The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 1994
1 Markus Barth, 78, Swiss scholar of theology. George Cannon, 62, Canadian pro wrestler and wrestling manager, cancer. Helena Grossówna, 89, Polish actress and dancer. Asif Maharammov, 42, Azerbaijani lieutenant colonel, tuberculosis. Graham Williams, 49, English rugby league footballer and coach.
2 Lucio Amelio, 62, Italian art dealer, curator, and actor. Roberto Balado, 25, Cuban amateur boxer and Olympic champion (1992), railway accident. Andrés Escobar, 27, Colombian football player, homicide. Pat Hand, 70, Australian rules footballer. Maung Maung, 69, President of Burma and writer, heart attack. Ralph Rinzler, 59, American mandolin player, folksinger, and festival organizer. Marion Williams, 66, American gospel singer.
3 Anton Eisgruber, 81, German Olympic skier (1936). Zelma Watson George, 90, American opera singer and philanthropist. Lew Hoad, 59, Australian tennis player, leukemia. Felix Kelly, 80, New Zealand-British graphic designer, painter, stage designer, and illustrator. John Aloysius Marshall, 66, American prelate of the Catholic Church. Petey Sarron, 87, American boxer. Héctor Xavier, 73, Mexican sketch artist.
4 Almiro Bergamo, 81, Italian rower and Olympian (1936). Cal Cooper, 71, American baseball player (Washington Senators). Stevan Dohanos, 87, American artist and illustrator, pneumonia. Alfred Harvey, 80, American comic book publisher and comic book character creator (Richie Rich, Little Dot). Tex Hoyle, 72, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Joey Marella, 31, American professional wrestling referee, traffic collision. Sam Segraves, 74, American baseball player. Gerard C. Smith, 80, American attorney and defense expert. Hedda Zinner, 90, German actress, comedian, journalist and radio director.
5 Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, 86, Indian independence activist and writer. Robert Blatt, 72, American Olympic alpine skier (1948). Charles Comfort, 93, Scottish-Canadian painter, sculptor, and writer. Dan Cunningham, 86, Australian rules footballer. Bernie DeViveiros, 93, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers). Frank Donnellan, 86, Australian rules footballer. Ju Do-il, 72, North Korean army officer, politician and the personal guard of Kim Il Sung. Mammadali Huseynov, 72, Azerbaijani/Soviet archaeologist. Lennart Klingström, 78, Swedish sprint canoeist and Olympian (1948). Ron Law, 48, Canadian baseball player (Cleveland Indians). Tawfiq Ziad, 65, Palestinian Israeli politician, traffic collision.
6 Alfonso Casasempere, 84, Chilean Olympic swimmer (1936). Geoff McQueen, 46, British television screenwriter, aneurysm. Cameron Mitchell, 75, American actor (Death of a Salesman, How to Marry a Millionaire, The High Chaparral), lung cancer. Baruch Osnia, 88, Israeli politician. Jim Stott, 74, English rugby player. Franklin F. Wing Jr., 86, American Olympic equestrian (1948).
7 Aspy Adajania, 52, Indian officer and boxing administrator.Boxing exofficial Devine Jones indianexpress.com Aaron Antonovsky, 70, Israeli-American sociologist and academic. Bruno Bartholome, 66, German Olympic long-distance runner (1960). Carlo Chiti, 69, Italian racing car and engine designer. Anita Garvin, 88, American stage performer and film actress. Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, 87, German paratroop officer during World War II and academic. Anna Kostrova, 84, Soviet/Russian painter, graphic artist, and book illustrator. John S. R. Shad, 71, American diplomat and ambassador. Ka. Mu. Sheriff, 79, Indian writer and poet.
8 Junius Driggs, 87, American businessman.Junius ElMarion Driggs Christian-Jaque, 89, French filmmaker, heart attack. Robert B. Hauser, 75, American cinematographer. Kim Il Sung, 82, founder and first leader of North Korea, heart attack. Robert Edwin Lee, 75, American playwright and lyricist. Lars-Eric Lindblad, 70, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer. José García Narezo, 71, Mexican painter. Dick Sargent, 64, American actor (Bewitched, Operation Petticoat, Down to Earth), prostate cancer. Luis Scally, 79, Argentine Olympic field hockey player (1948).
9 Enrico Airoldi, 70, Italian Olympic bobsledder (1948). Sports Reference, 1948 Winter Olympic (bobsledding) Trevor King, 41, British Ulster loyalist and UVF member. Sabby Lewis, 79, American jazz pianist, band leader, and arranger. Bill Mosienko, 72, Ukrainian Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks). Paul M. Naghdi, 70, Iranian-American engineer, lung cancer. Surendra Nath, 68, Indian police officer and politician, Governor of Punjab (since 1991) and Governor of Himachal Pradesh (since 1993), plane crash.Governor of Punjab Surendra Nath dies in plane crash Bill Ryan, 82, Australian rugby league footballer. W. L. Warren, 64, British historian and medievalist.
10 Bert Carey, 89, Australian rules footballer. Lélia Gonzalez, 59, Brazilian politician, anthropologist and human rights activist. André Joseph Guillaume Henri Kostermans, 88, Indonesian botanist. Robert Mellin, 91, Ukrainian-American composer, lyricist and music publisher. Zbigniew Piórkowski, 65, Polish Olympic boxer (1956). Earl Strom, 66, American National Basketball Association referee, brain cancer.
11 Jack Dennington, 86, Australian rules footballer. Lex Humphries, 57, American jazz drummer. Gary Kildall, 52, American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur, injury. Rama Raghoba Rane, 76, Indian Army officer. Savannah, 23, American pornographic film actress, suicide. Frieda Tiltsch, 72, Austrian Olympic discus thrower (1948, 1952).
12 Abdul Jamil Abdul Rais, 82, Malaysian civil servant. James H. Aitchison, 85-86, Canadian academic and politician. Elder Paisios of Mount Athos, 69, Greek Eastern Orthodox monk, cancer. Yevhen Cherepovsky, 59, Soviet Ukrainian Olympic fencer (1956, 1960). James Joll, 76, British historian. Irena Krzywicka, 95, Polish feminist, writer, and women's rights activist . David Malcolm Lewis, 66, English historian. Wal-Berg, 83, French composer and conductor.
13 Eddie Boyd, 79, American blues pianist, singer and songwriter. Anita Bärwirth, 75, German Olympic gymnast (1936). Gerry Couture, 68, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks). John Kramer, 59, Danish football player. Juozas Miltinis, 86, Lithuanian actor and theatre director. Jimmie Reese, 92, American Major League Baseball player (New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals). Murray Tyrrell, 80, Australian public servant. Marik Vos-Lundh, 71, Swedish costume designer. Olin Chaddock Wilson, 85, American astronomer.
14 Martin Crue, 74, American baseball player. Robert Jungk, 81, Austrian writer, journalist, historian and pacifist. Eric Linden, 84, American actor (Big City Blues, The Crowd Roars, Gone with the Wind). Alberto Lionello, 64, Italian film actor (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians, Pigsty), singer and presenter (Canzonissima), cancer. Américo Montanarini, 76, Brazilian Olympic basketball player (1936). Earl Murray, 67, American football player (Baltimore Colts, New York Giants, Pittsburgh Steelers). Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, 96, Dutch engraver, visual artist, and book designer. César Tovar, 54, Venezuelan baseball player, pancreatic cancer.
15 Patricio Carvajal, 77, Chilean admiral and member of the military dictatorship, suicide. Harald Molander, 84, Swedish film producer. Edward Mulcock, 85, New Zealand cricketer. Mona Rico, 87, Mexican-American actress. William Walters, 86, South African athlete and Olympian (1932).
16 Madzy Rollin Couquerque, 91, Dutch hockey- and tennis player. Robert Médus, 65, French rugby union and rugby league football player. William Revelli, 92, American conductor. Julian Schwinger, 76, American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, pancreatic cancer.
17 Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana, 86, Indonesian novelist and poet. Krešimir Arapović, 69, Croatian football player and manager. André Blusset, 90, French Olympic cross-country skier (1924). Jean Borotra, 95, French tennis champion and Olympian (1924). Sergey Chumakov, 66, Soviet Russian Olympic canoeist (1952). Horrie Gorringe, 99, Australian rules football player. Harry Harris, 74, British-American biochemist and geneticist. Billy Hillenbrand, 72, American gridiron football player (Chicago Rockets, Baltimore Colts). Henry Maier, 76, American politician, pneumonia. Jerry Mays, 54, American gridiron football player (Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs), melanoma. António Rodrigues, 88, Portuguese Olympic sprinter (1932). Enrique San Pedro, 66, Cuban-American Roman Catholic bishop and missionary. Gozo Shioda, 78, Japanese master of aikido.
18 Predrag Golubović, 59, Serbian film director and screenwriter. Merle Hapes, 75, American gridiron football player (New York Giants). Karl-Heinz Kunkel, 67, German footballer. Molly McGee, 41, American football player (Atlanta Falcons). Leonas Petrauskas, 75, Lithuanian basketball player. Jens Scheer, 59, German physicist and anti-nuclear activist. Michele Zaza, 49, Italian member of the Camorra criminal organisation, heart attack. E' morto Michele Zaza; il re della Camorra, La Repubblica, July 19, 1994
19 Idona Crigler, 72, American baseball player. Eilís Dillon, 74, Irish author. Rudolf Firkušný, 82, Moravian-American classical pianist. Ray Flaherty, 90, American NBA football player (New York Giants) and coach (Boston/Washington Redskins). Ernst Müller-Hermann, 78, German politician. Andy Penman, 51, Scottish football player. Anatoly Raznochintsev, 66, Soviet Russian Olympic swimmer (1952). Gottfried Reinhardt, 81, Austrian-American film director and producer, pancreatic cancer. W. L. Warren, 64, British historian and medievalist . Han Xu, 70, Chinese diplomat.
20 Paul Delvaux, 96, Belgian painter. Patrick J. Hillings, 71, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1951-1959). Suzanne Juyol, 74, French opera soprano. Laila Shahzada, 68, Pakistani abstract painter, killed in gas explosion. Choi Yung-keun, 71, South Korean football player.
21 Pere Calders, 80, Spanish writer and cartoonist. Dorothy Collins, 67, Canadian-American singer, actress, and recording artist, asthma. John Ernest, 72, American abstract artist. Clarissa Kaye, 63, Australian actress, cancer. Charles Lynch, 74, Canadian journalist and author. Marijac, 85, French comics writer, artist, and editor. Henri Mouillefarine, 83, French Olympic cyclist (1932). George Munger, 85, American college athlete, coach, and athletic director (Penn Quakers). Václav Pantůček, 59, Czech Olympic ice hockey player (1956, 1960). Hugh Scott, 93, American lawyer and politician, heart attack.
22 Colin Cole, 78, English cricket player. Jack Harrold, 74, American opera singer. Jim Healy, 70, American sports commentator, complications of liver cancer. Alexandre Hogue, 96, American artist. Kho Ping Hoo, 67/68, Indonesian writer.
23 Jorge André, 75, Costa Rican Olympic sports shooter (1968). Eva Bacon, 85, Austrian-Australian activist and feminist. Mario Brega, 71, Italian actor, heart attack. Umberto Cerati, 83, Italian long-distance runner and Olympian (1936). Hans J. Salter, 98, Austrian-American film composer (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly). Lennox Sebe, 67, President of Ciskei. John Marlow Thompson, 79, British RAF officer and flying ace during World War II. Leroy Williams, 67, American baseball player.
24 Clarence Behling, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings). Leo Brongersma, 87, Dutch zoologist, herpetologist, and author. Helen Cordero, 79, American Cochiti Pueblo potter. Utaro Hashimoto, 87, Japanese 9-dan Go player.