The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 1994

1

• David Berg, 75, American founder and leader of religious movement The Family International.
• Ron Herron, 64, English architect and teacher.^[1]
• Bud Houser, 93, American field athlete.^[2]
• Donald Roy Irvine, 74, Canadian politician.
• Oluyemi Kayode, 26, Nigerian sprinter, traffic collision.^[3]
• Paul Lorenzen, 79, German philosopher and mathematician.^[4]
• Marjorie Weaver, 81, American actress, heart attack.^[5]

2

• Matthew Black, 86, Scottish minister and biblical scholar.^[6]
• Claude Harris, Jr., 54, American politician.
• Harry Hodgkinson, 81, British writer, journalist, and naval intelligence officer.
• Harriet Nelson, 85, American singer and actress (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), heart failure.^[7]

3

• Tim Asch, 62, American anthropologist, photographer, and ethnographic filmmaker, cancer.^[8]
• Virginia Dale, 77, American actress and dancer.^[9]
• Lassi Parkkinen, 77, Finnish speed skater.^[10]
• Heinz Rühmann, 92, German film actor.^[11]
• Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis, 92, German Benedictine and nobleman.
• Dub Taylor, 87, American actor (The Wild Bunch, Bonnie and Clyde, Casey Jones).

4

• Yardena Alotin, 64, Israeli composer and pianist.^[12]
• Bill Challis, 90, American jazz arranger.^[13]
• Danny Gatton, 49, American guitarist, suicide.^[14]
• Shmuel Merlin, 84, Israeli Revisionist Zionist activist and politician.
• Effat Nagy, 89, Egyptian artist.
• John Opper, 85, American abstract painter.^[15]
• Andrea Velis, 62, American operatic tenor.^[16]

5

• Luc Jouret, 46, Belgian religious cult leader, suicide.^[17]
• Gordon Juckes, 80, Canadian ice hockey administrator.
• Nini Rosso, 68, Italian jazz trumpeter and composer, lung cancer.
• Walt Schlinkman, 72, American gridiron football player and coach.^[18]
• William R. Smedberg III, 92, United States Navy vice admiral.
• Jacques Tarride, 91, French actor.
• Doug Wildey, 72, American cartoonist and comic book artist.^[19]

6

• Jo Colruyt, 66, Belgian businessman.
• Per Mørch Hansson, 89, Norwegian sportsman and businessman.
• G. Joseph Tauro, 88, American judge and Chief justice (1970-1976).^[20]
• Tadeusz Żakiej, 79, Polish musicologist and music publicist, and food writer.^[21]

7

• Piotr Alberti, 80, Soviet/Russian painter.
• Maya Bulgakovа, 62, Soviet/Russian actress, traffic collision.^[22]
• Bruce Cork, 78, American physicist.
• Ray Ellefson, 66, American basketball player.^[23]
• Jack Fitzgerald, 80, Irish Labour Party politician.
• Carlos Gracie, 92, Brazilian martial artist.
• Viktors Hatuļevs, 39, Soviet/Latvian ice hockey defenseman and left winger.
• James Hill, 75, British film and television director, screenwriter and producer.^[24]
• Niels Kaj Jerne, 82, Danish immunologist.^[25]
• Maurício do Valle, 66, Brazilian film actor, diabetes.

8

• Anthony Abell, 87, British colonial official.^[26]
• Diana Churchill, 81, English actress, multiple sclerosis.^[27]
• Brian Hartley, 55, British mathematician specialising in group theory, heart attack.
• Khaled al-Hassan, 66, Palestinian politician, adviser of Yasser Arafat and founder of militant organization Fatah.^[28]
• Alan M. Holman, 89, American football player and coach.
• Jan de Koning, 68, Dutch politician and social geographer, cancer.
• John Neely, 64, American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger.

9

• Raich Carter, 80, English sportsman.^[29]
• Bill Fox, 95, New Zealand politician.
• Idris Hopkins, 83, Welsh football player.
• Nikolai Karetnikov, 64, Soviet /Russian composer of underground music.
• Fred Lebow, 62, American runner and race director.^[30]
• Philip Burton Moon, 87, British nuclear physicist.^[31]
• Lawrence Simmons, 83, American football and baseball coach.
• Rolf Thiele, 76, German film director, producer and screenwriter.^[32]

10

• Richard J. C. Atkinson, 74, British prehistorian and archaeologist.^[33]
• John C. Champion, 70, American producer and screenwriter.^[34]
• Nola Luxford, 92, New Zealand-American film actress.
• SM Sultan, 71, Bangladeshi painter.

11

• Jarvis Hunt, 90, American politician.
• Keiji Imai, 77, Japanese sprinter.^[35]
• Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov, 74, French Resistance member.
• Frank McGuire, 79, American basketball coach.^[36]

12

• John Blackburn, 61, British politician.
• Raymond Garrett, 93, Australian military officer, photographer, and politician.
• Gérald Godin, 55, Quebec poet and politician.^[37]
• Werner Kubitzki, 79, German field hockey player.^[38]
• Manole Marcus, 66, Romanian film director and screenwriter.
• Yakov Punkin, 72, Ukrainian featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler.^[39]
• Sady Rebbot, 59, French actor, cancer.^[40]

13

• Fiodar Fiodaraŭ, 83, Soviet/Belarusian physicist.
• Ture Königson, 84, Swedish evangelical politician.
• Eric Morse, 5, American murder victim, fall.^[41]
• Samuel Jacob Sesanus Olsen, 90, Faroese teacher, writer and translator.
• Guido Wolf, 70, Liechtenstein sports shooter.^[42]

14

• Gioconda de Vito, 87, Italian-British violinist.^[43]
• Harry Fleer, 78, American actor.
• Setu Madhavrao Pagdi, 84, Indian civil servant, polyglot, and historian.
• Nikolai Skomorokhov, 74, Soviet Air Forces flying ace during World War II, traffic collision.
• Karl Edward Wagner, 48, American writer, poet, editor, and publisher.
• Petar Šegedin, 68, Yugoslav steeplechase and long-distance runner.^[44]

15

• Avis Acres, 84, New Zealand artist, writer, illustrator and conservationist.^[45]
• Jean Dasté, 90, Frenck actor and theatre director.^[46]
• Sarah Kofman, 60, French philosopher, suicide.^[47]
• George Meader, 87, American politician.^[48]
• Jozo Tomasevich, 86, American economist and military historian.^[49]

16

• Joan Airey, 68, British artistic gymnast.^[50]
• Kunigunde Bachl, 75, German physician and politician, member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein^[51]
• Peter Bromilow, 61, English actor (Camelot, The Railway Children, The Rocketeer).
• Ed Cody, 71, American football player and coach.^[52]
• Monja Danischewsky, 83, British producer and writer.
• Michela Fanini, 21, Italian racing cyclist, traffic collision.^[53]
• Ganesh Ghosh, 94, Indian independence activist, revolutionary and politician.
• Josef Kraft, 73, German Luftwaffe pilot during World War II and later an officer in the German Air Force.

17

• P. M. Aboobacker, Indian politician.^[54]
• George Barrows, 80, American actor.
• Ralph Hill, 86, American runner.^[55]
• Dmitry Kholodov, 27, Russian journalist, homicide.^[56]
• Gus Risman, 83, Welsh rugby player.

18

• Herman Ahlsell, 75, Swedish director and actor.^[57]
• Lee Allen, 67, American tenor saxophone player.^[58]
• Walker Lee Cisler, 97, American engineer and business executive.^[59]
• Xavier Depraz, 68, French opera singer and actor.^[60]
• Else Klink, 86, German Eurythmist.
• Eddie Mast, 46, American basketball player.^[61]
• Conchita Montes, 80, Spanish film actress.^[62]
• Max Müller, 88, German philosopher and Catholic intellectual.^[63]
• Li Qingwei, 74, People's Republic of China politician.

19

• Ray Birdwhistell, 76, American anthropologist.^[64]
• Hedi Flitz, 94, German politician.
• M. C. M. Kaleel, 94, Ceylonese physician, social worker and politician.
• Jacopo Napoli, 83, Italian composer.
• Martha Raye, 78, American comic actress and singer, pneumonia.^[65]
• Nyanaponika Thera, 93, German-born Theravada Buddhist monk and scholar.
• Oldřich Černík, 72, Czech politician and Prime minister of Czechoslovakia.^[66]

20

• Sergei Bondarchuk, 74, Soviet/Russian actor, film director, and screenwriter, heart attack.^[67]
• Shlomo Carlebach, 69, Jewish rabbi, spiritual leader, composer, and singer, heart attack.^[68]
• Viola Gråsten, 83, Swedish textile designer.
• Barbara Ingram, 46, American R&B singer and songwriter.
• Hakob Karapents, 69, Iranian-Armenian author.^[69]
• Burt Lancaster, 80, American actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry, Birdman of Alcatraz), Oscar winner (1961), heart attack.^[70]
• Robert Medley, 88, English artist.^[71]
• Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, 69, Italian film actor.^[72]
• Francis Steegmuller, 88, American biographer, translator and fiction writer.^[73]

21

• Bunny Adair, 89, Australian politician.
• Thore Ehrling, 81, Swedish trumpeter, composer, and bandleader.
• George H. Gay, 77, United States Navy bomber pilot during World War II.^[74]
• Jerome Wiesner, 79, American engineer and president of MIT.^[75]

22

• Wali Ahmed, Bangladesh Awami League politician.^[76]
• William Frankena, 86, American moral philosopher.^[77]
• Harold Hopkins, 75, British physicist.
• Handel Manuel, 76, Indian pianist, organist, conductor, composer and accompanist.
• Rollo May, 85, American existential psychologist and author.^[78]
• Jimmy Miller, 52, American record producer and musician, liver disease.^[79]
• Benoît Régent, 41, French actor, aneurysm.
• Andrea Zambelli, 67, Italian bobsledder.

23

• Jack Gibson, 86, English schoolmaster, academic and mountaineer.
• Robert Lansing, 66, American actor (12 O'Clock High. The Equalizer, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues), cancer.^[80]
• Bill Leonard, 78, American journalist and television executive, stroke.^[81]
• Yisroel Ber Odesser, 106, Israeli Breslover Hasid and rabbi.
• Cornelis Pama, 77, Dutch bookseller, publisher, heraldist and genealogist.

24

• René Clermont, 72, French stage and film actor and playwright.^[82]
• Sólo̱n Zéfyros Gri̱goriádi̱s, 82, Greek Navy officer, journalist, writer and politician.
• Hans Jacobs, 87, German sailplane designer and pioneer.
• Edward St John, 78, Australian barrister, anti-nuclear activist and politician.^[83]
• Raul Julia, 54, Puerto Rican actor (Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Addams Family, Presumed Innocent), Emmy winner (1995), stroke.^[84]
• John Lautner, 83, American architect.^[85]
• Ian Potter, 92, Australian stockbroker, businessman and philanthropist.^[86]
• Guy Powles, 89, New Zealand diplomat, and New Zealand's first Ombudsman.
• Alexander Shelepin, 76, Soviet politician and security and intelligence officer.^[87]
• Notable people killed in the 1994 Colombo suicide attack
  • Ossie Abeygunasekera, 44, Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament
  • Gamini Dissanayake, 52, Sri Lankan politician and Leader of the Opposition^[88]
  • Weerasinghe Mallimaratchi, 64, Sri Lankan politician and cabinet minister
  • G. M. Premachandra, 54, Sri Lankan politician and cabinet minister

25

• Yang Dezhi, 83, Chinese general and politician.^[89]
• George Fallon, 80, American baseball player.^[90]
• Bob Gantt, 72, American basketball player.^[91]
• Emil Grünig, 79, Swiss sport shooter.^[92]
• Lillian Hayman, 72, American actress and singer, heart attack.^[93]
• Kara Hultgreen, 29, American naval aviator, plane crash.^[94]
• Hou Jingru, 92, Chinese Army officer and politician.
• Antal Kocsis, 88, Hungarian boxer.^[95]
• József Kozma, 69, Hungarian basketball player.^[96]
• Karl-Heinz Metzner, 71, German football player.^[97]
• Mildred Natwick, 89, American actress (Barefoot in the Park, Dangerous Liaisons, The Snoop Sisters), Emmy winner (1974), cancer.^[98]
• Frank Spaniel, 66, American gridiron football player.

26

• Norma Dee Edwards, 82, American politician.^[99]
• Wilbert Harrison, 65, American rhythm and blues musician, stroke.^[100]
• Herbert Holba, 62, Austrian film director and screenwriter.^[101]
• Stella Kübler, 72, German Jewish woman and Gestapo collaborator during WorldWar II, suicide by drowning.
• Tutta Rolf, 87, Norwegian-Swedish film and theatre actress and singer.^[102]

27

• Kay Bell, 80, American gridiron football player, cancer.^[103]
• Wally Halder, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.^[104]
• James Schwarzenbach, 83, Swiss right-wing politician and publicist.
• Omar Wahrouch, 68, Moroccan singer-poet and songwriter.
• Robert White, 57, American soul musician and a guitarist (Funk Brothers).

28

• William Boon, 83, British chemist.^[105]
• Marcia Anastasia Christoforides, 85, British philanthropist, art collector, and racehorse owner.
• Calvin Souther Fuller, 92, American physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories.^[106]
• Doghmi Larbi, 63, Moroccan actor.
• Ramakrushna Nanda, 88, Indian writer, educator and children's author.
• Irene Robertson, 62, American hurdler.^[107]

29

• Shlomo Goren, 77, Polish-Israeli Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi and Talmudic scholar.^[108]
• Ernst Heinrichsohn, 74, German lawyer and SS officer during World War II.
• Jalmari Kivenheimo, 105, Finnish gymnast.^[109]
• Manuel Barbachano Ponce, 69, Mexican film producer, director, and screenwriter.^[110]
• Pearl Primus, 74, American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist.^[111]

30

• Frank Coggins, 50, American baseball player.^[112]
• Oakley C. Collins, 78, American politician.
• Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, 88, Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist, diabetes.^[113]
• Swaran Singh, 87, Indian politician, heart attack.^[114]

31

• Hal Ellson, 84, American author of pulp fiction, heart attack.^[115]
• John Pope-Hennessy, 80, British art historian.^[116]
• Lester Sill, 76, American record label executive.^[117]
• Erling Stordahl, 71, Norwegian farmer and singer.