The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 1994
1 Pierre Alleene, 85, French Olympic weightlifter (1936). Mario Baroni, 67, Italian racing cyclist. Harold Boardman, 87, British politician. Bernie James, 88, American baseball player (Boston Braves, New York Giants). George Malcolm Laws, 75, American folk music scholar. Romilly Lunge, 89, British film actor. Valery Yardy, 46, Soviet/Russian road cyclist and Olympian (1968, 1972).
2 Eduardo Folle, 72, Uruguayan Olympic basketball player (1948). Bert Freed, 74, American actor, heart attack. Kelpo Gröndahl, 74, Finnish Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler (1948, 1952). W. Pat Jennings, 74, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1955–1967). Dick Jones, 92, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
3 Hoyt Franklin Clines, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Wally Downer, 90, Canadian politician. Arie Richard Hanitzsch, 66, Brazilian Olympic diver (1952). James William Holmes, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Hidalgo Moya, 74, American architect. Jim Reilly, 46, American football player (Buffalo Bills). Darryl Richley, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Innokenty Smoktunovsky, 69, Soviet/Russian theater and film actor. Norm Stott, 90, Australian rules footballer. John Zenda, 50, American actor.
4 Solomon Adler, 84, English-American economist and Soviet spy. Cyro dos Anjos, 87, Brazilian journalist, and writer. Thomas Fulton, 44, American conductor, kidney failure. Jürgen Jürgens, 68, German choral conductor and teacher. Art Lassiter, 66, American singer, cancer. Steve Myhra, 60, American gridiron football player (Baltimore Colts), heart attack. Giovanni Spadolini, 69, Italian politician and statesman, cancer. Rolf Greger Strøm, 54, Norwegian Olympic luger (1964, 1968).
5 Louis H. Bean, 98, American economic and political analyst. Clive Caldwell, 83, Australian flying ace during World War II. Cornelia C. Cameron, 83, American geologist. Alain de Changy, 72, Belgian racing driver. Terry Hibbitt, 46, English football player, cancer. Solomon Kullback, 87, American cryptanalyst and mathematician. Paul Sæthrang, 76, Norwegian footballer. Frederick Wheeler, 80, Australian public servant. Muhammad Yaqub Ali, 82, Pakistani judge.
6 Henri Arends, 73, Dutch conductor. Steven F. Arnold, 51, American visual artist and protégé of Salvador Dalí, AIDS. Max Coley, 67, American football coach. Stephen Farrer, 86, South African cricketer. Domenico Modugno, 66, Italian singer, songwriter, actor, and politician, heart attack. Jacques Pelzer, 70, Belgian musician. Evan Vogds, 71, American gridiron football player (Chicago Rockets, Green Bay Packers).
7 Ignazio Balsamo, 81, Italian actor. Gérard Chapdelaine, 59, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962–1965). Rubi Dalma, 88, Italian actress. Liu Haisu, 98, Chinese painter and art educator. Leon Goldsworthy, 85, Australian bomb and mine specialist during World War II. Robert Hutton, 74, American actor, pneumonia. Larry Martyn, 60, British actor (Are You Being Served?, The Dick Emery Show, Whoops Baghdad). Bob Wells, 49, American football player (San Diego Chargers).
8 Feroza Adam, 32, South African political activist, injuries sustained in a road accident.Kristine Pearson, "Remembering Feroza Adam – Women's Activist and Tireless Friend" Lifeline Energy. Iberê Camargo, 79, Brazilian painter. Robin Cavendish, 64, British advocate for disabled people and medical aid developer. Serge Leclaire, 70, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Leonid Leonov, 95, Soviet/Russian novelist and playwright. Frank Negri, 76, Australian rules footballer. Morde_kay Seter, 78, Russian-Israeli composer. Ada Smith, 91, British Olympic gymnast (1928).
9 Howard W. Carson, 84, American politician. Aldo Donelli, 87, American football player and coach, and soccer player. William Galbraith, 87, United States Navy admiral, gymnast and Olympic medalist (1932). Klaus Holighaus, 54, German glider designer and pilot, gliding accident. Olle Johansson, 66, Swedish swimmer, water polo player and Olympian (1948, 1952). Tony Kaska, 83, American football player (Detroit Lions, Brooklyn Dodgers). Helena Rasiowa, 77, Polish mathematician.
10 Biswamoy Biswas, 71, Indian ornithologist. Marie Dollinger, 83, German track and field athlete and Olympian (1928, 1932, 1936). Heinz Hügelshofer, 75, Swiss Olympic speed skater (1948). Eliyahu Lankin, 79, Israeli zionist activist, Irgun member and politician. Doug Lewis, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens). Vladimir Melanin, 60, Soviet/Russian biathlete and Olympian (1960, 1964). Kay Petre, 91, Canadian motor racer. Horrie Stanway, 85, Australian rules footballer. Jessie Sumner, 96, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1939–1947).
11 Stanislav Chekan, 72, Soviet/Russian actor of theater and cinema. Gordon Cullen, 80, British architect and urban designer. Peter Cushing, 81, English actor (Star Wars, Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein), prostate cancer. Bert Graham, 73, Australian rules footballer. Marko Jozinović, 74, Bosnian Croat catholic archbishop. David Vern Reed, 79, American writer.
12 Wing-tsit Chan, 92, Chinese scholar and professor. Gene Cherico, 59, American jazz double-bassist. Barbara Grabowska, 39, Polish actress, fall from train. Dale Hamilton, 74, American basketball player. Anton Giulio Majano, 85, Italian screenwriter and film director. Steve Puidokas, 39, American college basketball player (Washington State Cougars). Barry Shipman, 82, Canadian-American screenwriter. B. K. Tikader, 66, Indian arachnologist and zoologist. Harold Tower, 83, American Olympic rower (1932). Włodzimierz Źróbik, 68, Polish Olympic bobsledder (1956).
13 Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, 75, French violinist and composer. Valentin Kuzin, 67, Soviet/Russian ice hockey player and Olympian (1956). Simon Robert Naali, 28, Tanzanian marathon runner and Olympian (1992), traffic collision. J. A. O. Preus II, 74, American Lutheran pastor, professor, and author. Rao Gopal Rao, 57, Indian actor, producer, and politician. Manfred Wörner, 59, German politician and diplomat, colorectal cancer.
14 Elias Canetti, 89, Bulgarian-Swiss-British novelist, playwright, and writer. Alice Childress, 77, American novelist, playwright, producer and actress, cancer. Stanisław Gucwa, 75, Polish politician and economist. Joan Harrison, 87, English screenwriter (Rebecca, Foreign Correspondent, Saboteur). Joe Palma, 89, American actor (The Three Stooges). Arthur Palmer, 82, British politician. Rajasri, 59, Indian lyricist, dialogue writer and music composer.
15 Paul Anderson, 61, American weightlifter, strongman, powerlifter, and Olympian (1956) nephritis. Erik Anker, 90, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1928), and businessperson. Joe Brovia, 72, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs), cancer. Syd Dale, 70, English music composer and arranger. Juan Martínez, 69, Spanish Olympic equestrian (1960). Shepherd Mead, 80, American writer. Joseph Palmer II, 80, American diplomat and State Department official. Steve Petro, 79, American gridiron football player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Kailash Sankhala, 69, Indian biologist and conservationist. Wout Wagtmans, 64, Dutch road bicycle racer.
16 Rolando Aguirre, 90, Argentine Olympic sailor (1924). Wahbi al-Hariri, 80, Syrian-American artist, architect, archaeologist, and author. Francisco Antúnez, 71, Spanish football player. Tay Brown, 82, American college football player and coach. Harry Collier, 86, Australian rules footballer. John Doucette, 73, American actor (Cleopatra, True Grit, Patton)."John Doucette, Film Actor, 73", The New York Times, August 20, 1994. Retrieved 20 February 2022. Ahmad Fardid, 85, Iranian philosopher and professor. Henry Geldzahler, 59, Belgian-American curator of contemporary art, liver cancer. Stan Devenish Meares, 88, Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist. Alan Nutter, 73, Australian rules footballer.
17 Sig Andrusking, 81, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Luigi Chinetti, 93, Italian-American racecar driver. Bennie Le Sueur, 77, Australian rules footballer. Cecil A. Partee, 73, American attorney and politician. Thomas Pollock, 69, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian (1952), stroke. Jack Sharkey, 91, Lithuanian-American world heavyweight boxing champion.
18 John Beavan, Baron Ardwick, 84, British journalist. Alfred Belzile, 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958–1963). Martin Cahill, 45, Irish criminal, homicide. Henri Calef, 84, French screenwriter and film director. Gottlob Frick, 88, German operatic bass. Yeshayahu Leibowitz, 91, Israeli Orthodox Jewish intellectual and polymath. Daltro Menezes, 56, Brazilian football manager. Charles Redland, 83, Swedish jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. Omori Sogen, 90, Japanese Buddhist monk. Richard Laurence Millington Synge, 79, British biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate. Yuri Tsitsinov, 56, Soviet Russian ice hockey player and Olympian (1960). Vazgen I, 85, Romanian Catholicos of All Armenians.
19 Louis de Froment, 72, French conductor. Ladislav Fuks, 70, Czech novelist and writer. Anthony Peter Khoraish, 86, Lebanese Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant. Nancy Lancaster, 96, British interior designer. Otto-Iivari Meurman, 104, Finnish architect. Linus Pauling, 93, American chemist, peace activist, and author, prostate cancer. Robert Rozhdestvensky, 62, Soviet/Russian poet and songwriter, heart attack.
20 Odessa Grady Clay, 77, Mother of boxing champion Muhammad Ali, cardiovascular disease. Hermann Hackmann, 80, German war criminal and SS captain during World War II. Revilo P. Oliver, 86, American university professor, suicide. Aleksandar Petrović, 65, Yugoslav/Serbian film director. Roy Simmons Sr., 92, American lacrosse coach.
21 Albert Blaustein, 72, American civil rights and human rights lawyer. Rose Laub Coser, 78, German-American sociologist and social justice activist. Kathleen Frances Daly, 96, Canadian painter. Anita Lizana, 78, Chilean tennis player, stomach cancer. Danitra Vance, 40, American comedian and actress (Saturday Night Live), breast cancer. Luis Villodas, 76, Puerto Rican baseball player.
22 Tadeusz Adamowski, 92, Polish-American ice hockey player and Olympian (1928).Polski Komitet Olimpijiski (Polish Olympic Committee), Profile –Adamowski Tadeusz "Ralf" (1901–1994) , , last accessed August 18, 2010 António de Almeida, 78, Portuguese Olympic equestrian (1952, 1956, 1960). Harry Gamage, 94, American football player and coach. Gilles Groulx, 62, Canadian film director. Allan Houser, 80, Chiricahua Apache sculptor, painter and illustrator. Gary Jasgur, 58, American child actor. André Rossi, 73, French politician.
23 Bill Burnett, 77, South African Anglican archbishop. Joyce Chen, 76, Chinese-American chef, author, and television personality, Alzheimer's disease. Gene Filipski, 63, American gridiron football player (New York Giants). Zoltán Fábri, 76, Hungarian film director and screenwriter, heart attack. Jack Giles, 73, Australian rules footballer. René Møller, 48, Danish footballer. Carlos Rojas Pavez, 87, Chilean politician. Alfredo Pérez, 65, Argentine football player. Jim Prendergast, 77, American baseball player (Boston Braves). Gehendra Bahadur Rajbhandari, 70, Prime Minister of Nepal. Arati Saha, 53, Indian long-distance swimmer and Olympian (1952), jaundice. Fisher Tull, 59, American composer, arranger, and trumpeter. Paolo Volponi, 70, Italian writer, poet, and politician.
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