The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 1994
1 Cliff Addison, 80, British chemist. John Chase, 87, American ice hockey player, Olympian (1932), and coach. Robert Doisneau, 81, French photographer. Alexander Kaletchitz, 96, American Olympic boxer (1928). John McMullan, 60, American gridiron football player (New York Titans). Thomas Head Raddall, 90, Canadian writer. Netty Simons, 80, American pianist, music editor, and composer. Gennady Voronov, 83, Soviet/Russian statesman.
2 Irene Baker, 92, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1964-1965). Betty Furness, 78, American actress, consumer advocate, and commentator. Raymond Z. Gallun, 83, American science fiction writer. Rowland Greenberg, 73, Norwegian jazz trumpeter. Gil Paulsen, 91, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals). Edward Vissers, 81, Belgian road bicycle racer.
3 Agostinho da Silva, 88, Portuguese philosopher, essayist, and writer. Tom Hamilton, 88, American football player, coach, and naval aviator. Beverly Johnson, 46, American rock climber and adventurer, helicopter crash. Chad Kinch, 35, American basketball player (Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks), AIDS-related complications. Jérôme Lejeune, 67, French pediatrician and geneticist, cancer. Aharon Remez, 74, Israeli Air Force commander, politician and diplomat. William Thompson, 88, Canadian Olympic cross-country skier (1928). Willis A. Trafton Jr., 76, American lawyer and politician. Armand Vetulani, 84, Polish art historian and educator, tumor. Frank Wells, 62, American businessman and president of The Walt Disney Company, helicopter crash.
4 Misael Acosta Solís, 83, Ecuadorian naturalist. Pippo Barzizza, 91, Italian composer, arranger, conductor and music director. Luther Cressman, 96, American archaeologist. André Derrien, 98, French Olympic sailor (1928). Kurt Meisel, 81, Austrian actor and film director. Gabriella Mészáros, 80, Hungarian gymnast and Olympian (1936). Ginny Simms, 80, American singer and film actress. Valentin Stănescu, 71, Romanian goalkeeper and football manager. Jean-Pierre Weisgerber, 89, Luxembourgish football player and Olympian (1924, 1928).
5 Harold V. Almquist, 90, American college football player and athletics coach. Ada Carrasco, 81, Mexican actress, heart attack. Kurt Cobain, 27, American Hall of Fame singer (Nirvana) and songwriter ("Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Come as You Are"), suicide by gunshot. Lou Dials, 90, American baseball player. Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga, 75, Uruguayan jurist, traffic collision. Bobby Hofman, 68, American baseball player (New York Giants), and coach, cancer. Otari Kvantrishvili, 46, Georgian mafia boss, homicide. Charles Newton, 77, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles). Arthur Vere Harvey, Baron Harvey of Prestbury, 88, British Royal Air Force officer and a politician. Marlon Riggs, 37, American filmmaker, poet, and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications. Ghulam Fareed Sabri, 64, Pakistani qawwali singer. Roy Smeck, 94, American musician. André Tchelistcheff, 92, American winemaker.
6 Margit Albrechtsson, 76, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (1952). Hub Barker, 75, American football player (New York Giants). Klaus Bodinger, 61, German swimmer. Omar Carrasco, 20, Argentine conscript, blunt trauma. (body discovered on this date) Dick Cary, 77, American jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger. Shekhar Chatterjee, 70, Indian actor and film director. Bernard Ciza, Burundian politician, Minister of Public Works (since 1994), assassinated. Sheck Exley, 45, American cave diver, diving accident. Bill Ford, 78, American baseball player (Boston Bees). Juvénal Habyarimana, 57, Rwandan politician and military officer, president of Rwanda (since 1973), assassinated. Catherine Lombard, 28, French freestyle skier, AIDS-related complications. Patricia Ann McGee, 67, Native American tribal leader. Kahnu Charan Mohanty, 87, Indian novelist. Déogratias Nsabimana, 48, Rwandan military officer, chief of staff of the Rwandan Armed Forces (since 1992), assassinated. Cyprien Ntaryamira, 39, Burundian politician, president of Burundi (since 1994), assassinated. Cuthbert Peacocke, 90, Irish Anglican bishop. Goody Rosen, 81, Canadian baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants). Cyriaque Simbizi, Burundian politician, Minister of Communication, assassinated. Paola Tovaglia, 28, Italian children's television presenter, brain cancer.
7 Harry Adaskin, 92, Canadian violinist, academic, and radio broadcaster. Robert P. Baldwin, 76, American USAF pilot. Lee Brilleaux, 41, English R&B singer and musician, lymphoma. Ken Carson, 79, American singer, songwriter, and musician. Bill Dickinson, 77, Scottish rugby player and coach. Ștefan Dobay, 84, Romanian football player. Antônio Jacobina Filho, 87, Brazilian Olympic water polo player (1932). François de Grossouvre, 76, French politician, suicide by gunshot.François de Grossouvre se donne la mort à l’Elysée, L'Humanité, 8 April 1994 , Retrieved 10 August 2022 Cecil Gould, 75, British art historian and curator, brain cancer. Albert Guðmundsson, 70, Icelandic football player and politician. Ramesh Chandra Jha, 65, Indian poet, novelist and freedom fighter. Archibald Kennedy, 7th Marquess of Ailsa, 68, Scottish peer. Cesar Legaspi, 77, Filipino painter, prostate cancer. Golo Mann, 85, German historian and essayist. Ruben Rustia, 70, Filipino actor. Sigmund Ruud, 86, Norwegian ski jumper and Olympian (1928, 1932, 1936). Charles W. Shea, 72, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. Auguste Sirot, 74, French Olympic gymnast (1948). Agathe Uwilingiyimana, 40, Prime Minister of Rwanda, murdered.
8 Irene Eisinger, 90, German-British opera singer and film actress. Josef Neumann, 83, Swiss athlete and Olympian (1936). François Rozet, 95, French-Canadian actor. Jean-Marie Rudasingwa, 33, Rwandan Olympic middle-distance runner (1984). Roman Seljak, 59, Yugoslavian Olympic cross-country skier (1964). Leonard Small, 88, Scottish minister and author. Paul Söllner, 82, German Olympic rower (1936). Dada Vujasinović, 30, Serbian journalist and reporter. Åke Wallenquist, 90, Swedish astronomer.
9 Gaston Bauer, 58, Luxembourgian footballer. Lewis Billups, 30, American gridiron football player (Cincinnati Bengals, Green Bay Packers), car crash. M. S. Fernando, 58, Sri Lankan singer and musician. Marcel Ichac, 87, French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director. Mieczysław Maneli, 72, Polish lawyer, diplomat and academic. Theodore D. Mann, 71, American politician. Douglas McKay, 89, Australian cricketer. Hal Missingham, 87, Australian artist and watercolourist. Keith Park, 73, Australian rules footballer. Anthony E. Pratt, 90, English musician and inventor of board game Cluedo, Alzheimer's disease. Paul Păun, 78, Romanian-Israeli avant-garde poet and visual artist. Keith Watson, 59, British comics artist, cancer.
10 Terry Adlington, 58, English footballer. Viktor Afanasyev, 71, Soviet/Russian journalist and professor of philosophy. Reinaldo Gorno, 75, Argentine long-distance runner and Olympian (1952). Sam B. Hall, 70, American lawyer, politician, and judge. John O'Brien, 33, American author (Leaving Las Vegas), suicide. V. G. W. Ratnayake, 85, Sri Lankan politician.
11 Wesley Barry, 86, American actor, director, and producer. John Block, 64, Dutch aviation pioneer. Sticks Evans, 71, American drummer, percussionist, arranger and musical director. Matthew Feldman, 75, American politician. Johnny Posewitz, 87, American basketball player. Chu Tunan, 95, Chinese politician. Bill Wondolowski, 47, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
12 Elissa Aalto, 71, Finnish architect. Bob Cryer, 59, English politician, traffic collision. Daniel Levinson, 73, American psychologist. Branko Mikulić, 65, Yugoslavian statesman, lung cancer. Pamela Mitford, 86, English socialite and one of the Mitford sisters. Joseph Nelis, 77, Belgian football player. Frank V. Phillips, 82, American cinematographer (The Black Hole, Pete's Dragon, The Apple Dumpling Gang).
13 Kurt Aland, 79, German theologian and biblical scholar. Jørgen Buckhøj, 59, Danish actor Fred Dawley, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions). Bob Dummett, 58, Australian rules footballer. Birnie Duthie, 88, British Olympic alpine skier (1936). Piet Engels, 70, Dutch politician. Robert K. A. Gardiner, 79, Ghanaian government official, university professor, and economist. Claude Heymann, 86, French screenwriter and film director. Rudolf Hrušínský, 73, Czech actor and director. Giuseppe Kressevich, 78, Italian Olympic racewalker (1952). Nikolai Kryuchkov, 83, Soviet/Russian film actor. John Marriott, 81, Australian politician. Bert Ramelson, 84, British communist politician. Mika Tiivola, 71, Finnish businessman.
14 Bobby Gurney, 86, English football player and manager. Evelyn King, 86, British politician. Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, 96, Pakistani organic chemist, painter, and poet. Hugh Springer, 80, Barbados politician and fourth Governor-general of Barbados.
15 István Boros, 84, Male Hungarian international table tennis player. Walter Clegg, 73, British Conservative politician. John Curry, 44, British figure skater and Olympian (1972, 1976), heart attack. Vardges Petrosyan, 61, Armenian writer of fiction and drama, homicide. Milan Skřont, 63, Czech Olympic racewalker (1956).
16 Anna-Kaarina Aalto, 73, Finnish physician and politician, MP.Lääketieteen lisensiaatti Anna-Kaarina Aalto József Albert, 81, Hungarian football player. Chris Carroll, 70, Australian rules footballer. Renu Chakravartty, 76, Indian politician and leader of Communist Party of India. Ralph Ellison, 80, American novelist, literary critic, and scholar, pancreatic cancer. Leslie Flint, 83, British psychic medium. John McLiam, 76, Canadian actor (Cool Hand Luke, In Cold Blood, First Blood), Parkinson's disease. Reginald Parkin, 84, English cricketer. Victor Popov, 56, Russian theoretical physicist. José Ramón Sauto, 81, Mexican football player. Samuel Selvon, 70, Trinidad and Tobago writer, respiratory failure. Allan "Whitey" Snyder, 79, American make-up artist. Ron Vawter, 45, American actor (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Sex, Lies, and Videotape), heart attack.
17 Don Jefferson, 98, American baseball player. Robert Legget, 89, Canadian civil engineer, historian and writer. Karl Lillge, 76, American basketball player. Arthur Muhl, 81, Australian cricketer. André Oriol, 91, French Olympic rower (1924). Roger Sperry, 80, American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel Prize laureate. Walter Wilson, 80, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). Manno Wolf-Ferrari, 82, Italian conductor.
18 Tamás Aczél, 72, Hungarian poet, writer, and journalist. Dener, 23, Brazilian football player and manager, traffic collision. George Hesik, 80, American basketball player. Ken Oosterbroek, 32, South African photojournalist, shot. Ruggero Orlando, 86, Italian journalist, writer and politician. Robert O. Peterson, 78, American businessman and philanthropist.Robert O. Peterson, Founder of Jack in the Box Restaurants, Dies Bill Rexford, 67, American racecar driver. Anni Stolte, 79, German Olympic swimmer (1936).
19 Taisia Afonina, 80, Soviet/Russian painter and watercolorist. Virginia Bell, 66, American baseball player. Michael Carreras, 66, British film producer and director. Larry Davis, 57, American blues musician, cancer. Rodolfo de Álzaga, 63, Argentine racing driver. Josip Kujundžić, 79, Yugoslavian Olympic gymnast (1948). Tommy McCue, 80, English rugby player.