The following is a list of notable deaths in January 1994.
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.
January 1994
1 William Chappell, 86, British dancer, ballet designer and director. Raymond Crotty, 68, Irish economist, writer, and academic. Walter Eckhardt, 87, German politician. Bill Latham, 86, Australian rules footballer. Carlos Nelli, 91, Brazilian Olympic pole vaulter (1932). Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, 93, New Zealand physician, statesman and Olympic athlete (1924). Cesar Romero, 86, American actor (Batman, Ocean's 11, The Thin Man) and activist. Peggy Simpson, 80, British actress. E. A. Thompson, 79, Irish-British marxist historian.
2 Jan Ambrus, 94, Slovak-born American fighter pilot. Viktor Aristov, 50, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. Miguel M. Delgado, 88, Mexican film director and screenwriter, cancer. Lys Gauty, 93, French cabaret singer and actress. Dixy Lee Ray, 79, American politician. Vitālijs Rubenis, 79, Latvian communist politician. William Ryan, 72, Irish Fianna Fáil politician. Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, 81, French businessman. Eddie Smith, 80, American Major League Baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox).
3 Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, 90, British public servant and politician. Norman Hepple, 85, English painter, engraver and sculptor, traffic accident. Frank Belknap Long, 92, American writer and poet. Derna Polazzo, 81, Italian Olympic athlete (1928). Marion Ross, 90, Scottish physicist. Heather Sears, 58, British actress, multiple organ failure. Constantin Vișoianu, 96, Romanian jurist, diplomat, and politician, cancer.
4 Rahul Dev Burman, 54, Indian music director, cardiovascular disease. Reijer Hooykaas, 87, Dutch historian of science. Eileen Mayo, 87, English-Australian artist and designer. Thirukkuralar V. Munusamy, 80, Indian scholar and politician. Heinz Schussig, 67, German footballer. Billy Sullivan Jr., 83, American baseball player. Willie Wells Jr., 71, American baseball player.
5 Aldo Baldin, 49, Brazilian opera tenor. Sir David Bates, 77, Northern Irish mathematician and physicist. Jack Brittin, 69, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). Jeanne Carpenter, 76, American child actress of the silent era, pulmonary emphysema. Brian Johnston, 81, British cricket commentator, author, and television presenter, heart attack. Eliška Junková, 93, Czechoslovak automobile racer. Elmar Lipping, 87, Estonian statesman and soldier. Franz Murer, 81, Austrian SS officer and war criminal. Tip O'Neill, 81, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1953–1987), colorectal cancer. Charlie Van Horn, 92, American football player.
6 Fidel Castaño, 43, Colombian drug lord and paramilitary. Oscar Fraley, 79, American sports writer and author. Cláudia Magno, 35, Brazilian actress and dancer, AIDS-related complications. Per Palle Storm, 83, Danish-Norwegian sculptor and arts professor. Adri van Es, 80, Royal Netherlands Navy vice admiral. Keith Wells, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Fred Zinner, 90, Belgian Olympic athlete (1924, 1928).
7 Arthur Dooley, 64, English artist and sculptor. Adolf Gruber, 73, Austrian long-distance runner and Olympian (1952, 1956, 1960). Charlie McNeil, 57, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers). Vittorio Mezzogiorno, 52, Italian actor, cancer. Llewellyn Rees, 92, English actor. Phoumi Vongvichit, 84, President of Laos.
8 Hans Asplund, 72, Swedish architect. Jay Blackton, 84, American composer and conductor (Oklahoma!, Guys and Dolls). Pat Buttram, 78, American actor (Green Acres, Robin Hood, The Fox and the Hound), kidney failure. René Faye, 70, French Olympic cyclist (1948). Harvey Haddix, 68, American baseball pitcher and pitching coach, pulmonary emphysema. Harry Boye Karlsen, 73, Norwegian football player and Olympian (1952). Roy Kiyooka, 67, Canadian painter, poet, photographer, and multi-media artist. Ruth Osburn, 81, American Olympic discus thrower (1932). Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, 99, Indian Hindu religious leader.
9 Faruk Barlas, 78, Turkish football player and Olympian (1936). Luka Ciganović, 78, Yugoslavian Olympic water polo player (1936, 1948). Kayhan Kaynak, 33, Turkish football player, heart attack. Rigmor Olsen, 86, Danish Olympic swimmer (1928). Madge Ryan, 75, Australian actress. Johnny Temple, 66, American Major League Baseball player, pancreatic cancer. Joachim Werner, 84, German archaeologist.
10 Michael Aldridge, 73, English actor (Last of the Summer Wine). Sven-Erik Bäck, 74, Swedish composer of classical music. Ien Dales, 62, Dutch socialist politician and social worker, heart attack. Chub Feeney, 72, American baseball executive, heart attack. Jean Houdry, 79, French Olympic wrestler (1936). Yigal Hurvitz, 75, Israeli politician. Girija Kumar Mathur, 75, Indian Hindi writer. Bruno Storti, 80, Italian trade unionist and politician. Clem Stralka, 80, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins). Roman Tkachuk, 61, Soviet theatre and film actor. Miroslav Vejvoda, 61, Czech Olympic sailor (1964, 1972). Joe Ware, 80, American baseball player.
11 Arifin Achmad, 69, Indonesian military officer. Les Bollman, 89, Australian rules footballer. Walter Driver, 71, Australian cricketer. József Háda, 82, Hungarian football player. Chester L. Mize, 76, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965–1971). Helmut Poppendick, 92, German physician and SS officer during World War II. Ram Ramirez, 80, Puerto Rican born jazz pianist and composer. Édouard Rinfret, 88, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1945–1952). Emilio Rosenblueth, 67, Mexican engineer. David Ruíz, 81, Chilean footballer. Joe Sprinz, 91, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals). Lucas Turk, 95, American baseball player (Washington Senators). Robert Winslow, 77, American gridiron football player and coach.
12 Samuel Bronston, 85, American film producer, film director, and nephew of communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky, pneumonia. Goran Ivandić, 38, Yugoslav drummer, suicide. Greg Kabat, 82, American and Canadian football player. Gustav Naan, 74, Estonian philosopher and physicist. Nehemiah Tamari, 47, Israeli army major general, commander of the Central Command (since 1993), helicopter crash. Arthur Turner, 84, English football player and manager. John West Wells, 86, American paleontologist, cnidariologist, and geologist.
13 Hervé Alphand, 86, French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States. Erhard Bauer, 68, German football player. Johan Jørgen Holst, 56, Norwegian politician. Norm Jacobson, 76, Australian rugby player and coach. Jack McGill, 72, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins). Jim Patterson, 74, Australian rules footballer.
14 Ahmad Ali, 84, Pakistani novelist, poet, diplomat and scholar. Chesley William Carter, 91, Canadian politician. Martin Corke, 70, English cricketer. Yeap Cheng Eng, 79–80, Malayan-Chinese footballer and Olympian (1948). Jack Faber, 91, American sports coach and microbiologist. Myron Fohr, 81, American racecar driver. Ivan Fuqua, 84, American track and field athlete and Olympian (1932). Fritz Losigkeit, 80, German flying ace during World War II. Federica Montseny, 88, Spanish politician, anarchist, intellectual and writer. Esther Ralston, 91, American silent film actress, heart attack. Delio Rodríguez, 77, Spanish racing cyclist. Nubar Terziyan, 84, Turkish actor. George Vico, 70, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
15 Philippe Brun, 85, French trumpeter. György Cziffra, 72, Hungarian-French pianist and composer, lung cancer. Gabriel-Marie Garrone, 92, French Catholic cardinal. Ben H. Guill, 84, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1950–1951). Martin Kosleck, 89, German actor. Thomas C. McGrath Jr., 66, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965–1967). Agnar Mykle, 78, Norwegian writer and puppeteer. Harry Nilsson, 52, American singer-songwriter ("Everybody's Talkin'"), heart failure. Don Taylor, 73, Australian rules footballer. Harilal Upadhyay, 77, Indian novelist and poet. Wally Ware, 87, Australian rules footballer.
16 Sidon Ebeling, 93, Swedish Olympic long-distance runner (1924). Jack Metcalfe, 81, Australian athlete and Olympian (1936). Leland Stowe, 94, American journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Pál Szalai, 78, Hungarian police officer who save hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust during World War II.
17 Al Buchanan, 66, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs). T. T. Fields, 81, American politician. Chung Il-kwon, 76, South Korean general and politician, lymphoma. Yevgeny Ivanov, 68, Soviet spy. Reamer Keller, 89, American cartoonist. Juan Carlos Pugliese, 78, Argentinian lawyer and politician. Helen Stephens, 75, American athlete and Olympic champion (1936). Robin Turton, Baron Tranmire, 90, British politician.
18 Arthur Altman, 83, American songwriter. Silvio Bergamini, 70, Italian Olympic rower (1952). Lee Roy Caffey, 52, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, Dallas Cowboys), cancer. Frank M. Carpenter, 91, American entomologist and paleontologist, heart attack Rosemary Glyde, 45, American musician, cancer. Tullik Helsing, 75, Norwegian Olympic diver (1936). Tinus Lambillion, 81, Dutch Olympic boxer (1936). Rolf Singer, 87, German mycologist.
19 Eugene Kamenka, 65, Australian political philosopher and scholar. Ludvík Kománek, 84, Czech Olympic hurdler (1936) and triple jumper. Haik Hovsepian Mehr, 49, Iranian-Armenian Protestant minister, murdered. Aubrey Newman, 90, American general and Olympic pentathlete (1928). Kenneth Utt, 72, American film producer (The Silence of the Lambs), Oscar winner (1992), bone cancer. Joseph Vliers, 61, Belgian football player.
20 Sir Matt Busby, 84, Scottish football player and manager, cancer. Paul Dixon, 86, American baseball player. Styrbjörn Holm, 65, Swedish Olympic sailor (1964). Ľubor Kresák, 66, Slovak astronomer. Bedia Muvahhit, 97, Turkish actress. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, 82, Kenyan chieftain and politician. Darío Segovia, 61, Paraguayan football player.
21 Bassel al-Assad, 31, Syrian colonel, politician and son of president Hafez al-Assad, traffic collision. Andrejs Kapmals, 104, Latvian Olympic long-distance runner (1912). Timo Suviranta, 63, Finnish Olympic basketball player (1952). Tony Waddington, 69, English football manager Bill Young, 79, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins), and coach.
22 Vincent Allard, 72, Belgian entomologist. Jean-Louis Barrault, 83, French actor, director and mime artist, heart attack. Graziano Battistini, 57, Italian road bicycle racer. Rhett Forrester, 37, American rock singer and musician (Riot), shot during carjacking. Frances Gifford, 73, American actress, pulmonary emphysema. Rudy Miller, 93, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Telly Savalas, 72, American actor (Kojak, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Birdman of Alcatraz) and singer, Emmy winner (1974), cancer.
23 Adolph Baller, 84, Austrian-American pianist, kidney failure. Lee Alvin DuBridge, 92, American educator and physicist, pneumonia. Klaus Hemmerle, 64, German Roman Catholic bishop, cancer. Takashi Kondo, 82, Japanese Olympic gymnast (1932). Stan Landes, 70, American baseball umpire. Alexei Mozhaev, 75, Soviet and Russian painter, graphic artist, and art teacher. Yngve Nordwall, 85, Swedish film actor and director. Nikolai Ogarkov, 76, Soviet military officer and Hero of the Soviet Union. Eila Pennanen, 77, Finnish writer, critic, and essayist.