List of Famous people who died at 94

Georges Cravenne, real name Joseph-Raoul Cohen, was a French film producer, publicity agent and founder of the César Award. He received an Honorary César in 2000.

Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen was an Australian conservative politician. He was the longest-serving and longest-lived Premier of Queensland, holding office from 1968 to 1987, during which time the state underwent considerable economic development. He has become one of the most well-known and controversial figures of 20th-century Australian politics because of his uncompromising conservatism, political longevity, and the institutional corruption that became synonymous with his later leadership.

Dolly Zegerius was a national Indonesian athlete who represented Indonesia at the 1980 Southeast Asian Games.

Jean Lacouture was a journalist, historian and author. He was particularly famous for his biographies.

Leonid Vladimirsky was a Russian illustrator who worked on fairy tales, including books by Alexander Pushkin, Aleksey Tolstoy, and Alexander Volkov, as well as some folk tales.

Ruth Bondy was a Czech-Israeli journalist and translator. Bondy was a Holocaust survivor who wrote for the Israeli newspaper Davar and translated books written in Czech to Hebrew. She was awarded the Sokolov Award in 1987 and the Tchernichovsky Prize in 2014.

Forrest Morton Bird was an American aviator, inventor, and biomedical engineer. He is best known for having created some of the first reliable mass-produced mechanical ventilators for acute and chronic cardiopulmonary care.

Melinda Esterházy was a Hungarian-Austrian landowner and former ballet dancer. She was the wife of Paul Esterházy, an Austro-Hungarian nobleman of the Esterházy family.

Sergio Arellano Stark was a Chilean military officer. He led the so-called “Caravan of Death,” which killed 97 Chileans from helicopters and established Augusto Pinochet’s hold on power.

Robert Vigouroux was a French politician and writer. He was the Mayor of Marseille from 1986 to 1995, and a French Senator for the Bouches-du-Rhone from 1989 to 1998.