Deaths In March 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.

1

• Manmohan Desai, 57, Indian film producer and director.
• Eliseo Diego, 70, Cuban poet and writer of short stories.
• Ludwig Günderoth, 83, German football player and manager.
• Alexei Haieff, 79, American composer of orchestral and choral works.
• Herbert Schade, 71, West German long-distance runner and Olympian.
• Dallas Shirley, 80, American basketball referee.
• Armonía Somers, 79, Uruguayan feminist, pedagogue, and novelist.
• Tim Souster, 51, British composer and writer on music.
• Ethel Terrell, 68, American politician.
• Joe Tipton, 72, American baseball player.

2

• Kleggie Hermsen, 70, American basketball player.
• Walter Kent, 82, American composer and conductor.
• Giuseppe La Loggia, 82, Italian politician, lawyer and teacher.
• Donald M. MacKinnon, 80, Scottish philosopher and theologian.
• Anita Morris, 50, American actress, singer and dancer, ovarian cancer.
• Yevgeniya Zhigulenko, 73, Soviet pilot and navigator during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union.

3

• Ida Gramcko, 69, Venezuelan essayist and poet.
• Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, 75, Composer and music editor.
• Karel Kryl, 49, Czechoslovak poet, singer-songwriter and activist, heart attack.
• Bilge Olgaç, 54, Turkish film director.
• Ezra Stone, 76, American actor and director, traffic collision.
• Lars Widding, 69, Swedish author and journalist.
• John Edward Williams, 71, American author, editor and professor.
• Gary Wood, 52, American gridiron football player.

4

• Gianni Agus, 76, Italian actor.
• Aníbal, 53, Mexican Luchador (professional wrestler), brain cancer.
• John Candy, 43, Canadian actor (Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Spaceballs, Uncle Buck) and comedian, Emmy winner (1982, 1983), heart attack.
• George Edward Hughes, 75, Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician.
• Marie-Joseph Lemieux, 91, Canadian Catholic archbishop and Holy See diplomat.

5

• Abdullah as-Sallal, 77, President of the Yemen Arab Republic.
• Joseph Birdsell, 85, American anthropologist.
• Arnold Brown, 66, Canadian politician.
• Jan Dobraczyński, 83, Polish writer, novelist, and politician.
• Abd El-Karim Sakr, 75, Egyptian football player.

6

• Tengiz Abuladze, 70, Georgian film director, screenwriter, and theatre teacher.
• Mane Bajić, 52, Serbian midfielder, traffic collision.
• Larry Eyler, 41, American serial killer, AIDS-related complications.
• Yvonne Fair, 51, American singer, cancer.
• Conrad Heidkamp, 88, German football player and manager.
• Melina Mercouri, 73, Greek actress, singer, activist and politician, cancer.
• Tony Momsen, 66, American gridiron football player.
• Ken Noritake, 71, Japanese football player.

7

• Ray Arcel, 94, American boxing trainer.
• Fortunato Arena, 71, Italian stuntman and actor.
• James Hannigan, 65, Irish-prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Stew Hofferth, 81, American baseball player.

8

• Mervyn Brogan, 79, Australian Army general.
• Leonard K. Carson, 70, American Air Force fighter ace.
• Rosemary Du Cros, 92, British aviation pioneer.
• John Ewart, 66, Australian actor, head and neck cancer.
• Knut Haukelid, 82, Norwegian military officer.
• Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya, 86, Russian memoirist and Gulag prisoner.
• Yvonne Martin, 82, French film editor.
• Brian McGowan, 58, Australian politician.
• Jack Spector, 65, Radio DJ, Heart attack on air while playing I'm in the Mood for Love on WHLI

9

• Zoltán Beke, 82, Romanian football player and coach.
• Karl Wilhelm Berkhan, 78, American politician.
• Wilhelm Brese, 97, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
• Charles Bukowski, 73, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer, leukemia.
• Paul Dubreil, 90, French mathematician.
• Elbie Fletcher, 77, American baseball player.
• Jon Kimche, 84, Swiss-British journalist and historian.
• Moe Purtill, 77, American swing jazz drummer.
• Devika Rani, 85, Indian actress.
• Fernando Rey, 76, Spanish actor, bladder cancer.
• Lawrence E. Spivak, 93, American publisher and journalist.

10

• Roger Bocquet, 72, Swiss football player.
• Rupert Bruce-Mitford, 79, British archaeologist and scholar.
• Aurelio Galleppini, 76, Italian comics artist and illustrator.
• Pierre-Olivier Lapie, 92, French essayist and novelist.
• Robert Shea, 61, American novelist and journalist.

11

• Fausta Cialente, 95, Italian novelist, journalist and political activist.
• Evelyn Gardner, 90, British socialite.
• Aldo Puccinelli, 73, Italian football player and manager.
• Kaku Takashina, 75, Japanese actor.
• Brenda Wootton, 66, English folk singer and poet.

12

• Gordy Coleman, 59, American baseball player.
• Philippe Daudy, 68, French member of the French Resistance, journalist, and novelist.
• Frank Gorrell, 66, American politician, choking incident.
• Don Joseph, 70, American jazz musician.
• Mehmed Orhan, 86, Ottoman prince and head of the Ottoman dynasty,

13

• Danny Barker, 85, American jazz musician, vocalist, and author .
• Jean Gourguet, 91, French film director, screenwriter and film producer.
• Sam Ranzino, 66, American college and basketball player.
• Martha Esther Rogers, 79, American nurse, theorist, and author.
• Buddy Rosar, 80, American baseball player.
• Eva Gräfin Finck von Finckenstein, 90, American politician.
• John Yeon, 83, American architect, heart failure.

14

• Tei Abal, 61-62, Papua New Guinean politician.
• Sally Belfrage, 57, American writer and journalist, cancer.
• Serge Blusson, 65, French cyclist and Olympian.
• Tony Freitas, 85, American baseball player.
• Otto Hartmann, 90, Austrian stage and film actor.
• Sheila Humphreys, 95, Irish political activist.
• Willie Hobbs Moore, 59, American physicist and engineer, cancer.
• Floyd Reid, 66, American gridiron football player.
• Indra Sen, 90, Indian psychologist.
• Georges Claes sr., 74, Belgian racing cyclist.

15

• Charlie Bivins, 55, American gridiron football player.
• Bill Green, 53, American basketball player.
• Jack Hargreaves, 82, English television presenter and writer.
• M. K. Indira, 77, Indian novelist.
• Tom Kirk, 78, Australian rugby player.
• Josef Kohout, 79, Austrian Nazi concentration camp survivor and author.
• Jürgen Manger, 71, German actor and comedian.

16

• Albert Bühlmann, 70, Swiss physician, heart failure.
• Nicolas Flagello, 66, American composer and conductor of classical music.
• Richard Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford, 86, British politician.
• Mykola Kudrytsky, 31, Ukrainian football player, traffic collision.
• Eric Show, 37, American Major League Baseball player, drug overdose.
• Kantarō Suga, 59, Japanese actor, traffic accident.

17

• Kalyan Bulchand Advani, 82, Indian poet, critic, and scholar.
• Charlotte Auerbach, 94, German geneticist.
• Wilson Homer Elkins, 85, American educator and university administrator.
• Walter Janka, 79, German communist, political activist and writer.
• Elenjikal Chandy Kuruvila, 71, Indian Navy flag officer.
• Ellsworth Vines, 82, American tennis champion
• Mai Zetterling, 68, Swedish actress, novelist and film director, cancer.

18

• Mehboob Alam, 46, Pakistani actor.
• William Bergsma, 72, American composer and teacher, heart attack.
• Peter Borgelt, 66, German television actor, cancer.
• Yehia Chahine, 76, Egyptian film producer and actor.
• Andrew Crawford, 76, Scottish actor.
• David Ginsburg, 73, British politician.
• Erwin Kohn, 82, Austrian table tennis player.
• Günter Mittag, 67, German politician.

19

• Rafig Babayev, 57, Azerbaijani jazz musician and author of scores for films, terrorist attack.
• José Coronel Hurtecho, 88, Nicaraguan poet, critic, playwright, and diplomat.
• Jim Lawrence, 75, American author.
• Josef Meixner, 85, German theoretical physicist.
• Charles Paris, 82, American comic book artist.
• Benjamin Clemens Stone, 61, British–American botanist.

20

• Ilaria Alpi, 32, Italian journalist, killed in ambush.
• Ramón Camps, 67, Argentine general during the dirty war, prostate cancer.
• Irvin Flores, 69, Puerto Rican political activist.
• Lewis Grizzard, 47, American writer and humorist.
• Reg Groth, 80, Australian politician.
• Miran Hrovatin, 44, Italian photographer and camera operator, killed in ambush.
• Alfonso Rodríguez Salas, 54, Spanish football player, colorectal cancer.

21

• Macdonald Carey, 81, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Shadow of a Doubt, Lock-Up), lung cancer.
• Lili Damita, 89, French-American actress and singer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Franz Pelikan, 68, Austrian football goalkeeper.
• Dack Rambo, 52, American actor (Dallas, The Guns of Will Sonnett, The Loretta Young Show), AIDS-related complications.

22

• Dan Hartman, 43, American musician and record producer, AIDS-related complications.
• Horton Holcombe Hobbs, Jr., 79, American taxonomist and carcinologist.
• Walter Lantz, 94, American cartoonist and animator (Woody Woodpecker), heart failure.
• Ulrich Poltera, 71, Swiss ice hockey player.

23

• Luis Donaldo Colosio, 44, Mexican economist and politician, homicide.
• Nancy Cárdenas, 59, Mexican actor, poet, writer and feminist.
• Álvaro del Portillo, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop and prelate of Opus Dei.
• Giulietta Masina, 73, Italian film actress, lung cancer.
• Goar Mestre, 81, Cuban-Argentine businessman, cancer.
• Donald Swann, 70, Welsh musician, singer and entertainer, cancer.
• Paula Trueman, 96, American actress (The Outlaw Josey Wales, Dirty Dancing, Moonstruck).
• Valentina Vladimirova, 66, Ukrainian-Russian actress.
• Roger Wolff, 82, American baseball player.

24

• Zbigniew Gołąb, 71, Polish-American linguist and slavist.
• Hans Jakob, 85, German football player.
• John L. May, 71, American Roman Catholic archbishop, brain cancer.
• Walle Nauta, 77, Dutch-American neuroscientist.
• Edith Porada, 81, Austrian-American art historian and archaeologist.
• David van Vactor, 87, American composer of contemporary classical music.
• Jiang Yizhen, 79, Chinese communist politician.

25

• Rudi Feld, 97, German art director and set designer.
• Angelines Fernández, 69, Spanish-Mexican actress and comedian, lung cancer.
• Bernard Kangro, 83, Estonian writer and poet.
• Max Petitpierre, 95, Swiss politician and jurist.
• Jesus M. Vargas, 89, Filipino politician.

26

• Dame Whina Cooper, 98, New Zealand Māori leader.
• Wadad Hamdi, 70, Egyptian actress, stabbed.
• Owen McCann, 86, South African Catholic cardinal and journalist.
• Margaret Millar, 79, American-Canadian writer.

27

• Otto Bonsema, 84, Dutch football player and manager.
• Frances Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Kingsbridge, 87, British writer and biographer.
• Elisabeth Schmid, 81, German archaeologist and osteologist.
• Lawrence Wetherby, 86, American politician.

28

• Richard Brandram, 82, British Army officer.
• Albert Goldman, 66, American academic and author.
• Ștefan Gușă, 53, Romanian general, cancer.
• Eugène Ionesco, 84, Romanian-French playwright.
• Cyrus Longworth Lundell, 86, American botanist.
• Ira Murchison, 61, American sprinter and Olympic champion, cancer.
• Wendell Niles, 89, American radio and television announcer, cancer.

29

• Paul Grimault, 89, French animator.
• Lynda Hull, 39, American poet, car accident.
• William Huston Natcher, 84, American politician.
• Charles Oser, 92, American politician.
• Bill Travers, 72, British actor, screenwriter, and animal rights activist.
• Jiang Zehan, 91, Chinese mathematician.

30

• Ina Hooft, 100, Dutch painter.
• Leslie Howard Saunders, 94, Canadian politician and Mayor of Toronto.
• William Arthur Ward, 72, American motivational writer.
• Sid Weiss, 79, American jazz double-bassist.

31

• Léon Degrelle, 87, Belgian politician and nazi collaborator, heart attack.
• Henri Gouhier, 95, French philosopher and literary critic.
• William Henry Hance, 42, American soldier and serial killer, execution by electrocution.
• Medea Japaridze, 71, Soviet/Georgian actress.
• Mohibullah "Mo" Khan, 56, Pakistani squash player.
• José Escobar Saliente, 85, Spanish comic book writer and artist.