The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 1994

1

• Imre Gyöngyössy, 64, Hungarian film director and screenwriter.^[1]
• Yigal Mossinson, 76, Israeli novelist, playwright, and inventor.^[2]
• Ayrton Senna, 34, Brazilian racing driver, racing accident. For more information, see Death of Ayrton Senna.^[3]
• Arnold Strippel, 82, German Nazi SS commander during World War II.

2

• Nathan Adler, 83, American psychoanalyst and professor of clinical psychology.
• Fahrettin Akbaş, 66-67, Turkish wrestler.^[4]
• Louis Calaferte, 65, French novelist.^[5]
• Anita Durante, 96, Italian actress.
• Buck Fausett, 86, American baseball player and manager.^[6]

3

• Francis Bell, 50, New Zealand actor, suicide.^[7]
• William Dickey, 65, American poet and professor of English, AIDS-related complications.^[8]
• Vladimir Kostine, 72, Russian basketball referee.
• Felipe Galarza Sánchez, 81, Spanish military officer.

4

• Per Engdahl, 85, Swedish far-right politician.
• Roger Jenkins, 82, American-Canadian ice hockey player.^[9]
• Kōtō Matsudaira, 91, Japanese diplomat.
• Josip Palada, 82, Yugoslavian tennis player.

5

• Egan Chambers, 73, Canadian politician.
• Joe Layton, 63, American director and choreographer.^[10]
• Harry O'Boyle, 89, American gridiron football player.^[11]
• Mário Quintana, 87, Brazilian writer and translator.^[12]
• Louise Troy, 60, American actress of stage and screen, breast cancer.^[13]
• Noel Wimalasena, 80, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.

6

• Gunnar Åhs, 78, Swedish bobsledder.
• Rafael Baledón, 74, Mexican film actor, director, screenwriter, and producer.^[14]
• Murray Boltinoff, 83, American writer and editor of comic books.
• John Henry Bremridge, 67, Hong Kong politician.
• Mkhitar Djrbashian, 75, Armenian mathematician.
• Ahmed Juffali, 70, Saudi businessman, heart attack.^[15]
• Malvina Pastorino, 77, Argentine film actress, fall.
• Moses Rosen, 81, Romanian rabbi.^[16]
• Fred Sadoff, 67, American actor, AIDS-related complications.^[17]
• Antal Szendey, 79, Hungarian rower and Olympian.^[18]

7

• Haim Bar-Lev, 69, Israeli general and politician, cancer.^[19]
• Clement Greenberg, 85, American essayist and visual art critic.^[20]
• John Thomas Howell, 90, American botanist and taxonomist.^[21]
• Mpinga Kasenda, 56, Prime Minister of Zaire under Mobutu Sese Seko, accident.
• Pahor Labib, 88, Egyptian egyptologist and coptologist.
• Andy McEvoy, 55, Irish football player.^[22]
• Chuck Taylor, 74, American football player and coach.^[23]
• Aharon Yariv, 73, Israeli politician and general.^[24]

8

• Edith Bullock, 91, American businesswoman and politician.
• Einar Diesen, 96, Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor.
• Jim Finks, 66, American football player, coach, and executive, lung cancer.^[25]
• Steven Keats, 49, American actor (Death Wish, Black Sunday, Silent Rage), suicide.^[26]
• George Peppard, 65, American actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's, The A-Team, The Carpetbaggers), lung cancer.^[27]
• Murray Spivack, 90, Russian-American sound engineer.^[28]

9

• Anni Albers, 94, American textile artist and printmaker.^[29]
• Ralph Brickner, 69, American Major League Baseball player.^[30]
• Allan Frost Archer, 86, American entomologist and arachnologist.
• Bengt Lehander, 68, Swedish Air Force officer.
• Heinz-Werner Meyer, 61, German trade union leader and politician.

10

• Cleanth Brooks, 87, American literary critic and professor.^[31]
• John Wayne Gacy Jr., 52, American serial killer and sex offender, execution by lethal injection.^[32]
• Lucebert, 69, Dutch poet and painter.^[33]
• Elias Motsoaledi, 69, South African anti-apartheid activist.^[34]
• Lil Picard, 94, German-American actress, artist, and journalist.^[35]

11

• Louis-Thomas Achille, 84, Martiniquais intellectual, educator and musician.^[36]
• David Howard Adeney, 82, British missionary and university evangelist.^[37]
• S. A. Ajayi, 89, Nigerian statesman.^[38]
• Alfred James Broomhall, 82, British missionary in China and author.
• Timothy Carey, 65, American actor (The Killing, Paths of Glory, One-Eyed Jacks), stroke.^[39]
• Nikolay Fyodorov, 80, Soviet-Russian animator, director, writer and cartoonist.^[40]
• Henri Guisol, 89, French film actor.^[41]
• Lloyd Hughes, 81, Australian politician.
• Helmut Käser, 81, Swiss lawyer and general secretary of FIFA.
• Romano Puppo, 61, Italian stuntman and actor, traffic collision.
• Bennie Warren, 82, American Major League Baseball player.^[42]

12

• Xen Balaskas, 83, South African cricket player.
• Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet, 91, British politician, art collector and philanthropist.
• Catherine Berndt, 76, Australian anthropologist.^[43]
• Paul Cushing Child, 92, American civil servant, diplomat, and artist.^[44]
• Erik Erikson, 91, Danish-German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst.^[45]
• Si Johnson, 87, American baseball player.^[46]
• Roy J. Plunkett, 83, American chemist, cancer.^[47]
• John Smith, 55, Scottish politician, heart attack.^[48]
• André Zwobada, 84, French screenwriter, producer and film director.^[49]

13

• Vladimir Antoshin, 64, Soviet/Russian chess Grandmaster.
• Duncan Hamilton, 74, British racing driver.^[50]
• John Francis Kennedy, 88, American politician.
• John Swainson, 68, Canadian-American politician and jurist.^[51]

14

• Dave Albritton, 81, American high jumper, and coach, and politician.
• Cihat Arman, 78, Turkish football goalkeeper and manager.^[52]
• W. Graham Claytor, Jr., 82, American Navy officer, attorney, and government official.^[53]
• Burt Monroe, 63, American ornithologist.
• Brian Roper, 64, British-American actor, and real estate agent.
• Olga Spiridonović, 70, Serbian actress.
• Leonard Teale, 71, Australian actor, radio announcer, and presenter.^[54]
• Robert G. Vosper, 80, American educator and librarian.

15

• Omprakesh Agrawal, 39, Indian snooker player, cancer.
• Leonard Carpenter, 91, American rower and Olympian.^[55]
• Royal Dano, 71, American actor (The Outlaw Josey Wales, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, The Right Stuff), heart attack.^[56]
• Oskar Heil, 86, German electrical engineer and inventor.
• Sherman Landers, 96, American track and field athlete and Olympian.^[57]
• Alexander Nove, 78, British professor of Economics.^[58]
• Gilbert Roland, 88, Mexican-American actor, cancer.^[59]
• Robert T. Secrest, 90, American politician.

16

• Val A. Browning, 98, American gunmaker and philanthropist.^[60]
• Alain Cuny, 85, French actor in theatre and cinema.^[61]
• Dalmiro Finol, 74, Venezuelan baseball player.
• Zdeňka Honsová, 66, Czech gymnast and Olympian.^[62]
• Phani Majumdar, 82, Indian film director.
• Roy McElroy, 87, New Zealand lawyer and politician.
• Alfred Otto Carl Nier, 82, American physicist.^[63]
• Paul Shulman, 72, Israeli Navy officer.

17

• Gérson da Silva, 28, Brazilian football player, AIDS-related complications.
• Nicolás Gómez Dávila, 80, Colombian philosopher, cardiovascular disease.
• Leonila Garcia, 87, Filipino pharmacist.
• Irène Hamoir, 87, Belgian novelist and poet.^[64]
• Étienne Hirsch, 93, French civil engineer and member of the French Resistance during World War II.^[65]
• Vladimír Podzimek, 29, Czechoslovakian ski jumper and Olympian, suicide.^[66]
• Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, 82, Austrian anthropologist and archaeologist.^[67]
• John Thanos, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[68]

18

• Harry Barker, 95, New Zealand newspaper journalist and editor.^[69]
• John Cramer, 98, Australian politician, heart attack.^[70]
• Manuel Manahan, 78, Filipino politician, journalist, and businessman.
• Mamintal A.J. Tamano, 65, Filipino politician statesman.

19

• Joseph Chatt, 79, British chemist.^[71]
• Jacques Ellul, 82, French philosopher and sociologist.^[72]
• Henry Morgan, 79, American humorist, lung cancer.^[73]
• Luis Ocaña, 48, Spanish road bicycle racer, suicide.^[74]
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 64, American socialite, writer, and First Lady of the United States, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.^[75]

20

• Bartine Burkett, 96, American film actress, heart attack.^[76]
• Fernande Giroux, Canadian actress and jazz singer.
• Ingrid Hafner, 57, British actress, ALS.^[77]
• Kasu Brahmananda Reddy, 84, Indian politician.
• Jiří Sobotka, 82, Czechoslovak football player.

21

• Martin Doherty, 35, Irish republican and IRA volunteer, shot.
• Giovanni Goria, 50, Italian politician, lung cancer.^[78]
• David S. Holmes Jr., 79, American politician.^[79]
• Masayoshi Ito, 80, Japanese politician.
• Norman Low, 80, Scottish football player and manager.^[80]
• Ralph Miliband, 70, British sociologist, heart attack.^[81]
• Johan Hendrik Weidner, 81, Dutch member of the resistance during World War II.
• Cliff Wilson, 60, Welsh snooker player.

22

• Jane Dulo, 75, American actress and comedian.
• Gerhard Krüger, 85, German Nazi Party student leader and later a neo-Nazi figure.
• Mitacq, 66, Belgian comics author.^[82]
• Norman Read, 62, New Zealand racewalker and Olympian, heart attack.^[83]

23

• Al Baldwin, 71, American gridiron football player.^[84]
• Ray Candy, 42, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• George de Godzinsky, 79, Russian-Finnish composer and conductor.^[85]
• Olav Hauge, 85, Norwegian horticulturist, translator and poet.
• Leo Kuper, 89, South African sociologist.^[86]
• George Metesky, 90, American electrician and mechanic.^[87]
• Joe Pass, 65, American jazz guitarist, liver cancer.^[88]
• Oscar Saul, 81, American screenwriter.^[89]
• Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers, 86, British politician.

24

• Martin Goldsmith, 80, American screenwriter and novelist.
• Julien Hébert, 76, Québécois industrial designer.^[90]
• Bill Schutte, 84, American football player and coach.
• John Wain, 69, English poet, novelist, and critic.^[91]

25

• Joe Brainard, 52, American artist and writer, AIDS-related complications.^[92]
• Willi Eichhorn, 85, German rower and Olympian.^[93]
• Eric Gale, 55, American jazz and R&B guitarist, lung cancer.^[94]
• John Mackie, Baron John-Mackie, 84, British politician.
• Robert Paverick, 81, Belgian football player.

26

• Károly Antal, 84, Hungarian sculptor.
• George Ball, 84, American diplomat and banker.^[95]
• Muriel Cooper, 69, American book designer, digital designer, and researcher.^[96]
• Shelby Cullom Davis, 85, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.^[97]
• Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji, 97, Bhutanese royal and politician.
• Gil Fuller, 74, American jazz arranger, composer and bandleader.^[98]
• André Gérard, 83, French football player and manager.
• Jules Keignaert, 86, French water polo player and politician.^[99]
• Hezy Leskly, 41, Israeli poet, choreographer, painter and art critic, AIDS-related complications.
• Pug Lund, 81, American gridiron football player.
• Norberto Menéndez, 57, Argentine football player.
• Sonny Sharrock, 53, American jazz guitarist, heart attack.^[100]
• Robbie Stanley, 26, American auto racing driver, racing accident.
• Red Treadway, 74, American baseball player.^[101]

27

• Klaus Beckmann, 49, German politician.
• Charles Rodman Campbell, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by hanging.^[102]
• Luis de Carlos, 87, Spanish football executive.
• Lakshman Shastri Joshi, 93, Indian writer, scholar, and literary critic.
• George Melinkovich, 82, American football player and coach.
• Red Rodney, 66, American jazz trumpeter, lung cancer.^[103]
• Art Spinney, 66, American football player.^[104]

28

• Julius Boros, 74, American golfer, heart attack.^[105]
• James Burke, 67, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
• Daniel Flood, 90, American attorney and politician.^[106]
• Zainulabedin Gulamhusain Rangoonwala, 80, Indian activist and banker.
• Hugh Stirling, 86, Canadian football player.
• Max Walter Svanberg, 82, Swedish painter, illustrator, and designer.^[107]
• Branislav Varsik, 90, Slovak historian and archivist.

29

• José Bohr, 92, German-Chilean film director, producer, actor and screenwriter.
• Peter Cranmer, 79, English sportsman.
• Raymond Fellay, 62, Swiss alpine skier and Olympian.^[108]
• Erich Honecker, 81, German communist politician and leader of the GDR, liver cancer.^[109]
• Oliver Jackson, 61, American jazz drummer, heart failure.^[110]
• Joseph Janni, 78, British film producer.^[111]
• Harry Levin, 81, American literary critic and scholar.^[112]
• Áskell Löve, 77, Icelandic botanist.
• Lady May Abel Smith, 88, British noblewoman.

30

• Malouf Abraham Sr., 78, American businessman and politician.^[113]
• Serge Afanasyan, 81, Armenian historian.^[114]
• Ezra Taft Benson, 94, American farmer, government official, and religious leader, heart failure.^[115]
• Marcel Bich, 79, Italian-French industrialist and co-founder of Bic.^[116]
• Agostino Di Bartolomei, 39, Italian football player, suicide.^[117]
• Donald Hill, 71, British engineer and historian of science and technology.
• Jack Krol, 57, American baseball coach and manager, cancer.^[118]
• Juan Carlos Onetti, 84, Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories, heart attack.^[119]
• Juzo Sanada, 71, Japanese baseball player.^[120]
• Pavle Savić, 85, Serbian physicist and chemist.^[121]
• István Tamássy, 83, Hungarian football player.

31

• Frank Beck, 51, English convicted child sex offender, heart attack.
• Mbaye Diagne, 36, Senegalese military officer, killed in action.
• Sidney Gilliat, 86, English film director, producer and writer.^[122]
• Manny Klein, 86, American jazz trumpeter.^[123]
• Herva Nelli, 85, Italian-American operatic soprano, leukemia.^[124]
• Samta Prasad, 72, Indian classical musician and tabla player.^[125]
• Henri Woode, 84, American composer, lyricist, arranger, and singer.
• Hannah Marie Wormington, 79, American archaeologist.^[126]