The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 1995
1 Aditya Vikram Birla, 51, Indian industrialist, prostate cancer. Einer Boberg, 59–60, Danish-Canadian speech pathologist. René Cloke, 90, British illustrator and watercolorist. Margaret Gorman, 90, American beauty queen and 1st Miss America. Marcel Noual, 83, French Olympic swimmer (1932). Felipe Rivera, 24, Chilean tennis player, traffic collision. Henry P. Smith III, 84, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965–1975). Ady Stefanetti, 52, Luxembourgian Olympic gymnast (1964).
2 John Ayers, 42, American National Football League offensive lineman (San Francisco 49ers, Denver Broncos), liver cancer. Otto Chr. Bastiansen, 77, Norwegian chemist. Hajir Darioush, 57, Iranian film maker. Helmut Degen, 84, German composer. Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, 67, British artist and teacher. Ben Meier, 77, American politician.
3 Col Austen, 74, Australian rules footballer. Orlando Aloysius Battista, 78, Canadian chemist and writer. John Chickerneo, 78, American football player (New York Giants). Kevin Commins, 67, South African cricketer. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, 86, Brazilian intellectual and activist. George Hoskins, 78, Australian rules footballer. Štefan Jačiansky, 65, Slovak football manager. Nippy Jones, 70, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Braves). Elena Quiroga, 73, Spanish writer. Francis O. Schmitt, 91, American biologist and professor. M. P. Sivagnanam, 89, Indian freedom fighter and politician. Gene Smith, 83, American baseball player. Leon Surmelian, 89, Armenian-American author. Charles L. Veach, 51, American astronaut (STS-39, STS-52), cancer.
4 Fabio Albarelli, 52, Italian competitive sailor and Olympic medalist (1968, 1976). Matt Armstrong, 83, Scottish footballer.(Scotland player) Matthew Armstrong, London Hearts Supporters Club Woody Bledsoe, 73, American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Else Brems, 87, Danish contralto. Arturo García Buhr, 89, Argentine actor and film director, suicide. Dean Roden Chapman, 73, American mechanical engineer with NASA. Fred Fehl, 89, American photographer. John L. Greene, 82, American screenwriter (My Favorite Martian). Masood Rana, 57, Pakistani film playback singer. Eu Chooi Yip, 76, Malaysian politician and Singaporean activist.
5 Walter Edwin Arnoldi, 77, American aeronautical engineer. Karl Johan Baadsvik, 85, Norwegian-Canadian Olympic skier (1936). Arthur Barbosa, 87, English artist. Lillian Fuchs, 93, American viola player, composer and teacher. Linda Gary, 50, American voice actress (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Spider-Man). Dick Jurgens, 85, American bandleader. Pin Malakul, 91, Thai educator and politician. Abdurehim Ötkür, 72, Uyghur author and poet.
6 Michael Allen, 62, English cricketer. Paul Baize, 94, French pediatrician and amateur astronomer. Karl Band, 94, German architect.Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten – Kölner Gräber und Geschichte. Greven, Cologne 1997, , . Eileen Cassidy, 63, Irish Fianna Fáil politician. Benoît Chamoux, 34, French Alpinist, disappeared during climb. Hughie Charles, 88, English songwriter and impresario. José Antonio de Armas Chitty, 86, Venezuelan historian, poet, biographer and researcher. Peter Kirkpatrick, 79, British rower and Olympian (1948). Iván Mándy, 76, Hungarian writer. Anthony Newlands, 70, British actor.
7 Ya'akov Arnon, 82, Israeli economist and government official. Mikhail Butkevich, 69, Soviet/Russian theatre director and drama professor at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts. Roberto Cabrera, 81, Chilean footballer. Ralph Churchfield, 77, American basketball player. Gérard de Vaucouleurs, 77, French astronomer. Emanuele Del Vecchio, 61, Brazilian football forward. Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann, 44, German far-left militant, cancer. Louis Meyer, 91, American Hall of Fame race car driver. Olga Taussky-Todd, 89, Austrian and later Czech-American mathematician. Harley A. Wilhelm, 95, American chemist.
8 Erich Brost, 91, German journalist and publisher. John Cairncross, 82, Scottish civil servant and Soviet spy during World War II. Alvaro Cartei, 84, Italian painter and ceramist. William D. Hutchinson, 63, American politician and judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit). Christopher Keene, 48, American conductor and director of the New York City Opera, AIDS. Jim Little, 57, Australian rules footballer. Kentarō Ogawa, 61, Japanese baseball player. Olavi Salsola, 61, Finnish middle-distance runner and Olympian (1956). Patric Walker, 64, American-British astrologer. Geoffrey Warnock, 72, English philosopher and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.
9 Kamal Bose, 80, Indian cinematographer. Sagramor de Scuvero Brandão, 74, Brazilian actress and radio personality. Henry W. Clune, 105, American writer and journalist. Alec Douglas-Home, 92, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Zaim Imamović, 34, Bosnian commander, killed in action. Luis López, 26, Mexican Olympic gymnast (1992). Marja Obrębska, 91, Polish painter. Kukrit Pramoj, 84, Thai politician and 13th Prime Minister of Thailand, diabetes. John A. Scali, 77, American journalist and diplomat.
10 Fateh Chand Badhwar, 94–95, Indian civil servant. Doug Cline, 57, American football player (Houston Oilers, San Diego Chargers). Robert Finch, 70, American politician, heart attack. Ed Gill, 100, American baseball player (Washington Senators). Paolo Gucci, 64, Italian businessman and fashion designer. Carl Barton Huffaker, 81, American biologist, ecologist and agricultural entomologist. Allan Jacobsen, 79, Australian rules footballer. Lars Näsman, 52, Finnish football player and coach. Doug Russell, 84, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, Cleveland Rams).
11 Isolde Ahlgrimm, 81, Austrian harpsichordist and fortepianist. Donald Beckford, 88, Jamaican cricketer. Graciela Amaya de García, 100, Mexican feminist and labour organizer.GARCÍA, Graciela Huang Yijun, 80, Chinese conductor and composer. Jeff York, 83, American actor (Old Yeller, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Alaskans).
12 Eleanor Aller, 78, American cellist. Harald Barlie, 58, Norwegian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympian (1960, 1964, 1968, 1972). George Blaikie, 80, Australian author and journalist. Gary Bond, 55, English actor (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Anne of the Thousand Days, Wake in Fright) and singer, AIDS-related complications. Adolf Flubacher, 94, Swiss footballer and Olympian (1928). David McLean, 73, American actor, lung cancer. Edmundo Ohaco, 69, Chilean Olympic hurdler (1952). Hans Wärmling, 52, Swedish musician and songwriter, drowned.
13 John Tyler Caldwell, 83, American academic and professor of political science. Geoffrey Chung, 44, Jamaican musician, recording engineer, and record producer, liver failure. Albert Dubreucq, 71, French footballer and coach. Michael Lah, 83, Slovenian-American animator. Henry Roth, 89, American novelist and short story writer. Béla Varga, 92, Hungarian Catholic priest and politician. Jean Weber, 89, French film actor. Herbert Weißbach, 93, German actor, cabaret artist, and voice actor.
14 John R. P. French, 82, American psychologist. William Fritz, 81, Canadian sprinter and Olympian (1936). Robert Howell Hall, 73, American judge. Gunvor Hofmo, 74, Norwegian writer. Edith Pargeter, 82, English author. Helen Vlachos, 83, Greek journalist and anti-junta activist. Karl Widmark, 84, Swedish sprint canoeists.
15 Akhat Bragin, 42, Ukrainian businessman, bomb attack. Marco Campos, 19, Brazilian racing driver, racing accident. Claudine Chomat, 80, French communist militant and member of the resistance during World War II. Marco Gavelli, 80, Italian Olympic wrestler (1936, 1948). Thelma Griffith Haynes, 82, Canadian-American Major League Baseball executive. Augusto Larrabure, 83, Peruvian Olympic sports shooter (1948). Eugenia Rusin, 62, Polish Olympic shot putter (1960). Bengt Åkerblom, 28, Swedish ice hockey player.
16 Richard Caldicot, 87, British actor. Günther Happich, 43, Austrian football midfielder. Jimmie Lewallen, 76, American stock car racing driver, cancer. Augustine Martin, 59, Irish academic, writer, broadcaster and literary critic. Joe Pearce, 85, Australian rugby player and coach. Thoogudeepa Srinivas, 52, Indian film actor. Joe Szekely, 70, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs). John Walker, 88, American art curator.
17 Wal Alexander, 71, Australian rules footballer. Mike Brittain, 32, American basketball player (San Antonio Spurs). Peter Hinchliff, 66, South African Anglican priest and academic. Fachtna O'Donovan, 74, Irish sportsperson. Oza Tétrault, 87, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1968–1974). Pál Zolnay, 67, Hungarian film director, screenwriter and actor.
18 Claudio Brook, 68, Mexican actor, stomach cancer. Franco Fabrizi, 79, Italian actor, cancer. Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, 71, American lawyer and civil rights activist. Edward Griffiths, 66, British politician. Lloyd Guenther, 88, American Olympic speed skater (1932). Bryan Johnson, 69, English singer and actor. Tommy Lyttle, 56, Irish Ulster loyalist and paramilitary, heart attack. William Mackey, 80, Canadian Catholic priest and Jesuit educator, sepsis. Ted Sturgis, 82, American jazz bassist. Ted Whiteaway, 66, British racing driver.
19 Don Cherry, 58, American jazz trumpeter, liver cancer. Don Faurot, 93, American college football player and coach (Missouri Tigers). Norman Jones, 71, Canadian-born Bermudian Olympic sailor (1960). Kumari Naaz, 51, Indian film actress. Harilaos Perpessas, 88, Greek composer. Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, 84, Ukrainian-Canadian linguist, lexicographer, author and publicist. Don Williams, 59, Australian rules football player.
20 George Allen, 67, Australian rules footballer. Eric Birley, 89, British historian and archaeologist. William D. Campbell, 88, American leader of the international Scouting movement. Riccardo Carapellese, 73, Italian football manager and player. Jack Rose, 83, American screenwriter. Christopher Stone, 53, American actor, heart attack. John Tonkin, 93, Australian politician.
21 Maxene Andrews, 79, American singer and actress and member of The Andrews Sisters. Jesús Blasco, 75, Spanish comic book author. José Ignacio Cabrujas, 58, Venezuelan playwright and theater director, heart attack. Harold I. Cammer, 86, American lawyer who co-founded the National Lawyers Guild. Manuel Vázquez Gallego, 65, Spanish cartoonist. Linda Goodman, 70, American astrologer and poet, diabetes. Nancy Graves, 55, American sculptor, painter, and printmaker, ovarian cancer. Sverre Hansen, 76, Norwegian actor. Hans Helfritz, 93, German composer and photographer. Shannon Hoon, 28, American singer-songwriter, drug overdose. Egidio Massaria, 70, Italian Olympic swimmer (1952). Vada Pinson, 57, American baseball player and coach, stroke. Abel Salazar, 78, Mexican actor, producer and director, Alzheimer's disease. Anatoly Shelyukhin, 65, Soviet cross-country skier and Olympian (1956, 1960).
22 Kingsley Amis, 73, English author (Lucky Jim, Jake's Thing, The Old Devils). Bob Campiglio, 87, American football player (Staten Island Stapletons, Boston Redskins). Mario Costa, 91, Italian actor, director and screenwriter. Simone Gallimard, 77, French editor and publisher, cancer. Frank Jordan, 90, Australian cricketer. Ralph Whitlock, 81, British farmer, conservationist, writer, and broadcaster.