- March 5
- Abdullah Al-Sallal, President of Yemen (1962-67), dies. [1]
- Paul Vincze, medallist, dies at age 86. [1]
- March 6
- Melina Mercouri, Greek actress (Never on a Sunday), dies at about age 68. [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]
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- 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]
- 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 15
- Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at age 68. [1]
- March 17
- 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
- Death of Dack Rambo at age 52 from AIDS; actor (Jack Ewing - Dallas TV show). [1] [457]
- Macdonald Carey, American actor (Days of Our Lives), dies of cancer at 81 (born 1913). [1] [30]
- March 22
- Death of Dan Hartman at age 42; US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations). [1]
- Igor Aleinikov, Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at age 32. [1]
- Luther Diamond, radio personality, dies at age 89. [1]
- Death of Walter Lantz at age 93 of heart failure; cartoonist and animator (Woody Woodpecker). [1] [30] [457]
- March 23
- Alvara del Portillo, Spanish Opus Dei bishop, dies at age 80. [1]
- Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican Presidential candidate, assassinated at age 44 (born 1950). [1] [30]
- March 25
- 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]
- 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]
- Death of Wendell Niles at age 89; radio announcer (The Bob Hope Show, Adventures of Philip Marlowe, The Man Called X), TV announcer (Truth or Consequences, Let's Make a Deal, Colgate Comedy Hour, It Could Be You). [457]
- March 29
- Bill Travers, English actor (Trio, Gorgo, Born Free), dies at age 72 (born 1922). [1] [30]
- 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]
- 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]
- April 2
- Richard Davies, actor (Private Buckaroo), dies of heart attack at age 79. [1]
- Death of Betty Furness at age 78 of stomach cancer; American actress, author, news consumer reporter (WNBC), TV spokesperson (Westinghouse) (born 1916). [30] [457]
- 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]
- Death of Virginia "Ginny" Simms at age 77; actress, singer (Kay Kyser Band). [1]
- April 5
- Marlon Riggs, US writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions), dies at age 37. [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]
- 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]
- Death of Lee Brilleaux at age 41; British rhythm and blues singer/guitarist (Stupidity). [1]
- Death of Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic football player and politician (born 1923). [30]
- Death of Frank Griffiths at age 77; media mogul (Vancouver radio station CKNW, Western Broadcasting), owner of the Vancouver Canucks hockey team. [457]
- Death of Ken Carson at age 79 of Lou Gehrig's disease; singer (The Sons of the Pioneers, Garry Moore TV Show). [457]
- 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 Junior, 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
- Victor Afanasiev, Russian editor-in-chief of Pravda (1976-89), dies at age 71. [1]
- 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]
- April 13
- 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
- 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 22
- D Nauta, theologist/church historian/lawyer, dies at age 96. [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
- 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]
- April 30
- Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Italian set designer (Last Emperor), dies at age 53. [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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