Deaths in June 1994

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 1994

1 Jean-Joël Barbier, 74, French writer and pianist. David Guthrie Catcheside, 87, British plant geneticist. Herrlee Glessner Creel, 89, American sinologist and philosopher. Henri Desroche, 79, French sociologist. David Fairbairn, 77, Australian politician. Frances Heflin, 73, American actress, lung cancer. Frans Mosman, 89, Dutch Olympic fencer (1928, 1936, 1948). Jack Stroud, 66, American football player (New York Giants). Bill Webb, 80, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). John Yurchey, 76, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).

2 Odd Dahl, 95, Norwegian engineer and explorer. Mort Flohr, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Ole Hegge, 95, Norwegian cross-country skier, ski jumper and Olympian (1928, 1932). Sandhya Kumari, 49, Sri Lankan actress. Paul Miller, 81, American football player (Green Bay Packers). Phil O'Donohue, 67, Australian rules footballer. David Stove, 66, Australian philosopher, suicide.

3 Puig Aubert, 69, French rugby player, and football player and coach, heart attack. Duarte de Almeida Bello, 72, Portuguese Olympic sailor (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964). Stuart Blanch, 76, English Anglican priest, bishop and archbishop. Savaş Buldan, 30, Kurdish businessman, homicide. Jack Cowie, 82, New Zealand cricket player. William Everson, 81, American poet and literary critic. Wally Fowler, 77, American gospel music singer, manager, and music promoter. Harry Hickox, 83, American actor. Les Johnson, 77, Australian rules footballer. Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel, 90, Indian politician. Lucien Prival, 92, American film actor. Jack Stroud, 66, American gridiron football player. Pablo Muñoz Vega, 91, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate and Jesuit.

4 Giovanni Azzini, 64, Italian football player and Olympian (1952). Toto Bissainthe, 60, Haitian actress and singer, liver cancer. Zeke Clements, 82, American country musician.Carlin 2003, p. 69. Jean Daetwyler, 87, Swiss composer and musician. Vittorio Dagianti, 75, Italian footballer. Derek Leckenby, 51, English musician and lead guitarist, non-Hodgkin lymphoma Roberto Burle Marx, 84, Brazilian landscape architect, painter, naturalist, and musician. Stephen McNally, 82, American actor, heart failure. Gregory Scarpa, 66, American mobster and FBI informant, AIDS-related complications. Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, 84, British politician. Massimo Troisi, 41, Italian actor, cabaret performer, screenwriter, and film director (Il Postino: The Postman, I'm Starting from Three), heart attack. Anatoli Vasiliev, 77, Russian/Soviet realist painter, he was one of the representatives of the Leningrad School of PaintingSergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 9, 18, 26, 29, 52, 230, 257, 261, 358, 388, 390–400, 402-405, 413, 415, 416, 418–422. Earle Warren, 79, American saxophonist.

5 Krishna Chaithanya, 75, Indian writer. Albert McDonald Cole, 92, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1945-1953). Nikolay Dementyev, 78, Soviet/Russian football player and coach. Buraro Detudamo, 63, Nauruan politician. Mario Recordón, 71, Chilean athlete and Olympian (1948). Robert Howard Schnacke, 80, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of California).

6 Yohai Ben-Nun, 69, Israeli Navy general. Ramdew Chaitoe, 51, Surinamese artist and a harmonium player. Johnny Downs, 80, American child actor, singer, and dancer, cancer. Princess Faiza Fuad of Egypt, 70, Egyptian princess and a Muhammad Ali Dynasty member. Peter Graves, 82, English actor and nobleman, heart attack. Miloud Hadefi, 45, Algerian football player and manager. Bill Hoffman, 92, American gridiron football player (Frankford Yellow Jackets). Mark McManus, 59, Scottish actor, pneumonia. Nicholas Spanos, 52, American professor of psychology, plane crash. Barry Sullivan, 81, American movie actor.

7 Verlon Biggs, 51, American gridiron football player (New York Jets, Washington Redskins), leukemia. Rudolph Cartier, 90, Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. Vince Cross, 75, Australian rules footballer. Anatolii Dorodnitsyn, 83, Russian mathematician, physicist, and professor. Willie Humphrey, 93, American jazz clarinetist. Vincent Nsengiyumva, 58, Rwandan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, homicide. Serafim Pereira, 50, Portuguese footballer. Dennis Potter, 59, English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist (Pennies from Heaven, Blue Remembered Hills, The Singing Detective), pancreatic cancer.

8 Eddie Ambrose, 100, American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing. Antonietta Baistrocchi, 38, Italian Olympic basketball player (1980). Enrico Calcaterra, 89, Italian ice hockey player and Olympian (1936). Fritz Gaiser, 87, German Olympic cross-country skier (1936). Eddie King, 82, Canadian Olympic middle-distance runner (1932). William Marshall, 76, American singer, bandleader and a film actor and director. Dorothy Shoemaker McDiarmid, 87, American politician, heart attack. Emil Seidler, 80, Austrian Olympic ice hockey player (1936).

9 Dhirendra Brahmachari, 70, Indian spiritual leader and yoga instructor, plane crash. István Kocsis, 44, Hungarian football player, cancer. Lynn Harold Loomis, 79, American mathematician. David Reynoso, 68, Mexican actor, cancer. Jan Tinbergen, 91, Dutch economist and Nobel Prize laureate.

10 Vic Bradford, 79, American Major League Baseball player (New York Giants). Jimmy Cameron, 70, Canadian cricket player. Mary Maxwell Gates, 64, American businesswoman and civic activist, breast cancer. Nils Holmer, 90, Swedish linguist. Edward Kienholz, 66, American installation artist and assemblage sculptor. Guillermo Pérez de Arce Plummer, 87, Chilean politician and entrepreneur. Noël Vantyghem, 46, Belgian cyclist.

11 Herbert Anderson, 77, American actor, stroke. Richard Bartlett, 71, American director and producer in film and TV. Jerome W. Conn, 86, American endocrinologist. Jack Hannah, 81, American animator and writer and director of animated shorts, cancer. Harry New, 73, Australian rules footballer. Manolita Piña, 111, Spanish-Uruguayan artist and wife of Joaquín Torres García. Pietro Reggio, 72, Italian Olympic sailor (1952, 1960). Giovanni Turba, 88, Italian Olympic sprinter (1932).

12 Christopher Collins, 44, American actor (G.I. Joe, Transformers, Inhumanoids) and stand-up comedian, stroke. Jack Howell, 69, Australian rules footballer. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, 92, Russian-American Orthodox rabbi Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, American murder victim and ex-wife of former American football player O. J. Simpson, stabbed. Ronald Goldman, 25, American murder victim, stabbed alongside Nicole Brown Simpson. William Elgin Swinton, 93, Scottish paleontologist.

13 Anne Hopkins Aitken, 83, American Zen Buddhist, heart attack. Charles Alvin Beckwith, 65, American Special Forces officer. June Dayton, 70, American television actress. Enrique Fava, 74, Argentine actor. Nadia Gray, 70, Romanian film actress, cerebrovascular disease. Stasys Lozoraitis Jr., 69, Lithuanian diplomat and politician, kidney failure. Knud Olsen, 87, Danish Olympic rower (1928, 1932). James B. Pollack, 55, American astrophysicist, cancer. K. T. Stevens, 74, American actress, lung cancer. Igor Youskevitch, 82, Russian-Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer.

14 Ismail Chirine, 74, Egyptian diplomat and army officer. Tom Fowler, 70, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks). Lionel Grigson, 52, English jazz musician, writer and teacher. Emil Göing, 82, German Olympic basketball player (1936). John Hammond, 61, British Olympic bobsledder (1972). Denys Hay, 78, British historian. Francisco Isoldi, 70, Brazilian Olympic sailor (1952). Victor Jorgensen, 80, American photographer and photo journalist. Thomas Joseph Lane, 95, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1941-1963). Stig Lindberg, 72, Swedish Olympic speed skater (1952). Henry Mancini, 70, American composer, conductor, pianist and flautist, pancreatic cancer. Marcel Mouloudji, 71, French singer and actor. Michel Vitold, 78, Russian-French stage and film actor. Lucien Vlaemynck, 79, Belgian road bicycle racer. Monte Weaver, 87, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox).

15 Clara Colosimo, 72, Italian film actress. William Goodsir-Cullen, 87, Indian field hockey player and Olympian (1928). Manos Hatzidakis, 68, Greek composer and theorist, pulmonary edema. Rich Johnson, 47, American basketball player. Jack Schwartzman, 61, American film producer (Never Say Never Again, Being There, I Am the Cheese), pancreatic cancer.

16 Yohanan Bader, 92, Israeli politician and revisionist Zionist leader. Milton Busin, 67, Brazilian Olympic diver (1948, 1952). Len Butt, 83, English football player and manager. Chrix Dahl, 88, Norwegian painter and illustrator. Franjo Krajčar, 79, Yugoslavian Olympic long-distance runner (1952). Comte George Raphaël Béthenod de Montbressieux, 84, French-Argentine racing driver. Bernard Moitessier, 69, French sailor, prostate cancer. Kristen Pfaff, 27, American bassist and singer (Hole), drug overdose. Marlin Stuart, 75, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees). Eileen Way, 82, British actress.

17 Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov, 88, Soviet/Russian composer. Leonid Baykov, 74, Russian/Soviet painter. Kurt Hessenberg, 85, German composer and professor of art. Eigil Olaf Liane, 78, Norwegian politician. Edward McCullough, 85, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1945-1949, 1953-1958). Martin Metzger, 68, Swiss cyclist. Yuri Nagibin, 74, Soviet/Russian writer, screenwriter and novelist. Branko Petranović, 66, Serbian historian. Charlie Shaw, 67, American football player (San Francisco 49ers). Len White, 64, English football player. Terence de Vere White, 82, Irish lawyer, writer and editor, Parkinson's disease. Frank Yates, 92, British statistician.

18 Arturo Ruiz Castillo, 83, Spanish screenwriter and film director, stroke. Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, 89, Polish-American Orthodox rabbi and holocaust survivor. Margret Hofheinz-Döring, 84, German painter and graphic artist. Roger Lebel, 71, Canadian actor.

19 Émilienne Demougeot, 84, French historian. Babatunde Elegbede, 55, Nigerian politician and admiral, homicide. Norm Honey, 80, Australian rules footballer. Tadeusz Kondrat, 86, Polish actor. Krešimir Račić, 61, Croatian hammer thrower and Olympian (1956, 1960). Bakri Siregar, 71, Indonesian socialist literary critic and writer.

20 Robert Armbruster, 96, American composer, conductor, pianist and songwriter. John Farrell, 87, American Olympic speed skater (1928, 1932), and speed skating coach. Frank Filchock, 77, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Redskins, New York Giants) and coach (Denver Broncos). Einar Haugen, 88, American linguist, author, and professor. Don Macintosh, 62, Canadian Olympic basketball player (1956). Jay Miner, 62, American integrated circuit designer, kidney failure. Robin Raymond, 77, American film actress. Frederick William Rowe, 81, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1971-1987). Vieno Simonen, 95, Finnish politician and farmer. Norm Wallen, 76, American baseball player (Boston Braves).

21 Orien Crow, 81, American football player (Boston Redskins) Odd Harsheim, 69, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1956, 1960). Inger Lemvigh-Müller, 91, Danish Olympic equestrian (1956). Carlos Jiménez Mabarak, 78, Mexican composer.