Deaths in May 1994

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 1994

1 Nort Billings, 89, American Olympic cross-country skier (1932). Gunnar Fredriksen, 87, Norwegian Olympic decathlete (1928). Imre Gyöngyössy, 64, Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Yigal Mossinson, 76, Israeli novelist, playwright, and inventor. Thøger Nordbø, 89, Norwegian footballer. Ayrton Senna, 34, Brazilian racing driver, racing accident. Arnold Strippel, 82, German Nazi SS commander during World War II.

2 Nathan Adler, 83, American psychoanalyst and professor of clinical psychology. Fahrettin Akbaş, 66-67, Turkish Olympic wrestler (1952). Louis Calaferte, 65, French novelist. Anita Durante, 96, Italian actress. Buck Fausett, 86, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), and manager. Manfred Kersch, 81, German Olympic sprinter (1936).

3 Francis Bell, 50, New Zealand actor, suicide. William Dickey, 65, American poet and professor of English, AIDS-related complications. Vladimir Kostine, 72, Russian basketball referee. Herbert Martineau, 79, British Olympic racewalker (1948). Felipe Galarza Sánchez, 81, Spanish military officer. Neville Stibbard, 70, Australian rules footballer.

4 Per Engdahl, 85, Swedish far-right politician. Roger Jenkins, 82, American-Canadian ice hockey player. Lindsay Lamb, 80, Australian rules footballer. Kōtō Matsudaira, 91, Japanese diplomat. Josip Palada, 82, Yugoslavian tennis player. Al Sanders, 44, American basketball player (Virginia Squires).

5 Joe Byler, 71, American football player (New York Giants). Egan Chambers, 73, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1962). Tony DePhillips, 81, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). Joe Layton, 63, American director and choreographer. Harry O'Boyle, 89, American gridiron football player. Mário Quintana, 87, Brazilian writer and translator. Louise Troy, 60, American actress of stage and screen, breast cancer. Noel Wimalasena, 80, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.

6 Gunnar Åhs, 78, Swedish bobsledder and Olympian (1952, 1956). Rafael Baledón, 74, Mexican film actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. Murray Boltinoff, 83, American writer and editor of comic books. John Henry Bremridge, 67, Hong Kong politician. Mkhitar Djrbashian, 75, Armenian mathematician. Ahmed Juffali, 70, Saudi businessman, heart attack. Malvina Pastorino, 77, Argentine film actress, fall. Moses Rosen, 81, Romanian rabbi. Fred Sadoff, 67, American actor, AIDS-related complications. Antal Szendey, 79, Hungarian rower and Olympian (1936, 1948). Herbert Topp, 94, American Olympic water polo player (1928).

7 Haim Bar-Lev, 69, Israeli general and politician, cancer. Clement Greenberg, 85, American essayist and visual art critic. John Thomas Howell, 90, American botanist and taxonomist. Mpinga Kasenda, 56, Prime Minister of Zaire under Mobutu Sese Seko, plane crash. Pahor Labib, 88, Egyptian egyptologist and coptologist. Andy McEvoy, 55, Irish football player. Chuck Taylor, 74, American football player and coach. Aud Tuten, 80, American-born Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks). Aharon Yariv, 73, Israeli politician and general.

8 Edith Bullock, 91, American businesswoman and politician. Einar Diesen, 96, Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor. Jim Finks, 66, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), coach, and executive (Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears, New Orleans Saints), lung cancer. Steven Keats, 49, American actor (Death Wish, Black Sunday, Silent Rage), suicide. George Peppard, 65, American actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's, The A-Team, The Carpetbaggers), lung cancer. Murray Spivack, 90, Russian-American sound engineer.

9 Anni Albers, 94, American textile artist and printmaker. Ralph Brickner, 69, American Major League Baseball player (Boston Red Sox). Allan Frost Archer, 86, American entomologist and arachnologist. Percy Forrest, 77, American baseball player. Bengt Lehander, 68, Swedish Air Force officer. Heinz-Werner Meyer, 61, German trade union leader and politician. Richard A. Penry, 45, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.

10 Cleanth Brooks, 87, American literary critic and professor. Oliver Fletcher, 71, American football player (Los Angeles Dons). John Wayne Gacy Jr., 52, American serial killer and sex offender, execution by lethal injection. Lucebert, 69, Dutch poet and painter. Edward S. Michael, 76, American air force officer, Medal of Honor recipient. Elias Motsoaledi, 69, South African anti-apartheid activist. Lil Picard, 94, German-American actress, artist, and journalist.

11 Louis-Thomas Achille, 84, Martiniquais intellectual, educator and musician. David Howard Adeney, 82, British missionary and university evangelist. S. A. Ajayi, 89, Nigerian statesman. Alfred James Broomhall, 82, British missionary in China and author. Timothy Carey, 65, American actor (The Killing, Paths of Glory, One-Eyed Jacks), stroke. Nikolay Fyodorov, 80, Soviet-Russian animator, director, writer and cartoonist. Henri Guisol, 89, French film actor. Lloyd Hughes, 81, Australian politician. Helmut Käser, 81, Swiss lawyer and general secretary of FIFA. Romano Puppo, 61, Italian stuntman and actor, traffic collision. Rolands Upatnieks, 61, Soviet Latvian Olympic luger (1976). Bennie Warren, 82, American Major League Baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, New York Giants).

12 Xen Balaskas, 83, South African cricket player. Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet, 91, British politician, art collector and philanthropist. Catherine Berndt, 76, Australian anthropologist. Paul Cushing Child, 92, American civil servant, diplomat, and artist. Hank D'Amore, 74, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers). Erik Erikson, 91, Danish-German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst. Si Johnson, 87, American baseball player. Roy J. Plunkett, 83, American chemist, cancer. John Smith, 55, Scottish politician, heart attack. Frank Yokas, 70, American football player. André Zwobada, 84, French screenwriter, producer and film director.

13 Vladimir Antoshin, 64, Soviet/Russian chess Grandmaster. Enrique Demarco, 70, Uruguayan Olympic cyclist (1948). Ruth Gillette, 87, American actress. Duncan Hamilton, 74, British racing driver. John Francis Kennedy, 88, American politician. Percy Purcell, 82, Australian rules footballer. John Swainson, 68, Canadian-American politician and jurist.

14 Dave Albritton, 81, American Olympic high jumper (1936), coach, and politician. Cihat Arman, 78, Turkish football goalkeeper, Olympian (1936, 1948), and manager. W. Graham Claytor, Jr., 82, American Navy officer, attorney, and government official. Burt Monroe, 63, American ornithologist. Antônio Rebello Júnior, 88, Brazilian Olympic rower (1932). Brian Roper, 64, British-American actor, and real estate agent. Sante Scarcia, 90, Italian Olympic weightlifter (1924). Bob Spargo Sr., 80, Australian rules footballer. Olga Spiridonović, 70, Serbian actress. Leonard Teale, 71, Australian actor, radio announcer, and presenter. Robert G. Vosper, 80, American educator and librarian. Stan Wittman, 92, Australian rules footballer.

15 Omprakesh Agrawal, 39, Indian snooker player, cancer. Leonard Carpenter, 91, American Olympic rower (1924). Royal Dano, 71, American actor (The Outlaw Josey Wales, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, The Right Stuff), heart attack. Showboat Fisher, 95, American baseball player (Washington Senators, St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Browns). Oskar Heil, 86, German electrical engineer and inventor. Sherman Landers, 96, American track and field athlete and Olympian (1920). Alexander Nove, 78, British professor of Economics. Gilbert Roland, 88, Mexican-American actor, cancer. Robert T. Secrest, 90, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1933-1942, 1949-1954, 1963-1966).

16 Val A. Browning, 98, American gunmaker and philanthropist. Alain Cuny, 85, French actor in theatre and cinema. Dalmiro Finol, 74, Venezuelan baseball player. Zdeňka Honsová, 66, Czech Olympic gymnast (1948). Phani Majumdar, 82, Indian film director. Roy McElroy, 87, New Zealand lawyer and politician. Alfred Otto Carl Nier, 82, American physicist. Paul Shulman, 72, Israeli Navy officer. John Stenner, 29, American cyclist and Olympian (1992). Semih Türkdoğan, 81-82, Turkish Olympic sprinter (1928).

17 Gérson da Silva, 28, Brazilian football player, AIDS-related complications. Nicolás Gómez Dávila, 80, Colombian philosopher, cardiovascular disease. Leonila Garcia, 87, Filipino pharmacist, First Lady of the Philippines. Irène Hamoir, 87, Belgian novelist and poet. Étienne Hirsch, 93, French civil engineer and member of the French Resistance during World War II. Vladimír Podzimek, 29, Czech ski jumper and Olympian (1984), suicide. Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, 82, Austrian anthropologist and archaeologist. Bob Sims, 78, American basketball player. John Thanos, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

18 Harry Barker, 95, New Zealand newspaper journalist and editor. John Cramer, 98, Australian politician, heart attack. Manuel Manahan, 78, Filipino politician, journalist, and businessman. Mamintal A.J. Tamano, 65, Filipino politician statesman.

19 Joseph Chatt, 79, British chemist. Jacques Ellul, 82, French philosopher and sociologist. Henry Morgan, 79, American humorist, lung cancer. Luis Ocaña, 48, Spanish road bicycle racer, suicide. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 64, American socialite, writer, and First Lady of the United States, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

20 Bartine Burkett, 96, American film actress, heart attack. Fernande Giroux, Canadian actress and jazz singer. Ingrid Hafner, 57, British actress, ALS. Kasu Brahmananda Reddy, 84, Indian politician. Jiří Sobotka, 82, Czechoslovak football player.

21 Martin Doherty, 35, Irish republican and IRA volunteer, shot. Giovanni Goria, 50, Italian politician, lung cancer. David S. Holmes Jr., 79, American politician.The Political Graveyard: Holmes, David S., Jr. Masayoshi Ito, 80, Japanese politician. Norman Low, 80, Scottish football player and manager. Ralph Miliband, 70, British sociologist, heart attack. Johan Hendrik Weidner, 81, Dutch member of the resistance during World War II. Cliff Wilson, 60, Welsh snooker player.

22 Jane Dulo, 76, American actress and comedian. Gerhard Krüger, 85, German Nazi Party student leader and later a neo-Nazi figure. Mitacq, 66, Belgian comics author. Norman Read, 62, New Zealand racewalker and Olympian (1956, 1960), heart attack.

23 Al Baldwin, 71, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers). Ray Candy, 42, American professional wrestler, heart attack. Willem Gevers, 83, Dutch nobleman and Olympic bobsledder (1936). George de Godzinsky, 79, Russian-Finnish composer and conductor. Olav Hauge, 85, Norwegian horticulturist, translator and poet. Leo Kuper, 89, South African sociologist. George Metesky, 90, American electrician and mechanic. Joe Pass, 65, American jazz guitarist, liver cancer. Oscar Saul, 81, American screenwriter. Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers, 86, British politician.

24 Willi Eichhorn, 85, German Olympic rower (1936). André Gauthier, 79, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada, (1949-1958). Martin Goldsmith, 80, American screenwriter and novelist. Julien Hébert, 76, Québécois industrial designer. Franz Kneissl, 72, Austrian Olympic bobsledder (1952). Bill Schutte, 84, American football player and coach. John Wain, 69, English poet, novelist, and critic.

25 Joe Brainard, 52, American artist and writer, AIDS-related complications. Eric Gale, 55, American jazz and R&B guitarist, lung cancer. John Mackie, Baron John-Mackie, 84, British politician. Robert Paverick, 81, Belgian football player.