The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1995
1 Róbert Antal, 73, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic gold medalist (1952). Joe Bacuzzi, 78, English footballer and coach. Lajos Balthazár, 73, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1948, 1952, 1956). François Boutin, 58, French thoroughbred horse trainer, heart attack. Gerard Carlier, 77, Dutch Olympic high jumper (1936). Richey Edwards, 27, Welsh musician. (disappeared on this date) Yngve Gamlin, 68, Swedish actor and film director. Karl Gruber, 85, Austrian politician and diplomat. Yves Leduc, 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1954–1958). Leon Leonard, 85, American politician. Jill Phipps, 31, English animal rights activist, crushed by a lorry during a protest. Walter Wischniewsky, 82, German film editor.
2 Tikvah Alper, 86, South African scientist whose work helped develop prion theory. Raymond Bark-Jones, 83, English rugby union lock. Doug Berndt, 45, American figure skater and Olympian (1972). Phillip Borsos, 41, Australian-born Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter, leukemia.Phillip Borsos at The Canadian Encyclopedia, dated March 4, 2015, accessed September 2, 2019 Chandulal Chandrakar, 75, Indian journalist and politician. John Clogston, 41, American journalist and academic. André Frossard, 80, French journalist and essayist. Thomas Hayward, 77, American operatic tenor, kidney failure. David Kindersley, 79, British stone letter-carver and typeface designer. Mate Mojtić, 81, Yugoslavian Olympic rower (1948). Fred Perry, 85, English tennis champion. Donald Pleasence, 75, English actor (Halloween, You Only Live Twice, The Great Escape), BAFTA winner (1959), heart failure. Herman Tuvesson, 92, Swedish Olympic wrestler (1932, 1936). Willard Waterman, 80, American actor (The Great Gildersleeve, The Apartment, Dennis the Menace), bone cancer.
3 Ragnar Berge, 70, Norwegian footballer who played for Vålerenga Fotball. Pavol Hrivnák, 63, Slovak politician. Art Kane, 69, American photographer, suicide. Nicolás Lindley López, 86, Peruvian military commander. Andrei Nikolsky, 36, Russian pianist, traffic collision. Ingeborg Nilsson, 70, Norwegian figure skater and Olympian (1952). John Pinsent, 72, English classical scholar who specialized in Greek mythology. Abbas Zaryab, 75, Iranian historian, writer, literature professor and Iranologist.
4 David Alexander, 56, Welsh singer and entertainer, heart attack. Hamza Boubakeur, 82, French politician and Muslim cleric. Godfrey Brown, 79, British track and field athlete and Olympic champion (1936). Abel Santa Cruz, 80, Argentine screenwriter, cancer. Aloísio de Oliveira, 80, Brazilian record producer, singer, actor and composer. Eric Grimbeek, 86, South African Olympic sprinter (1936). Manohar Hardikar, 58, Indian Test cricket player. Patricia Highsmith, 74, American author (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt), lung cancer and aplastic anemia. Charlie Montgomery, 70, Australian rugby league footballer. Dave Newman, 71, Australian rules footballer. Scott Smith, 46, American gay rights activist, AIDS-related pneumonia. Roel Wiersma, 62, Dutch footballer. Walter Zeller, 67, German Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
5 Jimmy Allen, 85, English footballer and football manager. Frank Costin, 74, British automotive engineer. Des Foley, 54, Irish Gaelic football player and hurler. Doug McClure, 59, American actor (The Virginian, Out of This World, Gidget), lung cancer. Frederick Riddle, 82, British violist. Bhanubandhu Yugala, 84, Thai film director, playwright, composer and author.
6 Flora Anne Armitage, 83, American biographer and novelist. Richard H. Bassett, 94, American impressionist painter. Elmer Burkart, 78, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). Edy Campagnoli, 60, Italian television personality and actress. Chester E. Holifield, 91, American businessman and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1943–1974). Hans Hummel, 50, Austrian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. Jeanette Kawas, 49, Honduran environmental activist, homicide. Mira Lobe, 81, Austrian children's writer. Maruja Mallo, 93, Spanish surrealist painter. James Merrill, 68, American poet, AIDS-related complications. Gustav Rödel, 79, German fighter pilot and fighter ace. Art Taylor, 65, American jazz drummer. Xia Yan, 94, Chinese playwright, screenwriter, and politician.
7 Roy S. Benson, 88, American naval officer. Jean Giraudeau, 78, French tenor and artist.Forbes E. Jean Giraudeau. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London & New York, 1997. Odd Grythe, 76, Norwegian radio and television personality. Billy Jones, 45, American guitarist, singer, and founding member of the Outlaws, suicide by gunshot. Eugène Kracher, 85, French Olympic wrestler (1936). Massimo Pallottino, 85, Italian archaeologist specializing in Etruscan civilization and art. John Thomas, 58, Australian Olympic ice hockey player (1960). Cecil Upshaw, 52, American baseball player, heart attack. Helen Wallis, 70, British Map Curator at the British Museum, cancer.
8 Józef Maria Bocheński, 92, Polish Dominican, logician and philosopher. Kalpana Datta, 81, Indian independence movement activist. May Miller, 96, American poet, playwright and educator. Tika Ram Paliwal, 85, Indian politician. Osvaldo Panzutto, 65, Argentine football player. Gloria Shea, 84, American film actress. Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman, 81, Indian Navy admiral. Willi Soukop, 88, English sculptor. Rachel Thomas, 89, Welsh actress, fall. Ole Torvalds, 78, Finnish-Swedish journalist and poet. Buck Warnick, 79, American composer, arranger, lyricist, conductor, and musical director.
9 J. William Fulbright, 89, American senator and congressman, stroke. Muriel Guggolz, 90, American Olympic fencer (1932). Maurice Halperin, 88, American writer, professor, diplomat, and accused Soviet spy. Kalevi Keihänen, 70, Finnish entrepreneur.Nuorteva, Kristiina: Kalevi Keihänen's obituary, Helsingin Sanomat February 9, 1995. Accessed on February 13, 2019. Eugen Loderer, 74, German trade union leader. Ignazio Spalla, 70, Italian film actor. David Wayne, 81, American actor (Finian's Rainbow, House Calls, The Andromeda Strain), Tony winner (1947, 1954), lung cancer.
10 Leila Arjumand Banu, 66, Bangladeshi singer and social activist. Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay, 78, Bengali writer and editor. Straight Clark, 70, American tennis player. Jesús Garay, 64, Spanish football player. Paul Monette, 49, American author, poet, and activist, AIDS-related complications. Leonard Silk, 77, American economist, author, and journalist.
11 Lillian K. Bradley, 73, American mathematician and mathematics educator. Irving Loeb Goldberg, 88, American circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit). L. C. Graves, 76, American police detective. Otto Kratky, 92, Austrian physicist. Herbert McWilliams, 87, South African Olympic sailor (1948). Harry Merkel, 77, German racing driver. Bob Randall, 57, American screenwriter, playwright, novelist, and television producer.
12 Nat Holman, 98, American basketball player and college coach. Philip Taylor Kramer, 42, American bass guitar player, traffic collision. Earring George Mayweather, 67, American electric blues and Chicago blues harmonica player, songwriter and singer, liver cancer. Rachid Mimouni, 49, Algerian writer, teacher and human rights activist, hepatitis. Frank Jerome Murray, 90, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts). Tony Secunda, 54, English manager of rock groups (The Moody Blues, Procol Harum, The Move and Motörhead), heart attack. Astrid Villaume, 71, Danish actress of stage and film.
13 Sylvester Ahola, 92, American jazz trumpeter and cornetist. James P. Berkeley, 87, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general. Bill Beveridge, 85, Canadian ice hockey goaltender in the NHL. Alberto Burri, 79, Italian artist. Wilton Gaynair, 68, Jamaican jazz saxophonist. Ray Hamilton, 79, American gridiron football player (Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams, Detroit Lions). Guglielmo Mancori, 67, Italian cinematographer, lighting director and camera operator. Sepp Mühlbauer, 90, Swiss Olympic ski jumper (1928). Jack O'Billovich, 52, Canadian football player. Shimon Schwab, 86, German-American Orthodox rabbi. Zeki Şensan, 57, Turkish Olympic footballer (1960). Bruno Visentini, 80, Italian politician, senator, minister, and industrialist. Li Zhisui, 75, Chinese physician and confidante of Mao Zedong.
14 Ogdo Aksyonova, 59, Dolgan poet, the founder of Dolgan written literature. Maria Andergast, 82, German actress. Jack Cleary, 83, Australian rules footballer. Constance Teander Cohen, 74, American painter. Roger de Grey, 76, British landscape painter. Nigel Finch, 45, English film director and filmmaker, AIDS-related illness. Michael V. Gazzo, 71, American playwright and actor (The Godfather Part II, 1st & Ten, Last Action Hero), stroke. Len Goulden, 82, English football player. Søren Jensen, 75, Danish Olympic rower (1948). Abderrahmane Kaki, 60, Algerian actor and playwright. Ischa Meijer, 52, Dutch journalist, television presenter, radio presenter, critic and author, heart attack. U Nu, 87, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma. Bob Oristaglio, 70, American football player. Al Russas, 71, American football player (Detroit Lions).
15 Rachid Baba Ahmed, 48, Algerian record producer, composer, and singer, murdered. Sergio Bertoni, 79, Italian footballer and Olympian (1936). Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose, 85, British nobleman, politician, and newspaper proprietor. Italo Alighiero Chiusano, 68, Italian writer and critic. Francis Taylor, Baron Taylor of Hadfield, 90, English businessman who founded Taylor Woodrow. John J. Louis Jr., 69, American businessman and diplomat. David Monas Maloney, 82, American Roman Catholic bishop. Clyde Van Sickle, 87, American football player (Frankford Yellow Jackets, Green Bay Packers).
16 Svend Albinus, 93, Danish architect. Anna Margaret Ross Alexander, 81, American philanthropist. Nicolae Costin, 58, Moldovan politician and one of the leaders of the national emancipation movement. Joe Foden, 76, Australian rules footballer. Mildred Esther Mathias, 88, American botanist and professor. Bill Regan, 86, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, New York Americans). Rachel Tzabari, 85, Israeli politician. Margaret Wade, 82, American basketball player and coach. David E. Ward, 85, American politician. Lois Wilde, 87, American actress, model, dancer, and beauty contest winner.
17 Charles Balloun, 90, American politician from Iowa. Werner Bruschke, 96, East German politician and member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Paddy Collins, 91, Irish hurler. Thelma Hulbert, 81, English visual artist known for her still lives and landscapes. John Kilkenny, 93, American judge. Vin Smith, 81, Australian rules footballer. Mirosław Żuławski, 82, Polish writer, prosaist, diplomat and screenwriter.
18 Zair Azgur, 87, Soviet and Belarusian sculptor. Walter Ball, 83, Canadian cartoonist. Denny Cordell, 51, English record producer, lymphoma. Eddie Gilbert, 33, American professional wrestler and booker, heart attack. Bill Graham, 75, Australian politician. Ralph Jones, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions, Baltimore Colts). Yank Lawson, 83, American jazz trumpeter. Tracie McBride, 19, American soldier and murder victim. Kenneth Setton, 80, American historian and an expert on the history of medieval Europe. Bob Stinson, 35, American rock guitarist who founded The Replacements, organ failure.
19 Soup Cable, 81, American professional basketball player.