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

• Mario Baroni, 67, Italian racing cyclist.^[1]
• Harold Boardman, 87, British politician.
• George Malcolm Laws, 75, American folk music scholar.
• Romilly Lunge, 89, British film actor.
• Valery Yardy, 46, Soviet/Russian road cyclist and Olympian.^[2]

2

• Eduardo Folle, 72, Uruguayan basketball player and Olympian.^[3]
• Bert Freed, 74, American actor, heart attack.^[4]
• Kelpo Gröndahl, 74, Finnish light-heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler.^[5]
• W. Pat Jennings, 74, American politician.^[6]

3

• Hoyt Franklin Clines, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[7]
• Wally Downer, 90, Canadian politician.
• James William Holmes, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[7]
• Hidalgo Moya, 74, American architect.^[8]
• Darryl Richley, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[7]
• Innokenty Smoktunovsky, 69, Soviet/Russian theater and film actor.
• John Zenda, 50, American actor.

4

• Solomon Adler, 84, English-American economist and Soviet spy.
• Cyro dos Anjos, 87, Brazilian journalist, and writer.^[9]
• Thomas Fulton, 44, American conductor, kidney failure.^[10]
• Jürgen Jürgens, 68, German choral conductor and teacher.^[11]
• Art Lassiter, 66, American singer, cancer.
• Steve Myhra, 60, American gridiron football player, heart attack.^[12]
• Giovanni Spadolini, 69, Italian politician and statesman, cancer.^[13]

5

• Louis H. Bean, 98, American economic and political analyst.^[14]
• Clive Caldwell, 84, Australian flying ace during World War II.
• Cornelia C. Cameron, 83, American geologist.^[15]
• Alain de Changy, 72, Belgian racing driver.
• Terry Hibbitt, 46, English football player, cancer.^[16]
• Solomon Kullback, 87, American cryptanalyst and mathematician.
• Frederick Wheeler, 80, Australian public servant.^[17]
• 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.^[18]
• Domenico Modugno, 66, Italian singer, songwriter, actor, and politician, heart attack.^[19]
• Jacques Pelzer, 70, Belgian musician.
• Evan Vogds, 71, American gridiron football player.^[20]

7

• Ignazio Balsamo, 81, Italian actor.
• Rubi Dalma, 88, Italian actress.
• Liu Haisu, 98, Chinese painter and art educator.^[21]
• Leon Goldsworthy, 85, Australian bomb and mine specialist during World War II.^[22]
• Robert Hutton, 74, American actor, pneumonia.^[23]
• Larry Martyn, 60, British actor (Are You Being Served?, The Dick Emery Show, Whoops Baghdad).

8

• Iberê Camargo, 79, Brazilian painter.^[24]
• Robin Cavendish, 64, British advocate for disabled people and medical aid developer.^[25]
• Serge Leclaire, 70, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.^[26]
• Leonid Leonov, 95, Soviet/Russian novelist and playwright.^[27]
• Morde_kay Seter, 78, Russian-Israeli composer.^[28]
• Ada Smith, 91, British gymnast.^[29]

9

• Feroza Adam, 32, South African political activist, injuries sustained in a road accident.^[30]
• Howard W. Carson, 84, American politician.
• Aldo Donelli, 87, American football player and coach, and soccer player.^[31]
• William Galbraith, 87, United States Navy admiral, gymnast and Olympic medalist.
• Klaus Holighaus, 54, German glider designer and pilot, gliding accident.
• Olle Johansson, 66, Swedish swimmer, water polo player and Olympian.^[32]
• Helena Rasiowa, 77, Polish mathematician.^[33]

10

• Biswamoy Biswas, 71, Indian ornithologist.
• Marie Dollinger, 83, German track and field athlete.^[34]
• Eliyahu Lankin, 79, Israeli zionist activist, Irgun member and politician.
• Vladimir Melanin, 60, Soviet/Russian biathlete and Olympian.^[35]
• Kay Petre, 91, Canadian motor racer.
• Jessie Sumner, 96, American politician.^[36]

11

• Stanislav Chekan, 72, Soviet/Russian actor of theater and cinema.
• Gordon Cullen, 80, British architect and urban designer.^[37]
• Peter Cushing, 81, English actor (Star Wars, Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein), prostate cancer.^[38]
• Marko Jozinović, 74, Bosnian Croat catholic archbishop.
• David Vern Reed, 79, American writer.

12

• Wing-tsit Chan, 92, Chinese scholar and professor.^[39]
• Gene Cherico, 59, American jazz double-bassist.^[40]
• Barbara Grabowska, 39, Polish actress, fall from train.
• Dale Hamilton, 74, American basketball player.^[41]
• Anton Giulio Majano, 85, Italian screenwriter and film director.^[42]
• Barry Shipman, 82, Canadian-American screenwriter.
• B. K. Tikader, 66, Indian arachnologist and zoologist.
• Harold Tower, 83, American rower and Olympian.^[43]

13

• Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, 75, French violinist and composer.^[44]
• Valentin Kuzin, 67, Soviet/Russian ice hockey player.^[45]
• Simon Robert Naali, 28, Tanzanian marathon runner, traffic collision.^[46]
• J. A. O. Preus II, 74, American Lutheran pastor, professor, and author.^[47]
• Rao Gopal Rao, 57, Indian actor, producer, and politician.
• Manfred Wörner, 59, German politician and diplomat, colorectal cancer.^[48]

14

• Elias Canetti, 89, Bulgarian-Swiss-British novelist, playwright, and writer.^[49]
• Alice Childress, 77, American novelist, playwright, producer and actress, cancer.^[50]
• Stanisław Gucwa, 75, Polish politician and economist.
• Joan Harrison, 87, English screenwriter (Rebecca, Foreign Correspondent, Saboteur).^[51]
• 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, and powerlifter, nephritis.^[52]
• Erik Anker, 90, Norwegian sailor and businessperson.^[53]
• Joe Brovia, 72, American baseball player, cancer.^[54]
• Syd Dale, 70, English music composer and arranger.^[55]
• Shepherd Mead, 80, American writer.^[56]
• Joseph Palmer II, 80, American diplomat and State Department official.
• Steve Petro, 79, American gridiron football player.^[57]
• Kailash Sankhala, 69, Indian biologist and conservationist.
• Wout Wagtmans, 64, Dutch road bicycle racer.^[58]

16

• Rolando Aguirre, 90, Argentine sailor.^[59]
• Wahbi al-Hariri, 80, Syrian-American artist, architect, archaeologist, and author.
• Francisco Antúnez, 71, Spanish football player.^[60]
• Harry Collier, 86, Australian rules football player.
• John Doucette, 73, American actor (Cleopatra, True Grit, Patton).^[61]
• Ahmad Fardid, 85, Iranian philosopher and professor.
• Henry Geldzahler, 59, Belgian-American curator of contemporary art, liver cancer.^[62]

17

• Luigi Chinetti, 93, Italian-American racecar driver.^[63]
• Cecil A. Partee, 73, American attorney and politician.^[64]
• Thomas Pollock, 69, Canadian ice hockey player, stroke.^[65]
• Jack Sharkey, 91, Lithuanian-American world heavyweight boxing champion.^[66]

18

• John Beavan, Baron Ardwick, 84, British journalist.
• Martin Cahill, 45, Irish criminal, homicide.
• Henri Calef, 84, French screenwriter and film director.^[67]
• Gottlob Frick, 88, German operatic bass.^[68]
• Yeshayahu Leibowitz, 91, Israeli Orthodox Jewish intellectual and polymath.^[69]
• Daltro Menezes, 56, Brazilian football manager.
• Charles Redland, 83, Swedish jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
• Omori Sogen, 90, Japanese Buddhist monk.^[70]
• Richard Laurence Millington Synge, 79, British biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate.^[71]
• Vazgen I, 85, Romanian Catholicos of All Armenians.^[72]

19

• Louis de Froment, 72, French conductor.^[73]
• Ladislav Fuks, 70, Czech novelist and writer.^[74]
• Anthony Peter Khoraish, 86, Lebanese Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant.
• Nancy Lancaster, 96, British interior designer.^[75]
• Otto-Iivari Meurman, 104, Finnish architect.
• Linus Pauling, 93, American chemist, peace activist, and author, prostate cancer.^[76]
• Robert Rozhdestvensky, 62, Soviet/Russian poet and songwriter, heart attack.

20

• Odessa Grady Clay, 77, Mother of boxing champion Muhammad Ali, cardiovascular disease.^[77]
• Hermann Hackmann, 80, German war criminal and SS captain during World War II.
• Revilo P. Oliver, 86, American university professor, suicide.^[78]
• Aleksandar Petrović, 65, Yugoslav/Serbian film director.^[79]
• Roy Simmons, Sr., 92, American lacrosse coach.

21

• Albert Blaustein, 72, American civil rights and human rights lawyer.^[80]
• Rose Laub Coser, 78, German-American sociologist and social justice activist.^[81]
• Kathleen Frances Daly, 96, Canadian painter.
• Anita Lizana, 78, Chilean tennis player, stomach cancer.^[82]
• Danitra Vance, 40, American comedian and actress (Saturday Night Live), breast cancer.^[83]

22

• Tadeusz Adamowski, 92, Polish-American ice hockey player.^[84]
• Harry Gamage, 94, American football player and coach.
• Gilles Groulx, 62, Canadian film director.^[85]
• Allan Houser, 80, Chiricahua Apache sculptor, painter and illustrator.^[86]
• Gary Jasgur, 58, American child actor.
• André Rossi, 73, French politician.

23

• Bill Burnett, 77, South African Anglican archbishop.^[87]
• Joyce Chen, 76, Chinese-American chef, author, and television personality, Alzheimer's disease.
• Gene Filipski, 63, American gridiron football player.^[88]
• Zoltán Fábri, 76, Hungarian film director and screenwriter, heart attack.^[89]
• Carlos Rojas Pavez, 87, Chilean politician.
• Alfredo Pérez, 65, Argentine football player.
• Gehendra Bahadur Rajbhandari, 70, Prime Minister of Nepal.
• Arati Saha, 53, Indian long-distance swimmer and Olympian, jaundice.^[90]
• Fisher Tull, 59, American composer, arranger, and trumpeter.^[91]
• Paolo Volponi, 70, Italian writer, poet, and politician.^[92]

24

• Sonny Chillingworth, 62, American guitarist and singer.
• Peggy Fears, 91, American actress.^[93]
• Cecil Holmes, 73, New Zealand film director and writer.^[94]
• Birutė Nedzinskienė, 38, Lithuanian politician.
• Rickie Sorensen, 47, American child actor (The Sword in the Stone, Father of the Bride, A Lust to Kill), cancer.^[95]

25

• Hugh Culverhouse, 75, American businessman and attorney, lung cancer.^[96]
• Cliff Garrison, 88, American baseball player.^[97]
• Creadel "Red" Jones, 53, American soul guitarist.
• Marten Mendez, 77, American badminton player.
• Bidhyanath Pokhrel, 76, Nepali poet and politician.
• Boris Roatta, 14, French child actor, bicycle accident.

26

• Yehoshafat Harkabi, 72, Israeli military intelligence officer and professor.^[98]
• Ljubomir Lovrić, 74, Serbian football goalkeeper, manager and journalist.^[99]
• Norman Warwick, 74, British cinematographer.
• Bert Yancey, 56, American golfer, heart attack.^[100]

27

• Beba Bidart, 70, Argentine tango singer, actress and dancer, heart attack.
• Roberto Goyeneche, 68, Argentine tango singer, pneumonia.^[101]
• Fred Griffiths, 82, English film and television actor.^[102]
• Battling Shaw, 83, Mexican boxer.

28

• Pepita Embil, 76, Spanish Basque soprano.^[103]
• Rui Filipe, 26, Portuguese football player, traffic collision.^[104]
• Aldis Intlers, 29, Latvian-Soviet bobsledder and Olympian, traffic collision.^[105]
• Vincent Leonard, 85, American prelate of the Catholic Church.^[106]
• Neil Mochan, 67, Scottish football player.^[107]
• Ernie Roberts, 82, British politician.^[108]
• David Wright, 74, South African-British poet, cancer.^[109]

29

• Tushar Kanti Ghosh, 96, Indian journalist and author.
• Bruno Habārovs, 55, Latvian fencer and Olympian.^[110]
• Jack Miller, 78, American politician and jurist.^[111]
• Arthur Mourant, 90, British chemist, hematologist and geneticist.^[112]
• Michael Peters, 46, American choreographer and director, AIDS-related complications.^[113]

30

• Lindsay Anderson, 71, British film and theatre director, and film critic, heart attack.^[114]
• Olav Gjærevoll, 77, Norwegian botanist and politician.
• Alfonso Oiterong, 69, President of Palau.
• Filippo Zappata, 100, Italian engineer and aircraft designer.
• Hubert Zemke, 80, United States Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.^[115]

31

• Barbara Avedon, 69, American television writer, political activist, and feminist.^[116]
• Mercedes Carvajal de Arocha, 91, Trinidadian-Venezuelan writer, politician and diplomat.^[117]
• Mike Garbark, 78, American baseball player.^[118]
• Ram Dulari Sinha, 71, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
• John Walton, 67, Australian politician.