Deaths in January 1995

The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in January 1995. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.

Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, where they came from, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and a source.

January

Eugene Wigner
1902 – 1995

Siad Barre
1919 – 1995

Nancy Kelly
1921 – 1995

Andrija Puharich
1918 – 1995

Edward Nugent
1904 – 1995

Dorothy Granger
1911 – 1995

Mansour Sattari
1948 – 1995

Karl Guttmann
1913 – 1995

Murray Rothbard
1926 – 1995

Carlos Monzón
1942 – 1995

Peter Cook
1937 – 1995

Souphanouvong
1909 – 1995

Lewis Nixon III
1918 – 1995

Josef Gingold
1909 – 1995

Takako Irie
1911 – 1995

Kay Aldridge
1917 – 1995

Marion Herbst
1944 – 1995

Jef Bruyninckx
1919 – 1995

Rolf Böger
1908 – 1995

Miguel Torga
1907 – 1995

Adolf Butenandt
1903 – 1995

Thomas Arbuthnott
1911 – 1995

Mehdi Bazargan
1907 – 1995

Russ Bauers
1914 – 1995

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
1890 – 1995

John Smith
1931 – 1995

Marcel Bidot
1902 – 1995

Vic Buckingham
1915 – 1995

Ferruccio Tagliavini
1913 – 1995

Dickie Burnell
1917 – 1995

Gerald Durrell
1925 – 1995

George Abbott
1887 – 1995

1

• Eugene Wigner, 92, Hungarian theoretical physicist
• Fred West, 53, English serial killer

2

• Auguste Hargus, 85, German field hockey player
• Siad Barre, 75, President of Somalia
• Henry Graham Sharp, 77, British figure skater
• Nancy Kelly, 73, American actress
• Joe Balsis, 74, American professional pool player

3

• Andrija Puharich, 76, American physician
• Edward Nugent, 90, American actor

4

• Ramón Artigas, 86, Spanish swimmer
• Eduardo Mata, 52, Mexican conductor
• Dorothy Granger, 83, American actress

5

• Mansour Sattari, 46, Iranian general
• Francis Lopez, 78, French composer
• Kiyoo Wadati, 92, Japanese seismologist

6

• Karl Guttmann, 81, Dutch theater director
• James Clay, 59, American saxophonist
• Joe Slovo, 68, South African politician
• Agustín Gaínza, 72, Spanish football
• Todor Diev, 60, Bulgarian footballer

7

• Murray Rothbard, 68, American economist
• Ali Aliyev, 57, Soviet freestyle wrestler
• Harry Golombek, 83, British chess player

8

• Maud Bruce, 100, American forewoman
• Carlos Monzón, 52, Argentine professional boxer

9

• Gisela Mauermayer, 81, German athlete
• Óscar Mendoza Azurdia, 78, Vice President of Guatemala
• Peter Cook, 57, English satirist
• Souphanouvong, 85, President of Laos
• Stig Sjödin, 66, Swedish middleweight boxer
• Elizabeth Roboz Einstein, 90, American chemist

10

• Boris Gurevich, 63, Russian wrestler
• Gabriel Aragón, 74, Spanish clown

11

• Ad Kaland, 72, Dutch Politician
• Denis Neville, 79, English football player
• Lewis Nixon III, 76, United States Army officer
• Josef Gingold, 85, Russian-American violinist
• Theodor Wisch, 87, SS general
• Paul Zumthor, 79, Swiss philologist

12

• Takako Irie, 83, Japanese actress
• Kay Aldridge, 77, American actress
• Marion Herbst, 50, Dutch visual artist

13

• Zsigmond Villányi, 45, Hungarian modern pentathlete
• Ray Johnson, 67, American artist

15

• Jef Bruyninckx, 76, Belgian actor
• Eric Mottram, 70, British teacher

16

• Paul Delouvrier, 80, French civil servant

17

• Rolf Böger, 86, German politician
• Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, 79, Lithuanian-British industrialist
• Miguel Torga, 87, Portuguese writer
• Wilhelm Haferkamp, 71, German politician

18

• Adolf Butenandt, 91, German biochemist
• Ron Luciano, 57, American baseball umpire

19

• Hermann Henselmann, 89, German architect

20

• Thomas Arbuthnott, 83, New Zealand boxer
• Mehdi Bazargan, 87, Prime Minister of Iran

21

• Alex Groza, 68, American professional basketball player
• Russ Bauers, 80, American baseball player
• Philippe Casado, 30, French bicycler
• Edward Hidalgo, 82, American politician

22

• Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 104, American philanthropist

23

• Saul Rogovin, 72, American baseball player
• Edward Shils, 84, American sociologist
• Albertis Harrison, 88, American politician

25

• Albert W. Tucker, 89, Canadian mathematician
• Erich Hof, 58, Austrian footballer
• John Smith, 63, American actor
• William Sylvester, 72, American actor

26

• Geoffrey Parsons, 65, Australian pianist
• Marcel Bidot, 92, French bicycler
• Bernardo Leighton, 85, Chilean Christian Democratic Party politician
• Vic Buckingham, 79, English footballer

27

• Jean Tardieu, 91, French visual artist
• Raphael M. Robinson, 83, American mathematician

28

• Ferruccio Tagliavini, 81, Italian operatic tenor
• Aldo Gordini, 73, Motorsports racing driver
• George Woodcock, 82, Canadian writer

29

• Dickie Burnell, 77, British rower

30

• Gerald Durrell, 70, British naturalist

31

• George Abbott, 107, American theater producer
• George Stibitz, 90, Bell Labs researcher; one of the fathers of the modern first digital compute

Other websites

• The Guardian, UK obituaries
• The Telegraph obituaries
• Obituaries, Chicago Tribune
• Obituaries, Los Angeles Times
• The New York Times, US obituaries
• The Washington Post obituaries
• The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian obituaries