The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 1994
1 David Berg, 75, American founder and leader of religious movement The Family International. Georges Delporte, 82, French Olympic water polo player (1936). Ignazio Dionisi, 82, Italian Olympic ice hockey player (1936, 1948). Ron Herron, 64, English architect and teacher. Bud Houser, 93, American field athlete and Olympian (1924, 1928). Donald Roy Irvine, 74, Canadian politician. Oluyemi Kayode, 26, Nigerian sprinter and Olympian (1992), traffic collision. Paul Lorenzen, 79, German philosopher and mathematician. Marjorie Weaver, 81, American actress, heart attack.
2 Matthew Black, 86, Scottish minister and biblical scholar. Toby Caston, 29, American football player (Houston Oilers, Detroit Lions). Claude Harris, Jr., 54, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1987-1993). Harry Hodgkinson, 81, British writer, journalist, and naval intelligence officer. Harriet Nelson, 85, American singer and actress (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), heart failure. Lyall Williams, 88, Australian rules footballer.
3 Tim Asch, 62, American anthropologist, photographer, and ethnographic filmmaker, cancer. Virginia Dale, 77, American actress and dancer. William Daniel Murray, 85, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Montana). Lassi Parkkinen, 77, Finnish speed skater and Olympian (1948, 1952). Phil Ragazzo, 79, American football player (Cleveland Rams, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants). Heinz Rühmann, 92, German film actor. Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis, 92, German Benedictine and nobleman. Dub Taylor, 87, American actor (The Wild Bunch, Bonnie and Clyde, Casey Jones).
4 Yardena Alotin, 64, Israeli composer and pianist. Ted Brewis, 92, Australian rules footballer. Bill Challis, 90, American jazz arranger. Danny Gatton, 49, American guitarist, suicide. Shmuel Merlin, 84, Israeli Revisionist Zionist activist and politician. Effat Nagy, 89, Egyptian artist. John Opper, 85, American abstract painter. Andrea Velis, 62, American operatic tenor.
5 Lee Gamble, 84, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). Luc Jouret, 46, Belgian religious cult leader, suicide. Gordon Juckes, 80, Canadian ice hockey administrator. Dientje Meijer-Haantjes, 76, Dutch Olympic gymnast (1948). Nini Rosso, 68, Italian jazz trumpeter and composer, lung cancer. Walt Schlinkman, 72, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers), and coach. Bill Shaw, 79, Australian rules footballer. William R. Smedberg III, 92, United States Navy vice admiral. Jacques Tarride, 91, French actor. Doug Wildey, 72, American comic book artist and television writer (Jonny Quest).
6 Jo Colruyt, 66, Belgian businessman. Per Mørch Hansson, 89, Norwegian sportsman and businessman. G. Joseph Tauro, 88, American judge and Chief justice (1970-1976). Tadeusz Żakiej, 79, Polish musicologist and music publicist, and food writer.
7 Piotr Alberti, 80, Soviet/Russian painter. Maya Bulgakovа, 62, Soviet/Russian actress, traffic collision. Bruce Cork, 78, American physicist. Ray Ellefson, 72, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers, New York Knicks). Stan Ferens, 79, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns). Jack Fitzgerald, 80, Irish Labour Party politician. Carlos Gracie, 92, Brazilian martial artist. Viktors Hatuļevs, 39, Soviet/Latvian ice hockey defenseman and left winger. James Hill, 75, British film and television director, screenwriter and producer. Niels Kaj Jerne, 82, Danish immunologist. Maurício do Valle, 66, Brazilian film actor, diabetes.
8 Anthony Abell, 87, British colonial official.ABELL, Sir Anthony (Foster), Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014) Diana Churchill, 81, English actress, multiple sclerosis. Brian Hartley, 55, British mathematician specialising in group theory, heart attack. Khaled al-Hassan, 66, Palestinian politician, adviser of Yasser Arafat and founder of militant organization Fatah. Alan M. Holman, 89, American football player and coach. Jan de Koning, 68, Dutch politician and social geographer, cancer. John Neely, 64, American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger.
9 Raich Carter, 80, English sportsman. Tony Falkenstein, 79, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Brooklyn Tigers, Boston Yanks). Bill Fox, 95, New Zealand politician. Idris Hopkins, 83, Welsh football player. Nikolai Karetnikov, 64, Soviet /Russian composer of underground music. Fred Lebow, 62, American runner and race director. Philip Burton Moon, 87, British nuclear physicist. Lawrence Simmons, 83, American football and baseball coach. Rolf Thiele, 76, German film director, producer and screenwriter. Corneille Wellens, 89, Belgian field hockey player and Olympian (1928, 1936).
10 Richard J. C. Atkinson, 74, British prehistorian and archaeologist. John C. Champion, 70, American producer and screenwriter. Nola Luxford, 92, New Zealand-American film actress. Allen Nilan, 81, Australian rules footballer. SM Sultan, 71, Bangladeshi painter.
11 Bobby Brooks, 48, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics, California Angels). Charlie Cuellar, 77, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). Harry Harley, 78, Australian rules footballer. Jarvis Hunt, 90, American politician. Keiji Imai, 77, Japanese Olympic sprinter (1936). Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov, 74, French Resistance member. Frank McGuire, 79, American basketball coach (St. John's Red Storm, North Carolina Tar Heels, South Carolina Gamecocks).
12 John Blackburn, 61, British politician. Raymond Garrett, 93, Australian military officer, photographer, and politician. Gérald Godin, 55, Quebec poet and politician. John Harding, 62, Australian rules footballer. Aslam Khan, 76, Pakistani brigadier, captured Kennedy Peak (Myanmar) during WWII Werner Kubitzki, 79, German Olympic field hockey player (1936). Manole Marcus, 66, Romanian film director and screenwriter. Yakov Punkin, 72, Ukrainian featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympian (1952). Sady Rebbot, 59, French actor, cancer.
13 Fiodar Fiodaraŭ, 83, Soviet/Belarusian physicist. Ture Königson, 84, Swedish evangelical politician. Eric Morse, 5, American murder victim, fall. Samuel Jacob Sesanus Olsen, 90, Faroese teacher, writer and translator. Guido Wolf, 70, Liechtensteiner Olympic sports shooter (1960).
14 Monte Brethauer, 63, American football player (Baltimore Colts). Gioconda de Vito, 87, Italian-British violinist. Harry Fleer, 78, American actor. Ken Jordan, 82, American basketball player. Neil Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick, 68, British Olympic sailor (1952, 1956). Setu Madhavrao Pagdi, 84, Indian civil servant, polyglot, and historian. Nikolai Skomorokhov, 74, Soviet Air Forces flying ace during World War II, traffic collision. Karl Edward Wagner, 48, American writer, poet, editor, and publisher. Petar Šegedin, 68, Yugoslav steeplechase, long-distance runner, and Olympian (1948, 1952). Ada Valerie-Tal, 58, Israeli actress (Bar 51), heart disease."שיזכרו אותי כשחקנית - כל היתר לא חשוב" (in Hebrew)
15 Avis Acres, 84, New Zealand artist, writer, illustrator and conservationist. Wally Culpitt, 76, Australian rules footballer. Jean Dasté, 90, French actor and theatre director. Bernie Hore, 78, Australian rules footballer. Sarah Kofman, 60, French philosopher, suicide. George Meader, 87, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1951-1965). Jozo Tomasevich, 86, American economist and military historian.
16 Joan Airey, 68, British Olympic artistic gymnast (1948). Kunigunde Bachl, 75, German physician and politician, member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein Peter Bromilow, 61, English actor (Camelot, The Railway Children, The Rocketeer). Ed Cody, 71, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears), and coach. Monja Danischewsky, 83, British producer and writer. Michela Fanini, 21, Italian racing cyclist, traffic collision. Ganesh Ghosh, 94, Indian independence activist, revolutionary and politician. Dewey Halford, 75, American football coach and athletics commissioner. (Morningside University). Josef Kraft, 73, German Luftwaffe pilot during World War II and later an officer in the German Air Force. Barney McKellar, 54, Australian rules footballer.
17 P. M. Aboobacker, Indian politician. George Barrows, 80, American actor. John Ellis, 80, Australian cricketer. Ralph Hill, 86, American runner and Olympian (1932). Dmitry Kholodov, 27, Russian journalist, homicide. Joe Paparella, 85, American baseball umpire. Gus Risman, 83, Welsh rugby player.
18 Herman Ahlsell, 75, Swedish director and actor. Lee Allen, 67, American tenor saxophone player. Walker Lee Cisler, 97, American engineer and business executive. Xavier Depraz, 68, French opera singer and actor. Else Klink, 86, German Eurythmist. Eddie Mast, 46, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Atlanta Hawks). Conchita Montes, 80, Spanish film actress. Max Müller, 88, German philosopher and Catholic intellectual. Li Qingwei, 74, People's Republic of China politician.
19 Frank J. Battisti, 72, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio). Ray Birdwhistell, 76, American anthropologist. Oldřich Černík, 72, Czech politician and Prime minister of Czechoslovakia. Hedi Flitz, 94, German politician. M. C. M. Kaleel, 94, Ceylonese physician, social worker and politician. Jacopo Napoli, 83, Italian composer. Martha Raye, 78, American comic actress and singer, pneumonia. Nyanaponika Thera, 93, German-born Theravada Buddhist monk and scholar.
20 Sergei Bondarchuk, 74, Soviet/Russian actor, film director, and screenwriter, heart attack. Shlomo Carlebach, 69, Jewish rabbi, spiritual leader, composer, and singer, heart attack. Viola Gråsten, 83, Swedish textile designer. Barbara Ingram, 46, American R&B singer and songwriter. Hakob Karapents, 69, Iranian-Armenian author. Mike Kasap, 71, American football player (Baltimore Colts). Burt Lancaster, 80, American actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry, Birdman of Alcatraz), Oscar winner (1961), heart attack. Robert Medley, 88, English artist. Georges Poffé, 62-63, Belgian Olympic equestrian (1956). Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, 69, Italian film actor. Francis Steegmuller, 88, American biographer, translator and fiction writer.
21 Bunny Adair, 89, Australian politician. Richard Harvey Chambers, 87, American circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit). Thore Ehrling, 81, Swedish trumpeter, composer, and bandleader. George H. Gay, 77, United States Navy bomber pilot during World War II. Jerome Wiesner, 79, American engineer and president of MIT.
22 Wali Ahmed, Bangladesh Awami League politician. William Frankena, 86, American moral philosopher. Engelbert Holderied, 70, German Olympic ice hockey player (1952). Harold Hopkins, 75, British physicist. Handel Manuel, 76, Indian pianist, organist, conductor, composer and accompanist. Rollo May, 85, American existential psychologist and author. Jimmy Miller, 52, American record producer and musician, liver disease. Rastko Poljšak, 95, Yugoslavian Olympic gymnast (1924). Benoît Régent, 41, French actor, aneurysm. Andrea Zambelli, 67, Italian bobsledder.
23 Ray Conger, 89, American middle-distance runner and Olympian (1928). Albino Crespi, 64, Italian racing cyclist. Jean-Claude Druart, 67, French Olympic footballer (1952). Jack Gibson, 86, English schoolmaster, academic and mountaineer. Robert Lansing, 66, American actor (12 O'Clock High. The Equalizer, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues), cancer. Bill Leonard, 78, American journalist and television executive, stroke.