The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.
September 1994
1 Konrad Ameln, 95, German hymnologist and musicologist. Artur Balsam, 88, Polish-American classical pianist and pedagogue. Ellen Broe, 94, Danish nurse. Thomas Chastain, 73, American author of crime fiction, lung cancer. Hollis B. Chenery, 76, American economist. Bob Greenwood, 66, Mexican baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). Wallis Mathias, 59, Pakistani cricket player. Gaston Péloquin, 54, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1993-). Charles Saunders, 91, New Zealand rower and Olympian (1932).
2 Roy Castle, 62, English dancer, singer, actor, television presenter and musician, lung cancer. Jesús Chousal, 83, Chilean Olympic cyclist (1936). Walter Chyzowych, 57, Ukrainian-American soccer player. Ricardo Conde, 63, Spanish Olympic athlete (1952). Édouard Delberghe, 58, French racing cyclist. Patrick Hughes, 85, Irish Olympic boxer (1932). Rajko Kušić, 39, Yugoslavian Olympic judoka (1980). Eugene Lawler, 61, American computer scientist. Giuseppe Martano, 83, Italian road bicycle racer. Mildred H. McAfee, 94, American academic, naval officer, and religious leader. Harold Lamont Otey, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by electrocution. Józef Światło, 79, Polish intelligence officer and defector .
3 Vito Ananis, 79, American football player (Washington Redskins). James Thomas Aubrey, Jr., 75, American television and film executive, heart attack. Harold Brewster, 91, American Olympic field hockey player (1932). Jack Cassin, 79, Australian rules footballer. Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, 88, Greek painter, sculptor, engraver, writer and academic. Monja Jaona, 84, Malagasy politician and nationalist. Major Lance, 55, American R&B singer, cardiovascular disease. Bernice Robinson, 80, American Civil Rights activist and education proponent. Glen Rose, 89, American college basketball and football coach (Arkansas Razorbacks). Billy Wright, 70, English football player, stomach cancer.
4 Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter, 72, English publisher and politician. Richard Martin, 76, American actor, leukemia. Sonia Martínez, 30, Spanish actress. Åke Ödmark, 77, Swedish high jumper and Olympian (1936). Ted Riches, 87, Australian rules footballer. Roger Thomas, 68, British politician and Member of Parliament. Robert Weaver, 70, American illustrator.
5 Hank Aguirre, 63, American baseball player and businessman, prostate cancer. Shimshon Amitsur, 73, Israeli mathematician. Carl T. Burgess, 83, American politician. Allan Hender, 86, Australian rules footballer. José Martins, 88, Portuguese footballer and Olympian (1928). Bob Matheson, 49, American gridiron football player, lymphoma (Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins). John Newman, 47, Australian politician, murdered. Rudolf Raftl, 83, Austrian football goalkeeper. Karen Maud Rasmussen, 88, Danish Olympic swimmer (1924). Cliff Speegle, 76, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. Ike Williams, 71, American Lightweight world boxing champion. Fred Wilt, 73, American runner, Olympian (1948, 1952), and FBI agent.
6 Louie Beltran, 58, Philippine journalist and columnist, heart attack. Rita Briggs, 65, American baseball player. Egon Eis, 83, Austrian screenwriter. Edward Russell Gaines, 67, New Zealand Catholic bishop. Nicky Hopkins, 50, English pianist and organist. Max Kaminsky, 85, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader. Duccio Tessari, 67, Italian director, screenwriter and actor, cancer. Paul Xuereb, 71, Maltese politician and President of Malta.
7 James Clavell, 72, Australian-American author (Shōgun) and screenwriter (The Great Escape, The Fly), cancer. Eric Crozier, 79, British theatrical director and opera librettist. Georges Damitio, 70, French Olympic high jumper (1948, 1952). Chester A. Dolan, Jr., 86, American politician. Alfred Loomis, 81, American investment banker, sailor and Olympic champion (1948). Frederick Manfred, 82, American writer of Westerns, brain cancer. Dennis Morgan, 85, American actor-singer. Godfrey Quigley, 71, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Get Carter), Alzheimer's disease. Nisith Ranjan Ray, 84, Indian historian and social activist. Abul Lais Siddiqui, 78, Pakistani author, researcher, and scholar of Urdu. John Vigurs, 64, British rower and Olympian (1960). Terence Young, 79, Irish film director (Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Thunderball), heart attack.
8 Juan Alonso, 66, Spanish football player. Clara Breed, 88, American librarian. Peggy Guido, 82, English archaeologist and prehistorian. Walter Heiligenberg, 56, German scientist and neuroethologist, plane crash. Sister Parish, 84, American interior decorator and socialite. János Szentágothai, 81, Hungarian neuroscientist, academian and politician. Eijirō Tōno, 86, Japanese actor (Seven Samurai, Tokyo Story, Tora! Tora! Tora!), heart failure.
9 Robert Austerlitz, 70, Romanian-American linguist. Tom Bawden, 81, Australian rules footballer. Käthe Braun, 80, German actress. Tom Burnette, 79, American football player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Eagles). Donald Court, 82, British paediatrician. Reg Downing, 89, Australian lawyer, trade unionist and politician. Alfred R. Loeblich, 80, American micropaleontology. Hugo Miranda, 64, Chilean Olympic cyclist (1952). Douglas Morrow, 80, American screenwriter and film producer, aneurysm. Patrick O'Neal, 66, American actor (The Way We Were, The Stepford Wives, Under Siege), respiratory failure. Jiří Prchal, 46, Czech Olympic cyclist (1972).
10 Frank Broome, 79, English football player and manager. Amy Clampitt, 74, American poet and author. Mariateresa Di Lascia, 40, Italian politician, writer, and human rights activist, cancer. Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky, 79, Soviet/Russian poet and lyricist. Charles Drake, 76, American actor. Tom Haine, 61, American volleyball player and Olympian (1968). Caleb Martin, 70, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). Max Morlock, 69, German football player, cancer.
11 Shimon Avidan, 83, Israeli officer. Gunnar Eide, 71, Norwegian footballer. Dernell Every, 88, American Olympic fencer (1928, 1932, 1948). Marianne Hold, 61, German movie actress, heart attack. Raffaele Sansone, 83, Italo-Uruguayan football player and coach, Uruguay. Sara Sothern, 99, American stage actress, and mother of Elizabeth Taylor.Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries Jessica Tandy, 85, British actress (Driving Miss Daisy, Fried Green Tomatoes, Cocoon), Oscar winner (1990), ovarian cancer.
12 Avtandil Ch'k'uaseli, 62, Soviet Georgian Olympic football player (1952). Frank Eugene Corder, 38, American truck driver and soldier, suicide by plane crash. Theo Crosby, 69, South African architect, writer and sculptor. Jean-Baptiste Duroselle, 76, French historian and professor. Tom Ewell, 85, American actor, and producer. Hunter Lane, 94, American baseball player (Boston Braves). Pat Screen, 51, American attorney, and politician. Frank White, 67, English botanist. Boris Borisovich Yegorov, 56, Soviet physician-cosmonaut, heart attack.
13 Arthur Adel, 85, American astronomer and astrophysicist, cancer. Hind al-Husseini, 78, Palestinian woman. Erich Buschenhagen, 98, German general in the Nazi Germany Wehrmacht. Juozas Girnius, 79, Lithuanian existentialist philosopher. Richard Herrnstein, 64, American psychologist at Harvard University, lung cancer. Arthur Siegel, 70, American songwriter, heart failure. John Stevens, 54, English drummer. Woodie Wilson, 68, American stock car racing driver, cancer.
14 William Berntsen, 82, Danish Olympic sailor (1948, 1952, 1960, 1964, 1968). Heinz Gerischer, 75, German scientist. Marika Krevata, 83, Greek actress. David van de Kop, 56, Dutch painter, draftsman and sculptor.
15 Dave Diehl, 75, American football player (Detroit Lions). Ernst Fuchs, 57, Swiss racing cyclist. Haywood Henry, 81, American jazz baritone saxophonist. Héléna Manson, 96, French film actress. Moana Pozzi, 33, Italian pornographic actress, television personality and politician, liver cancer. Kai Sjøberg, 58, Norwegian footballer. Mark Stevens, 77, American actor, cancer.
16 Johnny Berry, 68, English football player. Harry Chozen, 78, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). Jorge Luis Córdova, 87, Puerto Rican judge and politician. Jaywant Dalvi, 69, Indian writer. Felisa Rincón de Gautier, 97, Puerto Rican politician and women's rights activist, heart attack. Albert Decourtray, 71, French catholic cardinal, cerebral hemorrhage. Jack Dodson, 63, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D., All's Fair). Dolly Haas, 84, German-American actress and singer, ovarian cancer. Bernie Leighton, 73, American jazz pianist. Noel Park, 73, Australian soldier, grazier and politician. C. K. Ra, 77, Indian painter and writer. Marshall Sprague, 85, American journalist and author. Maureen Stewart, 29, Costa Rican sprinter and Olympian (1988).
17 Iris Adrian, 82, American actress and dancer. Arnold Badjou, 85, Belgian football goalkeeper. John Delafose, 55, American French-speaking Creole Zydeco accordionist. Gego, 82, Venezuelan visual artist. Vladimir Gershuni, 64, Soviet dissident and poet. Vitas Gerulaitis, 40, American tennis player, carbon monoxide poisoning. Katsuhiko Nakagawa, 32, Japanese actor and musician, leukemia. Edward James Patten, 89, American lawyer and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1963-1981). Sir Karl Popper, 92, Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator. Katy Rodolph, 63, American alpine skier and Olympian (1952). Thorsten Sellin, 97, Swedish-American sociologist, penologist and criminologist. Ken Snelling, 75, American football player (Green Bay Packers). Peter Zaremba, 86, American Olympic hammer thrower (1932).
18 Alexis Akrithakis, 60, Greek artist, heart attack. Hallgrímur Helgason, 79, Icelandic composer, violinist, musicologist, conductor, and music educator. Clarence Long, 85, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1963-1985). Franco Moschino, 44, Italian fashion designer and HIV/AIDS activists, AIDS. Ivan Snoj, 70, Croatian handball coach and referee, official, journalist and publicist. Clarence Williams, 39, American gridiron football player (San Diego Chargers, Washington Redskins), shot.
19 Anatoli Bulakov, 64, Soviet Russian boxer and Olympian (1952). Alberto Closas, 72, Spanish film actor, lung cancer. Joseph Iléo, 73, Congolese politician, Prime Minister. Frankie Kennedy, 38, Northern Irish flute and tin whistle player, Ewing's sarcoma. Don Lash, 82, American long-distance runner and Olympian (1936), spinal tumor.
20 Juan Acosta, 87, Chilean Olympic long-distance runner (1936). Benny Baker, 87, American actor and comedian. Michael Dekel, 74, Israeli politician. Jimmy Hamilton, 77, American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist. Abioseh Nicol, 70, Sierra Leone Creole academic, diplomat, physician, and writer. Reto Rossetti, 85, British poet and Esperantist professor. Jule Styne, 88, English-born American songwriter and composer. Bjarne Øen, 95, Norwegian pilot and airforce general. Petr Čepek, 54, Czech actor, lung cancer.
21 Jimmy Carter, 70, American world lightweight boxing champion Arthur B. Krim, 84, American entertainment lawyer and movie studio chairman. Louis Orvoën, 74, French politician. Russell Rowe, 79, Canadian politician.
22 Teddy Buckner, 85, American jazz trumpeter, cancer. Maria Carta, 60, Italian folk music singer-songwriter, cancer. Igor Chislenko, 55, Soviet/Russian football player. Dorothy Dehner, 93, American painter and sculptor. Leonard Feather, 80, British-American jazz pianist, composer, and producer.