In the year 1995
765 Notable deaths
Johnny Moss
American poker player (1907–1995).
Born May 14th, 1907 in Marshall.
Died December 16th, 1995 at 88 years old in Odessa.
Edith Pargeter
British writer.
Born September 28th, 1913 in Horsehay. [ref]
Died October 14th, 1995 at 82 years old in Madeley. [ref]
Krešimir Ćosić
Yugoslav basketball player (1948–1995).
Born November 26th, 1948 in Zagreb.
Died May 25th, 1995 at 46 years old in Baltimore (lymphoma).
Ernest Gellner
Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist.
Born December 9th, 1925 in Montrouge.
Died November 5th, 1995 at 69 years old in Prague.
Yisrael Galili
Israeli firearm designer (1923–1995).
Born October 23rd, 1923 in Mandatory Palestine.
Died March 9th, 1995 at 71 years old in Givatayim.
Viktoria Brezhneva
First lady of the soviet union (1907-1995).
Born December 11th, 1907 in Belgorod. [ref]
Died July 5th, 1995 at 87 years old in Moscow (diabetes).
Nguyễn Hữu An
Vietnamese general.
Born October 1st, 1926 in Gia Viễn.
Died April 9th, 1995 at 68 years old in Hanoi.
Jack Clayton
British film director and producer (1921–1995).
Born March 1st, 1921 in Brighton.
Died February 26th, 1995 at 73 years old in Slough.
Ernest Walton
Irish physicist and nobel laureate (1903-1995).
Born October 6th, 1903 in Abbeyside.
Died June 25th, 1995 at 91 years old in Belfast.
J. Presper Eckert
American electrical engineer and computer pioneer (1919-1995).
Born April 6th, 1919 in Philadelphia.
Died June 3rd, 1995 at 76 years old in Bryn Mawr (leukemia).
Jean Heather
American actress (1921–1995).
Born February 21st, 1921 in Omaha.
Died October 29th, 1995 at 74 years old in Los Angeles.
Toni Cade Bambara
American author, activist, professor (1939–1995).
Born March 25th, 1939 in New York City.
Died December 9th, 1995 at 56 years old in Philadelphia (colorectal cancer). [ref]
James Merrill
American poet (1926–1995).
Born March 3rd, 1926 in New York City.
Died February 6th, 1995 at 68 years old in Tucson (death from AIDS-related complications).
Kalpana Datta
Indian revolutionary and politician (1913-1995).
Born July 27th, 1913 in Sreepur Kharandwip Union.
Died February 8th, 1995 at 81 years old in Delhi.
Günter Guillaume
Stasi officer (1927–1995).
Born February 1st, 1927 in Berlin.
Died April 10th, 1995 at 68 years old in Petershagen-Eggersdorf (kidney cancer).
Rudolf Peierls
German-born british physicist.
Born June 5th, 1907 in Berlin.
Died September 19th, 1995 at 88 years old in Oxford.
Irene Tedrow
Actress (1907-1995).
Born August 3rd, 1907 in Denver.
Died March 10th, 1995 at 87 years old in Hollywood (stroke).
John Howard
American actor (1913-1995).
Born April 14th, 1913 in Cleveland.
Died February 19th, 1995 at 81 years old in Santa Rosa (myocardial infarction, heart failure).
May Sarton
American poet, novelist, and memoirist (1912-1995).
Born May 3rd, 1912 in United States, Wondelgem.
Died July 16th, 1995 at 83 years old in York (breast cancer).
Hugo Pratt
Italian comic book creator (1927-1995).
Born June 15th, 1927 in Rimini.
Died August 20th, 1995 at 68 years old in Pully (colorectal cancer).
Ingo Schwichtenberg
German drummer (1965–1995).
Born May 18th, 1965 in Hamburg.
Died March 8th, 1995 at 29 years old in Hamburg.
Hannes Alfvén
Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908–1995), winner of the 1970 nobel prize for physics.
Born May 30th, 1908 in Norrköping. [ref]
Died April 2nd, 1995 at 86 years old in Danderyd.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Italian pianist.
Born January 5th, 1920 in Brescia.
Died June 12th, 1995 at 75 years old in Lugano.
Nathan Rosen
American-israeli physicist.
Born March 22nd, 1909 in Brooklyn.
Died December 18th, 1995 at 86 years old in Haifa.
Albert W. Tucker
Canadian mathematician (1905–1995).
Born November 28th, 1905 in Oshawa.
Died January 25th, 1995 at 89 years old in Hightstown.
Deaths 176 to 200 of 765
Death is a distant rumor to the young. Andrew A. Rooney