The following is a list of notable deaths in October 1995.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
October 1995
1
Aditya Vikram Birla, 51, Indian industrialist, prostate cancer. Einer Boberg, 59-60, Danish-Canadian speech pathologist. René Cloke, 90, British illustrator and watercolorist. Margaret Gorman, 90, American beauty queen and 1st Miss America. Felipe Rivera, 24, Chilean tennis player, traffic collision. Henry P. Smith III, 84, American politician.
2
John Ayers, 42, American National Football League offensive lineman, liver cancer. Otto Chr. Bastiansen, 77, Norwegian chemist. Hajir Darioush, 57, Iranian film maker. Helmut Degen, 84, German composer. Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, 67, British artist and teacher. Ben Meier, 77, American politician.
3
Col Austen, 74, Australian rules footballer. Orlando Aloysius Battista, 78, Canadian chemist and writer. John Chickerneo, 78, American football player. Kevin Commins, 67, South African cricketer. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, 86, Brazilian intellectual and activist. Štefan Jačiansky, 65, Slovak football manager. Nippy Jones, 70, American baseball player. Elena Quiroga, 73, Spanish writer. Francis O. Schmitt, 91, American biologist and professor. M. P. Sivagnanam, 89, Indian freedom fighter and politician. Leon Surmelian, 89, Armenian-American author. Charles L. Veach, 51, American astronaut, cancer.
4
Fabio Albarelli, 52, Italian competitive sailor and Olympic medalist. Matt Armstrong, 83, Scottish footballer. Woody Bledsoe, 73, American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Else Brems, 87, Danish contralto. Arturo García Buhr, 89, Argentine actor and film director, suicide. Dean Roden Chapman, 73, American mechanical engineer with NASA. Fred Fehl, 89, American photographer. Masood Rana, 57, Pakistani film playback singer. Eu Chooi Yip, 76, Malaysian politician and Singaporean activist.
5
Walter Edwin Arnoldi, 77, American aeronautical engineer. Karl Johan Baadsvik, 85, Canadian skier. Arthur Barbosa, 87, English artist. Lillian Fuchs, 93, American viola player, composer and teacher. Linda Gary, 50, American voice actress (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Spider-Man). Dick Jurgens, 85, American bandleader. Pin Malakul, 91, Thai educator and politician. Abdurehim Ötkür, 72, Uyghur author and poet.
6
Michael Allen, 62, English cricketer. Paul Baize, 94, a French pediatrician and amateur astronomer. Karl Band, 94, German architect. Eileen Cassidy, 63, Irish Fianna Fáil politician. Benoît Chamoux, 34, French Alpinist, disappeared during climb. Hughie Charles, 88, English songwriter and impresario. José Antonio de Armas Chitty, 86, Venezuelan historian, poet, biographer and researcher. Iván Mándy, 76, Hungarian writer. Anthony Newlands, 70, British actor.
7
Ya'akov Arnon, 82, Israeli economist and government official. Mikhail Butkevich, 69, Soviet/Russian theatre director and drama professor at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts. Roberto Cabrera, 81, Chilean footballer. Ralph Churchfield, 77, American basketball player. Gérard de Vaucouleurs, 77, French astronomer. Emanuele Del Vecchio, 61, Brazilian football forward. Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann, 44, German far-left militant, cancer. Louis Meyer, 91, American Hall of Fame race car driver. Olga Taussky-Todd, 89, Austrian and later Czech-American mathematician. Harley A. Wilhelm, 95, American chemist.
8
Erich Brost, 91, German journalist and publisher. John Cairncross, 82, Scottish civil servant and Soviet spy during World War II. Alvaro Cartei, 84, Italian painter and ceramist. Christopher Keene, 48, American conductor and director of the New York City Opera, AIDS. Kentarō Ogawa, 61, Japanese baseball player. Olavi Salsola, 61, Finnish middle distance runner and Olympian. Patric Walker, 64, American-British astrologer. Geoffrey Warnock, 72, English philosopher and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.
9
Kamal Bose, 80, Indian cinematographer. Sagramor de Scuvero Brandão, 74, Brazilian actress and Radio-peronality. Henry W. Clune, 105, American writer and journalist. Alec Douglas-Home, 92, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Zaim Imamović, 34, Bosnian commander, killed in action. Kukrit Pramoj, 84, Thai politician and 13th Prime Minister of Thailand, diabetes. John A. Scali, 77, American journalist and diplomat.