The following is a list of notable deaths in February 1994.
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.
February 1994
1
Sergei Dubov, 50, Russian journalist, publisher and entrepreneur, homicide. Ray Ferris, 73, Northern Irish football player. Guy Lefranc, 74, French director and screenwriter. John Littlejohn, 62, American electric blues guitarist, kidney failure. Jo Richardson, 70, British Labour Party politician. Radovan Samardžić, 71, Yugoslav/Serbian historian and academic. Olan Soule, 84, American actor, lung cancer.
2
Steve Barclay, 75, American film actor. Jean Couturier, 82, French basketball player. Marija Gimbutas, 73, Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist. Zaim Imamović, 73, Bosnian folk singer, accordionist and author. Otto Kippes, 88, German Catholic priest. Yōichi Nakanishi, 76, Japanese politician and Governor of Ishikawa Prefecture. John Rewald, 81, American academic, author and art historian. Willie Mae Ford Smith, 89, American gospel musician and Christian evangelist. Mary Washburn, 86, American sprinter. Anona Winn, 90, Australian-British actress, broadcaster and singer.
3
Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov, 90, Soviet and Russian physicist and academic. Roberto Amoroso, 83, Italian screenwriter and film producer. Rauf Atakishiyev, 68, Soviet and Azerbaijani singer and pianist. Carroll Borland, 79, American professor, writer, and actress, pneumonia. Herbert Busemann, 88, German-American mathematician. Frederick Copleston, 86, English Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian. Justinus Darmojuwono, 79, Indonesian Roman Catholic cardinal. Walter Havighurst, 92, American novelist, critic, and literary and social historian. Alan Helffrich, 93, American athlete and Olympic champion. Ellen King, 85, Scottish swimmer and Olympian. Patrick El Mabrouk, 65, French middle-distance runner and Olympian. Raúl Padilla, 75, Mexican actor, heart attack. Glenn Wade Salisbury, 83, American agriculture biologist. Georgy Shchedrovitsky, 64, Soviet and Russian philosopher and methodologist. Dale Warren, 54, American musician.
4
Jane Arbor, 90, British writer. Fred De Bruyne, 63, Belgian road cyclist. Brunetto Bucciarelli Ducci, 79, Italian politician and magistrate. Bedri Gürsoy, 92, Turkish football player. Mikhail Linge, 35, Soviet and Russian middle-distance runner and Olympic champion, murdered. Thelma Stovall, 74, American politician.
5
Hermann Josef Abs, 92, German banker and advisor to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Ben Enwonwu, 72, Nigerian painter and sculptor. Joachim Halupczok, 25, Polish racing cyclist, heart failure. Tiana Lemnitz, 96, German operatic soprano. George Sauer, 83, American football player, coach, and football executive. James F. Walker, 80, American graphic artist.
6
Joseph Cotten, 88, American actor (Citizen Kane, Shadow of a Doubt, The Third Man), pneumonia. Norman Del Mar, 74, British conductor, horn player, and biographer. Felice Gremo, 92, Italian racing cyclist. Ross Grimsley, 71, American Major League Baseball player. Jack Kirby, 76, American comic book artist and writer (Fantastic Four, Captain America, X-Men), heart failure. Aurora Mardiganian, 93, Armenian-American author and actress. Hilda Simms, 75, American stage actress, pancreatic cancer. Ignace Strasfogel, 84, Polish pianist, composer and conductor, Alzheimer's disease. Luis Alberto Sánchez, 93, Peruvian jurist, philosopher, writer and politician. Gwen Watford, 66, English actress, cancer.
7
Richard M. Bissell, Jr., 84, American CIA officer. Billy Briscoe, 97, English football player. Laurence Brown, 86, English Anglican clergyman. Jorge Brum do Canto, 83, Portuguese film director and actor. Witold Lutosławski, 81, Polish composer and conductor. Bill McDonald, 77, American basketball player. Stephen Milligan, 45, British politician and journalist, erotic asphyxiation. Charles Leslie Richardson, 85, British Army officer. Arnold Smith, 79, Canadian diplomat. Maarten Vrolijk, 74, Dutch socialist politician.
8
Ken G. Hall, 92, Australian film producer and director. Amparo Ochoa, 47, Mexican singer-songwriter. Bob Reynolds, 79, American gridiron football player. Raymond Scott, 85, American musician, record producer, and inventor of electronic instruments.