The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1994
1 Sergei Dubov, 50, Russian journalist, publisher and entrepreneur, homicide. Lars Eriksson, 67, Swedish footballer and Olympian (1952). Ray Ferris, 73, Northern Irish football player. Guy Lefranc, 74, French director and screenwriter. John Littlejohn, 62, American electric blues guitarist, kidney failure. Jo Richardson, 70, British Labour Party politician. Radovan Samardžić, 71, Yugoslav/Serbian historian and academic. Olan Soule, 84, American actor, lung cancer.
2 Steve Barclay, 75, American film actor. Jim Bedard, 66, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks). Jean Couturier, 82, French Olympic basketball player (1936). Marija Gimbutas, 73, Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist. Zaim Imamović, 73, Bosnian folk singer, accordionist and author. Otto Kippes, 88, German Catholic priest. Yōichi Nakanishi, 76, Japanese politician and Governor of Ishikawa Prefecture. John Rewald, 81, American academic, author and art historian. Willie Mae Ford Smith, 89, American gospel musician and Christian evangelist. Jack Streader, 66, Australian rules footballer. Mary Washburn, 86, American Olympic sprinter (1928). Anona Winn, 90, Australian-British actress, broadcaster and singer.
3 Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov, 90, Soviet and Russian physicist and academic. Roberto Amoroso, 83, Italian screenwriter and film producer. Rauf Atakishiyev, 68, Soviet and Azerbaijani singer and pianist. Carroll Borland, 79, American professor, writer, and actress, pneumonia. Herbert Busemann, 88, German-American mathematician. Frederick Copleston, 86, English Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian. Justinus Darmojuwono, 79, Indonesian Roman Catholic cardinal. Walter Havighurst, 92, American novelist, critic, and literary and social historian. Alan Helffrich, 93, American athlete and Olympic champion (1924). Ellen King, 85, Scottish swimmer and Olympian (1924, 1928). Patrick El Mabrouk, 65, French Olympic middle-distance runner (1952). Raúl Padilla, 75, Mexican actor (El Chavo del Ocho, El Chanfle 2), heart attack. Glenn Wade Salisbury, 83, American agriculture biologist. Georgy Shchedrovitsky, 64, Soviet and Russian philosopher and methodologist. Dale Warren, 54, American musician.
4 Jane Arbor, 90, British writer. Fred De Bruyne, 63, Belgian road cyclist. Brunetto Bucciarelli Ducci, 79, Italian politician and magistrate. Bedri Gürsoy, 92, Turkish football player. Mikhail Linge, 35, Soviet Russian Olympic middle-distance runner (1980), murdered. Thelma Stovall, 74, American politician.
5 Hermann Josef Abs, 92, German banker and advisor to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Ben Enwonwu, 72, Nigerian painter and sculptor. Joachim Halupczok, 25, Polish racing cyclist and Olympian (1988), heart failure. Tiana Lemnitz, 96, German operatic soprano. George Sauer, 83, American football player (Green Bay Packers), coach, and football executive (New York Titans, Boston Patriots). James F. Walker, 80, American graphic artist.
6 Bill Chamberlain, 84, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). Joseph Cotten, 88, American actor (Citizen Kane, Shadow of a Doubt, The Third Man), pneumonia. Norman Del Mar, 74, British conductor, horn player, and biographer. Felice Gremo, 92, Italian racing cyclist. Ross Grimsley, 71, American Major League Baseball player (Chicago White Sox). Jack Kirby, 76, American comic book artist and writer (Fantastic Four, Captain America, X-Men), heart failure. Aurora Mardiganian, 93, Armenian-American author and actress. Hilda Simms, 75, American stage actress, pancreatic cancer. Ignace Strasfogel, 84, Polish pianist, composer and conductor, Alzheimer's disease. Luis Alberto Sánchez, 93, Peruvian jurist, philosopher, writer and politician. Gwen Watford, 66, English actress, cancer. Frank Whitman, 69, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
7 Richard M. Bissell, Jr., 84, American CIA officer. Billy Briscoe, 97, English football player. Laurence Brown, 86, English Anglican clergyman. Jorge Brum do Canto, 83, Portuguese film director and actor. Witold Lutosławski, 81, Polish composer and conductor. Bill McDonald, 77, American basketball player. Stephen Milligan, 45, British politician and journalist, erotic asphyxiation. Marcel Miquel, 80, French footballer. Charles Richardson, 85, British Army officer. Arnold Smith, 79, Canadian diplomat. Maarten Vrolijk, 74, Dutch socialist politician.
8 Saul Davis, 92, American baseball player. Pierrette Glotin, 60 French Olympic long jumper (1952). Ken G. Hall, 92, Australian film producer and director. Jack Lugg, 74, Australian rules footballer. Amparo Ochoa, 47, Mexican singer-songwriter. Bob Reynolds, 79, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions). Raymond Scott, 85, American musician, record producer, and inventor of electronic instruments.
9 Raymond A. Hare, 92, American diplomat and ambassador. Louis Kaufman, 88, American violinist. Ray Lamanno, 74, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). Gherasim Luca, 80, Romanian surrealist theorist and poet, suicide. Norman Mann, 79, English-born Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs). Joe Mowry, 85, American baseball player (Boston Braves). Jarmila Novotná, 86, Czechoslovak and Chech soprano and actress. Sam Parrilla, 50, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). Tom Pettersen, 58, Norwegian Olympic swimmer (1952). Howard Temin, 59, American geneticist and virologist, lung cancer. Bud Wilkinson, 77, American football player, coach, broadcaster, and politician.
10 Mel Calman, 62, British cartoonist, thrombosis. Robert Crépeaux, 93, French chess master. Fritz John, 83, German-American mathematician. Bernard Lucas, 86, British Olympic hurdler (1928). Dominic McGlinchey, 39–40, Irish republican paramilitary leader, shot. Antonio Oré, 79, Peruvian Olympic basketball player (1936). Laurie Tetley, 72, Australian rules footballer. Augusts Voss, 77, Soviet and Latvian politician.
11 Robert Bobin, 73, French Olympic triple jumper (1948). Neil Bonnett, 47, American racing driver, racing accident. Sorrell Booke, 64, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, Fail-Safe, Freaky Friday), colorectal cancer. William Conrad, 73, American actor (Jake and the Fatman, Cannon, The Killers), heart failure. Joseph Cordeiro, 76, Pakistani Catholic priest. Paul Feyerabend, 70, Austrian philosopher of science, brain cancer. Osrik Forsberg, 81, Finnish Olympic rower (1948). Aredio Gimona, 70, Italian footballer and Olympian (1952). Mercè Comaposada i Guillén, 92, Spanish pedagogue, lawyer, and anarcha-feminist. Sune Mangs, 61, Swedish actor. Ryszard Mańko, 47, Polish footballer. Antonio Martín, 23, Spanish road bicycle racer, bicycle accident. Irénée Pelletier, 54, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1972-1984). Saul Weprin, 66, American attorney and politician, stroke. Vincent Wigglesworth, 94, British entomologist.
12 Charles Critchfield, 83, American mathematical physicist. Ray Dandridge, 80, American Negro league baseball player. Ivor Darreg, 76, American composer of xenharmonic music. Rafael Durán, 82, Spanish actor. Bill Ewing, 84, Australian rules footballer. Rahela Ferari, 82, Yugoslavian and Serbian actress. Jimmy Franks, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins). Donald Judd, 65, American minimalist artist, lymphoma. Sir Richard Luyt, 78, South African Governor of British Guiana. Sue Rodriguez, 43, Canadian right-to-die activist, ALS. Karl Wirtz, 83, German nuclear physicist.
13 James Aitchison, 73, Scottish cricketer.Scottish cricket launches Hall of Fame Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker, 84, British peer and academic. Robert Bloom, 85, American oboist, composer and arranger. Roy Winfield Harper, 88, American district judge. Walter Judd, 95, American politician and physician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1943-1963). Les McCann, 73, Australian rules footballer. Mostafa Salimi, 90, Iranian football player and manager. Robert Sherrod, 85, American journalist, editor and writer, pulmonary emphysema.
14 Pietro Belluschi, 94, Italian-American architect. Andrei Chikatilo, 57, Soviet serial killer, execution by shooting. Ivan Chodák, 80, Slovak football player and coach. Jean Goldschmit, 69, Luxembourgish road bicycle racer. Tiger Haynes, 79, American actor and film and jazz musician. Margaret Lane, 87, British journalist, biographer and novelist. Christopher Lasch, 61, American historian, moralist and social critic, leukemia. Rodney Orr, 31, American racing driver. Henry Milton Taylor, 90, Governor-general of the Bahamas.
15 Ray Blemker, 56, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics). Doc Bracken, 78, American baseball player. Lewis Brand, 68, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1965-1968). Richard Emory, 75, American actor, stroke. Elliott Jones, 86, American Olympic sports shooter (1936). Frank Kitto, 90, Australian lawyer and judge. Gennady Modoy, 70, Soviet Russian Olympic middle-distance runner (1952). Liu Ningyi, 86, Chinese politician. Halfdan Petterøe, 88, Norwegian Olympic equestrian (1936). Andrea Heinemann Simon, 84, American civil rights activist and mother of singer Carly Simon, lung cancer. Bob Skarda, 68, American basketball player.
16 Wolfgang Erndl, 72, Austrian Olympic sailor (1952, 1956). Noël Foré, 61, Belgian road bicycle racer. François Marty, 89, French Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Paris, railway accident. Richard O'Kane, 83, American Navy submarine commander during World War II, Medal of Honor recipient. Bob C. Riley, 69, American educator and politician. Ann Wigmore, 84, Lithuanian-American holistic health practitioner and naturopath.
17 Neville Broderick, 66, Australian rules football player. Aleksandr Chakovsky, 80, Soviet/Russian editor and novelist. Gretchen Fraser, 75, American alpine ski racer and Olympian (1948). Rosario García Ortega, 82, Argentine actress. Chimanbhai Patel, 64, Indian politician. Scott Elgin Reed, 72, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky). Randy Shilts, 42, American journalist and author, AIDS-related complications. Vilmos Varjú, 56, Hungarian shot putter and Olympian (1964, 1968, 1972). Frederick Weber, 88, American Olympic athlete (1936).
18 Annemarie Ackermann, 80, German politician and member of the Bundestag. Ruth Adler, 49, British feminist and human rights campaigner. Bill Clemensen, 74, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates). Michel Duran, 93, French actor, author, and screenwriter. John Edwards, 18, American murder victim. Jake Gaither, 90, American gridiron football coach (Florida A&M Rattlers). Gopi Krishna, 58, Indian dancer, actor and choreographer, heart attack. Beltrán Alfonso Osorio, 75, Spanish peer and jockey. Robert H. Park, 91, American electrical engineer and inventor. Ameer Hamza Shinwari, 87, Afghan Pashto-language poet. John Tedder, 2nd Baron Tedder, 67, British noble and chemist. Ralph W. Tyler, 91, American educator. Barbara Willard, 84, British novelist.
19 Hubert Hammerschmied, 79, Austrian Olympic skier (1948). Johnny Hancocks, 74, English football player and manager. Derek Jarman, 52, English film director (Caravaggio, Sebastiane, Edward II), author and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications. Patrick O'Reilly, 66, Irish politician. Fyodor Odinokov, 81, Soviet and Russian actor. Vittorio Rieti, 96, Italian-American composer. Ivan Sidorenko, 74, Soviet sniper during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union. Yitzhak Yitzhaky, 57, Israeli educator and politician.
20 Vladimir Druzhnikov, 71, Soviet actor.