The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.
January 1994
1
William Chappell, 86, British dancer, ballet designer and director. Raymond Crotty, 68, Irish economist, writer, and academic. Walter Eckhardt, 87, German politician. Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, 93, New Zealand physician, statesman and athlete. Cesar Romero, 86, American actor (Batman, Ocean's 11, The Thin Man) and activist. E. A. Thompson, 79, Irish-British marxist historian.
2
Viktor Aristov, 50, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. Miguel M. Delgado, 88, Mexican film director and screenwriter, cancer. Lys Gauty, 93, French cabaret singer and actress. Dixy Lee Ray, 79, American politician. Vitālijs Rubenis, 79, Latvian communist politician. William Ryan, 72, Irish Fianna Fáil politician. Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, 81, French businessman. Eddie Smith, 80, American Major League Baseball player.
3
Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, 90, British public servant and politician. Norman Hepple, 85, English painter, engraver and sculptor, traffic accident. Frank Belknap Long, 92, American writer and poet. Marion Ross, 90, Scottish physicist. Heather Sears, 58, British actress, multiple organ failure. Constantin Vișoianu, 96, Romanian jurist, diplomat, and politician, cancer.
4
Rahul Dev Burman, 54, Indian music director, cardiovascular disease. Reijer Hooykaas, 87, Dutch historian of science. Eileen Mayo, 87, English-Australian artist and designer. Thirukkuralar V. Munusamy, 80, Indian scholar and politician.
5
Aldo Baldin, 49, Brazilian opera tenor. David Bates, 77, Northern Irish mathematician and physicist. Jeanne Carpenter, 76, American child actress of the silent era, pulmonary emphysema. Brian Johnston, 81, British cricket commentator, author, and television presenter, heart attack. Eliška Junková, 93, Czechoslovak automobile racer. Franz Murer, 81, Austrian SS officer and war criminal. Tip O'Neill, 81, American politician, colorectal cancer. Peggy Simpson, 80, British actress.
6
Fidel Castaño, 43, Colombian drug lord and paramilitary. Oscar Fraley, 79, American sports writer and author. Cláudia Magno, 35, Brazilian actress and dancer, AIDS-related complications. Per Palle Storm, 83, Danish-Norwegian sculptor and arts professor. Adri van Es, 80, Royal Netherlands Navy vice admiral. Keith Wells, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
7
Arthur Dooley, 64, English artist and sculptor. Charlie McNeil, 57, American gridiron football player. Vittorio Mezzogiorno, 52, Italian actor, cancer. Llewellyn Rees, 92, English actor. Phoumi Vongvichit, 84, President of Laos.
8
Pat Buttram, 78, American actor (Green Acres, Robin Hood, The Fox and the Hound), kidney failure. René Faye, 70, French cyclist. Harvey Haddix, 68, American baseball pitcher and pitching coach, pulmonary emphysema. Harry Boye Karlsen, 73, Norwegian football player. Roy Kiyooka, 67, Canadian painter, poet, photographer, and multi-media artist. Ruth Osburn, 81, American athlete and Olympian. Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, 99, Indian Hindu religious leader.
9
Faruk Barlas, 78, Turkish football player. Kayhan Kaynak, 33, Turkish football player, heart attack. Madge Ryan, 75, Australian actress. Johnny Temple, 66, American Major League Baseball player, pancreatic cancer. Joachim Werner, 84, German archaeologist.
10
Michael Aldridge, 73, English actor (Last of the Summer Wine). Sven-Erik Bäck, 74, Swedish composer of classical music. Ien Dales, 62, Dutch socialist politician and social worker, heart attack. Chub Feeney, 72, American baseball executive, heart attack. Yigal Hurvitz, 75, Israeli politician. Girija Kumar Mathur, 75, Indian Hindi writer. Bruno Storti, 80, Italian trade unionist and politician. Clem Stralka, 80, American gridiron football player. Roman Tkachuk, 61, Soviet theatre and film actor.
11
Arifin Achmad, 69, Indonesian military officer. József Háda, 82, Hungarian football player. Chester L. Mize, 76, American politician. Helmut Poppendick, 92, German physician and SS officer during World War II. Ram Ramirez, 80, Puerto Rican born jazz pianist and composer. Édouard Rinfret, 88, Canadian politician. Emilio Rosenblueth, 67, Mexican engineer. Robert Winslow, 77, American gridiron football player and coach.