The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 1995
1 Julián Berrendero, 83, Spanish road racing cyclist who twice won the Vuelta a España. Phyllis Brooks, 80, American actress and model. Frank W. Cyr, 95, American educator and author.Frank W. Cyr, 'Father of the Yellow School Bus,' Dies at the Age of 95 Martha Genenger, 83, German Olympic swimmer (1936). Colin Falkland Gray, 80, New Zealand fighter ace during World War II. Ruby Knezovich, 77, Canadian baseball player. Satoshi Matsui, 80, Japanese Olympic basketball player (1936). Esther Muir, 92, American actress. Gopalaswami Parthasarathy, 83, Indian journalist, educationist, and diplomat. Ralf Thienel, 36, German rower and Olympian (1988). Rudolph F. Zallinger, 75, Austrian-Russian artist.
2 Irwin Bazelon, 73, American composer of contemporary classical music. Thomas Brimelow, Baron Brimelow, 79, British diplomat. Lillian Bronson, 92, American character actress. Fred Daly, 83, Australian politician. Eva Gredal, 68, Danish politician. Oonagh Guinness, 85, Anglo-Irish socialite, society hostess and art collector. Yury Iosifovich Koval, 57, Russian author, artist, and screenplay writer, heart attack. Juan López Moctezuma, 63, Mexican film director and actor. Carl Bernard Rubin, 75, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio). Brian Smith, 54, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars), and sportscaster, shot.
3 Lionel Philias Coderre, 80, Canadian politician. Harry Craft, 80, American Major League Baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), and manager (Kansas City Athletics, Houston Colt .45s). Mary Lena Faulk, 69, American golfer. Brendon Hackwill, 53, Australian rules footballer and Olympic basketball player (1964). Ida Lupino, 77, British-American actress (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, High Sierra) and film director (The Hitch-Hiker), stroke. Alan Mitchell, 72, British forester, dendrologist and botanist. Edward Whittemore, 62, American novelist.
4 Alejandro Almendras, 76, Filipino politician. Cal Anderson, 47, American military officer and politician. Jacques Aubert, 78, Swiss entomologist. Dick Bartell, 87, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease. Jock Carroll, 76, Canadian writer, journalist and photographer. Uno Fransson, 67, Swedish Olympic discus thrower (1948). Jean-Pierre Frisch, 87, Luxembourgish Olympic football player (1936). Antonio Leonviola, 82, Italian screenwriter and film director. J. Howard Marshall, 90, American billionaire, oil executive, and husband of Anna Nicole Smith. Kiiti Morita, 80, Japanese mathematician. Said Ramadan, 69, Egyptian political activist and humanitarian. Bernie Ruelle, 74, American ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
5 Agha Hasan Abedi, 73, Pakistani banker. Fletcher Allen, 90, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. Menachem Avidom, 87, Israeli composer. Clarice Blackburn, 74, American actress, cancer. Allan Bridge, 50, American conceptual artist. Angelo Brovelli, 84, American NFL football player (Pittsburgh Pirates). J. Marshall Brown, 68, American politician and insurance agent. Massimiliano Capuzzoni, 26, Italian rugby player, diving accident. Mark Colton, 34, British racing driver and software author, racing accident. Eduardo Endtner, 53, Brazilian Olympic rower (1960). Izet Nanić, 29, Bosnian Army brigade commander, killed in action. Robert Shaw, 95, English cricketer and Royal Navy officer. Francesco Suppo, 79, Italian Olympic wrestler (1948).
6 Irja Aav, 51, Estonian actress. Hugh Borton, 92, American historian. André Fleury, 92, French composer, pianist, organist, and pedagogue. Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester, 81, British barrister and politician. Nadira, 26, Pakistani film actress and dancer, homicide. Gil Patrick, 87, Australian rules footballer. Toney Penna, 87, Italian-American golfer and designer of golf clubs and gear. Ike Petersen, 86, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions). George Svendsen, 82, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers). Montri Tramote, 95, Thai musician and scholar, heart failure.
7 David Begelman, 73, American film producer, suicide. Brigid Brophy, 66, British novelist, multiple sclerosis. Tyra Hunter, 24, transgender hairdresser. Haim Kaufman, 60, Israeli politician. Dursley McLinden, 30, Manx actor. Don Patinkin, 73, American-Israeli monetary economist. Tom Scott, 77, Scottish poet, editor, and prose writer. Harold Stewart, 78, Australian poet and oriental scholar. Maksim Tank, 82, Belarusian Soviet journalist, poet and translator.
8 John Adams, 57, American football player (Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Rams). Kurt Becher, 85, German SS officer who was Commissar of all Nazi concentration camps. Ronald Beeson, 58, English cricket player. Fyodor Dyachenko, 78, Russian/Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with 425 kills. Carol Hughes, 85, American actress. Herbert Ihlefeld, 81, German Luftwaffe military aviator and fighter ace. Edmund Wainwright, 92, Australian cricketer.
9 Teodoro Alcalde, 81, Peruvian football player and Olympian (1936). Jerry Garcia, 53, American guitarist (The Grateful Dead), heart attack. Suen Kam Shun, 88, Chinese football player and Olympian (1936). Romuald Spasowski, 74, Polish diplomat, ambassador and defector, cancer. Luis Procuna, 72, Mexican bullfighter and actor, plane crash.
10 Gijs van Aardenne, 65, Dutch politician, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Leo Apostel, 69, Belgian philosopher. Donald Bisset, 84, British character actor and children's author. Thomas Elliot Bowman III, 76, American carcinologist. Wei-Liang Chow, 83, Chinese mathematician. Florestan Fernandes, 75, Brazilian sociologist and politician. Josseline Gaël, 78, French film actress. Fay Honey Knopp, 76, American Quaker minister, and peace and civil rights advocat. Marcel Moussy, 71, French screenwriter and television director. Harishankar Parsai, 72, Indian writer. Aldo Protti, 75, Italian baritone. Baba Rexheb, 93, Albanian Islamic scholar and Sufi. Niilo Ryhtä, 88, Finnish politician. Tikiri Banda Subasinghe, 81, Sri Lankan statesman. Axel Svendsen, 83, Danish Olympic canoeist (1936). Ray Whittorn, 83, Australian politician. Peter Williams, 81, English designer and dance critic, heart attack.
11 Libby Altwerger, 80, Canadian artist and educator. Karel Berman, 76, Czech composer, opera singer, music educator. Sam Berman, 88, American caricaturist of the 1940s and 1950s. Joseph Bermingham, 76, Irish Labour Party politician. Alonzo Church, 92, American mathematician. Reg Date, 74, Australian soccer player. Damon Edge, 45, American musician, heart attack. Phil Harris, 91, American comedian and actor (The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, The Aristocats), heart attack. Frank Kendrick, 81, Australian rules footballer. John H. Pratt, 84, American lawyer and district judge (United States District Court for the District of Columbia). Al Smith, 91, American baseball player (New York Giants). Wilbur Stark, 83, American writer and film, television, and radio producer and director. Herbert Sumsion, 96, English organist.
12 Bobby Burns, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks). Jean Chapel, 70, American country singer and songwriter. Frank Cvitanovich, 67, Canadian filmmaker. Louise Lorimer, 97, American actress. Marty Paich, 70, American arranger, composer, pianist, and bandleader, colorectal cancer. Bruno Pasquini, 80, Italian racing cyclist. Russ Reader, 72, American football player (Chicago Bears). Achille Togliani, 71, Italian singer and actor. Felipe Tromp, 77, Governor of Aruba.
13 Bruce Grant, 31, New Zealand Olympic alpine skier (1984). Alison Hargreaves, 33, British mountain climber, exposure during climb. Pêr-Jakez Helias, 80-81, Breton stage actor, journalist, author, poet, and writer. Víctor Klein, 77, Chilean footballer. Jan Křesadlo, 68, Czech psychologist, novelist and poet. Mickey Mantle, 63, American Hall of Fame baseball player (New York Yankees), liver cancer. Jesse Thomas, 84, American blues singer. Hanna Waag, 91, German film actress.
14 Helmut Beumann, 82, German historian. Labron Harris, 86, American golfer and golf coach. Frances Margaret McGuire, 95, Australian author, community leader and philanthropist. Zdeněk Špinar, 79, Czech paleontologist and author.
15 Viv Allen, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Americans). Erbie Bowser, 77, American blues pianist and singer. Michael A. Hess, 43, Irish-American lawyer and chief legal counsel to the RNC, complications from AIDS. Humphrey Moore, 86, British pacifist and journalist. Reginald Rodrigues, 73, Indian Olympic field hockey player (1948). John Cameron Swayze, 89, American news commentator and game show panelist. Abdul Momin Talukdar, 65, Bangladeshi politician. Wally Wilson, 74, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).
16 Brooke Benjamin, 66, English mathematical physicist and mathematician. Ljubiša Broćić, 83, Serbian football manager. Park Dae-jong, 78, South Korean Olympic footballer (1948). Irène de Lipkowski, 96, French politician. Bobby DeBarge, 39, American R&B musician, AIDS related complications. Eddie Hart, 73, Australian rules footballer. Oveta Culp Hobby, 90, American lawyer, politician and cabinet member, stroke. John Lowe, 83, Scottish football player. J. P. McCarthy, 62, American radio personality, pneumonia. Leon Moser, 52, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Howie Shannon, 72, American basketball player (Providence Steamrollers, Boston Celtics) and coach (Virginia Tech Hokies), lung cancer. António Vilar, 82, Portuguese actor.
17 George Bekefi, 70, American plasma physicist, inventor, and professor at MIT. Walter Cartier, 73, American boxer and actor. Mike Condello, 49, American rock musician, producer, and songwriter, suicide.The Psychedelic Pop of Mike Condello Remembered With Two New Releases" by Jason Woodbury, Phoenix New Times, 22 August 2011 Wild Bill Davis, 76, American organist, pianist, and arranger. Helen Singer Kaplan, 66, Austrian-American sex therapist, cancer. Howard Koch, 93, American screenwriter (Casablanca, Sergeant York, Letter from an Unknown Woman), Oscar winner (1944). Rollie Miles, 68, Canadian football player. Julius Monk, 82, American cabaret impresario. Jaroslav Papoušek, 66, Czech film director and screenwriter. Carl Samuelson, 68, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). Marjorie Sykes, 90, British educator and peace activist in India. David Warrilow, 60, English actor (Barton Fink, Radio Days, Simon), AIDS-related complications. Ted Whitten, 62, Australian rules footballer, prostate cancer.
18 Julio Caro Baroja, 80, Spanish anthropologist, historian, linguist and essayist. Alexander Zeisal Bielski, 82, Belarus leader of the Bielski partisans during World War II. Philip Hodgins, 36, Australian poet. Dick Hogan, 77, American actor (Rope). Alex Joffé, 76, French film director and screenwriter. James Maxwell, 66, American actor and director.Adam Benedick, obituary: James Maxwell, The Independent, August 28, 1995. Helmuth Schlömer, 102, German Wehrmacht general during World War II. Dmitri Shepilov, 89, Soviet economist, lawyer and politician. Andrew Wood Wilkinson, 81, Scottish paediatrician.
19 John H. Adams, 80, American National Champion Thoroughbred racing jockey. Silvio Amadio, 69, Italian film director and screenwriter. Rollen Henry Anthis, 79, United States Air Force Major General. Danny Arnold, 70, American producer, writer, comedian, actor and director. Jean Bocahut, 75, French Olympic rower (1948). Jack Carter, 87, Australian cricketer. Robert C. Frasure, 53, American diplomat and ambassador, traffic collision.