Famous Deaths for April 1994
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Deaths 1 - 89 of 89
1st - Leon Degrelle, Belgium general, dies
1st - Robert Doisneau, French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81
1st - Rosalind Laura Burke, aviatrix, dies at 86
1st - Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at 72
2nd - Richard Davies, actor (Pvt Buckaroo), dies of heart attack at 79
3rd - Betty Furness, actress/news consumer reporter (WNBC), dies at 78
3rd - Frank G Wells, US director (Walt Disney), dies at 62
3rd - Jerome Lejeune, French geneticist (Syndrome of Down), dies at 67
3rd - Pat Harper, NYC news anchor (WPIX, WNBC), dies
4th - Olga Lowina, Dutch yodeler (Edelweisskapel), dies at 69
4th - Virginia "Ginny" Simms, actress/singer (Kay Kyser Band), dies at 77
5th - Andre Victor Tchelistcheff, winemaker, dies at 92
5th - Aubrey J Watson Sr, bishop, dies at 65
5th - Marlon Riggs, US writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions), dies at 37
5th - Roy Smeck, guitarist/banjoist, dies at 94
5th - Kurt Cobain, grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27 in Seattle, Washington
6th - Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Rwanda/1st female PM in Africa, assassinated
6th - Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated
6th - Dick Cary, jazz musician, dies at 77
Rocker Kurt Cobain (5th)
6th - Patricia Louise Dalton, chair (Sherlock Holmes Society), dies at 75
6th - Theo Bosch, humanist/architect (Amsterdam), dies at 54
6th - Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician (b. 1956)
7th - Agathe Uwilingiyimana, PM of Rwanda, assassinated
7th - Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann, German/US historian, dies at 85
7th - Arthur Gordon Clough, journalist, dies at 59
7th - Evert Hartman, Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56
7th - Francois de Grossouvre, Pres Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76
7th - Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41
7th - Lee Brilleaux, British musician (Dr Feelgood) of lymphoma aged 41
7th - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923)
8th - Frank Wells, president (Disney), dies in helicopter crash
8th - Irene Eisinger, singer, dies at 91
8th - Walter Arnold, Germ theologist (World council of Churches), dies at 64
8th - François Rozet, French Canadian actor (b. 1899)
9th - Cornelis N "Cor" van Dis Jr, Dutch MP (1971-94), dies at 71
9th - Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59
9th - Marcel Ichac, French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87
9th - Raouf Khayrat, Egyptian general-major, murdered
10th - James L Lyons, jazz promoter, dies at 77
10th - Victor Afanasiev, Rus editor-in-chief of Pravda (1976-89), dies at 71
10th - Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)
11th - Johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64
12th - Harry la Fontaine, Danish/US resistance fighter/producer, dies at 81
12th - Jean Carmet, dies at 72
12th - Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar, dies at 60
13th - Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist, dies at 92
13th - Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, actor (Telegram), dies at 83
13th - Nikolai Krjoetsjkov, Russian actor (Ballad of Soldatje), dies at 83
13th - P J Engels, Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 70
13th - Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czech actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels), dies at 72
13th - Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64
14th - Selometsi Baholo, vice-premier of Lesotho, murdered
14th - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (b. 1897)
15th - John Curry, English figure skater (Oly-gold-76), dies of AIDS at 44
16th - John McLiam, dies of Parkinson's disease at 75
16th - Ralph Waldo Ellison, US writer (Invisible Man), dies at 80
16th - Ron Vawter, US actor (Roy Cohn, Silence of the Lambs), dies at 45
16th - Samuel Selvon, author, dies at 70
17th - Peter Hacker, US journalist/actor (NBC, Broadcast News), dies at 69
18th - Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32
19th - Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member, dies at 81
19th - Larry Davis, blues Singer/Guitarist, dies at 57
19th - Louis Simmonds, bookseller, dies at 87
19th - Michael Carreras, film Director, dies at 67
19th - Michel van Rooy, Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies at 43
20th - Jean Carmet, French actor (Merci la Vie, Le Sucre), dies at 72
21st - Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93
22nd - D Nauta, theologist/church historian/lawyer, dies at 96
22nd - Denis Pitts, journalist, dies at 64
22nd - Jack Alexander Bently, trombonist, dies at 80
37th US President Richard Nixon (22nd)
22nd - Richard Nixon, 37th President (1969-75), dies of a stroke at 81
22nd - Schmidt Hans Burkhardt, artist, dies at 89
23rd - Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at 30
23rd - Cecile Dreesmann, son of Anton Dreesmann, dies at 74
25th - David Langton, British actor (Upstairs Downstairs), dies at 82
25th - George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55
25th - Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32
26th - Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate (b. 1927)
27th - Jerome Lejeune, physiologist, dies at 69
27th - John Preston, US writer (Gay House, Big Gay Book), dies at 48
27th - Lynne Frederick Unger, actress (Trail of Pink Panther), dies at 39
29th - Bill Quinn, US actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 81
29th - Erik Erikson, anthropologist, dies at 53
29th - Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74
30th - David Langton, dies of a heart at 81
30th - Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Italian set designer (Last Emperor), dies at 53
30th - Geoffery Michael Roberts, vintner, dies at 46
30th - Richard McClure Scarry, US kid book illustrator/writer, dies at 74
30th - Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver, dies in crash at 31
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