The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.
September 1995
1 Sylvia Gytha de Lancey Chapman, 98, New Zealand doctor and welfare worker. María de la Cruz, 82, Chilean political activist, journalist, writer, and political commentator. Joseph N. Gallo, 83, American mobster and member of the Gambino crime family. Wilhelm Sold, 84, German football player and Olympian (1936). Gino Sopracordevole, 90, Italian rower and Olympian (1924). Benay Venuta, 85, American actress, singer, and dancer, lung cancer.
2 Simona Arghir-Sandu, 46, Romanian Olympic handballer (1976), cancer. Don Gibson, 87, Australian rules footballer. Bahri Guiga, 91, Tunisian lawyer and politician. Lenie Lanting-Keller, 70, Dutch Olympic diver (1952). Václav Neumann, 74, Czech conductor, violinist, and opera director. Earl T. Newbry, 95, American businessman and politician. Joseph O'Keefe, 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1963-1968).
3 Lance Adams-Schneider, 75, New Zealand politician.Obituary – Rt Hon. Sir Lancelot Raymond Adams-Schneider . New Zealand Hansard: September 12, 1995. Retrieved February 6, 2013. Mary Adshead, 91, British painter, muralist, illustrator and designer, heart failure. Earle Birney, 91, Canadian poet and novelist. Mort Browne, 87, Australian rules footballer. D. C. Coleman, 75, British economic historian. Parker Morton, 83, Australian rules football player and coach. Ricardo Sánchez, 54, American poet, cancer. Louis van Biljon, 68, South African Olympic sprinter (1952).
4 Don Deeks, 72, American football player (Boston Yanks, Washington Redskins, Green Bay Packers). Paulo Gracindo, 84, Brazilian actor, prostate cancer. Chuck Greenberg, 45, American musician (Shadowfax), heart attack. Edmond Jouhaud, 90, French general involved in the Algiers putsch of 1961. William Kunstler, 76, American lawyer and civil rights activist. Fabio Pittorru, 66, Italian novelist, screenwriter, journalist and film director. Roman Zvonkov, 28, Ukrainian biathlete and Olympian (1994).
5 John Britten, 45, New Zealand mechanical engineer, cancer. Tom Chisari, 72, American football coach. Salil Chowdhury, 69, Indian songwriter, lyricist, writer, and poet. Girija, 57, Indian actress. Vinko Golob, 74, Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player. Paul Julian, 81, American background animator, sound effects artist and voice actor. Eny Karim, 84, Indonesian politician and civil servant. Ahmed Koulamallah, 83, Chadian politician. John Megna, 42, American actor, director and educator, AIDS-related complications. Ante Nardelli, 58, Croatian water polo player and Olympian (1960, 1964). Bob O'Shaughnessy, 74, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals). Jean-Luc Pépin, 70, Canadian academic, and politician. Francis Showering, 83, English brewer, heart attack. Zulu Sofola, 60, Nigerian playwright and dramatist. Benyamin Sueb, 56, Indonesian actor, comedian and singer. Karl Warner, 87, American Olympic athlete (1932). Charles Willoughby, 101, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1963-1965).
6 Sergio Atzeni, 42, Italian writer, drowned. Michelangelo Borriello, 86, Italian Olympic sports shooter (1936, 1948, 1952, 1956). Gianni Caldana, 81, Italian Olympic track and field athlete (1936). Bill DeCorrevont, 76, American gridiron football player. Mary Doran, 84, American actress. Hugo Hollas, 49, American football player (New Orleans Saints, San Francisco 49ers). Warren Ingersoll, 87, American Olympic field hockey player (1932). Mo Lisby, 82, American baseball player. Buster Mathis, 52, American boxer, heart failure. Larry O'Connor, 78, Canadian Olympic hurdler (1936). Ralph Rosenblum, 69, American film editor (Annie Hall, The Producers, Fail-Safe). B. K. Thapar, 73, Indian archaeologist.
7 John B. Calhoun, 78, American ethologist and behavioral researcher. Richard Guy Condon, 43, American anthropologist, disappeared on this date and is presumed dead. Henri Klein, 51, Luxembourgian footballer. Al Papai, 78, American Major League Baseball player. Michel Scob, 60, French Olympic cyclist (1960).
8 Peter Baxandall, 74, English audio engineer and electronics engineer. Madge Biggs, 93, Falkland Islands librarian and politician. Paco Campos, 79, Spanish footballer. Eileen Chang, 74, Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter. Rose Chernin, 93, American communist and activist of Russian birth, Alzheimer's disease. José Luis González Dávila, 52, Mexican football player and Olympian (1964). Olga Ivinskaya, 83, Russian poet and writer, cancer. Safa Khulusi, 78, Iraqi historian, novelist, poet, journalist and broadcaster. Erich Kunz, 86, Austrian operatic bass baritone at the Vienna State Opera and Metropolitan Opera. Halldis Moren Vesaas, 87, Norwegian poet, translator and writer of children's books. Michael Nigg, 26, American waiter, homicide by gunshot wound.
9 Ida Carroll, 89, British music educator, double bassist, and composer. Marina Núñez del Prado, 86, Bolivian sculptor. Reinhard Furrer, 54, German physicist and astronaut (STS-61-A), aircraft crash. Lin Houston, 74, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns). Benjamin Mazar, 89, Israeli historian. Erik Nilsson, 79, Swedish football player and Olympian (1948, 1952). Béla Pálfi, 72, Yugoslavian footballer and Olympian (1948). Akimitsu Takagi, 74, Japanese crime fiction writer, stroke. Ron Talsky, 60, American costume designer. Keith Wayne, 50, American actor (Night of the Living Dead), suicide. Jamie Whitten, 85, American politician and United States House of Representatives representative (1941-1995), heart failure.
10 Harriet Bell, 72, American advocate for disability rights. Charles Denner, 69, French actor, cancer. Molly Hide, 81, English cricketer. Derek Meddings, 64, British special effects designer (Superman, Thunderbirds, Batman), Oscar winner (1979), colorectal cancer. Shoji Suzuki, 63, Japanese jazz clarinet player and band leader.
11 Fred Campbell, 84, Australian politician and Queensland Legislative Assembly member. Georges Canguilhem, 91, French philosopher and physician. Bruno Eliasen, 62, Danish footballer. Anita Harding, 42, Irish-British neurologist, colorectal cancer. Roger W. Heyns, 77, American professor and academic. Charles J. Hitch, 85, American economist and Assistant Secretary of Defense. Peter McIntyre, 85, New Zealand painter and author. Kieth O'dor, 33, British racing driver, racing accident. Vladislav Strzhelchik, 74, Soviet/Russian actor, brain cancer.
12 Lubomír Beneš, 59, Czech animator, director, and author. Johnny Bothwell, 76, American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader. Jeremy Brett, 61, English actor (Sherlock Holmes, My Fair Lady, War and Peace), heart failure. Grahame Clark, 88, British archaeologist. Larry Gales, 59, American jazz double-bassist, leukemia. Tom Helmore, 91, English actor (Vertigo, The Time Machine, This Could Be the Night). Frederick Augustus Irving, 101, American Army officer. Katherine Locke, 85, American actress. Ernest Pohl, 62, Polish football player and Olympian (1960). Ponnuswami Sitaram, 63, Indian cricketer. Geoffrey Stokes, 55, American journalist and writer on music and sports, esophageal cancer. Ted Wood, 79, Australian rules footballer.
13 Aluf Joseph Avidar, 89, Israeli statesman, author and ambassador. Fritz Bennewitz, 69, German theatre director. Eberhard Godt, 95, German naval officer. Francesco Messina, 94, Italian sculptor. Maheswar Neog, 80, Indian academic. Achille Piccini, 83, Italian football player and Olympian (1936). Harold Shepherdson, 76, English football player and coach. Frank Silva, 44, American set dresser and actor (Twin Peaks), AIDS-related complications.
14 Leon Adams, 90, American journalist, publicist and historian. Maurice K. Goddard, 83, American cabinet officer for six governors, suicide. Emerson John Moore, 57, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Eiji Okada, 75, Japanese actor (Hiroshima mon amour, The Ugly American), heart failure. Willy Olsen, 74, Norwegian footballer. Naomi Smith, 15, English schoolgirl. A. E. Wilder-Smith, 79, British organic chemist and young Earth creationist.
15 Harry Calder, 94, English cricketer. Douglass Cater, 72, American journalist, political aide, and college president. Dirceu, 43, Brazilian football player and Olympian (1972), traffic collision. Dietrich Hrabak, 80, German fighter pilot during World War II. Sam McCluskie, 63, British trade unionist. David McMullin, 87, American field hockey player and Olympian (1932, 1936). Pedro Nolasco, 33, Dominican boxer and Olympian (1984), shot. Gunnar Nordahl, 73, Swedish footballer and Olympian (1948). Rien Poortvliet, 63, Dutch draughtsman and painter, bone cancer. Nap Reyes, 75, American Major League Baseball player (New York Giants). Gavin Smith, 47, Australian rules footballer. Michio Watanabe, 72, Japanese politician and Deputy Prime Minister of Japan, heart failure.
16 Michael Balfour, 86, English historian and civil servant. Leo Horn, 79, Dutch football referee. Aldo Novarese, 75, Italian type designer. Harold Obunga, 35, Kenyan Olympic boxer (1988). Pierre Olaf, 67, French actor. Jack Wink, 73, American football player and coach.
17 Gottfried Bermann, 98, German publisher. Catherine Cobb, 92, British jeweler and silversmith. Yehuda Getz, 70–71, Israeli rabbi of the Western Wall for 27 years, heart attack. Astrid Krebsbach, 82, German table tennis player. Helen Nearing, 91, American author and vegetarianism advocate, single-car accident. Friedrich Schütter, 74, German film and television actor. Rakel Seweriin, 89, Norwegian politician. Grady Sutton, 89, American actor. Lucien Victor, 64, Belgian cyclist and Olympian (1952).
18 Doreen Cannon, 64, American teacher of acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Donald Davie, 73, English Movement poet, and literary critic. Jean Gol, 53, Belgian politician, cerebral hemorrhage. Kaka Hathrasi, 89, Hindi satirist and humorist poet of India. George S. Howard, 93, American conductor of The United States Air Force Band between 1947 and 1963. Tony Paulekas, 83, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers). Oleh Tverdokhlib, 25, Ukrainian track and field athlete and Olympian (1992), domestic accident.
19 Mr. Bo, 63, American blues guitarist and singer, pneumonia. Melbourne Brindle, 90, Australian-American illustrator and painter. Walter Gross, 83, German-Israeli journalist who worked for Haaretz from 1949 through 1995. Rauf Hajiyev, 73, Soviet and Azerbaijani composer and politician. Mem Lovett, 83, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). Sir Rudolf Peierls, 88, German-born British physicist. Orville Redenbacher, 88, American entrepreneur and businessman, heart attack. Clinton Stephens, 75, American badminton player.
20 Charles Albanese, 58, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection. Emmy Albus, 83, German sprinter and Olympian (1936). Rene Anselmo, 69, American television executive. Mikhail Bogdanov, 80, Russian production designer and Academy Award nominee. Eulie Chowdhury, 71, Indian architect. Walter A. Haas Jr., 79, President and CEO (1958–1976) and Chairman (1970–1981) of Levi Strauss & Co. Monica Maurice, 87, British industrialist. Tokibayama Toshio, 51, Japanese sumo wrestler. René Zazzo, 84, French psychologist and pedagogue.
21 Andy the Clown, 77, American clown associated with the Chicago White Sox. Tony Cuccinello, 87, American baseball player and coach. Delfy de Ortega, 75, Italian-Argentine actress, cancer. Alan Christopher Deere, 77, New Zealand fighter ace during World War ||. Frank Hall, 74, Irish broadcaster, journalist and film censor, heart attack.