Deaths in May 1995

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 1995

1

• Erwin Leonard Guy Abel, 83, New Zealand businessman.
• Reuel Denney, 82, American poet and academic.
• Carl S. Herz, 65, American-Canadian mathematician.
• George MacKinnon, 89, American politician, attorney, and judge.
• Mikhail Zimyanin, 80, Soviet/Russian politician and diplomat.

2

• Luciano Anceschi, 84, Italian literary critic and essayist.
• Edwin Blum, 88, American screenwriter.
• Albert Bousser, 89, Luxembourgish politician, railway inspector, and trade unionist.
• Don Brockett, 65, American actor (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Flashdance, The Silence of the Lambs), heart attack.
• John Bunting, 76, Australian public servant and diplomat.
• Sir Michael Hordern, 83, English actor (The Dock Brief, Barry Lyndon, Watership Down), kidney disease.
• Allan O. Hunter, 78, American politician.
• Manfred Kersch, 81, German athlete.
• Rudolf Perešin, 37, Croatian fighter pilot, killed in action.
• Dežo Ursiny, 47, Slovak rock musician, screenwriter and director.
• Werner Veigel, 66, Dutch-German journalist and news presenter, brain cancer.
• Keith Zettlemoyer, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

3

• John Warren Aldrich, 89, American ornithologist.
• Johnny Leonard, 91, Australian rules football player and coach.
• Adele Marcus, 89, American pianist and music educator.
• Adolf Schlyßleder, 85, German film editor and assistant director.
• Bruno Torpigliani, 80, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.

4

• Andrey Abramov, 58, Soviet/Russian boxer.
• Arne Arnardo, 82, Norwegian circus performer and owner.
• Murray Barr, 86, Canadian physician and medical researcher.
• Cornelio Fabro, 83, Italian Catholic priest.
• Thomas Anthony Harris, 85, American psychiatrist and author, heart attack.
• Louis Krasner, 91, Ukrainian-American violinist.
• Hitomi Nozoe, 58, Japanese actress popular in the 1950s and early 1960s, cancer.
• Lewis Thompson Preston, 68, American banker, CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co. and president of the World Bank.
• Connie Wisniewski, 73, American baseball player, cancer.

5

• Josef Bek, 76, Czech film and television actor.
• Mikhail Botvinnik, 83, Russian chess player, pancreatic cancer.
• David Connell, 63-64, American television producer (Sesame Street, The Electric Company).
• Geno DeNobile, 62, Canadian football player.
• Earl Faircloth, 74, American politician and lawyer.
• Richard D. McCarthy, 67, American politician.
• Nagabhushanam, 73, Indian actor and comedian.
• Alastair Pilkington, 75, British engineer and businessman.
• Ye Qianyu, 88, Chinese painter and pioneering manhua artist.
• Edward W. Snedeker, 92, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.
• Anthony Wagner, 86, English Officer of Arms at the College of Arms.

6

• John Black Aird, 72, Canadian lawyer, corporate director and political figure.
• Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, 88, Portuguese writer and journalist.
• Noel Brotherston, 38, Northern Irish footballer, heart attack.
• Bucky Calabrese, 67, American upright bassist.
• Ippolito Gonzalez, 40, American police sergeant.
• Gottfried Haberler, 94, Austrian-American economist.
• Adriano Mantelli, 82, Italian aircraft designer.
• Georgios Mavros, 86, Greek jurist and politician.
• Clarence Paul, 67, American songwriter, record producer and singer, diabetes.

7

• Katharine Banham, 97, English psychologist who specialized in developmental psychology.
• Gus Bell, 66, American Major League Baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Milwaukee Braves).
• María Luisa Bemberg, 73, Argentine film writer, director and actress, cancer.
• Ray Buckton, 72, British trade unionist.
• Clifford Clogg, 45, American sociologist, demographer, and statistician.
• Ernest H. Martin, 75, American Broadway and film producer of musicals.
• Ray McKinley, 84, American jazz drummer, singer, and bandleader.
• Giti Pashaei, 54, Iranian singer and musician, breast cancer.
• Mariya Polyakova, 87, Soviet colonel and spy.
• Ioannis Toumbas, 94, Greek naval officer and politician.
• Helen Varcoe, 88, English swimmer and Olympic medalist.

8

• Carroll Best, American banjo player.
• Prem Bhatia, 72, Indian diplomat and journalist.
• Jacques Isorni, 83, French lawyer and memoirist.
• Marshal Royal, 82, American alto saxophonist and clarinetist, brother of Ernie Royal.
• Bill Spivey, 66, American basketball player.
• Teresa Teng, 42, Taiwanese singer, asthma.

9

• Jeanne Darville, 70, Danish film actress.
• Alf Henrikson, 89, Swedish author, poet and translator.
• Percy Mansell, 75, South African cricket player.
• Charles Monteith, 74, British literary editor.
• Kanhiyalal Prabhakar Mishra, 88, Indian journalist, writer and freedom fighter.
• John Elwood Price, 59, American composer, pianist, ethnomusicologist, and music teacher.
• Earl H. Pritchard, 87, American scholar of China.
• Magda Rurac, 76, Romanian tennis player in the 1940s and 1950s.

10

• Brigitte Alexander, 83, German-born Mexican author, actress, director and translator.
• Harold Berens, 92, British comedian and character actor.
• Georgios Candilis, 82, Greek-French architect and urbanist.
• Ilio DiPaolo, 68, Italian professional wrestler and restaurateur.
• Karl Drewo, 65, Austrian jazz saxophonist.
• Alexander Elbrächter, 87, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
• Freddy Fernández, 61, Mexican film and television actor, esophageal cancer.
• Duncan McKenzie, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Juan Manuel López Mella, 30, Spanish motorcycle racer, traffic collision.
• Jimmy Raney, 67, American jazz guitarist.
• Carlos Rinaldi, 80, Argentine film director, film editor and screenwriter.
• Steffie Spira, 86, Austrian-German actress.
• Gil Steinke, 76, American football player and coach.
• Joe Vetrano, 76, American gridiron football player.
• Dicky Zulkarnaen, 55, Indonesian actor.

11

• Reza Abdoh, 32, Iranian playwright and director, AIDS.
• David Avidan, 61, Israeli poet and playwright.
• José T. Joya, 63, Filipino abstract artist.
• Arthur Lubin, 96, American film director.
• Boris Pash, 94, United States Army military intelligence officer.
• John Phillips, 80, British actor.
• Ivo Samkalden, 82, Dutch politician and jurist.
• Bill Shelton, 92, Australian rules football player.
• Pete Tinsley, 82, American gridiron football player.

12

• Len Beadell, 72, Australian surveyor, road builder, bushman, artist and author.
• Giorgio Belladonna, 71, Italian bridge player.
• John Blight, 81, Australian poet.
• Andrei Boltnev, 49, Soviet/Russian actor, stroke.
• Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman, 81, British lawyer and political advisor.
• Bogo Grafenauer, 79, Slovenian historian.
• Ștefan Kovács, 74, Romanian football player and coach.
• Vernon L. Lowrance, 86, United States Navy vice admiral.
• Mia Martini, 47, Italian singer and songwriter, heart failure.
• Adolfo Pedernera, 76, Argentinian footballer.
• Maria Teresa Riedl, 57, Italian tennis player.
• Marcel Rubin, 89, Austrian composer and music critic.
• Karl Vennberg, 85, Swedish poet, writer and translator.

13

• Francisco Moreno Capdevila, 69, Spanish-Mexican artist.
• Alan Maley, 64, British visual effects artist (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Spy Who Loved Me), Oscar winner (1972), heart attack.
• Robert Marley, 85, Jamaican cricket player.
• Teddy Sandford, 84, English football player.
• Hao Wang, 73, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician.

14

• Christian B. Anfinsen, 79, American biochemist and Nobel Prize for Chemistry laureate, heart attack.
• Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt, 75, Colombian sculptor, liver cancer.
• Jessy Blackburn, 101, British aviation pioneer.
• Mary Brazier, 90, American neuroscientist.
• Ted James, 76, American politician.
• Jean Laurent, 88, French football player.
• Tommy Prothro, 74, American football coach, cancer.
• Hamilton Lavity Stoutt, 66, British Virgin Islander politician and first Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands.
• Richard Udugama, 83, Sri Lankan military leader, politician and diplomat.

15

• Lionel Brodie, 77, Australian tennis player.
• Benjamin Bubar Jr., 77, American politician and ordained minister.
• Dora Chapman, 84, Australian painter.
• Seymour Durst, 81, American real estate investor and developer.
• Billy Lott, 60, American gridiron football player.
• Taizan Maezumi, 64, Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher and rōshi, drowned.
• Grace Matthews, 84, Canadian actress in the era of old-time radio and the early years of television.
• Fred G. Moritt, 89, American lawyer, singer, composer, lyricist and politician.
• Eric Porter, 67, English actor, colorectal cancer.
• Luis Antonio Ramírez, 72, Puerto Rican composer.
• Pia Tassinari, 91, Italian opera singer who was first a soprano and later a mezzo-soprano.

16

• Edris Allan, 86, Jamaican community worker, political figure and women's rights advocate.
• Red Amick, 66, American racecar driver.
• Harry E. Bergold Jr., 63, American diplomat and ambassador.
• Parelius Hjalmar Bang Berntsen, 85, Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
• Ray Bower, 72, Australian rules footballer.
• Lola Flores, 72, Spanish singer, dancer and actress, breast cancer.
• Gertrude Grob-Prandl, 77, Austrian soprano.
• Ragnhild Hatton, 82, Norwegian-British professor of International History at the London School of Economics.
• Raymond Lyttleton, 84, British mathematician and theoretical astronomer.
• Thomas Lee Ward, 59, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

17

• Toe Blake, 82, Canadian ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League, Alzheimer's disease.
• Girvies Davis, 37, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Geoffrey Dickens, 63, British politician, liver cancer.
• Joe McKenney, 90, American football player and coach.
• Catfish Metkovich, 74, American baseball player.
• Leonid Ivanovich Volkov, 60, Ice hockey player.

18

• Brinsley Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, 83, Irish peer and proponent of the Hollow Earth concept.
• Elisha Cook Jr., 91, American actor (The Maltese Falcon, Rosemary's Baby, Shane), stroke.
• Francis Judd Cooke, 84, American composer, organist, cellist, pianist, conductor, and choir director.
• Alexander Godunov, 45, Russian ballet dancer and actor (Die Hard, Witness, The Money Pit), hepatitis.
• Robert Harris, 95, English actor.
• Jack Kramer, 77, American baseball player.
• Henri Laborit, 80, French surgeon, neurobiologist, writer and philosopher.
• Elizabeth Montgomery, 62, American actress (Bewitched, The Legend of Lizzie Borden, A Case of Rape), colorectal cancer.
• Dorothy Poynton-Hill, 79, American diver.
• Sabine Sinjen, 52, German film actress, cancer.
• Michael P. W. Stone, 69, British-American businessman and government administrator.
• Tor Ulven, 41, Norwegian poet, suicide.
• Peter van de Kamp, 93, Dutch astronomer.

19

• Robert Sinclair Dietz, 80, American geologist.
• Derek Ford, 62, English film director and writer.
• Hans Jürgen Kiebach, 64, German production designer, art director and set decorator.
• Trevor Lewis, 75, British water polo player and Olympian.
• Robert Riger, 70, American sports illustrator, photographer, television director, and cinematographer.
• Nico van Gageldonk, 81, Dutch cyclist and Olympian.

20

• Maurice Banide, 90, French football player and manager.
• Les Cowie, 70, Australian rugby player.
• Oscar Gjøslien, 85, Norwegian cross-country skier.
• Burton Jastram, 84, American rower.
• Ulysses Kay, 78, American composer, Parkinson's disease.
• Florijan Matekalo, 75, Yugoslav and Croatian football player.
• Les Smith, 77, English football player, Alzheimer's disease.

21

• Les Aspin, 56, American politician and member of the U.S. House of Representatives, stroke.
• Larry Hillblom, 52, American businessman and co-founder of DHL.
• Chaudhry Altaf Hussain, 65, Pakistani politician.
• Giuseppe Peruchetti, 87, Italian football player and coach.
• Agnelo Rossi, 82, Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Annie M. G. Schmidt, 84, Dutch writer, heart attack.
• Mükbile Sultan, 83, Ottoman princess and granddaughter of Mehmed V.

22

• Robert Flemyng, 83, British actor, pneumonia.
• Claude Itzykson, 57, French theoretical physicist.
• Butch Morse, 84, American gridiron football player.
• Derek Reeves, 60, English football player.

23

• Pierre Baratin, 74, French cyclist.
• Ross Flood, 84, American wrestler and Olympian medalist.
• Patricia Ford, 74, Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Party politician.
• Dan Fortmann, 79, American gridiron football player.
• Gavriil Kachalin, 84, Soviet/Russian football player and coach.
• Mick Pyne, 54, English jazz pianist.
• Torolv Solheim, 87, Norwegian resistance member during World War II, essayist, and politician.

24

• Ole Borge, 79, Norwegian jurist and resistance member during World War II.
• Paul J. Kramer, 91, American biologist and plant physiologist.
• Ichisada Miyazaki, 93, Japanese historian.
• Youakim Moubarac, 70, Lebanese Islamologist, Orientalist and Arabist.
• Harold Wilson, 79, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Alzheimer's disease and colorectal cancer.

25

• Jack Allen, 87, English film, theatre and television actor.
• Élie Bayol, 81, French racing driver.
• Veronica Bulshefski, 79, Director of the United States Navy Nurse Corps.
• Ted Calland, 62, English professional footballer.
• Boyden Carpenter, 86, American hillbilly and bluegrass artist.
• Krešimir Ćosić, 46, Croatian basketball player and coach, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Dick Curless, 63, American country music singer, stomach cancer.
• Alice Day, 89, American film actress.
• Dany Robin, 68, French actress, domestic fire.
• Samuel A. Tamposi, 70, American real estate developer, lymphoma.

26

• Tony Azito, 46, American dancer and actor (The Addams Family, Moonstruck, Union City), HIV/AIDS.
• David S. Breslow, 78, American industrial chemist best known for his work on polymers.
• Friz Freleng, 89, American animator (Looney Tunes).
• Edmund Hansen, 94, Danish track cyclist and Olympian.
• Kamukara Purushothaman, 64, Indian singer.
• Sigmund Skard, 91, Norwegian poet, essayist and professor of American literature.
• Mordechai Surkis, 87, Israeli politician.
• Eriprando Visconti, 62, Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer, pulmonary emphysema.

27

• Ștefan Bănică Sr., 61, Romanian actor.
• Severn Darden, 65, American comedian and actor (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Back to School, Saturday the 14th), heart failure.
• Epi Drost, 49, Dutch association football player and manager, heart attack.
• László Kalmár, 63, Hungarian composer and editor.
• Mike McQuay, 45, American science fiction writer, heart attack.
• Christopher B. "Stubb" Stubblefield, 64, American barbecue restaurateur.

28

• Roy Ankrah, 69, Ghanaian boxer who won the British Empire super featherweight title.
• Helen Ballard, 87, British horticulturist.
• Gunnar Huseby, 71, Icelandic track and field athlete.
• Henning Kronstam, 60, Danish ballet dancer, ballet master and company director.
• Ernie Lewis, 70, American gridiron football player.
• Irfan Ljubijankić, 42, Bosnian classical music composer, politician and diplomat, killed in action.
• Jean Muir, 66, British fashion designer, breast cancer.
• Arifin C. Noer, 54, Indonesian poet, theater director and film producer, liver cancer.
• Daniela Rocca, 57, Italian actress, model and writer, heart attack.
• Sinedu Tadesse, 19, Ethiopian student, suicide.
• Tahsin Taha, 54, Kurdish singer.
• Matthew E. Welsh, 82, American politician.

29

• Santiago Armada, 57, Cuban artist and designer.
• Juan Boria, 90, Puerto Rican poet.
• Ralph Gustafson, 85, Canadian poet and professor at Bishop's University.
• Mike Pentz, 70, South African-British physicist and activist in the peace movement, leukemia.
• Archibald Russell, 90, British aerospace engineer.
• Glen Selbo, 69, American basketball and baseball player.
• Margaret Chase Smith, 97, American politician, lung cancer.
• Kurt Weiß, 89, German field hockey player and Olympian.

30

• Robert Alexander Anderson, 100, American composer.
• Glenn Burke, 42, American Major League Baseball player who was the first to come out as gay, AIDS complications.
• Ted Drake, 82, English footballer.
• Lofty England, 83, British engineer and motor company manager.
• Antonio Flores, 33, Spanish singer-songwriter and actor, drug overdose.
• William McVey, 89, American sculptor, animalier and teacher.
• Ray Novotny, 87, American football player and coach.
• Giuseppe Sartore, 58, Italian racing cyclist.
• Philip Sherrard, 72, British author, translator and philosopher.
• Bobby Stokes, 44, English footballer, pneumonia.
• Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu, 97, Romanian novelist, poet and translator.
• Arthur M. Young, 89, American inventor, helicopter pioneer, cosmologist, philosopher, astrologer, and author.

31

• Roy Beddington, 85, British painter, illustrator, poet, writer on fishing, and journalist.
• Guillermo Bermúdez, 71, Colombian architect.
• Norm Brown, 76, American baseball player.
• Stanley Elkin, 65, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist, heart attack.
• Emilio García Gómez, 89, Spanish Arabist, literary historian and critic.
• Ingrid Semmingsen, 85, Norwegian historian.
• Pavel Šivic, 87, Slovenian composer, concert pianist, and music educator.
• Warren Sonbert, 47, American experimental filmmaker, complications from AIDS