Deaths in June 1994
The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 1994
1
- Jean-Joël Barbier, 74, French writer and pianist.
- David Guthrie Catcheside, 87, British plant geneticist.
- Herrlee Glessner Creel, 89, American sinologist and philosopher.
- Henri Desroche, 79, French sociologist.
- David Fairbairn, 77, Australian politician.
- Frances Heflin, 73, American actress, lung cancer.
- Frans Mosman, 89, Dutch fencer and Olympian.
2
- Odd Dahl, 95, Norwegian engineer and explorer.
- Ole Hegge, 95, Norwegian cross-country skier, ski jumper and Olympian.
- Sandhya Kumari, 49, Sri Lankan actress.
- David Stove, 66, Australian philosopher, suicide.
3
- Puig Aubert, 69, French rugby player, and football player and coach, heart attack.
- Duarte de Almeida Bello, 72, Portuguese sailor.
- Stuart Blanch, 76, English Anglican priest, bishop and archbishop.
- Savaş Buldan, 30, Kurdish businessman, homicide.
- Jack Cowie, 82, New Zealand cricket player.
- William Everson, 81, American poet and literary critic.
- Wally Fowler, 77, American gospel music singer, manager, and music promoter.
- Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel, 90, Indian politician.
- Lucien Prival, 92, American film actor.
- Jack Stroud, 66, American gridiron football player.
- Pablo Muñoz Vega, 91, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate and Jesuit.
4
- Giovanni Azzini, 64, Italian football player.
- Toto Bissainthe, 60, Haitian actress and singer, liver cancer.
- Zeke Clements, 82, American country musician.
- Jean Daetwyler, 87, Swiss composer and musician.
- Derek Leckenby, 51, English musician and lead guitarist, cancer.
- Roberto Burle Marx, 84, Brazilian landscape architect, painter, naturalist, and musician.
- Stephen McNally, 82, American actor, heart attack.
- Gregory Scarpa, 66, American mobster and FBI informant, AIDS-related complications.
- Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, 84, British politician.
- Massimo Troisi, 41, Italian actor, cabaret performer, screenwriter, and film director (Il Postino: The Postman, Ricomincio da tre), heart attack.
- Anatoli Vasiliev, 77, Russian/Soviet realist painter.
- Earle Warren, 79, American saxophonist.
5
- Krishna Chaithanya, 75, Indian writer.
- Albert McDonald Cole, 92, American politician.
- Nikolay Dementyev, 78, Soviet/Russian football playerand a coach.
- Buraro Detudamo, 63, Nauruan politician.
6
- Yohai Ben-Nun, 69, Israeli Navy general.
- Ramdew Chaitoe, 51, Surinamese artist and a harmonium player.
- Johnny Downs, 80, American child actor, singer, and dancer, cancer.
- Princess Faiza Fuad of Egypt, 70, Egyptian princess and a Muhammad Ali Dynasty member.
- Peter Graves, 82, English actor and nobleman, heart attack.
- Miloud Hadefi, 45, Algerian football player and manager.
- Bill Hoffman, 92, American gridiron football player.
- Mark McManus, 59, Scottish actor, pneumonia.
- Nicholas Spanos, 52, American professor of psychology, plane crash.
- Barry Sullivan, 81, American movie actor.
7
- Verlon Biggs, 51, American gridiron football player, leukemia.
- Rudolph Cartier, 90, Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer.
- Anatolii Dorodnitsyn, 83, Russian mathematician, physicist, and professor.
- Willie Humphrey, 93, American jazz clarinetist.
- Vincent Nsengiyumva, 58, Rwandan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, homicide.
- Dennis Potter, 59, English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist (Pennies from Heaven, Blue Remembered Hills, The Singing Detective), pancreatic cancer.
8
- Eddie Ambrose, 100, American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing.
- Antonietta Baistrocchi, 38, Italian basketball player.
- William Marshall, 76, American singer, bandleader and a film actor and director.
- Dorothy Shoemaker McDiarmid, 87, American politician, heart attack.
9
- Dhirendra Brahmachari, 70, Indian spiritual leader and yoga instructor, plane crash.
- István Kocsis, 44, Hungarian football player, cancer.
- Lynn Harold Loomis, 79, American mathematician.
- David Reynoso, 68, Mexican actor, cancer.
- Jan Tinbergen, 91, Dutch economist and Nobel Prize laureate.
10
- Vic Bradford, 79, American Major League Baseball player.
- Jimmy Cameron, 70, Canadian cricket player.
- Mary Maxwell Gates, 64, American businesswoman and civic activist, breast cancer.
- Nils Holmer, 90, Swedish linguist.
- Edward Kienholz, 66, American installation artist and assemblage sculptor.
- Guillermo Pérez de Arce Plummer, 87, Chilean politician and entrepreneur.
- Noël Vantyghem, 46, Belgian cyclist.
11
- Herbert Anderson, 77, American actor, stroke.
- Richard Bartlett, 71, American director and producer in film and TV.
- Jerome W. Conn, 86, American endocrinologist.
- Jack Hannah, 81, American animator and writer and director of animated shorts, cancer.
- Manolita Piña, 111, Spanish-Uruguayan artist and wife of Joaquín Torres García.
12
- Christopher Collins, 44, American actor (G.I. Joe, Transformers, Inhumanoids) and stand-up comedian, stroke.
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson, 92, Russian-American Orthodox rabbi
- Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, American murder victim and ex-wife of former American football player O. J. Simpson, stabbed.
- Ronald Goldman, 25, American murder victim, stabbed alongside Nicole Brown Simpson.
- William Elgin Swinton, 93, Scottish paleontologist.
13
- Anne Hopkins Aitken, 83, American Zen Buddhist, heart attack.
- Charles Alvin Beckwith, 65, American Special Forces officer.
- June Dayton, 70, American television actress.
- Enrique Fava, 74, Argentine actor.
- Nadia Gray, 70, Romanian film actress, cerebrovascular disease.
- Stasys Lozoraitis Jr., 69, Lithuanian diplomat and politician, kidney failure.
- James B. Pollack, 55, American astrophysicist, cancer.
- K. T. Stevens, 74, American actress, lung cancer.
- Igor Youskevitch, 82, Russian-Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer.
14
- Ismail Chirine, 74, Egyptian diplomat and army officer.
- Lionel Grigson, 52, English jazz musician, writer and teacher.
- Emil Göing, 82, German basketball player.
- Denys Hay, 78, British historian.
- Victor Jorgensen, 80, American photographer and photo journalist.
- Thomas Joseph Lane, 95, American politician.
- Henry Mancini, 70, American composer, conductor, pianist and flautist, pancreatic cancer.
- Marcel Mouloudji, 71, French singer and actor.
- Michel Vitold, 78, Russian-French stage and film actor.
- Lucien Vlaemynck, 79, Belgian road bicycle racer.
15
- Clara Colosimo, 72, Italian film actress.
- William Goodsir-Cullen, 87, Indian field hockey player and Olympian.
- Manos Hatzidakis, 68, Greek composer and theorist, pulmonary edema.
- Rich Johnson, 47, American basketball player.
- Jack Schwartzman, 61, American film producer (Never Say Never Again, Being There, I Am the Cheese), pancreatic cancer.
16
- Yohanan Bader, 92, Israeli politician and revisionist Zionist leader.
- Len Butt, 83, English football player and manager.
- Chrix Dahl, 88, Norwegian painter and illustrator.
- Comte George Raphaël Béthenod de Montbressieux, 84, French-Argentine racing driver.
- Bernard Moitessier, 69, French sailor, prostate cancer.
- Kristen Pfaff, 27, American musician and singer, drug overdose.
- Eileen Way, 82, British actress.
17
- Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov, 88, Soviet/Russian composer.
- Leonid Baykov, 74, Russian/Soviet painter.
- Kurt Hessenberg, 85, German composer and professor of art.
- Eigil Olaf Liane, 78, Norwegian politician.
- Yuri Nagibin, 74, Soviet/Russian writer, screenwriter and novelist.
- Branko Petranović, 66, Serbian historian.
- Len White, 64, English football player.
- Terence de Vere White, 82, Irish lawyer, writer and editor, Parkinson's disease.
- Frank Yates, 92, British statistician.
18
- Arturo Ruiz Castillo, 83, Spanish screenwriter and film director, stroke.
- Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, 89, Polish-American Orthodox rabbi and holocaust survivor.
- Margret Hofheinz-Döring, 84, German painter and graphic artist.
- Roger Lebel, 71, Canadian actor.
19
- Babatunde Elegbede, 55, Nigerian politician and admiral, homicide.
- Krešimir Račić, 61, Croatian hammer thrower and Olympian.
- Bakri Siregar, 71, Indonesian socialist literary critic and writer.
20
- Robert Armbruster, 96, American composer, conductor, pianist and songwriter.
- John Farrell, 87, American speed skater and speed skating coach.
- Frank Filchock, 77, American gridiron football player and coach.
- Einar Haugen, 88, American linguist, author, and professor.
- Don Macintosh, 62, Canadian basketball player.
- Jay Miner, 62, American integrated circuit designer, kidney failure.
- Robin Raymond, 77, American film actress.
- Frederick William Rowe, 81, Canadian politician.
- Vieno Simonen, 95, Finnish politician and farmer.
21
- Carlos Jiménez Mabarak, 78, Mexican composer.
- Winston Miller, 83, American screenwriter, film producer, and actor, heart attack.
- William Wilson Morgan, 88, American astronomer and astrophysicist.
- Walter Riml, 88, Austrian cameraman and actor.
22
- Otto Bradfisch, 91, German SS-Obersturmbannführer and war criminal during World War II.
- Yitzhak Coren, 83, Israeli politician.
- Jack Davies, 80, English screenwriter, producer, editor and actor.
- Jorgjia Filçe-Truja, 87, Albanian soprano.
- Ilya Frez, 84, Soviet/Russian film director.
- Lisa Lindstrom, 81, American swimmer and Olympian.
- L. V. Prasad, 86, Indian film producer, actor, director, and cinematographer.
- Julius Adams Stratton, 93, American electrical engineer.
- Xəlil Rza Ulutürk, 61, Azerbaijani poet.
- Eric Bransby Williams, 94, British actor.
23
- Joe Dobson, 77, American baseball player.
- Robert T. Orr, 85, American biologist.
- Chang Shuhong, 90, Chinese painter.
- Antoni Sobik, 89, Polish fencer.
- Marv Throneberry, 60, American Major League Baseball player, cancer.
- Kin Vassy, 50, American singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
24
- James C. Adkins, 79, American judge.
- Bondoc Ionescu-Crum, 79, Romanian athlete and football player and manager.
- Leon MacLaren, 83, British philosopher and the founder of the School of Economic Science.
- Jean Vallerand, 78, Canadian musician and writer.
- Vecheslav Zagonek, 74, Soviet/Russian painter.
25
- Cecil Abel, 91, Papua New Guinean missionary, after an operation.
- James Philo Hagerstrom, 73, American fighter pilot and flying ace, stomach cancer.
- Pierre Leichtnam, 83, French middle-distance runner and Olympian.
- Haji Mastan, 68, Indian mafia gang leader, cardiac arrest.
- Matvey Shaposhnikov, 87, Soviet military commander.
26
- Jan-Erik Aarberg, 69, Norwegian sailor.
- Thomas Armstrong, 96, English organist, conductor, composer and educationalist.
- Bobby Bonales, 77, Mexican professional wrestler.
- A. den Doolaard, 93, Dutch writer and journalist.
- Joseph Aloysius Durick, 79, American Roman Catholic bishop and civil rights advocate.
- Jahanara Imam, 65, Bangladeshi writer and political activist, cancer.
27
- Jacques Berthier, 71, French composer of liturgical music.
- Charles K. Duncan, 82, American Navy admiral, cancer.
- Sam Hanks, 79, American racecar driver.
- Louise Henderson, 92, New Zealand artist and painter.
- Alan Strange, 87, American baseball player and manager.
28
- Idel Ianchelevici, 85, Romanian-Belgian sculptor and draughtsman.
- Ulrik Neumann, 75, Danish film actor and musician.
- Giancarlo Sbragia, 68, Italian actor, stage director and playwright.
- Fredi Washington, 90, American actress, civil rights activist, and writer, stroke.
29
- Peter Blair, 62, American naval officer, wrestler and Olympian.
- Kurt Eichhorn, 85, German conductor.
- Bob Masterson, 78, American gridiron football player.
- Ray Mueller, 82, American baseball player.
- Otis M. Smith, 72, American judge, Michigan Auditor General (1959–1961), Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1961–1966).
- Jack Unterweger, 43, Austrian serial killer, suicide.
30
- Georgie Abrams, 75, American boxer.
- Walter Chikowski, 78, Canadian football player.
- Jim Doran, 66, American gridiron football player.
- Don Kolloway, 75, American Major League Baseball player.
- Dennis J. Roberts, 91, American politician
- Taro Yashima, 85, Japanese-American artist and children's author.