The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 1994

1

• Konrad Ameln, 95, German hymnologist and musicologist.^[1]
• Artur Balsam, 88, Polish-American classical pianist and pedagogue.^[2]
• Roy Bryant, 63, American white supremacist, ex-paratrooper, and store owner, colon cancer.
• Thomas Chastain, 73, American author of crime fiction, lung cancer.^[3]
• Hollis B. Chenery, 76, American economist.^[4]
• Bob Greenwood, 66, Mexican baseball player.^[5]
• Wallis Mathias, 59, Pakistani cricket player.
• Charles Saunders, 91, New Zealand rower.^[6]

2

• Roy Castle, 62, English dancer, singer, actor, television presenter and musician, lung cancer.^[7]
• Walter Chyzowych, 57, Ukrainian-American soccer player.
• Édouard Delberghe, 58, French racing cyclist.^[8]
• Eugene Lawler, 61, American computer scientist.
• Giuseppe Martano, 83, Italian road bicycle racer.
• Mildred H. McAfee, 94, American academic, naval officer, and religious leader.^[9]
• Harold Lamont Otey, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by electrocution.^[10]
• Józef Światło, 79, Polish intelligence officer and defector .^[11]

3

• James Thomas Aubrey, Jr., 75, American television and film executive, heart attack.^[12]
• Harold Brewster, 91, American field hockey player.^[13]
• Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, 88, Greek painter, sculptor, engraver, writer and academic.^[14]
• Monja Jaona, 84, Malagasy politician and nationalist.
• Major Lance, 55, American R&B singer, cardiovascular disease.^[15]
• Bernice Robinson, 80, American Civil Rights activist and education proponent.
• Billy Wright, 70, English football player, stomach cancer.^[16]

4

• Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter, 72, English publisher and politician.^[17]
• Richard Martin, 76, American actor, leukemia.
• Roger Thomas, 68, British politician and Member of Parliament.^[18]
• Robert Weaver, 70, American illustrator.^[19]

5

• Hank Aguirre, 63, American baseball player and businessman, prostate cancer.^[20]
• Shimshon Amitsur, 73, Israeli mathematician.^[21]
• Bob Matheson, 49, American gridiron football player, lymphoma.^[22]
• John Newman, 47, Australian politician, murdered.
• Rudolf Raftl, 83, Austrian football goalkeeper.^[23]
• Cliff Speegle, 76, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.^[24]
• Ike Williams, 71, American Lightweight world boxing champion.
• Fred Wilt, 73, American runner, Olympian, and FBI agent.^[25]

6

• Louie Beltran, 58, Philippine journalist and columnist, heart attack.
• Egon Eis, 83, Austrian screenwriter.^[26]
• Edward Russell Gaines, 67, New Zealand Catholic bishop.
• Nicky Hopkins, 50, English pianist and organist.^[27]
• Max Kaminsky, 85, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.^[28]
• Duccio Tessari, 67, Italian director, screenwriter and actor, cancer.^[29]
• Paul Xuereb, 71, Maltese politician and President of Malta.

7

• James Clavell, 72, Australian-American author (Shōgun) and screenwriter (The Great Escape, The Fly), cancer.^[30]
• Eric Crozier, 79, British theatrical director and opera librettist.^[31]
• Georges Damitio, 70, French high jumper.^[32]
• Chester A. Dolan, Jr., 86, American politician.
• Alfred Loomis, 81, American investment banker, sailor and Olympic champion.
• Frederick Manfred, 82, American writer of Westerns, brain cancer.^[33]
• Dennis Morgan, 85, American actor-singer.^[34]
• Godfrey Quigley, 71, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Get Carter), Alzheimer's disease.
• Nisith Ranjan Ray, 84, Indian historian and social activist.
• Abul Lais Siddiqui, 78, Pakistani author, researcher, and scholar of Urdu.
• Terence Young, 79, Irish film director (Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Thunderball), heart attack.^[35]

8

• Juan Alonso, 66, Spanish football player.
• Clara Breed, 88, American librarian.^[36]
• Margaret Guido, 82, English archaeologist and prehistorian.
• Walter Heiligenberg, 56, German scientist and neuroethologist, plane crash.^[37]
• Sister Parish, 84, American interior decorator and socialite.^[38]
• János Szentágothai, 81, Hungarian neuroscientist, academian and politician.^[39]
• Eijirō Tōno, 86, Japanese actor (Seven Samurai, Tokyo Story, Tora! Tora! Tora!), heart failure.^[40]

9

• Robert Austerlitz, 70, Romanian-American linguist.^[41]
• Käthe Braun, 80, German actress.^[42]
• Donald Court, 82, British paediatrician.
• Reg Downing, 89, Australian lawyer, trade unionist and politician.
• Alfred R. Loeblich, 80, American micropaleontology.^[43]
• Douglas Morrow, 80, American screenwriter and film producer, aneurysm.^[44]
• Patrick O'Neal, 66, American actor (The Way We Were, The Stepford Wives, Under Siege), respiratory failure.^[45]

10

• Frank Broome, 79, English football player and manager.^[46]
• Amy Clampitt, 74, American poet and author.^[47]
• Mariateresa Di Lascia, 40, Italian politician, writer, and human rights activist, cancer.
• Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky, 79, Soviet/Russian poet and lyricist.
• Charles Drake, 76, American actor.^[48]
• Max Morlock, 69, German football player, cancer.^[49]

11

• Shimon Avidan, 83, Israeli officer.^[50]
• Dernell Every, 88, American fencer.^[51]
• Marianne Hold, 61, German movie actress, heart attack.^[52]
• Raffaele Sansone, 83, Italo-Uruguayan football player and coach, Uruguay.^[53]
• Sara Sothern, 99, American stage actress, and mother of Elizabeth Taylor.
• Jessica Tandy, 85, British actress (Driving Miss Daisy, Fried Green Tomatoes, Cocoon), Oscar winner (1990), ovarian cancer.^[54]

12

• Avtandil Chkuaseli, 62, Soviet football player.
• Theo Crosby, 69, South African architect, writer and sculptor.^[55]
• Jean-Baptiste Duroselle, 76, French historian and professor.^[56]
• Tom Ewell, 85, American actor, and producer.^[57]
• Pat Screen, 51, American attorney, and politician.
• Frank White, 67, English botanist.^[58]
• Boris Borisovich Yegorov, 56, Soviet physician-cosmonaut, heart attack.^[59]

13

• Arthur Adel, 85, American astronomer and astrophysicist, cancer.^[60]
• Hind al-Husseini, 78, Palestinian woman.^[61]
• Erich Buschenhagen, 98, German general in the Nazi Germany Wehrmacht.
• Juozas Girnius, 79, Lithuanian existentialist philosopher.
• Richard Herrnstein, 64, American psychologist at Harvard University, lung cancer.^[62]
• Arthur Siegel, 70, American songwriter, heart failure.^[63]
• John Stevens, 54, English drummer.^[64]
• Woodie Wilson, 68, American stock car racing driver, cancer.

14

• William Berntsen, 82, Danish sailor and Olympic medalist.^[65]
• Heinz Gerischer, 75, German scientist.
• Marika Krevata, 83, Greek actress.
• David van de Kop, 56, Dutch painter, draftsman and sculptor.^[66]

15

• Ernst Fuchs, 57, Swiss racing cyclist.^[67]
• Haywood Henry, 81, American jazz baritone saxophonist.^[68]
• Héléna Manson, 96, French film actress.
• Moana Pozzi, 33, Italian pornographic actress, television personality and politician, liver cancer.
• Mark Stevens, 77, American actor, cancer.^[69]

16

• Johnny Berry, 68, English football player.
• Jorge Luis Córdova, 87, Puerto Rican judge and politician.
• Jaywant Dalvi, 69, Indian writer.
• Felisa Rincón de Gautier, 97, Puerto Rican politician and women's rights activist, heart attack.^[70]
• Albert Decourtray, 71, French catholic cardinal, cerebral hemorrhage.^[71]
• Jack Dodson, 63, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D., All's Fair).^[72]
• Dolly Haas, 84, German-American actress and singer, ovarian cancer.^[73]
• Bernie Leighton, 73, American jazz pianist.^[74]
• Noel Park, 73, Australian soldier, grazier and politician.
• C. K. Ra, 77, Indian painter and writer.
• Marshall Sprague, 85, American journalist and author.^[75]

17

• Iris Adrian, 82, American actress and dancer.^[76]
• Arnold Badjou, 85, Belgian football goalkeeper.^[77]
• John Delafose, 55, American French-speaking Creole Zydeco accordionist.^[78]
• Gego, 82, Venezuelan visual artist.^[79]
• Vladimir Gershuni, 64, Soviet dissident and poet.
• Vitas Gerulaitis, 40, American tennis player, carbon monoxide poisoning.^[80]
• Katsuhiko Nakagawa, 32, Japanese actor and musician, leukemia.
• Edward James Patten, 89, American lawyer and politician.^[81]
• Karl Popper, 92, Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator.^[82]
• Thorsten Sellin, 97, Swedish-American sociologist, penologist and criminologist.^[83]
• Peter Zaremba, 86, American athlete and Olympian.^[84]

18

• Alexis Akrithakis, 60, Greek artist, heart attack.^[85]
• Clarence Long, 85, American politician.^[86]
• Franco Moschino, 44, Italian fashion designer and HIV/AIDS activists, AIDS.^[87]
• Ivan Snoj, 70, Croatian handball coach and referee, official, journalist and publicist.
• Clarence Williams, 39, American gridiron football player, shot.^[88]

19

• Alberto Closas, 72, Spanish film actor, lung cancer.
• Joseph Iléo, 73, Congolese politician, Prime Minister.^[89]
• Frankie Kennedy, 38, Northern Ire flute and tin whistle player, Ewing's sarcoma.
• Don Lash, 82, American long-distance runner and Olympian, spinal tumor.^[90]

20

• Juan Acosta, 87, Chilean long-distance runner.^[91]
• Benny Baker, 87, American actor and comedian.^[92]
• Michael Dekel, 74, Israeli politician.
• Jimmy Hamilton, 77, American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist.^[93]
• Abioseh Nicol, 70, Sierra Leone Creole academic, diplomat, physician, and writer.^[94]
• Reto Rossetti, 85, Poet and an Esperantist professor.
• Jule Styne, 88, English-American songwriter and composer.^[95]
• Bjarne Øen, 95, Norwegian pilot and airforce general.
• Petr Čepek, 54, Czech actor, lung cancer.

21

• Jimmy Carter, 70, American world lightweight boxing champion^[96]
• Arthur B. Krim, 84, American entertainment lawyer and movie studio chairman.^[97]
• Louis Orvoën, 74, French politician.
• Russell Rowe, 79, Canadian politician.

22

• Teddy Buckner, 85, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.^[98]
• Maria Carta, 60, Italian folk music singer-songwriter, cancer.^[99]
• Igor Chislenko, 55, Soviet/Russian football player.^[100]
• Dorothy Dehner, 93, American painter and sculptor.^[101]
• Leonard Feather, 80, British-American jazz pianist, composer, and producer.^[102]
• Albert Hassler, 90, French ice hockey player and speed skater.^[103]
• Edoardo Molinar, 87, Italian cyclist.^[104]
• Hedwig Potthast, 82, German secretary and mistress of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.
• Andrew Rothstein, 95, British journalist.^[105]
• Bud Sagendorf, 79, American cartoonist, brain cancer.
• Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, 83, British geographer, Royal Air Force officer and politician.^[106]

23

• Jerry Barber, 78, American golfer.
• Robert Bloch, 77, American author (Psycho), cancer.^[107]
• Walter Gibbons, 40, American record producer and DJ, AIDS-related complications.
• Alfred Lemmnitz, 89, East German politician.
• Antanas Mikėnas, 70, Lithuanian athlete and Olympian.^[108]
• Severino Minelli, 85, Swiss football player.^[109]
• Zbigniew Nienacki, 65, Polish writer.
• Jürgen Ohlsen, 77, German actor.^[110]
• Madeleine Renaud, 94, French actress.^[111]
• Nagendra Prasad Rijal, 67, Prime Minister of Nepal.
• Johannes van Damme, 59, Dutch engineer and businessman, executed .

24

• Barry Bishop, 62, American mountaineer, scientist, photographer and scholar, traffic accident.
• Kathleen Collins, 91, American film actress of the silent era.
• Carlos de Cárdenas, 90, Cuban Olympic sailor.^[112]
• Joe Madro, 81, American National Football League football coach.
• Ruth Niehaus, 69, German actress.^[113]
• Mark Prudkin, 96, Soviet/Russian actor of theater and cinema.^[114]
• Guido Santórsola, 89, Brazilian-Uruguayan composer, violinist, and conductor.
• Otto Friedrich Walter, 66, Swiss publisher, author and novelist.^[115]
• Muhammed Wattad, 57, Israeli Arab journalist, writer and politician, traffic collision.

25

• Mark Alexander Abrams, 88, British social scientist.^[116]
• Sašo Mirjanič, 26, Slovenian rower and Olympic medalist, traffic collision.^[117]
• Antonio Negrini, 91, Italian cyclist.^[118]
• Paul Oglesby, 55, American gridiron football player.^[119]
• Lise Ringheim, 68, Danish film actress.
• Charles Gage Van Riper, 88, American speech therapist.
• Albert Watson, 72, American politician.^[120]

26

• Maurice Ashley, 87, British historian .^[121]
• Miguel Ángel Lauri, 86, Argentine football player.
• Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, 86, German member of the House of Hohenzollern.
• D. A. Webb, 82, Irish botanist, traffic collision.^[122]

27

• Nigel Bowen, 83, Australian lawyer, politician and judge.
• Denys Haynes, 81, English classical scholar, archaeologist, and museum curator, heart failure.^[123]
• Vernon Kirby, 83, South African tennis player.
• Carlos Lleras Restrepo, 86, Colombian politician and lawyer, respiratory failure.^[124]
• György Tóth, 79, Hungarian football player and coach.

28

• Urmas Alender, 40, Estonian singer and musician.
• Greg Latta, 41, American gridiron football player, heart attack.^[125]
• Abeti Masikini, 39, Belgian Congo singer, uterine cancer.
• José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, 48, Mexican political figure, homicide.
• Harry Saltzman, 78, Canadian theatre and film producer, heart attack.^[126]
• Robert L. F. Sikes, 88, American politician.^[127]
• K. A. Thangavelu, 77, Indian actor and comedian.
• Ze'ev Tzur, 83, Israeli politician.

29

• Cheb Hasni, 26, Algerian raï singer, terrorist attack.^[128]
• O. S. Nock, 89, British railway signal engineer and author.^[129]
• Frederick Schiller, 93, Austrian-British film actor.
• Jack Spinks, 64, American gridiron football player.^[130]

30

• Simeon Adebo, 80, Nigerian administrator, lawyer and diplomat.^[131]
• Wilhelm Ernst Barkhoff, 78, German solicitor, banker, social reformer and anthroposophist.
• Lina Basquette, 87, American actress, lymphoma.^[132]
• Michael Flannery, 91, Irish republican and founder of NORAID.^[133]
• Edmund Giemsa, 81, Polish soccer player.^[134]
• André Lwoff, 92, French microbiologist and Nobel laureate.^[135]
• Pierre Sabbagh, 76, French television journalist, producer and director.^[136]
• Alex Scott, 34, British thoroughbred racehorse trainer, shot.
• Roberto Eduardo Viola, 69, Argentine military officer and President of Argentina.^[137]
• Sydney Walker, 73, American actor and voice artist, cancer.^[138]