Famous people and celebrities who died in July 1994

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in July 1994. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• July 2 Andres Escobar

  Legendary Colombian footballer tragically murdered after the 1994 FIFA World Cup, becoming a symbol of violence in Colombian football history.

• July 3 Lew Hoad

  Legendary Australian tennis player who dominated Grand Slam tournaments in the 1950s, known for his powerful playing style and significant achievements.

• July 4 Joey Marella

  American professional wrestling referee (born 1964).

• July 4 Tawfik Ziad

  Palestinian communist/israeli mp / mayor of nazareth

• July 4 Rupert Davies

  Methodist scholar dies at 84

• July 6 Cameron Mitchell

  American actor known for his role in the television western series 'The High Chaparral'. He had a long career in film and television spanning several decades.

• July 7 Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte

  German military officer and Luftwaffe general who served during World War II, known for his distinguished military career and strategic contributions.

• July 8 Dick Sargent

  American television actor who famously replaced Dick York as Darrin Stephens in the popular sitcom 'Bewitched' from 1969 to 1972. He was a well-known character actor in television during the 1960s and 1970s.

• July 8 Kim Il-sung

  Kim Il-sung was the first supreme leader of North Korea, establishing a totalitarian regime and cult of personality that profoundly shaped the country's political landscape from 1948 to 1994.

• July 8 Christian-Jaque

  French film director and screenwriter (born 1904)

• July 11 Gary Kildall

  Pioneering computer scientist who founded Digital Research Inc. and created CP/M, an influential early operating system that predated MS-DOS.

• July 14 Robert Jungk

  Robert Jungk was an influential Austrian journalist and writer who specialized in nuclear weapons issues, contributing significantly to public discourse on atomic energy and its global implications.

• July 16 Julian Schwinger

  Renowned quantum physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, sharing the award with Richard Feynman and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga.

• July 16 Madzy Rollin Couquerque

  International hockey star and tennis player dies at 91

• July 16 M Vink

  At 78, dr. john surgeon (first dutch kidney transplant) dies.

• July 17 Jean Borotra

  French tennis player, "the bounding basque". he was a popular figure and won the wimbledon singles in 1924-1926. borotra was one the "four musketeers", who dominated tennis in the post-war years. he was full of enthusiasm and vitality, and exuberant and compassionate. he was also a charmer who took on too many responsibilities. he was still vibrant and full of …

• July 19 Victor Barbeau

  Canadian author and academic (b. 1896)

• July 20 Paul Delvaux

  Belgian surrealist painter, known for his 400-plus paintings including "the woman with the rose". the london tate gallery holds his 1944 painting, "sleeping venus". he began his surrealist career in 1935, after having started as an expressionist and then as a post-impressionist. he was influenced by magritte, chirico and created intricate surreal compositions that were based on renaissance perspectives and …

• July 21 Marjorie Dorothy Chandler Collins

  At 67, jazz singer dies

• July 24 Helen Cordero

  Celebrated Cochiti Pueblo Native American potter known for her distinctive storyteller figurines that revolutionized traditional pottery art.

• July 26 Terry Scott

  British actor (born 1927).

• July 26 James Luther Adams

  James Luther Adams was a prominent American theologian and academic known for his significant contributions to liberal religious thought and social ethics in the 20th century.

• July 27 Kevin Carter

  Kevin Carter was a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist famous for his haunting photograph of a starving child during the Sudan famine, which brought global attention to the humanitarian crisis. His powerful images exposed the harsh realities of conflict and poverty in Africa during the 1990s.

• July 28 Colin Turnbull

  Renowned English-American anthropologist and author known for his groundbreaking studies of African cultures and social structures.

• July 29 John Britton

  An American abortion provider who was tragically assassinated for his medical work, representing a significant moment in the ongoing debate about reproductive rights in the United States.

• July 29 Dorothy Hodgkin

  CHE - English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, nobel prize laureate (d. 1994)

• July 29 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

  Nobel Prize laureate for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances

• July 31 Anne Shelton

  British singer (glenn miller band), dies at 66