Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, January 1, 1995 TAG: 9501040004
SECTION: HORIZON PAGE: F5 EDITION: HOLIDAY
SOURCE: POLLY ANDERSON ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
JANUARY
Cesar Romero, actor whose career spanned ``The Thin Man'' to the ``Batman'' television series. Jan. 1. Age 86. Pneumonia, bronchitis.
Thomas P. ``Tip'' O'Neill Jr., speaker of the House and main Democratic spokesman during the Reagan years. Jan. 5. Age 81. Heart attack.
Virginia Kelley, President Clinton's mother. Jan. 6. Age 70. Cancer.
Telly Savalas, TV's ``Kojak.'' Jan. 22. Age 70. Prostate cancer.
William J. Levitt, who pioneered affordable suburban housing with the development of Levittown. Jan. 28. Age 86. Kidney failure.
Ulrike Maier, Austrian skiing champion. Jan. 29. Age 26. Crash during race.
FEBRUARY
Joseph Cotten, leading man to some of Hollywood's most famous actresses. Feb. 6. Age 88. Pneumonia.
Dinah Shore, who won hearts over seven decades in radio, television, records and movies. Feb. 24. Age 76. Cancer.
Jersey Joe Walcott, boxer who, at 37 1/2, became the oldest man to win the heavyweight championship. Age 80. Feb. 25.
MARCH
John Candy, comic actor of ``SCTV'' and movies such as ``Uncle Buck'' and ``Stripes.'' March 4. Age 43. Heart attack.
Melina Mercouri, actress who was the warmhearted prostitute in ``Never on Sunday,'' later a Greek Cabinet minister. March 6. Age 70. Cancer.
Charles Bukowski, a street poet, novelist and screenwriter who lived the dissolute life he portrayed in his works. March 9. Age 79. Pneumonia.
Walter Lantz, whose cartoon creations included the pesky redhead Woody Woodpecker. March 22. Age 93.
Luis Donaldo Colosio, leading candidate for president of Mexico. March 23. Age 44. Assassinated.
Eugene Ionesco, playwright whose absurdist masterpieces included ``Rhinoceros,'' ``The Bald Soprano'' and ``The Lesson.'' March 28. Age 81.
APRIL
Frank Wells, who helped propel the Walt Disney company to new success in the '80s. April 3. Age 62. Helicopter crash.
Kurt Cobain, singer and guitarist for the influential grunge rock band Nirvana. Found dead April 7. Age 27. Suicide.
Ralph Ellison, whose ``Invisible Man'' is regarded as one of the century's greatest novels. April 16. Age 80. Pancreatic cancer.
Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States and the only one ever to resign. April 22. Age 81. Stroke.
MAY
Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Formula One racing superstar. May 1. Age 34. Crash during race.
Richard Scarry, author and illustrator of whimsical children's books. May 3. Age 74. Heart attack.
John Wayne Gacy, convicted of 33 slayings after bodies were found buried in the crawl space under his suburban Chicago home. May 10. Age 52. Executed.
Erik Erikson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and psychoanalyst who coined the phrase ``identity crisis.'' May 12. Age 91.
British Labor Party leader John Smith. May 12. Age 55. Heart attack.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, first lady who taught the nation about glamour and dignity. May 19. Age 64. Cancer.
Erich Honecker, East German ruler who built the Berlin Wall. May 29, in exile. Age 81. Liver cancer.
JUNE
Angela Lakeberg, the Siamese twin whose sister was sacrificed to give her a chance at life. June 9. Age 11 months. Heart-lung problem.
Menachem Schneerson, the grand rabbi of the Lubavitcher Jews, whose followers fervently believed he was the Messiah. June 12. Age 92.
Henry Mancini, film composer of the ``Pink Panther'' theme and Oscar winners ``Moon River'' and ``Days of Wine and Roses.'' June 14. Age 70. Cancer.
JULY
Dirk van Zyl, South African who lived 23 years with another person's heart, the world's longest surviving heart transplant patient. July 6. Age 68. Stroke.
Kim Il Sung, North Korean leader who headed a ruthless police state and rattled nerves abroad with his nuclear ambitions. July 8. Age 82. Heart attack.
Hugh Scott, Republican leader in the Senate during the Watergate years. July 21. Age 93.
AUGUST
Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn, mother and teacher of celebrated pianist Van Cliburn. Aug. 3. Age 97. Stroke.
Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel laureate who charted the chemical underpinnings of life itself, worked for nuclear peace and touted the benefits of vitamin C. Aug. 19. Age 93.
SEPTEMBER
Roswell Gilbert, who spawned a national debate on euthanasia and spent five years in prison for the 1985 mercy killing of his wife. Sept. 3. Age 85.
James Clavell, best-selling author of ``Shogun.'' Sept. 7. Age 69. Stroke.
Jessica Tandy, who played Blanche DuBois in ``A Streetcar Named Desire'' in 1947 and won an Oscar for her performance in ``Driving Miss Daisy.'' Sept. 11. Age 85. Ovarian cancer.
Richard J. Herrnstein, co-author of the controversial book on race and IQ, ``The Bell Curve.'' Sept. 13. Age 64. Lung cancer.
Vitas Gerulaitis, one of the world's top tennis players. Sept. 18. Age 40. Accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.
Jule Styne, composer of brash Broadway musicals like ``Gypsy'' and ``Funny Girl.'' Sept. 20. Age 88. After heart surgery.
OCTOBER
Harriet Nelson, TV mom to her real-life husband and sons on ``The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.'' Oct. 2. Age 85. Congestive heart failure.
Fred Lebow, who founded the New York City marathon in 1970 and turned it into an international event attracting thousands. Oct. 9. Age 62. Brain cancer.
Martha Raye, ``big mouth'' comedian whose exclamation ``Oh boyyy!'' became a trademark. Oct. 19. Age 78.
Burt Lancaster, whose tough-but-intelligent characterizations highlighted such films as ``From Here to Eternity,'' ``Elmer Gantry'' and ``The Birdman of Alcatraz.'' Oct. 20. Age 80. Heart attack.
Rollo May, psychologist, author of the ground-breaking ``The Meaning of Anxiety.'' Oct. 22. Age 85.
Raul Julia, debonair actor who played everything from Shakespeare on Broadway to the cartoonish Gomez Addams in ``The Addams Family.'' Oct. 24. Age 54. Stroke.
NOVEMBER
Carmen McRae, a scat-singing jazz virtuoso with a smoky, seductive voice. Nov. 10. Age 74. Stroke.
Louis Nizer, lawyer who advised some of America's most famous people and top politicians. Nov. 10. Age 92. Kidney failure.
Wilma Rudolph, sprinter who overcame polo to win three gold medals at the 1960 Olympic Games. Nov. 12. Age 54. Brain cancer.
Cab Calloway, scat-singing bandleader whose career spanned six decades. Nov. 18. Age 86. Stroke.
Jerry Rubin, leading Vietnam War protester who later made headlines by his enthusiastic embrace of capitalism. Nov. 28. Age 56. Hit by car.
Jeffrey Dahmer, the Milwaukee man who admitted killing and dismembering 17 men and boys. Nov. 28. Age 34. Prison beating.
DECEMBER
Elizabeth Glaser, the Hollywood wife who became a tireless AIDS activist after she and her two children were infected through a blood transfusion. Dec 3. Age 47. AIDS.
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer whose blend of samba and jazz in ``The Girl From Ipanema'' helped spark the 1960s bossa nova craze. Dec. 8. Age 67. Heart failure.
Orval E. Faubus, former Arkansas governor whose defiance of an order to desegregate Little Rock's Central High prompted President Eisenhower to dispatch federal troops. Dec. 14. Age 84. Cancer.
Dean Rusk, one of the last surviving Cold Warriors,'' a loyal secretary of state who championed America's involvement in Vietnam, saw communist China as the ``Red'' menace and went ``eyeball-to-eyeball'' with Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis. Dec. 20. Age 85.
Rossano Brazzi, the Italian actor who made it big in Hollywood as the star of the 1958 classic ``South Pacific.'' Dec. 24. Age 78. Virus.
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