Deaths in March 1995

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 1995.

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.

March 1995

1

• Edmund Fisher (publisher), 56, British publisher, cancer.
• Walter Anderson, 84, British trade unionist.
• Fred J. Borch, 84, American businessman who was chairman and CEO of General Electric.
• Eugenio Corecco, 63, Swiss Catholic bishop, cancer.
• Simon C. Dik, 54, Dutch linguist.
• Jackie Holmes, 74, American racecar driver.
• Georges J. F. Köhler, 48, German biologist, heart attack.
• Vladislav Listyev, 38, Russian journalist, murdered.
• Ferdinand Lundberg, 89, American journalist.
• Herb Meadow, 83, American television producer and writer, heart attack.
• Emil Petru, 55, Romanian football player.
• Hugh Auchincloss Steers, 32, American painter, AIDS-related complications.
• César Rodríguez Álvarez, 74, Spanish football forward and manager.

2

• Suzanne Bastid, 88, French professor of law.
• Henry Felsen, 78, American writer.
• Vivian MacKerrell, 50, British actor, esophageal cancer.
• Ray Moore, 68, American Major League Baseball player.

3

• Rafael Aguilar, 65, Ecuadorian ballet dancer and choreographer.
• Vincent L. Broderick, 74, United States District Judge, cancer.
• Al Christy, 76, American actor, advertising executive, and radio and television announcer.
• Nikhil Ghosh, 76, Indian musician, teacher and writer.
• Humphry Greenwood, 67, English ichthyologist.
• Sheikh Anwarul Haq, 77, Pakistani jurist and an academic.
• Howard W. Hunter, 87, American President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, prostate cancer.
• Lyman Kirkpatrick, 77, inspector general and executive director of the CIA.
• Douglas Stewart, 75, American film editor (The Right Stuff, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid), Oscar winner (1984).
• Pierre Tisseyre, 85, French-Canadian lawyer, journalist, writer and Quebec literary editor.
• Đàm Quang Trung, 73, Vietnamese general in the People's Army of Vietnam.

4

• Eden Ahbez, 86, American songwriter and recording artist, traffic collision.
• Iftekhar, 75, Indian actor.
• Vira Misevych, 49, Soviet/Russian equestrian and Olympic champion.
• Peggy Solomon, 86, American bridge player.
• Matt Urban, 75, United States Army lieutenant colonel and one of the.
• Gloria Wood, 71, American singer and voice actress.

5

• Jalal Agha, 49, Indian actor and director in Bollywood films, heart attack.
• Frieda Belinfante, 90, Dutch freedom fighter during World War II, cellist, and orchestra conductor, cancer.
• Henry Benson, Baron Benson, 85, British accountant.
• Juan Guerrero Burciaga, 65, United States District Judge.
• Gregg Hansford, 42, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer, racing accident.
• Roy Hughes, 84, American baseball player.
• Marguerite Kelsey, 86, British artists' model.
• Roger MacBride, 65, American lawyer, political figure, writer, and television producer.
• Nancy O'Neil, 83, Australian-born British actress.
• Vivian Stanshall, 51, English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician, domestic fire.

6

• Franco Bertinetti, 71, Italian fencer and Olympic gold medalist.
• Gabriel Bracho, 79, Venezuelan artist.
• Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass, 54, Polish actress, stroke.
• Moturi Satyanarayana, 93, Indian independence activist.
• Delroy Wilson, 46, Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer, cirrhosis.

7

• John J. Allen Jr., 95, American politician.
• Don Cook, 74, American journalist.
• Ivan Craig, 83, Scottish actor.
• Harold W. Hannold, 83, American Republican Party politician.
• Róża Herman, 93, Polish chess player.
• Najib Kilani, 63, Egyptian poet and novelist.
• John Lambert, 68, British composer and music educator.
• B. N. B. Rao, 85, Indian surgeon, medical academic, researcher, and writer.
• Norman Rosten, 82, American poet, playwright, and novelist.
• Paul-Émile Victor, 87, French ethnologist and explorer (b. 1907).
• Kazimierz Wiłkomirski, 94, Polish cellist, composer and conductor.

8

• Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan, 94, Russian-Israeli botanist.
• Junpei Gomikawa, 78, Japanese novelist.
• Paul Horgan, 91, American novelist and historian.
• Ike Lozada, 54, Filipino comedian, actor and TV host, heart attack.
• John Ormond, 89, New Zealand businessman and farmer.
• Sooranad Kunjan Pillai, 83, Indian , researcher, lexicographer, poet, essayist, literary critic, orator, grammarian, educationist, and scholar of the Malayalam language.
• Ingo Schwichtenberg, 29, German drummer, suicide.

9

• Ian Ballantine, 79, American publisher, heart attack.
• Edward Bernays, 103, Austrian-born American propagandist.
• Bill Cassidy, 54, Scottish football player and manager.
• Yisrael Galil, 71, Israeli firearm designer.
• Paco Jamandreu, 75, Argentine fashion designer and actor, heart attack.
• Ricardo Mañé, 47, Uruguayan mathematician.
• Robert Sheats, 79, United States Navy Master Diver.

10

• Rigmor Andersen, 91, Danish designer, educator and author.
• Fred Davis, 77, American gridiron football player.
• Doris Duranti, 77, Italian film actress.
• Wilhelm Heckmann, 97, German concert and easy listening musician.
• David D. Keck, 91, American botanist.
• Alexander Hyatt King, 83, English musicologist, bibliographer, and music librarian of the British Library and British Museum.
• Ovidi Montllor, 53, Spanish singer and actor, esophageal cancer.
• Mattityahu Peled, 71, Israeli public figure.
• Irene Tedrow, 87, American actress, stroke.
• Michal Tučný, 48, Czech singer and songwriter, cancer, liver cancer.
• Dicky Zulkarnaen, 55, Indonesian actor.

11

• Antonio León Amador, 85, Spanish football player.
• Rein Aun, 54, Estonian multitalented athlete and Olympic medalist.
• Jean Bayard, 97, French rugby union player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
• Alf Goullet, 103, Australian cyclist.
• Carlos Albán Holguín, 64, Colombian lawyer and politician.
• Wilfred Jacobs, 75, first Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda.
• Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundian politician and the Minister for Mines and Energy, assassinated.
• Don Lane, 59, Australian politician and minister.
• Jean-Pierre Masson, 76, Canadian film and television actor.
• Herb McCracken, 95, American football player and coach.
• Lotte Rausch, 81, German stage and film actress.
• María Rosa Salgado, 65, Spanish actress.
• James Scott-Hopkins, 73, British Conservative politician.
• Myfanwy Talog, 50, Welsh actress, breast cancer.
• Väinö Valve, 99, Finnish general and navy commander.
• Karl Österreicher, 72, Austrian conductor and music teacher.

12

• Mija Aleksić, 71, Serbian actor.
• Dumitru Almaș, 86, Romanian journalist, novelist, historian, writer and professor.
• Madis Aruja, 59, Estonian conservationist, geographer and ski-orienteer.
• Juanin Clay, 45, American actress and director.
• Jack Mowat, 86, Scottish football referee.
• Rick Muther, 59, American racing driver.

13

• Mieczysław Balcer, 88, Polish football player.
• Leon Day, 78, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Jonas C. Greenfield, 68, American scholar of Semitic languages.
• Odette Hallowes, 82, French intelligence officer.
• William Hulse, 74, American middle-distance runner.
• Abdul Ali Mazari, 48-49, Afghan warlord and politician, executed by the Taliban.

14

• Dennis Bell, 46, American journalist Pulitzer Prize winner, pneumonia.
• Frank Blair, 79, broadcast journalist for NBC News who was news anchor of Today.
• Alessandro Cutolo, 95, Italian academic, television presenter, actor and historian.
• William Alfred Fowler, 83, American physicist.
• John Peters Humphrey, 89, Canadian legal scholar, jurist, and human rights advocate.
• Ed Roberts, 56, American activist.
• Gerard Victory, 73, Irish composer.
• W. Arthur Winstead, 91, American politician.

15

• Bhupinder Singh Brar, 68, Indian politician.
• Milo Calhoun, 54, Jamaican boxer who won the British Commonwealth middleweight title.
• Florence Chadwick, 76, American long-distance swimmer and first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions.
• Wolfgang Harich, 71, East German philosopher and journalist.
• Fred Mulley, 76, British politician, barrister and economist.

16

• John Cavosie, 87, American football player.
• Albert Hackett, 95, American dramatist and screenwriter.
• Paul Kipkoech, 32, Kenyan long-distance runner.
• Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, 83, British Commando during World War II and nobleman.
• Art Mollner, 82, American basketball player.
• Heinrich Sutermeister, 84, Swiss composer.

17

• Amiraslan Aliyev, 34, Azerbaijan military officer and National Hero of Azerbaijan, killed in action.
• Rick Aviles, 42, American actor (Ghost, Carlito's Way, The Stand), AIDS-related complications.
• Paul Backman, 74, Finnish cyclist.
• Donald Baverstock, 71, British television producer and executive.
• Vladimir Bunchikov, 92, Russian baritone.
• Helen Christie, 80, British actress.
• Seymour Clark, 92, English cricketer.
• Theresa Clay, 84, English entomologist.
• Flor Contemplacion, 42, Filipina domestic worker executed in Singapore for murder, hanged.
• Estálin, 72, Spanish screenwriter and film director, liver cancer.
• Pedro J. González, 99, Mexican activist, musician and radio personality.
• Arthur Highland, 83, American competition swimmer.
• Rovshan Javadov, 43, Azerbaijani Armed Forces officer and politician.
• Muriel Kauffman, 78, American civic leader and philanthropist.
• Ahmad Khomeini, 49, younger son of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and father of Hassan Khomeini.
• Ronnie Kray, 61, British criminal and twin brother of Reggie Kray, heart attack.
• Robert Monroe, 79, American radio broadcasting executive.
• Sunnyland Slim, 88, American blues pianist, kidney failure.

18

• Sadri Alışık, 69, Turkish actor.
• Merv Harvey, 76, Australian cricketer.
• James H. Howard, 81, United States Air Force general and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Vern Huffman, 80, American gridiron football player.
• Hugh Kelsey, 69, Scottish bridge player and writer.
• Pengiran Ahmad Raffae, 87, Malaysian politician.
• Fred Ramsey, 80, American writer on jazz and record producer.
• Gerry Shaw, 52, Canadian football player.
• Eric Winkler, 75, Canadian politician.

19

• Stan Ackermans, 58, Dutch mathematician.
• Nike Ardilla, 19, Indonesian singer, actress, and model, traffic accident.
• Trevor Blokdyk, 59, South African motorcycle speedway rider and Formula One driver.
• Walter F. Boone, 97, United States Navy admiral.
• Max Braithwaite, 83, Canadian novelist.
• Tony Chachere, 89, American businessman and chef.
• Wolfgang Plath, 64, German musicologist.
• Jürgen Schütz, 55, German football player.
• Gerard Tebroke, 45, Dutch runner who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics, brain haemorrhage.
• Yasuo Yamada, 62, Japanese voice actor (Lupin III), complications from a brain hemorrhage.

20

• Michael Arattukulam, 84, first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alleppey.
• Russell Braddon, 74, Australian writer of novels, biographies and TV scripts.
• Thomas J. Grasso, 32, American double murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• James Kilfedder, 66, Northern Ireland unionist politician.
• Sidney Kingsley, 88, American dramatist.
• Werner Liebrich, 68, German football player, heart failure.
• Luis Saslavsky, 91, Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.
• Big John Studd, 47, American professional wrestler, lymphoma cancer.
• Víctor Ugarte, 68, Bolivian football player.

21

• Paul Callaway, 85, American organist and conductor.
• Amir H. Jamal, 73, Tanzanian politician and diplomat.
• Connie Kreski, 48, American model and actress, lung cancer.
• Étienne Martin, 82, French sculptor.
• Tony Monopoly, 50, Australiancabaret singer and actor.
• Robert Urquhart, 72, Scottish character actor.
• James Bud Walton, 73, American businessman and co-founder of Walmart.

22

• Robert Beauchamp, 71-72, American figurative painter and arts educator, prostate cancer.
• Jack Eastwood, 87, Canadian figure skater.
• James G. Horsfall, 90, American biologist, plant pathologist, and agriculturist.
• Huang Jiqing, 90, Chinese geologist.
• Peter Woods, 64, British journalist, cancer.

23

• Qadeeruddin Ahmed, 85-86, Pakistani jurist and former Governor of Sindh province.
• Alan Barton, 41, British singer and member of the duo Black Lace, traffic accident.
• Shakti Chattopadhyay, 61, Indian poet and writer.
• Davie Cooper, 39, Scottish football player, brain haemorrhage.
• Alfons Deloor, 84, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Vladimir Ivashov, 55, Soviet/Russian actor, heart attack.
• Jerry Lester, 85, American comedian, singer and performer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Hal Mooney, 84, American composer and arranger.
• Irving Shulman, 81, American author and screenwriter, Alzheimer's disease.
• Lou Zhicen, 75, Chinese pharmacognosist and educator.

24

• Chet Mutryn, 74, American gridiron football player.
• Joseph Needham, 94, British biochemist, historian, and sinologist, Parkinson's disease.
• Carlo Pavesi, 71, Italian fencer.
• Henri Xhonneux, 49, Belgian film director and screenwriter.

25

• James Samuel Coleman, 68, American sociologist.
• James Gardner, 87, British designer.
• John Hugenholtz, 80, Dutch designer of race tracks and cars, traffic collision.
• Stuart Milner-Barry, 88, British chess player, chess writer, and codebreaker during World War II.
• Hugh Wade, 93, American politician.

26

• John Bright, 86, American biblical scholar.
• Raúl Cascaret, 32, Cuban wrestler who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics.
• Belgin Doruk, 58, Turkish film actress.
• Eazy-E, 30, American rapper and record producer, complications from AIDS.
• Frans Mahn, 61, Dutch cyclist.
• Vladimir Maksimov, 64, Russian writer.
• Alejandro Morera Soto, 85, Costa Rican football player.
• Ko Takamoro, 87, Japanese football player.

27

• René Allio, 70, French film and theater director.
• John F. Blake, 72, American intelligence official who was Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
• Paul Brinegar, 77, American actor (Rawhide, Lancer, High Plains Drifter), pulmonary emphysema.
• Albert Drach, 92, Austrian-Jewish writer who won the Georg Büchner Prize in 1988.
• Margita Figuli, 85, Slovak prose writer, translator and children's author.
• Maurizio Gucci, 46, Italian businessman and the one-time head of the Gucci fashion house, homicide.
• Tony Lovink, 92, Dutch diplomat.
• Chet Nichols Jr., 64, American baseball player.
• Imre Nyéki, 66, Hungarian swimmer and Olympic medalist.

28

• Julian Cayo-Evans, 57, Welsh political activist.
• Mogens Ellegaard, 60, Danish accordionist.
• Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, 68, German journalist, lung cancer.
• William Hayter, 88, British diplomat, ambassador to the Soviet Union, and Warden of New College, Oxford.
• Jack Jennings, 71, Australian politician.
• Hari Dev Joshi, 73, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
• Ana Mariscal, 71, Spanish film actress, director, screenwriter and film producer.
• Hugh O'Connor, 32, American actor (In the Heat of the Night), suicide.
• Albert Pratz, 80, Canadian violinist, conductor, and composer.
• Steve Stonebreaker, 56, American gridiron football player, suicide.
• Harold M. Weintraub, 49, American scientist, brain tumor.

29

• Robert Breusch, 87, German-American number theorist.
• Harindra Dave, 64, Indian poet, journalist, playwright and novelist.
• Allan Fjeldheim, 76, Norwegian pair skater.
• Richard F. Gallagher, 85, American baseball, basketball and American football coach and administrator.
• Antony Hamilton, 42, English–Australian actor, model and dancer, pneumonia.
• Milton Horn, 88, Russian American sculptor and artist.
• Carl Jefferson, 75, American jazz record producer.
• Jimmy McShane, 37, Irish singer and front-man of band Baltimora, AIDS.
• Mort Meskin, 78, American comic book artist.
• Terry Moore, 82, American baseball player and manager, and coach.
• Donald Morrow, 86, Canadian politician.
• Katherine Squire, 92, American actress.
• John Terry, 81, British film financier and lawyer.
• Pops Yoshimura, 72, Japanese motorcycle tuner and race team owner, cancer.

30

• Arkadiusz Bachur, 33, Polish equestrian.
• Rozelle Claxton, 82, American jazz pianist.
• Marcus Ervine-Andrews, 83, Irish officer in the British Army and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• Charles Irving, 70, British politician.
• Tony Lock, 65, English cricket player.
• Willem Peters, 91, Dutch athlete.
• Paul A. Rothchild, 59, American record producer, lung cancer.
• John Lighton Synge, 98, Irish mathematician and physicist.

31

• Robert Annis, 66, American soccer player.
• Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern Jr., 90, Swedish officer and horse rider and Olympian.
• Max Brüel, 67, Danish architect and jazz musician.
• Roberto Juarroz, 69, Argentine poet.
• Ryogo Kubo, 75, Japanese mathematical physicist.
• Rudy Rutherford, 70, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.
• Selena, 23, American singer, murdered.
• Madeleine Sologne, 82, French actress.
• Carl Story, 78, American bluegrass musician.
• Kim Yong-shik, 81, South Korean lawyer and diplomat.