- March 2
- Donald McKenzie MacKinnon, philosopher, dies at age 80. [1]
- Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker, dies at age 70. [1]
- March 3
- Anita Morris, actress (Nine), dies of cancer at age 50. [1]
- Bob Crisp, cricket player (9 Tests for South Africa, 20 wickets at 37 35), dies. [1]
- Karel Kryl, folk singer, dies at age 49. [1]
- March 4
- Guus Verstraete Sr, Dutch actor/director (Two Drops of Water), dies at age 79. [1]
- John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (SCTV, Uncle Buck), dies from a heart attack at age 43 (born 1950). [1] [5] [30]
- March 5
- Abdullah Al-Sallal, President of Yemen (1962-67), dies. [1]
- Joe Daley, jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player, dies at age 75. [1]
- Paul Vincze, medallist, dies at age 86. [1]
- March 6
- Leighton Noble, singer/bandleader, dies at age 81. [1]
- Max Schubert, winemaker, dies at age 89. [1]
- Melina Mercouri, Greek actress (Never on a Sunday), dies at about age 68. [1]
- Moses Rascoe, blues singer, dies at age 77. [1]
- Tengis Abuladze, Georgia SSR Member of Parliament (Penalty), dies at age 71. [1]
- Death of Ray Arcel, American boxing trainer; was active from the 1920s through the 1980s (born 1899). [30]
- March 8
- Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at age 69. [1]
- Knut Haukelid, Norway/US resistance fighter (Rjukan 1943), dies at age 82. [1]
- Radio host Jack Spector suffers a fatal heart attack while broadcasting popular music on WHLI in Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA. [467]
- March 9
- Charles Bukowski, American author/poet, dies of leukemia at age 73 (born 1920). [1] [30]
- Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (French Connection), dies of cancer at age 76. [1]
- John Harrison, South African correspondent (BBC), dies at age 48. [1]
- Lawrence E Spivak, journalist (Meet the Press), dies at age 93. [1]
- Louis Freeman, band leader, dies at age 100. [1]
- Maurice "Moe" Purtill, jazz drummer, dies at age 77. [1]
- March 10
- Cecil Rolph Hewitt, journalist/policeman, dies at age 92. [1]
- Charles Bukowski, German/US writer (Barfly, Hollywood), dies at age 73. [1]
- Robert Shea, author, dies of cancer. [1]
- March 11
- Jacques Doucet, French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at age 69. [1]
- March 12
- Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at age 59. [1]
- March 13
- Danny Barker, US banjo player/guitarist (Bourbon St Black), dies at age 85. [1]
- Sandra Paretti, romantic novelist, dies at age 59. [1]
- March 14
- Abdelkader Alloula Algerian, playwright, murdered. [1]
- March 15
- Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at age 68. [1]
- March 17
- Arthur C Jacobs, poet, dies at age 57. [1]
- Harold Myers, film journalist, dies at age 81. [1]
- Mai Zetterling, actress (Night is My Future), dies of cancer at age 68. [1]
- Walter Janka, German writer (Troubles with Truth), dies at age 79. [1]
- March 19
- Giuseppe Diana, Italian anti-mafia priest, murdered. [1]
- Jose Coronel Urtecho, poet, dies at age 87. [1]
- March 21
- Dack Rambo, actor (Jack Ewing - Dallas), dies from AIDS at age 52. [1]
- Lili Damita, wife of Errol Flynn (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at age 89. [1]
- Macdonald Carey, American actor (Days of Our Lives), dies of cancer at 81 (born 1913). [1] [30]
- March 22
- Dan Hartman, US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at age 42. [1]
- Igor Aleinikov, Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at age 32. [1]
- Luther Diamond, radio personality, dies at age 89. [1]
- Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), dies at age 93 (born 1899). [1] [30]
- March 23
- Alvara del Portillo, Spanish Opus Dei bishop, dies at age 80. [1]
- Giulietta Masina, wife of Federico Felini/(La Strada), dies at age 74. [1]
- Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican Presidential candidate, assassinated at age 44 (born 1950). [1] [30]
- March 24
- Edith Porada, art historian/archaeologist, dies at age 81. [1]
- Tommy Benford, jazz drummer, dies at age 88. [1]
- March 25
- David Miles Bensuan-Butt, economist, dies at age 79. [1]
- Michel R Vassallucci, French/Netherlands publisher (Arena), dies at age 32. [1]
- Death of Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (born 1899). [30]
- March 26
- Constantine Koukouchkine, Russian diplomat, murdered in Algeria at age 41. [1]
- Jan Bor Dutch, violinist/painter, dies at age 83. [1]
- March 27
- Dennis Hartas, flier, dies at age 69. [1]
- March 28
- Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at age 84 (born 1909). [1] [30]
- March 29
- Bill Travers, English actor (Trio, Gorgo, Born Free), dies at age 72 (born 1922). [1] [30]
- Paul Grimault, animator, dies at age 89. [1]
- William Natcher, American politician (Representative-Democrat-Kentucky), dies at age 84. [1]
- March 30
- Albert Goldman, American rock biographer (Elvis Presley, John Lennon), dies at age 66. [1]
- Sid Weiss, bassist, dies at age 79. [1]
- March 31
- Léon J Ramirez Reine [Degrelle], Belgian/Spanish Nazi (Rex), dies at age 87. [1]
- April 1
- Léon Degrelle, Belgium General, dies (born 1906). [1] [30]
- Robert Doisneau, French photographer (The Kiss), dies at age 81. [1]
- Rosalind Laura Burke, aviatrix, dies at age 86. [1]
- Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at age 72. [1]
- April 2
- Richard Davies, actor (Private Buckaroo), dies of heart attack at age 79. [1]
- Death of Betty Furness, American actress, author, and consumer advocate at age 78 (born 1916). [30] (April 3 [1])
- April 3
- Disney President and Chief Operating Officer Frank Wells dies in a helicopter accident, at age 62. [1] [6]
- Jerome Lejeune, French geneticist (Syndrome of Down), dies at age 67. [1]
- Pat Harper, New York City news anchor (WPIX, WNBC), dies. [1]
- April 4
- Olga Lowina, Dutch yodeler (Edelweisskapel), dies at age 69. [1]
- Virginia "Ginny" Simms, actress/singer (Kay Kyser Band), dies at age 77. [1]
- April 5
- Andre Victor Tchelistcheff, winemaker, dies at age 92. [1]
- Aubrey J Watson Sr, bishop, dies at age 65. [1]
- Marlon Riggs, US writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions), dies at age 37. [1]
- Roy Smeck, guitarist/banjoist, dies at age 94. [1]
- April 6
- Agatha Uwilingiyimana Rwanda/first female Prime Minister in Africa, assassinated. [1]
- Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. (Colonel Theoneste Bagosora of Rwanda leads Hutu tribe members on a mass slaughter of up to one million Tutsi members in the next three months.) [1] [30] [105] [129] [258.58]
- Dick Cary, jazz musician, dies at age 77. [1]
- Patricia Louise Dalton, chair (Sherlock Holmes Society), dies at age 75. [1]
- Theo Bosch, humanist/architect (Amsterdam), dies at age 54. [1]
- April 7
- Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann, German/US historian, dies at age 85 in Leverkusen, Germany (born 1909). [1] [30] [37]
- Evert Hartman, Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at age 56. [1]
- François de Grossouvre, President Mitterrand's advisor, dies of suicide at age 76. [1]
- Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at age 41. [1]
- Death of Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic football player and politician (born 1923). [30]
- April 8
- Walter Arnold, German theologist (World council of Churches), dies at age 64. [1]
- Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found dead in Seattle, Washington. His death is believed to have been a suicide. (April 7 [1]) [30]
- April 9
- Cornelis N "Cor" van Dis Jr, Dutch Member of Parliament (1971-94), dies at age 71. [1]
- Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at age 59. [1]
- Marcel Ichac, French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at age 87. [1]
- Raouf Khayrat, Egyptian General-Major, murdered. [1]
- April 10
- James L Lyons, jazz promoter, dies at age 77. [1]
- Victor Afanasiev, Russian editor-in-chief of Pravda (1976-89), dies at age 71. [1]
- Death of Sam B. Hall, American politician (born 1924). [30]
- April 11
- Johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at age 64. [1]
- April 12
- Harry la Fontaine, Danish/US resistance fighter/producer, dies at age 81. [1]
- Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar, dies at age 60. [1]
- April 13
- Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist, dies at age 92. [1]
- Nikolai Afanassyevich Kryuchkov, actor (Telegram), dies at age 83. [1]
- P J Engels, Dutch Member of Parliament (KVP), dies at age 70. [1]
- Robert O van Gennep, Dutch publisher (Guevara, Mandèl), dies at age 56. [1]
- Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czechoslovakian actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels), dies at age 72. [1]
- Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at age 64. [1]
- April 14
- Harry Touw, Dutch comic (Fred Haché Show), dies at age 70. [1]
- Selometsi Baholo, vice-premier of Lesotho, is murdered. [1]
- April 15
- John Curry, British figure skater (Olympics-gold-1976), dies of AIDS at age 44 (born 1949). [1] [30]
- April 16
- Ralph Waldo Ellison, American writer (Invisible Man), dies at age 80 (born 1914). [1] [30]
- Ron Vawter, US actor (Roy Cohn, Silence of the Lambs), dies at age 45. [1]
- Samuel Selvon author, dies at age 70. [1]
- April 17
- Peter Hacker, US journalist/actor (NBC, Broadcast News), dies at age 69. [1]
- Death of Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1913). [30]
- April 18
- Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at age 32. [1]
- April 19
- Larry Davis, blues singer/guitarist, dies at age 57. [1]
- Louis Simmonds, bookseller, dies at age 87. [1]
- Michel van Rooy, Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies at age 43. [1]
- April 20
- Jean Carmet, French actor (Merci la Vie, Le Sucre), dies at age 72. [1]
- April 21
- Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at age 93. [1]
- April 22
- D Nauta, theologist/church historian/lawyer, dies at age 96. [1]
- Jack Alexander Bently, trombonist, dies at age 80. [1]
- Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th US President (1969-74), dies of stroke at age 81 (born 1913). [1] [5] [30] [393.60]
- Schmidt Hans Burkhardt, artist, dies at age 89. [1]
- April 23
- Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at age 30. [1]
- April 25
- David Langton, British actor (Upstairs Downstairs), dies at age 82. [1]
- George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at age 55. [1]
- Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Muslim leader, shot dead at age 32. [1]
- April 27
- Jerome Lejeune, physiologist, dies at age 69. [1]
- John Preston, US writer (Gay House, Big Gay Book), dies at age 48. [1]
- Lynne Frederick Unger, actress (Trail of Pink Panther), dies at age 39. [1]
- April 29
- Bill Quinn, American actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at age 81. [1]
- Erik Erikson, anthropologist, dies at age 53. [1]
- Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at age 74. [1]
- April 30
- Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Italian set designer (Last Emperor), dies at age 53. [1]
- Geoffery Michael Roberts, vintner, dies at age 46. [1]
- Austrian Formula One race car driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in an accident during the qualifying session for the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. [1] [30]
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