The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1994
1 Manmohan Desai, 57, Indian film producer and director. Eliseo Diego, 74, Cuban poet and writer of short stories. Hennie Dijkstra, 81, Dutch footballer. Herschel Friday, 72, American lawyer, plane crash. Ludwig Günderoth, 83, German football player and manager. Alexei Haieff, 79, American composer of orchestral and choral works. Herbert Schade, 71, German long-distance runner and Olympian (1952, 1956). Dallas Shirley, 80, American basketball referee. Armonía Somers, 79, Uruguayan feminist, pedagogue, and novelist. Tim Souster, 51, British composer and writer on music. Ethel Terrell, 68, American politician. Joe Tipton, 72, American baseball player.
2 Kleggie Hermsen, 70, American basketball player. Walter Kent, 82, American composer and conductor. Giuseppe La Loggia, 82, Italian politician, lawyer and teacher. Donald M. MacKinnon, 80, Scottish philosopher and theologian. Anita Morris, 50, American actress, singer and dancer, ovarian cancer. Butch Sutcliffe, 78, American baseball player (Boston Bees). Yevgeniya Zhigulenko, 73, Soviet pilot and navigator during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union.
3 Bob Crisp, 82, South African cricketer. Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, 75, Composer and music editor. Rune Källqvist, 64, Swedish Olympic water polo player (1952). Karel Kryl, 49, Czechoslovak poet, singer-songwriter and activist, heart attack. Bilge Olgaç, 54, Turkish film director. Ezra Stone, 76, American actor and director, traffic collision. Lars Widding, 69, Swedish author and journalist. John Edward Williams, 71, American author, editor and professor. Gary Wood, 52, American gridiron football player (New York Giants, New Orleans Saints).
4 Gianni Agus, 76, Italian actor. Aníbal, 53, Mexican Luchador (professional wrestler), brain cancer. Sándor Békési, 65, Hungarian Olympic gymnast (1960). Will Berzinski, 59, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles). Louis Brower, 93, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). John Candy, 43, Canadian actor (Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Spaceballs, Uncle Buck) and comedian, Emmy winner (1982, 1983), heart attack. George Edward Hughes, 75, Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician. Marie-Joseph Lemieux, 91, Canadian Catholic archbishop and Holy See diplomat. Brian McCowage, 58, Australian Olympic fencer (1956, 1960, 1964). Ross Treleaven, 86-87, Australian rules footballer.
5 Abdullah as-Sallal, 77, President of the Yemen Arab Republic. Joseph Birdsell, 85, American anthropologist. Arnold Brown, 66, Canadian politician. Jan Dobraczyński, 83, Polish writer, novelist, and politician. Conrad Heidkamp, 88, German footballer and Olympian (1928). Abd El-Karim Sakr, 75, Egyptian football player and Olympian (1936, 1948).
6 Tengiz Abuladze, 70, Georgian film director, screenwriter, and theatre teacher. Mane Bajić, 52, Serbian midfielder, traffic collision. Larry Eyler, 41, American serial killer, AIDS-related complications. Yvonne Fair, 51, American singer, cancer. George Heath, 81, English cricketer. Melina Mercouri, 73, Greek actress, singer, activist and politician, cancer. Tony Momsen, 66, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins). Ken Noritake, 71, Japanese football player.
7 Ray Arcel, 94, American boxing trainer. Fortunato Arena, 71, Italian stuntman and actor. James Hannigan, 65, Irish-prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Stew Hofferth, 81, American baseball player (Boston Braves). Lindsay Tipping, 43, Australian rules footballer.
8 Mervyn Brogan, 79, Australian Army general. Leonard K. Carson, 70, American Air Force fighter ace. Rosemary Du Cros, 92, British aviation pioneer. John Ewart, 66, Australian actor, head and neck cancer. Uberto Gillarduzzi, 84, Italian bobsledder and Olympian (1936, 1952). Knut Haukelid, 82, Norwegian military officer. Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya, 86, Russian memoirist and Gulag prisoner. Yvonne Martin, 82, French film editor. Brian McGowan, 58, Australian politician. Jack Spector, 65, American radio DJ and TV host, heart attack.
9 Zoltán Beke, 82, Romanian football player and coach. Sándor Békési, 65, Hungarian Olympic gymnast (1960). Karl Wilhelm Berkhan, 78, German politician. Wilhelm Brese, 97, German politician and member of the Bundestag. Charles Bukowski, 73, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer, leukemia. Paul Dubreil, 90, French mathematician. Elbie Fletcher, 77, American baseball player (Boston Braves/Bees, Pittsburgh Pirates). Bernie Fyffe, 72, Australian rules footballer. Jon Kimche, 84, Swiss-British journalist and historian. Moe Purtill, 77, American swing jazz drummer. Devika Rani, 85, Indian actress. Fernando Rey, 76, Spanish actor, bladder cancer. Gilbert Rondeau, 66, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1965, 1968-1979). Lawrence E. Spivak, 93, American publisher and journalist.
10 Roger Bocquet, 72, Swiss football player. Jim Brenneman, 53, American baseball player (New York Yankees). Rupert Bruce-Mitford, 79, British archaeologist and scholar. Aurelio Galleppini, 76, Italian comics artist and illustrator. Jim Honochick, 76, American baseball umpire. Pierre-Olivier Lapie, 92, French essayist and novelist. Östen Sandström, 83, Swedish Olympic sprinter (1936). Robert Shea, 61, American novelist and journalist.
11 Charlie Bivins, 55, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers Buffalo Bills). Fausta Cialente, 95, Italian novelist, journalist and political activist. Evelyn Gardner, 90, British socialite. Aldo Puccinelli, 73, Italian football player and manager. Kaku Takashina, 75, Japanese actor. Brenda Wootton, 66, English folk singer and poet.
12 Gordy Coleman, 59, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds). Philippe Daudy, 68, French member of the French Resistance, journalist, and novelist. Frank Gorrell, 66, American politician, choking incident.Lexington Herald-Leader, March 15, 1994, Page B2, Obituaries Don Joseph, 70, American jazz musician. Mehmed Orhan, 84, Ottoman prince and head of the Ottoman dynasty.
13 Danny Barker, 85, American jazz musician, vocalist, and author . Jean Gourguet, 91, French film director, screenwriter and film producer. Sam Ranzino, 66, American college and basketball player (NC State Wolfpack, Rochester Royals). Martha Esther Rogers, 79, American nurse, theorist, and author. Buddy Rosar, 79, American baseball player. Eva Gräfin Finck von Finckenstein, 90, American politician. John Yeon, 83, American architect, heart failure.
14 Tei Abal, 61-62, Papua New Guinean politician. Sally Belfrage, 57, American writer and journalist, cancer. Serge Blusson, 65, French cyclist and Olympian (1948). Tony Freitas, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Cincinnati Reds). Otto Hartmann, 90, Austrian stage and film actor. Sheila Humphreys, 95, Irish political activist. Willie Hobbs Moore, 59, American physicist and engineer, cancer. Floyd Reid, 66, American gridiron football player. Indra Sen, 90, Indian psychologist. Georges Claes sr., 74, Belgian racing cyclist.
15 Bill Green, 53, American basketball player. Jack Hargreaves, 82, English television presenter and writer. M. K. Indira, 77, Indian novelist. Tom Kirk, 77, Australian rugby player. Josef Kohout, 79, Austrian Nazi concentration camp survivor and author. Jürgen Manger, 71, German actor and comedian. Floyd Reid, 66, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
16 Albert Bühlmann, 70, Swiss physician, heart failure. Janet Chandler, 82, American actress and model. Nicolas Flagello, 66, American composer and conductor of classical music. Bill Harp, 70, American set decorator. Richard Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford, 86, British politician. Mykola Kudrytsky, 31, Ukrainian football player, traffic collision. Eric Show, 37, American Major League Baseball player (San Diego Padres, Oakland Athletics), drug overdose. Kantarō Suga, 59, Japanese actor, traffic accident.
17 Kalyan Bulchand Advani, 82, Indian poet, critic, and scholar. Charlotte Auerbach, 94, German geneticist. Wilson Homer Elkins, 85, American educator and university administrator. Cliff Goldstraw, 78, Australian rules footballer. Walter Janka, 79, German communist, political activist and writer. Elenjikal Chandy Kuruvila, 71, Indian Navy flag officer. Ellsworth Vines, 82, American tennis champion Mai Zetterling, 68, Swedish actress, novelist and film director, cancer.
18 Mehboob Alam, 46, Pakistani actor.http://pakistan360degrees.com/famous-tv-actor-of-pakistan-mehboob-alam/, Profile of Mehboob Alam (actor), Retrieved 20 Nov 2016 William Bergsma, 72, American composer and teacher, heart attack. Peter Borgelt, 66, German television actor, cancer. Yehia Chahine, 76, Egyptian film producer and actor. Andrew Crawford, 76, Scottish actor. David Ginsburg, 73, British politician. Erwin Kohn, 82, Austrian table tennis player. Günter Mittag, 67, German politician.
19 Rafig Babayev, 56, Azerbaijani jazz musician and author of scores for films, terrorist attack. José Coronel Hurtecho, 88, Nicaraguan poet, critic, playwright, and diplomat. Jim Lawrence, 75, American author. Josef Meixner, 85, German theoretical physicist. Charles Paris, 82, American comic book artist.Biography by Joe Desris, in Batman Archives, Volume 3 (DC Comics, 1994), p. 224 Milt Piepul, 75, American football player (Detroit Lions), and coach. Mel Rudd, 80, Australian rules footballer. Benjamin Clemens Stone, 60, British–American botanist.
20 Ilaria Alpi, 32, Italian journalist, killed in ambush. IJke Buisma, 86, Dutch Olympic high jumper (1928). Irvin Flores, 69, Puerto Rican political activist. Lewis Grizzard, 47, American writer and humorist. Reg Groth, 80, Australian politician. Miran Hrovatin, 44, Italian photographer and camera operator, killed in ambush. Alfonso Rodríguez Salas, 54, Spanish football player, colorectal cancer.
21 John Thomas Blackburn, 82, American naval aviator and flying ace. Macdonald Carey, 81, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Shadow of a Doubt, Lock-Up), lung cancer. Lili Damita, 89, French-American actress and singer, Alzheimer's disease. Cornelia Gilissen, 78, American Olympic diver (1936). Franz Pelikan, 68, Austrian football goalkeeper and Olympian (1948). Dack Rambo, 52, American actor (Dallas, The Guns of Will Sonnett, The Loretta Young Show), AIDS-related complications.
22 Dan Hartman, 43, American musician and record producer, AIDS-related complications. Horton Holcombe Hobbs, Jr., 79, American taxonomist and carcinologist. Ilse Hornung, 85, Austrian figure skater and Olympian (1928). Walter Lantz, 94, American cartoonist and animator (Woody Woodpecker), heart failure. Ulrich Poltera, 71, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1948, 1952).
23 Luis Donaldo Colosio, 44, Mexican economist and politician, homicide. Nancy Cárdenas, 59, Mexican actor, poet, writer and feminist. Álvaro del Portillo, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop and prelate of Opus Dei. Giulietta Masina, 73, Italian film actress, lung cancer. Goar Mestre, 81, Cuban-Argentine businessman, cancer. Jack Norman, 84, Australian rules footballer. Bob Richards, 38, American meteorologist, suicide by plane crash. Donald Swann, 70, Welsh musician, singer and entertainer, cancer. Paula Trueman, 96, American actress (The Outlaw Josey Wales, Dirty Dancing, Moonstruck). Valentina Vladimirova, 66, Ukrainian-Russian actress. Roger Wolff, 82, American baseball player.
24 Zbigniew Gołąb, 71, Polish-American linguist and slavist. Hans Jakob, 85, German football player and Olympian (1936). John L. May, 71, American Roman Catholic archbishop, brain cancer. Walle Nauta, 77, Dutch-American neuroscientist.