and epileptologist. Noel Orange, 55, Australian rules footballer. Herb Rowland, 84, Canadian Olympic wrestler (1932). Sergey Shupletsov, 25, Russian freestyle skier and Olympic medalist (1992, 1994), traffic collision. Volodymyr, 69, Ukrainian patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
15 Bill Amick, 69, American NASCAR driver. Khalid Bakdash, 82–83, Syrian communist politician. Delia Bogard, 74, American actress and dancer. Sylvia Bossu, 33, French conceptual artist, car accident. Robert-Joseph Coffy, 74, French Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Marseille. Brian Molony, 62, Australian rules footballer. Cyril Solomon, 84, Australian cricketer. Ivano Staccioli, 68, Italian film actor.
16 Charles Bruck, 84, French-American conductor and teacher. Torfi Bryngeirsson, 68, Icelandic Olympic pole vaulter (1948, 1952). Louis Darmanin, 86, Maltese Olympic water polo player (1928). Gustaf Ekström, 87, Swedish chemist, SS volunteer, and politician. Mordechai Gur, 65, Israeli military officer and politician, suicide. Patsy Ruth Miller, 91, American actress, heart attack. Zenonas Puzinauskas, 75, Lithuanian basketball player. May Sarton, 83, Belgian-American feminist writer, breast cancer. Sir Stephen Spender, 86, English poet and writer. Charles Woodbridge, 93, American missionary, minister, and founding member of the National Association of Evangelicals. Elvis Álvarez, 30, Colombian flyweight boxer, homicide.
17 Lionel Billas, 66, French Olympic long-distance runner (1952). Gani Bobi, 51, Albanian philosopher and sociologist from Kosovo. Harvey Charters, 83, Canadian Olympic canoeist (1936). Robert Close, 92, Australian novelist. Ephraim Evron, 75, Israeli diplomat. Juan Manuel Fangio, 84, Argentine racing driver. Harry Guardino, 69, American actor (Dirty Harry, The Enforcer, Pork Chop Hill), lung cancer. Herb Hippauf, 56, American professional baseball player (Atlanta Braves), and scout, cancer. Rainer Kunad, 58, German conductor and composer. Michael Ljunggren, 33, Swedish outlaw biker and gangster, murdered.
18 Bernard Bolender, 42, American mass murderer, execution by electrocution. Fabio Casartelli, 24, Italian cyclist and Olympian (1992), bicycle crash during the 1995 Tour de France. Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, 95, Swedish Olympic modern pentathlete (1932), and naval officer. Ryōichi Sasakawa, 96, Japanese suspected war criminal, businessman, politician, and philanthropist. Subagio Sastrowardoyo, 71, Indonesian poet, short-story writer, essayist and literary critic. Princess Srinagarindra, The Princess Mother of Thailand, 94, Thai princess, kidney disease.ราชกิจจานุเบกษา, ประกาศ สมเด็จพระศรีนครินทราบรมราชชนนีสวรรคต, เล่ม 112, ตอนพิเศษ 30 ง, 19 กรกฎาคม พ.ศ. 2538, หน้า 2 Thomas Tang, 73, American lawyer and circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit).
19 Michael Andrews, 66, British painter. Balakrishna, 78, Indian actor. Sydney Lipton, 89, British dance band leader. Brian Lloyd, 68, English rower and Olympian (1948, 1952). Víctor Manuel Mendoza, 81, Mexican film actor. Tomás Méndez, 68, Mexican composer and singer of Mexican music and ranchera music. Kim Pong-ryul, 77, North Korean general of the Korean People's Army. René Privat, 64, French road bicycle racer.
20 Pierre Barbet, 70, French science fiction writer. Bernard Callinan, 82, Australian soldier, civil engineer, businessman, and sport administrator. Cesare Emiliani, 72, Italian-American scientist, geologist, micropaleontologist, and founder of paleoceanography. Helmut Gernsheim, 82, German photographer, collector and historian. Arthur Herrdin, 76, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (1948, 1952). Ernest Mandel, 72, Belgian Marxian economist and a Trotskyist activist and theorist, heart attack. Natalia Shpiller, 85, Czech-Russian operatic soprano and a People's Artist of Russia. Raimundo Tupper, 26, Chilean football player, suicide.
21 Viktor Barannikov, 54, Soviet Interior Minister in 1991 and Russia Minister from 1992 to 1993. Yves Cros, 71, French athlete and Olympian (1948). Heinrich Dumoulin, 90, German Jesuit theologian, philosopher and author. Aad de Graaf, 55, Dutch cyclist and Olympian (1960, 1964). Jon Hinson, 53, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1979-1981). Sajjad Hussain, 78, Indian film score composer. Claude McLin, 69, American jazz tenor saxophonist. Pavle Šovljanski, 67, Yugoslavian Olympic boxer (1952). Elleston Trevor, 75, British novelist and playwright. Michael Wisher, 60, English actor (Doctor Who). Tarzan Woltzen, 90, American basketball player.
22 Tami Ben-Ami, 39–40, Israeli supermodel, cervical cancer.