The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 1994

1

• Sergei Dubov, 50, Russian journalist, publisher and entrepreneur, homicide.^[1]
• Ray Ferris, 73, Northern Irish football player.^[2]
• Guy Lefranc, 74, French director and screenwriter.^[3]
• John Littlejohn, 62, American electric blues guitarist, kidney failure.^[4]
• Jo Richardson, 70, British Labour Party politician.
• Radovan Samardžić, 71, Yugoslav/Serbian historian and academic.^[5]
• Olan Soule, 84, American actor, lung cancer.^[6]

2

• Steve Barclay, 75, American film actor.^[7]
• Jean Couturier, 82, French basketball player.^[8]
• Marija Gimbutas, 73, Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist.^[9]
• Zaim Imamović, 73, Bosnian folk singer, accordionist and author.^[10]
• Otto Kippes, 88, German Catholic priest.
• Yōichi Nakanishi, 76, Japanese politician and Governor of Ishikawa Prefecture.
• John Rewald, 81, American academic, author and art historian.^[11]
• Willie Mae Ford Smith, 89, American gospel musician and Christian evangelist.^[12]
• Mary Washburn, 86, American sprinter.^[13]
• Anona Winn, 90, Australian-British actress, broadcaster and singer.

3

• Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov, 90, Soviet and Russian physicist and academic.
• Roberto Amoroso, 83, Italian screenwriter and film producer.
• Rauf Atakishiyev, 68, Soviet and Azerbaijani singer and pianist.
• Carroll Borland, 79, American professor, writer, and actress, pneumonia.
• Herbert Busemann, 88, German-American mathematician.
• Frederick Copleston, 86, English Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian.^[14]
• Justinus Darmojuwono, 79, Indonesian Roman Catholic cardinal.
• Walter Havighurst, 92, American novelist, critic, and literary and social historian.^[15]
• Alan Helffrich, 93, American athlete and Olympic champion.^[16]
• Ellen King, 85, Scottish swimmer and Olympian.^[17]
• Patrick El Mabrouk, 65, French middle-distance runner and Olympian.^[18]
• Raúl Padilla, 75, Mexican actor, heart attack.
• Glenn Wade Salisbury, 83, American agriculture biologist.
• Georgy Shchedrovitsky, 64, Soviet and Russian philosopher and methodologist.
• Dale Warren, 54, American musician.

4

• Jane Arbor, 90, British writer.^[19]
• Fred De Bruyne, 63, Belgian road cyclist.
• Brunetto Bucciarelli Ducci, 79, Italian politician and magistrate.
• Bedri Gürsoy, 92, Turkish football player.
• Mikhail Linge, 35, Soviet and Russian middle-distance runner and Olympic champion, murdered.^[20]
• Thelma Stovall, 74, American politician.

5

• Hermann Josef Abs, 92, German banker and advisor to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.^[21]
• Ben Enwonwu, 72, Nigerian painter and sculptor.
• Joachim Halupczok, 25, Polish racing cyclist, heart failure.^[22]
• Tiana Lemnitz, 96, German operatic soprano.^[23]
• George Sauer, 83, American football player, coach, and football executive.^[24]
• James F. Walker, 80, American graphic artist.

6

• Joseph Cotten, 88, American actor (Citizen Kane, Shadow of a Doubt, The Third Man), pneumonia.^[25]
• Norman Del Mar, 74, British conductor, horn player, and biographer.^[26]
• Felice Gremo, 92, Italian racing cyclist.^[27]
• Ross Grimsley, 71, American Major League Baseball player.^[28]
• Jack Kirby, 76, American comic book artist and writer (Fantastic Four, Captain America, X-Men), heart failure.^[29]
• Aurora Mardiganian, 93, Armenian-American author and actress.
• Hilda Simms, 75, American stage actress, pancreatic cancer.^[30]
• Ignace Strasfogel, 84, Polish pianist, composer and conductor, Alzheimer's disease.^[31]
• Luis Alberto Sánchez, 93, Peruvian jurist, philosopher, writer and politician.^[32]
• Gwen Watford, 66, English actress, cancer.^[33]

7

• Richard M. Bissell, Jr., 84, American CIA officer.^[34]
• Billy Briscoe, 97, English football player.
• Laurence Brown, 86, English Anglican clergyman.
• Jorge Brum do Canto, 83, Portuguese film director and actor.
• Witold Lutosławski, 81, Polish composer and conductor.^[35]
• Bill McDonald, 77, American basketball player.
• Stephen Milligan, 45, British politician and journalist, erotic asphyxiation.
• Charles Leslie Richardson, 85, British Army officer.
• Arnold Smith, 79, Canadian diplomat.
• Maarten Vrolijk, 74, Dutch socialist politician.^[36]

8

• Ken G. Hall, 92, Australian film producer and director.^[37]
• Amparo Ochoa, 47, Mexican singer-songwriter.
• Bob Reynolds, 79, American gridiron football player.^[38]
• Raymond Scott, 85, American musician, record producer, and inventor of electronic instruments.^[39]

9

• Raymond A. Hare, 92, American diplomat and ambassador.^[40]
• Louis Kaufman, 88, American violinist.^[41]
• Gherasim Luca, 80, Romanian surrealist theorist and poet, suicide.^[42]
• Jarmila Novotná, 86, Czechoslovak and Chech soprano and actress.^[43]
• Howard Temin, 59, American geneticist and virologist, lung cancer.^[44]
• Bud Wilkinson, 77, American football player, coach, broadcaster, and politician.^[45]

10

• Mel Calman, 62, British cartoonist, thrombosis.^[46]
• Robert Crépeaux, 93, French chess master.
• Fritz John, 83, German-American mathematician.^[47]
• Dominic McGlinchey, 39–40, Irish republican paramilitary leader, shot.^[48]
• Augusts Voss, 77, Soviet and Latvian politician.

11

• Neil Bonnett, 47, American racing driver, racing accident.
• Sorrell Booke, 64, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, Fail-Safe, Freaky Friday), colorectal cancer.^[49]
• William Conrad, 73, American actor (Jake and the Fatman, Cannon, The Killers), heart failure.^[50]
• Joseph Cordeiro, 76, Pakistani Catholic priest.
• Paul Feyerabend, 70, Austrian philosopher of science, brain cancer.^[51]
• Mercè Comaposada i Guillén, 92, Spanish pedagogue, lawyer, and anarcha-feminist.
• Sune Mangs, 61, Swedish actor.
• Antonio Martín, 23, Spanish road bicycle racer, bicycle accident.^[52]
• Saul Weprin, 66, American attorney and politician, stroke.
• Vincent Wigglesworth, 94, British entomologist.^[53]

12

• Charles Critchfield, 83, American mathematical physicist.
• Ray Dandridge, 80, American Negro league baseball player.^[54]
• Ivor Darreg, 76, American composer of xenharmonic music.
• Rafael Durán, 82, Spanish actor.^[55]
• Rahela Ferari, 82, Yugoslavian and Serbian actress.
• Donald Judd, 65, American minimalist artist, lymphoma.^[56]
• Richard Luyt, 78, South African Governor of British Guiana.
• Sue Rodriguez, 43, Canadian right-to-die activist, ALS.
• Karl Wirtz, 83, German nuclear physicist.

13

• James Aitchison, 73, Scottish cricketer.^[57]
• Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker, 84, British peer and academic.^[58]
• Robert Bloom, 85, American oboist, composer and arranger.^[59]
• Walter Judd, 95, American politician and physician.
• Mostafa Salimi, 90, Iranian football player and manager.
• Robert Sherrod, 85, American journalist, editor and writer, pulmonary emphysema.^[60]

14

• Pietro Belluschi, 94, Italian-American architect.^[61]
• Andrei Chikatilo, 57, Soviet serial killer, execution by shooting.^[62]
• Ivan Chodák, 80, Slovak football player and coach.
• Jean Goldschmit, 69, Luxembourgian road bicycle racer.
• Tiger Haynes, 79, American actor and film and jazz musician.^[63]
• Margaret Lane, 87, British journalist, biographer and novelist.^[64]
• Christopher Lasch, 61, American historian, moralist and social critic, leukemia.^[65]
• Henry Milton Taylor, 90, Governor-general of the Bahamas.

15

• Richard Emory, 75, American actor, stroke.^[66]
• Frank Kitto, 90, Australian lawyer and judge.
• Liu Ningyi, 86, Chinese politician.
• Andrea Heinemann Simon, 84, American civil rights activist and mother of singer Carly Simon, lung cancer.^[67]

16

• Noël Foré, 61, Belgian road bicycle racer.^[68]
• François Marty, 89, French Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Paris, railway accident.^[69]
• Richard O'Kane, 83, American Navy submarine commander during World War II.^[70]
• Bob C. Riley, 69, American educator and politician.
• Ann Wigmore, 84, Lithuanian-American holistic health practitioner and naturopath.^[71]

17

• Neville Broderick, 66, Australian rules football player.
• Aleksandr Chakovsky, 80, Soviet/Russian editor and novelist.^[72]
• Gretchen Fraser, 75, American alpine ski racer and Olympian.^[73]
• Rosario García Ortega, 82, Argentine actress.
• Chimanbhai Patel, 64, Indian politician.
• Randy Shilts, 42, American journalist and author, AIDS-related complications.^[74]
• Vilmos Varjú, 56, Hungarian shot putter and Olympian.^[75]

18

• Annemarie Ackermann, 80, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
• Ruth Adler, 49, British feminist and human rights campaigner.^[76]
• Michel Duran, 93, French actor, author, and screenwriter.
• Jake Gaither, 90, American gridiron football coach.^[77]
• Gopi Krishna, 58, Indian dancer, actor and choreographer, heart attack.
• Beltrán Alfonso Osorio, 75, Spanish peer and jockey.
• Robert H. Park, 91, American electrical engineer and inventor.
• Ameer Hamza Shinwari, 87, Afghanistan Pashto-language poet.^[78]
• John Tedder, 2nd Baron Tedder, 67, British noble and chemist.
• Ralph W. Tyler, 91, American educator.^[79]
• Barbara Willard, 84, British novelist.

19

• Johnny Hancocks, 74, English football player and manager.^[80]
• Derek Jarman, 52, English film director, author and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications.^[81]
• Patrick O'Reilly, 66, Irish politician.
• Fyodor Odinokov, 81, Soviet and Russian actor.
• Vittorio Rieti, 96, Italian-American composer.^[82]
• Ivan Sidorenko, 74, Soviet sniper during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Yitzhak Yitzhaky, 57, Israeli educator and politician.

20

• Vladimir Druzhnikov, 71, Soviet actor.^[83]
• Marino Girolami, 80, Italian film director and actor.^[84]
• Rolf Jacobsen, 86, Norwegian author.
• Víctor Parra, 74, Mexican actor and producer.

21

• Gerda Alexander, 86, German-Danish teacher and psychologist.
• Evgeny Belyaev, 67, Russian tenor.^[85]
• Oscar Collazo, 80, Puerto Rican militant.
• Homa Darabi, 54, Iranian pediatrician, academic and political activist, suicide.
• Mary Lasker, 93, American health activist and philanthropist.^[86]
• Johannes Steinhoff, 80, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II, and NATO official.^[87]

22

• Papa John Creach, 76, American blues violinist.^[88]
• Hans Hürlimann, 75, Swiss politician.
• Lore Lorentz, 73, German kabarett artist and standup comedian, pneumonia.^[89]
• János Pap, 68, Hungarian communist politician, suicide.
• T. Chalapathi Rao, 73, Indian film music director.
• Barry Warren, 60, British actor.^[90]
• Dan Zakhem, 35, Israeli performance artist, AIDS-related brain cancer.

23

• Marvin Burke, 75, American NASCAR racecar driver.^[91]
• Odd Højdahl, 73, Norwegian politician.
• Arthur Piantadosi, 77, American sound engineer (All the President's Men, Tootsie, Altered States), Oscar winner (1977).
• Jackie Power, 77, Irish hurler and gaelic football player.
• Manfredo Tafuri, 58, Italian architect, historian, critic and academic, heart attack.^[92]

24

• Alighiero Boetti, 53, Italian conceptual artist.
• Maude Bonney, 96, South African-Australian aviator.^[93]
• Ulrich Gabler, 80, German U-boat chief engineer during World War II .
• Robert Gronowski, 67, Polish football player and manager.
• Ion Lăpușneanu, 85, Romanian football goalkeeper.^[94]
• Ladislav Mňačko, 75, Slovak writer and journalist.^[95]
• Jean Sablon, 87, French singer, songwriter, composer and actor.^[96]
• Dinah Shore, 77, American singer, actress, and television personality, ovarian cancer.^[97]
• Hugh Tayfield, 65, South African cricket player.

25

• Marvin J. Ashton, 78, American politician, writer, and apostle of the LDS Church.^[98]
• Russell Bufalino, 90, Italian-American mobster, heart attack.
• Givi Chokheli, 56, Georgian football player.^[99]
• Baruch Goldstein, 37, American-Israeli mass murderer and religious extremist, beaten to death.
• Hamoud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 47, Saudi royal and businessman.
• Jersey Joe Walcott, 80, American boxer.^[100]

26

• Else Ahlmann-Ohlsen, 86, Danish fencer.^[101]
• Tarık Buğra, 75, Turkish journalist, novelist and short story author.
• J. L. Carr, 81, English novelist, publisher, and eccentric.^[102]
• Sofka Dolgorouky, 86, Russian-British princess, writer and communist.^[103]
• Avery Fisher, 87, Amateur violinist and philanthropist.^[104]
• Bill Hicks, 32, American stand-up comedian, satirist, and musician, pancreatic cancer.^[105]
• Leopold Kohr, 84, Austrian-American economist, jurist and political scientist.^[106]
• Jack Oatey, 73, Australian rules football player and coach.

27

• Harold Acton, 89, British writer, scholar, and aesthete.^[107]
• Layton Fergusson, 85, Canadian politician.
• Arnold Townsend, 81, English cricket player.^[108]
• Tor Ørvig, 77, Norwegian-Swedish paleontologist.

28

• Olivier Alain, 75, French organist, pianist, musicologist and composer.^[109]
• Harvey Leibenstein, 71, Ukrainian-American economist.^[110]
• Pujie, 86, Chinese Qing dynasty imperial prince.
• Enrico Maria Salerno, 67, Italian actor, voice actor and film director, lung cancer.^[111]
• Jimmy Stevens, 74, Ni-Vanuatu nationalist and politician, stomach cancer.
• Jürgen von Alten, 91, German actor, screenwriter and film director.^[112]
• Skippy Williams, 77, American jazz tenor saxophonist and musical arranger.^[113]