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.^[1]
• George Cannon, 62, Canadian pro wrestler and wrestling manager, cancer.^[2]
• Helena Grossówna, 89, Polish actress and dancer.
• Asif Maharammov, 41, Azerbaijani lieutenant colonel, tuberculosis.

2

• Lucio Amelio, 62, Italian art dealer, curator, and actor.
• Roberto Balado, 25, Cuban amateur boxer and Olympic champion, railway accident.^[3]
• Andrés Escobar, 27, Colombian football player, homicide.
• Maung Maung, 69, President of Burma and writer, heart attack.^[4]
• Ralph Rinzler, 59, American mandolin player, folksinger, and festival organizer.^[5]
• Marion Williams, 66, American gospel singer.^[6]

3

• Zelma Watson George, 90, American opera singer and philanthropist.^[7]
• Lew Hoad, 59, Australian tennis player, leukemia.^[8]
• Felix Kelly, 80, New Zealand-British graphic designer, painter, stage designer, and illustrator.^[9]
• 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.^[10]
• Stevan Dohanos, 87, American artist and illustrator, pneumonia.^[11]
• Alfred Harvey, 80, American comic book publisher and comic book character creator (Richie Rich, Little Dot).
• Joey Marella, 31, American professional wrestling referee, traffic collision.
• Gerard C. Smith, 80, American attorney and defense expert.^[12]
• Hedda Zinner, 90, German actress, comedian, journalist and radio director.

5

• Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, 86, Indian independence activist and writer .
• Charles Comfort, 93, Scottish-Canadian painter, sculptor, and writer.^[13]
• 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.^[14]
• Tawfiq Ziad, 65, Palestinian Israeli politician, traffic collision.

6

• Alfonso Casasempere, 84, Chilean swimmer and Olympian.^[15]
• 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.^[16]
• Baruch Osnia, 88, Israeli politician.
• Jim Stott, 74, English rugby player.

7

• Aspy Adajania, 52, Indian officer and boxing administrator.^[17]
• Aaron Antonovsky, 70, Israeli-American sociologist and academic.
• Carlo Chiti, 69, Italian racing car and engine designer.^[18]
• Anita Garvin, 88, American stage performer and film actress.^[19]
• 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.^[20]
• John S.R. Shad, 71, American diplomat and ambassador.^[21]
• Ka. Mu. Sheriff, 79, Indian writer and poet.

8

• Christian-Jaque, 89, French filmmaker, heart attack.^[22]
• Robert B. Hauser, 75, American cinematographer.^[23]
• Kim Il Sung, 82, Founder and first leader of North Korea, heart attack.^[24]
• Robert Edwin Lee, 75, American playwright and lyricist.^[25]
• Lars-Eric Lindblad, 67, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer.
• José García Narezo, 71, Mexican painter.
• Dick Sargent, 64, American actor (Bewitched, Operation Petticoat, Down to Earth), prostate cancer.^[26]

9

• Enrico Airoldi, 70, Italian bobsledder.^[27]
• Trevor King, 41, British Ulster loyalist and UVF member.
• Sabby Lewis, 79, American jazz pianist, band leader, and arranger.^[28]
• Bill Mosienko, 72, Ukrainian Canadian ice hockey player.^[29]
• Paul M. Naghdi, 70, Irani-American engineer, lung cancer.^[30]
• Surendra Nath, 68, Indian politician and Governor of Punjab.
• W. L. Warren, 64, British historian and medievalist.^[31]

10

• Lélia Gonzalez, 59, Brazilian politician, anthropologist and human rights activist.
• André Joseph Guillaume Henri Kostermans, 88, Indonesian botanist.^[32]
• Robert Mellin, 91, Ukrainian-American composer, lyricist and music publisher.
• Earl Strom, 66, American National Basketball Association referee, brain cancer.^[33]

11

• Lex Humphries, 57, American jazz drummer.^[34]
• Gary Kildall, 52, American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur, injury.^[35]
• Rama Raghoba Rane, 76, Indian Army officer.
• Savannah, 23, American pornographic film actress, suicide.

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.
• James Joll, 76, British historian.^[36]
• Irena Krzywicka, 95, Polish feminist, writer, and women's rights activist .^[37]
• David Malcolm Lewis, 66, English historian.^[38]
• Wal-Berg, 83, French composer and conductor.

13

• Eddie Boyd, 79, American blues pianist, singer and songwriter.^[39]
• Anita Bärwirth, 75, German gymnast.^[40]
• Gerry Couture, 68, Canadian ice hockey player.^[41]
• John Kramer, 59, Danish football player.^[42]
• Juozas Miltinis, 86, Lithuanian actor and theatre director.
• Jimmie Reese, 92, American Major League Baseball player.^[43]
• Murray Tyrrell, 80, Australian public servant.
• Marik Vos-Lundh, 71, Swedish costume designer.^[44]
• Olin Chaddock Wilson, 85, American astronomer.^[45]

14

• Robert Jungk, 81, Austrian writer, journalist, historian and pacifist.^[46]
• Eric Linden, 84, American actor.^[47]
• Alberto Lionello, 64, Italian film actor, singer and presenter, cancer.^[48]
• Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, 96, Dutch engraver, visual artist, and book designer.^[49]
• César Tovar, 54, Venezuelan baseball player, pancreatic cancer.^[50]

15

• Patricio Carvajal, 77, Chilean admiral and member of the military dictatorship, suicide.^[51]
• Harald Molander, 84, Swedish film producer.
• Mona Rico, 87, Mexican-American actress.
• William Walters, 86, South African athlete and Olympian.^[52]

16

• Madzy Rollin Couquerque, 91, Dutch hockey- and tennis player.^[53]
• Robert Médus, 65, French rugby union and rugby league football player.^[54]
• William Revelli, 92, American conductor.^[55]
• Julian Schwinger, 76, American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, pancreatic cancer.^[56]

17

• Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana, 86, Indonesian novelist and poet.
• Krešimir Arapović, 69, Croatian football player and manager.
• Jean Borotra, 95, French tennis champion.^[57]
• Harry Harris, 74, British-American biochemist and geneticist.^[58]
• Horrie Gorringe, 99, Australian rules football player.
• Billy Hillenbrand, 72, American gridiron football player.^[59]
• Henry Maier, 76, American politician, pneumonia.^[60]
• Jerry Mays, 54, American gridiron football player, melanoma.
• 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.^[61]
• 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.^[62]

19

• Eilís Dillon, 74, Irish author.^[63]
• Rudolf Firkušný, 82, Moravian-American classical pianist.^[64]
• Ray Flaherty, 90, American NBA football player and coach.^[65]
• Ernst Müller-Hermann, 78, German politician.
• Andy Penman, 51, Scottish football player.
• Gottfried Reinhardt, 81, Austrian-American film director and producer, pancreatic cancer.^[66]
• W. L. Warren, 64, British historian and medievalist .^[67]
• Han Xu, 70, Chinese diplomat.^[68]

20

• Paul Delvaux, 96, Belgian painter.^[69]
• Patrick J. Hillings, 71, American politician.^[70]
• Suzanne Juyol, 74, French opera soprano.^[71]
• 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.^[72]
• Dorothy Collins, 67, Canadian-American singer, actress, and recording artist, asthma.^[73]
• John Ernest, 72, American abstract artist.
• Clarissa Kaye, 63, Australian actress, cancer.^[74]
• Charles Lynch, 74, Canadian journalist and author.^[75]
• Marijac, 85, French comics writer, artist, and editor.
• Henri Mouillefarine, 83, French cyclist.^[76]
• Hugh Scott, 93, American lawyer and politician, heart attack.^[77]

22

• Colin Cole, 78, English cricket player.^[78]
• Jack Harrold, 74, American opera singer.
• Jim Healy, 70, American sports commentator, complications of liver cancer.^[79]
• Alexandre Hogue, 96, American artist.^[80]

23

• Eva Bacon, 85, Austrian-Australian activist and feminist.
• Mario Brega, 71, Italian actor, heart attack.
• Umberto Cerati, 83, Italian long-distance runner and Olympian.^[81]
• Hans J. Salter, 98, Austrian-American film composer (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).^[82]
• Lennox Sebe, 67, President of Ciskei.
• John Marlow Thompson, 79, British RAF officer and flying ace during World War II.

24

• Leo Brongersma, 87, Dutch zoologist, herpetologist, and author.^[83]
• Helen Cordero, 79, American Cochiti Pueblo potter.
• Utaro Hashimoto, 87, Japanese 9-dan Go player.
• Robert Wangila, 26, Kenyan boxer and Olympic champion, injuries sustained during boxing match.^[84]

25

• Walter Baxter, 79, English novelist.^[85]
• Gerald Eades Bentley, 92, American academic and literary scholar.^[86]
• Jack Clemo, 78, British poet and writer.^[87]
• David Regan, 55, British academic, suicide.^[88]
• William E. Schevill, 88, American paleontologist.^[89]

26

• James Luther Adams, 92, American theologian.^[90]
• Roland Gladu, 83, Canadian baseball third baseman.^[91]
• Christy Henrich, 22, American artistic gymnast, anorexia nervosa.^[92]
• W. Dorr Legg, 89, American landscape architect gay rights activist.^[93]
• Tonia Marketaki, 51, Greek film director and screenwriter.
• Ernst Schröder, 79, German actor, suicide.^[94]
• Terry Scott, 67, English actor and comedian, cancer.
• Junnosuke Yoshiyuki, 70, Japanese novelist and short-story writer, liver cancer.^[95]

27

• Kevin Carter, 33, South African photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, suicide.^[96]
• Rosa Chacel, 96, Spanish writer.^[97]
• Irving Folwartshny, 80, American hammer thrower and weight thrower.
• Eduard Kolmanovsky, 71, Soviet/Russian composer.
• Howie Livingston, 72, American gridiron football player.^[98]
• Tai Solarin, 71, Nigerian educator and author.^[99]

28

• Bernard Delfont, 84, Russian-British theatrical impresario.^[100]
• Arthur Holt, 83, British cricket player.
• Alfred Phillips, 86, Canadian diver and Olympian.^[101]
• Erwin Ringel, 73, Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist.^[102]
• Colin Turnbull, 69, British-American anthropologist, AIDS-related complications.^[103]
• Munawwaruz Zaman, 44, Pakistani field hockey player, heart atack.

29

• Grigol Abashidze, 79, Georgian poet.^[104]
• John Britton, 69, American physician, homicide.
• Dorothy Hodgkin, 84, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate, cerebral hemorrhage.^[105]
• Mussum, 53, Brazilian actor and musician, cardiovascular disease.
• Paul Francis Tanner, 89, American Roman Catholic bishop.

30

• Ipče Ahmedovski, 28, Serbian and Macedonian folk singer, road accident.^[106]
• John Barnabas, 64, Indian evolutionary biologist.
• Janis Carter, 80, American actress, heart attack.^[107]
• Lionel Deraniyagala, 53, Sri Lankan actor.
• Konstantin Kalser, 73, German-American film producer and advertising executive.^[108]
• Derek Raymond, 63, English crime writer.^[109]
• Ryszard Riedel, 37, Polish singer and songwriter.
• Theo van Scheltinga, 80, Dutch chess player.

31

• Joe Bratty, 33, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, shot by the IRA.^[110]
• Raymond Elder, 32, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, shot by the IRA.^[110]
• Carlos A. Santos-Viola, 82, Filipino architect .
• Anne Shelton, 70, English vocalist, heart attack.
• Caitlin Thomas, 80, English author and the wife of writer Dylan Thomas.^[111]