Famous People Who Died in 1995 (Part 3)

1995 Calendar

Deaths 401 - 600 of 1,097

May 15 Edouard Dermithe, Italian actor (Orpheus; Thomas the Impostor), dies at 70
May 15 Eric Porter, British stage and BAFTA Award-winning screen actor (The Royal Shakespeare Company; The Forsyte Saga; Antony & Cleopatra, The Thirty Nine Steps), dies of colon cancer at 67
May 15 Johnny Van Derrick, British jazz violinist (Pink Panther Theme), dies at 68
May 15 Perry Lederman, American folk and blues singer and guitarist, dies at 52
May 16 Lola Flores, Spanish singer, dancer and actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona), dies at 70
May 16 Ragnhild Marie Hatton, Norwegian historian, dies at 82
May 17 Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, South African singer (Manhattan Brothers) and actor, dies at 72
May 17 Paul D. Stoop, American vice-admiral (WW II-Coral Sea), dies at 90
May 17 Toe Blake, Canadian Hockey HOF left wing (Stanley Cup 1935 Montreal Maroons; 1944, 46 Montreal Canadiens) and coach (Stanley Cup 1956-60, 1965-66, 68 Montreal Canadiens), dies at 82
May 18 Alexander Godunov, Russian-American ballet dancer (Bolshoi Ballet, 1971-79), and actor (Witness; Die Hard), dies of hepatitis and alcoholism at 45 (exact date estimated)dies at 45
May 18 André-François Marescotti, Swiss organist and composer, dies at 93
May 18 Dorothy Poynton-Hill, American diver (Olympic gold 10m platform 1932, 36; silver springboard 1928, bronze 1936), dies at 79
May 18 Elisha Cook Jr, American actor (Maltese Falcon, Shane, Magnum PI), dies at 91

May 18 Gordon Reynolds, English organist and master of the Choristers at the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace, dies at 74
May 18 Robert Harris, British actor (Big Caper, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Laughing Anne), dies at 95
May 19 Robert S. Dietz, American geophysicist who proposed a theory of seafloor spreading in 1961, dies at 80
May 21 Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch writer (Fam Doorsnee, Jip & Janneke), dies at 84
May 21 Kieron Walsh, British academic, dies at 46
May 21 Les Aspin, American politician, (Rep-D-Wisc, 1971-93) US Secretary of Defense (1993-95), dies of stroke at 56
May 22 Robert Flemyng, British actor (The Deadly Affair, Funny Face), dies at 83
May 23 Dan Fortmann, American College/Pro Football HOF guard (3 × NFL C'ship 1940, 41, 43 Chicago Bears; 6 × First-team All-Pro; 3 × Pro Bowl), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 79
May 23 Keith Humble, Australian composer, dies at 67
May 23 Mick Pyne, British touring and session jazz pianist (Tubby Hayes; Georgie Fame: Charlie Watts), dies at 54
May 23 Patricia Ford, Lady Fisher, Irish politician and founder (British Women Caring Trust), dies at 74

May 25 Dany Robin, French actress (Follow the Boys, Topaz, Jupiter, Julietta), dies at 68
May 25 Dick Curless, American country music singer-songwriter (A Tombstone Every Mile), dies of stomach cancer at 63
May 25 Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player, dies at 46
May 26 Friz Freleng, American animator for Warner Bros cartoons (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies), dies at 88
May 26 Ron Weatherburn, British jazz pianist, dies at 61
May 26 Severn Darden, American actor (Luv; The President's Analyst; Saturday the 14th), dies at 65
May 27 C W Stubblefield, music promoter, dies at 64
May 27 László Kalmár, Hungarian composer (Triangles), dies at 63
May 27 Ulysses Kay, American neoclassical composer (Of New Horizons: Overture), dies of Parkinson's disease complications at 78
May 28 Daniela Rocca, Italian actress (Battle of Austerlitz), dies at 57
May 28 Henning Kronstam, Danish dancer, dies at 60
May 28 Jean Muir, British fashion designer, dies at 66
May 29 Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (U.S. Senator from Maine), dies at 97
May 30 Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (b.1911)
May 30 Philip Sherrard, English author and translator of modern Greek, dies at 72
May 30 Ted Drake [Edward Joseph Drake], English footballer, dies at 82
May 30 Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, British national park warden, dies at 87
May 31 Pavel Sivic, Slovenian composer, dies at 87
May 31 Stanley Elkin, American novelist (George Mills; The MacGuffin; The Living End), satirist, and college professor (Washington University, 1960-95), dies of a heart attack at 65
Jun 1 Prudence Hyman, English dancer, dies at 80
Jun 1 Tony Clegg, English property trader (Montleigh), dies at 58
Jun 2 Harper MacKay, American orchestra leader (NBC Follies), dies at 73
Jun 3 Alastair Mackie, Scottish poet and teacher, dies at 69
Jun 3 Dilys Powell, English film critic and travel writer (Descent from Parnassus), dies at 93
Jun 3 Estelle Brody, American silent film actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything), dies at 94
Jun 3 Frank Waters, American writer, dies at 92
Jun 3 J. Presper Eckert, Jr., American engineer and co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC), dies at 76
Jun 3 Jean-Patrick Manchette, French thriller writer (3 to Kill, The Prone Gunman), dies at 52
Jun 4 Ernest Borneman, German sexual researcher, psychotherapist, musician and writer (Bang, You're Dead), dies at 80
Jun 4 Herta Ryder, British literary agent, dies at 77
Jun 4 Paul WIlliams, British climber, dies in a climbing accident at 49
Jun 5 Bettina Vernon, Austrian 'Bodenwieser' dancer, dies at 75 [1]
Jun 5 Jan Decadt Flemish pianist and composer, dies at 81
Jun 6 James Anderson, writer, dies at 41
Jun 6 Rene Firino-Martell, French cognac manufacturer (Martell), dies at 68
Jun 7 "Sheikh" Imam [Eissa], Egyptian folk and protest singer-songwriter, dies at 76
Jun 7 Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918)
Jun 7 Joseph Tomelty, Irish actor and playwright (Bedevilled, Moby-Dick, Melba), dies at 85
Jun 8 Juan Carlos Ongania, President of Argentina (1966-70), dies
Jun 8 Jürgen Rausch, German philosopher and author (End of the Playboys), dies at 85
Jun 8 Lord Erskine of Rerrick, peer, dies at 69
Jun 9 Frank Chacksfield, English easy listening pianist, arranger and orchestra leader ("Ebb Tide"), dies from complications of Parkinson's disease at 81
Jun 9 Walter Landor [Landauer], German-British industrial and brand designer, and consumer researcher, dies at 81
Jun 10 Ernest Flatt, American choreographer (The Carol Burnett Show), dies at 76
Jun 10 Lindsey Nelson, American sportscaster (NY Mets), dies at 76
Jun 10 Masaya Hanai, Japanese businessman (Toyota, 1959-82), dies of kidney failure at 82
Jun 10 Ron Morrisby, Australian cricketer (prolific batsman for Tasmania 1931-52), dies
Jun 11 Lovelace Watkins, American singer known as "The Black Sinatra" (The Big, Big Voice of Lovelace Watkins), dies of leukemia at 58
Jun 12 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian classical pianist, dies at 75
Jun 12 Luigi Innocenti, Italian motorbike and auto tycoon (Lambretta), dies at 71
Jun 13 David Parry, British-Canadian folk musician (Friends of Fiddler's Green), storyteller (Canadian Museum of Civilization), actor, stage director, and teacher (University of Toronto), dies of a heart attack at 53
Jun 14 Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere, English TV documentary film producer (BBC), dies at 69
Jun 14 Els Aarne, Estonian composer, dies at 78
Jun 14 Gesualdo Bufalino, Italian novelist (Night's Lies), dies at 74
Jun 14 Gordon Greig, British political journalist (Daily Mail), dies at 63
Jun 14 Roger Joseph Zelazny, American poet and sci-fi writer (Chronicles of Amber), dies of cancer at 60
Jun 14 Rory Gallagher, Irish rock guitarist (See Here), dies at 47
Jun 15 Charles Bennett, English screenwriter, dies at 95
Jun 17 Claire Sterling, American journalist and writer (The Terror Network), dies at 75
Jun 18 Arthur John Howard, British actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso, Glass Cage), dies at 85
Jun 18 Charles Martin, cartoonist, dies at 85
Jun 19 Murray Dickie, Scottish opera singer and director, dies at 71
Jun 19 Peter Townsend, British RAF officer, war hero, courtier and writer (had romance with Princess Margaret), dies at 80
Jun 19 Richard Bernard Pape, POW escaper/writer, dies at 79
Jun 20 Al Hansen, American artist (Fluxus), found dead at 67
Jun 20 Dennis Gomm, British composer and musician, dies at 84
Jun 20 Emil Mihai Cioran, Romanina born writer and aphorist, dies at 84
Jun 20 Henry Iliffe Cozens, English Royal Air Force pilot, dies at 91
Jun 21 Kenneth Lamb, English broadcaster, dies at 71
Jun 21 Laurence McKinley Gould, American Geologist and Polar Explorer who was chief scientist and second-in-command on the first expedition to the interior of Antarctica in 1929, dies at 98
Jun 21 Tristan Jones, British sailor and author, dies at 71
Jun 22 Georges Yves Marie Congar, Dominican theologian cardinal, dies at 91
Jun 23 Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (considered as the father of Russian ice hockey), dies at 76
Jun 23 Jack Schroer, American rock saxophonist (Van Morrison's The Caledonia Soul Orchestra), dies at 51

Jun 24 Inshan Ali, West Indian cricketer (WI chinaman bowler 1971-77), dies at 45
Jun 25 Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (Nobel Prize 1951 for work building earliest particle accelerator), dies at 91
Jun 25 Warren Earl Burger, American judge, US Supreme Court Justice, dies of heart failure at 78
Jun 27 Efrem Kurtz, Russian conductor (Houston Symphony, 1948-54), dies at 94
Jun 27 Prez "Kidd" Kenneth, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 61
Jun 28 Donald Sinclair, vet, dies at 83

Jun 29 American pin-up model and actress (Peyton Place; The Postman Always Rings Twice; Imitation of Life), dies of cancer at 74

Jun 29 Roy Rowland, American film director, dies at 84
Jun 30 Barney Simon, South African theatre director and writer, dies at 63
Jun 30 Gale Gordon [Charles Thomas Aldrich, Jr], American actor and comedian (Our Miss Brooks; Dennis The Menace; The Lucy Show; Here's Lucy), dies from lung cancer at 89
Jun 30 Georgy Beregovoy, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74
Jun 30 Jorge Peixinho, Portuguese pianist, composer, and conductor, dies at 45
Jun 30 Phyllis Hyman, American jazz singer (Prime of My Life), commits suicide at 45
Jun 30 Sicco Mansholt, Dutch politician, (President of the Commission of Europe 1972-1973), dies at 86
Jul 1 Bruce Mitchell, South African cricket opening batsman (42 Tests), dies at 86
Jul 1 Ronald Farrow, radio producer and priest, dies at 49
Jul 1 Wolfman Jack [Robert Weston Smith], American disc jockey (The Midnight Special), dies from a heart attack at 57
Jul 2 George Seldes, American investigative journalist, dies at 104
Jul 2 Gervase Jackson-Stops, British architectural adviser to the National Trust, dies at 48
Jul 2 Krissy Taylor, American model (17 Mag), dies of respiratory problems at 17
Jul 3 Bert Hardy, English photographer (Picture Post), dies at 82
Jul 3 Brad Lee Sexton, American blues-rock bassist (Little Charlie & the Nightcats. 1990-93), dies at 47
Jul 3 Gil Wolman, French artist, dies at 65
Jul 3 Pancho González, American tennis player (US National C'ships singles 1948-49; Wimbledon & French Open Doubles, 1949; 13 x Pro Grand Slam titles), dies of stomach cancer at 67
Jul 4 Bob Ross, American artist and television host, dies at 52
Jul 4 Eva Gabor, Hungarian-born American actress (Green Acres'"Lisa";, Gigi), comedian, singer and socialite, dies at 76
Jul 4 Jacques Berque, French Islamic scholar, dies at 85
Jul 5 Foster Furcolo, American politician, 60th Governor of Massachusetts (1957-61), dies at 83
Jul 6 Aziz Nesin, Turkish writer, dies at 79
Jul 6 Helene Johnson, American Harlem Renaissance poet, dies at 87
Jul 6 Ivor Keys, British organist, musicologist, and academic (University of Nottingham; University of Birmingham), dies at 76
Jul 7 Gábor Ormai, Hungarian violist (Takács Quartet, 1975-95), and pedagogue, dies of cancer at 40
Jul 7 Geoffrey Freeman Allen, English railway writer, dies at 73
Jul 8 Elizabeth Adams, American Beverly Hills madame and mentor to Heidi Fleiss, dies at 65
Jul 8 Günter Bialas, German composer and music educator, dies at 87
Jul 9 Fenton Morley, British parish priest who chaired the Church of England Morley Commission, dies at 83
Jul 9 Jacques Molicard, translator and navigator, dies at 62
Jul 9 James Cameron Tudor, Barbadian politician and diplomat (founded Democratic Labour Party), dies at 66
Jul 9 John Eric Tieman, production Manager (The Guardian), dies at 67
Jul 9 Julian Graham Theodore Hough, actor (Deathwatch, Shout), dies at 47
Jul 10 Hugh Dundas, British WWII fighter pilot and businessman, dies at 74
Jul 11 John Cruickshank, Northern Irish-born scholar of French literature, dies at 70
Jul 12 Alan David Marks, American concert pianist, dies of cancer at 49
Jul 12 Earl Coleman, American jazz singer, dies of cardiac arrest at 69
Jul 12 Ernie Furtado, American jazz double-bassist, dies at 72
Jul 12 Michael Clegg, English naturalist and TV presenter (Clegg's People), dies at 62
Jul 13 Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish toy manufacturer (Lego Group), dies at 75
Jul 14 Michael Naylor, English insurance broker (Endsleigh Insurance), dies at 59
Jul 15 Paula Myers-Pope, American platform diver, (2 silver, 1 bronze Olympics 1952-60), dies at 60
Jul 15 Willie George "Bill" Woodruff Sr, vocalist, dies at 66
Jul 16 Charles Bruck, Hungarian-French-American conductor (Dutch Opera, 1950-54; Strasbourg Philharmonic, 1955–65), and Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF, 1965–70), dies of cancer at 83
Jul 16 Eleanore "May" Sarton, Belgian-American writer (Land of Silence), dies at 83

Jul 16 Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65
Jul 16 Patsy Ruth Miller, American actress (Quebec, Wide Open, Sap, Twin Beds), dies at 91
Jul 16 Peter Francis de Sautoy, publisher, dies at 83
Jul 16 Stephen Spender, English poet and critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness), dies at 86
Jul 16 Travis Kemp, British ballet dancer and teacher, dies at 91
Jul 17 Carlos Sánchez Málaga, Peruvian composer, dies at 91
Jul 17 Joe Hutton, Northumbrian piper and shepherd, dies at 71
Jul 17 Rainer Kunad, German composer, dies at 58
Jul 18 Fabio Casartelli, Italian road cyclist (Olympic gold Individual road race 1992), dies in a race crash during the Tour de France at 24
Jul 19 Dorothy McHugh, American actress (I Fallen & I Can't Get Up), dies at 87
Jul 19 James Smiddy, American basketball coach (national high school record 1,216 wins; Charleston HS, Bradley Central HS), dies at 71
Jul 19 Michael Andrews, British painter, dies at 66
Jul 19 Sydney Lipton, British dance band bandleader, dies at 89
Jul 20 Ernest Mandel, Belgian philosopher and economist (Marxist), dies at 72
Jul 20 Helmut Gernsheim, German photographer, collector and historian, dies at 82
Jul 20 Natalia Dmitrevna Shpiller, Czech-Russian lyric soprano, dies at 85
Jul 21 Edwin "Russell" House, American saxophonist, dies at 65
Jul 21 Elleston Trevor, English author (The Flight of the Phoenix), dies at 75
Jul 22 Dave Clark, American blues music promoter, and songwriter ("Why I Sing The Blues"), dies at 86
Jul 22 Harold Larwood, England cricket fast bowler (21 Tests, Bodyline Series v Australia 1932-33), dies at 90
Jul 22 Percy Humphrey, American jazz trumpet player and bandleader in New Orleans, Louisiana, dies at 90
Jul 22 Roley Jenkins, English cricket spin bowler (9 Tests, 32 wickets), dies at 76
Jul 23 Bob Rundick, American poet and DJ, dies at 52
Jul 23 Floyd McDaniel, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 80
Jul 24 Don Carpenter, American novelist (Hard Rain Falling), dies at 64
Jul 24 Jerry Lordan, English singer and composer (Wonderful Land), dies at 61
Jul 24 Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, Ukrainian-Polish filmmaker and film educator (Polish Film School), dies at 94
Jul 25 Charlie Rich, American country singer ("Behind Closed Doors"; "The Most Beautiful Girl"), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 62
Jul 25 Janice Elliott, English novelist, dies at 63
Jul 25 Osvaldo Pugliese, Argentine musician and composer, dies at 89

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